Page Two C&e C&atDam i&ccorts ~~ O. J. PETERSON” Editor and Publisher Subscription Price ... Six jl f ■ T »V' lifcgn'frf week. Explanations have been forth- - coming, but no explanation is neces-, szry to- anj : fellow that* will just- re- : member that if- he pumps up Kis- tire too much there will be-an explosion; r "* ~ 'y l , - , -I . Dr. Coue, who made a world-wide;, reputation a few years ago by his 1 auto-suggestive method of curing dis ease, is dead at the age of 69, an age when many men who have never said once “Better and better every day in every way” are still hale and hearty. The good old constitution is after all the best assurance of health and long life, but unfortunately a fellow cannot choose his constitution. J The Sanford Express calls atten tion to the fact that Sanford is be coming quite a convention city. Cer- < tainly, there is scarcely another town , of any size in the state more ap- ' proachable by rail and highway, and with the excellent hotel there now the . good old town should be the logical meeting place for many organiza tions. The last convention on San ford’s slate was that of the R. F. D carriers, who met there oMnday many hundred strong. The state ends its fiscal year with more than a million dollars surplus. This is indued gratifying and re- 1 fleets considerable credit upon Gov ernor McLean’s administration. When this writer has a few dollars not im mediately necessary for bread and meat he pays it out on the mortgage debt. Good old N. C. has quite a lot of similar debts, and it would be no bad idea to do as the ordinary indi vidual would do, or pay it out on cur rent expense that is requiring addi tional bond issues. Certainly, the ex istence of a surplus should not sug gest additional expenditures in the departments in which it has been saved unless there lias actually been failure to function effectively. Death presented itself in both its most beneficent and cruelest aspect in this county last week. No more kindly disposition could have been made in the case of the poor old crazy negro, jailed a few weeks ago after killing his daughter near ’Gold ston, than his quietly passing to the great beyond. On the other hand, it is almost inconceivable how the grim reaper could have been more cruel than in the taking of the fifteen-year old son of Will Johnson, colored, of Hickory Mountain township, who was dragged a mile and a half by a mule after he had fallen and become en tangled in the harness or lines, hav ing his clothes and part of his flesh torn from his tormented body. It is the week of the fourth and advertising happens to be at its low est ebb. Hence, we are making only a half-size paper. However, all the county news we can gather is here. The fact is, we deliberately have our type set very close in order that we may have room for big advertising ! when it does come. But another con sequence is when advertising is short it takes a very small mv-er in thf close-set type to carry all the county news and editorials. Space is not wasted in great headlines and white waste spaces. The result is the first page of the paper has as many words as are found in the news columns of some county weeklies, especially of earlier days. Mecklenburg had two women can didates for the legislature, who were pitted in a second contest against two men. Miss Julia Alexander, who served in the general assembly two years ago and who was an active sup porter of the Pool bill and who has even threatened to run for Governor met her Waterloo, and that, too, de spite the fact that Charlotte has seemingly been the hotbed of that fanaticism which would limit free cf&m of teaching in the schools of the state. The race, presumably and by - authority of newspaper reports, largely resolved itself into a race be tween -the two men and the two la dies* Miss Carrie McLean, the othei aspirant, is said to be opposed to any and all such limitation as that 1 proposed by the Pool bill, thus tnak ing her victory over Miss Alexander 1 a clearer index of the lack of dispo sition of the electorate, even in Meek- • lenburg, to muzzle the teachers o 1 the state schools. Miss McLean, like Miss Alexander, is a lawyer. She was educated at Murfreesboro Instil tute, now Chowan College, unde? John R Brewer, was long a stenog- 1 rapher, we believe, and finally studied law. As she was a roommate of a cousin of the writer at Murfreesboro, ; he has long heard the excellences of Carrie McLean sung. Mecklenburg has chosen well if it desired, as ir.anij festly it did, a woman legislator. Congress adjourned Saturday with out having passed any .farmers’, re lief bill. This fact and the revelation of the expenditure of three millions of dollars in the Pennsylvania Repub lican senatorial primary give a glow of promise to the success-. *of the Democrats in the Congressional elec tions in November. The farmers of the West are said to be in no good humor and attribute the failure of an • attempt at agricultural- relief to the administration. Thus, too, is the elec tion of Mr. Coolidge R 3 his own sue-] eessor threatened. The candidacy of Lowden, a big planter and in thorough sympathy with the farmer, looms up. Cecil Lindsey reports a mess of green eern Sunday. —AL Smith Again - te? .. Ofce in m lasttfmmy# see#* No Ml Ctfoliri^papefs, two .allusions .to A1 Smith* “The New Yorker will make a Demoeratic nomin&tionr two years henee;” say's Oscstr Coffin. in ’the Roan oke Rapids Herald. “If he were not a Catholic there would not be the slightest chance of avert ing his nomination. Nominated, he stands a better chance of elec tion than any other Democrat who has been mentioned.’ ’ And Nell Battle Lewis, in her column in the News and Observ er, tells of attending a movie show and seeing a number of governors assembled at the Ses quicentennial Exposition, “The camera stopped for a moment on good old A1 Smith, in a broad grin as usual. I thought I’d test Smith sentiment in Raleigh, so I clapped vigorously. I regret to inform Louis Graves, the lead ing Smith supporter of the >Jorth Carolina press, that no one joined me. With one enthusi astic exception it was a bone dry Protestant audience. How ever, undiscouraged, I continued to applaud with a right good will.” Os course this lacx of enthu siasm for the Governor of New York, in a North Carolina audi ence, surprises nobody, Every body knows that this state, if it could do the choosing, would not choose him as the candidate. But, as Miss Lewis said a few months ago, if he should be the Democratic nominee, the North Darolina Protestant drys would march right up to the ballot box md vote for him against who ever the Republican opponent might be. There are Protestant dry Democrats by the hundreds of thousands who do not want, to see Smith nominated. But one desire in the hearts of Demo cratic politicians may prove stronger, at a showdown, than heir ardor against the wets and against the Catholics —and that s the desire to win. And we believe a rapidly increasing num ber of them are beginning to realize that, if they are to take the best chance of winning, A1 Smith is the boy. Progress on the South Restoration of Oid Building Goes on Apace; Ready by Fall (The Chapel Hill Weekly) With its roof on, the restored bouth building—the next oldest structure on the University campus—begins to take shape, it will be ready for occupancy n the fall. The President, the registrar, the business manager, and the extension director will then move in, leaving their of fices in the Alumni building for conversion into classroom space. A year or so ago, because of the dilapidated condition of the South, somebody proposed that it be demolished and supplanted by an entirely new structure. But the old building was held in too deep affection, by thousands of the alumni, for this sugges tion to be seriously entertained. So, on the outside, viewed from -he old campus it will be about he same as ever. Inside, however, it is com pletely made over. Old floors and partitions have been torn away, and there is a new layout of rooms and corridors. There is one important change ’n the exterior. This is a por ico cn the south side—what has ilways been considered the rear —of the building.- With the ex> an don of the University outhward, the South building will have no rear, but, instead, two fronts. She Gets 'Em New York. —Ruth O’Sbaughnessy, I a nineteen-year-old blind girl from , Asheville, N. C., can play the piano ] In a wav that stirs hard-boiled busi , ness men to tears. They did so when she gave her first metropolitan rec-i --:! tal under the auspices of the K: warns ' dub, which is sponsoring her musical career. haWtral for the SIR-- pendulum to- swing from one . m |||j extreme tb the other. After IMriiiiWy the intensive hookworm - eradication campaign in this State during the period from 1914 to 1916, there has followed a. com-* pensating swing to a period of in difference. Because of the greatly improved sanitary conditions throughout the State, it is probable that even with this feeling of indifference to hook worm the condition can never again become as prevalent as before. But hookworm has not been eradicated and there has been a slow but cer tain increase in prevalence during the past five years. It is well to remember that when a hookworm becp&ies attached to the intestinal wall that individual worm remains there for seven to ten years. The female worm continues through out all her life depositing eggs which are carried from the body in the feces. The damage one worm can do the individual is very slight but when there are more than one hundred of these worms then the effects are no ticeable. However, the one worm during its seven years of life will continually scatter infection to others. Sanitary conditions are greatly im proved but they are yet not perfect. Soil is still polluted to some degree by human excreta and children as well as some adults continue going barefoot. The person so slightly infested that there are no visible symptoms may be a great menace to others whose bare feet come in contact with soil polluted by him. An individual living in isolation who has only a few worms will increase his infestation by coming in contact with the soil he has, himself, polluted. The damage from hookworm is in direct proportion to the degree of infestation. While the prevalence of hookworm is still less than it was a few years ago, it is no less important to watch for and treat those who are now infested than it was then. The treatment is simple, harmie» a an | g° r ic, Teething Drops and Soothing Syrups, especially prepared t I or Infants in amis and Children all ages. © . ! r^'o av oid imitations, always look for the signature of X j ±L ectlc : r .fi £2 package. Physicians everywhere recommend it THE CHATHAM RECORD theme With . tjbt&e be^innipgfr.'R. lS -5f • the ground floor of the property above . de^u'ibeif, and -thdt the urn ml ccilfog; .he bemg the of, both the sts*e^ll^£s to the second floor oTsaid hotel, anq 1 carries with ifc- reservations seiyed in. thejieed frem. to ask for your money back. H.Hi.n ifTTTi til 111! j 11111111,' IVjjlave SL. | You know how it is: if you carry your umbrella the sun is sure to shine; but gp unprepared and you are I just as sure to got a drOnchigg, | So it is with life; the man who makes provision I for the morrow, never seenqs to get in difficulties, and I ::: YOU call him lucky. But this is not luck, for his fore- 1 thought has made it impossible to be caught unawares I and what would be a misfortune for you is but an incident 1 ill to him. - . | We Pay 4 Per Cent on Savings | | BEGIN SAVINS NOW. f The FARMERS BANK | I PITTSBORO, N. G 1 Hot Weather— HOT Yes, it is hot, but we have that hot weather suit, priced from $6.48 to sls. Drop in and select one before your size is exhausted. We have also some spe cial bargains in other suits that cannot be excelled. Shoes Shoes. We have shoes priced to sell, for both ladies and gentlemen, aLo patent leather sandals for children. DON’T FORGET OUR FURNITURE DEFT. We carry Kitchen Cabinets, Parlor Suits,l - Beds, Springs of all kinds, Chairs, both straight and porch rockers, and Mattresses of all kinds. We sell Furniture on the instal ment plan. See us at once. J. J. Johnson & Co. Pittsboro, N. C. 1 BIRD S ROOFING | £! ** | s Building Material § We are prepared to furnish building material, including kiln-dried flooring, ceil- g i ’ § J] ings and sidings. U t' n |> Everything in Roofing from the cheap g 8 roll roofing to the very highest grade asphalt jj febingles, at prices that compare most favor* ably with thore at other places. g tWe are in the market for dry pine lum* |L her. See us for prices. | “ Asheboro Wheelbarrow Co N. C. | Dear Record Reader: f Nothing is lost by the man who is bent upon getting ihead. T.hbi;e is; nothing wasted by one who desires a^ cu v ; itte And who is willing to deny himself luxuries now that he * a ter become prosperous and independent. . fin( j s The Tnan with-such desires, and with determination, ainisters to his saying on all sides and everything co-°P e J 4th him helping him- to accumulate. His savings help a xpected moments and in unforseen ways. , , aV ' The simplest, safest and most convenient method ioi og is through the use of some good bank. We invite osit and will give you a convenient banking service. fiends. This bank rejoices when success is attained by its a , t wants’ to have a part- in their success. It.seeks to bee jersonal and helpful factor in every step i ibiiity to serve in that necessary factor to success, the . f money matters. It will prpiit’ you to open an account*-: - ; p • ■ Cordially j^ours, The Bank of Goldston,. goldston; n. c. Hugh Womble, President T. W. Goldston, Cas^ ie J oly S. 1926