Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 31, Ed. 1 Monday, February 13, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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Fresh Shipment
Garden Seed
in the bulk--and ready to
plant in that spring garden
FLOWER SEED
Sweet Pea Seed (Spencer mixed) in the
bulk—and complete line package
flower seed.
Golf State Tomato Seed in Sealed Packages
TIMPSON PHARMACY
TIMPSON, TEXAS
THE MHTTHKS
Entered as second class mat-
ter April 17, 1908, at the post-
office at Timpson, Texas, un-
der the Act of March S, 1870.
T. J. MOLLOY----Editor
S. WINFREY - Business Mgr.
A THOUGHT FOR
TODAY
Once we thought
work was a curse; then
it came to us that it was
a necessary evil; and
yesterday the truth
dawned upon us that it
is a blessed privilege.
—Elbert Hubbard.
HOW LONG IS AN INCH?
Probably it is not of world-
shaking importance from a
practical, everyday point of
view, but it does seem that
Congress might do something
about the length of the inch.
In the last session a bill wad
introduced to establish the
legal length of the Inch at the
same as the British inch, which
is four-millionths longer than
ours. In nine million yards of
goods that would make a dif-
ference of a yard between
English measurements and
ours, but what are a few mil-
lionths between two great na-
tions?
The status of the inch today
is a good deal tike the width of
a window which a green work-
man was asked to measure.
The boss handed him a two-
foot rule. The man reported
that the window was as long as
the rule and a half a brick and
the length of his thumb over.
There is a law on the statute
books of the United States
which defines the length of
the world-wide unit of meas-
urement, the meter, in terms
of inches, but it doesn’t say
how long an inch is. Work-
ing backward from the legal
definition of the meter, it
comes out that an inch is
.025340005 meters and then
some. You can carry the divi-
sion to infinity and you never
will come to an axact numeral.
It would be difficult to make
a political issue out of the ex-
act length of the inch, because
nobody cares, much, except
physicists and other scientific
highbrows, and they haven’t
enough votes to count.
Indeed, most Congressmen
doubt whether scientists ever
vote, and few of them know
much about science anyway.
Nobody else has the power to
define the inch, however, and
some lover of truth might find
a way to persuade Congress
that even such a trifling thing
ought to receive attention from
that august body.
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IBnfts O" Hiw<s>r
“How do you make such
hit in society?”
"Well, you see, I mistake
all the debutantes for society
leaders, and all the society
leaders for debutantes.”
Christian Science Monitor.
What’s the Use?
A smali sub-Post Office (in
a local shop) had a stamp ma-
chine in the wall outside, but
there were seldom any stamps
in it.
A resident one day pointed
out to the postmistress that
the machine was always
empty.
_ “That thing?” was the re-
ply. "It’s no use my putting
stamps in that; as fast I put
them in, they take them out.”
—London Evening News.
ROSE BUSHES—Plant now. 2
year old—10c each; 15 pop-
ular varieties. Phone or write
Pruitt Nursery, Leneville,
Texas.
Ribbons for all makes of
typewriters. The Times.
TO YOUR HEALTH IN *39
We have started in another year—of the outcome—
wc can't tell—
But there are things—we know—we have to do—to
keep our bodies well;
We should take plenty—outdoor exercise—in the
sunshine—n does us good—
And one of the main things—you shouldn’t over-
look—e»t pure, good wholesome food.
The Lord gives you the sunshine—and places the
food at your command—
1 his provides the energy to carry on—isn’t nature's
set-up grand?
You can step out in the sunshine—and the exercise
you can take
These instructions you can carry out without a single
break.
Just use your telephone—to get the food-
less of the time—
I. have exactly—what’s required—and
Iter's plain old Nine.
And what a pleasure—‘tis—for me to know—I’m
selling just the best.
And providing what it takes to make—your thirty-
nine be blessed.
-regard-
my num-
Gordon Weaver
Phone 9
GROCERIES
Timpson
After. Huh. Papa?
By PERCY CROSBY
bale Came
5-Minute Biographies
"He**** Whs Frlndt*
PacpU.”
Dr. S. Parkes Cadman
EVERY SUNDAY HE
PREACHED TO MORE
THAN 5,000,000 PEOPLE
From my home in New
York, I occasionally crossed
the East River to spend a
few delightful hours chatting
with the late S. Parkes Cad-
man, of Brooklyn. Doctor Cad-
man was one of the best known
men in America. You prob-
ably heard him preach many
times on the radio, for he
broadcast for eleven years. He
was one of the pioneers in
broadcasting.
If you think you are busy,
listen to what Doctor Cadman
accomplished in a day!
He got up at seven o’clock,
dictated twenty or thirty let-
ters, wrote fifteen hundred
words for his newspaper
column, prepared a sermon or
worked on a book he was
writing, visited five or six of
his parishioners, attended two
or three meetings, made a talk
or two, dashed home, read a
new book completely through,
then called it a day and got to
sleep about two o’clock in the
morning.
A program like that would
make me dizzy in forty-eight
hours but Doctor Cadman kept
it up month after month—and
he was far beyond middle age.
Think of it! I once asked him
how he did it. He said that was
simple. He planned his work.
He declared that he saved
one hour a day by dictating to
a dictaphone instead of dic-
tating to a secretary, and he
told me that Gladstone taught
him a valuable lesson about
how to work.
When Gladstone was man-
aging the affairs of England
for Queen Victoria, he had
four desks in his office—one
for literary work, one for cor-
respondence, one for political
affairs and one for his favorite
studies. Gladstone found he
could work better when he
got variety; so he would work
awhile at one desk and then
move to another. Doctor Cad-
man did the same thing. He
constantly varied his tasks, and
he said that kept him fresh
and alert
And he varied his reading,
too. If you imagine the learn-
ed Doctor Cadman was al-
ways poring over pious books
of theology, you are wrong.
He believed that it was as nec-
essary to have variety in your
reading as in your eating. So
he read two or three detective
stories every week. He loved
“Sherlock Holmes” and he
regarded ‘The Hound of the
Baskervilles” as the finest de-
tective story ever written.
To me, one of the astonish-
ing things about this astonish-
ing man is the fact that he
went to work in a coal mine in
England when he was eleven
years old, and for ten long
years he continued to work un-
derground for eight hours ev-
ery day, to help support his
younger brothers and sisters.
He knew there was only one
way to get out of that coal
mine, and that was to read
himself out of it. So during
the ten years that he worked
as a coal miner, he read every
book he could beg or borrow
1c the neighboring village—
more than a thousand volumes.
No wondeer that boy got
ahead. Yon couldn’t have
stopped him with anything less
potent uian a shot gun.. Ten
years after he started in the
coal mine, he had educated
himself sufficiently to pass .him
college examinations with
honors and to win a scholar-
ship at Richmond College, in
London.
Doctor Cadman preached
every Sunday to more than five
million people. Ke was one
of the most famous preachers
on earth. He was heard all
over the world.
Admiral Byrd once sent him
a radiogram from Little Amer-
ica, telling him how much they
were enjoying hie talks down
near the South Pole.
Yet, when Dr. Cadman first
came to America, he got a
job preaching to only one
hundred and fifty people in
Millbrook, N. Y.
Doctor Cadman told me
that Abraham Lincoln had af-
fected him more than any oth-
er man in all history. Thack-
eray was his favorite novelist,
and his favorite poems were
Wordsworth’s "Ode to Immor-
tality” and Milton’s "Ode to
the Nativity.”
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(Continued front Page 1)
THE HOUSE OF HAZARDS
By Mhc Arthur
ing model of a rocket gun, the
largest model railroad ever
built; puppet manufacture of
automobiles; a block-long
diorama of New York; a half-
mile auto-ride in a building;
creation of artificial lightning;
animated characters from
“Alice in Wonderland;” a full-
scale street intersection of the
World of Tomorrow, and a
perfume fountain.
In the Government Zone
sixty-three nations, including
the United States, are seeking
to outdistance each other in
speed of construction and in
lavish outpourings of millions
of dollars for displays.
“Around the world in SO min-
utes” promises to be the slogan
of this 100-acre zone, while a
further trip around this coun-
try will be provided by ex-
hibits of 34 states concentrated
for the most part in the Court
of States.
The 280-acre Amusement
Area has begun to mushroom
up, with twenty-five conces-
sions already burgeoning in
steel, timber, lath and plaster
and fifty others about to be
launched. Here is to be found
a 250-foot Parachute Jump,
rides of every known variety,
novel shows and walk-thrus,
cabarets and night clubs, spec-
tacles and a dozen villages
ranging from a Children’a
World to Merrie England.
Operating staffs are already
preparing for a million visitors
on opening day and averages
of 800,000 daily thereafter.
Outside surveys indicate the
Fair is too conservative in esti-
mating total attendance at
only 60,000.000,
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