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bale Carnegie 5-Minute Biographies r% Author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People." CLARENCE DARROW A Small-Town Insult Made Him the Greatest Criminal Lawyer of His Time Nearly three-quarters of a cen tury' ago, a school teacher boxed the ears of a little boy because he was restless and fidgety and squirming in his seat. She boxed his ears so that he cried all the way home. He was only five * years old at the time, but he felt that he had been treated with cruelty and injustice; he learned to hate cruelty and injustice with a hatred that has kept him fight ing all his life. That boy's name was Clarence Darrow, today probably the best known criminal lawyer in Amer ica—and certainly the greatest criminal lawyer of his time. His name has flashed time and again in bold headlines across every newspaper in the land. He is a crusader, a rebel, a fighter, and a champion of the underdog. The first case he ever handled is still talked about by the old timers in Ashtabula, Ohio. 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Abernethy, Kiwanian ElkPrintingCoTl V/ 3.1 Cl UIIV • I Chatham THE ELKIN TRIBUNE MsnilfflCtUTlllg North Carolina's Coitipaity Best Weekly Newspaper C . C . Poindexter H. F. Laffoon. I Save A - I -—I Turner Drug Co. - . |a , Elkin Lumber i "The Friendly Drug Store" Lilt!! & Co. Anything" ■ v COtB SERVICE " ■ • COAL Geo. E. BoyaU, Kiwanian (This Ad. Paid for by Elkin Kiwanis Club) yS£J K^nfcm a second-hand set of harness worth five dollars. But to Clarence Darrow there was a principle at stake. Injustice had raised its snarling head and he fought as he would have fought a Bengal tiger. He was paid only five dollars to fight the case; but he fought it at his own expense, through seven courts for seven years—and won it. Darrow says he has never been ambitious for money or prestige. He says he has always been a lazy cuss. He started out in life teaching in a country school. One day an incident happened which changed his whole career. There was a blacksmith in town who studied law when he wasn't busy shoeing horses. Clarence Darrow heard this blacksmith argue a law case in the tinsmith's shop. He was fascinated with the wit and eloquence of these country spell binders. He loved a scrap him self; so he borrowed the black smith's law books and began to THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA study law. On Monday he would take his law books to school, and while his pupils were studying geography or arithmetic he thumbed through the pages of his Blackstone. He admits he might have re mained a country lawyer all his days if something hadn't happen ed to goad him into action. He and his wife decided to buy a small house in Ashtabula, Ohio, from a dentist. The price was thirty-five hundred dollars. Dar row drew five hundred dollars out of the bank (and that, by the way, was all he had in the world) and agreed to pay the rest in yearly installments. The deal was almost finished when the dentist's wife refused point blank to sign the papers. . See here, young man," she said scornfully. "I don't believe you'll ever earn thirty-five hundred dollars in all your life." Darrow was furious. He refused to live in such a town. So he shook the dust of Ashtabula off his feet and headed for Chicago. His first year in Chicago, he made only three hundred - dollars r—not even enough to pay his room rent. But the next year he made ten times as much —three thousand dollars—as a special at torney (or the city. "When my luck began to change," Darrow says, "everything seemed rapidly to come my way." Before long he was general attor ney for the Chicago and North western Railway Company and well on his way to a big-money career. Then there was an explo sion. A strike. Hatred! Riots! Bloodshed! Darfow's sympathies were on the side of the strikers. When Eu gene Debs, head of the railroad union was called to trial, Darrow threw up his Job; and Instead of defending the railroads, he de fended the strikers. That was the I first of Darrow's fiery sensation-j al trials—every one of them a milestone in court room history. Take for example the famous case of Leopold and Loeb, confessed murderers of little Bobby Prank. Public opinion was so shocked, so horrified at the brutality of the crime that when Clarence Dar row undertook the defense- of the two murderers, he was reviled and and persecuted and called worse than a criminal for daring to de fend the guilty boys. And why did he do it? "I went In," Darrow says, "to do what I could against the wave of hatred and malice. No client of mine has ever been put to death and if that should hap pen I feel it would almost kill me. I have never been able to read the story of an execution. I always left if possible on the day of the hang ing. I am strongly against kill ing. Society makes criminals, he says, and any man might be guil ty of any crime. Darrow himself has known what it is to face trial. He was once ac cused of bribing a jury, and had to use his powerful eloquence in his own defense. The most touch ing expression of gratitude he ever experienced was during his own trial. A former client of his met him and said, "Listen, you saved me from the gallows when I was in trouble and now you are in trouble and I'd like to help you out. I'll be glad to kill the chief witness against you and it won't cost you a cent." A few years ago, Darrow pub- lished a book, the story of his life | and I remember I stayed awake 1 far into the night reading the chapter in which he outlined his philosophy of life. "I am not sure of how much or how little I have really accom plished," he said. "I have blunder ed on my way and I have snatch ed as much enjoyment as possible from the stingy fates. Each day must be sufficient unto itself, keeping in view only the direction and the journey's end. I cannot realize that I am old. Where can 'the long day have gone? It has been only a short time since I started on the road with all the world before me and immeasur able time ahead for the journey I was about to take* row the pil grimage is almost over and the day is nearly done. How endless the unexplored road appears to be end how short the footworn trail seems now." Copyright, 1937 MOUNTAIN PARK ■ Rev. Scales Draughn will fill his regular appointment at Mountain Park Baptist church next Sunday at eleven o'clock. The public is cordially invitdd to' attend. Miss Ola Williams of Enfield, N. C., spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harris and family of Sumter, S. C., vis ited relatives here last week. Mrs. Billy Calloway of Mount Airy, is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Mrs. C. M. Johnson and daugh ter, Annie Laura, and Mr. Mock Landreth attended the birthday dinner at the home of Mrs. Mol lie Ashburn, near Little Rich mond, last Sunday. Miss Minnie Williams left Monday for Raleigh, where she will take a business course. Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Landreth spent Sunday at State Road. Mr. Clyde Cockerham visited relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Walters announce the birth of a daugh ter, Mary Lou, August 30th. Mrs. Gertha Fletcher of Win ston-Salem, visited relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Gentry announce the birth of a son at the City Memorial Hospital, Au gust 30th. Miss Celia Guyer of Elkin, vis ited relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marion of Mount Airy, visited relatives here last week. Those from here attending the singing at Salem Fork last Sun day were Mr. and Mrs. Free Cal loway, Miss Lillie Cockerham, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Calloway, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Harris and family. Little Sammy Cockerham is visiting relatives in Elkin this week. Miss Irene Swift of Charlotte, is visiting relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Cockerham and family visited relatives in Mount Airy Sunday. Mr. Marvin Swift of Charlotte, visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. Carl Cocokerham of Win ston-Salem, visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Adams and family of Winston-Salem, are visiting relatives here this week. Mr. F. B. Cockerham of Win ston-Salem, spent the week-end here with home folks. Mr. John Wilmoth, member of a prominent Surry county family, died at his home near Mountain Park early Monday morning. He had been in ill health for several weeks, i Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from t Mountain Park Baptist church. Interment was in the church cemetery. NATIVE OF WILKES CO. PASSES IN MISSOURI Mrs. Fannie Jane Phillips Rob erts, 70, a native of Wilkes coun ty and a daughter of the late Ab ner and Nancy Phillips, died Aug ust 10, at her home in Cabool, Mo., where she- had resided since 1914. She is survived by her husband, Chas. S. Roberts and one son, J. C. Roberts, both of Cabool, and five grandchildren. K. P. The colored soldier had been peeling potatoes until his hands ached. Turning to a fellow K. P. he said: "What dat sergeant mean when he call us K. P.?" "Ah dunno," replied his co worker, "but from de look on his face Ah think he meant 'Keep Peeling'." Good Manners Aunt: You should always get up from the table hungry. Nephew: I do'better than that; I always leave the table empty. YOU PAY NOTHING! Not a cent Is asked for those fine foun tain pen and pencil sets at The Tribune office. We are giving them i away with subscriptions to this' paper at the rerular price. See the beautiful display at this of-, fice and make your selection. 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