FERRY NEWS
Ferry, Nov. 9. —Mr. McCurry, of
Cliffside, was present at Floyd's
Creek Sunday and made a nice talk
just after Sunday school concern
ing the Every Member Canvas that
is to be staged soon. His subject
was "Christ's Challenge to us." he
read for scripture lesson St .Mark
10th, 17-22.
Dr. T. C. Holland, late mission
ary to Porto Rico, made a fine ad
dress at this church on Friday night.
Misses Lessle and Ada Gordon en
tertained a number of their friends
with a party Saturday night. Num
erous games were enjoyed by those
there who were Misses Mamie and
Mattie Hawkins, Pearl Silver, Gladys
Lancaster, Agnes Morrow, Forest
City; Marcus, James and Thurman
Dobbins, J. P. Watkins, Aldo Haw
kins, Dexter and Beauford Pace,
Fay Davidson, J. C. Morrow, Britt
and Garney Waters, Forest City; ]
Mr. Graham Weaver of Boiling
Springs, Judson Francis, Luke Pow
ell, Carl Silver, Robert Phillips,
Yancey Scruggs, Thomas, Bob and
T. C. Gordon.
Mr. Gialiam Weaver, of Boiling
Springs, and brother Mr. Fred Wea
ver, of Shelby, spent the week end
with thei® sister, Mrs. Chas. M.
Scruggs and Mr. Scruggs.
Miss Agnes Morrow and Mrs. G.
D. Blanton, of Forest City; spent
the week end with Mr. Ed Gordon
and family.
The '-local school opened last
Monday composed of the same fac
ulty as last year: Misses Bertie
Waldrop and Irene Scruggs.
Mr. Clyde Gordon and family were
dinner guests Sunday of Mr. Ed
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Gordon and family.
Mr. Lonzo Owens and family
spent the week* end with Mr. and
Mrs. Asa Lovelace, at Rutherford
ton.
Mr. W. P. Alexander is doing a
painting job this week for a party
near Sunshine a recently ftnished
dwelling house.
New Inventions
And Improvements
Shelby, R-5, Box 87, Nov. 9.
Every man owes it to himself and to
society to 4earn an ho,nest living.
The farmer and the artisan is ex
pected to earn this living in the
sweat of his face, while the lawyer,
the politician and others are expect
ed to live in the sweat of his tongue..
Primitive, man was expected to use
what few implements came to hand;
but a sharp stick' to stir the soil was
the acme of human ingenuity. In
Civilization wheajt, ry}e, oats and
i barley were the food crops, for
which the ground received sundry
stirrings for planting and cultiva
tion with that crooked stick, which
was pulled by oxen. Tubal Cain, or
some other cunning workman in
' metal invented the sickle, which pre
pared the grain of civilization for
the tread of the oxen, after which
the farmer had a winnowing fan to
pour the mixture to the breeze and
separate the wheat or other gra.n
from the chaff. There the genius of
invention remained for at least three
thousand years; and the mortar and
pestle did duty for a mill for several
hundred years. But the genius of
improvement was merely slumbering.
From the nimble brain of invention
was evolved the tub water mill and
j the humming ground hog thresher.
Both these discoveries were denounc
ed as heresy;, but. saving of labor re
conciled thje mass/es. Th,& ground
hog, crude as it was, would separate
niore grain from the chaff in a day
than the manipulator of the flail, or
! the feet of an ox would in a week".
! Constitutional laziness will soon for
give a grievous sin that is of labor
saving tendency. Hence, after maul
ing out grain with a flail and tramp
| ing it out with the hoofs of the horse
and the ox, mankind caused the
I merry hum of the "groundhog" to
'be heard in the land, while famines
| were averted by having means to
plow the ground with iron and sep
arate the wheat from the chaff by
| sight-horse-power machinery. A "go
pher" iron plow and a metal "ground
hog" was regarded as the acme of in
vention. But human ingenuity was
at work, and the result was a steel
turning plow and a separator thresh
er, that cleaned the wheat from the
chaff. But fogyism and superstition
must have their inning. The predic
tion had been that even the favorite
groundhog would be a. creator of
smut which had been proved a fallacy
while the peripatetic prophet of evil
said the separator would introduce
the weevil which would destroy all
wheat so soon as threshed. But sun
ning the grain averted that evil, and
[the teeming millions of mankind
that had been provided with bread
to avert famines.
In the meantime another useful
invention had been brought by the
ingenuity of Cyrus McCormick. In
days of antiquity the sickle cut down
the grain but it was a very slow
process. A crooked blade was drag
ged through the ripened wheat, while
a woman gathered and bound it into
sheaves. In process of time ingen
uity invented the scythe and grain
cradle, which was regarded as the
ne plus ultra of human achievement.
But a harvester was evolved from
the brain of Cyrus McCormick that
traveled on wheels, with horses ?.s
imotive power; that improved, cut and
bound the grain at the same opera
tion. The howling calamity howler
predicted dire calamity to all inter
ested in wheat culture. Skillful crad
lers would be thrown "out of a Job |
jby the impious improvement of ' a
separator and an impious harvester.
To add insult to injury, a son of
Belial invented a "header" that cut,
bound and threshed at one operation
Then the calamity howler and the
whangdoodle that mourneth for his
first born, causes the powers to call
(up the quick and dead. The profana-
I i tion of a machine that would cut,
1 bind and thresh at me operation
! was the limit. All fogies fight any
1 improvement to a finish. The "crad
; ler" was hostile to the harvester be
| cause he said it would throw the
\ "cradler" out of a job, which, while
i. it lasted, provided the cradler two
!» dollars a day current money with the
y 1 merchant. The fogy railed again the
railroad because he lived by shoot
ing squirrels and selting them; and
his plea was the train would frighten
all the squirrels out of the country.
At present I am an invalid, and read
fc ing and writing is all I can do. Forty
jsix years my vocation was school
THE FOREST CITY ( Ni c ) COURIER
teaching. While I was paid the usua'
stipend in North Carolina, Kentucky,
and Missouri; I find myself in penury
at the advent of old age and afflic
tion. Had those 46 years been spent
at bootlegging, I might hvae now
been a capitalist and respected by
all. My vocation would have caused
crime, poverty and degredation. The
scholar and the inventor are des
pised, especially if they are found
in the toils of poverty. The right
eous are cast down on every side,
while the vilest men are exalted. Like
the poor, the skinflint and the gloater
in penury, continue to abide with
us. The one who toils not and neith
er does he spin, is hailed as a lead
er in society and a miracle of wis
dom. The first improvement in spin
This Saturday.. .The New Buick Eight
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four new series of Valve-in-Head Straight Eights with Wizard Control is priced as low as
$935 and up, f. o. b. Flint, Mich.—the lowest price at which any six or eight cylinder Buick
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1 The Wizard Control 8 New Longer Wheelbases, Series 32-80 17 New Improved Air Intake Silencer
2 New Automatic Clutch
3 New Free meeting 9 New Engine-Oil Temp 19 New
4 New Silent-Second Syncro-Mesh Trans- 10 Sections
mission New Improved Starting 20 New Adjustable Interior Sun Visor
5 Newly-Styled, Newly-Beautified Bodies 12 Ten De g rees Increase in Cooling 21 New Electric Gasoline Gauge
by Fisher 13 New, Modernized Instrument Panel 22 Rubber Pedal Pads
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7 New Ride Regulator 16 New Anti-Rattle Spring Shackles 24 Twenty-Six Luxurious Models
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Forest City, N. C.
ning machinery was destroyed by the
roughnecks; and the first model of
the cotton gin was destroyed. In or-j
cier to be popular with Mankind,
either be a lound-mouther, unscrupu
lous politician, or a human butcher.
History devotes most of its pages to
telling how many a hero killed, or
how much property he destroyed. I
have no scalps to show of victims
slain, no evidence of torch and rapine
and hence am nobody much. Most of
my neighbors would go father and
pay out more money to see two
heavy weight prize fighters maul and
deface each other than hear the
grandest oration, or the sweetest
strains of vocal and instrumental j
music. "Sich is life."
—CORN CRACKER.
MR. C. S. ROYSTER RE-ELECTED
COUNTY HOME SUPT.
Rutherfordton. Nov. 6. — Mr. C. S.
Royster was Tuesday re-elect.»d
Superintendent of the Rutherford
County Home for two years, from
Jan. 1, 1932 to Jan. 1, 1934, at a
salary of SIOO per month. The
office formerly paid $125 per
month. Last January Ist the sal
ary was cut 10 per cent or to
$112.50. Beginning next Jan. Ist.
the salary will be SIOO per month.
The county furnishes food and a
home for the keeper but he must
supply clothing and incidental ex
penses for his family. The Roys
ters took charge of the County
Home in 1921 and have made a
success of it.
Thursday, November 12,
Buy handkerchiefs
with what it saves
It i»n't necessary to pay 50f or more to get ;r
dentifrice. Lieterine Tooth Paste, made by t:>- .
of Listerine, comes to you in a large tube at s,
how it cleans, beautifies and protects your tes- i ,i or
over it saves you approximately $3 a y Mr b , e{ £
dentifrices. Buy things you need with that ha , lt ,
handkerchiefs are merely a suggestion. Lather Pb ,7
mural (ft,
LISTERINE
TOOTH PASTE
25 c