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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY, AUG. 1 5, 1 929
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THE FIXED IDEA
B- tkc:.:as arkle clark
i ft Jean ol M:n, university or
I I IKinoit.
There has been running In New
Tork and Chicago In recent months
with a good deal
of .success and
Interest a play
which alleges to
reproduce In a
realistic manner
an evening In
a metropolitan
newspaper office.
There Is much
disorder about
the place, as It
I s represented,
much profanity
and vulgarity.'
and chewing of tobacco and references
to booze fests among the habitues of
the otlice, for In some way theso
things picture the fixed idea of what
a modern newspaper office is tike.
Now the- facts, if looked Into, would
seldom, if ever, bear out this Idea. A
newspaper office is neither more dls-
orderly nor more profane than other
business offices, but It would be hard
to make the general public believe so.
I noticed a statement in one of our
local papers the other evening to tlie
effect that onevof our fresh young citi
zens had been vigorously slapped In
the face, as he deserved to be, for
making advances to a young woman
with whom he had no acquaintance,
and who was acting In one of our lo
cal theaters. The fixed Idea Is pretty
prevalent that ail actresses, being of
easy virtue, court attention from
strangers and welcome Invitations
from anybody who is willing to spend
money on them. A good many young
men have been slapped In the face for
erroneously assuming such a point of
view. It is a long exploded Idea in
the minds of those who know anything
about the matter that chorus girls and
actresses are less moral, less bal
anced, and less regular in their lives
and habits than other professional
women.
The frock-coated, long-whiskered,
absent-minded, near-sighted college
professor has for decades been rep
resented In humorous mngazines and
on the stage. So long and to such an
extent has he been thus pictured that
It has become a fixed Idea in the
minds of a majority of people who
have never been to college that that
Is the sort of creature he Is Imprac
tical, Improvident, Ill-dressed, a man
of one idea, and that one a very car
row and unbuslness-llke idea.
Now the college professor is in fact
not so very different from other nor
mal people. I am not infrequently
asked, when on a railroad train I get
Into conversation with traveling sales
men, what line I am carrying or what
business I represent. I have even
been taken for a lawyer or a bank
president at times and have not re
sented the suggestion in the least, and
I am sure many of my colleagues
would pass as representative husiness
men, though there Is a fixed Idea
against such a possibility.
There Is the fixed Idea in the minds
of many people that all Italians work
at hard labor, that all Greeks run res
taurants, and Scotchmen are all
stingy, and that plumbers continually
rob the public and eventually grow
rich. The fixed idea Is the surest In
dication of Inexperience and igno
rance. Our Ideas . are set upon the
subjects about which we know the
least ,
&. 1929. Western Newspaper Onion.)
I all his wealth, could not command.
The college freshman has more real
i information in his little finger than
J an edition of the foremost scholar of
the Renaissance. We have done more
i to put existance on the sane, logical
and definite basis than did all of our
ancestors. 9
A mere hundred years ago the
scientist thought that the at
mosphere was simply space gas was
only smell. The first microbe hadn't
disclosed its identity. Metthmikoff's
announcement of battling hosts in
every drop of "human ' blood would
have earned him a padded cell. The
best illumination Geo. Washington
could secure came from tallow dips,
lighted by a spark from flint and
steel. Every piece of fabric was
woven by hand. The' only horse
power was four-leeged and wore a
tail. The steamboat was still build
ing on th; ways of Fulton's brain
and the wheels of the steam engine
had only moved in Stephenson's head
It took Ben Franklin two weeks to
send a litter from Boston and get a
reply from Baltimore. Abraham
Lincoln's angular frame never repos
ed in a pullman berth. Garfield
called a twenty day liner an ocean
greyhound. Electric light autos,
airships, subways, gas engines, radios
bicycles and various other inventions.
The mind, the brain, the power
that dominates and controls every
conscious or unconscious movement
in or throughout your body is capanle
of development and control by the
active will. Use determines all qual
ities whether good or evil. The
greatest use with the least evil re
sults is the host things to do under
all circumstances. We are apt to
jump to quick conclusions without
taking into consideration changing
circumstances or the power there is
in the motive behind the act.
Four-H Club Members
Elect New Officers
fliss Ada Comstock
(By F. H. Jeter)
RALEIGH, August 12 Mary Em
ma Powell of Turkey in Sampson
County -was elected president of the
North Carolina 4-H club organiza
tion at its final business session clos
ing the annual short course held at
State College this month. Associat
ed with Miss Powell in the administra
tion of club affairs for the coming
yiar will be Boyce Brooks of Calypso,
Duplin County, vice-president; Ver
non James, of Weeksville Pasquo
tank County, secretary and treasur
er, and Lossie Hardison of Plymouth,
Washington County, historian.
These four young people have been
leaders in 4-H club work in their
home communities and counties for
the past several years. Each arte
was also prominent in some way at
the recent short course. Miss Pow
ell has been especially successful in
her work in Sampson County. Recent
ly when the county commissioners of
that county decided to discontinue the
work of the home agent Miss Powell
was among those prominently engag
ed in the effort to retain the work.
She not only appeared before the
commissioners but also aided in the
movement to have htns donated by
farm women and sold to defray the
county's share of the home agent's
salaryy. She is an excellent presid
ing officer and a good speaker.
Boyce Brooks, with Ruth Coleman
of Alamance County, was one of the
State health champions at the recent
short course. He is a perfect speci
men of physical manhood, making a
score of 9'J.l percent out of a pos
sible 100. He is the sbn of Rev. and
Mrs. C. V. Brooks, of Calypso, is 17
years of age 67 inches tall and
weighs 134 pounds. He is active in
the garden club of his home communi
ty.
Vernon James scored 96.6 per cent
in the health contest. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. James and pres-i
ident of the Weeksville Club.
Miss Hardison was one of the most
popular girls at the short course, at-
trading all those about her by her j
sweet disposition.
Weevil damage to cotton is averag
ing as high as 15 to 20 percent in
many places in Nash County.
The peanut crop of Edgecombe
County is reported to be above the
average this summer.
NOTICE TO
Though a county agent has been at j
work in Stokes County since th;- first
of July, he has already placed several !
pure bred dairy heifers.
O'Neill's Bride
IMP
Miss Ada Comstock. president m
RadcllITe college, Massachusetts' K
tlie only woman appointed "by I'resi
dent Hoover as a member of the crim
Uial law enforcement rnintnlssion
CUSTOM
ERS
SATISFACTION
.With Your
LAUNDRY
WORK
You just cannot help being
satisfied with the Laundry -j;
work we do for you. We
use the same care, the X
t srme skili and the same
thoroughness the most
-skilled laundress uses, but
the cost to you is less.
The Bel Wallace
Steam Laundry
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1 WE WILL BE
UNABLE TO GIVE MORE THAN 30
DAYS ON ACCOUNTS.
SPECIALS THIS WEEK
HILL CITY FLOUR' 12 Lbs- 55c
HILL CITY FLOUPv 24 Lhi- ' $1.05
Blue Cross Toilet Paper 6 for 45c
FREE can of Spagetti and Beans wh any
Four items of Beachnut Products
C. D. JONES Co.
t
FRONT ST.
EVERYTHING TO EAT"
'Phone 45
BEAUFORT, N. C.
Carlotta Monterey, former Holly
wood film actress, who was married to
Eugene O'Neill, famous Americna
playwright and author in Paris.
-Full Stock
TOBACCO STICKS
On Hand
Beaufort Lumber & Mfg. Co.
Phone 66
THE AGE OF INVENTION
(Bv Edgar'S. Weaver A. M. S. A. Ps
There never was such a period!
We never befo'o kr"' co much or
could do so much. We never exper-,
ienced an age of equal comfort until
the war robbed us of much of our
serenity for no part of , yesterday
was as glorious as the days before
the storm. We are living in an age
of invention and scientific discovery
every day and with better things to
come.
The hundred years behind us are
jammed and crammed with achieve
ments that outbalance the sum total
of progress since the signing of the
Magna Charter. The average mechan
ic enjoys luxuries that Midas, with
HAVE YOUR OLD SHOES
RE-GLAZED THE NU DI
WAY, GUARANTEED NOT
TO RUB OFF. ANY COLOR
TO CHOOSE FROM. -
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OLD SHOES
D.W.Morfon
Notary Public. Insurance
With M. Leslie D.rU
BEAUFORT, N. C.
Dr. R. L. Daniels
SPECIALISE
Eye, Ear, Note and TSroat
Office in Elk Temple
Rooms 401 to 405 TeL '170
Office Hours 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
NEW BERN, N. C.
4. 3 to 4 p. m.
Repaired at Little Cost
New Shoe Service
We put new shoe service into old shoes, yet
the cost is but a fraction of what it would
take to buy new shoes. Gather up your
worn footwear bring them to us and we
will make them look like new.
t Morehead City, N. C.
S
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:X the Challenge1
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the
Reliability Car
of the year
Essex the Challenger has outstandingly established itself as
the Reliability car of the year.
How sweeping and convincing are its proofs! In the hands
of more than 200,000 owners, the actual service records
prove the lowest service costs, and smallest service require
ments of any car we know.
Wide Choice of Color
at no extra cost
4 Hydraulic shock absorbers Starter
and electric gauge for fuel and oil on
dash Radiator shutters Adjustable
seats, front and rear All bright parts
chromium-plated saddle lamps
windshield wiper glare-proof rear
view mirror controls on steering
wheel electrolock New typedouble
action 4-wheel brakes.
The Beaufort Shoe
Shop
J. C., Chad wick. Prop.
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Two Essex cars made the only perfect scores, in
the famous international reliability classic, the
Tour de France, winning against many far cost
lier cars of American and foreign make. And
every American locality knows Essex the Chal
lenger for some outstanding reliability record
in Arizona, 1343 miles in 24 hours; in Michi
gan, 1259 miles in 24 hours and in Kansas 1109
miles in 24 hours.
These are but the dramatic representation of the
kind of reliability every Essex the Challenger
owner knows. Under every condition of climate
and road, in hard country usage as well as
continuous city service, it has made itself known
to its owners and through them to the world as
"the Reliability Car of the year."
a?i ip at factory
DOVER, the Super-Six of Commercial Cars, is Now Available
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