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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878 Today 1 j FRENCH FARCE POLITICS | JOHN COOLIDGE’S JOB j THEA SAW THEM S YES, WE ARE PROSPEROUS J ! By ARTHUR BRISBANE l Nearly all the real new* is poli tical news. Mr. Harkness, who uses generous ly the great Standard Oil fortune left by his father, leaves the Re publicans, and comes out for Gover nor Smith. Henry Ford, also well off, hails Herbert Hoover as the leader of the age. Ford likes to see things done, especially mechanical things, but in Hoover, a great engineer, he sees “a referee and adviser for men in all tvalks of life, a social engineer.” Labor unions in Jersey endorse Gov. Smith. Politicians, however, pay little attention to the labor vote. ‘‘Labor men talk before elec tion, but each one votes as he pleas es on election day,” says the har dened politician. Mayor Walker, New York, thinks the federal government should stop the mailing of offensive scurrilous attacks on Governor Smith's reli gion. Senator Robinson, Democratic can -didate for vice-president says the finest view in the world may be had from the top of Lookout Moun tain. He climbed up there on Fri day, motoring through Tennessee, looked over seven states, and as sureu reporters that everyone would go Democratic. Foss, elected governor of Massa chusetts three times, on the Demo era tic ticket, says he will nqt vote for Smith, because he is too wet. Former Senator Hitchock of Ne braska says Gov. Smith will suie ly carry that state. A mixed election, if ever there was one, already as complicated as a French farce, with everybody in the wrong bedroom. Heaven know* v hat it will be, a month hence. Meanwhile, John Coolidge, son of Calvin too young to say much, says nothing, and accepts a job, at the bottom of the ladder, with the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail road. He wants to work his way up, -and wants no favors. He means it, and his father means it, but it can’t be done. He will find himself pushed along in spite of himself. The man below will think “the boss certainly wants this young man to succeed. I’ll see that he does.” It’s hard for a rich or prominent man to give his son the start that he had, with necessity for his driv er. W. R. Hearst, for has twenty-three newspapers, half doz en magazines and five sons. Every newspaper man can assure him that those five boys are handi capped, not helped, by the fact that that their father own* the paper. That Medill and Harold McCorm ick, and Joseph Medill Patterson turned out first-class newspaper men although their mothers own the Chi cago Tribune, is one of the wonders of newspaper history. When they buried Frankie Uale, murdered by other bootleg-gunmen, as he sat in hi s fine car, one floral piece read “We’ll see them Kid.” The meaning, plain to gunmen, was made plainer yesterday, when Toney Lombardo, first lieutenant of the distinguished A1 Capone, was shot to death with effective dum dum bullets in Chicago. Chicago is nearly 1,000 miles from Hale’s grave, but the world of saw ed-off shotguns has long arms, and reached out for Frankie’s supposed killers Joseph Ferraro, Tony Lombardo’s assistant, wa s also shot, hut still survives in spite of dumdum bul lets administered. Police and those guilty of the murders know that he will not squeal. ; It is not even worthwhile to ask him. Opportunity to get rich takes men back centuries. In these killings and obstinate silences you see coming to life the Condottiere of Venetian days, ready to fight on either side, of whom one lives in the finest equ estrian statue ever made on earth. Mr. Capone can see an excellent reproduction of it, in Chicago’s art museum. The De Forest Company has ar ranged a daily output of 600 radio tubes, and expects eventually, to turn out 5000,000 a year. Other industralists will combine to turn out five million a year, and the country will absorb them all, with millions of talking machines, electric washers, sweepers, refrige rators and other modern luxuries that have become necessities. It really is a prosperous country. The French, made poor by the war, were able to borrow money, for their financial operations, Sat urday, at three and a half per cent. Americans pay seven and a half and eight percent. XL _ Chatham Record Beautiful Gifts For Beauty Winners replica of tins Tccla necklace worn bv Oticcn Vlane irav l-m *La • r Nationwide Beauty Contest. Or perhaps her taste and the Queen's may differ At any'me,"diewill tepresmed V a ■T eC k nec . klace ai J <l al j° wed to pick the one that will best express her individuality. ’ Mme. Helena Rubj/n- I stein will present a complete Beauty Box of cosmetics to the contest winner. Above Mme Rubinstein is pictured as she is today—sophisticated, successful, internationally known as an authority in the beauty culture Afield The » small picture shows her at twenty, when she established her first salon Lurien l* i e " , • ; presents his Parfum Ensemble as a Gift of Fragrance for the Beauty Otest. gifts forGhe'chesMnelude toilet table accessories, fitted traveling case and other personal gifts; a large framed Ldscaue oresented bv The American Art Bureau, Imported China, gifts of silver, linen, crystal, etc. iscape 1 resented by the Ramsay Coal Mine Flooded Last Week Water Thousands of feet Deep In Lee County Mine Just j Taken Over By The Caro lina Company. The owners of the Carolina Coal Mine seem to be as unlucky as some of the rest of us. They had just j taken charge of the mine at Cum-1 nock and were preparing to start up operations under a combined man agement when the floods of last week filled the whole mine. The water is as deep as the mine and will be costly to remove. The fol lowing article from last week’s San ford Express gives an idea of the J situation: “As a result of the big freshet in Deep River following the heavy rains the first of the week the Ram sey Coal Mine at Cumnock is now ! full of water. Before the freshen ‘ had reached its crest the water be gan running in the mine at the kitty shaft at 6 o’clock Wednesday even ing and at the end of 45 minutes the mine lacked only four or five feet of being full of water. An at tempt was made to throw a dike around the entrance to the shaft, but the attempt was abandoned when it was found that the flow of water could not be stopped. The kitty shaft, better known as the air shaft, is nearer the river than the main shaft to the mine, and is some 25 feet lower. Fortunately no one was in the mine at the time it was flooded, as it has not been operated in several months, but two mules that were kept in the mine were drowned. A lot of new machinery was recently installed in the mine and is now under water. Plans were about per fected for the Carolina Coal Com pany to take the mine over and op erate it in connection with the mine i at Coal Glen. It is not known at this time what disposition will be! made of the mine. It will take j several months to pump the water out of the mine and put it in op eration. When the mine was reop ened and put in operation a few years ago it cost approximately $500,000 to pump out the water and Lmber the mine. The freshet in Deop River lacked only three feet so being as high as the famous freshet of 1908.” THE REACTION IS SETTING IN t (Charlotte News) If the Al Smith haters are given enough rope, they will probably elect him. One thing that can never be gambled or trifled with is the in nate sense of fair play that lingers in the souls of the American people. They resent striking below the belt.» They are not tolerant of intolerance. Tfiey refuse to stand silently by and let the malicious and the crucif»ers do their work without a protest out from, their lips. * 1 v ” “I had made up my mind to vo:« for Mr. Hoover at the outset,” said a woman to us on the Lord’s Day, •but the Les they 1 are telling and.the lengths to which they are go\rg to. bring the certain defeat of Smith has turned me to him.” She is a ehnrcV woman, old-fashioned as homespun, but typical of that species of Americanism that simply refuses tc sec nr fairness and injustice done. The greatest possible service that those who want to defeat Governor Smith can perform for tlr.se who want to see him elected is to up their tactics to continue spreading the reports about his personal con duct that have, of course, no iusti ficaticn in fact, to whisper and gos- j sip anc foully spread rumor; thru the country about his personal -i ar acter. Mrs. N. M. Hill, chairman of the local Red Cross, appeals to the peo ple of Chatham county for aid for the suffers in Florida and Porto Rico. 1200 lost their lives in Flor ida and hundreds in Porto Rico and . other West Indian islands. In addi tion, millions of dollars of damage ' was done by the tropical storm and thousands are left homeless. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1928. TEN SILER CITY MEN FINED FOR VIOLATING GAME LAWS Greensboro News Asheboro, Sept. 22.—Grady Buck- j ner, Burt Buckner, Landon Jordan, j , Hayes Jordan, John Edwards, Jake | Beater, Harrison Stewart, Ben Beav ' er and Ransom Edwards, all of Silor City, were each fined $2.50 and the costs in magistrate’s court here for violation of the fishing laws. The offense was committed on Brush 1 creek in Randolph county. Herbert Jones, also of Siler City, j | was found guilty of hunting out of j 'season and fined $lO and costs. He ! was hunting in Randolph, also. He was brought into court by the Ran dolph game warden on complaint of citizens of the eastern part of the county that he was hunting turkeys. The charge of turkey hunting could not be proved. But he did plead! 1 gulity of hunting out of season. Un der the new statewide game laws wild turkeys are protected for a period of five years. M. L. Shipman’s Raleigh Letter Bv M. L. SHIPMAN RALEIGH, Sept. 24.—Raleigh sisted from the recent habit it haii contracted of talking politics day in and day out to take notice of the terrific equinoctial storm passing northward from Florida and the West Indies where hundreds of lives were lost, thousands rendered home less and property losses ran into staggering figures exceeding a hun dred million dollars. On reaching this section the winds were moving at the rate of from forty to fifty miles an hour, but heavy downpours of rain resulted in swollen streams causing heavy property damage be tween Raleigh and the coast. Be tween thirty and forty trees were up rooted or broken off in this city and lowlands surrounding it were flood ! ed. During the storm period an ex- I plosion and fire occurred in the sub ' station of the Carolina Power and ! Light Company which silenced the machinery in all industrial plants here for practically an entire day and prevented the operation of the street cars for many hours. Heavy damages to telegraph and telephone lines over the State are reported, while washouts on railroads and high ways hindered traffic in eastern Ca rolina for two or three days. The political pot has passed the simmering stage and is expected to reach the boiling point most any old time. Both parties have taken to the air and radio addresess are not uncommon in these hectic times. The radio battle started last Tuesday af ternoon, , when Miss Mary Meekins, daughter of Federal Judge Isaac M. Meekins, space for fifteen minutes, from station WPTF broadcasting ; from the roof of the Sir Walter Hotel, in the interest of Herbert Hoover. Miss Meekins appealed strongly- to the women of the State in her request for their support of. Mr. Hoover and took Senator Over man to task for a reflection upon her candidate in the Senator’s home at Greensboro on Saturday previous*. Miss Eliza Pool, well known Raleigh teacher, followed with a radio speech for Hoover on Friday while the democrats were getting ready to start their campaign in the air a day later with Mrs. Palmer J Orman -ac the port. It appears to be the plan of both parties to use their women in the radio campaign, with the view to .reaching the women vot ers in every section of the State. Chairman' Mull, of the Democratic Committee, has had scores of speak ers in the field for weeks and ox presses satisfaction with the cordial receptions accorded them by demo cratic men and women whereve* they have gone. Governor Gardner is making a winning fight for all dem ocratic nominees. His speeches are strong, forceful and eloquent with no tinge of censure for those who disagree on men and issues. He preaches North Carolina democracy pure and undefiled, points with pride to its glorious record in the State and the danger of risking govern mental affairs in the keeping of the republican party. Nor is Mr. Gard ner neglecting to put in a word tor ————————— ——i mmmm » J. Dewey Dorsett Chosen Chairman Popular Siler City Man Organ izing Young Democrats of Fourth Congressional Dis trict. Mr. J. Dewey Dorsett, of Siler I City, one of the best known of the ! younger men of the democratic par ! ty in Chatham county, has been ap | pointed by State Chairman Taylor as chairman of the Young Democrats’ Organization for the 4th District. Mr. Dorsett has already visited all the counties of the district and has appointed county chairman, or or ganizers. Mr. Daniel Bell has been appointed organizer for Chatham county ,and he is appointing chair men or organizers for each precinct in the county. It is the purpose of the organizers ! to enroll all the first voters and oth er young democrats of voting age for the double purpose of enlisting them for the polls and their active assistance in winning a large ma jority for the whole ticket at the election. Mr. Dorsett’s selection was a for tunate one, and he himseif has made a good selection in Mr. Bell. The list of precinct chairmen will be given by Mr. Bell in this issue or later on. the Smith-Robinson ticket. He is hamstringing nobody. Rather than do this he would, himself, go down to defeat. And this same policy 1 prevails at State Democratic head ouarters. It is announced that 1 Chairman Mull and his co-workers will continue to give their full sup port to every nominee of the Demo cratic party, believing that the suc cess of the partv is more important than the opinion, attitude, or for tune of any individual of the party. “Smith for President” literature is going out with the North Carolina Democratic Handbook, ten thousand copies of which have been printed ■ for the information of Tar Heel electors. “Regular Democrats here very well pleased with the speeches Governor Smith is making out west, especially his unequivocal endorse ment of the principles of farm relief so strongly emphasized in the Hous ton platform.” News trickling in from western counties indicate that Governor Smith is picking up as the campaign progresses in the mountain counties. The antis up that way appear to be losing hope of defeating. Smith in the state, it is said, and at the same time are beginning to realize the danger democratic division might bring to the State ticket. In close counties the legislative ticket is con sidered of too much importance to be jeopardized by differences of any character between Democrats. * In Wake, Mecklenburg and some other counties in the Piedmont and East ern sections the anti-Smith sentiment is more pronounced. Local tickets are in no danger and, believing the State is safe for Gardner, many of the Democrats are talcing a stand against- Governor Smith openly and defiantly. An auspieious opening, from their view point, is reported from Charlotte where 2000 men and women waded through rain and mud one night recently to hear F. R. McNinch, State manager for the anti-Smith committee, enumerate his objections to the ’ election of Al Smith to the presidency of the United States. Raleigh sympathiz ers who attended were so highly pleased with the effort of Mr. M'c- Ninch that arrangements have been perfected for his appearance here at tne City Auditorium on Wednesday evening of this week. Regular dem ocrats here are greatly elated over 'the prospects of a visit from Gover nor Alfred E. Smith before the close cf the campaign and that lie will de ' liver at least one address at some point in the State, either Charlotte, ; Greensboro, or Raleigh. The IPoov-i f er strongholds in former democratic > territory appears now to be Mecklen : burg, Wake and Craven an I Raleigh - i will probably win the bid for the * big Smith gathering with the idea -of drawing from the largest disaf r feeted territory, this city being a% COUNTY PAPER CARRIES ON TO ITS SEMI-CENTENNIAL From Raleigh Times Some weeks ago, we think, we were reading in the Chatham Record some speculation by Editor O. J. Peter son as to whether the county would stand for the expense of getting out an edition to ceiebrate the pa per’s semi-centennial. Perhaps tne edition will roil in this week; per haps not. But, anyway, the anni versary has arrived, and it is in many respects one full of signifi cance. The Chatham Record, published at Pittsboro, entered the journalistic field somewhere about this time of the month of September, 1867. Our record of “Looking Backward” to those days contains the information under date of the 19th, that the first number of the paper “came to us last evening. Its general ap pearance is very attractive. Neatly printed, ably edited and full of gen eral and local news, it will secure the patronage of the Chatham peo ple. and in return be of importance and usefulness to them in every re spect. Mr. London, its editor is well versed in politics, a gentleman of acquirements, and writes well.” Fifty years of life for a county paper, with never a bankruptcy and with growing influence, is a remark able, almost a unique, record in North Carolina journalism. Henry A. London, the editor referred to, had other reliances of personal means and of income from the practice of law, but, he made his paper pay its own way and carry its own load. It went through parlous political times with a high head and an uncompro mising stand and while never in the nature of things of large circulation, won a commanding respect in a pe riod when the majority of State pa pers w r ere either spineless or follow ing courage to a journalistic grave. The Record was one of the papers which gave a tone to a hard-pressed profession and did its valuable bit toward the raising of its standards. The present editor, O. J. Peterson, is so honest that sometimes we feel inclined to bleed for him. But he carries on with the spirit of a man getting a great kick out of a hard but well loved job. Whether his Big Edition goes to press or not, he can feel that after fifty years he is car rying on in complete character with a fine tradition. APPEAL FOR FUNDS Urgent call for money and cltoh ing is being made b ythe American Red Cross by reason of the recent Porto Rico and Florida disaster. Four hundred thousand are destitute and near to starvation with grave health problems and threatened epi demics. Refugees must be fed and clothed and sheltered by Red Cross for long emergency period. In Florida fifteen thousand fami lies require immedate emergency aid. * Urgent need for good summer clothing of all kinds as well as mon ey. The people of Chatham county have always responded nobly to all calls made upon them. Won’t you please send money or clothing or both to Mrs. W. M. Hill, chairman, Pittsboro, N. C. at once to help re lieve these stricken people. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto these ye have done it unto me.” most in the geographical center of the State. It is believed that Gov. Smith would draw the largest crowd that has ever assembled in the State for s gathering of any kind. His cause is said to be gathering strength in the State, due probably to the in tensive campaign inaugurated by State Chairman Mull who is stand ing squarely with Max Gardner for j the democratic ticket from c instable : to president, in a recent speech | Governor Gardner is quoted as .hav- j ing said: “Ambitious as I have been and am to serve the people of this great State as their Governor, it shall not be said of me at the end of this campaign that I have sought f the easy safety of the storm cellar | in the crisis that confronts vs. I survive or perish with the ticket.”; A frank statement from a frank jnan and a loyal democrat. O. Max Gard ner is not doing any pussyfooting. Meanwhile, the Republicans . are J moving out into the open and will undertake to match the Democrats 1 with a visit from Mr. Hoover. In \ the event he is not available they • expect to bring the most prominent Republican orators in the country to North Carolina this fall it is said for the State is now considered debat able territory, according to' their opinion expressed and implied. The attitude of Senator Simmons is heart ening to them and surpassing to j the Senator’s life-long friends. Ar rangements have been made for the broadcasting of the speech of Mr. McNinch on Wednesday evening, when the anti-Smith Democrats ex pect to pull off a big rally at the City Auditorium. Mr. Gardner will speak from the same rostrum on Friday evening. Authorities repprt a gain of half a million dollars in the cash balance of the State last month and an in crease of $1,332,000 since the be ginning of the fiscal year, July 1. Receipts, $1,479,683.10; disburse ments, $947,892.92; balance, $3,- 578,024.03 in the general fund on August 31, at which time the to tal funded debt of the State was $168,192,600 with $1,850,000 in notes anticipating bond sales for bridges over Cape Fear and Chov/an river bridges to be added. VOLUME 51. NUMBER 2 ! RIVERS OF STATE SECOND HIGHEST IN HUNDRED YEARS The Cape eFar, Neuse, Lum ber, Yadkn, Tar, and Roa noke Reach Second Highest Levels of Century. The floods attending the appear ance of the tropical storm in North i Carolina last week caused almost un precedented floods in the streams of the eastern part of the state. Even here in Chatham, the Haw, the Deep and the Rocky went on such ram pages as witnessed only once or twice in a generation. The floods utterly destroyed all crops in the lowlands along these rivers. Corn fields were so completely covered that even the tassels did not appear. Water to a considerable depth sur rounded the power plant, filling sta tion, and other buildings at Lockville. At Bynum water went into the yarn mill. However these streams lacked somewhat of reaching the level of the great flood of 1916, observers say. The greatest single injury in this section was that caused by the pour ing of the rising waters into the Cumnock coal mine, which was fill ed almost to the brim and can be pumped out only at a cost of much money and time. The deep water was observed to fall a few inches on Thursday morning at Lockville only to begin to rise a little later, and it occurs that the overflow into the mine, which is probably a mile deep withdrew enough water to ac count for the temporary fall. Cer tainly, it took a great quantity of water to fill the mine. However, the fall of the Rocky, which is short and swift, before the floods from the up per tributaries of the Deep reached this section, was doubtless a contri buting cause of the temporary falL The streams in the lower part of the state were immediately loaded by the more local waters, thus retard ing the rush of the upper waters to the sea and causing longer and high er floods than would be caused by the same amount of rainfall on the upper courses. The outward flow of the Capt Fear was also checked by the tide from the sea during the storm and thus all the elements con spired to give the lower Cape Fear the next greatest flood of the cen tury. But the Neuse, Tar, and the Roanoke endured longer periods of rise and flood. Those who know tha lower Cape Fear should have ob served that from Fayetteville down to the mouth of the Black valley of the Cape Fear is only a few miles wide, while the banks are compar atively high. But the Neuse from Smithfield down flows through a low country and is fed by a great number of slowly moving tributar ies. The result was that the flood did not reach its limit at Kinston, till the first of this week, when the little city was practically cut off from the world. Lumberton on the Lumber river also suffered an unpre cedented flood and hundreds of ne groes had to move from the low area occupied by them on the west side of the river. The penitentiary authorities were fighting for the crops on Caledonia farm on the Roanoke. Levees there are depended upon to keep out the swelling tide and constant vigilance; and labor were given to the protect ing of these levees. At this writing Monday the immense crop, the loss of which would mean a deficit, doubt less, in the penitentiary funds, seem to be safe from flood waters. However, North Carolina suffer jed little compared with Florida, ; where the winds and the water com- I bined to wreck cities and flood the j Everglades, with the loss of than a thousand lives and millions of dollars worth of property. Porto Rico and some of the lesser Antilles suffered similarly. J The Red Cross is receiving funds | for the suffering of the stricken i areas and the government and Red Cross authorities are doing all pos sible to alleviate the disaster. . | MRS. HAYES REAPPOINTED The following statement is re ceived from State Board of Char i ities and Public Welfare: \ “Mrs. R. H. Hayes, of Pittsboro, . has been reappointed a member of * the Chatham county board of char ities and public welfare in recogni tion of her services during her for mer term. The appointment is for three years and was made by the state board of charities and public welfare at Raleigh. Other members jof the Chatham county board are J. G. Seawell, of Silet City, and Rev. Jonas Barclay, of Pittsboro, whose terms do not expire until 1929 and 1930. The duties of the county board are to advise with and assist the state board in the work in the coun ty, and to act in a general advisory capacity to the county and munici pal authorities in dealing with ques tions of dependency and delinquen cy, distribution of the poor funds, and social conditions generally. The law provides for a meeting of the county board of charities and public welfare at least once a month. The term for appointment is ;hrec • years.” 1 FARM FOR RENT—ONE OR TWO • horse as desired by tenant. Good i land on highway 93, three miles from Pittsboro. J. R. Miiliken.