VOL. XLVII On Tuesday, v Dec. 6th, Extra / Session Convenes Gov. Opposed to Board of Pardons — Eight-cent Car Fare For Raleigh , Jan. 1st —Fare 10 cts. in Concord. POLL TAX CANNOT BE USED FOR ROAD BUILDING. Only $2.00 on Poll Can be Levied; and Limit in Towns is SI.OO. Raleigh, Nov. 29.—Next week this time the ''extry" session of the legislature will be in session. Its coming is not bringing much excitement, as everybody expects it to perform the necessary legis lation which calls it go home. Of course, there will be a little "tinkering" done here and there between times, but the member who attempts to spring any general line of new legislation at this session will not get very far with it. Two weeks is the span of life which seems to be allotted the "extry." No serious attempt will be made to have another try-out over the state censorship of movie pictures and other long-winded left-overs of the last session. The Gover nor's opposition to the proposed Amendment to the Constitution providing for a board of pardons (with or without the lieutenant governor as its head) appears to have already effectually killed the "movement" launched by the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Another hurdle which it couldn't make was the fact that the pres ent lieutenant-governor (a very busy man) and those to come after him vrould not relish having a thing like that forced on him. There have been suggestions and "movement#" galore in a dozen legislatures already to put over a pardon board, and at no time has the project ever boen in sight of goal. The state doesn't want it and is opposed as much as ever to abolishing caoital punish ment. Y Eight-Cent Car Pare. The State Corporation Commis sion having approved the petition which has been before it for more than a year to increase the street car fare in Raleigh from 7 to 8 cents, effective January I*, 1922, other towns may expect to loosen up ere long. It has been shown that the street; railway companies in most of the towns and cities hav«- been hit. so hard by the increas ing nse of motor cars aud jit ney car service, that they have been on the ragged edge of existence for some time. The City of R*i eigh, the Chamber of Commen t, and the union labtfr newspap" r here all withdrew opposition to the increased fare, which hasten-1 ed the action of the Corporal ion | Commission, in deciding to make the belated decision. In ConeoiU, where the street car Bervice went out of business, it was urged f«S resume and try a 10-cent fare, J which it is now exacting. Thou sands of mill ha|»ds and other! workers*thcre had rather pay 10 cents than be forced to walk a mil© or more to tftid from work every day. Important Matters Decided by Supreme Court Poll tax clnnot be applied lo road building, holds Chief Jnstiee Walter Clark, of the North Caro lina Supreme Court, in a concur ring opionion in the of Ballon vs. Road CommissioueiP, from Ashe, decided atrain-i the valmuy of bonds for road buil linjf. The opinion of tht - court makes also, the following important rulings. ' - "As we now have a declared legislative policy of incurring an indebtedness of 150,000,0 0 for the construction and maintenance, THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. of roads, it is well to note that however laudable snch purpose may be, the legislature is explicit ly forbidden by the Con«t itution to derfcre any funds for t hat pur pose from the collection of a poll tax. "There were formerly conflict ing decisions owing to t he require ment of an 'equation ot' taxation' between the poll , and property taxes whether wh6n th» lax .x --ceeded 66 2-3 cents on the hun dred dollars on the property the poll tax could be collected to an amount in excess of $2, mid whether such excess could then be applied to other purposes than 'education and the support of the poor.' These conflicting decis ions have now ceased t» have any bearing because under the Consti tution as now amended the 'equa tion of taxation' between the poll and property has been stricken out. and the Constitution (Art. V, sec. 1) now reads: 'The General Assembly may levy a capitation tax on every malt* inhabitant of the state over 21 and under 50 years of age, which said tnx.shall not exceed and cities and towns may lew a capit ttion tax which shall not exceed sl. No other capitation tax shall be levied. 1 "Section 2 of that article of the Constitution, which pl-ovides that the proceeds of life stale and county capitation tax shall be ap plied to the purposes of education aud the support of tlm poor re mains unaltered, ;nil there i-an be no possible misunderstanding of the language of ibo Constitution which, as above quoted, says: 'No other capitation tax shall be levied.' It is al>o c ear from this language that no capitation tax can bo levied upon w.»men, or upon men except from 21 to 50 years of aue, and tUat. so much of this or any statute as provides for the leVy of any capitation tax for the maintenance and construction of roads is '"valid and must be disregarded " Lower Kates Ordered. In a i order of the Corporation Commission railroads in North Carolina were instructed to abide by a uniform freight rate on crushed stone, gravel and sand in carloa! lois between points in North Carolina. The order w is >rawn in the case of a number of granite, sand and gravel companies against the At lantic Coast L'ne, Carolina and Northwestern, Carolina, Clinch field & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Norfolk Southern, Seaboard Air Liue, Southern Had way, and Win ston-Salem Southbound. In this decision the rai'roads were order- to put injJ> effect on and after 'the scale of rates for single and joint application betsveen points in this state lo cated on defendant .carriers' lines as set forth in appeudix circular J«o 224, attached " Hotel ItateM Reduced. At a meeting in Raleigh of many traveling salesmen in connection w tli • ost E of . Raleigh, T. P. A., Ilnrrell 11. Marsh of Winston ,Salem, national hotel chairman, Wits present mid made an address on hotel conditions in North Caro lina and the proposed two-and-a half-cent mileage bill now before Congress. llu reported reductions in thw rates of a large number of hotels in the state and urued his hearers to give him more co-operation in his (Torts to get further conces sion* ruin the hot-I i. Mr. Marsh, ia discussing the proposed milroiid mileage tMMik bill, called attention to the lacf that if the railroads could af ford to haul theatrical people all ver the couutrv'ata 2i-centrate, it certainly seemed that some con ce.-«sio a Vould he made to the traveling men who created the hucine** for the railroads to ban dit*. He HIMO said that the rail roads s|>ecial rates to tourists from Ne* York to Southern Pines and other resorts in this and other stales, Mud they could not justify i lie exorbitant rate# the traveling iii*4ll were required to pay. L -it. ri from senators and Rep r. r. iiiai iv>« Puu expressing sym iptihy «ilit the traveling m'*u in their efforts for lower railroad r tied were read. Hun temperature was recently cecorded on the Persian i gulf by a thermometer which reg istered 187 degrees. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1921. Railroad Rates and Salaries. At a time when the question of railroad rates and wages has been brought to the attention of the people by a discussion of the Rail road Funding bill, and l>y the recent threatened strike of em ployees, Representative Parks (Detn., Ark.,) has made some il luminating remarks and present ed some interesting and variable statisticts on the subject. ■* He asserts that when the peak of high prices was passed and every business was charging off its losses and endeavoring to be gin anew, the railroads were the only concerns that refused to take their losses along with the rest of us. As a contributory cause of unemployment he cites that the lumber industry in his state, giv ing employment to thousands, has been almost destroyed on acceunt of freight rates; that it cost as much to ship a carload of lumber as it does to manufacture the lumber aud get it ready for ship ment. He gaye the following instances of shipments of fruit: ' A carload of cantaloupes ship ped to Pittsburgh sold for SSBO 20; freight, $301.10; after deducting drayage, commission, crating, etc , the grower received $33.17. On a carload shipped to Chi cago, which sold for $417.00, the I freight, commission, etc., was j 8371.80, leaving $45.74 for the| grower. He cited other cases in I which express rates were as pro portionately exorbitaut as the j freight rates. After referring to the recent re- j duction in wages of railway em ployees of 12 per cent last July, lie quoted the Labor Board as statiug that the average day's wages of all classes of railway employees was $4.54. In contrast to this, he gave a list of salaries of railway officials, first calling attention to the fact that Presi dent. Harding received $75,000 a year as the head of a great nation, j and seemed satisfied with his pay and his place. The following are extracts from the list : J. N. Dickinson, R- ceiver, C. R I. and P. Railway, $120,732.90. R. S. Lovett, Chairman. Ex-Coui, U. P. Railwayv~W k 04,104.10. J. Kruttschnitt, Chairman, Ex- Com. S. P. Railway, SBB,BOO 00. A. H. Smith, Prvs. New York Centray Railway, $78,300 (X). F.D. Underwood, President Erie Railway, $77,950 00. Walker D. Hines, Chairman, A. T. and S. F. Railway, $77,210.00. E P. Ripley, President A. T. aud S. F. Railway, $75,400.00. William 11. Trusdale, President D. L. and W. Railway, $75,399 88. Hale Holden, Pres. C. Is. and Q Railway, $05,000.00. A. J. Earling, President C. M. and S. P." Railway, $75,319.00, Samuel S. Rae, President Pa. Railway, $75,400.00. In addition to this, Representa tive Parks cites a loug list of other salaries in the SOO,OOO, $50,000, $40,(00, ,$30,000 ami $20,000 classes. The relation of these salaries and of freight rates to the ques tion of taxation, co%t, of living and to the great problem of unemploy ment is obvious. Representative P.trks declares that reduction in pay of .aitway employees should i>e«in with the highly paid officials and not with the mechanics and day laborers. Cutting Off Employes On Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, the executive branch of the national government had 917,769 employes on iu payroll. This had been cut to 597,482 on July 31, 1921, says the Civil Service Commission. It took the cominiss : on three months to com pile that figure, indicating the need of a better bookkeeping sys tem. The total of federal employes whom the taxpayers have to sup port is getting back near normal very slowly. Still, they are being fired at the rate of 200 a day. That helps. Tanlac is manufactured in one of the largest and most modern ly equipped laboratories in this coun try. —Sold by Farrell Drug Co.\ Graham, N. C. One-fifth of the medical stu den to i a London are women. COL. ASHBY L. BAKER DIES IN RALEIGH Passed Away Friday Morning—Was Owner of Virginia Cotton Mills at Swepsonville-Had Large Business Interests. Of this well known and esteem ed business man and citizen the Raleigh Times says. Colonel Ashby L. Baker, one of the most widely known busi ness men and cotton mill owners of North Carolina and a man who has been closely identified with many movements for the upbuild ing of Raleiph, died at his home »n llillsboro Street Friday moru iug at 8 o'clock It was jusc three weeks before that Colonel and Mr*. Baker re turned from New York where they had spent the summer, Col onel Baker going there the first of May for treatment in a hospital. Since his return ..he had grown gradually weaker until his death eame Friday .morning. The funeral service was held at Christ Church, of which he was a member, Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock and interment WHS in Oak wood Cemetery. Born in Baltimore in 1802 Colo nel 11 iker win ftfry-niue years of rtt'e on the fifth of November Ho was the son of the late Charles J. Baker, former,y one of Balti more's most prominent 'citizens. Colonel Maker, came to Raleigh in 189.'} and married Miss Virginia MR Aden, a uiece of Mrs. Swepson of this city. Her death occurred a few years after their marriage aiuf he later married Miss Minnie Tucker, of who with two sons, Ashby. Lee, Jr., and Julian Tucker Baker,survive him. Besides his widow and two sons Colonel Baker is survived »»v three brothers and one sister, Frank Baker, R J. Baker, Will iam Mrs. Bradenburgh, all ol Baltimore. Ben Bakes, of Raletgh, is a nephew. Colonel linker's business inter, es" were chiefly in Virginia Cot ton Mills >f Swepsouville of which he WHS presick-iit and owner, lie was president of th» Commercial Building Company, of Raleigh, president of the Carolina Country Club and WHS a director and one of the main movers in the estab lishment of the Commercial Na tional Dank. He w«s one of tha most interested and active mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he had been president. He was a member of the Capital Club and of the Kiwanis Club. During the war Colonel Ilaker was interested in all forms of war work and he was a liberal sub scriber and supporter of every movement for the upbuilding of the city. A man of handsome ap pearance, fine physique, culture and refinement, with the good of the city at heart he had held a large place not only in the busi ness but in the social life of Ra leigh. Money Postal savings banks now have deposits of about $150,000,000. Other banks have deposit* 85 times as big. Many bankers opposed postal savings banks when they were started. Time has proved that the postal banks' champions were right in their contention that pos tal banks would attract chiefly otherwise hidden behind the clock instead of cutting into deposits in privately-run banks. First modern battleship to cost more than $5,000,010 v'hs the British ship Inflexible, built in 1881. Oysters are tfood during any month with an "r" unless captured during a month without an "r." Elephants sleep only about five hours a day. There la more Cats-ran tn ibl» section of tiie country than *!i other dlwuses put to gether. and until vfte I »l lew year* wait sup posed lo be IM-urst.l. for a Krut many year* doctors |ir>noiii,wi It a local dtaeaae and prvscrtliea local nmediea. jud by con stantly tailuiK U> cure wits treatment, rrououuced It Incurable. liaa |.roven ainrtli li. be ■ Cutis'liutio'Ml disease, and there!' re re|Ulr>-• cU'iell'tltlo a! triattuent. Hail • Catarrh Lute, manufactured by K J. rtieney A CO.. Toledo, Ufclo, is tlie only Con- HtltuOonal cure on tneiuaiket. It 1s lakeu internally In d»i»a iroin lo drop* to a tea •■iMx.nfui. It »ei» cirectly on the blood and muc'-uanurflcoiiif the onten They offer one hundred dollar* tor nor c«we It full* to care, bend for circular* and teatlmonlaJa. Address: V. J. CH KS KV4 t.O„ Toledo. Ohio. Mold by l>ruKKl«t«: 75c. T*k» Hall's Family Pill* lor oon«Upa- Hunters Violate Law; Pay Dearly For "Sport." Activity of Federal game war dens in «nforcing the provisions of the migratory bird treaty act resulted in 57 convictions during October and the imposition of fines upon offenders totaling sl,- 282, according tt> reports to the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. In additiou, in many instances costs greater than the fines were im posed by the courts, and in one case- -that of an offender who offered two wild ducks for sale in .South Caroliua —a jail sentence of 3 months was meted out and a fine of S2OO imposed. Ip addition to the foregoing, 108 cases of alleged violation of the law were t reported by Federal game wardens to the authorities for prosecution. Offenses against the law with iu October varid greatly. # A hotel keeper in Missouri who sold ducks to his guests was fined SSO; a vender of aigrettcfa in Virginia was fined $25; two h ante is in North Carolina who shot ducks from a mot or boat were fined SSO each and costs, while three Mary land hunters, convicted of the same offense, escaped with fines of $2 each; a man iu Illinois who captured wild ducks alive was fined $lO and costs of 828.87, while another man in the same State, convicted of hunting ducks during the close season, paid $25 fine and costs of s4l 77-for his illegal sport. Seven Mississippi hunters sought to bag ducks after •lark and were assessed fines of $lO and costs of 827 tytch. sportsmen in Georgia went after doves during the close season, and were relieved by the court of 830 apiece. Story of Columbias, New American Sheep. The Columbia, a new type of sheep .developed by the United States Department of Agriculture by crossing the Lincoln and the Rambouillet, is demonstrating its value for mutton and wool pro duction on the ranges of the West. The story of how this new type was developed wilj be shown graphically. The work of producing this-spe cial type for conditions in the big sheep-growing area has been going foward since 1912. It wasstarted near Laramie, Wyo.; and contin ued there uutil transferred to the United States Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho, in 1917, where the work has been continued on a 28,000-acre tract since that time. A few figures will show conclusively to the sheep raiser the possibilities of the Coluinbias as meat and wool producers. The average mature rain under range conditions weighs from 200 to 250 pounds, the ewes from 125 to 150 pounds. The fleeces in the 1920 clip averaged 10 ]K>unds,and the acual shrink was only 48 per cent. This wool graded three oighths and one-fourth blood combing—a very salable wool in normal times. Last spring the number of lambs born alive for for every 100 ewe»* ( bred was 98 — a good percentage uuder range conditions. At an average age of 3 L'-.'i months the lambs weighed 72 pound* on the range. Lambs of the [>own or black-faced breeds riii ei] on farms invariably weigh no more than th'sat, 4$ months Sheepmen of the range' States have shown a great interest in the Columbia as it seems to promise greater profits to range mutton and wool growers. You? I Of those Americans 21 years or older, 51,421,832 were citizens Inst year, hence entitfed lo vote, says the census. I low many actnally voted for president? Exactly 26,661,060! Figure it out yourself. More than half ot those who illicit have voted for president failed to vole. This means, gov ernment by minority. More than half the students at Yale are partially or wholly self supporting. Spider,9 inches round and with legs 17 inches long, was found recently in Sumatra. Meat Making Important- Meat Eating More So. One of the great values of me it producing animals to the country is as salvagers of material that would oth( rwise go to waste. The making of meat is not, as sometimes contended, a wast« of food that might be used directly by humans with greater economy. Although animals, especially hogs, eat much corn and other grains that are used in one form or another by humans, they con sume them along wiyh large quanities of such course feeds as grass, hay, cornstalks, cereal by products, straw, cottonseed meal, oil meal, fish meal, tankage, and silage. Witfiout our great herds of live stock a considerable share of the plant products grown each year woujd be wasted, yet on such feedsas most of those mentioned a man would soon starve. That in one side to the live stock question th:it ii brought o'it| in an exhibit devoted to meats. On tlio other hand,. im-af will bo shown us a food that "sticks to Ahe ribs" ami fulfills the demands of the laborer, (he brain worker, and the athlete. Attention will be called to the fact thai the most powerful nations in the world ire what might be termed the meat eaters and that while America lias been rising to her present eminent she has been one of the greatest con sumers of beef,pork, and mutton. But to get fromj meat, the essen tial elements r?rt' energy, growth, and repair it is not necessary to eat the most expensive cuts. The value of the cheaper cuts will be demonstrated, and the ways will bo shown for serving all sorts of meats in all kinds of appetizing forms. Western Revolt on Tax Bill The Republican tax revision bill satisfies no one. Senator Smoot's confession that it is a mere makeshift is an opinion shared by many ol his colleagues in both Houses, by the business world generally and by taxpayers large and small. It has been de nounced by Democratic leaders, comprising the only tax and tariff expert* in both Houses, as "the worst tax bill ever presented in any Congress." As passed by the Senate it contains 833 amend ments, largely in its administra tive features, which nobody un derstands, and although Repub lican Senators have been openly challenged on the floor to explain these amendments, none has had the temerity to attempt ati expla nation, although some have open ly confessed their ignorance. The few amendments that have improved the origiual bill were made by Democrat* and presented by a Democratic Senator. The one outstanding .-unendlneut was the 50 per cent higher surtax, later ac opted by the Republican Progressives and its acceptauce forced upon Chairman Penrose of the Finance Committee and his fellow-reactionaries in order to avert a pariy split. In the House the higher surt ix did cnuse_a split, when 94 Repub licatis voted with t e Democrats to nccep* the Henate amendment of 20 per cent instead of adhering to "the Hous> amendment of 32 per cent. 'l'llin vote* CiiM l> ft ires of hi* »Ai, ;i,u'i>, w«> .i ?>e vore bm leu , rv*"l f»-i»u«> to M*"".-- ident iir»i - tiitf_r, »ii'> iini i'|i"ioii Ilia obslrue' iv«- intern'renee Willi C'»lltfr""* bv ,» !»'.! i inn for t.lie 'i'J i»'*r cent ih*'\« hieh wc.old reliev»* mulli-;iiilio Miiri-n nuii pro lib-era only, h»l iiijj a .•uinprouiise of *|(» jer cent It IM Hi^uilii;tut lit it t.ts |ua- Kr«-»»ive Republican V»lH I «»r the higher hurt ax nil mint* front, the Went, and lriil\ n fl.-cuil the Hpirit of revolt against r«-a.:tioti ary Republicanism whieh w now prevalent throughout ili.it M-cIIOII an it WTHI in 1912. Lady Astor, England's lir»t wo man member of Parliament, is president of a "omau's football team. One hundred yp.trs a/o, people or Scotland paid 4U cants tor a pound of sugar. Tmins on Great Western rail ways go as high as 78.5 miles au hour at certain point* on the line. NO: 43 Women About 12,000,000 women are on payrolls in United States, saye a government report. That means, , one out of four workers are women Hud girls. Woman is becoming financially independent, bat the home is not in any great danger. Dan Capid atteuds to that. Typewriters book keeping, cash registers and fac tory benches lose their lure when nature calls for mori» babies. Smallest silver coin of the Uni ted States was three-cent piece issued between 1851 and 1873. Ordinary Loudon air contains black particles from 1-I,ooo'ooo to 1-2 ">,OOO inch in diameter. WHY WOMEN SUFFER. Many Graham Women are Learning the Caune. Women often suffer, not knowing the can he. Backache, headache, dizziness, nervousness. Irregular urinary passages, weak nesses, languor— Each a torture of itself. Together hint at weakened kid neys. Strike at the root —get to the cause. N" other remedy more highly en dorsed than Doan's Kidney Pills. Recommended hy thousands— Endorsed at home. Here's convincing testimony from a Graham citizen. Mrs. C. E. Moore, E. 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