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Hollywood’s Latest Match i Mary Thilbin is Hollywood’s latest screen star to announce her engagement. In this picture Mary is shown with Paul Kohner, her pince. As superTlsor of her recent pictures, Kohner has been r.ary's boss—but the minister will change that. The wedding date has not been set. -Greatest Living Americans Condensed from The Red Book oy Emil Ludwig. What impresses us Germans most about America is not its money, it* films or its prise-fights—not its staggering output of machinery, or press dispatches—not its soaring sky-scrapers. Not its quantity, nor its accumulation, but its spirit of emprise, and that alone. While X am sitting at my desk, I hear from the sky a humming, rush ing sound which quickly grows to thunder. Through the midst, calm and sure as a bird of passage, an airplane project* itself. Who invent ed this thing? Whose spirit is hov ering above me? Many Wains have contrived the artifice since Leonardo da Vinci drew the plans of it to days when the sun was still revolving about the earth. But the first being a quarter of a century ago to main tain themselves aloft in a contri vance heavier than the air. the first, five years after thetr initial success, to fly two hours and 30 minutes— these were the brothers Wright. And if the palm of victory belongs to bgth of them this last summer one of the brothers was still alive to see hts spiritual descendant, Lindbergh, fly across the great ocean. The German Lillenthal, a spirit close akin to the Wrights, failed o achieve practical results, and was thus forced to surrender the fairer half of fame. And rightly, since the sublime quality in Wright is after all not the lightning-flash of' genius; it is the immensity of per- j serverence, the sure faith in reach- j mg the sought-for goal, the courage to risk again and again one’s life. This is no man who plans inven- i tively in his laboratory, but a being who makes anew daily tests of his discoveries, ever barely escaping the j jaws of death. What is raorej the | Wrights were without the greatest of ah helps to courage—youth. For when they attained the objective of j their desires, they wetv'tflose to 40 years of age. And when Orville j Wright undertook at Fort Myer his trial flight above Washington, to soar in the presence of government experts, he was 31 years old. On this occasion he fell, breaking hip-bone and ribs, sustaining a concussion of the brain, remaining unconscious lor days. mill a year later success naa come and for the first time a Wright plane was flying over the edge of an ocean. Kverything we were forever hearing about the Wrights somehow held the imagination captive. A11 ru mors concerning them were so prac tical, so original and so bold that they might have come straight from the pages of Homer. For here, we felt, were heroes which is to say beings who conquered the difficulty of life by spirit and courage. Rockefeller in a way is the direct antithesis of Wright: he invented nothing, discovered nothing, never threw his life on the scales, gave the world no new civilizing agent—and yet he appears a genius, although the richest man in the world. For he has founded a world power, without being a general of a dictator—a power more mighty than many a state, in which he is ot primal in fluence and strong enough to defy the mighty state that bore him. But Rockefeller did not gain his power by lack of scruple; he won it above all else because of his spirit of emprise and his imagination. He who undertakes singlehanded so mighty a battle with the state and society, he who comes oft victor in such a struggle against the people, cannot be simply the adventurer and cor rupter whom Roosevelt, vain tried to drag before the bar of justice. Such a being must rather be a man of great combining genius and flashing penetration, who brusta up on the darkness and suddenly il lumines it. Rockfeller's life is rich in such creative moments of activiy. When in the early 60 s thousands were i thronging the Oil Creek region of > Pennsylvania to bore for crude oil. this 23-year-old youngster decides to buy the oil. refine it and sell it again and so avoid all the risks which be set the wildcatters. Thus with cal culating insight he derives the ma jor profits of the hot struggle. Soon after this he realizes the cogency oi the idea to pipe oil to the place of its consumption. Since, however, he cannot control sufficient funds to carry out the plan, he Joins forces with his business enemies—an act which his day considered revaiuticn ary. Before he was 30, Rockfeller had already begun his long and sue- j cessful war on his chief opponents, the railway magnates. Ten years later he founded the first trust—the prototype of all modern trusts. Like wise he was the first to organize on a vast scale both production and disposal. And all this without vanity, with out placing himself in the limelight! Prom his invisible desk he conquers China with a master-stroke; he re mains unseen when he is ordered by court to pay a fine of 29 million dollars; when he receives the news, he says: "It will be a long time be fore this fine is paid." And he never did pay the money. If it be true that he is pious, then he must fe^l him self to be one of those world mis- ]' sionaries whom fate has chosen first to take money in ruthless fashion ! from their fellowmen only to re- t store it again to them in the way of wisdom. At any rate, at the age of 90 he enjoys the good fortune of j those whose youth has been so far i forgotten in their age that men fl- j nally come to make saints of them Jans Adams looks like Goodness ! personified. What she has accom- j plished in Chicago has never been accomplised by any individual in! Europe, nor by groups or societies, j When she was 20. she saw with hor- j ror what forms human existence j took on, what sulferings guiltless be ings must endure. In the epoch in which the Rockefellers are uniting all their imagination and energies in order to heap together money and make a power of it, the Ad dams' are assembling all_the strength of their hearts and their heads to collect money and trans mute it into human happiness tsne devotes ner nr» to ner low liest brothers. And although Rocke feller's life is closing with an infin itely greater number of furthered existences, with a much larger sum of human happiness which he with his money has created in his old age, yet history will never award to him the palm which the contem porary world is already beginning to offer Jane Addarns. The heart that beats in Hull House, the self-denial which it contains, the flame which it feeds, are imperishable, and this woman has as exponent of a definite other America done more to win the respect of the Old World for the New than all the bank directors and magnates of the metropolis. When I multiply the inventive spirit of Wright, the organizing talent of Rockefeller, the humanity of Addarns, the result is Edison. Here is genius and naivete, shrewd ness and good breeding, industry and imagination. And all this is not transformed into power, not into enjoyment, wealth and a somewhat embarrassed benevolence, but a light at night in uniting peoples, in the transmission of voices in moving pictures, in cement houses, and all of this from one pole to another, all of this for the billion of human beings who Inhabit the earth. If f we speculate as to the living being! ! to whom the workl owes greatest ; gratitude, no one can compete with Edison. Let cne dismias from his mind everything that Edison has I invented, and how much poorer is i i the earth in happineas. comfort | safety and stimulation! The ob i jection that many of these things ! were invented before him at least 1 in principle, and therefore presum ably would have b'cn perfected if | he had never lived, may be raised against Caesar or Lincoln, as well: it could likewise be said of a beau tiful woman that her mother had brought her ready-made into the world—that sh" needed only to de velop herself. | Human life is full of such lean ings: seeds of talent are hidden in everyone. But what first constitutes greatness is continuity, growth and change, faith and perseverance, in dustry. taste and dignity. A half dozen minds had really made the great discoveries that today bear Edison's name: but he alone of all of them had the enormous per I severance, the cver-wakeful gift for combination;- he dared and out lasted the tireless tests, their fail ures and their new beginnings. Famed Horse Race Gambler Is Dead Often Worth Fortune in Morning and Pauper at Night. Exires cf Poisoning New York —One of the most sen sational race track plungers of re cent years, "the mysterious Nick F.is dead, succumbing to an ill ness believed to have resulted from feed poisoning. Bern Nicholas Frozly, lew oi tnose to whom he was a familiar figure at the tracks know what the initial stood for. He was said *o have bet as high as $1.OOO,0OC in one after \ neen's play and ns high as $200,000 one -ace. Four years ago he was credited with having won $1,500,000 in the Winter season at Hew Or i leans only to lose it in the Sum mer at the Northern tracks. Wheth er he died rich or poor could not be ascertained. Frozly was born in Manchester. England, about 48 years ago of Sy rian parentage and had been a fol lower of the tracks for 25 years. “Nick F.." was probably the most “scientific" of all race track gam blers. He lived a laborious, pscetic life, often working all night over from charts and confidential report-; from his agents to figure just how he was going to place his bets the next day. During times of affluence he would organize a staff erf as many as twenty dockers, who timed the performances of horses in races and workouts and reported their findings to him. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Daisy Forzly, to whom he had been married 20 years and who was hie constant companion at the tracks. When luck was good “Nick F," load ed her with jewels. When it was bad she pawned them. They were often rich in the morning and poor at night, or the other way round. Forzly did not smoke, drink or play cards Other gamblers respected his judgment and honesty so im plicitly that when broke he never had trouble making a loan with which to start his operations anew. After one of his crashes he is said to have borrowed $150,000 from race track acquaintances for a new start. Wilson and Smith Charlotte Observer ■' More and more frequently as the campaign progresses we shall hear about the late Woodrow Wilson's ap praisal of Governor Smith. It seems I that a correspondent in New York! state wrote Mr. Wilson, seeking his | views of the Empire state governor. The president wrote in reply as foi- j lows: "I hope and believe that you will not be disappointed in Governor Smith. He is a man who haa «>>ad quite apart In a great many ways, and I believe he feels in an unusual degree the impulse and compulsions of the changed order of the nation’s and the world's affairs." Another little matter of history published at this time to keep the record straight. Note how difficult it is to quote Wilson's words from memory. KASKOB UNABLE TO PAT VISIT TO ASHEVILLE Asheville —J. J Raskob. national Democratic chairman, and Senator Peter G. Gerry, chairman of the advisory committee of Gov. Alfred E. Smith’s campaign, will be unable to visit Asheville this summer be cause of pressing campaign busi ness, it has been learned here. The two had planned a few days’ vacation at Senator Gerry’s home, the Frith, in Biltmore Forest here. So That’s It, Eh? (Lincoln Co. News) There are at least five hundred anti-Smith voters in North Caro lina. That number have written letters to the newspapers opposing Gov. Smith for president, and prob ably some of the S00 writers were old line Republicans any how, and were against the governor because he is a Democrat. Dr. Crane says business must be beautiful. It is. when enough orders are coming in.—Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter. It has been stated that at the end of the year Mr. Lloyd George will give up writing newsppaer articles. In recognition of this finssptrit sev eral Fleet Street Journalists have given up the idea of becoming Prime Minister.—Punch. Is Rabbit Peril Coming To Sections In Carolina? i Journalist Says Carolina in Danger «f Ruin by Cotton Tails Vorkville Enquired Naturalists have persistently de clared that mischief would r:»sult from tinkering' with nature's bal ance; and the increase of rabbits all over South Carolina is a case in point. Just now it is a nuisance, but. unless the balance is restored, it will be a menace, James Henry tRice warns the Palmetto people (through the medium of The Colum bia State, | Some time ago The State quoted the late Col. Thomas Morgan as '.saying that a single pair of rabbits would produce two million progeny : in three years; and this statement J was received with doubt and deris , tort by people who know nothing of \ the fecundity of the rodent tribe. If \ Colonel Morgan really made that statement, he was in error; but the i error lay in understimate. We can (get light on the subject from the greatest authority in the world. Sir (Richard Lydekker. who says: { "Rabbits were first introduced at «Jhe period of the highest prosperity (of Australian and New South Wales (by a patriotic gentleman who (thought it would be a good thing to import a few rabbits into the i Colony, as they would serve for food 'and for sport. He accordingly im | ported three couples of rabbits, and l they were turned loose It was not ! long before it was found that the district in question had been trans j formed into a gigantic rabbit war | ren. Indeed it was discovered that a single pair of rabbits under fav orable circumstances, would in three ; years have a progeny, numbering 13.718.000. They Ate Up Australia j The inhabitants of the colony ; soon found that the rabbits were a plague, for they destroyed the grass, which was needed for the sheep, the bark of trees and every kind of fruit and vegetables until the pros pect of the colony became a very ! serious matter and ruin seemed ' inevitable. In New South Wales upward of fifteen million rabbit skins have been exported in a single year; while In the 13 years ending with 1889. no less than thirty-nine million were accounted for in Vic toria alone. To prevent the increase of these rodents, the introduction of weas els, stoats, mungooses, etc., has been tried; but it has been found that these carnivores neglected the rab bits and took to feeding on poultry; and thus became as great a nuis ance as the animals they were in tended to destroy The attempt to kill them off by the introduction of an epidemic disease has also failed. Victoria built a woven wire fence a hundred and fifty miles long. "In New Zealand, where the rab bit has been introduced little more than 30 years, Its increase has been so enormous, and the destruction It Inflicts so great, that in some districts it has actually been a •question whether the colonies should not vacate the country rather than attempt to fight against the plague. The average number of rabbit skins annually exported from New Zealand is now 12.000,000 { They Killed His Beans and Peas So Colonel Morgan made a modest statement, far below the actual facts. What has caused this tremen ou8 increase of rabbits in South Carolina (ours are really hares, but the figures apply to both)? They wiped out five plantings of beans here last year, and several crop*' of English peas. They ate down okra which was a foot high and destroyed great numbers of Cantaloupes, melon* as well as vines. Just now they are finishing up a quarter of an acre of cow peas, eating every vine down to the j ground. During our 12 years in this once famous and now desolated regions, such a thing never happened be fore. Although many were caught and more killed last year, they never let up until September, when the rattlesnakes took a hand in the game Then they became scarce; but we had to kill the rattlesnakes to save the grandchildren Kill Raccoons; Perish From Rabbits ] The explanation of this pest is simple enough. The newspapers have carried lurid accounts, eman ating from inspired sources, urging hunters to kill off “vermin,” by I which was meant hawks, owls, rac coons, foxes and so on in order to increase the supply of partridges for hunters to kill. At the same time the ladies made unheard-of demands on the fur dealers for wraps and cloaks which could no longer be supplied from the frozen North. Thousands of ne groes went trapping with steel traps. Raccoon hides sold as high as $16 rach; and almost any kind of hide bought four to five dollars. Four raccons A week kept the negro in clover, also the white bushman. In 1916-17 raccoons were so numerous around here that the boys caught great numbers within sight H the house. They were often seen ileeping on live oak limbs in the jaytime. Every marsh and every foreshore swarmed with raccoons Wants Alligators Protected Two years ago a reliable negro, who had been trapping for years. toM me that four raccoons a week made a big catch, and that two a week was doing well. I have not seen a raccoon track on the place fcr several years They hove been brought to the vanishing point The great-horned and the burred owl. once numerous, are rare birds in this vicinity; and the rattlesnake has had to do double duty, Almost every night I see the checks on rabbit increase; and we are paying the penalty Almost every night I seen the flashing of the bull's-eye lantern in the river, where men are hunt ing down alligators for their hides. This will mean *a vast increase in cotton-mouth moccasions. gar pike, carp and in time kt in the fat tailed muskrat, from which the al , ligator has kept us free. It is high time to put on protec tion for the alligator, before neces sity forces it and incalculable dam age is done, as was the case in Louisiana Will Overran Piedmont Also It will take no great while for the most obtuse countryman to see tv hat he has brought on himself j by destroying the natural enemies . of the rabbit. Up to withing re | cent years, rabbits have not been numerous on the coast, always ex | cepting the pond rabbit, whose hab itat in brandies, swamps and along the borders of ponds forbids him from becoming a pest. He lias his work cut out for him there. This rabbit increase is not con fined to the coast. It extends over ' the state and unless destruction of | the rabbit’s natural enemies stops ; summarily there is going to be a howl for Hillton Head to Travelers (Rest i Nature does not ask even the countrymen to obey her laws. She has a way of enforcing respect dor them. -PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Draper Wood spent last week at Burnsville. Miss Helen Flint of Winston-Sa lem is visiting Miss Mary Hull. Miss Willie Witherspoon is spend ing a week With relatives in Newton. Miss Lucy Hamrick visited in Asheville last week. Miss Pauline Hopper and Mr. Fred Lewis of Charlotte were Sunday visitors in our city. Miss Rose Davis of Clinton. S C. left yesterday after a week’s visit to Mr. and Mrs Harley Ledford Mr. and Mrs. Draper Wood re turned Sunday from a ten days (trip in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Martin of Charlotte spent Saturday with Mr( , and Mrs. A. P. Farris. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sigmon of Newton spent Sunday with Mrs. Sigmons mother. Mrs. Wither spioon. Mr. Durant Hanard. of Miami. Fla., spent several days here last week with his cousin. Mr. Eugene Burgess. Miss Catherine Green of Char lotte returned home Sunday after spending a week with Mrs. W. Y. Crowder. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Honeycutt and guests, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Steifel and Mrs. Wade Harrison spent Sunday at Blowing Rock. Mrs. Cleveland Gardner arrived home Thursday from a month's vis it to Burlington and Chapel Hill accompanied by her mother. Mrs. Mary J. Llord. Mrs. W. R. Ware of Ruiherford ton and daughter, Mrs. C. A Kriech baum and Sara Kriechbaum, o? Baltimore visited Mrs Laura Wells and Mrs. Mae Connor Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Georg" W Peeler had as their guests Friday, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Carpenter. Misses Es ther and Ruth Carpenter, of Meck lenburg county, and Mrs Jane R. Hoyle of upper Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Smith and three sons, Dixon, jr., Ned, and J. P. Smith are spending a few days here. They are from Columbus, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Corrace O Weath ers. of San Antonio, Texas, who have been here for over month visit ing his kinsmen and sisters, Mrs. Major Hopper, Mrs. E. P Riviere, also Mrs. Jim Putnam of Linocln ton will return home Wednesday. A. V. Wray and his son, George Wray, of A V. Wray and Six Sons, have gone north on an extended buying trip. They will visit Balti more, Philadelphia and New York, purchasing a big stock for the new store, which they expect to occupy in September. Mr. and Mrs Maynard Washburn j and Mr. and Mrs. Evans Shuil j motored to Sanford, this state. Sun- I day, where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Hartness, formerly of Shelby, and Mrs. Carl Coggins, nee Mary Morris, who is a patient in the Cen tral Carolina hospital there. Misses Nancy Suttle and A1 Foun tain and Messrs Whitelaw Kendal! and Bill Pendelton visited at Chim ney Rock yesterday. They were joined at Lake Lure Inn for dinner by Mr and Mrs. J A. Suttle and son, Albert, Mrs. Lewis Forney and Miss Frances Levy Mr, W. E. Jordan and family have returned from an enjoyable motor trip to the eastern part of the state. They visited Kinston, Mr. Jordan’s old home, and went as far as Morehead City. “Everywhere In the eastern section, the state seems to be progressing," Mr. Jordan said. Mr. John Mauney and two sons, Fisher and Raymond, of Atlanta, visited Mr. Mauney’s mother, Mrs. Mary Jane Mauney at her son’s home, Mr. Rodney Mauney, last week Mr. and Mrs John M Best and family returned to Shelby the lnt ter part of the week from an ex tended trip to the eastern part of the state. They visited Mr Best's father at Franklinton They made the return journey the night of the big storm, Mr. Best having his own trouble in the torrential downpour Youth Usually Itches To Roam Juvenile Statistics Show Girls' Per iod Of Restlessness More Definite Los Angeles.—To the growing boy the long road away beckons most alluringly when he is t^e | tween 11 and 16 years old. to the girl the desire lo roam comes most strongly at the ages •f 15 and 16. Titose conclusions have been drawn following adoption of a new system of analysis inaugurated by the Los Angeles police department to determine causes of juvenile de linquency After a three-month study the officials declared it had proved there Wus a "'r«iU.'»s age" and it v»n felt by girls at almost definite times while with boys it appee ed at more widely separated intervals. During one month is5 boys and 4*.' girls wer1 listed cn departmental records as having disappeared from then homes here G1 that number 60 per cent st vered home ties he • eau; “ ol misunderstandings. Juve nile office s said The boy is apt to heed the call of adventure If he thinks he is mis treated or unappreciated at horn” He rarely 1 >aves. as does rhd girl, because of sex matters. Poverty plays a negligible part In youthful runaways and ignorance on the part of parents, over-discipline and under-discipline are ths primary causes for the breaking of bonds between youth and father and mother. L V. Hanson, Ft W Lester and Anna D. Hahn co-operated in for mula ting file new system of re ports, They behove that another year will provide individuals infor mation in determining causes of juvenile delinquency and in effect;-, ing remedies. i All In n Day Charlotte News. Clyde iioey, we are informed. is receiving all manner of biting, mean, buckslashing. epit helical let ters. on account of hie bold and crusading stand’ for Governor Smith, many of them—no doubt, ■the.- most of them coming from church people. Mr Hoey is not only an upstand ing Christian gentleman and pro-' foundh religious by Inheritance, by instinct and by preference, but he is the head cf one of the largest Methodist Bible classes in the South add it was not longer ago than yes terday ..that• he was held in adora tion by the bishops, All in a day. therefore, lie has fallen from grace and turned his face .toward perdition, forSoth, be cause he lias the courage to do politically -vti.it his conscience dic tates So giws always the mudne.ss of men! You can't influence a woman'j ballot. Como what wi}l. sh* is going to vote against the candidate whose wife she dislikes.—Publishers Syn 5 dicate. *735 and Up Ail pricej f. o. b. Detroit IMtynr cum pay for curt out of ir. come at lowest avail*: Me Charge for interest, bundling and insurance t .Here is value that stands at the very pinnacle of the world’s most efficient industry. Here are perform ance, beaut\, comfort and quality workmanship. As you regard its handsome ensemble or go over it detail by detail, you get the same compelling con viction of compjci ness and finish, of costly car quality and construction. To see, to examine, Co ride in the new Essex Super Six can bring only one conclusion—it is the WorldS Greatest Value—altogether or part by part. ESSEX Super-Six. D. H. CLINE, Dealer SHELBY, N. C. - KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. •.. was Luke a busy map this hot August day.. he was ... what with a string of cars lined up at the pumps ... a big Mar in on on the frease rack and a Cadillac waiting . . uke was busy ... even Mrs. Luke'was doing her turn at the pump . . . and Marjorie, the youngest, was snapping pop bottle tops and playing Hallelujah on the cash register... and all of a sudden, in •he rolls.. .the family bus... \ image of 1924 • * * *v*ryonc present but the family cat. . . Mother herself at the wheel... radiator sizzl ing and steaming.and the motor going“clank —clank”. . . says she anxious-like to busy Luke...^please,could you drain my crank case!*... and my radiator needs a drink” ... Luke smiled ... he had to smile... “in * a minute Kastus wilt have your car on the ramp and then we ll fix it up coin plete” . . . and fifteen .minutes later, Mother, all smiles, was merrily on her way ... clean oil ... radiator filled ... and fifteen gallons of (i.O.S.* iu the tanks. . . “that s service,” says Luke, wiping his brow, to Mrs. Luke., “sure is,”says Mrs. Luke.. .“but then.weVe used to giving it”... and they were. / ) ( k ■ .use forgot to say that own before the “ bu» ’* rolled out. mother's youngest asked, “ nhal's C. O. S. mean ? ”... and then and there the youngster learned « life time truth... that C.O $. ***rtds for "Good Old **•adard." j' ' ■ you can’t get better ser-) vice than “Standard” service . . . whether you want just “Standard” Gasoline and “Standard” Motor Oil, or a complete “Standard” lubri cation job, you can depend /upon the quality of all “Standard * products wher» ever you may buy them.. ..
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