VOL. XLVIII Woodrow Wilson Applauded at.. Convention WHEN NAME MENTIONED BY SPEAKERS. Tobacco Growers Advised Not to Over-crop This Year —The State's Standing in Crop Production, Manu « factures and Other Ways. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, April 25.—Eleventh hour entrants at the office of the State Board of Elections revealed the fact that Congressman E. W Pou, who has represented the Fourth (Raleigh) District for the last twenty-two years, will have two Democratic opponents in thf June primaries—Solicitor H. E. Norris of Wake, and ex-Senator Wiley M. Person of Franklin. By reason of selection as tem porary presiding officer of the Democratic State Convention her last Thursday, Congressman Pou got into the limelight of notice early in the convention stages ant delivered a fine convention speech At that time it looked like he would have no opposition for nomination for a 12th term, al though Solicitor Norris lias been figuring on running for some time lie did not qualify, however, till Saturday night by filing notice with the State Board of Elec tions. Wiley M. Person had been an active and campaigning candidate for solicitor up to that.time But suddenly he becamo a congres sional candidate and threw up the sponge of solicitorial aspirations. Person vfould have carried Frank lin for solicitor, but whether he can poll a majority in his own county as a congressional candi date remains to be seen. » The fact that Armistead Joues, veteran politician of Wake coun ty and com tuander-in-chief of the so-called ' Jones faction" in Wake politics, presented Pou to the state convention would indicate that the "'Jonen faction" would back Pou against Norris. If that contingency eventuates, it re mains to be seen, also, whether Mr. Norris can carry his owe coun ty under such conditions. Congressman Pou's friends (who are by no means limited to the "Jones faction") do not regard his candidacy as being seriously en dangered—so they assert; Mr. Norris thinks dilferfenth. It Was a H I on Convention. It is p»rtin'-it to refer to the Democratic Slate Convention o( last week as having been one thing more particular than anything else—it was emphatically a Wilson crotfd. Applause had been of a mild character aud not of a contagious variety until temporary presi dent, launched out into the broader iield of national affairs aud utter tered the name of Woo*lrow Wil son, whom he declared in his clos ing peroration to have beau "di*. viuely appointed" to meet J,he great crisis which our people were called upon to master during the period of the world war. Every succeeding speaker got the cue, and when the audience seemed lisllfs* or unresponsive, he had only to refer in some wty to Woodrow Wilson to get the conveutiou's lung-power again into the runping—aud they aJI took advantage of that early recognized fact. Governor Morrison talked some big facts aud bigger promise* anent what the present sUt'e ad ministration is accomplishiag (and there's no doubt about it, either.) Would-be (and may-yet-be) gov ernor Max Gardner talked aud told 'em he wouldn't ruo this Lima, not being an easterner —aud got a welcome and glad baud. Josephus Daniels talked aud spread it ou the woiaeu (as usual) THE ALAMANCE GLEANER and gave 'em all the brains man| had (if it waa a boy's innocent conception of the creation of Eve out of Adam's brain, instead of his rib) and would have given them other parte of man's anat omy, no doubt, if he had thought it would have improved their ap pearance and nlinched their votes for the Democratic candidates. But it was when each of tliem bro'ught "the crippled soldier at Washington" into the discourse that the>y r c rived loudest and moat natural and hesrtfelt ap plause. Had that convention been asked to "name the next president," there would have been but oue man 'thought of —and who may say that his health may not be restored ere the next national convention shall be called to. name "the next president." Carp«raU4» Comnlnlon aud C. K.& «y. V, Winston-Salem's station hear-; ing WHS posjioned by the Corpora tion otumission from April 2$ to ( May 1(3, the first date thatthei pnurt has for getting away en : masse. The aotumission goes to Wash ington to look out for the state's interest in the proprosed grouping of railroad systems. While the commission does not go so far as to advocate the Greeti.xlmro desire to honk up the Cape Fear aud Yadkin Valley with the Norfo k and Western, the commission will lend its help to such advantages as the cities and lo alities show in this pro prosed assimilation of the many roads under the big systems. Don't Overproduce This Year. Warning of the danger of an over-production ot tobacco Rich ard R. Patterson, general man ager of the leaf department of the Tobacco Growers' Co-opera tive Association, points out some errors to be avoided by the seven ty thousand organized growers of Virginia aud the Carolinaa. "Th* fundamental means of success, as individuals and an association at present is to make good tobacco," said Mr. Patterson. "This is especially important with the present small demand for low grades and the continued world demand for medium and higher grade tobaccos suitable for cigarette purposes. "The world consumption of bright flue-cured tobaccos is ap proximately 400,000 000 pounds a year. You cau readily see that it is to the advantage of the asso ciation to avoid as far as possible an over-production which would mean that we might have to carry over the surplus. "There was produced in 192U aronnd 600,000,000 pounds of bright flue-cured tobaccos in Geor gia, South Carolina, North Caro lina and Virginia. The 1921 crop, which we have just finished sell ing, in round figures, was 425,- 000,000 pounds, which brought an average price of 121.40. "Eastern Carolina produced 125,0U0,000 pounds and t.he Vir ginia-Carolina old belt 185,000,000 pounds. "There was a great quantity of the old-belt types which sold at a very low figure, due to the fact that there was no market for it, "If we have favorable seasons aud the proper care is taken of the growing crops, we will not be placed in the position of having to dispose of a large percentage of low-grade types for whiqh there is scarcely any demand." Htate Forging Ahead. North Carolina's rank among the forty-eight states of the Union is emphasized strongly in the leaflet issued by the state in ad vertisement for bids on f15,000,- 000 highway serial bonds to be re ceived until nooq, April 27th, by the staU* treasurer. Here is North Carolina'* stand ing among the states as there listed: "First in aannal value of manu factured tobacco. "Firstin number of cotton mills. "Fusst in annual value, pet acre, of farm crops. " Second in annua) value of cot ton textiles manufactured. "Fifth in asooal value of all farm crops. -'Seventh in annual amount of federal internal revenue paid by citizsos. "Fourteenth in populatian. "Fifteenth in annual value of ali jnaoufaotares. *GRAHAM, "The water power development in the state is of great value; and when fully developed it is esti mated that 2,000,0UU horse-power wi'l be available." Beating the 801 l Weevil C. B. Williams, Dean of Agricul ture, N. C. State College of Agriculture and Engineering. The cottou boll weevil has reach ed our state and is each year ad vancing northward in it. Our cottou growers, if they are to con tinue in the growth of cotton profitably, especially in much of the Coastal Plain section, must all soon adopt methods that will effectively control or reduce to the minimum the ravages of this pest. The methods of the past will have to give way to morn effective ones. The following are some of the precautions and meth which will have to be used in reducing the severity of by this.peat and in making cotton growiug most productive and ,pro4table under boll weevil in festation 1. Be calm, use generally good farming methods. Meet his at tack with courage if you wish to win out. 2. Plant cotton only on up lands. Que will run a big risk to plant bottom lands or lands ncr wooded areas, particularly so in entreme eastern aud southeastern parts of the state. 3. Use at least 600 pounds of fertilizer to the acre, coutaiuiuga larger proportion of phosphoric acid than is ordinarily used, avoiding the use of fertilizers too rich in nitrogen. 4. Breaking lands well for cot ton early in the fall or winter. Plant as early in the spring as ground is warm. Cultivate well and frequently to keep plants growing vigorously from start. 5. Plant smaller acreage and keep fields free from rubbisli, grass, weed*, and buahes. 6. Pick up and destroy all first, squares that have been puuetpred. In planting use a plenty of well matured seed. 7. Secure and maintain a moderately thick stand, not ex ceeding 8 to 12 inches between hills This will cause the plants to make smaller growth and to mature quicker. Have rows about 4 feet apart. 8. Grow sufficient food aud feed crops to meet the needs of farm. 9. Avoid excessive rank growth of cotton plants. 10. Field select seed, and use for planting, early fruiting aud early opfuiiug varieties of cotton like Cleveland Big 8011, Express, or Edgecombe-Cook. 11. After leathering, cotton destroy cotton stalks, weeds, etc , by plowing in five or six inches deep in the fall before froft, then put the land in suitable cover cro[»s. 12. Establish a good crop rota tion in which suitable leguminous crops with the lquiu money crops are used. TJie most powerful lighthouse iij the world is uuder countructiou oil Mount Africa, neartiv Dijon, France. Ir is intended for HU air station and a guiding light for the (treat airway to the east and south of Europe. The beam >f lifjlit thrown from two groups of lamps of the lighthouse lias an iniens ty of 2,000,000,000 candle power and the flash will be seen at a distance of nearly 200 miles. "I have sold over 2,000 bottle# of Tan lac aud h-ive never hal a dissatisfied customer," write* Smiser's Drug Store. Columbia, Tenn. Sold by Farrell Drug Co., Graham, N. C. Ostrich, biggest bird in the worHJ, has proportionately the smallest brain. Falconry, the art of hunting with trained birds, was known in China about 2000 B. C. DevH-flnh varies in length from 1 ioob to 60 feet. ~ At her corouMtion in 1701 as Queen of Persia, Sophia Chariot )h wore jewel* worth inore than $ 1, 000,000. Mexico City has two baseball leagues and Veu first-class dia mouds. N. C., THURSDAY. JUDGE BINGHAM'S SPEECH TO TOBACCO GROWERS. 70,000 Copies of Speech Mailed Out —Weed Brings More and Handled at Less Cost— Money Ad vanced The Tobacco Grower* Co>pera !ivt« Association has printed 70,- 000 copies of th«; «peeeh of Hubert W. Bingham, the Nuri h Carolinian who lias l-d the KWfUeky ifurley Growers Association to success and recently addressed enthusiast audiences of business men and farmers in Raleigh i*ml Golds* boro, »North Carol ma. Bingham's speech will be mailed this we. k to every member of the Association from the northern limit of the tnbicco area in Virg nia to the Georgia line in the Tri-State Tobacco Grower, the official organ of the 70,000 organized tobacco farmers. Any growers who may feel baf fled by the smoke screen of mis leading stati incuts thrown out bv th«' speculative interests need only lo read Judge IJi"ghaut's speech to learn of the complete success of the Iv.-mucky Hurley Growers in marketing tit irtobac co l»v cooperative sale. Judge Hingham tells why Ken tucky growers in I lie Association c „„ld sell 30,000 000 pounds of their tobacco at oue time lor a higher price than the average of tho open niaiket. lie also told why he loaned the organized Kentucky growers a million dollars and willingly offered the Carolina-Virginia As.socia ion an advance of jf300,000. Describing the tobacco of such cooperative association as that upon which Kentucky banks made a 90 day loan of $4,600,000, as "the safest collateral that the banks have err had an oppprtuuity to le .1 Uione.y on." He told how the or ganized Kentucky growers repaid every cent of this money in forty days. President James (J. Stone of the Kentucky Hurley Growers also tells in the April issue of the Tri State Tobacco Grower how tFie organized farmers of the Ken tucky pool have cut the cost of handling their tobacco to forty ceuts for each hundred pounds as against the present charges of eighty cents for selling it at auctiou Stating tliat many growers re ceived more for their lirst ad vances in this year's crop tlian tliey received from their entire crop last year, the leader oj tlm Kentucky pool said that tlie average price paid to the organ ized growers for their tobacco would be close to twenty-five cents a poaud as compared to a price around seventeen cents a pound for the unorganized grower. Other material of interest reaching the growers of three states this week will be messages from Mr. Oliver J. Sands, geueral manager of the Association, and Mr It. R. Patterson, general man ager of the Leaf Department. Southwest Alamance. Cor. ol The Gleaner. On April 17th Teinpy Staley died at the home of her »on, John Staley. She hal been a great suf ferer for about twelve years hut bore her suffering patiently. She knew that death was approaching and that its hand cunld not be stayed, for all had been done that huina r > skill could do, and re signedly she awaited the Master's call. Her remains were carried to Mt Ileastnt M. IV church, where she was a two nlier. Funeral services conducted by liev. I. I*. Frazier.of Liberty. She was 85 years eld. Since our county has purchased .some modern, first-class road ma chinery, we are hoping to have first-class roads in I In* fin nre. The c .ol days we are, having are hard on young be.u.n ,nid other growing plants. The forest leaven »i»« ahead of time. They are itbutii grown and the tenth of May i* tlie schedule ti me. -v~- There are 2i ernt. more hor-es and in*arlv* as many mules iu the L'uiu-d Suites as there were 25 years ajio. Delaware has thr-.i counties, tne smallest number of all stales. APRIL 27. 1922 A GIRL CLUB GARDENER. Made Money Won a Star Club Pin — Now a Club Leader. Seven years as a club" girl is the record of May Belle Brown, of Charlotte, N. C., who has recent ly been sent a star club pin from the United States Department of Agriculture. May Belle's club nil inbership began in 1912 wheu she joined a 411 canning club with her uister Margaret; and begau r.iisiug tomatoes to can. For 5 years the girls worked their plants side by side. During the past few years May Belle has been a local club leader, and her success lias inspired newer mem bers. In 1913, May Belle and her sister won the State Prize, a trip -to Washington, for tomato work. They niade-a net return of $212.27 on their joint plauts that year, after all expenses were paid, or slu(j 14 each. lu the files of the Depirtment of Agriculture one of May Belle's records indicates the reason for her success as follows: "We find that the fancy grocery, stores are the best places to get top ol- he m irket prices for our tomatois, aud wc never peddle them out to houses as some people do. Wo trade as to size and quality and pa:k in boxes nndget good prices for each size. The merchant always knows he will Hud the fruit the same size throughout the pack." This little girl, nearly .10 years ago, was instinctively practicing w hat is now advocated as a sound principle of preparing goods for market. From tomatoes May Belle went to growing lettuce too; then a more vafcied assortment of vege tables each season. She also can ned and preserved some of the fruit on her father's.farm and sold it* May Belle earned over SSOO while iu active club work, in ad dition to winning a number of prizes and the Washington trip. Every man believes he drives the best automobile for the money in the world, which would indicate that all automobiles have some good point*. Tbe real joy of life is in the struggle to achieve—that's the reason why there is no rest. HJ ATK or Onto CITY or TOUCDO I .. Luoa* c:ieo°TV. I Frank J. Cheney waken oath that he I* •eulor partiier ef the tlfrn of K. J. Cheney k ( 0., doing huNlneu In tbe city of Toledo, county and state alorn»ald, and that »ald Orm will |,ay the turn of One Hundred Dollar*'for each and every cane of Catarrh that cannot he eu >.d by the u»e of flall'a Catarrh (Jure, FKANK J. CHUNKY. Sworn t«> before be atid «üb»crlbed In my prenence, till* Bth day of December, A. D., IDW A. W, GLEA-ON, fßeall Notary Public, Hall'* Catarrh Mi-dlclne la taken Internally and nut through the blood on the mucou* surfaces of the system. Send for teitlmo nlaJs free. H. J. CH KN F. V & CO.. Toledo, O. Hold by all DruvKlitta, "ho. Hall's Family Pill* for coniitlratlOD The former Emperor Karl of Austria is exiled to the Madeira Islands, 440 111 ilea west of Morocco, in the Atlantic Ocean. Why so few banks go broke ia plain to the man who borrows money from them. MAKES RAPID HEADWAY Add Thl* fact to Your Mtorc ef Knowledge. Kidney disease often advances so rapidly that many a person is firmly in its grasp before aware of its pro gress. Prompt attention should he given the slightest symptom of kid ney disorder. If there is a dull pain in the {jack, headaches, dizzy spells or a tired, worn-out feeling, or if the kidney secretions are offensive, ir regular and attended with pain, pro cure a good kidney remedy at once. Thousands recommend I)oan'n Kidney Pills. Ask your neighbor. Read the btaterncnt below: T. J. Hargrove, grocer, 701 Maple Ave., Hurlinglou, N. C. t says; "i was troubled with a sore and lame hack and at times tho pains were severe. My rest was J IR%T ITI-IMMI by tbo kidney secretions passing 100 freely. JJoau's Kid ney fills were recommended to Jin' its friends, so 1 bought a box. A iter 1 took them, the soreness and lameness went away, my kid -10-3.1 were regulated and I was entirely cured." Price >ot» at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy— get iJoau's Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Hargrove hkd. Foster- Milburn Co., Mfrs., Bu/Talo, N. Y. SAVE A LIFE IS SLOGAN Armenian Children, "Wards" of This County, Will Be Turned Out to Starve Un less We Come To Rescue Soon. Hare you sent la row contribution to the Near East Relief yetT The Urea of a number of UtUe chiW dren. whose fathers' saoriQoe shortened the war and made poeslble th* return of many North Carolina boys from France, are In Jeopardy. This county has fallen tar below In Its quota this year >nd unless the full amount Is raised by June "0 all children not pro vided for at that Ume must be turned out of 'he Tarheel orphanages to starre. BUte officials have been unable to aecui e a eh IrmaA for thla county and for thla reason many people do not know of the ho.rlble eond'''ons In Ar menia since the Allies forgot their debt to thi«- noble nation In ♦he Inter national grab-bag at Versailles. Only the American people are standing tween them and extinction as *» race. Five dollars saves the life of one of these children for a month, KO for a year, efficiently ar- the affairs of the Near Bst Relief managed. The children ar» the fu'.urc ra-- ~nd many of them hare nothing to eat but clay and straw. Information, leaflets, posters, etc, can be secured by writing to Col George K. Bellamy, state chairman, 901 Cltixen.. National Dan'- Building, Raleigh. Con lbutlona nld be aent tn Robert A. Brown, state treasurer, Raleigh. Sat* that life now. Tfce Ideal Teacher. What goes to constitute the Ideal teaclier was outlined by Dr. L. P. Jacks, principal of Manchester college, Oxford. Kngfkmd, In an addreae to a conference'e Oxfordshire school teach ers at Oxford the other day. "If yon hare a real lore for boys and gld»," he said, "and can put yourself In tnsir position, so that you can interpret their meaning, sympathise with them, Interest yourself not only la the deter and promising but the stapld, and can enjoy tackling theae difficulties, yoo are Just the man or woman to maka a good teacher. If your temper or b*l}lt of mind leads you te tlUnk that they are a lot of little rascals who nee to bo kept In order and made to alt still ou a fonr as a row of graven Images while you do things on the blackboard ami In general teach them to behave like grownups, then yoa will not hava made good teachers." "Whose Speech I* Mnf," All *1(1 Poems, Homer's and the rest. Are authentically Songs. I would say, in strictness, that all Po«caa nre; that whatsoever la not sung la properly tut Poem, but S .piece of Prose cramped Into jingling lines,— to the greet Injury of the grammar, to the greut grief of the readlr, for the moat part I What we want to gat at la the thought the man had. If he had any: why should he twlat It Into Jingle, If he could apeak H out plain* lyT It la only when the heart of him Is wrapped Into true pa salon of met* ody, and the very tone* of him, ac cording to- Coleridge's remarks, be come musical by the greatness, depth, and mualc of hla thoughts, that we can give him right to rhyme and atng; that we call him a Poet and Itstsa to him aa the Heroic of whose speech la Song.—Oarlyle. Jaundice Invades Country. Acute Infectious jaundice la now epi demic in thla country for the twentieth time in aeventy-two years. The Hew York atate department of ksalth an nounced in January that thla prostrat ing and distressing mulady had ap peared in vlriually every section of the atute. says lhe New York Tlmea. Dr. Knyal 8. Copelind, local health commissioner, Issued j statement to the effect that Jaundice had made Its appearance in thla city and asked physlclnns attached to the hospital service, as well as those In private practice, to co-operate with hla de partment In ascertaining more fully the facts with reference to the disease by reporting any cases that had come to their attention In the last two or three months and submitting Import ant facta regarding the cllnlcm) Ms or lee of their cases. The Carat. This tinj standard of weight, al though not one person In a mllHon ever makes practical use *f It, poe sesses great prestige beosoae of Its connection*with diamonds and other precious stenes. Bnt how many of as have any clear Idea of the weigh t sap resented by a carat? In England It la customary to reckon 151 Vi* carats to the oanoa, troy. This makes the carat equivalent to 20&3 milligrams, or 3.168S (rains. Attempts have been made to secure general racacnltlon In all countrlaa ef a metric standard carat ot 200 aflllaraiaa. ma* Hog Demonstration On HdyflcFsna*. The hog feediog. demonstration on Melville farms, H*nry A. Scott, manager, shows splendid results, for the past month. This deinoß stration is to ran until the shoal* weinh 175 to 200 pounds. ' r The 8 pigs weighed 208 total on March 7th, and on April 7th, weighed sdß lbs-' They gained from 36 lbs. each to 63.5 lbs. each in jast one month. Mr. W. W. Shay, swine specialist, «*- t' mated on, March 7th that on. exact day one month lateV tkmf would weigh a total of 508.0 ItM. He only missed it six-tenths, of a pound. Mr. Shay writes me that if we had weighed them 30 injn utes,later they would have come to his figures. Hog feeding is a? most an exact science. This pork gain cost H cent per ponnd. These pigs were fed a mixture of feeds to the amount of 5 Per cent of their live weight. TTiey were fed a slop mixture of fch# following: 50 lbs. xhorts, 25 lbs. tankage, and 25 lbs corn meal. To this amount was add«l an equal amount of whole corn. The demonstration in hog feed* ing on Mr. W. S Vestal's farta last • year received much promin ence. It has just recently been published in the America? Swine Journal, If wo are to be successful wjth our farm operations ws should learn the best methods, and then go to it for all it is worth. A man is uot truly a successful farmer in Alamance, unless he handles profitably the hog, cow and chickeus. To do that calls for the highest business ability', W. K. Soorr, Co. Agent. Nalure intended that, yoa should ent whnt yoa want. Yqi\ oan do It- If yoa takeTanlaC Sold by Farrell Drag Co., Graham. N. C. No matter bow poor we may bo In grammar oaraelrea, w# all en joy detect) ug mistake* on tl>a part of the other isllow. Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia ,rfy>u : matiun, —ad. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK ML KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, QKABAH. N. C- Associated with John I. Henderson. OtM ever National Bank of Alaasaace THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and BURLINGTON, N. Q Associated with W. S. Coullw, Nos. 7 tad 8 First National Bank Bldg, S. C SPOON. Jr.. Ha Dl Grajiam, N. C. Office over FerveU Drag Go, [lours: 2 to 3 aod 7 to » p. m., and by appointment. . Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN, lis Dw Burlington, N. C " OlU.e lIont& 0 to 11 a. m. ami by appointment Offlco Over Actue Drug Otx Telephonea: office 4 16—Hesldeaee IH JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Office ever Nstlaaal BssksfAlsasaas t, s. o ooac, Atterae|-at«Laa • KAHAM, .... H. 0 OSloe Patterns BntUl* SeooaS Floor. . . . OR. WILL 8. l.oi\o, JR; . . QiNTirr : i « irehaea .... Nsrtfe CaisHas ■■* 4 ' OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING ■ J. KLMBR L'ISIG LOVISC.AIMW Darhan. M. C. Qrsktas.S.C. 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