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THE
CHATHAMRECORD
0. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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THURSDAY, APR. 21, 1927
Some news will travel farther
than desirable without the aid of a
newspaper.
The appointment of Hayes as
Federal judge last week augurs the
early appointment of a district at
torney and a marshal, and there is
little, or no, question that Lee and
Chatham will furnish the men,
Gavin of Sanford, and Jenkins of
Siler City.
There is a satisfaction in having
been the school mate of fellows
who have later become governors,
congressmen, and judges. The
possession of the mental measure
of those mighties is conducive to a
greater respect for one’s own men
tality.
The rumors that Josephus Dan
iels favors Smith for president
have been set at rest by a state
ment from Mr Daniels to the effect
that he does not favor the nomina
tion of any wet man for president.
And that’s that.
Wonder what Sinclair Lewis
would say to that devoted band of
Baptist missionaries who a third of
a century ago made a determined
insistence to the payment of fifty
dollars a month salary by the
Southern Baptist Mission Board to
mississionaries in China, insisting
that only a fair living should be,
given themselves and others?
There are three Federal judges
-in North Carolina since the ap
pointment week before last of J.
J. Hayes as judge of the middle
district, and they are all Wake
Forest College men. Too, it is in
teresting to note that their vin
tages vary just as the dates of their
appointments. Yates Webb is of
the class of 1893, Meekins of the
class of 1897, and Hayes of a
considerably later date. By the
way, Webb is another example of
the success of a preacher’s son,
which may be added to the list re
produced by the Durham Herald,
<4pd reprinted in this paper.
Commissioner John Hill’s deter
mination to pave the Wake Forest
■Durham road before he does
the Apex-Pittsboro one de
lays the perfecting of the short
west to capital route but will turn
no little travel from the north
through Pittsboro, if there is any
profit in an increase of tourist
-travel through a town. But the
Zeb Vance highway is destined
sooner or later to be one of the
main arteries of travel from east
to west. Raleigh is for it, and
every town from Pittsboro to
Lexington, and probably many
• westward of that important town.
We are quite sure that many
in North Carolina would like
to know the secret of a judge’s le
gally acquiring the booze for his
night caps. The interested ones
referred to would like to practice
the system. But for our own part,
we should like to know if it can
in order not to judge such
harshly. Drinkers neces
«ite buyers; buyers necessitate
* .ellers; sellers necessitate makers;
makers are the potential murder
ers of officers, e.g., Bud Davis and
his gang. Moreover, how is it pos
, sible even to keep the stuff in one’s
room legally ? Os course, if there
is no judge who takes his nightcap,
we can expect no such information
as that stated as desirable. But if
a judge cannot give the informa
tion, maybe some attbrney who
finds it possible to be soggy in the
court room, as he is also an officer
of the court, and perhaps a whilom
law-maker, might give us the
desired information. Now, we are
not at all concerned at this time
whether a judge or other officer of
the court takes an occasional drink
if he can do so without violating
the law or aiding and abetting ‘in
its violation. But we do feel that
a judicial officer and all other
court officials should be above sus
picion in the matter of the viola
tion of all laws, and especially of
that law whose violation is the mo
ther of many other crimes.
FARMERS FAVOR RAZING
THE TARIFF WALLS.
It is good to find the National
Farm News, of Washington, D. C.,
declaring that the farmers of the
west are aligning themselves
against high tariffs. The Record
has all along contended that there
is no possibility of relief for the
farmer except by removing the
privileges of the protected indus
tries. In the very nature of the
case, there is no remedy in placing
a tariff on the ordinary farm pro
duct, since this country exports
instead of imports, wheat, corn,
cotton, and meat, and every time
an article like sugar receives the
beiiefit of a tariff the burden is
laid more heavily upon non-produc
ers of that article. Says the Na
tional Farm News:
“A concerted effort on the part
of agriculture leaders to batter
down the present tariff walls which
are protecting the industrial East
at the next session of Congress
now appears to be almost as cer
tain as death and taxes.
Letters from readers of The Na
tional Farm News —the majority
of which are coming from real
“dirt” farmers commenting on
President Coolidge’s veto of the
farm relief bill, suggest the razing
of the tariff walls as the only pos
sible move to get agriculture on the
same plane as other industry, or,
in other words, if the industrial
East insists on killing legislation
intend to raise the farming indus
try to the same plane as occupied
by the manufacturers, bankers,
transportation companies and labor,
then these industries must be pull
ed down on the same level as agri
culture.
If i the farmer is forced to sell
his products in a world market they
contend he should not be forced to
spend the dollars he gets in a pro
tected market. Hence, instead of
the President’s action proving a
j plague unto himself, as was pre
dicted at the time, it has resulted
in a move against the dearest pos
session of the Republican party
—the protective tariff.”
Drop a letter in the Moncure
postoffice at four-thirty p. m. and
one in the Pittsboro office at the
same time, and the former can go
around by Wilmington, Goldsboro
and Raleigh and be back to Mon
cure within a few minutes of the
time that the latter would reach
, Moncure to start its journey. The
three mailes out of Pittsboro daily
are practically the value of only
one mail to Sanford in the after
noon or early evening. If the Dur
ham-Pittsboro-Siler City truck
were turned to Sanford instead of
to Siler City and would make a
’ second trip from Pittsboro to San
ford in the afternoon before re
’ turning to Durham, Pittsboro
would have all the mail facilities
it needs without the railroad’s car
‘ rying any mail at all, and Siler City
would receive Pittsboro mail twice
a day instead of once. Mail arriv
ing at Sanford at nine a. m. could
j go north immediately,- south on
the S. A. L. at the same hour as it
• d °es now, while it would go south
the Atlantic Coast Line at the
same hour, and north through
3 Cumnock, Gulf, Goldston, Bear
Creek, Bonlee, Ore Hill, Siler City,
and to Greensboro that afternoon
at two o’clock. Mail arriving at
T Sanford at four-thirty in the as
s ternoon would make early north
and south connection on the S.A.L.,
3 an d leave for Siler City and Greens
, bor <> early *the next morning. But
; is desirable that mail pass di
' rectly from Pittsboro to Siler City,
| the Bennett star route might be ex
{ tended from Siler City to Pittsboro.
Again, the attention of Congress
, man Pou is called to the deplorable
mail facilities here, and he is here
asked to lend his assistance in get
[ ting instituted a routing that will
remedy the situation.
i It seemed to be taken for grant
, ed ten days ago that the Southern
i forces of China would fight its way
steadily to Peking, the old capital
of China, but the Northerners
i turned upon their pursuers and
, hurled them back to the Yangste.
• More than 200 warships, large and
i small, are assembled at the va
> rious ports to protect foreign in
, terests, but neither army, one may
, be sure, is giving much thought to
■ the foreigners. The danger to the
latter is in the horde of unorganiz
• ed ruffians who may think the con
i flict between the two armed hosts
; gives them a golden opportunity to
> loot. Missionaries far in the inte
rior are the ones in greatest danger
in such a time as this, and there
are several North Carolinians who
are far inland, many #ays from the
protected Pacific port&
DELAY OF LETTER SPOILS
LAST WEEK’S RECORD.
Last week we wrote an editorial
setting forth the deplorable outgo
ing mail facilities here. The let
ter containing that editorial and the
bulk of the county news for the
week was mailed here Tuesday ev
ening and should have been in the
hands of the printer Wednesday
morning. But he got it Saturday
evening. Thus was more than the
editorial set forth proved. We
have not only the equivalent of
only one outgoing mail a day, but
one of the three services which go
to make the equivalent of one out
going mail, and the most impor
tant one of the three, is uncer
tain.
The northbound mail that goes
to Moncure in the evening must go
down to Aberdeen, where it is sup
posed to be transferred to the
northbound train, reaching Ral
eigh early in the night. Evidently,
the sack containing the Pittsboro
mail failed to be transferred,with
the consequence that it traveled on
southward how far one cannot
guess. It might have gone to
Cuba, apparently, to get back to
the printer Saturday afternoon. But
the editorial is appearing this week,
and it is all the more timely. But
the delay of the letter carrying the
bulk of the county news to our
printer almost ruined last week’s
paper. The deplorable outgoing
mail facilities have proven the
worst difficulty we have had in
publishing the Record since the
fire destroyed the plant.
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Pittsboro is in a triangle the
three legs of which are the railroad
from Raleigh to Greensboro, that
from Greensboro to Sanford, and
that from Sanford to Raleigh.
' There are three outgoing mails,
one to Siler City, one to Durham,
and one to Moncure, all points on
the legs of the triangle. The con
' sequence is that the three outgoing
mails amount in effect to only one
to an apex of the triangle. One
mail going to Sanford in the aft
ernoon, say leaving here at four
p. m., would amount to the equiva
lent of the three. A letter mailed
■ in Sanford anytime before nine
l o’clock at night would be delivered
; in Durham at practically the same
> time as one mailed to Durham here
! at one-thirty p. m., as the latter
- arrives in Durham too late for city
; delivery that day. And mailed at
1 Sanford at the time indicated it
s would reach Raleigh practically at
t the same time, and therefore have
t the same chance for north, east,
- and southeast speeding forward as
- if sent to Durham at one-thirty,
c Accordingly Sanford is the logical
f I outlet for Pittsboro mail. And the
i service will be all that the old town
- needs if the suggestion in another
- editorial be adopted, namely, that
> the Siler City mail truck go on to
s; Sanford in the morning, return to
- Pittsboro, make a second trip to
7 Sanford in the afternoon, return
b and take the mail back to Durham.
- In that case, there would be no
i need for any other mail facilities,
i The train mail to Moncure might
t be discontinued, and the saving
i thus made would doubtless more
e than compensate for the additional
i expense of the second x trip of the
r truck to Sanford, for the additional
, time of the carrier would be the
i chief cost, as the wear and tear on
t the truck and the amount of gas
- used in making two trips to San
i ford a day would amount to very
, little more over the paved 17 1-2
. miles to Sanford than 1-2 on e trip
t over the soil-top road to Siler City,
. which too is 17 1-2 miles.
It will be observed that the town
. commissioners are advertising the
. proposition to issue $40,000 in
s bonds to put in waterworks in
j Pittsboro. If 25 per cent, of the
. voters do not petition for an elec
-1 tion on the matter, the bonds may
be issued without an election, thus
saving the expense of such an elec
. tion. That is well enough. If you
l n °t favor the proposition, get
r busy - But apparently the time has
I come for Pittsboro to make this
; modern improvement. The effect
! u P° n tb e rate of insurance will
. lately compensate for the raise in
[ j tax rates. The ordinance does
. not look to the institution of sew
. erage but only to a water supply.
r A number of homes at present have
> Private water supplies and septic
i tanks for sewbrage, and the same
. sewerage tanks can be used with
. the town water supply, while others
; may avail themselves of the town
» wat er for sewage by putting in
. sewage tanks.
Soybean hay will make as good
! £ ains with livestock as alfalfa hay
> there are no heavy freight
. charges to pay when the soybeans 1
are raised on the home farm. ’
THE CHATHAM RECORD
THE MISSISSIPPI
ON THE RAMPAGE.
The flood in the Mississippi is a
record-breaker and threatens to do
immense damage. Already the <
levees have broken in several
places and turned the flood into the
low lands, covering many square
miles of territory. Still the river
is rising, and only the breakages in
the upper stretches of the river
prevent the most destructive flood
in Louisiana of many years. Every
drop of water that leaves the river
and takes to the lowlands above the
Louisiana line lessens the strain
on the levees in that state to a de
gree. But the water from a break
is worse than if there were no le
vees and the flood gradually cover
ed the lowlands reaching many
miles from the river. The flow
from a break is like a mill tail and
it is difficult for the population to
escape and save their stock. Thou
sands have already been driven
from their homes.
As suggested last week, the re
ply of Governor Al. Smith to C. C.
Marshall’s letter asking for an ex
planation of the apparent conflict
between allegiance to the Catholic
hierarchy and that to the U. S. con
stitution is an important document
and will be largely decisive in the
matter of his securing the Demo
cratic nomination for the presiden
cy. The essence of Governor Smith’s
reply is that the doctrines of the
Catholic church and the decrees of
the pope have as little to do with
a Catholic’s relationship to the con
stitution as has, for instance, the
Baptists’ refusal to fellowship
professed Christians who have not
been immersed, or the refusal of
the Episcopal church to fellowship
divorced persons who have re
married. Just as Baptists refuse
to recognize sprinkling as baptism,
or even immersion by a non-im
mersed minister as true Baptism,
so the Catholics decline to recog
nize any Baptism except that by
their own priests. And as the Epis
copalians decline to accept divorce
by civil authority as justification
for remarriage, the Catholics de
cline to accept civil marriage as
the equivalent of a church mar
riage. And as the Episcopal’s re
fusal to fellowship a divorced per
son who has remarried has nothing
under the sun to do with the lat
ter’s civil relations or rights, so
has the Roman Catholic view of the
necessity of church marriage by a
priest nothing at all to do with any
person’s civil rights or obligations.
Also the Catholics dictate what
their members must believe to re
tain membership, but not what
others must believe, except to be
come Catholics; so does every other
church dictate what its members
must believe and not believe. These
illustrations are not Governor
Smith’s, but are used- because they
seem to give in an understandable 1
way the gist of the argument of j
the governor.
It used to be the practice of a
salaried man in the South to meas
ure the worthiness of his salary by
the number of bales of cotton to
which it was equivalent. SSO a
month was conceived of as a most
excellent salary, as it was the
equivalent in a year of a whole lot
more cotton than one man could
make on his own land and with his
own team. And it would be no bad
measure today. The officer who
gets $5,000 a year is getting the
equivalent of 60 to 75 bales of cot
ton without any expense being
counted for land, cultivation, and
gathering. That is a pretty good
crop for the strength of some of
the $5,000 men. Wouldn’t it be in
teresting to see some of those pork
eaters out trying to earn a living by
their own labor and initative ? _
JURY LIST.
The following named citizens
have been drawn as jurors for the
term of court beginning May 16:
John H. Williams, Oakland town
ship; R. A. Hearn, L. D. Thompson,
J. A. Norwood, B. W. Mann, Bald
win township; W. H. Seagroves,
Williams; S. S. Edwards, W. R.
Fox, L. J. Brooks, W. J. Hackney,
Carl Killiland, Matthews; Wilson
Yates, C. E. McKoy, F. L. Thrail
kill, C. E. Goodwin, J. A. Horton,
New Hope; Frank Perry, Harry
Wood, J. W. Lindley, John Crutch
iield, L. N. Glenn, Hadley; E. T.
Hackney, Albright; W. P. Hanner’
P. C. Brady, Herbert Willet, H. L
Carter, Bear Creek; W. A. An
drews, W. C. Johnson, B. E. Dowd,
D. C. Brooks, Hickory Mountain;
Chas. Wicker, D. W. Smith, W. H.
Murray, C. G. Oldham, Gulf; H. B.
Jones, Geo. W. Bre\Yer, O. T. Coop
er, A. B. Robinson, T. W. Hackney,
Center; Robt. H. Wicker, Haw Ri-
Yer; J. W. Bland, Z. B. Utley, M.
Gj Smith, Cape Fear.
MEMORIAL SERVICE.
There will be a memorial service
held at the old Rock Springs
cemetery, one mile north of Pitts
boro, on the first Sunday in May,
beginning at ten a. m. Speaking
by Messrs. J. L. Griffin, A. C. Ray,
and V. R. Johnson, and a sermon by
Pastor W. F. Cates. Dinner will be
served on the grounds. Rock
Spring church is next to the old- t
est church in the Sandy Creek •
Baptist association, and is rich in
history and tradition. Note the.
service will be at the cemetery and ?
not at the church.
Tom Tarheel says spraying is
certainly good fruit insurance.
Marriage License.
The marriage business has pick
ed up the past week, as indicated
by the number of license issued as
compared with former weeks,when
scarcely one a week was issued.
The following have bought license
since our last issue:
O. D. Riddle and Sadie Hall,
the groom of' Moncure, Rt. 1, and
the bride from Jonesboro.
L. C. Brown and Bessie Siler,
both of Siler City.
Ethel Brown and Swannie Hayes,
Bennett.
Roy Tripp and Laure Cole, both
of Bynum.
Brady Walker, of Greensboro,and
Pauline Staley, Liberty.
W. R. Chambers, Apex, R.F.D.,
and Hazel Bolling, Chapel Hill.
Irving Reed, Walnut Cove, and
Ruby Cox, Stanley.
Presnell Foushee, Spencer, and
Florence Andrews, Siler City. Rt.
Three.
T. J. Hill and Noisy Oatney, col
ored, both of Moncure.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ES
TATE
Under and by virtue of the au
thority and power upon him confer
red by a certain deed of trust exe
cuted by 0. A. Palmer and his wife,
Mattie C. Palmer, to Daniel L. Bell,
trustee, bearing date of April 9th,
1926, and registered in the office
of the register of deeds for Chat
ham county in book “GR” at page
19, default having been made in
the payment of the indebtedness
thereby secured, and the holder
of the bond thereby secured having
requested a sale of the lands there
in conveyed, the undersigned, trus
tee as aforesaid, will on
MONDAY, MAY 23RD, 1927,
at twelve o’clock noon, at the
court house door of Chatham coun
ty in Pittsboro, N. €., sell, at pub
lic auction, to the highest bidder for
cash, those two certain tracts of
land in Gulf township, Chatham ;
county, North Carolina, which are
bounded and described as follows:
| First tract. Beginning on the
| Bank of Deep River on the mouth
j of _a branch, corner of S. S. Lakey
| land, and running up said branch
20 poles to a white oak; thence
north 26 degrees west 224 poles to
a pine and hickory; thence north
Pomona Terra Cotta Co., line to
a red oak, corner of old Wm. Ma
lone, 50 acres tract; thence with
his line to the Dowd line; thence
south with the same to a post oak
and maple on the bank of McLeod
Creek; thence down the said Creek
to Deep River; thence down said
river its various courses to the
beginning; containing by estima
tion 283 acres, more or less. This
tiact of land being deeded to said
O. A. Palmer as per deed recorded
in office of register of deeds of
Chatham county in book “EJ”, page
S7O, Nov. 21st 1917.
Second tract:—Beginning at a
white oak on the Stinson road,
running north 14 west 74 poles to
G. A. Murchison corner, ash and
oak pointers; thence west 114 p.oles
to a stone corner in the field, Mur
chison corner; thence* north four
degrees east 61 poles to a stone in
a bottom just below two persim
mon trees; thence west 100 poles
to an ash on the bank of McLeod
creek; thence down said creek as
it meanders to a pine stump and
the Stinson road at the ford of said
creek; thence eastwardly with the
Stinson road 195 poles to the first
station; containing 117 1-8 acres,
moie or less. This land was deed
ed to O. A. Palmer by a deed reg
istered in book “FL” at page 147.
These two tracts of land will be
sold subject to a prior mortgage, or
deed of trust, executed to Atlantic
Joint Stock Land Bank, of Raleigh,
N. C., securing an indebtedness of
$5,500.00.
Place of sale—Court house door,
Pittsboro, N. C.
Time of sale Monday, May
23rd. 1927, twelve o’clock, noon.
This April 15th., 1927.
DANIEL BELL, Trustee.
April 21st, stc
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