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The Washington times., 1934-12-31

Hover GX1SC- NJ w. wa" AOO"
ence. And when all is said and
done, who wants to be caull-
flower, or even a. more humble
Brussels sprouts.
If life had no purpose at all,
then why go on? Why con-
tinue from one experiment to
another? Why live? Life must
have some definite purpose.
Since all of us have definite
fairy stories of our own, and
since all of these myriad fairy
stories are slightly different
from each other, it seems we'll
nigh impossible to find a pur"
pose of life that shall satisfy
every one of the 1000, 1000, 900
people who share this planet
with us.
But the thing can be done.
At least I have been able to
convince myself that it can be
done. And the answer is much
simpler than you would ex-
pect-for the true purpose OF
life is to find happiness.
DEFINITION
That settles one difficulty.
But like the traveller in the
Himalayas, we find ourselves
Immediately faced with a Sec
ond barrier of apparently in
surmountable difficulties. For,
granted that I am right Gust
for the sake of argument),
then where can we find a true
definition of happiness that
shall cover all cases, and that
shall hold good for the lowest
head-hunting Dyak as we'll as
for the most brilliant of our
modern scientists?
Again 7 think that there is
such a definition-one that
will cover all cases+and it
reads as follows: A man is
happy when he is able to play
the role that best satisfies him
in his own eyes.
I use the word "man" here
to include the whole human
race, for women and children
are subject to the same law Of
happiness. They, too, in their
heart of hearts, have but q
single purpose, to try to play
the roles that shall best satisfy
them in their own eyes.
I do not want you to either
agree or disagree with me right
away. Tuck this idea into your
sap or bonnet and keep 1t thera
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

time. GO-gO QulcKIy-"AAu Wv
not look back"
So now they were fleeing,
desperately. Already behind
them the thunder roared. the
earth heaved, the lightning
rained fire. And with each
blast Sodom crumbled.
Awful, that crumbling - a
city of men wiped out as though
by an angry hand. A slgnt
never to be forgotten.
But those who fled had no
eyes for that sight. Safety
escape-that alone concerned
them
JUST ONCE
All but Lots wife. She, alone,
went slowly, reluctantly. Safety
ahead? A new start in a bet
ter, cleaner place?
These facts her mind ad-
mitted. But, even so, her heart
yearned desperately for the old
home, the old happiness. on.
she could not leave it-could
not put it out of her heart.
GO on-do not look back"
the angel had cried.
But what did even an angel
know of a woman's heart? And
how could she go on when all
that made living worth while
lay behind her, in that crashing
hell? If only she could see II
once more, just once
Frantically she turned. Her
husband, her children were for
gotten. Forgotten that prom.
ised home ahead-that blessed
chance of new peace and hap
piness and pride.
Through scalding tears her
heart went yearning back.
Then all went black. That
which was living woman had
become a pillar Of salt
The story of Lots wife. One
of the oldest stories on earth.
How many thousands of years
ago did some savage hand
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
The True Purpose of Life Is
To Find HQppiness
By Nelson Harding

} role. But often, alas, it is not
exactly the sort of a part that
we want to reveal to those
closely associated with us. We
sometimes dread their ridicule,
and not infrequently we fear
their disapproval.
But that can't be helped. That
role is as much part of us as the
color of our hair. More SO! For
hair can be hennaed. But our
little secret ambitions remain
the same, regardless of all the
dyes ever invented by our indus
trious chemists.
But it is within the realm of
history that my definition will
give you most satisfaction. All
the great people of the past,
both men and women, were SUBJ
jected to this law of happiness.
And history is really record of
all the highly diversified roles
which the heroes and heroines of
by-gone days hoped to play, and
in which many instances they
were actually able to play regard
less of a thousand adverse cir
cumstances.
EXPLANATION
Sometimes these private am.
bitions carried them to fame.
Quite as frequently they brought
them to the scaffold. Some.
times their contemporaries high
ly applauded them in their ef-
forts, while posterity forgot
them, and quite as often it was
the other way around.
That explains the fact that
none of her contemporaries took
any particular interest in the
career of Joan of Arc (she is
mentioned by only one of the
chroniclers of her own time
and was almost completely for
gotten less than half a century
after her DEATH, while she be-
came a heroine in the eyes of
the French, struggling for ma
tional existence during the
Great War. 1t explains the rise
and fall of great many heroes.
It explains our own forgotten
heroes (our historical woods are
full of them) and it explains the
fame of a great many phony
heroes who at the present time
are enjoying a short heyday of
fame. which will come to an
abrupt end as soon as the par
ticular role they are trying to
play will no longer enjoy the
esteem or admiration of the ma
jority of the people.
For there is a definite fashion
in the sorts of roles that seem
commendable to the outsiders,
just as there are fashions in
shoes and hats and nail polish.
The neglected tombS of thou
sands of the great leaders of
the past, spread far and wide
across the surface of the earth,
are there to bear me out.
But what odds? They played
their little part. And it was the
role thyy themselves wanted to
play to find satisfaction in their
own eyes. Isn't that enough Of
an epitaph for any one?
copyright 1S 4. King Features
Syndieate Inca
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

feat a Democrat but 1t Is an ex-
tremely difficult problem to de-
feat the United States Treas
ury."
At one of the more important
citizens associations of Wash
ington not long ago members
were engaged in the task OF
electing officers.
Pres ident, vice presidents.
ETC., had been secured. Nert
came the question of electing
a secretary. The job appeared
difficult. The task WGS passed
over temporarily ,Dhile other OF.
ticerS Dere chosen.
Then they again tried to
elect secretary.
A member arose, pointed to
an elderly man in the back Of
the auditorium, and said:
II nominate him for secre-
tary."
The nominee jumped up and
shouted:
Don't nominate me. I can't
hear thing"
The member who had made
the nomination replied:
"Strange, then, that you
should have heard that"
Credentials for all Senators
except one of the contestants
in the contest betWeen Senator
Bronson Cutting, Republican,
of New Merico, and his Demo-
cratic opponent, Dennis ChGUe2,
haze been received By the Sec
retary of the Senate. Col. Edwin
A. HGlSey.
Receipt of credentials Is
particularly important as any
Conofora1ocf uyho HOnS mt
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Prosperity and Progress
Science and Business AGREE

Henry Ford whose job practical business based on prac
cal mechanics and Dr. Robert A. Mikan whose Job is ab
science based abstract physics eye
important thing.
They believe that scientific progress should not be blamed
for unemployment economic M and that these ills should
not be used as justification for stopping progress.
I'm the long rum says Dr.. Millikan, "labor-saving
devices create employment than they DESTROY"
Mr. Ford agrees, in action if in words He orders pro-
ducon of Ford for the coming year stepped up to
100000 or BETTER -
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

for a couple of months. Try
this formula out on yourself
and on your relatives and on
those Of your friends who you
know intimately enough to have
some suspicion about the inner
motives that guide them in their
everyday affairs. You will be
astonished how easily this little
key opens the door that leads
directly to the innermost sane"
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
The Greatest Show
On Earth
BIZ John Snure, T.

Assured Of election to the
SpeakerShip of the House for
the next Congress-, Representa-
tive Joseph w. ByrnS, of
Tennessee, probably wonders
whether history will repeat it.
self as far as he Is concerned.
The last Speaker to be elected
from Tennessee was chosen in
1885, almost 100 years ago.
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

thought of
the true pur-
pose of life?
No, I am not
going to bore
you with an
other sermon.
Once a year
is e n o u G h,
and perhaps
too m u c h.
But life with.
out a pur-
pose is un-
m a ginable;
it becomes q
sort of cauli-
f10wor aYiSt-
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Hendrix Willem van Loon

tum Of even the most carefully
guarded of human souls.
But that little key works
both ways. In the hands OF
your neighbors it will give them
a very clear idea of your own
hidden emotions and ambitions.
For all of us, no matter what
outward pretense we may set
up as a barrier, have a secret
ambition to play some sort of a
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

"Flee!" the
a n g el h a d
erie d. For
t h S pla C e
called Sodo:n
h a S become
a b o minable
in the eyes
of God. Short
ly He will de-
stroy It. But
because y ou
h av b e e n
r i 6 h t e Gus,
you W i'll oe
spared if you
escape while
there is vet
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Winter Time Is Flu Time
Remember Your Rubbers

Now the time of the year to keep Johnnys and Jane
feet dry, and Mothers and Daddys too.
over in Jersey many schools had to close before the ho
days because flu making its first invasion of the winter
This years flu isn't dangerous variety. But it's good
thing to avoid since prevention easier peasanter than
cure.
Remember your rubbers stormy days. Remember your
diet and rest all days.
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

- -
was later deS-
tined to be
President of
the u nj t e d
States.
H e W a S
j a m e S K.
Polk.
Elected to
the Speaker
ship on De-
ce m b er 7,
1885, Polk
c q ~ cd ac
Speaker until
M a r C h 3,
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

viewing the case pass upon its
merits.
So Chavez must wait with.
out the Senate doors until the
case is decided.
Cutting, however, is en-
titled to the privileges Of the
Senate floor because of his
former service as a Senator.
fCopYright. 1874. The WashinEton TimesI
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

the day." with Mr.. Justice
Hughes name after it, would
look pretty silly all by itself.
The best way to do, if you
are one Of those unfortunate
people who are likely to be
quoted in print, is to say every
thing you have to say in one
long, periodic sentence, so that
it can't be broken up.
Or, better yet. say nothing
at all. Don't quote me as
having said that.)
Copyright. 1884, by King Features
Syndicate. 1nc.)
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Monday, WedneS-
day and Thursday
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

h a v h S
ere d e n tials
W h e n Con
gr eSS CO n
veneS is more
or less per-
S o n a n o n
grata.
In the Cut
tin &C havez
on t e S t, of
c o u r S e,
neither man
m ay h a v e
cred e n tialS
u n t il t h e
courts which
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Quick Quotations
Bv Robert BenchLey

The surest way to make o
monkey of a man is to quote
him. That remark in itself
wouldn't make any sense if
quoted as it stands.
The average man ought to
be allowed a quotation of no
less than three sentences, one
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

To revile your family, your
church, your trade, your coun-
try is a very unsavory thing
Spurgeon.
Patience is bitter, but It's fruit
Is sweet.-RouSSeau.
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Open School Meetings
Good for the System

The Board of Education decided obey the spirit
Of the law which created by opening all of its sessions and
committee meetings to the public.
The decision should school SYSTEM the board
bers and the citizens Of Washington generally.
For many years the board has by ubrfuge conducted much
its behind despite the fact that the
organic specifically provides that all meetings including
committee meetings except those dealing with personnel shall
be public
That fact has always ranked with the citizens who have
interest schools They wanted know what
the board was thinking and what it was doing
Naturally from the wording of the law they believed that
CONGRESS INTENDED THEY SHOULD KNOW THESE
THINGS Somebody at the Franklin School, however, appar
emily thought differently and secret COMMITTEE meetings
were generally held before the formal board meetings
The decision of the board to throw the doors all
meetings SHOULD CREATE HEALTHIER INTEREST IN
THE AFFAIRS OF THE SCHOOLS
Such interest certainly needed if the conditions
prevailing in the system to be eliminated.
The public cant know too much about the way its schools
the schools for which it pays-are IT CAN HOWEVER,
EASILY KNOW TOO LITTLE AND OFTEN DOES
open sessions of the board in the past have
been largely ratification meetings for what had already been
rashed tended destroy the pubc interest in
the open sessions.
There feeling that it less USELESS TO
ATTEND THE SESSIONS
People who really wanted to help the schools felt that it
would be waste of time bother attend the boards meet
ings. In general that attitude was justified.
This lack of interest spread from the Franklin School to all
Ehe affairs of the school system.
Parents that they being deprived of any part
the conduct of the affairs of the schools Except few
stances they failed to display enough interest in the affairs Of
their community schools to bring about improvements which
obviously necessary
The board will find that under its policy will be able
to REAWAKEN THE PUBLIC INTEREST which is necessary
III the schools develop both the board and the public
want them to-
There nothing important community than its
school system and there is nothing important the school
system than community interest.
We glad that the Education has decided to
admit that THE PUBLIC HAS PARTNERSHIP if not
0 propretorshp, in the public school system.
Let's give the board schools the support which thew
deserve and which they must have disaster
education system.
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
Words of Wise Men

These things are possible be-
cause they seem to be possible.
Virgil.
Make the most of life you
may-life Is short and wears
away.-Oldys. n
The Washington times., 1934-12-31
OLD FAVORITES
Break, Break, Break il!

DTCUN1 D7oUN9 DV6UN9 -Z1WTEW E7ETTBSU7L
Break, break break,
On the cold gray stones o Sea-
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
o we'll for the fishermans boy
That he shouts with his sister at play
O well for the sailor lad
That he sings in his boat on the bay.
And the stately ships go on
To the haven under the hill;
But o for the touch of vanished hand
And the sound of voice that is still.
Break break, break,
At the foot of thy crags Sea!
But the tender grace of day that is dead
Will never come back to me.
(Redders invited to send to the editor their sug
gest1ons Of old avorte among the poems for reprtng
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

Speaking, as we were the
other day, of the human need
of fairy stories, have you ever
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

So they had to go. Neither
pleading nor ment nor
angry refusal would help.
The Washington times., 1934-12-31

picion that Mr.. Wrlght's re-
mark really ended with thatO
when you come right down
to it, perhaps there are other
things in life besides SEX
Prof. r. P. Sears.
Zone can be equally sure
that Professor Sears was pretty
sore when he saw just that
one sentence quoted. It prob
ably was part of a sly dig)
I'm really mentally lazy. I
have to drive myself to write.
But there's something inside
that keeps nagging me to go
on" Mary Pickford.
Probably each one of these
people, if confronted with the
quotation. would say: We'll,
yes, did say that. but 7 didn't
mean it the way it sounds.
What I meant was"
So sure-fire is the fatuous'
ness inherent in the average
Single-sentence quotation that
several humorous publications
have columns headed Thoughts
For Today" or You're Telling
U.s." in which embarrassed
public characters may read
their own remarks used as fun
fodder. A remark like: Il can't
take a nap in the middle Of
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
FINGER PRINTS

Criminals, it has recently been
said, were having their finger prints
treated to avoid Identification by
this scientific method. If they
could do this, it would deal a heavy
blow to police work, which relies on
the marvellous tracery placed on
each PERSONS hand at birth. If that
form of signature, which is differ
ent from that of any other person,
can be wiped out bu surgical means,
the crook is given a new freedom in
his dirty doings.
1t now appears that John Dilling-
er had had his finger tips treated
for this purpose, but the treatment
So this mark which nature
has placed on each PERSONS hand
still stands, and the smart under
world will not be able thus to dodge
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
$loo,ooo,ooo
Aid Farmers
u. S. Debt Adjustment
Plan Success In 80
Per Cent of Area

Adjustment of more than $780,
900 900 in farmers debts was at
tributed to county committees by
the Farm Credit Administration.
Reports from farm debt adjust
ment committees in 2,400 counties
of ~ states, or 80 per cent of the
Nations agricultural counties, in
dictated their belief that success in
adjusting debts between creditors
and debtors had made unnecessary,
in most cases, that farmers resort
to bankruptcy under the Frazier
Lemake mortgage moratorium law,
1.-THE experience in farm debt
lsettlement, according to these COM
mittees, so far indicates that by far
the great majority of cases of ex-
cessivle Indebtedness may find i'm
mediate solution through voluntary
conciliation," the administration
said.
Adjustments enabled thousands
of farmers to save their homes, it
was added. In Wisconsin, Ohio,
Missouri, Washington and Missis-
sippi, from 1000 to 1000 farm
homes were retained by their own
ers due to adjustment work Of
county committees, officials said.
Records of two States were men
toned as typical. In Illinois,
committees found solutions for
debts of more than 5000 distress
ed farmers, adjusting Indebtedness
|approximating $2o,ooo,oo0 and in
Wisconsin more than 1000 farm
ers, with debts formerly aggregat-
ing $14,700,000, have retained
possession of their homes.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
DukevilIe Items

Mrs. Ray Black spent the week
end with her mother in Mt. Holly.
Mr.. ]. R. Garner, of Duncan,
IS. c., is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. L.
III. Garner.
Miss Margaret harrington, of
Salisbury Route 2, is a guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Harrington
this week.
MI. and Mrs. Freeman are re-
ceiVing congratulations upon the
birth Of a son.
Many of this village are attend
isg the meeting being held this
week at Bethel.
Mrs. Arthur Bailey has returned
to her home in Mt Holly after
spending several weeks with her
brother, Mr. Roy Black.
Mr.. Arthur West, of Greensboro
is spending this week with Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. R. Jones.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
N SCHOOL TEACHERS

A movement has been started at
Philadelphia to have every commu-
nifty give a demonstration on Oct
ober s, in honor of its Sunday
school teachers, including Protest
ant, Roman Catholic and Jewish.
Millions of men and women have
worked and worried over this task
of teaching religious truth. When
the boys insist on talking baseball
and the girls on discussing the fash
ions during the lesson hour, the
teacher loses hear heart. But many
children who wouldn't listen to the
instruction, have somehow been i'm
pressed with the idta that good con-
duct is desirable. The Sunday
school teacher to whom they once
were disrespectful, is later seen as a
friend who helped them start life
right.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
Constipation Symptoms
Soon Go Away After
Use of Black-D rauRht

Mrs. s. q. Ramey, Of Henryetta,
Okla. writes that shs has taken
Thsdford's Black raught about
twenty-five years, when needed,
and has found It very good"
when I have a sour stomach and
my mouth tastes bitter, and ! feel
bilious, sluggish and tired, I will
very soon have a severe headache
# I don't take something. I have
learned to keep off these spells by
taking Thedford's Black-Draught.
Very soon T I'M feeling fine. I feel
that Black raught can't be beaten
as a family medicine" -. Get q
package Of Black raught today.
Sold in $50 packages.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
The influence of weekly news-
papers ON public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
the coumtry.-Artbur Brisbane.
MODEL TOWN

AT Kohler, Wisconsin, where the
Kohler of Kohler bathtubs come
from, strike met by tear gas has en-
tered the model town" Strikes
have a way of entering model
towns" 1t was in the 'smodel town
of Pullman, Illinois, that the great
American railroad strike of 1894
was precipitated. Other model
towns" have been found by work.
ers to be less the Eden han their
employers represented them to be.
At its very best the company own
ed and developed s'model town" is
a feudal village. Men who live in
model towns" are inevitably the
creatures of feudalism. However
excellent such towns and villages
may be, however big their churches,
their Y. M. c. AS, schools and
libraries, however beneficial their
medical and social services, some
body has to pay for them. And men
are so perverse that they would
prefer to be paid for their labor in
higher wages than in benevolence
and paternalism dispensed in the
guise of big-hearted charity.
At its worst the company town,
the mill village, is a corral in which
men are kept captive in squalor to
exploitation. At its best a COM
pany town is the feudal village in
which men take their welfare as
benevolence from above and are
not as free men able to build their
welfare in terms of their own as
piration and their own desire.
America will be a better place
when every town in it is a free
town, shaped by the will Of its in
habitants and not by the will of
those who hire labor to profit out
of labor. Free cities may have their
faults but however far from Eden
they may be their faults are those
of free men and of their own max
ing.