North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE FOUR THE CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Dne Year $1.50 iaa Months THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929 CAPT. WISSLER —<s> — The Record joins in with the general regret at the death of Capt. J. H. Wissler of Mon cure, one of the county’s old est, mpst highly esteemed, and most useful citizens. He was probably the wealthiest man of the ‘ county; yet no one would ever have judged it by his bearing. He was plain, modest, and sensible. The Moncure section, particularly, has suffered a great loss in the death of Capt. Wissler. For tunately, the Record earned an appreciation of Captain Wissler a few weeks ago, to which we refer now for an ac count of his long and success ful career. If Governor Aycock should rise and read the advertise ment of the sale of 22 Chat ham county school houses and • sites he would probably be dumbfounded. $ The Record is 51 years old today. The first issue was September 19, 1878. Not many papers in the state so old and without a skip in its publication. The presence of Judge Shaw on the troubled scene at Char lotte and Gastonia is assuring. That able and just jurist may be depended upon to hold the scales of justice with even beam. — . The rabidneSs manifested at Gastonia is half-brother, at least, to that of last year against Al ; Si#ith and the pope. They are born of the same motjrer,..bigotry of opinion. So long as Americans are not free in any one respect, they can not be free in others. -*■' 1 -—-——^—— : If fire is not needed in ~~PittsbOro in September for warmth, it will be the first month this year when it hasn’t been. Folk that went off to the mountains to cool off wasted their time and money. There have been very few nights when cover was not needed. _ ■ 4 The paragrapher of the Greensboro News threatens to pull down the Jefferson Stand ard building by his lonesome if the handful of communists about Gastonia succeed in overthrowing the government of North Carolina. But said paragrapher may rest easy; Governor Gardner has declar ed that he will not permit the overthrow of the state govern ment. ® Clearly there has been and is persecution of the handful of communists at Gastonia. But while persecution is the child of bigotry and ignorance, the persecuted usually furnish oc casion for its generation. The first execution of a Protestant in France was the consequence of his breaking down certain images before which a religi ous ceremony was to be held the next day. Respect on the part of all parties for the opin ions of others is a guarantee against such a state of mind as exists about Gastonia. ® Some of the weekly papers in the state have, we are in formed, been paid twice as much per name for advertising land tax sales as both the Chatham papers got for run ning each name, and this paper made its own charge, getting its regular legal rate of 35 cents an inch, on the basis of twenty cents a name for the four insertions. The papers above referred to got 80 cents a name for the four insertions, or four times as much as the Record’s charge. Maybe we could have got away with it in Chatham if we had tried or ; desired to, but we doubt it. Compare Chatham’s tax rate with that of adjoining counties . 2nd you will see that this old ' county watches the outgo of funds. *% - ■ •? -rT'y •" • EDITOR BEASLEY’S REMEDY INSUFFICIENT Roland Beasley of the Mon roe Journal, one of the real thinkers among N. C. news paper men, also sees the trou bles at the cotton mills as symptomatic of deeper seated 1 economic faults. He, a disciple 1 of Henry George, prescribes only the application of th*e George principle of the state’s assuming all unearned incre ments in land values. That was one of the reme • dies suggested by the Record in its recent series of economi ’ cal articles. But the few scores who had concern enough to , read those articles will remem ber that the editor decided , that such a remedy would have ; been effectual to any great de gree only if applied itt-the in [ fancy of the country. Such application is still essential and ! would do its share of righting economic ills, but would be alone ineffectual in bringing ■ about general economic justice , or equity. Our former com parison was with adenoids. If the relief is not rendered in youth, the effects become per manent and ineradicable, whatever operations may come ’ later. Unearned increments in land values have created the foundations of many fortunes, and have done their part to en slave a great part of the peo ple. But the work is done. If ; the George principle were now applied, it would still leave the owners of properties strate gically situated in possession at present valuations, and many such properties have practically reached the maxi mum of value. Probably two per cent of the people owii nine-tenths of the sources of wealth in the coun try, and at least nine out of ten families no longer control, in every respect, the business from- wftioh they draw their sustenance. And the rest of, the permanent sources, of wealth are rapidly being monopolized. We have shown that the fifty millions profits of one concern can purchase the whole of North Carolina within a few years, and as a iarge part of the wealth sources in the state are already in the possession of the two values (the one remedy offer ed by the Monroe Journal), per cent of the people of the counrty, the absorption of the rest by the one concern would be a matter of probably less than ten years. The other greater profit-producing com panies of the country could do ' the same thing for the other states. In view of such a situation, it is clear that no local remedy can be effectual. It is also true that the majority of the people of the country will not suffer without protest the feudaliza tion of the wealth-sources of the country. Disturbances are bound to rise, and such tem porary alleviations as those ef fected at Marion are of as much permanent or general value as the curing of one boil, or rising, on the body of a person whose blood is full of poison. Only deep considera tion of the real causes and their remedies can be effect ual. And rabidness on the part of any group only pro duces a state of mind alto gether unfit for such consid eration. The Record’s prescription embraced the assumption of unearned increments of land the gradual reduction of the tariff, one of the fosterers of monopoly of wealth, and, plus these, the further application of social principles, including old age and widow’s pensions, maintenance in cases of dis ability to earn living, state em ployment of those who can find no other employment, the socialization of medicine, etc. All these principles are more or less ip practice, particularly in England, and they are about the only means of taking from the monopolizers of the sources of wealth the proceeds that belong to the race, and apply ing them equitably. Our figure was of the earth as a cow f all whose udders have been monopolized by the few and whose milk that belongs to the race has been turned into the dairies of the same few. As there is no other sources of sustenance, the question, naturally and THE CHATHAM ftECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. necessarily, turns upon the most painless way of raiding those dairies for the common weal. The race, as the calf, has a prior right to that of any electric milking machine and its owner’s dairy. This is moderate radicalism. But be assured that the econo nomic policy that has produced the anomalous conditions cited cannot cure them. As well ex pect a malaria patient to get well by subjecting him to con tinuous biting by malaria-bear ing mosquitos. The principle that the hair of the dog will cure his bite is no longer held in good repute. Homeopathy is discredited in medicine. Why should it be expected to cure economic ills? , We are glad to see Brother Beasley thinking back behihd the symptoms. All thoughtful people should get busy. TJie superficial-minded can only produce greater confusidn, and, unfortunately, they are in the vast majority. If the doctors who can dis cover effectual remedies with out paralyzation of the patient do not get busy, quacks are bound to flourish. Communism will be accepted by the victims of a vicious economic policy when no other remedy offers, and revolution would be bound to follow. <&_ The News and Observer shows that the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has paid cash dividends of $34 on every dollar of stock existing in 1912, or 17 years ago, and that the $25 share of stock of that date is- now paying divi dends of 115 per cent, though the $25 share has now grown into a dozen shares by issue of stock dividends. But this is hardly all. The probability is other accumulations of for enlargement is being laid aside which will be the basis of another cash dividend. As stated in these columns two or three months ago* when the Reynolds stock increases so rapidly in value it is evident that one of three things is tak ing place, or possibly all namely, the company is paying too little for its raw material,, is paying its employees . too little, or is overcharging for the finished product. Tobacco growers today can attest as tp, the first item. But the Rey nolds company is only one of numerous industries that have become practical monopolies. A half dozen great tobacco companies, each with a definite head, can agree upon prices and thus become as real a monopoly as if declared so by royal decree. And it is such companies, those against whom new enterprises cannot suc cessfully compete, that are bringing about such conditions as make it impossible for the highly competitive industries to live and pay living wages. The cotton manufacturers have our sympathy. That in dustry is highly competitive. A new mill can be erected this fall and immediately compete with the established plants. But it is not so with the auto mobile industry, the steel, the tobacco, and several other kinds of industry. If Ford should give the reader ten mil lion dollars and the right to use his patents, and should himself continue operations, you would never be able to sell a machine in competition with the Ford plants. <s> A shuttle manufacturer is quoted as willing to give sl2 to sl4 per cord for poor grade of dogwood, sl6 to $lB for medium grade and as high as S2O a cord for good dogwood timber measuring 6 inches in diameter. At the last named price a cord of dogwood would pay the tax on 64 acres of woodland valued at $25 an acre. A little care and atten tion should make it easy for the land owner to pay his taxes on such lands with dog wood, leaving his pine, oak, and cedar as clear profit, iln fact, it would seem that groov ing dogwood might prov^ ; a profitable industry. “*— ■ , 'What initiative and con scientious industry will do for a young woman is demonstrat e? the rapid advancement of Miss Camilla Gilmore, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Ivey Gilmore of this community. When she had graduated at the high school here she went up to Durham and got-the job that she could, which happen ed to be in a print shop, where she became a proof-reader. And though having only a high school education, so satisfac tory was her work that when a proof-reader was needed in the big publishing house at Kingsport, Tenn., she was of fered the position at a hand some salary to begin with. She finds herself among a number of proof-readers all of whom are college graduates, but she has already been chosen to read the proof of a book re quiring the most careful proof reading. It is not how much schooling one has, but what he does with his time after school is over that really counts. .. vj —■ . »■-g There is no end to the ways ip which automobile accidents I may occur, but whatever the i cause, carelessness or tbOUght r lessness in most casqs is the n rear cause. A m&n* deli-berate i ly drdve his car along beside a wagon on the Chapel Hill • road and carried on a conver sation with the drtver of the ; wagon. It was •on a curve. ! Rev. O. E. Bryan, pastor of the i Clinton Universalist Church, > came round the curve at a r forty-mile pace and there was , the road blocked. In the quan i dary, Mr. Bryan’s son, who was driving the car, chose to hit the wagon instead of the offending car, and the end of ; the pole sticking out, in the rear of the wagon stuck through his radiator. The wa -1 gon was not hurt, but the horses dashed off, but were checked. Then, to add insult to injury, the driver of the .offend ing car cursed out the preach ■ er, an indictable offense in it self. A big fool ought to have ; sense enough not to block the 1 road as he did. -—m* —e —-——..... . Men who, like Will Marley, engage again* in the ‘liquor business after serving a mod erate term of imprisonment should be put away for five years at least and made to work lik£ a Turk.' Light sentences will not break such meii from the nefarious business. There are several candidates for ; such • sentences in Ghatham. If they invite the lightning stroke,* the judges should be compliant enough to Send it in'full force. > No low-lived scoundrels should be permitted to nullify -- the laws of the’ state. TEN STATES HAVE OLD-AGE PENSIONS e— (Monroe Enquirer) Ten states of the United States now have old age pension law’s. Alaska was the pioneer. Then came Montana, Wisconsin, Nevada, Colo rado and Kentucky. The past year there have been added to the list California, Minnesota, Wyoming and Utah. It is interesting to note that only two of these progressive states are east of the Mississippi and that in each of those states the Mississippi constitutes its western border. It is estimated that there are two million people in the United States who are old and helpless and need such aid as is provided by this legislation. In Pennsylvania old age pensions have been declared unconstitutional. Twenty-eight states considered old pension bills in sessoins just closed. Old age pensions mean an end of poorhouses. $ U. S. COURT GIVES AN IMPORTANT DECISION The United States Court of Ap peal for the Eighth Circuit, in hold ing that the State Bank of North Dakota (a state-owned institution undertaken under Nonpartisan League regime) is liable for taxes just as though it were privately owned, lays down the principle that it is only when performing strictly governmental functions that a pub licly owned institution may properly claim exemption. The decsion sets a precedent of far-reaching effect upon publicly owned enterprises. It does not, of course, attempt to define the line where governmental functions end and private business begins but it does state that there is a definite line of division and that when this is crossed, publicly owned enterprises loses the advantage of tax exemp tion and. stands on an equal footing with private business. The principle laid down is one that should be carefully weighed consideration of proposals to inject government into business. If Fed eral taxes apply, . then it is likely that State taxes would also apply to city owned enterprises. •. - - against all Traditions “She just simply disgraced herself at her daughter’s wedding.” “However did she do that?” “She was so happy She couldn’t shed a tfear.” THiMPLY THILL Y I can not thing the old thongth, Becauthe I’ve lotht my teeth. ; I told a fellow that; he thaid: “Report to the Polthe.” —J. P. R. \ .*************** *’ \ * * Bell’s School News * * '*************** j The Bell’s High School Literary ' Society reorganized last week and ' elected the following officers for 1 1929-30: j President, Lois Horton, j Vice president: Worthy Howard. Secretary and treasurer: Leome Y # i Chaplain: Dan Mason. Critic Miss Amick. Chairman of program committee: Fallie Johnson. The grammar grades have also organized a literary society and will have use of the auditorium on Fri day afternoons every two weeks. ! Since each society meets only once [ in two weeks, much better programs are expected, as pupils will have more time to prepare debates and other features that require extensive * preparation. | > - Local Items » The devotional exercises at Bell’s School on Thursday and Friday were conducted by Mr, J. B. Ausley, who 5 has charge of a Sunday School re * j vival campaign at Bell’s church this i j week. Mr. Ausley. is a. guest of Mr. [ and Mrs. Dosse Bowling t at, the teacherage. . lV .. . » ...‘ Every pupil in school this week * had the opportunity of putting on . | his best look and being snapped by » a visiting school photographer, Mr. Strawbridge of Durham. y An unusual record in school afc 1' tendance had been made this year 3' by the fourth and tenth grades. Ev .l ery pupil in each of these grades has ) been present every day during the f two weeks of this session. * Miss Trannie Ellis was a visitor i at Bell’s teacherage this week. f' Dessie Wicker, a pupil of the sec > ond grade, had the misfortune to ', sprain her ankle at school this week. L The base ball team of Bell’s high * school defeated a team made up of ; boys living near Markham’s store in , a game of five innings played here Thursday during the noon recess. Sunday School Campaign Mr. J. B. Ausley, leader in the - Sunday school campaign at Bell’s . Baptist church, has had a good k audience all the week. The purpose 'iof the campaign is'to revive an in- in Sunday school work and to seek to enlarge the Sunday school. A course, “Building a Stand ard Sunday School,” was given and ’ diplomas will be awarded to several members who have successfully pass * ed the examination. - a —r ■— ' HOGS WERE GIANTS IN THE OLDER DAYS i ■ George Surmeyer, writipg in-■ The 1 St. Louis Globe Democrat, says* 1 Even the hogs were giants in olden i days. They stood seven, feet tall and - eleven feet long and seem to have , been »s lean as razorbacks. They roamed 2,000,000 years ago in the prairies of Nebraska, or in whatever Ipnd of topography Nebraska had at that time. Fossils of two have been found in Nebraska, “The only pair known,” says Prof. E. H. Barbour of the de partment of paleontology, University of Nebraska. The finest one has been j mounted for the university museum. “He weighed nearly two tons,” says Prof. Barbour, “and was stripped down to fighting trim. What a win ter in a modern feedlot would have done to him, is almost beyond cal culation.” SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the au thority conferred upon us in a deed of trust executed by W. T. Thomas and wife, Mamie Thomas, on the 17th day of November, 1926, and recorded in Book A.C., page 74, we will on Saturday, 12 th day of October, 1929, 12 o’clock noon, ' at the courthouse door in Pittsboro, N. C., Chatham county, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bid der the following land, to-wit— All those certain pieces, parcels or tracts of land which join and which together contain 87.8 acres, more or less, situated, lying and be ing on the Siler City Road about 7 miles North from the town of Siler City in Albright Township, Chatham County, North Carolina, the same being bounded on the North by lands of T. B. Terry; on the east by lands of Slocum and Bunn Terry; on the South by lands of Z. C. Johnson and Sam Richardson and on the West by lands of Johnnie Perry and" B. A. Strout. This is the same tract of land conveyed by M. J. Boling and. wife, to Mamie F. Thomas by deed dated January 11, 1913, and record ed in Book F. 8., page 115, and that tract of land conveyed by <C. B. Thomas and wife to Willie Thomas by deed dated December 8, 1924, and recorded in Book G. K., page 167, Register of Deeds Office, Chat ham county. This sale is made by reason of the failure of W. T. Thomas and wife, Mamie Thomas, to pay off and dis charge the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust to the North Car olina Joint Stock Land Bank of Durham. A deposit of 10 per cent will be' required from the purchaser at the j sale. This the 6th day of September, 1929. . FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DURHAM, ■ > Trustee. Durham, N. C. (Sep 19, 26, Oct 3, 10) V- Roebuck—l bought a new auto and applied my player-piano on the first payment. Ward—l didn’t know they ac cepted player-pianos as payment on autos. Roebuck—They don’t as a rule, but the salesman is my next door neighbor.—The Pathfinder. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 192 g * ' * * * v* * Goldston *********** **** GOLDSTON, Sept. 14.—Mesdarn^ H. M. Phillips and T. P. Murchison were charming hostesses to th e Gold ston Book Club at the home of tht former on Wednesday afternoon profusion of lovely flowers added to the attractiveness of the home, L ' Current events were given in re . sponse to roll call. Following the business period interesting papers on “The Carolina Highlands” \ VeTe read and much enjoyed. The first paper “The Natural Resources of the Carolina Highlands,” was read by Mrs. Walter Goldston. The sec ond, “The Carolina Highlanders” \ Vas read by Mrs. H. A. Burke and the third, “Possibilities of the Carolina Highlands,” by Mrs. J. J. Harris. At the close of the program an inter esting “Penny Contest” was enjoy ed. Prizes went to Mrs. H. A: Carr and Mrs. O. S. Alexander. The hostesses served a lovely salad course with iced tea to the follow ing members and visitors: Mesdarn^ E. Mv Harris, A. W. Goldston, F. M Barber, T. W. Goldston, H. A. Carr, jJ. J. Harris, James Goldston, P. o’ * Barber, H. A. Burke, Jacob Dixon J. B. Goldston, W. H. Goldston, a! B. Womble, W. F. Veasey and 0. S. Alexander. Mrs. Jacob Dixon and Mrs. T. P. Murchison were charming hostess** at a lovely rook luncheon on Thurs day from 11 o’clock until 5:30 at the attractive home of the latter. Four tables were set for rook and after a morning of spirited playing Mrs. Vann Oldhart was presented with a lovely box of stationery as high score prize. Mrs. Gus Murchison was consoled for low score with a pretty fruit bowl. The hostesses were assisted by their daughters, Misses Margie Dixon and Elma Grace Murchison in serv ing luncheon. Contests were enjoy ed in the afternoon, after which Mrs. T. W. Goldston won a dainty powder puff and Mrs. A. W. Goldston a beautiful bed room picture. Rev. J. C. Canipe has closed a revival at the Baptist church. Large crowds attended each service and we feel that much good has bee-n ac complished. There were thirteen additions to the church. Mr. Canipe will always have a warm place in the hearts of the people in and around Goldston. School opened Monday, Septem ber 2, with a large attendance. One hundred and eighteen were enrolled in the elementary grades and seventy four in high school. The following > compose •• the faculty: Mr. W. F. Veasey, • principal; Miss Vann, first and second grades. Miss Abemethy, third and fourth grades; Miss Grace Bufke, fifth and -sixth grades; Miss Margaret Barber, seventh grade; Miss Garner and Miss Chambliss, high "school subjects; Miss Nell Cheek, piano./ • '' ■ * - Mrs. W. H* Garner and soft,- John Wiley, are spending a few days in Bristol, Tenn., and at other points. Little Miss Virginia Ann Goldsto# is spending a week with her grand mother at Cary. w Mr. Chas. Wicker had the misfoß J tune of losing his home Friday after noon by fire. Only a few articles were saved. Miss Mary Womble Elkins has ac cepted a position with Attorney Wade Barber at Pittsboro. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Harris have had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Womble of Winston-Salem, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Womble of Wagram and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Abernethy of Elkin. Following is a list so the young people who will attend college from here this fall: Nannie May Burke, N. C. C. W.; Linda Womble, G. C.; Wade Goldston and John Wiley Garner, Chapel Hill; William Ellis, State College; Elizabeth Hester, Meredith; Ben Burke, Richmond; L. B. Hester, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wil liams of Martinsville, Va., are glad to learn that they are iaiproving after serious illness. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hartsell and Mr. M. C. McLaurin spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Phillips on their return to Illinois. Mrs. O. S. Alexander of Durham visited her sister, Mrs. J. J. Harris, last week. We are very glad to have Mr. Strickland’s family move into our little town. Mr. Strickland is a part ner in the planer mill with Mr. Hester. Mrs. Herman is spending a while with her sister, Mrs. Pennington, in Raleigh. / v Mr. and Mrs. Frances Kissell, after spending a few days with their mother, Mrs. J. G. Goldston, have re turned to their home in New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Womble of Concord, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Womble last week. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Goldston of i Lake Waccamaw visited their par ents, Mrw and Mrs. J. E. Goldston, last week. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. 01iv e have re turned from a visit to their son and daughter in New York City. Mrs. D. K. Warren of Florence, S. C., came on a visit Monday to her mother, Mrs. B. N. Gilmore. Mrs. James Goldston has returned I from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Clif ton Parish of High Point. .Miss Laura Bowman, a nurse from Winston-Salem Hospital, visited her sister, Mrs. F. M.-Barber, last week. Mrs. _O. Z. Barber and grandson. Harold Murchison, visited friends it Pittsboro last Friday. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Alexander are glad to welcome them back again after living in Site 1 * City several months. Miss Katherine Johnson is her sister, Mrs. L. P. Oldham. Mrs. Janie Paschal is visiting Mount Airy. $ Patriotism, like Charity, shod** begin art home.