! \ 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.