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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<he world.
Lawrence Tibbett spent his
childhood in Bekersfield, Califor
nia. For years, his father had
been a cowboy in California, and
now was sheriff of Kern County,
California. Being a sheriff seem
ed like a mighty exciting and
glamorous business to young Lar
ry Tibbett, so his boyhood ambi
tion was to be a sheriff himself
like his father.
Then suddenly a dramatic and
tragic Oiling happened. His father
was shot and killed in a battle
with Jim McKlnney, one of the
most notorious bank robbers and
gun men of the West.
That shooting changed the
wbole course of Lawrence Ttb
bett's life, for his father was a
very religious man, bitterly op
posed to smoking and dancing and
card playing and the theatre; and
Tibbett told me thatJf his father
had not been shot, he himself
woald never bare dared to become
a singer and an actor. His father's j
training st-ill casts a spell over [
him and even now he seldom j
smokes more -than one cigar a
year; and when he does, he has
the feeling that he is doing some
thing terribly wrong and that the
deyil is standing right by )jis side,
urging him on to destruction.
As a boy in high school, Tib
bett> 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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1 Dr. Sadie C. Johnson
Over Boddie's Drug Store
LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA
PROMPT
SHOE
REPAIRS
You get double value for your money when you
have your comfortable old shoes repaired and
resoled. Our modern equipment enables us to
rebuild your worn shoes to give you genuine
savings in added use and comfort.
GANTT'S SHOE SHOP
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last Mash Street Louisburg, N. 0.
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But It's True
Kelley moved about so much because three men were injured an*
four were ejected from Uie game for fighting with the umpire.
Young was the only taxi oonductor In his city far the first thret .
years. Curiously, he himself stilt elects to use a horse and buggy whe?
he wants to go places en his days off. ,
Miss Fortuna sits at the back baseline, always asks her opponenti
not to take It easy. She has become so adept at handling the wheelchsii
that she is able to move about the court virtually as rapidly as a
normal player.
ELECTRIC
WELDING
We have just installed an Electric Welding1
Outfit and are now equipped to do both electric
and acetylene welding of all kinds. Bring us
your work, prices reasonable, expert service.
We still have a few GOOD BUYS in USED
CARS. Come and see them.
We have just received a new supply of Ever
ready Prestone, the anti freeze compound that
saves your car in winter.
Grifim-Tharrington Motor Co.
FORD DEALERS
Louisburg, N. Carolina
NOTICE!
A new shipment of Chatham all wool comfort
batts 72 by 90, $1.10. Wool and part wool
blankets and blanket rolls, unusually good
quality, Hundreds of yards new silks, heavy
quality and lovely colors suitable for comfort
tops, cushions, etc.
MRS. H. G. PERRY
:<04 X. Main St. *' Next door to Baptist Church
il^ADUATON'i
i jlNVITATIONS |
AND
i : CARDS TO :
:: ACCOMPANY i
are being handled by us this year for all
School Commencements.
We hare a complete line of the best quality
samples aid also at the most reasonable prices.
Students are invited to drop in and let us
show them onr line.
Arrangements for visitations to schools will
be made and announced in the near future.
THE FRANKLIN TIMES
215 Court Street Leuisburg, N. 0.
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