VOL. XLIX
OUR RALEIGH LETTER
(BY MAXWELL GORMAN.)
Raleigh, N. C., February 20th.
—One more week after the pres
ent week will witness the close
of the present session of the Gen
eral Assembly, and probably
every legislator here will be glad
when it is over. There has been
some talk of an "extra session"
again, but most of it has been
newspaper talk, and we all know
by this time that the Raleigh
newspapers and Raleigh corres
pondents of State papers have de
veloped of late a very decided
proneness to talk too much. It is
by n6 means an. assured necessi
ty that the present Legislature
shall ever be called upon to as
semble again, and if-these "extra
sessions" can be avoided without
positive disadvantage to the well
being of the people, the State
should be saved the expense and
assessment of the- average "ex
try." .
As far as actually known or
believed by those in a position to
know best, it is not probable that
ihe report of the inquiry into the
exact status of the State's finan
ces by the expert accountants
now at work on the subject will
necessitate an extra session, even
if their work is not sufficiently
completed to dismiss anxiety by
the time the Legislature adjourns.
In the meantime, the Legislature j
will proceed with its financial!
legislation and appropriations fori
the institutions of the State along j
the lines mapped out already and;
in process of accomplishment j
when the recent dispute over the i
finances arose.
Among the measures claiming
action this week and next week I
are these to increase the number j
of Superior Court judges and to
change the compensation of solic
itors from the fees system to flat
salaries, the latter providing sal
aries of $4,000 minimum up to
Sj.l A.'O maximum, the latter to ap-!
ply where the solicitor has morel
than ninety days of court. If the (
latter bill is enacted, the present;
pay of solicitors will be cut, on j
the average, fully one-half in
some districts.
No Workers' Compensation Act !
At this writing it looks like the |
salary bill will go through, but;
that the judges' bill will fall by
the wayside.
There will be no legislation on I
the oft-mooted "workmen's com
pensation" proposition. The work- >
ers of the State are not united on j
the advisability of such legisla-1
tion, and the representatives of
labor appearing before the judic
iary committee last Saturday
raised serious objections to some
of the provisions of the bill pre-!
sent> d by Senator Parker of Ala-j
man.ee and Messrs, Liudsay War
ren and Moore of the House. Just'
as was the case two years ago,!
\.hen the contention ended with-'
out any definite action. It wasj
s lied at the committee hearing!
th tht Democr ic platform I
re i ..'ed the »irr.. unent 'of I
a workmen's compensation law,
which is true, but it did not rec-i
onmend the • of a measure
In' 1 would re
! .j' * i tl to their
e -, ; hind, 'here was
4 -esented by the
who
. ' r
which would be unsatisfactory
to seme textile mi.' ovners .vd
.-i,
iluU U\Jt ->«. JCCII luIIUUUUU. I.AC
declared that at every' session of |
the Legislature some interests,
understood to be largely textile,
have formulated and introduced a
so-called "workmen's compensa
tion" bill, without the approval
of the workers of the State as a
whole, and it has been found
necessary to put into the legisla
tive hopper a bill more nearly rep
resenting what the workers were
entitled to) and make a fight upon
the bill sponsored by certain cap
italistic interests, though by no
means representative of ALL the;
owners of cotton mills and other
industries. The workers would
prefer that no bill of this charac
ter be enacted than pass the bill
opposed by them. They prefer
existing conditions, placing their
reliance on the courts, as at pres
ent, rather than be debarred from
the courts and forced into the
condition the Parker-Warren bill
(and all the several other like
measures of recent years) would
consign them. Nothing short of
a law like that in successful ope
ration in Ohio, New York, New
Jersey (vvher • it was enacted last !
week) and other states, and plac-i'
ing the State behind its insurance '
feature, will suffice to guard andj
guarantee the workers that "com
pensation" which the very nature '
of the law is primarily designed!'
to effect. One of the loudest '
arguments advanced by advo
cates of the bill referred to has ]
been that "nearly all the other
states have, such a law." But :
they do not know that "the other
states" have laws like the one
they would enact in North Caro
lina. Quite the contrary.
The "state insurance" feature
of such laws regarded as so neces
i sary does mean that the states
! actually pay one dollar of "com- '
i pensation" or for the "protection
|of employees." If those interest- ;
J ed would take the trouble to in- '
| form themselves they could readi-|
ly learn the facts by asking for
j them of the chairman of the Ohio
Industrial Commission, who chief
j ly functions in the administration
of the law there. An address by '
| him to a bod) of workers in con- |
I vention was published in the i
j Union Herald the first week of |
the present session of the Legis
lature, and anyone reading it |
could secure a "working know
ledge" of how it is done there
and in other states, and to the '
entire satisfaction and approval
j of the employ'ng classes, who are
| today even stronger friends of the
system than the workers them
j selv-.s, and the-latter are entirely
j satisfied. North Carolina ought
to enact a measure modeled along
! the same lines. Organized labor
and all the workers would eager
ly embrace it. But there will be
I no opportunity for them to do so
I until many men who come here
"prejudiced" against organized
| labor and "labor unions" shall
dismiss their feelings in the mat
| ter and as sworn legislators do
! justice to a large group of our
! people whose interests should be
part of their concern and kindly
| helpfulness, rather than their un
' friendliness.
Finishing Touches
The finance and appropriations
j committees of the House arc
| working hard now drafting the
| revenue and appropriations bills.
These must "'art in the House.j
| Both are ex Ctr lto put in their i
appearance u's week. The ap
propriations biil will stick to the:
sum recommended by "Governor
I Morrison for the educational and!
(vharitn'ble institutions, it is con-j
! '"'denlly heist and the approp-j
iations for maintenance will fob!
| io\v c'osely the re >mmer.dations j
! f the Budget C emission. A'
• K.n i l !' n;o the development
1 o . -;te r possibilities in l
j a,.,- ,1 waters. Governor M>r '
i 's - -"posal, is thought cer-
V tn t, included.
=ubn itting to the ;
f 'utior *' amendments'
• redness ■
• j/ii it-LiiCll "1 tile!
I I sirk \g "and to be created before
thn session adjourns, will get in-1
1 " i >'• t*\-c
'' Ms "favor of
° -k''r, of
aiueuuuig the election)
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1923
j law so as to provide that aspir
| ants for public ot'ice shall be pro
moted by the signatures of fifty
or more voters putting him in
nomination as a candidate in the
primary (with certain exceptions
named) ought to be enacted. It
would eliminate some undesir
ables and open the way for bet
ter and more modest men to ac
cept public service.
The bill pro Ming for a ta>.
on bachelors w-"s chloroformed it.
the House and the companion
I piece to tax "old maids" (how
old not stated) fell overboard
and is said to have gone so deep
into the overflow that no sub
mariner can ever rescue it.
SOW GOOD CLOVER SEED
Raleigh, N. C., February 21. —
In a few weeks it will be time to
sow red clover. The value of the
crop will depend largely on the
kind of seed that arg sown sa ,r s
K. C. Blair, Extension Agronom
ist for the Agricultural Kxtens-
I ion Service. Mr. Blair states]
I that the importance of having
good seed of corn, wheat, cotton,
and several other crops is well
known, yet-he finds that some of
| the men who are alv. ays particu
lar to plant the best obtainable
seed of the above crops, will buy
I almost anything that is offered
! under the name of i\ed clover
seed. They do not realize that
it is just as important to have
good, pure seed fur red clover,
as for any other crop.
In some ways it is more im
portant he says. Certain obnox
ious weeds, such as dodder and
plantain, have seed of nearly the
same size as red clover, and these
are often found in red clover seed
offered for sale, sometimes as
manj' as 100,000 of them to the
pound. Sowing such seed is
equivalent to sowing the land to
weeds, says Mr. Blair. Once
j sown, thei'e is no way to get rid
of the weeds without destroying
the clover.
Mr. Blair states that" it is also
important to have seed that will
well. He finds that
some commercial seed tests *>nly
80 per cent germination. Five
bushels of such seed have no more
value than four and one-half
bushels of seed testing 90 per
cent, or four bushels testing 100
per cent. Seed that will not grow
are worthless, and if seed low in
germination are planted more
must be used to make up for the
worthless seed. Some small,
shrunken seed will germinate,
but will make a less vigorous
crop than good healthy seed
under like conditions.
"Home grown seed are morel
apt to be impure than any other,"
says Mr. Llair. 4! ley are more
likely to cOine iuiiu f-elds having
a la ge percentage of weeds. Only
| those fields practically free from
weeds should be used for seed
purposes. It is found also that
the ordinary clover huller" does
not clean the seed well. After
threshing, clover seed should be
rcclearied with a special cleaner,
to" L femove trash, light seeds and
as many weeds as possible. If
these precautions arc taken, good
quality seed may be produced at
home.
"In buying clover seed deal
only with reliable seed houses.
They will gladly send out samp
! les of seed they have to. sale
and the North Carolina Lepart-
I ment of Agriculture, at Raleigh,
j will test them free of charge.
1 Biy only the best .-ee'd 0:1 the
market. It is a temptation to
i practice ialSe economy and buy
j low priced seed. Good seed are
higher in price, but you pay no
I more per pound for the actual
viable clover seed in a good lot
I than you do in a p .or lot. The
main reasons that cheap clover
J seed are cheap are they contain
i weed seeds or trash, or that a
arge . ercentage ti the clover
j a -d will t'aii to germinate,
j "1 he best plan for farmers who
1. to so red clover this
> to g iinples of seed
aa\e them tested at once. If
j unsatisfactory the -seed should
jbe rejected. Good clover seed
I ".'ill test high in purity and ger
-1 .tiuii, ~"d the seeds will be
: at . plump, not small or
u-ken.'.'
1 aauocrioe tor THE GLEANER
Tobacco Co-op News of Interest.
The Tobacco Growers Co-op
erative Association gained new
members at practically all of its
markets in the South Carolina
belt last Saturday, February 17.
Thousands of farmers on that
day received a third cash pay
ment from their tid
many of them brought contracts
signed by new members to the
co-operative warehouses.
"Cash in hand and more to
come beats cash last fall and that
all gone" is the saying of the
South Carolina Co-ops, as they
till their pbeket books again and
prepare for the crop of 1923.
The third payment by the to
bacco co-operative to its South
Carolina members brings their
average receipts far ahead of their
last year's earnings from tobacco.
A comparison of the average re
ceived by members of the associ
ation on the large markets of the
old belt ab>o shows that the sec
ond payment by the association
to many of its Virginia and North
Carolina members has already
I'ought their receipts beyond the
total average payments of last
year on the open markets.
Members,of the co-operative
around Danville who have.already
averaged $20,40 from their lirst
two payments as compared to
last year's average of $19.57 on
the auction floors are rejoicing in
the assurance of farther
merits following last week's thiru
disbursement which began with
the South Carolina members of
llie association.
Oxford and Roxbostr-ar'e among
•he co-operative markets of
North Carolina which show a
decided gain to members of the
co-operative in the first year of
its operation. , At Oxford where
the tobacco farmers netted $16.80
in 19J1 the co-operative farmers
have received $17.30 from two
pigments alone, while at Rox
boro the payment of $22. (xj aver
aged i>y the co operatives stands
against last year's net of $15.42
to the unorganized farmer.
According to the recent report
of prices received for association
tobacco the average of the old
belt members „will compare very
favorably to the prices on the
open market, when the final pay
ments are ma^de.
Dairy Specialist to
Speak in AlamanceT/
Mr. H. C. Bates, dairy special
ist of the Southern Railway De
velopment Service,, is coming to
Alamance for the following dairy
meetings:
Eldermont, March 5, 7 :oo p. m.
Cross Roads (Patterson Tp.),
.March C, 2:000. m.
Friendship, jfikirch 6, 7:00 p. m.
Oakdale, '.Vrarch 7, 2:00 p. m.
Pleasant Hill, March 7, 7:00
p. m.
Oakwood, March 8, 2:00 p. m.
Isley, March H, 7:00 p. m.
Hebron, March 9, 2:XJ p. m.
Oaks, March 9, 2:00 p. m.
Mr. Bates is a very capable
man as well as a very interesting
speaker along dairy lines. The
farmers of the county arc cordial
y invited to hear Mr. Bates at
.jiie  ! these points.
W. Kerr .-icutt. County Agt.
i'\. enty eight hog feeding dem-1
onr.ira-tions with .348 hogs are be
ing, conducted by County Agent
'Duke:- of i'ob.r.-on bounty, lie
I will iiave lour co-operative car
lot shipments to make in March.
The people protested when
diimissioners in eight counties
wanted to discontinue home dem
onstration work and now all but
one have decided to support the
agents.
Farmers in 275 communities
I ■ -ugh! co-oper%tively 15,703 tons
fertilizer a co.-,t of $1,325,-
1 1 if.jf.fi, thereby saving $59,818.00,
according to reports from county
agents.
Farmers to the number of 3,629
were induce*! to secure and plant
178,83'" bujjjiels of improved seeds
last year by farm agents of the
extension service.
Ship Subsidy Bill on Side Track.
(Special Correspondence.)
Washington, February 20.
Ship subsidy, at this writing, is
on the side track, and the British
Debt Funding bill has the right
of way. This involved a sur
render on the part of President
Harding, who, when informed
that the Ship subsidy bill if kept
before the Senate would likely
defeat the Debt Funding bill, con
sented to the laying aside of his
pet measure; the measure, by the
way, upon which he had elected
to assert his party leadership in
matters of legislation. It is not
the President's first surrender,
and it will not be his first de
feat if the Ship Subsidy bill fails
to reach a vote, which seems like
ly-
Only two weeks more of the
present Congress remain s as this
is sent,out, and there are numer
ous natters to engage
li r of the Senate after thSNnwg
sagc ot the Debt Funding)
which recently passed the House
l>v a large majority after Repre
sentative Garrett ol Tennessee,
Democratic lloor leader, had made
an effective speech 111 its favor,
and was nequently applauded on
both sides 01' the House. Mr.
(iarrett in terse incisive sentences
scored the secrecy under which
the "administration had operated
and criticized the back door
jnethods and the rank partisan
ship in dealing with a non-politi
cal matter atlecting the whole
people, but was willing to pass
this by to settle a matter of such
magnitude.
VV ith the Debt Funding bill
out of the way, there will be much
jockeying for position in the
closing days of the Congress. To
many, experienced observes it
looks as if the Ship Subsidy bill
is already dead, but if the reac
tion tries, including the "lame
ducks," attempt to force its pas
sage in the closing days of the
session, it still remains certain
that.the progressive radicals will
filibuster if necessary to defeat it.
The closing day may witness a
pathetic spectacle—a sort of
travesty of Perry on Lake Erie
—of President Harding and Cask
et" sinking in each others arms
crying: "Boys, don't give up the
ship subsidy!"
Executive Order Con
cerning Bureau of Engraving;.
President Harding's executive
order restoring to cifil service
status the Bureau of Engraving
officials who were thrown into
the street by an executive order
last March and placed under sus
picion of having committed ser
ious offenses against the govern
ment until cleared by investigat
ing committees, is a confession
that the order of dismissal was
not justified. But the present
order will not satisfy the dis
charged officials nor the public
nor anybody, because it falls far
short of justice in that it does not
restore these faithful employees
to their former positions. . To put
these officials back in their form
er places is the first necessary
stei> to repair the wrong that has
ben done them, and even then
1 u.l justice will not have been
done; the final action necessary
is for President Harding to make
nn-iv/n the person or persons who
furnished him the false informa
tion upon which it i,-, alleged
these officials were dismissed. .
Senator Caraway (Dem. Ark.)
has pursued this matter from the
beginning with the zeal of a cru
sader, and at this writing hasla
1 (.-solution buried in a Republi
can Committee for a full investi
gation of the whole affair. It has
been due to his persistence that
any action has been taken accord
ing' to general belief here, and
there is no likelihood that the
matter will rest with the latest
order of the President in the
opinion of those who know the
junior Senator from Arkansas. In
Senator Caraway the dismissed
officials have a champion who will
never consent to compromising
a wrong and one who rnayvbe re
lied upon to prosecute a just cause
to the bitter end.
One eornen cI an etcnal triangle
usually get a ofl.
SUPERSTITION IN BACK SEAT
MM All Dreambook Lara
When Hia Beloved Thatch of
Hair Waa Threatened.
A friend of mine of the most
superstitious men. In fact, I think
he baa us fine a collection of dream
books as any man in the country, and
he is an authority on all things that
pertain to superstition, says a writer
In the Washington Star. He can tell
you, without an Instant's hesitation.
Just what the action of * Mack cat
might mean, what the of a
four-leaf clover, under cerfatu condi
tions, signifies; just how and when
a horoscope should be cast. But the
other night he came a cropper. After
a hard day's work he had tumbled Into
bed, only to have his rest disturbed
by a most distressing nightmare, the
salient feature of which was the pic
ture of his handsome suit of black and
gray hnlr having departed, leaving him
nearly a* bald as the front-row
patrons at tho old-tirae burlesque
shows. Did he get up In the morn- j
ing and consult one of the dream- ,
books that occupy a prominent place
In his.library? He did not. He hur
riedly dressed, bolted his breakfast
and UusheTl around to the comer drug
store and throe bottles of hair
tonic.
Order, Not Disorder.
May we not say, moreover, while so
many of i>ur have worked
rnflier \ts re«fflutlon iry men, that
nevertheless every jireat man, every
genuine tnan, is by the nature of him
u son of order, not of disorder? It
Is a tragic position for a true man to
work In revolutions. He seems an
anarchist, and Indeed a painful ele
ment of anarchy does encounter him
at every step— him to whose whole
soul anarchy la hostile, hateful. His
mission Is order; every man's ts. lie
Is here to make what was
chaotic, into a thing ruled, regular, ne
Is the missionary of order, Is not all
work of man la this world a making
of order? The carpenter finds rough
trees; shapes constrains them
into square fitness, into purpose and
usr We are all born enemies of
disorder; It Is tragical for us all to
bo concerned In Image breaking and'
down pulling; for the great man,
lucre a man than we, It Is doubly trag
ical. —Ojrlyle's "Heroes und Hero Wor
ship"
Mo Thunderstorms at Poles.
The world hus Its "blind spots" for
Ifcuader sad lightning, says a bulletin
•( the National Geographic aocltrfyT
The brilliant flash of lightning und
crackle and thunder would be as lm*
possible of conception by many Es
kimos as would "solid water" by
equatorial savages.
Ia general the frequency of thun
derstorms decreases as one goes north,
üBtU within the Arctic und Antarctic
circles they seldom occur.
Wtien Katmal volcano, on the Alas
kan peninsula, erupted In 1912,
■>n»e of the adult natives of
the vicinity were more terrified at the
lightning aod thunder that accotn
pufiied the d..*t clouds than at the
possibility of being burled by ash, be
cause they had nothing In their life
long experience by which to ludga the
blinding and deafening noh. >m the
•kiss.
Ostriches Worth Money.
Lsgend makes out the ostrich to be
• bird living wild In the desert ou a
lard and Indigestible fare of stones,
dut this Is not the bird that produces
the feathers which fashion demands.
Those fine plumes you see In hats
come from a bird well fed on stfea
title lines by farmers In South AI
rtcu. Feathers from the wild ostrich
of the Sudan rarely como Into the
market.
The fanner watches the ostrich as i
any other stock, dieting him and breed
ing him with thi: oliji-et of producing
butler and Ivtter feathers. A pair
of ostrlchei; —you count ostriches In
pairs—the cock and the hen —that
have got into the way of producing
really the bcs»l are worth about sj,OOOlj
Playing the Same.
Life Is like a game of whist. I dont
enjoy the game much, but I like to
p!sy my cards well and see what will
be the end of It.—George Ellet.
A Thought" for the Day.
"H>« chief tsmible Is that whtta a
fellow Is getting fat and healthy sa
hto vacation his bankroll tips and din
on him.—Arkansas Gazette.
Safety plrat.
■hskespesre did some fine mat lng
fer safety, when he made Richard tn
■ay: "To he thus is nathlng; hot te
M safely thns!'*
Made Fortune fer Inventar.
Thimbles flnt appeared In London
ahewt 200 years ago and made a far
taae far the Inventor.
I The Helping Hand,
jKM (to artist sketotrTng)—"l gat •
tkadoic IH loan you, mMar l" I
NO. 3 |
PLACE OF MANY MEMORIES
Plaza In tha City of Santa Fa, Ma»
Max I co, Haa Witnessed Hlo- ,
torlcal Scenei.
Tha hub of the city of Santa Wk
N. M., Is the plaza. Close to the ptasa
cluster many of the historled spots e#
Santa Fe; Indeed the plaza. Itself to
a chief one. On this bit of ground M
fa believed that Onate must bar*
camped hi 1605, when the capital wa*
transferred from San Gabriel. An#
here wag the seething center of tM
famous Pueblo's revolt of 1080, whaa
8,000 Infuriated Indians cooped the-ea»
tire Spanish population of Santa W»
within the governor's palace opposite
and kept them there for a week. Thea
the whites made a brave sortie, causM
ar.d hanged 50 Indians In the plasa
and escaped to old Mexico, their ertt
belnß celebrated shortly afterward !•
this same plaza by the Indians malty
»ng a bonfire of all Spanish archive*
and church belonging they could lay
bands on. TTere 13 years later cataa
T)e Vargas, the re-conqueror of Now
Mexico (bearing, It Is said, the »eiy
standard under which Onate had
marched In 'he original conquest),
and with bis oldlers knelt before tha
reinstated '•ross.
And It was In this plaza. In 1846,
durlflK the Mexican war,' that Q«n.
Stephen Wafts Kearny ran up tha
Stars and Stripes and tnnk possesion
of the territory In the name of the
Tnlted States. It was the plaza, too,
that formed the western terminus of
fha OM Snnta Fe trail —that famous
hlrhway of trade that bound New Mex
ico with Anglo-Saxondom throughout*
tha Mexican regime In the southwest,
and until the Iron horse and Pullman
ears superseded mules and Coneotoga
wagons. :;M
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Woitey's Good Qualities.
■Thomas Wolsey, better known as
Cardinal Wolsey, tried twice to he
Elected pope. He was the most power
ful man of his ffhie In England, next
to the king. He lived In a most volup
tuous manner. His train of servants
rivaled that of the king, and was com
posed of 'many persons of rank and
distinction. But while he dazxled tha
eyes or Inputted the people by an ar
ray of gorgeous furniture and equlp
spe, such as exceeded the royal estab
lishment Itself, he was a generous and
liberal pntron of literature, and la
"the midst of luxurious pleasures and
pompous revellngs, Tie was meditat
ing the advancement of science by a
munificent use of those riches which
he seemed to accumulate only for
' selflnh purposes. ,
North Carolina county agents
helped to install 114 wate*- sys
tems, 1355 lighting systems and
19 telephone systems last year.
666 quickly relieves Colds
anti LaGrippe, Constipation,
Bfuousness and Headaches.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
T
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-at. Law, "
GBAUAM, N. C. *
Associated with John J. Henderson.
Office o»«r NaUuiial Bauk of Atamans*
THOMAS D. COOPER*
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. Q
Associated with W.S. Coulter, .
Nos. 7 and 8 Fint National Bank Uldf.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. ».
traiiam, N. C.
Ollico ovei Ferrell Drug Co.
flours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to 'J p. in., itud
" ' appoim went.
Phoue I) 7'
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours: tt ty H a. m.
au l by appointment
(Mike Ovisr Acme L>iug Co.
Telephones: Olfice 1 to—Residence Hi I
J. HENDERSON
Attorueyat-Law
CRAHAM, N. C.
•Mice over Ndloaal Bokor*l(MaM
T. S. COOK,
Attorney-at- Laor
3RAHAM, - - r - N. 0 .
OBoe Patterson Building
/ S*coad Fleor. . .
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