THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
VOL. XLIX
REPUBLICAN SPLIT ON
WORLD COURT POLICY
Democratic Chairman Hull's Terse
Reply to Republican Leaders.
Special Correspondence.
Washington, June 12.—The
most interesting, and, in the
opinion of some, the most impor
tant political development of the
year is the war that is being
waged by John T. Adftins, Chair-*
man, Republican National Com
mittee; Senator George H. Moses,
Chairman, Republican Senatorial
Committee, and William R.
W|>od, Chairman, Republican
Congressional Committee, against
the World Court policy of Presi
dent Harding and Secretary
Hughes. Chairman Adams par
ticularly has openly defied the
Presideut and Secretary Hughes
in public statements and in pub
licity issued from Republican Na
tional Headquarters. He carried
the war against the administra
tion's policy to such a bitter ex
tent that Secretary Hughes was
obliged tc/ recall a statement by
the Republican National Commit
tee accusing the allied govern
ments of "crookedness" and of
trying to "job" and "bilk" the
United States in the matter of
payments for tne American Army
on the Rhine.
Smarting u"nler the criticism of
Cordell Hull, Chairman, Democra
tic National Committee, for in
jecting cheap partisan politics in
to our foreign relations, Chairman
Adams attempted to shift the is
sue he has raised, which is split
ting his party from coast to coast,
by calling upon Chairman Hull
to state the attitude of the Demo
cratic National Committee with
reference to the foreign policy of
the Democratic party. Chairman
Hull's reply has been so generally
commended by Democratic leaders
and the leading Democratic pa
pers as to be deemed worthy of
general circulation for the infor
mation and guidance of patriotic
Democrats and patriotic Republi
cans every where. Chairman Hull
said: ,
"Chairman John J. Adams of
the Republican National Commit
tee connot dodge or evade the is
sue he lias raised within his own
party through his open opposition
to the foreign policy of President
Harding and Secretary Hughes by
interrogating me on the attitude
of the Democratic National Com
mittee concerning the foreign
policy of the Democratic party.
Unlike Chairman Adams I do not
recognize the authority of anyone
to write party platforms except
the National Party Convention.
"Dominant Republican National
leaders, played politics with our
foreign affairs during 1919 and
1920, and the irreconcilables have
endeavored to do so since that
time, while most Democrats and
a vast number of patriotic Repub
licans, on the other hand, have
earnestly tried to keep our for
eign policies free from vicious
I artisan politics. I shall pursue
this non-partisan course, and shall
not cooperate with any Republi
can leader la injecting cheap
politics iuto foreign questions, nor
shall I accede to Chairman
proposal that I proceed to define
a platform for Democrats. The
1924 Democratic platform will, nq
doubt, reflect the impartial non
partisan views of Democrats, and
intelligent Republicans as well,
by proposing a practical applica
tion ot the doctrine of interna
tional cooperation, embracing all
the fundamentals and essentials
of the foreign policies of the re
cent Democratic administration,
to conditions as they may then
exist.
"Chairman Adamß has been BO
denunciatory of one-man govern
ment that it is rather surprising to
see him in the role of dictator not
only to his party but to the incum
bent Republican administration.
It is equally surprising that he
should wish to add to his present
troubles by seeking a controversy
with me. If his questions cane
from President Harding or Secretary
Hughes, whose functions under the
Constitution make them responsible
for the administration's foreign
policy, the questions would be
worthy of serious discussion, but I
have no assurance that statements
now made by Chairman Adams will
not be recalled by Secretary Hughes
"In the meantime, I shall refuse
pa be diverted by any wiggling and
wabbling on his part, or any attempt
by him to distract attention from
the failures of tße Harding adminis
tration or the blunders of the Re
publican National Committee, but
shall continue to discuss all out
standing issues, including the high
cost of living; inequality of taxation
in favor of the very rich; tariff extor
tion and profiteering; coal extortion
and profiteering; sugar extortion and
profiteering; appointments to office
of men accused of offenses against
the law or convicted of crimes; high
transportion cost; Newberryism and
Daughertyism; repudiation and vio
lation of the Civil Service law;
wholesale wadte proposed by Lasker-
Harding Ship Subsidy; agricultural
depression and bankruptcy as a re
sult of Republican pplicy and failure
to give relief, and a general display
of ignorance and incompetence by
the Republican National administra
tion."
Sugar Company Profits Increase
Nine Times Over 1922.
Average profits of $2.23 of 100
pounds—a total of $144,950 —were
garnered by the American Beet
Sugar Company on 65,000 sacks of
sugar sold between April 1 and
May 16, during the "peak" of the
high prices which consumers have
been paying for the last three
months. This was j ust nine times
as much as the profit the company
made on each 100 pounds of sugar
sold during the same period of
1922—before the Republican tariff
of $1.7648 a hundredweight was
imposed.
The American Beet Sugar Com
pany is one of the concerns for
which the last Republican Con
gress increased the tariff on sugar.
Another of these concerns is the
Utah-Idaho Company, of whose
stock Senator Smoot, (Utah) rank
ing 'Republican member of the
Finance Committee, owns 440
shares and for which his brother
is general sales manager. It was
Senator Smoot who undertook to
induce Cuban planters to reduce
their output of sugar in 1921 in
order to create a shortage and
boost prizes. When the Cuban
producers refused to adopt this
scheme, Senator Smoot attempted
to get a tariff of f1.84 a hundred
weight against Cuban sugar.
It was urged in behalf of the
tax of 2 cents a pound on the peo
ple's sugar that the beet growers
and the manufacturers of the
'West were in financial straits and
needed "protection" against for
eign competition. It is true that
the producers of beets were theu
and have since been insolvent if
not in poverty, but the sugar fac
tories have been prosperous all
along. Their profits since the
"gouge" began last February have
perhaps exceeded all previous
records. The American Beet
Sugar Company, the Utah-Idaho
Company, and the Great Western
Sugar Company produce two
thirds of the sugar in Ameri
ca, according to the Federal Trade
Commission, which also asserts
that these corporations are con
trolled by the American Sugar Re
fining Company, generally known
as the Sugar Trust. •
ThQ Utah-Idaho Company—in
which Senator Smoot has been a
stockholder for many years—was
indicted under the Lever act in
1920 on a charge of profiteering.
The company made no report of
its net income in 1920, but in
1919, when the tariff on Cuban
raw sugar was $1 a hundredweight,
it was $978,290, according to
Moody's Analysis of Investments
for 1922. In 1921, when the
special Republican tariff of $1.50
a hundredweight on Cuban raw
sugar was operative, the Utah-
Idaho Company had net income of
$1,417,840. It is expected that
its profits will be very much larger
in 1923 under the influence of a
higher profiteers' tariff and the
exorbitant prices which have pre
vailed since last winter.
Since President Harding re
fused to reduce the duty on Cu
ban sugar and Attorney General
Daugherty attempted to enjoin
the New York Sugar and Coffee
Exchange and certain individuals
i —with no prospect of a final de
i cision by the courts for many
months hence—the Sugar Barons
i have again started to increase
; prices apparently with ihipunity.
Typewriters which are painted
white all over are sail to improve
the users' output whilst causing
least eye strain.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 14.1923
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS
PAID TO COOPERATIVES
New Contracts Pour in—likely to
Receive Majority S. C. Weed-
Crop Shortage of Millions of
Pounds Due to Weather and Labor
Conditions.
.. ,
More than yialf a million dollars
were paid out'this week to members
of the Tobacco Growere Cooperative
Association from their warehouses
in the Dark |Tired Belt of Virginia
on tobacco delivered since February
17. This payment will bo followed
by further cash distributions to i
members of the cooperative associa- i
tion in three states as soon as suffi
cient sales of tobacco by the Leaf
Department of the association war- i
rant third payments to the members
in North Carolina aud Virginia, and i
a fourth payment in South Carolina.
The receipt of 51 contracts in one
day this week from new members
in S >nth Carolina marks the in
creasing sign-up of tobacco with the
cooperative association in the south
ern end of the belt. The South Ca
rolina growers now appear certain
to follow the example of Virginia
growers in 1922 in marketing a
majority of tneir tobacco through the
cooperative association during the
coming season.
That there will be a crop shortage
of bright tobacco in Virginia of at
least 30 per cent, or well ovej 30,-
000,000 pounds, as compared to last
year, now seems inevitable. Similar i
losses have been suffered by the
.farmers of the Old Belt of North Ca
rolina, and it is generally agreed
that the bright tobacco crop of the «
Old Belt will be 50,000,000 pounds
less than in 1922, even with the |
most favorable conditions hereafter.
More than 800 crop reports from
local units of the Tobacco Growers'
Cooperative Asssciation have now
reached Raleigh headquarters. Ac
cording to reports from the county
secretaries of the tobacco coopera
tive in 22 out of 28 tobacco growing
counties in Virginia there was a 1
prospective shortage of at least 21
per cent in the bright tobacco pro- '
duction of that State up to June 1. |
It is estimated that since that time '
the continued dry weather and the 1
loss of plants have increased the 1
shortage of the next crop in Vir- j
ginia alone at the rate of 1 per cent
a day, up to June 11.
The prospects for eastern North 1
Carolina, though far more favorable
than in the Old Belt, have been im
paired by the lack of rain and the
unprecedented migration of negro
labor. South Carolina reports the
most favorable crop conditions for
many years at this season, but there
as in the Eagtern Bell, the loss of
negro labor is seriously handicaping
the tobacco farmers.
New Wheat Disease Appears.
Raleigh, N. C., June 5.—A
wheat disease new to North Caro
lina and to the United States has
recently appeared in some fields
near Lincolnton, accordiug to find
ings of Dr. F. A. Wolf, I'lant
Pathologist of the North Carolina
Experiment Station. Specimens
of the disease wero sent in to Dr.
Wolf by Garreu Morrison, County
Agent of Lincoln couqty, and be
cause the disease WHS uew to this
State, Dr. Wolf seut them to
Washington where the disease was
found to be the dreaded " l'ake
All." "Take All" was first dis
covered in the United States iu
1920 at a few places in New York
State. Later it WHS found iu
Washington and Oregon and these
affected fields in North Carolina
is the third finding of the trouble
in this country. Other specimens
have -just been received from
county agent R. W. Graeber of
Iredell county.
serious is the disease that
i Dr. A. G. Robinson of the United
States Department of Agriculture
was pent to Lincoln county to
make a study of the trouble. Ac
companied by G., W. Fant, exten
sion plant disease worker, Garreu
Morrison, county a*« ut, aud a
i number of farmers, a trip was
i made over the infested district
where they found, iu the most
■ heavily infested areas, that about
i one-fourth of the wheat crop was
i destroyed. Dr. Wolf states that
the disease was easy to locate.
The affected plauts were dwarfed
I : varying iu height from 6 to 10
j inches while the healthy plants
; were about four feet in height,
litany of the infected plants were
dying or had already perished at
the time of the trip. The lower
joints, including the leaf
sheathes, were dark or entirely
blackened and enveloped by a
layer of delicate brown threads.
These threads are formed by th
casual fungus and in them are in
bedded the black fruit bodies of
the fungus. The roots were
blackeuel and more or less de
cayed.
Mr. Fant was unable to locate
the source of infection Th® farm
ers were of the opinion that the
disease had been on their places
last year and sincd the seed had
been grown on the local farms for
several years it seems that the
disease was not brought in with
the seed. Dr. Wolf states tlpitit
will live for sometime in iqfested
soil and ou the stubble or Straw.
"Take All" is one of the most
serious diseases of wheat known
to science and, as its name indi
cates, takes uearly all the wheat
that it attacks. It has beeu
watched for several years in for
eign countries to prevent its com
ing into this couutry. It was
found first in Australia and later
iTT France, England, Italy, Ger
many and Japan. It may have
come to this country in grass seed
as it lives on those grass plants
similiar to wheat.
The farmers in Lineolu county
are very much concerned over the
trouble and Dr. Wolf would like
for every farmer finding a disease
of this kind iu his wheat fields to
send him a specimen. It is im
portant that the extent of the
trouble be kuow so that proper
coutrol measures may be worked
out. Specimens should bo Bent
to Dr. F. A. Wolf, Plant Patholo
gist, College Station, Raleigh.
Lime Pays With Vetch
Durham, N. C., June 12. —A
notable demonstration of the
value of iiine with vetch has just
beeu reported by E. C. Blair, ex
tension agronomist of the State
Department of Agriculture, as
found on the farm of W. 11.
Chandler of Durham county.
Mr. Blair states that it is now be
coming well known that line is
nearly always necessary in the
growiug of alfalfa and red clover
but has not been fully appreciat d
for use with other legumes. This
demonstration proves that lime
pays well with some of the others.
In the fall of 1921, Mr. Chand
ler applied ground lime stone at
the rate of 2400 pounds p«r acre
to half of one of his fields. He
left the other half unliined. /Soy
beans were planted on this field
in the spring of 1922 followed by
rye and vetch last fall. Today,
reports Mr. Blair, there is a..very
thick, rank growth of vetch on
the limed land. The vetch has
grown so well that it has practi
cally choked out the rye. The
stems of the vetch are about three
feet long where the soybeans were
cut for bay last fall and about
four feet long where the soybeans
were turned under. Although
the stems are matted together and
bedded down this difference is
easily seen by the many visitors
to the field. And then— ob the un
limed portion of the field there is
no vetch.
Mr. Blair states that vetch eon
tains about five times as much ni
trogen per ton as rye, so Mr.
Chandler is not worrying about
the rye having beeu choked out.
He figures that the legume has
gathered from the air at least as
much nitrogen per acre as a 400
pound application of uilrate of
soda would supply. Potash aud
phosphoric acid are relatively
cheap fertilizers and with the ni
trogen added by the vetch aud
the organic matter that is supplied
together tfithvome purchased pot
ash aud phosphoric acid, Mr.
Chandler exj>ects to make a rec
ord of corn oii the limed land this
year. He seems to have some
doubts about his corn on the un
iiiued l»ud.
Did you know that bees may be
developed into a profitable side
line on the average North Carolina
farip. C L. Sams, Extension
bee-keeper for the State College
and Department of Agriculture,
will tell you about it if ypu will
write him.
In Belgium the trade union re
strictions ou apprenticeship bar
women from the hair dressing
aud priutiug trades.
"THE PIEDMONT LIMITED"
NAME GIVEN NEW TRAIN
Dr. Rondthaler Wins S2OO Prize-
About 63,000 Suggestions.
Washington, D. C., June 11.—
"The Piedmont Limited" is the
name selected for Nos. 33 and 34,
the new trains between New Or
leans and New York, inaugurated
by the Southern Railway System
in connection with the Pennsyl
vania, the West Point Route, and
the Louisville and Nashville, on
April 29.
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler,
president of Salem College, Win
ston-Salem, N. C., wius the s2uo
prize offered by the interested
lines for the most appropiiate
name for this new service, having
been the first to suggest this
uame. Since the offer of this
prize Was announced, 21.106 let
ters have been receiveMby Pas
senger Traffic Manager ■ W. 11. Tay
loe, of the ,Southnj> containing
approximately 6%GuO suggestions,
coining from every state of the
Union, a surprisingly large num
ber having been received from the
Pacific Coast and from New Eng
land.
"The Piedmont Limited" is con
sidered a most appropriate name
for Nos. 33 and 34, as between
Montgomery and Washington
they traverse the country along
the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge
widely kuown as the Piedmont
seotion. Thirty years ago this
line was advertised and widely
kuown as the Piedmmt Air Line.
Since its inauguration, "The Pied
mout Limited" has made an ex
cellent on-time recorl aud has
proved very popular, its schedule
being: lv New Orleans 5 p. in.,
Mobile 9:20 p. in., Atlanta 8 a. in.,
Charlotte 4 p. m., ar Baltimore
4:30 a. m., Philadelphia 6:55 a. in.,
New York 9:15 a. m; lv New York
3:35 p. in., Washington 9:35 p. in.,
ar Atlanta 4:05 p. m„ New
Orleans 7:20 a. ui.
Republican National Committee
Has Turned on Harding.
In analyzing the attack of the
Republican National Committee
upon the allied governments
couched in the language of Bil
lingsgate, one reason for the out
break out by CordeJiL
Hull, Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, who said:
"While the country will share
Secretary Hughes's perturbation
and iudignation over this grave
blunder of the R publican Na
tional Committee, there are two
outstanding facts which show that
the committee is not alone to
blame for this policy of political
inter-meddling in foreign relations
and the possible results there
from:
"First, the attack of the Re
publican National Committee up
on Presideut Harding's World
Court policy and its offensive ref
erences to foreign governments
is exactly in line with the policy
inaugurated by the Republican
party in 1919-20, when the same
'poison gas* methods were menda
ciously directed at the foreign
policy of the Democratic adminis
tration. These were the repre
hensible methods upon which the
party relied to elect Mr. Harding
iu 1920 and to which be and other
Republican leaders gave acquies
cence and approval.
"Second, by acquiescing aud ac
cepting these poison gas methods,
the Republican party under the
Harding administration has de
generated and split up into feuds
and factious until it is now impos
sible for the Republican National
administration to accomplish any
thing decisive in international af
fairs or even in domestic affairs.
This administration finds itself
the object of retributive justice,
with the poison gas attacks it
originated and directed now turn
ed against itself by its own na
tional political organization.
"Now that the administration
has had the infamy and humilia
tion of the poison gas policy in
augurated by the Republican
leaders and directed against a
Democratic administration
brought home and turned against
itself, it ought to prove a warn
ing to the party in power that the
honor, the dignity and the ma
terial interest of the United States,
as well as its peaceful relations
with foreign governments, should
never be endangered by political
expediency or the hatreds and
malice of partisan politics."
What Mrs. Vanderbilt
Proposes for 1923 Fair.
V Raleigh, N. C., June 11. —Mrs.
Edith Vanderbilt is back from the
Orient with many new ideas about
making the next State Fair bigger
and better than ever before. She is
now at her home at Biltmore, and
will give largely of her time during
the summer to working out these
ideas in tangible form.
Like other North Carolinians, Mrs.
Vanderbilt is proud of the State,
and she wants to make the State
Fair representative of a great State.
Of course, she expects to have agri
cultural exhibits in keeping with
the splendid work that is being done
in farming, but «le wants to do
more. She wants all the various in
dustries of the State represented
also.
For instance, there are the furni
ture factories at High Point that are
second to none in the South and that
rank with the bust in other sections
of the world. She wants to have
this industry adequately represented
at the fair.
Then there is the textile industry.
Here North Caroliua also leads the
South. Some of the best exhibits at
the last State Fair were those shown
by cotton mills. She wants to have
more of these exhibits this year.
Mrs. Vanderbilt doesn't expect to
stop with exhibits of agricultural
and industrial progress. She wants
to show what the schools and news
papers are doing, for she believes
that intelligence must be the basis
for all substantial progress in any
line of endeavor.
Wholesome entertainment is one
of Mrs. Vanderbilt's hobbies. She
is arranging to have many interest
ing features iu the way of firßt class
amusement at the State Fair this
year. Careful Btudy is being given
to this important feature of the fair.
With the ideas and impressions
gained from her trip abroad, Mrs.
Vanderbilt believes that she will be
able, with the aid of the other offi
cials of the fair, who have also been
busy collecting data, to work out a
program for next season that will in
sure a fair that will be worthy of a
great State.
Federal Fuel Administrator
Sees No Relief Next Winter-
Consumers of coal, whether an
thracite or bituminous, need ex
pect no decrease in prices from
the extortionate level at which
they were held last fall and win
ter, according to Federal Fuel Ad
ministrator F. R. Wadleigh, an
appointee of President Harding.
The position of Fuel Administra
tor was created with the object of
removing some of the difficulties
of supply cost* experienced by
consumers last winter.
Mr. Wadleigh entertains no
hope that the U. S. Coal Commis
sion, os'ablished last autumn to
investigate the production, trans
portatiou and cost of coal and rec
ommend legislation to regulate
output aud prices, will be able to
accomplish anything to make fuel
more plentiful or cheaper. It will
be futile for users of coal to wait
for any action by the Commission,
Mr. Wadleixh believes.
"While constructive reconi
•niendations, based on an immense
collection of data, will-undoubt
edly be made iu the report of the
Commission," says Mr. Wadleigh,
"it is pointed out that no legisla
tive actiou can be taken uutil Con
gress meets in December."
If Mr. Wailleigh's gloomy fore
cast is fulfilled by events, the
consumer of coal may begin to ac
commodate himself as best he can
to the task of paying from sl6 to
s2Gia ton for anthracite —if he can
get it—next winter as he did last,
and be glad that he receives coal
instead of rocks aud slate as was
the experience of hundreds of
buyers iu New York, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, Couuecticut aud
Massachusetts.
This official announcement from
the President's own appointee
makes it clear that the incompe
tence of the Harding administra
tion and its failure to take any
actiou to protect the public dur
ing the coal strike last year will
compel the people of the northern
sections of the country to endure
shortage of fuel, extortionate
prices, and painful hardships for
the second time within two years.
Cultivate the garden after every
rain. Plant vegetables for suc
cession.
NO. 19
Wbittier on the Home Paper.
The Division of Publications of
the North Carolina Extension
Service believea that the home
papers of this State are rendering
a real service to their readers by
giving thein news abouo other
farmers and facta about the world
in which farmers are always inter
ested. Wiih all that has been
written about country newspa
pers, though, it seeins curious
ttiat it was only recently atten
tion was called to the fact that
one of the most loved American
poets years ago paid a tribute to
the country weekly which, for
color and vividness, perhaps has
nit been excelled by any of the
modern writers.
It is not known just whp is en
titled to credit for brining the
p lem to light; it is several weeks
now since it first begau app*aring
in the exchauges and the Editor
of the State College and Depart
ment of Agriculture is indebted
to the Editor of Cornell University
for bringing it to bis attention..
The poem is part of Wljftier's
longer poem "Snowbound" and is
as follows:
At last the floundering canier bore
l'he village paper tj our door.
Lo! broadening outward as we read
fo warmer zones ih' horizon spread,
In panoramic length uurolled
We Baw the marvels th t it told,
Welcome to ue its week-old news,
Its corner for the rustic Muse,
Its monthly gauge of snow and rain,
Its record mingling in a bieath
I he v\ edding bell and dirge of deaths
Jeot, anecdote, and love-lorn
The latest culprit sent to jail;
Its hue and cry of stolen and lost,
Its vendue sales and goods at cost,
And'iraffic calling loud for gain,
We felt the Btirof hall and street,
The pulse of life that round us beat;
The chill embargo of the BUOW
Was melted in the genial glow;
Wide swung again our ice-locked
door,
And all the woild was ours once
more.
6 6 6"
is a Prescription for Colds,
Fever and LaGrippe. It's the
most speedy remedy we
know, preventing Pneu
monia.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
J. B. BALL, D. C.
CHIROPRACTOR
Nervous and Chronic Diseases,
BURLINGTON, N. C.
Oflice: Over Miss Alice Rowlands Store.
Telephones: office, tMS'-i. Residence, 10.
LOVICK H. KERNODLEr
Attorney-at-Law,
GRAHAM, N. C.
Associated with John i. Henderson.
Office over National Bank of Alamance
THOMAS D. COOPER,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with W. S. Coulter,
Nos. 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg.
S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D.
Graham, N. C.
Office over Ferroll Drug Co.
Hlours: *2 to 3 and 1 to'J p. m., and
by appointment.
Phone 07"
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours:* V to 11 a. in.
unit by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephones: Office I Hl—Residence 2(14
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM, N. C.
OHUe over National Bankol Alamance
X. S. COOK,
Attorney-at- Laar
ißAllAM, . - - - N. 0
UOBco I'atteraon Building
tteoond Floor. • .
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