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THE GLEANER tSStJBD KVERY THUBBDAT. J~ P. KEBNOPLE, Editor. SI.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. file editor will not be responsible for /lewi eqprewed by correipondenti. ■ntered at toe Poitoffloe atOraliam. N. 0., M aecondclaii matter. ~ORAHAM, N. C., Feb. 5, 1920 On next Tuesday in Raleigh, at." p. m. and 8 at night a meeting of interest at large will be held to consider the reduction of the high cost of living. Every interest — home, club, farm, factory and shop —will be represented. Representa tives from the department of Justice in Washington will address the meeting. It is proposed to efleet an organization that will have to do with reducing the cost of living ex penses. The problem is one that the people must work out. European diplomats have been moddling with the Peace Treaty taking sides against President Wil son and feeling their way into the •'good graces" of the anti-adminis tration element in the U. S. Senate. Seems they ore treading on sacred ground and should have a cai / o wliat they do and say. America wont stand for it. The Influenza situation through out the State shows no improvement over a week og°- In fact it lion reached many section 4 not a (Tooted a week ago. There have been a num ber of deaths where pneumonia has followed flu. Everybody recognizes that precaution must be exercised in order to stomp it out as early as possible. The P eaco Treaty, of course, still holds tho central place of tho stage in the eye of tho public. Next weok it will come up for discussion again, though, as yet, no sort of compro mise has been reached. Tho ad ministration is accused of stubborn ness, but is not more so than tbe partisan|mojority in control of tie Senate. Over Four Billions America's Trade Balance in 1919. Washington, Fob. 'i.— America's trade balance against Europe in creased by $4,435,410,606 in 1919, Jlirures issued today by the De partment of Commerce showing that exports from the United States wore $5,185,980,.'550, while imports wore $750,509,784. The trade balance iu favor of the United States over the United Kingdom piled up during the war was $1,969,1(88,783, that over France, $709,497,587 and that over Italy $383,020,390. A trade balance of ss2,ltf7,oßfi also was . registered over Germany. School House as Center. News letter, Chapel Hill. The school house should bo a Bocial center, n community capi tol, from which should emanate everything of educational,social, find material betterment of tho community, says tho Virginia Cooperativo Educational Asso elation. What some of the Virginia community leagues aro planning to do is sketched in the follow ing outline: 1. Conducting active cam paigns for solution of the citi zen's leisure time problem. 2. Encouraging folk games and songs. 8. Giving constant attention to recreational and vocational work. 4. Uniting tho young men of the community into an exten sive program of athleics. 5. Establishing lyceuin cour ses, band concerts, and com munity singing as community leisure time activities. 6. Organizing group athletics, • games, gymnastics, folk dances, and hikes for everybody. 7. Advocating gymnasiums, swimming pools, and audito riums in every school building. 8. Promoting rural libraries and game rooms. 9. Establishing scholarsMps * in honor of some world iiefffof the section. 10. Maintaining a community forum where the citizens can get together and discuss matters of school, health, roads, farming, juvenile delinquents, etc. Presumably Senator Fall will hold the Mexican Government rt sponsible for that earthquake. No wonder Senator Lodge looks older. The bonch ho has to con trol would turn any man's hair g»y If the Democrats win this year, Lodge must be given some credit for an'assist. The largest crane iu the world has a capacity of 360 tons. It might lift tho G. O. P. out of the bole in which Seuator Lodge has pot it. ' Isn't Mr. Borah beginning to feel a little sorry that he spoke so positively when be declared that If the Republican party accepted the Treaty he would bolt? High School Week* Chapel Hill, Apr. 20-24 Debating and Athletic Contests by High School Boys and Girls From all Over State. *' HESTRICTEI) IMMIGRATION THE UUEHY THIS YEAR. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapel Hill, N.C., Feb. 3. —An- nouuceuient lias been made at the University of North Carolina that the annual High School Week will bo held this year at Chapel Hill, April 20-24. At this time several hu idred high school girls and ■ oys are expected to bo in Chapel Hill to participate in and attend the final contests in the high school debate, the interscholastic 1 track meet, and the intertQholastic tennis tournament. 7f It will bo the eighth year that the championships in debating and track have been held at, the , University and the fifth time for tennis. AM three events are expected to attract more students this year than ever before and ex tensive preparations are being made for their entertainment. Two hundred and fifty high schools have entered the high 1 school debating union thus far, Secretary ltaukin said today, which approaches the largest num ber the union has overbad. In Hi] (I there were 325 schools and in 1917, 331 schools, and Secro- ( lary Rankin expects the total , this year to run up nearly as high. The final debates all over the State will be held toward the end ' of March. Each school will have ; two. teams, one affirmative and 1 one negative, and those schools winning both debates will send their debaters to Chapel Hill for the final elimination contests and the championship debate for the Aycock Memorial Cup. The sub ject this year is Restricted I mini- ' j., ration. Three thousand copies of a hundred-page bulletin are being distributed now to the schools in the union. It contains a,great deal of information on the general subject of immigration, outlines for debate, arguments on both sides, and references to other sources of information. Sunday afternoon, February Ist, Paul John Weaver, Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina gave a piano re cital as the lirst of a seiies of music hours which will be held on the first Sunday of each month this spring under the auspices of the Community Club and the Uni versity Department of Music. Professor Weaver's program con sisted of numbers from Grieg, Chopin, Do'iussy, Cyril Scott, and Rachinaiiinolf. A large audience of student* and mem hers of the faculty filled Gerard Hall to over flowing and listened with eager ness and delight to the music. Grip or Influenza, Which ? Philadelphia Record. A prominent Canadian phy sician, Dr. 11. C. Church, of Ot tawa sends out a message of cheer for us. He says Chicago and New York really haven't any influenza at nil, and that there will be no recurrence anywhere in this coun try for a generation, or possibly many generations, of the scourge that fell upon us iu 1918. What wo are suffering now, he says, is no uioro than the old, familiar grip—which, liko the poor, we have always with ti«. The Ottawa physician is probably right, for many other physicians report the symptoms shown iu the presem visitation point that way. Still, ordinary grip is bad enough, and its presence in our midst calls for the name measures of precaution. fIOO Reward, •list Tbw roftdcra of thin pnjH«r will b* i»lrnnml to loam tliat Ihon* !• at leaat on© itrmded dl»- m*im« I hat haa bwu able to cur* In all lt« ata*«« anil that la ralarrh. Catarrh bring Ifmitljr Innurnrol liy conntltutlonal condi tions n-ijulrva ronatttuttoual tmatniMiL. llall'a Catarrh Medicine la taken internally and arts thr >ngh lb* lllood on thr Mucous Hurfarm of thr Hystrin thereby drstmyiug th« Inundation of thr dl*r*a«', giving. thr I»h tlrtit atisugth by building up thn count It u t'"ii and aaalatlng ntlurc in iioing Ita work. Thr proprlatora have a . mmh faith In tl r curative power* of llfUl's Catarrh Medicine that thry offer Una Hundred Hollars for ail) oase that It falls to curs H«nd for list of trs- Itmonlala. Adrireaa V. J. Cheoev A Co., Toledo, Ohio. Bold by all liruaglat. ad. A New Year Prayer Vice-President Marshall. Men are agonizing over pas sion and prejudice, both real and seeming injustice and inequal ity, and the blackness of despair would settle qver our land were it not that faith, hope and charity still abide—faith that a deeper knowledge of the wisdom of our institutions will ls> im parted to every son and daugh ter of the republic; liojie that more and more all men will turn from the contemplation of their rights to a consideration of their duties, and charity for all who aro not vicious,but who, through j stress of circumstances, have become embittered. God of our fathers, take from as, if Thou wilt, material pit*- J perity and national glory, but give us individually and collec-1 tively all the years to conief faith„ hop© and charity. A plan is on foot to rid New York City of its slums. It sounds impossible, but ft isn't, sod it's h thing that's got to be done some time. Will Wilhelm's defense beiii-l sanity ? I Revaluation and New Tax Rate. Governor Bickett Makes Statement- Will Recommend Special Session Limit Tax to Amount Levied in 1919- MAY HE EXCEPTION KOH XCHIIOL PURPOSES. To the People of North Carolina: After hearing the reports inside by the District Supervisors in charge of the iteval nation Act, and after a full conference with the State Budget Commis sion, the State Tax Commission, and the State Treasurer, I find that I will be justified in giving to the people of the State the following information: I propose to submit to the special session of the General Assembly, which is expected to meet in July, the following recommendations : 1. That the State take no advantage of that part of the Revaluation Act which author ized a ten j>er cent increase of revenues for the year 19'20, but that the General Assembly fix a rate for 1920 that will yield for all State purposes exactly the same amount of revenue from real and personal property as was collected in the year 191!*. There may be one exception to this recommendation and that is that it may be necessary to fa crease the funds provided by the State tor public schools to the extent of five ]>er cent, certainly not more than this. This in crease will *be only half the amount contemplated by the General Assembly of 1919 for this specific purpose. Purely Initialization Art. It will thus be seen, in the light of this recommendation, that the Revaluation Act be comes one of equalization, pure and simple, and with the vast quantities of property now go ing on the tax books that was not taxed at all heretofore, both of lands and of intangible j>er soual property, it is certain that many thousands of tax payers will actually pay less taxes in 1920, than they paid in 1919. 2. I will also recommend that there l>e inserted in the Re valuation Act a clause provid ing that in any year, at any time before the taxes are ac tually levied by the county au thorities, any property owner may iisk for a re assessment of his property upon filing an affi davit supported by two disinter ested freeholders that his prop erty is on the tax books at a sum greater than the market value. 3. 1 will also recommend to the sj>ecial session of tlie General Assembly that there be embodied in the Constitutional amend ment now peuding and to be voted on in November a provis ion greatly reducing the present constitutional limitation of oof cents on the one hundred dollars worth of property. It was the purpose of the Finance Commit tee of. the House and Senate to revise this limitation down wards. It is now apparent that the revised valuation will lie large enough to jiertnit a sub stantial reduction of this limi tation, and will leave a reason able margin for the necessities of our future development. Just what figure will be a proper limi tation cannot be determined until the total values underjHto" new assessment are "ascertained. * OuUtatidlng I'arU. Three facts in regard to the Revaluation Act are now out standing, and no longer the sub ject of controversy: 1. The one purpose of the act is to wipe'out the inequali ties of the existing system. 2. Under the Act the tax rate will bo so low that no class of property will be outlawed and driven from the State. 3. The extraordinarily low rate under the Revaluation Act will uncover millions of dollars in the State that have never been on the tax Iwxiks at all, and will draw into the State millions of papitnl from the ends of the earth. T. W. BICKETT, Governor. Executive Office, Raleigh, January 30, 1920. 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I Raleigh.— Joseph Ward of Phil*, delphla, hat been signed u manager of the Raleigh club of the Piedmont league. , Fayettevtlle,, —Fire, originating from a defective furnace, completely destroyed the hostess house at Cam# Bragg. St. Paul*.—At a recent meeting of the business men of St. Paula, the charter for a third cotton mill tot St. Paul* waa applied for. s Shelby.—Plans are being made \» build a new school building, the pres ent one being lnadeguate to handle the number of children attending. farmers ot this community and the Watklns Com munity elub will soon begla the ereo lion of a farmers' cotton gin and oil mill here. Lumberton, —The Lumberton grad> ed schools have been closed on ac count of the appearance of two case* of spinal meningitis among pupils of the second grade. Durham, —Clabourne McD. Carr, son of Oeneral Julian Garr, and vie* president of the Durham Hosiery mills, Is very ill at his home la this city with blood poison. Castonia, — Carl Finger, county treasury of Oaston. died at his home In Chggterplace. Pneumonia follow ing Influenza was the cause of bis death. Klnston, —Richard Sutton, one of the oldest residents of Lagrange, is dead aftsr a brief illness. Mr. Sutton succumbed to paralysis while on a visit to a son at Jason. He was 92 years of age. Greensboro, —With Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the secretary of the navy, presiding, the fifth annual con vention of the North Carolina Equal Suffrage association was held here. Durham was selected as the next meeting place of the association. Guxtonla. —So far there have been but two deaths from Influenza In Gas tonia since the disease became epi demic some days ago. . Reidsville. —John A. Lovelace, • prominent and well-to-do cltlxen, died •t his home at Sadler. Newton.—The postofflce department has accepted the bid of W. C. Felms ter to build and e4uip an office for the Newton postoffloe. Charlotte. —Herbert Murphy, infield, er of the Seattle club of the Pacific Coast baseball league, waa signed aa manager of the Charlotte club of the South Atlantic association, according to official announcement. Winston-Salem. Eugene Shaver, aged 17, an inmate of the children's Jiomo, was accidentally shot at the dairy barn near the home by William llalley, another Inmate of the Institu tion. Rocky Mount.—Relief for the acuta housing situation In Rocky Mount is THE SIGNS OF LACK OF IRON IN THE BLOOD Nervousness—Lack of Appetite— Easily Tired —No Endurance—Falling Off in Bodily Vigor Theaj are a few of the symptoma that indicate your blood ia weaK and anaemic and lacking ui red corpus cles. Vigorous young men and women all have rich red blood, but age and worry and hardship take the power and strength out of this life fluid. 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Father Ellas lay. toun Is here to administer religious solace to his uncle, the venerable father of Hablb Abdallah, a. well known Queen atreet business man, having traveled hundreda of miles to comfort the elder Mr. Abdallah, who la critically ill. Statesviile. —Will L. Poston, of Ma ceppa, who would have faced trial in Iredell superior court, charged with the murder of Otho Morrow last fall, committed suicide In the county Jail, by hanging himself' to one of the cell doors. Asheviile/—The Burke county chaia gang, which died at the age of five months, probably holde at least one record, that of the number of eacapes. Eleven prisoners have made good their get-away leaving sentences ag gregating over twenty-five years. REPRESENTATIVE SMALL DOES | NOT LIKE THE PLUMB PLAN. Washington.—Representative John H. Small of North Carolina charged that the farmer and some of his or ganisations are being used to further the Plumb plan for the government control of the railroads and for the crippling of the farm loan act. "I belisve that the people of North Carolina think that the railroads should be returned to their ewners as soon as legislation for that purpose can be passed," said Mr. Small, "My Information as to the effect that tha farmers af the country entertain this view. "It is my opinion that the railroads should be returned and that we should enact legislation which will restore their credit as far as possible and en able them to serve the public. 3,000 CHINEBE COOLIES ARE HELD PENDING EXAMINATION. Halifax, N. S—Three thousand Chi nese coolies bound home from France are being held on board the stsanßr Minnekahda here until the military authorities and the chief health offi cer of the port settle their dispute as to whether the illness of spme of them is Influenza or colds. 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Thompson Township, Friday, February 13 Saxapahaw Store. 10 a., m. to 1 p. m. Swepsonville, Thompson & Kirkpatri&c's Store, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. Patterson Township, Tuesday, February 17 Rufus Foster's Store, 10 a. m. to 12 m. W. H. Fogleman's Store, 1 p. m. to 4 p. m. Patterson Township, Wednesday, February 18 Coble's Store at Snow Camp, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Holman's Mills, 2. p. m. to 4 p. m. Newlln Township, Thursday, February 19 Sutphin's Mill, 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. C. D. STORY, Sheriff Alamance County. rgNo! The Banker HSfe r Wouldn't Quit! When the sawmills moved out of a certain Northern woods town it looked like the finish of business there for everyone —farmers, merchants, banker. But the banker refused to quit. "If I can make dairying and poultry-keeping profitable my bank will make money," said he. The story of his efforts and the money-making prosperity that has come to his community is told in the current issue of TKe COUNTRY GENTLEMAN , , This bank aims to extend the ever line of farming you are i same sort of service to this following—livestock, dairying, community. We should like to poultry, grain, >'i uit,truck, corn, know every farmer hereabouts bees —there is something for you —to help every farmer make e..ch week in the pages %J' money. Come to us with your of the Grert Farm problems and let us see if to- Weekly. If you authorize us, the copy . , everywhere Sether we cannot boost your \vc sjtall Lie glad to charge your 4 bank account. As a step recount .fl.Cj fnft-a year's sub towards that prosperity, we scriplion. Gr, better still, come urge you to read each week THE in; let's tsJk it over personally COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. What- and get acquainted. rt The National Bank of Alamance Gentlemen: (1) Because you know me, enter my name for THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN for one year and ) Cr __ charge the cost, SI.OO, to me. I or > out (2) Here'i my dollar. I want THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. Send it to me. I ooe (My Name) (My Addren) (City) (State) f£- Mjf Z.T. HADLE\ Jeweler and Opttclan GRAHAM, N.C. Mortgagee's Sale of Real Estate. Under and by virtue of power 'of »ale contained in a mortgage I deed executed by Jessie Snipes: and wife, Lula Snipes, on Decetn i ber Ist, 1915, and registered in the office of Register of Deeds of Alamance county in Book No. 60 j jof Mortgage Deeds, page 557, the undersigned Mortgagee will offer j for sale at public outcry to the j highest bidder, for cash, at the' j court house door in Graham, Ala mance county, North Carolina, at 112 o'clock M., on SATURDAY, MARCH C, 1920, the following described property : A certain piece or tract of land lying and being in Alamance county, North Carolina, in Bur-1 lington towrship, and described and defined as follows, to-wit: j Beginning a rock or iron bar, | corner with Stephens on east side of an alley; running thence N2 j deg E 1 chain 80 Iks to a rock on j east side of said alley; thence S 87| deg E 7 chs to a rock; thence : ! S m deg W 1 chain 80 Iks to a I rock, corner with said Stephens; j thence N 27± deg W 6 chs 99 Iks j to the beginning, containing one j and twenty-five one hundredths j (IJSS) acres, more or less. This 3rd day of Feb., 1920. CLAUD CATES, Mortgagee. | ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having quaMOrd as Administrator of the °I **V A - "op"®. deceased, (be under signed hereby notifies all persona holding clalma "fainat aald eatatc to preaent the same duly authenticated, on or before the lit day of Feb.. 1021, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their reoovery. All persons Indebted to aald estate are requested to maks Im mediate settlement. This Jan'y B. 195J(J. ISAAC HOLT, Adm'r i- . , _ . .. of L. A. Boone, dec'd. John J. Henlerson, Att'y. SBjanDt Persons who are determined to commit suicide should drink whisky made of wood alcohol. It | provides a sure and quick route j to the mysteries of the hereatter.t It's a wonder the German Gen | eral Staff never thought to spray ; the allied armies with wood al ; cohol.