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* THE SANFORD EXPRESS P. H. St. CLAIR. D. L. St. CLAIR, Publishers. Sanford, N. C., March 8, 1928. FARMERS LENDING MONEY. In a recent issue of the Charlotte Observer we find the following edi torial paragraph: “What is news?** This has been a question of popular debate in recent times. The dbserver is now going to giVe a practical instance of what news is. In two North Carolina counties—ColumbuA and Brunswick— the farmers have money to lend, and ▼.bat's more, they are lending money at six per cent interest. Who evei heard incident of that kind before— of farmers having money to lend ? These Columbus and Brunswick farm ers have been living in a section of remarkably rich soil, and for many years they thought it could grow only cotton and cbm. Then came tobacco and strawberries—and on these two crops they have been mak ing themselves independent. They have reversed the usual order; instead of being farmer-borrowers, they are farmer-lenders. In time we may ex pect .to hear of spread of condition of this kind in the trucking belt ali around Wilmington, for coastal North Carolina, from the lower edge at the South Carolina line, to the up per edge at the Virginia line, has the same sort of soft, deep loamy soil that abounds in the two counties where farmer-money lenders are de veloping.” The fact that farmers are lend ing money is not news in Lee county. A few farmers in this county have money to lend and they have been lending it to business men in Sanford end elsewhere for years. Some of them carry paid-up stock in the San ford Building and Loan Association while others are financially interest ed in business concerns in the town. They are good business men and save some money farming. May their r umber increase. The Express knows a farmer, who lives only a few miles from Sanford, who, not many years ago farmed on rented land. By good management lie paid for a good farm with money made from, his crops frem. year to : year, and now owns stock in one of r Sanford** leading enterprise**. something to Sanford to sell every time he visited the town and carried back not less than one dollar. Cotton is not his chief money crop. He produces a variety of things for the market all through the year. THE DIVORCE EVIL. Constantly we now see in the news papers notices of divorce! obtained in Paris or elsewhere, by those whose names are well known in this country, in not a few cases the real reason is the desire to marry some one else. hr% many instances the new alliance fc not only in mind but is definitely arranged before the divorce is ob tained. We have now reached the point at which there is in this land one divorce to every seven marriages. It is growing steadily worse and in many States it has gone far beyond this. Divorce is on the increase in North CereHna. In Nevada, where so many people ge to get p divorce the statis tics shew 1,000 uivorces to 900 mar > v 5 t Plainly, the divorce evil threatens *the very existence of the family as an institution. It is destroying the meaning of marriage and is making it only a temporary arrangement to determined at the whim of either party to it. How can a home exist if it is understood that it is to be dis solved at any time on the most tri vial grounds, and often only because those who have entered into this re lation have become bored, or because one of them wishes to form an alli ance with a new partner? Home cannot endure on such a foundation as that, and a nation can not ep4pr^ unless it preserves the tecrerfnessandstabUity of the home. LESS COTTON. MAYBE, BUI MORE TOBACCO. Mr. John T. McDonald, county cot ton statistician for the national gov ernment, does not think there will b« any increase ih the acreage planted to cotton ih lee county this year The present price of cotton and th< ‘ prospect of the boll weevil being act ive the coming summer make th< outlook for cotton rather discourag jhg. But the indications are tha there will be a considerable increas — ill the tobacco acreage. Mr. McDon old. while traveling over the count; last week, counted eighty new tob&cc . t arns. These do not Include all th new barns. Some of the farmer who raised cotton last year hre turn suf* to tobacco this year. Men con "rV fleets^ with the agricultural depart ' =■ men at Raleigh, who ebum to knov ‘ what they are talking about, ad via against increasing the tobacco acre H age (this year. . . V . V ' ; - ■ PRESENT DAY TENDENCIES IN RELIGION. (Extracts from an address delivered by Dr. R. C. Gilmore before San ford Rotary Club.) Religion has always been one of the determining factors of human life. Therefore no man „ can afford to be indifferent as to the tendency and drift of religion. Ideas of what makes for real religion seem to change with the passing years. At times the ideal of religion has center ed around beliefs in certain tenets. It has not been so very long since we had the controversial age in which different denominations fought long, hard battles over their distinctive differences. This has passed, not because these denominations have ceased to believe these things, but they have found that they are not es sentials to salvation and have ceased to quarrel about them. following this came a decided swing toward practice rather than belief and we are in danger that in ceasing to contend for distinctive tenets we grow complacent or indif ferent as to all belief. In some meas ure this has already come to pass in the revival or the teachings of evolu tion. This teaching has taken con siderable range from the man who cells himself a Christian evolutionist and who believes the general teaching of the Bible, but holds that evolution is the method by which God calls all tl ings into being, on out to the man who denies all belief in any supreme power, and who thinks that all life has come froifr the inherent power in the scum on the pond, or the sea weed on the shore, whichever it fi'ight be. But in the belief in evolution of any k;nd man no longer stands in the immediate presence of God, but has many intervening links and is sepa rated by long ages from his Creator. Consequently man's sense of the nearness of God, of his providential care and responsibility to him, has become less real. How could a God so far off come to the help of man ? Why should a man be held respon sible to such a distant Being? As a natural consequence of this there arose the late war of modem hm and fundamentalism, with'a wide range of belief in each camp. This phase \s also passing. . Re cently a leading modernist declared that modernism would give up the struggle as the human race was too ignorant and too stubborn to .ever evolution, in which all these men be lieve. Someone said lately that this con troversy had ended because the ex tremes on both sides had disappeared and the others had come closer to gether. This fn- a measure may be tiue. But the failure of modernism may be traced to the fact that the sense of God’s relation to men is too deeply rooted in the human mind and heart to be eradicated by some pass ing discussion. But this discussion has left its mark on thought and life. Many are in a fog as to religious reality and in this fog they grope for a new concep tion of religion. But in this groping there has come about a great unfold ing of life. Maternalism has played its part, seeking to unfold life by its developments and discoveries. Mental adventures have been in creased, the psycho-analyst has play ed his part, the admonition “Know thyself’ has driven many frantic in the search. o Service and social clubs have sprung up in many places. Ideas for spirit ual satisfaction are everywhere and cieeds and beliefs have claimed their advocates. There is a surging for ward, a going after something^nany hardly knowing what. Many are like ships at sea, drifting without chart, or compass, or definite destiny, and far too often they are content thus to drift. The result has been not only a les sening of responsibility to God but also of obligation to men. This is one of the most dangerous tendencies of the age, a loosening of the sense of God on life and conduct and a grow ing disbelief in the Bible as the only infallible rale* of faith and' practice. Losing faith for himself why should any man be concerned in having taught to others a worn-out system of old-fashioned beliefs? The difficulties faced by all church agencies to find men and money to meet the needs of their growing work may perhaps be definitely traced to the lack of faith among the ministry and membership of the church. No greater calamity could befall man than this. To face the present need of definite direction of life; the present rush of events; the reckless and hazardous living, without faitr in an over-ruling Providence and £ ; Might that is beyond all power, is t< 5 invite disaster at the very outset. What men need today is not a re r .turn to discussions over the unessen > tials but a return to a definite belie: ‘ and trust in the essentials of religion i a faith that brings men nearer tt ■ God, endows them with his present • and sends them forth to a servici • that will honor him and bless man r kind, a service in which the Bible 5 the “only infallible rule of faith an< ■ practice” shall be a lamp unto thei: feet and a light unto their* path. BANKS ARE BURSTING WITH MUCH MONEY And Yet Millions of men are Out of Work—Silly Season Has Reached Its Height in Politics —Congress Votes Millions for Rivers and Harbors and For The Army—Drys Raise a Million For Campaign Work —Representative Hammer Would Put a Crimp in Com panionate Marriages. I (Washington Correspondence of The I Express). I Washington, March 5.—The silly season has reached its height in pol itics but somebody is going to do something about it soon. Dr. Cool idge, physician pro tempore to the federal family, started the move back to sanity by slapping a gag last week over the mouths of some of his small fry subordinates and quiet now reigs in quarters which but a short time ' gone by were beating up the welkin. Other physicians are on the way. It seems that among the busy little office holders here in Washington tlttre is a bevy that has been telling tne world they were for Hoover. Sev er* of them, as stated before in these columns, draw $5000.00 a month f»em the federal treasury suposedl> for attending to the public business. Nobody says they haven’t been on the job. but everybody knows they have also been putting in full time, as well, on the Hoover band-wagon. That is all changed now. Word has gone out the bureaucrats may srt in the band wagon till tl-e seats of their trousers shine, if they wish, but they must sit quietly. They mustn’t toot the horn, clash the symbols or beat the drum. If they do, off with their heads. Less noise and more work probably will result. The same ruling applies to all band wagons. Another out-cropping of the pre vailing political stillness is the Mc adoo boom. The drys are going to ‘ draft” the coy but smiling Ex-Sec retary of the Treasury to euchre Al Smith out of the Democratic nomin ation, if they can. Nobody here be lieves McAddo has the ghost of a show to win the prize. That includes Mr. McAddo who, though hopeful, is nobody’s dunce. But he may get enough delegates to stop the Smith parade. If he does that, his day’s work is done. As to Smith, the story now being industriously advertised is that not long ago a Catholic cardinal sum moned him, as/a Prince of the church, e prelate fa %af<f to nave 1 the genial Al tftat to continue his can j dfdacy would set back the cause of Catholicism in America by at least 15 years. The Cataholics, the cardinal i? reported to have added, don’t wan’t their religion dragged in the muck and mud of politics. Arfd Gov ernor Smith is reported to have the idea still in mind. Another outcropping of the season’s madness was the election by the Mis souri State Democratic convention of 74 Reed delegates to cast 36 votes at Houston. This followed a flat edict by the national committee six weeks before that there must be no half votes, save those of delegates at large. Washington wonders if the Missouri delegation will be allowed t^. take its seat at the convention. The fooTish bug apparently hasn’t got around yet to the I.owden camp, for the campaign of the Illinoisan moved as usual during the week. A known dry, he received a Borah questionnaire on prohibition a? a matter of form. He filed in North Dakota. Hoover filed in Michigan and again, in hot haste, in Maryland where factional troubles loom. Dry brethren from 31 national or ganizations met in Washington and with prayer and calm deliberation got down to business. A dry plat form and dry candidates with dry records such is their demand- Back of it, they claim, are resolute millions of churchmen and others. Also(though of this nothing was said) a % 1,00.000 fund for dry propaganda to blanket the nation during the campaign. Speaking of prohibition, a Chicago man applied for a job as agent. “I have got two or three men 1 want to kill,” he wrote, “and I would like to do it under a government license.'' No job was open, so the gentleman must do his killing privately. Congress was busy. It voted $390, 000,000 for the army, includilg nearly $54,000,000 for rivers and harbors, ir reverently dubbed pork, peeked into coal strike conditions, finally passed the alien property bill (to pay for German property seized during the war) and debated other big business. A Senate committee was told that Dapper Will Hayes, the movie czar, would scorn to use his political influ ence to help the movies. “So much hooey,” his critics said. Another committee was told that what thi. country needed was a uniform law fc ■ marriage and divorce. Alimony clubs applauded, but interest general was casual. 'The Senate for a time held up the nomination of Chairman ’ Green of the House ways and mean* 1 committee to be a judge. It was ! said for publication that Mr. Green 1 w'ash twelve years older than the ■ legal retirement age. Privately there 1 was said to be a lot of political ma l neuvering in the move. President Coolidge decided to let more Irish come into the United Guiles. He revracvt ure iinuugiabiuu quota,subtracting from the British and the 6rangemen and giving it to Erin, ahd many’s the Bhamrock he’ll get on St. Patrick’s Day. The House Naval Affairs commit tee that voted lS- to 1 a few weeks bi.ck to make the President build its contemplated armada within five years looked sorrowfully at the tat tered remnant of its bill and voted 18 to 1 to let the President build the tiling whenever he chose to. "The IK ing of France with 40,000 men marched up the hill and then march ed down again.”' Congressman Maas from Minne sota looked skyward and saw the sun | obscured. He introduced a bill re ! quiring the army to send planes and irstructors to every State University and predicted that 5,000 air-flivver drivers would thus be trained annual ly. The graceful Los Angeles, queen of wind and clottdi trod the air lanes tn Phnamx . »/ Plucky little Cuba called quits to its agreement with Uncle Sam for the exchange of parcel post. For a generation past Cuba has sought without avail tb mail cigars in single boxes to AmertagiJrayers. The law forbids shipment of less than 3,000 perfectos, however, so finally, weary of buck-passing, Cuba decided on di lect action. She called off the postal treaty covering parcel ship ments and from February 29, on not so much as a pocket handkerchief or a soda biscuit can be sent in the parcel post mails between the coun Two more little bills were present ed to the House* One, calling for about $25,000,000 would modernize five battleships. The other, at a cost of $12,600,000, would abolish the dis- ; graceful shacks at army posts and . give American soldiers decent living j quarters for the first time, generally, j since the war. In more serious vein, the American Federation of Labor took grim count of its idle members. Ih 23 cities, its report disclosed, there is an average of one man without a job for every seven that have jobs. In Baltimore, where conditions are worse, 43 men out of every 100 are idle. Ih Chi gro, where conditions are best, 8 out of 100. Times are nearly always a bit hard just before election, but this year the situation appears more un favorable than usual. Nevertheless, the banks are burst ing with money, and every factor in industrial and' economic reckoning, government specialists agTee, points to an early revival. Here in Wasiwigton, they are go ing to put bright street lights in front of the White House, the, better to see its beauties by night. And from the WhitAHsuBe last wfefc ttfiere journeyed a saddened little'tvo man, smiling bravely still, to the bedside an an aged and ailing moth er in Massachusetts. Tbe traveler was Grace Goodhue Coolidge, risen but a dav from a ?;’k 4 hersejf. The city’s sympathy and hopes went with her. Representative William C. Ham mer of North Carolina does not be lieve in companionate marriage. He introduced in the House last week a bill to make such marriages difficult in the District of Columbia, the only territory over which Congress has jurisdiction with respect to marriage, as elsewhere state laws govern. Mr. Hammer’s bill provides that the bridegroom in such marriage shall be fined not less than $100, or imprisoned for not less than 30 days nor more than six months, or both. There has not been any evidence that such marriages would become popular in the District of Columbia, and Mrs. Hammer’s bill, if enacted into law, undoubtedly would tend to make such marriages even less at tract than they now appear. I CLUB ORGANIZED TO BOOST HERBERT HOOVER Indications are, that when the Re publicans of North Carolina meet in convention to select delegates to the National Convention at Kansas City, the Lowden followers will have no • walk-away. Several of the State I loaders have come out for Lowden for President and for some weeks had the run on the Hoover folks. But ’ now comes the Hoover adherents up | holding their side of the play. A number of them met in High Point and formed a “Hoover-for-Presidemt” club. J. Elwood Cox was made president of the dBfc. | .Among the party.'’ leaders in the state present for tye clu’bs organiza i tion were Gilliam Grissom, collecter of internal revenue, and B. C. Camp bell, Grissom’s chief deputy; and Cob A. L. McCaskill, collector of customs at Wilmington. Commissioner of in ternal revenue David H. Blair is said t / have been one of the moving fig ures behind the organization; and since Blair is recognized as one of the members of the Republican na tional machine, the assumption is that at least a part of the “’old guard” is lining up for Hoover, GEN. BOWLEY LEAVES FOR NEW COMMAND APRIL lsf. Brigadier General A, J. Bowley, re cently ordered to' command of the second division at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, will leave for that post April 1st. No officer has been named to succeed General Bowley as comman dant of Fort Bragg and the 13th Field Artillery Brigade, hut Colonel T. E. Merrill, of the Fifth Field Ar tillery, will be in command until some one else is named. General Bowley will go directly to San Antonio without taking a leave of absence. If you smoke for pleasure —then Camels are made for you. Mild, mellow, fra grant—there’s a world of enjoy ment in smoking Today, as for many years, Camels lead by billions, and they continue t«y grow C It j: R«ryn*!dii T.b>«M C®“P*»7, iPlaston-SalM, N. C. Greatest Value altogether or part by part I Aside from Mch self-evident superiorities ss its brilliant — performance, beauty and quality that you can see and feel In the r - - * * - v The instrument hoard in cludes motometer, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, speedom eter and ammeter. \ ESSEX Super-Six >» Vs A's ’ ;\A. COUPE *745 ((..ill £.«( $30 «(r.) COACH *735 SEDAN (4-rfo.r) *745 A.Oprice* f.o.b. Detroit, plus war excise tax Btn*ri can golf tor cart cmtot nt l~—.. -■ r- f~ r— fturTrlUrn iniif ■ m mill Sanf ord-Hudson Essex Co Steele Street Sanford, N. C. :Wws With On* Treatment RUBBED on thnittoickot, Vkka ' (UMtt«aci: 0) It is wperind fcjr the body and inhaled direct to ths in mmmA itr rUmi'fl mnA (I) It stimntatesths skin like an old-fashioned poultice and “draws out** the lorenM WICKS !^££SS&K!g EXECUTRIX NOTICE. Having qualified as executrix of the last will and testament of J. M. 1^ Thomas, deceased, late of Lee county. North Carolina, this is to no tify ail persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned at Broad way, N. C., on or before the 1st day of March, 1929, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of theic recovery. This 1st day of March, 1928. Mrs. Attie R. Kelly, Executrix pf J. M. B. Thomas, de ceased. MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF INTER EST IN REAL ESTATE. Under and by virtue of the power ot sale contained in that certain mort gage deed, dated the I8th day of May, 1927, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Lee County, State of North Carolina, in Mortgages No. 124, at page 532, default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness thereby secured, and the said power of sale having become operative, and the holder of the note thereby secured having so requested, the undersign ed mortgagee will on MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928 AT 12 O’CLOCK NOON, At the Court House door in Lee County, North Carolina, expose for sale at public auction and sell for cash to the highest bidder a one-half interest in the following described real estate.situate in Greenwood town ship, Lee County, North Carolina, and more particularly described by metes and bounds: Beginning at an iron bar, Cross & Camerons northeast corner of store lot in the line of the right of way of ., . , I* Railroad; thence with said right of way north 55 feet to a hickory tree, thence west 100 feet to a stake; thence south 55 feet to a piece of iron pipe; thence east to the beginning, being the same lot or t 5,cri'el lanfl described in deed from I c. I,. Teal to J. D. Walker & Com [ ?,anY' recorded in the office of the ! Register of Deeds for Lee County in j Book 15, at page 440. Also, a one 1 1alf. interest in the store building located on said lot. Time of Sale, Monday, March 19, a- 12 o clock, Noon; place of sale at the Court House door of Lee county; terms, cash. This February 14, 1928. F 2C4,.M29H16TCH' MORTGAGEE’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain mortgage deed made and executed by Shelby Wicker and wife, Estella Wicker, to A. E. Kelly, dated 4th day of August 1926, and recorded in Book 8, Page 690, Lee County Reg istry, and on account of default in the payment of same the undersign ed will expose for sale, at public auc tion, to the highest bidder, for cash, at the County Court House door in the County of Lee, near the town of Sanford, North Carolina, at 12 o’ clock noon on the second Monday in March 1928, the same being March 12th, 1928 the following described real estate, to-wit: That certain piece or tract of land lying and being in Lee County State aforesaid, in Jonesboro Township de fined as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stake on West side of S. A. L. R R running thence S 47 W 40.50 C to a Holly Wood Oak pointer, thence S 42 E 14 1-2 C to the S. A. L. R R.; Thence with R R. to the beginning containing 26 acres, more or less. This land joins F.O. Lenard and Mclver and others. This the 11th day of February 1928. A. E. KELLY, Mortgagee.
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