North Carolina Newspapers

WOL. XLVHI STATE WINS TAX CASE i BROUGHT BY RAILROADS. Fetferal Judges Waddill, Connor and Bayd Hold in Favor ci the State— Railroads Will Appetl-If IK S. Sapreme Court Affirms, WiH Mean Several Millions to State. DBCISION THAT SALARIES O* OJtMXiES AND OTIIER OFKICfAUJ Ate EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX NOT POPULAR. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, March 21. —The State administration is feeling mighty good just now over the victory of TtaeHtate in the case brought by the railroads against the State and Aevenue Commissioner Watts whioh sought to evade large sums in taxes, The interlocutory injunctions which the roads sought in the fed eral courts against the collection of State taxes were denied in a unanimous opinion handed down by Jfidge Ed Waddill of the Cir cuit Court Judge Con nor of the Eastern North Carolina District and Judge Boyd of the Western North Carolina District. By denial of the injunctions, il the opinion is affirmed by the Su preine Court of the United State*, to which an appeal will be taken direct, the taxing units of tin State will collect annually prac tically one million dollars in ad valorem and franchise taxes that would not have been paid had the decision gone the other way. In addition, there is involved taxa tion ;vpon the incomes of the rail roads at the rate of three per cent upon the taxable net income, whieb involves a large amount ol money, the exact amount of which is not known. All of these taxes have 4been fixed for. a period of making the aggregate amount involved well up into the millions. The opinion ends the agreement entered into between the State and the railroads last October, under the terms of which the rail roads paid the taxes « not in dis pute while ntlie State made no effort to collect the remainder. In the indKi'lunl orders signed in each case,. a period of thirty days was granted the railroads, before the opinion will become operative. This extension was granted iu order to permit the railroads to .avail themselves of all the" remedies afforded by law. Undenthe judicial cqde a,n Appeal, may be taken directly to the Su preme Court of the United States, with a ri quest for a stay of pro oeediugs, pending decision by the ftuf>rttute Court. The code also provides that the case shall be ex pedited for by the high est court. In Abe eweot tlhe opinies of'the three judges should overruled afad Ui« iiu»*Msutory. injunctions xrauted, the caae#wUl»theu be re turned for heariug on th ir iherils. Hut if thn Supreme Court affirms the oj>iuion of the three ju(tg w '» *be case will then be •ftfded for practical purposes and tho suits wiii **e du»missed. Able COUDCU tor State. Credit tor the .victory is beiug given largely to the great lawyers selected by Governor Mormon to assist the Attorney-General iu this case, tnette iucludiug from Supreme Cuurt Justice George 11. Brown, Hon. Thomas D Warren, iiuu. W. P. Byimiu-aud Attorney- General Manning. * Of course the railroads had a number of the ablest corporation lawyers in the country employed in fch« suit, but llit*y we*e well matched when they engaged in legal combat with lie four JS. C. lawjers named. Income T*> HettljU. Tbs first year of collection of income taxes through the n*>w State Department of Revenue, A. U. Watts, Commissioner, shows that department to be iuuctioniug »ell, the ti«M» limit for the pay- THE ALAMANGE GJLEANER. meat of Income taxes heviug ex pired by law March 15th, Under the law extension of time can be grantted for satisfactory reasons. But he grants extensions only on the rale that the interest must be paid the State for all time elapsing subsequent to March 15th, and there va no loss to the treasury op brief delays. The income tax, which was put into its present shape by Hit overwhelming vote of the people of the State in November, 1920, pate the burden of taxation 'where it belongs—upon those who make the mojrt money and are beet able to bear it —and- by eliminating all State tax on prop erty, takes part of the burden off the poorer classes, least able to carry the burden. Watch the Poli tical Professors. This, with the S3OO personal property exemption allowed fami lies, removes the fear of the sheriff's visit to every little home or farm and the retention of the family milch cow, household and. farming utensils, etc. And yet there are radical "cuties K who rail at this safeguard which the present N. 0. system of govern ment has placed around the doors of the. "home"—the greatest unit of all American institutkms! Keep your eye of suspioiou on the fellows who would abuse your minds by mudding the waters of understanding on this subject by specious political argument. There's always a "nigger in the wood-pile," and often he is trying to conceal some vaulting personal ambition. To Take Judges Out of "Privileged Class." There is no mistaking the humor of the average citizen concerning the decision of th»» Supreme Court, that its membere and all other judges of Superior Courts, etc., are immune from the income tax on their salaries. The next legis lature will be called upon to sub mit an amendment to the already much "amended" State Constitu tion, whereby this unpopular pro vision will be expunged. Here is a fair sample of the crjticism of the "county" State papers—and voters might have the gents who aspire to represent 'them in the next general assembly define their position on the subject in the primaries. The Statesville Daily says: "This paper having predicted at the oatset that the Supreme Court would follow precedent and hold that taxing the salary of a judge is diminishing the salary, contrary to the constitution, the decision handed down by that body Wednesday was expected. That is to say, the Supreme Court elects to follow the decisions of former courts rather than the dictates of common sense, as the average layman defines common sense. This Supreme Court deci sion, however, will hardly end the matter. The Supreme Court of the people has yet to pass on the question, and if given an op portunity to adopt aoonstitutional amendment that will forever make impossible the creation of a class of tax-eaters who are ex empt from taxes, there is no sort of doubt as to what their decision will be. The Latest •curt decision, it may-bebe added, will not tend to create respeet has shown a tendency to deoline with the pas sing years." Cet the fu-Eitnpt BoutbtUm Too. Another expression along the same line, is the following from the Whiteville News Reporter, which says: The Supreme Court of the State has upheld Judge Devin in hold ing that Judges do not have to pay income tax on their salaries, because the Constitution says that their salaries shall not be diminished during their term of office. Doubtless there would have been stronger opposition in the Legislature to increase the salaries of (he Judges had it been intimated they would not have to pay like other folks. There are too many clases ex empt from taxation and too many tax-free bonds being issued for the poor man to ever get any relief from the burden he is now under. The next time the Constitution is amended we propose that it be amended so as to place everybody on equal footing when it comes to bear the burens of Government — Judges included. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. N. C. HOGS TOP THE RICHMOND MARKET Fed Right and Sold Oa March Ist They Show a Profit for the Hal-, ifax Farms. W. W. Shay in Farm Extension News. In the quotations of ho/ prices, the Baltimore and Richmond markets, »s a result of their ex perience with peanut fed scrubs of southern origin, usually follow their figures for real hogs with something like this: "Southern hogs from 1 cent to 3 cents less," or "Oily hogs, 3 cents less." A little light is thrown on the question that has somStimes been raised as to whether this difference was really due to lack of quality, or, as some were inclined to be lieve, to an unjust sectional dis crimination. OB January 3rd, Halifax farms, Inc., Scotland Neck, weighed out of their peanut fields, 43 head of purebred Duroc-Jersey hogs of July farrow. At that time they weighed 6,670 pounds, and, as the price of oily peanut fed hogs waf then 5 cents, these 49 head, which averaged 153 pounds* were worth $328.50. They were put on a feed of corn and tankage and again weighed 51 days later, February 23, when they weighed 9,718 pounds; an average of 226 pounds. On Tuesday, February 28, they were shipped to Richmond, Va., being accompanied by T. D. Temple, manager of the farm, and V. W. Lewis, of the N. C. Division of markets. On March Ist the following telegram was received by the office of swine extension. "W. W. Shay: Topped market on hogs at eleven and three-quatters. (Signed) Lewis & Temple." Now, as yet we have not the net Richmond weight of these hogs, but assuming that gains made between February 23, the last weight we have at hand, and their arrival at Richmond will take care of shrinkage, and fur ther, assumimg that they all chilled hard, we have the follow ing to consider: February 28—9,718 pounds at $11.75, *1,141.36. January 3—*6,570 pounds at $5.00, $328.50. Gain, 3,148 pounds Advance, $6.75. Increase, 1813 36. An increase in value in 51 days of 248 per cent. These demonstrations under actual farm conditions are beiug conducted in different parts of the state by the office of swine extension in cooperation with the county ageuts and wide-awake farmers. As a matter of fact, this is the second shipment made by Mr. Temple, he having so'd a bunch July 29, that averaged 204 pounds at #12.25 per hundred. A complete record of all feed used is kept. The hogs sold July 29 ate $5.72 worth of feed for each 100 pounds gain. In spite of this excellent record made by a real feeder, it is still possible to starve hogs to a cost of 20 ceuts per pound gain, and perhaps the next man you ask about it will tell you that "You can't afford to feed 'em corn." Ridicaie Philosophers frequently repeat that ridicule is the greatest des troyer. For instance, a politician may withstand much analytical or reasoning attack, but a touch of the right kind of ridicule will put him on the defensive, prob ably destroy him. Ridicule, however, often is prrphecy. All new things are ridiculed. The elevated railroad was ridicul ed by some of the greatest rail road men. The airplane was ridiculed in its infancy. Steel yourself against ridicule, if you have a new idea or a new device. Ridicule is only a tem porary handicap. George L. Tessey,a welljtuown Buffalo mechanic, said be had gained twelve pounds; his wife had gained tweuty-six pounds and bis daughter was gaining every aay, by taking Tanlac. Sold I by Kurreii Drug Co., Graham, N. C. WHAT CAROLINA NEEDS E. C. Lindeiuau, Professor of So- ciology, N. C. College for Wo men, in Univ. News Letter. \ * North Carolina cannot live on its past. What are we willing to give toward its future? Within the boundaries of this common wealth are all the r£quistites for the building of a great state —soil, climate, natural resources, means of communication, and au aspiring people. North Carolina needs faith iu herself To believe that the golden *ge lies in the past rather thau iu the future is a denial of faith. - VVhen the 1 ackward look domi nates a people it is already in the tirst stages of decay. North Carol'na needs a revision of its orgauic law. The present constitution must be made to square with the facts of modem times. A constitution which does not grow with a progressive people is destined in time to be come a barrier to further progress. North Carolina i e«-ds acounry iftV com mission. A stal« whose population is eighty percent rural can never go far beyond the aver age standard of living of its farm ing people The cooperative move ment is an indication that the farmer purposes to have a more distinct voice in his economic affaii'i. But, man does not live by bread alone —even though the bread be made from wheat scien tifically grown and cooperatively marketed. The good things of life —education, recreation, health, culture —may ay come to the resi dents of cities in their compact groups without additional stim ulus from the State. A country life commission would interest itself in promoting a more equal distribution of these good things to the fooi-prodnc rs. North Carolina needs au earn est, concentrated campaign to wipe out the blot of illiteracy. The level of a State's progress must always be gauged by the ex tent, of the people's ability to share in the thoughts, hopes, aspira tions, discoveries, and movements of huiiiapity. So long as North Carojiua has a white illiteracy rate higher than that of 46 other States in the Union, her level of progress will be lower thau it ought to be. "Great is our heritage of hope, and great The obligation of our civic fate." ftnitlumt AJaiwuM*. Cor. of The OleaDer Flu, rain and muddy roads have about closed out every thing in our community fgr awhile—po new gases for a tew days. The school has opened again to the delight of all the children. When a man of Ksq. Shaw's ability takes hold of road work and gets the cooperation of the community we can ex poet some thing to be done. Oakdale and Asbeboro played a very iuterefting game of baseball on the latter's ground Saturday eveuipg, the score being 12 and 13 in favor of Asheboro. Mr. M A. L'.ueberry iB slowly improving. Cross Hoads school will Jiave an Adtertaiumout at tjie close. Mrs. Barbara Kime is not im proving much since having the flu. Her case seems to be stub bom. It. M. Garner and family of Liberty spent Sunday evening in our community. It is no upcommon thing to »ee teams, (rucks and cars hung in the mud anywhere between the Randolph county line on the Libert}-Graham road and Bur lington and Graham. There are 12,000 railway work ers in India. Working days "loti" in the Unit ed Kingdom siucn the armistice total up to 61,000,i#Vi. London's lire department cost* ; #2,500,000 a year. Dwelling, Store Mid Lot for Sale ] ! I'have a 6 roofii dwelling,and store boose in Graham for pale, both oo same lot. A good buciness location. Keaaonable term* If interested, »«*' or call A. G. AUSLKV, Grubata, N. C. TWO NEW CREAMERIES TO START IN STATE. Farmers in Caldwell and Wilkes Counties orga n i z e—Alamance County Mentioned—State Imports Much Butter. N. C. Farm Extension News Two new cooperative creameries for North Carolina are assured, according to reports reaching the dairy extension office at Raleigh. Oue is at Lenoir in Caldwell coun ty, and the other at North Wilkes boro, NVilkes county. The Lenoir creamery has pur chased its machinery aud is erect ing a liuildiui; to house it. This creamery is an outgrowth of the work of County A&eut D. W. Roberts in cooperation with the Extension S-rvice. It is being organized on a I,U(JO-cow basis and will handle butter, eggs, and poultry for its farmer members. The director# of the North W'ilkesboro creamery met in Feb ruary with W. L. of thg U. S. Depart meiit of Agricul ture dairy introduction office, and made plans looking toward open ing this firing, possibly in April. At this meeting they made a list of the machinery needed and took steps to perfect their organiza tion They plan to begin opera tion with about 300 cows belong ing to charter members. Alamance county is also work ing on plans for a cooperative creamery, and County Agent W. Kerr Scott reports farmers who owu 400 cows already subscribed. Most of the creamery butter consumed in North Carolina now comes from Illinois, although W iscopsiu and New Yqrk butter makers alao sell in North Carolina. In 1021 North Carolina produced about 1,500,000 pounds of cream ery butter, while tnoore than this was probably produced on farms in the utate. The pre-war consumption of butter in the United States was larger than the per capita for 1921 of about 15 5 pounds. If North Caroliua folks their share of butter the state's total consumption would approach 38,000,000 pounds H year. First Year of Harding Administration Waahingtou Corrospoudoqce. No Republican in entirely ant isfiod .with results so far accom plished—-Congrensmiiii Carl W. Rlddick (Rep., Mont.), Chairman Publicity Committee, Republican Congressional Committee At the end of its fimt year the Harding administration finds it self politically bankrupt. All it H campaign notes have gone to protest. If government were sub jected to the ordinary vicissitudes of private business the Repub lican party would now bo in the hands of a receiver aud its leaders would be tramping the streets in search of a job.—New York World (Ind ). . The Postuiaater General (Llays) has not been worth a five cent piece since be has been Post master General. He does not know anything about the Post Office Department.—Congressman James R. Mann (Rep., III.), former Republican floor leader. The American people are be ginning to realise that they have been deceived. Three years of Republican control of Congress and one year of the jiarding ad ministration have crete examples of the disastrous consequences of Republican rule. —Senator William II King (Dem . Utah.) A little more treasury raiding, a little more .bludgeon politic**, ■ aud the matchless 7,(Mi,000 popu lar majority of the Republican party in the last presidential el ection will burv the Republican party in the u«xt election. —New York He -rid (Rep.). • Joe I.ark bought a pair o'shoes t'day from some money he had l»*f Iroiu the Wilson admiulsira litiM —A Ist Martin. Fierybody is giving this Con gress hell, —Congressman Wil liam R. Wood (R»*p , lnd ). X ivier, the famous Jesuit, first ; carried Chrialinuiiy to Jnpan in the sixteenth century. United Mates furnishes Japan with MIM>UI 4£ pur cent of all her outside supplies. St. Patrick's Day Celebration at Elon. Cur. of The Gleaner. Elon College, March 17. —St. Patrick's eve was duly celebrated by the Music Lovers' Club of the college in a delightful session of a busimss and social character inspired with music at the West End Ilall. with Mrs.Kirkland, Mrs. Kennett, and Miss Kirkland as the hostesses. The evening opened with a regular monthly business session of the club with Professor E. M . Betts presiding. A detailed re port of the State Federation meet ing at Gastonia last week was given by Mrs. W. A. Harp r, one of the delegates of the club to the Federation. Professor Betts told about the meeting of the National Federation at Asheville in June, and the consensus of opinion was that the club should be represent ed fully at that meeting. This is the first time the National Fed eration has ever met in a South ern State and thousands of dele gates are expected to be present. The music progiam was given over entirely to Wagner, being a consideration ol his master piece's, each part of the tetralogy being i carefully considered. Numbers of records were played on the! phonograph by the world's artists from the famous liind opera. Miss! Mary Graham Lawrence played the Magic Fire Music as one of the numbers of the program. Papers were read on the story | of Das Rheingold by Miss Marion 1 Lee Newman, Memalkure by U.j VV. Everett, Siegfried by L. W. Vaughau, and Got terdainmorong by Mrs. W. A Harper. Following the music program a social hour was enjoyed by the members of the club, during which the hostesses served a delightful luncheon consisting of chicken salad .saltines, tomatoes with may onaise dressing, green punch, fruit cake and mints. The decorations of the evening were in St. Patrick's favorite color. Shamrock leaves were in evidence everywhere. At 10:00 o'clock the club ad journed to meet with Dr. Amick >tud Miss Hawk in its next month ly session. Those present were Mesdaraes K. L. Sturm, W. A. Harper, F. J. Ring, L. W. Vaughan, W. P. Law rence, F. H. Corboy, Misses Flor ence Fisher, Stella Hendricks, Huth Hawk, Marion Lee and Lila Newman, Kate Wheeler, Margaret Corbitt, and Messrs T. C. Amick, N. G. Newman, K. M. Betts, B W. Everett, L. W. Vaughan and W. A. Harper. The visiting guests of houor were Prot. C. Humph reys, Mary Graham Lawrence, Ruth McDow, and Annie Tripp. Paris chairwomen have formed a union, adopted a wage scale and new conditions of work. Owls are great mouse and rat catchers, besides killing harmful insects. Shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea av erage one for every day in the year. There is one telephone to every eight inhabitants in the United States. Delaware has an average eleva- j tiou of sixty feet above sea level. | HERE'S PROOF A Craham Citizen Telia ul IIU perlenee. You have u to doul>t state imeiitH of >pie living far away but| Canyon doubt a Graham endorse-. ruent'' Read it : A. T Webster, Poplar Street, 'Graham, sr.s: "I suffered se- Iverely from pain-i across the nmall j iof my back and there was a sore- j > ness through my kidneys. The kid ney acertrtionH were unnatural, too.. : Finally I used Doan's Kidney Pills : and uon was much better in every i I way. I hive hid bit little naiii I in "my back since an I kidney secreti ms have cleared up," Over ten years later Mr. Webster 'added, '"I Wiuld not be without Doan's Kidney Pills {>r anything |as I think they are the boat kid' ney medicine on the market. They ! put me on my feet when f had j kidney complaint and I advise i'anyone who has this trouble to jtake them." j Price H'te, at all dealers. Don't , [simply.ask for a kidney remedy— . (jet Doan's Kidney Pills—the game that Mr. Webster had. Poster- Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffala, N. Y. NO. 7 Secretary Hughes' Mistakes May Cost Us $241,000,000 Washington Correspondence. In discussing the "Four-Power Treaty, Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark.,) called the attention of the Senate to what he characterized j as the two great mistakes made by Mr. Hughes relating to our foreign affairs He said: "Secretary Hnghes is a great man and a great lawyer. But j there stands out in recent history two great mistakes that he made. "You all recall that when the last election was imminent, he, with thirty-nine other Republi cans signed a letter which was sent broadcast over the country saying that he favored the League Jof Nations, and that the way to I get the United States into the League was to elect Mr. Harding ( President. Nevertheless, when j the election WHS over, he found he wis mistaken, and he never has made an explanation of it. "He made another misstatement with regard to the question of in demnity from Germany. Under the,treaty of, Versailles it. was pro vide I that expenses incurred in maintaining the armies of occu pation should have priority in in demnity claims We run up a bill of some 8241,0u0,0u0, and now the other powers are claiming, that since we are not signatory to the treaty of Versailles wo did not ienter into that priority. That 1 was not included in the separate (treaty, so because Mr. Iltlghes failed to safeguard our rights in | one way or another we are in I danger of losing this $241,000,- lOOu.? ■ "This Tan lac is really the first medicine I have ever taken that does what they say it will do," suid J. F. II illy, Lexington, Ky. Sold by Farrell Drug Co., Gra ham, N. C. Japan has well over a million acres devoted to the growing of mulberry trees for silk worms. Rub-My-Tism, anticeptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia .rheu matism, —ad. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-atLaw, GRAHAM, N. C. Associated with John 9. Henderson. Ollire over National Bank of Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Couascllor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W. S. Coulter, Noe. 7 ind 8 First National Bank Bldg. S. C SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to a p. in., and by appointment. Phone D 7) GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: t) to 11a. m. and liy appointment Otllue Over Acme Drug Co. Telephone*: OJlice 110 Residence 264 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorncy-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. llllec over National Bank ot Alaaaae* T. S. C O OK, Attarnoy-Mt- Ls« * H x m N. C odloe Patterson Building SiKioiid Floor. . . . •IK. WILL UO.\G,JR. . . PENTIST : : s • '•ham .... North Carallaa '""PICK IN PARIS BUILDING J. ELMER L'ISC LOUIS C. ALLEN Durham, N. C. Graham, Si. C. LONG & ALLEN, v i * oriinya and C'ounaelor* at Law GRAHAM, K. C.