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PAGE TWO THE CHATHAMRECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year $1.50 Six Months -75 THURSDAY, JULY 7,1927 The crowd at Siler City Monday is said to have been one of the largest ever assembled in Chatham county; yet there is reported no evidence of drinking. A fine record that. The Life Exchange Institute is trying to interest people of middle age and beyond in keeping well and living long. Here is one sugges tion they make to elderly people: Try to avoid stepping directly out of bed, barefooted on a cold floor. Use warm slippers whenever pos sible. It is coming to a pretty pass when the school officials of Wilkes county have to handle so great funds that a matter of two notes for $25,000.00 each can appear in the New York banks due im mediately and no one has any re collection of why they were made and for what the money was used. And no record can be found of their issue. We suggest htat the next airman attempting to fly to Paris start from N.Y. in the night so as to land in Paris before dark. It is one of the most wonderful things of all the flights made that Commander Byrd and his three companions es caped with their lives after flying for hours through a dense rain, un able to see any landing field and with their gasoline supply lowering every hour A READY WATER SUPPLY. ■"n The Record has been in a quand ary on the question of waterworks for Pittsboro. The need of water is readily seen; but the possibility of installing a plant without over burdening the taxpayers of the town is not so nearly evident as the desirability of having the water The town is like many of its citiz- 1 ens—it needs much that it isn’t able to afford. But if some way could be found by which an effective supply of wa ter for fire-fighting purposes can be secured without an overburden some tax, the Record would favor the installation of such a system. And to this end, we should like to -call the attention of the town com missioners to what is apparently an artesian area just above the depot. The Nooe well by the side of the railroad is only twelve feet deep. * I It has been chugfull of water all these two dry years, and that means up with the level of the rail road irions hardby. A pit dug just above the Nooe office supplied the saw mill with water. The whole area seems to be supplied with an artesian flow from afar, practical ly reaching the earth level of the depot Accordingly, if one well would not afford a sufficient supply, a battrey of wells can be bored at a trifling cost. Then with a tank forty or fifty feet high, and elec • • 1 tricity power at hand for pump ing, the supply is apparently se cured. The amount of pumping re quired to carry the water to the tank would be no greater than re quired to bring water to the sur face from a deep well, and the location is right in town. The next problem would be to pipe the water at a minimum cost along the prin cipal streets. The recurrent fires of the past two years emphasizes the necessity of water protection, but still it must be remembered that destruc tive fires occur despite the best of water systems. Only the other day a bridge across the Dan River at Danville burned, with a whole ri ver of water to be used in fight ing it. Apropos this water supply, the town can have a swimming pool-- by merely digging a 6-foot pit as i>ig as it needs. COMMENTS ON BYRD’S FLIGHT The French people have certain ly redeemed themselves for any former apparent lukewarmness to ward Americans by their series of unprecedented receptions of Ameri can fliers. A finer spirit could not have been manifested. Thousands greeted Byrd and his companions and if Americans do not fully ap- J preciate the achievement of those four intrepid fliers, the French do. As the arrowlike flight of Lind bergh appealed to the imagination of the Frenchmen and brought them out by the tens of thousand to pay tribute to the “lone eagle,” so did the lonely wanderings of Byrd and his companions in a dense rain over an unlighted France, seek- I ing a place to alight till in despe ration they sought the sea and plunged into the surf rather than risk a landing by land,where it was impossible to distinguish town from country, or field from forest. It was nigh tragic for the lights to be turned off on the airplane fields of Paris and other French cities when Byrd and his doughty comrades were winging their way through dense fog or denser rain with their compass gone wild. The one responsible for the report that a safe landing had been made, which was accountable for the turn ing off of the lights, if discoverable, should be punished. Only a glimpse of a light from a lighthouse enabl ed the lost fliers to locate the sea and plunge downward into it when their gasoline was getting uncom fortably low. Their escape, under the circumstances, is not only for tunate, but marvelous. While Commander Byrd’s flight across the Atlantic did not have acclaim of the world as did Lind bergh’s, there is no question that his flight is worth more to aviation than Lindbbergh’s. With the ex ception of gales, * the weather conditions under which Command er Byrd flew could hardly have been worse. For nineteen hours he flew over the waters when he could ees nothing but the plane. The ocean itself was invisible and he didn’t get a peep at the sun or a star. And when he had reached France in the night, his compass failed and for hours he wancered through a rain that pre vented his seeing any more than he had seen in flight across the sea.! That he could safely cross under such conditions, and alight upon an j unseen surf without loss of life j and with comparatively slight in- j jury to the great plane, is exceed- j ingly encouraging. It is the abil- j ity to cope with the worst con- j ditions that will make air traffic to European points feasible, and 1 Byrd has demonstrated that men J can navigate the air through a fog I so dense that he could hardly see the end of his airplane wings, and ; can land in the sea under such con-; ditions, get out their rubber life J boat, inflate it, and row away i from the wreck. If the plane had alighted in the deep sea, there j seems little reason why the fliers might not have floated in their life j boat till rescued. A PLEA FOR THE CAPABLE There is evidence that the school 1 authorities are beginning to con- . sider the matter,of prime import-j ance in the educational work, and j that is actual achievement in edu- I cation by the pupils. Hitherto at- i tention seems to have been largely engrossed in securing plants and lengthening terms. But the time has come when public sentiment is demanding value for the money invested in the schools. The pub lic is not satisfied with children’s learning less in an effectual way than the children of the days of less expenditure and shorter terms learned. Last week the Record carried an editorial on the desirability of rais ing the standard of the Pittsboro school, which has been deplorab ly low in some respects. And we are not guessing, for when our own daughter was studying geometry here and bringing home a good re port each month on the subject, upon inquiry as to how it could be done with no more evidence of study than was manifest, we were startled to le£rn that three or four months after the term had begun not a single original problem in the book had been assigned or solv ed, and that only ONE of the de monstrated propositions was given for a lesson and several pupils were sent to the board at one time to re-demonstrate it, when one, if she did not know the next step, might glance at all the other work being done on the boards and sup ply the deficiency. Thus, the whole class work amounted to the demon stration of the one proposition by a half-dozen’s combined knowledge. Such work as that, if it may be dignified by the term “work”, is enough to disgust anybody that knows what it means to study and learn geometry, one of the few sub jects that is cumulative and with its material so interlinked that / when one can solve the last few sets of problems no other evidence is needed that he knows the whole . book. But the maximum achievement by those who can really master the high school subjects of Latin, al gebra, geometry, and English composition, and the subjects re quiring a high order of intellect, cannot be attained so long as the intellectual are grouped with the common herd, and their progress measured by the progress of the whole group. It is not so done in athletics. For, verily, the athlet ic directors are wiser in their day and generation than the directors* of the school room work. The writer, when in college had no more chance of playing on the football or baseball team than he has of being president of the Unit ed States. The brawny and the physically active were chosen for the teams that were to make or lose the athletic reputation of the school. The second best were as signed to the scrub teams, and the great common herd from the standpoint of brawn and physical litheness could get their exercise in the gymnasium, or do without it. Yet a few of us were as intellect ually superior to the great mass of the students as Bob Burns or E. W. Sikes were superior to the scraw niest of us in brawn. But nobody sorted out the intellectual possi bilities and set exercises for them that would develop their maximum powers, for themselves or for the credit of the school or the good of the state. As no one of the athletes would, or could, have achieved his possibilities in a group of physical weaklings, but would have become inert and listless, as indifferent to the game as a master che'ss player to a game with a beginner, so it was with the youth of superior in- I tellect when his progress was bound up with that of a group of intellectual weaklings or plodders. The writer, who, frankly, could learn as much in one hour as the average youth in three, would have been jeered out of the athletic group, but had, nevertheless, to squirm, hour after hour on a hard recitation bench when he was learning nothing, the progress of the class conditioned by the cap abilities of the average intellect. Nothing was done to pep up the youth of intellectual capacity a*! he became a loafer, which suggests the basis of the old saying that the honor man of the class seldom won distinction in real life, for the the youth who is not spurred to his best naturally becomes inert and slothful, habits that more than counterbalance what should have' been the blessing of a superior in tellect. Practically ruined by the devel- j opment of the habit of loafing, the S. BERMAN’S Lease Expiring Sale 1 11 1 f| The lease of our old store has expired. lam Forced 9 I to vacate. In order to do this lam selling-the stock at I I very Low Prices. Below are a few of our specials: It H m\, 9 I . I Ginghams in all colors 5c a yard S 9 Good quality yard wide Sheeting 5c yard 1 ■ Men’s and Women’s Hose 8c a pair I I Men s Neckband Dress Shirts, $2.00 value, 49c each 1 1 M; en , s ’ Women’s and Children’s Shoes only .. . SI.OO a pair H I M^ n s Suits that sold for S2O only $5.00 ■ i ■ Thirty dollar Suits, all sizes, only $8.75 I K ————— ——■—■ ( |H __< I These are only a few of our many specials. Come to I < I sales. All goods must go regardless of price. 11 S. BERMAN I I CHAPEL HILL, N. C. I m ■ ] THE CHATHAM RECORD writer when he came to be a teach er resolved that no youth of un usual capacity should find his en dowment a curse instead of a bless ing, and made it a point to see that the ten-talent boy or girl was given a load commensurate with his abilities, if he had to go it alone. s' But, as one teacher told us some time ago, it is the rule now to pass the weaklings on from grade to grade, as it is deemed unjust to have them go over the same course two years in succession. Such a policy as that in athletics would mean that if two thirds of the team one year proved to be incom petents that they must play irght on with the strong men the next year. And it would not be surpris ing if under such conditions it, should prove that there are no strong men, for the good reason that a strong man must be made by doing his best, and no athlete would do his best when the slight est exertion on his part would make him a match for the others of the team. Yea, more, it is possible that a man of wonderful possibilities as an athlete might not discover his potentialities in a group in which he did not have to put forth any effort to excel, or did not have a goal set for him as a soloist. a matter of fact it was near ly two years before the writer, from the back woods and supposing that college youths were a picked set, realized that he was as much stronger in intellect than the mass i of students as the physically vi gorous and brawny were superior in physical strength to that of his own poor body dwarfed by hook worms and adenoids. But by that time the deadly habit of leafing had become fixed upon him, and similar things are happenings these years, to the destruction of the possibilities of those who might be come intellectual giants and prove of incalclable value to the state. It is impossible for the average youth to achieve mightily in the intellectual field. It is a pity that it is true. But that class of folk have no more right to pall down the strong than the physically weak would have to spoil th'e school teams by insisting upon playing with the capable. Scrub teams and the gymnasiums take care of the mass of physical weaklings. Let the same principle apply in the school room work. The youth of average physical powers- will achieve more in the scrub team than on the ‘arsity team, and at the same time would be no hin drance to the development of the prowess of the really capable ath letes. Let the schools, then, form their intellectual teams as they do their! football or baseball teams, and pep them up and load them down and give them a chance to develop their God-given talents, rather than to lose their time and opportun ities muggling along with the masses. This is a plea for the cap able, the hope of the intellectual spheres, and for the grouping of the masses in such manner that they may neither be eclipsed in their classes and discouraged from doing their little best nor them selves become a clog to the youths of exceptional talent. Well, Chatham seems to be rich compared with the status of forty or fifty other counties. While the average wealth of Chathamites is only two-fifths of that of Forsyth, ■ a larger proportion of the wealth .of the county actually belongs to citizens of the county than in For syth. On the other hand, the ave rage per capita tax valuation in Chatham is twice that in Dare; but what there is in Dare probably belongs almost entirely to Dare folk. The average in Chatham is s7l more than in Robeson, which is supposed to be one of the rich counties, and there is much wealth in Robeson, but there are three times as many folk in it as in Chatham, and when the wealth is averaged the average Robesonian’s share is smaller than the average Chathamite’s. Os course, there is no assurance that the basis of valuation is the same. A cow in one county is valued at twice as much as in others; mules the same I way, and it may be that the same unfair difference in land valuations exists. You cannot tell. Probably the average mule in Chatham and in Bladen is worth about the same, but you cannot guess that way about land values. And when you find an acre in one county listed at the same value as an acre in an other county, you do not know but that one is actually worth twice as much as the other. If you could get a real equalized valuation in the state, it would be easy to work such schemes as the distribution of the equalization fund. 1 If federal censorship over the ' press ever comes to pass in this country it will be as the result of J i New York newspapers covering its current ©heap murder in “a bigger and grander way” than ever be- * fore. > • - . ] Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver says America’s modern young folks ( are the best ever. Which is a sub ject for extensive discussion at the dinner table this evening—if you should be looking for a topic. Most of the folks who drive 70 miles an hour to get some place ! don’t seem to have anything im pbrtant to do after they get there. 666 is a Prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It Kills The Germs. NOTICE OF SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. North Carolina, Chatham county. In the Superior Court, Before the Clerk. W. F. Bland, J. T. Bland,' Clyde Bland, Alice Guinn, Laura Guinn, Neomia Cox and hus band, W. H. Cox, Stella Gilmore and husband, Wrenn Gilmore, Mary Bland,''E. C.- Williamson, Mrs. D. M. Meredith and hus band, D. M. Meredith, Mrs. J. M. Trogden and husband, J. M. Trogden, C. J. Williamson, J. W. Williamson, R. Y. Williamson, Mrs. E. B. Wise and husband, E. ‘ B. Wise, Mrs. W. A. Poe and husband, W. A. Poe, Mrs. L. J. Andrews and husband, L. J. An drews, Mrs. C. W. Neal and hus band, C. W. Neal, Mrs. H. B. , Durham and husband, H. B. Dur ham, Mrs. E. Riggsbee and hus band, Roy Rigsbee, Mrs. W. C. Williams and husband, W. C. Williams, J. T. Bland and W. F. Bland, executors of the estate of T. M. Bland, deceased, Vs. Lacy Cook, Minnie Cook, Tilton Cook, Martin Cook, and J. T. I Bland, Guardian of Emily Bland and Auburn Bland, minors. The defendants, Lacy Cook and Minnie Cook, will take notice that a summons in the above entitled ac tion was issued against said de fendants on the 3rd days of June, 1927, by E. B. Hatch, clerk of the Superior court of Chatham county, North Carolina, for the purpose of selling certain real estate, belong ing to the estate of T. M. Bland, deceased, to make real estate as # I sets with which to pay indebted ness now existing against said es tate, which summons is returnable by reason of the date fixed therein and the continued date of the re turn of said summons, on the 23rd day of July, 1927, in the office of the clerk of the Superior court of Chatham County North Carolina, when and where the defendants, Lacy Cook and MinViie Cook are re quired to appear and answer or de mur to the complaint of the plain tiffs, or the relief demanded will be granted. Witnesses my hand this the 20th j day of June, 1927. E. B. HATCH, Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham county. June 23 —4tc NOTICE OF LAND SALE By vritue of the power of sale j contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by J. C. Elkins and wife, Janie Elkins, to the under signed Trustees, which said Deed of Trust is duly recorded in the Registry of Chatham county in ! Book GL, page 616 et seq, default j having been made in payment of ! the bonds thereby secured, and the holders thereof having request ed the foreclosure of the same, the : undersigned Trustees will offer | for sale at public auction for cash to the highest bidder, at the court house door in Pittsboro, Chatham county, North Carolina, at twelve o’clock noon, on Saturday, July the i 16th, 1D27, the following described j tract or parcel of land in or near the corporate limits of the Town of j Goldston, Chatham county, North j Carolina, and described and defin- , ed as follows: - Beginning at a stake on the west side of the A. and T. right-of-way, at the H. P. Goldston corner, and j running thence north 42 degrees! west with said right of way 75 1-2 : poles to O. Z. Barber’s corner; ; thence south 49 degrees west with j O. Z. Barber’s line 14 poles to a | stake; thence north 30 degrees west 5 1-2 poles to J. Rod Hilliard’s cor-1 ner; thence south 62 degrees west j 14 poles to an iron stake; thence north 30 degrees west 10 poles to a stake, pointer in Kirkman’s line; thence south 85 degrees west with Kirkman’s line 10 1-2 poles to Kirkman’s corner; thence south 78 degrees east with Kirkman’s line 22 poles to a stake, Reives corner; thence north 75 1-2 degrees east 28 poles to a stake and street; thence south 25 degrees with street, 17 1-2 poles; thence south 75 degrees east 28 poles to the old road; thence nearly southwest with old road, Kirkman’s and Hester’s line 42 poles to J. J. Goldston’s corner; thence north 75 degrees east Goldston’s and Womble’s line 52 poles to the beginning, contain- 1 ing 20 -4 acres, more or less. This the 16th day of June, 1927. ! WALTER D. SILER & WADE BARBER, Trustees. Thursday, u I Subscribe to The : for 12 months-In advance,^ S | CALIFORNIA FIG SYRyp . HURRY ful, peevish child loves thl ' ant taste of “California Fi/? ; riap and it fails to o p en ? 1 bowels. A teaspoonful todav , prevent a sick child tomorrow** • y< ? ur for California Fig Syrup” whfch *2 directions for babies and chill of all ages printed on wl Mother! You must sav “CaPl nia” or you may get an i mit J fig syrup. ; UtlamJ ' 9 9 \ I should be killed! I \ Bee Brand Powder«l V Liquid kills Fliesjw I \ Mosquitoes, Roaches,! \ Ants, Water Bugs, Bel I V Bugs, Moths, Crickets, || 1 Poultry Lice and maij !| I other insects. / Powder Liquid! |H / IOC and 25c 50c and hM / 50c and SI.OO / 30c Spray Gun J / Writeforfreebookletonki//. J / ing house and garden insects M I McCormick & Co. I 1 I Baltimore, Md. \ Brand INSECT i % (kl Powder*? I p^LIQUID HAVE YOUR EYES EX AMIN-1 j ED BY AN EXPERT—COSTS | NO MORE 1 §§ Dr. J. C. Mann,the well-knotti eyesight Specialist and cian, will be at Dr. Farrell’s o-B fice in Pittsboro, N. C., e ver ?B ; fourth Tuesday and at R-B Thomas’ office, Siler City, N ! every fourth Thursday in month. Headache relieved caused by eye strain. When j fits you with glasses you I the satisfaction of knowing l -'B they are correct. Make a m-H of the date and see him if .' fj "B , eyes are weak. His next visit to Pittsboro *-1 be on Tuesday, July 26. His next visit to Siler will be on Thursday, July -- 11 i I DR. LUTHER C. ROLLI>-| Dentist V.fl Siler City, EXECUTOR’S NOTICE ■ Having duly qualified a; tors of the last will and of Mrs. Lizzie Eubanks, l Chatham county, we hereb} JM all persons having claims ag the estate to present them proven on or before the of June 1928, or this notice J be pleaded in bar of their retf fl All persons indebted to tate will please make imm I payment. MR. & MRS. W. R. STURD 1 '- I Executors. June 9, 6tp. J
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