g TM-CITY DAILY GAXETTE
^ I.EAKSMLLE. N- C.
Successors to The Leaksville Gaaatte
Established in 1880.
the gazette printing CO..
Incorporated, Publishers
MURDOCH E. MURRAY, EDITOR
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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at Postoffice. Leaksville, N. C. .
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The Tri-City Daily Gasette’s iw
mediate territory includes Leaks
ville, Spray, Draper and all Leaks
ville township, equal to • city popu
lotion of 17,000.
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1924
HOUSEKEEPING IN WORDS
“IIow do you keep your wordhous.
in order?" we asked Dr. Frank H.
Vizetelly, Managing Editor of the
New Standard Dictionary, which p<.
sition he has occupied with distinction
for thirty-five yean.
“Well.” he answered, “you know
the housekeeper’s job never ends. It
goes on incessantly twice around the
c*!ock for twenty-four hours, and then
it begins again. The modern dictionary |
maker's job ig just the same.
“Prom morning sunrise to the daw
of the next day words pour in upon
him and have to be identified, sorted,
dusted and classified, just exactly the
same as plates on a shelf or other
knickknacks in a home.
“you see, people make the language
and somewhere in the English-speak
ing world at some time or another, a3
the clock ticks off the minutes, som.
one is coining a new word or giving
a new meaning to an old one.
“There is a wizardry of words as
well as of magic. As Houdini hat
pointed out, some of our miracle,
mongers have introduced new words
into the puzzledom of life,
“The marvel worker is creating
new words and new terms every day.
The politician coins fresh political
phrases for every new campaign. Al
ready ‘mire’ and ‘slime’ have takei.
the place of ‘muck’ and ‘muck-rak
er.’ ‘Oil’ has been given a new sense,
and the lid is off the Dome of the
Teapot, yet we are scarcely on our
way.
“Maybe you doubt all this. Wei', it
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does one good to know that there’s
still a Thomas around. Read the front
page of your morning paper, and af
ter you have scanned the horrtfu
scareheads, you will appreciate the
fact that ‘the war Is on.’
"But, the word.wisard is a creature
full of cunning. Some of them dig out
the dry bones of dead words and try
to impart life to them. Gaynor loved
‘spissitude’ that had been obsolete ftw
years; ‘desuetude’ slept soundly unti
Cleveland dug it out; ‘covinous’ which
was recently used for ‘collusive,’ is
from ‘covin’ a term in law designat
ing a secret agreement to defraud or
injure another. Where the public
knows the words ‘fraudulent’ and ‘col
lusive’ not one man >n ten is famil
ar with the term ‘covinous.’
“As every new word pops into us>
it must be analysed, pasteurised, cer
tified and if proved sound, given
p ace in the dictionary. The duty of
the modern lexicographer is to help
the English-speaking world to use
‘he right word in the right place with
‘he right meaning, and to see that 'ti
's correctly spelled and pronounced.
Yet, withal, Dr. Visetelly insists
hrt the dictionary editor is not in_
fallible and that his work is a mere
reflex of that supreme counr of lan
ruaKe, Vox Populi—the Voice of the
People.
“It is said,” Dr. Visetelly c-n 1
ted, “that Noah Webster was given
o going about the printing offices
md schoolrooms urging every one to
pell as he spelled and pronounce as
He pronounced. This was an act of
mere egotism equalled by John Wes
'ey who unblushingly assured his pub
ic that his dictionary was the best
published.
“A dictionary is not only a book of
rfeord of the words as used in our
iwn times, and in the literature and
speech that has gone before us; it is
a mirror of the best usage of its time
organized and standardized and so
efficiently -engineered that it reflects
as smoothly as a polished glass.
“In the making of the tSandard
Dictionary which contains nearly
dOO.OOO words, an army of o.UUU per.
sons shared the task. It took four
years f°r our editors to collect the
material.
"After this colossal original task,
a corps of readers scour the printed
pages of th» press—newspapers, mag
azines, books, every medium where
original' thought is expressed in type
—on a continuous search for nek
words, Idioms, and figurative phrases.
“The days of a one man book have
long since passed. The range of hu
man knowledge is too vast to b%
.•-rasped accurately and completely
by one mind. Experts are necessary to
secure correct definitions of almost
every new word, for the dictionary is
the court of last resort on the mean
ings of words and can be supreme au
thority only when it contains a com.
plete and authentic record of the
language.
“As for our speech, it ;s like the
earth; it never stands still. Every
<"ay in every way it is getting greater
and greater.”
Read Your County's Daily Paper First.
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
Imperial Trust and Savins Co.
at Spray, N. C., in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business, on
March 31st, 1924.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts . $131,297.13
Demand Loans . 1,900.00
Overdrafts unsecured, $405.20 . 405.20
United States Bonds and Liberty Bonds .. 14,230.22
All other Stocks, Bonds and Mortgages ... 1,930.00
Banking House; Furniture and Fixtures $5,239.16 . 5,239.16
All other real estate owned . 100.00
Cash in vault and net amount due from Banks, Bankers
and Trust Companies . 46,818.55
Checks for clearing .... ... 2,364.36
Revenue Stamps . 10.00
Total ...‘ I804J06.12
LIABILITIES
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State of North Carolina—County of Rockingham. t
I, Ja*. T. Smith, Treasurer of the above named Batik, do solemnly sweat
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
JASl T. SMITH, Treasurer
CORRECT— ATTEST
A. W. TUTTLE _
E. E. EMERSON
. . ” . R. E. WALL,Director*
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