Thursday, August 26, 1937
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s*Minute Biographies
Author of "How to Win Friends
qnd Influence People^Hj
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Chiseling Tombstones Was Too Dangerous
For Him—So He Joined The Flying
Squadron
This is the story of a man who
aparently can't get killed, a man
who defied disaster and flirted
with death for a quarter of a cen
tury. He has zoomed down the
track at hair-raising speed in
more than two hundred automo
bile races; and in the bloody days
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ELKIN, N. C.
of 1918, he shot down twenty-six
German planes from mid-air —
shot them down while explosive
bullets whined and cracked with
in inches of his head; yet he
never suffered a scratch.
Yes, this is the story of Eddie
Rickenbacker, commander of the
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
famous "Hat - In - the - Ring"
Squadron, and America's Ace of
Aces in the World War.
Immediately after the war, I
was the maAager of one of the
most charming men I have ever
known —Sir Ross Smith, the fam
ous Australian Ace, the first man
who ever flew above the Holy
City of Jerusalem and the first
man who ever flew half-way
around the earth. I found Sir
Ross Smith and Eddie Ricken
backer, both distinguished fight
ers and fliers, to be very much
alike—extremely quiet and mod
est and soft-spoken, not at all
like the men one expects to find
behind barking machine guns,
spitting death from the skies.
Up to the time he was twelve
, years old, Eddie Rickenbacker
was a wild, undisciplined boy
with a fiery temper, the leader of
a neighborhood gang, busting
street lights and raising cain in
general. Then a tragedy hap
pened. His father died, and over
night, little Eddie was changed
into an old man. That is the way
he expresses it.
The day his father was buried,
he resolved to become the head
of the family. So he quit school
and got a job working in a glass
factory for five cents an hour,
and he worked twelve hours a
day. He walked seven miles to
the factory each- morning, and
seven miles home again at night
to save ten cents' carfare. The
boy was determined to forge j
aheafi. Nothing could stop him.
The work in the glass factory was
monotonous, dull, deadly. He de
spised it.' He longed to be an ar
tist, to create, to dream dreams
in color and lines. So, he studied
drawing in a night school and
got a job chiseling angels and
cherubs in marble for a man who
sold tombstones. He chiseled the
inscription on the stone that now
stands above his father's grave.
But chiseling tombstones was
dangerous work —he was told —
the dust from the marble would
get into his lungs. "I didn't want
to die young," Eddie says. "So I
started looking for something
safer to do."
He was fourteen years old when
he stood on sidewalk one fateful
morning and stared at the first
automobile he had ever seen—a
curious, weird contraption chug
ging and sputtering through the
streets of Columbus, Ohio. Yet
to him it was Destiny on Wheels.
It altered his entirfe life.
Before his fifteenth birthday,
he had landed a job in a garage;
he learned to drive by backing
cars back and forth in a wooden
building that had once been a
livery stable. Building a work
shop in his backyard, he made
1 is own tools and was preparing to
make his own automobile. Pres
ently, an automobile factory
started in Columbus, and Sunday
after Sunday, Rickenbacker went
there and begged for a job. But
Sunday after Sunday he was
turned away. After he had been
turned down for the eighteenth
time, he turned to the astonished
owner of the factory and said.
"Look here. You may not know
it, but you have a new employee.
I am going to work tomorrow
morning. The floor is dirty. I
am going to sweep it and run
errands and sharpen your tools."
Salary? He didn't give two
whoops about salary. He wanted
a chance to get. started, aVid he
got it. Enrolling in a corres
pondence course in engineering,
he prepared himself for the op
portunities that lay ahead.
From 'that time cn his rise was
rapid—workman, foreman, as
sistant engineer, trouble man,
salesman, branch manager.
Then the lust for speed, the
craving for adventure, got into
his blood. The glamor, the ap
plause, the excitement of a rac
ing driver captured his heart. He
knew he would have to change.
So he set about resolutely to con
quer his fiery temper. He de
veloped self-control. He forced
himself to smile until his smHe
became famous.
The gruelling grind of raping
called for nerves, iron nerves. He
knew that. So he gave up smok
ing &nd drinking and went to bed
every nighti at ten o'clock. By the
time he was twenty-five Eddie
Rickenbacker was cne of the
most famous racing drivers that
ever roared around a track. . -
And here is a funny thing! He
has driven cars hundreds of
thousands of miles during the
past thirty years, yet he has never
had a drivers' license, and he
doesn't have one even now.
And he doesn't believe in good
luck charms. His friends used to
give him rabbits' feet and tiny
horse-shoes and good-luck ele
phants; but one day while he
was crossing the continent, he
raised a train window and dump
ed all his good luck charms out
onto the plains of Kansas.
When America entered the
War, Eddie Rickenbacker was the
idol of the automobile world; so
he sailed for Prance as General
Pershing's chaffeur. But driving
a General about was too tame
for his adventurous * blood. He
craved action, and he got it. He
was given wings and a machine
gun and within, eighteen months,
he had written his name at the
very top of the list of America's
War heroes and was smothered
With decorations from three gov
ernments.
In a swiftly moving book of 370
pages, he has set down the epic
story of his fights and flights. If
you want to read a book that Is
packed with courage and action
and hairbreadth escapes, go to
your public library and ask for
Fighting the Flying Circus, by
Eddie Rickenbacker. It is the
most thrilling chapter in Ameri
ca's air history.
IT MIGHT HAPPEN TO YOU
John Smith wasted money.
He lived like a lord,
And bought many things
He could not afford.
But now all is changed.
Many creditors sue,
Friends smile at his folly—
It might happen to you!
' Bill Jones did not take
Any care of his health,
He spent weary hours
• In piling up wealth.
Now his body's a wreck, ,
And his days very few,
Men sneer at his weakness—
It might happen to you!
Old Squeers was a miser
Who hoarded his gold, ,
And hoped to be happy
When he had grown old.
He lived until ninety,
Despite his wrong view
A wretched old skinflint—
It might happen to you!
Be sure you are planning
A life that is right,
With a margin of time
To make other lives bright.
Be ready and willing
Some service to do;
Many put off too late—
It might happen to you!
Not AH Play
Mrs. Wimpus—l understand
that instead of the word "obey,"
the new wedding pledge for the
bride is "to love, cherish and in
spire." '
Wimpus—Yes and to have it
right for the groom it should be
"to love, nourish and perspire."
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of a Ven
Ex directed to the undersigned
Sheriff of Surry County by the
Clerk Superior Court of Surry
County, authorizing and directing
the sale of the lands hereinafter
described to satisfy judgment of
th? F-W Chevrolet Company
against J. A. Somers, which is
docketed in the office of the
Clerk Superior Court of Surry
County, I will on Monday the
20th of September, 1937 at 1:30
o'clock, P. M., at the court house
door, Dobson, Surry County, N.
C., sell the lands hereinafter de
scribed to the highest bidder, for
cash to satisfy said judgment, in
terest, principal and cost:
Said lands being described as
follows:
That certain tract of land lying
on High Piny Spur in Franklin
Township, Surry County, North
Carolina, bounded on the North
by the Daniel Collins heirs land
on the East by the lands of J. W.
Moxley, on the South by the lands
of John Church Estate and on the
West by lands of John Church
and John Carrico, said lands be-
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WINSTON-SALEM
AND FORSYTH
COUNTY
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ing located and known as William
Evans land.
This the 17th day of August,
1937.
H. S. BOYD,
* Sheriff Surry County,
By W. J. SNOW,
9-9 Executing Deputy.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
The undersigned having quali
fied before the clerk of the Super
ior Court of Surry county as ad
ministratrix of the estate of Sa
rah J. Atkinson, late of Surry
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L. W. Laxton, Distributor
Elkixi, N. C.
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county, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against said
estate to present them to the un
dersigned within twelve months
from date hereof or this notice
will be plead in bar of their re
covery. Persons owing said estate
will please make immediate set
tlement.
This the 9th day of August,
1837.
MRS. MAE B. ATKINSON,
Administratrix of Sarah J.
9-2 c Atkinson, deceased.
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