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The Chatham Record. " (j. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher f Subscription Price I One Year.... $1.50 Six Months 7o i Editor C. H. Mebane, of Newton, • died a few days ago. Mr. Mebane won tlic esteem oi tue state as supeim | tendent of state schcoi from lS9 f ,-1301 I'houg.i e.ecteaon toe lesion ticket, • man and educator he was the leal thing. If the Duke electric railway to be extended from Charlotte to Dtirnam : cannot come through Pittsboro, it it could be induced to come through f Siler City and take a cross-country f cut to'Chapel Hill, it would give the f northwestern part of this county f much needed relief. Chatham fo*k ; shoi’-d get busy and get the : through the county in some direction. , And Chapel Hill will be much in its own light if it does not get busy. Senator Borah, in a speech urging ; the return of enemy alien property ( seized during the war, says tnere has never been such an orgy of graft as in the management or mismanage mnt of that property. Unless all the rogues have been congregated in banking and other institutions, it is conceivable the Senator is about right. If a man will steal $92,000 from a foreign mission fund, imagine him in charge of millions of government property. In glancing over the files of the Lumberton Argus for the year 1901, we find clipped from the Salisbury Sun and publishers in the issue of July 14 the folowing: “Mr. B. N. Duke moving his citizenship to New York state cuts this state cut of $17,- 000 state and county taxes.* He says: ‘I will make my home in New York but my heart will be in North Caro lina and I will not forget the asylum and other worthy charities.’ ” Truly, no promise was ever kept better. Depending largely as we do, on out of-town advertising Christmas for these three years has come at such a time in the week as to make it practically impossible to reap an ad vertising profit from the holiday trade that papers more fortunately situated do. but next year it will turn our way, as Christmas will come on Sun day and the Record can be circulated in time for Friday and Saturday trade. The coming session of the Legisla ture will have serious tax and appro priation questions to confront it. If governor McLean is heeded, the body will probab.y save the state from cne morass of greate** appropriations than the tax-payers can furnish funds to pay. vv liton McKean knows the condition of the average man in the state, something whicn is not true of dozens of tnose who are ask ing for enlarged appropriations for tneir pet departments or institutions. It is significant that the young man v. ho won tne Rhodes scholarship over numerous competitors is an honor Greek student at Duke. Greek itself may not be the cause of his success, but the fact that he was willing to take a hard subject indicates that he is made of the stuff that will win. The boy looking for easy courses m scnooi ought not to be there unless he has a boss over him who will make him tackle and achieve the difficult. Merely “going to school” is not worth a cent. Senator Simmons has succeeded in getting through he appropnaions ior completing the inland waterway irom Norfolk to Wilmington. Great stretches of the route are already in use. Another provision of the river axd harbors bill is for the deepening of the Beaufort channel and narbor, wnicn fills Cartert folk with great expectations of the development of a great port down there. Gongress is pressing business, but like the North Carolina legislature, it has a man looking on wno is not afraid to call a halt m the expenditure of money. President Ceolidge opposes outright tne appropriation of millions for ien cruises of the navy. We wish Govern or had tne veto power for t.ie next three months. The state might rest more easily. It is hard to pat over a log-rolling job on Coolidge or McLean. Dr. E. W. Knight says that North Carolina high school graduates are not as well educated as students who have finished only the first year of high school in some of the states. He attributes it to the teachers. In this connection, recall our editorial of two or tnree weeks ago, “Discussing Teachers.” Men teachers, as instruc tors and not executives, are prac tically barred from the public high schools of the state, except beginners vno can aiioru to work ior a smau salary. T,he big money is going to superintendents, supervisors, and oth er mucka-mucks. County superin tendents are getting tnree times Wnat tney were only ten years ago. L. L. Matthews worked in Sampson county till his death for a salary ranging from $600.00 up to SISOO. His successor is getting $3500, or was, and is taking life easy. As a teacher, an instructor, $133.33 would be his montnly salary in a high school, which for an 8-months term would make even $1,000.00. North Caro lina schools have been suffering, to our knowledge, for 35 years irom lack of an enforced standard of schol urvniy. The writer has tested stu dents in ..cyeral schools in which he taught who bad passed their grades in former tgrms with high merles, and with tne rarest ex ceptions, ainfiost utterly without the knowledge their grades Indicated. Teaching, real teaching, is what is nc&dod. Such teachers a/s “Sawney” Wwb of Tennessee, Morion and Den son tne bid Raleigh male academy were the kind of men to set and en force standards. Webb died last week, but his example should live on and on. j Criticism of the jury and of the judge of the court in which Doheny . ana former Secretary of the Interior |l* all were acquitted for conspiracy and bribery in connection with a cer tain lease oi naval reserve oil ianos has been rife. As there a^ e usually two sides to a question, and the jury is legally bound to give the defendant ) tne benefit of the doubt, we are not disposed to accuse all the thirteen men 1 responsible for the acquittal of do\*n • right rascality. The men sworn to hear the evidence certainly shouu ’ know more about tne met its Ox u ( I case than an editor hundreds Oj. mne! ’ away. Yet there are such things at " ;,üboined courts and juries, but tc ; jamp every time a verdict does no; r.ovee with one’s own opinion to Jic conclusion that the jury or the judge v,as suborned is not a hea:tiiiul at titude. Anv way, hall, particularly I I has paid dearly for his part in these ■' transactions. From a big man m the ! administration ho has laden to a Vcij. low estate. Nobody trusts hail, or at least very few do. Well, if the days are not yet get ting much longer, it is gratifying tc realize that tney will not get anj shorter. The sun has macie tne coi ner of its yearly round, or rather the 1 earth has, but this half of the gloot f has yet to pay for turning its bad i upon oid sol. W inter is just supposed to be beginning when the days begin to lengthen. Christmas, which takes the date of an older winter feast, comes just as the shadows begin to shorten, and surely there couid have been no more fitting time chosen for the great feast season of northern hemisphere than these days when the turn of the sun gives promise of an other summer and another harvest. Likewise, as Christ is characterized as the “sun of righteousness,” it was appropriate for those who did not know the date of his birth to choose this period for its celebration. Mexico’s constitutional provision controlling the alienation of oil and other mineral resources is scheduled to go into effect the first day of Jan-. uary, and some sharp notes have pass- \ ed from the state department of this government to the sister Republic. The law is interpretated as retroac tive, taking away from foreign own ers what they have acquired under earlier laws. Mexico denies this and persists in her determination to en force the provision. Our opinion is that Mexico should be allowed to con serve her resources, which this coun try can scarcely keep its Dohenys from hogging her own resort to strong measures to prevent American and European oil hogs from monopolizing its rich mineral resources. Else where we are publishing a late state ment of Mexico’s contention. If all the money paid out the past five years by Chatham people for hay were back in the county, it would be a prosperous time. Farmers right now should resolve that no more nay need he shipped into Chatham. Let them investigate at once the O-00-ton soy bean and be ready to plant that superior variety at the proper time. Soy and velvet beans, oats, rye, and the clovers and vetches should solve the Chatham county farmer’s problem alo-g with the cattle and hogs that should naturally accompany the grow ing of those crops. In considering the state of the week ly press 25 years ago we should prob ably have ascribed the ineffectuainess of it more to the listlessness and lack of “punch” on the part of the average editor than to a lack of independence. There has certainly been a great ransformation in both men and plants the past quarter of a century. Yet the papers of such towns as Pittz boro must hold on to the old processes till prosperity strides their bailiwicks. County-Agent Shivar states that the milk route in the western part of the eounty is proving already quite a suc cess. 125 gallons of whole milk is collected a day, at a price of more than 30 eents a gallon. We are told that Mr. W. H. Ferguson’s monthly check is already $125. That is fine. Pittsboro and the whole of Chatham county should be concerned in the ma-t ter of the extension of the Duke elec tric lines from Charlotte to Durham, ft has been positively decided to make the extension. It has suggested that the electric railway will parallel the Southern. But that does not look economically reasonable. The South ern and the great highway paralleling it should furnish all the transporta tion facilities the territory along the Southern needs; while there lies be tween here and Charlotte a vast area that should develop marveously with ] an electric road transversing it. The building of that road through Troy, | Joldston. Pittsboro, Bynum and Chapel Hill, would enable it to serve i section that really needs transpor tation facilities. Pittsboro may not le on the most direct route, but there s no one point that would repond flicker to the stimulus of a new rail road. At least, it will do no harm to ;eek it. Chapel Hill would, doubtless, cooperate in any effort of ahatham County to secure the road. We call attention to the contribu ) Jon of Mr. S. D. Johnson. Mr. John -1 on sees a bright future for Pittsboro provided there is effetive cooperation m the part of its citizens. The pros *ect of a second silk mill, together vith the enlargement of the existing me, is suggestive of a brighter day ;or the old town. Now, let’s get busy and get a chair factory and a roller mill. Tne legislature has a problem be ore it in the matter of taxation, .othing more startling from an eco omic point of view has occurred re antly than the friendly revelation of he president of the Vick Chemical -ompany. That company has moved large part of its business and tax >les to another state and the presi ent tells why. North Carolina taxes « Vick investment and business millions were several times more .tin tney wouid be in any oth>*r oi weial states mentioned. The state as rather careful to avoid taxing .cHies from foreign corporations .eld by citizens of this state, hoping hereby to hold citizens having such others. At the same time it was lay* .ng the burden of taxation so heavily non the shoulders of North Caro ina corporations that they are look ntr wistiuuy to other states, and, as in "Case, of Vick’s, picking up bag md baggage and going to more tavor hie fields. The Vick Company can i lot now be criticized for asking fav ors but it would have been a kind less to the state to have laid bare the . tuation before it moved the bulk oi Its wealth from the' state. A few | /ears ago such a revelation as sug vested would hav been received with j t howl of disapproval nnd fondemnat on of the greed of corporations, out ye truly befieve that North Ca.ou is now a reasonable commonwealth andTs willing to “tote fair” with the "".potations, even the railroads and the Duke interests. Neighbor Brewer Kills Three Big PorkeaS Our neighbor at the top of the hill, Mr. George Brewer, killed three fine porkers a few days ago. They totaled .ibout 1200 pounds net. Some migut> nne sausage gravitated down the hn. m be enjoyed by their neighbors. Fireworks Forbidden The town commissioners last week >assed an ordinance forbidding the iring of any kind of fireworks in the .own s borders, not oiuy curing tne aolidays, but at ail times. The fine or violation is five dollars. We intended to congratulate Chiei Lacey Johnson last week upon the jirth of a daughter. Tms is tne first child for the Johnsons. PLAY APPRECIATED (Continued) The school and community arc '•rateful to Mrs. Sturgis Leavitte anc \er class in expression for a most ar tistic and impressive presentation oi the Christmas play, “Why The Chimes Rang”, at the school auditorium M-- day evening December 20th. 1 Through the skillful manipulatioi I of light and color the tableau repres enting the vision of Holger, the wood cutter’s son, appeared not as of rea people but as an old and beautifu painting. The play which did much to create file right spirit of the Christmar ;eason about to be celebrated was < cal contribution to beautiful am wholesome community living. In addition to those whose name: appeared on the program who gav valuable assistance to Mrs. Leavitt* *nd the class were Mrs. Henry By num accompanist, and Charles Fields student assiotant in scenic work, win showed native ability in scenic affects MARRIAGE LICENSES— ;; ; Dec. 2, 1926—Charles Harris-Deci< Smith, Siler City, N. C. Dec 10, 1926 —Barium Ivnight- Annie Bell Cummins, Pittsboro Dec. 11, 1926—R. A. Bowiing-Floy* Goodwin, Apex. 1 lyn F. Oakley,csmfhrdwlyuscmrdwu Dec. 17, 1926—Warrack Stone, / Dec. 17, Warrack Stone, Ape: Evelyn F. Oakley, Chapel Hill R. Dec. 18, 1926—Chas. Caviness-Win onn Wifiiams, Staley. Dec 18—Jim Johnson, Rhoda Rid die Moncure Rt 1 Dec. 18, 1926—James M. Oldham Blanche Marley, Siler City. Dec. 20 —Palmer B. Copeland-Mag gies M. Williams, Apex Rt 3 Dec. 20, 1926—R. Hugh Holleman Esper Baldwin, Apex Rt. 3. Nonsense from the Pope (From the Chapel Hill Weekly) A great deal of foolish talk ha: deen uttered, these last fev years, in censure of the style.* in women’s clothing, and nov Pope Pius adds his contributioi o the stream of nonsense. A iespatch from Rome record: hat, in addressing the Catholic Men’s Association, he called the oresent-day fashions “an ugly •uinous, catatrophic tendency .vhich Catholic husbands athers, and brothers should at empt to check at all costs.” There is no good evidence tha he way in which women nov jlothe themselves is ruinous o: atastrophic, and we are sure | he Pope is even still furthe I rom the mark when he calls th< garments of today ugly.. Worn m’s apparel of this era is fai frettier and more graceful thai t was when Pius was young. I here be anybody whose mem ry does not satisfy him upor his point, let him consult a fev Id pictures. There are millions of peopk o whom Pope Pius is the Su reme Pontiff in matters of reli ion, but he is doomed to a bit er disappointment is he fanciet e can be their Supreme Pontifi i matters of dress. Because oi lis pronouncement Roman Cath lic women will add not one incl j the length of their skirts oi, ne ounce to the weight of theii ingerie. And as for the influ ,nce of the men who Pope Piu. hinks “should attempt tc dieck the modern tendencies ir ! ress well, husbands anc athers- the world over will b< nclined tc mirth as they rea Mils advice from the eminer of xLa V^vican. HE CHATHAM RECORD Ty i i>n acrnvvt given in the Clinton Observer of a big reception at Pine iand College, the name of Miss Car rie Guinn, a senior student in that good scnooi, was named as one in the receiving line. _ -~ hAp j N PITTSBORO, N. C. | JUST RECEIVED—Car-load of j that good Durham Flour. $7.75 and : SB.OO oer bbl. Every bag guaranteed good as the best or your money back. , C. & J. PROFESSIONAL NURSE | lam located in Pittsboro and offer Jmy services as a professional nurse i to the peonle of Chatham county. I ELSIE LUCILE PETERSON, R. N. A. C. RAY Attorney-at-Law PITTSBORO, N. C. DR. LUTHER C. ROLLINS DENTIST Siler City, N. C. Office ever Siler Dvug Storfe. Candy, Cavdy, Candy Oranges, Oranges Apples, Apples Nuts of all kinds, c h ave bought them and must sell them and get your share at the lew price Connell & Jhonson 'ntuutunn?:::: i; i 1 Christmas!} QOON the greatest, Holiest, ij >3 iiappiest day of the year will g j be here—Christmas. To all our g •J fellow townsmen —to our n » friends, wherever they may be § —we extend a sincere message S of Christmas Greetings. May H j the coming Christmas be the p ,j merriest and most prosperous || 4 Yulctide of yo;-:r experience. May g * the new year—l927—be filled Vt J with all the good things of life. £ W Such is our sincere wish. :: j | | Chatham Hdw Co I ! I Give Golden moments and hours of rrGtful, ease ful transpor tation, this Christmas, Give prince ly luxury and beauty. Give a Buick! The ransom of a prince could buy no more princely gift The Greatest BUICK Ever Built 3 J ownDervice iVaHonJ SANFORD, N. 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