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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year s l - 50 Six Months T 5 THURSDAY, MARCH EO, 1930. Bible Thought and Prayer s' J | 1! THE ONLY WAY—I air. the way. 4 <; the truth and the life.—John 14:6. | ' 1 PRAYER —Our Father, enable us j ’ to live hy the faith of the Son of j % <;od, Who loved us and gave Him- t ‘; self for us. } a— —~ ” <e> Raskob did one good job when He picked' that man Shouse. <s> Howdy, Sol. Glad to see you returning from your long journey below the equator. If you can not make an honest living, then steal, pro viding you pick somebody that can spare what you need, rather than make or sell liquor to debase your neighbors or to debauch school boys. Steal ing is a more honorable busi ness, provided you steal from the strong. ® By some means a letter from Mr. R. F. Rice has got lost. Mr. Rice, who is one of the best citizens of the county, expressed the view that it is not good business policy to replace officers who * know T their business with in experienced men. We regret the loss of the letter. —$ W. P. Horton was honored with a seat among the honor guests at the Jack son Day dinner. He at least saved the $2.50 charged diners on the main floor. But we did that and probably had,, a better dinner and got a seat much nearer the speakers than three-fourths of those who paid $2.50 for the priv ilege of feeding with the gang. The next time Tyre Taylor presides over such an affair as that of Saturday evening, he should open his mouth when he undertakes to talk. He was the only man on the platform whose words were not intelligible from a near by seat, and we did want to know just who the young bucks were that had been picked to introduce / the speakers. <♦> If all who rose when J. W. Bailey came to the front to make his speech Saturday night were for him for sen ator, nine out of ten of the fifteen hundred present at the meeting of the young Demo crats at Raleigh favored his candidacy. The supporters of Senator Simmons must have been glad' he was not there, and some of the rest of us were, for the old man might have had his feelings hurt. Through inadvertence, the article about young Stinson last week was not credited to the News and Observer from which it was clipped. We re gret the mistake, apart from the matter of due credit by the paper, is more appreciat ed when read from the proper viewpoint, and this one was written from the Raleigh viewpoint. Also an article from The Hamlet News-Mes senger was not credited. ® An anonymous letter from Goldston asks the Record to do something about the truck drivers on the Pittsboro- Goldston road, who are re ported by this writer as driv ing at the rate of 35 to 40 miles an hour and appearing to think that the whole road is theirs. The trucks are heavily loaded with lumber, says the writer, and it is dangerous to travel the road w&h a team, afoot, or any other way. That is a serious situation, if true, and the Record stands ready to pub 3uh the names of any offend ers, violators of the law, over the names of competent wit nesses, that the grand jury may know and have imposed upon the responsibility for ef effective action. \ A LOW-DOWN BUSINESS If men and women will per sist in violating the law for filthy lucre’s sake, they can only expect the legitimate consequences sooner or later. If there is anything low-down it is to go into the business of degrading one’s neighbors or anybody else, especially the students in a college, for money’s sake. Every man or woman that does it should be ostracised from decent so ciety. Yet the gradations of the offenses of selling or making liquor are so mani fest in the public mind, and so many are involved in a greater or less degree, that it becomes difficult to say just where the demarcation of ostracism should begin. And this is one of the unfortunate phases of the prohibition laws. If the law themselves made distinctions between offenses based on money-making and the more casual violations of the letter of the law, it would be better. But there is no question that the man or woman who seeks profit from the debasement of others by the sale of liquor deserves the most serious legal and social penalties short of the electric chair. Many a sot would be glad to have temptation re moved from him; yet the ilk just mentioned has no scruples against profiting by the sot’s degradation, and the impov erishment of his family, and will not only sell it when ap proached but will look up the unhappy victims of the drink habit and lure them with a sight or a taste. There is no other animal than man who would poison his neighbor or degrade him for the sake of securing what he might otherwise secure without such treachery. An honest living is within the reach of any able-bodied man in this state, except in cases of exceptional conditions for brief seasons, if not at all ’times. And it behooves all decent-minded people to frown down upon the man or woman who would seek that living at the expense of the respectability and prosperity of others. s>— Within two weeks three tragic deaths touched the ed itor of the Record very near ly. First, David Boney, a boyhood chum, shot himself dead, apparently by accident; next, Mr. A. C. Ray fell a victim to an automobile; and last week, Rev. Harrell J. Lewis, a kinsman and a young man whom we have known since infancy, shot himself, whether by accident or de sign, is not known at this writing. War could hardly have done as much within the circle of our friends within 12 days. In this connection, we recall that Harvey Hall of Roseboro was up before Mr. Ray, who was then mayor of Pittsboro, about three years ago for wreckless driving, the Hall car having slightly hurt a woman on the Main street of Pittsboro, who had stopped and danced before the car, whose wheels slided for quite a distance before hitting her. Both HalJ and . Ray are now dead as results of automobile accidents. 3> The Record shall not bother itself to agitate a re duction of cotton acreage by Chatham farmers. So long as individuals throughout the South plant more each year than the total acreage of this county’s cotton crop, there is little help to come from de ducing acreage in Chatham county. If the big planters would diversify their crops, all might make the. ready cash needed on the farms from cotton; but if a few are to plant into the thousands of acres and allow their crop pers to make neither food nor forage, it is simply a mat ter of Chatham farmers’ planting as much or as little as they feel that they can risk under present conditions. <»> • Within two days after the publication of the article about the contemplated search for salt in this county and the call for evidences of salines, several reports of what, at first hearing, appear hopeful indications of a find, have come to the editor of the Record. THE CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBOftO, N. C._ Labor and Poverty: Relief 11. Universal Team-Work By JUNIUS DURHAM The problems of agricultural de pression, of unemployment, and of excessively long hours with low wage levels for the common labor ers in many industries are ever insistent ones. Agitation for re lief through government legislation is constantly growing, never before having been so serious as it is tp day. Demands upon the present administration at Washington for farm relief have been answered in part by the creation of the Fed eral Farm Board, financed by an appropriation by Congress, but the deplorable situation of labor as to unemployment, long hours, and low wage levels remains as serious as ever in spite of the much-boasted prosperity to be enjoyed under Re publican control. While tariff boun ties for the enrichment of big busi ness are being multiplied in many instances, very little is being done towards relieving the more serious conditions other than the appoint ment of commissions, calling of special conferences, issuing easy statements as to sound economic conditions, and making futile pre dictions, declaring that the de pressing situation in agriculture and labor will soon be remedied (probably of its own accord, if ever by any means). It is my conviction that if farming classes as well as all other laboring groups are ever to secure really desirable improvements of their condition, it must be by thorough and efficient organization of everyone interested in one complete unit so that all may more effectively work for the better welfare of each member. As long as farmers merely wait upon co-operative marketing agencies, or stabilizing corporations, the expert debenture, or other legislation fre quently agitated, including financial loans; and so long as labor seeks relief through organizations of members of one trade with little regard to the needs of other groups, and by government doles to unemployed masses, prosperity will be enjoyed only by a small percentage of the population of the nation. All these methods of se curing relief have undoubted merit, but they are not in themselves suf ficient to guarantee permanent pros perity to every citizen, regardless of that person’s honesty and in dustry. As an instance of the above, it is very evident that many phases of agriculture are suffering from excessive over-production, and that this, combined with the low average yields per acre produced by the majority of farmers, barely enalbes them to maintain even the lowest standards of living. The common farmer must, if he is to make a comfortable living, increase the yield of his soil by growing legume crops and by more intelligent fer tilization, decrease the cultivation cost per acre by use of additional ! labor-saving devices, and profit by the use of more intelligent market ing systems. But this system, if followed by all not already doing so, would materially increase the total yields, thus adding to the al ready serious over-production. The Federal Farm Board continues to warn farmers that there must be considerable reduction in production of all the chief farm products, and wisely so, for it is evident that an increase could easily cause disas trous declines in market prices. Likewise farmers are being threat ened from other directions: old-belt cotton growers are facing the pros pect of powerful competition from more arid cotton-producing sections in the extreme Southwest where this staple farm product may be grown with the best of modern machinery and with more effective control of the boll-weevfi, thus greatly reducing production costs; more fertile wheat lands in the Northwest are coming into competi tion with old-belt wheat growers; and excellent susbstitutes for but ter are competing with the dairy farm product. What is to be done about it? Farmers must keep their land producing something of value and they must have larger yields if they are to make a profitable in come sufficient for comfortable liv ing purposes; but on the contrary they can not secure profitable prices in the face of heavy over-produc tion. The answer is that useful em ployment must be found for those men whose labor is not needed in farm production. All those advo cates of co-operative marketing, of increased yields per acre, of the use of labor-saving machinery for the purpose of cutting costs, etc., without suggesting other means of securing employment for those who could not possibly farm profitably, have been missing the mark. To solve this .problem there must be close team-work between all groups in order to satisfactorily divert the excess laborers in not only agricul ture but in all the industries and trades into other channels of profit able activity. Whenever the com mon necessities and ordinary com forts of life are supplied, other manufacturers might be set up to furnish what might now be' termed luxuries. It is clear from the above that j if agriculture is to prosper, other classes must also prosper and there' must be a good demand for labor in other occupations to relieve over production. It is equally true when' the proposition is reversed. When ever one class is prosperous, there will naturally be a greater demand for the labor of other groups (ex cepting, of course, the cases of concentration of wealth). This in creased demand for the products of other industries and the services of others will necessarily lead to ad ditional prosperity for other labor ers, providing there is efficient or- THE BIG RACE WILL SOON BE ON ganization sufficient to prevent the “hogging” of these profits by the few. This would bring about a continuous round of prosperity, IF: for there is a condition to the se curity of this good fortune, that is, that there must be thorough or ganization of every person inter ested in healthy prosperity into a complete unit efficiently, but dem ocratically, directed for the follow ing purposes: (1) to provide profit able occupation for all who desire decent employment; (2) to estab lish a reasonable correlation of wages paid to all who are engaged in labor requiring very nearly the same ability and output of energy; (3) to set a reasonable limit upon the number of hours of labor re quired of an employee per week; est employers and business men, (4) to recognize the rights of hon to allow them to make a fair profit but at the same time to prevent their receiving an undue share of the country’s prosperity, and (5) to establish some satisfactory means of providing for those incapacitated for engaging in profitable occupa tion either by accidental injury, sickness, old age, or otherwise, (Note: In my next article I shall present a definite plan for the or ganization herein suggested, con taining practical suggestions as to making it as effective and efficient as possible.) $ PUBLISHED BY REGRET A subscriber wants us to publish the following excerpt from a letter to the Greensboro News written by W. B. Sellers of Greensboro: “Why do the voters of our coun try use such poor judgment when they nominate and vote for sen ators and congressman to make the national laws for our country, then afterwards cuss them all out for the way they do business? Why don’t they vote for good practical business men for such places as the senate and congress of the United States instead of turning it entirely over to a bunch of lawyers? If they should need one or more lawyers for any legal phase, it would be cheaper to hire them. If a lawyer is a good lawyer, he does not know anything about real busi ness. Their business is to prolong, prosecute and defend and an un limited amount of hot air.” * , William Ralston of Scarborough, Eng., had to dig his father’s grave because all the church sextons were making more money shoveling snow. I ' '"I DR. J. C. MANN ,the well-known EYESIGHT SPECIALIST will be at Dr. Farrell’s Office PITTSBORO, TUESDAY, March 25 at Dr. Thoma»* Office SILER CITY, THURSDAY, March 27 ■ 1 - - ■ i»;;/ ; ; _— r - ~ Lee Hardware Co. Headquarters for Farming Tools, Implements, Mill Supplies, Builders’ Supplies, Kitchen and Household Hardware See Us for Roofing and Paints Chatham Folk are invited to make our store headquarters when in Sanford THE LEE HARDWARE CO. Sanford, N. C. V • / ' : WHAT IS AN OPTIMIST? We asked our friend Si Chestnut. He said: "‘An optimist is the fellow who buys shares in an oil company that hasn't even a hole in the ground." That’s the trouble .with a good many of * these so-called “investments." They are not . investments at all, but they exist because they are profitable to the sharks who PROMOTE . them. It pays to consult your banker when wanting to obtain good securities. Take no chances on any of these get-rich-quick schemes. They are operated for one purpose —to get your money. THE BANK OF PITTSBORO PITTSBORO, N. C. V . ■ ■■■■ ~ " < READY TO HELP YOU Ask the successful man what brought his suc cess and no doubt he will attribute it largely to his OWN efforts, and be right about it, too. : But we will venture the guess that if you ques tion him closely you will find that many times he has sought his BANKER’S advice —and ACTED ON IT. This same service is for you if you desire it. You consult a Doctor about ♦ your health, a Lawyer about legal matters. Why not a Banker in financial dealings? We will be only too glad to help you. THE BANK OF GOLDSTON HUGH WOMBLE, Pres. T. W. GOLDSTON, Cashier GOLDSTON, N. C. V. . THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930
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