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A Paper with a Prestige of a Half Century. A County, Not a Com munity Paper. ESTABLISHED Sr <o' .MBER 19, 1878 WAS HE FOUNDER OF MAM FAMILY? Captain Manly of Bladen, a Revolutionary Hero, Moved to Chatham —Probably An cestor of Governor Manly. Xorth Carolina has never had any family which won higher distinction r mate, church, and school than the Manly family of Pittsboro. It fur nhhed a governor, Charles Manly, w ho became governor in 1845. He o aduated at the University in 1814, =e”ved a5 treasurer of that institu tion, also as reading clerk of the House of Commons for several ses ,ms. But even with the distinction of the governorship, he probably fail ed to attain the fulness of scholar ship and the perfection of character attained by the great Baptist minis ter and theological teacher, Rev. Basil Manly. It is really in the realms of the ministry and the school that the Manlys*won highest distinction. The elder' Basil Manly, we seem to recol lect. was a brother of the governor. His'son, Basil, was one of the most scholarly and distinguished teachers at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Rev. Charles Manly, D. D.. was president of Furman Uni versity. The writer studied Latin under Geo. W. Manly, a son of Dr. Basil Manly, at Wake Forest. The professor was a Ph. D. of one of the German universities. His brother, Basil, whose name one may see oc- ( casionally in the papers "today as representative of some northern in stitution, was a class mate of the writer’s at Wake Forest, for two years. . , But as distinguished as is the ! familv, greater distinction will be 1 attached to it if it is made clear ( that Captain Manly, who emigrated ■ from Bladen to Chatham after the j close of the Revolutionary War was the founder of the Chatham family. For the writer has found in Wheeler’s , History, one of the original copies \ of which has been loaned him by . Mr. W. E. Brooks, an account of an i episode in the life of Captain Manly j that ranks him among the Revolu- j tionary heroes. ; JBut whether Captain Manly is the folder of the distinguished Manly family or not, he clearly settled some where in Chatham county, and the 9tory of his exploit should be of in terest to Record readers. The story was printed in the Raleigh Register, of which the fa mous Seaton Gales was editor, and was related to the correspondent of the Register by an old lady who lived in Bladen during the Revolution. The story goes that after the dispersion of the Tories at Elizabethtown by the victory of the famous “Tory Hole” battle, a bunch of Whigs en camped on the Cape Fear above Wilmington. That town was held by the British General Craig; Tories dominated the country to the north with Fayetteville as headquarters, to the west, and on the south. General Craig, learning of the Whig encamp ment, presumably in lower Bladen, decided to destroy it and sent a de tachment with orders to kill every Whig. A Bladen Tory was acting as guide, and when the detachment had reached a bridge in the Cape Fear swamp near the Whig encamp ment, a portion of the British sol diers were directed to take the guide and go around the encamp ment and approach from the opposite side. The Tory guide heard the order given this group to put all the Whigs to the sword. He knew many of the men; they were his neigh bors, and his heart revolted at the idea of the butchery planned, and be deliberately got lost in the swamps, trusting that the Whigs would discover the menace and es cape. He led the detachment so long through the swamps that the other group becoming impatient sounded a bugle. It was now night, and the sentinel on post at the Whig camp aroused his fellows. They hooted at the idea of danger till prolonged J:-gle blasts convinced them that it ■s no fishermen who were responsi ble for the bugle notes. It is interesting to note that the connection with England was so re cc*nt that one of the Whigs could recognize the bugle as a “Kent” bugle. i cung Manly, as one “always ready in a forlorn hope,” was chosen jo lead a party to investigate. They located the bugle notes as coming from about the site of a certain bridge. Manly and his party ap proached the bridge but saw nothing °. n the one side. “All right on this side,” said Manly, “let’s see how it ls; on the other.” As soon as they crossed the bridge, the British and lories rose and began to fire. The our Whigs turned and put spurs to *“ eir horses. The top of Manly’s hat was shot away. One young Smith was The other three escaped. The ring also gave the Whig group warning. , \ knew many of these men,” the th v? continued. “The Waddells, e smiths, the Owens, and Leonards r-f n^ nes B bill well known along the k Fea *-” Col. Tom Owen, father Pfc, Cwe*, who lies buried [ v 9 -me Episcopal churchyard at Pitta- /he Chatham Record T eacher-T raining Class Closes Year The Pittsboro teacher training class, with Miss Berta Coltrane as teacher, closed its year’s work with an entertainment Friday evening. The class was composed of Misses Elizabeth Mann, Rosa Oldham, Es telle Johnson, Ruth Hackney, Willie Goldston, and Line Bowling. These all participated in the pro gram of Friday evening. In addi tion, the following kindergarten pu pils, trained for the past several weeks by the teacher and members of the training class, had parts in the closing exercises: Bill Perry, Allie Peoples Bell, Ross Harmon, Margar et Lemons, Eleanor Johnson, Louise Gilmore, Ed Bryant, Hilda Walker, Georgia Brewer, Herbert Oldham, Callie Vick Farrell. Mr. Hilman of the Department of Education, Raleigh, was present and delivered diplomas to the members of the training class. • . Miss Coltrane has conducted this class for several years and has much effort in the werk. The one objec tion is that too few have benefited by the outlay of money and effort in conducting the class. <s> ALAMANCE FARMERS’ MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY The past two weeks the Record through the kindness of Commission er Dan C. Boney, was permitted to carry the statement of ten insurance companies, but the Record readers were little concerned with any of them. But this week we are carrying the statement of the Alamance Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and we are taking occasion to call the attention to the farm ers of Chatham to it. The statement tells what our farmers need to know of the financial status of the company. Here we wish to commend this form of insurance to Chatham county farmers, who ac cording to Secretary Edgar Long, have the privilege of the company’s benefits if they desire them. We were quite familiar with the work of the Sampson-Duplin company, and know that the company afforded the very cheapest insurance that the farmers in those counties could get. It is insurance at actual cost. If no property is burned, no premium is to be paid. If property is burned, each member of the company contributes his proportional part to make good the face of the policy. Os course, there is a small outlay for a clerk and treasurer, but comparatively little. Our readers should note that it is expensive to make a canvass for new members and that if Chatham county farmers would insure direct with Secretary Long they add little or no expanse to the company. Write him at Graham. Mr. Long assures us that every loser has got the full face value of his policy. The Record should like to see Chatham farmers take advantage of this low-cost form of insurance. Mr. Long says he should be glad to meet those interest ed in Pittsboro on some public oc casion, and we suggest that he come over Monday of the June court. MRS. MARY RYAN FOUST (Contributed) After several months of ill health Mrs. Mary Ryan Foust passed away at her home at Mt. Vernon Springs Hotel on May 29th. The funeral serv ices were conducted by Rev. Jonas Barclay at the hotel in the presence of a large gathering of friends and loved ones. Mrs. Foust was the daughter of the late Joseph C. Hooker and Mary Jane Hooker. She was left an orphan at about the age of eight years. Early in life she was confirmed and became a member of the Gulf Episcopal church, holding her membership there till her death. On the 30th. day of May, 1877, she was united in marriage to John Moreau Foust. The following children survive her: Mrs. Maude Foust Lane, Mrs. Ima Foust Smith, Jr., Eugene H. Foust, Mrs. Elvira Foust Plonk, Jno. M. Foust, Jr., and Miss Bernice Foust. One brother, Joseph J. Hook er, also suvives her. Mrs. Foust was most attractive and lovable and her passing will be mohrned by a host of friends. You can go a long ways from home without finding anybody to appreciate your greatness. The sweet young thing that went out to study the stars on a cloudy night knew her company. boro, was one of the Whigs. And since it is known that Gen eral James Owen, a brother of the Governor, attended Bingham’s school at Pittsboro, and since the Waddell family is as closely associated with Chatham as with the lower Cape Fear, it is quite clear that Chatham folk have reason to take pride in the success of Manly’s reconnoisance. The biographies * of the Manly’s would probably settle the question we have asked. But the writer is without the means of settling it. But, anyway, Capt. Manly became a Chathamite. The Manly home in Pittsboro was on the vacant corner just across the new highway 90 from Mrs. Henry A. London’s home, the corner known as the “Jacob Thomp son lot,” now owned by the Gregorys. PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929 DISTRIBUTION OF EQUAUZATION FUND ; Chatham Gets $53,574.66 —94 Counties Share iii Fund— Robeson, Sampson and Other Large Counties Get Biggest Slices The melon is cut and slices allot ted. Six of the wealthier counties failed to get even a bite of the big school fund. Robeson, Sampson, Johnston, Columbus, Pender, Duplin, Wayne, Cumberland, and Harnett, all big counties lying in a bunch, get the lion’s shares; Union and Wilkes share along with the eastern group. Chatham gets $53,574.66, which is more than $20,000 more than it got last year, but not in proportion to the increase in the whole equaliza tion fund. It cannot, with expenses of schools the same as last year, re duce the taxes of the county more than 12 cents on the hundred dollars. But every little is a help. The cent tax on gasoline for the use of the county roads likewise reduce the tax to a similar amount. Accordingly, the two means of relief should cut down the tax rate 20 to 25 cents, or to the amount of six or seven dollars on property listed at $3,000. The equalization board found means in clauses of the much criti cised Hancock hill to allow more teachers when actually required than the quota prescribed in the clause which estimated one teacher in the elementary schools to every 32 pu pils and one in the high schools to every 27 pupils. Accordingly, the number of teachers which were ex pected to lose jobs will be diminished. Distribution By Counties. Follows the distribution as made to the 94 participating counties: County Equalizing fund Alamance $79,174.68 Alexander 43,545.80 Alleghany 18,625.55 Anson 70,642.35 Ashe 69,384.24 Avery 50,444.16 ; Beaufort • 59,465.54 Bertie 64,500.60 Bladen 61,882.69 Brunswick * 40,642.51 Burke 40,350.68 ; Cabarrus 23,113.73 Caldwell 58,192.70 Camden 17,242.60 Carteret 58,081.33 Casewell 36,757.65 Catawba 83,260.31 Chatham 53,574.66 Cherokee 49,201.40 Chowan 15,338.40 Clay 21,939.87 Cleveland 82,506.17 Columbus 104,076.44 Craven a 29,623.74 Cumberland 86,492.78 Currituck 19,167.75 Dare 23,830.90 Davidson 98,291.96 i Davie 36,892.75 Duplin 97,801.01 Edgecombe 51,787.26 Franklin 76,275.60 Gaston 26,769.52 Gates 33,972.04 Graham 2,849.35 Granville 51,695.35 Greene 35,471.60 Halifax 41,760.49 Harnett 95,252.27 Haywood 59,458.23 Henderson 49,658.18 Hertford 47,111.56 Hoke 20,514.69 Hyde , 32,064.66 Iredell 70,149.87 Jackson 36,790.19 Jones 31,993.84 Johnston 110,221.46 Lee 35,470.35 Lenoir • 55,600.78 Lincoln 52,504.87 Macon 46,408.87 Madison 63,196.14 McDowell 27,558.67 Mitchell 25,813.53 Montgomery :. 52,622.47 Moore 54,325.41 Nash 96,449.74 Northampton 59,111.83 Onslow 48,433.33 Orange * 38,669.44 Pamlico 35,500.48 Pasquotank 22,771.19 Pender 54,640.45 Person 52,055.94 Pitt / 59,956.94 Polk 31,595.54 Randolph 72,347.54 Richmond 44,352.30 Robeson 113,631.85 Rockingham 75,360.20 •Rowan 49,369.80 Rutherford 90,178.64 Sampson 109,496.65 Scotland 24,532.21 Stanly - 71,003.50 Stokes 1 64,987.02 Surry 70,647.11 Swain 17,013.16 Transylvania 19.815.32 Tyrrel 16,608.88 Union - 105,491.03 Vance - 29,749.76 Wake -... 40,764.83 Wtfrren 58,323.20 Washington 27,260.36 i Watauga 51,766.46 * Wayne 68,734.52 i Wilkes 98,612.33 i Wilson 19,527.34 ■ Yadkin - 52,454.49 , Yancey 41,903.12 CAPITAL'S REIGN IMPUESSERVIUTY Prof. Small Discusses Misuse of Power—Servility Insep arable from Capitalism. By C. CL SMALL It is the spirit of moderation that gives life and blessings to a people, and as long as this spirit does not gorge itself into excessiveness, human progress and human happiness will continue to flow in steady streams. But let immoderation run riot in our social and commercial life, and we will soon stand face to face with the penalty of our sins. The farther away we get from natural life—the only real life—the greater will be the toll of human misery. If the processes of even modern times are to be re peated, we shall be ashamed of our boasted progress. But we can never repeat some pro cesses. The process of settling a country can never be repeated. It is during that time that the basis of free constitutions are laid, and the spirit of freedom runs its fullest course. Then morals are at their best. Men see to it that their new civilization shall be superior to a worn out civilization. The simplicity of this structural evolution brings to the surface the best there is in men and in mind; the finest in poetry and literature. Then it is that char acter and personal worth have more value than the gold which gilds the straightened forehead of the fool. It is then that some things are so well done they can never be done again. Angels in heaven could never write another Declaration of Inde pendence. If the stream of our civil and com mercial life could flow on with un diluted and uncontaminated waters, happy would be the annals of the people. So far in human history, men have not learned the art of constant development without call ing down upon themselves heaven’s avenging fire. As civilization be comes more complex, men never learn to ,fceep a balanced point of view. Poverty and weakness have not been as dangerous among any people as the delegation of power has been and, especially, the misuse of that power. The ruins and wrecks of time as found in ancient Rome, Greece, Babylon, and Tyre, are but the re sults of two institutions—aristocracy and capitalism. But as devastating as aristocracy has always been, its destructive powers are mild when compared to the blight caused by the “magnificent few” who live for no other purpose than to horde, to grind, to grasp, and to crucify hu manity on a cross of gold. Aristocracy has had always a ;few redeeming features, such as responsibility in government, culture, character, and personal values. But it has never been able to show a free spirit in giving to others what it has so avariciously taken to itself. Its life is brief, for nature did not intend it to be everlasting. It has had the endorsement of unprincipled rulers and avaricious statesmen. But capitalism would disregard the individual and sink him into the darkness of the mass. Its aims are pernicious and not altruistic. It might take intelligence to be an aristocrat, but capitalism has no par ticular standards of knowledge or morality. Capitalism is more dan gerous than any czarism earth ever beheld. It brushes aside the truth that man is more than mind, and his innate instinct is more than reason. It can never learn that it is impossi ble to separate ourselves from the scheme of creation and the ordained order of things. Capitalism can travel one road only, and that is in a straight line forever and, like a snow ball, gather bigness as it goes on. It can no more exist without servility than an aristocracy can live without some form of slavery to maintain its life. In each case the few must subordinate the many, and neither relaxes its death-like grijj until forced to do so by human re bellion. Both sidestep creation’s order of things, and both must pay the penalty. If capitalism should be shorn of its power to bribe and inti midate, to destroy its competitors as so much vermin, and to dictate the policies of governments, it would at least be somewhat tolerable. A lion in a cage does not look good, but he is not particularly dangerous. Not so dangerous as one in the open. Mis guided power and mishandled strength run riot with free states and all nature’s creation. Men, in all their getting of knowl edge, have never known what to do with acquired power. The average man and the daily worker have no conceivable idea of the possibilities that capitalism has of 'going wrong. The abuse of power can be easily traced from the time of the driving of Israelitish slaves to their tasks by their Egyptian masters, even to the warping' and blastin£ of the lives of women and children in our own American mills and factories. The spirits of earth’s numberless dead shall cry aloud from the ground against the slime and misery and destitution coming from misused power. Nations decay not from Brooks Left Sockless by Court House Ring Commissioner W. T. Brooks says he had often heard of the court house * ring but never had seen it in action or been the victim of its chicanery - till the first Monday in May. At that time our long, slim friend “from Ran dolph was here selling a magazine, a dozen pair? of socks, and a few more things for a dollar, and Mr. Brooks bought the combination. His error, though, was in bragging at the court house about the bargain he had got. He expected to wear socks all the summer this year. Yet when he went to his car at noon he found his bundle of socks had been tamoer ed with. Going back to the court house he found the sheriff’s bunch and Judge Lysander Johnson together and proceeded to tell them about the loss of his socks and the necessity of having to play the Jerry Simpson role this summer. And lo * he noticed a pair of the socks sticking out of the pocket of one of the deputies. He then turned to Deputy Desern to ask about the procedure of get ting out a warrant, and deputies be gan to ooze out and Judge Johnson slipped out. He saw the sheriff, but Sheriff Blair is sort of deaf and, as Mr. Brooks says, has the happy fac ulty of making the defect serviceable at times. Accordingly, he couldn’t get much satisfaction from the sheriff and later he learned that the high sheriff had a pair of those socks in his pocket, though Mr. Brooks thinks he was merely guilty of receiving, as he suspects that a Bonlee citizen had seized his property and made the sheriff a present. Anyway, the commissioner says he is bringing no more socks nor any thing else to Pittsboro, at least not leaving them in reach of that court house bunch. Now, don’t take this seriously. We’ll tell you it is all a joke, since somebody might not recognize such a report as a joke. But if anybody wants to get us for libel they’ll have to get Mr. Brooks for slander. And then we’H both push the case for larceny. For the socks are gone— and that’s no joke. Mrs. Julia Campbell $ Julia L. Dorsett was born May 10, 1852, and died June 2, 1929, age 77 years and 21 days. She was mar ried to John S. Campbell September 10, 1865. To this union were born the fol lowing children: John, Sallie, Mary, Olivia, Joe, Johnnie, Oren, Mike, Rencher, Julius, Cleveland, Exline, Abner, and Robert Campbell. The following brothers and sisters are living: Jim Dan Dorsett, W. T. Dor sett, Mrs. O. P. Teague, Mrs. Joe Fox, and Mrs. Sallie Neulin. There are fifty-five grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. All the children are living except Joe and Cleveland. Mrs. Campbell has a long and faithful life, and many friends and relatives are grieved at her passing. Little Prospects of Real Farm Relief Little prospects of farm relief from the extra session of Congress seems probable. The House farm relief bill is of little value, while the senate’s has practically no chance of passing. On the other hand, a tariff bill carrying the highest duties ever levied is on its way to becoming a law. ' Instead of relieving farmers that bill makes prices higher for what the majority of farmers must buy. rottenness without but from putre faction within. Few have been the peoples who have fallen through calamities or weakness. Prosperity has marked the earth with more ruin than calam ities ever dreamed of. No man ever broke his neck by taking a tumble from the bottom to the top of a ladder, but many have'lost their lives by coming from the top to the bot tom. Pity but what Pilate’s dictum to Christ could have been forgotten through the ages. “Know ye not that I have power to crucify Thee, and power to release Thee,” will be come the fiat of capitalism here, no doubt, as it has never done before anywhere the round world over. Happy is that people who have never been taught the baneful art of mas sive organization! We are learning to make rapid progress with it, but have not learned that the end thereof is death. In the end, what you organize you kill. Organized morals or organized thought or organized re ligion are dead morals and dead thought and dead religion. The only life is unorganized life. The reality of life is adventure, not mere per formance only. What can be ruled about can be machined; and what can be machined can be made pas sively, automatic, and automatism is one form of death. Ah, but see the sovereign few, Highly favored, that remain! These, the glorious residue, Os the cherished race of Cain. These, the magnates of the age. HiHi j»ho Tro wage, I Who Vave numbered and possest All tiie portion of the rest! ... -rim-- Subscribers at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham 1 ' VOLUME 51, NUMBER 37 TOWER TOST’ IS FLAYED BY NORRIS Nebraskan Again Brings Mus cle Shoals to Attention of Senators. Washington, June s.—Attention of the senate was directed again to the long disputed proposal for govern ment operation of Muscle Shoals with the Norris resolution to carry the proposal into effect favorably re ported by its agriculture committee. Senator Norris, Republican, Ne braska, who wrote the report and submitted it in behalf of the com mittee, said it was doubtful whether action could be obtained before a recess is taken for the summer. He added, however, that he would bring it up at the earliest opportunity and when he considered the time “psy chologically right.” The report denounced the “power trust” for opposition to the proposal, declaring that it “demands that the natural resources of the country shall be turned over to private cor porations for private profit” and “insists that the truth shall not be known.” A similar resolution, adopted at the last session of Congress, was “pocket vetoed” by President Cool idge, whose right to do so was up held last week by the Supreme court. The report asserted that the ques tion was not one of putting the gov ernment into business but one of improving navigation, protecting gov ernment property and controlling flood waters. “The passage of this resolution,” the report continued, “is only a busi ness proposition. It ought to have the unanimous support of all those who believe in the preservation of our natural resources and the pre vention of their exploitation by pri vate monopoly for private gain. $ SOME ITEMS FROM SANFORD EXPRESS <a> The Cumnock Coal mine is now al most clear of water and during the next few weeks forces of laborers will be busy making necessary re pairs preparatory to resuming the mining of coal. Mr. John R. Mc- Queen, president of the company, tells The Express that the mine seems to be in pretty good shape and he thinks it will not take long to get everything ready for taking out coal. Prof. W. C. Harward of Lexing ton, spent Sunday with the family of his uncle, Mr. C. M. Harward, on route 2. He was accompanied by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R, Harward, of Chatham county. His mother, who suffered a stroke of paralysis last December, is still un able to walk, and has no use of her left side. Her health otherwise is good. The Belk-Williams Company,'of Dunn has been incorporated, the au thorized capital stock being SIOO,OOO, subscribed stock, $20,000. J. C. Wil liams who was formerly connected with Williams-Belk Company, of this place,-but now at the head of the Belk-Williams Company, of Wil mington, and W. L. Simmons, man | ager of Williams-Belk Company, of Sanford, are members of the new company. This store is a branch of the Wilmington store of that name. A truck brought 25 barrels of molasses from Wilmington to the wholesale house of Hatch & Co. This was equal to a load of molasses car ried by a railroad freight car. Those big trucks haul 40 bales of cotton at a load. This equals the capacity of two railroad cars as they carry only 20 bales. It seems that. this he<avy traffic is calculated to damage the improved highways. This is strong competition for the railroads. —q $12,000,000 for Farm Diversification in South Senator Simmons’ bill to appropri ate twelve million for the encourage ment of farm, diversification in the South was favorably reported to the Senate Monday. The organization of one rural community in ten Southern states is proposed as a demonstration of the value of farm diversification. But the county agents are already bringing about such diversification in many sections. $ P.-T. ASSOCIATION TO SPONSOR CLINIC The Parent-Teacher Association will sponsor a tonsil and adenoid clinic which will be held at the Pitts boro school, beginning Tuesday, June 11, and lasting several days. Many parents should avail them selves of this opportunity of having their children’s adenoidi and tonsils taken out. SHORTENS NAME The J. I. Case Threshing Machine Comnany has shortened its name by making it the J. I. Case Company, Inc. This good concern is one of the • Record’s appreciated advertisers and jis selling many of their farm imple ments through the firm of Bynum •and Perry.