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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1915
Page
4
The Monroe Journal established in 1894 by G. M. and R. F. Beasley publishes every Tuesday and Friday. The paper costs 81.00 per year and is printed at The Journal Building located at Jefferson and Beasley Streets. Tuesday, March a ts.
A critical reflection on when debate is worthwhile. The author argues many subjects sparkless entrenchment, urging restraint in opinion on vital matters while noting newspapers must express convictions. The piece contrasts reverent silence with editorial duty, invoking religious and moral stakes and a Spartanburg incident to illustrate consequences.
Closing exercises list for Unionville High details events from Sunday March 21 to Thursday March 26 including sermons, entertainments, debates, recitals, contests, an UNC education department address by Prof Noble, and a school play Galager with music by Albemarle cornet band.
Two San Francisco reporters interview Chinese residents about a pending immigration measure. A teashop owner, highly educated, declines to state his view and suggests no urgency for his opinion. The setting reflects wartime or prewar attitudes and journalism methods of crowding questions.
An article by Mr Foord discusses Doctor Stone's wind pressure table for playing notes on various instruments. It notes pressure generally rises with higher notes in most wind instruments, but clarinet shows decreasing pressure from low to high notes. Experiments on clarinet and saxophone show pressure trends align with Stone's table, with saxophone peaking at the mid scale and ending pressures matching at the start and end.
A merchant's impatience over delayed payment leads a young clerk to write the instruction Something or nothing and that soon. The delinquent pays in full, revealing the clerk followed the exact words without adding guidance. The tale ends with a lesson that writing requires wisdom beyond haste.
A reflective passage urges embracing unfavored work by turning it into a triumph. By performing it well enough to prove value, a worker can earn advancement and control over salary, instead of quitting or doing it poorly to deter the employer.
Hugo's remark on a bishop who avoids stepping on an ant highlights a stance of mercy toward all living beings. The text argues that such gentleness should begin in childhood, ensuring children learn to harm only when necessary and without cruelty to any creature.
A humorous tale recounts Mr Brown scolding a janitor who cleverly supplies lost items enabling theft like milk bread lettuce sugar and potatoes. A Harvard president relates a lawyer’s Irish client feigning temporary insanity to dodge a promised $1,000 fee, the client saying he was crazy then.
A councilman Thomas ee and Mrs Lee faced a night of worry when twins, newborns, needed a home remedy. While Mrs Lee comforted one, she returned to take the other and mistakenly gave both babies the medicine. One protester child cried that the dose was doubled.
A noted English suffragette rebuts the misperception of militants as vixens and man-haters stating London society includes elegant women. A daughter quips about her mother’s thrifty fashion, while an enlistment exchange ends with a guard jokingly assigning a shooter to the commissary department.
The dialogue notes Patience Polly praising a highly polished hardwood floor up where she called. Patrice asks if she said it looked pretty and Polly affirms, saying she could see herself to it.
Public sale ordered by the Star Court of Union County for the estate of the late J A Little. Two tracts in New Hope township described with metes and bounds, bid starting at 1254 by H D Little. Sale set for April 12 1915 at noon at the Union County courthouse with terms requiring half payment in 1915 and remainder in 1916.
A fragmentary quotation attributes to Rev. W. R. Whately a reflection on habitual meditation. It contrasts dwelling on sin versus virtue and notes unhealthy emphasis on sin because it is sin and on ours because it is ours.
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