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ROCH INGHAM county* ONLY DAILY. LEAKBYILLE, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1923. TWO CENTS PER COPY ew borrowed money WOOLWORTH TURNED . DIMES TO MILLIONS Creator of 5- and 10-Cant Stores Revealo in His Autobiography New York, Dee. 8.—In a recently discovered portion of the autobio graphy of the late Prank W. Wool worth <is revealed for the flr$t time how the creator of five- and ten-cent stores, starting in 1879 with $816 of borrowed money, invested in his first dingy shop, built up a chain of over a thousand stores and created, as a monument to his work, the $13,000, 000 Woolworth Building. This remarkable life story, written shortly .before the great merchant’s death and now published in the De cember issue of McClure’s Maga zine, concludes with Woolworth's brief resuce of his own achievement: "I feel,” he says, “that the five- and ten-eent stores have dine a very big, constructive work in the economics of this country .and have accomplished more to bring down and keep dow>. the cost of living than any other fa* tor in the life of th enation.” The greatest struggle of all, re calls, in building his natiin-wide busi ness, was to convince manufacturers that they could gain greater aggre gate profits by very greatly reducing their prices and thus vastly increas succeeded by creating widespread de man for lower-priced merchandise. “When We began to show this de mand,” he adds, “we werc able to hammer down prices or create the lines ourselves. One effect if the flve and ten-cent business has certainly been to bring down the wholesale price of an ever-expanding line of goods, in the face of constantly in creasing prices for most goods out side the five- and ten-cent store’s reach.” nooiwurin 9 cnrcei 00 *» began at the age of 21. His first job was as a clerk in a country store at GGreat Bend, New York. His only pay wa shis board an dlodging. Soon afterward he obtained b job as a clerk in the drygoods store of Augsbury ■and Moore at Watc.town at $3.50 a Week. In 1875, another Watertown merchant hired him at $10 a week. It was not long, however, before his old employer, W. H.. Moore, called him back to his store, now operated by Moore * Smith. Here a successful ex periment in the sale j»f five-cent goods started a five-cent craze that caught the imagination of young Jfoc* Selecting $315.41 Moore A Smith’s, for which he g*ve his note, he established the first Wool worth five-cent store at Utica, New York, early in 1879. It last three months. His next venture was in Lancaster, Pa., where he founded his first successful store. In November, 1880, he opened a successful branch store at Scranton, Pa., and launched on his remarkable career of turning dimes into millions. J TWO MEN KILLED IN CHICAGO CAFE BY IMPATIENT MAN Delayed Order for Cracked Ice Caused Patron to Be come Impatient (By Associated Press) Chicago, Dec. 8.—Henry Bing, a waiter, and Leopold Guth, steward, were -shot and killed and a detective wounded by a man identified as John Sheehy, who became impatient whet an order for cracked ice at a cafe was delayed. Sheehy was probably fatal ly wounded by a companion of the de tective. One hundred diners and dancers were thrown into a panic. Police reserves were summoned when excited patrons stormed the exists. AMERICAN MUSEUM TO GET RARE ANIMAL SPECIMENS (By Associated Press) London, Dec. 8.—The American Mu seum of Natural History will shortly become the possessor of an excellent collection of stuffed animals and xoological specimens from India, the fruits of the recent Vernay-Faun thrope expedition. The expendition was undertaken by A. S. Vernay, an Englishman, but for many years a resident of New York, and Colonel J. C. Faunthrope, with the object ol forming a complete collection of animals from the plains of India. Later it was decided to present these to the American institution. The collection is by far the most complete and varied that has ever been obtained. The hunting of tin animals in this case was most exact ing as only certain specimens wer. sought in order to mount the animal., in groups in the American fashion. About ninety such groups of rare animals as tiger, spotted deer, rhino ceros, wild elephant, snakes and ants will be included in the presentation. One of the most remarkable results of th eexpedition is a motion picture showing many rare pictures of the Indian animals in their native haunts an dshowing the progress and difficul ties made in hunting them. The pic ture wa smade by a nAmerican pho tographer for use in connection with, soologica lclasses of the museum. TURKISH EDITORS WARNED *' Constantinople, Doc. S.-^-The its-, sembly has coted a modification of the press law/ making the responsible editor liable to a period of from three months to three years imprisonment for publishing any libel on the presi dent of the republic. The assembly is discussing as a matter of urgency the .modification of the dry law, permitting the limited manufacture and sale of alcohol. -_— Well-Known R. R. Att’y Found In Room Dead (By Associated Press) Philadelphia, Dec. 8. — Colonel • Theodore Noble, of Scranton, Penna., well-known in railroad legal circles, was fomitdtead in a hotel with a bullet wound In his head and a pistol at Us side. . # ’ French Women Flock To Have Hair nil Kill lie I (By Associated Press) Paris, Dec. 8.—Bobbed hair has long been accepted as standard prac tice in Paris, but there has developed such a rush to the shears that it is realised now that only a small pro portio nof the women have had' theii locks trimmed Advocates of short hair , have taken advantage of this situation to spread further the doctrine of the. bobbed head, and newspapers, agg parrying interviews and comment that VcSfli lr«d one to suppose the movement is Hairdressers offer no explanation for the thousands coming to them to have their hair cut just in time to catch cold this winter, but they ask no questions and cut WHICH FOODS ARE - RICH IN IRON? (n order that Hie public should not ■i he misled by the claim* of high iron Content made for certain food prod | Wets, the American Medical Associa I ;-on has compiled a chart showing V those foods that ate rich in. this §; • itally necessary part of 'our diet. F ibis chart demonstrates that iron is | contained in important proportions in ; -gg yolk, wheat bran, moUsses, jbfrd • beans, whole wheat, oysters, almonds, 1 oatmeal, spinach, Bostin brown broad I-; OBERAMMERGAGU HANDICRAFT TO BE OFFERED IN NEW YORK r (By Associated Press) ,*i'Ot>erammergau, Dec. 8.—Tourist travel to Oberammergau, the home of the Passion Play, has declined to such an extent in recent years that the villagers are no longer finding a home market for their handiwork. Need ing money to keep up the modern im provements now existing in the town, they are sending to New York for sale during th ecoming winter a con signment of their products. These include hand-carved altars, crucifixes, and religious figures. Johann Georg Lang, one of the vil lage’s best-known woodcravers, has modelled an oak altar over nineteen feet high which is one of the most conspicuous bits of art in the collec tion. Anton Lang, the portrayer of the role of Christ in the Passion Play last yea rand on two previous oc casions, has contributed many cer amics. A porcelain stove, the title of which are decorated with bibical scenes, is conspicuous among his handiwork. OREGON CITIZENS VOTE FOR DOUBLE TAXATION Editorial PUBLIC INTEREST PARAMOUNT The whole nation has heard of the much-discussed Muscle Shoals project where as a war measure our govern ment started hydro-electric power de velopment for purpose of obtaining nitrogen from the atmosphere and givi^ the United States a supply of nitric acid for the manufacture of ex plosive independent of foreign sup plies. Numerous propositions have been made to the government to lease or buy the property, including the one from Henry Ford which has received the most public attention on account of the Detroit automobile manufat turer’s prominence and his statements that he wished to make cheap fertili ser for the farmers. The important questiin for the American people is not who gets this property, but what the individual or corporation which secures the use of it will d ofor the public in return for these vast properties which they seek to secure at nominal cost from the government. James Couzens, United States senator from Michigan and formei partner of Henry Ford, in a recent statement in eDtroit said: “It is com mendatory to the United'States Con gress that it has not been brow beaten into disposing of the Muscle Shoals project. "The government must get every dollar possible for this great unfinish ed property an dit is reasinable to suppose that honest public officials guarding the interests of the tax sayers will do this.” it Has Deen generally understood that the reason for considering Mr. Fird’s extremely low offer for these properties was that they would be use dto manufacture cheap fertilizer if he gets the plant but according to his own statements, he will not make fertilizer except at a profit This is only good business. The question of the “public inter est" in this proposition is, however, ol greater importance that the “indi vidual interest" if any prospective ;|«^g^ol^fc^^yjj|s^lhoal8 project. idct should be Considered. In return for a hundred-year lease such as pro nose din the Fowl preposition, the public rights must be fully guarded. Supposing the lessee of'the prop erty under such a lease disposes ol <t? Supposing thatthe leassee sold out Supposing the lessee did not consider 6 per cent enough profit and ould not manufacture fertilizer un 'ess he coul dget 88 per cent. Sup posing the price the lessee Set for fertilizer was not “cheap” for the farmer. Supposing the lessee con sidered it necessity to make 8 per cent on the investment representing by expenditures made by the govern ment instead of 8 per cent on the very nominal sum as has been offered to the government for these vast pro perties. Os supposing the lessee claimed 8 per cent on the manufact uring turnover as a reasonable profit. The nin either of the two latter events, the lessee would get an enormously large return on his actual investment. In the interest of the farmers whose welfare is the chief argument advanc ed for condudin -ga lease on these properties for the manufacture of fertiliser, the persons responsible for leasing or disposing of the >iusole Shoals project should see that vwy definite obligations are assumed by the beneficiary of the gtvemment’s expenditures and the people’s property. In case of non performance of cos tract obligations, the priperty should revert to the gc-ornment and hot be left to the dtso'i;'il of a lessee as he haw fit after faF.ing to cavry iut the actual or implied intent of the promise which secured the lease of the properties It is gratifying to note .Senator Couzen’s statement that our public ocials are pursuing such a course. BRITISH 8AILQR8 CAN'T SWIM (By Associated Praia) Portsmouth, Eng., December 7.—A British admiral, Sir. Sydney Free CANADA HAS LOTS OP APPLES (By Associated Press) Ottawa, Out, December 7—Canada will market 8,240,303 barrels of ap ples this year according to the latest estimates of the fruit branch -of the Dominion Department Agriculture. Figures show that British Columbia increased its production to 1,047,801, barrels, as compared with 705,000 barrels last year. Nova Scotia With a crop of 1,500,000 barrels, it is' showt. leads the -Dominion in production. RUM RUNNERS MAKE ' SUCCESSFL LANDING One Steam and Four Sailing Vessels Anchor off Atlantic City (By Associated Press) ; Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. 8.—Coast guard report that during last Bight, rum runners from Atlantic City and vicinity completed one of the most successful landing from the runt fleet ever made south of the highlands, hitherto the center of smuggling operations. One steam and four sail ing vessels are believed a part of the Highland fleet anchored off Atlantic City. KING JOHN IS REMEMBERED ONLY AS DANTE SCHOLAR PHILA^THES (Bv Associated Pressl Berlin, December 7.—That the pen is mightier than the sword wag .prov ed recently by celebrations by liter ary, groups throughout Gdrmany. King John of Saxony has bean dead 50 years, but as king he is forgot ten. However, the 50th annmei nary of the death of “Philalthes,” Hie pen name under which he wroti, Iras widely celebrated. King John is remembered as the man who did more than any other to popularize Dante in Gernjany. In 1827 he began translations of Dante and issued these under the name of “Philalthes,” or “friend of truth.” This work was done while he was Prince John. After he ascended the throne he had little time for study. MAINTENANCE OF WAYi WORKERS VOTE ON STRIKE (By Associated Press) Detroit, Dec. 8.—Strike ballot is be ing mailed all maintenance! of way men in Canada, the United HBrother hood of Maintenance of Way em ployees and raliway shop laborers an nounced. CENSORSHIP PLACED ON MEXICAN CABLES DUE TO REVOLT General CalUs Support* Obre* son While Gen. Ectradi Joins Rebels (By Associated Press) New York, Dec. 8.—The Mexican government ^stopped all code tele graphic messages to and from Mexict via Galveston and imposed a censor ship on plain langauge messages. Western Union and All American cables' announced. Preparing for Action. Mexico City, Dec. 8.—General Plu tarco Callea renounced his candidacy for the presidency and offered his set vices to Obregon against the insur gents at Vera Cruse and Jalisco. Twenty-eight thousand Federal troops are said to be converging at the Vera Cruse revolutionary zone. General Enrique Estrada, chief of military operations in Jalisco State, joined re volt. He is said to have thousands of followers. esperantists select vinna (By Associated Press) Vienna, Dec. |).—Vienna has been selected as the location for the sixteen annual Esperanto congress, which is to be held next summer. Bul garia asked the Esperantists to hold their next congress i nSofia, but as the Bulgarians said they would be able to entertain only a few hundred delegates, the Universal Committee of the Esperantists decided to send the meeting to Vienna, where un limited accommodations for vistors will be available. Five thousand delegates are expected to attend. Seventeen Thousand Coal Miners Lehigh Mines Go On Strike Workers Leave Jobs While Leader PieadtoContimie Work Pendiiur Sittfcment OTHER STRIKES MAY SOON FOLLOW (By Associated Press) Scranton, Penna., Dec. 8.—Seven teen thousand mine workers of the Lehigh Coal Company went on strike toda$ despite the advice of anion leaders to remain at work pending further discussion of grievances. Chief complaint is that the company failed to provide local onions with rate sheets. Strike of 20,000 Hudson Coal Company employees is threat ened. Union ocials said they were exerting efforts to prevent a big tie up of coal mines. BALDWIN APT TO RESIGN IN FAVOR OF MAC DONALD LABOR1TE (By Associated Press) —. London, Dec. 8.—The Evening Standard says Premier Baldwin will resign Monday and it is likely to rec ommend as successor J. Ramsay Mac Donald who as headr of the Labor Party is a leader of opposition in House of Commons. There is no in dication, however, as to the authority of newspaper’s statement. NUDE BODY OF WOMAN FOUND AT DONGES BAY (By Associated Press) Milwaukee, Dec. 8.—The headless nude body of Mrs. Belle Tompkins, wife of a real estate dealer, and former, instructor in the Milwaukee Normal School, was found in a woolen ravine at Dongesbay, eleven mile3 from Milwaukee. ONLY 14 More Shopping Days Until Christmas! Read The Gazette Ads and DEADLY OPTIMISM (By Wjckes Wamboldt) There is a (Treat deal 0f rootinfc being done for optimism and th« characteristic is praised in all sorts of anecdotes such as the one about the ovtimist seeing the doughnut and the pessimist seeing the hole, and the old lady who said she had only two teeth, but wa sthankful they hit, and so on. Optimism is much like mushrooms —there are two kinds, wholesome, and deadly. I know a man whose op timism has ruined him. He has the deadly kind of optimism. He has what I call complacent optimism, whilh has the effect of a shot in the arm* or a glass of bootleg. No mat ter what the condition is, he say» in a cock-sure way that it will come out all right. And he lets it go at that. He depends upon the thing to come through by its own efforts. And it doesn’t do it. Now, that kind of optimism is false and fatal, just like the wrong kind of mushrooms. There is an op timism that will lea da man to suc cess. It is the kind that will make him shout, ‘Excelsior!” and climb the heights of snow and ice and not stop for the jolly company and refresh ments. It is the optimism, that is horn oi courage that is the right sort. After ail, I don’t know but what “courage” is as good a definition of optimism as anything else. Give me the man who tinctures his optimism with a certain amount 01 COTTON concern. I do not believe a man can upt his best into a thing that he is not seriously concerned about. It is all right and highly commen dable to express our heart’s sincere desire in the declaration that every thing is coming out all right. That is a very constructive attitude, pro vided we work like a Trojan mean while. We can draw quite a lesson from the two little girls on the way to school who were a block off when the last bell rang. One said, “Let’s stop and pray.” The other said, “You can stop and pray if you want to. I’m going to run and pray.” The optimism that says, “Oh, it will come out all right,” and then lets things drift is the deadly kind. It will get nowhere. That optimist who says, “It will come out all right” and the® takes a microscopic survey -•f every detail to see that no stoqe is left unturned and who works for all be is worth, i the kinl who will find his optimism justified. ‘LOCALS The Young: Men’s Class of the Spray Presbyterian Church will en tertain their friends in the Sunday school class rooms, Saturday hitftlt, December 15. Mrs. W. W. Matthews wa svisiting in Sloneville yesterday. Judge Faggc was in Greensboro yesterday. I John Smith of the Leaksville Lum I ber Company, was in Greensboro yes terday on businesss. The Woman’s Missionary Society of i the First Baptist Church will meet I with Mrs. T. Lee Millner at 3 o’clock, Monday afternoon. Mrs. J. H. Richardson and Mrs. B. B. Dunn were in Greensboro yester day shopping. The Junior Missionary Society of the Methodist Church writes you to be present at a silver tea to be held at the home of Mrs. W. W. Hampton Monday. December 10, 3:30 to 6 and 7:30 to 10 o’clock. C. P. Robertson wa sin Greensboro yesterday on business. Jerry Simpson, of Kannapolis, is in town for a few days. CHURCH NOTICES. Church of the Epiphany, Leaksville —10 A. M., Church school. No morn ing service. 7:30 P. M., evening ser vice with sermon by Rev. Wm. J. Gordon. Bishop Pcnick’s visitation postponed on account of sickness. St. Luke’s Church, Spray.—0:45 A. M., Sunday school. 11 A. M., morning service with sermon by Rev. Wm, J. Gordon. 7:45 P. M., evening service; special music. Bishop Penick’s visita tion postponed on account of sickness. BERLIN COUNTERFEITERS PROTEST AGAINST EXCHANGE (By Associated Press) Berlin, Dec. 8.—Counterfeiters are .adding their complaints to the geir chorb* ittTint ainhampa ThgT Dtp test because, having gone to nnjrfr trouble and expense to produce spur ious billion mark notes, they find, by the time these are ready for handling that a billion marks has so little value that their enterprise was not worth while. WOMAN SHOT IN HOME SON DEAD IN BARN Hatband mni Vather Refute to Tele—Neighbor* Sey Family Quarreled (Bv Associated Press* Mercer, Penna., Dec. 8.—Mrs. OUie Swogger, 60, was probably fatally wounded when a shot gun was dis charged though the window of her home. Later, her son, Cahles, was found dead in the barn, shot with gun weende, and his neck broken by hanging. Officials said OUie Swog ger, the father of the dead man, re fused to talk, but admitted he found his son’s body, eighbors declared there had been a family quarrel earlier in the day. MOTHER AND CHILD KILLED AT R. R. CROSSING (By Associated Press) Marietta, Ga., Dec. 8.—Mrs. Joe Dobbins and a 6-month-old baby were killed by a passenger train while attempting to cross the tracks. BORROWED GUN FROM CLERK TAKES OWN LIFE (By Associated Press) Augusta, Dec. 8.—C. A. Hattaway, of Spartanburg, S. C., today entered a hardstore, asked to see a pistol, borrowed a bullet from the clerk, placed the gun against his temple, shot and killed himself. He leaves a widow gnd five children. Items ot the town Leaksville’s “White Way” is being installed on Washington Street. Th» “White Way” we have heard so much about gives promise of materializing If it were not for the posts which are to be placed in our sidewalks, the idea would be all right. The thing to be regreted most of al lis the narrow ness of the walks. But then it will never do to complain. A narrow street is bad, but a narrow sidewalk is considerable draw-back to business. C. P. Smith, Washington Street merchant, has provided himself with a covered delivery truck that seems to br the real thing for delivering proeerie8 to patrons. Besides the service this truck wil lrender, it is certainly a good advertisement, for it spell senterprise and success. C. R. Mclver is advertising an auc tion sale of thirty houses in “Thfc pleases the buyeS. When property begins to change hands it is a pretty good sign of prosperity and of late years the auction method of selling has become the real way. gip^gH$j>!t«y” on January 12. Buy popular way to sell and a way tha Dutch Steamer With Liquor Aboard Seized EX-SERVICE WOMEN ELGIBLE FOR GOVERNMENT CARE (By Associated Press) San Francisco, Dec. 8.—American ex-service women who* need medical attention, whether for disability in curred in the wor or for illness or injury suffered since, may receive such treatment from the government, it has been announced here by Eudora M. Clover, administrator of disabled service women for the American Women’s Overseas League. The league, Miss Clover explained, has received this assurance from the war department It means that all women who have been or may be en listed under suh status as army nurse, navy nurse, yeomanette or marinette will be eligible, on producing an honorabel discharge and a proper cer tificate of disability, to care and maintenance in a government hospital or home. The duration of the dis ability, or the time an dmanner in which it has bee ninflicted, will make no -difference, according in the ' an nouncement, Such permanent dis abilities as old age will entitle a wo man to care for the rest of her life, but entry into a government institu tion will entail no obiligation to re main, a patient being as welcome to enter for an operation or a brief ill ness. The government will pay the cost of transportation to eligible ap plicants. In view of the comparatively few women claiming such attention at this time, the national soldiers’ home at Danville, 111., has been designated for all patients of the immediate future. There two brick buildings have been , Applicants are advised to apply to General George H. Wood, of the na (Py Associated Press) New York, Dec. 8.—The Dutch schooner Zeehond was seized off Fire Island by a coast cutter. The captain and crew were held for violation of the prohibition law. Twenty-five hundred cases of champagne and other liquors valued at $200,000 was found in hold. Over Nine Million Bales Cotton Ginned (By Associated Press) Washington, Dec. 8.—Cotton ginned prior to December 1 amounted to 9,243,9197, the census bureau an* nounced. Ginning for North Caro lina was 939,616, for Virginia 37,736. ..LEAGUE SEEKS STATISTICS.. (By Associated Pressi GGeneva, Dec. 8.—An internation al conference on labor statistics has 'just completed its meetings here by adopting a series of resolutions .iudgeq by technicians to be of special inter est to the world of labor. They ask all countries to make a classification of professionse and in dustries; to compile statistics of wages, salaries and the length of hours of work, and to furnish the in ternational labor office with all in formation concerning accidents occur ring in connection with labor. Fifty delegates representing 33 countries attended the sessions and made pro visional plans for another conference to study the cost of living This sta tistical study of labor questions is ex pected to lead to a general improve I ment of labor conditions throughout the world. ) •? ;■*.
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