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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878. EDITORIAL. President Cooiidge was outspoken in a message to Congress Tuesday with regard to the landing of Ma rines in Nicaragua, for which he had heen seriously criticised, e\en by Sen ator Borah. There is civil war as usual in that Central American state. The United States has recognized Diaz as president. Mexico recogniz ed Sarcasa. Borah, agreeing with Mexico that Sarcasa had the consti tutional right to the presidency, stat ed that the United States had no ius tif= cation in landing marines in Nic aragua and giving aid to Diaz, lne President reviewed the events load in<r up to the conflict, which in effect •ire that in 1923 when General Cham borro got control Ox tae capital and forced the president to appoint his own men as members of the cabinet and to expel 18 congressman and put in 18 of friends. The president resigned. Chamborre had himself designated president. It got too hot for him, and he quit. Anoth er was designated picsident and he called congress together. The eighteen rightful congressmen were reseated and Congress by a large ma jority chose Diaz president. Sarcasa, who was vice-president at the time Chamboiro started on his rampage, had fled from the country, but he claimed the right as vice-president to succeed to the presidency, and took up arms to make his claim good. Mexico deeidea with him, and has per mitted arms to be taken to him. The United States had declared an em bargo against the importation of arms and munitions into the little re public. Consequently, President Cool idge discontinued the embargo recent ly so that Diaz could get arms. • The president declares that Diaz is the constitutional president; that this country is particularly interested in V the maintenance of civil government in Nicaragua, both because of the treaty giving America the right to build* a canal across the isthmus in that country and because of the many property rights of American citizens endangered. The marines have laid off neutral zones in which the two con flicting foices are forbidden to enter, and the President declares that he shall see to it that America’s interests are protected both from internal strife and from outside interference (having reference to Mexico’s atti tude). This unfortunate conflict of inter ests cf America and Mexico occurs when the relations between the two neighboring republics are already strained because of Mexico’s persis tence in her determination to enforce her new law compelling foreign own ers of on concessions to get new titles or permits to their holdings or lose them. The Record feels that Mexico has the right to preserve her own natural re sources against exploitation by for eign interests, and a hard task it is, when this country could scarcely keep its Dohenys from gobbling up the naval oil reserves. But Mexico is ex ceedingly unfortunate in choosing to. antagonize Uncle Sam in the matter of the Nicaraguan presidency, how ever honest it may be in its opinion that Sarcasa is the constitutional pres ident. It rubs the fur the wrong way, and there is, to manifestly, a party in this country who would willingly see this government dominate Mexico for the sake of the pickings they could get from the rich resources of that country. But few, nowever pacific, will criti cise President Qoolidge for standing his grounds and not only protecting American property in Nicaragua, but preventing the government r ecognized by his government from being super seded by cne aided and abetted by Mexico. It is an unfortunate situation all round. And in China a situation has de veloped that is endangering lives of foreigners, including Americans. For years that big country has been split into warring factions. The so-called- Cantonese faction is now in the ascen dency, and it has been the boast of that faction that it would unify China and drive the foreigners from the con cessions forced from China many years ago. Hankow is a British city, ruled absolutely by Great Britain, though an integral part of the Chin i ese territory. The success of the l Cantonese arms encouraged the Chin |ese residents to undertake to drive the foreigner's from Hankow. Riots prevailed. The English in great numbers fled to Shanghai. The rage of the Chinese against foreigners is spreading and British and American missionaires are endangered. War ships are reported as ordered to China to protect American lives. Sooner or later justice will be done China and she will be left to work out her own political salvation. So long as the foreign powers retain the forced concessions, so long as for eigners may not be tried in Chinese courts of law for alleged offences, anc so long as foreign powers dictate the old country’s revenue laws and dom inate its finances, there will be agita tion against every foreign element. COURT NEXT WEEK Court begins next Monday, Judge W. C. Harris presiding. Judge Har 1 ris succeeds Judge Calvert, having won over him in the primary lasl June. For a number of years he has ■ been judge of the Raleigh recorder’s court and has won an enviable repu tation. The docket for the term an pears in this issue of the Record. H The Chatham Record NEW ELAM NEWS Mrs. Burt Stone died at hear home in Cary Wednesday and was laid to rest in\ the cemetery Thursday. She was lorty-four of age. She eaves her husband, Mr. Osa Stone, and six children, the youngest being four years old, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. "~ + er Miss Hilda Lasater and Mrs. Bettie Aumann attended the funeral. x.xx. n a.cer Trotter of Ashboro last veck visited his brother Mr. Lacy Trotter. Mrs. Dewey Smith and little son David of Raleigh spent last week with ter grand-parents Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Puryear. Mr. Bailey Sturdivant has accept ad the position as clerk for Mr. O. M. Poo in Pittsboro. While cutting wood January sth Mr. x. M. Goodwin had the misfortune of cutting his leg. He immediately went to Dr. Cathe’l at Moncure, where a few stitches were taken and the wound iressed. Now he is getting along fine, we are glad to state. Mr. E. T. Mann and family of Broadway have moved into the home where Mr. Wade Speagle has been residing. Mr. Speagle and family aave moved to I.x n*iy Oaks. Mr. Clarence Fairish has gone to Durham where we understand he will spend the remainder of the winter. We are sorry to learn of the death of Mr. Will Burke of Haywood who passed away Saturday. Mr. Burke and family a few years ago lived in our midst and he was a teacher at New Elam Sunday School. He was an honest., intelligent man. He leaves a wife and three children, Carey Burke, Mrs. Dewey Olinger, and John Burke. The last two reside in Flor ida. They have the sympathy of this section in this their dark hour. The descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Johnson were expecting to go :o Durham Sunday to celebrate Mrs. Johnson’s birthday anniversary. Mrs. Johnson is 78 years old. 1 ... - MERRY OAKS NEWS Ivliss Mary Cotfcen spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. O. C. Horner. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Speagle have moved into the Bank. We are very glad to have them in Merry Oaks. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Lloyd Hipp is confined to hjs bed at this writing. We hope for him a speedy recovery. Miss Maudie Mann and Miss Dora Holt of near New Elam church spent Tuesday night with Miss Leonie Holt. We are sorry to state that Mrs. 3. E. Holt who has been on the sick ist fer several weeks is not much improved. On account of the "weather 1 "being -o bad Rev. J. Fuller Johnson was nol; present to fill his regular ap pointment at Christian Chapel Sun day. THE SNOW Snow covered the larger part of North Carolina from one to twelve inches in depth Monday. It was twelve inches at Greensboro; six at Pittsboro; one at Gastonia; two at Kinston. It was altogether of the flaky variety. The weather was mod erate and very little discomfort was caused by the unusual fall. Tuesday came in fair and moderate in tem perature. The one hope is that the beautiful will go before a freeze comes. While it was snowing here, New England suffered weather below zero. THE RIDDLE MACHINE SHOP NOW READY FOR BUSINESS Mr., C. M. Richardson, the master mechanic who is to have charge of the Alex Riddle Iron Works here, arrived Monday. He is welcome, for we are needing him. That strain in the press that has caused one break age after another, maybe, can be cor rected now that we have a mechanic op the ground. But we shall get out only a four-page paper V is week, thus saving half the press work and giving time for the welding apparat us to be got in fix. One little piece broken can do lots of damage in this > ’.hop and in many a s lop in this sec tion, and the Record and others re joice that Pittsboro is to have a real machine shop, one that can handle vnythmg from boilers down. Many an old automobile radiator, too, ought ;o visit that shop, as soldering will oe one of the shop’s operations. In fact, it will surprise you to see some Si tne machines tnc die Company ave installed. There is one machine there that goes into the thousands in value. ooooooo^oooooooooooooooooo How It Started By Jean Newton — 0-0-000-000-000000-0-0000-0000000 “FEELING BLUE” TO “FEEL BLUE” is to be de pressed and unhappy, sick at heart. And it is in the words “sick at heart” that we find the thread which leads us to the origin and justification for the popular use in this manner of the word “blue.” When people are physically sick they are usually pale; and in an ex tremity of weakness and debility the skin and the lips, particularly tlie lat ter, take on a bluish tinge. Frequent ly we hear the term used in a case of great cold, as “She is frozen blue.” And it is to this connection of physi cal sickness that the phrase “feeling blue” is traced which describes mental or “heart” sickness. * (Copyright.)- .r\ - PITTSBORO. .S. £„ CHATHAM FOUNTY THURSDAY, JAN’Y. 13, 1927 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY WHAT THE LEGISLATURE HAS DONE THE PAST WEEK Speaker Fountain was generous to his two opponents for the speaker ship, assigning H. G. Connor to the chairmanship of the committee on education,' and Nat Townsend to membership on the finance commit tee, though the chairmanship which Townsend had formerly held went to Representative Graham of Alamance. “Pete” Murphy, for a quarter of a century a leader in the house, has been moping, apparently out .of sym pathy with Governor McLean’s ad ministration. As a member of the budget committee, which had the task of studying the needs cf the various institutions and departments of the state, he failed to attend the meet ings of the committee. In his atti tude of hostility to the Governor’s plans he seems rather lonesome. Governor McLean presented the budget committee’s recommendations on Friday. It was a huge document j and represented an immense amount j of work on the part of the committee. The requests of the Various schools and other institutions had been scaled down to the extent of nearly two mil lions, and yet the recommendations are larger than appropriations for the past two years. Turlington is chairman of the appropriations com mittee, and it will largely depend up on him and his committee whether the appropriations as recommended by the committee shall become effective, or whether they shall be increased or decreased. 1 The Governor showed a balance to the credit of the state of a million and a half or more, and recommends that a million be added to the public school equalization fund, which he thinks can be done without increasing taxes for that purpose. Very little was done during the first . week besides organization and the de r livery of the Governor’s address and the report of the budget committee. . However, several bills were put in the ; hopper, one requiring horse-drawn ve l hides to carry tail lights at night. t Fcr the first time in the history of ' the state, probably, the revenue and • appropriations bills were introduced • in the first week of the assembly. : These bills are prepared under a re -1 cent law by the budget committee un der the direction of the Gflveagl^^iind ; consequently were ready for early in ’ troduction. Hitherto, the committees j HERE’S WHAT SCHOOLS WANT l AND WHAT THEY’LL LIKELY GET » j . | The following figures on the maintenance of the leading edu- j cational institutions are taken from Governor McLean’s budget state- j : I ment No. 4: —1 z | . ! Recommended l 5 j Institution « ""~1£26-27 Requested 1927-28 1928-29 ? r l UxJ , rsity $780,000 $1,559,558 $850,000 SBBO,OOO ! ; i State college 400,000 504,676 425,000 440,000 j ; | Extension State college 175,000 175,000 177000 175,000 | ’ I N. C. C. W 41‘,000 535,000 440,000 470,000 l r rE.C. T. C. 157,100 230,147 165,000 200,000 ] |A. and T. Negro 65,000 129,778 65,000 65,000 ( Cullowhee 48,500 76,415 55,000 60,000 ; | Appalachain 47,500 80,000 53,000 68,000 ! Cherokee 25,000 39,000 28,000 28,000 j ! j Winston-Salem (Negro) _42,500 64,000 45,0C0 50,000 | ! Elizabeth City (Negro) 36,000 43,000 33,000 38,000 j ■ ! Fayetteville (Negro) 34,100 * 56,245 36,500 40,000 jj N. C. C. Negro, Durham 30,000 60,180 35,000 45,000 | Under the heading of permanent improvements the budget com | mission recommends that the university get $1,220,000; State col- ! 1 lege, $580,000; N. C. G. W., $820,000; E. C. T. C., $280,000; A. and T. j - = college, $40,000; Cullowhee, $230,000; Appalachian, $10:,000; Winston- | Salem Negro normal, $55,000; Elizabeth City Negro normal, $10,000; j j Fayetteville Negro normal, $20,000, and the North 5 Carolina College? | 9 for Negroes, $200,000. BELL’S NEWS Tlhe teachers and students of Bell’s High School are glad to have Mr. Grigg, the principal with them after an attack of appendicitis. Mr. Arthur McCoy, a well known! citizen of Bell’s Community passed away January 2nd. He was a mem-J her of the first committee of Bell’s School. He was also a deacon of the ! Bells’ Baptist church. Mr. McCoy' had suffered only a few days from pneumonia when the end came. He leaves a wife and two sons, Messrs. Garland and Dennis McCoy. The pastor, E. B. Booker, and Rev. Sears conducted the funeral at Bells’ church, after which the interment took place. Mrs. Mary Beckwith of Apex Route 3 is seriously ill. She has btien un able to walk for three years. Mrs. Beckwith is eighty-seven years of age. Miss Chambers spent the Christmas holidays visiting relatives in Person ebunty. Miss Jeneverette Seymour, a former student of Bells’, spent the holidays with her friends and relatives. Miss Seymour is now a student of the Goldsboro high school. County Superintendent W. R. Thompson visited Bells’ school Thurs day. RECEIVERS APPOINTED Permanent receivers were appointed at Lillington Tuesday for the Mon- J cure Mill and Gin Company. They are Mr. J. L. Griffin of Pittsboro and ID. C. Holler of Sanford. Mr. Wade Barber was tcihporary receiver. | cf the two houses had to make a study of the needs of the various depart : ments and the possible sources of in i come before the bills could begin to j come into shape. The last week was • more apt to see their introduction j than the first. They were introduced I into the Senate Monday by Senator j Pat Williams of Pasquotank. ! The House had only a twenty min ute session Monday evening but saw 119 bills go into the hopper. One of j them was to prevent the use of the : names of Denominational colleges in ! j connection with dances. There are j' ; some folk who think that the highest j j compliment to be paid anybody from ! j anywhere is to give , a dance in his \ honor. The bill introduced by Harry . Nettles of Asheville, a grandson of ; Chatham is to check such associa i tions as have occurred when teams j from Christian colleges have been i thus “honored” in communities in j which they have gone to play or give a concert. The publicity evidently j does not set well with the colleges. | In the senate W. B. Horton, brother of W. P., introduced a bill requiring all auto drivers to take out liab’lity insurance to the extent of SBOO. This is to provide damage funds- in case of any accident for which the driver is accountable. Failure to have such a policy is to be interpreted as prima facie evidence of reckless driving. ! Nash of Richmond introduced a, bill to authorize the Governor to appoint : six emergency judges for four years, to assist the regular judges in their ; work. The idea is to get more judges without more solicitors. The I most of the other bills were of a local ► character. i | i I McNeill of Ashe county beat Sen * ator W. P. Horton to it in introduc s ing a bill to give North Carolina the ; Australian ballot, but Horten came jin the same day, Tuesday, with a . bill to repeal the absentee voters’ law. ' In the house on Tuesday Judge j Winston offered a bill for a tax re valuation and that the whole matter [ of valuation in the counties be put 1 under state supervision, so as to in sure a greater uniformity. Bills were offered to make the roads safer. An s other bill for additional judges, four, 1 was introduced. The hopper is being I - loaded, but there is not much grist I yet. •, Above where it is stated the appro ' J priation and tax bills were introduced, ’ j it should be the appropriations for U expenses and for permanent improve^ - ments. measure has no 1 * > been in^^^Re(^^ THE MONCURE P.-T. A. The regular monthly meeting of the Moncure parent-teacher association | was held Friday evening, January77 1 jwith Mrs. W. T. Utley presiding, j A prize was to be awarded to the room having the largest percentage of | parents present. The eighth and ninth grades tied. - The grade mothers were appointed j by the president and teachers for the various grades. At the close of the business ses sion, Hon. Walter D. Siler made an interesting and instructive talk on “The Beginnings of Chatham Coun ty.” He showed the great part Chat ham county had played in making the state’s history. * Since Chatham county is not a manufacturing center, , the people have always lived close to nature, declared the speaker. Hence they are a fearless, God-loving peo ple. They have always stood for law and order and are interested in edu cation. As a challenge to us, he said: “Why should not we so live and act as to make ourselves Worthy of our ancestors.” The next meeting will be held Feb ruary 11. All members are urged to be present, and all who have not joined are urged to come and cast their lots with us and help make the organization one that is worthwhile. It is the aim to have a good program i at each meeting. * Mr. William Hunt, who recently finished his course at the University specializing in accounting, has accept ed a position in Charlotte. * i BANK AT SANFORD FORCED TO CLOSE Banking Loan and Trust Company m lianas of Exanisner—l'ians - To Liquidate. Sanford, Jan. 10.—The Loan and Trust Company, of this city, failed to open its doors for busi ness today and is in charge of John Mitchell, chief state bank examiner. Slow paper, together with heavy with drawals for several days, placed the bank in the position of being unable to meet its demands. Conferences were held Sunday between the exam iner, officers of the Page Trust corn pay and citizens of the' city, looking to. arrangements by which the Page Trust company will take over the a. sets and liquidate the institution. At a meeting Sunuay evening, th. sum of $50,000 was quickly guaran teed by the citizens and it is expectec that a plan of liquidation will be com pl-eted in a few days. The splendic spirit shown by the citizens and de positors is causing much favorable comment. Many who were not inter- I ested as stockholders or depositors readily signed the guarantee. The lqst statement of the bank showed de posits of approximately $500,000.0( capital $37,000.00 and total resources of about $70,000.00. The officers were J. W. Cunningham, president, anu R. H. Cunningham, assistant cashier. PLANS FOR 1927 (By County Agent Shiver) In planning an Agricultural pro gram of work for Chatham county for the year 1927, the County Agent is asking that every farmer who has any idea as to the agricultural proj ects needed in his community will get in touch with him. In what way, if the response to this article is large enough, an agricultural program of work, carrying different projects need ed for different communities can be carried out in every community of the county. An agricultural program of work, in order to be really- helpful to a county, must reach all parts of the county. There are some pa"' s cf the county in which the Agent has done very little work, and it is especially hoped that farmers in these communi- I ties will communicate and advise with him, in order to find the things really needed in their communities, and to assist in carrying them out during the coming year. Below are some pro jects that can be carried out in every community. Read them over, and see which ones apply to your community. 1. Soil Building. a. Improvement of soil through the growing and turning under of cover crops and legumes, rye, oats, soy beans and clover, etc. b. Use of lime. c. Use of larger amounts of high er analysis fertilizers per acre. Soil fertilizer tests in order to determine which fertilizers are best for partic ular soils. Terracing Demonstration. 2. Crops. a. Variety tests of soy beans in order to determine which varieties of soy tears are best adapted to this county. b. The use of standard, purebred strains of cotton. Variety tests of cotton. c. Install cotton seed cleaners in gins of the county, in order to select superior strains of cotton seed for planting. d. # Use of Magnesium Limestone for tobacco sandrown. e. Treatment of tobacco seed to prevent diseases. Hold meetings, in order to discuss these diseases and methods of prevention. e 3. Livestock. a. Replace scrub bulls with pure breds. b. Introduce more good grade milk cows. c. Establish milk depot at Siler City, for the purpose of providing a market for whole milk for this coun ty. e. The use of cheaper and better feeds for dairy cows. f. Car lot shipments of Poultry. g. Culling Demonstrations in as many communities as possible. h. Better houses and feeds for farm flocks, better stock arid preven tion of poultry diseases.- i. Hog feeding demonstration, showing methods of growing porkers cheaper and more efficiently. j. Marketing hogs. 4. Marketing. a. Purchase of cheap government explosive, for stump blowing, etc. b. Cooperative purchase of Soy Beans, clover seeds, vetch, etc. c. Better marketing of farm prod ucts from - this county, through the production of standard products of better quality. The above article can be clipped out and mailed to the County Agent, after having checked the projects ‘ needed with a pencil, and accompani ed with your name and address. N. C. SHIVER, County Agent JAILED FOR FATAL SHOOTING I I James Martindale, 17-Year Youth, in Jail for Killing Lewis Tillman —Claimed Accidental. James Martindale, a youth of seventeen, is held in jail here on the charge of killing Lewis Tillman near j Darbonton Saturday. The young man i claims that he did not know that any body had been killed till he was ar rested Sunday. He says that he was hunting birds and shot down the road. 3ut it is stated that the road is clear ind a straight stretch at th£ point where young Tillman was found dead. No ill feeling is- known to exist be- 1 tween the young men. *Oi« 1$ " 1 I SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ■ By F. A. WALKER MAKE-BELIEVE WHISKERS LfEOM the famous museum of the I University of Pennsylvania comes the news of the discovery of the old est portrait of a human being in the form of a picture of Ibi-Sin, the last king of Ur, known to Bible students as Ur of the Chaldee. The interesting thing about this por trait is that the ancient king is shown smooth shaven, while almost every other portrait of the prehistoric rulers* shows them with a prodigal display of' whiskers. The official explanation of this king . ly fashion of beards Is that the gods* of those ancient times were all con ceived of and pictured as wearing* long beards, and the rulers, in order to inspire in their subjects and for themselves a veneration approaching!, that bestowed on deity, decreed that all reproductions of their counte nances should be -clothed with impos-* ing beards. * * * The make-believe tendency of the human mind has always been to im press the unknowing with a false ap ■ praisal. The poor girl buys and wears a rab bit or cat-skin coat dyed a beautiful i brown in the hope that the passer by will think it originally was worn ; by a sportive seal. The rich man goes to the opera and ; suffers through an evening of music which he does not understand nor en , joy in order that he mriy impress ' some of his friends with the idea that • he has reached the point in culture , where arias and cadenzas, tempo and ; phrasing mean something definite to ; his dollar-filled mind. ; We all of us indulge ourselves to a' r greater or less extent in make-believe. We all wear some kind of whiskers > to make ourselves look like what we 1 are not. But sooner or later we are! 5 all found out. ' The Chaldean king ruled more than four thousand years ago, but a t last' [ we know that his face was smooth! and that his whiskered presentment, if he ever copied the custom of his, times, was for the purpose of making s people believe him to he what he real- 1 7 !y was not, ** • i We all of us show our real selves - sooner or later. ] 1 The veneer which we put on cracks! 3 and the real thing that is underneath * shows through. • What we, should have done was nofc to cover up that of which we were H ashamed with an imitation of some-’ , Hung better. JYc 'sheu’d have made! ' the tiling underneath into" a reality; i of which we had reason to be proud, i l Making believe ’ doesn’t pay. It; didn’t pay the king of Ur. It will i not pay you. t Shakespeare, who wrote wisely oil ' more subjects than any other writer of all time, put the thought of person- 1 al honesty and individual frankness* into the mouth of Polonius in words > that should be a part of the daily! i i creed of every man, woman and child:; This above all—To thine ownself be I true; And it must follow, as the night the day, . Thou canst not then be false to any; , man. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) O- • ! John Paul Jones John Paul had a reason for not corn-; municating to his family or makingj public why he took the name Jones;- so to account for it, the imagined! incident of a planter by the name of Jones making William Paul his heir! was invented. There was no such! planter. William Paul lived and died* William Paul and by his will left his! property to his sister (his will beingi recorded at Fredericksburg. Va., where! William lived). John Paul assumed; the name of Jones before he £ame to! Virginia in 1773.—PatMbider Maga-' zine. j MRS. J. F THOMAS Her friends regret exceedin'"' 1 ’" to learn of the death of Mrs. J. P n as of Oakland township, which occur red Monday afternoon at 4*3° 'ter only five days’ illness with 1 filial pneumonia. * The burial took place Wednesday noon at Chatham church. Revs. R. R. Gordon and C. M. Lance conducted the funeral services. Mrs. Thomas was before marriage j Miss Fannie Knight, a daughter of the I the late Neill Knight. She was in her 1 seventy-sixth year. She has not been entirely well for more than thirty years, but her indomitable energy and vitality carried her through to a goodly age. She had been a member of Center Grove Christian church for many j years, and was a faithful member, i though she has not been able to at tend church in several years. She married Mr. J. R. Thomas forty years ago last March. Besides her devoted husband she leaves one son, Frank B. and Mrs. J. M. Mclver, of Pittcboro, R. 3. A good woman has gone but it is j felt that she has gone to receive the award for a well spent life.