VOL. XLVIII
School Consolidation
Act of 1921 Valid
NO N(LUNATION FOR CONGRESS
FOR UNEXPIRED TERM
IN 3RD DISTRICT.
Victims of "Blue-Sky" Concern Not
Responsible for Notes —Daughters
of Confederacy Protest Against
Adoption of Untruthful History for
Schools—North Carolinians in
Navy in World-War.
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, May 2.—The action of
the Democratic executive commit
tee of the Third Congressional
District, in refusing to name a
candidate for election to succeed
the late Congressman Brinson for
the unexpired term of a few
mouths, is endorsed by party men
and the public generally. The
former agree that it was the proper
thing to do (or not do) because ot
the certainty that it would have
still further .complicated llie
political situation iu a district
where there are already seven as
pirauts for the primary nomina
tion for the regular term to suc
ceed Brinson.
The public endorse the commit
tee's action because we all know
there is nothing more involved
than a rake off in salary—fj# a
new congressman sent to Wash
ington to fill out a few months of
ati unexpired term of a dead man
would be like a bain*) on a log—of
no influence or chance for service
to the district.
Good News for Note-Signing Victims.
Of special interest to many peo
pie in Johnston, Harnett, Wake
and several other counties of this
section is a decision, just rendered
by a jury in Wake Superior Court
declaring a victim of a blue-sky
concern not responsible for cer
tain notes (lour in number) given
the corporation, and declaring
the notes null and void. Four
notes, which were given by S. B.
Holleman of Ilolly Springs, Wake
couuty. in exchange for "stock"
of the Cumberland Railway and
Power Company, are held to be
null and void and non-collectible
by the Union Trust Company of
Raleigh, which secured them
under a trust agreement from the
Harnett County Trust Company
of Liliington.
l 1,0 four notes amount to 310,-
()():»; but the total held by the
Uii i u Trust Goufpany, and whose
status will be settled by the rul
ing of the Supreme Court in the
Holleman case, is SOB,OOO.
The Cumberland Railway aud
Pow. : r Company was placed iu the
hands of a receiver in December,
1920,. and its affairs have since
been wound up with uo return to
stockholders or bondholders.
Notts given for stock of the com
pany by cit zci s of Harnett,
Wake, Franklin aud Johnston
counties which are uow involved
iu litigation aggregate approxi
mately $300,00U, of which about
8100,0()U is iu Wake county. -
The Union Trust Company notes
ami those involved in about
seventy-five suits pending in Har
nett coua'y, were turned over to
the liar net i County Trust Com
pany or one of the other two
banks of which N. T. Qarpeuter,
who committed suicide some
months after the failure ol the
power company, was president.
It is alleged by the makers of
the notes that Carpenter was a co
conspirator with H. L. .1 ones of
Norfolk, Va.,' presideut of the
power company, who was killed
in an automobile accident duriug
i9'H, iu the fraudulent scheme of
selling stock, but sojne of the
notes are held by banks which re
ceived them as collateral lor other
paper.
In the Holleman suit, the North
Carolina "blue sky" law was set
up as a bar to the collection of
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
the notes and the maker also al
leged lack of consideration to
himself and to the subsequent
holders of the notes.
Judge Devin, however, elim
inated the question of the "blue
sky" law in his charge to the
jury, and the issue submitted in
volved solely the qu»*stien of
fraud on the part of the power
company and the good- faith of
the Harnett County Trust Com
pany-
Failure of the power company
involved Hie Harnett County
Trust Company'to such an extent
that it was threatened with in
solvency. Owners of certificates
of deposit, originally given in ex
change for the notes, surrendered
them to the bank, which turned
over the notes to the Union Trust
Company at Raleigh for collec
tion.
The notes are held in trust for
the f.llowiug former owners of
the certificates of deposit issued
by the Harnett County Trust
Company: 11. B. Whitely, Merch
ants National Bank, Dillion Sup
ply Co., E S. Pool, Bank of War
naw, Bank of Duplin, Planters
Bank ami Trust Co., National
Surety Co , Ben Paul Snyder and
E. K. Young, recceiver.
In additi >n to the notes held of
S B. Holloman, the makers of the
other notes are: J. Walter Stew
art, .1. J. White, J. T. Wilson, A.
11. Shearn, R. V. Murray, W. F.
Mitehener, J. T. Matthews and
.J. L. Johnson. Mr. .Johnson's
paper, which amounts to $13,000,
is in the form of certificates of
d> posit on a South Carolina bank.
Time to Kick Out Hooks of Lying
"Historians."
It does seem that it ought not
to be necessary to urge upon the
North Carolina State Board of
Education (and any others re
sponsible) to preform the duty
they owe their state and especially
the children of the state, to stop
the propagation of so-called "his
torical" lies contained in text
books adopted for use in the high
schools of North Carolina.
It is to be hoped that tie fol
lowing resolutions, adopted at a
recent meeting of District 1U of
the North Carolina Division,
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, held in Raleigh, which pro
tests against the readoption of
one of these ''historical liars,"
namely, Muzzy's History, which
has been in use in the high schools
of North Carolina —to the dis
honor and disgrace of the state —
and the people responsible for
such a thing should be held to
strict accountability if they per
petuate this infamy on the chil
dren of the state again—now that
they know the true character of
the book.
Following are the resolutions
adopted which were' offered by
Mrs. Thomas W. Wilson, presi
dent of the North Carolina Di
vision, U. D. C,, and seconded arm
spoken .to by Mrs. 11. M. Londou,
ex-president North Carolina Di
vision, U. D. C.; Mrs. John L
Bridgers, historian North Carolina
Divisiou, U. D. C., and others:
' We, the members of District
No. 10, North Carolina Division,
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, in annual session on this
day of April, 1922, bavin/,!
been informed that the State
Board of Education is to meet at
some date in May to make the
final decision on the selection of
the text books to be used in the
high schools of our state, and
having an abiding interest in the
histories' that are used and that
are to be used in our schools, do
hereby resolve:
"That we join our U.'D. C.
state text-book committee in re
newed and earnest appeel to the
board that only United States
histories that are true aud fair to
to the soutb and to all sections of
the United States be selected.
"2nd. That we most earnestly
protest there-adoption of Muzzy's
History—a history so unfair and
untrue that it has beeu unani
mously condemned by both state
aud general organizations of the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, the United Confederate
Veterans, and the f-ona of Confed
erate Veterans. And not only do
we protest against the re-adop
tion of this objectionable history,
but we appeal to your honorable
board of education to eliminate
this history from further use in
the schools of our state."
Tar Heels lu Sfa*jr In Worldd War.
The Navy Department has for-
GHAIIAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 4, 1922
warded to Senator Simmons its
enumeration of North Carolina
men in the navy dining the war,
and states that the Marine Corp*
will later furnish the data as to
the number and casualties among
the men from North Carolina
who served with it. The numbei
in the navy during the world war
totaled 7,312 and the casualties
100, there having been Isß office re
and 7,124 enlisted men. The CMS
ualties among the officers n uin bcr
ed six, there having occured three
deaths from d'sease and three
from accidents, while the casual
ties among the the enlisted men
numbered 101, there having been
71 deaths .from disease, 2.'i deaths
from accidents, aud 7 deaths as
the result of enemy action.
Consolidation or Schools Act Valid.
To sot at rest fears of county
school authorities over the state,
Dr. E. (J. Brooks, superintendent
of schools, luis issued a statement
declaring that the recent decision
of the Supreme Court affecting
the consolidation of school dis
tricts doe-; not invalidate the act
as found in chapter 179, section
of the Laws of 19 -1.
"County boards of eduction,"
he "have the authority-ttti
consolidate non-local tax districts
with special tax and local tax dis
tricts having different rates." •
Dr. Brooks is now preparing a
letter to be sent to all the county
school superintendents in the
state, explaining iu detail the
effect of the recent Supreme Court
opinion and pointing out the pro
cedure to follow in consolidations
under that opinion.
Annual Episcopal Convention.
The lOGth annual convention of
the Protestant Episcopal church
iu the Diocese of North Carolina
will meet iu the church of the
Good Shepherd, May Kith. A large
delegation is expected. The two
local Episcopal churches, the
church of the Jood Shepherd and
Christ church, will cooperate as
usual in the matter of entertain
ing delegates to the convention.
A large al tendance is expected, as
this convention will elect a bishop
coadjutor for the diocese to assist
Bishop Cheshire.
The JVoman's Auxiliary of the
diocese does not meet with the
convention now, and has just
closed its convention iu Charlotte.
Owing to the growth of the dio
cese, it was found necessary to
have these conventions on dif
ferent dates, as the large attend
ance on both was making it dilti
cult to fiud homes for delegates.
Delegates now come alone, and
cau be cared for.
To Tent North Carolina Coal field*.
Representative Hammer, who
the United States
Geological Survey to make a com
plete survey of the coal fields
in North Carolina in the coun
ties of Moore, Lee and Chatham,
t/hese tields on Deep River, has
secured its consent to do this in
cooperation with the North Caro
lina Geological Survey. Some
time ago there was a report pub
lished of the result of the inves
tigation of the Cumnock field by
a representative of the United
States Geological Survey, this by
means of maps and charts and
not by borings,' which showed
that in that field there were some
sixty million tons of coal avaif
within 1,500 feet of the surface.
The need for a complete survey
of the entire field was ealled to
the attention of Representative
Hammer by J. W. Stout ami K. R.
Buchanan, of Saul'ord, and when
Mr. Hammer first asked lor this
the ouly reply was that there
were no funds available. The
matter was given further consid
eration at his request, and now
he is informed that there will be
a full and complete survey made
of the lields.
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Last year's premium income at
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institution, was more than • 1,500-
000,000.
It has been discovered that gel
atine can be made from old
leather.
FOURTEEN POINTS
AGAINST TARIFF BILL
Senator Simmons' Objections toFord
ney Tariff Bill Epitomized.
Washington, May 1. —The four
teen points which Senator Sim
mons (l)ein., N. C.,) made against
the Calamity Tariff bill epitomized
the main objections to the mea
sure and formed the basis for the
masterly discussion of the princi
pal features of the bill aud the
economic situation by the Seua
tor from North Carolina, former
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, which followed.
Senator Simmons' fourteen
points in tiyn may be epitomized
as follows:
1. The bill was framed with a
view of maintaining preseut prices
and to enable protected indus
tries to further ad vanee high prices
without the risk of foreign com
petition.
2. Leads to higher prices,
higher ost of living anil further
monopolization of American in
d list l ies.
.i. Many rates are absolutely
prohibitive, especially on highly
specialized products which con
s' itute the bulk of dutiable im
ports.
, 1. The proposed rates applied
to present import prices—express
ed in terms of equivalent ad va
lorem —average from -10 to 50 per
cent higher than the^ average
Payne-Aid rich rates.
5. The volume of imports have
now reached almost a normal basis
and are not excessive, and com
pared with our exports are rela
tively low. '
0. If a reduction of imports
under the much lower rates of the
present law have taken place, it is
obvious thut-the drastic increases
of the pending bill will reduce
them to a point where it will be
utterly impossible to sell our large
exportable surplus of manufact
ured and agricultural products
in foreign markets, because our
foreign customers will continue
to be unable to purchase except
through the exchange of merchan
dise.
7. The two greatest economic
problems of the American people
today are (1) Foreign markets for
our'surplus products,ind (2) the
question of unemployment, which
unless the lirst problem is wisely
solved, will rapidly grow. Labor
can only be employed to the ex
tent to which the employer can
find a market for his products.
8. Duties on agricultural pro
ducts will mostly be inoperative
or ineffective because of (1) prac
tically no importations or (2)
such meagre importations as could
not affect the domestic price or
(.3) on account of our large ex
portable surplus, the domestic
price of the particular article is
based upon and fixed by the world
selling price.
'J.„ The effective duties will
teud to advance the price of agri
cultural and manufactured pro
ducts in the domestic market, but
the benefits to the farmer through
such increases will be almost in
consequential by reason of the
increases in the prices of the
tilings he must buy and consume.
10. The rule followed by the
Committee in ascertaining the
measure of protection violates
every or principal of pro
tection heretofore advocated by
the Republican party. The super
added rate-making powers con
ferred upon the President makes
tariff rate-fixing almost as much
a matter of political and personal
patronage as the distribution of
Federal -o dices.
11. The rates of the bill are
based upon the export price of
imports as compared with the
American selliuK price, an un
stable and constantly fluctuating
factor. The American price for
making the  ompariaon is predi
cated upon no detinue basis, with
all th 6 advantages in favorof the
tariff seeker.
12. The Reynolds report (upon
which prices of imports are based)
is based on foroigu prices of Au
gust, 1921, mitHl ly imports from
.Germany, which seem to have
been accepted as the standard.
Since then German prices have
largely increased, Mi that the
rates have (>eeu already thrown
out of balance and will IKS still
further thrown out of balance.
13. The uprising against the
Payne Aid rich bill forced the
Republican party to adopt a fixed
rule for measuring the protection
to be accorded, which this bill
ignores and repudiates.
14. Adoption of this bill with
prohibitive rates based on an un
certain and dangerous principle
of measuring differences in com
petitive conditions here and
abroad will meau, in addition to
higher prices, higher cost of liv
ing and the further monopoliza
tion of American industries, also
radical reductions in production,
unemployment of labor, and the
general demoralization and un
dermining of our past and present
economic standards and condi
tions.
All of these points Senator Sim
mons clearly demonstrated by
facts and arguments.
Notes of Interest About
Cooperative Tobacco Marketing.
Correspondence.
Over 500 contracts, reaching
the Ualeigh headquarters of the
Tobacco Growers' Cooperative
Association during the past week,
iudicate the success of the cam
paign for new members through
out North Carolina.
The greatest meeting ever held
in Western North Carolina,
cording to J. 13. Swaiu, Field Rep
resentative of the Association,
took place last Wednesday at Dob
sou, in Surry county, where 1,500
tobacco growers pledged to in
crease the present sign-up of 8,-
000,000 pounds of their tobacco
to a total of over 10,000,000
pounds.
Over a thousand acres of tobac
co were signed up one day last
week in Person county, following
the announcement of H. W. Win
stead, warehouseman at Roxboro,
that Person county was out to
lead the siate.
With 7,000,000 pounds out of
11,000,000 pounds signed up be
fore this announcement, Person
county iB rapidly advancing to
lirst place.
Fifty merchants and business
men of Goldsboro, after meeting
with President Norwood of the
Association last Friday, have
pledged their unqualified support
in helping to gain an overwhelm
ing membership for Wayne
county.
Oliver J. Sands, general mana
ger of the Tobacco Growers' Co
operative Association, addressing
the state convention of North
Carolina Bankers last week at
Pinehurst, N. C., said: "No won
der that no great economist, no
great thinker, no great editor, no
man devoted to the common weal
any where, has been found who
opposes the Cooperative princi
ple." Mr. Sands said "The Co
operative Marketing Associations
have come to build and not des
troy. They exist for the benefit of
all the people and not for any
particular number."
According to the official leader
of 70,000 organized tobacco grow
ers, who is recognized as one of
the South's outstanding bankers
"The banking busioess would go
to smash if the borrower always
fixed the rate of interest and the
conditions under which the money
is loaned. The merchant conld
not continue in business if the
buyer always fixed the prices
Kxactly this happens with the
farmer. The grower and the pro
ducer has been without a repre
sentative in the marketing of his
product. The new system pro
poses to change this and have the
grower represented."
As evidence of the willingness
of large banking firms to back the
Cooperative Association for mar
keting tobacco, Mr. Sands refered
the North Carolina bankers to
Chas. N. Evans, representative
of the Fifty-third National Hank
of Cincinnati, who confirmed the
fact at this meeting that his bank
had made a ninety day 'oao of a
half million dollars to the organ
ized Kentucky Hurley Growers
and that they had paid it back
within forty days.
Why inope around, half sick
and listless when health and
strength are yours for the ask
ing? Take Tanlac. Hold by Far
rell Drug Co., Graham, N. C.
United Slates has 130 telephon
es to every 1,000 population
Galveston, Tex., is the greatest
cotton port in the world.
Republican Press Condemns
McCumber-Fordney Tariff Bill
The Republican and Indepen
dent press are beginning to make
known their views of the Fordney-
McCumber Tariff bill, and they
are far from-flattering to Mr.
Fordney or reassuring to senator
McCumber. Here are some brief
extracts:
New York Herald (Rep.)—lt
rears a tariff wall sky-high all
along the line of industry aud
.agriculture. This in itself is bad
enough, as it makes for higher
living cost in every home in
America. But Its worst feature
is that it completely shuts Amer
ica out of foreign markets except
with our raw material, notably
cotton and copper.
New York Globe (Rep.)— No'
member of the Agriculture bloc
in the Senate can be foolish enough
to suppose that high duties (on
agricultural products) will in
crease the prices on foodstufls in
a country which r instead of im
porting, exports them in great
volume. . . . When we paws
the McCumber tariff, we practi
cally make Europe a present of
the $11,000,000,000 she owes
us. . . . Whatever reason for
high tariff may have existed when
we were a debtor nation before
the war, no longer exists when, as
the creditor nation of today, we
have amassed most of the world's
wealth.
New York Tribune (Rep.)—lt is
something of a shock to learn that
the rates of the bill are on tr.e
whole higher than those (>f the
Payne-Ahlrich law, and particu
larly that the wool duties are
higher than those of the House
bill, and higher than those against
which the late Senator Dolliver
made his memorable attack. If
the bill is as described, believers
in tariff sanity and reasonable
ness have need to gird themselves
for another battle.
Brooklyn Eagle (Ind.)—When
Republicanism fails to satisfy its
leading newspaper apologists in
the East it is heading straight for
the rocks. The proposed tariff
measure is bad in almost every
respect. . . . The Republican
control of Congress is now steer
ing the party straight for dis
aster.
Philadelphia Public Ledger
(Rep.)— Fifteen months ago the
farmer wanted a tariff. Now he
ia not bo sure that he wants it.
He ia discovering that a tariff on
hides means a probable increase
in shoe prices. He is afraid he
may be swapping dollar bills for
thin dimes. As a heavy user of
potash, he will fight the proposed
rates on it; but cau he fight well
if be is also the supposed bene
ficiary of other high rates.
Chicago News (Itid.) —Too many
of the changes are in the direction
of the old Aidrich tariff of painful
memory, and too few of the rates
have been revised downward.
With American exports steadily
declining aud a favorable trade
balance vanishing, excessive pro
tection is absurd.
Aiding the Negroes in the South.
New York Sun.
Hard times in the South thej
past two years have uot checked
the moveuieut iu that section to,
furnish adequate educational!
facilities for nrgroe* Htvn in l
states "iii iijMHt •••(l inn f(,i ,
their prosperity, Mich a-» Nor It
Carolina and Mississippi, ih»?j
1 work i£o«*m mi North Carolina j
plans to speutl this year a mil
-1 lion dollar* and Mississippi j
1 800,000 lor new negro schools.!
Neighboring states are in the:
movement, More than a tltous-1
and new schools h tve tit built
with the aid of Julius li»eiiw»tli
| Fund, at h total cost of $4,1)00,-
0)0. No money i* available from
this fund without coop-ration
from the St:ite wtiere the schools
are built.
Striking cases of cooperation
between negroes and whites in-j
uicate the altitude of the bttier
classes of both races towaid edu
cational problems. Iu Mississippi
one plauter built a 115,>00 school
for hia negro teuanta. In another
connty whites furnished the
mone> and negroes the labor to
replace every one-room school
building with a modern comfort
able structure. Negro vocational
i schools, of which there are many
.In the South directed by negroes
NO. 13
trained in Tuskegee or in North
em institutions, have many
friends among Southern white
people, who serve on boards of
trustees and furnish needed
money.
The romance of the establish
ment and success of some of these
schools is yet to be written. Many
of thetn even yet approximate
Garfield's definition of auniv«r
sity—a log in the woods with
Mark Hopkins at one end aud a
student at the other. Their build
ings may not be in college Gothic,
out they do real work, training
hands and brains and starting
the youug of their race upward.
Northesn friends have helped
them financially, but mostly
their success is a monument to *
their founders' courage and de
votion. Their record offers the
best evidence of the negro's abil
ity to help himself.
The whole story of the relations
b tween the races in the South
does not lie in the lynchiug sta
tistics. The last decade has wit
pessed a drawing together of the
leaders of boih races for mutual
discussion aud solutiou of their
problems. Thousands of white
men and women in the South
want friendly relations with their
negro neighbors and aid every
movement for negro uplift.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-atLaw,
GRAHAM, N. C.
Associated with John #. Henderson.
Office over National Bank of Alaaanec
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counscllor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with V. S. Coulter,
Not. 7 and 8 First National Bank BUJf.
S. C SPOON, Jr., M* D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to y p. m., and'
by appointment.
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