Hertford County Herald
Published Ev.ry Friday by
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Owner*
JAMES S. VINSON,
Editor and Manager
Sebecrigtlen Price.
One Year $1.60
Six Months 76
Three Months ^.40
Advertising Rates.
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Entered as second-class mail matter
February 25,-1910, at the posoffice
at Ahoaide, North Carolina, under
the Act of March 8, 1878.
Friday, May 26, 1922
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
All tru? work b sacred; (or in
all true work, were it but true
hand-labor, there is something of
divinenees. Labor, wide as the
earth, has its summit in heaven.
True labor is divine. ?Carlyle.
Like tacks, we can only progress as
far as oar heads will permit.
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Better to fail in doing something
than to snceed in doing nothing.
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A season ticket to the Chataaqua
coats less than half the price of total
single admissions. We are all in for
economy, of coarse, so the slogan be
comes?"A season -ticket for yours
truly.
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Business is good, the Herald gives
all the MM and its subscription list
continues to grow. If yen are not a
subscriber, we believe you should sub
scribe. In another part of the paper
you will find a handy coupon?cut it
out and send in today. If you are
not already on our list, join the
Herald family of readers?you can't
afford not to.
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The most agreeable of all compan
ion* is a simple, frank man, without
any high pretensions to an aggress
ive greatness; one who loves life and
understands the use of it, obliging,
alike, at all hours; above all, of a
golden temper; and steadfast as an
anchor. For such a man we gladly
exchange the greatest genius, the
most brilliant wit, the profoundest
thinker.
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A little study of the situation
would seem to indicate that the worst
period of business depression in Ahoe
kie and Hertford County is over. No
one can deny the fact that the general
trend of things look more on an up
ward scale than they did at this time
last year. Slowly, but surely, money
is coming back into normal circula
tion, and business gradually picks up.
The optimistic viewponnt of every
thing* assumed by everyone, is what is
neoded. Sure, everything will be al
right soon. Be cheerful?you can't
afford to be otherwise?life's too
short.
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Be it understood that the Herald
has never, does not at the present,
and never will, allow its editorial
policy to in any wise become contami
nated by "dibbling" into politics.
Political advertisements appearing in
this paper are paid for at the regular
advertising rates, and in no instance
is any particular office-seeker given a
preference in Hie columns of the Her
ald, except through the medium of
their paid advertising. The Herald
has always been independent in
thought, fearless in expression, and
progressive in spirit ? always |
working for the best interests of the j
county as a whole. It is the organ of
no party, nor the mouthpiece of any
man or set of men.
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A foremost thinker on social prob
lems says the following are some
things you will always regret?Trying
to have the last word. Getting the
best of an argument which may cost
you a friend. Squandering your
time foolishly. Resenting fancied in
sults. Doing the lower when the
higher is possible. Passing the buck,
putting the blame, the burden, on the
other fellow. Trying to get pleasure
out of that which lessens your self
respect, makes you feel mean the
next day. No recreation, no play, no
fun is for you which does not leave
you a little more lit for life's duties.
Whatever makes you feel demorali
sed, ashamed, lessens your self-res
peet. Is vicious, no matter bow ex
citing or exhittrattng it may be for
the moment. Steer dear of these
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THE OUTLET
The watch on the Rhine haa stop
ped.
Hot air finds quick lodgement in
empty heads.
Head-eweiling is an indication that
the owner of the head haa reached hia
limit.
Little minds worry over little
things^ while the hiar ones seldom
worry at alL a
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It may be true<he never told a lie;
but George didn't have to make out
an income tax blank. (
Procrastination is the sin of the
human race. "Do it now" is the slo
gan of the sucessful man.
It seems unfair to use the bull as a
synonym for that kind of talk. He
never blows his own horn.
?We doubt, however, if the Illicit
stills occasion as much trouble in thia
world as the tongues that are not still.
Which are there more of in Ahos
kie, the "Is Ams," or the "Has
Beens"? A cldee run, |ithe* way you
put it.
"A season ticket," quoth the guar
antoors. Meet me at the Chautau
qua, is the good word. Yes, we all
want a season ticket.
Don't let the fear of making a mis
take impede your progress. Many
people make mistakes, but wise ones
never make the same mistake twice.
It is said that hats worn by the
women of today are very similiar to
those worn 4000 B. C. And the
skirts are about the same length as
those worn in the Garden of Eden.
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"It used to be," says the Old Dan
ish Sailor, "that when a beau of 4Q
or 50 courted a maiden lady past her
prime, he .referred to her as 'my
girl.' The other day we heard a 16
?jyearM>ld boy talking about his
"woman."
Where does a man get the idea that
"hard times" is the time for him to
go to sleep? Where does he get the
idea that it is time for him to de
crease his effort? When yon are driv
ing and come to a hill do you take
your foot off the accelerator, de
crease your power and wait for the
hill to be removed? Of course you
don't You double and triple your
effort until you make the grade. Then
where de we get the idea that when
business strikes a hill we should de
crease our efforts and lie low? Mer
chants in this county should wake up,
put on a little live advertising, and
get the business they ought to have.
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It may be that we are not publish
ing a perfect newspaper; H is not re
corded that since printing was in
vented anybody ever published a
country newspaper that quite came up
to the community's composite idea
of what a newspaper ought to be.
However, we are publishing a news
paper that is a thousand times better
than no newspaper, and worth the
price asked for ft. We are not
chasing non-subscribers all over the
universe in trying to coax them to
subscribe, but we believe they should
take the home paper, if no other.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD,
you can't afford to be without your
county paper.
She snuggled closer,
My arm "
Encircled Ber
"Do you love me"?
She murmured.
A kiss was my reply.
The door slammed.
Her father II
Ye Gods,
My ear was caught
In ber hair net.
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BATTERIES
If jroar present better y cen
be repaired at a cost that
h economicel to you, we win
not try to MO yon a new one.
Whsn^rou must buy buy
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J. S. Dean*
Distributor
Ahoskie, N. C.
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WHY THEY FIGHT I
FORD'S SCHEME
The opposition to the development
of Muscle Shoals by Henry Ford
has never let np for an instant; hot
it has gradually been forced to
abandon one argument after another,
until now the only one remaining is a
blanket denial of Ford's claims.
Ford's opponents now content them
selves with the simple assertion that
the Detroit man cannot do what he
says he will do, and therefore, ought
not to be permitted to try.
This is almost a reduction to ab
surdity. Where would this country
be today if its men of genius had
been forbidden to try to perform the
apparently impossible? A few years
ago practically all of the engineers in
the country would have agreed that it
is impossible to manufacture an auto
mobile to retail for less than $400;
but nobody preveented Ford from try
ing, and he has done it. The man
has become perhaps the richest in
dividual in the world through that
very capacity to accomplish things |
that everybody else said couldn't be ?
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Certainly it is a matter of the most |
I "tremendous importance to the entire
i country for fertiliser bills to be re
duced, if any reduction is poasible.
All the business of the country rests
in the final analysis on agriculture.
Any thing that tends to make the bus
iness of farming more profitable, helps
every other line of business; for if the
farmers have plenty of money they
can and will buy other people's
goods. It is more important to the
country to have cheap fertiliser than
to have cheap touring cars; therefore
the government can afford to risk
more to bring that to pass.
But as a matter of fact it is risk
ing nothing in turning Muscle Shoals
over to Ford. The plant is cer
tainly doing nobody any good as it
stands. Henry certainly can't steal,
destroy, or damage the Tennessee
river. Why, then since he thinks he
can make cheap fertiliser there, not
let him try? The main reason back
of all the opposition is the fact that
it is Ford who is to try, and Ford's
enemies fear that he might succeed.
He is already too big and too powerful
for their comfort, and it fairty drives
them into spasms to see him doing
any thing that may possibly make
him even biggtr and more powerful.
The Ford proposal is being fought,
not because it might fail, but because
Ford's enemies have a powerful hunch _
that it might succeed.?Greensboro
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HE KNEW HOW
There was an old geezer
And he had a lot of sense,
He started np a business
On a dollar eighty cents.
The dollar for stock
And the eighty for an ad.
Brought him three lovely dollars
In a day, by dad.
Well, he bought more goods
And a little more space,
And he played that system
With a smile on his face.
The customers flocked
To his two-by-four , i
And soon he had to hustle
For a regular store
Up on the square
Where the people pass.
He gobbled up a corner
That was all plate glass.
He fixed up the windows
And he told them about it
In a half page ad.
He soon had 'em coming
And he never quit,
And he wouldn't cut down
On his ads, one jit.
And he's kept things humping
In the town ever since,
And everybody calls him
The Merchant Prince.
Some say it's luck
But that's all bunk?
Why, he was doing business
When times were punk.
People have to purchase
And the geexer was wise?
For he knew the way to get 'em
Was to advertise.
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Ahoskie, North Carolina
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