North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XLVII Mrs. Vanderbilt Re-Elected Presi dent of State Fair Already Planning Improvements in Buildings and Grounds —40.0U0 Visitors on Thursday. ANOTHER WHITE MURDERER TO GO TO CHAIR. Governor States His Position—ls Commended for His Firmness. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, Oct. 25. —The ship pers, travelers, merchants, factory managers and others of the "gen eral public" who have been exer cised over the railroad strike situation, are being consoled at this writing by the prospect that the strike,will not be as bad as was feared. But it is not yet defi nitely known just how serious it will be or to what extent the roads and public in North Carolina will be affected. The first meeting between the U. S. Labor Board and the heads of the 6 "Big Five Brotherhoods," to be held in -Chicago the latter part of this week, may develop something that can materially change the prospects for the bet ter. The fact that the shop crafts unions have decided not to join in the strike on the reduced wage cut alone, as their shop rules would probably be lost in the sac rifice, but. will wait nntil the whole controversy comes up, and then take another vote on strike or no strike, has materially altered the situation already, and a thousand railway workers in shops in Ral eigh will not be forced to strike — not yet. Raleigh cared for the 40,000 visitors on the State Fairgrounds Thursday of last week better than ever before. Those who spent one or more nights in the city did not have to beg for a place to sleep, bnt all were comfortably cared for, private homes being opened liberally to those who could not secure quarters at the five hotels and scores of boarding houses. Mrs. Vanderbilt, re-elected president of the Fair for next year, is already planning for great improvements in buildings and grounds before the next fair. A new race track and concrete grandstand will the needed improvements, and a num ber of buildings will be added. Beautifying the grounds will specially engage the attention of President Vanderbilt, who, after spending Saturday here going over the grounds and looking after details, went to New York. There she will engage a landscape artist of ability to take over this feature and work out the general improvement of the grounds. Of course, Col. J. E. Pogue and Capt. C; B. Denßon were re-elect ed secretary and treasurer, re spectively. They have so efficieut ly held these positions so long that it would be difficult to fill their places, if they should desire to retire. Mrs. Pogue was elected a life member of the association. Colonel Pogue, expressiug for his wife appreciation for this honor, declared that what success he had attained for the fair was largely the result of her help. Another Whtte Murderer To Be Electrocuted Governor Cameron Morrisonjjot oat of a sick bed Friday morning in order to hear the petition for the commutation of the death sen tence of W. Y. Westmoreland, of Iredell county, under sentence to die in the electric chair on Nov ember 21 for the murder of James H. Nance, a jitney driver, robbing him and throwing the dead body in a well near the scene of the murder. Petition for the commutation was unsupported by new evidence of a material nature and the ap- THE peal had to be refused. West moreland, therefore, wi'l die one month from Friday unless n*w evidence is discovered which will the Governor to upset, the decision and judgment of the court. The governor has been a sick man for two days fact, mehibers of his household did not expect that he would be able to come to his office on Fri day, but later in the morning he did come down to hear this case and look after other business. The necessity for again having f,o pass on a; case involving the life of a man, so soon after the har rowing experiences in connection with the,efforts to save the life of J. T. Harris, visibly affeoted the governor, whose sense of duty again forced him to the decision against the man. Governor Again States His Position. The Governor again staled his position in connection «it h the consideration of such cases. He always has to presume that the courts come to the . right conclu sion in such cases, he told the at torneys and the mother of tho condemned man, toho WJIS in the room during the hearing. If those interested in the commutation of a death sentence can produce new evidence which lights up the case and shows that there was evidence which did not get to the jury which flpight have rendered a dif ferent Verdict had they been in possession of this evidence, the sentence of the court cau ami will be changed. But under his interpretation of the constitution ami the oath be takes to support it, lie does not believe he has the right to change a court sentence, especially when the court is in much better posi tion to get at the facts than is the governor. It does not matter how much one feels about capital punishment. That cannot be taken into consideration in these cases while the law authorizing punishment by dea 1 h for certain crimes is in force. Morrison Coin in ended At the executive offices are piles of letters from citizens of North Carolina commending his course in the Harris case and ex pressing gratific ition that the state no longer shall suffer the humiliation that it has expe rienced in the past because of "putty" officers who were not firm enough to enforce the judgements of the courts. One said: "I am glad that we shall not hear again so«>n such re marks as I have heard from jud ges of superior courts, several of whom are credited with having expressed the belief that crimi nals, convicted of high crimes, would not be adequately purnish ed, after the courts had decreed the nature and duration of the sentence." "Oh, he will not serve his term out, the governor will payrole him soon," and, "His lawyers will get a commutation from the death sentence through the governor," have been familiar expressions from judges oil th« bench. But not since Morrison came into office. Governor Morrison is not less human than his predecessors; but firmer to obey his oath. The Classics in Education Manchester Guardian Latin and Greek are splendid iustramenis of education, aud we are delighte 1 to find that their prospects in this country were never betier. We believe that their study will oidy derive t'resli strength from losing H position of remark able privilege and Invving to jus tify itself tu the world on its own merits. It was while Greek and Latin wore both butt,re sed with all sorts of compulsions with almost H monopoly of endow ments that teachers could send men out into the world unable to show you the pole star on a fine night, unable to do without a Cook'n interpreter in ajiy foreign country, and posses ed with the idea !lmt the labor vote governed Athens ai d ltume. Eveii the most rticky of us are at last getting cl»*ar of the idea tha' there is something distin guished in possessing vast tracts of ign >rHuce about the eafth and the sky and contemporary man kind. Aud for the proper study of the classics tu.it is an immense gain. ALAMANCE GLEANER GRAHAM, N. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1921 Birds Kill Many Injurious Insects, Thus Save Crops From' Destruction. Mobilization of the wild birds, an army of the air that allies it self with man to fight crop pests, nearly always follows the presence of large numbers of insects that prey upon growing plants. Their aid in stamping out the menace is almost incalculable, savp the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, in Yearbook Separate, "Farm Help From the Birds." Some illustra tions of what the birds have done are cited by the department, a» follows: On one Utah farm infested by the alfalfa weevil, English spar rows alone in one season fed to their young, it is estimated, 500,- 000 of the pests, making them about oue-third of the s diet of the growing birds. kinds of birds fe»d on tfie cotton-boll weevil, the greatest feathered' enemy of this pest being the orchard oriole. A single stomach of this kind of bird contained, u pou examination, 41 boll weevils. The green bug or wheat aphis also—bullet the department tell the storVV "On a 200-acre farm in North Carolina, where wheat, tfye, and oats were severely attacked by green bugs, it was found that the birds were very effective in de stroying the pests. The outbreak was at its height during the mi gration season of such birds as the goldfinch and the vesper and chip ping sparrows, which with other species on the farm numbered more than 3,000 individuals. It Was found that these birds were destroying green bugs at the rate of nearly 1,000,000 a day. and on days * when additional (locks of migrants, were present this de struction was doubled. During the season such numbers of birds Hocked to the grain fields that the aphis infestation was reduced by an incalculable nninber " Hardly an agricultural pest ex ists, the department states, but has numerious effective bird enemies. For instance, 25 kinds of birtis are known to feed upon the clover weevil and a like num ber on the potato bettle, 3t> on the codling moth, 46 on the gypsy moth, 49 on horseflies, 67 on lull bugs, 8a 6n clover-root borers, 98 on cutworms, 120 on leaf hoppers, and 168 on wire worms. "A classic instance of the con centration of bird attack upon an army of insect invaders," the de partment says, "occured during the severe outbreaks of the Rocky Mountain locust between 1805 and 1877. So numerous were these voracius pests that many places visited by them were de nuded of every green thing. A thorough investigation was made of the relations of birds to the outbreak, and it was found that practically every species, from the largest birds of prey to the tiniest humming birds,, from ducks and other aquatic fowl to typical bird denizens of the dry plains, turned to feeding upon' locusts. In fact, most birds gorged themselves with this abun dant supply of food, and fn doing so were the means* in numerous cases, of savfng crops troin des truction. Tanlac, that wonderful medi cine sold in Graham by Farrell Drug Co., Graham, N. C. A l'-iOO-horsepower biplane re cently completed contains a b»'h room with full equipment. A bull weiuhiug 3700 pounds was recently exhibited at H cattle show in Sydney, Australia. Two third* of the money spent for the construction of a modem battleship goes for the machiuery. American women have the most beautiful eyes in the world, says a London photographer. During the last 10 years the number of women wage earners in the United States has increased 50 per cent. The walls of the keep of Uie tower of Loudon are fifteen feet thick. Humming birds are not foutsd outside the Western Hemisphere. What became of the arms of Venus de Milo is still a mystery. first bottles Mere made of skin. , WORK OF RED CROS«. The Organization Finds Much to Do —Work Now as Important as Dur ing the Strife—Many Thousands of Ex Service Men Helped in Various Ways—Ten Millions Spent This Year; More Will be Needed for NexJ Year. Oue hundred and forty-four thousand, nine hundred mid ninety-four men who served in the armed forces of tho United •States during the World War have been aided in their fight to get back to normal life in the past six months by chapters of the .South ern Division of the American Red Cross. During the same period 21,280 disabled soldiers, still in the service, largely men who ai-o recovering in government hos pitals, have been helpad through the samo agency. These figures were given out by the Southern Division Headquarters for the first half year of its operations. In a great percentage of these cai-es, it was this work of the Red Cross which permitted thd veteran or the member of his family to recoive the monetary compensa tion that tho government is glad to give. When vhe time program for the year was outlined by offi cials of the Red Cross, it was de termined to make soldier relief work the paramount irffea of the organization. This WHS decided on for a two-fold reason The Red Cross is chartered to serve during periods of gre.it national stress or local disaster. The war had eud ed but the results were Still with the nation7~"Tfcte Red Cross conceived that it owed the same or a higher duty to the ex service man, who was struggling against, the handicaps of shell torn body, gas-eaten lungs, and artillery-racked brain in his bat tle to meet conditions of a practi cal world, that it gave so efficient ly when tha' same man was wear ing his uniform and fighting his country's fight. Again the Red Cross aealized that with the natural reaction from war conditions, the soldier and his cause must suffer unless some great humanizing agency took particular and sedulous care that this didn't happen. This work was carried on in the widest possible scope. Nos>ldier problem was too small; nor wore there any too large. The Red Cross was always willing to help in obtaining compensation voca tional training,hospital treatment, maintaining family ties while the veteran was recovering his useful ness, making the dull routine of hospital life endurable, finding employment,providing fhe human touch everywhere. And when the program for the new year is outlined, soldier work [will *gaiu be of paramount im portance. The number of dis abled men in govermeut hospitals is growing instead of diminishing with the renewed activity of the veterans bureau. Social work among the men who'served the nation becomes more imperatively necessary every month. This year $10,(HX),(X)0 was spent by the Red Cross in soldier relief Nextyear the appropriai ion for i his work will, of necessity, be larger. On that account the officials at Division Ileadqaurtersare expect ing and working for an unani mous response on the part of Southern people when the Red Cross Roll is called on November 11. * University Support University News Letter. Louisiana is now spnding a legislative appropriation of. 15,- 000,000 in the const ruction of new buildiug* on the campus of the state university. The working income of the university is this year one million dollar-. Alter 1046 the university will bo sup ported by a lislf mi!l tax on the general property of the state. Mississippi is spending the pro ceeds of a to,' (>O,OOO bond issue for institui ioual improvements, of which the university gets $750,- 000. Tennessee is now completing a $1,000,000 university improve ment program. The annual work ing income of the university is de rived from a half mill tax on the general prop >rty of the state. This year it is arouud a million dollars. Alabama has just (slnpleted university improvements amount ing to $600,000. One of the build ings is a commodious dormitory for women. North Carolina has recently authorized the sale of 10,500,000 in improvement bonds, of wh'ch the university will get $1,490,- (X 0. eorgia has spent only SIO,OOO in buildiugs at her university in ten years, despite the fact that this year she will have 1,500 ap plications for admission. She has dormitory facilities, three to a room, for only 250 stnd^ts. — Based on an article by James A. Ilollomau, in the Atlanta Consti tution. * New Source of Binder Twine Th« cultivation of sisal aud maguey for binder twine lias been promoted to Btich an extent by the" cooperation of the United States Department of Agriculture with the Philippine bureau of ag riculture that these fibers are looked upon as an extensive fu ture source of American supply. H. T. Edwards, specialist in fi ber plant production, reoently re turned from the PbUipfJines and Java, reports that 75,500 acres were devoted to maguey and sisal in the archipelago this year, and the yield was approximately 18, 178 metric tons of 2,200 pounds The value was about $1,704,000 in American money. Philippine maguey fiber for merly was used extensively by American binder-twine manufac tures. This fiber, which was cleaned by rotting the maguey leaves in salt water, fell into die favor when it was learned that binder twiiie made from the salty fiber was Subject to the attack of insects. The Department of in cooperation with the Philippine bureau of agriculture, purchased three modem fiber-cleaning ma chines, with which they demon strated that maguey can be clean ed profitably by machines and without the use of Halt water. As a resnlt of this cooperative Gov ernment work, aided by private enterprise, 18 machines have been imported, aud machine cleaning of maguey and sisal fiber in the Philippine Islands is now estab lished on a commercial basis. While the quality of binder twine fiber now raised in the Philippines is only a drop in the bucket compared with American and world demand, the depart ment authorities believe the dev elopment of the industry promises a future output which will relieve American manufacturers of the present almost absolute depend ence on Yucatan, where internal and. international conditions have sometimes imperiled the Amer ican supply. t The department is encouraging the substitution of sisal for the more commonly cultivated mag uey. IT'S A MISTAKE Madr Hy Many (iraham KenldeliU. Many people in a misguided effort to get rid of kidney backache, rely on plasters, linimeuts and other make-shifts. The right treatment in kidney treatment and a remarkably recommended kidney medicine is Doan's Kidney l'lUs. Graham is no exception. The proof is at your very door. The following is an experience typi cal of the work of Doan's Kidney Pills iu Graham. Ask your neighbor. Mrs. Bettie L. Pickard, VV7 Elm St., says, "About two years agj I was troubled with a dull nag ging pain in the small of my back. 1 was very nevous and dizzy and black specks Dlurred my sight. The kidney secretions passed irregu larly, too. When Doan's kidney Kidney Pills were recommended to me, I got a box from Graham Drug Co., and they cure the back aches and rid me o( the dizzin •»«. I can't praise Doan's highly enough. Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't Eimply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's * Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Pickard had. Poster-Mil burn Co, Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. A French scientist his shown that an X-ray »pi>aratus can pho tograph objects through a stone wall more than 25 feet away. A bankrupt in F ance loses all rights of citizenship and regains them after he has paid all his debts. The United States is the great est cattle-raising country in the world. Clocks regulated and operated by water power are common in China. SHATK or OHIO CITY or Toi.ano I LUCAS 0«U O TT. Frank J. Ulieney makes oatn that be Is senior partner ef the tUm of K. J. Cheney k Co., doing business In the city of Toledo, county and State aloresald, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every ease of Catarrh thst cannot be cuicd by the u»e of Hall's Catarrh Cure, FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before be and subscribed In my presence, this Bth day of December, A. I)., F»8B A. W. Q LEA-ON. [Seall Notary Public, Hall's Catarrh Medicine In taken Internally and act through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Sond lor testimo nials free K. J. CLTL'.NKV & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all OruvKlst*, 75c. Hall's Family I*l IJ* (or constipation Land Sale. Pursuant to an order of the Superior Court made in a special proceeding therein .pend ing, entitled "R. P. Braxton and others vs. Kate Braxton and others," whereto all the de visee 3 of the late J. W. Braxton and owners and tenants in com mon of the real property here inafter described are duly con stituted parties, the undersigned Commissioner will offer for sale to the highest bidder at public auction at the courthouse door in Graham, on MONDAY, NOV. 14, 1921, at 12:00 o'clock, noon, all of the following, described real property, to-wit: -Two certain tracts or parcels of Jand in Alamance county, North Carolina, adjoiuing the lands of Wm. Hadley, J. W. Whitehead and others, and fully described by metes and bounds. The first tract con taining 38 acres and the second 43 acres, more or less. There has been sold off from the 43 acre tract a one-half acre lot to the Trustees of Center School. Another tract described as follows: Two certain tracts or parcels of land in Chatham (now Alamance) county and ad joining the lauds of J. M. Lind ley, the waters of Cane Creek and others, containing 1 acres, more or less. Also that lot oiland in Chat ham (now Alamance) county on the waters of (Dane Creek, ad joining the lands of John Wright and containing 18 acres, more or less. " Another lot or parcel of land lying in said county of Chatham (now Alamance) on ths waters of Cane Creek, adjoining the lands J. M. Lindley and others and containing '22 i acres,more or less. The above descril>ed tracts of land go to make up and consti tute the real property owned by the late J. W. Braxton at the time of his death, and' includes his home place. This real prop erty will be offered for sale free and clear of the dowery estate of Kate Braxton, the widow of J. W. Braxton This property will be offeied for sale tifwt in separate lots as above described and then iis a 'whole, and the bid or bids will lx; reported to the Court which nets the larger amount. Terras of Sale—The purchaser will l»o required to pay one third of his bid in cash on date of sale and the other two thirds in equal installments within six and twelve months, deferred payments to l>ear interest from date of sale uutill paid. Sala made subject to advance bids and confirmation by the Court, and the title to be reserved until the purchase price is fully paid. This 11th day of Oct., 1921. J. DOLPH LONG, Commissioner. NO. 38 Facts of Interest Briefly Stated. The l-Qots of a j'oung oak have been known to lift a block of granite. Certain species of ants k those that refuse to share £h food supplies in time of war. A Morinan tomple, second size to that of Salt Lake City, being planned for Mesa, Ariz. The ability to read and write one of the requirements for vote in the republic of Portugal. More than 5,000 churches in America show moving pictures to their congregations. A North Dakota prison has a newspaper called the "Messen ger," published and edited by its prisoners. Cannibalistic beetles are being imported from Japan to destroy certain leaf-eating beetles of the Eastern States. A woman 5 feet 8 inches in height should properly weigh about 155 pounds. One 5 feet 9 inches tall could reasonably weigh 163 pounds. Natural gas and coal gas are both combustible frames, but are not identical. The muniorpal authorities of Cassel, Germany,are usjjig poison gas to rid the city of bed-bugs. During a recent heavy snow storm in Red field, Dakota, twelve automobiles were b'own into the lake. The inventor of mutes' sign talk was l.'Abbe De, L'Epee of France, born 200 years ago. For use iu the dark, a new fount ain ptti is equipped with a small electric light. Nearly twice as many people are killed yearly by automobiles as by trains. PROFESSIONAL CARDB THOMAS D» COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, GRAHAM, N. C, OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham,.N. £. Office over Few-ell Drug Co. , Hours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to 'J p. mi, and by appointment. I'hone 07 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: It to 11 a. m. , and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephone*: Office HO— He«idence 264 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. * Dftlcc over National Bank ol Ala—a— T. S. OOOE, Attorney -at-La«, ♦ RAHAM. .... N. C Offloo Pattaraon Building Heoond Floor. . . , '(!!. WILIA JR. . . DENTIST . : : Wa*a«t - - North Carolina 'FFICK in -f.M MOVJ PUILDINO J. I.I,Mi:H l'i>G LOOIKC.AUBSI Durban, C*. (iriliim, K.C> LONG & ALLEN, iinl 'OAN»M»LNR«( HI I ,•«' •iM&HAAI * ; PA T E NTS OBTAINED. 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