VOL. XLVII
League Only Constructive
International Compact
Salvaged From War
Lord Bryce Says Name Can be Changed.
But Essential Principles Should be
Retained—Almost Every Nation
Demands Representation
at Conference.
If Harding Fails Moral Element Will Start
Campaign For League.
Harding's Statement to Smith—Position More Em
barrassing Now Than When
Candidate.-
(By David F. St. Clair)
Will Harding sound the nations
at the arms limitation conference
on liia nmph talked of association
of nations ? That question has
been much speculated on here
since the recess of congress began
two weeks ago.
It has been affirmed and then
denied that Secretary Hughes was
working on a scheme for some sort
of an international compact to
present to the conference. The
belief that he is has its founda
tion in the growing conviction
that there can be no assurance of
peace and no real reconstruction
of the world until the United
States has joined either the pres
ent league of nations or some sub
stitute organization.
Since the invitations were sent
out almost every nation and dis
satisfied group of people on earth
4iave demanded representation at
the conference table. The pres
ence of all the small nations/of
Europe in particular has been so
insistent that Secretary Hughes
has had to explain to their repre
sentatives personally the scope of
the conference could not be broad
ened so as to embrace them. But
every one of them will be on hand
to watch from some angle of
corner what takes place. The
clamor of these nations to be rep
resented is nothing less, than a
call to the United States to join
in a league where all the nations
may be heard.
The ardent desire of Great
Britain, France and Italy to par
ticipate, it is reported, exceeds
their desire to limit armaments
and settle questions in the Pacific.
These nations, it is said, will make
a direct appeal to Harding and
Hughes-and the* Republican Senate
to name any modifications and
reservations the United States
may demand in joining the pres
ent league. Its name can be
changed, but its essential funda
mental principles Bhould be re
tained. Lord Brjce, in a recent
address at Williams College,
Mass., said that Europe would not
abandon the league as it was the
only constructive international
compact of any value that was
Salvaged from the war. Former
Prime Minister Viviani of France
has just addressed an eloquent
appeal to America not to remain
isolated in its policy towards
Europe.
A League Compalgn Now Threatened.
But a still stronger factor is
now working here to put this
conntiy in the league. This fac
tor is known as the "moral ele
ment," the element that forced
congress to pans and the State
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
legislatures to ratify the eigh
teenth amendment to the consti
tution. The greatest uuit in
this element is the Protestaut
churches. These churchea have
in their bodies such organs as
"The American Federation of
Churched' and they are strongly
represented in the International
Council of Churches.
If Mr. Harding fails at the
arms conference to take any step
to make the country a partner in
an international compact, we are
told by such men as Fred P.
Smith, John R. Mott and other
international Y and church work
ers that the moral element of
America/will start a compaign
for a league of nations aud if
neopssary will smash all present
lines. Mr. Smith who is
one of the ablest itinerant Y plat
form speakers in the world has
recently returned from Europe.
Last Sunday night after a call at
the White House, he addressed an
immence church audience in
Washington his subject being
"America at the Cross Roads''.
He told his audience that the
whole world now depended on
America morally for the rescue
of civilization even more than it
did in the great war and if this
country presisted in its present
isolation it would be lost with
the other nations and of course
it would deserve its fate.
Smith said Harding had taken
hiin into a room at his Marion
home while he was a candidate for
President and locked the door.
The candidate then coufided to
him in his most confidential and
earnest manner that he was heart
and soul for an association of na
tions. Upon that fcl asßurMice,
Smith said, he voted for him, and
like many millions of other Ameri
cans who had voted the same way,
he had been waiting for the Presi
dent to act. He had given the
leading men in Europe the assur
ance that Harding would put us
in . some sort of a league with
them.
Now Smith had gone again to
Harding aad the President took
him «into a room at the White
House and bolted the door again.
In the same earnest, confidential
voice he told him r.e was still for
an association of nations Now,
said Smith to this church audience
within the vei*y hhadow of the
White House uiar.y of us who
voted for him are not so sure of
hi(p 'as we were twelve months
ago. Then Smith turned bis eyes
towards the house on the bill and
said there is the trouble.
Harding's Kmbarramlng Podtion.
In other words Harding is will
ing apparently to keep Smith aud
millions of others who voted for
him on the promise that a league
of natiouß of so ne ftort was to be
one of the chief fruits of bis elec
tion, waiting itli doom's day
rather than split the Republican
party. And if be goes ou bolting
doors and confidentially telling
Smith that be is for au association
of nations with the United Stales
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBEK 8. 1921
iu it, but the United States con
tinues to remain without asso
ciates, doom's day is almost sure
to overtake the man now in the
White House.
President Harding is regarded
by mai>y who voted for him with
the hope of securing through him
a league in a far more embarrass
ing position now than candidate
Harding was before he made his
famous Des Moines speech repu
diating all leagues to save the
irreconcilable vote to his party.
The irreconcilables have not only
taken to themselves the full cred
it of his 'election but they are
now more arrogaut in their atti
tude and more intolerant of any
idea of a league of nations than
they were on the day that Hard
ing entered the White House.
They have compelled a man like
Hughes to write a separute treaty
with Germany and they have
kept our own representatives
from cooperating with the allies
in the aliifed Supreme Council.
Borah, wtoo is accounted sen
cere in his "America first" cru
sade againso any league, start
ed the movement for the limita
tion of naval-armament of the
United States, Great Britain and
Japan to checkmate the revival if
a campaign for a league. Ho
knew that the opponents of a
league would devise some plan oth
er than a league to lessen the risk
of war and reduce taxation else
they would fight a losing battle
over a league when it came up
again. But Harding finding
that Borah would compel him
to act, has attempted to gobble
up the credit of it by enlarging
011 it So it looks to observers
here that he may soon be in dan
gen of precipitating in the senate
and in his party the very struggle
that he succeeded in sidetracking
iu his campaign last >ear. It is
now believed that 'he could have
won his election more triumph
antly aud certainly more honora
ble by boldly defying the Borahs
and Johnsons in his party But
tlley have evidently east a spell
upon hiin that he finds it hard to
throw off. His league frieuds are
waiting with doubt thickening.
Will Plant Nut-Bearing;
Trees Along Highways
The Good R ad Association of
Michigan will hold a conference
and round up of good roads and
forestry officials and others in
terested at Flint, Mich., August
30 to September 1. Most of the
program will be devoted to high
way engineering matters, but
the nut specialist of the United
States Deportment of
will lead in a very important dis
cussion about trees for roadside
planting. Much is manifest
in Michigan in plant
ing trees along the highways,
and nut-bearing trees are being
advocated for this purpose. Last
yepr 30 bushels of black walnuts
were procured from Washington's
old home at Mount Vernon and
distributed for planting alo ig the
highways. Because of Ms very
high value for timber and rapid
growth in regions to which it is
adapted, as well as the high qual
ity of its nuts, the black walnut
is advocated for this purp&se.
Doing is very largely a question
of trying.
WHEN EVERY MOVE
HURTS
Lame every morning, achy and
stiff ail day, worse when it'fc damp or
chilly? Suspect your kidneys and
try the remedy your neighbors use.
Ask your neighbors.
Mrs. A. R. FLintom, S. Main St.,
Graham, gave the following en
dorsement in January, 1915:
''My back felt so lame I coulu
hardly get around when I was
doing my housework I had such
pains through my kidneys I could
not move. When I was stooping
the pains were h-> s?vere_ f often
had to scream. It was all I could
do to turn over in bed and morn
ings I would have to have some
one to help me get up. Dean's
Kidney Pills were recommended so
highly that I got a box ana soon
my back was fixed up all right ana
I felt better in every way."
Over three years later, Mrs. Flintom
added, PI still take Doan's Kidney
Pills occasionally when m.V ba-k or
kidneys bother m> and f alwivs
get good relief. Doan s have cer
tainly done me a lot of good.
60c at all dealers. Poster-Mil burn
Co., Mfra, Buffalo, N. Y.
Supt. Terrell Talks About
School Finances.
Since the rate' of tax to be lev
ied for schools has finally been
fixed by the Commissioners, I am
glad to give to the public again
the itemized budget of the Coun
ty Board of Education, showing
exactly for what the
taxes have been levied.
The budget if divided into two
main divisions, the salary fund
and the bnilding aud incidental
fund. Weshall take up the sal
ary fund first. But before giving
the flgnres it will be interesting
for you to know two facts. First,
the number Of teachers that a
school is allowed is determined
by the number of children in
average daily attendance. Sec
ond, the salary the teachers are
to be paid is determined by the
State Salary Schedule, which has
been adopted by this county.
According to this schedule, a
teacher may receive from, $(55.00
to $133.33 per mouth, depending
on the kind of certificate, the
number of years experience up
to four, aud the amount of aca
demic and professional training.
The County Board .of Education
believes that every child in Ah -
inauce county should be givun
an opportunity. The chil
dren who are taught by a second
grade teacher, who probably has
no more education than the chil
dren she is attempting to teach,
are not getting an chance;
they are being cheated. That
such may not be the case, the
Board of Education is striving to
have a first grade, well trained,
efficient in every school.
The salaries of individual teach
ers are not increased except as
they prepare themselves, by
training and experience, for a
higher place in the State Sched
ule; but when a second trade,
$45.00 teacher, is displaced by a
teacher holding the lowest grade
State certificate, the salary in
that instanct goes to $65.00,
which means an increase in sal
aries in such a case of nearly fifty
.per cent. I shall discuss this
salary schedule more in detail at
au early dale, and I hope that all
who are interested in schools will
rend the discussion. (The salary
schedule, of colored teachers is
about SIO.OO lower per month.)
Figured ou the basis of the
State salary schedule the aver
age six months salary of white
rural teachers, including teach
ers of vocational agriculture, isj
$416 90. The average six mouths
salary of white city teaohers, in-1
eluding Burlington, Graham,
Mebane, Haw River and Elou
is $(379.92. The average six
months salary of colored teachers,
rural, is $346.00. The average six
months salary of city colored
teachers, is $406 01
Do these facts suggest to you
that the salary schedule for ru
ral teachers should be higher
than the salary schedule for city
teachers?
The salary fund us itemized on
the budget is aa follows:
1. Salary of rural
teachers, six mouths, $77,034.78
2. Salary of coun
ty Superintendent 3,600,(J0
3. Salary- of city
teachers, sb months:
a. liurliugton 31,630.00
I). Graham 13,300.00
Mebatie 8,y64.96
d. Haw River 1,800.00
e. Elou 2,004.00
4. Salary of city
Supts., I annual sal
ary:
a. Burlington 2,333.33
b. iralmui 1,000.001
c. Mebaue 1,333 33
d. llaw liiver 1,200.00
e.' Elou 879.00 j
5. Transportation of
pupils, 2 trucks s7o.
per month, 900.00'
0. Huml Supervisor. i ,200.00 j
7. Oue-half salary
Home Demoristrai ion
Agent, 000.00
8. One-half salary
Supl. Public Wellare. 75U00
9. Vocational Agri
culture 8,400.00
10. Total Teachers
Salary Fuud. 100,480.36
Apportiouments from
Mate: ~ y
11. baiam* -I i»« '»»-
eipais of rural schools
3 months! 800.00
13 Salaiy L'ouiiiy
Supi., Stale Hffpr'ii. 1,750.00
13. Salary Rural
Supervisor, colored
schools* , . GOO.OO
14. Salaries city
school Supts. 3 mos. 2,306.04
15.. Salaries city
supervisors, one-third 2,466.60
10. Appropriations
(for Vocational Agri
culture, (5,300.00
17. Total State ap-
I portioumeiit, 14,223.30
| 18. Amount salary
jfundtobe raised by
| special county tax,
((difference between
items 10 and 17), 140,257.00.
This balance of $146,'257.U0 is
to be raised by the county tax;
I but the school law says that no
county shall .be compelled to
levy more than 30 cents for a
salary fund —that when this is
doue, if sufficient funds afe not
raised to maintain a six months
school "term, the balance need
ed is to be apportioned from the
State Equalizing Fund. How
ever, this 30 cents limitation was
put on before the legislature gave
the counties the authority to re-'
duce their valuations. So this
30 cent limitation has now been
interpreted to mean that their
must be levied on this year's
valuation a rate which will yitld
as much revenue as 30 centa on
last year's valuation would have
yielded. Therefore, 35 cents has
to be levied for salaries so that
we could participate in the State
Equalizing Fund; that is, get
from the State the balahce need
ed to pay the salaries of all our
teachers. The amount we receive
from the State will depend upon
the number of first grade teach
ers we are able to get. We estimate
that it will be between 20 and 30
thousand dollars.
We participate iu the Equaliz
ing Fund, not beeauue we are be
low the average county in wealth,
but because we are above the
average considerably in the num
ber of first grade teachers.
Before giving the itiuiezation
of the Building and Incidental
Expense to state
how this fund is apportioned.
Iu accordance with the old law
it had become the policy of the
Board of Education to pay one :
half the expenses of building
and repairing for rural school
houses, and also, to pay one-half
of the expenses of equipment.
So the amouqt shown on the bud
get for thes» purposes represent
just half of the'total expendi
tures, the other half beiug raised
| by the districts.
For incidental expenses, fuel,
supplies, etc. the Board appor
tions to each rural school $15.00
' for each teacher. The one-teach
er school gets $15.00, the tWo
teacher school $30.00, etc. The
total of this amount as shown on
the budget is $2400.00
Apropos, the Building and In
cidental Expense Fund for city
schools. The law states that
"after deducting the expenses of
the county superintendent of
schools, and superintendent of
public welfare, traveling expenses
and per diem of the County Board
| of Education, and the expenses of
| tbe county summer schools, the
• percent of the incidental expenses
| and the building fund that shall
,be apportioned to the city schools
'or tlie special chartered schools
shall bo the same as the per cent
of enrollment of the public schools
for the previous year in Baid city
or special Chartered school of the
U>tal enrollment of the county.
The total enrollment of all city
schools was li'J per cent of the total
county enrollment. So it is evi
dent that what the Budget shows
to be the actual needs of the rural
schools for buildings and inci- i
dentals in just 61 per cent of what
tnust be levied for this fund. Tim,
remaining 31» per cent is divided
among the different city schools
according to their enrollment.
The itemized budget for the
building and incidental expense
fund is aa follows:
Buildiug,Fnnd :
New buitdingand sites,
itemized by schools, $12,150.00
Rep'rs, item'd, $72f.75,
contingent $278.25, 1,000.00
Furniture aud appa
ratus, itemized, 1,500.00
Kural libraries, 100 00
State Loan Fund, 202.00
is 14,'.t52 00
Incidental Expense Fund:
. Traveling expense*and
per dieui of Co. B.
of E. * 219.G0
) Expense of Comity Su
perintendent, GOO.GO
: Stationery, blanks for
schools, supplies for
ottice, 675.00
& 1,41)4.1)0
Expense of Operation and
maintenance:
Fuel and inciden
tals, rnral schools 2,400.00
Insurance 600.00
Census , I'GO.OO
Professional improve
ment of teachers,
summer school 3Qojso
All other expenses,
(itemized):
Expense Superintend
ent public welfare, 90.00
Salary office assistant I.oo*loo
Interest 1,750.00
Deficit 1920-21 7,000.00
Total 13,306.00
City School, Building and Ex
pense Funds:
18 per ct. Burlington 6,354.00
8 per ct. Graham 2,824 (0
7 per ct. Mebane 2,471.00
4 per ct. llaw River 1,412.00
2 per ct. Elon 700 00
Total binding and in
cidental l'und 43,519.60
Available Funds
Poll tax, 4807 polls,
$l5O less per ct.
insolvents „ 7,210.50
Fines, forfeitures and
penalties 3.500.00
Dog Taxes 1,007.00
Total available build
ing aud incidental 12,677.50
Balance to be raised
by county tax'. 30,842.10
The balance $30,842.10 as
shown by this budget lias to be
raised by a tax levy. ' The valua
tion being approximately $33,-1
380,000. The rate was fixed on
9 cents. It is expected some ad-!
ditional may couie in so that 9
cents will be sufficient. This!
makes the total rate for school,
44 cents.
4 To some, this may seem a little
high, but consider these facts:
The city of Burlington finds it;
necessary to levy 29 cents, in ad
dition to the 44 cents levied by j
this county tq maintain her:
schools for an extra three months.!
Graham's levy will be about 311
centa for the same purpose. Stony I
Creek will have a special levy of j
30 cents for only one and a half
months extra. Friendship and;
Hawfields will have a levy of 301
cents, and Sylvan 50 cents for an '
extra two months. There are
some schools that the. County j
Board of Education must run for
six months on a rate of 44 cents. 1
Based on what it takes for the j
additional terms of two aud three j
months in these special taxdis- 1
tricts, one would naturally ex-i
pect the county rate to be about!
60 cents. These various districts;
have to have these rates because
tvhat they get from the county I
does not alwajs actually pay the
running expenses of their schools'
for six months, as they frequently j
have to supplement salaries and
spend more for incidentals than
is allowed.
If any citizen desires more in
formation about the budget, or'
any phase of school (iuance, I
shall take pleasure in discussing;
the same in detail if he will call
at my office.
Signed : M. C. Tkukki.i.,
Sec'y Board of Education.
The Whitsett School
The splcudid new scU> 1 building •
at WhitsiHt i* about complied and'
the school will open Monday Se'p
te niter 12th. 1921. Tnu
is a large two-htory brick hirm ture,
with metal roof, and eoiitai is four
rooms on the first floor, two room*
in the basement, and a ii/tul»oine
auditorium on the t-ucoud fl >or. It
is lirxt c uhh ihriugli )iit and i->oin*i
of the most attractive. mJi.h.l build-J
ings in that section. Tlc> friends
of the school are looking for »ard
with pleasure to beginning \vrk in
ttie new building.
The pr«*sent day is the golden
opportunity for the saver.
The purchasing power oi the
dollar in the commodity Vjarket
is the lowest in the history of the
world. As capital, however, the
dollar "shows a high earning pow
er. Those wi»o turn their sur
plus earnings into capital will
reap the harvest later.
NO. 31
} PROFESSIONAL CARDS
3 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
Ottice Honrs: 9 to It a. m~
j and by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
, Telephones:' Office 4*o—Residence 2(i t >]
JOHN J. HENDERSON
4 3P9
Attorney- at-Law
) I GRAHAM, N. C.
) mice over National Bank of Alamance
r
,:T. S.-COOK,
Attorney -at- Law,
j .... N. 0
Office Patterson Building
Second Fleor. . . .
; I>R. WILL S. (MG,*JR. .
j| . . DENTIST . ; ;
• rahnm .... North Carolina
1 % PFICE J»S|MMONB BUILDING
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1 J.HLMKRLUVi UIUIBC.ALLEH I
1 Durham, X. C. Graham, X. C.
LONG & ALLEN,
* ttoriiAya unci Councillor* at Liw
); GRAHAM S C
Receiver's Sale Under
> ] Deed in Trust.
|j Under and by virture of the power of
I sale contained in a certain deed of trust
| executed the 9th day of February, 1919,
by Ruff in Rogers to the Graham Loan «k i 
i Trust Co., Trustee, for the purpose of
securing certain bonds of even date there
with, and the interest thereon, wtiichiteed
l of trust is duly probated and recorded in Jg
the office of Register of Deeds for Ala
, mance county in book of Mortgages and
J Deeds of Trust No. 84, at- page 39, de
' fault having been made in the payiyent of
said bonds according to their tenor, and
under and by virtueof the authority vest-
J eil in me as Receiver of the Graham Loan
A Trust Co,, in an order dated the 88th
| day of January, 1981, made by J. Loyd
I I lotion, Judge of Superior Court of North
Carolina, holding the courts of the Tenth
Judicial district, the undersigned Re
ceiver will, on
MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1981,
at 18 o'clock, noon, at the court house
door of Alamance county, at Graham, N. , ■
1 C., sell to the highest bidder, for cash, the
; lauds detined ami descril>cd as fQllows,
I I to-wit:
A certain truct or parcel of land in Gra
ham township, Alamance County, State
of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of
Thomas Rodgers, Parks A Jctlreye, Lay
; ton Walker and others, and bounded as
follows: lieginuing at an Iron pipe cor
ner with said Rogers and runniug thence
N W (B fi) 8 links to an iron pipe; j
thence X 20 deg K f1.94 chs to an iron
pipe; thence S deg K 98 Iks to an iron
pipe, • formerly it black gum corner with
said Parks A Jeffreys and Walker; theuce
S 88 deg W 5.91 chs to the beginning, 1
containing j of an acre more or less and
on which there is a frame dwelling.
This Sept. 6th, 1981.
WM. I. WARD, Receiver
of Graham Loan A Trust Co.
Summons by Publication.
! NORTH CAROLINA,
Alamaace County.
In the Muperlor Court.
j Cornelia Nicholson
VB
Harold X icholson
The defendant will take no
tice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Ala
mance County, North Carolina,
to secure an absolute divorce
from said defendant; and said
defendant will further take no
tice that In; is required to ap
pearat the term of the Super
ior Court of said County to be
held on the 2*ith day of Sept.
11)21, at the court house of
said county in Graham, N. C.,
and answer or demur to the
complaint in said action, or the
complaint will apply to the il
court for the reliet demanded
in said complaint.
This 17th day of Aug. 1921.
D. J. WALKER.
Clerk Superior Court. -'.a
Long & Allen, Att'ys. l!)aug.4t
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