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Dale Carnegie 5-Minute Biographies (rjk Author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People " Three Little Words — 4 Can You Cook?" Led Him to the Ends of the Earth Martin Johnson, who photo graphed thousands of lions in the wilds of Africa, killed only two. He told me that during twenty months of his last stay in Africa, he saw more lions than he had ever seen before; yet he never fired a gun once. In fact, he didn't even carry a gun. Some African explorers like to come back and tell about their blood-curdling experiences; but Martin Johnson believed that he or any other man who really knows the wild animals of Africa can walk from Cairo to the Cape armed with nothing more deadly than a' bamboo walking stick and never suffer any harm. Martin Johnson started roaming the world when he was fourteen years old. 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He was fascinated by the strange colorful names on the labels—Paris, Geneva, Barcelona, Budapest—and he determined to put the dust of those towns under his heel. So one day he ran away, tramped over the United States and finally shipped on a cattle boat to Europe. Landing in the old world, he worked at anything he could find, but he couldn't al ways find work. He went hungry in Brussels; in Brest, he stood gazing across the Atlantic, dis couraged, and homesick; and in London, he had to sleep in pack ing boxes. In order to get back to America and Kansas he hid himself as a stowaway in the life- THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA boat of a steamship bound for New York. Then something happened which changed the course of his whole existence and set him out on trails of glamorous adventure. An engineer on the boat showed him a magazine containing an ar ticle by Jack London. Jack Lon don in this article told how he In tended to make a trip around the world in a little thirty-foot boat called the Snark. As soon as Johnson arrived home in Independence, he wrote a letter to Jack London. He poured out his soul in eight feverish pages, and begged to go along on that trip. "I've already been abroad," he wrote "I started from Chicago with $5.50 in my pocket, and when I got back, I still had twenty-five cents." Two weeks passed—two weeks of nerve-wracking suspense. And then came a telegram from Jack London. It contained only three words —three words that changed Martin Johnson's life. "Can you cook?" the telegram inquired with telegraphic abruptness and brev ity. Could he cook? Why, he could n't even cook rice. But he wired back precisely three words—"Just try me"—then he went out and got himself a Job in the kitchen of a restaurant. And when the Snark finally sailed across the rippling waters in San Francisco bay, and nosed across the Pacific, Martin John- Back From Tour NEW YORK ... Dr. John R. Mott, religious leader and Presi dent of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian AssoCia | tions, returns from a survey tour of Europe, India and the Near East in the cause of World Chris s tianity. i - ; son was aboard as chief cook and bottle washer. Almost thirty happy years have passed since then—years packed with action, for Martin Johnson ; sailed the seven seas and roamed [ over the world from the coral is lands of the South Seas to the 1 jungles of dreary, darkest Africa. r He made the first pictures of can , nibals ever shown in this country, j He has photographed pigmies and giants, elephants and giraffes, and made pictures of all the wild ! life in the African veldt. He has brought back a whole Noah's Ark of fantastic creatures—brought back spools of celluloid film that have been shown upon thousands of moving picture screens. He has captured an imperishable record of a perishing wild animal life— a photographic record that your great grandchildren may enjoy generations from now, when the many wild animals of Africa no longer exist. 'Martin Johnson told me that a well-fed lion that has never been molested by man will pay no at tention whatever to the scent of a human being. He has driven his automobile into the midst of a bunch of fifteen lions and the lions just lay there and blinked like pussy cats. One lion even came over and started to chew the front tire. Another time he drove his car so close to a lioness that she could have reached out and touched it with her paw but she didn't even so much as twitch a whisker. I asked him: "Are you trying to tell me that a lion is really a good-natured beast?" And he said: "Good heavens, no! The best way I know to com mit suicide is to trust a lion. Why, you never know when he's going to become suspicious and turn on you. And there's nothing in the world more dangerous than a charging lion. It's just like having a hundred pounds of dynamite coming at you." I asked him what he considered his narrowest escape and he said: "Oh, there have been lots of close calls. But they're all fun." One of his closest calls was in the South Sea Islands, when he nearly ended up in a kettle of soup. That was when he was getting the first pictures of can nibals ever made. White traders had been raiding the cannibal island, kidnaping the natives and selling them into slavery. The cannibals were hos tile and suspicious—and hungry. They had already killed a num ber of white men and seized their goods; and after sizing up Martin Johnson, they figured that this chap from Kansas would make a nice tender pot roast fpr Sunday dinner. So while he busy talking to the chief and laying out the presents he had brought along dozens of cannibals began to gath er out of the forest and surround. Help was miles away. He had a revolver, but he was outnumbered a hundred to one. A cold sweat of fear stood out on his forehead. His heart raced and pounded but there was nothing to do but ap pear calm and keep on talking. And all the time he was being crowded in by a ring of greedy cannibals licking their chops in anticipation. For the first time since he had left Independence, Kansas. Martin Johnson begati to think it might not have been a bad idea if he'd gone into the Jewelry business with his father. And then, Just as he the can nibals were about to rush, a mir acle happened. Into the bay far below steamed a British patrol boat. The cannibals stared. They knew what that meant. Johnson stared too, hardly able to believe his own eyes. And then, with a low bow to the chief, he said "You see my ship has come for me. Glad to have met you all. Good-bye." And before anyone summoned enough courage to stop him, he made a dash for the shore. Wasn't Warned Mrs. Schappins—l think, Dear, that young fellow with his back to us wants to propose to his girl. We shouldn't listen. Whistle so they will know we are here. [ Schappins—Why should I? No ! body whistled to warn me. YADKIN PHYSICIAN DIES AT HOSPITAL Dr. N. W. Mackie, 38, Pass es Away After Brief Illness HUNDREDS AT FUNERAL Yadkinville, N. C., May 26. Dr. Nathan Walser Mackie,* 38, practicing physician in Yadkin ville since 1929, died at Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, El kin, at 5:40 o'clock Friday after noon. He had been suffering from a liver and kidney trouble, complicated by colitis. He had been a patient at the hospital since Tuesday'morning. Dr. Mackie was born in Yad kinville, a son of Nathan D. Mackie, now of Boonville, and the late Mary Hinshaw Mackie. He attended the Yadkinville schools and was graduated from Yadkin ville high school, class of 1920. He entered the University of North Carolina from which he finished in 1925. From there he went to the University of Missouri Medical school at St. Louis, fin ishing there in the spring of 1928. He served one year as interne physician at City Memorial hos pital, Winston-Salem, leaving there July 1, 1929. In September 1929 he located at Yadkinville where he has done general prac tice until a few months ago when his health failed, since then doing very little. He had also been in the drug store business here for three years until recently. Dr. Mackie was a highly re spected young man and consid ered a splendid physician. He had never married. He was a mem ber of Mitchell's Chapel Meth odist church. 'He is survived by his' father, Nathan D. Mackie, two brothers, Burel Mackie of Rutherford Col lege and C. S. Mackie of Tong anoxie, Kansas, one sister, Mrs. Nora Irvin of Brooks Cross Roads. The body of Dr. Mackie was re moved to the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Mackie Saturday af ternoon where it remained until 2:30 Sunday when it was removed to Mitchell's Chappel church for funeral service and burial. The body lay in state at the church from 3 to 4 o'clock when the iun eral services were held, being conducted by Rev. Mrs. Lucy Ves tal, Rev. I. L. Sharpe and the pastor, Rev. Poole. Interment followed in the church cemetery. One of the largest crowds ever to assemble at Mitchel's Chapel was in attendance at this funeral. Scores of people did not get a view of the body before closing time of the casket. It is estimat ed that somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 people were present. Active pallbearers were: Char lie Vestal, F. D. B. Harding, Jesse W. Wooten, Weldon Joyner, C. R. Groce and W. E. Dobbins. Honorary pallbearers were the following physicians: S. A. Bell, B. H. Harding, Hamptonville; L. S. Hall, S. L. Russell, J. G. Marler, Yadkinville: T. W. Shore, J. R Finney, Boonville; W. G. Leak, R. E. Martin, East Bend; George C. Mackie, Wake Forest; M. A. Roy al, C. L. Haywood, Elkin; Paul Johnson, A. de-T. Valk, Rex Sink, S. F. Pfohl, C. O. Delaney, Win ston-Salem; J. W. Davis, Frank Fleming, Statesville; and Harry Johnson, Hickory. Flower girls were as follows: Mesdames Sallie Shugart, Kate Waynick, Joe Williams, Ruby Vestal, Anna White, Misses Blanche Mackie, Ohna Bates, Sara Holcomb, Mildred Logan, Peep Zachary, Grace Rutledge, Jettie Mae Inscore, Cornelia Mackie, and Ann Hall. CHICKEN DISEASES TAKE HEAVY TOLL Necessary Precautions Must Be Taken to Check Ravages of ills; Discussion by Radio Diseases common to chickens claim a heavy toll each year un less necessary precautions are taken to check the ravages. The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is especially true in handl ing poultry. One of the most common dis eases is coccidosis, says H. C. Gauger, poultry disease specialist at the college. When this disease strikes a flock, the grower should ROYSTER'S Premium Grade Fertilizer At No Extra Cost! F. A. Brendle & Son Elkin, N. C. take Immediate steps to curb the epidemic. A complete discussion of this disease, its symptoms and the steps necessary to drive it out of the flock, will be given in a radio talk on the Carolina Farm Fea tures program Friday, May 7 by Mr. Oauger. The schedule in full for the CHEAPO" These are the finest vSk/MT^SI '#4 refrigerators ever if/If* built—the value sen- 9sationofthe year and KmUM9*£L America is buying /—•^REFRIGERATORS 1-save on PRICEI 2-save on CURRENT! 3-save on UPKEEP! W^oo^ootoKoooooooonjgooF~^ • Now you can buy V "first choice" in refrig- L erators and save three —on purchase I price, on operating I cost and on upkeep. I Automatic Thrift 11 I Unit sealed.in-steel I ■ ? I * in all models. Judge refrigerator values any way you choose—and you'll find the new G-E Triple. Thrift Refrigerator is I the biggest buy 0f1937. | EKIN PLUMBING & HEATING CO. Phone 254 Elkin, N. C. WT We promise you expect too much of rugs that bear this mark We're always proud to feature rugs with this plain-to-see blue and gold label it's the trade-mark of the Bigelow Weavers, and your guide-mark to smart shopping. It says to you, "This rug is woven of Lively Wool thit springs back under foot woven with the Bigelow True- Tension weave that binds each sturdy tuft in place—dyed with the fastest wool dyes that science knows and styled by a staff of expert designers to be *just right* in your home." We promise you it's safe to expect to get greater comfort and more lasting beauty from these AAA AF rugs. Come in while our selection is complete and prices are at to- a ,"^.. u P or a ® r r (Full range of styles day s low levels. , and sizes) Thursday, Mav 27. 1937 week of May 3 follows: Thursday, "Home Demonstration Work in Perquimans County;" Friday, H. C. Oauger, "Controlling Coccidi osis;" and Saturday, 4-H Club program. * Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" has been published in 123 lan guages.
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