Some Qood Advice LISTEN KID BETTER GET YOURSELF SOME OVERALLS '(AWE ITS GOING "VD PE New I]ear Parties Here's to the old year, drink boys, drink. Htrt's to the days that have fled, Old friends, old wine, old memories, Drink to the Joys that are deail. Here's to the New Year stretching ahead, To the days that are blithesome and gay, May the joys of the old be the joys of the new. Its sorrows fade gently away New Year comes ff@W*S>[ 1 to us with a volume nil pure "and unspotted, on which we rarSjlpij will soon begin to write u iMffijijJl history that will go on to be bound with the thou sands of other records we call jiears. May 1022 bring us counterparts of the hupplest days of the year Just closing, and a hPart for "any fate," and may we all learn the lesson of how "to labor and to wait.'* Now for a Jolly New Year's eve party that you may like to get up. Send out Invitations for a "watch night" party or "remembrance" party, as one girl Is going to call the Intimate little affair she Is arranging for New Year's eve! If you can sketch, draw an hour-glass, a "Father Time" or clock face with the hands at mid night or the lust lenf on the calendar With "December 81" done In scarlet. Ask each one to tell of their happiest day tn the yenr that I 9 past and in what month It happened. You may play cards, dance or "rem iniscences." Just as suits you best. Have a cake with 12 candles sur rounded by a wreath of holly and mis tletoe* and the favors symbolic of the year's special days; for Instance, a calendar for Janunry, a Cupid or heart for February, a kite for March, a tiny umbrella for April, a posy or bouquet of artificial flowers for May, or a wee May pole; a doll bride or a basket of roses for June, n firecracker for July, a golf set or picnic basket for August, bunch of grapes or a tiny washtub for September, the latter sig nifying "Labor day." Represent October with a wee Jack o'-lantern cut from an orange, a pumpkin or football for November, or a turkey, and for December a minia ture' Christmas tree. These articles could be procured tn duplicate and be used to And partners, or they may be placed In a Jaell Horner pie made to represent the face of a clock, red rib bons going to each place. This Is an occasion when the for tune nuts may be used, taking perfect English walnuts and removing die meats. Insetting a narrow strip of paper bearing a pleasant prophecy, for the coining season, and then gluing the shells closely together. These may be glided and passed at the table. A wise hostess who knows her guests well will be clever In making these forecasts right. Much merriment ensues when the girls ask the boys to dance, invite them to supper, and In general reverse the usual order of social conventions. 1 A Stitch In Tim*. W»hen the lining next the collar of your wrap begins to show signs of wear, get a few Inches of wide silk military braid, matching the color, and aew It neatly over the worn part, fey palling • thread at the edge the braid •will be perfectly smooth and the far n «it #HI not appear patched. Observing \ New Yeax's >7IIIIIIII mi J.I I UTTTTTTTTI 11111 i 1111II111»11111 iu' YEAR'S day Isn't what I atlllll '' US *'' t0 ' lß ' ' 8 , SSKJ| n small way attributable to r " ie "Edition ,o " ,e Consti ) tutlnn of some dry reading mutter. In still greater part It Is because the International ob session for celebrating whenever Fa ther Time tukes a fresh sturt In pilot ing the enrth around the sun is thou sands of years old. The manner of observing the day has changed greutly through the centuries. The urge to give presents at least once a year was felt even before Christmas and Santa Claus came into the scheme of things, and the an cient Greeks, Chinese, Egyptians and Romans tendered their gifts to one another on the first day of the year. Kings got Into the habit of receiving extra gifts from their subjects ion these days and liked It so well they began extorting larger and larger sums. This practice got so had In Home under the Caesars that Clau dius called a halt. It spread to other countries, how ever, and the English had their New Year's celebration spoiled annually by rapacious sovereigns until Queen Elizabeth's modest demands of her subjects cut gifts down to a mini mum. In those days the celebration of New Year's day had become world wide. With variations to suit all na tionalities; It consisted everywhere of eating, drinking and motley merri ment. Christopher Columbus, so far as Is known, was the first white man to Jubilate on New Year's day In the western hemisphere. While his ghlps were undergoing repairs on January 1, 1403, he enjoyed 11 sumptuous din ner with two savage monarch* on the Island of Haiti. After this meal, history says, the discoverer of Amer ica had his first smoke of tobacco. Whether he enjoyed It Is not recorded, but be left It to a later generation— Sir Walter Kaleigh Is generally cred ited with the function—to Introduce M.acco to Europe. The I'llgrlm Fathers and the first ramllles of the older states of the Union enjoyed a quiet holiday as each yenr came around. They feasted, hut not until they had attended r UglouH services. For 25 years up to the dawti of 1020 and the ehi of war-tlniaf pro hibition, the celebration In cit ies became noisier and more expen sive each year. Thousands used to crowd Into places of merriment, while principal thoroughfares were |»icki-d with fhrongs of merrymakers vUrtT squawkers. clap|»ers. bells and confetti. Kvery hotel and most of the res taurants were Jammed with gay diners. In 10(>8 It was estimated that 11.000,000 was spent In the New York white-light district on New Year s eve. After that statisticians gave up try ing to figure out the sum. HER RESOLUTION. "Have you mad* any good resolu tions for th* n*w year." •*Y**sir, I'm (join' t» quit butti** men's hurts." IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OP THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR BEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS THE SOUTH What la Taking Place In The South, land Will Be Found In Brief Paragrapha Foreign— Switzerland Is the only country In the world where the American dollar today is below par. TJie dollar was quoted at five francs twelve centimes, on the Geneva bourse. Wolfe Lindenfeld, who confessed In Warsaw that he participated In the Wall street bomb explosion, told the police that ho hadn't received a cent for "his work."- Liang Chih-Ll has been named as premier of the Chinese cabinet to suc ceed Yun-Peng. Yun-Peng was accus ed of selling patronage! Not much progress has been made thus far, it was learned recently, In the conversations which are going on between Arlstlde Briand, the French premier, and David Lloyd-George, the British prime minister, on Oerman reparations and kindred questions. The dreadnaught Toga was launched ut»the Mitsubishi shipyards at Nag asSl. Like her sister ship, the Kaga, launched a month ago, the»Tosa Is slated to be scrapped under the naval limitation plan agreed to at the Wash ington conference. An Immense crowd attended the Tosa's launching, the last In Japan prior to the "naval holiday." The ministry of finance of Mexico has fixed oil export duties for Decem ber as follows: Crudep etroleum of 80 gravity, 22 pesos, 64 centavos per cubic meter; crude petroleum, 96 grav ity and over, 12 pesos, 84 centavos combustible oil, 95 gravity, 21 pesos 20 centavos; gasoline, per litre, 1.14 centavos; kerosene, per litre, 42 centa vos. Richard Croker, rormer Tammany (New York City) chieftain, who has been ill at his home, Glencairn castle, Dublin, Ireland, is reported as show ing continued improvement. He has been suffering from a chill contracted while returning to Ireland from the United States, Which has confined him tn his bed. He is reported sitting up Jn his room. Another meeting of the allied su preme council, this time at Cannes, on the French Rivira, Is the outcome of the parleys between Prime Minister I,loyd-George and Premier Briand, of Prance, during the past few days. The meeting of the council of ambassadors within a few days at Paris for arrang lig the details of the Cannes meeting. Deputy John Mllroy, speaking In the Irish dall cabinet at Dublin, In sup port of the treaty with England, re cently, demanded and received from Eamon de Valera and other opponents of the treaty their promise to submit the question of ratification to a vote of the Irish people In case the treaty Is rejected. A revolution has broken out in Por tugal. according to a dispatch to The Dally Chronicle from Paris. It began with cannonading along the Tagus river and severe casualties have re sulted to both sides in the contro versy. The United Slates now Is at peace with all the world. The third and last peace treaty was concluded be tween the United States and Hungary, according to word from Hugh Grant enilth, American charge at Budapest. Ratifications have been exchanged, he cabled. Washington— Great llrltaln's plea that the sub marine be banished from the seven seas has been presented to the arms conference, bnt received no support from any other power. Attorney General Daugherty says that the report from Sylvester Cos grove at Warsaw on the arrest of Llndenfleld there In connec -tlon with the Wall street,. New York, bomb explosion, Is so unsatisfactory that he will not make public any part of the report until he gets further Information. It Is announced that federal prohl tlon enforcement officers have asked court action to brln gahout the clos- Jpg of the breweries of the Central Consumers 1 company, the Oertel com pany and the Theodore Menk com pany. all of Louisville, Ky„ on the ground that they are distributing a beverage containing more than the le gal amount of alcohol. The census bureau announces that negro Immigration from the South to the North during the last ten years has Increased nearly seven hundred per- cent • ' 1 Announcement of the French that they are unprepared to present fig ures as to their auxiliary tonnage re quirements causes general surprise In oonference circles. It will take some time to dear np this point. A direct step toward bringing up the submarine Issje In JU first phase —the British proposal to abolish sub mersible war craft entirely—has been taken by the arms conference. The British delegation asked that a ple nary session of the conference be oalled to permit presentation of their oase against submarines. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C Henry Ford's attempt to reduce frienghts on coal 20 per cent along tbe line of his railroad, the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, was disallowed by the lnterestate commerce commission on the ground that the reduction would constitue a discrimination against other mining territory whose coal product Is sold in Toleda, De troit and other cities along the "ord railroad. Analysis of official export statis tics on the basis of quantities will show that the United States has made considerable gains In sales abroad of practically every Important commod ity, according to the chamber of com merce of the United States. Fifteen out of twenty exports, registered In creases ranging from 43 to 5,210 per cent In poundage in the first nine moths of 1921, as compared with a similar period last year, according to the chamber of commerce. The formal negotiations of the arms conference are at a standstill, but groups of delegates continue personal consultation, which, it would appear, strengthen the general -confidence in an early solution of all the points now 'remaining at issue. The long-pending !j.nti-trust suit against the American Sugar Refining company is to be disposed of by a decree which has been approved by tlte attorney general, who expresses his belief that the refining industry is no longer a trust or monopoly. Domestic— A New York beggar the other day told a magistrate that a "good beg gar" should collect between 125 and |SO a day In New York City. This Is one line In which business '» good. Police smashed Into homes, clubs and saloons at Chicago recently seiz ing liquor and throwing owners of it In Jail. Seven hundred and fifty per sons, including the social elect of the "Gold Coaßt" down to residents of the alleys back of the yards, faced police judges. Colonel Henry Watterson, one of the country's best known journalists and former owner and publisher of the I»uisvllle (Ky.) Courier-Journal passed peacefully awal at a Jackson vile, Fla. hotel. Colonel Watterson's death was unexpected, though It had been known for some days that he was seriously ill. He had been in Jacksonville about six weeks, as was his custom on his annual trips to Flor ida. He has for years been spending hiß winters largely at Fort Myers and it was his Intention to proceed to that place when his condition improved sufficiently to take the trip. His wife, son and daughter were at his bedside when he died. Twenty-four women and three chil dren were among the houndreds who awoke in the municipal lodging house, at New York, to which the homeless were driven by the bitter cold. City parks, areaways, cellars and wagons, which have served as places of refuge, were abandoned before the bite of a northwest gale which carried the mer cury to within eight degrees of zero. The second phase of the trial of Ar thur C. Burch, on trial for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, broker, at Los Angeles, Cal., was well under way. Ef forts to prove Burch was insane were continued. Police continued raids at Chicago, and the courts continued their fining activities, as a resultof the drive be ing made by Chief of Police Fitzmor ris to clamp down Chicago's liquor lid. A murder rivaling the Ruth Cruger case has been brought to light with discovery of the body of Gilbert Bein, age 5, in a tub in the cellar of his father's tailer shop on the east side. The child's skull Jiad been crushed with blows from a' club. Police with riot guns and bayonets recently dispersed a large crowd, mostly women at Omaha, Neb., follow ing the arreirf In the packing house district of a woman charged with dis turbing the peace. The crowd follow ed the officers to the South Omaha police station demanding her release. Several other arrests were made. The sheriff of Tulsa county, Okla homa, has received a warning that road houses, bootleggers and obnox ious resorts must, be "cleaned up."' The warning purports to come from the Ku Klux Klan. Burglars recently broke Into the Mount Wolf bank, New York, and got away with one hundred thousand dol lars in securities. Dr. William Zuckerman, a N'ew York City physician, who shot a boy in his office recently, was rescued from a mob by the police and locked up on a charge of felonious assault. ' Yeggmen made a rich haul in the county of Wilkes, Georgia, operating 1 nthe early hours of a recent morn ing within a radius of five miles of Washington. Four places were broken into and robbed. Mrs. Nellie T. At wood, who is suing her husband for divorce, In Chicago, alleges that the life of a prohibition officer Is an easy one, and she bases her conlentlon for divorce on the ground of her husband's habitual lazi ness. A St. Panl, Minn., man didn't Ilk* the way his wife kicked the cat down Into the cellar and slapped her face. The Judge decided the wife must tol erate the cat and the husband must tolerate the wife. A squad of nation guard machine runners were rushed to Cherokee, south of PttUborg, Kansas, when mil itary and civil authorities received re ports that the Amazon army of the "rump'' coal mine strikers was about to renew activities and raid Mverai mine*. The raids failed to materia l- IM. * RETAIL PRICES" ' WILL BE PROBED PRICES IN MANY LOCALITIES ARE FAR TOO ftIGH, BAYB ATTORNEY GENERAL. DIRECTOR RURNS IN CHARGE Retail Prices of General Foodstuffs, Fllel, Clothing and Shoes Will Be Closely Studied. vVashington.—Federal investigation of retail prices charged in various parts of the country for food, fuel, shoes and clothing was initiated by Attorney General Daugherty. He gave orders to Director Burns of the bureau of investigation of the justice department to assign a force of men at once to the duty of obtaining data on retail prices in different localities. Mr. Daugherty declared that prices of necssary commodities were too high and that in some Instances the profits of retailers were '"Unconscion able." It would never be possible, he asserted, to prices down to the pre-war level, but with wages lowered and the costs of foodstuffs reduced, he was determined to learn whether the present "badly proportioned" re tail prices should be maintained . Mr. Burns was instructed to put his men to work simultaneously to obtain the variations in various localities in the retail prices of general foodstuffs, such as meats, provisions, beans, bread and butter, fuel, shoes, '■ and clothing and to make schedules of the comparative prices. Reports will also be gathered on the wholesale prices of wheat, beef and meats of all kinds in order, Mr. Daugherty explained, that comparisons might be made of the cost $ of these commodities with the prices charged by the butchers f **d grocers. The department's agents are to be instructed to do their work care fully as rapidly as possible. Action to remedy price conditions, Mr. Daugherty declared, would be taken through several channels. In the main, he said, the situation was a local one and the states would be asked to do as much as they could to solve it with federal co-operation. Secretary Hoover, he added, would be Invited to join with the justice de partment in its effort to lower prices, while it was that the publi cation of the confparative wholesale and retail prices would do much to remedy high prices by conveying to the housewives of the country accu rate knowledge of actual conditions. Henry Watterson Dead. Jacksonville, Fla.—Colonel Henry Watterson, known to the American people as one of the last surviving members of the old school of journal ism and to his friends as "Marse Hen ry," died at a hotel here. Death came peacefully, the vener able editor retaining consciousness al most to the end and conversing dur ing his last half hour with his wife, son and daughter. Colonel Watterson came to Jackson ville several weeks ago tn accordance with his annual custom of spending the winter In Florida, usually at Fort Myers. The immediate cause of his daeth, his physician said, was heart failure. To Lower Freight Rates. Omaha, Neb.—The railroads of the country will put into effect on January 1, or as soon thereafter as possible, a voluntary 10 per cent freight rate re duction on cotton, butter, poultry and other commodities, as well as the re ductions ordered by the interstate com merce commission for western terri tory on grain products and hay, ac cording to a statement issued by F, W. Robinson, freight traffic manager of the Union Pacific system. Peonage Is Alarming. Augusta. Ga. —Uni'ed States Com missioner C. J. Skinner. Jr., announc ed that peonage cond'tions in Rich ond coua'v and o'her counties in this federal district are rao»t alarming and that he will raeommend a federal investigation. Report Mrs. Raizen Insane. New York. —A committee of 'four alienists appointed by counsel for the defense diagnosed as insanity the mental affliction of Mrs. Lillian S. Raizen for months before and at the time when she shot and instantly kill ed Dr. Abram Glickstein. Ship In Trouble. Baltimore. The steamer Cam bridge, bound from Baltimore to Clai borne with a large number of passen ger*. was blown aground by a no»th west gale off Wade's Point. Supreme Council to Meet. London.—Another meeting of the al -I,cd snprem» council, this time at Cannes, on the French rlviera. Is the outcome of the parleys between Prime Minister Lloyd George and Premier Briand of France. Island Threatened. Rouen. France. —The picturesque Is land of Mont Saint Michel is threaten ed with destruction by landslides. En gineers have been rushed there to see what can be done to preserve the 1»- l&al RUSE FUNDS BY A WINE-BEER M FEASIBILITY OFi PLAN WHICH WILL BE CONSIDERED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE. TO PROVIDE SOLDIERS' BONDS Possibility of Tax on Beverages With Small Alcoholic Content Will Be Looked Into. Washington. Feasibility for rais ing funds for a soldiers' bonus by a) tax on beer and light wine will be considered by the house ways and means committee, Chairman Fordney announced, after the Christmas re cess, adjusted compensation question, particularly the phase relating to the raising of revenue to finance- it. The possibility of a tax on bever ages with small alcoholic content will be looked into," Mr. Fordney said, to determine I whether it would be advisable and constitutional to lift the prohibition ban sufficiently to permit their sale. Mr. Fordney conferred with Secre tary Mellon but said later the bonus question had not been discussed. Other suggestions put forth by the members of the house for financing a bonus include a variety of sales taxes on different commodities and different classes of manufacturers and business men. In an address in the house, Rep resentative A. P. Nelson, republican, Wisconsin, commenting on pro posed payment of a bonus\ by a tax on light wines and beer, declared former service men would not look with favor on any such a plan to raise revenue "in an outlaw traffic in order ta meet their legitimate de mands for adjusted compensation." Even if congress attempted I to permit the manufacturer and sale of beer and wine, Mr. Nelson said, ap proximately forty state prohibition laws would prevent its sale. Friends of prohibition enforcement, he pre dicted, will present "a united front against this scheme for nullifying prohibition." Declaring there were plenty of sources of rev.enue open for actual -needs without trying to '"legalize what the constitution prohibits," Mr. Nelson asserted that "any attempt to tie the veterans pf our country's bat tles to the dead body of thd liquor traffic is an outrage." Crop Smallest in Two Decades. Washington.—World production of commercial cotton for 1921-22 was placed at 15,593,000 bales by the de partment of agriculture /in a report made public. This is the smallest crop since 1900, the report stated, and compares with 20,650,0001 bales pro duced in 1920. Two of the most important cotton producing countries the United States and Egypt—suffered crop "dis asters" during the years, the report asserted, producing only 61.4 per cent of their total production of last year, OP 5,667,000 bales less than was pro duced in 1920. The cotton crop in China, Soutfi America, Mexico and other countries, while said to be not so important commercially, was re ported smaller than usual. Russia, which immediately before the war produced around 1.500.000 bales an nually, has practically ceased to grow cotton, the report stated. Army Airship Christened, Washington. The 400-foot army airship Roma fought her way for five hours and a half against a head-wind from Langley Field, Va., to Wash ington to be christened and put In commission officially by Miss Fon rose Wainwright, daughter of the as sistant secretary of war, who broke a bottle of liquid air on the great semi-rigid airship's prew. French Army Total Paris—France's'total army strength of white and colored troops will be 673.000 after May. 192?. according to a statement made by General De Cas telnau, former chief of the general staff, to the Associated Press. Postal Savings at High Figure. ' Washington.—Total deposits in the United States postal savings Decem ber 1, were approximately $138,000,- 000, it is officially announced. 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