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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD o. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $ l * SO Six Months THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1930. Do you know why the late August and the September sun seems so hot as com pared with that of June days of the same degree of temper ature? The answer is, the suns rays are more slanting in late summer and consequently mot e of them hit a man when standing in the sunshine, the fewer strike a square foot of the level soil or pavement in September than in June. The latter fact is the chief cause of the change of seasons, along with the longer nights of the fall and winter, which are themselves due to the same cause as that producing the slanting rays. A single sun rav carries as much heat in win ter as in summer, indeed a little more, as the sun is near er in winter, but not nearly so many of them strike a given area of the earth’s surface. It is the number that does the business in the summer time. Yet many more rays strike a standing man in December than in June, in the early products were produced only “more lately” on the farm. HOW TO HOLD BACK PROGRESS (The Hamlet News-Messenger) There are some simple but safe and sure rules to retard the progress of any community They are easily mastered. They cost nothing to follow, except in the long run, and who cares about the long run? In fact they are paths of least resistance. Tho they are destructive, they are no less an interesting study. Here are some of the rules to hold back needed development: Whein a good movement is started be against it by being for it with a big IF. This will make people think you are all right and a boo ster. After geting over the IFS throw in a few BUTS for good measure, something like this: “I’m for it all right, BUT are given for the guidance of those who don’t remember the ones they used last time. I.“BUT this is not the right time.” This usually works well and gets a lot of folks scared out. 2- BUT it will cost too much.” This is a humdinger of an alibi. It appeals to the big fellow who can afford it and the little fellow’s spirit is getting something out of it.” This alibi spreads like wildfire all over the town, and pretty soon Mr. So-and-so the poor innocent devil who has managed to acquire a little community spirit to help the town get ahead, is all but taken out and hung to the nearest telephone pole. After using all the IFS and BUTS to be thought of, try some of these: If it’s a bridge or road pro posed, keep “for” it, but say with emphasis that the road builder don’t know what they are talking about. Suggest an entirely different method of building the road and con structing the bridge. In fact, hold out that the road should have gone east instead of west, and that the bridge is going across the wrong river. If it’s something like a new school building, by all means quickly turn architect and school board and superinten dent of construction. Ask them to build it your way. Be sure, of course, to keep saying you are “for” it. And so on and on. You can hold back progress indefini tely by a little practice on the above rules and also the ones you have used all these years. When the other town goes right ahead and grows and your town stands still or goes backward, if you want to keep on kicking that’s your prive lege, but you’ll soon find that you are kicking no one but yourself in the long run. O HOW THEY LOVE THE DEAR CHILDREN # A Mede and Persian de cree of the county board of commissioners of Johnson county to the effect that a cut of over $51,000 in the bud get of the board of education should be made has resulted in the cutting off of 84 teach ers from the school force of county and of not one reduc tion of salary, so far as the record discloses to the writer. The county superintendent of schools, the principals of the score of great consoli dated schools in the county, and the remaining teachers will continue to draw the sal aries that were deemed suff icient away back in 1919 when prices were high and money abundant. But we cannot suppose that the members of the Johnston county school board have no common sense. They were simply helpless in the face of the legalized sal ary schedule of the state board of education, a schedule, as just suggested, dating back to the flushes! years of the his tory of the state. The only re course was for the high-sal aried school officials and prin cipals and the remaining teachers to volunteer reduct ions in their salaries. But, of course, that has not been done, nor will be done. O, those dear school men and women love the children dear ly till it comes time to show that love in a practical way and then love of self, as al ways, betrays itself and the children may go hang. We shall not blame the county commissioners a minute. They know that the children of Johnston county need to retain shelters over thefr head and br*ad for their mouths more than they need extra schooling just at this time. In fact, the Johnston commission ers have done a service to the state in bringing about this impasse which shows the dis disastrous effects of the legali zation of the state salary schedule for teachers and school oficials. The law of supply and demand has ben abrogated. Men and women who are prepared to teach have not been allowed to compete for positions, and thus bring down the salaries to a nearer level with the incomes of the tax-payers and with what the same teachers could , make in enterprises of their own or when turned loose to secure unprotected employment. Every child in Johnston county, presumably, must re ceive a smaller degree of in tensive instruction, else the school board has been employ ing an excess of teachers. And it is not because the county board of commissioners has not supplied a sufficient fund to pay for the full quota 1 of instructors if the privilege of bargaining remained to teach ers and school boards. Do you not know that the 84 teachers discarded would be f,!ad to hold their jobs at a 25 per cent decrease in salary, rather than have no salary at all? What j are they to do? The other counties do not need the ex cess. Moreover, if it had been put up to the whole bunch of Johnston county teachers to reduce voluntarily their salaries or lose their jobs, do you not believe that nine out of ten of them would have made the reduction? But the law forbids. The salary sche dule must be enforced or the equalization funds are de nied. Os course, it is right for teachers to have a living wage, but it takes scarcely half now to live than it did when the scale was arranged- Moreover, the large salaries are coming from money col lected by stress from an har rassed people. Thousands of homes are being sold from over the heads of the very children whom these teachers are employed to teach. But the lucky teachers must continue to draw their handsome sal aries and the beloved chil drden to suffer at home and then go to school to be cram med and packed in classes where the amount of teach ers’ attention desirable cannot be given them. The Chatham Record calls upon the next legislature to restore the right of bargain ing to teachers and school m. THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. boards. No labor union has ever been more tyrannical than the teaching force of 'North Carolina under the pro tection afforded them by the state board of education, since 1929 confirmed in its tyranny by statute law. Eighty-four men and women, badly need ing employment as the lucky remaining ones, are without employment, while the .rest continue to draw salaries that are all out of proportion to the incomes of the people who are supporting them. Down with the tyranny! The very Hancock bill was a blow to the rights of the chil dren, in that it increased the number of children for the teacher instead of enabling the proper number of teach ers to be employed by permit ting the school boards to hire in accordance with the' value • the dollar. ® HOW DO THEY GET THAT WAY? Some time ago a young Dr. Noble of the state school of department asserted that a SIOO,OOO, which is anything but a“school fact-” Now we note that R. B. House, secre tary to the president of the University and old enough to have some gumption, de clares that the advancement in public school education the past SO years has caused a five-fold increase in the wealth of North Carolina. In the first place, it is not true that North Carolina has increased five-fold in wealth in these thirty years, and in the second place, the schools have done comparatively lit tle to cause whatever augmen tation of wealth there has ac tually been. Thirty years ago North Car olina had quite an abundance of timber which has now dis appeared. Thirty years ago the state had no indebtedness to compare with the present. Towns have grown into cities, and factories have multiplied, it is true: but there is scarce ly a hundred miles more rail road, not an acre more land, while many farmers have been practically abandoned. The farm lands are mortgaged, and many town homes are mortgaged to the hilt. The bonds of the state and counties, of which this county has outstanding more than a million dollars, are largely held by people in other states, as are the mortgages on the farms, especially the thousands of them made t© the Farm Loan Banks. It is doubtful if the number of cattle and horse, hogs and sheep, in proportion to the increase in population, has held its own these thirty years. Automobiles have swarmed, but by the time they are paid for, they are largely in a decrepit condition. Accordingly, when the in debtedness held by outsiders and the value of the proper ties held by the citizens of other states, such as railroad stocks and bonds, power plants, telegraphs, etc., besides many thousands of acres of lands taken over by outside individ uals and corporations, is de ducted from the actual value of the property of the state, and deductions are made for double listing of values, such as farms and the mortgages on the farms, and due allow ance. is made for the increase in valuations for this period, of $36 per capita circulation of money over that of the pe riod of that of $lO per capita it is clear that the boasted in crease of wealth w T ill have done like Vance’s catfish, “swunk.” Moreover, what there is, is to be prorated .among one and one half as many people as there were 30 years ago. That much for the assertion as to the increase in wealth, and we mean WEALTH, or property, not figures that place five values upon the same acre of land of 1900, or cause a two hundred pound hog to sell for S3O instead of : sl2, and a house built 50 years ago in a small town to be valued in a larger one today at five times its earlier valuation. Nor does money count. Money can only effect changes in owners of prop erty. It is not wealth. Now, as to the assumption ,that, whatever the increase, fCAROLINIANS—Knw Your State! ® FOREST FIRE OBSERVATION THE State Forest Service is making every effort to cut down losses - from forest fires and recently five steel observation towers have been J|§|ll erected in Buncombe, Wilke*, Robe son, Hertford and Brunswick Coun- T' ties at a cost of $1,300 each. Tire <\^'' * first of the system of lookout towers, . 'V which will eventually give protection to all the wooded area of the State, lljpNV was erected about three years ago J||s - today there are sixteen steel, ' / outs. The present structures range , ’ / %. \ / VV * from 35 to 102 fact in height, and Nl i ; are surmounted by an enclosed cabin **' in which a warden is stationed dur- -/ A,.’ V ;? ing the fire seasons. It will probably *** - > * .V-\ be necessary to build 125 towers to > complete the Slate’s primary fores* fire detection sy.iem. Jv ' "! Taxpayers of North Carolina were y f ‘ recently reminded by the State De- parlm.nt of Conservation an, Da- , it is due to the increase in public school education, it is mere bosh- The men who have developed the farming indus try in North Carolina have not been educated in the pub lic schools within the past 30 years, and generally have never had more than, say, 40 months of schooling in their lives. We know two counties like a book, Sampson and Chatham, and we know that a high school graduate on a farm is a rarity, and they are; not numerous in the factories. The tobacco, cotton and furniture factories, and the water power developments have not been initiated nor even developed because of a more generally educated younger generation. The Dukes, the Reynolds, and many others responsible, for these developments if educated at all, were educated earlier than 1900. Os course, there are exceptions, and younger men of the new regime in education are gradually re placing in the established in dustries the initiators of them, and are inaugurating new en terprises, but hardly propor tionately to the extent of the older group, unless you count filling stations, saw mills, and garages. We are not - necessarily pessimistic, but it is just as well to see things straight, and such assertions as that of Mr. House will in the long run do more harm than good. He ought to be able to distinguish between post hoc and propter hoc. Even if the wealth of the state had multiplied as stated, one must have facts to justify attributing the growth to the fact that the public schools happened to be developed contemporaneous ly. —<s> If there is any kind of prin ter’s slip that will make the writer of an article sweat, it is the ommission of a line in such way that the thing still reads straight along. One like that occured last week in the article where we were listing the products of the old farm in Sampson, making it appear that eggs and other products were produced “more lately” on the farm. THE POSITION OF LABOR. (The Hamlet News-Messenger) The founders of Labor Day showed wisdom in selecting a Monday as the day to cele brate the victories of the work ing man as well as commem morate the struggles which he has gone thru to gain his pres ent position. All holidays, ex cept, perhaps, those of strictly religious origin and nature, should fall on Monday, thus giving a two or a two and a half days’ holiday for. all classes who can cease their labors without crippling the accomodations of the rest. But lab©r has exhibited other bits of wisdom too. The farmer has never been able to organize as have the industri al trades workers. The condi tions surrounding one class are radically different from th circumstances of the other. Here we see the great Amer ican Federation of Labor with no less than 106 affiliated unions, representing every kind of labor from the trap drammer in a dance orchestra to a metal polisher in a stove factory. Besides these we have the “big four” in the railroad field, known as the engineers, firemen, trainmen, and conduc tors. Then we have the amal gamated clothing workers who are also unaffiliated with the Federation so far as internal structure of organization is concerned. And of course the ; Industrial Workers of the World who are in a more or less strange class by themsel ves, whether their purposes are industrial, social or politi cal. Lastly we have the non union, the common laborer and workers generally in all kinds of occupations all of whom come under the head of labor with respects to Labor Day. Even the brain worker, so called, “knocks off”, so to speak, and plays golf or swims or motors, or does the other hundred and one things that men do "when away from the daily, grind. It’s a great institution, this Labor Day. Many of us forget its significance and do nearly everything that has nothing to do with celebration. But labor is still a great power for god or bad as labor makes it. It’s political power is tremend ous; it’s social power is felt wherever workers live and worak; and its industrial or financial power is often reck oned w 7 ith, sometimes to the benefit of the workers, some times not. The salvation of labor is sound leadership. This constructive leadership has been noticeable recently in its move to stamp out de structive Communism. So long as organized labor seeks to preserve American ideals, that long will it enjoy its present position. The aim of labor should not be to destroy capital, but to seek its fair share of it. Bible Thought and Prayer • j ALL NEEDS SUPPLIED—The * s Lord is my shepherd; I shall not | } want. Surely goodness and mercy $ i shall follow me all rh£ days of my J | life; and I will dwell in the house f lof the Lord for ever. —Ps. 23:1-6. j | PRAYER— O Lord, do Thou sat- j | isfy us early with Thy mercy, that | ? we may rejoice and be glad all our j • days. I j J <s> Jealousy knows no loyalty.—Span ish proverb. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 DID YOU EVER 1 STOP TO THINK? By EDSON R. WAITE Shawnee, Oklahoma I- That advertising is a satisfying service. It serves everybody well. If you are a mariufacturer, it will create a demand for what you have for sale; it will increase turnover, which will in turn increase your profits, z If you are a retailer,it will in crease your business so you can buy in larger quantities and take advantage of volume prices aid discounts; it will reduce your over head and keep your stock moving so you will always have nothing but new and attractive goods to sell If you are a consumer, you can save every day in every way by buying only from business concerns that advertise. When you buy from them you not only get the best at right pricee, but their ads are a guarantee that their goods are as represented. Advertisements not only stand for quality, but they assure you of satisfaction. Every business should advertise not once in a while but all the time. Every citizen should read the ads and buy only from the concerns that advertise. The advertising columns shouic. be the meeting place of all buyers and sellers. — That it is not necessary for you to go to some other city or sene to buy anything. The stores of your city are m position to supply your every wan:. They sell at reasonable prices the highest quality of merchandise. Along with the growth of yoim city, your home merchants are al ways making improvements and add ing to their stocks to take care of increasing business —always keel' ing in stock the best merchandise at a price that can’t be beat else where. Local merchants aim to reta.- trade by furnishing better service and better quality at better term* and prices. If you don’t read local advert mo ments and buy from your merchants, you are a loser. People who earn money in ' r ; city and spend it in another -p move to the other city. It no loss to the home city it do. —— N. C. Forestry to Convene Tuesday Sth The twentieth annual meet r.c the North Carolina Forestry Ay ciation will be held in thr of North Wilkesboro, Septenv e 10, 11. Following is a nunv _ special features of the P 5 y Which will form the basis number of addresses and ions: , “The Land Utilization L'' : . “The Forest as a Basis o* dustry and Wealth.” “The Forest and Game. “Farming our Woodlands. “Forest Legislation, Taxai ♦etc.” ■» “What is North Carolina Do. To those who like “more a _ and less talk” the ofternoon grams will be especially api i; These demonstrations have planned for the man of for those to whom timber manufacture is “life.” , .. Special addresses.by men oi inence are featured in r gram each day. ~e £s For a program please a ; : “ c R. W. Graeber, State Ccur 3 C ' lion, Raleigh, N. C.
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