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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD] O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 'THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1930 .ought and Prayer GUARD THE TONGUE —Keep | thy tonjnie from evil, and thy lips ? from speaking guile. Depart from | evil, and do good: seek peace, and f pursue it. —Ps. 34 :13-14. I i PRAYER —Thou knowest, Lord, j | that the tongue can no man tame. I SRring our thoughts in accord with | Thine, and our tongues will speak t only wisdom. I *tt.. . • Now if you happen to find only a half-sized paper this week, excuse us. We shall give the county news as fully as we can, but as we start Saturday to prepare matter for the issue, business and news seem to promise little. Besides, that lazy feeling that has held us rather long has jts grip still upon us. 1 , —— We bad to pencil a few words on the margin of the article about the Aldermans and Grahams last week and one of them was “poet”, which the printer interpreted as “hast”, making us say that Frank Alderman was the *iast” of the Alderman tribe, instead of the “poet”of the tribe. We hope the “last is far in the future. —<&> r ~ We have evidence that Will Bailey read the Open Letter and that Oscar Coffin at least saw it. Bet s you if there had been in the middle of it an offer of ten dollars for report ing that you had read it, you wouldn’t have got a cent. Drat you, if we prepare you some strong meat and you will not eat it, that is your worry and not ours. $ Richard Evelyn Byrd has been welcome with much cere mony on his return from the south pole. That is the only Byrd or bird that flown over both the north and the south pole. <£ It takes close watching not # to misuse words. After one of the longer editorials had left our hands for the printer, it occurred to us that we had misused “collateral.” Find it and decide what word would represent descendants of dif ferent names from the stock name. “Collateral” doesn’t do it. ® There must be many folk who do not know that Irish potatoes bear seed pods. From the western part of the State the other day went a story of “tomatoes” growing on potato plants, and one •of our good ladies sent us a vine with lit tle “tomatoes” on it. Well, some of our plants have the same kind of “tomatoes” on them. Wonder how the folk who never saw any seed pods before thought Burbank pro duced his varieties by cross ing? Yet the potato, horse nettle, tomato, and Jimson weed are very close kin—so close indeed that it is actually possible to grow a tomato on a Jimson weed by pollenizing the Jimson weed flower with tomato pollen and keeping the flowers so pollenized protected with paper bag coverings till the cross is set. Some of the fruit of the crossings will pre sumably be Jimson weed burrs and some tomatoes, and may be some—but all we know about it is that a young fellow in Georgia fifteen or twenty years ago was authoritatively reported as growing tomatoes on Jimson weeds. The plants named belong to the night shade family. Wonder if we hadn’t better omit the -horse nettle from the list. Our bot any is becoming hazy. $ The extent of the intelli gence of some men can be gauged by their thought that n historian may be human. > — - „ After observations for many years we have come to the conclusion that, in fighting, there is nothing to compare with a real, family rov unless it is a church wrangle. CHRISTIANITY IS BEING PUT TO A CRUCIAL TEST An» article in the current Sunday School Times shows j atheism surprisingly, if not j startlingly, militant. Apart; from Russia, where it is in the saddle and outlawing religion,, even here in America, it is ' vigorous in its propaganda, j The atheists of America have recently sent out their first for-1 eign missionary. He goes to Sweden. Atheism is said to be spreading among college students. Altogether, the arti cle indicates that atheists are not only multiplying, but have become so convinced that re ligion is a costly and useless social appendage that they are willing to spend money and effort in waging war against all religions. Y~et it is not certain but that this is just what Christianity needs to happen, to brace it up and to invigorate it again. There is little question that the atheists are Justified in their opinion of religion as a distressing and useless yoke upon the peoples, judging from what they have seen of it. With the Christian nations only a few years ago slaying each other, with Christians ev erywhere living by an ad vanced rule of tooth and claw, so that greed may be seen to dominate them as it does the rest of the human race, it is not surprising that they should pro nounce the profession useless and a burden upon society. Even the Master himself said the salt that has lost its savour is fit j only to be cast out and tram- j pled under foot; also that aj tree shall be judged by its fruit and that the unfruitful shall be cut down. By those tokens, the atheists are too largely justified in their war fare upon religion, and they are to be congratulated upon the courage of their convic tions. If one believes a thing he should be willing to fight for it, and their attitude is a chal lenge to all professed Chris tians to show their religion worthwhile or to quit claiming it to be. In this connection, a story running in the N. C. Christian Advocate is apropos. It is the Eternal Challenge, a story of Christianity being put to the test. It is agreed by certain ministers, challenged by a mill owner in an English town where bolshevism is dom inating a strike, that if Christ can not, or will not, intervene in the disaster threatening,’ the mill owner is right in saying that religion is useless and fu tile. Christianity is to be put to one of its greatest tests in the near future, it would seem. It may mean that only a remnant of the professed Christians will be left, but if the remnant manifest the power ior right eousness that Christ has prom ised his followers, if they cast aside greed and selfishness and live according to the doctrines of the Sermon on the Mount, it may mean a swifter victory. For a morbid religion, a re ligion of mere profession, with neither reverence-for God nor respect for the natural rights of one’s fellows, is nothing less than a sham and a curse. We hope that the Methodist read ers of the Record, at least, are reading the vital story of the Eternal Challenge as it ap pears in the Christian Advo cate. The section in this week’s Advocate tells of the crucial test to which Chris tianity is being put. Read that, even if you shouldn’t have read the former parts of the story. We comess that there will be little to grieve about in atheism’s extending itself if Christianity shows no rebound ing vigor. While atheism is beginning missionary work, Christianity is yielding it. For instance, the foreign mission contributions of Southern white Baptists fell off nearly a quar ter of a million dollars last year, an indication that South ern Baptists believe less and less in the value of their pro fession, so little that they are willing to see the work aban doned and the missionaries re turn at a most critical and hopeful stage of the work. A real belief in the efficacy, for this work and the next, of their religion would mean sac rifice to maintain it at home and extend it abroad. But a THF. CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBORO. N. C. faith without works is truly • dead, as James declared near ly 1900 years ago. The athe ; ists seem to think it is time for the funeral. If Christians , are willing to see the burial, it is only fitting that it pro j ceed. It depends altogether upon whether the real Christ ! doctrine shall be exemplified by its professors. So don’t blame the atheists let : us blame ourselves. ® — a CAPT. ASHE ANSWERED —— ’ We had no idea last week that we should so soon have an opportunity to supply the information that Capt. Ashe wanted about the “eastern Grahams.” A n unexpected trip to Clinton served the purpose of securing the infor mation. As soon as Mr. Henry E. Faison, that reservoir of family history, saw the writer he told him that he was mis taken in ascribing Frank Graham to the Duplin Gra hams, and that the father of the four brothers of whom we have written lived in Fayette ville and was a saddler in that town—a trade that was in those times a very import ant one. s Then we visited Archie Graham in his office and he read us parts of a sketch of family history given -him by ( Frank Graham's father. Alex Graham had himself secured the story from a great aunt who came with the first of the | family now so noted. It was I during the Revolutionary war. j Daniel Graham, who had mar ried a McCormick in Scot land, or one of the isles off the coast, where the Grahams resided, was the founder of the family in North Carolina. The ship upon which they came got stuck upon the bar at the mouth of the Cape Fear. For weeks they were held there. The last biscuit was eaten when a Patriot warship towed the vessel off the bar. It then made its way to Norfolk, where it finally foundered. The Grahams and other Scotch immigrants were in Norfolk when the order came for all non-combatants to leave the town. Four hun dred people left Norfolk afoot. Daniel Graham came to Cumberland county, settling on the east side of the Cape Fear. He later moved to the west side and settled about fifteen miles northwest of old Campbelltown, now Fayette ville. There the sons grew up. The father of the four older Grahams, including the fathers of Frank and the former president of the University, was Archilbald Graham — hence the name of Archie the Clinton, lawyer. Other sons and daughters reared families, so that the strain is rampant in Cumberland, Hoke perhaps Robeson, in which latter county we knew a good staunch family of Grahams,, plain farm folk however. There was one teacher among the sons of the original Daniel Graham, and we have failed, by much to name the Graham teachers of the present gen eration. Daughters of a sister of the four older Grahams are dominant in the city schools of San Antonio, Texas. Frank himself has a brother who is prominent in the At lanta schools, if we recollect aright. But there was a Duplin family of Grahams, Capt. Ashe, and you were right about there being strong men among them. They intermar ried with the Kenans and several of both families mi grated to Dallas county, Ala bama, and were close enough neighbors of William Rufus King, their neighbor from Sampson, for one of them to be challenged to a duel by King. That duel did not ma terialize, however, though three of the Kenans and Gra hams were killed in duels. Mr. Faison showed us a his tory of Alabama by a Mr. Brewer, which he had ac quired when down in Ala bama looking up facts about the former vicepresident. There we saw the story of one or tw T o of those feuds. And, by the way, Captain Ashe, to indicate how small the world is, a boy we knew forty years ago, a young Rich f. CAffilNlAllS—Know Korn Stall! gS] I l COPYRIGHT 1930 BY BOYCE 6t RANKIN j '■W BECHTLER gold press, used at |||||§|j||ffi& : j.;; ' | the highest regard for his interity. Mp MIBB m without alloy, being twenty carats fine. The flfS jg are in two series. The first series was issue, ! ' before 1834 but the coins bear no dale. Th: second series starts in 1834, the coins of this series bearing the date, the name of the make lj|l|||li *BB!MP j;''' fljagK his town, weight, fineness of the gold and fie iflli value of the pieces. • * Between 1831 and 1840 over $2,000,000 w c;: • llPllPß* co^ne<; l at th e mint in denominations of :• •52.50, $5 and $lO. Coining of money by private concerns was not authorized by the Gcvtir,. • : :V ment, but in this instance nothing was done ■n to stop it because it was difficult to supply : -lt money from the national mint on account cf the .distance and transportation facilities. The [mint was discontinued about 1 Several years ago the original press was given to the American Numismatic Society, New York Citv. I i v , —:: liau .,,-v' ■■ .> , from the famous Fork Com munity of Sampson, whence sprang the Highsmiths and ’ the Wrights now prominent in the state as .school men and physicians particularly, moved to Alabama and married one of the daughters of that very historian Brewer. Finally, we learn from the Graham genealogy that Ar chie Graham and, Mrs. Henry A. Grady are not only first cousins of the two presidents of the University, but not so remotely akin to Edwin A. Alderman, through the moth er’s side of Alderman, the McDuffies. It may be interesting to add, however, that there is not one of the name of Gra ham or Kenan residing in Duplin county so far as the writer knows. Thus do some families become extinct while others multiply. Thu Duplin Grahams seem to have been prominent in North Carolina when the ancestor of the Cum berland Grahams came across 150 years ago. The western Grahams likewise. But the newcomers are today the Gra hams. Similar awaited the progeny of Richard Clin ton and Richard Herring, the former the grantor of the site; of the court in Clinton, then a ten-acre square, and the latter the chairman of the first county court of Sampson, to whom the deed for the pub-1 lie square was made. There I are no Clintons and few of collateral branches; while Sampson would be gutted if the descendants of Richard Herring were taken out of it. $ *************** * * * Brickhaven News * * * *************** Mr. Zeb Harrington who has Been* on a baseball iternary of the North since the Elon College commence ment is spending a while here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A, F, Harrington. His sister, Mrs. Louise Lawton, and little son, Lewis, of Pilot Mountain were also recent guests of her parents. Little Miss Ruth Gordon, of Pittsboro, who has been visiting her grandfather, Mr. J. W. Seawell, has returned to her home. Mr. C. S. Harrington is out again after being confined to his for the past week. Mr. Harrington had the misfortune to cut his leg’ quite painfully while mowing grass last week. His friends are very glad to see him up again. Mrs. O. C. Kennedy, Miss Ruth Kennedy, Mrs. Clarie Harrington, Mrs. N. T. Overby and Mr. William' Barnes mortored to Raleigh last Thursday for the Will Roger’s gram. Miss Leone Luther, of Bonsai,, will spend a while this week as the . guests here of Mrs. O. C. Kennedy. ! Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Calfee of Raleigh were the week-end guests here of Mrs. Calfee’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Seawell. Mr. R. A. Moore, ~*of Salem will spend this week here with JESMjfeSDAY, JUNE 9a 1 friends- » - Miss Cecil Seawell of the N. t- State Summer Cchool spent the week-end here with relatives. Mr. E. C. Maness filled W regular appointment at Buckhorne M. E. church Sunday afternoon- His sermon was a splendid one ana quite appropriate to the occasion- There will be services again tn first Sunday evening in July 2 * 8 o’clock. „ . While work on the -farms this section has been retarded account of the heavy rains t* crops, as a whole, are in a Te - r good condition. The outlook forj bountiful harvest is auspicious an a spirit of optimism is £ ene among the farmers. Mr. Grady Truelove of the okee Brick Co. 'spent Saturday a Sunday with his parents, Mr. Mrs. P.E. Truelove of Bonsa;. Miss Elizabeth Dickens, oi * * cure, has been spending a , ’' n ‘ here at the Boylan Ranch as i guest of her cousin, Miss Dickens. , „ Mr. and Mrs. Estes oj -h? J. and Mrs. H. T. Johnson ox Mon , ville, were among the visitors here. • TOO TRUE k . ‘‘The sedan,” he says, “wasjP® M ed at the side of the roaa, _ I drew near I could hear n a a struggle within. I c°u.d - rustle, probably of si.k, t mulffled panting of a majv ts body of the car swayed and fro. I heard a curse, ar again the muffled panting. , softly around to the side. j ito the window, nd saw-- rpa j “A man trying to i( V a h map the same as it had « Maiile Motorist. The stitch is lost r thread be knotted. —Italian i
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