VOL. XLVII
Commissioner Watte
Begins to Function
On Next Monday
' Has Troubles to Start With on Account of
. Reductions in Valuations--Word H.
Wood Declines Appointment as
Highway Commissioner;
Col. Kirkpatrick Urged
for the Place.
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•PRESIDENT HARDING TO AID FARMERS.
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s Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair "Conserva
tive" on Prohibition—How He
Got the Job.
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, April 26. —Next Mon
day, May 2nd, the new and im
portant State department, the
' revenue commissionership, with
Col. A. D. Watts as commissioner,
v will begin to function.
' There will be some right knotty
problems for the new official to
tackle right a; the start, these
growing out of the action of about
half of the counties of the State
in having made reductions in
property valuation, some light and
some drastic, while the other fifty
cdunties have refused to make
any reductions, declaring the
Valuations at present to be fair
and equttable.
Some of the counties that made
reductions, like Sampson, for in
stance, have siuce reversed their
action and restored the old valua
tion. They found that the 25 per
cent reduction ordered, after ap
plying the fifteen cent limit to the
reduced valuation, ' would leave
the county without' sufficient in
come to meet expenses. The con
stitutional limitation of the tax
rate to fifteen cents to be used for
- county'"purposes, or to ton cents
if the State should make use of
its share of the be
a considerable factor' to T 'be con
sidered By the hew department in
connection with the review of the
horizontal cute ordered by the
eoanty boards.
'frSwSccmber Highway Commlwilon.
•'"Since WOrd H. Wood of Char
lotto notified Governor Morrison
tfaati he would' not accept the posi
tion of highway commissioner for
the With district, bettafuSe 'of lack
of time to devote to its duties, the
Gs4"6tf>or has befen botobarded
wifeh letters and telegrams advo
ca ting the appointment of several
other gentlemen tothepost. Satur
day *a large delegation of Char
lotte people came to Raleigh to
..urge the Governor to appoint Col.
T. L. Kirkpatrick, who has a widt
reputation in the State already as
a good roads advocate and builder.
'Colonel Kirkpatrick is a resident
of Charlotte, and it will not be
surprising If the announcement of
bis appointment Is made within
the next few days, as there is no
thne to waste on this job.
'Highway Commission at Work.
The State Highway Commission
is at work here this week, the
members having assembled here
today for the purpose of mapping
out die initial work in the $50,-
000.000 highway construction of
hard-surface roads program.
• It Is now certain that the early
summer will find road-building
Work under way in most of. the
counties of the State, the "money
for Stats work entirely avail
able and ready at hand" in as
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
large volume as will be needed for
some time.
Harding to Help Farmer*.
North Caroling farmers will be
interested to learn that Seuators
interested in the financial atti
tude of the administration in
specting agricultural interests
called in a delegation on President
Harding aud requested lower Re
discount rates on farm paper and
asked the President abont the at
titude of the Federal Reserve
Board and the Farm Loan Board
on loans to farmers.
President Harding assured them,
members of the delegation said
after the interview, that the policy
of the Government would be "very
liberal." The President will ask
D. R. Crissinger, comptroller of
the curreacy, to be liberal with
banks holding such paper. The
delegation intends to call on Mr.
Crissinger later. It is the inten
tion of the administration to assist
agriculture in every way possible.
The senatorial delegation was non
partisan and non-sectional. It
was organized by Senator Ellison
D. Smith ot South Carolina. The
other members were Senators
Simmons (Dem., N. C-); Ransdell
(Dem., La.); Norbeck (Rep., S.
D.); StanSfield (Rep., Ore.); and
Gooding (Rep., Ida.).
After the session was over Sena
tor Simmons aaid he thought good
results would come of the appeal
to President Harding.
Blair and Booze.
David H. Blair of Winston-
Salem, who has been appointed
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
at Washington, is said to be a
"conservative" on the prohibition
subject. This is important be
cause of the authority and influ
ence he and his administration
will exert on moonshiriers and the
dispensing of wines and beer by
physicians to the sick.
An arbitrary limit of 4$ gallons
of beer and three gallons of wine
as the maximum a physician may
prescribe at any one time has been
set in new prohibition regulations
which await the approval of Blair.
In making this announcement,
Prohibition Commissioner Kra
mer, said that while under Attor
ney General Palmer's recent opiu
ion the amount of beer or, wine
prescribed by a physician over a
given period could not be limited,
it was believed that the amonnt
of individual prescriptions could
be limited to a reasonable maxi
mum. It would not be practical,
he said, to require a patient for
whom two or three bottles of beer
a day might be prescribed, to ob
tain a prescription for e»ch day.
Issuance of beer and wine requa
tions, Mr. Kramer emphasized,
will depend entirely upon the de
cision of the new internal revenue
commissioner. Regulations as
prepared for his approval, he said,
were merely tentative.
How and Why He Gat the J ok.
It is gradually leaking out that
the Blair nomination is the result
of a drive by large cotton Mid to-
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 1921
bacco manufacturing interests in
the South.
It was said that the recom
mendation that made the final
winning appeal to Secretary Mel
lon in Blair's behalf was a letter
from Stttart W. Cramer of Char
lotte, who for many years has
been the leading spirit iu the cot
ton manufacturing associations of
the Southern States.
slr. Blair is a > son-in-law of
James W. Cannou of Concord. Mr.
Canuon owns about 20 factories
in three or four counties in Pied
mont North Carolina. He and
many intimate friends saw the
President and Mr. Mellon in the
interest of Mr. Blair.
Mr. Blair is now at his hoine in
Winston-Salem getting ready to
take over his daties in the Treas
ury Department.
It is said. that Mr. Blair is a
"conservative" on the prohibition
question. His town was one of
the last in the State to give up
saloons. Within 50 miles of his
home moonshining is carried on
by experts. The best corn whis
key made nowadays comes from
some of the counties that touch
Forsyth. The politicians fear that
Mr. Blair will not know just how
important to them it is for him t#
deal out pie with a deft hand.
Having kept himself aloof from
the political turmoil of his im
mediate section he is described as
a "poor politician." But people
here think he played a line game
by sticking to himself, and neg
lecting to throw mud as others
did.
Tremendous Forest Fire Losses io
United States. •>.
Forest fires sweeping over 56,-
488,307 acres of land iu 45 States,
exused damage araoutiling to SBS,
715,747 during years 1919
to 1920, inclusive* according to
information made public by the
Forest Service of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
A total of 160,313 forest fires oc
curred during this period. Minn
esota was the chief suflerir, its
loss being $30,895,8^0.
Railroads caused the largest
number of, afl fires chargeable to
such agencies.
The bulletin presents reports
from the Forest Service on fires
in the national forests and from
State forestry official* covering
conditions iu 20 States.. These re
ports deplore the present-day
waste of natural resources and
emphasize the need for public
education to avoid the disastrous
consequences of continued neglect
in failing to provide adequate fire
protection for the forest» of ttie
country.
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Gentleness. Aids Live-Stock Growth
and Checks Drift
The practical value of treating
live stock kindly is discussed by a
Virginia live stock owner hi a let
ter to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. "All cittle
buyers," he remarks, "know how
great is the 'drift' in shipping cat
tle.. Very much of this loss is due
to digestive troubles caused by ex
citement and fear incident to tra
vel.
"Keep all live stock as qniet aud
make them as gentle as possible
and your feeding costs will be not
iceably reduced. Try this sugges
tion with one Utter of pigs."
"It will abundantly repay any
live-etoek breeder," he adds, "to
spend a great deal of time, going
quietly among his animals and let
tin: them make the advancements.
He will be surprised how soon Ire
Can begin to put his hands on them.
After they realize his hands are
not to be dreaded they will soon
enjoy gentle rubbing or sferatch
ing. When animals are sheltered
from annoying or exciting occur
rences they digest feed better and
it takes much lees to keep up nor
mal growth and fat production."
' The annual value of the straw
berry crop in the United State*
is said to be about $18,000,000.
It is a crop, specialists of the
United States Department of Agri
culture ward, that must be baud
led with the greatest care to avoid
loss.
The iwo miiriou dollar good
roads bond issue for Mecklenburg
county, including Cba.-lott*, car
! ried Tuesday by a majority of
{mors than 2,100.
BIG CONSTRUCTION WORK
AT UNIVERSITY PLANNED
TO START SOON.
Eight New Buildings sod Enlarge
ments to be Msde sod Other
Improvements.
CUT. of The Gleaner.
Chapel Hill, N. C., April 26.
Development of the library ex
tension service of the University
of North Carolina library and
shifting of its material so that it
is more easily available for use by
North Carolinians all over the
State have been announced by D>.
Louis R. Wilson, librarian.
The university library, which
with its 100,000 volumes, is oue
of three largest in the South, has
beeu u-ed frequently in the past
by North Caroliuiaus living away
from Chapel Hill. Books and
pamphlets are sent out by mail
every day and information of
many kinds has beeu Supplied
upon request. All of this work is
done free of all cost save the post
age on the books.
A receiffleaflet of the extension
bureau calls attention to the kinds
of service the library is especially
fitted to give They include *ooks
and pamphlets for use iu prepar
ing school debates; courses of
study aud books for women's
clubs; for public welfare workers
and community nurses; for teach
ers and educatioual leaders; for
use in high school plays, com
munity drama, and pageantry;
and for story telling to children.
In addition the library will con
tinue to lend books from its gen
eral collection to whoever wauts
them.
Five courses of study have been
prepared for womeu'scltlbs, three
of which have beeu studied toy
1 900 womeu iu 120 clubs this past
year They are courses on "Citi
zenship for Women," "Our Herit
age: A Study through Literature
of the American Tradition," and
"Constructive Ventures in Gov
ernment: A Manual of Discussion
and Study of Woman's New Part
in the Newer Ideals of Citizen
ship." Two other courses ready
soon will be "A Study Course in
the Modern Drama" and "Studies
iu American Literature."
A special department of the
library developed recently is the
service offered for welfare work
ers abd nurses. The library has
In response to the inquiry of many telephone
subscribers: "What can I do to help my serv
Courtesy Helps
On Wrong Calls
♦ /dßfc 'IV I
Sometimes yoTIr tele- \j
• phone rings and you find ». *
that you have been called * **
to the telephone by mistake.
The operator may have made the mis
take, or the calling party may have called
from memory, giving the wrong number.
Whatever the cause, it is well at sucH
times to practice the same courtesy that
you would like to have extended to you had
you unintentionally disturbed the wrong
party.
In such a case the calling subscriber Is
entitled to the same treatment he would
receive If he entered your office by- mis*
talcs.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
been made the distributing center
for the National Organization for
Public Health Nurses, and it has
a vast amount of matter on ques
tions of health and public wel
fare.
University officials think that a
start will be made in the immedi
ate future on the biggest construc
tion work ever done in Chapel
Hill. The legislative appropria
tion ot $1,490,000 for permanent
improvements in the next two
years means five new dormitories,
three new class room building*,
the virtual doubling of the dining
room space and equipment, and
the extension of the water, light,
heat* and sewerage systems.
Thomas' C. Atwood, one of the
best known engineers iu the
United States, has been retained
to supervise the construction. Mr.
Atwood is in Chapel Hill now and
will sUy until the work is finish
ed. He has had a world of ex
perience in building. He built
the famous Yale Bowl, the largest
athletic stadium in the world,
built the Squantum Destroyer
Plant for the Navy during the war,
involving an expenditure of $25,-
000,000, and WHS in charge of all
construction for the Emergency
Fleet Corporation on the Atlantic
Coast between Baltimore and Wil
mington.
AFTER TWELVE YEARS
¥
Thl« Testimony Kemalni Unihakea.
Time is the oast test of truth
Here is a Burlington storyt hat
has stood the test of time. It Is a
story with s point which will
come straighU.horae to many ot us.
C. B. Ellis, music dealer, Davis
St„ Burlington, N". C„ says: "I
have no hesitation in saying taht
Doan's Kidney Pills r are a £ood,
relibale kidney medicine. I suf
fered from a lijht attack of.kid
ney complaint and I got & sup
ply of Doan's Kidney Pills from the
Freeman Drug Co. After I took
them the pain left me and I give
them all the credit for rullevin.*
me.",
Mr. Ellis gave the above state
ment in December, 1907, and on fuly
10, 1918, he added: Doan's Kidney
Pills have given me a permanent
cure, and 1 can certainly praise
them as being a wonderful kidney
medicine."
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don*
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pillls—the same
that Mr. Ellis had. Poster-Mil
burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
Snbscrioe for THE ULEANBR-
HINDU IDEA Or "SEVEN SEAS"
Writer In Boston Herald Shows That
Expression Is Older Than ths
English Language.
The question as to the orltfA and
meaning of the term "The Seven Seas"
having been raised in this column, 1
am surprised, says a writer In the
Boston Herald, that as yet no one has j
called attention to the fact that the |
expression Is far older than the Eng
lish language, antedating even the
science of geography as we under
stand it In prehistoric Hindu thought !
our world consists as to Its solid parts i
of Bev«n concentric, contlnei:«ui Dvl
pas, whose names are Jambu, i'laksha, 1
Salmall, Kusa, Krauncha, Saka and |
Pushkara. According to the sacred j
Vishnu Purana: "They are surrounded
severally by seven great seas—the sea
of salt water (Lavnna), of sugar-cane
Juice (Ikshu), of wine (Sura), of clari
fied butter (Sarpls), or curds XDadhl),
of milk (Dugdha), and of fresh water
(Jala). Jambu-dvipa Is the center of
all these, and ,ln the copies of this Is
the golden mountain Meru." Jambu j
Is the dvlpa occupied by thuman he- !
Ings. Meru the Indescribably glorious ;
north polar mountain by which the I
portal to the heaven or heavens Is at- !
tain able.
In oriental literature, therefore, the |
expression "the seven seas" has no ref- :
erence to the bodies of water named
seas by our geographers, but Is an In- j
tereßtlng survival of the geocentric j
world view which we of the western |
nations have lost, but which all ortho- j
dox Brahmins and Buddhists still hold !
sacred a/id Jrue. Its recent appear- !
ance In occidental literature Is doubt- •
less more due to Kipling than to any
other writer.
BELIEF HAS NO FOUNDATION
Conjunction of the Rising of the Dog-
Star and the t ßun Doesn't Bring
Extreme Heat.
'
"Dog days" was the name elven by j
astronomers to the 20 days before and
20 days after the rising of the dog- j
star, or Slrius, with the sun. This j
period is reckoned at present from the
3d of July to the 11th of August.
For years It was the accepted opln- j
lon that this conjunction of the rlwing j
of the dog-star and the sun was one j
of the cuuaes for the extreme heat of j
the summer. This conjunction, how
ever, does not occur at the same time j
in alt latitudes, nor Is It constant In
the same region for a long period; 1
hence there Is much variation as to J
the limits of the dog-star period.
It is a mere coincidence that the |
rising of Slrius and the sun occurs j
during the hottest season of the year
Just now. In time, astronomers say.
It will take place In the midst of win
ter. —^
Strips la called the dog-star because
it is the brightest luminary In the con
stellaUon "canls major" or Greater
Dog.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perfect In One Particular.
The old and highly esteemed coach
man of a family has at last resigned
himself to a pension and a lodge-gate
keeper's duties —If he Is by no means
resigned to the sight of the chauffeur
who now reigns In his stead. The
blow of the loss of his post has been
softened slightly by the presentation
of a handsome portrait, or,'an he calls
it, "likeness," of himself In full rega
lia, a pair of his favorite horses cavort
ing nobly under his whip. The old
man Is right well pleased with the ef
fect, and so Is his good dame, though,
when questioned as to the portrait's
resemblance to her tiuirtmnd, her an
swer was somewhat equivocal. "Very
like," ah* said, "burparticular the but
tons."—London Tit-Bits.
Croesus' Immense Wealth.
Croesus was king of Lydla In the
middle of the sixth century before
Christ, and. while most of our men of
affluence began In comparative pover
ty, he inherited riches gathered by a
long line W wealthy ancestors, each
of whom combined In his own person
financier, monopolist and king.
Croesus, who Inherited a fortune
steadily Increasing through many gen-,
erations, had control of wide realms
of agriculture, rich mines and .the
commerce of wealthy and populous
Sstlons. If the monopoly of a single,
Industry can now produce hundreds
Of millions In a stogie generation,
what could measure the wealth com-j
tog from a monopoly of many Indus
tries for nearly two centuries?
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7 JaET ' -' "  $- FJ
" fc.
Many good examples 4re set, hot few
of them are ever hatched..
Gray matter Is all right ta'Ha place
—and so Is the long.gf&&? '
Men glance at the past—especially
If she who passed is pretty.
Manr a man's early training has
kwt him from making good.
NO. 12
PROFESSIONAL OARDS
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours: 0 to 11 a. m.
and by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephone*: Office 4*B—Residence »64
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM, N. C.
Dttlee over National Buk ol Uiuact
T. S. COOK,
Attornay-nt- Law,
'KAHAM, .... N. C
Offloe Patterson Building
Second Flaor. . . , .
I)R. WILL MM, JR.
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? rah am, . - - - Narth Carallaa
)FFICE IN 8J M MONH BUILDING
• OOF A. LONG. J. KIMFB LONQ
LONG A LONG,
\ ttorneya and CcmnaAlora at Uw
GRAHAM, N. C.
Vf
dandruff meaff
pood-byto j
I' Hair s
f4' Dandruff literally smothers the ■
M* life out of the hair roota and
V/-|i eventually brings baldness,
ilt Wild root is (uaranteed to dean
t'lV lup dandruff and remove it—but it J
Wi does more; it cleanses,softens and '
if loosens the scalp and stimulates *
'.lt the hair to normal, healthy growth. |yj
fi Wild root I.lqo Id Bh.mpooorWlldroot "
1 p Bh.mpoo Hoap, used in oonnaetloa
tf with Wlldrootltalr Tonic, will hMMn
|u the treatment. (
WILDBOOT
| THE GUARANTEED HAIR TOWIC
For taU h*rs undtr »
monty-bock guaranlt s
Graham Drug Co.
Hayes Drug Co.
Mortgagee's Sale of Real
Estate.
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained inacer
tain mortgage deed executed by
James Walker and his wife,
Corodo Walker, to Alamance
Insurance & Real Estate Com
pany, on May 12th, 1917, for
the purpose of securing the pay
ment of a certain bond of even
date therewith, which mortgage
j is duly probated and recorded in
| the office of the Register of
I Deeds for Alamance county,
j North Carolina, in Book of
] Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
I No. 01, at page 333, default hav
-1 ing been made in payment of
said bond at maturity, the
undersigned, Alamance Insur
ance & Real Estate Company,
Mortgagee, will, on
MONDAY, MAY 30, 1921,
at twelve o'clock, noon, offer for
sale at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash, at the
court house door of Alamance*
county, Graham, North Caro
lina, a certain tract or parcel of
land in the county of Alamance
and State of North Carolina, in
Boou Station township, adjoin
ing the lands of Will Gaht, Wil
liam Cummirigs and others, and
more particularly described as
follows:
Beginning at an iron stake,
Will Gant's corner; thence S 79
links to a stone; thence N 88
deg W J chain 63 Iks to a stone,
Will Gant's oornor; theuce E 1
chain 63 Iks to the beginning,
containing-125-tbousandths (or
1,-8) of an acre, more or less. *
This April 27 th, 1,921.
j , Alamance Ins. & Estate Co..
Mortgagee.
E. S. W. DAMERON, Atty.
TO WN i TAX ES.—The tax books
for 1920 are iu my bands. Prompt
. payment requested.
B. R. THOUNGKB,