VOL. XLVII
School Tax Limit
Fixed at 39 Cts.
Many Bilk Introduced Aside From
Special Ones for Which "Extry"
Galled—Attempt to Change Prop
erty Exemption Not Popular.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
TALK.
(By Maxwell Gorman.) "
Raleigh, Dec. 13.—The expected
has ''happened" agaifl, and the
Legislature is still functioning at
the end of ,eight days of work
without anybody knowing just
when adjournment of the extra
session will be effected. week
ago it was thought ten days would
be lonjr enough to remain here
and Senator Long presented a
resolution providing for adjourn
ment sine die on Friday of this
week, 16th inst. Bt|t at this writ
ing it looks like Friday of next
week will find the "Extry" still
here and some of the members
will go home then, they declared
today, adjournment or no adjourn
ment. Any who remain after
Christmas day will have the dogs
set on them. But as pay ceases
on Christmas, it is entirely un
likely that many will be rounded
up in Raleigh.
The Senate is being unfavor
ably criticized by people and press
all over the State for again at
tempting to make a law of the
senator of Northampton's (Bur
gwyn) bill to change' the property
exemption of the "niggers
white fo'ke" from S3OO to SIOO.
The House will . probably again
kill the bill, as it did las} session,
but the Senate's action is distaste
ful if unsuccessful. Long of
Alamance, Bartsell of Cabprrns,
Gallertof Rutherfordton, Came
ron ot Durham and a dozen other
senators denounced the bill in apt
and fair-minded speeches.
Senator Hartsell, for instance,
contrasted the effect iand principle
(or lack of principle) in putting
the sheriff after the pig kud cow
of every factory worker and small
tenant farmer who couldn't hide
his little livestock possessions
above the SIOO limit while thous
ands of the well-to-do and wealthy
people "dodged" taxes on wealth
that could be hid and was con
cealed every year.
"Why," said he, "my attention
was recently called to the fact
that only 75 watches are listed for
taxation in the whole city of Chtuv
lotte, while thousands of watches
(some studded with no
doubt, and valuable Intrinsically
for the gold in them) are couceal
ed from the tax gatherer.
"Yet, under this Burgwyn bill
the cot ton,jw ill worker; (who has
been workingon short time and
reduced wages for the last year
or more mdst give in the pig and
the cow milked to sustain the life
of the babies In his family."
That was "telling the truth with
a vengeance" and it is no surprise
to read notices in the state news
papers like the following taken
from the Monroe Journal. The
Journal says:
• "FOB SHAME.—This is peanut
business of. the smallest kind.
The same forces that are demand
ing that we return to the old sys
tem of levying no tax upon thous
ands of acres of unused land in
eastern North Carolina aud else
-where held by speculators are de
manding that the tax assessors be
required to ransaek the home of
every poor white man and negro
who has nothing else aud find his
little dab of housohold stuff and
bis cow. and., pig aud put them
upon the tax ijooks. There is
prosperity and wealth enough in
this state to pay tbe,.laxes with
out resorting to such shameless
business as this."
The author of the bill said be
represented an agricultural com-,
mnnlty that baa no mills or fact
ories or other manufacturing
plants* but is .populated largely
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
by tenant farmers (mostly negro
es), who pay no taxes under the
S3OO exemption. But the repres
entatives of the people of the
whole state could not afford to do
a thing like that to accommodate
the Northampton senator or the
twenty or more others who favor
his bill.
Senator Cameron called atten
tion to the "campaign pledge"
made by the Democratic party (at
least in the name of the state com
mittee) anent the S3OO exemption.
But a little thing like a "campaign
pledge" sat but lightly ou the
shoulders of half of the senators.
Which is also spmethiug that
needs to be sneezed tit.
Constitutional Convention!
Editor Josephus Daniels return
ed from a chatauqua tour of lect'
ures in the middle west last week
and has launched a demand on the
"Extry" to provide for the hold
ing of a state constitutional con
vention in 1923. Col. Harry
Stubbs tried the same thing in the
last Legislature, but it didn't
work. What success Editor Dan
iels may, have is more apUfco come
through action by the regular ses
sion of the Legislature next winter
than through the present "Extry"
it seems at present
There is argument, stroug argu
ment, to be made lor a constitu
tional convention, but the prop
osition ought to be submitted to
the people ob a "general election"
year, when state officers aud pres
ident are chosen and when the
people turn out more full» at the
polls than in an off year. Itshould
be voted on in 1924, if at all, rather
than in 1922, as is now proposed.
V
Important Measures*
The Senate and House began
this week's work at 8 o'clock Mon
day night, no day session being
held, and among the most im
portant measures dealt with this
week include the following:
In the Senate the Sams bill pro
viding more effectual means for
the prompt payment of obliga
tions ot political subdivisions of
the state The Erwin bill em
powering municipalities to create
planning commissioners, and r.he
Walker bill increasing the legal
speed limit for motor vehicles.
School Matter*.
Thirty-nine cents is set as the.
limit to which counties may go in
levying taxes for the school* in
the measure iutroduced in the
House of Representatives by Mat
thews of Bertie. The- bill stipu
lates that no mandamus will be
against the county commissioners
to force that body to levy a tax in
excess of the 39-cent limit. *
All tax levies that have been
directed by the State x Department
of Education for the present year,
of whatever rate, are validated in
the provisions of the bill, and
counties that have resisted the
mandate of, the department to
levy above 30. cents are. directed
tb levy up to 39 cents. Three
eouaties in the state have held :
out against the state boaiti, and
.but .of this opposition grew the
litigation on which the Supreme
Court handed down its decision
during the past week.
If the Matthews bill passes,
State Superintendent Brooks will
have consolidate 1 all that he has
won in his tight to have the coun
ties levy sufficient taxes to sup
port the schools on his enlarged
program, but restrictions are
thrown around him in fixing tho
limit at 39 ceuts and withdrawing
the mandamus provision it
is believed, satisfy the critics who
charge reckless extravagance.
Section 3 of the bill directs the
Department of Education to re
duce special appropriations from
the school funds from approxi
mately $500,000 to 1642,750. The
present schedule of teacher sala
ries will be maintained, but not
increased. County boards of com
missioners shall not be required
to levy more than seven and a
half ceuts for the building fund.
Retrench men t aud economy, with
out crippling the schools, is the
declared intent of the. framers of
the bill. It was drawn after ex
tended conferences between ad
ministration .leaders and that
wing of the General Assembly led
by Representative Bowie oppos
ing Dr. Brooks.
. Taulac's best advertising comes
iroui people who b&ve actually
used it. Sold by Farrell Drug Co.,
QTlffcttßkN. 0.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1921
A SIMPLE TREATY.
That's the Way The Daily News
Speaks of It.
Sunday's Greensboro Daily
News has diagnosed aud ana
lyzed the treaty affecting the Pa
cific. The Daily News is some
what drastic, but hear what it
says:
"The mountains are in labor
and a ridiculous mouse is born."
With ruffles and flourishes, tuck
ets and fanfaronades, with the
thunder of oratorical great guns,
and the explosion of all sorts of
verbal pyrotechnics, the coming
of the four-power treaty govern
ing the Pacific was announced.
Yesterday Senator Lodge, having
for the moment assumed Senator
Johnson's regular role of "herald
with trumpet," strutted into the
Washington conference and with
a mighty preliminary blast from
his bugle-horn, finally introduced
the thing.
AUd- here is what it provides:
"We, being virtuous, hereby high
ly resolve to respect our own
rights in the Pacific; and, by way
of further proof of our exceeding!
goodnees, we promise never to
knock a neighbor's block off with
out first informing everybody that
we are mad at him."
Thus is the collective wisdom of
western civilization summed up.
Thus is declared the international
morality of the most enlightened
nations of the world in the twen
tieth century of tlfe Christian era
Never a word is there suggesting
that there may exist anything but
ideal conditions in the Pacific.
Nowhere is there a hint that the
five great powers ot' the western
world perhaps cherish the hope
that their rule of the Pacific may
be used for the establishment of
justice aud prosperity in those
regtons. Not an intimation is
given that the five nations have
any desire to base their coutiol of
half the world on righteousness,
honesty and truth. There is not
the faintest shadow of an admis
sion that the people who inhabit
the regions involved have any
rights that anyone is under even
a moral obligation to respect.
Each nation agroes to keep what
it has, including what it has
-stolen; which each intended to do
before any treaty was writteu.
Each agrees, before attempting to
snatch another's spoils, to find out
how the other tbr#e stand.; which
each would certainly have done,
had no treaty evor be«u written.
Mr. Lodge ""announces with
swelling pride that the treaty is
excedinaly simplo. It certainly
is. It is simple as the law of the
wolfpack. It is as simple as the
rnles of the Forty Thieves. lii'
so far as essential morality goes,
it is as simple as Simple Simon.
It is as simple as
the good old rule, the Rimgle plan—
"Let lilm"tote"VE6'K*B (fie po#ei%"let lifni
" keep who can.
It is as Simple as theft, as simple
as greed, as simple as conquest
and tyranny. It is as simple as
hell.
No threat of force, no implica
tion of a binding agreement to
support any natitfn in anything
lurks in this document, hays Sen
ator Lodge. An admirab e speech
this senator hits mad© —he is al
ways right. No threat of force
"lurks" anywhere in this docu
ment. It sticks out all over it.
It is based on force, it is abso
lutely unintelligible unless the
existence of force be assumed
and with it the justific lion of
the use of force to protect partic
ular interests. It makes no
threat of force because it calmly
assumes that all the five nations
are agreed that fom is, and of
necessity must be, the flual argu
ment in international disputes.
It is impossible to find in this
treaty any genuine, honest endea
vor to bring, about a more enligh
tened method of conducting inter
national relations. Not a solitary
one of its provisions but has beeu
in actual practice for years. Ger
many did not call the various na
tions iuto conference before her
assault On civilization, it is true,
but nevertheless she thought that
she had ascertained exactly how
each of them would staud. She
erred; but the chances are that a
conference would have given her
no more rellabia information than
that which she possessed. This
treaty does not raise even a timid
protest against the use of force
for the advancement of national
interests, does not put the con
tracting powers even on formal
record as opposing the exploita
tion of backward regions and
backward peoples for the exclu
sive benefit of the exploiter, does
not mark the gain of a solitary
inch in international morality,
hardly puts the additional weight
of a straw in the way of wars. Its
sinister philosophy is the dreary
utterance of Vance iu 1881: "The
thing that has been is the thing
that shall be."
Senator Lodge vaunts himself
on haying produced a treaty of a
crass'simplicity iu the year 1921.
Does the man really lack the
ability to. think superficially?
Surely, even superficial thought
must have couvinced him that re
ducing the existing chaos to order
is no simple task, aud to be ac
complished by no simple agency.
The very fact that a treaty made
iu 1921 is simple is prima facie
evidence that it is inadequate.
Bur, after all, the feebleness,
the hopeless futility of this docu
ment is not the sinister element
of tho situation. The sinister
thing is the naive pride that, the
| framers of the treaty possess id
their work. They ar-still worship
ing phrases iu Washington, still
believing in some magic abraca
dabra. still looking for some
formula of enchantment mere pro
nouncement of which will conjure
all our troubles away like phan
tasms of an uueasy dream. And
in the meantime the world is
I steadily slipping toward the edge
of the abyss.
It is bad news that comes out of
Washington this morning. The
conference has failed. It may
have gained some trifles toward
the reduction of our uaval ex
penditures, but in so far as set
ting the world on the upward path
is coucerued it has failed .utterly
aud ridiculously Thoughtful
men must regard the future this
morning with.heavy hearts.
Alamance's School Tax Rate
Compared With Other Counties.
The following interesting figures
showing valuations of property
and tax-rate for schools in a num
ber of counties were turnished by
Couuty Supt. of Schools M. C.
Terrell:
| Now that the Legislaturs is in
sessiou aud a good deal is being
said about schools and school
taxes, it may be of interest to the
people of. Alamance couuty to
make comparisons of tax rates for
schools and valuations of taxable
property in some of the counties
somewhat similar to AlamanCe.
For this reason below is giveu
several of the counties in the
State, showing tax rales for
schools and the total valuation of
taxable property:
VaT. ofProp. "Rate SIOO
Halifax, $ 53,000,000 62c
Johnston, 43,000,000 006
Vanco, 22,000,000 . 50c
Uuiou, 22,500,000 50c
Grauvilie, 22,100,000,. 50c
Warren, 15,000,00U •_ 47c
Wilson, 46c
Alamance, 33,000,000 » 440> 
Edgecombe, 29,562,488 43c
Roberson, . 45,000,000 40c
Catawba, 32,50 i 1,000 40c
Wake, . 80,000,000 • 40c
Lenoir, .31,647,760 39c
Cleveland, 34,000,000 3«c
| Roekingtmio,4l,ooo,ooQ 37c -
Buncombe, 93,5t0,000 37c
Iredell, 44,000,000 • 35c k
Richmond, 29,534,897 34c
Gu i I ford, 13U,Q00,00U 32c ,
Forsyth, 137,000,000, 24c
The reason a man scratches his
head when puzzled hi« uevej.beeu
satisfactorily accounted for by
scientists.
Cactus flower expand* by night
aud blooms only a few hours
y■ , .
Tbere I* more Catifrjti in-«ht« Miction of
»t.e country than ail otii. r dlar*Mi» put tw
grtber. and until Ui» I »i f>-w j ir-rti wan'sop
poitd to »«• Incurable Kik i.iml irmiy
year* doctor* pronounced' It * dlaeaMi
•nd prMKsrlbarf local leuiediea, »i»l t>y cm
dan (ly lniiiMx tocure with l.i"-al tryatn>»?»t,
pronounced It IncurabH-. Science haaprovta
Catarrh (o be a (K>ti»OMiM"f»«l dlatxiM., and
tberof' re aaqulnx Moulnuiln al irtatrfindt.
Hail'* Catarrh luic, manufactured hy F. J.
Cbenvy A Co.. Toledo. Obto, 1# the only ' 00-
• tnational cure oil tue inn>kfec It li taken
I Internally In ir..m It) drop* to a tea
feiioonful. It aan  Irectly'oil tbe blood and
lUUC- u* nurfaceo -if Uie'«.«tem Tliejr oHwr
UI,« hotelr.-d d.ilMrn hit an* utM It fall* lo
euro. Send lor • trcular* and testimonial!.
Adilma: V. J. CM KN B V * CO., Toledo. OWO.
Hold by Driigtflrt*; 75c.
I Take Hall's Family Pills for oonaUp*-
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TdBACCO GROWERS FOR
COOPERATIVE MARKETING.
Alamance Farmers Signing Up—Big
Meeting Held at Cedar Grove in
Orange.
' CounjV Agent W. Kerr Scott,
writing last Saturday, has thefol
lowiug to say of what Alamance
farmers and others are doing
about' the cooperative tobacco
marketing proposition:
From all sectious of the county
signed contracts are coming in.
Increased interest was shown last
week iu Woodlawn, Cross Roads
aud Texas. Over 100,0 )0 pounds
of tobacco was signed in these
communities.
Starting at the farm of Mr.
John Baker at Haw River, every
man visited on the ro.td from
there fS Stainback's store except
two signed the contract, Messrs.
Baxter Sellars and Ed. Tate both
signed. Mr. Sellars feared for a
time that the association would
not receive proper financial back
ing. However," he states that
when ho learned that tho Federal
Reserve was backing the associa
tion, he was from that time a
booster. " I'oxas" is waking up
and it now seems that they will
give a large majority. Several
signed at a meeting at Martin's
school house and others joined
there a few days previous.
A meeting was held iu Orange
couuty at Cedar Grove with over
200 present. Every m&u iu the
house had signed, or sigHed that
night, except four.
According to an editorial in the
Progressive Farmer of this Week
•'The warehouses in Kentucky
have already "closed out forever
as scenes of auction sales ami will
be used hereafter as grading aud
receiviu/ stations for the associa
tions. The lame condition is like
ly to face the remuaut of Virginia
and Carolina growers next sum
mer. "
Local warehousemen are of tho
opinion that there will not be
euough tobacco outside of the
association for the tobacco com
panies to send buyers ou die
market. . ' ,
For the first time in the cam
paign people have come to the
oflico-of the couuty ageut to sign.
Several came in today and from
conditions all over the county it
appears that we will have from
75 to 85 per cent sign up before
Juuuary first.
If you have not signed, why
uot?
North Carolina Birth Rate
Highest in United States.
A lat«#dispatch from Washing
ton gives the following about the
birth rate in the U. S. in 1920:
North Carolina has the laudable
distinction of having "the highest
birth rate (31.7) for the white
population of any other State for
1920," according to a census re
port issued today. California had
the lowest, with 18 3 per thous
and population.
North Caroliua stands third in
the birth rate of other colors; she
1* exceeded by the District of Co
lumbia, where the negro flourishes,
and California, where Orientals
are increasing.
The average birth rate for the
23 .'States covered was J23.3 P or
thousand. North Caroliua, there
fore, is far ahead.
The record for North Carolina
was:
White births, 57,054, and col
ored, 24,353, for IH2O, and 51,832
and 22,022 for 1919.
The birth rale for whites Usl
year was 31.7 per thousand, and
colored, 31.3.
South Carolina's white birth
rate last year was 28.8, and col
ored, 27 7.
There is no indication of race
suicide a n'oug the old settlers of
the Tar Heel fttate. The birth
rale wits higher iu» 1920 than it
' was iu 1917
Compensation claims for losses
or injuries to former service men,
'amounting to $7,142,416 a year,
I are being sent by the United States
Treasurer to 86 foreign cpijutrjei}.
- Italy receives the largest prpjlior
tiou of money ou claims and Ire
land, ranks aecoiid.—
"Stunt" Night at Elon.
Cor. of The Gleantr.
Elon College, Deo 14. —"Stunt"
night was observed by the Sopho
mores of the college last evening.
In the presentation of thefr "stunt"
a miniature Keith's Vaudeville
production was prepared, which
pleased the large audience.
Attractive programs wtre dis
tributed, from which were seen
six acts as follows: Scene at Pho
tographer's, Red-headed, Rolling
Bones, A Gala Day in Magageniez,
Madam Olga, and All by Myself.
S. M. Lyman heraled the comiug
of the Keith's production and
welcomed the audieuce,.
The Nevelle Club met Monday
night with Mr. aud Mrs. F. B.
Corboy, Miss Floreuce Fisher and
Miss Katherine Strum assisting
the Corboys. A social good time
was enjoyed by the members,
sewinir, and the usual items of
the club were engaged in, at the
conclusion of which a very de
lightful course of refreshments
was served.
The Music Lovers'club met last
evening at the West Eud Hall
with Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Vaughau,
Mr. Alexander, and Miss Hend
ricks entertaining.
it was announced at this meet
ing that the guarantors for the
concert course would be relieved
lof any financial rcsponsibil ty,
enough tickets having been sold
to cover all expenses.
Tho following program was
rendered:
Story by Faust—Gounod —Dr.
Newman.
Duels —Flower song from Faust,
Miss Kirkland.
Waltz song from Faust—Mr.
Iletts. -i
If Happy Fortune—Gounod —
Mr. Vaughau.
Story ot Carmen —Bizet—Mrs
Kennett.
If I am not fainthearted, Miss
Fisher. »,
Toreador Song from' Carmen,
Mr. Alexauder.
SHORT COURSES
IN AGRICULTURE.
Will be 'Given at State College in
January—No Tuition Charge-
Farmers Should Take Advantage
of These.
Beginning with January 19 there
will be given at State College two;
Two-Week's Short Courses iu Ag
riculture,'one iir General Agricul
ture and the other in Cotton
Grading Dean C. B. Williams
says these two courses this year
have been made so that they will
deal with the practical problems
of the farm. Those who take the
work will be offered an oppor
tunity to learn both by doing
things as well as studying under
the guidance of competent in
structors.
The course in General Agricul
ture will deal mainly with noil
fertl'ity, field aud garden crops,
livestock, poultry, crop and live
stock diseases, aud farm imple
ment aud equipmeut problems.
The one in Cotton Grading will
be given over chiefly to intensive
practice work in cotton classing,
with the idea of familiarizing
farmers and others who may lake
it, with the diff'T'-ot grades of
cotton and their reiMUVe com
mercial Values.
These eourse* havn ' ii arrang I
ed to ■ t fI.M'K liino in
fitrm wuik on lhat I.tritium urny
experience to difficulty on Ills
account in gelling away from
home. The t.oilejjti inaKes uo
charge for tuition, lite oiily e.v
peiise heCt-asary to incur being
railroad fare, room aii'l Istard.
Farmers fr in all sections of
the State should plan now to take
• one.of these course* at State Col
lege. Those wno have- taken
similar courses in the p.iS'. have
been unstinting hi their express- j
ions of th,e value such courses)
have been to theiu. A reas liable)
amount of time spent in prepara-i
tion for lite wu.rk iu any profes-;
sion is always the part of wisdom.
Interested parlies should com
municate with Dean C. B. Wil-
I limn?, Stale College Station,
! Raleigh
JCM "is a peescriptiou for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy, we know.
NO. 45
Two Things.
1 #
From. The Uplift.
There are two things that are
just now very evident: North
Carolina has her "head over the
moon aud her tail over the dash
board," going np the road like a
thorough-bred. That's one; the
other is a cracker-jack State
Treasurer, who has the ability,
the pep and the dope to pat across
a boud bate of (2,872,000 at a pre
mium of Sfo,ooo. And all this is
happeniug iu the Administration
of Governor oam Morrison.
Stick insect of Borneo is the
largest known.
There are now 10,000 known
varieties of orchids.
BACK GIVES OUT
Plenty of Graham Headers Have Tills
Experience.
You tax tbe kidneys—overwork
them
They can't keep up the continual
strain.
The back may give out —it may
ache and pain;
Urinary troubles may set in.
Don't wait longer—take Doan'a
Kidney Pills.
Graham people tell you how they
act.
Mrs. J. B. Farrell, N". Maple St.,
Graham,says, "'I "recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills highly, as they
certainly are a fine kidney med
icine. / was troubled with severe
pains across the small of my Dack
and my kianeys acted irregularly.
Doan's'Pills gave me wonderful re
lief from the backache and regu
lated my kidneys. I tell my friends
who are troubled rvlth kidney
complaint to use Doan's." , \
Price 60c at all dealers. Dont
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan"s Kidney Pills—the
kind Mrs. Farrell had. Poster-Mil- .
burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
THOMAS D. COOPER,
I Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with V. S. Coulter,
Not. 7 and 8 Flnt National Bank Bldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C. •
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
Hours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to 'J p. m., and
by appoiniment.
Phone 97* •
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington. N. C.
Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.
anrl by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
1 Telephone*: Office IIH Residence 264
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-a t-Law
GRAHAM. N. C.
tlllcc over National Baak at AlanaM
X. 3. COOK,
Attornay-at- Lao
KAHAM, .... , N 0
Offloo Patterson Bulldlnf
Bocond Flaor. . , .
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LONG & ALLEN,
and Oounnrlona at law
GRAHAM, N. 0.
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