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KEY YORK National defense
Is leaving an indelible imprint on
the youth of America. In a buret
of purple and crimson glory, tattoo
artists from Brooklyn to San
JDiego are pricking ou a bumper
CTOp of hearts and flowers, anchors
aii:i eagles.
Business hasn't been this good
ince the days of the last World
War. For that you have the word
of Charlie Wagner, ageless dean
of subcutaneous needlepoint, who
NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE
NORTH CAROLINA,
HAYWOOD COUNTY.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT.
Summers Hardware and Sup
ply Company, a Corporation.
Vs.
Louise Bell and Ben J. Sloan,
Defendants.
By virtue of an execution direct
ed to the undersigned from the Su
perior Court of Haywood County,
in the above entitled action, I will,
on Monday, the 21st, day of April,
1941, at 11:00 o'clock A. M., at the
Court House door of said County,
sell fo the highest bidder for cash,
to satisfy said execution, all the
right, title and interest which the
said Louise Bell, one of the defend
ants, hag in the following describ
ed real estate, to-wit:
BEGINNING on a "take, Wood
ward corner in old Grimball line,
and runs thence N. 35 E. 335 feet
to a stake in the margin of road
or street, Woodward corner; thence
S. 22 30' E. 120 feet to a stake in
margin of said road or street;
thence S. 29 30 E. 150 feet to a
take; thence S. 46 W. 140 feet
to s stake in said old Grimball' line;
thence N. 84 30' W. 96 feet to the
BEGINNING, containing of an
acre, more oi less, a., per survey
and plat of J. WeKl Seavc r, Regis
tered Engineer.
This the 20th day of March, 1941.
R. V. WELCH,
Sheriff.
No. 1057 Mar. 27-April 3-10-17
has been decorating some of the
toughest forearms in America for
half a century. -
For 43 years he has worked in the
same tiny, picture-filled shop front
ing Chatham Square tattoo cen
ter of New York. '
S5.000 Hearts, 69,000 Flowers
Charlie talked while he worked.
His customer was a young seaman
in for a 25-cent forearm bouquet
inscribed to his true love. A crim
son heart already adorned his mus
cular arm, but the girl's name
across its center was now out of
date.
"You might think that they'd
want some new designs these
days," Charlie said, outlining in ink
for his customer's approval the
proposed floral creation. Charlie's
strictly a free hand artist. He's
inclined to be bitter about new-
comers to the business who must
rtace their patterns. "But with
few exceptions, the men still go
for the designs that their dads
liked," :
Sailors take to ships and anchors.
Soldiers, though they are less tattoo-conscious
than their seafaring
colleakues, go for eagles and coats
of arms. Some army men get their
serial numbers etched into their
I epidermis, so they can't forget
them. (It's not cricket to orna
ment yourself with your branch of
service or outfit. If you ever were
captured, that might give "aid and
comfort to the enemy.") 1
Both services are strong for
hearts, flowers, and memory pieces
like "True Love to Mother."
Charlie figures he has dispensed
some 35,000 hearts and 60,000 flow
ers in his time.
"Business isn't as good as it used
to be," Charlie admitted. "May
be the novelty has worn off since
the last war. But business today
is better than it has been for many
years. Last month, on pay day, I
worked for ten hours straight and
still couldn't take care of all my
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6"Maybe Girls Are Too Fickle"
Charlie figures about ten minutes
for a small design. They used to
take two hours, until the electric
needle came along. Charlie says
he brought this refinement into
tattooing himself in 1904. He uses
a four-needle instrument, with 3000
strokes a minute, for the thin out
lines. He freehands the colors in
with an eight-needle drill.
"There is one change since the
last war," Charlie said. "There
aren't so many girls getting tat
tooed as used to. Maybe they are
too fickle. ( You can haye a tattoo
removed, but it leaves a definite
scar making the skin what Char-
A MAN TALKS TO HIS MULE
Here is a bit of writing which
truly deserves to be called an agrii
cultural classic. We reprint it
from the Progressive Farmer:
"Over the hill trailed a man be
hind a mule drawing a plow. Un
expectedly the plow hit a root, the
Navy's New Super Dive Bomber
lie calls "pale like.")
The army and navy don't encour
age tattoos and turn some men
down whose tattoos are too big or
indescent. Unclad women are strict
ly taboo. Charlie said that many's
the man he has 'helped get into the
services by etching clothes on a
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mule stopped, and the man began
to grumble as he fixed tne names:
'Rill' ''-win are iust a mule, the
f iackass. and I am a man
made in the image of God. Yet
here we work, hitched up together
vpstr tor vear. I often wonder
if you work for me or I work for
you. Verily, I trunk it is a partner
ship between a mule and a fool,
for surely I work as hard as you, if
not harder. Plowing or cultivat
ing we cover the same distance, but
win Hn it: nn four lesrs and I on two,
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therefore I do twice as much as you.
'"Soon we will be preparing for
a corn crop. When the crop is
harvested I give one-third to the
landlord for being so kind as to let
me use a small speck of God's
cArth. One-thirH croes to vou and
the rest is mine. You consume all of
your portion, with the exception of
the cobs, while I divide mine among
seven children, six hens, two ducks,
and a banker. If we both need
shoes, you get 'em. You are get
ting the best of me, and I ask you,
is it fair for a mule, the son of a
jackass, to swindle a man, the lord
of creation, out of his substance?
" 'Why, you only help to plow
and cultivate the ground, and I
alone must cut shock and husk the
corn, while you look over the pas
ture fence and hee-haw , at men.
All fall and most of the winter the
whole family from baby up picks
cotton to help raise enough money
to pay taxes and buy a new set of
harness and pay the mortgage on
you. And what do you care about
the mortgage? Not a thing, you
onery cuss. I even have to do the
worrying about the mortgage on
your tough, ungrateful hide.
" 'About the only time I am your
better is an election day, for I can
vote and you can't. ,
election I realize that I
as big a jackass a
Verily, I am prone to woij
ltics were made for
jackass, or to make jacll
oi men.
- 'Tell me, William, J
these things, how can ji
straight face and still
dumb and solemn ?' "
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