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PAGE TWO I Between I' I You and Me l < ? . . i i l “Common sense is the most • , i uncommon hind of sense.” ? : • ► J ! f *| By HAROLD BELL WRIGHT | Number One "Hit would sure be a God’s blessin’ if every feller would let everybody else do the things that he wants every body else to let him do himself. At the same time there ain’t no sort of sense in lettin’ the other feller do to you what you wouldn’t do to yourself.”— Preachin’ Bill. DID you ever notice how many of our old proverbs and sayings are born of a very human wish to justify an inhuman selfishness? By making ! excuses into proverbs we try to make | selfishness respectable. Well, be j tween you and me, most of these old [saws need refiling. "If you don’t look out for your | self no one will look out for you.” | I suppose that choice bit of devil’s [philosophy dates back to the time when Mr. Cave Man was first struck with the bright idea that it would 'be easier to steal his neighbor’s stone [hatchet than to find a good rock and make one for himself. • To most of us, in this present gen eration of cliff-dwellers and hatchet imen, this ancient proverb is the law of life and the gospel of success. By lit we justify every crime we commit [against our neighbors. To our chil | dren it is mother’s milk. ; But consider those who have looked out for themselves so zealously that fno one now would look out for them jif they were walking blindfolded on ! the edge of the pit By their selfish ! ness they have forfeited f'l right to .■the respect of their fellows, and en | joy the unselfish love and confidence jof no man, woman, or child. Having [ never hesitated to betray others to their own self-interest, they are met on every side by eyes of suspicion, ab horrence and hate. Surrounded by self-seeking followers, but without real friends, they hear always as they pass, the warning cry of the people: “unclean, unclean!” “The Lord helps those who help themselves,” says the cop as he dips bis paw into the basket of the old The moment one discovers j that the only thing of real im- 2 ; portance in life is living, that j ! I moment one begins truly to live. I •. • • 7 !', The keystone in the arch of a I [[ well-lived life is this: To free- J ly grant to others the priv- | [ lieges and rights one demands j 1 for one’s self. And to firmly j , demand for one’s self the priv- j ; ileges and rights one grants to j ![?others. f •• • I ! Most of us are so busy mak- 2 [ Inga living that we have no | ! time left in which to live. * * * y But to make a side issue of f [’ living in order to live, is not j <» intelligent, to say the least. o • * * .1 11 Business, politics, the sci- | [ [ ences and arts, religion, educa- f «’ tion, and whatever else we f ![ commonly bother about, are at | ■' best only side issues of living, f '» * * * | '; Great souls have lived great- | o ly without most of the things j [J which we of these days call ne- f m cessities and to which we give 1 ’[ our lives. | ,i i peanut vender. And, "The Lord helps those who help themselves,” says the banker who puts his soft, white fingers into the earnings of the work ers, the little all of the widows, and the meager savings of the old. But sonje fine day a long-suffering people will rise up and cry with righteous resolution and terrible meaning: “The Lord help those who dare to help themselves!” Yes, the Dhilosonhy of “give and take” is sound and good when it is written down exactly that way. But i when one writes “give” in almost in visible letters, and spreads “take” in shouting capitals clear across the page, there is something wrong with the line. Give or you shall not take. When all is said and . done no one may draw unlimited checks on the Bank of Life without occasionally making deposits. And, by the same token, that which one deposits one is permitted to take again because it is one’s own. If we give hatred, we are hated. If we give friendship, we have friends. If we respect others, others respect us. If we trust no one, no one will trust us. If we give noth ing, we receive nothing. If we refuse happiness and well-being to others, we cannot hope to take the like for ourselves. Do you remember what happened to the. goose that laid the golden egg? Well, but did you ever ask wbat happened to the poor fool who kilfed the goose? He went flat broke, that’s wnat happened to him. Yes. you see. he figured he could save all expense of caring for the goose and take all her gold by the same operation. He thought he could give nothing and take everything, and he found the error in his calculations too Jate. There is every reason to believe that if this person had given his goose some decent encouragement or shown some appreciation of her efforts in his behalf he could have continued to profit If he had given her the three square meals per day and the com fort a hie nest to which she was justly entitled, and had taken her out to a movie once in a while, or treated her to some sort of a sundae now and then between eggs, he would be en joying golden omelets for breakfast even unto this day. By trying to take everything and give nothing, he lost his income and his goose, and proved himself one of the prize fools of history. “Live and let live,” is only another way of saying: if you do not let live you will die. “No man liveth unto himself” is not a preachment; it is the plain statement of a scientific fact. Any one who ignores that fact dies. The death of such a person might not matter so much, perhaps, but for the equally scientific fact that “No man dieth unto himself.” All of which leads to this: While no man can live without some consid eration for others, each must do his own living. One can do much to help others live but, when all is said and done, no one can do the other fel low’s living for him. The moment one discovers that the only thing of real importance in life is living, that moment one begins truly to live. The keystone in the arch of a well lived life is this: To freely grant to others the privileges and rights one demands for one’s self. And to firmly demand for one’s self the privileges and rights one grants to others. The best way to do a particular and definite thing is to do it in a par ticular and definite way—a proposi tion which, I think, calls for no argu ment To particularly and definitely make living the main issue of one’s life, that is the thing. Most of us are so busy making a living that we have no time left in which to live. But to make a side is sue of living in order to live, is not intelligent, to say the least. Side issues are all right as side issues—the same as pepper, salt and mustard. In fact, it is the side issues that give flavor to life’s bill of fare. But can one make a full meal of pep per, salt and mustard without stir ning up a revolution in the depart ment of the interior? 1 think not. Well, business, politics, the science and arts, religion, education, and whatever else we commonly bother about, are at best only side issues of living. Great souls have lived great ly without most of the things which we of these days call necessities and to which we give our lives. You see, it is when one puts one’s life into one s business instead of put ting one’s business into one’s life that one fails in living. We work at living like some folks farm. The farm is all right—broad, fertile fields, wooded slopes, and well watered valleys—but the weeds have choked out the corn, taken possession of the potatoes, and overrun the gar den. The hay lies unstacked, all sod den with the damp, and the wheat, full ripe, drops its good grains at each breath of passing breeze. The fences are down, the barn a shanty, the house a hovel, while pigs roam at will over the entire place. Six or seven hounds on the front porch, a collection of firearms in the kitchen, coon skins and fox hides stretched on the south wall of the house, and a well-defined odor of polecat pervading the atmos phere of the home tell the story. Hunting is a pleasant and profitable side issue to farm life, but one does not plow corn nor cultivate potatoes with coon dogs. Neither does one harvest wheat with shotguAs or rifles. Never, perhaps, in human history were the opportunities for living so great as they are today. Certainly our farm is as large as when “the sower went forth to sow.” And the need for great lives is as pressing to day as when the Master said: "This do and thou shalt live.” Souls have uot depreciated iu value since Cal vary, but the art of growing great souls is fast becoming a lost art. Our trouble is the weeds of life are getting the start. The grain of life is being wasted. Our fences are down and all the hogs iu creation have full right of way in our fields and gar dens. And this is so because the side issues of modern life take too much of our time, thought, and energy. Witty, a full, pack of orders, clubs, circles and-interests,- and with guns of public oratory, the press and polite conversation,, we hunt the’ coons., foxes; ’possums'and polecats of per sonal publicity, social prestige’ or pub: lie favor,' satisfied with"a few skins to tack up on the south , side of the house.. ... • - •Go to, friends!*' Let : us hoe our corn, dig our potatoes and harvest our wheat. : But don’t forget the farmer in the parable who was all for bigger and better barns. He also died. “Look out for number one,” is in reality a solemn warning, the same as a railway crossing sign, “Look oui for the cars.” It means: nothing that others can do to yon is to be coin pared with the evil that you can do to yourself. Preaching? Sure! What did you think I was doing? <© 1928 by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Real News A bunch of reporters and photog raphers from the Los Angeles papers were trying to get into a certain room at the Hollywood hospital when Dr George Martyn happened along. “What is there so extraordinary about the accident that has made it ol such Interest?” he inquired of th«- head nurse. : „ . “Why, haven’t you heard?” ex claimed the nurse. “The poor fellow was knocked down and run over by « horse-drawn vehicle!”—Los Angeles- Times. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION NORTH CAROLINA: CHATHAM COUNTY: IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. D. W. SMITH vs. JAS. MARSH and wife, EVALINE N. MARSH. TO JAS. MARSH and wife, EVALINE N. MARSH, the defend ants above named—GREETING: You, Jas. Marsh and wife, Evaline N. Marsh, will take notice that the above entitled action was commenced in the superior court of Chatham County, North Carolina, on the 18th day of September, 1929, by the plaintiff, D. W. Smith, for the pur pose of foreclosing certificate of sale for your lands sold by G. W. Blair, sheriff of Chatham County, for de linquent taxes for the year, 1927 and 1928. You, Jas. Marsh and wife, Evaline N. Marsh, will take further notice that you are required to appear be fore the Clerk of the Superior Court for Chatham, North Carolina, at his office in Pittsboro, within 30 days from date of last publication of this notice, which date will be 17th day of October, 1929, and answer or de mur to the complaint of the plain tiff, which is filed in the office of the Clerk, or the relief demanded by the plaintiff will be granted.. This 18th day of September, 1929. E. B. HATCH, Clerk Superior Court. R. H. DIXON, Jr., Atty. for plaintiff. SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon me in a certain deed of trust dated May 31, 1927, and executed by Dexter Goodw’in and wife, Addie Goodwin, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Chatham County in Book “GR”, pages 363 and 364, default having been made in the payment of principal and in terest secured thereby, and request having been made upon the trustee to foreclose by the owner of the bond, I will, on Monday, October 21, 1929, at the hour of 12 o’clock M., at the court house door in Chatham County, Pittsboro, N. C., offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder From BARN jlißlli to BATH TUB TP*-. "• IA " ' jl jL farmer friend who owns two General Motors cars went to the city the other day and stopped in to see some cousins. They showed him around their new roof garden apartment, eighteen floors above the street, and proudly pointed out their Frigidaire in the pantry. "Well,” chuckled our farmer friend, "Mother has a‘ garden full of old-fashioned flowers that she’d never trade for theirs . . . and as for the refrigerator, we have a bigger Frigidaire than they have! ” He also mentioned his Delco-Light power system and his DL water pump, which give him every other city con venience. As he often says himself, his farm is "General Motorized from barn to bath tub!” It is perfectly true that General Motors, through its various units, offers even more to the farm family than to the city family, By applying methods of automobile pro duction to home electric lighting and power plants, water pumping systems, and automatic refrigerators, General Motors can make the reliable kind of product that a farmer wants, at a price he can afford. gene ral motors Motors Paauly party, every Monday; 8:30 P. M. (Eastern Standard r * Time) WEAFaod 57 associated radio-stations. THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. for cash all those two certain tracts or parcels of land lying and situated in Chatham County, N. C., and more particularly described by metes and bounds and separate tracts as fol follows, to wit: FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a stake and pointers (formerly Lydia Upchurch’s corner) in Gaston Good win’s line, running South 3 degrees W. 205 poles to a stake and point ers on the North bank of Beaver Creek, thence down the various courses of the same to a stake on the North bank of said creek at the rack log, E. W. Goodwin’s corner; thence N. 1 degree East 202 poles to a stake in Alfred Lawrence’s line, E. W. Goodwin’s corner; thence S. 87 degrees poles to a stake and the beginning, containing 163 acres and 124 poles, more or less. SECOND TRACT: Beginning at Joseph Goodwin’s corner, running West to E. W. Goodwin’s corner, thence in a northerly direction with E. W. Goodwin’s line to W. H. Good win’s line; thence in an Easterly di rection with said W. H. Goodwin’s line to 0. L. Ellis’ line; thence in a Southerly direction with O. L. Ellis and Gaston Goodwin’s line to the first station, containing 40 acres more or less. This tract being the same conveyed to Dexter Goodwin by W. H. Goodwin, by deed recorded in office of Register of Deeds for Chatham County. This the 14th day of September, 1929. J. L. CROWDER, Trustee Apex, N. C. T. Lacy Williams, Atty. Raleigh, N. C. NOTICE OF LAND SALE Under and by virtue of a judg ment of the Clerk of the Superior Court in an action therein pending entitled “Chatham County vs. A. A. Johnson and wife, Etta Johnson,” the undersigned will, on the 19th day of October, 1929, at the Courthouse door in Pittsboro, Chatham County, North Carolina, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the follow ing described real estate, to-wit: NORTH CAROLINA: CHATHAM COUNTY. I, G. W. (Blair, sheriff (of the County of Chatham, do hereby certi fy that the following described real estate in said County and State, to- wit: 1 town lot in Bear Creek town ship was, on the 3 day of October, 1927, duly sold by me, in the manner provided by law, for delinquent taxes of A. A. Johnson for the year 1925, amount to $14.98, including interest and penalty thereon and the cost al lowed by law, when and where Chat ham County purchased said real estate at the price of $14.98, he be ing the highest and best bidder for the same. And I further certify that unless redemption is made of said real estate in the manner provided by law, the said Chatham County shall have the right of foreclosure of this certificate of sale by civil action at the expiration of one year from the date of sale. In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this 4th day of October, 1927. G. W. BLAIR, Sheriff TIME OF SALE: 12 o’clock, noon. TERMS OF SALE: Cash. This the 13th day of September, 1929 W. P. HORTON, Commissioner. SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred upon us in a deed of trust executed by B. B. Stinson, widower, and J. M. Stinson, widow, on the 10th day of February, 1927, and recorded in Book G. R., page 206, we will on Saturday, the 26th day of October, 1929, 12 o’clock noon at the courthouse door in Pittsboro, N. C., Chatham County, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bid der the following land, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing 90 acres, more or less, situated, lying and be ing just off the Goldsboro road about four miles west from the town of Goldston in Gulf Township, Chat ham county, N. C., the same being bounded on the north by lands of S. J. Moffitt; on the east by S. J. Mof fitt & Jeffers Creek; on the south by Indian Creek and on the west by Indian Creek and lands of J. B. Stinson. This is the same lands which was willed to the said B. B. Stinson; J. B. 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Seawell and husband and / d‘ Stinson and wife to B R in 1920. ‘ * btlns on This sale is made by reason of : B - Stinson, wuwt 1 J-.M. Stinson, widow to p av off and discharge the indebtedness < cured by said deed of trust AT North Carolina Joint Stock T ißank of Durham. k Lrtnu A deposit of 10 per cent will V required from the purchaser at th sale. IS)™* 41,6 19 ‘ h day ° f Sept€ra K FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DURHAM Durham, N. C. 5 “Drowning sorrow” doesn’t get rid of it—Forbes Magazine. m | A. H. Keer of Los Angeles dig. j posed of a $3,000,000 estate by 1 will written on a post card. DR. J. C. MANN the well-known EYESIGHT SPECIALIST will be at Dr. Farrell’s Office PITTSBORO, TUESDAY, Sept. 24 at Dr. Thomas’ Office SILER CITY, THURSDAY, Sept. 26
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