VOL. XLYIII
A TECHNICALITY FURTHER DE
LAYS COLLECTION OF TAXES
FROM THE RAILROADS.
Some Advice Volunteered to Women
> Voters.
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, June 13th. —Despite
the urgent and persistent efforts
of the Slate Commissioner of Re
venue and special counsel engag
ed by tin* Governor, *to compel
the big railroad systems to settle
their taxes with the State of North
Carolina and the various counties
of the state, there now develops
another legal snag that will make
it necessary for the counties and
1 >cnl taxing units to wait some
m mths yet to get the $775,000 in
atlvalorem t«xes that have been
due them by the railroads sine*
last October.
The State Revenue Commission
er hail won all of his legal bailies
coveriig the last six months or *"
in the IT. S. courts, and befon
the o'f federal judges, whei
tlrs latest "legal technicality'
(which so often disgusts t!.e orli
nary laymen not so highly "vers
ed in the law") arose.
Counties and local taxing uuitfc
of North Carolina will have to
wait a while longer for 51T0,57£-
in advalorem taxes that. 17 ve beet
due them by the.raiho.ids of the
state since October i, 1921, whilt
the question of whether the state
can now collet'! s'-JOli.uSl in fran
chise taxes wili la' determined by
Judge James E. 15 'yd, of Greens
boro, as the result of a hearing
held here bel'i re Edmund
Waddill, Jr., of the Fourth Circuit
of Appeals and Judge Henry G.
Coutior of the Eastern Distr ct ol
North Carolina.
The two judges agreed to issu
a restraining urdtr forbidding eol
lection of i lie ad valorem taxef
pending decision of the United
Stati-f> buprune Court on ihc rail
road's appeal from t lie refusal ol
the three judges to grant an in-
terloculotory injitne!ion against
the collection ol the taxes, but
divided on the qiics iou affecting
tile I ranclltSe la.V-s, .1 ildiju ( UUUOI
holding with ill.- st uo and his
associate wiili 'Tie railroads. In-
come taxes "I I 1 ■ i,i oli due tin
state ai\* involved in sdjiirate
suit* which will be card by Judge
Connor this week.
The difference between the two
judge.* necessitated relerriug the
qui 8t iou to Judge Muyil, the thiid
member ol the court Ju-lge Con
nor and Judge Waddill announced
iht-y would write yui and tians
iiiit their views to J img'- lloyd and
leave to him the question ol
whether lie won d hear argument
by tin* attorneys for en h side.
The two opinions will lie with
held, but the one in which Judge
Uovd concurs will probably be
come the opinion of the court and
the other the dissenting opinion.
iniH-reiice as to lloyd
Judge Boyd was variously
quoted. At tlie beginning of the
hearing J. It. I'rince, of counsel
for the Si.uthern Railway, stated
that when the quest tun was liist
raised some wee*s ago that Judge
lloyd hau stated that, the railroads
we're eut it led to the stiv aad that
it was merely a quest ion of who
should gra.it it.
However, Judge W. i\ lonian,
of counsel f'r the si file, later
stated Unit Judg" Boyd had told
liiin that there was nothing for
ihe three judges to do except
aflirm their previous refusal to
stav the state.
This victory was tin* first for
the railroads since the Southern
Railway instituted suits before
Judge Hoy« 1 1.-st October to enjoin
the slate from the collection of
lid Valorem, franchise and income
taxes. The federal statute pro
vides that an interh»ctitory in
junction tie issued only by three
judges, and the uction was con
solidated with later suits brought
l»y the Seaboard Air Line, the At
lantic Coast Line, aud the Norfolk
ISouihern.
The cases were argued before
THE: ALAMANCE GLEANER.
Judges Waddill, Connor and Boyd
in Greensboro in January, and on
March 18th the three judges sign
ed an order denying the iuterloc
ntory injunction as to the fran
chiso ami advalorem taxes am
holding that the income taxec
were not properly before the con rt
An appeal was then taken to the
Supreme Court of the- United
.States and a motion for a si a) ol
proceedings successively passed
from Judge Connor to the three
judy;e court and so to the Supreme
Court. On May 29th thoSupreun
Court advanced the appeal for n
hearing on I lie lirst Monday in
November, but held that tfie ques
tion of a, stay of proceedings was
one to be determined by the judges
who originally heard the case.
fiOOl) AMI HAD ADVICE
TO VVOM I S VOTERS
Tlui Raleigh Tii*es stops cussin
at organized labor'long enough t
project its proboscis into the
women's attitude, or alleged at
titude, towards the two candidates
tor solicitor in this (Till) judi
cial district. Some of the organ
ized labor people feel kindly to
ward Mr. Evans and will probably
vote for him. This seems to bt
enough to rally that more or less
v.tscilating sheet to the Hinsdale
standard. So the Evening Ivickei
bares its chesty breast to the
thunderstorms of June and essays
to speak the minds of the women*
voters of Wake and Franklin as
being against Evans, because he
svas opposed to the ratification ol
the woman suffrage amendment
to the federal constitution—and
had the temerity to say so. It
goes further and complains thai
Evans even said so out loud, when
everybody could hear him—a hab
it of his.
Theiefore, declares the Evening
Kicker, the women are against
uiin now, after the battle is all
over aud everybody has accepted
the result in good faith.
Well, we can't believe there are
many women so narrow-minded
and so deficient in moral and
political acumen as the Kicker ad
vertises them.
If the women who take an "in
terest" in political management
aud activities expect to measure
up to their hopes and expecta
tions, they will not try that sort
of policy and tactics—which would
never get them anywhere.
Now, women should know, and
many of them do know —some ol
'em are that smart —that rein
forcements is a stronger Word
than resentments. That they can
make greater headway along the
road they have eleeted to travel if
hey welcome new lriendships
along the way, holding fast and
true to those they have, of course:
but keeping a good weather-eye
constantly on tne freaks aud fa
natics who have populated de
serted ports since the political
seas became navigable—here in
Xorth Carolina.
Take your Uncle Cain. Morri
son, ladies, for illustrative pur
poses, right here. Some of the
fieaks of your sex were screaming
about him a couple of years ago.
Vet, behold! when he came into
otlice one of the lirst things the
Governor did was to start a per
sonal inquiry to find a woman
(nobody was leading him) who
won d properly lit jnto an import
ant state office. And he found
Mrs. Clarence Johnson and ap
pointed her State Welfare Com
missioner gbldly and enthusiasti
cally.
Wo confess that writing articles
to the ladies is something new to
us. \Vo didu't "tali all over the
ollice furniture in dancing a jig
when Tennessee put the 19th a
inenduieut over. But we are find
ing some kind words, now, to say
for Miss Lewis, the only woman
candidate in Wake County this
year, and because she is the can
didate of the Democratic women
chiefly. They deserve represent
ation.
There was a time when Wood
row Wilson was not enthusiastic
on the subject, but the honr ap
proached when the championship
of the great President was to do
more than that of any other man
to secure your victory.
.Senator Simmons is another in
stance. The hour struck when he
could turn the dial of decision in
the North Caroliua state conven
tion, after being lukewarm on the
sunject and rather opposed, as
was so many of the best and most
chivalrous sons jn the South. The
M, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 15, 1922
hour struck when you needed
Simmons-ahd l)E DID MOT
FAIL VOUT
That portion of the newly en
franchised woman voters of the
south, aud fu North Carolina es
pecially, expecting to figure suc
cessfully iu public affairs, will noi
lose sight of the knowledge that
statesmanship is a quality to be
aspired to, rather than that of the
"shrewd politician" (who is sel
dom as honest as he or she might
be), if they shall reap the fruits
of popular approval and the far
greater -satisfaction of having
served the public good.
Any embryo woman politician
that starts out under the colors
which the Evening Kicker proffers
her—the spirit of revenge spoil
ing all her naturally better quali
ties —w'll inevitably see them
"trail in the dust" of public dis
approval and condemnation.
We do not think there are many
so hare-brained as to follow such
advice or suggestion, liven a mere
man, under similar conditions,
would have more sense and better
judgment—and exercise them.
In conclusion* ladies, wo ex
plain that we set out in this little
adventure • with you, because
serious principles are involved —
aud because we would like to see
our faith in the patriotic liigh
mindedness of tin* women gen
erally vindicated.
Town and Farmers.
Milwaukee Journal.
What does your town do for the
farmers who trade iu it?
We know of one village— it has
ouly about 100 people—where
there had been complaints thai
farmers were sending their money
away to mail order houses and the
merchants decided to create a
more freindly feeling between the
villagers and the surrounding far
mers.
They found many things could
be doue. The first achievement
was plenty of hitching posts for
teams and places to .park ears.
They even went one step farther
and provided sheds for cars and
machines.
Again, it was found that farm
ers often have to wait in town for
repairs aud for other reasons. A
room,
street, in an unused building, was
fitted up simply with tables and
chairs and rest room facilities,
aud now that room is filled most
of the day with farmers' wives
aud their children, who have at
last just what they have wanted
for years. That room is used so
much that it will soon have to lie
enlarged.
But one good thiuu usually
leads to another. The farmers be
gan to have a definite friendly
feeling for the little village. Here
was service without any thought
of immediate returns. Mail orders
for goods began to fall off a little.
Then the business men of the
village decided to have a meeting
and ask the farmers In to talk
things over. Luncheon and ho:
coffee was served. There were
uo set speeches. The villagers
said they wanted to meet the
farmers on the bafjjs of genuine
friendship. The farmers were
treated with the utmost cordiality.
There was no condescension
shown. Just a friendly basis of
equality.
Then someone suggested Conn
ing a community club, villagers
and farmers all working together.
The idea was immediately accept
ed. In a few months a commun
ity house was built. It proved
remarkably easy to get the funds.
The farmers contributed and
there was a line get-together feel
ing nil around.
There will be movies in that lit
tle community house. Dances
will bo held in it. Neighbors will
visit and play together
there. The farmer comes to town
now and ho is greeted with a
friendly smile on every corner.
And the villagers say the farmers
are the finest people in the world.
Aud the farmers are warming up
a little more every day. „
We do not believe that after a
year or so there will lie many mail
orders going out from that com
munity.
The strange thing is, why don't
more towns follow the example of
this little place with 400 inhabi
tants? They could all do it with
a little initiative.
Women are stagiug boxing
bouts in London.
GRADED SCHOOL
Attendance, Honor and Promotion
Certificates.
Thu editor expected to have this
item lor an earlier issue, but failed
to get it. However, it will be of
interest to parents, patrons and
friends of the school.
Attendance Certificate*.
These are pupils who were neither
absent nor tardy during the school
First Grade Ruby Andrews,
Troy Dean Holt, Theo. Go wens
Second., tirade —Horace Johnson.
Blanche Parrish, J. D. Longest, Jr.,
Mary Webster.
Third Grade—Allen Hudson,
Ifandford Wilson, Thomas Tinnin,
Margaret Straughn, Mary Catherine
I 1011, Sara l'alner Rogers, Bessie
Wilson, Doris Noah.
Fourth Grade Paul Suits, Don
nell Tate, Kuiiua Buckner, Ruth
I'orlines, Kdwin Walker, Kdith Lin
ons, Kdith Burke.
Fifth. Grade —Rankin Roberson,
Robert Tinnin, Clara Walker, La
vona I Slack, Doris Moser, Ella Mae
Guthrie, Frank llolt.
Sixth Grade—Annie ISoyd I lad ley,
•John I). Lee, Frank Rich.
Seventh Grade- —Willard FUntnm,
Aubiey Florence, Elizabeth Harden,
Maxino Holme.--, Emily Lee, Leo (Jra
Petty, Louise Robertson, Verp
Thomas.
Eighth Grade—Lois Cc rbett, Don
Holt, Margaret Walker, Elizabeth
Montgomery.
Ninth Grade —Ruth Walker, Ruth
Watson, Flossie Moser, George
N'oah.
Tenth Grade —Raym'ond Tinnin,
Dalice Noah, Everette Kirkpatrick.
Eleventh Grade—Julia Mae Brad
thaw, Lou Heritage.
Honor Cert I lira ten
These are pupil s who passed all
work and made an average grade
above 1)0.
First Grade—Ralph Henderson,
Norman Murray, Elizabeth Whitte
more, Jean Tate, Annie Lee Boswell,
Inez Bailiff, James Holt. *
First Grade—Marvin Boggs,
Marvin Philli] tb, William Guthrie,
Dollie Boswell, Hazel Cheek.
Second Oracle—Edna Crawford,
Madeline McPherson, Felsie Riddle,
Gallic Shoe, Gayle Smith, Evelyn
Porterfield, Ilanley Holt, Herbert
Lovett, Junius Xeese, Irwin Wil-
Third Grade—Doris J.oah, Irma
del Phillips, Annie Roberiton, Ar
thur Sholfner, I'auline Smith.
Fourth tirade—lone Whitfield,
Ruth Forlines, Ella Rainey.
Fifth Grade —Elizabeth Pomeroy,
Doris Moser, Faura Mae Whitaker.
Sixth Urade —Louise Buckner,
Virginia 'J'ate, Annie lioyd lladley,
John D. Lee.
Seventh Grade —Harold Cox,
Aileen Pegg, Emily Lee, (ieorge
Long.
Eight Grade—Nellie Reavia.
Tenth Grade —Nina Quakenbush,
Eve ret to Kirkpatrick.
Certificate* ~ Promotion* l« ll'K' l Mchool.
Alice Bradshaw, Adele Cheek.
Thelma Hannah, Elizabeth Harden,
Virginia Harden, Maxine Holmes,
Mary Hornaday, Willie Jeffreys,
Kmilv Lee, Elizabeth Ixjng, Helen
Ixjvett, Carlisley Mann, Delia Moore,
Mabel Moore, Aileen l'egg. Lee Ora
Petty, Hazel me Ray, Joy Belle
Rogers, Madie Suits, Harold C >x,
W'illard Flintorn, Bryce Neese,Dewey
Jones, Wallace Taylor, Worth Thomp
son, Ge >rge Lolg, Male urn Noah,
Duevov Mcpherson.
Mammoth Cave, >l Kentucky,
may bo sold under the hammer.
The acres at the entrance
to .Mitiuuiotli Cave arts iu private
hands under the terms of a will,
which dictated that tin-laud taunt
bu held in trust until the la.it of
the named heirs died when it tit
to be Hold at public auction iu iu>
entirety.
Tii'dac is unquestionably the
iuo«t widely talked ot medicine iu
the world today and those who
once use it invariably buy it over
and over aizain and tell their
friends of the spletided result*
they have derived trom its use.
Sold by Farwll Company,
Graham, N C.
A variety ot' corn urains was
found in thu mortuary urus of
prehistoric grav.-s, recently un
earthed in iVnnt^ee.
There arc sections of New York
wheiean American is a foreigner.
TOBACCO GROWERS
WILL BE INTERESTED.
Great Mass Meetings on Cooperative
Marketing in Eastern Carolina
Towns—Some Things Said by Sa
piro and Other Speakers.
California Wizard, Hlamea Auction
Way.
Why is it that for the first time
for many years there are fewer
men on the firms than there are
if) the cities? Why is it that the
census of l'J'2o poiuted out that
there was a greater urban popu
lation than a country population?
Because the young men are
leaving the farms; farming does
not pay.
Why is it that way here, as well
as practically everywhere, tenan
try in increasing ami the owner
ship of iniliviitual (arms is decreas
ing? 111-cause 110 man as an indi
vidual lias a chance against the
system ami con not keep his head
out of water on his investment,
and gradually they loose the farm
and revert into the old feudal
system of tenantry.
Why is it that they wear shoes
and silk stockings in the cities?
Why is it that they have bath
rooms and toilets in the houses in
the cities, and when I go through
your country here 1 see a situation
of life on the farm that makes me
know as well as you know that
your farmiug life is one generation
behind the standard of living in
the city? It is because your sys
tem of marketing, the one point
where vou convey your years's
labor into money defective.
No New Experiment
Cooperative marketing is real;
There is uothiug new in it, there
is nothing complex in it, and there
if 1 ! nothing hidden in it. It is an
old, old movement. It is more
than three generations old in
every civilized country in Europe.
It just so happens that in this
one particular thing the United
States i« the one country that has
been backward in cooperation,
and oven in this country we have
had it in California since 1894.
Now our farmers out there ac
tually market more than three
hundred dollars worth of products
every single year through this co
operative marketing; they market
perishable and uon-perishable
things—they range all the way
from strawberries to baled alfalfa,
from oranges to bottled honey.
I'his movement is here all over
the United States with all kinds
of commodities; tjiere is not a
word of experiment in it.
In California alone those farm
ers have faced pratically every
kind of problem that a farmer
can face in marketing his pro
ducts and they have solved them
every oue.
Demanda Mure Than MUrvation H
The average income of the
grower for a period of nix years
has been less than $340.00 a'fam
ily, off of this tobacco that every
body else makes a profit on; and
the government says that $1500.-
00 a year can keep an American
family on a decent standard of
living.
We say the merchant iH entitled
to a profit, the badker is entitled
ito a profit, the buyer is entitled
to a profit, the warehousman in
(entitled to a profit, the manufac
turer, the distributor, and the re
tailer, they »tre all entitled to a
profit, bui ho is the grower—and
a'l vve try to do in Cooperative
Marketing is to work out a system
where everybody shall make a
fairly reasonable profit on a thing
for which the consumer alwavs
pays h good prioe and in which
there is enough tnouey to really
give a profit » 11 the way down the
line, including the little boy ami
the little girl who are selit out in
Ihe field to pick off the tobacco
woi an.
Cd-o|ta Keep Profit* Home.
In California we have Associa
tions which started out with h
few faithful men. Now 'J2 pei
cent of the raisins, IK) per ceut ol
the prunes, 97 per cent of all th«
various produce in central Cali
fornia is marketed through on*
central office in Fresno. Om
growers swear by Cooperative
Marketing.
J would like for those men whe
have been handing out circuiart
(against cooperative market.ng
to hand thern out in any Californi t
I town. It in not the growers —i
the merchants ami the bankers
who would drtVM them out, be
causo this movement has made
every body in the rural districts
prosperous and it keeps the prof
its at home, where they were
rtksed, with the farmers and the
local merchants a;ul the local
bankers.
Cooperative* Calu, While Other* l.o*e.
In 1920 and 1921 about 90 per
cent of the farmers of the United
States lost money on their products
;and lost real money.* In California
j where we have our inferior products,
'our isolated position as compared to
I yours, 80 per cent of the farmers
made net profits on their products
only by Cooperative Association.
Heal Profit tor All, but Growers,
Everybody in the business has
! made a real profit off of your tobacco
| excepting you—the one man whol
takes all of the risk —the one man
who Keeps himself close to the soil —i
the one man who sweats and worr es
all through t!ie year and wondexs
how he will come out in the end —!
the one man who does the real lab.>r
—the one man who lakes bil l
of the hazard —he is the only felhw |
who fails to make a profit.
Do you think that this system is !
correct? Do you for a moment'think
that the system you have had of auc-j
tion sales i.f tobacco is an intelligent'
or profitable system? You kn.iiv as
well as I that if you were really!
thinking, and if you had to takei
your chance between that system as [
a permanent thing and nothing else, ]
you ought to go outot the tobacco'
growing business and go into some |
other line of activity!
State Now Produces
High Quality Cheese
Few pefsous realize that cheese
oiade in Weßtern North Carolina
is equal in quality to that made in
Wisconsin or other states, accord
ing to dairy workers of the N. C.
i Agricultural Extension Service.
More than 400,000 pounds of
cheese is produced Hunually in
mountain counties ttud uiMt of it
is shipped out of the state, while
the piedmont and coastal plains
sections depend upon cheese im
ported from Wisconsin and other
statoß. Lack of proper shipping
facilities is partly responsible for
this condi'iou, but recently
arrangements have been made to
ship cheese by parcel post so that
any grocercan get North Carolina
cheese through brokers and job
bers if he will demand it.
The mountain factories are now
putting up cheese in any commer
cial lorm, including swiss cheese
which is said to be of as high a
quality as that produced in any
other part of the Unided States.
The N. C. Division of .Markets
at Raleigh can assist persons iu
obtaining cheese made in North
Carolina and invites correspond
ence from grocers and others in
terested.
Rupture Expert Here
Seeley, Famous in This Specialty,
Called to Creensboro.
F. 11. Seeley, of Chicago and
I Philadelphia, the noted truss ex- |
i pert, will personally be at the I
lO'Henry Hotel, and will remain iuji
Greensboro Saturday only, .lime
1 24, Mr. Sni'ley s>iy»: " 1 IM- .M c i unit - j
lie Shield wilHioi mil\ II- .HU any j
! case of rupt ur» |M'i lm:iiy, I» u 1 eon-j
, tracts the i• i 10 duys on •
i the average ea>*. li»-iua v;i-t ad
|vanceunnt nv*r UI former',
j methods —exemplifying instanta- .
neouos efie".s iininediaW'ly ap-'
jjnwiable and withstanding any!
strain or position no mailer the
size or location fr-trge or difficult:
I cases, or incisional ruptures (I'o 1- i'
| lowing opeimiou*) specially sulic-j
iteO. This instrument received the!
only award iu KngUnd and ml
Spain, producing results without
{surgery, injections, inxdicil treat- i
] nients or prescriptions. r. Seeley
has documents from the United!
iStates Government, Washington
jD. C., for inspection, lie will be
glad to demonstrate without
i charge or fit them if desired. Busi- j
i ness demands prevent stopping at
rany other place in this section.
P. S. —Every statement iu this uo
i tice has beeu verified before the
1j Federal and State Courts.—F. 11.
| Seeley.
i Home Office, 117 No. Dearborn
i|gt M Chicago. ad
NO. 19
DIPHTHERIA AND CROUP
Increase in Deaths from These
Causes—Toxin antitoxin a Pre
"ventive— Parents Should Call Doc
tor in Suspected Cases.
Because there has been an in
j crease in thfe number of deaths
due to diphtheria within the last
J three years from 24'2 in 1919 to
2.50 in 1920 Hud 365 in 1921, an
i appeal is being seut out by the N.
,C. State Board of Health to every
physician in the State and to the
i mothers in many sections, by let
ter and through the press, to be-|,
; gin immediately to take steps to
i lower the death rate from diph
, theria and croup.
There has been a gradual in
crease in the number of deaths
from diphtheria and croup in the
registration area' the last few
years, but that, should be no con
solation to the physicians aud
public who liiive placed their Stato
from the one that, had about the
highest death rate from typhoid
iu the South to almost the lowest.
©The number of children that
will die from this disease in 1922
depends upon the promptness of
;>arents iu calling doctors in sus
pected casus of so:"; throat, the
immediate administration of suffi
cient doses of antitoxin, the early
reporting of cases and strict ob
servance of quarantine. 
However, the best measure to
control the disease is to tive
every child between six months
and six years three doses of toxin
antitoxin. As it takes several
months for tho# effects of this
treatment to be established, now
is the time for the mothers and
doctors to act.
Very Truly
W. K. GOLEY
Quarantine Officer.
Leather coins were u-ed in
northern Europe in the seven
teenth century.
Tan lac is the people's medicine
and the people themselves have
made it what it is. Sold by Far
rell Drug Company, Graham, N. C.
In Holland Easter eggs are used
for gambling.
(J (it) in a peescriptiOn for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy we know.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-at Law,
GRAHAM. N. C.
Anxoclated with John 1. Heinle
(Mil re over National Hank of Alamauoe
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
AuocUted with W. S. Coulter,
Not. 7 and 8 Fint National Bank Bldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drng Co.
Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to a p. in., and
by appoint ment.
Phone 97
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C. I
I »ilii u llu us: u» 11 a. m.
ami by appoiutmenl
Olllce Over ACIKC Drug Co.
Telephone*: Olllce 110—Residence !iGI
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
/ GHAUAM. N. C.
tiller over Nullonal Bink »l Alaaaaet
T. 3. COO 3C,
Attorney -at- La a*
'H\ M, - - - . N, C
O0)c« Patterton Building
Socond Fledr. . , .
•K. WILiJS. LOSG, JR.
. . DENTIST : ; c
-•Ham .... North Carolina
KVICK IN PARIS BUILDING
J. I:LMI:R LHJIG LOUIH C. ALLKN
Durham, N. C. iraham, X. C.
LONG & ALLEN,
Attorneys and Counaclon at Lin
GRAHAM, N. C.