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World Fliers Congratulated in
The Name of the American People
WMi WorM Fbotol
Admiral Magrader. of the United States Navy, congratulating Lieut.
Lowell Smith, commander of the Army "round the world fliera," an their suc
cessful flight, on their arrival back onjthe American continent at Indlaa
Barber, Labrador, five months and fourteen daji altar thej set out from
Banta Monica, CaL , .
Our Next President?
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r-mplon LotH
Frtach '? _
*o th? AmtIm korM,
?hown in the ?*ctuTe of I
jfiSiartSfi
Teaches Ford to Dance
\3 g(flng to gi we old
.4 1 .s nt his Wayside (Mass.)
" lie has hired Airs.
. Levitt r.f Unison, Mass., 4o
lr ????iff uni their "friends
r>;<: ,-s. 25 rs. Ix>vett in now
in i>i- trait to show- ?.1r. Ford^how
to do the "L>?e-see-doe."
- Seem* to' ma thai waitin' is
the bosom frtehd of pain. Find
the thin* exdmptrftad in waitin'
far a. train. Feller waits for
aijUJafc haV fllrtin' with de
spal i, trat? worst of "all is
Waltfci* while the barber's bob
bis' bairf
Feller fai a bturry, mighty
ataioas fer a shave. Got a
million duties fer the time he
hopes to save; Maste beat* him
to It, which of course is on the
square ? but, Mazle is a fairy
tell With half a day to spare!
Waitin* in the barber-shop
with bristle* on yer race. Hate
to see the Beacty-Parler shove
ps oat of plate I Might a* well
be rwwneilad to thfcifs that ha*
to tet whara wfre
tip i?? if ft mjsiwj to mal
FOR FIRST CUM JOB
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AtfTOCAgTClQ
By Arthwr B.fcUjS
NOT READING,? THINKING.
JOY ON MARS.
YOUNG AT 102.
TWO YOUNG MEN.
The World Federation of Educa
tion Associations organ ilea a
world war against illiteracy. For
this war the Crown Prince of
Japan has appropriated a million
yen. China has adopted the slo
gan "China a Literate Nation in
One Generation."
It is preposterous that any
human beings, outside of actual
barbarism, should grow up unable
to read.
' But teaching them to read and
write is only the first %tep. The
next is teaching human beings TO
THINK, which is considerably
more difficult and important.
It isn't what you REAX> that
counts. It's what votl THINK
(AFTER YOU READ that improve!
government and civilization.
It takes a Frenchman, and an
old one. Camille Flammarion, to
Bay that the people on Mars are
much more JOYFUL than we are.
The Martian year is twice as
long as ours. A man there fl.ty
years ola has lived 100 years,
nearly. The climate is better and
the planet being smaller, every
thing is lighter. An ordinary Mar
tian could easily carry his mother
in-law upstairs in his arms, even
if she weighed 400 pounds. Mil
lions of years older in their civiliza
tion than earth men, the Martiana
are far ahead of us in knowledge,
and that means happiness. In fact
it's the only solid happiness.
John A. Stewart, called "Grand
Old Man of Wall Street," who
knew Abraham Lincoln, and is
liow head of an important bank,
celebrated his 102nd birthday last
week. To us, that seems old. A
thousand years hence, 126 will
seem young as sixty is now. Men
will die out gently like fading twi
light. ?
? Mr. Stewart continues living,
intellectually young, because he
has continued WORKING.. Men
like trees die at the top. They
are all right while tie top is grocr .
After' a .while civilised humeri
beings will decide ihit raVti and
mice don't pAj\ and Take tbo
* ' rid of th
? W ?Vh.l
well have left otrt ui th? A;k.
An scientist, demon
strated tbfct rats suffer froo foot
and mdutb dispose ane frequenting
stables, infect the cattle.
MorAl for farmers, use cement
and copper and keep out the rats.
Clarence Dai row, a lawyer, who
thinks and fsels, and consequent!?
earns little in proportion to his
great ability, tells the Court that
to hang the two yountf men vhom
he defends, Locb n:.d Leopo'o,
"would be a worse crime than
they committed.'" "
?, And that is the truth, exactly.
If a red Indian tortured a white
man for twenty-four houra, that
would not excuse white men for
torturing that red man ever, for
twenty-four minutes. The ?,'re-ter
the intelligence ana responsibility,
the greater the crime.
This column, too lightly, com
pared Moses' forty-year trip ajroas
the desert with the four-ho-jr ti-o
*tf > small American automobile,
and the one and ono-hali-hour trip
of a flying machine, across the
same desert.
Many writers send learned com
ment.
T3i"33an Bodnej, of Passaic, New
* Jersey, says, "rou needn't wait
to get information from Moses in
heaven. He kept the children of
: brad ill the desert for forty years
: because they were not qualified
; to oonquet1 the Pron '
? They practically all die
, generation, educated
led by HtulmA, won
ised Land by fighting.
? Max Hlmoff, of Leflg Island
Oitv, writer, said that Moses had
to let his old followers die off while
he raised a new generation "wno
knew nothing about Egypt and
prepared them for their task."
Can anybody give triore 6 mot
information about the flgnting
leader, Huelma T
Divers working ninety feet be
low the surface have recovered
'thirty-five million dollar* of gol4
and silver bullion from the steam
?' ship Laurentio, Sunk by a German
^rabMrla*.
Thousands of toni of "lkrold
gold" are in the water through
.which steamers plow as they go
hack and forth. Some day men
? may r#t?i ewe It, . *
Lands was tin their energy Iff idle
neee may be put to work by growing
timber, adflse* fc? agricultural worker
lis anothet statf . r>t*o j waste acres
J4a North Cardflna could thus be pro
fitably employed. ?
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That day used in Selecting good
?eed tor next yMft- plantings is the
Imoet valuable day's work d6&e on the
[farm, say* Dr. R. T. Winters.
Your Boy and
liis Clothes
You know as well ns'we ?o, what a problem it is to get
Clothes that nill Withstand the hard wear of a boy's
?
everyday life. But In our line of Clothes we believe we
have come close t6, solving the problem. They are
otrongly tailored from-sturdy, close-woven fabrics, and
such a combination should give a good measure of serv
ice.
"We have a full line of furnishings both for men and
women also.
A. S. WIGGS
NASH STREET LOUISBURG, N. C.
Book b>y Uncle John
"Uncle John," who write* a
"vcekly prose-poem- for this nfw
paper, is the author of a book of
poems from The Hugh , Stephens
Press of JefTei^on City, Mo. The
Water Witch" i?"tti title? "a boo is
of verte as human and understand-'
inx rs 'Gene Field," ?ays on?
reviewer. Uncle John in everyday
life is Dr. J. J. Gains of Excelsior
Springs, Mo.
Are you building your soil? plant
some legumes this (all for plowing
under next spring and note the result
In Increase In crop yields.
HOMICIDE A DAY 15 XORTH STATE
Raleigh. ? For the year ending July
1. 1824, there were 232 convictions In
the North Carolina Superior Courts
for secon d degree murder, 130 for
manslaughter and ftve for flrBt de
gree murder, an average of one homi
clde a day, according to the biennial
report of Attorney General James S.
Manning, now being prepared for publi
cation.
Violations of the liquor laws led
all the cases handled hytfoesuperlor
courts. The number was C822, as com
pared with 2,723 for the prelvous year.
Homicidal cases for the year ending
July. 1923, totaled 272, so that the In
crease for the year ending July 1,
1924, was 95. The number of convic
tions for carrying concealed weapons
from July 1923, to July, 1824, was 805,
as compared with 782 convictions for
the year ending July 1, 1928. Cases
handled the past year involving as
saults with deadly weapons aggregat
ed 1.222.
The total number of cases handled
In the superior courts for the year end
ing last July 1, was 14,321, and for the
previous year, 11,813. Criminal 6f
fenses most frequently committed
from July 1, 1923, to July 1. 1924, in
cluded the following:
Abondonment, 168; abduction, 44;
affray, 221; arson, 221! assault and
battery, 744; assault with deadly wea
pon, 1,222; assault with Intent - to
rape, 59; bigamy, 45; forgery, 2 87;
gambling and lottery, 558; larcency,
1,747.
AT TOUR SERVICE p
The popularity of kur efforts to give
the people of Loulpbtfrg and vicinity
a modern and pleaafng cat* Is evi
denced In the followhg.
j After inspecting! \th? "American
Cafe," I pronounce It \he cleanest and
'most sanitary eatlflg place I ever saw.
HEALTH OFFICER
We invite yon' to visK us when In
town. I X
9-12-lt ' STEGALlKBROS.
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PARRlSH- WFHTJR
Mr. Elmer H. Parrtsb Ind Miss
Mabel Wester were married Saturday
evening t3 (the surprise of their many
DtMlt, ,
The bride Is the charming daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ut, Wwter of Mar
Hickory Rook, ?>
The groom 1* a prosperous farm
1 rutiiu .kj t- ?>.- -?? ? ?
. * " a prosperous former
of CaateUa and Is the oWy eon of Mr.
Sidney Parrlsh of Oaatalla i
T>lr many frlenfc ttgh them fflftch
happineag; , . * , ? .
, SUte
- - ? meet at ,
day, September 1
*m from over tfc
experiences with