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June 30. 1881
ALFRED B. G. EDMONDS
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER Id. 1937
WHAT SCHOOLING IS FOR
More than 1.000,000 young- people have
gone to work in college courses this fall. The
majority of them probably spend from is-300 to
$1000 each annually for their education. Many
of them spend much more. Where so much
money is being spent, it is highly important
to get results.
Also the schooling of the millions of young
people now at work in high schools and acad
emies is very costly. They should see the ne
cessity of getting results worth the cost.
If you ask educational authorities what is
the most important thing these students have
to learn, many of them would say that it is
the power to think correctly and intelligently.
They would say the specific things learned out
of books, the facts of history and science and
foreign languages are mostly forgotten after
people leave school. If the student has learned
to think well, his education has paid.
People will ask how to learn to think.
Thinking consists principally of two processes.
First, observation of facts. Second, drawing
of correct conclusions, from those facts. The
good thinker has to be a good observer. If he
goes through life with his head in a mist of
clouds, without observing the facts of daily
life, and drawing correct conclusions from them,
he is not a good thinker. He will make so
many mistakes in his thinking and his action
that his education won’t do much good.
People do not have to attend college to
learn to be good thinkers. The person who
keeps his eyes wide open, who observes care
fully the ways of people and of work and bus
iness, who puts these observations together
and learns what they teach, is a good thinker,
even if he never had much education.
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DANGEROUS DRIVING TIME
October and November are called by many
the most dangerous time of the year for driving
automobiles. The early dark leads people to
speed up so as to get home quicker. Cool
nights make them feel kinky and inclined to
step hard on the gas. Falling leaves make
many roads slippery.
It is a time for drivers to do some real
thinking about these perils. It is not worth
while trying to save five minutes on the road
home, if as a result they land on some hospital
bed for five weeks. Their job and business will
suffer more from their absence during those
weeks than any amount of time saving canj
be worth.
The American motto still seems to be take
a chance. Many who feel it is too bothersome
to think of such considerations, will have plenty
of time to weigh them while lying flat on their;
backs.
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CHAMP POTATO PICKERS
They had a potato picking contest at Mars
Hill, Me., the other day, in which one 24 year'
old man picked 86 pecks in 15 minutes, and is
acclaimed as world champion. A one armed
man picked 72 pecks.
Picking potatoes may seem quite a routine
operation, which always has to be done a cer
tain way. The champ pickers would no doubt
say that skill plays a large part and they know
just how to gather in the most spuds without
wasting a second. There is always a quick way
and a slow way to do any kind of work. The
quick way studies how to avoid lost motion,
how to do two or three things, while some other
fellow is doing one. The world has to depend
on speedy work to get low cost production.
The person who knows how to avoid time wastes
is an economical worker, even at high pay.
* * * * * *
THE MONTH OF FRUITS
Someone has called October the month of
fruits. The apples redden on the trees, the
grapes turn to their rich purple, the vegetables
display all colors of the rainbow. The world is
a scene of joy to every painter, who tries in
vain to reproduce on canvass the pictures traced
by the finger of God.
These products which grow in such beauty
as to delight the eye, which sustain the body of
man, represent the essential goodness of life.
If the universe were a place of cruelty, where
harsh fates wilfully make us unhappy, as some
seem to feel, would all this richness and beauty
be created ? One can’t believe it. October's
fruits prove that the universe is essentially
friendly.
PRESIDENTS APPEAL FOR PEACE
President Roosevelt, speaking1 at Chicago,
delivered an eloquent appeal for world peace
and condemned nations that are violating their
treaties and resorting to barbarous warfare.
The whole country joins him heartily in this
protest.
When it comes to suggesting practical meas
ures to maintain such peace, the president is
indefinite. He feels that our country cannot
isolate itself from these world troubles, and
seems to suggest that warring nations should
be "quarantined." somewhat as people infected
with disease may be. If such a quarantine
meant forbidding commercial relations with
such countries, the nations thus treated might
consider it a cause for war.
This warning of the president's, coupled
with similar statements from other powers,
may induce some of these countries to go slow.
This is not likely. When nations want to light,
about the only way to stop them is to threaten
to light in return. If the United States threat
ens to tight, it may have to really do so. The
results from lighting in Europe 20 years ago
have not been satisfactory. The world is worse
otf since that lighting was done. Our people
have a right to protest against the actions ox
certain nations, but lighting a war to stop
these actions is another proposition.
AN AARON BI RR TRICK
In New York is the 71-story building of
the Bank of Manhattan Company, an institution
whose history goes back almost to the founda
tion of the government. It is recalled by a
recent writer that the institution resulted
from the shrewd trick of a lawyer, who was
none other than the notorious Aaron Burr.
At the time the bank was projected the
group behind it were "in bad” politically and
hence unable to obtain a bank charter. They
organized a water company instead, but in
drawing the charter Burr added a clause per
mitting the company to engage also “in other
necessary business.” The other business was
construed to include banking and, it has been
carried on ever since.
The structure in Wall Street adjoins the
lot formerly occupied by Federal Hall, the first
national capitol. where Washington took the
oath of office as President. That tract is now
the site of the sub-treasury.
If Aaron Burr and his associates could
look upon the scene today they would marvel
at the development which has resulted from
their clever scheme for obtaining a bank char
ter.
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HARDY NEW ANIMALS
There appears to be no limit to the ambit
ions of scientists and the amazing thing is that
their ambitions are generally fulfilled by actual
results. An instance is the development of a
superior type of cow, able to withstand the
rigors of far northern climates such as that of
Alaska.
Concerning this development, Dr. Evans
of the Department of Agriculture recently gave
an interesting statement. Under the supervis
ion of the department, experimental crossing
of Galloway cows with the hardy Asiatic yak
has produced an animal capable of subsisting
on the scanty vegetation of the far north, while
preserving desirable meat and milk producing
qualities.
Another venture was the crossing of Amer
ican cows with the Brahman zebu of the Far
East, which produced an animal especially fitted
to thrive in the hot, dry climates of the South
western states. This animal is also able to
resist tick infection which is very detrimental
to ordinary cattle in those regions.
All this may not be exactly evolution, butj
it is something closely akin to it.
HUNTING AND SPORTSMANSHIP
Millions of men and boys, with some wom
en, are starting out on the hunting trail. It
sometimes seems as if the number of hunters
exceeded the number of animals and birds to'
be shot. Unless care is used, vast areas of
the United States will be denuded of such
creatures. The woods that once resounded with
the hum of bird wings, the forests whose life
sustained the furry beasts, will be as tenantless
as the desert.
Laws are passed which attempt to regulate;
the pastime or occupation of shooting these1
creatures. If the game laws are well obeyed,1
we shall keep a moderate amount of wild life,1
to be a valuable source of food supply and to
give pleasure to sportsmen.
Every hunter should be asked to obey these
laws. The sportsmen have their choice, whether
to exterminate many useful varieties and reduce
the supply of others, or to encourage the growth
of these creatures. It is up to the sportsmen.
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j GROWING UP EARLY
A prominent educator remarks that in
: former years, girls 15 years old were contented
: to play as children, while now they want to
dress and be treated as women.
Some defenders of the young crowd will
say that the schools and other methods of edu
• cation are so much better now, that the girl of
1") knows as much about the world and life
! as the young women of 20 did in former years,
i The girl of 15 often seems a quite wise and
learned person, compared with parents whose
education stopped 25 years ago.
While the girl of 15 may have her head
stuffed with knowledge, she frequently thinks
that everything that glitters is true gold. She
often has to shed bitter tears, because of things
that happened when she thought she knew
about everything.
UJiuLe, I
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Swiftly the years of a lifetime pro fleeting:
Into the shadows of infinite night,
Often a man's golden purpose defeating—
Striking him down in the midst of the fight.
Day after day. precious moments desert us,
Silently stealing beyond our recall—
Moments whose actions have helped us or hurt v
Aiding our progress or speeding our fall.
Brief is the morning of childhood's enjoyment,
Briefer the noontime of youth's eager play;
Quickly the period of manhood’s employment
Fades into age, like the closing of day. \ 0
Always the finger of Time is recording \ ,
Triumph or failure, achievement or loss; \
Fate views the page, and is ever awarding. V
Honors of gold or demerits of dross.
Oh, let me learn the great lessons of living
While I have youth! Let me not fail to see to
That, every moment of life, God is giving
Something of priceless importance to me!y\
If I will meet each new day with decision
Always to do what I know to be right, ’Sjjf
Then shall I go with assurance of vision ~;
Into the deepening shadows of night, tljp
© Western Newspaper Union.
News Of Other Years
50 Years Ago
October l.'i, 1SS7
Our countyman, Mr. James H.
Twyford, has received the appoint
ment as keeper of lightship Xo. 46.
now being built at Portsmouth and
to be located off Cape Charles.
Col. R. F. Beirne. of the Rich
mond State, Judge Chas. E. Stuart
and Hon. J. NT. Stubbs addressed the
voters of 'Northampton, at Eastville.
last Monday. Their speeches were
able and well received.
E. P. Byrd, Pastoria, is now in
Xew York purchasing goods, and
will be prepared on his return to
sell at prices astonishingly low.
Mr. R. B. Cooke. G. P. & F. A., of
the X. Y„ P. & X. R. R. Co., au
thorizes the following: “The day for
the shipment of calves from the N.
Y., P. & N. R. R., south of Kings
Creek to Philadelphia market, will
be changed from Thursday to Wed
nesday, commencing Wednesday, the
19th.”
* • •
Chincoteague
Mrs. Daisey Swift, of Berlin, Md.,
is a guest of Mrs. R. E. Swift.
A Mr. Parsons of Salisbury has
been employed as chief clerk of
Messrs. D. J. Whealton & Co.
Messrs. Archie Jones and E. F.
Laws, after a critical illness of sev
eral weeks, which was thought would
prove fatal, are now convalescent.
Messrs. I. X. Mills and other rail
road officials have visited us of late,
to inspect the steamboat wharf here,
with the view of having it rebuilt.
Mr. Wainwright ,of the U. S.
Coast Survey, has commenced “map
ping out our waters” and gives em
ployment to eight or ten of our cit
izens at ages from $30 to $60 per
month.
Sea fishing now engages the at
tention of many of our citizens, and
it has proven both pleasant and
profitable employment, the catch of
a man with the hand line daily being
from 200 to 600 fine trout.
The U. S. buoy tender of Phil
adelphia, Pa., was here on the 6th
inst, and the old buoys were taken up
and new ones now take their place
in the best water, thereby lessening
the risk to vessels of getting
aground.
The first oysters of the season,
shipped from this place last week
by Messrs. J. M. Burch & Bro.,
netted $4 per barrel. Their merchants
wrote them that they were the finest
from Chincoteague for many years.
During the late fine weather the
fish factories have been re-opened,
and the average catch of alewife
last week to a net was more that
600,000, and the fish were so large
and fat the average yield of oil per
hundred has been a gallon.
Our schools reopened on 3rd inst.,
wit hthe following teachers of graded
school, Lee Disharoon, principal, Miss
Bertie Caulk, first assistant, Miss
Mary Grimsley, second assistant; of
school in upper part of island, Miss
I. M. Matthews; of lower end of
island, John H. Johnson.
Among recent arrivals at the At
lantic were Capt. B. S. Rich and
Lieut. John Wild, of Onancock.
Our young schoolmaster, after
walking two miles to borrow a
horse to ride one mile to a negro
baptizing of late, lingered too long
at the side of a fair damsel in his
attempt to make a “mash”, and in
his effort to make up lost time kept
on, when his horse turned to a
corner ami is now nursing- the bruises
of a fall. The masher got mashed in
more ways than one, but will recover
if time is given him before another
baptising.
* * *
Wachapreague
Sea fishing is very good with us
this season ,and the catch last week
was very large.
Mr. J. A. Goffigon has gone to St.
Mary's County, Md., to engage in the
mercantile business.
Our merchant, Mr. A. H .G. Mears
returns from the northern cities this
week with a large stock of fall and
winter goods.
Our townsman, Mr. ffm. J. Fos
que, left on steamer Tuckahoe, last
Saturday for New York, where he
will spend the winter.
A three masted schooner, John W.
Hall, is loading with chum at Foote’s
fish factory. She will take away 200
tons of chum and 400 barrels of oil.
There is quite a building boom in
our village at present. Three new
buildings are in the course of con
struction and others are expected to
be commenced at an early day.
Schooner Ella Holgate, heretofore
reported as being ashore on Dawson
Shoals, is being stripped by crew
of Wachapreague L. S. S. and a
wreck sale is expected in a few days.
During last week the alewives
taken on the steamer Emily A. Foote
number 800,000 the largest catch
made in any one week since Foote’s
factory his been in operation. The
fish were very fat, the yield of oil
being 12 gallons to the thousand. The
bays and inlets are full of them.
• * *
Belle Haven
Kellam Bros, are building an ad
dition of 50 x 25 feet to the old
hotel.
Our doctors report a decided im
provement in the health of the people
of our town and vicinity.
Five dwellings are now in course
of erection in our town and work
on another will be begun before
Christmas.
Mrs. Sally Kellam, a lady highly
respected and esteemed by all who
knew him, died at her residence in
Belle Haven on 5th inst., of cancer,
aged 63 years.
Major John W. Daniel has prom
ised to address the people at this
place either the Saturday before or
Tuesday after October court. A big
dinner will be prepared for the oc
casion.
Madame rumor his it, that one of
our merchants will lead to the altar
one of our fairest damsels sometime
this month and that another Knight
of the yardsticks will follow suit in
November.
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Onancock
A number of wandering Gypsies
have camped on the outskirts of the
town.
Mrs. H. Allen Griffith, of Downing
ton, Pa. ,is visiting her aunt, Mrs.
E. R. Leatherbury.
Miss Blanche Fletcher, of Jenkins
Bridge, spent several days in town
last week visiting friends.
J. L. Winder is having the lum
ber hauled for the erection of his
new storehouse in North Street.
Benj. T. Parker has secured the
services of Geo. G. Ailworth, of Ac
comac C. H., as clerk at the new
“Grand Central” hotel.
Continued on page 9
FOUR HUNDRED MILLION CUS
TOMERS
By Carl Crow
A Review by Paul Murray Kendall,
Instructor in English, University of
Virginia.
i Twenty-five years of adventures
; in selling-ami failing to sell-goods
to the Chinese are crammed into Carl
Crow's “Four Hundred Million
Customers”. The book is by no means
! however, a treatise on Oriental
merchandising, hut a good-humored
; narrative of Chinese customs and
| characters in business-and out.
From the vantage point of an
advertising agency in Shanghai, Mr.
[ Crow has come to comprehnd the
Chinese in their business house and
. in their homes about as well as a
j white man ever can. If, after read
ing “Four Hundred Million Custo
mers” you still agree with Bret
Harte that for ways tnat are dark
the heathen Chinee ispeculiar, at
least you will have respect, probably
affection, for that peculiarity, and
you will also have had many a
j smile at the une uding efforts of
: Occidentals to entice potential
Oriental customers into buying tooth
ache powders or toilet soap orwhat
I ever the product may be.
j For your Chinese cannot be sold
by the same methods that lure an
American into making a purchase.
It you attempt to put on a selling
campaign by using samples, the
newsboy will clip the familiar coupon
from newspapers, sell them to a
retailer, who in turn will offer the
trial package at a low cost
which will drive the product itself
out of the market. Nor is it easy
to persuade a Chinaman to change
his brand. A competitor may exac
I tly dulicate an article in quality,
j dress it in a more attractive package
[ and retail it at a lower price, but
| the Chinese will always stick to
I the old commodity.
The trade in Hamburg horseshoes
is just another illustration of Chinese
conservatism. A German merchant
with a cargo of used horseshoes on
1
his hands sent them out to one of
the China ports.(Goods with no mark
et anywhere else are, Mr. Crow
tells us, always dumped on the
Chinese in the hope they may fit in
somewhere.) It was discovered that
these horseshoes made admirable
Chinese razor blades. Of course,
the business in worn-out quadruped
footwear boomed, and had a quick
collapse, for the Chinese would take
horseshoes from nowhere but Ham
burg. It seems the Orientals
concied the idea that the peculiar
construction of Hamburg cobbled
streets wore down the horseshow in
just the right way for the ideal razor
blade!.
But, in addition to these delight
ful adventures and misadventures,
“Four Hundred Million Customers"
displays a shrewd and sympathetic
portrait of the Chinese people. When
a competitor gains an advantage
over another firm, Mr. Crow narrates
the native staff is never in the least
perturbed by the consequent loss of
profits, but is anguished at the loss
in fact. Here are a few more of the
rich store of observations in the
volume a Chinese host of small
means will never take money for his
hospitality, but counts an empty
beer boottle a precious gift; shopkeep
ers assistants are not chosen for
their honesty, industry or intelligence
but because they are members of
an influential family, which,
presumably, will throw its business
to the store.
Carl Crow's “Four Hundred Mill
ion Customers” presents a veri
table Bartholomew Fair of Oriental
trade and character, where East and
West meet at the retail counter, with
or without profit to themselves, but
always with high entertainment for
the reader. The volume is not. how
ever only amusing: it is a first-rate
contribution to inter-racial under
standing.
Next week, “Claude”, a novel by
Genevieve Fauconnier, will be
reviewed by Turner Rose. For loan
of these books, apply to your local
library, or the Extension Division,
University, Virginia.
Accomack School
Basketball League
RESULTS
Lower Division
Boys
Accomac 49, Onancock 13
Parksley-Central—Won by Parks
ley.
Upper Division
Chincoteague 35, New Church 2
Bloxom-Temperanceville — Won4 by
Bloxom.
Lower Division
Girls
Accomac 20, Onancock 9
Parksley-Central — Won by Parks
ley.
Upper Division
New Church-Chincoteague—Won by
New Church.
I Bloxom-Temperanceville — Won by
Temperanceville.
STANDING OF TEAMS
Upper Division
Boys
Chincoteague
Bloxom
Temperanceville
New Church
W L
2 0
PC
1000
1000
000
000
Girls
Temperanceville
Bloxom
New Church
Chincoteague
Lower Division
1000
500
500
000
Girls
Accomac
Parksley
Central
Onancock
1000
1000
000
000
Boys
Accomac
Parksley
Central
Onancock
1000
1000
000
000
SCHEDULE
Friday, October 15th
Chincoteague at Bloxom
Temperanceville at New Church
Accomac at Parksley
Onancock at Central
Friday, October 22nd
Bloxom at Temperanceville
Chincoteague at New Church
Accomac at Onancock
Parksley at Central
Hill Of Potatoes
Weighs 11 Pounds
And 14 Ounces
Fosque Watson, of near Accomac,
recently left a hill of Big Stem po
tatoes at this office which weighed,
11 pounds and 14 ounces. There were
12 potatoes on the hill.
Charles Jaynes, 7, of Los Angeles,
is believed to be the world’s young
est preacher.
Marvel Musical
Studded With Mel
odies And Romance
Dazzling in its undreamed-of cry
stal-tipped spectacle, snowdrenched
with shimmering Alpine beauty, ex
hilarating in its fresh, gay out-of
doors romance that will fill your
eyes with delight and open them
wide with wonder, “Thin Ice,” Twen
tieth Century-Fox gay and magnif
icent musical starring Sonja Henie,
more radiantly exciting than ever be
fore, and Tyrone Power, handsome
young screen star who soared to
fame in “Lloyds of London”, will be
seen at the Bijou Theatre, Onley,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
A star in her first picture, Miss
Heinie tops “One in a Million” with
new miracles of grace never before
revealed, as she skates and skis along
the silvery Alpine slopes, with Ty
rone Power and romance following
close behond. Arthur Treacher, Ray
mond Walburn, and Joan Davis are
featured in the notable supporting
cast, which also includes Sig Ru
mann, Alan Hale, Leah Ray, Melville
Cooper, Maurice Cass, and George
Givot.
The story is swiftly paced, exhil
aratingly exciting, and hilariously
funny. It gets off to a fast start
when Tyrone, a Prince who has
come to an Alpine winter resort to
escape the bickerings of two agents
(Alan Hale and Maurice Cass) over
a neutrality pact, accidentally meets
Miss Heinie while skating, and intro
duces himself to her as a newspaper
reporter.
A case of mistaken identity sends
rumors about the village that Sonja
is being favored by the Prince. The
two agents, hearing the rumors, at
tempt to win her to their side in
order to get closer to Tyrone. When
she refuses, they dangle huge offers
before her worthless uncle (Raymond
Walburn), who is unable to refuse.
Supper At
Temperance ville
Temperanceville M. E. Church will
serve a supper at the High School
Friday, October 15th, consisting of
roast chicken, fried oysters, string
beans, baked tomatoes, cole slaw,
rolls, pickles and coffee all for 35
cents. Ice cream and cake will be on
sale. Supper will be served at 4:30
p. m. Come and help a good cause.
Hallowe’en Social
At Atlantic Hall
Friday, Oct. 29
There will be a Hallowe’en social
at the Baptist Hall, Atlantic, Va., on
Friday, October 29th, at 7:30 p. m.
Come masked. A prize will be
awarded for best costumes. Admis
sion 10 cents. Pie and coffee free.
Ice cream and cake for sale. Pro
ceeds for the benefit of the church.