Many Self-Made Men Who Never
Had Chance To Enter Collrge
Nebraska Educator Shows That
Ability Is Not Always Gov
erenod By College Course.
During the past, few years F J.
VogUance, superintendent of pablir
Instruction of Colfax county. Nib.,
has searched the records of sortie 2,
000 men and women whose names
appear In the Harvard Classics. Did
pRth’s Library of Universal Lit r
ature, the Encyclopaedia Britan
nlca and other noted works to ptou; I
his nrgument—in agreeing vvltli :
Ctcrro—that “natural ability with- |
out education has oftener raised'!
man to glory and virtue than ed'
ration without natural ability He
reports the result o' his research t< r
the benefit of other pathfinder
renders.
Explaining that the 2.000 bloy.a
phtes Investigated represent 40 dif
ferent countries and many diflrr
ent- professions, Mr. VogUance snys
he found that 1,465 had college edu-1
cation. Of the latter number >a5 !
were successful In the profession for j
which they prepared themselves in j
college—the Mayo brothers, Dr.!
Charles W. Elliott, Longfellow and
Vcrpnnek included.
The remaining 810 abandoned
their college profession for some
thing else. As examples. Julian Hay*
ihome and Herbert Spencer ga\e
up engineering for literature. “Bill"
Nye. Petrarch. James Russell Low
ell. Washington Irving and Ovoid
preferred writing to law. John Vo.i
Herder and John Keats gave up
surgery. Immanuel Kant failed no
a preacher, Emerson abandoned the
pulpit for the platform and Lessir-g
found the stage more alluring than
the church. Thus, more than half
the number of college men who
abandoned their first profession be
came successful in another.
About ene-fmtrth, or 493, of these
!k,000 were self-made, or homemade,
or self-educated. Alice and Phobt
Cary were educated at home, John
Chrysotom retired to a desert where
he spent six years In ah ascetic and
studious life. It Is said that he spent
two years In a damp, unwholesome
cavern In committing the Bible to |
memory, later recognized as the
foremost pulpit orator of the day. I
greatest of the Qreek fathers. Ht n
rich Conscience. Robert M »cl)e,
Vanbrey. never went to college un
til they went to teach; Thomas
Cooper, apprenticed to a shoemak
er. master of Latin, Oreck. Hebrew,
and French languages. Wlltu.m
Lloyd Garrison. William Gifford,
Jacob Mohme, Andrew J. Davis
were shoemakers.
Frederick Douglas whose mother
was a negro, father unknown, learn
ed to WTite on board fences, side
walks, sides of houses, became a
slave, later became editor cf a news
paper, member of territorial council
of the District of Columbia, presi
dential elector from New York, V.
S. Minister to Haiti. Thomas Eli
wood, expelled from school, was
given the position of reader to Mil
ton. later became a poet. Patrick
Henry at 24 decided to become «
lawyer, and in six weeks prepared
himself for the bar and passed the
examination. Sir William Herscheb
taught music, played the organ in
a church at Bath, studied astronomy
by himself, made himself a six
foot telescope, and became an au
thority on astronomy. Elbert Hub
bard had only a eemmon school
education, worked on a farm and tn
a printing shop, studied and travel
ed. Theodore Parker entered Har
vard college, but studied at home,
only being present at college for ex
aminations.
Allred Tennyson left college be
fore graduating. Emanuel Sweden
borg was assessor of mines until he
was 55 years old, resigned, devoted
himself to reading and study, and
became one of the leading philos
ophers and writers of ail times.
Tolstoi had only two years of col
lege. John Throbrtdge hnd ciuy a
rural school education. Isaak Wal
ton. father of angling, was a lire
draper. He retired at. 50, and the
remaining 40 years he spent in read
ing, study and writing. Issac Watte
never attended a college, John O.
Whittier worked on a farm until
he wae 18, then attended an acad
emy for only two years James Whit
comb Riley. St. Slmcn. Savona: ola,
Mitchael Farady, Clemence Isaurc.
Ellhu Burrltt, Luther Burbank,
Thomas Edison, and about 475 oth
ers were "homemade."
Charles M. Schwab says, “The
only education worth while is -elf
education." He, Henry Ford. John
D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie,
Judge Gray, Loyd George, Lord
Northeiiffe, Geo. Washington never
attended college.
Suggesting that teachers should
encourage their pupils to make the
lives of the great their own ex
amples, Mr Vogltance says he
doesn’t know of any literature that
will put more real “heroism” into
a live pupil than will the read’ng
of the lives of men "who stood fast'
and suffered long, who dared while
Others fled. He concludes:
According to some authorities the
seven classics are: The Pilgrim's
Progress, Book of Job. Odyssey, Di
vine Comedy, Faust, Arabian Ni-;hts
and Don Quixote. Each one of theae
teaches "heroism" In one form or
another, and has been translated
Into many languages. But pupils In
elementary schools cannot ••ead
these classics with as much orotit
and interest as they can the lift." of
MOM ai their heroes. Let a pupil
become Interested, and learning be
comes a pleasure to him, an1 teach
ing a mere assignment of lessons.
Anything a pupil studies with In-,
iciest, he learns without conscious
effort.
Wood Products May
Mean Coin W. N. C
Rutherfordton.—The announce
ment that the Farmers’ Federation
would develoi) the wood' product?
market tn Western North Carolina
,va» received with much Interest bj
he people of this section. They
ealize, especially the farmers, that,
t means new wealth in a constant
stream coming to them.
The federation plans to tap some
if the many resources in Western
North Carolina. Wood pulp, ex
iract of wood, locus for lnstuUtm
pins, dogwood for cotton mill an ut
ile bicks, all kinds of logs for
veneering and saw mill purposes
will be used. Telegraph and tele
phone poles, also poles for the high
way commission take a large
amount of wood products each year
This move on the part of the
Farmers' Federation will bring near
industries to Western North Caro
lina such as wood-working plants of
various kinds, rolling pin and clothes
pin factories, and manufacture of
chairs, tables and the like.
The four high priced trees, pop
lar, walnut, locust and white pine,
thrive In Western North Car$ll.,a.
They represent untold wealth to
mountain farmers, and will help
vacant lots to produce wealth for
farmers and timber growers. Walnut
will be assembled In carlots po each
Individual farmer can get the bene
fit of the carlot prices.
'fhe demand for poles by railroads
light and power companies, state
highway commissions, telegraph md
telephone companies is growing -ap
ldly. Tlie total number used in
this country now amounts to over
4,000,000 i»U-s and averaging tnem
at $2.50 each means $10,000,000
spent annually for thl* item.
Development of this new indus' -y
by the Farmers' Federation means
that the 20,885 Idle acres of .an 1
In Buncombe county will go to
producing wealth. Buncombe nas
more idle acre? than any of the
other 23 Western North Carolina
counties; Wilkes is second with 17,
319 acres; Burke third with 15.569
acres; Madison, fourth with 15.104
acres; .Cherokee next with 12 453
while Rutherford has 9,856 idle
acres, Polk 5, 412. Henderson 2,610
and .Jackson. 6.888. The S3 Weste n
North Carolina counties have a to
tal of 183 230 idle acres that sluvld
be producing steady wealth to the
owners.
There are 1,811,818 farm woodland
acres In the 23 most Western North
Carolina counties that are produc
ing an annual growth equivalent to
1.359.000 cords of wood, based on
an average of three-fourths of a
cord per acre per year, The aver
age mountain farm burns aa fuel
fourteen cords annually. Thus, the
fuel requirements for the farms
alone annually amount? to aboat
700.000 cords of wood. Since he
low-grade timber can be used for
local consumption on the farms,
there Is still left about 659.000 cord?
of wood to be marketed in these 23
counties annually. The total val ic
of this wood (In poles, pulpwood,
logs and fuel) Is about $8 per cord,
or a total of $5,472,000 annually.
Farm woodland of the 23 moun
tain counties can produce aa an
nual Income, above the requireniet is
of the home, of about $235,000 pa
county per year.
"The Dragon.'
, The time was midnight, and the
man was leg weary and thirsty as
he trudged along the country road.
At last he came to a public-house
by the roadside called the George
and Dragon. He knocked loudly on
door.
Prdsent.lv the head of a fierce
looking woman appeared at a win
dow. and she demanded what he
meant by disturbing her at that
time ot n'ght. It was long alter
closing time, and he would never
get a drink out of her.
Go away, she shouted, before I
set the dog on you.
Well, said the man, will you
please tell George I'd like a word
with him?
On Broadway. New York City.
You'd never think this street
used to be a cowpat.h, would you?
Oh, I dunno; look at all the
calves.
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__SEV ERAE CONTRIBUTORS are handing in lists of “re
member wheng” about old Shelby. The majority of them,
however, came in after today’s spasm was in print and will be
produced later. These include some interesting memories by
Mrs. George Blanton and others, and some Shelby documents
dating back to the days before the America?! Independence
found among the old documents in, the possession of J. A.
W ilson. Those in a reminiscent mood today may have their
memories stirred by a few recollections on the part of Mr.
c-irest noey.
ONE OF THE THINGS OUT OF
l>aat recalled by Mr. Hoey back In
the days of the old Methodist
church, which stood where *h'
Webb theatre Is located now, and
the time was prior to the remodel
ling of the church which was re
placed by the movie hou.se.
"Along in front of each pew,” hi
recalls, "there were three boxes
filled with saw dust to be used as
spittoons for the tobacco users so
that they might not be forced to
do without their Brown's Mule dur.
tng services. When the church was
being remodelled and with all the
pews carried out one could still tell
where they had been by the stains
on the walls at the sides of the
building made by the fellows whose
alms were high while expectorating
their amber.”
then it is. also, recalled
that, two of Shelby's best known
business men nowadays got their
start in the business world by oper
ating Beck's Fountain, the landmark
which was removed from the north
east comer of the court square not
so many years back. T. W. Hamrick,
the je*eler and student of muni
cipal government, got his first busi
ness experience there, and so did
Claude Webb, the theatre man.
A CONTRIBUTOR. WHO TFH
haps has tlrpd of superlative men
nnd women but still wishes to Keep
his identity secret, writes in to in
form that after making a search of
the U. 8. Postal Guide he finds
that there are 10 Shelby* and eight
Shrlbyvtlles. Those of you who have
been to the big town and wondered
why people asked “what state?”
when you gave your home as Shelby
may not be puzzled any longer. But
we ll wager the amount of our last
overdraft that not a one of the ten
is better known than our own Shel
by. because Shelby, North Carolina
is the largest Shelby or Shelbyvflle
listed.
The contributor was nice enough
to continue by Jotting down each
aiielby listed and the papulation
thereof. Here they are;
Shelby, North Carolina, popula
tion 12.000.
Shelby, Virginia, population 3.
Shelby, Alabama, population 790.
Shelby, Iowa, population 375.
Shelby, Texas, population 248.
Shelby, Michigan, population, J -
388.
Shelby, Mississippi, population I -
300
Shelby. Montana, population 537.
Shelby. Nebraska, population 559
Shelby, Ohio, population 5.578.
^Shelbyville, Arkansas, population
— Shelbyville, Illinois, population-3,
568.
8helbyvllle, Indiana, population
9,773.
ShelbyviJle, Kentucky, population
125
8helbvville. Michigan, population
161
Shelbyville, Missouri, population,
2,912.
Shelbyville Tennessee, population,
g- T— -.
2 912.
Shelbjrvllle, Texan, population 3JG
Now what do you know about
that?
CONTRIBUTORS ARE OETT
tlng on friendlier terms with tills
department. Observant readers will
note, although our ambitions ire
not quite so high-faultin', that many
of Odd McIntyre's wisecracks are
contributed by his readers. That
being the case this oolyum may
amount to something In the next
100 years or so. We are not con
vinced. however, to the extent*of
planning to hang around and see
U such Is the case.
One contributor In the recent
mails show's us that errors can
creep Into this department, al
though it does seem almost impos
sible? This contributor, who pre
fers to be anonymous, uses twe
items in the same oolyum to show'
that Tony, the Italian In Georgia
who thinks A1 Smith is president
because times are so hard. Is not the
only one wfco can make a mistake.
In the “remember when question"
about the time when West Warren
and West Marlon streets sloped to
gether “as East Warren and East
Marion do now.” he gently (maybe
he’s a she since no name was sign
ed) points out that “East Warren
and East Marlon do NOT slope to
gether. East Warren goes on out,
on an extension by the county Jail,
towards Beaumont Terraces. The
street which Joins Warren and
Marlon Is known as Jones Place.
They do not converge."
Thanks for the correction.
NOW WE’LL TELL A COUPLE
of the Ripley belleve-lt-or-oot var
iety.
Mr. S. E. Hoey, foreman of The
Star printery. says his store teeth
get on edge as often as did his reg
ular molars, if not oftener.
Roland Hill, one of the lino oper
ators who works under Mr. Hoey,
and runs one of the machines at
night, says that in the wee, cold
hours in the morning of long, win
try nights the toes on his left foot
seem to be colder than those on his
right foot. And Hill’s left foot is a
neat little pedal extremity made of
willow, one he’s been using sinse
he left his real foot tangled up in
the wreckage of a motorcycle a
decade back.
Now rub that off before you go
bed.
Perfectly Equipped.
Visitor (speaking of little boy):
He has hts mother's eyes.
Mother: And his father's mouth.
Child: And his brother’s trous
ers. . .... .._ _____^
Bad Case.
Doctor—H'ml Severe headaches,
bilious attack, pains in the neck—
what’s your age. madam?
Patient (coyly)—Twenty - four,
doctor.
Doctor (continuing to write)—
H’m, loss of memory, too.
Smi-Lax Builds Good
Health, Vigor and Vitality
Thu remarhable tome is baaioblai
the ipKln sf troaeda la thoaeandi
of horns. SMI-LAX Is not habit
tormina, contain* nor* tonic proper
tie*, end reacts on th# entire oyoten
la Nature's wap. If 70a are ran
down, underweight, nereone sad on
happ7 tir SMI-LAX TONIC.
Smi-Lax Relieves Consti
pation Without Doping
I'nhoppy victim* of this dsnaeroa*
dioeaso find SMI-LAX TONIC aaut
Inalr ploaeant and effective. SMI-LAX
tone* op the liver, pnrlflee the bowel
tract. etimfnnHns noses. Ind i ae-r ion
•«d caaanpatiaa qnickly ||W tWr
•avhly.
Mrs. J. O. Willis, China
Grove, N. C., Regains
Health After Taking Smi
Lax. ,
•A >«m* nit »t Uw "fla" laft at
VMk aI*d rondtwn I alao aafftrad
wllk caaatiaatian. A friend aftM
SMI LAX TONIC. 1 MW fret wail
and atronf. a* rtliertd af comtipa
Han. and tiara a hearty arpatita'1
SMI-LAX TONIC 18 SACKED BT
AN IBON-CLAD GlAJIANTKi
Cotton Growers Must
Cut Their Acreage
Washington.—in u terse warning
to cotton farmers to cut their
acreage this spring if they expert
the government to help market ne
1930 crop, the federal farm board
took its first decisive step to iorce
a minimum agricultural surplus.
“Some cotton farmers," the board
said, "think that because the federal
farm Doard has been lending to
operatives at an average of 16 cents
a pound an middling seven-eighth
inch staple of the 1929 crop, the
board means to see to it that the
price will be at least that much ’or
the crop of 1930.
‘‘This Is not so. The federal farm
board cannot protea fanners when
they deliberately over-plant. What
the board will do to help In market
ing next year’s crop win depend
upon what farmers do at planting
time.”
“The advances we have made on
cotton and wheat this year,” said C.
c. Teague, member of the board,
"represent what we feel to be a safe
margin guaranteed by present
prices, current stock, supply and de
mand. We do not know that,we
could offer as much less, or more
next year. Advances undoubtedly
will vary from time to time, de
pending on the economic trend '
Sudden expansion in any commod
ity producing a surplus might make
it impossible to obtain a profitable
price.”
In no event, Teague said, would
the farm board guarantee a price
level for a crop In advance of plant
ing.
The board based its warning on
'
Us statement that last year’s cotton
acreage was too large. It was the
largest planted acreage of any />ar
In history, excepting 1925 and 1926.
“II southern farmers should ra'ie
their own food and feed and in ad
dition raise so far as the climate and
soil will let them, the food that
southern city people eat, there would
be small danger of any cotton sur
plus or of an unprofitable price.”
The board recommended that
southern farmers plant no cotton
next spring until they first have
provided acres enough for a reason
able supply of food and feed, and
that no land be planted to cotton
which had not produced at teast
one-third of a bale an acre on the
average for the last five years.
Blood? Yes, But
Whiskey, No, Never
Mocksvllle Enterprise.
The many stories, going the
round these days tending to estab
lish mere man's fondness for that
which some say Is so scarce, are
amusing. As one Is quoted as hav
ing said. “I will trust you with my
pocketbeok. j will trust you with
my wife, but. brother, you don’t get
hold of the key to my cellar.” shows
how some look at It. So does a story
-old by Dr. Page Northlnton, editor
f Southern Medicine and Surgery,
here Is the story as the famous
medico” tells it In the December
number of his publication:
"Gentlemen,” said the surgeon a$
he entered the lobby of the Gooi
gg club, "I have a patient hover
t between life and death One
hing will save him. Is there a ger
nen here who will volunteer t*
.... a t,„a. i 01— '
That's enough, clot 1 11 Uo :t!
d out an athletic youth.
“But it must be good, you know
t must be pure. I shall liavo tc
■'ke a careful examination."
“Sure thing. Step right in here ”
They entered an adjoining ante
‘>om and the sturdy man started r
■'move his coat.
“Here, here—what’s the idea?
"landed the doctor.
“Don’t you want to examine me?"
“Certainly not. Just let me see
he whiskey?”
“Whiskey? Well, of all the nerve?
’'link T’d give up a quart of good
hiskey for a guy I never saw in my
fe? X thought you only wanted
blood.
This''reminds us of hue wliieii ,ne
'ate Carey Dowd publisher of the
'"'arlotte News, used to tell:
“A Charlotte man so drv that his
“inards” rattled. stepped into a
dark alley where he had an en
•ragement with his bootlegger
Handing the said bootlegger the
debar bill, and snatching the pint,
he shoved it into his hip pocket.
Just at that time a. cop rushed
around the corner. The thirsty fel
low. determined to make a getaway
with his precious fluid. made a
dash for a still darker place, and
one a little further away from the
shining presence of the said cop
“Halt,” he commanded, a second
time, aaid then a shot. The buliet
passed in such close proximity to
the pint on the man’s hip that a
chip was taken off from the lower
left hand corner of the flask. But
the man continued to run. Then
feeling the fluid trickling down his
leg and into his shoe, and knowing
for a certainty that either his flask
or his anatomy had been pierced b
the policeman's bullet, the Char
lotte man said as he ran, “I hop
to Ood that’s blood.’’
Freezing weather In December
caused heavy losses to Irish potato
growers of Avery county.
Still More Millions
Treat Colds Direct
Round-About Method of “Dosing’
Gives Way To Modern .
Vaporizing Salve
More and more people each yeai
are giving up the slow, indirect we >
of treating colds by "dosing" witr
Internal medicines, and are adop'
ing the modem direct treatment
Vicks VapoRub.
Vicks goes direct to the atfectc
parts and checks the cold in t\vc
ways—its medicated vapors, re
leased by the heat of the body, art
inhaled direct to the inflamed air
j passages; at the same time it act.
direct through the skin like a pout
j tice or plaster, “drawing out” tight
ness and soreness.
Vicks is especially appreciated b\
mothers because it is just rubbe'
on, and therefore, cannot upsc
children’s delicate stomachs as “do
ing" is 30 apt to do. Today the who!
trend of medical practice is av.aj
from needless “dosing.”
To keep pace with the ever-grow
ing demand, the famous slogan, “17
Million Jars Used Yearly,” wt
; raised to “21 Million” a short time
ago. Tbts figure too has been ou
grown, as there are now “Over 2'(
Million Jars Used Yearly”—a jar
for evety family in the Uniter
i States.
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nave
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