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VOt. XLVIII vi New School Books For Public Schools a • • * ' * ' V' ' ; * Supt. Brooks Sayd Will Work no Hardship axft Parents—EffeCtJvs as Child Passes From .si|%4Gfrade to Another—Ruling as to Special Tax Districts. I ■■ : • f ■ ,' . ' Ovei Hal Billion; Shrinkage in Property ' Valuation Since 1920. Raleigh Bank Affairs in Bad Shape. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 21. —After a solid week of "hearings" by the State Board of Education from representatives of twenty-odd school-book punishing firms, the country over, board adopted the list recommended by the State Text-Book CominisbiJn; "the .'list of school books' that "Will be used in the public aehpols of the state for the next fiv© i years. This list not apply -to" the' high schools*, which are supplied with books through a different means of se lection, but does .aßjgJy*t£tas yf, the public schools to and includ ing the seventh grade in all the counties, cities and towns. No hardship will be imposed upon the parents of children by the adoptibn jpf* new .text-bowks', Superintendent E. C. Brooks de clares in a statement accompany ing the announcement of the de£ cision of the board. The adop tions become effective as t he child passes from one grade to ""other, and would naturally .require the purchase of new books. Arrange ments for exchange have l >een made in cases where the adoption is immediately effective. There are 411,KX) pupils en rolled in the first three grades, or 62£ pei; cent of "tire entire enroll ment in the %'lemeutary, grades. These will m*t be affected ma terially this year by the change of text-books. But all new books adopted must 6ect>ine in general use sjrou«ji£ut Jfeii fe wpt-h --the begin lift)# of tin-Vofit6ofyea»» 1923. Under this arrangement each of tbe fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grades wili be coMpelled to change by the beginuingpf the school yenr ly2'A-2s> tile subjects of geography, pby»jolo«y and civic-*, aud by th*.->bagiuning of tbe school year. 1923-24, the subjects of his tories (except sixth grade), arith metics aud spellers., l*ut since, perhaps one-hulf of thetn will be compelled to buy.tjjese books this year because of the promo tion of classes and the loss or de struction of old books and the nexl year twenty-five percent of the remainder- will be 66m pelled to buy new books for the same reapon, the effect of the change, so far as the cost of text books is concerned, is small. Moreover, in the grades from four to seven, inclusive, there ure usually two books in each subject, except iu reading aud history, oue book for grades four and five, and one book for grades six and seven. Therefore, those in the fourth and sixth grades that bay text-books this year will, buy no texts in these subjects next year. Jtareoveir, thds» ; in the sixth and seventh grades that ug- the old books will, as. a rule, be required to bay new books anyway next year. Hew Property VdmUiiu. • The total assessed value of prop erty in North Carolina, is, .accord- THE ALAMANCE GLEANER ing to the 1921 esti mated to be two billion and 575 million dollars, which, is much less than that of 1920, the "valua tion yeaf." Over a half billion in va lies as written off the tax books during the year 1921, and in that year a total of 826,326,339 was levied in taxes for county purposes, an estimated increase of five million dollars over the preceding year. The figures for taxes levied do not include mu nicipal taxes. .Through redua tions made by thp commissioners 6f more than half the counties in she state, approved by the State Revenue Commission, aggregate property values have shrunk from $8,153,480,072, "reported to the General Assembly in 1920 by the State Tax Commission, to $2,575,- 23u,000. ; f . Ruling an to Kducaflon Outsider! lu City Mclioo ». t ■i City schools and other specially chartered school districts will uot be allowed to make a profit 011 the tuition charges for children living outside the city limits, ac cording to order made by the Department of. Education. The announcement is the result of a conference of a committee of ten, composed' of city and county superintendents, who were asked to work out Bomo arrangement which would provide the children living in the. suburbs with six month-* free school every year. Under the new rules the county board of education is directed to the tuition for six months and tbeM>arents of the children will- have to pay- the remaining four months. This- of course applies to children living in the edge of a specially-chartered dis trict, Y?ho want to attend the bet !ter schools in. thespeciaf tax djp jtricts^-fEach superintendent in these districts is directed to work out the per capita cost of instruc tion in his school, and to bill the county board of education*. for 'six months- on the bisris" of actual cost of providing schools for each child. The parent of the child witf .also pay, uo .the Ham* cost basin. This' plan, it»is % understood, 16 satisfactory to both the city and county puperintendents. The ,city men have protected against having-to provide "room in their already crowded schools for chll- parents iivod outside and did not have to pay special taxes. Likewise, they appreciated the fact that under the new con stitution #very child was entitled to six months free school every year. Raleigh flank Tangle. ,'fae worst bank "failure" ever recorded fn Raleigh is being re vealed by the investigation and facts brought out by court re ceivers in the cape of the Central Bank and TruatCoinpany, which started up here a f£*r years ago witli R G. Allen, formerly of Lpuisburg, owner and manager of Ai motion picture house herej as the main works. Depositors are getting less hopeful each day in getting much back. The bank "failed" last December. The latest charges are that an item of t70,00(J was placed on the books of the Central Bank and Trast Company by R. G. Allen as rep resenting au equity of the Snperba j Theater bnildiaf. t# which th« GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1922 bank had no title that he could discover, and that notes of R. G. Allen and the Snperba Theater aggregating $40,000 were placed in the bank between the time he examined it as state bank exam iner and the time he took charge of the institution, were made t»y J. H. Hightower, president of the defunct bank. The charges. form a part of an answer submitted by Hightower and H. M. Massey to the com plaint of the receivers of the bank, on which Judge \V. A. Devin appointed J. G. H*ll, one of the bank receivers, receiver of the Superba Theater. Hearing to show cause why the receivership should not be made permanent has been fixed for February 22, and in their answer the defend ants ask that the action be dis- missed, that the property be turned over to the bank receivers, and that notes aggregating $90,- 000 executed defendants be returned to them. Superior Court Judge Devin has Bigned an order in Wake County Superior Court, directing all Creditors of the defunct Central Bank and Trust Company to claims on 05 before April 20,1922, or else forfeit their rixhts.; The requirement does not apply to depositors. „ Receivers of the bank were also given authority to institute any suits necessary to liquidate the assets of the bank. Real Education Rev. . Charles M. Sheldon in The Christian Herald. What is education? It is the right development, in the right direction, all the time, of the whqle being, for ,the purpose of giving one as much life as possible for himself, and to share with others. This means that the whole person must be taken into account. Education means more than a ,one-aided development of one talent or ability. It meanssymmet ric&l and many-side growth. The. reaaon why there, are no more interesting people iu tbe world is because so -many people are con tent with a one-sided develop ment, They are willing to be musicians and nothing but musi cians. Tbey are willing to be newspaper men and nothing hut newspaper men. They are willing to be lawyers and , nothing but lawyers; teachers and nothing but ■teachers; ministers and nothiug but ministers. And so their rauge of thinktnft, of conversation,and of aptfcm is limited. True educa tion takes into account.a whole being, with many possibilities—a life which has in it the* elements ot surprise and, .fin eagerness to know everything that can be known about a ver. great world, in order to sympathize with and into the thought, so far as of all sorts and condi tions of men. .German engineers have survey ed a route for a Germany- New York* Chicago ait;, Hue, acording to reports. Two. German . aircraft engineers .visited thi» country some time ago to sUidy. the;poi-si btlitiej of a fast. Zeppelin passen ger service over this touted kite balloons tested the upper atmos phere 1 by means of delicate recording instruments, and •Weather Bureau records were ex amined and studied. If the people who have taken Tftttlac were to form a line of march io single file, this grand army would rdach clear across the Americas continent from New York to.San Francisco and extend over 3,000 miles into the Pacific Ocean. Sold by Farrell Drug Co., Graham, N. C. The greates home-owning city of any of the 30 largest cities in the United States is Toledo, Ohio, according to report*. Seattle and Baltimore stand seeend and third, respectively, and New York City is last on the list. Fines on over due Library books paid to the public libary of Chicago run 140,0u0 a year,ac cording to the librarian. This money goes into a pension for Chicago library employes. The faod totals approximately s2ou, 000 at this tints. Alamance Educa tional Day, April 7th WILL BE HELD IN GRAHAM. Address by Miss Elizabeth Kelly- Program Worked Out by Central Committee—Various Prizes, Con tests and Exhibits- The Central Committee hits issued the following and requests the principals to read the-saine concerning Educational Day To' the teachers aud pupils: Alamance Couuty Educational •Day will Ijo held in Graham, Fri day, April 7th, 11)22. Practically all of the plans have been com pleted and are given herewith Mist* Elizabeth Kelly of the State "Department of Education, and vice-president of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, will deliver the jtddress. A detailed program will be furnished later, but the order of the day will be about as follows: 10:30 a. m.—Grand parade of all the schools. 11*40 a. m. —Address—Special music, etc 1:00 p m.—Picnic Diuuqr. 2:30 p. ui. —Final Literary con test. 3:30 p. in.—Athletic contest. Parade : Each school will carry a banner, giving the name of the school and any other information that the school desires to have on the banner. Each school will pro vide its own banner. Better get it ready now. Full particulars in regard to the parade will be made later. In the meantime, drill your children to march. . . I.lterary Content. Dramatization: The contest ants must be from the first, pecoud and third grades. Each school will be entitled to only one drama tization. Story-telling: The contestants must be from first, second or third grades. Each school will be en titled to ouly one contestant. Reading: The reading eoutent will be divided into two gruiips — one for fourth aud fifth grades, and one for, sixth aud seventh grades. The preliminary contest will,be oral. The final contest, which wiU be given, in Graham, April Ist, will be a standard read ing test. Each school may semi two contestants to the elimintatii/ii group contest, one to each of the reading groups. Recitation and Declamation Contest: - Contestants may be from fourth to seventh grades, both inclusive.. Each school will be entitled to two contestants in the elimiivtation group cout st; that is, one contestant for the declamation aud one for the read ing contest. The points on which the recita tions aud declamations will be judged are as follows: 1. Time limit, three to eight minutes. 2. I'roauociatioA. 3. ■ Enunciation. 4. Gesticulation. f>.. General ' delivery and ap pearance. ■ 6. Voice. Spelling: The contest will be written and the contestants will be divided into two group*, fourth and tiftb grades, and sixth and seventh grades. -Fifty word* will be giveu froui the World Speller, Essay contest for seventh grade only. Each essay must Contain not less than two hundred nor more than four hundred words. Subject: "How My School May Be Alade The liw»t School In The County". - Essays must be mailed to Miss Florence Gray, Ale bane, N. C., by March 24th. E (it'll Hi;l>ool may submit only one essiy. Essay contest for lli/li acltoois: Each essay must COMKMII not less than three hundred and I illy imr more than five itUuUrud wonls Subject: "What. Alamance County Most Needs". Esa.ty» must be mailed to Misai Edith Carroll, llurlingioii, N. C. by March 24th. All elimination xrou;> Coniests will be held Friday ai'turnobii, March 24th, at, threw oVloek. Your school J ia grouped with several other schools, Mhu-n Mill meet at .«. - for the el im intutiou contest. Write ........ test your school will enter and giving the names of contestants. The juil>!i s tor the eiiinintation conte.-i will be selected by the principal or superintendent of the schools in which the contest is lir-ld. The winners in the various gro »|> COll tests will meet in (Jran.tin April Ist at ten o'clock for i lie li'ial contest.. J allocs l>'or The I'lnal Content. Keailiii : The final reading con test will he cor.ducted by Dr. W. (J. Wicker, of Elon College, N. C., aud scored muter his directions. Spelling: I lie judges for the spelling contest are Aliss .WcGeaahy, Mrs. J. A. Lung, and .Miss. Anuie Webster, lteciuu'oii, Declamation, Draiu atizai iuit and Story-telling: The judges lor contests are Air. L. C. Allen, Miss Ruth tlawk, and AI I» Martha Lee North. There will also be contests in group, or community singing, and athletic contests for the ele mentary grades. Detailed in forinalioii concerning these will be mailed out later. I lie lliuh School Athletic meet, whiili is being arranged by.the Alamance. County Athletic ASHO-' will nut/ lie Ireld until sometime after Educational I)ay. Prizes. Suitable prizes will be given the winii' r in the first pluce of each coniest, Mud a valuable prize will be given the school which has the largest per cent ol its enrollment present in the parade. A complete list of prizes will be announced later. lCililbltn. The Schools in which voca tional Agriculture is taught will have exhibits which every one should see. Let us all work together as a unit, and put across the biggest Educational Day that has ever been held in North Carolina. Yours for a united school spirit in Alamance County. Earth's Glacial Period. Geologists base their statements con cerning the existence of the glacial period mainly upon evidence In the form of boulder clay and various other forms of deposit*. The first scientific references to glacial action were sug gested by the Alpine regions and »re to be found In the works of Charpen tler and Aggaslz. Man did not exist prior and during the early part of the glacial period. The first evidence of his existence Is to be found In the later glacial period. Ten Paget of a Good Book. You might read all the books In the British museum and remain an utterly "illiterate" uneducated person ; but If you rend ten pages of a good book lat ter by letter, that Is to say, with real accuracy, you are for evermore In some measure an educated person. The entire difference between educa tion and non-education (as respects the merely Intellectual part of !t) consists In this accuracy.—John Ku»- kln. "Santa Claus" Really Dutch, The American "Santa Claus" Is a corruption of the Dutch San Nicolas. G. H. McUughes says: "Santa Claus, the name derived from Saint Nicholas through the familiar use of children In Teutonic countries, crossed to Ameri ca. The direct route followed by him Is somewhat open to question. On the way he traded his gray horse for a reindeer and made changes ID his ap pearunce." Rich Asphaltlc Deposit*. liltuinlnous Kami* 150-200 feet thick lie alouK the Athabuskn river for T.i miles. Drawn out by the sun the tiir runs Into deep pool#. Similar sands are found at Interval from latitude f>7 decrees north to beyond the Arctic circle. The soaked area In possibly 10.000 square tulles in extent. Tills deposit represents the largest known occurrence of solid asphaltlc material. Put It In Writing. Agreements tuade by word of mouth are like leaves of the forest. They fade out, drop ofT and blow away. Make a couple of copies of any con tract y«M enter Into. Keep one your self. anit give the party of the second part another and lay the third away In your safe. with your most valuable pu|iers. —Kurm Life. Do You Know the "GuidguldT" The "ifuldtfuld" Is sometimes de scribed ns a barking bird. This term Is applied in tropical America to any small bird tkat (fives a quickly re peated cry. particularly to those which s-t*w tlicir insect food on the "ltoor" «f (lie foreat. ARE PLAYING PART Creatures of the Wild Use Ad ' verging Tactics. In Love-Making and the Warding Off of Enemiee, Employment of Publicity la Common. That creatures of the wild know the value of advertising just as well as do human beings is Indicated by signs that may be seen by any one who goes into the country. Often this advertising may be Just a dodge on the part of the insect or ani mal to avoid the attentions of anotiier creature who has designs upon him as a delectable dinner morsel. This peculiarity of nature Is notice able In regard to the butterfly, which is an Ingenious little publicity merchant. Certain kinds of butterflies have nox ious qualities which are not to the lik ing of birds, but there are other species which are Just the reverse. The latter consequently assume the colorings of the farmer and so. by advertising their undeslrahlllty as food, manage to pre serve their lives, says an Knglish writer. The same tactics are adopted by bee tles, hut it Is from bird and animal life that we get the best examples. Certain kinds of snipe, for instance, set up a pe culiar shxiek as soon as they catch sight of u shooting party, and this Is kept up-until they have advertised far and wide that the gunners are on the Jorrkout. Wild sheep, also, are clever In this re spect. They need to see one of their number at 'attention, with head up and ears pricked forward, to become suspicious and ready for flight. Again, when deer register the presence of a" foe. they send a signal to every member of the band to be cautious. The wild bellow of the lion Is often uttered not because he Is angered and to fight. lie knows that to keep away his foes he has but to remind them of his power, and he does so by proclaiming his strength far and wide. With Just the same object does the rattlesnake shake Its castanets. The sound of them reaches the ears of his foes and, awed with the dreadful warn ing of the snake's latent power, they rapidly disappear. But It Is at the mating season,ln the wild that the full power of publicity Is brought to hear. There Is a general flaunting of color and parade of strength, with the object of proving to a possible mate how much mope desir able than his rival each one Is. This competition for favor 1* particu larly outstanding In bird life, and the display of color* and ornaments to catch the female eye la carried to per fection. The great peacock, while conaciou* of his beauty, at the same time Is aware that his rival may be Just as beautiful, and to oust him from favor he tidies himself up and. as It were,'puts on his Sunday best. Birds of paradise wave their wonder ful silky plumes, and the humming-bird with great skill flashes his gems among the flowers, making a perfect color scheme. Other birds, leas fortunate In the matter of color, flhd the power of song a great factor In gaining favor; so these songsters chant their sweetest melodies or chirrup and whistle as beat they can. Even the lumbering alligator knows how to advertise, and, In searching for a bride, does his best to stage a fight so that the lady of his choice may see him come forth the victor! The lame applies, writes Ernest In gersoll, In 'The Wit of the Wild," to llona and tlgera, and even the monkey, >o If you see any of those fellows vainly strutting abeut at a zoo, don't laugh. They know what they are doing! Granddaddy of Kangaroo? I A footprint made by an animnl be ; lleved by scientists to be tlie grand j father of the kangaroo has Just been found Iti an ancient lagoon in the Hastings (England) district. The animal which made the Imprint, many thousand* of years ago. Is called by experts the Igtinnodon, one of the members of ihe dinosaur family, of which numerous traces have been fourid In America and reconstructed In American "museums* The iguauodfm In supposed to have been 20 to 30 feet in height. Its foot print, a cast of which has Just j been exhibited to the members of the Geologists' association here, covered an area of nearly four square 1 feet. Impressions of Its toea Indicated i that this Iguanodon was In rapid mo j Hon, suggesting the possibility that an ancient sabre-toothed tiger was on Its trail. A Bull About Bull. Eastern Paper— \ esterday John tlohbs. » farmer of this county, was ttndly gored by au Infatuated bull.— Boston Trnnscrplt. G;iawty Doggie 1 Little Boy (to nervous lady afraid of tils dog)— Don't be scared, lady. He never bites; he i/uiy nibbles. —Boatea Transcript. NO. 3 SQUARE CUT GEMS POPULAR That Method la Believed Most Effec tually to Bet Off the BeaSty of the Stone. A square-cut or, as the trade term goes, a "trap-cut" stone is one that is cut to have a flat tablelike top, whose edges' the average person would'describe as having bean bev eled off. This cuttiag is generally used where it is the desire of the lapidary to bring out color as being the greatest element in the beauty of a gem and where the setting is to be flat and low. | ► Where a high setting is desirable, explains the N«ew York Sun, the cut ting of colored stones is most often : cabuchon (the half round or oval setting familiar to every one), being the rule for the cutting of the most common semiprecious stones such as lapis-lazuli, carnelian, turquoise matrix and others. Recently the trap-cut seems more widely used than formerly, since the public has learned, said a Fifth ave nue jeweler, to care more for the beauty of a jewel as a whole than for a setting "to show off stones." Each specimen in the rough tends to be cut in the way that will get the most and the best stone or number of stones out of it. This depends to a considerable extent on the skill of the lapidary. The Birthday of a Papoose. Wesley George Claremore, an Oaage papoose, was one year old a few weeks ago, and his parents Invited 75 mem bers of the tribe to celebrate the event with them and attend a big feast, for which two deer were Willed and served, says an Oklahoma newspaper. In addition there were two beeves, two hogs, a wagonload of turkeys, ducks and chickens, several cases of bananas, orange**, apples and other fruits, and continuous stacks of pies and cakes. Toast responses were made by Bacon Hind and Edgar McCarthy, former chiefs of the tribe, and Roanhorse, a member of the Osage council. Wifey Taught Him, Bachelor —Well, old man. one thing j I notice about you since you've been | married; you atwtvs have buttons on j your cloth *s. Bei.efi^et —Yes; Dolly taught me hiw t« sew 'em on before we'd been marrltd a week. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at Law, GRAHAM. N. C. Associated with John f. Henderson. | Offiee over National llank of Alamance I ( THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, . Associated with W. S. Coulter, No*. 7 and & First National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. | Olliee over Ferroll Drug Co. I Hour*: 2 to 3 aud 7 to "J p. in., and by appoin* inent. i'hone if 7 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Ofllce Hours: 41 to 11a. in. and by appointment Olllci: Over Acme Drug Co, foii-phoncs: Oflice MO—Residence JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorn ey-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. mice over National Baaltol Alaataaea . , . T. 3. COOK, Attornay-nt- La«* KAHAM. • • - - N. 0 )fflao Patterson Building ' -ieound Fl«»or. . , . nt. \VILIALO\G, JR. . . DENTIST ; : : .... Narth Carailna i ! HCH IN PARIS BUILDING J. I'.I.MI'.H U)UMC.AUEI Durham, V. ( . Graham, N. t'. LONG & ALLEN, >r,,nym and ('oanselors at 1 .aw GRAHAM N. Cr"" ,