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The Chatham Record.
0. J. PETERSON
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There was no greater incentive to
soberness in saloon daysthan the
fear of losing a 30b through drunk
enness. Henry Ford is applying _
principle now to his employees. He
announces that the snieu 01 liquor on
an employee', breath means d.smm
sal He will not see his men aid and
abet Sw violation. Let all employ
ees follow the same course and there
will be fewer buyers of booze and
shortly fewer makers and sellers. A
man who patronizes law-breakers him
self deserves little consideration. And
as the Greensboro Patriot points out,
one in sustaining a liquor seller may
also be encouraging a killer, as was
indicated a fdw days ago when a
negro bootlegger m Greensboro shot
a man dead.
It has proved very easy to secure
a loan fund for the retirement of cot
ton. But does it moan anything.
If all the cotton growers belonged
to the Cooperative Association, and
that association could secure the
funds, as it undoubtedly could, it could
announce definitely that four million
bales would be retired with an ex
pectation of a large cut in produc
tion next year, and a response m rise
of price might be reasonably expect
ed at once. But the mere fact that
funds are provided to loan on stored
cotton, with no assurance that any
large quantity will be stored, is hav
ing no effect on prices. The aver
age man cannot store his few bales. J
In the first place, convenient facil
ities are lacking. Y» 7 e doubt if Chat
ham county has a single storage room
meeting the demands of the loan cor
poration. In the second place, the.
average farmer owes more than his
cotton will bring and his creditors
will demand every cent it will bring.
So on the market it goes, and the
storing is done by the buyers and the
loan fund benefits them. They can
hold for higher prices. The Cooper
ative folk have come out squarely,
saying that the loan corporations will
do the farmers no good. They are
peeved, and probably justly, that the
engineers of the attempts to finance'
cotton did not use their agency, and
declare that the professed friendli
ness of the administration to the co
operatives has proved to be merely
buncomb, or, to abbreviate, pure bunk.
Mr. J. L. Griffin had notice a few
days ago of the meeting of the board
of trustees of Wake Forest College
in Wilmington during the Baptist
State Convention. One of the mat
ters to be considered is that of the
election <if a president to succeed Dr.
Poteat, whose, resignation takes ef
fect next commencement. It may be
that a decision will not be reached
so early, but we shall not sur
prised to see John E. White elected
and the agony over. Dr. Poteat has'
made a great executive, but his real
forte is teaching, and it is to be hoped
that he will continue his work as a
member, of the faculty till he is
eighty. He is seventy now, and for'
a number of years has been deter- 1
mined to resign the presidency at
that age. Dr. White, whose father,
Rev. J. M. White was reared near ;
White’s Bridge on Rocky River, is
now president of Anderson College,
Anderson, S. C., also pastor of the
Anderson church. It is a mere pre
diction, a guess, on our part that he
will succeed Dr. Poteat, but watch
and see if it is not a good one. Dr. l
F. W. Sikes, now president of Clem- i
son College, S. C., will doubtless 1
also be considered. Both are Wake !
Forest men, members of the famous
football team of 1889 and 1890, and
have won laurels as teachers and
orators.
It is tough, but a fellow has to
keep up his courage. The past eight
months we have been climbing out of
a hole a thousand dollars deep and
had got our chin over the top. But
alas, the gentle slope we hoped to
see before us is mighty steep and
rugged. Ten-cent cotton hits the
Record hard. This is our third fall
here. The first two thore was not a
living gathered. The cron of 1924
was drowned; that of 1925 parched.
A good crop, despite early prospects,
has been raised this year, but the
price is killing. But we are only one
of many to meet another discourage -
ment when strength has beep taxed to
overcome former ones, but nothing is
lost so long as courage doesn’t fail.
Ihe editor of the Record set in and
learned the printing business rath°r
than be beaten here, and has done two
men s work, with the result that he
has climbed out of a mighty bad
ho.e into which he had been flung
and now he must keep going.
Queen Marie is still
over this country. She has had onlv
one serious proposition put up to her
since reaching America and she de-
C d n r> take that up. A committee
of Baptist leaders asked for an audi
ence to put in a plea for Roumanian
Hapasts who are persecuted, bat h r
majesty declined to meet the brethren.
At last rain enough has fallen to
make it possible to break land for the
winter crops, and it has faired off so
that the work may be done. Thousands
of acres will likely be planted the
few days in Chatham. Let the farm
ers remember that if they have lit
. .e or no cotton next year there will
be more land for winter crops and
more time next spring and summer
to harvest them. Again, we call for
harv4M \° St ° U \ barley * If *is
a . two weeks earlier than
make a & beU ? r °PPortunity to
a „ r,l u , i rop , aiter xt - But not
be made? b 3 IOSt if a test is to
on Y the fro^ n D d a a b^ h of editorial
?e a nt "w' d -veek Pod
SAMPSON GOES DEMOCRATIC
The ovort”^ nf the big I?,ar»”h~
lican majority in Sampson county
....ul'Hii.y iiU.L> i.lteiooi/ v*/
editor of the Record. But inter
est throughout the state has been a
•oused.
There were several factors in pro
► duemg the surprising result. First,
f iie main organizer and the furnish
er of the funds for propaganda, liquid
ma printed, was lost to tne Republi
cans when Clerk of Court Sessoms
> vas convicted of robbing the pension
! funds. Second, when this writer sold
• cue Sampson Democrat to the pur
' chaser of the Republican paper and
: bound him to make the paper he
. should publish either Democratic or
independent, the Republicans lost
, their county organ, for whi:e the
Sampson Independent has been open
! to both parties on the same terms,
l it could not be used as a partisan
support for the Republicans. On the
other hand, the establishment of a
new Democratic paper gave the Dem
ocrats an effective organ. Third, as
the editor of the Record, in Sampson
and here, has pointed out as likely,
the Sampson Republicans have doubt
less become tired of being treated like
step-children by the state organiza
tion. This writer suspected a lack
of real interest in maintaining the
majority when George Butler, who ;
for a quarter of a century has urged ]
the>support of the schools on an equal |
percapita basis, declined to accept the j
Republication nomination for the house
I of representatives in a year when his
pet subject is under serious consider
ation. Briefly, we are almost confi
dent the Butlers are not grievously
disappointed in the result. Fourth,
friction was developed in the Repub
lican ranks by the renomination of
a man who has held office eight years,
as opposed to the custom, except in
the case of clerk Sessoms, who was
above party law, of rotating at least
j every six years. And, fifth, the low
. price of cotton answered the long
time taunt of “Cleveland and five-cent
cotton.”
Two or three more or less influ
ential Republicans positively advocat
ed ousting the ring as did the Dem
ocrats of Johnston two years ago,
r.nd urged this step through the col
umns of the Democratic paper. More
over, political feeling had become
practically nil in Sampson county.
This, we may modestly claim, is large
ly the result of the attitude of „the
writer as editor of the Sampson Dem
ocrat. Just here we recall very vivid
ly being taking to task nine years
ago by a few Bourbons for the man
ner in which we treated the Repub
licans in the paper. In fact, Samp
son should never have been Republi
can, and wouldn’t have been if it had
not been for the attitude of a few
men. The natural thing for the Pop
ulists to do when that party suc
cumbed was to go back to the Dem
ocratic fold,*'but Sampson Populists
had had a real grievance against the
Democratic organization, and would
not submit to turning over the coun
ty government to,the element still in
control of the Democratic organiza
tion. Name did not count with them
in the. face, of the alternative men
tioned. They intended to hold the
county under whatever label might
serve, and' they did it for thirty-two
years, and would be doing it righjt
on if the same rancorous feelings had
continued to exist.
The Democrats have paid dearly
for their folly in the early nineties
j and at later crises when the Popu
list element might have been won over
Time and again the fence was made
higher instead of being thrown down
1 flat and the wanderers being invited
to come in and make themselves at
home. In fact, fusion and its train
of evils may be traced back to the
fusion of the Democrats and Negroes
in the election of the Democratic
county ticket in 1892 over a major
• ity of the white folk of the county
j who voted for the Populist ticket.
But a new spirit has prevailed for
several years. There was no county
in tne South in which a man was
freer to vote his convictions and re
tain the respect of his neighbors. That
spirit was the forerunner, we are
sure, of the surprising result of the
1 ( recent election, when every Democrat
; ic candidate save one was elected, and
j h° losing by only eighty votes to a
• j Republican who had held office only
: j one term.
\Ve believe that Sampson will re
-1 m ain Democratic if the new county
‘ administration proves wise. The
! j county with its big voting population
[ has been almost voiceless in the choice
I congressmen, judges and solicitors.
■ I Ino county can now come into its
1 ow ? in the affairs of the districts
! and the state. The case while com
> j pared to that of Johnston is not iden
• tical. The partisan spirit, or lack of
► i spirit is more favorable in Sampson
! for .the perpetuation of the change,
j B'-sines, Johnston had nothing to gain
fiom a State or district point of view
by becoming Republican. Rather it
► was all to lose. Accordingly, when
j, the pique at the Democratic ring was
l• cx Johnston again gave its
• big Democratic majority. Sampson
has much to gam by taking its‘old
tmie pmee in the Democratic ranks,
and as the Republican element of
' embraces some of the best
• peop e in the world, now that the ice
is broken, we may confidently expect
• lGm take their proper place
id rhe Democratic ranks and retain
L It.
■A 1 Smith sentiment is undoubtedly
we cou ld almost wish
> he had lost prestige at the re
! rent election sufficient to prevent his
» candidacy from bringing about a re
; iJ p ou s war in the party. But instead
■ of losing, he has gained prestige, and
. hio nomination for the presidency
. looms up as a strong probabi.ity.
[
l ’ is Armistice Day-a great day
•jiii.it. iet when the anniversary &r..
r’r.ves we always recall the unneces
-3 sary, and apparently inexcusaiPe
i; slaughter in the battles of that morn
) i mg. itvo fine young tehows f-'om
t aampson were killed that morning,
) two out of less than a score killed on
| tiie battle fields of the whole war.
3 ' Su Perintendent Allen ~says
3 t ,a , t education has made over the
R l2 . P as t ten years. That is
s said thau proved. The saml
conditions, forces, and spirit that have
THE CHATHAM RECORD
1 built the roads of the state have mul-
I tiplied school facilities. It is yet to
be seen what effect the ‘multiplication
of school facilities will have. How
ever, a census of what the graduates
of high schools and colleges for the
past fifteen years are doing to in
crease production, effect transporta
tion and distribution on a more mod
, ern basis, and otherwise adding to
the sum total of wealth and happi
ness would determine in a measure
the prospective value to the state of
the millions being spent for educa
tion. We see the profession of law,
the insurance agencies, the filling
station business, and many oilier
jobs overcrowded, but see few edu
cated boys turning to the farm or to
factory work. There are few, or no,
apprentices, and a youth who has
spent $2,000.00 for a college educa
tion does not feel disposed to start at
the bottom. But probabiy necessity
will force a distribution .of energy
and effort, but it will be economically
hurtful to the individual and to the
state for full-grown men to have to
learn trades after they have spent
the years of their youth in senool,
studying things that lead definitely to
only such employment as di'aws its
recompense from the toil of those
who have less schooling but more ap
prentice training. McGirt of Wil
mington has been one of the prime
j movers in road building. W hat col
! lege did he attend ? Ask about oth-
I ers. But, blind you, college educa
| tion is a good thing, but work is the
real miracle worked. Teach the stu
dent to work and all will be well.
Wc approve the discounting by the
Greensboro News of a compliment
containing “most” for “almost.”
Forty years ago when one used
“most” that way he placed an apos
trophe in front of it to indicate the ;
shortening from '“almost.” But it
really seems today that many folk
do not know that there is such a word
as almost.
Note the addition to the T. M. 1
Bland Co.’s advertisement in which
they say they will allow credit cus- j
temers 15 cents a pound for cotton on
their accounts and a dollar a bushel I
ier corn. This is truly meeting the |
folk more than half way. It means, j
almost assuredly, that the company
is sacrificing its profits and loaning
tne customer goods through the sum- !
mer without interest. Any customer
that doesn’t appreciate such gener
osity and do his best to meet h.s ob
ligations is deserving of very little
consideration. It is a time when
every one must make a sacrifice or
the business of the community will be
utterly disrupted. The failure of one
man to do his best to meet his obli
gations may mean that a dozen others
shall fail, and many feel embarrass
ment. If a bucket brigade were try
ing to put out a house afire, the fail
ure of one in the line to pass on the
buckets would cause the loss of the
house, unless some one else did more
than his share. The neglect and care-j
lessness of the easy-going make it l
terribly hard on 'others. .Let, every j
Chatham county citizen-resolve that]
the disruption of-business shall not
■he due to any slackness or ladk <rf
effort on his part, Hard work will
not kill, and doing without ■’some
things in order to meet' the obliga
tions of honor will prove a satisfac
tion rather,than a hardship. These
last sentences are not with reference
to the Bland proposition but merely
suggested by it. ,
Governor McLean is right in con
tending that the elementary and the
secondary schools should be provided
for before the granting of the great
ly enlarged demands of the Univer- j
sity and other state colleges. He
suggests, and reasonably, that stu- 1
dents pay the real cost of dormitory
accommodations, thereby encouraging
private capital to erect rooming hous
es for students. Others think that
a college course should be made as
cheap as possible whatever the cost
to the taxpayers. Governor McLean
sees the cost of a professional edu
cation as an investment and feels
that the state is not justified in giv
ing it for only a small percentage of
its cost. He is right. Moreover, if
siuacnts had not developed an extrav
agant life at the colleges there would
be more reason for the state to as
sume the burden. But, actually, the
extravagances and frills of college
life today are costing more than ail
the expenses of the average college
student in the nineties. If the stu
dents have money to throw away in
these extravagances, let them pay
at least half the cost of what the
state furnishes them. To develop a
more economical life at the schools
is itseif of great importance. Some
oi the young men are living on a
basis that their incomes will probably
be unequal to sustaining wnen they
enter the work-a-day worid. Besides,
there are boys going to college now
that ought to be serving apprentice
ships to trades.
• Dr Knight charges bad business
management in allowing seventy mil
lion uoilars’ worth of school houses
to remain unused half the year. It
would not help matters altogether to
use them eight months. But some
one made a suggestion in onr of the
state papers the other day that would
_oive tne matter. The Record be
lieves that six months of school term.
The suggestion mentioned is that the
schools be operated in two terms of
mx months each. The summer term
oemg for the elementary pupils, say
to the si*th grade, and the winter
teim lor the larger pupils. That
ciiangement would serve three of
four economical purposes, hirst, the
ccuool buildings would not have to be
enlarged for a long time. Two sets
°1 lurmture would make a five room
school building serve the purpose of
a ten-rbom building at present. There
would be required only half the pres
ent amount of fuel. Well equiooed
teachers would have all-the-year‘em
ployment teaching an elementary
. grade in the summer term and a high
er grade m the winter. This would
answer the demand for prepared
tfcachers, and the smaller number re
quired and the greater demands up
on their scholarship should serve to
b-rch t thaf° rtion ° f the hair_bra ined
1 ,1" A hat can nevGr teach well be-
they never learned well. The
suggestion is a radical one, but as a
teacher of 25 years’ experience, we -
see in it much of merit. Teachers
need a year’s pay; but like other folk
they should give a year’s service to
Rev. Jonas Barclay and wife re
turned Tuesday evening from a vis
it to Mrs. Barclay’s sisters, Mrs.
Alice Mason of Stanley and Mrs. John
O. Rankin of Gastonia. While away
they attended the funeral of Captain
Mark Holland of Mt. Holly, a first
cousin of Mrs. Barclay. Mr. Barclay,
a former pastor, assisted in
the funeral exercises, which were be
gun at the Mt. Holly church and con
cluded at the Dallas church, where
the interment took place. Very large
congregations gathered at each place
to do honor to the memory of this
much beloved man.
A FINE OCCASION
The P-T Association Furnishes a De
lightful Program Friday Evening
—Prof. Waters Writes Play
for the Occasion
(Reported)
The Parent-Teachers association of
the Pittsboro school held its regulai j
I meeting in the school auditorium!
I Friday night. The meeting was
called to order by the president, Mrs.
.R. 11. Hayes. Invocation was offered
by Rev. C. M. Lance, pastor of the
Pittsboro Methodist church. A short
business' meeting was held at which
reports were made from various com
mittees and grade mothers, the most
interesting being from Mrs. W. P.
ixorton wno attended the district!
meeting in Raleigh Thursday. The |
trer ' r:r reported a goodly balance
ar. a i enrolment of 95 members.
Tlii r.-er'bcra of the association
were pleased to hear Mrs. E. E. Mos
, fit, of Richmond, Va., who organized
j the first Betterment association in
Chatham and Wake counties.
The entertainment of the eve
ning was a play, /“The Tie That
Binds,” written by Prof. J. S. Waters,
chairman of the program commit
tee. In this play was shown the re
j lationship which exists between the
i home, Parent-Teacrer association,
the county superintendent and th° •
| school. The climax was reached
. when these forces came together in |
! a united effort for the good of the 1
school and the child. "
; In addition to the parent-teacher
; program, was an exercise given by
i Little Betty Bell, Loula Foushee Ilin-
I ton, Sarah Lance, and Fletcher Mann,
j Jr., members of Mrs. C. M. Lance’s
j kindergarden class. Cake and lemon
| ade were bountifully served the large
number present.
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