Cl )t Chatham ftecorb in politics. Established in 1878 by H. A. London. Entered at Pittsboro, N.C., as Second Class mail matter by act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTION: Dne Tear, SLSO. Six Months, *7o Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Chas. A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1923. X—FOR TODAY— c Bible Thonghte memorized, will prove a | ears * 0 Get the Truth. Buy the truth, and sell it not: also wisdom, and instruction, and under standing.—Proverbs. 23:23. HONORED IN THE NATION. No president of the United States, nor any private citizen was ever shown greater respect and honor than Warren G. Harding, late president, since his death in San Francisco. That is in the nation as a whole. Thousands, yes thousands, even mil lions of people of this country stood for one moment, with bowed heads, during the burial of the lamented man last Friday. Democrats, republicans, and all other parties mourned for him as no other man in this country has ever been and president Harding went down to his grave with all the honors that mortal man could have. There may have been hamlets, or small villages here and there that fail ed to give respect to the request that everyone spend a moment in silence and respect at the minute of his bur ial —so far as our observation went Pittsboro was among those who did not. Not a single bell, not a store closed and no service of any kind were held in honor of the memory of the dead chieftain—no one semed to real ize that the head of our great nation was dead. The postoffice stood alone as a silent monument that something was unusual. In this building the post master had placed a picture of the late president, draped it in mourning and closed the doors of the office, while the flag above the building was floating at half mast. Superior court was in session and did not take the time from the busi nes of a civil action to join the great hosts of Americans in their devotion to a dead leader, on the day of the burial. Resolutions and expressions were not in force, and we recognize the fact that Mr. Harding was a Mason in good and regular standing. “Man goeth to his long home and the mourners goeth about the streets” diid not prevail in Pittsboro. Harding may have been of differ ent political faith to many, but he went to his death known as one of the kindest hearted, most liberal mind ed presidents that has ever occupied the office. WE ARE APPRECIATIVE. * jrhere is no living person that is more appreciative than is the editor of The Record. Every week we get letters from various sources highly complimenting us on the great im provement in The Record, the stand swe take on moral questions and the vast amount of reading matter, of a local nature, that we print in the pa per each week. We have published many of these letters and would be glad to publish them all, but we have so many de mands for space that we cannot do it. We are appreciative alright, but it is impossible to print all of them. Then, too, folks come in the office almost daily and tell us personally that they do appreciate the paper and all of it makes us feel good. It gives us energy to go forward, work all the harder and to do our best. If as many people continue to sub scribe for the paper and give us their moral as well as financial support, we expect to fight for the things that we believe is right in Chatham coun ty. We are sincere in purpose and intend to force our views. We are not here to tear down but to build up as we see it. It is possible that the head may err but we shall make all effort to keep the heart right. We have more subscribers than any man has ever had in Chatham county, and they have come to us voluntarily, with no solicitor in the field, no con test and no special effort to get them. And we dare say there is not a better set of folks anywhere than those who are on our subscription list. We want them to stay with us to the finish and let’s remain one big family of friends. It is true that we have many friends in the county that do get subscribers for us occasionally and we greatly appreciate it. We shall always feel under obligations to those w r ho have 1 helped us so wonderfully. ARE FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE. The people, the common masses of voters, are going to have to rely on the weekly papers to a great extent in the future for relief. The week lies are not run from the business of fice, and business has no connection with the editorial department. The av erage country weekly is a free lance when it comes to expressions and opinion on public questions.—Center ville, Ala., Press. LET’S HAVE LESS TAXES. Defenders of soaring tax rates us ually attempt to justify their position by contending that the government is rendering a greater service and tax payers should therefore be willing to pay for it. in many instances these extra ser vices are unnecessary or not worth the cost, and some are positively injur ious to the taxpayer. As long as the government under takes to regulate minutely the lives of individuals and the conduct of ev ery business great and small, the tax burden will be exhorbitant. Some people like to introduce fool ish law's into the country. Over in England Lady Astor, once an Ameri can lady, introduced and had passed by the House of Lords, a bill prohib iting the sale of intoxicating liquors to any person under 18 years of age. This is what we call a foolish law. It iwill do no good because a girl or boy under 18 will be able to buy all the liquor they want if they have the money to pay for it. Right here in Pittsboro we have prohibition, yet boys under 18 years of age buy liquor just the same, and they will buy it in England when they want it. O O o WISE AND OTHERWISE o O Some Our’n—Some Their’n o O O 0 —O —O —O —O 0 —0 —O —O —C Love is the selfishness of sex pos session. The most pious are not necessarily the most wise. , O If you have too much blind zeal it murders your reason. O Spirits do not strive with men near so much as appetites. O It takes both good luck and bad luck to buck a political pull. O The dark ages holds secrets the people do not wish to know. j O 1 Some men write humor and some write rot —judge for yourself. j O To lose fortune is bad enough but to lose hope and energy is worse. O None of us are too good to be men, if we are too poor to go to Congress. The man who thinks he made him self regards others as miserable im itations. . Hambone says “when you let’s any one know you is afool bout ’em, you sho’ is a fool.” O Public opinion, like dynamite, goes off with a jar and blojws itself up with its victim. OBSERVATIONS. By Rambler, “Isn’t it strange,” remarked a Pitts boro citizen, “that during the month of August you never hear the voice of a bullfrog as you did in earlier months. Another thing about these frogs is that when you find one these days he is a iong ways from the wat er. Maybe some of The Record read ers know all about the. doings of the well-known amphibious animals and ' will write something about them.” “Did you ever hear or read of a dead elephant being found in the coun try where they were bom, reared and hunted?” asked a Pittsboro lady. Ana since the lady asked the question we are asking Record readers this: “Mow many dead birds did you ever fin 1 Jri the woods or anywhere else?” The writer has rambled a good dea! in his life and he has nc/or seen his first! dead bird in the wools yet except those that were killed. “I don’t understand it,” remarked a citizen last week, “how so many peo ple can stop work and attend court here. Os course many of them are witnesses and some are jurors but me most of them are simply lookers on. Last Monday there were at least 400 colored and white people in the court room when court opened. Let’s figure t a little. Suppose 100 of those people were jurors or witnesses, and the bal- I ance were there just to kill time. I am also counting probably as many as I zOO people on the streets drawn here because it was court week. Now these bOO people idling their time away, who probably make $2.00 a day and more, lost SI,OOO on Monday alone. It is something I cannot understand why so many quit woik every court just to come to town through curiosity.” • “About as near being scared to death as I ever was,” remarked one of our citizens, “was when 1 was a young lad and received my first gun. Along about that time,” said the young gentleman, “I was a great read er of dime novels in which one man, a great trapper or a man hunting for his sweetheart the Indians Had kid naped, had killed fifteen or twenty In dians, and he would never get hurt, and all such trash as that. Well, my pa he gave me a dollar gun and my whole desire twas to hunt big game. The first opportunity I had to get to the woods where, I imagined a fcca or a deer, ok some other wild animal would jump up before' me and I would shoot it down, occurred one day when I went with m-y gra idfather to a big pond on a fishing trip. We arrived there all right and soon I took my \ trusty gun and a borrowed pocket knife to a big body of woods. I steal thily walked through the woods, stop ping noW and then to listen. Hush, T hear some thing. It must be a hear. I cocked my gun and laid down behind a log. Listen, the animal was get ting nearer and nearer as it trod the leaves, now and then breaking a twig while my heart was thumping to beat the band. Yes, I was excited and was afraid to move, though I had my gun ready to shoot. Finally, I cau tiously raised by head and not three feet away from me was the animal that caused so much excitement. It was a highland terrapin. To Meet Next Saturday. Those interested in Hope church cemetery are requested to meet there next Saturday, August 18th, at 8 o’- clock in the morning to clean it off. SEE YOUR LAB3L “HONOR TO WHOM IT IS DUE.” (C. O. Small, Siler City, in Greensboro News.) The President of this great republic! is dead. A good and noble soul has gone to its reward. It touches my heart to read the many fine things I see in the papers in eulogy of Pres ident Harding. On the other hand, I recall that on the very eve of his elec tion how large posters were sent broadcast throughout this country showing him surrounded by a group of negro office holders and seekers of office and all this to defame his good name. I know who the guilty parties were nor do I care but I wonder how they feel when they read the number less articles from every part of our country in praise of a beautiful and great life. I recall other things scat tered to bring, reproach on his good j name. As our President he did all in his power to harmonize opposing fac tions and to bring order out of chaos, j During the time last year we were under the cloud of strikes and impend- j ing strikes, he acted so gently in bringing about conciliations and not , throwing the nation abruptly into a labor war. What he lacked in efficien- 1 cy, if anything, will be pased along in the remembrance of a clean and in- j spiring life. Just before the last pres- I idential election I had occasion to be j in Company of a bond salesman from Ohio, from the President’s own com munity, and when I asked him about | Mr. Harding he said that his life was • j above reproach and held in the highest , esteem by all who knew him. Again, I for one, am tired of see ing in print the cynical thrusts at our governor, Mr. Morrison. He is gov- j emor of a great state and to him we must look for guidance in engineer- * ing state affairs. All of us are human j j beings, making by far more errors I I than we should but it is no use to | , keep on lambasting a man because he \ | does not come up to all our expecta-! tions. I If the game of politics has to be | done by defamation and chimney-cor-' ner tactics, then I want to steer clear of such, regardless of whatever name j you give the party. IMITATION NEWSPAPERS. Durham Herald. , The people who have tried to pro duce adless newspapers have always 1 had to give up, because they could not get readers enough to keen going, i They have found after a while that ads are news. | The opposite type of publication is the free shopping news sheet thrown around in doorways cluttering up mail boxes. The idea inspiring these seems to be that people will read ads! alone. But these never pay in the lorg run, either. In the first place people expect to pay a price for worth, and have little regard for things offered i free. • Then, the average housewife glances at the offending sheet and says to her self, “How foolish to advertise all over again when I have read what I wanted in my regular paper already!” She clears it off the porch or out of the mail box and drops it into the waste basket. i In Oakland, California, merchants made a real and concerted effort to advertise by means of such shopping 1 paper. They abandoned it after al most a year’s trial. They have gone back to regular newspaper advertis ing. j People want ads and they want news. They like features and funnies, and strange as it may seem, they de mand editorials. But they want them mixed. j I 1 ABOUT FARMER AND TRACTOR. Contributed. j I It is now time that stubble land I should be broken, has been and is now I too hot to plow and the ground has I been awful hard. One could not have plowed with a walking plow even with I ttjfw points, but it has been a fine time j I for a tractor —worth so much more to I the land to break it in this dry con-: I dition. A tractor can stand it and will I 1 plow it to perfection. I The writer has in mind a man that I bought a 10-18 tractor over a year I | ago. He broke all his wheat land early I last summer with the tractor and sowed I his wheat on time, behind a 24-ditK I harrow. This year he threshed eul I over a thousand bushels of wheat. He I also had twenty acres of Soja bean j hay to harvest from land that he had I wheat on the year before. This bean I and wheat straw crop paid for his I tractor, to say nothing of the wheat and corn crops. -At Christmas he had all of his land I broken for his four-horse corn crop this year, and says he has the fines I corn crop so far he has ever raised. All this breaking was done by his son with one small tractor and a two gang plow. With horses it would have taken at least three men and six heavy or noises. Is not this example worth while? He certainly is making a success Wxtn a tractor. Besides the above plowing he bought a hay baler and baled his own crop and ten thousand bales dur ing the winter in his neighborhood, and around through the county. This man did not pay cash for his outfit, but when he started baling he began writing for his notes to come in and he paid them off. He now owns a good outfit and says he is through trying to farm without a tractor. It takes less men, can do more farming with fewer horses and with a great deal more satisfaction. A short time ago, this man remark ed that is is hard to break even, farming with horses only, much less make any money. Tractors have certainly lightened j the burden and made possible so much | more for the farmer. , BUILD A HOME NOW. Raleigh News & Observer. Insurance Commissioner Wade’s re port shows that in the year ending April 30, five thousand nomes built in North Carolina through build ing and loan associations. This is a good showing. The building and loan plan for home construction is a prac tical one and it ought to be more widely availed of. Every community would benefit from havii.g more home owners. LOCALS NEWS FROM BYNUM. | • Bynum, August 14.—Mrs. Hamda Barber and children, of Portsmouth, ■ Va., are visiting Mrs. W. B. Riddle, j Mrs. Annie Bynum, of Mississippi, ! and Miss Margaret Atwater, of ; Greensboro, are visiting in the home of Mr. R. B. Lambeth. Miss Elva Sloan, of Durham, spent a few days last week with her aunt, Mrs. C. W. Abernathy. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Atwater and daughter, Nell, who have ben in Ken j tucky for some time, are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Atwater, j Mrs. Tom Suitt and daughter, Mrs. Bun White, spent the week end in : Sanford. | Miss Pearl Foushee is vistng Mss Claytie Harper near Pittsboro. Miss Mary Lee Foushee, of Chapel Hill, spent last Hvefek with Miss Gay nell Riddle. j Mr. Plato Riddle, of Durham, is ! spending his vacation with his parents, , Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Riddle, i Miss Maude Foushee is visiting Mrs. D. L. Johnson near Siler City and Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Denson, at Bennett. , She will be accompanied home from Bennett by Miss Katie Brown, of Ral eigh. j Mr. Ira Foushee spent Sunday in Jonesboro. I J. P. Griffin and family, of Durham, were in Bynum for a while Thursday. Miss Fannie Riddle delightfully en tertained a number of young people at her home Thursday evening in hon or of her guest, Miss Mary Williams, of Durham. Miss Sadie Johnson spent a few days in Durham last week and was ' accompanied home by Miss Anna Johnson, who will be her guest for some time. POLLY. When ironing starched clothes put some kerosene on a cloth and rub ev ery iron on it as taken from the stove. SALE Beginning Saturday, Aug. 18, I Closing Saturday, Aug. 25 I WILL PUT ON MY ANNUAL SALE WHICH WILL BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST YET. BELO # W I WILL MENTION JUST A FEW OF THE MANY WONDERFUL BAR- I GAINS I AM GOING TO OFFER: - Father George Sheeting at 13c Solid colors cotton pongees, yard 32c. Lot of apron and dress gingham, yard—loc Three pairs men’s cotton socks, 25c. One lot nice dress gingham, yard 15c Ladies’ white silk hose, pair, 24c. Chambray, all colors, yard 12Jc Ladies’ extra nice parasols, each 98c. DON’T F\IL TO LOOK THE SHOE BARGAIN COUNTER OVER—SOME EXTRA VALUES HERE. Table oil cloth, yard 30c Big towels, each 10c - DON’T FAIL TO SEE OUR TABLE OF REMNANTS, THEY ARE GREAT BARGAINS Three men’s suits, each §7.98 Nine suits, each f?-®*’ Five men’s suits, each SIO.OO Four boy’s Palm Beach suits, each All Palm Beach suits at each SIO.OO (Former price $12.50.) One lot overalls, men’s sizes, each 99c Nice line China matting, a big buy, at—29c. ALL THESE SUITS ARE REAL BARGAINS. Will Give 10 Per Cent Off On All Cloth ing During This Sale. Also, 10 Per Cent Off On All Men’s, Women’s, Children’s Canvas and Leather Oxfords DON’T FAIL TO SEE MY LINE OF ALUMINUM WARE AT 59c. and 99c. THESE ARE CHEAPER THAN I COULD BUY IT TODAY. ALL PERSONS BUYING $5.00 Worth of Goods at One Time I Will Sell Them •> I Pieces of Aluminum Ware for 1 Cent Each 1 SO DON’T MISS THIS. TO APPRECIATE THESE BARGAINS I HAVE TO OFFER. I YOU WILL HAVE TO COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. SO DON’T FORGET Hit- DATES— SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, to SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923. BOTH SATURRDAYS INCLUDED. NO GOODS ON THIS SALE TAKEN BACK OR EXCHANGED. COME EARLY TO 1 SECURE THE BEST BARGAINS. I Bear Creek:, IST. C. | AT ANTIOCH LAST SUNDAY Childrens Exercises Greatly Enjoyed by Large Crowd Present. Cumnock, Rt. 1, Aug. 13.—A1l who attended greatly enjoyed Children’s day exercises at Antioch Christian church, last Sunday. The pastor de livered a good message. Dinner was served on the ground and many people were present. The choir that came from a dis tance certainly did some good singing and it was very much enjoyed. We were all sorry that the editor could not be with us. Mr. Tyler, of Goldston, Mr. Canady of Cumnock and Mr. Farrell of this route filled his place on the program. The children did well and while all were not present the program was a good one. As rendered it was as follows: Song by the choir. Little Travelers by children. Address of Welcome by A. F. Gun ter. Short talk and prayer by Rev. Ly nam. Song by the choir. Welcome by Mozelle Oldham and Corlee Hart. Preachers’ Vacation by Lacy John son. When We Go to Grandma’s by Al len Hart. Song by the choir. Someone Else by Fannie Lee Clark. Basket Drill by eight little girls. Mama’s Cresses by Mattie, Francis and Mozelle Oldham. Song by the choir. Talk on God and Humanity by Mat tie Poe. Song by the choir. If, by Violet Johnson. Breakfast on Sunday morning by Edgar Mobley. TVo Walks by Mildred Hart. Recitation by Geneva Green. Why Bettie Didn’t Cry by Nina May '^**«a* M * ; Thomas. Song by the choir. When I*go to Pi? - Mother Love by Geanie Olln^ Recitation by GreS^G^ Song by the choir. n * First president by Ike Give a Little Girl bv jS Offering. * SSle Clark Western N. C. Federal bv F. Lizzie Dowdy. Fannie Such as I Have by Alma ■ W „ hen all the World ForS?* by Earp Johnson. gets Song by choir. Save the Home bv BetHo tm Drill by Six Girls. 6 Johns »a. Tn Clt w°V by . bailie Dowdy Ihe Workers’ Council h v 5 \ T Francis Oldham. J Hattie Shifting the Program by R avni , Sharp. y Ka ymon