VOL. XLIX
Gov. Morrison and Corp.
Comm'r Maxwell Clash
Governor and Commissioner Disagree as
Invetigating Public Printiug—Raleigh Solicitor
After-'Bootleggers. •
(BY MAXWELL GORMAN.)
Raleigh, N. C., February 6th.—
in the Legislature this
week, on the part of both the pub
lic and the legislators, is largely
directed to the work of the com
mittee in charge of the'investiga
tion into the financial condition of
the State, as recommended by the
• Governor in his thrilling and dra
matic address at a joint session
of the two branches of the Gen
eral Assembly last Friday.
Mr. Maxwell now states that
he did not mean to assert or in
sinuate that a dollar of North Car
olina money had been misappro
priated or wrongfully spent, but
that, in calling attention to what
he claims to be danger in appro
priating too large sums to meet
the condition of the State's fiscal
ability to successfully shoulder
through heavy appropriations, de
manded by the Educational De
partment, for example, and other
calculations being pressed upon
the Legislature, he deemed it
wise to make the statement pub
lic which appeared in the news
papers last Friday.
In a later statement Mr. Max
well says:
"The way to protect the State's
credit, and the only way, is to
keep it sound. The State cannot
keep $90,000,000 of indebtedness
afloat and consistently fail to earn
its living expenses. I have dis
closed nothing that a competent
bond attorney or expert account-'
ant could not learn in a few min
utes of investigation of the pub
lished reports of the State Treas
urer. If we can't set up sinking
funds, or retire serial bonds from
revenue when due, we must at
least earn our living expenses.
And the fiscal policy of this Gen
eral Assembly must be fixed with
a knowledge of these facts.
"While eating the bread of the
State, I am trying to earn it, and
without questioning motives of
other gentleman, Governor Mor
rison has a great deal more of
reputation and responsibility at
stake in readjusting the financial
policy of the State to a sound
basis than I have. The good old
Scotch Presbyterian, Ben Lacy,
was right when he called atten
tion to a net deficit of $1,853,894
in operating expenses in one full
rounded year of revenue income,
and the mistake of the Governor
and the Budget Commission was
in not accepting at iuL value his
faithful warning that economy
must be practiced to meet that
situation. Instead of doing that,
they invented special methods of
its own to convert that deficit in
to a two-and-one-half-million-dol
lar surplus, and then recommend
ed appropriations for the next two
years covering the full amount of
that fallacious surplus in addition
to two more full years of estimat
ed old fr6g-in-the
well story applied to State financ
ing, with State credit getting
deeper in the well. And they
can't get it out by denouncing me,
or by ignoring the facts and
sound advice presented by our
own good old Scotch Presbyteri
an State Treasurer.
"Ridiculous," Says Governor
Governor Morrison said he had
read the latest statem.nt from
Mr. Maxwell, and lie described
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
to State's Deficit.
j the Corporation Commissioner's
I position as "ridiculous." "I think
I Mr. Maxwell had better attend
jto hjs own business and cease
J trying to run the whole State,"
Ihe stated. The Governor reas-
J serted his faith in the figures used
by the Budget Commission, upon
[ which he based his statement in
| regard to an ultimate surplus in
revenue over expenses for the last
1 fiscal year, when taxes levied but
| uncollected are paid into the
: Treasury.
. "It is ridiculous," the Governor
| said in part in discussing Mr.
| Maxwell's statement. "No rail-
J road taxes have been collected for
| either of the two years of my ad
| ministration, yet Mr. Maxwell re
fuses to credit any of that and
j says that it ought not to be cred
| ited. The committee appointed
Jto investigate this matter will find
> the truth.
"Mr. Maxwell had better attend
Ito his own official duties. If he
will attend to looking out for the
freight rates of North Carolina
and his other official duties as well
|as B. R. Lacy attend to his offi
cial duties, and as well as Major
Baxter Durham, the Auditor duly
elected by the people, attends to
his, I think we will get along bet
ter."
Public Printing Inquiry
J. C. B. Ehringhaus and L. T.
Hartsell are here for the first tes
timony Monday in the printing
controversy between the Commis
sioner of Labor and Printing and
Edwards & Broughton Printing
Company.
Mr. Ehringhaus, former solici
tor of the First District, and Mr.
Hartsell, State senator in the 1921
Assembly, will conduct the exam
inations for the legislative com
mission, and attorneys for the pri
vate interests in the controversy
will be onlookers. By holding the
inquiry down to "bare-bone facts"
the committee hopes to get
through with the controversy this
week.
New Solicitor Gets Bootleggers
One of the outstanding prom
ises of William F. Evans, when
he entered the primary for the
nomination for solicitor of this
(seventh) judicial district', was
that pledging his best efforts to
"get" the whisky traffic brigade
of Raleigh and Wake county, and
Saturday he launched his first
drive in that direction. With the
active co-operation of Judge Cran
mer, a few sleuths and the sher
iff and deputy sheriffs, he made
the biggest and most important
haul on record here, and a num
ber went to jail to await trial in
default of bonds ranging from
SSOO to $3,000 each.
NQW, if it is possible to secure
petit jurors uninfluenced by the
liquor element, Solicitor Evans
will secure convictions and sen
tences that will raise the hair of
the worst' law-defying element of
bootleggers and distillers that 1
have infested this city and coun-,
ty for years, and he has just'start
ed the work. All good citizens
will wish him success in his ef
forts.
A welcome guest in your home,
bringing good reports of the pro
gress of your friends and your
community the home town pa
per.
Worms won't injure your cab
bage this summer if you know
how to control them.
Agricultural Extension Service,
Raleigh, for C 135, "Dusting of
Cabbage and Collards to Comxol
Worms."
GBAH.AM, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBBUARY 8.1928
Over Billion New Wealth
for North State in 1922
The following interesting in
formation is from the News Let
ter:
First and fundamentally, the
volume of brand new wealth cre
ated in North Carolina in 1922
amounted all told to nearly one
and one-third billion dollars, at
farm and factory prices, as fol
lows : Manufactured products,
$832,000,000; crops, livestock, and
livestock products, $410,000,000;
woodlot and forest products, $70,-
200,000; mines and quarries, $2,-
500,000; fish and oysters, $2,000,-
000. The total is more than three
times that of 1915 —1317 million
against 402 million dollars. In a
single year we created more than
a third as much wealth as we
have accumulated on our tax
books in 250 years. It averaged
nearly SSOO per inhabitant in 1922,
counting men, women and chil
dren of both races, or $2,600 per
family. No other state in the
South begins to approach North
Carolina in her per capita produc
tion of new wealth, and in the to
tal annual output only seven
states of the Union stand above
her.
Second. Despite the drop in
market prices, the total farm
wealth produced in the state in
1922 is more than twice the total
of 19 10 5410,000,000 against
$175,000,000. We produced 75,-
000 bales of cotton rriore than in
1921, and climbed to the fourth
place in the cotton-belt South.
The average advance of cotton
and tobacco prices throughout the
season gave to the farmers, the
merchants, and bankers of the
state 67 million dollars in cash
more than the year before. As a
result, North Carolina is paying
back the eight million dollar agri
cultural loan of the War Finance
Corporation faster than any other
state in the Union.
Third. Our mills and factories
have been running on full time al
most without exception. Factory
prices are less, but the volume of
manufactured goods is greatly in
creased and the volume of wages
is scarcely lessened. New mills
are being built all over the state.
The new spindles to be set going
in North Carolina in 1923 number
550,000, which is more than two
thirds of the new spindles of the
entire South. The demand for la
bor in our factory and bunding
trades and in highway construc
tion has been steady throughout
the year just closed, and at no
time has unemployment been a
serious problem in North Caro
lina, as in the great industrial area
north and east and in the boll
weevil states south.
Fourth. These are the funda
mental facts that explain our four
hundred eighteen millions of bank
resources, our one hundred six
teen millions of bank account sav
ings, our investment of an addi
tional twenty-seven millions in
motor cars in 1922, our ability to
own one hundred forty-six mill
ion dollars' worth of automobiles
and trucks, and to buy seventy
five million gallons of gasoline in
twelve months. They explain the
greatly increased activity of our
building and loan associations, 1
and the erection of residences,
warehouses, factories, hotels, and
office buildings everywhere. They
also explain our ability to pay one
hundred twenty-two million dol
lars into the federal treasury in
1922 as taxes on profits, incomes,
and inheritances, and only seven
states paid more. These are larfe
figures, and they have given the
state a large place in the mind of
the tradespeople and credit insti
tutions the country t»ver. Thej
traveling men talk them far and
wide, and the bankers of America
do not hesitate to take our pub
lic bonds at a premium.
Fifth. But even more signifi
cant is the deep and abiding im
pression these facts have made
upon North Carolina herself. Not
natural resources but men make a
state. The abounding natural re
sources and possibilities of North
Carolina were all here in Gover
nor Drummond's day; but only
within the last forty years has
the state begun to cash them in—
mainly within the last four years.
The best evidence that a state be-
lieves in herself lies in her will
ingness to invest in public educa
tion, public health, and public
highways as indispensable foun
dations of commonwealth prog
ress and prosperity. In public
health work we rank among the
twelve foremost states of the Un
ion, and we have moved forward
in this field faster than any other
American state. In public high
way building we are surpassed by
Pennsylvania alone. During the
last eighteen months we have,
built 1377 miles of hard-surfaced
and other types of dependable
roads, and have spent for this pur
pose nineteen million dollars in
round numbers. In public school
support we have moved up from
six million to twenty million dol
lars in ten years. In twenty years
we have moved up from one to
twenty million dollars in public
school maintenance money.
At last North Carolina is estab
lishing her state institutions of
charities and corrections, liberal
learning and technical training,
on a basis of adequacy. Which is
to say, North Carolina is at last
minded to base her future on the
intelligence, the skill, and the
character of her people. It is these
alone that can make a state great.
The steadfast belief of North Car
olina in herself is far more im
portant than the applause of lis
tening multitudes in other states.
It makes history faster.
North Carolina Pays More Federal
Tax Tban Any Southern State
The University News Letter.
One hundred twenty-two mill
ion four hundred thirteen thous
and dollars is the total collected
in North Carolina in 1921-22 by
the Internal Revenue Bureau,
mainly as taxes on profits, in
comes, capital stock and inher
itances.
Ohly seven states of the Union
paid more federal taxes, namely,
New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio
and California. Since 1919, we
have moved ahead of New Jersey
and Missouri, and our rank is now
eighth instead of tenth.
Fifth in crop-producing power,
and eighth in federal tax-paying
power—that's the record of North
Carolina in 1922.
A& for the South, our rank is
first. The table is as follows for
the year ending June 30, 1922:
1. North Carolina ..$122,413,000
2. Texas *. 52,348,000
3. Virginia 46,596,000
4. Kentucky 33,122,000
5. Louisiana 22,754,000
6. Tennessee 21,795,000
7. Georgia 20,989,000
8. Oklahoma 18,402,000
9. Florida 14,320,000
10. Alabama 11,464,000
11. South Carolina .. 11,447,000
12. Arkansas ...... 6,979,000
13. Mississippi 4,640,000
Texas and Virginia are our
nearest competitors in the South
in federal tax totals paid in 1922,
but North Carolina paid more
than both of them together—
twenty-three million dollars more.
We paid more than the rest of
the South Atlantic states com
bined—Virginia, South Carolina,
Georgia, and Florida—twenty
nine million dollars more.
We paid more than the five
Gulf states all put together, Texas
included—seventeen million dol
lars more.
We paid enough taxes to the
federal government in one year to
keep our state government going
for ten years.
And the people who are paying
the bulk of these tremendous fed
eral taxes are the people who are
bearing the burden of state taxes.
ITiey pay more state taxes to the
state at present than all the rest
of us put together; and, as Gover
nor Morrison says, they are do
ing it without a kick or a whine
anywjfere.
Fine Progress in Butterfat
Production in AUunance
The dairy schools held over the
county lately were attended by
268 farmers. This was an unuaa
al showing considering the condi
tion of the mads and the amount
of sickness in the southern sec
tion of our county. Mr. Kimrey
and Mr. Arey, dairy special is ts
HAVE A GARDEN.
Mrs. McKimmon Tells Why, Where
and How to Have it
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 6.—"With
the advent of the warm sunny
days and the colorful seed cata
logues the impulse to get out with
'green things agrowing' is irre
sistible," says Mrs. Jane S. Mc-
Kimmon, in charge of Home
Demonstration work for the Agri
cultural Extension Service.
She states that the woman who
is beginning to put on flesh will
not need the daily dozen or in
structions in getting thin to mu
sic if she will learn to operate a
Planet Jr.'plow and run it up and
down the rows of radishes and
peas to her own singing.
"It is that little garden behind
the house," she says, "that ena
bles the woman to get away from
indoor worries and brings her
close to tjie poet who said:
'A garden is a lovesome thing,
God wot,
Rose plot, fringed pool, fern grot,
The veriest school of peace
And yet the fool there is who says
that God is not;
Not God in gardens when the eve
is cool,
Nay but I have a sign
'Tis very sure God walks in mine.'
"The very practical gardener
in the country would have us
move our planting place from
time to time, using a few rows
in the corn field or the cotton
patch that the man may cultivate
when he is attending to the big
crops. This is fine if he is to do
all the work, but if the planting
and cultivating is to be done by
the woman, do let her garden be
90 near the home that only a step
or two will take her to it and a
casual glance from the window
will let her see the old familiar
plants calling to her. Rotate the
garden crop but if a woman is to
have it, don't rotate the garden
spot.
"Down in Anson county the
women in the home demonstra
tion clubs have what they call a
plant exchange. At the meetings
members will tell just what plants
they have in abundance and at
the proper time plants and seeds
are swapped. This means also
instructions by the good garden
er to the novice and reports of
results later. The home agent in
her car at times distributes from
neighbor to neighbor as she goes
along the road and memory gar
dens spring up everywhere. One
woman will show you Mrs.
Smith's lettuce in the hotbed, and
Mrs. Jones' roses climbing over
the porch, and another will tell
you of the strawberry bed which
she has named for the next door
neighbor."
The home agent in Polk county
recently reported to Mrs. McKim
mon: "We had a garden cam
paign in .this county and one hun
dred families were, represented,
pledging themselves to plant six
or more vegetables and exhibit
them at the community fairs.
Many vegetables were planted
that people had thought wt/uld
not thrive in the mountains."
Mrs. McKimmon says that dem
onstrations given later by this
agent in how to prepare arid
! serve these vegetables was a great
incentive to keep up the garden
work.
Give the old hen a little atten
j tion and she will repay you.
who were with us last week and
12 months ago, state that there is
a marked difference between the
interest shown now and at that
time. The creamery is planning
for about a «00% increase in the
next three months. All cream
routes report an increase in cream
collected this week as compared
to the week previous.
After auditing the books of the
creamery and studying the con
ditions over the county for a week
Mr. Arey stated before the Board
of Directors that, the creamery
was in much better shape than
any creamery of the same age or
ganized previous to this time. Mr.
Kimrey, also of the Ejpteniiion
Service, predicted that ia about
three years time the creamery
would be making over 200,000 lbs.
of butter per year.
\V. Kerr Scott, Co. Agt. j
OVERCOAT "ONE BEST BET'i
Surely No Other Ufalaaa Thing Can
B* Said to 8«rv« Man Mora
Faithfully.
When th« mercury placidly com
mences JU methodical, If Jerky, down
warjTTjrtii toward Its winter landing
tant that man of mod-
must prowl into the old
cedar chest or the anti-moth hanging
bag for that veteran of many storms —
the ancient overcoat
He Is a thing of many memories
and much abuse, this old overcoat He
has served as faithfully and long, and
his only reward, aside from a lingering
love and esteem, Is a summer vacation
spent In the attic, where It is probably
not less than 100 degrees during the
entire period.
But he drags himself out of his
cache with a somewhat bedraggled
sort of smile and promises to do the
best he can for another term, If we
will only send him to the shop for a
bit of pollßhtng.
"You certainly haven't the crust to
send me out on the streets looking Ilk;!
this!" we can Imagine him exclaiming,
"lUn a perfect sight!"
Good old Bennle-rthe one garment,
perhaps, that Is never thrown awuy!
When he becomes too dissolute and
disreputable even for us, we pass hlra
on to the Salvation army, or some good
distributing ngeney, and his service
continues. His pride is not consulted
In such transfer, poor old thing. Like
the crack Are horse of yore, who now
pulls a,garbage wagon or something,
Bennie may have to patronize "flop
houses" Instead of fancy cafes.
But he does It He sticks to his
master, whoever it muy be, until the
bitter end.
And what, by the way, really Is the
end of an overcoat? —Omaha World
> Herald.
WHERE ALL SPEED IS SAME
Fact In Nature That Would Beem to
Buggoct Common Source and
Fountain Head.
That !h the radlntf ray we have an
Indication of a new and mysterious
world of energy, we find what seems
an Impressive testimony In the law
of velocity governing these in common
with other recently discovered phenom
ena. "One definite thing we do know,'*
says Professor Roddy, writing of the
ether, ""namely, the velocity at which
Influences are transmitted. It la 185,-
000 miles per second, the speed of
light Bo far as we yet know, all In
fluences that are transmitted by the
ether travel at this one definite ve
locity. Not only light, but also the
electro-magnetic radiations employed
In wireless telegraphy, the magnetic
storms, as they are termed, which
reach us from the sun, and also as we
believe the X-rays, travel through the
ether at this one definite speed." That
speed is In all these cases the same la
suggestive of a common source and
fountain head, and one Is emboldened
in the supposition that behind and with
in the material system with which w«
are familiar la a subtle and Infinitely
marvelous world from which the uni
verse we know Is fed and sustained,
and which ufees the light—swift undu
lations of the ether-as the carrying
agent of Its varied influence*
A Magic Loan Office.
The tillage of Churt, on the Hamp
shire border, near Surrey, England,
where Mr. Lloyd Qeorge has recently
btailt his new home, Is the scene of a
quaint legend. The name of the vil
lage means a rough common overrun
with gorse, broom, and bracken, and
on the common are three curious coni
cal sandhills called "The Devil's
Jumps." The legend ran that if one
of the Inhabitant!* knocked on a great
stone on one of these hlllH and a.nked
for the loan of any utensil, he would
bo sure to 2nd the thing he
for waiting for him on reaching home.
Hut It was a necessnry condition of
the loan that lie must return whatever
he had borrowed. One day a neglect
ful Inhabitant borrowed a large kettle
and dll not return It, whereupon the
supernatural loan ofllce ceased to func
tion. In Frensham church, two mllea
awsy from Gliurt, the "Identical" cop
per kettle is exhibited.
Woman Candidate Wrote pO Novell
One of the most interesting of th*
woman candidates In the recent Brit
ish parliamentary elections wan An
nie 8. Swan, who stood for one of th«
Glasgow division*. Mrs. Burnett
Hmlth, whlcfc la the real name of thlt
popular novelist, la the daughter ot
a farmer. She began writing for the
papers at an early ago. Since th«
opening ot her career she has pro
duced mere than fifty novela, In addi
tion to Innumerable abort stories and
article*.—Exchange.
laerclse fer Parcarta.
The birds ran* exercise their bill*
tad wood fiber seems to be essential
to their digestive economy. Logs and
blocks of soft or of partially decayed
hardwood should l>e accessible to all
confined parrots.
NO. 1
.. V > # •:
NO NEED TO GO WEST;
GO TO COLLEGE.
More Money in Farming If Codeg*
Bred.
Stating that college trained
farmers make higher profits than
thfe less fortunate/ones, President
VV. M. Jardine, of the Kansas
■State Agricultural College receht*
ly made a plea for higher educa
tion in the rural districts. His
plea, supported by facts, is as fol
lows :
"An investigation of the income
°f,554 farmers in one county in
Missouri, made by the Missouri
College of Agriculture, showed
that the educated farmers' income
Was 7M% larger than that of the
untrained farmer. A survey of
635 farmers in seven counties of
Kansas, made by the Kansas State
Agricultural College, showed that
the trained farmer has a greater
income by nearly SI,OOO a year
than those of farmers with com
mon school education.
"The United States Depart
ment of Agriculture reports a sur
vey of three representative areas
in Indiana, Ilinois, and kn.-a. It
is shown that tenant farmers with—.
a college education received an
average labor income of $463
more a year than a man with a
high school education and $979
more a year than the men with
only a common school education.
"Cornell University reports th.it
men having more than a high
school education received $225
more a year than farmers with a
high school education and $529 a
year more than farmers with a
common school education. They
also report that 5% of the farm
ers with a district school educa
tion had labor incomes of more
than SI,OOO, and that 20% of the
farmers with a high school educa
tion had labor incomes of more
than SI,OOO. Thirty per cent of
the farmers with more than high
school education had labor in
comes of more than sr,ooo. A
high school education is worth as
much to the farmer as $6,000
worth of 5% bonds. A college
education is worth twice as
much."
In the world's audience hall, the
simple blade o( grass sits on the
same carpet with the sunbeams
and the stars of midnight.—Ta
gorc.
666 quickly relieves Colds
and LaGrippe, Constipation,
DlKousness and Headaches.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS*
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-at-Law.
GRAHAM, N. C.
♦ ► ~7, I r*T • \
Associated wltb Jehn J. Henderson.
Office aver National Bank or Alataanse
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURJ.INGTQN, N. C,
AuodiUd with W. S. Coulter,
No*. 7 and 8 First Nitioaal Bank Bldg.
S. C SPOON, Jr., M. a ,
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
Honrs: 'J to 3 and 7 10 9 pi ni., and
' by Abpdin'tndnt.
FnooeOT'™"
GRAHAM HARDEN, 1»L Q.
Burlington, N. C.
Ofllce Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.
and by appointment
Ofllce Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephone*: office I Hi—lte*ldence '264
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM. N. C.
•«'•»* -4. > «nM h.. .
OUlce over National Bank ot Alaataac*
x, s. coos:,
Atternay«t-La«e *
RAIJAH. N. 0
Offio* Patterson Building
B«obri
OR. WILL JUOMI, JR.
. . . OENTWT i J 1
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OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING