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THE GLEANER 188UID EVKItY THURSDAY. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered at tne Postoffloe at Orahem. N. Ci.. as Becm.d-olaM matter GRAHAM. N. C., MAR. 7, 1929. Hoover Inaugurated. President-elect Herbert C. Hoov er was duly inducted into office at noon Monday by taking the pre scribed oath administered by Chief Justice Howard Taft. The ceremonies were the most colorful and pretentious ever wit nessed in Washington. The newspapers tell us that a drenching rain fell during most of the ceremonies, but that the thous ands of spectators were undaunted. Following the taking of the oath, Mr. Hoover delivered his inaugural address. He made the prelimi naries brief, then plunged into the serious part of his address, stating what he had to say in a direct and matter of fact way without rhetoric embellishment. He, of course, ailuaea oneny 10 our country at large, Its relations with other countries and some of the things he stood for in our national life. But the leading thought and ex pression was that he was an exe cutive officer for the enforcement of law. and he made it plain that It was his intention to enforce law to the extent of his abilities. If he shall do as well as he enun ciated he will please the law abiding element of all classes. President Hoover has issued the call for the extra session of Con gress, promised during the cam paign, to convene on April 15th. It will consider farm relief, a re vision of the tariff and flood con trol. Mexico is In the midst of a revo lution?really that 1 s Mexico's normal condition. This time It got a pretty good start, but the Feder alists. or government. Is getting it In hand. Here Is a job for Hoover diplomacy right on the start. In selecting his cabinet Mr. Hoover did not turn Southward, notwithstanding this section helped In the largest measure ever to swell his electoral vote. Some were chagrined, but are hoping he will make up for It some other day. Mr. Coolidge bade adieu to of ficial life In Washington Monday evening and betook himself to the shades of private life at his old home, at Northampton, Mass. He will, if all reports are reliable, give himself over to magazine writing. He is not an orator, but may turn out to be a surprising success as a writer?at least, he has one In centive to be the latter, for report has gained currency that he has been retained at $25,000 per year and is to receive $1.00 a word for his writings. It matters lnttle how Calvin Coolldge Is reckoned as president. He held the office lor a full term and nearly another, and would have been elected again, but he did "not choose" to be a candidate again. The people had confidence In his sincerity and Integrity. He was not a positive character at president He did not talk enough to invkoe bitter antagonisms, but he had views and when Congress went countered to them he used the veto On the other hand he seems k have had no real soulful lntlmatei to whom he revealed his Inmost thoughts and purposes. Express ing It In ordinary every day lan guage, he was pretty well content . to mind his own business?was not meddlesome. He staged no grand stand affairs. He was reared ii New England among the hills o: Vermont and saw little of the vas domain over which he presided. HI was a quiet dignity that wai neither magnetic nor repulsive. Hi returns to private life with the goo< wishes of his countrymen. 1 Raising Revenue. ] One of the solons at Raleigh for the sake of getting more revenue has proposed a tax of $25 on school teachers. I National as well as State legis lators. some of them, appear to be ' seized with a mania, Immediately they are elected, for looking up sub- ( jects for taxation. Were it not for t the sane ones who conceive it their 1 duty to relieve the people of tax burdens as far as possible, the' ( other fellows would for specious reasons tax bald heads as well as t those covered with a plentiful ' adornment. At one time In the old countries t the window glass In the home were t taxed. The custom may have ob- i talned in this country In Colonial ! times, but of that we are not pre pared to say definitely. Such is by ] Indirection a tax on the rays of the ] sun. Taxing school teachers so 'much per would be placing an embargo', on education, the promotion of . which no more serious problem from many angles has confronted the now almost expiring Legisla tion of 1929. ' 1 Perhaps Senator Person, the pro- ? pounder of the proposition, was f only pulling a stunt or putting up ' a bluS not meant to be taken seriously. 1 On all fours with the school teacher tax, the following subjects are suggested: The wearing apparel, Inclusive ' from head to foot, so much per above a change, the per Increasing with each additional change: The volumes In a private library ' In the same manner as wearing apparel; Horses, mules, cows, hogs, sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, geese, 1 guineas, et cotera, for conservation of food crops, idem; Telegraph, telephone, electric light poles and such, to check de forestation, idem; The number of rooms in a dwell ing and number of beds maintain ed, to check extravagance and pro mote thrift, idem; The number pf bushels of grain, potatoes, turnips, etc., grown per acre or on a farm, to prevent over production, Idem; The kind and number of plows and other Implements used on a farm, to prevent over-working the' soil as well as the manufacturer. Idem, The ruffles in a shirt front, the plaits in a dress, the flounces In a petticoat, to encourage plain dress-j lng, Idem; And a thousand and one other! things, ad Infinitum et nauseum. For anyone else who has a mind to pursue this subject of taxation matter further, let us mention a few more subjects, leaving the rea sons, or grounds of limitation there for, to the genius or Inclination of any who may in any wise be inter ested, namely: Household pets, such as dogs, cats, white mice and canary birds; automobiles, wagons, buggies, wheelbarrows; all kinds of musical Instruments; Bibles and prayer and song books; wash tubs and clothes pins; empty demi johns and obsolete decanters. Here we are on the rampage for taxes?revenue, if you please. Let nothing, material or immaterial, ? useful or ornamental, tangible or in : tangible, slip through the meshes : of the tax net , Mr. Hoover has said something , about flood control In Florida. He > took a look at the situation there, t and encouraged the idea. Flori dlans were very clever to him on > the 6th of November and since, and i he must needs show some evidence t of appreciation. If only a gesture. One dollar a word for his maga t sine articles is the compensation ^ that Mr Coolldge la to receive. Many a writer grinds out hun ) dreds of words for a dollar, or less. f But "many a writer" has never t been president of the greatest Re t public In the world. There's a dlf t ference. " Forty-two farm boys recently 1 Joined the 4-H corn club of Halifax coontj. Did You Ever Stop To Think (Copyright 1928) iy KiIhod RWaite. Shawnee, Okla. Homer Guck, General Manager >f The San Francisco Examiner, ays: That the application o f the Solclcn Rule to modern business >artlcularly the newspaper busi ress. is without question the iposl instructive and the most progres iive step in recent business prac Jce. Twenty years ago newspapers hrived on building circulation on intagonisms. Today the under handing of the commercial valu )f friendships is doing more fo he service of newspaper readei. han any other one-thing, likewise t is proving commercially profit ible. THE EVIDENCE OF THE TROT" W THIS STATEMENT IS SEE WERY DAY NOT ONLY IN TH EDITORIAL AND NEWS COL JMNS. BUT MORE CONSPICIOU. jY IN THE ADVERTISING PRO l.RAMS OF ALL LARGE INSTI rUTIONS. Hoovers Cabinet. Mr. Hoover retained Secretary >f the Treasury Mellon and Secre tary Davis of Labor and did not tend their names to the Senab 'or confirmation: The new cabinet officers eon irmod Tuesday are: Henry Lewis Stimson, of Ne? fork, secretary of state. Jamts William Good, of Iofc. secretary of war. William Dewitt Mitchell, id Minnesota, attorney general. Walter Folger Brown, of Ohio, postmaster general. Charles Francis Adams, of Mass achussctts, secretary of navy. Ray Lyman Wilbur, of Califor nia, secretary of interior. Arthur M. Ilyde, of Missouri, secretary of agriculture. Robert Patterson Lamont, of Illinois, secretary of commerce. The legislature is still engageo in the consideration of some of its most important work, but it is anticipated that it will finish and adjourn next week. "Approved Practices For Sweet Potato Growers" is the title of bul letin 263 recently issued by the North Carolina Experiment Station. Thirty-nine Jersey cows on test in Catawba county produced in one year 4.3 times as much milk and 5.5 times as much butter as the average cow in the State. Plant More Corned is Urged To Turn Into Hog Profit. The person who studied the holdings of pork and pork products now in cold storage without also studying the present swine popula tion of the United States might be discouraged about the outlook for swine this year, says W. W. Shay, swine extension specialist at State College. Yet whlJe the cold storage hold ings are some greater, the number of hogs on the farms of the country Is now nine percent less than last year," says Mr. Shay. "Over six million more hogs were slaughtered under federal inspection last year than the year before and under such conditions. North Carolina farmers who averaged as much as 30 bushels of corn per acre made a 500 percent profit by selling it as pork. Those who continue to feed hogs this year, will also get a good return for their crop regardless of the market price of oorn. It is even possible that, should there be a bumper crop of corn, those who sys tematically convert their corn Into pork will increase their profits from the crop as much as from 500 to 1000 percent as compared with the profit from selling the corn as grain." Mr. Shay says that there was a decrease In receipts of hogs at the large markets in January. Then, too, there Is a decrease of 39.8 per cent In the volume of stocker and feeder shipments as compared with January one year ago. Further more, over five million less pigs were saved during the spring and fall of 1928 as compared with the year 1927. In the intentions re port, it Is found that there will be a decrease of from four to sever percent in the number of sows far rowing this spring. All this looks like a good yeai for North Carolina farmers to sc breed and feed their hogs for salt on the high markets of April and September with assurance of a profit over teed costs. YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO THINK CLEARLY THE GREATEST DEMAND OF_AMERICAN BUSINESS Bankers Association President Gives the Five Essentials of Sound Thinking in Business?Greater Opportunity Than Ever Before for Young People With Educational Training and Power to Analyze Problems. By CRAIG B. HAZLEWOOD President American Bankers Association ONLY half a century ago Michael Pupin, a shepherd boy, guarded his flocks by night among the fields of Serbia. Thieves often lurked in the bordering cornfields awaiting an op wM111 .-M11XA CMALA rvflF sirif h as r\n 1 Af fha ^urtumijr i/U uianc uu wiui a pmv va ?>?? herd. Serbian boys were taught a method of signalling one another for warning and help. Each carried a knife with a long wooden handle which he would thrust deep into the ground and in case cattle thieves approached he would strike the wooden handle. The sound would be transmitted through the ground to other boys some dis tance away who could hear and interpret the message. "Why is it," Pupin asked his mother, "that we can signal this way? Why is it the sound can be heard through the ground, but not through the air? Why is it the sig nals can be heard in the pasture land so much better than in the plowed fields?" The boy's mother could not answer his ques tions, nor could the village teacher. How ever, having an eager mind and great de CRAIG a.HAZLEWOOO termination, the boy decided to go to America, where he might win an education and find out the answers to these and other perplexing questions. Hundreds of other boys under the same cirnnmntannfis and with tha same set <& . ? ot condition* merely accepted these things without once questioning them Just because they had always dona them that way. The Land of Education and 8ucce*a So a penniless Immigrant boy from Serbia at the age of fifteen landed In New York In 1874 and, years later, having worked his way through Co lumbia University, concentrated the wonder and simplicity of his mind npon tbe problem of sound, which had puzzled him as a shepherd boy. The results of his thinking?what he has accomplished for the long dis tance telephone and for radio commu nication by his inventions?are known the world over. "If during, the past twenty-two years this company had been compelled to do without one In vention of Michael Pupln." an ofllclal of tbe American Telephone and Tele graph Company once said, "and yet give the same service It Is giving to day it would have had to spend at least 8100,000,000 more than It has ex pended." These Inventions, In which millions of dollars of capital have been Invest ed, were the result of the thinking of a mere country lad who had the sim plicity to wonder, the determination | to know and the power to apply what he learned. Stimulating the imagination and thlpklng Is the greatest purpose ot ed ucation. What American business needs more than anything else is young men and women to think?indi viduals who are not mentally anchored to tradition, who do not merely appro priate other people's Ideas, ,but who I are hard, purposeful thinkers. Inde pendent and unprejudiced, with the ability to concentrate and strike straight for the heart of a problem. I Business Needs Folk Who Think America has astounded the world by Its readiness In casting aside tradi tional viewpoints, disregarding tradi tional difficulties and pioneering new sbortcnt formulas in the realm ot I business. Business Is undergoing epochal changes. Business problems are crowding In npon us so rapidly that the executive knows not where to look for adequate help or relief. With the enormous In crease In size and Intricacy of busl , ncss affairs the problems hare become | so complicated and the mass of lnfor > matlon necessary to their solution so I great that the "days are not long enough." The demand for managerial and executive ability Is rushing ahead ?the opportunity for young men and women who have the professional training and who develop genuine thinking power Is greater than ever. All business (eels the same crying need for the men who see clearly and think conclusively. Wherever we look ?manufacturing, wholesaling, retail ing. banking, financing?new forces are at work. Vast movements are un der way and executives are seeking light upon perplexing problems dally. Let us consider briefly the live es 1 sentials of a sound thinker. If I were looking for a yonng man of exception al promise I should hope, first, to find ! la him the simplicity to wonder. Ev ery great advancement In business has been made by men who dared to wonder, who had the courage to In quire Into present procedure and who had the audacity to ask whether some thing that had been done a certain way for a long time might not be wrong. Although the history of Amer ica's progress from Its very dlsoovery to the present time has shown the value of an Inquiring mind, there Is still aa Inevitable tendency la most men to accept la a docile manner the opinions. methods, supposed tacts, procedures and processes of the past. With due reverence to the effort, the I spirit, the accomplishments of the ! past, let us make It our rule that ev | erythlng be looked at with the clear i questioning mind of the scientist. Business Requires an Open Mind Second, amonc the essentials for sound thinking I would write down u open mind. We hare mentioned free ing our mlnde from the Influence of tradition. Let us think also without prejudice of personal feelings, de sires or consequence. Let us seek only the truth. Mere surface reason ing must be discounted. Old "can'ts" and "don'ts" must be -thrown Into the discard. A man who has an open mind will do a great many things be cause he doesn't know they can't be done. The third essential to sound think ing Is knowledge?a thorough, com prehensive understanding of all the factors Involved in a problem. It has been said that most problems answer themselves when the facts havs been gathered. A well known student and teacher of business describes the method of sttacklng a problem as tear ing It down, reassembling the prob lem and drawing the conclusion There can be nothing but guess work or Intuition unless the unknown quan tities are discovered. As a fourth essential sound think ing requires the capacity to general ize. How often we have seen men sweating and confused before a mass of details which they were utterly un able to classify and crystallize. Ws have the problem of sorting out the relevant, attaining a perspective and reaching a conclusion that can be de fended against any attack. To cer tain minds this procedure oomea natu rally; to others training in the solu tion of complicated problems points the way out. The Time for Action Fifth among the essentials of sound thinking is the power to apply. A few Individuals have minds that travel at random or In circles. Some have minds that even refuse to budge. But there are still others who naturally or through training have minds that can be directed straight through to the practical application of their thoughts. They refuse to oompromlse or to be thwarted in purpose before definite application of their Ideas has been ofhlarail It la possible. I believe, for young people to train themselves to an in quisitive attitude, an open mind and the ability to classify and Interpret material step by step from the begin ning of a problem to Its final solution and application. Here, then. Is the thought I would leave?the paramount need of business la sound thinking. Some may think I have overstated the case, have set too high n standard. They may feel that they are merely cogs In a machine. That, too. Is a part of the problem. The only way to solve that Is to Had time and place la the day's work for thinking. SCHOOL SAVINGS BANK ING MOVEMENT REACHES IMPRESSIVE PROPORTIONS Almost 14,000 of America's schools now have school savings banking plans In operation, and about four million pupils are learning systematic savings through this type of thrift, with deposits In excess of $>4,004,000. recent reports of the American Bank ers Association's Ssvlngs Bank Divi sion show. The schools Included In the reports are attended by 4.000.000 pupils, of whom t.ISO,117 are partici pants la the school savings banking plans as depositors. During the year theee pupils received Interest la the amount of $047,010 on their depoelts. The reports gathered by the associ ation also show that there are It cit ies la the United States In which a full 100 per cent of the grammar school enrollment Is participating la school savings banking. The dgures covering high schools show that la 47 cities 100 per oeat of the attendants* la this class are school savors Goods well advertised are already half sold. | A=P in- eh^^^e !a b le^ | pMHQBSNESgj gll9n|pl] 11 [ Sold a Month [ | Top-dressing wheat with quick acting nltorgen material Increased the yield per acre about 24 bushels on a demonstration conducted last year by E. F. Plckel of David son county. The county poultry association of Oaston county has marketed 24,687 pounds of live poultry for Its members since the first of the year. Mortgagee's Sale 'of Fixt ures and Stock of Goods Under and by virtue of the powers contained in a Chattel Mortgage, executed by J. N. Payne on the 3rd day of March, 1936, and recorded in Book 66 of Mortgage Deeds, at page 182, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Alamance County, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, at 12 o'clock, noon, on SATURDAY, MARCH 23,1929 at the Court House door in Gra ham, the stock of goods, wares and fixtures now in the build ing on North Main Street in Graham, lately occupied by J. N. Payne as a grocery store and meat market; said fixtures consisting of a good Refrigera tor, Show Cases, Cash Register, Sausage Mill, Meat Block and other articles. The stock of goods consists of canned goods and Other grocer ies which inventory about $250.00. Terms of Sale: Cash. Time of Sale: 12 o'clock, noon, Saturday, March 23rd, 1929. Place of Sale: Court House door in Graham, N. C. This the 27th day of February. 1929. l. l. Mcpherson, Mortgagee. J. S. Cook, Att'y. Magistrates' Blank?State Warrants, uiril Summons, Transcripts o Judgments, tor sale at Th> Gut an kb office, Graham. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Um ForOvsr 30 Years EXECUTORS' NOTICE HbtIdi qualified as the Executor* of the last will and testament of W. N. Coble. iatr of Alamanee county, this is to notlft all persons having claims against tb? estate to file them, duly verified, witto the ondersigned, on or before Mar. 1st. IV or this notftoe will be pleaded in bar of their reoorery. All persons Indebted to said estate ar? requested to please make prompt settlement This the 28th day of December. 1S? 8. O. COBLE, ella WOOD, Bzee*ra j. 8. Oook. AUy. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Havta. quail*. > a. Admlnt.tr.tor ol tk. mum of mlm mu. sm.11. taana, lata of Ikonw Ooontr. tkM M to wuatj all par mm karlaa olainu amlnat tk. atata af tk> mid daeaamd to uhlblt thwa. to tk. andar* Maaad at Grabam. North Carollaa. oa o. bafor. Mama 1. ism, or thl. aotlo. will b< piaadad la bar of tbalr rmorvrr. All pot mo. Indabmd to mid mtata. will plmm make familial. ..ttl.rn.at TbU r bru.rrw, MP w. BKKBST THOMPSON. Italilaaloc at Boctl. BamlL Loap A Allen. Atfpa. Sat Commissioner's Re-Sale of Valaable Land. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Alamance County, made in Special Proceedings No. 1283, whereto all the heirs of the late Mre. Mary A. Smith were con stituted parties for the purpose of selling said lands for divis ion, the undersigned Commis sioner will offer to pulic Bale to the highest bidder at the Court House door in Graham, at 12 o'clock, M. SATURDAY, MAR. 9, 1929, the following Valuable real property, to-wit: Lying and being in Pleasant Grove township, adjoining the lands of Patton heirs, C. G. Maynard and others, and be ginning at a stake on the Haw River Cross Roads Church Road, corner of lands belong ing to Patton heirs, thence S., 47 deg W 15.50 chs , to stake and pointers ; thence with line of C. G. Maynard heirs S. 2 deg E 10.S7 chs, to a stake at said Road, thence with said Road 24.80 chs to the begin ning and containing 7 acres more or less. This being the home place of said Mrs. Mary A. Smith upon which is a 5-room dwelling, granery, corn-crib, smokehouse, orchard, and a well of good water. Situated on Public road leading from Long's Chapel to Cross Roads Church. Terms of Sale; One third Cash, one-third in six months and balance in twelve months, deferred payments to bear in terest from day of sale till fully paid and title reserved till paid for. This is a re-sale and bidding will start at $708.75 Sale subject to confirmation by Clerk. This February 16, 1929. J. E. SELLERS, Commissioner. J. S. COOK, Att'y. Mortgagee's Sale of Real Property. Under and by virtue of the power conferred on the under signed by a certain Mortgage Deed, executed on the 18th day of August, 1927, by James Rogers and his wife, Bessie Rogers, to secure a certain bond in the sum of $40.00, due on the 17th day of November, 1927, recorded in Book No 105 M. D., at page 14, Register of Deed's office, Alamance county, North Carolina, default in the payment of said bond having been made, the undersigned will, at 12 o'clock, noon, on the SATURDAY, MAR. 30th, 1929, offer for public sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described real proper ty in Graham Township: Adjoining Morris Braunock, Lee Mi lie, Street 20 ft. wide, a lot in the Bub-division of J. Hanks Maun, and others. Beginning at a rock corner with said Brannock and said lot running thence S 2 deg 40' W 98 ft to an iron bolt, corner with said lot on Nside of street; thence S 85 deg 90 ft to an iron bolt, corner with said Miller, on N side of said street; thence N 2 deg 40' E (B. S.) 2 deg 55' (98J ft) to an iron bolt corner with said Miller in Brannock's line: thence N 85J deg W 89 ft to the beginning, containing .19 of an acre more or less. Terms of Sale: Cash. Time of Sale: 12 o'clock, noon, the 30th day of March, 1929. Place of Sale: Court House inor in Graham. This the 21st day of Febru ary, 1929. HEENAN HUGHES, Mortgagee. jiadleys Jhe ; JeWelers i - Chattel Mnrtgage Haaks?For ?le at Thb Glbaxbb office.