Ci)e Chatham Record
"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:
One Year, $l6O.
Six Months,
Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor.
Chas. A. Brown, Associate Editor.
Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net.
’ THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1924
1 A BIBLE THOUGHT I
X—FOR TODAY— I
E Bible Thonehta memorlxed, will prove a |
priceless heritage in after years.
Seek the Lord.
Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found, call ye upon him while
he is near: let the wicked forsake
his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts: and let him return unto
the Lord, and he will have mercy upon
him; and to our God, for he will
abuntantly pardon.—lsaiah 55:6,7.
‘'GREATLY CREDIT OF
ATTORNEY BELLAMY.”
The following news item appeared
in the Raleigh Times of March 19.
“Bellamy Refuses Appointmeint as
Special Counsel.”
“John D. Bellamy, Wilmington
attorney, announced following a
conference with Governor Morri
son Tuesday afternoon that he
had declined to accept appoint
ment as special counsel to aid
the attorney general in the fight
for the restoration of Cape Fear
& Yadkin Valley Railroad now
split at Sanford, the Southern
operating that part extending to
the west, and the Atlantic Coast
Line the other part, extending j
to Wilmington.
“The attorney gave prior rail
road connections as the reason for
declining the appointment.”
We do not know what prior rail- '
road connections attorney Bellamy has
had. The Atlantic Coast Line main
tains its home office in Wilmington.
The Coast Line and Southern are the
two big railroads charged by attor
ney general Manning as having ob
tained control of the C. F. & Y. V.
Railroad by fraud and deception. We
presume, therefore, that Mr. Bell
amy’s connection has been with one
or the other of the two railroads, pos
sibly both. So far as we know, only
such lawyers as have heretofore rep
resented one of these two railroads
need feel any embarassment in ac
cepting employment. Whether Mr.
Bellamy represented one or the other
his decision does him great credit.
Mr. Bellamy as might have been
expected, has not lost his sense of
propriety. Mr. McLean, candidate for
Governor, who has for years been di
vision counsel for the Atlantic Coast
Line and president of one of the sub
sidary companies, and who, if elected,
will be expected to take the lead in
the fight for just freight rates for
North Carolina, cannot avoid the em
barrassment which Mr. Bellamy has
avoided refusing emplovment.
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OTHERS SEE THE LIGHT.
Th Charlotte Observer on Wednos
dav, March 26th. had the following
editorial paragraph in that paper:
If anybody wants to discuss
State expenditures and results se
cured thereby with the Secretary
of State Everett, they will find
him standing on his feet and wel
coming the iob. There is not a
household, city or rural, in the
State, that has not been benefited
in some way out of one form or
another of the development wo'k
—and it is these families that
do the voting.
According to our information the
taxpayers want to know more about
results secured. They know too much
now about expenditures—thev know
that the governor of North Carolina
has spent as much as four hundred
dollars ° mo - t’*» for h : s laundry and
the results would not interest the av
erage farmer, whose wife spends half
her time washing and scrubbing.
Hundreds of countrv people feel the
expenditure but they have not had the
pleasant sensation com ng through re- !
suits. They are reminded once annual
ly of the expenditures, very forcibly,
when they march up to pay their tax
es, hut thev have so far failed to get
a vision of the results.
_ It is admitted that the towns pnci
cities have had some of the advan
tages, but the poor ol dfarmer comes |
in like the cow’s tail—always behind.
The Observer is correct in its ap
prehension that the rural families do
tv-' voting a~d after those country
folks, men and wome r *, return fro**,
the noils next time there shall be a
weeping the whangdoedeth calling
for results and there shall be a gen
eral hallelujah that Hon. Josiah W.
Bailey will be the next gover-cr of
North Carolina.
Then too, the establishment of
some thirty or more offices
throughout the state for the distr?-
bvtmn o fauto licenses by Mr. Everett
gives jobs to as many m"n and worp.
en, but none of these are farmer folks,
but they vote.
A GROWING NEWSPAPER.
The News-t T e~a!d, of I ' T or«ranto"',
comes to our desk this week in a big,
industrial issue of four sections, ore
of which is a rotogravure prin f and
i A is a credit to any town in Nort 1 "*
f!a‘ro!i"a. It is w»ll printed a”d full
to the brim of interesting reading of
Pur u r affairs. M’ss Beatrice Cobb, one
of the few able wome-* editors in
stats, is secretary end treasurer
of the North Carolina Press Associa
tion. end sbe is proving herself to he
better executive in the -ewsnaper
field than some of the male fratern
ity. Her paper is growing and The
Record wishes continued success.
DEVELOPMENT IN A PAPER, j
Since the establishment of The Car
olina Banner at Sanford, it has had
many calamities. First the health of
Mr. Harward failed and the paper was
the victim of many other undertak
ings, until recently it came into the
hands of Mr. J. B. Hall, a native
North Carolinian, but more recently
from Brooklyn, N. Y. Being a man of
practical ideas, both executive and
mechanical, he has developed that pa
per to a standard that it deserves. !
Now it is* announced that additional
machinery has been bought and a gen- ;
earl change will be effected in the
construction of the paper. Veritably
Sanford is yet to have a semi-weekly
that will be accredit to the gorwing
city, and it will merit the liberal pat- j
ronage that it is already receiving by :
the business interests of Sanford.
Those who oppose, the Mellon ,tax
plan might try devising a better one. i
Exertion from chopping ice caused
a man’s death, but sawing wood nev- ,
er kiilled anyone.
If the prohibition law was enforced
as effectively as the income tax law,
wouldn’t it be grand?
PASSING*THE BUCK.
Carolina Banner.
The Pittsboro Scribe, Colin G. Shaw,
spent a few hours in our progressive
city Saturday, presumably on business
connected with his paper. He seems i
none the worse on his scare from Ed- j
itor Coffin, of The Raleigh Times, ,
about the rabbit market in Chatham, I
and he did as all Americans do, “pass
ed the buck on to the new paper at ,
Siler City” to get Editor Coffin told, j
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I WITH THE PEOPLE I
COMPLAINS ABOUT THE SCHOOL
TRUCK.
Editor Rcord:—l want to say a
few words in regard to the school j
truck. I believe that matters should j
have the attention of someone. There -
is no fairness whatever in the way it '
is being operated. Some mornings it,
comes early and leaves some of the
children and other times it is behind
time and the children don’t get to
school until almost noon. Why ? Be
cause it has to go to Pittsboro to
carry one scholar and that one reaches
school on time and there are about
twenty or twenty-five put to the
school anytime they can get there. I
think that if someone would take the
proper interest in this matter there
would be no late arrivals at school.
Then, too, look at the manner in
which many of the little ones are put
off a great distance from home just !
in order to accommodate one or two.
When there is a ball game or some
other event to take place, the children
are made to get off or they are car
ried back. This has been done. What
fairness is there in it? If someone 1
w'ill show me that it is fair to let
one or two control the whole thing
just to suit themselves, why I will
sav no more, but I do think one pu
pil ,old or young, has as much right
to the truck as another.
Who will agree with me ? Let’s hear
from the rest of the patrons.
SLIM JIM.
Moncure, Rt. 2, March 29, 1924.
WANTS MAN"*TO DRIVE TRUCK.
Editor Record:—l feel like I must
say a few words in regard to the
school truck that is being operated to
Moncure and driven by the school
boys. I don’t say they don’t do the
best they can, but they do not know
enough about it to have the responsi
ble itv of all the job incurs. The lives
of the children are to be considered.
Why can’t we have a settled man,
and one that k-ows something about a
car and pay him a fair price and let
him keep it in repair.
The truck is not much good to be
gin with and sometimes it is stopped
indefinitely ard the children are made
to walk home; sometimes walking
nearly all the wav and are broken
down when they get home. They grt
home anywhere from six to nine o’-
clock at night and the parents, of
course, are worried to death rot
knowing what has become of the chil
dren, whether they have been killed
or iust maimed for life.
Not many are satisfied with the
way the trick is being onerated and
who can blame them under the cir
cumstances?
Here’s hoping something will be
done before another school starts.
. A PATRON.
Moncure, Rt. 2, March 28, 1924.
SO MAnTgOOD THINGS.
Editor Record:—l thought I would
hold up awhile and not have any
thing to say in the good old Record,
but I do see so many good things
that all of the readers love to see, I
| am almost bound to have a few lines
j more.
J Now, Mr. Editor, in regard to Mr.
I Bailey being our next governor, if
jhe follows out what he says, I do
think all of the taxpayers in North
Carolina should sta d for Mr. Bailey.
The time has come when somethirg
must be done besides talking “oil”
a-d Teapot Dome and the “Bonus.”
That is about all that Congressmen
are speaking about ard I do hope
they will get through with it in time
! to accomplish something else.
I am for Mr. Bailey and I know
: several others that are for Mr. Bail
• ey near here.
> We are only running three days to
the week and times are generally dull
around here. There is also a great
ideal of sick-.ess,, a few deaths having
j occurred. Let’s all take everything
’ I as it comes and try to live up to our
’ duty and all will be well with us in
■ the end.
, i Wishing you all the best of health
, and prosperity through life, I am
, Your Constant Reader,
i „ W. P. FARRELL.
Haw River, March 29, 1924.
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Miss Susie Morgan, who has been
here on a visit to her mother, Mrs;
Laura Morgan, went back to Raleigh
* Monday to work for Edwards &
Broughton Co., as stenographer.
see"~your > "label *l^
THIS AUDACIOUS BAILEY.
■ Elizabeth City Independent.
The signs that this will be an
epochal year in political history of
North Carolina. This year threatens
to mark either the destruction of the
Machine within the Democratic party
in North Carolina or the wreck of the
party itself. It is not all improb
able that Josiah William Bailey will
either crack the machine or wreck the
party.
! We might as well begin to take this
Josiah William Bailey seriously. They
call him a demagog. Roosevelt, Wilson
and Bryan all have been called dem
agogs. Any fellow who carries his
case to the plain people is called a
demagog.
j They say Bailey was once a mem-
Iber of the machine and deserted it
| when it failed to serve his ends. There
j are two sides to that story. I do not
know the whole story but I do know
.this: No man who does his own think
-1 ing could run with the machine poli
ticians in North Carolina very long
i without getting a distaste for them.
I Bailey is a man who does his own
thinking. If Bailey ever was a mem
ber of the inner circle,—which is
, doubtful —he had the good judgement
to get out of the organization be
fore he had to use a disinfectant to
stay in it and live.
What has this Bailey done to evoke
the wrath of the bosses of this state ?
Only this: He has dared to throw his
hat into the ring for the nomination
for governor without the consent or
| dictates of the bosses. Simply that
; and nothing more,
j We North Carolinians are a funny
lot. We think we are the most inde
pendent self asserting, upstanding
bunch of democrats on the face of
the earth. We are anything but that;
we are just a complacent, cringing,
spineless, mindless lot of camp follow
ers who take our politics like we take
our religion,—from our ancestors.
This is as true of democrats as re
publicans. We never bother about
choosing our candidates, but let a
little group of state bankers, manu
facturers and their lawyers make up
the ticket for us. It is notorious that
the governors of North Carolina are
slated twelve to fifteen years in ad
vance. And when they slated Angus
Wilton McLean for the nomination in
1924 they even had the audacity to
tell him that he would run without
opposition. They had sidetracked Max
Gardner, telling Max he should have
it in 1928; and Varser’s friends were
satisfied with a promise of the nomi
nation for Varser in 1932. In the
meantime it is being whispered that
Ehringhaus of Elizabeth City can
have the nomination in 1936 if he
will be a good boy and deliver the
goods for McLean this time, and for
the others in their turn, and seek no
office until the machine is ready for
him.
And poor Mr. McLean rich in farm
lands, rich in bank stock, rich in rail
road securities and rich in corporation
favors, was the most disappointed
man in the world when he put his card
in the papers and took the stump, on
ly to meet Josiah William Bailey
seeking the same nomination.
Rich in farm lands, rich in bank
stocks, rich in railroad securities and
rich in corporation favors, Mr. Mc-
Lean may be, but he is poor in pop
ularity.. .Mr. McLean does not know
how to meet the plain people; he has
never been one of them; he does not
know them or understand them.
And so here comes Josiah William
Bailey who asks no favors of the Ma
chine and who says the small business
man, the farmer, the fisherman, the
plodding head-worker and the humble
man who toils with his hands: “This
is a democracy we live in; this is
your state; you, very you, have a
voice m the election of your governor
and • everv other officer of this com
monwealth if you will exercise it. I
ask you to vote for me as a protest
against the smug and predatory group
who have for many years presumed
to do your thinking for you.”
A'hl all over the state of North
Carolina the small business men, the
farmers, the fishermen, the plrddirig
head-workers and those who toil with
their hands are looking uro" 1 Bailey
ns the hopeful untried. I-* Bailev they
have discovered a leader with the
legal skill, the business acumen and
the intellectual ability to cope with
the bosses in power.
And so we might as well exnect
anything to happen. With his platform
of lower taxes for the farmer a-d
cheaper rail road rates. Bailev is
getting of the p'ople. On these
subjects McLean speak but feebly
he is ore of the state’s richest men
and rich men’s tax view? are general!'
’ooked nt askance: for ma r y years
Mr. McLean been a ’-abroad at
torney. one of a group who have serv
ed their master- -o wel 1 as to defeat
the efforts o f the people to secure
from unj”st **ate discrimination
th-t is eve” a serous menace to the
welfare and prosperitv of the masses.
Mr. McLea- cr”-* but feeblv abcu A
on iust rotes. B”t, on thes" issues of
i taxes and freight rates Bailev ca™
4- alk and is talking in away to suit
the people.
And so it seems one doesn’t have
to be a orophet to see that the Dem
ocratic Machine in N°rtb Carolina
is on the toboggan. If Bailey doesn’t
win this vear, he will at least have
nut the Machine in such disrenute by
bis smashing indictment of it. t v at
;he Uomocuatie partv will be wobbly
in North C'ovUi-n for years to corn 0 .
A vote for Bn I’ley 1 ’ley may save the partv
so" manv vc*ars' of servi-e to tbe
noop’e. A vote for McL°an may o t ly
fpmonrarilv save the Mach’ne. The
Machine will eventually hav« to go.
yVfm oeouin Wh o rl o »>f their ow
thi-kmc* fioaUv tir« of the same old
crowd dm’ng their thinking for them.
MR. RANDOLPH CHEEK MARRIED
A marriage of jTitersrt to their
mo”v trends was that of Miss Mattie
t>‘ Mf,x ton, N. C.. and Mr.
R. of Barnwell, S.
v,-. Ihe marriage took plac" Monday
vines’ (~f arch 24 ’ 1924 at Bennetts-
The y~rg couple will m?k° tb.°ir
mme w tb the narent- of the g”oom,
Mr and Mrs. J. R. Cheek at Bara
l Wo ",
I The bride is the attractive young
daughter 0 f Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Car
ter, of Maxton.
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Fine feathers also make fine bills.
The man who lends a hand to boost
never uses a foot to kick.
O
People quickest to condemn are gen
erally the last to praise.
Patronage can*t be substituted for
patriotism successfully.
O
It’s a brave man who makes his
car “do” another season.
O
Men who settle world problems in a
smoking car can’t settle a dog fight at
home.
O
A political machine is some contri
vance, but it won’t turn dirt for a
farmer.
In union there is strength, but it
depends in some measure on what is
being united.
O
Try treating your neighbor like a
human being and he may decide that
you are one.
O
Folks who spend all of their time
looking for pleasure never recognize
it when they get it.
Among the dangerous crossings to
be avoided is crossing the bridge be
fore you come to it.
One thing nice about going to the
electoral college is that one doesn’t
have to have any credits.
O
The trouble about trying to kill two
birds with one stone is that we are
apt to miss both of them.
O
We know some old grouches who
are so hardened that even laughing
gas wouldn’t force a smile.
Some jockeys ride horses and be
come famous; other men drive an au
tomobile and become infamous.
O
The kangaroo can jump twelve feet
high, but none of the colleges has en
rolled one of them for the track team.
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SPRING IS HERE.
Get your hooks,
Get your bait,
Leave your books,
Do not wait,
For the fish are biting.
Shed your coat,
Get your spade,
Dig your worms,
And hie to the shade,
On the creek—Fish ire biting.
—Joe Snyder.
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Read both ads in this paper of Miss
Bessie Caviness and profit by it.
There was a good size audience at
the old Fiddlers Convention in Gold
ston on Saturday night and the pro
ceeds were gratifying. We are inform
ed that Mr. Pat Williams got the
first prize as best violinist and Mr.
A. E. Yarborough, of Sanford re
ceived the second; Mr. Kelly Sears
of Siler City won first prize as ban
joist and Mr. J. T. Gains, of Gold
ston received the second prize.
There will be an old Fiddlers Con
vention given at Jonesboro on Satur
, day night, April 12th. The meet will
be at the school house and a per cent
age of the proceeds will go to the
school. Mr. C. R. Sears, of Siler City,
has the program in charge.
I’ hAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED?
BY AN EXPERT-COSTS NO
I Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known
eyesight Specialist and Optician
will be at Dr. Farrell’s office in
Pittsboro, N. C., every fourth Tues
day and at Dr. Thomas’ office, Siler
City, N. C., every fourth Thursday
in each month. Headache relieved
when caused by eye strain. When!
he fits you with glasses you havej
the satisfaction of knowng that!
they are correct. Make a note of j
the date and see him if your eyesj
are weak.
His next visit in Pittsboro will!
be Tuesday, April 22. j
His next visit in Siler City will!
be Thursday, April 24.
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