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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months *7° THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930 Bible Thought and Prayer « ♦* | .TOY FOR WEEPING —Fl;s anjrer | lendurpth bnt a moment: in His fa-1 vor is life: weeping may endure? for a night, hut joy corneth in the | f morning.—Fs. 30 :o. 1 | PRAYER —We bless Thee, our ♦ f loving Father, for Thy grace that j I makes all things work together for J I good to them that love Thee. V ® Irvin Tucker didn't have a week to wait afte r his defeat for the senatorial nomination before he got a good govern ment job, paying $7,500 a year. He is one of the three members of the newly created • Federal Parole Board, a na tioal organization that will handle all federal applications for pardon and assist in fed eral applications for pardon and assist in federal prison ad ministration. <g> William Sanders of Smith field-is tending 98 acres, 84 in cotton and 14 in corn, with out a horse or mule going upon the acreage. He is find ing the tractor economical for this purpose. It does not have to fed when not working. - <s> Our neighbor Randolph gave Bailey just about the’ same percentage of its vote as did Chatham, but Lee gave Simmons a small majority, a dozen or so. We are sorry Lee did not keep up the pace -set by her neighbors. - <3 We believe it has never been mentioned in the Record that Judge Daniel L. Bell was the Bailey manager in this county. The result is evidence of his efficiency. ® This very week, unless your are going to dust your cotton regularly, you should mop the Utile plants with the molasses mixture. See the Coker meth od in another column. It will cost you only forty cents an acre for material to mop your cot ton twice, according to Mr. •Coker. If you don’t do it, you don’t want to make any cot ton. Act immediately. Not a day should be lost. <§> The past two years the most of the corn in Chatham coun ty was planted at this date or later. This year much of it is approaching the tas’seling •stage. The people should feel grateful for the fine prospects, and should determine that the crop shall not be a failure through any fault of theirs. s>— Those who think higher sal aries w r ould attract greater tal ent to the teaching profession should consider the attitude of Frank Graham. Though his .salary as president of the Uni versity will be double that as professor, he seemed not to think of that for a minute, but was perfectly satisfied to re main as teacher at the smaller salary. And we guarantee that a higher salary in another -State would not have attracted him from his beloved alma mater. The born teacher is . scarcely a money-seeker. Frank’s father taught many a year for a tenth of what Frank will get, and it would be hard to find a better teach er at any salary than Alex. Graham was in his prime, and only old age (he is now 85, we believe) drove him from the school work. On the other hand, we know a principal of a school in a North Carolina village who has been drawing a fine salary as teacher, his wife also drawing a salary, yet the man is not satisfied,« though his living expenses are necessarily at the minimum, and is running a garage and filling station and has a con tract to furnish pulp wood for a paper mill. What you bet he doesn’t long survive as a teacher? Business will get him. And, for one, we can not cry when any University pro fessor, getting a comfortable -salary, is drawn* away by the offer of a higher salary. The Graham kind is the genuine article. AN OPEN LETTER TO J. W. BAILEY Dear Mr. Bailey: I was on the point of be ginning this open letter to vou when I opened the Chapel Hill Weekly and discovered 1 that Louis Graves had antici -1 pated me.' But as Louis’s exafn ple confirms me in my con ception of the propriety of such a letter I am not deterr ed by his precedence. Like Mr. Graves, I assume your election. It is only a mat ter of the size of the majority. Consequently, it is none too early for you to begin to think of the role you are to play in the senate. And like Mr. Graves I am induced to these suggestions by the fact that you have ability. You recall that it was my privilege to sit in the same Greek class ; | with you three years, where it is possible to gauge the calibre 1 of a youth. To this very day, it is difficult for me to ascribe ; scholarship or profundity of thought to those fellows who could not definitely distin guish, for instance, between ; the place for an aorist and an imperfect, "whatever their pre sent apparent achievements in scholarship may be. or what ever degree of acclaim they may have since won. You are endowed with the capacity to think deeply and coherently, but most signifi cant of your endowments, is that of the appreciation of fundamentals. I recall that, after completing the Greek course with great credit, you decided to take beginners’ Greek in your senior year at college, correctly conceiving that high attainments in Greek, or in any other subject, can be secured only by a per fect understanding of funda mentals. And it is to this sense of the importance of correct fundamentals that I shall ap peal in this letter. You remember how, year | after year, Mr. Ford attempted to improve his Model T car. This gadget and that was added, new body styles were . created; yet the Model T re . mained the “Tin Lizzie.” It was only when he went back to fun • damentals and built up the car • from the beginning that he succeeded in getting it out of ‘ the tin-lizzie class. He had ' to construct not only new ma chines for the manufacturer of the new parts, but also machines to make his new ma chines. O the T Model per formed marvellously for many years; but conditions changed . and the limitations of the old ' model proved fatal. A revolu ’ tion in the Dearborn plant be ' came absolutely necessary. Now, there is a parable, and [ here is the interpretation of it. The world’s economic 1 system is inadequate for the I machine age, which as yet is only in its early stages of de velopment. Like the T Model . Ford, no number of new gad gets, no new body lines, no t tinkering of any kind, can • adapt the present system to . the astounding conditions of . the near future. A very few ; years, I believe, will make evi , dent the necessity so r a re ; upon adequate . basic principles. For 15 months . Congress has argued over the : question of the style of what ■ at first was to be the 1929 l j tariff gadget, but now the i 1930 style. It has all been | futile. From that standpoint, our economic system will be ’ the same old tin-lizzie. The ;i basically sound new economic h system may not need any such . I ornaments as a tariff system ,f at all. The nations trying to . I agree upon naval reductions, , | when the fundamentally cor i rect economic system, operat • ing throughout the whole • world, would probably dis -1 pense with practically all ■ navies and armies, since in ; this age wars are bred of ,‘economic, or commercial, rival -4 ries, which themselves a£e : based upon a necessity that , should no longer exist. . j I do not have to convince ■ you that the world can make • an abundance for all its in ; habitants if all the natural re , sources are conservatively uti ; lized and all the mentally and ; physically capable are effi ■ ciently employed. Science, ma • chinery, intelligent applica ; tion of labor, cooperating with nature and complementing it, are ready to empty the horn of plenty upon the nations so j THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. soon as adequate mediums and means of exchange are wrought and put into opera tion. But tariff tinkerings, discussions of naval reduc tions,, or anything short of remodeling the economic system and universalizing it, cannot achieve the end de sired.. Unfortunately, there is no F'ord who can determine upon the plan of the reconstruction and push it through to a successful completion. Yet it is certain that master minds, bearing the mandate of the people, must begin to consider the manner and the means of this imminent reconstruction. Imagine what would have hap pened at Dearborn if the labor leaders had determined that a reconstruction of the plant and of the car were necessary and consorted with the multi tudes to effect the change! That happened in Russia, and something akin will threaten in any country which shall suffer, for any considerable period, the impoverishment of hordes while it is apparent that a mere turn of the econo mic wheel will bring plenty to all. Such a state is an invita tion for the tyro in economics to attempt the wreck of the present system, -creating a chaos and hoping to fabricate a new and perfect system out of the wreck. Ford's plans for the new car were practically perfected be fore a wheel of the old plant was stopped. Similarly, it will take years of thinking and planning before there can be any start made toward recon structing the economic system. But where can such thinking more fittingly begin than in the United States senate? And who there will be more cap able of beginning and prose cuting the educational work precedent to the reconstructive period than you? As I have shown in articles in the Chat ham Record, the big business man bases his thinking and his planning upon the present scheme of things. He will never father any social or economic revolution that is based upon fundamentals not appearing in his business hori zon. It will require visionaries, but those whose visions are reflections from fundamental facts and principles. As mathe maticians, the reconstruction ists of the world’s economic system must omit no factor; their axioms must be of uni versal application. Moreover, the reconstructionists must speak with authority and with compelling force. The thinker in private position can scarcely hope to 'get a hearing from the world, even if he had time to give to the study of the world’s economic problems. However, a William Pitts, with the authority and prestige of the British premiership behind him, could vitalize the theories of Adam Smith, and you will be in a position in a measure comparable to that of Pitt. Accordingly, if you shall be come convinced that no patch ing can make the age-old bottle adequate for the ma chine-age vintage, it is my con cern that you become the lead er in the thinking and educa tional work preliminary to the reconstruction. It is easy and convenient to chirp “Hoover prosperity”, but the trouble lies deeper than any tinker ings of the president and con gress can reach. I cannot here discuss the many evidences of the existence of an anomolous situation, of an economic crisis approaching. The world has reached that impasse when to continue production at full blast is to create an unsalable surplus, though millions be in need of the goods, and when to slow up production means a greater number unable to supply their needs. Even water, in your city of Raleigh, has become an object. From the days of Rebecca and be-s yond, one could go to the J well and draw without money! and without price. But the modern scheme of things re quires cash for water, for lights, for fuel, and there is simply no means of eking out a living as in simpler days. The world is running on high gear and he whose pace is not in accord is flung to de struction. Up to now the busi ness machines and fche profit : ’makers have been kept busy*: f CAROLINIANS—Know Yoor State! gS) \ COPYRIGHT 1930 BY BOYCE & RANKIN j PEANUTS THE peanut belt of the State is in the Coastal Plain where truck farming is carried on extensively. It is here that the famed double cropping system is used, where by two to four crops may be grown on the same land during a single year. When peanuts are grown as a cash crop and the entire plant removed from the land it is probably the greatest soil robber grown in North Carolina. E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College, strongly advocates crop rotation to include a legume for plowing under. Many peanut plantets have followed the advice of Mr. Blair and are now producing over 100 bushels per acre, against their 40 or 50 bushels when they followed the usual rotation of cotton neanuts. Peanuts became popular during the War between the States end were eaten heart ily by the undernourished Confederate soldiers. They preferred them to parched meal and began to plant them extensively after the war. Among the numerous products derived from the peanut are synthetic ruboer, 17 kinds of wood stains, dyes for cloth, axle grease, lard, linoleum, Hour, break fast foods, stock foods, soap, face powder and ink. North Carolina ranks as the second state in the Union in the production of pea nuts, its crop being valued at $9,996,000 in 1929. „ 6-15-30 " * * » ■ 111. II IM I ■ ■■" " ■ 11 ""■I."" 1 ■■ ■■ I I ■ ■ ■ 111 ■ ■ ■ 11. I I I. !!■■■■ 11 1 ■■■ through the credit system, which has given it and them mortgages upon the very homesteads of the nation. The assets of the farming element of Chatham county, for in stance, would not pay the mortgages upon them and their quota of the county and state and U. S. bonded in debtedness if put up today and sold. * I appeal to you to make a study of fundamentals, as you did in Greek. I have had a closer relation to the average man and know his trials and difficulties better than you do, I believe, and they are real. A few things I would sug gest you ponder upon. First, the world can make an abundance for all its in habitants. Second, the world is not in debt and cannot be. On the other hand, the present gen eration has inherited the clear ed fields, the permanent struc tures, the tens of billions of domestic and industrial equip-; ments, railroads, highways,! and may be likened unto a son who enters into the pos-| sessions of his father and merely has to make his food and clothes and every day necessities and luxuries, while his father had to build the home, clear the fields, build up the herds, and make his living at the same time, and ! do all that with implements and methods that are now ob solete. This generation has entered upon the hertitage of the ages, and making a liv ing is merely a picnic job with the aid of modern science and modern methods. On the other hand, not one drop of sweat, not one ounce of power, not one pound of food or feed, nor any other tang ible or intangible debt is due the past. Briefly, the world cannot draft upon the future. It cannot get in debt, except in so far ,as it draws too heavily upon such natural re sources as are not inexhaust ible or readily reproduced. Thirdly, as the world can not get in debt and as we know that a surplus is deadly to production and the surest way to have an abundance next year is to consume the product of the previous year, ? stinting is not the way of j thrift. On the contrary, con sumption urges production and I multiplies it. The exceptional 1 man may get rich by stinting, | but if the practice were gen-1 eral, nobody would be the ! richer, "‘but all the poorer, since production would inevi tably fall to the level of the decreased consumption. Then, it is evident that the world ; lives from hand to mouth and not only likes it, but must do so. Wheat was kept during the seven lean years in Egypt, but the disposition of the sur plus is the world's problem now. And yet that becomes no problem when one solves that of enabling the hungry to per form such services as will enable them to buy and eat. Fourthly, as the world lives from hand to mouth, there is no such thing as the world's laying up in store against years to come, except in structures, machines, house hold goods etc., none of which would be essential if produc tion should stop. Even the wealthy individual has only the assurance of having so long as the earth produces its abundance. Accordingly, with an economic system based upon the principle of produc ing and consuming, upon a universal basis, all assured of his part of the abundance so readily produced, the desire ifor extreme wealth would as- Isuredly be blunted and the humblest relieved of worry | lest he be hungry, since they I would as well have their share | as for it to be thrown away. I Finally, the world is facing its greatest problem, How to , keep everybody efficiently em | ployed, how to assure each aplenty without destroying initiative on the part of the | i n divi du a 1 and creating a horde of parasites. But the j problem must be solved. That it cannot be solved is unthink able. It appeals to the highest thought of the age. The data are as convincing that a solu tion exists as were the data that another planet existed when Adams of England and Leverier of France, unknown to each other, set about the location of what is now known as Neptune. The discovery of Pluto recently, affords a simi lar illustration. My appeal to you is to be, if not the Adams or Leverier, at least one of those who shall convince the world that abun dance may prevail among all people of the world when busi ness shall have been founded upoft^adequate fundamentals, thus affording the data for; him who will do as did! Leverier, who wrote to the royal astronomer of France i and said turn your telescope to a certain point in the hea vens and you will find at planet. It simply had to exist, and the great mathematician found it. The scheme for pre venting, without injustice, the rich from becoming overly rich and the poor inevitably poorer, must exist. Be the Leverier, or at least John the Baptist who shall prepare the way for the coming of the economic savior of the nations. Respectfully, O. J. Peterson] Pittsboro, Jiune 14, 1930 THURSDAY, JUNE 19. Mr. L. G. Cole was here Saturday and we congratu lated him upon his political | judgment. He was the first man we heard say that Dur ham would go for Bailey and that was a month or two ago. He knew his Durham. » BAILEY “HOPE OF SANE LIBERALISM, SAY PROMI NENT REPUBLICAN —# — Down in Sampson is an old fashioned family physician, a boyhood friend of the editor’? and just old enough to be kicked out of the Democratic party by Mr. Simmons and his committee in 1892. He reads the Record, even if he is a Republican and does not live in Chatham county, and here is what he writes u?, following the victory of Bailey over Simmons. Republican, as he is, though he has doubtless never outgrown his raising as a Democrat, no Democrat partism of Bailey could esti mate the next senator more highly than does Dr. J. 0. Matthews. And Sampson has lots of the same kind of Re publicans, men who remem ber 38 years back. We shal. have to publish this letter, for its uniqueness, and let the dead past bury its dead. Addressing the editor, Dr. Matthews says: “I am writing a line to say that I rejoicing with you over the outcome of Saturdays battle of the ballots. I am cele brating with you over the nomi tion of Mr. Bailey. Although a republican, I am very jealous over the interest and equity which I claim in this splendid man Bailey, and I expect to soon see him the State’s most popular mascot and idol. To quote the phrase of Ma cauley “He is the Strong un bending hope" of sane liberal ism in North Carolina. He has a brain full of the dawn, the imagination of a poet, and the head of a istateman, and he knows his North Carolina, You seem to have had sena tor Simmons’ number all •j e while. He was impregnable with his election law in his pocket, but has kicked like a steer since he lost it. Your editorials on him > 1 j: all been true as gospel a** ought to be in the Bible. Trusting that you all are 1 and prosperous I am Yours Tru*; J. 0. Matthews —More Editoral On Page ■ ■ i ■ " ■■■—■■ - (> |t , AJ. C.cMarMQ Will be at Dr. Far ’!’s office Pittsboro from 10 -V.. M. lu June 24.
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