A Friendly Talk to Boys. I panto count oa M possible death.
'94 of th 100 come to the scratch, i
"Your first duty In life 14 toward . diMnnoint them by'
living on. But of every 100 ex-
rumtaA Antha omnnv iudIa whA do
bo-ma? in hi. time be possible and . n -rtu,,, dle.
' Seventy-one death! among abstainer
jto 94 among drinkers.
your afterself. So Uve that your
.ftaraelf that man you ought to 1
actual.
Far away 'la the years he la wait
ing his turn. HI body, iHa bralnthls
aoul are la your boylah bands. He
oan nut helf himself.
What will you leave for him? ,
Will it be a brain, unsofled by lust
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Again, It haa been proved that of
every 100 persons thirty years old
who drink, 44 of the 100 will live
to be seventy; but tf you take 100
of dtosipation.a mind trained to thlij thirty-year-old persons who don t
.nH nArrouB svstem true as a : of tho hundred will live
.fiol tn it reaDonee to truth about ito be seventy.
you? Or will you throw away his
Inheritance before be has had the
chanse to touch it? Will you turn
over to him a brain distorted, mind
diseased? A will untrained to ac-
Isn t It worth some
thing to you, even if drinking paid
In other ways, aa it doesnVjto hive
a 25 per cent, better chance to live
out our "three score years and
ten"? Anh the reocrds Bhow that
tion? A spinal cord grown through. : you do nave wis to per .
and through with the devil grass of Iter chance by rot drinking.
that vile harvest we call wild oats? These figure are based on the
Will you let him come, taking English experience but the i.igures
your place, gaining through your ex-( for America tell the same story
In
perlences, hallowed through your
Joys; bi'.dtng 00 them his owu?
Or will you fling his hope away,
decreeing wanton-like that the man
a reent address at the A. & M. Col
lege In Raleigh, I heard Capt.Rtch
mond Pearsoni Hoccbson, the famous
Spanish War hero, give the farmer
you might have been shall never jboys there the showing of the Aen
be? '. jean statistics. Among other things
This Is your problem In life; the ne pointed out that without drinking,
problem of more Importance to you tne prospects of life when you are
than any or all others. How will twenty years old Is forty-four more
you meet It, as a ma nor as a fool? years of living, but with drinking
When you answer all of this, we oniy thirty-one years an average rej
snail Know wnat use tne worm can auction of thirty years in length or
make of you." David Starr Jor- , d to the drInk hobit.
Or take the evidence of Mr. Ed- J
That "Appeal: to'1 A.Wood, a praqlcal Insurance
manager. 01 nmumti
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which Dr. Rankin is putting in the furthermore that 40 per oenL-11
Bulletin this time, is one of the "
diseased homes, weaseueo. uerwi
etc.
that they can't get life insur-
"are for causes con-
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latelv. and the firt thine I'd Uke
for vo tn rln to road It. Then ance at aU
T'd likp for us ot have a little talk nocted with, alcohol.
-a litflo friendly b.rotherly talk. Experiments which a distinguished
for T hnvrn't cotton over beine a. Broup of scientists made win group
hov mvf nhont whether Itt. nays o laboring men showed that
tn Btnrt "t...V4nK a drink." beer drinking decreased the output
Now. 1 a not going to lecture 8 r cent
you, and 1 am not going to say a
word about it bt'ing an "awful sin"
oj anytLli.g cf the sort. We are
11..-,. to t;dk auout it as a
business waiter and find out if it S y drinking was even greater.
la head worn or inuseuiar wura or
sport, it is all the same: whis-
even
utput
In other
words It took ten men to do the
work nine would have done if they
nad l.'t tven beer alone; and lni cler
ical aad iutflletLfll work the dam-
pays. 1 hat's all.
deal of observation and study is tha keePs from "makins eoof
it doesn't pay. and I am going to ou drinking boy can sta
nii f- -.n -i,v If vour on yo-ir) college football ttaui.
. .'. . ,....1,., It is because the people under
annKf g were s nip. a n)u - ,
I shovldn't have a thing to say these thing, that all classes
that while "a frowning on me mua
drinks. If you want to get a jod
Every member of the fam
ily can now have his or
her own copy of this Bible
about it, Vecause I know
you nviy play practical jokes
and
you m iy take dare -oevii nsKS now - - lo ! ment and hlS Self-DrnOUIlCine text.
VOUUK IVIIUW i uu uuira i. 11 , . . . . .
and then, that's just the boy in you,,
and you nrc straight and square and
honest i t bottom and you are going
to c,:uo ut allrlght
" What I want to say about this
drinki'K business, however, Is that
it Is a ve y different matter from
these 1 ninls and ftats and joKes in
wl -.Mi a boy mny naturally
bnaltl f! l y "lot orf steam." They
mny 11 t 1 ave you any worse, but
drink us ai'.d Immonility will.
A g-eat danger Is that if you be
gin il i'll"c at nil yeu can't keep
ftoin irrr.'.;ii'K Imnio(lerat;Iy;you are
jourg ye', but you have seen enoug
tc nv I'irvt. T!irre are all kinds of
chare-s ti rt you v ill wind up as a
dirty .hiortf d, worthl.es drunkard
a sort of man as t'nele Remus says,
w! o 1-. "n' t fittrn to stop the gully
wid," lut what I want you to
remebfr is that even If you should
only drink modomtcly will not lve
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ae I hope you do or if you want
to marry the smartest or prettiest
mi girl in the neighborhood ( or the
smartest and prettiest) as I hope
you do i'ts all the same story. The
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Now there's no use for me to dis
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In other words, no matter whether
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drlnklrg is a sin or not, you want
want a healthy body, a steady nerve,
and arfUar) brain, and you can't
have these if you dring even moder
ately. Take the matter cf length of life.
The insurance companies have been
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fore you were born to fjind out Just
to see the South the
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and in traveling about over the eoun
try It seems to me that; one of the
surest eigne that we are going to be
at the front Is found In Just one
fact. And that one fact Is that we
seem Ukely to have in the South
about the smallest proportion of
whiskey-ruined boys, and therefore ;
with greatest proportion of strong
sober, healthy, successful young men
Of course it will take some spunk
to keep you in this class some times,
i?vr vf;; 'Jwfcr r i
, . , Ti, A. , . . You may get caught In a fix now
and length of life. Its their business . . , .
. . and then when other boys are drjnk-
jou know. Well, they started out
when they began these records with
the idea that a man was actually
helped by using some whiskey that
ing and it w$l take more genuine
spunk for you to be a man enough
to say "No' than It take to ride
a. hnnlrlncrlwvrnA or tiwlm . rlvhrin
was the belief a long time ago and freshet.tIme. ,
But If you will make up your
mind dead sure that you are going
It was on this theory in England 40
or 60 years apo when they tAed
to m-ko a man named Robert Warre'i
pay a h ghor prelu, a higher rate on
life insurance because he was a tee-
. , , ' , . . . ... . show the ppunk when it's needed
wi".iu titter ui luuuwuiua
and thousands of Eigllsh insnrancoi!
casos for over forty years; and what
. do you suppose th results show? j
Thry ghow that the death rate Is
ever a third K'cher for modrrats
rs th-n fnr total abstainers.
In. other words', In any given yean
., four men tfieamotig the drlnVera for
. very three who die aong aneqnal
.suber.cf abstainers. Of . every I00
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Over four months have elapsed
week In November were 6.70 per
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Commercial and Financial Chronicle
tj "stick to your stjekums" and since the American people decided td in giving the gross and net earn-
shake hands with me on this prop- change the control of the govern
sltlon I am sure I can trust you ment; and despite the predictions
of .the President and his supporters
Sincerely your friend. !thTt commercial disaster would fol-
The Bulletin. CLiAR.NCE FOE. low. business Is expandln and the
I foreshadowing of disaster is not yet
- 'apparent
says a policeman to a street crowd,
and whacks heads if it don't. Movi
on now
Move On Xow,
The bank clearings only a week
says the big. harsh minrtl ago were 8.8 per cent, greater than
pills to bowel congestion and suffer- ln the corresponding week last year,
ing follows. Dr. King's New Life J For months they have been doing a
I'-Ti" " - ".ir 7Z " 7 large v0lume of business and their
tion, and health follows. 25c. at i tendency la epward. The gross ea
Aaheboro Drug Co. (lngs of the railroads for the first
ings compared with last year show
a marked increase. i
We frequently overlook the full
significance of increases like this.
Population hardly grows 2 per cent.
year . Wealth cannot increase
over 3 per cent, at the outside, but
bank clearings and gross earnings
of the railroads are Increasing 10
per cent. Many of the periods of
retrograding business we encounter
are caused by the inevitable reac
tions of trade that outrun wealth
presslon darkens the growing pros-
perity of the nation.
Foreign trade is of great volume
The vast crops predicted are now
assured. The demand for clothing
of all kinds Is greater than ever
before, and mills can scarcely supply
these increasing demands. In fact,
business Is. such that we can safely
say that it is increasing steadily,
quietly and surely. No cloud of de
darkens the growing prosperity of
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