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2>a(e Carnerie r 5-Minute Biographies Author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People." CHIC SALE He Got $49.49 A Word? For A Book He Was Scfrry He Ever Wrote ! There has been only one au- ; , tbor in the history of the world who ever wrote a book and made j J 4 St profit on every single word in the book. That book was The Specialise, and its author was Chic Sale. The Specialist was the first , I book Chic Sale ever wrote, and ; he had so little faith in it that hej< printed only two thousand copies . at first-; and it took six weeks toil sell them. Then suddenly the book I caught on and swept over the l country like flames leaping and j roaring through a pine forest. It I sold more copies than The Good < Earth! . I You'd think, wouldn't you that an author would be mighty proud 1 riis First Book Was a Sensation; His Second Didn't Brii._ Enough to Pay the Print ing Bills ol writing a book that outsold i The Good Earth? But Chic Sale wasn't. He regretted that he ever wrote The Specialist ? regretted it because its humor has been mis understood by many people. Chic Sale became an author more or less by accident. Actual ly, he was an actor and one of the finest character actors that ! ever put on grease paint. For t'hat matter, he became an actor more or less by accident, too. Years ago, he was a mechan ic, working in the railroad shops in Urbana, Illinois. His older sis ter had stage aspirations, so she went to Chicago and studied at a tlramaiic school. When she came! home for Christmas vacation, she gave a program at one of the j churches and mimicked country j characters. After her performance was ' over, Chic said, "Why, I can do J that without going to school." She dared him to. so he walked ? out In the middle of the floor and ! gave an imitation of the local tel-. j egraph operator In Urbana. In a few minutes, he had the natives j almost rolling off their chairs. I The next week a troupe of ac tors came to Urbana to put on a ! show. - They1 had a comedy man who came out' between the acts and entertained the audience, but he gob sick. Chic Sale heard about it, and applied for the job. ~ "-The manager of the show was skeptical. Rut Chic gave hitn-a sample of what he could do, and the manager took him on for the week, paid him ten dollars, and changed Chic's whole life. Packing up his old telescope suitcase, he dashed off to Chicago, got a job on the stage and went to a cheap rooming house and be gan rehearsing his stunt. He de cided that whiskers would make him look more like an old man; but he didn't know where he could buy them, so he took some hair stuffing out of his mattress, and made himself a set of whisk ers out> of horsehair. He used these mattress whiskers on the stage for eight months before he bought a real set of whiskers from a dealer in theatrical make up. His pay was very small, and every penny was precious. In or der to keep himself from eating too much, he would buy cheap candy and nibble on it awhHe be fore dinner. That took the edge off his appetite. He played In six musical come dies on Broadway; but he couldn't sing and he couldn't dance. He was the best known "horn play- [ ?r" in the United States; yet he couldn't play a horn. He made 150,000 playing in shows that were about) Paris; yet he never saw Paris. He wore the same pair of shoes j on the stage for sixteen years. They were the shoes he used when he played the parts of old men. He believed they brought him good luck, so he kept on re pairing them and refused to have ! any others. After making so much money < out?of The Specialist, Chic Sale wrote another book. It was call si: The Corn Husker Crashes the j Movies and it didn't bring in eaough cash to pay the printing bills! i ? FRANKLIN COUNTY ? ? FARM IT I.MS ? ? By County Furm Agenla ? Six 4-H Club boys of Franklin County produced higher yields in 1937 than was produced by the ( Champion Corn Grower in 1936. losph Earl Smith. Champion Corn Brower in 1936, produced 55 bushels on one acre planted to Cook's Prolific. The following records have been reported in 1937 with in :reased yields over the above fig- , are: Baxter Harris, Justice 4-H club, K'eekley's Improved, produced 67 bushels. Watson Manning. Justice 4-H :lub, Weekley's Improved, pro duced 58 bushels. M. T. Raye, Jr., Pilot 4-H club. Mixed Corn, produced 61 bushels. Sam Sledge, Hickory Rock (Vhlte Level, Variety not known, produced 65 buBhels. Guy Griffin. Gold Sand. Mixed Corn, produced 72 bushels. Joseph Earl Sraibh (repeating :hampion) Hickory Rock-White Level, Weekley's Improved, pro duced 80 bushels, 1 peck. Most of these records were i checked by impartial persons. | Corn was measured and figured j by weight. ? ??????????: HOME DEMONSTRATION ? DEPARTMENT ? j ? ?! ? Sara Louise Weaver, Home ? * Demonstration Agent *| Itinerary * .1 Jan. 31 ? Meat Canning Demon stration, Agricultural building, 10:00 o'clock. Feb. 1 ? Oswego club. Feb. 2 ? Wood club. Feb 3 ? Feb. 4 ? Bunn club. Civilization has brought! many comfort and conveniences to the home but probably none a woman prizes more than the telephone. /vpDfRN WPMfN Earlene White Pr~id.rU of TK. Na tion^ Federation of Bud sen and ProfeeaionaJ Women') Club*, Inc. Her great love for birds, which she studied whenever she had a free half hour or more, has result ed in a book by Mrs. Emma P. Byers, bearing the imprint of The Women's Press. Mrs. Byers is well known In the middle west and the east, having served in Omaha, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York with the Y1W.C.A. A few years ago she retiired, since when she has been more than ever devoted to the study of her feath ered friends. The small volume entitled "Out-of-Doors with Birds" is not intended as a bird guide but is meaut to inspire readers to use t'heir free time to study birds, which Mrs. Byers think# is a fas cinating and interesting way to spend leisure time.. The booic is particularly good for people who live in the city where parks offer excellent opportunities to learn about birds. ?? ? Internationally known Chinese women have organized in New York a relief association to aid their country's war sufferers. Everything about the organization is volunteer or donated and ev erything goes direct to Mm. Chi ang Kai-shek In China. The lead ers In this group are Mrs. Lin Yu Tang, wife of the author of "My Country and My People": Miss Mai-mai Sze, who played in "Lady Precious Stream," and is t>he daughter of Dr. Alfred Sze, form erly Chinese Ambassador to the United States; Mrs. C. H. Wang, wife of the manager of the Bank of China and sister-in-law of the Chinese Ambassador to Washing ton, and Mrs. K. C. Li, whose hus band is head of a large trading corporation. Interest! In maternal and infant health and welfare has become so widespread that Miss Kathrine P. Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bureau of the Department of La bor, has decided that such prob- ' lems must be taken up at a gen eral conference on Better Care for Mothers and Babies in Wash ington, in 1938. She has appoint ed a planning committee compos ed of representatives of organiza tions concerned with this prob | lem. Modern girls are far more in terested in mending a man's ways than in mending his socks. HAVE MONEY I "Home of The Thrifty" HAVE MONEY! Think Before You Invest HaveMoney RACKING your brain will not bring your money back after you have made a BAD BUY in stocks or on the Board of Trade. Play safe . . . invest in what you know and can WATCH. This is a surer and shorter way to Fortune. START SAVING REGULARLY NOW We Welcome YOUR Banking Bufinesi FIRST-CITIZENS BANK & TRDST COMPANY rOHVFH M UN AN'I> NASH XTRFRT* ' OTJISBURG N CAROLINA BANKHM'J HOI'KM: ?rOO A. M. TO ?:00 P. M Money: s "Home of The Thrifty" I ' THINK I ?*5 J BETTER HEALTH I ar Dr . J ROSSLYN EARP | Directoi, New Mexico Buic*y ot Public Health MEASLES By the use of a special stain, Dr. Jean Broadhurst has made iti possible to recognize the presence of measles virus three days be fore the patient has a rash. The discovery will probably be found to be of greater scientific than practical importance. Measles is a very, very common disease and, until doctors have a lot more blme. or health departments a much larger personnel, it is doubtful whether this special me thod of diagnosis will be used frequently enough to control epi demics. For the present at least, when ever an epidemic of measles is going on, the safest thing is to keep children under four years of age away from any ot-her children that might possibly be coming down with the disease. It is in the first three years of life that measles is dangerous to life. If a child gets measles before be Is a year old his chances of dying are thirty-four tiiftes greater than if he gets it between live and fif teen. Whenever a child less thau four years old is known to have been exposed to infection, he should re ceive a dose of serum to prevent or modify the attack. Your doc tor should be consulted immedi ately that you suspect the expos ure. He will know what to give and when to give it. Naturally, if your child comes down with measles after he has been playing with the neighbor's children, you will let the neigh bor know at once so that the nec essary steps may be taken to pro tect them. Your health depart ment will help you to prevent the disease from spreading further. Do not hesitate to ask them. That is their job. TIE A STRING AROUND THE FINGER ! Have you Ever Wrapped a String Around Your Finger? If Not, Do It ? See What Happens ! Do yon notice the bluish color? The throb bing? The numbness? The aches? There arc drugs one can take that will affect the entire body enough so that the ache of the finger will not be felt ? But it will STILL be there. Untie the string, take it off the finger! Wliat happens then? The ache, pain, bluish color leave gradually. The finger returns to nor mal. WHY? You REMOVED the CAUSE! This .same thing happens in the human body when one of the vertebrae of the spine slips a little. It pinches the nerves and blood vessels that pass out from and Into the spinal cord between the vertebrae. Just as the string around the finger pinched or shut off the blood vessels and nerves in the finger. And in the same way, the parts of the body, that are innervated and. supplied by the nerve and blood vessels that are pinched by the vertebrae, are made "sick" or dis-cased. They do not have their supply of energy and food and therefore cannot work as they should. THEN, a person gets "sick"! TO get WELL, you must REMOVE the CAUSE! ADJUST or move the vertebrae in the spine so it will not pinch the nerves and blood vessels ? Just as you removed the string from your finger. This will let the life-giving energy and food go through to the parts of the body that are affected. CHIROPRACTIC removes the CAUSE, (re moves the string) by adjusting the vertebrae, allowing the nerves to transmit their energy to the parts of the body doing away with the strain on the entire system that would re sult from the use of remedies. Think it over! Let CHIROPRACTIC re move the cause of your ailment! Hours: 9 a. m. - 12:30 p. m.; 1:30-5 p. m. Night 7:00 to 9:00 P. M. House calls and special appoint- * ments made. Dr. Sadie C. Johnson TELEPHONE 401-1 Over Boddie's Drug Store LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA PROMPT SHOE REPAIRS You get double value for your money when you have your comfortable old shoes repaired and resoled. Our modern equipment enables us to rebuild your worn ?hoes to give you genuine savings in added use and comfort. GANTT'S SHOE SHOP ? ? _ ?- ~ last Nash Street Louiabnvf, N. 0. ogggnnanrTao 1 BIG BARGAINS ! USED CARS 8 4 ALL IN FIRST GLASS SHAPE AND WILL K1 DGIVE GOOD MILEAGE: II 1936 Delux Ford Tudor Sedan 1 [] 1936 Standard Ford Tudor Sedan f D 1934 Delux Fordor Ford Sedan I 1934 Delux Ford Tudor 1934 Chevrolet Pickup j Dmany others, see us if you want a CAR AT A LOW PRICE. U Griffin-Tharrington Motor Co. j H FORD DEALERS Louisburg, N. Carolina FIRE INSURANCE Are you willing to let insuffic ient Insurance put your family out in the cold ? 6. M. BEAM, Agent (20 Years Fire Insurance Writing) NOTICE! A new shipment of Chatham all wool comfort ' batts 72 by 90, $1.10. Wool and part wool blankets and blanket rolls, unusually good quality, Hundreds of yards new silks, heavy quality and lovely colors suitable for comfort tops, cushions, etc. MRS. H. G. PERRY 304' N. Main St. Next door to Baptist Church 5 GRADUATION | [INVITATIONS I ********************* AND H Jy ? CARDS TO i: ACCOMPANY i f are being handled by us this year for all ^ School Commencements. > "We have a complete line of the boat quality ^ samples and also at the most reasonable prices. Students are invited to drop in and let us show them onr line. Arrangements for visitations to schools will be made and announced in the near future. THE FRANKLIN TIMES .215 Court Street Louisbnrg, N". C.
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