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TfCtTT PACES THE MONROK JOURfUL. TO1IUY, IARCH 10, 1923 two The best cook in the world cannot produce a satisfactory meal from unsatisfactory food. You cannot extract nu T. C. Lee 6 Son -Phone 356 ' & IT trition that the food doesn't contain. Our food is different UUU I THE BOTTOM STONE MUST BEON BOTTOM A Great Many Young Men Ex pect to Start at Top of Life's Ladder and Go lp ALL WANT AN EASY JOB We Don't Understand the Other Fel lows Troubles But re Prone to Think Our Work the Hardest (From Saturday Evening Post.) It has always been a momentous undertaking for a young man to de cide in what direction and toward hat goal his life could be most use fully and advantageously directed. Nor is it other than a delicate and knotty assumption for. an older man to advise him. Youth will be served in any case and must try life out for itself. The fresh vigor and en thusiasm of twenty and twenty-five never mix overwell with the rather frequent cynicism and almost always settled resignation of forty-live and fifty. Yet the young have never been able and never will be able to plan their lives wholly without consulta tion with those who have already reached the goal of success. It is hard to combine the opposing elements of youth and middle life, and yet they can never be separated. But in an age of revolt both the young man and his elder are more than ever at sea retarding the for mer's career. Whan the authority of church, parents, elders and superiors has become weakened, both advice and counsel lose weight. Occupations and careers, like everything else, tend to Jose moorings as authority, re straint and control diminish. Perhaps the self-confidence which conceives of accomplishment and achievement in a single bound has been exaggerated by the increase in wealth and the consequent ea3e of at taining comfort and luxury. Young men in the colleges are accustomed in so many cases to having every thing provided for them. One of their own publications recently defended the rather humiliating freshman customs in these words: "Despite the frequent protest received from various sources we still strongly lavor me iresnnian customs, and regret to see continued attempts to weaken them. They are very beneficial to the majority of men who enter college with an exaggerated tense of their importance, whether as a result of social position, wealth or prep-school record." There is another type of young man, of course, the one who is dis couraged from the start, who thinks he will always be poor and sees no break ahead. Possibly he suffers less disillusionment in the end than the one who starts out to make a fortune or reform the world instanter. But both young men, though of opposite types, make a common mistake which is almost always recognized in the perspective of after-life. Tne conli' dent youth is afraid all the big prob lems will be solved before he pets to them or that they will be solved wrong, by doddering elders unV;s he hurres up'. The more moiL'st worker fails to see that his period of waiting or humble activity is a verv short one after all. What really counts in building a career is to do a rather small job firct nnd get a reputation for doing it well. Now and tlien a g-.niu.s, sp called, seems to be able to jump thr prclim'nary and intermediate stage? and at an eirly ae otvury the sea's of the mighty. Hut such is one in a m.llion. The asnirn-,' young jou,' nal'st may seek to sway the multi tude through the power of his port, but before onyrne cans to read h.'s discourse on world affairs he is us ually set to work for some years re porting what hipnena in a magis trate's court If he is the one in the million, the rare genius, he may leap from tender high-schoil years into the full glare of fame; but even then there w a serpent in his Eden, for he usually pours out the sort of facile smart cleverness which most competent and authoritative critics regard ns not only superficial but quite undependable. Any careful study of the principles which surround promotion in business organizations will d'sclo3e the fact that men are advanced because their super'ors bel'eve in their ability to handle larger problems on tha basfs of proved capacity in mas'erln j small er ones. Whatever 'occupation or career one follows, the central fact is that no worker can successfully throw technic overboard until he has mastered it. The really great futurist painters have been those who first knew their conventional schools through the lab oratory of regular professional pur suit and compliance. There is no more childish or pitiful delusion than that one can break away from the bounds of convention without first knowing: rather well just what con vention amounts to. Yet young men and women often expect to achieve at once through sheer intensity of ardor the largest results in literature, art, mus'c, sci ence and social reform. They count opon their youth, vigor, enthusiasm end courage to get results, forgetting that these are the very qualities which make it possible for them to master the technic, do the small job well and rrcpare the soil for the flower which only growth can bring. Both young and older men over emphas'se the importance cf getting frto what they call the right occu ration or profession. Is it not vital then that all should choose- the work tor which they are best fitted and are most likely to enjoy? Of coursa. Eut it is so easy to believe that the the fellow's profession is more at tractive, more replete with onportu tiit 1 and more certain to lend tc an illustrious car?er than one's own. The public official often th:r';j that the royal road to power on ! inlunce lies in journalism. He 'sees that his own policies receive little attention unless the press reports mem iui:y. 11 s words anpear to have not weight when addressed to newspaper readers than when h;s auditors rre members of legislative committer. Editors and writers, so he reasons, do nut. like himself, have to put into effect the policies which they advoca'.e.J xui viir iiittii 4ii pui.ii. v...... mistakes the broad and easy path of propaganda for the hard and narrow one of impartial journalism. When he speaks of the power of the pre he forgets that the greater its power and success the more heavy are its responsibilities and the les often c;n it ride hobbies, even if they be the pet topics of the editor and the ownr. Success in journalism is determined by painfully acquired judgment and professional vision, experience snu technic, and is not a great natural resource of Nature, as it were, which the lucky editor merely grabs out of the air. But the journalist can be just ns shortsighted as the Under in puVie life. Too often he envies the public official a power and influence which the latter does not really have. The trials and tribulations of pub re office, the cranks and meddlers, the critics whose only object seems to be to asperse motives and blacken and destroy character this is a story all by itself. So one could go on through every occupation and profession salesmanship, factory production, en gineering, teaching, banking, law. medicine and the rYst. The scope ard br.lliance of each career are magni fied from the outside, nad only the insiders think they know what toil and drudgery really mean. Assuming as a matter of course that a young man will not go into work which is honestly and intrinsi cally distasteful to him or for which he s obviously unfitted, then the foun dation stone of a career is not so much the particular field or subject as his willingness to master its tech nic and do small preliminary jobs well and loyally. If he can only real ize that his youthful attributes, hi-, superabundant energy, enthusiasm and a quality which almost approaches inspiration, are given him for the very purpose of building the foundation instead of immediately gilding the dome, he will already have won half the battle. BRYAN WON'T BE MADE A MONKEY OF BY SCIENTISTS He Ridicules Darwin Theory of Evo lution and Says His Ancestors Were Not Monkeys (Philadelphia dispatch to New York 'World) William Jennings Bryan declared today that no evolutionist could make a monkey out of him. Speaking in the Academy of Music under the aus pices of the Philadelphia Forum, he nayea evoiuiionisis in genem ana believers in the Darwinian theory in particular. "The scientists talk," Mr. Bryan bes'an, "about a little animal several million years ago who crawled on his belly. If he had crawled on his back the whole history of the world would have been changed. But he didn't. Hs wiggled abng on his belly. "He wiggled so much that he grew n wart. Then he wiggled the wart and it helped to move him along. He turned over on the other side and wiggled until he grew another wart. By and ty the warts grew into legs so say scientists. "Eyes for the little animals? Ho stretched out in the sun for so many thousands of centuries that the sun picke 1 out the nvst seniitwn part of his h:de and made a fr?:'kle there. The freckles got worse and worse until it became an eye. Then he t"rned up the other side, grew an other freckle and got another eye. "A Presbyterian preacher has writ ten all this stu'f. He must believe it. He could just as easily believe in Jonah and ray that he played in and out of whales every three days from early childhood. "Once a man refused to eat lunch because I tried to taki the monkey head off his family crest. I w'sh the evolutionists would stop with their own ancestors and leave mine, alone. They can't'make a monkey out of me. "You know they tell ur we had hn'ry ancestors. But do you know how we got. rid of the hair? The males fought for the females. After the battle was over, the females did a little selecting on their own .ac count. They picked out the males that had the least hair. "The next holiday to be intro duced, which will take precedence over Thanksgiving and the" Fourth of July, is Water-Poppy Day. A scientist has Raid that the greatest day in the world's history was when a water "loppy crawled out of the water onto ihe land and stayed there. It really ought to be celebrated." Then, in serious vein, Mr. Bryan concluded: "Take from man his belief in God and I nk him with the jungle and vou have changed his philosophy. Everything in a human life depends upon a belief in God. On that be l ef rests a responsiblitv to self. to others and to God. The time is coming when we are goinjr to get back to a real belief in God and to a belief in the Word. MASONIC MEETINGS Monroe Lodge 244 A. F. & A. M. First and Third Thursday Monroe Chapter No. 6i R. A. M. Second and Fourth Tuesday Malta Conmandery No. 19 K. T. First and Third Tuesday Visiting1 members welcome. HE WAS SIXTY-TWO YEARS OLD AND DIDN'T KNOW IT The Mountaineer Servins a Term in Prson for Allowin- Still to Be Run on Mis Plantatiun (From the I'plift.) "I didn't even know the still was in there until one day my wife ask?d me about the noise down the branch, ' declares Ervin Hardin, about sixty two years old, who has completed the large part of a six-months prison sen tence for allowing a still to be ope rated on his land. He was convicted by the federal court sitting at Salis bury, and was sent to the Iredell jail to serve his sentence, says the States ville Sentinel. His home is o Wilkes county near the forks of the Hunting Creek, Summer's township. Friends of the old man say that he is serving the sentence rather than "squeal" on his friends whom he knew were operating the still, but when a newspaper man asked him about that he laughed heartily, and said, "Let's let that pass." Mr. Hardin is typical of the Brushy mountain foothill native. He is stocky, muscular as a wrestler, and has a wild cat gleam in his eyes. He has iron grey hair, glossy as a Norman, and a face as clear of hardened lines as a Salvation army leader. "You didn't even know the still was there unt 1 it had been there several days?" he was asked. "Not a word," the old man said. "One day I came in from the fields, and the old woman asked me what that noise down the branch was about. I told her I didn't know, but I'd go down and see.' When I went I found out what was being done. The still had been there about three or four days," he said. "Did you know the men?" "I ain't telling that," he replied. "Cere they your boys?" he was asked. "I ain't tcllin that either," he said. "Well, how did they connect you with the sf.ll?" "Well, the officers found it on my land, it was within a few hundreds yards of my home, and they found some whiskey-making stuff at my barn. They concluded that I must be the guilty one, arrested me, and here I am in iail." The old man did not know how old he was, but remembered how old he was when he was married, and how long it had been since he was married; so placing the two together, it was found that he was about sixty-two years old. "I can't read a word or write a word." he explained. "That's why I don't know exactly how eld I am. We have a record, which is kept by my daughter, in the family Bible at home. "There were no such things as schools when I was growing up," he said usinir words almost as well- chosen as the ones the writer has chosen for him. "I never saw inside a school house, never learned a single one of the letters of the alphabet, and never learned to write a word." Th's old man has not laid down his life for a friend but he certainly has laid out six months of it for a group of friends, those who know him say. "Yes, we know it is a violation of the law to make whiskey," he said, "but you know a fellow gets in the habit of doing a thing and he doesn't like to be pestered about. I'm through with this business of making whis key, thouirh." he declared, "and when I get out of this I'm going home to the old woman, and ws are going to dig a living out of that little farm, and we are going to be happy, nd the next time we hear 'noises down the branch wc arc going to send the dogs after them, and if they Vn't move, Uncle Sam has a pack that will make them skeedadule." Two Girls Killed in Bed Amtrillo, Texas, March 8. Gladys Solomon." aged 15, and Nell Umber son, aged 13, were shot and instantly k'lled while sleeping in bed at the Umberson homo in the Sunset com munity, fifteen miles northeast of Lockney, early today. A short time later Houston Upton, It), member of a well-known family in the same com munity, attempted to ommit suicide in a schoolhouse near the Umberson home, the police report, by shooting himself near the heart. Vera Wilson, sleeping in the same bed with the Misses Umberson and Solomon, was not injured. According to the police, young Up ton and Gladys Solomon were sweet hearts, and Upton came to the Urn berson home where she was visiting late Sunday night and called the girl to the door. The two talked some time and are said to have quarreled. Upton leaving the place. About 4 o'clock this morn-ns a man entered the room where the three jrirls were sleeping and the shooting lol lowed. Later Upton was found in the schoolhouse with a bullet wound in h's left side. He was removed to his home and it is believed he will die. Has Claim to AH Money in the World- . San Jose, Cal., March 7. Henry B Stuart has a valid claim to nil the money there is in the word, and some besides but he ne'er srill njt it. Judge W. R. Welch, in superior court today entered a formal derree m.'tkmg record of the judgment he granted Stuart against George Jones last week for 304.81032.912.C?3.H. ; The sum represents $100, thi prin cipal of a promissory note executed by Jones in 1897, with interest at ten per cent compourdr.d monthly. The court also aliorjd Stuart -.cn per rnt on the .u-n Uiitil Jons pays it. Stuart admits he would be willing to settle the judgment fot tne yar's interear. A miser has merry mourneri. fOURNAL II f ANT A DS n AY J OURNAL IT ANT i03 L AY DEAS ON CONSOLIDATION OF UNION COUNTY SCHOOLS Thinks We Should Have Central High School Surrounded wit Ele mentary Institutions By Eugene E. Huggins The subject of education is always important. But probably more so at present than any time in recent years. ih'.s is Decause in we prescni ui machanical progress and development mnro intelligence is reouired to make a success in any line of endeavor than during any age of the world's history. So it i very important tnai our scnooi svs'em be such as to equip the youth of North Carolina in such a way that thry w.ll be prepared to meet the problems of the r day. It is evident to the careful student of present day conditions that the . i , t fc' L. present scnooi sysicm in ourm vaiu- ma is inadequate xo meet meir necus. It i becominz more rfnd more evi dent that if North Carolina is to be come a really great state her children, like the Spartan, must be taught a trade. That is, while we are teaching ihe rudiments of a literary education we must prepare the boys and girls of North Carolina for some legitimate occupation by which they can earn a Iivelinooa. naving 10 sian in me without beinir prepared to make a success in any line of endeavor is probably the cause or more laiiure than any one thing. Because having to beein any occupation without prep aration naturally incurs low wages, which in some instances are so low as not to provide a decent living, which naturally creates a state of discour agement and discontent The quest on is now may we so ar range our system of education as to Drooerly educate and prepare the coming generations so they may be amply prepared to make a success ol life. Havine spent ten years teaching in the rural -schools and having studied very carefully rural conditions Vn Union county. I wish to offer what I believe to be the 'most practicable system of schools for the county: I believe a high school education should be within the reach of every boy and girl in Union county. Ihis naturally involves the subject of school consolidation. The following is what I consider the best plan for this work: First, an accredited high school, with a district, say five miles square; then build about four elemen tary schools in each direction from the central high school, their districts to be, say five miles square; put as many teachers in the elementary schools as is necessary to teach the pupils. Let the children all walk to school. Then as those in the elemen tary schools complete the grades truck them to the high school. By so doing every child in Union county can De within reach of a high school, and a high school education within reach of every boy and girl in the county, and at a minimum of expense. Wd proba bly would need some eight or ten high schools. The ones we have could be enlarged and others built. These high schools could be made farm lile m : The March m I Bow Wow Bluaa roi Tret Railroad Bluoi Foa Trot Smilin' Fox Trot Somawharo In Naplat MacV.y Fox Trot . 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It also keeps away all dandruff and immediately stops itch ing scalp." This inexpensive invigorator is sold by English Drug Company and at all good drug and toilet counters. Be sure you get the genuine Parisian Sage (Giroux's) as that has the mon ey back guarantee printed on every bottle. WEAK, NERVOUS, ALL RUII-DOVII IHuoari Lady Suffered Until Sh Tried OrduL-Sj "Rem Was Surpruinj.M Cot Aloag Fine, Became Normal aid Healthy. Sprinrfield Mo. "My back wu so weak I could hardly' stand up, and I would have bearing-down pains and was not weU at any Urns," jays Mrs. D. V. Williams, wife ot a well-known fanner on Route C, this place. "I kept cetUng headaches nnd harlot to go to bed.' continues. Mrs. Williams describing the troubles from which shs obtained relief through the use ot CarduL "My husband, having heard ot CsTdui, proposed getting It for me. "I saw after taking some Cardui . . . that I was improving. The result was surprising. I felt like ft different person. . "Later I suffered from weakness and weak hack, and felt nil run-down. I did not rest well at night, I wu so nervous nnd cross. My husband said hs would get mo some Cardui. which he did. It strengthened me ... My doctor said I got along fins. I was la good healthy condition. X cannot say too much for it" Thousands of women hare suffered ss Mrs. Williams describes, until they found relief from the use of Cardui. Elnco it has helped no many, yon should not hesitate to try Cardui if troubled with womanly ailments. For sale ovsrywhers. &M Victor Are ' Here Make on tRpcIatmm? ynuvw.1" to hoar hese new Victor Records at Once. Reading this list fcives you w. idna of what awits you. But bo sure to coxae in ar.d l.car lafl.u l-'.'.ye 1. Now'c tho time. Fore's the place. ted srv.L RrcoaDS Pint You (Jt--!rlreH. ,. ., Don Cioannl Vilcal, e.'-lno (D.iu.t, Thi'l I Tell Tbr) Sinrtf th ria ',Gajih-Mcim..k) Tho Two Grvhablrri (HTitKoch'jn:.ip) W'li.n Hi. 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RUDGE CO. Monroe, N. G. PLUMMER STEVART IS IN ACTION ON BOOK QUESTION He Does Not Believe in New Test books for the Public Schools and Doesn't Hate to Say S3 (From the Charlotte News.) The wholesale change in textbooks for North Carolina schools will forco an unwarranted expense on the par ents, says Plummer Stewart, chair man of the county board of education. Mr. Stewart submitted a set of res olutions to the "Us inquiry" meeting at the citv auditorium Monday de bouncing the State Textbook Com l mission and the resolutions were un animously adopted. Nearly ninety per cent of all books 'for use in grammer schools of ths ! State "have been chanced, said the county school chairman, who takes the position that the change in new books lor old will bring a burden upon the parents. "This wholesale change is directly wrong. In practically every instance new books must be purchased and thjft expenditure is too great on the cit'r.ens who now are already heavily burdened with taxes," declared Mr. Stewart. "According to my mind, the recom mendation of the textbook commis sion is but a reflection on the previous commission. Almost sll the books chosen three years aco are now changed. It appears to me that text books which were good enough for use in State schools three years ago ought to be good enough now," he cont'nued. Mr. Stewart also thought that the change should not come, in such large proportions at least, for the teachers will be compelled to teach from new books. As soon as they become familiar with one set of books, he said, they are forced to take on new ones. That will not make for greatest efficiency in teaching he as serted. The selections of the State board of educations, which finally adopts the textbooks, will be compulsory for ru ral schools. Mr. Stewart was not sure that city schools are compelled to accept the selections of the State. The charter, granted to Charlotte by the .IState Legislature, provides for the selection of textbooks by the lo cal school board, said Mr. Stewart. In hiss denunciatory resolution Mr. Stewart does not attack the State Board of Education but lays the blame for the wholesale change at the feet of the textbook commission. The textbook commission, he explain ed, selects a list of several books in each subject, submits these lists, with recommendations to the State Board of Education, which makes final se lection. In the list handed the educational board, Mr. Stewart said, ninety ner cent of the old books were not named and because of that the members of the board of education had their hands tied. The old books were not in the lists and, therefore, could not be chosen, the net creating the textbook commission providing for the selec Hon by the board of education from the lists submitted by the commisjion. mm 4.114 ltJ H Records Franca Atda M027 Lucroaia Borl 87M1 rodor Challapin CS644 Faodor Challapln 864) FwKlorChaliapin M646 Cluaapp da Lura M76 lUniamino Cigll 7467 Jaacha H.K.ta 66022 Utulaa Homar SH)4 FriU Kratalar 6A02J John McCormaek 6A0M Erika Murinl 147H Sarrol Rachmaninoff 7472 Phil.d.lpHa Orchaatra 74729 rniladanlila Urchoatra M'U Ranato ZanaUl VtOii Dl.ftand Jan BartoU Orchaatra of Chicago! 1ISS50 ilftSH Paul Whltaman and Hia Orcha.t ra . . f aul Wtutoman and Hia Orcha.tr. I Club Royal Orchaatra , , c j Club Royal Orchaatra j l0" Hackal-Barf 1 Orchaatra 1 Croan Broa. Mallorimba Orchaatra i Paul Whitamanand HlaOrchoatralM(a Paul Whilaman and Hi Orchaatra ,0" 43267 10 Royal Dadmun Royal Dadmun 45266 10 45265 10 Maria Caklll Maria Cahill . 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