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PAGE FOUR THE CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929 If the house had no other good deed to its credit, the killing of the abominable bonus . bill would be sufficient to sig nalize its courage and good sense. The death of T. E. Whitaker, head of the Oak Ridge school ■ for many years, is a real loss to the citizenship of the State. He wrought well as school man and legislator. $ Marshal Foch, the French hero of the World War, has been buried with the honors of not only his own nation but of many others. He was the most outstanding military leader of the war, generalissimo of the allied armies. $ Governor Gardner, like Pres ident Hoover, is loyal to his old college comrades. He has made Nat Dunn assistant to the governor, and appointed Prof. Harrelson of State College to succeed Major Phillips as head of the conservation depart ment. $ —-——— 4 The address of Supt. A. T. Allen before the teachers’ as sociation was in good taste and indicated an appreciation of the condition of the tax-payers of the State. Sentelle's and Warren's addresses, severely criticising the school bill and those who do not agree in ev ery particular with the school clique* were rabid and calcu lated to do the cause of schools harm. e A bond dealer complains that, after he was invited through an advertisement to ; apply for information concern ing the sale of SIB,OOO of Pitts boro water bonds, he could get -no answer to his inquiries. There is no use in advertising a sale of bonds if the sale has already been practically agreed upon. Keeping the letter of the law is not worth a cent; it is the spirit that maketh alive. $ Oklahoma has just recently impeached its governor, about * the third thus treated in the - past ten years. Now Louisiana ha$ i an impeachment trial on -hand; and Governor Long is even accused of trying to hire . a. map, to kill a son of former Govetadr J. Y. Sanders, who was expected to oppose Long's plan in the legislature. De- Hqaygoguery . has placed some mighty bad material in office in the South under the primary system, but it does not seem 4hai all the governors elected in Oklahoma should be rascals, unless the whole population is of the same stripe. —w— • - Let us make a suggestion in all friendliness. Suppose the Pittsboro school be held to 4 o’clock these longer days and the extra hour be given to drill -of classes in such subjects as they may be found lagging.in. It is the clinching blow that holds the nail. A pupil that has not thoroughly grasped a subject really hasn't it at all; it will get away from him, and if he could retain it in such shape he couldn't use it. The hardship on neither teachers nor students will be too great. The writer has taught six and ! seven ;■ hours a day when he . jrcas: busy every minute except recess periods, and he sur vived it.; • / -4 Governor Gardner proceeded after the adjournment of the legislature to make a full list of appointments for the major jobs. N. A. Townsend resigns the judgeship to become assist ant to the governor. Senator T. L. Johnson of Robeson suc ceeds Judge Townsend a s judge. Attorney Cowper (pro nounce it Cooper), of Kinston, is appointed to a similar judge ship. John Sprunt Hill is re appointed high w.a y commis sioner for this district. The two new judges are really able men. The editor of The Rec ord knows Mr. Cowper to be one of the best lawyers in the State. We have seen him in action for a week at a time. <§> If the school folk adopt the threat of Jule B. Warren, sec retary of the North Carolina Teachers' Association, and un dertake to dominate the affairs of the State with the ballot, they will find it quite a dif ferent matter from carrying a school tax election in a district which school men at State ex pense canvass, while the op-_ position is usually left without organization or leadership. The people are, surely, as much concerned about educational opportunities for their children as are the teachers, but they will hardly consent to the more or less self-interested dictation of the school folk. George Ross Pou, who has been reappointed superintend ent of the state prison, makes a most sensible report to the directors, indicating that the only means of keeping the prison on a self-supporting basis is to establish manufac turing plants to supply the state institutions with soap, in sectiside, desks, auto license plates, and other things that the various institutions have to buy. A second recourse is for the state to employ the con victs in road and bridge build ing. He points out that Vir ginia had 2000 convicts thus employed. There is no ques tion, it would seem, that the state with an abundance of its own labor can build roads cheaper than it can get other people to build them with hired labor. And if convicts can make school desks, many thou sands of dollars should be saved the state. ——s Now, Rowland Beasley, Pete is not so far behind as you might think. He has been here long enough to read in the newspapers about the fall of most of the empires since 1454. However, he wasn't taking any paper during the short-lived Napoleonic Empire; the Holy Roman breathed its last about the time “Old Pete" breathed; his firsthand the abortive Mex ican empire is not very hard to catch up with.. Now, what Qth ers are there that the editor of The Monroe Journal and the editor of The Chatham Record have not been able to inform themselves about from the newspapers? Either we have been living a good while or the most of the crumbling of em pires has been in recent years. We almost saw the rise of the German Empire, and have cer tainly outlived it. The Brazil ian, the Hawaiian, the Russian, the German, the Austrian-Hun garian, and the Chinese have all fallen almost within, the period of your ■ publication of The Monroe Journal. You are getting old. Congratulations are hereby extended to our old friends D. D. and B. B. Dougherty who have seen the school which theystarted at Boone away back in the nineties, in a build ing through the holes in which one could almost throw a cat, become a full-fledged teachers' college. The recent legislature made the Boone school a regu lar four-year college. B. B. Dougherty, the younger broth er, is president, and it is he who is being blamed by some of the school folk of the state as the author of the Hancock bill which came in for much criticism at the recent session of the teachers' association in Raleigh. But if B. B. Dough erty wrote the bill, we have more faith in it, particularly as to the economy features. Not many months ago The Record compared the cost per pupil to the state of the various state schools, and some may recall that the public cost of students at the Boone school was the lowest by far in the state, scarcely more than a third of the cost in some of the other schools, as we recall it. And there is no better guarantee of the character of the work a school man will demand in his school than the character of his work in college, and the Dougherty boys were real stu dents, diligent and with suf ficient brain to master the most difficult subjects, which is not as usual as one might think. As an instance of the compara tive cost of a course at Boone and at other schools in the state compare the summer THE N. C. school rates in the advertise ment in this week’s Record with those from other colleges in the state. No other two state institutions have been run, we believe, with the same regard for the tax-payer as have been the school at Boone and the Eastern Hospital at Goldsboro. • <s> Right now, when it is not possible to convert this para graph into a criticism of the new appointees to; the county board of education, we wish to register a protest against the manner in which the appoint ments are made. Now, mind you, this is a criticism of meth ods and not of men. Messrs. Siler and Riggsbee may be the very best men in the county for the positions to which they have been appointed. But jt is anything but democratic for the people to have no choice or voice in the appointments, and not even know who are slated for the positions till the appointments are ratified by the legislature. If it were nec essary that such a situation ex ist, it would bej futile to pro test against it; but it is not necessary. Other counties nom inate candidates for the school board in the primaries or in the county conventions. And what is more to the point, the leg islature respects the recommen dations of the voters. We hap pened to be in Raleigh when a test of that very issue came up. The county convention in Sampson county nominated a candidate for the board, but the executive committee later substituted another name. The Democratic senator from Samp son favored the nominee of the executive committee, but the friends of the nominee of the convention won out, and the convention's man received the appointment. That has set a valuable precedent. Accord ingly, all that the people ,of Chatham have to do to have an effective voice in the man agement of its school affairs is to nominate their men in the primary next year. Let the Re publicans nominate Candidates and the Democrats thjeir candi dates. Then if the legislature is Democratic it can ratify the Democratic and if Republican the Republican candidates. Or it ; may be agreed that the Democrats will take one and the' Republi cans one, if there are two vacanies to be filled. Certain ly, never again should the peo ple be kept so completely in the dark. Under the present methods one or two men can continue a regime indefinitely or destroy it as readily. This is a matter for the people, and they should see to it that nomi nees are before the voters in the next primary. LET'S HAVE A STATEMENT . —® — A few years ago the electric light plant was sold for what ought to have been practically enough to take up outstanding bonds for the plant. Since the editor of The Record has been here, the one larger item of town expense was the outlay for a fire truck, $2,500 we be lieve. The only other expenses have been current ones for street work, electric light, and for payment of a policeman's salary. Yet we find an issue of SIB,OOO of bonds sold a few days ago, statedly for town im provements, but so far as we have learned a large part of the fund is to go to; Jake up a $7,000 note, atrthe'bank and to pay other debts. Certainly, the paving that is suggested is not so badly needed as to justify the issue of SIB,OOO in bonds. Main street stood for 125 years without a foot of paving on it. Now it has paved sidewalks and a paved highway through it, and at such times as these, it would seem that the old vil lage could get along for a few more years without paving the borders of the street. Also the residence streets which are to be paved are in much better condition, we surmise, than tfiey were for a hundred years. Now, if the SIB,OOO in bonds are issued for the purpose of doing this paving, The Record has no hesitation in pronounc ing it untimely, if not unnec essary. Times are too hard to* be putting such debts upon the people of the town. Moreover, the bonds have been sold when the money market is upset by the wild spreed of speculation on Wall Street. Consequently, 6 per cent bonds have brought f only par. And the interest on the SIBJ>OO largely counter balances the hardwon savings on county taxes. In 1932 not only will the interest be to pay, but a thousand dollars also to take up one of the bonds, and thus each year thereafter. And everybody knows that if times continue as they are, that the people will be in no condition to pay the additional tax. But a big issue has already been voted for water works, and if these are issued the burden will be four-fold what the $lB,- 000 alone makes it. But if the money, or most of it, is needed to fund debts, the people are due information as to why that is true. The edi tor is not even going to try to find out and tell why here, for the law is .plain that town of ficials are re quired to make an annual statement of expen diture, and this has been neg lected. Therefore, instead of The Record's becoming the agent of informing the people of the acts of the town govern ment, we are simply calling at «■, M mm____ mmmm —————■—————i- mmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmm a■■—■■ c/lttend Qhe ‘Mercha nts # n ufaciu rers Exposition ABRIL Bth to 13th INCLUSIVE . j Roycroft Warehouse Durham, N. C. To be officially opened with an address by Governor O. Max Gardner on Monday night, April Bth. High Class Entertainment —Different Every Night FEATURES , FEATURES - j O'Conxror listens Jelly Leftwich’s Famous Orchestra Goodfellows Quartet 80-Piece Duke University Band Hatcher & Rowe, Comedians Dixie; Darling Musical.R.evue Herndon Sheer, Pianist Frank Barfield's Minstrel Fashion Revue Harmony Quartet Scores of splendidly arranged exhibits ' 25c Admission SI.OO Season Ticket Follow the Street Decorations to the Warehouse . . \ 1 " \ * , •, ■ v • A'. V 'V V ' r •/ V vi i-3 -vr y.- oversize! • t % 111 A fertilizer without odor made for early fruiting and heavy pro- | duction. Stood up in the rains last year better than cotton seed || meal. f ; V u || Mr. J. E. Overton of Sanford.R.F. D. used two tons last year in a|[ test with four kinds of fertilizers. He has already bought his whole |jj needs for this year. ASK HIM WHY HE UKES OVERSIZE ' 1 . * IIH Mr. M. D. Tetter, Mt. Gilead, N. C., got a few tons last year arid H| got such excellent results that he has already bought this year. Ufl ) '.'it I 111 These men pay CASH and we can show you large numbers of H the most successful farmers in North Carolina wlio have turned to OVERSIZE to help them out. While others are talking about | slow sales OVERSIZE has increased 50% over last year. There | is a reason. Try it and you will know. 1 IjL If your dealer does not sell it write us. We will deliver on truck as far away as Chapel Hill on good roads at just about what you will have to pay if you hauled it home. : , » , t. * 4 1.: ‘ Sapona Mills -1 tention to the fact that a con siderable- bond issue has been sold and the tax rate hereby necessarily boosted, and asking if a statement of town finances in accord with the law is not now in season. # No Bonus for Clerks and Other Employes <§> At the beginning of the present legislative session a rule was adopt ed that there would be no bonuses paid to legislative employes this year. Notwithstanding that rule, a bill was introduced on the last day of the session providing for a dollar a day bonus. At one time it looked like it might pass, but Representa , tive Hanes of Winston-Salem moved , to table it and it was killed. It was said that some of the clerks and other lesser rank employes were al most insulting to the legislators in • their lobbying for the bill. The bonus i has always been paid heretofore, and the clerks had anticipated it this time. Estimated saving to the state ; by Representative Hanes’ action is $20,000. . • , Your wife, as well as your sins, will find you out. A halting speech may be the re * suit of a lame excuse. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929 FIVE GALLONS PAINT FREE A large paint concern, in furtherance of an advertising and introductory campaign now in progress, offers to give, free of charge, five gallons of its best house paint, any color, to one / property owner at each postoffice or on each rural route in this county. This con cern wants its paint on a house in each locality this season which is the purpos'e of this re markable offer. . It also wants a local salesman in each county. Persons interested are request ed to write the Central Oil Company, Louisville, Ky. (Adv.) «> Former Governor Foley of New York has declined leadership of Tam many Hall, In connection with the row over a successor to Olvaney, it is said that a break has occurred be tween A1 Smith and Jimmy Walker. / <S> Flood waters in South Carolina and Georgia have broken up more block ade stills along the river banks than all the federal enforcement officers could do in a year, according to news paper accounts of the floods.
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