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VOL. XLIX ADMINISTRATION CANDIDATE S DEFEAT IN MINNESOTA. Something Expected to Happen in All Agricultural States in 1924. Speciaf Correspondence. Washington, July 23.—An analysis of the overwhelming de feat of Gov. Preus, the Republican national administration candi date, in the Minnesota Senatorial special election shows that two of the outstanding causes were the failure of the Harding adminis tration to enact any sound eco nomic legislation for the relief of agriculture, and, second y, the enactment of the infamous Ford ney-McCumber Profiteers' Tariff, which has enormously increased the prices of everything the farm er is compelled to buy, while agricultural products, especially wheat and livestdfek, have con-' tinued to decline in price. The destruction of his foreign markets through the Republican policy of isolation and the failure of the Harding administration to restore thein, left the farmer without an outlet for,,his surplus products, which necessarily had the effect of lowering prices in the domestic market. In order to placate the farmer and to win his support and the support of tho Republican farm blocs in the House and the Senate for the in famous Fordney-McCumber Tariff bill in the interest of the big manufacturing and special privi lege classes, tho administration offered the bribe of a high tariff on agricultural commodities with the promise that it would restore the agricultural industry to pros perity. Under the Emergency Tariff act of May 1921, which put a tariff of 35 cents a bushel on wheat, and the Fordney-McCumber perma nent tariff of September, 1922, which put a tariff of 30 cents a bushel on wheat, the price of wheat has steadily declined from SI.OB a bushel in May, 1921, to less than one dollar a bushel. In the meantime the price of manu factured products under the pro tection given them in the Fordney bill has enormously increased. The drastic deflation policy of the Republican administration also contributed in bringing the farm er nearer to ruin. To add to his burden, taxation in states, conn ties and municipalities under Re publican rule has enormously in creased, and there has been no appreciable reduction of internal Federal taxes to any but the multi-millionaire and profiteering classes. Meanwhile the farmers and the people generally have seen the special interests make extortion ate profits through the Fordney- McCumber tariff act which costs the people $4,000,000,000 a year, $3,500,000,000 of which goes into the pockets of the special interest and only $500,000,000 into the treasury iu taxes. - • These are the main reasons for the revolt of the farmers in the western states against the Hard ing administration, and what is true of conditions in Minnesota is true of conditions in every agri cultural section of the country. The Minnesota Senatorial elec tion, with a majority of approxi mately 85,000 against the Repub lican administration candidate is taken here as a true forecast of what will happen in all the agri cultural states in 1924. Kansas Wheat Crop to Average 80 Cents a Bushel, Reports from Kansas give the information that this year'j crop of wheat in tnat State is worth an average of 80 cents a bushel on the basis of contemporary prices in Chicago. It is declared by per sons familiar with conditions in Kansas that the farmers there have not realized the cost of pro ducing the wheat they have just finished harvesting. What is true of Kansas, it is declared, is equally true of most of the Western and Middle West ern States in which wheat i 3 one of the principal agricultural pro ducts. The fanner's investment' in land and equipment and his work and worry as tho bead of a considerable business have given him a return that hardly is the of fair wages. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. MANY NEW ENGLAND FARMS ARE FOR SALE. Protective Tariff Has Not Helped the Farmer—Distress of New England Farmers as Great as in West. Washington Correspondence. Distress among the farmers of New England, which is much uearer to its market than Western States are to theirs, is reported to be as widespread and serious as it is among tlje agricultural populations in the trans-Missis sippi region. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, an inde pendent newspaper of Republican prepossessions, publishes a re view of conditions in New Eng land and shows that while the farmers are selling their products for baro cost or less all that they buy is growing dearer. "There are more farms for sale in New England than there have been for yeax - s," the Republican's report states, and adds that "there are practically no buyers." The scarcity rising cost of labor are enumerated among the factors which are impoverishing the farmers of New England, the Republican says, but these are not the only adverse influences. Deeper than the labor shortage lies the cumulative discourage ment of low prices for farm pro ducts while the cost of everything the farmer buys is climbing high er, tho Republican says, and con tinues: "This lament is by no means concentrated in the veteran corn belt and grazing country. It rises as loud from the New England countryside as anywhere else. It is the first and last topic of con versation at any farmers' gather ing." The report then goes on to say that many farmers in N#w England are so poor that they can't afford to pay annual dues of from $2 to $5 for membership in farqa bureaus. "In Connecticut, the State Board of Agriculture reports 148 farms for sale, 50 more than have ever been reported before," says the Republican's story. Dr. C. D. Woods, director of in formation of the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, is quoted as stating that there are more than 100 farms listed for sale in the Bay State. It is much easier to buy a good farm today than it has been for years, Dr. Woods told the Republican. The Republican then gives Dr. Wood's explanation of the agricultural depression as follows: "He see* the cause of the sell ing [of farms] as deep-seated dis couragement. with the condition that faces the farmer who has to sell his products at approximately pre-war prices and has to pay double pre-war prices for his ma chinery, his clothing, household needs, and practically all pur chases." Glenn Sevey, edtior of New England Homestead, is somewhat consoled by the fact (according to the Republican) that the situation in New England is not so bad as it is in tho Middle West and the Far West. "Mr. Sevey declares conditions in the Midwest are worse. On a trip to .Michigan he found hun dreds of farms going to decay in idleness." For many years Senators and Congressmen from New England and other Eastern States have made Republican tariffs almost to their own liking. Payne, Aid rich, and Dinglev recall Republi can statesmen from the East. The present Fordney-McCumber Act, although it bears tbe names of a Congressman from the Middle West and a Senator from the trans-Missouri section, was prac tically dictated by Eastern and New England interests, including the Wool Trost, tne Co'ton Tex tile Trnst, the Silk Trust, the Steel Trust, tbe Glass Trust, and the Clothing Trust. Excspt for Democratic Senators and Repre sentatives no voice speaking for that- part of the country was raised in Congress in behalf of the farmers of New England. Senator Lodge spoke for the Shoe Trust which wanted cheap hides, but be said nothing for cheap GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 26, 1923 woolens, or cheap implement?, or cheap iron or steel. The farmers of\New England, like their fellows in all other sec tions of the United States, are re ceiving a painful demonstration that a Republican "protective" tariff is utterly worthless to them and can only profit special inter ests already rich aud powerful. The Fordney-McCumber tariff is perhaps more vicious in its prin ciples and more burdensome in its effect than any of its predeces sors, because it has added to the farmers' cost of living not less than $300,000,000 a year, eco nomic experts of the Farm Bureau Federation have found, at a time when the foreign market ,for American agricultural products was staguant and the farms of the country were covered by debts incurred in the panic of 1921-22, Tl^ere are two ways in which the farmers can make ends meet, accoi-ding to authorities in eco nomics. One way is to sell their products for higher prices—a rei ipe that can not be made suc cessful under present conditions. The other way is to cut their ex penses by reducing their taxes. This is feasible. Repeal of the Fordney-McCumber tariff —which takes from consumers as a whole a toll of $4,000,000,000 a year— and a decrease in the income taxes would be equivalent to a corresponding addition to the farmer's receipts from crops. Anthracite $1 a Ton Higher Than Last November. Domestic grades of "anthracite coal are now selling at retail iu Washington, the seat of tho Fede ral Government, for about $1 a ton more than the average prices which the U. S. Coal Commission reported were being quoted last November, after the beginning of cold weather aud within, three months after the settlement of the miners' strike. This means that in the midst of tho warmest weather of the year, and on tho heels of an investigation by a Federal commission, hard coal is costing cousumers more than it cost them last autumn wheu stocks of fuel were still depleted and when as yet no inquiry had been undertaken. Production of anthracite since January 1, 1923, has been pro ceeding at a rate higher thau that of 1921, wheu there was no miners' strike, aud promises to be 100,000,000 tons for tho calen dar year 1923. Notwithstanding this output and tho fact that an thracite is being sold for exi ort at prices below sll a ton, it is now $1 a ton dearer in the national capital, 200 miles from tho mines, than it was in the cold weather of last fall. Federal Fuel Distributor F. R. Wadleigh has twice issued state ments in wh&h ho predicted that anthracite would be no cheaper or mdre plentiful iu 1923 than it was in 1922. It is difficult to de termine whether the present ex orbitant prizes are an intentional or an accidental fulfil mont of Mr. Wadleigh's prediction. Farmers Get Less, Consumers Pay More for Farm Products. Reports from tho Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Depart ment of Labor for the month from May 15 to June 15 were in tbe tenor of all those for the last year —the cost of living in the cities is rising. According to tlie digest of the Bureau's latest report pub lished by the New York Herald, a Republican newspaper, "the cost of living is gradually increasing in some localities, while in others it is hardly perceptible."- In Washington, the seat of the national Government and official residence of President Harding, the increase for the month was 3 per cent. In eighteen of the twenty-three cities covered by the report there was a rise of from aboat one-half of 1 per cent to 3 per cent. While the residents of tho cities and towns were paying more for their food and clothing the prices paid to producers of grain, milk, eggs, meats, and vegetables were lower than they were in the same month of last year—a fact shown by the Department of Agriculture. It is not what you get out of life, but what you give, that makes you happy. BILL BOOSTER SAYB Vj new tve* VCMOOKCRS « mm QO/Vt, \ Jovr OVJfc KA/kU uo/vH A.MO vjwacr HAppewep "TVA* VCwdCKWI* VMO KAAOE POtt OP VMS ARK, AMD tHEVI \ Peec ecrrou H j MRS.' VANDERBILT TOURS IN INTEREST OF STATE FAIR. Speaking at Number of Places—Re sults Gratifying--Tells About Great ness of" North Carolina—Urges Cooperation of County and Com munity Fairs. "■ ' * Mrs. Edith Vauderbilt, Presi dent of tho North Carolina Agri cultural Society, has just com pleted a tour of Eastern North Carolina in tho interest of tho State Fair. She wont on the war path for the purpose of urging closer cooperation between tho couuty and community fairs and the State Fair. She met with a gratifying response from the large crowds that heard her tho past week. She spoke at Monroe, Wilming ton, New/ Born, Kinstou, Golds boro and Wilson, aud visited sev eral other points in the State. She made the trip iu approved stump speaking style,traveling by auto mobile so that she could make better time. Her poke bonnet hat caught the fancy of her audiences, and many a Tar Heel farmer is ready to wager that she is goiug to make the Fair this year the big success that she has in mind. Certaiuly she will if those who heard her speak can aid her iu realizing her ambition, it is declared, for these farmers found that she is a real womanly woman without frills or furbelows. Mrs. Vauderbilt in her ad dresses explained that the proper function of a State Fair or any fair for that matter is not the amusement of pleasure seekexs but the development along proper lines of education iu agriculture, industry and general kuowledge. She ventured to say that there is no other Stato on the Atlautic seaboard that can present so much in the way of natural resources as North Carolina and she ventur ed further to predict that a State Fair on a State-wide basis and fi nancially organized would do more for North Carolina in five years than a million dollars spent in any other way. Even as it is last year's fair brought favorable comments from as far north as New Hampshire and as far west as Wisconsin. The logical conclusion of the program of the Agricultural So ciety, she said, is to build up an institution that will belong to the State aud that will adequately , represent the State. Revenue stamps to the value of $25,000 were required to stamp a $50,00u,000 mortgage recently given by an Illinois tel phone company to secure a bond issue, and which it was necessary to have recorded in 90 counties throughout tho state. ' Ihwaii is a country of rain bows. Scarcely 25 hours pass without one or more of the celes tial arches appeariug above Hono lulu. The amount of radium known to be existing in tfce world is 200 grammes. ELON COLLEGE Its Gigantic Building Program and What it Means. BY BION M. LYNAM. The death o( Col. R. L. Holt has been a serious loss to Elon College. Col. Holt had proved himself a loy il and devoted trieud. It was Col. Holt who began the move ment to have the county erect the fine new administration building{ on the Elon College Campus which. bears the na ne of the county,; whose devoted citizenship has; given it. Col. Holt began tho movement by a gift of live thousand dollars. It was the second time iu the past four years that Col. Holt had done that, and it was a fine example to translate his sympathy into such concrete terms. He'felt for the college on the of January 18th as its administration buildiug lay a smouldering mass of ruins, and so much of the: equipment of the college,Jiad been | destroyed; he felt for the college; a deep sympathy, and he trans lated that sympathy into five thousand concrete terms of sym pathy. The people of Alamance couniy rosponded nobly to this example, and it is by their loyalty that the Alamance Hall will occu py the center of the quadrangle; at a cost of one hundred thousand! dollars. Elou appreciates this | building, uot so much because ot 1 its actual cash cost or the fine ad-' dition which it will make to the. plaut of the college, but Elou ap preciates this buifUing more be cause it comes to the college from the hearts of its neighbors. It stands as a token of their love and loyalty. There is 110 greater test of greatuess for an individual or an institution than the esteem in which his or its neighbors hold it, and this fine edifice is the' proof of the respect an 4 lovej which the people of the county of I Alamance feel for the college in the midßt of them. The building j is the gift of men and women who j have grown up along with the col lege, of ineu and women who know j its failures aud its achievements, aud in whose hearts the college! has found a place for itself. These are the things which make Alamanco Hall mean so much to Elon College, and these after all, are the assets which count for most in the final reckoniug. The Alamance Ilall will house the class rooms, the administra tive offices, the literary society halls, and the modernly arranged! aud well equipped domestic sci ence department at whose head] will be one of the daughters of | Alamaufee' county. Miss Delores; Morrow of Burlington will head; the work of this department, and i she is well qualified for giving training to young women in the! fine art of home making. She thoroughly understands Uotnej Economics, and is giving her sum mer to a further study of her sub ject at Columbia University. She will be at Elou in the fall to be giu her work. Elon is her Alma: Mater, and she will bring to her[ work, uot only efficiency, but love for'tho collage which she serves. Miss Morrow is admirably fitted for her work, and Elon is for tunate in finding among the peo ple of Alamance county a youngi woman for the position. Besides the Alamance Hall the building program includes six | other buildings. Four of which j are to be erected along with the. administration buildiug. The! four buildings will form a quad raugle at tbe center of which will, staud Alamance Hall. On the southern corners of the | quadrangle wilt be placed the' science hall and the Whitley Me morial buildiug. The science ball will be devoted t) the depart ments of science, aud will house, the branches of chemistry, phjs-: ics, geology, and biology. It has; been planned after a careful study 1 of the best science buildings all over the country, aud the profes-1 sors of the different sciences at Elon have aided in arranging tbe floor plsns of the building after a careful study of their subject and its needs. All these needs will be met iu the new science build ing and ft will give Klon one of tho best arranged buildings of the kind in tbe South. Science is be ing stressed at the present time in the college curriculum, and the new buildiug will give Elon a leading place in the work certain-! ly in North Carolina. The Whitley Momorial build ing is the gift of J. M. Darden of Suffolk, Va., ami will be the audi-! torium building of the college. It: will have a seating capacity of one thousand, aud will also house the excellent music department of tbo college on which much stress is laid. The Whitley Me-! morial buildiug will cost fifty thousand dollars as will each of j the corner buildings forming t lie j 'quadrangle. The Whitley Me-j J morial building will be one of the.) most beautiful auditorium build-! lings staudiug on afly college! campus in the South, and it will | be equipped to care for tho needs of Elon College for number of j years to come. On the northern corners of the; quadrangle will be erected the Carlton building, which will be the library, and the Religious Ac tivities building. These*- two I buildings will add greatly to the I efficiency of the work of the Col-' j lego and to the beauty of the 1 ! plant. The Carlton building will house, the library of the college, and will have a capacity of one hun-j dred thousand volumes, it will j also be eqnipped with the most modern l'brary facilities, and with reading rooms adequate to care for the needs of the college. The! Carlton building is the gift of P. jJ. Carlton of Richmond, Va. Mr. Carlton is Secretary Treasurer o f and has previously to the fire given largely to the college. On January Ist he gave twenty-fne thousand dollars to the endow- j ment fund, and since the fire has added fifty thousand dollars for tho erectiou of the Carlton build ing. Mr."Carlton has given more to the college thau possibly any other living man. He, like Col. Holt, could translate his sympa thy into tangible terms. The Religious Activities build ing will be a unique building., There is not a similar building now standiug 011 the campus of any college iu America. The building plans originated with the religious education department of Elon College, and were drawn ' under the supervision of that de- 1 partment. The plans for the proposed bui!ding have been sub- ! mitted to tbe leading authorities on religious education all over the United States, and have met with the approval of experts every where. This will put Klon in the lead in the lield of religious edu cation. I The other two buildings includ ed iu th» program are dormito ries, aud will be erected as the ; student body increases and do . mands thein. Besides this gigantic building | program Elon proposes to add to] jits endowment the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. When [the Board of Trustees met and outlined this tremendous program on January 24th, many openly doubted the possibility of achiev ing it. Yet within six months I after its birth ihe plan is far to ward completion. Credit for this phenomenal sue-1 cess is due largely to the untiring j efforts of Pre-idem W. A. Harper, ; who stands at the head of tbisj small, but valiant institution. He j has given himself unreservedly to j the accomplishment of the pro-j gram outlined, and he is succeed-j iug admirably with his tank. (With such loyal supporters as the j | people of Alamance county, and Others throughout the length aud 1 breadth of this couutry, who love | the cause of Christian Education, be cannot but achieve a great j 'success. Elon College was founded thirty- J ! three years ago, and has been | steadily growing by continued j sacrifice of the people who stand ; I behind it. While it is the college , of the Christian Church, aud is i largely supported by that brother -1 hood, it is a religious democracy. jXot once iu all the thirty-three 'years of ita history has it dis criminated along denominational ; lines. Duriug the past year there were seven denominations repre sented iu the faculty of tho col lege, aud ten wero represen'ed in the student body, and yet all those worked together harmoni ously in the religious activities | organization of the college. No ' one was made to feel that be or she was not a definite part of the ~ religious life of the college. It is NO. 25- a proud boast of the college that lit has taken young jjeople from other denominations, trained j them for Christian service, and returned them to their own fitted for Christian leadership in their church of whatever faith. Eton College is living in the re splendent dawn of a larger day of I service. It is coining into its own, and great as it may have been during the past thirty-three : years, and large though its sejrvic® has been, it is destined in the 'j years to come to wie d a far larger influence, and 10 render far larger service to the church which it serves, to the county in whose borders it stands, and which has shown its loyalty in 90 fine a way, to the state and t"> the na tion. The pain in the hearts of the students and faculty of the col lege as they viewed the catastro phe has given place to songs of gladness. Where there were t>ars there 'are now smiles, and the whole of the men and women who suffered with Klun fuel that there is a greater day awaiting the col lege which they love. Oat of her ashes she has arisen, and she will • continue to arise. Church music is expected to be greatly enriched as a result of the discovery by a Derlin professor of a key to the abbreviations made by the musicians of the periods preceding the USJ of mod ern musical notes. A movement has been started for the erection of a monument in honor of Dick banter and trapper, who was the first to discover the great Gogebic irm ore deposit in upper Michigan. In Great Britain the age at which parties may legally bind themselves in marriage is 14 in the case of boys aud 12 in that of girls. SLhSLUiBB FOR TUB GLBAXBB 666 is a Prescription lor Colds, Fever and LaGrippe. It's the most speedy remedy we kTriow, preventing Pneu monia. PROFESSIONAL CARDS J. B. BALL, D. C. CHIROPRACTOR Nervous and Chrouic Diseases, bURLI.SGTON, N. U. office: Over Mis* Alice Rowland's Store. Telephones: otlire. am. Kesidenee, 10. LOVICK H. K£Ri\ODL£,~~ Attorney-at-Law, GKAIIAM. N. C. Associated with John J. Henderson, otlire over .National llauk ol Alamance i THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counscllor-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. ilours: 2 to 3 and 7 to tf p. in., and by appoini meut. Phone U7* GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. t. Office Hours: 'J to It a. in. AUT by appoint lilt lit Office- Over Acute Drug Co. Telephones: othcc 1 »U—ltesidencc i> I JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. 9111 c* over National Bank ol Aluuact x, s. coos:, AUorn#y-«t-L*« J ' UAfiAM, .... N. O OOco Patterson Building Klaor. . . 1 JR. W'ILULMti, Jtt. ... DENTIST : I I f jrthim, .... North Carallaa . OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDIHQ i