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THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1926
The Polk County News
Published Weekly by Toe News Publish] Company.
LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor
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FATHER TO THE SON
The father of Cuhin Ccolidge undoubtedly had much to do
with the shaping of the destiny of the son. We may discount j
much of the elaboration which feature "Titers are prone to inject >
when their subjects are high estates or great personages, and
still see the sturdiness of character, frugality and industry insti
It ;1 by the father. This emph isized the future of Calvin Coolid:
c. The father did nut expect Calvin to become president. He
buildtd for character-for the m m-which means more than being
a president. The high office is but an incident in the lives of
ihe father and son. The goal was not the White House:jit was
manhood.
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POLARMANIA
Alio her Arctic expedition has been delayed at Fairbanks,
Alaska, on account of damaged planes. Since it's an ill accident
that brings no thoughts, we raise the question of what good will
it dn nnvhodv to so to that bleak, barren place surrounding that
imaginary point called the North Pole?. We know that! it can not
be poj.ulated. Even our real estate boomers, would have "tough
sledding" trying to subdivide and sell Polar lots.
Time was when men loved adventure for its own sake. But
adventure may be had in the industry, art, education and social
complex of more temperate zones. Let us once admit 2s common
ground that aviators and explorers can go to,, across, around
about and over "the North and South Poles with perfect facility
and comparative comfort, and the zest is gone for the future
and further trying of it.
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THE POWER OF DUPLICATION
A striking advertisement in a recent issue of a well known
magazine commands attention. The ad is about a book. It goes
on to say that if only one volume of that book were produced
the cost would run into many thousands of dollars. By the power !
of duplication, by means of printing, the expense is reduced in
proportion to the number of copies obtainable plus the ratio of j
potential sales.
These facts bear a direct relation to the power of advertis- |
ing; which is merely the multiplying of the advertiser's effort
and accomplishment, and which, when done in accordance with 1
the rules of the game, unquestionably reduces the price of the
commodity to the consumer. Advertising is the same "power of
duplication" in salesmanship; and again it is the printing press
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JEFFERSON'S INFLUENCE BY PROXY
Altho he was in France at the time of the Constitutional Convention
of 1787, Thomas Jefferson's influence was felt In :
the deliberations of that body.and in the making of the Constitution
of the United States as probably no other character in
all history at physical distance from any given scene of action.
Is it any wonder, then, that April 13 calls to mind the birthday
of this truly great American?
Constitutional encroachments of these later days call vividly to
mind the painstaking efforts put forth by Jefferson and his
contemporary statesmen in the framing and shaping of a government
that would embody the principles of Federal unity and
preservation of the rights of States and individuals. Lovera of (
true freedom owe a mark of respect if not a debt of profound
Kratiluue to Thomas Je???rson and his life work. Political differences
of today merge into full accord with respect to such
fundamentals as "that men are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. "And while the protection of life, the
guarantee of liberty and the search for contentment was pot
wholly settled by such pronouncements, they serve as guide post
to the larger freedom which comemands the attention of present
day champions of national issues.
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BOOST TRYON
What some people need is vaccination against small-townitis.
If it doesn't take on the arm we get it in the neck.
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The "Youth Movement" is worrying educators and sociologists.
But when it's in father's car at 60 miles per hour it worries
ihe traffic officers and pedestrians.
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We can't cite chapter1 nor quote verse, but we've got a
notion that somewhere it says that the knocker will knock in
vain at the pearly gates.
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The business men of Tryon are the salt of this part of the
earth. If you keep "shaking them down" without supporting
them, after a whole they gum up and refuse to pour.
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Somehow we kind o' like the honest-to-goodness, suspenderwearing,
hand-Clasping, accomodating, raw-boned, straight-eyed,
children-and-dog-loving, God-fearing, booster-minded individual
who always-says, "If it's best for this community you can put me
down for it: "
They say it was shortly after a crowd of newspaper editors
visited Florida that the boom started in that state. The National
Editorial Association holds its annual convention in California
this summer, so watch the Golden State. Fact is, there ought to
be a premium on editors' conventions. If a handful of newspaper
boys can make a whole state boom, think what we could do
here in Tryon if the Polk County News had still greater opportunity
! Subscribe and help imbibe our prosperity.
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I ^SATURDAY "MOURNIN*" - _
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S\ fl\ ^lSH'T 1 ?BOW?D UP S05 J WOOPCNT V^,r
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iV, 1 Dot/V SEE WHY TAW CAwV lb HIS OWN StUPlM1*- f Y
V*. ml O' TV' fTTH^ft KIDS HAFTA BREAK
^.jO/) Backs with va/ole SfKDiN'FOftK?rf ,
I ALL THEY HAFTA DO 19 T'PLAYEAU SlUOMSTWW .S
1 *%{ AW'havea SWELL TIME ON SATURDAYS?
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THE COLORADO SHOULD BE DAMMED
President Coolidge and Secretary of Commerce Hoover are
trying to reconcile the administration's policy of economy with
the recommendation of the construction of the dam across the
Colorado river. They should find a way out. Congress should act.
The hills now pending are the result of government surveys and
high engineering aproval. Whether the site selected at Boulder
Canyon or Black Canyon, or elsewhere, the dam should be built.
The rights of Arizona, the chief contender, should be made secure.
A vast domain lies in the path of irrigation which the completed
project would serve. Out of the territory to be affected,
including Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, could be
built an empire larger than Italy and the British Isles combined.
The mighty Colorado offers possibilities for power an d agricultural
development with flood Control that renders delay in its utilization
an expensive measure! in the national economy.
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BOOST TRYON
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The hard grind is the b^st non-skid device ever known for
business.
May you all live and coniduct yourselves that whatever this
newspaper must say about you shall be good.
Your town is different from your wife or husband. You
don't take it for better or worse, you MAKE it so.
The radio is a wonderful thins but you can't wrap up the
clothes for the laundry in it. Subscribe for the Polk County News.
All the world's a stage, but some of the good people of Tryon
are too busy shifting the scenery to join the others who are doing
the posing.
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SAFETY OR SORROW
A certain committee was criticized for not looking after railroad
crossings that needed repair. The chairman made the mild
retort that the rougher a crossing the safer ii is. There is meat
in the thought. A few years ago the talk went the rounds that
^uoraobile manufacturers were seriously considering the make of
car that would run only 20 miles per hour. If an? such cars were
made .we have never yet seen any of them in Polk county, North
Carolina.
Recklessness, of whatever nature, ought to be placed In the
category of sin, along with immorality, debauchery and the host
of ills that beset humanity from depraved minds and warped
souls. Indifference to human consequences must become both unpopular
and immoral before the desired results are even approached.
Safety ought to be made synonymous with morality as
well as with intelligence. Safety before sorrow, ALWAYS.
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If the horse becomes extinct will horse sense eo with it?
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If only there were seme way to tune out the neighbor's boy's
cornet'!
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Government would be worth all it costs to some people if
they didn't have to pay cash.
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The fellow who used to go along and help pay for the gas
now has to agree to help pay the fines.
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The country can expect forign entanglements so long as the
negotiations have strings to them.
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Some people who think they belong to the Four Hundred
couldn't rake up $400 to save their necks.
J When a business has to be sold under the hammer somebody's
been knocking or not advertising.
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Conversation can now be carried on between New York and
London, but who's going to act as interpreter?
It must cost them a lot to keep changing the names on the
official stationery of the French Government.
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It isn't, tho srwnllaH mAnnnnlioo 1 < *
?~ I..V.WIA/UM vnau iiux t us so mucn as tne
painful arguments put up for and against them.
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The simplest way to get the Chileans and Peruvians together
would be to subdivide Tacna-Arica and advertise it as only a short
hop from Key West.
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The only skeptical thing about the Prodigal Son story is that
when he returned he found the old folks at home.
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By A. B. CHAPIN,. Things You Should Kuc
/c INVISIBLE P0I80N C
Vj/ '.^R We have no antidote for carbon
^TX "% monoxide intoxication?no advice to ?
Kive except keep away from it and s
~~ .yS*q83Y *^WV this is obviously impossible In our t
pf ^^Ss. I Icrowded thoroughfares. I,
^""P nnint is the end of the H
f exhaust pipe of the engine producing I c
Within every doctor's clinetele may r
be found dozens of people who suffer
from indescribable weakness and lnef'
ficierncy, many of them with poison- v
ed hearts, the cause of which has not r
yet been determined. Many of them ?
work around garages, and places ?
where monoxide gas is in the air. t
They suffer from typical effect of gas
poisoning', more emphatically true, if t
ih=ir eliminative channels are in t
good working order, and if there are t
no evidences of bacterial invasion. It
ps ver ydifficult to restore these pa- tients;
we advise pure air, when that ,
ssential to life is becoming harder
Most gases aret lighter than air. I j
do not know the weight of carbon mo- (
nrxide gas, but I believe that the (
hi man level may become heavily saturated
with it, enough to produce slow ,
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POISOIIIIIK, UWUIC >1 l ..VO ? ? ,
^yjy- Qua?"- strata, while In damp weather In low >
~ *"'temperatures, it may become positive |
ly dangerous to health if not to life.
? Clearly it is the duty of our research ,
S laboratories to find a means of protecting
our people from unsuspecting
dangers. Let's have a "transformer" j
at the end of the exhaust pipe of the j
"SCIATIC NEURITI8" '
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health In England, who has been In j But cars may come and cars | ?
Washington as the guest of the United * T.t m^/00 OB (orev,r._Flrm I i
States surgeon general, Hugh S. Cum J [,ife a
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Support to the Deduction That Sleep May Be in 1
Much Part a Bad Habit
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By R. H. ULM, in New York Times. 1
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Most of us do not sleep efficiently, and thereby waste on slumber a a
lot of time which might be salvaged and added to the houre we give to D
work or play. Moreover, it appears, according to the findings?which are r
put forth us more persuasive than conclusive by the scientists who arrived f,
at them?that sleep is a "form of intoxication." The doctors at George t
Washington university found that sixty to seventy-eight hours of continuous
wakefulness had no great physical effect upon the nine subjects.
Those who were accustomed to sleeping six hours each night awoke fully ?
refreshed 111 about ten hours. Those who usually slept from eight to nine f]
hours awoke fully normal after ten to eleven hours in bed. This gives 8
support to the deduction th?.t sleep may be in much part a bad habit, as g
Socrates, Samuel Johnson and Thomas A. Edison have contended. a
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tular sun several billion ttH
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Delaware works well forfl
ince companies. They haH
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ince against burglary anfiH
nal acts. I'.urglars do oot^J
ashed.
If some of the older lodH
orture?the h"iot, rack eH
icrew?were added to tkH
>ost, insurance might fallal
The professional crimlaH
y timid and dreads pufl
if a beating, often. thata^B
till.
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n easy ran? f the Veis^H
ory at the I'niversity oflfl
rfonday.
11 night waited for it in?
lOiners are puzzled
nee. Discover- d in SostiiH
lecember, it was thirty
rom the stin. ixt> millioii^B
he earth
The count ? and-ritt?
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Ight of our system. Otir^B
ag th <
ources of light. heat a^fl
obbling up ' ::: ts.
s a whale rushing thresh?
wallows fish
Astronomers wi'lknof^M
return trip
What p. of-i. want they
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aspects an n tiattcai1
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How Tuberculoma jl
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