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THE
CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:
Dne Year $1.50
Months 75
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929
The desire to grab all with
in reach is illustrated by the
demand of three attorneys for
$25,000 each as additional
fees for throwing the tobacco
marketing association into the
hands of receivers. But we be
lieve it will be a long time be
fore Judge Meekins permits
any such robbery.
If all the tobacco farmers
had joined the former co-op
erative association and proven
loyal to it, despite its initial
errors, they would have profit
ed hitherto and would be in
position now to secure the gov
ernment funds provided for
cooperative associations. There
is hardly any doubt that a new
organization will be formed.
In that case, all tobacco farm
ers should join, and care
should be taken in the begin
ning to avoid the errors of the
former organization.
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Provision should be made
for a thirteenth juror in case
of illness or misfortune to any
of the twelve in a prolonged
case. Such provision, as is
made in some of the states,
would have saved the State
several thousand dollars in
the Gastonia case, where one
-of the jurors became insane,
and the case had to be discon
tinued and set for a new begin
* ning after two weeks given
to it,
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As little as we love Senator
Simmons, we must say that he
is on the right track when he
calls for a show down of the
great industries demanding
higher tariff duties. He is de
manding a peep at the income
tax assessments in order to see
whether the concerns need
further aid.
—
Read County Agent Shiver’s
annual report. - That man
works, and his work is telling
for' the development of the
county.
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ENTERTAIN AT BANQUET
The attractive home of Mrs. W.
B. Thomas was the scene of an en
joyable affair Saturday night, when
the Gun Springs B. Y. P. U. enter
tained at a delightful banquet, hon
oring their parents. The guests were
received into the hall and living
room, which were artistically deco
rated with the B. Y. P. U. colors of
green and white, with fall cut flow
ers adding to the attractiveness. In
a flower contest Mr. and Mrs. Walker
Thomas proved the lucky couple in
winning the lovely piece of china.
After the contest the guests were
ushered out on the porch and formed
in a line. The B. Y. P. U. girls,
dressed in dainty green and white
crepe paper dresses with bandeaux
to match, marched in and out among
the guests singing “Parents, We Love
You.” They then led the way into
the dining room, which was another
scene of loveliness. The color schema
of green and white was again ar
tistically carried out in every detail
from the beautiful green and white
candles, which gave the only light
needed, to the lovely sprays of snow
on the mountain on each table, the
attractive little booklets, which
.served as place cards, and contained
the programs and menu, the mints
and baskets, and the dainty little doll
favors, dressed in green and white
crepe paper. As soon as the guests
found their places they were wel
comed by the B. Y. P. U. president,
Miss Valent Lassitor. Mrs. A. O.
Harmon gave the response. While
the delicious courses were being
served by Misses Rodney Johnson.
Pearl Desern, Isabelle Petty, Hazel
Burns and Irene Bland, the toast
mistress, Miss Audrey Thomas, pre
served the toasts. Music was enjoyed
throughout the evening, and espe
cially the song by the Hanks’ Chanel
Trio, Wallace Farrell, Roland Far
rell, and Ralph Riddle.
After the last course had been
served, the guests were reassembled
in the living room where another
contest was enjoyed, with Mr. Clai
borne Harmon winning the first
prize, and Mrs. A. O. Harmon win
ning the booby. After the contest,
all gathered on the lawn and enjoyed
games by moonlight until a late
hour.
The invited guests were: Mr. and
Mrs. J. Walker Thomas, Mr. and
• Mrs. J. H. Lassiter, Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Desern, Mrs. W. B. Thomas, Mrs. A.
O. Harmon, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Petty,
all of Moncure, Rt. 2, Mr. and Mrs!
E. E. Utley of Moncure, and Miss
Minnie Bell of Pittsboro, Mr. James
Thomas of Winston-Salem, Mr. Silas ’
Hatley of Bynum, and Mr. Vivian
Stack of Winston-Salem.
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Throwing cold water gets a man
into hot water. .
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i THE LOW ACHIEVEMENTS OF
SOUTHERN PUPILS
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Doctor Trabue of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, in
an address at Yale University
last week, spoke to the point
about the low achievements of
Southern students. He is cor
rect in not attributing the fact
to inferior native ability on the
part of Southern boys and
girls, but he is not altogether
correct in assuming that great
er educatinoal opportunities
will remedy the situation.
The real trouble is psycho
logical, a state of mind on the
part of both teachers and
pupils. The average Southern
teacher achieved very little as
a student, and that fact unfits
him for setting and maintain
ing a high standard for his
own students. Qn the other
hand, each class knows what
the former one has achieved
in the grade and passively, but
stubbornly, resists any effort
to impose upon it a higher
standard of attainment at the
cost of a greater outlay of
energy. The condition is a long
existing one, and was first
noted by this writer in college
forty years ago, when a Latin
class passively resisted the ef
forts of Dr. Geo. W. Manly,
a Ph. D. of a German Uni
versity, to obtain actual work
of men from the class. As a
teacher for many years, we
have felt the resistance, and
have more than once unpopu
larized ourself in the commu
nity by giving grades in accord
with the actual work done and
greatly in contrast with grades
formerly received for proba
bly less work.
It can be stated, w r e believe,
as a fact, that many of the
high school classes in the State
are not covering, in even the
usual half-handed way, the
whole of the prescribed work
in the various courses, particu
larly in Latin and algebra.
Furthermore, *the work done
in such subjects as Latin, En
gigh grammar, algebra, and
geometry is half-hearted and
futile.
The lack of ability to read,
to which Doctor Trabue calls
attention., is one of the funda
mental difficulties, and is due
to insufficient practice in the
primary grades. The trouble
is not so much due to lack of
opportunity, but to misuse of
opportunity the waste of
modern scheme calls for arith
metic in the first grade, for
instance, and a goodly part of
the day of the tot is taken up
by the teacher in teaching him
to add 2 and 2, and doing such
other things as he would nat
urally learn in the course of
three or four years. There is
not a negro boy without a
day’s schooling in North Caro
lina ten years of age, unless
he is idiotic, who does not
know that 2 and 2 are 4.
Arithmetic can be learned in
two years by a boy of ordinary
sense if he is not disgusted with
it before he becomes of suf
ficient maturity to take hold
of it and learn it.
We have formerly cited the
case of Herberti Peele, editor
of The Elizabeth City Ad
vance, and here goes again. His
father didn’t allow- him to
study arithmetic till he was
| ten years of age, but did en
courage the boy to read broad
ly. He came to the writer’s
school and started arithmetic
and at the end of the eight
months’ session was in the class
of boys mostly older than he
who had begun the year in
Sanford’s Common School
Arithmetic after several years
in the primary and the inter
mediate books of the Sanford
series. As Judge Bland of
Goldsboro, one of the bright
est minds in the State, was a
member of that .class which
Herbert joined, the latter’s na
tive ability can not be ascribed
as the only cause of the phe
nomenon. In brief, our schools
are teaching things that the
boys and girls should pick up,
and will pick up if allowed
time, and thus the time neces
sary for the drill in reading
is consumed.
Every primary pupil in the
schools of the earlier days had
to read several times a day.
Reading, spelling, and writing
was their only work. The con
sequence was that pupils thus
taught to read when they
j came to arithmetic problems
could interpret them, and when
. studied history could read
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THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO. N. C.
■s>the text. Actually, the last
i school the writer taught he
r had to read the history lessons
: for the pupils of the high
? school grades in order for
- them to understand the pur
; port. Eighteen-year-old boys
i would say “I can get it when
l you read it, but can not get
• it by reading it myself.” They
- simply couldn’t read.
5 But that you may know we
are unduly pessimistic, read
- the following account of Doc
i tor Trabue’s speech. Trabue
1 knows what he is talking
i about when he states the men
} tal conditions, but money is
> not the whole answer. Here is
• the report:
5 New Haven, Conn., Sept. 4.
“Evidence is accumulating an
nually showing that the low
' achievements of Southern school
children, when measured on
standard tests of knowledge,
skill, and intelligence, are due
to inadequate educational oppor
tunities in much larger measure
than to lack of native intelli
gence,” declared Dr. M. R. Tra
bue, director of the bureau of
educational research of the Uni
versity of North Carolina in an
address today before the ninth
International Congress on Psy
chology, which is being held this
week at Yale University.
“High school seniors in North
Carolina can not write an En
glish composition which will
measure up in quality to the
average composition written by
high school freshmen in New
York, New Jersey and other
Northern States. The average
high school freshman in the
South can not read as rapidly
and as accurately as the average
pupil two years before entering
high school in the average
school of the United States, and
when measured on the most ob
jective of the so-called intelli
gence tests our Southern high
school pupils on the average
show abilities that are typical of
pupils in the north two or three
years younger than they. But
the cause is not poor inherited
abilities. As soon as a South
ern community offers its children
an adequate amount of educa
tional opportunities the achieve
ments of these pupils begin to
approach national standards. If
the political leaders of the South
ever allow their schools to have
as much money per pupil as the
schools of the nation, the aver-,
age achievements--*-of. Southern
children will equal those of
children the same age in other
sections of America.”
This country affords a di
versity of weather. The east
was sweltering last week, while
on Friday snow fell in Wyom
ing and Nebraska, in the for
mer state to the depth of 15
inches in some sections.
NOTICE OF RESALE OF TIMBER
NORTH CAROLINA:
CHATH A M CO UN TY:
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
in the special proceedings therein
pending entitled “Bessie S. Mclntyre
vs. John C. Futrall, et als,” the
undersigned will on the
21st day of September, 1929,
offer for resale at the Courthouse
door in Pittsboro, North Carolina,
to the highest bidder for cash all of
the merchantable timber measuring
ten inches in diameter at the stump,-
twelves inches from the ground when
cut, inon the following land situated
in Hickory Mountain Township,
Chatham County, and lying on Rocky
River: *
Beginning at a red oak, John S.
Headen’s corner, and running west
160 poles to a stake and pointers in
Aaron Berk’s line, thence South with
his line 32 poles to Rocky River,
thence down the same its various
courses about 240 poles to a white
oak. thence leaving the river South
51 degrees East 72 poles to a stake,
thence East 13 poles to a stake,
thence North 63 degrees east 118
> poles to a wild cherry, thence
South 20 degrees West 22 poles to
an ash on the bank of the river,
thence down the same about 60 poles
to a hickory, thence leaving the
river South 85 degrees East 11 poles
to a post oak in People’s line, thence
North with his line 151 poles to a
small hickory and pointers, thence
West with John B. Headen’s line 156
poles to a hickory said John B.
Headen’s corner, thence North his
other line 145 poles to the beginning,
containing 310 acres more or less,
said tract of land being the same
conveyed by deed registered in book
“AO” at page 57, from N. M. Alston
and wife, September 25th, 1869.
Another tract containing 13%
acres lying on Rocky River, said
county, beginning at a stake in B.
F. Headen’s line and running east
with his line 25 poles to a stone,
thence north 11% degrees east 30
poles to a stone, thence north 50
poles to a dogwood, thence west 27
poles to a stone in said B. F.
Headen’s line, thence with his line
to the beginning, being the same
land conveyed by deed from John
B. Headen to B. F. Headen, Decem
ber 0, 1881, registered in Book
“BO” page 483.
Said timber on the said land must
he cut and removed within two years
from the confirmation of the satle.
Terms of sale: Cash.
Time of Sale: 12 o’clock, noon.
This the 4th day of September,
W. P. HORTON, Commissioner
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale made and entered in a cer
tain judgment rendered in the
Superior Court of Chatham County,
North Caroilna, entitled the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia vs. A. M.
Riddle et als, the undersigned com
missioner will, on
Monday, the 7th day of October,
1929, at 12 o’clock noon, at the
Court House door in Pittsboro, Chat
ham County, North Carolina, offer
for sale to the highest bidder on the
following terms: One-fifth cash, and
the balance in five equal annual in
stallments, said installments bearing
interest at 6 per centum per annum,
the following described real estate,
to-wit:
All those certain pieces, parcels or
tracts of land containing 354%
acres, more sr less, situated, lying
and being on the Moncure Road
about 4 miles South from the town
of Pittsboro in Center Township,
Chatham County, N. C., having such
shapes, metes, courses and distances
as will more fully appear by refer
ence to a plat thereof made by R. B.
Clegg, surveyor, in 1918, and attach
ed to the abstract now on file with
the Federal Land Bank of Columbia,
S. C., the same being bounded on
the North by lands of B. Nooe, N. B.
Gunter, W. B. Harper; on the East
by lands of Lonnie Womble, R. L.
Johnson; on the South by lands of
Lonnie Womble and B. Nooe and
Luther Jacobs; and on the West by
lands of N. B. Gunter and Joe
Womble.
TIME OF SALE: Monday, Octo
ber 7th, 1929, at 12 o’clock noon.
PLACE OF SALE: Court House
door in Pittsboro, N. C.
TERMS OF SALE: One-fifth cash
and balance in five equal install
ments at six per centum per annum.
This the 3rd day of September,
1929.
V. R. JOHNSON,
Commissioner. I
(Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3)
—LET—
GOLDSTON
BROTHERS
Sell Your Land
Phone, Write or
Wire Today
GOLDSTON, N. C.
R. W. Palmer, M. D.
Gulf and Goldston
Office in GoMuton Over Bank.
Honrs at Goldston:
2 to 4 P. M. eaek day
Electric Euipment Installed.
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LOOK
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at These Bargains!
At the Chatham ,
Chevrolet Ga
rage, Pittsboro,
you will find two
good Ford Tour
ing Cars and a
Chevrolet Coupe,
all in good con-
I
i dition, and bar
j gains at the
! « prices. Also two
Ford Trucks.
At the Economy
Motor Compa
ny’s place, Siler
; City, you may
choose a car to
I suit your needs
and your bank ■
account. Call at E
either of the ga- E
rages and look 11
over the offer- f|
t ings. jg
After Marion Talley becomes a farmer she probablv
have to give a concert occasionally to rebuild the f e W O
paint the barn.—The Toledo Blade.
IT ALL DEPENDS
“It is impossible for me to save any money on my present
income.” No doubt you have often heard such a re
mark. Is it true?
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Well, it all depends. Most people could save SOME
THING, be it ever so small, if they would give up some
of the things they lead themselves to think necessary.
The trouble is, they often refuse to deny themselves.
They are not willing to pay the price NOW. But most
so them pay LATER, when they can ill afford to do so.
Ifli BANK OF GOLDSTON
HUGH WOMBLE, Pres. T. W. GOLDSTON, Cashier
GOLDSTON, N. C.
HIT THE BALL HARD
—if you would win the game
And so it is in the game of life — we must hit
the ball hard every working day — to win.
Even then you are not winning the game if
you are not saving a part of your earnings.
You must lay aside a certain sum for a rainy
day to win in the end. A savings account
is the easiest way of building this fund.
Come in today and discuss this very im
portant matter with us—no obligation.
BANK OF PnrSBORS
PITTSBORO, N. C
the caryouimnt
• • • and you can be assured when you
buy it from us that it represents
a Dependable and Honest Value!
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No matter what price you want to pay for a used car—
we can supply you with a better automobile than you
ever expected to buy for that amount of money!
We have on hand at this time the widest selection of
fine used cars m our history. Many of them cannot be
told from new. The motors have been thoroughly
overhauled—upholstery and hardware are in excel
lent condition—and some have even been refinished
m pleasing new colors.
Here is your opportunity to get a real bargain! And
you can have absolute confidence in the cars that
£*** Fed tkrtCounts” tag—because they
have been carefully checked over by skilled inspec*
tors, and represent definite, known values.
Come in and pick out your car now —while we have a
wide selection for you to choose from! J
ECONOMY MOTOR CO.
Siler City, N. C.
STOUT MOTOR CO., Goldston
CHATHAM CHEVROLET CO., Pittsboro
USED CARS
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