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VOL. XLVIII Democratic Primaries to be Held June 3rd When Candidates for State, District and County Officers Will be Voted for—Dates for Candidates to File Notices. Col. Pearsall Chairman State Board of Elections. Dr. Truett Preaching to Vast Congregations—Fish Interests to be Looked After—March 17th Named Gorgas Memorial Day—More Highway Contracts to be Let—Students From Over 200 Accredited High Schools Not to be Required to Stand Col lege Entrance Examinations. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, N. C.; March 7. —Ral- eigh and many nearby counties are enjoying the most interesting and effective series of religion.- meetings, and the best sermons by Dr. George Truett of Texas ever held in this community. The great city auditorium held over 5,000 people Sunday at the three services conducted there that day, and the 5,000 -capacity of th* placi is taxed ao each service week days, morning and evdniug, tlii.- week. Thousands of people from other towns and counties are com ing each day in auto vehicles and by trains. The meetings will con tinue over into next week Ar rangements are being made for * radio service, but at tUis wfitint they have not been fully per fected. The goyernor ha-* named Col. P. M. Pearsall of New Bern, chair man of the Sta'e 1) >ard ot Elec tions, to succeed the late William G. Lamb of WUliamsion, who died recently. Col. Pearsall is well known over the stale, first coming into prominence while he was sec i ■' retary.'to the governor during the Aycock administration. County Primary Requisites. Although there maybe no state wide primary this \'ear, as here tofore explained in these letters, the county Contests will compel proper attention to the 'require ments of the primary laws, and ttje following information is time ly jost'now: Prelimiliary organization work for the stat«\ district and county priuiariefn* required of the elec» lion board so that the county boards may make their prepara tions. ' At the March 2Gth meet ing the state board will name the members of the county boards, and these'hoards, in turn, will mdot. in.their respective counties April liith for th« eppoinl ment of registrars and judges for each precinct. The state, district and conn »y dftmocatic primaries will be held the first Saturday in June. Regis tration books will open Thursday, April 27, and will lite kepi open daily from 9 o'clock until sunset throogh Saturday, May 20. Time for Piling Xotlce* The lime for filing of notices of canidacies for stat" and di-uiet officeß closes Saturday, April 22. This period is applicable to all candidates for offices, judges of the superior court, solicitors, congressmen and slate senators in "districts comprising more than one county. In filing notice these candidates must sijjn a pledge, undfr. 'the election lawt-, to sup port" the candidate uommated by THE ALAMANCE GLEANER the party with which they are affiliated. Candidates for the state senate in districts comprising only out couuty for the house of repre sentatives, and for county offices shall file with the couuty board of electious of their county a likt uoticc and pladge prior to May 20. Development offish Interests The development of the fish and oyster industry in North Caroliua, the stocking of ponds and streams of the interior, and the establishment of a co-opera tive marketing system for fish and sea foods for the benifit of the industry were discussed bj the North Carolina Fisheries Commission in conference with Governor Jlorrison. The meeting will be followed by another at Morehead City later on, when Governor Morrison will Visit the fishing waters ol eastern North Carolina. A survey of the streams and ponds of North Carolina will be undertaken by the commission with - a view toward developing and Btockiug them with suitable fish where conditions are favor able. The Commission reported results of oyster bedding work undertaken by it on a small scale and plans now are ready to greatly increase the scope of this project. By the marketing plaai which the board hus under tion, the industry will be made more profitable for the coast fish ers and others, and it will be pos sible for the consumers to get fish at greatly reduced prices. Now, it is virtually necessary to*depend for fish supplies upon Norfolk and Baltimore. To these markets most of the North Carolina fish are shipped. The North Carolina fishermen and the North Carolina consumer suffer at both ends of the trade line. Memorial t)ay In Public Schools. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brooks, who is also chairman of the State Educational Coinmi'tee of the North Carolina Division of the Gorgas Memorial Institute, has requested thesuper intendeuts of the public schools of the state to observe March 17th as Gorgas Memorial Day. The Gorgas Memorial will be in the form of an institute of re search and preventive mediciue aud a school of sanitation where health engineers, workers and nurses will be trained to carry on the great humanitarian worn in augurated by the late General William Crawford Gorgas, who did su"h a uoble and heroic work in eliminating yellow fever and malaria in Panama, aud who is remembered as "Physician to the World" aud "Redeemer of the Tropics." A program consisting of articles by students of the schools on General Gorgas' work in elimi nating yellow fever and malaria in Cuba and l'anama, the growth of preventive medicine, health and sanitation in the state of GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MaI!CH 9. 1922 t ' North Carolina, emphasizing the great saving in lives effected by the State Health Department; the plan of the Gorgas Memorial In stitute, both in the field of re search at Panama and the School of Sanitation at Tuscaloosa, and the benefits which will accrue by training men and women to be come health officers, sanitary engineers and inspectors, and public health nurses for the coun ty health organizations. This will be the particular function of thf- Gorgas School of Sanitation —will be presented on Gorgas Memorial Day. To Let More Highway Contracts. Highway contracts aggregating 07 miles and involving a probable cost of upwards of a million dol larr will be awarded by the State Highway Commission March 15, projects advertised including new construction in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth districts. Of the total mileage involved, 49.06 is hard surface and 15.03 gravel construction. Three of the roads included in the next letting provide outlet-- lor county seats of border coun ties into adjacent states, and ac count for nearly half the mileage. Macon county finds connection with Georgia, and Jackson and I'olk counties are headed toward the highway systems in South Carolina. All throe counties arc beyond the Blue Ridge, and their natural outlet is to other states. Prepare List Accredited Schools. At a joint conference of the president and the officers who pass ou entrance requirements ol 1 the six colleges in North Carolina who are members-of the Associa tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States,, a list of more than two hundred liiglf schools in the state, students from which w ill not be required to stand an entrance examination, has been agreed on. Dr. 11. W. Chase, president of the University of North Carolina, presided over, the meeting. " li was attended by the presidents of all the colleges that are members of the Southern Association in this state except Dr. Martin of Davidson, who is ill. In addition, each institution was represented by the officer who parses upon entrance requirements. The six institutions represented were the University of North Caro lina)' Wake Forest College, David son College, Trinity College, North Carolina College for Wo men, and Meredith College. The list of high schools has not yet been made public. FOUR NEW CHURCHES FOR THE UNIVERSITY Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapol Hill, March 7. — With one new church already completed and three more soon to come, Chapel Hill is preparing to meet the religious needs of the rapidly increasing number of University students. The Methodists have announced that they are to bufld on the site of the preseut church. A two-unit type of building will be erected, at a cost of from 8150,000 to s2ou,- 000. There are more students in the University affiliated with the Methodist church than with any other. The Baptists, with the next largest number of studouts affili ated, are going ahead with the splendid now church about which they made an announcement some time ago. It will be on Columbia street near the campus aud not more than five minutes walk from the furthest dormitory. Tnis is a much more convenient site than the one where the present Baptist church stands. An addition is planned by ilie Episcopalians, leaving the front of their existing sti ucture as it is but effecting a big increase in seating capacity. The one of the new churches that is already finished is the 'Presbyterian. This faces the Uni versity campus from across the Main street. It is of Colonial de sign and has been commended for its beauty by authorities on archi ture. All real literature of China wj destroyed about 100 A. I>. What the Draft Act Showed * About North Carolina •I. W. Hailey in News Letter. Under the Draft Act, nil the young men from eighteen to thirty years of ase in live United States were subject to military service in tin' Would War. - Of those ••ailed, two million, or about fo>ir fi ft lis of the total, were physic-illy examined at the mobilization camps The results of these ex aminations have l»eeu published by the War Department in a vol ume entitled Defects Found in Drafted Men. The classification was by States; but un'ortunately the data do' not disclose the rela tion of defects til color, nativity, or occupation in the diff rent States. With respect to rejections for alcoholism, .North Carolina made a most gratifying showing, her number per thousand being nine, while the national average w;-s mote than three times as hglt, or thirly-one. We made equally as good a record with respect to drug addiction. With respect to tuberculosis, we made a bad showing, our num ber of rejections per thousand be ing ISO.-17 against the national average of 24.ti —an excess of nearly six young men per thous and We made a much worse record than some other States having large negro populat ious, as for-example, Georgia, 214(5, Mis sissippi 21 12, Louisiana 27.(i1. As a math r of fact only three Southern States made as bad a showing as did North Carolina. So our excess is not due to the negroes. For defective physical develop ment we had :!•'>. 11 rejections as compared with a national average of '-VI 1)3. In total mental, dis orders we rank«t*ear the bottom with 21.48 per thousand against a national average of 15 08. In respect of mental deficiency our record is bad, t e slate having had 21.00. Who can account for this, Miid how? There are a great many defects in respect of which North Carolina made comparatively a pleasing showing, as for example, the con dition of teeth and eyes. We do not show up so well in respect of nos"S and ears An las a rule the ratio of defectives in North Caro >iua is upon an average with that of the l r uited States, our rejections being 21'5 per thousand, as coin pare?f with a national average of 212. Less than four out of each five young men were found fit for war duty. What should concern us is this: to find and eradicate the causes of our excess of tuberculosis, low physical developement, excess of meptal disorders, and excess of mental deficiency. For these as pects of the matter are of the greatest importance. I quite agree that there is nothing the matter with North Carolina-thai is, that there is no reason why within our bounds there should not dwell the hap piest people on the globe. Hut Heaven helps those who help themselves. Our Commonwealth must be what w.e make of it. And it becomes each of us to stand in his lot and do his best to serve his day and generation This is citizenship; this is patrio tism; this h true service of humanity. •'When I began taking Tanlac I only weighed 98 pounds, now weigh 125 poumls and n ver felt better in my life," says Mrs Chas IVden, of Huntsville, Ala. Sold by Farrell Drug Co., Graham, N. C Drens ereitiODM are works of art, according to a recent French ruling, and art such ar« protected by the counterfeiting laws. A I'ariH court inflicted lim*s nir* damages of approximately each on two firniK which had copicrl tl»« model k i»'ijt of t l*.»ri.*» dressmaker. Dwelling, Store and Lot for Sale. I have aO room dkVi-ilinsi and store house in Graham for Ha'e. Imih on Rainu lot. A (i"ii Imi io«*s location, ({•-am nahle terms, if interested, H-e >r rail A. i. A I SI.KY, Graham, N. C. Russia, prior to in World War, was the most extensive dominion in the world. LARGEST MARKETING ASSOCIATION IN--U. S Virginia-Carolina Tobacco Growers' Association Has Over 65,000 Mem bers—Farmers Will be Urged to Raise Food Supplies at Home. Announcement that more than 65, i M) tobacco farmers from the Carolinas and Virginia are now members of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association, estab lishes this organization as the largest cooperative marketing or ganization in the United States. The first step towards the estab lishment of warehouses and re drying plants for the Association was tak' ii by the Directors when a committee .was appointed to make a survey of the tobacco mar'ketin equipment in the three States, at the r -cent meeting of directors hob) in Ralegh. This committee, composed of Dr. J Y, Joyner of North Carolina, chair man, N. 11. Williams of Virginia, and T: I!. Young of South Caro lina, will determine those prop erties in the three r tales which seem essential to the furtherance of the plans of the Association. ' Because of the large number of applications which have reached the Directors of the Growers' As sociation from warehousemen, Hoards of Trade and marketing centers expressing the wish to do business with the Association, no difficulty is anticipated in secur ing all properties needed for the marketing of the hundreds of mil lions of pounds now under con tract. in the Association The appointment of the com mittee to prepare for the lease or purchase of such warehouses as are needed for marketing the 1922 crop of all Association members, was made after the report of those Directors who returned from Ken tucky as eye witnesses of the suc cessful operation of the Kentucky Hurley Growers Marketing Asso ciation which toutrols and ope rates over 100 warehouses in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. First-hand study of thesuccess ful methods of finance Hiid mark eting used by the organization of 55,000 Kentucky growers who have made profitable sales of mil lions of pounds of their crop of ID2| is aiding the Directors of the Virginia-Carolina Association in preparing to market the crop of 1022. While praising the operation of the Kentucky Hurley Association, the Virginia-Carolina Directors say that the foundation of success fyr the Kentucky growers lies in their ability to make tobacco pay by raising sufficient grain, hay and live stock to support their families and improve their lands. The Directors of the organized growers of Virginia and the Caro linas are earnestly urging their members to lay the same founda tion for success as the Kentucky Burley growers by raising their food, feed and meat at home. The crooked streets of Boston grew up along old-time cow paths. Cities, more recently founded, | took note of tho inconvenience j and laid their streets out in straight lines. Cities now discover that traffic congestion is due mainly to nar row streets. Yet they go ahead,! laying out'more narrow streets. It i ic a foolish policy, especially foolish in small towns thatmayi some day be giant cities. Tho French Government will | erect a monument to the last I American soldier killed in action in tho world war. The American ! Legion will determine the nainej of the soldier. A law banning cigarettes as a j "national curse" was urged by the master of the New Hampshire! State Grange at the 48th annual! meeting recently held in Concord. Persia has no distilleries, brew cries or saloons, and native wine! is the only intoxicating beverage. The Kinir of Toro, Africa, is* probably the only monarch who' wears a false beard. West Point cadets must study; the daily newspapers as a part of their course at the military aead-j '•my. United States uses about 100,- j 000,000 cords of wood anaually ! for fuel. Big Encampment for Boys' and Girls' Club* The boy or girl completing suc cessfully some phase of club work this year will have the privilege of attending an encampment of the boys' and girls' clubs of this county! This includes those who are doing definite work under Professors Cooper, Bason and Hutcheson of the farm-lifeschool;. Miss Reinhardt, our Home Demonstration Agerft, has offered to turn over to the club member* her summer home at Black Mount ain for one week in July. Black Mountain is in the heart of the Blue llidge—"The Land of the Sky." The Swannanoa Test Farm, ! owued by our government, is at [this place. Various experiments with plants and animals are being carried on at this point. The boys will spend the major part of their time studying this work Also the famous Biltmore Estate is near this point and will be visited. Special work for both boys and girls will be carried out. Those who wish to join the Poul try clubs are requested to UI-e part of the pure bred flock already on the farm or get some purebred eggs to set before March 31st. Etch club member is required to build for the use of his young chicks a standard brood coop. Wo can furnish detailed instructions on this if you request same. Consult your paren's as to the breed both prefer. This young flock should eventually become the farm flock. Wo can inform you as to where eggs can be se cured from reliable breeders EDNA UEINHAKDT, Dem. Agt W. KKKK SCOTT, CO. Agt. Teaching Bible in Schools i Greensboro Daily Record. The people of Grahauwprobably ! know better than anybody else I what they want, MO it is a rather 1 bold critic who would try to criti | ciae what they do. Still, this Bible teaching in the schools they hav« instituted d«.wu there, pastors be ! longing to the ministerial associa , tion taking turns at instructing ! the children, doesn't seem exactly the very best thing in the world to be doing. No, this is not Satan talking. We wish that more people studied the Bible. There are very few people who should not study it ! more an J try to live by its teach | ing.i. We all need more Bible in lour lives, more of the Christian I religion We know that the tiwn i inters of Graham must be tine ; men, else they would not be there. |Wo would not attack their 1110- j tives. But irt it possible to teach the i Bible in the schools with some small flavor of doctrinal ism, some j flavor of denominational ism? Can any man tea h the Bible to anyone without getting his per sonal viewpoint across somewhat? If he can he is a poor teacher and a poor man, whose convictions are ! not worth much. Any virile man, with idea* of his own, can not I | help their expression, no matter | whai or how he tries. And the Bible bring" out the strongest couvictions of men. It is a Hook on which men take a positive stand. The religious ( I wars and religious persecution are I proof of th-it. Men who would j riot fight over anything ' Ise wi'l i tight over I h ■ • H>ie. \ We have cliurcii' * .»nd Sunday i j schools for ilit* leaching, of th»' Bible. Th«y are 'free" IV-ople lean take their choice of doctrine. I Sunday schools are powerful in* ! stitutious, probably the most j potent factor in making I tie life of ■a .child; outside of home. There it is t hat the Bible should j be taught. Thousands of thin, frail men j ami women have reported an as tonishing and rapid increase iu | weight as a result of taking Tan | lac. Sold by Farrell Drug Co., I Graham, N. C. t "What makes our girls run around HO?" worries a leading ! club woman. May be hunting mother. Ileavist growth of timber iu the! ! United States is on the Olympic peuinsuain Washington. Now is the time for all good weather to come to the aid of its country. NO. 5 Elon College Letter. Cor. of The Gleaner. Elon College, March 7. —At a mass-meeting of the student body this morning following the daily chapel exercises, officers were elected for t,fae Christian Endeavor Society of the college, of which society all students are members or associate members by virtue of being members of the Religious Activities Organization, of which the Christian Endeavor is one de partment. The new officers elect ed were W. T. Scott of Greens boro, N. C., President ; Miss Alice Barrett of Ponce, Porto Rico, Vice-President, and Miss Mary Lee Foster of Waverly, Va., Sec retary. These officeis will take charge for the ensuing year. Mr. M. Z Rhodes of Dayton, Vir ginia, the present President, pre sided over the meeting. Many nominations were made and only after much voting were the above named officers elected. The Christian Endeavor Society is an important feature of the religious activities l'fe of the college, and in which the students are especi ally interested. Mr. W. T. Scott, whose home is in Greensboro, hasl>een a student here for several years and has during his college course been thoroughly identified with the re ligious activities of the students. He is also a very popular youug man on the campus, and ihestud ent body is well satisfied with his election. Miss Mice Barrett who came to Elon from Ponce, Porto Rico, is herself studying for the mission fields and is an active worker in the line of endeavor. The Secretary, Miss Mary Lee Foster of Waverly, Va., is a Fresh man at the college. However, her work and ze.il in student items in general oti the campus have won recognition for her and the Christ ian Endeavor workers are glad to have her associated with them in a definite way. Rub-My-Tism, - anticeptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia .rheu matism, —ad. It is easy to keep things coming your way if you go theirs. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM. N. C. Associated with John 1. Henderson. Office over National Bank of Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Couaseilor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C. Associated with W. S. Coulter, Not. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. (lours: 2 to 3 and 7 to y p. m., and by appoint ment. Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m. anl by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones: Oflice I til —Residence 'tot JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. >ll lee over Nattoaat Bank ol AlsaMaes T. s. cook:. Attorney-at-La or - • - N. C >mcu Patterson Building 4euond Kl«or. . . , >ll. WILL S. IMG, JR. . . DENTIST : : « • hmm .... NertH Carolina j ,l FTCK IN PARIS BUILDING ' j. KI.Mr.K L:»*G LOUM C. ALLEM Durham, N. C. Graham, C. LONG & ALLEN, ( > • torneys and Coonsslors at Law GRAHAM, K. O.