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Ua&Ca/iHsqie— Author of "How to Win Friend* and Influence People.*' 5-Minute Biographies THOMAS A. EDISON He Wasn't the Only Smart Man With a Bad Memory One day when I was having lunch at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York. I noticed that when the coat room girl took my hat, she didn't give me a check for it. I was a bit surprised and I asked her why; she said it wasn't nec essary to give me a check —that she would remember me—and she did. She told me that she had often taken the hats and coats of two hundred strangers, stack ed them up in a pile and hand ed each man the right coat and the right hat as he walked out. I talked to the manager of the hotel and he told me this girl hadn't made a memory mistake in fifteen years. I doubt whether Thomas Edi son could have accomplished a feat like that even if you had of fered him a million dollars. Edi son had a very poor memory—es pecially in his youth. In school, he forgot everything he was taught. and he was always at the foot of his class. He drove his teachers to despair. They de clared that he was addlebrained, that he was too stupid to learn, and the doctors even predicted he would have brain trouble, for his head had an extraordinary shape. As a matter of fact, he attended school only three months during his entire life. After that, his mother taught him at home; and what a mag nificent job she did, for he all but transformed the world in which we live. Yet, later in life. Thomas Edi son developed a remarkable mem ory for scientific data, and he mastered most of the scientific facts in his vast private library. He developed an extraordinary ability to concentrate, to forget everything but the subject he had in hand. One day, while he was deeply absorbed in trying to solve some scientific problem, he went to the court house to pay his taxes. He had to stand in line for some time; and when his turn came, NOTICE! Elkin Masonic Lodge No. 454, meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights at 7:30. All members re quested to be present. Signed: Secretary of Lodge. tfc Styles, times, habits change— PROSPERIZE The news is traveling iast" — PROSPERIZE Will Be at Our Store With New Fall and Winter Line of Suits prices, yet woolens Wm are advancing- daily {9 EKIN CLOTHING COMPANY Fred Sale Elkin, N. C. Zimmie Tharpe he actually forgot his own name. One of his neighbors, seeing his embarrassment, reminded hi m that his name was Thomas Edi son. He afterwards declared that he couldn't have called his name for a few seconds then even if his life had depended upon it. At one time he seriously thought of studying some system to improve his memory. Edison frequently worked in his laboratory all night long. One morning, while he was waiting for his breakfast to be brought to him, he fell asleep. One of his assistants, who had just eaten some ham and eggs and was feel ing in a jovial mood, wanted to fool the old man; so he placed his empty tray of dishes on the table in front of Edison. A few minutes later Edison awoke, rub bed his eyes, and looked down at the bread crusts and the empty plate and the empty coffee cup. He thought a moment and then came to the conclusion that hs must have eaten breakfast before he had his nap; so he pushed back from the table, lighted a cigar, had a smoke, and started to work again and never knew the difference until his assistants broke into an uproar of laughter. Well, if your memory is bad, cheer up, for Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most distinguished men who ever lived, and he couldn't remember anything un less he made a note of it —and when he did make notes, he lost them, even as you and I. SCHOOL BUILDING IS SOLD FOR $350 John W. Comer, superintendent of Surry schools said Tuesday afternoon that the Holly Springs school building had been sold to Mr. Brankley McGee for $350.00. The building was abandoned by the school commission this year. L. C. Thorton, who is in charge of the transportation for North Carolina State schools will visit Surry county today (Wednesday) to investigate the county buses and to visit the three negro schools in the county that were not allot ted a teacher this year. Several changes will be made in the bus routes, it Ls thought by officials. Not Thick or Thin "Will you." asked a young wife at Kiowa, "love me if I grow fat?" "No," replied her husband. "I promise to stick to you for better or worse—but not through thick and thin." Desert snakes must find shade within 30 feet or suffer sunstroke. l r" ' i ' 111 IT iT mmrnmmmmm For greater economy PROSPERIZE THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA TWO SIDES To Every Question By LYTLE HULL Possible Results of This War It has often been said that one of the saddest features of war is that it demonstrates the inability of the people to invent a form of government capable of protecting their interests. Through the ages it has always been the hope that "this war" will be the last the people will have to undergo, but as time goes cn wars—instead of becoming more localized and smaller in scope—have grown larger in the number of men involved and have become more inclusive geograph ically. Every conceivable form of gov ernment ' has been attempted: monarchy, dictatorship, demo cracy; socialism, communism, capitalism. Each has flourished during periods of peace but few have been capable of maintain ing those periods of peace for more than a relatively short time. There is an outstanding excep tion to this unnatural condition, which may indicate that it is not the forms of government which are at fault so much as the state of "nationalism" as it exists in Europe today, that is: dozens of separate nations, both large and small, necessarily selfish and jealous of each other, attempting to live their individual lives be hind their common boundary lines This outstanding exception is! the United States of America: a| vast grouping of geographical \ entities with different climates , tastes, ideas and modes of living; ! but having in common one su preme interest —the central gov ernment of the United States. This interest —excepting the four years of our civil war—has held them together in peace and har mony for one hundred and fifty years. These groups are com posed of every nationality, race, i color and creed on earth. In some cases almost the ma jority of a whole state is descend- i ed from one nationality, yet how weird even to imagine Minnesota | declaring wax' upon Louisiana.! But if these two states were members of the European family, they would probably show a long record of internecine warfare. Long before the Great War,; one would frequently hear a Eu-i ropean express his envy of peace- j ful America. Since the devastat ing results of that war have be-, come so prqminent as to be ap-! parent to even the least thought-| ful, "grumbling" in European countries has become a habit and i changes of government a frequent I occurrence. The people are beginning to • awake to the fact that there is no way, under the present set up, to j "top the eternal warfare to which; they are subjected. In other days. 1 when these wars were fought by! professional armies, it didn't' make such a tremendous impres-' sion and did not greatly affect j their daily lives. But now that! war has come to mean the forci- I ble conscription of every man's! and woman's life and property, itj has become to all the people a! thing of terrible import. No one knows what the present i war, if fought to a finish, will bring forth, and this is not in tended as a prophecy: but it is not difficult to picture a Europe so utterly devastated that any] straw will be grasped at by the| despairing people, and that straw: will unfortunately not be "Demo- i cracy." That, word won't "sound 1 so good" to them by then. Desperate people will be sick of any thing which reminds them of politicians; they will scream against any form of government except a "people's government" — a "proletarian government." That will have a wonderful sound—The People's Government! It has fooled experts. It fooled the level headed Fiench, and those same level heads dropped into the basket of the guillotine. It fooled the Rus sians. and millions of unwilling angels have been added to the population of Heaven since that "great emancipator," Mr. Stalin, became the "people's government" of all the Russia's. And it will fool the rattled people of a des perate, starving, fear-crazed Eu rope after they have been punish ed to the limit of human endur ance by the nitro-glycerine of | dictatorship and democracy. What a picture to contemplate! All Europe under the iron hand ot some blood-thirsty tyrant who will call himself "the people's government." The only ray of long distance hope, which shines through the murky gloom of this quite possi ble outcome of a long and des tructive war, is the chance that the people, though subjugated, will have the opportunity in a few generations, to "breed up" their manhood— : which the last war and the present one will have sadly depleted—and eventually cast aside a tyrannical form af government for a ROAL "people's government": a government ot New Polish President Wmk y m PARIS . . . Photo shows Wladislav Raczkiewicz, president of the new Polish government set up in Paris to take the place of the refugee government interned in Rumania. the people, for the people and by ! the people. A United States of ( Europe—and peace on earth at, last! A hard road to travel for the next fifty or a hundred years, and strewn with the corpses of mil- i lions of trusting human beings who placed their faith in their leaders and In the ability of those 1 leaders to solve the problems with, which they are faced today. VVJTH THE SICK 'lne loilowing patients have been admitted to the local hos pital during the past week: Bryant Reeves, Independence, Va.; Floyd G. Brooks, Furches; Dorothy McHargue, Jonesville; Lonnie Sale, Roaring River; Mrs. Edith Freeman, Elkin; Ernestine Callahan, Dobson; Cassie Simp son, Dobson; Luther Simpson, Dobson; Mrs. Nettie Couch, Elkin; Mrs. Callie Cothren, State Road; Dicky Mayberry, Elkin; Arlene Osborne, Jonesville; J. T. Pardue, Jonesville; Glen Collins, Millers Creek; Conrad Money, Elkin; Mrs. Hester Mitchell, Dobson; Thomas Golden, Elkin; Bernice Causey, Elkin; Hazel Davis, Mt. Airy; Kir by M. Lowe, Mt. Airy; Mrs. Martha Shores, Hamptonville; Myrtle Lou Wishon, Elkin: Ben Snow, Mt. Airy; Henry G. Jarvis, Thomas ville; Betty Matthews, Siloam; Tom Dinkins, Yadkinville; Miss Minnie Chatham, Elkin; Junior Mathis, Siloam; Mrs. Etta Smith, Mt. Airy; Elizabeth Coe Redman, Ronda; Mrs. Eva Cockerham, Thurmond; Mrs. Pearl Simmons, Elkin; Mrs. Hester Blevins, Ron da; Mrs. Opal Marsh, Elkin; Hazel McCraw, Mt. Airy; Thomas Roy McConnell, Franklin; Mary Lowe, Mt. Airy; Mrs. Mae Wood, Elkin; Elsie Vestal, Jonesville; Mrs. L. E. Aldridge, Elkin; Mrs. Annie Sue Lowery, Elkin; Marie Webstjr, Elkin. Patients dismissed during the week were: Harvey Stockton, Elk in; Mrs. Minnie Bernon, Mt. Airy; Glen Collins, Millers Creek; Mrs. Nancy Hinson, State Road; Kalee Walker, Elkirf; Mrs. Mable Pinnix, Brooks Cross Roads; Cophus Cul ler, Jonesville; Mrs. Irene Tucker Clonch, Jonesville; Floyd G. Brooks, Furches; H. D. Morrison, Elkin; Dorothy McHargue, Jones ville; Cassie Simpson, Dobson; Luther Simpson, Dobson; Dicky Mayberry, Elkin; Glenn Lewis, Millers Creek; Hester Mitchell, Dobson; Ben Snow, Mt. Airy; Bet ty Matthews, Siloam; Tom Dink ins. Yadkinville; Junior Matthews, Elkin; Mrs. Hester Blevins. Ronda. TERRACING Approximately 160 landowners in Lincoln county have earned a part of their soil building pay ment through terracing, reports George Hobson, assistant farm agent of the State College Exten sion Service. REDUCED The interest rate to farmers on all Commodity Credit Corpora tion loans will be reduced from four to three per cent., effective November 1, reports the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. Europe is divided into nations that goose-step and nations that side-step. It's smart! It's thrifty! Be— PROSPERIZED Protect the family— PROSPERIZE For greater comfort PROSPERIZE Sensational Values! HURRY FOR THESE WEEK-END Thursday-Friday Saturday Only! Hurry to McDaniePs Thursday, Friday and Saturday for these special value items. All items listed will absolutely he taken off sale after Saturday, so don't be too late. You'll find every one a real bargain that will represent a saving- to you. GOOD, HEAVY QUALITY OUTING Pp Don't delay, for this fine quality, good heavy W outing will go fast at this special Thursday, H Friday and Saturday price. Remember to get H H Yu. « yours now for it won't be on sale at this price after Saturday. ___________ ' FAST COLOR ONE RACK LADIES' Prints Shoes This is an 80 square, guaranteed j as ( Shoes in this lot iftdude values up to color print that is worth far more. At- $2.98, and you'll he getting a real bar tractive patterns and colors. Get gain at our special low Week-End yours now while the price is low. price. Hut hurry, they'll go fast. 14c vd. 97c pr SPECIAL VALUE IN LADIES' COATS These are Harris Tweed coats which BBS j— were bought to sell at $19.75. Carried over from last year, they are still great values at our low give-away WP" price of only— CHILDREN'S ALL-WOOL SWEATERS BR 0 Fine Quality, All Styles USE OUR CONVENIENT EASY PAYMENT PLAN SMALL DOWN PAYMENT, - BALANCE WEEKLY McDaniel's Dept Store ELKIN, N. C. Thursday, October 19. 1939
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