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The Elon College Weekly. The Weekl/' Director/'. BURLINGTON (N. C.) BUSINESS HOUSES. Buy Dry Goods from IS. A. Sellars & Sons. See Burlington Hardware Company for Plumbing Get your Photographs at Anglin’s Studio. Cooper Dry Goods Company. B. A. Sellars &Sona for Clothing and Gents’ Fur nishings. See Dr. R. M. Morrow when in need of Dental Work. Real Estate, Infuranceand Loans, Alamance In surance & Real Estate Co. Barber Shop, Brannock & Matkins. Dr. J. H. Brooks, Dsntal Surgeon. See Freeman Drug Co. for Drugs. ELON COLLEGE. N. C. Do your Banking with the Elon College Banking and Trust Company. For General Merchandise see J- J. Lambeth. For an Education go to Elon College. GIBSONVILLE. N. C. Dr. G. E. Jordan, M. D. HIGH POINT, N. C. People’s House Furnishing Co. LOCALS AND PERSONALS. Miss Cora Lawrence and Mri. H. A. Moffitt, of High Point spent Sunday at the home of Pro*. W. P. Lawrence. Miss Jennie Godwin, who has been visiting Miss Linda Barnes, for the last two weeks, left Saturday morning for her home in Chuckatuck, Va. Miss Grace Rhodes has returned to her home in Harrisonburg, Va., after a visit to her sister, Mrs. Moffitt. Prof. T. C. Amick led in the Y. M. C. A., Saturday evening, using as his subject, " God's special call to every man—the call to saintjhip," A good meetmg. • Rev. W. G. Clementa, of Moorsviile, spenl a day or two at the College, last week. Mr. F. R. Warren, of Prospect Hill came up Saturday to enter his son, Mr. E. R. Warren in college. Mr. H. H. Holland, a business man of Suffold, Va., formerly a student here, Mrs. J. A. Rawles and Miss Susie Hol land, also of Svffolk, Va., are spending a while at Prof. W. A. Harpers. Mr. E. T. Hines was called to his home at McClainsville, Saturday, on account of the illness of relatives. Mr. M. W. McPherson spent Satur day and Sunday with his brothers in Haw River. In the Y. W. C. A Sunday afternoon I Miss Bessie McPherson was leader,— subject, " Loyalty to our convictions." The meeting was well attended and very interesting. In the dining hall at West Dormitory, Saturday evening, the Young Woman's Christian Association gave the new girls an informal reception. The evening was very pleasantly passed playing games. Sherbet and cake were served. Mr. M. W. Pinnix, who was in school here last year spent Sunday night here with friends. In Psiphelian Society, Friday evening, those who deserved special mention were Miss Lois Davison, a piano solo. Miss Ethel DuRant, essay. Miss Lila Newan, the story of the " Shuttle." Dr. W. Wicker filled the pulpit in the Chapel at the 1 1 o'clock service. The Christian Endeavor was a spiri tual feast Sunday evening. Prof. W. P. Lawrence led. The subject was; " Re sist the devil. How? In the tegular business meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society, Tuesday afternoon the following new officers were elected: President Affie Griffin; vice- president, Bessie McPherson; recording secretery. Pearl Tuck; corresponding skcretery, J. S. Truitt; Treasurer, C. J. Felton; Pianist. Mabel Farmer; choris ter, E. T. Hines; collectors, Nellie Fleming and Sallie Foster. Rev. J. W. Wellons left Saturday for Henderson, where he is to be in a meet ing this week. Honesty as an Investment. A puzzling question to the man who suddenly comes into the possession of a legacy is said to be, " How shall 1 safely invest it?" And the art of investing is, perhaps, as difhcult as the art of acquir ing. We seldom find a capitalist, even an expert m the business of investing money, who does not occasionally make a losing investment, a bad deal." But in the investment of honesty the invesior never loses. bometimes the stock of honesty is " watered," and in that event both the investor and seller lose. The lack of honesty in the general run of corporate and public life in Amer ica affords an inviting Held for college men to do some real service to improve our standards of conduct, for it is prin- cipally cc^ege men who lead in setting the standard of conduct in public life. A few years ago one Thomas. Lawson of Boston, published a series of articles in Everybody s magazine, which he chose to call " Frenzied Finance." Mr, Law son was denounced as a falsifier and as a sensationalist, by many men of high repute in the financial world. His articles showed up some of the big insurance companies to be managed in such a manner as for the management to be considered especially low from the stand point of basic honesty. However sen sational Mr. Lawson’s articles may have been they helped to stir the public con science, and as a result of this awakening of ihe public conscience a pretty thorough investigation of the methods and deeds of several of these gigantic corporations was gone into. The revelation of dis honesty was so great, and looked so' scandalous that more than one man committed suicide or failed rapidly in health and thus came to a speedy death. The investment of dishonesty thus result ed in disaster, as it usually does. Later in the same magazine there ap peared a series of articles by David Graham Phillips on "The Treason of the Senate." These articles were look ed upon by the public somewhat as we look upon the stories of a tattler, yet they evidently struck close to the truth, for the croo^'edness and dishonesty charged to Ch^uncey M. Depew lost him the dis tinguished position of membership on the Board of Control of Yale University, and also further membership in the United States Senate. Senator Platt is dead since those articles appeared, so is Sena tor Gorman of Maryland, and Senator Baiiy of Texas has had to fight to hold his seat in the Senate. Again, there is now appearing in the Cosmopolitan magazine, by Charles P. Narcross, a series of articles entitled, " The Trial of the Hunger Tax." These articles sound almost like fabrications so bold is the dishonesty of great corpora tions which is here recounted and expos ed. The article on this subject m the October Cosmopolitan is prefaced as follows, by the Editor: " Within a period of two years, the American Sugar Refining Company has been indicted and found guilty on more than a score of counts for rebating and has paid fines approximating $1 70,000 ; has admitted defrauding the government by a system of false weights; and has settled in part for over $2,000,000, with more cases to be heard from; and has confessed to a criminal conspiracy to throttle a competitor by offering to pay $750,000, for a discontinuance of the suit of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company against it. Six of its seven directors stand indicted for conspiracy. 1 his is, in part the record of the outlawry of this giant corporation. The surface only, has been scratched. The methods of operation and the details of criminal defiance of all law and moral obligation, by this corporation, as revealed in this series of articles, are enough to amaze a public already made callous to tales of corporation corruption by the revelations in the investigation of the Standard Oil Company and other trusts." “You are plucky, said the dentist. "Let me see the tooth. ” "Oh taint me that’s got the toothache; its my wife. She'll be here in a minute." —Cosmopolitan. Pluck. “Don't spend no money for gas, he told the dentist “Yank it out if it does hurt.” G.E.JORDAN, M D Office Gibsonville Drug Co., GIBSONVILLE, - N. C. Hotel Huffine Near Passenger Station GREENSBORO, N. C. Rates $2 up. Cafe in connection. R. M. MORROW, Surgeon Denlisf cTVIORROW BUILDING, Cor. Front CBi, Main Streets, BURLINGTON. - - N. C. foh photographs OF Quality Have them Made at ANGLIN’S BURLINGTON, - - N. C, B. A. SELLARS & SONS High-Class Dry Goods AND Gents’ Clothiers and Tailorinj^ Merchants Wain Street bURLINQTON, N C. ALAMANCE INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE CO. INSURANCE, LOANS, REAL ESTATE CASH CAPITAL, $30,000.00 J^JONEY LENT through this Company on real estate is secured both by mortffage and Company guarantee. The lender receives 6 per cent, interest—3 per cent, promptly every six months—and is is not bothered about interest collections. BURLINGTON, N. C. W. K. HOLT. pRESIOCNT. R M. MORROW* VtCE-PRCSiDCNT W. E. SHARPE, Trcas. and Mgr
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