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PAGE SEVEN J lies Flo, i* core of this newspaper. WHAT KIND OF MAN DO YOU PREFER? EVERY NIGHT TOO OFTEN GIRL SPEAKS FIRST Dear Miss Flo:- Please tell me what kind of men girls prefer. Judging from my own experience I would sav they prefer "a fellow who has a '•good line,” a classic profile, the latest cut; '*lothes, and a lot of money. Loyalty, mor ality, and honesty mean nothing whatsoever to them. D. D. There isn t any standardized type of man who is a sure-fire hit with girls, for girls tastes in men differ as they do in everything else. There are sily, frivolous girls, with the mentality of a moron, who prefer the boys whose brains are in his heels, who know all the new 1 dance steps and who babble the same unintelligible chatter that they do. These girls would of course be bor ed to death by a man who tried to carry on an intelligent conversation with them. There are wild girls who prefer the men who carry hip flasks and have automobiles and money to spend on them. These girls have no regard for honor and chivalry j and sobriety and industry and they 1 would think a man “a flop” who did not offer them a drink and take them to cabarets and didn’t other wise give them what they consider a good time. But there are a great many other girls who are intelligent and refined and who take serious views ! of life. These girls demand high THE FARMER AND POLITICS By C. O. SMALL Do not read the above caption and make it the farmer in politics, yet that is just about where he must place himself or get many a kick on the crupper. Until the general election next November, all the pol iticians will be inquiring after the health of the farmer and his family. After that, nobody will know that such folk exist. The farmer is con sidered a very malleable fellow who can be cajoled and easily pacified by a “You next, dear Gaston.” Figures don’t lie even if those who make them do. The average income from the farm in this state is less than SSOO annually, which would be less if the state produced cotton only. With this pitiful income, ho is ex pected to pay his confiscatory taxes, keep a car and a radio, and main tain some satisfactory standard of living. All the farm agents under the blue canopy and all the literature on agriculture the government can produce will never lift the load. You are both camoflaged and persiflaged and don’t realize it. Agriculture rep resents the greatest investment and the railroads come next. The lat ter are fat and sleek; the former, like Pharaoh’s cattle, lean and thin. The masses of our people are stiU engaged in agriculture, and I ear nestly hope they will continue to be. A prosperous, intelligent, and con tented rural population is essential to our national perpetuity, A pat ent to land is a title to nobility and a right to sovereignty. The great ness of a nation is not the outgrowth of a few men of the superiority com plex, but the superlative worth of a great common people. The great est schools of the whole world are the homes and the small farms. The measures of a larger hope will come when the soil becomes responsive to the touch of industry and an in crease in the earnings of country toilers. Let it be the high privilege of this great free people to establish a country where rural pride will equal civic pride, and where the wealth that comes from the soil finds its greatest returns in developing and rounding out the great domain of nature that God has given us as an everlasting inheritance. No race betterment can be permanent with out the betterment of the masses. The least worthy monument to any man is a block of marble. It represents the dead man’s money and kindness of his friends. The true monument is what the man has accomplished in life. It may be a better gate, or house, or farm, or mill; put his name on it and let it stand for him. There is another war coming, but it is going to be an industrial wa\ Not a war with weapons, however. Our National Government has not given the farmer a square deal. Gould you have had men like Jefferson all the while at the head of the govern ment, agriculture never would have lacked a friend. The Haugen farm relief bill was an attempt to subsid ize agriculture from the Treasury on the theory that industry has been benefitted by the tariff, thus at tempting to give indirectly by using the tariff taxes a relief for agricul ture that the tariff, acting directly, failed to give. I am now referring to a protective tariff. Under the Wilson administration of 1913, be fore the war, farm products had an exchange value with industrial pro ducts of 100 percent; now, these pro ducts have an exchange value of about 60 percent or, as commonly phrased, the purchasing power of the farmer’s dollar is worth only 60 cents in the dollar. The farmers of the Northwest have awakened to the situation and taken up arms against conditions. If tariff laws are to be effective for industry and a ghastly joke for agriculture, then the farmers of the nation will have no choice but to declare war on the whole protective system. A high tariff for agriculture has failed, and is detrimental to labor. The work ers in the New England mills are poorly paid, altho the industries there enjoy the highest protection. principles in a man—that he respect j womanhood and that h« doesn’t ex pect a girl to let him kiss her and paw her over as payment for every kittle * ourtesy he shows her. And these girls—who are in the majority regardless of how many of the other kind there seem to be —don't care a whoop whether a man has a classic profile or a homely face or what kind of clothes he wears if he is neat and clean and intelli gent. > Dear Miss Flo:- I am a girl of seventeen, and I ; have been going with a boy for three months. I see him almost every , night. My parents ebjejet—and the neighbors are always talking about us. What shall I do? V. W. Your parents are right in object ing. You are too young to go out with any one so much. That’s why the neighbors talk. Try seeing him once a week. , Dear Miss Flo The other evening I met a very nice young man at a party. Two days later I met him and he didn’t speak. Shouldn’t he have first? S. W. No, it wasn’t his duty to speak first. That is the privilege of the lady. ... Those benefitted by high tariffs are special interests, few in number, powerful in influence, under com plete organization, able to regulate production, crush competition, and direct legislation through campaign contributions, representing but a small part of ill-gotten wealth. Eng land, with her free trade, pays high er wages than neighboring states with high tariffs. A high tariff in creases the farmer’s cost of produc tion; his cost of living; his cost of MORE transportation; it restricts the capa city of his foreign purchasers and decreases his own purchasing pow er, or the buying power of his own dollar. Our Republican friends may claim much for the protective system, but the historical fact is just to the contrary, for a high tariff under normal conditions depression has fol lowed. There have been three de pression in agriculture since the Civil war. The first in 1873, after one party had been in control for 12 years. The next followed in 1893 as an inheritance from the former party. The next came in 1907, af ter 10 years of continuous party con trol and a high tariff; and now the depression in agriculutre, which will extend, if not soon checked, to an other general depression, is under a high tariff. '*•' It seems the only feasible way to help agriculture is by reducing the tariff, reducing freight rates, facil itating foreign and domestic mark eting, and the exchange of commodi ties thru associa tions and some sensible credit sys ♦ ♦ i! BUILDING MATERIAL I <► O 31 GALVANIZED ROOFING 31 3; COMPOSITION ROOFING 31 | PAINTS, OILS, WINDOWS 3! DOORS <; ;; GENERAL HARDWARE LINE <; I LEE HARDWARE COMPANY I t SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA o * I ! WHEN TO SAVE I o <► Jf Today, this week, this year is the time to save! t <► ’ There will come no better time. Saving is not an easy. <> o process at any time, so there is little reason to think <i o that next year it will be easier. J! Mj But making is to be considered before saving, JJ and it is false economy to handicap one’s earning <> jo ability by economizing on equipment necessary to es- o 3f ficiency. Therefore, the truest economy is in putting 3! as much as is actually necessary in securing the things \\ o you need to make real progress in your business. And o sometimes a loan is necessary to secure equipment or o % material to modernize and make thoroughly efficinet % one’s business. Such loans this bank would encourage, and would be glad to negotiate under proper condi <► tions. <► Jt But the money often wasted in useless ways 3! would, if saved, soon provide the capital to fit one out <► for more efficient business. Begin by making a depo o sit in our savings department. We pay interest on <► o time deposits. o The Bank ot Pittsboro JE PITTSBORO, N. C. 3! JI A. H. London, President J. L. Griffin, Cashier 3! i jj W. L. Farrell, Asst. Cashier 3! ► o’ tem which will not be and can not be, abused. The former is told of the big surplus on hand, and this is dope, yet we are reminded that in ail the big cities and in this coun try that about half of the children are undernourished, while over the world in general there is distress for food and actual famine in some for eign parts. There can never be any surplus until every man, woman, and child is properly clothed and fed. Right here, byway of digression, it 1 is all right to have charity associa tions to relieve hunger and naked ness, but wouldn’t it be far wiser to do something to prevent such appall ing conditions. The farmer is the only man in the world who has not a word in | price fixing. Some products of the 1 iarm should be constant. Take the price of tobacco for instance. The consumption of this article is steadily increasing and the cost to the cosumers is as constant as the iNorth star. Yet the buyers fix prices which vary greatly and without any reason whatever. The fact is there: there are few buyers, and they thru i the advantages they possess derive j great profits, while the millions of j growers hardly receive cost of pro ; duction. Rather recently, one of the 1 big dealers died, leaving an estate -of $150,000,000, while the hundreds ; of thousands that produced the pro duct live in penury. My farmer friend, you may applaud, shed tears for the robbers of Peter to pay Paul if you wish, but please excuse me. c. o. s. Siler City, N. C. About Vo*. v - Health • Things You Should Know COMMON SENSE PAYS An old friend of mine had a her nia—he called it “rupture.” For many years this minor affliction had been with him. Assured that a sim ple operation, and that only, would cure him permanently, he testily re plied that he “objected to carving.” It was pathetic to see him draw from his pocket a half dozen lurid circulars, adjust his glasses, and the glittering offer, “a cure, or your money back.” Could anything be fairer? One day he came into my office, carrying a small package. “Doc,” he announced, “I’ve got this outfit —but he sez to get my physician to put it on for me!” I read the “instructions,” which “assumed that your doctor is an in telligent person.” O, the irony— the immaculate gall of it! But this old man had trusting faith in me —with certain limitations, and I loved him. I unpacked the thing—found a few strips of adhesive, a small pad with about a cent’s worth of hokum on it, some pieces of cheap gauze, and big, black-letter instructions and “cautions.” All of which I ob served to the letter, and to my cus tomer’s delight. He had spent some ten dollars, and had a right to the benefits, if any. It didn’t cure him. It didn’t bene fit him. He didn’t get any money back. He was informed that evi dently the pad was not properly ap- THE CHATHAM RECORD plied—in view of which we will sell you another for half price!” No, dear reader, this is not -a fable; every word of it is true. But it has a moral: The only way to convince a fool, is to let him get stung. The pity of it all is, that thousands of dollars spent annually for “hokum” is extracted from lean pocket-books. IT PAYS TO GRADE COTTON SEED ; . '/ The following article from The Monroe Enquirer indicates that there is money to be made by plant ing only good cotton seed: “O. H. Phillips, Stanly county’s demonstration agent, says that the hum of the cotton seed grader is heard in practically every section of the county, grading the seed from which next year’s cotton crop will be grown. Stanly county farmers con tend that graded seed will produce as much as one bale more on each eight acres than ungraded seed. D. D. Bowers, Albemarle, route 3, says very emphatically that he believes graded seed will produce even better than that. A strain of cotton kept pure and true to type will bring $lO to sl2 more per bale than ordinary cotton or improved varieties chat are mixed with shorter staples. Far mers know full well that those facts are true, and are not only getting better varieties of cotton, but are using their influence to induce oth ers to grade their seed and use a good type of cotton such as the Mex ican big boll or Wannamaker’s Cle veland. These two are most popular at present and also in this section of the state. These faithful progressive farmers know beyond a doubt, that if all the seed planted-next year are graded that it will create $150,000 to $200,000 more wealth in Stanly county. It has been reported that these graders have been going since Christmas, and that they will be re quired to go full tilt until the lat ter part of February. J. Fenimore Cooper’s decision to write came after he had read a very poorly written novel. Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes wholly within the boundaries of the United States. fn the past six years bandits have stolen approximately $50,000,000 from the United States mail. Bld8 Id to this restment Redden chest with hot wet towels; rub on —• apply thickly POR UB Over t? Million Jars Used Yea.ro/ electricity!— Child of Science and Enlightened Business” ! , little meaning for the average ’ citizen until he sees them applied to make daily living better. In electricity, with its myriad uses easing the burdens and adding to the happiness of humanity, science perhaps has found the most brilliant vindication for , weary year* spent in the search for truth. T*ns spirit of research, constant seeking for improvement, striv ing to peer into the future for the problems it may hold, has been the natural inheritance of the electric light and power in dustry. Its engineers and execu tives have always been ready to apply every new invention mak ing for greater efficiency. Upon ti iis spirit rests an electrical development in America which knows no equal in the world. A C. 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And you wili always know—whether you pay $1195 for your Buicfc, or more—that your money buys the ut dost in motor car value, SEDANS $1195 to $1995 COUPES $1195 to SIBSO SPORT MODELS $1195 to $1525 TjLcTaca C *? lch " « tax to be added* finance pl« n , the nu>* desirable. U avaiLM* BROWN KJiCK VICE STATION i Sat for-% R C ! Says Julius FL Barnes * Former President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States "These recent great advances*in trans portation, communication , power de velopment and pure science enable us to better understand the advance in productive industry resting on these great aids. Organized modern industry, guided by science, equipped by inven tion, driven by Nature*s power forces, administered by trained minds, pours forth in increasing volume the thousands of articles which the homes of America today demand. ** * It has been the inspiration of the policies which have always had as their aim success through an ever-expanding use of electrical service at low cost rather than exploitation of a limited supply. The result of these policies h&s been seen in the steadily declin ing cost of electrical service. The confidence of three million in vestors and the ready availabil ity of necessary new capital each year are further recognition of the soundness which the industry has attained. But the spirit of science, of progress and efficiency depend upon the freedom of individual initiative to give them life. Only as individual initiative is left free to strive and attain can the future service of the electric light and power industry be assured. -da y. Fenmary 16, 1928
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