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c The president of one of the country's largest corporations just made a speech here, and a lot of the newspaper ntqn around town are still chuckling about It. The executive addressed a large gather Ihg of yopng, ambitious people, and his subject was on how to become a success m this life. Naturally ne gave some examples from his own life and naturally he mentioned such things as hard work, persist ence, honesty and far-sightedness. There was only one thing he omit ted in his fine formula for success; he did not mention that along the way to the top of his company, he had married the daughter of the chief stockholder. ; : ^ Larry Nixon who passed away re cently was public relations direc tor of a big advertising agency here and at heart a newspaper man of the old school. He was crusty but kind, cared nothing for an elabor ate office, but preferred—and oc cupied—a tiny comer of one of the suites of the 9th Avenue office of his firm. He was modest but T did get him to reminisce one day of the time when he was an itinerant printer in Tennessee. He said he would just stay in one town until he got tired of It. thep move along. He worked in Sweetwater, Cleveland and Chattanooga, moved to larger papers, became an editorial man and then came to New York. Some how I don't think he ever had as much fun here In a big job as he did being around the good folks of smaller towns. Lots of people know about It, lots don't, but on East 54th Street is one of the festive spots of Gotham. It is called Bill's Oa^ Nineties and Its merry motif is that of yester i .. year. Out trout a major domo garb ed In Victorian dress greets guests with aU the fancy nourish attach ed to the Oiided Age. Inside flick ering "gas iights" hang over high whee! Mites buiit for two, white o!d, melodramatic Mli posters line the walls in coiorfui profusion. The food is not unusual but the music is. Barbershop quartets set off by handle bar mustaches vie with bux om belles intoning the melodies of those golden days, and one is soon convinced they were the "good cld days." Somebody hereabouts remarked that we are getting to be a nation of veterans, so I did a little check ing. Herewith the results: we now have roughly 1 1-2 million veter ans of the Korean War period, av erage age 26; 15 1-2 million World War II vets, averageing 34 years; 3 1-2 million World War I vets, av erage age 60; 95,000 Spanish-Amer ican War veterans, averaging 76 wears each; 295 Indian Wars vets, averaging 97 years old; and a handful of Civil War vets who have all about reached the century mark. Chauncey Depew, the famous Hew York attorney who became president of a great railroad was noted for his funny stories and moderate approach to amusements. He was a contradiction to those who advocate a lot of exercise to keep healthy and live a long life. He lived to be 94. One day he was asked what exercise he took &o keep him so sprightiy and he re plied: "The only exercise I have ever taken is to serve as pallbear er for my friends who exercised." Taking a stroll through the Bow ery and asking questions I learned that there is something new under the iower East Hide sun. There is now ciass distinction among the bums. Society has come to skid row. Firstly, strangers are not wel come here, especially well-fed look ing strangers. Highest class in the Bowery now are the pensioners who have a lit! e Income; neat are the small, wage earners who ply push carts scavenging the streets; below these are the alcoholics wno live Just from one drink to another, from one jail sentence to the next. Some Bowery bums reform, most do not. The most common character istic of- all types in this dim half world is the ability, I am told, to give glib emmses for their being there and to\blame their down and-out condition on some one else, a wife or former employer, the government, a war. a judge or mo ther-in-law — anyone but them selves. Edwin Knott Most To RA Members of Enon Edwin Knott was host to the W. D. Poe BA's of Enon Church at his home Sunday evening, July 19. The meeting was presided over by Edwin Knott, with Sam Daniel. Jr., presenting the program, "God at Work In Our Leprosy Colonies." Assisting' with Ore program were Jimmy Hester, Ronald Rice, James Dickerson, Dan Criteher, Durward Hester and Calvin Hester. After studying on the RA ranks, Mr. and Mrs. Knott served delicious refreshments to 19 members and one visitor, Nelson Pruitt. New members for this month are Wil liam Daniel and Ronald Rice. WOMAN'S PRISON "HEAD DISMISSED Ronie Sheffield, Raleigh career woman, has been fired as head of North Carolina's Woman's Pris on. Ivan D. Hinton, snperlnten dent of the camp at Caledonia Prison Farm, has been brought to Raieigh as her successor. The action Was taken by Prison Direc tor Walter Anderson at the di rection of Highway Commissioner Chairman A. H. Graham. Filing Cabinet! Storage Cabinet! Beak! Chair! Office TaMe: Book Case! Typewriter Papers Typewriter Ribbon: Adding M. Ribbon: Adding M. Paper Cash Reg. Paper Transfer Cases Waste Baskets Card Index Fifes Binders of a!) Kinds Ledgers MankBootof Loose Leaf Books Speed-O-Prints Letter Trays Carbon Papers Mimeograph Paper Mimeograph Stenci!; Mimeograph Mt Copy Paper Second Sheet; Exclusive Distributors Sossco Rubber Stamps. Seats and Supplies. W* have connections that assure you of the finest quality equipment at ^ prices that are as iow or lower than any you can , obtain ftom larger cities. See Us For Your Needs and Save Money PUBLiC LEDGER DIAL 3463 BROTHER JOMAS North Carolina's New Repub lican Congressman Findu that "Aimost Everyone Ta a Lobbyist" By CHARLES R JONAS When I was home recently tor a week-end. someone asked me it I was having any trouble with lobby ists. There seems to be some inter est in what a lobbyist looks like andj how he operates. < Since a lobbyist v: anybody who talks to a congressman tor purpose of encouraging him to TO for or against a bill, you would say with a, certain amount of truth that almost everybody is a lobbyist. Various Kinds MUt MM mna or toooytsr mum people are talking about la the pro fessional who gets paid for his work and who spends all or a great part of his time at the job of Influencing congressmen . ^ Aether kind of lobbyist la tn^ semi-professional whd represents organizations—civic, veterans, trade associations etc. Their interests are more general, their methods are less personal and (heir Contacts less frequent. They dp most Of their work by use of mimeographed let ters, bulletins, pamphlets and news letters. My mail is heavy, with tipi! material every day. < How They Work ' Then there are the non-profes sionals who paty their own way and are openly lobbying, pTrHag&'f# §h<^ first and last time hr thehr lives for some bill or resolution about which they have strong convictions. With all of. these lobbyists, suc cess often depends upon hqW strong an Impression they can thake upon the members of Congress, how much they can get individual Congress men to like them, and the finesse with which they go Wbout ihe(r work. It is seldom that a !oi i yist uses what might be called r fr <ntai approach. They usually employ more devious methods and often tmes you don't realize that you are being lobbied at the moment. Twain As Lobbyist The non-professional lobbyist: are often the most interesting and effective. Mark Twain proved to be one of the greatest iobbyists of them all. Mrs. Mary Martin Sloop was another useful and effective advocate of a cause in which ahe believed. It is said that Mark Twain cams to the Capitol one day td lobby for the copyright bill. He got permis sion to hoid court in a littie rooiti in the Capitol and sent word lot everybody in Congress to coma' to see him. Members flocked to the room and had a wonderful time lis tening to Twain's 2-day,.talkathon. He 4aiEdM^IH^itly gbbUta^y Jtifid of subp^ct under the sun'but some how wound up every story with a plug for his Mil. Wheth^ the o ed it Was due to' Twain or not, his bili passed. My guess is that his activi ty certainly did not impede its passage. S. j Mra.'sioop Too Mrs. Sloop was^an effective lob byist of the same\oA. among *he members of the Mswth Carolina General Assembly. In her recant book, "Miracle of the Hills,' writ ten in collaboration with Legctte Biythe, Mrs. Sloop said: 'u was in vited to come to Raleign for a meeting of the legislature--^ stay six weeks and work with the Good Roads Comittee of North Carnina to put through a bill'which would give us fifty million dollars with which to build roads, real roads. How we did work! Getting out let ters. writing questions td other states, doing everything we could to make that bill accepeable to the legislature. I talked to mountain representatives day in and day out to show them that it was a worth while bill and would mean more to them than tv any other people in the whole state. And to a man they voted Jor It! One mountain man even wanted to make It a hundred million. But they nearly moobea him when he suggested that!" Another lobbyist who wasn't so successful was Pierre L'Enfant. He was the man who drew up the plans for the city of Washington. He wandered through Capitol halls for years trying to get Congress to pay him what he considered was w just fee for his work—(30,000. Congress finally voted him about (2,000 but ht was so insulted he never claim ed the money and went off to die in poverty, or so Ore story goes (rere at the Capitol. How They Loo* As for how lobbyists took, they took exaytiy like other .peopie. Some times in their desire to be unosten tatious and agreeable, they make it hard for us to distinguish them from plain, ordinary people^ just talking and being nice. There is one interesting character roaming the halls and corridors of the Captitol who is alleged to be a 'lobbyist of some sort but whose lob bying interest remains somewhat a mystery. He has long gray hair fall ing down his back and gathered to gether with a rubber band in a subdued version of the horse tad hairdo." He has a full set of flow ing whiskers long enough to make another horsetail in front, but he just iets them blow. He always car ries a big brown envelope. He came by my office one day, but 1 was al ready late for a committee, meet ing and was hurrying out the door as he entered. I excused myself and he said he would see me later, but I do not think he has been* back. 1 have wished a number of times Mmt! Epd taken a moment or two to And out what he was after. The chiy thing I have been abie to find out about him is that he caiis him-1 seif "Oyeione." Perhaps he wai lobbying against the weather. TV Speeding Today's Youths to Maturity NEW YORK —Today's youngstepf mature more quickly because of.^tM evision, in the opinion of tester Band, president of the youth Re search-Institute. an agency that specializes in surveys of the young er set to detertpfne their buying habits, tastes ^*nd interests. "Our surveys show that the pre cocity youngsters who watched television (or the past three to five years is mueh greater than that of non-viewers," Band explained. Rand pointed out that, if other reason, the matwing pa is speeded by the kids eariy^am ing to imitate the stnging/Qancing, acting and speech of the TV per formers. He also bpMeves that TV viewing encourages youngsters 'o seek further pKMrmation. Rand sal# that aduits are pretty much aVthe mercy of their chiidren whqy it comes to choice of pro ggtfms in homes where there is on ly one television set. "Any parent may consider hlm seif iucky if he manages to view his choice when the youngsters want to watch something else," he raid. "Parents have come to ac cept philosophically the vexing habit that many youngsters have of switching channels without warn ing." Dnmk S*M w%)d Him Grabbing " COLUMBIA. 8. C—When is re sisting arrest not resisting arrest? When your pants are failing off. Acting City Recorder John W. 8hol enberger ruled in police court here. A man arrested on the State House grounds was charged with drunkenness and resisting arrest. The arresting officer testified ne told the man "several times'* to leave the grounds, then took him to headquarters when he sefused to do so. "I see the drunkenness," Sholep berger said, "but where does the re sisting arrest come in?" "When I arrested him," the offi cer explained, *'I grabbed him by the belt and tried to pull him. He wouldn't move." "Yes sir, your honor," the defen dant said, "but the reason I didn't move is what he he broke it. f was up." t7.M on but dismissed charge. American farmers, gardeners lawn-keepers used an aH-Hme ord quantity of 22.432.4H fertilizer in the 1651-32 crop i .441,024 tons more than the vious year. The V. S. production, carryover. . and imports of wheat this year add up to a total of 1.717.000000 bush eis. topping the 1943-43 record by 116000.000 bushels. "Theism —Samaei Davis DtarksviBa. Va. O20ea M M - OMJaJantRny Eafue* / MOTHER'S MAYONNAISE QUART JAR 45< HI-C ORANGE DRINK 46-OZ. CAN 23 RED BAND ^ FLOUR **° 89c GOLD LABEL TEA BAGS 39c CS GARDEN SWEET PEAS ,. 2 35c ^ * FLORJDAGOLD ORANGE JUICE ,^z.29c SEAMOOE FARMS RART GREEN LIMAS 25c SEABROOK FARMS SWEET PEAS ,Mz 19c SOMERDALE CUT BROCCOLI 2, SOMERDALE CUT CORN SOMERDALE CHOPPED SPINACH 2,^, SOMERDALE COT GREEN BEANS 2,^. REALCOLD LEMONADE iLnrvi. FRRMKS 45 J^cFtcww# #w#w€# jRtMgf JPrJcc## **# FVyer /%ees BUY THE P!ECES YOLR FAM!LY MKES BEST! BREAST L. 99c THIGHS L.. 89c LEGS L.. 69c WINGS L. 39c BACKS L, 19c Gizzards LB 35c TemJer SA*mMer-€wf Feaf CHOPS - 49. UNSEASONED BEEF, VEAL, AND PORK MEAT LOAF . 55. TRADE WINDS FRESH-FROZEN BREADED SHmMP - 75. ALL MEAT, SLICED OR BY THE PIECE BOLOGNA - 49. CHEF'S PRIDE FRESH-MADE COLE SLAW <A 25. FILLETS OF RED PERCH <K° 33. OLD vmGHMA PURE STRAWBERRY PRESERVES x 25c' OUR PRIDE PRESH, DELICIOUS ANGEL CAKE s 59c SOUTHERN "GOLD COLORED QUARTERS MARGARINE 2 - 45c RIC STAR COLORED MARGARINE 2 ^ 25c TONY BRAND BALANCED RATION DOG FOOD 2 ^ 19c SOFT AND ABSORBENT SOFTEX TISSUE 2 — 23c LOCAL WINNER OF CR06LEY AIR CONDITIONER Mrs. J. D. B?ink!ey 318 Spnng St. Oxford, N. C. lour 'Cim Loot) Bii! is Less when you !hop (S' COIOWIAL HOMS! HtLLSBORO STREET MAKE SUMMER MEALS EAST yet tops with the family! Get yo of Nancy Carter's timefy new r "Coo! Dishes for Hot Days" . . played on the market counter of Colonial Store. Colosua! brings PINEAPPLE Outstanding Vain.! BLEACH or ST QUART Bonn GOLDEN CO HNEAPPLE GARNER'S PURE DAMSON PRESERVES PRESTON EARLY JUNE SWEET PEAS WILSONS CORNED BEEF HASH WILSON'S SLICED DRIED BEEF p. s. A., i trim* LARGE CMS? TENDER CROOKNECE LARGE JUICY CALIF. SUNEIST LARGE ELBERTA CELERY SQUASH LEMONS PEACHES Mote ^ FIorM* Lime Ma7 FLORIDA LIMES 6 - 25c SEE RECIFE BELOW
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