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VOL. XLYIII THE PRIMARY BRINGS SURPRISES. Other News From the State Capital (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, Juno Gth. —Excepting the fact that there will be a second plimary between Evans and Hins dale in this (7th) judicial district for solictor, and between Allen and Aberfiethy in the Third Con gressional District, the bottom hat largely dropped out of political interest hereabouts, since the primary last Saturday* The office of solicitor in this district is said to pay from §7,500 to $9,000 annually and is one ol the best political plums on the party tree. But barring the few exceptions where salaries are at tractive, the average political ollice is receiving less attentioi from first-rate men than hereto fore. Most of the latter can earn more money in private busim-a* and occupations, and at tlia same time keep rid of the loathsomt calumnies and slanders and othei species of political mud-slinging thrown at some of the best men aspiring to public office by Iht paid gang of "rooters." The result (which is getting more so every year) shows that the public is offered a lower gradt of office seekers, often confined to men who are sent to the legisla- tare or to the county boards, foi instance, to be used for well de fined and shrewdly planned jobs of "ax-grinding." Granting certain virtues claim ed for the "primary system ol nomination," we all know that in tome counties only tlgureheadb set up by local political bosses art offered to the voters, except where a rag-tag and bob-tail is fool enough to think he can "run" simply paying the fee. This criticism dots not em bract the state primary situation, but it directed at county conditions. It is no wonder that over one-third of the counties of the state per sist in refusiug lo adopt I lie coun ty primary, although forced to accept the state primary. Wake count} orrly woman can didate iu the p.:,ih.ry Saturday put it all over lour men competi iors, polling more votes than tilt incumlieut and twice as many as ilit} other lhi;e candidates. Coun ty Treasurer L. 1). buphenson and Miss Lottie Lewis will run ovei ' again iu the second primary. l.ooks I.ike Abernetliv* As indicated last week, tlie con test in the Third Congressional District narrowed down to Aber uethy and Allen. Visitors liert from the counties of the district now express the opinion that Aberuethy has the best prospects in the second run-off. But he has got to do some "running," and all liave the comfort of knowing that whichever of these two wins the district will have an able and faithful congressman. Wiley Person got GOO votes in Wake county to nearly 4,0b0 foi Congressman Ed Pou. And that was a larger number than some expected to see the Franklin couuty Holocaust receive. KallroacW Still Plajiiig tor Time. On the first Monday in Novem ber the appeals of railroads in North Carolina against the tax levy made on them by the State of North Carolina will be heard by the United Stales Supreme Court, the motion for a stay of the tax collection being denied, with leave to the railroads Lo ap ply to the District Court for a stay. The order of the Supreme c ourt was in five cases, the appel lants beintr the Southern Railway, the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway, the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and the Norfolk Southern liail road against Watts,state commis sioner of revenue, etc. •>tate Bar A'ooclatlon Meeting The program of the North Car olina Bar Association, made pub lic by Henry M. Lendop, secre tary, includes among the features of the annual session of the law yers of the slate to be held at the THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. Oceanic Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, June 27-20, addresses by A. Mitchell Palmer, formor United States attorney-general; Major Jessie I. Miller, of the Washing ton, D. 0., bar; Governor Cameror Morrison, and Eugene Taylor, 61 the Asheville bar. The meetings of the association,, beginning at 8 o'clock TuesdaJ evening, June 27, will be held in the assembly room of the hotel. Reports'of executive committee and the committee on admission to membership will be presented at the opening session. Reports of other standing committees will be presented Wednesday morning Special committees will rerort Wednesday morning, and the election of officers will be held and other business attended to at Thursday morning session. Paiiuer To Attend Former United States Attorney General A. Micchell Palmer will bo the principle speaker before the North Cariina Bar Association in its meetiug at Wrightsville Beach OK .1 line 28th. Mr. Palmer at first thought it improbable that ho would bo able to attend the convention since he had planned to go to Europe. He notified Henry M. London, secre tary of the association, that a de lay in his plans made it possible for him to accept the invitation. The program for the convention is now being shaped up and will soon be announced. State Legion Convention The legionnaires of North Caro lina are beginning to look forward to the state convention at Greens ooro that will be held on Friday aid Saturday, September Bth and oth. State Commander Tom Bird and State Adjutant Cale Burgess inei with representative legion naires in Greensboro during the evening of the 28th for the pur pose of determining the general plans and policies for the Greens boro convention. Arrangements were made for inviting a number of speakers of national reputation and having present also many oLher distinguised guests. Plans were outlined for staging in Greensboro, during the conven tion days, an unofficial reunion of all North Carolina service men. Tbe convention committee will appoint representath es from every unit for the purpose of per fecting a state-wide organization by which the reunion idea can be put across on a grand scale. And it is hoped that the official representatives of all organized units wi'l communicate with Mc- Daniel Lewis at Greensboro in oiler to arrange for the appoint ment of committees to represent all of these units that are main taining an organization at this time; and it is further hoped that, in case of all regiments, battal ions, companies, batteries and 0 her units that are not definitely 01 ,'auized, some interested indi vidual will assume the responsi bility of writing McDaniel Lewis at Greensboro for the purpose of assisting in perfecting a reunion organization for all such units. Thousands of veterans and their families will meet in Greensboro during the state convention, and it is hoped that all units will make arrangements in sufficient time to provide for their entertainment while in Greensboro. At the same time, September Bth and 'Jth, at Greensboro, the second state convention of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held, and this meeting will take additional numbers to Greensboro. state Guard r.ncauipmeut Four day schools for selectod officers and men of the North Carolina National Guard and I'if teen-day camps will be for all or ganizations during the months of July and August, announces Ad jutant General J. Van B. Metts. The 120 th Infantry will go to Camp Glenn iu July; the 117 th Field Artillery to Cdmp Bragg in August; the Calvary, Signal Corps and Engineers to Camp McClellan, Ala., July and August; Coast Ar tillery Corps to Fortress Monroe in July. There is at present an aggregate strength of about 2,200 who will attend these camps, and the strength of the various organiza tions is most satisfactory. How ever, the various unita have va cancies for a limited number of eligible men between the ages of 18 and 45 and application may be GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 8, 1922 made for enlistment to the recruit ing ofticers located at the stations following: Raleigh, Reidsville, Gastonia, Greensboro, Oxford, GraliHin, Burliugtou, Warrentan, Durham, Henderson, Goncord, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Waynesville, Ply mouth, Mount Gilead, l'arktou, Wilson, Hickory, Asheville, An drews, Lineolnton, Louisburg, Goldsboro, Youngsville, Canton, Hendersonville, Noith Wilkesboro, Wilmington, Raeford. The camps are for tifteen days, exclusive of travel, and there is no expense to individuals of the National Guard, as all expenses are taken care of by the federal government. Transportation to and from camp, subsistence, uni forms, quarters and full pay while in camp is allowed liy* the federal authorities —pay ranges from $1 per day for the various enlisted gmdes. 1N THE SANDHILLS. The Land of Peaches and Oppor tunity. Written by Biou C. Hutler. The great asset of the Sandhills is the climate. This permits a wide variety of farming, and par ticularly the production of peach es, of which in quality the Sand hill country excels probably any other area on earth, while in quantity the output is t already large and growing so nist that 1922" will see 1,500 carloads sent „o market. The peach orchard is an opportunity in the Sandhills. SJ is the tobacco farm, for the Sandhills bright leaf brings a pre mium. Cotton, grain and general fanning respond to the stimula tion of the climate and the light soil, while produce and poultry bring the farmer much money from the winter resort towns of the region. Hut it is the winter visitor and winter home-maker of the Sand hills that gives the greatest activ ity to this section of the state. ' Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Knoll wood, Lakeview and other resort towns are the product of the cli mate, and it is likelv that in a few years the area embraced in the boundaries of these villages will widen into one big community of perhaps more people than jn any other single community of the state. Pinehurst is already the foremost golf center of the United States, and thousands of people aie attracted to the Sandhills in the winter from all the states, and even from abroad. This is developing a busy activity in all the lines that go to make up a populous center. The opportunities found in such a place are the opportunities found in every center of man} people. Skilled workers, profes sional and business men, clerks and superintendents, farmers, orchard and livestock men, almost every occupation, is called on for help in the Saudhills. Oppor tunities foJ the individual who will build for himself a business are on all sides, depending largely on the man himself, for where there are thousands of peoplo as in the Sandhills, and a large pro portion of them people of means, money awaits production of serv ice in practically every line. It is a reasonable guess that a few Vears will see in the Sandhills a permanent populat ion of probably o>),l>oiK Tho building of such a community, the expansion of farms and orchards, and the sun dry functions that go with all these tell plainly enough of op portunity. Opportunity in the Sandhills is limited exactly by tho ability of the man looking for the oppor- I tunity. In tHu liopo of building up a sturdy rate the government is aiding the back-to-the-soil move i lent for native Hawaiian*. A demonstration farm is in opera tion on liolokai Island. "It is one medicine that docs all that's claimed for it." Thous ands have said it about Tan lac and so will you if you try it. Sold by Farrell Drug Co., Gra ham, N. C. A lake, rich in carbonate of soda, was recently discovered in the neighborhood of Kulumda, Siberia. TOBACCO GROWERS STAGE ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING IN EASTERN CAROLINA Thousands Sign Up for Cooperative Marketing A Record-Bieaking At tendance on Meetings. Correspondence. Kinston, Rocky Mount, Earm ville and Vaneeboro, among tho last to bar their doors against co operative marketing, signed up warehouses with the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association in lust week's campaign, which was the most remarkable series of meetings ever aliunde- by tobac co farmers in Eastern North Carolina. The enthusiasm of 25,000 farm ers who attended oyer MU crowded meetings in a dozen eastern coun ties of the SuUe,-turned the c. 111- paigu into a crusade. The crusade in rapidly developing into a laud slide on which thousands of new growers and a number of ware houses have already come into the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative A.ssociat ion, "You will.be able to raise more on your advance payment and the assignment of your tobacco than voii iiave ever dreamed you could nei out of tobacco," Aaron Sapiro told the thousands of farmers in eastern Carolina who hailed him as the prophet of cooperative marketing in the live mammoth mass-meetings which broke all records for attendance and filled theatres, warehouses and court houses to overflowing in Washing ton, New Bern, Farmville, Kinston anil Goldsboro last week. The California of Co operative Marketing Associations who represents 500,0(10 organized farmers and 00 associations with iimual business of four hundred million dollars, made the propecy that tobacco farmers of North Carolina would be able to raise more from their advance payment and the loan value of their par ticipation receipt than tim-y got on their entire last, year, "Neither the outsider nor the insider would have gotten any decent prices for Hurley tobacco in Kentucky if the Association had not been organized this last year." Said Sapiro "I want to tell you that the growers in Ken tucky the year preceding got an average of 8 to II cents a pound lor Hurley tobacco. The growers iii the Association (in Kentucky) this year will average '25 cents a pound net," declared the little Califoruiau who called those speculators cowards, who circu lated signed and unsigned pamph lets against cooperative market ing but feared to meet him face to face with arguments agaim-t this movement of the farmers. Speculators and warehousemen who were hostile to cooperative marketing, sat silent in meeting ill tor meeting while Sapiro told the growers thau no system could be worse than the auction sale of tobacco under which tobacco farm ers have averaged only a year as compared to the income of SISOU a year which our govern ment states as necessary to main tain a decent standard of living for the average American family. More than ten thousand farmers heard .Sapiro during his livs days four of Eastern North Carolina. At least 1 other tobacco grow ers were present at iii«otiiigs held in uther towns of the « astern belt last week where live Ken tucky leaders of the Burley To bacco Growers' Cooperative As sociation convinced the farmers beyond a doubt of the suct-ss of the Kentucky Hurley i'ool. ' The minute the lirst payment of eight cents a pound was made to our Kentucky Growers upon delivery of their tobacco the bank ers came and begged to hold the participation receipts and paid eight cents more on them," said C. E. Marvin prominent stock raiser and tobacco grower of I.«ex ingtjii. .Mr. Marvin told the North Carolina Growers that ihe Ken- tucky-members of tlie marketing association really got an average of 10 cents a pouuu immediately alter their lir»l deliverfes, tiecaUse the banks were eager to advance them money on the security of their warehouse receipts wnich the Kentuckians call participat ion ceriificates. \V. H. Shanks, President of the Lincoln County National Bwik, told North Carolina farmers in five counties l hat the participation receipts are considered the best security in Kentucky. "Why one galussed fellows, to whom we wouldn't lend H nickel before, can come into our bank now and borrow hundreds of dol lars on their participation re ceipt*," said Mr. Shanks. Virgil Chapman, attornoy for the Burley Tobacco Growers' Co operative Association, Jno. 0. Craddock, a prominent ware houseman, and John Blanks of Kentucky roused other thousands of Eastern Carolina growers to the net d of increasing the present sign-up in the Old North State from 00 to !)0 per cent of all to bacco farmers and tobacco. An intensive campaign is now being conducted iu which grow-i «rs, merchants and warehousemen are urged to aid in gaining new mem Iters for the Association. The Liberty Bonds You Had—But Didn't Keep. Greensboio Record. All Liberty bonds sold at par or better on May 31, for the first time sine, the dates ot issue. The bond market was marked t>v heavy trading tliht day, peot le being anxious to get them. That dots not do hut 1 reds of thousands of people who once owned liberty bonds any good, however. It is asserted by authorities on the matter that hundreds of thous ands of people have gotten rid of their bonds. They sold them when they were low, too, losing money on them. They were told that the bonds, the government behind them, would go to par or better, but they wanted their mouey. All over the United States people sold their bonds at a loss. The lower they got the more anxious they were to part with them, it seemed. They took the money and frit tered it away. They bought things for which they had no use with the money. The bonds burned holes iu the papers where they kept them. They could not stand the idea of having that much money lying around. Othtrs, much more foolish, traded their bonds iu for stock of various kinds, some of it oil stock, others no better. They did not get even the pleasure of spending the money. They got some pretty pieces of paper for their bonds, fit, only to look at. They were utterly foolish. It takes considerable nerve 10 save money, more to save liberty bonds. The great bond drives taught some people for the first time what a bond was, but the knowledge did not Btay with them. They did not have the strength to hold on. They were too weak to keep from spending. Of the millions who bought those bonds, comparatively few were of the fiber that cau look on a piece of paper, good as gold, and keep from turning it into greenback. The American people learned considerable of thrift during the war, but it did not all stick with thern. The lesson did not go deep enough. On account of what wise people have made a lot of money on liberty bonds. Y(*T HO many, many people bewail their hard luck and envy | "lucky" people. The former do not own any of the liberty bonds that they had. Three hundred thou-and francs wa.i paid for a one-cent British Quina stamp,- issue of 1 black on carmine, sold recently at an auction sale of the famous Baron Ferrari collection in I'aiis. The state tax of ffoveuteen and '»ne-!ia!f per cent a ! led to the cost prico made it tin highest price ever paid for a t>tamp in France. Tanlac is a splendid tonic for puny, frail, delicate children. It is purely vegetable and contains no minerals or opiates. Sold by Farrell Drag Co., Graham, N. C. Italy will have a total of 1,- hll,:joU hydro-electric horse pow er capacity when new central ati ttons under construction are com pleted. This in double the amount live years atfo. New York, we read, has the la»g>-»l lioaliiig population in the world. They're trying to got in the swim. ELON COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. ' Reported for The Gleaner. I (Conciulded fruiu last week ) Conferring ol Decrees. At the conclusion of Dr. Cope's address degrees were conferred and diplomas and certificates were awarded to eighty-seven seniors and students of the special de partments. Ttffr members of the senior class received degiees, among whom were the following of Alamance conuty: Lora Foust, Orahaiu, \. 13.; Bessie Holmes, Graham, A. B.; W. M. Harrison, Burlington, A. B.; Deloris Mor row, Burlington, A. B.; N. G Newman, .Jr., Elon College, A. LI; Hess Nicholson, Mebaue, L. I.; Eunice Rich, Graham, A. B.; C. |L. Walker, Burlington, A. B.; INannie B. lieitzel, Elon College, I'll. B.; J. I! Newman, Elon Col lege, M. A. The pnpui \ roin Alamance to | receive certificated and diplomas from the special departments i were: Certificate in Expression;! I Eunice Rich; Certificate in Com mercial Department: 8.-rt halsleyj j J. B. N"wman: (Jertiticato in j Physical 0 1 ure:|Marg.tret Home-1 wood; Certificate in Chemistry: W. .M. Oarrisou, C. L. Walker;j Diploma iu Physical Cut-lure: Lora Foust, ileloris Morrow, Bess Nich olson, aula Patterson, Eunice I Rich. Lt. Governor of Virginia, J. E. West, a trustee of he college, presented each member of the senior class with a handsome Bible the gift of the college" to its grad uates. Winners ot MetUlit >nd Scholarship* The winners of medals and scholarships were then announced by President Harper as follows: Stanford Orator's Medal, H. G. Self, Slier city, N. C. MofHtt Essayist Modal, Eunice Rich, Graham, N. C. Wellon's Scholarship Medal, M iry Miller, Luray, Va. Morrow Thesis Medal, C. P. Farmer, News Ferry, Va. Phiiologian Orator's Medal, W. G. Stouer, Greensboro, N. C. Clio Orator's Medal, lt.S. Helms, Monroe, N. C. Summerbell Scholarship, Ilerta Crutchfield, Efland, N. C. It was announced that the Board of Trustees of the college had taken the following actiou this session : to build a third story to the Ladies' Hall, to reduce baard from to 8180 for next session. The Valedictory address by Miss Mary Miller, Luray, Va., concluded the graduation exer ciser, and Ftev. L. K. Smith of Norfoln, Va., pronounced the benediction. The afternoon of the last day of commencement was given over to the society and class reunions. Quite a number of the former stu dents alumni returned for this commencement, and the reunions were enjoyed as a home-coming affair. Oratorio. The closing, and most pleasiug event of the commencement sea sou was the Or*lorio, the annual celebration of the Choral Society, which at S:MO in ilie evening, ren dered he cant tt-a "Indian Sum mer." Prof. E. M. Ili'tts, Director of the Depart iik nt of Music of the College, HHh ill C I 'fge ol 111 • can tata. Miss Flnr-uco Pisiiet, soprano, Miss Marian * or*y, alto, Mrs. Katliernic Sturm, pianist, and M ik* Alii' l .- llundu\», organist, assisted Pro! . licit* in : h«* con duct of the cantata chow. For tins event the co.lvge chapel wax ii• i««i to its capacity and overflowing, and the iu*;>rty applaus" rceived by the singers wan evidence thai ii was thorough ly enjoyed and up to the standard of excellency which the Cl.oral Society has set in forim-r years. Lightning ►truck and demolish ed the belfry of the cathedral iu the aucient city of Nepi, Italy, while 2,u00 parislioners were list ening to a sermon recently. No one waa injured. The cathedral was built in the fifth century on the site of the aucient temple of Jupiter. Such words as "wine" and "b«*«r" and the nauicH Of other in toxicating driuks are recorded as "cbaolete" in the revised edition of the Encyclopedia Americana. NO. 18 ALAMANCE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL * WINS IN STATE CONTEST. Writes the Best Essay Out of 100 — Essay Published in Gleaner of May 25. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapel Hill, June 4th, — Miss Hallie Tillman, a student in the Stony Creek high school of Ala mance County, has received the award for the winning essay sub mitted by a North Carolina high school student in the national es say contest. The national essay contest is conducted nationally by the high way and highway transport educa- committee, of Washington, D.k;., while for North Carolina it is conducted by the University Extension Division of the Univer sity of North Carolina. ■liss Tillniar's essay on the sub ject "How Good Roads Are De veloping My Community" was voted the best of the one hundred essays on this subject-which were submitted by high school students in all sections of the state. ■Second pla:e went to Conn Bryan, of the Asheville high school, and third place to Miss Margaret Beau fort Aiill. r, jt tlu- Wiuston-Salem high school. The committee on award was composed of C. A. Hib bard, E. R. Rankin, and It. W. Adams. la accordance with the rules of the North Carolina division of the national contest, the Stony Creek high school will receive the award for one year of the loving cup of fered by the University Extension Division. -J«. In accordance with the national rules, Miss Tillman's essay will be forwarded to the central fcommit tee at Washington, then* to enter the national competition. If her essay is voted the best of those sent up trom the various States, then Miss Tillman will receive the Harvey S. Firestone Scholar ship, which is valued at approxi mately $4,000 and which entitles the holder to tuition aud expenses at any college or university for four years. NOTE —You may Lave thought little about this essay when you read it iu The Gleaner in the issue of May 25th. It goes to Wash ing to coutest for a scholarship worth $4 000.—EDITOR. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM. N. C. | Aimiclated with John J. Hemic Ortlre over National Hank of Alanaitte THOMAS D. 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