^ Cavnegw 5-Minute Biographies Author of " How to Win Friends - and Influence People." LIONEL BARRYMORg^^ At 26 He Was a Star; At 53 a Has-Been; At 57 the Greatest Actor in America I was there that night in 1918 when Lionel Barrymore opened on Broadway as Milt Shanks in The Copperhead. It was a brilliant oc casion, a triumph that made dramatic history. An excited audi ence leaped to its feet and cheered wildly and frantically through fif teen curtain calls. Fifteen years later, I had a long talk with Lionel Barrymore in the Green Room at Melro Goldwyn-Mayer's headquarters on Broadway. When he l^egan talk ing about his struggles for recog nition as an actor. I was astonish ed. "What? You? A Barrymore, with all the prestige and glamor J of your family behind you ? sure ly you never. had to struggle'! " I demanded. He looked at me for a moment and. in his low rumbling voice, replied: "Why, there ain't no such animal as you're talking about. A famous name is often a handicap." The Barrymore kids had a ! strange and rather haphazard childhood. Their father. Maurice Barrymore, was one of the most charming and'captivating men who ever made off-stage history with his escapades. He would spend his last nickel to buy au animal. He used to ship : bears home ? bears and monkeys and wild cate and a wide assort ment of dogs. John and Lionel j spent one summer in a farm house "I Was Always Too Darn Busy to Worry About My Troubles" on S'lton T !and with no on? for company :n:' a'i oid nej;ro servant and 1 y iiv of all shapes, site". and in- eds. /, V.'lieh Li<"iel. Jack and Ethel Barrymore appeared in Rasrutin and the Empress, Hollywood proudly announced that this was t-he first time they had all played together. But Hollywood was ?wrong. The three Barrymores made their debut together more than forty years ago. The theatre was a dilapidated barn in the rear ,>( an actors' boarding hoiise otij Statin Island, the audience whs made up of kids from the neigh borhood. Admission was "a penny ?.'o, I'vfe been up and down all my life. Lots of people said I was through; buf I never thought much about it. I Was always too darn busy to worry about my troubles." PEC AX SCAB CAl'SES HEAVY AXXl'AL LOSS Hundreds of pecan trees faU_ victim to the farmer"? axe each yeai^ because of an ut< ..-aductiwe ootid i: ion caused by a n miber of diseases. However, this is unnecessary since pe' an disease can |>e con trolled through a :ysi?maUc .-aui ti.ry and stray rrogram oa sus ceptible varieties, atcording to Dr. Luther Shaw, extension plant pathologist at State College. There are several dis-ases which develop on pecan^ in North Caro lina. but the most prominent one and the one that' does the most damage is known as scab. This disease is distributed throughout the pecan growing area of the State. ? Dr. Shaw explained that it is caused by a fungus organism *vhich. attacks the leaves. twigs, and nuts. Symptoms of the disease are practically the same on all plant parts. The lesions are usual ly smalh olive-brown, or gray at first, and later turn black. Since the scab spreads rapidly from old diseased parts to new growth, it is advisable to destroy all infected leaves and shucks af ter they fall to the ground. This can be accomplished by plowing them under during the winter or by raking and burning them. Spraying with a Bordeaux mix ture of three pounds of copper sulphate, four pounds of hydrated lime, and 50 gallons of water has proved to be the most satisfactory spray material for the control of pecan scrab, -*Dr. - ShaV stated. FOR THE BEST VALUES in USED CARS AND TRUCKS ~ See ? Griffin - Tharrington Motor Company FORD DEALERS Louisburg. N. Carolina 00# ... ?MSKEY is 2 YEARS OLD AT NO INCREASE IN PRICE Cc*l?usu(/!? .-V . 100 PROOF "LET YOUR OWN TASTE TELL YOU" , STDNE HAVEN STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BETTER HEALTH by Dr .J. ROSSLYN EARP Dircxtot, New Mexico Buitay ol Public Hetlth 7 El'IDEMIC BLEEDING From the surgeon's point of view, war is an epidemic-? of bloodletting and infected injur ies. Immediate danger of death to the victims of this epidemic . results from loss of ijlood. Tlios* who survive thft risk must Ijiee j other risks of mutilation or-death ?j from infectiQU. The Spanish civil war has shown us the first organized at tempt to combat blood loss on an ! epidemic scale. As much as ten : gallons of blood have been sent ! daily from Barcelona to the Span ish government front. Young wo -ilieu are glad to answer radio ap peals to act as donors and liter i -ily to shed their blood for their ! country. The blood is "typed" ; and collected with sealed glass ampoules under pressure. It is llien cooled to freezing point and j sent upto the front, being kept in refrigerators until it is ljeeded. Before use, the ampoules are slowly^ heated to body tempera ture. During t}ie Spanish American war 3,000 of our soldiers died of ?yphotd fever, 345 were killed in' battle. During the World War. our soldiers having been1 inocula ted against typhoid fever, only 227 died from that disease. But 36,694 were killed In action and 13,705 died of wounds. I tf Ihe next war, medical science may triumph over deaths from wounds as it has already triumphed over vptioid fever. Unless, of cyursje, | man should use some of his in genuity in inventing an alterna tive to war. The very best way to fight an epidemic is to prevent it. Copper-ltme dust is recommended [ for those who -are equipped to i dust their trees. Treatment should be started immediately, after pollination has taken place and- repeated every j three weeks. I R. R. Smithwick, farm agent, reports that corn prospects in Haywood County are unusually [bright this year. He also says j that crops are far ahead of those ilast year. Newt York ? 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