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The Record has deferred comment
;ng -upon the Unusual magnanimity
displayed some weeks ago by the em
ployees of a Japanese factory. The
factory had been in hard luck, hard
ly making ends meet. The employees
met and offered to work for lower
wages till the business could get upon
its feet. The management, equally
1 magnanimous, declined to permit this,
hoping to pull through in some way.
1 The employees next proposed that
they work an hour a day extra for
the pay they were getting. The man
agement declined that proposition,
feeling that the day was already long
enough. But the employees met and
threatened that they would strike un
less permitted to work the extra hour,
xhe management submitted and the
men are working an hour a
day without additional pay, and the
business is said to be pulling out of
the slough. Here was sense and good
will. The average employee seems tc
care very little whether his employer
is making ends meet or not, though
his own job ultimately depends upon
the success of the business. This be
havior over in heathen Japan con
trasts very favorably with tne be
havior of the English coal miners, foi
instance, who are starving their fam
ilies while on a strike for wages that
the coal mine owners cannot afford to
pay. And when the miners do work,
it appears that they have determined
to do as little as possible, since tht
records are said to show that the av
erage production of miners since the
war has greatly decreased. If the
spirit that dominated both employer
and employee in the Japan affair
should prevail throughout the world,
it would soon be a world of plenty.
Poverty would probably vanish.
County Agent Shiver is back
reafly for a fall campaign for covei
crops and the institution of dairy (
routes. Chatham farmers should
immediately consult Mr. Shiver as
to winter crops.
Down in Edgecomb county farmers
are planting oats in their cottor
fields. They planted with the last
cultivation of the cotton. The larger
number of Chatham county cotton
fields are yet in condition to have
• oats planted in them. A light plow
ing will not hurt the cotton.
At Dunn cotton is being sold right
along, but it will likely be Octobei
before many bales of Chatham
county are ginned. .
Germany had been admitted to the
the League of Nations The Leagut
is a Wilson, therefore a Unitec
States institution. But Hamlet is
being played without Hamlet.
It is reported that scientists will
undertake to abolish the necessity
for sleep. The plan is to throw oft
the body poisons that are eliminated
during sleep hy the use of drugs,
thus making sleep unnecessary. If
they succeed, maybe some of us will
find time to do all we should like to
do. If the scheme suggested canno.
!»e made practical, suppose someont
invent a method of transferring tht
time of those who simply will no'
work to those who have more to d( •
than their natural allotment nf time
will enable them to accomplish.
The death harvest this week is
accumulating. Tuesday morn
ing’s papers report several deaths
from automobile accidents in this
state. One man in a race at Rich
mond, blinded by dust, lost his life.
1
Senor Lean of Chile, in South Caro
lina with a veiw to fostering the prop
osition that the state buy nitrate of
soda from the government of Chile ;
and sell it at cost to the farmers,
says that nitrate sells here for twen
ty to thirty dollars higher than the
prices paid for" it in Chile and the
estimated cost of business makes nec- ;
essary. He frankly says that he does ]
not know who gets the rake-off and
says it is this country’s business tc
find out. He realizes, however, that
the high price is due to speculation,
and insists that speculation in nitrate
is the same as speculating in food
stuffs. Somebody should get busy and
save the farmers the millions now
being overcharged for this crop es
sential,
£ . «.
The Mohroe Enquirer property pre
scribes regular dose& of hickory oi'
for the ten-year old Charlotte boy
whose favorite pastime is stealing
Fords, and of whose behavior the
Charlotte News reports as follows: '
‘-•The youngster, who early in the
Veek, tried to wreck the room in
which he was locked at juvenile de
tention quarters, fought desperately
to prevent being taken to the welfare
office. He hit, he kicked, and he bit.
The skin on the hand of one of the
men was lacerated by the bites the
infuriated youth inflicted. v
“At the welfare office he continued
his fight. Before he could be locked
up he kicked Miss Mary Honeycutt,
office assistant, and bit her on the
arm and shoulder.
“After being locked up, he grab
bed a chair, battered the wire net
ting across the window, jerked the
bed aloose, wildly scattering the
pieces about the room and hurled them
against the walls and door.”
Tobacco is selling at high prices in
the eastern North Carolina markets I
that have opened. It is a pity that
more Chatham county farmers didn’t
plant tobacco.
That Vance county commissioner
who says that one percent of the mer
in the state do not change under
clothing when they retire i* hitting
somewhere near the mark. When un
derclothing becomes unfit Ito in.
it is unfit to put on again the next
morning. Prisoners v.ui
roans probably -soil their underoioth
jpg daring tte day, but those in jail
aoui'd be able to wear a suit longei
nan one day. Accordingly, cncum
cances should determine tne need ioi
. change of uncterciotnmg for a pris
oner. if he saouid not sleep in the
iotnes he has worked m, let nim woik
a the clothes he has siept in. Com
.loll sense, as usual, wiil settle light
-- the nightshirt business for prispn
rs. Bqt ii we were in the average
.rison camp or jail, we should not
hanK anybody to make us strip a
.oid winter morning and put on yes
erday s dirty underclothing, or take
,if ciean underclothes in the cold and
.on a nightshirt on retiring.
At the best, it takes a long time
o regain the confidence of the people
.fter it is once lost. A certain young
.nan of this section has recently been
jardoned or paroled from a term on
'no roads. Yet the ink of the Gov- 1
.rnor’s signature was hardly dry be- j
.‘ore he is again on the verge of troub
e, being one of two young men to
sorrow a truck without the owner’s
permission and take a free ride. We
Understand that the truck and youths
.vere found in Chapel Hill. It be
looves this youngster to mend his
vays. If he finds it difficult to do
setter in his home community, he
,hould seek new fields and start out
,o make a man of himself. The road
le has been alleged to travel is a
ough one and will finally lead to a
mighty unpleasant ending.
Town and County Briefs
Mr. W. H. Griffin, after summering
n the mountains, is at home as genial
as ever. ■ *
Mr. J. W. Poe, a native of this coun
ty, but for several years a resident of
31on College, has moved back to
Chatham and directs that his paper be
sent to Siler City, Rt. 5.
A collision between a lumber truck
ind a car driven by Buster Turk, coi
ned, on the highway. Mr. Keck, on
;he truck, was slightly hurt and
Turk’s wife had her lip badly cut.
loth cars were badly damaged. The
ollision occurred near Bynum.
A negro lad, name not learned, was
cilled by lightening Monday evening
»oar Moncure. The bolt struck the
chimney while the lad was pulling
town the window shade. Pittsbcro
nisses the heavy thunder storms that
lave passed through the county this
veek.
Notice Mr. C. C. Hamlet’s adver
isement. He is an expert in his line
ind should do a good business with
Record readers.
Mr. Arthur London, who has been
icting as interne in the James Walk
r Hospital, Wilmington, is at home
•esting up a few days tyefore return- '
ng to his medical college.
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progressive or intelligent citizen of
.he county can go without the county
taper, even at 3 cents a week, the
egular price. But here is a chance
or you and your neighbor to get the
' aper for less than two cents a week.
With Miss Ola Harmon back at her
work as teacher at Goldston, we again
ave the Goldston news.
Miss Effie Fincannon. of Wilson, is
/isiting Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Poe.
Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Harmon nnd chil
dren, Gilda and John, and Miss Eva
Blackwell, of Hartsville, S. C., after
spending a few days with Miss Cor
i; e Harmon, returned to their home
Monday.
The Record was glad to have a
:all Saturday from Mr. Davis, the
new agricultural teacher at Bonlee,
and to have an article from him for
publication.
Mr. Arthur London, Jr., is home
after several weeks in Wilmington.
Miss Snkey Perry left Wednesday
o teach in Edgecomb county.
Mr. R. A. Glenn, who has been
employed in the carpenter’s trade at
Hendersonville and West Asheville
-or several months, is home for a
Miss Myrtle Johiison visited in
Greensboro during the week-end.
Mrs. S. J. Griffin of Durham is
isit.iner he” Mrs. C. F. Murdock,
Pittsboro, Rt, S. ,
Mrs. R. L. Goldston, of Goldston*
ipent the week-end with Miss Mar
garet Womble. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
•Vomble of Sanford, arrived Monday
o make their Jiome in Pittsboro for
he time being with Miss Womble.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dezerne, of Rae
ford, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Poe. v
A. C. RAY
Attorney-at-X»aw
PITTSBORO, N. C.
Must Work
York, S. C.—“ Sheiks and drug-store
cowboys” of this town may soon find
It necessary to hold a job regularly.
The county grand jury has advised
the arrest of all young men without
visible means of support.
$5 to See Parthenon
Athene. —When you go abroad title
summer take along an extra The
Greek government is charging that
sum to tourists desiring *° see the
■“Hintons Parthenon. Sixty per cent of
ihe visitors are Americana.
LIGTHNING BURNS
OFF HIS WHISKERS
Farmer Struck While cn Flow
Has Narrow Escape.
Alliance, Neb. —Struck on the head
by lightning, Joe W. Kennedy, forty
five, farmer, still lives to tell the tale
and the attending physician says he
will recover. Kennedy was riding a
gang plow pulled by four horses. He
saw the storm approaching, but not re
garding it as particularly threatening,
he kept on with his work. He says he
saw no flash and heard no thunder,
but the next thing he knew was when
he found a doctor bending over him
In the hospital here.
The lightning struck Kennedy above
the right ear, burned the crown of his
hat, scorched the hair from his head
and plowed its way across his cheek.
Jumping from there to his chest, which
was seared, and onto his legs, where
deep burns were left. From there it
entered the iron seat of the plow on
which he was riding, melting the
metal Into a mass and then passed
along the steel cable to which his lead
team of horses was attached to the
plow, pne of the four was instantly
killed.
Kennedy was knocked unconscious
and was found a half hour later by his
wife and daughter. The lightning put
out of commission most of the tele
phones in the neighborhood.
The course of the lightning could be
clearly traced from where It struck
Kennedy to where It leaped from his
body. A full set of whiskers that
adorned his face went up in smoke.
The accident occurred on the man’s
farm five miles from town.
Woman on 17th Annual
Hike Across Bridge
New York.—The Manhattan bridge
has at least one true friend and ad
mirer—Mrs. Joseph Woolston, Union
City, N. J.
“I have done It again,” said Mrs.
Woolson. “You know I was the first
woman to walk across the Manhattan
bridge, and since then I have walked
across It, rain or shine, every year
on the anniversary of the opening of
the footpath.”
Mrs. Woolson was asked the reason
for her attachment to the structure.
Had she lived formerly in the neigh
borhood of the span?
*No,” she said, “f used to live In
this city, but that was years before
the bridge was opened. But the day
they opened It I came to New York
alone to be at the ceremonies. When
the bluecoats took down the bars I
started across.
“When I got to the middle of the
bridge a big, fine policeman said to
me: ‘Madame, you are the first wom
an to walk across Manhattan bridge.
If I were you I would eelebrnte that
by coming here every year on July
18 and walking across It.’
“Since then,” continued Mrs. Wool
son, “I have not missed a year. I
used to walk over and get a drink of
water at the little fountain on Nas
sau street, at the Brooklyn end. but
I could not get that drink today be
cause the fountain is gone.”
SKuttleless Loom Is
Invented by German
London. —A shuttleless loom hither
to regarded as an impossibility, has ■
been Invented by a German named
Gobler, according to a report from
Berlin and has been already thorough
ly tested and proved feasible in Ger
man factories before being publicly
announced. The mechanism Is de
scribed as the simplest and works on
two rods which carry threads and
weaves all kinds of cotton yarn and '
jute with the same apparatus.
The claim Is made that production
Is quicker and safer, that the number j
of operatives is reduced, that the com- |
plicated preliminary steps before
winding the threads will be obviated
and the cofJ. of [lie loom construction
greatly lessened. ~ >
Lancashire has not yet heard of the
new invention and is not likely to
adopt it unless its weaving skill,
handed down through generations, is
equally applicable to the new ma
chine as with the old well-tried Ark
,
Blade in Man’s Skull
28 Years Is Removed
Birmingham, Ala. —A piece of knife
blade two inches long was removed
by surgeons at Opelika, Ala., from the
head of R. P. Waller of Auburn, after
having been In Waller’s head for the
last 28 years. The operation is con
sidered a remarkable one.
Waller said that when he was about
ten years of age he was stabbed with
a knife in the hands of a drunken
man. At the time Waller was stabbed
it was said by doctors that only an
open wound was left This quickly
healed.
- For many years Waller suffered
with severe headaches, and did not
know the Cause. Recently an X-ray
examination was made of Waller's
head and the piece of broken knife
blade was discovered. The operation
was a success, and Waller says his
; headaches have disappeared and that
he feels better than for years.
Loses Leg to Save Dog
jMiddletown. N. Y.-—To avoid killing
i* which stood on the tracks of
ithe New York, Ontario & West
ern railroad, Jacob Hauser ap
fPUed the brakes on a gasoline track
£ar, causing it to overturn, inflicting
ititj 1 ™ V' iCh ru?cessitat ed the ampu
'tatioa of one of his leg* 1
7KE CHATHAM RECORD
PREHISTORIC BOY
PLAYED MARBLES
Toys Found With a Skeleton
Buried 2,000 Years,
Chillicothe, Ohio. —The skeleton of
a twelve-year-old boy, with a number
of marbles, prized relics of childhood,
were removed from the Bricer mound
of the Seip group, near Buinbridge,
eighteen miles west of here, the oilier
day.
This is the second of a group of
burials found in the rear of the mound,
where last year the ‘‘great pearl bur
ial” was unearthed and where this
summer five cremated burials, with
the usual finds of black, tan and
white wildcat jaws and marine tor
toise shell combs were disclosed.
The boy’s body had been interred
in a cabin-like structure and was cov
ered with a canopy, the mold of
which was found. The body had been
clothed in a garment of woven fabric.
The grave contained many unusual
ceremonial specimens, H. S. Shetrone,
curator of the Ohio museum, said,
“We found a number made from
clorite, a fine, close grained stone
which takes a very high polish, en
graved in beautiful .designs. They had
been placed there reverently by lov
ing hands,” lie reported. “W 6 believe
that the game of marbles was a time
honored pastime even in the days of
the Mouftd Builders. These little fel
lows probably lived more than 2,000
years ago,” he continued, for the first
time hinting at his idea of the age
of the mounds.
Besides the marbles there were
found a stone carved In the shape of a
turkey vulture, carefully cut down to
the feather markings; another stone
carved like a lizard, with a tail re
sembling the rattles of a rattlesnake;
beads, green chlorite resembling tur
quoise, many well-cut mica designs,
teeth of raccoon, fox, wolf, mountain
lion, bear and other wild animals
which roamed the forest, pierced so
that they could be strung and worn
as ornaments; woven fabric, obsidan
spear points and a few bits of cop
per.
Papa Bobs Mamma’s Hair;
Uses a Stone to Do Job
London. —Women have their hair
shingled among the Australian ab
origines in tjie region of Gregory sea
and it is a husband’s prerogative to
cut his wife’s hair with sharpened
stones.
Such is the story of hairdressing
in Australia which Michael Terry, ex
plorer, has brought back to London
after a trip through little-known parts
of northern Australia.
Female hair Is much prized by the
aborigines, as it is used in weaving
belts and iuuking various sorts of
ornaments. -
Rev. C. M. Lance, assisted by Rev.
•James B. Clegg of Greensboro, closed
the meeting at Chatham church Fri
day night.
f Farm Sale I
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1 The Horace Jones Place, 162 acres, I
1 Subdivided into Small Farms; I
1- Located on Route 60 near H
I SILER CITY, N. C. I
This iarm is known as the H. Q. Jones place, located about 3 miles from Siler
City on Route 60 near Oakley Church and Oakley School. Property now owned LB
Hs by Arthur S. Edwards, and within 2 1-2 miles of Mt. Vernon Springs. The Old
Home place has one of the finest springs of water in the County, and is an extra
H fine place for a Club House. This is an extra good farm and has been sub-divided
into small tracts to be sold for the high dollar, your price our price. One nice
littie residence in Oak grove near the highway. If you are in the market for a tine
little farm don’t miss this sale.
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W. H. MATTHEWS, Auctioneer
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