PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1930 Mr. W. P. Horton, for eight years chairman of the county Democratic executive commit tee, is succeeded by Mr. Wade Barber. Mr. Horton has func tioned well as chairman. He was not a candidate, we un derstand, to succeed himself, as he is the nominee for the senate. Mr. Barber is a cap able man for the job and will doubtless serve with equal ac ceptability. ® We were surprised ourself at having a full-size paper last week, but at this writing Monday, the week of the Fourth, it is very apparent that this week’s paper will be cut short. Really, the print ers will not regret having less work this w T eek, -we presume, and it is certain that the edi tor would like to take it easy. * LABEL ’EM, 808 . A good friend brought the editorial section of the Ra leigh Times ten miles to show ■ffie editor of The Record the article chaffing him about ‘■Cheeping on Bailey” as a Greek scholar. A little en couragement, we suspect, would have induced him to accompany the editor to Ral eigh to see him whip the writer of the article. And as that friend is a man of much adventure, being equally fa miliar with the bogs of Ire land, the gold diggings of the Klondike, and the hills of Chatham, and accounts Clar ence Darrow among his old time cronies, he w r ould be a great backer, and might be depended upon to call in Clarence in case of any need for a court defense. The trou ble was, Bob Gray didn’t label his article as a joke. Label ’em, Bob, for some of our Chatham friends would fight, for. us, and that one, or some tougher one, misapprehend ing, might get upon a ram page, aiid then you would have to play the “Red Buck” Bryant stunt. After the nota ble Fayetteville convention in which • Patterson was . first nominated for Congress, “Red Buck”.came to Lumberton and when some of us told him that Zach Prevatt was there and was inquiring for him to have him give an accounting for his Charlotte Observer ar ticle in which Friend Zach was caricatured, “Red Buck” played the vanishing act. But, seriously, Will Bailey must , be a “superman,” ac cording to your pronounce ment; for w r e will guarantee that he can read Greek after all these years, and we know he was, reading it twelve years ago. The only secret about being able to read Greek and Batin thirty or forty years af ter one has studied them in the first place, and, given the mind of a Bailey or a Will Vass and a teacher like Dr. Wm. B. Royall, the trick is done, though, dollars to dough nuts, Vass, who made his 99 regularly in Greek to the 97 and 98 of Bailey and another one or two of the class, and has taken life easily, his only care, as stated to this writer a year or two ago, being to have “plenty of sunshine and chawing terbacker,” has more nearly let his Greek and Latin slip. + As was his father, E. K. Proctor, Jr., James D. Proc tor has been cut off in his prime. James had just been nominated for the senate by Robeson Democrats. Besides his own capabilities, he in herited much of the goodwill •so manifest toward his good father, who died, as has James, in the midst of a ca reer of great usefulness. The JProctor side of the family seemed not to lack longevity, as the grandfather of James, FL K Proctor, Sr., was a hard old nut when his distinguish ed son, E. K., Jr., died. , Ml . ’ " ' Author —How do you like my .plot? Editor—With that esteem which .can come only of long acquaintance. The Pathfinder. BAD POLICY AS WELL AS BAD MORALS This eve of the Fourth would seem to be a good time to say something that some one, it seems, should say. As. a starter, we clip a paragraph from a letter pub lished in the Afro-American over the name of R. L. Gil lispie. Whether the writer is a negro or a white man is not indicated, but our guess is that it is a negro who is seek ing to curry favor with the whites. He sends the clipping to the Greensboro News for reproduction, where w ? e saw it. Here it is: “Having read in your paper on Friday, June 20th, that at present there are several states denying the negro right to vote, and enforcing segre gation in schools and public conveyances of Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and having had mv being and birth in North Carolina, I challenge the clause of vot ing rights of negroes of this state, and brand it as an in famous lie.” Whether Gillispie is black or white, it seems to the ■ writer that it is he who is lying. For anybody, with any observation at all, should know that negroes are denied the privilege .of voting in North Carolina on the ground that they are negroes, and one who does not know that to be the' case might have been convinced if he had heard the statement by a reg istrar in the Chatham county convention Saturday. That registrar has already decreed all negro applicants of the past and the future ineligible to registration, the constitu tions and his oath to the con trary. President Moton, if a resi dent of his township, might appear for registration and be denied under the sweep ing practice of this registrar. And such a policy, we believe, will inevitably make trouble. On the other hand, if the qualified negroes are permit- As this is written Tuesday afternoon it appears that Mrs. Bettie London, Pittsboro’s be loved woman, is in extremis. She lies unconscious from an attack of angina pectoris, from which affliction she has suffered at intervals for sev eral years. Her death seems imminentjind the children are being summomfl to her bed side. H. M. London is already here. It has been only tw r o weeks since The Record car ried a beautiful story of Mrs. London’s career, from the pen of Congressman Hammer’s daughter; consequently, our readers already have a knowl edge of the esteem in which she is held, not only at home but abroad. Her name is a household work in many parts of the state, and there is scarcely a Confederate vet eran in the state who does not know of her devoted serv ice to the cause of the vet ! erans. Her death will be greatly deplored in her na tive town, but it will be a sat isfaction to consider how she has been spared as an inspiration to the community. ® A BRUTAL MURDER The news of no more brutal or dastardly murder has gone abroad in many days than that of our friend Fred New ton, postmaster at Kerr, Samp son county. We have known him nearly fifty years and knew no more gentle or harm less man. At the age of sev enty he was beaten down on the path from the post office to his home and dragged un conscious into the woods, where he lay till found sev . eral hours later. He was the brother of three Baptist preachers, Rev. C. C. ■ Newton, former pastor at Chapel Hill and later mission ary to Africa and buried in the sea on his way home; Rev. J. B. Newton, dead sev eral years, and Rev. J. D. Newton, of Thomasville, who . married the brilliant daugh ter of Jack Mills of orphan age fame. Carey Newton, a r son of Rev. C. C., is a mis sionary in China, connected I j with a Baptist college. Fred’s | own son probably had the N. U. ted to register and vote, they will, in all probability, divide between the parties. On the contrary, if qualified men, in necessarily increasing num bers, are denied this constitu tional privilege, it v is almost certain that the United States government will, sooner or later, intervene. If that should happen and a great swarm of negroes have their political rights restored to them at one time they would almost as suredly align themselves al most to a man and woman with the party most responsi ble for that restoration of the voting privilege. In that case, they could, and probably would, dominate the politics of the state. Even 20,000 negroes, all Republicans, would one day find themselves holding the balance of power. On the other hand, if they had been given the privilege gradually along as they qualified, they would probably be about half and half Republicans and Democrats, and would prove no menace. Accordingly, de priving fully qualified negroes of the right to register, is not only contrary to the constitu tion of both the United States and North Carolina, and to the oaths of the registrars, who have sworn to uphold j both constitutions, but is bad policy, especially in the long run. This season of the Fourth, when the Constitution is being lauded all over the country, is a good time to pause and consider what the final result of trampling under foot the glorious old document will be. The constitution of North Carolina, interpreted in the true light of the United States constitution, is suffificient to keep all illiterates of any race off the registration books. Let that suffice. It is certainly not good sense to undertake to avoid a gopher hole and fall into a den of lions. The wise man foreseeth the evi* and fleeth it, said a no less one than Solomon, but some registrars are not Solomons. record for the second largest personal capture of Germans during the World War, and was honored by the people of his county by the presenta tion of a fine watch at the fair in 1919 or 1920, the same day that the “Flying Parson,” who had recently won fame by making the cross continent flight and return quicker than any competitor, though he was forced down in the Rock ies and lost a day before •he could resume his journey. Mr. Newton only recently lost a son in an automobile acci dent. Robbery seemed to be the motive of the unknown slay er, though little could have been found on the postmaster of the village in the pine woods. >lor would one have thought that the woods path through that barren cclintry could be waylaid by an as sassin. SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Chatham County made in the action there in pending, entitled “The Federal Land Bank of Columbia vs Rufus Alston and others, the under signed Commissioner, will on MONDAY, JULY 28th, 1930, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Court House dioor of Chat ham County, in Pittsboro, N. C., sell to the highest bidder for One- Third cash and the balance in three (3) equal annual install ments, that .certain tract of land in Center Township Chatham County, North Carolina, and des cribed as follows, to-wit: All that certain piece, pareel or tract of land containing 110 acres, more or less, lying and being just off the Moncure Road about 4 miles South from the town of Pittsboro, in Center township, Chat ham County, North Caroling, hav ing such shapes, metes, courses and distances as will more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof made by F. E. Womble, surveyor, August, 1922, and attached to the abstract now on file with The Federal Land] Bank of Columbia; the same being bounded on the North by lands o£ Ben Thomas; On the East by lands of Ben Har per & A, H. London; On the South by lands of Ben Thomas and J. W. Griffin and On the West by lands of J. W. Griffin. Terms of Sale: One-Third cash and balance in three equal annual installments. Time of Sale: Monday, July 28th, 1930 at 12 o'clock noon. Place of Sale: Court House, door in -Pittsboro, N. C. This the 27th day of June, 1930. V. R. JOHNSON Commissioner july 3-july 24 SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of an orgler of the Superior Court of Chatham County made in the action there in pending, entitled “The Federal Land Bank of Columbia vs Will S. Johnson and others”, the under signed Commissioner, will on MONDAY, JULY 28th, 1930, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Court House door of Chat ham County, in Pittsboro, N. C., sell to the highest bidder for One- Fifth (1/5) cash and the balance in five (5) equal annual install ments, that certain tract of land in Hickory Mountain Township, Chatham County, North Carolina, and described as follows, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land containing 144 acres, more or less, situated, lying and being just off the Siler City Road, about 7 miles West from the town of Pittsboro, in Hickory Mountain Township, Chatham County, North Carolina, having such shapes, metes, courses and distances as will be more fully appear by reference to a plat thereof made by R. B. Clegg, surveyor in 1893 and recorded in the office of the register of creeds of Chatham County, and made by B. A. Phillips, surveyor, in 1911 and both attached' to the abstract now on file with The Federal Land Bank of Columbia; and being bounded on the North by lands of Henry Whitehead; On the East by lands of J. A. Woody; On the South by lands of Hadley and Fike Lands ;and On the West by lands of G. P. Alston Estate and J. C. Bowers. Terms of Sale: One-Fifth Cash and balance in five equal annual installments. Time of Sale: (Monday, July 28th, 1930 at 12 o'clock noon. Place of Sale: Court House Door, Pittsboro, N. C. This the 27th day of June, 1930. V. R. JOHNSON, Commissioner; july 3-july 24 SALE NOTICE Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Chat ham County made in the special proceeding entitled Louzian Lowe, Administratix, vs. Leanna Staley, et al”, the undersigned commis sioner will on the 10th DAY OF JULY, 1930 at 2 o’clock P. M. on the premises in Chatham County, East of Liberty, N. C., offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash that certain tract of land in Chatham County, North Carolina, described as follows. A TRACT of land consisting of forty-five (45) acres in Albright Township, Chatham County, N. C., bounded on the North by Everett Johnson, on the East by Alfred Perry, on the South by the heirs of Ad Pierce and on the West by the heirs of Douph Stevens, it being the land that Martha Staley inherited from her mother Lindy Staley. This is a re-sale on account of raised bid. This the 24th day of June, 1930. J. A. SPENCE, Commissioner. july 3,10 Professor—Ther’s a student in this class who’s making a fool out of himself. Now when he’s finished I’ll begin.—The Pathfinder. _ /Just Like An Ostrich v A medical authority says that _a person who tries to cover up skia blemishes and pimples with toilet creams and powders is just as foolish, as an ostrich that buries its head m the sand to avoid danger. Skin erup tions are nature’s warning that con stipation is throwing poisons mto your blood stream and weakening your whole constitution. Remove the constipated condition and you will strengthen your evstem against disease and dear up your disfigured skin. The best way to do this is with a course of Herbine, the vegetable medicine that acts natur ally and easily, which you can get at Pittsboro Drug Co. Adv. WaC. ROUNTREE, M. D. PELLAGRA A SPECIALTY 1 If you have many of the following symptoms, I have the remedy, no mat ter what your trouble has been diag- _ nosed: Nervousness, stomach trouble, < lost of weight, loss of sleep, sore mouth, hurting in back of head, shoulders or back, peculiar swimming in head, frothy-like phlegm in throat, pgsrag of mucous from the bowels (especially j after taking purgative), burning feet, yellow or brown akin, hunting or itch ing skin, rash on handf^face and arms resembling sunburn, chronic constipa tion, (sometimes alternating with di- < arrhoea), copper or metallic taste, skin sensitive to sun heat, forgetfulness, despondency, thoughts that you might lose your mind, gums red and falling away from the teeth, general weakness, - ' loss of energy, and look older than you are. If you have many of these symp toms, have taken all kinds of medicine, and are still sick, I especially want YOU to write for my FREE booklet, ques tionnaire, and diagnosis. W. C. Rountree, M. D. BOX 1150 . Dept. 31-J Austin, Tex** j ' PITTSBORO DRUG STORf OPEN on SUNDAYS For the information of the public we here state that the Pittsboro Drug Store is open on Sundays from 8 A. M. to 10 A. M., and from 2 to 6 P. M. Your patronage will be appreciated and courteous service is assured. Dr. T. W. Mcßane, who has for years been a registered pharmacist as well as practic ing physician, now compounds our prescriptions. Come to see us when in Pittsboro. Your purchase free if we fail to thank you. T. D. THRAILKILL, Manager ' SALE OF YARD G00DS~" a Started Wednesday, June 25, and runs through Satur day, July sth. 15,000 yards of seasonable yard goods at a tremendous saving. Many of these goods have come in during the' last few days. Others our regular stock. Since 1914 have we offered such goods at these prices. GET THEM NOW. 32" Dress Ginghams : yard 10c 36" Pajama Checks. : * /- yard 10c 36" Good Grade Percale - yard 10c 36" Carolina Prints ..... yard 10c 40" Fine Quality Printed Voiles. New Patterns yard 15c 40" Solid Color also Printed Voiles yard 19c ,36" Striped Satinella Original 50c yard. Sale price yard 15c 36" Fast Color Percale Prints 29. c grade yard 25c 36" Fine Dimities and) Batiste 39c grade Sale price .yard 29c 48c Fine Linen Finish Prints. Fast color yard 39c 1 Table Sport Satin for Slips and Dresses SI.OO value, 2 yds SI.OO New Bright Shades. Flat Crepe in All Leading Shades. Solid color and prints, yd. 89c 1 table Short Lengths all Silk Flat Crepe value up to $2.00 yard, Sale price SI.OO Bedding’s $2.50 and $2.98 Silks, Sale Price - $1.98 Our regular $2.00 grade Crepe Sale Price $1.69 40" Printed Chiffon - - - yard $1.39 40" Printed Chiffon y ard s l,3 ® 40" Silk Georgette - y ard sl*®® 18x27 Dish Towels - 5c each 80x90 Rayon Bed Spreads. While they last each $1.39 40" White Organdy 39c value. Sale price yard 19c Barber Towels Special - dozen 69c 33" white pique for Dress, Boys’ Suits, etc 19c 36" Curtain Marquisette with hemstitched stripe. Solid 39c value. - Sale price - y ard 15c 81x90 Bed Sheets, $1.19 value €a