ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
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ERIC, THE ROBOT
BE POLITE TO OUAFI
A HUMAN TIME CLOCK
i nitrogen replace gold
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
An exhibition in i-.ondon intro
duces “Eric, the Robot," a man
shaped wooden and metallic machine
that rises to its feet, stretches out
an arm to command silence and
makes a speech.
The shiny, metallic man-machine
its slanting 1 yellow eyes lighted by
electricity, frightens spectators.
Some workers will dread the pos
sibilities of competition by machine
men. But there is no danger. When
modern clothing-making machinery
was first used England built forts
to protect the machinery from en
raged workers, convinced that it
would starve them.
Those machines employed more
men than ever at better wages.
Every efficient new machine in
creases prosperity, especially that of
workers, by increasing man- value.
With an ox team a tiwit was worth
$1 a day. With a locomotive he is
worth $lO.
Mr. Ouafi, French Arab who beat
all runners of the world in the Olym
pic marathon, is here.
Nature, producing him, seems to
have had a greyhound in mind. His
legs are almost as thin as a grey
hound’s and quite tall, he weighs
only 124 lbs.
Ouafi is a citizen of the French
Republic, and, although many sport
ing Americans that see him run will
.ot know it, his ancestors of an
ient Arabia are ancestors whom our
civilization and its science owe a
great deal.
Those old Arabs were learned in
science, mathematics, and many lines
when our ancestors in England were
hiding in swamps and our ancestors
in Ireland were running. over hills
and bogs not much dressed, their
great king putting aside his cloak
of raw bull hide in the presence of
a French visitors, revealing a king
with nothing on him.
Many words that we use every
day, sofa, alcohol, many terms in
chemistry* come from the Arabic.
Raymond S. Blunt, of Chicago, is
called the human time clock. He re
members where he was, what hap
pened every hour, every minute of
the last ten years. In four months
of this year, for instance, he spent
968 hours in sleep, 25 hours in
church, 363 hours at meals, 48 hours
on pleasure, etc.
That’s interesting but keeping
track of time, hours and minutes, is
not as important as putting some
thing into the hours and minutes,
for instance, the minute in which
Thomas A. Edison decided that two
messages, as well as one, might be
sent over the same wire at the same
time, was more important to the
world than all the well regulated
hours in the lives of ten thousand
other men.
Gold has been the unit of value
since men first found strange heavy
little yellow grains washed down bv
mountain streams, thousands of
years ago.
Men have struggled for gold and
died weeping because they couldn’t
take it along, and have murdered
each other for gold.
Now cold science tells you “Gold
won’t always be the unit of value."
Nitrogen will replace it, being the
foundation of our food supply, and
of life.
Every square mile of air above
the earth’s surface carries twenty
million tons of nitrogen, enough to
last the world twelve years.
Any way of getting that nitrogen
out of the air cheaply would be mar
velously important, to farmers es
pecially.
Judge Jarecki, of Chicago, says
that city will enlist 10,000 men to
guard the polls in November. He
doesn’t want any more ‘pineapple’’
politics.
“Pineapple" you know, is Chi
cago's playful euphemism for ■ an
explosive bomb.
If pineapples only were used in the
Chicago campaign it wouldn’t be so
bad. But automatics, machine guns
and brass knuckles daded to the
“pineapples" make the way of the
voter hard, unless he votes with the
gang.
GOVERNOR McLEAN to
SPEAK AT SANFORD
Governor McLean wall deliver an
address in the interest of the Dem
ocratic ticket at Sanford, Friday
evening at 8 o’clock. The readers
of the Record are invited to hear
him.
fined for hunting
WITHOUT LICENSE
Three young men were brought
before court the other day and fined
*l4. each for hunting without li
cense. The young fellows were from
vVake county but were hunting in
Chatham. v
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POU TO SPEAK
AT BONLEE
Congressman Pou and Judge
Biggs Addressed ’ Large Au
dience Saturday—Big Bar
becue Dinner.
A big barbecue and speaking by
Congressman E. W. Pou and Judge
J. C. Biggs of Raleigh signalized the
day at Bonlee last Saturday. The
crowd present was said to number
700 or 800, but included a large
number of republicans.
That section, also, is one of the
most hostile to Smith in the countv
from the Democratic standpoint.
The addresses,; especially rh:il of
Mr. Pou, are said lo have vew
suong.
Chatham county executive
committee provided barbecue in a
great abundance for the crowd, and
all enioyed the dinner, whatever their
political complection.
Chairmen Young
People’s Clubs
Mr. D. L. Bell, county chairman*
authorizes the publication of the fol
lowing list of precinct chairmen:
The following have been named
as precinct chairmen for their res
pective precincts for the Young
People’s Democratic club of Chat
ham county:
Albright—James Hargrove.
Baldwin: —Bill Hamlet.
East Bear Creek —Simon Phillips.
. West Bear Creek —C. C. Jones.
Center—Dr. R. M'. Farrell.
Cape Fear, Buckhorn —Henry
Harrington.
Cape Fear, Merry Oaks—H. H.
Gotten.
Gulf-—John M. Mclver.
Gulf, Richmond —W. L. Coggins
Hadley—Z. L. Dark.
Haw River —W. W. Langley.
Hickory Mt. —Alex Cockman.
Mt. Vernon Spgs. —Eugene Fou&t.
New Hope—Raymond Laster.
Oakland —Colin Pattishall.
Siler City—Frank Paschal-
Williams—Herman Scott.
Mr. Bell has been appointed also
chairman of the working group of
democratic veterans for the county.
VETERAN CROSS PASSES
W. H. Cross, highly respected, and
oldest citizen of the Corinth com
munity died Monday.
The death of Mr. Cross came as
a shock and surprise to his relatives
and friends. Sunday, seemingly in
his usual health and high spirits, he
attended all-day services at Buck
Horn M. E. church, of which he has
been a consistent member since his
boyhood.
The end apparently came sudden
ly as he was seen about his busi
ness, and had thrown green tops to
his hogs, which they were eating,
when he was found dead by the pen.
Although 85 years old, April 22,
of this year, he was remarkably alert
and well preserved in mind and body
more often taken to be 65 than 85.
He served his country during those
years of struggle and reconstruction
-—bore his share of buraens and sor
rows of life.
BROWN’S CHAPEL NOTES
The Epworth League was reorgan
ized recently. It meets twice a
month right after Sunday school.
Miss Pearl Dark is president. Much
interest is manifested. Last Satur
day evening they had a social gath
ering at Mr. J. W. Dark’s, each
member of the League inviting a
guest. Ice cream and cake was ser
ved and a good time was had.
Mrs. Frank Perry has been very
sick, but is improved. Her mother,
Mrs. Emma Dark, was with her
during her illness.
Since the death of Mrs. W. J.
Durham her daughter Mrs. N. B.
Dixon and family have mofced in
with her father to keep house and
cheer him in his loneliness.
Some visitors from Carrboro. and
Pittsboro were with us at church
last Sunday and we hope they will
come again. Pastor Lance has one
more service with us, and we invite
you to come arid hear him. Time—
3rd Sunday at 11 a. m.
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PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER Uth, 1928
M. L. Shipman’s Raleigh Letter
By M. L. SHIPMAN
> Raleigh. Oct. B.—Not since the
memorable campaigns of 1893 and
1900 which resulted in wresting the
stace government from the fusionists
enthroned the Democracy of North
Carolina in to the seat of the migh
ty and eliminated colored voters from
political calculations has so many
party defenders been “called to the
colors’’ as may at present be found
on the hustings proclaiming the Jef
fersonian doctrine of “Equal rights
for all and special privileges to no
one.’’ During the hectic period of
the white supremacy era the voices
of men only were employed in car
ing the gospel of Democracy lo the
people of the State. This year we
find the women taking their places
along side thiir male associates and
dividing honors with them in pre
senting the' claims of the Democratic
party to a further lease of power in
the State. For the first time since
the ratification of the suffrage
amendment twenty-eight years ago
the Republican party in the State
appears to entertain the hope of
coming back to place and power by
naming a full ticket for State offi
cers and showing signs of a determ
ined effort to elect them. Republican
women have also volunteered for
service in the conflict and their voic
es, along with democratic women,
may daily be heard in public places
and on the air proclaiming the vir
tues of their candidates.
Chairman O. M. Mull, of the stale
democratic executive committee, feel
, chat the tide has set definitel yand
l forcibly in favor of the entire demo
cratic ticket in North Carolina and
li well pleased with reports brought
to headquarters by messengers from
every section of the State. Counties
which a few weeks ago were on the
uncertain list with a decided anti-
Smith trend are now considered f-nfe
for democracy. The presence •- f
outstanding leaders frnio outside the
State has been of great value, the
Chairman feels, while the wonderful
campaign that is being waged by O.
Max Gardner, is bringing definite
results, particularly in support of
the national ticket. Mr. Gardner’s
statement that he is willing to stand
or fall with the National ticket I ns,
, it is believed in democratic circles,
caused many luke warm, or anti-
Smith democrats to pause in their
inclination to side-step the straight
and narrow way and abide in the
faith of their fathers. The earnest
ness and evident lack of selfishness
exhibited by the gubernatorial can
didate is expected to bring many
recalcitrant democrats back into the
fold and enlist their support for all
democratic nominees. Where doubts
and fears prevailed a little while
ago Chairman Mull now fin is hope
and confidence, good fellowship and
brotherly kindness.
Chairman Mull is heartened by tbe
contemplated visit of Senator Nor
r:s Shepherd, of Texas, co author o{
the 18lh Amendment to the Federal
Constitution, to Winston-Salem on
October 29th. This is considered a
master stroke in the interest of the
National ticket which has drawn sh?
fire from many ardent prohibitionist
on account of the views entertained
by Governor Smith upon the liquor !
question, for Senator Sheppard is j
an acknowledgde adherent of tern-1
perance in all the term implies. The |
chairman is also pleased with the an- I
nouncement of former Lieutenant |
Governor W. C. Newland, an ar- j
dent M’ull delegate to the National i
democratic convention and chairman j
of the North Carolina delegation at
Houston, that he will take the stump j
in the interest of the candidacy of
of Governor Smith. Mr. Mull is fur
ther advised that Senator Carter
Glass, of Virginia, another tempers
ance advocate who practices what he
preaches, and John W. Davis, of
West Va., democratic candidate for
president four years ago, will speak
over radio with a national hook-up
of the National Broadcasting Com
pany during the present week. Sena
tor Glass will be heard on Wednes
day evening at 10:30 o’clock, eastern
standard time, and Mr. Davis will
take to the air at eight on Thursday
The Empty North
One of the most striking passages
of that ancient collection of liter
ature known as the Bible, is “He
hangeth the north over an empty
place." It is found in the Book of
Job.
The queer part of it is that astro
nomically the north is a somewhat
empty plrice. In a measure you can
see for yourself that there are. not
many stars in that direction.
All this is called to mind when wc
read of General Nobile’s flight over
the Foie a short time ago. He dis
covered again what had already been
discovered, that when you get to
the North Pole you find nothing
there —just frozen emptiness.
Think of all these years that men
have dreamed of getting to the
North Pole, and striven for it, and
died for it. What does it amount
to, alter all?
it is simply a record to make, • a
sort of impossible line to'toe, but
all those fanpiful dreams of Simms,
Hole and the like, about there being
an undiscovered country up there,
are pure fiction.
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DcErank Crane Saysjjffj^,
night.
Supplementing the efforts of Con
gressman E. E. Cox, of Georgia, and
r. G. Lathan and Hatton W. Sum
mers, of Texas, Congressman J. B.
Aswell, of Louisiana, and Senator L.
D. Tyson, of Tennessee, during the
past week, Congressman Marvin
Jones and R. L. Henr, both of the
Lone Star State, are speaking, in
North Carolina this week, while Mrs.
*M. H. Elliott, of Hunter college, New
York City, has half a dozen speak
ing engagements during the same
period under the auspices of Chair
man Mull. Clyde R. Hoey, demo
cratic elector at large, acknowledged
leader of the Smith adherents in the
state, has nine speaking engagements
with the home folks during the sev
en-day period. Other Tar Heel
speakers on the firing line at the
s ame time are J. C. B. Ehringhause,
of Elizabeth City; Maj. A. L. Bul
winkle, of Gastonia; Josephus Dan
iels, J W. Bailey, Chas. U. Hams;
Miss Nell Battle Lewis, Dr. Delia D.
Carroll, Mrs. Palmer Jerman, of Ra
leigh; Robert R. Reynolds, of Ashe
ville, attorney general D. G. Brum
mitt, and Gov. A. W. McLean.
O. Max Gardner, candidate for
Governor, is taking an enforced rest
at his home in Shelby after putting
in a full month of intense campaign
ing which carried him to every sec
tion of the State. Splendid results
have followed his efforts and he ex
pects to return to the forum in fine
fettle in a few days. He has already
spoken twenty-nine times in as many
days.
F. R. McNinch, active leader of
the anti-Smith democrats in the
State is still shelling the woods for
Herbert Hoover, taking to task in
his speeches criticisms of regular
democrats who have been charging
the “antis" with ignorance, intol
erance and religious bigotry. Dur
ing the week Mr. McNinch goes to
the home town of Senator Simmons,
acknowledged foe of Governor Smith
for an address and there is talk to
the effect that the Senator will
present him to his New Bern audi
ence. The McNinch committee ex
pects to bring into the State prom
inent anti-Smith speakers from the
outside and continue active opera
tions against the candidacy of Gov.
Smith until the conclusion of the
campaign.
Emboldened by disrjmtions in
the ranks of democracy here in North
Carolina the republifeanls under the
leadership of State chairman Brown
low Jackson are making a determ
ined fight for Herbert Hoover for
president. Herbert Seawell for gov
ernor and the entire republican state
ticket. Senator Curtis, of Kansas,
their nominee for vice-president is
booked for a speech in Raleigh on
Staurday evening of this week and
secretary J. J. Davis of the Federal
Department of Labor, is to fill a
number of engagements in various
sections of the State.
Soon H. F. Seawell, republican
nominee for governor will take the
stump to reply to some of the things
Max Gardner has been saying about
him and his party. M*r. Seawell will
make the presentation speech when
Senator Curtis comes to town next
Saturday and both addresses are to
be broadcasted over the State by
radio. Chairman Jackson expresses
confidence in the dim that Hoover
will carry the State.
GARDNER AND MORRISON
WILL VISIT CHATHAM
Chatham people will have the op
portunity week after next to hear
Max Gardner and- Cameron Morri
son. The latter will speak at Pitts
boro Tuesday noon, court week, at
12 M. Mr. Gardner will speak at
Siler City that evening at eight.
There will be two great democratic
speeches. Make your plans to hear
both. Date—October 22nd.
Mr. Wesley Thompson and Mrs.
Myrtle Harding were married here
one day last weke. Rev. C. M'. Lance
performed the ceremony. Mr. Tho
mas is one of the well known citi
zens of the county.
• The only part of this globe that
is habitable is the temperate zorie,
and in a measure the tropics.
General Nobile’s discoveries, as
well as those of others, reveal that
the north is to be added to the
jeeans and the deserts and the
mountain ranges as pure waste. A
deal of the universe, as far as we
can see, is waste in the sense of
not being habitable by man. We
cannot live in the seas, and life
is difficult in the high mountain
ranges.
Considering how vast is the uni
verse, and how many of* the stars,
are simply blazing balls of fire ut
terly uninhabitable by any form of:
life, and how gigantic are the dis-'
tances between .the stellar bodies,
and even what a great portion of
this planet is not habitable, one’s
philosophy of life unconsciously lim
its the importance of mankind, and
adds a new meaning to the exclar
mation: *
“When I consider Thy heavenus,
the moon and the stars which Thou
hast ordained, what is man that Thou
art mindful of him, and the son of
man that Thou visitest him?’’
j She Knows Her Onions '
■ ■ ■ ■.
Miss Violet Clark of Kansas dn- “
playing her prize-winning Bern '
onions at the fair at Lawrence
REPUBLICANS
IN CAUCUS
Chairman Brownlow Jackson
Hendersonville Meets With
; Chatham County Leaders. _
Quite a number of the county's
republican leaders and a number of
prominent republicans from Raleigh
met here Thursday evening with the
State chairman Brownlow Jackson of
Hendersonville, for a conference on
campaign matters.
Aa* eng the visitors wore Wilds
Br:gg j of Raleigh, D. C. West, East
ern Campaign Manager, Me. Deaton,
Wake county chairman, Mv. C-ouzins,
candidate for auditor in Vv akc, H. G.
Dorsett and Fletcher Makepeace,
candidate for the House and Seriate
from Wake. County leaders pres
ent included Capt. J. J. Jenkins, L.
L. Wrenn, candidate for Congress,
R. H. Dixon, S. W. Willett, county
chairman, C. D. Wilkie, candidate
fer the House, W. B. Moore, De-
Wilt Smith, and others A number .
of Pittsboro republicans also at
tended.
We are told that it is the purpose
to have several speeches here during
the coming w«eks., Candidates H. F.
Seawell, W. H. Fisher, Elwood Cox,
and possibly-others are-expected to
come.
Woman’s Clubs i
Meets Siler City
The annual meeting of the Eighth
District of the North Carolina Fed
eration of Women’s clubs will me a t
with the Siler City club's at Siler City
Saturday, October 13th at 11 a- m.
The Bth district is composed of
Wake, Chatham, Durham, Person and
Orange counties. Officers and mem
bers of all the Women’s clubs in the
district are invited and urged to at
tend. Also the Home Demonstration
club women are invited to attend.
Mrs. Thomas O’Berry and Mys. W.
J. Brogden will be principal speak
ers. Club presidents will make re
ports of their year’s work. Music
and other inte~"-tino* numbers of the
program will be arranged for by the
Siler City club.
All club women attending will take
a box lunch as usual, which will be
turned over to lunch committee and
served picnic style at the noon hou»\
Hot coffee and desert will be furn
ished by the hostess club.
MRS. M. F. GROTE.
Sec. Bth District, N.C.F.W.C.
MISSIONARY MEETING
AT MANN’S CHAPEL
The semi-annual zone meeting of
the missionary socities of the Meth
odist Episcopal churches in Pitts
boro, Haw River and Siler City
charges, will be held at Mann’s
Chapel of Haw River circuit Sun
da afternoon, October 14, at 2 p. m.
A meeting has been planned that
will be helpful to all women in this
zone whether or not they belong to
an organized society and it is hoped
that many from every church on
these charges will attend.
The program follows:
1. Congregational sinking.
2. Words of Welcome —Mrs. J. W.
Norwood.
3. Song—Mrs. Henry Bynum.
4. Reports from Societies.
5. Talk —Hjw a Society May Help a
Pastor —Mrs. C. M. Lance.
6. Address —A Phase of Organiza
tion —Mrs. Junius Wrenn.
7. Devotions —Led by Mrs. Adrian
' Brown.
RED CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS
Amounts received by Chatham
county chapter A. R. C. the past
week: :
Mrs. Nathaniel Hill (corrected $2.00
Mrs. Mattie Calvert ........ 5.00
Pjttsboro high school 20.10
Undesignated V. 2.00
Laura : Horne Wesley Class
Methodist A. S 5.00
Mrs. Henry A. London 2.00
Baptist Sunday school . • $5.00
One hundred dollars worth of
clothing has been sent by the peo
ple of Pittsboro and vicinity to'those
in the hurricane area.
The chairman desires to express
her sincere thanks for all money and
clothing sent.
MRS. N. M. HILL, Chm.
MRS. E. H. FARRELL, Treas.
VOLUME St. NUMBER 4
MEETING OF SANDY
CREEK BAP. ASSN.
Held at Bethlehem Church*
Moore County—Large At- :
tendance—Chatham Church
es Well Represented.
Bethlehem church, a few miles oat
west of Carthage, was the scene o#
the meeting of the Sandy Creek
Baptist association last week. Hus
is the oldest Baptist association in
the State. In early times it includ
ed all the churches from Virginia,
to South Carolina, except those em
braced in the old Kehulee in the
northeastern part of the state. The
Kehukee is as old as Sandy Creek*
but when the Missionary and the
Hardshell groups separated, the He*
hukee went with the Hardsheßa.
This was the 170th session, we be
lieve, of the old Sandy Creek which,
now embraces churches of Randolph*.
Chatham, and Lee counties.
The association met Thursday &
m. MY. Victor R. Johnson of the
Pittsbroo church, who has served fbr
several years as moderator, was re
elected, and Mr. Adney Teague wna
re-elected clerk. For several years
the Chatham churches have furnish
ed both these officers.
The introductory sermon was
preached by Rev. J. C. Canipe, erf
Siler City, and was an able one. Re
ports were presented on the various*
matters of interest to the body ami'
were discussed briefly. Very few
of the representatives of the States
organization were present, with the
result that the discussions were con
fined chiefly to members of the as
sociation. *
THe attendance had dwindled by
Saturday session, though it had been
rumored that a political resolution
would be introduced, and it was.
Rev. Mr. Tuck, pastor of the South
ern Pines church, introduced a res
olution flat-footedly calling for the
support of Hoover for president no
th® ground of opposition to Smith’s,
attitude to prohibition, but the res- \
olution was instantly tabled.
The association had not met with
the Bethlehem church *since 1892,
but there were present several who
had attended not only that session,
but the one held there in 1884, and
one or two, we believe, responded
as present at a session there in
1874. The old church was the
church home of the late Reverend
W. H. H. Lawhon, whose grave,
marked with a handsome stone, ia
hard by the church.
attendance was good, nearly
all the more than half-hundred
i nurcnes being represented. Thurs
day’s session looked wary much like
a Chatham county meeting, so lgrg*
a proportion of those present were
from the churches of that county.
The hospitality of the Bethlehem
people was superb.
JORDAN’S ADVICE TO HOLDk
COTTON
(By Harvie Jordan)
There are 2700 cotton growers
with their employes, ag
gregating approximately 13,500,000
workers in the cotton grwoing indus
try in this country, busily engaged
in harvesting the 1928 crop. The an
nual product of the greatest gold
mine in the world and the most valu
able monetary staple crop in the
United States is being prepared for
national and international commerce
to provide clothing as the second vi
tal necessity to human civilization.
The great masses of eottrin grow
ers, who, through adverse weather
coftditions and insect damage for the
past eight months, have poured their
labor, capital and hopes into the
planting and cultivation of the crop,
have no voice in the price for which
their staple will sell. This totally un
fair situation violates every modern
law of trad* in commerce. No other
industry, except that of agreiulture,
could survive at all under such con
ditions. The federal laws and the
trading customs of the raw cotton
industry have for half century del
egated to the buyers, speculators and
textile consumers of American cot
ton the right and privilege of fix
ing and maintaining the daily price
of cotton regardless of the welfare
of the growers. Whether the price
is below the average cost of pro
duction or not does not enter into
the machinery of price fixing.
The current prices prevailing so
far this season are at least three
cents per pound less than the aver
age actual cost of production based
upon the present forecasted average
yield of 154 pounds lint per acre.
With an estimated total supply of
only 19,721,000 bales of American
cotton for the present cotton year,
including the September 1 cany-ov
er, as against 20,784,000 bales in
1927, current prices this season have
averaged to date three cents per lb.
less than for 1927 with the larger
supply.
It is now generally agreed that
to date the 1928 crop has been' over
estimated and that this fact will be
developed in future forecasts based
upon more definite information. The
farmers should demand and refuse
to sell any part of their present crop
for less than 20 cents per pound, and
even at that,, there will be practical
ly no profit to the average grower.
The local banks will be glad to make
the needed advances on all cotton
held in resistance to existing pi*ices.
Farmers should assert their rights
to recognition by the world cotton
trade and refuse to be stampeded in
to losses of millions of dollars in'
marketing their main staple crop
this season on an artificially depress
ed market.