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CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929
Hoover is no Santa Claus for
North Carolina. He wouldn’t
even put that I. C. C. appoint
ment for the South in Allen
Maxwell’s stocking, but in that
of Jones of Tennessee.
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The deputies on trial at
Marion seem to be making out
a pretty good case of self-de
fense and conviction is un
likely.
Rev. R. P. Eubanks writes
The Record, recalling the fact
that he was its first “devil.” He
afterward graduated from col
lege, became an Episcopal min
ister, and graduated from the
seminary. Upon his graduation
from the seminary, Major Lon
don, the founder and long-time
editor of The Chatham Record,
wrote an appreciative article
under the caption: “The Devil
Reformed.” That time is get
ting to be like Tipperary—a
long.long way. Sir. Eubanks
is in Los Angeles for his health
and finds himself improving.
The editor of the Record is
60 years old today, and this
evening, December 19, all the
editors of the state and the
members of the council of state
are invited to attend a dinner
at the Governor's Mansion in
Raleigh. If two and two make
four, what do those two facts
make? Well, whatever the
answer, the boys are warned
not to wear their evening suits.
The dinner is to inaugurate
Governor Gardner’s “live-at
home” program for the state,
and evening suits are not
grown in Chatham, nor ki
Sampson, where the writer first
saw daylight sixty years ago.
We wrote Governor Gardner in
response to his invitation, ex
pressing our appreciation of
the fine recognition of our six
tieth birthday, and, in order to
give him a hint as to what it
takes to provide for us, stated
that we recalled that our dad
pn one of those earlier birth
days, about 45 years ago, j
butchered two or three thou- j
sand pounds of pork. A year j
ago. we incidentally mentioned
that we had passed into our
sixtieth year and some of the
boys thought we were then
sixty, but this is the day, and
we are off to the Governor’s
feast unless something has
happened between the writing
and the going time. Incident
ally, we know what living at
home means till we were
seventeen the huckberries of
Sampson were not shipped.
Poor Sampson boys now cannot
afford to eat berries that sell at
twenty to fifty cents a quart.
The state democratic execu
tive committee of Alabama has
debarred Senator Thomas Hef
lin from being a candidate in
the Democratic primary next
year. Heflin says he will run
any way. The Alabama sena
tor opposed Smith, but finally
voted for him. Senator Sim
mons not only opposed Smith
before and after nomination,
but refused to vote for him. Yet
there is no disposition in this
State to debar Senator Sim
mons from the primary. In
deed, there would be no just
wav of debarring Judge Meek
in, for instance, from becoming
a candidate in the Democratic
primary if he should now de
clare himself a Democrat. But
the democracy of the State
would have, and should have,
the right to express its prefer-]
ence in the primary. If the ma
jority should express itself ini
favor of the hypothetical new
convert or the former back-i
slider, the majority should sub
mit. But not to allow those op-j
posing the retention of the sen
atorship by the man who did j
as much as he possibly could I
to beat the Democratic nomi- 1
nee last year to express by bal
lot their opposition would be
unjust. Then, let’s have that
forthcoming announcement of
a candidate.
“THREE FOURTHS” UNION
COUNTY PEOPLE IDLERS!
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That is a shabby picture that
the Monroe Enquirer paints of
conditions in Union county. It
is true anywhere in the coun
try that the average family is
spending more than it actual y
makes. It cannot hardly be
otherwise when the few lor
tunates are so rapidly hogging
the actual wealth-producing
properties of the country, but
in Chatham the people as a
rule are trying to make a liv
ing. Says the Enquirer:
“I see by the papers that Gov
ernor 0. Max Gardner has issued
a proclamation setting aside a
“Live-at-Home ‘Week.” The Gov
ernor sees no reason in the world
that North Carolina should be
buying millions of dollars worth
of foods and feeds from afar
when these could be raised right
here at home, and that our state
should be exporting instead of
importing foods for mail and
beast.
The Governor is right and no
doubt a campaign for living at
home and boarding at the same
place will result in great good
and profit to all in the years to
come.
I am surprised, however, that
some one has not long ere this
told the truth about the whole
matter. For every dollar s worth |
of food brought into North Car- I
olina ten dollars goes out tor
gasoline.
Our people have mortgaged
their homes and their farms and
are riding on the good roads for
which millions of dollars have
been spent that they may ride.
Union is a typical North Caro
lina county—not quite so good
as some and better than others.
For the past five years we’ve j
borrowed and spent more than
we’ve produced.
Still, there is plenty time to
redeem a bad situation. Our
folks should go to work.
Three-fourth of our people
are idlers—consumers rather
than producers—and I can prove
this if necessary. Also. every
Union county man who owns an
automobile should know how
much it is costing him to operate.
I shall welcome the Gover
nor’s “Live-at-Home Week.” It
should prove enlightening as to
what we should do and also leave I
undone many things we are !
doing.” . 1
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W. H. Barton, county agent;
of Edgefield county, S. C., re-[
ports the highest yield of sweet
potatoes secured by any mem-’
j ber of the boys’ club as 590
■ bushels, which were valued at
[5443. The Monroe Equirer, j
' commenting upon this, says an'
acre of potatoes may be pro
duced as cheaply as a bale of
cotton. However, there is not
always a cash market for sweet
potatoes as there is for cotton,
but a 300-bushel yield of po-j
tatoes will be exceedingly
profitable for hog feed. The
editor of the Record knows
what potatoes will do for the
piney-woods rooters. The
shoals used to have a piece of
the potato field fenced off for
them early in the fall and they
did their own gathering, dig
ging up the potatoes and let
ting them sweeten in the sun.
•Shortly they looked like differ
: ent hogs. Two or three weeks
of corn feeding serves to hard
en up the pork. Os course,
when cold weather approaches
it is necessary to dig the po
tatoes, but they can be covered
with straw handy to the feed
ing place and kept safe till
really cold weather comes. The
writer’s father used to fatten
thirty to forty hogs each fall
i largely on potatoes and chufas.
There is a ready market for
pork or bacon, and, according-,
ly, for sweet potatoes fed to
fattening hogs. The very po- j
tato vines help feed the shoats. i
Try feeding hogs on sweet
potatoes as a part of the “Jive
at-home” program.
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[ The county court has proved I
: its efficiency. Judge Bell pre
sides with real dignity and has’
manifested a judicial mind. So-!
i licitor Barber has sought jus-]
tice, with due regard to the j
(State and to the defendant, we!
, believe, and that is saying
jmuch. We believe he is glad
j to see a man able to clear him
self of an accusation, but he j
has to do it, or the State fails
to make good its charge. How
ever, few have escaped, and
several road hands are secured
for some county.
THE CHATHAM WBgunu, n. y>T
SIXTY!
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Sixty today! Excuse us. That
has never happened to us be
fore. Guess we shall have to
count ourself among the elder
ly, but we have been replanted
so many times, what with liv
ing in several places in this
State and in three others, that
w T e haven’t had time to grow
old, or at least to realize age.
And this has been, we believe,
one of the best years of our
life, if not absolutely the best.
It has been a pleasure to live
and work. We believe we have
learned more than in any other
year of our life. The year has
been largely devoted to his
torv, and we are wondering
whether the rather organized
system of readings would haye
been more valuable earlier in
life, that we might have had in
the course of sporadic readings
the outlines to fill in, or now,
when the studies have had the
effect of enabling us to form,
in large measure, our own or
ganization of the materials of
many years of unorganized
reading. We believe the former
would have been better, pro
viding the youngster could
have had sense enough to read
discriminating and with-under
standing. The former course
would have served to direct
life, while the latter brings
|to bear on history an exped
ience and understanding of life
that illuminate the history as
nothing could for a youth. Al
together we are happy as it.
And, talking about the gover
nor’s 4ive-at-home policy, we
enjoyed making a garden. Not
a plow went into it after the
breaking of the land. For
weeks during the summer, with
a family of five and frequent
j company, the grocery bill
scarcely passed four dollars a
week. And with chickens and
eggs from the yard, fruit from
the an abundance
. and variety* of vegetables, it
was no poor living. Roas’n
ears and fomatoes and beans
till frost, and canned vegeta
bles and fruits right on! But,
boys, if you are going to live
to sixty and then some, get you
a wife who knows how to make
a home!
Referring a second time to
, th& statement of the Monroe
I Enquirer that Union county for
I the last five years has spent
! more than it has made, and ac
j knowledging that the same is
.true of Chatham, and of the
| larger part of the country, we
cannot see any remedy for the
situation so long as the few
favored industries have it with
in their power to harvest all
i the capital of the country as
profits. The automobile has be
come a necessity; so has elec
tricity and many other things.
Yet we have previously shown
that a few concerns have be
' come so strong that they hold
j virtual monopolies and can
'charge what profits they
please. This enables them to
rake in not only the spare in
come of the country but also
'the capital through the mort
gage route. The timber re
-1 sources are gone. The lands
are following in their wake,
and the farm loan banks have
greased the skids for their
passage. It is not the cost of
any of the monopolists’ articles
that hurt, but the profit. If the
j thousand dollars paid for an
| automobile, for instance, repre
jsented cost of material, labor,
’freight, etc., it would be all
right. There would be no
; monopolization of wealth. But
,• when each car, let us say, af
fords the builders a hundred
! dollars of profits, it is clear that
! it is only a matter of time when
[the automobile industry alone
; might amass profits equal to
the value of all the lands and
; capital of the country. For
| mind you, profits are above in
terests and all labor charges.
That is, everybody concerned
in the making of the cars have
received pay for their labor
and capital, and the profits
may be invested entirely and
! begin to pile up another invest
| ment capital. And the auto
, mobile manufacturers are only
! one group of those who have it
| within 'their power to absorb,
■ without let or hindrance, the
! wealth of the country.
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Dr. W. R. Cullom, professor
of the Bible at Wake Forest,
j has proposed the preparation
of a series of> articles on the
Sunday school lessons for the
next six months, which furnish
a study of the Kingdom of
Heaven. He hopes to be able
to furnish enough of the State
papers with these lessons to.
pay for the trouble of prepara- j
tion and distribution at a nom- j
inal charge, and we hope he j
will do so, for the sample les- j
son that he has sent us, which j
we hope to print next week,
different. Cullom is a scholar, |
and has common sense to boot.!
Of'all the men the editor of
The Record was in college
with, he deems Cullom among
the half-dozen most scholarly,
and they included a governor,
judges, magnificent preachers,
and scholarly teachers. We
studied mathematics in the
same class with Cullom, and
he could learn it, even Woods’
mathematical mechanics, and
unless a fellow could learn
mathematics we have never
had much confidence in his
reasoning ability. Dr. Cullom
is not only a reasoner, but ad
mits the right of others to sat
isfy their reason. The great
est question in the world, and
one that right now is agitating
the thoughts of Christendom
as it hasn’t in 1500 years, is
that of the deity of Jesus. Dr.
Cullom believes in that deity,
but he has satisfied his reason,
and in the article we shall print
next week he writes in view of
the new conditions. Blazoning
to the world on a legend on an
automobile that “Jesus is God”
is not convincing, though it
may lead to a study of the
question. If a million people
who study the lessons of the
next six months should be con
vinced that Jesus is God, a new
era would be inaugurated. Cul
lom is proceeding in away to j
appeal to the thoughtful.
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AT BENNETT
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It had been two years since
the editor was over at Bennett.
It is not because he does not
like to visit that good little
town, but simply because it did
not happen to be convenient, i
He was over there Saturday
evening and found everybody
well and apparently doing
well, considering the hard
times. Bennett suffered from
the bank failure as well as
from the succession of bad
crops. However, the only man
we found really blue was Dr.
Denson, who says that collec- i
tions are almost impossible. But
The Record man made a re
markable record. Every sub
scriber he met paid up at least
to date. However, there were
several we could not see. But
we have the pick of the folk,
while Dr. Denson has the gen
eral run, and if the health of
the better class of people has
been good and his practice con
fined to the weaker groups,
there is no doubt that he is find
ing collections almost impossi
ble.
Bennett is in a new country.
The section was woods when
the little railroad came from
Bonlee. But it is one of the
prettiest town sites in the
whole section, and the sur
rounding lands are good, and
when they are brought into
cultivation and prosperity re
turns to agriculture, one may
expect to see the little town de
velop. Possibly, the larger part
of its trade comes from Ran
dolph county, the line being
only a mile or two away. That
makes it hard to do much sub
scription work among the peo
ple on the streets, as our paper
is strictly a Chatham county
paper.
Ed Phillips will probably be
sending in the Bennett news
from now on./ He has been
careless for a year or two.
As we wrote last week that
it is as easy to collect two years
of subscription as one and that
a trip when the subscribers are
behind results in real money,
so we found it. For instance,,
together we met those two
stalwart farmers Messrs. R. L.
Welch and E. R. Lambe and
got $5.00 from the two. Two
years were collected from oth
ers, including our good friend
Mrs. W. W. Brown, a year and
a half from that happy cus
tomer Mr. J. W. Yow. We be
lieve we are right in saying
that the only possible way for
a county paper in a county
like Chatham to make any
thing clear out of subscriptions
is to get the good citizens whoj
really want the paper on the*
list and keep them there. If
you see them, you get your
money if they have it, and
when it does come it is with
practically little cost. But the
foreign advertisers judge the
weeklies now as they do the
dailies, by the number of paid-
up subscriptions, and that
makes the difficulty.
| So far as we could learn we
had only one sorry shoat on
| our Bennett list, and with him
off, we feel safe if it should be
| two years again before we visit
the town.
A call at Harper’s * Cross
Roads found Mr.. D. H. Ellis
in a nice new store with filling
station attached, Mr. F. Y.
Moon, the other merchant of
that fine community is still at
his old stand. Bosh of these
gentlemen helped us out. Just
beyond is the good farm home
of Mr. B. F. Cox and a brief
call served to put him on the
list. Mr. C. L. Powers could
not be found at home. He is
teaching over Randolph this
year, but lives at home with
his parents? He has attended
the summer school at Wake
Forest the past two sessions.
At Bennett Mr. G. H. An
drews and T. C. Harper were
added to the list, matching two
or three discontinuances.
It seems now that the only way
to get rich quick is slowly.—Ameri
can Lumberman.
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your mouth and goes south with it. Treat it right.
If it ever goes back on you, they’ll be giving you
nourishment through a glass tube between your vest
buttons!
Hence a word on behalf of the esophagus and
the little esophaguses at home, for they all like to
keep busy. Even the bee lays up something for a
rainy day. Let the bank be YOUR beehive, where
you store a part of your earnings. It takes about
three square meals a day to keep the esophagus in
working order.
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let him retire
I Pittsboro has the distinct;
of being the birthplace ofh"
only remaining soldier of +L e
War of the Sixties in' Conte
Major Stedman has served
own generation well and a q ,7
ceeding generation or two P.,,t
his real usefulness in Congrf
has ended and he expresses th
purpose to retire. It is 25 year!
since this writer waged a c ,m
paign for him in his candidate
against Glenn for the governor
ship, chiefly on the ground that
he would be x the last Confed
erate thus honored. The State
then wanted a younger man
for governor, and has chosen
young men ever since. If the
State was right then, when
Major Stedman was really i n
his prime, the fifth distreit
would be silly, on the basis of
sentiment, to undertake to re
tain in Congress a man who has
reached his ninetieth year and
is physically mentally un
able to serve his people. Pitts
boro thanks the Fifth for its
long support of her distinguish
ed son, but would now see the
old war horse allowed to re
tire upon his own initiative.