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• False Reports
We were talking one evening
about the World War and a gen
tleman who nad been a very gal
lant officer in it asked if we re
membered the dispatch in the
new*p«tpers of those days about
the bombing of Metz.
Our friend said that after the
Armistice he was one of the
. American officers sent forward to
occupy Metz. Having read so
much about the destruction of
the depot he headed straight for
It expecting to find it pulverized.
• TO his surprise it seemed in near
ly perfect condition.
I was interested In his reference
to those false dispatches. Last
year in the "Remember Columns"
which some newspaper printed I
reread the headlines of the first
six months of the war. What
weird reading they make now!
Stories of Allied success, and of
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German failure and German atro
cities.
Attempt to dignify it as you
will as "propaganda" it remains
unholy and loathsome. The mili
tarists say that no war has ever
been prevented by lack of re
sources with which to wage it.
Men always have fought and al
ways will fight, they argue, and
they contend without money,
without ships, without guns. This
may be true, though personally I
doubt it. But one thing is sure.
Men cannot fight without hate.
And you can't build hate without
lies.
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• . . . Something Will Happen
A man whose son graduates
from college in June was asking
what I thought about a post grad
uate course in the Harvard Busi
ness School.
"I don't assume any school can
teach a boy how to succeed," he
said. "What I want is to have my
son learn something about Ithe
history of business."
He proceeded to illustrate from
his own experience. Until 1904 he
was a newspaper reporter, but
that year he took a job with the
manufacturing concern of which
he is now the head.
In 1907, when he was just be
ginning to get under way, along
came a panic.
"We cleared away the wreck
age and started again," he said,
"but in 1910 there was a strike
which tied up our plants, de-
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stroyed part of our property and
disrupted our trade.
"Suddenly the war, and the
slump vat, transformed into a
boom. But don't imagine the
boom was any picnic. To be sure,
orders rolled in from every side,
but prices of raw material sky
rocketed. 'our capital was lim
ited and I wore out my shoes and
got gray headed borrowing mon
ey from one bank to pay back an
other.
"Then the war ended, and we
took an awful beating in our in
ventory. Then the 1920-22 de
pression. Then . another boom.
And another depression.
"It would be advantageous to
my boy, I believe, if he were fa
miliar with this sequence of
events, if he knew the ups and
downs not only of modem busi
ness but of business through the
ages. Maybe he would come into
life without the illusion which
has handicapped so many of us—
that there is any such thing as
'normal' in the sense of perman
ently settled conditions and un
interrupted progress."
• • •
* . . . Human Nature Improves
I have a vivid memory of a
certain Sunday morning when I
was seven years old. My father,
a clergyman, had never purchas
ed a Sunday newspaper. On this
particular morning he came down
to breakfast looking deeply con
cerned, and said to Mother: "I
feel today that I must know the
news before I go into the pulpit."
The news that he felt he must
know was about the railroad
strike in Chicago, where men
were killing each other, and
Grover Cleveland had ordered out
the Pedeal troops.
We have made a lot of progress
in the intervening years.
A wise old professor in my col
lege used to quote the following
verse from the Psalms: "What Is
man that thou are mindful of
him? or the son of man that thou
visitest him?"
Most people, he said, Interpret
that to mean: "What does petty,
futile man amount to, that you
(God) should give him any
thought?"
A better interpretation, the pro
fessor argued, is this: "What a
wonderful creature man must be
that even God is mindful of him
and likes to visit him."
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* . . The Competent Are Eare
An important New Yorker call
ed me up to ask about two doc
tors who run a clinic in a little
town in Canada. He knew I had
visited them some years ago and
that they did me much good.
I described them to him in the
words of one of their patients.
"They are human ferrets," I said.
"They seem to be able to discover
and correct conditions where even
specialists have failed."
The man went up to the clinic
and stayed three weeks. Yester
day he telephoned me to say that
he had not felt so well In years.
He was so enthusiastic that I
could hardly get him off the
phone.
I sent another man up to Bill
Brown's health farm opposite
West Point. The man is vice
president of a business that has
had plenty of problems. He was
nervous and discouraged. He
came back from Bill's on top of
the world.
I referred a friend to an archi
tect who has done some very clev
er work for us on our country
house. My friend was delighted.
The doctors write me letters of
thanks. So does Bill. So cloes
the architect. They thing I have
done them a friendly service. I
reply that, on the contrary, the
obligation is entirely on my part.
They have given me one of the
best pleasures in life, the pleasure
of recommending someone who is
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RUSK |
Mr. and Mrs. L. White of New
York City spent several days here
the latter part of the week. They
were accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Kelley and small
son, Thomas, Jr.
Mrs. White, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly
and small son, Thomas, returned
to New York City Monday.
M. L. White has purchased the
H. S. Olsen residence and expects
to remain here indefinitely. Mrs.
White expects to Join him in July.
Mrs. Edwin Lyons and small
daughter, Bonnie Marie, of Glade
Valley Is making an extended vis
it to Mrs. Lyons' parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Gilmer Corder.
Little Miss Mary Greenwood,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvy
Greenwood of Elkin, Route 1,
has been broadcasting from the
Winston-Salem station WSJS the
last two Mondays. Members of
her class, the 6th grade of the
Little Richmond consolidated
school, tuned In last Monday to
hear her dedicate a song to her
principal, Mr. J. Lee Thompson
and members of the 6th grade.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Martin of
High Point were Sunday guests
of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. White.
Mrs. C. E. Nichols, Miss Lucy
Nichols and Mrs. Fred Walker, all
of Mt. Airy, spent Sunday with
Mrs. Nichols* sister, Mrs. Amer
ica Butcher.
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Hill had
as their week-end guests the fol
lowing: Mr. and Mrs. John Van
hoy of Walkertcwn, Mrs. Edgar
Whitaker and children of Pilot
Mountain, Mrs. Lucy Fltechum,
Miss Mamie Flinchum, Mr. Ral
eigh Flinchum of Pilot Mountain
and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Peele of
Siloam.
Rev. A. B. Hayes of Mountain
View was the dinner guest of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Humphries Sun
day.
Mr. Cecil Collins, who has been
employed in Martinsville, Va., has
returned to spend the summer
with home folks at Zephyr.
Mrs. Lillie Burch, Mr. U. -V.
Burch and Master Jimmy Burch
spent Sunday near Boonville with
Mr. A. P. Woodruff and family.
Mrs. Leota Cockerham, Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Jenkins and Cleta,
Lorita and Leon Jenkins of
State Road were among the week
end visitors here.
Mrs. Lucy Cundiff of Elkin was
a visitor here Monday.
Rev. T. M. Chandler filled an
appointment at Swan Creek
church Sunday. He was accom
panied by Mr. and Mrs. Tommy
Chandler, David, Bennie and
Beulah Chandler.
R. F. Jenkins and W. R. Wil
moth attended the ball game at
Mt. Airy Sunday—Elkin and Mt.
Airy.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Gilliam and
small daughter, PeggjP Marie,
were here a short while, Wednes
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Coley Cockerham
and family and Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Hamby of State Road and
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Layne recent
ly of New York City but now of
Crutchfield, were Sunday guests
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Humphries.
Miss Mattie Ruth Wilmoth re
turned to Winston-Salem Sunday
after spending a vacation with
home folks here.
Miss Ethel Wood, student of
the School of Nurses, Burrus
Memorial Hospital, High Point,
spent Sunday here with her
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BUGABOO SCHOOL
A play, "Nobody's Darling" will
be presented in the auditorium of
Bugaboo school, two and one-half
miles north-west of Ronda, Sat
urday evening, April 24, by citi
zens of the Somers school com
munity. Proceeds of the play,
which has been successfully pre
sented once before by the same
cast, will go to Macedonia Bap
tist church.
The play, a comedy-drama, will
get under way at 8 o'clock. A
string band will be on hand as
an added attraction. The play
was produced under the direction
of C. R. Byrd, teacher of Somers
school. A nominal adinlssion fee
will be charged.
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CALLIE GRIFFIN, Plaintiff
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