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SPRAY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 5. 1923.
$1.50 Per Year. Simrle Conv 5c J
Kotanans Leaksv
Had Wonde
Carroll Jones, District Gov
ernor Presented Char
ter to The “Baby
Club” of 38th
District
GREAT NUMBER OF
VISITORS PRESENT
The Rotarians of Leaksville-Spray
had the time of their lives Wcdntv
day night at the Colonade Hotel at
the Inter-Club banquet that was stag
ed form 8 to 10 o'clock. From the
time the first guests from other
clubs began to arrive until the closing
song of “Auld Lang Syne” there was
a pervading spirit of friendliness
and good cheer that was inspiring.
Practically 50 guests were present
Trom the Danville, Greensboro, Wins
ton-Salem, Reidsville and High Point
Clubs. These business men came
through the rain and mud just to
be at the meeting where Carroll
Jones, the District Governor of the
38th District was to present the
charter to the “Baby” Club of the
District, And every man enjoyed
the meeting.
Will East presided over the ban
quet and Henry Owen acted as
song leader. At the beginning of
the meeting the local club sang a
song of welcome to all the guests
and then Price Gwyn, Sr., pronounced
the blessing. Following a very de
licious meal the Chairman called
on Luther Hodges to make the speech
of welcome to the visiting clubs.
And then a unique surprise was
staged. The waiters brought in and
presented to every guest a baby
blanket, neatly boxed and a kewpie
doll just under the first fold of the
blanket. The pleasure of the guests
was very evident and they sang a
song of thanks to the club. Car
roll Jones then took charge of the
meeting and from then on the group
heard extemporaneous speeches from
representative members of all the
clubs which speaking culminated in
the very excellent acceptance speech.
Will East gave when the chapter was
presented to him as President of the
Leaksville-Spray Club.
Mrs. Ava Scott, of Spray, and
Mr. Fielding Fry, of Greenstoro,
made a distinct hit in their duet and
Fry and Lawrence Duffy also sang
solos which were encored. The
whol meeting was very pleasing and
worth while and the local club feels
greatly benefitted.
“CHEER UP”
A touch of Spring is in the air,
The grass is green the heavens fair,
The morning sun looks brightly down
And smiles upon our little town.
The Robin's song again we hear,
Straight from the treetops loud
and clear
New hope and rapture it imparts
To many anxious waiting hearts.
Cheer up! Cheer up. does he not say?
Then let us all begin today
To fill sad lives with youth and cheer
Just like the springtime of the year.
Let’s sing the song the Robin sings
And hide our sorrows 'neath our
wings,
And drooping souls shall bloom
again
Like Violets ’neath refreshing rain.
—Old Maid.
F. Scott Fitzgerald couldn’t have
been thinking about Muscle Shoals
when he wrote “the Beautiful and
Damned.”
ille-Spray
rful Meeting Tuesday
j THE DUTIES OF A CITIZEN
i 1- To acquaint myself with those
fundamental principles embodied in
our constitutions and laws which ex
perlenee has shown are essential to
the preservation of our liberties and
the promotion of good government,
and to defend those principles against
all attacks.
To inform myself of all pub
lic issues, and on the character, re
cord and platform of all candidates
for office, and to exert actively my in
fluence in favor of men and measures
in which I believe.
•3. To vote in every election, pri
mary and general, never using my
, vote for personal or private ends,
but only for the public good, placing
the welfare of my c ountry above
that of my party, if the interest of
the two should ever conflict.
-1. To connect myself with the
political party which most nearly re
presents my views on public ques
tions, and to exert my influence with
in the party to bring about the nomi
nation of good men for office and the
endorsement of measures for the pub
lic weal.
5. To have the courage to perfom
my duties as a citizen regardless of
the effect upon me financially or
socially, remembering that a country
in time of peace as a cowardly citi
zen is as useless to his country in
time of peace as a cowardly soldier is
in time of war.
6. To stand for honest election
laws impartially administered.
7. To obey all laws whether I
deem them wise or not, and to up
hold the officers in the enforcement
of the law.
8. To make full and honest re
turns of all my property and income
for taxation.
0. To be ever ready to serve my
country in war, and in peace,"5especi
ally in such inconspicious capacities
as juror and election official.
10. Xo acquaint myself with the
functions of the various departments
of my government and to spread the
knowledge of the same among my fe!
low citizens In order that they may
enjoy to the fullest extent the advan
tages offered by the government, and
may more fully recognize the gov
ernment as a means of service to the
people.
11. To encourage good men to
enter public service and remain
therein by commending the faithful
performance of their duties and by
refraining from criticism except
such as is founded on a knowledge of
facts.
12. To seek to promote good feel
ing between all groups of my- fellow
citizens and to resist as inimical to
public welfare all partisan efforts to
excite race, religious, class, and sec
tional prejudice.
13. Not to think alone of what my
government can do for me but more
about what I can do for it.
14. To inform myself with respect
to the problems which confront my
country in its foreign relations, and
to support policies which safeguard
its legitimate interests abroad and
which recognize the responsibilities
of the United States as a member of
international society.—School of
Government and Citizenship, College
of William and Mary.
Church notice in the Manchester,
England Guardian: Subject: “The
Three Great Failures.
Choir.
Sermon.
Offertory.
—Voo Doo.
KNOWLEDGE
It is unusual for a merchant, whole
saler or manufacturer to have special
knowledge of more than his own branch
of the dry goods business.
However, in the case of Marshall
Field & Company it is different. Long
experience, careful study and abundant
capital have enabled this company to
acquire special knowledge all three
branches.
The merchant who uses Marshall
Field & Company as a base of supply
thereby obtains the full benefit of this
acquired knowledge. v
MARSHALL FIELD
& COMPANY
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EX-SERVICE MEN TO
HAVE BIG MEETING
TONIGHT CENTRAL Y.
Membership Campaign ends
Tonight at Which Time
Prizes Will be A
warded.
VISITING SPEAKERS
! The second big meeting staged by
j the James Hudnall Post No. 119
; will be at the Central Y. tonight at
! 8 o’clock. Every ex-service man in
j this whole township is urged to at
' tend this meeting. You are welcome
and expected. A dandy program
i has been arranged and you will have
a good time.
Tonight is the closing time l'or the
membership campaign and the prize
winners will be announced at tonight
j’s meeting. The membership is ex
pected to go beyond the 100 mark be
; fore the campaign closes. Quite a
! few of the fellows are working hard
I for the shoes, hat and belt that are
being offered to the winners and a
i close ending is expected.
H. W. Owen the Secretary of the
Y. M. C. A. will lead in the singing
l of the old time melodies and will also
■ give us some funny readings and
! songs. Everybody will sing and
i everybody will enjoy singing. Our
I Chaplain will make a short talk. Dr.
Abernathy of Leaksville Baptist
church will speak and you will en
joy him. We have invited Senator
A. D. Ivie to make a short talk and
you can be sure that the evening will
be a continued round of enjoyment
and profit. Mrs. James K Norfleet,
the President of the State Auxiliary
will be with us and we want every
wife, mother, sister or daughter of
ex-service men to come out also and
be with Mrs. Norfleet.
Last but not least the Program
Committee announces that eats ard
smokes will be passed around and
that a new drink will be given you.
Don’t miss it. And don’t forget
“The Man Without a Country.”
THE FIRST LITTLE HOUSE
The little old house that we went in
to debt for,
Worried and struggled small trinkets
to get for,
Pinching the pennies to save for to
morrow,
Always in need and still too proud to
borrow,
That, when the shadows of night
time shall fall,
Shall glow as the happiest house of
them all.
| The first little house, with the mort
gage upon it,
1 And the few hundred dollars we
bravely put on it
With the long years of debt on our
backs to be carried,
j The house of our own we had plan
ned when we married,
i That we shall treasure and gladly re
call
As the brightest and happiest home
of them all.
! Lean was the purse in those days
I long departed,
; Many our needs, but we faced th6m
lighthearted.
But there’s no joy when the wallet’s
a fat thing,
Pleasure needs striving for this thing
or that thing,
Striving and saving for dreams great
or small,
For those are the happiest days of
them all.
The little old house, with its garden
of roses
And babies whose cheeks were as
pink as the posies,
Just drank in the sunshine and re
veled in laughter,
And wept with the sorrows that
came flooding after,
And sheltered us bravely-*-but little
we knew
The best of our lives we were hurry
ing through.
Oh, the little old house has been
changed for another,
Much bigger and finer, yet often the
mother
Set free from the pinching and scrap
ing and saving,
Goes back with a smile to the days
of her slaving
And says, as she looks at the tapes
tried wall,
That first little house was the best,
after all. ,
(Copyright, 1923, by Edgar A. Guest)
Foolish things we once did. Parted
our hair in the middle and wore
boiled shirts with the cute little tabs
on the end of the bosom to fasten
to our underwear. Remember?
King Tut-ankh-Amen must have
discovered by this time that he
couldn’t take it with him.—New York
Tribune.
,, W. J. Danaho thinks the man
worth while is the man who can
smile when his radio goes d«ed
wj-ong.
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LOCAL HIGH BALL
TEAM WINS EASILY
OVER REIDSVILLE
Pitching of Roy Hill Was
Too Much For Reids
ville Boys.
SIDNEY SMITH WAS
BEST AT THE BAT
In the third game of the season,
the Leaksville High School lads de
I feated Reid'-ville with a very deri
sive score, Before the'third inning
was completed the local boys l ad
| built up a score of seven, while si.v
• innings passed before the Reidsville
lads scored. In the seventh inning
j they scored three runs and in the
j ninth two making a total of five. In
j the eighth Leaksville made two mak
! ing for them a total of nine runs.
, The best playing was seen in the
i pitching of Roy Hill and the batting
. of Sidney' Smith. The Reidsville
: boys were able to get only three
j scattered hits throughout the game,
! and in spite of the weather, which
! was unusually cool for baseball, Hill
| walked only one or two men.
Sidney Smith, out of four times at
bat walked once, got two hits and
scored three runs. He is, easily lead
ing the team with his high batting
standing. In the Burlington game
he got three hits out of three times
at bat.
hTe Leaksville boys knocked-out
Gillikin, Reidsville’s pitcher when
the game was about half over. In
all they got eight hits to Reidsvilie’s
three. They made four errors; Reids
ville made five.
The game was much fastev than
the first game played this season on
the local ground, and showed a mark
ed improvement in the local players.
A SEVERE INDICTMENT
The Charlotte News suggests that
when we come to the conclusion that
things aret !^ot going just as they
should, and when everything seems
dead wrong, we might consider the
following statistics as a reason:
We spend every year $2,100,000,
000 for tobacco; $1,000,000,000 for
movies: $2,000,000,000 for candy;
$1,950,000,000 for perfumes, cos
metics, etc.; $500,000,000 for jew
elry; $350,000,000 for furs; $300,
000,000 for soft drinks; $50,000,000
for chewing gum; $3,000,000 for joy
rides, pleasure resorts and the like.
For luxuries we spend $22,700,000,
000, Against this we spend over
$1,000,000,000 for education; $650,
000,000 for graded schools; $150,
000,000 for colleges and professional
schools; $100,000,000 for public
high schools; $20,500,000 for nor
mal schools and $25,000,000 for all
church schools and colleges.
And these statistics cause The
News to remark further that where
one’s treasure ia there one’s heart is
also. The above statistics would in
dicate, therefore, that we have little
heart, proportionately at least, for
those things that would bring about
the conditions we desire, the social
locations, the political adjustments,
the moral stamina, the religious
steadfastness and all those more per
manent attainments that we know in
the innermost depths of conscious
ness, are alone worth while,
blush not only but to be appalled by
the one sidedness of our heart in
terests.—Concord Times.
Realizing the dramatic nay, uni
versal appeal, this little metrical
composition of “Rush’s” we present
its tense lines forthwith:
A chair has legs, and yet it cannot ;
walk,
Isn’t that a funny little thing? j
A river has a mouth, and yet it can-:
not talk,
Isn’t that a funny little thing?
A needle has an eye, and yet it can
not see;
1 saw often buzzes, but it. hasn’t any
bee;
“N I love a girl, but she doesn’t love
me,
Isn’t that a funny little thing?
COTTON MEN IN
SOUTH TO FORM
AN ASSOCIATION
Meeting in Greensboro April
18th of Representatives
of Many Southern States.
Cotton merchants, shippers and
traffic representatives of the cotton
trade of several southern states will
meet in Greensboro Wednesday,
April Id, to form a traffic associa
tion composed strictly of cotton men.
Invitations to the meeting have been
extended broadcast and responses re
ceived thus fa,- indicate a large at
tendance.
In a letter to prospective members.
•I. It. Burch, traffic manager of Brad
shaw-Roberson Cotton company,
writts as follows:
Today we are confronted with dif
ferent rate adjustments and cancel
lations of warehousing and reship
ping privileges at. various points, and
in many instances the shipper does
not attempt to fight these cancella
tions because of the fact that he
probably does not know what to do
and again it is possible that he can
not secure the co-operation of other
shippers; therefore, you can easily
*ee what the rtsult will be.
“Our association proposes to have a
vice president in each state in the
south, southeast and southwest com
prising members of this association,
vested with authority to call a meet
ing at any time, and act on any sub
ject affecting his state; however, any
subject affecting interstate business
will be handled by the association.
Further, we propose to employ
counsel to handle any cases we may
?iave before the interstate commerct
Commission, or handle any legal mat
ters we submit to him for our mem
bers. In handling matters with the
powers that be of the railroad com
pany, such as reduction in rates, ad
ditional warehousing and reshipping
pi ivileges, as well as the protection
of our present rates and privileges
we will have power behind our argu
ments, because we will represent the
largest cotton shippers in the south,
sotheast and southwest; therefore,
we are bound to accomplish results.”
Traffic managers representing
firms in North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Alabama, Georgia and Texas
have already signified their willing
ness to attend, said Mr. Burch.
COMMUNITY MUSIC
More and more attention is given
by prominent educators throughout
the country to the importance of
music during the child’s education,
and in addition, the value of music '
as a lasting potential influence dur
ing the developing years of our
younger generation is being stressed
with increasing insistence.
In the course of the annual meet
ing of the National Music Teachers
Association, held in New York City
last December, the evolution of pub
lic school music in the U. S. Was one
of the most thoroughly discussed
topics.
The gathering was representative
of music educators in schools, col-;
leges, and the private teaching field
and in deference to the growing im
portance of public school music, as
well as in view of its increasingly
close relationship to private teach
ing, almost an entire session was de
voted to the subject.
Important papers were read by
Prof. Osborne McConathy of North
western University, Mr. R. L. Bald
win of Hartford Conn., Prof. K. Ge
hrkens of Oberlin, O., Mr. W. Eahart
of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Prof. P. W.
Dykeman of the University of Wis
consin, and in them these well known
school music experts gave convinc
ing proof of their thorough know
ledge of the subject in hand, besides
contributing valuable information on
a subject which is rapidly demand
ing nation-wide attention as one of
the most important educational ques
tions of the day.
NEXT WEEK’S POSTER SERVICE
IT CAN BE DONE
Some workmen know it can be done,
before they even try to do it. Others
oppose all suggestions.
They are against all improvements.
Such men are not popular here.
BELIEVE IN PR0GR1
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“TWENTY YEARS CONTINUOUS SERVICE”
H. W. Owen, Spray, N. C., Foreman Lily Mill Dye House. I
One of the most remarkable em
ployee records, and one of the most
interesting is the record made by H.
W. Owen, present foreman of the
Lily Mill Dye House. He was fore
man of the Nantucket Cloth Room
and had been on that job for 13
or 14 years when one day in the
latter months of 1914 he was greatly
surprised when he was asked to go
to the Lily Mill Dye House. Owen
knew nothing of dyes or drugs but he
knew what hard work and determina
tion were. So he made the change
on December 7, 1914. Going in as an
apprentice he completed his ap
prenticeship work' in a little over TO
months and on October 23, 1915, took
charge of what is now one of the
finest dyehouses in the country so
far as quality of colors and efficiency
of work is concerned.
This change of jobs meant to Owen
learning all over again and it meant
no end of work but Owen loves work
and in practically 25 years of service
he has lost just about 3 weeks in sick
ness and hone for anything else.
One of the striking things about
this change of jobs was that the
change came just after the start of
the World War when German made
dyes were beginning to get scarce
and the dye house man’s troubles
were just starting. But the new
foreman showed the same stuff that
he showed when he first came with
the Nantucket Mill and made good
beyond any doubt.
It was in November 1718, at, 22
years of age that Will Owen applied
to Mr. McAlister at the Nantucket
for a job learning to weave. After
two weeks of the weaving experience
M ill learned that there was an open
ing in the Nantucket Cloth Room
and made application for the job and
got it. The job was inspecting cloth
and Will inspected cloth so well and
did his job with such efficiency that j
he was promoted to the foreman
ship within less than three years
from the time he came in as a green
hand so to speak. His only public
work previous to this was on the
D. & W. Railway and in the coal
fields of West Virginia. Will was
married in December 1900 and that
doubtless had something to do with
his promotion to the foremanship.
Will was born in Henry County,
Virginia, on August 6, 1876, and his ;
parents were Howard and Susan 4
Owen. He made his first trip to j
Spray as a small boy when he came
down with 'his father In the nineties." '
His second trip was as a workman on
the Danville & Western trestles in
this vicinity. He came back to Spray
to work and he is going to stay here t
because he says he likes the place
and the people for whom he works.
Ow-en said: “I never knew or heard |
of a company that was willing to |
meet their employees half way. and j
even more than half way in the |
spirit that the Carolina Company |
shows.” He continued, “They will *
give you a chance and then help you
to make good and I am sure that j
my experience will prove that point.”
Will Owen is known in the com- '
munity as a conscientious Christian f
and church worker, and as a thrifty
citizen. He owns a fine 100 acre
farm near town and has other
property rights. He is a definite j
example of what honesty, thrift,
determination and hard work can
do for any young fellow.
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* Monday The Arrow reporters *
* were unable to get in all reports *
* on time. Such necessitated the *
* issuance of a four, instead of an *
* eight, page edition this week. *
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A GOOD TIME!
One of the boys in the shop was feeling poor this
morning. He explained that the day before yester
day was pay-day, and he was out for a good time.
He was all wrong. He meant a “bad time.”
. He struck one of those cabarets where the fero
cious females shook convulsive shoulders, and did the
original vibrating dance that Celopatra used on An
tony in the old days.
He paid maximum prices for the smallest portions
of food the law allows to be served. He let the
waiter kid him into drinking questionable concoc
tions “within the law,” and paid almost a week’s
earnings for a bottle of prohibition “Hooch.”
He wanted to show the world he was a wise bird. ‘
He thought he was a dead-game sport, but he was
only a durn green simp.
And all he had left next ipbrning was a tired feel
ing, a head-ache and a mouth like the floor of a bird
cage.
There’s many a good time that’s really a bad time.
And success doesn’t pal around with the fellow
who thinks a bad time is a good time,, just because
you spend your roll. ‘ r ■ •
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