The Little River news., 1921-12-10
AshdoWn School News

ness was rendered by the Wilsonian Literary Society last Friday afternoon. Miss Lucy Bell was a welcome visit or
 Two of our Seniors are suffering from minor injuries received last Sun day when the car in which they were motoring turned over. They are at school however.
 Professor Pittman delivered a very profitable lecture in chapel last We'd nesday morning.
 The American history classes have
 been having some rather exciting de- not slavery was detrimental to the South
 If you want to know what a sewer is, the physics class can inform you
 that it is the simplest of all simple machines and a simple machine is one that is not complicated. The English classes are placing a number of new words in their vocabu laries this week At the end of the week each pupil will engage in con- versation with some one and use his new words. Be prepared, he may talk with you.
 The domestic art pupils will give display of their products in the win dow of Mrs. P. B. Davis millinery shop
 this week and next. Look and see
 if you do not think they are doing splendid work.
 Exams are here!' The cry is heard coming from every direction and all
 of the pupils are so very busy that they have no time to make news. E. B. Mobley, Frisco Agent at Ash down has received from the superin-
 tendent of the San Francisco Railway
 Co., a letter recounting the horrible accident that took place Nov. 30th at
 Red Bluff, Cal. A Southern Pacific train struck the high school automo- bile bus The train, in dense fog, plowed into the bus carving bodies
 on the engine pilot and strewing oth- CTS along the right of way. The sup erintendent asks that these terrible facts be impressed upon school child
 ren and parents. Many of our school children are very careless at railway crossings. We fear it is only a ques- tion of time till some little ones life | TNr nt
 parents and teachers try to impress
 the children with the dangers to which they expose themselves.
 The following essay was chosen by the English teacher as the best from
 a large number:
 Sweet Are the Uses of Adyersity. (By Guy Graves.)
 A few years ago study was made of
 all the captains of industry in Ameri-
 ca. In connection with this their an
 cestry was tabulated. It was found
 that five per cent of these captains
 of industry are the sons of bankers, on
 ly ten per cent of them are the sons
 of manufacturers; fifteen per cent ot
 them are the sons of merchants; while : over thirty per cent of them are the sons of poor preachers and farmers.
 Why is it that ministers sons hold . a much more important place in the
 industrial development of America
 than the sons of bankers? The min V isters' sons inherit no wealth, they have no more than their share of edu a cation, The reason is that the hon T.. |esty which they have inherited com " bined with the habit of work forced
 upon them by the family's small in-
 come, means power.
 Struggle, sacrifice and burning mid : night oil have produced the cotton
 gin, the sewing machine, the printing [ press the steam engine, the electric . motor, the telephone and many other
 great inventions.
 Why is it. that most of the men in
 our industries come from the country districts? It is because diversity forces him to learn to work. Adversi- ty brings forth the best that is in a man.
 The very things which most people think of as advantageous-wea and leisure-are really obstacles which are rarely surmounted It is the boy or man woh has obstacles to surmount who gets ahead.
 Almost all the great developments of the country are due to the old be- lief that laziness and extravaganza are sins
 Abraham Lincoln rose to the pres idency from a frontier cabin Garfield ! pulled a towbOat on the Erie Canal.