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Dr. King's New Discovery For Colds and Coughs The Results of Constipation are sick headaches, .biliousness, sallow ekin, waste matter in the intestinal •ystem. Correct this health-under mining condition by taking Dr. King'« Pills. 25 cents. All drue?ists. TPV PROMPT! • WON'T GRIPE Dr. King's Pills Telephone on Trolley Car. Talking by telephone from u moving trolley car with a point more than three miles distant, recently took place on the lines of a New York Electric Railway company. This feat was ac complished by using the trolley wire sis a carrier of another current which transmitted the message. SWAMP-ROOT FOR KIDNEY AILMENTS There is only one medicine that real'y stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for curable ailments of kidneys, liver and bladder. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the highest for the reason that it has proven to be just the remedy needed in thousand** upon thousands of distressing cases. Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be cause its mild and immediate effect is soon realized in most cases. It is a gentle, healing vegetable compound. Start treatment at once. Sold at all* drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medi-' um and large. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation send ten 'tents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton,'N. Y., for a sample bottle.' When writing be sure and mention this paper.—Advertisement. Fruits From the Amazon. Four new fruits —the pepina, the tunibo, the acchoeta and the rhaenehe —luive been sent from the Amazon country by a biological expedition now working there. Some of these. It Is hoped, may be cultivated for ' our marketß. A Beautiful Woman is Always a Weil Woman You Cannot Afford to Overlook One Word of This Latonia, Ky.—"l had a nervous break down several yews ago. and a neighbor told me she was actually kept alive by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription—that she could not get along without it. I took her advice and a few bottles gave me great relief. Since then I have had no occasion to try other medicines, because 1 always get satisfaction from tne use of the 'Favorite Prescription'."—Mrs. E. W. Adkins, 3206 Rogers St. You'll be on the road to health and beauty if you purchase this "Prescription" of Dr. Pierce s at your nearest drug store, in tablets or liauid. Write Dr. Pierce for free medical advice. Unrequited Love. He loves a girl. Day and night he thinks of her. His mind dwells ever upon her beauty. He bites his nails. Her presence Is always with him. He thinks of her the first thing in ihe morning; he dreams of her In the night, when 'the loon screams UAJSS the lake. •. With all the devotion of his soul he loves her, but she does not make him harpy. ? . For Jie is a miser, and she Is th« woman on the a'lver dollar. —Rich- mond Tlmes-Dlspatch. A man's lot or destiny Is generally taken to mean only what he has, or his reputation. «. ■. KILL coMPAior. 9man I—John Bassett Moore, United States member of Permanent Court or international Justice, on steps of Peace Palace in Hague, where the court opened. 2 —Burmese boat crews racing for entertainment of -Prince of Wales. 3—President Harding signing the co-operative marketing bill. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Airship Roma. Bought in Italy, Is Destroyed With Loss of Thirty-Four Lives. PROBABLY WAS DEFECTIVE Senate Reservationists Busy With the Four-Power Treaty—Movement to Postpone Soldiers' Bonus Leg islation— Irish Factions in Three Months' Truce. By EDWARD W. PICKARD THIRTY-FOUR more lives have been sacrificed to America's infatuation for foreign-built airships. If we must have these craft. Is It not abput time we relied .on our own designers and constructors for thetn? Unless the In formation available at this writing Is misleading, the disaster that befell the Roma near Hampton Roads last week will be found to be, In Its causes, com parable to that of the Zlt-2 In Eng land last August. In both cases, ap parently, there were vital defects In construction of which the builders were cognizant. So far as Investigation has revealed, the fall of the Roma was due to the breaking of the controls that regulat ed the altitude of the airship. Despite the heroic efforts of her navigators and the frantic casting overboard of all ballast by the crew, the huge balloon plunged downward from a height of about 400 feet. As she' crashed against the ground she broke some high ten sion electric wires and at the same moment the big gasoline tanks burst. In the resulting explosion and fire moat of the victims met a mercifully Instant death. Evqn If the Iloma had not struck the wires, say army nlr ser vice officials, the men caught under the vessel's gas bug and steel frame would have burned to death, for the gasoline from the broken tanks would have Ig nited from the engines. This fact may avert possible blame for the using of ordinary field gas In the Homa Instead of the nonlnflainmable helium gas, de veloped by the air service. All the heiluin In the country was In the Ro ma's bag when she was given a trlul trip late In December, but as this was wanted for a contemplated long tour over the country next summer. It was drawn out and the ordinary gas sub stituted. Although General Mitchell, head of the United States air service, now In Berlin, says the Roma was perfect, there Is reason to believe that he Is mistaken. Last summer Kenneth L. Roberta witnessed a demonstration flight of the balloon In Italy shortly after she had been sold to America, end he wrote for the Saturday Eve ning Post a story of that flight In which he brought out these points: That the gas bags were old and leaky; that the Italians wanted a calm day for the trip; that they refused to sail the ship over Mount Vesuvius, ap parently fearing the heat of the cra ter; tfiat they preferred sailing over the -ocean, the air being more quiet there, that the ship reared, "bucked. Jumped, and was buffeted about like • feuther In a cyclone; that the ship had u tendency to nose downward at a high rate of speed. It may be this new disaster will re sult In tne cancellation of the order for a Zeppelin for America to be built In Germany. General Mitchell says tills craft Is not under way, "because of the numerous difficulties between America, the entente and Germany. These difficulties center on whether America shall get the latest type or an old style. If America wants the latest, the entente must permit Ger many to build airships, which the Ver sailles treaty forbids." PRESIDENT HARDING Informed the senate that he could' not com ply with its request for the records, minutes, conversations, etc., relating to the four-power treaty, because most of Ihe conversations and discussions were quite outside the conference and were without record. He added: "I do not believe It to be compatible with public Interests or consistent wltj) the amenities of International negotiations to attempt to reveal Information lind confidential conversations or discus sions of which no record was kept, or to submit tentative suggestions or In formal proposals, without which tlte arrival at desirable International un derstandings would be rendered un likely if not impossible." Mr. Harding, however, emphatically assured the senate that there were no concealed understandings and no se cret exchanges of notes. But the "Ir reconcilable" senators are not satis fied and insist that ratification must he hedged ahout with considerable reservation. Although President Har ding adhered to his position that no reservation was necessary, the foreign relations committee was Informed thnjt he would not object to the one offered by Senator Brandegee if it was deeded best thus to facilitate ratification. This reservation reads: "The United States understands that It assumes no obligation either legal or moral, to maintain the rights in relation to the Insular possessions or Insular dominions of any of the }ther high contracting parties and that the consent of the congress of the United States shall be necessary to any adjustments or understandings under articles one and two by which the United States Is to be bound In any way, and that there Is no obliga tion either legal or moral to give such consent." Naturally, Senator Johnson of Cali fornia was not satisfied even with this, and he offered another more drastic reservation. But the Qdmlnlstrutlon senators said the Brandegee resolution was as far as they would consent to go, and the "stalwarts," like Kellogg and New, didn't want to make any con cessions at all. Then Senator Lodge, after conferring with the President, offered a substitute reservation safe guarding congressional authority over the use of a/med force. This was not liked by the more radical members. CONSIDERATION of a sales tax for financing the soldiers' bonus was given consideration by a subcommit tee of the housfc ways and means cyn mlttee, but no conclusions have been reached. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was called on for further ad vice and said he still believes bonus legislation should be postponed, but that If a bill Is to be passed he would prefer'some form of tax as against tile Issuance of bonds. He said that a sales tax would melin 2,000 additional employees, but that It could be admin istered. Petitions In opposition to a sales tax were circulated In the house last week and were signed by' at least seventy members. It was asserted that fully one hundred could be counted on to vote against such a tax. Meanwhile a movement Is gaining headway to postpone bonus legislation altogether until the newly api>olnted foreign debt commission has ascertained the chances for the payment of Interest by foreign nations and decided concern ing the funding of foreign debts Into long term securities. A number of well known men have asked the Na tional Republican club to oppose the granting of a federal bonus "to any soldier who cannot show a wound or who was not disabled in the service." THE foreign debt commission men tioned above, as named by Presi dent Harding, is made up of Secretary of State Hughes, Secretary -of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary of Com merce Hoover, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Representative Burton of •Ohio. The fact that all five are He publican* has aroused the Ire of the Democrats and the latter In the senate declared th«»y would not vote for the confirmation of the appointments of Bmoot and Burton. NEW pay scales for the army, navy, marine corps, coa#t guard, coast and geodetic survey and.public health service have been arranged by the (Joint congressional service pay com mission and a bill providing for them ordered favorably reported to house and senate. For the fiscal year 1923 the new rate of pay for those si* serv ices will save the government about >13,000,000, and ultimately. It Is esti mated. the saving will be $28,000,000 annually. The proposed rate Is below the present basis, which was fixed In 1920, but considerably above that es tablished In 1908. The house appropriations commlt- THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C • ; ~ making new telections and assuring tee, In one of Its economical spasms, j the people of the state that the beat reduced the estimates of the Depart ment of Commerce to the extent >f $8,(ISO,891, and ' those of the Depart ment of Labor by $1,227,712. PREMIRUS I.LOYD GEORGE AND POINCARE met prlvAtely In France Sunday for the purpose of ar ranging the agenda for the Genoa con ference on the economic and financial regeneration of Europe. There are re ports that the conference may be post, poned for several weeks, of course the European nations are exceedingly desirous that the United States shall take part in the meeting, but this grows more unlikely as time passes. Secretary Hoover, In a Washington's birthday address In Chicago, gave what might be considered an unofficial expression of the administration's views on this matter. Without becom ing too specific, he made It plain that the United States cotild not be ex pected to lend assistance to the nations of Europe until they had worked out some of their present pressing prob lems, Including "unbalanced budgets, overtaxed peoples, large armies and an unbearable debt, both domestic and external—all bearing their fruit of In flation and Instability." Mr. Hoover added: "We find our selves much torn between an earnest desire to be of service and a rightful desire to keep ourselves free from matters to which We are not a party and which we cannot remedy; partici pation in which, nevertheless, would undermine our strength, our Influence and our ability to render real service In the future." TRUCK hns been agreed upon by the quarreling Irish—Free State sup porters on one slile and republicans on the other. Ard Fhels, the convention of the Sinn Fein, on Wednesday ad journed for three months, at the end of which period the people of the Is land will be called on to vote on a constitution, and also on acceptance of the treaty with England. No election Is to be held until after that referen dum. Michael Collins announced he would resign the chairmanship of the proylslonal government If In the three months the opposition gained control of the Dall Klreann. Ills f majority now Is exceedingly slender. One thou sand members of the Sinn Fein,.,met with I>e Valera and formally organ ized the republican party, and plans were laid for a campaign In every county ugalnst the Free State und the proposed constitution. s THK resignation of Judge Kenesaw M. Landls from the federal bench of the northern Illinois district Is cause for sincere regret, except per haps on the part of baseball fans. Though often spectacular In methods and speech, Judge Landls was always fearless, Just and Impeccably honest, •and he had an uncanny ability to get at the truth and a commendable tendency to Ignore unimportant tech nicalities. If these latter qualities were shared by the lesser Judiciary of the region where Judge Landls has been exercising his activities there would be less cause .to complain of the prevalence of crime there and of mis carriages of Justice. REPRESENTATIVES OF I« RAILWAY union* and of the United Mine Workers of America met In Chicago and entered Into a defensive alliance, hut there will W- no sympathetic rail strike on April 1, when the coal miners are expected to quit work. The agree ment, moreover, does not become op erative until It ha* heen ratified by all the organizations, if any of the labor unions embraced In the agreement "Is made the victim of unwarranted at tacks, or Its Integrity Is Jeopardised." ways and means will be considered, any action to be approved by each of the 17 organizations. An executive committee, composer of the chief ex ecutives of all th« unions, will make the necessary recommendation*. WHAT may develop Into a new iwlltlcal party was bom In Chi cago last week when several hundred farmers. Socialists, union lal>or leaders ancj other* started a movement for the election to congress of women at the working class. At present the participants In thla movement are pledged to nonpartisan political ac tion. Radical! of many types and de grees, were present at the conference, but L W. W'.'a were not admitted. BOARD SELECTS HEW SCHOOL BOOKS FINANCIAL BURDEN ON PATRONS WILL EE SMALL, SAYS THE BOARD. 20 PUBLISHERS REPRESENTED Board Claims That Best Interest of Students Was Uppermost in "Se lection for Five Years. Raleigh. After a week spent in considering a multitude of text books, the board of education announced lis selections for elementary grades of the state's public schools, these to constitute the courses of study for the next live years. The announcement was accompa nied by a statement setting forth fully the position of the bosrd ill interests of the students received principal consideration. The board has had due regard both (or the needs of the child and the cost of books to pupils, and it has made it possible for the schools to meet the needs of the children in a large way without placing any financial burden upon the patrons. Twenty different publishers are rep resented in the adoptions, which are as follows: Scott-Foreman company, second grade arithmetic, language and gram mar for grades four through seven; Olnn & Co., arithmetic, grades three tlfrough seven; D D. Heath & Co , fifth and seventh grade history; Silver, Ilurdett & Co., sixth grade history, music series, grades two through sev en; Thompson Publishing Co., sev enth grade history for one year, fifth grade history, supplementary, sixth grade North Carolina history, supple mentary; Alfred Williams & Co., North Carolina history for sixth grade; John C. Winston & Co., primary geo graphy, supplemental; American Book Co., geographies, grades four through seven; music series, grades two through seven; Howe. Peterson & Co., primer and reading, grades one through three, elementary science, grades six and seven. R. F. Johnson Co., primer and read ing. grades on through; University Publishing Co., readers, grades four through seven; Jroquolse Publishing Co., spellers, one through ' seven; Houghton-Mifflin company, health ed ucation, grade four; Charles E. Merrill Co., health education, /five through seven; Allyn and Bacon, civics, five through seven; Zaner and Klosser Co., writing one through seven; A. N. Pal mer & Co., writing, one through seven; drawing for grades one through seven will be furnished by Laidlaw, Bros.; Atkinson. Montzer A Co., and Prac tical Drawing Co. The course of study has been broad ened and the subject matter to be taught greatly improved from the first to the seventh grades, the board an nounced. The text books commission prepared the outline course of study before recommending books In order to see the needs of the school, and the state board has followed that out in selecting books. The pupils to be affected by the change are divided among the grades as follows: First, 214,965; second. 105,533;-third, 90,580; fourth, $4,662; fifth, 70,286; sixth. 54,062; seventh, 39,553, making a total of 659.603. The children In the first -three grades. 62 1-2 per cent of the entire elementary grades enrollment, will not be affected materially this year by the change In text books. But all new books adopted must become in gen eral use throughout the state with the beginning of the srhool year 1923. The board estimates the effect of the change on sixth grade pupils as followB: Books that must be changed in 1922: Oeorgaphy, cost }1 82; health, 96c; civics, $1 12; total cost new books for 1922. 13 SO Arithmetic. 7Rc; history. SOc; lan guagn, 69c; reading, 7Sc; spelling. 32c; and agriculture or science, $1; total 14 24 Governor Commutes Sentence. Governor Morrison commuted to a term of 12 months In the Jail of Cald- well county, the two-year road sen tence passed upon Walter Morrow, convicted at the August term, f'ald well court, 1021, for manufacturing whiskey The commutation was granted bn the representation of Act ing County Health Officer Dr. B V Cliff Dr A B. Goodman and Dr W. M White, that the man Is an epileptic and should not have to do manual work. The commutation was recom mended by Solicitor R L. Huffman. To Meet »t the Beach. The 24th annual meeting of the State Bar association will be held at the Oceanic hotel. Wrlghtsville Beach. June 27-29. Secretary Henry M. I/On don announced. The fact that It has been four years since the association met at Wrlghtsville was a strong In ducement towards the selection of this place. In preparation for the annual meeting an Interesting program Is be ing arranged. Mr. I>ondon said, which will Include addVesse* by several men of national reputation In the legal pro fession Asks Adoption of South Hill Ro»d Headed Highway Commis sioner Frank Pago, delegation of North Carolina citizens which includ ed C. B. Barbee, James H. Pou and B. H. Griffin of Raleigh and several citi zens of Henderson will appear before Governor Trinkle In the executive chambers in Richmond to ask that the Virginia General Assembly incorpo rate the South Hill turnpike in the Old Dominion System of roads. Interest in the adoption of the route began when North Carolina and Virginia business met), bjiilt the South Hill bridge over*"the-Roanoke river, shortening the iltaWe between Ra leigh and Richmond by 20 miles. No public road leads across the bridge because of the fact that the Virginia law forbids a public road across a pri vately owned bridge. The North Carolina commission agreed several months ago to build a state road to the Virginia line, con necting with the South Hill road, pro vided the Virginia authorities would take over the road across the bridge and maintain it. Adoption of roads in Virginia is a legislative matter, and no authority is lodged in the highway commission of that state. Governor Trinkle has agreed to rec ommend the adoption of the South Hill road by the state of Virginia, provided the. owners of the bridge will relinquish control of It. Proposals for selling or leasing the bridge will be presented to Governor Trinkle at the conference, which has been arranged by Commissioner Page. Henderson business-men own about half the stock In the bridge. It Is said to be pay ing excellent dividends. Guardsmen Taking High Rank. Forty thousand dollars of federal government money has just gone into 22 North Carolina communities to pay national guardsmen for drill work. This represents the semi annual pay roll of the guard. The federal government Is spending around a quarter million dollars a year on the North Carolina national guard. Assistant Adjutant General Gordon Smith estimates, in equipment, salaries, expenses of the annual en campments and thfc like. The average national guard company will receive for the pay of Its members around ffi.OOO the year, and thejjdjulant gen eral's departmenUthlnßirlhls is a tidy sum to turn loose in the various com munities supporting organizations. The government Is In earnest in Its work with the national guaid. and It is giving it as much consideration as it does the regular army. Supreme Court In Session. More than a score of opinions were filed by the court in the first hatch for the spring term. Included among them was the Polk county election easef which has been in the court since 1918 and which was one of the two cases brought over from the last term of supreme court. The Polk county case entitled State Ex Rel. W. C. Robertson vs. Frank Jackson involved a contest over the office of sheriff in Polk county. By tlie opinion of the court, the decision at the polls In ???? of the defendant was affirmed, the actual count having been changed In the finding of the ref eree y and the Judgmenf of the lower court. The opinion of the supreme court modified and affirmed the Judg ment below. A number of state cases were af firmed by the court, including that of Sidney Kincaid sentenced to serve eighteen years in the state prison from Burke county for (he killing of his wife; J. E. Burnett, convicted of second degree murdt>r in the killing of a prohibition agent In Swain county: Fred Brlnkley sentenced for second degree murder from Catawba county; and Itoscoe Simmons, sentenced for possession and transportation of brandy. It was In the last case that the court held that the trial judge did not err when, over the protests of the de fense, he allowed the brandy seized to be Introduced as evidence, and al lowed the jury to smell and taste It for themselves to determine whether or not it was intoxicating. "It was for the Jury,to decide." the court's opinion read, whether it was Intoxicating. liquor and It was permis sible for them to use their sense of taste and smell in passing upon the question They were not restricted to the testimony of the officers who ac quired the Information upon which they based the opinion by the same method" To Let Contract March 7. Contractu for fhe erection of a new office building for the State Depart ment of Agriculture will be let on Tuesday, March 7, and the new build- In*, five stories in height and 96*143 feet In alio, will be under way before early summer. The coat of the build ing will not exceed 1326,000. Temporary quartern for the depart mens staff will be taken wherever they can be found duriag the period of construction. A part of the museum annex which ia not Included in the plan will be utilized for officers. Thr«e New Corporations. Kzell Hurllngton Co., of Charlotte, to engage In the sale of paints and oils, SIOO,OOO . authorized and 'IIO,OOO sub scribed, by K. McC. Bulllngton, A. J. Knell and C M. Ezell. Stir Fish Co., of Morehead City, with $25,000 authorized capital and sl,- 000 subscribed by A. C. Davis, E. H. Gorham and D. W. Wade, Honey Sorghum Producta Co-opera tive association, of Pembroke, with $5,000 authorized capital and S7O sub scribed by O. R. Sampson, W. H. 0004- win and W. J. Jacobs. A Short Time Ago / Weighed Only 80 Pounds—l Now Weigh 112 Pounds and TANLAC it what built me up eo wonderfully, Maya Mr a. Barbara Weber, 3IS Van Neta Ave., San Franciaco. She is bat one of thouaanda aimi larly benefited. If you are under weight, if your digeation ia impaired, if you are weak and unable to enjoy life to the fulleat meaa ure, you ahould take Tanlac* At all good druggiata. Healthy, Happy Babies The best way to keep baby in crowing, contented health is Mrs. Winslow's Syrup. This safe, pleasant, effective reme dy regulates the bowels and quickly overcomes diaSfrhoea,., colic, flatulency, constipation, and teething troubles. MRS. WINSLOW'S SYRUP TkeUfrnnts'mmd Children'» Regulator to best for baby. Guaranteed free from narcotics, opiates, alcohol and all harmful ingredients. Open I formula on every label. A t mil Drugti »ti Writ* for free booklet of letters from I grateful mothers. Ansrlo-American V 215-21™FuhOT St I jfl G«n. Ao*nt»: A • • • Harold F Ritchie 3" —- ft €■»., Jne Jfl Naw York Toronto London. Sydney . 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