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AN OBJECTIVE
There is scarcely anything more
important than making up one s imnd
as to what should be accomplished and
setting about to accompasn it. This
is ttue of the town as well as of the
individual. Accordingly, we suggest
as the immediate objective of the peo
ple of Pittsboro the securing oi a
roller mill and a chair factory.
Mr. Oldham, a brother of Mr. W.
R. Oidham of this town, and a man
of large experience in roller mill work,
is interesting in securing
lishment of a small roller mill here.
He is at present superintendent oi a
mill at High Point.
Mr. C. L. Thomas, a large furni
ture manufacturer of Hign Point,
down here a lew weeks ago hunting,
gave Mr. S. D. Johnson an intimation
tnat a chair factory would pay here,
and Mr: Johnson is inclined to be
lieve that Mr. Thomas would take'
an interest in it. ...
Pittsboro needs factories. The silk
mill came practically without seek
ing. That little plant means con
siderable to the town, and its suc
cessful operation should make it eas
ier to gam the ear of others desiring
to locate industries in the South, and
of North Carolinians with money to
m i?et ; s see Pittsboro get busy and
have at least two plants suggested
by this time next year.
The Riddle machine shop, soon to
open, is a real acquisition. The Rid
dle brothers have bought
of a high type. Everything like that
counts. But we need plants that will
employ a considerable number of op
erators. Let’s get them.
Asked for the news, Deputy De
seme said there was none in the line
of law enforcement. He says crime
is at a low ebb in the county. No
stills or liquor selling has been report
ed in weeks. Mr. Deserne attributes
this fact in large measure to the
brand of justice administered m late
sessions of the court. ' He says when
a judge has been here who puts on
real penalties there is a following
slump in the booze business. This
is important and should serve as a
hint to judges who are inclined to
be too lenient.
THINK ABOUT THIS
Representative Lankford of Geor
gia was ready the very first day of
Congress with a bill to form a fed
eral cotton corporation of $500,000,000
with an authority to buy cotton at the
fixed price of 22 cents a pound. Price
fixing can be justified only when all
prices are fixed proportionately, in
view of the cost of each product. The
editor of the Record nas pondered for
years the possibility of a world com
mission to determine the average cost
of the various products and to fix
prices in accord, at the central
markets.
f Such a scheme would tend to re
strict the bulk of production of the
various staples to the aras near
(transportationately near) the mar
ket centres, and would furnish a sta
ble currency basis for the whole
world.. Under such an arrangement,
the farmer could determine whether
it would be cheaper to raise any ar
ticle at home for domestic use or but
it at the world market price. The
reduction in net value to him through
excessive transportation charges to a
market centre would keep him from
growing in competition with more
favored sections some crops, while
the specific charge for transportation
to him of other products should show
him the wisdom of growing for his
own use some things which he has
been accustomed to buy.
Prices fixed on such a world basis
for all articles of commerce would
give the people of the whole world
an equal chance to get value for vaj
ue. Truly, there is neither sense nor
justice ih, say, a Frenchman’s giving
an American tourist two values for
one simply because the French cur
rency is below par. But the mere
fact that such an arrangement
would make every man in the world
pay value for value, in terms of ef
fort, skill and capital involved, for
what he gets, would be the very rea-«
son why such an arrangement, if
deemed possible and feasible, would
be slow in being urged by the leaders
of the favored nations. The strong
natiop has not yet learned the golden
rule any better than has the strong
individual. Such a scheme would
doubtless be pronounced chimerical
and impractical, but it is not one whit
more impractical than • Congressman
Lankford’s bill, for if the government
should fix the price of one product,
it. would be the beginning of the fix
ing of all prices, and such a process
would require in a national way what
the plan suggested above would re
quire in an international way.
Congress assembled for the short
session Monday. The calendar is »
crowded with important measures.
Farm relief will doubtless receive
much consideration. But, again we
say it, all the folk cannot get cheir
just share of the common wealth when
things aie fixed so that some get more
- than theirs. Only a w r orld-wid.e
pelition in selling what Americans
have to buy will develop a fcr^ 1 -
world-wide market for what Ameri
cans have to sell. The v protective
tariff wall not only keeps out low
priced ioreign products, but keeps ai
home goods that millions of half-fed
and half-clothed people need. WV
America buys what other folk nave
to sell it will make a market Vn r
whai it has to sell—and not an ar: : -
ficial market based upon monev rV-C
ped ;by the favored few from t
" advantaged many and iour7“
countries whose goods are owed... v
from cur snores. The tariff
question is not d~ac, lnit ; merely
sleepeth.
DISCUSSING TEACHERS
Dr. Thomas Alexander,* of the fac
ulty of Columbia University, who has
taught in Turkey, Germany, and m
the country districts of North Car
olina, declares that the short school
term in North Carolina is a blessing
—in that it allows the students to
I get away from the half-baked teach
* ers and learn something worth while
i from contact with the world and with
. work. There are too many teachers
short of native ability, and too' many
with native ability short of proper
, training. There are too many pupils
[ undertaking to master subjects they
[ are no more adapted to than, a hound
j pup is to setting or pointing birds.
! Yet the man om woman of capacity
to achieve as a teacher finds himself
' or herself working for the same sal
ary th'at nincompoops who have been
through the same rigamarole of
training draw. Lawyers, doctors, and
men of other professions do not draw
incomes proportionate to the time
they have spent in college or profes
sional schools, but in accord with
their achievements. Yet we know a
young woman teacher generally con
ceded to be at the top of her profes
sion in her county who drew for
years a smaller salary than admitted
ly poorer teachers, because forsooth,
through attending two different col
i leges, she failed a point or a half
i point of securing credit for two years
of college work.
Remove such senseless distinctions
and pay teachers according to their
calibre, as determined by a dozer or
more effectual criteria than years of
training, and men and womn of God
given capacity may teach with hope
of fitting reward. But, as it is to
day, only men teachers in administra
tive positions can draw a wage ade
quate to the rearing of a family in
comfort—and two times out of three
the real instructor is not gifted with
high administrative powers. Imagine
Socrates as superintends or princi
pal of a modern school! But if he
were teaching in North Carolina
schools he wouPd have to accept a
principalship or a superintendency or
be limited in salary to something like
SI2OO a year—and he would fail as a
superintendent and be accounted a
general failure and find it difficult
to get any teaching job at all. But
if he had his Ph.D. he could get a
college job, as any blockhead can who
has been through the mills long e
nough. A home-made hickory axe
handle is worth a cart-load of smooth
ly machined pine ones. Similarly, a
home-made Socrates beats a dozen
machine-made Ph.D.'s. The brain
first. Training last.
On the other hand, it is an econom
ic waste to have a teacher of brains
and pedagogic gifts waste his ener
gies and the opportunities of the
talented members upon a class handi
capped by the presence of numb
skulls, or by even thing-minded boys
and girls unless he has the “things”
that enable him to develop the last
mentioned class.
We agree with Dr. Alexander. The
schools are long enough unless they
are more productive of character,
thought, power, and willingness and
ability to achieve by sheer, but wisely
directed, endeavor.
Well, when the preacher comes and
helps the editor get out the papei; just
for the fun of it, what excuse has
that editor not to go hear the preacher
preach. As an instance of what
Evangelist Gaddy can do, observe the
Dalrymple, Marks, & Brooks ad. He
set the small type in it.
A foot of snow in the north and
balmy weather in Florida. No won
der the highways and the railroads
are burdened with southbound tour
ists.
The Statens educational commis
sion, or some of its members, were
down at Wilson a few days ago, hold
ing a clinic on educational ills. The
group of representative citizens from
the county present are reported as a
bout 50-50 for and against an eight
months school term for the state.
One gentleman wanted more practical
subjects taught. His children, he
said, knew more about Socrates than
about practical things—for instance,
they couldn’t “w;rite a check.” But,
great lands, there is no reason why a
child with good sense mayn’t learn
about Socrates and how to write a
check too! They will know how to
write checks well enough before they
have earned enough by actual value
for-value work to build a SIOO ac-) (
count, especially if they should stay *
in school during the work period.
Six months a year in a real school
will suffice to give a youth of brains
and a will to learn adequate knowl
edge of both Socrates and such mat- 1
ters as counting interest* and writ- (
ing checks. But no amount of school
ing would ever make a good pointer >
a hound, and boys who can learn i
about Socrates are being denied the
opportunity to learn many other
things while they lag with the blopk-l
heads upon whom the teacher is wast- !
ing her own and students’ time in i
trying to get them to learn the Socra- i
tes lessons. !
Trying Out the Baumes Law j
(From the Chapel Hill Weekly)
j The state of New York has a ;
i new statute regulating proced- ;
ure in criminal trials and pres
cribing the penalties to be in
flicted upon conviction. This
statute, known as the Baumes
law, was enacted as a result of
widespread resentment at the
frequency with which murder
ers and thieves' escape their just
deserts. .
Now, come of the judges are!
criticising ‘the Baumes law, and 1
with considerable show of an-!
| car. Their main objection is
that its limit upon judicial dis
. ciehon in tr fixing of penal
j ties results in For
i pre-Vigens
of the statute is that a convict
ed offender with a record of
three previous convictions for
felonies shall suffer life impris
onment. Recently the case of
a man found guilty of stealing
a taxicab fell under this pro
vision. Investigation showed
that his previous offenses had
been committed many years be
fore, and that his subsequent
career been such that , he
could hardly be considered an
habitual criminal. .The judge
who presided over the trial ex
pressed indignation because the
Baumes law compelled him to
give this man a life sentence.
Despite possible defects in de
tail, New York City's police
commissioner, McLaughlin, says
that the new statute has been
a great aid to justice. And it
seems to us the New York Times
is correct when it says, in sup
port of the commissioner: “It
is altogether too early to talk
of modifying the Baumes law.
The obviously wise procedure is
to let the test of time determine
how serious is the alleged mis
carriage of justice and then to
decide how the exceptions may
be taken care of without under
mining the general application
of the law." From what we have
read we believe that the Baumes
law—which, it must be remem
bered, was thq fruit of the la
bors of many honored and able
members of the legal profession
—is a useful weapon in the
struggle against crime. If its
success is thoroughly demon
strated it will lead to an im
provement in criminal proced
ure all over the country.
Eating of Horse Meat
Increases in Prussia
Berlin.—More home meat Is being
eaten in Prussia today than at any
other time In hittory, not excluding
the war period when | horses
slaughtered because thfre was little
other meat available. The ministry
of agriculture Jthpt tfie in
creased consumption ni>t diie to
a great relish for horse steaks, but
to distressing economic conditions.
The consumption of horse flesh In
creased 20 per cent this year over
the corresponding period In 1925.
Boy, 11, Worries Along
on $85,250 a Year
Poughkeepsie,*N. T.—r After Joel W."
Thorne, Jr., pays what he owes for
taxes each yeur his annual income is
whittled down to a mere $85,250, It
was ’revealed, but as Joel is only
eleven years old, he manages some
how to make this suffice.
The revelation attended application
by the boy’s guardians to County
Judge Arnold for an order permitting
them to sell thirty-one acres he owns
in Washington township, Dutchess
county.
Young Thorne is the son of the late
Joel Wolfe Thorne, banker, who was
killed in an automobile accident in
1924, a few hours after obtaining a
divorce from the boy’s mother, Mary
Casov Thnrn«.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of
LAURA WILLIAMS
deceased, late of Chatham County, N.
C., I hereby notify all persons hav- ‘
ing claims against the estate to pre
sent them duly proven to the under- ,
signed on or before x !
20th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1927 ,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar j
of their recovery.
All persons indebted to the estate j
are requested to make immediate pay
ment.
This the 19th day < October, 1926. 1
F. M. VARBER
I We Desire to Serve j j
This Bank is here not only to make money for J I
:: the stockholders but to serve the people of Chatham 2 j
::: county. It is our desire to help every legitimate enter- jj j
i:: prise in the county so far as it is possible for us to do so. | j
Every farmer, particularly, should feel that we are his |
:: friends, and ready to assist him in anyway in accord with |
El safe banking.
1 CONSULT US , |
Si We feel that the people of the county must econo- k
2 mize, must spend wisely, and work hard, in face of the |
effects of the past two difficult years. Two heads are , f !
H better than one. Consult ycur banker before making g j
investments. We shall be glad to give you the benefit g j
il of whatever knowledge and experience we have. There- Bj j
m fore do not hesitate to consult us at any time.
'Beware of buying on time. Better cut expendi- ! j
*| tures 4 now than suffer consequences of another bad crop hI j
H . season, if one should come, upon those overloaded with P
g time accounts. gi !
1 bank of pittsboro 111
THE CHATHAM RECORD
Get Quail in Georgia
(From the Chapel Hill Weekly)
M. E. Hogan, cashier of the
Bank of Chapel Hill, and Dr. R.
R. Clark, the dentist, brought
50 quail with them when they
came in from Georgia last. Sun
day night, get the birds
in two hunts in the southern
part of the state. V
Mr. Hogan visited his brother,
a cotton broker, in Macon, and
took Dr. Clark along in the
Franklin car to keep him com
pany. On the way back they
stopped at Atlanta. From there
the banker made a side trip to
call on Frank Strowd in Bir
mingham.
The two travelers started
out from Atlanta at half past
six o’clock Sunday morning.
They drove 472 miles to Chapel
Hill in less than 18 hours, reach
ing here about midnight.
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In Real Life
London. —Comes from India an ac
count, apparently verified, of a Rom
ulus and Remus, In real modern life.
Two little girls were adopted by a
she wolf When found at the age of
two and eight years,: they were run
ning on all fours and barking. The
younger died. The elder, now in an
orphanage „ and gradually learning
speech, prefers the company of dogs
to children.
SALE OF LAND
NOTICE OF
SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the power
if sale granted in a judgment now
pending in the Superior Court of
Chatham County, North Carolina, en
titled “B. Nooe vs. Bank of Pitts
boro and Union Wholesale Lumber
Company,” the undersigned Commis
ioner will offer for sale to the high
st bidder for cash, on Saturday, the
Bth day of December, 1926, at 12:00
/clock noon, in front of the Court
iouse door in Pittsboro, North Car
>lina, all that certain tract or parcel
>f land lying and being in New Hope
Township, Chatham County, North
Carolina, bounded on the north by
he lands of J. C. Stone, on the east
by the lands of Moses Clark et als,
>n the south by the lands of Carey
vfpore and James A. Thomas, a«d
fibre particularly-* described as foV
ows: ‘Beginning at a stake on the
Rgfeigh road, corner of J. O. Stone
ind C. D. Moore thence south 65 de
nies east 49 poles to a stake; thence
.oith 59 degrees east 83 poles to
i white oak, pointers; thence with
Clark’s line in a southeasterly di
rection and with a spring branch to
a stake on said branch, and in J. E.
line; thence north 87 degrees
vest 159 poles to a stake; thence in
i south and easterly direction and
with Buffalo Branch to a stake on
said- branch; . thence south *3. de
grees east to a stake in R. E. Harris’s
ine; thence west with said Harris
ine 180 poles to old Islandford road;
thence with said Old Islandford road
to the Raleigh road; thence up said
Raleigh road to the Beginning point,
containing 278 acres, more or less, and
being the lands formerly owned by
the late Rebecca Lambeth. SAVE
AND EXCEPT, HOWEVER, from
the operative of this deed one acre
heretofore sold off by Rebecca Lam
beth to Alvis Gilmore et als, Trus
tees, for a schoolhouse site, which
said deed is recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Chatham
County in Book AO, page 318.
This
WADE BARBER
Commissioner
3ILER & BARBER,
Attys.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having been duly qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of Sylves
ter Murchison, deceased, late of Chat
ham county, N. C., this is to notify
all persons having claims against the
estate to present them to the under
signed administrator at Gulf, N. C.,
on or before the 2nd day of Dec., •:
1927, or this notice will be pleaded (j
in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate |
will please make prompt payment. |
This 2nd day of December, 1926.
G. C. COLE, Adm. !
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Said the teacher: “Now, Thomas, you are facing* north
* The east is on your right hand. What have you on your t
iji left hand?" Thomas answered: “A WART, but I can’t
help it.”
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Ij: forthcoming. But the question is asked: “Where is the
;; best place to do your banking business?" there is only
one answer. It is at our reliable bank that by years of
continuous fair dealing has won the confidence of this en
-111" tire community. *
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