North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XLIX FORDNfiY TARIFF LAW RESPONSIBLE FOR RISE IN SUGAR. President Called on to Reduce Tariff and Promises to do so if Shown Price Increased Thereby. (Special Correspondencce) Washington, April 3, I*J23. —The statement by Cordell Hull, Chair man, Democratic National Com mittee, issued on March 23 calling upon President Harding to direct the Tariff Commission to make a report so that he might reduce the existing sugar duties 50 per cent under the flexible clause of the Tariff law brought from President Harding such an order to the Tar iff Commission, including a prom ise that he would make such re duetio i if it was found that the Tariff was even partially respon sible fiir the abnormal prices which prevail. The President, however, 'took the occasion to state that it was hard to believe the tariff had anything to do with the increase in prices. This statement is at variance with the entire Republican tariff policy. The high tariff is imposed for the deliberate purpose Of in creasing prices, and in the case of sugar was imposed for the specific purpose of benefiting the beet sugar interest. A high-tariff opens the door to profiteering, so that prices are pyramided by jobbers, wholesalers and retailers before the highly taxed commodities reach the consumer. It is equally true that a further attempt was made by the adminis tration to increase the price of beet sugar in addition to the tariff rates. This took the form of an attempt to limit the size of the Cuban crop, at the suggestion of Senator Smoot, the spokesman for beet sugar in the Senate. In this sehetne the Department of Com merce was equally culpable with Senator Smoot. The New York World declares in this connection that "Secretary Hoover drugged his conscience long enough to en- , dorse the Smoot scheme." It is common knowledge that the stockjobbing in sugar which put the price up still higher fol lowed the issuance of the Depart ment of Commerce bulletin inter preted to mean that there was a crop shortage. As Chairman Hull pointed out in his original statement calling for a reduction in the sugar du ties, "There is no sounder law of economics than that in many in stances when prices are once arti fically boosted by high tariffs, the price increases do not stop with the amount of the tariff, but are jumped higher and higher from time to time, with the inevitable result that arbitrary price fixing, speculation, and profiteering be come rampant. Taking advantage of this tariff psychology, sugar profiteers and speculators have iieen for several weeks, as they are now, fleecing and robbing the American people at a present rate of near four million dollars per annum, or an amcfunt almost as i great as the total tariff revenue y ; eld to the Federal Treasury for an ei tire year." Tie Republican tariff policy is the underlying oau :3 of the pres- j ent high price of sugar and of" the jam in which that party now finds itself, and it will only incur furth-j er responsibility for the present profiteering in sugar if the Presi dent shall fail to reduce the sugar uuty 50 per cent as he is authorized to do oy law. A recent report from the Moores ville Co-operatiive Creamery shows that it distributed around $l5O, 000 to its farmer patrons last year. How much plant fond would a cot ton crop of this value have remov ed from that territory, asks the dairy farming workers of the ex tension Service. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. Irreconcilables May Force An other Harding Retreat. Preparations % for President Harding's more or less strategic retreat from his advocacy of this country's representation on the International Court of Justice seem to be foreshadowed in the news from Florida. Republican papers are admitting that leaders of the President's party fear the consequences his proposal may have for them, and are attempt ing to "dissuade him from press ing this matter when the next Congress meets." It is believed that this persuas ion and pressure from the eastern reactionaries and the irreconcil ables will prompt the President either to withdraw or greatly modi fy his first recommendation re garding American partnership in the International Court. Senators Moses, Brandegee, McLean and others in the East are said to l'ecl deep displeasure at the President's sudden and unaccountable conver sion from downright hostility to the League of Nations to open rec ognition of one of its , gene es. Those Senators will have t lie c n-l currencc of Senators Borah, Jo' 1- ' son, LaFollette, Norris and others in the West if they make an att .'k on the President's proposition. The President is now a candi- j date for renomination and reelec tion. He can not afford to alien- j ate any Republican Senators, East I Or West. Many of the Republi can Senators who are in opposition to Mr. Harding's first suggestion for American co-operation in the restoration and consolidation of peace and prosperity in Europe will remain in office for two or three years after November, 1924, no matter what happens to him at the next election. They will not greatly fear his reprisals between now and then. They apparently feel that if his mistakes must de feat some one the victim had bet ter be he than they. Reactionaries Seek Peace With Borah. The invitation extended by Sec retary Hughes to Senator Borah to discuss the administration's foreign policies is being read in connection with the reports from Florida. It begins to appear that President Harding is attempting either to get Borah's public ap proval of these policies or to keep him silent. Senator Borah intends to tour the country during the summer just about the time that the President is on his swing around the circle, and the expec tation was that if Mr. Harding dis cussed the International Court, Senator Borah would not remain wholly inarticulate. If Senator Borah were either satisfied or silent during the President's oratorical journey the latter would be saved much embarrassment. Republicans realize that Presi dent Harding must by all means avoid a row with the irreconcil ables in the Senate next year while he is in the midst of his activities in behalf of his second candidacy. They can not understand why he proposed American participation in the International Court when he did, L t many of them believe that now the menace which it holds for his own political fortunes are plain to him he will let the proposition linger and die in the qrm of the Senate Foreign Relations ( omri,. t - tee. The irreconeilables know that while Mr. Harding has never sho vn any particular genius for starting anything he is a "bear" at quit ting. Newspaper a Business Guide. The newspaper that carries a good line of advertisements is to the shopper what the time table is to the traveler and the published guide is to the tourist. Busy peo ple will study these advertisements in the home or in the office as they do a time table, and before they •tart out shopping they have de termined where they are going. The newcomer or visitor in the city finds the advertising columns of a newspaper a relaible guide U, follow, just as he finds the printed guide for tourists to points of in k-rest a matter of interest and time saving.—Ohio Nempoper. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 5,1923 HOW TO PLANT THE GARDEN. Raleigh, N.'C., April 3.—Now isThe time to plant the vegetable garden and while it is hardly nec essary to remind most people of this fact, still Frank E. McCall, garden specialist for the State College and Department of Agri culture, finds that it is necessary to urge gardeners to make their land periorm more regularly than in the past. He states that it is i possible to have some fresh vege tables direct from the garden every day in the year. This can be done by a careful planting for rotation of crops. Mr. McCall states that early or quick maturing vegetables like radish, early peas, beans, leaf let tuce, spinach, beet and early car rots niay be planted at regular two weeks intervals throughout the entire spring and on into the early summer. This will insure a continuous supply until midsum mer, at least. Right now, Mr. McCall states that plants of cabbage, cauliflow er, head lettuce and early celery jas well as the seeds of such lonr I season crops like parsnip, parsley, salsify and o lion may lie put out. In planting any of these garden crops, it ai ays pays to use the be-it varieties and to use only good j seed. j "He that planteth a tree is a ser vant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him." —Van Dyke. STILL TIME TO PLANT RED CLOVER How to Plant and Amount of Seed Required. Raleigh, N. C., April 3.—Most of the red clover in North Carolina is sown upon small grain in the spring, states E. C. Blair, Exteli sion Agronomist for the State Col lege and State Department of Agri culture. Mr. Blair points out that the advantages of soowing at this time are that the ground contains plenty of moisture, the seed will germinate quickly, and the dry weather of the fall, and winter freezes will be avoided. Clover sown in the spring must be put in enough to avoid severe freez ing, which will kill the plants when very young; and early enough to let them get a good hold in the soil before the hot, dry weather of sum mer. On an "average, between March 10 and April 10 is a safe date. Mr. Blair, states that it is just as important to sow clover seed in the right way as at the right time. He says, "The old way was to sow by hand when the ground was heaved up by a freeze, depending on the soil to cover the seed as it settled. Another way was to sow the seed and harrow or roll them in. Each of these methods requir ed about fifteen pounds of seed per acre. More recent experience, how ever, has shown that the grain drill will do better than either. The drill distributes the seed more evenly, and covers them bet ter, so that each one ha« a better chance to grow. Seven or eight pounds of seed per acre, sown with a grain drill may be depended on to give a betlter stand of clover than fifteen pound.s sown by hand. Clover seed are always high in price and t s difference is well A'orth saving. ! A clover seeder may be at tached to the drill at a small wist. The best type runs the seed into the grain spouts, others drop the seed in front of the discs. Some fertilizer should always be drilled in with clover seed, for this given a better stand and a rtiore vigorous growth. Good results may be ob-l tained by mixing the seed with fertilizer and distributing both to-, gether through the drilL" Digging in the dirt pays in health and perhaps in money when 'he dirt is in the home vegetable garden. Let the Agricultural Ex tension Service at K«l;igh send you a free gardening bulletin. Cir culars 121, 122 and 123 are all good. THOUSANDS JOIN WITH CO-OPERATrVE SUCCESS Majority Virginia Crop to Pool. Fifty Years Tobacco Averaged Less Than Ten Cents Net To Grower. Hundreds of tobacco farmers joining the Tobacco Growers Co operative Association month by month have brought its total mem bership in the Carolinas and Vir ginia to well over 88,000 accord ing to this week's count of con tracts now on file at the associa tion's Raleigh headquarters. Tobacco growers are now joining the big co-operative at the rate of more than a hundred a week, over fifty from Surry County alone, having signed the five year con tract last week. Richard R. Patterson this week called attention to the 88.000 mem bers of the association whose leaf sales he directs, to the fact that the present crop of Virginia-Caro lina bright tobacco alone will be approximately 75,000/0 pounds ! rger than that of last y ar. Ac irding to the Tri Stat • T>' icco tirower in which Director Peter son's article appears, the market ing association has already receiv ed a large majority of the dark fired Virginia tobacco crop and is expected to market a majority of both the bright and dark obaccos of the present Virginia crop. Association receipts in the dark fired area will be about 27,000,000 pounds and the auction sales about 21,000,000 pounds in the dark fired area, according to recent estimates. The association according to its of ficials has sold about 75 per cent of its dark tobaccos in green order, advancing cash payments which already far exceed the prices paid the growers in average years. Between the Civil War a period of fifty years Virginia tobaccos averaged $8.22 per hundred ;>nd North Carolina tobaccos brought an average of only $10.30 accord ing to figures recently compiled from government report* and published in part by the official house organ of the marketing as sociation which this week reaches close to 90,000 farmers, out of these small averages tobacco farm ers have paid the warehouse and selling costs, which makes the price to them leas than ten cents. Orderly marketing of a larger tobacco crop this year has un questionably brought higher price? in spite of the fact that United States tobacco exports in 1922 were 83,445,000 pounds less than in 1921 and combined retail prices for the whole United States drop ped G per cent according to gov ernment reports. Organized tobacco farmers from 127 counties will hold mass meet ings in three- states, Saturday, April 7th, to nominate delegates to represent the entire membership of the association in the election of directors for another year. Sows and litters should run on clean lots to keep internal para sites down to a minimum. Drawing its membership from Sew Hanover, Pender and Bruns wick counties, the Cape Fear Poul try Association has recently been organized in Wilmington to pro mote the growing of better poul t , to buy fccdstufFs r> .crativo and to sell poultry products, i icy began work by saving *lO per ton on feedstuff*, reports Miss Florence JefTress, Home Agent in Republican 60-cnt Doll r. With the coat of living well a bove the level of March, l'J'2'2, a dollar in March, is worth on ly about >o cents, compared with what it would buy in th»- last year before the W >rld War, according to calculations made b} I'rof. living Fisher. The farmer's dollar ia depreci ating aloftg with every ..no elm*'*. There has been a slight mere**'- in the average price of agricu g tural producis, but the cost 01 coiDUixlili N which the farmer d'.ea not producw and must Ijny ha» riseu more tl a t b per cent in a year DUEL PUT OFF Muet Admitted That Israel Put. nam's Method of Conducting It Was Somewhat Disconcerting. Old Israel Putnam had hla own Ideas about dnellnf, although It was regarded In hla day aa more or leea a part of a gentleman's code of honor. It once happened that Putnam unin tentionally offended a brother officer j In the Continental army. The depute arose at a wine table, and the officer demanded Instant reparation. Put nam, being a little excited, expressed his willingness to accommodate him with a flght, and it was stlpulsted that the duel should take place on the fol lowing morning, and that they should flght without seconds. At the sppolnt ed time the officer went to the duel ing ground armed with swords and pistols. Putnam was there before him on the Held and had takgn a stand at the opposite end, musket In hand. OatcKlng sight of his opponent he lev eled his musket and flred. The aston ished officer rnn toward Putnam, who was deliberately reloading his pleee. "What are you about?" he demanded. "Is this the conduct of an American officer and a man of honor?" "What am I about T' inquired Put nam. "A pretty question to ask a mon whom you intended to murder; I'm about to kill you; and If you don't bent ii retreat In less time thnu It would take Old Heath to hung a Tory you nre a gone dog." He rammed home the charge In his musket and threw the piece to his shoulder; where at the would-be duelist took to hH hoels tmd fled for his Ufa. PROGRESS MADE IN TANNINQ Procsas Known to B« at L«ast Threa Thousand Years Old, but Improve ments Cams Slowly. At first skins were cured by simply cleaning and drying. Then It was found ths texture at the leather Un proved by tha UM of smoke, sour milk, various oils snd the brains of the an imals themselves. Later it was dis covered that certain astringent barks and vegetables effected permanent changes In the texture of sklus and stopped decay. The ancient Egyptians possessed this knowledge, for engrav ings on their tombs depict the process of tanning. In China specimens of leather have been discovered in com pany with other relics that prove them to be ever thro* thousand years old. T*e * oceans aoed Uotkec which they tanned wttfc oil, alum and hark. Karl/ explorers In Ajaerlc* found the In dians wearing skins pmpared with buffalo dung, ell and clay. No Improvement In the ganoral methods of preparing leather took place from the most primitive times until about 1780, when the use of lime to loosen the hair was Introduced. By 1820 English tanners were attempting to introduce new methods by which ths tanning process could bo shortened. One of the pioneers In thsoa experi ments was John Burrtdge, the lnveo tor of the barkometor, an Instrument for determining the strength of tan ning liquors. Ufs Rafts for Wharves snd Docks. Although ships hsve carried llfs rafts for many years, ths only pro vision ordinarily mads on docks snd wharves for accidents Is the common, round life preserver. These are In adequate at times, especially in tho event of a gang-plank breaking and precipitating several persons Into deep water at once. A California seaport, realising this danger, haa Installed life rafts mounted on trucks for Instant moving and launching. They are al most tha also used by ships, but with a double deck body and a central rock pit for passengers, fhe whole be ing rigidly mounted on pontoons. Ths buoyancy of these rafts is sufficient to support a large number of persons. Yee, Treee Muet Cat. Do you know how trees grow by forming new luyers of wood directly under the bar!;? The roots are the support of th- tree, says the School Bool; i f Fores;ry. They also supply the trey with food. Through delicate halra on the roots they absorb soil moisture and plant food from the earth end pass them along to the tree. Th body of the tree art* as a passage way throug! which the food and drln ; ere conveyi 1 to the top or crown. The rrown la tho place where the food Is digested and the rftgeneratioa of trees sffected. Are Screeoh Owls Ominous? In some sertlons of the country peo ple believe that when a screerh owl alights and begins to send out Its shivering cry Into ths night it Is a sign of some 111 luck which Is soon to befall them. Particularly do Ignorant people put faith In this Sign. Many have been heard to say that it betokens the early death of a loved one. No more utterly false specter of the Imagi nation was ever created. A screech owl is quite harmless. In fact, they are quite valuable, pretty litUe night birds.—Our Dumb Animals ( ONCE LAIR OF SEA WOLVES Isis of Plnee Long Known as Rsndes vous of Ferocious Plratss—« "Slavs Fattening." The Isle of Pines, an appanage of Cuba, haii filled an Interesting page In history. Las Casas, who chronicled the story of the voyages of Columbus In his "Hlstorla de las Indlas," writes that the admiral discovered the lstand during his second voyage, In June, 1494, on St. John the Evangelist's duy, there fore naming It "Kvangellsta." There Is every evidence that between the time of Columbus and the earliest set tlers the Island was the headquarters for the most ferocious pack of sea wolves that hunted the seas In the late Sixteenth and early Seventeenth cen turies. English, French and Dutch all found security on the Isle of Pines. Not the least interesting epoch of the Island's history was when It served as a "slave fattening" depot. In the days when the traders In "black Ivory" found the difficulties of their profes sion Increasing In the ratio of preju dice against slave-holding, their profits decreased in a like ratio. They at tempted to rectify this loss by bring ing a more valuable article to the mar ket, and tho Isle of Pines became a hnven of re t nn i contentment for the slaves they orou.iii over In dark ho: is fro in Africa, 1 ore ihey were sold in "the Suites." —i'etruil News. ENTHUSIASM TO BE GUIDED Properly Directed, It Is One of the Most Valuable Possessions a Woman Can Have. There are women who let all of their enthusiasm bubble to the top of [ their conversation, frothy women. I Then there art- women who let their enthusiasm settle at the bottom of ! their personality, like the dregs of lost youth. Absorbed In the routine of their own little lives they lose touch I with the lives others. As their cil* I de of Interests narrows, their euthu- Rlasm dlf»s. Finally, inevitably, they i Join that sod sisterhood of drab, cob ; orloss vrr »me# —women who don't count. But there are women whose enthn» ( slasra neither bubble* to the top nof subsides to the bottom. Women who , really let "themselves go." They are ! Interested In other people and events ' outside of their own little Uvea, and this Interest sparkles Into enthusiasm. These are the women whom we cell "vivid" and these are the women who make happy friendships and happy marriages, even when they are handi capped by lack of beauty, or lock of cleverness, or lack of style.—Ex change. Lost Treasure of Montezuma. According to legend, Montezuma, at the time of his overthrow In 1520 by Cortex and his Spanish followers, had, In addition to the colossal loot which the victors secured In gold and sliver, fabulous wealth In gold stored away beneath his secret palace hidden In the plateau region of what Is now the stste of Nayarlt, Mfxlco. The loot, which the invaders" secured, wss stupendous, to be sure. But they missed the greetest single cache ot gold In Mexico by disillusioning Monte zuma In time for htm to recall his mes sengers sent out to bring In the gold from the chief treasure house of his gods. Cortes tortured and then murdered hundreds of the leading Aztecs In an effort to get from them the secret of the location of the great treasure place end palace. Falling to gain his Infor mation In that way, he spent several years scouring the weetern pert of tiexlco, but In vain. Americans at the Telephone. One way to measure the extent of the relative use of the telephone In several countries Is to determine the average | amount of time per year acta ol'y spent ly «•;■ li Inhabitant in tel ephone corner 'inn*. Statistics Indi cate that in the I'nitcd States iho ax-r --age per capita time consumed In hold ing telephone conversations Is 10 hours; in the Scandinavian countries, I>enmark, Sweden und Norway, 13 hours; In 'iermany, five hours; In Switzerland, three hours; In Great Britain, two hours; In France, one hour, and In Italy considerably less than one hour. World's Acceeelble Timber. Tlie accessible timber of the world is Inadequate to the requirements of modern civilization, snys the forest service. United States Department ol Agriculture We now draw one-third Ot our paper requirements from Can ad*. There (fc tffc embargo on the ex port of pulp wood from the crown land! of Canada, and this Is likely to be extended to all forest lands in the Dominion, eonqAetely shutting off the supply of raw material for the paper I Industry of the United States. Thla Illustrates the hazard of becojnlng de pendent upon foreign supplies of tim ber, It U pointed out. NO. 9 Virtue# AecrlbecJ to Qama# Th« old custom of wearing a flag to hold a necktie in place originated In 1476, when the duke of BuvgtHMtt wore his signet ring on a rlbbeft around his neck. Many were the tues ascribed to gems. Amethjrgtfc were supposed to ward off effect* 41 too frequent libations, diamonds (art the wearer virtue, courage and nanlmlty; opals sharing In the charm of every stone of which they reflected the color, If stolen, rendered the thief Invisible, while topaz and chrysolite lost brilliance If dipped in poison, a highly important quality in aa age when one could not tell friend flneflk foe. , Up to Papa. Margery's school reports were*l very good, so her father said: Th 4 first time you get a hundred I'U give you a dollar." Time went by and the reward could not be claimed. Thee one day the child was taken liL Whea the doctor had gone she askefe "Mamma, am I very slckT" "No, dea% your temperature Is a little over k hundred, but the doctor thinks yoall be. better tomorrow." Margery's farfe lighted up. "Then, mamma, I can have my dollar, can't 1 Papa said he'd give It to me If I got a hundred In anything."—Boston Transcript First Navigating Instrument. To the Greek, Anaxlmander Of MU9 I tus, is attributed the Invention of tht first navigating Instrument. The fol lowing account lis given: "Marlnen had observed that the farther norfb they went the higher the polar' sta« rose In the heavens, and Anaxiinandet Is reported to have Invented an ar rangement of two sticks hinged to gether, so that when one was held horizontally and the other pointed to the pole star the angle they made would Indicate how far north the ob, server was." Long Span of Three Lives. William Fer.n, founder of I'ennsyfc vanla, was born October 14, lWt Hlg youngest son, Thomas, was borj) March 9, 1702. Thomas Penn had a , son, Granville Penn, who waa born December 0, 1761, and died Septtofr ber 28, 1844. The lives of these three men In direct descent thus covered even allowing for the reform of the calendar In 1752 —tw0 centuries, lack -1 In;; less than one month. (Xmiiaentini on this, historians of the Penn family have eipressed the opinion that the Incident is probably unique. 666 quickly relieves Cold* and LaGrippe, Constipation, Biliousness and Headaches. PROFESSIONAL CARDS LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attorney-atLaw, ! GRAHAM, N. C. Associated with John J. Heudersom. Office over National Hank ol Alameaea THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Laer, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with If. S. Coulter, Not. 7 tad 8 First National Bank Bhig. S. C SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. IIOUI'h: 2 to 3 and 7 to 'J p. in., and by appointment. I'Uone ( J7" GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Oilicc Hours: 9 to 11 a. m. arid by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones: Office I lll—Kcxldenre 2(11 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorncy-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. 1 > Oilier over National Bank ol Aliasae* y, s. 000k, Attorney-at- Lao 1 2 EiAIIAM, .... * N. G Office Patterson Building Sacond Fleor. , . lilt. WILLS.LOW,JR. . : : DENTIST : « e Graham, .... North Carolina OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING NOTICE OF SALE Of $15,000 Town of Graham, QN. C., Water Y\ orks Bonds, j