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VOL. XLVII - When Are Times Going to Get Better? This is the Question Western People Are Asking —Pres. Signs Letter Boast '•„ ing of Big Things Accomoplished For Campaign Purposes. Favoring Interests That Paid Campaign » - Expenses Democrats Wanted to Reduce Taxes 18 Months Ago, But Republicans Would Not Permit it. Meaning o£ Root's Appointment as Arms Limitation Con ference Delegate. (By David F. St. Clair) Harding has fired the first cam paign gun of his administration. The Democrats are delighted, for the first shot shows consider able anxiety and nervousness on the part of the Republicans who came into full control of the gov ment six months ago with the un precedented endorsement of a ijia jority of 7,000,000 voters. Why should a party with such over whelming strength get scared so soon? it is asked. Why should j the PresidenVof the United Staoes feel compelled to sign a campaign letter boasting of the monumental achievements of his administration for the purpose of securing the election of a Republican senator in *j[ew Mexico when Republicans have 22 majority in the senate and the little State of New Mexico gave Harding 12,000Inajority last November. The answer is to be found in the alarming messages brought to Washington within the last few days by many Republican con gressmen returning from their dfsturbed recess vacation in the middle Western States. One of Aese men whose name has been withheld is reported to have gone to the White House and told the President that nearly half of said congreaman's constituency was out of work and that many people in the district were not getting half enough to eat. This man is said to have warned the President that if the party did not soon fetch prosperity to the country nothing could save the party. . Many of the congressmen who have returned from States like Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mis souri, Nebraska and Kansas found att "avalauch of discontent" among the people. "Folks at home," wiid one, "are interested only in one thing, when are times going to get bettes? When I tell them to be patient, the ad ministration and the congress are working and will bring prosperity, they get angry. They are taking little interest in the arms limitation; conference, for they have no faith in it and they „do not, believe the President has either. Many of them were in such ugly mood that it spoiled my vacation." A Serious Situation. It is just the situation describ ed above that drove the Republi can national committee to write a letter and Have Harding sign it telling the country of the "monu mental achievements" of his ad ministration and of the congress and to point to the swelter of waste and extravagance" of the previous administration that is now being eliminated from the administration of the government by the Republicans. Why $700,- 000,000 and may be $1,000,000,- 000 m taxes will be lifted from the bent backs' of the . people by the normalcy magician in the White House aad his party. He says so but no particulars are given. Every Democrat here admtta THE ALAMANGE GLEANER. that the Republicans have it within their powA to reduce tax ation. The Wilson administra tion eighteen months ago tried to cut hundreds of millions out of the tax bills but the Republicans in congress would not permit it. They say nothing should be done till they get into the White House. It is notsimple reduction of taxation from a war basis three years after the war has ended that can be called a monumental achievement. It is the equaliza tion of taxation on a basis of true, justice that is now demanded aud that would be a greats credit to the Republicans if they achieved it. But neither in the house bill nor in any bill suggested by the senate finance committee or the administration is the principle of equalization and justice to be found. In every proposal there is" a shifting of the burdens of taxation from the strong should er of the big interests to the bent backs of the masses oi the peo ple. N In the effort to repeal the exess profit tax and make the repeal re troacive to Jauuary 1,1921 .Senator Simmons ranking Democrat on tho senate finande committee points ont as one of the most "indefensi ble" proposals ever offered even by the Republicans. By the adop tion of this proposal all the big corporations would pocket hun dreds of millions belonging to tW government and wrung from tfie people in profiteering for the Vear 1921. They would thus have r/fuu ed to them the money they/spent for the Republicans in tfie cam paign. y The reduction of tire income sur taxes and the retention of the taxes for which the Harding ad ministration is now fighting as well as for the retroactive repeal of the excess profit taxes are re garded as the most monstrous ex amples of favoritism to the big in erests ever shown by the party whose record and career have long been dictated by big interests. The Root Appointment. The appointment of Elihu Root as one of the American delegates to the arms limitation conference has not greatly tended to reas sure the declining faith of the public iu the success of the con ference. Harding himself has done much to impair this faith because of his recent speech to soldiers telling them the world will still have need for them and the conference is not expected to interfere serfous!}- with their pro fession. No one will dispute the truth of his Blatement but for 4 him to,make it at a time like this showß that he in afraid the pub lic expecte the conference will do •something. Mr, Root's appointment comee very soon after it has been an nounced that he has declined the appointment tendered him by the league of nations a« one of the eleven judges of the internation al court of justice. His "advaned age" ia given as the reason for bis declination of the position of judge of the league court and it GRAHAM, N. Oft, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 15, 1921 NORTH CAROLINA GOOD ROAPS ASSOCIATIQN. Meets In Greensboro October II and 12—Prominent Speakers- Some of The Subjects to be Discussed ' Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapel Hill, Sept. 14.—Chairman Frank Page, State Highway En gineer Upham, Commissioners Hart and Doughton of the State Highway Commission; Representatives Con nor and I'arham, Senators Varser and Scales, Hon Heriot Clarkson and Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick are among those who have accepted invitations to address the-North CarolinaXrood Roads Convention which is to held in Greeusboro October 11 and 12, With such a list of speakers as this, the success of the convention is already assured. The work of the State Highway Commission; Taxation and the State Road Program; and County road problems make up tbe major topics of the program. Memorial high ways and the Economic value of Beautifying State Highways; and Safety First and Courtesy on the Highways will also be discussed. I There will be a number of progress I reports from county officials with j special reports from North Carolina's | "Million Dollar Counties": Bun-; comhe, Lenoir, Beaufort, Guilford and Mecklenberg. The program is heing arranged so as to review the history of the State's participation in road build ing with special reference to the j 1919 and 1921 State road laws; plans for the administration and operation of the State Highway Commission under the 1921 laws; and the re sponsibility of counties with refer ence to the building »f county roads to supplement the State system. As will be seen, the entire program re lates to our domestic road problems and will he discussed by our own officials. The result will be afon vention that is extremely practical, instructive and constructive. Source Of Our Naval Stores. Aside from lumber, the south ern, piues particularly the long leaf pine, are the source of our naval stores, representing a valu* in ex3ess of *20,000,000 a year. The position of the United States in regard to these important raw materials is at present a comman ding one. Only one other country can be considered a rival, and that country -- France produces about one-fourth as much as the flnited States. Freedom self-control nothing. is suspected here that the request from the President tliatjkir Root serve as a delegate in the confer ence arrived first. Mr. Root is really the author of the frame work of the league's iuteinational court but he had to choose be tween two toasters. However he had already rondo 'his choice between thesu two masters a year ago when he re turned fresh from his labors abroad in producing the frame work of the court. He 'hen turn bis back on his own mental pro geny and the league and silently embraced Harding and his pro mise of an association of nations. That is what the lawyers call tak ing one side of the then the other. This great lawyer did not take fees from both sides at the samo time. But he may now be called upon to help dis6redit and destroy what he has done It is now felt in Washington that Harding and Hughes with the aid of Root are preparing to But the stage to present the association of nations. The presistent attacks being inspired from House and the State Department in the press on the assembly of the league now iu session at Geneva show that th 3 league and its work in nbt be thoroughly discredited before the Washington conference assembles. Men like Itene Viviani and LdM Cecil have evidently sensed tbe eminetions of the Washington government have in view the purpose of discrediting the league. They are now count ering as best they can and the assembly is frantically trying to learn whether or not Sir. Root is , going to accept the league's offer. SUCCESSOR TO THE LATE JUSTICE W. R. ALLEN OF THE SUPREME COURT A Number of Prominent Lawyers Mentioned for Vacancy Bumper Crop of Babies in N- C , Past 12 Months—Room Will Have to Be . Provided at State Hospitals to Keep Insane Out of Jmls , (By Maxwell Gorman ) llaleigh, September 13. —Fol lowing the death and interment at Goldsboro last Friday of Jus tice W. R. Allen, of the State Su preme Court, whose sudden de mise shockd all his friends here, the natural speculation as to who hie successor would be attracted much interest. The first man thought of by many was Hon. Heriot Clarkson, of Charlotte, one of the best law yers in the State and of ripe ex perience at the bar. lie was thought of not only because of his ability and fitness, but added to these .qualifications almost ]every oue reflected upon the skill Iho and the masterly j management he exhibited iu se- Icuring the nomination Of the i preseut governor, the offieiwl who will have tho vacancy on the bench to fill. His-friends here do not even kn )W whether Mr. Clarkson his j aspirations along this channel (honorable and cnklitable as they would be) and are not aware whether he yrould accept the ap pointment if teudered him. But that does not stop them from pay ing hi a tributes for his great and gallant work for a deserving and bosom friend who is making a good governor, despite injustice being doue him by a few political enemies and a number of news papers that do liot hesitate to print false statement' and half truths about him and some of his ablt>Kt and best lieutenants as sisting in the adminstration of the State government. Tho only consideration that might fi o ure in the propriety of Mr. Clarksou's nomination is the fact that one of the justices of the court, Justice Plaxt D. is from the lame city as Mr. Clarkson. If former Justice Manning should be appoiiKjul it would create a vacancy iu the office of attorney general, and it is probable Mr. Clarkson would be tendered that position, if he would accept. The governor went to Charlotte Monday to fill an engagement to speak at the "Made-in-Carolina" exposition opening. He may an nounce the appointment some time this week. Attorney General Manning, whose name has been used by the daily papers freely, was not a candidate for the Supreme Court Justice's trip. Judge W. J. Adams, of Carthage, an unsuc cessful candidate in the primary last year, has been strongly en dorsed and local bar meetings in several towns have endorsed "favorite sons." At least a doz en lawyers named have been prsi sented to the governor by friends. Jailing The Insane. The notification recently glv-n clerks of courts in some counties by the superintendent of the hos pital for the insane at Morganton that no more patients could be received at that institution, be cause of crowded conditions now existing, has caused much sym pathetic interest in the situation. Appropriations in recent years to the asylums for the insane at Morganton and Raleigh had been liberal andpeople hopedthoy would never again hear of tbe jailing of these unfortunates in the county jails. Of course the K-gi latuee must give this subject renewed consid wratiou anil increase tho size of the hospitals. The .State is con stamly growing and here will be a proportionate ncrease iu the uumber of these unfortunates to be cared for as the years advance. N. C. Hu Biggest Crop of Ha bleu. Official figures prove that North Carolina ha* laiswd the biggest, bumper crop of (tallies the last 12 mouths iu all its history. Birth and death statistics for ihe first six months of 1921 coin Graham Merchants Guaran ■ tee Purchases Made of Them. Ten reasons: First. Because yon should "do unto others as you would be done by.'" 3 Second. Because bj r advocating the "buy in Graham" movement means advocating the circulation of money in Graham. Third. Because it itj our duty, as loyal citizens, to support home industry. Fourth. Because it is unfair and disloyal to spend the salary or wages (as the case may be) earned iu Graham with outside firms. Fifth. Because we have the privilege of examining the articles before purchasing. Sixth Because the guarantee of the inen we know, and of whose integrity wo are assured, stands back of every purchase. Seventh. Because as a business people, ever interested in in creasing not only wish to make you a life-time cus tomer, but desire your recommendation to jour friends. Eighth. Because by buying in Graham you increase the pros perity in all lines of trade, and prosjjerity in trade means a prosper ous town. Ninth. Because a prosperous town means civic improvements of all kinds. Ttyith. Because by supporting the "Buy in Graham" move ment and spending our money at home, we not only g-t good goods and #ood service, but we renp an additional benifit by enjoying the civic improvement that only a prosperous Mown can afford, and a prosperous town means a prosperous people. piled by the Bureau of Vital Sta-i tistics of the State Board of Health, Dr. F. M. Register, di- 1 rector, indicate* an increase of: more ihau 3,000 births over the' same period last year, and deaths 1 have decreased by more than two. thousaud. The same ratio for; the year frill give the State a net, gain in population of 57,316. During the first six months there were 44,268 babies born iu | the State, 15,610 people were dy- j ing. During the same period last year there were 41,652 babies j born while 18,070 people were dy- j ing. The decreased death rate! for the present year is attributed partly to the fact that no iuflueu-, za epidemic was abroad during | the early mouths of the year, as was tho case iu 1921. June appears to be the montli j most favorable for birthdays by, the newly arriving babies this year, with a total of B,loti, but last year the now citizens prefer red April, and in that month set up a yet unbroken arrival for births —8,638. February of last year so far holds the record for deaths when 4,002 people died (luriug the recurrent epidemic of influenza. Deaths this year reached their highest peak for the period iu June, with a total of 3,114 reported. Dividing School MUCH. In an effort to fiudthe line thai divides tho city school from the rural school, State Superintend ent K. C. Brooks addreosed a cir cUlar letter to alk county school superintendents and heads of city schools in the State, asking them to submit their definition of what Is cointeinplated in the term "city school." Provision in mado in the school laws for the apportionment of the State salary fund to both county superintendents and to superin tendents of city schools where the urban school system is suffi ciently large to justify or neces sitate an additional supervisory officer. What constitutes a city school is the problem that Dr. Brooks is attempting to solve The following questions are asked in the letter: "Should the term 'city school' embrace only the larger cities and should the small-town schools be put on the same plane with the standard rural high schools?" "Should we provide for two classes of city schools, the first to include tho larger cities, and the second to include towns such as are able to provide standard high schools, although they may not be entitled, in addition to the superintendent, to a high shcool principal?" The act to provide revenue for sbh'ools directs the State Superin tendent to define what are city schools and what are not city schools. Dr. Brooks has found the question so complex, and of so mat'.y divergent angles, that ho appeals to the county and city school heads to submit their views, and indicates that a meet ing iu llaleigh may be held be fore October. f " '' Blessed is he with a sense of hu mor and doubly blessed is he who can laugh at himself when there is no oue else around to laugh at. FARM NOTES WEEK END ING SEPTEMBER 7, 1921- Thecounty agents report per-j sistently hot, dry weather in North Carolina during the week ended August 7th. The few local; showers in the piedmont and { coastal areas have helped jrery little to relieve the severe drought, j The Weather Bureau for the same) period reports extremely high) temperatures over the Slate, scattered showers affording little material relief, and an increase in the area effected 'by the drought. Lmd is being broken for fall sowing in a few piedmont coun-1 ties, but this is the exception rather than tho rule.. The soil generally is too dry for plowing. Late corn is firing, but the early crop, which is matured, is gener ally good. Recent rains have improved the crop in the north-! ern coastal areas. Cotton has 1 been shedding badly and opening prematurely, particularly in the, piedmont sections. Picking is ] [reported under way in many sec-1 | tion. Most of the tobacco crop has j boon harvested and satisfactory progress made In curing and grad ing for market. Hay and pas tures are short and rather poor, Although a fine soy bean crop is ; reported , in some coastal ar.«as. Truck is poor and the dry weuth :er has eliminated touch fall ! truck. Livestock is medium in supply and condition, a surplus of cat tle being mentioned in Wake, land of hogs and cattle in Pas | quotank. Farmers are engaged in saving : hay and fodder, but the dry 'weather hinders the usual sea sonal activities. No marked in crease in tho use of fertilizer is | reported although several cars of j limestone were sold iu Wake County during the past week. The United States Department of Agriculture in its report for the week ending August, 27th, states that the corn crop of the country is maturing rapidly in the main producing States. A considerable quantity is in the denting stage and practically out of danger of frost damage Threshing of wint r wheat is ! practically completed except for ja small amount to be threshed i from the shock. The country's oat crop is practically all the yield and quality being poor I The condition the cotton crop 'is generally unfavorable, owing Ito the heat and dry weather, i Picking is iu progress iu most areas. Several States report con jsiderable shedding and continued jdainago from tlm boll weevil. Ilow'a This! We offer Ono Hum! red Do l!&r» lit ward for I any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's ('atnrrli Medicine. IU.I a Catarrh Medicine haa been takan by catarrh tuiiferers for the past -thirty-Ave year*, and l-a» become known a» the moat re liable remedy for C'atarrb. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the lllood on tbe Mucous ' mrface*. espelHug Ihe I'olson from the Blood »nd healinir the ill-eantd porUona. After yon have taken Hall's [latarrb Medi elnu for a chorl time you wUlaee a great im provement in your geneeal health. Btart taking Hall's Catarrh Medicine at once and get rid ol catat rti. Send for testimonials, i free. , A J. 1 HEJiEY A CO., Tolado, Oblo. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. adv Anybody wh > does anything I ruw htn got to do it alone. NO. 32 PROFESSIONAL CARDS S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drag Co. i Hours: 2 to 3 anil 7 to l J p. in., and by appointment. Phone 97' GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Oflicc Hours: 9 to 11 a. m. anil by appointment Olflee Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones: Office l ie—Residence JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorneyat-Law GRAHAM, N. C. •nice over National Bank ot Alamuec X. S. C O OK, Attorney-at- Law, * RAH AM. .... W. 0 Office Patterson Building , Second Fluor. . . , ;>R. WIU.UOMUR. . . DENTIST : : : | .rah«r. . .. . North Carallaa >FFTCEtn-*IMMONP TWILDING J. I'.I.MI'.K 1.0.VG LOIIWC. AIXEW Durham, X. C. (irihim, Sl.l'. LONG & ALLEN, M.»rn>«yn and I 'oiAii»»*lor»« hi J a»v Ott.UIAM C Receiver's Sale Under Deed In Trust. Under and liy virture of the power of Willi; contained in a certain deed of trust executed the 4>th day of February, 1019, by, Itu ITin Rogers to the Graham Loan & Triist Co., Trustee, for the purpose of securing certain bonds of even date there with, and the interest thereon, which deed jof trust is duly probated and recorded in | the olfice of Register of Deeds for Ala j inance county in book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust No. 84, at page 89, de ■ fault having been made in the payment of j said bonds according to their tenor, imct 5 unii'T and by vittueof the authority vest ! I'd in me as Receiver of the Graham Loan iite Trust Co,, in an order dated the 28th day of January, 1921, by J. Loyd ! llortori, Judge of Superior Court of North i Carolina, holding the courts of the Tenth Judicial district, the undersigned Re ceiver will, on MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1921, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door of Alamance county, at Grnluun, N. C., sell to the highest bidder,,for cash, the lands de lined ami descriUd as follows, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land in Gra ham township, Alamance County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Thomas Rotfgers, Parks & Jeffreys, Lay ton Walker and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe cor ner with s iid Rogers anil running thence | X SB deg W (B 8) 8 linl|s to an iron pipe; thence N 20 deg E 0.94 chs to an iron pipe; thence 8 ss* deg E92 Iks to an iron pipe, formerly a blaek gum corner with said Parks it Jeffreys and Walker; thence S 22 deg W 5.91 chs to the beginning, containing h of an ai re more or less and on which there is a franp dwelling. This dept. 6th. 1921. WM. I. WARD, Receiver of Graham Limn Ac Trust Co. EXECUTORS' NOTICE. p Having quallflcd as Executor of the the ta»t wiil and testament of Ben. N. Turner, deceased, late of Alamaoce county, Xortli Carolina, this is to notify all persons bavins claims aftumst the estate of said de -1 ci-smJ to uxiiinit them to the undesigned j on or before the ajtii day of Aug., IWS, or this I notice will in pleaded In bar of their recov -1 ery. All persons indebted to said estate will j plea»e make iiniiifllniepayment. This Aug. I*lll, I KM. J. U. KEK.NODLE, Executor i-aii||Ut of lion. H. Turner, dee'd. Truck For Hire. Ist ud iu your hauling of every kind, moving, etc. Have a new truck. Terms reasonable. Bkapsiiaw & FULLER, Phone 050 Graham, N. C. | I. ;!; cures Malaria, Chills aiul Fever, Bilious Fever, Colds, and LaGrippe. It kills the parasite that causes tiie fever. It is a splendid laxative aud general Tonic.—Adv -j PATENTS i OBTAINED. 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