Newspapers / The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, … / June 9, 1927, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PAGE TWO THE CHATHAMRECORD o. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher , SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1927 CAVEANT. "Solve seneseentem mature sanus equum ne Peccet ad extremum ridendus et ilia ducat”, which may be roughly rendered: "Take the ageing race horse from the chariot yoke Before he becomes windbroken and a joke”. Thus did the Roman poet Horace excuse himself for three years of inactivity, and the same homely philosophy impelled Nathaniel Ma con, North Carolina’s greatest statesman, to resign the U. S. sen atorship which he had graced for many years and retire from public service at the age of seventy. Dr. W. L. Poteat, ranking among North Carolina educators as Macon among statesmen, has followed his example and retired from the presidency of Wake Forest College at the age of seventy. Their fame i$ unshakenly established. Reverting to the language of Horace, we suggest: Senatorem et seniorem et jun iorem haec moneant, which being interpreted is, Page Senators Sim mons and Overman. There seems a real intention on the part of the government to dis cover and effect plans to curb the flood waters of the Mississippi. It is a national government function, and one that cannot justly be post poned. It is a great undertaking, but Uncle Sam is competent for almost any task to which he sets his head. It turns out that comparatively little of the heathens’ money was spent in sending missionaries to them and in printed propaganda, but the principle is the same, whether the amount was one dollar or a thousand. It is the state-wide practice that we really have been hoping to reach ultimately. If one of our readers should go to a restaurant, he would not be so much interested in the size of the plate in which his dinner is served as in its contents. Now, before you grumble about the size of this pa per, read it and compare what it has in it with what it has in its usual eight-page form and what other weeklies have in them. We are not trying to give the world news. This is the Chatham Record. Scarcely a summer passes with out some youth’s breaking his neck by diving upon the sand bottom of White Lake. The last victim is John Pearce, a University student from Louisburg. Surely this trag edy should be a warning to all who read of it. But warnings fbould be posted about the lake beach, to the effect that several have broken their necks by diving to the' hard sand bottom. News comes from Raleigh that the automobile headlight law which foes into effect July 1 will be rig idly enforced. It is time the light menace to life is removed, and it is gratifying to note that the time is near at hand when it will be abated. See that your lights are right before July 1. There will be stations licensed to give car own ers certificates, and one will make himself subject to a severe penal ty if he doesn’t have such certi ficate. It is noted that practically all the young men graduating from the engineering school of State Col lege have secured positions with the State Highway That is all right. But now con sider that these young men have been educated largely at the ex pense of the state. They start out with good salaries, as certain of payment as fate. They get their experience at state expense, and when they are really com petent to serve the state secure of fers from abroad or demand a higher wage. This apropos of the request of 395 employees of the highway commission for increase in salaries. Subscribe to The Record, $1.50 i SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS (H. F. Durham) Is it true that we are just self righteous men and women ? I, you, and they feel as good as the other fellow and perhaps better. It is easy to make mistakes but much easier to see the faults of , others rather than our own, and are ready to knock him. For some time the Record has been fighting and knocking the county-wide school question and lots of. individuals. It reminds me of when Jesus Christ was on earth ’ and trying to begin a better step for our lives and all have an equal | chance to be a Christian and doing ' more good upon the earth. I have known Prof. Reid Thomp son all of his life and know he makes mistakes; but I believe he is just as good and honest as he know how to be and really has the interest of the coming fathers and mothers at heart. I have never been solicited to write anything for the papers and get nothing for it, but when I see the need of a thing I do not mind 1 expressing my views. (If the editor of the Record has j said a word derogatory to the per sonal character of Supt. Thomp i son he does not recall it and did not 'intend it. The Record makes its j fights in behalf of principles, de- I fending or assailing policies, and "knocking” individuals only where in they are involved in the policy assailed. —Editor.) HEROES GALORE. Lindbergh, already raised to the rank of colonel of the Missouri Na tional Guard, is approaching the American shores on a U. S. war ship assigned to the single purpose of bringing the flier home. The boy has kept his head amid honors such as have never been extended before to one of his youth. Pre miers and kings have vied with i each other in honoring the youth. Multitudes have striven to see and speak to him. The attention of the world, several times larger i than the world of Alexander’s time, has been focused upon the boy,and ' awaiting him in Washington, where he is expected to arrive Saturday, is the head of the earth’s greatest ; nation of all time, prepared, with all the governmental and social cohorts of the capital city, to do the intrepid lad honors comparable to thdt paid him in the capitals of Europe, where three weeks ago he landed, naively considering it necessary that he should introduce himself, and bearing letters of re | commendation, as “he didn’t know j anybody in France.” And while i this young man is impatiently awaited by American hosts who wish to do him honor, two other Americans are cyn'osures of the eyes ;6jf Germany—Chamberlin and Levine, who just two weeks after Lindbergh’s glorious achievement, j sailed over the same broad Atlant • ic, passed on beyond Paris and were within less than two hundred ;miles.of Berlin when their supply of gasoline gave out and forced a landing. Only an unfortunate Wrangle between two men who I sought; to go with Chamberlin pre sented ,his earlier flight and the probability of his being the man ,who received the honors bestowed upon Lindbergh. Already Cham berlin’s aeroplane had been tested, as he had flown it for 51 hours above Long Island, flying far enough to equal the distance to Rome ,or further, and no precau ; tion had been neglected to make the flight sure and safe. Then, for him to be antedated by young Lind bergh was misfortune enough, not ( to have heen cut short of his desti i nation by the lack of a few gallons of gasoline. But he and his com panion have won the long-distance record of the world—to hold for, maybe, three or four weeks, and then to be surprised by possibly some youth whose name today is unknown and unsung. Chamberlin, however, gets $15,- 000.00, as a prize from the New York Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. Chamberlin and Mrs. Levine are on their way to Europe, bear ing the check. Levine, who financ ed Chamberlin, kept his intention to go a secret and even his wife did not know it till he hopped into the plane just as it started its run !to mount the air for its epochal flight.. Verily heroes are no rarity. The News Observer opines that it is an impossibility to pre vent pretty school teachers from falling- in love. But our observa tion is that some who are not beau ties fall the hardest. i Subscribe to The Record, $1.50 v, ! NEW HILL NEWS j ! Mr. K. B. Riddle is in Watts hos .! pital at Durham where he will un , dergo an operation for appendicitis. | He has been complaining for quite ! a while and his friends are hoping | he will soon be completely well. Mr. | Riddle is venerable man, and will |be ordained a deacon in New 1 Elam Christian church the third Sunday in June. Word has been received here that a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bynum Tysinger of Lexing ton, May 28th. Mrs. Tysinger be fore her marriage was Miss Bettie Moore Sturdivant of this section. Mrs Gordon Copeland and daughters, Elizabeth, Ruth, Mar garet, Edna and Vivian of Durham were guests last week of Mrs. Bet tie Thomas. Miss Alice Copeland who was se riously injured in an automobile wreck in Raleigh a few weeks ago is getting along nicely and will soon return to the home of her fa ther, Mr. J. L. Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson of Durham were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beckwith. Miss Dora Holt spent last week in Lee county with Mrs. Walter Gilmore. Miss Grizell Copeland of Raleigh spent Sunday with her father, Mr. Lonnie Copeland. Mr. Alevine was with us in Christian Endeavor Sunday night and gave us a very interesting,and helpful talk on “And He went a little father,” The society also took a collection for the Mississip pi flood refugees and will be sent to Mr. N. M. Hill. Mr. C. M. Goodwin has accepted a position as clerk with Efird’s de partment store in Raleigh. The state employee who gets more than a living and has no risk to run is a fortunate man compar ed with the average fellow whose fortunes are subject to every kind of hazard. Safety, comparative lack of contingencies, in such cases should be a factor in fixing salaries. But the average state employee wants more salary than i he could earn in business for him j self, though in the latter case he | could have hazards that the ave rage state employee knows nothing ! of. Just note in this connection tha 395 employees of the highway i commission are asking increase of j salary.' But, after all, one of 1 these days there will necessarily ' come a slack in road building, and 1 these fellows will meet a real con j tingency. ‘ j Returning from the Poe reunion , Saturday, May 21, we were struck ! with the beauty of Mr. 'H. P. Jones’ ! oat field, dotted with shocks of ripe grain and framed by forests of ; oak. A few days later, glancing | at the front cover page of the Pro -1 gressive Farmer we were almost | persuaded that the full-page pic ture there was a photograph of Mr. Jones’ field, and it turns out that Dr. Clarence Poe had been at tracted by the s?me scene that caught our eye and had taken a photograph of it. EXECUTORS’ NOTICE The undersigned having been duly qualified as executors of the last will and testament of Noah Cheek, late of Chatham county, hereby warn all persons having claims against the estate to pre sent them duly proven on or before June 6, 1928, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery, j. All persons owing the estate will please make immediate payment. This June i, 1927. W. B. CHEEK, GEO. E. RIEVES, Executors. June 9, 6tc. NOTICE To Mrs. Julia Holland, New Hope Township, Chatham County: This is to notify you that if you do not redeem your land which was sold for taxes for the year 1924 on Sept. 6, 1926, I will get a sheriff’s deed for the seventy-five acres, valued at 81,242.00. This May 26, 1927. C. D. MOORE. June 2 4tp. NOTICE To Mrs. Maud Bolling, New Hope Township, Chatham County: This is to notify you that unless you redeem your land which was sold for taxes for the year 1924 on Sept. 6, 1926, I will get a sheriff’s deed for the 23 acres, valued $390.00. This May 26, 1927. C. D. MOORE. June 2, 4tp THE CHATHAM RECORD OLD TIME AND MODERN SCHOOLS (Continued from page 1) years, just as it has been brought home to the leaders in public edu ! cation everywhere. Some 20 years | ago the dean of Harvard College I said his college wasn’t receiving the hardheaded masterful boys that formerly came, when schools had a more limited curricula. “It is evident that pupils in pub ! lie schools and secondary schools need to concentrate on a limited number of subjects and master those that is education in the 1 true sense of the wor. d. The mas tery of a limited number of sub jects gives the students mental training which enables him to take other subjects later in life and complete the mastery of them. "There are many things in our new school curricula which have 1 considerable value, but to find time for these subjects and do jus ■ tice to the fundamentals is hardly possible in the limited school days. “The men who have gained > prominence by outstanding ac complishments are men who have confined themselves to their chos en subjects. What is true of great men is equally true of students in high schools and elementary schools. Masters of the fundamen tals in elementary schools are stu dents who make greatest successes i in high schools and colleges. ; “The fact that our colleges are sending home at Christmas time a very large percentage of the fresh -1 men that enter with the opening of the college in the fall, is evi dence of the lack of thoroughness of the subjects pursued in the high schools. “Another reason for these fail ures is due to the fact that so many of them are not college material. The ambition of every parent to day is to give his child a college education, at great expense to himself, and often to the extent of depleting his resources to the point where at old age he must live in complete or comparative pov ' erty. 50 Percent Should Not Go to College “Dr. France, president of Brown University, has stated that about 50 per cent of the boys who go to college would be much better off by going into the trades or busi ness. The fact that a very small percentage of those that enter a freshman class complete college is evidence they are misfits. They come home to parents and friends who are disappointed because of their failure. Yet many drift into the business world and make nota ble success, despite the fact that they must recover from the severe setback caused by their failure in college. One needs but to look about him in his own neighbor hood, to find evidence of the truth of this statement. “The same condition exists in our high schools, which is proven by the fact that less than 50 per cent of those entering high school ever complete high school, a con dition which may be attributed in large degree to the lack of interest in the subjects pursued. “Another cause of high school failure is poor teaching. Teachers must know more than the subject taught, and have the faculty of showing the pupil the value of the subject, and inspire a real love for the study that will caus& him to achieve its mastery. “I sometimes doubt whether our colleges and normal schools are giving the right kind of training to the would-be teachers in their institutions. These institutions are taking it for granted when a stu dent enters, he or she has mastered the work of the high school, and it is a foregone conclusion they should have done so. Bunglesome Teaching. “But the attempt to teach these rather immature minds many of the mysteries of psychology and sociology, has not brought about any very great improvement in the ability of these people to im part instruction successfully. “From a practical standpoint, we find few of these teachers put ting the principles they are sup posed to have learned about th ena ture of the mind into practice in their teaching. This is so true that some of the high school sup erintendents and principals advise these people to forget their psy chology, and to teach the subject so the pupil will have a love for it, as well as a desire to become thor oughly acquainted with it.” Mr. Sheep explains that prob ably the greatest trouble behind the student’s inability to grasp the extensive curricula of the schools today is the system of making him complete his schooling in 11 years. ' “It would be far better,” sajrs Mr. Sheep, “particularly in this cli mate, to carry the student through ; 12 years of nine months each, than 11 years of 10 months each.” “There are many reasons to sup port this claim. We are paying ■ too much attention to quality ; output; we are cramming the mind beyond its capacity to retain; we are not giving the child an oppor tunity for investigation, and the i acquiring of general information;, we do not provide a vacation • lengthy enough during the hot months that is essential to his sical development and worst of . all, we are sending children to col l lege at 15 and 16 years of age, the > most impressionable age, when they are too young to go away from the character moulding and ■ strengthening influence of their . home and parents.” I SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY 1 Under and by virtue of authority • conferred upon us in a deed of ! trust executed by Sam Harrington and wife, Hannah Harrington, on ; the 18th day of April, 1925, and i recorded in book A. C. page 3, we r will on Saturday, the 25th of June • 1927, at twelve o’clock noon, at ■ the court house door in Pittsboro, ; sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the following s land; to-wit: i Two certain tracts or parcels of ■ land, lying and being in Cape Fear ; Township, Chatham county, N.orth Carolina, bounded as follows: > First Tract: Beginning at the i creek, Jerry Harrington’s corner and running thence south 0 west 30.87 chains to center of road; r thence south 1245 west 4.90 chains . to a stake; thence south 0 30 west • 19.60 chains to a stake and point : ers; thence south 85 east 37 chains • to Dickens corner thence north 3.30 ; ; east 50.95 chains to Arch Ragland’s s corner in Marks’ line; thence north 80 west 23.05 chains to a stake and pointers, Ragland’s corner; thence north 3 30 east 6.50 chains; thence north 80 west 4 chains to the creek; thence down said creek to the be t ginning, containing 174 1-2 acres, more or less, and being a part of 1 , that tract of land conveyed to C. 1 P. Sellars by W. E. Reece and wife by deed recorded in book E. X. page 3, in the office of Register of Deeds for Chatham county. ; Second tract: Adjoining the first tract above described, begin i ning at a stake, east of the creek, • a corner in Jerry Harrington’s line , of 45 acres; thence south 75 east 17.10 chains to a stake in the line of the Sam Harrington 174 1-2 > ! acre tract; thence north 3 east as | said line 28 chains to a stake in the creek, corner of said 174 1-2 acre and 87 1-2 acre tract thence down the creek its various courses _3O 1-2 chains to a stake, corner of Ot l tis Cotton and Jerry Harrington; thence east 7 chains to a stake in the line of Jerry Harrington ;thence south 2.60 chains to the beginning point, containing 42 acres, mope or less. This sale is made by reason of failure of Sam Harrington and wife, Hannah Harrington, to pay off and discharge the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust to the North Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank of Durham. This the 16th day of May, 1927. FIRST NATIONAL COMPANY, INC., Trustee, formerly First National Trust Co., Durham, N. C. NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF LAND FOR TAXES. You, Carrie Vanansdale, will hereby take notice that I. P. Up church did buy at a tax sale on May Ist, 1925, a certain tract of land situate in Chatham county, known as the N. B. Howard land, of which you are an interested party; and that unless you pay to the said I. P. Upchurch the amount of tax, or your part thereof, now due to him, the undersigned will apply to the Sheriff of Chatham county, one year from the date of the sale of said land, for a deed for said land or your interest therein. This the 27th day of May, 1927. (Signed): I. P. UPCHURCH. June 2.—4tc. RAD FEARRIBGTON ESTATE Baldwin Township, Chatham County, N. C. This is to notify you that unless you redeem your land which was sold for taxes for 1923 and 1924 on Sept., 6, 1926, I will get a Sher iff’s Deed for the 20 acres gs land valued at S2OO. VT. V. RIGGSBEE, Keep Away from Calomel!! It is Quicksilver- Mercun Never take calomel. It is mer cury—a dangerous drug. If you are constipated, bilious, sick, head achy, stomach sour, meals don’t tas.te right, hot days make you drowsy and lazy, take Dodson’s Liver Tone. That’s all you 'need. Calomel salivates. That’s why you have to take salts the next day to, , get it out of your system so it will not eat your bones. You haye to stay at home a day to re cuperate from the shock it gives you. No wonder Podson’t Liver THE DOLLAR YOU SPENT YESTERDAY Now belongs to someone else THE ollar you deposit in your bank account will be yours tomorrow, ready when you need it, and earn ing compound interest all the while. Make this Bank your banking home. t THE BANK OF PITTSBORO The Oldest Bank in Chatham County. r—i NOT A ONE-SIDED AFFAIR 1 ill I ft in || | Banking is not a one-sided affair by any means. || | When you borrow money, security is expected, of | ||| course. But when you money, we are ex- |l ||l pected to guarantee your deposit—AND WE DO. I Every dollar of this Bauk’s capital and surplus I ft -! ! stands as a guarantee that depositors shall have II ![ f their money promptly on demand. Also every I ||| stockholder is personally liable for double the I jI 7 amount of the stock he holds. Even more. Our II ~ j officers, directors, stockholders, ALL feel a per- X | sonal responsibility to our patrons and therefore II | conduct a conservative business always. - i THE BANK OF GQLDSTON, I I Goldston, N. C. 18 | " H • ' I H. i i~" " i , , . t j / V • __ „ WHEN ITS TIME TO BUY I ROOFING I • For Chatham and surrounding counties, Budd-Piper Roofing Company in Durham is headquarters for all kinds of roofing. The Budd-Piper Roofing Company can sup- M ply you, and supply you at the right price, M I with anything from 5-V Crimp Galvanized Roofing to the better grades of roofing for good homes, churches, schools, factories, stores and other structures. THE BUDD-PIPER I ROOFING CO I DURHAM, N. c - June a— - Tone is so popular. All , ou , i take a spoonful at night R v do * ■ ing you are cleaned out 'gooH i?H ; is clear, you feel as light a 1 i ther ; you are not sick nn / lfa: 5 of salivation, and you can JN . thing you want. Think of Get the big bottle of n* r Liver Tone from y OU r „ j store. They all have it. . the house so you will have in' 3 ; <*y to teke nights btf ore go ir * : bed. n 6 * n Su
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 9, 1927, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75