THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. XLtl
NORTH CAROLINA COUNTRY
AND TOWN POPULATION.
What Census Figures Show—Facts
of Interest to the Student
and Genera] Reader.
Chapel Hill News Letter.
The open-country dwellers of
North Carolina, as disclosed by
thtt 1920 census, number 1,826,-
582. These are the people who
dwetl for the most part in solitary
farmsteads, outside incorporated
cities, towns, and villages of any
sort or size whatsoever, and fewer
'"than eight families to the square
mile the Stafefover.
Our country population has
not decreased in North Carolina
daring the'last ten years. On' the
contrary, we have 157,000 more
country people in 1920 than in
1910. Seventy-one of every 100
in Carolina live in tbe open coun
try. But our 57 census-size cities
grew so rapidly in population
that we have relatively fewer peo
ple in the country now than we
had ten years ago. The ratio has
therefore dropped to' 71 percent
of the total population.
Ono of our counties, New Han
over, is certainly excessively
. urban. More than four-fifths of
all the people of this county live
in Wilmington alone. Here we
have a social situation like that
of three of the New
■States, and along with it many of
the same perplexing problems of
lifennd livelihood.
In two of pur counties, Forsyth
and Mecklenburg, barely more
than a third of the people are
country dwellers. Nearly two
thirds of the entire population of
these two counties dwell in Win
ston-Salem and Charlotte; which
is to say, the city populations out
number the country populations
two to oue. It is iiot necessarily
a dangerous ratio. A country
population representing one-third
of the total can produce sufficient
existence necessities for nearby
city consumers, provided the farm
systems are well balanced and
the farms lsrge enough for the
profitable, use of labor-saving
machinery, provided further that
the cities are wise enough to pro
vide market arrangements,' con
veniences, facilities for handling
local farm products with fair
prices and profits for the farmers.
Otherwise, this ratio of city and
countryside populations becomes
menacing.
The populations are more safely,
balanced in eight counties, where
farm and city populations are
just half and half. These coun
ties are Durham, Rowan, Pasquo
tank, Gaston, Craven, Buncombe,
Carteret, and Guilford.
EiuofVe RurtUim.
The State over, 71 people in
every 100 in North Carolina live
out in the open country. These
are the people who are producing
existence necessities for city con
sumers and raw materials for
manufacture in general.
The local consumers of these
products in North Carolina num
ber all told 730,000. They are the
dwellers in our cities and small
towns. The simple fact is, we have
too many producers and too few
consumers in North Carolina. We
have more than 800,000 farmers
in this State, cultivating barely
more than 8,000,000 acres.* In
.lowa there are 300,000 farmers,
but they cultivate 27,000,000
acres.
These facts indicate that for the
State as a whole the cityward drift
is a drift in the right direction
and the net result a better bal
anced civilization. The country
regions suffer, to be sure, when
the alert and aspiring move away
into the cities for better school
and church advantages and better
business opportunities. Loss of
population means fewer people to
the square mile in our country
regions and fewer leaders in
church and school communities.
If decreasing farm labor in 64
counties of the State forces a
change in farm systems from hand
labor to machine farming, and
from single-crop to many, crop
husbandry with an enormous in
crease in domestic animals, then
our agriculture will be distinctly
improved. But if these counties
are not equal to a readjustment
of this sort, then we shall have a
tremendous increase of wilderness
acres that already number twenty
two million ia North Carolina.
And if our 414 little towns could
become aggressive, stimulating
centers of farm village life, then
the countryside would make an
other great move upward.
* • »
The Conclusion is plainer than
print. The more rural arcounty
is the surer it is either to lose
population or to gain in popula
tion so little* as to depress and
discourage life and enterprise.
There are 70 cotimtiss in North
Carolina in which three-fourths or
more of all the people live outlu
the open country. In 53 of these
counties four-fifths or mote of all
the people are opencouatoy,dwell
ers; in 11 of these counties lljne
tenths or more;'and in 3 of these
counties, Yanooy, Gates, and Cur
rituck, the otire population lis
rural. In these three counties
there is not a iingle incorporated
towri of amy sort or size whatso
ever.
gkip|ri»gth« Small Towns.
These are the coahties out.of
which the oountry people have
been moving most rapidly during
the last ten years. And ?Aen
country people move, they move
as a rule not into the little nearby
towns but into the larger oities,
where life is briritdt aiid oppor
tunities more numerous. So it is
in North Carolina and so it is the
United States over.
Tbe population drift spells the
, doom of the little
they have the enterprise to estab
lish industrial plants or (2) the
public spirit to beteoufe the most
beautiful and attractive residence
places on the face of the gk>be.
Some of oqr 'small towns are
- wisely doing this, and Oxford is a
conspicuous illustration. There
may be others, we hope there are
in North Carolina.
Meantime 93 or nearly a fourth
of all our little towns actually de
creased in population, while 40
others surrendered their charters
of incorporation and faded from 1
the map.
It is a solemn warning to men
of property and influence in-the
little country towns 6f North
Carolina.
DODSON WOULD STOP
SALE OF CAtOMEL
Says Calomel ti Mercury nail Acta Like
Dynamite on Year
IJyer.
i
Dodson is making a hard fight
against calomel in the South.
Every druggist has noticed a great
falling off in the sale of calomel.'
They all give the same reason,
Dodson's Liver Tone is taking its
plaee.
"Calomel Is dangerous and peo
r pie know it, while Dodson's Liver
Tone is perfectly safe and gives
better results," said a prominent
local druggist. Dodson's Liver
Tone is personally guaranteed by
every druggist. A large bottle
costs but a few cents, and If If
fails co give aaoy relief in. every
case of liver sluggishness and con-
stipatlon, you have only to ask
for your money back.
Dodson's Liver Tonetea pleas
( ant-tasting, purely vegetable
remedy, harmless to both chll
! dren and adults. Take ar spoon
ful at night and wake iis feeling
fine; no biliousness, sick head
, ache, acid stomach or oonstifwted
bowels. It doesn't gripe or cause
inconvenience all the next day
! like violent calomel. Take a ilose
of calomel today afid tomorrow
| you will feel weak, sick and
. nauseated. Don't lose a day's
work! Take Dodson's Liver Tone
, instead and feel fine, full of vigor
and ambition.
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I In Um For Over 30 Years
:
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| Muakrat hides, onoe wort b about
, 36 oents, sold for s7.so\at the St.
r Louis fur auction last spring, th*
t United States'. Department of
t Agriculture reports in a rec nt
t circular. Pun' buyers say the snp
. ply of muskratskins in the market
is decreasing at the rate of 50 per
' cent year. /
GRAHAM, N. G., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1920
North Carolina Paid Many Millions ia
Federal Taxes Lalt Year More'
Than for Schools in the
History of the State.
'Cor. of The Gleaner.
Chapel Hill, N. C., Nov. 30
Las': year North Carolina paid 162
rail'ions of dollars in Federal
taxes. Iu all the years of its
history North Carolina has paid
out 130 millions'for educational
purp -see Tim figures are-taken
from a recent repOrr. by P. P.
Claxton, United {fiates Commis
sioner of Educatiou, wh.» has
made an investigation of * lie edu
cational situation in the State,
Mr. Claxton studied aft the Uni
versity of North Carolina, was
school superintendent at Kinstoii,
Wilson, and Ashoville, and taught
at the North Carolina Collegu for
Women in Greenaboro. In his
report he shows a number of Uii-
Offual facta about education in
, the State.
For Instance, he show* that
j North Carolina has spent 22£
1 millions of dollars on all State
Colleges iu fifty years and last
1 year spent 45 millious on tobacco
and enuff alone. The State Uni
versity is 126 years old, but It has
received in all its history only
1 about 4| millions from the State.
' It did not receive any regular
appropriation fofr? maintenance
'■ until after 1875, although it was
then 87 years old.
' I'he total valoe of all the col
' lege plants and equipment iu tbe
' State is now valued at $14,008,771.
1 These figures are taken from
statementrot proper authorities
' in the 31 white colleges, Junior
' colleges, technical training
' schools, and the university.
' Compared with all the North
Carolina cdlleges stands tbe Unt
-1 verelty of California with a plant
. and equipment valued at more
than 16 uiillibns which is 2 mll
-1 lion more than tbe value of all
' tbe institutions in the Old North
State.
The total anuual working in*
1 come nf the 31 North Carolina
1 colleges Is 12,434,646 The peo
ple of the State spend 20 millions
a year to keep their motor cars
' running and less than 2} million
to keep their dofteges iu good
shape. Tbe working income of
, the University of Michigan alone
is a halt million dollars more tbafi
tbe combined inoopie of all the
' North Carolina colleges.
Commissioner Claxton says that
if in a moment of enthusiastic de
votion and self-sacrifice the peo
' pie of North Carolina had agreed
among themselves to smoke two
> cigars Instead of ihr e, burn two
' cigarettes instead of three, chew
two chews inßtea t of three, taken
1 twodipsof snuff and left the third
undipped, and had put the money
thus saved into the School fund,
' they could have paid all the teach
-1 ere of the State three limes as
> much as they are now paid. A
' small fractiou of the money spent
' for joy-rldlng would do the same
[ thing.
' In conclusion Coinmissioper
Claxton says: "From these figures
' it seems quite probable that iu all
the 250 years of the history of
North Caroliua, a* colony and
State, the people have expended
for education in schools of all
grades and kinds, public and pri
vate, several million dollars less
than the amount of taxes p tid to
tbe Treasury of tbe United States
In-a single year."
DAYS OF -v.
DIZZINESS
Come To H«UrwUdPlnl»n People.
There are days of dizziness;
Spells of heaaache, languor, back
ache;
Sometimes rheumatic pains;
Often urinary disorders.
Doan's Kidney Pills are especially
lor kidney ills.
Endorsed in Graham by grateful
friends and neighbor*.
Mrs. W. B. Perry,• Albright Ave.,
says: "A good many years a*o I
was Ud off with a - dall ache in
my back, and ray back was so sore
and weak, I was in misery. Fhaa
severe headachsa and aomen'nei
t got so dissy the room seemed ta
be whirling. Doan's Kidney p.'iis
' were recommended to me and I jot
' a box from Graham Drug C-x Af
f ter taking a few doses I waa re-
D lieved, and continued use made me
. feel better in every wav."
. Price 60c, at all dealers. Dont
c simply ask for a kidnev remedy—
r get Doan's Kidnev Pills—the stme
that Mrs. Perry had. Popter-Mll
bara Co, Mffra. Buffslo, W. T.
A Humiliating Record.
Chapel Hill News Letter.
North Carolina after two aud a
half centuries of history has col
lege plants and equipments valued
at *14,008,771; This in the total
of the figures turned in to the de
partment of Rural Social Science
at the State University by the
authorities of 31 white colleges,
junipr colleges, technical training
schools, and the Uuiveisity. .
it is almost exactly the wealth
we produce by our sw*et potato
. crop alone in a single year.
The plant and equipments of
the University of California are
valued at two and a half million
( dollars more thau the thirjy-one
college properties of North Caro
lina all put together.
\ . The total annual working in
come of our thirty>oue college* its
s2,434,tfitt. We tpend 20 millions
a year to keep our motor care go
ing and less than two and a half
million a year to keep our colleges
goiug. The working ineome of
the Univeritity of Michigan aloge
is a half million dollars more than
the combined incomeof all the col
leges of North Carolina.
| The studeuts > enrolled iu our
thirty-one colleges this fall num
ber 10,586, itnd the applicants
turned away for lack of room
were 2,308. These are the exact
figures reported by responsible
college officials.
Which,is to say, nearly one of
every five students who sought to
enter failed to get into tno col
leges they fondly chose.
At pr sei t our tour-year high
schools are graduating student*
at the rate of 3,000 a year, aud the
colleges of their choice have this
fall closed their doors against i,-
308 of them. '
It is a college situ tiou that is
well nigh unbelievable 1c is
wholly unendurable. And if it
cannot instantly be cured, we
aught never again to prate about
our amazing agricultural wealth
and rauk, or our industrial de
velopment and leadership in the
Bbuth, or our premiership in &lxie
in the psyuwht of federal UKxeson
incomes aud'excess profits.
We talk about the Mjffcwa)
polic&fof North Carolina in terms
of mdiibtfs abd' hundreds of mil
llions of dollars.
And the time has come when
the edtiege policies of North Caro
lina inost.be disenssed and decid
ed in>terms ot millions and hun
dreds of millions of dollars.
In* righteous cause of this sort,
the State has a right to expect lit r
college authorities, church and
State, to be bold as a lion.
—— . ——
Sale Under Deed of
Trust
Under and by virtue of the
power ot sale contained in a deed
of trust executed the 18th day
of October, 1919, by Ira Warren
and wife to the undersigned
Graham Loan & Trust Com
pany, trustee, for the purpose of
securing certain bonds of even
date therewith and the interest
thereon, which deed of trust is i
duly probated and recorded in
the office of the Register of
Deeds for Alamance county, in
Book of Mortgages and Deeds of
Trust No. 84, at page 42, default
having been made in the pay
ment of said bonds according to
their tenor, the undersigned
trustee will, on
MONDAY, JAN. 3, 1921, j
at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court'
. house doer of Alamance county, j
at Graham, N. C., offer for sale j
at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash, a certain tract
or parcel of land in Faucette
township, Alamance county and
State of North Carolina, adjoin
ing the lands of J. W. Bason,
, lots 4 and 2 and others and
| bounded as follows:
I Beginning at a rock in said
i Bason line and corner with lot
| No. 4 and running with said Ba
i son line 10 chs to a rock in said
: 'line and corner with lot No. 2;
!! thence-with the line of lot No. 2
> N 50 d»*g E 17.31 chs to a rock,
t 1 corner of lot No. 2; thence N 33
: deg W 10.03 chs to a rock, cor
-' ner with lot No. 4; thence S 56
' deg W 17.53 chs to the begin-
ning, containing 17.*S acres, I
more or less.
v This deed of trußt covers all of
lot No. 3 in, the sub-division D f
the Cook and. McCracken lands I
as developed for them by L H. 1
Holt in Dec., 1911, a plat of 1
which is recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Ala
mance county and State of North
Carolina,* in Book No. 1, at
page . ,
This November 26, 1920.
GRAHAM LOAN & TRUST CO.,
Trilßf.AA
Wm. I. Ward, Att'y. , ' '
Sale Under Deed of
Trust.
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in a cer-
tain deed of trust executed the
10th day of October, 1917, .by
W, P. Murray and wife, to the
undersigned Graham Loan & '
Trust Company, trustee, for the |
purpose of securing certain [
bonds of even date therewith
and the interest thereon, which
deed of trust is duly probated
and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Alamance
county, in Book of Mortgagee
and Deeds of Trust No. 69 at
page 297, default having been
made in the payment of said
bonds according to their tenor,
the undersigned trustee will, on
MONDAY, JAN. 3, 1921,
at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court
house door of Alamance county,
At Graham, N. C., offer for sale
at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash, a certain tract
or parcel of land in Haw River
township, county and State
aforesaid, adjoining the lands of
Jno. A. Trolinger, Graham Land
Co.,' Bason and others, and
bounded and described as fol
lows:
Beginning at a rock in the line
of said Trolinger, thence N 78f
deg E 17.58 chs rock in Ba
son's line; thence 2i *leg with
Bason's line, to a rock; thence
W 17.78 deg S to a rock; thence
N i deg E 11.77 chs to the be
ginning, and containing 20 acres
more or less. This being the
same land conveyed to W. P.
Murray by deed dated the 10th
day of October, 1917, and re
corded in the office of
of Deeds for aforesaid county
and State. It is also the lot
known as No.' 1 of the Cook and
McCracken land that was con
veyed to Graham Land Com
pany and as surveyed by Lewis
H. Holt, county surveyor, on
Dec. 16th, 1911, and a plat of
which is recorded in the office of
Register of Deeds for aforesaid
county and State in Book of
Plats No. 1 at page —, to which
reference is made for a more
particular description.
This November 23, 1920.
GRAHAM LOAN & TRUST CO.,
Trustee.
Wm. I. Ward, Att'y.
Fords for Sale.
1 new Ford with starter.
1 new Ford without starter. I
j 11917 model—price rightj
Apply to
Samet Furniture Co.,
Phone 626 Burlington, N.C. 1
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to sOrely change gray, faded or j
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Hayes Drug Company, and all good
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ca»m
For the interest* of our people
it is implicative that we bring our
State University to the fall equal
of Harvard, Yale, the University,
of Michigan or the University of
Wisconsin, and our State Agri
cultural and Mechanical Hoi lege
to be the equal of the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, the Colum
bia School of Mines, or the Mas
sachusetts School of Technology.
—D. A. Tompkins.'
Thftjjupreme problem in slorth
Carolina today is to reconcile two
mutually contradictory facts: the
splendid circumstances that North
Gsro)ina4n agricultural resources
is fourth from the top in the
United States and the humiliating
circumstance that North Caro
lina in illiteracy is fourth from
the bottom in the United States.
Our problem is to bridge this
hideous gap, this yawning cre
vasse, I»et ween progress and reac
t on, between ou* financial wealth
and educatiobal poverty, betweeu
our agricultural glory and our
cultural shame.—Archibald Hen
derson. .
1 HeWasßroke
| and Away
i .From Home
Marooned in one
8 of those queer, ever
8 turbulent Central
ft America republica,
X Billy Geary one day
ft discovered ore. H&
X frantic cable for help
g to an old comrade,
ft John Stuart Webster,
x mining engineer, is
o the jumpoff of a tale
8 that lias many breath
ff less moments for two
8 men and a girl.
Webster
| Man's Man
8 shows Peter B. Kyne,
X the author, a way .
o from his native Cali-
X f ornia, but in a coun
-0 try and among >eo
-8 pie that he lrnows
8 well. For stirring,
0 wholesome enterprise
X and a determina-
Q tion to come off with
8 the goods against all
8 odds, we recommend
ft Webster; also a cer-
X tain young lady who X
Q had much to do with g
8 hia fortunes.
Watch for
This New Serial
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Begins with
Issue of December 2nd
Summons by Publication
___——
North
Alamance County,
In the Superior Court,
Gertrude Alexander,
. vs
Frank Alexander.
The defendant above named
will take notice that ao action
entitled as above has been com -
1 menced in the Superior Court of
; Alamance County. North Carolina,
by the plaintiff, Gertrude Alex
ander, for au absolu e divorce
from Frank Alexander, the defen
dant, on the ground of forniCHioti
and adultery and that said de
fenant will futher take notice that
he is required to appear at the
term of the Superior Court of
said county to be held on the 4th
Monday in January, 1921, at the
court house in said county iu said
action, or the plaintiff will apply
po the conrt for thw relief demand
ed in said complaint.
D. J. WALKER,
C 8. C
This 13th day of Nov., 1930.
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MAKERS OF
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Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.
( and by appointment
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Telephones: Oflct tiO— Residence tM
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PATENTS
OBTAINED. If yoa hare aa liTartin |
to patent please tend us a model oraketeht
with a letter of brief explanation for pie
Itminary examination and advice. You,
disclosure and all business is strictly eon ;
fidential, and will receive our prompt and
persons! Attention.
D. SWIFT & CO..
MTBST LAWYERS,
WASHINGTON. D. C.
NORTH CAROLINA,
Alamance Couuty.
Angeline Cates Weaver,
vs.
Marvth R. Weaver..
The defendnant, aboved named,
will take notice that an aetion, . |
entitled as above, has bem com
menced in The Superior Court of
this County to annul the marriage -
contract subsisting between the
plaintiff and the defendant; and
the defendant will fntiier take no- -
tice that he required to 'jtppear
befor« the Clerk of the Conrt, in
Graham, N. C., on MONDAY,
DECEMBER 20, 19*0, at U :00
o'clock a. m , and answer or demur
to the complaint in said action or
the plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in
said compliant.
This November 18, 1920.
D. J. WALKER, C. S. C. . *
J. J. Henderson,
J. Eliner Long
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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