Mencken Laments
Over Decline Of
Intelligence Here
Asheville Citizen.
At the beginning of the present
year Dr. Henry L. Mencken, critic
of books and boobs, was sitting
pretty on a towering obelisk of op
timism, fanning himself with thr
Mercury Magazine's rapidly grow
ing subscription list and Joyously
promising his readers "a better
magazine than ever before" Now,
however, he has filled his shoes
with the lead of pessimism and
sunk to the bottom of the Slough
of Despond.
In an article in the Evening Sun
of Baltimore entitled "The War
upon Intelligence," the despairing
doctor lugubriously points out that
the very lew Americans who have
any sense are fast fading over the
hilltops, hotly pursued by the co
horts of Ignorance whose fatuous
and fatheaded yells of delight lend
added speed to the fleeing wise
guys.
“The art of making wa r on
sense." he wails, "Is far better or
ganized than It used to be. For
another thing, the defense is weak
SALE OF VALLABLE FARM
PROPERTV.
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon us in a deed
of trust executed by P. p. McSwuin
and wife. Mlnie McSwain on the
7th day of June. 1927 and recorded
In book 141. page 527. we will on
Saturday, 23day of February, 1929,
12 o'clock noon, at the courthouse
door in Cleveland county, Shelby,
N. C. sell at public auction for cash
to the highest bidder the following
land to-wit:
Adjoining the lands of Robert
Rover, Mrs. Jane E Dover. J. B
Price. Ernest Herndon und Mrs.
Win. Jennings and Mrs. Fruidy and
being lot or tract No. 1 of the J. M.
Dover land as shown by the m.p
of said tract made by A. P. Falls.
fiur\eyeor. August 28. 1919. said lot
or tract bounded as follows:
Beginning on an iron stake. Rob
eri, iwcrj corner in me oia ureen
Public Rond; thence north 1 east
4.25 chains with said roiui to a
stone in the road; thence south 69
east 15.20 chains with line of Jot
No. 5 of the said J. M. Dover land
to a sour wood In J. B. Price’s line:
thence south 24’4 west 38.25 chains
With the Price line to a stake In the
middle of Beason creek, corner of
lot or tract No. 2 of the said J M.
Dover land; thence north 73 west
31 chains with middle of said creek
to a stake; thence north 771 * west
8.62 chains to a stake at mouth of
old channel of Buffalo; thence
north 63 east 2 chains to a stake;
thence north 38 % cast 1.30 chains
to a stake; thence north 11 west
3.40 chains to a stake In old chan
nel of Buffalo: thence north 54
east 3 82 chains to a box elder In
line of tract No. 3 of the said J. M
Dover land; thence north 64Vi east.
3,80 ohalns with line of tract No. 3
to a stake and pointers; thence
north 84Vjj east 10 chains to a small
pine; thence north 35 east 5 chains
to a stake In pulley; thence south
88U east 12.86 chains to a stake In
the old Green road; thence north
29 east 3 67 chains to a stake in said
road: thence north 12',i east 10.10
chains to the point of beginnhig.
containing 95.3 acres and the same
being a part of the J. M. Dover land
conveyed by deed from Clyde R.
Itoey, commissioner, in special pro
ceeding No. 1182 recorded in the
clerk’s office of f uperior court,
Cleveland county, N. C. to Mrs.
Jane E. Dover, and said commis
sioner’s deed being of date of Dec
ember 31, 1920 arid recorded In book
EEC, page 539 of the register's of
fice of Cleveland county, N. C. to
which deed and special proceeding
reference is hereby made.
This sale Is made by reason ot the
failure of P. F. McSwaln and wife.
Minnie McSwnin to pay off and
discharge the Indebtedness secured
by said deed of trust to the North
Carolina Joint Stock and Land
Bank of Durham.
A deposit of 10% will be required
from the purchaser at the sale.
This the 16th day of January,
1929.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
DURHAM, Trustee. Durham,
N. C.
Bynum E. Weathers, Atty.
er nnd tends to become demoializ- i
ed and desponding " By the Great
Horn Spoon, yes! Sanity U on |
the run, and tolly captains every;
precinct and commandeer the scab ;
of the mighty! And although the,
gloomy doctor says he doesn't know ;
[ why such Imbecilities should curse i
the United States, he suggests an |
explanation.
The American stock. tic ven
tures,' represents “the dregs of the
European stocks." And from his
sackcloth and ashes he proclaims:
"Certainly the best people of Eu- J
tope never came to America; they]
were naturally too comfortable at i
home. We got the w astrels and mis- i
tlts. the hoboes and halfwits Some
of them, in a new and relatively j
benign environment, developed
praiseworthy - qualities, but not.
many of them developed the qual
ity of intelligence . . . We have sel
dom thrilled the world with ideas."
Even his favorite deep thinkers,
the doctors and professors, he says,
have gone shallow. “The universi
ties subside into a respectable in
nocuousness. Observe, for example,
ttie Johns Hopkins. Its decay is
one of the great intellectual cala
mities of our time.” Small wonder,
then, that he is full of teas, tra
vails and trials. Practically all
Americans are crazy, and so few of
them know It! Worse still, when
Dr. Mencken tells them tltey’re
crazy, they don’t believe it. That,
we submit, is enougli to moke any
doctor-critic climb into a diver's
suit and sink sobbing into the
deepest depths of dolorous and j
dodecasyliablc despair!
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Having qualified as executors of
the will of T. H. Bridges, late of
Cleveland county, North Carolina,
this Is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against the estate of the
•said deceased to present them to
the undersigned on or before the
21st day ot December, 1929, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar ol
their recovery. All persons indebt
ed to the said estate will please
make immediate payment.
JOHN L. BRIDGES,
GEO. O. BRIDGES, Execu
tors of T. H. Bridges, Dec’d.
NOTICE Of SALE UNDER EX
ECUTION.
North Carolina, Cleveland Cunoty.
In the Superior Court:
L. U. Arrowood. Plntntift
vs.
S. I,. Briber and wife, Alice Buber,
et ul.. pelendants.
By virtue of an execution placed
in my hands, pursuant to a Judg
ment, of the superior court nt spe
cial November term, 1928, in the
above entitled cause, I will sell to
the highest bidder, at the court
house door In Shelby, on Monday,
February 18, 1929. at 12 o’clock M ,
tho following described real estate,
situated on the east side of S. La
Fnvetto street in the town ot
Shelby. N. C.:
All those certain lots ot land sit
uated la No. 6 township, town ot
Shelby, Cleveland county, state ot
North Carolina and being lots Nos. j
6 and 7 as nppear on plat of said
property, which plat is oi record in
the office of the register of deeds
for Cleveland county, N. C. in book j
of pints 2, page 2, reference is
hereby made lor a full description j
and which is hereby made a pari
of this instrument, said lands be
1 mg a part of the Fortune place, ly
ing on the east side of S. LaFnyettc j
street and being those same lots
! which were conveyed to A. W.“'Mc
} Murry by Bernice Hamrick and S.
H. Hamrick, guardian of Bernice
Hamrick by deed dated March 30,
192a, and recorded in the office of
the register of deeds for Cleveland
county, N. C., in deed book 3-I\
page 343
To satisfy the said execution lot
$204,72 and interest thereon from
February 1, 1928, and the further
sum of $29.90 the cost of the action.
The interest to be conveyed is the
entire property above described
during the coverture of 5 I.. Baber
and wife, Alice Baber, and the ab
solute title in the event S L Baber
survives his wife. Alice Baber, as
will more fully appear by reference
to the judgment roll in the office
ot the clerk of superior court ol
Cleveland county, N. C.
Terms oi sale: Cash.
This the 17th day ol January,
H. A. LOGAN. Sheriff ol
Cleveland County, N. C.
The Most Persistent Thief
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HENRY B. EDWARDS, Sec.-Treas.
21 Royster Bldg. Phone No. 673.
iJames Montague in New York
Times).
Hardships of ice and sea and rug
ed country which agencies of the
Canrdinn government must meet in
administering affairs on the frozen
fringes of the continent are some
times graphically described in of
ficial reports that eventually reach
the capital.
A Royal Canadian Mounted Po
lice constable and two Eskimos were
traveling from the northernmost
police post at Bache Peninsula, El
lesmere Island, on an extended pa
trol to the western part of the Is
land when they found their way to
the west coast blocked by a glacier
that was slowly closing up the pass
between Flagler Fjord and Oretha
Bay.
The two Eskimos counseled an
other way. The constable decided to
keep going. On one side of them
was the glacier, on the other a
towering cliff. The passage was
barely wide enough for one man.
Ice tumbled down from above, and
the way was ever the foot of the
glacier. So hard did the men bat
tle their way that despite the tem
perature of thirty degrees below
zero the three travelers were bathed
In persplraticn.
A Hazardous Journey.
Every moment of the time that
they were In that defile there was I
danger of a block of Ice exttngusih
tng their lives as It came tumbling
down from above. But they made
their way through, and continued on
a trail which took them 850 mtles
over land ahd water. At one place
they discovered, 200 feet r.bcve sea i
level, outcroppings of soft coal.
This account, comes back from the
frozen North in crisp sentences
forming the report of the police
post at Bache Peninsula. Also there j
Is told the stcr.v of a party that
set out from (his post, 700 miles
from the North Pole, to find a way
into the northernjnterlor Tire way I
of this party, whlcrf'would have led
nearly to the Arctic Ocean, was
blocked by girders.
Each year the Canadian govern
ment sends up a supply ship to re
lieve the constables In the Far j
North and to leave enough supplies |
for another year. Then the reports
and the mail from the north come
back. Tire Coast Guard ship Boethic
hr-s recently returned from Its an
nual trip. The department of the
interior records the voyage.
It seemed at first as tf the Boethic
were not going to be able to accom
plish Its mission to Bache Peninsula
on account of lcc conditions in
Smith Sound. The worst ice in years
faced the stanch vessel veteran or j
many trips in the Arctic. Pans ot j
ice mountain high, piled with snow, |
end of exceptional thickness barred
the way. They filled Buchanan and
Flagler Bays, closing all avenues of
appronch to Bache Peninsula, Fi
nally a way in was found and prog
ress wra made, for another five
miles. Here members of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police post at
Bache Peninsula welcomed the
ship They had been hunting wal
rus and had not seen a white man
—except of their own party—in a
year.
With no let-up in ice conditions
on the second day of the Boethic
in Buchanan Bay. it w'as decided to
exchange personnel. Inspect the
post, give out the mall and arrange
for the supplies to be taken to the
post Inspector Joy, with the men
of the post and those who were to
takes their places for the coming
year, left In a motor boat for the
peninsula, which the Boethic was
not able to reach. The party
threaded a way through the pack
ice which lay between the ship and
the far shore. Twenty-eight horn's
later the party was back again and
left supplies for a year at a cache
further down the shore, where the
constables could get at them and
bring them to their northern post
by dog team or. it me ire conamons
improved, by means of their power
boat. In the event that conditions
should make it impossible for the
annual supply ship to reach this
northern police post, the constables
would not suffer, however, since
there Is enough in supplies and
coal at the post to last for two
years.
Inspector Wilcox, stationed at
Pond Inlet, at the northern ex
tremity of Baffin Island, was re
lieved when the ship called there.
Inspector Wilcox makes many trips
alone through the Arctic islands.
His trips this past year Included one
to the Fury and Hecia Straits and
thence to Melville Peninsula. Trav
eling across the interior of the
northwest part of Baffin Land, he
crossed many lakes, frozen solid in
that northern climate. So solid does
! the water freeze that he was able
i to climb a wrterfall Then the
weather became bad. A five-day
blizzard set in. The mercury drop
ped till even the coal oil used as
fuel froze solid and had to be
thawed out by means of native
lamps before it cculd be used.
In that interior country 150 Es
kimos. were visited. They were
found healthy rnd prn-wous.
Car-bou were plentiful and wolves
The Printer’s Towel
Stirs The Memories
Imperial Type Metal Magazine.
Quite a number of readers have
responded to the request of Char
les Midge for the full text, of a
poem about a printers’ towel, quot
ing all or part of the poem, There
are some variations in text of the
different respondents, indicating
that many men are carrying in
their memory, and that memory,
like type, needs occasional proof
reading.
“The poem, which I think came
from Bob Burdette, has been stick
ing in my garret for some forty-five
years," writes Another Old Print
from the office of the 61 romsburg,
Neb., Headlight, Louis H. Zimtner
mann, one of the publishers of The
Burlington, Wis., Standard Demo
crat, remarks "Enjoy your maga
zine every month, it being one of
the few trades publications I take
home to read”—a compliment which
we appreciate.
What seems to be thn mo6t au
thentic copy of the poem is fur
nished by Frank M. Sherman, di
rector of publicity for The Lnnson
Monotype Co., and here it is: ,
The Printers’ Towel.
When I think of the towel.
The old-fashioned towel,
That used to hang up by the I
printing-house door.
I think that nobody,
In these days of shoddy,
Can hammer out iron to wear
^ as it wore.
rTie tramp who abused it,
rhe devil who used it.
The comp, who got at it when
these two were gone,
rhe make-up and foreman,
rhe editor, poor man.
Each rubbed some grime off for
the heap they put on.
[n. over, and under.
Twas blacker than thunder;
Twas harder than poverty,
rougher
than sin.
Prom the roller suspended.
It never was bended,
-> And’ ti flapped on the wall like
a banner of tin.
ft grew thicker and rougher,
And harder and tougher.
And daily put on a more tnkier
hue;
Till one windy morning.
Without any warning.
It fell oaf the floor and was
broken in two.
were scarce. The Eskimos had plen
ty of food. An abundance- of seal
and walrus is accountable for then
prosperity. Their fur catch was not
so big this past year, a matter over
which the Eskimos did mot com
plain so much as did the trader.
A Visit To Greenland.
Tee was encountered on both the
northern and southern trips of the
Boot hie. Anxious hours were passed
by those on board when t he ship on
its way bark was unable to work
through the pack, despite constant
bucking with its strong steel prow.
A chrnge of wind at last solved the
difficulty, and with the greatest of |
care the steamer was navigated j
through a partly open channel to |
the coast of Greenland. After a stop
at Craig Harbor, at the southern j
end of Ellesmere Island, where po
lice supplies left there on the
northward trip were taken aboard,
the expedition went to Devon Isl
and to take moving pictures of a
herd of mukox.
This herd had been stgntea on
several occasions during the pre
ceding winter on a small grcssy
area on the shore of this ice-cap
ped Island of glaciers. Two bulls
were brought to bay by an Eskimo
and a single dog. so that photo
graphs of these valuable animrls
could be taken at close range. For
merly the animals were plentiful
along the eastern seaboard but now
they are practically exterminrted.
Efforts are being made by the var
ious government departments to
save the remaining ones.
Gocd-wil! prevails between the
Canadiah. government and that of
Greenland^ Whenever possible
visits arc paid to the Danish pos
session. On this year’s trip, on the
way north, a stop was made at God
haven. the capital of the country.
The Parliament, which was in ses
sion. adjourned for the occasion.
There was great festivity in the
northern city, and the Acting Gov
eror, the Governor being awry on
official business in Denmark, was
host to the Canadians and also
their guest on board ship.
ncuevet the congestion,
prevents complications,
and hastens recovery.
Eagerly Await* News
Mrs. Trenor Rice, with her
youngest child, Marion, awaits
word of her husband, a deputy
sheriff, who faces indictment in
the slaying of County Detec
tive William E. Jackson, at
Wilhmantic. Conn
(lournationkl NawaraaO •
Decides He Will
Ta’re A Nrpht Off
After 36 Years In
Chicago.—Up to Thursday
night of last -week William
Kearns, hale and hearty at 82,
had avoided the pitfalls that
yawn before men. In the 36
years of his married life he had
not looked upon the wine when
It was red, blue or yellow; nor
had he gambled, nor stayed out
nights.
A little quick arithmetic re
veals that Mr. Kearns had re
mained at home something like
13.000 nights. A great deal of
emotion may be spent in 36
years. Mr. Kearns, In the quiet
of the county jail, ruminated
that after 13,000 nights of de
corous deportment, a fellow be
comes a wee bit bored.
Thursday night Mr. Kearns,
82, but feeling quite chippej-,
decided to step out with the
boys. Then, if ever, he reason
ed was the time to sow his wild
oats.
After a goodly crop had been
sown, he went home, where his
wife, who Is 80 years old, had
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What about
lour old age ?
Will you be independent
or dependent? Life insur
ance lays adequate founda
tions for serene,untroubled
sunset years.
Let’s talk it over and agree
on what will be the best
program for you. Phone
today for an appointment.
C. R. WEBB
General Agent,
Shelby, N. C.
Ix-rn wondering what had hap
pened. Though it was ‘way
past bedtime, Kearns began
moving the furniture into the
alley. He amused himse'.f be
tween times by tossing bric-a
brac at such targets as attract
ed his playful fancy. Mostly he
aimed at the garage. Mrs.
Kearns finally called the po
lice.
Her husband was still in a
liappv frame of mind when he
went before Judge Hartigan.
"Thirty days,” the court said.
“Thanks, Judge,” said Mr.
Kearns, “what's 30 days com
pared to 36 years?”
“Well, ma'ce It 60 days then,"
said ‘he court.
“That's fine,” replied Kearns,
“and again I thank you.”
“You're welcome, and I'll
make it 90 days,” Judge Harti
gan .old him.
Kearns began to think it was
a game, or something, but they
led him away before he could
express further gratitude.
The recent honors heaped on the
Inventor of the airplane are enough
to make any man feel that he’d
rather be Wright than president.—
Southern Lumberman.
Henry Ford believes that young
men shouldn't save their money,
and that’s one point where the
young men seem to be in hearty ac
cord with Henry,—Southern Lum- J
berman.
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TRUSTEE’S SALE
By virtue oi the power of sale
contained in a certain deeo of trust
executed by R. H. Ponder and wile
to the Commercial National Bank
oi High Point, N. C., local trustee,
as security for an indebtedness for
xwenty-Two Hundred ($2,200.00)
Dollars, sairf deed of trust being of
record In the office of the Register
of Deeds fo, Cleveland county, N
C., In Book 150, at age 282; and
default having been made In the
payment of said indebtedness, and
having been called upon by tho
holder of said incebtedness to fore
close said deed of trust, the under
signed trustee will offer for sale at
public auction to the nighest bid
der for cash at the Court House
Door in Shelby, N. C., on the 23rd
day of February, 1929, »t 12 M. the
following-described property, situ
ate, lying and being in the Town
of Shelby, Cleveland County, N. C..
In No. 6 Vownsfiip, and bounded and
more particularly described as fol
lows:
Ecing Joined on the North by an
alley, on the East by J. A. Roberts,
on the South by East Warrent
Street, and on the West by J. A.
Weaver, and lying on the North
side of East Warren Street In the
Town of Shelby. N. C.: BEGIN
NING at a stake or rock on the
North edge of the extension of East
Warren Street, J. A. Weaver's
boutheast corner, the said corner
being 63 1-3 feet South 85 degree*
and 30 minutes hast from the in
tersection oi North edge of East
Warren Street with the hast edge
of Maple Street, and rims lrom said
Weaver’s comer South 85 degrees
and 30 minutes East with the North
edge of East Warren Street 60 feet
to a stake, corner of J. A Roberts:
thence with Roberts' line North 5 *
degrees and 30 minutes East 175
feet to a stake in th« South edge
of a 10-foot alley: thence with said
edge of said 10-foot alley North
85 degrees and 30 minutes' West CO
feet to a stake, J. a. Weaver’*
Northeast corner; thence with
Weaver’s line South 5 degrees and
30 minutes West 175 feet to the
beginning, same being a part of the
property conveyed to K. H. Pon
der by J. L. Thomasson by deed .
recorded in Book “3-S,” page 473,
and part oi the pioperty conveyed
to R. H. Ponder by Dr. J. R. Os
borne and wife by deed recorded in
Book “3-W,” at page .487, Cleveland
County Records.
This January 21st, 1929.
COMMERCIAL NATIONAL
BANK OF HIGH POINT,
NORTH CAROLINA.
Local Trustee.
Newton & Newton, Attys.
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