VOL. XLVIII Parson Sells "Blue-Slij" Stock \ _____ Arrested on Complaint of One Fleeced to Tune of s4.idO—Special Term in Wake to Try Officers of De funct Bank. RAILROAD, WORKERS' ORGANIZA TION IX THK l-'OIOIIM. l'Olt "POLITICAL PURPOSES. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, June —The criini tial charges agaiust R G. Allen president of the Central Bank HIM Trust Co. of llaleigh, whicl busted under such exciting cir cumstances six months ago, am the charges of enibezzleinei brought by the grand jury ' Allen's two appointees, IlighU,u ■ and Jlassey, cashier and ti II i «uc., of the defunct concern. w: be brought to trial at a specie term of court of Wake county b»- ginning July 3d, Governor Mor rison having called the special .term for that purpose v ith Judgt Devin presiding. The order of the Governor call ing the week's term of court foi the trial of criminal cases, vvai issueu at the request ol the Wake "* county commissioners, who adopt ed a resolution at the June meet ing asking for the special term. Solicitor Herbert E. Norris has announced that he has no dispo sition to effect, a com prom isi proposed by the Allen delensi by which the depositors might have approximately 75 cents on the dollar. , Hailroail Workers Organizing. If plans materialize as noped for by the promoters, there will be an organization of ra:iioad workers (most of whom are not directly affiliated with the Fed er.it ion of Labor of which Mr. (idiii[iHi-s is the head) effected in North Carolina very soon, \he be ginnings of wh.c i are ou tap as these lines are wiiuen. According to S »IMM information handed o-. 1 : !' it. i h today, the aim is to i imicii . ate conven tion through a imelliig ot roprt seniaiivcs of rail workers in Raleigh i nis vn-eiv, i iie convention to lake in hand li e job of perfect ing a slato organizat ion—chiefly for "political purposes." That is to say, not as a separate party, but to act conceitedly so as to make its strength felt within the po!itie«tl partv it alliliates with. Other Labor Craft* to Join In This movement is being carried out in every state, and one of its chief objects isUo put into Con gress better men, more humane men, men not so thoroughly sat urated witii hatred of organized laoor, as many of those now en gaged conspicuously in carrying out the Harding policies have shown tli 'inseives to be. In the various sections of the country it will work in the politi cal paities best suited for the pro luot on of its aims. The IMS to the American -people, which has been published, ■adopted at the Uucigo conference outliuing tiie purpose of the or gan iza) toil, conclude* with thiH Maieuient explanatory ot the aims (■I U.O i.c-v ion : •* U e t ln-refore, citizens of the Uuii"> Mali sot Ainericn, in con it ri-iice ii'ssfini'le , do solemnly publish and declare that our gov eminent of right ought to be aU ministered for the cominoti good afid for the protection, prosperity and happiness ol th«* people; that its present usurpation by the in visible government ot plutocracy and privilege must be brokeu; that this Call be best accomplished liy uniting political action suited to the peculiar n>n> and needs of each section and state; and that to this end wo do hereby pledge ourselves to organize for the coming campaign in every state and congressional district, sothat this may become once more in very truth a government of the THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. people, for the people, and by the people." "Wild-Cat Parson" Arrested Slate Insurance Commissioner Wade has ordered the arrest ol Rev. Charles Weilberg, pastor of a church iu Northampton County near Conway, on a charge of ped dling blue-sky stock without li cense. The arrest is made on the complaint of 1) B. Dellinger, of Conway, who complains thai the preacher fleeced him out of $4,100 under pro nise of vast profits. Lists of accredited companies and salesmen carry neither the name of the wild-cat preacher nor the Black Ptuither Oil Company. Neither has any business in North Carolina, but this fact gets Dellin ger nothing of his $4,100 back Mr Wade d reeled the sheriff of .Northampton to make the arrest ai:d hold the preacher for trial. Dii'/./A' d by the promise of 100 [x ]• cent dividends and disarmed l»y the ministerial earnestness and apparent honesty of the preacher, L)elliti".er bought a lot of Black Panther stock several months ago. The preacher got 10 per cent of the returns, 8410, for inducing his parisiouer to sink good money in the Black Panther. Dividends failed to show up on schedule. Letters explained that the officers were away, and a meet ing could not be held to declare a dividend. Mr. Dellinger was coun selled to be patient, and l'at >r it was suggested to him that a fur ther investment of 30 per cent would materially enhance his pre vious subscription. Going to the preacher for coun sel and comfort, Dellinger was told that nothing could be done about it. The fleeced citizen got more and more desperate, and wrote Commissioner Wade about the situation. Alamance Farmers Will Tour Eastern Carolina, On July 24th, 9A. M., the farm ers of Alamance County will leave for a tour of Eastern Carolina. The delegation will depart from Mebane by automobiles to the government experiment Station at Oxford. Mr. Moss, the Superintendent of the Ex periment Station farm, expects to give the Alamance delegation a bar becue dinner. -, & We expect to note the different experiments on tobacco growing. Mr. MOBS states that he has some very interesting things to show us. From Oxford we expect to go to the Experiment Station at Raleigh and there spend the night. We ex pect to note the diferent experiments being carried on at this place. Also we expect to have a poultry culling demonstration by A. J. Oliver. On Tuesday, July 2;~itb, we expect to visit Wayne County. And there study tobacco and cotton culture, also to note the construction of sweet po tato storage houses. Sweet potatoes can be made a paying crop here in Alamance. A cordial invitation has been received from the Goldsboro Chamber of Commerce. On Wednesday we expect to visit the Experiment Station at Willard. Many things of interest are at this place. Watermelons! —They write me that they will fill us up down there. Thursday we expect to go to YVrightsvilie beach at Wilmington. It han been suggested that ihe farm era should not fail to take a bath Have you had a wave of water smack you iu 'he face, Boys, its great. On Friday we are planning to come thru the lowlands to the Sand hills of .Moore County. A letter from Aberdeen says they will show us what a peach orchard looks like. From there we will return to good old Alania&ce.. Dr. li. \V. Kilgore from Raleigh says he can beat, any man on the trip at the old-fashioned co ltrv dance. He didn't Bee Mr. L riah Lamb dancing at Statesvilie, did he' We want four good fiddlers. Where are they? Conae on, boys, let's go July 2-Jth. W. KERK SCOTT, County Agent. The stomach regulates the con dition of the blood and is the fountain head of health or dis ease. Get your stomach right by taking Tanlac. bold by Farrell Drug Co., Gcaham, N. C. What is it that men freely give away which they not only could, but should use themselves? An swer: Advice. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 22, 1922 KABUL )US SUMS FOR IMPORTED FOOI) North Carol Not Living at I omt —Only Thi Counties Sel'-Feeding University News Letter In fifty years the peopio ol North Carolina have been able to Bccuiiiuhlto 150 million dollars in bank-account savings in banks of all sorts, state and national. In a single year —the year lii2o —we sen' 230 million dollars out of the st. e iu cold cash for brefd and butter, hog and hominy, hi y and foragSKthat we could have produced,at home. The bills for imported food and feed supplies range from five t'lousaud dollars in Northampton lo more than nine million dollars "a h in Guilford, Forsyth, and Meckle.. >urg. Only throe counties are self feeding— Camden,'Alleghany, and Currituck. 'f these three coun ties had roa i, schools, and ban - in 'j facilities adequate to then heeds,''.and swift, sy tiv poi; t tiou to" the marke cent . tl y would quickly be the thi st t'arn counties in this or any other strtc. Th(jy now on the safe of the dead-line, and t lie\ will be w'se to hold o i to this air-' vantage as they move in > mod ern coutac'.s with the outsioe busi ness world. In not one of tho ninety-seven deficit counties of the state do the bank capital, surpluses, and un divided profits accumulated in fifty years equal the bill for im ported farm and pantiy supplies in a single year. And let us say ajain that these food and food deficits are'mini mum ligures (1) because they cover only /standard, staple farm and garden products, not extras, da'uties and luxuries of diet, (2) because the values used in the figuring*are fr -in values and not re ail puces at the stores, else the deficit in each co inty wouftl have been at least twice as largo in 1920. Also that tlie method of figuring for each county follows the method used in reckoning the deficit for the state-at-large. An Important Matter The home-production of food and feed is an important detail of economy, because it is directly related to the .critical matter of wealth-lecention ; and wealth-re tention : s far more import ait than wealth-prc luet'on —at east to the producers. The farmer's share of le consumer's dollar is the I main thing, e farmers consii cr ied. And at st it, is a main mat ter for {: 1 the people of tie state land the nation, b -aiise the farm ers will not forever go on living 'at a poor dying rate.' And if they quit, and they are quitting in large numbers in every .state every year, America will someday be asking, what shall we eat and therewithal shall we '>■ clothed, and lio.v tall we com maud the wherewitl Ito pay for 'existence necessities' Now, the retention of farm wealth is H COI iplicated problem. Many factors are involved in it, but for southern farmers at p esent the mc ;t important factor is the production of cotton and til cco a bread-i* 'id-meat basis] If they c iunot or will not learn this lesson, it is hardly worth while for tfiein to learn any oilier. For install •, in I'.il'J, our cotton and tobacco rops turned IOOM- ii. th state ;}'2U in dll ion dollars in cash, which was'Jl illioi oil; ■> more than the ttalc •> bill r i ported food and feed MI plies, liut ese ninety tui"iou uollah*! .sin MiC at once to forty millions when our fertilizer bill- were paid. The (ol i and tobacco money left in North Carolina—htii osing hat the cash-crop farmers nad il —was just 81' i per farm- family, or around per farm inhab itant —and this in the prosperous year 1019. It is safe to say, that it was a great deal less in 10-1 or nothing at all; snd when the cot ton and tobacco balances are nothing at all or worse, then local merchants anil country banket.s are in dire distress along with the farmers. The Le»»oti ol llinturv. For a half century we have tried to u '6t rich raising cotto'i and to bacco and buying farm supplies with cotton an 1 tobacco money, and we have tried it long enough to know that it c«.nnot be done — that as a matter of fact it has not been done by any county of the Mate. We lead the south in the per-acre production of cotton and tobaceo values and we stand a h. ad of thirty-eight states in the per-acre production of grass crop values, all crops counted. But in the per-worker production of crop wealth thirty-one states make a better showing and only seven statesarc poorer iu the per capita accumulation of wealth in farm properties—farm lands and build ings, livestock, farm implements, and the like. Near the top in farm-wealth production and near the hbttom in farm-wealth retention—that's history in North Carolina. When a farm people are worth less than §OB4 per capita after two hundred and fifty years of history, it is=high time they were doing some first-class thinking. And it's high time merchants and bankers were helping 'hem t > think t h? problem clear Ihrough to the end and to think straight. No city can safely I've unto it self 'done. In sheer self-defence it innl take generous thought of I lie count r\side that supports it. That city is richest whose trade territory is ri rdiest. Growth of Trade Greater Under Democratic Tariff A comparison of exports and imports under the Pa.vne-Aldrich Tariff law and the Underwood- Simmons Tariff act made by Sena tor Pat Harrison (Dent., Miss.), in reply to the flamboyant boast ing of Senator .1. E. Watson of Indiana in behalf of the Diugley Tariff act, completely refuted the statement gjfr-tho Indiana Senator that our fjpeigit-trade and com merce wouTrl be little affected by the high protective tariff laws. Senator Harrison's figures tell their own story and make their own argument. "On yqsterday the distinguish ed Senator from Indiana (Mr. Watson) talked about exports, and, replying to Democractie argu ments ■ that high tariff dlilies would injure the N'a' ion's foreign trade, lie said the history of the operation of protective-t riff laws showed that they had little effect on the normal flow of commerce. I Ie i noted official figures to demon strate that under the Dingley 1 arilT Act, described as carrying the highest rates ever enacted in this country, exports had in creased SjOO,OOO,OOO during a period of some 8 or 10 years. "I do not know just how long the Dtngley law was in operation; but it'was passed, as I recall, in IV.iT, and I think was in operation about 12 years. Exports, said the Senator in lauding the Repub lican principle of protection under the tariff law, increased $0110,000,000 and imports SBOO,- 000,000. In other words, the im ports were $200,000,000 more than the exports under the operation of this great Dingley protective tariff law. What are the facts about the operations of the Under wood law?" "Here are the exports; here are the imports: Under the Pavue-Aldrich law in 1910 the imports were $1 ,547,000,- 000. the exports were $1,744,000,- 000." "In 11)11 the imports were s],- 527,000,000; th- exports were $2,- ul'.),000,000." "Let us go down the line ! n II .'i, the year 111« Utderwood tar ifflaw went into etfect. The im ports were $1 ,7Wi,ooO,'jou; the ox ports were $2,1G5,000,()00. "What were they in 1 '.115? Im ports. 81 ,i4tt,o>o,oO); expor's, $2,- 7 tiS,OOO,OOO. Vou Will see our bal ance of trade constantly growing larger. "In l'JDi under the Uuderwood- Simmons law, the imports were $2,17!»,000,000; tlie exports were ei,:i:;:j, 000,000. "There was an increase from JHIO to H»l*i of pract icnlly #;j,OuO,- 000,OOOin exports, working under the Underwood-Si m iiKin.i tariff law; and yet on \.-sirdiy thin spellbinder, tiie close fiiend of the President, the orator i»f the Republican Party, lie mouthpiece of the leadership over there to re vive drooping spirits, said that under the Dingley law the ex pons had increas-d $000,000,000 in 10] to 12 year.-, and we hand back to you the fact that under the Uo' derwood-Siiiiiuons taiilf law the exports had increased over s:i,- (,Ob,O(A),U(A) up to I'Jlli, ROUNDiNG UP CO OP. . TOBACCO MARKETING Extensive Drive in S. C. Next Week —3B Warehouse Centers Addressed Last Week. Correspondence. With only a few days left in which to sign up this year's crop with the marketing association, tobacco growers of South Carolina are rapidly joining the great Tri- State Cooperative. The meeting of association warehousemen from 38 marketing points of the South Carolina belt last w» ek will be followed next week by the most extensive drive which has reaohod tobacco grow ers of the Palmetto State. Coming all the way from Ken tuck}, le.iders of the Bur'ey To bacco Growers Association will teil the same messnge of successful cooperation which resulted recent ly iu bricking tbousauds of new contracts from Eastern Carolina groweis to K.ileigh headquarters of tlie association. The three Vice Presidents of the Tobacco Groweis Cooperative As sociation, J Y. Joyn >r of North Carolina, Joseph M. Hurt of Vir giuia and Bright Williamson of South Carolina, officii s of Exten sion Divisions from st-. eral states, veteran leaders of the greatest Cooperative in America repre senting various types of tobacco will take part iu this mammoth drive. "'.Ve are readyl 1 ' said T. C. NVatkiu", Jr., Director of Ware houses wheu asked whether the 38 warehouses of the association would be-prepared to receive the tobacco of South Carolina growers in the near future. At the directors' meeting in Raleigh this week the 22 tobacco farmers on the board will complete all details of their plan for receiv ing the crop of South Carolina in the near future. From recent announcements of the leaf and Warehou.se Depart ments the Association will not only give it« members unexcelled serv ice in warehousing and grading but according to Oliver J. Sands Executive Manager of the Associ ation, millions of dollare have been assured the Association to meet the first payments to South Carolina growers upon delivery of their tobacco. During the past week Mr. Sands addressed the bankers of South Carolina at their annual meeting, while T. C. Watkius, Director of Warehouses and C. B. Cheatham, Assistant General Manager of the Leaf Department, addressed the warehousemen in charge of the 38 warehousing centers of the Asso ciation in tl\e South Carolina belt, and Judge Robert Bingham ot the Burley Tobacco Growers has taken the field in the successful campaign for a sign-up of the Dark Tobacco in Kentucky. lowa Primaries Worst Repudiation of Harding. Special Correspondence. Washington, June 19th.—The most emphatic repudiation of the i reactionary llardiug admin itera tion and the reactionary Do- i Nothiug Republican Congress >o \ far administered in a publican primary was in the recent lowal contest .where Col. iMuith \V. I Brook hart, radically progressive, won tliu nomination tor United j States Senator against a large field ■ b} a vote of more than two to one I against the united efl >rts of Re- ! publicau national le ulers ai«leil| and abetted by John T. Adams, Chairman of tne Republican Nit tional Committee, aid Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, j Candidates were brought into I the tield by the administration forces with the hope of dividing, the progressive and radical vote! »o as to prevent Col. Brookhart! from receiving tbe required 35 cent lo lusure his nomination, but tiiir v\ ell known trick failed, utter ly mid the successful candidate) bad about 41 per cent of the votes I cant. The overwhelming repudiation j of tne liardiug administration in j low a, as Cor dell Hull, Chairman ol ino Democratic National Com mit tee, points out, is shown by me I art that Col. Hrookhart in his campaign advocated definite ' policies to which the aduiinifltra- tion is strongly opposed, while the j votes for Beveridge in Indiana land Pinchot iu Pennsylvania were 'largely votes of protest, rather j than specific opposition to any set ; of policies. Col. Brook hart advocated the repeal of the Esch-Cummins Act, which President Harding says is the greatest piece of railroad legislation ever passed. Col. Brookhart endorsed the efforts of the Agriculiural Bloc, which President Harding has criticized and opposed. He not only favored a dirt farmer on the Federal Re serve Bjard but favored control of that board by (he .producers. Other planks iu his platform were cooperative buyiug and selliug, closer uuion of farm and city laborers and the government ownership of railroads. There has been no more intense reaction against the Harding brand ofre actionisiu and the enthronement and doiuinanceof special privilege : over both the legi l - rttive audi executive oniuc-hes oi the Gov-j eminent in the agricultural sec tions or elsewheie than t his, which has driven the farmers of lowa to the extreme of radicalism in some respects. Col. Brook hart's victory also was another repudiation of New berryism and Daughertyisin, for in hiscampaign ho denounced New berryism and insisted that the perpetrators of war frauds should be punished. Practically all that is good in Col. Brook hart's platform is al ready a part of the established policy of the Democratic party, while all that is radically danger ous is sure to meet with the op position of the sanely progressive element in both parties. Democrats here point out that the redemption of the agricultural sections now depends upon the sane progressivisin of the Demo cratic party, avoiding the ex tremes of intense reactionisin and intense radicalism. "Major Stedman Stands Well In Washington." | Ashboro Courier. Maj. Chas. M. Stediuan, the | only Confederate veteran iu Con-! igress from North Carotins, not ouly has the love and confidencej [of his people in his district, but ' I he stabds high among the senators the congressmen and all thel officials iu Washington. Major 1 Stedman, as everyone knows, is I gallant, sympathetic, courageous j and does not fail in the perfor- j mauce of duty, liis record iu Congress is unsurpassed by auy I one and is above reproach. Major Stedman, no doubt, will remain i in Congress as long as be desires; to do so. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, who' has been nominated by the He- , publicans of her district, has be gun her campaign. At Guilford, College, knowing the stand the ' Friends have always taken on ! 'peace, put a large peace plank in j her platform. Iu some towns j where she has gone to sj>eak on | isubject*, pertaining to the afTairsj of the Daughters of the American j Revolution and women's club! activities she lias been unable to get away from her political aspir ations. Hut the people in Major .S ted man's disirict can not 1 irget his willingness and des; •• to mtw j them and will prnba' rob up for bun h l.tivi' jo. ,iy in No- I ▼ember than Im ■•VIM h.i>l. Maj-j or StedniHii 11* .i r.-iii ii*■»i_>il. o' and a friend of h.e * ; 1> i ' . Tin* Courier noil..i> nun lor .vir.t he i han done ami uougraiiiaU;> the people of lim district that they ] have b *eu so s|rtendidly'represent-1 ed in *'ougr»4H. His friends iu ! Wasliiii,'-ton say that they always! know wnere to find him and that he is always on the «right side ! What more could be sail I of this j Mpiuudid Confederate veteran? Lost Out. Darke: Mablo gave me the 1 mitten last night. Greene: Then you're a little ahead. Darke: No; I forgot ray hat. —Wayside Tales. If a broom doesn't sweep clean when it's new, you might as well get rid of it at once. Italy baa not a single coal tniue in all h«r territory. NO. 20 Tidewater Carolina. |By Joseph Hyde Pratt, " j The reclamation of swamps and overflowed lands in North Caro j Una has proven to be most success ful in every respect and must be ! considered one of the big accom j plishments of the state. Of the two and one half million j acres of original swamp lauds in | eastern North Carolina, approx imately 600,000 acres have been | reclaimed. These leclaiined black lands are the most productive soil ! in the state. They are now an as jset to the state, because they are highly productive and greatly in j creased in value. Where formerly I these lands were on the tax books | at an assessed valuation of $25 to ' SSO an acre they are now valued at SSO to $l5O an acre. These black soil lauds are favorably lo cated to railway, highway, and jWaUTway transportation I'acili tit'Si and when settled and brought into the highest state of cultiva ' ion they will make eastern North Carolina the greatest agricultural region of the whole couutry. Two crops a year can be grown on ' most of thi! area, and as this fact becomes known, tiiese lands will be in great demand. New drainage districts are con tinually being surveyed and established, and more and more acres of these black soils are being made ready for cultivation. There is another million acres that should bo reclaimed. Ju the reclamation of the over flowed lands of the piedmont re gion of the state, 00,000 acres or more have been made and are adding each year their quota to the state's production of farm product#. Their reclamation has also eliminated chills and fever, and malaria in those dis tricts. North Carolina has a very sat isfactory drainage law that, will enable any community to reclaim their swamp aud overflowed laud. Is your appetite jaded? Is your digestion poor? If so, Tan lac is what you need. Sold py Farrell Drug Co , Graham, N. C. Two women are members of thj Kansas City board of aldermen. •JOG is a peescription for Colds, Fever and LaGrippe. It's the most speedy remedy we know. PROFESSIONAL LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM. N. C. **i«rlatrd with John J. Heinle Ottire over National Hank of Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Auociatrd with W. S. Coulter, Noi. 7 and 8 Flrit National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. Hours: 2to and 7 toy p. in., and by appoini inent. I'bone 'J7 GRATIAIVt HARDEN, M. D. Burll:i(|ton, N. C. I!OUIH: i) to 11a. IN, itU'l iiy uppoiDtini'Ut Ollico Over Acme I>rug Co. T'lc|ihoiiL'n: Oflici- I US— llisldenre 2Gt JOHN J. HENOEHSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Oilier over National Bank ol Alamance J", s. coos, Attorney -at- Lao KAHAM, .... N. C umeo Patterson Building Bocoad Floor. . . . DR. WILL S. JR. . . DENTIST : ■ s I •nhim .... North Carolina )FKICK IN PARIS BUILDING J. r.I.MKH LONG LOUIS C. AELEK { Durham, N. C. Graham, Jf, C. LONG & ALLEN, Attoroaja and Counselors at Li OKAHAK, N. C.