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 |
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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
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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<j
Mr. Adcock, of Cumnock filled in
the program as supply f or Dr r ° n
The revival started'
continue through the week ‘ WeV"”
it will, be a real good meeting h ° w
GUM SPRINGS NEWS.
Pittsboro, Rt. 2, Aug. 13—Mr
Mrs. Edgar Ellington and chikw
of Carrboro, spent the week-end 5
with relatives. nere
Miss Elizabeth Herndon spent a f
days last week (with her sister, £
W. K. Mann. ’
Miss Betsy Wright has returned
from a visit to her sister in Cantor,
Mr. R. L. Hackney is visiting hi;
sister, Mrs. F. K. King. " h s
Messrs Roland and Lee Wright of
Carrboro, spent the week-end at home
Misses Dorothy Whitaker and Jess I
Wright spent last week in Carrboro
visiting relatives.
• Mr. J. T. Wright returned to Dur
ham hospital Monday for another
treatment. He is gradually improving,
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