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VOL. XLIX Closing Days of Congress—Dark Outlook for Ship Subsidy. Special Correspondence. . Washington, Feb. *27. —In the closing days of Sixty-seventh Congress a very unusual specta cle was staged as a result of the . elections last November when the Republican administration tried to force through the Ship Subsidy bill, which had been repudiated by the voters, relying for its pass age upon the vote of "lame ducks" who had been likewise repudiated by the voters, and some of them for the very reason that they were for the Ship Subsidy. Ordinarily a filibuster-against legislation is indefensible, but at least two cases can be cited where a filibuster can be successfully de fended, and these two cases were cited by the veteran statesman and legislator, Senator John Sharp Williams: First, the case of the anti-lynching bill, which, as he said, "would have deprived the states of their very life, which is the police power; Second, of the Ship Subsidy bill, in which "an accidental and incidental tem porary majority in a legislative body tries to forestall the future and defeat the will of the major ity of the people as expressed at an election and as will be express ed by a majority of their recently for the Congress now to pass this elected representatives." As Senator Williams sees it, Ship Subsidy bill would be to overthrow the expressed will of the majority of the people, which as he says, "is treason to the spir it,of democracy." The situation in the Senate at this writing is this: The Demo trats and the Western Republican progressives are opposed to the bill; in addition a number of the 'reactionary Repupblican- Senators do not wish to see the bill come to a vote, because they do not want to vote for it, but will be compelled to do so through fear bf losing administrative favor and their patronage. Such majority as the President might be able to command is therefore a majority composed of "lame ducks" who have been repudiated by their con stituents, and reactionaries held together by what Grover Cleve land called "the cohesive power of public plunder." Without making any predic tions, it would seem at this writ ing as if the opponents of Ship Subsidy have outgeneraled the advocates of the bill. It has been several times displaced from the calendar, and there is still legisla tion which Republicans deem it ■necessary to pass which will be defeated if the Ship Subsidy is kept before the Senite. Those •who have filibustered so far have demonstrated that they can hold out. Among the regular Repub licans it seems to be a case of every man to save himself. With powerful enemies on one hand and insincere friends on the other, the fate of Ship Subsidy at this moment is as dark as the unopen ed chamber of Tutankhamen's tomb. CHEMICALS AND COTTON GOODS ADVANCE Investigations made by the Fair Tariff League, a protection ist organization, shows that the profiteers are taking full advan tage of the excessive rates which the Fordney-McCumber law im poses on all sorts of commodities. A comparative list of 75 chemi cals, compiled ten weeks after the enactment of the Fordney-Mc- Cumber bill, showed that all but one had undergone increases in price equaling or approximating the amount of tariff placed on them. Cotton sheeting and muslin ol well known and widely usee brands had advanced in price ir the same way. The sheeting was 22 V£ P er cent higher than it wai before the Fordney bill passed THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. SLANDER SUIT PREDICTED Senator Caraway Predicts Slander Suit Against President—Bureau of Engraving Appointees. (Washington Correspondence) No speech delivered in the U. 'S. Senate in recent years has cre ated such a genuine sensation as that made last week by Senator Caraway of Arkansas on the Bu reau of Engraving dismissal scan dal. It will be recalled that last March 28 officials of this Bureau, aged men and women who by faithful service had risen' from humble positions to be chiefs of , divisions, were summarily dis missed by an executive order sign ed by President Harding under!', circumstances which placed them ■; under suspicion of having com- . 'mitted serious offenses against ; the government/. Investigation proved them innocent of any , Wrong doing. The President has , refused to restore them to the po- ; 'sitions they occupied, but has re- 1 stored them to civil service status, which only means they can get a 1 job if they can find one, except 'Mr. Wilmeth, the Chief of the i Bureau. Several have been given jobs at much less pay than they 1 formerly received. 1 President Harding was recently ( quoted as saying that he had noj; regrets for what he had done, andj that the affair was a closed inci-p dent. 1 ' Concerning the removal of Mr.r Wilmeth, chief of the Bureau, and the appoirttment of a man named L. A. Hill, Senator Caraway said: "Mr. Wilmeth was removed, a man of high character, a Christian gentleman, and in his place was put a Mr. Hill, a man whose wife was then suing him for divorce. Among the other unmentionable charges against Mr. Hill, which have never been depied so far as I know and have subsequently sustained by proof, was that he has a daughter who is about grown, and he had the brutality to beat her in the face with his fist because she protested against 1 the life he was living and the in dignities he was heaping upon 1 her mother." Senator Caraway read from a requisition made by Hill for an automobile to be supplied by the government. It called for "One * * * four-door, six-passenger se dan ; equipped with cord tires, motormeter and bar cap,"—and listen —"smoking set, lady's van ity case." 1 "I pause to ask," continued Sen ator Caraway, "who the lady is who was to use the vanity case? Hill was separated from his wife; . she was not using the car with , him. He had beaten up his daugh , ter- as though she were a slave, , and she would n?t ride with him; . and yet he wanted his automobile . equipped with a lady's vanity : case." . .Discussing the removal of Mr. ; Ashworth, custodian of dies, rolls . and plates, who had been 30 years ! in the employ of the government, [ and who had received a letter of . commendation from the Treasury [ on the very day he was removed, 1 Senator Caraway said: [ "In his (Ashworth's) place was put a man named McCauley. Mc i Cauley's wife was then suing him! . for divorce on statutory grounds, j naming about half a dozen ladies —well, other folks —as corespond ents. Among the exhibits in this f case Mrs. McCauley filed with her; complaint was a letter that Mc- Cauley had written to 4 15 _ y ear " old girl here in the District, ask-] ; ing her to meet him on Pennsyl-j - vania Avenue at 4 o'clock, and' e that he would give her the money; - and direct her to a doctor. We i all know why she was to go to a 1 - doctor. That is the man who was; i, put in the place of Mr. Ashworth) - 'for the good of the service."' e Of another appointee in place -j of one of the discharged men, ti Senator Caraway said: J "As to Mr. Perry, the man who g comes from Brooklyn, * * * his n, " the muslin was I2 l /i per cent >f, higher, and men's sleeve linings d had increased about one-half, n! The rise in the cost of raw cot is ton represented about one-fifth of is these advances, the remainder be lling due to the tariff. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 1, 1923 wife had a divorce from him, I am,, informed. * * * Mr. Perry also had some other qualifications. He •had been dismissed from the ser vice because he was a bookmaker and had solicited gambling bets •from other employees.'' Referring to President Hard-| ing's interview in which it was said the President had no regrets! for what he had done, Senator 1 Caraway said: "The President said in his in terview which I have just read ( that he has no regret; that is, he is glad he struck down these peo-j pie's reputations; glad he made j them walk the streets and beg for, a place to earn an honest living;! glad that he made these women' with 30 years of faithful service 'creep back like whipped slaves 'and take any place that he would give them at half their previous salary. He is glad he drove Dr. | Beach into his grave with a brok en heart. He is glad the feelings of injustice are rankling within all these other men, because he thinks they can not reach him." I Senator Caraway then made this startling declaration : "The immunity against malic ious slander does not clothe the Executive. Wisely or otherwise,) the Constitution clothes us with the right to express opinions in debate in the Senate and in the House and not be required to an swer elsewhere, but such immun ity does not run with the Presi-' dent of these United States; and I feel certain, Mr. President, that what never happened before in the history of this country is go ing to hapen one of these discharged employes is go ing to sue the President of these United States for willful, malic ious defamation of character, and the President, like any other cit izen, is going to the bar of justice in the city of Washington and answer that charge. That is theij" last resort. They hoped that the- President would have regard for, their rights, and restore their rep-: utation he so ruthlessly destroy-, ed; but he says now: "I will not do it, and I am not sorry for what I did.'" ' There is no question that the Bureau of Engraving dismissal scandal has shocked the moral sensibilities of the nation, and has brought about a situation which, never before existed in the United States. HOGS HAVE CASH VALUE' FOR TENANT FARMER Hertford, N. C., Feb. 27.—Mil ton Dail, a tenant farmer in Per quimans county, is feeding 69 head of hogs in a demonstration put on by County Agent L. \\ . Anderson. According to the rec ords being k'ept by Mr. Dail, these hogs ate during the first 28 days of January 4,253 pounds of feed worth $86.88 at market prices. "Looks reckless, doesn't it.'" asks W. W. Shay, swine specialist for the State College and State De partment of Agriculture in report ing tljis demonstration. But he answers his question by adding that the hogs gained 1,970 pounds during the 28 days. At 10 cents per pound-this gain is worth $197, giving a clear profit on the ven ture and above feeding costs, of '5110.72. This is with the provis ion that the. hogs sell for 10 cents per pound during the latter part of March, and they usually do j that, according to record? kept I by Mr. Shay. j Mr. Shay states that by the lat ter part of March these hogs will 'be worth well over si,of)o, and , this gives an excellent weapon with which to argue with the fer tilizer or supply man. Cash in ! March is usually scarce on the av erage tenant farm in N'orth Caro lina but Mr. Dail seems to have ! found how to have it. Mr. Shay says: "Somehow we ; can't get away from the belief that ■ cash for fertilizer is even better than credit, no matter how easily 1 obtained. A great many farmers ' have not yet recovered from the effects of the ease with which : they got credit during 1919. • "What we especially like about hogs is the fact that with' proper -jmanagement one has two crops nper year March sales heb> out ■jon fertilizer, and sales during the Matter part of August not only ! REPRESENTATIVE PARKER EX-1 , PLAINS BILLS INTRODUCED. In the Greensboro paper I have ! seen it suggested that there is j some criticism of at least two bills' that I have introduced that affect) ' Alamance county.. One of these is the so-called! Carnival Bill. This bill was sent me by the Ministerial Association' 'of Alamance county with the re ' quest that I introduce it. It was drawn by a Burlington attorney) and was very well drawn. It pro hibits carnivals, unless they j 'should exhibit ifa connection with; | an Agricultural Fair and then be-l j fore the fair, there had to be ap-l plication made to the county com-] missioners and approval obtained of the county commissioners be-j fore they could exhibit at the fair.: | Notice of my having introduced i ■this bill was published not only in the state papers, but I wrote j the papers in Alamance about it.) 1 did not rush tbi> bill through,l |*but let it g> to committees, both in the.House and l the Senate, and! not one single person wrote me and-suggested any change or >1»- ( jected to the bill in any way. I | The other bill is about the! Courthouse: At the urgent so-, licitation of a resident of Hurling-j ton I wrote a provision into the, bill permitting the county com-} missioners either to remodel ..and! 'rebuild the p esent Courthouse or to build an entirely new Court-, house on eitlter the site of the, present Courthovse or on another. ! site within one block of the Court-j house Square in (iraharn. IliiSj party urged this because of the noise at the present Courthouse site. This will be a question to be determined by the county com-' missioners and the people can be) heard in regard to it. Personally, j I earnestly favor the remodeling| and rebuilding of the present) Courthouse, but, in addition to, the gentleman w ho wrote me and 'who is a citizen of* Burlington,! j quite a number ol others talked to me along this line and I thought they were entitled to have a hear ing before the commissioners. The bonds to be issued rfeed not be in the entire amount author ized. This is also a question with) the commissioners. Ihe bonds 'are to be isrued in serial brtnds, I and really, that plan amounts to | "practically the plan in the bill in jProduced by Dr. Lawrence, as ; ihey are paid off annually and 1 think this plan will enable us to "have the use of the new Court house a little sooner. The Court, j .! house Bill is really very little dif-J 'ferent from the bill, of Dr. Law-j ' rence, except in the provision j'that it permits the building of a I new Courthouse if the county , commissioners see fit and the pro ' vision in regard to the bond issue, j r l here seems to be a great mis- I understanding about the All-time j County Chairman Bill and his r ('powers. He has no powers in regard to the location of roads. J He is a purchasing agent, a ooun- Jty auditor and an officer to see J that all property is placed upon j the tax books. It is true he has J general supervision of county fin (iances, but this bill must be read ' in connection with the general f -law and particularly in connec : tion with the county highway bill - passed bv RepresentatKe Law t rence two years lie is sun j.t-ct to the county commissioners t in most that he does and th'-y | meet just a*, fri. |Ueiitly as they deem necessary and they have en I tire charge of locating roads and i of directing what roads shall be repaired and tcbnilt, but this all time Counts Chairman will have the general o\ rsight of tin- build ..ing. rebuild, lg and repairing. .[When the people understand it, they will approve 01 this bill as it i- exactly what they approved of ' when 1 spoke about it during the t campaign, r —" y bring the highest price of the year s but money come*- as handy at that e time as at any other. ' lr "Oh, yes! Some of the land i that was formerly in cotton will t have to be devoted to raising r corn. There should be at least s too bushels for each brood sow t kept, and 125 bushels is safer, as e she may raise more than 12 ,pi .s, y two litters of six each." This letter is not intended by ' way of a defense because I have simply carried out my campaign pledges, but it is by way of ex planation. I believe the best state-wide ' measure that has come up is the 1 exemption of foreign stocks from | taxation. If it is done, I think it j j will result in the lowering of taxes ] )in Alamance county within less 1 J than two years, as it will enable 1 the state to give us the six 1 ' months' school term provided in 1 J the State Constitution. It will, 1 | in my opinion, equalize the 1 tax : ; burdens in the various counties ; 1 which now range from 45c on the 1 I one hundred dollars in Forsyth to ; on the same one hundred ) dollars' worth of property in Cas- 1 I well county. Of course, this : | great difference is wrong and this j bill offers the only relief. 1 1 Because 1 think the people of 1 Alamance will be interested in j these matters, I am sending copy ! of this letter to the editors of the , I papers that circulate in the coun- ty. Very truly yours, 1 E. S. Parker, Jr. I'. S. J. will likely write no 1 I further letters during the Legis- ( II 1111 re, but when I reach home I ! shall ask you to publish letters ; I which I .shall write explaining the 1 ) new Revenue and Machinery Act > wind the new School Law. There | are a great many changes in these, 1 land changes that I believe the people of Alamance 1 ' LEARNING FROM CAROLINA (Ashcville Citizen) Many states have their eyes on North Carolina, and some of them | are rubbing their optical organs. I They behold a commonwealth a | few decades ago plodding along )in the mud, with antiquated j school and health systems, with I industry undeveloped, but now breaking into the front rank of I slates in all the activities that ! make for social and economic im- I pr »vement. South Carolinians are frankly impressed by what the Old North State is doing, so much so that the Editor of the Columbia State i* in Raleigh writing for his pa per two or three columns a day j under the title, Learning From North Carolina. In Wednesday's I issue Mr. Ball tells his readers ! how North Carolina is co-ordinat ing highway, school, and public ( health work by means of the trav eling hospital. This hospital is a truck equip ped with couches, medicines, and instrument's; a staff of doctors and nurses accompanies it. 'lhe county health nurse sends in rc , ports of the cases needing atten tion, ,with recommendations'as to the ability of the family to pay ' for medical attention »the treat , ment is free when conditions war j rant. Here is The State's picture Jof how the plan works: • "One motoring through North J. Carolina next summer may come . upon, by the roadside in the J woods, a hospital with white-cap ped nurses, internes, and all the 5 other attendants and accoutre- I merits. It may be a brick build- I ing of one story covering as much ground as the McMastcr School I in Columbia. In it will be 25 or 30 children, patients. Attached will be a kitchen in which the . usual hospital foods are prepared rind there will be a laboratory, . operating tables and perhaps roll ii g chairs. A fortnight later the 1! traveler returning may see no J signs of hospital; only an J school house cleaned and polish ed. The" hospital has moved on, with lu-aling for the next neigh , borhood. "The heavy hospital trucks 'j would never reach a schoolhouse fjOii the top of the hill aver a red I clay road. No little red brick ! school house could accommodate a hospital with 25 or beds." The State adds that, if this r schoolhouse hospital is in fane of t the undeveloped counties of the coast or mountains, Forsyth and II other rich counties gladly and 1 1 liberally contribute to its sup g port. This lesson of all units of ■t| government working together for v! the common good is one that The s St ite is seeking to teach South '. C arolina through its series of arti-1 I cles on North Carolina. This the HIGH RANK OF ALAMANCE TEACHERS 0 County Superintendent Terrell telle the following ahout Alamance teachers and schools: When we consider the large amount of- mon,ey that is being paid to the rural teachers of Ala mance county —about $82,000 in I round numbers —it is gratifying to know that we h; e, on the, whole, a splendid corps r ' teach ers ; not as well trained as they should be, many of them, but away above the state average. We have been keeping above the state average for several years in both the city and the rural schools, al though the state has been mak ing remarkable progress along this line in the past few years. In the school year 1919-20, taking the state as a whole, only 36 per cent of the, teachers held standard state certificates, or, as we are ac customed to saying, first grade certificates, while the same year 65 J/2 per cent of the white teach ers in the rural schools of Ala mance held standard state, certifi-» cates. and the per cent in the city schools was much higher. This year over 90 per cent of the white teachers in the rural schools hold standard state certificates— f) l /i per cent hold provisional state certificates, leaving only ]/ 2 of 1 per cent of second grade teach- 1 ers; just two second grade teach-j ers in the entire county, and only one of these receiving pay from the public school fund. Only) per cent of our colored teach ers hold second grade certificates. Taking the average for the state for 1921-22; we find that only 741 per cent of the teachers held state] certificates. No\V what is the significance of the various classes of Certificates and what have these certificates' to do with the salary schedule? | This is a question which a good many of the folks are asking. It is true, of course, that there are teachers with limited experi ence and training who are super ior teachbrs to some who have had excellent training and experience. This is not the rule, however. We naturally expect that the teacher who has the best education, train ing and experience will be the best teacher. The state salary schedule recognizes this fact. The lowest standard state cer tificate is the Elementary class B. Before one is to receive, this certificate one must show by' record or examination the equiva-i lent of a four year high school ed-i ucation, and in addition must spend at least six weeks in pro fessional study *at a summer school or take special training inj a college. The salary foi jne hold- j ing this class of -certificate begins at $65.00 and reaches $85.00, with four years of experience, provid ed special study has been kept up in the meantime. The kind of certificates range from the Ele mentary B to high school, gram mar grade, and primary certifi cate of class A—the highest cer tificate which any teacher may hold. There is a slight increase in sal ary for the different grades of cer tificates, dependings on the re quirements. The highest class certificate permits one without ex perience to draw sito per month. There is an increase for each year of experience until the maximum of $133 33 I' er month is reached after four years of experience. 1 11 order to receive the highest class of certificate one must be gradu ated from a standard A grade col lege, and have special training in educational methods and prob lems. It rjiay be seen from the above statement of facts that the increase in the amount spent for teachers' salaries is not simply in creasing the pay of the individual teachers, but is levying better ser vice for the boys and girls of the county. ■ Real happiness is ch»;ap enough, yet how dearly we pay, iqr its counterfeit. —Ballou. wisdom and vision of Tar Heels ;s every day being commended by disinterested observers from oth er states who come among us to learn the secret of our advance ment. NO. 4 Sewing Machines Cost $33,000,000 More. Read ia connection with tb« Singer Sewing Machine Company'! recent declaration of a stock divi dend of $30,000,000, toe facts re garding the exorbitant rates of ' duty on sewing machines and parts I thereof fixed by the Fordney-Mo- Cumber profiteers' law assutn* more than ordinary interest. The Fordney-McCumber law took sewing machines and parts from the free list and "protected" them so that every American woman who uses one will have to pa heavily for the privilege. Machines under $75 in value are subject to a duty of 15 per cent ad valorem, and those in excess of that value are dutiable at 30 per cent ad valorem. American sewing machines are sold in all parts of the world, in cluding the Oriental countries. I Even England can not compete with • th- . American makers, j Jiore than '25 per cent- of the production of 843,04!) 019 iu 1919 was exported. Although sewing machines were on the free list tliH' year the imports were only $L'25,541. The nu>y Republican tariff per mits the sewing machine trust to add sll,(K)o,Uuo to their domestic factory prices. This means at■ —- increase of $33,0X),000, by the f inie their qhtput gels into i hands of consumers. And the ! biggest manufacturer of the group | declares a dividend of $30,000,000! | Big Decrease in Postal Savings. j Futher decreases in the deposits of postal SHviugs banks are shown in. the latest report of the Post ! Office Department. There was a j decline of $070,000 during the month of January. The rise and fall of these deposits is generally I taken as a barometer of general | business. The latest figure* j would indicate that "normalcy" N ( lias not yet returned to the postal j savings banks. "Exchanged two carloads of cotton seed for guano and receiv ed about $4.50 per tone more than the farmers were offered locally," reports County Agent Johnston of Washington county. ill 83CFIBB FOB THE GLEANBR, ,666 quickly relieves Colds and LaGrippe, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM. N. C. Associated witti John J. Meudemon. Ollice over National Bank ot AiamaiiM THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and GSunsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Asaociatcd with ▼. S. Coulter, No*. 7 aad 8 First National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Ollice over Ferrell Drug Co. ' Hours: J2 to 3 and 7 toy p. in., and - by appointment. ! I Phone S>7" GRAHAM M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: U to 11 a. in. itud by appointment i Office Over Acme L)rug Co. * j Toley hunt's: Ollice 11U —Hettidence 204 JOHN J. HENDERSON r Attorney-at-Law I GRAHAM. N. C. 1 Olllcc over National Bank ol Alamaaea i r. s. c o ok:, Attarnay-at-La«*' i, GRAHAM, - • • • N. C S \ Ufflco Fatujrsoo UulldlDg Ki*or, • . s «liii. WlliiA UiW, JH. . : : DENTIST : i : !> l Sraham, .... North Carailna OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING V % SSSfE
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