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CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930
The press association is
meeting at Blowing Rock this
week and has a fine trip in
prospect as a courtesy from
the people of Boone. The
Record man would like to
have joined the bunch, but
any trip or other unnecessary
expense that takes a dollar
must be avoided. This is the
climax of Chatham’s hard
times. Six poor crop years
seem to be followed by a
promise of a good havest next
fall, and if it were not for
the hole that the bad years
have put the people- in, all
of us might expect consider
ably better times next year.
At least, many who have not
made food and feed will have
something for family and
stock the next year*.
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The opening of Duke Hospi
tal is an epochal event for
the state. That great institu
tion can afford and facility
for treatment of human ills
that any other institution in
the world can. Time was not
- so long ago when Baltimore,
New York and Philadelphia
hospitals must be sought in
unusual cases of illness. That
is no longer necessary. It is
esctimated that 15,000 visitors
inspected the hospital last
Sunday.
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If the newspaper would not
give any publicity to such fool
capers as that of the boys
who are seeing how long they
can stay in trees, there would
be little incentive for the
gumps. _ »
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A card from our friend
Thos. B. Ider at Aberdeen!
says: “I am in full accord
with the views expressed in
the clipping from your paper
in the News and Observer.
If there is not a change, I
am afraid the “boll tVeevil”
will get all of us. Good wishes
and strength to your arm.” |
Mr. Wilder refers to last
week’s editorial captioned:
“The Road to Bankruptcy,”
and he doubtless expresses an
approval that is state-wide,
with the exception of those j
people who themselves pros- j
perous have lost the true per
spective of actual conditions.
If members of the next legi
slature want to strike a popu
lar note, let them fight for a 1
reduct4on in the salaries of.
all state and county employes,!
including teachers. There is j
no equity in the employes of!
the people enjoying the high
est degrees of prosperity while
their employes barely live and,
in thousands of cases, lose
their capital. A 25 percent
cut in all salaries above SBOO
a year, but leaving a minmum
of SBOO for those now getting t
more, would more nearly put
the employes upon an equit
able basis with their pay
masters. SBOO a year is more
than nine of every ten famil
ies in Chatham county have
netted any year for the last
five or six, and the most of
them have employed some
capital in making what little
they have made. There is no
justice, no equity, in selling
one man out who is barely
living to pay more than a
good living to a public em
ploye. , /
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Pittsboro has probably suf
fered as litle as any point in
the state from heat during the
record-breaking spells of the
past two or three weeks.
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It is apparent that a con
siderable number of Chatham
farmers are poisoning the
weevil. There is no doubt that
the Record is responsible for
a share of that good work.
This is the hardest month
the Record has had in a long
time, and if you can send in
a subscription it will help us
meet the month’s bills. We
have been gradually climbing !
out of the hole in which we .
were left by the fire of three >
years ago, and do not want
to fall behind a single month.
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The salaries of all higher-up
employees of the big concerns
in the state, as wejl as those
of the state, are out of pro
portion to the average possible
income of the people. Let the
state start the ball a-rolling
by cutting salaries. When the
big incomes in state and in
dustry are reduced, the wage
of all others will be improved,
either directly or indirectly.
A SIO,OOO or $15,000 salary
in any concern must be paid,
in the final account, by the
consumers of the product of
the industry.
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Let all big salaries in state
and industry be cut to con
form with the possible income
of the people in general and
let taxes on land be reduced*
Then rents should come down
in proportion to cut in taxes
and decreased ability of high
salaried men to pay them.
High land values and rental
values at present clog all the
wheels of prosperity. Here we
are speaking of town homes
and business places. Unearn
ed increments appropriated
by property owners the past
twenty years are proving one
of the severest handicaps to
continuing prosperity. An in
terest rate and provision for
taxes and insurance on town
and city buildings upon the
artificial values foisted on
city property compel rental
rates that compel high salar
ies or large incomes, and
large salaries and high in
comes of city and town dwell
ers mean the sapping of the
financial strength of the
country. To get the water out
of city real estate values is
one of the greatest needs of
the times. Rent homes in
Pittsboro is low, simply be
cause no one is able to pay
high rentals. Similarly reduc
tion of incomes in the cities
will necessitate rental rates
within the reach of the occu
pants. Instead of rental rates
governing incomes and mak
ing them necessarily high,
let’s see the thing reversed
j and cut incomes reducing
rentals to a lower level. Thus
| everybody would be benefi
ted except the appropriators
of the unearned increments
in land values, and they
would be compelled to disgor
ge some of their unearned
wealth. Nothing will do more
immediately to bring about
1 a greater equality in living
■ conditions than an era of low
. salaries.
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Why 151ame the Communists
for trying to do something
j about it?
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If the drinking of sweet
milk will prevent or cure
pellagra, the remedy is very
simple. There is no loss in
the cost of the milk, since
.the milk drinker will eat less
! of other things.
! The death of Mrs. Mary
Mendenhall Hobbs, wife of
the former'president of Guil
ford College, removes one of
the state’s most notable
women.
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The I. C. C. has raised
railroads rates, including some
for North But what
else can be expected? The
government is painstaking in
not permitting the paralleling
of railroads by new railways.
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The refusal to permit the
construction of the P. & N.,
paralleling the Southern, is an
example. Yet the State,
assisted by the U. . Govern
ment, has paralleled practical
ly every railroad in the
country with a hard-surface
highway and turned loose
trucks, and buses, and private
cars upon them to compete
with the railways. The,editor
of the Record insisted, ten
or twelve years ago, that the
policy of paralleling the rail
roads was a bad one. It took,
for instance, a hard fight to
secure the routing of highway
sixty through the triangle
lying between the W. & W.
and the old C. F. & Y. V.,
from Clinton to Wilmington.
The contrary idea was to
carry it from Clinton to War
saw and Kenansville, and
thepce parallel with the W.
W. to Wilmington*. Such a
highway actually exisits, but
by a supreme effort, the
routing of sixty went through
the territory without a rail
road and likely never to have
one. The same kind of idiocy
exists with regards to develop
ment of competing water
lines. Spend millions to deve
lop competing water lines and
then raise rates to enable the
railroads to live! For they
must live.
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ABOUT CUTTING
EXPENSES
To show how great minds
run together, we print below
an editoral from the Harnett
County News which exactly
parallels a Record editorial of
last week. Here is what
Brother Steele says:
“From Raleigh comes the news
that the departments of state are
cutting down their payrolls by dis
missing from the public service a
large number of employees. This is
one way of cutting down expenses,
though it is not always the best
way. True, if there are more em
ployees on the state’s payroll than
necessary to carry on the work that
must be done, then some of them
should be dismised. In fact, no more
than the necessary number of em
ployes should ever have been hired.
But it is not apparent to the in
telligent person that this cutting off
of state employes will reduce the
public expense very much. The em
ployes dismissed are, in the main,
low-salaried people—clerks, stenog
raphers, etc., most of whom actually
must work to support themselves
and sometimes families. At the
same time, the expenditure of large
mams goes on. For instance, there’s
a man named Burke who, we are
told, draws $25 a day for telling
the officers who are elected to man
age the state’s affairs, are paid for
same at good salaries, but who seem
ingly do not know how to manage
things—this man Burke is employed
at high wages to tell the state
officials how to manage things.
Dismissing a few low-salaried ste
nographers and clerks will not cut
the state’s expense account very
much. It will, however, appeal to
some people—those who do not
know that men elected to fill state
offices should be able to fill them
without employing high-priced help
to tell them how to do it.”
Nine - Ten ths Preven table
' Nine-tenths of all the diseases of the
American people can be traced directly
to constipation, doctors say. Constipa
tion throws into the system poisons
which taint and weaken every organ
of the body and make them easy
victims for any germs which attack
them. Prevent constipation and you
will avoid nine-tenths of all diseases,
with their consequent pain and fi
nancial losses. Ilerbine, the good old
vegetable cathartic, will prevent con
stipation in a natural, easy and
pleasant way. Get a bottle today from
Pittsboro Drug Co. . Adv.
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Goosebone—No. She’s going to
a different delicatessen now.—The
Pathfinder.
Sale of Land Under Mortgage
Under and by virtue of a power
of sale contained in a certain
mortgage deed executed by Francis
C. Kidd, E. A. Kidd, and wife,
Rilie Kidd, dated 11th day of
March 1927, in favor of N. G. Pur
vis, and recorded in .the office of
the register of deeds of Chatham
county, Book FX, at page 586,
the undersigned will sell at public
auction at the court house door
in Pittsboro, to the highest bidder
for cash, at noon,
Wednesday August 20th, 1930,
the entire interests of the said
Francis C. Kidd, E. A. Kidd and
wife in the following described
lands: lying and being in Bear
Creek township and being the
lands conveyed by the will of the
late E. W. Kidd of Chatham county
to the said Francis C. Kidd, E. A.
Kidd and others, and more par
ticularly described in said will,
which is recorded in the office of
, the clerk of the superior court of
Chatham county in the Book of
' Wills at page 109-113.
This the 21st day of July/ 1930.
N. G. Purvis, Mortagee.
; J. H. Scott, Assignee of Mortagagee
' July 24 to Aug 14. pd
SALE NOTICE
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Superior Court of Chatham
1 County made in the special pro
ceeding entitled “Louzina Lowe,
. Administraix, vs. Leanna Staley, et
al,” the undersigned commissioner
will, on the 2nd day of August,
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
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township, Chatham County. N. C.,
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land that Martha Staley inherited
from her motl y.r Lindy Staley.
This is re-'ale on account of
raised bid.
This the 14th day of July, 1930.
J. A. Spence,
Commissioner
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EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified. as executor of
the last will and testatment of
Mrs. Bettie L. London, deceased,
late of Chatham county, North
Carolina, this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Raleigh,
N. C., on or before July 10, 1930,
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery.
This the 10th day of July, 1930.
Henry M. London,
july 24-6 t Executor
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