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VOL. XJjYII Impassioned Plea in Behalf of Farmer Ssnator Simmons Keeps Senate in Session—About to Take Re cess With no Relief for Farmer. BIG BUSINESS AGAINST RELIEF. Hoover Makes Promises Which Come to Naught—Tries to Get Farm ers' Relief Bill Reported Unfavorably. Washington Correspondence. There is a giant conspiracy of Big Business and the Harding ad ministration to prevent the Fed eral government from aiding the farmers of the country in inarket ' ing their surplus crops abroad this fall. Without such govern ment assistance it is generally predicted that the agricultural interests of the country are in serious danger of complete col lapse and bankruptcy. The Fed eral Reserve Board, empowered by law to lend forty per cent of its reserve in credits to the farm ers, and* now under the Harding administration, has lent less than 10 per cent while it has kept the stock gamblers in Wall Street well supplied with money. Last fall when the prices of cot ton and tobacco began to tumble and the Federal Reserve Board turned its back on the farmers in their groat distress, Senator Sim mons conceived a billion dollar scheme of the Government to as sist the farmers in selling their products to Europe so as to se cure a fair profit. At the winter session Congress there was no opportunity to enact this scheme into law. The Western Republi can Senators were so obsessed with ths idtfa of a farmers' tariff that the Simmons scheme was sidetracked. The Agricultural Committee of (jhe Senate at the present session has embodied the scheme practically in the Norris bill, now ready to be reported to the Senate. Hoover's Vain Effort. A few days ago the Harding ad ministration sent Mr, Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, before this Senate committee to prevent a favorable report on the Norris 'bill. Mr. Hoover told the com mittee that the bill was unwise in that it would involve the Govern ment heels over head in engaging in private enterprise, and besides it was wholly unnecessary at this time as private bankers, under the direction of the Government, were organizing the capital need ed for marketing the crops abroad. But the farmers' groups in the Senate are taking no stock in Mr. Hoover's assurances, for a few weeks ago the Harding adminis tration had given assurances that private bankers would organize a $50,000,000 live stock association on the line. It now tnrns out that this was only an empty promise to keep Congress from doing anything to help the farm ers. Big Business, seeing that it could not prevent the Senate from considering the billion dollar Nor ris bill to aid the, farmers and the soldiers' big bonus bill, decided that the only way to sidetrack these bills and thus kill them was to indnce the Republican leaders of the Senate to suspend its ses sions during July. A recess of the Senate during July would operate to sidetrack all proposed legislation except tariff and tex ation, and that is the only sort of legislation Big Business wants or will permit to be enacted if it can have its way. Underwood Trapped. This was the situation wh«n the Senate the other day attempted to recess for three weeks. The Southern Republican Senators, THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. under the direct control of Big Business, were eager to close the Senate doors and go home. The • cries of the bankrupt farmers in the south and west have never entered their ears. Senator Underwood, the leader of the 1 Democrats, walked right into tho trap by making a ringing speech, holding up to the Senate the dole ful picture of a Senate exhausted and in a state of coma by Sep tember if it remained in session during the heat of July. The trick of this dog-day madness had complete y escaped the uusus -5 pecting mind of the able minority leader. When Mr. Underwood had finished, Senator Lodge, tho majority leader, wore on his face a smile that eclipsed that on the saihe face when the Chicago Con vention hailed him for saying that Mr. Wilson, his heirs and assigns, must be driven forever from our Governmeat. The wheat-grower republican senators of the west began to fid get and turu in their seats with anxiety. Norris had spoken. JCenyon had pleaded to keep the donate in session. LaFollette fanned his floridTface and told the Senate how much he enjoyed the Washington climate in July. The brilliant Williams of Mississippi had spoken but had said nothiug worthy of himself. Had the poor cottou farmers lain down between tho rows iu their cotton fields sick unto death under a torrid sun and surrendered with Underwood to Wall Street? Sees Farmer's Betrayal Behind the Alabama Senator, who is as honest and as able a man as there is in that body, sat a small obscure looking man, a man whose face betrays the fact Jhat his stomach is not always good to him. As Underwood's words rolled out from behind his beaming face this little man's body seemed to rise and swell and grow in statue aud his eyes flashed with fire. His friends had been caught before his eyes by the snare of the euemy. He saw the democrats be rayed, though not consciously, by their leader. He heard the interests of his beloved Southland misrep resented or ignored. He saw 47 per cent of the American people about to be denied their last op portunity for obtaining justice in the greatest crisis through which they have ever passed. Senator Simmons never makes any pretense to oratory. He has never been shaken by the divine fire, but now he arose and the Senate was startled and electri fied with an impassioned appeal so terribly earnest in the depths of its meaning that some of hii democratic friends looked terri fied. bers of the Senate present and all but about a dozen had made up there ininds to take a vacation, but when they heard the plain implication from the lips of this staid, conservative, UDemotional, cautious senator, of a conspiracy, and were invited to behold it iu action then and thera aud with their consent and cooperation, they had a second thought Farmers shall understand The reader will see from the three closing pafagraphs of the speech how plain, unvarnished and unpretentious it was: "I do not know how other Sena tors feel about that, but I know that there is an element in this country, big business, that does not want any of this Government relief legislation, that does not want any of this bond legislation, for the relief of agriculture, the livestock growers, or for anybody else, and that does not want any more of this legislation that it calls "interfering with business", although that business may be a highway robber or an ontlaw, not bnly in fact bnt under the laws as written in the statutes. "It must not be interfered with. The people comprising this element do not want any legislation of that sort. They do not want you to have any time to look into things. They will be delighted to have this recess. They will be delighted if yon bring abont a condition that will prevent yon from dealing with anything except thq tariff, aud they expect you to deal with that iu a way that will increase their privileges and their opportuni ties of exploitation aud graft and GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 14, 1921 robbery. They will be delighted if yoti just go on with your tariff, and, when you shall have gotten through with thar, they wish and expect you, then, to pass your revenue law, and relieve them of' a profit tax, and a high surtax; and the high schedules of the in come tax, and put them back to the position they occupied when tho democratic party came into power, and sail}. "Under Repub lican rule the wealth of this coun try has escaped taxation to sup port the burdens of the Govern ment, and that shall not be. That is wrong. That is unjust. Wealth shall not pay more than ita share, but wealth should pay its share. The whole burden of the expense of this Government should not rest upon the shoul ders of the consumer, who is generally the toiler on the farm and in the factory and in tho shop.'* "Oh, that is the kind of legis lation the exploiters and bin interests desire. That is the kind of legislation they expect you to give them. They are eager for it, Mr. President. They do not wish this other kind of legisla tion—the kind embodied in the bill of the Senator from Nebraska. This proposed recess would bo very pleasing to them. They will say, 'We have avoided the kind of legislation that we feared; that we did not want; that intruded upon our privileges; that cur tailed our opportunities; that limited and curtailed onr exploi tations. We have gotten rid of that, and we have arranged it so that from now on we are to have the undivided attention of the Senate of the United States in the passage of legislation that will inure to strengthening us in our position, if it does not al together put us back into the en trenched and fortifi d positiou that wo occupied before the war began. It will carry us nearly back to 'normalcy'- -to the time of the absolute dominance and control that we enjoyed/before the Democratic party—c£me into power iu the United State;." Is that what the majority iu the Senate desire? If so, proceed, but tho farmers of America shall understand just what you are do ing and whatyouraction means." By » vote of 27 to 24 recess was defeated. Forty-five sena tors did not vote and the danger is not yet passed, for two days after the vote President Harding was at the Capitol and the ques tion of recess was again raised and urged by him. Crop Prospects. Tho combined condition of all North Carolina crops as indicated by the July Ist crop report was 86.1 per cent of a normal or full crop prospect. This shows an improvement of 2.1 per centover tho condition June Ist, is 11 per cent below tne average on July Ist last year. For the Unit ed States, the combined condi tions of 46 principal crops was 96.4 per cent, an increase of 3.2 over June Ist condition aud 3.2 per cent poorer than the July Ist condition a year age. Compared with last year, the total production of the nation's importaut crops are estimated as follows; Coru 96.6 per cent; Wheat 10i.8; Oats 87.1; Barley 91.1; Rve 100.9; White (Irish) Potatoes 87.9; Sweet Potatoes 100; Tobacco 61.8; Hay (all) 89.8; Cot ton 63.1; Apples 42 5; Peaches 70.5; Pears 52.1; Sorghuin Syrup 102.6; Beans 98.9; Peanuts 101,7. Since May loth, the prices paid to North Carolina producers for farm products has decreased one per cent. A decrease of 3 per cent for the same period shown for the Nation. Try Thlfc To prevent the gloss coining off of your whit* paint wash It with milk tod a little soap. That wtU be much cheaper than repainting and U effso ttre. * Best Thing Bhe Does Mrs. Parvenu (to caller) —Impro- vise? Why. my daughter can lnvrp vlse any place of music yon prjt before ber. What Hs Wanted. "Jenkins, the oil promoter, lias Mar ried the talkln'eat woman I aver laid •yes on." "Btruck a gusher this time, car— MajfcvO]* Taaniasma, Looks Now Like Extra Session Gov. Morrison Getting Back From a Rest and in Better Physical Con dition- Gov. and Former Secretary Daniels Speak to Cotton Manufacturers in Asheville. BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY ROASTED. Attorney General Manning Calls it a "Fictitious Entity" that is Fed and Bled by the Parent as Occasion May Require. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, July 12.—The Gover uor is uot due to return to Ral eigh from the mountains until the latter part of the week, and as the 14th (date set for municipalities' association cities to tile their "show down") will arrive about the same time as his Excellency, a prompt aud final decision in the matter of reconvening the Genera} Assembly in special session may be expected to be anuounced without unuecessay delay.* If we were minded to take a straw vote on the subject of indi cations, we might say thatlbere is an improvement in genera! opinion favoring the "Extry." Were it not so important it wouldn't stand a chance. The Governor is ag'i'n it 011 general principles and until recently it was thought he would remain un alterably opposed. But the rep resentations already made to the Governor and the final arguments to be made by some of the city financial managements, in addi tion to Raleigh, now to be made, is impressing us more and more that the Governor will be forced to the conclusion that it is his duty to call tjie law-uiakers to gether—aud, once convinced of his duty, Cameron Morrison is never known to fail. Restoration of the Governor. En passant, the general public will learp with Hearty satisfaction that the Governor has about re covered his physical health, which went through a strain and teat last year, two primaries as well as the general election, never forced on any aspirant or candidate of any party in this State before. llis frieuds, especially Uiose of them in newspaper making busi ness, have not referred to these matters in the open much, even though at times our hearts were deeply touched by the fear that he had overdone himself in the performing of his duty to his party and to the State whose people love him more and more with the pas sage of the current years.. When the Legislature meets here, say in September or before, it promises to be the strongest "administration Legislature" you ever saw. The law-makers have come to kuow our Governor for what he is, and every Senator aud Representative will hold hiiu in higher regard, especially those who lacked kuow ledge of his real character and mantulness last winter. The Governor and former Sec retary Daniels addressed the meet ing of cotton manufacturers of North Carolina held at Asheville Saturday. Mr. Daniels, former Secretary of tbe Navy, asserted that before conditions, became stable and such as to permit greater business activity, tbe principles proclaim ed by Woodrow Wilson in l>otb his foreign aud domestic policies must be inaugurated nationally, Governor Morrison discussed th«T State's rapid |m>jr«*»u» along agricultural, industrial .-mil edu cational Hues, ai d iiuiliiiid the beiiefits to l»« derived from the constructive program" for the Slate's educational s)*'eui, public itwlilolioiw aud intpiuved sys « .tems of highways, which was launched recently. Manning Koaata the Hell fiction The whole State of North Caro lina is still interested in the con tention for higher telephone rates by the so-called "Bell" company, now working through its appeal , to the Supreme Court from the decision of the State Corporation Co which allowed the telephone octopus (Americau Telegraph aud Telegraph Compa ny) 10 per ceut increase lately—j which being less than they de-! manded, the "Bell" company ad pealed. The following is Worthy 1 the reader's attention at this' moment: * »] Denouncing the Southern Bell j Telephone and Telegraph Compa-1 ny as a "fictitious ennty." and, assertiug that the child is fed or j bled by the parent as exigencies! of conditions require, the Attor- 1 ney-General filed for the Corpora tion Comnrssion an answer to ! the recent application made by | the company in Federal Court j for an injunction against the; rate increase order issued in May; on its petition for higher rates in , North Carolina Filing of the answer sets the; Btago for the next legal battle 1 and hearing on the application] for an injunction, the initial step] to a light for the rates, asked for; originally by the company which; is expected iu a few days. The; sharp* style of the commission's! reply to the petition has jolted those who expected of it a desire 1 to pass the buck to the Federal I coutts. It looks as if the consti-: tuted projectors of the State | mean to fight back hard and give uothing more than the ordecj granted after a long hearing- After answering iu detail the! complaint and application filled for the company im the eastern j district conrt the answer says: "The respondent, the North) Carolina Corporatip Commission, after full aud patient hearing,! and after giving consideration to the matters and things herein j set out, made its order of May 31,! "1921, granting not only such an increase as will preserve the con stitution's rightsuf the complaint,; but in consideration of increased > investments required to make such rates as will give it a liber al return ou its present invest ment iu this State aud upon such j additional investments as it may ; have to make to take care of the j uatural growth of its business. "The respondent further shows tlat, after granting a liberal in-; crease in rates of the complainant; to be charged to the users of its telephone exchange service in this State, order further pro vided that if at any time, after fair trial, it can upon full show ing present that, with such in- 1 creases as are herein authorized, and with the economies which the tendency of the times should permit, it is not earning a fair return we stand ready to review and amend our findings." The commission's answer flatly denies the allegation of the tele phone company that at no time have its earnings in North Caro- 1 lina yielded to it a fair and reas onable return upon the fair and reasonable value of its property I within the State. IT'S A MISTAKE ( Made By Many Urihau Kealdenu. Many people in in a misguided effort to get rid of kidney backache, rely on plasters, liniments and other make-shifts. The right treatment is ! kidney treatment aud a remarkably 1 recommended kidney medicine ih Doan's Kidney Fills. Graham is no j exception. The proof is at your very door. The following is an experience typi- i cal of the work of Doan's Kidney Pdls in Graham. Ask your neighbor. ! Mrs. Bettie L. Pickard, W. Kirn St., uaya, ''About two yearn agu 1 I was troubled with a dull naj-, ging pain in the small of my back i was very nevous and dizzy and black specks olurred my sight. The kidney secretion* passed irregu larly, too. When Doan's kidney Kidney Pills were recommended t> me, I got a box from Graham Drug Co., and they cure the back- j aches and rid me of the dizziness. I can't pralne Doan's highly 1 enough. Price 60c, at all dealers. Don i simply ask for a kidney remedy— getDoan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Pickard had. Poster-Mil burn £o« M/gra., Buffalo, N. y. 1 • ■ - ■ ; J Behold how £i'i>nt a demand ii j little ad kiiitllotli. Sale of Real Estate! i j Under and by virtue of the ' power of sale contained in a cer ' i tain deed of trust duly recorded | in the office of the Register of j Deeds for Alamance County in' I Book o£ Mortgages and Deeds! .| of Trust No. 84, page - 217,1 | wherein the undersigned is True- j "tee, default having been made j in the payment of the indebted-; I ness secured thereby as therein ■provided, the undersigned Trus-, I tee will, on MONDAY, AUG 1, 1921, j at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court 'house door in Graham, N. C., offer for sale at public auction ito the highest bidder, for cash, ja certain tract or parcel of land in Boon Station township, Ala-! tnance county and State of North Carolina, adjoining the land* of | |J. .B. Gerringer, Geo. Simpson 1 and others, bounded as follows: | Beginning at an iron stake,! jGeo. Simpson's corner; thence j jS 1 cleg W 174 feet to an iron! ! bolt on north edge of side-walk) and 25 feet to center of street;! Ithonce N 89-3r\v 2ut.H to a j stake in center of Lee Avenue; | | thence S 1 dag E 199 feet to a, stake in Lee Avenue, J. B. Ger-i I ringer's corner; thence S S9-80 E 200.0 feet to the beginning, containing 1)5-100 acres, more | or less. j This 30th day of June, 1021. Alamance Ins. & Real Estate Co., r 'Oil n4 An jW. S. Coulter, Att'y. 1 Sale of Real Estate Under Deed of Trust. | Under and by virtue of a cer- j | tain deed of trust executed by C. H. Kirkpatrick and wife,! Eulala Kirkpatrick, to Alamance; , Insurance & Heal Estate Com pany on the 21st day of Janu ary, 1920, securing the payment j. ; of certain bonds described there-1 in, which deed' of trust is duly; iprobated and recorded in the! | office of the Register of Deeds! for Alamance county, in Book! of Mortgages and I )eeds of Trust! ,No. 84, at page 200, default: having been made in the pay ment of said bonds and interest thereon, the undersigned Trus-! tee will, on MONDAY, JULY lis, 1 >-ji; at 12 o'clock, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, at the court j, house door of Alamance county, j in Graham, North Carolina, the! ; following den ribed real estate,! to. wit: A certain tract or parcel of! land in Coble township, Ala-j, tnance county and State of North j Carolina, adjoining the lands of! 'Cyrus Coble, Stephen Holt,!, Hinton Kirpatrick and others,! j bounded as follows: t Beginning at a rock corner 1 with said Coble and I 1011, run ning thence S 4-j d«'g:;t'' K21.79 ' chs to a rock, cornm- with said Coble in Coble's Hue: thence N 60 deg E 15.20 chs to a rock, j corner with said Kirkpatrick in said Coble's line; thence N 41 1 deg W -ti 'tf chs to a rock, cor-1 ner with said Kirkpatrick, in a proposed road: thence with saidj, road S 20 deg W chs to ajj solid rock. corner \rith said 1 Couucilinau and Holt; thence S i 22 deg W 3.33 chs to a bend;!] thence S 2!» deg W 3.71) chs to a bend; thence S 13 deg YV 7.34 chs to a rock, corner with said Holt; thence S 39 deg W 00 Iks to the beginning, containing; 4»>. 3 acres, more or h ss. * This sale will be made subjeqjt to increase bids as provided by law, and will be held open ten; i days after sale to give jrtjlpor- | tunity for such bids. This May 28th, 192 L Alamance lnfi. & Real Estate Co., Trustee. E. S. W. Dameroo, Att'y. NO. 23 i PROFESSIONAL CARDS • GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. I Burlington, N. C. • Office Hours: 9 to lUarm. and by uppointim»fit . Oltice Over Acme Drug Co. 1 Telephones: offlee I *o—Residence «Ot JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorneyat-Law GRAHAM, N. C. mice over Natlooal Bank of Alantaet IT, S. COOK, Attorney -at- Las*, ! GRAHAM, . . . . N. 0 Omoo Patterson Building Second Fleor. . m. WILL S. IMG, JR. . . . DENTIST . : : Iraham . . - Narth Carallwa >FH , ICKinSJMMONH building ! M'Oll A. LONG. J. KLMKR LONO LONG & LONG, > t >.i>rn«ya und at Llw GRAHAM, N. C. Sale of Real Estate Under Deed of Trust. ! ■ I L nder and by virtue of a cer tain deed of trust executed by J. M. Browning and wife, Stella ' Browping, A. L. Davis and vri fe, Mamie I'. Davis, and C.NA. Walker and wife, Eva A. WalBK er, to Alamance Insurance & Heal Estate Company on the lltli day, of December, 1919, se curing the payment of certain j bonds described therein, which ideed of trust is 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 HI, default having been made in the payment of said bonds and interest thereon, the 1 undersigned Trustee will, on MONDAY, JULY 18, 1921, at 12 o'clock, noon, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, at the court house door of Alamance county, |in Graham, North Carolina, | the following described real es- Itate, to wit: A certain tract or parcel of laud in Alamance county, State jof North Carolina and Burling ton township, adjoining the lands of Webb Avenue, Tucker j Street aad others, described as 1 follows: Beginning at a corner of Webb Avenue and Tucker Street; run ning thence with, the line of Tucker street southeast 110 ft to a corner; thence southwest parallel with Webb avenue 40 ft |to cornor in C. L. Boone's line; thence with line 'of said Bjuone northeast parallel with Tucker 'street 11»» ft to corner on Webb avenue; thence with line of Webb avenue northwest 40 ft to the beginning. This sale will be made subject to increased bids as prvoided by law. and will be" held open ten • days after sale to give oppor tunity for such bids. This June 9th, 1951. _ ■All tnance Ins. Si Real Estate Co., Trustee. •:. S W. pAMERO.V, Atty. A DHtNISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Ilavln: qualified as Administrator of the estate ol Alrrel S. Moore, deceased, iho undersigned hereby notifies nil per win holding claims against said es tate to present the same, duly authen ticated. on or before the Ist day of .luly. IMSL or this notice will be pleaded lu bar of their recovery. All per inns Indebted to said, estate »r* requested to make immediate set 'lenient. This June Si, IWL JOHN K. MOORE. Admlr of All red «. Moore, dee'd. Oraliam. N.C.. It. V. D. No. 1 COaa. A. nines, Att'y. StjuneOt ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having quail He i ss Administrator of the estate of Joe L, Hendrlx, deceased. late : f Alamance county. N. C., this Is tonotilyall persons having claims against Hie estate 01 said deceased to exhibit tliem to the under aliened on oCt before the Ulltli dav of June, l»iB, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery. All peraous In debted La said estate will please make lm uiedlattr payment. This June 18, lift I. J. N. TAYLOR. Adm'r „ . . . .fit Joe - Hendrlx, dee'd. Parker* Loug, Att'ys. i juueat
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