MORRISON CLOSED TERM YESTERDAY Record of Achievements of His Administration—Road Pro gram First Proposal. Governor Cameron Morrison’s term of office expired yesterday. Morrison was the second successful guberna torial aspirant under the State-wide primary system. The late Governor Bickett was the first. Governor Mor rison started out in a triangural con test, his opponent being O. Max Gar dner, of Shelby, and Robert N. Page, of Biscoe, former member of Congress from the Seventh Congres sional District. Page was eliminated in the first primary and in the sec ond Mr. Morrison won over Gardner by a majority of 2,200 votes. In the general election in Novem ber 1220 Morrison defeated his Re publican opponent, John J. Parket, by a majority of 80,000, this being the largest majority ever polled by a gubernatorial candidate up to that time. Tins election was the first in which women participated in North Carolina. Governor Morrison was inaugurat ed on January 12, 1021, in the Ra leigh auditorium. At the ti of his election he was practici. ■ - >' ,n Charlotte. He was born u..d reared, however, in Richmond county. Gov ernor Morrison addrcsse. .no Geneial Assembly January 2sth. H>21, and outlined his policies. A re ur.ie of Governor Morrison s administration as (mined in Sun day's News and Ob vor follows: Put Road 1 aw First One of the first ilungs Governor Morrison did was to urge the pas* sa^re of a -iateu V road law. Senti ment fur this ha i already crystal izon to a a arked dor e. Various organi zations had boo: at work, looking toward the w. king out of plans whereby the • .ire state would be most benefited. Prominent among these organizations was the North Carolina Good TZoads Association. However, up to this time, there has been no coordination of the forces necessary to a road program that would meet with universal ap proval and at the same time serve the interests of the entire state. For instance, there was some difficulty experienced in arriving at an agree ment as to where the line should be drawn between the functions of the counties and those of the state it self. Some favored a highway system that would take the counties into active participation, making them share a part of the responsibility for raising sufficient revenue. Others were of the opinion that whatever was done should be done by the State; that the money should be rais ed by the state, and that the state, through whatever agencies it should bring into play, should be respons ible for the building, maintenance and financing of a system that would link up the county seats. This latter school of thought pre vailed, in the main, when legislation was enacted. The line between the state and the counties was sharply drawn. This did not mean that the counties were relieved of the respon sibility of providing roads. But it did mean that the state was to be responsible thereafter for the main arteries of highway travel. Governor Morrison came out for an initial bond issue of $.>0,000,000 for state highways. Many conferences followed. The governor failed to re cede from his position when some of those interested in the passage of an adequate state highway law favored only $20,000,000 as a starter. He held that this sum would be grossly inadequate. As a matter of fact, at that time, the fate of any bill calling for a bond issue of many millions for any purpose was by no means certain. This probably, gave rise to the advocacy of a $20,000,000 to be gin with. When the statewide road bill was finally passed, however, it called for the issuance of $50,000,000 bonds. During the period of open discussion that preceded the enactment of road legislation all opposition was grad ually conquered, and when the vote was taken there were but few dis senters in either branch of the gen eral assembly. Thus Governor Morrison won his fight for the highway legislation . he sought. Question of Taxation The question ol taxation was not so easily solved. Governor Morrison, in his message of January 29, had registered his protest against any form of taxation that would levy directly upon real estate and per sonal property for state purposes. Some favored an ad valorem tax. The new governor opposed it. His views prevailed in this and a state tax department, headed by a com missioner of revenue, was created, in accordance with his recommendation to the General Assembly. To fill this new state office, the governor in the spring of 1921, appointed A. D. Watts, of Statesville, who resigned in February, 1923. The governor named as his successor Rufus A. Doughton, of Sparta, who still holds the office. No one contested with him z in the primary of 1924 and he re ceived a majority in the general elec tion commensurate with that of other state officers. During the primary campaign of 1920 Heriot Clarkson, of Charlotte, now an associate justice on the su preme court bench, managed Mr. Morrison’s campaign. His slogan was "from the plow handle to the man sion.’ He stressed the fact that his candidate had been reared on a farm and without educational advan tages which the children of the state now enjoy. The candidate was not only not a college man but he did not have elementary education al opportunities which now present themselves. So when Cameron Morrison be came governor he announoed a liber al policy toward public education. He said he wanted the children of North I Carolina to enjoy the opportunities I that he had missed; that he knew, | from experience, ' what it meant not I to have educational advantages. The new governor backed this up I by advocating larger appropriations. In 1920 North Carolina spent, in round figures, $12,000,000 on public ! education. This scholastic year it will spend, according to an estimate1 i by State Superintendent A. T. Allen, $36,000,000, an increase of approxi mately 300 per cent. Millions have been appropriated to the State’s in stitutions for higher learning, includ ing the University, at Chapel Hill; the State College of Agriculture and Engineering, at West Raleigh; the North Carolina State College for Women, at Greensboro and the Teachers’ College, at Greenville. These appropriations were not only for maintenance but for permanent improvements, as well. During the past four years the capacity of the College for Women at Greensboro has been trebled. Improvements at the other institutions named have been proportionate. The value of public school property in North Carolina today is $60,000, 000 according to Superintendent Al im. Liberal appr; print ions have been made for the education of the negro. This year the State will spend on negro education, alone, over $4,125, ,M0. During the past four years it lias spent approximately $1->,000,000. There is at this time a movement on foot /or the establishment of a negro college for the training of teachers. Already there are four ne gor normals in the state system. Training School for Negroes Resides, during the past four years with the support of Governor Mor rison, North Carolina has establish ed and is erecting a training school fir delinquent negro boys, which is known as the Morrison Training School. A negro addition has been buiit ate the State Sanatorium for the Treatment cf 1 uberculosis, costing •>100,000. This will be enlarged, from time to time, as necessity may de mami. During Governor Morrison's term of office, North Carolina has appro priated approximately $4.000.000 to the negro institutions for higher learning and fo^ the maintenance and expansion of institutions for tne care of negro defectives. I his does not allude to money spent on gram mar and high schools for negroes. One of the outstanding features of Governor Morrison's administration has been the almost total absence of lynchings in North Carolina. There has not been one since 1921. The last riot resulting in a lynching was that in Warren county, which oc curred shortly after his inaugura tion. The new governor sent troops as soon as he learned of the trouble and at the same time publicly an nounced that it would be his policy to send state troops to any commun ity where trouble seemed brewing. He has consistently adherred to this policy, and on numbers of occasions he has resorted to the use of troops. Several lynchings undoubtedly would have occurred but for the dispatch of soldiers. Mitchell County Race Trouble During the late summer of 1922 a situation arose which brought this policy of Governor Morrison promi nently to play. He was officially notified that there was a plan on foot to expel all negroes, including a number employed on public works, from Mitchell county. Nor was the state convict camp located there to be spared. The Governor immediate ly placed Adjutant General J. \ an B. Metts in charge of the situation, with instructions to use as many troops as necessary to keep the threat from being carried out. Order was quickly restored. Governor Morrison’s administration has been further characterized by certain prison reforms. In conference with him, the State Prison Board, in May 1923, abolished .flogging at the i Central Prison and in the various state camps and substituted a diet ■ for corporal punishment. The “dun i geon” at the Central Prison was abolished and Governor Morrison of j fered a blanket reward of $400 for I the conviction of any guard or other State prison employee guilty of treating prisoners inhumanely. Later he commuted the terms of all state prisoners, placing them on indeter j minate sentences. While this does not ! apply to county camps, it is likely ! that legislation looking toward the abolition of corporal punishment in county camps will be asked during the present session of the general assembly. Appointments it has been necessary lor govern or Morrison to fill many vacancies 1 in the state government. Four out | of five members of the supreme court were appointed by him. The chief justice, Hon. W. A. Hoke, was ele vated to that position by the Govern or when he appointed him to suc ceed the late Chief Walter Clark .In the place of Judge Hoke, up to that time as an associate justice, he named Judge George W. Connor, of Wilson. Prior to that time, Governor Morri son had appointed Heriot Clarkson, of Charlotte, to succeed Associate Justice Platt D. Walker, deceased, and Judge W. J. Adams, of Car thage to succeed Associate Justice William R. Allen, deceased. Governor Morrison also appointed the present secretary of state, W. N. Everett; the present superintendent of public instruction, A. T. Allen, and the present commissioner of agricul ture, William A. Graham. The last ! named succeeded his father, the late William A. Graham, Sr., deceased. Mr. Everett was named to succeed the late Colonel J. Bryan Grimes and Mr. Allen was appointed to suc ceed Dr. E. C. Brooks, when the lat ter was elected president of the State College of Agriculture and Engineering. One of the most notable fights Conducted by Governor Morrison was that in connection with the proposed development of state ports by public money and the operation of ships by the state, if necessary. Hus measure was defeated at the polls. However, prominent party leaders have ex pressed themselves in favor of some move that will develop the state’s ports and it seems not at all likely that the subject is a dead one. Governor Morrison, following the inauguration of his successor, on January 14, will go to Charlotte, ; there to resume the practice of law. He has engaged and fitted up offices in the Johnston Building. Prior to his election he maintained offices in the Law Building. Miss Margaret Vinton Willis, who wras his steno- i ! grapher prior to his coming to Ra- ; j leigh and who has served four years . as executive secretary, will return to Charlotte with him. She will be lo- i cated in his office there. __j A Suggestion For County Road Con- . struction And Maintainance I would like to suggest that the . next Legislature enact a law to pro- . vide a separate maintenance road . fund for the county roads. To provide ( funds for maintaining, or up keep, of , said roads that an additional tag or ( license tax for each car and truck of one dollar each per year be levied by . each county road commission. Ran- t .lolph county would collect over foui thousand dollars; that the State levy and collect one cent additional on every gallon of gasoline sold and turn the one cent per gallon over to each county in proportion to the cars and trucks licensed for each county, the same to be used as a maintenance 1 fund of the county public roads. The county could use the road funds now collected in building and graveling new county roads. j The one dollar per car and truck 1 and the one cent per gallon gasoline * tax would keep the county roads in good condition if properly used. Only people who use cars would pay any maintenance road tax. The county i would then have roads so that the 1 people could get to the state high- i ways. They would then get some ben- < etit of special tax and gasoline taxes ; right at home. * We had just as well pay more now i than to keep plunging the county in debt deeper every year for roads. The ’ people want roads and want them < kept in good condition, when the l county employs a man to scrape and i keep up a road. There comes times j when scraping or dragging is not , much good, especially when the roads are frozen very hard, or when they are extremely dry and hard. At those times it would be better to be top- , soiling the low places. There should be a heavy tax levied j by the State on the bus business. If j they keep building the bus wider they ] will take all the road. These are a few suggestions by a citizen and tax- | payer of Randolph county, North Carolina. J. M. YATES. Says Some Changes Must Be Made In Soldiers' Loan Act Secretary of State W. N. Everett, who is chairman of the board of four State officials appointed to supervise the administration of the $2,000,000 loan fund authorized by the refer endum vote in the general election last November, says the board can do nothing about the matter until the Legislature makes some changes in the act as drawn by Frank D. Grist, now Commissioner of Labor and Printing. The bill provides loans up to $8000 j to veterans for the purpose of build ing homes, the loan to be made on real estate security not to exceed three-fifths of the appraisal value, the cost of which appraisal must be borne by the applicant. The loan bears interest at the rate of 6 per cent and must be repaid in 40 semi-annual in stallments. The bill provides that the commis sioner of the loan fund shall draw a salary of $8,000 a year, this to be paid out of the difference ip the inter est rate paid by the ex-soldiers and the interest paid on the two millions in bonds to be issued to finance the proposition. However, no provision is made in the act for the paying of the salary of the commissioner or any of the expenses incidental to the admin istration of the fund while the loans are being made and the interest com ing in. It is a doubtful proposition that in event the fund gets^to working that there would be enough margin left for the administration of the fund. It is now up to somebody who is in terested to get the Legislature to make the necessary changes so that the act may become operative. FARMER NEWS Mrs. Mary Ridge, widow of the late B. B. Ridge, died at her home near Farmer on the night of January <?th. She had been in very feeble health for several years. She was a quiet, unassuming Christian woman, a member of the Methodist Episcopal ! church at Farmer for many years. , She leaves seven children, Mr. B. B. Ridge of Hartsville, S. C., Mr. Charles Ridge of Florida, Mr. Ernest Ridge of. High Point, Messrs. Lewis and Wal- i | ter, and Misses Emma and Gertrude Ridge of Farmer. The funeral was on Sunday mom- j j ing at Farmer, and was conducted by j Rev. G. W. Clay. - Mr. A. L. Hill has recently sold his dwelling to Mr. Fred Bingham, | and has moved his family to the house formerly occupied by Mr. J. S. Lof lin. The recent rains have made the road from the Farmer Roller Mill to j the M. C. Bingham place almost im | passable to cars. This stretch of J road has been graded in the past; | three months and very little of it has ; been graveled. School is suspended I today (Monday) because of the bad' I roads. One or more of the school! | trucks get stuck in the mud every day. \ Miss Lucile Kearns, who is teach- J ing near Mt. Gilead spent the week end at home. Anyway, shaving the back of her neck isn't as hard as hooking her up the back used to be. -Cincinnati Observer • . ■ ■ ” 0m Numerous Ways To &erve tne Potato (Kansas City Star.) Of course we use potatoes, but sn’t there some new way to cook hem—besides baking' and boiling, ind frying and marking The woman who u.sked this ques ;ion has three sturdy school boys in ier family. The lads consider a limier without potatoes a much greater calamity tlian a meal with ,ac b ead. And ixuily, when there ire so many appetizing and “differ :nt” ways to serve the indispensa >le potato, why not try some of hem 7 Remember, when you are prepar ng raw potatoes for cooking, that i considerable amount of valuable nineral matter lies just beneath the kin, and theielore the paring ihouul be as thin as possible. And mother tiling—as the mineral mat er is soluble, the water in which he vegetable, has been cooked con ains much loot! value, and may be ised m soups and -aucen. Here are a number of different ■ecipe. v. liich the housewife al'ore neiuioi.eil has uencd to the potato kpartin'v.t of in s cot.kbook: Potatoes With Cheese and Green Popper. 2 cups sliced coked potatoes. 1 cup thick white sauce. 1 chopped green pepper or canned limento. 1-2 cup grated cheese. 1-2 cup bread crumbs. Add the cheese and the chopped lepper to the sauce, mix with the lotatoes, put into a baking- dish, over with the bread cruivdv, and irown in the oven. Potatoes on the Half Shell. Wash potatoes carefully and place n a moderately hot oven. From for y-five minutes to an hour is neces ary for a medium-sized potato. When lone remove the skin from the toy ind scrape cut the potato, leaving a hell. Mash the potato with a small imount of cream and butter; season vith salt and pepper. Fill the shells vith the mixture and brown in the >ven. Grated cheese may be sprink ed over the top if desired, fasserole Sweet Potatoes and Apples Pare and slice the sweet potatoes ind apples, using one medium sized apple to two potatoes. Place n a baking dish, sprinkle with a ittle brown sugar or add a small imount of syrup, pour over a cup >f hot water, and bake covered mtil tender. Remove the cover, dot he top with bits of butter, and irown. Sweet Potato and Nut Cakes. Boil sweet potatoes until tender. Drain off the water, remove the skin 'rom the potatoes, and mash them .vith a small amount of cream and i little sugar or maple syrup. They should be stiff enough to mold into >mall cakes. Brush the top of the :akes with butter. Sprinkle with chopped nuts and brown in the )ven. Potato and Bean Cakes. 1 cup boiled mashed potatoes. 1 cup mashed 1 inta beans. 1 small can pimentoes. 1-2 cup bread crumbs. Mix, season with salt and pepper ind form into cakes. Saute in a small amount of hot fat or dip in ;gg and crumbs and brown in the oven. Serve with tomato or cheese sauce. |hem. 9—fey 1 og Uncle John Readin’ advertisements may seem commonplace to folks who let their inclinations run to edi torial jokes—who have culti vated appetites fer detailed news of crime, which can shake their faith in people till it gets their goat in time. But — readin’ advertisements is a pastime by the way, where we post ourselves on Values {n the markets of today. . „ . Though we have no need of “bargains” lit the stuff we couldn’t use, yet we taste the charm of business, which is bet ter’n lots of “news." I frequently go “shoppln’ ” in my favorite magazine—where . displays is fascinatin’^ of the goods I haven’t seen. ... I’ll run acrost a motor-bus or fancy wooden hen—and I’ll strike the thing I’m lookin’ fer, say, nine times out of ten! Readin’ advertisements when I’ve nothin’ much to do makes a pleasant little journey in the realm of somethin’ new—and, while sensation in the “news” may stir my peaceful breast, I somehow like to stick around the job that pays me best! Avery County Merchant Gives Dough ton Some Advice Commissioner of Revenue R. A Doughton says he is constantly get ting letters from people in various parts of the State telling him what laws should be made, but the lettei he received recently from a merchant in Avery county is one of the most unique. The merchant claims to sell every thing that one needs and to buy everything that one has to sell. The letter condemns the man who lives off of others and requests a law be enacted to allow his debtors to “hire him out, and tpke half his earnings to pay his debts. * The merchant would put such restrictions on school superinten ients as to have only married per sons In such office* ao to “cut out ;hese courting schools” and adds hat after 1927 there should be no tchool teachers with bahbed hair. -m ■ PJLV1S, 11. v>. “Boards Nest** Again . Congressman F D Scott of Michigan sued his wife, Edna, (above) for divorce, charging x travagance and affairs with- other men His secretary, Jane Kennedy (beiow), told him of the “other men.” Mrs Scott fought back, mentioning the famous “Boar’s Nest” at Washington, where, she said, her husband met brother law make, s .to gamble. She mentioned several names—and now offick.1 Washington is mighty “jumpy " The Attorney General Interprets Amendment In The Interpretation Says Amendment Is Just and Equitable. At the request of Henry M. Lon don, legislative reference librarian Attorney General James S. Manning has furnished an interpretation of the homestead exemption amendment that was adopted at the general election ir November, declaring the amendment to be just and equitable. The opinion follows: You request this office to interpret the recent amendment to the constitu tion of North Carolina in regard to th< taxation of homes, homesteads, notes and mortgages. It is apparent that the main inten of this amendment is to prevent dou Getting Up Nights Can Be Stopped— often in 24 hours. To prove tha you can be rid of this strength sap ping ailment, have more pep, be frei from burning sensation, pain ii groins, backache and weakness I'l send you Walker’s Prostrate Specify free and postpaid under plain wrap per. No obligation. No cost. If i cures your prostate gland trouble, yoi can repay the favor by telling you i friends—if not, the loss is'mine. Sim ply send me your name and provi that you can feel 10 years younge and be rid of prostate trouble. I. B. WALKER, Kansas City, Me 2499 Gateway Station ble taxation of the classes of propferty described therein. Under the law as it was, the holder of a mortgage on real estate was required to list as a solvent credit the notes secured by such mort gage at their true value in money, while the owner of the land was re quired to list it also at its true value i-n money, without any abatement in its value on account of the outstand ing mortgage. This was manifestly double taxation. The amendment deels-with this evil partially only, but it is effective with relation to the particular classes of property with which it deals. Its op eration is confined to homes and the notes, mortgages and other evidences of indebtedness incurred for the bene fit of that home. The word “home” is defined in the act—chapterjll5 of the Public Laws, extra session of 1924, to mean lands, whether consisting of a building lot, or a larger tract togeth er with all the buildings and outbuild ings which the owner in good faith in tends to use for himself or herself, which shall be conclusively established by the actual use and occupancy of such premises as a dwelling place of the purchaser or owner for a period of three months. The evidences of indebtedness which participate in the benefits of the amendment are thus defined: Notes, mortgages, and all other evidences of indebtedness or any renewal thereof given in good faith to build, repair or purchase a home when such loan does not exceed $8,000.. Such notes, etc., must be made to run not less than one nor more than 33 years. The holder of said notes, etc., must reside in the county where the land lies and there list them for taxation, i The machinery by which this just and equitable rule is applied to this particular class of property is a slid ing scale. When the evidence or indebt edness complies with the requirements set out, it is to be exempt from tax t ation of every kind for 50 per cent or its value. When the owner of such idence of indebtedness has complied with the requirements above set out, then the owner of the home shall like wise be exempt from taxation of every kind for 50 per cent of the value of such evidence of indebtedness.^ The practical effect of this is to make the evidence of indebtedness and the land itself a single unit for taxation. As the indebtedness is gradually dimnu shed, this sliding scale (50 per cent) gradually reduces the exemption u*: both cases, i. e., with reference to the. holder of the evidence of indebtedness j and the owner of the land, but at n» time are the two taxpayers to be taxed more than would be justified if both, classes of property a single unit.. Thus is avoided in this particular case the injustice of double taxation. Mrs. Rachel P. Fogleman Dead Mrs. Rachel P. Fogleman, aged 76, died at her home near Staley last Thursday morning following an illness lasting several days. She was a mem ber of Shady Grove Baptist church. Surviving are two sons, J. G. Fogle man, of Staley, and W. J. Fogleman, of Evington, Va.; three daughters, Mrs. R. E. Williams, of Greensboro, Mrs. L. M. Kivett, of Liberty, and Mrs. J. T. Kivett, of Staley; and one brother, Joe Kivett, of Liberty. Funeral of W'illiam L. Poe Funeral services were held Tuesday morning of last week at Love’s Creek church, in Chatham county, for Wil liam L. Poe, who died the Sunday be fore at his home at Siler City. Rev. G. S. Andrews, of Staley, conducted the services, assisted by Rev. R. S. Fountain, of Siler City. “The home paper is the common bond of the community. It speaks the language that the common peo ple can understand.” PENDER’S THE YELLOW FRONT STORES ASHEBORO, N. C. 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P. COFFEE, The World’s Best Drink, 1 lb. sealed package...45c 1 Get The Best Coffee Obtainable and Save 10c Per Pound ' Yellow Front Coffee Golden Blend Coffee Delightfully Good The Old Reliable ' 11 lb. sealed pkg..40c 1 lb. sealed pkg....... 35c NEW SERIES The 12th Series of the Randolph County Building and Loan Association will be open January 1st. The Association has been a great blessing to its stockholders and has helped more than 125 people to secure homes. There are today more than 3700 shares of stock, and loans approximate $160,000.00 The 12th series should be the largest of any previous series. Subscriptions to this series should be fled as of January 1st. Come in and join us and let us help you to own a home. L. F. ROSS, President W. BUNCH, Sec.-Treas. 3ppp?pppip§i ■Jpppf: X

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