Bale Carrtcfli^ w 5-Minute Biographies Author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People. LAWRENCE TIBBETT He Once Picked Grapes To Pay His Rent ? Today He Earns Five Dollars A Second v Iu 1922, Lawrence Tibbett was| living near, Los Angelen having a hard time trying to support his wife. He sang in a church on Sunday, and picked up five dol lars now and then by singing Oh. Promise Me! at a wedding. He had studied (or years; buti he wasn't getting anywhere. How ever, he had a friend, Rupert! Hughes, who believed iu him. Hughes said: "You have the ma-! kings of a great voice. YoU ought! to study in New York." That littlfc bit of friendly en couragement proved to be the' turning point In Tibbett'a life, ' for It caused him to borrow twen-! ty-five hundred dollars and start j East. What if he failed to make good in New,. York? Well, if he; did, he was determined to go! back to California and make a j living selling automobile trucks. That was in 1922. Is Lawrence J Tibbett selling automobile trucks today? Far from it! He is now selling his services for thousands of dollars a week in Hollywood. They Said He Wasn't Good Enough to Sing in Their High School Glee Club And the next time you hear his stirring voice on t>he radio, it may j interest you to recall that some one is paying him three hundred dollars a minute, or Ave dollars a second to sing to you. In 1922, Lawrence Tibbett was so poor he couldn't afford to live in town. . . . So he rented a bouse in t-he country. The house cost him only twelve dollars and fifty cents a month; but little as that was, it was sometimes more1 than he could make as a singer. He rented a piano for five dol lars a month, but he couldn't* put it in the front room because the rickety old house stood on a steep hillside and the front part of it was propped up on high stilts and he was afraid the piano would fall bhrough the floor and go roll-; ing and bouncing through the | grape vines until it struck the bottom of the hill. When he first came to New ! York, he couldn't afTord to buy even the cheapest seat in the Metropolitan Opera House. So he used to pay two dollars and twen ty cents for the privilege of stand ing up in the back of the mighty Metropolitan Opera House to lis ten to the glamorous performan ces' of the immortal Scotti and ? the beautiful Mary Garden. In those days, he had to borrow money from his friends to pay for hie room rent and music lessons. Yet ten years later, he himself was striding across the proud stage ot the Metropolitan, arous ing a frenzy of wild huzzas, win ning twenty-two curtain calls at a single performance, and mak ing himself one of the most fam ous baritones in all t developed an inferiority com plex. His mother ran a rooming house. He had only one suit of clothes, his trousers were - too short, and he couldn't buy his best girl an ice cream soda at the corner drug store. The other stu dents snubbed him and paid no attention to him. So he resolved to make a name for himself and he looked about for a short cut to distinction. He tried to become a member of the glee club ? and they wouldn't have him. He tried to get a parti in the high school plays . . . and no one wanted him. This boy who was destined to become the most famous sing er that ever came out of Califor nia was turned down cold when he wanted to sing in a high school concert. The spark of . genius didn't shine through his voice un M1 he was tweuty-one years ~old. mm school LESSON by ItEV. CHARLES E. DEXN Reglnnlg a Life of Set-Tier. Lesson for January 10th. M^rli I : 14-28. Golden Text : Mark 1 : 15. In our study of Jesus' prepara-. tion tor his brief but fruitful min istry. we must bear in mind that the Jews were specialists in a re ligion centering about the Messia nic hope. Galled by the irksome yoke of Rome, iti was natural for them to yearn for an anointed king of God who would make them politically independent and supreme. Then, too, it is pertinent to re mind ourselves that while the He brews were intensely religious : they were also excellent! men ofi business. Moreover it was a dajk and i brutal century. Slavery in its worst forms was practiced; ba bies were exposed to die; family life had deteriorated; crucifixion was tolerated; selfishness was rampant; philosophers were pes simistic. The education of Jesus was like that; of any other Jewish lad of his type. His parents gave him some home instruction in the teaching of the Scriptures. He attended the synagogue school and the sabbath synagogue ser vices. But, unlike St. Paul, he did not> receive technical training in a first-class rabbinical school, for we are told in' John 7:15 that "the Jews marveled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" To offset this lack he developed a passionate concern for people, an intense love of nature, and a conscious ness of a unique relationship to God. Wit'h this background he pro claimed, at the outset of his min istry, the words of our Golden Text, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye, and believe the gos pel:" This is the keynote of his teaching. How fresh it sounds to day! "There is Just one thing wrong with the world." said Gen eral Evangeline Booth of the Sal vation Army recently. "We are trying to get along without God ? and it can'ti be done." That is the same note Jsus struck long ago. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United Statea Civil Service Commission has announced open competitive examinations for the following positions : Junior graduate nurse, $1,620 a year, U. S. Publtc Health Ser vice, and Veterans' Administra tion. Associate wool technologist, $3,200 a year, Bureau of Agricul tural Economics. Industrial classification analyst and senior, associate, and assist ant Industrial classification analy sts. $2,600 to $4,600 a year, So cial Security Board. ?? Full information may be ob tained from J. A. Wheless,, Secre tary of the U. S. ClTll Service Board of Examiners, at the pott office In this city. } * ! mmN WPMfN Carlene White I President of The N?- j don?| Federation of Bud- " iw and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc. Certified accountancy is a field which still belongs to men. I was impressed by this fact. I mieht ca? it almost a monopoly, when the American Institute of Ac countant* met recently to cele brate their fiftieth anniversary Out of two thousand men attend ing the gathering only three wo hZ? CfOU?,an,s w"e noted, Miss Helen Lord, Miss Ellen L. Kasfc man and Miss Mary E. Murphy, all of New York. Miss Murphy fs an associate of the Institute and the other two are members. ? ? ? The British housewife can learn much from her American sister whTh"1* t0 Ml88 E11""eth Craig who has come here for the pur pose of studying the labor-saving devices which have cropped up in such numbers in this country. She he kiniann!n,f '? Uke 8tock ?f 5 kind meals American housewives serve because she is of the opinion that the British are ??"ng to adopt a simp er menu. Miss Craig has been wrU ing and broadcasting to a British audience for some MmeAnd she expressed relief that Che British women are beginning erator a mechanical re^ erator before^getting a fur coat foreig?,^ w Wh? h3Ve 86en 'hose toreign i?okin3 refreshment wag ons with their bright yellow awn rZk cilvT pTed throusb New * City 9 parks have wondered design ZTT?"* '?r thelr quaint grants park concessions and has an assistant in each of the ckv . ? ? , Have you noticed the new nak d^8l? fla'8llver silversmiths are eslgning these days? Perhana i shouldn't call them "new "' be aueethey are revivals of the p? ?r" ?[ 0Br grandmother's days Some of the patterns that were popular thirty-odd years ago are a g^tfmrr^e^thTse1? Pai fait spoons or some other Piece of service needed for mod ern dining. Not that butter sprea ders weren't used at the turn "f ~ 2 ? izsi fat* V setting so don't hesi The?USe them With the new , , T?ese Patterns are available in regular stock and you won ' find it. necessary to invest# in u ? made pieces unless you wamTo J A Mend of mine made up a com! plete service of flat silver [m? i neucleous of heirloom pieces ^or J daughter who is to be m ried next month. She used ^ jsame old intertwining of the >l^SthaeU?nftia?.?:f J? inU,a,S ! surname. the groom,s START THE YEAR RIGHT BY GETTING YOUR CLEANING DONE B Y T H E CLEANER WHO GIVE SERVICE AND QUALITY. CALL PHONE 440-1 SERVICE < Dry Cleaners P. O. HIGHT Market Street Lowiabarg, N. O. Uncle Jim Says | i . The agricultural conservation program is designed to stabilize production not only to protect the farmer but also to assure the Na tion a more dependable supply ot food and fiber. Austrian winter peas planted by W. W. Fielder, of Richmond County, in October are now overt four inches tall and up to a per fect stand, he says. j Roger Pollock, of Trenton, Route 1. Jones County, produced 115.3 bushels of corn on a meas ured acre of land last season to win the county 4-H corn club championship. His labor Income 'rom the corn amounted to $122.86. A. Three Days7 Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicines you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even If other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, try Creomul sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion is one word ? not two, and it has no hyphen in It. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle is Creomulsion, and you'll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (Adv.) HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Blood Pressure is a 'term used to desig nate the pressure of the blood In the vessels, arteries and vains. This pressure is pro duced by the force of t'he heart beat and the resistance that is offered by the blood vessel walls to the flow of the blood pumped from the heart by its "beat". Blood pressure is dependent on four things: 1. the strength of the heart; 2. the resistance of the blood vessels; 3. the elasticity of the blood vessel walls or the ability and strengtih of the muscle in the vessel walls; and 4. the amount or volume of blood within the heart and blood vessels. The danger is in the rupture of a blood vessel with the resultant paraly sis. It is also accompanied by unpleasant) and embarrassing physical feelings. High Blood Pressure is that stage when the pressure has increased beyond its nor mal range. It is not a disease but a symp tom. It indicates that there is something wrong in tihe body which causes it. One may have high blood pressure when there is a heart trouble, kidney disease, nervousness, mental or physical strain, etc., most of which conditions may be brought on through im proper food, poor elimination of waste mat ter that accumulates in the body with a background of a wrongly balanced spine which prevents, through the vertebra of the spine being slipped or subluxated. the nerve from carrying the energy to the different organs that tihey might work properly. These allow poisons or toxins to form and accumu late within the body which in turn may cause the blood pressure to increase by mak ing the blood vessels become weak or har dened, and also that of the heart, as well as make the body mechanism, in general., slug gish and slow in function. Chiropractic administered properly and at the proper time may respond with fine bene fits and results. Hours: 9 a. m. - 12:30 p, m.; 1:30-5 p. m. Night 7:00 to 9:00 P. M. House calls and special appoint ments made. >