GENEROSITY -NOW IN RAGS
Rich Texas Farmer Lives in Old Log Cabin but
Has Given Away Many Fortunes, Unasked
sory notes and magy thousands
of dollars in cash.
* And that Is far from being a
complete list. Only Wilson him­
self knows Just how large the
list really is.
One day recently Wilson start­
ed from his home to McKinney.
He passed a small farm where
father, mother and children were
working in the field. A ll were
harefooted and poorly clad.
Wilaon recalled that be held a
mortgage on the place. He^ turn­
ed around and went home, got
the mortgage, marked it "paid"
and went back to the farm . He
wanted to avoid the embarrass­
ment of having the farm er thank
him, so he tiptoed Into the house
put the cancelled mortgage under
a plate on the table and made his
escape unseen.
Another time he passed this
home of a crippled farmer.
He
notieed that the farm er had a
hard time getting around
bat
that he was hard working and In­
dustrious. , Wilson - hurried
to
town, bpught .a new auto and
had It sent to the cripple’s farm ,
w ith a chauffeur to teach
him
By \'EA Service
M cK IN N E Y , Tex., Aug, 15.—
He has given away .several hun­
dred thousand dollars to make
the world a little happier, while
he himsftlf wears tattered cloth­
ing and Hvee In an a n c ie n t ram­
shackle cabin.
He w ill help no man who asks
for help, but anyone who keep«
quiet and says nothing In the face
of financial difficulties may be
aided.
He w ill not talk about his gen­
erosities, and he pretends to be
very cold-blooded
and
hard­
hearted; but ail the time he is
merely concealing an intense, ov­
erflowing love for his fellow
men.
His cabin was built In 1844-,
of rough-bewn logs. - The farm
he inherited as a youth h ai
dwindled from 1000 acres to 100
acres because of his donation«.
During the past few yeart he has
given away, outright and unask­
A Confederate Veteran
■Those paragraphs describe one ed, the following things:
of the most unusual philanthrop­
One dozen houses, 20 automo­
ists In the world— Augustus M. biles, 150 acres for maintenance
Wilson, 8 4-y ear-old Confederate of a school, two district school
veteran, who lives alone on a houses, at $2,000 each, an $800
small farm five miles from thia bungalow for a teacher in one of
town.
I theA. a dozen cancelled promts-
how to drive.
Not long ago Wilson went to
Dallas and spent an houT or so
looking at autos in a salesroom.
He was dressed in shabby farm
clothes, and the salesman as-
saihed that he could not buy any­
thing better than a secopd-rate
used car.
But Wilson insisted
ob looking at
the high priced
ones and said he wanted several.
The salesman, perplexed, called
up a McKinney bank:
“Old fellow here, name of W il­
son wants to buy three hew
ears.- he told the cashier. "Know
anything about him?"
“Describe him,” said the cash­
ier.
“Oh gosh, I couldn't." said the
eashier.
“ Well, then, that’s Ous W il­
son and he conld buy every car
>ou have and pay cash," said the
cashier. “ L e f him have anything
he wants."
Wilson rarely giveg to church­
es. t Once he broke his rule and
gave an elaborate chandelier to
a nearby church. A couple of
months ltrter he entered
the
church when no one was around
and noticed that, the cnandelier
was neglected, covered w ith d irt
and. dust. He took It down and
hauled it home.
He likes to attend Confederate
veterans* reunions. Recently he
paid the expenses of six com­
rades to go with him tp one.
On another occasion he leacn-
ed that six McKinney girls want­
ed to go on a short holiday trip
but didn’t have enough money.
He paid their expenses on a
pleasure trip to Galveston
and
gave them $50 apiece to spend.
When they got back one girl
wanted to return to him $17 she
hadn’t spent.
"Oh, keep it,* said
Wilson.
Methodists Will
Meet This Week
SANTA CRUZ. Cal., Sept. 15.
— ( U P )— The annual conference
of
the
Methodist
Episcopal
church of California will meet at
Santa Cruz Wednesday.
Selec­
tion of ministers for the various
Methodist pulpits in the Cali­
fornia conference for the coming
year w ill form one of the most
Important matters of business.
CHICAGO, Sept. 15.— “I made
up the ton of mash to teed a sick*
cow and the 10 gallnoa of alco­
hol was Just for horse liniment,"
explained Sam Arkalas to pro­
hibition agents who had Aided
his home.
Seattle is Sued / ' • V * ‘
For Broken Glass
neighbor came to his house to
“ You’re the only girl
in
the borrow $15,000.
SEATTLE. Sept. 15.— (U P )—
"There« the road,” said W il­
bunch that showed any sense.’’
When Fred
Singleton.. Seattle
son* gruffly. "Nothing is keeping resident, tripped on the sidfewalk
Won’t Help Brinkers
Wilson refuses to give anyono yon frbm going back. I won’t and broke 13 pieces of. glass­
OENORISTY— GALLEY 2 ......... Invite you in."
ware and a gallon jug of . vine­
" I ’m coming in and before I gar he was carrying, he , billed
who drinks, and confines his do­
nations to those who are truly leave you’re going to lend me the city for $2. claiming the walk
the neighlmr. was defeitive.
industrious and frugal. He amas­ $15,000.” said
sed his own riches hv working ‘‘Why, you blankety-blank old
“The loss wasn’t much.” he ex­
long hours on his farm as a sinner. What drt you suppose I plained. "But I can’t spare _the
young man, and he thinks others walked all .the way out here for money."
—-for nothing’ ’'
r”
ought to do the same.
Only once did Wilson break
Wilson chuckled. When
the
Eugene ■
— Bringle Motor Com­
his rule about not helping any­ man left he had Wilson’s check pany will build $50,000. tarage
one who asked for help. * A fo r. $15,000.
building.
Over two billion
smoked a month!
natural tobacco taste has
the “call” these days !
Why Newspapers Ask For
EARLY AD COPY
The Advertiser is unfair to himself when he habit
ually sends his advertisements to the newspaper of*
fice just before the dead line.
Early Copy
B est possible position
Minimum of errors.
Time for store corrections
Good typography
Prompt delivery to reader
Fair to mechanical staff
Advertisem ent w ell w ritten
Advertisem ent inserted
Overhead normal
Illustration correct.
Late Copy
R isk poor position
R isk of typographical errors
N o opportunity for store cor­
rections.
R isk of poor typography
U nfair physical and mental
strain
Advertisements h u r r i e d l y
written.
R isk of omission
Sometimes cause of rate in ­
crease
Risk of misplaced cuts.
Men have certainly made
their preference clear!
EMEM BER just a few years back you
„ saw but few Chesterfields?
R
While a newspaper is a marvel of mechanical efficiency, there are
limits on what can be done by a given forve of printers, stereotypers,
pressmen and mailers in a short, crowded period of stress.
Mighty different today! You see them every*
where! But it's not that fact, but the reason,
that's the interesting thing.
, There is plenty of time to give «every advertiser good service on
heavy advertising days, when early copy is sent in. But to set every
advertisement in the last hour or two before press time is impossible,
even with a force five times as large. .
Natural tobacco taste — a taste secured by
matching one fine variety against another, a
taste which retains tobacco character— that's
w h y Chesterfield is America's fastest-growing
cigarette, and has been for four consecutive
years. N ot much doubt nowadays about w hat
smokers want!
The Tidings believes that its advertisers desire to he fair to print­
ers, stereotypers, pressmen and mailers who serve them, as well as to
bo fair to themselves.
Visitors to the mechanical department are invited, so that the
process of handling advertising may be thoroughly understood and the
mechanical problems fully realized.
Chesterf
Such popularity
must be deserved
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