VOL. XLVII
4
Senator Simmons
• Gets in the Breach
Is Fighting the Passage of the "Most
Iniquitous and Unjust" Revenue
Bill Ever Bejore Congress—Needs
Claude Kitchin's Help—Some Re
publicans Afraid of Their Revenue
Measure and Smoot Brings Forth a
New Bill—Simmons Offers Amend
ments.
(ByDavid F. St. Clair)
Washington, Oct. 4. —The Re
publicans in the Senate have be
gun a drive to rush through what
Senator Simmons characterizes as
the "most iniquitious and unjust"
revenue bill ever introduced into
that body. At the same time they
are hurrying to a vote the shame
ful separate treaty with Germany.
If the wheels do not turn fast
enough to put these two nmasures
and the anti-beer bill over by
November 10, they threaten-to
put the screw on discussion by
adopting a cloture rule by a ma
jority vote.
The plan of the Harding ad
ministration is to recess Congress
on the above date so as to have
the field clear for the meeting of
the so-called arms limitation con
ference on the following day. The
White House is much afraid that
if the Congress is in session dur
ing the latter weeks of November,
it will tackle the question .of the
refunding of the foreign debt and
embarrass our foreign , guests.
.But more important "• than the
meeting of the armsv limitation
conference is the desire to rush
the indefensible revende bill
through before the American peo
ple have had an opportunity to
learn of its monstrous discrimina
tions in favor of the corporations
aud the multi-millionaires and its
sweeping injustice to the middle
classes and the poor.
Congress was called into extra
session on April 11 to pass a new
revenue bill and a new tariff bill
and the plan of the Republicans
has been from the outset to kill
them until a short time before
they were ready to adjourn, then
press through under majority
cloture rule or the threat of in
voking such rule in the Senate
legislation outrageously favoring
the corporate interests, the profi
teers and the .rich. But the tariff
bill badly miscarried for the Re
publicans could not grasp its ef
fects and they thns became hope
lessly divided. That bill is in
suspended Animation and is likely
to remain so for some time. But
something must be got out of the
revenue bill or Republican hopes
will go aglimmering.
Nhbom Standi In the Br^cb.
It so happens that the two best
posted and most skillful exponents
,on the Democratic side in Con
gress on revenue legislation are
from North Carolina. But un
fortunately for his party and his
country Claude Kitchin could not
be on the floor of the House when
the revenue bill was under con
sideration Jhere. Had be been
there and in bis prime, Democrats
are confident that pnblic opinion
would never have tolerated the
framing and introduction of the
revenue bill the Senate finance
committee has dared to offer the
American people. Senator Sim
mons, in speaking the other day
of Kitchin's absence from the
House during this session on ac
count of illness, said it had been
"irreparable." ■>
Kitchin's breakdown at this
juncture has greatly increased the
burden of Simmons in the Senate.
The two men had collaborated
and were more responsible than
any other two men in Congress
for the best features of the reve
nue law in existence. More than
any other two men-are they the
legislative fathers of the excess
. profit tax, which the big corpora
tions are now fighting to sweep
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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
from the statute books. Simmons
is left to defend the work of the
two and to expose the tax con
spiracy of the Republicans led by
that arch incarnation of the cor
porations, Senator Penrose of
Pennsylvania. Not since the days
of Aldrich has any oue man in the
Senate BO completely embodied
the spirit of the exploits of
American capital.
Above all others the task had
devolved upon the senior Sena
tor from North Carolina not only
to expose the extremely technical
conspiracy of the Republicans and
tho corporations to relieve the
latter of their just share of taxa
tion, but to offer instead a just
and constructive program of tax
ation for his own party. He has
done this'in one of the ablest and
most impassioned speeches deliv
ered in the Senate in many a day
The Senator has been greatly aid
ed in his task by the serious di
vision in the Republican' ranks
over tax legislation.
' If tho excess profit tax must be
abandoned Senator Simmons
would substitute therefor a grad
uated income tajt on corporations
ranging from 12£ to 25 per cent..
Restoration of the income surtax
to 52 per cent on incomes above
$500,000. Repeal of tho trans
portation taxes on freifht, pas
senger and Pullman acc rarnoda
tions. Retention of the corpora
tion capital stbck tax. Repeal of
thp $2,000 exemption allowed cor
porations. That individual ex
emptions be confined to incomes
below $2,000.
Republican Position Precarious.
Senator Smoot of Utah, the ran
king Republican on the finance
committee, haS stepped into the
arena with an entirely new tax
bill, known as the sale's bill, to
save his party from defeat at the
polls next year on tax legislation.
The fact that this revolutionary
tax measure is being considered
at all by some groups of Republi
cans at this time shows how un
certain and precarious is the Re
publican program. If the senate
ghould adopt the Sutoot bill, the
whole battle on taxation would be
revived in the house and the
country would get no taxation
this year. For that reason the
House and the Old Guard
Republicans are not in favor of
the Smoot bill. The cloture rule
if adopted in the senate would be
a double-edged sword. With it in
force the niinorty party with the
aid of certain group sp-rit Repub
licans . could drive the majority
party to execute a minority pro
gram. Cloture will get business
done but with it Senator Simmons
and the Democrats under present
conditions in the senate would be
just as likely to get as many of
the features of their tax scheme
enacted into legislation as Senator
Penrose and the Old Guard.
There never was a more pre
carious situation for a party that
has come into power with over
whelming majorities in both
houses of Congress. The Repub
licans in the Senate are simply
not able to call their soul their
own. Senator Lodge, the titular
Republican leader, is said to spend
most of his time wetting his finger
to learn which way the wind is
blowing. The Senator has become
a master weather cock, at least so
-far as cbangiug his own course.
But the Democrats, it is be
lieved, would show more results if
led by Simmons or even by the
aggressive Pat Harrison instead
of by the "safe and sane" Under
wood. There never w a more
golden opportunity .offered a mi-,
nority leadership in Congress than
at this moment. Democrats here
say Underwood i* too tame for
the occasion arid they find some
hope that his absence at the arms
conference will take the locks off
the lips of some other Senators.
Finis Garrett and John N. Garner,
in the House, are rated as tin sol
diers by the si te of Claude Kitch
in, whose equal in debate has
not been here since Torn Reed
departed.
Churches have sot October 9 as
"Fire Prevention Sunday". We
thought every Sunday was.
Wonderful powers of memoriz
ing facte as possessed by a York
shire labor 'r, who has mentally
stored away 31,000 items of geu
eral information.
The Druids regarded the mistle
toe as sacred.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1921
RAILROADS RESISTING TAX
COLLECTION BY STATE.
Judges Geo. H. Brown and W. P.
Bynum to Help State—Other Ral
eigh News. . .
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, Oct. 4—Former Su
preme Court Justice George H.
Brown, of Beaufort, and Ex-
Judge W. P. Bynum, of Greens
boro, counsel named by the gov
ernor to assist the attorney
general in the action taken by the
Southern, the A. C. L, Railway,
and the Atlantic & Yadkin Rail
way, to resist the tax assesstuebj
by the state in the. U. S. court,
have been here preparing the de
fense for the hearing at Greens
boro the latter part of this week.
lUot'ion to dismiss'ou grounds of
jurisdiction will be the first de
fensive step taken by the State in
answering the petition for an in
junction against tax administra
tion officials to restrain the collec
tion of taxes levied against them
when the cases come to be heard
some time later in the month.
In the event of failure of the
motion lo prevail, the state will
proceed with the defense of its
position on the grounds that val
ues assessed against (he property
of the* three complainants are
true values, and justify reduc
tions ordered in some counties on
real property ou the grounds that
under the Revaluation Act these
values were raised from 200 to 1,
000 per cent, whereas the assess
ment of the px-operty of the com
plainants was advanced only 100
per cen».
Rough draft of the plans for the
defense of the action brought
against the State was worked out
at a conference of attorneys
named by the governor aud At
torney General James S. Manning,
Attending were George 11. Brown
former associate justice of the
state supreme court; Judge W. P.
Bynum, of Greensboro, and the
attorney general. Further details
of the state's answer will be work
ed out this week.
Extension of the time set for a
return in the action will be asked
by the state, and no answer to
the complaint served here last
Wednesday will be made on Oct
ober 0. The three cases will *be
combined and heard jointly io
Greensboeo before Judge H. G.
Connor, Judge James E, Boyd and
Justico Waddill of the United
States circuit court of appedh
some time about the end of the
month.
Confidence in the ability of the
Stat» to secure thedimissal of the
action was expressed by the
attorney general and his associ
ates. Judge Manning thinks that
the motion to dismiss the case will
receive the favorable action of the
court, but will' be prepared to
continue the fight aloug the' lines
laid out in the complaint in the
event that, the motion to dismiss
is overruled.
Not Avoiding Fight.
To settle the questions involved
in the litigation the state is rather
inclined to willingness to hnve the
whole issue tried out and settled
once aud for all, believing that
the complainants will be unab'e to
sustain the charge that their pro
.perties have been pluc-«i ou tyw
tax books at figures iu excess of
their true value in mouey. Most
of the day yestorday w*s spent
in working out this feature'of the
answer.
Examination of the report of
the state tax commission submit
ted to the general assembly* in
1920 and approved develops the
fact that real property other than
railroad property in the state wh*
advanced enormously during the
process ot revaluation, iu some
counties to the ratio of 1,000 per
cent, and for a state average of 20
per cent or more.
The geueral assembly in 1921
gave authority fer revision of
values to meet ua# conditions,
and at the same time provided
machinery for adjustment of val
ues in railroad aud other cor-
porate property. In some coun
ties values were cut radically and
iu others less drastically, but in
no case have vajues of real prop
erty been reduced before the Re
valuation Act came into being
The state will use these facts to
substantiate its claim that no dis
crimination has beeu worked
against the railroads.
Former Justice Brown, who
comes to take a hand in the de
fence of the action at the request
of the irovernor, stated that he is
acting entirely without compen
sation from the state, and feels
that since he is an emergency
judge by reason of his retirement,
that he is in duty btmnd to serve
the state in whatever capacity his
services can be used. He has
held several terms of court siijce
he retired from the supreme
Court, but has not entered private
practice.
Rush for State Fair.
Secretary Pogue says that in all
his long experience as chief ex,-
ecntlve officer of theN. C State
Fair he has never known «uch a
big demand for space for exhibits
and attrations as is now being
made— more than can be acco n-
I modated of the latter. Space is
given for exhibits iu preference,
and some 20 counties will have
big county exhibits. Next year
there will be new and larger build
ing" complete 1 aud all who desire
it can get all the space needed.
Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, presi
dent of the . State Fair, will be
here next week and will remain
throughout the.week of the exhi
bition —October 17 to 22. Re
duced rates on railroads aro good
from October 14 to 24, inclusive,
and 100,(XK) visitors are (wpectod.
To Handle Soldiers' Claims.
The United States Veteran's
Bureau, which has charge .of the
adjustment of soldier war claims
in this state, has consolidated the
records of the bureau war risk
insuranco, the federal board of
vocational training, and the
United States public health serv
ice, thus greatly simplifying the
work of adjusting claims against
the department Heretofore
claims have been required to run
the gamut of those departments
n
The clean-up squad which is
now in the state rounding up all
outstanding claims against the
government, is in Western North
Carolina aud will come'to Raleigh
October 21-22, and have its head
quaters at the chamber of com
merce. At that time all soldiers
having matters to take up with
the department will be to
present them to the squad.
4ioys, He Cot the Money.
Ben Lacy's coupe in getting five,
million dollars in New York on
short term notes at a rate of in
terest less than six percent. Con
gratulations to t he state.treasurer
from the council of st ate and other
officials >and citizens. They said
it couldn't be doue» but "theysay"
is not to be reliSd ou as a rule.
Here is how the five millions in
money wilt be u«ed as decided on
by the council of state:
One million dollars will go to
the state board of education, an
other million to buildings at state
institutions, and the remaining
three millions to road construc
tions. The fuuds of the latter
not due on present obligations wilt
be withdrawn at the rate of S7OO,
(100 per month. -
The educational money goes:
sooo,oou due counties on State
school fund from uncollected taxes
from last year; >20*),000 loaned
city schools, and SIOO,OOO bor
rowed' from banks to fiuance the
operation of summer shools at col
leges and iu counties, chargeable
to the teachur training fund.
Another million set aside for
state building funds is divided
aorfong banks who have loaned
money for the beginning of con
struction. About $750,000 is now
due banks in the state ou notes
floated here, and witl be paid out
immediately. The remainder will!
be ehecked out rapidly as the
work develops
Three-quarters of a million dol
lars of the road fund will be
che ked out during the present
week, and the remaining $2,250,-
000 will be held and checked out
at tli.i rate ot S7O-»,o«xj per,month.
This is the only part of Mm loan
th+t will not be used unmediHte
ly, aud it will be turned over to
th" state highway commission.
Mr. Lacy, the governor and
other members of the council of
state are highly gratified over the
results of the treasurer's recent
visit to New York. The money
was at a very favorable
rate, 5 p5.
Conference On Cotton Problem
Governor Morrison, acting
upon the suggestion contained in
a resolution passed by the legis
lature, last week, calling for the
appointment of a commission to
study the cotton problem, has
sent letters to the governors of
other cotton-growing states, sug
gesting a conference on the cotton
grower's prohlom at some central
point in the cotton belt. Either
Atlanta or New Orleans or possi
bly some other point is suggested
for this conference by the gover
nor, unless the cotton growers
would prefer to come to North
Carolina. The governor does not
urge this state as the meeting
place because it is on the northern
rim of states which produce the
%outh's big crop.
On this commissirn the gover
nor appointed R. 0. Everett of
Durham, who has since that time
visited the world cotton confer
ence iu England; A. W. McLean,
a member of the war finance cor
poration, who has gi\'en consider
able study to the biggest problem
of the south, and L. J. Baker.
This commission, the governor's
letter to the other cotton state
governors, after studying the
problem, came to the conclusion
that much could be accomplished
in a general conference of all the
cotton-growing states and sug
gested that Governor Morrison
initiate the move which would re
sult in such a meeting. The gov
ernor asks the other states to ap
point a commission and to work
out a date and meeting place for
the joint conference to study the
cotton problem.
for Legion Memorial Building.
At the meeting of the woman,s
auxiliary of the Raleigh post of
the American Legion in Raleigh,
the passage of a resolution recom
mending to the state departments
of the Americau Legion and tho
woman's auxiliary their proposal
of tho erection by the state! of
a beautiful building in Raleigh
as a memorial to the boys of North
Carolina who served in the world
war. The resolution was drafted
by Cale K. Burgess, state adjutant
of the American Legion; Mrs.
Aunie Cain Bridgers, command
ant ot the Raleigh woman's aux
iliary of the American Logion, and
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, vice-com
mandant of the North Carolina
department of the American Le
gion. According to the resolution
it is proposed that the memorial
building be erected by the state
of North Carolina and be situated
on land belonging to the state.
The hilly Eiffel region of Ger
many contains many extinct vol
canoes.
Silk of the threads of brocade is
dyed green before it is woven. '
Japan has four cities of more
thnn inhabitants.
Volcanoes are most thickly
grouped in Guatemala and Java.J
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from a Graham Citizen.
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Does it ache especially after exer
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Is there a soreness in the kidney
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The*e symptoms suggest weak
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If bo there is danger in delay.
Weak kidneys get weaker fast.
Give your trouble prompt atten
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and f am glad to recommend them
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Price 69c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mrs. Roach had, Poster-Mll
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Two More Reasons for Co
operative Marketing of Tobacco
Dr. J. Y. 'Joyner, President of
the State Tobacco Growers' Or
ganization presents the following
additional reasons for Co-opera
tive Marketing of Tobacco:
"It Standardizes Grades and
Stabilizes Prices. The tobacco
will be carefully graded by the
Association's experts according, to
standard grades determined with
the aid ot' government experts, i
They ar? already at work upon j
this. Standardization of grades
will aid in stabilizing prices and
in selling each grade for its full
market valuo, which value wiil.oe
known by the Association's sales
men supplied daily with the full
est marketing information.
Under the present sj stem, there
is no standardization of grades
before selling, and consequently
no stabilizing of prices is possible.
The grades are mixed in the same
piles of \tobacco. The grower
seller has no accurate knowledge
of the quality of what he sells.
The buyer has fuller and .more
accurate knowledge of both and
naturally uses it for his own profit.
Consequently prices are specula
tive —a sort of gambler's game in j
which all the odds are in favor of j
the better informed organized
buyers. It happens every day oti j
every warehouse (loor that tobac
co of the same grade sells fori
widely different prices. Tobacco'
of inferior grades sells for more|
than better grades.' The stmej
'tobacco often sells for differeutj
prices in different rows on the;
same day on the same warehouse j
floor. ,
, Price Protection Through.Coin-:
inodity Control. The individual
tobacco grower coining into the
open market of the world in com
petition with every other tobacco
grower, controlling only an in
fiuitestimal fraction ot the com
modity, can uever hope to have
any voice or influence in fixing or
protecting the price of bis pro
duct. Only by organization under
a binding, legally enforceable,
long-time contract, and eoutrol
iug enough tobacco to make them
a big, preferably the biggest, fac
tor in the market for that com
modity, cau growers hope to have
auy influence in fixing or protect
ing the price. Until they do thnt,
they must continue to sell at a
price fixed by organized, thor-
werf ull y
fiuaifcod buyers. And such buy
ers will naturally fix the lowest
possible price in order to make'
the bL'g«.*st possible pr&fit for
themselves.
This principle of commodity
control through organization for
price protection is recognized and
practised by every other big suc
cessful business and industry,
Consolidated Steel, Standard Oil,
Meat Packers, Tobacco Manufac
turers, Cotton Manufacturers It
has afforded price protection for
agricultural commodities through
organized co-operative marketing
association elsewhere. Who can
doubt that a co-operative market
ing association for tobacco cover
ing the three. States of North
Carolina, Virgiuia and South
Carolina, the biggest bright to
bacco belt of the world, con :
trolliug at least 50 per cent—and
from tiie present outlook, 75 per
ceut. of the bright tobacco —will
beecjua'ly successful, as llf»« big
gest single factor.in the bright lo
ba':co market of ilim world, in
proteciinx the pricn of bright
tobacco.
t+J-AIK Hf 'llllo.'lTY or Toj.BUO I . ,
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senior ("irl'it-r of tin- liltn 01 K. J. 1 '*•->' k
to„ ilotiiM busltieM 1" the «>■> ill Toledo,
county and stxie aloresaNi.and llmt •aid firm
will pay (iw Hundred Outturn for
each and every case of i ntnrrli that oanupi
be cund t»y the u»e of H»li'» t ntarrh Cure,
KHANK 4. UHKNKY.
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Hall's Family Pills lor constipation
The Passion Play is to bo re
vived at Oberamtnergau ill 1922
when it i» planned to give thirty
performances. Eighty-two men,
formerly actors in - the play, were
killed during tho World War.
Out of every hundred pupus
who enter public schools, 15 get
through high school aud only,
three finish college.
NO. 35
PROFESSIONAL CAEDS
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsetlor-at-Law,
GRAHAM, N. C,
OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
i Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to a p. m., and
by appointment.
Phone 97
GRAHAM HARDEN, ML D.
Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours: 9 to 11a.m. „ I
and by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug C 9.
Telephonei: Office *4o—Residence 261
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM. N. C.
Dlllec over National Bank ol Alamaaea
X. S. COOK,
Attornay-nt- U«,
4RAHAM, .... tf. 0
Odlco Patterson Building
Second Finer. . , .
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Durham, \. C. Graham, N. Ol
LONG & ALLEN,
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GRAHAM N. C
Receiver's Sale Under
Deed fln Trust.
Under and by virture of. the power of
wale contained in a certain deed of trust
j executed the 9th day of February, 1919,
Iby IfulTin* Rogers to the (Jraham Loan &
! Trust Co., Trustee, for the purpose of
I securing ei-rtain bonds of even date there
with, and the interest thereon, which deed
j of trust is duly probated and recorded ia
\ the office of Register of Deeds for Ala
mance county iu book of Mortgages and
1 Deeds of Trust No. 84, at page 89, de
fault Imving be eh made in the payment of
I said bonds according to their tenor, and
; under and by virtue of the authority vest
ed in me as Receiver of the Graham Lean
iV Trust Co,, in an order dated the 2Jth
, day of January, 1921, made by J. Loyd
llorton, ,Judgc of Superior Court ot North
j Carolina, hoidiug the courts ofitho Tenth
I Judicial district, the undersigned Re
-1 ceiver will, on
MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1921,
lat 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house
idoor of Alamance county, at Graham, N.
j C., sell to the highest bidder, for cash, the
| lands defined and described as follows,
to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land in Gra-'
! ham township, Alamance County, State ■
! of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of
I Thomas Rodgcrs, Parks & Jeffreys, Lay
! ton Walker and others, and bounded as
j follows: Beginning at an iron pipe cor-
I ner with said Rogers and running thence
| N 08 deg W (B 8) 8 links to an iron pipe;
| thence N 20 deg E 5.94 chs to an iron
pipe; thence 8 05t deg E 92 Iks to an iron
pipe, formerly a black gum corner with
said Parks «fc Jeffreys and Walker; thence
8 22 deg W 5.91 cbs to the beginning,
containing i of an acre more or less and
on which there is a frame dwelling.
This Sept. Otb, 1921.
WM. I. WARD, Receiver
of Graham Loan ii Trust Co.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
HHVIDI; QUALM (1 US Executor o* tl,e
I the >*tu will nil l li'Hisuiuni of lJeu. N.
Toriicr. decvu-oU lain ol Alamance county,
N«»rt i ('aroilim, tlu» in to notify all pcooits
cUliuh tin* cattle of «ul «le
;erased to t Xiii Oil toell t> the* un-le fl/ned
j on or before the an »i d*ty •»* Autf... I9i££. or I his
will be pi«j4«itj.J in b .r of Ui«i* r«jcnv
ery Airpcrwoo* iii«ioi>teU to *ulu estate will
( oinkt* Immediatepaynt*nc#
r Tui* auk. wtu.Jtci.
J. U. KKItNODLK, Executor
1 l*iUK6t ol lien. S. U'ur uer, decV.
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