Thursday, April 14, 1927
VERNONIA EAGLE
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PASTORS’ CKlirnÈN
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Public Relations Commission, American Bankers Association
«eriea ol article» expoelne the wile» 0/ «ftorpers wko »n.
tTbu m . one al a
after your tnoneyj
XJEARLY everyone is ready “to take a fling” at getting some-
thinp for nothing or at least for leas than it is worth. Ee-
cause of this many are duped into paying more than regular mar­
ket prices for th’ngs they buy. This clans of
people is especially susceptible to the appeal of
anything re emblir-g an auction. Fake auc­
tions with the cards stacked against the buyer
are very ccriimon. They rank high among the
fraudulent schemes of the country.
The “here today and gone tomorrow'
auction faker rants a fine looking house in
some high-ckss section of the city in which ha
pirns to operate, lie furnishes this house
with the cheapest imitations of high-class fur­
nishings, with here and there a fine piece
which is to serve for bait. Ct rtain pieces are
alleged antiques with a thread of glorious his­
tory behind them Of others it is claimed that
they have been handed down for generations,
originating with some person noted in history
or with some famous Southern family. Of
other
pieces it is maintained that they are
w R MOREHOUSE
made of rare and precious woods imported
from far across the sea. The overstufTed furniture, it is claimed,
is all high grade of standard manufacture.
Regardless of its superiority and antiquity, the furniture
must be sold at onco. lor til« “
owner is compelled to take an they find hanging in the tiont window
extended trip
the family physi a sign, ‘For Rent ’’ The birds have
clan having ordered travel and a down. without leaving any ad drees
Fake auctions uro not exclusive
change of climate as a means of saving
his life. Nothing i3 to be spared and to residence«, but are sometimes
lha deep slashings of the auctioneer’s staged in stores We have reports of a
ax. must go on with no price too low certain furniture firm that tailed, hav­
Individual pre-auction sales, of course, ing on hand stuck invoked al $42.otu
will he arranged for persons who are An aui t < n sale wia announced As
usual the stock mi. t be closed out to
unable *o attend the auction.
The day of the sale is here. Pur- j satisfy cr.diturs within a few days.
eilUBer« are arriving They are met • re ;ard'e.ss of clbi . Un the windows
at the door by the woman member of I appeared glaring ?: nauneements of
the oui.it—a dramatic person
big bargains
Al­
who knows when to
I
though represented
shed
tears at the thought ; of h iv-
as a legitimate sale,
Ing her happy home ! broken
it bad tliu earmarks
up aud her valuable furulsh
aueltuu
Fake Piece«
Memorial Takes Form of
Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Chicago.—“Silver keys to go’, den
memories.’’ In these five words are
epitomized a national movement, with
Its headquarters here, which ha« as
its objectives:
Creation of a sunshiny, life and
health-giving me aortal to the spirits
of thousands of America’s best-loved
men and womer, and
A tasting and complete refutation of
the old theory that the majority of
ministers’ children are ne’er-do-wells.
The “golden memories” are those
which all of us treasure of the kindly
m’nij tr’itions, the heart-felt sympa­
thies and the helping hands extended
*.o us In times of stress by pastors or
our acquaintances.
The “sliver keys” are the dollar«
that are pouring Into the Methodist
Ministers’ Sons’ an<i Daughters’ asso­
ciation, Rar the meinorlHl which that
organization has planned aud on which
construction Is exi>eeted early this
year.
Plan Great Sanatorium.
That memorial Is to be the Method­
ist Ministers’ Memorial sanatorium at
Colorado Springs, Colo. It Is planned
ns the principal unit of the National
Methodtat Episcopal Sanatorium for
Tuberculosis—n f» eject embracing al­
most a million dollars In buildings and
equipment.
“Our unit.” «ays Rev. J. W. Irish.
D. D., executive secretary of the asso­
ciation. ‘‘will cost about $200.000 and
will afford us—the sons and de ugh t era
of Methodist ministers—an opportu­
nity not only to honor our fathers and
mothers, but also to assist In caring
for the more than a million persons
In America who are afflicted with this
dread disease. The service will be non-
‘ sectarian and will be provided with­
out cost to tho^e who are unable to
pay the co^t of their fights for health
Doctor Tr’sh added that probably no
movement In the history of M-rthmt
Isen ever has struck such a popular
chord of appeal and that the Buccew
of the venture Is assured, In his of
ficus at 740 Rush street. he nlrcdy
has the names and addresses of 10.000
sens and daughters of Methodist mln
Isters.
“Our greatest concern now,” he con
tinned, “Is that of obtaining as nearly
as posable a comp’ete list of the son*
and daughters of Methodtat ministers
and their wives.
The opportunity
which our assoc’atlon affords these
folks of memorlaPz’n" their parents I f
such that we have Issued a coneral ap
peal to the public everywhere to send
us names and addresses of any known
sons or daii'’htors of our pastor«.
‘ So groat ta the Interest In our ac­
tivity that the Chamber of Commerce
of Colorado Springs donated 23 acres
of land within the city limits for the
location of our hnlhl’ngs. The site
adjoins that of Beth-EI General hos­
pital. nationally known for its achieve­
ment« In surgical and general medical
treatment.
“One unit of our sanatorium, a heat­
ing plant and laundry large enough to
provide for future expansion, already
have been erected on our site.”
Minister«’ Son« Rank High.
Development of the hospital memo­
rial to children of preachers, has
brought to light an almost startling
array of prominent personages who
were the sons or daughters uf minis­
ters.
John Hancock, first signer of the
Declaration of Independence, was a
preacher’s son. as were eight others
who signed that document, One of
every nine of the Presidents of the
United States have been ministers’
sons, while in one of every foil“ ad
ministrations, America's Presidents
had daughters of ministers as the
lion’s first ta<ly.”
One of every five persons In
Hall of Fame In New York city is
son or daughter of a preacher.
Tn the Industrial field, tu science
Invention, literature and the arts, many
of the outstanding mimes are those of
ministers’ sons.
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of Chi
cago Is president of the association;
Rev. Merle N. English, D D., of Oak
Park, 111., is vice president. Other i
officers, besides Doctor Irish, the ex­
ecutive secretary. Include L. O. Jones,
Lincoln. Neb., secretary, and Dr. O. S
Woods. Cleveland, Ohio, treasurer.
She tells
Ings torn from her
her mid story—how she must
Catch
leave her Inune and go to distant lands I An Investigation of the store made
with her busband whose health is six months later disclosed that lis
broken and life in danger But she is stock was then larger than the day it
resigned to her ‘awful calamity” aud announced the auction
Its sales tu
will sell all her lovely furniture even the interim bad exceeded $600,4)00
The facts are that two trucks had
at a great sacrifice
Aa she directs attention to certain backed up to the rear of the store
p'cecs of furniture her voice quavers nightly and unloaded new merchan*
She almost soba aloud as she names dtae, principally odd hues and job lota
picked up here and there at a bargain
the price «he Is forced to accept. “Lxssa
Under the gutae uf a legitimate auc­
' than half the original cost. but price tion, or private sale at auction prices,
te no object. We must take the train fourteen times as much furniture was
tomorrow,” and she wipes a tear from sold In the a x months ao the store
her eye
Fully convinced the sale contained at the time of the failure
is genuine, and sympathizing whh Un Comparison of sa e prices disclosed
unfortunate woman. buyers clamor tor that victims were persuaded to buy
liberally on the acHurance they were
the furniture.
But no sooner are the articles trans getting sacrifice pr cts, when as a mat­
ter of fact they were actually paying
furred from their setting in the slight
from five to 25 per cent more than re
ly darkened rooms of their original liable stores were charging for bullet
owner aud displayed in the sunlight goods
of the purchaser'« home, than the
Fake auctions and private sales are
truth about the sale begins to dawn in used not only for furniture but also in
the mind of each new owner Close the sale of jewelry and other mercbac
The leswou which this story
examination reveals that evidently di.se
this wonderful colluctldn of furniture teaches is thut th» re te nothing to be
Ou
wun but odds and ends and unsalable gained by putroniz’.ng such sak-a
pieces picked up from second hand the other band, the v is a better than
50-50 chance of e.u>-tabling a loss
Ktoreti by these Uy-by-uight takers
Not ail auctions are fraudulent, fur
Some proves to be the rankest of Iml some are conducted fairly and honest
rations of the cheap.el grade, and the ly, but before you draw your s-.tvnigs
overstuffed Is so poorly constructed j from the bixiili and spend them for auc
that II squeaks and weaves under the I lion geode it will pay yen tu got the
facts For your own protectiou make
lightest weight.
it an unb!« - kable rule to condite yuur
The Birds Have Flown
Rig«, N. Y.—Wild Jog limiting 1« the
expendí Lures and investments to re­
When those who have been cheated hab.e firms
livtduais In deal­ leading sport here. Several pack« of
rush back to the house the next day. j ing wl
assured a wild dors have wendered through the
Intent on making It hot for the faker ' square
countryside, attacking domestic anL
muls and “ven cbasUp people.
FINNEY OF THE FORCE
By P. O. Alexander
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Snapshots of Cruiser
Passed Into History
Emden Stir Germans
ew things con be more seemingly
ha ■hazard than the vicissitudes of tor-
tn. e which have befallen phrases and
sentences, equally striking and equally
ar eating In themselves, writes the
earl of Oxford and Asquith In Mc­
Call’s Magazine. Some of them have
pu (shed without leaving so much as
an echo behind, while others have
be*-n blazoned on the banners of
m’ghty hosts or become the rally'l l*
cries of great causes or have passed
Into the common currency of man­
kind—Burke’« “thousands of sword«
lei ping from their scabbards.’’ the
Hi ugarIan nobles’ cry. “Muriamur
pro rege nostro,” Marla There«:.!'«
bright “angel of death hoverinz over
the stricken homes of a war-worn
people,” Lincoln’s “government of th»»
people, by the people, for the people,”
Italy’s “Faru da se,” Dunton’s -One
men num solt tletri que la France soil
llbrs,” Jefferson’s “that government is
best which governs least,’’ and
elder Pitt’s scornful rebuke to
cringing partner, Newcastle. Is
of the greatest adventures in our
nals—“fewer words, my lord, for your
words have long lost all weight with
me’— all these come from an anthol­
ogy which will never be exhausted so
long as men can breathe or eyes can
sec.
But there are words spoken or writ­
ten equully worthy of remembrance,
some of them almost wholly forgotten,
others serving in a mutilated shape,
which are among the most to be de-
plored of the lost fraguieutary treas-
urti of history.
Wilhelmshaven. Germany. — Thera
nat. excitement among members of th»
German navy when the cruiser Em­
den departed on a world tour. For
sailors on board a British tank ship
were observed to be photographing the
German naval vessel as she steamed
out of port.
I Wild rumors began to circulate in
this harbor, describing the network <>1
a big English espionage system.
i But these stirring stories nev
quickly dissipated by the Frankfur
ter Zeltung. which wrote: “Nowadays
there are tew jobs for forelsn spies
The plans of the Emden are known to
members of the Interallied military
control commission better than thtjr
are to the builders In Wllhelmsha« en "
He Never Doubled
After the wreck of the lodging
ra'1-oad the superintendent asked
th? badly damaged negro Unman:
“Are you married?”
He replied sadly: “No, suh, boss,
dis am de wurstess fix ah waa
evah in.” —R. R. Telegrapher.
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Interesting to Note
Origin of Surnames
It was not until utter tbe Norman
conquest tliut surnames were adopt­
ed.
They were tirst given as nick­
names to suit particular Individuals.
Toduy we rarely find any appropriate­
ness in the names we bear.
The
greatest hero of the day may easily
carry the name of Coward, while Mr.
Fox may be anything but sly. Yet It
Is probable that the first man to
hear the name ef Fex was pre­
eminent In running. Just as the first
I’arrott, or Purratt. was most likely
a great talker.
Many people were named by reason
of their possession of some quality
which was associated with a particu­
lar animal.
Hart, for Instance, was
no doubt a great runner, and Night­
ingale could slug.
As for the Rud­
docks (robin redbreast) and Wood
alls (woodwale, a woodpecker), they
prob bly received their nutnes from
the signs they favored outside their
doora.
The most .Interesting names are
those which plainly originated through
the occuimtlou of those who held
then,. There Is no doubt ubottt Shop
herd. Hedger. Herd, or Hoard. Ack-
art tan was the man who drove the
plow over the acres; Swlunart tended
wine; and Calvert looked after the
■alves; while Wethered was a wether-
herd, and Goddard a goat-herd.—Lon
doll Answers.
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BODY POWDERS
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Bizet Died a “Failure”
Bizet, the composer of “Carmen, *
probably the most successful of all
classic operas so far as the scope of
it« popularity Is concerned, died at
thirty-seven, and It 1« said he was
brr ken-hearted over the apparent fall
ore of the opera on ita first presenta­
tion.—Washington Star.
Dentist Cheaper
Moscow, U. S. S. R.—American
toothpaste costs dearly In Russia. Sis
tubes to be mailed to an Amerlcau
newspaper man here were held up at
the soviet post office for minute ex­
am nation and then the correspondent
wan assessed a duty of $11 a tube.
Her Favorite Stone
Are you planning to give her a ring? Then why
not have it set with her favorite stone. We have
a wonderful array of extra quality stones—reason­
ably priced. The diamond is the birth stone for
April. Our stock is complete—each stone guaran­
teed as to quality and price.
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