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VOL. XLIX OUR RALEIGH LETTER (By Maxwell Gorman) Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 13th. —If anybody thinks the adoption of Senator J. A. Brown's substitute for the original Morrison State water transportation measure (or "boat bill") has seriously impair ed tlic ultimate success of the Governor's plan to secure cheaper freight transportation for North Carolina people—he is in need of another think. In offering his substitute which as it passed the Senate and at this writing awaits probably favorable action in the Hou-c, Senator Brown had no plan or disposition to detect the objects of the meas ure. The difference of opinion w as mainly that the commission to be named by the Governor shall report its findings to the next .General. Assembly, instead of to the Council of Mate, and the rudimentary arrangements and expense being provided for, if that commission finds the venture ] k "sible arf 1 recommends the Gov i ernor's plan to the Legislature two years hence—nothing can j "Stop it. Fo/it will be cfecidedly stronger than it ever was, and all' w' o know of the Morrison "ten-! acity of purpose ' can well figure! out how the Governor at the close! of his gubernatorial term can take hold of this Great Purpose (that's j what it is) and .dot it safely into the port and tie it up at the pier of established fruition.! For one, I am looking for that terminal in the year of grace 1925,1 and with the practical functioning of the N. C. waterway transporta-) tion lines, the people will have greater cause than ever to realize) and appreciate the success of 1 Cameron Morrison to the people of the state and the state's best and developing interests. Too Many Pistols Being Mailed to This State A resolution memorializing Congress to exempt pistols from: the interstate commerce clause) and a bill to prohibit the delivery of these weapons by postmasters,) was adopted in the House. The tremendous traffic in fire- j arms is reported from all sides. > Incidental to the debate on the| Milliken bill, aimed at the Ku! Klux Klan, several days ago, it) was said on the floor that in Dur-i hari count)' the sheriff gave as his j opinion the statemnet that 2,000! of these weapons had been bought l byhjfcck men in that county. Rep-) resentative Warren, of Beaufort, declared that the postmaster of; Washington believes .that from 300 to 400 pistols were delivered by him last year. Nearly all of them went to negroes. Represen-j tative Everett of Durham county/" r"- -ting Sheriff Harward, seemed in |- >\e had no doubt that the ne j' ■ have been move Ito arm by '' growing dread of tire Ku K'» Whatever causes exist. 1 a. -f everywhere seem to a* ; e that thg/e. is a big business ? these wea -ins. • -deral questions grow out o» '' legis I ' , t ! nn. but Mr Warren 1 11 a ' - 'icr of the Supreme C .r; a: e Attorney-General 'h" r institutional-, iK of in- .i. He did Int expect it t , !■ 1t . ervthing. He doubted iijv;ig ar -olution r- .4- : >ui he tbousitt it would ['o-tiri " 'now these r, ■'•-kaire* w would ir ' uve a per- c t to Jill ! do sniic '■ •' . .au t'.e t»enal * . Alr ■ I S»ate Medical School • -.•* t'"' University of North Ca-olina rted to ask t'ui Geher-d Assembly to pryv'de f r K e- * • » with the University by the ap-| THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. I propriation of $350,000 building ► fund and $150,000 annual appro priation. Action of the trustees putting j the problem of a medical school f up to the Legislature, with no f | recommendation as -to its loca ; tion, followed hearings of propos als from representatives of Ral-i | eigh, Greensboro, Durham, and r J Charlotte. The Legislature now - has three course to select, it is ; pointed out: to refuse the request J for an appropriation for a medical ( I school and hospital; to make an J appropriation and provide a site; i or to make an appropriation and leave the site to the board of trus- II tees. Heavy Sentences, Four Years, I for Wake County Bootleggers Rut'us Davis, in whose defense 1 1 the most determined legal battle ■ of years has been fought out in ; Wake Superior Court, was declar , ed guilty of the charge of retail ing whisky and possession by a jury and immediately afterward was sentenced by Judge E. H. Cranmer to serve 42 months on , the Wake county roads. The de fendant's counsel gave notice of . an appeal and" appeal bond was fixed at $3,000. It was one of the heaviest sen j tences imposed on any violator of the prohibition law, and is re j garded as a clean victory for So- I licitor Evans in his warfare on I the bootleg oligarchy of Wake i county. While several other con | victions were secured by Solicitor j Evans, the case of Davis repre j sented by an extensive array of counsel, was regarded as the test j of the efficacy of Saturday night's ! dragnet that brought into court 1 on bench warrants issued by Judge Cranmer, 15 men charged j with liquor law violations. The sentence of Davis, charac | terized as one of the most im | potrant of the defendants brought j into court in the dragnet, follow ; ed the sentence of Doc Comman der, reputed negro head of the no i tortus Baldwin gang, to four | years on the roads. I "I'm satisfied that you have sold enough liquor to float a bat tleship," Judge Cranmer told the burly negro, who on trial stoical ly denied all knowledge of the sale of whisky to detectives who ■ gave evidence against him. A jury convicted him in one case and his counsel submitted in j another. The trial of Rufus Davis, well known farmer of House Creek ! Township, on three counts of sell- { ing, possession for purpose of sale, and receiving more than one ! quart in 15 days, started Thurs day morning after attorneys for) | defense? had put up a mighty ef j fort for continuance. Change State's Fiscal Year to Calendar Year Announcement by Senator L. | R. Varser, chairman of the. Senate 1 Finance Committee, that in all probability this session of the ; General Assembly will change the fiscal year for the State from July 1 to the calendar year, blocked favorable committee action on the i Parker resolution. Senator Par- Hver would require all state depart ments and institutions required to I make biennial reports to place) the same, together with copies of | their budget requests and thel dr'.a thereon, in the hands of r-1 mbers-elect of the General As sembly on or before November 1 20. preceding the convening of the; General Assembly. ? . . Senator Varser stated that he j annroved the purpose of the reso-; lution, but that he thought it , "-ould .be impracticable as writ-' ten, if the Proposed change be) adopted. The fiscal years extend-; ed >'rom D"~o ,'ier 1 to November 30. but wa c l unged by the last 1 General As.-emb'y on the recom-| mendation'of the Budget Com-| mission reporting to that body. This change has been assigned by rrr ny as the reason for the con fusion that has arisen as to the, state's financial condition and ac; accounting in part for the discrep-j ancv of $7,500,000 between the al leged deficit found by Corporation) Commissioner A. J. Maxwell andi he Prospective surplus claimed Hv »hf» Governor and the Budget Commission, t Senator Varser, who has be-i GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 15,1923 come the only member of the last Budget Commission now serving in the Legislature by the appoint ment of R. A. Doughton and W. N. Everett to administrative po sitions, stated that the Budget Commission unanimously approv ed the new change in the fiscal year, which may cause future confusion. He stated that income taxes and other revenues of State, except automobile licenses and the like, necessarily run by the calendar year, arid it was thought wise, to put the -whole State on that basis. The present fiscal year was adopted for the conven ience of educational institutions, which were thus allowed*Vo have their reports conform to their ses sions, according to SenatoiLVar-- ser. He stated, however, that the good to be derived by the whole State would more than offset the inconvenience to the institutions By making the fiscal year conform to the calendar year. On this statement of the chair man/ the committee withheld ac tion on the bill, pending the final drafting of the appropriation bill,, which will fix the fiscal year. North Carolina Sunday School Association. \V inston-Salem is to be the host of the 1923 session of the North Carolina State Sunday School Convention, Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday, April 10, 11 and 12. From the office of the State Sunday School Association in Ra leigh comes the information that the Sunday school workers in Winston-Salem are already busy W'ith plans for entertaining the convention. It is expected that this will be one of the most not able conventions in the history of the State Association work. The General Committee on Ar rangements, appointed by Win ston-Salem Sunday School work ers to look after the details of ar rangements for the convention, consists of the following promi nent Christian business men of that city: Chas. MI Norfleet, Gen-j e'ral Chairman; E. F. Barber, Vice Chairman; E. B. Kearns, Chair man Entertainment Committee ; W. B. Carlton, Chairman Regis rtation and Home Assignment Committee; C. T. Leinbach, Chairman Finance (Committee; H. W. Spaugh, Chairman Hall Com mittee ; H. R. Dwire, Chairman Local Publicity Committee; Rev. Douglas L. Rights, Chairman Mu sic Commitee; Ray Johnson, Chairman Automobile Commit tee; S. A. Matthews, Chairman Parade Committee. At the first meeting of the Gen eral Committee a few days ago it was unanimously voted by the committee to entertain all dele gates to the convention free on the Harvard plan. This means that the Sunday school and church people of "Winston-Salem will open their homes and fur nish lodging and breakfast with out cost to the delegates. On the program for the conven tion will be several of the na tion's most outstanding Sunday school specialists. Among them will be Dr. Marion Lawrance, Consulting General Secretary of the International Council of Re ligiriUs Education, who is known as "the Prince of Sunday school workers." Dr Lawrance recent ly made a visit to North Carolina and helped in Sunday School In stitutes in Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem. Other speakers of national repu tation will be announced in a few days, according to a statement from the chairman of the Program Committee. In addition to the out-of-state specialists, many of the best Sun dav school workers of the state will appear on the convention pro gram. God Almighty first planted a gn»"'en: and indeed it is the pur est of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirit of man.—Bacon. A local merchant in Pitt coun ty is running a 2400-egg incuba tor for a local stock company. Farmers can have their eggs hatched for three cents each, re ports VV. B. Pace, county agent. Eton College News C« r. of The Gleaner. Elon College, Feb. 12.-—The fourth number of the concert and lecture course being brought to the college by the Music Lovers Club will take place February 17. at 8 o'clock, at the Burlington graded school auditorium. In consequence of the facilities for public exercises at the college be ing destroyed by the recent fire, it was thought best to hold this concert at Burlington. The con cert will be given by the Tollef sen Trio, with Carl Tollefsen, vio linst; Paul Keefer, 'cellist, an 3* Augusta Schnabel-Tollefsen, pi anist. ' "no chamber music organization in America can boast so long and so honorable a career as the Tol lefsen Trio. All three have won acclaim as individual artists, but it is really because of their skill in ensemble playing that their reputation has grown. The course of the Tollefsen his tory has been that of steady growth. From a modest begin ning of concerts given in their home city, Brooklyn, where both Mr. and Mrs. Tollefsen were well known teachers erf music, they have gradually widened the scope of their activities and from year to year enlarged the field of their concert giving. It is an acknowl edged fact that no organization has enjoyed the number of re engagements that has marked the course of Tollefsen history. Carl H. Tollefsen, the head of the organization, is an American, though he was born in England. His teachers were Leopold Lich tenberg and Frank Kneisel. He has traveled extensively in Amer ica and Canada as a virtuoso, be sides being concertmaster of the? New York Scandinavian Orches tra. Augusta Schnabel-Tollefsen, pi anist, is from Idaho, but warfpak en at the age of five to Europe for musical study. There as a wonder-child she made many con cert tours and repeatedly played under the of nobility of various lands. She made her debut in Amer ica on November 25, 1906, play ing the Saint-Saens concerts in D minor with the New York Sym phony Orchestra, Walter Dam rosch, conducting. She has fre quently played with the Kneisel quartet. Paul Keefer is a recognized master of the 'cello, and his long years of study with the greatest teachers are reflected in his splen did artistry. Their repertory in cludes classical and modern com positions of the most varied kind. This concert be given in the Burlington Graded School auditorium, and is included in the season tickets sold for this series. Tobacco Cooperative Checks for Third Payment. Third payment checks for more than 12,500 members of the To bacco Growers Co-operative As sociation living in the South Car olina belt are to be distributed by the association beginning Satur day, February 17. This third pay ment by the big co-operative as sociation brings total receipts by its members in South Carolina and the border North Carolina counties far beyond their average for the previous season, while of ficials announce that a fourth pay ment will be made when all of the tobacco from this belt has been sold. Record-breaking meetings were held last Week by the Palmetto growers at which Governor Mc- Cleod, United States Senator E. D. Smith, and President Geo. A. Norwood, of the Tobacco Asso ciation, told members that they had made the prices this season through their organization. Senator Smith, one of the foun ders and organizers of the farm bloc at Washington, said: "Stick by your contracts. When the anti-co-operatives offer a few cents more a pound to break your pledge to your neighbors, think of what the speculator has done to you before. Think what they will do to you if they can kill your co-operative society? Above all don't be lured- away by the Arlington Station to Broadcast Mar ket News. Beginning February 15, agricul tural market reports l will be broadcast daily from the-new Ar lington radiophone broadcasting station, NAA, it is announced. The reports will be sent out hour ly on a wave length of 710 meters and will cover the markets for livestock, fruits, vegetables, hay, feeds, and dairy products. The assured range of the Ar lington station is approximately 300 miles in all directions from Washington, bounded by Boston 'and Albany on the north, Colum bus and Cincinnati on the west, and Atlanta, Ga., on the south. The states included within this area are Massachusetts, southern New York, Rhode Island, Con necticut, Pennsylvania, New Jer sey, Delaware, Maryland, most of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Caro lina. Under favorable conditions the station may be heard at great er distances. The reports will be prepared in the Market News Division of the Bureau of Agricultural Econom ics, United Stated Department of Agriculture, special efforts being made to meet the particular mar ket news needs of the agricultural communities to be served. Broadcasting will be done di rectly from the office of the Radio Market News Service in the De partment of Agriculture by what is known as "remote control," through the Arlington broadcast ing station. A telephone line in the department connects directly with the transmitting equipment at Arlington so that the voice of the reader in the Radio Market News office will be heard in the entire area covered by the broad casting station. The new arrangement super sedes the broadcasting of market news by Post-Office Department Air Mail Station WWX at Wash ington, D. C., at the direction of the Interdepartment Advisory Committee on Radio Telephone Broadcasting. All government broadcasting of market news is to be handled hereafter by the Ar lington Station at Washington. Outside Washington, the high powered radio telegraphic service for Government broadcasting is to be handled by Navy and market report broadcasting programs of Post-Office Depart ment stations at Omaha and North Platte, Nebraska> Rock Springs, Wyo., and Elko and Re no., Nev., will therebore be discon tinued March 1, it'is 1 also an nounced. A schedule of the Arlington broadcasts of market reports fol lows: 9:45 a. m. ■ Live Stock reports ; receipts at markets, tone of open ing. 10:05 *• ml Weather Bureau re port. 10:25 a. m. Fruit and Vegetable Shipping Report. 12:25 P- m - Live Stock market reports. 1:45 p., m. Reports from fruit and vegetable markets. 3:25 p. m. Complete Live Stock market comment. 3:45 p. m. Weather Bureau re port. 4:05 p. m. daily except Satur day, 4:25 p. m. Saturday—Crop report and special items, 5:05 p. m.—Daily market re port. 10:05 P- m - —Weather Bureau report. Good jmusic helps to make a good Ihome. • Let the pigs do their own work by putting them on pasture. Now is a good time to get ready to prepare some of that pasture. bait offered you by the speculat ive markets." Many members of the ative association at Danville and a number or the old belt markets state that average* of the first two payments of the association exceed the averages paid by the auction markets last season. At Danville, Burlington, Apex, and other points second payments havfc netted the organized grow ers from 19 to 22 cents a pound to date. The Best Varieties of Soybeans. Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 13. —The most important points to consider in selecting a variety of soybeans are the purpose for which the crop is grown and the locality in which it is to be grown, states P. H. Kime, assistant agronomist in crop improvement for the North Carolina Experiment Station. One variety might be best for grain production and hog pasture, while another variety would be better for hay or soil improvement, he says. The late beans do well in Eastern North Carolina but will not mature in the mountain sec tion ; therefore it is necessary here to plant earlier beans for seed. For seed Mr. Kime finds that the Mammoth Yellow is the most generally grown variety. This is because it is a heavy yielder, grows upright and is easily har vested. Next to the Mammoth, he says that the Haberlandt and Virginia are perhaps the best va rieties to grow for Seed. They are about ten days to two weeks ear lier than the Mammoth Yellow. I hey yield well and the seed are usually in demand. The Virginia, does not shatter quite to badly as] the Mammoth or Haberlandt. For a very early bean the Black Eye brow is very good, though not a heavy yielder. For hay, Mr. Kime states that the Virginia is perhaps the best variety to grow, as it produces an excellent quality of hay. The stems are small and less woody than most of the other varieties, and because of this it is more eas ily cured than other varieties. It will produce one and one-half to two tons of hay per acre under ordinary conditions. The Tar Heel Black and Mammoth Yel low will make a little heavier yields but the hay is course and not of as good quality. For pasturage he reports that the best varieties are I to-San Or Black Eyebrow for very early pasture, followed by Haberlandt as a medium early pasture crop and Mammoth for late pasture. If soybeans are planted for soil improvement, Mr. Kime states that the one which will produce the most organic matter for turn ing under is the best. For this section of the country he recom mends the Mammoth Yellow. Mr. Kime believes that no other investment which soybeans will pay better returns than the buy ing of good seed, even if double the price of ordinary seed is paid for them. However, he advises farmers to get their seed from re liable dealers or farmers and not pay enormous prices for some new variety of which they know nothing, ft is better to get good seed of some variety already grown in a locality. The fire IOBS record for the coun try at large it* the heaviest in it« history with one exception, 1906, the year of the San Francisco c m flagration. The fires wore widely distributed as to class of risk «nd territory, the largest single loss being two coflngratlons In Decem ber, Astoria, Ore., $8,000,000, and New Bern, N. C., $2,000,000. The town of Wintervili ?,a college and manufacturing eenter in Pitt County, tops the Honor Roll rec ord witii l'Kj ppr e«nt in the "No Fire" clasw of 1922. Aud Wake Forest and Lauririhur?, with 11 o'lt of the twelve month*, without a single fire casually are worthy of emulation. Considering the size of the cities, Guilford County may well be proud of High Point and Greensboro; they figure so prom inently in the Honor Roll roster for l'J22, and of the fact that Greensboro had not a single fire duriug the year where the loss amounted to $5,000. During the year 1922 through direct Investigating made by Cora, missioners Wade and Deputy Commissioners Scott aud Jordan In conjunction with local fire officials, there were 25 convictions for arson, with corresponding sen tences to prison. The first farmer was the fiut man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.— Emerson. NO. 2 Ten Reasons for Supporting v Horn* Toffti'Pftjtor The Gleaner has recently re ceived from the Division of Pub lications of the Agricultural Ex tension Service the following ten reasons for supporting the home town paper as offered by the Val ley Enterprise of Nebraska. It is felt that the county newspapers of North Carolina are rendering a real service to the communitiea which they serve and that the readers of this paper may gain an idea as to some of the reasons why this claim is made, your at tention is invited to the follow ing: 1. Because when you were bom it was the home paper that intro duced you to the world. 2. When you grew up and grad uated the home paper gave you another write-up, -» 3. When later on you found your life companion and were hap pily married the home paper gave you and yours a nice notice. 4. When sickness and misfor tune invaded your home, the sad news was carried to your friends and neighbors by the home paper. 5. When you had been success ful in a bu-siness venture or had been promoted, it was the home paper that heralded your ability. 6. If you sold out'or moved to another location the home paper followed you with news of friend# and neighbors. 7. When some unscrupulous person tried to injure your char acter, it was the home paper that came to your aid. 8. Because the home paper boosts your town and its institu tions, its people, its schools, its churches, and helps to promote good fellowship in the commun ity. 9. Because the live merchants oiler money-saving bargains and proptect you from catch-penny mail order houses. TO. And last, when you are fin ally laid away, it is the home pa per that prints consoling news of your demise, and that extols your virtues so the hearts of those who mourn are made to feel thankful that the home paper stuck by you from the cradle to the grave. Wooden earring's, hand carved and painted and suspended by metal chains, are a recent novelty. 666 quickly relieves Colds and LaGrippe, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Atlorncy-at.Law, GRAHAM. N. C. Aiiocltted writ!) Jthn I, Henderson. ■ Office over National Bank ot Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER Attorney and Gxmxllor-at-Law/ BURLINGTON, N. C, Awodated wNh W. S. Coulter*' Not. 7 nod 8 Flfat National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Orabam, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. | Hours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to y p. in., and by appointment. | I'hone 97' GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. j Office iioura: 9 to 11a.m. and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones: Ofllee I HI —ltcstdence 204' JOHN J. HENDERSON Attornejr-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. NIIM ov«r National Bank ol AIBHBM j", s. cook:. Attorney - «t- L«* fiRAHAM. - - - - N. 0 Offloe Pattoreon Building B«cond Floor. . . OR. WILL S. LONG, JR. . . . Diwnrr 3 1 s - - - - North Carattaa OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING