Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939 Page: 3 of 8
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FIGURES ....
When I was a schoolboy we
used to sing-song a bit of dog-
gerel -which expressed the av-
erage pupil's feeling about
arithmetic:
Multiplication is vexation.
Division is as bad.
The Rule of Three per- ;
plexes me
And Fractions drive me
mad.
One has to have a natural
talent for figures to be able to
grasp their meaning and to un-
derstand their applications to
the hundreds of fields of
knowledge in which mathema-
tical calculations are of first
importance.
All science in evety field of
knowledge is baaed upon ma-
thematics, “the mother of
science.” From the astronomer
who measures space in units
so large that it takes a row of
hundreds of figures to express
them, to the physical chemist
who measures a film of oil on
the surface of the water in
terns of a millionth of a mil-
lionth of an inch, everyone
who seeks to learn the unre-
vetled secrete of the universe
must be a master of figures.
BUSINESS .
The most important thing in
American life is Basin ess, and
the most important thing in
business b figures. The bigger
the business, the more essen-
tial are accurate figures.
Business concents not only
have to keep accounts for their
own information, but the re-
quirements of the Government
for accurate reports for all
sorts of purposes are constant-
ly increasing. _
The income tax laws have
made America, as a witty
commentator remarked, a na-
tion of bookkeeper*. Now ev-
ery corporation and operator
of any sort of business enter-
prise has to keep and report to
Uncle Sam accurate records
of payrolls and the taxes paid
on them under the Social Se-
curity Act.
One of the largest industries
in America b the manufacture
of bookkeeping and accounting
machines to put down os pa-
per the countless millions of
mathematical calculations re-
quired every day-in the ordi-
nary course of business.
OPPORTUNITY .
For the boy or giri to whom
arithmetic came easy in school,
who has a real liking for fig-
area, I know of no greater op-
portunity, or cue which is
growing larger all the time,
than that offered in the field of
business accounting.
There is more demand for
people to fit well-paid jobs in
the accounting department of
business than there are people
qualified to fill them.
At the bottom, where every-
body must begin, are the oper-
ators of bookkeeping machines
who get higher pay thsn the
general ran of stenographers.
At the top are the Certified
Public Accountants.
It takes years of hard work,
and real love of it, to reach the
top in accountancy, bot that is
true of every occupation. One
of my friends., who Started life
as bookkeeper in an Iowa
country store, worked twenty
years before he reached the
top. Now he earns forty or
fifty thousand a year as a part-
ner in a.firm of certified pub-
lic accountants.
PRUI «ION . . . G-men
Possi. ’ the best-paid and
the least crowded profession
in the world is that of Certified
Public Accountants.
As the name implies,, those
who bold that title are the
ones who have gained such
proficiency that they are capa-
ble of examining and reporting
on the finances of any busi-
ness or corporation, however)
large, and their services are
available to whomever is will-
ing to pay for them.
A report by a Certified Pub-
lic Accountant is required by
investors. Government bu-
reaus, and in many other eases
before authority is granted to
offer securities for sale, or
banks will extend material
credit.
No one can practice as a C.
P. A. without a state certifi-
cate of experience, compe-
tence, character and responsi-
bility.
More than once in recent
yean Certified Public Account-
ants have disclosed irregulari-
ties in the accounts and prac-
tices of business institutions
which even the company's di-
rectors had not suspected. They
are in a real sense public serv-
ants, a sort of “G-men” in the
world of figures.
EDUCATION ... wo
It does not take a college or
university education to qualify
anyone to practice as a Certi-
fied Public Accountant
Most of those engaged in
this honorable and lucrative
profession began working at
accounting wben they were
quite young, and * mastered
their art by steady, hard
work, sometimes supplement-
ed by special evening school
classes or correspondence
courses.
First-rate men often serve
for years as junior account-
ants before they are able to
pass the very difficult state
examinations required for the
C.P.A. certificate.
I am told that in some states,
notably Ohio and Pennsylvania
and perhaps in others, there is
a movement on foot to require
every applicant for a public
accountant’s certificate to have
a full-time university degree.
1 can't quite see the point of
that. The young man who has
a natural genius for figures
cannot gain from any college
course as much as he can by
spending the same time in ac-
tual work with figures in busi-
ness affairs.
I think, too, such a require-
ment would be a handicap to
many able accountants who
have neither the time nor mon-
ey in their early earning years
to take a full college course.
I believe in the value of all
the education one can get, but
I believe even more strongly
in the ancient American prin-
ciples of placing no artificial
barriers between youth and
its opportunities. Any law
which limits the right of the
able and talented to do what
they can do best seems un-
American to me.
Tokyo is doing a great deal
of talking about “rights” in
China. The wrongs speak for
themselves. — Indianapolis
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Mahatma Gandhi
The World’s Rest Known
Man Carries False Teeth
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ACHIEVEMENT
TALKS
By LUCIUS HUMPHREY
Author of
“It Shall Be Done Unto You"
“If ye have faith as a
grain of mustard seed ...
nothing shall be impos-
sible unto you.”
(Matthew 18:20.)
How can one correct a fam-
ily relationship which is very
unstable or completely dis-
rupted? The husband and
wife are living in continual
(iiscord, or perhaps separated
or divorced; the children are
in conflict with one or both
parents.
Under these circumstances
innumerable images appear
and disappear in ali these
minds as the worries and. fears
suggested by these existing cir-
cumstances present them-
selves. Many useful lives are
being crushed daily on the
rocks of despair by the images
that are produced and which
dominate under such circum- b raere poWerfui than any mil-
stances. In the midst of this lion!tirc on earth.
Every so often, out in India,
a tittle brown man, wearing a
loin cloth, lays himself down
on a cot, refuses to eat, and
threatens to fast until he dies.
Then newspapers all over the
world feature the story bo-
cause Mahatma Gandhi is one
of the leading figures of this
generation.
Reckoned in terms of mon-
ey, Gandhi is a poor man. If
he sold all his earthly posses-
sions, they probably would not
bring seventy-five cents; yet he
chaos, controlled thinking
greatly needed.
In order to obtain helpful
ideas to solve this situation let
each one who desires success
and happiness visualise him-
self, for at least a few mo-
ments, as detached from the
others and from all circum-
stances concerning others, and
as laying aside all blame and
criticism as well as self-con-
demnation.
The inestimable value of
making this conscious detach-
ment or break In the habitual
manner of reaction to circum-
stances and events is tittle ap-
preciated by those who have
not made this experiment. This
relaxation of mental habits re-
leases a tension which makes
it possible for us to make a
new approsch to all our prob-
lems. ' |
If the problem arises from
incompatibility, let each make
the effort to determine just
what is his or her true desire.
Few people recognize what
they actually want.
Is it reconciliation at any
price, or is the true objective
love and affection and a happy
relationship with one who is
loved? Having determined
your real desire, visualize
yourself as the possessor of the
tiling or the situation that you
want.
That is, instead of waiting
for a change in your circum-
stances to fulfill this desire and
ereate for you a satisfactory
state of mind, ereate now, and
establish the state of mind
which you would have if your
desire were at this moment
fulfilled. For thir state of
mind will eventually cause the
circumstances to change, and
your desire to be fulfilled.
If both persons desire recon-
ciliation, it is comparatively
easy to visualize as ideal re-
conciliation.
If the true desire is love
and affection, and a happy
and successful relationship
with one who is loved, one
should again in imagination
make a conscious detachment
and visualize himself as an
object of love—possessing the
feeling which comes from lov-
ing and being loved, admired
and appreciated — without
specifying the ioved one. He
will find that the thoughts and
feelings created by this image
will manifest themselves in his
actions and reactions to peo-
ple and things in such a man-
ner that just naturally he finds
his desire fulfilled. Often the
result will be a lasting recon-
ciliation because this will
prove to be the real desire of
both persons.
REUTER’S SEED
See m» for Reuter’s reliable
seed. G. T. Childs, Rear
Tad's Cafe.
Physically, he is weak; and
he refuses to use force or vio-
lence; yet his teachings and
his spiritual influence are
mere potent and powerful than
a hundred battleships of Eng-
land.
One person out of every six
on earth live in India. And for
centuries, these people of India
have been asleep; now this lit-
tle frail men, who weighs less
than a hundred pounds, is
arousing India to a sense of'its
own gigantic power. He is in-
stituting reforms that may
have far-reaching effects on
the history af the world.
There are many curious
things about Gandhi. For ex-
ample, he has a set of false
teeth, which he carries in a
fold of bis loin cloth. He puts
them in his mouth only when
he wants to eat After his
meal, he takes them out,
washes them and pats them
l.ackin his loin cloth again.
He speaks English with an
Irish accent, for one of his first
teachers was an Irishman. He
wears nothing but a loin cloth
now, bat for years he lived in
London and wore a silk hat
and spats and carried a cane.
He was educated at London
University and became an at-
torney. 'But the first time he
attempted to make a speech in
court, his knees trembled, and
he was so frightened that he
had to sit down in confusion
and defeat.
As a lawyer in London he
gat nowhere at all. He was
practically a failure there.
Years before, when he first
came to England, his Irish
teacher made him copy the
Sermon on the Mount, over
and over again, purely as an
exercise in English. Hour af-
ter hour, Gandhi wrote “Bless-
ed are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth. . . .
Blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall he called the
children of God,” and these
words made a profound im-
pression on him.
Presently, he was sent to
South Africa to collect some
huge debits; and .he tried to
apply there the philosophy of
the Sermon on the Mount And
it worked. Clients flocked to
M. H. Gandhi because he set-'
I
Corns are the resuit of civili-
zation. The cave man and
those who preceded and suc-
ceeded him, never had such
callouses on their feet, for the
simple, but all sufficient rea-
son that their pedal extremities
were not confined within shoes
or boots.
Of course, as the world
knows, the use of shoes came
after men, for centuries, had
worn sandals, which did not In
any manner restrict or press
upon the surface of the feet,
and It is a matter of record
that an Egyptian long had a
slave carry his slippers, only
potting them on when abso-
lutely necessary because he
had developed a corn from
wearing them. i
Then came various types of
footcoverings in the form of
the shoe such as we know it.
In summer the majority of peo-
ple went barefooted, but when
the snows of winter came they
wrapped their feet in covers of
grass, skins from wild animals
and cloth for protection
against the elements.'
tied their claims peacefully J Some authorities say that
out of court and saved them t the American Indian or the
time and expense. Gandhi soon. Esquimaux were the real in-
had an income of fifteen thou-' renters of shoes, for they never
sand dollars a year. The meek wore sandals but always did
was Inheriting the earth. ,! use moccasins, or soft skin
Bui was he happy? No. Be- shoes made from the pelt of
cause he knew that untold mil- the deer or the fnr of the seal,
lions of his fellow countrymen' Various stories of the lives of
were living in misery. He had these primitive men, drawn
seen thousands die of starva-. upon stone, before the advent
tion, and worldly success of the shoe in either Egypt or
seemed cheap and unimpor- Europe, show this. The ern-
tant. So he gave np all his saders, who roamed all over
money, and took the vow of Europe and into the Holy
2d2wp P07erty' an<* s*nce that time. Lands spread the demana for
he has consecrated his life to
helping the poor and the
down-trodden. ...
Millions regard Mahatma
Gandhi as a saint. Others be-
lieve that he is the reincarna-
tion of a Hindu god. In a
world filled with sordid greed
and selfishness, I for one, feel
like standing with bowed head
before this man who is seeking
nothing for himself but is will-
ing to die in order that others
may live.
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College Station. — Cottoa
farmers must do everything
possible to get the utmost re-
turn from their 1939 crop, E.
A. Miller, agronomist of the
Texas A. and M. College Ex-
tension Service, said in listing
points that would help to in-
crease income.
The biggest gain, Miller be-
lieves, can be made through
improvement ia quality. He
urged community, county, and'
area organization along the
one-variety tine. “This is im-
portant not only because qual-
ity and uniformity will bring
to more cash per acre, but we
need improvement if we are to
develop our cotton markets
and meet foreign competition,”
he pointed out
Soil and water conservation
will bring results, -the agron-
omist stated, and quoted in-
creased annual net returns of
SG.51 an acre obtained at the
Spur Agricultural Experiment
Substation from terraced land
farmed oa the contour ovei*
land farmed with the rows
running down hill in a 12-year
test.
“It is good crop insurance to
treat cottonseed with 2 per
emit ceresan at the rate of
three ounces per bushel," Mffi-
er said. Increases in yield
through this practice were 25
per cent at College Station, 15
per cent at Temple, 9 per cent
is the Brazos Bottom, and 4
per cent at Lubbock, recent ex-
periment tests show.
Commercial fertilizer and
manure on sandy and sandy
loam soils have proved profi-
table, and he urged farmers to
consult county agricultural
agents for local recommenda-
tions as to amounts to use.
“Insect control is going to be
important in 1939, and no
farmer should forget proper
seedbed preparation and culti-
vation," Miller concluded.
Satisfied With Thom
Austin, Tex., Jan. 20. (UP)
—Got. W. Lee O'Daniel, who
campaigned on a platform of
the ten commandments, was
asked today if he intended to
send a message to tits legisla-
ture on the subject. “I don’t
intend to propose any changes
in than,” O’Daniel retorted.
How to Ohah
“We reach new heights of
achievement, only as wo more
fully grasp appreciation of the
aid heights of others’ achieve-
ments.”—Harry Gilberg.
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CORNS
shoes, because their feet were
encased in leather coverings
to protect them from rough
trails over which they wander-
ed in their pilgrimages.
Ultimately all persons wore
shces and when the first colon-
ists landed at Plymouth, shoe-
making was introduced into
the New World, about 1629.
In 1785 modern shoe-lasts
made their appearance and the
era of torture from coma be-
gan, for the simple reason that
fashion decreed that sR shoes
must fit the foot tightly.
Any pressure exerted upon
the foot increases the blood
supply, with the remit that
the activity of the skin tissue
results in a thickening, oh
hardening, termed a “corn.”
This condition may be contri-
buted-to by a wrongly balanc-
ed diet. As the thickened skin
enlarges in area, it presses up-
on the bones of the feed and
intensifies the pain.
There is bat one way to curt
a corn and that is to wear larg-
er shoes and eat the proper
types of food. Foot baths of
Epsom salts and warm water
twice daily, the feet being im-
mersed for at least twenty min-
utes, may also help.
Many sufferers have adopt-
ed walking on grass when wet
with tite dew, as a means of
preventing or stopping corns,
a priest in Cincinnati. Ohio,
having started this cult Per-
haps the only good that comes
from these early morning
•trolls is that the feet are re-
leased from the tight leather
casing and the dew helps soft-
en the corn. I have never had
a corn, became I never wore
tight shoes.
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939, newspaper, January 27, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth811911/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.