VOL. XLIX
Gov. Makes Corrections
As to Position on Who
Shall be His Successor
$10,667,500 Authorized
In State Bldg. Program
Reassessment up to County Commission
ers-—New Board for T B Sanato
rium—lncome Tax Collec
tions ta be Pressed,
(BY MAXWELL GORMAN.)
Raleigh, N. C., March 27, 1923.
—Governor Morrison having re
turned from Charlotte, where he
spent the past week at the bedside
of a sick nephew, business in the
executive office is functioning
again. lie has made a final cor
rection of misstatements in the
Greensboro News recently, both
editol-ially and in its Raleigh cor
respondence, concerning the Gov
ernor and alleged statements at
tributed to him and which the Gov
ernor declares he never uttered.
The newspaper readers of the
State are entitled to know the
truth, and so I am appending here
the statement of the Governor. It
shows how utterly untrue were the
"published rumors and "reports"
indulged in by two or three news
papers during the last two weeks.
The Governor said he had never
had any conversation'of that char
acter with anybody, and that there
must be some misunderstanding
on the part of the informant; that
he had made no such statement to
any member of the General Assem
bly, and if any member of }he Leg
islature so understood him there
was a mistake.
So far as the Parker tax amend
ment is concerned, Governor Mor
rison said he had never been very
partisan about it,, and that he
would certainly not select his can
didate for governor as a result of
that legislation, and that as far as
the governorship is concerned he
was quite certain he had had no
conversation threatening to fight or
favor any candidate on stecount of
that legislation.
Governor Morrisdn believes that
the folks who have been jubilant
ly awaiting income tpx figures to
show a tremenduous deficit with
reference to the sum of three and
one-half millions estimated by the
Budget Commission, will be sadly
disappointed when the Insurance
Commissioner announces the
amount collected by his office
through the two-per cent tax on
insurance premiums written in the
State. This item was left ont by
the Budget Commission says the
Governor and is not technically,
an income tax. However, so far
as revenue is concerned, it is in
cluded in the State,revenue, and
will, when* added to the $2,638,-
883.52 already collected by* R. A.
Doughton, amount to as much el
even more than the three and a
half million estimate of the Budget
Commission.
Drive on Tax Delinquents
Commissioner Doughton's drive
on delinquent State income tax
payers is getting under way, and
the Commissioner thinks it will
gain impetus each day. His de
partment has,"he says, all the in
formation which the Federal in
come department possesses, and
4 he field agents of his department
tvili get busy at once. He plans
to make every person who owes
the State income tax pay it, and
declares he will use every honest
means to see that such is done.
Start Up New Building Program
The Council of State has direct
tsu lull stturn ahead m the bu.iding
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
program authorized by the Gen
eral Assembly of 1923, involving
the expenditure of over ten and a
half millions of dollars.
At a meeting of the council,
following the Governor's return to
the office, Governor Morrison was
authorized to direct the boards of
directors of the various institu
tions charged with permanent im
provements, to proceed at the
earliest possible date with plans
"for the new work.
The motion to proceed with the
new buildings was made by W. N.
Everett, Secretary of State. The
various boards of directors we;-e
asked in the resolution as adopted
to notify Treasurer B. R. Lacy in
advance of their needs, in order
that financial arrangements may be
made.
The addition to the State's
building program authorized by
the 1923 General Assembly include
the expenditure of $10,667,500,
for whidh bond issues were provid
ed. Bonds will be sold by the
Treasurer as needed in the pro
motion of the program.
One of the legislative develop
ments that received no* public no
tice until the adjournment of the
session was a provision written in
tQfiie appropriations bill for per
manent improvements whereby the
Governor is empowered to remove
any officer or director of any in
stitution who may exceed or aid
in authorizing expenditures ex
ceeding the legislative appropria
tion for building.
Reassessment or Not is Up to
County Commissioners
On the first Monday of April,
which will be next Monday, the
boards of commissioners of the
various counties will have the op
tion of declaring that no reassess
ment of property is necessary or
of proceeding with arrangements
for the regular quadrennial as
sessment of real estate which was
advanced from 1924 to 1923 by the
last General Assembly, according
to letters of instruction «ow being
prepared by Revenue Commission
er Doughton.
Commissioner Doughton is go
ing ahead with the discharge of
the only duty he has in connec
tion with the assessment and col
lection of ad valorem taxes with
out regard to the temporary in
junction secured against him by
W. M. Person, of Franklin Coun
ty, who is seeking to have the rec
ent enaetmeht exempting stock in
foreign corporations from ad valo
rem taxation declared unconstitu
tional.
New Board Takes Charge of the
T B Sanatorium
Retention of the present man
agement of the North Carolina
Sanatorium for the treatment of
tuberculosis until the legislative
investigation has been concluded
was determined at the first meet
ing of the newly created board of
directors of the institution in the
office of Governor Morrison. The
board adjourned after a brief ses
sion to meet at the Sanatorium
April 4th, Attorneys representing
Dr. L. B. Mcßrayer, superintend
ent, in the investigation instituted
by the General Assembly, address
ed a communication to the new
board, declaring that 'Mcßrayer
was ready to get out or to con
tinue in his present position un
til such time as the board was
ready to choose his successor. No
formal action was taken other than
to advise Dr. Mcßrayer to remain
in eharge.
- GRAHAM, N.C .TaroBSDAT. MARCH 29 1923
ALAMANCE BULLETIN
Soon to Appear and to Contain
Much of Interest to Ala
mance People.
. By W. W. Stout
Chapel Hill, N. C., March 28.
The hundred page bulletin, Ala
mance County, Economic and Soc
ial, written this year by members
of the Alamance County Club of
the University of North Carolina,
is to go very soon into the hands
of the printer. This Bulletin is
expected to appear and to be dis
tributed in the County some time
during the early part of June.
Prepared under the general di
rection of the department of rural
sociology in the University, this
Bulletin will contain information
which should be of interest to every
citizen of the County. There will
be, among other items, careful com
pilations' of statistics showing
wherein Alamance County exeels,
wherein she holds her own in com
parison with other counties of the
state, and wherein she falls behind.
This data, which is presented in
attractive and readable form, can
aid civic pride in filling out de
ficiencies, because it will show the
way to turn from that which is
evil and hold fast to the enter
prises and methods whicli have
proved themselves to be good.
A more definite idea of the con
tents of the Bulletin may be had
from the following list of chap
ter headings: 1. A Brief History
of Alamtince; 2. Natural Re
sources; 3. The Song of Machin
ery; 4. Facts about the Folks; 5.
Wealth and Taxation; 6. The
Schools of Alamance; 7.Farm Con
ditions and Practices; 8. Home
Raised Food and the Local Mark
et Problems; 9. Alamance Today,
(a) Things to be Proud of, (b)
Our Problems and Their Solution.
The Editor-in-Chief of the Bul
letin is Miss Mabel Walker, of Gra
ham, a senior in the department of
education. She is assisted in the
work of administration by A.
Bradley, Jr., of Burlington, Presi
dent of the Club; and by a icorps
of associate editors. W. G. White
of- Mebane is business manager.
The expenses of publishing the
Bulletin is to come from the ad
vertisements of firms doing busi
ness in the County, for as suggest
ed above, it is planned to have a
large number of copies printed and
let them be distributed free under
the direction of the Chamber of
Comperce. To demand a price
might be to keep the Bulletin from
the hands of some who would oth
erwise receive from it some bene
fit.
" Various attempts have been made
in time past to issue a bulletin of
the County. One such very in
teresting piece of wort which ob
tained publication was the M. A.
thesis of Miss Sally Walker Stoek
ard, written in 1900 in the depart
ment of history and called A His
tory of Alamance County. It
should also be noted that the Club
planned to issue a bulletin last
year, and had a number of articles
written, but the project was delay
ed and finally stopped by difficul
ties chiefly financial. Some of the
material collected last year is be
ing revised and brought up to date
and is available for use this year.
Advertisements.for the Bulletin
will be solicited by representatives
of the Club next week during the
Easter holidays.
66,721 More Federal Employes
Than 9 Months Before the War
Comparison of the reductions
made in the number of civilian em
ployes of the Government during
twe years of the Harding adminis
tration with decrease in this per
sonnel effected during the last two
yearn of"the Wilson administra
tion shows that the latter were the
greater. This comparison reveals
also that the number of Federal
employees is still 06,721 above the
total on June 30, 1916, nine months
before the United Stat'-s entered
the World War.
♦he maximum number of Fed
eral employees was that reached on
November 11, 1918, when it was
917,760. Within tos than twenty
eight months, that is, on March 4,
1921, thlfi total had been reduced
by 310,966—equal to the popula
-1 tion of Indianapolis.
ALABAMA PAPER
COMMENDS NORTH STATE
Wantd Iti'Pcople to Follow Our
Lead in Cotton
■-'* Milling.
; •
' Montgomery Advertiser
"What is the process by which
North Carolina is enriching itself
so rapidly that its reeent history
is attracting widespred comment!
The Houston Post answers that
question by saying:
"A bate of cotton leaves us, and
we distribute among producer, gin
ner, country merchant, tax collec
tors, railroads, factors and com
pressors about $l3O.
"It comes back to us in products
for which we pay 1 from SSOO to
sfy,ooo. We lose the differene be
tween the $l3O and the sum we pay
for finished products to others who
do the work that could be done
right here at home by people who
have nothing to do."
\ Commenting upon the example
of North Carolina, the Birming
ham News says:
"This state offers to fcotton
mills the most attraction of any of
the Southern states in the, way of
natural resources. Cottoij must
now be ,hauled Ion" distances to
.supply Carolina mills; they use
far more than the state can grow.
Alabama cotton is going to Caro
lina to have that value between
$l3O and SS,O(X) added —and left
in Carolina as profit.
''Wo have a great surplus of
cotton and will have for many
years. It can be delivered at mill
platforms with no freight on it,
and the growers can be beneficiary
of a bettered price thereby. We
have abundant and well distributed
cheap hydro-power. We have a
fine class of native cHitenry to
work in these mills. One of the
main reasons Eastern mills want
to come southis to get away from
the foreign element as operatives.
They are bolshevistic, turbulent, ex
citable, and seem to prefer trouble
to peaceful work."
No Southern state is naturally
more inviting to cotton mill in
dustry than Alabama. •No other
Southern state has the waterpower
resources of Alabama
Cost of Living 11 Per Cent Higher
in Feb., 1923, Than in Feb., 192 a
It cost 11 per cent more to live
in February, 1923, than in the
same month a year ago, according
to the Bureau of Labrfr Statistics
of the Department of Labok Food,
drugs and medicines, and chemi
cals, and furnishings for the home
showed considerable gains, and
cloths and clothing increased 14 J4
per cent. Fuel and lighting were
11 per cent higher in February
this year than in February, 1922.
Metals and metal products'were
26'/ 4 per cent, and building ma
terials 23 per cent above the levels
they attained in February, 1922.
These are commodities on which
the Fordney-lioCumber profiteers'
tariff law imposed rather heavy
duties.
' Farmers have to buy cloths and.
clothing, which are up 14J4 P« r
cent; tools, wire, hardware, im
plements, and vehicles, which re
flect some 26J4 p«*i* cent of the new
tariff; drugs, chemicals, paints
and oils, which have risen all the
way from 5 to 20 per' cent, and
lumber, fence posts, shingles, and
furniture, which have jumped 23
per cent.
While the farmer is paying these
large increases for what he con
sumes; that is, for commodities
which take about two-thirds of his
outlay for his family and his farm,
the products which he has for sale
have increased in price only about
8 per cent.
Mnke the garden perform more
regularly by proper plantings.
Write for circulars 121, 122 and
123 whieh are free for the asking.
The Agricultural Extension Ser
vice at Raleigh will send them to
you.
Agricultural paper may rnn for
niue months according to section
M of the North Carolina Banking
Law. Farmers entitled to credit
might ask their bankers about this.
Nourisher of the community
spirit—the home town-newspaper.
TOBACCO GROWERS
BEGIN ELECTIONS
Association' Members to Meet
April 7th to Nominate Elec
tofttf Delegates.
Tobacco farmem from 127 coun
ties of the Carolinas and Virginia
will start the election machinery
next week, by which 22 directors
for the Tobacco Growers Co-op
erative Association are to b« elect
ed for the coming year.
Mass meetings in over 100 coun
ties, all the way from Virginia to
the Georgia line, will be h»ld Sat
urday, April 7, when the organized
growers will nominate the mem
bers of their association from
whom the delegates will be chosen
to elect the directors who are to
market the crops 6f 85,000 tobacoo
farmers for 1923.
From the hundreds of delegates
to be chosen next week the farmer
members of the co-operative as
sociation will later select by bal
lot those representatives from the
counties and districts who will
complete the final election of direc
tors. " J
Next week's mass meeting for
members of the Tobacco Growers
Co-operative Association in Ala
mance County will take place at
Graham.
Delegates from this county will
be noinihated at this meeting and
association members are to elect
one-half of these at the final elec
tion to be held on May 5.
Members of the tobacco co-opera
tives in the old belt will double
their money on all deliveries of
bright tobacco between January
first and April first as early next
month as accounts can bo calcu
lated and checks made out and
mailed to tho warehouses of the
association.
Hot List Paytnmt
Rumors that $2,000,000 to be
paid shortly, to l co-operative grow
ers in the old belt of North Caro
lina and Virginia will constitute
a final settlement, were emphatic
ally denied by Director. Patterson
Of the Leaf Department, in a tele
gram received at Raleigh head
quarters yesterday, in "which Mr.
Patterson- stated "This is not a
last and final payment, as there
will probably be at least two more
payments made after the payment
above stated." «,,!
Further information from of
ficials at Raleigh headquarters of
the association is to the effect that
co-operative growers of all three
States included in the marketing
association will receive further
cash disbursements as the remain
der of the co-operative tobacco is
sold.
LIME FACTS FOR
-> LIVESTOCK FEEDING
Raleigh, N. C., ' March 27.—1b
lime necessary in agriculture! If
it is, has it not been supplied by
the soil in the past and will it not
be furnished for some time to
comeT These are some thoughts
suggested by Dr. J. O. Halverson,
nutrition specialist for the North'
Carolina Experiment Station.
"As a background to questions
such as these," says Dr. Ilalver
son, "let us look at tho limestone
regions where farming is practiced
and at those regions which con
tain no limestone or at best con
tain very little lime in the soil.
Such' regions are the sandy tracts.
forms the background of
agricultural practice in the sense
that it forms the backbone of ani
mals. It is needed by both. Un
fortunately for farmers, lime is
washed out of the soil by heavy
rain falls. More is also removed
by harvesting the grasses and field
eropjj.
Stockmen living in a limestone
region bounded on one side by a
sandstone region have long ob
served the difference in quality of
stock. They have recognized the
'fact that regions abounding in
limestone maintain and support
good grasses and along with that,
goinl stock. Such * region occurs
in Sumpter County, Alabama. Dan
T. Gray, Director of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station at Au
burn, tells the story In a fascinat
ing manner, The northern part of
thil county is limestone; the south-
W» Wf i» sandstone. Whgn good
stock is wanted, the farmers go
to the northern part for it. No
one ever goes to the sandstone soil
for good stock. Perhaps the re
ference to lime as the backbone
of animals has more thruth than
poetry in it.
"Another such region as told
by Mr. Arbnclc, a teacher in chem
istry at Davidson College, occurs
in Greenbrier County, West Vir
ginia. Here the limestone region
is bounded on two sides by sand
stone. In this county there is not
only a difference in the character
of the stock but also in the grasses
and in the crops.
"Perhaps the most striking in
stance of the remarkable effect of
lime in agriculture is shown in the
Shenandoah Valley, .Virginia,
where for thirty miles or more
down the valley one passes lime
kiln after lime kiln. Here are
well built-up and well equipped
farms. Intensive farming is prac
ticed ; good grasses are grown ; and
last, but not least, good livestock
is found in abundance. Good
grasses are necessary for good
stock.
"In order to imitate nature
therefore, and provide conditions
resembling the above, we lime our
land, our cultivated fields and our
pasture grasses. This only par
tially replaces the depleted stores
of kiltie.
"Our heavy lime feeding plants,
the lepumes, such as alfalfa and the
clovers, need a good supply of lime.
It is well known that these legumes
do not thrive on lime-poor soils."
CAUGHT ON THE FLY
Chamee farrrrt the prudent
A good eM aga la often a bed one.
If* nee# or notfilng with the ftraffa
Caution BMf be carried to timidity.
What wen* Aeap may prove dean
Chatterbox** hold nothing bat nolee.
PMfhflm pye ao honest Income
Wlf* twa wtm faa oat Vtm tfctrt
' OtMAC* Hi • food t&lz* * year
" r *"
If yea wotM amend men, bagln with
liWilt
' BtotetjHlM »nd tnarxy Itato* few
fcrtorua.
' MaeH oMtandtneaa MMa ta A-steady
lwi»
/ •
twetwamteit. ptayw an tu* atarajra
awwered
i—MM la af Mceeaary «o an
M later.
Teatnal la the frnlt at aoMSlraeted
•Me^hy.
What caaath from AMI heart goee
•a the fcsaiT
Wmi are warth their face value to
■T atrM.
Aa enany fet froet, 10 enaray In the
»»aa to thaed.
Hie atrangth of any pfojwettlon lies
la Ita application.
Frlenda and enemlea are both twe
fol to a wlae mftn.
Pity for others I* a virtue; pity for
yoorsalf t* poor stuff.
Aa a role, the girl who JUte a young
man doea him a favor.
The bnay man wonders how the
loafer manarM to lira.
Onidfinit praise la the rooet deeplo
able form of ettaglnees.
Pol If en ewe Is InexpeastTe, bat lta
bnyln* power la great
I To the bnnko artist oae man's money
Is as food as another's.
If ywa have wronged another or
mraetf, amfee amends.
j A *et wt! rash In wfcer# a grafter
fr Mttafc* wWh a look-tn.
The wages ef Hn Is deatfi, bat there
! W fehrayt a wmti for the Jot).
The books that help yoa most are
Vboee that make yoa think.
And tfe* only way to Impress some
VWBiajH ts suppress them.
NO. 8
A better biscuit campaign "in
Polk County attracted bigger and
better crowds to the courthouse ;
than court itself. Perhaps thia
means for the future, fewer courts
and better homes, suggests the
home agent.
.
The Moore County News of Car.
thage is dividing money with agri>
cultural club members of that coun
ty for every new subscriber secured
by a regularly enrolled club mera>
ber up until May Ist.
of poultry, better
houses anfr proper feed rations fol
lowed the organization of a com.
munity poultry association ift
Cleveland County by County Agent
R. E. Lawrence.
666 quickly relieves Colds
and LaGrippe, Constipation
Biliousness and Headaches.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-atLaw,
GRAHAM. N. C.
Associated with John t. Henderson.
Office oTer XaUonal Bank of Alamance
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsdior-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Aaoctated with S. Coulter,
Noi. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg.
Sk C SPOON, Jr„ M. D.
Graham. N. C.
OSice over Ferrell Drag Co.
ifours: 2 to 3 aud ? to 'J p. ra., and
by appomiment.
 Phone fr7*
GRAHAM HARDEN.M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m.
and by appointraont
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephones: Office 44tt—Residence 384
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Altoncy.at4aw
■ GRAHAM. N. C.
MHM ever NSHM«I tadt *« HSSMM*
X. S. C ©SIC,
Attarnay-at- Lew"
9RAHAM, .... H. •
OBOfl Patterson BnlMlns
Seoond Yleor. . .
DR. WILL JR.
. : I DtwTirr : » i
Sreham, • - - - Nertk Carellaa
OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDINS
NOTICE OF SALE
Of $15,000 Town of Graham,
N. C., Water Works Bonds.
Sealed bids will be tec-nved by
the undersigned until 8 o'clock,
p. m., April 2, 1923, for $15,000
Water Works Bonds of the Town
of Graham, N. C., dated Novem
ber 15, 1922, maturing $3,000 au
uually November 15, 1953, to
1057, without option of prior pay.
meut, bearing interest at five per
centum per annum (M. and N 15),
both principal and interest paya
ble in New York City iu lawful
money. Denomination SI,OOO.
General obligations. Unlimited
tax. Approval of . legality by
Chester B. Masslich, Esq., New
Vork City.
Bids must be accompanied by
ensh or a certified check for S3OO,
drawu upon an incorporated bank
or trust compan) aud payable to
the order of the Town Treasure*
to secure the Town pgainst any
loss that may result froin a failure
of the bidder lo comply with the
terms of his bi J.
These bonds are the unissued
portion of $75,000 5 pr. ct. Water
Works Bonds issue'! tor the ac
quisition and improvement of a
municipal water works plant.
The 1 Hinds have beou printed and
aro ready for d livery. The right
is reserved to reject all bids.
BOARD OP COMMISSIONERS
" of Town of Graham,
By R G. FOSTER,
Clerk.