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PAGE FOUR CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930 THINK UPON THESE THINGS In another article is noted the apparent agreement of Lloyd- George with one of the Record’s contentions. Now we should like for somebody equally distinguished as a statesman or economist to confirm and broadcast a few other novel conclusions. First—lt is impossible for so ciety as a whole to lay up for the future in the form of money, prec ious stones, etc. Os course, the indi vidual can do it, under the present organization of society. Second — The accumulations of billions in the form of endowments, founda tions, and insurance funds, is a rob bery so the generation in which the accumulations are made and and a robbery of the generation in which they are distributed, in that they deprive many of their rightful share of the essentials and at the same time through shortage of con sumption check increased produc tion. We shall not here discuss the rea sons apparently justifying these con clusions. We have done so on sev eral occassions, but if a man can not discover for himself the where fores of the proposition he is not the man we are looking for. However, we will again say that the world is capable of producing the greatest abundance each year for the next, and that when the time comes when all can be efficiently employ ed and productions shall be fairly- dis tributed, there will be no necessity for such accumulations. Yet it is I questionable whether that time can | come till the effects of such accumu lations are removed. Old age pen sions, disability pensions, widows’ pensions, and such provisions as may be readily made out of the annual production of the race and only as sure that completeness of consump tion which is the greatest spur to increased production, will in that good time make life, accident, and health insurance unneccessary. Think about these things. After going out on a subscription canvass one afternoon last week, we feel almost like turning over running the paper to somebody else for a month or two and simply canvassing the county. Anyway, we may skip the Christmas issue, as it falls on Christ mas day, and give a week to sub scription work. It was really enjoy able to meet the people at their homes, even if for only a few min utes, and the loyalty and goodwill of the people where we went, and a can vass of the whole county in the same way would result in a whopping list for the paper. But it is hard to think thatjthe people of all the other com munties could be as clever as those we visited. However, it is clear that Chatham folk are at last fully realiz ing that the Record will stand by them through thick and thin, and are appreciating the fact. <§> LLOYD-GEORGE BACKS THE CHATHAM RECORD The Record has several times as serted that money loaned abroad or capital transported to Europe in 1 particular is virtually a gift to the I recipient nations. No one took the I i § A TIME FOR ALL THINGS jj I There is a time to eat, drink and be merry; |S| There is a time to be serious, too; Hj There is a time to be independent, m And there is a time to be happy all through, So guard yourself and your family With a snug little bank account In the home bank; the one that is safe— The bank that is kept for you. « BANK OF PITTSBORO | A. H. London, President Wade Barber, Vice Pres. % || W. L. Farrell, Cashier Thos. J. Margan, A. Cash. |1 proposition seriously, but it is grat ifying to have that view substantial ly supported by no smaller a perr sonage than Lloyd-George of Eng land, who last week stated that America is virtually paying for the goods she imports. American dollars in Europe will buy American goods, but even if profits come back from investments abroad they cannot buy foreign goods so long as the balance of trade is in America’s favor, since all we want from Europe is already paid for with an excess of goods. Lloyd-George’s statement was pri marily aimed at the principle of the protective tariff, and suggests that the tariff has killed lal America’s foreign trade except that which through loans and importations of capital has been virtually financed by America herself. Both these ideas will bear the greatest scrutiny and consideration by the people of America. The protective tariff and the importation of American wealth both mean a robbery of the Ameri can consumer. The money that he should buy with is absorbed by the great octopi whose tentacles embrace the country, sucking up from every man a little more than an equitable price for service rendered or goods purchased, and when the many littles have made a muckle it is carted off to Europe for foreigners to buy the goods that the Americans so much need. Maybe you cannot see it thus, but put on your glassess and look closely at the matter. It is such things as these that the Record has been in sisting that Mr. Bailey study as a preparation for his work in the sen ate. The building of a new penitenti ary is being discussed at Rale'gh, but after seeing that bunch of folk driving through the rain and slush Saturday to see two football teams wallow in the mud, we conclude that the need for a larger insane asylum has the first call. # Mason Gant defaulting clerk of the Gulford county court, has drawn I his penalty for his robbery of pen- I sioners and orphans, but State Aud itor Durham, who by his official carelessness gave Gant carte blanche, even after the conviction of the Sampson county clerk on similar charges, to continue his steal ings uninvestigated, has not even had a robust rebuke. The writer, ediotor of the Sampson Democrat at the time of the discovery of Ses somg’ thievery, urged that a thor ough checking-up of all pension warrants with the vital statistics be made by the state auditor. We could not have supposed that the auditor would have neglected so important an investigation, but clearly he did, since many of the pilferings of Gant were prior to the Sessoms case, and Gant went right on, after that failure to check up his defalcations to which the Sessom’s case had given a ready : key, taking everything that came into sight. The great increase in pension awards also made the steal ing much more profitable, as the in crease should also have made the State Auditor the more diligent and vigilant. Sessom was reported to have said that he was not the ronly 'clerk in the state that returned no pension drafts, and he wasn’t, as the disclosures in the Gant case de monstrate. Yet so far as the audi tor’s investigations are concerned, 99 others might have been engaged in the same roguery and not have been detected. An embarrassing question con fronts the assessors of farm values the coming months. It was Gover nor Bickett’s plea to make the re cords tell the truth, and at that I time the problem was to get the THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. property assessed at values more nearly approaching their true worth. They were too low. Now, the same demand for making the tax books tell the truth former taxation values will have to be slashed fearfully. Yet if that is done, the commission ers are immediately confronted with the necessity to raise the rate suf ficiently to produce the required amount of funds to meet debt ser vice and the many and varied ex penses of the county. Every town and school district in the county would have to follow suit, and the combined tax rate might read ily bounce to four or five dollars. The only alternative would be to cut expenses to the bone. Yet the county would be helpless in the matter of funds needed for debt service and for the support of the schools if the legislature does not take steps to modify the schedule of teachers’ salaries, or to annul it altogether. It will look mighty bad to have a three to five-dollar tax rate, but the world would seem to be about the only way to convince the burden placers that the burden 1 is really what it is, and if the writer were an assessor he would value property at its approximate ; actual worth from the income or potential income standpoint and 1 let it go at that. That is the only 1 fair way—list property at its value, 1 howsoever little, and let the rate take care of itself. ; ® Mrs. Ruth Jenkins of Knoxville, > Tenn., sued her husband for divorce ■ because the first words of their child were “Damn it to hell,” the wife ascribing this fact to the hus band’s habitual profanity. Evidently, Mrs. Jenkins is not of the newest issue of the modern woman, or the husband might have had reason to lay the bad language to the example of the mother. It will not be sur -1 prising, judging from the language of many modern girl, to hear mothers a little later crying out to her child “Damn you to hell; get out of my way or I’ll slap hell out of you!” We have known a woman who was known far and w’ide because of her profanity, but she is no longer unique. We note that Rev. Eugene Olive, pastor of the Chapel Hill Baptist church, preached a sermon on pro hibition. We suggest that it is time for preachers and others interested in the young people to begin to preach against liquor itself and to undertake to set up personal in hibition in their hearers. Only a conviction on the part of a youth that it is personally unsafe for him or her to drink liquor really amounts to the value of a picayune. Pro hibition has so long been held as a fetich that real temperance teach ing has been neglected. Again appears that absurd state ment that every day in high school gives a boy $33.33 more earning power. We see it in an article in the North Carolina Teacher, written by Supt. Smith of the Shelby schools; also there is the statement that a man with a co’lege education earns so many thousand more than the mere high school graduate, etc. But what will become of the compari son when the high school and college graduates become so numerous that they have to do the very work that they have heretofore, in their few ness, been able to avoid? During those times, it was a matter of getting more rather than necessarily earning more. Put a college grad uate to saw milling, operating looms dn a cotton factory, ploughing, picking cotton, etc., and his getting power will be very little, more than that of the ordinary hand in the same position, though he may be actually procuring greater results for society than many a graduate has given when he was enabled through his superior education to grab more than his share. How ever, when it comes to the grab game, it will be hard to find college graduates that can match dozens of experts at that game who never entered a college door. Education is a good thing, but it will not make a $2.00 a day job into a ten dollar a day one. The whole army cannot be composed of generals, nor can all the common sailors be come ship captains. In other words, arguments that were potent when the educated were few cease to be so when education approaches the universal. , It is an easy matter to show one’s hands and demonstrate their clean ness, and if a man doesn’t show them when the question is raised there naturally arises a presump tion that they are unclean. Frank McNinch wouldn’t show where he got the money he spent two years ago against A1 Smith and in favor of Hoover, and now he can blame only himself that his appointment by President Hoover to a position on the power commission is meeting an opposition that will certainly be effective against the confirma tion of his appointment by the sen ate, at least, till he has convinced thalf body that his hands are clean. RQQT " ( The fact that A1 Smith was assail ■ | ing the power trust naturally sug ! gested that power money was being * against him by the chairman of the > anti-Smith group in this state. That - suspicion could have- been more l easily allayed then than now, and i Mr. Hoover would not have again ■ been confronted with the embar s rassment of a possibly victorious opposition to his appointment. It is safe to predict that the people > will now either learn where Mc ■ Ninch got the money or will see ' his confirmation denied by the sen ate. , It seems to us that the authori ties have charged the wrong persons with the murder of that girl in the west last week. The young matron who provided a gallon of alcohol for her party for some of the “best” young people of her city, would seem to be the guilty person, though she might successfully plead in sanity. $ We appreciate the hearty approval of the stand of the Chatham Record on several subjects by Rev. G. T. Adams, pastor of the Sanford Methodist church, in a conversation a few days ago. Mr. Adams remark ed pastors’ salaries had not been cut but should be, and before us as we write is the statement that Rev. Dr. J. H. Barnhardt of the First Methodist church of Salisbury has asked for a cut of S3OO in his salary, and has been accommodated. There is no justice in any class of people getting more now than when all the people had a chance to make '"a fair living, and that is what it means when the same sal aries are retained. For instance, Mr. Simmons, manager of the Wil liams-Belk store at Sanford, says : that he buys goods this year 35% cheaper than last, and that means a similar saving to the salaried pur chaser. A $5,000 state employee now should live well and be able to buy him’ a good farm every year at pres ent prices. On the other hand, the farmer runs the risk of losing the one he does have. The same salary now means practically twice as much as it did three to twelve years ago. Since we wrote the last sentence, we note that Rev. Wm. H. Moore, pastor oflf the First Baptist church of Kinston, has had his salary cut SIOOO at his own request. That is religion, and we hope it is catching and that the high-salaried officers of the state, including school superin- j tendents, principals, college profes sors, and chairman of the highway j commission, will catch it in all its force. Firpo, Argentine boxer, spent I S3OO talking from Buenos Aires to New York. The world would be bet ter off is some people had to pay for their talk without any telephone. A Great Discovery When Pasteur discovered, in 1852, that the infection of wounds was caused by malignant bacteria, he per formed a service of inestimable value to mankind. Since then medical science has been producing better and better antiseptics, to kill these germs that ; may enter the smallest cut and give us diseases such as typhoid, tuberculosis and lockjaw. Now, all you have to do to be sure that these dreadful germs will not infect a wound, is to wash that wound, however small, thoroughly with I Liquid Borozone, the modern antisep- I tic. You can get Liquid Borozone, in a j size to fit your needs and purser from . ; Spicks : c 6zj'Jhos. i m _ The best radio joke of the year 1 was when a station manager apoli - gized for interference with the-' • broadcasting and then found out it was somebody sinerinsr over the air. ' ——<§>■ Calvin Coolidge’s famous phrase ■ “I do not choose to run” becomes i more famous when we reflect that . Cal knew when to get out. With winter coming on it is apparent that the clothes line will follow the bread line. ; €> Well, if we can’t enforce Prohibi tio, maybe we can pass a law re quiring the bootleggers to drink their own stuff. After all, the instalment houses probably can do more to abolish poverty by closing up than can a president. <♦> Better feeding of the dairy cow is expensive—it makes the dairy farmer buy more bottles and milk, pails. Progressive Stores INCORPORATED Sanford, Jonesboro, Siler City, Lillington, Varina, Apex, Pittsboro, Dunn, Troy, Liberty, and Mt. 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Many mothers, too, will not believe that their carefully brought up children can have worms. The fact remains that these symptoms will yield, in a great majority cf cases, to a few doses of White’s Cream Ver mifuge, the sure expellant of round and pin worms. If your child has any of tnese symptoms, try this harm less, old fashioned remedy, which you can get_at 35c from Permanent Waves $5.00 Mayfair Beauty Shoppe Durham, N. C. 5 Point* Phone J-5481 Piedmont Bldg.
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