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Ci)e Cljatljam &ecori) INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS. Established in 1878 by H. A. London. Entered at Pittsboro, N.C., as Second Class mail matter by act of Congress. • ~ SUBSCRIPTION: - Doe Year, $1.50. Six Months, -75 Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Chap. A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1923._ WHEN IGNORANCE IS BLISS. We have been taken to task for our editorial in The Record last week about the consolida tion of schools in Chatham coun ty. Well, we expected to be. Ev erybody is not supposed to be of j the same mind. However, we still maintain that it is not aj good idea to move all the schools 1 to town, and we further assert the necessity of leaving the de-j cision to the folks that are in volved. No removal of a school,! no bond issue or any increase in | taxes or other thing that might add to the expense or embarass- j ment of the country people! should be undertaken unless | they have a word to say about! it. We have been informed by the superintendent of Public In struction that no action is ever taken without a majority vote ; of the district affected. An elec- j tion is always held and in no instance has a truck ever been put on without on overwhelm ing majority voted for the prop- ( osition. This is according to our ] idea and we are glad to know the : people have had a voice. i 1 We acknowledge that we are 1 ignorant on these matters, but ( as Smithy once said, “it is better i to be dumb and healthy.” When one is ignorant they believe ev erything is as it looks and when we are educated we know it ain't. The gem expert can’t be happy with a green glass emer-] aid set around with paste dia monds, because he knows. The educated musician can be made perfectly miserable by alleged popular songs and a finished ar-! tist suffers tortures looking at the pictures that we are satisfied with. | In the course of time we will all know more of the advantages of the consolidated schools, per haps, and then we will be happy.! IMPORTANT PHONE CALL. Did you ever have one to tell you that someone was calling you personally on the telephone ! and wished to speak to you at j once? Well, if you have, youi< know that satisfactory feeling!' within you that someone has! * something personally to say top you. You answer that phone l j with gladness and cheerfully 1 talk to the party that is calling ] you. In this paper is an individual < call for every reader from many < men who have advertisements | for you to read. It is their tele- j phone call to you and as they i have no opportunity, neither the i time, to call each of you person- ( ally on the telephone, they have j bought advertising space from < us to talk to you personally. i There is an important mes- : sage in every advertisement in ! this paper and you should not j lay the paper aside until you have read every one of them. It is as valuable as any reading matter in the paper. The folks that advertise are the folks on whom you can re ly. Business men who attempt to carry on affairs without ad vertising usually have shelf worn, shoddy merchandise and their prices are not in keeping with modern times. Read the ads now. The presidential marble game has started. Senator Underwood, of Alabama, has thrown his hat in the ring. Uncle Henry Ford 1 is waiting for the right kind of marble to shoot with. Hiram Johnson, of California, wants to shoot but is waiting for a better position to do so. Governor Smith, of New Jersey, made his shot a few days ago, but it was a wild one, and he is about out of the game, but are pa tiently Vv T aiting for the chance to knock out the middle man. It is probable that the death of president Harding will material ly affect the whole situation. It’s no use saying that you can’t learn a farmer new tricks, although some of these tricks should be pun- ! ishable. Over in Mecklenburg county, j farmers, so it is said, cram a 10-' ~f i bird shot in a chicken’s craw to make the chicken weigh more. Next! _ I 1 A, BIBLE THOUGHT j 7*C—for today— i Bible Thought* memorized, will prove a | Jj| priceless heritage in after years. f It Profiteth Nothing. Though I bestojw all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not char ity, it profiteth me nothing.—l Cor. 13-3. KNOW~YOUR COUNTRY. When addressing the senate of the State of New Jersey, in 1861, Lin coln said: “May I be pardoned if, on this occasion, I mention that away back in my childhood I got hold of a small book —“Weems’ Life of Wash ington.’ I remember all the account there given of the battle fields and struggles for the liberties of the coun try, and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at Trenton, New Jer | sey. The crossing of the river, the 1 contests with the Hessians, the great | hardships endured at that time, all ! fixed themselves in my mind more than any single Revolutionary event. I recollect think then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that these men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that that thing shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made.” Freedom in life, liberty and pur suit of happiness was the “something” which Lincoln referred to in these lin es. What do the political parties and advocates of government ownership and increased regulation of private and industrial activity promise the people that would equal, or in any way compare with the ideals which Washington and Lincoln struggled to maintain? Think it over. ""august. Named for the most royal of the Caesars, “Who found Rome brick and left it marble.” August maks the ze nith of summer and the glory of na ture. As is true of many great public events, there is misconception as to August and as to what it means. No other month could fittingly bear the name. Unrivalled, alone, easily with out peer or suggestion of one, fruits, flowers, trees, grasses, even the star strewn heavens, all confer distinction on August, nothing less than the ac colade of nature. Promise of spring is here full blown; hint of disaster has revealed the worst that disaster could bring I when August rolls around. As yet no poet or chronicler, not j even Prof. McCants, whose love of Red Hills may not be challenged by ; any, has seen fit to give August its | due in the Piedmont country. The wheat stubble is sown thick with grasses in which the luscious young | doves foregather. Fruits and melons j are ripe; the yellowleg hill chicken; has gotten his flavor Irom fig and j other fruits and his doom is nigh; long, shady piazzas are filled with j girls in Jwhite dresses and blue sashes, 1 or other things that harmonize with j the charm of womanhood; there are ' picnics and that most precious pos-! session derived from Saxon forebears, j the barbecue, which had its origin in America in the old ninty-six district j —all these and more sunk in a haze of youth and dreams, touched always with sunsets in the Red Hills that have their like nowhere; what a realm | of enchantment for a poet. Prof. Me- j Cants should devote at least a chapter of his next book to the Up-Country ; August. 'the coast, likewise, has its charm 1 at this season. Shrimp come in from ; the outer garden of ocean, from some- I where on the sea floor. Curlews sigh; tides grow stronger; bass rise; fish- i ing of all sorts is at its best. The j oyster gets himself steeped in a; creamy flavor, redolent of more good j things than the world is popularly thought to possess. Breezes freshen from far away isles in mid-ocean and ! bring inshore the odor of palms, whose fronds might Sway beneath the South ern Cross. The rice bird comes South on his annual pilgrimage, to be fol lowed by the rail. Summer ducks be come numerous and the sportsman can resist no longer, but risks everything for the fine sport. The fur hunters give the raccoon something to think about from now until next fall and far into the winter. The season for shooting deer opens and the woods are filled with hunters and with buckshot; likewise with ev ery kind of dog known to mam The fishermen along the strand be gin to get ready for business and soon for one hundred and fifty miles the shore line will be swarming with fish- j ermen catching mullet and salting i them for the trade. All fruit is at its best. i Space forbids, but the tale is not • half told. Some other time and some other hand must see and do the tell- ; ing. But there is enough told to show that August merits its royal name, and has, on the coast, enough to s ate even great Caesar, first of Roman ! emperors, when Imperial Rome fwas i Mistress of the World. VALUATION OF PkOPERTY. Chatham Has a Total Valuation of $12,295,147.00. | Acording to the assessment of all * the personal property in Chatham comity, the following is a list of the number of polls and number of acres of land in each township, and the to- j tal valuation in the county: Township Polls Acres Total ■ Center 356 38,269 $ 1,331.908 Cape Fear __ 211 31,160 1.223,510 Albright 190 31,435 611.735; Baldwin 215 25,607 704 839 Bear Creek _ 373 51,722 1.202,390 Gulf 385 44,439 1.455,504 Hadlev 166 28,730 586,343 Haw River __ 126 11,793 470,120 Hickorv Mt. _ 309 29,213 864,125 | Matthews 477 41,802 1,734 §2l New Hope - 241 40 l'l 859,098 I Oakland 129 20.219 337,039 Williams 254 35,*52 863,567 Total, 3432 439,791 $12,295,147 | O O ■—Q ■ Q —O —O- Q —Q - O ! o o o WISE AND OTHERWISE o O Some Our’n — Some Their’n o o o o—O —O —O—O O —O—o —O —o All scholars are self-educated but some have more outside help than oth -1 ers. • O Confidence and money can be mis placed into some other fellojw’s keep ing. O No man is half so humorous all the time as the man who is always seri i ous. o Now that the audit has been com pleted we don’t give a cuss what the weather man does. O Arithmetic has been changed—if 3 big factories be added to four other factories it makes a trust. O Right your wrongs while you are young and tender, don’t nurse them until they are old and tough. o Pretty women do more to influence the morality of this word than all the conscience from the time of Adam. O It must be a smooth highway for one to carry an overloaded stomach without upsetting the gastric economy. A LARGE CROP OF WHEAT. Corn and Tobacco Good—Local and Personal Items From Bennett. Bennett, August 6.—Three new comers in town lately to the homes of Mr. Hal Routh, a fine boy; Mr. M. Mfl. Murray, a fine girl; and Mr. Dewey Brewer, a fine boy. Protracted meetings are in progress in this section no|w. A series closed at the Baptist church here Friday night, resulting in the best meeting the church has felt. Rev. John E. Ays cue, pastor at Carthage, did the preaching, and he presented the plain gospel truth. Revival services began at the fol lowing Baptist churches in this sec tion Sunday: Tysor Creek, Beulah and Coleridge. The writer attended the services at Tysors Creek and heard Rev. Victor Andrews, who is pastor of a Louisville, Ky., church. He preached an excellent sermon. | Mrs. Della Brady and two children, of Greensboro, have returned home after a week’s visit to relatives and friends. Mr. J. H. Scott and wife have re turned to their home in Greensboro, after spending ten days here attend ing meeting at their church. Dr. H. A. Denson and wife made a ! trip to Raleigh last week, i Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jones visited her parents at Randleman Sunday. Mr. Ed. S. Phillips and wife and ' Mr. P. C. Brady and wife visited at the home of Mr. J. D. Stone Sunday, meeting there Mr. J. M. Wicker and I family, of Goldston, and Mr. Joe i Whitehead and Mr. O. Marley and i their families, of Ramseur. ! The B. &W. Railway has completed , its side track to be used by the Stand j ard Oil Co., who is putting in a whole sale distributing station here. | Mr. Willie Murray {who has been j sick for several weeks, and who has | been in the hospital in Asheboro, is ! improving and is now able to be walking around. I Eating water melons and pitching horse shoes and little tots taking or ders for tin cans, hair brushes and gimlets is the side line go in this sec tion now. . Mr. J. E. Jones, near Bennett, made the largest crop of wheat in the wheat section this year, making over four hundred bushels. Messrs Jones & Co., threshed over nine thousand bushels of wheat this season. With the good showers, corn and tobacco are looking particularly fine in this section. In fact, seems to be the best looking crops that have been raised around here in a long time. i Cros ties and lumber continue to come to market, the buyers handling from two to three cars each day dnr-! the summer months. There is every prospect that the business will be doubled this fall. | Government agents have been here for several days locating power sites | on Deep river. They report satisfact ory results and that there are many good sites for power plants. BEN—NET. THE FARMER’S PICNIC AUG. 16. Don’t forget the Farmer’s picnic to be held in Pittsboro on Thursday, August 16th. Addresses will be maae by Mr. U. B. Blalock, general man-i ager of the North Carolina Cotton | Growers Cooperative Asociation, Miss | Nora Bradford, Home Demonstration j i Agent and others. j There will also be singing, and j above all, a big dinner will be one of; ' the big events of the day. Let every- j one come and bring baskets. i ; Mr. John A. Park, of Raleigh, will be the song leader, and our people will hear some good singing. Miss Ethel Johnson, of Pittsboro, will as ! sist Mr. Park. A GOOD LIST OF GOOD FRIENDS. The following good people have sub scribed for the paper since we correct ed our list last week, and we highly appreciate every one of them: ! J. E. Neal, R. L. Buckner, James * Campbell, R. H. Marks, J. W. Dark, W. H. Foushee, J. A. Harris, W. M Bums, W. P. Farrell, D. S. Copeland, C. R. Beal, L. A. Tysor, Mrs. J A. j Thomas, Rev. W. E. Allen, S. M. Wil ! son, Mrs. H. H. Paterson, O. M. Buck i ner, Nancy Siler* W. G. Adcock, W. L. Siler, Ruffin Farrar, W. J. Bland, Mrs. Sallie Thomas, R. B. Kidd, Palmer Brewer, F. R. Mann, Miss Janie T. Clegg, R. B. Oldham, J. D. Jones, Mrs. N. E. Bland, D. W. Tally, Louise Brooks, N. McK. Buie, Donah Oldham, W. W. Burke, D. A. Dixon, Walter Taylor, J. F.. Carter, M. W. Harris and Simon Alston. All of these will receive also The Southern Planter, published at Rich a-„ We have a few of these leit and to those that sub > £ - nue or rer -*Y first, they will sent. >' LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING FOR [j } HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. ! > We hear on every hand the demand \ ) for dormitories for high schools. This 1 > demand is made chiefly because board ,! including room rent, heat and light, is ft jso much cheaper than in private ' homes. But even the dormitory is not > the cheapest way of going through fj ' | high school. I hear frequently from || 1 people in the Pittsboro high school > I section of the county that you need || " dormitories to accommodate the high | * school girls and boys of the commun- > ity. That may be true but the people 'of this section can send their children [ J to Pittsboro cheaper than by boarding j ' them in a dormitory. After observing ( for several years the cost of light ( housekeeping, on the part of the stu- \ ‘ dents, I have come to the conclusion I * that the cheapest way of sending stu- |I j dents to high school is for them to S do their own housekeeping. Does this> I \ interfere with their studies and their (I : j due recreation ? The record of the v | girls who have attended our school for ' the past eight years and who have Ij 1 done their cooking, has been equal to 2 1 the record of those who did not have I | that extra work. Yet they have ample J 1 time for outdoor recreation. They are % in school six hours—leaving ten hours ! for recreation, study and housekeep- JI i ing Do they need any more ? || • By students doing their work they | can bring the cost of board, which is 5 the great item m high school educa . tion, within sixty or seventy per cent I iof the cost of board in the dormitory, x ! By this means the farmers /who make up the great majority of the people (J of this county, can utilize their own « j home made products. This is easier than turning their products into cash - on the market and then turn the cash into paying board. ‘ Pittsboro high school has no dor- y mitories, but the town has a large number of good homes at which rooms & can be secured for light housekeeping. l| With our new school building, I want the people of this community who are rs? able to do high school work to take I] advantage of the increased opportun- & ities which it offers. Let us do our part to increase the high school at- K tendance of this section. & Our state high school inspector says r*ji that there were between forty and j h fifty thousand students in the high » schools last year when there were 250,000 of high school age who should n have been in attendance. I <s* ( EARL R. FRANKLIN, fj Have you had your “instructions?” £ I FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT _ A. J. Maxwell Wins in His Contention m That State is Far Behind. The auditors that audited the affairs g of the state of North Carolina at a 1 cost of forty-three thousand dollars, ! | had made an admission that if three' fe million dollars of borrowed money! If had not been listed as “revenue” in its ! audit of the state s finances; that the deficit ,would have been $5,132,087. Thus the six months con-j troversy between governor Morrison j and corporation commissioner A. J. ■ Maxwell comes to a close, Maxwell j having won his argument and clearly proven that the state of North Caro lina is running behind its revenue,' and there is now a deficit of more than five million dollars. j Chronology of Controversy. February 2—Maxwell issues state- ( ment charging treasury report shows i deficit of $5,u00,000 instead of sur-; _ plus of $2,400,000 claimed by govern-! or Morrison. I ■ February 3—“lt is not the truth If and I demand that this man Maxwell j| ' be exposed in this slander of the State g whose bread he eats,” declaies Morris on to the General Assembly. An in vestigation committee named. February s—Morrison5 —Morrison issues state-' ment declaring Maxwell an enemy of humanity. Senator W. L. Long named chairman of investigating committee. ! - February 6—Former senator A. M. Scaler, head of educational expansion committee, demands that appropria-; tions be increased. Demands to know • whose “messenger” Maxwell is. j February 10-17 —Scott-Charnley and Co., invited to audit State’s books and decline after preliminary survey. Price j Waterhouse and Co., of New York, re tained. j February 14 — Speaker Dawson, with 1 report that audit cannot be completed I before April 1, nips in bud a formi- I dable movement for adjournment ot General Assembly until report is made. ; February 27—Appropriations bill reported from committee, carrying appropriations of $15,335,200 as against $11,595,900 made in 1921. i July I—Audit completed; force leaves city. j j July 20 —Investigating committee gives out statement of deficit of $06,- UOO. Audit statement declares deficit j of $796,000. I j July 21 —“Statement speaks for it-. self,” declares Morrison. f July 22—Maxwell renews position ; that there is deficit of five million ‘ on basis of published reports of Treas ury condition given out by committee, on balance sheeet, Exhibit “A.” £* July 25—Maxwell responsible for deficit, declares Morrison. Says Com- missioner drew revenue law, and if it & is inadequate, he is to blame. \ July 26—“1 drew revenue bill but x not appropriation bill,” declares Max- f ' well. July 27—“ Maxwell dodging issue; 1 appropriation bill was drawn first,” & replies Morrison. $ July 28—Maxwell challenges Mor- f rison to call General Assembly to rec- I> tify mistakes. # July 31 —Actual figures of audit % given out showing deficit of two mil- f lion dollars on December 31, 1922. x Maxwell finds three million borrowed money listed as revenues. y August I—Maxwell1 —Maxwell demands expla- t nation of auditors for listing borrowed f> money as revenues. | August s—Auditors admit deficit, | with all borrowed listed, to be five jjj> million dollars. | August 6—News and Observer, Ral- £ eigh, says: “It is height of folly to proclaim great progress and then try % to get by without letting the tax-pay- b ers know what it is costing.” When politicians meet each wait for. % the other to speak. p 1 The Best . I I Dream Book I 1 I || You have probably heard many times about Dream I Books—but did you ever think of your Bank Book as a H M Dream Book that will make your dreams come true? H || Well, it will—if you do your share to help by adding C er- i i| tain amount to your account regularly each pay day. M H Start an Account right now—a dollar or more will do* it ft il and then watch your dreams become a reality * 1 ■ i I I | The Chatham Bank | J. C. GREGSON, President. J. J. JENKINS, Cashier ft Ki W. A. Teague, vice President. * H II SILER CITY, NORTH CARQLmIJ foippoßTUNrrf We offer at bargain prices, cost not considered: If One 8-horse Ingeco Oil Engine, new. One 4-horse Ingeco Oil Engine, new. || ij) One 12-horse Ingeco Oil Engine, used. M j| One Wade Drag Saw, new. |J I LEE HARDWARE CO. S I SANFORD, | THE WINCHESTER STORE. j We WELCOME Our Friends The many Chatham County people that have recently purchased goods from us have beeiuwelcome indeed. It is a great pleasure to us to have you call. We have been in business in Sanford for many years and folks everywhere have become convinced that “it is what we say it ss” and this alone is a bed rock of our reputation. Remember us when in Sanford and call to see us whether you buy or not. Let’s get acquainted. ‘TTS WHAT WE SAY IT IS.” W. F. CHEARS SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA. | IKIM COM GREAT AUGUST SALE Opens Thursday, the 9th Stupendous Reductions in Dry Goods, Ready-to-wear, Mil linery, Shoes, Clothing, Notions, etc. Write for Circular. Come ! ! Wilkins-Ricks Company, S N n c. rd —The House of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes. — Where Quality Is Higher Than Price. : August Specials { ! Below are listed a few of our many good buying items | J for the month of August beginning the first day. > LL Sheeting by 50 yard bolts, 13 l-2c. 2 > Overalls, 220 good grade, $1.50. | J Carhartt’s, $2.00 _ | J Men’s Chambray Shirts, extra quality, 85 large sizes, 95c. | > Anderson Fast colors, 32 inch Gingham, 20c. per yard. | l Men’s Shoes, $1.50 and up. f > Children’s Shoes, 98c. to $1.89. | > Ladies Shoes, $1.50 and up. f > Some good Trunks at the right prices. I J Each Monday during the month we will sell 5 lbs. sugai | > for 25c. with each $5.00 purchase. Each Thursday diu’‘ | > ing the month we will sell 10 yards LL Sheeting for Toe. | l with each $lO. purchase. J j l We pay sc. extra for cross ties in trade. ! - t C. L. BROWER & COMPANY, l Dealer in Quality Merchandise, | \ SILER CITY, - j
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