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SHARP REDUCTION OF ACREAGE URGED 'CARE MUST BE. OBSERVED TO AVOID ANOTHER GLUTTED MARKET NEXT FALL. TALK AT COTTON CONFERENCE # 'Director Angus W. MCLean Will This Year Reduce Production to the Ex tent of 8 Acres to the Mule. Raleigh. Washington, (Special). Address ing the cotton conference Angus W. McLean, the Tar Heel director of the ■war finance corporation, asserted a 60 per cent reduction in cotton acre age was imperative unless the market Is to be glutted. Director McLean said he had ordered such a reduction . on his North Carolina plantations. Mr. McLean also raised the ques tion whether Southern bankers have been sufficiently "courageous" in as sisting agriculture. -Some of the bank ers, Mr. McLean said, seemed to him to be too timid in their financing of agriculture. That he had sustained an "operat ing loss of $20,000" on his cotton farm last year was declared by Mr. Mc lean, who said he discovered this when making out his income tax. This loss, he said, was exclusive of interest on investment. This year, he added, he would reduce production to the ex tent of eight acres to the mule, in stead of 15 acres and $lO fertilizer per acre, instead of 25. Appointments by Congressmen. Washington, (Special).—Represen tative Homer Lyon has made his ap pointments for the naval academy, these going to Daniel C. Britt, of Lumberton, and Phillip McNatt, of i Parkton. These young men are to be given their mental examination on April 20. There are now four va cancies to be filled from North Caro lina, one each for Senator Overman, Representative Stedman, Hammer and Bulwinkle. At the military academy at West Point there are two vacancies from North Carolina, one each for ap pointment by Representative Kitchin and Representative Bulwinkle. Reduction In Tax Valuations. Sweeping reductions in property valuations mad? by boards of commis sioners through the state will make little difference in the state's new tax ation policy, according to legislative experts who came to Raleigh. The present state tax commission, composed of Chairman Tom Lee and Commissioners Pell and Maxwell are out of the city and the new taxation commissioner for the state, Col Als Watts, was reluctant in discussing the action of the several boards of commissioners. -> Ward is First on the Ground. ' Washington, (Special).—The first of the North Carolina Congressmen to arrive in the city is Hon. Hallett S. Ward, of Washington. Mr. Ward went early in the day to the Navy De partment and named for the vacancy from the first North Carolina district at Annapolis, Grice McMulten, of ' Elizabeth City. Hefner Pardoned by Governor. Governor Morrison pardoned Cecil Hefner, charged with the murder of Glenn Lippard and under sentence of 15 years for the crime. Solicitor Huffman's letter brought the freedom, new evidence tending to show Hefner's complete innocence having been found. The prisoner was convicted a few nfonths ago. —l—_ Explosives Must be Removed. Halt a million pounds of high ex plosives stored too near Raleigh for safety will be moved In part, accord ing to Insurance Commissioner Wade, who is Informed by the national in spectors that the combination TNT, dynamite and black powder Is not as it shonld be. All have been iJfcated within the danger zone and must be changed. Governor goes to New York. Governor Cameron Morrison and State Treasurer B. R. Lacy will leave later sb> the week for New York and other financial centers to the feasibility of a bonds or the sale of short term notes to provide for road construction, and , Institutional expansion authorized by the 1921 session of the general as sembly. This mission was determined uaf» after the Governor hid discussed with the Council of State the general fi nancial situation. Visits State or Nativity^ Washington, (Special).—Comman der P. W. Foots, aide to the Secre tary of the Navy, who held the same position with Secretary Daniels, has returned to Washington after a visit to North Carolina. He visited rela tives in the state, going to Wtlkes boro, Statesvllld, Winston-Salem, Ra leigh and Wake Forest He says that he found Raleigh a moet attractive place. At Wake Forest be foand rec ords of his father, Jamee H. Foote. who graduated from Wake Forest la ISSt aad was later la the faculty. •;..v s ... Crops Produced In State. f North Carolina achieved the posi tion ef the greatest producer of tobac co in 1920, when the honor was snatch ed from Kentu.ky, through five y'ears of consistent gain in production. Frank Parker, Agricultural Statisti cian, in the March Farm Forecaster isued by the Co-operative Crop Report ing Service here, shows that sales re ported to March 1 totalled 395,000,000 pounds of the golden weed, with pros pects that the final total will be 420,- 000,000 pounds. The crop averaged about 21.5 cents a pound. These fig ures represent a large increase in pro duction and a decrease of almost fifty per cent in price as compared with the previous season. * Mr. Parker shows on March 1, flfty three per cent of North Carolina's 1920 corn crop was on the farms, the stock being forty per cent greater than a year ago. The estimated stock on hand March 1 is 33,937,000 bushels as compared with 23,940,000 bushels on March 1 a year ago. Four per cent of the crop was shipped out of the coun ties in which it was grown and 87 per cent was of merchantable quality. The stock of wheat on farms in the state is twice as much as It was a year ago, there being 32 per cent of the crop, or 2,711,000 bushels. This com pares with 1,213,000 bushels twelve months before. Doughton Groomed for Governor. The word has reached Raleigh via Washington in the past twenty-four hours that in the event of his unseat ing at the hands of a republican Con gress "Farmer Bob" Doughton will take a long shot at the governor's Job four years from now. The story is borne to the capital by one of the best informed politicians of the state and in the limited circulation it had here created the most intense interest. Most of those who heard it were familiar with Congressman Doughton's aspirations a year or so ago and are not the least suprised that he should be preparing to make it» 1924 the race he wanted to make in 1920. Colonel Watts Appointed. Col Alston D. Watts, who registers himself on the hotel books as a citi zen of Irdell county, is Governor Mor rison's choice for revenue commis sioner of North Carolina, over Corpor ation Commissioner Allen J. Maxwell,- The new job to which the Iredell man has been appointed is the biggest single creation of any general assem bly within the memory of active peo ple. Colonel Watts will take office on the first day of next May. Want to Hear Hoover. The officers of the North Carolina Merchants Association, through their se.retary J. Paul Leonard, of States ville has extended an invitation to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com merce, to address the twentieth an nual convention of the association to be held at the Q'Henry hotel in Greensboro June 21, SZ and 23. Mr. Hoover will be asked to discuss the government's relation to business and America's commercial outlook. Revenue Agent Resigns. .Tohn F. Lifsey, chief revenue agent for North Carolina has resigned and will return to his home in^Norlina. Mr. Lifsey, who began his duties with Collector J. W. Bailey, as deputy collector with special duties in run ning down blockaders became chief revenue agent for North Carolina when the prohibition zones were es tablished. Barrett Is Named Director. Governor Morrision announced the appointment of James F. Barrett of Asheville and Dr. Jennis Morrill, of Pitt county, as directors of the State School for the Deaf at Morganton in place of Archibald Johnson of Thom asville, and J. O. Atkinson of Elon College, whose terms have expired. I '■ New Commissioner on Hand. The state's new revenue commis sioner, Col. Aus Watts, Iredell county, arrived in Raleigh, and will have a conferen.e with Governor Morrison. Colonel Watts was accompanied to Raleigh by Speaker Harry Grier, L. C. Caldwell, Bheriff J. M. Deaton, 0. L. Crowell and James A. Hartness, all Iredell citizens. Drainage Convention April 12-13. The acceptance of Mr. Mark W. Pot ter, of New York, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, to address the drainage convention which meets at Elizabeth City April 12 and 13 was announced by the sec retary, Joseph Hyde Pratt. Mr. Pot ter is the owner of a large body of re claimed land in Beanfort county. He will make dairy farming and cattle raising on the reclalmend lands of eastern North Carolina the subject of his talk. Highway Commission Meets. When the state highway commis sion gathers here to organize Commis sion ef Frank Page will lay before the body plans for the Immediate con struction of 217 miles of "hard BUT fac ed and other dependable highways'* authorized under the Doughton-Con nor-Bowie road law appropriating fif ty millions of dollars. Surveys have been made and plane are ready to let for this beginning on the K.SOO-mlle program contemplated by the general assembly. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N, C. Vwit to Elcuad^ Scientists of museum of natural history back from Ecuador. George K. Cherrle (left), Harold E. An thony. Jlbaro head hunter is shown in the center. Dried and shrunken human heads worn by Jlbaro as trophies. If Farmer Had to Pay His Wife He Would Go Broke, Declares Nebraska University Expert, Summarizing Survey. WOULD COST $4,000 A YEAR Farm Wife Is Cook, Washerwoman, Seamstress, Charwoman and, on Oc casion, a Nurse—Also She Is Assistant Farm Director. Omaha. —If Nebraska farmers had to pay their wives "living" wages for their work most of them would have to go out of business, accord lug to figures made public by the home eco nomics department of the Nebraska State university. According to those figures every farm wife earns $4,000 u year. And inasmuch as most of the farmers are not making that over and above expenses, the farmers would "go broke" If they had to pay their wives what they would have to pay others for the same service. The farm wife is a cook, a washer woman, a seamstress, a charwoman, a nurse, an assistant farm director, and a whole lot of other things. And she is an expert In ench of these. The home economics department, in mak ing up Its survey, took all these occu pations into consideration in estimat ing the value of their wives' service. If Outside Help Were Hired. "If a farm woman's time was con sidered and she was paid on the basis of the hired help she saves her hus band from employing, she would re ceive a salary of $4,000 a year," says Miss Margaret Fedde, chairman of the department which made the survey. First, all the cooking falls upon the housewife. She prepares three meals a day. She has no afternoon "out." Service of that kind Is worth at least $lO a week," says Miss Fedde. Next,, the farm .wife does the wash ing and Ironing. Very few farmers have washing machines. It takes the farm wife all day long to do the wash ing. Another full day Is required to do the Ironing. "The regular wages of a laundress In the country are $'2.50 per day," says Miss Fedtfe. "For the washing and ironing, therefore, she should be cred ited with $5 per week." A recent health survey of farms and farmers shows there Is an average of 10 days Of sickness each year on each farm. And wheu there Is sickness the wife turns to nursing. So, for 10 days each year the farm wife is a nurse. "The wages of a trained nurse on the farm are $23 per week," says Miss Fedde. "On this score the farm wife gets In nearly $75 per year in wages as a nurse." When Mrs. Farmer does the family sewing—and she does all the sewing that is done on the farm—she shoijjd be credited with the wages of a seam Great Fish Tragedy 2,000,000,000 Killed by Freeze at Prince of Wales Island. Craw of Steamship Northwestern Tells ot Sailing for Many Miles " Through Dead Herring. Ketchikan. Alaska—What Is de clared by Captain Brunn and officers of the steamship Northwestern to be Ehe greatest fish tragedy ever enacted to human knowledge occurred at Klawak Bay, Prince of Wales Island. January 80, when at one stroke more than 2.000.000,000 good sized berriug lost their Uvea. Tba crew eagerly related their re markable experience of sailing through miles of the dead fish. According to those on board, Klawak Bay was full of herring three day* before the North western arrived, when a sudden freeze caught the fish In the narrow-necked stress. 'Credit Mrs. Farmer $0 per week as a sewing lady. More of Her Duties. The wages of a woman to do clean ing, scrubbing, etc., ure $2.50 per day. For two days each week the fanner's wife does this kind of wqrk. Her pay cheek, according to the home econom ics department's survey should be Increased by $5 per week for that. Taking care of the butter and the cream and the eggs requires some hours everyday. And during the berry season and the fruit season the wife works long hours over the preserving kettle. This kind of work is worth $3 per day and the credit should go to Mrs. Farmer. And lu the fall, dur ing, "hog killing time," the farmer's wife acts as expert meat pactcer and should be credited with $5 day for that labor. As a "farm assistant" the farmer's wife IS called upon every hour of the day to give advice. The rate of pay of farm assistants in Nebraska is S2O per week. So the farmer's wife should be credited with S2O per week on that score. Then there are the tliousajpls and one things which do not come under any of these heads, but which would Waits for Hanging Sixteen Years Oklahoma Negro Has Been Kept in Suspense. * Sentenced for Murder In 1905 and Authorities Have Not Yet Set the Date for Execution. Oklahoma City.—For sixteen years Kid Kelly, Oklahoma negro, murdeier of Jim Dillingham, has been Impris oned in Oklahoma, dally awaiting word from the legally constituted authorities that will set the date for his execution at the hands of the fed eral or state, governments. Anil his suspense Is not yet ended. Since October, 1005, the negro has beet) Imprisoned and for the last ten years Ims been In the custody of the prison authorities at McAlester, who have not even ordinary commitment papers as their authority for his in carceration. The only document pos sessed by the prison, according to the records Is an order instructing the sheriff of thnt county, to convey the negro to the state penitentiary at Mc- Alester and deliver him to the warden for confinement awaiting the final action of the court. There the. authority ends. While Kelly putters around the prison enclosure awaiting the day when the courts shall decide the date of his execution, legal lights are bow- harbor before they could escape to sea. When they were first noticed by George Bradovlch, an employee of the Craig cannery, near Kluwak, they had swarmed Into the harbor In jijch num bers that those on top were forced out of the water. The freeze came with great suddenness and severity and about six Inches of ice formed on the harbor. Millions of the herring at the entrance could be seen dumbly fighting to get out to sea before the enclosed waters vjere frozen. When the Northwestern arrived the tide had receded, and for twenty to fifty feet on the beech, and several hundred feet out Into the water for a distance of three and one-half ralies around the harbor lay frozen herring. The officers of the ship and the can nery foreman made careful measure ments and found that the fish were tightly packed for nn average depth of thr* feet. "It may sound like a fish story," command big pay Tf the farmer had to go out and etnpl\v some one to do them. All these should be credited to the wife of the farmer. "Total all these charges and It will be found that the Nebraska farm wife ; earns at least SI,OOO every year, with her board and room thrown In." .says the bulletin. if V? j J Secret Drawer of Desk J J~~ Made Poor Family Rich J ' The hidden fortune In a piece ' ' of old furniture has turned up J t in Vienna. Austria, with un- » ! * usually dramatic setting. t One of the many families ho t J live by the gradual sale of an- J * tlque family possessions decided * j J to sell a very okl desk. The J * daughter and a friend were re- * i moving It to a waiting wagon t 1 ' when a secret apartment opened ' I t and disclosed a pile of gold * \ I coins. * VIII the coinage of nearly all # Europe and sime of ancient J i ! date, they represent r>,000,000 t J Austrian crowns. - J » Ran Away From Fight; Died, Bellefontalne, O. —Uunnlng home In fear of a group ot boys who had threatened lo thrash him after an ar gument over a game of marbles, Rus sell Watt, ten years old. fell dead on j the »ieps of his home In this city. Ihg tlielr heads before law books In an endeavor to discover the real statua of the prisoner; why the sentence baa never been carried out; why he haa never been released, and reviewing the case, which In the opinion of some of the most talented of the legal pro fession, Is not only without precedent, hut nlso a most vivid.example of the fallibility of courts. It appears that unless some person takes active Interest In the procedure Kelly will be permitted to live and die a natural death In the state prison, although It Is generally agreed among those who have been Interested from time to time that his trial, conviction and sentence was a travesty upon court procedure. According to those who participated In the original trial, although most of those who were directly Interested are dead or scattered to the four corner* of the Union, Kelly's attorney Vas a man whose legal knowledge was meager, having just prior to the trial been admitted to the practice of law, his previous training having been de voted to the clergy. It Is stated by those whose recollec tion of the case Is the best that the United States district attorney offered to permit Kelly to enter a plea of guilty to a charge of manslaughter and accept a sentence of Ave years In the federal penitentiary. This offer. It Is said, was Indignantly refused by the attorney for the defense. said BradoWch of the cannery, "but the fuct Is tlmt the greater* ctiance In the world for obtaining good, fresh flnh without n stroke of work ban been lost. For days a few people tried to put some of tlie herring away fcr the summer, and unfortunately the steamer could take none. The nearest Indian* who would have awreclated the fluh were 800 miles uwsy. • "The ship had tlie greatest difficul ty In navigating out of the harbor at Klawak. as the propeller had to do the work of desiccator, and It barely made a knot an hour. The captain noted the event on the ship's log MO that bis superiors may know why tlie vessel will reek of fl*b for weeks." "Champ" Whisky Maker Dead. Frniikfor», Ky.—Wherj Marlon Wil liams. warehouse foreman of the Old Crow dlftlllery. died. It was the pass Ing of the champion whisky maker. He was the distiller vßjfh the Hermlt age distillery for many years and be fore that was with W. A. Gaines for 30 years. He Is said to bave made more whisky than any other man la tbe country, American Cement Has Had About All the Sand Put in It WilliStand. | ByjGEN. LEONARD WOOD, United States Army. I am heartily in sympathy with the purpose of the ew American meeting. We must be watch ful of the enemy within our gates. Our. danger is not W mi so much from the Red as from our own indifference. fiSK We must implant in all our people the spirit of IKl service, in peace and, war. We must strengthen the A spirit of Americanism and do everything possible to ... strengthen the spirit of national solidarity. We most prevent the entiy into this country of races which can- not be assimilated, whose children cannot intermarry with our own. The American certient has had about all the sand put in it it will stand. wd welcome those who come here to strengthen and build up. We must exclude those who come here to Hear down. We must devote more fttention to public education and to public and private morality, the basis of the square deal for both, liberty within the law, no class legislation, no tutocracy of wealth or of labor. Seeking peace, we must ever be prepared for war. Behind our peaceful endeavors must be the organized strength right. We must kill the propaganda which strives to sow discord be tween us and those beside whom we fought. We must work in harmony in the establishment of a righteous peace. We must remember our sol diers and sailors, who offered everything, even life itself, in the hour of need. We want America first, not in wealth and power alone but in real leadership, in the spirit of helpfulness to a world in trouble. Strange That One Could Consider Art and Work in the Same Category By GILBERT K. CHESTERTON, British Lecturer What impresses me most about the American people is their enthu siasm for work. The Englishman's idea of work is a tapk by which he may obtain.something that will entitle him to rest and pleasure after that task has been performed. But here work is looked upon as a sort of romance. An American salesman said to me the otl/cr day: "llow shall I improve my art of salesmanship, Jdr. Chesterton?" Really, I looked at.the man in wonder. It seemed so strange that one could consider art and work in the same category. Why, Americans make a potjn out of trade. t American newspapers, with their murder stories and so-called de moralizing atmosphere, I like. To me crime is the best sort of news. There real human interest, truthfully put, just as it happens; there is no secretive motive. If a man cuts his grandmother's throat with a razor, you have a good story. The man is not boosting any special make of razor, nor is he trying to create a slump in grandmothers. But in poli tics there is evasion, the concealed motive. The best way, I find, to learn the life and habits of a nation is to read the detective stories written by authors of that country. I learn front reading detective stories the police system of the country and the daily life of the people in general, and also get an insight into their habits. Prudent marriage? There is no such thing. The very act of tying one's self to another is not itself prudent. It'is an adventure, like going to war. There is a ridiculous modern chimera, to get rid of the tragedy in sex, but you can never remove the tragic elements The tragedy of sex is the tragedy of the soul of man. >.... I never could magine why the primitive man knocked down the prim itive woman with a club. Why was she so averse? Why her natural deli cacy? If the primitive man was so rude, why was the primitive woman so retiring? Airplane Soon to Become Quite as Economical as the Automobile. ' r By COL. J. G. VINCENT, Automobile Engineer In the matter of costs, airplanes will in due time become a form of transportation almost, if not quite, as economical as the There are airplanes today which carry six passengers at the rate of 100 miles an hour and make ten miles to the gallon of gasoline. Two other factors are tremendously in favor of the .airplane. The first is the fact that the airplane requires no rails; not even a road to travel on. Its only requirement is landing fields, and these can be easily and cheaply prepared and maintained. The other saving in respect to airplanes is in tire cost and the main tenance bills. The saving in tire cost will be almost 100 per cent. Until recently the repair bills have been large because of the somewhat experi mental character of the machines and lack of skill in landing. Both of these handicaps have been almost entirely eliminated. The price of an airplane is at the present far beyond the reaA of the average person, but this too will be changed within a short time. N Wheite Nations, If Neighbors, Bear One v Another Naught but 111 Will ________________ ■ -V ■ u By SENATOR MEDILL McCORMICK of Illinois The traveler returning from Europe comes from an old world where the rivalries and bitter jealousies between the peoples which have been allies are almost equal to the hates which still live among those who were enemies; be comes from an old world in which it is the general rule that if nrtions are neighbors they bear one another naught but ill will. Despite the disarmament of the countries west of Russia, there are as many men under arms as there were iri'central and western Europe be fore the outbreak of the conflict in 1914. The course upon which Europe has embarked, if followed to its end, will lead to irretrievable ruin. The total number of states west of Russia has been increased by seven, each circumscribed by tariffs, by restrictions upon travel and railway transit, that are tantamount to a blockade. If there is ruin to the aut ef central Europe, to the west of it the victorious countries are beeet hy economic disorders and crushed by continuing deficits.
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