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' VOL. XLIX MILLION DOLLAR JOY-RIDE. • Lasker and Guests Junket at Expense of Tax Payers Under Pretense of Giving the Leviathan a Trial Trip. Special Correspondence. Washington, June 25'. —The Leviathan "Million Dollar Joy- Ride" took place as scheduled. AcconKng to newspaper reports, ex-Chairman Kasker, in charge of tho .junket, 'relkiained in hiding until the three-uaile limit was passed for fear of an injunction. Of the 600 invited guests only 318, according to press reports, went along. Of these a large number were newspaper reporters, special writers, cartoonists and film men Only a partial list of the guests has been published, but in that list are a number of prominent advertisers. This "joy-ride" has beeu camou flaged under the name of a "trial trip." The vessel had a trial trip from Newport News to Boston, and this second trial trip was deemed by many to be unneces sary and only delayed putting the great liner into commission at the most profitable season of the year. It seems now that only a Congres sional investigation can reveal whether or not this junketing trip was necessary or desirable; the-. amount it cost, and whether or not a , Republican official is justified in using the appropria tions for his bureau to entertain persoual friends upon government vessels. "Lasker's "Million Dollar Jov- Ride" has been criticized by Chair man Hull of the Democratic Na tional Committee and by the leading newspapers of both parties, and to these criticisms is attributed the reduction in the number of guests to about 50 per cent of those invited. Mr. Lasker replied to these criticisms, alleg ing that the additional expense for the entertainment of his guests would be only 813,000. No better analysis of Mr. Lasker's re ply has been made than that in an editorial in the Ohio State Journal, the leading Republican newspaper inthecapital of Presi dent Harding's own State. The Ohio State Journal says: "Mr. Lasker, poor man, fails to see that the just objection to his contemplated excursion is found ed on a principle, not on politics. Assuming that the trip is neces sary, he says that the additional expense occasioned by having his guests abroad will amount to ouly about $13,000. In other words, it is all right for a public official to misuse the tax money for his own pleasure or profit, if he mis uses ouly a little of it. "Mr. Lasker might better have said nothing in reply to the scor ings which he has received from almost every high-minded news paper iu the country. His ex planation only shows him unable to understand why he, Is in the wrong, and that is rather pitiful. A fine, discriminating sense of honor and of the general fitness of things in the administration of his trust ought to be the dis tinguishing attribute of every man in public life. But how many of them lack it! How m my Laskers there are!" Mr. Lasker's retirement from the Shipping Board was marked by a dinner tendered to him by the board at which the President of the United States and about a dozen guests were present. Chair man Lasker went out of office in a most luxurious environment. A description of the scene, as re ported in the daily press, is worth reproduction: "When the guests stepped from the elevator they fonnd them selves in a small rose bower bordered with cedars that lead into a reception room, the walls of which were hidden by lattice wprk intertwined with quantities of pink rambler roses. Banked about the walls were palms, ferns, and hydrangeas in great abund ance. "The chandeliers were h'dden under arrangements of rambler roses and other flowers, wbile in the center of the room was a huge THE ALAMANCE GLEANER eartheo jar filled with American Beauty roses. Banked about the bottom of the jar were ferns and hydrangeas. "Tbe table was spread in the Adjoining room, which was con verted into a rose garden, with the walls and ceilings entirely hidden by lattioe covered with pink rambler roses. Directly over the table hung blooming wistaria. The earners were banked with cedars, palms, and ferns amidst hydrangeas, while soft moss covered the floor. "All around the table was a formal flower garden with bloom ing hydrangeas, peonies, and other early summer flowers and ferns, while an electric fountain played in one comer of the gar den: "Tiuy amber and blue lights twinkled through the rose canopy overhead, giving the effect of a star-lit sky. "The table itself was one solid mass, from the center to the handsome dinner plates of pink roses and pond lilies. "Flitting about were servants garbed in qnaint colonial cos tumes of white silk and laoe frills and silk stockings, all made es pecially for the party. Pastures For the Pigs. "Experiments have shown and experience has proven that no Tarheel farmer should attempt to raise pigs, unless be first plans a definite system of pastures. This permanent pasture should be available for the hogs throughout the summer months and where provision has not been made for it, soybeans or cowpeas can be used to advantage by making plantings at different periods dur ing the year so that other grazing fields will be provided as fast as one is exhausted," says Earl Hos tetler, in charge of swine investi gations for the State College and Department of Agriculture. Mr. Qostetler stales that to have a good permanent pasture, it needs to be seeded in the fall and a mixture of 14 pounds of orchard grass, 6 pounds of red clover, 4 pounds of white Dutch clover and 6 pounds of Alsike clover per acre will make a good mixture to use.' Where the land is on bottoms, the Alßike clover may well be increased to take the place of the red clover. A pasture mixture of this kind or a seeding of alfalfa, red clover and alsike clover can be used with good re sults over all North Carolina. There are numerous other grasses and legumes such as Bermuda, burr clover, lespedeza or red top that will furnish good grazing for hogs, but these are not nearly so palatable as the legumes mention ed and will not give as good re sults, thinks Mr. Hostetler. He says: "Through the fall and winter months oats and rye make fine grazing and may be sowed between rows at last working of the crops. This not only econo mizes on the »laud under plow but serves the two-fold purpose of soil building and grazing. Dur ing the spring months, thq sows and their litters will thrive on oata and rape pasture and the hogs will later harvest that grain not consumed while the oate were being grazed. "Good pastures are essential in hog raising bnt it must be kept in mind that the animals also need a gooJ grain ration in ad dition." « The Farmer and the Pork Chop Profiteers. On the morning that hogs were selling in Chicago for $6.75 a hun dredweight, the pri le of pork in the Arcade Market (housed in a building owned by the Government), in Washington, was 45 cento a pound. A retailer inithis market expressed the opin ion that the retail price of pork in Washington was not likely to be materially affected by the de cline in the price of hogs in Chi cago. The hog for which the farmer received 16.75 a hundredweight in Chicago would sell at retail in Washington—on the basis of present prices—at about $25 a hundred pounds. The priee of a hog at the farm is now only about $5.50 a hundredweight. When a bird is killed,«bugs rejoice. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 28; 1923 Come to Grahair July 4th! % A Good Day and Hearty Welcome Awaits You! A Touring Car, Kitchen Cabinet, Edison Phonograph, and Other Valuable Presents Free to the Holders ot Lucky Numbers. The fortunate ones, who have traced in Graham and received tickets, will be indebted to the following Graham merchants and business coucerns for the prizes they draw: Graham Grocery Co. PhH S. Dixon, Tailor. Graham Hardware Co. Hughes Motor Co., Garage. A. W. Norwood, Grocer. Moon Motor Car Co., Garage. Miss Margaret Clegg, Milliner. Graham Printery. B & C Hat Shop, Millinery. J. H. Mann, Groceries. A. B. Nicholson, Variety Store. F. V. Steele, Groceries. A. G. Ausley, Groceries. T. J. Reavis & Son, Groceries. Crawford & Mf Adams, Clothiers. J. W. Holt, Mdse. and Groceries. Green & McClure, Furniture. * Star Store Co., Groceries. Farrell-Hayes Drug Co. J. D. Lee, Ladies' Furnishings. John Y. Hornbuckle & Co., Grocers. J. T. Black, Feed Store. J. D. Albright & Co., Dry Goods. T. C. Moon, Wood and Coal. Z. T. Hadley, Jeweler. D. M. Johnson, Meal and Mill Feed. W. L. Andrews, General Merchandise. Alco Theatre, Moving Pictures. Rich & Thompson, Furniture. A. W. Moser, Meat Market. Graham Drug Co. COST OF LIVING HIGHER. Not Caused by Income Tax, But High Tariff. Little reduction of the,burden now being carried by the farmers and wage earners of the country! may be expected from a decrease! in income taxation, it is believed j by those who have drawn conclu-| sions from the latest statistics on income issued by the Department! of Internal Revenue. It is notj income taxes but the profiteers' tariff which must bear the re sponsibility for most of the high cost of living, in the opinion of these analysts. The total number of income tax returns filed iu 1021 (the latest year for which the figures are; aVailpble) was 6,002,170. It is probable that this is also approx imately the number of individual taxpayers. All of these persons paid taxes on net income aggre gating $19,577,212,528, of which t •13,813,109,105, or 70* per cent, was derived from salaries, wages, bonuses, etc. Those who paid in-; come taxes in 1921 represented only about 17 per cent of the per-; sons gainfully employed in 1920. j While the Democrats and pro gressive Republicans in Congress aro eager to effect a reductiou in income taxes for the. farmers, wage-workers, and otffer small taxpayers, it is realized that any decrease would benefit only a ret atively few and these in ouly a slight degree. Must of the wage earners and farmers have incomes so small that they are not taxable under the law, but they are sof fering from taxation of other kinds. The Fordney.McCumber profi teers' tariff has swollen the cost of living by not less than fonr billion dollars annually. This is equal to a tax of more than S3O a year on overy man, womau*aiid child in the country or about $l6O, a year for each American family. This Republican tariff has taken $300,000,000 more from the farm« j ers than it ha* returned to them !in benefits, according to the ex perts of the Farm Bureau Federa tion. It has added to the wage-, worker's cost of living without at I the same time giving him anything Mike a fair equivalent in higher ; wages. A reasonable reduction in the tariff—and it is agreed that it could be revised downward to save the people $2,000,000,000 a {year in the cost of living without! materially diminishing revenues | —will be undertaken by thej Democrats in the next Cou/ress, |it is believed, but with Harding !in the White HOUSM there is not 1 much prospect that a decrease in rates can be accomplished. The i farmers and workers can hardly j look for any adequate relief until: a Democratic President shall be j ; elected. - , The Republicans will fight to ' prevent a lowering of the tariff on the products of the big Inter ests which contribute to the lie-1 publican party's campaign funds, especially when that is proposed j on the eve of a presidential elec . j tion. ' Ohe of the greatest needs of fanners in Stanley County is more II legume hay states County Agent i O. 11. Phillips after three years in the county. One farmer took this - advice to heart and kept his live stock in better condition last win ter than ever before with one-third [ less grs in». Depredation of Parmer'a Dollar Admitted. Included in a sheaf of publicity material broadcast by the Repub lican National Committee appears an item that confirms what Demo crats have been saying about, the depreciation of the farmer's dol lar as a consequence of high prices 'and profiteering. The Republi can tariff has given the profi teers and extortioners their best opportunity. "Increased cost of agricultural production, on account of higher wages and higher cost of material, now confronts the American farm ers, according to reports received by the U. 8. Department of Agri -1 culture," says this Republican publicity. "The effect of this will be either higher prices for farm products or curtailment of quantity of farm production or both. - "The purchasing power of the farmer's dollar is about station-, ary, compared with previous moaths. At present the iudex of the purchasing power of farm : products is 70." • There is an appreotable increase j in farm wages but the chief cause of the growing cost of producing i crops is the tariff, which has add led $301,000,000 to the cost of the j American farmer's living over and I above any benefit he derives from ! Republican "protection." f I, The old bog wallow is an expen-i sive bath tub for all hogs and inore especially the young pigs i under four months of age. Young pigs are susceptible to parasites ■ and filth born disease say exten- I sion workers of the State College aud Department of Agriculture. TOBACCO GROWERS GUARD Ift23 CROP. Y * \ 810, PLANJEH IN COURT. 1 Eastern selt Co-ops- Hold Meetings —Members to Improve Grading The Tobacco Growers Coopera tive Association hit hard and high iu its first legal action to protect the tobacco of the 1923 crop which is pledged to the association by contract when it gained a tem porary restraining order against F. A. Elks of Pitt county, last week. Elks, who is called the largest tobacco grower in North Carolina's largest tobacco growing, county, is required to appear in court this week t? show cause why he should not be restrained from delivering his tobacco out side of the association of which he is a member. Elks is also being sued in the amount of s(>,oou for liquidated damages for alleged deliveries of 120,000 pounds of tobacco outside of the association. The restrain ing order which calls him to ap pear before Judge Craniner of the I Wake county Superior Court, on June 29, is due to alleged threats to deliver his 1923 crop outside the association. R. N. Elks, a kinsman, is also required to ap pear in court on the same day for similar reasons. Growing enthusiasm among the organized tobacco farmers of East ern Carolina was evidenced by a series of rousing meetings last j week among the farmers of Piit, Johnston and Beaufort couuiies.l In Pitt county members of thej association endorsed their direc tors aud deuouuced the methods of propaganda and intimidation' by which those opposing coopera tive marketiugare reported as en- j deavoring cause still further contract breaking in the Eastern Melt. Tobacco farmers from j thirty Johnston county locals who, held a meeting at Smitbfield, ex pressed their resentment over the j reported attempts of outsiders to' break down morale of weak- j kneed members, in a strong reso- j lution which commended the mer chants of Johnston couuty who have aided the farmers in their effort* to establish better methods of marketing. Congressman H. S. Ward ad dressed hundreds of co-op farm ers at a great barbecue of mem bers of the cotton aud tobacco associations near Washington last wheek when they met for an all day celebration of the success of | their associations. The tobacco cooperative will begin its second important step in commodity marketing in South' Carolina early in July with visits by an expert corps of graders to 150 local units of the association in the Palmetto State, where dem-! onstrations of sorting and bun-! dling tobacco and uniform grading will be given to thousands of growers. W. E. Lea, field service representative of the association in South Carolina, and C. O. Dix on, its manager of warehouses for that state, announce that these meetings will be open to members and non-members alike. They estimate that the visita of the as sociations most successful graders to every county of the South Ca rolina Belt will increase the value of the crop in that section by mauy thousands of dollars. GeC Rams Early. Raleigh, N. C. June 25.—"The season for breeding ewes for early lambs is at hand. The farmer can avoid delay aud generally save money by mtking inquiry for a ram in advance of his actnal needs. It is bad policy to send further and pay more money for a ram when one could have been found near at hand at a lower price," is a timely recommenda tion made by G. P. Williams, Sheep Field man for the Agricul tural Extension Service. lie states that North Carolina should produce its own field rams and uae every good ram in the State | to best advantage. "The policy of sticking for a stiff price in selling a ram is bad for both buyer and seller. It often kills t he sale—depriving the buyer of what be needs and leaves a surplus ram on hand when he could have been sold at a price fair to both parties," says Mr. Williams, SO. 21 Western Farmers' Revolt Shown in lowa Election. The revolt of the indignant and mined farmers of the West against the Republican high tariff and tue failure of the Harding administra tion to give agricultural relief is again demonstrated by the results of a special election on June 4 in the Eighth Congressional district of lowa, where the Republican candi date for Cangress claims election by a bare majority in a district nor mally Republican by between 8,000 and 9,000. J. P. Daughton, the Domocratic candidate, cut down the Republican majority to 7,000 in 1922 against Congressman Towner and in the special election cut it down almost to the vanishing point, carrying counties heretofore strongly Repub lican. The big turn-over is shown by Appaijoose county with a Repub lican majority of 1,730 in l!) 22, now giving 242 Democratic majority and Lucas county with nearly 1,000 Re publican majority in 1922, now giv ing 480 Democratic majority. As this is written ttie actual re sult is in doubt. «• Chairman Hull of tho Democratic National Committee declares that this great reverse amounting to a Democratic victory presages a politi cal revolution in 1924 and he con gratulates the Democrats on being a'ert, united, and eager for the fray. There is a cropping time in the races of ui'en, as iu the. fruits of the lield; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splen did n>en; and then comes a period of harreness.—Aristotle. Many big features have added to the program of 'the Farmers' Convention at the State College, July 31-Aug. 2. Mark these dates on your calendar and prepare to attend. fOR THE OLKA^RR 666 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. Office: Over Minn Alice Rowland's Store. Telephone*: office, IMi'l. Residence, IU. LOVICK H. KERNODLEr~ Attorney-at-Law, GK AH AM, N. C. A»*oclated with John J. Henderson. Office over National iiauk ol Alamance THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Auocuttd witb W. S. Coulter, No*. 7 and 8 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 V p. m., and by appoint ment. Phone 97" GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington. N. C. Ofllce llufirs: D to 11 a. m. ttud by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. Telephones: Office I lU—Residence 2(lk JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. Olllee over National Bank of Alaawaca X, S. C ©OIC, Att«r»aj-at-La« : RAHAM, --- - N. O Offioo Paturaon Building Mcoad Floor. . . DK. 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