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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1030 Bible Thought and Prayer { LOVE DEFRAUDS NOT—Owe | | no man anything, but to love one ; | another. Thou shalt not steal. ? | Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt ? f love thy neighbor as thyself.— j | Rom 13:8, 9. j I PRAYER — j | O love Divine, how sweet Thou art’ • I When shall I find my willing heart ? ? All taken up with Thee? : | I thirst and faint and die to prove | 7 The greatness of redeeming love • * The love of Christ to me. f V. » THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY AND LIBRARIANS Though the editor of The Record was present at the ex ercises dedicating the new li brary at the University, he did not visit the library building itself, and had not seen it till last Friday. It is a beauty, and should prove of more value to the people of Pitts boro than the University li brary has ever been to the people of this community. In fact, our visit was to borrow books. We got ‘‘Progress and Poverty,” Henry George’s fa mous volume, which Roland Beasley has so long commend ed, and the two volumes of the Annals of Tacitus. Loans are for three weeks, but as we had to read Progress and Poverty within that period also, we insisted upon more time for those two Latin vol umes, promising to return them*if somebody else should call for them after the three weeks. (Now, Oscar Coffin, don’t you slip in there and ask for those books,) Tacitus is as highly com mended by Gibbon as Henry George is by Brother Beas ley, and the few pages we read the first evening indi cate that he knows how to dispose of history in short order. What he does for Au gustus in a few lines is enough. The same evening, we started Progress and Poverty, and found that Henry George used more sentences to get his start than Tacitus uses in writing several decades of Roman his tory. But George’s style is surprisingly limpid. The writer feels that he has friends in the great library. While Dr. Wilson himself is not from old Sampson, his wife is, and Miss Faison, one of the trained librarians, is a sister of the editor’s son-in law, or of one of his sons-in law now. Yet we confess that we never saw Mrs. Wilson more than once or twice dur ing our youth, though she lived within seven miles of our old home. We do not recall seeing her brother, Dr. R. H. Wright of the East Carolina 1 Training School, more than once in those days. Seven miles of sand roads in those days separated families, and the Wrights were Methodists and the Petersons Baptists, and the writer, who met many from far and wide at the old time associations and fifth- Sunday Union Meetings, never saw a Wright at one, and, still a Methodist church was established under his very nose, .had never entered the door of one. Yet it is not un sedom that we now introduce Chatham men to each other who do not live many miles apart. ——® Hearing David Lawrence’s address on the Trend of the Times, in which he undertook -to give a perspective of the - present and the future of the economic affairs of the coun try, we came to the conclusion that a fly on one of the spokes of a turning wheel has about as fair a perspective as one sitting on the hub of the wheel. More than one coun try newspaper man in his hear ing could have made just about as interesting and sat isfactory a discussion of the Trends of the Times as this talented gentleman from Washington made. “WE TOLD YOU SO.” ® It is deplorable, whatever the cause. Nevertheless, it is interesting, a mere matter of coincident, of course, to note that the failure of the Weeks Motor Company follows im mediately upon the killing of that rabbit visitor last week. Actually, we had no hint of the serious situation in which the Weeks Motor Company found itself, or probably we should not have written the item. But it is a fine illus tration of the difference be tween post hoc and propter hoc, and shows how supersti tions may be confirmed. Two weeks ago some one left the left hind foot of a rabbit on the editor’s desk and he found it right after he had taken in three subscriptions before he had built the fire after coming to the office, and the subscrip tions simply piled in for ten days, and to that we refer in the article in last week’s pa per, which is printed below: The Weeks Motor Company is less hospitable to visitors than«one would have thought. Friday night, as Mr. J. A. Thomas stood by bis desk with the front door of the garage : open, Brer Rabbit came hop ing in. He didn’t mean a bit of harm—merely wanted to see one of the new Fords. But instead of a hospitable recep tion, that man Thomas closed the door and he and the other fellows ran his rabbitship down , and penned him in a show case j till closing time and then that : same Thomas man took him and ate him up the next day. Now, if one left hind foot of j a rabbit left in The Record office ten days ago has wrought so favorably, what might not have happened to that Ford shop if Brer Rabbit had been taken in and treated hospital- j ably. Unh, glad it wasn’t The [ Record that treated him so harshly! <g> A NEW DAY DAWNS Those of you who rose early enough Tuesday morning and reached a radio could only have been delighted with the hearing of the addresses, In cluding King George’s, at the opening of the great naval re duction conference in London. Representatives of all the par ticipating nations were heard. Several representatives from non-English-speaking countries | spoke in English. Others con-; fined themselves to Their na tive languages and were not understood by one native American in a thousand. It was eleven o’clock in the fore noon at London, but day was only opening here, and that fact of itself was significant of a new day in international relations. The speakers were optimistic. Premier Ramsey McDonald, once a poor Scotch lad, is president of the con-* ference, and holds the atten tion of the whole world. He represents the labor party of England. $ We know of no recent sub scription of which we are more proud than that of L. C. Headen, a colored youth of, say, 18 or 19. We were com ing from the court house, where we had just seen ten negroes, mostly youths, sen tenced for stealing. Young Headen stopped us and sub-, scribed on the street, and we told him what we had just seen, and assured him that as he was going to read The Record we expected never to see hi m sentenced for any thing. The fact that he al ready was of the disposition to subscribe indicated that he had his mind on better things, but we hope the paper will confirm him in his higher as pirations and lead him into even higher ones. 1 It is an error to reckon the prosperity of weekly newspa pers as an index of general prosperity. Many a weekly in North Carolina would have had hard rowing last year if it had not been for the hard luck of others. Mortgage sales, land tax advertisements, and other legal business growing out of the hard times have enabled the weaker newspa pers to pull through, and have given the boasted profits to even so'me of the stronger ones. - I THE CHATHAM RECORD. PTTTSBORO. N. C. MECKLENBURG COUNTY FARMER WINS COTTON s CHAMPIONSHIP By producing 14,620 pounds of seed cotton or 5,726 pounds of lint on five acres of land, J. Wilson Alex ander of Cornelius in Mecklenburg County has been declared the cotton growing champion of North Car o', in a for the year 1929. Announcement to this effect was made this week by Dean I. O. Schaub. director of the agricultural .extension service of State College and head of the educa tional field work with farmers in this State. Mr. Alexander conducted the record-breaking demonstration un der the supervision of D. W. Easom, agricultural teacher in the Cornelius High School, where Mr. Alexander is a member of the night classes for adult farmers. ! The official records show that on the five acres under demonstration, Mr. Alexander produced 2,924 pounds of seed cotton or 1145.5 pounds of lint and acre. To do this, he used §OO pounds an acre of super phosphate, 100 pounds of Chilean nitrate of soda and 75 pounds of muriate of potash at planting time under the cotton. At chopping time, he gave the cotton and additional application of 200 pounds of the ( Chilean nitrate as a side dressing. On a check plot adjoining the five acre tract, Mr. Alexander produced 1,695 pounds of seed cotton or 672 pounds of lint, using an application of 500 pounds of an 8-3-3 fertilizer applied at planting. J The expense account shows a net i profit of $799.26 on the five acres j under demonstration or a profit per ! MEASURING INCOME WITH THE FARMER’S YARDSTICK We call attention to the readable letter of Mr. S. P. I Teague, in which the Cleve [ land panic and Hoover pros perity are contrasted. Note | that it was during the former jthat Mr. Teague, then a man | of more than 30 years of age. | I got his first overcoat. Evident ly, the former Republican reg ime had not been very kind to the young man. We, too,' have Mr. Teagjie’s ! practice of comparing incomes •with what a man can make lon a farm. Give a man 25 acres of good land rent free, furnish him a horse and plow free, and feed for the horse, buy him five tons of high grade fertilizer, let him swap work with his neighbors so that he may be busy when not needed in the crop and that he may have additional hands when his crop presses for more, as in cotton chopping time or the cotton-picking sea son, so that the crop may be accounted made and gathered by his own labor, and if he gathers ten bales of cotton and [SOO bushels of corn, he will 'have beaten 99 out of every hundred farmers in the State. Allow him 20 cents a pound for his cotton and 81.20 a bushel for his corn, and his j [income will be SI6OO, and he| 1 will be busy all the year, with what preparation of the land, cultivation, harvest, shucking and shelling corn, attending to the horse, etc., plus the work he has swapped. But suppose he has $3,000 'invested in home and farm— a poor home at that. His in vestment at 6 per cent would be $180.00; his taxes in the average N«jrth Carolina county would be $50.00. But instead of being given his horse and feed, let him rent one for S3O; let him value the horse’s feed at sl-50. Charge him $125 for his fertilizer, and then deduct $535 from the SI6OO and he has left $lO65 —but make it $llOO. Here, then, you have the maximum earning of a farmer with the minimum out lay for production, which is considerably less than SIOO a month—and it will take brain and brawn to secure that, and a bad year may cut it down by half. Yet, as Mr. Teague might have said, a mere boy or girl can make SBOO to SIOOO in the school room in eight or nine months. It was the lim itation of the production of Mr. Teague as a young farmer that prevented his getting an overcoat. We dare say that his whole crop in those days, with all the help his children could give him, did not gross SSOO. And the gross yields of the average farmer in Chat ham county, under the handi caps of the bad seasons of the last six years, has not reached that figure, and he doing his level best, filling in his time by cutting and hauling cross ties and cedar poles. But he has had a home to live in and free wood and water, though it is a job to cut and haul a year’s supply of wood. 1 Then, when such limitations ‘ acre of $159.85. The cost of pro ducing one pound of lint amounted to a Tittle over four cents a pound. In the expense account are included SSO for managerial services, s'so for rent on land, $7.50 for implement depreciation, $42 for gining, $146.20 for picking, $67.78 for fertilizer used, $9.75 for seed, $3 for use of tractor, $23.80 for mule labor and $34.50 for man labor. The total ex pense was $434.53. The income items show 295.8 bu shels of seed at 60 cents a bushel amounting to $174.48 and the lint cotton sold for 18 42 cents a pound amounting to $1,059.31. This made a total income of $1,233.79 leaving the net profit of $799.26 on the five acres. The check plot where no nitrate of soda was used netted only $88.62 an acre of $443.10 if figured on a five-acre basis, showing that the use of quickly available nitrogen in the fertilizer was highly profitable. Mr. Alexander has conducted this same type of demonstration for two years. In 1928, he produced 12,465 pounds of seed cotton or 4,082 pounds of lint on five acres. His re cord this past season was much su perior to the results of 1928. For making this excellent yield, Mr. Alexander will participate in a tour through Mississippi and Flordia as the guest of the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau. Other crop champions from the several states of the South will be included : in the party. ' Mm attach themselves to the fund amental vocation of farming, and to many other productive industries, it is clear that there can be no just comparison in his income and that of even the S3OO-a-month sons of Mr. Teague. But, if Mr. Teague would suggest a percentage „£iit in all salaries of state, county, and United States, he would pile up an enormous saving, even on the basis of a ten-percent cut. Then, that son of his draws S3OO a month would get only $270, while the teacher would get $67.50. It all comes back to the point we have so often made —that so long as the produc tion total is not greatly in creased, the few cannot pile up their millions and live like princes without many having to do with less than a com fortable living. Profits and salaries, fees and commissions, * especially profits, must be de creased in the higher scales, | or the multitude can only eke out a living. The remainder in substraction must always depend on the subtrahend. L?et those who have it within their power to make such profits as they see fit, subtract ten to twenty billions a year fror’t the maximum income of the country, and it is only a ; blamed food- who can not see I that what is left will not be I sufficient to give the multi tudes a sufficient share. It is the profit-maker, the monopolist .created by the pro tective tariff or by good for tune, even by his own genius, wh6 has set the pace for living in America—along with the fortunate possessor of desir able lands and the lucky spec ulator. When a man can make a million a year, he naturally pays liberal salaries. His* su perintendent may get SIOO,- 000. All right;<when the*state has a job requiring similar skill, the applicant says, If I were doing this for a corpora tion or for so and so, I would get so and so, and the state, foolishly accepting the stand ard, raises salaries in all lines in the direction of the limits paid by the corporations or in dividuals who have only to will more income and they have it. The state loses sight of the comparatively light in come of the average of the great mass of citizens, and lends its aid to the firmer establishment of the inequal ities fostered by the few who need know no limitation to their incomes, and consequent ly to the salaries and wages they pay. McAdoo was such a man, and with one word raised the wages and salaries to be paid by every railroad, telegraph company, telephone company in the county, and thereby helped monstrously to hoist salaries in every sphere of activity and consequently caused higher freight rates, tolls, and a national higher level of profits. Consequently, the legisla ture desired by Mr. Teague would act. It would have the view-point of the host of SSOO to SIOOO income men, and, yet, need not be so foolish a« not to allow for the greater cost of the average man’s liv- ing in a city. Hundreds of the employes of North Carolina could scarce ly make their salaries if they were given all the corn they could shuck, shell, sack, and market. Interesting events are com ing rapidly in the life of the editor of The Record. A month ago was his sixtieth birthday and Governor’s big dinner. Then came Christmas and new .year. Last week was the enjoyable newspaper insti tute at the University, a fea ture of which was an oyster roast, turkey and ham supper, and now behold us for the first time in the role of “grand daddy,” by the birth of a girl to his daughter Mrs. F. J. Faison of Roseboro. And ev ery branch of that child’s an cestry are of North Carolina colonial stock, except the great grandfather on the father’s side, who came before the war from Massachusetts or Connecticut to Clinton. The mother was kin to nearly half the native stock of Sampson, Pender and New Hanover, and now the child practically -dou bles the number of more or less remote blood kin, with a swarm of the same remote kind in the north. §>— County Agent Shiver won the third place in the contest inaugurated by the Charlotte Observer for the best publicity given to his county by any farm agent in the state. The agent of Rowan won first place, of Stanly second, and j Mr. Shiver the third. That in itself indicates the value of the farm page in this paper. The others won by a mere point or two. The editors of the state and thousands of other friends sympathize with Editor God bey of the Greensboro News in the death of his venerable father. The editor of the Record has never yet called a par tridge a quail. Suppose the rest of you go back to what you were raised to call them. . ‘ $ BUT A WELL-FED ONE Teacher—“ Frank, what is a can nibal?” - “Don’t know, mum.” “Well, if you ate your father and mother, what would you be?” “An orphan, mum.”—Pathfinder. I of helping '' American Farmers MAKE BETTER CROPS The coming year rounds out an even century since the first use of Chilean Nitrate of Soda in the . United States. Andrew Jackson, famous “Old Hickory”, of Tennessee, was President of the United States in 1830 when the first cargo of this nitrogen fertilizer arrived by sailing vessel from far-off Chile. That was years before we had the telephone, the telegraph. r>% a Y_On sheer merit alone ... strict ■ ly on the basis of the good it has done, Chilean Nitrate to-day is the standard nitrogen fertilizer. Last year more than 800,000 farmers used it to make more money from their crops. Every cotton champion in the South ... and every corn champion... made his winning crop with Chilean Nitrate. For nearly half a century, Experiment Stations have proved the value of Chilean Nitrate. In Penn sylvania, for instance, experiments have been con ducted continuously since 1881! The success ob tained by farmers who use it, leads many more each year to follow their example. Chilean Nitrate pays back its small cost many times over. Do not confuse Chilean Nitrate with other ■ _ fertilizers. It is the world’s only natural nitrate nitrogen. Not synthetic, but the real thing, mined - and refined in Chile and nowhere else. It will pay you to insist on Chilean Nitrate. It is quick-acting food for almost every crop that grows • • • proved by 100 years of usfe. Special Seek Offer PMC Our new 64-page illustrated book “How to Fer tilize Your Crops” gives aM the information you need. Free. 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Not only is the trade buying it in car load lots, but they are buying car load after carload, each car contain ing over 20.000 bottles of Sargon and Sargon Soft Mass Pills. Twenty-four carloads in 25 days sold in only 27 states in the amazing record recently made by these won derful medicines. In the State of California where Sargon was introduced in April of last year,-it has required 21 car loads to supply the ever increasing demand in this one state alone. 1 Texas dealers require 9 carloads in only four months. A single New York firm with wholesale branches in leading cities, is selling at the rate of over a Mil lion and a Quarter bottles a year. “Phenomenal and bewildering” is | the way one cf the big drug jobbers i of the country describes the marvel ! ous demand for Sargon. “It’s the greatest seller within the memory of the oldest members of our organization.” said another. “We are selling more Sargon than any other ten medicines put to gether,” said still another. And so it is everywhere Sargon has been introduced. From Coast to Coast and from the Gulf to the Great- Lakes, Sargon is known and honored. Million upon million have used it and have told other million what it has done for them. When suffer ing men and women find a medicine that helps them, they naturally want to tell their friends about it and in this way Sargon is fast becoming a household word throughout Amer- G. R. Pilkington, Agent. —Adv. BOILING IT DOWN The reporter came idly into the office. “Well,” said the editor, “what did our eminent statesman have to say?” “Nothing:” “Well, keep it down to a column.” —Louisville Courier-Journal.