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PAGE FOUR THE CHATHAMRECORD v O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 i THURSDAY, MAY 19,1927 Talk is usually cheap, but base less slander such as too often be comes rife in this old town is like ly to become rather dear some day. Jt is as much a punishable crime to repeat a slander as to start it. Well, the state department sent two of its big guns over' here. Highsmith and Coon have shot their loads, but they will probably wonder where the shots went when they hear the report of Saturday’s election. It would be fun to see one of these big salaried Ikes have to un dertake to support a wife and eight or ten children on a Chatham coun ty farm, except that one would hate to see the wife and children suffer for actual meat and bread, shirts and shoes. Supt. Thompson wanted to see the people express themselves on the county-wide tax question. A day or two and his wish in that particular will be gratified. But it is strange that he cannot see that his cause is lost anywhere from two to four against to one for the county-wide tax, and stop spend ing tax money in hopeless propa ganda. Only three weeks ago we ex pressed a perfect willingness in these columns to let the people de cide the school question for them selves, and impartially set forth the pros and cons of the question. But when we saw public funds be ing used for sheer propaganda in favor of the tax, we resolved that the Record would do for the other side what the public funds were doing for the administration’s side of the question. So this has been one election when the school oligarchy has not had a clear field for their supposedly sacred propaganda. ABOUT POPULARITY. Grannies! Tom Bost got some of it right. The editor of the Re cord does love a fight against odds, but he is not conscious of having ever deliberately taken the unpop ular side of a question of public policy for the simple reason that it was the unpopular side. The fact is, he has usually made the decis ion on a matter of principle with out any consideration of whether it is popular or not—before the cat of popular sentiment has jumped. And if he has ever written an ar ticle in order to play upon the pop ular pulse, he is not aware of it. Consequently,, when he has been told time and again the past two w eeks that he has hit a popular key and to keep it up and he would win the favor of the people, it has jar red upon his nerves. Os course, it is gratifying when the people agree with one’s views written without a thought of whether they would prove popular or not, but that is quite a different thing from framing one’s opinions to conform to the popular view or giving an encore for the sake of more applause. When opinions ac cord it is then time for another subject. We do want the Record to be popular, but on the simple ground that its views are honest, even if erroneous, and may be depended upon to be given without any cal culation of the effect of their ex pression upon the fortune or fa vor of the editor. If he could feel that the people were assured that he would express his candid opin ion in any matter of public policy as readily if he knew the expres sion would meet with public ap proval, he would be sure that, soon er or later, the paper would be popular, and simply because of the confidence that the people would have in its integrity. But as pop ularity upon such a basis is natur ally of slow growth, the adoption of such a policy often appears akin to suicide. But the thing is so de sirable that it is worth suffering for. We have never valued any thing more highly than the favor of the hundreds of Sampson county Republicans who were regular sub scribers to the Sampson Democrat and accepted in the finest spirit the the severest roasting of their par ty’s policies or servants, assured that we would as frankly and hear tily give them praise when in our candid opinion it should be <deserv ed. Yes, boys, we want the paper to be popular, but be assured that we hope never to fall so low as to seek popularity by pandering , to the populaif pulse. We shall go right ahead expressing our views. If they meet your favor, as in the past two weeks, we are fortu nate. If on the contrary, they do not correspond to your views,please be so kind as to consider them with an open -5 mind and if you cannot approve' them, be assured that we are hot ‘ inSiilted thereby. . ! 0‘)lfil. ! V ' Whllf Dr. Highsmith and Supt. Poon came, saw, and exhorted, pre sumably at public expense. Wouldn’t it be fine if the Demo cratic party could pay campaign expenses with tax money? There would "be just as much justice in that hs in the payment by the de partment of education of the ex pense of propaganda in favor of its policies. If the people were frankly and candidly informed of matters per taining to the operation of the schools of the county, they would listen more readily to the pleas of the superintendent. Probably not one in a hundred citizens know that a deficit of §21,000.00 has been hanging upo'n the county for six years, and is carried as a debt, not by the school board but by the general county fund, constantly causing the payment of interest for borrowed money. They don’t \ f f t ; • { • know simply because there has been no explicit statement of school finances published. Similarly, no bpdy knows what proportion of the school 1 money goes to pay for transportation by trucks. Nobody even knows what is the actual sal ary of the county superintendent or the other expenses of his office. No recent statement has been pub lished showing such details. And if the same cover-up policy, or the public-be-damed policy, is pursued, nobody will know ,how much has been spent for propaganda in this campaign. Who knows whether any, or what, teachers have been receiving more than the state schedule salaries? It is possible that it is difficult to finance the additional two months in the town districts, because higher than sched ule salaries have been paid .? Or because the funds are too largely consumed in transportation, costs? Nobpdy knows. There has been no clear-cut statement of such mat ters. The policy has been you pay in the money and ’lll spend it as I please. That policy will not continue to work. THE FLOOD. The. past week has seen the flood waters from the upper, the Mississippi levees in Louisiana crowd down across the Red and upon the levees along the Bayou Des Glaises, pressing upon the barrier till they burst across and poured into the fertile parishes lying below and almost as flat as a floor, whelming the larg est single area of agricultural lands that has been subject at any one time to the whim of the mighty monarch of waters. Rough ly speaking, an area six to ten times as large as Chatham county, with crops far advanced is now a sea and a hundred thousand more people are routed from their homes and see prospects of a crop for this gone aglimering. The overflow is seeking an out let to the Gulf byway of the Atchalfalaya basin, which lies par allel with the lower stretches of the Mississippi, with a broad area of fertile fields lying between it and the great river. And even that section on Monday was re ported in danger, due the enormous pressure upon the east bank levees of that stream. The waters are beginning to clear from the upper submerged areas, and- it will be possible for the people to make some kind of a crop. But here is an area with crops already far advanced just overwhelmed and with the possibil ity of the flood’s remaining for weeks. The farther south the flood ed area, of course the necessity for an earlier start on a crop, as the broiling summers make a late crop more uncertain than in the highier altitudes. Immense sums have been receiv ed for the relief of the people of the stricken districts, more than ten millions of dollars, but that is not going to be enough by any means. Stock has been lost, homes have been swept away, seed is lacking for planting. In fact, so dire is the need that many feel that Congress should be called in extra j iftsisk)# to make a government con- j tribution. For months help will be I needed by hundreds of thousands of people, white and black. JUDGE BROWN S FORTUNE AND THE PRICE HE PAID FOR IT. Raleigh Times. 5 > The late Judge George H. Brown is now being resurrected in his faults by the ruthless tactics of li tigants fighting over the disposi tion of the fortune he left behind him. ' The most conspicuous of those faults was selfishness. It arose out of a complex of parsimony. The Judge was saving to the point of stinginess. Toward the end of his life, as he grew richer, this vice because accentuated, It went to the point of eccentricity. / Another of the weaknesses of a public man who did the State mag nificent service was a liking for strong drink. For years it was known of him that on occasion he indulged to the point of becoming drunk. For years he carried on his work effectively and brilliantly against a handicap that would have destroyed the efficiency of a weak er man. We now have in a court of law j this strange spectacle: A fortune which was painfully gathered together by a combina tion of ability and industry and an economy carried to the point of meanness depriving him of the pleasure of the friendships he ! might have enjoyed (which he dis posed of in a holograph will drawn with the clarity to be expected of a lawyer of his attainments) is be ing sought by caveators to the will on the ground that he was mentally deranged. The incidents relied upon to prove his insanity nearly all have |to do, directly or indirectly, with i the miserliness upon which he -de i pended so largely to get the for tune together! On the other hand, the propoun der of the will, through her attor neys, combats this evidence on the plea of drunkenness as opposed to i insanity! r These things were known almost j universally concerning Judge I Brown, but it remained for his relatives to spread them on the record. Think of it. In a long term of service of a high order on the Su perior court bench and the bench of the Supreme court the man him self had the mental strength and ability to overcome the prejudices these failings naturally raised. He performed the feat in politics of facing unpopularity and downing it. He attained eminence and, in his profession, acclaim as an out standingg jurist. He lived a lonely —bard, close, defiant, in order that he might leave a fortune. Those- who want to share the for tune now call him crazy. The beneficiary of the will calls him drunkard. What, after all, is a fortune worth? ' Nevada State Treas ury Short 1-2 a Million Two Men Accused ;Five-Day Mo ratorium Called; Financial Ac tivities Halted. Reno, Nevada, May 14—With half a million dollars missing from the state treasury, Nevada today began a five-day moratorium, dur ing which all financial activity of the state government will be halt ed. Governor Balzar declared the I moratorium upon completion of an audit of the books of State Treas urer Ed Malley. Malley, with for mer State Controller George Cole and E. W. Clapp, former cashier of the Carson Valey Bank, is ac cused of embezzling $516,000. The state treasurer, however, contends the huge shortage is in the books of the Carson Valley Bank and not in the state ledgers. By an adroit maneuver, Malley placed the state and the bank on the defensive. He appeared at the bank, presenting cashier’s checks totalling well over half a million dollars and demanding payment. | The bank refused to honor pay ment. Malley thereby is said to have placed upon the bank the burden of proving the checks fraudulent. Furthermore, it was said, the bank now will be forced to take le gal action independent of the state prosecution. “Temperamental” usually T ap plies to those who are lohg on the temper and short on mental. >.; THE CHATMM kMcORD North Carolina Industrial Review Ahoskie Virginia Electric & Power Company to purchase muni cipal electric plant here. Rocky Mount New Masonic Temple contemplated for construc tion in this city. Taylorsville Operations re sumed at only Hiddenite mine in world, idle for more than a gen eration. Charlotte Plans discussed for extending city limits to include Myers Park. * - c . Goldsboro—Plans being made Ad; drill for oil in Sampson county. : Franklin —Work under way in-' # /■ . stalling new plateglass front m Higgins building. Wilmington—lnvestigations be ing made at city waterworks to de vise more economical means* of pu rifying city water. High Point—Cornerstone laid for new first Presbyterian church on North Main street. Winston—Salem —E. M. Myers & company with capitalization of $50,000 granted charter to deal in general automobile accessory busi ness. Winston-Salem—Contract to be awarded for construction of Julia Higgins cottage at Methodist Chil dren’s home here costing $30,000. Asheboro Operations to start soon in new Asheboro Creamery. Smithfield Highway No. 22 — between Smithfield and Four Oaks progressing rapidly. Statesville 540,000 apartment house to be erected corner Walnut and Mulberry streets. 1 Lumberton Work started on erection of brick store building for L. H. Caldwell on Elm street cost ing $30,000. Chadbourn—24 cars of strawber ries shipped out recently. I Charlotte—Contract let for con struction of $170,000 bachelor apartment house on North Church street. Burlington East End Hosiery Company establishes mill on East Davis street. Franklinton Carolina Tele phone & Telegraph Company build ing new telephone system in Franklinton. Oxford—New road to be con structed from Oxford to Franklin county line. Denton Highway from Ashe boro to Denton taken over by State Highway commission. Macon Road from Macon to Vaughan to be ihardsupjfaced. Greensboro Contracts total ing SBO,OOO approved for new' build ing in North Carolina College. Spindale 5125,000 bonds is sued for public improvements in this city. High Point—Seventh Day Ad ventists planning construction of new church in northern part of city. i . ‘ - High Point - New business building to be erected corner Green and Carter streets. Creedmoore Durham Public Service Company to extend power lines to this place. Wilmington—Contract let for im provements at Carolina Beach to cost $50,000. Ridgeway—Contract awarded at $224,496 for building new paved road from Martinsville to Ridge way. Wilmington Plans under way for extension of additional water mains into Brookwood, new de velopment east of city. Dunn—Two carloads hogs ship ped from Dunn recently. Wilmington New American La France water pump and equip ment installed on fire boat “At lantic.” Williamston—New electric fire siren installed in this town. Siler City New equipment be ing installed in up-to-date Dry Cleaning company’s plant here. Bedford—Two cars of hogs ship ped from Bedford recently. Dillard—Work progressing hard surfacing Dillard-Highlands road. Franklin Plans discussed for construction of new courthouse and jail here for Macon county. Charlotte—Under ground garage costing $14,000 to be built for use of rural police at new county court house. Shelby— City mail delivery ser vice to be extended. Mount Holly Ground broken for erection of new business build ing on Main street. Belmont—Acme Spinning com pany to build $500,000 annex to its plant. Spindale •*— Contract let at $65,- 000 for enlarging waterworks here. Leaksville—Plans under way for erection of new memorial building and auditorium in Leaksville. /* Wilnlmgtbn 4-h' Work progress ing on construction of Seaboard terminal in Wilnuingtop# Lumberton —Chostnatf T street Methodist church t»o enlarge Sun day school room. . - . Smithfield—New Seagraves fire trucks purchased for fire depart ment. 4 P i / fi.f ■;* Fairmont— Robeson Ginning Company with capitalization of $50,000 granted charter, r Plymouth New Methodist: church to be erected in this town. .;r Wilmington—Contract to be let for improvtment of Wilmington- New Bern highway. j -‘•i -d\- — 1 i j GOOD ROADS HELP EASTERN TRUCK GROWERS Raleigh, May. 15—When rail roads fail to give satisfactory service in handling perishable truck crops, growers find that they can use the good roads of North Caro lina to obtain results. Growers of early cabbage and garden peas, in the territory around New Bern are using trucks to haul their crops inland. Some farmers bring the crops to New Bern where they are loaded on railroad cars for quick shipment to eastern markets while others rely entirely on trucks to ship their products directly to the consumer. Some of the leading growers of the New Bern section state that they can get their crop into central North Carolina in less time and with more profit by using fast trucks. Several of these trucks loaded high with cabbage and peas were observed recently making their way inland to such towns as ilson, Rocky Mount, Raleigh and Durham. Some of the shipments have been made even farther west to Greensboro with profit. A fleet of trucks has been in ope ration out of the Chadbourn strawberry section this spring. One man reported that he was able to leave the vicinity of Chadbourn late in the afternoon and have his berries on the markets of Rich mond, Washington and Baltimore early the next day. In many in stances the buyers paid at least one dollar a crate more for berries so delivered. Tht county agents of the State College extension service are en couraging this form of quick mar keting and they find in many in stances that farmers are overlook ing the good, -local market which exists for early truck crop right in North Carplina. Harry Shriver of New Bern disposes of nearly all the pi oduce from his 400 acre farm by truck shipments. _ He states that it is more profitable to ship in this uay than to depend on carlot ship ments to the large eastern mar kets. Outlook For Hogs in 1927; Dr. Forster Predicts Fair Prices How long will the price stay up on hogs is vthe big question before our farmers today. . Dr. Forster, chief in agricultural economics of state college, in answering this question, makes this report: “The outlook for swine industry in 1927, is favorable. The indica tions are that hog prices will be maintained through the next six months at about the same level of a year ago, and about the same amount of seasonal movement. Prices during the summer and ear ly fall are likely to continue high, but not quite up to the average of the last six months of 1926. It is anticipated that prices during the winter of 1928, will move to slightly lower levels than during the past winter.” The reasons for the above pore cast are based upon: 1. The corn belt pig crop of 1926 was about one per cent less than the 1925, The hogs on hand Jan. 1, 192'?, are somewhat lower than they were a year ago. \ 2. Highly profitable feeding ratio. Make hogs be fed for heavy weights and thereby reduce total markets during winter of 1927. 3. In December 1926, the pig survey indicated that there was little if any increase in the num ber of sows farrowed in the corn belt in the spring of 1927. 4. The present supply of corn will be more than ample. 5. Domestic demands for 1927 will in all probability be above the average, but slightly lower than in 1926. It would betadvisable for farm ers in the cotton belt who can pro duce good yields 0 f corn to con sider increasing, if possible, their hog production to some extent. Lo cally we can still carry on and be ahead in the production principal ly because of our experience. Subscribe to The Record, $1.50 for 12 months—ln advance, please. Studebaker Cars; Universal Popularity That American nutamob’fles fen joy a preferred position through out the world is indicated by an in vestigation of diversified motor car usss. recently made by the Stude baker Corporation of America. For several years Studebaker passenger cars have been among the world’s most popular motor vehicles and noW Studebaker commercial vehi cles —buses, ambulances, taxicabs,' etc. —are finding a similar world wide popularity. An interesting example ;of the universal acceptance of Studebaker Vehicles is found in Australia f where Studebaker busses give regular scheduled transportation between Port Darwin and Adelaide. r The \ route taken by these busses & through a desert and over a natural sand road. The thermometer in the Australian desert is around 120 de grees Fahrenheit on some days and the “going” is exceedingly diffi cult. Despite the roads and terrific heat, the busses have driven an average of 2,200 miles a week or 228,000 miles a year for two years. On the picturesque streets of Al exandria, Egypt, a Studebaker city type bus gives service that exceeds the street cars in popularity. An other Studebaker provides similar services in The Hague. In Olso, Norway, seven Studebaker busses are in operation, some in city ser vice and others on a line from Olso to Drammen. Studebaker busses also provide a regular schedule of transportation between Balmo and Landskrona in northern Sweden. In the mining town of ’ Mount Isa, N. W., Queensland, Australia, a Studebaker ambulance cares for the ill and injured. There are three Studebaker fire trucks in Calgary and additional Studebaker fire fighting equipment in Collingwood, Ontario and Edmontion, Alberta.ln the state of Puebla, Mexico, a Studebaker chassis is equipped with flanged wheels for use on a railroad line between Nexcaca and Beristein in the service of the Mexi co Light and Power Company. Custom design and the welded steel body have given the car low swung, graceful lines and the highest degree of safety obtainable. Four-wheel brakes, ballopn' tires and Watson stabilators insure comfort and safety on every type of road. The President Limousine is of fered in three combinations of col ors one a pleasing blending of Modoc brown and Hopi drab with gold stripings and another Arizona Brown and Tulsa gray. The rich coloring of the lacquer finish is given a dash of brightness by the nickeled acorn headlights and the nickeled radiator surmounted by the silvered figure of Atalanta. - The power plant the Stude baker Big Six is equaled in rat ed power by only seve#£ars which cost from two to four times more than The President. Because of thrilling performance and excep tional value, Studebaker Big &ix sales now exceed the combined to tals of all other cars in the world of equal or greater rated horsepow er, according to Arthur Cook of Warsaw, the local dealer. The collector of the wages of sin is never turned away empty handed. Potatoes, beans and watermelons in the southeastern section of North Carolina were badly damag ed by the late frosts. Maintaining soil fertility is prob ably the biggest problem before the fruit growers of North Carolina. Soybean hay used as a winter feed for maintaining lambs gave even, better results than the same amount of alfalfa hay. To produce quality fruit, peaches should be thinned to stand four to six inches apart and apples to one fruit per cluster. Farmers of Craven county have received about 542.000 in spot cash for their hog feeding operations this spring. Cotton mills of North Carolina are using four times as much medium cotton as is produced in North Carolina. There appears to be a good demand for inch to inch and one-eighth staple. The individualist who talks so freely about postive gestures, for gets that most of us have our arms full of bundles. Thursday, May lg t HAVE YOUR EYES EXAM,!,. ED BY AN EXPERT-co Sls NO MORE ' f;’!< ' Dr. J. C. Mann,the well-W. eyesight Specialist and Opt cian, will be at Dr. Farrell’s 0 f f ice in Pittsboro, N. C., even' fourth Tuesday and at D Thomas’ office, Siler City r\ every fourth Thursday in J/ month. Headache relieved wh en caused by eye strain. When h« fits you with glasses you have the satisfaction of knowing that they are correct. Make a note of the date and see him if your eyes are weak, v His next visit to Pittsboro will be on Tuesday, May 24. His next visit to Siler City will be on Thursday, May 26. v —— -J DR. LUTHER C. ROLLIXS Dentist ».t J L; •. V : t, Siler City, fI.C T7T- ——■, 7T r— . Buick value is I greater today I than ever I before— I because Buick I is a beautiful I car «-.*.* because I Buick perform* j ance is superb I << < because I Buick’s initial I cost and I operating cost I are low. I Examine I Buick, point by I point. Compare! it with other f cars before L you make 1 your choice. | Drown ervi 5 e 1 uick tation, Sanford, N. *-■ B ADVERTISE! E In Thi- ■ Newspaper For Result I
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