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CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930
As this is written there has j
been no decision in the Ques
tion of the confirmation of
Judge Parker as a member of
the supreme court. But how
soever the matter turns out,
the country is likely to sur
vive.
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For a year Congress has
been wrestling with a tariff
bill and now appeals are be
ing made to President Hoover
to veto the monstrosity which;,
is to be offered him for ap-!
proval. It should be killed, as
it seems it will not die
aborning.
Mr. F. K. King says that (
Hester was hung here 75 years -
ago May 4, and that so far ,
as he knows that was the first ‘
official hanging in Chatham
county. The offense is said to j
have been stealing a slave, v
There seems to have been ,
very few executions in the ‘
county.. Os course, in recent ,
years executions have been
in Raleigh.
A blackboard properly
placed in every court room ■
should save the courts much ;
time. Time and again, we hear
rigamaroles of questions asked :
about locations of stills,
wrecks, etc, that would be un
necessary if an off-hand sketch
of the location was placed
upon a blackboard. Further
more, the jury would under
stand the location, while, as
it is, it is very doubtful
whether after all the quizzing
half the jurors have a mental
picture of the scene.
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We heard a gentleman say
a few days ago that he heard
some one say that he had seen
three sales of liquor. Now,
perhaps, the man who saw
these sales, or said he saw ■
them, would have duck fitsj
if one suggested a change in
the prohibition laws. If he is
really a prohibitionist he can
prove it by telling to the court
what he saw, and whoever
hears any one say such a
thing can help matters by
having the man summoned be
fore the grand jury to give
evidence. Simply tell such a
fellow that if he can tell that
outside of court he can tell it
to the court. Make him show
his colors. If he is a liar, let
it be known. If he is a real
prohibitionist and a truthful
man he can become instru
mental in putting an end to
the illegal selling of liquor.
The prohibition laws are not
worth a cuss to any com
munity where the citizens do
not co-operate in enforcing
them.
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Again we say that the man
who advocates tax relief
through the mere transfer of
the burden from one shoulder
to the other, without a word
about cutting expenses, is
trifling. The man that works
for North Carolina people
ought to have his income more
nearly conformed to that of
r .-the average citizen of the
• state. When salaries are cut
ten to twenty-five percent,
there will be a real reduction,
if not a very large one. Yet
when the cut includes school
people and county officials
and reaches up to the higher
state officers, the saving
would be far from inconsider
able. Right here in Pittsboro
the salary of the principal of
the school has been supple
mented, over and above the
state schedule, to an extent
equal to more than the income
of the average family in Chat
ham county for the past five
years. The principal at Mon
cure gets just about as much
as the president of Wake
Forest College got when the
’ editor of the Record was a
student there. The chairman
of the state highway com
mission pulls down more than
three times the salary of
Governor -Vance as governor
... and .twice' as ,milch as. Vance
. as*-se«ator.v Os course there are
*busihess-and-:professional men
wWo make iftdre, but such one
is oiie in thousands.
PROHIBITIONISTS FROM THE
PRINCIPLE AND THE POLICY
The Simmons management
has had the temerity to at
tack J. W. Bailey’s prohibi
tion record, though it is well
known that he was in the
battle for prohibition years
before Senator Simmons dared
champion the cause. One re
liance of the presumptuous
attack is an article in the
South Atlantic Quarterly, in
1907, in which Mr. Bailey
questioned the feasibility of
certain methods of attack, but
in which he showed that he
was whole-heartedly enlisted
in the cause of the suppress
ion of drink, which is the
real problem. Says Mr. Bailey
in the article from which Col.
John Langston is quoting in
his futile efforts to place
Bailey and his supporters on
the side of whiskey:
“Our only policy is to main
tain our zealous w arf are
against drink, although, as I
propose to indicate, we may
more wisely direct our politi
cal efforts than we have
hitherto. We may protest
against misdirected or unin
telligent zeal, but we are not
wise to protest against the
passionate indictments of an
evil so ruinous and so exten
sive. Only let the actual work
of drink come home to you,
and you will gain an access
of sympathy for the intem
perate warrior against drink
that will quite suffice. A thing
so potent to ruin men and de
stroy homes, an enemy of wel
fare so persistent, requires
and justifies a passionate
hatred.”
The above quotation clearly
indicates Mr. Bailey’s attitude
to the liquor evil at the very
time he is accused of being an
anti - prohibitionist. Further
more, it is a matter of record
that he was one of the most
diligent and effective cam
paigners for state prohibition
the next year. But what does
all that mean to men who ad
judge it a crime to have an
opinion of one’s own as to
the method of doing a thing? ■
It is now ascribed as a sin if
one does not proclaim the
i The United States Supreme!
Court has decided that the
man who sells material for
stills, containers, and other
materials for the manufacture }
and distribution of liquor is
quilty under the Volstead act. <
Similarly, the merchant who
knowingly sells meal, sugar, !
etc.,, for the manufacture of
the stuff should be subject to
punishment. Any merchant *
who frequently sells unusually (
large quantities of these ma- ■
terials to a person virtually
knows that they are to be
used in blockade liquor mak
ing, and if he is such a good
prohibitionist as to have fits
over the nomination of A1
Smith or the position of Ras
kob, he can show his faith,
or principle, by his works—
.refusal to sell again and re-
I porting of former sales to of
ficials.
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A Great Discovery
When Pasteur discovered, in 1852,
that the infection of wounds was
caused by malignant bacteria, he
performed a service of inestimable
value to mankind. Since then med
ical science has been producing bet
ter and better antiseptics, to kill
these germs that may enter the;
smallest cut and give us diseases i
such as typhoid, .tuberculosis and
lockjaw. Now, all you have to do
to be sure that these dreadful germs
'will not infect a wound, is to wash
that wound, howeVer • s-fnall, thor
oughly with Liquid Borozone, the !
modern antiseptic.' You can get
Liquid Borozone, in a size to fit
your needs and purse, from Pitts
• boro Drug Company.
Doctor Disagree
When children are irritable and
peevish, grind their teeth and sleep
restlessly, have digestive pains and
disturbances, lack of appetite, and
have itching eyes, nose and fingers,
doctors will not always agree that
they are suffering from worms.
Many mothers, too, will not believe
that their carefully brought up chil
j dren can have worms. The fact re
mains that these symptoms will
yield, in a great majority of cases,
to a few doses of White’s Cream
Vermifuge, the sure expellant of;
! round and pin worms. If your child
, has any of these symptoms, try this
‘harmless, old fashioned remedy,
which you can get at 35c per bottle
from Pittsboro Drug Company. ...
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* Siwash —My ginl’s- lipstick seems. ~
: to • have • a different taste: ■- from -
others. *<-.•«*. >
* -Hotdog ' (fths»rit-minded :
sort of orange’ flavor, isn’t it? —The
Pathfinder.
TWK CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBOBQ. N-fr-GV
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sanctity and success of the
methods adopted by the anti
saloon league, it mattering not
how far actual facts have
gone to establish the non-per
fection of methods.
To be deadly opposed to
the drink evil and deadly in
earnest in fighting it, is not
enough. One must agree that
perfection of method and
practice has been attained.
But the actual results might
indicate that the contentions
for which Mr. Bailey is being
criticised, mere opinions as to
the best methods of defeating
the drink evil, have been just
ified by events. But the bare
fact that he did not “me too”
the plans of certain leaders,
is now held as a sin. But for
our part, we prefer a man
who does his own thinking,
even if he should make an
occasional error or misjudg
ment, to one who waits for
public opinion to be formed
and the scheme cut and dried.
The old-line politician does
not endanger his political for
tunes by championing a cause
till it is safe, and then is the
greatest stickler for the way
and means that have become
popularized. On the other
hand, the man of courage
fights for what he conceives
to be right against all odds,
and when the people are won
even then dares to risk their
opposition by any needed sug
gestion contrary to the ac
cepted role. That is, a man
really fighting for a cause,
has the interest of the cause
at heart and not the keeping
in perfect alignment with
public opinion. By that test
compare the anti-liquor rec
ords of Simmons and Bailey.
The former came into the
fight when it was safe; he
then became a stickler for the
popular rules of the games.
The latter began his fight
when the people were to be
won and has been, and is,
brave enough to guide his
course by judgment based on
1 events and not by public
whim. Choose the real anti
liquor man.
HONOR ROLL FARMVILLE
SCHOOL FOR APRIL
FIRST GRADE —Dave Roberts.
SECOND GRADE Althea Se
groves.
THIRD GRADE Paul Honey
cutt.
FOURTH GRADE Russell In
gram, Wilbert Richardson, Sarah
Thomas, Cecil Honeycutt.
FIFTH GRADE Cecil Cotten,
Hermon Hart, Smith Mason, Mar
jorie Matthews, Archie Roberts.
SIXTH GRADE —Margaret Dow
dy, Mable Johnson, Pauline New
ton, Annie Palmer Segroves, Ted
Richardson.
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MRS. A. V. BRYAN DIES
Mrs. A. V. Bryan of the western
part of the county died Monday
night of paralysis. She was the
mother of Mrs. S. G. Hunter of
Greensboro, Mrs. James Lindsey
and Messrs. Charles and Lewis Bryan
of this county. Funeral services
were conducted at Silk Hope Meth
odist church Tuesday afternoon by
Rev. D L. Hoffman.
SOLVED AT LAST
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After ten years of studying and
lying awake at night, a good por
tion of the time, trying to get some
plan worked out whereby I could
repair, rebuild or remodel houses
which had a mortgage on it, I have
found it at last. Here, is the plan:”
If you have a home that you want
repaired in any way, new sun par
lor, extra bath-room, repainted, re
roofed,-or any other kind of work,
let me tell- you how ~it. is dong. Ts
you have -one or. two mortgages al
ready on your building this makes
no difference, I can finance it for
! you from six months to two years.-
Don’t go to the bank and ask them
to lend - you money when you can
get it so much easier this way.
Don’t pay me one dime until the
job is finished then pay me ten per
cent and I will get the rest carried
for you on a monthly basis,, six to
twenty-four months.
Write, come or call me. Phone
N. 4956.
W. G. FIELDS,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Adv.
A CHARLOTTE
WOMAN PRAISES
SPEAGOLAX
I have used your wonder
ful medicine and find it did
me lots of good. |t is a won
derful medicine to have in the
home.. I can’t praise it too
highly. .1 it, will do*
.anyone igopd it.
- Yours truly,
MRS:- ; NEETIEi *P. t STEPHEN*,
v, * *
dharlfotte, N. C.
I INTERESTING
FACTS FOR |
ft FARMERS I
FT » j
timely hints I
ON GROWING i
CROPS. 1
News of the Week on
Chatham County
Farms
In order to ascertain the best va
rieties of soy beans adapted to this
county as to yield, date of maturing,
yield of bay and seed, etc., Mr. A.
G. Thomas of Moncure, RFD No. 2,
is cooperating with the county agent
in conducting a soy bean variety
test. The following varieties of soy
beans will be tried in this test: Mam
moth Yellow, Haberlandt, Laredo,
Herman, George Washington, Vir
ginia, Tokio and others. Mr. Thomas
will keep a careful record on the
hay and seed harvested from each
variety in order that we may learn
something of the adaptability of
these varieties of soy beans to our
county. In the whole test, there are
32 rows, four rows of each variety,
two rows will be harvested for hay
and two rows for seed.
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Mr. M. H. Woody is conducting an
interesting demonstration with corn
this year. He has corn planted fol
lowing lespedeza, part of which was
cut for hay and part of . which was
NOTjCE
BIDS WANTED
The County Board of Educa
tion did not receive enough
satisfactory bids to justify the
awarding of any contracts for
transporting school children;
therefore it is decided to con
tinue the time of accepting
bids until Friday May 16,
1930.
Please send sealed bids to
Superintendent W. R. Thomp
son, Pittsboro, N. C.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR COMMISSIONER
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for County Commissioner
subject to the wishes of the Dem
ocratic primarv to be held in June.
E. E. WALDDEN.
FOR THE SENATE
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for : the State Senate, subject
to the action of the Democratic
primary to be held in June.
* W, P. HORTON.
FOR THE HOUSE
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for Representative from
Chatham County in the next Gen
eral Assembly, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
V. R. JOHNSON.
FOR THE HOUSE
I announce myself a candidate
for the House of Representatives,
subject to the action of the Demo
cratic primarv to be held in June.
S. WILL HARRINGTON.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
I announce my candidacy as a
candidate for county commissioner
to succeed myself. This announce
ment is subject to the action of the
Democratic primary to be held in
June.
R. J. JOHNSON.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for the office of Register of
Deeds of Chatham County, subject
to the action of the Democratic
primary to be held in June.
J. WADE SILER
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER^
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for County Commissioner,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary to be held, in June.
L. B. HESTER. ;
FOR THE SENATE
At the solicitation of a number
of' my friends, I hereby announce
‘myself a candidate for the State
.S.|nAte," subject tot the Democratic
primary to be-’held -in June.
W.tU.-GARNER.
V , .FQR CLERK OF COURT
I Regeby : announce myself a can
didate to .succeed myself as Clerk
of the Superior,' Court. This an
nouncement is subject to the action
of the Democratic primary of June
7th. : .• ’ :
E. B. HATCH.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS
I announce myself a candidate
for Register of Deeds, subject to
the action of the Democratic pri
mary to be held in June.
A. J. BOONE, Pittsboro, N. C.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
I hereby announce myself a can
didate for county commissioner,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary to be held in June.
R. W. DARK, Siler City.
”” FOR SHERIFF
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of Sheriff of Chatham
County subject to. the action of
the Democratic primary to be held
iii' Jime, 1930. i :
r a ' ... A G. W. BLAIR.
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. Kidder—l think we should hasten ■
tosign ~this' girl.' motorist for our
freak cithuk'., . i
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y t j shfe * '"fcestrfierl * . she -
extended* ~fiir haff'-la' bkflek-:.
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Farm News
j Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County Agt.
allowed to mature and turned under
in the soil. Yields following the plot
where hay was cut and uncut will
be kept.
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Mr. J. A. Perry of Pittsboro, RFD
No. 2, is planting corn following
sweet clover and red clover side by
side. We will be interested in learn
ing the results of sweet clover plow
ed under in the soil followed by corn
as compared with red clover followed
by corn.
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The continued dry spell this spring
is very hard on young pasture grass,
clover and lespedeza, but it is giving
farmers an opportunity of getting a
a full crop, something they have not
been able to do in the past two
years.
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Mr. E. Y. Floyd, tobacco specialist
at State College, states that the
scarcity of tobacco plants this spring,
due to dry weather, will automatical
ly reduce tobacco acreage. Mr. Floyd
states that the situation as regards
the obtaining of tobacco plants in
certain parts of the state is really
acute.
When wine sinks, words swim.—
English proverb.
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THE SUREST ROAD
Systematic investment of surplus funds in >
sound income-producing securities, offers the
shortest—and SUREST road to financial inde
pendence.
If you keep your funds in our bank while
they accumulate they will always besafe and
Y we will be glad to assist you in securing sound ‘
investments when wanted. We handly only
the best of securities, such as municipal bonds, j
first mortgages, and preferred stocks. We !
will appreciate any business in this line.
THE BANK OF GOLDSTON
HUGH WOMBLE, Pres. T. W. GOLDSTONT, Cashier
GOLDSTON, N. C.
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' PILOT THEATRE
PITTSBORO, N. C.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, May 9-10.
TOM TYLER in “LONE HORSEMEN”
Another chapter of serial, “The Chinatown Mystery.”
A Pathe talking comedy, “The Smooth Guy.”
MON., TUES., WED., THURS.TMay 12-15
William Fox Presents
“SUNNY SIDE UP”
With JANET GAYNOR and CHARLES FARREL.
The screen’s first original all talking, singing and dancing musical
comedy. > Hear the song hit sensations of the stage and screen:
“I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?” “Sunny Side Up” “Turn on the
Heat”, “You Find the Time, “I’ll Find the Place”, “If I Had a
Talking Picture of You”, “You’ve Got Me Pickin’ Petals Off o’
Daisies”. Brilliant as the stars. Romantic as the moon and Hotter
than the sun. /
A Pathe Comedy, “RUBERVILLE NIGHT CLUB”
MATINEE MONDAY and THURSDAYS at 3:30
Shows 7:00, 8:30 Saturdays 3:30 to 10:00
Admission: White 15c, 40c Colored 10c, 30c
ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW
FREE— AII people who have never seen a talking pic
ture will be admitted Free Thursday, Night, May 15
FERTILIZER
'• * .. * & „ .
WE ARE READY TO SUPPLY YOU
WITH RELIABLE FERTILIZERS AT
OUR PLANT IN PITTSBORO. MANU
FACTURED FOR CHATHAM COUNTY
SOILS.
BESIDES GUANO WE CAN SELL YOU
MEAL AND NITRATE OF SODA.
YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED.
THE CLAYTON OIL MILLS
. E. R. Hinton, Manager
THURSDAY. MAY i ....
doings of
CHATHAM
farmers
STOCK FARMING
POULTRY, ’
ETC.
SALE OF REGISTERED JERSrv
CATTLE IN ALAMANCE COU NTr
The county agent has just receives
the following letter from Mr t
Ken Scott, county agent of AL*
mance county, regarding the sale S
registered cattle in that count?
‘•Mr. Ward C Starr, field
tive of the American Jersey Cat? .
Club, has just spent some time witt
me selecting the calves with me to *
m registered Red Jersey < a le ™
May 30th—Decoration Day— -at 52
o’clock, noon, at the Mebane Fair
Grounds. We will appreciate any
thing you might do to interest folk
in the calves in this sale. I can as
sure you that I was well plea-ed
with the quality and condition of the
calvse that we found. I believe that
your folks will be well pleased with
what we are offering at that time.”*
T he county agent is anxious tc
have a delegation of Chatham farm
ers attend this sale and will be glad
to hear from any farmers who might
be interested in attending. There is
no doubt but what we shall be able
to get good stuff at this sale at rea
sonable prices, and if there is am
community in the county that needs
a good bull, now is the time to get
one.