VOL. XLIX
Improved Prison
Conditions
NEGRO EXODUSTERS BEEN
FOOLED AND COMING
BACK.
Rotarians Meet in Raleigh 25th—
-1 est Province Railroad Prospects
Improve
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh. May 22. —"Flabber-
gasted" victims of Governor Mor
i-i ■ ionfined to a few newspa
per offices, are gradually recover
ing from the last shock (adminis
tered last Friday) when the
Governor announced the adoption
of the new system of State Prison
management, under Superintend
ent George Pou, and for the re
ception of which they were totally
unprepared.
The new departure has met
with universal commendation of
people and press (even including
the few papers that couldn't do
otherwise under the compelling
influence of public approval).
Now let the one hundred coun
ties of the State show like zeal .
aud determination with regard to |
county convict camps and "chaiu
gangs" (whereat the complaints
of flogging were chiefly directed),
aud there will be a genuine and
satisfying improvement. ,
Nejjro Kxodusters Fooled.
Some of the negro "unskilled
laborers" who. have recently left (
North Carolina for industrial
points in the North, are already
beginning to drift back, dissatis
fied aud humbugged. Most of the
exodusters were induced to leave
by "emigration agents" who were
paid so much per head for every
negro landed at the Northern in
dustrial centers concerned.
Some of the North Carolina ne
groes who landed in the Pennsyl
vania steel district (the scene of
the hardest kind of work where
foreigners most abound) are back
with the statement that they were
deceived and have had enough.
They state that the labor agent
told them they would receive from
81 to $7.50 per day, have a com
fortable home to live in, work only
eight hours, and be treated roy
ally. lie went —and tjuickly came
back. He said he was paid J4 a
day all right—bui it was taken
up by his board, wash, insurance,
transportation, etc., that all he
saw of his two weeks' work was $2
given him for spendiug money.
He said a fellow-laborer told hiin
it would take ten weeks before he
would begin drawing any real
money, and for this reason and
because the men were guarded at
night to prevent their departure
before the company account was
squared, he slipped away and
came back home.
The "tost Provinces" Kailroad Outlook
Improves.
Prospects for the lease of the
"Lost Province Railroad," for the
construction of which the last
Geueral Assembly authorized a
bond issue of slo,o'X>,ooo l have
been materially brightened by the
merger announced this week giv
ing the Louisville &. Nashville
control over the Carolina, Clinch
field & Ohio. Such is the view of
Representative T. C. Bowie, who j
piloted the railroad measure j
through the Legislature, aud who,
is in Raleigh investigating the I
management of the State Sana- j
torium.
The commission appointed to ,
name the route for the railroad '
across the mountains has proceed
ed no further than to order sur
veys of the various routes pro
posed over the mouutains, but ilr.
Bowie and his associates on the
commission have been busy find
ing a market for their proposed
road.
The act of the General Assem
bly contemplates a trnnk line
suitable for coal carrying and
which will operate ail the way
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
from the mountains to some sea
port on the Atlantic coast.
The Southern and the L. «fc N.
have been considered by Mr.
Bowie aa his two livest prospects,
but both have considered the pos
sibility or acquiring the C., C. &
O. for some time, and until that
question was definitely settled
there was less likelihood or inter
esting either railroad. Tho an
nounced merger removes all hope
of a lease to the L. & N., which is
associated with the Atlantic Coast
Line. However, the Southern has
for some time routed shipments
via the C., C. & 0. because or the
great saving in distance across
the mountains, and Mr. Bowie
reels confident that the Southern
will now want a short route or its
own and will be interested in the
road authorized to be built by
the State.
luter-Clty Hotary Meet in Raleigh
Friday.
Four hundred or more Ro
tarians are expected iu Raleigh
next week ror the firth annual
East Carolina Inter-City Rotary
Meet, Friday, May 25. Roger
Moore is district governor and R.
H. Wright or Greenville is presi
dent or the Inter-City Association.
There are sixteen clubs in west
ern and central North Carolina
and 650 members in all. v
Raleigh is preparing to eiJsr
tnin the convention
all sessions will be held at the
Methodist Orphanage. Dr. John
B. Wright is chairmau or the com
mittee on entertainment here.
Others on tho committee are John
Park, president'of the club; Henry
M. Loudon, secretary;H. H. Brim
ley, John E. Evans, Clyde Dillon,
R. H. Merritt, Albert S. Barnes,
Louis V. Sutton,, Paul Hulfish
and Charles J. Jarvis.
Clubs that will be represented
in the meeting are: Rocky Mount, ;
Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Hen
derson, Goldsboro, New Bern,
Washington, Wilson, Clinton,
Durham, Farmville, Greenville,
Kinston, Oxrord, Wilmington and
Raleigh.
There will be morning and arter- ■
noon sessions, adjourning at 3:45
in time to attend the ball game at
the League Park. The visitors
ate invited at that time to "jump
iu any auto with the Rotary em
blem and say 'ball game.'"
The program or the day will be
as rollows:
Morning Sesiloii.
Opening songreast. Call to
order, President Wright. Invo
cation, Henry Lane or Raleigh.
Address or welcome, Albert L.
Cox or Raleigh. Response, Pat
O'Neil or Henderson. "Service
and Fellowship," addrdfes by Par
son Ben Hill of Fayetteville. "The'
Baby Club's Problems," talk by |
Parson Matthis, or Clinton Club.
"Practical Rotary Ethics," talk
by Parson Frank Love of Wilsjn.
"Developing the New Member,"
talk by Jasper Winslow or Green
ville. "The Distrie; Governor's
Job," talk by Roger Moore. Elec
tion or officers ror 1924 spriug
meeting. Selection or meeting
place, voting by clubs as units.
Feeding time, barbecue on Or
phanage grounds.
Afternoon Meaalun.
More vocal efforts. Singing
contest, club competition for tro
phy. Brimjarvics, a now mys
tery stunt, by members or Raleigh
Club. Minstrel scenes, exhibition
by students or Methodist Orphan-.
age. Leave for ball game. Jump)
in any auto with Rotary emblem!
and say, "Ball game."
On tho first two sales days or J
the recently organized curb uiark-j
et at Rocky Mount, the rarm;
women of Nash and Edgecombe |
counties sold $119.85 and $105.251
worth or products. A Nash j
County Club boy profit* rrom thej
i sales by making baskets. He has
j made aud sold 15 at SI.OO each.
Insect* and diseases rrequentlyj
| destroy rroui 00 to 80 percent or
i the rruit crop in an unsprayed
! orchard. Sometimes the trees are
so weakeued that they die later.
Spraying keeps the trees vigorous
and the rruit unblemished say
horticultural workers ot the Ag
ricultural Extension Service.
A ranuer or Perquimans County
planted a permanent pasture last
. fall costing about S3O. He re
i port* to bounty Ajjeut L. W- An
[ ditrson that he wouldn't take $5J
in cash for it now.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1923
SUGARLESS FOOD
ONLY RELIEF AGAINST
PRICE GOUGERS.
Much Ihiilding Suspended on Ac
count High Price of Building Ma
terial
Special Correspondence.
Washington, May 21.—Sugar
less food is the alternative which
the American people race in their
fight against the profiteering aud
plundering that has been given an
open season as a result or Presi
dent Harding's rerusal to reduce
the tariff on sugar and the railure
of his Attorney General's gesture
toward the Sugar Barons^
The Government's appeal rrom
the lower court's rerusal to grant
an injunction against the New
York Sugar Exchange and the
New York Coffee and Sugar Clear
ing Association is roredoomed to
go without consideration by the
Supreme Court for several months
or longer. No help may soon be
expected rrom that quarter even
ir an injunction against corpora
tions which have little or nothing
to do with controlling the price
ot sugar would be a remedy at
dny time.
Congress will not meet until
December and can not undertake
a downward revision of the tariff
on sugar until then —always sup
posing, of course, that the Repub
lican majority led by such men -»s
Senator Smoot, Senator Lodge,
Senator Braudegee and Repre
sentative Green, Representative
Longworth and Representative
Madden would allow any reduc
tion.
What is true or sugar is true
also or other commodities that—-
like building materials—are being
put beyond reach. The President
won't lower the tariff 50 per c -nt
as the law permits and as the Re
publicans at the time they wero
tryiug to induce the public to
swallow the bill, promised would
bo done in respect to an unjust or
exhorbitaut rate. While tho Presi
dent continues to deny relief,
while Congress is in vacation, and
while the courts cau not in the
nature of things act in time to
prevent the orgy or extortion, tho
Wool Trust, the Sanitary Pottery
Combine, the Cotton Textile Mo
nopoly, aud the Sugar Gotigers,
among others, are boo-aing prices
and wriugiug tribute from the
public to the tune of huudreds or
millions.
The tariff has "protected" and
thereby enhanced bu ldiug ma
terials to such a degre« that the
cost ot building is almost pro
hibitive. Iu New York City aloue
about $00,000,000 worth or con
struction has beeu indeliuiiely
postponed because or excessive!
cost ot materials. The same story
is told ot Chicago and oilier big
cities. A revival or business —or
which the Republicans were
boasting only a rew w«»eks ago
is thus retarded aud may be
wholly prevented by the opera
tion or the tariff.
It appears that when the people
are ready to buy after a long
period of abstention and curtail
ment; when they feel able to in
crease or replenish their allow
ance ot rood, clothing, ruruiture,
utensils, equipment aud ma
, terials; when they begin to show
ja little confidence in the recovery
] or industry, the profiteers prompt
ly "corn®r ! i~_commodities, inflate
j prices, and
I practices so that every pufcitHser
| becomes the victim or exploitation
and spoliation.
Nothing will more qui- kly and
; certainly impair confidence, check
enterprise, and prolong depres
sion than this recrudescence or
'profiteering. Nothing could be a
j surer recipe ror profiteering, iu
| turn, than the present t- ordney-
McCuinber tariff law, which has
'given trusts and monopolies a
| license to tax and exploit the peo-
I pie. At least two combines which
j benefit by the tariff were under
attack iu the Federal courts wheu
this law was enacted. The pres
ent tariff on sugar is perhaps the
highest put on that staple in the
; history of the United States. The
price ot sugar is now the
. save during a short period wbeu
it reflected the conditions of war,
• 'in fifty years. Not less than two
I cents of the exoibitaut price of
|sugar—now 50 per ceut higher
than it was a year ago—is due to
the Republican tariff. The Re
publican President might have
taken off at least one cent or this
price if he had acted in accord
ance with Republican promises
and in keeping with the interests
or the people,
It is this sort or legislation for
monopoly and special privilege j
aud the practical authorization of j
unfair and dishonest methods that}
threaten to stay prosperity. Hon- j
est business can not make head
way while it remains at the mercy
of discriminatory, reactionary, j
aud predatory elements.
Let the Republican administra- j
tion deprive the plunderers of,
their protection and give a fair |
field and no favor, and all busi-j
ness will flourish to the benefit and ,
betterment'or all the people!
Wool Trust Blames Retailers
When Trust Alone is to Blame.
Certain manuracturing con
cerns in the Wool Trust have be-j
gun to spread propaganda design
ed to fix upon retailers the blame
for the present higher prices of
men's and women's woolen suits.
It is alleged that the retailers
have no reason for increasing
prices at this time because tin
new advances made by the Wool
Trust are not effective uutil next
autumn.
The retailer cau explain to con
sumers that the American Woolen
Company raised its prices last j
summer and again last, autumn,
borore and arter the enactment of
the Fordney-McCumher profiteers' j
tariff law, and only a row weeks
ago announced rurther advances)
on goods for delivery in the fall ;
of 1923.
It is expected that the retailers
will follow the advice given to j
them by a trade journal repre
senting their interests and tell
customers that it is the tariff on
wool and its chief beueficiary, the I
Wool Trust, aud not tho dealer j
that is responsible for tho gotiy;- j
iug.
Mites and lice multiply very
rast in hot weather. Watch fori
them on the roost poles and on [
the young chicks.
There are times when a broken |
window from a stray baseball isj
cheaper than the br>ken health!
or the child. Sunshine and out
door exercise make young folks I
healthy.
SPECIAL OPENING DAY
Program
-AT
CHAUTAUQUA
Inspirational Lecture
"The Crisis and The Call"
By Qrove Herbert
"Quality Program• for Everybody"
BUY A SEASON TICKET
GRAHAM, N. C.,
June 11-15 •
Timely Tips For The Home Gardener.
Just now is a most important
time iu the home vegetable garden.
There are the young tomato
I plants, the youug peppers aud
j eggplants to be transplanted and
j the cabbage and cauliflower to be
i looked after. All of these are
j much benefitted ir they can be
j transplanted now in a good well
I pulverized soil that contains It uin -
J us or deeayed vegetable matter so
I that the young roots will not dry
| out nor the soil bake about them.
F. E. McCall, extention Garden
j Specialist ror the State College
and State Department of Agricul
| ture, says that these things should
j receive attention at once. He ad
vises abo that the young tomato
| plants be kept off Wio ground and
sprayed with the Bordeaux Mix
jture to prevent blight.
Mr. McCall says, "Now is tho
[time to make additional sowings
of early peas (Little .Marvel) aud
I the stringless green pod snap
beans. Try .sonit Golden Bautaui
sweet corn for a change this year.
White L-iclo radi-ihcs, early Half-
Long carrots and leaf lettuce
(Black seeded Simpson) may also
be planted now. Jii place or the
head lettuce try some Cos lottuce
for tho hot weather. This can be
planted by making two or three
sowings at two weeks intervals
aud grown and handled iu the
same manner as head lettuce.
Tho entire garden cauv be kept
producing some food CTop regular
ly if the plantings aud cultivation
are kept up regularly and thor
oughly."
The extention workers have
| made the gaxdeu an important
part of the "Live at Home" pro-
Igram which they are fostering in
[North Carolina this year, it is
round that tho Negroes are al
| ready responding splendidly and
I it is hoped that, this year, no land
owner will considor that ho has a
j good farm unless ho has a good
| garden.
The harm a scrub bull does lives
after him, lie brings down the
value or cattle aud decreases the
I milk riow in North Carolina. He
i should be replaced with pure bred
j sires, say extension workers.
Simple designs are tho most
| beautiful. The best dressed
! woman is one of whom people do
I not say "what a beautiful gown,"
I but rather "what a beautiful
I woman."
CAROLINA ECDORADO
22,000,000 Acres of Rieh Alluvial
Land, Undeveloped—The "Nation's
New Frontiers."
Wilmington Star.
Before the vast laud area of the
west was penetrated by a railroad,
the late James J. Hill, president
of the Northern Pacific system,
and .called "the.,builder of tlie
west," maue this famous remark:
"Land without population is a
wilderness; population without
laud is a mob."
With our thoughts centered
upon eastern Carolina and its vast
undeveloped area, let us conjure
with the Hill declaration, which
is a veritable economic philosophy.
The west was a wilderness with
out a population and since it was
an immense pioneer proposition,
it would have remained a wilder
ness without raMroa 1 transporta
tion. The continental railroads
cleaved tho continent anil the
west became a romance. Trans
portation and romance combined
attracted millions .of population
aud North CaVoliuacontributed a
liberal share of that westward
bound population. Many of the
people of Indiana, Ohio and Illi
nois, and about 20 stales west ol
the Mississippi rivr, can trace
their sturdy ancestors back to the
good Old North State. Whither
soever Carolinians go, "North Car
olina claims her children," and it
is even so that she claimed Uncle
Joe Cannon, who helped to'make
Illinois fatuous.
Tho denouncement .f the west
ern romance has be n reached.and
the day of romance for North Caro
lina is being staged. Horace
Greeley's "Go West, Young Man,"
has been replaced by Roger Bab
sou's "Go South, All who Seek
Opportunities." Back of the west
ern m ivement of population was
the urge which appealed to the
red-blooded pioneer. The latter
day urge ol Roger Babsou appeals
to the capitalist and to tho home
seeker for whom opportunities iu
the south are constantly being
emphasized by the Boston house
of Babsou, known all over Ameri
ca aud Europe. Roger Babsou is
a "bull 011 the south," and he
says so every day iu every way.
The south is on Babson's map and
North Carolina is iu has relief on
every map.
North Carolina put herself on
the map and it is up to coastal
Carolina to let it ne known that
it is a niarvelously resourceful
and advantageous section of pro
gressive North Carolina. If east
ern Carolina wants her share in
the new romance of the limes she
must figure in the romance. Al
luvial Carolina is a rich land
largely without population. It
contains only one-fourth the pop
ulation that it should have aud
we must realize that the time to
get population is right now.
The famous remark of James J.
Hill was intended to emphasize
the advantages, the uses, and the
results of transportation and
surely we all know what railroads
running into the west did for the
unsettled west. Tho west had to
have railroads before it could be
pioneered Eastsru Carolina has
loug ago been pioneered and its
transportation facilities have been
taken care of py l,bt;o miles of
railways, mor.» than 1,0(jo miles
of interior navigation, and five
ocean gateways. With the means
of transportation at hand and
millions fo betterments being pro
vided every year by enterprising
and progressive transportation
companies, what an immense op
portunity we have toat'ract tens
of thousands of homeseekers into
this veritable Eldorado, with
most of the 22,000,000 acres of
undeveloped laud credited to
North Carolina!
It would really take a book to
emphasize the opportunities here
for us and the right class of new
comers who cau bo attracted to
this wonderful section becausj of
its proved advantages of every
description. Wilmington is the
clearing house for all these ad
vantages and opportunities.
Around Wilmington there is
such a far -flung area to be settled
that the late secretary Lane Called
this section the "nation's new
frontier," and it is just that.
Mother is the name for God in
the lips ami hearts of children* —
Thackeray.
NO. 16
TOBACCO GROWERS
WIN JURY TRIALS.
Virginia Courts Hold Landlord Mem
ber Must Deliver all Tobacco to
Association.
The Tobacco Growers' Coopers- *
tive Association within a period
of ten days recently won two im
portant legal victories in its first
cases before Virginia juries.
The first case of the tobacco co
operative to be tried before a jury
resulted in a victory only second
in importance to tbe recent de
cision of tne North Carolina Su
preme Court upholding the con
tract of the association. In this
case before Julge Hundley at
Charlotte C. II , the association
was awarded liquidated damages
a' sc. per pound, attorneys' fees
aud court costs for tobacco yrown'
by a non-member minor son of a
member of the association which
was delivered on the auction
floors.
In holding a member of the as
sociation liable for tobacco grown
by a non-member the court, in
this lirst jury trial this month,
strengthened the position taken
by association officials that every
pound of tobacco grown upon a
member's laud, whether tie has
tenants or share croppers, or
whether he makes his own crop in
l'J23, shall be delivore I to liie as
sociation.
A still more striking victory
was wou by tbe tobacco coopera
tive before a Virginia jury last
week at Uustburg in Campbell
county, Va , in its case against V,
VV. Martiu, when Judge Uarksdale
ruled that the taking of the de
fendant's tobacco by a sheriff 0:1
lev}' was 110 defense against his
obligation to deliver to the asso
ciation. Judge Barksdale also
ruled th it the defendant was
liable for damages on tobacco
grown by his wife and minor chil
dren when it was delivered out
side the cooperative association,
in violat ion of the contract. The
jury rendered a verdict for the
association of S?U in liquidated
damages and £75 in counsels' fees,
Sl. bSCKIBB FOK TUB GLEAN KB
6 61>
is a Prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy we
know, preventing Pneu
monia.
PROFESSIONAL CAKDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLE,
Attorney-at Law,
GRAHAM. N. C.
Aiwclaled with Julia J. Henderson,
Office over .National Hank ol Alamance
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with W. S. Coulter,
Not. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. i>.
Graham, N. C.
Ollice over Ferrell Drug Co.
Hours: 2 to '6 aud ? top. in., and
by appoint incut.
Piione U7"
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
OUice Hours: tt to 11 a. m..
and by appointment
Olllct: Over Acme Drug Co.
Ttlephoue*: OUice I l(»—Kesidence "201
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM, N. C.
I Ollftcc over National Bank ol Alamance
r, ;s. c oo:ec,
Attorney -«t- L«m
kAHAM, - - • N. C
Offlco Haueraon Building
.'ttcoiid t ;»or. ■ .
ML WILULOAIUK.
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Orahim, .... North Carolina
OFFICE IN I'AHIS BUILDING