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PAGE TWO CHATHAM RECORD o. J. PETERSON Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year Six Months 75 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930 LET LUCK BE ELIMINATED Mr. Rosenwald, the (multimillion aire .philanthropist, ascribes 95 per cent of his success in business to luck. Os course, such luck cannot occur to a plum fool. But Mr. Rosenwald recognizes the fact that any of a -million other men with his might have enjoyed a similar degree of prosperity. And he has sense enough to know that no flow of luck -could make each of the million equally .prosperous. To make one multimillionaire a thou sand or ten thousand others must fee his tributaries. The millionaire plays the part of the giant oak in the forest which had the luck to get its start in a clear and fertile opening and has since overshadowed and bedwarfed all competitors in its area. In fact, it has allowed few seedlings to survive at all. Similarly, the country has room for only a few suah enterprises as that of Sears and Roebuck, of which company Mr. Rosenwald is a member. Yet there are people who think that all Americans have the same chance to grow rich, and that other recipient of fortune at the hands of the fickle goddess, Mr. Raskob, actually insists that all should be come rich, as if all the Chatham rabbits might turn foxes and prey upon each other. Granting that Mr. Rosenwald is right and that his fortunes are the result of luck, conserved by good business sense not uncommon among thousands who are as poor as Mr. Rosenwald is rich, the question is, Shall the welfare of 130,000,000 of American citizens be -left to the vagaries of luck? As stated in these columns last the world’s economic policies have never been planned, but are as haphazard as any other result of the evolutionary process, and are no more sacred than the appendix, which in recent years has become so subject to the knife. Accordingly, there would seem no reason why the world should any more readily suffer from the ap pendixes of the economic system than from those of the human foody, body. A recent writer has suggested that the possession of wealth be limited to $500,000, and surely that is enough to privide all legitimate luxuries for any family. In interest at ? per cent on that sum amounts to $15,000 annually, but if its possessor is active in business he should make enough to spend many more thousands annually without depleting his principal. It would not be easy to keep such a man from accumuflating more, but it would be possible to take away the excess by income taxation. Not only are the com paratively few fortunate ones ac cumlating their, multimnllions and thus as absolutely bedwarfing others equally competent as the giant oak does the seedlings in its shadow, but it is now happening that the men who have surcked up the great er share -of the wealth of the coun try are transporting it to foreign countries, or its representatives, money, and are thus preparing to overshadow hordes in other coun tries by means of the wealth drawn from the very livelihood of millions of free American citizens. For money taken abroad will buy Ameri can goods, while so -long as the balance of trade wtith Europe, particularly, is in American’s favor, there is no possible means of the fruits of that wealth ever reaching America. The Record challenges any economist to demonstrate how it can, except in particuilar cases where in the recipient actually transports gorid -or goods back home. But the very millions who suffer from the vagaries of luck would rather continue to suffer than to see any artificial, or planned, inter ference with the age-old andi, in their way of thinking, sacrosanct policy of dog-eat-dog. Even now the superabundance of silver and the increasing scarcity of gold are subverting the commerce of the world. If one should sell a dozen eggs here and send the money to a missionary in china the latter coufld buy about four -dozen as good eggs over there for tjjie money, and -chiefly because of tne fact that the Chinese silver coin is so much below par value. China, or any other silver using country, cannot buy American goods under any such circumstances. For thou sands of years the money of a 1 country has been dependent upon the iuck of the mliner of gold and silver, and only a lucky strike of gold can now alter the situation, and such a streak of luck would not I only enrich the miners, tend to dm -1 poverish the holders of securities ’ based on gold, but would enrich 1 the holders of great volumes of silver. Thus the world is at the mercy of luck, while a universal currency ‘based upon the annual pro duce of the chief staples, -which prices fixed semi-annually at cen ters of each staple’s trade, and upon the estimate of the comparatixe ' cost of the staple for the period by the average efficient producer, * would put the commerce of the : world on a basis that would have no element of chance in it, or the - minimum of such chance. But even 1 if governments now begin to legis -1 late anew on the basis of gold and silver, it means enriching some and impoverishing others, and after all securing no universally valid cur rency. The deanonitization of silver not only impoverished the holders of silver bullion and the owners of silver mines, but has had itfe part in bringing about the world-wide de bacle now observed. And thus it will -be till economic policies are scientifically reformed and the elements of chance utterly removed from the fortunes of in dividuals and of whole people. <s> MAKING AN “IMPRINT” As we write this on Saturday hundreds of cars are swooping through the town, on their way to the football game, and we are re minded of What Rev. O. L. Powers, then pastor of a Baptist church in Louisiana, said to us as he was glancing over the sport column of a daily. In reply to his question as to whether the writer was in terested in the sports, we had said “not oniuch”. Thereupon be ad vised us to keep up on the games and not to make the impression that we are “not a man”. Accord ingly, the writer judged that the preacher’s concern was to make “an imprint”, as Andy woufd say, and that, -we actually believe, is one of the chief motives of the thou- ; sand who have passed by this of fice ,in the past two hours. They wish to make the “imprint” that they are “sports”. And isn’t it “sporty” indeed to sit on the bleachers and look at ■ others exercise their skill and brawn! That is, in the idea of our preacher friend, making the im- i pression that one is “a man”! Bap tists, Methodists, Presbyterians, 1 Episcopalians, all rush off at an average cost per car, I should say, 1 of sl2 to sls to see a football game, while their missionaries are being called from the fields, their institutions suffering, and com plaints arising about (high taxes! But we guarantee you there are few farmers and few merchants in the gang. However, while the -bulk of the crowd is made up of that element of the people who we have shown are getting better and better off every day as prices go down, there are doubtless some who are failing to pay debts in order to make the “imprint” that they are sports. But (it takes all kinds of folk to (make a world—at least as crazy a one as. this/.Qije. It re minds one of the lunatic period of the “Red and Blues” in the decad ent Roman Empire. ® The News and Observer and the Progressive Farmer are stressing the importance of the State Fair as an educational institution for the farmers. We simply cannot see it. A farmer cannot afford to travel a hundred to 500 miles to look at show stock or brag specimens of farm products. The same cost will send him on a personally -conducted tour -of the dairy and stock farms of Virginia or Tennessee. One can not learn how to raise a fine milk cow by merely seeing her, not 75 bushels of corn to the acre by glancing at a few ears of the pro duct from such a field. The day of fairs as educational institutions is gone. Moreover, about the only peo ple who can afford to display stock in the fair are the great commercial stock farms. A Chatham man de clined to display bis turkeys last year because of the -prohibitive cost of crates, and other expenses. The Record, probably alone, op ' posed the proposition for the state I to make an investment in the fair, ; and is still of the opinion that it 1 was an unwise expenditure and as , sumption of responsibility. This very week the Sampson county fair is on with practisally all the amuse ment features, race horses, etc., as the state fair had, and it is safe to say the money the showmen and horsemen sarry out of- the county would -buy all the high-class bulls, for instance, needed in Sampson county. We have seen cash flush down there till the fair and then a. i THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO, N. C. regular period of Hoover pros perity for several weeks. $ Lincoln is credited with saying that this country could not survive half free and half slave, and now it is just about as evident that it cannot thrive with a few mono polies, aided by the tariff, charging what they please for their products or services and the masses taking only what the same group pleases for their products. No one ever gets too old to tell where he is going and when he is to be expected back. That has al ways been true, but is much more important in this day when assault or death awaits one at any turn. Apart from accidents it is reaching that point where brutes kill for the very pleasure of it. Note the two young Chicago devils of a few years ago. Note two North Carolina youths killed, and roasted in their own camp fire in Arkan sas last week. Then, robbery is so rampant that one may be slain for almost anything from a pack of cigarettes up. Brutes -may readily seize and carry off man or woman and never be captured. Even in Pittsboro, in the more civilized days of eight or ten years ago, a man was slain right on a sidewalk in the heart of town and at his very door, and no one has ever been convicted of the crime. With the present assumed liberty of young women many parents are in tor ture when daughters do not return when they should. Anything can be imagined, and yet if one should undertake to give an alarm there is nothing under the sun to direct the course of it. A two-mile ride may have turned into a fifty-mile jaunt, in just any old direction, and to get a trace of what may have happened might mean a sur vey of a fifty-mile radius. The truth is, no young woman is safe alone on any public highway. A demon from a thousand miles away may hurl himself upon her, silence her and be gone swooping in any direction within two minutes. $ Mrs. A. L. Battle, in Sunday’s Greensboro Newts, didn’t miss the mark far when she attributed a measure of the stress in the busi ness world to the displacing of heads of families in business by wo men whose families are economically independent. Many such a woman is now spending on luxuries what should go to the head of a family for its support. This does not mean that women who by chance are bread-winners should be de barred from employment. On the contrary, such women should be paid on the basis of men for work similar to that done by them. But the world has struck a compromise, accepting women in business hut minimizing the pay because of the recognized fact that the most of them are not bread-winners. Ac cordingly, under that compromise, the woman who is a bread-winner must get a smaller compensation than the single man who has no one dependent upon him does for the same work. The whole economic system is a haphazard affair. Neither individual, family, nor mass of people is considered in the happy go-lucky scheme of things. $ Suppose the Chatham Record could draw county funds as the Johnson county papers have been doing. If so, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference whether we had any other business or not. On Nov. 18, 1926, according to the Smith field Herald, the outgoing board of Republican county commissioners ordered payment to he made to the Eastern News Pub. Co., which published a Republican paper at Benson, the sum of $4,771 for publication of the land tax sales for the year 1925. The Herald charged only SB6O for publishing the 1924 list, which is three tames as much as the two Chatham papers get for duplicating the Chatham list, or very nearly so. The Record would think it had struck it rich if it could get the SB6O out of all the county business for a year. But that is only a drop in the bucket besides the $4,838.16 recently paM the Johnstonian-Sun of Selma by the Republican board of Commissioners within a year, though that paper did come more nearly earning it than the other Republican pet did its $4,771 in 1926. *— Lack of advertising business dur ing this period t <pf stress makes it advisable for us to issue a rather puny Iboking paper some weeks, but when you read what is in the Record’ even at its smallest size, you have practically all the news and comment that particularly concerns Chatham county, and we are not trying to publish the world news, which takes seven great papers a week to handle at all successfully. We have the idea that our readers, if going to a restaurant for dinner, . would not be nearly so much con- ceraed as to the size of the plafe as in its contents. Last week’s >pla|p was a small one, but it was, chug*- full of meat. This one may bt as small, but we cannot yet-judge as to contents. New© dries up with the cash, it seems. —* Chatham county farmers probably has as much wheat already sowed as weather conditions suffered them to plant last year. The soil is re ported to be in unusually fine condition. The lack of beating grains since the land was ploughed dur ing the spring and summer has been a considerable factor in making early planting practicable. Chatham farmers are taking as few chances as possible on weather conditions. For six years it was a game with odds against them, and they (have yearned to be on the alert for any advantages in their favor. The death of Mr. W. S. Russefl of Gulf removes one of the most re markable ctizens of the county. He was a true man, and his residence in Chatham has been for sixty years a blessing to hundreds and thou sands. With unusual vigor of mind adn body he passed his ninetieth year, and was 92 years of age when he passed away last Thursday. * Mr. Jon R. McQueen does not al low employes of the Coal Glen mine to go where he himself will not go. But his daily visits to the in terior of the mine resulted in in jury last Thursday, when a mine car caught his leg between it and the mine wall. His injury was re ported as quite painful, but friends of the indefatigable mine executive hope it is not of really serious character. $ An Oklahoma River is afire. Tar River in this state foa© often been reported as a fire but they were false alarms. But there is nothing fakey about the Oklahoma river’s being afire. A wild oil well had cov ered the river with oil for miles. . .A To hear Pritchard Monday even ing, one would judge that the Re publicans would have had no candi date for the United States senate this year if Senator Simmons had won in the June primary. €> Frankly admitting that he liked jail life, Thomas Vercrues, a farmer living near Fremont, 0., refused to pay a fine and was sent to jail for a month. You are not really rich until you can watch the meter on the taxicab without any feel of concern. $ The police declined when re quest by Mrs. Ella Thorson of Chicago to spank her son, aged 27, and 6 feet tall, because he stayed out late at night. ® *************** * • * Moncure News * * * *************** Election is warming up in Mon cure and by the time this article is published, election will be over and those who are running will know their destiny. A customer went over to the bank Monday to deposit some money for a friend. The banker was so busy talking politics that the customer stated that two birth-, days passed and two bank notes became due before he could get waited on. Mrs. Jaunita Gregg Winn of Liberty, vice-president of the Re publican State Executive Committee made a powerful speech last Tues day evening, Oct. 28, in School Auditorium. Mrs. W. B. Moore selected a good speaker and one who knows and works for the party her father so faithfully and successfully represented. Mrs. Winn was introduced by Mrs. Lora Wilkie, Mr. L. L. Wrenn of Siler City also made a good speech and 1 all the county candidates were present and made spicy talks. There was a large crowd present at this speaking. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gulbreth and son, Bruce, of Stedman spent last Sunday with Rev. and Mrs. T. Y. Seymore. ‘ Miss Jimimy Baker of Fayetteville spent last week-end with iner sister, Mrs. T. Y. Seymore. Miss Baker is suffering with rheumatism so she was on <her way to Hot Springs, Ark. for treatment. Hallowe’en passed off very pleas antly and the young folks seemed to enjoy it to the fullest. The school rendered a play, “The Ghost Chaser,” in a most interesting way last Friday evening, October 31st. The decorations and costumes were most suitable for the occasion. The voting for the prettiest girl was entered (into. Miss Lucy Boone re ceived the most Votes, winning the prize for the being the prettiest girl. Miss Ona Andrews received the sec ond highest number of votes. For tune-te!iling and the different booths for selling candy and such likes were well patronized. The total re ceipts for the evening were $57.00. Several from Moncure Epworth League attended the Halloween party given by Mt. Zion Epworth league atMr. L. D. Wolfe’s place designated as Wolfe’s den last Sat urday evening, November Ist. A large crowd was present and each one enjoyed the evening so much. Your correspondent was also pres ent at the devotional meeting at Mt. Zion church last Sunday evening, November 2. A large crowd wa« present and a good program was : ' IT 111 b I * j §3 n carried out. The president, Mr. Claiborne Hanmon, and secretary, Miss Isabel Petty, and all the of ficers and members of the league are doing (good work and have the work of the league at heart. Messrs. H. G. Self and E. W. A vent, Jr., motored to Raleigh last Saturday and then to dhapel Hill to attend the ball game. Born to Mr. and Mis. A. B. Clegg, a boy, Allen Bynum Clegg, Jr. We are very sorry to state that Mrs. A. F. Womble, who has been in Sanford Hospital! for three weeks is not doing so well. The doctors think yet that she will have to un dergo an operation. It is hoped by her many friends that she will soon be better. ■ . Mrs. C. M. Brown is also sick at this writing. It is thought that she had an attack of appendicitis. Her friends hope that she will soon be well again. . Mrs. John Bell, Jr., of Vanna spent last week with her mother, Mrs. Florence Wilkiie. Mrs. Martin of N. C. C. W., Greensboro, met the parents and citizens of the town and community at Moncure school auditorium, Oc tober 18th, and made a fine speech on co-operation between parents and citizens and teachers and then at the close organized a Parent-Teach ers Association with Mrs. T. Y. Seymore, president; Mrs. O. C. Ken nedy, vice president; Miss Mary Bland, secretary; and Mr. G. M. Womble, treasurer. The first meet ing will be held at school audi torium, Thursday evening, Novem ber 6th. 'Rev. T. Y. Seymore filled his ap pointments at the Baptist church Sunday morning and evening preach ing good sermons each time. The following were taken in by letter, Mrs. Doyle Wilkifle, Mrs. Carrie W'omible and Mary and May Crutch field. We are very sorry to state that Mrs. J. T. Womble is suffering very much from rheumatism. Her many friends hope for her a speedy re covery. Miss Margie Lee Ray was leader last Sunday evening of the Ep worth Junior Society and put on a good program. Prof. H. G. Self was leader of the Epworth league and made a splendid talk on, “Obedience and Intuitions of Right and Wrong.” ißev. J. A. Bailey will preach at the Methodist church next Sunday morning at 11 a. m., Nov. 9th, and also in the evening 7:30 p. m. This will be his last appointment at ; Moncure before going to conference November 19th. The public is cor dially invited to attend these serv ices. School exhibits, put only the four rural consolidated schools, Jones boro, Broadway, Greenwood and Deep River. Deep River won four first prizes and several seconds. Ru ral schools won more firsts. They were as follows: Indian Project (History) first prize—sixth and sev enth grade, Mrs. J. Lee Harmon, teacher. Best ‘English exhibit, sixth grade, Mrs. J. Lee Harmon, teacher. Best Social Letters, fifth grade, Miss Rice, teacher. Best arithmetic pa pers, second grade, Miss Amiey Womble, teacher. Some of the sec ond prizes were as follows: Best high school metlhmetic exhibit, Mr. Harward, teacher. Best writing, fifth grade, Mis© Rice, teacher, Best Free Hand Drawing, primary grades. There were ten community exhibits. Deep River won fourth prize. The Halloween party FrkFay eve ning was largely attended and all had a splendid time—some of the amusements were fortune telling, voting on ugf.iest man and prettiest girl, the cake walk and several oth ers. The different grades put on a varied program which was lectured by a song sung in French by the tenth grade French class. On Sunday, Nov. 2, Mr. and Mrs. H. R.'Harward celebrated their 50th e 1 ■ ' THREE NIGHT ITCH REMEDY *-. J r Mail Orders Promptly Filled. Mail Ordes Promptly Filled. PRICE SI.OO Thomas Drug Store PHONE 48 SANFORD, N. C. WE SAVE YOU MONEY. THUR§DAY;_NOyEMBER 6 ioo f . wedding anniversary. All their child ren were present together with quite a few of the ’in-laws and grand children. Among others present were Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Nooe from Pitts ‘boro,a sister of Mrs. Harward, and Wyeth Cooke Ingram from Wagram. grand niece. They received quite a number of lovely presents including a flrold wrist watch and valuable gold coins. NOTICE Re-Sale of Real Estate by Trustees in Bankruptcy Pursuant to Order of District Court of United States and Under Deed or Trust. Pursuant to the terms and con ditions for that certain deed of trust from Mebane Real Estate & Trust Company to Central Loan & Trust Company, Trustee, dated April 25, 1927, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Chatham County, in Book No. GR, page 266, which said deed of trust conveys the real property herein described to the said Trustee for the purpose of securing the payment of certain bonds therein described, and pur suant to the order of Honorable Johnson J. Hayes, Judge of the Dis trict Court of the United States for the Middle District of North Caro lina, made in the Bankruptcy pro ceedings pending in said Court, en titled Mebane Real Estate & Trust Company and Central Loan & Trust Company, Bankrupts,” on the 31st day of August, 1929, which said order was duly entered upon the petition of the undersigned Trustees for the sale of the said real pro perty, and after notice to al. credi tors and hearing thereon ly the Court, a duly certified copy o. f said order recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Chatham County, in Book No. GW, page 454, the undersigned Trustees of said Mebane Real Estate & Trust Com pany in said Bankruptcy proceedings will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the Courthouse door in Pittsboro, North Carolina, on Thursday, the 13th day of November, 1930, at 12 o’clock noon, all of the follow ing described real property, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Chatham County, State of North Carolina of Dry Creek, and bounded as follows: BEGINNING at a rock pile, Henry Durham's corner on the Hillsboro ana Pittsboro Road; thence S. E. direction with said road to Mary Pilkington’s line; thence Eastward .with her line to a white oak, said Durham’s corner; thence North with Durham’s line to a sassafras tree m Durham’s line; thence West to tne first station, cotaming 58% ac re? > more or less. This sale will be made subject to advance bids and confirmation by the Court, an-d increased bids may be placed upon the said property with the Clerk of the Superior Cour for Chatham County within tea days from date of sale, and bidder wil be required to deposite at least of his bid as evidence of faith. The Trustee are informed, m do not represent or guarantee tnai ( said l deed of trust is a first b en ' i and purchaser may have ten day from date of sale to investigatei tit * and if not good, amount paid wi be refunded. . This is a re-sale, bidding to stam’j at $163.35. . . . r This the. 24th day of October, 1930. R. H. ANDREWS, S. J. HINSDALE, m. w. McPherson, Trustees in Bankrupt ; for Mebane Real Estate & Trust Co. and Central Loan & Trust Co. T. C. Carter, J. Dolph Long, H. J. Rhodes, Attorneys oet 30-nov 6
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