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CHATHAMRECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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Game Warden Hatcher would re
mind hunters to have license be
fore going out after squirrels. $1.25
for license will beat a trial and
court costs and fines. Persons,
however, may hunt on their own
lands or lands under their charge j
as tenants without license.
V-'Our friend Roland Beasley, of the
Journal, will not, we fear,
m*ke a reputation as an etymolog
ist. He went off into the sticks of
Union some time ago and heard a
woman use the word “souging, in
the sense of large or overwhelming,
and came back and introduced
“gouging” as a new word and ad
vised its use. Others have com
mented upon the “discovery.” W e
assume that the “new” word is only
a Union county variation of the
£<x>d old word “sousing,” which, for
instance, we found ourself using
thus the other day,“a sousing rain.”
TJwt is the proper etymological use
of the word, then inferentially ap
plied in the sense of large, as a
sousing crowd, etc. Everybody,
presumably, knows what souse, and
therefore there is no secret about
what “sousing” means, and few
.students of words would find any
difficulty in accounting for a rust
ic woman’s variation of it to “soug
ing.”
This year has furnished quite a
variety of freakish weather. Feb
ruary was a spring month. March
ushed in the daddy snow of .pos
sibly a century. June had much
April weather in it. August gave
us ten days of October weather and
now September has returned the
compliment by furnishing a few
days of - the severest of July or Au
gust weather. As this is being
written on Saturday afternoon the
office is sweltering hot. With it
all, the seasons have not been bad.
Pittsboro has had just enough rain
to do with probably not as much as
eight inches since June 1, but so
distributed as to make planting and
cultivation practicable at nearly
any time. Other sections of the
county have had, we judge, twice
as much rain. These last hot sun
ny days have hurt fall gardens, es
pecially the turnip greens crop.
Pittsboro wells are still short of the
normal water stage.
That day at Bentonville will be
about as long borne in memory by
those who attended the unveiling,
or went down there that day, as the
jbattle was by the men of the six
ties. The next time Mrs. Anderson
gathers as big a crowd as that to
gether she should pick her place
better. The writer went down
there, arriving late, but never even
found the “marker” that had been
unveiled. Our bunch reached the
site of the proposed sham battle,
hut would not await the real bat
tle to come when the hundreds of
oars parked on each side of the
road flanked by a ditch on each side
should begin to try to get out and
head for home. The weather was
sweltering hot. The dailies report
15,000 present, but that was prob
ably too big an estimate, and cer
tainly very few ever got together
in one bunch, as the lack of parking
places necessitated the stringing
out of the cars on each fork of the
road for—well, few know how far,
for when one got penned in, he was
not much concerned to discover how
far ahead the congestion extended,
but was more interested in craw
fishing out.
Study the statement of county
finances. You have a chance this
week to learn the actual state of
county affairs. There is little ex
cuse, however,, for the people’s
being informed earlier of the
condition. The Record criticised
the last statement as insufficient,
leaving he people absolutely in the
dark a to the status of affairs. It
(turns out that the county has 'f al
lien s>loo,oooiibehind the past few
I years. It would be good thing for
the people to know just when and
how these deficits occurred. More
than once we have called for a
statement of the school finances,
but have! had no statement forth
coming. The people would like to
see what .transportation expenses
are, etc. ' Put they at least have
the satisfaction of knowing how far
I they are behind, if they do not
know why. In the case of the gen
eral county fund, it is easy to see
that the 15-cent levy hasn’t been
sufficient, but the people ought to
have known that they were falling
behind as they were. If they had,
they could better understand why
the rate has to be higher the com
ing year.
THE STATEMENT
OF COUNTY FINANCES.
Well, however, regrettable at is
that the county owes so much, lfor
one time the people have the satis
faction of learning the condition
exactly as it is. County-Account
ant Fred Riggsbee has done an ad
mirable piece of work in making
i the statement published in this is
fsue of the Record. A study of this
statement will show exactly what
departments have run short,
The $45,000.00 general school in
debtedness has been carried up to
this time by using the sinking funds
of the special school districts; but
that is no longer allowable, and
that sum and the $63,000.00 gener
al county fund deficit are to be
funded, a bond issue of SIOO,OOO be
ing now advertised to take care of
them. The sinking funds of the
special districts will be replaced
from the new bond sale. As stated
time and again, the 15-cent rate for
county purposes has been too little
to produce funds sufficient to pro
vide for the constantly increasing
county expenses, necessitating in-;
debtedness, which now totals more
than $60,000. $25,000 of the school
fund indebtedness comes over from
1922 and 1923, the latter year being
that in which the county was disap
pointed in the amount of state aid
it expected to receive.
If the commissioners had known
all along that they might levy a
special tax for the poor and for an
other purpose or two, then the debt
might have been avoided. But the
constitutional limit of 15 cents for
general county purposes up to this
date seemed a barrier to securing
the requisite funds. Recently, how
i ever, it has been decided that spe
cial levies for certain specific .pur
poses might be made, and thus ce-
I lieve the fund from the 15-cent
levy from part of its burden. And
this accounts for the greater part
of the increase in the levy for this
year. It is simply a matter of get
ting enough funds to carry oh with.
Thfe coilnty has been living partly
| on credit, but the new county gov-
I eminent law puts an end to- that,
and the levy has to be bigger
to provide the cash funds,
t Then, it is not a matter of in
creasing expenses for 1927-28 over
those of 1926-’27, but rather of pay
. ing for what the county has been
getting. Fortunately, no more debts
I can be made. Each department
must live and operate out of the
funds derived from the levy indi
cated in the statement, or simply
j quit. And no department can use
i another department’s funds, as has
been the case before.
The statement simply shows
where the county is, and what it
must pay to operate on the same
basis as last year, paying as it
goes and not piling up deficits.
Again, the total indebtedness is
not at all gratifying, but it is grati
fying to know that the county busi
ness is now being run on v a business
basis. Mr. Riggsbee is receiving
deserved compliments from visitors
from the state department and
from representatives of financial
houses on the style in which he
is keeping the county accounts. He
would make a fine state auditor.
WANTED—A
SENSE OF SHAME.
Self-respect implies self-re
straint. And self-restraint implies
a standard of behavior. Shame is
an impossibility to any one who
recognizes no standard higher than
one’s own inclinations, and without
a sense of shame no standard is of
any avail. Today, some of our
young folks are using language
that would have made a negro field
hand blush when the writer was a
child, if such a thing were possible.
Tet the same youngsters feel no
shame, for they do not recognize
the old standards of decency.
Time was when self-consciousness
was a draw-back to children, whose
self-expression was so curbed as to
suffer them to come to the thresh-
old of manhood and womanhood
without sufficient self-confidence.
But today, the other evil prevails, |
and children are never ashamed, j
never abashed, and are consequent
ly beyond the pale of efficacious
correction. They do not say things I
seemingly withoutcompunction, be
fore, during or after, and an appeal
to the standards of decency has no
more effect than blowing against a
storm to stop it.
Only the young from the most
debased homes in the years agone
| were without a sense of shame; but
today the daughter of a saintly
mother may shock that mother’s
feelings and apparently be totally
ignorant of any reason for her grief
or chagrin. “O, we are not living
in the mediaeval age,” a youngster
may say, ignorant of the fact that
the mediaeval age was an age of
vulgarity, profanity, and every kind
of shameless indecency, an age
reaching, in that phase up to and
beyond the French Revolution, cli
maxing during the regency in
France, when a royal ball would
turn into an unspeakable orgy of
dissipation, regent and daughter
shameless alike with the courtiers;
and .climaxing in Poland when the
king would prepare a treat for his
royal guests that would make our
present-day young folk, who think
they have evolved a formerly unex
perienced liberty of language and
behavior, blush through their coats J
of rouge.
In every country a standard ofj
decency had to be won by trials and
tribulations ; resulting in somq
cases, in a fierce pUritanism. Again
and again, the standard lost its
sway in this or that country and
had to be fought for again. But
for 250 years, since Charles 11, the
English speaking race has fairly
well sustained the general recogni
tion of a standard of decency, so
that even those who sinned against
it had at least the grace to be
ashamed. But a time has come j
when young people deemingly do !
not feel shame, when self-restraint
is an unknown quantity, and when i
lack of inclination is the only limit I
to behavior. It gives one the shiv- j
ers. It is dangerous, and calls for
a showdown to the youngsters.
The world htis passed the way
they are headed many times, and a
revelation to them of the baseness j
to which society thus headed has
! often attained might convince them
jthat billingsgate, immodesty, and
I all the evils of the liberty, are no
innovations, and certainly no index
of the rising of a superior genera
tion and the dawn of a hapjriejvdayv
H’s. a new thing for an
speaking woman, the past two cen
turies, to use profanity like a
trooper and not be ashamed, or not
at least recognize herself as an out
cast, shameless though she might
be. The fishwife knew herself for
such. She didn’t claim to be any
body or expect the respect of de
cent folk.
But there can be no shame when
a generation recognizes nothing as
(shameful; when self-restraint is be
coming an unknown virtue.
FORD NOT A LEACH.
One of the North Carolina judges
recently likened Henry Ford to a
sponge, which takes up but does not
give up. He suggested that Mr.
| Ford contribute to reform institu
tions. But evidently His Honor is
I not well informed as to what Ford
is doing for boys. There are 1,700
youngsters in his trade school,
under 125 instructors. Orphans
make up tep percent of the enroll
ment. Forty-five per cent, are sons
of widows. The boys are chosen,
an authority says, for their own
needs and not for the needs of the
school. These needy youths not only
get tuition free but are paid at the
rate of $350 to SIO2O a year and are
offered positions in the Ford shops
when their course is completed,
though not bound to accept.
The r school is a 12-months affair,
with two short holiday seasons. One
week out of each three is given to
the work of the ordinary high
school curriculum, and two to
shop work. They learn by doing,
and that it is a successful plan is
evidenced by the fact that the high
school course is completed satisfac
torily with a third of their time
given to it, which those who have
hooted at the Record’s contention
that six months of school and six
months of work, with adequate holi
days, is better than all school and
no work, might ponder. The hours
in school room at this school is 490
against 1,200 in the city high
schools, but counting hours of work
in shop under instructors, the num
ber of hours for which the youth in ,
Ford’s school is paid is 1,850 hours,
against 1,200 hours for which the
tax-payers foot the bills in the city
schools, while the youths get noth*- i
1 THE CHATHAM RECORD
ing in wage and very little prepara
tion for a fufjfoW wage.
| But, after all, Mr* Ford (Joes not
claim this as a great philanthropy.
The products of the boys' Work is
estimated as worth $f,700,000,
i which sum pays the wages, or
scholarships of the boys and the
corps of instructors, leaving Mr.
Ford’s only contribution the inter
est on the investment and the brain
(which makes such a scheme pos
sible, a contribution that outweighs
an immense sum as a downright
gift. Ford d.eosn’t pauperize. He
helps folk help themselves.
The state is losing today many
a thousand dollars expended in pro
viding educational opportunities for
youth who cannot benefit ade
quately from the opportunity fur
nished them, or will not. Maybe
the state is more liberal than Ford,
but there is a big question as to its
greater wisdom.
BRICK HAVEN LETTER.
Mr. Nash Promoted—School Con
solidated With Moncure-—_Ele
_ mentary School Still Sustained
In Community—Opening of New
Bridge—Miss Thompson Marries
Mr. Gorham.
Little Miss Marion Harrington,
daughter of Mrs. T. J. Harrington, j
is better after several days’ illness, j
Mr. Russell Overby and family, j
j Mr. Nat Overby and Mrs. J. H. j
Overby visited relatives in McCul
lers Friday.
Mrs. June Hackney and children,
of Cape Fear Steam plant spent |
Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Overby.
Friends of Mi\ F» M, Nash were
glad to greet him again Friday
when he returned to look after
some affairs at the Buckhorn plant.
Mr. Nash and family have recent
ly moved to the large new plant of J
the Carolina Power and Light Com-
Ipany, now under construction near
Mt. Gilead, where Mr. Nash will be
j superintendent.
i A number of social courtesies
were extended them before leaving.
They will be greatly missed in
this community where they have
made their home for the past 12
years.
J Our school has opened very aus
piciously for the fall term. Miss
Cecil Seawall, who have been with
us for two succeeding years, is our
principal, and Miss Pauline Brown,
a product of the teacher-training
class at Pittsboro, is her competent
{assistant. •• > .
i During the summer quite a num
ber of improvements were made on
the interior of the building, which
now presents a neat and attractive
, appearance.
Quite a progressive step since
last term was the consolidating of
the Brickliaven School with that of
Moncure. This has made possible
the use of much surplus tax money
1 from this section to improve and
1 equip the Moncure building. As
I this school serves our high school
I pupils the consolidation seemed to
meet with the approval of all con
cerned.
The beautiful new bridge at
Avant’s Ferry was turned over to
the public at noon Thursday with
appropriate exercises.
The speeches were good and call
ed forth much applause but parti
cularly beautiful and fitting was
“The Bridge Builder” quoted by Mr.
D. M. Teague, in his remarks on
“The History of the Cape Fear sec
tion.”
We thank the editor of this paper
for his able championsnip of a pro
posed road to this bridge and we
hope he will help us keep the ques
tion agitated until this road be
comes a reality.
Too long this section of the coun
ty has been willing to “dance to the
tune of the fiddler”, but we ven
ture to assert that with the coming
of new enterprises and good schools
the younger generations will “do
some of the fiddling.”
Saturday night at the Methodist
parsonage in Pittsboro, Miss Eu
nice Thompson of Brickhaven be
came the bride of Mr. Henry Gor
ham of Rocky Mount. Rev. C. M.
Lance performing the ceremony.
Several friends accomoanied
them to Pittsboro to witness the
ceremony.
The bride was becomingly attired |
in rose crepe dress, with hat and ac
cessories to match. After the cere
mony Mr. and Mrs. Gorham left for j
several day’s visit to Asheville.
Mrs. Gorham is the petite and
winsome daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Thompson of this place! Mr.
Gorham is at present employed in
bridge work in Nash county.
The sincerest good wishes,' of
many friends follow the happy cou
ple on the voyage through life.
GOLDSTON NEWS
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The Goldston school opened Au
gust the 28th with a fine enroll
ment. At the close of this week,
we will have taught one trionth. The
attendance has been good, and,
school work is going fine in a busi
ness like manner.
Ttye societies have been reorgan
ized, and they gave the first pro
grams last Friday afternoon.
The boys society, which is the
Lucky Lady’s Society, elected the
following officers for the fall term:
President —Joseph Goldston.
Secretary—Moyle Stinson.
- Recording secretary—William El
lis.
Treasurer —Billy Beal.
Critic —Miss Key.
Officers for the Girls’ Society:
President—Elizabeth Hester.
Vice President—Rinda Taylor.
Secretary and treasurer —Fran-
cis Ellis.
Critic —Miss Phillips.
Chaplain—Linda Womble.
The Florence Nightingale society
which consists of fifth and sixth
grades. 4
President—Paul Burke. I
Vice president—Woodrow Wicker *
Secretary and treasurer— Mary
| L. Stout.
| Critic—Miss Harmon. j
Chaplain—Burnice Phillips.
Censor —Milo Moffitt, j
The school is making plans to put
on a school exhibit at the fair Oc-1
tober the 4th.
i Mrs. Edward Rives died in the j
Central Carolina hospital Friday
I evening, about 3 o’clock. Mrs.
Rives was 79 years old.
GILF NEWS
I (Written for last week)
School opened here Thursday Bth
with Misses Frances Hoyle, Kate
Monroe and Esther Steele as
teachers.
| Mrs. J. S. Lily of Raleigh is
spending the week with home folks.
Mr. J. G. Mclntyre of Charlotte
spent the week end with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Me In
tyre.
Mr. W. A. Beal of Yadkinville
spent the week end with his family.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Tyner, Mr.
and Mrs. H. N. Cline visited Miss
Elsie Tyner at Buies Creek Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Etta Berry of Thomasville
is visiting Miss Ola Causey.
Mrs. J. R. Beal spent the week
' end with family of J. W. Dowdy
near Antioch.
The much needed guard rails are
being erected on route 60 through
here.
Mrs. A. J. Little and children
have returned after spending a
week with Mrs. Little’s mother,
Mrs; Emma Grubb at Linwood.
Mr. J. D. Oldham was buried at
Presbyterian church cepietery
jThursday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Rev. C. L. Wicker conducted fun
eral services. Mr. Oldham suffered
a stroke of paralysis, which caused
his death. He is survived by his
wife and several children.
Mrs. Dewey Harris and daughter
of Greensboro, Misses Nellie, Nan
nie Bell and Ruth Daurity, Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Little and children of
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Dervereux SundayJ*'
Miss Jettie May Phillips enter
tained a large number of young
people at her 'home Saturday aft
ernoon from 8 until 11. Many
games and string music were en
joyed and cream and cake were
served.
Throwing Is Good
A forty-ton truck loaded with
five thousand imported - eggs re
cently over-turned. Probably the
truck was just throwing off the for
eign yolk. - -
Thanks
In view of my retirement next week
from the Ford business in Pittsboro I 1
Wish to thank my friends and custom
ers in Chatham for their liberal patron
age and many favors during the years
which I have served them and to assure
them that I shall be ready to serve them
I in every way possible at my Chapel Hill
agency and garage. .. •
THANKS
i| May you all prosper and ride in the New
Ford with ever increasing satisfaction.
...
Respectfully,
»
Bruce Stroud
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