North Carolina Newspapers

vol,. XLVIII Raleigh Letter. (BY MAXWELL GORMAN.) Raleigh, N. C , Nov. 7, 1922. Now that the campaign is ovor poj>ular interest turns to tlm ap proaching session of the now Gen eral Assembly, which begins two months hence. Workmen will start next week on the job of put ting the two legislative halls in order for the use of the Legisla ture. Both wings of tiio secoud floor of the capitol building have been u. c ed to advantage for State purposes since the last meeting of the Legislature. Tne Highway Commission has often utilized-the House to accommodate the crowds that attended the letting out of road contracts aud other pur poses; the State conventions of various organizations find tem poral'}' foothold there, also, each year; the Supreme Court put through the applicants for sheep skins to practice law at the same place, and there are scores of oc casions where the hall is used for legitimate purposes, and because of the halloas well as the house shortage in Raleigh, the avail ability of the capitol has been a bl'essing indeed. The State Department of Rev veiuie which has been forced to utilize the Senate chamber until permanent quarters are provided by the State will move this week into the Gilmer Building, Fay etteville Street, third floor, in order to make room for the State senators to disport themselves the .coming winter. Part of the space to be occupied was used by the .Democratic State Committee as headquarters for the last three months, the work of the commit tee being finished this week. Governor Morrison and all the State officials who have been out on the hustings speechifying the past several weeks have returned to home base again, and the Gov ernor will now be giving consid erable thought and timM to his forthcoming message to the Gen eral Assembly. Two years ago he almost paralyzed some ot the stand patteis by his forward move ments advocated in his message (now largely accomplished), and may do so f-gain. / Co-Operatives Enter More Suits Against Growers. Twenty-six additional suits against tobacco growers in thir teen counties have just been entered in one day in Wake Su perior Court here by the Tobacco Growers' Co-Qperative Associa tion, asking for liquidated dam ages for alleged violation of con tracts. The Buits filed bring the total started in Wake Superior Court to the number of sixty-five scat tered against defendants through out the State. First effort on the part of defendants outside of Wake county to secure a change of venue was made when C. E. and M. T. Winstead of Person county li!e-l a motion with Wake county clerk of aourt for a change of venue from Wake to Person county. The motion was denied, and the .defendants appealed to the Superior Court and Judge Lyon will determine the matter at the next term. State University Wlhs Inheritance Tax Suit. Attorney General Manning has been informed that the Kentucky Court of Appeals has allowed the inheritance tax exemption in volved in litigation brought in that State to determine whether or not the University of North Carolina would be required to pa>ian in heritance tax on approximately a million and a half dollars be queathed to it by the late lira. Jtobert Bingham in 1917 for the establishment of Kenan professor ships at the University. Under the terms of Mrs. Bing ham's will, the University of North Carolina was allowed $75,000 an nually for twenty-one years, with the stipulation that at the end of j twenty-one years it should be, a fund which would au-' THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. miaHy provide.an income of §75,- 000. Tffls was in memorial for her father, Captain W. R Kenan, and her two uncles, Col. Thos. C. Kenan and Capt. Jas. Kenan,all of './ horn were graduates of the Uni versity of North Carolina. The fund so provided is for salaries of professors to be known as Kenan piefessors. The Kentucky tax department held that the bequest to the in heritance tax because, since it was not an institution of Ken tucky it could not claim exemp tion under the Kentucky law. The loave- court in Kentucky held wifh the tax department and it was estimated that the University should pay a tax on $1,500,000, amounting to about §200,000. The Court of Appeals has overturned that decision and tho comes to*tho Uuiversity tax free. These Need no Bonus. Manager Boulineau of tho Ral eigh sub-district office of the U. S. Veterans' Bureau is authority for tho statement that there are now more than five hundred men, with monthly sityisistence allowance ranging from 30 to 8150 a month, in training ; r vocations under tho jurisdiction of the Raleigh sub-district office, which covers tho territory of eastern T orth Carolina Training ranges from engineering, medicine and law to the simplest mechanical trades — according to the fitness of the subject, which includes inclina tion and will as well as education and general learningi Two hun dred are registered at the North Carolina State College of Engin eering and Agriculture. A num ber of ex-service negro meii are taking similar courses at the A. & T. College for Negroes at Greensboro. Besides these, some one hundred aud fifty disabled former soldiers are in placement training, that is, they are employ ed in shops aud factories, no col lege training being necessary to fit them, some of whom have had practical experience before injur ed. Colleges in North Carolina where disabled ex-service men are matriculated under the auspices of the U. S. Veterans' Bureau in clude the State University, Trin ity at Durham, Wake Forest Col lege, King's Business College at Raleigh and Charlotte, and busi ness colleges located at Durham and Wilmington. It is a great work that is being done. These men will be able to get along without the bonus, which Con gress has so far refused the "ex service men, and The Union Her ald takes real pleasure in pub lishing these facts. Vets on Armistice Day. Every veteran of the World War living in Wake couuty will bo invited to the barbecue to be staged by the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion Asmistice Day. Plans for the day's cele bration were tentatively outlined at a meeting of the auxiliary re cently. Efforts will be made to make the invitation personal to every veteran, but for those whose names are not available, the auxilary requests that the}' communicate with its officers as early as possible. Kruit Fit to Show the World. North Carolina is becoming noted for Its fine fruit. The ex hibits at tho State Fair here for the past several years have served to help advertise it. To show the fruit growers o f America wha is being done in North CaroliL i iu fruit growing and to give'some of the advant ages for this kind of farming in North Carolina, C. D. Matt ews, chief of the Division of Horticul ture of the N: C. Experiment Station, aud J. il. Jeter, editor of the Extension Service, will be sent with au exhibit of North Carolina fruits and nuts to the Mid-western Horticultural Ex position to be held at Council Bluffs, lowa, during the week of November 13 to 18 Mr. Matthews has already selected some choice j specimens which have been sent on for storage until the openiug of the exposition, j The exposition attracts thous ands of fruit growers from all over the central part of the United i States. Iu addition, the Ameri can Pomological Society will meet I at the same time aud wi 1 draw a igreat number of other expert GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1922 horlicur. rists "rem Canada, Mexico, and each State of (lie Union. It will be remembered that several years ago North Car >- lina was represented at this gathering and woii mo t of the first prizes offered . Under a new ' ruling, this State cannot c.mpefe for the cups and med. : s offered, but it can «how the class of fruit . grown and thereby attract '.lie at tention of fruitgrowers from otlx r i Sections to help build u{ the latent possibilities of this indjis try in North Caro'ina. JERSEY BREEDERS ON NOV- 3RD Enthusiastic Jersev Breeders Welcome /Sophie's Abdul to Alamance. * No greater or more enthusiastic Jersey meeting was ever heid in Alamance couuty than the one | held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. jit. W. Scott of Haw' River .ast Friday. Eighty-one Jersey en- I thusiasts, including straight out | farmers', preachers, doctors, bank ers, visiting county a; ents, and I professors of live d:l r erent schools, were present. The actual growing of liitrh class pastures was shown on the farm. li. W. Scott explained just what was necessary ' > tavo just such a pasture as th y >'ere then standing on. Mr. A. 0. Kimrey gave a splendid outline of the pos sibilities in Aiamance aud Grange 'counties. Mr. O. D. Hani of the Alamance creamery offered val uable suggestions for the making of good cream. Kdw»rd Ke'r spoke of the necessity of making register-of-nierit records with cows. He it was who milked am fed the cow that has the record of the South for butterfat produc tion. Prof. Lee Cooper offered lo do the test work for local da!;;" men as a part of his commuii'u work with the school. This solyt s partly-the financial problems con nected with R. of M. ork. Mr. WilllfcWhite of Mebane made a very inspiring address. Man\ problems were discussed relative to the welfare of the Jersey cow. The biggest attraction of-the day was the young bull just com" into the community- Sopl ie's Abdul, a son of I'igis 90th of Hood Farm, and a grandson of Sophie 10th, the world's cham pion lont; distance butterfat pro ducer of ii 1 breed,-. Mrs. Alice lJaer, related lo the Scotts and Kerrs of Alu malice county, gave this animal to tne N. C. State she having purchased it from il >_»•' Farm at §I,OOO. Learning that the College was not in need of a her ; -i:o at this time, negotiations n .su'Jed in 1 this bull f oiling to llawtields. Jersey breeders are agree ' that this is tae best bred sire that has ever come to Alantance. No oull was ever welcomed into our couu ty by as largo a IK. ly "f people as was Sophie's At i W. KLKK SCOTT, County Agent. A TALK WITH A GRAHAM MAN. Mr. .1. X. 11. Cleiideiiin, He tired Farmer, of X. »alii *t., Tells Ills l;x)« rleiire. | There is nothing like a talk | with one of our own citizens for I giving hope and cncouragen> nt to the anxious sufferer from the dread kidney disease. We, there fore, give here an interview with a Graham man: "Some years ago I was Bother ed a great deal by weak kidneys," says Mr. Clcndcnin. "I had lit tle control over the kidney secre tions and had to get up a lot nights. My back v it- so sore and lame, I coulu hardly straighten. In the morning 1 was so lame I could h vrdlygetj out of bed. I read so much about Loan's Kidney Pills that J got a supply at the Graham Drug Co. and began taking them. A fqw I i doses relieved pain in my j back and one box cured me. I j can now go to bed, sl.'ep well aiyl I my back is strong." Price 60c. at all dealers. Don't [ simply ask for a kidney remedy! | —get Loan's Kidney Pills—the jsamc that Mr Clendenin had i Foster Milburn Co , Mlrs., Buf- I falo, N. Y. TO RECLAIM LAND Holland Plans to Drain Part of the Zuyder Zee. Project, if Carried Out, Will Add an Enormous Amount of Territory to Little Country. The wonderful little country of Hol land is maintained as a safe place for human habitation by means of huge pumping stations and miles upon miles of dykes. Were it not for tho dykes, the result of years upon years of j. binding, the sea would sweep over ; the land. If you should take a ride j tn a motorboat around, the coast, and peep oyer the dyke, you would dls j cover the roofs of farm buildings Just ! level with your eyes. At the seaside resorts the only hill in the place Is the bill you must climb In order to get to the water's edge.- The hill was built-by human hands ! In the nge-oltl fight against the Inces sant and tireless assaults of the ocean. I 1 "til 11 about f>o years ago tho Dutch depended entirely upon windmills to pump the water to the canals which carry off th" surplus water, so that the farm lflnds may not be submerged, j Then steam pumps came Into general use, and the quaint hut cumbersome windmills wen' pulled down. During the war, It looked for a. while as though the Holb-i. ers would have to rebuild their windmills'on account of 1 the acute coat shortage. However, looking upon tho other J side of the picture, the Dutch enjoy i advantages not by other I countries. By means of dykes and ! pumps they may enlarge their do | mains at will. Today cattle are graz ing over wide areas, where 80 years ago llshc.4Rvere swimming. A much larger scheme still Is now • on foot which will add to Holland u whole large country consisting of farm ing land as rich as the richest por tion of many of our states. The whole of the southern part of the Zuyder Zeu Is to be reclaimed, after being 700 years under the water. For the redemption, of this particu lar area Is in the nature of a coun , ter-offenslve by the Dutch. On St. -Elizabeth's day in 12Zi their he ledltary enemy, the North se#, made a big and successful push. Advanc ing in a huge tidal wave, It swept over ISO square miles of low-lying farm lands, and formed what has since been the southern pain it the Zuyder Zee. Many villages vanished beneath the water and 70,(MH) people lost their l^ves. The plan now is to recover all " Is land, and besides tilts economic gtin, romantically minded people look for ward to finding rich treasures there, undent hoa»is engulfed with owners on that wild night when the North sea raced over the land. Some, however,, foretell disastrous r' sul:.-' from tampering with nature's dispensation*. The Zuyder Zee, they say,'forms a great drainage basin for the whole of northern Holland; If It • Is suppressed the water that would have flowed, off there In time of Hood may cause'inundations. Tho question Is a serious one, for In Holland even great rivers flow to the sea only by artificial aid. Cliff Timber for Violins. Valuably violins are being manufac tured frorfi wood taken from the ruins of cliff dwellers near Aztec, N. M. Wi.ile excavating recently Carl Mor ris, research investigator for the Smith?;,nien institution, found a num ; ber of perfectly preserved timbers | v.'.lch are believed to have been used In constructing the homes of th* cllfT dwellers. The dwellings were estimated to be over u thousand years old, and, due | to the dry, hot climate that prevails In the vicinity of the ruins, the wood has becomt* so well seasoned that high 'class vtoljns are being made from It which have a tone, It Is said, equal to that of an Instrument that has been In j use for a l) i 'her of years. The Instruments are all of fine qual ity and are bringing high prices.—Kan- sas City Journal. Incriminating Publicity. "All right, sena ..." said thenewspa» per photographer, "Just clasp hands with Mr.. Grubcoin here and I'll take your picture." . "Young man, Mr. Grabcoin and 1 understand each other. I'd prefer to be photographed shaking hands with some Impecunious citizen. There's no ! use giving my politic#! enemies an- Mother opportunity to make the false | accusation that I'm too friendly with the moneyed - interests." —Birmingham Age-Herald. 1 th ! ' Scrub htock on waste land is a poor investment, but purebred animals on good pastures aro'stiil paying good returns. I'u-ture, fencing and livestock c.ome in the order named. It's , poor business to start backwards. TEMPi_E IS WORLD WONDER Gigantic Memorial to the Memory of Buddha Recognized as Master piece of Ingenuity. What Is claimed to be the eighth wonder of the world is the great Bud dhist temple of Barnboedoes, In Java. This gigantic building, which makes even the Pyramids of Egypt "look small," was built centuries and cen turies before the coming of Christ. The builders ilrst made un enormous, , artificial, fiat-topped hill, 150 feet high, and on this they erected their temple, a building measuring 2,000 feet In circumference and six stories high. There are' miles and miles of gal leries and hundreds of rooms, und the walls are carved —every Inch of them —with marvelous plcturt;s tliut tell the story of the birth and Ufa of Buddha In his various Incarna tions. It Is the picture bible of the Bud dhists, the most beautiful thing o? lta kind ever created by human hands. But the strange thing about this enormous building Is that It was lost for a period of more than 600 years. And not only lost, but st, utterly for gotten that it's very nunle wus not so much as mentioned. How this extraordinary thing came to pass Is told by Dorothy lJlx In her travel book entitled "My Joy-Itlde Hound the World." When the Mohammedans conquered Java they Imposed their religion upwn thu Islanders anil destroyed the Iljd dhlst temples. All, that Is, save this one, which was covered over wltli earth by the conquered people. In that hot, moist climate the Jungle In an Incredibly short time closed in about the temple, and as years rolled on the memory of It faded from the nil nils of men. Then, about a century ago, the for tune of war mndo Java a British pos session, and Sir Stamford Kallles was In charge of the administration of the Island. Through some old papers that came Into his possession lie got on tho track of the lost temple and started to work clearing the Jungle and removing the earth from above It. When the struc ture was finally unearthed it wus found to be almost us perfect as when It wus built. It had been hermetically preserved to cifcie to light us the eighth wonder of the world. He Knew the Country. An American negro from Mississippi, known simply us "Thomas,"- Is the pro prietor of the chief outdoor pleasure resort for foreigners at Cons' antlnople. Before the Russian revolution Thomas owned a string of restaurants und the aters In Moscow, where he lived lux uriously. He has had. In all, three Itusslau wives, white women. He Is now a refngee on the Bosphorus, the Bolshevik! having robbed him of every thing, Including his American puss port. He was vecy anxious to get another passport, not with tho Idea of returning to Apiertca, but becau. e "It would help him In Ids business." But the American consulate refused him the paper, on the ground 'hat It had no record of his citizenship. One day I said: "Thomas, why don't you send to the United States and get a certified copy of your birth certificate from your-old home?" Thornus leuned over the chair on which I was sitting In his theater garden and whispered In my ear with the true negro candor: "Say, Mlsto Dunn, you know Jes' as well as Ah does dat us niggers down In Mlsslsslpp' ain't never got no birth co-tlflcates." —Itobert Dunn In the New York World. The Regular Attendant. A young school teacher on tho North side belongs to a bridge club. At the beginning of this season one of tlie members made the remark that she wus the only one who had not missed several nights at the club the year before. Several congratulated her on being so regular. The worst cat of the crowd spoke up, "It you had a regular beau, like I have, you Just couldn't bo present every time." There wus silence for a minute, then the iltfle teacher scratched back. "My beau did ralso a row about my unwillingness to miss club meetings," she retorted, "until I told him I was afraid to for alter the way you all talk about tho others when they aren't here, I kuew you'd talk about me If I wasn't here." —liidlunapolla News. (So Get Hint Hunters employed by the, blolofflcal survey of the United States depart ment of agriculture havj ! 'a motto, "II you are sent after an animal bring, him In, regardless of how you huve to get him." The story comes from Arizona of an old female wolf that had lost a foot In a trap, so that she had grown "trap wise" und wary and refused to tuke poisoned bait. The government hunter took his bed and laid It by a water hole where several wolves came to ('rink nearly every night. During the night he shot the wolf within ten feet of his bed. Old New England Courting Stick. I| Becuuse the laws relating to Wooing, j were so strict la old S'ew England, a 1 j peculiar device called the courting | Stick came Into use. This was a sort , of speaking tube —a stick six feet or so I long, about un Inch In diameter, hoi-' j low, and with an enlargement at each' | end for speaking Into and hearing j from. A picture Illustrating the method of Its use represents the father seated j at the fireplace, the mother busy spin-' nlng, the daughter seated on a bench j by the mother knitting, while the young man caller Is sitting across the r* >m with ctder mug nud pitcher beside hiin. He Is In the act of raising the courting stick to his mouth, the other end of ! which Is lying in the lup of Che young woman. The courting stick insured at least a minimum of privacy for the lovers' talk. ' 4" frl, I Lapis Lazuli. Lnpls Lazuli, or, us it Is sometimes I called, azure stone, Is a mineral of beautiful ultramarine or azure color, | consisting chiefly of silica au 1 alumina ; with u little sulphuric acid, soda and lime. It Is found In primitive lime- I stone and granite in Siberia, China, I Tibet, Chile, etc. It is generally found massive, and is translucent- at the I edges, with uneven," finely granular fractures, but sometimes appears crys- ! talllzed in rhombic dodecahedrons, its primitive form. It was called by the Greeks and Romans sapphire, and was j highly esteemed by them as an orna- | mental and mosaic work, and the valu able pigment called ultramarine Is I made from it. The finest specimens of j lapis lazuli are brought from Bokhura. ! Ot jin of Nursery Rhymes. Where did the old rainsery rhymes' come .from? That touching little I story about "Old Mother Hubbard," in whose cupboard there was •• meat, for her dog, was written by A Miss Sarah Martin who, born in 1708, lies burled nt Lnughton, In Essex, Eng-1 land. How many who know the lines j "Tliero was a little girl, and she had u little curl," are aware that Macau-1 lay wrote It? Good old Dr. Isaac I Watts wus responsible for "llow doth the little busy bee." "Mary had a little lamb"* was the chief work of Mrs. Surah J. Ilale, an American, and "Twinkle, twinkle little star" cume' from the pen of June Taylor, who, i with her sister Anu, worked hard la' tho interests of sound nursery mor ality. , ■ ■Puttln'' One Ovor on 'Em. A country mun and his wife, who hud just come to the city, went Into a restaurant. They sat down at the nearest table and had been waiting t'or quite u while, when the munager came j over and said, "Pardon me, bi«t this Is a self-serving cafeteria. You'll have | to servo yourself." Her husband, mut tering to himself, arose and served the j table, and when the meal was almost I finished, be whispered to his wife,! "Mary, I'll tell you wfcat let's do, „,et's slip out without washing the dishes."—Atlanta Constitution. Ingenious Gun Sight. It was Sir Howard Orubb, the Irish telescope-maker, who Invented a most I Ingenious form of telescopic sight for use with a rifle. Neither fore nor j back sight Is employed with this con- j trlvance, but the shooter, In taking ! aim, lookg through a small lenrr which, by an optical device, throws j an Image of a bright little cross In front of the gun and lo line with the j barrel. The Image serves a fore- j sight, and by simply holding the cen-l ter of the cross upon the object aimed j at, the marksman tukes his aim. The Audubon Society. The Audubon society is an organise- f tlon formed for the protection of birds, i It bears the name of the well-known j American naturalist and bird lover, John James Audubon (1780-1 v>l). The! society has done much to prevent the j hunting of birds for their plumage and for sport, and to create a sentiment | against the wearing of birds and feath-, era on millinery. It Is largely due to] the efforts of Audubon societies that j large tracts of ground have been set aside us bird reservations. Ago Not a Matter of Yearo. Age counts for much less than it did a generation ago. l'eople do not sub mit .•» readily to the growing-old proc ess. They are realizing more and] more that youth Is not a physical af-j fair at all. The new psychology, which Is quietly, l/ut deeply, affecting j human thought in is, teaching man that hetfltoy labor, j cheerful thinking, and useful interesti In life go a long wuy towards eserv-, lng fitness and freshness ®f body and uiind. - Greece Produces Much Olive Oil. In reCent years Greece has become one of the roost Important olive oil i producers In the world. Its produc tion In l'Jil was one-sixth that of all countries (final estimates placed the total world production-of olive oil at metric tons), about one-third that of Spain and Italy combined, and a little more than 35,000 metric tons j larger than that of Tunis, Portugal , and France put together. NO. 40 Last Call tor Sowing Winter Cover Crops. VV. F. Pate, Soil Agronomist, N. C. Experiment Station. Ther. is still some time left-in which fall and winter cover crops can be sown this year. Oats and rye sown between ncfw and tbe 15 of November should germinate and make sufficient growth be tween then and spring to make it a profitable undertaking. • If sown on land that w aid otherwise be left bare, be.i, will prevent the top soil from being washed away by the winter and spring rains; will stop the exces sive leaching away of the avail able piant food that is already in the soil and transform it into a condition available lor next year's crops when turned back into the soil; they will furnish active liumus or organic matte - to help feed the following crops and hold water for the future ciops' needs. If it is so des : red, these crops may also bo grazed during the winter and early spring with profit to the farmer ami little or no damage to the ';rop. fertilize These Cover Crops. All farmers know ihe value of fertilizers for the profitable pro duction of money crop ; . In order » for the cover crops sown to make ii larger growth, it is recommend ed that from 200 to 300 pou i 'f of a fertilizer be used analyzing about 8 percent phosphoric acid, to 4 percent ammonia fiid tt-ound 2 percent potash. As the weight of tln-se eo.'«r is increased, the amount of glu ing furnished will be greater; t.io water-holding capacity of the soil will be enlarged; the active hu mus of the soil will be larger; and a profitable increat-e in the yield of # the following jjrops may be expected. A Tarheel farmer failed five .. times with clover until the county agent bet him the lime that he could succeed by using it. Two hundred men recently visited this clover demonstration. Seed corn selection in the field pays from 830 to SSO per day by increasing acre yields next year, as proven by nine years «f experi ments in North Caroliua. Truck For Hire. Let us do your hauling of evt-ry kind, moving, etc. Have a now truck. Terms reasonable. Bkadsiuw & FULLEB, Phone 650 Graham, N. O. PROFEoSIONAL CALDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, , , Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM, N. C. ! Associated u'ltli John J. Mender*"'' I Ortice over National Hank ol laui .nee THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W.S. Coulter, | Noi. 7 and 8 Fir„t National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. >(TUyiJWfer Ferrell Drug Co. , to 3 and 7 to 'j p. m., and by appointment. ' Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Oilicc Hours: 9 to 11a.m. null by appointment Office Over Actue Drug Co. j Telephones: Ofllce 110— Kc idence jUI JOHN J. HENL£R3OIj Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. DMlcc over National Baukol Alamai cc or, s. coo:r, Attorney-Mt- Law j GRAHAM, - - - - N. 0 Offlcu Patterson Building Second Floor. . . . ML JR. . . . DENTIST : : I jrihim. .... North Carolina I OFFICE IN I'ARIS BUILDING