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Jiittle Stories About ITJen and/Iff airs Jbq Jiarorx 711. Jones A youth stands at edge of a pier in Chicagof pulls the trigger of a re volver and topples iuto Lake Michi gan believing that weights he had in his pockets would cause cold and dark waters to hide his method of leaving. But they tossed his body buck and with it a diary telling of flirting, of drinking or petting part ies and of a determination to have one -grand fling. Aud thus thous_ ands of tongues are loosed and thous ands of heads wag at the wayward ness of youth. The chorus, "Those. thiugs_never-happened- when- I .wai-a. boy (Or girl)" swells. I watched a big green locust in the street the other day. lie had stray ed from his natural haunts, lie could fly but short distances. Re peatedly, he woind spread his frail wings but each tune a gust of wind would chauge his coursti or blow him back. Down on the pavement he would come with a thud. Soon an auto passed, squash! lie was a wet place on the smooth surface. The locust left witli a squash ami the youth left with a splash. Their reasons for going were the same. One squashed and the other splash ed. Otherwise, their takings off were similar. The locust bumped into the advances of civilization and so did the youth. Both passed be cause they were unable to change fa^t enough to resist the situation which surrounded them. Youth to day is living in a world much differ ent from the world in which its grandparents lived For every temp tation that grandfather faced his grandson faces a thousand. And re member that there are millions more youths today than during grandfa ther's day. Als0 that many of them have not been properly fitted and equipped to survive the desperate demands of today s existence. The tide of evolution washes ever on and that which cannot swim or float is destroyed. Probably the one thing that is best known about Edward S. Jordan, pres ident of the Jordan Motor Car Co., is that he wries he pithy and appeal ing advertising copy which has been so successful iu bringing his com pany's product before the public. And iuborn publicity sense, moulded by ten years' experience in a news paper office, and not the study of theory, has been the foundation up on which he has built, for he takes some pride in the fact that he has tfever read a book on the "science" or "psychology" of advertising. At times his results are rather be yond the scope of his aims. Not long ago after writing an "ad" de signed to appeal particularly to the young lady^ he received the following letter with an Illinois postmark: "'1 do not want a position with your company, but 1 would like very much to meet the man who writes your ad vertisements. I am young, a bru nette, and my wings are spread. Say the word and I will fly to you!'' He was just an old street car con ductor in a college town in Ohio. For twelve years he had pulled bell ropes and collected fares. When he died last week, the whole college and much of the town paused to mourn his passing. The eyes of many a college lad and lass were moist with the memory of the man who, from an humble station had J cast a lasting influence on their lives. Just a street car conductor, but his life glowed and radiated. Youth paid him their fares and not not only received the desired trans portation, but also bits of philosophy and wisdom which cheered and guid ed them along life's journey. Mr. Moon was given a divorce last week iu Pittsburg. He told the judge that their home had been se rene and happy until Mrs. Moon formed the habit of staying out late at night. Who says there is noth ing in a name. If a war is, as they say, just an overgrown quarrel^ then, for the rest of my life I'll be a standpat pac ifist. Quarrels start so foolishly. For instance, the other morning I was coming down in the elevator in the Hotel Watterson at Louisville. >*big white man got on with a morn ing grouch and accused the colored elevator operator of passing his sig nal to stop. "I didn't sah," said the colored boy, ~ Put you did bawled the big white man. "No sah," an swered the negro. "If you done pushed da button^ dis light would done tell me,. Stop!" Damn you, I said and I did'" More words led to sharper ones. When the elevator landed at the bottom, both were ready to fi^ht rt-hich they soon did. The white man finished with a split lip and tfie negr0 lost his job. While it may be all very true that president Coolidge does not talk a grgeat deal, it is also very true that the mass of printed matter in regard to the taciturn Chief Magistrate is already enormous and is constant ly growing. Naturally enough, The Forbes Library 0f Northampton Mass. the public library of the Presi dent's home town, has been making an effort to collect all the Coolidg lana possible and begun a systema tic collection on the day of his nom ination as Vice-President, June 12, 1920. Mr. Coolidge himself has been much interested in the work of sav ing tor posterity all the information in regard to himself that, it is poss ible to assemble. In 1924 he gave to the library 44 scrapbooks cover ing the period l'rom the nomination as Governor of Massachusetts, in 19_ IS to his inauguration as Vice-Presi dent in 1921. On a visit to his old home in Plymouth, Vt., in August^ 1924, the President made a collection of 43 photographs of himself, his im_ mediate family and relatives. This collection he ylias given to the li_ brary, ea<jh piece identified and commented on in hi* own handwrit ing. The worm has turned ; Ten years ago the sober faces of our land were wrinkled with the problem of pre venting our fathers from spending too much of their weekly pay envel opes in the neighboring saloons. To day the same faces are further lengthened with a more serious pro blem of preventing our children from spending too much of their coL lege careers in mastering the popu lar art of carrying a flask and keep ing it filled. There's nothing wrong with pro hibition. For society it is as funda mentally sound as the one-man-and_ one.wife idea. But there's some bad blood in its ancestry some place Hither it was born prematurely or its parents considered their respons bility ended with its birth. Surely its bringing up and education for good citizenship were woefully neg lected. Today as a nation, we are spending millions of dollars trying to keep liquor out of the country^ more millions trying to find it after it gets into the country and additional millions trying to prove that we have found it when once it is discov ered. And all the time, it is nearly as easy to get before and the mil lions in taxes are no longer forth coming. \Avtoca5te7C DIVORCE The greatest evil that faces the social world today is the divorce evil. It is perfectly clear that the Rible does not permit of divorce and re marriage on any ground except one, and that whosoever putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of for nication, maketh her an adulteress, and if he marries another he him- . self commits adultery. This much is plain as day, namely, that there i<* only one Scriptural ground for divorce and remarriage? impurity on the part of the other party. Hut,' what are you going to do when divorce has really become a pastime? Some are treating it as but a passing experience. Social lines are being broken, moral stand ards are being shattered, children are being cursed, homes are being broken up, and men and women are losing all sense of regard for the sacredness of the marriage vow. Of course, where one party Is guilty, the Innocent party has a perfect right to re-marry, and the innocent party ought to get a di vorce. But, there are too many pea. pie deliberately committing the of fense in order that they may secure the divorce. They are deliberately creating the cause for the purpose of being separated. ** Nearly sixty per cent of the di vorces of today have been brought about by the parties premeditatedly creating the cause for the divorce. Why don't the Christian forces of the country speak and suppress this evil? Matter Waa Obvi0<ealy Question for the Deer Representative COoonor was dis cussing in New York his plan for as investigation of telephone and tele graph companies. "These companies need Investigat ing, If only for their own good," he sakL "They have such a bad habit, when questioned, of giving haughty and evasive answers. "They're like Colonel Garter of Oar tersville.' The colonel sat in the lounge of a New York hotel oae evening with a New York banker. "'STes,' he was saying, *lfs a power ful fertile country down round Carter ball. Why, sah, I know, woods down there where the trees grow se dose that you capt shore your hand be tween the trunks. And game. Why, sah, I've seen deer in tbem woods with a ten-foot spread of antlers. Yea, sah, a ten-foot spread.' u 'But, ookmel,' said the backer, 'how can the deer get thoee antlers between those trunks T "Colonel Carter drew himself up. " That, safe,' he said, is their bud Etiauette Iwhatftwkei tadott Any questions on etiquette tcill be yladlj answered in this column if addressed to A. Leda, care of this news paper. There is more to Etiquette than Just doing this or that correctly. How we eat or how aot Is impor tant of course, but how we talk la even more so. People judge us dally (much more than we realize) by the language due use. Whether it's French, English. Spanish or German, It matters not ? the grammar must be correct. Good English is a sign or good breeding and good breeding is what makes a man or woman a lady or gentleman. What we think and what we say shows what we are ? and our ability to say it. i Here arc a few expressions so often heard, which quickly reveals a lack of culture: So many times we hear "yeh" instead of "yes," "she don't" Instead of "she does not." "Between you and I" is often heard but "between you and me" la correct. When one designates the sex, use the words man or woman. Do not say, "She is a very hand some lady" or "He is a tine looking gentleman." Also when speaking of one's husband do not rofer to him as .Mr. B. In other words, do not say Mr. Brown will join us. Either say (if speaking to a personal friend), "Jack will Join us," or at any other time "my husband vrlll I Join us." ? ? ? ? I Deab a.. Leda : What should be dooa when a young man asks a girl If he may call on a certain evening and i then does not appear? Should she ; discontinue their friendship? I A Mountain Gerl. Yes. very decidedly. It is a very rude thing to do and uuless there is a written or verbal apology within twenty-four hours afterwards, cross | this man off from your list of ac quaintances. By that I mean, do not recognize him any more than if j you had not met him. An inter v?-n i nir distance or sickness should really le the only excuse. f ? m 0 Facts About Compaat The angle between the true narth [ and the magnetic north is called the , "magnetic \;ii*h:ilon." j.nd has to ba J allowed for in nuv'gation. Thus, when the son* say "True as the compass to tha star." it is talking nonsense be I cause, although the star Is flred. the compass is not. Nevertheless, its vari ations are well known, so that tha compass remains the , seaman's oiost valuHblc possession. GOOD YEAR , Service Station Goodyear twig* ?o?l r W Hines Motor Co. P. 0. Campobollo, S. C. Garages at Midway and Columbus North Carolina LOST: One 5-gaJlon Milk Can. Please notify ..Mrs, Will Gaines, Lynn Dairy. FOUND: . Pocketbook containing j sum of money. Owner may have j same if identified and this notice j paid for. Apply: THE NEWS. I am cutting a boundry of timber at Hill Crest School. Can furnish anyone wanting lumber on ground $14 to $16. I also have some fine beef cattle, milch cows for sale. AL so wire fence nails and roofing at a good price. Would like to sell land at Hill Crest on long time payment if desired, als0 water power. l_t pd Robert Twltty. Wanted ^Salesman: You have an opportunity of making $2,000 to $5f 000 yearly selling Whitmer's com_ j plete line guaranteed Home jtemedies oTilet Articles, Extracte etc. in Polk County. You need no experience, ! just a little capital and a team or ' car. White men only. Our pro ducts are guaranteed, backed by & reliable Company. Write us today for full information. Tfj^ H. C. Whitmer Company Columbus, Ind. Dept 16 FOR SALE: One high grade Jersey cow in fresh milking condition at a reasonable price. Apply to LYNN WALDROP, Mill Springy Route 1. Ex 5.15 FOR RENT: Four room house on Rocky Spur road. See W. F. Little. ? Man-MaO* World If I believed in change, i' should ?ketch a world where women would live upon shelves, shelves without lad ders. Oue would take them down when one wanted them. They would be delighted to be taken down, clap ping their little hands, crowing like babies, and yet understand one's deepest thoughts. One would also take them down in the morning to do the housework. At ! other times one would live sternly and bravely with other men as stem and brave, until one came to need again the women who would be akin to f those very expensive dolls who say "pa-pa" and "ma-ma" when you press f a spring. When one got tired of their reper tory, one would send them to the shop to have a different record put in. ? From "The Triumph of Oallto," by W. | L. George. I "Laughter a Low Thing" According to one authority, Moitke, the famous German general, only laughed twice after attaining years of discretion. The first occasion was when be heard the news of hii mother-in law's death ; the second, when some one told him that a military construction Just outside Stockholm*' was considered by tbe Swedes to be a strong fortress. Moitke would have Indorsed Lord Chesterfield's Indictment of laughter as "a low and unbecoming thing, not to mention the disagreeable noise that It makes, and the shocking contortion of the face that It occasions. ... I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh." Charles Sumner, the American statesman, could make a similar boast; while, aecordlng to John Martlneau, who was for some time a pupil at Brers ley, Charles Kingsley never laughed.? Family Hsr ald. FREE-FREE j 500 LB. BALE COTTON At Auction Sale of 8 HOUSES AND 50 LOTS Formerly Finger Property LANDRUM, S. C. Saturday, May 16, 2 p. m. This property is located on the National Highway leading from Spartanburg to Hendersonville. The lots are beautiful located and with the paving of this highway within the next year or so, the prices will double and tre ble in value. Landrum is one of the best small towns in the Pied mont section, being noted for its good banking facilities, schools, churches, prosperous merchants, farmers, etc., and now, with the foward step of sewerge and water which the town is installing, you cannot go wrong in buy ing property here. This property, formerly the H. K- Finger holdings, we have secured and are now subdividing and offering to the public. Ther^ are eight small four and five room resi dences in very good repair. Look the houses and lots over before the sale and pick yours out, for we are going to sell them. Every-person over sixteen years old attending the sale will have a free chance at a five hundred pound bale of cotton and other valuable cash prizes. | TERMS: ONE-FORTH CASH OR BANKABLE t PAPER; BALANCE 1, 2 AND 3 YEARS | BRASS BAND + Interstate Land Auction Company Selling Agents Spartanburg, South Carolina GUARANTEED * used cars WHY? miss the joy motoring when we have re conditioned used cars at exceptionally low Prices, Easy Terms. *30 Days Free Service. Our Service Is Unexcelled Our Accessories Complete Kilpin Motor Co., Inc. Service Counts Tryon, N. C. ' Sculpture for Missouri's bert Altken, N. A., and his statue ^Dl Robert Altken, iof the "Missouri River," one of the jtwo allegorical compositions In bronze ?which are to flank th^ main entrance of the Missouri state capltol in Jef person City. SOUTHERN RA1LWAV SYSTt* Passenger Train Schedules Tryon, N. C. Effective April 26, 1925 * * i 8:52 A. M. Henderson vi He. .Wieville^ local 8:52 A. M. Spartanburg. Columbia. Atlata and local 11:25 A. M. Asheville, Knoxviile. ( and St. Louis 12:40 P- M. Carolina Special; Spartanburg, Columbia and Charleston 6:10 P. M. Savannah, Charleston ville and Florida points, also At lanta and New Orleans 6:10 P. M. Carolina Special: Cincinnati anc Indianapolis, and Chicago Above Figures Published As Informal! Only t f f I i t J. H. Wood, Div. Pass. Agt. J. H. Rion Agent Asheville, N. C. Tryon, N, i ?/ ?}? ?; v %' vWvW To 1 GONNP.-rp^e. p* oot vcs-th* y"o . GOunW bno 1o flip v ^ ^ OF HE#\0fVLHE- ^ Greatest Cbmic SolcM? Says Read The Polk County Nf Live News of the Thermal Bell While it still is News $1.50 Yearly In Advance? Subscribe N?* + ******** *** ************* *** ******* * %-!?+ i Wanted to rent small far' nished house for summer^ year. Must have garage an shaded yard. L. J. P. The Ne*'*
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