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A Colyum
Of Thoughts
From Here
There, Yonder
(By W. BRODIE JO:ES)
Daily one comes in contact,' with tut
philosophy of deferred, happiness.
"Oh, yes," one will say, ."I am after
money today, - happiness will come
then and I will truly live."
What an erroneous doctrine! The
path of history is replete with its. fol
ly ; ' that happiness -is a product of
wealth, that joy and contentment are
the reward of material possession is a
delusion and a mirage proven by daily
experience.
Live from day to day to find the
ic'eal of existence, nor does this imply
living from hand to mouth, but Yes
terday is in the lap of Time, Tomor
row in the atmosphere of promise and
only today opens a road of new vistas,
a new period of life, free and untram
meled, upon which you may go forth
and conquer.
And that is a day's task, not to b3
dimmed by the shadow of yesterday
nor beclouded by the uncertainty of
tomorrow.
Live well today, for the present is
alone the hour of accomplishment.
"Three facts are essential for com
munity improvement facts, funds,
and team play." .
"Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for granted,
nor to find talk and discourse, but to
weigh and consider." Francis Bacon.
F. M. "I am going to send an in
vitation, by heck."
L. W. 44Oh, no. I'd send it by
Uncle Sam." Ex;
Every good and commanding move
ment in the annals of the world is
the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing
great was ever accomplished without
it. Emerson.
"The world generally gives its ad
miration not to the man who does what
nobody else ever attempts to do, but
to the man who does best what the
multitudes do well."- Macaulay.
Not Well Versed
S. S,- to Mr. B. on history of music
class "Was Hans Sachs a baritone?"
-VIr. B. "No, he was a German."
The Carolinian.-
Flowery Beds of Ease.
Mrs. Hall "Tennyson wrote very
realistic discriptions;' for example, in
his 'Break, Break, Break,' he makes us.
feel just as he did when he sat on the
ocean." Clipping. ,
"Truth, indeed, is single,, but opin
ions are infinitely various."
And so upon this wise I prayed
Great Spirits, give to me
A heaven not so large as yours,
Out large enough for me.
' Emily Dickinson.
M. L. "Is that your hew eoat?"
M. W. "Oh", no, it belongs to a girl
across the hall."
M. '"L. "Permiscious borrowing,
eh?" .
M. W. "Why, no. I asked her if I
might wear it." -Selected.
Judge not; the workings of his heart
And of his brain thou canst not' see.
What seems in thy dull eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may be a scar
brought from some well-won field, ,
Where thou wouldst only faint and
yield.
' Anonymous.
Jesse Lee, the founder of Methodism
in New England, riding between Bos
ton and Lynn, was joined by two
young lawyers. Recognizing, by his
garb, that he was a Methodist circuit
n'der, they began a jocose and scoffing
conversation with him. One of them
said: "Do you not often make mis
takes, preaching without notes?"
"Yes, 1 do, I suppose." - "What do you
o in such cases; let them go?" "If
they are important, I correct them,
il not I let them pass. If,vfor in
stance, in quoting the text, "The Devil
is a liar," I should say the devil is a
lawyer, it would be so near the truth,
1 probably would let it pass!" The
other lawyer said : "You look like a
preacher, but I don't xknow whether
you are more a knave than a fooy'
Looking at the two. lawyers, on either
side, he replied: "Neither; I ..appear t
l,f just between the two." ' The law
ws hurried to meet an ensracrement.
Jay Benson Hamilton, in American
bv"ot,
SUNDAY SCHf OL DAY
At Jerusalem church next Sunday
ut 2:30 p. m.
C Pv.-PEBKINSON, Supt. I,
VOLUME XXV
A
is The Game You Are Daily
Playing Worth Its Cost
To You and Yours?
THE FOLLY OF EXPECT
ING JOY FROM WEALTH
What Men Who Have Made For
tunes Have To Say and Life's
Experiences Gathered From
.Source.
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(By B. C. Forbes)
How much do you earn?
The answer to that question is usual
ly given in dollars. But I don't mean
how much money, as money of itself
is dross, inert, useless. Money is only
a -means o an end happiness, health,
service, etc. .
How much hppiness do you earn
for others and yourself ? How much
enjoyment does your job yield you
and yield others? How much service
do you put into the world and what
dividends do you draw for it? .
Do yo.u make your life worth while
for yourself and others?
How many men I know who are
earning dollars aplenty, but who are
really earning little of what counts!
They are so overwhelmingly engross
ed in business that they "get nothing
from their dollars. Their life pays
neither them nor any one else divi
dends of .the right kind. The Jugger
naut of dollar-making has crushed out
f them every capacity for genuine
enjoyment, every grace, every unself
ish sentiment and instinct.
I asked a triple-expansion, busiest
of the busy financiers what possible
pleasure he got out of his life. He is
n the summery side of fifty, has been
signally "successfully,' is known all
over America and not unknown
abroad. He replied :
"I hope to be able to quit in a few
.aJrs--3.jir-?- r- '
"There is nothing in this sort, of
afe." He waved his hand across iris
desk, littered with letters, statements,
statistics, and pointed toward tha
small army of secretaries and under
secretaries he keeps busy.
"The game is not worth the candle
after you have 'got there' and have
all the money you can need."
Do you rememberI, of ten do that
teltphone wire that was trailed af tec
Edward H. Harriman, through the
Calif ornian woods, whether he went
in search of, rest, not long before he
died? And' do you recall that pathet
ic picture of the buzzing-buzzing tel
ephone above his. pillow as he lay on
his deathbed sinking toward the end?
And do you recollect how he pleaded,1
almost like a child, wih the photogra
phers not- to print pictures they snap
pedof him as he collapsed on the pier
,vhen he returned from his futile trip
f:o Europe? ' .
It was all so ghastly, so inhuman.
And, irony , of irony, when he passed
away, not a. ripple spread over the fi
iancial sea! Everything was as if he
iiad never been. The unhappy man
literally starved himself to death, did
aot give his body or mind a chance to
live. . -
The more one sees of -grand-scale
money-making the less respect one
has for those who let it devour them.
How impotent is it all! How bar
ren! How unsatisfying!
The dollar has been the yardstick
of American life heretofore. Is it to
be discarded? Is it being discarded
even now? Has it been found want
ing by those who cherished it most?
Is there a turning away. from sordid,
sterile dollar-making-at-any-price ?
Are some of our millifcnaires and" multi-millionaires
trying to rise to more
worth-while things ? Are they dispos
ed to pull their feet out of the lucre-
trough and devote some of their time j
and talents to living? ' j
It may be that I have a streak
the idealist, the dreamer, the seer of
visions. ..But I certainly believe that
in the highest financial circles among j
v,,iiJlioH millions there is!
Illl- J l !UUiVlvu
now traceable symptohs of regenera
tion,, of turning away from the mad
chase after Mammon, of a realization
that it availeth a man nothing if he
gains millions arid loses all that life
possessess. . .
Measured by life's real standards, by
the things that count, many of our up-to-the-neck,
' twenty-four hours-a day
slaves to business, earn precious little
in a year. ; ,
They earn - money., of course, but
"(Continued on fourth Page)
WHAT -0011!
DO YOU EARN?
S EM I - WE E W L Y NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO
AMERICA'S GREATEST
'. ; Vigorous, convincing
speakers with vital,
worth-while, entertaining
messages which make you
think. Your u
COMMUNITY
CHAUTAU
presents the foremdst scientists, travelers,
authors, orators men who know men who
bring to us in an interesting way ; ,
Inspiration and Education
Albert Edward Wiggam- : -
noted publicist and newspaper man, presents one
of his great lectures, "Forty Kinds of Fools" or
"How Eli Got There," -humorous and thoughtful
discourses on a subject which will be of interest
' ' . ..to all. . ' ' -f
Dr. J. .W. Skinner-- : .
authority on South America, off ers his interesting
illustrated lecture, "The Romance of South Amer
ican Enterprise," an evening devoted to the
wonder-story of a continent twice the size i of
Europe. ' , T . - '
Denton C. Crowl -
The Second Sam . Jones, with a great forceful
message entertaining: and instructive-r-radiat-ing
Americanism and truth. One of the greatest
- lecturers on the Chautauqua platform today.
Walter Kirkland Greene
noted southern orator and educator, in an ihspir-
; .ing lecture, The45ratfirEynd
BUY YOURSEASON TICKETS TODAY 1
Mrs. Howard F.
V
Jones Hostess
Mrs. Howard F. Jones was this
morning from ten to twelve hostess at
a bridge party in honor of Miss Eliza
beth Hunter, bride-to-be. The parlor
of her home on Sunshine Heierhts was
1 lovely in its decoration of crimson
rambler and the friends present en
joyed an interesting social period.
Delicious refreshments consisting of
cheese balls, fuit salad, sliced tongue,
hot biscuit and iced tea were daintily
and attractively served by Misses
Mary Burwell andyElla Brodie Jones.
The highest score was made; by Miss
Marie Stark, of Oxford and the
bride's prize was awarded Miss Hun-
ter by the hostess with' few welM
chosen words. The guests reluctantly
departed at the jaoon hour with many
expression of a pleasant occasion.
Mistakes and Come-backs.
When the plumber makes a mistake
he charges twice for it.
When a lawyer makes a mistake he
has a cahnce to try the case all ovei
again. ; -
When a carpenter makes a mistake
it's just what he expected.
When a doctor makes a mistake he J
buries it. "
. t
1 When a Dreacher makes a mistake!
nobody knows the difference.
But when an editor makes a mistake1
good night. Credited to The . Coun
try Press. -
E. L. GREEN THANKS VOTERS
To the Citizens of Warren county:
. I take this method of thanking the
citizens of Warren county for the sup
port given me! for sheriff although
defeated I consider it a victory for me
I entered this cmpaign without any
organization: I fought my fight single est score in the interesting bridge con
handed. I received a nice majority in test was made by Miss Lucy Burwell.
Warrenton, Six Pounoy and Fishing j Delicious neapolitan cream and cake
Creek townships which alone makes ' were served and much enjoyed,
me feel appreciative. I am grateful: -Those present and playing were:
to the -other townships which kindly ! Mrs. C. C. Hunter, Miss Rowe Jones,
felt disposed to srive me a share '.of i hospitable hostess. Misses Jennie Jef-
their- votes.
I am, as usual, 'ever ready to give
the citizens of Warren county what
ver protection it is in my power td ex
tend. , ' Cordially yours, - -
E. L. GREEN.
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RRENTON, N. Cl tJESIXATTJUNE . 8, 1920' vT" " .. . rr:
THE INTER ESTS OP WARRENTON AND WARkhN COUNTT
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XHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM
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Warrenton Loses
Game to Norlina
The Warrenton Sons of Promise
sadly out of practice and with drug
store kinks in their "joints lost by a
core' of 9 to 10 in a loosely played
game to the county aggregation repre
senting Norlina yesterday afternoon. ,
The Norlina team connected with
the horsehide as offered Jby Bennett
and coupled with some wild throws
by the Warrenton crowd Camped on
the big end of a five to nothing score
vhich could not Ibe overcome. A sev
enth inning rally by Warrenton, ably
backed f rom he sidelines by a bevy of
charming and interested' supporters,
almost turned the tide arid brought
the score to a close margin
Lynch for Norlina pitched a good
game. The Warrenton .team had no
member to shine in a stellar role. The
line up for Warrenton follows: Moore,
c: Bennett and Coleman, p.j'Falkener.
lb; Booth, 2b; Boyd, Eu: v. -lT.' r
Jones, ss; Macon, If; Bennett, u -well,
cf; Green, rf.
The next game is scheduled for Sat
urday afternoon against the Warren
Plains aggregation. 5
A Shower inHonor of
Miss Elizabeth Hunter
; The home of Mrs. Adele Jones, elab
orately and artistically decorated in
Dorothy Perkins roses, was last Thurs
day afternoon thescene of an enjoy
able shower and bridge party in honor
of Miss Elizabeth Hunter, Warrenton's
coming bride.
Hidden beneath a mass of roses was
.a table covered with -shower gifts each
i-i 1 1 i i : j i. i '
ui wnicii me nappy miue-iu-ue icceiv-
ed with expressed thanks.
The high-
f ress, Louise .Allen, Lucy and Edith
Burwell, Janet' Hall, Josie and Belle
Dameron, Susie Hill, Kate White Wil-
liams and Mamie Williams, Mesdmes!
J. G. Ellis, M. C. McGuire,-J. B. Boyce, 1
J?.'. W. H. Dameron, E. W. Baxter,
and Mrs. Adele Jones. '
Lectures 'PETI
QUA
WASHRAGS AND
Atlanta, Ga June 5. General- con
sternation seized members of the
Junior Red Cross of the Mooresville,
N. C, chapter recently when it was
discovered an error of billing had re
sulted in a switch in two shipments
sent out by the Juniors one to Eu
rope and one td the' government hos
pital for tubercular soldiers at Oteen,
NC. ' .' ' ' : : : ; .
In the shipment prepared for Europe
were -fifty rag dolls made by the boys
and . girls of the Mooreseville chapter
for their little friends acoss the se;v
the kiddies .of France and Belgium.
In the shipment intended for Oteen
were 252 washrags made by the
Juniors for use in the hospital.
. When it was learned ' that the dolls
had gone to Oteen and the washrags
were enroute for the othe'r, side, the J
secretary of the Mooresville chapter
immediately sat down and wrote an
apologetic lettei to the Red Gross di
rector at the hospital, expressing keen
regret for the error arid 'requesting
the return of. the dolls. V,
This was the answer she got:
"Return those dolls? Not for all
the washrags in- the world! In the
first place, 1 1 couldn't if I would, for
there's not a man of these 700 soldier
patients that wouldn't fight me to the
death if I tried to take away his doll.
And in the second place I wouldn't if
I could, for of all the things the Red
Cross ha? distributed; at Oteen, rtoth
ing has been such a regular hit as
those Mt rag dolls. The boys are
crazier; about 'em than a kid over his
fi'rst Christmas, and if you've got any
more,, cor neaven s saKe,, sena em:
. - J? 1 1 lit N
The secretary of the Mooresville":
chapter is : contenting herself now with
the fond hope that - the washrags will
make as big a hit in Belgium as the
dolls did at Oteen. v
a- L. Bobbin
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Does Good Work
Dr. S. L. Bobbitt, .dental inspector
of the State Board of Health, who is
conducting a two months campaign in
Warren to correct all remidiable teeth
defects of school' children between the
ages of eight and twelve inclusive,
completed a successful week's work
last Saturday at Norlina.
The reports shows that Dr. Bobbitt
examined 58 children, treated 55 and
found three who did not need anything.
Fifty teeth were extracted twenty-
nine children's teeth were cleaned,
ninety one cavaties were .filled, , and
eighteen other treatments .were made.
Thirteen were referred to private den
tists for further treatment. The total
cost from dental off ice J ampunted to
$336.50.
Appointments of Dr. Bobbitt will be
announced as they are made available
and it is being urged by the county
v.nd State that all children be shown
the ' advantage of this treatment and
urged by their parents to accept the
opportunity which is free at this time
to all War: 2n children between eight
.C. twelve.
i'RIMARY VOTE JUNE 5TH, 1920
Register of Deeds
J.rA. DOWTIN . r .
S. M. GARDNER. .
Sheriff
R. E. DAVIS
E. L. GREEN ' '
County -Commissioners
C. C. HUNTER
WALTER ALLEN
J. M. BURROUGHS
J. J. MYRICK
JOHN POWELL V -
714
618
853
447
1108
980
97&
962
791.
W. J. PINNELL . 713
H C. FLEMING 690
For Gpvernor
. O. MAX GARDNER
CAMERON MORRISON '
1 ROBERT N. PAGE-
ForrSenator 16th District
CVance and Warren)
R. S.-McCOIN
C. F. TANKERSLEY
541
485
315
606
300
' Demonstration Work'
FOR DEMONSTRATION 344
AGAINST DEM WORK 740
Candidates, for other .County of
fices not having opposition were not
voted for in the Primary. "'
The above is the official .vote. We
hope to give the vote by Precincts in
Friday's issue, but cannot dp so until
the official vote is filed by the"Elec- j
tion Board. :
Dr
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Labor Organized and Protected
Through Organization
And Cooperation
MIDDLE CLASS CATCH IT
FROM BOTH OF OTHER TVO
Writer Thinks Public Should Uj
Protected nd Organization To
Fight Other Organizations I ;
Practical.
. In all the strife of the. last three or
four years, in, in all the schemes for'
benefit of particular classes, who has
heard of anything being done for the
great middle class, from which hue
enme the greatest thinkers, statesmen
captains of industry, educators an i
Others who have done constructive
work for America from the Declara
tion of Independence down to the
present day?
. It . seems that labor is representrd
by 'a -lobby at Washington, Capitol :s
represented by its spokesmen,
women's suffrage is represented w
its advocates, other interests are rep
resented by their respective, if not re
spectful, adherents and all of them
have given vociferous expressions to
their views which would have drown
ed out the protest of th. middle ch.s
agait conditions, even if uch a pro
test had been-made.
Buffetted from pillar to post by the
Hgh cost of living, slapped on on
cheek by the profiteer and on the oth
er by the workiteer, they have silent
ly borne their burdens, bought their
share of Liberty Bonds, sent theii"
sons to the firing-line, their daugh
ters to the Red Cross hospitals, and.
uncomplaining performed their dut
as they conceived it, because they be
liyed,Jtha4duty is still; the sublim
est' word In the English language, the
same it was half a century ago when
the sentiment was voiced by the
South's gentlemanly leader of her lost
cause.".
This great class knows that the time
it out. of joint, that the present tur
moil is the aftermath of every great
war, but they have not lost their
sense of mental and moral propor
tions even if in. their finances they are
ground down by the economic situa
tion. Wih intellectual capacity and moral
perspective of .the highest order, with
a latent ability for organization not
yet expressed, all they need is organ
ization and a leader.
Capital has had its heyday; labor
has had its holiday. They have boih
drunk the cup of prosperity to the
dregs; let the middle class see to it
that the cup is not 'refilled at the ex
pense of further" suffering on the.r
part. The great American middiv
class does not. believe in Socialism,
Communism, Bolshevism, Syndicalism,
or any other "ism." All that they
sincerely believe in is good, old-fashioned
American Democracy, carriei
cut in the spirit of that famous and
uncompromising advocate of true D -mocracy
who vdiced the sentiment.
"Equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none."
It is high time that every class, in
eluding labor and capital, should rea
lize that on no other foundation can
a sound democracy exist. Merchants'
Jurnal and Commerce.
LOCAL MENTION
Tir. i a i j vi r
j hc aic pieuseu iu welcome 10 a. -
ty Health nurse under auspices of th
Red Cross and State Bord of Health..
She will inform the public of her plac .
within a few days.
Miss Lucile Windette, of the Coir
munity Chautauqua has arrived a.: ,
will remain thru the opening date.
Mrs. G. II. Macon and children ai '
spending the month of June in Marie :.
and Murrell Beach, S. C.
Mr. John H. Fleming paid our ofr;c
a pleasant call this week on business.
Mr. W. G. Powell, of Trenton, Li ..
pleasant visitor here,
Mr. John G. Ellis is attending tl.
bankers convention in Rocky Mount.
Mr. John Nicholson was in town th -week.
Saved
......
"We tried to buy some rope to haii
a profiteer." . , . -
"Well?"
"But the dealer wanted too much ft
it." Philadelphia Reformed Chuvc
'Messenger.