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MEED FIVE MORE . NORMAL SCHOOLS ALLEN RECOMMENDS STEPS BE TAKEN TO GUARANTEE TEACHERS. Raleigh. Five additional normal schools with \a capacity of 400 students each are needed In North Carolina to meet the growing demand for teacher® caused by the great expansion of the school system in this State, according to the biennial report of A. T. Alien, super intendent of Public Instruction, recent, ly submitted to Governor Cameron Morrison. These institutions should not coet more than $900,000 each, according to the report. They could be maintained on an appropriation of $60,000 each per year. "If the estimates should prove er roneous," declares Mr. Allen, "and the output should exceed the demand, the curriculum of the normal school could be raised one year, which would both limit the output and improve the teaching force." ' In another section of the chapter on teache training Mr. Allen says: "The rapid development of the high schools has created annually for the last several years about three hundred new teaching positions. At present there are 2,483 whole time high school teachers In the white high schools of the State. Of these teachers 1,398 are college graduates. The institu tions of the State can place practic ally their whole output In the high schools to fill new positions and for replacements." . Figures quoted show that of 1,306 gradute from five classes of insti tution* In North Carolina in 1923, 738, or more than half, were teaching In 4923-24.' , . That the number of teachers In North Carolina public schools is rap 4dly Increasing Is shown by figures offered in the report. The number has from 12,970 to 16,397 in four ears, an average Increase of 9& teachers a year. The report shows that the work of raising the teaching standard has been going steadHy forward and that In 1924 there were more teachers holding standard certificates than there were white teachers of all kinds in 1920. Labor en Farms Scarce, j Diversification in farming, as prac tised by the farmers In many section* «f Norm Carolina Is proving a boon 'to these farmers, according to the .chapter on farm and farm labor of the biennial report of the Department of Labor and Printing which will be presented to the Governor and General Aasembhly and which was made pub lic here by Commissioner M. L Ship man. The commissioner added that this diversification planting had prov en a safeguard for the State and had enabled energetic fanners to reap th« benefits of double crops. Ths tendency on the part of farm labor to leavo for the urban centers still was affecting (he agricultural pur suits, according to Mr. Shopman. He asserted that wage opportunities had proven attractive to many and that as a result ths farmers still were com batting the shortage of farm labor which resulted from the continual exo dus. He added thaft It was doubtful It a sufficient number of workers would ha available for the farm work during the coming year, and that this short age of labor was proving to be a ser tons handicap and hindered develop ment to the utmost of the farming pos sibilities of the State. The good roads, added educational opportunities of the State and ths many modern convenlneces made available to the tanner*. Want Black Bass at New Hetslisry. Native black baas from ponds In eastern North Carolina will be used to stock ths new Btsdman Hatchery, ten miles from FayetteriUe, provided a sufficient number of them can be ob • mined, declared a letter from Chair man J. K. Dixon, of ths State Fisher ies Commission. Mature fish placed in hte hatechery in January, will enable ths Commission to bsgin ths distribu tion of small fish tor stocking ponds by sarty sunmsr. Chairman Dixon wishes to communi cate with owners of ponds from which stock miffbt be obtained, and requests that they write him whether they will he able to supply any fish. The com mission will pay for fish that can be used tor stocking purposes Details can be obtained by writing the Chair man at his offices In Morehesd City, (indicating ths approximate number of « fish that can be furnished. Hens Lay MMXXMIOO Eggs. Approxknateiy 566.100,000 eggs wsrs tayed by die •.•00,000 hens In North Caroltaa during the past ysar, accord tag to V. W. Lswis, livestock market ing specialist of the North Carolina sx dsnslon division. Five aad one half millioe of this hen population live In ,49m rural districts, to was said, while ths othar halt milMca lira la the back yards of cKy homes. Eleven per ceat « MM* of these baas Mr. Lswis "aristocrats." that is breedsd sapltn hat wfll lay lis seas ser rear. DOINGS IN THE TAR HEEL STATE NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA TOLD IN SHORT PARA GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLft Wilmington.—Hedry Reynolds, 60 ' year old negro, better known ai "Greasy," waa found dead drunk In Bast Wilmington, and shortly after ward a died in bed In a home near by. Louts burg.—Major J. B. Thomas, age 66, who was connected with the tobacco market here for forty year?, died at the hospital in Rocky Mount. He had been la failing health for a year or more. ' • Greensboro. —A warrant was isei ed here for W. H. Andrew, a crossing watchman of the Southern Railway here, charging that by neglect to low er the gate at the street crossing upon the approach of a passenger train, J. D Powell, of Ahoskie, was killed. Durham. —Peele Hackney, of Cleve land street, was painfully, but not seriously wounded in the left fool when a shotgunu fir-vl while he was ex amining the weapon. He is resting easily in Watts hospital. Burlington. • Two persons were severely cut by shattered glass when 1 coupe driven by M. H. Moore, caft proprietor, collided with a coupe driv en by Broady Burnett, a negro, at North Main and Holt streets. Burlington.—W. C. Heniee, 41. as Blatant city engineer of Columbia, S C.. fatally Injured Christmas day when his car collided with another just as H emerged from a covered bridge •panning Broad river, was a brothei of Mrs. H. P. Wyrick. of this city. Charlotte. —Plans for an SBO,OOO Sun. day School building are being made bj the Tryan Street Methodist Episcopal Church. South, here. The building wii! to* four stories high and when full) equipped the investment will be SIOO,- 000. High Point, —With many Christmas presents laying around him and with preparations completed by his pa rents to enjoy his first Yuletide sea con, Dafid Archie, nine-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A Qpzier, of 311 Cable street, was found dead In bed. Ha had apparently been dead for sev eral hours when the body was found. Goldsboro. —Miss Mary Elizabeth Morris, daughter of Mrs. Mary Morris of this city. Is among the honored at the North Carolina College for Wo men of which she is a student, having been selected as a member of the dele gation of the Dramatic Association which is to represent the college at a contest at the Nortwestern Univer sity of Chicago. The National Con rention of Association of Public Speech is conducting the contest. Oastonia. —Miss Estelle Ooxey, ol Loray section. West Gsstonia, was tak en to the city hospital suffering witi internal injuries and several body bruises received Tuesday night whec she was struck by a truck driven toy Charles Blackwood. She is in a ser lous condition according to hor attend ing physician. fyitherfordton. —The people of thli county are displeased with the Sea hoard Railroad taking off passenger trains Nos. 31 and S4 between Char lotte and this place. They feel that they are entitled to service sliwe they voted bonds many years ago to help build this road. They say that as a whole the Seaboard is making money. Asheville.—Mrs. Harriet E. Duckett, mother of A. L. Duckett, chief of the Ashevilie Ore department, died here after a long Illness. Had Mrs. Duckett ttck* until January 29, she would have reached her 83rd birthday. Robersonvllle. —The Christmas sptr .K of this entire community was chang ed to grief when Wilbur Adoiph Hall, aged 13, the only child of Rev. W. G. Hall, pastor of the tist church, died from lockjaw, while playing with one of his chums, a kittle over a week ago he was w J .ded in the right thigh by the discharging el a blank cartridge pistol. Rockingham.—Christmas sport was turnsd into stark tragedy when Ar . iur Martin, aged seventeen, shooting a new shotgun in an empty Held brought down a writhing wire charged with 13,040 voKs of electricity which brought Instant death to himeeif, a brother and a sister and injured an other brother. , Btatssvtlle.—Mrs. Gertrude Sides, of Kannapolls, daughter of Jule Carrlgan, of Statesville, was ran over and fatal ly injured toy-a car driven by Peter Parker, a young man. on Front street Mrs. Sides ran in front of Parker's car just as another automobile was passing la the.opposite direction and the driver did not pee the woman uflfUl within a few feet of her. Wilmington—Wholesale vaccination of court officials and attaches follow. '1 the discovery of a prisoner in Re corder* Court suffering from a weH developed case of smallpox. Recorder George Hairlsa and Solicitor J. A. McNorton and others soon were having vaodne administered to them as a preventive. Lexington.—Erastus Banting, aged about St. of this city, was killed when a eoupe ha was driving tamed ov»- on the Central Highway, four mi: south at Lexington. Protus Broadway, wte vat with Bunting, escaped with out serious injury. New Year's Eve in Good Old U. S. A. How Love Found a Way, Following Sinking of Big French Liner. By ELEANOR E. KINO J** HE "Superba" disaster had oc- curred on November 9. It was now well Into December. The Allisons, American passengers on their way home to the United States, were on the French liner at the time >of the sinking of the vessel. When, but two days away from the French port a fire broke out in the hold, which proved fatal to the ship. Now the Allisons were en route to England. This time, they were to sail on a Brlt ; lsh liner from London. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allison were ' passing the time, which hung heavily on their hands during their Journey to London, discussing previous events with their daughter, Felice. She, young, perhaps in her twenties, pre senting quite a striking spectacle with her black curly hair, and her dark brown eyes, was saying: "It seems to me If Wllmer were saved, he has surely had ample time to notify as." "Did you call at the American Ex press office In Paris before we left?" Inquired Mrs. Allison. "Yes, and the clerk Informed me Wllmer Daggett's' mall had not been called for In the last month. I have A Fir* Broke Out Which Proved Fatal to the Ship, tried In every way to locate him In Parts, hospitals and the like Included. I give up. The fact that bla mall la not called for ought to be sure enough proof be U not In Parts." "I will never forget," she began, pondering over previous happenings. "Wllmer, aa I last aaw him siandiag on the deck,,his huge frame, calm and aerene, silhouetted against the chaos round about him In the huge, brilliant masa of the fyirntng liner, as he helped erased and fainting women and children Into the lifeboats, speeding then to safety. 1 couldn't bear to look any longer. When l did glance back again, the nose of the flsmlog ship was burled fsr Into the ocean. It Is he should have come Into my life so abruptly, and then, only to vanish equally suddenly. It Is miraculous the way we were all spared," and her TOIC* trailed off Into silence. One more day and the British liner would land la the New York harfear. The voyage had been a very rough oaf, and the Allisons had had what Uttle food they ate served In their rooms. Toalght. however, found a calm after the storas. The Allisons made a heroic effort which resulted la the three being present at dinner la the dining raoas. I It belag New Year's era. some of tthe pawangfta had planned a Uttle entertainment for these oa board. iWhea the programs vara given eat that evealng. Fettcn's cheeks teat THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. GRAHAM, N. C. QTie lleuj IJear By Kaiherine Edelman (6 >ll4, Wutara Nmptpw Union.) Tue TUw *ear, little (MM ef bo*, v Cwrm froa tlx Bight, With coaragt Mob aid heart lereae, la robes of radlaace bright UMI lo tack oat bit coariag briagt Dtv hope and oMoa, too, Unwritten pagts to bt fined, Great tbiags to ptaa aad do. flushed pink then turned white; as she read, clutching her mother's arm, she stammered excitedly: "Mother, do you suppose—surely, there couldn't be two Wllmer Daggetts." Then started a frantic search of the crowd which refused to disclose the face of her Wllmer. In vain did her gaze pierce every nook and cor ner of the salon during the perform ance. She wished she could have had something to say about the printing of the programs. She would certainly have arranged It differently, so she would not have had to wait so long for this one most Important of all the selections. Every one seemed to be dragging out his part terribly. What would this Wllmer Daggett look UkeL She cduld not locate the face of the one she sought any place. Finally, a French door over at one side of the room opened to admit Wll mer Daggett, as his selection was an nounced from the platform. There he stood, the same old Wllmer Dag gett. Felice was so happy she couldnt tell which one was singing the loader, she or Wllmer. In fact, she conclud ed, It was a Well-balanced duet. The program hadn't stated It, but that Is what it turned out to be. It bad evidently been a huge suc cess with the audience, for they In sisted on an en eyre. Felice never realised what a wonderful voice she had been endowed with until now. What torture! She had not figured on all these encores. Why did he not pick out something shorter? To be sure, he didn't know he was keeping Felice waiting. Ah! At last, he was leaving the platform. Hardly knowing what she did. she flew Into his arms. The con cert held no further attraction for Felice and Wllmer. As soon as they were away from the crowd, and Wll mer had recovered from the shock of the surprise, * Felice commenced her siege of questions. "Where have you been? We thought you had gone down with' the boat. We could get no trace of you In Parts. Just think; we searched the city and surrounding towns with co avail. How does It happen T* "You see I was hurt a tittle that night of the disaster," Wllmer ex plained; "an English freighter came along the next morning and picked up oar boat load. In tt was only one other passenger besides myself, and the rest were members of the ship's crew. When we arrived In England. I waa pat In a London hospital, where I stayed for almost three weeks. They told sse I had some broken bones; I seemed to feel all right." "That Is Jast like you. Wllmer," broke forth Felice, protestlngty. "I thought yoa mast have sailed sboat two or three weeks ago." con tinued Wllmer. "And there I, spent those weeks try ing to find oat whether yoa ware dead or alive." . "Anyway. FaUcet" Wllmer added, slipping his arm arooad her. "by SOOM good fortune ore ware galdsd to the SUM boat end hsre we are tonight" An intermission of several minutes followed. The next afternoon. New Year's day, found Felice and Wllmer on the deck watching for the New York har bor. As darkness began to close In on them they could discern a few lights in the distance. Then the light* out lined shapes and before long, New York with its many skyscrapers and multi tude of people, loomed not far before them. They watched the wonderful skyline as it grew plainer and more complicated each minute. As they came closer, that most magnificent of all magnificent sights presented itself, silhouetted against the darkness and lesser lights of the buildings. ' "In her cloak of ermine, a recent gift from the clouds for the Christ mas festivities, with all the dignity, majesty and grandeur a woman can possess, stands this huge figure of Liberty, a symbol to all those who They Watched the Wonderful Skyline as It Grew Plainer. may come into our country, of the standards which oar fellow country men uphold, Felice," breathed Wll mer, awe-stricken at the sight of this old familiar statue. 'Think bow this sight must impress the foreigner who Is landing here for the first time. I never saw that statne In quite that light before. It Is gorgeous, supreme. Isn't It wonder ful T Felice, here we are together, arriving safely this time, to start the New Year right. In the good old U. 8. A." (C. till. Waatara Ntvaptp«r Ualoa.) Where the New Year b Born 4|PHE looely Chatham Island, lying in the South Pacific ocean, may be deacrlbed aa the birthplace of each ne wyear, and the handful of Brltlabera who lnliablt the place are the flr»t to welcome It in, saya the Manchester Guardian. Lying nearly, on the meridian oppo site to that of Greenwich, and some 40 miles east of New Zealand, this island has been chosen as the spot where. the day the critical meridian which decides the birth of each day. and of each year being ar bitrarily laid down almost entirely In the waters of the ocean. Prom Chath am Island the new year wings Its way te the tiny Antipodes islands and thence to the mainland of New Zeal and and across. Australia and Ada to Europe, arriving la the British Isles at midnight exactly twelve hours old. IVM Tsar Rmwolmtiom "Are you expecting any disorder on New Year's Brel" "No, air," answered Cactus Joe "In order, to pnoern the Gulch's reputa tion as a peaceable community we have all dectdsd to leave bene an' give Snake KlAge a few lessons la how to make another start la Ufa." HOUSE DEMIES APPROPRATIONS $11,000,000 TO ENFORCE PROHIBI TION LAW DURING 1925. ' Wa&hllieton.—Provision in the treat ury-postoffice appropriation bill fo| expenditure of $11,000,000 for prohlbi« tdon enforcement during the coming flscail year was approved by the house. No effort was made to alter the amount which is $341,770 less than thq antiount available this year but $783,- 120 more than budget estimates. The house also .approved without amendment an allotment of $20,597,- 835 for coast guard aotivitles, part of which would be available for curbing rum running. This amount is sll.* 753,706 more than the total appro priated for this year. Rapid progress was made with con sideration of the bill, which is the lar gest peace-time supply measure ever before Congress, carrying nearly three quarters of a billion dollars. Prohibition enforcement was as sailed dqring the debate. Represent ative Hill, republican, Maryland, com plained about the cost which he de clared Would exceed $28,000,000 dur ing the coming fiscal year, while Rep resentative Laguardia, republican, New York, declared three or four times as much money as is now being spent must 'be made available for en forcement activities if the federal gov ernment is to get any where. Other provisions in the appropria tion bill approved by the house were those aHoting $16,656,200 for the cue toms service, $7,271,530 for the' bu reau of engraving. and printing and $9,- 103,101 for the public health'service. Widow Accused of Killing Four. Logansport, Ind. —Refusing to an swer questions regarding the deaths of four members of her family but talking volubly of alleged 1H treatment at their hands, Mrs. Emma Hobough, 30, a widow, rested in the county jail here. She was arrested by Sheriff Wal ter Bowyer at the' home of Thomas Sheets, about four miles from the Bassler home, where shortly after noon, Henry Bassler, 69, Mrs. Ho bough's father; Catherine Bassler, 60, her mother; John Bassler, 22, hei brother, and Viola Hobough, aged 3, her daughter, were found with theii heads partly blown away by shotgun charges. • >. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Hobough had made her home with her parents and brother near the vil lage of Metea, near here. She visited the home of Lyman Yantis and called on the telephone the Rev. Henry Mul 11ns, pastor of the West Ryan Meth odist church of this city. Yantis as serted Mrs. Hobough told the minister her brother had knocked her down find that if she had a shotgun she would kill him. Yantis said he paid little heed* to the woman's threat at the family quarreleid continually. When neighbors fadled to observe any signs of life about the Bassler home they Investigated and found the bodies of the elder Bassler and his granddaughter in the home and after a further search the bodies of Mrs. Bassler and her son were found in the barn lot, some distance from tht house. Firing Squads lit China Execute 489. Peking.—Four hundred and 89 loot era and incendiarists, found with their loot in the railway statjon at Kalgan have been tried and executed accord lng to what purports to be an official .report of thq military chief ot the Cha hahar districts, made public here. The men were shot. It was stated, In the interest of military discipline. Two regimental and three battalion officers admitted taking part In the mutuny and looting of December IS, the report nU. Whether they were shot with the others *wss not made clew." The chief of staff at Kalgan and other officers having only slight con cern with the looting, it was declared, are being held for future disposition by the military court. In addition, the mutinous brigade has been ordered disbanded and orderi issued for apprehension of mutineers who escaped capture. French Chamber Delays Vots. Paris. —On a vote in the chamber the discussion of an interpellation on th« prosecution of the newspapers Ls LJherte and L'Eclair for the publica tion of alleged secret governmental documents, was postponed Indefinitely The left groups lines op solidly behind the government, whHe the entire oppo sition abstained from voting; thus tha vote was SOS to 0. May Uss Moon's Energy. Chicago—The moon has agricultural possibilities which sometimes may heir solve the food problems of the earth, Harold Hotelllng. of the food re search bureau of Leland Stanford. Jr. University, told the convention of the American Statistical association. "From what we know the Hie oper a Lion of atomic energy," be said, "It la a perfsrtiy good possibility thai sometime In the totars we stay be able to exploit the scricnltnrnal resources of %• moon." _ WOMAN SO ILL WASHED DISHES SITTING OOWN Mrs. Ashcroff• Remarkable Recovery After Taking Lydia E. Pink! ham's Vegetable Compound Covington, Ky.—"l was so weak and nervous I could hardly do my housework rjSJSESSaSEsTI M * could not stand because of the bear back and abdomen. I sat down most of OTH the time anddidwhat m -■ A I could do in that "3BWW W *y—* B washing dishes, etc. One day ' « book describing jr" Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines was put Hk? ; my mail-box. I BslsUsaw how the Vege table Compound had helped others so I gave it a trial. I bad to take about a dozen bottles before I gained my strength bat I certainly praise this medicine. Then I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood medicine for poor blood. I was cold all the time. I would be so cold I could hardly sit still and in the palms of my hands there would be drops of sweat. I also used the Sanative Wash and I recommend it also. You may publish this letter and I will gladly answer let ters from women andadvuemvneigh bors about these medicines. • —Mrs. HARRY ASHCROFT, 632 Beech Avenue, Covington, Kentucky. Great Carol's Centenary "Silent Night, Holy Night." for many decades the favorite Christmas carol of Germany, meets with particular de votion this Christmas, It being one hundred years old this year. The occasional use of Roman Eye Balaam: at night will prevent and relieve tired eye® and eye atValn. 372 Pearl St., N. T. Adv. If one gets many letters, there are sure to be some unpleasant ones among them. Hall** Catarrh Medicine rid your syttem of Catarrh or Deafho* caused by Catarrh. Sold toy for *0 ymm P. J. 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