This is the story of Wiliiam Ben
pon Storey who started life at 1^5 in
1872, with a dollar bill, a suit of
Aum clothes, and a borrowed pick
and shovel, and who rose to the
presidency of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad after forty
years of struggle, poverty, crucify
ing hardship and ill health. His
aecret was in doing every job given
a littie better than he was ex
pected to do it.
From an obscure home of poverty in
i&iifornia he trudged into San
Francisco and went to work as a
Pake driver at $20 a month. He
vwked twelve hours a day—two
3nare than expected. At night he
afudied bv dn-korimr korosene lamp
in the company's shanty while other
rough workmeu hurried to dance
halls and saloons. To get rid of
him a foreman sent him into a
swamp to sound its depth figuring
he would be killed that way. In
stead he came back with a truthful
statement of facts. Five years later
he had the equivalent of a high
school training and three years after
that he graduated from a mining
and engineering college.
Step by step he climbed the un
certain ladder to success by never
being absent from work, never late,
always leaving after others quit,
and by doing each task given him
iust a Http- l etter than he was sup
He says: "I got on by putting one
foot ahead of the other slowly. and
by keeping everlastingly at it.'' He
never asked for a raise in his life
but forced raises in salary by show
ing the man above him that he could
do any job and do it well. He saved
every dollar he could lay his hands
on but was never stingy, and he had
the strange ability of making every
man working with him like him.
The money that he saved he in
vested in the company he worked
for and when the time came to
choose a president he was the
man
THE AYCOCK MONUMENT
Hnveiled in Raleigh As Tribute to the Education
al Governor.
(Raleigh Correspondent)
TRTe nnveiling of Gutzon Bor
s statue of Charles Brantley
Aycock and the exercises preceding
ceremony in the auditorium at
swan T&ursraw were full of the col
atr a great picture needs. Standing
otat ih the day's events were, off
TBMrse, great speeches by Dr. Edwin
A. Aledreman and Josephus Daniels,
awtstanding contemporaries of the
^educational governor, bu here and
tAtsre were insinuating impressions
aautribubting to an emotionalism
asM-pasing sweeping salvos of ap
#3 use.
The printed program was a mut
factor for the stars by the names of
WBiiam R. Allen, Thomas Walter
ZSe&ett, D. Y. Cooper, E. Car! Dun
and P. M. Pearsall reminnded
She great throng of representative !
Ter Heels of five notable contempo- !
tntMnes who fought with, for and j
^a^ainst the farmer lad from Wayne i
u^o ""cut up" Jo Daniels and be- !
head of his class in the Wil- j
-amt schools.
Dr. Alderman and Mr. Daniels
&rsw such pictures of Aycock as al
wwst enabled one to see the second =
great governors ambling along j
street and shaking hands with
"Turn Jones." There was a distinc
in the addreses of the two men
wet a striking agreement in the
mmttusfons of greatness. To Dr. !
Alderman he was a genius and a
;pBet but not a writer of verse; to
Daniels he was a super-crusad
er with a supreme vision of the wel- j
3kre of everyy human being and the !
e&atage to dare to provide a means !
^ar attaining it.
Into, this colorful picture of the '
3ay one could not overlook the fig- '
er? of Mr. Daniels, whose early ac- !
4P$a.mtance with Aycock and whose
.36HKn hattles besides him for his pol
icies are indelibly printed in the his-.
of North Carolina's struggle
as tof the abyss of ignorance and
prejudice. The "Martin street edi
was makinng his first appear
ance before a home audience since
nix name was first mentioned in con- :
ascuion with the presidency. The ;
uniience, recognizing him when he !
!Ba4-e his way onto the platform, !
isuppcessed an ovation but when, in '
j introducing him, Dr. Alderman de
clared that the "boiiing waters of
Teapot ome have not scalded his
name," the audience burst out of a
solemnity due the ceremonies and
applauded him generously.
There there was another Rgure in
; the picture. It was that of Dr.
James Yadkin Joyner, apointed by .
Governor Aycock early in his ad- !
ministration as state superintendent
of public instruction. Dr. Joyner
had been superintendent of schools
in Wayne when Aycock was Rghting
to turn back the black horde of ne
gro domination. To "do the work,"
RgHyatively speaking, Aycock sum
moned Joyner to his side and it was
this combination that made the rec
ord of a new School house for every
day of the Aycock administration—
a story that is now told wherever in
the United States a campaign against
darkness and ignorance is waged.
SL4RS 4M) VOrES
(Washington Post)
No comets being headed earth
ward and no eclipses being near on
the calendar, astrologers are now
turning to the next election as sub
ject of prophecy. Some are finding
the conjunction of stars and zodiacal
computations of signalling Democrat
ic victory, and others are reading the
signs as pointing to Republican
triumph.
Just at this stage the astrologers
are about the only class that claims
to know just how the lectorate cat
wil jump, and they know no more
this year than they havt known in
advance of other election years
which was nothing. Nobody really
knows or can know the event. It is
not by astrology, but by the senti
ment of the voters that the next elec
tion wil be determined, and that is
something that can not generally be
discounted so far in advance. That
is the benius of America, the inde
pendence of the tlectorate's judg
ment, its reservation of verdict until
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the pre-election record of the parties
is finished. Much water must yet
run under the poiiticai mil before ^
the majority of voters place their fa
vor. The vesting, but the latter,
would be made a very dreary' under- j
taking, indeed; in all likelihood by
the price cotton will be bringing
when harvest time comes if the rela
tion of quality production to demand
is not considered in time.
HER "SPIGOT-BIGOT
Miss Katherine Williams Wins
Prize.
When a prize wa sawarded to the
propounder of the word "scofflaw"
as a sobriquet for the person who
violates the Eighteenth Amendment,
the Harvard Advocate, a journal for
students, ofered a prize of $75 for a!
word to suit a prohibition fanatic.
The prize was won by Miss Katherine
Welling, with "spigot-bigot." She
donated it to the .Association pposed
to the Prohibition Amendment.
—It is curious that until Woodrw
Wilson was buried in the crypt of the
unfinished Episcopal Cathedral at
Washington no President of the
United States had ever been buried
at the national capital, just as npne
before Mr. Wilson hud made Wash
ington his home after leaving office.
—The New Government in Eng
land is establishing new social stan
dards. Invitations to an official
reception given recently by the wyifo
of a member of the new Labor Cabh
net informed the guests that they
might come in their working clothes
if they wished to. The reception
lasted only till half-past ten o'clock
In the evening; there were no intox
icants; and many of the guests ar
rived and departed by amnibus or
other public conveyance.
OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER
31.50 Per Year in Advance
(New
Just now the kettlp . ^
blamed for calling the
and say other meantMn^^
If you want Flowers of n,-.. .
for an occasions at an,
CALL mo.j
Mrs. A. H. Moore.
Fordjsoiv
fftis a Fordsom Year
OVER 300,000 W ME
More than 50 Satisfied Owners in GranviMe
County.
1. hat iiie Fordson has done for others it
wi!) do for you.
Buy new so that you wiii have the motor
"Broke In" before your heavy work begins.
We give an unconditional guarantee for 90
days on every Ford unit scfd by us.
Cooper Motor Company
OXFORD'S .4UrH0RJZED FORD DE.4EFR
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An<! !'o^
, ^ A goou stock or ong Room Suits.
in OverstMlfed; Cane Back Mahog
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^ Many odd pieces, such as End
I Tables, Console Tables and Mirrors;
t Davenport Tables, Library Tables,
Gateleg Tables, Windsor Rockers
* and chairs to match; odd ChiHo
[ ^ robes, Kitchen Cabinets, Breakfast
I Room Suits,, Springs and Mattres
[; ses, Iron Beds, etc.
Dining Room SuRs in Walnut,
which are all the go now, and they
are here ready for your inspection.
Bed Room Suits in Walnut, with
the Bowfoot Bed, Vanity Dresser,
3S well as the large high-base dress
er. Dressing tables and chairs to
natch each suit. Suits in 0!d Ivory
hat would please any young girt
A good stock of Rugs, Druggets,
Cxl2 size, arid rugs to match. Con
goleum Rugs in 9x12. Linoleum
in dilferent grades and patterns.
A big lot of Baby Carriages, Co
Carts, Push Carts in dilferent col
ors that will delight the little * Bine
eyed", to tiake a ride out into the
fresh air.
So the stack is here and the Spring Time is here, and we are here teady toshow you and heip voa make year selections Come w wi!i
try to please yo^, ' , * '
Yours truly,
FURRiFORE DEALERS.
Upchurch & Currin ^
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