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Thursday. February 9, 1928 THE CHATHAM RECORD o. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months t: • Thursday, February 9, 1928 It is a gratifying announcement > that the J. L Case Threshing Ma chine Company makes in this paper. After reviewing tne possibilities of the Chatham agricultural, as. well as actual achievements, the announce ment sets forth that Mr. 11. A. By num has been appointed the Com panys representative in this county. Mr. Bynum is a most excellent me chanic! knows what the farmers of the county need in-the way of mod ern machinery, and will undertake to heip them secure not only the products of his own company, but any other machinery that may be of advantage to them. There is real information in the announcement, and of such character as to be of interest to all citizens, whether far ujcrs or not. W e advise the reading of every Avoid of it, and that, in its light, you consult with Mr.- Bynum about the machinery needed to de-1 velop your idle acres. That he is a real machinist and can be of bene fit to our people, the editor of the Record knowrs, since his skill was demonstrated on several occasions the newspaper plant. ; . The greatest disadvantage in hav ing the paper printed out of : one’s own shop is that we haven’t a chance to read the proofs t and thus, get a chance to detect ■ ours own blunders and those of the printers. “OJJ.”7 in his column in the Greensboro News, catches us on the use of “Tyson’s” for “TryonV’-in' our New Hope article of two weeks ago. In the same article the printer consis tently omitted the second “a’ in “Lasater.” Probably, neither “Try on” nor “Lzsater,” was familiar to him, while the Buggy-making Ty sons furn shed a household word. As the copy was type-written, there was less exons3 —:here would have been plenty of it had it been manu- j script. Last week we referred to | Miss Laßarr as “Chatham’s übiqui- j tious correspondent of the dailies.” j The boy lino:ypist evidently took! “übiquitous” for “pi” or a cuss word j and omitted it entirely. But writ- 1 ing as we do", rs opportunity affords j and with scarcely time to glance j over what we have written, we j make plenty of blunders ourself, j Two weeks ago we referred to the j amendment which gave the negroes j the right to vote as the 16th, and a good friend, calling our attention j to it, thought it was a slip. But j by grannies, we never can remember I which of the 14:h, 15th, and 16th: is which. Anyway, it is easier to t detect one’s own errors when it i comes in newspaoer type than it is j in the copy just written. But what j gets us worse than anything is for i a detectable blunder to be copied ! by an exchange good enough to re produce one of our articles. Read ers will please make plenty of al lowance soy our own and the print ers’ errors, under the circumstances. It seems that there is not as much j freedom in North Caro ina as the i newspapers including The Record, supposed in their comments last week upon tha Rassett fight of 25 .years ago. Only, it appears, a lec turer named Eddy had three appoint ments in the state cancelled because his address did not tally with what the officials, National an dState, of the American Legion thought about military prepardness. It is strange that men who experienced the hor hors of war should lead in the de mand for warlike preparations. But it is stranger that men who fought for what was assumed to be world wide democracy should be guilty of any degree of coercion in the mat ter of free speech. The ex-service men can be a bulwark to American iVeedom, o? they can prove the greatest menace to such American principles as free speech. Three billion dollars cut from the European debt to this country would do more toward off war than the greatest navy in the world. Good will is the greatest, if not the only, barrier to war, and arming to the teeth is not the way to secure the good will of one’s neighbors or to pacify an enemy. America and France have signed a treaty outlawing war as the means of settlement of disputes between the two countries. With France thus out of the question as an warring enemy, with Germany comparative- j ly unarmed, it seems apparent that | the biggest navy in the world can be aimed only at Great Britain, and; l there is no likelihood of England’s attacking America. Why, then, spend , $3,000,000,000 in creating the great-! est navy in the world? Editor J. P. fook of the Uplift, commenting upon a recent occur rence in Concord a lew weeks ago, I when a difficulty arose in securing an operation for a poor but gentle woman who was on the . point of death without an operation, says: j “In a community where hundreds of thousands of dollars have , been spent in magnificent churches and others in process of expenditure, is it the religious sense of the com munity that /i-s obligations end there? Do they not feel that the religion which they outwardly live places an obligation to care for the indigent poor and the sick amongsc them? “The rich and poor alike are bene ficaries of public education. It is an accepted duty. Is not the public health a duty? Why let a poor, worthy woman go without hospital treatment, which she is unable to provide, and which would restore her to service or save her life? That is apparently the attitude of our community at this time. Is not health and the saving of life just as important as public education. “When this community rises to its duty in providing a public hospital, bringing hpspital treatment in reach of those who are unable to afford .it then will our organizations and civic profession prove genuinely es- H lpctive. * “The Uplift is aware that there are organizations that play at this service, .and that there are private individuals that respond to call for help: in these unfortunate cases. These are most commendable; but it is a public matter and the public should bravely meet it.” It is said that Al. Smith is hesi tating- to announce himself as a candidate for the presidency until he is satisfied that he has a chance to be elected if nominated. That shews good sense. There is almost bound to be considerable unpleas antness if Szpith is nominated, and a greater or less disruption of the Democratic party in the South. If there is no chance for Smith to be J elected, a successful fight for the i i nomination would be useless, vet ! cause just as much trouble as his I nomination followed by actual elee i tion. Such a hesitancy indicates both good judgment and real considera tion for tho party. On the other hand, if a review of the situation : convinces Smith that he has a fair | chance of election if nominated, it : would seem nothing short of his privilege, if not duty, to make a vigorous fight for the nomination. In that case, the party could only j llame itself for any degree of dis | ruption growing out of the fight i for the nomination of the New York governor. DIVORCEE MARRIES IMMEDI ATELY : The fo'lov inr- item from the Dur ; ham Herald of one day last week ird cates that Dossie Bone, who se cured a divorce from his wife Lula Bone, at the recent session of court, lost no time in getting him another wife. He was in so much of a hurry, indeed, that the fact of his divorce was not known to the bride’s i father. The Herald item follows: Jim Allen, of Sander Penny plan i fy—————■■ .i ■ n.——— BcFrank Crane Says The Calendar A questionnaire was sent to l,oootl representative firms the other day in regard to a new calendar of thir teen 28 day months. George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Company, sent out a. statement after the meetin gos the United States Chamber of Com merce, which endorsed the move ment, in which he that the new’ calendar will consist of weeks in which every day of the month falls upon the same day. This plan will probably receive the support of the League of Na | tions and a committee will be ap i pointed in each nation to ratify the proposal. This is a valiant struggle of com mon sense against tradition and its outcome will be looked upon with interest. This plan for the new calendar ! not only would make every date fall on the same day of the week in each month, but. as this would only re . suit in 364 days, New Year’s day would be a holiday and called Janu > ary 0. Also the extra day for Leap t Yeaer would be designated by a ci ; pher and a new month would be in serted between June and July. This ’ month would be called Sol because ' it would contain the solstice on both ! tafcion, between the Fayetteville and ! New Hope Valley roads, reported to the Durham police yesterday that i his daughter, Bessie Allen, had run away from home to marry Dossie i Bone. He informed the police in ad- I dition that he believed that they were now' in Durham. Allen also informed the police that he had sworn out a warrant for Dossie Bone before Justice of Peace J. C. Scott, of Hillsboro charging Bone with bigamy, alleging that he 1 had a living wife named Lula. .. STUDENTS ESCAPE FROM BUS FLAMES 1 DURHAM, Feb 2.—Twety .eight graded scholo children, their teacher and the bus driver, t oday had nar rowly esepaed serious injury- when, the Oak Grove school bus, Durham county caught fire, , Witnesses said the little tots were hardly oqt of the truck at the school building when fire spread over the entire building shrdluununununnuirm entire bus and demolished it. A short circuit in the wiring was given as the cause. Today 1 i .7: • A COURAGEOUS IRISHMAN a hollow Magnet A VARIEGATED CLIMATE. MORE AEROPLANES NEED ED. ■777 V,. By ARTHUR BRISBANE 1 . 1 111 —■■■ ■ ■■"|i 1. 1,1 - A real fighting Irishman has-come to America. William Thomas Oos grave, President of. the Irish' Free State. Diffident,, keen blue eyes, soft voice, iron will and a lion’s cou rage.* That is a picture of the Irish President, for whom fear does not exist, not even the only fear.admit mittejfi by his relatives; the Celtic chiefs of Gaul, who admitted that they -feared one thing, that the sky might fall - on them. T i "7 If ;you asked, “can Nothing be more:, powerful than Something?” you would get no serious answer. r-'—-. ‘ But how do you explain this fact, announced by German science and proved by convincing experiment? A hollow magnet is more powerful than a solid magnet. The absence of magnetized metal inside the magnet increases its mag netic strength. A magnet contain ing four hollow lamellae has as much lifting power as one containing nine solid lamellae. Everything is possible in chemis try and physics, now that atmotic construction and the horrible pow- ! I or and speed of the tiny electrons ! have been added to human knowl | edge. But that hollow magnet news J is a thing to puzzle science. A. D. Lasker, who ran the Slip ping Board, once a young, frightful ly energetic boy. sitting in the out • side office of Lord & Thomas in , Chicago, now even more frightfully j energetic, sits in the inside office ami owns the place, j He and iris wife have just given a | j million dollars to Chicago University ! I to study the “causes, nature and j prevention of diseases. Within three hundred years, the j average life has increased from thirty to sixty years, but a man of I fifty has .very little better chance 1 of life than a man of that age one hundred years ago. Lasker wisely gives money to find out why it is that human beings af ter fifty break down so quickly. If the scientists will let him, Las ker should use some of his money investigating suggestions that med ical science would call “all non sense.” All nonsense tis what the doctors called the theories of -Pas teur, who taught them more than they ever knew before. Michael J. Hinch, eighteen years old. touched a live wire carrying ’ILOOO volts and, according to doct ors, was “dead for half an hour.” Quick action by firemen brought the boy back to life. he Northern and Southern hemis pheres. Even if every nation accepts the new calendar it ca n only be put in effect after 1928, when New Year’s day falls on Sunday. After that date, if the new plan is successful, we should ..have no more calendars, as it could be easily told what day of the w’eek any date is. Mr. Eastman and his co-w'orkers deserve a great deal of credit for endeavoring to make this calendar a success as it would undoubtedly be of great convenience to the world. Almost all business executives in America are in favor of it and it would undoubtedly do a vast deal of good im correspondence and in mak ing our records. Os course, the past would have to be taken into consideration, but a calendar only be needed for the past and not for the future, and those who look forward are more apt to favor the new plan tha n those who look backward habitually. The calendar for one week wxmld be for all weeks, as follows: SMTW T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1.3 -14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THE CHATHAM RECORD At first his mind wandered. Then he recognized friends, knew his own name, who hie was and what he had been doing in the previous eighteen years. The question arises, aoes the same thing happen to all of us, after we have been dead a long time, perhaps as one earnest, clergyman sugges s, as long as a billion years, waiting for the world to end and Gabriel to summon us? . . . > v. We have a variegated • climate, dogs pulling sleds over Alaska’s ice, ladies and their friends lying half naked on the sands of Florida, Cali fornia and the Gluf states. ' And the thermometer does, not tell everything about weather. We S’MATTERPOP? . . . . by C. M. Payne; j n pv* I- ' t4*, : (<SAM IS f ' AJ-t / ’ C -/ j ?7 Ge! On The Band Wagon j r Scarcely a day passes without the addition ? 1 of new names to The Record subscription list. i ] Two new subscribers have enrolled right here ,f f in the office in the last few hours, and when the | i editor has a chance to p[o out after them they 1 I! come in by the dozen. | | There Is a Reason j 1 To know what is going on in Chatham 4 T county and what the people are thinking about, | I it is necessary to read The Record. Get on the | 1 band wagon. You will find many a paper f T worth half the price of a year’s subscription, if ? i you care to be informed of tlie affairs of your e I county. ' : 'r if ; I This is a campaign year. National and I y State politics are already warming up. County | { politics will scon begin to simmers You want f T know about it. Read The Record, Three ,T i cents a week is all it will cost you, and you are l | a mighty poor man if you let that trifle keep T ; i you off the l ; st. t ,ornia and the Gulf states, while Donald McMillan, Arctic ex plorer, sent word, through radio, that he is quite comfortable at Bowdoin, i Labrador, with the temperature 35 below zero. It depends on humidity, delation, i ozone and other things probably of j which we know nothing. I * j A dispatch from Nicaragua says j Sandino, the rebel-bandit who killed j some of our marines, has been kill ed by a bomb from one of our air planes. The Nicaragua rebe’s now know that they have no more chance against United States flying ma- than a rabbit against eagles. • That is satisfactory so far as our %-A .. r. , • . . .• . ... *m, XffV •• 7# .- \ • 1 * V*• * 4 * . . ■—— l <———qp—■——— t '■•■■■* '* iff-Mm-m, i've_ TtfNufl Tjfe.‘-*js*3>,o / L up A «50t>T> *To J • . .. . .• • t Nicaragua fight goes. j But our President, Congress and i Army and Navy departments should remember that several countries in Europe and at least one in Asia ex ceed us so greatly in air power chat they could do to us, if they chose,, -what we-have just done to Sandino. | We need fight ng airplanes, not ; merely a sample force of the Nica- I ragua size. v j . The Emperor of Japan sets an ex ample in economy—carries a $5.00' watch, cultivates his own rice field.- That w-ould surprise his great great grandfather. That. Mikado, by lift ing a finger, could chop off any body’s head, and he did. f PAGE FOUR
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