bUS HED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878
; indbergh Given
J Public Acclaim
. jgstic, Yet Most Or-'
**. l the Youth- ■
Has Seen Here
t mis June 18 —St. Louis j
* ' Charles A. Lindbergh a ,
P' ! \L ovation today in its ]
‘ ft acclaim of its youthful trans
r • fiver who came home yes-
L an * informal , virtually ,
May t 0 a (
R-ate reception.
rL most enthusiastic, yet i
‘ -jp r i v demonstration I have
Hi since my landing in;
r; iai d Lindbergh, after he j
[•‘ridden two hours through eight. i
iL of unbroken cheering men, j,
Uen and children packed two to j j
L deep on sidewalks. ; i
I His reception at Sportsmans,
Ij. t jj}g afternoon lacked only j i
lumbers to equai that of the pa-, j
L Even then an estimated 37,- j •
the greatest regular ■ ;
L, on throng ever to attend a St. ,
I bas eball game, jammed their ,
l..'7in to see the young flyer as- j
[ Rogers Hornsby, previously St.;;
I g re at individual hero, raise j ]
[■7world series pennant, won last i
|ar. when Hornsby managed the ,
■ardinals. j'
ISt Louis’ former standard for J j
Intpouring the Armistice day ]
Iflebration, the annual parade of
I e veiled Prophets and the return •
e victorious Cardinals alter
Kad defeated the New York i
■Ji- ees ,; n America's annual base- (
L c i afS ic last fall, all went by j i
He board in estimates of the num- j
uho cheered Lindbergh. j i
■ From the time he emerged from
He Congress hotel until he left the
L: i march fcr a private lunch-.
Hr- before going to the ball park,j;
losably half St. Louis’ population •
Hd possibly a quarter of a million ;
liters shouted his praise. The;
Iwntown district was one vast i
lar and the air filled with cbniet- j !
|| streamers and torn newspapers;
■id telephone books. <
■To the honors and decorations:
■stowed in Paris. Brussels, Lon- *!
Ir. Washington and New York, j
It. Louis had little to give except
Iblie adulation. The parade
lus;i once while Colonel Lind- ,
Irgh was inducted into the Boy
I uts, ar.ti presented a scout knife
Iftd flying insignia. At the ball
In: John Keydk-r. president of :
in. league. gave Colonel
Ijlpergh an annual pass in the «
■■ ;; ot a >iiitiii gold pocket piece
■ commemoration of his epochal
lllk York t ) Paris flight. L
Homyit a: a banquet of 1.50 G of j
■ Lra. and idissouri notables, in
|l thase hotol, additional praise •
I honors were heaped upon the J
■ ‘ • ou ‘ l fe' man, who was near
■ j‘‘ e enii of four continuous ]
°i' public acclaim. j:
A. Baker was 1
■7 r.ew commission in :
■7“' ur: national guards, ele- :
■“■? tile young hero who flew
a> a 1 light commanding cap
-1 the highest j<
: |77 l!V ' aviation forces, j
■ Dans, secretary of war,,
t 0 hand over the U. S. 1
I ,‘V VUl ’ commission recently
Cooiidge. It;
I,r t ' Va ran k of colonel.
H- t . " “ ne ‘ a ' speakers includ-!
It: 7 Ha - G• S. senator !
:souri ; mayor Victor Mil
\Vm (Myir. 1 I .
I - a; 'crs, with ColonelL
to conclude the,
‘ , ’ li another hard ;
w rV L-\. but after that. 1
■ ;1 - nave •, I
B. u ••Uuce to get some,
■'‘'erv-d
B.m .maging from I
II ' smee he land-
H m U.S.S.
■ i ours for
■ dry. With
■ i his final
ihree--
■ 1 fence at Art
■ beauty spot,
more than
B i! l gather, he |
v, *sit to the!
! 'uunci|)al opera;
Bvi t ;, s •• :il conclude the ;
I
one
S°°d work for
went boss.
the Chatham Record
Chatham’s 52nd In
Per Capita Wealth
In a table listing the per capita
wealth of the counties measured by
taxables in 1925, the University
News Letter places Chatham as
52nd. Forsyth leads with a per
capita wealth of slß3l. Cumber
land, the first in the second half of j
the list, is assigned a per capita j
wealth of $786. Chatham comes i
next with an assigned wealth of;
$771 tor every person in the coun-,
ty. Its tax rate in 1925 was $1.22.
But such properties as the Phoenix i
Power plant, worih millions, helps i
to bring up the average, as does
Chatham’s large railroad milage,
the coal m ine, and clay-products j
plants, and other incorporated pro
perties.
Os course, a similar thing is
time in all the counties; but few of
them have such a single object of
wealth as the power plant without
a considerable increase of popula
tion caused by the erection of the
plant. Union, which led in the
quotas of the equalization fund, has
a 5668 per capita tax value, and
paid a 51.75 cent tax rate in 1925,
thus accounting fcr the possibility
of its receiving so great a slice of
the equalization fund. Robeson is
given a S7OO value per capita, and
paid a 51.37 cent tax. Sampson
has a 5569 per capita valuation,
and paid SIA2 tax levy. That coun
ty has little corporate wealth. Dare
is the 100th in the list, with a per
capita valuation of $399, and 51.35
tax rate in 1925.
If you take ■ wo counties in which
the actual personal wealth averages
the same, the one that has the
more corporate wealth, such as
railroads and power plants, in pro
portion to population, pays less
tax per person, and recieves, pro
perly, less help from the state.
Chatham’s big corporate wealth,
compared with its population and
that of other rural counties, has
lightened the tax burden in this
county, but is one of the reasons
the county fares no better at the
hands of the equalization board.
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Children’s Day
At Coal Glenn
There will be Children’s Day
services and a basket dinner at the
Coal Glen church, next Sunday,
June 26. Services begin at ten
thirty. Come and bring a basket
is the invitation being broadcast
from Coal Glen.
COMMISSIONERS TO MEET
TUESDAY, JULY STH.
On account of the First Monday
in July being cn the 4th day of that
month v/e have decided to hold our
regular meeting in July on Tues
day the sth day of said month. The
public will therefore take notice
that the commissioners will not be j
in session on Monday, but will be
in session on the following Tues
day, which is the sth.
Respectfully submitted,
R. J. JOHNSON,
Chairman County Board of Com
missioners.
BIG BIRTHDAY DINNER.
Bynum, Rt. I.—Mr. I. W. Far
rell’s children and grand children
gave him a birth day dinner Sun
day, June 12th, at Mr. and Mrs. E.
P. Hackney’s. Mr. Farrell was 73
He has seven children, eight grand
children and one great-grand child.
There were sixty-one present. Those
from a distance were, Mrs. Albert
Clark and family of Mebane; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Bridges of Aber
deen; Mr. and Mrs. Erie Pender
graff and family of Durham. We
had a fine dinner, including such
as mutton, beef, chicken, ham, all
kinds of cakes and pickels, ice
sream, lemonade. Everybody seem
ed to have a good time. One pre
sent.
ANOTHER VICTORY.
Martha’s Chapel reports another
baseball victory. The ninth vic-
I tory out of ten games was that
j over Gorman. The score was Bto
1. Martha’s Chapel took eleven hits
off the Gorman pitcher, Carpenter,
Yates collecting four of them.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1927
“Shoo Fly” Train
To Be Taken Off
Will Break Up Proposed Improve
ment in Mail Facilities
There is an attempt being made
to get permission to take off the
“shoofly” |ri*in runn/ig from
; Mt. Airy to Sanford late in the day
; and leaving Sanford early in the
I morning. It is 3aid that the com
; pany is losing money by its opera
, tions, as carrying the mail is about
all ft is doing.
i Siler City seems to be making no
i effort to resist the discontinuance
of the train, as the citizens of that
town see that the train is a losing
| proposition to the railroad. Mount
Airy is fighting the discontinuance.
The discontinuance of this train
will be almost certain to upset the
heped-for improvement in Pitts
boro’s mail facilities, as the Dur
ham mail truck will then be of vital
importance to Siler City, ’which
j
would otherwise be left with
nly one mail a day from each end
of the railroad. Goldston and the
olher towns would have only one
mail a day each way, doing the
b.-st they can. Moreover, the re
moval of the shoofly would make
the Sanford connection which has \
been planned of considerably less
value to Pittsboro.
Yet it would seem feasible to
have the mail carried between
Greensboro and Sanford by the
buses plying highway No. 60, with
no more cost to the government j
| than that of carrying it by train.
The mail facilities in Chatham
are already poor enough, but will
be almost intolerable if the shoofly
js taken off and no bus line mail
routes sstablishea.
It is time for the postal depart-!
ment to begin planning a rear-,
rangement of mail routes with a I
view to utilizing the bus lines.
Foreign Commerce
Is Better In China
Too Early to Say Whether Recov
ery of Trade Will Be Perma
nent, Report States
Shanghai, China, June 18—One
j comparatively bright spot in China
regarding foreign commerce in
south China, reports from -Hong
kong state that trade with Canton
it; making a remarkable recovery
though it is too early to say wheth
er it will be permanent.
! Trade in the Yangtse valley re- ,
i mains stagnant, while domestic j
affairs at Hankow caused the gov
ernment there great concern. The j
troops returning from Honan are j
frequently out of hand. They have !
concentrated at Wachang, where I
food ships are looted every night
and fights between the troops and
j police occur daily.
A wireless message from Han
; kow today says that the rice shops
: have been exhausted of their sup
plies by sale and theft.
Baptists Will Seek
Fund of 51,500,000
This to Be Distributed Among
Church’s Schools in State.
Meredith Gets Million.
Charlotte, June 18. —One million
i five hundred thousand dollars will
be sought by the general board of
the North Carolina Baptist conven
tion in the memorial fund cam
paign, is announced here. The
general board at a recent meeting
in Raleigh voted to increase the
sum authorized from Sooo,ooo • to j
' 81,500,000.
The fund is to be used for edu
cational institutions as follows:
Wake Forest college, 8250,000;
Meredith college, 81,000,000; Mars
j Hill Junior college, $85,000; Win-1
i gate Junior college, $00,000; Boil
ling Springs high school, $40,000;
j Campbell college, $40,000; Chowan
college, 820,000.
The remainder will be used to de
fray expenses of the campaign.
Prohibition agents raided a 500-
i gallon still near Princeton Univer
i sity campus—on tips from the col
, lege authorities. Evidently the
Princeton Tiger is not a blind-tiger.
Bynum Ball Team
In Central League
The Bynum team will play in
big company this season. It has
joined the Central League, com
posed of the following towns: Carr
boro, Hillsboro, Durham (Y.M.C.
A.), Rougemont, Oxford, Hender
son, and Roxboro. The following
partial schedule has been arrang
ed for the Bynum boys;
Rougemont at Bynum, Saturday,
June 25.
Carrboro at Bynum, July 9.
Oxford at Bynum. July 23.
A more complete schedule will
be reported next week.
The Bynum team is a strong one,
but will be up against one of the
strongest teams in the league Sat
urday. Rougemont defeated Rox
boro last Saturday by a score of
6 to 0. At the very outset, the
Bynum team will have its metal
tested. Baseball fans should bear
the Saturday game in mind and be
present to rah for the Bynum
team.
Cooiidge Moves From
Washington to So. D.
Special Train of Eight Cars Leaves
The Capital City With Unusually
Large Party
Washington, June 15—President
and Mrs. Cooiidge left tonight to
spend the summer in the South Da
kota Black Hills.
They are scheduled to reach the
state game lodge, which has been
placed at their disposal, Wednes
day right. They will detrain at
Rapid City and-cover the last 32
miles of their 1,900-mile journey
by motor.
Accompanied by an unusually
large party, which included an
office staff, servants, secret service
men, newspaper reporters and
photographers, the President and
Mrs. Cooiidge departed at nine-five
o’clock from Washington on an
eight-car special train. It is sched
uled to make only one extended
stop, that at Hammond, Ind., where
the President will deliver an ad
dress tomorrow afternoon.
Prospects of escape from the
heat which is usually severe here
in the summer but which has been
slow coming on this year, plainly
pleased Mr. Cooiidge as he turned
his eyes westward, where he will
establish a temporary white house
at the fartherest point from here
ever selected by a President over
an extended period of time.
The state game lodge, which will
be the executive’s summer resi
dence, is far up in the Black Hills,
1,900 miles from Washington and
32 miles from Rapid City, where
the presidential party will detrain
late Wednesday. An eight car spe
cial train was made up to carry the
President and Mrs. Cooiidge, the
White house office staff, household
employe's, newspaper men and pho
tographers and necessities required
to keep house at the President’s
mansion.
Despite his busy week-end as
host to Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh, the President found his
work well in shape today and a few
hours at his desk in the morning
followed by another brief visit to
his office in the afternoon put him
in position to leave town for ' the
summer. There were a few callers
to say goodbye and some routine
business demanding attention.
MISS NOOE HONORED.
Miss Fannie Nooe, who is to be
married July 12 to Mr. Whitlock of
Ridgeway, S. was the recipient
of numerous beautiful and valuable
presents at a shower given in her
honor last Friday evening by
Mesdames O. J. Peterson and Fred
Nooe.
The party lasted only the hour,
from 5 to 6 p. m. The honoree’s
home, in which the party was held,
was beautifully decorated fcr the
occasion. Cream and wafers were
served to the numerous guests.
Judge Harris is putting a crimp
in the automobile and gasoline
business. One of his favorite pen
alties is to forbid a culprit’s driv
ing a car for a year or two .
Legless Heroes Act
As Guard for Lindy
Two Blind Veterans Smilingly
Tell Lindbergh He’s An “In
spiration to Us”
St. Louis, June 19.—There are
places where even Charles A. Lind
bergh stands abashed and draws
back in awe. Those who followed
him into a war veterans hospital
today saw him thus standing a
h alpless figure before heroes of
other years.
The colonel’s first act today was
to pay a friendly call to 250
wounded world war veterans at
Jefferson barracks. Meanwhile St.
Louis acclaiming multitudes were
compelled to bide their time.
The New York to Paris flier mo
tored out to the hospital inauspi
ciously and paid a simple tribute to
every patient. First to greet him
near the hospital were four legless
veterans who wheeled their chairs
I up to his automobile, deftly wheel
!ed about and preceded him as a
guard of honor up the steep hill
side to the hospital door.
The flier seemed moved more
than a little and was unusually
solemn of visage.
Solicitously and yet hurriedly,
Colonel Lindbergh poked his head
! in every dormitory door and waved
his hand as Commandant H. W.
Baker said:
; “This is Colonel Lindbergh,
boys.”
Two blind veterans groped smil
ingly toward the hero and Lind
bergh shook their hands in both of
his.
“Colonel,” said one of them, “you
are an inspiration to us. We have
| been following you ever since you
. hepped off.”
“Oh, thank you,” Lindbergh re
! plied: “thank you so much.”
Once the distinguished figure
stepped back from an open door
way like a boy whose feelings are
hurt, quite without warning.
Before him lay a haggard figure,
trying to smile through a swathing
of gauze while two nurses rubbed
cool hands over his forehead.
“Hello,” said Lindbergh, and hur
ried away.
After he had visite4 those who
are confined to their rooms* the
colonel went to a small auditorium
■ and greeted those who had as
sembled there. Commandant Baker
suggested that the hospital make
Lindbergh a “comrade” and the
deed was done in a mighty chorus
, of ayes while the aviator began
shaking hands with each of his
new “buddies.”
Lindbergh, like most folks who
pay a sick call, brought - some
“goodies.” His gift was atn
enormous fruit cake which was
presented him last night at the St.
Louis banquet. It measured more
than two feet across, was six
inches thick and decked in icing and
colorful festoones including a
candy model of the “Spirit of St.
Louis.”
“It’s fcr mess,” he said simply,
and away to the mess hall it went.
Despite the quiet trip to the hos
pital 300 people were outside the
institution to greet him. There
were a score of young girls who
nearly eliminated themselves from
, | the scene by such exclamation as,
“Oh, ain’t he grand! * * * He
looked right at me.” But to others
it seemed the colonel was interest
ed only in his mission and per
forming it well.
NEW MANAGER FOR THE
CHATHAM COUNTY FAIR
V. B. Elkins, of Siler City, has
been chosen as manager of the
Chatham County Fair, to succeed
, Mrs. P. IT. Elkins, who has re
. move to Fredericksburgh, Va. The
i new manager will give his time
« from now on till the fair next fall
to the promotion of the fair. Mr.
, Fred Paschal, president of the
association, is quoted as saying
, that the prospects are for the best
, fair the county has had.
Farmers should begin now to
plan for exhibits. The premiums
: will be more worth while than ever
, before, it is stated.
No one cares to tell or hear the
whole truth about himself.
Editor Vaughan
Wins SIOO Prize!
Some months ago the Interna
ional Farmer offered a series of
prizes for the best articles written
oy country newspaper editors of
fering solutions of the farm prob
lem. No clear-cut solution was re
ceived, but articles went in from
33 states. The first prize was won
by Editor Vaughan of the People’s
Advocate, Fayetteville, N .C., and
the article is deemed of enough in
terest to be reproduced below. Mr.
Vaughan got SIOO, and that, at
least, helps solve his own problem.
The Winning Article.
Dear Sir:-—Farming, like every (
other productive enterprise, cannot
be successful without sound busi
ness management. The lack cf this
is the chief handicap of the great
majority of farmers.
Inasmuch as the farmer has to
sell his products in an unprotected
market and buy his supplies in a
protected market, he must over- !
come this difficulty as far as pos- j
sible by “living at home”. That is !
he must produce on his farm to the j
extent of his ability what he con
sumes. He will thus have less to
buy.
The farmer must learn that the
price for which a product is sold i
i does not determine profit or loss i
\ except when considered in connec
! tion with the cost of production.
He must give due attention to
, the details that come under the
! head of management, such as I
| acreage of various crops, chpice of i
j soil, selection of seed, use of fer- j
| tilizer if needed, methods of culti
; vation, harvesting and last, but not
! least, marketing.
Intelligent diversification has
I saved many farmers from bank
j ruptcy.
The farmer must realize that
his erdp surpluses may be convert
ed into milk and meat products
through his livestock.
He must be brought to a realiza
tion cf the fact that organization
affords protection in giving him a!
voice in fixing the prices at which j
his products shall be sold.
Yours truly,
FRED W. VAUGHAN,
Editor Peoples’ Advocate.
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A Slack Pp In The
Payment of Taxes
When the sale of land for de
linquent taxes was first threaten
ed, there was a considerable rush,
to pay taxes, but despite the at- ;
tempt of those trying to give the j
1 delinquents an opportunity to pay!
before their property should be ad
’ vertised, there has been a consid
erable slack up and very little tax
money is coming in. Bpt the hold j
off of advertising is only tempor- j
ary. A settlement has to be made j
by Sheriff Blair in the fall before j
he can get the tax books, and the
sale will be made before that;
time ocmes. It is probable *
that advertising of delinquents will !
begin in a very few weeks now,and |
that sales will be made during Au
gust.,
It is a busy time now for a far
mer to make any extra money to
, pay taxes, but he should lay his
plans to get hold of the money as
soon as possible. Sheriff Blair
does not desire to advertise any
body’s property, but it is a case of
having to unless the taxes are paid
within a few weeks.
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Burns
announce the marriage
of their daughter,
I Mildred
to
Joe W. Tyson
on the 20th day of Feb
-1027.
The bride is a very lovely young
lady and popular among her many
friends. The groom is a popular
and successful young business man
1 of this section.
The marriage was kept a secret
on account of the bride’s being in
school. After the close of school
the young couple left for a trip in
i Virginia, after which they will be
at Coal Glen.
VOLUME NO. 49
Flood Loss Estimated
To Run Into Millions
America to Spend Over $30,000,-
000 In Relief This Year. AD
Must Bear Losses.
New Orleans, June 18.—The
New Orleans States today publish
ed a statement in which Secretary
Hoover says that the economic lose
from the Mississippi flood pro
bably will run from $200,000,000
to $400,000,000.
“In human terms this Mississippi
river flood of 1927 means 750,000
people flooded, over 600,000 driven
from their homes or made depend
ent upon relief,” the statement said.
“The economic loss will probably
run from $200,000,000 to $400,000,-
000.
“That 1,500,000 of our country
men should continue to live in such
jeopardy is unthinkable.
“America will spend more than
$30,000,000 in flood relief in one
form or another this year, and that
is but a small part.
“Every worker, every farmer,
every investor in the United States
will bear some part of the shock.
“All engineering plans for flood
control of the river must be revis
ed against any possible combina
tion of floods from the tributaries.
“The main thing is a plan bold
and strong enough to deal with the
question in finality. For we must
live with the river for thousands of
years yet.
i “As an engineer I have a techni
;cal interest in this problem. As a
\ citizen, my mind is filled with re
-1 collections of suffering and misery
I have seen.
j “The levee system must be revis
ed and strengthened. Above all we
must have some safety devices to
1 relieve the strain on the levee sys
tem m periods of super-floods and
make them absolutely sure once
ar.d for all.
I “Spillways in Louisiana are pro
posed. There are approximately
three spillways locations. The At
j chafalaya river, some spot on the
i Mississippi east bank above New
' Orleans, opening direct into Lake
! Pontehartrain, some spot on the
Mississippi east bank below New
Orleans, approximately where the
levee was dynamited at Cavernar
von, reservoirs in the upper reaches
of all tributaries are also proposed.
“I am convinced that our engi
neers can develop plans that will
control the flood. I believe we can
give security to the people living
below the levees.
“We can not abolish the levee
i system.
| “We can strengthen the levees
and supplement them strongly with
safety devices of one kind or l an
other.” •
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i BEAUTIFUL HOME WEDDING
j A wedding of much interest took
j place at nine o’clock Tuesday at
I the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
I Mann, when their daughter, Annie
Mann, became the bride of Mr. L.
| E. Sturdivant.
The home was attractively de
corated in fern and Queen Anne’s
lace. Prior to the ceremony Mrs.
Irie Mann sang beautifully, “The
Sweetest Story Ever Told,” ac
companied at the piano by Miss
Swannie Cobb of Burlington.
To the strains of the wedding
March from “Lohengrin”, the maid
of honor, Miss Lela Mann, sister
of the bride, and the groomsman,
Mr. Henry Hatch, both of Burl
ington, entered. The bride and
groom then entered together. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
C. M. Lance, pastor of the bride.
During the ceremony, “To a Wild
Rose”, was rendered.
The bride wore a handsome
dress of powder-blue Georgette
with grey accessories and carried
a bouquet of sweet-peas, shadowed
with valley lillies.
Mr. and Mrs. Sturdivant left im
mediately after the ceremony for a
brief trip to western North Caro
lina. y
The bride is the popular and ac
complished daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Manfi of the Brown’s
chapel community.
Mr. Sturdivant is a prominent
young business man of Cary.
The happy couple will be at
home in Cary after June 20th.
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