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Tries New Ford
In Test Drives
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jFtfdl Plans to Spend Approximately
Twenty Million Dollars in Ad
vertising His New Car
Lexington, Sept. 21— Woodrow
Me Kay, Ford dealer, who a good
many weeks ago sold the last
of the model he had in stock,
jttvraed Friday morning from De
tract, where he spent a week or
more at the Ford factory and at
home of Henry Ford, the king I
of the automobile world, and brings j
word that the new Ford is
indeed going to be new. He rode
the new machine for many miles,
fpcad ing practically one entire day
os one of the many test drives be-
TOg made at Dearborn. On one
of the tests made there a few
ago the new car was driven
€?4 miles at an average speed of
4S miles an hour, said Mr. McKay,
The car will have a maximum
Ispeed of 65 to 70 miles an hour,
be stated.
As to exactly when the new car
will be on the market Mr. McKay
could not state, but it will not be
many weeks now. Every known
test that an automobile must face
under all sorts of operating con
ditions are being given the new ma
chine. After the 634-mile drive,
for instance, said Mr. McKay, the
machine used was torn down and
every piece of it subjected to the
most minute inspection and to fur
ther tests to determine its maxi
mum strength and durability.
As for appearance, Mr. McKay
describes it as being of a type
somewhat between the latest mod
els of the Chrysler and Marmon.
It will have three speeds forward,
standard gear shift with the latest
word in the transmission system.
The motor will hardly bear any
resemblance to the old Ford motor.
The car will be equipped with wire
wheels, with an extra for each ma
chine, and equipment will be of
most attractive nature, as well as
sturdy and durable.
Quick get away is stressed in the
new model and this is reflected in
the emblem that will be placed on
each car, that of a partridge, which
is supreme in the bird kingdom for
its quick getaway. The name
"Ford will of course appear on
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all types, said Mr. McKay.
The new Ford truck will be even
more revolutionary as compared to
the old, said Mr. McKay. It will
be heavier, for one thing, and a
great deal stouter, besides being
much speedier than the old ones.
Mr. McKay stated he witnessed
demonstrations of the truck under
a load of 8,000 pounds and it reach
ed a speed of 40 miles an hour
with this heavy tonage. It is
designed to have a speed of about
45 miles an hour. It will have four
speeds forward, with two high
gears.
Mr. McKay stated that Mr. Ford
i feels keenly the fact that the deal
ers throughout the country and
the world are having to mark time
while the new line is being per
fected, but he promises that the
factories will soon be turning them
out at the rate of 2,000 a day un
til the dealers are supplied. It is,
Mr. Ford's plan to spend approx
imately 20 million dollars in the
advertising campaign for the new
product. Mr. Ford is said to have
been devoting long hours each day
to the work incident to bringing
out the new product.
An Interesting Case
In the town of Bessemer, in
Gaston county, N, C., this interest
ing case arose. One J. L. Burke
was elected treasurer of said town j
on the 6th day of May. While he !
was such treasurer he was forbid- \
den by the commissioners to pay j
a certain claim against the town.
In disregard of such order, and
in violation of his duty he paid the
claim.
The board of commissioners at
its meeting on the 2nd day of June,
ordered Burke to replace said sum |
in the treasury.
And after repeated notice, on the
14th day of September a resolution
was adopted, the said J. L. Burke!
be hereby removed finally and ful- j
ly as treasurer of this town.
Burke then brought suit against i
the town commissioners to recover
the office of treasurer of the town
of Bessemer from w T hich he had
been removed by the town commis
sioners. The Judge held that Burke
was entitled to the office, in other
words the commissioners had no
power to remove him from office,
and the commissioners appealed to
the supreme court.
Clark, C. J., after stating the I
facts: The question presented is
the right of the town commission
ers to remove an■, official for cause
and upon notice.
In one Dillon Mun. Corp. (4th
Ed.), sec. 240, it is said: “The pow
er to remove a corporate officer
from his office for reasonable and
just cause is one of the common
law incidents of all corporations.”
This doctrine, though declared be
fore, has been considered settled
ever since Lord Mansfield’s judg
ment in the wellknown case of The
King v. Richardson, 1 Burrows, 517.
It is there denied that there can be
no power of a motion unless given
by character or perscription, and
the contrary doctrine is asserted,”
that from the reason of the thing,
from the nature of corporations,
and for the sake of order and gov
ernment, the power is incidental.”
, The same is stated to be the law
in one Smith Nun. Corp. sec. 200
and in Mechem Pub. Officers, sec.
446. The subject is fully discussed,
with ample citation of authorities
and with the same conclusion, in
Richards v. Clarksburg, 30 W. Va.,
491.
The general rule is that a public
officer has no constitutional right
to a jury trial in a proceeding to
remove him from office.
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Must Teach Traffic Laws
To High School Students
! Asheboro Courier.
State traffic laws must be read
! and explained in weekly lessons to
high school students, it is pointed
out by C. W. Roberts, secretary to
the Carolina Motor Club. Not only
must the law with reference to
school busses be read and explained
I but all State laws relating to auto
• mobile traffic. The law limits the
rate of speed of school busses to
25 miles per hour and provides that
i cars must come to a full stop when
loading and unloading passengers.
I Cars are forbidden to pass school
i busses while they are either load
ing or unloading pupils. The speed
i limit in any school zone in the state
is 15 miles per hour.
We don’t know the solution to all
of the problems of the world but we
are always willing to guess.
One gallon of paint will cover
about 500 square feet of surface.
THE CHATHAM RECORD
An Independent Inter
pretation of The
Trend of Events
(By Clarence Poe, Editor, The Pro
gressive Farmer.)
What is news anyhow ? It ought
to be information about the things
that most vitally concern us and
our children. As H. G. Wells wrote
when in Washington some years
ago attending the disarmament
conference called by President
Harding:
“Think of the mornings that will
some day come, when men will
wake to read in the papers of some
thing better than the greats-5-3
wrangle, of the starvation and dis
order of half the world, of the stu
pid sexual crimes and greedy dis
honesties committed by adults with
the underdeveloped intelligence of
vicious children, of suggestions of
horrible plots and designs against
our threadbare security, of the
dreary necessity for ‘preparedness;’ |
Think of a morning when the news-,
paper has mainly good news, of
things discovered, of fine things
done.”
A Drifting World and a Drifting
Nation
That seems to be one difficulty
j with the world today—that it is
i drifting without any definite pro
gram of progress or betterment.
For example, with half the na
tions still staggering under war
debts, property losses, and human
disasters incurred in a bloody orgy
of man-killing that was at its
height less than a decade ago, no
great national or world-leader (ex
cept Sir Robert Cecil in England)
is splendidly giving himself heart
and soul to carrying out the ideal
of 1917 when we entered upon “a
war to end war.” Just as European
fathers and mothers twenty years
ago were rearing,educating, nurtur
ing, and loving millions of sons
only to have them slaughtered in
the wholesale man-killing euphe
mistically called war, so millions of
parents in America and Europe
today may be rearing lads for the
same final butcheryand extinction.
Certainly the so-called statesman
ship of the great powers is doing
little to prevent such a result. Even
the League of Nations gets no sup
port from America and little from
some' European governments.
Your patronage is invited, and you are assured that
this bank will try faithfully to serve you in every way
possible consistent with good and safe banking.
You are urged to bring your financial problems to us,
and we assure you that it will be a pleasure to advise you
to the best of our ability.
We Pay 4 Per Cent. Interest, Compounded Quarterly
On Time Deposits.
Again, a campaign is scheduled
for next year when the richest and
most powerful nation on earth will
choose its lawmakers and its chief
executive, yet few of the men men
tioned as candidates seem to have
any issue on which to base an ap
peal to forward-looking men and
women. Ex-Governor Lowden em
phasizes farm relief but somewhat
indefinitely, and Governor Smith
j Camel
Climbing to new heights of
I \
popularity
Government figures show that
more Camels are being smoked
today than ever before. One
after another Camels passed
them all.
-w If all cigarettes were as good
as Camel you w-oufdn’t hear
anything about special treat*
Jf merits to make cigarettes good
for the throat. Nothing takes
the place of choice tobaccos,
© 1927, R. J. Reynold* Tobacco
Company, Winston-Salem, N. C
presumably stands for modifying
the Volstead Act, but still more
indefinitely, and as for the other
men mentioned as candidates, it
is difficult to say what distinctive
policy they stand for. Mr. Hughes
and Mr.. Hoover, we believe, were
both advocates of the League of
Nations and the World Court, but
are hardly likely to say so now.
I It is a drifting world and a drift-
Thursday, October 6,
ing nation. Here
States our leaders do not even 1
to be interested in the re/* 6111
which have been admittedly^
! cesful in other counties. o i d %
1 Pensions, mothers’ pensions %
■ eminent health insurance ’ f V ‘
• for promoting home-owners’hj
i discouraging tenancy— £ ]j
suc n it
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