ESTABLISHED SE. I'EMBER 19,1878
A1 Smith Hailed
Next President
At Washington
Nomination Seems Imminent
—An Echo of Conference
Between Wheeler and Smith
—Smith Personally Favors
Prohibition.
WOOLEN LOOMING AS V.-P.
FAVORITE
Hosts Enjoying Hospitality of
Houston Women Won’t
Vote for AI.
By William P. Helm, Jr.
Houston —The militant Democracy
is swinging into battle. To date the
fighting, however, has been confined
almost wholly to the family—a bat
tle for the bottle, as one apt allit
erant has artfully asserted. The in
surgent Democrats see the dust
kicked up on the horizon by their
political foes, the Republicans, and
soon will advance to the fray; but
for the moment there is a little dif
ference of opinion that must be ad
justed, a few wrinkles in the uniform
that must be ironed out. And un
til that job is done, the Republicans
will have to wait for their fight.
Those self-sufficient persons who
have caviled and railed at the party
of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson, ill
naturedly asserting that the Demo
crats can always be depended on to
gum things up in their own house,
are chuckling now. The tangled
thread of party opinion has got itself
into a swell snarl on the wet-and
dry issue. But there is a sword for
the Gordian knot, and there is an
answer for the riddle here; and De
mocracy in its own sweet time and
way undoubtedly will find it.
And then, doubting Thomases,
look out. When the Democratic par
ty settles its own differences, spanks
its w'aywards, plots its course and
clears for action, there is going to
be a fight* of the hjstory-jnaking ■
kind. For the Democrats here sniff i
victory from afar. They are in j
fighting mood. They have a leader
who knows his own, his foes, and the
Avays of politics. Battle-scarred Al
Smith, veteran of many a campaign
and one of the greatest vote-getters
of the day, is hailed here as the
next President of the United States.
And at this time, his adherents ap
parently are firmly convinced they
are right.
This story, like the one written at
Kansas City two weeks ago, is wired
back to Washington for distribution
there in advance of the big doings
of the convention. It is unfortunate
ly one of the handicaps of the weekly
papers that this has to be done. So
what is said here may be changed
before the story reaches the reader’s
eye. But as it is written it stands
and is sent out under those circum
stances.
Up to the present time, Al Smith
has seemed virtually assured of the
nomination on the first or second
ballot. His lieutenants and manag
ers, Van Namee and Mayor Jimmy
Walker from their vantage point in
Houston’s chief hotel, the Rice, seem
to be directing the fight in true
Southern style. There is little here
of the blah-blah of East Side politics. l
“The Sidewalks of New York,” thus
far, has been subdued if not actu- i
ally suppressed. In the breezy but
gentle-mannered new South, Hous
ton is the setting for a gem, and the
Smith managers are not going to of
fend the decencies by sticking a
cheap imitation in that setting.
The enitre New York delegation,
it appears, has been picked with the
idea in mind that it must know how
to adapt itself to the somewhat leis
urely and always courteous manner
of the Southerners. There is in evi
dence none of New York’s vaunted
and boastful superiority—that emp
ty sounding emitted by some of New
York’s devotees who have not yet
learned that their old home town
isn’t all of the United States. That
sort of boastfulness not only would
make wavering Southern delegates
exceedingly weary, but would pos
sibly result in turning delegates
from the Smith standard. So it is
n»t being done.
As this is written, the fight is on
over the platform and especially the
law enforcement plank. It will be
a dry platform, notwithstanding the
editorial yapping of the New York
World for an out and out wet plank.
The World’s editorials have hurt
Smith greatly in the South which,
because of the presence of a large
negro element, is thoroughly com
mitted to the Eighteenth Amend
ment. Copies of World editorials
have been wired here by anti-Smith
forces and widely distributed. If
Smith could silence his good friends
on the World he would make more
friends here—at least that is the
opinion of some of his adherents.
It was this correspondent’s privi
lege to know intimately the late
B. Wheeler, leader of the
Anti-Saloon League. In fact, this
writer collaborated with Dr Wheel
er in writing, for publication, his
history of the Anti-Saloon League
two years ago. It is an unwritten
of that history that Smith and
Wheeler met in a New York club in
1924 when the Democratic national
convention was deadlocked over
and McAdoo, and that Smith
sought to soften the bitter fight
made against him then by the
rSie Chatham Record
DR. WORK TO RUN THE HOOVER
CAMPAIGN
Washington, June 21.—The Re
publican national campaign was
launched today in Washington under
the supervision of Secretary Hoover i
and Senator Curtis, its presidential i
and vice-presidential nominees.
A group of 24 members of the
party’s national committee met the j
candidates # at the New Willard hotel, |
and in an enthusiastic and expedi- j
tious session ratified the slate of
committee officers presented to them
and authorized the first steps in the
campaign.
Hubert Work, secretary of the in
terior was elected national chair
man, and announced that his resig
nation from the cabinet w*ould be
presented to President Coolidge be
fore the end of the month.
To aid him the committee approv
ed the selection as vice-chairman of
I Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, Mrs.
Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky and Dan
iel E. Pomeroy of New Jersey.
Cumnock Woman
Has Disappeared
Suggestion so Foul Play—Ru
mor Races Over County
That Mrs. Joe Sheffield Had
Been Thrown In River.
I !
Chatham was fed up Monday on a
rumor that another woman, also her
child, had been thrown in Deep river.
A telephone message from Mrs. J. j
P. Clapp of Siler City to Sheriff
Blair asked for him to make an in
vestigation. Mrs. Clapp was afraid
her daughter, Mrs. Joe Sheffield,
and infant had been thrown into
Deep River by her husband.
The sheriff was on a raid at the
time, but on arrival Monday after
noon, he and Deputy Desern went to j
make an investigation. They found
that the woman has been gone sev
eral days having disappeared from
| her Cumnock home with the child
; during one night last week,
j While the family live in Lee coun-,
ty, the officers went to Sheffield’s I
home and he said that she has run j
away with another man, he pre- j
sumes. Twice before, it is said, aft- j
er trouble in the home she has gone
away and got a job, but has here- i
tqfore told her people where she
was. Sheffield consented to come to
Pittsboro till an investigation should
be made. ,
Sheffield is a miner, having lived
here for quite a number of years,
and is reported by Officer Desern as
a good kind of fellow, but rough.
The officials see enough of the mys
terious to deem the matter worthy
of investigation, but it is a Lee
county matter, though a native of
Chatham has disappeared.
——■■ —— l i
League.
They had a private interview last
ing more than 30 minutes. What a
story it would have made in those
hectic days! But it was one of those
big secrets that didn’t leak out. Dr.
Wheeler told me of it a year later.
Wheeler went away from that in
terview with Smith’s assurance that
Smith would be entirely willing to
make a fight on a bone-dry plat- i
form. Wheeler gathered then the j
idea that Smith personally was dry; j
>that his wet pronouncements were f
honest reflections of the sentiment j
of a wet constituency as Smith in- i
terpreted those sentiments; and that!
Smith himself would honestly and j
sincerely endeavor to carry out the
mandates of the law as it stands.
In other words that Smith as gov
ernor of New York was wet because i
New York was wet, as Smith saw it; j
but that Smith as President of the I
United States would be dry because \
the United States is dry by Constitu- {
tional Amendment —such was the j
impression Wheeler thought Smith I
wished to convey. And so unless j
Smith has changed—which is unlike-1
ly—the chances are that he will
make the fight on a dry platform
and will clarify his stand.
It seems now to be Smith for
sure, though Senator Reed of Mis
souri, the brilliant speaker whose
tongue has tasted of venom, is head
ing up the scattered opposition and
plans a bull dog fight. He is no more
acceptable to the drys than Smith,
but they may turn to him to beat
Smith and then turn to somebody
else to beat him. Dr, Mcßride, the
Anti-Saloon League leader, and his
cohorts are riding the platform com
mittee hard, and one of the dry lead
ers, Mrs. Mollie Nicholson of Mary
land, President of the Democratic
Women’s Law Enforcement League,
declares on behalf of her organiza
tion of 75,000 that the girls simply
won’t vote for Al.
It’s a fine old row, but it will
soon be over, in all likelihood, and
then the campaign will go On in ear
nest. A minor irritant is the fight
over the Vice-Presidency. As this
is written, Evans Woollen, Indian
apolis banker, seems to be favored.
But for the fact that the Constitu
tion provides that President and
Vice-President must hail from dif
ferent states. Jimmy Walker, the
popular, would have a good chance
to go on the ticket.
Houston is hospitable. She even
staged a lynching on convention eve.
and is doing all nossible to make her
guests comfortable. Courtesy has
been unfailing and the party is
thoroughly enjoying the fracas.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY. THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928
VALLEY FORGE PLANS TWO MEMORIALS
..TO HONOR HEROIC SOLDIERS OF 1778
I
!» . , “
[Library and Non-Denominational Church Will Rise on
j **> Broad Acres Near Philadelphia Celebration
Arranged for June to Mark 150th Year.
' y | • - : Aj I- ¥ V
r W. \ \ %s Xl :[ \Wh f<, ■ ■ ..■■■■ Nn,
I 11 /s' ...
-I Ip/ ~
••• vMfi ' ? 1111
w
VALLEY FORGE, scene of the
Continental Army’s martyrdom
and heroism in the depressing
j* days of 1777 and 1778, will furnish the
< background for a great national ob
servance of the 150th anniversary.-
Imposing memorials are planned for
the big cantonment outside of Phila
delphia, chiefly a Washington Memo
rial Library and a Washington Memo
rial Church, non-denominational.
While the details for the celebration
have not yet been announced, it is
believed that they will be most com
prehensive and picturesque, including
participation first of all by the thir
teen original states and then by all
forty-eight states.
The Washington memorials will rise
on the site ot the Zulich mansion, de
stroyed last spring by fire. The Rev.
W. Herbert Burk, founder and rector
of the Washington Memorial Chapel,
has received assurances of gifts that
make the memorials possible.
*lis congregation has bought a site
covering 15 acres for the buildings and
ah unidentified donor has promised
funds for the Library, the cornerstone
MAKE SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
Cape Fear township has rendered
up four stills since Saturday morn
ing. Three of them were taken in
the Merry Oaks section Saturday,
and only the approach of a storm
kept the operators of one of them
from being captured. Four negroes
were seen, but a bad wind and rain
storm scattered them before things
were ready for making a raid. Mon
day in lower Cape Fear, the officers
got Younger Farrell and Cliff Taylor
HtFrank CKmeSayOwfe
THE MAN WHO KEEPS HIS
WORD
It is like the shadow of a great
rock in a weary land to run across,
as we do occasionally, a man who
keeps his word.
You may be able to sue on written
promises and contracts put in writ
ing, which are usually binding, but
somehow the man who does not keep
his word strictly is a slippery cus
tomer and it is hard to get hold of
him, even with a piece of writing.
The fundamental security for a
man doing what he promises is, aft
er all, character.
If a man has character and is up
right you are safer in lending him
money than if he gives you a mort
gage on his farm. Doing business
with a liar is never satisfactory.
Somehow he will attempt to wriggle
out of his promises.
It is easy to detect the strictly
Washington's Headquarters and
Memorial Arch at Valley Forge.
The Walk Approaching the Arch
Has Been Chemically Treated.
for which will be laid June 19, 1928
as the closing feature of the Sesqui
Centennial observance.
History only will have a place on
the library shelves. Each state will
be represented by works dealing with
the history of that state and the li
brary will have, therefore, 43 alcoves
Valley Forge continues to be th*
center of interest of thousands anci
thousands of visitors from every sec
tion of the country, as well as fron
i rhroad.
i Railroads and automobile bus com
panies regularly run excursions to the
i famous old shrine of patriotism and
on Sundays and holidays even the
broad apse? of Valley Forge are taxed
• for space by the huge throngs. In
• addition many visitors travel by pri
vate motor cars over the excellent
• roads, kept in splendid condition bv
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
All roads to Valley ' Forge rur
i through a landscape of remarkable
beauty, artiets agree, and these roads
are treated, as necessity arises, witli
chemicals, especially calcium chloride
to lay the dust.
Only 32 miles from Philadelphia, th*=
i shrine has long been one of the favor
ite objectives for daily excursions sot
Philadelphians, as well as lor visitors
to that city who have con bined the
Valley Forge trip with a tour of othei
places of historic interest, such as
Independence Hall, tfaa Betsy Ros.
House and other relics of the Revolu
tion.
That interest is expected to he stim
i I ulated bv the forthcoming celebration
at a still, and arrested Shelton Fields
on such good evidence that he with
the others submitted to the charge
of distilling. They were released up
on S3OO bond each and will await
the fall term of court for trial and
judgment.
Younger Farrell is a native of the
Pittsboro community and was one of
the men who found the body of Mrs.
Terry. He lives in the Avent Ferry
section and is known as a great fish
erman and traoner, but himself got
trapped this time.
I honest person. When he owes you
money he does not avoid you, but
openly and frankly pays you some
thing on account right along, if he
cannot pay the whole amount.
The test of the fundamentally
honest mart is his 'punctuality in
meeting his engagements or in frank
ly explaining to you why those en
gagements cannot be met.
The courts are full of people try
ing to evade their plain engage
ments.
A man who is in debt sincerely
tries to meet that debt whether it
hurts him or not. It is very trying
and very disturbing to our farth in
human nature to find a person who
is always looking for alibis, always
seeking explanations for not doing
as he said he would do.
The good loser, the man who loses
and yet is cheerful is the man who
is after all one of the chief pillars of
the social fabric.
GIVEN EIGHT MONTHS, CONVICT
ASKS FOR TWO YEARS
j Atlanta, June 21.—Tom McGee, it
! would appear, is a glutton for pun
ishment. He was arraigned in city
criminal court before Judge Jesse
Wood Wednesday on charge of be
ing a vagrant.
“Why don’t you go to work,”
asked Judge Wood.
“I can’t find work except on the
chain gang,” Tom McGee replied.
“If it pleases your honor, I would
like to be returned to the river
camp, where I formerly fed the hogs.
The hogs haven’t been doing well
since I left.”
“Eight months ought to be long
enough,” remarked the court.
“Can’t you make it two years?”
pleaded Tom McGee.
“Eight months feeding the hogs
ought to be sufficient,” replied the
judge.
I EDITORIALS j
BE HONORABLE
Boys and young men start out in
life with the idea that one’s success
depends upon sharpness and chican
ery. They imagine if* a man is able
to “get the best of a bargain,” no
matter by what deceit and meanness
he carries his point, that his pros
perity is assured. This is a great
mistake. Enduring prosperity can
not be founded on cunning and dis
honesty. The tricky and deceitful
man is sure to fall a victim sooner
or later, to the influences which are
forever working against him. The
future of that young man is safe
who eschews every shape of double
dealing, and lays the foundation of
his career in the enduring princi
ples of everlasting truth. The man
who succeeds is the one who even
avoids the suggestion of an unfair
game.—Selected.
General Nobile has been rescued
from the ice floes of the Arctic, but
several of his companions on the
airship which was wrecked are still
lost, as are the greatest of all ex
plorers, Amundsen and companions,
who were searching for Nobile and
were themselves wrecked somewhere.
There is no telling how many more
will be lost trying to rescue those
already lost and then those to be
lost ad infinitum. It looks iike a
pcrpetiial rescue game, and if it
ends happily, should not have to be
repeated. There is nothing in the
Arctic worthy of such sacrifices.
If the railroads do not make mon
ey, they have government protec
tion. If the utility companies, tele
graphs, light plants, etc., do not
make money at present rate.*, they
seek higher rates from the corpora
tion commissions. If American
manufacturers cannot compete with
foreign ones, they are protected with
a tariff. But the poor farmer must
sell as best he can. It is -truly to
be hoped that either a direct means
of helping him will be found, or the
government protection will be with
drawn from the other industries so
that all may root hog or die alike.
The convention in session at Hous
ton has a great problem before it in
respect to farm relief.
The industrial world is in a con
tinuous state of adjustment and re
adjustment. The extended use of
rayon is making necessary new fac
tories, while the existing cotton fac
tories can hardly live. It would
seem sound sense to utilize some of
the cotton mill buildings ta house
rayon plants instead of building new
ones. The cotton mills must be thin
ned out as the farmers are being
thinned out. When fewer plants car
supply the demand, it is a sheer
waste for the present number to
try to survive. All suffer from a
shortage of work as at the present
time. To keep everybody busy in
productive activities in this day of
constant change in the manner and
material of life is a problem. The
world wants more things than ever,
but different things almost every
year. The producers of the new
prosper, while the makers of the old
languish until the balance is struck
by the death of the excess of pro
ducing plants.
Plenty of forage means much to
the farmer. The next two weeks
will largely determine the supply for
the next season.
Prof. R. L. Paschal is in the coun
ty for the summer. Bob has made
VOLUME 50. NUMBER 41
Siler City Features
Independence Day
Big Parade, Band Music, Pa
triotic Speaking, Athletic
Stunts, Fire Works, Etc.
The Fourth of July at Siler City
will have all the necessary features
to make a holiday long to be remem
bered. The program for the day be
gins with music by the band at 9:15
and from then on there wlil be
something doing almost steadily un
til bedtime. ■
Parade of jfloats and decorated
autos at 9:15. Free acts for every
body on platform on the square at
10:45. Patriotic addresses at 11;
11:45 more band music; 12:15 free
acts; 1:15 music; 1:30 Athletic
events, with prizes for winners; 2:45
Free Acts; watch this one, GREASY
PIG TURNED LOOSE AT BALL
PARK; 3:45 Baseball game, Bur
lington vs. Siler City; 6:15 music
by string band; 8:15 fire works in
front of high school building; 8:30
Play, “Andy Gump,” at school build
ing.
Besides this program there will be
a merry-go-’round, a ferris wheel,
Venetian swings and other forms of
amusement here all day for any one
who wishes to patronize them. One
of the best clowns ever seen here
will entertain you. He is a real clown
and not a local man dressed up like a
clown.
************
TOWN AND *
* COUNTY BRIEFS *
*❖*❖*** * * * * jfc
Hadley township Sunday school
convention will be held at Sapling
Ridge Methodist church, July 14.
Services will begin at 10:30 a. m. A
public dinner will be served. Every
body invited to go and carry a bas
ket.
Corn planting has been in prog
ress ever since the weather got dry
enough for the land to be plowed.
The recent showers have served to
make the badly prepared land more
readily workable. If Chatham makes
a good crop this year, there is lit
tle to fear hereafter because of late
planting. Wheat, damaged by the
winter cold, is turning out surpris
ingly well, as the seasons up to har
vest time were good for it.
The well for the -town’s water
supply is going down in the south
eastern part of town. Dowdy and
Butler, of Coal Glen, are the con
tractors, the price being $7.50 per
foot. The well is ten inches in dia
meter. The site was suggested by
the state geologist, who thought
rock interference in' that quarter of
town was less probable than in tho
higher section.
Her aunt, Mrs. R. P. Johnson, re
ceived a letter from Miss Minnie
Bell, who sailed Saturday, June 9,
for England. The letter was receiv
ed just fifteen days from sailing,
and would indicate that the world
does not have so great need of quick
er transportation across the waters.
Miss Louise Petty was home from
E. C. T. college for the week-end.
Also Mr. D. C. Beard, who is employ
ed in the building operations going
on at the college, was home.
Prof. G. H. Gorrell of Wake For
est preached an able sermon at the
Pittsboro Baptist church Sunday.
There will be an ice cream supper
given under auspices of the ladies
of Mt. Pleasant church, Baldwin
township, next Saturday evening,
from 5:30 to 10 o’clock. In addition
to cream, sandwiches and other ed
ibles will be sold. Proceeds go to
benefit of the church.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hall of Holly
Springs visited Mr. and Mrs. A.
Bright Sunday.
Judge Tom Pace of Oklahoma,
who is visiting home folk in Maxton
and Chatham, and his brother, John
Pace, spent a few days at the latter’s
summer lodge at Pace’s mill.
Mrs. S. G. Harrington of Sanford-
Jonesboro, formerly known in this
community as Miss Wilma Arnold, is
visiting Misses Pauline and Emily
Taylor.*
Mrs. Geo. H. Brooks was called to
the home of her brother, Mr. Walker
Stone, near Apex, Sunday, by the
death of the latter’s little son Wil
liam, which ocurred after only a day
of illness with colitis. He was three
years of age.
It is noted that the marriage of
Miss Ola Harmon appearing in the
dailies is located at her home instead
of Mt. Zion church.
Senator W. P. Horton addressed
the Siler City Rotary club Monday
and enjoyed their fine dinner, Mr.
Horton says the club is a live bunch.
a most enviable reputation as an
educator in Texas.
Farmers have had an easy time
this spring so far as work is con
cerned, but htey rae catching it
now, what with the harvest on,
crops behind, and stubble land need
ing seeding to peas.