North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XLVII President Harding Invited to Speak at State Fair Mrs. Vanderbilt, Prest. of Fair, Will Per. sonally Invite President Harding- Large Exhibits Expected From Western Part of State. OLD QUARRY WILL BE DRAINED , ¥ Some Uncanny Revelations Expected When Water is Drawn Off—Pellagra Re ports Untrue. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, Aug. 2.—Mrs. George W. Vanderbilti.of Biltmore, N. C., who is president of the "Great State Fair" this year, is taking an active interest in the success of the State Fair to be held in Ral eigh this year, the third week in October, as usual, and has per sonally offered two additional medals to school children for the best drawing, pencil or otherwise, by boy or girl under eighteen, and the other for the best speci men in clay drawing. Colonel Joseph £. Pogue, sec retary of .the State Fair, has re turned from a visit to Western North Carolina. At Biltmore he had a conference with Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Vanderbilt is enthusiastic over the prospects for the Fair, and has been active in the interest of exhibits from the western part of the State. She has secured pledges for many hue industrial, exhibits from manufacturers and stock raisers. She is showing.un usual interest in the industrial development of the State carry ing on the work 06 a 100,000 acre forest preserve, started by her husband, the late George W. Vanderbilt, a pioneer in the fores try movement. > Heretofore the western part of the State has never been closely identified with the Fair because of its remoteness, but Secretary Pogue was assured, on his recent trip, of many fine exhibits and many notable visitors, who would come for the first time to sup port Mra. Vanderbilt in her under taking. The chief marshal for 1921 will be announced at an early date. President Harding has been in vited by the North Carolina Ag ricultural Society to speak at the Fair. This .invitation was en dorsed by the Press Association at Morehead City last week. Mrs. Vanderbilt will extend a personal invitation to Mr. Harding through the North Carolina Senators and Representatives. She will probably be in Raleigh some time before the opening of the Fair, and will be in the city during the entire week with suit able headquarters on the grounds. Secretary Pogue said that work is progressing rapidly at the Fair Grounds, and many needed and notable improvements will be found by patrons this fall. Draining Rock Quarry. With the expectation that some uncanny and important revela tions will 5e made in revealing some "mysteries" of bygone years, the draining of the deep water old Rock Quarry is being undertaken by the State this week, after the city and county had passed the buck to the Coun cil of the State. The mechanical equipment for the work which will require more, THE ALAMANCE GLEANER than a week has been put into position by the State Commission, and skilled work men of the Commission are di recting the work which will utilize considerable number of convicts from the State Prison. It is known that other automo biles than the five already taken out of the deep hole, into which they were deliberately wrecked, some of them stripped of their most valuable parts first, some of which were stolen and, some of which had been reported as "stolen," and carried insurance, in the deep old quarry. What else is there, all sorts of rumors would indicate dark deeds, from cases of liquor dump ed from or in vehicles closely pursued by officers, the victims of foul play and cold blood mur der—evidence that may clear up so far unsolved criminal myste ries in these parts. There is, therefore, great interest display ed in the dredging and great throngs of people gathered as near as permitted, a guard has been stationed to preserve order. It will be near the end of the week before the drawing off of the water is likely to reach the point where revelations will be forth coming. Untrue Pellagra Reports. So far as North Carolina is con cerned the statements sent out by Federal sources anefii the great and increased di&fcess caused by pellagra iq the South, is as un true as unfortunate, and the sit uation is understood to have been greatly exaggerated in its appli cation, to any Southern Estate. August is the peak month for the development of typhoid and pellagra, according to a chart out by Dr. F. M. Regis ter, registrar of vital statistics for the State Board of Health, covering these two diseases for the last four years. Dr. Regis ter's figures indicate a continu ing decrease this year, as was the case each year the last four years. Pellagra figures for the four years, as shown by Dr. Register's chart, are: 605 cases for 1917; for 1918 there were 634; for 1919 there were 381 cases, and for 19- 20 only 297 cases. The ratio in decrease in typhoid has been equally emphatic, the figures be ing, 1917, cases 726; for 1918 there were 549 cases; for 1919 there were 427 cases, and lor 19- 20 there were 323 cases. But there is comfort in the old "saying,' 4it is an ill wind that blows good to nobody, and so in this instance, while the United States Public Health service has been crude and inju dicious in some of its actious, this State, and all the country, NoHh and South, has been done a service in calling attention to the evil results of errors in diet. Some people, rich as well as poor, think in matters little what they eat. Others think it makes no difference, so they "till up," and so the error Qf improper feeding is not confined to any particular class, although in some instances or communities, lack of proper food because of poverty lurnish the exception. The head of every family should profit by the les- GRAHAM, N. C M THURSDAY. AUGUST 4, 1921* sons taught in this discussion and better post himself as to the character of rood he should pro vide if he would have his family to be more healthy and satisfied, with less impairment of health because of consuming some foods they ought not to use and leaving out others they should use. Another Effort to Increase Gas Rates. Blazing the way for a number of other cities, Raleigh has made application to the State Corpora tion Commission, through the Carolina Power and Light Com pany, for a review and revision of the reduced rates in gas charges made by the Commission three months ago. Colonel Charles E. Johnson, president of the com pany, prints a page advertisement in the daily papers giving his position in the matter. POWER'DEVELOPMENT By Modern Motors Compared With Those of a Few Years Ago. Few owners realize, in these swiftly—moving days, the re markable development of power and efficiency that has been made in automobile motors in a com paratively few years. "Why it took a Sampson to start the one-lungers of but twen ty years ago, and a wizard to keep them running," says An drew Bacftle, veteran automotive engineer. "Dirt roads offered difficulty obstacles and a bill was a Waterloo. Plenty of strength to get oilt behind and push was the most desired quality for a me chanic in road races. "Many a driver won his race by backing up-hills which his competitors found too steep to take running forward. Power was a missing requisite. "Take for example the motors in the Paige cars they are turn ing out today and you get the contract. The new Paige light six motor with cylinders only half the bore of the old one and two-lungers and rated at 27.75 S. A. E. horsepower, develops an efficiency so high on a recent block test49i horsepower was de veloped at 2400 revolutions per minute. "•'The Paige "G-66" motor which Ralph Mulford has been using in setting new stock chassis record* developes just under 70 brake horsepower, and does it economic ally. The possibilities in the way of performance ahd economy which these modern motors g.ve were undreamed ot only a few years ago." Texas Growers Benefit Through Pooling Cotton. How demonstration work in cooperative cotton marketing is aiding farmers during tlu», cur rent season is illustrated by the story of a pool formed in Texas, as reported by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates of the United States Department of Agriculture. Three hundred bales of cotton were placed in this pool. Individ ually the growers had been offer ed from 3 to 7 centa a pound for the cotton on their local market. The entire lot was clanged by re presentatives of the Federal bu reau and grade cards issued to the owuers. The samples were then forwarded to Dallas and the cotton trade invited to bid. The lot was sold at 10.25 cents a •pound average. On the classification made by the Bureau's representative the pool averaged 75 points off Mid dling. The Middling spot price at Dallas on the day of the sale was 10 35 cents. The growers' accounts were settled on the bas is of the gradii cards issued for the individual bales, using the Dallas differences for the day. Prest- A. & E. College Home From Hospital. President W. C. Riddick return ed home from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, on the 28th of July. Dr. Riddick underwent a serious operation early in June, and his many friends throughout the State will be glad to learn that he is slowly but surely re gaining his accustomed strength and vigor. It will probably be ; several weeks - yet before he re turns to bis desk. - i PROF. COLLIER COBB LECTURES Lately Returned from Leave of Ab sence in Orient - Others . Lecture. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapel Hill, if. C., Aug. 2. President H. W. Chase spoke to the students of the summer school in Gerrard Hall Tuesday evening. He reviewed the work of previous summer schools, and then dis cussed some problems of higher education. lie stressed coopera tion between the University and the teachers in the State. Dr. A.. O. Thomas, State Super intendent of Public Instruction of the State of Maine, was here this week with the school of rural education. Dr. Thomas held a number of conferences with the students of the school of educa tion, in additiou to thre6 public illustrated lectures iu Gerrard Hall. His story of the training of rural teachers in Maine was the most interesting of the many in teresting things he had to say wliilu here. Dr J. Y. Joyner, former Super intendent of Public Instruction, lectured here Wednesday on co operative marketing of ootton and tobacco. Dr. Joyuer brings the same enthusiasm to this new work that he showed iu his former posi-i tion, and the students of the sum mer school went on record as favoring a system of co-operative marketing. Friday evening in Gerrard Hall, Professor Collier Cobb gave his first public lecture since bis return from the Orient aud South America. He spoke particularly of Japan, aud illustrated his lec ture with hand colored slides made from his owu photographs. Professor Cobb was one of the first Iwo professors to be * ivon a year's leave of abseuce on the Ke nan Fund. The Carolina Playmakers suc cessfully staged Shakespear's Much Ado About Nothiug iu For est Theatre iu Battle Park, Fri day aiternoou. The play was given under the direction of Mr. George McKie, of the English de partment, who himself played Dogberry most artistically. x CHAUTAUQUA PROTESTING Says Some Railroads Are Dis criminating Against Them. (Communicated.) Chautauquas, victims of a dis crimination gouge on the part of the American railroads, are face to face with the alternative of either increasing their charges or lowering the standard of their entertainments in order to con tinue their work that-has proved a blessing to millions of people in several thousand American and Canadian towns.* Officials of the organization are "emphatic in as serting that they will not lower their standard, aud a nation-wide movement has been started to compel the ruilronds to give the Chautauquas fair and impartial treatment. The Southern Railroad and other railways classify Chautau quas with theatrical troupes. In their tariffs *they agree to trans port baggage free of charge when 25 or more persous travel with it. When a smaller number of pas-* songors are involved, a charge of thirty-six cents a mile is made for transporting baggage and equip ment. Very few theatrical com panies consist of a smaller num ber, hence nearly all of them beuefit by the free transportation of their baggage. The Chautauqua systwn, in volving a nightly change of at traction, calls for the transporta tion once every five or seven days •f all equipment except personal and baggage required by individ ualcompanios.Eacli week's quotaof entertainers iu anyone town num ber sixty-three persons, iu addi tion to executives I'he teul and other stationary paraphernalia go ahead and ate placed lor the Chautauqua wee*. For their transportation thirty-six cents a mile is charged. This arraugeui lit is acceptable, aud Cbau anquas make uo objec tion to it. but HI aduitiou to this charge it is compelled to buy ten passenger ticket*, or many more than are needed by those who ac company the equipment. In this way the Chautauqua must pay immense sums for which no re turn whatever is made. Chau tauqua mere'y asks that it be charged only the regular rates for the persons actually carried in addition to the thirty-six cents a mile haggage charge. In other words it is williug to pay for what to gets, but protests against being compelled to buy at least twice as many tickets as tt can possibly use. It is on the same principle HS if a resident of Qrahaih desired to take his family, consisting of five persons in all, on a railroad trip, and found that the railroad would not sell fewer than ten tickets. 'Graham Mas enjoyed its Chau laiiqua week, and many residents look forward to its coming next year. If the cost advances it will be because the railroads have en forced a demand that caninjt otherwise be mot. If public senti ment against it is emphatically i expressed it is quite probabfc that I the railroad* will yield. The; Pennsylvania and, Southern rail-j roads among others recognize the; injustice of the system, and are desirous of doiug the fair thing, but are prevented by other rail- i roads who regard the opportunity | of enforcing payment of this extra money as too good to be missed. These same railroads are constant ly appealing for public support and Government assistance. Chautaqua is one of tl e great est educational movements ever started, and it has grown to be one of the most important of our National institutions. Last year there were no fewer than thirty-five million paid admis sions to its entertainments, and 5,757 persons were engaged in the work ou ninety-three circuits. Enormous Tonnage Hauled Over Country Koads. The necessity of keeping coun try roads in good condition is shown by a report, recently com plied by the liurean of Markets ! and Crop Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture, showing the extent to which they are used in hauling farm pro-*| ducts to market. According to the report, which shows the ton nage of II products hauled on country roads, giving the yearly average for the period frouTl9ls to 1919, there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled for every 100 acres of land. The average tonnage of the 11 crops hauled on conntry fftads each year for the period mentioned amounted to 8G,500,000 tons. The 11 crops referred to in the report are corn, , wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, flaxseed, cotton (including seed), tobacco, potatoes, and cultivated hay. Some men will eat thirty differ ent kinds of food at one meal and then hold the olives responsible for the indigestion. Advertising will get people to do almost anythiug—judging by the after" odor of some of these new cigarets on the market. DON'T MISTAKE THE CAUSE Many Graham People Have Kidney Trouble and I>o Not Know It. Do you have backache? Are yoa tired and worn out? Fpel dizzy, nervous and depressed? Are the kidney secretions irregu lar? Highly colored; contain sediment? Likely your kidneys are at fault. Weak kidneys give warning of distress. Hfed the warning; don't delay Use a tested kidney remedy. Read this Graham >estimony. Mm. T. C. Bradshaw, W. Elm St., says: M l dont know what would have happened to me had it not been for Doan s Kidney Pills. They certainly brought me out of mis ery that I was In from kidney trouble and I recommend them to anybody who is troubled with weak kidneys. I havent had any need of Doan's since they cured me and I can recommend them very highly*aa the best kidney remedy I know of. w . Price 60c, at all dealers. Dont simply ask for a kidney remedy— zet Doan's Kidney Pills— the same that Mrs. Bradnhaw had. Foster- Mllburn Co., Mfgr%, Buffalo, N. Y. STATE COLLEGE , ' SUMMER SCHOOL. I Most Successfuf Session- Registra tion 903 —B4 Counties and 4 States Represented. j Raleigh, July 30. —From the | standpoint of numbers enrolled, | scholarship, and earnestness of purpose, the Summer Session just closed was the most successful one in the history of the College. I The total registration was 'JO3, eighty-four counties of North Carolina and four other States be ing representd. The enrollment was divided as follows: Teachers; 583, college entrance course, 25, credit, 4G, demonstration 'school, 49, rehabilitation students, 157, cotton grading, 27, other | non-teachers, IG. Of the live | hundred anil eighty-three teach jers, 430 were enrolled in the State School and 153 in the County School. Of the teachers in lli« State School, 353 were high school laud elementary teachers, and 46 (were teachers of vocational agri-| culture. The registration was larger Ly j |232 than last yeir, showing a! [growth in attendance of more than thirty-three and a third percent. ! j The number of absentees from i I class during the session has been [negligible, the majority of the! j students settling down to work in earnest ou the openiug day. An other distinctly encouraging in- ' dication of seriousness of purpose i was shown in the number of j teach ets using the library. It is estimated that more than one-half jof the student body visited the I library daily. 1 Full credit for the success of the Summer Session most be given to Dr. W. A. Withers, the direc tor, who is also, vice-president of the College, who has been* tire less in his efforts in behalf of the teachers of the State. Kb has been ably assisted by. the un usually strong faculty numbering sixty-seven. , PELLAGRA EPIDEMC NOT AP PLICABLE IN NORTH i CAROLINA. ! Decrease of Deaths From Disease First Six Months of Year^- Cause of Disease At tributed to Diet 'Bulletin State Board Health. i The general warning of a wide spread epidemic of pellagra in the j Southern States, and especially in i the cotton by Vjie U- S. Public Health Service isliot applicable to North Carolina ae. 'cording to statistics on file with the State Board of Health. Pellagra is not a reportable dis .ease in North Carolina aud there i is, therefore, no way of checking ing the number of cases except J through the number of deaths re ported. For the first six months jof 1921 there was a decrease of j thirteen in the number of deaths | from this cause in North Carolina. | A decrease is shown for each j month Hip to June, which latter showed an increase of lour. The | total number of deaths reported for 1020 as having been caused 'by pellagra was 21)7*. The total | number reported for tin- iirsl * x months ot 1021 was H>. 1: iln same average is lor ' the rem linui; six m > »i.no; the iyear, will Hiow ;i i t »t!. de crease ot rtixty-live Oi'iiilih I ruin ;this cause. PelUgra is a iiutrilio.ial d se.ise and Iho IJ S. Public llt-alili Sir 'vice has attributed the increase in its incidence jn. Wit- Sou herli Status to the ptm-riy of diet that i has followed the tremendous de pression in the prices of farm j products. While *\orth Carolina : has ' itewn affected 1 rom this icause just as have tlio oilier Southern States, yet rop rts t» | the Stale Bo ird of Health would iindicate that there has not been the resulting poverty ot diet that might have been expected. FruiUi, fresh vegetables aud , milk, when forming*a per centage of the diet, prevent pel lagra or will cure it when it has been caused by a deficient diet. Will the time ever come when libraries will he as popular as even the poorest movies? NO. 26 I PROFESSIONAL CARDS — ' GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Honrs: 9 to 11 a. m. * and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. j Telephones: Office MO— Residence 'Z4M JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. llllce over NatlonsU Bank ol AUauae* T'. S. cook:,' Attorney -«t- L««r, riRAHAM, N. 0 Office Patterson Building Bocond Fleor. • , , !>R. WILIA IA\G, JR. . . DENTIST ; : : - - - - North Carolina MOB IN sj MMONS BUILDING J. GLMKH LONG UIUIBC.AUEI Durham, SI. CJ. Graham, N. C. LONG & ALLEN, | . tiorn«y« ;tnd C'ouiiaelora at Ltw GRAHAM, H. C. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. ilavln: qualiflC'l as Administrator of the emme of Alrrel H. Moore, deceased, the uiHlersl|{nu(l hereby notttles all per* HOIIH holding claims against »ild es ' late to prvsenl the same, duly authen tic ited. on or before the lut day of .Inly, | lnsi, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of ; their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate *n» requested to make immediate aet • 'lenient. I This June Zi, 1921. JOHN K. MOORE, Adrolr of Allied ». Moore, dfec'd. Grah im. N.C., It. F. D. No. I. I Chas. A. lllnea. Alt'). 23June6t I ' ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. I Having qualified as Administrator of the j estate of Joe L. Hendrlx, deceased, late wf I Alamance county, N. C., this Is to notlly all ' persons having claims airalnst the estate ot mild deceased to exhibit them to the unci r- S signed on or belore the iJHh day of June, [ IWSK, fir this notice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery. All persons In debted to said estate will please make im mediate pavment. | Tills June 13, 1921. J. N. TAYLOR. Adm-r of Joe L.. Hendrlx, dee'd. j Parker & , Att'ys. > ltljuueflt RICH IN HISTORIC INTEREST City of Santo Domingo Crowded With Landmark! Connected With the Famous Conquistadores. Santo Domingo Is rich In historic Interest. It Is the oldest of all the permanent settlements of American soil. Here Columbus founded various colonies, und Santo Domingo city be came lils fuvorite of all the New world.. It was here that he spent some of the happiest time of his life, j and here that he was reduced to pris on by his political enemies, and from j here be wus sent In chains and dis grace to Spuln. The old tower where be was Imprisoned still remains, and his bones lie in the great cathedral of ; Santo Domingo city. In this oldest city of the New world oue still sees the remains of the first church built In America. Its« foundations were laid In 1002. Here Is the house win!re Cortes kept the I court records before he had ever , beard of Mexico. From here Ponce he Leon set out In his search for the Fountain of Youth. Here lived Pit zaro before be went to Panama, and. sailed down the west coast to con-, quer . the inca empire. Everywhere one turns he encounters old land marks where the fumous conquls tniiorcs hud their first experiences In tbt New world. i'utlre le las Casus entered the priesthood here, and In his indlgna . tlon because of the abuse of the In dluns-Jjy the Spaniards begun to Im port slaves from Africa to make light er the work of the Indian laborers. Here was founded the first university of the New world when In 1538 a , rojul charter was grunted for the es tablishment of the University of St. j Thomas. The Osci, Early Occupants of The Osci, or Oscans, were an Ital ian people who appear to have been the original occupants, at the earliest knowiw period, of Centrul Italy from Campania and the borders of Latlum to the Adriatic. The Oscans were sub dued by the Sabineß,~a people from the Apennines on the north, of whose previous history little In known, and who probably adopted the language and customs of the conquered, with what modifications cannot be ascer tained. The Oscan language was closely allied to the Latin, of which It was probably, a parent stock. It ap jM'urs to have been spoken in the provinces long after Latin became tttt olliclul language, and It was used of ficially long lifter the Roman conquest,