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  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1939-01-14_Vol07_No07_04

THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN * *^ i-wmwvi,*' H"* Saturday, January 14, 1939 Lowell Thomas, Traveler-Lecturer-News Commentator, Runs Himself As A Super One-Man Industry; Always On The Go The talk in California turned on the grand scale on which Lowell Thomas does thing's. Someone laughed, with a combination of awe and amusement, and said: "During the war, someone told Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane about him. Lane told the President about him. They were looking for an official photographer for the A. E. F., and Lane thought Thomas might be the man. They offered Thomas the job. It was a good job- but it had one drawback. It didn't j pay a salary. Thomas said he'd see what he could do about accepting the "He had something else he wanted to do, too. He wanted to get married. He decided that both the idea of getting married and taking the A. E. F. job were too good to pass up—so he persuaded 18 people to lend him a total of $70,000. On the $70,000 he got married, and took the job. The rest—well, figure it out for yourself." Someone else said, "Thomas is the nearest thing to a one-man industry I ever saw in my life." Compact and Efficient To see him walking along East 50th Street, New York, toward his " the late afternoon you wouldn't take him for a human dynamo, neat, compact man, with something professionally efficient about walk, but with a self-effacing too. Now and then he stops to talk to someone. He is a man who realizes that the more you talk to people, the more you're likely to learn. Sometimes you have to check what they tell New 33-Passenger "Stratoliner" Given Tests which each processor clicks along the way. Mr. Thomas usually spends about two hours a day in taxicabs, between his offices in the R. C. A. building, his offices at Fox Movie-tone News, his office at the film studios, where he titles travelogues. In those two hours he dictates steadily and without frenzy to a stenographer. The thing happens to the pothooks from those sessions that happens to th, Pawling-New York pothooks. Five to 50,000 Letters No use to go prowling around the R. C. A. building looking for Lowell Thomas. He thought of that, way ahead of you. Sometime, if you happened to be passing by on the righ* Boor, you might see him stepping briskly in through an unmarked door; that would be for the purpose of looking at the mail, signing letters, catching up loose ends of the day's sched- likely to get anywhere from 5 to 50,000 letters in one mail. He has two secretaries, Mary Davis and Electra Ward, and they know nearly all, if not all, the answers. The first trip of the day to Fox studios is for luncheon at 12:30. gets away about 3:30. On the way back he picks up mail at the office and carts it to his apartment in a hotel on the East Side, where he dictates some more. Or he sound-tracks a travelogue. Monday night he goes back to Fox studios and stays there, titling, until about five o'clock Tuesday morning. Another day he does the same thing for the bi-weekly release. Tuesday is Dutch Treat Club day. you, because there are a lot of loose- He goes to luncheon there and is a wagging tongues in the world. Butjiivmg example of the Three-Hours- after all, it's comparatively easy to I for-Lunch theory, for the Dutch Treat check information if you know how. | club is made up of about everybody Mr. Thomas lives up in Duches who's anything in arts and letters, County. Pawling, to be exact. The ftnd Mr. Thomas does a bit of talking Lowell Thomas industry is geared so ^that is, asking questions—and gets . lot of knowledge and information First of nine '-stratoUners" being built at Seattle, Wash., is rolled out of the hangar and tested. The huge silver ship, a 33-passenger plane, has four 1,100-horsepower motors which will enable it to an altitude of four miles. The cabin, 74 feet in length, bears a distinct resemblance to a metal dirigible. The door opens inward so that the higher pressure of the cabin will keep it sealed. he can live there. He is a walking vindication of the theory that you get twice as much product out of time spent if you make haste slowly. He budgets his time, but so skillfully that it would never occur to anyone that it was budgeted at all. Part of the 400 acres at Pawling is a farm. Mrs. Thomas runs a large part of the farm, and makes her part practically pay the running expenses of the whole. Five days a week Mr. Thomas leaves. Pawling on the 7:30 a. m. train for New York. He has two secretaries. He dictates to a stenographer all the way into town. The stuff is fed into the typewriting mill when he gets to town, and shortly comes out in final- draft form, due to the slickness with Army Men New WPA Chiefs O COME LET US ADORE HIM! O sing today with one accord, And lift your voices unto heaven, For unto you the promised Lord, The long awaited Son, is given, len sing your carols, Christian men. For Christmas Day has come again. An angel to some shepherds came, As they were watching on the hill, And while the heavens glowed with flame, shepherds trembled and were still. He sang, "Good-w DUKE UNIVERSITY School Of Nursing DURHAM, N. C. The Diploma of Graduate Nurse is awarded after three years, and the Degree of Bachelor of Science Nursing for two additional years of approved college work before or after the course in Nursing. The entrance requirements are intelligence, character and graduation from an at dited high school. After 1939 year of college work will be required and two years of college work thereafter. The annual tuition of $100 covers the cost of uniforms, books, student government fees, etc. Catalogues, application forms and information about college requirements may be obtained from the Administration Committee. through the answers and the chit- Runs "Ad" Club One day a week he presides at the luncheon meeting of the New York Advertising Club. He's president of that. When they asked him to be president—which is supposed to be honorary, but, with Mr. Thomas it, is anything but that—he thought he'd get out of it by scaring them. "Well, I'd have to have a $12,000 a year man for aide and secretary, to help on the work," he said. And he nearly fell over backward when they Why, sure, that's all right." The luncheons are on Thursdays. Mr. Thomas has his secretary-aide, and Mr. Thomas runs luncheons that are called the finest example in America today of a wonderfully timed, swift- moving, 100 per cent interesting program in the world of up-and-coming events. Yes, there are plenty of people who say that Mr. Thomas has made himself into a one-man industry. And there are a lot more who laugh and add: "Yes, and he does the job with one hand tied behind him. If he ever got really going- SO-HY BLEACHES DEODORIZES DISINFECTS AT YOUR GROCER SO-HY Products, Inc. Canton, N. C. 15c Large Bottle - 5c bottle deposit And heaven's gate was opened then With rapturo Of seraph; light. The shepherds, wondering at their Hastened to Bethlehem in the night. They worshiped tfhat Sweet Child, and then Unto their flocks returned again. Let us with those glad shepherd.- And worship our Incarnate Lord, 'Till every human heart shall feel The fulness of the Living Word. O! When Thou comest, Lord again, Remember us poor sinful men. —William Osmond Cone. Saturday afternoon is bath-time „. the University of Alabama: students there use more gallons of water from 2 to 6 p. m. Saturday than any other time of the week. During 1938, the Univ tucky constructed 72,87 of sidewalk. The University of Michigan has a collection of 4,000 old and rare text- YOUR TIME IS COMING! As soon as one group of college students finish their practice te.-u-hmg another group starts. .Many of us wonder why so many girls are wearing their Sunday dresses, and why certain young men have on coats and ties. Well, that's the stamped group, better known as practice teach- Our editor, Edith Wilson, is still in this group. She has to join her this quarter her room- male. Helen Gibson. Helen has had the habit of laughing at the dear practice teachers, but now she realizes that it is not as easy as she expected. It isn't the teaching part that hurts Helen—it is And there's John Wahanic, Porter Garland, Alvin Drake, and Gay Stewart (Gay and Mable Morgan have the nerve to walk to conference together) — with that dignified expression. And "Chicken" Davis isn't chuckling so much this quarter either. It must be awful if "Chick- Agnes Dalton is doing fine. One can tell that by her pleasant expression on the campus. Others who are being officially classed in this stamped group are: Myron Howard, Doris Davis, Theodore Perkins, Bea Hollyfield, Quintin Moore, Geneva Aberna- thy, Herbert Oxendine, Dorothy Woodard, Nell Nordon, Pearl Pitman, Jeanne York Hampton, Edna Allen, Kathleen Henson, Annie Watkins and Martha Rob- Please be kind to these people and help them in any way possible. Remember, your time is coming! Harvard University students have started a movement to provide special scholarships for citizens of Pan- American nations. Noble Cain, nationally recognized composer for NBC, will write a song to be dedicated to the Guilford College a capclla choir. Lamar Dogg, head of the University of Georgia art department, has opened a one-man show at Atlanta's High Marriage is the life-goal of 96 per cent of the students enrolled in the Pennsylvania College for Women. VISIT Buck's Soda Shop Drugs — Sodas — Candies At The Foot Of The Hill Compliments of— VELT'S CAFE SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA Capt. G. E. Texter and Major B. M. Harloe New Works Progress Administrator Col. C. F. Harringtoi two executive assistants, both army officers. Capt. G. E. Texter, left, has been named assistant to the chief engineer, Major B. M. Harloe, right, who becomes assistant WPA administrator. OUR MOTTO IS—SATISFACTION TO ALL CULLOWHEE SHOE SHOP REPAIR WORK AT A SMALL COST COMPLIMENTS OF— Coca-Cola Bottling Company OF ASHEVILLE, N. C. DRINK (6Ca'(f)fffll IN BOTTLES THE NATIVITY Thou didst leave Thy throne and Thy kingly crown, When Thou earnest to earth for me; But in Bethlehem's home there was found no room For Thy holy Nativity. O come to my heart, Lord Jesus, There is room in my heart for Thee. Heaven's arches rang when the angels sang, Proclaiming Thy royal degree; But in lowly birth didst Thou come to earth, And in great humility. O come to my heart, Lord Jesus, There is room in my heart for Thee. The foxes found rest, and the bird their nests In the shade of the forest tree; But Thy couch was the sod, O Th/ou Son of God, In the deserts of Gallilee. come to my heart, Lord Jesus, There is room in my heart for Thee. nou earnest, O Lord, with the living That should set Thy people free, But with mocking score, and with crown of thorn, They bore Thee to Calvary. O come to my heart, Lord Jesus, There is room in my heart for Thee. When heaven's arches shall ring and her choir shall sing At Thy coming to victory, Let Thy voice call me home, saying, 'Yet there is room, There is room at my side for thee!" And my heart shall rejoice, Lord Jesus, When Thou comest and callest for —Emily Elliott. GOD'S WILL I never see the sunset's rosy blush, Or watch the fleecy clouds roll by, Or hear the wind-song in the stately But that I feel the will of God on high. When day has softly melted into night, And shadows dance upon the distant hill, And moonbeams play in e ured tree, I know that God has exercised His When stars appear like diamonds the sky, And twinkle gleefully as if to spill Some jewel-light upon the sleeping earth, I understand why God must have a will. And knowing of what sweet and constant will, The beauty that it is, the peace it brings, I know that God is greater—yes, by Give me these and take the whole Of fortune's wildest treat. ae the gifts which long have made The lives of great men great. far, of earthly Than great pbei —Walter Blackstock. MY MASTER My Master was so very poor, A manger was His cradling place; So very rich my Master was Kings came from far To gain His grace. My Master was so very poor And with the poor He broke the bread; So very rich my Master was That multitudes By Him were fed. My Master was so very poor They nailed Him naked to a cross; So very rich my Master was He gave His all And knew no loss. —Harry Lee. OLD AND NEW The Old Year's pages are tattered a Because they have suffered the pains Of joys and sorrows the world hi known, With no page free of stains. Wilson College is filming its students while walking to aid in correcting posture and walking deficien- Princeton University has had more of its students win Rhodes scholarships than any other U. S. institution. Harvard is second, Yale third. HOOPER'S DRUG STORR "Only The Best" Phone 6 MAIN ST. SYLVA, N. C. Park Lunch Room Next Door To Bank—Sylva Tasty Sandwiches and Barbecue We Enjoy Serving People Who Know JIMMIE GAITHER, Owner Blue Ribbon Shoe Shop YOUR SHOE HOSPITAL — EXPERT DOCTORS Let Us Put New Life In Your Shoes All Work Guaranteed Sylva, N. C. JAMES CURRY, Campus Representative -^^VAiMeiAcri Exchange photographs with your classmates. Duplicate prints from the 1938 Catamount may be had at any time A New Year is born and the futur a clean white page- White only to be blotted with its part Of the success and mistakes of age. —C. Srontz. THE YEAR AHEAD I would not ask for wealth today, I would not plead for fame. Perhaps if I were madame fate I would not change the game. But oh, I beg for strength anew, I ask for vision clear To see and judge, and choose the best That thought and time brings near. Doubled courage give to me To greet each coming day Faith and hope, and wisdom too; And add to these, I pray. The joy of simple tasks well done Just quiet, peaceful living, The gift of gallant laughter, and Friendship formed by giving. A smile, a word, a bit of cheer, A handclasp warm and steady Faculty and Students We Invite You To Make Your Headquarters Here When In Sylva HOTEL CAROLINA Leaders In Shoe Repairing — Master Shoe Dyers Gardner's Shoe Hospital POSTAGE PAID ONE WAY 18 Lexington Ave. Asheville, N. C. Pasteurised Milk Is Safe INSIST ON PET MILK LABORATORY CONTROLLED Pet Dairy Products Company Waynesville North Carolina

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Western Carolina Teachers College
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• Date
  • Date original: 1939-01-14
  • Date digitized: 2017-01-05
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  • Dimension: 22" x 15"
  • Pages: 4 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1939-01-14_Vol07_No07
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library