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Cm ' If if i -CRTPTION PKICE - PUBCHASED The North. State, Deo. 23, D92 The Caucasian Miy'22, 1913 Combined Circuktioa 15,000. PEB TEAK $1.50 CASH XS ADVANCE, & "i VOL. 51. t THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION , WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 15,1922. "AD the Nsws That' m to Print" Reliability th Usla Tutors. NO. 24. m I rw x ii vii DUNLAP RUMINATIONS. (BY S. S. DUNLAP.) J . ; d Editor -One of your readers XT r hsi urntfOTi m that we prepare and have pub fin the U. R. an article on, "The J of Human Nature." .7der, evidently, inf looking d sad in 80 much corruption, Eluded that human nature U rot- . m heard, many times, people Wished to justify certain acts, and 'cdone their blighting effect, render for the doing of them, taan nature for us to fall for, things, and therefore we can t help j ,hould not be too severely crit j or censured, for them. a hive always been handy at ex , jalmg. U we get caught robbing L or burglarizing'a house, we, of , tst lorry, and the sorrow gen i. oxsists m the realization of hav- bet caught, and not so much for 'iil itself. -' !'' Ttittwpt t0 justify ourselves, after "4 bn caught, by charging human with the crime, and of course .."m 13-out We are human, you , md we wanted to enjoy this, or t ottte otner uwjk, auu jusi gui m j cit a hurry. Of course we are rM fellowi ourselves, 1ut the hu- , nature that is m us, is causing the lind of argument is about on i with that other so-called, orthodox Jop, that Adam's body, sinned, and , jffll must go to neu iot iu ta "Human" naturally carries Jt of tenderness. We have in jit, I believe, what is known Tk Emone Society. The members lis organization are supposed to 4 after those characters among the ain family, who are disposed to m i upon helpless creatures," even of lower order of beings,, unreasonable ishment ' '1 an officer of the law, should with t superior advantage, inflict unrca ible punishment upon one in; his p, we would, at once, term him an unan, or beastly wretch, or worse. i the authorities whot have charge our penal institutions, are such a do respect lor the victims ot so tjr under their care, and if they un rcifully, and unjustly punish said tins, wc look upon them with scorn, i terra them vicious scoundrels, and unan beasts, unfit for the positions j occupy and recommend, their reJ HA. Thest facta show us that we really ft of human nature, better things i e somrtimes think wc'do.There- e U it not human nature that is so i If t M-fcuM nature,' or the nature Jie beast that we have 4voUtted down :hat is causine the trouble xme of our old school books used to rare the barbarisms of the Indian ixa our forefathers found over here tn they discovered (?) America, in i struggle against us -to retain his k and bis bunting grounds, because ' resorted , to poisoned arrows with ka to shoot the white man. It was recorded of him that he would 3 a deer, or other animal, and would out its heart, place it on a pole, op a rattlesnake, hold the heart to t iqouth of the snake, tease him, and him to bite it until he had com klf ' filled iCwith his deadly poison, erect the pole in ah upright posi- anil the heart dried, take it down, Jt k into a powdered form and pre- ne taanui he had a chance to punc "He man with an affow he ipen and place in it before mag. Jo be sure this was barbarism, and J cinlofd (?) man would credit such i Deng the work of human nature. But some four hundred years later, 3 me descendants of these same "t men who suffered the barbarities ongcry, had evoluted to a much :te state of civilizatbn (?) than "own of at the time of the Indians' f e fleath, they had become so non and so highly cultured in the arts of civilized war f?i th could construct a poison gas bomb, and uiop u among great regiments of troups and choke them breathless and eat their lungs out at a rate that produced death so rapidly that if all. the rattlesnakes in America -in 1550 had been put on the job of biting folks in-order to annihi late em could not have made a half way decent showing employed by, civilized (?) man, and wulu prooaory nave become disgusted with the showing they' were making against them, and quit the job. An this kind of progress, is what wY are told is civilized, and that it indi cates that we are evoluting toward per fection. Perfection in what? : In view of the foregoing facts, lets see whether we are controlled in our acts by "human nature," or by "beastly na ture. . .., t . By reference to the book of Daniel, and Revelation, we find the spirit of the various periods of the earths turmoil given us in symbol as represented by various beasts. These beasts were all different, and the fourth, or the last one the one under whose dominion we now are was the highest, the strongest and the most vicious of them all. - This fourth beast was so dreadful and terrible that-John, the reyelator, could not find an apt figure of it among all the wild beast-of the forest, so he finally called it "the devil." This evidently fit its character, if not its Keneral Dhvsi- cal appearance, and is conclusive proof mat men did not get better, through a process of evolution, but that they retro graded to the very bottom, and were consumed of their own wicked divis ings. 'tL ' r , . . iuis same iaci is Drougnt out in Nebuchadnezzar's image, of which he dreamed and to which Daniel gave in terpretation. The deteriorating process is seen in the descent from gold to silver, from sil ver to brass, and from brass to iron, and from iron to iron and clay, mixed. Instead of evoluting upward, we see the human race starting out under Nebuchadnezzer, on the highest plain. represented in the finest metal gold and drifting to the lowest, or coarsest metal, iron, and jiot even stopping there, but retrograding still further, even to adulterated iron, iron and clay mixed. These beastly stages, of which we are living in the last and most corrupt one, snow us very - clearly that human. nature has almost becrr entirely elimi nated, and when we hear men excuse themselves for these debasing, and de structive practices, ' on- the" grounds that human nature is rotten, and we can't control it, we may '. rest , assured' that such an ne is mighty low in the scale of understanding. In fact, he doesn't know what he is talking about. He is not ' governed by . human nature, he is governed wholly by the spirit of the age, represented by. the .best that the apostle John, for want of a name for, rl fA tin ffovil ' President Harding recently Biade a plea for "conscience in business." This, as seen by our chief executive, would give relief to our present strain ed conditions, and would really produce a "new era." ' This plea, in effect, is just another way of saying, "take the viciousness, the beastliness, and the disregard,' for hu-' manity, ou tof our American spirit," manity, out of our American spirit" and all our troubles would vanish. This is a real fact, but will we do it? Not yet, we are not quite ready. We have not yet finished the battle at Armaged don, thaj Theodore Roosevelt told us we were entering in 1912. We have, in fact, not yet entered the hottest part of this battle. If there be any of. us left after we get through, applying the advanced methods (?) of civilized warfare to each other, we will probably be willing To listen to such ap peals as "conscience in business," and will have come to our senses. Let us hope so at least. S. S. DUNLAP. Waxhaw, N. C. Ml T H HIE FLY. 'iJLUan.AKD THE WOEiD LAUGHS WITH YOU." What - Our Bhaati and Past Pot Captured of i Humor ou Vein -.- from Oar Exchang. y A .PARODY. They met on the bridge at midnight, They win never meet cm in. One was an .east-bound heifer. .uv oiner a west-bound train. " IN TIME OF PEACE. Kuby: . "Why don't you wear your new garters t" ' Kuth: i Oh, I'm aaving them for a rainy day.' YES. Lady: What is that ueeuliar odor I get from that fieldf , farmer: That's fertilizei'. Lady; Oh, for, the land's sake. Farmer: Yes, Lady;' UNION TO THE END. "Phwaf become av Mike Baff. ertyf" , .' '. s "Poor fellr. he mistook an siitn horn fer the noon whistle, an' stop- peu wurrjt erossin' the strate." THE THREE DS. , CaeBar's famous Veni. vidi. viei! had nothing on the message of thi doughboy, who recently returned from France, and teleerraDhed en thusiastically to the folks at home: jjeloused, demobilized, delight." HOW ANNA WON OUT. "Funny how thines work out sometimes," said the married mar ine to a buneh of his buddies. Two rears aeo I was eoine around with Ethel and Anna, and I eouldn t ior tiie'lite of me tell which of the two I wanted to marry. One nieht l dropped into the post exchange to buy a cigar. Bight on the cigar band, as large as life, it said. 'Hav ana! " WOMEN KIDNAPPED BY DESPERADO. '7-.- - -vi AUT0CA6TFH '.vsJM- 1 " Kidnapped by a maniac and held prisoner without food or water for fiftv hours wa; the thrilling experience of Mrs. . James Jenkins (left) and Miss Gertrude McMann (right) of Omaha, "Nebraska. " .H. E. Boyd, shown in the-picture, came to their rescue but was also-captured and chained to them. They were held in a shack of the kidnapper, a desperado named G us Grimes. Boyd finally escaped and brought help to the women. , AS SOON GET AS HE COULD BEADY! A negro woman sat in her shan ty door eating a pig's foot. A man came up and said, -"Your husband has just been killed at the saw milL ' ' . She was silent for a mo ment, and then said, 'You je' wait till I finish eatin ' ' this pig foot, an' then yoo's gwiner'; bear some hollerin ' what -is -hollarin ' I ' Murders 8 to 1. Hickory Chips. - STBENUOUS. "There's nothing the matter with you," said the physician scornful ly to the effete-appearing young man.- "All you' need is plenty of exercise. Are you taking any at present!" "I should say I am," retorted the gilded youth with some indig nation. "I'm rolling my own cig arettes." A LESSON TO HUSBANDS. The man had been out-In the cold all day and his feet were very chilly indeed. So he opened the cook stove oven and put his soek-feet in side. Pretty soon there was a loud snapping noise, and hi socks tight ened at the toes'. Removing his feet from the hot oven and taking off his socks as rapidly as he eould, the man found large white, irregular-shaped ob jects attached to his .toes. Ah hal His corns bad popped! A petial from New York says: Mwers are proportionately eight Hord frequent in the United i e than in Canada, Judge Marcu i-ugn, of Chicago, declared e close of the New York ,nvP of the law enforcement ttee of the American Bar As- faiioa. still Canada ha no prohi oa. 80we ice that "old corn l0r i ot the cause of all the Another thing, Canada is , , mpbir crround for foreien tion, most of which to the f (i 8tates it the, scum and crim- a of Europe. It i eheaper PPort a eriminalr from Europe to pa thaa to feed and clothe him were. Truly' condition In Flf, are not what they should u the duty of every citizen w for the betterment of his d'at wctioa and live not too for self and the almiffhtv dol- Thwe are. soeia.1. civi. relll?- educational demands in- toponTevery patriotic citizen. ;very one be up and doing and world better for having ia it.) Local Editor. Educated fools fools. ; are the biggest Lhol .1? ' She that li veth In pleasure i dead. while she liveth," says Tim othyj There are many necessities peo ple could get cheaper, if they would. A pastor 's work is not only to feed and lead his flock, but to shoot all wolves and sheep-killing hound. If all preachers would preaeh the Bible against the evils of the day, and their congregations would stand by them, many fashionable evils twould cease. , v x ' The sooner girls and women quit riding in automobiles with men whom they don't know, and for im moral purposes, the better for them. Some reports coming in from the country, are sad indeed. The heathens are more devoted to their gods, than we are to our uoa. It is- said when we get a holiday, we go fishing, on a picnic, or joy ride, while the Chinese go to the temple and worship their gods. We don t always worship on Sundays. Hick ory Times Mercury.4 . Bible By Radio. . WoarinD-house Company is to 'mend out the Bible by radio from its as first dUtiUed by the ."broadcasting station in " and when w. t,iv ,Knnt Ameriean Bible Society announced d alcohol,1 we are using last night. Dally extracts will be AN EARLY "ROW." - The couple were married and trav eled to the lakes for their honey moon. A soon as they arrived they had a meal and then took a boat out upon the lake. The following morning.the bride 's mother got a postcard which read: "Arrived safely. Grand row be fore supper." She read it and sighed. "My!" she muttered. "I didn't think they'd, begin to quarrel so soon." HRJOLU'EEVIL Judged By Human Stand ards He Measures Up to and Even Surpasses Many Other Folks. ? Cricket Center, June 1 3,922 Dear Ed: I seen 'something in your paper vs the bole weavle, from which I juge yon must have a gruge vs him. T don't think you newspaper an thers are givin' this foul a square deel. The way you nock him he might be president of the United States or something. Give him cred it for his vertuse cnyway. : 1 know lots of men which could be million ears if they worked as hard as the bole weavle. .Instead of that they noek him on 3 shifts with straight pay for overtime. You say he destroys cotton by boreing wholes. Look at the wholes which men have bored in Texas and Ok la for no resin exeep to bet they are right under the Standard oil Co 'a tank in China. You never heard of a bole weavle sellin any stock when he. starts light house keeping in a : cotton bole. No sir. He finances the drilling himself.. He don't expect to find nothings but j a place to hang pictures and a mantel to put his feed on.1 He's too honest to pretend, anything else. Another thing the bole weavle don't do is 1 drink this mean liker them town fellers sold Lem Hawkins last time he went down to renue his fertilizer - note. A bole weavle dont, go to no hutch parties, nor on joy rides at nights. You never saw , a bole weavle drivin over 20 miles a hour and he had his own wife with him then. No lady bole weavle ever listens in on a party line or watches the neighbors close line to see how often they change shirts. She don't paint her face or wear short skerts or eat aspirin or talk about Mrs. Murphy 's hat.;: -t it Take the bible. Among all the pests which descended on Egipt they wuz no unkind remarks made about the' bole weavle. He has al ways been a law abideing gent and they aint no law agin boreing wholes in cotton. , I : know a feller whieh bores me more than a hundred bole weavles when- he gets on his favorite Subject, which, is hisself. Did you ever here a bole , weavle eomplain about his back or his livver or his neighbors cornette or anything else? Never' less bole weavles suffers from indigetion due to eatin two much ealeium arsenat but they keep it to themselves. - Did you ever know a bole weavle to write anything about the alarming decrease in . the berth ratet No sir. Fot all they know Race Suicide is a kentucky derby or a Texas Panama, isoie weavies is pretty good citizens judged by hu man standards. E. B. HoouV in Monroe, N. Journal. PHILOSOPHICAL JABS. By "A. LUNKHEAD." Local Editor: We work up from the bottom; inspiration comes from above, but no. man can begin hi eareer at the top. - - We pass this way but once and unless we develop all of our talents to their fullest extent we do both God and ourselves an injustice. The greatest philosopher may learn something of value from the humblest peasant, or from the very foulest and most degraded "scrum of the gutter." A man whose mind is not' open to conviction on any subject is at a standstill mentally, socially and spiritually, and will remain so 'til his cramped soul is released from his material mind. COULDN'T FIND HIS KEYHOLE. Mike had saved up a little money and when Pat came over a few years later the two brothers went into the coal business. One day Mike bought a roll top desk and when it arrived he said to Pat: "The one desk will do' for the two of us." And here are the keys, one for vou. Pat. and one for me." Pat accepted the key, but seemed to be studying me aesn. "That's all right, Mike,"( he said, "but where is my keyhole t" scovered r Alco hoi. What is a. Ouija Board? r Washington, June 5. The U.. 8. Supreme Court June 7, announced it would not determine what is a ouija board. ; ; The question was presented in n ease brought by the Baltimore Talk iug Board Company, which protest 1 against taxation of such boards as soortine iroods, and insisted that should the court refuse to hold that the board "is a grade of motor automatism, involving considerable subconscious action of intelligence," that it would at least -classify the smaller Awards as "children's toys.!' The lower Federal courts, sustained the government 's contention that the boards should be classed as sporting good. - :. . - Turkeys and Boll Weevil. . W. W. Pusser, of New Salem town shipJ Union county, N. C- has dis Covered that turkeys are the best machines yet invented- with which to fight the boll weevil. Mr. Pusser states that, last year he had 35 or 40 turkeys on his farm and that in the fields in whieh the turkeys op erated, there were no boll weevils to be 'found, while in his other fields there were plenty of. them. This year he will raise many more' than last year.' He also says . that a few years ago the army worm hit a corn field and for a time it appeared as though they : would ruin it, but when the turkeys learned what was going on they made a charge upon the worms and put them entirely out of business within a short time. ..We often, speak of such and such a person making a failure of, life, but there is no such thing as com plete- failure; every man succeeds., even ' though he only succeeds in making himself an example for oth ers to shun - ,. ... The wisest and most learned of men have only succeeded in reach ing the portals of entrance to the temple of knowledge and wisdom; we, of the twentieth century can have but small conception of the great things that are yet to come. If the critics of evolution and those who are always complaining that the world is growing worse, would "evolute" a little themselves and quit thinking of the rest of the world as being utterly depraved, we would progress by leaps and bounds. "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," ami it we aceept me theory ; that the human re.ee are prone to drift downward instead of upward, why we will quite naturally lower ourselves our souls, to the level of our minds; no man can go beyond his highest thoughts. The doctrine of an endless hell of fire and brimstone belongs to the superstition of the dark ages. God is love, and it is preposterous to think that a God who represents the highest type of love, would cre ate myriads of human beings (whom He could not, or would not save) to be tortured with the most horrible and frightful pain imaginable, throughout a never ending eternity. Is there a human judge on earth who would glory in being accused of the crime of inflicting such punishment on anV'of his children, even for a short lifetime! I hardly think there is. Is not God much more merciful than any human f He punishes us for sin, yes here and hereafter, but we are never outside the limits of His divine love and forgiveness through all the ages of eternity. Will the 200,000 Strike? Men To; Be Sure! to eat at a blowout in Wilmington the other- day: Pried crab flake, cocktail, sweet pickles, celery, salted almonds," fresh, clam chowder, trout; tartar sauce, potatoes, ; cold ' tongue with potato salad, fried spring chick en, mashed potatoes, cream spinach, asparagus, butter, cantaloupe,, cakes, cheese and crackers and coffee. Won der what they eat -when they don't have a slump t Greensboro Record. " Some folks say that "folks down . v V. 1 i v: v- slamp," but here is what they had Unnonnced in Chicago, was weeired -if of . . : :i:-. l.witilA the brotherhood chiefs were Aroused bv the action of the Uni ted States. Labor Board -in eutting the wages of railroad shopmen and maintenance of way laborers, officials of eleven railway unions, including the Railway Employees' Department of the American Federation of La bor, June ft" authorized a nation-wide strike , vote, Returnable On June 30. If the vote is for a strike, the strike would begin July 1, and would af fect 200,000 men. The Big Four ' ' brotherhoods are not represented at the conference; and the etrike vote would not affect them: .. , . . ' , - The wages of the maintenance of way - men were ordered . reduced about $50,000,000 a year last week, effective July 1. Word of the re duction in the wages of shopmen tetuint fsn non 000 a vear. whuh was uwv T - J J ar .1 ! - P1i!.AttA -n .while the brotherhood in conference. Cuts m wages other employees are expected. of Stacy Gamble, who shot down M. C. Spry on Bucharman street, Greensboro, on the afternoon of May 20th, pounrig five .32 calibre German Mauser bullets into his body so that he died before he reached a hospital has been bound over to court on the charge of murder, REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN KEYJIOTE. Cliainnan Fess Says Re publican Congress Has JMade Good Achieve- ments of World , Scope. y Columbus, Ohio, June 10. Sound ing the keynote of the coming Re publican congressional campaign throughout the nation, Congressmva S. D. Fess. 'of .Chic, chairman of the congressional campaign committee and senatorial candidate, tonight de clared that the Republican congress had made good on every one of the platform pledges of 1920, and that Republican congressional candidates will face the voters this fall on an ' ' affirmative platform. ' ' The ad dress was made before the Buckeye Republican Club. 'This campaign will be aggressive and not defensive, because we are going, before the country with a rec ord of constructive legislation ac complished which is the greatest and most constructive ever put through by any previous congress in the his tory of the nation. We have noth ing to hide or be ashamed of," said the congressman. Asserting that much which con gress ha done has been of inter national significance, dealing with fundamental economic problems, both national and international he said the Republican party has de cided to go before the voters with the record and undertake the task of educating them on the real mean ing and significance of what has been accomplished. Mr. Fess continued in part: "The problems tp be solved by congress were ready-made for the new administration. They were cre ated by the mistakes of the preced ing administration. That is, they were made for and not by ut as Re publican congressmen. "As legislators, we have faced and made good on the problem of reducing the cot of living, cost of government and the taxation bur den on the citizenry of America. We have, through the afioption of the federal budget system, established a permanent safeguard against further extravagance such as characterized the government administration. "The administration has reduced the burdensome taxation. "We have taken steps to fund the immense foreign debt whieh grew out of loans to the allied nations during the war. ':i'-r;;r s'v;ivv:iV;r!-':AtH "The congress has three prob lems to handle to 'complete the list of campaign pledges and to be re deemed in full from the 1920 cam paign. These are enactment of a federal ship subsidy law, adoption of the bonus legislation and revision of the tariff." Neglected Graves. In trips out over the county re cently we noticed a number of ru ral cemeteries that are not receiving the care and attention they are en titled to. Fences were not in the best of repair, and gravestones, in many instances, were not in their proper positions. lead fuPy as much as the people of this section honor and respect their dead ully as much as the people of any other community. They know, too, that the least they can do for those who have gone on before is to see that their last resting place is kept green, and free of weeds and briars and tangled vines. You can't make us believe that our people are the kind who forget their loved ones just as soon as they are back from the cemetery. And that is why it is surprising to note that in some in stances graves in the rural cemeter ies hereabouts are not getting proper attention. In some cases relatives of the de parted have moved away, and cannot give the graves personal attention. But there should be enough pride left in those who are here, and who have loved ones buried in the same cfemetery, to see that the entire burying ground is looked after. The season of weeds and underbrush and briars is now upon us again. It means that a few hours with the scythe or lawn mo.wer now will save whole days of work later on. So why wouldn't it be a good idea for the citizens Of each community to set aside a certain day upon which they could assemble at their nearest burying ground and put it in proper shape for the remainder of the summer months! Beidsville Re view. - (We have often been impressed with the care , taken by the Mora vians of their graveyards. As a denomination they are exceptional in this respect. Another note worthy custom is the uniform head stones which mark the graves, which exemplifies the reality that in death all are equal, and so it is. If we cultivate the habit of taking care of our burial places, it is a matter of consolation to know that what we have done for the love and -memory of our departed, relatives and friends will do for us after we have passed to the great beyond. If we would mark eaeh grave simply, keep the grounds as neat as we do our front yards, how beautiful could many of our cities of the dead be made and in keeping with our town and cities in which we feel such pride and take such an interest.) Local Editor. DOCTORS GAVE HIM UP TO DIE; GOES TO UNIVERSITY INSTEAD. . m Mi, Strange Case of Young Man Who Declined to Check in When Johns Hopkins Experts Tell Him There Was No Help for 4 Him Is Living and Acquiring An Education. By D. L. CORBITT. Chapel Hill, June 3.It's no cheerful thing to be told that you have only three months to live. I know, because that is what some of the best doctors in the country told me at Johns Hopkins. But the faet that it happened 1,1 years ago, and that I'm etill alive and kicking, and well enough to be a student at the university, goes a long way to cheer me up, after all. But I 'm a little ahead of my story. The story really began one day in June, 1910, when I played my last game of baseball. I went home from the game feeling as strong and happy as any other 15-year-old-boy in America. The next morning one of my fingers on my right hand was sore and stiff. That was the beginning of a col lapse which, being totally unexpec ted, was an all the more cruel shock. First they said I had acute rheuma tism. Then I got better and went back to work I had. quit school early in order to earn money. ' Again 1 was stricken. This time one doc tor said I had tuberculosis of the bone. Another said arthritis. I was sent to Johns Hopkins hos pital in. Baltimore. Now I was un able to walk even with crutches. The learned men in medicine said it n-as arthirtis, but could give me no help. One night after I had gone to bed one of the doctors came to me. He proceeded to tell me as gently as he Could but such news couldn't be very gentle that they couldn't do anything for mejthat I had bet ter go home, and that the most I could hope for was about three more months of life. Never losing heart over my con dition, I sat in the house almost two years, not being able to walk. . It was during these two years that my dear mother taught me to sew with my fingers, to tie tatting, crochet, and embroider as a way of amusing myself. In September, 1913, I "began to get so I could walk with erutches, and then it was that I began solic iting subscriptions to The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal and the Country Gentleman. I decided to return to school and go as far with my education as pos sible, but owing to an accident it waa the first of March before I was able to enter school. I asked the superintendent to try me in the sixth grade, although my promotion card was only for the fifth, and al though the school year was almost over. I completed the sixth grade thaf year and continued on in school un til 191R, when I graduated with a class of 15 girls and one boy. This was the accomplishment of one of my greatest ambitions, butwhile I was obtaining that, another, a col lege education, was forming itself in my mind. During my four years of high school work I had eold pens, pen cils, and continued my subscription business in order to pay expenses. When I graduated H. G. Swan son, superintendent of the high school, offered me the position of librarian of the high school, but I refused, telling him that I intended to go to the university. I did not get to the university that year on account of illness, but I did not lose hope. I got a job as secretary to the Mayor and worked there until my opportunity came. This is my second, year in the university and I am determined to stick it out. Before long I will be celebrating the twelfth anniversary of my death that is, the death that ought to have taken place, according to those Johns Hopkins doctors. Not Educated to Work. The Asheville Citizen for' Sunday carried a very appropriate cartoon entitled "Wanted A Job.'' It shows a high-collared, diplomaed, 1922 sport model college graduate, applying to the world for a high sal aried "position," while the employ ment agency only calls for such as hod carriers and harvest hands. Th college man should know better than anyone else how to take off his coat and roll up his sleeves. Charity and Children. (Education is all right. In fact, it is essential, but without the practical, it is decidedly one-sided. There are comparatively few college garduates among the farmers, carpenters, brick masons, machinists, and other lines of employment, whieh are the bone and sinew of any community, the State or the nation. On the other hand, accountants, clerks, agents, chauffeurs, and aven the professions, are over crowded and to whom actual work is a stranger and whose minds have been trained to live by their wits. All labor is honorable. Over-, alls should be the mark of a young man who has something in him and who is willing to do his part in the battle of life. These over crowded ranks become especially apparent at this season with the close of schools and the young men aid women graduates crowding over each other looking for an easy job. With the young women entering the field of these lighter vocations, it bids fair to be ere long a question for the young man to either roll up his sleeves, don overalls and go to work, or do nothing, for about every way he will turn for a soft collared job. he will find a lady competitor. Lo cal Editor. A Real Gem. . ... ... ; l . , -V . - . For sublimity , and purity, of sen timent, a well v as simplicity and clearness in expression, where, in all the realms of literature, could out expect to find anything to surpass the following from Tennyson's 'Crossing the Barf" Sunset and evening' star, And one clear call for me; And may there be bo moaning at the bar When I put out to sea. But such a tide, as moving, seems asleep, Too free for sound or foam, When that whieh drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening beU; And after that the dark, And may there be no Badness of fare well When I embark. But though from out our bourne ef time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. Life Cheap in North Carolina. The report of the State Prison for the past year indicates two things: First, that, crime generally is on the increase in North Carolina, and, sec ond, that life is still dirt cheap. Murder stands out as the premier crime of the state. Of the 380 men and women sent last year into the state's prison, 94 of them were con victed of murder and were sentenced from two years to life-time. The inerease in the population at the prison last year was 272 net, or a gain of 30 per cent over discharges, paroles, etc., and there are today 1,052 inmates in that institution. - This , is not a very satisfactory snowing. There's something radi cally wrong when a state like North Carolina permits an increase in hom icides . to reach such proportions as are, here shown. It ought, to make the courts consider and all j executors of tlie law to become more alert and dutiful. Charlotte New, i Secret of Eskimo Health. The Eskimos are naturally one of the healthiest peoples in the world. The School of Hygiene of the Johns Hopkins university will send out an .expedition to study dietetics and nu trition among the Eskimos. Ex change. (And yet the. Eskimos are said to , be the dirtiest people on earth, who seldom bathe or change their cloth ing. Their homes are virtually hov els, except in instances where the missionaries have brought to them some idea of civilization. When Matthew Stack, the first Moravian missionary to Greenland, and whose remains lie buried in the Moravian graveyard at Old Town, this county, first went to the Eskimo to begin his labors, he had to civilize them and taught and preached to them some 12 years before he gained a convert. As to food, the. average Eskimo de pends upon the fat of seals, in fact, the seal furnishes his food, clothing, tuei and ngnt, and the fat is often eaten raw. Yet we may learn some thing from these residents of the frigid zone. They go to one extreme and we to another. Still, their health is said to be remarkable. We can not say the same, generally speaking.) Local Editor. Women to the Front. Pennsylvania ' first woman bailiff is Miss Ruth Van Valkenburg, of Wellsboro, who has been appointed to the office in the Toga County Court. Miss Pauline M. Floyd, of Wash ington, D. C, is said to be the young est woman lawyer ever admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, .: wuras. i sent out peguiuuig !
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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