VOL. XLYI Junior High School ; Debating Union State-Wide Debate in March on Col «, lective Bargaining Through Trade Unions. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE NEC ESSARY FOR SURVIVAL, OF HMALL TOWNH. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapel Hill, N. C., Jan. 18,- High schools all over North Caro lina are joining the high school debating union and are preparing for the niuth annual State-wide debate in March. Thus far 224 schools have already announced their intention of participating, according to E. R Rankin, secre tary of the union, and others are expected to join in the next few weeks The debate will center on tlje question of collective bargaining. "If any cynic feels that our school students are not interested in > urgent problems of the times," said one of the leading newspa pers of the State editorially, "he should consider the dauntless manner in which our publicschool pupils are addressing themselves to a discussion of this over shadowing question." The actual query reads, "Re solved, That the policy of collec tive bargaining through trade unions should prevail in Ameri can Industry." Au interpreta tion of the query says that "it is understood that this query affirms that in these main lines of Ameri can industry, viz., miuing, manu facturing, building, and trans portation, it should be the policy of employers to recognize trade unions and to make collective bargains with . their employers through accredited representa tives of the trade unions." All high schools in the State are eligible for the contest. As in former years the schools will have two teams, and each school will debate two other schools. Those winning both preliminary debates will send their teams to the Uni versity for the eliminating rounds, and the last two teams will con test for the State championship and the Aycock Memorial Cup. If the small towns of North Carolina, towns with less than 2,500 inhabitants, want to eurvive and grow, they must do one of two things, according to Roy M. Brown of Watauga county, speak ing before the North Carolina Club, which is this year studying the State from an urban and in dustrial point of view. These small towns must either move for ward into the class of mauufacr turing centers, which a few of them have been able to do; or they must by community effort become attractive local trade, high school, and residence centers. Mr. Brown cited figures show ing that the small towns of North Carolina were not only not increas ing in population, but that 93 of them in the past decade actually dwindled in size and 40 of them surrendered their charters of in corporation and quietly faded from the map, disappeared, lay down and died. He thipks the same fate is com ing to others unless they do some thing to prevent. Country people leaving their farms do not stop in these little towns, he said, unless they are especially atti acted to them and see in them a chance fot; themselves and. their children. They jump over them and go to the larger cities. "Here is the great place for chambers of commerce or other community bodies," said Mr. Brown. "Membership and activi ties of such bodies should extend throughout the trade area of the town. In predominately rural counties the chambers should be connty-wide." • TOWN TAXES—The tax books for 1920 are in my hands. Prompt payment requested. B. R. TpOLINGKB, Tax Collector. Senator Harding has not yet expressed himself upon the wis dom of adoptiug a Harveyised program for international rela tions. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER 5 FIRST PRIZE COMPOSITION. By Merle Stuart of Hawfields School in State Contest. At the State Livestock Judging Contest held at Salisbury, in which over 100 students, repre senting 35 Agricultural Hijr't Schools, Hawfields School - t Alamance cqunfcy was represent ed. At the close of the coutvst an announcement was made that a list of 5 prizes had been secur 1 td be to the boys who wrote the best composition on I lie subject, "The Benefits I Derived from the Livestock Judging Con test." Merle Stuart, one of the three boys from Hawfields High School, entered the composition contest and won the first prize, H year's subscription to the Progres sive Farmer, given by Dr. Clar ence Poe. The composition is as follows: In writing about the benefits I de rived from this contest, the first thought that comes to me, and probably the most outstanding, is that no factor or influence ha* ever come into my life to make ine realize what I want to do and how I want to do it more than this; judging contest. I was at Golds boro last year and at Salisbury this year, and came away with a high ambition and a clearer vis ion of what I hope someday to be able to do. I see the great possibilities in developing and breeding livestock in my com munity more clearly, I belieVe, than many of the older stock men who live here. With only about two per cent of the livestock of the county purebed and much of that scrubby, I see abroad, in teresting and promising field for thousands of young men. lam happy to be one of those men. When I came home from Golds *boro last year I was determined to learn how to select and grow Berkshire hogs. I bought two of the best pigs I could find. They were the big \ype and the best blood obtainable. I took these as my project and fed and cared for them according to books and bul letins and facts learned in the agricultural class. A few days before the Mebane District Fair I got my two gilts readv. I took great pains not to leave anything undone, for I realized that the competition would be almost as keen as at the State Fair. My gilts were larger for their age thau any other hogs in the show and attracted the most attention. My winnings were: Grand Champion Sow, first and third in the opeu class; first and third in the pig club class. I do not feel that I have done anything very remark able. 1 write this to give you au illustration of what Vocational Agriculture and the Livestock Judging Contest has already meant to me. I expect to fiuish the High School here, go to the North Carolina State College for four years and then I hope to give some of our best breeders a lively time. The social feature and bauquet was a most, enjoyable event. Around the banquet table we met Mr. Gray and his corps of exten sion men who left nothing undone to make the contest a success; we met Messrs. Browne, Thouia* and Olmey, who inspired us with their timely and interesting talks, and we met Mr. Tait Butieroftbe Progressive Farmer. In fact, I feel that we not only met many of the big agricultural men of today, but many of those of tomorrow, for never was there gathered to gether a more interested and de termined bunch of young men. I hope that this feature will always be oue of the features of the con test, aud that I will always be eligible to take part in the con test. Before I close I must say that I am a boy who never could get interested in the academic courses of study and I think I am in a class with the majority of the country boys and other boys, too, so far as that is concerned. 1 went to school and did just enough work to get from one gra e to another, which wa* not very much. I realized I didn't like the studies we bad and was always willing to risk any kind of chauge. When the Hawfields school put in Voca tional Agriculture 1 was one of the first to take up the work. I did not know what I wits getting 1 into, but I did fcoojr 1 bad GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 20, 1921 be n into. It. wa* only a short' time until I found myself in lliej I midst of a subject that, i» ml.\ hud ;)if« lo it. I am now a Uapiyj | school boy in the truest MM • I the word. Life is Imjadi'r. fuller* land more interesting faii.v I have found something thai 1 low. Justice to Farmers in Road Building. Cor. ot The Gleaner. dispel Hill, .lan. 111. L'p to the prent-ui time, the com mil tee have' been compelled to spend the major portion of their road fund* oil the mailt highways connecting the principal cities and towns, '.vliieli are used largely for commercial purposes. Even with their inaxi-j mum expenditure of funds and energy «»»i these main roads, tlieyj are kept in very po.ir condition. | The great majority of our farm ing ela s ili» not receive any direct benefit from these main roads, although Uie.v arc helping to pay i for their const ruction and upkeep. The average farmer is very vitally Interested in ihe county or secon dary road.-, which are perforce neglected by the county because j it has not funds for both the main j highways and the secondary roads. It' the county roads were improved the farmers could reac i the main I highways* with maximum loads and thus derive the fullest benefit from both county and main high-; ways. lly the State's taking ovr these main highways (5,5ntl miles) fori, construction and maintenance, j the#counties will be relieved of this burdeu and can use their own road fuuds for building and main taining the county roads leading out into the various fanning sec- ; tious add thus give the average j farmer a chance at a better trans-, puliation system. There are about j 47,000 miles of these county or; secondary roads and the task ot keeping these in good passable' conditio i will require all t lie funds the counties can rase. The plau offered by Governor i Morrison in his inaugural address to force the counties to pay a por lion of the cost of construction of the main highwa's and *d the cost of maintenance, wjih divided authority as to expenditure. would result in unbusinesslike methods, dissatisfaction, aud an even more! chaotic >-tale of road I uilding than >ye have now. Even if the plan were feasible it woul 1 only serve to further dUcriuiinat- against the farmer, for the fuuds demanded by the State under this, plan for construction and main- 1 teuance wonld not only lake all ► funds that might otherwise, be used on county roads but would be overburdensome to the rural counties, aud any other which may hap pen to be heavily in dent. It is therefore to every farm-1 er in North Carolina to see thai the bill for a State system ot high- L ways, which provides for State, control,, Stale financial responsi-i bility, aud St te protection, Is en acted into law by tin* present General Assembly. Pauts may be coming down but not fast enought to taake them pant k The task uow is to make the U.I S. safe for Democrats in l!>i I. Its critics have been almost as good at charging as the shipping board has been. WHY SUFFER SO? Why Suffer from a bail back, fr an! 1 sharp, shootib# twingi s; headaches, j dizziness and distressing urinary ills? Graham people recommend { Loan's Kidney Pills. Could you' i ask for stronger proof of merit? Mrs. A. R. Flintom, 8. Main St., ; ( Graham, gave the following e.i-j dorseinent in January, lfM5: ••My back felt » > iame I co.ila j hardly get around and wii?i I was I 1 doing my housework I hiJ such m pains through my kidneys I could j I not move. When I was stjopl.ig! the pains were si sn'3?; r often j. had to scream. It wis nil ' coall ( do to turn over in bed and mr>rn-j ings I would have t-> hive sr»m? i' one to help me g-t :p Dos j 1 Kidney Pills were r -commend-"! i highly that I gat a b> am s>>-|i my back was n "I! ri?h' I felt better in every m On July I', tin, " M-i. added. "I still tike !)n'i -H? (j Pills occasionally wh**i ,y i" hvk •• H kidneys 'bother m* il l ' tlw-v get good relief. Dnis htv» cjr t {airily done me a lot of jl 60c at all dealers. Poster -Mi|'> irr ( £o„ Mfr*., Buffalo, X, V. j, mil EXPORT MOVE LAUNCHED [■ '* ~~~~~~ ANNUAL SESSION OF AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION GOES ON RECORD ENDORSING EXPORT CORPORATION. Raleigh.—'Delegates to the Second Annual Convention of the American Cotton Association held In Raleigh January 13th went on record as unan imously supporting a cooperative marketing association and the newly organized Cotton Export Company. L. i S. Tomllnson, who has been at the head of the State Association during the past year, was re-elected Presi dent. Over a thousand delegates were in attendance at the meeting which was addresße(f by Richard I. Manning, former Governor of South Carolina, Aaron Saplro, Attorney for the Cali fornia Fruit Exchange, and Holiins Randolph, Attorney for the Ftfderal Reserve Board, sixth district. Governor Manning dwelt at length on the advantages that the Export Corporation would offer Southern farmers and Southern people gen erally. When the American Products Export and Import Corporation was organized about two inr-nths ag/>, Gov ernor Manning was chosen Its Pres ident. Joseph Walker o{ Columbia, S. C„ formerly of the cotton firm of Hollowell & Walker, Is General Man ager for the corporation. The Corporation plans to stabilize the do mestic cotton market by shipping the South's sift-plus staple to Europe. One shipment has already been made and others will follow very shortly. Of considerable interest to the con vention was an address by Mr. Sapiro, who has had extensive experience in marketing problems. Ho sketched the work accomplished in California and urged the State of North Carolina to be one of the leaders in the co-oj>- eraMve movement. Mr. Hollin. 1 Ran dolph explained the difference between the American Products Export and Import Corporation and the bankerß export corporation, formed under the Edge Act. The Edge Corporation Is limited primarily to discounting and cannot deal in commodities, whereas the organization headed by Governor Manning is actually buying and selling cot'on and the other chief product* of the South. A St-te-wlde campaign In the lntei* est of the Export Corporation has been launched, and meetings will be held In practically every cotton growing county in North Caroliha. Mr. L. S. Tomllnson, President of the Stat* As sociation, has already arranged a num ber of meetings which he will address. Wednesday, he will speak In Albe marle; Thursday, January 20th, In Troy; Friday, January 21st, In Shelby; and Saturday, January 22nd, in Ruth erfordton. Mr. OK C. Maner of the -Expert Corporatlonjwlll also speak ai the Shelby and meet ings and Mr. H. C. Stevens, alto a representatlYi r of the Export Com pany. will address the Albemarle and Troy gatherings. Realizing that the European coon tries are not absorbing anywhere near the amount of cotton they used to la pre-war days, cotton men of ths South have for months past been looking around for a way to remedy conditions. IndUatlons are that the American Products Export £ Import Corporation will solve the question. To enable Europe to secure the cot ton It needs, proper credit facilities must be afforded and the Export Com pany with Its $. . J.OUO capitalization will be able to extend such credits. Stock o? the American Products Ex port L Import Corporation is being offered at $lO per share and subscrip tions are being received In cash or In cotton or Liberty Ronda at the market price. The company's North Carolina office Is located in the State Agrlr-ul tural Building at Raleigh. Endorsements of the Cotton Export Corporation have been received from many sources. Governor W. P. G. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board and Governor M B. Wellborn of the Federal Reserve Bank of At lanta have come out in support of the program. Secretary of the Treasury. W. G McAdoo, has en dorsed the movement enthusiastically. >mong the North Carolina! organisa tions that are actively supporting the campaign are: American Cotton As sociation. Raleigh Clearing Howe, North Carolina A. k E. College, Jfx tenslcn Department; North Carolina Association of Life Underwriters; IJforth Carolina Press Association; Interstate Tobacco Growers' Associa tion; North Carolina Association of Hosiery Manufacturers; Charlotte Chamber of Com«erc«; Rocky Mow* Chamber of C«mnfrtft, —4 wmV I *■ ■ i' I banks and prominent Individuals. The American Cotton Association at | Its meeting la Raleigh ,fac«d squarely the fact that the total cotton exports of the South had fallen off 73% since the pre-war period. In the past the Southern States hare looked to for eign capital to finance their exports. Appreciating that this Is no longer possible, the cotton men of this State and of the 3ou"i generally are banding together to a'n'ure the Joint success of the Co-oi'-—Marketing Idea and the Coft-v- T'x-virt Corporation ALFALFA AS A REFRIGERATOR Planted Around Farm Houses It Has Been Found to Reduce the Tem perature Materially. Refrigerators indoors are common enough, but It took the'farmers In the Southwest to devise one for outdoor use. A farmer who happened to plant a large field of alfalfa south of the farmhouse noticed during the hot sum mers that followed that his family did not suffer from the heat as did the neighbors. The thermometer showed a temperature five to ten degrees In his favor. Someone suggested that tt might be due to the alfalfa, tried the tempera ture Just north of other alfalfa fields and found the same marked difference. Now the farmers of that region are planting alfalfa around their dwell ings and enjoy summer temperatures that make a trip to the seashore need less, according to the Golden Age. The cause of the coolness of winds passing over alfalfa fields Is that the plant absorbs much moisture, the evaporation of which reduces the tem perature of the air and lessens the summer heat In the adjoining lapd over which It blows. The suggestion now Is for farmers that wish to profit from Ihe presence and the board money of summer va cationists to combine the profit and utility of alfalfa with higher rates from hot-weather boarders attracted by the coolness of the ten-acre refrig erator around the house. Little by little men are beginning to learn how to utilize the means pro vided by a good Creator for their com fort and well-being. HE HAD LEARNED SOMETHING Christmas Incident That Shows the Way of a Modern Maid With Her Victim. « He was a very nervous young man, but he was rather nice, and Elsie thought he was worth encouraging. She allowed him to take her to t£a, she deliberately chucked the slipper In his eye at "Hunt the Slipper," and I she gave him a dance or two. Once ' or twice she sat down under the mis tletoe, but he didn't seem to notice that. At last when they were alone In a corner of u room, she stood long and insistently under the mistletoe hanging from a curtain pole of the bay window. Then, very nervously, he 'pecked her face. She, of course, protested mild ly; but as they seated themselves once more, most respectably on a couple of chairs, she kept the conversation on mistletoe. At ieDgth he ventured: "It Is—er— a nice Christmas custom, hanging up mistletoe, but I wonder why they al ways hang It over doors, windows or chandeliers?",. • "Because It's not necessary to have any out on the stairs or In any other dark places," she murmured softly. Ecuador. It was one hundred years ago that Kcuador liberated Itself from Spanish rule. To commemorate the anniver sary. Kcuador has Issued a series with nineteen denominations—one centavo to one sucre—each bearing a jiortralt of some man who won renown In Ecuador's history. The dates 1820 and 1920 are a part of the design. Greatly to the surprise of collectors, no 20- centavo denomination appeured as part of the set, for Ecuador's sets for forty years have Included one of that value. Inquiry brought the disclosure that 12.000 copies of a 20-centavo were printed, but the value description, velnte, meaning "twenty," was through an error spelled vlente instead. Tlie postal authorities destroyed the entire lot, and a 20-centavo will appear as soon as a new plate has been made. — Youth's Companion. Comment "Sarkastlc. 0 Now the vacuum subway express haw been Invented. Working some what after the fashion of the pneu matic cash carriers that haye long been in use In department /Stores, the trains proceed from one tupnel station to another, according to prospectus, at' the rate of 150 miles an honr. This speed Is attained with slight expendi ture of power, because the vacuum system removes all air resistance from the front of the train and applies ex panding air to the rear. The Inven tor presumably got his idea for the rtttum m*WMT trareting tf tube, nod noting what a smr.ll quan tity of air the ears could get along with.—Christian Science Monitor. Czechoslovak Forests. A novel feature of Czchoslovak for est development is the principle that the annual growth must equal or ex ceed the annul cut. Tills Is a wise and farslghted policy. It is estimated that 6,000,000 cubic meters of fire wood and 9.4(10.000 cubic meters of commer cial timber are cut yearly. The quan tity used for fuel during and since the war will he grently reduced, In the very near future, through stimulated production of bituminous coal, .'ignite and oil. At the prevailing prices for lumber competent authorities estimate the value of the .annual timber cut to be about *120,000,000. Blind Piano Fixer. The pianos of the schools of Phila delphia are tuned and cared for by s blind man whose time Is entirely taken ep by'his visits to one school building after another. He not only tunes the Instruments, hut he goes over the exterior rnd the cases and keaps them looking like new. Memorial In Jerusalem. In grateful remembrance of Scot land's sons who gave their live* for the liberation of ttie Holy land from the Turk- a memorial In Jerusalem Is planned. It will be erected jointly by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland and will take the form of an Institute for Itibllcnl Research and a Presbyterian church. It will be called the Spots' Kirk and College In Jerusalem. Can You Build a Bird House? The most talented singer In the world, not even excepting the night ingale. says the American Forestry Magazine of Washington, Is the her mit thrush. A bird house building contest Is arousing great Interest among school children and the maga zine !i r'.vlng blue ribbons to the prize winners In schools throughout the counti-j. Pan''* Great Age Oiicredited. Is It worth while, when money Is needed for legitimate objects, to an swer the appeal to save from Mile the cottage In which Thomas Parr lived? His claim to fame Is that he lived to be 152 and that he did penance for Im morality at 100. Careful inquiry lust century discredited tlie tradition as to the number of Ills years. Ills age was attested only by village gossip and by quacks, who sold what they falsely called "Parr's Life I'llls." Brought to court In what was alleged to be tils 153 d year. Parr died in the course of a few months, killed by excessive diet.— London Mall. Kl«o Burled In Tree Trunk. When Henry II was In Wales-In 1177 receiving the submission of the princes, be chanced to hear the deeds of King Arthur sung by the Welsh, and was told the exact burial place of the hero of Glastonbury. Some yearn later the abbot of Glastonbury, the king's nephew. OTirched for the body, and found It burled In the trunk of a tree, beside that of Arthur's queen. Gulnlvere. When Glastonbury abbey was made a ruin In Henry VIIPs time, the remains of King Arthur and his queen were swept away, according to the London Telegraph. It was on Cadbury hill In Somerset, the famed Canielot of Arthurian romance, thfit the British king prepared for hi* great stand agaitift the Anglo-Saxons; and the name of Arthur still clings to the locality which has 'become known ,by the name of "Arthur's lane" and "Ar thur's well." What Wes Old. 5 ' Wee Whittle, • tos miter down is LeweM, Ark., was so patriotic during the fall of 1918, before the 1 Hun wat Anally vanquished, that he put s mortgage en his team and wagon fot 160 and bought War Savings Stamps in his desire to d- his duty by the government. Some thought Wes was doing more thati his financial strength warranted. But he just went down into the woods, cut up fuel and sold it and the mortgage was soon lifted. New Wes is buying more stamps, be cause he realizes their rtdue and finds he can save. Suffering Caused by War. The name "barbed-wire disease" ll found by Ring und Vlscher to have probablf originated In Switzerland and It applies to a very marked fuue tional mental disorder. The symp toms, recognizable tn most men con fined more than six months behind barbed-wire fencing, sre severe it about 10 per cent of all prisoners. In creased Irritability nppi-ars first, fol lowed by diminished- power of coi» centratlon, and there Is much com plaint of loss of memory of person! and pluces. Insomnia is a seconder; symptom. Some prisoners have di minished eyesight, many grow sus picious, ull tend to pessimism, som reaching an extreme In several day; at • time of speechless t.jrpor. For getfitlnes* of words If very striking. NO. 50 PROFESSIONAL GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: J to 11a.m. and by appointment Olliee Over Acme Drug Co. - Telephones: Ofiice ItO—Residence 204 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM, N. 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U j-'iT Wildrooe is guaranteed to clean .K ?i|f V"P dandruff and remove it—but it /» r JI * does more; it cleanses, softens and ' I •If loosens the scalp and stimulates *1 4 J I the hair to normal, healthy growth. Iff JWldrootLlquldßhampooorWlldroot « lIC ,n connection 9 Lr with Wtldmot HairToaic, will bmaieu a M tho treatment. J IwiLDBIOOT I THE GUARANTEED HAIR TONIC 1 For tale here under a money-back guarantee a Graham Drug Co. Hayes Drug Co. Sale Under Deed of Trust. *> Under ;mi] by virtue of the power of sale contained in a cer tain deed-of trust executed the Ist day of December, I!M7. bv Zora Zachary widow), to i lie undersigned .(imham 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 RegisteY of Deeds for Alamance county in Book of Mortgages \ and Deeds .of Trust No. 77, at page No. •'»!>, default having been made in the payment of said bonds according to their tenor, the undersigned will, on MONDAY, JAN. 24. 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 lot or parcel of hind described as fol lows, to-wit: Tract No. 1, of a sub-division of the Peter Foust land in Ala mance county, as developed for the Graham Land Company by j Lewis 11. Holt, a map ef which is on record in the office of the Register of Deeds for Alamauce county, State of North Carolina, in Hook of plats N?o. 1, at page presslv made for a more par ticular description. Tract No. •1 contains 14."» acres, more or leas, and on it IB" situate a new frame dwelling. This Dec. 18th, 1920. GK.UIAM LOAN & TRUST CO., Trustee. Wm. I. Ward, Att'y.