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VOL. XLVII Lack of Funds Causes Prohibition Enforcement •• ■ Officers to be Dropped **" \ p 4 ; '-v * \ >' ' Other Funds not Available Till July 1 st-*-- Deputy Sheriffs Will be More Vigilant --Transfer of Prohibition Enforce ment from Treasury to Depart ment of Justice —Change * in Methods Likely. N. C. WOMEN'S CLUB MEETING. WRIGHTS _ . VILLE, JUNE 7--14. """" State College to Add to Curriculum in Way to Put it Ahead o£ Every Southern Technical School—Other Departments to be ' Broadened and Made More Efficient (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, May 31.—The drop ping of many prohibition enforce ment officers from the pay-roll by the U. 8. Government, for a brief season, because of lack of funds till appropriations for the new fiscal year (beginning July Ist) become available, has caused some of the bolder of moonshine liquor distillers and bootleggers to be less careful and more dar ing. But if the deputy sheriffs of the various counties and other county, municipsl and State offi cers will redouble their vigilence and activities they will be able to more easily "jug" these offenders because of their belief that they are more secure from arrest with the Federal officers largely off the job temporarily. This belief is being demonstrated by Wake county officers and the city au thorities of Raleigh are taking an important step, effective June Ist. to control bootlegging by the au tomobile "for hire" route. "For Hire" Machine Bond Raiaed to • 1.000. ' The Raleigh City Commission ers have changed the amount of bond required to be given by chauffeurs or other people who secure Hcense to operate an auto mobile "for hire," from $250 to SI,OOO, the purpose being to elimi nate many who are believed to be using the vehicles to transport liquor, and to strengthen the effect of bonds by having them act au tomatically in case the licensed drivers violate the law. More than one hundred cars were licensed up to this date, but it is estimated the new dispensa tions will eliminate fully half of them. The commissioners declared that they considered it to the best interest of the city to suffer some loss in revenue obtained from what is regarded as questionable sources. The bond system was adopted last August and none of the bonds given by drivers have been forfeited, but it is declared that the new bonds will have "teeth 1 ' in them and will provide for an automatic forfeiture ( {x> the city in oase of conviction for an un lawful act instead of making the amount recoverable by a civil action. CMfkt "Prominent" Farmer An instance of the advantage officers may now enjoy in taking distillers off their guard is fur nished in the following account of arrests made near |Raleigh a few days ago. W. K. Whitaker, welj-known r- - THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. citizen of the Neuse River sec tion, and two negroes, Elbert Johnson and Jam"B Branch, were bound over to the Superior Court by Justice of the Peace Owens, following their arrest at an illicit distillery by Deputy Sheriffs J. P. Stell, J. F. Harward, C. E. Richardson and N. E. Raines. The still, a sixty gallon outfit, was discovered on the land be longing to a man by the name of Stephens, half mile east of the Whitaker plantation and ea«t of the old county home. It was in operation, but the three men de clared that they had nothing to do with it, and just happened to be passing that way. One negro, Junius Jones, ac cording to the officers, made his escape. The two negroes are in Wake county jail in default of bond, but Whitaker put up his bond. He is a substantial farm er, owning and operating a large plantation New Appropriation Coming The country gradually is be coming drier and the Volstead law easier to enforce, John F. Kramer, prohibition enforcement commissioner, told the Senate Appropriation Committee in re questing a deficiency appropria tion. Passage of enforcement laws by several States, be said, "had improved the enforcement situation. "Mr. Kramer asked the com mittee to approve emergency ap propriation of $200,000 added to the general deficiency bill in the House apd was said to have been assured of such action." Blair May Change Method) Advices from Washington in dicate that the new Commissioner of Revenue, David Blair, of North Carolina, is being urged to change some' of the methods of prohibition enforcement. For instance, Senator Penrose, who succeeded Senator Simmons as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, declares that it is "wasteful and demoralising" at present. The announcement that the Senate Finance Com mittee will hold conferences with Commissioner Blair, beginning this week, "looking to changes in enforcement methods." Department of Jaetl em May Take It Over The whole subject of "rehabili tation" of the enforcement sys tem will be gone over, Mr. Pen rose said, adding that the advisa bility of transferring the prohibi tion nnit from the Bureau of In ternal Revenue to the Depart ment of Justice, the designating of an enforcement superintend ent for each of the Btates or for each judicial district and other suggestions would be taken up. Senator Penrose said he person ally was in favor of the Depart ment of Justice taking over the enforcement work. The question GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 2.1921 will be discussed with Attorney General Daughtery before, the Finance Committee takes action, he said. Secretary Mellon already has expressed approval of the pro posed transfer, and Mr. Blair is understood to favor the step. *■ "The present prohibition enj forcement system is ineffective, wasteful and demoralizing in many of its aspects," Mr. Penrose said, "and requires drastic treatment in order that it may be rehabili tated and freed of the scan dalous conditions now surround ing it." > The plan of thq transfer and the extent to which it would go, Mr. Penrose added* "is a matter of detail to be worked out on the basis that theoretically the Treas ury ought to have no police busi ness to transact." Prohibition en forcement, he said, is a matter peculiarly in the province of the Attorney General and the district attorneys. "ne of Mr. Blair's first acts as commissioner, it was said, would be the designation of a new pro hibition commissioner in place of John F. Kramer.' For this place, Newton Fairbanks of Ohio, has been frequently mentioned. Higher Standard* at State College. When the trustees of State Col lege meet here next Tuesday, at the end of commencement week, they will ratify a faculty innova tion by the introduction of which the North Carolina institution leaps ahead of every technical school in the South and takes rank with Bome of the foremost schools of its kind in the North and West. It is the addition to the curri culum of State College by which the present literary standards are not only extended but by which also the agricultural and en gineelng activities of the school are broadened. In brieff the trustees, acting upon the recom mendation of the president and faculty, will create within the college the school of bus ness ad ministration and Dr. C. C. Tay lor, formerly professor of agricul tural economics, will be director. Distinctly a new unit of college administration, the school of bus iness administration is to be the fore-runner of liberal arte at State College. It is the gloom chaser for the alumni of the col lege and sort of panacea for the troubles of the trustees. Coining closely behind the introduction of students government, it prom ises an end to a lot of squabbler that have been runuing between students and trustees, trustees an dalumi and alumni and ad minstration. It leaves little to be desired tor a complete cessa tion of campus hostilities Annual Meeting N. C. Women's Club. Club women of North Carolina will gather at Wrightsville Beach, June 7-14, for the nineteenth an nual convention of the Stale Fed eration of Women's Clubs when recreation and community H rvice will be the keynote of the pro gram: Several hundred club women have already made reservations at the hotels aud cottages and from present indications the at tendance will be larger thau usual. All sessions will be held at the Oceanic Hotel. The North Caro lina Sorosis, of Wilmingtou, will be hostess to the convention and practically all other local organi zations will join with the Sorosis in extending hospitality. One of the features of the fed eration meeting will be the "Pa geant of the tower Cape Fear," a brilliant spectacle at which the club women will be guests of honor. Mrs. Charles H. Hook, of Char lotte, will preside over the con vention as president of the Fed eration. At the end, she will turn the gravel over to her suc cessor after an administration marked by the increase in mem bership, strengthening of district work, enlivenment of elub spirit, with the Federation standing as one of the most potent and vital factors in the life of the State. The convention formally opens on Tuesday, Jane 7th, with the meeting of the executive board at the home of Mrs. R. W* Hicks at noon, to be followed at 1 o'olook by the executive board Inneheon with Mrs. Hicks and Miss Gibson as hostess. The meeting of the trustees will take plaee at 4 o'clock at the Oceanic Hotel and the meeting of the board of directors at the Oceanic Hotel at 4:30 • The general session of the Fed oration meeting will start at 8:30 June 7, at the Oceanic Hotel, with the invocation by Dr. J, M. Wells; welcome addresses by James Cowan, mayor of Wilming ton ; Thomas B, Wright, mayor of Wrightsville; and Airs. R. W. Hicks president of the Sorosis of Wilmington. Mrs. Thomas Lenoir Gwyu, re cording secretary, will deliver the response. Greetings from State organizations of womeu will follow and then Mrs. llook will deliver the presidential ad dress. TobaGto History Repeats Itself. At the market of Jamestown, Ya„ in 1620, there were lively sales of tobacco to England, with prices averaging $53 75 per 100 lbs. In 1639 tobacco had fa'len to SO.OB per 100 lbs. Hlxtory repeats Itself. Three hundred years after the profits of the Va. planters had dwindled into losses planters everywhere see losses overtake their profits in a single year. Seventeenth Ifeeutury methods of marketing have again brought disaster to the growers in 1920. The Tobacco Growers Coopera tive Association of Virginia aud the Carolinas proposes twentieth century iflethods of marketing tobacco in the future. This year's swift losses to to bacco planters iu the three States have started a new spirit in the tobacco growing countries. Mass meetings of protest against mar ket conditions have brought a uni versal demand for organization. That organization in the most successful form of cooperative association kuown iu America today is now sweeping the entire country of the old tobacco belt. Modeled upon the practical plan of cooperative marketing followed by thousands of success ful California farmers in four teen farming commodities, the contract for the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association WHS ap proved at mass meetings at Raleigh, Lynchburg and Flor ence by representative growers of three States. Not only has this plan and contract for cooperative market ing brought unprecedented suc cess to raisin growers, the prune growers, the nut growers, alfalfa growers and ten other marketing associations of California, it has stood the test of lawsuits carried to the highest courts. This Contract has been well named "The tobacco growers' Declaration of Independence"^ While fourteen associations of California farmers are enjoying the prosperity and independence gained by uniting under this con tract, tobacco growers of Vir ginia and the Carolinas are con fident that they can unite to form the fifteenth successful market ing association to save America's older farming industry. Tho success of the California marketing association, in placing* the profits of speculators and mid dlemen directly in the hands of the farmer through the pooling and the marketing of his product, 'appeals to tto tobacco grower of the Sonth. " * . Il is the most democratic and successful form of co-operative marketing agreement in opera tion. Every member has one vote and an equal voioe. Directors and officers of the association are elected by its members. AU profits are shared equally by all members in proportion to the amount and quality of the product sold by eaeh member through the association for the highest obtain able price. This form of practical aud pure democracy has brought prosperity and independence to xroup after group of different typo* of farm ers whose ootiditiou seemed hope less under the old system of spec ulative farming under which the average American farmer receives forty cents t»r tin- consumer's dol lar, and the tobacco former* less than ten. In the Tobacco Growers* Co PHAUTAUQUA Tenth Anniversary Program 1912-1921 18 EVENTS 18 FOOT WEEK-DAY Atliwuw Siriee LH»WI OniilMiqaa Snt»eiiiiliiaileiil Coactrt Mendelarohn Owifttral dob J amor Cbaataaqv* Bwnlngt j L«ctuw>—"The Mafic Cbck" Walfied Uxfatio» SECOND WEEXJXAY mowning ; Junior CWaaqu 1 Seriee Ud»ri ftialmai SuptrAtailnl -ws Concert ■■ CUrkt Concert Party , - E—nlng: . Concert—Clarke Concert Party ( ' * Lecture—"Today and You," D. Tbomu Curtin ' , * ' THIRD WEEK-DAY * \ Morning: Junior After uu ant . Concert—lriah MinrtreU Snyerfcaiendeni v Evening: * Concert—lrialt Minstrel* • Lecture—" Lhia Way Up," Chancellor George Henry Bradford FOURTH WEEK-DAY Mornlngi *1 Junior. Ota uta aqua Afternoon; Musical Entertainment Philadelphia Artists An Interpretative Discussion of the Day'a News "Haw His tory Today Makes the World Tomorrow," Arthur Dough erty Reea (followed by "Open Forum" discussion) Evening: Comedy-Drama—"Nothing But the Truth.'* by the Chau tauqua Players LAST WEEKDAY V Meratngi if f,. * Junior Chautauqua v |. Afternoons Junior Chautauqua Pageant—^"Junior Holidays" . . ! Just Fun—Wallace Have lock. Juggler j Evening: Concert—Dunbar Male Quartet and Bell Ringers SUNDAY Vhen Sunday inteivsuea, • |ingi— suitable ta the day will be arranged SEASON TICKETS, S2JO \ ADMIT TO AU. CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAMS % SINCLE ADMISSIONS TO EACH SESSION TOTAL $*M _ Buy a Season Tidwt and Sa~ $3.78 Graham, June 1-6 operative Marketing Association no contraot will be binding until fifty percent of the tobacco grow ers have been signed up. Under no circumstances will those growers who sign this con tract to save the tobacco industry of their State, be sacrified by the ignorance and cowardice of others who refuse to sign. Until a majority of the three States ean be pooled and handled by the growes of Virginia and the Carolinas, no group of public-spirited men will be cruci fied in their effort to save the to bacco industry because individual slackers are content to submit to present conditions. With one/gigantic marketing association toxical with the manu facturers and the tobacco com panies direei, growers propose to me the present markets, ware houses aniFwarehousemen where ever possible. Standard grades, established values, and equal opportunities for all members of the marketing association to share in price ad vances, are advantages assured by the growers' co-operative con tract. No vroup of speculators will in vade the fnrinerß' warehouse, no buyers except those chosen by the growers wiji dispose of his pro ducts at the highest prices ob tainable. *•». To the planter who weariea of hi» lomea, and the speculative risw ami fall from day to day of present market*, the aitflociation offers a wjuare deal io a organization for inarketipg tobac co for profit of the grower and uot the s{>ecalator. The ironclad Ave year contract of the grower* t o market all to ' bacco thru the association is an agreement for strong determined men, not for slackers. This contract of the Tobacco As sociation has been repeatedly ap proved at crowded mass meetings throughout the tobacco belt. It is endorsed by the governors, the bankers, the merchants and business men ' throughout the country. From county to county, from sshoolhouse lo schoolho.use, the association has started the cam paign for inembars. The response and enthusiasm of grdwms has been .remarkable from the start. Owing to r>heenormous task of gaining; a majority of signers in the entire Btate, tho progress - of organization from county to county must b«- slow Only by careful preparation in advance for maw meetings in 1 every county, and local meetings; at every ►choolhouse, can the or-' ganizatiou of the State assoria-; lions lie c irried out. 'Without, the organization of 'mr toliacoo growers, we can hope! for but slow progress in better-1 ment of schools, roads, county homes and rural life. Where | speculative crops bring heavy losses to the grower, funds are lacking to secure for the country people the !>«>tter things of life. In California there are more young women in one university, than in all the colleges and nor mal schools of North Carolina. The organization and the cooper ative marketing of California farmers who brought prosperity in place of poverty to many thousands whose children have had opportunities for culture hitherto impossible. Virginians on Ihe Eastern Shore who sokl potatoes for sl9, OOOJJQO in 1019, and had but one I bad debt $360, because of their | marketing, have de-. NO. IT PROFESSIONAL CARDS GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: 0 to 11 a. m. iirul by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephoned: Oflice 110—Residence 361 JOHN J. HENDERSON Atlorncyat-Law GRAHAM, N. C. tiller over National Baakol Alaaaaet T, 3? C OOIEC, Attorney-at- Laar, .... N. C Offloo Patterson Building Second Floor. . ... >K. WILLI IMG, JR. jgk ... dentist ;; : rah am .... North Carolina FFICK IN SIMMONS BUILDING ••'OB A. LONO. * "J. ELMER LONO LONG A LONG, . ti.orneya and Cotinaelora ktL w GRAHAM, K. 0. mL^rnmm —————• Sale of Real Estate \ Under and by virtue of the power of eutle contained in a cer tain mortgage deed from E. W. Lasley to A. H. Maness, dated the 9th day of October, 1919, and j recorded in the office of the Reg • jster of Deeds for Alauiauce coun -1 ty, in buok of Mortgages No. 82, yape 5, and tho bonds secured thereby having been duly assign ed, and the real estate therein having beeu duly c nveyed to the -undersigned by the mortgagee, A. 11. Maness, by assignlueut and conveyance dated the 25th day of Novemter, 1919, default having been made in t6e payment of said indebtedness, the uutArsigned will, on •' **' MONDAY, .IUNK G*l9il, at 2 o'clock p. in., al~ the court 4 house door iu GrahSm, N. C., offer for sale atpublio auction to •he highest bidder for caafe aU that tract or parcel of land in tjjie County of Alamance, and State of North Carolina, in Paucette town ship, and defined aud described as follows, to-wit: Adjoining the lauds of Martha Adams, A. L. King, J. M. Crutcbfield and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at a rock and po»t oak stump, corner with said King and McAdams, running theneePN *;«» i deg H 18.60 chains passing over a rock on W bank of Boyd Creek into center of said creek and said King's liae corner with said Mayn'ess; thence up said creek as it meanders N 2.75 chs * N 14 dej? W 1.84 chs in cdnter of said creek Eof a sycamore tree on W bank of said creek, corner ' with said Crutchfleld; thense 8 .">■4s deg W 13 25 chains to a rock } iu said McAdam's line; theuce 8 55 deg E 7.43 chains to thebegin -1 uing, and containing 1C acres, 0 more Or less. . r~ This Ith df^of May, 19*21. * W. C. WARREN, Assignee of Mortgage. B l W. 8. Coulter, Atty. Truck For Hire. [yet us do your hauling of every kind, moving, etc. Have a new truck. Terms reasonable. BRADSIIAW & FULLER, Phone 05(i. Graham, N. C. FOR,SAX.E —if wo modern 7-room bouses, both equipped with private water and Hewer systems and hot air furnaces. Both located.within two blocks of center of town and Graded School. Also one 5-room house. Prices and terras reasonable. DIXIE Lt MBKK CO., Inc., Me bane, N. C. dared their indefendeuce of mid | die men and speculators. They too, have modern houses, well ! built roads, well taught schools and children whose opportunities are far beyond the average chance of our l>oys and #irls. Hist >ry repeat* itself, but plant ers will agaiu make history if they continue their support to this most modern, democratic aud ef ficient plan of twentieth century organization. W. KERR SCOTT, County Agonk
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