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FIFTEEN BJLLIONS OVER !
RELIGIOUS* IDEALISM
ENGLISH JUSTICE .... . j
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By ARTHUR .BRISBANE ‘
The most important news I! in the
wor r! has nothing to, do with the
election, or the intelligence of tne
modern “flapper” highly prized by
educational authorities. The year’s
important news'tells of a giant tel-,
escope, with a 200-inch mirror that
will reveal to the eyes of men hun
dreds of millions of new stars and
distant “universes.” ~ ,
Apnalling to man’s feeble intel
lect is a thin instrument that will
bring within reach of our eyes the
light of nebulae, in a far off um
vers , light that has been traveling
through space one billion years, at .
a speed of 186,000 miles, a second.
Mr. Raskob, a brilliantly able bus
iness man, and. probably out of
politeness to please political asso
ciates, that our prosperity is not
genuine. The General Motors
company, for which he has done
gono work, seems not to’ share his
opinion, judging by the price of its I
and the jsize. of its .earnings.
Mr. Mellon, Secretary of the.,,,
Treasury", thinks our prosperity/ is ;
sound enough and so do others of
financial ability.
Mi. Frederick Ecker, vice-presi- i
dent of the Metropolitan Life Insur- l
ance company, says the main ele-.
ment in prosperity is the wage earn
ter’s “back log.”
Workers in this, country earn one
hundred billion dollars a ear.
There is a good deal of extrava
gance and waste, but in spite of
that, not more than 85 per cent of
the earnings is spent. This means
that the people earn each year fif
teen billions more than they spend.
Every year, after paying their liv
ing expenses, the people have leit
over fifteen thousand million dol
lars. 50 per cent more than the gi
gantic sum lent to Europe in the war
by this country.
This “social surplus” comes in
every year.
That is a substantial “back log”
to keep the prosperity fires burning.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., -in mem
ory of his mother gives to the Uni
versity of Chicago $1,000,000 “to
promote the religious idealism of
students of the university.”
Those, unfortunately numerous,
that do exist without religious ideal
ism, never lifting their eyes from
the ground to contemplate and ques
tion the heavens and the glory that
they declare, are like the men liv
ing in Plato’s cave, their backs to
the light, knowing only shadows on
the walls.
Young Mr. Chung Ji-maino, Chin
ese law student, married Wai Jung
Sui. daughter of a rich merchant,
took her to England and there mur
dered her.
Mr. Chung made his mistake when
be went to England. They will
hang him in a few days, in spite of
his ingenious story, about mysterious
Oriental assassins committing the
crime.
In England when you kill any
body, they hang you without loss
«f time, excuses and explanations are
not accepted. It is in this country
that murderers in great numbers go
free, and even those caught and con
victed have two or three years to
think it over.
In the big war, when airplanes
raided London and Paris, the inhab
itants were wa r ned ,bv the noise of
the engines. They will not be war
ned in the next war, for a device
is shown making an airplane engine
absolutely noiseless.
THE VOTE IN THE
FOURTH DISTRICT
Congressman Pou won in all the
counties of the 4th District except
in his native county, Johnston, where
our Mr. Wrenn beat him 1150. The
vote for the various counties of the
district follow:
County * Pou Wrenn
Chatham 2,378 1,938
Franklin 3,064 381
Johnston 6,024 7,174
Nash 4,378 1,273
Vance 2,634 711
Wake 11,526 3,794
Totals, complete 30,364 15,272
Citizen—What do you want?
Money?
Outcast—ls yer got a plate of hot
soup in yer pocket, it’ll do as well!
U. D. C. MEETING
The regular meeting of the Win
nie Davis chapter of the U. D. C.
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Ernest Farrell, with Mesdames Jas.
L. Griffin and W. I. Farrell as ad
ditional hostesses, on Friday alter
noon at 3 o’clock.
This will be the last regular meet
ing before the bazaar which will
be held Dec. Bth. All members are
urged to bring in their articles for
the bazaar.
There is much important business
to be transacted.
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The Chatham Record
CARS WRECKED
What came near being a very seri
ous accident occurred Monday morn
j ing at the junction of the road
I from the silk mill with highway 75.
; Mr. Percy Gunter was driving out
l from the mill. The mill road has
embankments oh each side. Ke
j stopped to look for approaching- cars
4 but saw none and started hi§ • car
v iagaiu* apd saw, a truck approaching.
. He .stopped, the only thing fie could
leaving enough ’room for ‘tne
truck >t6’*paas upon the-left, he says.
Rut Mr. Caippbejl, the driver of the
truck* threw on brakes and failed’
to make the passage to the left. He
bit • the Gunter car amidships, but
didn’t turn it over. But the trucK
. rolled over, throwing out Mr. Camp
bell and the two of the three men
with him, and turning over with ihe
fourth man under it.
Mr. Gunter was not hurt at ail.
The other men were scratched up
some, but not seriously hurt.' The
Gunter car’ had about SSO damage
done to it. while the truck’s repair
cost is estimated at $l5O. Sheriff >
Blair visited the scene and told Mr. j
•Gunter that he seemed to be- the I
blame, and Mr. Gunter was expect
ing, to have to pay the repair bills.
Abernethy Wants
No Reorganization
Congressman Charles L. Aber
nethy on The Election Re
, suits in North Carolina.
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Washington, D. C v Nov. 10th,
— Chas. L. Abernethy of the third
! North Carolina district, who has just
been received by the usual demo
cratic majority lives in the same
city with Senator Simmons.
Until the Houston convention both
Senator Simmons and Congressman
Abernethy were opposing the nomi
nation of Governor Smith for the
Presidency. When Governor Smith
was nominated Senator Simmons
continued his fight against him, but i
Mr. Abernethy decided to support i
him and he spoke and worked for j
the entire democratic ticket. Sena-!
tor Simmons’ home precinct went j
for Smith by a majority of 67. Cra- j
ven county, the county of both .of
them, Went for Smith by a majority
of 257. Mr. Abernethy issued the
following-statement to the press to
day:
“The political: situation in North!
Carolina brought about by the re
cent election demands the most ser
ious attention 7of the democrats of
the State for the future. The mem
bers of the North Carolina delega
tion in the House with the exception
of one, followed Senator Simmons in
his opposition to Gov. Smith until
his nomination at Houston and then
Senator Overman and the entire
delegation in the House supported
the straight democratic ticket.
“It now turns out that the elec
toral vote from North Carolina was
not needed to defeat Smith. It
now appears that it was not neces
sary for the North Carolina leadeisj
of the anti-Smith forces to have
joined hands with the opposition
and to have waged the strenuous
campaign they did to have insured
Mr. Hoover’s election.
“Now', a calm survey of the re
sults of this strenuous anti-Smith
campaign in North Carolina shows:
“1. That the majority of the
State democratic ticket was greatly
reduced.
“2. That Congressman Zeb Weav
er, a democrat, and a strong anti-
Smith man before the Houston con
vention. was defeated.
“3. That Congressman A. L. Bul
winkle, a democrat, and a strong
anti-Smith man before the conven
tion. ana a gallant soldier and of
ficer *..1 trie World war, was defeat
ed
“4 That the democratic congress
man of the sth district, that grand
I old Confederate soldier, Major Chas.
M. Stedman, w'as only elected by
about 50d majonty when he hact
been elected by great democratic
majorities in previous elections.
OFFICIAL VOTE OF CHATHAM COUNTY
Hoover Wins Over Smith by 638, But Other Democratic Candidates Win by Comfortable
Majorities.
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TTnnvpr 225 —180 —518 TB7 173 389 176 189 76 645 243 90 127 3318
?°?th 184 190 287 111 434 222 162 92 74 558 121 166 79 2680
Pou 209 258 380 150 477 283 208 133 95 625 196 178 100 3^.92
Wrenn 316 140 504' 192 149 371 162 175 62-627 211 87 115 3111
Edwards 243 269 369 157 492 305 195 142 75 726 196 1/9 104 045-
WiUde 292 140 491 186 154 385 165 171 84 526 211 84 118 3007
pLir 232 284 381 160 502 313 203 132 102 653 199 185 115 3461
Routh 301 125 508 179 145 381 169 174 59 597 209 77 107 3031
Poe 227 261 401 158 482 313 218 134 100 662 191 178 105 3430
R?ddle 306 144 498 185 167 381 158 178 61 596 215 81 117 3177
Brooks 223 267 41? 156 474 323 226 134 99 665 193 183 104 0464
Lindley 322 126 470 186 156 382 165 191 60 614 204 78 115 0069
’lhe vole for the senatorial candidates, the other commissioners, coroner and surveyor
was practically the same as for the county canaidates tabulated above. The total county
vote for Gardner was 3352 and for Seawell for Governor was 3081, showing that our neigh-
er>t a lead over the county republican ticket.
The three townships, Oakland, Center, and Baldwin, all divided by the Jefferson Davis
hitrhwav gave Smith majorities, as did Buckhorn precinct in Cape Fear township, while
Merry Oaks precinct went as strongly for Hoover as Buckhorn did tor Smith, but as Merry
Oaks has a much larger vote, Cape Fear as a whole went for Hoover.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15.. 1928.
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“5. That th» uemocratic congress-!
men of the 7th and 9th districts
were in the balance for a long time
and were elected by greatly reduc
ed majorities, and both of these men
were anti-Smith men before the
Houston convention.
“6. That as a result of this strenu
ous anti-Smith campaign in North
Carolina, every congressman’s elec
tion was endangered, and each had
to fight for his political life as nev
er before.
“7. That the legislature hereto
fore overwhelmingly democratic is j
now very close betw’een the demo- j
crats and republicans, the demo- j
crats having a reduced major tv.
“8. That great democratic coun- j
ties like Mecklenburg, Buncombe, j
Rowan, Guilford, New Hanover and j
many others strongly democratic i
went republican.
‘ 9. In the 3rd district the crun-j
ties of Sampson and Carteret went 1
republican. These counties were (
democratic two years ago.
“10. Johnston county in the 4ut;
district, while it went democratic two
years ago, this year went republi
can and as a result thereof two i
state democratic senators were de
feated.
“11. And then our Stp+°
lied by a majority for the republi
can national ticket for the first time
since the Civil war.
“I seriously contend that it was
never necessary to have brought on
such destruction and disaster to the
democratic party in North Carolina
even in the interest of ‘saving the
democracy from that Body of Death’
as it has been termed.
“Now comes the serious sugges
tion from Senator Simmons in an
interview', that to save the party
further it must be re-organized.
“With all due deference, it seems
to me that it is much better and
will do more to bring about a re
habilitation of the democratic party
for democrats to stand by the reg-
DURHAM COUNTY SAVES
ITS LOCAL TICKET
Contrary to first reports, Durham
county went democratic except in the
case of Smith. Orange elected as
Chief of Police, Sloan of Chapel
Hill sheriff, with a big majority,
Chapel Hill voting almost unani
mously for him. Alamance and
Randolph went republican through
out. .
MRS. HAYES HONORED
Mrs. R. H. Hayes was elected vice
president of the 6th district of the
state Parent-Teacher association at
the meeting at Durham Monday
This is quite an honor, and when i
♦ •.i - taken in connection with *ho
vice presidency of Mrs. Shannon
house of the State organzation, giv
es Pittsboro quite a distinguishes
position in the P.T.A.
TRAIN KILLS NEGRO
Coroner G. H. Brooks was called
to Gulf to hold an inquest over the
body o' Will Seigers, colore 1 . wbc
was killed Sunday afternoon by the
A. & Y. southbound train Sunday
afternoon when the deceased drove
his car in front of the train. It
was iound that the train had failed
jto give proper crossing signals.
j ular democratic organization that
! has made the splendid fight for the
straight democratic ticket. I be
lieve the safety of our party in
future lies in strengthening our
present democratic organization,
rather than undertaking a reorgan
ization under a leadership which has
i brought about so much discord, dis-
I aster and destruction in our ranks,
i “Speaking for myself, I shall
I abide with the regular democratic
1 organization of the State.”
TERRACING ASSISTANCE
FOR CHATHAM FARMERS
Mr. N. C. Shiver, county agricul
tural agent announces that two ter
racing schools and demonstrations
will .be held in Chatham county, on
Nov.- 19, 20, 21. All farmers dre
>invited to attend these meetings. 1 On
the morning of Nov. 19 at 10 o’clock
•the meeting, will be held in the Bap
* tist ladies’ hall a\>ove the SileY
’store. At this me'et
• ing, ohethods '6f ‘locating' terrae'es - ;
the Jail td be' given between stations
op .the terlace lines, the fall to be
given between terraces, methods of
constructing- -and finishing ten aces,
etc willv.be discussed. At 2 o’clock
in t;hf afternoon,' a practical dem
onstration will be'given on the farm
of yir. J. R.-Ward,. two miles .east,
of Staley .on No. 6Q highway. The
meeting and demonstration will be
continued throughout the ‘ next day.
At 10 a. m. on the.2lst the meet
ing will be. held in the courtroom
of the courthouse at Pittsboro. Dur
ing the afternoon, the ' demonstra
tion will be given on the farm of
.county' commissioner, R: J. Johnson
.near Bynum. Mr. A. T.. Holman, and
Mr. T, Sturdivant, agricultural en
gineers will conduct these meetings
apd. demonstrations. " ‘ : <
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How The Counties
Voted Last Week
The East Except a Batch ot
Counties Surrounding Re
publican Sampson Gave A1
Smith Majorities.
Generally speaking the eastern
counties of North Carolina gave A1
Smith majoritiets and the western,
Hoover majorities. Run a line from
South Carolina separating Union
and Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Stanly,
Montgomery, Moore, Chatham, Ch
ange, Durham, Alamance and to the
west and Caswell to the east, and
you have the two great divisions. No
county west of that line seems to
have voted for Smith, though Hay
w’ood, the strongest of the western
democratic counties, ran strong for
Smith. On the other hand, there
are a number of Hoover counties
east of the line. Sampson is the
center of a Hoover area composed
of that generally Republican county,
Harnett, Wayne, Johnston, Bladen.
Columbus, Brunswick, New Hanover,
Onslow, Pender.
Not only did Harnett, - Johnston,*
Bladen, Brunswick vote .for Hoover,
but they went the whole hog and
voted in the republican county can
didates, and gave a majority for
Seawell.
In the western section, Rowan and
several other formerly democratic
counties went republican.
Moore also gave a majority to
its native son, Herbert Seawell for
governor.
MR. WRENN CLAIMS RECORD
HAS MISREPRESENTED HIM
W’hile in Pittsboro last evening
your statement with reference to me.
appearing in this week’s issue of
The Chatham Record, was called to
my attention. lat once tried to get
in touch with you over phone but
failed.
The statement to which I refer
appears in your report of the repub
lican meeting held in the courthouse
on Friday night and in your edi
torial inwhich you charge that I
made the statement, “That no man
who voted for A1 Smth is worthy of
the support of the people for any
office.” I here and now enter mv
emphatic denial of having made
this statement. You misunderstood
me or you have deliberately misreD- 1
resented me. and I do not believe
you would do that.
In my talk I recall having said
about as follows: “No candidate m
this campaign who is afraid to stale
his position upon the issues, or who
refuses to say whether or not he
will vote for A1 Smith is worthy of
the support of the voters of Chat
ham county. I am standing by this
statement now.
Mr. Peterson there is no excuse for
you to have made sueh a sweeping
charge against me. You have done
me a great injustice and without
cause. If you had refrained from
conversation during the speaking and
listened to what was said, you would
not have fallen into this error. «
recall that while Mr. Giles was speak
ing you talked so loud in conversa
tion with someone at your side that
vou disturbed those near you. and
if I am not mistaken while I was
speaking you left your seat and
came over to the bar railing and
spoke to Mr. Giles. Under the cir
cumstances I am not surprised thn 1
you misunderstood what I said. It
has been my experience and obser
vation that few men are endowed
with sufficient mentality to engage
in conversation and listen to a
speaker at the same time and un
derstand the speaker correctly.
Mr. Peterson, you have charged
through your paper that I uttered a
“sweeping slander” against 15,000,-
000 voters which I deny, and I mus‘
insist that you retract the false
charge and make full correction thru
your paper. You have done me a
grave wrong and held me up before
your readers as a “slanderer” and
as a man with “mighty little sens''.”
I have a right to expect you to make
proper amends for the base slander
you have heaped upon me. I know
you will do it.
Yours truly.
, L. L. WRENN.
VOLUME 5E NUMBER 8
IMPORTANT REAL
ESTATE TRANSFER
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Bruce Stroud Sells Building
Occupied by Weeks Motor
Company to ThcMahfK • *
son, Williams and Field?*
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bne of the most important sales’
bf fe'al estate in the cfoirhty- ini-r%-
ce'iit? months was- 1 that, of* the buddr f
• fhlpbeelifoftrd* *by the Weeks Motoi , 4
Gompa»yv-bo Messrs. W.. .E* Thomp
son pt\ Hillsboro, W. ~G*. Fields, of
ChaoeT Hill" “and Seatdn Williams of
Chapel‘Hill. ‘ *«• ' v - .
>■ ‘For several weeks . J. b> At- :,
water, of Durham, has been seeking'
a buyer for this property ,• 'which 5 be- •
longed to Mr. Bruee • Strowd: of
Chapel Hill, and .was oc
cupied by his Ford agency and is
now occupied undeT h lease 'for a
term of' years by the Weeks MotOV
Co. , The property has been univer
sally considered a valuable one, but
the scarcity of money * has ’ made
securing a fair price for it very
difficult, and, in fact, it . was . sold
at a sacrifice, price. The present
rental is paying ten-percent upon a
$12,000 valuation, but the building
went to the gentlemen, named /for
about two thirds of that sum.
/■The transaction was completed'*
Saturday. '
The reader should bear in mind
that the transfer of the property
does not at all affect she status of
the Weeks Motor company which
occupies the building. ; •
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Meatless Menu ~H < ,
Cheesed Rice Escalloped Cabbage
Tomato Salad '
Apple Cake .
Non-Stimulating Drink
HOME HINTS
The holidays are approaching and
it is time to think of Christmas and
New Year’s Greeting Cards—hew
designs are on display now and it
pays to make selections early, while
the variety is good and orders for
engraving can be comfortably filled
before the grand rush.
Remembering past seasons when
friends failed to receive the card you
sent—be sure this time to write
your name and address on the enve
lope flap.' It will serve both for a
return address and to notify the re
cipient of your latest address.
MONCURE SCHOOL NEWS
The honor roll system which has
recenty been devised for the en
couragement of better scholastic
work shows gratifying results. Be
ginning with the second month, those
who have attended the first and sec
ond honor rolls respectively are as
follows:
First Honors:
Edward Carr, William L. Craven,
Julia Travis, Dorothy McCracken,
J. W. Thomas, Mildred Hughes, J.
C. Morrison, Preston Harward, Bob
by Ray, Ruby Mims, Daisy Marshall,
Kathryn Riddle, Ben Travis, Inex
Andrews, Lucille Sawyer, Ennie Up
church, Sam Overby, Virginia Haith
cox, Anita Broadnax, Clifford Strick
land, Louise Broadnax, Corine Hipp»
Annie Mae Wilkie, Christine Walden,
Woodrow Marst all.
Seco/ d Honors:
Mozelle Gotten, Craig Harrington*
Lucille Jones, Ben Mims, Margaret
Holt, Lillian homas, Billy Harring
ton, Wiliian Marshall, Roy Mann,
Emma Tra’ js, Ruth Stedman, Thom
as Worn’ e, Rodney Johnson, Ruhy
Womb* Carol Sawyer, Lucille Good
win, ■* ary H. Lambeth, George Wo
mb) , Emma Lee Mann, Frances Goe
dr. n, Myrtle Burns, Fay Sawyer,
Flora May Sawyer, Pearl Hackney,
Hazel Upchurch.
Watch Is Found
After Many Yeam
Sturgis E. Leavitt met me on the
street and asked me if I had heard
about Frank Graham’s sensational
watch recovery. I had not, and there
upon the following tale was unfold
ed:
Mr. Graham was in the reading
room of the University of Chicago
library six years ago. He gather
ed up his books and notes and woof
down to the basement to pursue Ids
investigations in a document room.
Later he discovered he had lost Ids
gold watch.
A young man named Sprague,
who worked in the library, came
upon the watch and turned it in
to the lost-and-found bureau. Th_
people in the bureau, seeking r
learn who the owner was, sent th?
watch to another man who had W
one of the same kind, an Elgin. Thin
man wore it for some time and then
one day opened it and found en
graved on the inside the name of
Frank P. Graham. So he sent V
back, and the lost-and-found bure
au, pursuant to its rules, turned r
over to the finder, Mr. Sprague.
Years passed, and Mr. Sprague
decided to come from the north D
■ be a student in the University o:
North Carolina. When he had bee*
here a week or so, he heard soroe
body talking about a professor b
the name of Frank Graham, and s
‘ he walked into the professor’s of
| fice and said, “Mr. Graham, here L
your watch.” He told how he h».f
' got it, and this was the first tiir
' that Frank Graham * knew that hr
r name was inside. The watch
been given to him in 1922 by lust
freshman history class.
It is still in fine condition.