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Friday, September 30, 1927
Wasting a Great Opportunity
Man has never yet learned how to
use wealth in a way to produce hap
piness.
Young Kit hard J Reynolds, the
21-year-old son of K. J. Reynolds,)
the to,bacco magnate, who is the lieiH
to one fifth of $50,000,000, and whi>
will Income the owner of a £10,Q00.-|
000 fortune in his own name, now;
seems to be traveling,the prodigal's,
path, Md isTost from his |>eo|/fe, ap-j
parently hid in the wreat niaze of
the rushing world. \ ' I
We are often reminded of liood
opportunities that seem to "bless chil
dren.- We measure op|*>rt uni
ties by the wealth of parents and the-'
riches lavished upon fhrm, and for
get that the horse that never trains
can not that the boy or girl
who never works knows very little
of the blessijyjs whidi work In
duces.
R. J. Reynolds, who built up this
mighty fortune, was one of the plijin-1
est, soberest, hardest-working and
most honorable men of our State. He
built his fortune under the shadow .
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of a great trust; and so long -as Ije'
lived he was inde|>endent and helped
the tobacco grower by paying a little
more and at the same time gave the 1
Public Library Opens Road
Common, sense, local pride, some
education, and a wish for more, love
of children, and the desire that they
grow up. wiser than their parents,
these are-the things that compel com
munities to have public libraries,
Public libraries are almost "univer
sally found in wide-awake, vigorous,
progressive, and well-taught com
munities. That need not be proven.
Make a group of men and women feel
that a public library in a town is a
good evidence of the presence in that
town of will and determination to be
an alert and progressive pfacq, and
you have made that group keen to
work for a public library.
In th past 40 years thousands of
places in this country have grown in
population, buildings, factories, and
other works of money-making pros
perity; and then by good luck have
been led to say to themselves, "We
are as good as the next town, except
TCHED ALL OVER
Wm SaHeriaf Dreadfully, Jut
"Wasting Away." look _
Carta, aid Says U
Helped Her.
Astfangton, Teiaa.—A resident of
this town for many years, Mr*. J. H.
Jackson, aeya:
1 had ease red dreadfully with aa
aching all orer my body. At timee
my hoad would give ma ao much
trouble I could hardly atand it. I
had been in bed for weeka and it
looked like I waa juat weeting away.
1 took 9 bottlee .of Cardui and my
atreagth began to alowly return.
"Since that time I have uaed thia
medicine a good many timea and it
hae alwaya helped me.
"At «ne time I took Cardui for
—ratal months regularly. I would
be aflicted with eudden spell* of
dbrineee when I could not stand on
my feet Everything would torn
Meek before my eyee end I would
feel aa if I warn'going to feint. At
timea I would be quite naueeated. I
turned at oace to Cardui end took
it MB I was safely through." -
Cartel is a mild, medicinal tonic,
mode from purely vegetable ingredi
ent*. It has been in use for over 60
Sand in that time thouaanda
pea haws written that Cardui
1 them back to good haelth.
rS'VbpiiD-
user more Tor his money "" His was
one of, the few big fortunes built up
without crushing competitors, only
j holding them down to an honest
j profit liasis. The builder of the for
j tune never'deviated from the straight
| and narrow way. '
! The voting man now faces a great
er job in,s|M'ndtng $10,000,000 than
the father hail in making $50,000,0Q0
Doubtless the young Reynolds pos
sesses every good trait which his
father j>ossessed, but unfortunately
he has more temptations. It is a
very bard thing for a rich young man
to stand against the society of the
'world. It was so in the day ,of young
Absalom and has l>een every day
since. * -
Now the country is all a stir over
the absence from home vf a rich
youhg man, Many poor ones are ab
sent that very few know about. They
are poor, boys and disturb only a
| few by their going.
Any young man will'have a fol
lowing so long as he has money. If
Aoung Mr, Reynolds really is out for
a good time, his ten millions will
draw the crowd, both women and
'men. and will keep them in line so
1 long as the money lasts.
to All Kinds o/ Education
that we haven't a public HLrwry
Straightway they prove their excel
lence by adding a library to their
ejui|>iTier»t; and, thereu|x>n, it is not
too much to say, begin to grow in
grace. » i
So much for the fact that all the
best places in this country in which
to make u home have good public
libraries. A good slogan ( or a cam-
ilour dollar buys
more than ever
with a HnerPontiac Six selling at
lowerprices
Ever since it flashed into the field, the Pontiac Sis
has won its success on the basis of dollar-for-dollar
value. When introduced, it represented a new idea in
low-priced sixes—the idea of truly high quality in
design, performance and appearance. And it won
world record public acceptance almost overnight.
► Yet now your dollar buys more than ever—for
today's Pontiac Six embodies many improvements
in the original Pontiac Six design. It is now offered *
with beautiful new Fisher bodies in new Duco colors
and every body type has been reduced in price!
You may have read that a new measure of value was
created by this finer Pontiac Six selling at lower prices .
—but until you come in and actually see today's Pon
tiac Six, and actually sit at the wheel, you cannot know
how fine a six can now be bought for $745!
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paign for putting a public library in
every community in the land would
be "All good towns have libraries."
If that is a little too severe on non
library towns, then make the slogan,
"Some good towns have public li
braries; all -good towns want them."
Our subject hero is "Library serv
ice in every community,"; meaning,
of cours*7-tfiat the influence of ft col
lection of good books ought to be
reaching the most crowded tenements
of the largest, cities, the remotest
homes in the most scattered of farm
ing communities, and all kinds and
sorts of -groups and gatherings be
tween the two.
We have shown that one of the
most helpful of tfie influences of a
public library begins its good work
even before it tomes into being. .The
story of work as a live and sym
pathetic "being, of what it has already
done a thousand times, and what and
how it can do the same on new oc
casions is a fong one.
The school won its place long ago,
and has its millions of pupils, all
duly taught by teachers. But it
teaches its pupils only. The public
library opens to every one roads to
education of every kind. It asks no
fee; has no rules of attendance and
attention, has no painful "exams"
gives no marks of success or failure,
and promotes none from grade to
grade, but it gives to all within reach
of its printed pages the jwwer to at
tend at will a school of life where may
l>e learned every trade, every art, and
all manner of wisdom.
One goes to school to be taught;
une goes to a library to learn. The
pupil must have a teacher; the learn
er needs only a book. The pupil too
often goes to school because he must;
the learner gets from his book not
what he must I>ut what he will.
For a few hours in each of a few
short years we taught by teach
ers in our schools. In these same
lew years we are learning every wak
ing hour in the school of life; and
the public J-ibrary says to us, "All
this which you have learned without
teachers and set tasks, in work and
play, in looking, hearing, and talk
ing, in these your early years, much
-as it is, is but a liny fraction of what
you Can learn from the books that
your public library gladly provides.
No matter how simple the daily task
to which you have settled down, or
lifow complex the trade or business in
which you are trying to excel; you
can, by using books, increase what
you now know by a hundredfold, if
you will simply become your own
pupils, your own master, and your
own teacher.".
What of the service a public li
brary gives to its community? It
adds to the fact just noted that a
good book needs no teacher to carry
its lesson to him who wants to learn,
a clear vision of the need of setting
forth that fact so plainly and so
often that each month and each year
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an number of students in
the school of life will become stu
dents in'the school of books. Books
are still little known, are read by
few, and are recognized as the best
masters of all kinds of learning by
fewer stifl. Hence much remains for
the library service to do. Happily
it is being done. The librarian is
abroad; is watchful for opportunity
to preach his excellent doctrine; puts
public libraries by the score in new
communities every year; establishes
and keeptVeen for service officials on
library extension at the capital of
nearly evjfy State; joins his fellows
in countless'annual conferences, large
and small; holds many short-term
schools for library workers here and
there; makes public library progress
more eagerly sought as "news" in
journals of every kind, and every
day sends his message of self-edu
cation to evefy remotest corner of
the land.— John Cotton Dana, li
| brarian, Newark.
THE LETTER BOX
IN DEPENSE OF THE CHURCH
By C. H. DICKEY
PeriodiciJly—about once each month
to be editorial article ap-
I pears in this paper the piti
[ ful estate of the church and lament
. ing the empty pew. Therf is some
thing to be said along this line, it is
true. But every question has at least
a couple of sides. And it seems to
me that if is about time that the other
-side have a hearing. Through the gen
erosity of thi~ paper, I am pleased to
give the other viewpoint, and feel able
to dp it.
This is, in the very first place, an
age of church building. At no time in
the history of the earth has there been
such an epoilial period of church con
struction. OIK- does not have to leave
this State t> see it. The million
dollar church has already arrived. And
there are few more, thorough and up
to-date structures of any kind than the
modern church with its provision for
religious educational work, along with
the regular ministries. These cost
money—' big money—and it may be
safely supposed that there are enough
people in the churches and enough
money to build and maintain them;
else one could not guess where the
money comes from, „
TJiis is also an age of giving. Church
people are now giving fives, tens, and
twenties, where they used to give ones,
twos, and threes. They say that
money ia avreal test of a man's re
ligion. If so, the church people have
never before given the money they are
giving today. Churches never were
so fine nor to spacious; and the min-
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isters were never before so well cared
for.. Somehow, the churches are
managing to have finer churches than
ever, more money than ever, and a
better paid ministry than ever before.
This isn't so bad. One "could go on,
multiplying evidences that the church
has not died. But why waste time
doing that? t
The editorial articles above men
tioned, one may suppose, have had in
mind the local church-'situation; in
other words, the church status in Wil
liamstoji today. I have been doing
some thinking about this and am ready
with some conclusions.
1 may say, in the first place, that the
treatment of any subject calls for clear
thinking. One can not jump at con
clusions. All the evidence must be in.
Having tried to think this thing thru
from the local standpoint, I am pre
pared to defend the local situation as
follows:
In the first place. WrtHatUston is a
small community. It has one school,
one bank, one depot, one post office,
and one theater. But it has five white
churches! And it is to be remembered
too that all of Williamston's popula
tion is by no means white. There
are several colored churches.
The point is obvious: That while
there are only one school, one bank,
one dejtot, one po«t office, and one the
ater serving the people of this com
munity, there are five white churches
serving the same community. The
point here is a striking one!
The school is the only crowded place
in town. One does not hear of the
bank having more money than it can
handle; the depot seems to he
able to handle both freight and pas
senger traffic (the seats are empty
there, too); the post office, I believe,
has added no new employees; and the
theater is not, 1 believe, planning any
program of expansion. In each of
these cases, one house is serving the
community." But five white churches
serve the same territory.
To illustrate further: One may
come out of the theater on a Satur
day ! night and say the house was
crowded. So be it. But if there were
five theaters, would they all be crowd
ed? Another thing, both white and
black attend; and, in addition, people
come in from tlic rural sections and
near-by towns. While the churches
draw very lightly from the country
and other towns. And one can always
find standing' room in the theater ex
cept on Saturday nights.
I have thought thing through
and have come to the conclusion that
tlie evidence will support me in say
ing that the churches have the best
of it in this year of our Lord, nineteen
hundred twenty-seven. I know, per
sonally, that some of the secret or
ders are not drowded; I have been in
person to the theater other than Sat
urday nights, and it was not at all
crowded; I have seen a train of three
cars come in here with every seat
empty, but two—and the conductor
was sitting id one of them. The
store* don't seem to be crowded; and
even one newspaper not only takes
care of Williamston proper but the
same paper serves a large constitu
ency outside the city limits.
There's nothing to it. If the
people who attend white churches in
Williams ton in a week—Sunday school,
yofaitg. peoples' societies, adult organi
zations, and the church services prop
er—l say if that whole crowd assem
bled in one building, like the patrons
of the theater do, there isq't a build
ing in town that would s«rt them—
not even the school building!
' While the people are pouring out of
the theater and the school building,
they are pouring out of five churches.
Put 'em all together and the churches
have the best of it,
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Friday, September SO, 1927
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having this day qualified U admin
istratrix of the estate of Henry P.
Gibson, deceased, late of Martin
County, this is. to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to present them to the undersigned
on or before the 28th day of Septem
ber, 1928, or this noti.* will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to the tvaid estate will
please make immed»»t» payment
This the day of September,
1927.
KATIE L. GIBSON,
Administratrix of Henry P. Gibson,
deceased.
Elbert S. Peel, attorney at law, Wil
liamston, N. C. s3O 6tw