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THE
CHATHAM RECORD
o. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2930
Circumstances brought Senator
Cam Morrison immediately into the
lime light. The question of the con
firmation of McNinch of Charlotte
as a member of the Power Com
mission was postponed by the Senate
till the arrival of Mr. Morrison,
who it was quite generally sup
posed would oppose his confirmation
on the ground of his anti-Smith
activities of two years ago and his
failure to make report of his ex
penditures* in that campaign and the
source of the funds. But the new
senator came out promptly for the
confirmation of the Charlotte man,
and was able to hold his own with
credit in the proceedings, senatorial
and private, which followed.
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While the Record, like Senator
Wheeler,. was prejudiced against
McNinch, again like Senator Wheel
er, it was much impressed, with the
candor of the man on the witness
stand. * We have become convinced
that MicNinch can neither be bought
nor frightened, and if that is true,
we acre perfectly willing to overlook
minor matters and approve Sen
ator Morrison's vote for his con
firmation. McNinch confesses to
knowing little as yet about the pow
er business, but he can learn, and
it is better to know nothing than
to know too much that is wrong.
Honesty and fearlessness, with a
liberal degree of gumption, are the
qualities most needed in the position
to which Mr. McNinch has been ap
pointed, and if his testimony did
not bear the characteristic of “him
who would swear to his own hurt
and change not,” we misinterpreted
his attitude. Again, the power com
mission is a non-partisan body, and
we are not so sure but that a man
who has lost in a degree his partisan
leaches is (better qualified for a
position on a non-partisan board
than the strictest partisan. We be
lieve Senator Morrison has shown
a spirit that will go far toward se
curing an effectual co-operation of
the independent Republican senators
with the Democrats in the next ses
sion of congress, and that wipes
out practically the last of the fac
tionalism aroused in the Democratic
party in this state two years ago.
Accordingly, the Record here reg
isters its approval of Senator Mor
rison’s vote, and does so partly be
cause Cam Morrison has shown that
he has a mind of his own and will
use his own judgment even when it
may hurt.
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It would be exceedingly easy for
a hundred subscribers to make us
feel mighty good for the new year,
It hasn’t been so bad a year, con
sidering the plight of many others,
but what with finishing paying off
a mortgage note on the burned
property and other drawbacks, the
year is about to see us come out
a b'ttlebehind, but if a hundred sub
scribers will send in renewals with
in the next week, we shall be as
well off as at the beginning of the
year, and one of those old debts
wiped off to boot. The snow has
prevented our making a collection
trip the past week and that has hurt
considerably. Please do not wait
for us to go for your renewals.
Everybody is mighty clever when we
do go, but there is not much time
for such trips even when the weath
er is good.
Editor Rowland Beasley sarid
that a certain colored preacher
“fetched” him a dollar. Incorrect;
“fetch” implies going for a thing
and bringing it. At least that is the
way it was used in Sampson, where
the same stock had dwelt every
since it wended its way up the
streams from Wilmington and settl
ed in the huckleberry woods of that
section of the then broad Duplin
county. For instance, if a boy had
the axe in his hand, his father
would say “Bring me the s-xe”;
but the fboy was with the father and
the axe over at the woodpile, the
father would say “Fetch me the
axe.”
It is gratifying to note that Mr.
Fred P. Strong, for twenty years
manager of the Carolina Power &
Light Company’s business at San
ford, is not to be transferred to
Hamlet as announced a week or
two ago. Personally the editor of
the /Record' is pleased that Mr.
St’v'Tjw is to continue so close a
neighbor.
The Record wishes all its readers
the merriest of merry Christmases.
Some of you will not get the paper
before Christmas, but we are doing
the wishing two or three days be
fore.
We wish we could get the people
straight on the use of the “double”
letters in oral spelling. The modern
schools have no “double” letters at
1 all; on the contrary, a certain radio
i announcer and other folk call some
groupings “double” that are two
seperate sound-signs and belong in
different syllables. For instance,
it is “double-el” in the word “beU”;
there is only one 1 sound. But in
“belligerent” it is not a “double-el”,
for there are two sounds of 1, the
• word being thus divided into syl
i tables: bel-lig-er-ent. The old-timer,
■ then, who should spell the latter
• word with “double-el” would be as
• wrong as the modern school boy
i who spells bell thus; be-e-el-el. Cook
, has double-o in it; cooperation
. hasn’t.
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; I Christmas Joys I
By William Banks
■ *8 in Missouri Farmer *•
/ T'HE olden days, the golden day*
A They all come back to me,
As happily the children crowd
Around the Christmas tree.
I tea once more the comrades true
Much onward by my aide,
I beer the echo of their songs
To greet the Chriatmastide.
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In olden days, in golden days
My thoughts were high and bold.
But oh the glory of this hour
When in my arms I hold
The gifts that love has brought to me,
They fill my heart with pride.
As I join in their happy tonga
To gteet the Chriatmaaride.
A Christmas Vesper
By Florence Howard
FROM o’er the western kill tops, the
wintry sunset glows,
Far off o’er hill ana ▼alley die last
faint gleaming shows.
The wind is softly sighing as if
down to rest,
The cheery little snowbird hastens
homeward to its nest.
Deep in ihe golden sunset, e star
peeps shyly out,
As a jewel in the gate of heaven,
stilling every doubt;
From behind the eastern hills die moon
in grandeur comes,
In one great hurst of radiance tkii
quiet beauty sums.
All toil and pain and sorrow seem
hushed hy this deep calm,
A peace direct from heaven is sweatee
far than psalm;
On this, e Christmas evening,
is given to mortal men,
To feel, to hear, to utter that glexioMb
grand Amen.
CHRISTMAS
BY SUSAN MAITLAND
At Ntu> Ytrk Evtning Ptst
rHJb snow drifts deeply down the wind
ing field
And winds ski shrewdly on thecrusted
The river’s breadth is pallidly congealed,
And, through the spectral trees, black
shadows grope
For a familiar landmark---quite the same
As on a score of other winter nights;
Yet, in the house beyond, the holly'* flame
Crackles in fragrant wreaths, and mellow
lights
Halo the vividly transparent glass;
A tree, serenely tapered with a star,
Basks on the hearth; excited shadows past
Before the ruddy fire and sweetly scar
The silence with seductive whispering,
The smothered slur of paper and the taut
Knot of a ribbon or ft tinsel string,
A footstep hesitant at a new thought.
Through fainting distance, voices, bright
and clear,
Carol a beauty that is ever young—
A peace that is invulnerably dear-*
A joy that is old-fashioned warmth among
The ages that have waned rince Bethlehem—
And then they dim to echoes of their mirth—
To worship tenderly becoming rhea—
As a King's glory shines once more on earth.
! THE CHRISTMAS !
!► K’TKir by ROBERT P.
► MINU TRISTRAM COFFIN .
i * in Missouri Farmer ' 1 |
T 7 PON the hills of Bethlehem
U The dew hung on the
holly stem;
One by one the shepherds came
To the manger lit with flame;
The oxen and the shepherds all
And all the beasts of barn
and stall
Bent the knee to Him who lay
Like a diamond in the hay,
Over the bleating Os the sheep,
Across the midnight's starry
deep, '
The Angel wings were
winnowing
Lullabie* foe the Christmas King;
THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. ’
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BY
Florence Harris Wells
fxZ" 1 VIT WAS Christmas morning.
I || Two elderly persons stood
if at the front window of their
I ■ I big farm house and gazed
at thesnow blanketed world
ft/Ofi about them.
iBLJfiS “Not a chance for Sam
7$ MBk and his family to get
through these drifts, Moth
er, not a ghost of a chance. No car
on earth could make It.”
“I guess you’re right, Pa,” Mrs.
Clark answered, solemnly shaking her
head with Its beautiful wavy white
hair. “And our dinner’s well on the
way. I’ll have to tell Annie not to
cook so many potatoes and perhaps
we can manage to keep most, of the
turkey a day or so until the children
can come. 1 suppose there’s no chance
for the snow plows
to get through to
clear the main
highways first, f I
But It’s beautiful,
with the ice and
sleet on the trees
and now the snow
for trimming. It’s Egj^l
as beautiful a HBy7
Christmas morning Hr AH
as I have ever |r I'jWW
seen. And we’re [Hr
both well and |
strong and able to
enjoy It together. ¥
It’s great, isn’t it ?”
Grandfather Clark slipped his arm
about his wife’s waist and drew hei
close beside him.
Meanwhile Sam and his family, seat
ed about their breakfast table, were
much more concerned about missing
Christmas at Grandmother’s and the
good dinner than they were at the
beauty of the world about them.
“Oh, grandfather and grandmothei
will understand,” Marlon, the daugh
ter, was speaking. “We’re the goat*
in this case. Ham and eggs foi
Christmas!”
“Gee! Can’t we do anything *cepi
sit here and talk about it?” Sam, Jr.,
aged fourteen, puckered his brows In
evident great concentration. Sudden
ly he threw down his napkin and
dashed for his sweater and cap.
“Where’re you going?” Marlon
shouted.
The hanging of the front door was
the only reply.
In less than a half hour Sara, Jr.,
came bursting back again, all ex
cited:
“Get ready! We’re going! We’re
going!”
“Going fiddle sticks!” Marion
scoffed.
“Please explain, young man,” Sam
Sr., quizzically demanded, a gleam of
understanding coming into his eye*
as he caught sight of tall, handsome
Dick Roberts who had entered quietly
after Sam, Jr., and stood just outside
the door. Now he stepped forward.
“Merry Christmas, everybody!”
Marion’s face was as rosy as Dick’s
as she grasped his extended hand. “1
thought you were going to your sis
ter’s in the East,” she stammered.
“I was,” Dick laughed, “but busi
ness wouldn’t let me. I don’t mind
now that I can be of service to you.
Young Sam knew I hadn’t gone, and
he swooped down upon me and ex
plained your predicament. And my
plane is at your service.”
“Your plane!” Marlon gasped. “A
plane in this snow?”
“Yes. My plane has skis, you know.
I can take you one at a time and
land you safely at your grandfather’s.”
Grandfather and Grandmother Clark
were more excited than the others, if
that could be possible, wheD Mrs.
Sam arrived first and explained what
was harpening. Sam, Jr., came next;
and last of all
Marion, all rosy
and excited.
“Beautiful sight,
wasn’t it, gliding
over the country?”
ISam asked as he
helped Dick off
with his togs.
“Marve Ions!”
Then Dick added
. quickly, “But ev-
I i erything’s wonder
fui to me today
because it took a
ride way up in the
clouds to convince
' Marion that I could
be her pilot for life.
Congratulate me.”
“You’re a welcome new member of
the family,” Sam answered quietly
and dropped his hand on MarionV
shining hair.
“Mother and I thought this was the
most beautiful Christmas we’d evei
seen when we looked out of the win
dow this morning,” grandfather’s
eyes danced, “and we hadn’t been rid
ing in any airplane. When one feels
right with the world it’s easier to see
the beauty of things we sometimes
miss.”
Sam, Jr, grinned at them all:
Some Christmas!”
<©. 1830, Western Newspaper Union.)
Counb^Notes
Edited by N. C. SHIVER
County Agent
News of the Week .on
Chatham County
Farms
WORN OUT SOIL RESPONDS
TO GOOD TREATMENT
that the soil was so poor that it
Some years Ago, when Mir. W. E.
Griffin of Moncure, Rt. 2, moved to
his present farm, he was told that
the soil was so poor that it would
not make “nuhbins”. On this same
land, Mr. Gaiffin averaged 29.5
bushels of corn per acre on 29 acres
in corn, or a total yield of 590
bushels of corn this year. Mr. Grif
fin farmed an eight-acre field of
corn on the farm of Mr. A. G.
Thomas this year. This field had
a two-year-old sod of lespedeza turn
ed under before ibeing planted in
corn this spring. Mr. Griffin stated
that his field average 30 bushels of
corn per acre this year, compared
with an average of 15 bushels of
corn per acre this year, compared
with an average of 15 bushels per
acre when last in corn without
lespedeza.
HOGS FED CAFETERIA STYLE
Mr. R. B. Farrar, Apex Rt. 3, has
recently completed a self-feeder with
a capacity of feeding thirty hogs.
This feeder has double feed com
partments for minerals, fish meal,
shorts and shelled corn. Mr. Farrar
is cooperating with the county agent
and the office of swine extension
of State College in feeding out 28
head of hogs according to the “Shay
Method.”
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PORKERS MAKING GOOD^GAINS
On August 11, Mr. J. E, Clark
started eight pigs on feed. These
pigs weighed at that time an aver
age of 24 pounds each. When
weighed last week, they averaged
220.5 pounds each, a total gain of
196.5 pounds each during the feed
ing period. Mr. Clark has fed his
hogs according to the Shay method,
using a balanced mixture of shelled
corn, fish meal, corn meal, shorts
and mineral. These hogs have aver
aged a gain of better than one and
one-half pounds pgr day.
SEVEN NEW MEN NOW FEED
ING HOGS IN THE COUNTY
Mr. M. W. Duncan of Siler City,
RFD, recently started seven fine
pigs on a self feeder. These pigs
are making good gains and Mr.
Duncan hopes to have them on the
market in March. With Mr. Duncan,
seven farmers are now feeding out
hogts by the Shay method for the
first time. These men are feeding
a total of seventy-six head of hogs.
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WINNERS OF BEST RECORDS IN
CORN CONTEST ANNOUNCED
Prizes for the best records kept
by the farmers in the corn contest
last summer were won by J. M.
Hackney, first; Raymond Clapp, sec
ond, and J. F. Duncan ,third. As
announced last week, the Bank of
Pittsboro, Bank of Moncure, Page
Trust Co., and Chatham Bank very
generously cooperated in donating
prizes to men keeping the best rec
ords of their projects and making
the highest yields.
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EXTENSION FORESTER TO
VISIT THE COUNTY
Mr. R. W. Graeber, extension for
ester of State College, will be in
the county Tuesday and Wednesday,
January 13 and 14. During these
days, it is planned to hold farmers’
meetings for the purpose of study
ing best methods of conserving and
marketing the farm timber. Dates
and place of meetings will be an
nounced later.
TERRACING DEMONSTRATION
Mr. A. T. Holman, extension farm
engineer, will be in the county Fri
day, January 2, to assist at a ter
racing demonstration at the farm
of Mr. W. H. White, Siler City,
RFD. Mr. White has a terracing
machine and tractor and expects to
construct terraces as they are lo
cated. All farmers are invited to
attend.
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BONLEE MAN INTERESTED
IN LESPEDEZA
“My lespedeza was so short last
year due to dry weather, I did not
have an opportunity to save seed,”
stated Mr. I. H. Dunlap recently.
He has just given an order to the
county agent for ten bushels of
seed, making the initial order re
ceived this season. From present in
dications, Chatham will seed a larger
lespedeza acreage than ever before.
SILER CITY MAN WILL FEED
OUT BEEF CATTLE
Mir. Joe Sam Dorsett is in the
market for 12 Hertford heifers. Mr.
Dorsett would like to winter that
many head at least. He expects
to make a trip to western Carolina
to secure these cattle.
The county agent expects to spend
Christmas week at his old home,
and will be absent from the county
from December 21st through De
cember 28th.
ISONE IN
GROOM IS PAYING AU-Ms
BEFORE
: Here’s Jolly Old Santa j
i Needing Help :
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Old Santa, when he ie-entirely cut from the page, would make a really splen.
did calendar, for see! there is room on the left of his cap for you to paste a
small one. He would be stronger if pasted finally on cardboard.
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