Thursday, January 24, 1929, inursaay, the CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Six Months - rry-, $.50 a year tax. and has the help ol his family on the farm and many an ; acre in big state of cuitivati n and j quite a large number in good pay ture land for stock raising has to support his family. Now, this is no guessing. Sire - j we began to write tms artic.c, a farmer has come in and we have j counted up everything hy mat is r a his place, allowing 25 c-nhs r day j for vegetables and counting cedar poles cut, counted in tle woo i us ci j at $2 a cord, and his share of a ten- j ant’s crop, and the whole thing le v cost of fertilizer. a~d other leg t - mate expenses, incu. ding tee • for three horses and sls interest on their value and SSO detrri rat.ow gives him a net income of about SBSO. In addition J o his own lr.be-.- ( his wife and big 13-year old boy did ■ considerable work. Now, the tax on that fairr. is about ; S6O, and the interest on its assessed j value is $175. But he lias the rent al of the heme to partially offset : the interest. Accordingly, here is an average j •farmer, or considerably above the j average whose net income for the j whole family is about $8 s O, and h° i pays S6O tax. Now there are a dozen or more, women in Pittsoorc who are getting more in clear-cu i salaries than he made, and are not | asked for a cent of tax, and iiv- j writer cf this article, siryce the burn-j Ing of his plant, is making more than j that and is paying considerable leu j tax than is Mr. Yarn. Any hour of! the day you will see a big strapping j fellow on tin street that ::: not ever paying a r.oi! t. ’/os, sir; give ur a tax os u- ye-:V aad legal rr ear * I of t-.'j. ' '/* ** ; ni::hoe and ! othe th': ir.onr:' would COBS*, Ol - i 1 real was : pc crop year. TO BE ON NOT TO EE? Th i "N i vu..o :-g dis urbcvl over a /.; ’ ' /'«i by vr log Person of i ty to allow , alcohol or v;K i 'ey \<> old on a ; physician’: ore n> u The* fa- J inouis Vo'stead z-f /v v. uch s de, i but the North Garolioa laws for-j bid it. Many of the other states j permit sales on ph. if ian’-i pre serin- 1 tion, even our next .door neighbor Virginia. In Greensboro, for instance, four administers favor the passage of the bill and five were i eported in Mon day’s Daily New-s as opposing. Phy sicians are similarly diivided. Some of the latter sav whiskey is never needed; others think it is and pre scribe, leaving the patient to get it j the best w 7 ay he can. And that is the ground on which Rev. Robt. M'. Williams of Greensboro bases his ar gument for the permission. He con siders it better for patients who are thought to need wdiiskey to be en abled to get it without violating the law and to get the pure article. Aiid there is no question that the demand for whiskey for medicinal purposes encourages the violation of the law. If a man has once (V oo..g:A Wii'ckcy for medicine his mouth : 'is shut against the boot logger who cold it, and when quite o number in the community hav been thus silenced She boet'.crejere have much freer course to sen ----- ■ concoctions. I The editor of the Record is kcicvm to have been a teetotaler nil his i if-? v.'c*'’ the execution of tne use O: liquor in a cr-e cf blood poison when a student at college. And if h > had such another case, cr. a rrienci had such a case, ho would tee 1 th.?: the denial of whiskey .would be an injustice. For ten long weeks the writer lay in bed at Wake Fere it. and during eight or nine of ttiore weeks the only thing that he could relish was miik toudy, or m - ~ punch is the proper name. In fact, for fifty or sixty days that was nil the nourishment he took, an cl he lived, though many thotff/nt fc wouldn’t. The fellow feared tbit he might cultivate a taste for th' stuff, but when his appetite came back the milk toddy was the one j thing that he didn’t want, --end ha has not tasted whiskey the 38 years since nor has he been sick to count. A man who needs arsenic, opium, or any other poison except as medi cine he can buy it legally on a phy sician’s prescription, and if a sick person is thought to need liquor, it would seem fair that he could ge: chat without having to cause a vio lation of the law and become dumb aginst the bootlegger who supplied it. And there are many women who violate the law in making wine for medicinal purposes who would have j no excuse to do so if wine or whis key were available \inen actually considered as necessary by the physi : eian. However, the permission would 1 open up new means of violating the j lav. Yet we believe that it would! 1 [icave more real friends oi prohibi-j ! lien free to report violations oi ! life law. Just suppose you had ! "ought a pint of liquor from an il ,r.l’ dealer for medicine for your j I self'cr family and then you should j * i i I:v -. that the same bootlegger had -c/ I it vo your son or your neigh jbci for beverage purposes, what .vouid yui Jo? On the other hand, huqmo y u had not aided and abet ! ted in u i nmer violation ,of the, law aim. w chat the bootlegger was your neighb r, is their any question i that you would report him 9 If !• ou would «:cnort him? If you f ... j woulda’:, yofi are no prohibitionist, ird needn’t /take any pait in this /vcvuicn. > Secretary IJlellen, in charge of \ piahiuiticn jen. o. cement, doesn’t wan any metc money for enforce ment. Other J v.lio b ire lit fed by the • Maim that rv,u • a dry evan •elis Li! • / !. Sena tn i-Ja: r s has pro] ose o. a bill in the the appro ipii at ten 1 l c. nr rc a rt by the :mnro, 25 million d' liu' and many !the Smith sunpo. o:. a n sup- I •in ; i:*c measure. I’ it does not I 3cc me a lav/ it m - i the fault of the Renubl'can majority h nubile n pi ■ il. < sorgia, i .i ) s. Many of the Jem ! i •b o members of the Senate and fir- reuse will bcln-th'-rv crcuu th I funds to make a real but cf pro i j ion. | A). Smith nropcceo to give the j r.ror' *ds of th? book of hr: cwm i* n ‘ nmcl es to help pay the debt l o' the Nr Nora! Dem :ernt*e ccn 'l''. Flo )■; said to have been cv (i ed $206,000 for the publiciticn ght-. Mr. Bra n published such I?’ Kook r.ntl kept the money. Sir/./' j in asking that the debt be paid b*' j the m' rr. hen; of the farty in g -nerv" • and not left for the few rich men to (pry. who eou’d thus claim i\ g-eato*’ : *rh t to d'Vdate the poticics of the paity. His plea went out ov r th° radio, and many r.-sprnr?r are re ported as coming in. Ha also urges tbt the party management keep b u sy during the next three ' r on rs and n f suffer the party to become mori bund. The advice of a man who :;e- i cured almost as many votes as Cox and Davis both is worth heeding. i One Representative, Box, of Texas is making a loud noise in agitation | of the Democratic party’s ridding itself of the Smith element. He i evidently doesn’t want a National Democratic party. County Agent Shiver has been furnishing valuable material for Chatham county farmers, but he has set ©ut to make an agricultural sec tion of the Chatham Reco d this year that should prove cf unbounded bin-, efit to ur farmers. We cwm mud the! a:tides :n this issue to every rer.d- j cr of the Record. Yes; cv:n merer- j ants ci.d manufacturers; ;av.y rs, at:/ electors, preachers and teach- j o.s, .-.haula read them, dnee no kind: of real knew lodge is c /er found of j no value. Fifty years ago when the father the editor cf th? record gathered i y.yj brsheb of corn frem an acre t ;■ . gj-i • 1 • ' l.(-m :a..a uic iiarv'c-st frer: he acre was equal to the aver c y 2.d cf the uplands of Samp - ecu at" on ci 2at cr ten ac.es. _et last week t..e papers cavr.en the report cf 293.6 bu-he.s of corn grown on three acres of upland by L. -Daughtiy, Jr., of nmey Grove township, a r.anr.c which sag- 1 cysts the character of th? land in J that metis n. Mr. Daughtry won | the Chilean Nitrate pHze forth? | whole South, and has indicated t> j the people of the state what can I ; :c done on a few acres of land. Actually, when the editor of the Record as a twenty-year old youth took Iho census of Sra h C lint n townsh’p in IdoO, h? Hur d th 1 c,/r 1 yield oi a few of ih .fearms of th? township equal H*/ the thus-acre yield of a few of the farms cf the the poor crop year of 1928. In i'acL, there was only one fa.m in the town ship that was making a creditable yield, and that was a 30-acre farm belonging to Mr. Georg? Ilat’grnve. a mile or two from Clinton. K had so little land that he had de veloped it. The forme) hlgh-ynld ing bottom land of the edit r v old home had become soggy, as tr. ' pn - fy low lands will when they have be come compact after a few years cul tivation, and the sandy lands of u. 700-acre tract had been wo n out and no one had discovered at that time the means of making them again productive, except by letting then: grow up in pines and stand for a generation, hou may take th s record of young Daughtry as anoth er illustration of the liklihood of the surplus land acreage growing greater. If all fo.merly cultivated should yield in that way. there would be more corn than could be disposed of. Yet that is the way to grow it, letting the balance of the acreage grow up in timber or be developed as pasture. Governor Gardner is reported as meeting opposition from ol l-tim°rs o n his secret ballot program, but the Record hopes that North Caro lina will secure an election law that allows everybody to vote his choice without any officious interference. If those who have no choice, parti cularly in the primaries, can be pre vented front voting at all, it would be a good thing. Helpers in thousands of such cases could, how ever, vote them for choice under the proposed law as well as heelers can under the present law. It is a long time since the constitutional amendment was passed, and the number desiring to vote under the giandfather clause should be much fewer than then. Accordingly, it would be no great injustice to give a secret ballot without helpers, and if the voters doesn’t have intelli gence enough to mark th? ballots let film lose his vote or throw it away. ■( is time for the educational quali .Vation to begin to operate. Yet ;?':? cf thousands of white women have been registered contrary to hu i : requirement, as the time for I - - expired before the women we a e enfranchised, and these played - - mall pai;t in giving the state to i uvei last fall. 23. SMITH PRESCRIBES E'OR FGGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Yve commend to the high school —jp'ls cf Chatham county the foi- I wing treerpt from a message of I'rcu’den.t Henry Louis Smith ol \7ashir. ton Lee University to stu 'den in nucha ing to enter college next fall. ' It in chuck full of wisdom and, to cun way of thinking, needs the couw/cr.nt’cn cf many of the young pc onle. Sens Dr. Smi.h: “If you are hcr :i Gy afraid cf unpopularity, if you tie zealously loyal to every local ‘tradition’ and gladly accept the opinion:' of the ‘gang,’ then rest as riucd you arc now training to obey non?e boss, to play second fiddle in life’s concert, and to remain a help less victim of your environment. If you cannot see any use in learning a dead language, and hence dodge Latin; if you ‘despise math’ and I hence quit studying it; if ycu are | wrapped up in athletics or some oth er ‘activity’ that you ‘really can’t 1 find’ time for the lab-work some ; cranky professor insists on —in oth ; er words, if you have started up the long and rugged hill of American leadership in this age of brains and have no control of your brain-power THE CHATHAM RECORD The Late Tc*~&ickard, His Wife and c hua , i i I famous light pi ?moter, 'died at Miami Beach, Fla., ot an infection following an appendicitis operation. He is shown here in a phou t/iken recently with his wife, the former Msxinc Hodges, and their intuy. child. Mrs Rickard and Jack Dempsey were among those at the bedside 1 when the maker of champions passed away. 1 J you had better quit wasting time | and money in school. Your educat j ion as a preparation for future I :-:ucce -3 cannot be measured by ex amination, or grades or even dip lomas-. It is measured by your ability to initiate, control and direct your own mental energy.” Well, Bishop Cannon has turned fir, muzzle toward Secretary Mellon and the senators who are opposed to tiebbling the appropriation for pro hibition enforcement. You may be: 'f A1 had been elected president he would have been in favor of having enough money to enforce the pro hibition laws. Governor Gardner has appoint ed Highway commissioner Haynes of Winston as temporary chairman cf the highway commission. His sal ary while so serving is fixed at $7,- 500, but it is thought that he will serve for no salary, just as he and two or three other: _ commissioners have as commissioners. That is lib eral. but it would mean that neith er he nor the state could afford his retention on those terms as chair nan, since no man should be expect ed to give his full fine to the state for nothing and th ? state cannot af foiM to accept- services on those terms. Mr. Gardner thinks that a full-time chaiiman is needed, and one of his problems ’’s to find the rrani capable of filling Frank Page’s 'hoys. He is seeking a big man, tco, as pardon commissiioner and general assistant, and is said to have fallen upekn his old chum N. A. Townsend as It he man, but the salary is only $ L«) 00, while Nat. Townsend gets $7,'500 as judge. Some more com binations and dismissals will have to be made if Townsend gets the $7,500 and (expenses are not increased NOTICE OF RE-SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of a certain deed' of trust executed by the Chapel Hill Insurance & Realty Company to Jones Fuller, Trustee, dated March IS, 192 1, and recorded in Book of Mortgages GH, at page 292-293, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Chatham County, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured, and at the request of the holder and owner of the said indebtedness, the under signed Trustee will on Wednesday For colds, grip and flu take :.;a;?k reg. Relieves the congestion, prevents complications, and hastens recovery. | DR. J. C. MANN I . s ♦ the well-known ♦ ♦ t X EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Z I j I will be at Dr. Farrell’s of- $ x fice, Pittsboro, Tuesday } ♦ Jan. 29; at Dr. Thomas’ ♦ Z office Tursday, Jan. 24, ♦ Z Siler City. Z 1 10 AM. to 3 FM. t uiiiiiiimunmiiitft? [the 6th day of February, 1929, at ! 12:00 o’clock Noon, offer for r»- . [ sa 7 ;■ at public auction, to the h/ghest bidder for cash, at the Courthouse Doer in Pitts’ooro, North Carolina, . the tracts of land described as fol lows, to-wit: BEGINNING at a stone at Nat ! Riggsbee’s corner in Alf Riggsfcce’s • h’no; th°nce North 5 deg. East 100, 1-2 poles to a stun? pile and pointers | In line of lot No. 4; thence South! ; 87 deg. East with line of lot No. j i, 131 poles to a stone pile and j pointers, corner of Lot No. 4 in T. j * S. Biggs bee’s line; thence with said ■ line South 69 and 3-sths poles to a ! : f tone and pointers, J. S. Riggsbee’s j , coiner; thence West with Tyson’s i line West 43 poles to a white oak; ’ thence South 20 poles; thence North ' 75 1-2 deg. West with Alf Minter’s line 70 poles to a stone and point ers, Alf Minter’s line 37 poles to a stone pile, the beginning estimated to contain 63 acres, the same being lot No. 5 as surveyed by R. B. Clegg and being the interest of Nannie Thrift in the lands of the late J. A. ' Oldham conveyed to her by parti ! tion Deed, dated May 24, 1917, by [ A. J.. Rigsbee et als and the interest .' cf Emily D. Oldham is herein con veyed by Emily D. Oldham. E. E. Thrift and wife, Nannie Thrift to the Cary Lumber Company, a cor ■ poration, and recorded in Deed Book F. L. on page .179, in the office oi the Register of Deeds for Chatham j County. . , BEuINNING at pointers, John A. Oldham’s corner; thence South 89 deg. East 40 chains and 70 links to a rock pile, A. J. Rigsbee’s corner; th- :ice North 14 chains and 40 links to a red oak, A. J. Riggsbee’s corn er in C. John’s line; thence West 25 1 chains and 75 links to a large rock, C Johnson’s corner; thence North 35 chains to a rock, said Johnson’s roi ner; thence West 2 chains and 60 links to a rock, said Johnson’s | corner; thence North 6 chains to a large popular, John A. O'ddham’sG coiner; thence W’est 13 chains and • 41 links to a stake, John A. Old , ham’s corner; thence South 56 ; I chains and 35 links to the first sta- j tion, containing 120 acres, more or j I less, and being the land conveyed j |by Martha Oldham, John A. Old- | , ham and Emily D. Oldham. W. A. i Riggsbee and Nancy Riggsbee to j i Sarah Riggsbee, by deed recorded j II in Book of Deeds C. M. page 103, j 1 i Classified Advertising. | NEW SHIPMENT OF DRY GOODS, ; latest patterns of ladies’ dresses, j etc. at C. E. Durham’s, Bynum. | j FROST PROOF PLANTS FOR SALE j —Cabbage and Bermuda Onion j plants, all varieties, SI.OO per j 1,000, 5 thousand lots at 75 cts. a [ 1,000. Prompt shipment. Dorris j Plant Company, Valdosta, Ga. VALUES—YOU WILL FIND THEM at Hall’s. IN ALL, VAN ELKINS HAS SOLD more than one and one-fourth mil lion Jefferson Standard Life In surance in and around Siler City and Pittsboro. All other agents combined have not done that in same time. LOST DOG FOX TERRIER, black and white, large for breed; gun shy; answers to name Duke. Lost in the woods near John Grif fin’s on Goldston-Pittsboro road. Finder notify T. E. Crisp, Rox ( boro Road, Durham, and receive > liberal reward. \ SEE OUR SHOES AND GET OUR [ prices. It will pay both of us. > R. J. Moore & Co. Bynum. > VAN ELKINS SAYS THAT THE t Jefferson Standard Life Insurance * co., wrote more than twenty-five > million in N. C. last year. No oth | er Company wrote half as much. I SALESMAN FOR LUBRICATING \ oil and paint; two lines combined. > Salary of Commission. The Royce [ Refining Company, or the Royce > Pint Co., Cleveland, Ohio. ! SHIP STUFF, $2.40 A SACK, MO * lasses Feed $2.50; Hay $1.50 per | cwt.; Flour, guaranteed qualities, > $7.00 to $7.50 at C. E. Durham’s, [ Bynum. Feb. 1. ! THE JEFFERSON STANDARD | Life Insurance Co., has more than ( > fifty million Life Insurance in | force on North Carolinians more > than any other Company. Van [ Elkins represents them in this territory. l in the office of the Register of Deeds of Chatham County, also be ing same property conveyed by W. J. Brogden, Commissioner to the Cary Lumber Company, recorded in I Book of Deeds F. Y. on pagrs 80 and 81 in the office cf the Register of Deeds of Chatham County, North Carolina. This property is being offered for re-£?.ic on account of an increased bid. The bid on said property will begin at $357.50. This the 21st day of January, 1929. JONES FULLER, Trustee. Jan. 24, 2t. MRS. NOOE HONOR GUEST l 1 A charming affair of the past week was the party given by Mrs. Waiter Johnson and Miss Cordie Harmon, honoring Mrs. D. B. Nooe, a recent bride. Btidge was played at four tables, the guests enjoying several spirited progressions. A delightful sweet course with coffee was served by the hostess assisted by Miss Jennie Connell. Mrs. Nooe was presented with a oeautiful silver basket by Mrs. John son and Miss Harmon. Those p.ay.r.g were Mesdames D. B, Nooe. Y7. P. IT rton, Wad<=> Barb- I Victor Johnson, James Cordon, JE. R. Hinton, Charles Matthews, • Edwin Hatch. N. A. Moore. J. S. S Walters, J: M. Gregory, G. W. j Blair, R. M. Farrell, and Miss Pau- I line Taylor. SOMEWHERE TO GO Come Carolina school house on ! SaPur/ay ought, the 26th of January. There will be a n?gro minstrel giv en free. Come and laugh away the 0.-if : . We v.iil also have boxes to sell, a vot ng contest, and other things to entertain ycu. The public is invited. Girls are urged to bring boxes. Idle money will be used for the benefit of the school. We are expecting a large crowd aud a very interesting time. Don’t n y ~ •v 2 fun! Remember the date, January 26th. M. M. Stop and look at your label, •sopqciucqnu Gtrcva uoos ion suq aqs ?TUiqi sn sotyutu oSu * 9UI D + S,I 9 aqi ucj tiysua u uaas ;snf suq suuoY 90-[ uumpuT u: Sul\i[ uuuioav y Mr. Lee Durham of Burlington is spending a few days with his broth er Mr. I. A. Durham on route 2. On account of a water shortage the inhabitants of Chemnitz, Ger many, are forbidden to bathe ex cept on Sundays. A small boy s paradise! ' I CUTTER and THOMPSON ! A-rchitect & Engineer Makepeace Building Sanford, N. C. (f 66 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue* Billious Fever and Malaria j It is the most speedy remedy known I lost —BLACK AND TAN DOG j (female) —lost .near G. G. Barns’ | home in Haw River township, or ' near Moncure, about Jan. 1. Rea dable reward. C. B. Fox, Siler | City R. F. D. 1. Jan 24,31. | FRESH MEATS RECEIVED EV ! ery day, prices lower than in large j towns. C. E. Durham, Bynum. TEXACO GAS AND OIL AT C. E. Durham’s. Bynum. Also Auto mobile accessories. WHOLE JERSEY MILK—IS CTS. a quart delivered anywhere in Pittsboro in the morning. Lexie Clark. VAN ELKINS SOLD MORE THAN one fourth Million Jefferson Stan dard Life Insurance last year— nearly fifty thousand gain over any previous year. Attractive ness of' Jefferson contracts was the particular cause of the in crease. VISIT HALL’S FOR ANYTHING you wish. A complete line to out fit you from head to foot; at prices, too, that suit the shrewd est of value seekers. FOR THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES for Cedar posts and white oak ties take them to R. M. Connell, Pittsboro. NEW GOODS BEING SHOWN DAI ly at Hall’s. You should see their shoes, dry goods, and ready-tc prices. PROFESSIONAL NURSE —I am located io-. Pittsboro and offer my services as a nrofessional nurse to the peonle of Chatham county. ELSIE LUCILE PETERSON, R. N., Tel. No- 79. THREE SPOOLS OF J. P. COATS snool cotton at R. J. Moore’s for 10 cents. GOOD FLOUR, GUARANTEED TO nlease at $7.00 a barrell at R. J* Moore’s. Bynum. BUY YOUR GOODS AT R. J- Moore’s and save the difference. PAGE TWO