North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XLVIII Republican Do-Nothing Con gress Arraigned Some of the Outstanding Facts of Omission and Commission—Some of it Shady. President Ilarilliej anil Cabinet Keel Impelled to Write and Stump in lit fort to Turn the Tide. Special Correspondence. Washington, Oct. 24; With election day drawing near, the Republican situation in many sec tions looks desperate and in many others hopeless. Confirmation of this view is found in the facts, that President Harding has felt constrained to write a hitter to Republican Floor Leader Momloll designed to raise Republican hopo-vand which he pleads for the re-election of thp present Re publican Do-Nothing Congress; that Willi:.in R. Wood, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, has been compelled to revise downward his prediction of a Republican majority in the ' next House, and that practically every member of the President's Cabinet has been sent out ou the stump. The Republicans, panic strick en, are playing their last cards and exhausting their last re sources. The Democrats on the other hand a*e approaching the final struggle with calmness and confi dence. They are indulging in 110 extravagant claims. They have placed all the facts concerning this Congress and this adiniaia ration and the issues of the cam paign accurately#nd fully before the publiJ, and they feel now that no amount of letter-writing by the President, or belated cam paign oratory by members of the Cabinet can explain away the damning facts that constitute the record of this Republican Con gress which is asking for re-elec tion and this Republican admin istration which has injected itself into the campaign at the eleventh hour. They cannot explain away any ' of the following outstanding facts of that record: 1 That this Congress passed a Profiteers' Tariff bill which taxes the American people from $3,000,- 000,000 to $-4,000,000,000, an amount equivalent to the total sum required to run the government, and which will greatly increase the present high cost of living. That this Republican Congress enacted a tax bill which relieved the big. corporations and multi millionaire tax-payers of more than half a billion dollars, and in creased the taxes of every small corporation, while granting no re lief to small individual taxpayers. That Truman H. Newberry was given a purchased seat in the United States Senate, with the open support of President Hard ing, and was condemned by the very men who voted to seat him. That the administration is now faoing an admitted deficit of SGaO,POOjOOO for the current fiscal year, which will be 8850,000,000 and perhaps $1,000,000,000 before the end of the year, while pretend ing that it was economizing, and saving money. That the expenses of. running every single departir/.it of the government have been largely in creased by this administration when fairly compared with the last Democratic administration. That the last of the naval oil reserves in Wyoming were secret ly leased by the Secretary of the Interior fo a subsidary of the Standard Oil Company, with great loss to the nation and the state and to th? United States navy and the oil-burning ships of the Ameri , can-Morchant Marine. • That the administration is . iw attempting to put through lega tion to dispose of $3,000,000,000 THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. worth of the finest merchants ships m float for ono-tentii of tin ir cost, Lo pay 8750,000,000 bonus to tiie purchasers, to lend them 64'20,-WOO,OOO at 2 per cent ami to exempt theui from taxation. That under an executive order of President Ilardinir, a midnight raid was made upon the officials of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and that men and wo men who had won those positions through merit were cast into the street with n suspicion amounting to the charge of dishonesty against them, which has t)eeh disproved, but brought them no redress. That this administration has been charterized by Daugherty isin, NatOoldsteinirtin, Laskei ism, Fall ism and other isms, resulting in scandals that constitute offen ses, political and moral. That the Civil Service has boon trampled under foot and sup-1 planted by the spoil system, and that in.some instances it is charg- ] ed that appoinunents have ac tually been bought and sold. That special privilege has been enthroned in matters of legisla tion and that the administration has turned its baqk upon the massos of the people. That without exception every piece of beneficial legislation passed by this Congress had the support of Democrats, and much of the bad legislation passed would have been still worse except for Democratic amendments, which won the support of the small pro gressive element among Republi can legislators., That the one boasted achieve ment of the administration —the Disarmament Conference —has re sulted in no benefit whatever. No ships have boon scrapped, no money has beeu saved and no de sired result achieved. Neither France nor Italy has ratified the treaties, and there*are many rea sons why they do not intend to ratify them. That the present Congress is not only inefficient but incompe tent, bankrupt in leadership, prin ciples and policies. That the present administration is the only one in the history of the country that went upon the rocks in its first year. That the record of both the Congress and the administration is a record of broken promises and of failue to give any relief to busi-1 ness men, farmers and laborers, and that the Congress is tnere fore unworthy of re-election and the administration unworthy of endorsement. These are only the outstanding facts. There are hundreds of col lateral facts which could bo cited. The people know them, and they will act upon I them on Novem ber 7. * THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC YEAR. Millions We Squander. Current Opinion. The following budget furnished by a college president gives us something to think about. We squander-every year in the United States: For tobacco —cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing, 82,100,000,000 For movies, 1,000,000,000 For Candy, 2,230,000,000 For cosmetics, per fumes, scented toilet soap, face powder, etc., 1,950,000,000 For jewelry, 500 000,000 For furs, 350,000,000 Fpr soft drinks, 300,000,000 For chewing gtlm, 50,000,000 For races, joy rides, and pleasure re sorts, * 3,000,000,000 For luxuries of all kinds, we spend yearly, $22,700,000,000 Against this we spend yeany: For all education, 31,000,000,0d0 For grade schools, 050,000,000 For colleges and pro fessional schools, 150,000,000 For public high schools, ' \ 100,000,000 For normal schools. 20,500,000 For ail church schools and col leges, 25,060,000 Farmers who carried ou corn vrowing demonstrations last year with the "help of county farm agents report an average yield of ■iß bushels to the acre —the State average is about 22 bus it-i*. GRAHAM, N. e„ THURSDAY. OCIOBKK 20, 1022 Democrats Speaking; iAnnoii!iGeriie;its.- Marion Sutler and Others Trying to Break Solid Congressional dele gation. % t'O-OPUII ATI \ I'.S - CIM; l ON I ! A( I' l bbea (BY MAXWEi.t (j OKMA *■ ) Raleigh, Out. -1. —-Miiioii Ilm ler of Rep..Pop. fusion days liat boen entered by the pr- • t d;.y Repuuiic;ii campaign in t ( foPrt speakiinr tour in tin- Slate, ■ being bill'd this wise,, and next . for spell-binder 1 ll'oris 111 under, Catawba, !'iirl;t\ m.d >i!,"r counties. Manv vuitn *■ nt"nil. ' . how the "Sampson Fox" :«•■»!• d 'em in the 'JO's am will not readily 1 fall for his partisan sophistries in- J the election November "'lt. It was his' fault that ho fooled | , enough voters to hoist himself into 1 political office the first titno.j l Those familiar with his record know that it will bo their fault if], ho l'ools them again—and ilieyj will not allow him to do so. The efforts of the Republicans,j emanating at Washington, where Butler appears to have started from with his orders, are mainly to capture a seat or tvv v o in the next Congress, including that held by the Old Confederate, Major Charles M. Stedin.c . Former! cabinet official Leslie M. Shaw is I invading the Fifth for the Repub licans in behalf of Mrs. Lindsay j Patterson, the Republican can didate. The State is being canvassed by j Democratic speakersVgost effect-p ively, under direction of 1 110 Staie j Committee and the county coni- i' mittees, and the Democratic men and women of North Carolina ! must see to it that a_ full vote is polled —and the . ay to is for each indi' idul Democratic voter to be sure and go the poll ing places and a st their ba'iots. •' There ire just fo.trlc'Mt ' iys from this writing to put on the finish ing touches to the line*u;>, and every one ought to measure up to their duty and run no risk of the loss of a single Congressman or legislator. North Carolina was the only State hi the American Union that held ami increased its. Democratic majority at tlu* elec tion two years ago, when the North arid West called faj - a'* "change"—and ■ it with a I vengeance, to the regret and chagrin of millions of voters. The record of the Harding Re publican national adinini rat ion and that of the "worst Congress, ever" since that election is a me nace that millions will -resent at the polls next month. To stem ohe one-sided plutoer.itic 1 ide that et in it is necessary to" elect- a Democratic Congress litis year, and the patriotic ex-sei vice men and the deceived business me' , working men, farmer- especially, will show Warren tJamali' i Hard ing what a knock-out solar plexis is like, legislative!} .-peal.ing. As the Democratic (iood-Covern ( ment hosts of North Carolina" ad vance in this campaign, *0 allj should keep j'U eye peeled oil an\ and all efforts to sow dissentionM in our ranks, and act accordingly.! For whoever attempts it, if any should try it, is an enemy and traitor to the only political party J that has given and guarded andj maintained hones;, clean, Anglo-j Saxon government ami while supremacy to this Southland d.ur iug the last half century —and i' 1 is as important now as ever lu> work ai d light for the Mine prin-' ciples and conditions as in the past. We have uoini.iated ad our candidates in th i primaries and some county conventions, and no honest Democrat who participated therein can comsci en tio us Iy' scratch a ticket. The Tri-Suite Tobaca Growers ( Cooperative Assoc alien h.;i initi- | tuted suits a ainot 11 metuLci> ofj the association residing in North Car'dii:;i, asking damages at the rau> of five cents a pound for ! tobacco alleged to have beeu sold by the growers outside the associa tion in violation of fho contract. Gov rnor Morrison has returned from Sarry County, where he and Governor Trinkle of Virginia shook hands over ihe State line in recognition of the great' good roads program the two states have in pi'>sp"ct. Highway ('ononis ioiior Frank Pag>* promised all the •,'ood roads needed, aiul tin* "nfgh w-ty.nan" Mire is s > nero id-luiihl or, ;is vvv .i.l have learned ill this 1111, i) domiui. stcji Toward I'liii.irmltY, Says lj>iiiiiils»- loiicr Maxwell. Mat-* Corporal ion Commission"! - A . ■! Maxwell ibis week presents (in.'s.l columns of type) his analy sis 01 thy freight rate en'Mest, at A.-heville, involv (! in the inier siato Couiinerce Commission 111- 'lll iry of rates on sou 1 heastern railroads. Mr. M.ixwell sa\s that "at 1 his di !.: nee from tin* em.l I predict 1 hat 'here will come out of it what in 111 v nuWk'ipate -a rig idly ull i: orin si ruct 11 re of r;i les for ! .10 whole .Slillt ll I'll! Ill.ich p-o --i»n ss will l»o. In nlo 111 1 lie general direction of uniformity—litany discriminations will have not n re moved aio ; soiio- now 01. e,-. created —and the weiid will coiiiuitie to revolve in the direction • lhat more perfect destiny-which has been the dream and goal of Ihe iges." He mail s no relorence to Bea nian and (Jrillin, lespectively secretary and attorney for the North Carolina Trallie Associa tion. Thor 1 is 110 mention of the Trallic Associa; ion's con llict iu the stateinent devoted to an explan ation of the principles involved in Hll rate adjustment. Heainan and Griffin sought to have North I Carolina eliminated from the in vestigation, and to strike I rum the .record the evidence of the Cor poration Commis-ion given at the hearing. Shippers and uo-r -liants are inateri illy- interested in the forthcoming ueciMon. Hpeeaking Aiiiiouiiceuteiit-s tills \>(' -U. Governor Mori ison, at Pittsboro, Tuesday, lilth; '.'ax Gardner, at Winsto: •Salem, . 'lesday, 2-1 th; Josephu.s 1 >au:els, iliyii Point, Tuewhay, -1 !i. Other appointuiuuts this week, aunouuced from Deiiiocralic State UtVidquarter,s hero, are Thursday, Oct. 2J J. Frank iSpruill, Point ; Zd> Weaver, Sylva; Albert L. Cox,.Marion; C. L. Abernet hy,. Wolf Trap; 1 Myilts lloey,' Greensboro; Max Gardner, V.i'ilson; Joseph us Daniels, Siler City; 11. S.' Ward, Durham- Fran cis I>. Winston, lieautort county; Charles lloss. Johnston county; J. ilryau Grimes,- ivlgecoinbo county; T. D. Warren, Uoidsboro; IT. D. barren, Wilson; Walter Murphy, l.i|lington. y Friday .vine; C. L. Abernethy, .Maready's Store, Duply county, C. L Aher nethy, N. IvSeliool House, Duplin eouni.y; Walter Murphy, Clark ion; Clyde iioev, itockingham county; Max Gardner, Selina; •Tii■-.•pinis Dailies, Oxfo-id ; Fran cis D. Winston, Hoaufort county; 1 Charles Ross, Johnston county; .1. ; Dry an Grimes, Halifax county; J. W. liailey, Sou th port; T. I>. Warren, Greenville, I'. D. War ren, W1 union ; Walter Murphy, [Ji/.-ibet-iito '.v 11. Saturday Zeb '.Vi-aVto, Can ton ; C. L. .\iiernetliy, JTagnolia; I Max Gardner, Green vi !••; Jom [duis D.iaiei-, 1 lendi-r-on ; 1 rancis I) Winston, IJeatifort o.in'y; J IW. JSailey, Supply; 1. I>■ Warren, (Jacksonville; Walter Mm'pliy, Lumberion. - - clean .sink can I e (>b:aiiie«| jaii'l all stains removed by sprink ling cleaning powder over the [stains without wetting ihe, sink, j Moisten a cloth vs 11 h the juice of I a lemon and scour the spots well. !The sink wiil look like new. Save the paper from a bolt of ribbon; it is just tho thing to 'place under thin materials or lace to keep them from puckering when under the sewing machine needle. To Open Clams —pour boiling water over hard shell, clams and ailow them to staii'l in it for two ortbtee minutes. The sh lis will then open easily. ' More milk, much less medicine. Greatest Mother Summons Her Children An allegorical concept of the Red Cross as a peace-time Ideal is era ployed by tho American Red Cross in a new and striking .poster for itt Annual Red Cross Roll Call. Spread out'before the heroic size figure is th( outline of the United .States \fcith a Red Cross superimposed upon it whih around its borders are sketched scenes depicting the chief activities of th« Red Cross today—service to disabled vei-erans of the World War, disasto: relief and promotion if Hie public health. The pouter id the work 0; Lawrenc •» V.'ilbur, a New York artist and will bo displayed iht country during the enrollment of the Red Cro«s membership for 1Q23( RED CROSS HEALS WOUNDS OF WAR 25,000 Disabled Ex-Service Men in Hospitals After Four Years of Peace. CHAPTERS' FIELD OF SERVICE Every Veteran Needing He';) Gets 1 Individual Attention of Sym pathetic Workers. j When on November 11 tho world .Jntlt.s to obserte the fourth anniver sary of Armistice I->ay, and the Ameri can IteU Cross Inaugurates Its Annual ; Itoll Call for the enrollment of th# 1923 membership, the people of the United States may well pause to think of the unparalleled contribution to the cause of peace' made by our Army and Navy In the World War. The glory of It Is it common tradition; but the wounds of war remain. They are not healed In a day, In a year, nor in four years. And on Armistice Day I hero will he under treatment In Government hospital over !i5,XKi ex-service men, broken physically by wounds, expo sun*. nervous* strain and exhaustion incident « their service In tlit- war. The ('overnment without stint Is nn derta.k'ng to furnlsii thesu disabled men with liie f in,pi.nsation and nn-d- Icul '.irc to whleh they fffe entitled, yet t !>•-: r e.r,»t-cinl care Is a duty of Ited I'rosaJ Why? IJeciuise the fjov erimi'M.t cannot handle the cases*of ex-service ri.«-n Individually; It must Itandle these men In bulk under a standardized policy. Ttn- (Jovemiuent ha.« neither the authority, the fund* or tie equipment for working out the problem of tbe>lndivldual man. There Is where the American Ttejl CroM finds If* greatest field for service, aid ing through, its very active Chapters in reaching the disabled man with im mediate practical help, assisting Ids family while his claim is emerging from the process of adjustment, furnishing nrtSrlos of comfort, funds to tide over the difficult periods, the friendly touch of personal encouragement, helpful recreation and worry-dispelling amuse ment. It Is the warm hand of sym pathy and understanding which the American Ited Cross extends to the majority of these disabled ex-service men, some of them friendless in the whirl of fife, thousands of fl>.-:n with wives and children depe. tent upon them, and i.irrfdred-s of them frequent ly helpless lu the face of grim ne cessity. 2,879 Chapters Aiding Veteran* Ui this work, upon whose accom plishment the American Hod .Qrose Is , Urging n "record-breaking enrollment In ; Jlie ltoll Call which opens on Armls- | tlce Day and closes with Thanksglv- ' Ing Day, 2,070 Chapters In all parts of the country are engaged. This Is 350 more than wer» working for ex-scrviee men last year when approximately $10,000,000 was expended by the Na- ' 1 tlonal Organization and the Chapters working together In harmonious unity.!, For the current flical year National Headquarters appropriated $3,030,- 692.5)0, an increase of $365,1300.84 over the amount spent for the work among ex-service men in the year ended June lust. Since It Is estimated that the j Chapters will experW close to $7,000,- 000 from # thelr own funds, the grand) total of Ited Cross expend'tures for this single work Is expected again to i j reach the $10,000,000 mark by June 30, | 1023. . Hospital and Digtrlot Office Work , During the fiscal year a total of over 1,000 persons, paid and voiuntev, has' been engaged In Ited Cross duty in hospitals or dl-trlct o(tl es o£ the U. S. i Veterans' liureau. An average of 8,000 new cases require* definite and par- i tlcular attention each montW. The de mand for Chapter-made articles for hospital patients Is constant. During lust year Service Claims and i Information Service at National Head- 1 qunrters handled 37,200 compensation j and insurance claims, 24,!V50 allotment | and allowance cases, and 9,700 miscel laneous claims. Since February, 1919. |, it lias disposed of 01,174 allotment | checks payable to veterans which the 1 lost Oflice Department reported unde-! liverable. The Chapter Is the unit of the Ited j Cross organization which Is accessible' to every disabled veteran or his fa in-1 Hy. Between July 1, 1021, and June 30, j 1022/ the Chapters had reported 1,005,- 0711 instances of service to ex-service f men and their dependents, at a cost) estimated from reports now at band of 1 1 more than $"• ".40,000. The basis of this far-reaching work | ■ of the. Ited Cross Is the Individual needs of the vetoran to thej end that he may obtain his rights un-, der the law. that his especial wants may lie linn diately supplied, that his own and his family's rltuatlon may be render*rtl '!>;>}' and cheerful, and that their outlook for the future may l visualize inrenttvea foe independent \ and fruitful effort. _e Spread Christmas Joy Abroad More than 100,000 Christmas boxes 1 for the children of Central Europe j were packed by the Junior Red Croas! last year. The spread of Christmas! Joy through these boxes will be largely increased this year because of the pluns already under way. Your Peace-Time "Bit" Not "all you can," but yonr "bit,"! sl, makes for strength of the Ameri- j can Red Cross In peace-time service.! Strength in nuumDcra multiplies serv ice. Join today. Farm work uot planned is often i never done. \ * 1 NO. 3£ UNIVERSITY STUDENTS EARN $384,000. ' This Much to Help Pay Way Through Sv.nool—Things They Do. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chapel Hill, Oct. 24 Three hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars is the amount earned by students who worked last year in order to make their way through the University. This information i comes as a result of an inquiry made by the University's self-help bureau. Altogether, 1280 young men and -young women of the 1700 in the University worked, either in the summer or during tho college year, for money with which to help meet the cost of education "here. Four hundred worked throughout the college year, while pursuing their studies. The others vorked in the summer or ouly part of the time during the college year. The average earnings oi! the 1280 were S3OO. This fall 500, or 15 ' more than last year, are naming money' steadily tn Ui? hours not devoted to their boo The occupation which claims ilie large »t number is waiting th« table. Sixty serve as waiters at the University easing hall, ami many *more in private boarding houses. Here are a few of the (Sccupa tious the "solf-holp"iV engage in here: Washing dishes, scrubbing tloors, gardening, tending fur naces, stenography, typing, ja li tor service, pressing clothes, pai it ing, carpentering, sotting type, electrical wuing, candy-making, soliciting life insurance, survey ing, clerking in stores, splitting wood, ditching, and ta king care of children when parents are absent. If yuu only have a few flowers, in the vase aud they look a bit (straggly put a few corks in the water. They will hold up the flowers aud keep them in place. By taking a little bit*at a time„„ and rubbing over it a brush lath ered with soap and water oUe can | clean a rug at home very snccoss- fully. - . j A nut goes with every bult when I joyriding iu an automobile. I Truck For Hire. * Let us do your hauling of every kind, moving, etc. Have a now truck. Terms reasonable. BUADSUAW & FULLER, I Phone Got) „ G -aharn, N. 0. i -PROFESSIONAL CARDS i.- , f LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM. N. C. s Associated with John J. Henderson. Office over National Hank of Alamauc* THOMAS D. COOPER, ' Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W. S. Coulter, • Nos. 7 and 8 Firit National Bank 3(dg. S. % C. SPOON, Jr., M,D. Graham, N. C. " w j Hf >**.-# ' Office over Ferrell Drug Co* Hours: '2 to 3 and 7to p. m., aud by appointment. Phono 1)7 GRAHAM HARDEN, ML, D. BnrlM'jton, N. Ci ' Office Hours: V to 1! a.m. and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. j Telephones: Office IIO—Ke-iileuce 204 JOHN J. HEMi€RSCN Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Olllec over National Bank ol Aluaaec T, S- O O O 2Z, Attornay at-Law I iIUHA.Vt, - • ' N. C OfSoa Hattcraon Building decoud Kl«*or. . . . i)R. WILLUOAGJR. ... DENTIST : : : jraKam, .... North Carolina I )FKIC f t£ IN PARI? BLILUIttU