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CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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“LEST WE FORGET THEM”
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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.
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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. Other and
more important suggestions are to
be brought in future articles. This
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THURSDAY, MARCH is
CAGLE AMAZED AT
SARGON BENEFITS
“After suffering for f--
Sargon put me back; on "-n, y i ars
• and made me feel like ?, ee *
; had been made all ov 1' !
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I “I was so weak and rundown that
I’d lay off from work for dayg at
f a time and rheumatic pains nearly
i drove me crazy. My kidneys were
\ over-active, -my appetite was next
: to nothing and nearly everything
. J ate disagreed with me. I’ve ac
tually gained eight pounds since I
. started Sargon, I’m enjoying hearty
■ meals along with good digestion and
my whole system, has been, rehuii
to a strong healthy condition. Mv
kidneys never bother me now and
every rheumatic pain is gone. Sar
gon Pills stimulated my liver and
ended my constipation, and I’m ab
solutely amazed at the results this
treatment brought me.”—Virgil Ca
gle, Waynesville, N. C.
C. R. 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.