! Turpentine Drippings —jj— Complied By Bill’Sharpe THE STORM (Dave West, Coastland Times) Watching the great combers brawl in over the shoals—their crests hurled into spindrift by the lashing wind, and with hunching and leading waves behind them crashing toward shore as far as the eye can reach—is an excellent wav for anyone to measure his own significance: makes you fee! like saying "Pardon me" and stepping humbly out of the way of a dime-sized sand crab. LIFE (Waynesville Mountaineer) Life is a constant process of keeping your finger to the pulse, your eye on the ball, your nose to the grindstone, your ear to the ground, your tongue in your cheek. And once in a while it’s necessary to get your dander up and put your foot down. THE LOST CHORD (Southern Pines Pilot) Our friend P P. Pelton turned over to us a little souvenir he picked up some time ago in the Seaboard passenger station He found it amusing, and so did we, though we can't help wondering— did the husband for whom this message was obviously intended ever to receive it0 Did the wife forget to leave it in a eonspicious place at home, then lose it at the station—or did she hand it to him as she boarded the train, and did he, the heel, toss it aside? Or maybe, as soon as she had left, he left too—on a train going in the opposite direction. Anyway—here's the message, printed in big penciled capitals: "FOOD WILL BE FOUND IN GREENCABINET AND ICEBOX PLEASE DO YOUR OWN K P. . . . USE DISH TOWELS FOR DISHES ONLY . WHEN THAT THE ICEBOX DOOR IS CLOSED, AND THE STOVE UN ITS TURNED OFF . THANK YOU!” We think that message ricseiv rd a better fate. TOO LIGHT (Stanly News & Press) The law has never put speeding in the properly category, for it had, there would be less speeding and less traffic deaths. During the first nine months of this year, a total of 17,195 persons were con victed of speeding in this state. That sounds like a lot of con victions, but let s break it down. It means an average of 172 per county in this state, and an aver age per county of 19 per month, or about two-thirds of an arrest per day. Boiled down to the essentials, the truth is that not enough folks I arc being arrested for speeding, and the punishment after convic i tion is apparently too light. NOT SO HOPEH I (Moore County News) If the Young Democrats can I ma’te even a dent in the common 1 practices now in vogue they will have performed a great service and we hope they can. As to their i desire that campaign utterances land writings shall be fair and reason and an appeal to the ! intellect rather than the emotions and prejudices, we cannot see that there is any hope wdiat ever. We know of few men in public life today whose speeches rise above the slop and dregs of cheap emotion. NOW, GIRLS! GIRLS! (Sanford Herald) Last week we called Mrs. W. W Robards to ask her for a re port on the Sanford Literary club meeting. “Let me see,” Mrs. Robards hes itated, “Who did we meet with?” She paused for several moments, and then added, "I declare I can't think to save my life where we met. Just a minute, Mrs. C. M. Reeves, is here. Let me ask her.” When Mis Robards came to the phone she was laughing heart lily. "Why the club met with me." she declared. THIS SMOKING WORLD (Zebulon Record) How many brands of cigarettes can you count that are manufac tured ui North Carolina? Try it, land then check your answer by j this list, which we lifted from the E. S. C, Quarterly. There may be more, but on the Quarterly cover were pictured Lord Salisbury, Cavalier, Pall Mali, Lucky Strike, Camel, Chesterfield, Fatima, Her bert Tareyton, M. Medaehrina & Co, "111,” Coupon, Sweet Capo ral, Omar. Johnnie Walker, Pied ! mont, Home Run, Picayone, and Janet Leigh and Paul Douglas are the stars of "Angels <n the Out field " M-Ci-M’s warmly human comedy-drama concerning the ro mance of a meek household hints editor and a tough big-league base ball manager. ’The new picture, produced and directed by Clarence Brown, opens Sunday at the Viccar Theatre. Sovereign. That's eighteen. IT C AN HAPPEN (Statesville Record) Children of parents who are in accord, Di. Johnson said, arc much more likely to develop emo tional stability than in situations where one parent is right and the other wrong. We were trying to get that idea across to our young daughter who at times accused her parents of "ganging up" on her. And we thought we were doing pretty well until she came up with this ob servation. "I know, daddy, but what hap pens when both parents are in accord—and both wrong?” Take it away, Dr. Johnson. SIGNALS MIXED (Waynesvilie Mountaineer) All this uproar about football is a disgrace,” remarked a well dressed man to his sidewalk com panion. ‘You’re right,” agreed the gen tleman with glasses. "The way colleges commercial ize it is disgraceful." "Right again," his friend agreed. "And the idea of all these peo ple going out to see a bunch of high school kids play -why it s ' silly on the face of it .” “Right." Then eame a few moments of talk about the weather and the conversation was concluded with. "Well, see you at the game to night.' said the first speaker. “Right," agreed the second. NOT EXACTLY (Sam Ragan, News and Observer) Every newspaper reporter gets the word "accuracy" drummed in to his head day after day One story along that line which we like concerns the young lady just out ol journalism school who won some praise for her first story. The editor, however, pointed out some inahcui acies "Remember," he said, * it was Joseph Pulitzer who declared that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.” "That in itself is not entirely accurate." said the girl, “a newspaper can alwys print a retraction.” Anti-Freeze Sup/tly This II inter II ill lie Sufficient The National Production An i thorite- reports that a survey shows an adequate supply of anti | freeze for motorists this winter, I despite increased military de Inlands Well over 100,000,000 gal j Ions have been produced, which j is more than two gallons for each I vehicle m the nation. Ways To Combat Nervousness Are Briefly Outlined j Psychiatrist Offers Ten Suggestions To Head Off Nervous Breakdown “Nervous breakdown" is not a scientific term but it does express picturesquely those conditions of the mind that made us touchy, ir ritable, cantankerous, fearful, de spondent. suspicious. n'aUiona! and very unhappy. WWen personality wallows in the sea of life like a ship with a broken rud der. An able psychiatrist suRgests ways to avoid a nervous break down." 1. Neither run away from your emotions nor try to fight them. As till' word applies, "E-motion" generates "motion" or bodily ac tion of many kinds, including at titude and mood. Emotions are like spirited horses left to them selves they run wild. Hut they can, within wide limits, be con trolled by the will. You eannot safely suppress them but your will can guide them in the direc tion you choose. 2. Be efficient in what you do. That means doing things with .just the right amount of effort needed to get the results you desire. You can drive a tack with a sledge hammer, hut that is fatiguing there's a better, easier way. Watch a lumber jack c‘ work— | with easy, well-aimed strokes he fells the mighty oak, and he is the picture of grace while doing it. 3. Do one thing at a time It may be dramatic to answer twi phone calls al once, meanwhih • A WREATH FROM IRAN'S PREMIER ESCORTED BY HIS SON, Dr. C.holam, Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossa degh places a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. While discussing the Iran oil crisis. Mossadegh has been under medical treatment (International) I wallowing in a son of disorderly j papers and waving directions to | the stenographer; but it isn't in Indigent. Fix your attention on one tiling at a time. Mental eon eentration is tin- art of gently' I culling from the stream of | thought that which has meaning I at the moment, and ignoring till I else You'll get around to other I . j important items later. t. Make clean-cut, practical de risions. The first step in making a derision is to state the problem clearly Free that problem from all prejudices, all irrelevanetes. look at it cooly. just as the ento mologist examines a new beetle he has found. And when you have made your division do not regarc it as an oath you have sworn in blood Decision must not, of course, be changed at the slight est whim, tutt they should lie sub jeet to change '-.hen new facts ot slants are brought to bear on the problem. That, bv the way. ex plains ’the difference between firmness and stubbornness. Once a mule has made up his mind, neither Socrates nor Salome will budge him. 5 Do not accept hurry as a ne ce.-sary part of modern life. Hur ry isn't speed The whole world may seem to be in a mad rush but that is largely foam and froth. Hurry usually means lack of fore sight, poor planning, postponc rru .it of what should have been done earlier. Sometimes hurry is the result of trying to crowd two or more things into the space of one. Take it easy. Hurry de strnys the quality of work anti ■wears vo<4 out (i Avoid •« orry. Ease ad vice *. can it be done? Not always, peihaps, but there is a I wav of tackling worry. Consider : first if the problem at hand is I actually your business. That will I eliminate some sources of worry. Ilf it is, decide next whether it is your won y now. It may be a ! bridge to be crossed when you get to it If it is your business now, decide what to do and do it at once That will break the circle in your mind. Don t postpone ac tion even if it is unpleasant. If you cannot decide what to do now, seek the knowledge ncccs sary to decide and again, don t wait, seek it now. 7, Keep work, play, and rest in •heir proper relative proportions: and keep them separated. Each item has its values—too much of one unbalances the whole. 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