VOL. XI/VIII
Raleigh Afflicted
With "Rent Hogs.'
Tenants Will Seek Legislative Relief
—Some Demand S6O Against a
$2.00 Tax Increase
LABOR LINE-UP WILL SEEK RE
SULTS THROUGH DOMINANT
PARTY—ANNOUNCE
MENT MADE.
Gov. Morrison Pleases Chapei Hill
Audience in Speech for Educational
Progress—North Carolina Coal
I ields to be Mapped-
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
lialcig'ti, ltlav 23. The begin
ning of definite action on the pari
of families who are forced to renl
homes, in which to live, againsi
tue continued and growing extor
tion practiced by a considerabU
number of landlords, known at
the "rent hogs" class, haslnei
taken here and will spread i
towns and cities all over the
It means relief through lotiisla
live action when the next General
Assembly convenes some eight
months hence, and every persoi
who rents a home or business
place is interested in the outcome.
While the initial action has been
taken by a Raleigh labor organi
zation, the Central Labor Union
of this city, made up of repre
sentatives of all the various local
labor unions of the several trades,
it will be followed by the activi
ties of others—for the people have
suffered from this species of rob
bery until forbearance long ago
ceased to be a virtue.
In the eases brought to lighi
here the pa.st week it is fouud that
V. O. Parker, of the real estate
firm of I'arker & Hunter of Ral
eigh, is threatening eviction ol
families of limited means if they
do not comply with a new raise iD
rents of nearly 100 per cent,
although in some instances the
renters were already paying 100
per cent more than when ihej
moved in making a total of i>so
per cent, and representing an in
come of alKiUt 2u per cent on the
valuation, as shown by the tax
books.
Arid ei they have the effront
ery to claim 1 hat taxe- have been
increased to make the outrageous
increase in rents necessary, where
as ihe latter ar> out of all pro
portion to the former. .Sixty dol
lars a 3 ear on the SI,OOO valua
tion represents the increase in
rem, while the small additional
tax for schools recently voted in
the Ootid issue amounls to only 2u
eenis on th H SIOO or on Ihe
SI,OOO. The renter is held up'
HII i choked out of SSB in order
tli t the owner may pay $2 more
Following is Lhe text of the
jebullitions adopted:
"Whereas, among the many
notices of increased rents being
K-'iitoiii, in spite ot assurance of
IK) increased rents on account of
tiie school bond issue, the follow
ing is selected from thososeiil out
Uv I'lie Parker-Hunter Realty Co.,
by V U Parker manager: 'This
icHer is written to advise you
that the rent on your hbuse has
been increased to $25 00 a month
payable in advance, beginning
June Ist, 1022, and without priv
ilege to sublet. phase let Us
know at vour eariiest convenience
if you wish to keep the house
jet;i 10 the aoove conditions. Un
]KHH we hear from you by May
L")t.li we will feel at liberty to offer
iue house to other applicants.'*
• Investigation-shows he house
in be a three-room one, pre-war
lent *7, and the property value
on the lax books $l,B'A). This
c-rtoe of a raise in rent from £ls,
l(n* present .ental, to $25 is uu
reasonable, especially a* this
corporation has been advertising
THE- ,'ALAMANCE GLEANER.
their non-taxable mortgage bonds
at an attractive price, but being
upon a par with many increases,
we deem it advisable to press for
legislation to prevent rent profi
teering; therefore, be it
"Reso'ved, That the legislative
committee pment to the incoming
General Assembly the New York
rent profiteering law that has been
declared constitutional by the
Supreme Court, and insist upon
its-passage, as this appears, to be
the only source of relief."
New Labor Line-up In North Carolina.
The statement is given out by
some of those interested that n
new labor line-up "for political
purpos-es" in North Carolina will
be effected by formal organiza
tion some 30 days hence—led by
the railroad workers of the state
The new V ganization, it is stated,
will seek to accomplish results
for the good of labor and the
laboring man through continued
affiliation with the dominant party
in North Carolina, the body seek
ing through more compact and
representative organization to
present its position and argu
ment on public questions as they
aris.i *od participate in their con
sideration and disposition accord
ingly-
Ttiis plan, it is deemed, will be
not, only more wise but much
more efficacious tliau the appear
ance of some "labor leader" to
tell others, legislatures included,
what he wants done. The latter
doesn't really know all about
everything and others know he
doesn't know it. Hence, his in
fluence is limited and often doubt
ful aud the results accomplished
through such procedure have not
been always satisfactory or what
they could have been through
better directed efforts.
Following is an "announce
ment" ou the subject as furnished
to the newspapers:
"An organization of the l£bor
forces of the state, distinct from
the State Federation of Labor,
but embracing any of the affiliated
organizations of the federation
who may wish to align them
selves, is under wawui North
Carolina^and will eoMe to a
delinite head in a meeting of rep
resentatives of the sixteen rail
road crafts iu Raleigh some time
in mid-June, according to an
nouncements made here.
"The plau contemplates the*
establishment of permanent head
quarters under direction of a
whole-time secretary.
"Coming on the heels of the
recent attack on the farmer-labor
questionnaire and the Barrett-
Alexander-St*ne line-up, conserv
ative labor men look upon the
new organization as the parting
of the ways. The State Federa
tion of Labor is not taken into
consideration in the new organi
zation which is understood will
seek to express its political aspi
rations in the Democratic party.
" The origin of the new move
ment is within the railroad crafts,
numbering more than .20,000.
It will not be limited, however,
to the railroad crafts. It will in
clude the four railroad brother
hoods who do not affiliate with
the State or American Federation
of Labor and non-railroad organ
izations as well, Tne new body,
designed ptirely as a political
labor organization, will invite all
skilled crafts to "affiliate, and al
ready the Raleigh Central Labor
L'nion has gone on record for
alignment. *■ ~ y
"In June, tlio first meeting of
representatives of the organizing
bodies will meet in Raleigh, de
velop the plan of organization and
then call lor a later meeting when
the organization will have access
to the political record of all "can
didates for Congress, and through
its own agencies will collect the
iuloruiation on the labor record
of candidates within the state."
M urrlnoii'n Aiitl-HUugliie»ii Vlewn
Kndorsi-d by ntudentn. #
Gov. Cameron Morrisou has re
turned from the State University
at Chapel Ilill, where he delivered
an address which the students
heard with enthusiastic apprecia
tion. In speaking of the govern
or's address aud reception one
who heard the speech says:
"What pleased his hearers
most about Governor Morrison's
speech delivered at the annual
'tapping' of the Golden Fleece
was the uncompromising nature
ot his remarks about the spend-
of money for education and
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 25. 1922
public improvement—the total
absence of any disposition to
straddle the question and thereby
mollify all sides.
' "Tax grouch' was a term he
used twice in the course oftfle
evening, in characterizing the
citizen who continually complains
about taxes, regardless ot the
pressing need of North Carolina
for wider educational opportuni
ties and for other advantages of
of modern civilization. And he
denounced unsparingly as re
actionaries persons who, moved
by a short-sighted parsin ony,
would impede the progress of the
'state toward a greater material
wealth and a higher culture.
" see about u>,' lie /said
'some people who shout louder
for progressives outside the state.
They praise to the skies the for
ward policies of Wilson, or Lloyd
George, or the late Theodore
Roosevelt, or LaFollcte in Wis
consin. But let gome great pro
gressive measure be proposed for
their own state, involving the ex
penditure of money, and wheiv
are> now these enthusiastic
shouters for progressiveness?
Suddenly they JTave become the
pettiest reactionaries you ever
saw.'"
North Carolina Coal Fields.
Representative Hammer is much
encouraged with the reports that
coiue of the progress of survey
and the plans for the mapping of
coal fields of North Carolina in
counties comprising the Deep
River coal fields, and keeps in
touch with Dr. 11. R. Campbell,
the head of the survey section of
the Bureau of Mines. K. K. Kim
ball, an expert of the bureau, is
now in the Deep River section at
work in Moore, Lee and Chatham
counties. Dr. Campbell, who re
cently visited the section, says he
was surprised at the quality and
quantity of coal in the Cumnock
mines. He is planning to make
a return visit anil hopes to be
able to go in Jurie. At old Farin
ville village, in Chatham county,
across the river from Cumnock,
the Carolina Coal Company has
coal at the surface, the supply
being close to tUp top of the
ground at the Cuuhiock mine,
while there is said to be a lar,je
supply at the Egypt mine. The
plan is to have the whole coal
region in the state mapped, there
being no map at present.
In tiiis matter Representative
Hammer has just received a letter
from F. P. Covington, of Mt.
Gilead, secretary of chamber of
commerce at that place, which
sets out that there is coal in Rich
mond and Montgomery counties,
counties not heretofore heard as
to coal supply. Mr. Covington
writes that there is a vein twelve
feet thick with outeroppings for
several miles in boih Richmond
and Montgomery counties, that
wells drilled for water show that
over a considerable territory
there is coal in'abundance. The
claim is that this is an extension
of the Deep River vein, and it will
,be investigated.
Duty of County Welfarr Officer
In Regard to Children
The recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court declaring the
Federal Child Labor Law unconsti
tutional will materially increase the
volume of work for the superintend
ents of I'ublie Welfare.
Tue work accomplished by the
Federal Agents will nave to he
assumed by the State Child Welfare
Commission through its authorized
agents in each county.
Business interests, such as mills,
factories, manufacturing establish
ments, etc., will be calling upon
the superintendents of public wel
fare in the counties for service in
issuing certificates to children under
the State Child Labor law, namely :
Certificates to children 14 to 10
years of age, and Employment Cer
tificates to boys between 12 and It
y ars of age to be employed during
vacation and before and alter school;
but not more than eight hours a
day.
Those in need of Age Certificates
or Empl(*meut Certificates should
jee or communicate with Dr. P. 11
Fleming, the superintendent of
Public Welfare.
Parties in need of rulings of the
North Carolina .State Cnild Welfare
Commission or Child Lshr>r Stan
dards should write Dr. Fleming,
[Burlington, N. C.
How Good Roads Are
Developing My Community
Essay by Miss llattie Tillman ef
Stony ('reek High School.
I reside in Pleasant Grove
Township, Alamance county,
North Carolina, about eight miles
from the city of Burlington. 1 As
late as the yt ar 1011, which is
about as far back as 1 can reinein
ber, this township enjoyed the
unenviable distinction of having
ihe worst roads in Alaiuauce
county, which meant about the
worst in North Carolina.
in those days two small, dilapi
dated school buildings constituted
the entire educational equipment
of the township, and three months
was lh»! maximum leugth of term
at each. All \he children within
a radius of two miles from each
building atteiuledNjchool at irreg
ular intervals, depending upon
thy depth and quality of the uiud
in the roads. Those rosidiug out
side this widius never attended at
all
The few churches wore so re
mote from the homes of the mem-,
hers that church services were
laid aside- with the summer
clothes. After the revival meet
ings iu October the churches
practically went iuto winter
quarters until Easter. No one
thought of attending church
services between the first snow
fall ai d the March winds. Not
even the.preachers. . v
A small store located in one
corner of the township did its
volume of business late iu the
fall, for it was then that the cus
tomers did their buying for the
winter. A few of the more reso
lute might do Christmas shopping,
but that depended entirely upon
the week previous.
The, leading farm products in
this community is tobacco, but iu
those days it usually remained iu
the pack houses until spring.
Only the very earliest varieties
could bo marketed earlier, for if
done at all, it had to be done in
early autumn.
At ihat time our people knew
nothing of such things as mis
sionary and oducatioual societies,
community and bettermeut clubs
or cooperative organizations. Sun
day School was kuown ouly iu
name and social life hovered close
to zero. We had mail once a
week by star route if the weather
was good. Often, however, it
would lie in the post office for an
indefinite period before it could
bs delivered.
Why was it that our community
was such a wilderness? The an
swer is simple. Subsequent de
velopments have revealed un
mistakably the'* basis of the
trouble —the character of the
roads. For now in the year 1922,
it seems incredible that such con
ditions as described above could
luive existed in this community
at an) time, much less at a date
so recent.
The transformation had its be
ginning when a gentleman from a
distant county came to our coin
munity to visit a friend, lie saw
the deplorable conditions that be
set us and undertook our deliver
ance. lie SHW the cause of the
trouble and at once attacked it.
He took up the road problem with
energy and whipped the rest of
us into line. Since that time
road building and improvement
has been going on with increasing
momentum. Today a good sand
clay road traverses every section
of ihe township, and through my
erstwhile wilderness of a com
munity, there runs a National
Highway that leads to the Nation's
Capital.
The community itself has been
transformed. Through SCII.HJ)
consolidation a good high school
is now within the reach of every
child of thetownship. Practically
every family owns a car, and can
reach the city in less than an hour
either summer or winter. Bet
terment societies and Community
Clubs of various kinds thrive and
social life flourishes. Fanners
carry their tobacco to m#ket
when prices, not roads, are at their
best. There are now ten churches
in the community at e ich of which
preaching SCJ vices are held thrice
a mouth and Sunday School every
Sunday. We no longer go to the
country storn for supplies, but to
the city. We have iliail delivered
at our doors every morning, and
.people from cities and distant
| states are our gi # »ts. Farm* IIIH
chiu*ry is being used and the crop
output doubled, wnile land has
advanced in value nrnre than two
hundred per cent. But best of
all our people have become hope
ful and ambitious aud are aspir
ing to higher things.
Why all this change? Just two
words will auswer the question
completely BETTER ROADS.
Pennsylvania Primaries
Repudiate Harding Policies
Special Currospondance.
Washington, May 23rd The de
feat uf the Old Guard iu Penn
sylvania, following the defeat of
i lie Old Guftrd iu Indiana, helps
lu confirm the fact that the Old
Guard organization is breaking
up in the states tinder the weight
of the Uldtiuard administration
at Washington. Alter was de
feated for the nomination for Gov
eruor of Peuusylvauia because he
represents the same element in
the p irty and stands for the same
policies that Harding stands for
in the nation. Alter's defeat is a
tun hur confirmation of the fact
known to most political observers
that the people at large have had
all they will slaud of
inefficiency, incompetency and al
liance wilhspecial privilege which
is so flagrant and uotorious that
even an Old Guard stand-pat Re
publican state like Pennsylvania
will not longer endure it.
The vote for Oiftord Pinchot, as
iu the case of lieveridge of Indiana
Wits not a vote for any affirmative
set of policies, but a vote of pro
test against the Kepublicannation
al administration, and. incident
ally, a protest against the Har
risburg Contractors'ring in Penn
sylvania. The Pinchot vote does
not mean that all the men and
women who voted for Mr. Pinchot
in the primaries are going to vote
for him at the polls. Thousands
of them voted for him because
they had no other moans at this
time of registering their protest
against economic conditions
brought on by the befuddled
natioual administration. This
element will be foand behind the
candidacy of John A. McSparreu,
the genuinely progressive Dem
ocratic nominee for Governor,
when they cast their vot*s in No
vember. They realize that Mr.
Pinchot can only be elected by the
support of the Old Guard, and
that his election, brought about
in such a way, would simply mean
that he would be powerless to car
ry out most of the progressive
policies that he ma> have They
realize also that John A. McSpar
ren would be free from any such
alliances and entanglments, and
would owe his election only to the
progressive citizenship of Penn
sylvania, without regard to party.
There is no hope that the Re«
publican party of Pennsylvania
as a whole evef~will or can become
a progressive party. If Pennsyl
vania is to take her place in the
list of progressive states, it must
be under a Democratic state ad
ministration.
The net result of the Pennsyl
vania primaries is a repudation
of and a warning to a reactionary
element now in control of the He
publican party. It is notice that
the days of blundering, four-flush
ing normalcy are at an end, and
that the grip of the reactionaries
upou their party organization is
broken. It is fair warning to the
reactionaries also that the worst
is yet to come.
The Understanding.
Binks: I'll pay you when my
shoes wear out.
Collector: What do you meau
by that?
Binks: By that time I'll be on
nj) feet again.—Wayside Tales.
"Where there is smoke, there
is fire," so wheu twenty million
well-known men and women in all
walks of life say Taulac is a good
medicine, there must be some
thing to ij. Sold by Farrell Drug
Co., Qraham, N. C.
ScieutUta way they have found
Irftcm of the inlawing link iu
Bryan's old state. I*«*opl«3 just
won't leave him aloue.
Iu Georgia, the wind picked up
a load of coru aud carried it to
towo.. May have beeu a trade
wind.
Two Homes Robbed of Money at
Elon -Faculty Nevele Holds Final
Meeting for Year.
Cor. of The Gleaner.
Elon College, May 23 —The
Faculty Nevele held its final meet
ing fur the year with Mrs. Janet
Kirklai d and Mrs W. A. Harper
as joint hostesses in the h«me of the
latter. It was a delightful porch
party. ,
The order of the day was embroid-
IWV and the discussiou of current
events. Four members of the club
were absent but inasmuch as they
were out of town t{ie rules of the
club were suspended with reference
to gossip and the ladies chewed
chiclets rather than the rag for di
ven-iun.
Proinply at 9:30 the club adjouru
ed for refreshments served by the
hostesses and which consisted of
sandwiches and tea, Eskimo pie and
chiclets.
Those presoit ' ere M>>sdani >s
Vaughn, Ring, Sr.urin,
and Corboy, Misses Ki klaud, Fisher,
Landis, and .Mainor
Last night robbers entered the
home of 11. J. Pritchette and 11. IJ
Lambeth here and secured what
loose money they could find So far
as could be learned this morning
nothing except a few dollars were
taken from either place. In the
case of Mr. Lambeth his clothes
were removed from the room "where '
he had left them.
The suspicion is that the party or
Earties entering these two homes!
ere at Elon last night are the same
as have been working in and around
Burliugton lately.
G. 0 P. Press Keeps Up Fight
On Profiteers' Tariff Bill.
The Republican and Independ
ent press continue to"denounce
the McCuinber Profiteers' Tariff
Bill, stressing the main facta that
it to a profiteer's tariff, and that
it will iucreaae the present high
cost of living, liere are soine of
the editorial conimeuts:
Chicago Tribune (Rep,)— Every
hour's study of Ihe bill, even by a
layman, reveals souie point of
•uch remarkable possibilities for
evil and injustice as to cast t oubt
upon the Wilue of ~the bill as a
whole.
New York Evening Post (Ind.)
—There are just two objections
to the McCuinber-Fordney meas
ure: It is based upon no scien
tific principle, and its individual
schedules won't bear analysis.
Brooklyn Eagle(lnd)—Revision
is at least questionable when a
considerable volume of Republi
can opinion is against meddling
with business in its present un
settled condition. But when re
vision includes taxes on food and
taxes on raw material which en
ters into the production of necess
ities that all must use, it requires
no gift of prophesy to piedict a
quick rise in the cost of living all
over the land.
New York llerald (Rep ) —His
(McGumber's)measure is uot a
sound ecouomic product, and it
will not be a good thing for the
country with its excessive duties
and the uncertainty that such
duties will increase the public's
cost of living.
Mboe and Leither Reporter
I (Trade Paper)— The tariff bill, a*
framed in the House and mutilat
ed by the Senate Fin im-«* Com
milter, should I»e hi id on iim table
and forgotten. It i» alioiit tin
worst piece of rrvnitiM Irigislation
in the history of the govern men t.
It is full of Iduuder.>, contradic
tions and inequalities, and for
every clause acceptable to an in
dustry something fol lows of an
objectional character.
Seeking Information.
•'A fool," sail the professor to
the student who asked a caU h
question, "can ask things * wine
man can't answer."
"Is that the reasou," asked a
student in the hack row, "why I
flunked, last term, in this sub
ject?"— Wayside Tales.
A Fryuch inventor has a device
lhat takes 25,000 photograph* a
'second. It will be a big help to
j rapid movie* which'alow dowu ac
i tion and show you each step of
| the growth of a plant or men
jumping hurdles.
1 j The rapid camera stretches i
•second into a minute. Time v
i relative, elastic.
NO. 16
Typhoid and Diphtheria
Prevention Campaigns.
The physicians in Union County
have recently reported to the State
! Board of Health the results of a
typhoid and diphtheria prevention
campaign. Tiny gave three treat
ments of vaccine to 8,847 and a like
number of treatments of toxin-anti
toxin for preventing diphtheria to
884 children between six months
and six of age. There is bot
one campaign Qn record which excels
this one as to the total number vac
cinated.
Last }%ar was the first time that
these campaigns were conducted ex
clusively by lacal physicians and
the resultß were exceedingly grati
fying to the Board. The work of
the Union County adds
more evidence to that which has
accumulating in proof of the claim
that the family physician should
identify himself with preventative
medicine by taking an active part
in the public health program in his
county aji'l that they can accomplish
more than others. In oractically
all counties local physicians vacci
nate more people than the physiciaa
who is sent into the county.
'Sixteen campaigns si miliar to the
ones in Union have already been ar
ranged for the summer and
counties are expected to make ap
plication. The interest Bhown by
mouutain counties is pleasing.
Avery, Alleghany and Haywofd are
to have campaigns and others are
likely to dj so.
W. R. GOLEY,
Health Officer.
"I fefel twenty years youager,"
is what thousand* have said after
Tanlac restored them to health.
Try it. Sold by Farrell Drug Co.,
Gntham, N. C.
Coal is being rniued under the
sea off the coast of Nova Scotia.
The mouths of the mines are on
shore and tunnels are driven
through the coal uuder the wat".r.
Great care must be taken to pre
vent inuudation from the sea, and
the mining engineers take care not
to break or distort the strata
lying above the coal seams.
Rub-My-Tiam, anticeptic and
pain killer, for infected bores,
tetter, sprains, neuralgia .rheu
matism, —ad.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-si.Law,
GRAHAM. N. C.
ANNorkatcd with John i. Henderson.
Office over National Dank of Alamance
THOMAS D. # COOPER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
AuocUUd with W. S. Coulter,
No*. 7 ind 8 Flrit National Bank Bldf,
S. C SPOON, Jr., M.l*
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
1 (lours: 2 to 3 and 7 to V p. jn., and
by appoini meat.
Phone 'J7
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. if.
Burlington, N. C.
Olliic Honrs: "J to 11 a.m.
urul by appuintnieui
Otlicf Over Acini! Drug J,'o.
Telephone*: Oltire tlO-lletideuce 4St
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM, N. C.
Mllcc aver National Bank of 11>■ ■■ 11
T, S. COOK",
Attorney-«t- La*
" Ha.H. N. C
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-Wootid Floor. . . .
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VKlCfc IN PARIS BUILDING
[4. BLHKKL IXG LOUIH C. ALLEN
! llurham, N. C. tiralita.N.C.
i,ONG & ALLEN.
g , • or»*r* and Counaelor* hi l-Mm
oraham, H. u.