ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 DRYS TO DRAFT WM. G. M‘ADOO The Record’s Washington Bu- j reau Again Makes a Scoop —McAdoo Will Run For Drys The Hoover-Willis Battie—Other Capital News. | (By Wm. P. Helm, Jr., Washington Correspondent of The Record.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Here is the biggest piece of news of the 1928 political campaign to date: The united dry organization of the United States have decided to draft William G. McAdoo to oppose A1 Smith for the Democratic nomina tion at Houston. There have been numerous secret meetings at which this policy has been arrived at. Mr. McAdoo, who deadlocked with Smith in 1924, over the nomination, will consent to run again, notwith standing his withdrawal from politics a few months ago. That is, he will consent to run if the drys are able to show him a strong and vigorous backing in his behalf. Friends of McAdoo say he step ped aside recently in order to af ford his political arch-enemy, Smith of New York, an opportunity to do likewise. Smith has not done so, although he has had withdrawal un der consideration for a month. The fact that Smith is still in the race the drys argue, alone would justify McAdoo in entering it again himself. Coupled with a nation-wide dry demand, the circumstances will be such, say the drys, as to convince Mr. McAdoo that his service again are required to prevent the nomina tion of a wet. McAdoo probably will deny any intent to run. Time will tell, how ever, that your correspondent’s in formation is correct. Incidentally, the story is told exclusively and for the first time by this correspondent. Outside of this development, the chief news comes from Ohio where Hoover and W r illis are in bitter strife for the Buckeye States 51 delegates to Kansas City.. Seconds in command are directing the fight in both headquarters. In the case of Willis, the leader is Car mi Thompson, who but lately inves tigated the Philppines for the W r hite House. In the case of Hoover, the following more or less heavy artil lery from Washington is taking an active part: Hubert Work, M.D., secretary of the Interior at $15,000 a year, for mer Postmaster General, former President of the American Medical Association, reported to be the All- Highest of Hoover generals. Walter F. Brown, assistant secre tary of Commerce at $7,500 a year, former Bull Mooser, late of Toledo; ■ex-chairman of a committee that tried to reorganize the governments departments for President Harding in active command with another Ohio Brown, Col. That, of Columbus. David H. Blair, Commissioner of Internal Revenue at SIO,OOO a year, is helping to line up the Southern delegates to Kansas City. Ogdon Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury at SIO,OOO a year, one time Representative from a New York district: reported to be ac tive in persuading* New York that Hoover’s the man. William Donovan of Buffalo, as sistant to the Attorney General at $9,000 a year, one-time federal dis trict attorney at his home town; helping Mills. Seymour Lowman of New York, unconfirmed assistant secretary of the treasury $7,500 a year in charge of prohibition work; said to be help ing Mills and Donovan. Ephriam F. Morgan, solicitor of the Department of Commerce at $6,- 000 a year, one-time goernor of-W. Virginia; reported active in lining up West Virginia. These officials, down on the fed eral pay roll for somewhat more than $5,000 a month, are the lead ing Hoover advisers and are devot ing their political talents and some of their time to promoting the Hoover boom. In other camps, the Reed boom showed greatest activity. Senator Jim Reed of Missouri was off on a swing through Texas, Oklahoma, Col orado, New Mexico, Arizona, Cali fornia and other States where, it was hoped, his silver tongue would win converts. Lowden forces inten sified their work, West hnd South, albeit without publicity. A new boom, for Newton D. Baker, Wood row Wilson’s secretary of War, was launched by E. T. Meredith of lowa, himself a potential dark horse for the Democratic nomination. Locomotive engineers and fire men in Pennsylvania started work for Gifford Pinchot for the Senate. Mr. Pinchot said good-naturedly it was without his consent. Charles D Hides at Albany, addressing a Lin coln Day dinner, again declared that Coolidge was the 'man of the hour and should be drafted, willy-nilly. Here in Washington, congress has j swung a few clubs on its own ac- j count. Amid charges that a power- ( ful electric lobby was working at the > Capitol, the Senate passed over to the Federal Trade Commission the task of investigating che public util ities. ft directed, however, that the hearings should be public and that the Commission should report to con gress every 90 days. The Senate decided to investigate the perennial coal strike in the Middle West; and a Senate committee (the agricul tural) reported for favorable ac- Uon on that venerable favorite, the . McNary-Haugen bill, as the best ao- HTI ■ ' -I I - 1 j Chatham Kecoru CHATHAM HAS ROBIN ROOST Much has been said and written of the swarms of robins roosting in | Randolph, but even the editor .of I The Record was not aware till Tues j day that millions of the red breasts are roosting within a short distance of Siler City. Mr. J. E. Cox inform ed U 3 that they are there in great swarms, actually, it appears, mil- i I lions of them. 1 | He said that some of them were < I going down Tuesday afternoon to shoot hawks that have been molest- 1 ing them. DAIRYING PAYS A. R. WEBSTER Monthly Check for Milk From : 12 Cows Totals Well Over S2OO -1 That dairying is becoming an es tablished industry in Chatham is ev ident; from the continuance of sev eral milk and cream routs in the county; and that it pays those who have developed the technique is ill ustrated by the fact that Mr. A. M. Webster received a check for $271 for the milk from 12 cows for 30 days. We have not seen Mr. Webster’s bill of expenses, but even counting the maintenance of each co w at $lO a month, the hrdlununununununun I cash. In addition, he has an amount of manure that is worth a consid erable sum. Moreover, he has the opportunity of raising valuable ani mals that will soon, in view of the demand for good cows, be very valu able. We understand that the dairy men of the county are rearing the choice heifer calyes. Too, it is not t> be forgotten that Mr. Webster makes considerable of his feed and thus markets it at home, and the rate of $lO a month per cow would mean at least the market price fcr his feed products right at home. He sells his milk, Mr. Shiver in forms us, for 37 cents a gallon. Here is a man that is not only making money when man yfarmers are at a dead expense, but is in line to make his farm fertile and much more valuable. Think upon these things. NEGRO SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN ROW Lucien Stedman was placed in jail here Saturday on the charge of the shooting and seriously wounding Thomas Cook, a negro youth of 20. Cook was taken to a Durham hos pital for treatment. Stedman was arrested by Officer Lacy Johnson, though the man was on his way, he professed, to Pittsboro to surrender himself. The shooting grew out of a fam ily fuss, it is stated. Stedman, who is 56 years of age, claims that the shooting was in self-defense. Cook was shot in the hip. The load passed through the body, mak ing a very serious wound. CARD OF THANKS r | " We wish to thank our neighbors and friends for their kindness ren dered during the illness and death of our beloved mother and wife. G. C. SNIDER and Family. lution to the farm problem. The bill carries the equalization fee and other features disapproved by President Coolidge in a previous veto. It would provide a revolving fund of $250,000,000 from the trea sury. The Senate also ordered an in quiry into alleged manipulation of cotton prices. In the House, the annual fight was staged over the passage of the bill providing moneys to enforce the prohibition laws. The prohibition bureau gets $12,790,000 and the Coast Guard $28,640,000. Not all of the latter will be spent in pro hibition work, however. The House naval affairs committee continued its hearing on the big-navy program. Presbyterians representing their Board of Foreign Missions and del egates from the World Alliance for ~ o International Friendship protested that the building of a great navy would be a step toward competitive armaments again. President Cool idge let it be known that he would not insist on all the craft being built and might be satisfied with 25 cm sers only. Secretary Wilbur, at Indianapolis, decried attempts to magnify the cost, saying that the entire $740,000,000 contemplated ma S $10,000,000 less than the coun try spent for candy last year. It may develop a slogan—which would von rather have, candy or a navy? The TT nuse flood control committee disregarded the President’s program and reported out an elaborate mea sure which would place the entire cost of the program on the federal ; treasury. Uncle Sam also would j have entire responsibility for doing , the iob. This would save the States i affected something like $100,000,- 000 which they would have to pay otherwise. Representative Holiday, Republi can, Illinois, asked congress to au thorise the minting of 2,000,000 half dollars in memor of “Uncle* Joe” Cannon. Presumably they would carrv “TTncle Joe’s” profile with the ; nevitable cigar in his mouth. And ■ Representative Allgood, Democrat, ■ ; Alabama, countered with a bill to # 1 1 mint 20.000,000 half dollars carry • ing Lindbergh's profile. * PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928 Lespedeza Acreage Is Growing Rapidly Mr. Kirby Visits Our County and Advises Greater Grow iiL of Alfalfa Lespedeza or Japan clover seed, totalling 5000 pounds have been bought by Chatham county farmers during the month cf January and the first half of February. A num ber of other orders have been sent in on which deliveries have not been made as yet. As was announced some weeks, previously, a campaign for 1000 acres in Lespedeza in the county was begun, and the half way mark has bedn reached and passed. Orders are still coming in, and it is hoped that by the first of April, the 1000 acre goal will have been reached. The writer has read with much in terest in this week’s Progressive Far mer, the story of fertilization for cotton as practised by the State’s Master Farmers. In every casfc, large amounts of high analysis fer tilizers were used. Farmers in this county should observe this with in terest. The cost of producing cotton can be materially reduced, by fertilizing cotton heavier on smaller areas. The counly agent will be glad to advise any farmers interested in the proper analysis and amounts of fertilizer to use under cotton, corn and other crops this spring. Mr. S. J. Kirby, pasture specialist from State college, assisted the agent in pasture and clover work in the county this wee 1 :. Mr. Kirby was especially impressed with the possi bilities for growing alfalfa on the defep red soils of our county, and the adaptation of lespedeza to any of the soils. Speaking of lespedeza, Mr. Kirby stated that the use of this legume as a soil improving crop has raised the average of corn produced in Union and Anson counties 10 to 20 bushels per acre. He also stated that in many cases, he has observed a yield of corn doubled per acre in comparison with acres where this le gume was not used. Mr. Kirby stat ed further that on moderately good land, excellent cuttings of hay have been made with lespedeza. N. C. SHIVER, County Agent. BOX SUPPER Box supper at Merry Oaks school house February 25. Everybody in vited. Come have a good time. Pro ceeds for the benefit of Merry Oaks Baptist church. Supper at 7:30 o’clock. Pies and cakes will also be sold. Bring your friends. BRIDGE PARTIES Bridge parties have been the or der of the day in Pittsboro. Mes dames E. A. Farrell and J. L. Grif fin entertained Friday afternoon and evening. All the events were enjoy a beautiful party on Thursday eve ning. Mrs. A. H. London also en tertained her friends on Wednesday evening. All the evets were enjoy able and marked by the usual gra cious hospitality of the several host esses. There were 198 persons at seven pruning demonstrations in Catawba county recently. There is increased ; nterest in apple growing in the county. One man has a six acre or chard in which the trees are 25 years of age, but he harvested some 800 bushels last year. A few weeks ago. four persons ip 6ne community of Surry county be gan shipping cream —now thirteen are shipping, which shows that there must be something in it. Becomes Actress J •i cactkrJ # Photo shows Miss Paula Pierce, ■toretty Canadian girl, as a Bathing Beauty. She was discovered by a scout for Florenz Ziegfeld, the world’s foremost expert on pulchri tude, while she bent over flapjacks in Child’s New York restaurant. Miss Pierce will be seen shortly in the cast of one of Ziegfeld’s productions. Section of 90 1 To Be Paved • '. I Contract for Big- Job to be Let March 13 for Paving • Highway 90 Another item of good news is that of Highway No.. 90 from its inter section with 75 above the Mrs. A. : H. Jordan home to the county home is to be let for paving on March ■ 13. The length of the section is a little more than a mile and three quarters. It is presumed that the highway will follow the survey made on the upper street, by the M. T, Williams residence across the foot of the Nooe lawn. If so, there is considerable grading, a& well as paving involved, but that would be true in any case. KIMBALTON NEWS Mrs. N. J. Dark and two children spent the week with her sister at Bonsai, N. C. Miss Alma McMath, of Greens boro, spent the wee*k end with her* parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Mc- Math. Mrs. Mossie Adcock and children, of Sweepsonville, are spending a week or two with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks McMath. v 1 There was an old time dance and candy pulling Saturday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Burke. ONE SENATOR OUT OF FOUR A MILLIONAIRE W r he,n the constitutional amend ment for direct election of United States senators came into being it was confidently asserted that the senate would cease to be what it had been charged with being—a million aire’s club. „ But a checkup today on the finan cial ratings of the members reveals that about one-fourth are in the mil lionaire class, some of them in the class of multi-millionaires; that at least another half of the members are so comfortably fixed that they need not worry about the remaining 'one-fourth are of the ideally “poor” type predicted by the advocates of the direct primary when it was put into - - Could Buy Capitol Twenty-three members are eligi ble to the senate millionaire club. Their aggregate wealth is estimated at several times the value of the capitol and the senate and house of fice buildings. In an emergency they could provide the funds from their own pockets to run the senate almost indefinitely. Whether Senator of Michigan, who made his start with Henry Ford, or T. Coleman du Pont, of Delaware is the richest of the sen ators is a question. , The general opjnion in the senate is that the Delaware member tops the list. Senator Reed, of Missouri, has a large fortune. Most of his friends rate Senator Deneen, df Illinois as a man whose fortune runs into seven figures. Senator Capper of Kansas with his newspaper properties, has piled up several millions and is the only editor in the senate who holds that distinction. Most senators rate Senator Smoot, of Utah, as a mil -1 ionnaire, though he professes that i since he has been in the senate he has not been able to lap up a cent. Others in the millionaire club in clude Senators Hale, Gould, Gerry, ; Metcalf, Gillett, Edge, Edwards, Bruce, Goff, Tyson, Sackett, Pine Phipps, Warren, Kendrick, Gooding and Norbeck. —Monroe Enquirer. GOLDEN WEDDING i - 1 GULF, Feb. 20.—Sunday, Febru iry 12 was a memorable day in the lives of two of Gulf’s oldest and most respected colored citizens, ‘‘Un de” Aaron and “Aunt” Dolly Rea ves. This day was their golden wedding anniversary, and in honor of *he event the children of this wor thy old couple served a bountiful dinner to them and their many friends. The invitations which read as fol lows were sent out: 1878 1928 You are invited to attend The Golden Wedding Dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Reaves at their home on Sunday, February 12, 1928, Gulf, N. C. Dolly B. Mclntyre Aaron Reaves I This invitation was accepted in a j whole hearted manner by both the white and colored friends of Uncle \aron and aunt Dolly. At the ap pointed hour they found their home 'Pled with many friends as well as many gifts. Uncle Aaron’s home is about two rrr’les east of Gulf on Belmont, the Mclver farm, where his boyhood lavs were spent as well as his fifty 'mars of married life. A n unusual circumstance in this connection is the. fact that though uncle Aaron and aunt Dolly own a form of their own yet prefer to c r>end their days cn Belmont where f hev have spent many happy years- The dinner served was worthy of the occasion and was enioyed by nracticallv the entire community. At half of the guests were the white friends and it would be hard to describe the joy it gave to tins old couple to entertain such a gath ering. • , . , The high esteem m which this couple is held wafs shown by the many useful and beautiful figts that were showered upon them. We wish for them many more hap py years of married life, i DEATH OF MRs/lEXIE CLARK Mrs. Lexie Clark died at Mc- Pherson’s Hospital, Durham, last Wednesday night. Mrs. Clark had been in ill health for some time. She was taken to the hospital three weeks before her death. The funeral and burial were at Pleasant Hill Methodist church Fri day afternoon. The services were conducted by Rev. C.. M. Lance. Mrs. Clark was a Miss Straughan. She was an excellent young women and many friends regret her passing. WHY TUITIOIfFEES MOST BE CHARGED Supt. Thompson Explains the State of County . School Finances Mr. Editor: * Since there has been some com plaint in regard to charging tuition for students who do not live in lo cal tax districts, and also as to the amount of tuition, I would like for the public to know just why we are charging tuition and also how we arrived at the ajnount to charge. In the first place we have to run our high schools for a term of not less than eight months in order to remain on the accredited list. The county can maintain these schools for a term of only six months; there fore the other two months have to be financed by local taxes or tui tion. So you can see at once that it would not be fair for the people who do not pay the local tax to re ceive the same benefits from school as those who do. Then in addition to that in some of our high school districts we have not enough local tax to run the school for two months. Therefore you can see that it is a matter of charging tuition or clos ing the school. Some people have told me that seven dollars per month w T as unjust and unfair; but seven dollars per month is not enough to pay the teachers’ salaries and running ex penses of the school, not to mention one single penny for the building which is paid for by special tax on tRe district. The salaries of our high school teachers 111 all the schools of the county for one month amount to exactly four thousand seventy-two dollars and eighty-five cents. We have, enrolled in our high schools five hundred and eighty nine. Thus by a matter of simple division for teachers salaries alone it would cost six dollars and ninety five cents per month, not to mention any fuel, janitor’s salaries or any kind of run ning expenses of the school, which when added would make the actual cost of running expenses more than seven dollars per month for each child. The State Board of Education has said that the first six months of the school term should constitute the free school term. The County Board of Education has no control over that matte? whatever. So if the school has been running six months the tuition will apply to your chil dren the last two months, whether or not they attend the first six. have tried to make the position of the Board of Education plain in this matter; but if I have failed to do so please write me or I will be glad to go over it in person with you. Very truly yours, W. R. THOMPSON, Supt. Schools Chatham County. WHAT ARE THE TWO WORDS THAT SPELL SUCCESS There are mapy words, but here are two indispensable ones: Prepa ration and perseverance. Lincoln said: “I will study and prepare myself and some day my op portunity will come.” This was Lincoln’s faith in prep aration. As a candidate for pub lic office he was defeated several times, but he ‘held firmly to his pur pose and became President. He backed up his prepardness by his persistence. v preparing himself. By resoluteness, reliance and determination he gives another illustration of special know ledge and sterling pluck. For look at what he accomplished all alone. Henry Ford has spent his years in study and preparation, has had the courage to stick to the finish. You must know your job, then have the patience, the pluck, the per sistency to complete the job. First: Improve yourself. Second: Improve your opportunity. Worth-while success in any line demands that you have the necessary training, then the unwavering sense to stick. f. s It’s tb.ue all men a tie £C;O FIWSE AND EQUAir. *BUT MOiT OF THEM- I MfiRJLY- — VOLUME SO, NUMBER 23 CHATHAM JURY FOR WAKE CASE Venire of 100 Chath ami tes Drawn For Flogging Case Being Tried in Raleigh A hundred Chathamites had an un expected visit to Raleigh yesterday (Wednesday) called thither as a venire from which a jury for the trial of Dr. Hester and nine or ten others on the charge of flogging a one-armed iherchant* Dolly Jones, and a negro more than a year ago. Messrs. E. Lloyd Tilley, assistant clerk of court of Wake, C. L. Hay nes, chief deputy sheriff and Brant ley Womble of the counsel for the defense, appeared cm the scene here Monday afternoon with an order from Judge Harris, whn is trying the case, for the Sheriff and Register of Deeds to have the names of 100 men drawn from the box in the usual manner. Mr. Womble represented the counsel for the defense at this drawing and Mr. Tilley the state. The trial was set for Wednesday, hence there had to be much scurry ing to and fro for the Chatham offi cials to summon 100 men from all sections of the county. Unfortunate ly, it was not possible to lay hands on Sheriff Blair immediately, and the work of summoning the venire could not get under way as early as it might otherwise have done. It seems that there would be no way for a man whose name was drawn to get an excuse except in Raleigh. Hence, it is safe to say that the most of the hundred were there Wednesday morning in time to, answer to their names. As The Rec ord is printed Tuesday night, it is impossible for us to report the names of the dozen men chosen for the un pleasant duty. This case has been up once before, or at least other defendants have been tried and acquitted. The whole bunch are to be tried together this time. As Chatham has had no flog ging during the several years of rampageous conduct on the part of hooded hoodlums* it would seem that the court came to the right county t oget a jury unprejudiced in the premises. The defendants have an able corps of attorneys, including R. N. Simms, J. C. Little, C. A. Douglas, A. R. House, T. W. Ruffin, and Brantley Womble of Raleigh, and W. P. Hor ton, of Pittsboro, who is found use ful in the selection of the jury, and who could show the Raleighites something about making a speech for the defense if they