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TUESDAY, AUGUST, 25, 1925.
•SEABOARD EXTENSION.
It is well to suggesl to the Sea- j
board and talk about the evten-j
siott'of its railroad front Hut her- j
fordton through Chimney Hock, |
Asheville, but Seaboard officials
are now directing their attention,!
their energy and their monev to
the extension of lines in Florida!
where there is a great develop-j
meat. It is true Western North
Carolina is having its day of
building and sparing realty
prjees, but we learn front a more
orTess official source that, the
Seaboard dees not intend to take
any steps toward extension in
Western North Carolina for the
present. The visit of officials at
Rutherfordton has given rise to
much speculation and they prob
ably are inspecting the route
with an ultimate view of extend
ing, but we do not think our
hopes should be unnecessarily
keyed, expecting something in
the immediate future.
HEARD AWAY FROM HOME.
There is always an old saying
that to hear the news at home,
one must go awav from home
and get it from the outside. The
other night the Kiwanis club was
told that the Piedmont and
Northern officials had no idea
of connecting at an early date
the lnik of iriterurban between
Gagtcniu and Spartanburg and
consequently we slacked our pull
on*Che rope, but here comes some
thing from a Florida paper, a
press dispatch from Spartanburg
which leads us to believe that
while no development will be
staffed in the immediate future, j
the P. and N. officials have in
mift(] to build this link and they
are quietly laying plans to that
enfl?
That the Piedmont end Northern
Electric railway will build the missing
link of its line between Spartanburg
nnd (lastonia is indicated by the draw
ln«s* of the undertmss to b» const ruct
edSop in connection with the physics!
eo«n#ction of the and W C with
th^linchfield mad. If the P <>-d N.
joilts.with the Chrrlcston and West
orirdarolina in the untie-pa s o- :
as jQte drawing's show, the two tv ' t
will use the same underpa Tb'a
wotltd mean also that a union a' oi. -\
costing $1150,000 or more would h<
buBt* jointly by the two road;.
fHE COMMUNITY SPIRIT.
Bailing: Springs was n wise
chjfee in present ing the pageant
at jfche big farm picnic for Roiling
SpiSrings is a model rural com
mdnlty, where the church life
th# hcme life, the school life and
theTommunity spirit are tvpi
flad.in the lives of her citizens.
There was a time when Boiling
Springs was not an ideal com
m^ljity because the citizens were
never unified in their ideals and
aspttations. but what a rovela
tidtt*has taken place. Now the
citizens act in unison on all mat
ters of community intorcs* ;uyt
this splendid situation has been
brought about largely bv the
Bering Springs high school. Ev
ery Citizen is back of the insti
tution and it has wrought won
deftt,' The church building is one
of dhe handsomest rural houses
of,Worship in North Carolina.
The‘township was the first to
levy a tax for better roads and
one of the first to have a rural
lighting system.
When Miss Landon came to
Cleveland to present a pageant
depicting the rural community
life she made a wise choice in
looking to Boiling Springs where
the citizens rallied to the call
and drew a picture, the like ot
which has never been seen Jr
North Carolina. It will have a
fai>reaching effect cn the thou
sands of people who stood Fri
day night before the large stage
in the wooded cove and looked on
as “the ideal community life was
pictured in most graphic style
before them.
A man who can make a suit that
will last as long as a vest has a for
tuae before him.
CONSERVED BY PROFIT.
Country life will be preserved
in America by being made profi
table. This is the meat in the ad
dress of Governor Thomas Me
Lend, of South Carolina at the
lug farm picnic Friday. Every
banker, merchant, manufacturer
and business man should appre
ciate the fact that the basic
wealth of our country depends on
the farming industry and if they
do not want to see it prosper,
they are short-sighted and sel
fish. Every trade and vocation
of life in the South prospers as
farming prospers and when the
farmer fails to get a fair return
for his labors and his invest
ments, these other lines are
given a set-back.
We have often wondered why
the prices of farm products
do not mount faster because of
the drift of rural population
into the cities and towns and we
have .lust found statistics to
show the reason why. East year
J 82,000 moved from the farms
city ward, but the births in the
country were 497,000 in excess
of the deaths, consequently the
rural population steadily in
crease's in the fact what appears
*o be a movement from the
farms. Then, too, with modern
farm machinery, one man pro
duces as much as four produced
25 years ago.
Last year farm profits aver
aged four and a half per cent—a
return which many classes would
not be satisfied to receive, yet
these farmers were forced to re
ceive this small return because
they are compelled to accept
prices that are offered. The co
operative marketing system is
undertaking to change this sit
uation and if it succeeds, it will
have benefit ted not only the
farmer, but every other class.
OPINIONS
-OF OTHERS
Memorials.
“Fine” Writin’.
(From Lumberton Robesonian.)
"Fine” writing formerly was care
fully avoided by experienced news
paper men, who were content to leave
the flAr.d style which delights moat
people at some time in life to the
tender cub. But a decided change has
taken place in recent years in the
stylo in which.the Associated Press
handles the funerals of great men.
Associated Press correspondents who
have written up recent funerals of
great men have laid it on pretty thick.
No youthful sophomore striding from
star to star ever made more lavish
use of high-sounding adjectives. And
along with lavish use of adjectives
some reporters have dug up a new
idea that long-drawn-out funerals tax
the endurance of the dead. It Used to
he thought that it was the living who
i educed the strain. But it seems that
t'j-e deceased, cannot go to his long
h in o. bo ;.t p: aco until the funeral
i< over, if s to believe the Asso
•' i ■<; I’r .xs co r 'p indent who wrote,
rile c: the Bry.it funeral: ‘‘Grip
ped by h :r i.tfir.ajlie.i, she (Mrs.
i;i,jivri) trim >. t' in her closed motor
;. h.i dt ,1 yards f.;o:n the tented
r. .i.c -nn. I »K b.t;. o notes brought
i t r t! c i. : ' that the long strain
win ove it i h.r dead at peace ut
1. .
.V!' |k i)['!e had thought that the
Groat Commoner was at peace at last
when his soul left its mortal Casket
five days before at Dayton, Tenn. It
is rather a disturbing thought that a
soul is doomed to unrest until such a
time as those in charge of the last
rites consign its earthly tubetnucte
to the grave.
Watch Jewels.
Scientific American.
A watch movement contains pre
cious stones to diminish its wear. In a
watch- all watches that are worthy ol
the name the lever and the balance
wheel pivots always run in bearings
made of jewels. Also the pallets—
the arms of the lever which formu
late the circular motion of the escape
wheel into the vibratory motion of the
balance.and the ruby pin, the pin in
the roller of a lever staff which acts
in the'fork of the lever and receives
the impulse from the escapement, are
generally made of hard stone.
In high grade watches the bearings
of the entire movements are jeweled.
The best grade jewels are made ol
sapphires or rubies, the cheaper grade
of garnt-t. The jewels are the points
in which the pivots run, and they must
be made of the finest material if the
watch is to give good service. There
are from 7 to 2.‘i of these points ol
jewels in a watch, und unles they are
of good quality and fit the wheel piv
ots perfectly, the watch will be a poor
timekeeper, even if it does run.
The Fear of Waler.
Reading (Pa.) Tribune.
Swimming is one of the easiest and
most natural things in the world. If
people could only be persuaded ol
this they would learn to swim more
easily, and become much better swim
mers, and there would be fewer drown
ings.
The greatest obstacle is fear of the
water. When thut is lost, the powei
to swim conies of itself. The person
who trusts the water and yields him
self to it is swimming safely and hap
pily before he realizes it. The water
is friendly only when the bather is
sensible.
The water is buoyant. The novice is
afraid of sinking. As long as there
is breath in his lungs, he is lighter
than, water.
But the water will not support any
one who tries to climb out of it. The
swimmer must always remember to
yield himself to the water. All pos
sible weight must be beneath the sur
face. Since the head is the heaviest
part of the body, as much of it as pos
sible must be under water. Swimming
on the hack is easiest because in that
position the back of the head is sup
ported.
Most drownings of swimmers come
from cramps. That is nearly always
unnecessary. If the swimmer seized
with cramps will only keep his head
and remember that he is no heavier
with cramps than without them, and
take a floating position, he will usual
ly be able to float until cramps dis
appear.
Who Invented Movies?
(From Louisville Courier-Journal.)
“It is sufficient to know,” remarks
the Los Angeles Times, “that Edward
Muybridge, of California, is called the
father of motion pictures.” But is it
sufficient? Does the bare label make
the title good? Is Edward Muybridge
California, to be given the credit at
a time when the credit is being dis
puted? The Times is showing com
mendable State pride, and it qualifies
its claim for the California inventor,
but nevertheless its statement is a
bit premature.
The honor of originating motion
pictures came up for discussion rook
time ago, when Francis A. Jenkins,
of Richmond, Ind., attacked the
claims of Thomas A. Edison. More or
less recently while Jenkins was ex
pqrimenting (in Washington on the
transmission of moving pictures by
radio the dispute was revived and ,
proponents of Jenkins declared that
he had produced the first practical
machine.
The difficulty in the way of a
definite decision in the matter is due
in part at least to the development of
the idea. The motion picture is ail evo
lution. It sprang from a .ov known
for generations, a zone of pictures on
the inside of a wheel, which when re
volved gave the illusion of motion.
Instantaneous photography was the
next step, then the old kinetoscope,
which is still to be seen in penny ar
cades, and finally, with the invention
of the celluloid film in photography,
all the materials were at hand to be
placed together, to be developed into
a practical mach'ne for taking the
pictures and reproducing them.
Muybridge, Jenkins and Edison all
made machines of the kind. The
question is, which was the first prac
tical contrivance and not a predecess
or of the contrivance, like, for ex
ample, the kinetoscope? Definitely
the question has not been settled. It
is in much the same state of uncer
tainty as the Langley-Wright contro
versy over the first practical flying
machine. The credit in both cases
must await the verdict of time.
Why Go Further To Be Cheated?
(From Monroe Inquirer.)
The Big Four of Charlotte’s de
partment stores—Belk’s Efirds,
Iveys and Bon Marche—this week are
conducting what they call a “Co-Op
erative August Clearing Sale.” Last
Monday David Ovens, Ivey’s inter
esting and instructive ad writer
among other things, said:
“Now this week finds Charlotte’s
four big department stores lining up
in a friendly, brotherly love, help
one-another Co-operative August
Clearance Sale, the idea being that
four spiders working together can
pull more flier into their net than one
playing a lone game.”
The brother’s simile is rather inept,
apparently at least, from the stand
point of the men trying to sell goods.
This walking into a spider’s net, fig
uratively speaking, is just what the
average shopper desires to avoid.
Why couldn’t the fellow who wrote
the foregoing sentiment have made it
shorter and instead, like the old He
brew said:
“Ladles, come in here and trate mit
me. Vy go furder to be cheated.”
Only time a man's hair will really
:-tay parted is after he has parted with
it forever.
W. K. Misenheimer says some au.
tomobilc drivers should either have
padded cells or padded bumpers.
Years ago to get across a stream it
was necessary to use a ford. Now We
can’t get across a stream with one.
There’s small choice. When a road
is freed of all other hazards there’s
a speed cop.
How many Sunday automobile ae
cidents are due to people hurrying to
church, asks Rev. A. L. Stanford?
Obit.
Here lies the body of
Timothy Vaughan.
He stopped on the crossing;
The train hurried on.
The prize optimist, says John Wynn
Doggett is the pedestrian who smiles
when he reads that automobile pro
duction is showing a heavy increase,
A good name for the flivver is
Booster, says “Lefty" Robertson, be
cause it knocks so much.
HOWARD-HICkORY landscape
MEN HERE NEXT WEEK
THEY OFFER
COMPLETE LANDSCAPE SERVICE
By the Howard-Hickory plan the entire work is carried out by one organization; make the plan,
supply the plants, and put them in the ground. And best of all, stand behind every part of this work.
All this is to your advantage in that satisfaction and success are assured.
Long Rows 0( Shrubs
Put end to end our rows of shrubs and evergreens
would stretch for miles and miles! Nearly a hun
dred acres of land is used in this business, with an
investment of considerably more than $100,000;
then we add the experience of more than 25 years
in growing and selling trees and plants. Here is a
combination that means satisfaction to every one
of our customers.
Visitors tell us that the entire South possesses no
more complete collection of evergreens and orna
mental plants than is found in our nursery. From
this collection you or we can select just the speci
mens needed for your home grounds.
“I Cleared About $2500”
said one of our customers, “besides living in the
house 18 months. The planting is what sold it.”
If you knew that by investing $200 today
your place would increase $500 to $1,000 in
value in the next few months, you would make
the investment immediately.
Planting the home-grounds is exactly that kind
of an investment. It increases the value of the
home greatly in excess of the cost. Every season
passed without planting is an actual cash loss to
you.
Plan Now To Plant This Fall
Phone our representatives, Mr. Brunson or Mr. Pigford, at College Hotel, Shelby, Tuesday evening,
September 1, for a conference on your home grounds. As their stay is limited to only a few days, be sure to
consult with them not later than Wednesday. '
They are thoroughly familiar with plant life in this locality and can plan with you as to just what will be
best for your individual place. And remember that we not only plan, but we also plant the shrubs and ever
greens, roses, etc., and then re-supply any that may fail to grow through the first season.
THE HOWARD-HICKORY CO.
LANDSCAPE GARDENERS — NURSERYMEN.
HICKORY, N. C.
Ill