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Page Two Cty cljatijami&ccoTS ' O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher .. Subscription Price One Year $1.50 gix Months 75 AN EXCURSION IN ECONOMICS The new editor of the Raleigh Times, “Bob” Gray, we have assumed, is writing some bright matter, but he seems to have his economics on rather awry. In a recent article the Times editor wrote as follows: “Here’s the Manufacturer’s Record trying to figure out that England is on the skids because in 1925 the Uni ted Kingdom spent a matter of 315,000,000 pounds for drink as a gainst 80,000,000 pounds for bread (figures not guaranteed). If so, w r hat of it? It took bread, grain, to make the drink. The purchase money went, the bulk of it, to the green-grocer. We might quarrel with the distribution r.f bread, but we can’t reasonably dis cover that the country is starving it self. Loss? Loss means lack. What a man spends foolishly may mean a loss to him personally, but not a dim inution of the common store. That is increased or decreased as people add to it by production which, by sale a broad, brings in new money for gen eral exchange, or as by loafing they make it necessary to sell from a com mon accumulation in a foreign mar ket in order to secure necessities for living. Every idle man, it is admitted, is * an economic loss, whether his sloth comes by reason of drink or other wise; but what is spent on drink, dia monds, women-folk, or anything else within the realm cannot possibly de crease the realm’s wealth.” Not only is every “idle man an economic loss,” but also every man who is consuming a portion of the common stock of goods but paying for them with a service that is worse than of no economic value, or merely ot no such value. Hundreds of thousands of men are engaged in the manufac ture and distribution of alcoholic drinks who, from the standpoint of economic value, would better be idle and supported at public expense. Their idleness would not destroy values cre ated by others as in the case of the misuse of grain in the manufacture of booze nor necessarily result in the misery to tens of thousands of wives and children brought k about by the making and selling of liquor. If it would be an economic loss for a mil lion men to spend their time in mere ly digging holes and filling them up, it would certainly be a more serious one for them to bury a bushel of grain in every hole. There are two great evils in the world —the doing of things of no value or less, and the wasteful duplication of plants and ef fort. As the Sanford Express sagely concludes, there is away for every man to make a living, but all cannot make a living by running filling sta tions. When a half dozen plants and men are doing only what three could do as well and more profitably to the own ers and to the public, there is sheer waste of capital and labor. There are too many stores, too many law yers, too many newspapers, etc. How to prevent this worse than un profitable duplication is an unsolved problem. The writer saw the waste of time and money when he was running one of the two Clinton pa pers and when he couldn't himself make the combination sold his to one who could; but the field was too in viting and a second paper has been established, causing many to pay two subscriptions for the Sampson county news when one should be sufficient, and making it necessary for advertis ers to pay for the composition and overhead of the insertion of their ad vertisements in two papers instead of one. A similar thing has happened in Sanford. Probably there is no field in which unnecessary duplication is more read ily recognizable than the newspaper field, but it exists in practically every kind of business, even in agriculture. There is an economic loss when it requires two men to produce what one should, or two acres to yield what only one should readily yield. There are two many farmers, too many farms. Some of them should be pro ducing timber. But the question instantly arises as to w r hat those engaged in these costly duplications of effort would do to make a living. But that is easy. If two thirds of the men engaged in farming can produce enough to feed and clothe the world, then the other third should be producing those things ; that the world needs, it would take them a good many years to produce, ■ for instance, all the decent and com- ! sortable homes needed, not neces sarily in the whole world, but right! here in this great country. Ten j thousands of homes haven’t a single comfortable chair in them, or a com fortable bed. Or the freed labor might be turned to public improve ments, as it 'has been to a considerable extent in building roads and bridges. The keeper of a filling station could better afford to pay an amount equal to the profits of which he is deprived by his duplicate competitor for labor or material in building roads than to lose it through the unnecessary com petition. Nothing - that would other wise have been none would be neg lected; on the other hand the whole community would be benefitted by the road improvements. When an the people are at work at jobs that result in an increase ox the world s stores, its health, its morals, or its wholesome recreations, and the wastefulness of unnecessary duplica tion ox capital and iaboi shaii nave been eliminated, as well as that of producing things of no i . of the above mentioned r of actual injury, there should be no reason why everybody shall not have enough and nobody be overtasked. Then all three of the roads in New Hope township can be built, and there will be no need for further agitation ot the building of the Pitt uoro-Apex .ink of the short-route highway from Raleigh to the mountains. WHERE THE CIRCULARS WENT A good farm in a near-by town sent out huge circulars through the mails instead of advertising in the Record, it happened that we glanced at the waste basket in the Pitts boro post office and saw a bunch of them. There were ten as neatly folded as when they left the store. These cir culars must have cost three or four cents each to reach the waste basket. The Record would have been carried acme and scanned by the members of .he family. Here is an example of waste by duplication. The Record is in the publicity business, it can place store news before the people of Chatham county at less cost tnan any other agency. And when the money of the merchant is spent in other kinds of advertising, the news papers, necessary to the progress and welfare of the people, are crippled. Thus circular, program, cata logue and other advertising schemes cause an all-round loss, if ten of those circulars addressed to Pittsboro xolk reached the waste basket in the post office lobby, it is fair to assume that another large batch were flung .nto the waste baskets at the stores and other business places. NEWSPAPERS HURT BY BACK-FIRE OF BOOMS A thing like that Florida boom when it bursts is liable to hit anybody anywhere. It would have been thought inconceivable that the Record would lose pay for its Acme Fertilizer advertising because of the booms in Florida and western North Carolina. 1 But it seems that we have. The ad | vertising ordered by a Greens boro advertising agency through which the Acme, thoroughly sound, 1 would pay. Months have gone by an| no check from the agency for that or the Sandhill Fair advertising. Then comes the news that the agency j Lias gone into the hands of receivers because of dabbling hugely in the i*eal estate advertising business, spending all the money it had, ours a part of it presumably, in prepar ing advertising for real estate con cerns in Florida and western North Carolina, for which those concerns are now unabie to pay. Somebody has to pay the cost cf quick riches in such c-.ses and many a newspaper has probably paid tribute. We should :ike to know if other papers have ever been paid for advertising Holly wood, Florida. Verily, the last eight months have seen gre iter losses ,n advertising by us than we had for merly undergone in as many years, with the exception of losses of legal advertising down in Sampson. It is Decoming monotonous. In this con nection, too, we want to insist upon more system in the payment of legal uusmess here. It is right hard to nave to ask lawyers to pay in advance for legal advertisements, but mere should be some reasonable limit to me time one must wait. Certainly strangers in other counties should ex pect to pay in advance, and we sure iy know a lawyer in Alamance and one in Durham that will do so if they get another legal in the Record. Political advertising hereafter will be cash-in-advance, too. A few years ago we lost the accoun t of a candi date for judge. Judgment was se cured but that was an extra expense. However, we shall do the like again. In away the recently reported ex tensive increase in taxable incomes in North Carolina is gratifying, and would be wholly so if it were evident that the increase is due to reward! for greater achievements in the pro duction of wealth. But we really fear that the marked increase in number and size of taxable incomes is more due to an increased capacity for gleaning wealth than producing it. Have all these fellows, figuratively speaking, made two blades of grass grow where only one have grown hith erto, or have they simply grabbed a greater share of the blades produced by the efforts of others? If the latter be the explanation, then there is little room for gratulation. Sandwiched between two burning spells of July weather were several days of chilliness last week that ad ded a new streak to the freakishness of the year. Fire felt good last Thurs day morning, and blankets were used nightly for several days. Mr. W. H. Garner tells us that he is building a dam for a swimming pool and fish pond on the George Elkins place, two miles from Goldston and 1 one mile from Bear Creek. The pond [will* cover about four acres. It is six- I uated in a natural park. The pond wiil, be supplied by eight springs. He intends to stock it with perch and bass. ENJOYABLE LAWN PARTY Miss Louise Riddle was charming hostess to the Class of ’27, of Pitts boro high school, Thursday night, at a lovely lawn party. Games, music and dancing were the enjoyable fea tul' 0 *: °f the evening. Little Misses Elizabeth Womble and Mary Brewer in capacity of waitress es, served delicious ice cream and cake. Those enjoying the affair were: Misses Martha Ray, Mary Sue Poe, Novin Hamlet, Ladie Brooks John | son, “Tootsie” Johnson, Mary Lou j Bums, Louise Petty, Lucy Pierce, , j Elizabeth Herndon, Alice Copeland, ' Moyle Johnson, Nannie Lanius, of the | Class of ’27, and Misses Esse Peter ' - son, Mary Brewer, and Elizabeth ‘i Womble; Messrs. Roland Glenn, Dan : Farrell, Hirzekiah J. Henderson, ■ Billy Johnson, Fred Nooe, Class of ’27, and Messrs. Willie Morgan, James V. Harris and Johnson. ROUTE 75 LOOKING TOWARD RALEIGH . ! The Lexington Dispatch, in last week’s issue, after tackling the Sta ville Landmark for its opposition the shortening of highway 75 by the building of a short-cut from Turners burg to Stony Point, in Iredell coun ty writes interestingly of the bility of the extension of lo Horn Pittsboro to connect with 50 at or near Apex. The demand for the road eastward from Pittsboro has grown so strong in the counties west of Chatham that the extension of 75 to ward Raleigh is almost a surety. Be low is what the Dispatch has to say. “The Landmark seeks another par allel on No. 75 to the east of here. It calls attention to the fact that xhis highway is routed from Pittsboro through Chapel Hill and Durham to the Virginia line. Where has the Landmark been during the past tw'o years ? Does it not know that a great amount of work has been done to persuade the State authorities that there ought to be one highway leading from the heart of the mountains di rect to Raleigh, the state capital, without winding here and there? It seems now agreed among highway authorities of the State that there should by all means be a new high way built from Pittsboro to a point at or near Apex on Highway 50. This would be the logical eastward con tinuation of the route east from here to the Capital. No. 75 at Pittsboro turns almost due northward and the traveler continues northward to Dur ham, where he must turn rather sharply southeast again to reach Ra leigh. In the campaign to secure this new piece of road there has been no effort to change the present routing of No. 75. However, the new highway if built would be a part of the great Zeb Vance Highway, the most central and direct route from Raleigh to the Blue Ridge country. And here is something that States ville perhaps is overlooking. If the short route can be secured from Pitts boro to Raleigh, a bridge built over the Yadkin between Davidson and Davie and a new stretch of State Highway provided between Turners burg and Stony Point, this new cen tral route through the State from Raleigh west will show up to such ad vantage on the highway map that it j will attract many tiiws its present volume of traffic. And when the travelers reach Turnersburg a large number will aesire to go around by Statesville, seeing it is all hard sur face through that city and on to Tay lorsville. This traffic, we daresay, will amount to a good deal more than what Statesville will otherwise get if the direct route is not pro vided. Statesville consequently can not lose whatever happens in the premises. Again the Landmark argues that No. 75 might have been routed south of Lexington toward Statesville from Ashcboro. Tint it isn’t routed that way and won’t be. Contract for spending $230,000 on this road from Aihebaro to the Davidson County line has been awarded. The road has been built from Asheboro to the Chatham line and on to Pittsboro. The entire route from Turnersburg east to Pittsboro—and it is expected v over a new short highway to Apex—is de signed for Catchinite treatment and eventually for concrete. Pittsboro will be a junction point for the present Highway 75 that goes on by Chapel Hill and the great University of North Carolina plant and then on through the edge of the great Duke University campus to be and thence through Durham to Richmond and Washington; and the hoped-for new short highway that will lead to Apex, Raleigh and spread out over Eastern North Carolina. Anything Iredell county should do toward this con summation would be in the nature of a patriotic service for North Caro lina.” McCracken to Lecture Vassar President Will Come to Chap el Hill in November (From the Chapel Hill Weekly) John Henry McCracken, pres jident of Vassar College, is the next Weil lecturer. He will come • to Chapel Hill in November, and the three lectures that he de-j livers then will be published la ter by the University of North Carolina Press. His theme will be education; and training for public service, j The lectureship was establish- ! ed by the families of Sol Weil I and Henry Weil of Goldsboro. William Howard Taft was the first incumbent. He spoke here in 1915 on “The Presidency: Powers, Duties, Obligations, and Responsibilities.” The most re cent Weil lecturer was William ; Allen White, who came in the :'j it Is Canning Time I And we have Mason’s Jars from 1-2 pint to 1-2 ;| gallon size; tin cans in abundance and patent sealers for I | same. Also Capping Steels. •' I t ROOFING ’ Roll Roanno- eCe pi ed + Carl ? mpos^ Shingles and ! j Stock. enty Galvanized Roofing always in j 5 LET US SERVE YOU ; S LE E HARDWARE CO f y 3 jj # SANFORD, N. C. | ziuniituizi. 1t: mi tt:t THE CHATHAM RECORD 1 spring of 1925. It was decided a few month 1 ? ago to have the lectures hence* I forth in the fall instead of in the spring. The McNair lectures will continue to be delivered in i the spring. Mr. McCracken is 54 years old, 1 He was graduated from New York University in 1894 and ir 1899 won his Ph.D. degree at Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, For four years then he was pres ident of Westminster College ir Missouri. He was in the faculty of New York University wher he was elected president of Vas sar. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE ■raving qualified as executor the last will and testament of Mrs. Mollie Churchill, , deceased, late of the county of Chatham, North Carolina, this? is to notify all persons holding claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 19th day of JUNE 1927, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This JUNE THE 19TH, 1926, H. C. Scars, Executor : MorrisvilJe, N. C., Route one I NOTICE OF LAND SALE Under and by virtue of the power of . sale contained in that certain deed of . trust, executed by E. G. Morris and ■ wife, Annie Morris, to Walter D. Siler • and Wade Barber, Trustees, default l having been made in the payment of ! the note secured thereby, and the ■ holders of said notes having requested • the foreclosure of said Trustees, the i undersigned will on, SATURDAY, JULY 31ST, ; at 12:00 o’clock noon, in front of the ; Courthouse door in Pittsboro, North • Carolina, offer for sale the following 1 tract of land: All that certain land and real es tate lying and being in Center Town ship, Chatham County, North Caro lina, and more particularly described and defined as follows: All that lot ■or parcel of land, beginning at a stake jon the west side of Hillsboro street, j running north with said street 16 j feet; thence about west 33 feet to a (stake; thence about south 16 feet; thence about east 33 feet to the be ginning, and the same being the lot on which now stands the medical of fice of Dr. W. B. Chapin, and for a more full and detailed on reference is hereby made to tl'.s deed of W. E. Headen and wife to H. T. Chapin, which said deed 'is recorded in the registry of Chatham County in Book C. R. Page 107 et seq., also the deed of A. G. Headen and wife to W. E. Headen, which said deed is also re corded in registry in Chatham Coun ty. This the 19th day of July, 1926. WALTER D. SILER & WADE BARBER, Trustees. June 24, 2tc. GET YOURSELF A BRAND NEW LIVER How Dodson’s Liver Tone Makes You Feel the Old Liver is Born Again Just off the slant of Old Piedmont where it rolls away into the foot-hills of South Georgia, Bud Evans makes a good stand of cotton. A year ago he was too sick to even follow a plow. His right side seemed hard, felt as if his liver had turned to stone; belched gas all the time; couldn’t hold up his head for the pain; calomel just turned him inside out. You couldn’t imagine anyone sicker than Bud Evans.. It just happened that an egg buyer dropped in on him one day and says: “What you need, Bud, is a dose of Dodson’s Liver Tone —your liver is j baked and full up so it doesn’t work.” I And so Bud got a bottle at the town drug store for a few cents. The very first night it loosened up so much sour bile and fermenting food that the swelling went down, his whole system righted itself and he was a new man j entirely before noon. There is no question but that Dod son’s Liver Tone will do more for bili ous people than anything else ever known. It works easily and smoothly, without gripe or distress, and cleans out all the sour bile and sickening stuff that gives you headache, nausea, vomiting, bilious fever and all the other distresses due to obstinate con stipation. Get one bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone, and if it doesn’t make you feel like you had traded your old, worn-out liver for a new one full of pep, go to the druggist and he will refund the price. STEIN BROTHERS’ I 1 GREAT ANNUAL I V- ' J sf Clearance § I SALE | Begins Friday July 231 Continues thro’Sat July 31 j Take advantage of* this great | sale. You are guaranteed satis* ! faction. | Everything iu the store re- { duced— I Ladies’ Coats, Dresses, Underwear, I I Hosiery, Millinery, Gossand Corsets, jj Brassieres, Bathing Suits, Jewelry, jj and many other things. jj H Stein Brothers, * | SANFORD, N. C. j 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 DEP T. We carry Kitchen Cabinets, Parlor Suits, 1- ron Beds, Springs of all kinds, Chairs, both straight and porch rockers, and Mattresses of all kinds. We sell Furniture on theinital ment plan. See us at once. J. J. Johnson & Co. Pittsboro, N. C. ■>uuumui 111 1 nll iiiiimiimmuirawmiiiiiiiiiwnmimmHiiiiiiiiiiiiwawa^ I BIRD’S ROOFING j Building Material I We are prepared to furnish building jj material/ including kiln-dried flooring, ceil t ings and sidings. I Everything in Roofing from the cheap roll roofing to the very highest grade asphalt fcAingles, at prices that compare most favor* g ably with thore at other places. jj j : We are in the market for dry pine lum* I is; ber. See us for prices, ' 2 j' s; jj j| Asheboro Wheelbarrow Co N. C. jj THURSDAY, JULY 22 ,
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