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TELLS HOW TO BE HAPPY ON
LARGE OR SMALL INCOME
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IF YOU ARE RICH
1. Seek peace of mind—refuse to
regard wealth as either a burden or
a barrier.
2. Study your health, for it is the
physical foundation of happiness, as
peace of mind is the spiritual. Wealth
does not exempt one from human
ills!
3. Walk, a mile for every 10 you
ride. Exercise and fresh air are essen
tial to health. The former demands
discipline and self-control, neither of
which is always easy for the rich.
4. Avoid luxury and ostentation.
Both are vulgar and tedious, and lead
straight to boredom. Be thankful for
the pleasures of travel. In these mod
ern days they are the most justifiable
luxuries wealth can procure.
5. Be generous—in spirit as well as
deed. Give frequently and habitually;
wisely if possible, but, even if discrim
ination fails to protect you from oc
casionally helping a bad case, go on
giving.
6. worK! JJont imagine uiat
wealth gives you the right to be idle.
It gives you the power, but it is a
power better unexercised.
7. Live gaily and eagerly. Be inter
ested and enthusiastic about something
worthwhile.
8. Serve your friends, and be
friend those who serve you.
9. Consider the feelings of others.
This is one of the virtues that the
rich man particularly needs to culti
vate. The lack of it deprives life of
warmth and joy.
10. Cultivate a sense of humor and
a sense of proportion. Laugh at your
self as often as may be, and particu
larly laugh at your wealth. Remind
yourself that your good fortune is
probably greater than your merit.
IF YOU ARE POOR
1. Again, seek peace of mind. Re
fuse to regard limited means as a bur
den or a barrier. Remember that the
choicest things of life are without
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2. otuay your neaitn.
fresh air, and sunshine, simple food and
fruit—these are all at your command.
3. Marry early rather than late;
undue caution takes the first bloom
off married happiness. Youth, courage
and love go together.
4. Value the comradeship of your
nearest and dearest. Remind yourself
every day of what it means -to you.
Fight against one all-too-common
fault of taking the precious friend
ships of life for granted.
5. Don’t think too much about
the smallness of your income; be very
sure that it would be wealth indeed
to thousands of others less fortunate.
6. Always try to pay your way.
To be in debt is miserable, as Dickens
once so clearly demonstrated.
7. In your work, remember that in
the long run intelligent study and
self-improvement are worth while.
8. Know your own job, and know
something about the whole of t e
business or industry of which it is
part. To be thoroughly competent is
one aspect of happiness.
9. If your work is difficult and
you have business worries, learn to
confine them strictly to office hours.
The power to free the mind is essential
if you are to be benefited by leisure,
recreation and social life.
10. Never ask yourself "Am I
happy?” Don’t think about it, but
work and play, love your friends and
achieve tfie best that is in your pow
er with single-minded enthusiasm.
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Loses Life In Saving
His Employer’s Son
St. Johns, Que.—Rescue of his em
ployer’s 7-year-old son cost William
son Vestes, 41, of New York city, his
life.
Vestes saved Ernest Stern’s son from
drowning when he leaped from Stern’s
yacht into Richelieu river and swam
back with the boy. As the persons on
the boat were pulling the youngster
aboard, Vestes was seized with cramp
and drowned.
Vestes was hired as a cook on Stern’s
yacht, Buck Jones.
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ROWAN COUNTY
PUBLIC MARKET
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Following are the prices which pre
vailed at the Rowan county public
market last week:
Butter, pound _-40c
Buttermilk, gallon_25c
Sweet milk, quart _15c
Cream, pint _30c
Cottage cheese, pint -10c
Eggs, dozen _35c
Fryers, alive, pound -25c
Hens, live, pound -20c
Hens, dressed, pound -25c
Cured ham, pound _30c
Side meat, pound -20c
Sausage, pound -25c
Shoulder, pound_20c
Corn meal, pound -3 c
Dry beans, quart -15c
Butter beans, quart -15c
Cabbage, pound-2c
Carrots, bunch -10c
Collards, bunch ---8 c
Mustard greens, pound-7 l-2c
Dry onions, pound-5 c
Irish potatoes, pound -2 l-2c
Sweet potatoes, pound -2 l-2c
Turnips, bunch - 10c
Tomatoes, pound-8c
Pears, peck —--20c
Peanuts, peck -40c
Vinegar, gallon -40c
Green tomatoes, peck --—25c
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Objects To Airplanes
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Shenandoah, Iowa.—Three years
ago the city welcomed planes at the
Kiwanis airport. Now the problem is
to keep them away. The local Kiwanis
Club has forsaken upkeep of the air
port and turned it back to the owner.
Pilots, however, having learned the
location of the airport, continue to
land there* The owner threatened suit
because of damage to the alfalfa crop
he planted when the airport was given
up.
How They Did
It Long Ago
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New York.—"The warden of the
city prison and Bridewell of the city
of New York will receive and faith
fully keep for examination the body
of Phillip G. Todd, charged before
me with intoxication.” Thus runs a
commitment order dated May 14,
1871, which has been found in the
archives of the Jefferson Market
Court.
DECREASES SHOWN
IN PER CAPITA
WEALTH IN U. S.
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The comptroller of currency at
Washington has revealed some inter
esting figures in answer to a request
from the board of industry of Win
ston-Salem. The figures are as of Aug
ust 31, 1931, together with some in
teresting comparisons.
The records of the U. S. Treasury
shows that the per capita money in
circulation in the country on August
31, was $41.31, compared with $36.71
of same date last year. October 31,
1920, the per capita circulation was
$53.01. This shows a slight improve
ment over conditions, country-wide,
this year over the fall of 1930.
The total kinds of money in the
United States August 31, 1931, which
includes gold coin and bullion, silver
and all forms of certificates and notes
$9,361,212,548.00.
Gold com and bullion is given as
$4,995,028,128; standard silver dol
lars, $539,958,327; subsidiary silver
$308,314,112; minor coin, $126,
730,812; United States notes, $346,
681,016; Federal Reserve notes, $2,
243,318,600; Federal Reserve Bank
notes, $2,921,272; National Bank
notes, $689,260,281.
Money held in the Treasury, $4,
312.415.706.00.
Money outside the Treasury, $5,
052.027.109.00.
This latter sum being the amount
of actual money in circulation.
Held by Federal Reserve Banks and
agents, $2,199,836,647.00.
Held in the Treasury for Federal
Reserve banks, $1,85 5,282,106.00.
Total held by, or in reserve for Fed
eral Reserve banks, $4,055,118,753.
Gross net debt of the U. S. govern
ment, $16,862,781,233.78.
ine tutu! government ueDt June
30, 1919, when the war was at its
peak was, $26,596,701,648.01. ^
The annual interest charge on the
debt outstanding June 30, 1931,
$588,947,438.15.
The total amount of interest paid
on the national debt for the fiscal
year, 1930, $611,559,704.35.
Twenty countries are indebted to
the United States in funded or un
funded debt, $11,466,028,562.42.
Great Britain, $4,398,000,000.00
France, $3,863,650,000.00.
Italy, $2,004,900,000.00.
The mortgage debt due the United
States government by states or other
local government units, or by private
citizens, $9,468,526,000.00.
Cow Helps Balk
Kidnapping Attempt
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Chicago.—Mid-West bank robbery
attempts were 100 per cent, failures.
In one instance a cow helped to
prevent a robbery, while in another
a noon-day factory whistle proved the
undoing of two would-be robbers.
At Camp Point, 111, a gunman call
ed at the home of Newton Pierce,
father of Earl C. Pierce, cashier of the
Farmers’ State Bank, saying he intend
ed to kidnap his son. and rob the bank.
The elder Pierce told the intruder he
had to milk a cow. His visitor let him
g°
Outside, Pierce telephoned the Sher
iff. Becoming suspicious, the stranger
fled.
A factory whistle tooted just as two
men ordered the'cashier of the Penn
ville State Bank of Pennville, Ind.,
to surrender the bank’s money. Mis
taking it for a burglar alarm, they
fled, but were captured by passers-by.
They gave their names as Lester
Walker and Paul Garwood, both of
Hartford City, Ind.
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LOSES WIFE
IN SPEAKEASY
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Newark, N. J.—Edward Mesters,
Bellevue, toured Washington street’s
numerous speakeasies with his wife,
Lulu May. The tour ended, he discov
ered his wife was mising. "Can’t re
member which place she might have
stopped,” he reported to police.
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Couple Want Buggy Ride
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Quincy, Mass.—The Chamber of
Commerce prides itself on its effi
ciency. But recently it was stumped.
An elderly couple wrote, asking where
a horse and buggy might be hired for
a day’s ride. The staff hunted in
vain.
Town Historian Warren Parker said
a horse and buggy once could have
been hired at Joe Branch’s, or John
Hall’s stables, but pointed out that
both these establishments had long
since gone out of business. The elderly
couple is still waiting for the buggy
ride.
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Free Beer ’n’
Pretzels, Too
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New York.—Free beer! And pret
zels to go with it! A Forty-second
street clothing dealer finds it a good
way to break down sales resistance. It’s
the onerhalf of one per cent, kind, of
course.
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Victim Of Auto 'Ride’
Is Brooklyn Mystery
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New York.—A "ride” mystery
confronted Brooklyn police with the
finding of an unidentified man’s body
wrapped in newspapers, oilcloth and
burlap bags.
A policeman stumbled on the corpse
in a lonely spot on Sixth street, Brook
lyn, a short distance from a clubroom
where three men were killed.
Detectives deduced the man had
been clubbed, stabbed, shot and thrown
from an automobile.
Would Reduce Salaries
Of Members Of Congress
From $10,000 To $7,500
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Automobile Knocks
Sleeper Out Of Bed
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Pittsburg, N. Y.—Even the con
fines of a person’s bedroom are unsafe
from the motorist. <
One resident here wals knocked
right out of bed when an automobile
collided with another, swerved and
crashed through the sleeper’s house.
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WILL ACCEPT
GRAIN AS CASH
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Sturgis, Mich.—A Sturgis furniture
dealer has advertised that he is in the
market for 10,000 bushels of wheat
which he will accept from farmers at
double its market value as payment
for merchandise.
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Offers Ice Cream For
Eggs; Gets 14,040 Eggs
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Fort Morgan, Colo.—Eggs assumed
a new value in the eyes of children
who live in the Fort Morgan area,
recently.
A drug store here offered to trade
one ice cream cone for every egg
brought into the store, as a means of
stimulating business.
At the close of the day’s business,
J. B. Stapleton, owner of the store
also was the owner of 14,040 eggs.
One boy, John Gilbaugh, appeared
on the scene with 169 eggs. It was
reported that his appetite for ice cream
has diminished.
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Kittens Discovered
Resting On Mail Box
Indianapolis.—Discord issuing from
a mail box puzzled Motor Patrolmen
Cooney and Welsh.
"Maybe it’s an infernal machine,”
said Cooney.
"Or a ghost,” offered Welsh.
They summoned a mailman to open
the box. Inside was a litter of kittens.
"That cat was smart: She wanted
her kittens to travel,” said Cooney.
"Yes,” said Welsh. "And she licked
them but she forgot the stamps.”
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Woman, 105, Joins
Bobbed-Hair Ranks
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New Lexington, Ohio.—Mrs. Susan
Palmer Kennedy strode into a barber
shop here, removed a neat hat and
climbed into a chair.
"Just bob it,” she said, waving her
hand in a sweeping gesture around her
wealth of white hair. "It just is a
nuisance in this hot weather.”
The barber gave Mrs. Kennedy the
latest style bob, cutting her hair with
a special care in deference to the age
of his customer. Mrs. Kennedy is 105
years old.
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Washington.—Rep. Allen Towner
Treadway of the first Massachusetts
district would reduce the salaries of
members of Congress from $10,000
to $7,S00. That would be putting tbe
pay back, to where it was when it
jumped to the present size. He has
started a movement to that end. He
points out that with $10,000 straight
salary, $5,000 for clerk hire, and mile
age, stationery, and other incidentals,
not counting offices and mailing
franks, a congressman receives about
$17,000.
Mr. Treadway, a leading dry, and
prominent Republican, is actively en
gaged at the task of persuading fellow
members of the House that they should
set the example of trimming to meet
changed conditions. His efforts thus
far have not met with a cordial re
ception.
"Although I have recieved practi
cally no encouragement of support, I
still believe that this question of re
ducing congressional salaries should be
taken seriously,” said he.
Mr. Treadway opposed the increase
when it was voted. He is a man of
means, and is not. altogether depend
ent upon his compensation from the
government.
There are two theories about the
increased pay of congressmen and its
enect on me personnel ot me two
houses. One is that since the salary
raise a great many small calibre men
seek the job, knowing that they could
not make that much back home. The
other and opposite is that it has induc
ed men of higher type and more abil
ity to aspire to Congress. The train
ed onlooker here is inclined to agree
with the first group, that it has low
ered instead of raised the standard.
Men take the office for the pay rather
than the honor.
A report from the Department of
Labor says that the cost of various
articles of food combined shows a de
crease of 16.7 per cent August 15,
1931, as compared with August 15,
1930, and an increase of 0.6 per cent
August 15, 1931, as compared with
July 31, 1931.
From August 15, last year, to Aug
ust 15, this year, prices of important
food products fell as follows: sirloin
steak, 11 per cent; round steak, 12;
rib roast, 12; chuck roast, 16; plate
beef, 21; sliced ham, 14; leg of lamb,
12; fresh milk, 14; butter, 27; butter
substitutes, ^9; cheese, 22; fresh eggs,
18; bread, 15; flour, 24; corn meal,
15; beans, 32; potatoes, 29; oaions,
17; peas, 14; sugar, 7; coffee, 19; or
anges, 41, and so on.
Mr. Treadway contends that with
the drop in the cost of commodities
congressmen should return to the
former scale of pay. He said that he
would keep up the fight.
North Carolina members of the
House get a total of $170,000,* ac
cording to Mr. ’ Treadway’s figures.
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We are slow to believe what if we
believed it, would hurt our feelings.