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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1930 The youthful president of Chicago University, who recently spoke upon the “Utopian University” at Chapel Hill, announces that his university will initiate the policy of giving de grees on the basis of achievement. If a youth can complete a college course in six months, let him have his degree, is the idea. If a fellow never achieves the learning that a man with a degree should have let him do without a degree. The writer discovered long ago that one may have not ten but forty talents as compared with the average. It was his policy as a teacher to load such students sufficiently to tax their powers and save them from the fate of the old-time valedictorian who had loafed through school and thus unfitted himself for a really success- j ful career. A half-dozen students stand out in this former teacher’s mind as the exceptional among hun dreds. And at college he recognized the exceptional man, but too often saw him practically spoiled by loaf ing through. It will be fine when the brilliant mind is turned loose to achieve. The Chicago man is really getting back to earlier practices., There would have been no Bryant writing Thanatopsis at 18 years of age, no Pitt or Fox startling the staid English parliament at 20 years of age, if those geniuses had been harnessed up with ordinary intellect ual asses. < * - A printer and an editor 75 miles! apart, the one concerned primarily with the appearance of his product and the other with the sense of his articles, do not always match up. For instance, the editor’s heading for the Thompson School reunion didn’t fit the printer’s type, and the resulting heading had no sense in it. As the Thompson School has been dead a third of a century, it was hardly possible to hold a reunion 1 at the school. Our printing arranger 1 ment would be ideal if the mails weren’t two slow to allow for pass age back and forth of proofs. This writer can see needs for revisions in his writings when they come in short lines of print when he simply , does not see them in the type writer script, not to speak of the errors an unti'ained proof-reader lets get by. There are those who take to ' themselves credit for having finan cial sense, while little fellows who have never devoted themselves to money-making or never got the “breaks” are generally accounted as financial idiots. But year by year, month by month, it develops that these financial wise-acres have been the biggest fools of all.-. The broken banks c of' "Flordia and of western North Carolina result from booms whose foundations might have been recognized by any fool as quick sand. Once there was a scheme of paying for a barrel of flour, for instance, and getting a certain num ber of tickets to be sold for a r- 11 —■ ■ »■ * PRICES OF COATS GREATLY REDUCED IDE SHOPS SILER CITY PITTSBORO dollar each, each ticket allowing the buyer to act similarly. The scheme worked finely till the flour-buying population had boguht, but the last and biggest bunch had nobody to sell their tickets to. Yet the scheme was jijst as practicable as that evolv ed during tlje land booms through out the cbdntry, which the merest tyro might have seen would result in a final collapse beceause of lack of an inexhaustible supply of suck ers. Yet these great bankers, those wise BUSINESS men, loaned the good money of their depositors on such vaulted securities. Count the wrecks, institutional and individual, if you can. Twenty-two banks in western North Carolina at one swoop will be a good starting point. Mussolini perfers to build houses for the Italians rather than warvessels, but says that the way to prevent war is to be able to jffeserve peace. Seems that we have heard some thing like that before. If George Brewer, our nearest neighbor, should erect an arsenal on his hill in order to preserve peace with us, we should be tempted to get a cannon to be tempted to get a cannon and load it with about sixty shingle blocks and bang away, even if he does have a little the advantage in the height of his hill. <s> ! Mr. W. E. Brooks has given us a copy of the Raleigh Register of March 28, 1849. It is interesting for what is in it and for what is not in it. Four pages, with the first page devoted entirely to adver tising of a kind scarcely recognized today, and carrying several solid columns of addresses about the building of the North Carolina Rail road, would be considered poor news papering by readers of even the Chatham Record. Here it goes to the library of Elon College, which was non-existent then. If the older colleges haven’t a copy of the issue |it is their fault. ! Hurrah for Judge Meekins, who again sits down heavy upon the demand of the three attorneys for $75,000 for throwing the Tobacco Coops, into a receivership. Now let him guard the farmers’ money when it comes to paying the receivers, who have not yet been caught neglect ing their own business to attend to , the receivership, though their agents have served the interests of the Association with real efficiency. But i 10,000 others could have done just about as well, and no part-time job should be rewarded with the income of the average business man for twenty years. We sometimes dislike to see men who make big . money, even that of a Federal judge, have it within their power to distribute other folk’s money— they have so often lost the due sense of proportion. I * ’ When one learns of the frequent failure of banks in other sections, he feels like congratulating the officials of the banks of this coun ty upon the fine record they have made. It can hardly be doubted that the people of Chatham county have borne the brunt of the hard times of the state for the lastrsix years. Till this year, the crops for six had not averaged more than a half-crop, we should judge. It has been esti mated that the county is short, at the prices at which cotton sold, two million dollars on the shortage of the cotton crop, based upon the 1923 production, and Chatham is a small cotton producer at best. For THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. two years scarcely corn enough to feed the chickens of the county was made, and this year, while the crop average much better, the price and the general depression have come to the distress of the people. Yet traveling salesmen have said that Chatham is better off than many counties that have made several good crops during our period of half-crops. Moreover, despite all this, the banks of the county are apparently as safe and strong as ever. Their officials are to be con gratulated, also the people who through their wise management have been saved from additional calamities. The death of Dr. Cy Thompson of Onslow county last week removed one of the most brilliant men of his generation as well as one of the most unique characters. Space will not suffice us to give a sketch of Dr. Thompson, but younger readers of the Record should take this op portunity to read eslewhere or to get some one to tell them of the career of this country doctor. It is an important task that the commissioners have, the new board, to choose men for the revaluation of real estate. The county super visor, in particular, should be a man of the finest kind of judge ment, able to consider all the fac tors that go to give value to or dertact from the value of land. Governor Gardner is to be con gratulated upon his expressed pur pose not to pardon or parole any prisoner convicted of violation of the banking laws. That is fine, but it would have been good, too, it seems to the Record, to have withheld pardon or parole from Ed ward Kemp Strickland, the buck who was convicted in this county of bringing a Durham girl down to Moncure, time after time, for im moral purposes, and convicted al so of possessing liquor. However, nobody in Chatham, where the part ies were unknown, took any inter est in the case, and Durham people knew little or nothing about it. Anyway, Strickland is free. Items of Interest From Over State Raleigh, Nov. 24.—Richmond county’s highway system embraces a total of 461 miles, of which 4.7 miles is unimproved, 70.1 miles is graded, 386. 2 miles is sandclav or gravel and none is hardsurfaced, according to the recent survey make for Governor Gardner’s experts by the district highway engineers. These figures are actual and are generally less than those shown in replies to Chairman R. A. Doughton’s ques tion a few months ago. In addition, Richmond county has 102.2 miles which is being maintained as a part of the State highway system. The State highway system at this date embraces miles, prob ably 60 per cent of which is hard surfaced, which includes oil gravel and sandclay. The 100 counties have a total of 45,092 miles, of which 912.7 miles are hardsurfaced, 14,- 223.6 miles are topsoil or gravel, 18,089.55 miles are graded and 11,- 865.95 miles are improved, the sur vey shows. The State Highway Commission is making a set of maps of the 100 counties which show the State high ways, the four grades of county highway, all towns and cities, con solidated schools and streams, from these surveys, and will present each county with its map. Many of the counties have never had a complete highway map before. Chairman Foughton estimates that the State commission could main tain the 100 county road systems as well as they are now maintained at about 75 percent of the present cost of $7,000,000 to $8,000,000 or for about $6,000,000, if the State should take them over. The extra one cent tax on gasoline amounts to about $2,500,000, the additional $500,000 allotted giving $3,000,000 to the counties. If one cent more were added to gasoline, making the tax six cents a gallon, the county roads could be taken care of en tirely in addition to care for the State system, it is figured. But automobile owners will stren ously oppose any addition to the gasoline tax on the ground that they are paying enough already. Such addition would endanger the more than $100,000,000 in State highway .bonds the gasoline tax is pledged to pay off as they fall due, some officials argue. Officers of the N. C. Tax Relief i Association, including Larry L. Moore, New Bern, president, J. Frazier Glenn, Asheville, secretary, and members of the executive com mittee appeared before Governor Gardner last Friday to present a Adults Contract Children 9 * Diseases _ I Adults can, and do, contract many I children’s diseases. And, usually, they j suffer from them much more than f children do. For instance, many adults I contract worms, an ailment usually 1 associated with children. Sometimes I they suffer intensely and take expen- j sive medical treatments, without reali- 1 zmg that worms are the cause of their 1 troubles. Yet, the symptoms are the I same as m children, loss of appetite 1 and weight, grinding the teeth ana rest- I less sleep, itching of the nose and anus; 1 and abdominal pains. And, the same I medicine that surely and harmlessly ex- I pels round and pin worms from children 1 ww do the same for adults White’s 1 Uream Yermif uge, which you can get at i Pittsboro Drug Co. ~ Adv. * petition asking that he call a special session of the General Assembly in December to consired that mat ter of tax relief, particularly with references to the member to consider the matter of tax relief, particularly with reference to the reveluation of real estate for the next four years, which begins in January. The contention of the officials Please turn to page five <s> CONDUCTOR COMPELLED TO CHASE OWN TRAIN —♦- Perhaps Conductor A. B. Cheat ham, of v Rocky Mount, hereafter will have a tenderer feeling for poor, puffing, perspiring pedestrians chasing choo-choo trains. Conductor Cheatham chased his own choo-choo out of the station there a few days ago, according to a dispatch from Rocky Mount. The engineer was too quick on the throttle and when A. C. L. train 84 pulled away, there was Conductor Cheatham two blocks in arrears, panting after. The error was discovered in time, however, and Conductor Cheatham climbed aboard. $ LEE G. McIVER TAKES OWN LIFE AT SANFORD —— Lee G. Mclver, 54, one of San ford’s leading business men, shot himself Monday night, death fol lowing about one hour later. The shooting took place in the office of the Lee Furniture Company, San ford, of which he was secretary treasurer and manager, just after a meeting of the board of directors of the company which, it is stated, was harmonious and pleasant. Mr. Mclver had been active in civic affairs, although he had not been in good health for some time. He is survived by his wife and three sons. Funeral services were h’d in Sanford Wednesday after noon. A VERY TRAGIC ENDING —® A journey to see something of the world which two young boys started on two weeks ago with happy anti cipations, came to a tragic ending at Sanford last Thursday afternoon when Alexander LaJoie, age 18, of Haverhill, Mass., succombed at Cen tral Carolina Hospital. LaJoie and a companion, Edmun Lambert, also of Haverhill, were hitch-hiking on freight trains to secure work. While riding between cars on a Seaboard Air Line train at a point near Vass, LaJoie lost his blance and fell. The car wheels cut off his arm and other injuries were such that he died soon after reaching the hospital where he was taken at once. The dead youth appears to have been a fine, clean-cut young fellow as does his companion who tells ap parently a . straight tale, regarding r *P which ended so disastrously. The young man is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Philip LaJoie. I NOTICE I I Delinquent Tax Payers j I TAKE NOTICE—AII persons who have not settled I ln fuW taxes for the year 1929 and prior, will I ■ please come forward and settle the same before De- 9 U cember 1, 1930. I We have to advertise all property on which taxes I ■ are due for the year 1929. Therefore, we trust that I | you will make full settlement before the above men- I I tioned date and save the cost and embarrassment of ■ being advertised. I THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE I I FOR YOUR BEST EFFORTS IN I I THIS MATTER, IAM I I YOURS VERY TRULY I I G. W. Blair I | SHERIFF CHATHAM COUNTY | of Haverhill, and several brothers and sisters. The remains were sent to Haverhill for interment accom panied by young Lambeth. <g> REDUCE FREIGHT ' RATE ON TOBACCO —s — Atlantic Coast Line and the Norfolk-Southern railroads have filed petitions with the Interstate Commerce Commission for the re duction of freight rates on unmanu factured tobacco, the change to take effect as soon as possible. The re duction will amount to around 30 per cent, it is understood, and is in competition with motor trucks. The new schedule would effect all ports and cities manufacturing to bacoo. ■ ■- to ■■■— CASUALTY ROLL €> North Carolina’s highway casualty list forth first ten months of 1930 as reported by the motor vehicle di vision of the State Department of Revenue: Killed, 553. Injured, 3,770. The total number of wrecks serious enough to add to the casualty list for the ten months was 2,695. October was a near-record month, boosting the totals with 70 killed and 417 injured. In September the death list was 54 and the injured roll was 393. There were 306 seri ous wrceks reported during October. ——■ ® Seaboard to Handle Prepaid Ticket Orders —<s> Effective December Ist, the Sea board Air Line Railway will es tablish the handling of prepaid ticket orders, which will prove a '/ ; \ KEEP YOUR RADIO IN REPAIR It doesn’t cost much to keep a radio in good condi tion, and one out of condition is a continual aggravation. I have with me now Mr. A. L. Bray, a capable and experienced radio service man, and he will do the work in quick order. R. C. A. & ATWATER KENT RADIOS We sell them. Either will give you good service. And we’ll take your old radio in part payment. THOS. A. THOMPSON Pittsboro, N. C. V. j THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. iq*? great convenience to the travel public who desire railroad and l if man _ tickets be furnished to tw" relatives, friends, sons, and dal? ters, such as students attP^F h ‘ school who . desire to return v? ®* for the holidays and it SIV « sible to purchase a prepaid o ”der from any Seaboard ticket agent an d the purchaser mailing same di *.2J to the person to whom the ti<S will be furnished or the raft will gladly arrange to handle bv tel* graph or telephone under Ce rt conditions. ‘ dITI This arrangement also provides for the furnishing of a limitpJ amount of cash and arranging null man transportation and should nrovl very attractive to the numerous people who desire tickets wired S their friends, relatives, etc 0 —€> You cannot buy wisdom abroad if there is none at home.—Russian proverb. €> James Curran of Chicago was badly beaten by four boys when he discovered one of them trvin®- to steal his golf ball. v g Christmas Cards SI.OO Ten Beautiful Christmas Cards that sell from Fifteen to Twenty-five Cents Each. With Envelopes. Cards that are Distinctive and Different- Send Money Order or Check. MARYLAND CARD CO. 2622 Huntingdon Ave. Baltimore, Md.
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