By Arthur Brisbane
ABOUT l.fMMl CANDEDATES.
"VENCANCE ES HEINE.
COPPER NEEDS SAI.ESHEEN.
PORI). NOT ENTEilEEESTING.
EP DAUGHERTY TALKED
How many sturdy Americans will- j
ing to serve their country are now ;
planning to be President, do you j
suppose? There was a general fee!- !
ing that McAdoc had the Democratic }
nomination unless Ai Smith could !
get it away from him. It seemed ;
certain that Mr. Coolidge led the
Republican nomination by an over
whelming majority on the first bal
iot. j
But a little oil maxes a great dif
ference in the political situation, and ,
now anybody has a right to hope. i
Many an ambitious American is {
ppending his dollars now, handing }
them to "politicai experts" in re- ;
turn for Presidential promises.
There are probably at the least ;
one thousand "serious" candidates ;
at this moment. . j
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Friendly warning to be big men in- j
elined to injure business and scare
the Senate Oil investigation.
DON'T DO IT.
It won't pay you in the long run,
and, besides, it is written, Dearly
beloved, avenge not yourselves
* * * vengeance is Mine, I will re
pay, saith the Lord."
Public officials have had a warn
ing, learned a lesson. Pome will
get more than a lesson. Valuable
truths have come out; others are
coming.
On the whole it's a small thing,
which really doesn't amount to
much more than catching little
Willie telling a fib. No reason for
breaking up the family. Send
Willie to bed and let business so on.
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' Another copper concern, the In- j
spiraticn Copper Company, fol-i
lowed the example of the big Ana- ;
conda, and shipped its dividend.)
That means bad salesmanship and
not enough advertising. If the j
copper men would explain, through !
advertising in plain language, what
copper means and what it SAVES
in building, no company able to
produce copper at 20 cents a pound,
or better need lack business.
The Ho ne at last will take up
Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals offer, i
It seems hard to get anything mov- j
ing when ?.o gentleman "on the in- :
side" is tt get any money in a
satchel or any "loan" from a friend )
Ford ore.H millions to the Gov-[
ernment, cmap fertilizer to the
farmers a r. most important, dem
onstration m the use that can be
made cf ter power. Dut that
isn't enough to interest gentiemen
accuct.omcc to "private talks," "pri
vate codes' and "private financial
arrangements."
Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury, says the national debt
has been . reduced $933,000,000 in
the last y< ar, and four thousand
eight hundred miiiions in four and
a half years. Your glorious coun
try now owes $21,781,900,852. It
takes a big and prosperous country
to owe as much as that. And while
we ought to pay off rapidly, we^
COULD owe five times that amount,
and more, too, and not be bankrupt.
Men ar.d women with more self
COnfidence than intelligence intend
to produce in New York a play,
'All God's Chillun Got Wings."
In this play a white woman falls
in love with a r.egor, marries him,
and, kneeling before him, kisses
the negro's hand. A full-blooded
negro of unusual intelligence will
play one part, a white woman will
play the other.
There eis parhaps no law that
can stop this foolishness, but com
mon intelligence and decancy should
(Stop it, IF ONLY FOR THE SAKE
OF THE NEGRO RACE.
The dullest mind connected with
that theatre must know that to ;
Bhow a white woman falling on her
knees and kising a negro's hand is
a bad thing for the colored people,
Of whome there are tens of thousands
in New York—to say nothing of
millions elsewhere.
Attorney General Daugherty de
clares that "if some Senators do
not resign he,Daugherty, will cause
Bonae splash."
Mr. Daugherty knows the diference i
between a "splash" and a little ripple
The people will watch for the splash I
With interest. The Attorney Gen j
Oral could reveal more about the
real character of certain officials !
than half a dozen oil investigations, j
[He knows what senators and others
! are trying to shield, and whom the^
seek to prosecute.
Publication of Mr. Daugherty's
private information would cause a
"splash" indeed.
There is even worse news about
whales than about bees. Whales
are not coming up from the South
Pole as they used to come, offer
ing oil from blubber, whalebone
from their mouths, and proof of
evolution, in the two little hip bones
concealed in their fat carcasses—
although they no longer use the
legs to which those hip bones were
once attached.
The whalebone doesn't matter,
for ladies now go loose around the
waist, as a rule. But the whaling
industry is in bad shape.
t —A flat pocketbook and a flat
, tire are about the worst combination.
—Listen to only one knocker—
Opportunity.
I -
j —It costs more than double to
! live a double life.
—Some people have made a decid
! ed success in life by attending to
! their own business.
NOTICE **
I hereby forbid anyone to hire or
harbor one Jack Thomas, colored,
who left my employ without cause on
Saturday, Feb. 23. Any one who
harbors him will be prosecuted.
A. L. CLAYTON,
Route 1, Moriah, N. C.
3-4-2tx
This is the story of Rose W.
Smith and her husband, George,
who arrived .at that point in life
when something radical had to be
done to provide a living for three
children and their dependent aged j
mothers. They owned a small farm
near Lexington, Mass., but taxes
were hi^h and the farm so un
developed that it was a burden
rather than an asset. George was
employed as a clerk in a Boston
broker's office at small pay, and
his wife, Rose, was in failing
health.
Sitting on the back porch one
afternoon, Mrs. Smith noticed
scores of golden butterflies flitting
over a garden patch. An idea
came to her that butterfly wings
when arranged artistically under
glass in the fofm of watch pen
dants, trays, glass covers to toilet
articles and the like would be novel
and beautiful, and straightway she
set forth to capture butterflies. Be
fore sundown she had fifty of them,
of all colors and hues. The bodies
she cast away, substituting ones of
pasteboard. The following day an
abandoned room had been turned
into a studio.
A trip to manufacturers in Bos
ton, Taunton and Brattleboro con
vinced her that jobbers would
"take on" butterfly novelties as a
side line. She learned, too, that a
great variety of exquisite butter
mes could be purchaser) r.
York collectors at smaH
saved her the dailv
Aelds. AH that w^s ten v
The abandoned room haf ^
way to a $7,000 modern'
They own and operate hvn
stores; one in L^i^for and^"^
other m Arlington. Thrr
two score clerks. Thev
farm and numer.ns c.t'tag, "
tam two expensive ;nr,
employ trained nurses to
their aged parents. ^end
A simple beginning- hut -
ending. ^ ^ e, great
Everybody wants to take the short cut across the
' open lot instead of walking around it.
These days of hustle and bustle see such a demand for
short cuts that owners of lots in populous districts have
to put up a warning, "Keep Off the Grass!" Perhaps
they even feel impelled to add a hint that the strong
arm of the law is behind their admonishment.
But there's one short cut you are invited to take. This
is the path through THE PUBLIC LEDGER Classified
, Columns—the short cut to Prosperity!
People who have helpful offers, are continually mak
ing two blades of opportunity news grow where there
was but one before. These are Classified Ads with
"signs" which give additional assistance in reaching
^ Prosperity.
' Don't neglect the opportunities which are growing
under your feet. The invitation is "Come On" instead
of "Keep Off."
Oxford PuMic Ledger
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