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bale Carnegie 5-Minute Biographies Author of "How to Win Friends Wgrf and Influence People." JACK LONDON The 'Tough Guy" Who Went Through High School In Three Months And Wrote Fifty-One Books in Eighteen Years A little over forty years ago, £ hobo rode the rods of a freight train into Buffalo and began to beg for food from door to door. A policeman arrested him for va grancy, and a Judge sen tented him to thirty days at hard labor in the penitentiary. Yet six years later this hobo was the most sought-after man on the Western coast. He was Jack London, author of The Call of the Wild. . When Jack London wrote The Call of the Wild back in 1903, he became famous overnight. Edit ors clamored for his work. But Getting Ready For Old Santa's Visit Makes It All The More Important You PAY BY CHECK Christmas . . . jolly throngs upon the streets and in the stores . . . Hurry, bustle and excitement everywhere lirnF'e •• • t8 buy ** • Much money to HftKr. j be spent. And that's why paying by check will prove safer and more WHY convenient. No need to carry large " " » sums of cash in your purse . . . just your check book. Payment by check means an accurate record of every penny spent—and where. The Bank lip 'of Elkin R. C. LeweUyn, Garland Johnson Franklin Folger President Vies- President Cashier Public Sale SHERIFF W.T. FLETCHER FARM ANDPERSONALPROPERTYAT AUCTION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH At 1:00 P. M. We will sell the (Sheriff) W. T. Fletcher Farm, located about 1 mile East from Boonville on High way No. 67. This farm contains 84 acres of land, one 6-room house, 2 tobacco barns, 1 pack house, feed barn and other out buildings. About 75 acres of the land is in cultivation, and this is one of the best tobacco farms in Yadkin County. We are subdividing it into lots and small farms so you can buy just what you want, or you could buy the farm as a whole. We are selling some person al property consisting of farming tools, 2 fine mules, 1 four year old saddle horse. We are giving away absolutely free a nice flock of Christmas Turkeys. DON'T FORGET THE DATE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16th AT 1:00 P. M. EASY TERMS FREE TURKEYS - BAND CONCERT Carolinaßealty&AuctioiiCo. —Agent*- Salisbury, N. C. ahe made very little money from his first big hit. The publishers —and later the movie producers in Hollywood—made a million dollars out of it; but he himself sold all his rights to The Call of the Wild for only two thousand dollars. If you want to write a book, the very first requisite is to have something to write about. That was one of the secrets of Jack London's astonishing success. He packed ten thousand colorful ex periences into his short and fe verish life. Jack London's childhood was TH6 EI.KW TRIBUNE. EI.KIN. NORTH CAROt tKA seared with poverty and hard ships. He laughed at schools and played hookey most of the time. Yet one day he wandered into a public library and began reading Robinson Crusoe. He was fasci nated. The next day he rushed back to the library to read other books. From that time on he had an unquenchable passion for books. He often read ten and fifteen hours a day. He devoured everything from Nick Carter to Shakespeare everything from Herbert Spencer to Karl Marx. When he was nineteen, he decided to stop selling his muscles and sell his brain instead. So, at the age of nineteen, he entered high school in Oakland, California. He studied night and day, took hardly any time at all for sleep and did a phenomenal thing. He actually crammed four years of work into three months, passed his examinations, and then entered the University of Califor nia. Obsessed with a driving ambi tion to become a great writer, he studied Treasure Island, The Count of Monte Cristo, and the Tale of Two Cities, studied them over and over and then wrote fe verishly. He wrote five thousand words a day, that means a full length novel in twenty days. He sometimes had thirty stories out in the hands of editors at the same time. But they all came back. He was merely learning his trade. Then one day one of his stories entitled Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan won first prize in a con test sponsored by the' San Fran cisco Call. He got only twenty dol lars for the story. He was broke and couldn't pay even his room rent. That was 1896 —a year of drama and excitement. Gold was discov ered in the Klondike. The gold diggers were on the move. The locust swarm of humanity took wings and headed for the golden land under the northern lights. And Jack London was with them. He spent a hectic year hun ting for gold in he Klondike. He endured incredible hardships. Eggs were worth twenty-five cents apiece and butter sold for three dollars a pound. He slept on the ground with the thermometer at 74 degrees below zero. Finally he drifted back to the States without a penny in his pocket. He did whatever odd jobs he could find. He washed dishes in restaurants. He scrubbed floors. He worked on the docks and in factories. Then one day, with only two dollars between himself and hun ger, he decided to give up manual labor forever and devote all of his time to literature. That was in 1898. Five years later in 1903, he had published six books, and one hundred and twenty-five short stories, and was one of the most talked-off men in literary Amer-, ica. Jack London died in 1916, at the age of forty, only eighteen years after he really started to write, and during that time he wrote an average of about three books a year besides countless stories. Copyright, 19937 | BURCH Coy Williamson of Salisbury is spending several days here with his mother, Mrs. Etta Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Anthony moved here last week from Yad kinville. We welcome them to this community. Mrs. John W. Martin has re turned from Berea, Ky., where she visited Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Gabbard, the latter her daughter. Mrs. W. J. Chappell is a pa tient in Hugh Chatham Memor ial Hospital, suffering from a broken arm sustained in a fall Tuesday. She is resting as com fortably as could be expected and will probably return to her home the latter part of the week. Miss Maude Anthony of Pleas ant Hill spent the week-end here with her father, Foy Anthony. The many friends of Mrs. Tine Whitaker will regret to know that she is 111 at her home here. Miss Annie Shore of Harmony is spending this week here the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lucy Chappell. Roger Sprinkle of Winston-Sa lem spent the week-end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Sprinkle. ISneed is spending Union drove, the ister, Mrs. Pearl [ampton, who has eral days, does not vement her friends m, who underwent s operation at Memorial Hospit •esting as comfort ie expected. Howard Chappell hter, Bonnie, were ists of her parents . D. Shore, at Har mony. i Mr. and Mrs. Henry V. Burch have returned to Bristol, Tenn., following a visit to his grand mother. Mrs. Lillie V. Burch. Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Sneed and chWesriad Mrs. Effle Whitaker Mmer apmt Sunday near Jones vtUe with Mrs. Sneed's father, W. A. Brown. Rev. A. B. Hayes of Mountain View will fill his regular appoint ment at onion Crosa Baptist church Saturday and Sunday. The public is invited. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Snow, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Snow, Miss Pansy and Joe Bill Snow, all of Greensboro, were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Humphries. MINE RIDGE | Mr. and Mrs. Arnie Smith of Danville, Va., are visiting his par ents here, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Smith. Mrs. Paul Norman of Thurmond was visiting her mother here, Mrs., L. C. Lowe, and was taken seri ouslly ill and rushed to Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital where she under went an operat ion. We hope for her a speedy re covery. Mrs. Florence Harper of W. Va., has recently moved to our com munity. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smith of Asheville are visiting his mother here, Mrs. M. W. Smith. PLEASANT HILL Although the weather was dis agreeable we had a large crowd in Sunday school Sunday. Special music was rendered by the "Sun shine," "Happy Day" and "Rain bow Girls" quartettes. Sunday night the prayer meet ing was very impressive. Several interesting talks were made. The "Happy Day" quartet was in charge of the special singing. Mr. and Mrs. Qwyn Baugess of Cool Springs were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Couch Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. David Day, David Day, Jr., Misses Irene Day and Cooper Jolly spent Saturday in Winston-Salem shopping. They also visited Mrs. Day's mother, Mrs. Ida Howell. We are glad to note that Mrs. Luther Day has returned home from the Hugh Chatham Memor- I ial Hospital. BETTER HEALTH | By DR. J. ROSSLYN EARP Director, New Mexico Bureau of Public Health EARLY TUBERCULOSIS "Early tuberculosis is not char acterized by any special signs or symptoms." This sentence comes from a talkie to the 4,500 dele gates that attended the recent convention of the American Pub lic Health Association. It must have given a shock to many oth ers beside myself. Some of us have been describ ing the early signs and symptoms of tuberculosis for the last twen ty years: fatigue in the afternoon, cough, loss of weight, blood-spit ting, indigestion . . . We were not mistaken. These are symptoms of tuberculosis. But what we call ed "early" a few years ago is not early any more. The use of X-rays has made possible the discovery of tuberculous disease before any symptoms develop. How many thousands of pa tients with chronic tuberculosis must wish that someone had used X-rays to discover their disease before signs and symptoms devel oped! If that had been done they might now be healed and enjoy ing good health as only those can that have lost it and found it again. Why is not everyone's chest X rayed so that all tuberculosis may be discovered in the earliest cur able stage? Well, because those that could easily afford this safe guard do not appreciate Its im portance and because very many of us cannot afford it. Alert health departments make their appro priations go as far as possible. Since they know that each case of tuberculosis comes from an other case (or oases) they look for early disease first among "contacts" of known cases. Since disease can only develop after in fection, they use the more expen sive X-ray only on those that are positive to the cheaper tuberculin skin test. Even so, health depart ments can not do much until they have more public health nurses to visit the contacts who must be showed the value of these tests; more money to pay for teslng those that cannot afford to pay the doctor. The Thistle was the first Na tional flower. Scotland adopted it during the reign of King James n. Cutworm. A girl, aged six, came into the house with a slight cut under her chin. Her mother asked her to tell how it happened whereupon, she replieed, rather abf»ent-mlnd edly: "I guess a worm did it." 'But," said her mother, "it looks as though it's been cut." "Well," she said, "it was a cutworm." Journey to Bethlehem Not Like Today's Travel a CCUSTOMED to our swift and /\ modern transportation, it is* 1 V difficult to visualize the hard ships of that Journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, or the great fatigue and weariness suffered by Mary and ' Joseph. Consternation filled their hearts at the decree of Caesar; yet there was nothing to do but obey the summons. They must make the long, tiresome Journey, and at once!" • No shining motor car waited out side their gate; no silver-winged plane stood throbbing in a nearby field; not even the meanest ox-cart was available. While others rode by in gorgeous caravans, a patient little donkey was their only means of transportation. We can imagine the tall and bearded Joseph leading the animal along, glancing back ev ery now and then with words of cheer and encouragement for Mary, or pointing out some landmark along the way. Behind them now was the Sea of Galilee and Mt. Tabor. Through the plain of Estraleon they labored; then came the rough and uneven trail through Samaria, where even the sure-footed donkey stumbled at times. To the west, the Jordan ran its course, to empty farther south into the Dead sea. Along their way they passed many places whose names would be known and revered around the world in the dim future . . . Did Mary have a vision as she went by that one day the Son whom she was about to bear would go up and down this country preach ing a new Gospel of love and peace and hope for man, and that His birth would bf held in happy and blessed remembrance by all the peoples of the earth until time would be no more?—Katherine Edelman. © Western Newspaper Union. First Christmas Carol When Christ Was Born CHRISTMAS ia the time when men are drawn together in a great unity. Much of this may be attributed to our response to fa miliar songs, sung year after year to commemorate the advent of a little Child on earth. The first Christmas carol ever heard, we like to believe, came over the field of Bethlehem, when Christ was born— "Glory be to God on high, and on earth, peace, good will toward men." But it was 1,200 years later that St. Francis of Assisi and his broth ers took up the singing in public of carols at Christmas to combat the unbelief of their time. With lighted tapers they went about the streets of the small Italian village pouring out their hearts in songs of praise. In the 800 years since then the singing of Christmas carols has gone around the world. Wherever Christianity is known carol singing follows. The simple vision of a mother lulling her babe to sleep gives Christmas music its strength. Some sing as a tribute to their religious faith, others as a custom they en joy. But whatever the reason, the important thing is that more and more people do K. From such wide ly different sources as churches, theaters, schools, clubs, radio sta tions, come the words of "Away in a Manger," "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "Little Town of Bethle hem," "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," and "Come All Ye Faithful," sung by soloists, choirs, choruses or the voices of school children. So each year new joy is expressed through old channels. Frances Grinstead. © Western Newspaper Union. CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS IF YOUR Christmas tree is a balsam—and that is the love liest kind of all, both for appear ance and for fragrance—then when you first light it a cheerful old superstition urges a glance at your shadow on the wall—if you dare. Should it appear headless you will not live to see another Christmas. Then, later, when the tree is burned, another tradition suggests keeping a partly burned sUck to ward off lightning. Paint Brightens Toys In the basement or the attic many of us will find old toys the children have discarded. Christmas ip al most here and much joy can be brought into the lives of less fortu nate youngsters if we get out these toys, give them a coat of gayly col ored enamel and distribute them ourselves or turn them over to a social agency to be handed out to needy youngsters on St Nick's day. In England's Wassail Bowls Brewed in England's Yuletide wassail bowls are baked appl*«, hot ale seasoned with spice, orange Juice and rind and whipped eggs. Plan Christmas Dinner Plan to prepare as much of the meal as possible on the day prior to Christmas so that the housewife can enjoy the day with her family. Lost Is Fraud "Look here. Waiter, I just found a collar button in my soup." "Oh, thank you, sir. I have been looking all over for it." 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