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^ '.' ^ *, r;- i ' ' . V t THURSDAY AUGUST. 5, 1926 The Polk County News ;* > PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY LOUIS LEHMAN, Editor Entered at the I'ostnfficc at Tryon, N. ('., as Second-Class Mail Miftter Under Act of Congress. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year 2.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months 1.00 DISPLAY ADVERTISING RATE - a Forty Cents Per Column Inch, Flat Legal Advertising, One cent Per Word, Cash In Advance FAT AM) I.KAN THEORIES EXPLODED With \ I 'at Chance Of Anyone Believeing It) Fortunateh for those who think Nature is unkind iti pro portioning li.em io fat or too lean, for the ordinary run ol success the world cares little ahotit pyscial weigst or size. Take the millionaire midget. Surely he did not get his money bv blustering thru the crowd, elbowing his way to the from seat. IVriiai's he imauled ;<> tame under other men's feet, 01 walked up Wealth Avenue on their shoulders. Then there is the proverbial fat man in the cartoons, always *J ? i"?vpnn1 pictured as a bloated bonaxa. Jt cioesn i mean uium, v.?^r. that the man of wealth usually gets enough to eat and St rounds out from his bones. .Many a man would rather be pool and skinny t an fat and rich. Rich and not too lean is tin ideal, but money won't buy the condition. The proper mixture in life's corbureter puts the "pep" inlc people. Heavy people are said to be jolly and good-natured Keeping cool and sweet is their necessary and acquired function It wasn't I torn in 'em. A lean man keeps "het" up by beinj grouchy, fiery, wisy. and excitable some of the time. Naturi is a wise provider. Of course, there are too many exception; to the rule of lean and fat to admit of these conclusions l(t( per cent. The exceptions are so notable and numerous that tli< rule is almost disproved. Rut on with the thesis. ? Strange what adjectives and synonmys will do for social achieve nient. Km it is not whether one is fat or lean, but how mud so? Whet Iter one really is fat or really lean no one kno^js, be cause, despite dieticians, there IS NO "correct weight." Th "right" weight is conceived in hospitals, health resorts an< broadcas to the sweltering millions, just as fashion is decree* in Paris by some Madame clever enough to make the world rel noon her authority. But it' the theor\ proves out that so-called fat people ar happy ami a.ways smiling. give us more of them. The worl needs just su>.h folk to counteract the hard-boiled and selfis If all the good things said ahout the fat are true, the ferven wish of the humble citizen should be to be fat enough to b ? htr:- *' WHY BOOST? It has Itei-n said that the average human bejng exerts onl about 50 per cent of the encrg? and ability that is pent u within him. Receptions are the'geniuses, but not necessaril those of phenomenal intellectual powers in art or science, bu the homiest toilers who lay hold while others idle. Collectively, people do not exceed the record of the individua It is the quality ??i' b<?>qi'ng for good things?so common in th modern community---that reaches over into the other 50 pc cent, which i< the wide margin of possibility for expansion an development. Boosting for its own sake litis merit. But it is the spirit c optimism and me inceptive for better things it engennders tlia counts so high in the scale of achievement. ? * * The problem of youth is to keep the child who reads bet time stories from late r on reading bed-room stories. * * June 1 >riiles make July bills. * * * AN ASPECT OF UNIONISM That cinematography is an art and its workers are artisl and can not unionized, is the reported statement of Daniel I Clark, president of the American Society of Cinematographer; in denying published reports that a movement was under wa to unionize the motion-picture cameramen. Taking movin pictures is no more of an art than playing musical instrument! The American Federation ol Musicians is one of the largest an strongest among the unions, and maintains direct affiliatio with the American Federation of Labor. So with many othc crafts requiring skill and art. What the motion picture men want to keep away from is th idea of wearing overalls and carrying a dinner pail. But to 01 ganize to improve working conditions and encourage high stan< ards of workmanship is a worthy movement in any line of ei deavor. As to wages, the picture cameramen probably get ei ough as it is. * ' IMtOVEN VALUES Thirty years ago, or even half as many, few people dreame of the wonderful system of highways that the country now ha Of the thousands of miles of gravel and hard-surface roads o which one may travel in comfort, perhaps not one improved mil has ever been regretted. Is not this a lesson to all of us of th great value of permanent improvements? t * ADVERTISING ANI) THE "READING MOOD" In comparison with other costs of doing business, advertis ing costs can not be said to bo high unless the advertiser make them so. Good advertising and much advertising is far cheape than poor advertising and no advertising. Tho the statemen may sound paradoxical, it muust be remembered that success ful businesses devote a greater proportionate budget to advertis Br a ing than less successful ones. I ?L.-. fMB fOLK COUNTY NEW8. DEFECTIVE VISION [OPINION OF IT J , , I HMPH! WHATS ) | j .vHE^y i : ?, I I i There are only two major factors in successful advertising of honest products: the right kind of "copy" in wording and ' display, and the right medium thru which to place it before the i 1 public. The newspaper, which contains reader-interest for the ' en ire family is the best known and proven medium for obtain- j "; iug dirtc; and timely interest. The hom'c welcomo visitor?-j ' ? }>t? newspaper?reaches the members of the family in the "reading mood." IT IS DURING THIS READING MOOD (WHICH I > | iS ALSO THE THINKING MOOD) THAT MINDS ARE! . MADE UP AND DECISIONS REACHED. And the newspaper | . is ihe best known basis for this interest-mood so highly valued I > bv advertisers. * ? * Maybe the reason a holiday seems like Sunday is because on 5 .... _1 u uc.i a day people cion t go 10 cnucn. 3 * C Speaking of deportations, why not deport a lot of these geniJoint 11 who are always saying business is bad? ?S * ^ 11 Kaiiroads use the block system for safety, while many motorhps use the blockhead system at the crossings. , * * it .... l? The new dictionaries will contain the word "free, but it win .. have funny little marks in front denoting its obsoleteness. * In this motor age a man in the ordinary walks of life had ^ better be careful that he doesn't stroll into the ordinary walks u of death. h * * * lt Science says the brain can not receive any new impressions iAVi'ffi gwi heiress ions. n * Without, discussing the merits of the defeated farm relief bill, we say that the greatest relief the farmers can have now y is lo send the farmers who have been spinding their time in p interest of farm relief back to the farms to work. y n ' "" ; ' * Ay /far/an Eugene Read (Hy HARLAN EUGENE READ) scopes. Does he imagine that in all the vast space within and without Man's most amusing conceit is the ^jg range 0f vision, there can he no theory that he is the highest of creature who knows more and has created beings, lie places nl'uself mjghtier powers than he? And that next to God (if he believe iu one) there niay not be another creature and fondly imagines himself the ,nor<> exalted than that one? Is it. S Creator's Noblest Work. It he does noj possible that there are not a not believe in God his effrontery is thousand such beings who look down ten greater. He knows no sup- Up0n nlan as he looks down upon a erior at all. worm or an ant? And is it not Upon what evidence may one who , possible t,ha} there are other intelt does not now assume for himself' ligehcee equally as high above these s- . position of so great importance? ; creatures as they are above man, ft Thn m i it >1 /\f o nnl oln 1 v 11 cr m o IF nnf nnd III o II nlmirn t lin nntnin ltt?rv9 v? nut- iiiiiiu ui a |i\iuuu ifiih II114.' uwi 1 una man ? uu?r ui?' |Hilttiw iMit, ; ?? c n conceive of any power greater than do not know. ,r itself. Is that a proof that no such higher power exists? For the idea of the first great Man knows no living creature philosopher in history about this iniC superior to him In intelligence. Does foresting delusion of man-ssml Job. r- that prove that there is none? Cer- Yo" wt? fln(1 lherp- a,<>nK towahl the i. lainly those who look to scripture pnd of the book, the theory that Job for their authority may find there was punished with boils, poverty. ' reference to such beings. If you and ?fher afflictions for his imperhave the curiosity to look you will t'npnce in clniming that he underfind them mentioned in the sixth st?0|l a" about the purposes of the chapter of Genesis and elsewhere. Creator and that his three friends Those who do not find their authort- were punished' in the story for prety for thinking in the Bible, may <isely the san,e offenses. Not one a j (lge for themselves whether it ts ot the four of them knew a blooming probable that man is the highest ac- thipg about it; and, according to the complishment of the power that B">le, if you are a fundamentalist, n created a billion worlds and started or according to common sense if you e this little one revolving near the In- are not- wouldn't know anye side of that dougnut-shapeW vapor more about it if they were of worlds that v?e call the milky li%inK today. To me the idea that there are Innumerable creatures above man in the scale of lite Is very gratifying. It is comfortable, and gratifying I would dislike very much to believe to vanity, to suppose ours the only that a being that engages in war, i- world, and man the master of It? and wears Oxford1 bags, and commits a but is it true? who knows? murder, and permits grafting and r Man at best may be only a minor drinks bootleg whiskey, and chews | , factor In the universe. He has no tobacco, and has to use Listerine, is authority beyond the little speck of the supreme and crowning effort, of ; dust on which he lives. There are the hand that set the Pleiades in I- parts of the universe that he cannot motion, and of the voice that whls- ; even see with the strongest of tele- pers to the sun at dawn. * , I . .... ' - '* i ' ' , ^ ' <. ' ? C'\' \ ,. ' ? 0 *'* '<'' " .' HE OPPORTUNITY OF THE SOUTH IN FOREIGN TRADE (F The annual meeting of the Na si ional Trade Council at Charleston, fa i. c? April 28-30, 1926. attended by w; rpresentativee of business interests N hroughout the United States in- w rested' in foreign commerce, was cr he most important event of the hi rind, in its bearing on the matter of rc expansion of southern trade, that has is (ver taken place. This conference m vas closed with the following decla- vi ation: ? - tc S "The foreign trade of the United c< States for the calendar year 1925, r< measured by value and volume was a the largest of any normal year. It exceeded1 in value that of 1924 by ^ more than $900,000,000 and in volume Cl by more than a million and a half ^ tons. The increase of exports teas P 5.9 percent, and increase of imports ? was 17.1 percent. This change has a been accentuated in the first three h months of this year. We should, ** > imnnrtn of however, recognize iu?n. ?. materials not readily produced here 11 are necessary and tend to increase c foreign buying and assist our exports ' in finding ready markets. World trade has nearly recovered the vol- 0 tune it had reached in 1913, and this p year it should attain pre-war basis. ' "The countries which are our lead- j ing competitors in world trade? 1 Croat Britain. Canada, France, Belgium. Germany and Japan?are th-- J largest purchasers of our products. _ manufactured as well as crude. This shows that increasing activity of ' other nations in general trade- resufs in increased purchases from us. 1 p:ove that our competitors recognize a lirmer position than ever before. "American foreign trade is in a J firmer position Uian ever before, for our trade practice has been so im- J proved that our competitors recog- . uize it as standard world commerce We have reached the stage of ex- . pa tided interest and participation ^ 'which tends to diminish the risk of 'lie whole because of wilder distribu- . 'ion. The number of foreign traders grows as the volume of trade in- , i creases. ' This situation calls for continued vigilance and activity." The South's contribution to ex- ' I ports, measured in value, as well as ' i in volume, consists cnieiiy or coiton, | lumber, leaf tobacco, phosphate rock | and naval stores. Exports as to ar-j Iic'es of iron and stee.l. chiefly from' I the Rirmingham District, the South j | has not engaged in substantial mea-j j sure in the sale of manufactures j abroad. Weimport a large tonnage of fertilizer ingredients, which we do not I ourselves produce, and this is because the South Atlantic and Gulf states use more commercial fertilizer than does any other section. C ^Femsml^ft- jUtlouu^V" World population is said to be increasing at the rate of twenty million annually. Opportunity grows larger each year. Manufacturers in the Mast and North, realizing this, are steadily increasing their volume of foreign trade. In an address to the Foreign Trade r>f nji:irlf??tnn Mr C.nAroo I ...? ....... *???. VJtoi ftt UUIUUIJ j I Crawford. President of the Tennosee Coal. Irr-n and Railroad Company at | ' I'.i. minghar.i, made the following {statement: 'Comparative freight rates from < typical centers of manufacture in the I .v.tri.h and Souih show that the latter I c.m reach approximately a third of i th penp'e of the United States at 1 .'reight rates equal to or lower than t Northern centers. Considering the 1 freight rates on the assemblage of 1 raw materials and the freight rates i on the delivery of the finished pro- 1 uuvu manuiaciurea rrom them, to ' seaports, the South has a very con- < siderable advantage in freight rates I for export." t The growth of manufacturing in- 1 dustry in the southern states has reached that stage where they need .1 share of foreign trade. Our first opportunity ties in the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, where we have the advantage of proximity, not only with respect to producers in other sections of the j f United States, but with respect to competitprs abroad w,ho sell their 1 wares in these markets. P We hope thnt as a result of the o recent meeting of the Foreign Trade j Convention at Charleston, there will n bo an awakening on the part of F southern manufacturer and south- j| ern port interests, on the subject of w promoting sale of southern manu- u facturers in foreign markets, and the h purchase abroad of those raw mater- b iats which now find their way into it the South through other than southern ports. > tt C( The proper hour for a w >dding c' "breakfast" is not till one o'clock in le the afternoon. Of course lovesick people don't eat anyway, but it's w pretty hard on the parents. c< U. S. Senate reach an agreement rj to postpone the rivers and harbors es bill until December, thus to be sure jj| that by that time the bill will be rl as cold as the rivers and harbors. . The Commerce Department re lii ports there is now one automobile to "i every 71 persons in the world. Since la a good many even our flivvers seem dt to carry the quota undoubtely the la anticipated saturation point is not far distant. / GETTING RID OF THEM Tom The Greensboro Dally News) props of the Gastonla accident of inday which cost six lives Chairn Frank Page of the state high- r ay commission says to the Raleigh I ews and Observer that "The Time < ill come eventually when all grade < ossings will be rempved from state ' ghways either by relocation of the f tads or by grade separation." It ' expensive business and grows < ore so with increase of property < ilue?real estate has to be slashed 1 i make a separation of grades. The jmmissioner mentioned New York's : ;cent issuance of bonds to the 1 mount of 300 million ^dollars for ; rade-crossing elimination, to be efjctedon thO basis of 50 per cent ost from the railroad companies, 5per cent from the state and 25 er cent by the commynitles. No rade crossing is safe; those that re open, so that approach on the ighway has unrestricted view of ticrai!way are- merely less unsafe. When the work is contemplated ,ithe light of its cost this particular ventuality appears to be a long ime off; but Mr. ^Page went on to ay that since the commission was rganized five years ago near 400 radc crossings have been done way with by relocation or by overicii.lor undergroud passes; and that s three-fourths of the number of trade crossings thaj were in the syseiu when the roads were takn over. That is an impressive perforfance. Phe cost of some separations is rrmeiidous, especially in the flat and of the eastern section. To get id of some of these death traps will ost so much money /that they may >e continued for a long time. But so much porgress has been made in mlf a decade that it will not be long intij the state highway system will ie substantially without grade crossngs. It is a reasonable assumption hat the larger towns,' having crossngs not on state routes, will /shortly be impressed with the necessity >f making them safe, as Greensboro is doing. Most of tne crossing's in small towns are state-highway crossings. There are a great many more, on county roads. The trend toward slimination will increase; some progressive counties have already kept pace with the state commission. But there will be a good many of these rrossings for a long time, and each can be depended on to take its regular toll of human life. Nobody knows just what that is. It could without difficulty be worked out what is the average number of vehicles per 100,000 in. a year in fata] collision with locomotives at any given cros'sing, but there are numerous grade crossings where no count or estimate is made of the trafficon the road. POSSIBLE BUT IMPROBABLE (From The Greensboro Daily News) The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal church, headquarters Washington, which occasionally offers plans and specifications for general improvement, sug gesis tnai n ine nations 01 niurope would save the money they expend for strong drink they could pay the war debts and become prosperous as well. Seven European nations, this L-hurch board figures, with a population of about 16S,000,000, are xpendtordrink. Great Britain alone, It is isserted, is spending near two billions a year for stimulants. As evidence that prohibition means prosperity and wealth the Methodist ward points to the United States as i shinig example. It wasn't the war iut prohibition, it is declared, that made this country rich and prosperius. Our drink bill before prohibition, the board figures, was about wo and a half billion dollars annially, and it estimates that at nres n prices, with the saloons open, we vould be spending about five billions i year for liquor. It will lie admitted that Europe vould be better off by saving some if the money spent for hooch, and t will be admitted that much mnoy formerly spent in this country or liquor is now devoted to better mrposcs?admittedby all except the ixtreme wets, that is. But if our rosperity and wealth is the result f prohibition?as it may be in part -it is impossible to vision what it light be if we had real prohibition, 'or it could probably be established, ' the facts were obtainable, that not Upstanding prohibition laws the quor business in this country runs ito the hundreds of millions, if not illions. But at that it is not what would be without prohibition laws. By the same token it is impossible i vision the amount of money that iuld be saved if the use of tobacco, tiewinsr cum ond ? ? o wiuci snuiiur irse- \ ss luxuries was discontinued; and lere are a lot of other things for ' hich we spend money that neither 1 >utribute to health, or wealth. Charlotte man who had been far- ' ed amatter of minutes hit a ped- 1 itrinn with his car and ds hold ( lameless. That ie a triumph of the lie of reason. t "Too many young men seeking" s fa work," says the Cleveland Star, i ire taking to the profession of w." Notso sure about that?they >n't seem able to catch up with the c wless. c n Read Polk County News d 1 ? PROHIBITION IS NOT (From j, in ,,,... lie v..,.. VH Mills ol ? i . ...^ on . I" ,.. our . In . know, sition ami >' : strut ion } '""M And f-i|i,;ulv ? d." f'y. Kdnmnds c . , observant-' v. the need ... if ilher i ii.. the national greater than in, observance \.i;. aj wciyli i iiiiij ..! - . At all i J Cat-lain Kiit: Na ion's .-..I ' . and absniit .1 and '( llild I:: alt .' H i" . dour e i officialsi itnt ion . ed to law .!>- :.. . enforcement: ii oils that man;. ,,1 enforcement <i . law oliservain observance, and la a when neci s-an. 'r.r \,-J Safety" b as-.r. . As on of ili - .. scientiously -ir.o law. the views el i'a; :;:)H on Prohibition al.~. and weight. As cm: 15 he has d- in- i wui i\ ill traffic; his <-:. iu VJH have lii-eii i words miisi l? a true, upst.iii-:ii.c An:-r.._.fl and officii'. "Just as we. ft ll.e. ; ;H and suffered fi r S :<H agree that slavery a, a:. can have no rn -ui. - < statute bonks, so -a,!! :; lions find and a.r . ;H habit, with its r- : -.-eB of weakness and inj.ir;. and politieal fabric. v.j-:..r.' inscii, saiu ? aiitain t.i-v he added: "On this plei us .'..- jutH Day I am glad to l? ; cH that in my private air! f-v "j!.'ffl ion Prohibit ion has a ci I "You who have e.: N-tM Safety' as your m?ti" '-'H juice since this ar?at jr.ayi^B bfeen added .to (jiu- liars. ing elements our day .it: tion. It is not a t-ndulu" K "w back again, hut i- pr ing less. As I'rnliil>ii:?n hi> >^B advancing constantly ! r - rt^^B longer time than tinlaw 'has hcen in e\i>nni(. * rest assured that n mil r advance, with iin r??asiiig nui'SM This is simple, direct, ulstatement cannot ! stn'o-ssfttG^^H troverted. And to such" men as I'apit'B mondsis due great e re a' Tact Uie Prohibition air ady '"?M lished and is stable. amlti-f^B ing like the pendulum d ?:.e'B H NEWSY TOPICS! Vou can't very well :i::d? and lAnoe brew at tin People will always It-'1 coming win n lln i. i- u ' < A good example i duets" is a fruit i.m m >" ' frost In Lb is age nf iTi<i-"' as niueli nf an skinflint you'd lik- t" ''J A propbei is uille'ii' * ,1 in his own rutin': ?. ' without 111 ii li i'i< Well, the pnlilii i ' ?< vania got out ei ':--r >H cheaper than stih-iii* 'l'"1" rields. The fellows nil ' lonvictions usii:ill> *'ho dim't have > 1 > France keeps <>'i ninisfera of finaixr. ; J .landing need is ' 1 H sters of tho^Bosp'I. H What this rouiiny ooperative hiiyin- ?j'"l onsumers as woll as 1 ^ aarketing privili'g'S '?r : J
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