Thursday, Dec. 13, 1928 THE CHATHAM RECORD O. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year sl *s2 Six Months Friday, Decemb^^ The football season is over and ! those who take their exercise by proxy will have to wait till the base- j ball season opens. i That man Coolidge has the eour-; age of his convictions. If half the j others who are really bored by matching a football game between; teams neither of which they are specially partisan would walk ott as did the President, we opine that the crowds would be considerably decreased. Its our idea that thous ands simply feel themselves under the compulsion to appear to bt -sports.” Coolidge felt no such compulsion, and evidently considers Ins electric horse affords bettei ex ercise than that got vicariously at # football game. Os course, any kind of a contest in which one is a real partisan is interesting, or if one is an expert. But it seems a sense less thing for tens of thousands who care little who wins and who know practically nothing of the game to pretend that they are interested enough to drive a hundred miles or so to see it and pay the present ex orbitant prices. Senator Wylie Person is reported as setting lor lobbyists at the meet ing of the legislature. He expects to present a hill requiring registra tion of all lobbyists, with severe penalty for one falsely representing himself. Tom Host, versatile cor respondent of the Greensboro News, reports Mr. Person as also favoring cutting teachers’ salaries, a thing, along with cutting of public offi cials’ salaries, which will have to come sooner or later if the present state of affairs keep up. When the average farmer and business man can scarcely make ends meet it is hardly a fair proposition to sell them out for taxes to pay salaries that af ford more than a comfortable sup port. The sum at present paid in teachers’ salaries if more wisely dis tributed should support the teachers for the full eight-months teim in all schools, which is so insistentlv demanded by some of the agitators. Take, for instance, a teacher here teaching a special class of eieht or ten at a salary of SIBOO a year! Consider school principals working ■eight or nine months a year at big salaries without a worry when they could not make half as much upon their initiative! Then consider the fact that a real teacher doing ac tual class room work, the one essen tial of the schools, can get only SI2OO a year under the salary sched ule, a salary that drives a teacher from the school room if he must sup port a family. That is all the law would allow a Socrates unless he should become a principal or sup erintendent and devote his time to the details ol supervision, while he would piohably be as unfit for as the sorriest tyro at the head of any North Carolina school. War is breaking out in the wake of M'r. Hoover between Bolivia and Paraguay. It is to be hoped ihat he not only creates good will down there toward America but can also inspire the same between the hostile repub lics. He has visited neither country yet, but did have a visit from repre sentatives of Bolivia. Well, if Clyde Hoey will not ac cept our suggestion and come east. ; we shall join with “O. J.” of “Shucks And Nubbin” fame in his request of Santa Claus to give “J. W. B.” a clear field for a race with Senator Simmons for the nomination for sen vtor two years hence. Thos. F. Ryan’s fortune of $500,- 000,000 is an illustration of how the wealth of the country, or its control, is passing into the hands of a com parative. few. In feudal days the man on the land was at the mercy of the lord. Today the average man is becoming a dependent of the cap italist. A great majority of the farms are mortgaged, if we are cor rectly informed, and the farmer is bound for many years to pay .his annual or semi-annual tribute to the money lender, under stress of foreclosure. True, he has ‘borrowed the money, but he seemingly had to borrow it, and he had to borrow be cause he was not getting his share. It would surprise the average read •er to know how many farms in Chath am county are mortgaged to the land banks. But a similar state of _ . ! dependence exists in other indu^tiws. Great manufacturing plants make it impossible for capital to compete, and the average man, other than the fanner, is becoming a hired man Mr. Ford himself lias had much '< sav about the disastrous el feet °*■ interest, but if Mr. Ford should con tinue to make a net protit of t- n dollars on a car, making a million a year, and at the same time selling at a price to cover deterioration j and interest on the investment, it would seem only a matter of time when the Ford business would mo nopolize all the money in the coun try. not to sp ak of the thousands of other g eat institutions that are j garner eg r constant harvest of coin. Try tl.i law of geometric progies sion on the processes and figure out how long before the few great mo ney making organizations could have it all. Land will have to be tnxei. upon an income basis, There i; more land than is needed for fanning pur porc or will be needed in many years. T>-ue. i ’c average Chatham c. untv !ersd will make in the cours? of t* nnv years a goodly percentage on •*{< present valuation in me 1 e:n e oS tmnei. but nobody to rude an investment from which no prc.'cecdr arc to no revived in *hir t\ years, especially ’' he lms to pay taxes upon a valuation baser, upon t*v verage„prouuc * ion for a long frti.i of years. Note ’’sly, thro r lime is coming, : f net at hand, when uncultivated lands muse be taxed on a merely nominal basis dur ing the period of timber growth, or not at all, letting the state secure its part when the timber is mature and cut. A stumpage tax wili then recoup for the state all the annual levies which it has forgone during the years of the growth of the tim ber. If such arrangement is not made, this writer forsees nothing short of a surrender of the larger part of the unproductive lands to the state for taxes, and that is hard ly desirable. We heard a good farmer say the day before this is written that he would not have a mile square of land of the character of the larger part of the Chatham county lands if he had to hold it and pay taxes on it at the present rate. The county is getting posses sion of much land sold under the sheriff’s hammer, but it can derive no income from it, and to sell it will probably result in its coming again under the hammer if the present rate continues. The legislature had as well take this matter to heart In many counties only about 25 pe' cent, of the land is in productive con dition. This fourth cannot continue to pay a high tax rate on the oth er three fourths. | # Ji I Christmas Goods \ i i X In addition to complete lines ol Heavy Hardware ♦ o X X for the Builder, the Mill and the Farm, we have many ♦ % things. ♦ ♦ t | Suitable for Christmas Gifts i 1 ana such as are of permanent value. We list below a « ♦ few articles that you will appreciate: J ♦ Ornamental Heaters ♦ (Coal Circulators) ♦ Beautiful and Last X Ornamental Andioms X and Fire Sets X Aluminum Ware ♦ X Handsome Electric % Waffle Irons ! Electric and Ordinary % Percolators X Toasters. Table Grills I ♦ ! I I '^AsStisi-s'-" ; - -' '“''' ' ' '> * I Lee Hardware Co. I 'if 4? Sanford, N. C. ♦ »»♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦••♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+++++*♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦ Nobody wants to be taxed at a higher rate. The textile men, repre sented by one of the Cones, insists that higher taxes, if not the pre sent rate, would destroy the textile i industry of the state. Mr. Riehard ison of Vick’s Chemical Company Pas steadfastly declared that the taxa tion of such institutions as his is so ! high as to tend to drive them from she state and to deter others from j coming. The farmers know nat land cannot stand any more tux, and ! want relief and apparently musk have | it, at least on unproductive ianr City property owners find the coun : ty and city taxes a sufficient hunt 's en and feel indisposed to have more j taxes settled upon them for the sup . 1 port of an eight-months school +crm | in remote counties. Everybody wwb is swilling to admit that he is th*» es to be relieved of taxes but nobody I fellow to take upon himself a u.eai ici share. And, in our opinion, prog , tie-ally all are justified in resisting a .;., • ,»ater levy upon their propel f .y or . income. Accordingly, the only thing . jvdo is not only to refuse to raise he tax rate, but to begin to trim * expenses and lower, if possible, rates. » i Three fourths of the people n' the ’ scute, we should estimate, are livim , from hand-to-mouth and many ol * them have mortgaged their property . d consumed Ihe proceeds. she • average man is making verr • ■itlc i mli wages, or income, and where the age man is getting apparent'y high wages real estate values have been so hoisted that a large part i cf the income goes for t'cm her North Carolina has in recem y air ,. sought to pay office holders and all J men engaged in public work on a bas , is comparable with the incomes < / x the mo:-t prosperous men without .r- I come from large Yet the latter class prosper because of their initiative and administrative t ability, while the public* officer or r school man has never proved any ~ such ability. f and 'would probably , be among the earners of the most moderate inomes if left to their own j headway in competition wi 4 h the s worla. It is not fair for men of the x same stamina or less to be getting more than a good living income with- out thought or worry while the men t who are paying them that income t are actually falling short of making a Jiving anil are consuming a host ol‘ their former possessions. It is now Judge McPherson, At- I tornev T. J. McPherson, of Sanford, II having become judge of the Lee county recorder’s rourt. Hoe’s betting the portly gentleman makes • a good judge. - j We have heard of a man who e | thinks he cannot live in Pittsboro on - j $2,000 a year. Well, there are a i good many people here who can show Flower Pots X Electric Irons * Lamps, Oil, Gasoline X and Electric X Flash Lights, Pipes | Pocket Knives ♦ Ra zor Sets < [ <> Boys’ Tools Sets Toy Automobiles Thermos Bottles < l Carving Sets, China Ware 1 years, in the same location. (The Page Trust Company is next door to us). Y Featured in This Sale are our magnificent DIAMOND CREATIONS and other £ J GEM SET PIECES, wel known Amerilcan and European Wafehess, masterful ex- 1 J amples of SOLID SILVER craftsmanship, objects of Art from many sources, finest f quality of Silver Plated Ware, Ulatinum and Solid Gold Jewelry, reliable Clocks and V * a well chosen stock of imported and domestic novelties. Without any exceptions > ithe stock bears drastic reductions. f A Statement HELP SANTA CLAUS STRETCH THE DOLLAR 5 By l Geo. W. Josephs: I promise to my customers and ___ __. i this sale—no prizes, no premiums— THE IDEAL JEWELRY CO 1 friends a real surprise in attending • 1 lUL/lL JDTVDLIV I LU. . 1 no free offers —all merits in the . | merchandise, at prices you will be ‘Jewelers of Authority Since 1902. t more than pleased with. j SAVE THE DIFFERENCE l Why pay more for an automobile than necessary? The new Ford i & car will do anything reasonable any driver might wish, and the cost of ,7 operation is much lower than you would expect. The repair bills on f new Fords are hardly anything as the car is built of the very choicest J* ? and best materials. The new Ford car will average from twenty-two to | twenty seven miles per gallon of gasoline? £ With a few days notice now we can make deliveries on any type T car you may wish. Just let us know what you want and we can get it if I 1 without delay. If you should need a car for Xmas just let us know a t S day or so ahead and we will have it here for you. ? I We make reasonable allowances in trade for used cars. f BUY A FORD AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE \ J Weeks Motor Co. 1 PITTSBORO L. Jl Ml. lit A * : ADVERTISE OR BE FORGOTTEN ' J f^hm^e37oPerltfJ^- CORN MILL — 20rINCH ROCK, 13 suitable for tractor or any light motor, good condition. Will sell for cash or corn at a bargain. H. C. Johnson, Sanford, Rt. 4, N. C. HAMS WANTED —Will give two pounds of lard or two pound.- ol white meat for each pound of ham. O. M. Poe. I SEED OATS AND RYE AT L. J Moore and Co., Bynum. SEE OUR SHOES AND GET OLR prices. It will pay both of us. R. J. Moore & Co. Bynum. 1 VALUES—YOU WILL FIND THEM at Hall’s. NEW GOODS BEING SHOWN DAl ly at Hall’s. You should see their shoes, dry goods, and ready-to priees. HAIR CUTS—CHILDREN UNDER fifteen, only 25c* at Pickard’s Barber Shop, Pittsboro. SEEING IS BELIEVING—VISIT Hall's. There you will find a veal city store with small town | prices. PROFESSIONAL NURSE—T am located iA Pittsboro and offer my services as a professional nurse i to the people of Chatham county ELSIE LT3CILE PETERSON, j R. N., Tel. No. 79. LET ME KILL AND DRESS YOUR hogs. $2 each and a good job guaranteed. West Lynn, Pittsbo ro. i SANTA CLAUS HAS MADE HIS headquarters at Hall’s Department Store. All kinds of toys and ma ny other things for Christmas gifts are found there. R. J. MOORE & CO. SELLS GOOD Flour at $7 and salt at 90c ets. FOR THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES for Cedar posts and white oak i Hes take them to R. M. Connell, ! Pittsboro. IFOR SALE—ONE SECOND HAND Fordson tractor equipped with new wood saw. This is a good buy for a man who wishes to saw wood in and around Pittsboro. Terms if desired. Weeks Motor '! Co. i |fOR THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES : for Cedar posts and white oak ties take them to R. M. Connell, Pittsboro. ► - 5 YOU CAN get sugar and coffee cheaper at 0. M. Poe’s. • PURINA STARTENA, PURINA chicken chowder, for chicks and i laying hens. Pig chow, Cow chow and Purina horse feeds for Sale. O. M. Poe. ~ E WHOLE JERSEY MILK—IS CIS. :-1 a quart delivered anywhere in ' Pittsboro early in the morning. ,; Lexie Clark. VISIT HALL’S FOR ANYTHING 1 i you wish. A complete line to out )! fit you from head to foot; at prices, too, that suit the shrewd -1 est of value seekers. PAGE FOUR