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Manley, the Atlanta banker, was
finally declared sane, though there
was substantial evidence to the ef
fect that he had been crazy for sev
eral years. Maybe, lunacy can ac
count for some of the 5 i varieties of
bank failure in North Carolina the
past five years. Banking is supposed
ly in the hands of the select business
men of the communities; vet it is
doubtful if any other business or pro
fession in the state can show as many
disastrous failures as banking the
past five years. We doubt if ten
thousand dollars has been lost to the
creditors of all the newspapers in
the state during that period, and
newspaper men are not necessarily
the picked “business men” cf their j
communities.
A Franklinville citizen calls atten
tion to the opening of the Yadkin
River bridge a 4 Stoke’s Ferry as an
other reason for the direct highway
from Raleigh to Lexington through
Pittsboro, Siler City, Franklinville,
and Asheboro. The new bridge
shortens the distance from Charlotte
to Durham twenty miles. There is
no question that the Raleigh-Pitts
boro-Asheboro-Lexington route will
be ultimately recognized as one of
the most essential highways in the
state. It is the short route from the
capital west. Besides, it runs cross
wise with the railroads instead of
paralleling a railroad, thus opening up
virgin territory and acting as a .feed
er to the railroads and railroad towns.
As stated so often the past ten years
by this writer, a highway paralleling
a railroad serves little real purpose as
a transportation route for produce
or merchandise. The farmers carry
their produce to the railroad, not up
and down it; likewise, fertilizer and
other supplies must be carried froin
the railroads. The North Carolina
Railroad should have come through
Pittsboro rather than Durham. But
that die was cast long ago, with the
consequence that the section from
Apex to Lexington has had no east
and west transportation facilities,
and can probably never have a rail
road. Yet the lack of rail facilities
can now be largely neutralized by a
hard-surfaced highway.
The farm extension bureau is warn
ing farmers against planting feed
oats. The fine-looking feed oats are
grown too far north for this climate.
The experts advise buying seed from
reputable seed dealers, even if the
cost is greater.
BUS LOCAL
For Sale in Grant Township, Ran
dolph county, 185-acre farm on easy
terms. 50 acres cleared land. Ap
ply X care of Chatham Record
Sept. 2 3tc.
It is not generally known that the
best route from Sanford to Greens
boro is byway of Pittsboro back into
sixty at Siler City. There is only two
miles difference in the distance, while
the Pittsboro route has the advantage
of the cement road from Sanford and
of the unusually good soil road from
Pittsboro to Siler City. The advan
tages outw'eigh the slight difference
in distance. Accordingly, Pittsboro
should see a large part of the traffic
between Greensboro and Wi-mington
over route 60. The only reason it
does not, is that the traveling public
does not know the facts. It was only
a few weeks ago that a Siler City
citizen said that the Siler City folk
now come by Pittsboro in going to
Sanford. And, by the way, the Siler
City end of the Pittsboro-Siter City
highway is being oiled, further im
proving this road.
Even with a 25-percent profit on
school books it has not always beer
easy to secure satisfactory dealers in
the county-seat towns. Dealers can
not afford to sell school books on
credit; yet it is a difficult task to
deny credit, especially at a time of
year when money is scarcest. But now
a suit is threatened against the book
companies because Tennessee children
can buy the same books for a few
cents less, and simply because Tenn
essee dealers get only fifteen percent
profit instead Os the ; 25 percent;
North Carolina dealers get. The j
book companies get identically the ■
same for books sold North Carolina j
and Tennessee school children. If
anybody, then, is to blame for the
higher cost to North Carolina chil
dren it must be the representatives of
the state who made ,a contract that
permitted the North Carolina dealers
to charge a 25-perccnt profit, and i:
is assumable that those representa
tives considered a 25-percent profit
just and fair. There is no justice in
making the book companies the goat.
Experiments prove that practically
the va’ue of the fodder is lost in the
reduced weight of the corn. Conse
quently, the fodder-puller has his
work for nothing, and if there is
any disagreeable work on a farm, it
is fodder-pulling. The answer is,
grow paa and bean hay.
Twenty-five years ago on leaving l
the North Greenville, S. C., high
school for Lumberton, the writer turn
ed the principalship over to his re
cently employed assistant, E. B. Jack
son, just out of the Citadel school at
Charleston. Two years ago that
youngster was elected lieutenant
governor of South Carolina. Tuesday
he ran second in the primary for tIK
goverrn I’ship, and here is hoping thn J
our friend may pull out ahead in tlr
second contest.
The school book agitat : on ha=
brought an order from the B. F. John
son Publishing Company directing
that text books rub!'shed by then
be sold at th~ i
Wo -' w n 4 h r ' , ‘ whether the loss is
tv. ktf cut from the dealers’ profits or
frc?t v/diolesalc price.
Ma Ferguson • was beaten two to
one in the second race for the guber
natorial nomination in Texas. Dan
Moody, who was nominated, is a
youngster of only 32.
Crops are wonderful in view of the
prospects in June. A late fall would
mean a big cotton crop in Chatham.
But the same thing would mean so
large a crop in the whole South that
prices would be so low as to absorb
the profit of the larger yield. It is
i good to see Chatham farmers with a
j prospect of fine corn and forage crops.
! We haven’t seen it before in the two
i years w T e have been here.
Governor McLean has made a fine
selection in choosing Dr. John B.
Wright as successor to the late Dr.
R. H. Lewis as a member of the
State Board of Health.
TThe solution to the text book
question is, possibly, that the state
furnish books free to the school chil
dren.
It is difficult for the Sesqui Centen
nial to arouse much interest. In 1893
very few people had ever seen the
marvels displayed at the World’s Fair.
Today the whole world is wise to its
marvels. In 1876, at Philadelphia,
the telephone was a marvel. To- j
day the wonders of the world
are brought to the people’s
homes, either in actuality or by the
moving pictures and the magazines.
A great city itself was an eye-opener
in earlier days. Now the most of
those who have not actually seen a;
great city have seen living repre-,
sentations of them on the screen. |
North Carolina has had its usual
quota of deaths the past week from ;
automobile accidents. The weekly
number of deaths is about that of
the fatalities of the average North
Carolina counties in battle during the
whole period of the World War. That
means that as many people will be
killed by automobiles in two years
as the state lost in battle (not by
disease) during the whole war.
Dr. Walker, dean of the department
of education at the University, says
that the alumni of the University are
not “given enough to intellectual p’u 1 -
suits.” It might throw considerable
light upon the actual value of the
university education given at so
great’ cost to take a census oi tne
graduates of the last five years and
see what they are doing for the de
velopment of the state, in either a
moral or industrial way. Candidly,
the writer has very little idea that
the prosperity of North Carolina,
taking such for granted, is due to any
great extent to the greater preval
ence of higher education. Nor do we
I believe that an eight-months school
term will materially effect for the
better the industrial progress of the
state. Scores of North Carolina
towns used to have ten-months terms;
yet the development of the most of
those towns the past thirty years is
not due to the superior educational
advantages of the boys who regularly
attended those schools—schools which
had really a high type of teachers
men who placed beside the average
town principal today would bedwarf
the latter. We commend to the exten
sion department of the University an
investigation as to how many college
graduates of the past twenty years
are really engaged in industrial or
agricultural work, and how many re
cent high school graduates can be
ound employed in industry. Back to
Dr. Walker’s statement, it will be
found, doubtless, that those who ac
tually were of the intellectual type
at college are today given to intei
!eetual pursuits. Nor is this indica
tive of an opposition on the part of
J)e writer to education. Knowledge
is essential. But some folk have been
crammed with things that they have
no taste for and have been denied the
things that they need for their own
good and for the state’s good.
More folk in the South could tell
what they were talking about forty
years ago Wednesday morning than
could, we suspect, a week ago Wed
nesday morning. The 31st of Augus
'cl! on this fortieth anniversary on
Tuesday just as it did in 1886. The
anniversary was marked by the shak->
ing up of one of the Azores Islands,]
where a number of people were killed,
and much property destroyed.
Mr. W. B. Cooper of Siler City was
,adly cut about the face and head
when his car struck a pole ten miles
rora Greensboro Sunday morning.
The accident is said to be due to de
j rangement of the steering gear. He
j was taken to a Greensboro hospital,
j where he was reported by the Mon
! day papers as having rested well Sun
day night.
Mr. J. Shirley Waters, one of the.
Pittsboro high school teachers, re
ceived the degree bachelor of arts ir
education the other day at the Uni
versity. Mr. Waters already had one
diploma from the University.
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S We have selected these goods with particular re
-3 gard to the needs of Siler City and Chatham County
§ Ladies—and our prices are right.
| We can, and do, guarantee style and Quality.
g Come and see what we can offer.
H Respectfully,
WOODY BROTHERS, I
s SILER CITY, N. C. |
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PRIVATE MUSEUM ON ;
TOP OF SKYSCRAPER;
Bingham Kesp# Rare Ma-;
rine Specimens in Suite.
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New York.—On the top flqor of the
office building at 32 Broadway, in the
heart of the financial district, there iSi
what is undoubtedly the only sky-'
scraper oceanographic museum in the
world. Perhaps it is an exaggeration
to call it a museum for It consists of
only two rooms of a private office,
suite, and it is not now, and probably
never will be, open to the public. But;
in the glass cases and in glass jars
awaiting study and mounting are some
3,000 specimens of marine life,, many
of them of hitherto unknown species.
This office building collection is the
nucleus of what is expected to grow
into a thoroughly organized private
museum, which Harry Payne Bingnam,
its owner, will house In an appropri
ate building. Meanwhile Mr. Bingham
is working in company with Louis 1.,
Mowbray, assistant director of the
| Aquarium, classifying and studying the
; wealth of marine material they got on
the three months’ 11,000-mile expedi
tion they made last spring in the Car
ibbean and the Pacific.
Soma Extraordinary Fish.
Hundreds of these specimens al
! ready have been mounted and placed
. in glass cases In Mr. Bingham’s office
>at 32 Broadway. Others are on the
! wall. Many of them are deep-sea va
rieties, in the grotesque shapes made
* familiar by William Beebe’s descrip
tions last year of the ocean treasures
lie found oh his cruise in the Arcturus.
Their range of size is extraordinary.
There is one fish from the depths of
the ocean only three inches long. It
Is equipped with n tough skin which
has prevented it Mowing up as most
deep-sea fish do when brought to the
surface from the heavy pressure of
the lower levels of water. And on the
wall nearby is a giant swordfish 12
feet long. On the wall also Is a speci
men of weak-fish six feet long, weigh
ing 175 pounds. In striking contrast to
the six-pound variety caught In New
York waters and served on restaurant
tables.
The skyscraper collection contains
even a sea-serpent. It looks like a
hlacksnnke about three feet long, with
the under side of its head white. It
was caught close to shore in the Gulf
of California.
All Mounted and Painted.
The fish, as they are seen in Mr.
Bingham> office, are In their original
shapes and colors. Francis West, taxi
dermist of the Binghnm-Mrtwbray ex
pedition. made plaster casts of the five
fish while they were flopping about
the deck. Their skins have now been
fitted over these casts and painted by
Wilfred Bronson, an artist, who ob
served them In life in a diving suit
and made notes of tlielr coloring.
In an adjoining room Is a motion
picture projection machine and a
screen on which Mr. Bingham and Mr.
Mowbray can throw pictures they took
on their voyage. With the aid of this
they eon study again the life habits of
the sea animals.
Mr. Bingham admitted that It was
true that he was planning to estab
lish a 'museum, but said his plans
were entirely vague thus far and that
he did not yet have enough material
to warrant .forming a museum. His
office serves meanwhile as a storeroom
and workroom.
Mr. Bingham formerly was a mem
ber of the New York Stock exchange,
but sold his seat two years ago to con
centrate his attention on his studies
of marine life, In which he has long
been interested. He intends to make
another three months’ voyage early
next year in search of specimens. He
and his party will travel in the Paw
nee, his 160-foot yacht, in which he
explored southern waters this year.
The yacht is equipped with Diesel en
gines. It contains a laboratory, rooms
for mounting the specimens and elabo
rate paraphernalia for exploring the
depths. |
Church Censors Clothes
Milan. —Women who dress too mod
ernly will be refused admittance to
church, by order cf Cardinal Tosi, who
has forbidden public dances.
GRADUATE NURSE
In Pittsboro soy the time being,
Miss Lucile Peterson, a recent gradu
te as a nurse, offers her professional
rvices to the people of Chatham
mnty.
ITHE CHATHAM RECORD
Renew Lightning Rods
Put On by Ben Franklin
London. —New lightning rods are
being installed on St Paul’s cathe
dral, which Benjamin Franklin, origi
nally equipped with lightning conduc
tors. In 1770 he was in England ne
gotiating In connection with the diffl-l
culties Great Britain was having with
Its American colonies, which were be
coming restless, and it was at this
time he helped to Install the con
ductors. The original rods on the fa
mous cathedral were iron, and the
engineers who are ffiow adjusting cop- <»
per rods have a fragment of the ori- ««
ginal Iron conductor which the Amer- •«
lean devised. j v
Look at your label. !,
I Farm Sale i
I The Horace Jones Place, 162 acres, fl
B Subdivided into Small Farms; B
1 Located on Route 60 near B
I SILER CITY, N. C. I
This iarm is known as the H. Q. Jones place, located about 3 miles from Siler
City on Route 60 near Oakley Church and Oakley School. Property now owned
by Arthur S. Edwards/ and within 2 1-2 miles of Mt. Vernon Springs. The Old
Home place has one of the finest springs of water in the County, and is an extra
fine place for a Club House. This is an extra good farm and has been sub-divided
1 into small tracts to be sold for the high dollar, your price our price. One nice
H little residence in Oak grove near the highway. If you are in the market for a fine
■ little farm don’t miss this sale.
I Saturd’y, Sept. 11, 2:30 P. M. I
B TERMS: 1-4 CASH, BALANCE 1,2, 3 YEARS I
B SALE RAIN OR SHINE - - LADIES INVITED I
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?! Join the Great Crowd of Home Seekers and Speculators
/ SALE CONDUCTED BY fl
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G. D. GURLEY, Gen. Mgr. GREENSBORO, N. C.
W. H. MATTHEWS, Auctioneer
We can sell your land, SEE US
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Jjetter lubrication
from the moment the motor starts
thats the secret of the new oil__ i
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HUNDREDS of road tests on all types of cars
and trucks prove that the new “Standard”
Motor Oil produces results never before associ
ated with motor oils.
Typical of these tests is one with a Dodge, run
over a 1,080 mile course from September 24th to
October 2 2d, 1925, under engineering supervision.
This test revealed 40.9% increase in oil mileage;
10% increase in gas mileage; smoother operation
of the motor at all speeds; more power; less drag
on the hills—all due to the remarkable lubricat
ing properties of the new oil.
You can verify these astonishing results in your
own car. Just have your crank-case drained,
flushed and filled with the new “Standard” Motor
Oil. Then expect results. You can actually feel
the difference .
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2. Minimum friction.
3. Less “breaking - down
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4. More miles per quart o*
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