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THE: ALAMANCE GLEANER. VOL. XLVIII COMING ELECTION » AND HOW TO VOTE. Pay for Legislators.^Water Freight Rates —Good Roads. (BY MAXWELL GORMAN.) . Raleigh, October 31.- One weeli from today, November 7t,h, comes election day, and every good citi zen is interested, or should bo, and it is their duty to VOTE. This is "old stuff"preachment, it is true, but this time it carries a multiplied meaning, for I am talking to women as well as men— especially those in the rural sec tions and in the smaller towns of the State. This epistlo to tho so-called "country newspapers" of North Carolina as indicated weekly are intended to claim tho attention of tho "salt of tho earth" people around the family hearthstone, where Tar Heel men and women are at their best. The greatest and most vi tal institution in North America is tho home. Tho inmates compos ing the family constitute the home, of course; without them the empty building is not a home. All men and women, as they grow up, love it as they do no other nateral thing—it comes next to t ovo of God and parents —for the love of country means, first of all, "love of home and native land." I want to ask the young men and young women recently ar rived at the ago when they can vote, to put a question to their parents in thousands of homes in North Carolina before going to the polls next Tuesday. Ask them—• young man, young woman—(if they have not already told you) what tho Democratic party, as constituted and personified in North Carolina today and for the last quarter century —what the Democratic party has done to pre serve and protect and maintain the continued safety and happi ness of your home, your home and mine, especially in the small towns and country districts of the State. Tho answer you will get will necessarily carry with it the pic tured recollections of the assaults on our homes by tho enemies of Democratic good government and continued white supremacy. The limitations of this letter suggest to me that you can learn what you should never forget, without fur ther prompting at this hour. The Election Kainbow. State Chairman Norwood, who has been dinecting the canvass of the State, and his able assistant, W. C. Coughenhour. are optomis tic about the conditions and pros pects. Col. A. D. Watts (aptly termed by Senator Burgwyn the "political wizard"), rolled in Saturday after a systematic can vass of close counties. He applied a course of treatment in each case and*-healed up many sore spots and bandaged numerous toppling fences. Ilis report to State head quarters infused additional hope and assurance, which means a "clean sweep" of every Congres sional District, ninety-hundredths of the State Senate, and an in creased majority in the State House of Representative. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson and Dr. Ike Campbell will have the oppor tunity of seeing Major Stedman and Bob Doughton increase their majorities again. McLean's Speech Attracts. Among tho recent campaign ad dresses, that delivered at Golds boro by Hon. A. W. McLean has iitracted most attention and com ment, as did the hearty introduc tion of the speaker by Golds boro's "grand old man," Nathan! O'Berfy. Mr. McLean is no p _litic.il spell- j binder on the stump. He carries! a longer range of brain power I than most men, and his life-work ! ht.3 not trained his vocal 1 ratus to do the bellows act and run away from his head. But when he speaks he "says some thing," and his deliberate counsel to all men and women (many o£ them open to -such advice at this particular time) to identify them selves .with some political party organization, is not only generally approved, but regarded as some of the most apt and timely and wholosomo advico that has been handed out during the jjresent canvass. The young women of the South, Voting for tho first time, have much at stake and will proud I}' embrace the one Anglo- Saxon party—the only one—and become a part and parcel of it from now ou. Mr. McLean spoke at Rocking ham, Richmond county, Satur day, after delivering several ad dresses in eastern counties last week, and will fill several othev appointments during the. next few days. Pay of Legislators. The approaching session of the General Assembly, which con venes in January, will be one ot the most interesting and import ant of recent years. The candi dates chosen at tho polls Novem ber 7th will constitute the next Legislature, of 1923-1925, and they will have to servo at the old pre war pay of dollar a day, or 5240 for the session, limited to 60 days with pay. Hut, for reasons that are ap parent to most people, it is hoped that this wiil be the last General Assembly called to Raleigh and required to serve the State and its people for less than it costs them to live while they aro in Raleigh. A constitutional amendmeut is to be voted on at next Tuesday's election that, if adopted, Will pro vide ffGOO as pay for each law maker for the two years, which is S3OO per year, or $25 per month. We can then secure the services of men who now cannot afford to make the pecuniary sacrifice necessary to come here and help enact beneficent legislation. And we can then afford to turn down some of the axe-grinders who offer themselves at the primaries (at the behest of "interests" that want /'representation" to put some thing over), and get by with the nomination because of little or no opposition. Better pay, better men—and God knows the Old North State often needs them'in Raleigh during the sessions of Legislatures. Water-Freight Hates Itclief. Governor Morrison's proposal to cut in on the burdensome rail road freight rate discrimination against North Carolina points, by putting into operation to haul much of the commodities by water, was poo-poohed at by some of the flapper press, as usual, when Governor Cam springs a new thought on 'etn. But the news papers at home are turning up better sense than that wired and mailed to some dailies from Ral eigh, and today it js dollars to doughnuts the Legislature will think lQug and earnestly before the recommendation is "turned down cold," as some newspaper writers predicted in their first slop-over. Good Hoads tor All Another thing: The people have become so thoroughly in love with the work done by Frank Page and the Highway Commission that they are ready to toll their repj£-, sentatives, when elected, to go to Raleigh, and, if its necessary, to give all of us good highwaps and lasting roads, vote fifteen million additional bonds, and the gaso line tax to pay the interest on 'em till ready to take 'em up. Our folks who have already got good roads will help our folks who have ■not yet been reached—and be gW to do it. Oh, this highway road building is the big thing just now. Stay in the game, by all means. THE RED CROSS SIfI'PLEMENTS . GOVERNMENT SERVICE BY MEETING THE PARTICULAR NEED 9 • OF THE INDIVIDUAL EX-SERVICE MAN. THIS WORK CANNOT GO ON UNLESS YOU SUPPORT IT WITH _ YO. R MEMBERSHIP DOLLAR PAY UP TODAY Chess was played in Hindustan nearly 500 years ago under the name of chataraugo. 213 GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1922 BIIGHT PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. Special Correspondence. Washinpton, Oct. 31. —With election clay almost at hand, the prospects of a great Democratic victory, which were brgiit from' the beginning of tho campaign, have become a certainty. T'lej Republican reae; onary leaders in charge of the parij machine can't j find any place to park. Tho re-! volt bogun by tho progressive He-! publican states has spread to tliej rock-ribbed Republican states,! and tho latter are now also in re volt. The only question now is the extent of the Democratic victory. . j In tlie President's home state, Ohio, tho reactionary Republicans will get one of the worst, trim mings of their career, . Every thing indicates the re-dec' ion of Senator Pomerene by an emphatic ! majority, tho election of tho state ticket and a Democratic repre sentation in the next House that; will bo a surprise to the rest of tho country, despite tho extra ordinary efforts made by the Re-i publicans, who have lill'd the! state with their top-line speakers and Hooded it with money. The manufacturing sections of j New England wiH help swell tho | Democratic victory. The farm states will return the same ver dict as tho manufacturing states. The farmer has been truly do i scribed ii£ "gritting his teeth and ! biding his time." In the great 1 business centers, business men! aro turning to the Democratic: party for relief from the odious, Fordney Tariff which threatens' business conditions everywhere, i In fact, no element of the Ameri can people is satisfied with tho: present Republican Congress. In almost every state the cam , paign has boon fought out upon j the leading domestic issues of in I ternal and tariff taxation, at j which the people have ariived at an understanding by sad experi ence as well as educational prop i ' ganda; upon extravagant ox pond i tures and reckless appropriat ions; upon the inefficiency and inco:n petence of the existing Congress and tho failure of both tho Con gres and the administration to keep their election promises; upon Newberryism and Goldstein ism and the lesser scAndals that have disgraced tho legislative and ad ministrative records of tho party in power, . In some sections issue- upon which neither party as a party; has made a declaration in their National platform have been pa re mounted, and in >tno states the organization have made an issue of fake progressive ism, particularly in Pennsylvania and Indiana. In lowa a laige ele ment of conservative Republicans; are in revolt against the extreme 1 radicalism of Brookart. The Re publicans opposing Pinchotandj Beveridgo and Brookhart will con tribute their.share to tho general ,D*mocratic victory. In tho last extremity llepubli- 1 cans of the sfcripo of Phil Camp bell of Kansas, who has just been repudiated by the Republicans of j his own Congressional District, are seeking to make it appear 'hat j the Democrats are not trying to I carry the llouse. This, of course, j is pure mendacity and one of the! last ruses of an already defeated Old Guard organization. Tho signs of Democratic victory 1 are everywhere apparent. The J people are disgusted with the Re-1 publican Do-Nothing Congress j and dissatisfied with the shiftless, drifting Course of tho adiuinistra- ! tion. They will make that dis gust and dissatisfaction-manifest | at the polls on November 7. THIS IS A DEMOCRATIC YEAR, j Democrats Out to Carry House and Refute Campbell. Washington Correspondence. It was Representative Camp bell's conviction not only of the desire and effort of the Democrat.*- to win control of'tho next Con gress but tho certainty of thei"* I success on November 7 that [prompted his gratui'ous state-) moat that tho officials of the Demo- Icratic party didn't want and '; weren't trying to elect a majority { of tho House of Representatives. President Harding and the Re publican managers have had am ple proof that the Democrats are j eager and able and sure to turn j the Republican majority in Con gress into a Democratic majority. What the President and Mr. Camp bell and the other spokesuun of ! tho Republican administration I lutit'o learned of political condi ! lious'in the country in the last ; few weeks has demonstrated that i they and their candidates are j already discredited and on their 1 way to defeat. If spc-cfic instances of the re pudiation of Republican candi dates would bo of any value in proving to President Harding and i his supporters what they already 'know full we'll, such instances could bo furnished by tho score. For example, in President Ilard- I ing's owu state, Ohio, and in the neighboring state of Indiana. I heso aro states in which not a ! single Democratic candidate for | the Senate or tho ilouso of llepro- I sentatives was elojfed in 1920. In Mr. Campbell himself stands 'confessed the cause and tho justi ' fication of the overthrow ot the I Republican Congress. His Ro i publican constituents have teriti | inated his career of eighteen years iu tho House, and his successor j wiil be a Democrat. Mr. ('amp | bell is but a type of tho Republi can reactionau" ami recreant against which tno people this year, [ have risen in revolt, lie person jifiesall tho weaknesses, failures, "oaction, and wrongdoing of the Republican Congress. He is a re | minder of the ineptitude of a j Congress which has wasted | eighteen months and millions of the people's money iu doing worse 1 than nothing; which shifted taxes ' from great wealth to the masses; which has burdened tho American people with a tariff Mint exploits them from tho benefits of special interests; which broke so many promises that even Republican ] candidates are unable to remem j her them all and which has in conteniplat on wurso legislation ; than it lias passed—in particular the ship bonus bill, which would authorize the *;tlo of tho people's merchant marine lor 0.0.j0, 000 land in addition pay the pur chasers $750,000,; 00 to operate it. Southwest Alamance. ; Cor. of The Gleaner. Rev. .1. W. Kinney of South Carolina spout a short while at Mt. Zion church on last Sunday. Two of his sisters were with him. ,They took in tho community in general. Their childhood days were spent here and it seemed to bo a groat treat to them to motor over places familiar to them in early life, though many changes have been. made. MrW»A. G. Hackney and chil i dren of Greensboro spent Sunday with her father, J. R. Foster, uear j Oakdale. Everything is quiet along politi cal lines iu our community. Everyone is sure of tne party now in power still going over, so there lis nothing to discuss. Railroad mileage has increased from 53,000 miles in 1870 to al most 253,(XX) miles. WHEN EVERY MOVE HURTS Lame every morning, achy and stiff all day, worue when it's damp or (chilly? Suspept your kidneys and try the remedy your neighbors use. ; Ask your neighbors. ; Mrifc A. K. Flintom, S. Main St., lOraham, gave t-he following en dorsement in January, 1115: v i '"My back felt so lame I coulu hardly get around and when i was »dolng my homework 1 had such I pains through rny kidneys I could ! not move. When I was stooping [the pains were H'> severe I often had to soream, It was all I could ■ to turn over in bed and morn ings I Would have to hive some one to help me get up. Doan'a ; Kidney Pills .were recommended so highly that I got a box and soon [my back was.fixed ip all right ana T felt better in every way." Over three years later, Mrs. Flintorn added, "I still take- Doan's Kidney Pills occasionally when rny brr-k or kidneys bother me and f always pet good relief. Doan s have cer tainly done me a lot pf good, j 60c at ail dealers. Foster-Mill?urn I Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. Republican Slush Fund v for Doubtful States. Washington Correspondence. With tho help of a slush fund that has been swollen since the secret oil lenses, the passage of the profiteers' tariff law and tho veto of the soldiers' adjusted com pensation bill, the Republicans are throwing large sums of money into "doubtful" states in the hope of winning With superior finances what they could not expect to win by appeals to' the record ef their Congress and their national ad ministration. Ono eviderico of the big cam paign pot of what "Al" Smith calls "goulash" which the Repub licans have at their disposal is the number and extensive itineraries of their speakers. Those familiar with the conduct of political cam paigns have estimated that many thousands of dollars are being spent by tho Republicans iu the form yf traveling expenses for their spellbinders alone. Trans portation and hotel accomodations for a gre it arm}' of speakers— whether they be members of the I'n sideut's Cabinet or very much lesser lights—are costly. In addition to this item is the charge for vast quantities of cam paign literature of all kinds, spo eial propaganda and incidental expenses. To tho outlays of tho Republi can national organization must bo added tho expenditures being made by stato and local commit tees and individual candidates. For "example there is a sworn statement that former Governor Beekman, Republican candidate for U. S. Senator from .Rhode Island, gave SISOO to ono man with the expectation of receiving his support. In Ohio a very large amount is being spent by tho Re publicans, and Governor Miller's campaign for tho governorship of New York is even moro expensive. In Indiana, Connecticut, New .Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsyl vania, .Minnesotaand lowa,among other states, the Republican ex penditures are on a proportion ately lavish scalo. Tho campaign fund at tho dis posal of tho Republican National Committee alone was 81,281,070 in 1920, in addition to a very much larger sum disbursed by state and local committees. It has never been officially announc ed just what tho Republicans sp( lit throughout the country two years ago, but the total, national, stato and local was unquestiona bly many millions of dollars. Tho Republican National Com mittee in l!) 20 spont in tho cam paign a sum that was an average of 820,700 for overy stato in tho Union. This was at least ten times more than the Democratic National Committee expended. The Republican fund this year, it is estimated, is not a cent iess for tho states in which thore are Congressional and stato elections. PREMIUM OF S3OO WON AT STATE FAIR By Schools Composing Alexander Wilson SchooKDistrict. - ) Tho Alexander Wilson School district consisting of Wood lawn, Ilawlields, Swepsonvillo, Bethany and Kureka had the winning com munity exhibit at tho State Fair. The premium was S3OO. This ex hibit was gotton up almost en tirely by tho school children of this largo consolidated district. It consisted of over 550 different articles which came from- nearly one hundred homes. This is tho first time any community from Alainanco has taken first honors and clearly shows what consolida tion of districts might accomplish. Tho exhibit** were in charge of Miss Florence Oray, Community Worker and Primary Supervisor of the Consolidated District, and W. L. Cooper, Jr., Instructor of Vocational Agriculture in the High School. _ ,v The crops judging team aiso won honors by takingslO premium in a judging contest. This team consisted of Edwin Dixon, Lauiout Dixon and Oscar Ilenly. Messrs. Lacy and Dace James won a premium each for making a perfect score in judging poultry. The Capitol at Washington is 751 feet fong and 350 feet wide. RED CROSS PUTS OP $9,739,872 Year's Budget Stresses Relief and Services at Home and Overseas. MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID Over $3,000,000 Allotted to the Disabled—Foreign Work Lessens. Washington.—Expenditures totaling $9,739,872.47 for carrying through its program of i*ervlces and relief daring the fiscal year In the United States and overseas are authorized In the budget of the American Red Cross, ef fective July 1, 11)22. This total Is $2,- 735,975 less than the expenditures for the last fiscal year, when disburse ments reached $12,475,8-17.09, ft Is an nounced at National Headquarters in a statement emphasizing the necessity of continued support of the organiza tion by enrollment during thfe annual Roll Call, November It-November 30 Inclusive. 'bis total for the budget Is exclusive of the large financial op erations of the 3,300 active Ited Cross Chapters, which, It is estimated, will more than double the total. War Voterans Have First Call First call on lied Cross funds Is for the disabled ex-service men, of whom 487 were receiving treatment from the Government on June 1 last. This work for veterans and their families In a wide variety of service that thft Government is not authorized to ren der and for which it has neither funds nor facilities has the call on $3,0.30,092,00 during the current year, or about $360,000 more than was ex pended last year for soldier service. Adding tho funds disbursed in this humanitarian work of physical recon btltutlon following the World War by tho Chapters throughout the country will approximate a total for the cur rent year approaching $10,000,000. This work, in the opinion of the Sur geon Oeneral's office, will not reach lis peak before 7920. Through Its Chapters the American Red Cross is equipped to find tho In dividual ex-service man. help him In his problems and difficulties, provide Immediately for his necessities, and open the way for him to the Govern ment compensation and aid to which be is entitled. The extension of this work to the families of such men proves to them that the Ked Cross lias lost none of Its sympathy nor will to service manifested In wartime. Sim ilarly the service goes out men ■till Ih the Army and Navy, 11,087 of whom were under treatment In Gov ernment hospitals on Juno 1, 1922. Qraater Domestic Program This year —after five years of con structive effort during the war and efter the armistice—brings with it a greater responsibility for doinettlc service to the American Red Cross. The budget for foreign operations, however, totals $3,404,000, but of this •mount $1,834,000 Is for medical re lief and hospital supplies for Itussla, Which is a part of the gift made by the American Red Cross In 1921 to the Russian famine relief work of the American Relief Administration pro gium. The child health service In Eu rope continues, moreover, and $054,- 000 Is appropriated for this work un dertaken In 1920. Other Items in the stringently diminished foreign pro gram include $2(K),000 to support the league of Red Cross Societies, $22,- 000 for nurses' training schools Insti tuted by the Red Cross abroad, and 1000,000 for liquidation of the general Red Cross forelgp relief program. Prepared for Emergencies For disaster relief the Red Cross has set as. $750,000, and for emer gencies *0 In Chapter work $500,000 to be available for domestic, Insular nud foreign demands. This is more than $,395,000 above last year's expen ditures. For service and assistance to tho 8,300 Chapters and their tranches $1,293,000 Is provided by the Notional organization. Other budget items of importance In the domestic program Include $200,- 000 for assistance to other organiza tions and education institutions for training Red Cross nyr&es and work ers; $190,000 for Roll Call assistance furnished to Chapters; $lOO, OCX) for unforeseen contingencies. Of the total budget less than $500,- 000 Is allotted for management in the National organization. No cash esti mate, of course, is possible to weigh the value of the service by volunteers in the Chapters. Subscrioe for THE uLEANER- NO. 39 Enthusiasm for Democratic Orators; Apathy tor "Hard ing Grenadiers." Washingtou Correspondence. Reports from half a dozen states which are violent battlegrounds in th|fe campaign give the informa tion that Democratic candidates and speakers are drawing larger and mach more enthusiastic au diences than their Republican rivals. This larger respon a to Democratic contenders and spokesmen is particularly notice able in strictly rural districts, though it has beeu observed gen erally throughout these various states. Ohio and New York are the states in which this"preference of voters for Democrats has been so ■ striking and so ominous to the Republicans 'hat their national and local managers have attempt ed to get a larger showing for ) their candidates by recruiting members of President Harding's Cabinet and other headliners as speakers. Irr the interior sections of Now York the apathy towards Republicans contrast* sharply with ihe demonstrative receptions i given to Democrats. Republican national headquart ers knows of this indiffarence to (the Republican candidates and orators, and has beeu greatly dis | airbed by it. The inauage* of i the Republican campaign realize | that they cannot depend on the 1 majorities tboir party received in i many states in 192'), or on normal j majorities obtained prior to t year. The slump from thefitri" es u»f 1920 has in many sections irft | the Republicans in the minority, Isothatin these cases their light ! is not to retain but to recover the J lead, and they are losing hope of doing that. It is to stop tho Democratic onrush that Harding's "Grena jdiers" have been hurried iuto tho field in increasing numbers. Offi cial business of the departments j will bo sadly neglected in the next ■ ten days. Practically every mem ber of the Cabinet is on the stump in behalf of Republican candi dates in all the debatable states. As tuo'c.-iuipaign progresses to ' its close on November G, the signs of Democratic success are multi plying. At the same time Repub lican lines are wavering more and j more. I Truck for Hire. Let us do your hauling of every i kind, moving, etc. Have a ne/r truck. Terms reasonable. liR.VDSUAW & FtLLEH, Phono 650 Graham, N. C. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, i Atlorney-al-Law, GRAHAM. N. C. Associated with John 1, Hi nders a. Ollice over National Itank ot Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER* I Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W. §. Coulter, Not. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOuN, Jr., M. a Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to 'J p. m., and by appointment. Phone 1)7 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Ollice Hours: 9 to tt a. m. and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. ' Telephone*: Office 4lO—Residence '2Ol JOHN J. HENDERS)N Attorney-a t-Law GRAHAM. N. C. National Btak ol Alamance T. S. O O O 3£., Attorney-at- Laar jRAHAM, .... N. 0 Office Patterson Building Socond Plsor. . . . OR. WILL JUO:\G, JR. i ... DENTIST : : e Graham, .... North Carolina OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING