The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1921-04-29
SHANNONHOUSE LEARNED
VALUE OF ADVERTISING
Veteran Railroad Man Discovered the
Secret of business sLcees>
Little isp Late.
DIR. ORR ON UNION OF CHURCHES
by }. ". GREEN.
Editor oi the Mars;i,ille Home.

MuOth tue AiaAtottN 01SsN'Nt
as "one of the original Carolina Cen
trail conductors" in charge OF pas
senger train between Charlotte and
Wilmington for many years. died IN
Richmond last week. One OF the nrst
passenger trains OF the Carolina
Central division OF the Seaboard Air
Line consisted OF long string oil
freight cars with a baggage car and
q passenger car attached. III was
known as the "tri-daily train, be-
cause il went down TO Wilmington
one night and tried to get back the
next night. IL was ON one of those
''tri-daily trains" that Capt. ). ii.
Green OF Monroe was first initiated
into the passenger service OF the Sea
board Air Line. Other Carolina Cen
trail conductors of that period were
Berry. who still runs between Char
lotte and Wilmington. Haddock. john
son. Weleh and Everett. Capt. EN-
erett, however. refused TO accept
passenger train, but continued as To-
cal freight conductor. He carried pas
sengers as a side line" on the cab
of the freight train. Capt. Shannon
house quit the service for short sea-
son several years ago. during which
he owned a furniture store at Monroe.
When he decided to return to the rail-
road service he advertised CLOSING
out" sale at Monroe. In that sale he
incidentally learned the value OF
advertising. II is said that buyers
carried off the furniture so eagerly
he decided to get in new goods and
continue the sale. BY opening up the
Goods at night he got by with 1t sue
cessfully and thereby made pore
money selling out than he had
made from the beginning of the bus
mess.
Church Consolidation.
When DR.. Orr. who was In Marsh
vile Saturday taking part IN tuner
all service, had the handsome new
PRESBYTERIAN church pointed out 10
him, he wanted to know the popula-
ton of the town. When told that 1t
was little less than thousand, all
told, he remarked: Isn't 1t a pity
that the town cannot all unite in one
strong church," He suggested that
pool could be provided for those
who wanted TO be baptized by INNER
sion and everything could be arrang-
ed TO satisfy the demands OF the dill
ferent creeds. Some time ago the
editor OF this paper made few sug-
gestions along this same line. but
didn't continue the discussion lest
some of the readers might think II
was case OF softening OF the brain,
or some other serious mental afnle-
ton. But the learned Or. Orr was
profoundly serious in his suggestion.
One of the tragedies of the age is the
inefficient and uneconomic multiple
ity of churches. In every town and
village two or more weak churches
are struggling for existence. In most
of the rural districts weak and poor
" equipped churches are either dead
or diving. because there are too many
small and weak churches. Under
some sort of consolidation the ser
vice could be improved several hun.
dred per cent. and enough money
could be saved In the constructor
and maintenance of unnecessary build.
ings TO 20 long way toward cover
ing the heather lands with missionar.
workers. But church consolidation IL
as yet an empty dream, with possibly
| the exception Of a few localities III
some of the Western states. IL re
| uuires heroic effort 10 bring aboul
school consolidation TO eliminate TN
one-teacher schools. Church consol
idation in reality would seem almost
like n miracle. And yet we can ex
| plain how any of the vital and essen
| tial elements of Christianity woult
| be lost under consolidation?
| The Vanity OF Men.
Ii a man is big enough to be elect
ed TO the United States Senate woult
YOU consider him also small enough
to be filled with simple self-coneeit
Alice Louise Lytle, the efficient lad,
managing editor OF Senator Ton
Watson's publication. the Columbii
| Sentinel, is in Washington. In las
weeks Sentinel she has two columns
| of comment about the things she OBJ
serves. She has one paragraph ex
clusively for her women readers, a
follows:
Here's word for the eyes onl!
of my women readers: Dear Sister
all. don't ever think for momen
that our sex has all the conceit Their
is going; never saw more of IT. thal
on the floor OF our great U. S. Sen
ate: some of the Senator'S looked a
though they had just been brushed
IN and dressed in their best, and the.
wanted all the gallery to get the ben
eft of it. Such posing; such wan
dering back and forth; such franti
waving TO the pages to bring nothinl
| at all. and bring II quick; such ad
| justing OF eye glasses and perusin
| of documents that never had to hav
| a page turned; such wandering out o
one door and in another; such ramb
ling of the hands through the nan
i 10 collect the thought we'll Yea, SIS
/ ters, all this | saw. and maryeled
l the idea that men had held to for 8
/ long-that they differed so much fror
u.s."
Il Peter, Where's My Wife?'