r> v. October 11
THE
CHATHAM RECORD
O. J. PETERSON
Editor and Publisher
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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 ; <lob-,
by and the manager at Kansas City,
Senator Lenroot, is a paid attorney
of the lobby. The whole thing is
sickening.
Those who expect to vote shuold
register, or know definitely that
their names are already on the lists.
Also any who might expect to cast
absentee ballots should understand
that the law has been so changed that
one desiring to cast such a ballot
must make application to the elec
tion board before the day of the
election. There is to be no more
running around gathering votes on
election day.
It is appalling to note the waste
of energy *ul wealth resulting thru
the division of Christians into so
many denominations. It is hard to
conceive of the Lord’s calling a half
dozen preachers to minister to the
people of one little community and
leaving whole nations without a cor
poial’s guard of preachers. The
foolishness of the division of forces
and the duplication of efforts and
plants is all the more apparent when
it becomes evident that not one in
ten of numbers of the various de
nominations knows the distinctive
doctrines of his own church, and less,
if possible, about those of churches
which he has declined to join. One
cannot know which is the preferable
of two or a half dozen of anything
without knowing the qualtiies of all
of them. But applicants for church
membership are received without
any understanding on the part of
the applicants of the differences be
tween the church he is joining and
the others, and for the most part
remain without such knowledge. et
the divisions continue, and commun
ities that could have one excellent
church home must worship in shacks.
But that would be all right if there
were actually, in this day, any deep
convictions as to the value of the
differences in creeds and policies.
We fear there is little reason for
optimism on the part of those who
hope to carry North Carolina for
Smith. Tens of thousands are fail
ing to inform themselves upon the
eternal principles of economic con
cern which are championed by the
Democratic candidate. Religion and
prohibition, neither of which shook!
have any part in the campaign, are
used as smoke screens to hide the
matters of the greatest moment to
the people of the country districts.
Smith was bound to express himself
as to his personal views and wishes
with regard to prohibition; at the
same time he states that they are
only his personal views and that the
people must make them effective if
they are ever made so. There >
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-
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tinued to doubt me, so, pondering
over the thing, I decided to break
off with him for a while to see *if
he really cared. I feel uneasy that
I may lose him. 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.
RADIO AT A BARGAIN— FIRST
class condition, lopd sneaker. J.
W. Burke, Qoldston, N. C.
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