VbL. XLVIII Democratic State Con vention Meets Today Not a Few Aspirants to Enter Pri maries—Number of Carolinians Who Served in World War Not Available, but Some Figures Given. FEDERAL JUDGES HOLD FOR STATE AGAINST RAIL ROADS AGAIN. State Bankers Meet at Pinehuret April 26-28. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, April 18.—The Demo cratic State Convention Thursday is tho event of this week and the "key-note" speech to be delivered by Congressman Ed W. Pou of the fourth (Raleigh) district, tem porary presiding officer, the out standing feature of that occasion. Some of the party's guardians and "leaders" are on the pre liminary scene and many an old political hen will be set during the week on seven-months egge, designed to be hatched out in No vember. The third congressional district is causing more anxiety than any other spot in the party firma ment at present, there being a whole setting of eggs in that one district alone for the prinmry to dispose of before hatching time. At least a half-dozen aspirants, including Charles F- Abernethy and Larry Moore of New Bern, Matt Allen of Uoldsboro, Dr. Carr of Duphtafand others, are expect ed to file notices this week. Saturday is the last day for aiiy citizen who wants to be congress man, judge, solicitor, state sena tor, associate justice or corpora tion commissioner on either ticket to declare himself and pay his fee. The lists close next Satur day night at midnight, though any notification bearing the Stamp of April 2i will be accept ed and filed. Four judicial districts, congres sional districts, seven solicitor ships, scores uf those who will seek senatorial honors and the place ou the Corporation Commis sion were unspoken for by either Republican or - Democrat. But few RHpublicans have applied for any office, though 4 lull roster of them is expected before the ex piration of the lime limit. The twelth juiicial district showed up with opposition to J Allen Austin when his feilow townsuiau T. W. Albertson, filed his iiiteutiqu to run for solicitor in that district. Judge T. J. Sliaw, also of that district, filed notice of his intent to run for renomua tion. Among the latest eni rants listed are: Thomas J. Shaw, Greensboio, Judge Superior Court, t welt- dis trict; W. H. Fisher, Clinton, (It), solicitor, sixth district ; T. W. Alberteou, lligh Point (L)), nolic itoi, twelfth district; G D Bath-), Burnsville (R ), solicitor, eight eenth district; Jas. .VI Carson, Rutherford ton solicitor seuth district; J. E. Swain, A-»he yille (L).), solicitor, nineteenth district. Figure* About T»r Heel* la the \V«r. Following a request Troin Com missioner \V. A. Graham of the North Ca/oliua' Department of Agriculture, Senator Simmons ob tained iuforuiatiou from the Ad jutant General'* office, War De partment, sayiug thai complete figures showing ihe number of North Carolina men who served in the world war are not yet available but the following eati mates would be given: "The most recent estimates, based upon the number of state ment* of service thus far complet ed, indicate that approximately 4, 438, 000 men served in the army as enlisted men during the period of hostilities, of whom - • ' • • THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. fronr the state of North Carolina. It has also been estimated that 3,- 865 of the 206, 350 commissioned officers oamn from that state. "Recently compiled casualty statistics show that 2, 505 North I Carolina soldiers, of whom 7( were commissioned officers and 2, 429 were enlisted men, lost their lives during tho period of the war, and that 3, 823 others, including 156 officers, were wounded." State Win* Again In Railroad Tax Court Order. The State of North Carolin» and the State Department of Rev enue, A. D. Watts, commissioner, have again won a court fighi against the big railroad systems that have been delaying payment of income taxes. Again arguing their suit against the taxiug department of the state, the railroads were unabl. to move the federal judges who recently denied their application, 1 their honors refusing again to con tinue the injunction pending the hearing of that appeal before the United States Supreme Court. The carriers are in the anomal ous position of asking an injunc tion against nothing. The court has dismissed the action against the state. The roads have ap pealed. But the real purpose ol the application uow before the court is to stay the collection of the taxes. The three judges who sat in these cases point the roadt to the highest court. They refuse to stop payment until they are themselves stopped. Judges Connor and Waddill, who heard the informal argumem of the railroads, granted thirtj days to the roads, thus staying the state's procedure against the companies another month to give the Supreme Court of the United States a chance to act. After the expiratiou of that thirty days the roads will have to pay what amounts to a substantial million dollars annually in taxes. Judge Connor, sitting alone, set June 15th for the final"bearing on the income tax feature of the litiga tion. Former Associate Justice George H. Brown of the Supreme Court, Thomas D. Warren, Judge Wil'iam P. Byuum aud Attorney General James S. Manning ap peared for the state, and Col. W. B. Rodman, Col. Thos. W. Davis Col. Harry Skinner, Murray Allen, W. M. Hendren and James F. Wright appeared for the several roads. Big Time at Hankers' Meet. North Carolina bankers, iu all the towns of North Carolina, are looking forward with pleasure to next week. Prominent speakers at the an nual convention of the North Carolina Bankers' Association, to be .held at Pinefiurst April 26-28, will include Senator Dial of South Carolina; Walter VV. Head of Omaha, Neb., vice-president of the American Bankers' Associa tion; George J Seav, governor of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, and Oliver J. Sands, Gen eral manager of the Tobacco Co operative marketing Association. The convention will be called to order at 11 o'clock on the morning of Apail '2oth at tbe Car olina Hotel, and the address of welcome will be made by Hon. Robert N. Page, president of the Citizens liauk aud Trust Company of Southern Pines. The response will be made by T. A. Avera of Rocky Mount. C. C. Kirkpatrick of New Bern will deliver an ad dress on "How to Make North Carolina Pay Dividends." G. F. Moore of New York City will deliver an address at the night session. On the second day Messrs. Sands and Seay will speak, aud J. W. Vaughn of Cartersvllle, Ga., will discuss the livestock industry. Seuator Dial and Mr. Head will speak on the third day of the con vention which will close with a business session in th* afternoon. The Pinehurst management hat made special provision for enter taining tne visitors. There will be golf everyday, races and danc ing in the evening. A feature of the meeting will be shooting exhi bitions by Miss Annie Oakley. A. M. Dumay of Washington, N. C. f is president of the associa tion, and Allau T. Bowler of Ral eigh Is secretary. The rice-presi- GRAHAM, N. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 192 a dents are: C. E. Brooks of Way nes ville, John D. Biggs of Willinmstoh and S. A. Hubbard of Asheville. T. A. Uzzell of New Bern is treasurer. ' Former Soldiers and Sailors Dis missed in Violation of Law. In view of the recent wholesale discharges of government em ployees, including many former soldiers and sailors, Senator Cara way (Dem., Ark,) introduced a resolution calling upon the Presi dent to tell how many «.f such former sailors and soldiers in the classified service had been dis missed, demoted or had their' salaries reduced, and cited the following Federal statute. "In the event of reduction be ing made in the forces in any of executive de&partments, no honor ably discharged soldier or sailor whose record in said department is rated good shall be discharged or dropped or reduced iu rank or tn s ilary." Commenting on this, Senator Caraway said: "Quite a number of soldiers and sailors with honorable dis charges who were within the classified service have been dis missed from the service without* any explanation. Three of them are in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. There are many of them in the Navy Yard. There were some of them in the Treas ury Department, and the depart ments are disniissing'soldiers and sailors with honorable discharges whose records are good, and we want to know why. "There is a crv all over this country now that there is no re spect for the law. How can we complain when some one becomes a bootlegger if the highest execu tive officer iu the land and cabinet officers disrtgard the law and de prive men of their rights? We canhot build up a respect for law und at the same time let those who are charged witu the duty of enforcing it iguore it. The law is as binding upon the President a upon the humblest citizen in tho land;' Senator Caraway brought ou a coloquy with Senator • Sterling (Newberry Rep., S. D.), Chairman of the Civil Service Committee, when he expressed the belief that his resolution would be smothered in committee, and then added: "But there is a court of appeal, above Presidents and rfbove Cabi nets, to which court these people who have had their blackened, and who have bet n denied the right to make an honest living, can appeal. These women who were discharged can appeal to that court. These ex-service men, who went out when Congress declared that a state of war ex isted between this country and Germany, who laid down their civil employments and imperiled their lives and their futures to save this country, now have their rights taken from them by the Executive and the Cabinet, anu they have an appeal. It lies be yond this administration; it lies in the common sense and fairness and justice of the American peo ple, and I am confident, sir, de spite all that may happen hero, despite what the Senate may do, that the American people are go ing to hear that appeal, and do justice by these men and these women. I do not care whether they vote the Republican ticket or the Democratic ticket; they have a right to look to the Ex ecutive and to Congress of tho United States for justice, and when it is denied them, there is somebody, somewhere, who is go ing to rebuke those who sit in high places, and ignore the rights of those iu humbler stations." Funny World Crawford —I suppose there'll always be jealousy among the dif ferent sets of society. Crabshaw —The next genera tion will probably see descend ants of smugglers turn up their noses at newer families which got their start in the bootleg business. The big reputation of Tanlac has been made by doing what other medicines failed to do. Foe sale by Farrell Drug Co., Graham, N. C. Collectors meet many men of promise. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Delegates to State and Judicial Conventions Elected Pursuant to the ,cal| of the Couit y Chairman, C. R. Love, ihe -Democaatic.'Convention- met in the Courthouse .in Grab tin, at 11 o'clock* * Saturday, (- ApriJ 15, 1922. W. S. Coulter was elected, temporary chairman, and J),, J. Walker, temporary, _secretary. The object of ihe c invention, as slated by the chairman* WHS to elect delegareß to .tire State, Co nvention, that is jo meet iu R-if eigh, Thursday, Api'il 20tJu.t .. The following' ware nominated, ahfl elected, as delegates aud al ternates to the State convention: Delegates: R. J. Thompson, Fred HomeSvood, Mrs C. K, Tap scott, J. J. Lambeth, W.S Franks, R. L. Holt, L. A. McCauley, E. S» Parker, J-rif Pleas Ueanes,. ,1. BuCk tier, Jack Roiioy, \lr*. J- Uolph Long, Ebb Holt, Ed J Braxton, Miss Alma Stookard, J. Williamson,' L'hiis A. !Q»onip* son, Mrs. Kerr Scott, ,\\. O. Warren, ■A. Is. Fitch,. Waiter E. StaiulMCk, A M Carroll,, ,W. K. Holt, O F. GPOW.HOII) C. LI. Love, Mrs J. II Vernon, Mrs. W.J. Barker, C.D.Storv, Mrs.-Allen Bur.oughs, T. ll.* Iseley, ThoW Sewell, E B. Horner, Mrs. A. 11. King, W. H. Carroll. Alternates:- Mrs.-J. M. Coblo, A S. Thompson, J. B. Gerringer, E. C. RulnJbley, J.-S. Gilliam* Lawrence Huffmau; John Vaughn, Mis Allen D. Tate, Mrs. P.A.Holt, Dr' W. S. Long, Jr.,. L. C. Allen, A W. Norwood, William Coble, Walter Stockard, Miss Lavina Lewis, Henry James, M ss Annie Minor; W. Wi Corbett, J. S. Vincent, Miss .Jenuie, Lasley, Mrs. E. L Dailey, John M. Cook, W. J. Geaham, Dr. T. S. Fancette, ('. L. 3hoffner, A. A. Apple, Miss Cor.una Gant, Mrs. tola Line berry, Miss Lena Walton, Mrs. F. L. Gr.ves, Mrs J. Rainey-I'srker, W. li. Sellars, J..-K-. Moone., It was uloved and capried that any citizen or citizens attending the convention, who has not been J named a delegate, shall be deemed a delegate either to the J.udicial couventiou or tliO State conven tion, or to both. It was moved aud carried that the committees of the various voting precincts, together with their chairmeu be reaffirmed, as such chairmen and committee, until their successors sliall bo I elected at the regular county con- and the various chair meu of the said committees are constituted an advisory boaVd of the cjuuty chairman aud the "County Board of Elections. All Cows in County to be Tested for Tuberculosis. The County Board of Commis sioners, on April 3rd, agreed to meet tiie offer inale by the State and Federal governments to test the cattle in this county for tuberculosis. This move ranks with the stock law and the "Tick Eradication" law. It is a very important niove for the dairy in dustry for the couservation of henlth of all who drink inilk, nature's best food. Within the next sixty days plans will be made for tlie Jest ing of all cattle. Those found to be infected will be killed or quar antined. For all vrade cattle the State will pay $25 and the Federal goveruineut a like amount. For purebreds a total of $1(X) will be paid Several herds in the county have been known to be infected. A county free of this dreaded disease is a valuable asset. At least 25 per cent of all tubercu losis in the hurpan family comes | from drinking ' infected milk Thirty-six people died ip.lhe county last year of tub»*rculo»»ls I have often beeii ask ml by pur chasers of cattle here tf there was auy tuberculosis in the county. We can tVothfully say after this test that there is none. W. KKKK SCOTT, • (Jo. Agent of . Alamance County, Harness your en rxy with Cum mon seuse. Tailor t»ir«t it* known by that name because it bo»»» the leaves of its nest together. Cooperative Tobacco Association.Notes. llnudfeds of contracts reaching Raleigh, headquarters of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Assouiaiiou, every week marks lio MU'vohHful start of the cam pa gii fur h 70 per tout meuiber snip. Carrying out its policy of ob taining tlie services of leaders, in the loiiacco the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association Ims announced the appoiulhient jof another groiipe of men whose names are widely known iu the tobacco world. ! Charles L. Smith, District Man ago r of the Universal Leaf Tobac co Company, has accepted the position of District Supervisor of Graders iu the Leaf Department oftlte I'obacco Growers' Coope rative "Association. , . '"Couiuieuiiug ou Mr. Smith's appointment, R. R. l'attersou, Manager of the Leaf Department, said,, "We consider hiiu one of the best leal tobacco meu iu tho busi uet-s and his reputation among the tobac o men iu the Eastern Carolina section is unsurpassed." Another veteran of the tobacco trade, who leaves the Imperial Tobucco Company for the Tobac co Growers' Cooperative- Associa tion, is W. I. Skinner, of Green ville, N. C., according to an-, nouucemcut by R. R. Patterson, Manager of the Leaf Department at Richmond, Virginia. Beginning his career as a buyer with J. M. Meadors at Gxford, N. C.,when fifteen years of age, Mr. ->k in nee was later connected with E. S Carlton & Company. Later going to Wilson, with Richuioud Maury fc Company, he became connected with the Maxwell To bacco Company after the dentil of Mr. Maur) and remained with .that company until the foruiatiou of the Imperial TobacCo Cotupauy iu 1902. For sixteen yearsj Mr. Skinuer has beeu Branch Mauager for the Imperial at Greefcville.N. C., aud is .described by, General Mauager R. Ii Patterson as su expert iu the tobacco business. He will go to the Leaf Department of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. ' E. L. Waltdn, until recently owuer of the Bauner Warehouse at Danville, Virginia, will become Mauager of the Warehouses for the Bright Belt of Virginia in the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. Mr. Walton has had twenty-eight years expedience in the Warehousing business. W. M. Fallon, for eighteen years Branch Manager for the Imperial Tobaco Company of Durham, N. C., joins the "Leaf Department of the growers' association. » C. O. Dixou, of Muliius, S. C., well know Q to the tobacco trade, has become Managed of Warehouses for South Carolina. J. S. Neal and John Dixon, prom inent warehousemen of Mullinß, S. C , have'transferred their ware houses to the Association aud will aid the organized growers in their Warehousing and Leaf Depart ment, respectively. The appointment of P. E. Chambers of Blackstone, Va., a» Manager of the Warehouses for the Dark Belt assures the northei n territory of the Marketing Associ ation strongleadership, according to T. C. Watkins, Jr., Manager of Warehouses for the-'Association Removing Acid spirit* of ammonia to neu t rrtliz'f any acid slain un clothing, lhen wash with wat«r and if nec oMnry apply chloroform to restore the color. lintel Clerk—llow altout an oni Mm room? /* TVa i>ack —Would it cost much more to sleep inside? ,Soni» NiiaiU in Ce.\ lon attain a 1 ngih of from four to five Inches. Wo in Tanlac aud BO will you if you try it. Hold by Kartell Drug Co., Qruhaui, N. C. "HELLO" BARRED IN BOSTON According t» Superintendent of Schools Burke the Word le Both Undignified and B!ovenly. Do not «ay "Hello" when you pick op the telephone. Avoid "Nope" and "Yep" In your conversation when you mean "No" or "Yea." If Boston In going to sustain lta rep utation as the Athens of America, It must quit the use of theae barbarisms, according to Jeremiah E. Burke, new superintendent of Boston schools. It Is more In accordance with Bos ton culture to aay something like "This is Mr. Smith talking; with whom am I converaingT" "There are many words," Superin tendent Burke says, "which may be used in place of that moth-eaten, un dignified and impolite' word 'HeUo.' Its use is condemned in Boston schools, particularly lnclasses In mftes manship where knowledge of dignified and grammatical English is essential. There Is m> excuse for the use of •Nope' and 'Yep' In conversation. I believe that If Boston school children will check themselves in their use, parents at home will gradually dis pense with their use. "My advice to the children In Bos ton schools Is: "Don't be slovenly In the use of Eng lish. Slovenliness Is the result of hab it, and once tolerated, It is likely to cling to all of us until mature life."— Boston American. ETIQUETTE THAT SEEMS ODD Table Manners at the Time of Chau cer Were of a Decidedly Primi tive Character. Tabic manners at the time of Chau- j cer were described In a lecture by Kenneth Hare, author nnd poet, on/' A Holiday In London In the Days of j Chaucer." Ktlquette tjj those days (t,he 11 latter half of the Fourteenth cen- I ( turyj demanded that meat should be ■ ] held between two lingers and a thumb of the left hand, &nd no more, If one . was to be received In polite society. ' After soup, pike roasted In claret and j flavored with strange and varied splcea j waa eaten. Then followed partridge roasted with saffron, cloves and Kin- j ger, and Jam tarts and Jelly. It was the custom to change the j cloth with the courses, and one read . of one feast In which each new cloth | was scented with a perfume appropri ate to the dish. In Chaucer's day the j bath In construction was not unlike a miniature pulpit, and a bouquet of j 1 sweet scented herbs was hung over \t [ ■ for the stream to draw out their re- j freshing qualities. ____________ The Man In ths Moon. |' Observations made from August, 1920, to February, 1921, by Prof. Wil liam Henry Pickering of Harvard, who la one of the world's leading astron- 1 oroers and an authority on lunar and j Martian phenomena, tend, he asserts, | to prove beyond doubt that life exists ' on the surface of the moon. The ' professor bases his assertions on a | aeries of telescopic photographs at a 1 crater with a circumference of 37 [ miles. Hundreds of photographic re- j productions have. It It stated, proved Irrefutably the springing up at dawn, i «ith an unbelievable rapidity, of vasti fields of foliage, which come Into full j blossom Just as rapidly, and which disappear In a maximum period of 11 j days. The plates also show that great | bllzxards, snowstorms and volcanic j eruptions are frequent. "We And," J says the professor, "a living world at i our very doors where life In some re spects resembles that of Mars—a world which the astronomical profes sion has In past years utterly neglected ; and Ignored." ———————— : Ship Has 18,000 Bpoona. We may be cutting down our war- j ! ships. There Is no reduction In our ! liner*. Tills applies to nlr,e no well ns i to number. Take the White Stnr liner. Majestic., ! The Inrgest steamer in the world Is aptly named! Its tonnnge Is VJ.OOoj I and It Is to carry ]•»,**> knives. 10.000 ; forks 18,000 spoons, 4&.000 pieces. of plate In all, 178,000 pieces of linen and 270,000 pieces of crystal nnd 1 glassware. When one sdils It cargo, crew and liassengers, one's hrnln almost stag gers at the responsibility which will rest on the shoulders of the captain. —London Answers. Shoved Off. 'lire Chasseurs Alplns, those classy French fighting men who helped train tho marines who first went to France, could never quite get accustomed .to sume of the marine corps lingo. One of the 111 us Devils bad learned the meaning of the sea-going phrase "shove-off," but when be liad his first chance to use It he was—as the say- Is—not there. •' -Hey, French," said a Leatherneck, "have you seen our lieutenant around T* "Out, monsieur, uvl," said the pollu, ■-truKK'lng to remember the elusive phrase, "he have—what you call pushed oter." —The Leatherneck. NO. 11 Roosevelt vs. Harding. Discussing the dismissals of the officials of the Bureau of Engrav ing ami Printing, Representative Robert Walton Moore (Dem., Va.,) not ouly pointed out who probab ly prepared the order of dismissal, but drew this striking contrast, between the action of President Harding and what would have, been the action of Theodore Roosevelt in similar circumstances Mr. Moo I'M said "It is a circumstance of marked significance in the estimation of those who dread a return to the spoils system that only a few days before the President's order wag issued his Attorney General pro claimed himself hostile to the present system. His" utterance was not rebuked by the President, but, nevertheless, I am relucant to believe that he spoke with the President's authority and ap proval. There have been Presi dents who would uot only have rebuked him, but dismissed Jhiua for the good of the service. -Mr. R >osevelt, who would now, had he lived, almost certainly be in the Presidency, who abhorred the spoils -ysteuis and was among the staunchest and mo*t resolute de fenders of the merit system, wonld Bitrelv not have-countenanced the Uociriue wh eh the Attorney Gen eral has proclaimed, nor, in uiy opinion, is it conceivable that he would have signed the order which tho Attorney General doubtless prepared/' Gleaning Rubber. Kerosene will clean rubber, es pecially rubber that is constantly cotring in contact with water as rounds of a. clothes wringer. Rub-My-Tiam, anticeptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia .rheu matism, —ad. Crater of an extinct volcano in Java is called the Valley of Death. You get your money's worth when you buy Taulac, because it prpduces results For sale by Farrell Drug Co., Graham, N. C. Distributing our wheat crop is a greater feat than growing it. PROFESSIONAL CARDS \ LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-atLaw, GRAHAM, N. C. ; ' Associated with John I. Henderson. Office over National Bank of Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated wilh W. S. Coulter, > Not. 7 *nd 8 Fir«t Nstlonsl Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M.D~ Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. Hours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to 'J p. in., and , by j Phone 97j GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Ollliu Hours: 0 to 11 a.m. nnd l>y appointment Offlce Over Acme Drug Co. j Telephones: Office llO—Residence 261 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Olllcc over National Bank ol alsmt, r. s. "a ©oic, Attarnay-at- Lao KAH\M. - - • • N. 0 I .. omou Patterson Building Second Floor. . , . Wt. WILIUOMJR. . DENTIST ; : : .Kilt - - Nsrth Carolina KKICK IN PARIS BUILDING I J. RIMRII I. l.\G LOUIS C. ALLEK Durham, Si. C. ,■ »rahaoi, N. C. LONG & ALLEN, . i.,m»ys nnd CJonnsslnrsat 1 .»v» ■ Gkauam, a. C.