PAGE FOUR
THE
CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE:
pne Year $1.50
Months 75
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929
Bible Thought and Prayer
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!! A SURE GUIDE —Commit thy >
' way unto the I^ord: trust also in ||
!! Him: and he shall bring it to pass.
' , Rest, in the Lord, and wait pa-!!
< tientlv for Hirftj— Ps. 37:5. 7.
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PRAYER —O Lord, we come to!!
■ Thee for Thou art the Way. the'
J! Troth, an & the Life. n
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: ABOUT CIRCULATION
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;; Maintaining -a paid-up sub
scription list by a coufnty paper
ia a problem these times. The
itteitis are so small that the ex
pense of collection, if -a man
is sent into the field to collect
and secure new subscriptions,
consumes a great part of the
total of the subscription funds.
In fact, the situation has be
come so grievous that many
papers seem to expect nothing,
or very little, from subscrip
tions, and depend for income
almost entirely upon adver
tising.
For instance, the Dunn Dis
patch is now having a contest
for subscriptions in which
$4,000 worth of premiums is
offered, and besides the man
ager of the contest gets, say,
a fourth of all that is collect-,
ed, including a fourth of the |
amount paid out for premiums.
In that case, if 57.000 should
be collected during the con
test, the paper would have to
pay for the premiums, also
$1750 to the contest manager,
besides the expenses of circu
lars, stationery, etc. Then for
weeks he has a large expense
in. connection with the adver
tising of, the "contest in the
Consequently, out of
thfle
the publisher would get less
tban SISOO, for 3500 subscrip
tions at $2.00, which is the
price of the Dunn Dispatch. •
The Record could not expert
anything like 3500 subscrip
and from the advertising
standpoint they would be
worth comparatively little to
the average advertiser, as they |
would be scattered all over the
country. -
Accordingly, it seems evid
dent that the Chatham Record
could better afford to give
away the paper to the folk
who would profit the adver
tisers than to pay such price
for subscriptions. But our ad
vertising field is so poor as
compared with that of many
papers that we could not ex
pect- to prosper without a sub
scription fund. But it is clear
that one thousand paying
sl.sp each without cost to the
paper would beat the SISOO j
the Dunn Dispatch would get!
frqtp 3500 at $2.00 each all to
pieces.
But we want more than a
thousand subscribers. Chatham
county and the people outside
of Chatham really interested
in the Chatham Record should
afford a reliable subscription
list of 2,000. And if the editor
himself had the time to travel
over the county and visit the
homes, he is fully confident
that!he could get them. But
he make the paper, at
tend! to the advertising busi
ness and give much time to the
subscription business.
tjjqder the circumstances, we
haye been trying to build a list
of people who ap
preciate the paper and leaving
it largely to their convenience
to b4y. If all our people came
L o Fijttsboro, it would be easy.
BuLA g rea t many of them do
oofc to the county seat
mqe*a year. But, really, it is
to have a man drop in
wllhri he does happen to come
or id hand it to us when he j
happens to see us at any other
ola c 4, if he should run two or
years behind, than to col
led jflat the cost indicated in
£h4 gase of the Dunn Dispatch.
Biit jthere is an easier way.
Jftl the subscribers to the
Record would get into the
hapft of sending in their sub
scriptions by mail it would
soMi the problem. But the
average Chatham man will not
But cannot that be (
changed? A check for $1.50
was received just now from a
ladv whom we hardly expect
to see in a year. That is clear
money and helps to make the
Record possible. We are get
ting the Record printed cheap
er than it would be possible
to print in a shop of our own.
since business here would not
justify a costly plant and a
real organization. Hands and
machinery would be idle too
much of the time. l"et, when
we are possibly printing the
Record at less cost than that
of any other paper of its size
in the* state, we have paid out
SI3OO in clean cash to printers
since March 1. Then there is
rent, fuel, postage, express,
etc. You see it costs money to
print a paper, and more has to
come for the editor’s family to
live on. Suppose you help the
situation .by mailing us a
check, money order, or the
money itself? And do it the
first time you can spare the
cash.
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v INHIBITION VS.
> ■ PROHIBITION
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President Hoover hit the
nail on the head when he
wrote a few days ago to the
president of the National W.
C. T. U. to this effect:
“Since the adoption of the
prohibition amendment, too
many people have come to rely
upon the strong arm of law to
enforce abstinence, forgetting
that the cause of temperance
has its strong foundations in the
conviction of the individual of
the personal value to himself of
temperance in all things.”
It is manifest that so long as
the fermentation process con
tinues some kind of intoxicant
can be readily prepared or
secured by the person who will
have liquor at any cost. It is
no extravagant statement that
a cigarette fiend would walk
a mile for a cigarette. The
habitual pipe smoker, cigar
smoker, or chewer would walk
more than a mile for a pipe
of tobacco, a cigar, or a quid
if he had none. And it is easily
imaginable that the thirst for
liquor, once established, ex
ceeds? 'the appetite of the
smolcer. Accordingly, the
drinking man in his frenzy for
gets practically all other con
siderations for the time being,
and the prohibition law has
little effect in curbing his
search for liquor. According
ly,- the way to stop drinking is
to convince those who have not
begun that they will be the
losers by cultivating the taste.
That course was what brought
about the demand for prohibi
tion. Those who were con
vinced of the evil of drink and
themselves refused to become
bibblers thought the evil could
be removed by forbidding the
manufacture and sale of liquor.
Unfortunately, it has proven
easier to pass laws than to en
force them. On the other hand,
there has been a lapse in
teaching the value of temper
ance, with the disastrous re
sult now evident. The writer
as a youth spent months in
Clinton with a dozen barrooms
wide open without entering
one. It was a matter of prin
ciple. Today a youth without
that principle instilled is in far
greater danger of becoming a
drinker.
In this connection we might
recall the story of the Sampson
county farmer who himself is
a teetotaler and whose grand
father and father were tee
totalers, but whose son has
been drunk. The elders lived
and kept sober as a matter of
principle when liquor was sold
without let or hindrance. The
youngster, without the healthy
sentiment of former days
against drinking and protected
only by the prohibition law,
fell. Let’s get back to first
principles. Establish inhibi
tions. Inhibition beats prohi
bition all hollow. But both of
them together would be even
better. But prohibition with
out the establishment of char
acter is of comparatively little
value. i, . t .
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A visit to the Pittsboro
school the other day discover
ed a real disposition, we be
lieve, on the part of teachers
and pupils to attain a higher
standard of scholarship. A few
minutes inv Miss McDonald’s
room assured us that those
students will be expected to
learn geometry and that the
teacher herself knows her sub
j wprjfcgr. She is .a
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C.
"COMING UP!"
new member of the faculty.
'The former members whose
rooms we visited seemed to be
earnest and enthusiastic. But
the two hours spent in the
school was too little to allow
us to observe the work of all
the teachers. In truth, it is
hard for us to do much observ
ing. We are almost as hungry
for teaching as Lindbergh
would be to fly if he had not
been in an aeroplane for years.
Consequently, we find directly
that the teacher has surrender
ed the job to the visitor. And
sometimes we feel that we are
sinning in staying out of the
school room. Now when our
powers are full, when we real
ly know somewhat as compar
ed with the ignorance of those
earlier pin-feather days, when
we have had time to correlate
what we do know, and know
what are the pivotal things in
the subject, we realize how
futile was much of the hard
work of those earlier years as
a teacher. But we doubt
whether we could again boom
along enthusiastically for six
or seven hours a day as in
earlier years. But it is fun to
handle a group of bright boys
and (?irls while the physical
energy does permit. We shall
have to invite ourself up ag^flt:
But let us say we belieVe Priri-:
cipal Waters is rapidly grow
ing as a school man and that
he will require more of both
teachers and pupils than ever
before.
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Our Brown’s Chapel cor
respondent seems to have
scruples about the delivery of
milk on Sundays. It might in
terest him and others to learn
that when Constantine the
Great became a Christian and
decreed Christianity to be the
religion of the Roman Empire
and directed the observance of
Sunday, he distinctly excepted
the farmers in case of essential
work. For instance, he did not
expect them to lose a crop of
hay because of failure to take
it up on Sunday, nor to omit a
ploughing of the crop which
unfitness of weather previous
ly might have hindered till
Sunday. And certainly the
milking of cows on Sunday has
been going on ever since
Moses. It is well to remember
Christ’s own words, that the
sabbath was made for man
and not man for the sabbath,
and Sunday is not even the
sabbath. The decree mention
ed above is the first making
Sunday a holiday, or holy
day, by law. Whatever the
faults of Constantine, he must
be given credit for having
common sense.
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It has 'been almost winter
weather. It was a close rub
for frost last Thursday night.
But this spell of weather is no
sign of an early winter. Forty
two years ago • tdday, Septem
ber 26, 1887, frost killed cotton
as far south as Pender county.
The weather then became so
warm that the cotton stalks
sprouted and bloomed and
’way the last of November
snow fell upon open cotton
blooms.. The writer saw it as
he tells it.
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County Agent Shiver is tak
ing his vacation. He deserves
it. But his absence- means
there is no farm page this
week, and as business is scarce,
we are having difficulty in fill
ing the paper. So soon as cot
ton and tobacco get on the
m arket we r ho^^^fe
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open up considerably* Scarcely
a bale of Chatham cotton has
been ginned. ’
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GUM SPRINGS B. Y. P. U. TO
PRESENT PLAY AT BONLEE
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The Gum Springs B. Y. P. U. will
present “Aunt Jerushy on the War
path,” a three-act comedy in the
Bonlee School Auditorium, Saturday
night, September 28th, at 8 o’clock.
The public is cordially invited. Ad
mission 25c and 15c. Go and carry
your friends to enjoy a good enter
tainment.
The play was presented Friday
night in the Pittsboro school audi
torium and was a decided success.
The three act comedy was full of in
cidents and jokes that compelled
even the most serious minded to
laugh. The repeated encores of the
Hanks Chapel quartet proved their
success. About $30.00 was taken in
at the door. The money is being
raised to build Sunday school rooms
to the Gum Springs Baptist church,
which is familiar to many people in
this section of the country, being'one
of the oldest churches in the county.
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SERVICES AT PLEASANT HILL,
CHATHAM, MONCURE SUNDAY
The pastor will preach Pleasant
Hill Methodist church Sunday at 11
a. m., Chatham church in the after
noon at 3 o’clock and at Moncure at
7:30 in the evening,. At the first two
churches the communion of the
Lord’s supper will be celebrated, The
public is cordially invited, to £ttena
all these services. v "
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« We have the Greatest Selection
of O.K.’d Used Cars 4 « « « at the
Lowest Prices In Our History
LOOKatNNp
These Bargains! v
I REAL
BARGAINS
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EACH
GARAGE.
SEE
THEM!
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*Brown , s Chapel News*
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Mr. W. W. Lutterloh is improving
and appreciates v£ry much the kind
ness of his neighbors in finishing up
his milk houses and saving his feed.
Rev. H. G. Dorsett of Wake Forest
came over to visit his brother-in-law,
Mr. W. C. Henderson. Mr. Dorsett
has to go on crutches since an op
eration for appendicitis sometime
ago. Mr. Henderson is absent at the
time but will be back Thursday.
Miss Lizzie Clegg of Moncure,
route 2, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
N. A. Perry, and others.
Mrs. H. F. Durham is glad to
have with her her sister, Mrs. W. M.
Burns, who was at the point of death
at her Sanford home recently.
Miss Alma Perry and sisters de
lightfully entertained a host of their
young friends in their home Wednes
day night of last week at an ice
cream party. Their father, Mr. W.
M. Perry, has a nice country home,
well arranged' and beautifully paint
ed, and has up-to-date equipments
for the milk business.
; The people of this community who
have prepared to furnish milk for
the pew milki route? have * found the
cost of equipment double what they
expected. They began- -furnishing
milk Friday.: >lt ranked as grade D,
I FORDFAX
I Vol. 1 September 26, 1929 No. 7
I Published in the interest of the
I people of Pittsboro and vicinity by
I Weeks Motor Co.
I J. C. Weeks, Editor
I Tell everybody you see to be
I here Saturday for the Used Car
I Sale. Briggs Atwater, Houston
I Warren, and Hal Baldwin have
I been working night and day get-
I ting these cars ready for the sale.
I, If you need a good truck to
I haul tobacco ,wjth don’t miss the
I sale here Saturday. . You can get
I one at your own bid.
I The best used, Tractor in Chat-
I ham , county will be sold here
I Saturday at our v Used Car Sale.
I Ask Moore about the
I Tractor. He has operated it and
I knows what it .vill do and how
I much it has be.en used.
I Included in our sale Saturday.
I we will sell one i92£ OldsmobiJe
I that hag, been put An good con-
Idition. /This is a .Fordor Sedan
If you expect to buy a psed car this Fall
come in NOW! We have the widest selection
rs fine used cars in our history. Many of them
:an scarcely be told from new. They are good
or thousands of miles of satisfactory service
—and the prices will absolutely amaze you*
rhis is an opportunity to get exactly the car
'ou want at the price you want to pay.
Attached to the radiator cap of each of our
econditioned cars is the famous Chevrolet
ed “O. K. that Counts” tag. This tag shows
ou exactly what vital units of the car have
een reconditioned or marked "O. K.” by our
xpert mechanics. Itisyourabsotiiteassur
nce of quality and value. Look for this tag—
nd KNOW that your purr base is protected!
ECONOMY MOTOR CO.,
Siler City, N. C*
STOUT MOTOR CO.,
GOLDSTON, N. C.
CHATHAM CHEVROLET CO.,
PITTSBORO, N. C.
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USED CARS I
'With an ~Of( that counts I
imii mi 11 iff
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 1929
but they hope to soon reach grfidg j>
Mowing machines have been bu=v
in this community.
Judging from the appearance nt
the fields at Mr. J. T. Mann’s, hi. < on
O. W., is expecting to put in a bi 2
crop of grain this fall.
Mr. J. A. Marshall and other? are
preparing for the ginning season bv
installing another press.
Messrs. G. P. Whitaker and T. R
Perry, who deliver milk on the new
route, have purchased a new Chevro
let truck for the purpose and are
making quick deliveries. There are
13 now furnishing milk. Looks like
an unlucky number, but the writer
got married on a 13th and despite
many trials and tribulations, God
has wonderfully blessed and cared
for us. Though to sell, buy, or even
deliver a thing on Sunday seems
hardly right, spiritually speaking.
Yet to keep up with the times it
seems farmers must do something or
be left in the lurch.
Mr. F. R. Henderson is making
plans to move to Alamance county,,
we hear. But we should be sorry to
lose so good a citizen.
Mr. Bill Lindley and family ate
going to move to Burlington, we
hear, to work in the -teilk mill.
Little Louis- Goodwin, son of J.
R. Goodwin, got a fearful lick upon
the ear on the church ground Sun
day* apd was taken' to the doctor.
But" an examination' proved the in
jury was not serious.
and is a fine family car.
Several good Roadsters will be
sold here Saturday and it will pay
you to attend the sale.
Somebody is going to get SIO.OO
in GOLD absolutely free of charge
at our Used Car Sale Saturday.
This may be your lucky day.
School teachers wishing to take
advantage of buying good used
cars here Saturday at their own
bid can make (arrangements to
buy even if they have not receiv
ed their first month’s school
voucher.
If you can’t eome to Pittsboro
Saturday you will always regret
it. And especially if you are at
aU" interested in buying a car.
Weeks Motor Co.
Phase No. 7
Pittsboro, N. C.