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CLIMBING TO THE TOP. Way is Open for Brains, Energy ami Perseverance. In one of the magazines there was a story printed recently under a heading, "Where they Were at Thirty/' It dealt with men who have come to be national figures in industrial *\ affairs in Amrica. I"'Where They Were at Twenty" would be more interesting. The present writer was over in New York recently to see the man who is head of one of the greatest railroads s in the world and representative of John D. Rockefeller's big interests in transportation lines. "Where were you at twenty? "the TiP.wsnaDer man asked. "Telegraph operator at a way s:a,tion on a railroad in Arkansas," was the reply. "Where did you begin?" the greatest publisher in America, if not in the world, was asked. "At twelve years of age, with a capital of three cents," was the answer. Are the opportunities today as good as in days gone by? Assuredly. There never was greater opportunity. From out of the ranks of office boys, the clerks, the railroad employees, the roadmen, the students, the shopmen, the factory workers, the salesmen of today will come the great cap< tains of tomorrow. The opportunity is bigger today because the active, the enterprising, the alert and the capable stand out in vivid'contrast at a time when there is so much of inclination to shirk | and loaf on the job. The shirker gets nowhere. The :p: worker climbs. < On? of the partners of the banking house of J^P. Morgan & Co. *as a t r reporter in New-York getting $30 a Wf-'1- week twenty years ago. The head of the biggst life insurk ; > anee company in the world was a small-town school teacher when he was twenty. Before that he worked on a farm. ^ * i Frederick Underwood, president of ^ 1 the Eri Railroad, was a brakeman. gj The president of the Fidelity Mu: tual Life Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, started his business career as errand boy for John Wannamaker at *y $1 a week. Thomas Edison was a "train ^ butcher," selling candy, cakes and j,// such things to railroad travelers.* l :*?'>' y The mayor of New York was a lojs ?*'* comotive fireman. The greatest retail merchant the world has ever known, and who died leaving $65,000,000, was a hired hand in a country store. $ j \ John Carty, one of the principal administrative officers of the Ameri|V\;, can Telephone and Telegraph Co.; Sfiv : } Vose from a $5 a week job in the company's Boston office. fD. C. Jackling, the biggest figure in & v copper mining in America, was a farm hand in St. Clair county, Missouri and got his start educationally by ' , Y studying at night by candle light in , the attic of the rude shack he called > * "home." 5 , Michael Idvorsky Pupin, wo de veloped the long-distance telephone, ; - was a porter in a New York store, ^ f before that he was a farm hand. George M. Reynolds, president of k; the Continental and Commercial Bank, of Chicago, the largest financial institution outside of New York . started as an office boy for a concern ' in Penora, Iowa. A list like this could be continued ?/ .until columns were filled. The foregoing has been suggestedby a bit of stuff that came floating in from Armour & Co./ which shows how nearly all the men in that monster organization rose from small jobs in the Armour plant. For instance: Arthur s Meeker, vice president, started at tne dih aesK. oo mu Everett Wilson, superintendent of branch houses, and Frank W. Wad-dell, head of the provision department. F. Edison White, vice-president, spent his first years with the company % . as a clerk. , 1 # E. A. Valentine, vice president and i head of the soap works, made his start as a salesman. v / Robert J. Dunham, vice president, began as a clerk, and Frederick W. Croll, vice president and treasurer, as assistant to the paymaster. Charles H. McDowell, president of the Armour fertilizer works, entered the employ of the company as a stenographer. George R. Robbins, vice president was a clerk in the transportation departmen t. John E. O'Hern went to Chicago twenty-three years ago looking for a job and found one in the Armour oleomargerine department at $1.75 a day. Today he is general superintendent of sixteen Armour plants. Myrick D. Hafding, general superintendent of the Chicago plant, who directs the works of 16,000 men, started with the company as a messenger at $3 per week. Fred C. Shaw, division superintend ent of the Chicago plants, started as a bookkeeper. A. P. Penson. head of the canning department, sits today at a desk 100 feet from the table at which as a boy of fourteen, he worked for $3.50 a week. Charles Eikel, general superintendent of the St. Paul plant, started with the company as an office boy. Would these men have had their fine positions today had they been shirkers and clock watchers? Not in a thousand years. For every big job there is in America today there will be two twenty years from now. There never was better opportunity for the bright youngster or the bright young man. It does not matter what you are today, office or bank clerk, farmnana or salesman, attendant or truckman. For, in this country more than in any other, can it be said with truth: I am the master of my fate, I am th? captain of my soul. Work and you win. Loaf and you lose.?Exchange. Professional Appreciation. First Actress (behind the scenes) ?"Did you hear how the public wept durihg my death scene?" Second Actress?"Yes; it must have been because they realized that it was only acted."?Tyrihans (Christiana). NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the estate of Bella Bartley, deceased, will present same duly itemized and verified, and all persons owing the said estate will make payment to the undersigned. W. E. FREE, 4-29 Qualified Executor. NOTICE TO DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF BAMBERG COUNTY. As county chairman I desire to call the attention of the Democratic voters of Bamberg county to the rules of the ' party, requiring reorganization of the Democratic clubs and election of delegates to the county conwftnfinn V CUUVU. Pursuant to the rules of the party, all clubs are requested to meet on the fourth Saturday of April (April 24th) at 4 p. m., at their regular meeting place, for reorganization, at which time, in accordance with the rules, the following named officers should be elected: A president, one or more vice presidents, a secretary and treasurer, a registration committee, an executive committee, and such other committees as the,club may desire, each committee to consist of not less than three members, and also a member of the county executive committee; and at the same time the club is required to elect delegates to the county convention, electing one delegate for every twenty-five members and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof, based upon the number of votes polled in the first primary of the preceding election year. The number of delegates for new clubs will be based upon their enrollment at the time Of the club meeting. ; In accordance with the rules of the party, the county convention is called to meet, at the court house, Bamberg, S. C., on the first Monday in May (May the 3rd) at 11 o'clock a. m. Petitions having been filed with the county executive committee by members of the party to establish club to be known as "Little Swamp Democratic Club," with its voting place at Little Swamp School House; and another to establish a club to be known as "Embree Democratic Club," with its voting place at Embree, the members of the party in reach of these respective places are requested to meet at the time stated, at these respective places and organize a club, electing the several officers and committees required by the rules of the party, above set forth, and also a member of the county executive com? ? '-- - i. iU ~ nf mittee, ana aiso mc mimuci vx delegates 'to the county convention required by the rules, as above set forth. These newly organized clubs are requested to make a report to the county executive committee and to the county convention showing the proceedings had and that the rules have been complied with. It is earnestly desired that there shall be a full attendance of members of all clubs, and for this purpose the present officers are urged to give publicity of the meetings to be held; and each club is urged to send a full delegation to the county convention. 3. F. CARTER, County Chairman. April 12, 1920. 4-29 MATHENY BROS Land Auction Sales COLUMBIA, s. C. Grova's Tasteless cWH Toaic restores vitality and energy by posUying and enricking tke blood. You can soon ftoi its Strengthening, Invigorating Effect. Price tOe. 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"7trnn. ha* hHned mv I j O* mm w*a -w ? ? -?j father wonderfully. He could not do anything before taking if. He was in jM mostorne time, complainingwith tiokea-down nerves and backache. Hants takes three bottles tad days he k as strong 1st when he wt$ 17 veers old. irontd^ *t8LtIuSjls ers. it may do far you. Ziron 9 mild, harmless; dees net discolor die teeth, and may 6e taken dafely by young and eld, men, -women and Get Ziron at your druggist's, under a money-back guarantee. ZW> \our Blood Needs | Pai I We have just received Peasler-Gaulbert QUALITY VA Write us for Colo: J. W. i ORANGE! I Coupon Libert ATTE] If all tlie coupons on you will have to send it i ment and have it exchan with all the unmatured c I f you will bring your this exchange made wit ask is that you bring yoi as to save us the expense many separate shipment Bamberg I BAMBE * NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the estate of A. J. 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