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! \ Paper with *ge of a Half ry. A Count' a Com . Paper L J \BUSHED SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.' Teupleton Raps UveatHomeldea “No Man Liveth to Himself” is Text of Cary Farm Leader ® T e Recoi'd is reproducing from tV Nows and Observer the follow er article from the pen of Dr. Templeton of Cary, for two or three reasons. That veteran knows a few things. He has lived and observed and knows how to say what he think*. But it is his observations on •‘overproduction” that we are particularly interested in, as they £t ? 0 nicely in with what The Rec ord had to say the very day Dr. Templeton’s article appeared in the News and Observer. Compare Dr. Templeton’s views on overproduc tion with ours as found in the edi torial of last week, captioned “The Missing Principle.” *T have been waiting until every body had his say about farm mat ters to lake a flyer at the problem myself,” said Dr. J. M. Templeton, of Cary, yesterday. “My text is from St. Paul, ‘No man liveth to himself.’ •‘ln this day of mass production of both raw material and finished products, ‘conferences,’ ‘live at home’ and ‘cut acreage’ campaigns will no more cure our agricultural ill? than would a mustard plaster on the big toe cure tuberculosis. More than 60 years ago the Grange came preaching ‘live at home’; then the Alliance and Cotton Growers’ Association took it up; then the Farmers’ Union rang the changes on it from the mountains to the sea. Farm leaders like Colonel Polk. C. C. Moore and Dr. Alex ander advocated it unti lthey saw it was powerless to save agriculture. “Thus for two generations it has been urged on the farmers and they have almost unanimously refused the advice and our farmers are not. fools. Now the book farmers, bank-, ers and time merchants propose to coerce them by withholding credit, if they reject such advice. That means going to Apex where Pat Up church has been getting from SSO to S3OO per acre for his little to bacco crop and telling him he must plant corn, that if he had a market for it it might bring him S2O per acre; or to Cary where Jap Pender graft makes five bales of cotton on six acres, depite the boll weevil, and tell him he must plant wheat that might sometimes bring him sls per acre, and if they refuse they will get neither money or credit. Next some one will be telling the doctor to treat malaria with sooth ing syrup, the carpenter to build houses out of poke root, the tailer to make coats out of fig leaves at the peril of having their credits cut off. “If ‘live at home’ is good for cotton growers why not for grain raisers? Let’s go up to lowa, have Governor Hammill set aside a ‘live at home’ week, tell his people not to have their wardrobe in the cot ton belt, to raise flax and make rayon, keep their money at home. Then to Kansas and tell the wheat men to let the Tar Heels chew their n tobacco, crack their own goob . not to ruin the Sunflower State ng their money away from So of all .the other States : . start a race between ere ‘each is for self and t - (' v ! t k ‘ the hindmost,’ face jr.ntiy back toward the ignor- a ’ ; • mi individualism of the dark • Following the ‘ignus fatus’ ve at home,’ ‘cut acreage’ and lucrative marketing,’ instead of adjusting ourselves to the changed conditions of a new era, has brought u -' the rotting farm houses and broom-sedge fields of a decadent agriculture, while our urban centers the crowded with its victims, and ai ’e multiplying on every hand — Gaston las and Marions seething with anarchy and communism. ‘Reason, common sense and science say, raise the crop to which your soil and climate is best adapt e(h then exchange with or buy from those who can supply your needs cheapest. This would mean ‘over production’ says the wiseacre. From one-third to one-half our children are undernourished, many adults suffering from diseases of malnu trition, men who produce textile tabrics are ragged, in need of cloth- ] n g> some dressing their families lt> J*ast off flour and meal sacks. *th these facts staring him in the ;. ,ee ;. any man who says ‘overpro ouct n ’ needs to have his head soaked in acquafortis. It’s like tell ln? /a man he is freezing to death he has too many overcoats °; serving to death because he has tmuch bread and meat. As long a ' -there is a hungry child or a man or woman needing c. aching we should stimulate and encourage to the limit '-production n’ H e ' s necessities, if need .be :re- Pujtng short-sighted leaders and P-gmy politicians with giant law f/ers and forward-looking 'states ' who could give us a just and . system of exchange and. suitable to the highly veloped, complex civilization of 1013 Progressive age.” The Chatham Record IA SKETCH OF COL. ,j JIM DAN DORSETT | We are indebted to the Greens j boro News for the following in i teresting sketch of Col. J. D. Dor | sett, written by his son, Rev. H. G. Dorsett, who is now famous in the State as the man who as a candidate for the Republican nom ination for U. S. senator has put the Republican machine in a hole and seems likely to force upon his oarty a State primary, contrary to the usual custom. It grieves Col. Dorsett’s host of friends to know ! that he is sick and that his long j and honorable career is drawing to an end. The sketch follows: “It is a great privilege to be at the bedside of my father, Col. James Dan Dorsett, at the home of my sister, Mrs. V. M. Dorsett. He has perhaps lived as strenuous and hazardous a life as any man in our good State at the present time, which is the reason for writing this sketch while he is living. He is now* in his 87lh year, and is the last survivor of the volunteers of the most famous company and regi ment of our great civil war, com* pany E 26th North Carolina (Gov ernor Vance’s old regiment). He is now ill hei’e in 100 yards of Mathews cross roads where he vol unteered in 1860 at the age of 17 years. With his company, he was in skirmishes and in the first bat tle of New Bern, thence to Rich mond where they participated in the seven days’ fight, ‘Where we put McClellan on the gun boats, and I had a man killed right by my side,’ as he states it. “He was in Pickett’s and Petty grew’s famous charge at Gettys burg.. Here his regiment lost over 80 per cent in killed or wounded; Little Dan Thomas picking the col ors up after they had been shot down 16 times and carrying them almost alone to the rock wall, when they reached out and pulled him over, saying that he was too brave a man to be shot. My father . came within a few yards of the breastworks, where he was wounded in the leg and made prisoner the last day, July 4 1864. He was slightly wounded in the arm the first day’s fighting. Carried pris oner to New York, he was pa roled and worked in the enrolling office out of Raleigh the remainder of the war. My father was a great friend of lawyer, John Manning, making trips together, one furnish ing the horse the other the buggy. They bought a carload of salt about this time. “My father moved to Florida four times, twice through the country. This was before the pioneer days were over, Florida being sparsely settled at that time. He ran a mer cantile business at Apopka City, traveling practically all over Flor ida with his goods, which he ex changed with the Indians and others for furs and hides. During the panic of the early 80’s he liquidated the best he could and came back and purchased his father’s old home stead on Hickory mountain in Chatham county. “This section on Rocky river is where his great-grandfather, Fran cis Dorsett, came and settled in the 17th century. His name is on the petition in defiance of Governor Tryon about taxes. His grandfather, John Dorsett, lived to be 92 years of age. He was married the second time after he was 80, having a fam ily of three children by the second marriage. When he died the age between his youngest and oldest child was 76 years. His father, Robert Dorsett, had a race track three-fourths of a mile long on their land, where they had races every spring and autumn. These were participated in by the wealthier gentry in the ante-bellum days, and were considered great occasions. My father’s mother was Miss Sally Per ry, a noted family in this section for longevity, numerous relations, and happy occasions. “At the close of the war, my father married Miss Fanny Hack ney, the daughter of the Rev. Dan iel Hackney, Grandfather Hackney was a combination of minister and statesman, being a member of the lower house of the legislature sev eral terms. He lost four sons in the war. “My father has lived a life of temperance, always against liquor and for prohibition. Wherever my parents lived they were zealous in religious work, mother organizing women’s prayer meetings. They were always friends of the poorer people. He has been a friend to all, white and colored, and all are concerned about his recovery. One neglected boy comes every day to see him, usually with a cast-off bottle of gathered flowers. - “This one 'incident. In Florida there were a great many Italians. One was left in .a hut .with .an awful running ,sore. In my father’s words, ‘Your mother sent four men with sheets after him.’ She has told me how she nursed Pat Scand ing back to health,' without money., and' without price, but she believed he became a Christian. “I am sorry for the fellow who imagines I might be a quitter. The greatest contribution I ask is of the folks who try to pray, that God will rule and overrule, and give PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930 . 1 McCuin Is Arrested For Reckless Driving Donald McCuin, who is said to ■ live in Sanford, was arrested here . Saturday night and jailed on a i charge of injuring Gladys Horton, i colored and a man, despite the feminine name, last December. Hor ; ton tried to get away and was i even crawling over a wire fence \ when the car, allegedly driven by i McCuin, hit his hind leg and broke it. McCuin has been wanted since. Saturday night Sheriff Blair recog ■ nized him in a Pittsboro barber shop and had him arrested and jailed. He had not been able to make bond Monday noon. Horton is still wearing a plaster cast. $ - *************** * * * Moncure News * *************** Miss Alma Walden, who will fin ish at Peace Institute, Raleigh, this spring, also will graduate in music, is at home this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Walden, taking her spring vacation. Also Miss Elizabeth Thomas, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thomas, who will graduate at N. C. C. W., Greensboro, this spring, is also at home for her spring vacation. There is a crew of men here in-1 stalling an automatic electric switch and sign-board for the Seaboard Railway. By means of this the chief dispatcher at Raleigh con trols the swritch signals all along the line from Raleigh. The girls so the 7th grade won another ball game by playing the girls of the 9th grade today ( Mon day). The members of the Junior class gave a theatre party at the State theatre, Raleigh, last Satur day night in honor of the Senior class. On returning home they stopped at a suitable place, built a bon fire and enjoyed a “weinie” roast. There were thirty in the party, namely: Misses Frances Thompson, Jack Wheeler, Dorothy Lambeth, Alma Kendrich, Lura Dawkins, Margueritte Cooper, Jo sephine Crutchfield, Madys Cotten. Camelia Stedman, Grace Harring ton, Lois Wilkie, Elva Johnson, Jaunita Wicker, Hortense Honey cutt, and Esther Martin; also Messrs. J. L. Womble, Eugene Lam beth, Wilson Womble, James Cross, Lynn Hunt, Jack Harrington, Willie Kendrick, Ben Mims, Elvet Lassi ter, Allen Harrington, Julian Ray, Henry Cross, Edward Carr, Wood row Andrews and C. W. Avent. Misses Hortense Honeycutt, Esther Martin and Mr. Avent were the chaperones. The Epworth League met last Sunday evening with the president, Miss Camelia Stedman in the chair. Mr. Lewis Burns, secretary, was also present. The leader for the evening was Mr. E. W. Avent, Jr. Misses Berta Holloday, Margaret Mann and Louise Petty assisted the leader in presenting the lesson. The meeting closed with prayer by Mr. H. G. Self. Several from Moncure attended the service at Pittsboro Methodist church last Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. Myers of Duke Uni versity preached a wonderfully in spiring sermon on the importance of Sunday school work. <§, Club Meeting Postponed Through courtesy to the U. D. C. district meeting held here Wednes day, the Woman’s Club has post poned its regular monthly meeting until the following Wednesday, the ninth. Club members - are requested to bear in mind that this is tlje regular time for election of officers. All members are urged to be pres ent. <S» COLORED SCHOOL CLOSES The Pittsboro colored school closed its six, months term Friday. R. E. Lowe of Reidsville has been principal. He was assisted by two women teacher, which were evi dently too few, as the enrollment was 157, and the actual average attendance 134. The school has one year of high school work. The at tendance average is fine. Principal Lowe has elicted more than the usual interest by introducing tennis and by showing interest in the ball and other games. The teachers bought the tennis outfit themselves and allowed the pupils to use their rackets. Th sohool seems to have been well conducted and the teach ers deserve credit for their eqorts. Principal Lowe is a bachelor of sci ence of the A. & T.--College, Greens boro, a ■ scholar and apparently a gentleman. ELECTION BOARD • Messrs. F. C. Mann, J. Speight Wrenn, and C. C.' Brewer have been chosen as -.ithe- ' Chatham county hoard of elections. It will be the business of these men. to appoint the precinct election officers. me the victory for and through ■ Jesus our Saviour. | H. GRADY DORSETT.” Siler City. Brother Teague Is at the Bat Again Mr. Editor: North Carolina, through all its units, towns, cities, districts, coun ties and state itself, is paying $25,000,000 in interest everyy ear. But let us come a little closer home. I offered to take the tax list in Allbright township for s4l and didn’t get the job. They have been paying Bert Phillips in Bear Creek township S2OO, when a wom an with a first grade certificate would have taken it for fifty. If I had the power I should stop every public school in North Caro lina for one year and catch up. I see now why Chase and Gaines are leaving the State. We ought to run the schools and the roads on just half what it is now cost ing. When I was young we seldom had a murder case and would try the case in two days. No\# how long does it take? S. P. TEAGUE. $ *************** * * * Brown’s Chapel News’ *************** Quite a bunch of our folk heard Dr. Myers of the Duke School of j Religion Sunday evening at Pitts -1 boro and it was a treat. I After Sunday school Sunday, Mr. iJ. T. Mann conducted an enjoyable ! prayer service. j We are glad to report Mrs. I. E. J Crutchfield improved. Her sister, Mrs. Dee Glenn from just above Burlington, her son Newton and a Miss Luck, were down to see her Sunday. Mrs. Glenn says they sold SI6OO worth of milk products from a herd of six cows last year, and a thousand dollars worth of tobacco from their crop, besides poultry products. It must not be hard times with them. She says they have been selling dairy products 20 yeras. She and Mr. Glenn are both Chatham ites, and still praise the old county. Quite a number of our people attended a birthday dinner given in Burlington last Sunday to Mr. J. J. Thomas, a former Chathamite, who has been in poor health for some times. It-should have been Mfste~RobeTta' Durham visiting her uncles and aunts in Burlington, and Mr. T. S. Harris who visited his sister, Mrs. H. F. Durham. This in correction of errors in last week’s Record. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Smith of Ra leigh recently spent a day here, taking back with them Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. A. E. Lutterloh. Pastor Dailey will preach Sunday morning. Sunday school precedes. Come to both services. One of Chatham’s Best Citizens Passes —— D. W. Tally, who was born No vember, 1852, died March 16, 1930. He was well known throughout this section, having served forty years as justice of the peace. And he was a man who liked peace. He settled more quarrels than any man of the community. He was the kind of man that wanted every one to be a good citizen. He was taken ill February 15. On the seventeenth he was carried to the Wesley Hospital .at Greens boro. where he was nu”sed most of the time by his granddaughter, Miss Argie Stinson. His wife and two daughters, Mesdames Stinson and Cheek, went with him. He was operated upon Saturday morning morning, March 15, and died the next morning. His body was brought that afternoon to the home of Mr. W. H. Hill at Gulf, where it remained until the fun eral, which was conducted by Rev. John Harris of Rockwell, assisted by Rev. E. W. Byerly, of Bonlee. It is said that the crowd attending the funeral services was the largest ever seen at the church. ______ He leaves to mourn his departure, his wife, Mrs. Augusta Tally, and six children, namely, H. A. Tally, of Jonesboro, Mrs. J. B. Stinson of Goldston, J. D. Tally of Mebane, Mrs. G. M. Phillips of Bennett, Mrs. J. C. Cheek of Rockwell, and S. A. Tally of Lexington. His nephews were pall bearers and his granddaughters flower girls. He was laid to rest in Gulf Bap tist cemetery. His grave was cov ered with many beautiful flowers. He will be missed not only by his family, but by the whole com munity. . Goldston, March 25, 1930. $ ROBERT ABERNATHY DEAD —® Mr. Robert Abernathy died Fri day night at his home at Bynum, aged , sixty-seven. The funeral was ipreached at, Bynum Sunday, by his pastor Rev. A. E, Brown, an<d the burial was at Mt. Pleasant. church. He leaves his widow and several children, among the number John, Wilt, and Henry Abernathy of By num, and Carney Abernathy* ad dress not known to this paper. Mr. Abernathy was a good citi zen, we are informed, and his pass ing is regretted by many friends. j PUTTING THE MISSING PRINCIPLE INTO ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE OF OPERATION By JUNIUS DURHAM There predominates in every move of the present day agitation for farm relief, for better wages and shorter hours in labor, and for steadier employment one cen tral idea, CO-OPERATION, now recognized as an absolute essential to permanent financial success for any class. Yet, with all their zeal, few advocates of group co-opera tion seem to realize the wonderful opportunities of bringing greater wealth, comfort, and happiness, not to a mere group within the pop ulation, but to all people who are willing to assume an honest posi tion in the commercial and social order of the nation, by extending this idea of oc-operation to include all, farmers, all other laboring classes, business men, and all others honestly interested in the better welfare of humanity into one gi gantic organization, democratically, but efficiently, directed. As Peter son has asserted many times, there is something radically wrong with any economic system which allows many millions to lack decent food, clothing, comfortable homes, med ical attention, proper means of rec reation, etc., amidst the great cry of over-production, when by an ef ficiently organized means of eco nomical distribution , every one might easily enjoy the comorts and leisure now available to* only a few. The missing economic principle is evidently to be found in the intelligent direction and distribu tion of labor, and in the efficient distribution of the products of la bor, to the advantage of both the producer and the consumer. This, I believe, can best be accomplished by thorough organization as sug gested above; but in order to facili tate clearness in my explanation of how, in my opinion, most ef fective results might be secured along these lines, I shall proceed as follows: I WOULD CONFIDENTLY GUAR ANTEE THAT, if I were given the privilege of putting my plan of relief into operation, to have % reasonable „ sum. .qL . monev with which to finance the organization, and to select these men whom I should desire to aid in its manage ment, BY THE END OF THE THIRD YEAR AFTER THE CRE ATION AND FINANCING OF THIS ORGANIZATION, THERE WOULD BE NO SERIOUS PROBLEMS AS TO AGRICULTURE, POVERTY WAGES, UNEMPLOYMENT, or BUSINESS. Furthermore, there would be laid a foundation for fu ture prosperity so firm as to make it difficult, or practically impossible, for such periods of depression to ever occur again, so long as the organization remained under intel ligent control. BUT HOW? I admit that doing this would not be a task easily accomplished, that much indeed would depend upon those selected to aid me in the direction of the work. Their qualities of character, ability, and experience would have to comply with certain definite standards. In addition to the need of cap able executives, the program must bfe financed. I believe that thirtv million dollars ($30,000,000). would be sufficient for the pur pose, and it certainly would be a very reasonable sum, for it is equal only to the capital of the recently organized cotton co-operative mar keting association which dis de signed for the aid of cotton farm ers alone, while the purpose of the other is to place the entire nation upon a sound economic ba sis. Also, that sum would average only about twenty-five cents (25c) for each person in the United States. But it should hardly be necessary to argue as to the reasonableness of that amount to be used in so great an undertaking. On the contrary, it is quite possible that the majority of my readers will be skeptical as to the possibility of any noticeable results being achiev ed with so small an amount. It would indeed require the greatest and wisest of economy in financial expenditures. But to the point: After the se lection of those executives of the organization who should work under my direct supervision, a campaign would be directed to enlist as many members as possible from every conceivable class in agriculture, labor, industry, or business, in structing them as to th/- purpose and intended work. Thi? would be an entirely democratic and liberal association, for at any time, by the wishes of the majojrity of the membership, any director might be replaced. . The work should be per formed, not by attempted force, but by most efficient distribution .of labor, by encouraging greatest efficiency in all phases of- ’produc tion, whether agricultural or indus trial, and, most,, important of all, to aid in .the wisest possible dis tribution of every product so that little of anything would be wasted as long as any one were in need of that particular thing. In all this we should strive to decrease the ■average number of hours of labor I Subscribers at Every Postoffice and All R. F. D. Routes in Great County of Chatham. VOLUME 52, NUMBER 26 District Meeting Os U. D. C. Here ^ — Representatives of Six Chap ters Met Here Yesterday in Regular District Meeting— The Program. —• The following program was ob served in the meeting of the sev enth district convention of -the United Daughters Confederacy here yesterday: Introduction of District Director, Mrs. Victor R. Johnson, by -Ms?. Julian M. Gregory, President of Hostess Chapter. Ritual Led by Chaplain by Mrs. John W. Johnson. State Song “Carolina”. . . : Welcome from Hostess Chapter by Mrs. Henry A. London, honorary president. Response by Mrs. P. H. St. Clair. Minutes of Last Meeting by Mrs. Julian M. Gregory, secretary. Roll Call. Appointment of committees. Introduction of State President, by Mrs. Victor R. Johnson. Address by Mrs. E. L. McKee, Solo, “The Old Refrain,” by Mrs. W. B. Chapin. The Jefferson Davis Highway, by Mrs. J. H. Anderson. Report of State Historian, by Mrs. W. S. Bernard. Southern Melodies, by Mrs. Lon don and Mrs. Jackson. Reports from Chapters: Chapel Hill, Leonidas Polk Chapter; Dur ham, Julian S. Carr Capter; Dunn, Chicora Chapter; Roxboro, Person County Chapter, Sanford, Lee Coun ty Chapter, Pittsboro, Winnie Davis Chapter. Report from children of the Con federacy chapters. A detailed account of the meet ing will be given in next week’s Record. STUNT NIGHT A Lively Time at Pittsboro School Auditorium Last Friday' Evening —Sfuhfs Real^PerToFmahces: No it wasn’t like the “Naval Disarmament Conference” being held in the city of London. This was a “wang” of a success. A very unique and keen program was plan ned for “Stunt Night,” which was held in the Pittsboro high school auditorium, last Friday night. It was one of the kind of social functions when you ask how Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary are getting along. The program was enjoyed in . spite of the fact that you were informed that Aunt Mary was very sick with a terrible cold. “Damrosch” (Mrs. W. P. Horton) conducted his orchestra with a great deal of skill and ability. Even Rudy Vallee would have envied the i personal touch which was shown by Damrosch’s Tin-Pan band when they played I might be wrong but I think you are wonderful.” This number was requested by Mr. X to be played for Miss Z. Amos and Andy were there “in person” and were “regusted” that they did not receive the prize. Each teacher had her grade put on an original stunt, and the orig inality brought out in the program was quite a success. Every grade in the School took part in this interesting program, including the “Dignified Seniors,” who walked away with first prize. They were presented with a beautiful picture of “Baby Ray”—l beg your par don, it was a picture of “Baby Stuart.” The sixth graders captured the prize for the grammar grades. They received a “Medicine Chest” filled with good old caster oil. It was one of the best programs that the Pittsboro school has ever had. “Sunt Night” was sponsored by the P. T. A. Much credit should be given to Miss Agnes McDonald and Miss Margaret Wren who had charge of the program. “I might be wrong but I think Stunt Night was wonderful,” and I hope we will have it every year. "■ CHARLESTON TO OBSERVE 250TH ANNIVERSARY A mammoth celebration, contin uing from April 11 through 13, is being planned by the people of Charleston in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the city. The postoffice depart ment has authorized an issue of 25,000,000 two-cent stamps com memorating the event. ’ ' ■. ® JUST A CAMPAIGN JOKE I know my business is good, said a Republican; but my sales record seems to have # voted the straight a nian the other day, because I am Democratic ticket. per week necessary for any person to make a comfortable living, and * to make it possible for the stand ards of average living conditions to be considerably elevated from the present ; level. j (Series to be concluded in next issue.)