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N. C» aa aecond claaa matter under Act
March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1SS4.
“Don’t laugh at those who make mis
takes,
And stumble on the way,
For you are apt to follow them.
And almost any day.
Don’t think the others shifting sand
While you are solid rock.
And don’t forget for heaven sake
That any fool can knock.”
It 'wonldn’t do to elect all the crackpots in
California. A few must be left in the laity to
trtre resolutions to those holding office.—De
troit News.
Senator Copeland predicts the extinction of
the poorhouse. Tsk, tsk, we didn’t know that
was in bad financial condition, too.—Boston
Srening Transcript.
Notre Dame’s halfback, Bill Shakespeare, re.
aslnds the rest of the team that the play's the
thing.—Omaha World-Herald.
77ie wicked flee when no man pursueth, but
the righteous are bold as a lion”—until they
gfet caught too.
People Are Buying
The amount and extent of trade,
from the candy store on up to real es
tate investments, measures very well
the trend of the times. When trade
picks up there is prima facia evidence
that buying power of the people has
increased and buying power makes
prosperity.
When people are able to buy and
consume or wear out goods factories
are able to run and keep up their pay
rolls, which in turn enables the people
to keep on buying what they want and
must have.
This trade revival seems to be in all
lines of business but it is interesting to
note that people are not buying for the
purpose of speculation. Many automo
biles are being purchased or have been
daring the last half of 1934. No one is
buying automobiles for the purpose of
speculation. They are buying them to
use.
Real estate has picked up consider
ably and the buyers are those who want
homes for them.selves. One real estate
dealer here has informed us that he has
sold eveiy farm and home he has ad
vertised in the past few months and he
has listed several.
People are beginning to realize the
security of home ownership and the
protections that are thrown around
home owners and builders.
Possibly people will never spend as
wantonly as they did five or six years
ago. But the type of spending they are
engaged in today bids fair to continue
while buying power holds up. They are
buying what they need and they will
continue to need good merchandise and
good homes. ____
Commenting on retail trade, the
Winston-Salem Journal points out the
rise in buying power and the increase
in buying this year as compared with
the corresponding period in 1933:
“There is no better barometer of eco
nomic conditions in this country than
the store sales. The most convincing
evidence of an increase in the buying
power of th^ masses is presented now
by the retail stores.
“The consumers of the nation spent
f464,326,000 i n department stores,
mail-order, general chain, and variety
stores in October, an expenditure in
crease of more than $50,000,000, as
compared with the $40,462,000 spent
in September, and a gain of more than
$66,000,000 as against the $389,276,-
000 spent in October last year, accord
ing to figures revealed by A. W. Zelo-
mek, economist and director of the In
ternational Statistical Bureau.
“The October rise marked the larg
est total for that month since* 1931, he
said. For the first 10 months of the
year expenditures were $3,625,000,000,
' a gain of approximately $550,000,000
pver tke corresponding period of 193^’
Big Sacrifice
Nelwh; Wllteger aide
and public enemy number 1 bis
chief’s deaiise, was stric^n down jh a
shower.jpf bullets near Chicago 'i^es-
day but not before he had wrought i
havoc and killed two of the best agents
of the Department of Justice.^
The federal men had the’ courage
that is recounted in books of fiction and
the daring that is hard to conceive. Yet
they got their man and rid society of a
fiend and man killer who had slain One
of their colleague officers.
The federal men died, not knowing
that their aim had been true and that
they had laid low the arch enemy. Nel
son died in a ditch with 17 bullet holes
in his body after he Had killed the fed
eral men.
It was a duel to the death but the of
ficers never wavered and, if press re
ports are correct, never feared the bul
lets of a gangster. The nation mourns
the lo.s3 of two of its most courageous
officers.
It getting to be a dangerous thing to
be classed as “public enemy number
1’’ in the United States. The big gang
sters are riding for a fall and just as
soon as the “big chief bites the dust”
an ambitious subordinate in the world
of crime rises to take his place and
soon rests on the marble slab in some
police morgue, even if it costs the lives
of two men.
In Chicago there is a grieved grey
haired woman, the mother of Nelson.
When she heard of her son’s fate she
was not surprised but stated that she
had been expecting the news. Her son
has gone so far that his capture alive
and imprisonment was improbable and
she accepted the doom of her child
with calm. Could she but move back
the years a quarter of a century there
is no doubt but that she would try to
keep her son from the influences and
environment that led him into the paths
of crime.
The Book
tha first line of which reads,
“The Holy Blkle," and which
contains four great treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
PAUL IN' IRONS
Spain waa a long way off and was bounded
by the Pillars of Hercules, which we now call
the Straits of Gibraltar. They were supposed
t*o bear a banner in the sky above them, say
ing ‘‘Ne plus ultra,” nothing more beyond.
Paul was going the limit.
He set forth on his journey, and it was
while he was on the road, at Cenchrea, that
an incident happened which gave us the great
est of all his epistles. A woman named Phehe,
“who had been a helped of many and of Paul
also,’’ was going to Rome and asked Paul for
a letter of introduction, which he never hav
ing been to Rome, agreed to write. Phehe
suggested that it would be well for Paul to
tell the Roman Christians some of his teach
ings. as she was afraid she might not able
to answer their questions. He agreed to do it
if she could find him a stenographer, and
Phehe produced a young man named Tertins.
He proved a good helper, and so Pa.ul expand
ed his teachings into a more fully developed
system than anywhere el.se in his writings. He
was not sidetracked by questions concerning
local matters and he swung out free into his
orbit.
Phehe took the letter with Iter and deliver
ed it safely to the Romans. It is a great
achievement and was written just before Paul,
wiiii bis committee of provincial Christians
and his woodly collection for the mother
church, went up to Jerusalem for what proved
to be his last visit.
He had been warned. A certain prophet, Aga-
bus. who had come down from Judea, met him
at Caesatea, took Paul’s girdle and bound his
hands and feet, saying:
Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the
Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that own-
eth this girdle, and shall deliver him into
the bands of the Gentiles.
And when we heard these things (says
Doctor Luke) both we. and they of that
place, besought him not to go up to Jeru
salem.
Then Paul answered, what mean /e to
weep and to break mine heart? for I am
ready not to be bound only, but also to die
at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord
Jesus.
So, seeing that they could not dissuade him,
they went with him. He took the large collec
tion, as he had expected, and was well received
by the apostles, though still looked at a little
askance because of his free doctrines. Only a
few days had passed, however, when he was
seized by the local authorities as “the man
that teacheth all men everywhere against the
people, and the law,” and waa thrown into
jail. There, weary of delays in the local
courts, he finally exercised bis right as a Ro
man citizen and appealed to Caesar, who at
that time was Nero.
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EIGHTH INSTALMENT
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It was 4;30 Ellen, counting
the strokes ot the clock. that
sounded from the Metropolitan
Tower, not so far away, wonder
ed if Dick were almc»t terongh
with painting. Dick was paint
ing absorbedly. She knew thgt
she couldn’t break into his al>-
sorption, no matter what came of
it. The years with her mother
had taught her not to interrupt
creation unless 'some desperation
drove her to it. However, she
asked herself, wasn't marriage a
desperate matter? Wasn’t it, in
the final analysis? She began to
count her heartbeats — each
heartbeat was a second, wasn’t
it? She counted for a long
while . . .
The clock chimed again in the
Tower. It was 4:45.
“Almost done?” she ventured
nervously. But Dick didn’t ans
wer, which meint that he was
not.
There was a shuffle of feet on
the stairs. Ellen started, her
nervousness growing, before she
realized that the shuffle was too
light to be made by Tony’s feet.
It must be a girl who was com
ing.
It was a girl. It was Claire,
perfectly groomed from her slip
pers of suede to her soft straw
heret.
“I didn’t expect to see you
here,” she said, “after what I
heard! I thought for once that
I might get a break and find Dick
by himself.”
Ellen hadn’t heard the last
part of the other girl’s speech.
Her whole being stood forward,
on tiptoe, to catch the first part
of it.
"What have you heard?’’ she
asked In a breathless
voice.
"From the tone ot her,” she
said, “you’d think our ewe lam'
had something on the old con
science, what? Never can tell,
can one, Dicky? However,” per
haps she sensed the hysteria
back of Ellen’s blazing eyes,
“however, it was this! I heard
that Sandy was out gunning for
you. That he was abandoned,
absolutely abandoned by you, at
the Six Arts last evening. That
you blew, just before dawn, with
a handsomer man. How’s that
for scandal, Dick? How’s that—■”
Dick was scraping the paint
from his palette. He had his
palette knife very much as
were a dagger.
“Ellen told me all about
he said briefly.
The clock struck five—the
clock in the Tower. And Ellen
who for a moment had forgotten,
whirled around on one slender
moccasined heel.
“Oh. I must run,’’ she said. “I
laughing.
Only ..she ahouldn’t
laughed, really-^not at Sandy!
For Sandy’s face was as lugubri
ous as It was angry. =~;--
“I thought maybe I’d find you
here,” he to}d BUen. “Say, you're
a peach, you are! .1 hunted all
over the whole hotel for you.”
Ellen didn’t say anythltfg. She
merely stood. In ber white buck
skin suit, and rocked back and
forth with the storm of her
mirtb. Only it wasn't just good
clean fun, that mirth—It .. was
something of a mental upheaval.
"I’d like to know bow you got
like that, all of a sudden. Going
so loose. I mean. After all.
I’ve been pretty regular—”
stormed Sandy. “No, Dick, I’m
darned if I’ll can it!—It isn’t
always been the easiest thing in
the world, letting you get away
with murder, just because you’re
supposed to be a wide-eyed in
nocent. And then you treat me
like a sap!”
Suddenly Dick had laid aside
the palette with which be had
been toying. In long strides, be
had crossed the room to Sandy’s
side. As he stood there, he look
ed very formidable, for all bis
gauntness.
“I’d advise you to shut up, old
man,” said Dick, sternly. “I
don’t blame you, in a way, hut
there's something here that nei
ther you nor I understand. Only
this—you said It!—laughing’s
all that Ellen can do, just now.
If you haven’t enough sense lo
see It, if Claire Isn’t woman
enough to get it, I do. The kid’s
at the end of her rope.’’
Still formidable, stil gaunt, he
had left Bandy standing word
lessly beside the sofa on which
Claire sat. He had left Sandy,
little I and had gone swiftly to Ellen’s
side, and his long arms, reaching
had drawn her little figure
—in its beaded play suit—close
to his chest.
“Easy now, youngster,” said
Dick. “I.*y off that stuff! Cry
if you want to, if you must. But
lay off that business of laugh
ing. You’ll be ill—”
Ellen found that she was
clutching Dick’s arms, way up
close to the shoulders. They were
tense, like iron. They were bony
they weren’t cuddly, they were
just something to hold on to—
but, oh. how dreadfully she need
ed them! As her slim fingers bit
into their tenseness, she began
it 1 to regain a certain amount of
I self-control. She could realize, as
it,’’ I she fought to keep back her spas
modic'giggles, that it was be
cause she had been relieved to
know that it was Sandy who had
come up the stairs—Sandy, and
not Tony.
But at any moment It might
be Tony! For hadn’t Claire said
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Ellen was wrenching herself
free from Dick’s grasp. Was be
ginning to shake again, to shake
as if she were chilled, as if she
were feverish.
‘Tm all right n-now, old
thing,’’ she tried to say breezily,
although she found it almost Im-
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really must, Dick. I’ve a date | that his car was waiting, at the
for five. I must—”
Claire hitched her skirts the j
merest fraction ot an inch lower. I
‘I suppose,” she said, "that the
red Rolls, at he curb, is waiting
for you?”
Ellen was starting toward the
screen, but she stopped short at
Claire’s words. Stopped tor a
blank second as Cinderella must
have stopped when all of her
loveliness was turning back to I
rags.
“It’s not down there already?”
she asked. “Why, I said—”
Claire was laAigbing. Her
laughter blew, like thistledown,
against the sound of feet—the
sound of feet, once more, climb
ing the stairs.
Again Ellen’s heart stood still.
For this time the tread was un
mistakably masculine. Again she,
herself, stood still, with her eyes
on the door. Knowing, even as
she waited, that the anxious
eyes of Dick, the scornful eyes
of Claire, were upon her.
And then the door opened and
Ellen, with relief bubbling up to
her lips, found that she was
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gum they placed under the seat.—^Atlanta Con
stitution.
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Yon can’t use radio waves to cover the pantry
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