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VOIJ. XLVIII Memorial to North -Carolina Soldiers • ' at ViGksburg Legislature VViJI be Asked tor Ap propriation—lnscription Approved —Retail Merchants Want Special; Legislaturion. ELECTION VICiUHES MAKE IX TEKESTIXCJ STUDY. !— / (fiY MAXWELL GORMAN.) Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 21, 1922. — The following communication sent j to us by Chairman Wm. T. Rigbv, of the Vicksburg National- Military Park Commission, should appeal . to all patriotic Carolinians, and we trust that every member of the new Legislature soon to meet in Raleigh will give the subject his favorable thought and vote. Chair man Rigby's brief letter follows: "The Park Commission invites your best efforts on behalf of an appropriation by the General As sembly for a memorial monument on North Carolina circle in the Vicksburg National Military Park and in honor of the devotion, patri otism and faithful service of North Carolina soldiers in the Vicksburg tiampagin and defense. Your ac tive interest in the proposed appro- j priation will 'be appreciated." (Memorial monument inscrip-j tion approved by the War Depart ment :) NORTH CAROLINA John ston's Army." French's Division. McNair's' Brigade. 29th Infantry, , • V Col. Coleman.—BreckinVidge's Di- - * vision. Stovall's Brigade. 60th In far, try, Col. Wash" M. Hardy, : Lieut.-Col. James M. Ray. Should Hi' Defeated Again. The biennial announcement has i made its appearance again that an ' other effort will be made through the North Carolina Retail Mer chants' Association to coax the new Legislature into enacting son\e! bad legislation. Included in the program the .extension of- the 1 garnishee law so as to provide a j short-cut to collect money owing! by an individual customer to a mer chant if it takes the last skillet out j of the poor man's kitchen—and the poor ,woman's, also, be it under stood. The Legislature of a num ber of yeS'-s past have promptly and decisively refused to pass laws of this character asked for by the State Merchants'. Association, and w 11 do so again. It is refreshing to know that many merchants of the better class do not approve' of this demand for legislation of the character named, j Some of the merchants who are clamoring for this kind of legisla- i tion should first try and see them selves as others see them. As the "law" now stands and goes, any merchant can (as many do) "fail") in business and after going through : certain lejral formalities, "settles" with all creditors at anywhere from , 10 per cent to seldom over 50 per 1 centj and his indebtedness is full "discharged" and none of his cred-1■ itoj's can trouble him about any of that indebtedness again. Often it is not long before the merchant \ "opens up" again at a new stand! —and the creditors - who a shorts time before lost anywhere from 50 to 90 per cent (including wholesa!-. ers and jobbers) of the amounts the j wrfchant owed them, may as well) whistle a lonfc farewell to'their lost! cash, while the "re-Opened" mer-1 chant waxes fat in prosperity. Yet this same class of merchants, have the check to think they c#n bamboozle an intelligent and fair-; . minded body of lawmakers into making a law that would strip a private.. individual of the last shirt on his back (to say nothing of rtie , old lady's nether garment) if they get sick or if misfortune ten sets them back a wliiie, if. THE ■ ALAMANCE -GLEANER. they owe the grocer or dry goods merchant at the time, and can't settle. Talk about repealing the S3OO exemption, it would not cause a greater revulsion among the "com mon people" of modest means thar would legislation of the character of the S + nte Retail Merchants' As sociation continues to demand year after year—and as regularly is re fused, and most properly refused. No political party on earth, how ever great its majority, no matter how'many thousands of vot ers refustd to vote at the last elec tion, could survive a monstrous act like that. AND TIIE DEMO CRATIC PARTY AS AT PRES ENT CONSTITUTED AND PER SONIFIED IN NORTH CARO LINA. WOULD BE THE LAST PARTY TO ATTEMPT SUCH A MONSTROSITY. \ Election Rosults a .Study. The State election figures, which have just become available in prac tically "official" termsf reveals some striking and interesting com parisons, when cohtrasted with the last prior State election in 1920. when Governor Morrison and the other present "State officers were chosen.- The figures show that the head of the State ticket this year, Cor poration Commissioner Lee, "re ceived a majority of 85,058" over his competitor, Mr. Hoover. That | is the "largest majority" since the j memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Ft* certainly sounds "big;" indeed. But when certain comparisons are ijjade it dwindles almost to the proportions of Senator Zeb Vance's catfish. Two years ago the Repuh, I'lican htad of the State ticket poll led 231.175 votes, which shows tha* j Mr. Parker, Republican, polled '5,560 more votes than Mr. Le» Democrat, rolled up in the election on the 7th of this month, 1922. Two years ago Governor Morri son polled 308.151 votes, which we#e just 82,536 more votes than Commissioner Lee polled this year. Los of votes to the Democratic ticket of exactly that many votes. BUT (and it is a "but" that em phasis must be laid upon) the head of the Republican ticket, this year, Mr. Hoover for corporation com missioner, polled only 140,557 votes, while in 1920 the Republi cai > polled 231,'75. Loss of votes to the Republican ticket 0f.90.518 votes. So the Republicans lost 4,860 more votes than the Demo crats. One hundred and seventy-three thousand (173,054) people who votedjin 1920 did not eirst a ballot the unprecedented falling off of nearly oni-third of the State's elec torate, talking the vote of 1920 as a at the recent election, which shot/s basis. The total dumber of people entitled to vote this year is of course much greater. Tlie Clea,n-Up In the Legislature. But. this biggest "killing" the Democrats made was in the fights over State scnatQrs (especially) and members of-the House (gen erally). The new redisricting of Senate seats went into effect for the. first time this year, and the Democrats cleaned up 47 ef the 50 seats in the 33 senatorial districts. The Republican mortality is clear ly shown in the statement that in I the 'ast Senate the minority had 11 i senators the \ percentage of ! mortality• being so severe that ,we ref/ain from hurting the feelings of "the. enemy" any further by mentioning it. •=» Over in the south wing of the iCapitol building there are ■oflly 10 members left out of tin; 29 in the * last; House. It is a sad story for the Republicans. And the worst of it is, the explanations offered to r '° not "explain 1 ." If 90.000 voters were disgusted I with the. Harding administration, I what was the matter with the 82.- 000 Democrat Pc voters who stayed j away from the polls? The nearest thing to a full ex planation so far is'fcfmtained in ithe following comment made by Col. Alston Watts, the best posted poli tician in the State, which he gave out as part of a statement yester day. He says: * "The election is a great victory for the Democratic party and a! magnificent endorsemen of Gover nor Morrison's administration and the splendid program of State up GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1922 building and progress which has .been inaugurated under his' lead- j crship. Never in the State s his tory >have so many Republicans openly and proudly voted the Dem-1 ocratic ticket ns* have in this elec tion. This was notably true in the] west, where Rep'l'icans are in great numbers. T' y were pleased j with roads auti >ehools, as were j their v Democratic neighbors, and j nearly a score of counties hereto fore Republican are now found in j the Democratic column. "In Mr. J. I). Norwood the party I never had a wiser, more devoted, j energetic or effective chairman. "Ihe DemocratiKeleetcd all 10 j Congressmen with majorities rang ing from 7.000 to 12,000! TheyJ trained two solicitors, eight seua-l tors and l'> representatives i i tin Legislature, with about an equal! number of clerks, sheriffs, registers j of deeds, county treasurers, boards of county commissioners, and other | county officers, as representatives. Counties have gone Democratic for the first time in 20.years, and one —Henderson—for the first time since the Republican party was ga nixed. That party has only otv> solicitor, three senators, and ten' representatives in the Legislature,; Only four coun ie —Mitchell, Sur ry, Wilkes am. —will by; represented in both branches of thel next Legislature by Republicans.": Argoment tliis Week and State May Soon ] Get this Ta,\ Money. In the Supreme Cert of the j United States at Washington this; week the final argument is being! • lade in the appeal of five of tliui larger railroads from, the Circuit j Court of Appeals in North Caro-J Una in their course of resisting the* collection of certain ad valorem j taxes levied by the State for the year 1921. ' The ruling of the court will set-j tie litigation of more tiiaji a yea. - s standing and mean either the pay- j lnent into the treasuries of th31 counties,'municipalities and school j districts of some millions of dol-l lars of Revenue or the loss of that money. Since October, I|J 1 the matter has been in the courts, starting j with the railr.oad trying to secure j an injunction forbidding the col lection of the 1921 ad v. lorcin tax, the franchise tax, and the income | tax. THe federal court, a special' tribunal sitting ftere, heard argu- j merit for more than a week in Jan-! uary, 1922, and rendered a decision adverse to the road.-, on March 18, 1922, at Raleigh, as to the ad va lorem and franchise tax, the in come tax inal.er being side-tra :ed for awhile. While .'he appeal ofi Ihe roads was wa.i t g to be heard j by the Supreme C- trt of the Unit ed "States, a stay of collection was granted by the three-judge court, consisting of .Judge James E. Boyd and .Judge Edmund: Waddill, Jr., 'ruling.in favor of the stay. Judge ft. G. Connor against it. Th 1 effect has #een that wMle the ra.lroads lost m the ruling against an in junction, they have not yet paid their >1921 taxes, nothing to Lh* | State and no part of the ad valor-1 em tax to the counties except Vie amount not in dispute. Second Payment lor Eastern N. C. Tobacco Growers. _ Special Correspondence. With a second payment to mem-1 burs completed in the South Caro lina belt and arrai. .'cim-nts beinr made for a second payment in j Eastern North Carolina *early in| December on all ! baeco delivered! "before Deeembe,-l ist, the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association is expecting to largely increase its j membership in these 4»'lts before) the season is over. Without anyj special effort on the part of the j Association new contracts are) reaching Raleigh daily from men j "who waited t|see" aril are again j thoroughly disgusted with the auc-1 tion system. Insistent demand* for legal fic tion against contract violators con-j tinue to reach Raleigh headf|uar-| ters, especially from local units of the Association. In response to this demand the legal department: [last week filed 54 more su.ts I against members in 21 counties of j North Carolina involving damagesi of more than $50,000. Some of tha j first suits filed have been settled | —-—. ! out of court, while other men are j making settlements without wait ing to be haled into court. Arrangements have been made to have warehousemen receive money for damages and \forward it to I Raleigh where the legal depart -1 ment w.'ll decide whether to accept or .reject such settlements. Each case is being considered on its rner | its, and, while tli^ attorneys are ac cepting a number of such proffered settlements, they state that in other I canes they are rejecting offers to I settle where the' interests of the | association show that a law suit | would be better policy. j North Carolina as Seen by a Yankee. ' Asheville Citizen. | James Arthur Seavey, of Aslie ; ville, is a newcomer to North Caro | l'inu, and one who came with no j prepossessions of any naiiiro to in fluence him towards partiality in estimating the strength and signifi cance of the state's educational and j industrial renaissance which moves j him to admiration. In the New ! York Tinus of October '22, Mr. Sea-1 I vey writes the record of a state ■ once far down tiie list of comnto'n | wealths in wealth and agencies of I welfare, now pushing the foremost ;in t';e Union for prflnacy jn the I things that make life more livable, i lie says: j ! " That which lias hit North Can' i 1 inn is not even , a forty-seventh I cousin of the okl Western boom, 'it, is possible that the native ea;>- j tains of industry would object to jits being called a boom at all. It is, rifHier, a. financial, industrial, and commercial regeneration—the j phoenix of the New South risen ! iVom the ashes of the Old. "The development mania which I has swept over the state has ex panded itself so sanely that it might be called the dementia of ■; commercial common sense. It bears I all the earmarks of permanent sue {cess, because it lacks all the ele iments of bubble e.ithusiasm." There was .a time, Mr. Sea vey, when there was intense between Eastern and Western I North Carolina, but now all this is changed. There is still rivalry between the sections, but a rivalry based upon the hope that'one section may out -1 achieve in greater good for a great er state. The whole commonwealth I lias eomfi .to realizcktjiat parts can- I not be greater than fne whole; that, in the long run, what is good for Raleigh is'good for Asheville, and what works to the disadvantage of Charlotte bodes no good to Salis 'btjrv. the slogan of yester day, today, and tomorrow in North Carolina rings like a clarion from i'"- m mntanrslo the sea: Tf;."heels for Tarheelia. one and inseparable; Tarheels without end' With this and more to the same effeet'as a preface, .Mr. Seavey puts down the North Carolina "statisti cal record, which he says reads like a fairy talc. In two d'-cade* the state has risen from twenty-seventh to fifteenth in the value of manu i factured pr oducts and has today more cotton mills than any other I state, ft ranks fifth in the vahie (of ngrieu'J .iral Impending on its eomnion schools Mi. 000,000 a y-ar, U"sid s the mil j lions for colleges, ft is building (good roads, five miles a day, with ji.ii expenditure of $25,006,000 a year. water poweV and ifs abi;idarice of native-liorn white la jbor are attracting the attention rif capitalists who see N> w .England's tfactorv supremacy'slipping away rj'rom her.. J Mr. Seavey and the New York | have presented North Caro lina with thousands of dollars in | advertising, but even vet there will i be those, if only a few, who will shake their heads* and proclaim (their rep rets that the state ever I developed this ambition for p *og • ress. These are they who would [ask that the corn.be shelled, but, I fortunately for North Carolina, I they are a tribe rapidly approach- J ing extinction. " \\ o WedHirig presents in Hungary are said to i>e given ouiy to- poor couples to help them to get Iheii; homes together. I The man who follows ilie crowd Ue! ioui has th ero.vd following | hiui. ii • » * ALAMANCE AT TIIE STATE FAIR. Hawfields Community Influencing , State's Agriculture. F. 11. Jeter, in News & Observer. How one little community is ex 1 erting a wonderful influence on the 'agriculture of* North Carolina was ' strikingly demonstrated by the ex hibits made by the little Hawfields community in Alamance county at ' the State Fair this fall. This com munity, it will he remembered, is the home of Hob Scott, one _of the best farmers" in thT Stifle and a member of the Ndrth Carolina 1 State Board of Agriculture. Mr. Scott is a pioneer livestock grower, connming Ins activities mostly to . dairy fanning. Around his home . community of il ay fields has now i grown the larger and more ambi-i . tious community oL" Alexander \Vii- ' i son, naineu from a sc'no il roiidj:t , ed three years ago and "which some of the famous men ol'f lie state find Jnation have attended. About five ■ se|- •! districts have consolidated and are putting up a $40,000 high , school wl'ieh,will give t IK: country . ehildreir of this section a complete i high school education. it will he remembered that Ala , inance county sent in an exhibit that won second place in the eon- I test for the best county exhibit at . the State Fair. This exhibit was in charge of W. Kerr Scott, county agent for the Extension service, a , graduate of the State College, and , son of Farmer Hob Scott. Miss Edna Ileinhardt, home demonstra tion agent, assisted in preparing , the exhibit. The Hawfield com* munity as a whole took part in making this display a success. The exhibit made by the Alexander Wil son Community won first place in community exhibits, and f ook a 1 prize of S3OO. This exhibit was in ' i charge of I'rol'. W. L. Cooper, Jr., ' teacher of agriculture at the high school, and Miss Florence Gray, home economics teacher. Both of these leaders are employed for their whole time by the community. Aside froi 1 4 Vse large contribu ; tions to the fair, the community sent many other blue ribbon dis plays. Mrs. R. W. Scott won a ' number of first places fc- some of the canned goods which she had prepared home. Miss Elizabeth Hansel won a blue ribbon for the . best. Muff Orpington hens display ed by a member of the poultry . clubs, and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Dixon won many ribbons for indi ■ vidual displays in addition to giv . ing much time to the community . and county exhibits. ! Out. in the livestock pens, a fine , exhibit of Jersey cattle was sent in from Alamance county in charge I of Edward Kerr, of the Hawfields i Community. All of the animals , shown came from this community. s The exhibit of Duron-Jersey hogs . put on by the Curie's Neck Stock r, Kami e * Richmond. Virginia, was n in charge of Merle Stuart of Haw , fields, a young man who received his training in agriculture at the j local high school. The exhibit of r Angus Cattle from the Harris. r . rarffis was shown by K. C. Turner, , Jr., of the JlawfieJds neighborhood. In the home industri *s exhibits, Mrs. *P. Hm'so.i, nt Bal-'igb, a , daughter'o!' ?{. W S , in; d" •7 j i enti'.e-i jui'i ,ve ! f first plai s 17 , red ribbons, three white ribbons. s and hac- only ' iree blank)-. M.'-i. . IJ. M. Sin if h, if Raleigh, also a f daughter of Mr. Seott, niade 1 K s entries and won 10 blue ribbons, • ivvn red ribbons, tore" white, and one fourth pfaee, with only two • blanks These winnings would not be so i sigiiifieant were it not for the faet i that they all ciirne from »>ne corn | munity, except the County exhibit. , They show the influence of this r community on fie farm life of the State and how it is rendering a*- ] distance in mat tog the State's big gest agricultural show a greater success. Tt joints out the value ' of having sound community lead ers who are teaching and showing by exampleJiow a community can bc K«4f-sinlie.u>nt in providing food f and feed stuffs and in living a hap r py and prosperous life. h far-fetched, statement to say that most of the good things being done 1 by th iff-progressive group o( folks had.their beginning in the quiet, • unassuming lcadershing given them • by Farmer Bob Scott. Only last | Friday evening, Mr. Scott bad gathered at bis home about 100 of the leading farmers of Alamance and Orange counties for a banquet of Jersey cattle growers. His Jer sey herd is well known over the State and the success that he has had in dairy farming I been greatly stimulating to others who want to take up this line of fann ing. Cotton and tobacco farmers who make some money and spend it all 011 debts for food and feed stuffs would do well to take a tip from Mr. Scott's farm where grain, hay and cattle furnish the main income. Probably Mr. Scott will never amass great wealth robably lie doesn't wish to, but h aas done this—he has built \yisely and well '•; strong self-supporting commun ity tliiit is irivinr its 'uldren the benefits of gooi' f NIT ' lenti >lu-' . ill Ii i! ai -i tii, iem •a j happy ami con MI; . # rm 1 by teaching them the tiling about which they will be vitidly concern-' ed. As iiis influence lias extended, I'rom his own farm Haw fields (Vimmuiiily, likewise the in fluence of this ecmimiuiiy "now extendiug out over the State and the State is the gainer by his hav ing been a Tarheel farmer. Election Victory Deserved, " " . Says Boston ?«per. Tii explaining the Democratic victory o" November 7 and highly approving it, the Republican Bos ton Transcript editorially says, among other things: "The best part about the wig trinj* which the people have given at the polls in many parts of the country to the party in power is that the wigging was well deserved. * • * The party in power has neg-l lected its opportunity, paltered in 4he face of grave and pressing prob lems, played fast and loose with the veterans of the Great War, goose-1 stepped before organized bauds of noisy minorites, honeyfugled the pacifists, enacted a tariff bill that,! as we have repeatedly said, is a dis grace to the Republican party and a.menace to the Nation, insulted the intelligence and inflamed the passion of the electorate in many ■ ,r. . of the country by appoint* c" „s to office that are indefensible on any score—for example, E. tyont Keily as goverpor of Porto Rico and a whole tribe of political swind lers south of the Mason-Dixon line. "instead of leadership in the lower house of Congiyss the Re publicans have set up an oligarchy consisting of Mondell of Wyoming, Madden of Illinois, Kelley of Mich igan, and Anthony of Kansas—the worst of the lot. Instead ** resist ing the impudent and insolent man ner in which this oligarchy has in .vailed the constitutional preiajses of the Executive, the Executivelias in too many instances Kalaamed be fore the invaders. In the place of 'one man government' at the exe cutive end of the Avenue, the party in power has given the country a fast'- of misgovern men t both ends by a congressional ...igarchv ..asjunfit to administer as it was to legislate." ' Corton Co ' os R> ques? -to I a! I eries l or Second Ad>»nce. Rajiiis'h, Nov. 21. !jis'ructions '.o'niakc final deliveries of ro-ton were sent this week to members of the North Carolina Cotton Grow ers' Cooperative Association, in order that arrangements may be. made for the second advance of s2f) ii bale which the board of lircctors •have set. for December 15. The board of directors h; in structed the officers of the Associ ation take legal action against members of the Association who have will ily violated their con tracts, and it is announced that this will be done as soon as the data has been collected. It is not believed by the officers of the Asso ciation that there has been any con siderable number of willful Violat ors of contracts. Cotton continues to bp delivered at almost the same daily average as in October, and this constant stream of cotton coming into the Association has been a remarkable achievement on the part of the co operatives. The member of the Association have done their part NO. 42 by givi'if their loy:il support to those charged with th" sale of cot- 4 ton, officers declare. The cotton co-operatives have 'been greatly handicapped during the rush season because of lack of adequate quarters in which to work. The headquarters staff moved last week into its permanent quarters here, and is now busily er gaged in clearing up the mass of work in connection with the handling of many thousauu of bales of cotton. The rush season for deliveries is expected to continue until well through December, officers state. Federation of Labor Contradicts G. 0. P. on Unemployment Washington Correspondence. % Reports oF a shoi'age of labor from Republican sources and evidently designed to | create the i'tfiprehsit a ' liat indus trial prosperity lias re urued, aire ' dotsiec! by represt nbttives of the American Federation of Lf-bor, !Officials of tiif) Federation have | just conducted a survey of tue ! Country and upon this found their __ ;statement that far fioiu . -shortage j therms j. gr/ut surp'us of workers i of all crafts and elates. "From tiio Atla'ni' to the Pa | ci fie, from the LnkL-s it theCulf lof Mexico, there conies , the 8:. ne story of men looking for work," s iys t!io Federation's official j statement. This Republican claim of a 'scarcity of workers has been Jcoupled with an announcement in Republican organs that t •• Hand ing administration is .bout to | consider the amendment of the | immigration laws to permit a n larger influx of European laborers to meet the alleged demand of American industries. Pit McLaughlin of Mississippi is 101 years old and a bachelor. Nothiug like taking care of your , self. (566 > quickly relieves Colds and La Grippe, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. As more ihan 7,000 ljaths iu the country yearly in jiailroad accidents, there are 7,- ! | ".'OO deaths due to disease spread , insect, carriers. 'I —, Truck Fo. .lire. Let uf do your haui.jg of every kind, moving, etd. liave a tiew - . truck. Terms reasonable. iiUADSUAW fe FULLEB, ' Phone 650 Graham, N. CJ > y PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLL, i i Alton /-a;-Law, GRAHAM, N. C. Associated with John /. Henderoou. Ollice over Matioiial ltu.uk ol'Alamauae [ THOr.IAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, ' BURLINGTON, N. C, Associate'l with W. 3. Coulter, N'os. 7 iac t First Bank Bldg, S. C. SPOOIV, Jr., M, D. •I i Graham, N. C. ' Office over F;r oil Jrug CJ. * Hours: - to 6 and 7 to yp. m., and by aj.poiu' meui. Phone 'J7 '■ 5 GRAHAM HARDLiT M. D. ?J Uu: .Ington, N. C. ; j) Office Hours: 9to 11a.m. , 4 i *fcnu iiy appointment Ollice Over A .it tin ,'o. . j Telephone*: Oflice l t>—llcsiUence Tl JOHN J. HENLLJRSCN » Attorney-al-Luw GRAHAM, N.'C. OlUce over National Bank ol Alar tasce !T. s. co s:, Attornay-at- Lom QRAHAM. ... N. C Patterson Bull'' !nti j Second F! -0.-. . . ;OR. WILLS,LMG,JH. E ... DENTIST : : : iraham, .... 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