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PAGE FOUR »W-. r- the ffIATHAMRKORD o. J.PETERSOft Editor and Piifttfsher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year • sl*so ;ix Months *75 THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 1927 1017 OCTOBER 1927 j "S- I Mon. I Tue. W«d. M rn, m: ffl 01 a W w * 1345 6 7 8 9 10 11 D 13 14 15 16 1? 18 19 20 21 22 JJ 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 a,. -1.. 1 - t We see “ Randolph products” are to be prominently displayed at the Randolph Fair. Oscar Coffin should be piled on top of the whole lot of other products as the most uni que of 1 all. Set him up there and give him a dish of collards. • The Record congratulates Mayor Jeffress and the other three Greensboro officials upon their vic tory over the recallers last Monday. But there is one thing sure. If Pittsboro should have a recall elec tion, we know that the recallers will not get beaten over two thou sand votes, as they did in Greens boro. It is the first fall that we have really had a chance to discover that Chatham scuppernongs are compar able to sandhill scuppernongs. They compare very favorable, especially grapes from that George Brewer vine. There should be a thousand cuttings rooted from that vine and planted in Chatham county. There is no fruit which varies more, tree by tree or vine by vine, than scup pernongs, and the way to get the first-class article is to plan cut tings from a producer of that kind. Cuttings may be made to live apart from the parent vine, but it is easy to cover partly the down hanging branches and let them root before being separated from the parent. TIME TO END THE WAR. Well, well, who would have thought that Editor J. P. Cook would have been guilty of any such ; exaggeration as that occurring in the Uplift of Sept. 24? Under a picture of the Mitchiner place, near Smitnfield, which was used as headquarters by General Hampton after the battle of Bentonville, it is stated that this “is one of the few Soupthern homes that escaped Sherman’s torch in his march through the South.” On the con trary, we have lived in four south ern states but somehow or other no one has ever pointed out to us the site of a home burned by the Yan kees, and we do not believe there was any such site in the communi ties in which we lived, though we have passed through Columbia, S. C, which was burned while Sher man occupied that city. But Fay etteville, Goldsboro, and Raleigh | were also occupied by General Sher- yet we have never even read ; of a home burned in either town. Part cf Sherman’s army marched through the upper part of our ; home county the day before it join- j ed in the battle at Bentonville, but we have heard of no homes burned Up there. And even a bunch or two of the Yankees went to the home | of the writer’s father, but it seems j to have been standing there 4 1-2 years later when the writer was born in it, and did get burned 40 years after the yankees passed. But, anyway, now that the mark er has been placed on the site of -the Bentonville battle, isn’t it time to end the war? We rather thought it had ended some time ago till we moved to Pittsboro, and have hoped that when it ended here it would be ended sure enough. But we guess the firing will oon tinue at Cross Creek, Wilson, and Other points now occupied by younger commandants so long as tfie booming guns attract a suffi cient mead of attention. UTOPIA GLIMPSED. Methinks a glimpse of Utopia realized te sometimes had through the haze of shifting economic, so cial. and benevolent ideas. We call your attention here to Editor Clarencp Poe‘s article, clipped from the Progressive Farmer, in which lie not only advocates the free health service that we for several years have occasionally agitated, bwt insists that old age pensions are aiming. Read that article now and *: s - then turn back and finish this one. ' * ;:^TreeTte^t*f r s«ryice i ttnd old age pensions seem chimerical to you. England has the latter, and No Gai'oftlna has pYactichlly had it,far white people for several jears. “North Carolina has had it? y° u ask. Yes; North Carolina is pay ing more than a million dollars to Confederate pensioners, and ten vears ago that meant nearly all the white men and women over years of age, and now a dollar a day for practically all the white men and women over 80. But there are plenty of men from 60 to 79 who need and deserve this pension just as much as the bravest Con federate veteran living does, even basjng their claims on the war basis. Let us suppose a case of a lo year old boy whose father waskilled in the war. The burden of caring for his mother and younger broth ers arid sisters fell upon him. His neighbor returned from the war at the age of 18, after a few months in the army, safe and sound and finding no empty chair in the home. The two work out their economic salvation the best they can. They are now both old men. The one who is 80 and was not bereaved by the war has been drawing a pen sion for several years, and is now getting a dollar a day; the other upon whose boyish shoulders fell the support of the home after his father was slain has got nothing, but, on the other hand, has been taxed yearly to pay the pension to the youth who was fortunate enough to be three years older than he. Suppose, or picture, other parrallels or contrasts. It was not necessarily the youth who went to the army who was the greatest suf ferer from the war. Compare, too, the cases of the women pensioned on the grounds of their husbands’ services, and of those who as daughters of killed or wounded sires grew up as field hands unlettered and perhaps un loved. All our folks between 60 and 80 were the severest kind of suffereres as a result of the war, having been reared ifi war times or the grievous days following the war. ‘ North Carolina bemoans its illiterates, largely the offspring of those lean years from 1860 to 1880. But it is not upon grounds of that kind that one would justify free medical and surgical service, i and an old-age pension, but upon 1 economic grounds. The moloch of the present day is insurance. The increasing preval ence of the insured is reckoned a blessing, and the business has be come so monstrous that in Wake county it is reported that there is an insurance agent for every 235 inhabitants. talking of taxes, all the taxes the state, counties and towns levy shrivel w r hen placed beside the in surance levy, paid by a comparat ively few. The whole idea would be laughed at as uneonomic in pia. The idea of one adult, iil> a hundred or lessen-Wake .county getting his living through insur ance! Also thousands are burftep ing themselves while t'lieir families are growing and are at most ex pensive stage by premiums upon their insurance policies, not because of the investment feature (for insurance is not a good invest ment) but as a protection against the possibility of their deaths and the impoverishment of their homes. And even then, with an insurance agent for every 75 homes, the families which really need the in surance most cannot have it. Then, just suppose that even a portion of the premiums paid for \ insurance were diverted to free health service and old age pensions, and to the care of widows and orph ans. Worry would be largely ban ished. The need of insurance as protection would go a glimmering, and the man who now pauperized himself to ( pay insurance might have funds in the course of a few years to capitalize himself, with the result that wealth would more abound, while the dread and misery of an impoverished old age would be banished. As it is today, the man of average means cannot carry enough insurance to protec't ade quately his family in case of his death and to furnish support in case of his disability or during a lingering old age. If he chooses cheap insurance for the protection of his family, then no adequate old-age fund can be expected from it. Alf he puts his spare funds in a policy that will provide an an nuity, the premiums are so high that, he cannot insure sufficiently to protect his family in case of death. And even if those who can, and do, insure largely could come back ten years after their deaths they might find ,^he..v.fund^^. left, thek .widows. aa*Tchildren ha - proven a purse, instead of a bless ing. • • .. _ Os Course, ‘tCttifC’’" the’ ‘-present regime continues, insurance is the chief hope o t. providing for care of the family in case of one’s death, but it is not an unreasonable hope that the economic world will one day see that the great insur i ance wheels are aturning almost uselessly if only every citizen play ing a faithful part in life were as sured of the protection of the state i for his family and himself i in case of disability, death, or non productive old age. And just think l what an abounding additional ► wealth might be created if the capital and men, now involved in . the insurance business, were set [ free to enter productive industry! ■ Can you think otherwise than that . the increase <of wealth from putting : the capital and men now used in the , insurance business to work in pro , ductive industry would fully pro vide the additional wealth neces sary for free medical and surgical attention, care of widows and orphans, the disabled, and for the aged? And be sure that there f would be fewer untimely deaths, disabilities, and fewer men ,and women surviving in a decrepit old age, so often decrepit because of overburdened years of toil and hardship. MONDAY BLUSTRY Blustry rains seem to have been general in the county Monday with the winds approaching hurricane velocities at Pittsboro and west- < ward. Several trees were blown ! down in Pittsboro and J. A. Woody , > and A. B. Campbell report trees blown down at their home in their vicinity. ..... The apples of Hickory mountain, of no mean value this year, have been swished from the trees, and late corn is generally flattened. The rain was much needed and was followed by beautiful weather for the opening of the fair Tuesday. BACK TO OLD HOME Mr. and Mrs. Cleaton Lindsey have moved back to the old home place with the former’s mot|ier since the death of his father, Mr. W. M. Lindsey. We welcome them back and hope to have Mrs. Lindsey teaching the Junior class at Brown’s Chapel Sunday school, as she is one of Chatham's former teachers and is qualified to interest boys and girls. She will make tjjie fourth former public school teach ing in our Sunday school. H. F. D. CLUB NOTES • Fi: *>; * f? f , v. The music department of the Woman’s Club, held its October meeting with Mrs. R. M. Farrell, with Mrs. J. A. Farrell as addition al hostess. . ' • The Club Woman’s hymn was ; sung, following which the collect j was recited in union. The roll was called and minutes read. „ Miss Louise Joyner of Louisburg, , a-member of the school faculty was heartily welcomed as a new mem ber. This department has helped to secure Public School music for the elementary grades in the school and has guaranteed half the salary of the teacher. Mrs. Victor Johnson, chairman, read a letter from Mrs. E. E. Ran dolph in regard to the Music Me- I mory contest the department will undertake this year, in co-operation with the Pub lie school music teach er, Mrs. Henry A. Bynum. All were urge'd to attend the dis- i trict meeting in Zebulon and bring the prize for attendance home. Several articles were handed in for the bazaar. The following program was ren dered at the close of the business meeting: 1. Music appreciation—Miss Lou ise Joyner. 2. The influence of music—Mrs. R. M. Farrell. 3. The Study of Music—Miss Es sie Peterson. 4. Solo—The Gypsy Trail—-Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse. The hostesses then served an ele gant salad course, being assisted by Miss Callie Vic Farrell. Dr. R. M, Farrell delighted all with selections on the violin. The next meeting will be # held with Mrs. t). J. Peterson and Miss Essie Peterson. The trouble with helping women around the house is that the jobs they give you to do are so trifling. THE CHATHAM RECORD Gum Springs P&froris Delightfully ■’• •Entertain Pittsboro T. *• Association .J, ' 1 - * " 3 •;■«> A., • The picnic supper and social ev ening planned by the Parent Tea cher Association and the patrons of .• '■ ('■..* -v •. -.k the Pittsboro school who live in the Gum Springs or Brown’s Chapel community, Saturday was a great success from every point of view. The chief object was to allow the fathers and mothers of that good comrtiunity to. have an opportunity to get acquainted with the teachers and school board and officers of the Parent, Teacher Association, and the latter with the former, and at the same time present the aims and achievements of the P. T. A. There was fine attendance, and the good ladies of the community, maintaining their traditional hos pitality, prepared a regular feast of good 1 things for the picnic sup per with which the meeting was ended. The meeting was held at the Gum Springs school building, which school is still maintained as a pri mary school and this year has a teacher, Miss Burgess, in whom the community is delighted. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. R. H. Hayes, the wide awake president of the P. T. A, who after expressing the pleasure of the association in meeting with the people of that community, spoke on what the asociatison is doing for the health of the children, and urged every parent to see that j his children shall have advantage |of the dental clinic which will be J held at the Pittsboro school soon. Mrs. Shannonhouse, who is one of the officers of the state association, told of the growth of the Parent- Teacher association in the state and the whole country, stating that there are three million members in the whole country and 15,000 in North Carolina. Principal Waters spoke of what the association meant to the school, and Mrs. W. P. Horton on what it means to the teachers. Mrs. Cor don spoke on membership. Super intendent Thompson made a timely and effective talk. Mrs. Hayes called upon Miss (jol trane of the Teacher’s Training Class to speak, but she disclaimed any desire to speak, yet told *he mothers who had small children that if that was a reason for their not attending P. T. A. meetings, to let it be an excuse no more, as she and her class would take care of the children and would enter tain them with a story hour during the meeting of the association. Messrs . Lutterloh and Farrell spoke a few fitting words, express ing the pleasure of the community at having the opportunity to be with the Principal, Teachers, Grade mothers and the officials of the as sociation. After the talks Mrs. T. Perry asked the teachers present to ; stand in line that the parents might be presented and shake the hand of each. After /this the whole crowd proceeded to/the dining room where ,wa§ spread a feast fit for a king. The occasion was a most delight ful one for the Pittsborians present and they came back acclaiming the praise of the Gum Springs folk, and hopinjg that some day that they may return the compliment, when it is hoped that the Gum Springs people will come in equal force. Those who were present will cher ish the evening as one of the pleas ant memories of a life time. ) . , TRUSTEE’S SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the pow ers of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed to the under signed trustee by O. U. Alexander and wife, Rosa Alexander, bearing date of August 9, 1926, and duly recorded in the Registry of Chat ham county, North Carolina, in book GR, page 62, at seq.; default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secur ed and the cestui quy trust having instructed the undersigned to fore close, as provided by said trustee deed, I will sell to the highest bid der for cash, at the court house door in Pittsboro, N. C., on Satur day the 29th day of October, 1927, at 12:00 o’clock noon, those two cer tain lots or parcels of land lying and being in the town of Goldston, Gulf township, Chatham county, State of North Carolina, and more particularly described and defined as follows: Lot No. 1: Beginning at an iron stake where the church road inter sects the Greensboro road and runs north 41 degrees west 50 feet to an iron stake; thence north 49 degrees MRS. MARY ANN I " PQE, 21 ST., 1927 — . The many, friends 1 ofMrs.MaUfy * Arm Po£ were her death which occurred at her home near Gulf Wednesday- after.- noon, September 21st. Complies • tion of diseases caused her'death, , All was done for her, that loving j hands could do, but God saw fit t and called her home. She died with the statement that she was prepar , ed to go. No one knew her but to j love and re,s p ec t her. She j died at the advanced age of 78. She ■ was the daughter of the late Jessie f and Rachel Poe, was married to the late R. H. Poe, 54 years ago. j A large crowd gathered at Anti s och Christian church Friday. A. M. 11:30 to attend the last rites. She j joined this church in her youth and interment was made there. Funeral service was conducted by Rev. E. t W. Byerly, Baptist minister of Bon lee, who had visited the home sev -5 eral times, read passages of scrip ture and had prayer with her. She j had heen unable to attend church for several years. The flower bearers were Mes t dames John Dowdy, Peggy Dowdy, 5 James Johnson, Archie Oldham, Pete Dowdy, Buck Bright, Misses Nannie and' Eva Dowdy. Pall bearers: Messrs. W. H. Hill, Ben Stout, Bruce and Berry Oldham and Carl Oldham. She is survived by six children and one sister, Mrs. Eli Dowdy. The children are: Mrs. Rufus Tillman, Durham; Miss Ira Poe at ’ home, Messrs. M. G. Poe, Hender son; Joe of Durham; Robert, San ' ford; Bevely at home. Truly a good woman has passed j. j to her reward. ’! Ultimately, what isn’t good for j! all of us, isn’t good for any of us. [ Most of us work all right after | we get started, but we’re hard to start. ; / 1 Even if we aren’t really happy ’ it’s better all around to pretend that we are. east 200 feet to an iron stake; thence south 9 degrees east 116 feet to an iron stake on the north side of Church road; thence with | church road south 68 1-4 degrees west 148 feet to the beginning, and being the same lot conveyed to O. S. Alexander by C. G. Oldham and wife by deed dated October 17th, 1921. Lot No. 2: Beginning at an iron stake a corner of lot No. 1 on east j side of Greensboro road and run ning north 49 degrees east 200 feet to an iron stake in corner of lot No. 1; thence north 41 degrees west 125 feet to an iron stake; thence south 49 degrees west 200 feet to an iron stake on east side of Greensboro road; thence south 41 degrees east 125 feet to the beginning, and be ing the same lot conveyed to O. S. Alexander by J. C. Elkins and wife by a deed registered in the office of ' the register of deeds of Chatham county in book FW, page 338. This the 27th day of September, 1927. VAN OLDHAM, Trustee. Siler & Barber, Attorneys. Classified A<M (BUYING OR GET RESUUj I PECAN and fruit trees pay. Or namentals beautify. If inter ested in either, write for illus- i trated catalogue. J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga. YOU CAN get the best price for your cedar and a load of cedar strips by selling to W. C. John son. HIGHEST cash prices paid for Ce dar logs delivered at Pittsboro or any point on railroad where same can be loaded. R. M. Con nell. BEST FLOUR for price in town. See 0. M. Poe. SALT, $1 a hundred. Any size sack. W. C. Johnson. BRING me your crossties and cedar posts, to the Standard Oil plant. Inspection guaranteed satisfac tory. R. M. Connell. T l r- *—f ■ ■ ‘-7-' — FOR BEST price on Chicken Feed; See O. HI I*be. ~ THE SANDY CREEK has A jpiNfi Session* The Sandy Cpeek Baptist . Asso ciation, the oldest association in the state and comprising: nearly three score churches of Chatham, Moore, Lee and Randolph counties, held its annual session with the Sandy Branch Church, near Bonlee, last week. The sesion this year, as in earlier times, covered three days, and all were busy and fruitful. Sandy Branch church is in .the heart of one of the best communi , ties in Chatham county, and the ; good people of the community en : tertained the association most handsomely, providing great feasts each day for the several hundred in attendance. . In addition to practically all of [ the pastors of the association and [ quite a number of laymen present as messengers, the association had the pleasure of having with it Drs. . R. T. Vann, Maddry, C. L. Greaves, Rev. B. G. Early, representing the , Biblical Recorder, and Rev. J. , ! Clyde Turner, pastor of the First Church of Greensboro, also Mr. Shinn, director of the Centennial Campaign in this and adjoining associations. Drs. Maddry and Vann, present the first two days, effectively pre sented the achievements and needs of the various agencies of the de nomination. Dr. Turner was pres ent Saturday and delivered a most helpful and forceful address on the Subject of Fidelity. On Friday, presentation of the plan of organization for the Cen tennial campaign in this associa tion was presented by Mrs. D. B. Teague of Sanford, director for this association, Mrs. June Gunter and Mr. Shinn, district director. The one sensational thing of the association, though seemingly not recognized as such by the dimin ished body of the final day, was the passage of Rev. E. W. Byerly’s re port on Prohibition and Law En forcement, in which was embodied a section opposing the nomination of Al. Smith for president. The report, carrying this non-Baptistic recommendation was passed prac tically without discussion. Those messengers who would have re sisted such an un-Baptistic pro ceeding being unfortunately absent on this final day. But the para graph which was so tamely passed by the association was reported to the daily papers and has been one of the news features of the past j week. Mr. V. R. Johnson of, Pittsboro, | was reelected as moderator and Mr. H. A. Teague, of Siler City was again chosen clerk. Mr. I. H. Dun lap of Bonlee, was appointed mes senger to the Southern Baptist Con vention. •v It is of interest to note that this association was held within a few miles of Rives’ Chapel, where near ly a hundred years ago one of the earliest sessions of the North Caro lina Convention was held and the i movement to establish Wake Forest Institute, now Wake Forest Col lege, was launched, and that the chief work of the association in the months to come is the campaign for raising funds for that old col lege and for its younger sister, 5 1-4% MONEY SIOO,OOO to j loan on farms at 5 1-4 per cent. Loans for any length of time from one to 33 years. 6 1-4 per cent pays both principal and in terest in about 33 years. Inter est payable once or twice a year. V. R. Johnson, Sec.-Treas. Chat ham County N.F.L. Association. CONNELL pays the price and gets the cedar and ties. Try him and be convinced. BRING me your cedar posts and be assured you will get liberal measurements. W. C. Johnson. SIX good mules for sale at a bar gain by R. M. Connell. YOU CAN get sugar and coffee cheaper at O. M. Poe’s. 1 \ BUY HAY, oats, corn, from O. M. Poe, and save money. •: iTj ' . . •>.' FOR SALE—rSeed -oats—Virginia Gray; also one good hunting dog. n TT WI "Womble. Thursday, October 6; W FOCH.WILL NOT PRINT^ ; ; .MEMOIRS DURlN£‘m Parse , Marshall Foch most completed the writing of memoirs, but has refused to them be published until a ft er J* death. They will fill 18 volu mes ' Although the story has now b told, the marshal labors daily ' the manuscript, adding a pK ! here, blue penciling a li ne tJj changing and correcting his ar of the great war continually. ,! he says he will probably doing this until he dies. He spurned a fortune offered ■ . for permission to print the mem ' while he is still alive. He expl a C that their publication would k oblige” too many who would fj! . their part in the victory a smalls one than they were in the habit imagining. The truth, and nothing but truth, is Foch’s aim in what ’ writes. His feeling about ’ other historians of the great \ can be gleaned from his remain ‘ that “Today everybody won the ba;J tie of the Marne, except Joff re » , i Meredith, and the other educational institutions fostered by the Bag. tists of the state. A New Slip Did you know that a fifteen-cat I envelqpe of Diamond Dyes will t ; plicate any delicate tint that wlj be the vogue in dainty underwear? Keep your oldest lingerie, stock ings too, in the shade of the hour. It’s easy if you only use a true dye. Don’t streak your nice things with synthetic tints. Dye or tint anything; dresses, or drapes. You can work wonders with a few, inexpensive Diaraori Dyes (true dyes). 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