The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 07, 1920, Image 17
Scenes From Modern American Comedy, "It Pays to Advertise," to Be Given at Chautauqua Here
The sWIe-Hpllttlng American eomedy, "It Pays to Advertise," will be presented at the coming Redpath Chautauqua on the fourth litght by '& company of eight. This a ptay which was extraordinarily successful In the great
j metropolitan <-'^erM ttn<l h?8 u,s0 been wonderfully received On Chautauqua. Last year on one of the big Redpath Seve* Day circuits "It Pays to Advertise" proved to be one of the biggest features of the week. This clean, rollick-'
T ing comedy will be one of the strong attractions on the Chautauqua program.
CMMBtNU TO THK TOP
Way is Open for Itralns, Energy and
lVreeveranro.
Ill oi>e of tin? magazines IIUMV "was a
story printed recently under a head
ing "When- They Wore at Thirty/'
ilt den It with men whj< have conu1 to
tie national figures In industrial affairs
In.Atnerlca
"Whore They Wort? at Twenty"
would 1h> morn Interesting.
*fhc present writer was over In New
York mwiMy to see. 'the man wlio is
ln-a?l of one <>f die greatest THilroadifc
hi tlw world and representative of
Joint I> Kock/feller's big' infeik'sts In
lransjK>rlatlon lines.
"Where were yon at twenty?" the
newspaper man a^ked.
?mi n railroad in Arkansas." was the
reply. .
"Where cli<l you lM?gln?" tflw? greatest
publisher in America. if not the world,
was asked. -/r
"At twelve years of ape. with n
<apitnl of three cents," was the an
swer.
Are the opportunities today as good
as in days gone by? Assuredly. There
nwr was greater opportunity.' From'
out of the ranks of the office boys, the
clerks, the railroad employes, the roth
men. the students, the shopmen, the fac
tory workers. *he salesman ,-of today
will come th<> great captaiivs of to
morrow.
The oyiportunity is bigger today be
cause the active, the enterprising, the
. tlcrt and tJie caiMible stand ont in vivid
<v>ntrast at a time when there is so
much of inclination to shirk affft loaf
at> the joh. ' |
The shirker gets nowhere. The
worker climbs. - r
Ono .?f the partners of the banking
house of j. P. Morgan & Co. was a j
- reporter?m??vnv?York getting $80 a 1
wpek twenty years ago.
?The head of the blggeat life insur
???<* company in the world was a;
mull-town school .Heaohipr wlurai jbe
wa< twenty, Itefore that he worked on
a farm - |
Frederick fnderwood. president of
rhe Krio railroad, was a brakemau.
The president of the Fidelity Mtotual
I.ife Insurance ('a. of Pbiladelpthia.
Parted his business career as errand
^'r ?John Wannamaker at $1 a
week.
Thomas Kilistoi was a "train butch
<"r' selling candy, cakes and such
Stiffs to milritad travelers.
Thn mayor of N??w Yorfc -was a looo
?Dotivr fireman.
The greatest retail merchant the
w^rid f.Vor jlaR known, and who died
' ring $rtf>.000.000. was a Irired hand
ln ?i O'untry stone.
John arty. one of* the principal ad
"WwriHv, ..fficore of tlx- American
f P,WB^ Telerraph Co.. roue
join a u?s>k job In the company's
( Jack ling, the biggest figure Jta
hjJTr mknin* in America, was a farm
m St. (lair county, Missouri and
*t ni v far' hjr studying
*, h\ ?*ndlo light In the attic* of
for- in 8 Srvr York Htare- B*
^?^wasafanihsed.
^omiT^ W n?JncW*> P?*W?rrt of the
OHnn^l Bank of
tw" ,ar*w* financial in^itu
m York started as an
rud* *iM,.k ^ called "home."
c Idvorsky Pupin,. who de
off-ice ho.v for ii <<onooni In Paudra,
Iowa.
?A list 11k<? this could Ik* <*<>ittlnikhI
until columns were filled.
klllu* foregoing lias lieen suggested by
a bit of stuff that oamo floating In from
Armour & Co.. whfch nIiown how near
l.v all tlw mon in tliat monster orga'iil
aatlon rose from smal jobs In the Ar
mour plant. . For instance-:
Arthur Mfceker, vhv presl dent, start
ed at the bill desk so did Kvorett
Wilson, .snporiutwidout of branch
houses, and Frank W. Waddell, head of
the provision department.
>F. F<Lsoii White. vUv-pix'sldent.
spout hisflrst Jf^Arg with the company j
as a clerk.
M. A. Yalcaitine, vice president .aiul
head of the w*i)> works, made his start
Rol?ert ,1. Dunham, vice president,
lJegan flf? n clerk, and Frederick- \V.
Croll. vice presidt^nt ami treasurer
as assistant to the paymaster.
<Hia rles H. Mel >o well, president of
the Armour Fertilizer works, entered
the employ of the eomimny as* a steno
grapher.
George ? 11; Itcbhins, vice irrosident,
was u elerk In the transportation de
partment.
, John 10. O'Hern went to Chicago
twenty-three years ago looking for a
J(J> and found one .in the Armour oleo
margarine depaftment at $1.75 a day*
Today he Ls general superintendent of
sixteen Armour plants.
My rick D. Hard Lug. general superin
tendent of the Chicago plant, who di
rects the work of 16,000 men, started
.with the company as a messenger at
$3 a week.
Fred C. Shaw, divLson superintend
ent of. the Ch?<*ago pJantX, started* As a
bookkeeper.
A. P. Peuson, -head of the canning
department, Ls today at a desk 100
feetfrom tihe-feable at -which as ji l>oy
of fourteen, he worked for $3.50 a
week. _
Chftrlpg Vlkel, genera superintendent
of the *jt. Paul plant, started with th*
opmpifny as an office boy.
Would these men haw had their fine ,
positions today had they been shirkers ]
ai)d clock watdbors ?
Not in a thousand years.
For every-big job there i? in America
today there Will "be tSvo twenty years
from now.
There never wu.s better opportunity
for the bright youngster or the bright
young man. It does not matter what
you are today, office or l>ank clerk,
farm hand or salesman, shop attendant
or truckman.
For. In this country more than in
any other, cah it be said with truth:
lam the master of ray fate,
T am the captain of my soul.
Work and you win. Ix>af and you
lose.
WANT TO TRY JOE TURNER
Greenville Officers Desire His
Return at Onee
> Greenville, April 30?Sheriff Willis
this afternoon requested Governor Coop
er to take up the matter with the Gov
ernor of Virginia of getting Joe Tur
ner, heJd In Lynchburg, Va., charged
I wfth fcbe murder of an officer here and
frlso charged with munderfng tvA> police -
| men In Gnenvfle last October, bade to
Greenville for trial, and Governor Coop
er promised to do Immediately. Up
on receiving an affidavit as to the
facta in the case from the Greenville
'Because of a technicality, It is feared
that it will itr <1 Iff fruit to Intixw a
Heutemv to tho ohvtrfr <'l?aln on Tunio.r
in tlio Virginia <-aso and for tliaI iva
won t'lio officer* nn1 anxious to have
liim hioiiKlit here for trial flint on the
oldest foloU.v, 'fW fiynehburg offl
cucs. for th?? same reason, favor Ids re
hiru here, Jt Is salt! Kheilff Willis
' r?1 : ,v
stntiw Turnt.*r to poH<huu(mi In
l<ynclihm-j; last. jklght. Tlu? ?ay#
that Turner s?i<l that h<? mupdortxl tho
jK?UcviiH?n hon?.
T?ot la theTGEwTL?T^ir
T?k.
ran
We gwe & m aur store. You cam hear it exactly at Si the noted
pxpcMofiits who xrieHod the JRdbon Shop on Fifth Avenue, New York.
?
Yom'tc been hrtring about the astonishing
raajjnm of the New Edison.
Blow jfom ask: * 'It this reafetpi to true that
I feel the same emt^ooi in litteaing to the
Mew Edison at I feel in fateMf to the
1Mb* stager?"
Our answer it?put the Mew Edison to
the test!
Mr. Edison devised his umasgoe Realism
Test for thit rety pwrpaae. Them he invited
distinguished pijeMfMb to try it out.
Bach of the tint at en got sensations that
were startimgiy rwid.
"I eoerid bow sworn there was a
me,'' said Dr. W.
V. Bingbtm, Director of tbe Department
of Applied Pifcbologjr, Carnegie Institute
of Technology.
"I frft the pretence of a living singer.
The accompaniment seemed by a separate
inataument," reported Prof. C. H. Farns
worth, Disaster oflbe Department of Music,
Teachers' Coikye, Cofcsmbia University.
4-The music filled my mind with thoughts
of peace and beauty," saad WBmm FoUett,
noted music critic.
We'd Iike to have you come into our store
sod try tfasa same teat. Sec what
you get. The BeaHsm Tes
H tkmm you
Smm Mdimn thr+ugk ThmifU
? . * ? ?
Camden Furniture Company
Telephone 156 ?:? Camden, S. C