VOL.
THEN AND NOW
A Nebraskan Writes Enthusiastically
About North Carolina's Forward
Strides.
T. T. McDuffy, Omaha, Neb.,
writes as follows to the Charlotte
Observer."
I have just read your interest
ing editorial in the January 22
issue of The Observer, comment
ing on Professor Branson's astou
• ishing reyelations, showing the
noteworthy ! rogre&s of North
Carolina within a few years, illum
inated by comparison, or rather
with contrasts, dating back to 20
years ago—along economical, ed u
cational, manufacturing, agricul
ture and other lines.
I admire your spirit of pride in
your men of interprise, when you
say, "Nof natural resources, but
men make a state " I would vary
and broaden the thought by say
ing, when "Men and natural re
sources are combined," as they
have been in North Carolina—
then you have a united power
capable of producing such results
as j 7 ou mention in jour splendid
ai tcle. Without either, auy state
must become chronically paralj'zed
and stand still, instead of moviug
, in the march of progress.
There is no state in this Union
that has beeu so signally blessed
with natural resources, or so fav
ored by Providence also in natural
advantages—climatically, topo
graphically, geographically, and
geologically, as your state has
jieeu. They are all factors, com
bined with the magnificent cour
age, determination and will power,
• and devotion of her sons to their
state —to put ber in the front line
of the progressive march among
all the most forward states of this
country. The natural resources
of jour state are the lights that
nature htfs placed on the hill tops
to attract attention of those, Who
are in search —like the children
of Israel —of a better, if not the
promised land. And many have
found it. Their efforts and capi
tal combined have supplemented
those of j'our people to the manor
born, and made your state not
only the pride of your own people,
but the wonder of all others.
Your editorial, and the amaz
intr .figures and facts presented
by Professor Bransou, seem a re
velation to people everywhere.
To a non-resident, but not a
stranger to North Carolina, the
change they show, seems like a
Rip Van Winkle sleep with its
mystifying wake-up. I have 'a
distinct recollection of the d,tys
immediatelysucceediugthe""times
that tried men's souls," during
the unpleasantness between the
north and the south, when the
only axe-handle and pick-hnndle
factory in Greensboro was a small
affair, operated by hand labor.
Now there are three immense es
tablishments there —or more
when I last visited Greensboro —
in which almost everything that
can be made from the second
growth hickory with which that
part of your state abounds,
is converted into something
of commercial value. Col.
McMahon, of Wisconsin, an
ex-United States officer in the
war just terminated, was the
pioneer. He saw its hickory a
mong the wonderful resources of
j'our state, and was not s'ow in
taking advantage of it. I re
member distinctly when there
was no manufacturing enterprise
of any kind at High Point. Now
there are, 1 think, 12 furniture
factories there. Michigan rae», (
BOOU after the close of the war,
saw another of North Carolina's
wonderful natural resources, in
her magnificent walnut trees, and
were not slow to avail themselves
of the oppsrtunity to iuvest
money, wi«h an absolute certainty
of satisfactory returns—doing tho
state good as well as themselves.
I marvel when I think of then
and now— when your state holds
such a commanding place in so
many ways; when her educational
appropriations have Increased
from »1,000,000 to *20,000,-
000 in 20 years. , when her
hard-surfaced roads have cost and
are costing, in recent years, mill
ions annually; when her manufac
tured articles for the year 1922
have exceeded $832,000,000, and!
other state product in like mar
velous proportions; when she
ranks fifth ia crop values among
the states of the Union —an air
THE ALAMANCE GLEAINER.
most unbelievable exhibition for
the good o'd agricultural statr
that ouce was credited only with
fhe production of tar, pitch nhd
turpentine; and then, to top the
climax of her marvelous develop
ment and progress, f> find from
Professor Branson's showing, that
she paid for the year 1922 inter
nal revenue tax to the United
States government amounting to
neaily $122,500,000, to sav noth
ing about state taxes, being sur
passed in that figure by only seven
other states, which were giants in
development when she was scarce
ly known commercially.
Surely North Carolina is cash
ing in on her assets.
COUNTY AGENTS AT WORK.
Some Instances of Activities Report
ed to State Agent to Help Out the
Farmer.
Every week of the year, that
overworked, sometimes haras»«tt,
individual known as the county
agent of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service performs useful
duty for the farmers in his coun
ty, shj's C. Hudson, State Agent
for the Farm Demonstration Di
vision; The farm agent has many
varied duties and is subject to
every concoivable demand for his
time and knowledge. As an ei
ainple, Mr. Hudson gives just a
few of tne activities reported by
agents last week. Some of these
he believes will be of interest to
the farmers of the State as they
show some of the ways in'which
the agent may make himself
useful.
Zeno Moore of Edgecombe coun
ty states that his exhibiting fine
specimens of home-grown Burr
and Sweet Clover on the streets
attracted much attention and
made a strong impression on
farmerfl who came to town to buy
hay.
U. A. Miller of Alexander coun
ty stated that farmers are getting
the spirit of co-operation Blowly
but surely. He has assisted seven
communities in pooling their fertil*
izer requirements and buying 10
car loads together at a saving of
from 50 cents to $1.20 oil each
bag. He has had an unusual de
mand for terrace building demon
strations during the present sea
son. He has held three meetings
to promote garden work among
negroes.
O. O. Dukes of Robeson has
just shipped out 2 car loads of
hogs. He expects to have another
car ready for shipment in August.
Farmers are still planting pas
tures both for cattle and swine.
L. W. Auderson of Perquimans
"County writes that a movement
is on to rid the County *of ticks
this year. A crew of men is now
at work in building vats in each
township. He made a talk to the
negro teachers of the County on
garden work list week. The
teachers promised to promote the
matter in their respective com
munities.
N. K. Rowell of Chowan has
just bought 140 bushels of Cleve
land Big-boll Cotton Seed for
planting in the County. / During
the Rat Extermination Campaign
in which he assisted the work was
carried on in 11 schools of the
County. Fourteen hundred and
thirty-four rats were reported kill
ed, one school —that at Wards
destroying 450. The pnpil lead
ing in the Work was Willie May
Overton, who reported 185.
T. B. Brandon, the new Agent
in Greene County, in co-operation
with Dr. C. C. Hunt has just clos
ed a 2-weekH campaign on Hog
Cholera Control. Dnring this time
they treated 639 hogs for 65 farm
ers. At the end of that period
the farmers gave a big barbecue.
One community that specializes in I
a high-bred big-boll variety of
cotton has just pooled and sold
co-operatively 3,339 bushels of
seed at $1.50 (>er bushel.
R. B. Reeves, the new Agent in
fitt County, assisted in selling a
car load of hogs at Greenville and
in shipping another car load to
Richmond where good prices were
obtained.
L. L. McLendon of Duplin Coun
ty has had a splendid demonstra
tion of the value of Pure-bred
Livestock. Two scrub pigs fed in
competition with pure-breds shows
that while the profit on the pure
breds was not very large, the
scrubs did not pay for their feed.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 10, 1923
If You Are Doing Business
With Mail Order Concerns
If you are sending your cash out of town—doing business
with mail order concerns—keep mum about the growth,
the industries, the advantages or beauty of the town. You
have no boast coming. It is a good town not because of
you, but. in spite of you.
If you are not a Home T rader You are a
Traitor to the Best Interests of the Town
This community is made up of individuals. Its prosperity
depends on individual effort. If you send yt>ur money
away for goods that can be purchased here, you injure the
town —and yourself.
When vou buy from a mail order concern, your money is
gone for good. Not one red cent of it ever comes back.
None of it pays for taxes. None of it pays store rent,
clerk hire, or does a blessed one of the dozens of things
accomplished by home-spent money.
Suppose everyone in 'this town sent away for their mer
chandise. The flown would go to rack and ruin. You
wouldn't be able to give property away. There would be
little employment for laDor. Schools —churches—every-
thing of a public nature would be stripped to poorhouse
poverty. There's no reason why anyone should deal with
mail order concerns. Your home town merchant carries
the best grades of merchandise on the market. They are
goods of recognized merit. ( They are'sold at practically
one price the world over. You know you are getting full
value in quality. The biggest manufacturers in the coun
try insure that with their trademarks. Your purchases
are protected: There is no buying dissatisfation—long
waits—long distance return costs—or delivery charges.
Your dealer appreciates your patronage. He puts forth
every effort to hold your trade. He becomes intimately
acquainted with your likes and dislikes—consequently can
serve you in the most satisfactory manner. And to top
off all of these important advantages—your local merchant
can save you money.
By all means talk up your town—but first win the right
to speak by spending your money at home. It is the solid
worth of home-spent money—not words that establishes
the public wealth and welfare of the community.
Ponate to the good of the town by trading IN town—and
get the greatest value for your dollars.
Live-At-Home.
The "Live-at-home" program
fostered by the Extension Service i
of the State College and Depart
ment of Agriculture has made a
good start. Nearly 200,000 blank j
forms have beeu mailed out to
school teachers iu the state from j
Director Kilgore's office and these]
forms were distributed through j
schoolchildren in rural schools j
or at meetings held at the differ-J
ent school houses in the state. |
These forms, accompanied by a
loiter from Director Kilgore, call
attension to the necessity for liv
ing at home this year and give a
list of ten things which should
be done on the farm this j'ear to j
make the owner independent ofj
having to buy food and feedstuff's, j
Governor Cameron Morrison hasj
backed the program and State j
Superintendent f Edu~at on E.
C. Brooks has given it his hearty J
approval and support. Many of
the b auks have been signed l»y j
farmers and their wives and have
been returned to the extension
office. A pass mark of 70, that j
is, if seven of the ten things arej
faithfully performed during the
j'ear, will entitlaapi farmer to a
certificate of honor signed by the
Governor, the Director of Ex'eu-1
sion, and the Superintendent of
Education.
Here are the ten ihingff the;
fanners are asked to try to do:
1. To raise enough corn and
hay to carry me through 1924.
2. To raise enough meat to
supply my family this year,
3. To have » 12-inonths-in-the
year garden.
4. To provide inilk and butter■
for my family the whole year:
through.
5. T) keep an average of at
least 30 hens on my farm the
year through.
6. To improve my orchard this
year by setting out some apple,
peach, pear, cherry or pecan trees,
and to plant some small fruits
and berries.
7. To work for richer lands by
planting velvet beans, soybeans,
or cowpeas in at least half of my
corn; and clover, rye, oats, or
vetch, with or after half my other
crops.
8. To enroll one or mor" of
|my children in club work—pig
club, corn club, poultry club,
home economics clubs, etc.
8. To add some home conven
ience such as ruuuing water, elec
tric lights, washing machine, oil
stove, hitchen cabinet and other
things that will lessen the burden
of housekeeping.
10. To beautify my homestead
by painting my house or making
baseplanting of shrubs about the!
house to furuish a proper setting;
and to plant flowering trees such I
as Crepe Myrtle, Mimosa, Dog-|
wood tree; or planting a lawn, etc. |
Southwest Alamance.
School at Oakdale Closed-Fruit,
Killed—Little Corn and Cotton
Planted—Play to be Given—Road
Work Slow.
Cor. of The Gleaner.
Three-fourths of the men in our
community are attending Gra
ham court this week.
Rev. I. P. Frazier of Liberty,
and his assistants ch.sed a sup»j
cessful year's school work at o»ik-;
dale with appropriate exercises. I
Fruit is about all killed.
Farmers are very busy with.
| their spring work. Not much corn |
aud cottou has been planted yet. |
The "Owl's Nest" Club boys are |
preparing a play to be given for
'the benefit of Oakdalo school, j
:Guess it will b'» something good, i
Tne "sprout" bays sav business
is fairlv good up 'o this timd.
Road work in Alamance county I
is progressing v»ry slowly. In!
fact we arn almost iu dispair.
Tariff and Profiteering Raise Sugar
54 Per Cent.
Sugar sold at retail during
March, 1923, at an average of 10.2
cents a pound. In the same month
in 1922 the average price was 6.6
Iceuts a pound. The increase due
to the duty of 2.20 cents a pound
and the profiteering which Repub
lican tariff occasioned amounted
to more than ">4 per cent.
The postage stamps of the new
Irish free stale were designed by
iliss Millicent Girling, a 21-year
old girl who recently completed
tier studies at the Dublin school
of art.
TOBACCO GROWERS
ELECT DIRECTORS.
America's Largest Cooperative Asso
ciation Steadily Increases Member
ship—Directors' Meeting May 15.
Election returns reaching Ral
eigh headquarters of the Tobacco
Growers' Cooperative Association
from a majority of the counties of
the Carolintis and Virginia, indi
cate that the election of delegates
which took place May sth was
most successfully carried out.
One delegate for each million
pounds of tobacco, sigHed up in
contracts of the Tobacco Growers'
Cooperative Association, has now
been elected to represent its mem
bership which extends to 127
counties of the three States, and
includes 89,000 farmers.
The delegates elected by the
organized tobacco growers last
Saturday will meet at twentj'-two
district meetings May 12 to name
the twentj'-two directors of
America's largest coopjrative
market ing association for the com
ing year.
The. annual meeting of the
stockholders and directors of the]
association will tike place Tiies j
day, Ma) 15, in Raleigh, at which I
time the pieseut board of direc-l
tors will hold their last meeting..
The new board will meet on Junei
5 for the first time.
A steadj' increase of member
ship has taken place since the de
cision by the Supeme Court of J
North Carolina, which upheld the!
contract of the tobacco market
ing association. Over 450 new
members joined the tobacco as
sociation in April and since the
Supreme Court decision last
mouth the association has av*r
agod well over a hundred new
contracts a week. Many con
tracts were signed last weekj
throughout the Old Belt of North
Carolina and Virginia immediate
ly following the payment of close
to £2,000,000 to cooperative meui
bers who had delivered tobacco
to the association
With ittflrapidly growing mem
bership, the Tobacco Growers
Cooperative Association has in
creased its local organizations of
member growers in 91 counties of
three states to over sixteen hun
dred. These local associations
are assisting headquarters to keep
in contact with the entire member
ship. They are also aiding with
information as to the size of the
1923 crop, and have assisted in
the collection of over SOO,OOO in
damages from contract breaker?.
Letters with news of the associa
tion are mailed each week from
Raleigh headquarters to every
docal of the association in the
ICaioliuas and Virginia.
Mr- Hull Shows Tariff as Basic Cause
of Sugar Profiteering.
Iu a statement issued by Cordell
| Hull, Chairman of the Democratic
I ational Committee, on the repoJt
I of the Tariff Commisssou to Presi
jdent Harding, Chairman Hull
made it clear and emphasized the
point that the tariff is the under
lying cause of the present high
i-pricp of sugar, without which the
:orgj of speculation and profiteer
!ing would not be possible. He
called attension to the fact that
ith. Tariff Commission did not
dare deny that she tariff at least
! increases the price of sugar iu
Ltheainoutof I.76ceuts a pound,
and that the tariff of 2.20 cents
ou other foreign sugar is prohibi
' tive.
"What happened, therefore,"
says Chairman Hull, "was that
American and Cuban owners of
seeing much of the dotnes
i tic boeUcrop marketed, and know
i ing that Java and other distatft
sugar producing countries could
| not and would not undertake to
J pay freight and 2.20 cents tariff
and bring sugar to America to
{compete with American and Cu
ban sugar, proceeded during Jau
uary and up to this date to boost
sugar prices with the knowledge]
[that there would be no world!
competition."
The statement of the Tariff
Commission that a reduction of
the tariff on sugar w6uld not
necessarily reduce the j>rice,
I Chairman Hull calls not even
i >{ood nonseuse
In a later »tateinent Chairman
Hull suggested that the sugar
, barons and other benificiaries of
the profiteering tariff should be
prohibited by lay from making
campaign contributions to politi
cal parties. By abolishing this
debauchintr and corrupting prac
tice, he believes a repetition of
this national sugar scandal could
be prevented in the future.
NORTH STATE LEADING
Virginia Bows Politely To North
Carolina.
News and Observer.
The story is told of a man who,
being asked where he came from,
replied, "From the vale of humil
iation, North Carolina, which lies
betweeu those two mountains of
couceit, Virginia and South Caro
lina." There was rivalry enough
between North Carolina and each
of her two neighbors to afford a
basis for the epigram. They still
contend over which of thein did
more for the South iu the Civil
North Carolina has con
densed her claims into a sentence:
"First ai Manasses, furthest at
Gettysburg, last at Appomattox."
It is somewhat surprising, there
fore, to read in a newspaper pub
lished in Virginia litis trioute to
North Caroliu t: "The simple fact
is that North Carolina is so far
ahead of Virginia in almost every
thinu except, shrines of Colonial,
Revolutionary, and Civil War
history that the two states are,
as our friendly enemies the Eug
lish put it, not iu the same street."
What is the reasou for this dis
parity? Answering its own ques
tion, the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
explains that North Carolina has
got away from the old tradition
that Mill holds Virginia in its
grasp, the tradition that the well
to-do must not be "punished" by
the imposition of taxes for the ad
vancement of tlie'masses. Hence
the outcry against a bond issue
for good roads, for instance. The
late Walter 11. Pago once said that
it was a misfortune for North
Carolina that the quarrel with
George 111 happened -to turu on
the questiou of taxation —it instil
led 30 great a dread of all taxes
But North Carolina has succeeded
in overcoming her dread'of taxes
to such an exteut as to make Vir
giuians "ashamed, wheu we are
conscious of it, of North Carolina's
infinitely superior roads, of her
considerably superior schools, of
her three times as great contribu
tion to her state university." This
is doing pretty well for a state
which only a tew years ago was
near the bottom of the list in edu
cation."
BOARD EDUCATION
PASSES RESOLUTIONS
Expressing Appreciation of Services
of J- L. Scott and Mrs. J Archie
Long, Former Members of Board.
At meeting April 2nd, the Board
of Education passed the following
resolutions:
On motion by Dr. Harper sec
onded by Mr. Holt the following
resolution was uaniuiously adopt
ed:
Whereas, Mr. J. L. Scott has
served as chairman of the Ala
mauce County Board of Education
years with rare efficien
cy and with fairness to all, having
in mind under every circumstance
the best iuterest of the schools of
the county; and, whereas, under
his leadeship, the schools of the
county have constantly grown and
improved, therefore be it resolved:
That tlio County Board of Edu
cation iu session April 2, 1923.
Expresses its grateful apprecia
tion to Mr. Scott for his long,
faithful, and efficient service and
orders its secretary to forward a
copy of this resolution to hi in
and to release the same to the
press.
It. G. MCI'HKKHOS, chin'n.
M. C. TKBKKLL, sec'y.
On motion by Dr. Harper sec
onded by Mr. Holt the following
resolution was . unanimously
adopted.
Whereas, Mrs. J. A. L >ng has for
two years been a faithful and con
scientious member of the Couuty
Board of Education, therefore, be
it resolved:
That theCountj' Board of Edu
cation in session April 2nd, 1923,
hereby express its grateful appre
ciation of her services.
li. G. MCPHKBSON, chin'n.
M. C. TKRKKLL, sec'y.
NO. 14
' COTTON BURBANK"
DIES IN TEXAS.
Surname Mdbane—Born in Terra,
but Came of the Family of That
Name Around Mebane —Added
"Fifth Lock" to Cotton.
The News-Scimitar of Menphis,
May 2 publishes the following item
of interest, not merely to a lot of
people in Alamance, but to the
world, concerning an achievement
which comparatively feft know
anything about, but has been
worth millions to millions:
Alexander D. Me! ane, known
as "the cotton Burbauk," who
died in Lockhart, Tex., Tuesday,
was a native of Fayette county,
Teun. He was born and reared
one mile south of Dancyville, just
across the Haywood county line.
He was a cousin of Jesse Currie,
of the Currie-ilcCraw company,
Memphis wholetalo grocers, and
other members of the well-known
Currie family of this city.
Mr. Mebane added fifth lock to
the ordinary four locks in a boli
of cotton and brought countless
wealth to the South in
meat of the seed. "Mebane cot
ton" is known throughout the
world wherever cotton is grown.
Ilis family originally came from
Mebane, N. C , which place takes
its name fro.a the family. He
originated the cottou about 30
years Given the name of
"Triumph" by the United States
department of agriculture, the
variety was said by the late Dr.
Seaman A. Knapp to be the great
est discovery in cottou achieved
in the staple's history.
Mr. Mebane went to Texas iu
the etrly 70s. The new strain
which he produced by polleniza
tion was practiced successfully
when Luther Burbauk was prac
tically unknown.
Princess Mary's babe was chris
tened iu the same robe of white
satin and old lace that had been
woru by Kiug Edward, by the late
Duke of Clarence, by Kiug
Ueorge, Princess Mary and her
brothers at their christenings.
SIMSCIUbE FOB THB GLEANER
6 66
is a Prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy we
know, preventing Pneu
monia.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorncy-at-Law,
GRAHAM. N. C.
Associated with John J. Henderson.
OUice over National Hank ot Alamance
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with W. S. Coulter,
Not. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Kerrell Drug Co.'
Hours: 2 to 3 and 7 to 'J p. ui., and
by appointment.
Plioue 'dT
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
/~ Bur tiny toil, N. C.
OUice Hours: 'J to 11a. in.
antl by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephones: OUice 11W Residence SOI
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM. N. C.
Slllce over National Bonkol Ahiri
i", S. COO 2Z,
Attorney-**- U#"
• KAHA'M, .... N. C
Offlco Patterson Building
S«cond Floor. . ,
iiU. WILIA LOU, JK.
. ; : DENTIST : s e
Graham, .... North Carolin«
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