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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: v One Year $1.50 Six Months - THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930 Bible Thought and Prayer 1 HAVE AI.L noon— The young J T lions do lack, and suffer hunger: j I but they that seek the Lord shall j | not wtfnt any good thing. —Ps. j 134:10. | PRAYER—Our Bountiful God. ? we have confidence in Thee, tor we j have never seen the righteous for- | 4 saken. nor his seed begging bread. I ! . j tt. The'trial of those accused of Ella May Wiggins’ death .-resulted in • a water-haul, but nobody wants any one con victed of murder without con vincing proof, and that was Peking. — <B> North Carolina Republicans have the grace of persistence. They are now proposing Judge John J. Parker as successor to Justice Sanford on the United States supreme court bench. $ We wrote it ‘Tor consci ence’ sake” but those young collegians in the printshop sent it back “for conscience’s sake.” They must have been suffering with the affection of which Jesus spoke in the parable of the Sunday school lesson of last Sunday, having eyes but seeing not, when they passed that rule in the English grammar,, > ».; . Everybody was expecting Judge Taft to die, but Justice Saifford with no warning to the:*public and little, if any, to himself, beat the ex-presi-; dent by five hours. The same day ’Justice O. W. Holmes his 89th birthday* and is still hale and hearty. A notable day t >it for the nation, especially for the? supreme court. ■■ X • Do your fishing early, or you will have to put it off till late. It will be illegal to fish with hook and line from April 20 to June 10. And all fish ermen should respect this law. There is no better way to as sure an abundant supply of fish in the streams for the coming years than by allow ing them to have the breeding season undisturbed. We are wishing you no harm, but if you go fishing during that period, we hope Bob Hatcher will get you. — ® If you are a farmer and did not read County Agent’s Shiver article last week, in which he told of government money;to be had by farmers needing > money to buy fer tilisers and‘ -seed yoii deserve, to have, a hard time. We pur posely made no (comment upon! the article last week, know-! mg that it . definitely inter-! ested farmers only, and that any ’ farmer subscriber to The Record who does not regular-! ly read Mr. Shiver’s articles hasn’t gumption enough to come and get the money any way. - - In view of' the fact that North Carolina is considering the adoption of an amend ment to the Constitution per mitting tiAber lands to be placed upon a different basis of taxation from other lands, •study being made in this county by Prof. Wager, under the auspices of the United States government, is very timely. There i& a theory that timber lands should not be •taxed till the timber is cut, and then the tax should be collected out of the proceeds of the timber. Under such a procedure, a man can afford to allow his timber to grow. The data to' be obtained by the study begifn in this county and Beaufort county should be of large vajue in determin ing the wisdopi of such a scheme, or-at .least its prac ticability at this time. We hope the people of Chatham will give Prof. Wager the co operation he seeks; »• 7 . j ABOUT TWO CHATHAM BOYS ——— Mr. T. S. Harris’s fine arti cle upon • the tariff came in too late last week for us to comment upon it, and this week we are publishing the first of a series of articles by Junius Durham, in which that young man, pays worthy trib ute to Mr. Harris’s article. The Durham article is rather long, and prolix, but when one considers that it is written by a mere youth he must admire it. The fact is, we are giving it space because the young man is thinking, and he is at the beginning of life, and we desire to encourage him to continue that unusual habit, especially of boys his age. Hardly in his twenties, he has a life to devote to thinking, and the world will need, more than ever before, men of the thinking type. If our own ar ticles and the publication of his serve to help develop a man who can be of service in the days to come, we shall feel that The Record has served its generation well. . Another column of the pa per this week is devoted to another Chatham county boy, Walter Lee Stimsor who is the business type I A lias be veloped the work habit, w 7 hich was particularly emphasized as essential in an article in the Saturday Evening Post two weeks ago, in which the col lege boy and his job was dis cussed. In that article busi ness leaders were quoted as expressing an anxiety to find college men who have really applied their minds to their work and have also developed the “w T ork habit.” Young Stimson has done the latter, and if he has only been able to go to the bottom of the subjects he has studied, he is undoubtedly on the road to remarkable achievement. The Post article left the im pression that the college grad uate who has not studied and has learned to loaf is no good at all, and has prospects much less bright than has the youth who has had little schooling, but has native ability and has learned ,to work. "That has been the doctrine of The Rec ord, its readers will recall. Rut in the two youths repre sented in The Record this week we have examples of the kinds of boys who should go to college. Junius Durham led his class in the Pittsboro high school, and must have done real work at the Univer sity the two and a half years he was there. Also, it is grat ifying to find such a thinker as Mr. Harris among our ma turer readers. <s> North Carolina newspaper dom lost two notable charac ters when George Myrover and A1 Fairbrother died a few days ago. The former had spent possibly two or three score years with the. Fayetteville Observer, and had written enough editorials to make many volumes. The lat ter used t@ publish a red-hot paper in Durham. 1 “LEST WE FORGET THEM” :sfx - If poor “Bill Jones” and “Dick Smith” were down sick and their -wives and children in distress for something to eat, do you think that any of the “multi-millionaire” mail order houses would trust them for food or clothing until those two breadwinners were back on their jobs? Perish the thought! They wouldn’t think of it. Yet right here in . Hamlet there are any number of stores which would, and hundreds who read this will agree that the same kind of friendship and faith and sympathy has been extended to them by our home town merchants. This example is set forth not merely for the purpose of increas ing the good feeling which exists for our home-town merchants, but it has a vital bearing upon the pros perity and development of our town. In age of trusts and huge! combinations, it is fitting that all who do not belong and are not a : part of these great trusts pause and consider to what extent they are contributing to the selfish pur poses of these giant monopolies. The dollar once gone out of Hamlet to the great cities does not come back, and by the sum total of these dollars which are gone for ever our community is impoverished. It is only simple arithmetic to cal culate the facts. Income must be more than outgo or we will slip backward-. Therefore we .must keep the money at home and we will all T7TU UTT A TIT AHT PF.mRTY PITTSBORO. N. C. • * * *-vf. vt - s prosper. . . . The home town merchant is the backbone of the community. He tides us over the stress and strain and makes it possible for us to have the things we want when we want them. He is honest and sin cere and gladly exchange any arti cle which does not come up to rep resentations or the modern stand ards. We have the privilege of ex amination when we buy from him ' and he helps us support the schools and churches and pays his part of the taxes. Without him, we would have no town, but merely a group ' of homes which would soon be ' empty. Every dollar of profit which he makes on one of your purchases will remain at home and keep on working for the embetterment of our community. It is a fast age and competition is keen. Perhaps it is fitting to quote Ben Franklin’s immortal ad monition to his colleagues when signing the Declaration of Inde pendence: “We must all hang .to gether, or we will all hang sepa rately.” In short, let us think twice be fore mailing an order to a.distant, city; when we take a short auto trip let us be sure to get our gas • at home, and at all times let us unite for the upbuilding of Hamlet. Loyalty to our , community costs nothing and yet it 'rings vast r«- 'rdrns. Labor and Poverty; Relief GENERAL INTRODUCTION By JUNIUS DURHAM Having for some considerable time been very deeply interested in oconomil conditions in the United States especially, and throughout the world in general, I have eagerly read many newspaper and magazine articles and editorials pertaining to the problems oi pov erty, unemployment, tariff, and un due concentration of wealth, the greatest proportion of which is evading its fair share of the burden of taxatibn. I have found an es pecial pleasure and a deepening in terest in reading Mr. Peterson’s ex cellent editorials in regard ..to the many economic evils so glaringly evident in our present commercial order, the keen, clear-cut r view point of the situation presented .in the last issue of The Chatham Rec ord (March 6) by Mr. Harris read ily appealed to me. During, this rpe-riod of my interest in eeomoftpics, my chief endeavor has b£en to analyze conditions as reported in .news articles,.with an ainv.at .fojmUK dat]ng clearer ideas. l -wit t h regard to the seriousness of various existing evils and striving to arrive at dfi-, nite conclusions , as to. the most practically possible relief and rem-. edy for the situation. I agree with Mr. Harris and with others who have maintained that the tariff, and especially the ex-, tortionately high tariff bounties now in force, which enable a few privileged plutocrats already reek ing in wealth to garner in more and more riches and to obtain a vise-like grip upon the country’s most valuable sources of wealth, is the chief cause of many of the undesirable evils existing within the commercial fabric of our modern life. But, although the tariff is undoubtly one of the most unrighteous and useless economic principles ever unheld and main tained by a progressive and civi lized government,, I do not be lieve that it can be honestly, right fully blamed for all the shortcom ings of our modern commercial and social order. However, do not be too hasty in jumping to conclusions in regard to the meaning and intent of the statement .just made. I am per fectly willing, to concede without reservations of any kind that the abominable tariff system, exceed ingly unjust to the vast majority of industrial laborers and to the agricultural class as well, but con tinually supported by the, various political administrations at the head of the national government, may in all probability, has been, indi rectly, the principal cause of the acute agricultural depression, .the poverty and unemployment condi tions existing generally throughout the country, and possibly other evils. But the idea that I am try ing to impress upon the minds of my readers is that, even though this method of subsidizing manu facturers and business corporations at the expense of the mass of the country’s population who are forced to .make the best of circumstances and in the majority of cases to spend a life of drudgery devoid of all; financial resources and of leisure time sufficient to enable them to make the most possible out of life, —even though all htis is very evi dently true, the tariff .is not such a . powerful force as to prevent these evil conditions being .reme died to a very great extent without} changing a single item in the en- J tire tariff schedule. Os course, there are many who will be skeptical of the truth of this statement. No doubt many will wise-manneredly shake their heads and, each according to his own private convictions honestly formu lated within the range of his man ner of thinking, utter some nega tive utterance as to the foolish ness and supefficial-niindedness of one who could candidly make a statement of that kind. There are those who apparently and quite naturally believe that little or no improvement! will ever be made un til some drastic change is made in th<l< itotli'PWam: either by re ducing or completely abolishing- the tariff on the, one hand, or else to turn about ’ and ...to give agricul tural and laboring classes, the bene fit of legislation, equally as advan tageous to them as other legislation has been to the wealthy groups heretofore/ It is ' entirely natural that the vast majority of the citizen ship of the nation should adhere to this viewpoint after they have witnessed the rapid concentration of enormous wealth into the hands of a comparatively few industrial leaders made possible by special legislation in their favor. There is nothing abnormal or dis honest in their having arrived at this conclusion and I‘have no quar rel to make in regard to their opin ions. But, personally, I am abso lutely confident that very desifable and extremely worthwhile improve ment could be accomplished on all sides without any recourse to legis lation whatever, provided all the more important classes in both the industrial and agricultural fields could be persuaded to enter into friendly co-operation with one an other in a whole-hearted effort to bring about the .desired results, working in line with the-plan, which I have in mind. (I am certainly not so egotistical as to believe that J have the perfect and only worth while plan for remedying the ex v isting situation, for there may be others with plans just as desirable. At any rate, I do not claim that 3my plan has achieved perfection. Not by any means, for it would be necessary that it be tempered by the advice and revision of older, more experienced, intelligent, and liberal-minded men who have suc eieded as leaders, organizers, and public servants). I deny that my .•onfidence in the pqssibi.ity of achieving improvement in labor and agricultural conditions is the result of any “soft-soap” optimism, for my plans and conclusions in re gard to this matter are based on soil facts and would be entirely practicable in view of the relief needed. Candidly, I believe that this remedy might be put into opera tion with much less expenditure of time and effort, that worthwhile results would be achieved much more quickly, with more gratifying success on all side, than would be reasonably possible in attempting to secure relief by means of political legislation. In declaring that it would not be necessary to alter the tariff schedule as a means of remedying the conditions of poverty, unem*. ployment, and agricultural depres sion, I do not mean, however, that it would not give added relief if the tariff rates were either altered or completely' abolished along in line with the operation of the other ( remedy. In truth’, such tvoyld be. very desirable/in’order' tp prevent additional “hogging” *or cconcentra tion of -wealth. ;Also,, .as Blr. Jtar-, ris stated in his splendid article, as long as the tariff, especially the present high schedules, is'.main-; tained and supported by the govern meht (of other countries as well as in our own) it will be a bar rier to peace between all nations. We can never expect to have any-, thing approaching perfect peace 1 with nations so long as we place heavy restrictions upon their trade by means of tariff legislation, re strictions which are often so great as to absolutely prohibit other coun tries from trading many products with our people. Some sort of sub stitute for war may be agreed upon by all nations, some means of set tling disputes without recourse to arms, thereby at least avoiding costly destruction of wealth and poperty and barbarous bloodshed which is inevitable in war. But that wouldn’t guarantee permanent peace and friendly relations be tween all peoples which liberal minded intelligent persons all de sire. So long as free exchange of trade is prohibited or restricted between nations, various countries will be at odds with one another, perfect good-will will not exist be tween the peoples, and' inimical, entangling disputes constantly arise. If appears strange to me that thinking 1 , observant, intelligent, and broad-ipinded (supposedly) peo ple would expect harmonious peace while they .are discriminating and legislating against the trade of all other people. Yet there , are those, many of them, who occupy, high places in the business and political leadership, of the nation who glibly assert their burning desire for peace, zealously pretending that their fondest hopes are , centered about that one aim of restoring harmony on earth; and almost with in the same breath they advocate tariff rates -so great as to delib erately place what is virtually an embargo against foreign . products. How much good-will will ever be accomplished by an ambassador to a foreign government who advo cates the placing of a high rate of duty upon a product manufac tured by that country to which he has been sent as a diplomat by the Congress ,at home, and immediately protests against a reasonable duty upon a product which, American manufacturers were shipping into that country . with ... considerable profit to themselves? I am aware, of the fact that other governments also establish duties upon imported {products from other nationalities, .including America. Our government is not singular in that respect. But that is not the point. A powerful and leading nation, so prosperous and progressive, and claiming to be so desirous of peace, as the United States is, should not be at all hesi tant about taking the lead in a i measure that would have such far reaching effects for good through out the world. ... ; To leave the subject of the tariff with its relation to peace and to return to to the discussion of conditions of near-poverty, if not complete poverty in a large num ber of cases, and of unemploymnet so prevalent in all parts of the country, but more especially in the larger cities, I hold the viewpoint that much of the evil of which we have been bewailing so - much may be justly blamed upon the manner in which the various labor organi zations are managed and the re sults which they seek to achieve. However, please do not misunder t stand' me. I am not opposed to j organized labor, but rather, as I ■ stated previously in another para j graph, I am very much in favor of organization and honestly be lieve that only through more com plete organization and friendly co operation will we ever find a suc cessful and practical remedy for our troubles. Neither do I mean to insinuate that the leaders of these organizations do not have sufficient integrity nor that they are lacking in ability to perform the work which they plan to vg.arry out. The meaning that I wish to convey by that statement is that they fall far short of achieving the, real better of their conditions which they are seeking by lack of the right kind of friendly coopera tion between the various groups and classes of laborers. That statement may and un doubtedly would -be challenged by many people if they should happen to read it. The fact that many of the most important labor unions. - all over the . nation, are 'brought to . gether under the bead of the powerful American Federation of Labor would probably be pointed out as proof that there is co-opera tion between the different classes of . laborers. But even, though I am conscious of that fact, I still insist that there is much too great a lack of friendly teamwork between va rious organizations for them to ac complish the greatest and most last ing results. If there were closer harmony between all groups, both agricultural and industrial, many results could be achieved which would be many times more bene ficial than what has been achieved heretofore. This, closer harmony between all groups, would neces sarily be one of the essential quali cations of a successful remedy. It would not, however, by any means, in itself, be the remedy, for there are other very essential features just as important to the successful operation of the plan which. could not possibly be dispensed with. These will be presented in a sub sequent article in detail. For one to deny that there has been a lack of sufficient coopera tion wodld be absurd. Do plumbers regard the jjiterests of other classes of people, including hard-working laborers, who are struggling .to, maintain a decent ’home 1 when, ' rh' their unions,, agree to .. remain idle for days at a time rather than work for less than ; a certain' min-; imum wage? Most of them would rather work two “days each week for $7 a'day and remain fdle dur ing . the jef time; than work five days for $5 per day. Yet if they worked 'for the lower wage people • would be In position to bafve needed plumb ing done in their homes. The plumbers would have more full time occupation, additional plumb-1 ers could be secured from the enor- 1 mous ranks of unemployed 7 able bodied men now idling their time away tramping the streets, and though the daily wage would not be as high as they formerly de manded, the weekly total, or pay check, would be considerably more than before. The same would ap ply to plasterers, carpenters, and to many others. Each person for merly idle and now employed would be able to buy more food prod ucts, fruits, clothing, furniture, etc., thus giving additional buying power to multitudes of laborers who in turn would desire more plastering, •' plumbing, and painting done to his home, and would also buy more food products, fruits, clothing, etc. This would again in crease the buying power of others, thus making a continuous round of prosperity, on all sides. The suggestions already hinted at in this article form only a part of the remedy in mind. 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Pilkington, Pittsboro; Wig gins Drug Stores, Inc., Siler Qity, Agents. —Adv. * Over 60 Countries Now Treat Colds Modern Vaporizwg Ointment Fait >1 Replacing Oid-Tiine Intent) ?, Remedies A generation ago; It was the cus tom to give large doses of internal medicines for-colds and almost every human ailment. Then, a North olinit pharmacist originated Vietet Today, the Whole trehd Os medical prddtice is awrfy frbm' needless "dos iiSjr *’ • - ‘• -f •' this modem the fame of Vicks spread tmtil to -1 day it is' the standby for colds— adults’ as Weil as ■children's—in over 60 countries; * ’ r • This *■ ever-increasing demand Is shown in the figures of the familiar Vick slogan. Made famous when Vicks reached “17 Million Jars Used Yearly,” and later raised to ”21 Million,” these figures, too, have been outgrown, as there are now “Over 23 Million Jars Used Yearly,” in the United States alone. article is intended only as a gen eral introduction to the evils ii the present order and what migh be accomplished in relief. There n a ringing challenge for someons with sufficient ability, courage, aw integrity of character to organize and to lead the people of thu nation and of the entire world iut< the proper spirit of teamwork, ant thus into greater prosperity. It vn* take a mighty man to do it bu' the reward for him will likewise w great. The whole nation, even tw world, will honor and respect nifl while he lives and revere his mem ory when he is dead.
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