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€l)t CjjatJjam iSrcorp INDEPENDENT TN POLITICS Established in 187$ by 11. A. London. Entered at Pi.ttsboro, N.C. as Seco ;<i mail matter by art of Congress. S’ JBSCKfPTION: One Year, Six Months. To Colin G. Shaw, Owner and Editor. Chas. A. Brown, Associate Editor. Advertising: 25c. 30c. and 35c. net. THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1923. THE GREATEST SINGLE SOURCE OF CRIME Greensboro News. “From the rat-haunted, water-drip ping holes in which our revolutionary ancestors chained men to rot because they could not pay small debts, to the murderous Florida lumber swamp in which Martin Talbert paid with his , life for the crime of a stolen railroad | ride, our American jails have been a | brutal and shameful failure,” observ es Collier’s. That journal continues: We are too righteous to admit that a convct has any rights and too pros perous and careless to give him a square deal. Save for the few honor able exceptions, our prisoners are con demned by political officeholders to the tender mercies of cheap and cow ardly jailers. The jail is law to thou sands of men, and their jailers are lawless. Girls are held overnight in cells because a dance hall has been raided. Boys of high-school age are flogged to mutilation in convict camps Charles Dickens condemned solitary confinement in a Philadelphia prison, and a Philadelphia grand jury con demned the same practices in the same place over eighty years later. John Bigplow condemned Sing Sing before the Civil War, and men are still lock ed up there. In the civilized Nether lands no criminal record is entered until the guilty person js over twenty one. We finger-print kids of twelve and thirteen, and put the felon’s brand on them for life. The greatest single source of crime in the United States today is our local jails. How guilty is your community ? And yet it is doubtful if the ques tions involving crime, criminality and juvenile delinquency have been studied with more diligence in any other coun try,- and if greater progress has been made elsewhere in the working out of principles and and methods. A ra tional penology has been devised that is able to meet with some degree of success the conditions found in any part of the big country, even we be lieve. in the South, where the crimin al element includes whites and ne groes and its problems include those of race relationships having no coun- ( terparts elsewhere. But the great ma jority of the people, including a ma jority of the intelligent, the educated, the leaders, remain oblivious. They recognize no reason for giving thought to the man in jail. “Too righteous”, the journal quoted believes, to admit that he has anv rights: certainly “*-oo prosperous and careless” to give him -a square deal. SEEING NORTH CAROLINA. By Bruce Craven. It happened in the 1921 session of the general assembly of North Caro lina, in the senate thereof. A roll call vote was being taken, and the most majestic of the pompous statesmen rose impressively to his feet, when his name was called. “Mr. President” he said, (and you don't get the full force of this unless you pronounce each word slowly and emphatically), “Mr. President, I am paired with the gentleman from Sampson. If he were here, he would vote yes. If I were here, I would vote yes.” And he sat down, in a quiet that was a profound tribute to his dignity. Which reminds ore of that great poem entitled “Billy’s in Trouble,” written by Miss Anny Nonymous, but which hasn’t gone the roundHn North Carolina papers now for years, and it is time to print it again, as follows, to-wit: “I’ve got a letter, parson, from my sor away out west, An’ my oP heart is heavy as an an vil in my breast, Tp think the boy whose futur’ I had * once so proudly planned, Should wander from the path of right and come to such an end. I told him when he left us, only three short years ago, He’d find hisself aplowing in a mighty crooked row— He’d miss his father’s counsels and the mother’s prayers, too, But he said the farm was hateful, an’ he guessed he’d have to go; His .letters came re seWom that I sometijnes sorter knowed That Billy was a trampin’ on a mighty reckv road. But never once imagined he would bow mv head in shame An’ in the dust’d waller his ol’ dad dy’s honored name. He writes from out in Denver, an’ the story’s mighty short; I just can’t tell his mother; it’d crush her poor old heart; An’ so I reckoned, parson, you might break the news to her— Bill’s in the Legislatur’; but„he doesn’t say what fur.” o It Can’t Be Done. Because one has seen a hundred of the parades, celebrations and great doings of life, be should not belittle them find discourage those who have aeen but few; anyway, he cant. t Objects of Charity In Old Ago. Bui-welors and spinsters tn tho United States make up the larger pari of those who in their old age aro ©bjlged to depend on the town or state for support. Figures show that men who have a' trade only one tn a hundred thousand has to go to th« poorhouse, and that of men wtfft a eollege education the proportion Ife smaller stili. CONTROL THUNDERBOLTS. \ Prediction Made By Noted Sy Noted Surgeon at Trinity. By Henry Belk. Durham, June 9. “The gigantic powers of the molecule, the* atom, and the electron will surely be within our control before long. We snail then hold in our hands the thunderbolts of God.” Such was the prophecy made by Dr. W. W. Keen, emeritus profes sor of surgery at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, beginning the Flowers series of citizenship lectures at Trinity college tonight. Craven Memorial hall was filled with Trinity j students and Durham citizens who heard him make the statement. After listening to the amazing re i cital of the victory of man over dis ease through medical research, espe cially as illustrated by the achieve ments of Louis •Pasteur, even the lay ! men could see that the prophecy was Ino pipe-dream or yellow-journalism I effort at sensationalism. Coming from j Dr. Keen, a young man of 68 years and a veteran of the civil and world war, the statement bore added weight. ; Dr. Keen in his lifetime has witness ! ed all of the wonderful achievements ! which he listed. He himself is re ! garded as one of the leading authori-' ties of surgery in the country. What Pasteur Did. “Faith is as much a function of the mind as is mere logic. But we must be wary lest it degenerate into super stition,” was one of the striking de clarations of the Philadelphian. Os Pasteur he declared: “He chal lenged ignorance and prejudice and, after a stiff fight, they capitulated. He challenged disease, and forced it to yied up its secrets. He challenged death, and it fled from his presence. “Do you hesitate to accept so sweep ing a statement? Come, then, and let us reason together. Recall his saving the lives of the silkworms of France. They are very lowly crea tures, I admit, but they doubtless en joyed their succulent mulberry leaves, and imon the lives of these myriads of little worms hung much of the prosperity of France. Recall his pre vention of suffering and his saving of the lives of millions upon millions of swire, fowls, sheep and cattle, not only of France, but all over the whole, round worM. Recall his prevention of horrible suffering and his saving of hundreds, if not thousands of human fives hv his researches on bia. Recall his saving of suffering and hsi prevention of the death of countless millions of human beings from medical, surgical and puerperal infections. You will then quickly say ‘Amen!’ to my statament, extrava gant as you may have deemed it at first!” How Pasteur’s work to a great ex tent rid childbirth of its terrors was one of the several victories told in de tail: “In Pennsylvania hospital from 1803 to 1833 every eighteenth mother left her new-born babv motherless. In 1872 Lusk, of New York, reported an epidemic in which one mother out of everv five died! In my own early professional life I knew of case after case proving fatal, and in some epi demics the accourches for a long inter val had to relinquish practice entirely, for Death always peered over his shoulder and slew every fifth, fourth and third and even every second, mo ther. Mortality as high as 57 moth ers out of every hundred has bee" recorded. Its mvsterv like the pesti lence that walketh in darkness and the destruction that wasteth at noon day, spread fear among doctors and expectant mothers. “Oliver Wendell Holmes. in 1843 showed that it was contagious and that the doctors and "*r»*<;ps ves carried the dreaded infection, but ’’ow o" whv no o-»e knew. In 1846, Semmelweiss, in Vienna, after experi ments on rabtu+«s. o" re fection of hands by chloride of lime— an antiseptic, but, was d A rtded nnd ev en ostracized. Pasteur, however, com pelled a Peering throughout the world: whet F he won the victopv. “In 1879—less than 45 yeavq ago— ip a debate at the Paris academv of merb'nne. the leaders; were at odds to the cause of this fever ami were totally ignorant of any means for pre venting it. .Sudden lv interrupting an | eloquent colleague discussing the va- j "ions possible causes. Pasteur de-l.nr- , ed that mierneral fever vm- of h o o_i terial origin, and was carried by doc- j tors and nurses. Hi'- oo 1 ’ r»r> rrp 0.0 . 1 s orted that he feared that this strange microbe would never be found. There upon Pasteur at once stenned to the — i m JUf ■;.:•£ SX§». : 1 : '<v<, . - '■■■?■ \2&-\ <W_ */SS*~yNi'' - •>;■;■••'■' \ * S^WcS ,- *I:V POLICE DESTROY DRUGS. ETC. ; 101 ! °! f n i™3* ine » o P\ um ’ cocaine, opium pipes, hypodermic of the N Y* p^r* $2,500,000, (which was seized by the Narcotic Squad bv the sound n^ Ce B ept j! dur . m g tll9f P ast year and representing 2,478} riaids S P“ ial deputy Commissioner EpnW pli a^ Pohce n He ?^ l, - art f rs under the supervision of J dope into the <»& *B blackboard and drawing what we know as the streptococcus, said ,‘Voi la la figure.’ (There it is.) And that it was indeed. 1 What has been the result of the re ' searches by which Pasteur demon strated the cause of childbed fever and how to abolish it? Every wife • arid every husband should know these facts and treasure Pasteur’s memory ■in their hearts. Instead of every 18th, every fifth, or more than every second mother lost to her husband, her children and the community, puerper al now slays only one motther | in 300 to even so low a rate as one mother in 1,250. And in one conse ; cutive series of cases numbering 8,- 373 not one rnother lost her life from puerperal fever! “When the usual mortality from puerperal fever now in the maternity hospitals and in the practice of lead ing obstetricians is only one-tenth of one percent, it is not a tragedy that in private practice its often two per cent or more; that is, 10 to 20 times greater than it should be. The rank and file of the profession must be wakened, up to their delinquency in not using antiseptic and aseptic precau tions.” Instruments of precision: “Among the most important means by which ' medical research is promoted are in struments of precision. When I stud ied medicine, a few, in fact a very few doctors possessed a microscope. Strange to say, the medical colleges had none. Only those private stud ents ‘who were so superstitious,” was one of the striking things of that day and few preceptors ever saw a micro scope, much less had the chance to use one. I doubt if there were half a doz en thermometers and hypodermic syr inges in the whole army of the Poto mac in the Civil War. A number of years passed before self-registering thermometers were made. The first short clinical thermometer I ever saw was brought to me from London by Weir Mitchell in 1876. The first book on medical thermometry was publish ed by Wundelich in 1868, three years after the Civil War had closed. Im agine the plight of the mother, of a family today without a thermometer.” v _ 1 Point? of • Resemblance. 1 There Isn’t a whole lot of difference I between the fellow who didn’t know It was loaded and the theorist who never knows when his theory is going to explode. t Professional Qarcts VICTOR R. JOHNSON. Attorney-at-Law, Practices in all courts —Federal, State and County. Office over Brooks & Eubanks Store Northeast corner court house square PITTSBORO. N. C. a LONG AND BELL. Attorneys-at-Law. PITTSBORO. N. C._ J. ELMER LONG. Durham, N. C. DANIEL L. BELL. Pittsboro, N. £. A. C. RA Y~ Attorney-at-Law. PITTSBORO, N. C. DR. R. M. FARRELL. Dentist Offices over the drug store, Main St. Hours, 8 to 5. PITTSBORO. N. C. . PILKINGTON PHARMACY. Prescriptions, drugs, medicines and toilet articles. KODAKS. * * * « * % ■* * * * ♦ + * R. F. PASCHAL, * Attorney-at-Law, 51 * Office over Postdfiice Siler City. * * ‘ * * * # * * * * * * * • • j 11 I I DR. J. D. GREGG, | | Dentist. Siler City, N. C. j 1 Office over Siler Drug Store, j Hours 8 a. m., to 5 p. m. | tt : jjj Kghslls probable Candidate 2^ /or |ieutei\ai\t Governor £ Signs That Command* Attention. “Drive safely. A fatal accident oc curred here.” A number of signs bear ing this inscription have been posted on' a Massachusetts highway near Boston, at points where persons have been killed by automobiles. 'mmune From influenza. There is one plaee always _ abso lutely immune from intliieiiza This sanctuary Is the cinnamon warehouse connected with London's docks. No employee has .ever been attacked by the d ! seasc [HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED! \ BY AN EXPERT—COSTS NO s . Dr. J. C. Mann, the well known I eyesight Specialists and Opticia £ | will be at Dr. Farrell’s office in | j Pittsboro, N. C., every fourth Tues- f k day and at Dr. Thomas’ office, Siler ( City, N. C., every fourth Thursday f , iin each month. Headache relieved! | when caused by eye strain. When j j he fits you with glasses you haves jthe satisfaction of knowng that! "they are correct. Make a note o£| I the, date and see him if your I are weak. I J His next visit in Pittsboro will | | be Tuesday, June 26th. | j His next visit in Siler City will 1 fbe Thursday, Ju ie 28th. «. .. . .. i .. w ... Efird’s Chain Sale Now Going On and Will Continue Through the Entire Month of June TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS, STOP WORK AND GO TO THE RALEIGH STORE AND GET YOUR FULL SHARE OF THE BARGAINS THAT ARE BEING OFFERED. THIS SMALL SPACE PREVENTS PRINTING THE HUNDREDS OF BARGAINS THAT WE HAVE TO OFFER, BUT IF YOU WILL COME AND LET US KNOW THAT YOU READ THIS AD IN THE CHATHAM RECORD YOU WILL GET SPECIAL CONSID ERATION. " ■ Below we name just a few of the hundreds of bargains we have here and we assure you that we have a rock bottom price on almost anything that you may want: PALM BEACH SUITS. Men apd young men's suits in slinks, ex ra sizes, stouts, and sport models in light colors, dark grays, flannels, etc. Every suit with genuine Palm Beach label, Sale Price : $10.75 DRESS SHIRTS. Vlen’s Dress shirts, SI.OO values 65c One Table men’s fine dress shirts, all sizes, new patterns. 79c Men’s $1.25 dress shirts, special at 95c Men’s dress shirts, values worth up o $1.65 at $1.35 Men’s $2.00 dress shirts at $1.65 MEN’S HOSIERY. Men’s 50c silk socks 35c 3 for SI.OO. Men’s full fashioned silk socki in black, cordovan and navy, 85c values at 50c Men’s very fine quality silk hose 20c Men’s cotton socks 10c THE EFIRD STORE * One of The 33 Big Stores X Raleigh, » - - North Carolina The Fastest Retailing System in The World ' I Fortunate Individual.. ‘Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, ! by- an early example of uprightness, 1 and a childish training in honor. — Thackeray. J Riding Out of Pate j Ten years ago it was net an odd sight t 6 see many young boys and girls riding bicycles over the county, and even the men and women rode them. It was the better means of locomotion. Nowadays folks use automobiles and fast er methods of traveling. It is the latest and most mod ern way. ' i The same principle applies to Feed, Grain, Hay and Groceries. Ten years ago folks were not so particular as J •to the name, character or quality of things they ate or 1 fpd their stock, but there is a demand -now for better i things. Those feeds that have been tested and found to contain the most protein and fat to nourish the horses, mules, cows and hogs and reduce the expense of feeding! As stated in The Record before we are exclusive agents for the celebrated Pease & Dwyer feed stuff and we han dle it in every known article from that fed to the day old chicks to the old gray mare in the pasture. We also handle the very best groceries. We make no j • effort to handle a low priced flour or other things you want to eat, but we do sell the very best at about the I same price the cheaper material will cost you. Just drop around and see us. Tell us that you want to see and buy some of the material advertised in The Re cord and we will be pleased to show you through our j store. We have about anything you want and we have it > i in car load lots -and last but not least, the price is right. | OUR MOTTO: Your Money’s Worth or Your Money Back 1 | CONNELL & FARRELL | I Price Leaders Pittsboro, N. C. + BOYS’ SUITS, $3.98. Boys’ tweed suits, novelty mixtures, etc, sale price 1 $3.98 Boys’ two-pant suits, special at $5.98 All other boys’ suits at special prices dur ing Chain Sal£. BED LINEN” " 72x90 Seam sheets 68c Full double bed size seam sheets 98c 63x90 Pepperell seamless sheets $1.25 81x90 Pepperell seamless sheets $1.35 42x36 Pillow cases 22c 32x36 Pepperell pillow cases 35c All other sheets, wide sheeting and pillow cases cut in price. MUSLIN AND SILK All ladies’ silk and .muslin underwear to go in this sale at ridiculously low prices. Ev ery table to be marked with special tickets. KNIT TEDDIES. Ladies’ Summer weight knit ted dies, 50c values at 35c 18c gauze vest, regular and extra sizes, 14c ♦ One lot ladies’ gauze vest 10c F»rsfistuciy. U lCn A V j Tr, r Myself .i,uv, ai>(i ; 1 finder tire liijrhest th in „ Ull *- liU : nf facui^ "2m i vvu,Tl ««-»»»sNnre ß being dnl t Dd M jmvd; mill rhen do it. j
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