VOL. XLVIII PUBFIC SCHOOL TEXT . . BOOKS BEING SELECTED Dr. Manning Acquitted of Alleged Violation of Anti-Drag Act—Boot lejpger Gets Away With $1,200 Good Money. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, Feb. 14, 1922.—'The most important act staged by the state government here this week is the hearing by t;he State Board of Education of the many repre- sentfttives of numerous school book publishing firms, which * Btarted Saturday and continued through Monday and Tuesday ana is still speeding at this writing. It will be the end of the week, or later, before announcement is made of the school textbooks se lected for the.,, publiG schools ot the state. The selection of the right books is a very important thing to train the minds of our southern childhood along the lines they should be educated. We have had textbooks selected in some southern states, North Caro lina included, in the past that were sectionally unjust to the south and inculcated alleged "historical" lies into the minds ol our children—and it has been more than once-charged that finan cial considerations, smacking ot personal gain in the years agone, was largely responsible for the dirty trick played on southern girls and boys taught by northern "textbooks" to believe their own fathers and grand-fathers were not what'they should have been. Lieutenant Governor Cooper was here at the hearing and deeply interested In the subject of get ting the right books for our young folks. Regulations were adopted with but little discussion wheu the board met. It was agreod that each book on the list recommend ed by the State Textbook Com mission should have its spokes man, and that the discussion should embrace both the merits of the book and the price at which the publisher would contract with the state. Multiple lists of books were recommended .by the commission to the board several weeks ago. For each subject from one to three books was placed on the list. From this list the board will adopt the books to be used in the school. Several days will elapse after the speech-making is done before the hoard is ready to an nounce itß selections. The twenty-odd books to be adopted at this time will be for use in the several thousand gram mar grade public schools. The textbooks used in the schools of the state are adopted on a differ ent basis. Treasurer'to Sew York. State Treasurer Lacy is off to New York, after being delayed a while by illness, to sign aud dis tribute to the purchasers four and a half millions .North Carolina bonds. Governor Morrison work ed an entire night to sign his name 4,500 times, aud was "con fined" to the maubion next day because of tbe exertion. ••Scotched." Au insinuating strange "boot legger," who operated in Raleigh a few da) s ago, carried off $1,200 in real money handed over to him by lovers of "Scotch" whiskey, which the sleek stranger sold them. One is still being born every minute, aud the Raleigh thirsts who forked over on this occasion fell for a Btory of hpw the bootlegger had got the stuff through from Savaunah and that purchasers must pay in advance in cash or checks payable to * 4 Ca«h." Deliveries were to fol low that night. But the bootleg ger bad not arrived with the Scotch at last accounts. Dr. Mtiniiff and o«pe Incarables. The case of Dr. Mauuiog, mayor THE ALAMANCE GLEANER of Durham and brother of the at torney general of North Carolina, who was acquitted within "three shakes of a sheep's tail" by a fed eral court jury here, has brougtfl to light what has been alleged in print time and again, namely, the cruelty and inhumanity of the Harrison anti-drug federal law and "rulings" of the department of the government which agents of the government were enforcing without warrant as law. It was known and believed gen erally that the only technical "violation" of the drug law by Dr. Manning coueisted in his re lieving human suffering of drug addicts whom he had found to be incurables—when their sufferings could be relieved in no other way, and the verdict vindicated that belief. But the trial of the case opened up some legal atmosphere thai should be given publicity, includ ing the fact that Dr. Mauning had applied to Federal Judge Counor to ascertain just what the "Har rison law" was aud meant, and that Judge Connor had tcrld him (and the judge still sticks to it) that he "didn't know" and believe auyoue else know. Judge Connor himself had thai admission put into the record, by authorizing Dr. Mauning to make it part of his testimony ai 11he trial. When the verdict was announ ced, Judge Connor declared thai Dr. Manning deserved congratula tion aud denounced as an outrage the act of Inspector Canady in demanding that the defendant's boud be fixed by a United States commissioner at ten thousand dollars. "I have instructed all commis sioners in the district that the fix ing of bond is a purely judicial function, aud that no aduiiuistra live officer has the power make a demand or suggestion," declar ed Judge Connor. "If such a thing ever happens again in this district, I shall see whattha power of the court is," he continued. The government's case, which began as a purely technical charge, was further narrowed at the con clusion of the testimony of Dr. Manning, the only witness to take the stand, when District Attorney Tucker auuoun'ced that he was unwilling to ask for a conviction on the second count in the billsol indictment, which charged Dr. Manning with the administration of morphine outside of his regular professional practice, not as a cure, but to "gratify the appetite." The case collapsed eutirely a moment later when Judge Connor ruled that there was no evidence of sales, the charge on which the first count in the indictments rested. With the court repudiat ing Qne count of the indictment and the prosecution the other, there was nothing for the attor neys for the defense to do, and what little speaking done was con fined to the district attorney, who addressed the court at some length on the point of law involved in the first indictment. L*ts Down the Bars. Judge Connor yesterday "let down the bars" of court procedure while Dr. Manning was on the ptand, invariably responding with "Tell anything you know that will throw light on this case, doc tor," to frequent inquiries by the defendaut if certain statements would be admissible. Dr. Mantling stated that when the cliuic for the treatment of drug addicts was discontinued in March, 1921, in consequence of a j letter from the Bureau of Internal Revenue, that some of the pa tients were turned back to the doctors that originally treated them aud that provision was made for others to leave Durham aud return to their homes. Restated that these arrangements left him with sixteeu patients, all of whom had been addicted to tbe use of morphine for a minimum period of four years, most of whom suf fered acutely from other diseases or injuries and several of whom he stated would in his profes sional judgment die within twenty-four or bhirtp-six hours if deprived of the drug. Refilled to Supply Others. Thewe patients, secured in this way, were the only ones that had been treated by him for the drug habit, Dr. Mauniug declared, lie aiated that he had coustautly re fused to supply morphine to GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBKUARY 16, 1922 others and cited several instances >f refusal, including one of the .persons named in one of the bills of indictment, who had been furnished morphine on one oc casion. Dr. Manning went into details concerning the clinical histories, *nd asserted that all of th«m were kept under his constant personal attention. He also stated that he regards all of the patients as in curable, and that several of them nave been so pronounced by in stitutions. In most of these cases he attributed the need of the drug to pain occasioned by other diseases. Dr. Manning also told of repeat ed efforts to get exact rulings from the Bureau of Internal Rev enue and of frequent changes in the regulations regarding hand ling of the drug. He stated that when the clinic was abandoned he wrote letters to the Commissioner of Revenue >it Washington and the collector of "revenue at Raleigh, listing his incurable patients and asking what should be done about them He stated that when he failed to receive response to either of these letters, he came to Raleigh and asked Judge Connor for an in terpretation of the law. "Tell what I said. I have no secrets," prompted the court. "You told me that you did not know what the Harrison act meant, and that you did not be lieve anyone else did," responded the witness. Dr. Manning testified that since the regulation of the department forbidding the issuance'of mor phine prescriptions to patients that agents of the department have "terrorized" doctors and druggists in North Carolina. "I am in this court because I would not agree to pay a penally of SSOO for alleged violation of the law!" exclaimed the witness. Dr Manning also told of how a simi lar penalty had been collected from Dr. John Sweauey, of Dur ham. Income Tax—Who Pays and When ? The Legislature of 1921 enacted * new income tax law effective January Ist, 1922. Under the previous act only incomes from salaries, wages, fees and commis sions were subject to income tax. (Jnder the present act income f roin all other sources received by a tax payer during all the calender year 1921 is subject to income tax to be paid in 1922. Every tax payer having a net income during the year 1920 of SI,OOO and over if single: or hav ing a net income during the year of $2,000 or over if married and living with husband or wife, shall make a roturn. Blank forms for report of in come of tax payers, individuals, partnerships and corporations, have been mailed ouf by the state Department of Revenue, Raleigh, to all known probable tax payers, which blanks, upon receipt by tbe tax payer, should be filled out and returned to the state' Depar tment of Revenue, Raleigh, to gether with amount of tax due. Penalty for failure to file report attaches on March 15th. A sup ply of blanks has also been receiv ed by the Register of Deeds for distribution to tax payers who have not received directly a blank form of report, and if any tax payer has failed to receive such form he should immediately call on the Register of Deeds for a copy. The State income tax law while not identical with the Federal in come tax law, is similar, and may be used as a basis for return of income for state income tax. For more detailed information as to income tax law reference should be had to schedule D of the Revenue Act, Chapter 34, pub lic laws 1921. Mrs. Carlia S. Westcott of Seattle, Wash., has the distinction of being the first American wo man to be granted a license to work as a marine engineer. Taulac is appetizing, invigorat ing and strengthening. Try it and be convinced, bold by Farrell Drug Co. r Graham,N.C. At one time kings and nobles were the only ones permitted to wear beards. Get to Figurine Girls and B »ys The Insurance Department de sires the childreu toget aqu tinted with North Carolina's wealth and wastefulness, promoting one by checking the other. To this end Commissioner Wade suggest- tnat parents and teachers get their school attendants to solve tin problems below. A co' yof the bulletin for one year will be mailed to any student, under 18 years of axe, who will send correct answers to the de partment, with name, address, a«e and school grade. And a valu able story b-jok will be sent the the first twenty who give correcj answers to all. Polls lo close Feit ruary sth. The names of all who successfully answer will be given the press and published in I lit February Bulletin. Simply an swer by number and address In surance Department Bulletin, Raleigh, N. C. ' No. 1 —How long would ittake, at the rate of one dollar bill per minute to burn tin amount of the fir'" lopsof North Carolina for 1921? No. 2 —North Carolina prodne ed 48,036,000 bushels of corn in 1921,- ilow many corn crops will the farmers have to raise, with corn priced at 87i cents per bush *1 to pay off ttie United Slates ami Canada lire waste for 1921? No 3 (A) —The Solvation Arm} uses one and oue-haif pounds of flour to make one dozen dough nuts, selling at 15 cents per dozen If everyone had been careful with (ire in North Carolina during last December and n». tiro damage liaii resulted, how many doughnut.- could have been purchased au»l sent the starving in Europe ami Asia with the money fire waste for the single month? N0.3 .$ (B) —The State produced 4.500,000 bushels of w heat in 1921. Wheat weighs 00 pounds pel bushel and it takes 100 pounds oi wheat to make 70 pounds of flour, (low many bushels of wheat would it take to make enough doughnuts at 15 ceut|t per dozen, orm pound and a half flour to the dozen, to exhaust the money loss by fire in North Carolina for the last, six months of 1921? No. cotton planters ol North Carolina ginned 800,(M) oaies of cotton iu 1921. What percentage of this crop, at 10 4-10 cents a pound, 495 potind to the bale, would be required to ply off the fire loss of the State for the years 1920 and 1921? No. 5 -Up to January first, 1922, North Carolina tobacco growers had sold 399,264,(XX) pounds ol their 1921 tobacco crop. At 2(5 cents per pound, how many years would they have to produce, and how many pounds would it require to pay off the fire waste bill ol the United States aud Canada for 1921? The Philosophy ot the League The Charlotte Observe* The Philadelphia Record bring* in the famous quotation of Charles Sumner that "nothing was set tied until it was settled right,' as the basis of a sensible deli verau.ee on the League of Nations, li thinks the truth of the Sumner observation is going to be proved in the case of the league anil that Governor Cox was justified in say ing that the Democratic party stands whera it did when the voles were counted. It is the stout con tention of The Record that it we were in the League there would be no occasiou for this conference in Washington, and much more decisive work could be done by the League. If we were in it there wonld be no occasion for the Genoa conference, which is called avowedly in the hope that we will attend. We are already sharing the commercial prostration of Europe, and if there were a Euro pean war we would probably In drawn into it as were in 1917. The Record reminds that "we were not in any leagueoralliance then, but the condition of the world obliged us to send 2,(XX),()00 sol diers to France; our obligations under the League could not pos sibly be as great as that." It la>* down the sound proposition that "it would be better to send one division to prevent a war than to Bend 100 divisions to win a war " When Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood, most doctors laughed HI liiui. IN GAELIC SCRIPT Irish Delegates Signed the Re cent Treaty With England. Wai Devised by Monks of Ireland In the Early Daya of Christianity— Ogham la an Older System. Signatures of tlio Irish delegates on the Irish-English treaty received con siderable notice because they were the ancient (Juelic instead of the Brit- ish mimes of the delegates, unil be cause they were written In the florid and. in English eyes, distorted, Gaelic script. For one not accustomed to tin Gaelic style of writing It was difficult to make out the signatures. Gaelic script Is old. It was devel oped by monks In Ireland In the early days of Christianity. Yet there Is an older script than this. There is a more genuine Gaelic •system writ ing, known as Ogham. Ogham Is the system of writing which grew; from some root which may have been contemporaneous with the root of the ('eJtlc race. And, curi ously, Ogham may Ml be found In traces in Ireland among the Cymri >f Wales and the Gaels of Scotland. Ogham specimens may be found en graved on flat rocks in whatever sec tions of earth felts were in the days of Ogham. There Is it story of « shopkeeper In H little town In Ireland, who lived less than ii hundred years ago and who was nagged eontlniinlly while he lived hy the authorities because, they siilil, he had no sign above the door of Ills shop. He tried to show them the sign and tried to rend It to them. and finally someone -who knew what Ogham wns satisfied the authorities hy translating It Into letters which the authorities recognized. The scratches over the door of the shop, when put Into letters, really spelled out that old trishman's name. Nobody knows how Ogham started —#r when. The nnturn of the writing —the foundation of It—hps led men to betleve It crew in a time when the only writing surfaces were blocks of stone. It Is essentially a script for scratching. The Ogham alphabet has 20 letters, beginning, In order, with R. 1,. 8, In-, stead of the A, It, C of the Phoenician alphabet, which must have been horn ages after Ogham. The Ogham alpha bet is divided Into four groups; all the letters are alike, being lines, and are distinguishable from dfse another by the number of lines used, by position with relation to the basic line or to each other, or by posture—thut Is, In one group the short lines slant. All are short lines except the one long one. the basic line, which Is horlzontnl. The letters are built on this, below or above It. It the Arctic Ocean Cold? ' Vllhjalmur Stefansson says In the World's Work: "I have spent In the polar regions 10 winters and 13 sum mers myself, and during most of that time 1 have carried reliable thermome ters, so that I could say from iny own experience how cold It is up there In winter, but I prefer to qtiote the rec ords of the Canadian und American weather bureaus. 1 have written both of them and asked them to give me the lowest temperature ever recorded In the Canadian station at Herschel Island on the north const of Canada near the mouth of the Mackenzie river, arid the American station near i'olnt Harrow, at the north tip of Alaska, about 300 miles north of the Arctic circle. The replies In both cases were identical: 'We have never recorded inythlng lower than 54 degrees Fah renheit below zero.' "The other day I was reading over K report of the meteorological observa tions of my Arctic expedition of 1913- IX, niuiJe by the second In command, I»r. It. 11. Anderson. He say«: 'The lowest temperature of the winter was Hi degrees below zero." or about like Hitranac Lake, New York slate, which Is a winter resort." Jazzes Them Up. Digging the family out of bed In the morning to tlu* sou ml of a phono graph Is the auccewful tneiht/d dis covered hy the mother "f a large anil sleep-loving hrood in the Shcepshead hay section. Kvery member of the fniiilly except the mother goe* oiit either to school or to work. and as there isn't nil ejirly bird In the whole II ha* proved rather difficult for mother to get the household started' In time to evade reproof*, of school authorities or to keep their Jobs. lie« eiitly she' noticed hoh her chil dren doted on ju/%' and thought out her famous earl) rising plan. Before going to hed she tied one ad o' tt piece of string to the hammer of lie alarm clock and the oilier end to the starting lever of the phonograph. Clock and Jazz .started In magical ac cord the next morning and hy 1:30 the finally was downstair* dressed and dancing tip an appetite.—l'itts hurgh Dispatch. IN NO NEED OF PATRONAGE Incident That Illustrate* the Sturdy Independence Characteristic of Benjamin Franklin. The sturdy Independence that was characteristic of Benjamin Franklin, says the Argonaut, Is illustrated in an anecdote for which we are indebted to Jared Sparks. As everyone knows, Franklin established and conducted a newspaper In Philadelphia. At first he wan-everything from gatherer of news to typesetter, pressman and dis tributer of the paper. Shortly after Franklin had estiib llshed his newspaper he found occa sion to remark with some degree of freedom on the public conduct of one or two persons of high standing in Philadelphia. What he said met with the disnppoval at some of his patrons. They told him what they thought of it and warned him of the danger of losing the Interest of Influential per sons. Franklin listener! patiently and an swered by requesting them to favor hltn with their company at dinner and to bring with them the other gentle men of whom thev had spoken as hav ing expressed dissatisfaction. The night of the dinner came, and the guests assembled. Franklin received them cordially. When the guests seated themselves round the table they were surprised to see nothing before them except a stone pltehej* filled wltji water and two puddings tnnde of coarse meal and popularly known ns "sawdust pud dings." Franklin hotped each of bis guests to a liberal portion of pudding and plenty of dear cold water. Then he began to eat and urged all his guests to do the same. The gentlemen were accustomed to far better fare. They taxed their politeness to the utmost, but , their appetites refused to obey. Franklin saw that they were not eat ing. He rose and said: "My friends, observe that anyone who can subsist upon sawdust pudding and water, as I can, needs no man's patronage." Cure for Sleeping Sickness A sleeping sickness cure lias been discovered by a scientific expedition after numerous experiments, according to reports from Johannesburg, South Africa. The report says that the ex pedition has gone to Northern Hho desfa. to test the efficacy of the cure under tropical conditions. It Is be lieved that the remedy will not only cure but prevent the disease and tlie mlmal variant-Ngnna. What is an Important fact Is that H cure forNgana and sleeping sickness will open the wide tracts of Zululaud to cattle fanning, and will remove a tremen dous scourge at once and forever. In this connection it Is said that the bacillus which causes sleeping sickness and Ngana enters the blood of the animal and reaches the cerebro-splnal fluid. Then follow drowsiness and growing emaciation. These terminate in death. The bacillus, however, has been isolated and Its origin Ims been traced to game, particularly to such big game as was to be found In the Addo bush, and which was slaughtered largely In a recent expedition. largely In u recent expedition. Right Royal Street. When Princess Mary I* married and settled at Chesterlieiil house, In South Autlley street, she will find herself In a thoroughfar* which lias housed many members of royal families In the past, though, in most coses, under far less happy conditions, observes a correspondent. The street was hullt In 1728, and In It lived, In exile, Charles X, of Kranfe, at the house numbered 72. In 1814 l.nuls XVIII, was dwelling there, while for tlie best part of a century the representatives of the king of Portugal lived at No. 74. In June 1820, yueen Caroline, the Injured consort of George IV., ar riving from the Continent took up her residence at No, 77. and from a balcony there she was frequently corn pelled to bow to h 11•;>jirit(■ ti - mob in the street below. In IS'J'i the duke nf York was living at Cambridge house, in South Audley street, the mansion ulric'lt was afterwards known as t 'ii iv.up house, the 1/itidon home of Karl Howe's family until 1876. Profsasional "Aunta. Ml>s I'ort of London Is the Inventor of the "I'niver-al Aunt" who stands ready to perform all kinds of services at so much an lioin. She has eight worn eh in her eni|v'oy, each one of which has some specialty. Some stand ready to take children to places nf amusemerjt, others to net as guides There are nurses, teachers, choppers and chaperons. There- Is constant ietnand for the services of !hes«- i. .mien und MNs Fort is niiklug j due living »t the bead of her body of "aunta." Giraffe Disappearing. The giraffe seems to be disappear ing from its natural haunts In Africa. A few yea"s ago it was-quite common to ei. 'ii-.,:fer them in herds of 80 or JJO, but now herds of 20 seem to be the average NO. 2 Quick Reading. The best way of reading books with rapidity Is, to acquire that habit ot severe attention to what they contain that perpetually confines the mind t» the single object It has In view. Whea you have read enough to hare ac quired the habit of reading without suffering your mind to wander, and when you can bring to bear upoo your subject a great share of previous knowledge, you may then read with rapidity; before that, as you have tak en the wrong road, the faster you pro ceed, the more you will be sure to err. —Sydney Smith. Pheasant Stopped Train. A\)heasant stopped a Great West-. ern railway express from London In an extraordinary way near Welshpool. The brakes were suddenly applied, and the engineer was at a lpss to know what had happened. It was not until he dismounted from the tyotplate and . passed to the front of the locomotive that he discovered a deird pheasant. Presumably, the bird, flying across the front of the engine, had struck the pipes operating \he air brijke, which came Into action, and cuused the train to stop. They Insure Anything. According to an English visitor In town, on his island there is a versatile Insurance company which will Insure the fond mistress for years against loss of her pet poodle, against failure of her garden to bear the prop er amount of fruit—or at least the average crop—against Its theft by hoys, and best of all, will insure the girl against splnsterhood. If she does not marry she Is assured of'a small In come for life, If she pays promptly on her policy for ten years. Cape Cod Francis Drake was the first English man to «M>t foot In New England, and be landed on Cape Cod. French, Dutch, Spanish, English—all had names for the cape, but In 1002 (Josnold, exam lug the coast of New England with a view to colonizing, gave' It the pre destined name —Cape Cod. An effort was subsequently made to have It called Cape James, but without sue cess. Do Two and Two Make Four? The famous logician Archbishop Wbateley was having an argument with a friend, when the friend said: "One cannot argue with you, for you will never admit one's premises. I don't believe that you would Ikdmit without argument that two and two make four." "Certainly not," said th« archbishop. "For Instance, they might make 22." PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at Law, GRAHAM, N. C. A«noriatrd with Julia J. Ilenderiton. Office over .\atiunal Hank of" Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counse!lor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W. S. Coulter, Nos. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Per re II Drug Co. Hours: 2 to 3 ami 7 to'J p. m., and by appoin'meut. Phone !»7 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Ulice Hours: II to 11 a. in. aud by appointment Ufliec Over Acme Drug Co. feleiiliuues: OlHce llO—Holdence JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Illlce over National Basic ol AltatiM T. 3. C© © IC, Attorney -at- Lao WAHNM. - • • • N. C oCßce Patterson Building H«cood Flnor. . , , ill WILL S. LO\G. JR. . . OENTIST . : : •"•m .... North Carolina JTIOK IN PARIS BTTILPINQ j. i. >\; loukC. ALLKM Durham, >. (;raham, N. C« LONG & ALLEN, /Oan»elor« n a y GRAHAM, N. C.