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Ci)e Cljatimm Accord — ' --- Established in 1878 by H. A. London. Entered at Pittsboro, N.C., as Second Sass mail matter by act of Congress. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year, Six Months, n t Peterson, Editor and Owner. Chas.* A. Brown, Contributing Editor. Advertising: 25c. *3oc7 and 35c. net. | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924. i FOR TODAY—I j sibi ° P sasiA^ oTe a J| Let Him Deny Himself. Whosoever will come after me, let.; him deny himself, and take up his • ( cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life foi m\ sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. —Mark 8:34,35 Till we recall who Jim Cowan mar ried we don’t half know who is mayor of Wilmington . H. B. Varner takes charge of the Lexington Dispatch again and marries him a wife. Now for normality. Mr. W. F. Jones informs us that rabbits are not like huckleberries, but like the old-time Moore county per simmons, and require two or three big white frosts to put them in their prime. Dr. Peacock, the butcher of the Thomasville policeman, has been ar rested at El Cajon, California, but is fighting extradition. Here is trust ing that he will be landed in the pen etentiary again and kept there till he rots. Mr. H G. Beard was showing Tues day a sample from his seven acre field of soy beans. They are fine, but a crop of corn could have been raised on the same land and a great bean crop with it. Chatham farmers as a rule do not seem to have learned the value of soy and velvet beans. Mr. Beard’s crop should be of demonstrative value. We asked a boy the other day where he got the cigarettes he was smoking and he replied that he could get them at any of the Pittsboro stores. If that is true, Pittsboro merchants are clearly violating the law as im pudently as the worst boot-legger in the county. Let it stop. Law is law, and if every man uses his own judg ment or pleasure as to which he will obey, we shall have anarchy. What ever the difference of opinion as to the effect of smoking upon mature men, there is no difference as to th harmfulness of cigarett smoking in the case of boys. But that is not the point. Law is law, and should be respected and enforced so long as on the statute books .It is un lawful even to give cigarettes to fif teen-year old boys. Read the law, gen tlemen. The article appearing in this issue of the Record on Self-Financing fea ture of public ports throws consider able light upon the question before the voters in November. New Orleans and San Francisco, however, are in evitable gateways for immense areas The question is, Can North Carolina attract a business that will justify the expenditure advocated ? Our cotton crop is carried out by tramp steamers. What else does the state export In cargo quantities ? Where would the imports justifying a line of ocean steamers go ? This state does not need such a quanity of foreign goods. As sure the business, or a fourth the bus iness, of New Orleans and you answ- er the question of the advisability of adopting the Port Bill. But the best 1 oort will not thrive if business is lack fag- On slight evidence of the existence of oil in Craven County certain weal thy men formed a company to bore for oil, risking their capital in the project without any attempt to in veigle the public into hazardous in vestments. But the chance for fleec ing the public was too good to be lost; ! so the “Carolina Syndicate” was or- J ganized. This Syndicate bought 4,000 acres of land adjacent to the site of the projected well and brought a swarm of agents down from the North to sell the land to suckers at S4OO an acre. But their game was not to be played with immunity. Stacey Wade, Commissioner of Insurance, has forbid den the syndicate to advertise or sell the land except as ordinary real es tate. The syndicate is fighting back in the courts. But it is to be hoped that Mr. Wade will be fully maintain ed in his righteous stand and that the • investing public will not be subjected to the hgh pressure methods of those northern salesmen. Land .as likely to produce oil can be bought in eastern North Carolina for a few dollars an acre. It will be time enough to get i excited when oil is actually discovered in North Carolina. The around-the-world fliers reached their starting point Monday. Some one page Joe Caldwell. Davis returns from a speaking tour in the west assured, he declares, that he will be the next president. So mote it be. I Gaston Means is a confessed per jurer .He now says that the rigama role he toht in the Daugherty invest igation was all a lie. But who knows when a liar is telling the truth. Georgia is taking belated steps to erect a monument to Dr. Crawford Long, the discoverer of anaesthetics. In Jefferson, a little town about like Pittsboro at that time, Dr. Lonjg made a discovery that has done more to re lieve pain and anguish than can be estimated. He was a benefactor of the L ' i race. 11 r I State Superintendent Allen issues [ | an edict that the counties must pro j vide at least a six-months* high school | term for all children within their bor j ders of high school rank. If this de cree holds, it will probably be neces sary for isolated pupils to be boarded free near established high schools till high schools are established within reach of their homes. Mr. Floyd Hendley, who was con nected with the Record for many months and left here to become tele graph editor of the Danville Register, has joined the staff of the Greens j boro News. Mr. Hendley is a native !of Iredell, is a tireless, energetic worker, and is an asset to any news paper. His many friends here will be J gratified to learn he has returned to J the state. Sam Cathey and “Mary” Worsham, two blind men who passed creditably the recent unusually hard examination for law license, have formed a co partnership and will practice in Ashe ville, Mr. Cathey’s home town. The editor of the Record became well ac quainted with these remarkable young men the past summer and can bear testimony to their wonderful spright liness, scholarship, and commonsense. They are worth knowing. Judge Henry G. Connor has appoint ed Judge 0. H. Guion receiver for the Fisheries Products Company of Wil mington. A New York receiver had al ready been appointed. The organizers of this company have caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars to North Carolinians, mostly farmers. There should be some means of pun ishing the looters of such companies as this and the Seminole Phosphate Company, another fraudulent bunch which has robbed North Carolina farmers. . As fair time approaches in North Carolina the patrons and good .citizens in general should make up their minds to one thing—that robbers shall not be licenses by the managements Things have been allowed at N. C. fairs that were outrageous. As editor of the Sampson Democrat the writer last fall, spoke his mind freely about the robbery permitted in the Clinton fair, and made up his mind .to see that similar conditions should not pre vail this fall if he had to swear out warrants for the rogues and tricksters himself. We have understood that gambling will not be permitted in that fair this fall, but citizens of all the counties should be upon their guard and see to it that patrons of the fair shall not be fleeced and the youth de bauched. No fair is worth so much as to to be allowed to exist by any such means. But a good fair is not de pendent upon such nefarious means for existence, or even prosperity. A GRAVE*ACCUSATION. Buried in the heart of a long edi torial in* the North Carolina Teacher is a grave charge against certain law yers of a near-by city. It happens that the editor of the Record was cogniz ant of the matter immediately after the event and was as indignant at the alleged betrayal of trust and the exor bitant fees of the attorneys in question as was Dr. Trabue, but at that time he had no means of editorial expres sion. However, a little inquiry in the • city where the case occurred sufficed !to confirm the statement of Dr. Trabue as to th vixenishness of the officer’s wife who brought the charge. If it is a fact that a poor and inof fensive colored man, with a reputa tion unimpeachable for years, was convicted, fined, and forbidden to en ter the city again within a year while eye-witnesses were ready, to the knowledge of his attorneys, to swear that the testimony against him was untrue, it is nothing short of a be trayal of trust on the part of his at torneys and should be a matter for the investigation of the State Bar Associa tion. Dr. Trabue’s charge, which fol lows a discussion of injustice on the part of teachers, is as follows: “Not all the selfish cowards are in the teaching profession. A man of I recognized honesty and high charac- | ter, but of little education, no finan cial backing, and extremely modest disposition, was this summer brought to trial in the circuit court for a crime which he had not committed but of which he was falsely accused by the spiteful wife of a prominent official of the county. Eye witnesses were available to prove that the i woman had invented the charges and ' had been guilty herself of the acts with which the innocent man was charged. Because it ‘would be in advisable to call in question the character of the official’s wife’, the cowardly lawyers, retained to defend the innocent man, betrayed their trust and persuaded their frightened f victim, before his chief witnesses had | been heard, to plead guilty to the ‘ charges and accept a fine of one hun dred dollars and costs. Undertaking < to justify their failure to attempt a I defense of their innocent client, the two lawyers, who had demanded and \ obtained cash fees of one hundred dol- [i lars each before accepting the case, | U declared that it was ‘impossible under ), the circumstances to obtain justice.’” i| WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS SAY f 1— GOOD WORD FOR JIM. (I Statesville Landmark. 2 Dr. G. W. Paschal of Wake Forest (| College, who has returned from a protracted visit to Texas, took note jl of the recent political excitement in the Lone Star State. With reference |j to Mrs. Ferguson, the Democratic M nominee for Governor, Dr. Paschal | says: l| “The general impression is that she <* will give the state a safe, conserva- 1 itive administration, but in the great S J questions that come up she will turn I to her husband. And the latter is not £ as black as has been painted. When it he became governor the State was jl operating at a deficit. He left the if chair with an $8,000,000 surplus in Ij the treasury. The charge on which s he was impeached was simply a tech- I nical one. Even men who oppose 3 him and his wife will admit that he | was a good business governor.” As this paper has more than once if expressed the opinion that Ferguson jl was a sorry sort, and the only regret 2S in the nomination of a woman for I Governor was that the husband, an im 2 peached executive, would be the real I [I Governor, this testimony of a North I Carolinian is printed as an act of 4 fairness. 1 Epresses Regret and Approval. Editor Record: We Democrats regret much to see Hon. Walter D. Siler, who has so “ faithfully filled the chairmanship of the Democratic executive committee for several years, leave it, but we are honored in having him chosen for the high position of elector at large, and wish him and the party much success. And as Hon. W. P. Horton takes up the standard we congratulate him on his elevation and the party because of its good fortune in securing him as chairman, for he says he stands ready to do what is best for the party and asks our cooperation as it is our organization and he is only at the head. I am sure that whatever our leaders see fit to advise we as true Democrats will not fail to support. Respectfully HENRY F. DURHAM Pittsboro, Rt 1. Plenty of Work for Him. Christian Advocate. It is reported that a doctor at Johns Hopkins has stiffened up a patient’s backbone by putting new bones in it. A part of the shin bone was transfer red to the backbone. That doctor is badly needed in every community. The Carolina Syndicate will sue Commissioner Stacey Wade bcause of his hindrance to their scheme to sell Eastern North Carolina “oil” land at 700 per cent profit. Gaston Means is visiting in Concord while his repudiation of the testimony in the Daugerty investigation is caus ing much talk in the whole country. King and Harrel, murderers of Ma jor McLeary, have been convicted and sentenced to death by a South Caro lina court. > —i Cotton went up ten dollars a bale Monday on a lower government re port. Germany will ask for membership - in the League of Nations. General Sawyer, President’s Hard . i n g*s is dead. Habits of the Gorilla i The gorilla, chimpanzee and orang ' outong are alike in being destitute of any rudiment of a tail, In having no ’ cheek-pouches and no naked spaces at the bane of the trunk, and In the habit - o< resting on the knuckles of the hand i in walking. Late investigation shows . that the gorilla spends more of bis * S™* 111 fa e trees than on the ground. » fflakes a rude shelter for his mate i J°Qng and ttlmseif sleeps with his , baCk to the tree trunk ready for any 1 emergency. - * I The Tobacco Growers j § Cooperative Association f | Opens Its Old Belt Warehouses in Vir- 1 A ginia and North Carolina, 1 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IST, | | With the Highest Cash Prices | 1 in Its History. | [bring your tobacco I | to Your Own Association Market or, If 1 | You Are Not a. Member, | | Join Before It Is Too Late. | I Hundreds of Farmers in the Other Belts I I Waited Too Long to Sign This Season | I Membership Books for the 1924 Crop will | I Close After October Ist j I. I Over 100,000 Motorists Are ' Now Atfoying the Comfort, Safety and Economy of I 4 v freefone Full-Size ©HPRa"®DIPI?E® ®@iS®§ t Read What a Few < of Them Say— “ They rid* beautifully over any (I Uftd of jo4nf. M —*. P. Bieknell. War- II aeeter. Meet. f ,4 8kUdinf la done away with on wet II Stroete at high speed. —Geo. P. Bell, II P oiriiaM, 'Ala. ; f “None of that terrible jarring and I jolting to the oar or to occuponta."— t K. V. Nolloy, Rookford, 111. $ “Feel sure depreciation will be cut I ts% to 50%.”—A M.4J.A Williams, I N ash rille, T enn, “Absence of skid or slip even on anew and ice Is really wonderful.**— Alvan T. Simonds, Fitchburg, Mass. “Have used lose gaa for same mile . age with more power.**—F. Dorieon, Greeley, Colo. “I have more power, the car steers saglsr and rides easier.**—J. L. John- * oast, Northfield, Minn. **Tho gas mileage is holding up to SO miles per gallon as bof ©ro. -—B. H. Avery, Bowling Croon, Ohio. **29l miles through snow, mud, bumps and water without chains in IS hours.**—Sam Hett inger, North Dakota. “Saving in wear and tear on oar a big factor In putting on Firestone Bal loons.**—C. A. Allen, Jr., Chloago, 111. “0# udleo an hour over rough road without feeling any shock whatever.’* —Harry A. Dorman, Sacramento, Cal. “Qood for an average of ten miles more per hour over bad roads.**— Kirk Btown, Montclair, N. J. - KJO miles on demonstrator car with as much mileage left to nn"““ Conrad A. Smith, Boston, Mass. & I SHOULD >PRODUCE*ITS OWN RUBBER” ASK any owner of full-size Balloon XjL Gum-Dipped Cords about the com- . fort, safety and operating economy they are giving him. Let his experiences give you the facts about these wonderful tires. His comments will match these almost word for word. There are hundreds of thousands of Firestone Gum-Dipped Balloons on the road today. Wher ever you drive you see them—and you cannot help but notice the new enjoyment these owners are getting from their cars. This immensely increased production has brought about many manufacturing economies, which you can take advantage of today by equip ping your car with Balloon Gum-Dipped Cords. Firestone Dealers are quoting special net prices on the complete job. Trade in your old wheels on a new set built for full-size Balloons. / \ In addition get our liberal rebate on your old tires. Equip now for comfort and economy—as well as for the safety and better car control you will a need this fall and winter. ■*; Call on the nearest Firestone Dealer —for formation—for your price—and for a quick, ; * oarefaffy-engineered changeover to real Gum- ' J Dipped Balloons.
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