North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XLIX Over Three Millions From Income Taxes A Gain Around Three Quarters of a Million Over Last Year—Corporations Pay Bulk No Split Between Morrison and McLean State's Building Progra Charitable Instituti Stae May Bi^ld (BY KAXWELL GORMAN.) Raleigh, N. C., March 20, 1923. —The total collections for the fiscal year 1922 as collected by the State Department' of Revenue, when completely tabulated, will show three millions of dollars ($3,000,- 000) of iicome taxes, and then some. This ijieans from a half million to three-quarters of a mil lion dollars more than was collect ed last year, the first year the new department functioned, when the total receipts were $2,414,000. Some large businesses have been granted thirty-day extensions and the exact amount of collections will not be known before 'April 15th. Of the more than two and a half million dollars already tab ulated, only one-fifth of the taxes have been paid by individual citi zens, about one-fourth by foreign corporations, and the balance by State domestic corporations. The last named"collections will foot up about one and a half million dol lars. Fairest Tax System Ever of All Individuals citizens of North Carolina will have paid all togeth er less than one-fourth of the total taxes. That is to say, less than three-quarters of a million dollars are collected from all the private citizens of the State. No married man who had an income last year not exceeding $2,000, plus S2OO exemption for each minor child or other person dependent upon him for support, paid any income tax, or any other STATE tax. No sin gle person whose income was not in excess of one thousand dollars, plus the exemptions noted above in the case of the married person, paid any income tax or any other STATE tax. The income tax system places the ? burden of taxation where it be longs. It takes it off the poor and places it upon the shoulders of those who make money and while they are making it. Hence, the corporations, domestic and foreign, are made to pay the bulk of State taxes. When we are reminded of the big dividends most of these corporations have been announcing the past few weeks all over the country, no one with common sense can fail to recognize the jus tice of this system of taxation. And yet there have been political demagogues here and there dispos ed to buck the system, in the hope of raising an "issue" to hoist their personal political aspirations. As well one might expect to lift himself by his own boot-straps. For, as Abe Lincoln immortalized the declaration, you can't fool the people all the time. And so, as the Legislature re fus"d to repeal the sl-00 personal I property exemption law or to re duce it to one hundred dollars, the! poor man can next year keep his skillet from the sheriff and the tenant farmer will continue to own a bull calf (if the locomotive does not get it) that will make glad John Smith's heart as it disports itself on the little grazing patch and bellows defiance at the tax gatherer. And all this without having hurt in the least the John D. Rockefellers or any of their investments. Fo/ which the peo ple of North Carolina will give credit where it belongs, which is to say—in the great heart of the THE ALAMANCE GLEANER im for Educational and ions to go Eorward. Concrete Plant. Democratic party,, the one endur ing and unchanging champion of the whole people and sympathizer of the under dog in the fight al ways. Morrison and McLean Two or three newspaper "out laws" having drawn their spring sprinkling pots on the public and disseminated a mythical "story" that Governor Morrison and Hon. A. Wilton McLean were disagreed on some subjects and therefore were no longer friendly. Gover nor Morrison has issued a state ment, not in denial of the corre spondence, but in response to in quiries from mutual friends who were surprised in reading the statement in two or three news papers. The Governor says: "The statement that there has been a break of a personal or political character between my friend, A. W. McLean, and myself is a pure fabrication, and myself is a pure no foundation for any such story. The relations between us are as they have been for many years." The Governor also states: "The publication in some papers that I am trying to bring my friend, W. N. Everett, or anybody else, out as a candidate for Governor is with out foundation. I am not and have not been engaged in the busi ness of trying to get out candidates for Governor." So, the well known friendship between Governor Morrison and Mr. McLean, persconally and polit ically and of many years standing, has not been interrupted. Political Liars With a "System" There are reputable and experi enced newspaper men, as well as prominent public men, in Raleigh, who know that there are a' few professional political liars connect ed with the newspaper profession in North Carolina. If the names of these reckless reporters and cor respondents should be presented to the public, as may become neces sary later on, many of you would recognize them as men who have , no political principles worth men tioning and absolutely no party ties. Not one of them cares a continental hoot whether the myth ical stories evolve in their pipe dreanuu/&«4 inflict on the readers ofr the particular newspa pers that allow their subscribers to be buncoed, injure the Demo cratic party or not. More than that they do not care whether the political lies they attempt to broadcast injure an individual. Even in this first spring bud they turned loose they were so transparent as to declare that the alleged Morrison-McLean "break" would "open up the way for the Republicans in the campaign" just ahead. Sensation mongers they are, first of all things, and if th&y an evolve a "sensational" trouble-breeder they have no thought or care of what propor tions the political lie may assume or grow into. The mildest pre ventative that can be prescribed | for the newspaper readers of the I State is to take everything of that | character emanating from such sources cum grano salis. And the chances are that they will find it necessary to equip themselves with a big bag of salt early in the cam paign, if they hope to meet the ' demands of the epidemic. The Governor went to Charlotte I to be with a sick nephew, and has j cancelled all engagements for this ? week. State May Operate Cement Plaat Confronted with a cement fam ine which, .it is stated, may ser ! iously handicap road construction 1 in the State during the next year, l GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 22, 1923 the State Highway Commission is now considering the establishment of a cement factory somewhere in western North Carolina. Commis sioners Hill, Cox and Hanes have been appointed members of a com mittee to investigate the advisabili ty of the establishment of shell a cement mill. It would cost, it is estimated, $250,000, but would eventually take care of the entire demand for road construction in the State. Building Program at State Institutions Early inauguration of the new building programs at the State's educational and charitable institu tions, authorized by the late Gen eral Assembly, was forecast when it became known that Governor Morrison will call Treasurer Lacy and the Council of State into con ference during the week to con sider directing the governing boards of the institutions to begin plans for construction work. Slightly less than ten million dollars was provided for the "broadening and extension" of the building programs at the col leges and asylums. The $6,700,000 provided by the 1921 session has been distributed to the institutions coming under the appropriation, and the building programs under this amount have been completed lor are nearing completioi Bonds to cover the full amount have all been sold during the pasi year. Further activity in get ling und er way new undertakings provided for by the late session was "evident in the issuance of calls by Gov ernor Morrison for meetings dur ing the week of the new and en larged Fisheries Commission, the State Ship and Water Transp r tation Commission, and the new board of directors of the Sana torium for the Treatment of Tu berculosis. Contracts Distributed Continuance of the building pro grams of the various institutions will bring forth another wholesale distribution of contracts for build ings and equipment. First, the plans must be prepared for the scheduled undertakings and then the trustees of the various institu tions will look to the awarding of contracts. The program of exten sion was launched at the institu tions within a few weeks after the first bond issue authorized by the 1921 session, and the administra tion purposes pushing ahead with the program made possible under the 1923 issues. Governor Moriison and Treasu rer Lacy feel that the bonds can be profitably disposed of as soon as the necessity for finances arises. The sale of bonds is not expected to be necessary for some time, however, as much preliminary work must be done before actual construction begins. The bond authorizations of the 1921 session made possible accom modations at the various colleges for all applicants for entrance, it was said. Further extension und er the new issues will prepare the institutions for greatly increasing their numbers during the coming two years. At that, it is expected the increase in* applications for admittance will equal or exceed the accommodation that will be provided from the new appropria tions. Charitable institutions were over crowded and had many applicants on the waiting list prior to the erection of new buildings made pos sible under the 1921 bond issues. To properly care for many who even now are set-king entrance, early erection of the additional buildings will be necesslaiy. n • LIME PAYS ON RED CLAY LOAM Excellent results have been se cured in a test made with ground limestone in a five-year crop rota tion on the red clay loam soils of the Piedmont Branch Station farm near Statesville reports E C. Blair, extension Agronomist for the State College and Depart ment of Agriculture. Mr. Blair has recently secured the results of a test conducted by W. F. Pate, Soil Agronomist for the Agricul tural Experiment Station. Mr. Pate applied two tons of gjound limestone per acre early in the spring during the first year of the rotation. The land was then planted to ] corn and the limed area produced j 43 bushels per acre while the un limed area produced only 35.5 bushels. This difference of 7.5 was not much for the first year. | The second year, the land was in I wheat. The limed area produced I 14.1 bushels while the unlimed pro-1 duced 11.4, a .difference .of wonly j 2.7 bushels. Not much effect shown yet,— but here is the third year, when ; red clover was on the land. Thei first crop was turned under and j this was the second crop to be cut I and used for hay. The limed area! produced 3104 pounds of hayj while the unlimed area pro- { 'duced only 829 pounds and most j of this was weeds. This is a dif-1 . ference of 2275 pounds of hay | from lime applied three years be-1 fore. The fourth year the limed area i •produced 1350 pounds of seed cot- j ton and the unlimed produced '1302 pounds and the fifth year, the I limed area produced 50.2 bushels of corir while the unlimed area produced only 38.6 bushels. This was an increase of lI.G bushels as' compared to the increase of 7.5 bushels secured the lir.-t year the lime was applied. Mr. Blair states th; ; this ex periment shows beyond all doubt j the beneficial effects to be secured from the proper use of lime es-! pecially in the growth of legumes and the resulting effect on the I crops that follow. LAFOLLETTE BLOC PLANS CONTROL OF NEXT CONGI ESS Before the Republicans can or-' gaaizc.fc'ithcr the House or the Sen- j ate in the Sixty-eighth Congress, it is evident that the reactionary I leaders will have to do business' with Senator Robert M. LaFolette,; of Wisconsin, whose followers in both Houses hold the balance of t control. Senator LaFollettc's lieu- j tenant in the House, John M. Xel- j son (Rep. Wis.), has succeeded in organizing a bloc of sixty progres- J sives or radicals, whichever one! may choose to c. ll them, and the j work of organizing a Senate bloc I of the same character is now in ' progress. Representative Nelson's com ments on his plan for the organiza-1 tion of the next House are enter taining and enlightening. "It is not our purpose to disrupt the,! party, but we do intend to put j progressive ideas to the front. • • * The balance of power in the I two Houses of Congress is in the j hands of progressives." Mr. Nelson then explains how ! he expects to put progressive J to the front, despite the large/ma-! jority of reactionaries in fetfe Re publican membership in thelT»use. j "We are not opposed to the Presi dent," he says. "We believe that, he will agree to our program."j There you have it plain. Theyj will not be opposed to the Presi-j dent because they believe that the President will agree to their pro gram. Mr. Nelson, it is needless j to say, is an optimist as well as; a progressive. What his bloc will j do if the President does not agree to its program he does not say, I but the records of the last Con gress warrant the assumption that j there will be opposition to the | President's policies, with more or j less disruption in th" party. This is made even plainer by Mr. Nelson in discussi::;.' tlie speak ership. 1 "Trieije will be no mic tion! of speaker until we have approved the committees," he says. "We, intend to give particular attention ; to the composition of the commit-; tees on Ways and Means, Inter- ( state Commerce, Rules and the! Steering Committee." In that "but" Mr. Nelson re veals his plan of procedure in case his bloc can not control the com-1 position of cornm "ees. "Many' Republicans," he tys, "particu larly the Progress! ves, may, how- j ever, vote for some other candi- j date for speaker." In substance; Mr. Nelson's bloc] will cause no trouble in the next House if it can have its own way ! and be in a position to control leg islation. This involves the corn- j plete surrender of the reactionary administration and the reaction- i CO-OPS. GRATIFIED BY DOUBLING CASH I Virginia Senate Passes Bill to Safeguard Contracts of Association. | The payment of a million and | a half dollars last Saturday by | the Tobacco Growers Co-operative J Association to its members in the dark-fired belt of Virginia and in ! Eastern North Carolina brought | satisfaction to thousands of grow ers in two states. The dark-fired growers of Vir ] ginia at all of the co-operative j markets have received more from I their first two advanves by the association than the price of aver- I age years would bring from their seasons' sales. Numbers of grow | ers in the co-operative'association j have now averaged around S2O j per hundred on their two pay ments and reports from several I points last Saturday stated that j new signers were coming into the | association, which Js certain to | make a third substantial disburse ment to its members in the dark ! belt. Among hiyli averages reported j'froi! deliveries of dark tobacco to I the a sociation were the receipts lof ( W. Parker & Bro., of New Cant hi, averaging $26.25 per hun dred in advances to date. \V. | Melton for $21.75, R. B. Hulgins ' fi>i- $21.40 and S. F. Fuqua fur an leverage of $32 per hundred on all 'deliveries to date. The llastern Carolina farmers j were imi h elated over Saturday's leash payment and a number of growers stated that they were out | of debt Tor the first time in years land were now in position to pay (•ash for their fertilizer. The mer ••li ints wh> have rently advertised 1111• ir deyre to help the marketing ! association in Eastern Carolina are enjoying a rusuLbusiness, ac cording to all reports, as the mem i hers of the association are said to be spending the money from the ilast disbursement freely. Co-operative farmers of Virginia I are much pleased by the passage in I the Virginia senate of the bill to j prevent the sale of tobacco con tracted to the co-operative associa ! tion upon auction warehouse floors, I which imposes a fine of from SIOO |to sf>oo upon warehousemen who I knowingly sell such tobacco. An other bill which passed the sen ate with a large majority requires I the sale of tobacco only in the I name of the true owner thereof, I also a record of all sales, gives per | mission to representatives of either j the eo-operative association or of j warehousemen to inspect the re- I cords of the other and provides ithat any violations of the bill shall j constitute a misdemeanor. The passage of these bills by the Vir i ginia house of delegates is confi dently predicted this week, and is i regarded as a very important step Iby officials of the marketing as- Isociation in the safeguarding of ! their contract. All of the co-operative ware houses will close for the season dur | ing the next six weeks and-officials j of the tobacco association are urg ! in-/ the members to complete de j liveries. The last bright markets jof the co-operative association in j Virginia and North Carolina will |(dose mi March 30th, according to the latest announcement of T. C. Watkins, Jr., Director of Ware i houses for the association. M rubers of the association in the dark fired district must com j plctf Micir deliveries before April 14th, when ev*ry (So-operative ware »us' for the receipt of tin dark !af closes for this year, while members in the sun-cured area of Virginia have until April |3oth to complete their deliveries, j »"*ordiiig to F. D. Williams, Man ij-ger of the association's dark leaf department. i ary leaders in Congress. There is a proverb that "The Old Guard Mies, but never surrenders." And yet there are persona who wonder why President Harding (locs hot call an extra session of | the Sixty-eighth* Congress, but | they should wonder no longer after | reading Mr. Nelson's statement of ;his plan. dUBSCaihB FOR THB GLfcANBB THE NEW NORTH STATE University News Letter Once it was the Old North State —a sweet memory, a pathetic la ment—the Rip Van Winkle state, asleep for two full centuries. Now it is the New North State— awake at last, wide awake—re freshed and renewed by her long sleep—vigorous, and aflame with the early morning visions of youth —boastful—blatant, if you please —chock-full of bla-bla and blurb, after the manner of a robust, two fisted male youngster in the pin feather state of development—con scious of his power and immodest ly boastful. North Carolina is actually begin ning to believe in herself and to boast of herself gracelessly, for all the world like Atlanta. Chicago the Atlanta of the West, was The Constitution headline when Cleve land reached the Windy City in his Swing Around the Circle in the days of his presidency. Atlanta has been the butt of many a merry jest. She's shame less in her boasting. Henry Grady began it and the very kids keep it up. It is the spirit of indesrue tible youth, and youth wins. At lanta proves it. California proves it. ( And in particular Los Ange les. Los Angeh bonds herself a hun dred dollars per inhabitant, spends thirty millions on a water-supply system, and twelve millions more on a man-made harbor twelve miles away. She stands right up and blows about it, pictures it in the magazines the world around, and she doubles her population and ijuadruples her wealth in a single decade. North Carolina multiplies her public school fund twenty times over in twenty years, spends forty two million dollars in two years on public school buildings, equip ments and support, one hundred and twenty-two millions of federal, state, and local money on public highways, and pays another one hundred and twenty-two millions of taxes into the federal treasury on incomes, profits, estates and the like in a single year. But sh-h-h! Nobody must men tion it! It's immodest to sav tr word about it! North Carolina begins—barely begins—to cash-in the immense assets that lie in her soils and seasons, forests and water-falls, mines and factories; and just as she begins, her fervor is chilled by the charge that she is immoderate and unabashed in her boasting. It was a Californian who said at Long Beach in 1921, North Car olina has California beat a mile, and doesn't know it. But North Carolina does know it in 1923 and she means to let the world know it.- It has taken her two centuries to develop gumption, grace, and grit enough to lay down the foun dations of a great commonwealth in public'education, public health, and public highways. And she has tlye courage of her convictions. She to>s not mean to hide her light a bushel measure but set it on a candlestick right out in the open for world to see. The people oiSsJorth Carolina know—at least they have been told often enough to know —that we are building good roads faster than any other state in the Union. Penn sylvania alone excepted; but also that four improved highways do not yet reach the total mileage of good'roads in Massachusetts, Con necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or California. And they know, too, that the twenty million dollars we arc spending on public schools this year i- four times the sum we were spending for this purpose" ten years ago; but also that we are still far behind the Middle West ern state in public school support. And that in legislative appropria tions for college culture, thirty five states make a better showing than North Carolina. The Uni versity News Letter exhibited the facts awnv back yonder in July, 1922. The state has not lost her sense of perspective. She is not swash bucklering. but she is doing great things of late and she's proud of them. She can display her wares, but she need not do it like Simple NO. 7 Simon of Mother Goose fame. Need not be provincial and parochial— which are polite terms for ignor ance of what is happening in the bif,' wide world beyond her borders. So here's to the New North State. The old-age son of Sarah the barren. The bottle-fed boy broupht up by Murphey and Morq head—schooled by Wiley, Molver, Noble, Alderman, Graham, Clax ton, Joyner, and Brooks—and lick ed into lustiness by Vance, Ay cock, Mickett, and Morrison! Who is now as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoicing as A strong man to run a race. May he forever be rich in purge hr spirit! Always abound ing in wealth and in willingnei» to devote it to the common weal and the commonwealth! 66G quickly relieves Coldi and LaGrippe, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. | ; 11 PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-at-Law, GRAHAM, N. C. Associated « Itli John t. Hendersoa. Office over .National Bank ut A lain*ore THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counse'.lor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W. S. Coulter, No*. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg. S* C. SPOON, Jr„ M. D> Graham, N. C. Oflice over Ferrell Drug Co. Flours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to y p. m., and by appoimment. Phone 'jT GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office llours: 9 to 11 a. m. ant! by appointment Oflice Over Acme Drug Co. Talt-phone,: Office IlUHenideuce see JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorncy.at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Olllcc aver National Baak ol ** ITT T. S. CO O IC, A tta may-at-Lao' GRAHAM, .... N. 0 OOce Pattaraon Bulldtnj Saoond Flaor. OR. WILIA LOJiG, JR. . : : PCNTIBT ; i i 3rahai*t, • • • - Narth Carallaa OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDINtt NOTICE OF SALE Of $15,000 Town of Graham, N.C., Water Works Bonds. n / Sealed bids will be received by the undersigned until 8 o'clock, p. m., April 2, 1923, for $15,000 Water Works Bonds of the Town of GraliHtn, N. C., dated Novem ber 15, 1022, maturing $3,000 an nually November 15, 1953, to 1057, without option of prior pay ment, bearing interest at five per centum per annum (M. and N 15), bot'i principal ami interest paya ble in New York City in lawful money. Denomination SI,OOO. General obligations. Unlimited lax. Approval ofi legality by Chester B. Masai ich, Esq., New York City. Bids must be accompanied by cash or a certified check for S3OO, drawn upon an incorporated bank or trust company and payable to the order of the Town Treasurer to secure the Town against any loss that may result from a failure of the bidder to comply with the terms of his bi 1. These bonds are the unissued portion of 875,000 5 pr. ct. Water Works Bonds issued tor the ac quisition and improvement of a municipal water worku plant. The bonds have been printed and are ready for delivery. The right is reserved to reject ail bids. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS of Town of Graham. By R. G. FORTKR, Clerk.