THS ROANOKE. CHOWAN TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1926
EXCUSES
■p'XCUSKS for omitting a duty, for
claitiiiiig a privilege, or for doing
something that Is forl)ldden, have not i
changed a great deal since the first
lame one that Adam offered for ined-
dling with things which he was told
to leave alone. Being told that a
thing may not be done, every youth in
the country or in college becomes ob
sessed to find some way to do it.
In order that things may go on In
some sort of nonnal way, most col
leges have a regulation tliat no one,
■without special excuse, may leave
early before the beginning of a vaca
tion or come back late. Tliose who
do are penalized pretty heavily. The
undergraduate mind gets to work at
once, therefore, to devise situations
and adeiuate conditions to furnish a
reason for having the vacation extend
ed, If one man Is excnsral, forty oth
ers will probe into the details of his
successful evasion of duty and at once
appear before the authorities armed
with similar excuses.
“I’m getting off two days early,”
Brown says to a group of classmates
as they rusli out of the classroom a
week before the Master recess.
“What did you tell him?” they all
Inquire in chorus.
“(Grandmother's very sick,” is the
reply, “and I’m her favorite grand
child. She could never die happy if I
were not there.”
Porthwitli there is an increasing
amount of illness and even mortality
among grandparents.
There are relatively few new ex
cuses offered by tlie young man eager
to go home ojirly. The fake telegram
from home has been worked since
Morse first invented his code. It gen
erally bears the earmarks of the nov
ice and is not difficult of detection.
Itecaying teeth requiring the attention
of the home dentist, infected tonsils
crying to be taken out, weddings, tlie
initiation into secret societies which
will not wait, fatliers overwhelmed
with work in a business that only son
understands, have all been used since
the Middle ages and are current in
all the colleges of the country.
“Will you let me go early If I give
you a really new excuse and a true
one?” a senior asked me a year or
two ago. I agreed, glad if possible
to get a new one.
“I'm Invited to a hanging,” he ex
plained, “and it comes off two days
before the vacation begins. I was a
witness In the man’s trial.”
I agreed that lie might go, and then
at the last moment the man was par
doned.
(©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.)
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KEEPING WELL
MILKING BY MA-
CHINERY
DR. rRRDFRIOK R. ORKRN
>.dH«r of “IIEAI.TH”
FROM PALETTE TO MORTAR BOARD
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Professional Cards
A. C. GAY
Attorney & Counsellor at Law
JACKSON, North Carolina
R. Jennings White
LAWYER
Conway, N, C.
Practice In All Courts
W, H. S. Burgwyn Eric Norfleei
BURGWYN & NORFLEET
Attorneys at Law
Woodland, N. C. Jackson, N.
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Young women artists turn from their jars of color and pami brushes to
assist plasterers in setting ornaments in place atop huge pylons which adorn
the main entrances to the Palace of Agriculture and Pood Products, of tho
vast exhibition buildings which forms a part of the great Sesqui-Contennial
International Exposition being staged in Philadelphia from June 1 to
December 1 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declara
tion of Independence. Climbing ladders and walking along rickety scaffolds
is nothing new to these young ladles, but each time they do it they get a
thrill.
^UM.\N life and human elTort some
times seem to be about the cheap
est commodities tliere are on the mar
ket. But careful study of any method
of production will sliow that maoliine
labor is always cheaper tlian hand
labor. In the old days back on the
farm, there was one Job that was al
ways done by hand no matter how
inucli machinery (lie farmer owned
That was milking tlie cows. Not only
that but it was firmly believed that it
was one job tliat always would he
done by liand. Just as in another line
of industry type setting was always
done by hand. For years, tlie idea of
machines tliat would set tyile or milk
cows was regarded as a Joke. “Tliat
is someCliing that only fingers can
ever do.”
Yet for years past, most of the type
has been set and much of the milking
has been done by machinery. Many
farmers still contend that the human
hand is the best and most effective
milking macliine to be found. This
has been the subject of mucli discus
sion in farm Journals and at farmers’
institutes.
The agricultural department of the
■Dniversity of Illinois decided to find
out tlie truth. So two experts com
piled the cost records from 60 Illi
nois farms for six years. _ Tlie re
suits have recently been published and
commented on in the Prairie Farmer.
The report shows that it takes more
time and costs more to milk hy hand
than by machinery. Figuring on the
basis of one cow for one year, it was
found that it required 133 hours ol
hand labor but only 81 hours of ma
chine labor, a saving of 52 hours per
cow per year. Naturally, the larger
the number of cows, the greater the
saving. Regarding expense, figurin.?
labor at the rate of ITVg cents per
hour, it cost $23.44 to milk a cow by
hand for one year and $18.64 per year
to milk a cow hy machinery. The only
•way that hand labor could be put on
the same scale as machine labor was
by estimating hand labor at 8% cents
an hour and farm labor today cannot
be secured at that price.
Regarding cleanliness, either was
equally good, provided hands, machine
buckets, strainers and other utensils
jivere kept clean.
1926, Western Newspaper UnloB.)
Preserves Old Flags
by Peculiar Process
Preserving the flags under which
the sons of Illinois have gone forth
to battle, from Chapultepec to
Chateau Thierry, is the work now of
a corps of thirty Springfield wom
en under the direction of Miss Julia
A. Rockford.
There are seven distinct opera
tions in the process, and in the case
of flags tattered by bullet and shell
holes, the work occupies several
months.
The first is to straighten the
edges of the tatters so that they
will fray no further. However, no
part of the torn standards is re
placed by any new material. A net
of transparent black silk, imported
from England, is prepared for each
flag, and after its restoration the
net is put over the flag and stitched
to it so tliat the net supports the
weight of the time-worn material,
which might otherwise pull apart.
More than 100 of the war-time
emblems of Illinois have been thus
prepared. Flags of the Mexican
war were treated first. When the
Civil war flags were taken up, it
was found that much of the work
of the Springfield women of 1866-66
would have to be undone. They
sewed the flags to tarletan. This
backing is being removed in the
new process.
Power Now Carried Far
“Supcr-jiGwcr" is no hazy thing
of tlie future. It is here. Power
systems are already linked to cover
huge areas. New iriigland and New
York are connected and one com
pany has power and lighting lines
interconnected from Portland, Ore
gon to I.K)s Angeles, Cal. The na
tion between is widely netted with
many systems that serve . parts of
several states.
E. R. Tyler Jos. B. Burden
Tyler & Burden.
Attorneys at Law
ROXOBEL, N. C.
Office Roanoke-Cho'wan Bank
Few Long-Haired Maiden*
Scarcity of unshorn maidens
threatened the continuity of sixty-
year-old May festivities of Knuts-
ford, the most jiicturesque in Eng
land, for the May queen mmst have
long hair. All but one of the as
pirants for the honor appeared with
cither bobbed or shingled locks. The
throne must go to the girl whose
tresses never have been touched hy
scissors.
Deer’* Civilized Taste
CiGorge A. Baxter of Horton, N.
Y., found a large buck doer exhaust
ed in the snow and took it home.
After offering it foods which he
thought a deer should eat, which it
did not find to its ta.ste, he tried giv
ing it food from his kitchen. He
discovered that the deer devoured
buckwheat cakes and maple sirup,
and preferred them above anything
else.
gray
tears
WithSriends Onc^ore
O. Lawrence Hawdiome
What joy it brings to see agaia /
Those good old friends I usfed to kno'w—.
To meet the women and the men
Who were my playmates long agol
The same dear smiles are here today
That greeted me in childhixid years,
Though temples now are touched with
And eyes have learned the hurt of
The same glad grip of cordial hands
(Yes, even warmer than of old!)
That bears to him who understands,
The finest message ever told;
Th6 same unselfish kiniiliness
And thoughtful hospitality—
Small favors that alone express
True friendship’s great reality.
Oh, life is richer than before
And lighted with a deeper glow,
For I am with my friends once more—
Those good old friends of long ago!
0 1026 O. lAwrenc* Hawthorn#.
Ballard S. Gay
Attorney & Counsellor at Law
Office over Bank
Jackson, N. C.
Executrix Notice
Having qualified as execut-ix of the
Last Wi l and Testament of the late C.
H. Griffin, this is to notify all persons
holding c aims against sail estate to i
file same with the undersigned at
Woodland N. C., within one year from i
the date hereof or this notice wi 1 be
pleaded in bar of the r recovery.
All persons indebted io said estate
will rlease make immediate payment.
This May 10th, 1926.
MRS. MATTIE SYKES GRIFFIN,
Executrix of the Estate of
C. H. Griffin.
Burgwyn & Norfleet, Attys. nl9
Notice of Administration
Having qualified as administratrix, c t
a, of the estate of R. V. Bridgets, de
ceased, late of Northampton County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the estate of
the said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned, at Conway, N. C., on or
before the 10th day of May, 1927, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make immediate
payment.
JOSIE BRIDGERS,
Administratrix, c t a, ot R. V. Bridgers.
By R. Jennings White, Atty. 19
MONEY TO LEND
at 5 per cent interest rate
for 5, 7, 10 or 20 years on
farm lands. No bonus
charged. Car make in
spections and get money
in short time.
A. C. GAY, Atty - at - Law,
Jackson, N. C.
Dr. Charles J. Sawyer
Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat'
AHOSKIE. N. C.
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