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The Good Old Days.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Taking pen in hand to write!
Uncle Sam’s check for that next!
installment, I look longingly'
backward to what I’m sure was
the golden age of our general
tion. , i
It was the decade that began soon
after the turn of the century and
ended with 1914.
Kings lolled se- EP^ppiijk!
thrones and dicta- W' . - jfl
torships in strong |
nations were un
the foundations 'of
the financial temple, KjZgZjfl
Teddy Roosevelt
was filing the alliga
tor teeth of preda
tory wealth. IrvinS. Cobb
People laughed at »
the mad suggestion that there could
ever be another great war—let
alone a world war.
With suffrage in prospect, women
were going to purify politics. ,*
Taxes were a means unto an end
and not the end of our means.
Standards of living climbed faster
than did the costs of living.
Automobiles .were things to ride
in at moderate speed, not engines
to destroy human life with.
Millions actually believed that, if
prohibition by law ever became ef
fective, drunkenness would end and
crime decrease.
Yes, I’m sure those were indeed
the happy days—the era when the
Twentieth Century limited started
running and W. J. Bryan stopped.
• • •
Synthetic Imitations.
Wf E STOPPED at a wayside sta
tion advertising pure orange
juice; there’s one every few rods.
Next to autograph hunters, oranges
are the commonest product of CalP
fornia.
The drink was the right color.
But there didn’t seem to be any
orange in it. The best you could
say for it was that probably its
mother had been badly frightened
by an orange.
I made inquiry, and an expert
told me some roadside venders—
not many, but some—were peddling
an essence compounded of chemi
cal flavoring and artificial extracts
because it kept better than the gen
uine article. " v
I thought America had reached
tops in the gentle arts of substitu
tion and adulteration when we be
gan making pumpkin pies out of
squash and maple syrup out of corn
stalks and buckwheat flour out of
a low grade of sawdust—anyhow, it
tastes like that—and imported Eng
lish sole out of the lowly flounder
and scallops out of skate fins. But
when, in a land where a strong man
couldn’t tote a dollar’s worth of
oranges on his back, there are par
ties selling synthetic imitations
well, just let the Efist equal that
magnificent stroke of merchandis
ing enterprise!
•* • •
Poor Little Rich Men.
LET us take time off to pity the
poor little rich man who owns a
large but lonesome sea-going yacht.
During the depression, the species
grew rare—there were money lords
then who hardly had one yacht to
rub against another—but, with bet
ter days, a fresh crop lines the
coasts.
No matter how rich, the owner
feels he must use his floating pal
ace. He may be content with a
saucer of processed bran and two
dyspepsia tablets, but no yacht crew
yet ever could keep soul and body
together on anything less than dou
ble sirloins. So he goes cruising—
and gosh, how he does dread it!
For every yachtsman who really
gets joy out of being afloat, there
usually is another to whom the
great heart of the nation should go.
out in sympathy. You almost ex
pect to find him putting ads in the
paper for guests who can stand the
strain; everything provided except
the white duck pants.
• • • »
Problems on Wheels.
AMERICA’S newest problepi goes
on wheels. One prophet says
by 1938 there’ll be a million trail
ers and three million people aboard
them. Roger Babson raises the ante
—within twenty years, half the pop
ulation living in trailers and all the
roads clogged.
So soon the trailer-face is recog
nizable. It is worn by Mommer,
riding along behind, while Popper
smiles pleasantly as he drives the
car in solitary peace—getting away
from it all. Have you noticed how
many trailer widows there are al
ready?
But as yet nobody reckons with
the chief issue: think of the in
creasing mortality figures when the
incurable speed bug 'discovers that
not only may he continue to mow
down victims with head-on assaults,
but will garner in many who es
caped his frontal attack by side
swipes of the hitched-on monster
that is swinging and lunging at his
rear like a drunken fclephant on a
rampage! •
To catch ’em going and coming—
that should be a motor maniac’s
dream of earthly joy.
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VACATION HINTS
FOR MOTORISTS
By C. W. Wood
National Director Os Service
Chevrolet Motor Division
General Motors Sale Corporation
Mile for mile, motor cars require
less attention from their users to
day than ever before. This is explain
ed partly by the increased reliabili
ty of the product, and partly, m
doubt, by the fact that motorist are
becoming educated in the simple
routine procedure which keeps their
automobiles near peak efficiency
all the time.
With summer at hand, and hun
dreds of thousands of owners plan
ning vacation trips in their cars, a
few suggestions about preparation
for such journeys will be timely.
An extended trip makes more stre
nuous demands of an automoblie
than, does normal use around home,
and it is not sensible when planning
such a trip, to see that every detail
affecting performance, safety and
comfort is checked in advance.
After a winter’s driving, it is al
ways advisable to see that the cool
ing system is in shape for maximum
warm weather efficiency. If this
has been neglected, up to now, it
should be attended to before that
summer trip. The result will be cool
er engine, longer life for lubricating
oil, and general improved perform
ance. Water should be checked oc
casionally during the journey, too,
of course.
Assuming that transmission and
differential lubricants have been
changed to the proper grade for
summer driving, the levels of both
should be checked before the start
of a long journey. So should the oil
in the crankcase, which, of course,
should be changed at the intervals
recommended by the manufacturer.
The solution in an automobile
battery evaporates more rapidly in
warm weather than in cold, and tne
short time it takes to have the de
tail checked, and water added if ne
cessary, is always well invested.
The average motorist thinks about
tires only when he has a “flat.” A
Know your Cigarette
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PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C.
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Dr. Chenting R. Wang, new Chinese
Ambassador to U. S, leaving the
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dent B oosevelt.
little extra attention to the sucjec
will not only reduce tire troubles to
a minimum, but add considerably
to the comfort of riding and the ease
of driving. Cars steer more easily
when the tires are inflated to the
proper pressure, and it is especial
ly important that the pressure in
the left and the right be the same.
For complete comforf in motor
ing, tires should be checked now and
then during a journey. Protracted
driving on. hot pavements in sum
mer may expand the air to a point
where the ride becomes bumpy be
cause the tires are so hard. On the
other hand, tires with insufficient
air wear out rapidly, because of the
constant flexing of the casing near
the point of contact with the
ground. They are also more likely
to suffer rim cuts traversing rough
roads.
Today’s cars rarely develop any
serious trouble, even on extended
Mary Pickford Sets
Wedding On June 26
Forty -Three-Year- O'd Former
Movie Actress To Wed Charles
(Buddy) Rogers
Hollywood, June 13.—(AP)Mary
Pickford and Charles (Buddy)
Rogers will be married Saturday,
Jur.2 26, in a simple outdoor cere
mony at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis D. Lighton in Los Angeles.
Miss Pickford set the date today
and said she and the orchestra
leader-movie actor would honey
moon in Honolulu.
The romance of Miss Pickford,
43, and Rogers, 32, began shortly
journeys. But a succession of minor
annoyances, easily averted by a lit
tle advance preparation, have of
ten marred an otherwise perfect
trip. The vacationist who looks af
ter these details as a matter of rou
tine is taking out good insurance on
the success of his trip.
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| KNIT UNDERWEAR I T
HARRIS & BURNo
Roxboro, N. C.
S. P. GENTRY
Route No. 2
after her divorce in 1935 from
Douglas Fairbanks. The marriage
will be her third and the first for
Rogers. Miss Pickford’s first hus
band was Owen Moore.
Miss Pickford said the wedding
dr.te had been held in abeyance be
• cause of Rogers’ movie and radio
work schedule.
Only immediate members of the
family and Miss Frances Mariion,
scenario writer, will be present,
Miss Pickford said. The couple
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THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1937
hap not yet selected anyone to read
the vows. Rogers’ father, Judge
Bert Henry Rogers of Olathe, Kas,
will come here with Mrs. Rogers,
but he will not officiate.
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It is estimated that one-third of
the college students in the District
of Columbia have federal govern
ment positions, working for Unde
Sam in the day and attending classes
at night.