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The pretty weather of the past
week was not lindian summer, but
merely fall weather. The news
paper man that calls any weather
Indian summer before Nov. 15
should be penalized.
It has been a fine year for roas’n’
ears. The Record man could gath
er a mess of corn any day from its
first coming till last Sunday, when
the last crop was finished. But
some of our folks had just begun
on their last patch, and as the frost
was not severe enough to hurt they
are still enjoying the delicacy. To
matoes, too, are still growing, when
this is written.
With forty Kluckers under in
dictment in Alabama for floggings,
it seems time for North Carolina
Kluckers to quit disclaming law
breaking on the part of klandsmen.
And with one fellow sent to jail be
cause he refused to answer a ques
tion of the grand jury, forsooth, be
cause he had taken a previous oath,
it is a good time to hint that a
citizen should be careful what oath
he takes.
Our printer has embarrassed us
a few times by setting editorials
not reached one week for the next
week's paper. When they Appear
we feel as cheap as we assume an
ejd hound would when he finds
that he has been booming along
"Upon the trail of a fox already
run down and killed, and
the succesful pack dispersed. But
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we are m Hopes that that will not j
again happen. The editorials of 1
last issue on the Smith incident at |
the Sandy Creek Association is an 1
instance.
We commented last week upon
the improbability of the P. & N.’s
securing permission from the Inter
state Commerce Commission to pa
rallel to the Southern Railway j
from Charlotte to Winston, but
the printer didnt reach the item.
Again we suggested that the P.&N.
cut across from Charlote to Pitts
horo and Seaforth. There is lit- 1
tie reason why consent for this line i
should not be secured. It would
open up a new section for develop
ment. Paralleling the Southern,
we agree, is bad policy. The peo
ple have to support the transpor
tation systems, and it is easier to
support one efficient system than
two. The state has spent millions
paralleling the railroads with con
crete, thus depriving the railroads
of part of the business, which if
received, should lower the rate on
all business, or at least enable
the railroads to maintain their for
mer mail and passenger service.
The result has been evident. Now,
to allow the P. & N. electric line
to parallel the Southern would
inevitably add additional cost to
every bit of transportation on ei
ther line, since the cost of transpor
tation must be met, and met by
shippers and passengers,and it nec
essarily costs more to pay divi
dends upon two capitalizations
than upon one, to maintain two ad
ministrations and operating forces
than one. But no such objections
can be urged against a route across
country, since it would, doubtless,
he practicable to absorb any of
■the smaller lines that might lie
m, or parallel to, the way.
It is related that when the Legis
lature in the fifties was discussing
the question of chartering the Fay
etteville-Egypt R. R., from Fay
etteville to Gulf, an opponent of
the charter averred that he could
tote all the coal that would ever be
go} from the Egypt field. Such as
sertions are too broad, as proved
in this case, when thousands of
4oas are being mined, and when a
mew field is being opened, as re
lated in lost week’s Record. It is
to be hoped that our diligent and
insistent^ state geologist will live
long enoUgli to eat his own words
about being able to “drink” all the
oil that will be found in North
Carolina, if that is a correct quota
tion of his words. You cannot al
ways tell. V,
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Raleigh is exercised because
Governor McLean does not appoint
directors for the State Fair, for
which Raleigh has voted $75,000 in
bonds. But wouldn't it be a good
thing if the State Fair should not
be resurrected? If anybody has
lost anything by the intermission of
the past two years, who is it ? The
days for fairs as actual teachers in
any field of activity seems gone
aglimering. The biggest po
tato or the biggest pumpkin
means nothing today to agricul
ture, and the biggest hog and
finest cows are in the same cate
gory. As for somewhere to go, go
ing is an everyday business with
a big part of the folk.
Since writing the editorial about
the pronounciation of Judge
Grady's name, we learn that Judge
Cranmer and Judge Grady have ex
changed courts and that the former
will be here, while Judge Grady
will hold court in Clinton, in or
der to be present on the return of
his son Henry A., Jr., with his
bride. However, we shall let the
editorial run, as it is in type.
We can but admire the bravery
of Miss Elder and her companion,
who made so nearly a successful
flight across the ocean, as we have
admired the courage of the other
ocean fliers. However, it looks
foolish to take such risks. Yet fly
ing across the ocean is, apparently,
little more dangerous than being
president of Mexico or even a can
didate for the presidency.
We understand that a Hillsboro
cotton mill uses the long staple
cotton and gladly pays the prem
ium on it, which, you may notice
from the advertisement of the
Cotton Cooperative Association in
this paper, was over $15,00 a bale
last year. It should be more this
season, what with the shortage of
long staple because of the Miss
issippi flood and what by reason of
the higher price levels this season
for all grades. If you have Mexi
can big boll, measure the staple and j
| if it is over an inch, be sure you
I get more than the price for 7-8
j inch staple.
A RING THAT IS A
REAL RING.
There is a fight abrewing in the
Woman’s Club circles of the state
over the question of local self-gov
ernnier.t. It seems that the rules
governing the local, state, and fed
eral relations of the clubs are such
as to virtually destroy the free
dom of local clubs as organizations
in respect to state and national
: questions. As stated by a leader
J at the district meeting a tZebulon
i last week, when the state organ
ization has approved a proposition,
the local clubs are forbidden to
fight it as organizations, though
individual members as citizens may
oppose it. The scheme works fine
ly for the master spirits in the
state and federal organizations,
since the propositions are cut and
dried when they come to the state
and general meetings, the leaders
are prepared with their thunder,
while the opposition, if any one is
sufficiently informed to be in op
position, is unorganized and unpre
pared to make a contest. Accord
ingly when the OK has been placed
upon it by the state meeting or the
national meeting, the local clubs
are forbidden to kick, complain, or
in anywise oppose the proposition,
however foolish or unjust it may
. seem when its inwards have been
revealed. Truly, here is a ring that
is a real ring, but Mrs. Kenneth
, Gant, of Raleigh,, and other Ral
eigh ladies are inviting a revolt,and
, have invited club members to hear
, a discussion of the situation at the
Sir Walter Hotel Nov. 2.
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■ HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT.
> Judge Grady will be with us
again next week, and suppose read
ers of the Record learn to pro
- nounce his name before he comes?
' The first syllable does not rhyme
- with lade, but with lad. You ask
- why that is so, why it is not spell
l ed with two d’s. The answer is,
l that Grady is an Irish name, and
> that the double consonant as a sign
• of a short voweMs an English co%
1 trivance. When the English lang
: uage shaping itself, when the
i pronunciation arid spelling were
• different in practically every eouq
;| tj*f.of old England, a certain man
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wrote a poem, and in order to make
the rhythm and the rhymes ap
parent to readers in all the coun
ties of England, he stated that he
was doubling the consonants after
short vowels and leaving them sin
gle after long vowels}- and thereby
he determined the spelling of hun
dreds, or thousands, of English
words. But not even all the Eng- i
lish words were affected by the in
novation. For instance, bade is
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still pronounced with a short a, de
spite its spelling. The Irish lan
guage was not touched by the old
poet’s device, and consequently the
pronounciation of “Grady” is, and
should be, what the Irish pronoun
ced it, and that it was pronounced
! with a short a, wHen the first set
tlers came to North Carolina is evi
dent from the fact that the writer
has seen it spelled in some of the
early records with two d’s. The
ancestor of Henry W. Grady left
eastern North Carolina and moved
into a section where the name was
unknown and people evidently be
gan to pronounce it by its spelling,
and when Henry W. Grady’s name
became famous in print, tens of
thousands began to pronounce it
with a long a, to rhyme with lady,
and from that day till this the
North Carolina Gradies have had
a struggle to retain their Irish and
colonial name, for names are pri
marily sounds and not letters, and
if anything is to be changed it
should be the letters and not the
sound, as the old definition of
“letter” is a “sign of a sound”. But
no one has changed either the spell
ing or the pronunciation of “bade.”
Then, let “Grady” remain, both in
spelling and pronounciation, as it
was when the first settler arrived
in eastern North Carolina, and as
it was when one of the family gave
his life a sacrifice for American
freedom at the battle of Moore’s
Creek Bridge.
j SOME ERRORS ARE
CORRECTIBLE.
Durham voted down the propos
ed issue of 5250.000 for the erec
tion of a hospital for tuberculosis
patients. The chief argument
against the proposition was that
the state hospital at Sanatorium
should be enlarged to provide hos
pitalization for all tubercular pa
tients, and that Durham county
would double-tax itself in building
and maintaining a hospital while
paying its proportionate part of
the maintenance of the state insti
tution. Also, it is argued that it
would be better, if the county
needs more room than the state can
provide, to erect a Durham county
building at Sanatorium, since the
state is already providing a corps
of expert physicians and nurses
down there. The reasoning seems
sound; and, certainly, if a mis
take was made it is one that can be
corrected. On the other hand, if
the $250,000 were invested and
that found to be a mistake, it
could not be corrected. There is
no serious error in turning down
a proportion of the kind. ‘On the
contrary, Chatham and other coun
ties, falling for the fad of palatial
county homes, seemingly made an
error that will be burdensome for
generations. Counting proportion
ate part of investment, interest, re- I
pairs, superintendence, food and I
clothing, it is costing Chatham
county forty dollars a month to
keep each of the inmates at the
county home, when it is evident
that they might have been provided
for in private homes, in a manner
superior to that of the years of
their prime, for S2O to $25 a month.
But the investment has been made,
and one old negro will be costing
| the county his S4O a month, while
’ another almost as dependent is
getting an allowance of $2, to $5
’ for support at home. But the die
is cast the people have the white
| elephant to maintain. That $3,300
of interest must be paid each year,
1 or at least forfeited. That alone is
j about $125 for each inmate of the
home, a sum that would be a bon
; anza to any of a hundred poor fel
lows in the county.
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A CALL FOR REED AND
KELLOGG.
i We have often thought that a
- legislator should be compelled to
- submit every sentence in a bill
piesented by him to the test of the
j old Reed and Kellogg diagram. If
c this were done, the number of laws
found either faulty or void would
, be greatly decreased, and the Su
-1 preme Court might have longer va
i cations. Yet the indications are
*. that the members of the court, too,
C might profit by studying Reed
y and Kellogg’s grammar, or any
» grammar that gives adequeate at
, tention to sentence analysis. For
iv instance, here is a sentence recent
THE CHATHAM RECORD
ly accredited to a member of the
Supreme court: “Knowing the his
tory of the great movement in the
effort to educate the masses of our
people, your great church was in
the forefront of the battle.” His
Honor doubtless knows better, but
merely failed to apply the test of
analysis to his hastily written sen
i tence.
It hasn’t been many months since
the Supreme Court divided upon
the interpretation of a will brought
up from Robeson county, the divis
ion growing out of a difference of
opinion as to the force of the con
junction or, presumably, as to
whether it introduced an alternat
ive or an appositive, though,
you may be sure, the honor
able court did not discover
the grammatical point at issue, the
chief justice resting his opinion on
the affirmation that “or” means
“or”. But if the lawyer
the will had, himself, observed the
rule to set off an appositive intro
duced by or with a comma, there
would have been no trouble, pro
vided the interpreters knew that
simple rule. And there would have
been no supreme court case if Eng
lish speaking folk had not grown
so slovently as to omit either be
fore the alternative or. No one
ever say the Latin aut without its
correlative, but either and neither
are becoming rarities in the Eng
lish language as it is both spoken
and written.
HATCHED TURKEYS
IN AN INCUBATOR
(The Monroe Journal)
Situated on the Lancaster road,
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about a mile and a half from Mon
roe, is one of the most interesting
places in this comunity—a turkey
farm.
Here four hundred brown turkeys
strut about in the goulden sunlight,
vociferously gobbling their impor
tance, blissfully unfconcious that
Thanksgiving day looms just over
the horizion.
But Mr. Funderburk, to whom
they belong, is well aware of that
fact and knows too, that though
much has been said to the contrary,
turkey raising is a very profitable
enterprise. Mr. Funderburk has
been raising turkeys all his life,
but has only just recently entered
into the business on so large a
scale.
The unusual thing about these
turkeys Is that most of them were
hatched in an incubator and raised
in a brooder. They were hatched
in April. Previous to his experi-
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Who Gets the Gravy?
It is quite generally admitted that the coope
rative cotton marketing associations are the only
real stabilizing factors in the cotton market today.
Os whatever value cooperative cotton marketing
is in the stabilization of prices the non-member ..
gets practically the same benefits as the member
It is only the member of the organization, how
ever, who gets “the Gravy,” the benefits of proper
grades and staples through our expert Classing
and Sales Departments.
The most ignorant cotton farmer in North Caro
lina can grow 7-8”, or a still shorter staples of cot
ton and can sell it “hog round” on local markets.
The more intelligent class of cotton producers,
however, are producing a better type of cotton,
types that are so much in demand by our Caro
lina mills.
For five years we have been encouraging our
members to grow those better types of short .
staple cotton and we are proud of the progress
that they have made along this line.
Seventy three percent, of our receipts up to Oc
tober 10th were grading middling and better.
In staple 36 percent, of it was 15-16 inch, and
33 percent was stapling 1 inch and better than
inch.
Last season we netted to our members 88 points
for 15-16” over 7-8” cotton, and we averaged 145
points for 1 ” staple over the 7-8”. These were
especially high premiums and premiums vary
from year to year just as the price of cotton
varies.
But a 50 point premium on 15-16” is $2.50 per
bale; 100 points on 1” is $5.00 per bale; (our pre
mium on one inch was 145 points or $9.75 per
bale) and 150 points for 1-1-16” is $7.50 per bale
for premiums. Our premiums on 1-1-16” last '
year was 315 points or $15.75 per bale. Are
those premiums not worth saving?
North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association I
RALEIGH, N, C.
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ment with this method Mr. Funder
burk consulted with the best au
thorities all over the country, and
was advised by them that should
he pursue this course his efforts
would undoubtedly be met with
failure. He was told that tlie
turkey was the wildest and most
timid of birds and the hardest to
raise.
j In fact he was given to under- I
! stand that the only posible way to |
raise a turkey is to let a turkey do j
’ the raising.
But Mr.’ Funderburk is a man
( with ideas and instincts of his own
. and decided to follow them. So he !
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. proceeded with his incubating. As
a result, eighty-five percent of the
eggs that were placed in the incu
! bator hatched. *
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And then the fun began! Three ;
hundred motherless young turkeys
to be kept alive and raised! And
turkeys have to be even taught to
eat. Nor do they thrive on chicken
feed. On the contrary they re
quire an entirely different diet.
Mr. Funderburk says that while
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they were small he' fed them on
meat, lettuce and other dainties.
He thinks that a number of peo
ple have, failed with this method of
hatching turkeys for the reason
that they overlook the fact that a
turkey egg is twice as thick as a
chicken egg and so requires much
more moisture to hatch. He gives
as evidence of this the fact that
j turkeys always build them nests
jon the ground. He further states
j that the week before the eggs are
to Jiatch he takes a damp rag and
goes over each egg every day.
Mr. Funderburk’s farm is divi
! ded' into fifty-acre pastures, where
I the turkeys are kept. Here they
roan®, all day long. Just at sun
down he calls them up to be fed
and they come in droves from
every direction. He is very much
j attached to his turkeys, and they
|to him. They eat out of his hands
and display their gentleness in,
many othre ways. Mr. Funderburk
can assuredly be said to have had
wonderful success with his turkey
farming, and we feel justly proud
of his industry.
A premium of 50 points for strict middling cot
ton and a premium of 50 points for 15-16” staple
gives the farmer an advantage of $5.00 per bale
over a classification of 7-8” middling.
A premium of 500 points for jj 1-1-8” means
$25.00 per bale over and about 7-8”; and often
represents the difference in dollars and cents be
tween a thrifty, intelligent farmer and a careless
and indifferent farmer.
Cooperative cotton is usually warehoused
promptly from the gins, thereby eliminating coun
try damage and all other waste.
It is classed by experts who are licensed by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
It is sold through our various sales offices di
rectly to the spinners in even running lots and
classed out according to their various needs and
demand.
Outstanding features of our new contract,
First, are our optional pools, The member has
the option of placing his cotton in our regular or
seasonal pool taking the year’s average price or he
can place it in the optional pool and have it sold
any day or any month that he may determine.
Second, a withdrawal clause gives the member
the right to withdraw any time after delivering
one year’s crop of cotton.
It will thus be seen that we are depending on
rendering a service to our members for our future
success and not upor the rigidity or inflexibility
of a contract.
Old members of the organization are still en
titled to sign the new contract without paying an
initiation fee.
All cotton producers are cordially invited to
visit our offices and to inspect our methods and
operations to the fullest extent.
Thursday, October ,
KIMBALTON NE^
Mrs. Mark Teague cam. i
Saturday from a hospital'
Greensboro. She i s i >»
slowly. H
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B ~„
Sara, and Mrs. Russel], w J
Ramseur Sunday.
Mr. J. O. Brown of Harnett Cl ,
ty spent Monday with his 1 T
grandson, B. J. Burke, J r . e
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Dorset!
little daughter of Charlotte 4!
the week-end with his parent,
and Mrs. W. B. Dorsett. ’
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fern
and Miss Annie Reyd have re-
ed to Charlotte after spending
. few days with friends and re| a L
■ in Chatham. tlVes
1 L r y "r? “ Spendin S a fe,
weeks with his parents, Mr ,!
Mrs. Jim Harris. ’ 3,1(1
Mr. D. Witt Perry has sold his
place, on which uncle Rich Crutch
field has lived for years t«
i . a. J *io some
real estate company