r> v. October 11 THE CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year Six Months Thursday, September 20, 1928 THERE’S A DIFFERENCE Mr. Coolidge was born on a farm fa Vermont. Mr. Hoover was born .n a farm in lowa. A1 Smith was bnrn in a crowded New York street. All three now claim to be friends ot the farmer. Let's see how they show it. Mr. Coolidge leaves the iarm a? he grows up and becomes a lifelopg -notice seeker and a successful on.*-- Becoming president of the Unit'd States, he shows his friendship f-4 t the farm by going back to Vermont occasionally with a stall of photog raphers and newspaper writers who -jtriray his eve’v action to tnc conn t:y as he puts m togs and pretend® to engage in mhkie.jj syrup or gach ♦»r;ng hay. RcjK.biicu.i farmers shc-\\* ing restlessness in the W esc. he goes out there with the safne accompani ment of photographers, puts on a ten gallon hat, and sheep pelt leg gins and pretends to be a cowboy. This is his way of attempting to show sympathy. He comes back to Washington and denounces and ve toes the only measure that congress has been able to devise to help the farmers. He thinks it is not good economics. Mr. Hoover leaves his lowa farm as soon as he can get to college and becomes interested in stones, gold bearing stones. He gets his chance almost as a lad and goes into the employ of large gold compa nies and follows his trade around the world searching for gold and finding it. He is successful and his career is commendable. But like Mr. Cool idge, he has ceased to think in terms of men but in things, and only the value of things. He attempts to ex press his sympathy for the farmers in distress by lengthy speeches on the march of progress and the devel opment of the radio, having valiant ly upheld the hands of Calvin Cool idge as he the blow to agricultural legislation, and desiring to become president only to carry on the policies of the great Coolidge administration. A1 Smith was born in New York. He probably never saw a vegetable garden or a corn field before he was grown and had likely reared a family before he ever saw a stalk of cotton. He would not even imper sonate a brick layer, whom he had seen by the thousands, because he could not lay brick and would not make a pretense. Being always en- 'WaffifießTfimruw. ..ah NURSE— I am located i.y Pittsboro and offer my services as a professional nurse to the people of Chatham county. ELSIE LUCILE PETERSON, R. N., Tel. No. 79. FOR SALE—ONE SECOND HAND Fordson tractor equipped with new wood saw. This i s a good buy for a man who wishes to saw wood in and around Pittsboro. Terms if desired. Weeks Motor Co. BARGAINS—IN USED CARS. We have on ahnd almost all the time good second-hand cars. Look ours over before you buy. Weeks Mo tor Co. FOR THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES for Cedar posts and white oak ties take them to R. M. Connell, Pittsboro. DEMAND BASIC SLAG (SOIL builder) for Alfalfa, Sweet Clov er, Legume s an d fall crops. Sub stitute for all agricultural limes. H. P. Brown, Winston-Salem, dis tributor, Sep 13 6t p YOU CAN get sugar and coffee cheaper at 0. M. Poe’s. FLOUR—S7.OO A BARREL AT R. J. Moore’s Co. Every sack guar anteed to please you. We buy flour by the carload. R. J. Moore Co. FOR BEST price on Chicken Feed, see O. M. Poe. PURINA STARTENA, PURINA chicken chowder, for chicks and laying hens. Pig chow, Cow chow and Purina horse feeds for Sale. X). M. Poe. WHOLE JERSEY MILK—IS CTS. a quart delivered anywhere in Pittsboro early in the morning. Dearie Clark. TVISIT HALL’S FOR ANYTHING • ’ -you wish. A complete line to out fit you from head to foot; at prices, too, that suit the shrewd est of value seekers. gaged with suffering .wand* longing men and women, farming just like •he sees any* othSr occupation in which men and vyomen must la bor and toil and sweat. . He sees it not as a problem of tilings at all but as a problem •of men and wo men, of flesh and blood, of suffer ing and hope, of deferred ambition, of success and fialure, of .needs. He geos west to get acquainted with the farmers and to show his sympathy and tell what he would do for them if he had the chance. He scorns, like David of old, to put ( on an armor with which he its not j familiar. He dons no ten gallon hat nor sheep skin leggins —he carries the same brown derby hat which he wears in New York. Anti 1 what would he d0,,t0 help the farmers. He knows but one thing to do as an official and leader, and that is to give them justice and as they feel the need of it. He propo ses to take their point of view. And in this matter he, shows the immense comprehension f . of fu n damentai ! ’of the real points a<- issue in this campaign. He feels that if New York is to obiain ,what it feels are its needs in this huge country, then Nebraska and'Kansas and South Carolina must have what they feei they need. For, says the New York * World in speaking of this matter, “This is a big country of highly di versified interests. It is also a dem ocracy! That means that nobody and no class and no interest and no . sec tion can expect to make all theii opinions on all subjects the law of the land. You can’t impose the view of the cities on the rural districts nor the views of the rural districts on the cities. You can’t impose the ideas of the industrial sections on •.he agricultural sections. What you have got to do in a democracy like ours is to live and let live. That means that, so far as it is humanly j possible without injury to their ; neighbors, we must accept the views iof others on those matters which concern them vitally and ourselves | only slightly. “That, we take it, is Gov. Smith’s I philosophy. That, we take it is what he means by declaring his loyalty to Jeffersonian principles. It is a good philosophy, and the more complicat | ed cur civilization becomes the bet iter philosophy it is. If . they under ; stood this philosophy the gentlemen ! who think it immensely amusing that a man from the sidewalks of New | York should be talking agricultural : relief on the prairies of Nebraska ; would see that the joke is on them, j For Gov. Smith has not gone West |to save the farmer. He has not gone West to prove that he knows more ! about farming than ihe farmers. That is the Republican philosophy, but it is not Gov. Smith’s. The far mers have beep saved for seven | years by a Massachusetts lawyer, a i Pittsburgh millionaire and a Califor ! nia mining engineer. Gov. Smith has STRAYED OR STOLEN—BLACK hound, male, tan feet and legs; small lump behind left shoulder: answers to name Buster. Liberal reward for his return to Cicero Johnson, Rt. 4, Siler City. Oct 11, 2tp. FOR THE HIGHEST CASH HRiCiLfc for Cedar posts and white oak ties take them to R. M. Connell, Pittsboro. GOOD FARM FOR RENT—FOUR horse farm on Rocky River near Alston’s bridge with good build ings and-extra tenant house. Plen ty good water, rent reasonable. See Mrs. J. W. Mclntvre, Gulf, N. C. WANTED—TO HEAR FROM OWN er of good farm for sale. Cash price, particulars. D. F. Bush. Minneapolis, Minn. tOctlS INSURANCE— IF YOU WANT THE at the price, see E. E. Wil liams, district agent the Security Life & Trust Co., across hall from the Chatham Record Office. Ac cjdet, Fire, Life, Automobile, Cy clone, Tornado—anything in the insurance n t. f. HAMS WANTED—WiII give two pounds of lard or two pound*, of white meat for each pound of ham. O. M. Poe. NEW FALL HATS ARE NOW BE ing shown at Hall’s. You should see them. They are beauties. VALUES—YOU WILL FIND THEM at Hall’s. N; NEW GOODS BEING SHOWN DAl ly at Hall’s. You should see their shoes, dry goods, and ready-to prices. HAIR CUTS—CHILDREN UNDER fifteen, only 25c at Pickard’s Barber Shop, Pittsboro. SEEING .IS BELIEVING—VISIT Hall’s, v There you will find a real city store with small town prices. gone West to tell the farmers that if he is elected he will let them : save themselves. He has offered to do what Mr. Coolidge has resolutely; refused to do and what Mr. Hoover must no less resolutely refuse to do. he has offered to get out of the far mers’ way.” ‘ THE LOCKSTEP OF PRIVILEGE Alexander Hamilton’s idea of mak ing a strong government by making it profitable to the wealthy and keep ing the people dulled into submis sion is being beautifully carried out right now in the process of grabbing the last remaining natural resource belonging to the people by powerful private exploiters. That last remaining God-given re source to the people consists of the water powers of this country. Un born generations will depend upon these water powers not only for light and power as we to some extent do now, but they will depend upon them entirely, and for even the very heat with which to warm their bodies and cook their foods. Now,'don’t run off right here and say this paper accuses Mr. Coolidge and Mr.‘ Hoover of being grafters and rascals. This paper never ac cuses men of dishonesty merely be cause they engage in a policy which seems to it to be disastrous, and .inimitable to the public welfare. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Coolidge are in this position ,uut for the reastji that Alexander Hamilton advocated mak ing a wealthy class by bestowing fav ors upon them. They believe in that principle. Their first idea of gov ernment is that it should be sure to see that the rich and powerful are undisturbed. Mr. Hoover, and Mr. Coolidge, whose mantle Mr. Hoover thinks it sufficient honor to inherit, act on the principle that has always gov erned their party—that principle which was so baldly stated by theii’ spiritual anceSier, Hamilton, when he said that the safety of govern ment depended upon constantly pla cating the rich and the powerful. The only change whatever that has come upon the thinking type of men since Hamilton’s day is that the dic tum is now made to read, “keep the republican % arty strong by making it the handmaid of the powerful in using the government.” Never was the issue clearer than today. While the republican cam paign is encouraging the less inform ed people to fear “the pope of Roam,” and the anti-Saloon League with its great staff of high-salaried igents and officials and lobbyists and politicial-ir.inded preachers are holding up the bogey of the saloon which everybody knows is gone for ever, and non-descripts of every kind are chattering their own pecu liar jargon, the grand old party of Privilege goes right on with its mis sion of fixing the bonds of privilege tighter and tighter upon the peopK whose confusion and sheep-like de meanor must be to the later Mark Hannas a source of amusement. The gentlemen would be highly amused were it not for that this lime they happen to be frightened by the one man who threatens their latest scheme although they are able to array against him more unreason ableness than has been brought against any candidate save only An drew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. Gov. Smith devoted his whole speech at Denver Colorado to the water power problem. And like his speech on the farm problem, he went to the heart of the matter, told exactly where he stands and what he would do if elected. And after reviewing the record of the Coolidge administration and the republican party and of Mr. Hoover, said that if the people had any hope of ever keeping the water powers of this country in the hands of the people for their own use, that hope would have to be realized through the Dem ocratic party, whose platform is clear on the subject. The Democratic platform calls for the retention of, and development by, the State or National government of water power sites. The lobby which has been carried on in Wash ington and over the whole country by the power combine, and which is now being exposed by a congress ional investigation, is closely linked up with republican politicans, and Mr. Coolidge has just "appointed one of its lawyers as secretary of the interior. Mr. Harding appointed Fall secretary of the interior and i s °ld the public oil reserves and took a bribe for making the deal. The lockstep of • privilege is un broken. The power trust, the Re publican leaders and the United States government are tied togeth er in the design to delay the com pletion of Muscle Shoals to keep it in the hands of the people. By this delay it is expected to finally .disgust the public and let the pow er trust take it .in peace. But for the hold that the power trust a~id THE CHATHAM RECORD the fertilizer trust have upon the government through the republican party Muscle Shoals would" now be in operation, making cheap fertiliz er and selling power to distributing agencies over several states. The trail of the lobby has been exposed by the congressional inves tigation and it was shown to have entered the colleges and attempted to control the making of the school text books. This is all common knowledge now, but wbart effect has that upon Mr. Hoover or the Repub lican party? Not a word in the plat form against it and not a word from Mr. Hoover to indicate that he wish es to block the plan, or indeed, that he does not hold himself in readi ness to accelerate it. His close as sociates became officers in the ; very little hope of carrying the state when people let their preju dices keep them from a due consid eration of the real issues. 1 If Catholics vote as a unit for ' Smith, the reason will be easily un derstood. As far as the editor of ’ The Record was from voting for Harding, who was a Baptist, if the niembeis of other churches had been waging war upon him because of his church membership, we should have been impelled to vote for him, and simply because we should have ’ conceived the preservation of the ' rights guaranteed to Baptists under the constitution to be the most ■ important issue of the campaign. And all other Christians who saw 1 in the threat against Baptists the loss of the principle of separation of religion and politics would have join -1 ed the Baptists in voting to sustain ' the dearly purchased principles. Sim ilarly, if Catholics, under the as sault made upon their rights as cit izens, do not rally as a man to the protection of their constitutional rights, they are a strange people. But not only should they do it, out all others who believe in separation of church and state. If Smith were a republican we feel that should vote for him under the circumstan ces. The weather has at last turned in favor of Chatham county farmers. The delay of frost is giving che corn in the county more time to mature. A large part of the Tittle attempted I to be reported in the last issue of on it. The delay of frost is also favorable to the forage crops. % Editor Josephus Daniels’ address here last week was a> little too late to be reported in the last issue of the Record, and so old now as hard ly to be news. Yet the attendance was very gratifying, and the speech was a vote-winner. The speaker was introduced by Mr. A. C. Ray, who beat himself upon the occasion. Gossip Dear Miss Vera, I’m very much in love with a young man six months my senior. He never ceases telling me of his love for me, although he appears to doubt me. A few months past there was some false gossip about me. Somehow he came to believe enough of it for us to break up. After a short while we made up but he con- s S.® c EVERYTHING NEW AND BEST \ Automobile Races, Korse Races, Spectacular Fireworks, | Free Acts, Agricultural and industrial Exhibits SenJ tor Premium l.tsr atui Entry Blanks mmmm^ ryl-7. . rii—BBEM—B j Ready For Ginning j ♦ Our ginnery is in first class condition and is ♦ ♦ ready for your cotton. 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I simply told him it seemed we could not get alon<* together and we agreed to be real, friends and not become angry. p 0 you think my plan a good one ;> Should I tell him why I quit 7 N ' M. B. V. f> Dear M. B. V. 8., nothing i s as malicious as gossip—I am sorry that you have had to suffer from it. * But why not explain everything to him? Wlien you told him simply that he and you didn’t seem to g e t along, I think you did the incorrect thing. That might have given him the impression that you did not care for him. * If I were you I would tell him that I cared for him. but could not endure his doubt. That if he con tinued to doubt, continued to believe everything he heard about you, it would have to be the parting of the ways. Perhaps then he would shut his ears to the gossip that is circulating, ?>nd be fair to you. Make it c!c;r that you cannot accept his love with out having his trust also—and that you are happy to be his sweetheart provided he pays no attention to false rumors. 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