ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
Today
GOOD SOUP, GOOD SERV
ICE.
WHAT IS A RICH MAN?
CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL.
NO SOCRATIC METHODS.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Chefs of many hotels completed
in New York to see which could
make the best soup. Six wise men.
including- Clarence H. Mackay’s chef,
Combes, allotted first prize to E.
Alliott.
•1 hat competition means more to
human welfare than the average
man realizes; more, for instance,
than any Olympic competition.
Soups contain vitamines and other
valuable nourishments and stimulate
the flow of digestive fluids. To
manufacture good soup and sell a
gieat deal of it is to render public
ser. Ke.
Income tax returns show 283
Americans with net incomes of sl,-
ibo.OCO a year or more. The num
be ha increased by 52 in two years.
Citizens reporting incomes $5,000,-
000 or more number only TEN. In
I>2 lucre were fourteen of them.
Once a man with a million was
considered rich. To be REALLY
rich now you need $1,000,000 a year.
There are several billionaires 4n
existence that modestly refrain from
talking about it.
Many a young person has spout
ed:
“‘lt matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the
sci oil.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
The Reverend E. H. Emmett, Con
gregationalism says those who talk
..oout oeing “captain of my soul”
•re onlv “whistling loudly in the
dark,” making ‘a‘n outward noise to
cover up an inward fear and dis
qu’et.”
It is hard to be sure that you are
captain of your soul in these mod
ernist times. Scientists say you
haven't any soul, anyhow, and you
don’t know where your soul is go
ing later, if anywhere, or where this
earth itself is going, with the sun
dingg.n/ it along.
rio.vi \ er, a man CAN be cairn
’n an emergency, and that’s wnat
• h ' poet meant.
"William Me Andrew, who was
superintendent of Chicago schools,
la- T es for Athens to spend a year
studying Socrates’ methods of teach
ing. His plan, may heaven thwart
it, is to revive the Socrates method
in nu»uern schools.
S-'crates, if Plato describes his
method accurately, touched a new
peak in boredopi. Instead oi say
ing what he had to say, he went
around Robin Hood’s barn with ques
tions and answers tiresome beyond
measure.
Whether or not Socrates was guil
ty, as alleged, of filling the young
Greeks with disrespect for the gods,
and in spite of the marvelously he
roic hemlock drinking episode, you
can hardly blame the Athenians for
getting rid of him.
What modern education needs is
moving, pictures, with condensed ver
ial elucidation, not Socratic dia
logues.
be mlerestea in three other Ruths,
be interested in three other Ruth,
all in American politics. Three wo
men were elected to Congress, and
ail three are named Ruth. Ruth
McCormick, daughter of the able
Mark Hanna, in Illinois; Ruth Bryan,
in Florida; Ruth Pratt, in New York.
All three possess intelligence and
ability well above the Congressional
average.
If you believe in omens, name
your next daughter Ruth.'
MARRIAGE AT GILDSTON
Mr. Carl Oldham and Miss Bertha
Hancock were quietly married last
Sunday morning at Goldston, with
Rev. L. p Scots performing the cei
emony. They were accompanied uy
only a few intimate friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Oldham will make
their future "home with M'r. ana Mrs.
R. C. Oldham, on Goldston, Rt. 1.
Their many friends will wish for
hem much happiness.
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The Chatham Record
HUNTING SEASON OPENS NEXT
SATURDAY
The open season for partridge and
turkey begins L/ec. i, and the pros
pects are said to be fine. Mr. Alex
Cockman, manager of the Hickory
Mountain Gun club, reports birds
are numerous, and he is expecting a
party of hunters from Jersey City
at the very beginning of the season.
This parly will consist of Dr. R. L.
McGmley and eight others. The
second week of the season will see
Mr. T. R. Preston and Mrs. Pres
ton, Dr. Monger and Mrs. Monger
and others from New York at the
club. The same week Mr. S. I).
Miller and a party from West Nyack,
N. Y., are expected.
PARTY NOT DEAD
The democratic party was very
Decisively beaten in the nation No
vembcj 6, but it got almost doubie
the number of votes it has received
in any election in its histor, and it
received a much higher percentage
of tne total vote than it had in any
election since 1916. This it did
despite the fact that it had to fight
a defensive battle in the face of an
opportunity to conduct a glorious of
fensive. There is no need to worry
over its early demise unless those
who profess to be its friends desire
now to amuse themselves with an
exhibition of their skill in knife
throwing. Representative govern
ment demands a two-party system.
If such should be destroyed then
our nation must hasten toward a
dictatorship.—Exchange.
shauf OUTLINES
FARM WORK DONE
Dean Gives Summary of Work
For Home, For Crops
and For Livestock
Production per acre has increased,
livestock is more valuable, better
homes are in evidence and the effi
ciency of Tar Heel farmers has been
so improved that fewer numbers are
producing greater the agricultural
wealth than when agricultural ex
tension work was begun in North
Carolina, are some of the benefits
ascribed to this service by Dean I.
O. Schaub, head of the school of
agriculture at State college.
For instance, says the Dean, bacx
in 1909, the value of all crops, live
stock and poultry products amount
ed to $223,807,828. Last year, 1927,
this value was $471,447,623 and last
year was not a very good crop year.
This is an actual increase in value
of $246,569,304 and this increase
alone, as can be seen, is greater than
the total values for the year 1909.
Also consider what has happened
in trend of population. According
to the census of 1910 the farm pop
ulation of North Carolina was 1,409,-
580 persons. By 1925, this had grown
to 1,446,881 persons, being an in
crease of 31,308 souls or 2.7 per cent
During the same period, the urban
population had grown from 797,707
to 1,326,241 persons or an increase
of 029,534 persons which is an in
crease of 66 per cent. The Dean has
no dependable figures on human oop
ulation since those of 1925 but there
is evidence to believe that the city
or urban population has increased
further at the expense of the rural
group. As a matter has decreased
from 1920 to 1925 by 3.6 per cent
and since that time, the decrease has
been greater.
Now, points out Mr. Schaub, North
Carolina has received comparatively
few immigrants. The increased town
population and the increased num
ber of laborers needed to man the
”pw industrial enterprises of the
State have been drawn largely from
the farms. In spite of this, those
who have remaiend on the farm have
more than doubled the agricultural
values and each individual worker is
cultivating 31 per cent jn ore land
than the same man did in 1910.”
Results With Crops
As to what has actually happened
in the period which roughly em
braces the time that agricultural ex
tension work has been conducted in
North Carolina is shown in some
facts that Dean Schaub has recently
tabulated. First, the total value of
ail crons has increased from $442.-
890,181 in the year 1909 to $361,-
605,000 in the year 1927. This is an
increase of $128,714,809.
In studying, the average yields of
corn, one of North Carolina’s great
est crops, the Dean finds that in
1905 the acreage to corn was 2,-
704,772 acres; the yield per acre
was only 13.9 bushels; the total pro
duction was bushels witn
a value of $24,191,650. Last year
the acreage to corn was only 2,352,-
000 acres; the yield per acre, how- j
ever was 22.8: the total production
was 53,626,000 bushels worth S4B,- i
800.000. In other words in the pe- .
riod given, there has been a de
crease of 352,7 72 acres planted to
corn.
What has happened wjth cotton?
Comparing the year 1905 with an
vei age year of 1926, the Doaft finds,
that in the former year the State j
was producing an average of 240 j
pounds of lint cotton per acre. That j
year only 619,141 bales worth $33,-'
433,550 was produced. In 1926 the
farmers were producing an average
of 292 pounds of lint per acre and
grew a total oi 1,213.000 bales ox
cotton. It is true that the acreage
to cotton had increased from 1.230,-
000 to 2,105,000 acres in this pe
riod from 1905 to 1026. But far
mers of today are making an average
of 52 pounds of lint cotton per acre
than the\ were when extension work
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1928
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
The first quarterly conference of
the Pittsboro cm iit will be held in
the .ro M :bodist church Sat
urday of this week he Presiding
Elder, Rev. W. A. Cade, will preach
at 11 o’clock. Dinner will be seiv
cd on the grounds and afterwards the
nusino-s session v, ul be held. All
church officials of the circuit are
urged to be r r esent. Rev. Mr. Cade
w:i! pn-U'-h a,, 'i» "i 811 day morning
and the new pastor in the evening at
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.1 A. DAILEY, Pastox.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
Thanksgiving service at Bartholo
mews church hursday at 11 a. m.
Offering for Thomasville orphanage,
(112 children.) Everybody invited
to attend. Services next Sunday also
at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
first began.
The acreage to tobacco has also
increased since 1905, jumping from
1336,677 acres to 650,000 acres in
3 927. But the average yield per
acre has also increased during that
time from 608 pounds to 720 lbjjs.
Total production has increased frSSm
83. j 4OuBO ‘pounds worth only $7.-
317.742 to 469.000,000 pounds worth
$120,744,000 last year.
Similarly wheat yields have in
creased 7.4 bushels of 110 per cent
per acre: rye yields have increased
4 5 bushels per acre or 47 per cent
and oat yields have increased 6.7
bushels per acre or 43 per cent in
the period between 1905 and 192 7.
North Carolina gave the soybean
to the Nation. In 1910 only a paltry
total of 1,249 acres were planted to
the crop. By 1925 this acreage has
increased to 255,000 and the crop
was established from the mountains
to the sea as a soil improving, hay
producing, grain supplying and graz
ia crop of first importance.
The Irish potato crop was increas
ed from 25,883 acres to 72,000 acres
between 1*905 and 1927. The aver
age yield per acre of 77 bushels in
1905 was increased to 102 in 1927.
Tp P yield increased from about
two million bushels worth nearly one
and one-half million dollars. With
sweet potatoes, states Mr. Schaub.
the average yield per acre increased
from 95 bushels in 1905 to 114 bu.
in 1927. The total production has
increased from 6,935,000 bushels
worth $1,355,274 to 10,146,000 bu.
worth over eleven million dollars. In
other words, the farmer of today has
added 19 bushels per acre to every
acre of sweet potatoes that he plants.
Few cars of fruits and vegetables
went f v om the State before 1920,
states Mr. Schaub. In that year, the
results o' extension efforts began to
appear am. 6,484 such cars were
shipped. Last year, this amount had
increased to 13,688 cars or an in
crease of 11,384 i\ seven years.
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Attraction of The Old
Laying aside all sex appeal and
thing's of that sort many people be
lieve that old persons are more in
teresting than young ones.
There comes a time in a man’s
life when a woman of forty is more
interesting than one of eighteen. Be
side the mature woman a girl is
rather crude.
People who go to Europe love to
poke around among- the antiquities.
There is a sort of sentimental in
terest in anything that is old. Many
people despise America because it is
too new.
There is no doubt that the old lias
a certain sentimental value. 11. G.
Wells says that when every house
: s heated by electricity millionaires
will have smoke coming out of their
chimneys to give them an antique
appearance —artificial smoke.
At Hampton Court in England is
a grapevine which brings the govern
ment more than six thousand dollars
Flying Reaches 25th Birthday on December \7th
Orville Wright was the first of all men to soar into the air, 25 years ago. With the late Wilbur Wright,
ms brother he invented the airplane. This picture shows Orville and Wilbur Wright, and the plane that they
iirs, Jew. Contrast this Wright plane with the modern Fokker passenger plane, shown below it, and the tre
mens progress of aviation in 25 years can be seen at a glance. The original airplane of the Wright Brothers
r4 w .. 1 1 c y a m °t° r cd glider—is on exhibition at South Kensington, London. The first flight of
seconds nSht l °° k piUCC ** Klll Devil H - in » Kitty Hawk. N. C., on Dec. 17, 1903, when he flew 120 feet in 12
REMEMBRANCE
| The following poem was composed
j by Miss Beadie Oldham in memory
of her aunt, Mrs. Polly Ann Dowdy,
who departed this life October 22,
1928:
Just a thought of sweet remembr
ance,
Just a ii emory fond and true;
J-ist a token of affection
And a heartache still for you.
Just a sigh for the olden moments; ,;
Just a smile of Jbove anew;
Just a tear in silence falling
And a yearning just for you.
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We have lost our dear loved one,
She has bid us all adieu
She has eone to live in Heaven,
And her form is lost to view.
Oh. that dear one, how we loved her
Oh how hard to give her up,
But an angel came down for her
And removed her from our flock.
Through all her pain at times she’d
smile,
A smile of Heavenly birth.
And when the angels called her
home,
Sne smiled farewell to earth.
Ikaven retaineth now our treasure,
Earth the lovely casket keeps;
And the sunbeams love to linger,
Where our loved one sleeps.
Our loved one has left us,
Left us yes forever more;
But we hope to meet our loved one,
On that bright and happy shore.
! Lonely the house, and sad the hours,
Since our loved one has gone:
j Bill oh. a brighter home than ours,
j In Heaven is now her own.
j Peaceful be thy silent slumber,
j Peaceful in thy grave so low:
: hou no more will join our number,
Thou no more our sorrows know,
I Yet again we hope to meet thee,
| When the day of life is fled.
; And in Heaven with joy to greet
thee,
I Where no farewell tears are shed.
! Weep not N that her toils are over;
I Weep not that her race is run;
God grant we may rest as calmly,
When our work, like her’s is done.
Until then we yield with gladness,
j Our loved one to Him to keep,
j And rejoice in sweet assurance,
! “He giveth His loved one sleep.”
Kl MB ALTON NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Brewer of Silk
Hope spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Brewer.
Ernest Harris and family of Ra
leigh spent 'the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. W. B. Dorsett.
TYo Ferguson of Raleigh was
here one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. M’cManess of
Bear Creek were at A. V. Ferguson
Sunday.
Alma Me Math came home for the
week-end.
Frank Johnson, Pete Buckner, so
Slier liy spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. It. H. Johnson.
a year.
Only a little of. the money is de
rived from the grapes it bears. Most
of it comes from admission paid to
see the vine because it is almost 160
years old.
There is only one thing that in
terests man more than the new.
It is the old.
Anything that endures —whether
it be a bit of canvas, a scrap of an
cient oriental tapestry, an Eutruscan
wine jar, a bit of Mayan inscription
on a volcanic rock from the forests
of Guatemala, a printed page, or a
lofty sequoia redwood —interests and
fascinates man.
The fact that it has existed from
the time his unknown ancestors lived
and will continue to resist the rav
ages of time long after .he is dead,
has something to do with his intei
est.
Mortal man looking at something
which contains a touch of immortal
ity is awed and fascinated.
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Music Department
Entertains Club
‘‘Schubert Week” Program Ar
ranged by Mrs. Shannon
house Much Enjoyed
(By Mrs. A. H. London)
die Harmon were charming joint-hos-
Mrs. O. J. Peterson and Miss Cor
tesses to the members of the Wo
man’s club of Pittsboro on Thursday
evening, when they entertained the
music department at the club room,
which was made most attractive in
coc-orations of large pink and white
chrysanthemums, fall leaves, and pot
ted plants.
Mrs. R. G. Shannonhouse, a mem
ber of the music department, had
the program in charge. This being
“Schubert Week,” she had arranged
a most delightful program honoring
this greatly beloved composer. Mrs.
Victor Johnson and Mrs. Henry By
num played one of his compositions,
a duet, “March Militaire.”
Miss Emily Taylor sang the “Love
Song,” from his unfinished sym
phony, with Mrs. Johnson, accom
panist.
Mrs. James Thompson gave a
splendidly arranged sketch of Schu
bert’s life and his compositions.
Mrs. W. P. Horton gave an in
teresting report on current events,
in the music world.
Mrs. Victor Johnson then gave an
other selection, “Schubert’s Sere
nade.”
On account of illness M’rs. W. B.
Chapin could not give her two selec
tions from Schubert—Mrs. Chi.pin j
has a voice rarely t obe surpassed (
and it was a real disappointment not !
Ij Pear her. j
Churches, Woman’s clubs and oth
er organizations, all over the world,
have observed this as Schubert week
in loving memory and appreciation
of his wonderful legacy to the world
and this splendid program that Mrs.
Shannonhouse had so carefully plan
ner: and so successfully carried out, j
aos n ost fitting and creditable and
n uch enjoyed by all.
At the conclusion of this Mrs.
Peterson requested that all who
wouid, please express in story form,
just what they had gotten from Mrs.
Thompson’s sketch and the other ar
ticles read.
Mis. Victor,Johnson, in her clear,
spicy style, gave the best story and
so carried off the prize, a lovely
necklace. Mrs. J. W. Hunt told a
very sweet love story in connection
with the life of Schubert, although
it was pathetic to know that our
loved composer died without realiz-.
ing his hearts desire, but knew that
the o bject of his great love, bestow
ed her love, not on him, but upon
another, his friend.
Next the hostesses distributed pa
peiVnnri .pencils and requested that
w.j make as many words as possible
fr -Mi the name “bchubert.”
Mrs. W. P. Horton and Mrs. Will
Bland tied in this contest.
Delicious ice cream and cake were
«oived oy the hostesses assisted by
Misses Lucille Peterson, Bessie Chap- j
in and Mary B>num.
HEALTH DEPT. MEETING
The Health Dept, of the Woman’s
club heid its regular monthly meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Julian GFre
gorv, Monday afternoon with Mrs.
Gregory and Mrs. R. N. Farrell as
jC'nt hostesses.
Tin meeting was called to order
oy the chairman, Mrs. Moore. The
collect was read in unison.
The secretary gave a report on the
last meeting.
file ways and means committee
reported $1 collected from birthday
a.vl cake funds.
here was a discussion of the work
- f the county home committee. Mrs.
Wade Barber was appointed chair- j
man. The Sunday before Christmas
was decided as the date for the
Christmas tree at the count home.
A motion was made and cairied
to furnish one pint of milk each day
to an undernourished baby in the
community. A committee was ap
pointed to make arrangements for
same. • (
Several articles were handed in
for the Bazaar, these were pi iced
and marked, after which the hostess
es served a salad course and coffee.
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 14
DOLPH FARRELL
PASSES AWAY
Suffers Stroke Sunday, Died
Sunday Night—Burial
At Hanks Chapel
Mr. Dolph Farrell was stricken
Sunday with paralysis and passed
away about midnight. The burial
was at Hank’s Chapel Monday at 3
n. m.
Mr. Farrell was 65 years of age.
He was never married, but lived
with his sisters near Hanks Chapel
He was brother of Mr. Bob Farrell
of Pittsboro.
Mr. Fayrell was elected a justice
of the peace at the recent election.
He was a good citizen and was gen
erally held in high esteem.
GARDNER BEATS
SEAWELL 73,194
Complete Unofficial Election
Returns For Governor Tab
ulated and Checked
Goinpiete unofficial returns give
G Max Gardner, Democratic candi
date for governor, a majority of
73,194 over 11. F. Seawell, his Re
publican opponent. Hoover’s unoffi
cial majority is 63,208. In 1324
Gov A. W. McLean received a ma
jority cf 108,000.
Gardner received a total vote of
362,009 and Seawell received 228,-
815. Gardner carried 67 of the 10#
counties of the State. Nine of the
33 counties carried by Seawell were
close. The republican candidate car
ried his home county of Moore by
114 votes while Gardner carried his
home county of Cleveland by 11,775
votes.
Counties that ran close, giving
small majorities for Seawell includ
ed Moore, Clay, Rockingham, Tran
sylvania, Brunwick, Carteret, Gaston
Graham and Iredell. Seawell carried
Iredell by only 26 votes and Carteret
by 14 votes. Seawell carried Clay
by 61 votes and Washington by 11,
votes.
Other counties giving Seawell ma
jorities included Alamance, Avery,
Davidson, Davie, Harnett, Hender
son, Johnson, Lincoln, Madison,
Mitchell, Randolph, Rowan, Sampson
Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Swan, Yad
kin and Wilkes.
.. The totals other State officers
have not yet been checked and tabu
lated finally nor have the final re
turns in the Presidential election
been finally checked but Secretary
of State Hartness unofficially de
termined yesterday that Smith got
286,107 and Hoover 349,615 votes,
giving the republican candidate a
majority of 63,208.
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Rev. Paul Caudill, pastor .of the
IfltU-b -r.; Taj tUx church, will preach
at Gum Spangs church on the sec
ond Sunday in December.
By some inadvertence the article
written about the sad death of lit
tle Ruby Ci aft failed to get in last
week’s paper. Ruby, tbe 3
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Craft of Hickory Mountain township,
caught fire while left alone in the
home and'was burned so badly that
she died within a few hours. The
funeral and burial were at Emmaus
Baptist church. Revs. Gordon and
Early conducted the funeral services.
Much sympathy has been felt for the
bereaved parents.
There was a reunion of the Moore
family at the home of Mrs. J. A.
Thomas, in New Hope township last
Sunday.
Dr. Ihrie Farrell of Troy and Miss
Lucille I ( arred, teacher at Brodaway
came in for the fvwieral oi tneir un
cle,* Mr. Adolphus Farrell Monday. s
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Mr. and Mrs. Fell of Trenton, N.
.1 at rived last week to visit tne
latter’s mother, Mrs. Henry A. Lon
don.
Mrs Annie Milliken, whose hus
band, ex-Shemi Milliken ie
'•cmtlv has gone xo reside with hei
.i ui-iuer. Mrs. I ichcr Makepeace, ir»
Sanford. The sale of the persona:
*iro» eri\ of the old homestead took
plVe last Thursday. Mr. Jesse b-
Milliken of Moncure, joint-executor
with his mother, was up here
that occasion.
L A Red Hero |
/ ’ Lionel Licor
-x isch, colored sea
man of the ill
fated Vest r i s .
lm.; proved to be an
outstanding hero
. in the great trag
edy. He had
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