VOL. XLIX
JUDGE KERR CANDIDATE
TO SUCCEED KITCHIN
Over a Million from the State fo«j
Schools—Next Teachers' Assembly
March 12, 1924.
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, June s.—The one ab
sorbing topic among politicians
and near-politicians in Raleigh
this week relates closely to the
choice of a successor to Congress
man Claude Kitchin of the Second
District, who passed away a few
days ago—leaving a vacaucy in
the political life of North Caro
lina that will not be readily filled,
although there is more than
.enough aspirants for the ma
terial "seat" he occupied in the
House.
Personally disinterested citi
zens, who refuse to grind any in
dividual's axe, hope the State and
the Second District will be able
to secure a successor at the pri
mary soon to te called who will
be a sincere man with a strong
personality. We have had to put
up, ever and, anon, with fourth
rate politicians aud cross-roads
"lawyers" who grow into promi
nence overnight when a death in
our official family of public ser
vants occurs.
Judge Kerr is one of the ablest
probabilities mentioned, and his
friends represent him to be entire
ly agreeable. In fact, they are
pushing him as an active candi
date already.
But every county in the dis
trict has one or more candidates.
Without counting several expect
ed new-comers later on, there
may be mentioned the following
aspirants:
State Seuator W. L. Long of
Halifax; W. H. R. Burgwyn, aud
Garland E. Midyette of North
ampton; in Edgecombe there are
R. G. Allsbrook aud L. V. Bassett;
in Bertie theyre is Hillary Mat
thews; in Greene there is L- V.
Murrill; in Lenoir there is J. M.
House; in Wilson there are A. W.
Finch aud Dr. E. G. Moore, and
in Warren there is Judge John H.
Kerr. &
Claude Kitchin filled the posi
tion ably for eleven successive
terms/ There is no immediate
necessity for haste in the matter,
since Congress will not likely be
called into session until the first
Monday in December or six
months hence.
Have a Care*
It is generally understood that
the Democratic Executive Com
mittee'will meet within the next
two weeks and designate a time
for a primary to select a candi
date. A second primary will prob
ably be necessary in view of the
large number of candidates who
are expected to take the field.
The primary will probably be held
some time iu August, and the
election in November.
No uncertainty attaches to the
candidacy of Judge Kerr. He is
quoted by close friends as being
an active candidate for the place,
and it is claimed that he has been
assured of a wide support in sev
eral counties.
Ouething is certain: The time
has come when the office-seeker
of inferior attainments who has
done the party no actual good,
and who pushes his way into pri
maries (because any fool or unde
serving "claimant" can do that
for a small fee, nowadays) must
be turned down and cpnsigned to
more appropriate activities—or
the Demopratk; party is going to
butt into some disagreeable and
dangerous obstacles in the gen
eral primaries and elections.
Equalizing Fund for School!
Wilkes county, with an allot
ment of $75,647.41, leads the 66
counties tbat draw from the State
school equalizing fund of $1,162,-
929.42, it is announced by the
State Board of Education, and
Chowan county is at the foot of
the list with $2,694.56. The aver
age amount received by the 66
counties is SIB,OOO.
Distribution of the fund was de
termined by fixing the average
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
amount of money necessary for
salaries of all teachers in the conn
ties for six months and deducting
there from the amount of the
gross taxes levied in, the county
for that purpoee. The difference
between the gross tax and the
gross salary of teachers is the
amount received by each county.
The equalizing fund for the
year appropriated by the General
Assembly was $1,250,000. The
total distribution among the 66
counties, including $30,000 for
helping pay the transportation
costs of children in consolidated
districts, leaves $57,070.58 in the
hands of the State Board for as
sisting counties engaged in raising
the standard of their teaching
forces.
A letter was sent out to the
county superintendent* with their
allocation of funds, and in ex
planation of the distribution.
l)r. Dye'i Fine Address.
Raleigh High School, with its
71 members of the graduating
class, pulled off the most success
ful commencement before 2,500
pepple in the city auditorium.
Two-thirds of the "grads" were
girls aud the class was described
as the brightest ever turned out
of Raleigh "High."
The most enjoyable feature to
the audience generally was the
fine address of Dr. Dye, of Van
derbilt University, Nashville,
Teuu., with "A Man" as his sub
ject. Newspapermen who have
attended innumerable commence
ments and listened to untold ad
dresses, unitedly declared Dr.
Dye's was the finest, most fluentlv
delivered and entertaining speech
(not MSS) ever heard at a like oc
casion in Raleigh—and that is
saying something. \
NMIY "Domestic" Trouble*.
Fining C. W. and Arthur Stone
banks SIOO each for beating R. L.
Dresser two weeks agp, out of which
grew nasty and sensational charges
against Mrs. Stonebanks aa co-re
spondent in the Dreader divorce suit,
the court got that part of the affair
off its hands. Dresser has been
made to pay temporary alimony of
SIOO a month, but lightning change
of lawyers leaves the court on its
head as to what will be done in the
$25,000 action againat one of the
Stonebanks brothers and his wife,
the suit being started by Mrs. Dress
er. With the criminal case settled,
the litigants may proceed.
Teachers' Assembly to Meet la Winston-
Salem.
Thanksgiving for teachers' assem
bly time passed out when the execu
tive committee of the assembly rati
fied a referendum on the time for
both district and general meetings
and Winston Salem gets the general
convention next spring.
Collision of turkey and football, to
say nothing of the inconvenience of
gathering so many teachers at a holi
day season reserved for home, moved
to a change of dates. Under the
presidency of Miss Elizabeth Kelly,
the assembly has been taken in sec
tions to the teachers. The district
meetings will be held in tbe fall and
the assembly proper March 12, 13
and 14, unless these dates fall too
near the national association of su
perintendents. This will be deter
mined following the national associa
tion's meeting in California this
summer.
The committee had invitations for
the district meetings from Asheville,
Wilmington, Charlotte, Winston-Sa
lem, Raleigh, Greenville, and
Washington. Aiter considerable
discussion it was decided to leave
the selection of the plads for these
districts np to the officers of the as
sociation in order that they may look
into the matter of hotel facilities in
the various cities in the six districts.
The time for these meetings will be
decided after conferences with the
teachers and school people in the
various districts. An effort will be
made to nold these meetings at a
time when it will be most conven
ient to the teachers of these districts.
Spelling contests will be held in
the different distrcts next fall, and
the four best spellers from each dis
trict will go to the general meeting
to compete for the championship
honors. There will be two boys and
two girls from each district.
The report of the special commit
tee on districting the State and on
working out • tentative program for
the local unite waa accepted. Under
this program the teachers in the lo
cal unite will make studies of school
laws and school finance* under a
general subject of "dividends on onr
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 7,1923
educational investment." The com
mittee suggests that at least three
meetings of the teachers d.uring the
year be devoted to these studies.
Outlines of the studies will be fur
nished by the special committee, in
cooperation with Dr. H. CT. Hunter,
of the Wake Forest faculty, and of
the State committee on reading cir
cle work. The executive com jiittee
suggests that arraagementa be made
whereby the teachers will get read
ing circle credit for these studies.
Dr. E. C. Brooks, State Superinten
dent of Public Instruction, has in
dorsed the plan, and the incoming
State Superintendent, A. T. Allen,
who was the guest of the committee
on Saturday, is also very much in
terested in the plans for these
studies.
The committee was continued to
work out the details of these pro
grams and see if some arrangement
could not be perfected where-by the
State department of educstion could
not help in the collection of the re
sults of the studios and have them
puhlished in some kind of permanent
form.
The report of the magazine com
mittee was accepted and the commit
tee continued to draw up the proper
amendments to the constitution, so
that the subscription price of the
magazine would be includ 1 in the
membership fee, so that every mem
ber of the association would get the
magazine. This committee had held
a conference with the publis*hers of
North Carolina Education, but in
view of the fact thaj the association
had not authorized the assumption
of financ' l obligation, no change in
the present status of the arrange
ment with *!iis publication was
agreed on. The executive committee
approved the decision of the special
committee to postpone consideration
of the publishing of a magazine un
til next year.
The committee re-elected Secre
tary Jule B. Warren for another
year at the same salary and travel
ing expenses, and approved the ap
pointment of Miss Edith F. Gilbert
a s secretary of the placement bureau
during the three summer months.
Miss Gilbert is a Wake county
teacher and has already taken over
her york with the placement bureau,
which is daily growing heavier.
President Kelly asked the heads
of the different divisions of the as
sociation to begin thinking about the
programs for the district meetings.
She announced her intention of call
ing another meeting of the commit
tee some time in July to complete
the plans for these district meetings
Republican Gives Reasons Why Hard
ing Can't Be Re elected.
One of the indications that Pres
ident Harding's reiiomiuation is
deprecated by Republican news
papers as well as by many Repub
lican politicians is furnished by
the New York Tribune, which pub
lished on its editoral page a few
days ago a letter from a reader
who gave half a dozen reasons why
some one else should be choseu in
1924. This letter was more than
900 words in length and occupied
a prominent position under a two
column heading. The writer of
it was Wilson D. Youmans, of
Yonkers, N. Y.
Mr. Youinans said that he was
"amazed" at a recent statement
that President Harding would be
renominated, and then offered on
his own account "a few good rea
sons why it would be impossible
to reelect Warren G. Hardin v."
He said the suffering aud extortion
of thousands of people due to the
shortage of coal iu New York aud
New England last wiuler were
chargeable to President Harding
because he "was not equal to the
situation" or "was iot big
enough." He also blamed Presi
dent Harding for alienating form
er service men from the Republi
can party aud referred to his ad
vocacy of American representation
in the International Court of Jus
tice as smoke screen" designed
to divert attention from his fail
ures in administering domestic
affairs.
The Tribune's williuguess to
give so much prominence aud cur
rency to thefce criticisms of Pres
ident Harding coupled with a
suggestion that he be discarded
in favor of Leonard Wood or Cal
vin Coolidge as the Republ can
candidate in 1924 is regarded nu
i having significance.
Uruguay permits womeu to be
come barrister*, but not magis
, tratee, jurors, or judges.
TOBACCO GROWERS FIGHT
FOR ASSOCIATION
Declare Landlord Members Obligated
to Deliver Total Crop—Win More
Suits.
ALAMANCE NBNBEHB PASS HKSO
LUtHINS.
Hundreds of members of the To
bacco Growers' Cooperative Associa
tion, backing op the decision of their
directors, have declared that the to
bacco of tenant* on the farms of
landlords who are members of their
aasociation shall not compete on the
auction market with tobacco placed
in the farmers' pool.
Officials of the local units of the
Tobacco Growers' Cooperative As
sociation in Alamance county met
on June 2, at Burlington, and adopt
ed the following resolution:
We, farmers of Alamauce county,
members of the Tobacco Growers' j
Association (Cooperative), being as
sembled at Burlington, Alamance'
county, for our regular monthly
meeting, do wish to go on record as ,
supporting our association to the
very fullest in its efforts to enforce
each and every term of the contract
signed by our members. We havej
iu mind at this time, especially, that |
part of the contract which holds
each landlord member for all the to- j
baceo produced oivhis land.
Further, we wish to thank our
Directors and officials lor so frankly
stating their position in tbia matter,
and for all the other many great
things they have accomplished for
ua.
And we feel thai the Association
has acted wisely in not borrowing
money to make additions! payments
up to tbia time and* we realize that
if our tobacco is add in an orderly
manner we wilt have to wait a rea
sonable time for a full settlement.
Copy to be aent to our Associa
tion's Secretary at Raleigh, North
Carolina.
(Signed) i &E. DIXON,
County Chairman.
The organized growers of Caswell
county on the same day at their
county meeting in Yanceyville regis
tered their protest against the prac
tice of landlords who are members
of the marketing association allow
ing tobacco which is under contract
to the association to be marketed by
non-member growers. The Wake
county growers likewise declared
their complete independence from
the auction system on June 4, at
SECOND DAY
Program
-AT
CHAUTAUQUA
Sw*'
CHARLES ROSS TAGGART
"The Old Country Fiddler"
MUSIC and ENTERTAINMENT
EEKHOFF -WATERM AN
RINGGOLD COMPANY
"Quality Program* for Bvrybody"
BUY A SEASON TICK K T
GRAHAM, N. C.,
June 11-15
their monthly county meeting in
Raleigh. Indications are that the
great majority of North Carolina
farmers will back th e policy of
their association like the growers of
Virginia where the courts have re
quired its members to pay liquidated
damages on tobacco which was rais
ed by non-members.
A sweeping victory was won by
the tobacco association in Virginia
last week when three cases came up
foj trial before Judge W. R. Barks
dale at Halifax Court House. The
Virginia Jury put a stop to the habit
which some members have of hiding
behind the skirts of their wives when
a member who raised tobacco on j
land belonging to his wife who was j
a non-member, was required to pay
J liquidated damages for three-fourths
jof the tobacco that he raised as his
1 wife's tenant, at the rate of 5 cents
per pound with court cost and at
torneys' fees. In the opinion of the
! association attorneys this will put
lan effectual stop to many who en
idea vor to evade the obligations of
| their contract by growing or selling
I tobacco iu the name of their wives.
Two other defendants whose cases
came up this in the Halifax
court agreed to all the terms of the
suit brought against them rather
than try their cases. This week's
case* of the tobacco cooperative were
added to a long list of legal victori a
for the association in Virginia where
29 suits filed iu that state have now
been settled with defendants upen
terms of the association. In Halifax
county alone, thirteen out of thirteen
suits have resulted favorably for the
cooperative. In Pittsylvania county
the association has already won
eight out of nine of its suits and in
North Carolina a large number ot
its suits brought against contract
breakers have been settled on the
association's terms.
Where the county ageut is em
ployed there gradually comes over
the county a mental change as
found by County Agent J. R.
Sams of Polk county who sees his
coo per* tors now growing summer
legumes, grasses, permanent pas
tures and livestock in place of old
crops o; cotton aud ornV
2,278 farmers in North Carolina
have signed the pledge to "Live
at Home" this year. What a dif
fereucs would be found iu the
prosperity of this State if every
farmer Would do the same, say
extension workers of the State
College and State Det artment of
Agriculture.
Coal Profiteers Unchecked,
Continue Extortion
Exports of anthracite coal dur
ing the ten months ended April
30 were only 21,9.34 tons less than
the shipments abroad iu the same
relative period of 1921-22. The
price of the anthracite exported
iu 1922-23 averaged only about
16 cent;* a ton more than that ex
ported in 1921-22. The exports
of anthracite iu the ten months
from last Jul}'to last April totaled
2 809,307 tons, valued at $31,527,-
077.
.While this authracite was going
lout of the country at a price of
less thin sll a ton, the American
tpeople were beiug informed by
officials of the Government that n
shortage of this sort of coal is due
again next winter aud that it will
be as dear as )t was iu 1922-23.
Just how the price to foreign buy
ers cau be made as low as 110.1)8
cents a ion while the American
consumer is compelled to pay
from §lO to S2O is not explained
by the Department of Commerce,
which supplies the statistics of
exports.
The profiteers i=. coal, :i kc the
profiteers iu sugar, aud clothing,
and food, and building materials
have nothing to fear from the Re
publican administrations They
are preparing to oontiuue next
fall and winter the extortion
which the people experienced dur
ing the cold weather from last Oc
tober-to last April.
Former Senator Frelinghuysen
(Rep. N. J.), who did nothing to
prevent- the spoliation of the pub
lic last year when he was in the
Seuate, is now telling the people
of Now Jersey what they had al
ready learned by the bitterest
kind of experience during the
past Winter, lle charges iu effect
that a combinat ion iu restrain of
trade exists to force cousumcrs to
pay unconscionable prices for the
anthracite they ueed or else en
dure hardship and suffering.
"Eight companies produce three
fourths of the output (of anthra
cite) aud these same companies
control 90 per cent of the under
ground reserves," says Mr. Fre
linghuys u, now t hat !ie has been
ousted from the Senate and wants
to return.
"With the eight companies are
affiliated eight railroads serving
the anthracite fields," he contin
ues. "The interests controlling
the companies and the railroads
secure three profits, one on min
ing, another on wholesaling, and
a third on transportation. The
freight rates charged by the rail
roads carrying coal are exorbitant
and should be reduced to a fair
level
All this was true while Mr. Fre
linghuysen was in tlyi Senate last
fall aud winter when the people
of New York and New England
were suffering for want of fuel
uuless they were able to pay §2O
and $25 a ton for it. Mr. Freliug
huysen was not conspicuous as
the champion of the consumer
then, although Sena'or Walsh,
(Dem. Ma'S.) was doing his best
—and without success —to get the
Republican administration to take
some action to protect consumers.
The Republican Cougress passed
what, among others, purported to
be "an act to prevent profiteering
in coal." There never was even
the slighest attempt to enforce
this law and the people not only
were gouged in price but instead
of coal received for their money
slate and rocks that Col. George
\V. Goethals called "fire-proof
fuel."
G. 0. P. Gems 1
Ohio State Journal (Rep )
We don't know for sure just
what issues our great president is
going to emphasize on his swing
across the continent but our own
plan for the coming campaign of
education and accounting of our
stewardship is to act as if the
Forduey-McCuinber law weren't
there at all, hecklers or no heck
lers.
Well, we see the forward-look
ing farm credits law, from wTiieh
we expect such excellent results
iu next year's campaign of edu
cation, etc., is now in full opera
tion and it 's very gratifying to
know that the toilworn aud sorely'
beset farmer cau borrow money
at 6 per cent just as easily as ho
could before.
NO. 18
How to Bud:
A Fruit Tree.
June is the Month for Budding—How
to do it Yourself; to Get Kind of
Fruit You Want, and to Save Mon
ey.
Raleigh, N. C. June 5. If you
want new fruit trees of a desirable
variety, these may be secured by
taking buds from the desired
variety and inserting them on
seedling stocks or on new wood of
oid trees. June is the month that
this is generally done because the
bark slips easily. R. F. Payne,
extension horticulturist for the
State College and Department of
Agriculture, tells about the pro
cess as follows
"Stone fruits: such as peaches,
cherries, and plums are always
budded. Other fruits as apples,
quince, aud pears may be graftod
but are usually budded because
it is a cheaper, quicker, easier,
and simpler process.
"Shield budding is the type
most used. The bud should be
placed on a stock about the size
of a lead pencil. This usually
means out* year old wood with the
peach and two year wood with
the apple.
"A cut should be made ou the
stock about 3-8 inch ariund the
tree and another one about 1£
inches loug above, vertical to aud
dividing ibis horizontal cut so it
will look like aud inverted T.
"The buds should then be taken
from present soasous growth
where the leaves have been re
moved but part of the petiole left
to be used as a hauUle. A cut
should be made abjut i inch
above the bud so that it will be
about half way thru the stick
whou it reaches the lower end of
ehe bud, there tho bark should
be cut square across. Then tak
ing hold by the petiole remove it
fromjthe stick and insert on the
tree to be budded uuder the flaps
UMtil the lower end comes in con
tact with the lower part of the in
verted T. Press dowu the edges
aud bind with raffia or any otber
good striug.
"After tue uuiou is made this
striug should be cut to prevent
oiudiug. The top can be cut off
next spring after the bud starts."
666
is a Prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGnppe. It's the
most speedy remedy we
know, preventing Pneu
monia.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
LOVICK H. KERNODLET
Attorney-at Law,
GRAHAM, N. C.
: Associated wltU John J. Henderson.
Ollire over National Hank ot Atamaucc
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with W. S. Coulter,
Nos. 7 and & First National Bank Bldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferrell Drug Co.
Hours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to 'J p. in., and
by appoint meut.
l'hone 'jT
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
Ottkc Hours: U to 11 a. ill.
and l>y uppoiutniL-ut
Office Over Acute Drug Co.
Telephone*: Oltiee 1 Ml—Residence 26t
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney at-Law
GRAHAM, N. C.
Oilier over Nttlonul Bankol Alunac*
T. S. G0 02C,
Attorney-«t- Lmm-
KAHAM, N, C
OOce Patterson Building
second Floor. • .
ML WILL UOAti.JR.
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Gbraham, .... North Carolina
OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING