VOL. XLIX
THIRD ANNUAL SAFETY
CONTEST IS ANNOUNCED.
School Pupils to be Trained in Habits
of Highway Safety as Part of Na
tional Campaign.
I'ive Hundred Prizes, Coating *0,500,
to be Given for Best Safety Essay*
and Lessons.
Washington, D. C., Seyt. 17.
Renewal of its annual safety con
tests, in which $G,500 will be
given away in prizes, wns an
nounced today fty the Highway
Education Board.
Training children in habits of
highway safety is. the principal
task of the 1923 safety campaign,
it is said, but tlnough the chil
dren it is hoped that the prin
ciples of traffic regulation and
safety education will be impressed
upon adults, both pedestrians and
drivers alike.
The third annual safety cam
paign takes the form of two con
tests one among elementary
school pupils, and another among
elementary school teachers. Ap
proximately five hundred State
and national prizes are to be
given for the best essays and les
sons written. The prizes offered
are the gifts of the National
Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, which is desirous of re
ducing the uumber of accidents
and fatalities due to traffic mis
haps.
In the two previous years* ap
proximately 400,000 pupils and
50,000 teachers have participated
each autumn. It is believed by
Board officials that the cumula
tive effect of these contests, and
the increasing attention given to
safety education, will result in
even a greater number of par
ticipants this 3 ear.
The subject of tho essays which
children are invited to write is
"Highway Safety Habits I Should
Learn." Essays, as last year, are
not to exceed five hundred words
in length. Those eligible are
pupils of the fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth grades, who are not
more than fourteen years of age.
The contest open* with the be
ginning of school and closes De
comber 4, 1923.
Teachers are requested to sub ,
mit safety lessons on the subject
"Training Children in Habits of
Safety on the Highways." The
limit suggested is between 1,000
to 3,000 words. All elementary
school teachers in the eighth and
lower grades are eligible to sub
mit lessons.
In the teachers' contest the
first national award is' five hun
dred dollars and a trip to Wash
ington with all expenses paid.
The second national award is
three hundred dollars, while the
third award is two hundred dol
lars.
The first national prize for the
best essay by pupils is a gold
watch and a trip to Washington
with all expenses paid. The sec
ond and third prizes are each gold
watches, one of slightly greater
value than the other.
Four hundred and seventy
eight State prizes are offered
pupils. The first State prize is a
gold medal and a check for fif
teen dollars. The second State
prize is a silver medal and ten
dollars. Third prizes, which vary
proportion to the elementary
school population of the State,
are bronze medals and checks for
five dollars.
The Board announces that the
contests will be conducted with
the cooperation of the State de
partments of education, women's
clubs, civic organizations, safety
councils, automobile clubs and
kindred organizations that may
wish to assist. Complete details
will be furnished upon appli
cation to the Highway Education
Board, Willard Building, Wash
ington, D. 0.
Sheep are outdoor animals and
in the climate of North Carolina
almost any shed or shelter will be
sufficient as housing. "Even this
shelter is needod only when the
ewes are finding lambs or in very
rough weather," says G. P. Wil
liams, Sheep Field Agent for the
State College.
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
OLD BELT COOPS
TO MARKET OCT. 9,
Organized Farmers Have Delivered
15 Million Pounds to Association
in Past Two Weeks.
The Tobacco Growers Coopera
tive Association Will open more
than fifty warehouses to receive
the 1933 crop in the Old Belt of
Virginia and Western North Car
olina on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
The success of the cooperative
association in the South Carolina
Belt which has resulted ia deliv
eries of more tobacco from the
19&3 crop than were received in
that section during the entire
season of 1922, will make it neces
sary to keep the cooperative grad
ers and warehousemen longer at
the South than was at first an
ticipated, according to association
officials.
The Tobacco Farmers' Associ
ation will use as many of the best
warehousemen as possible, both
in South Carolina and the Old
Belt markets, thereby decreasing
cost and increasing efficiency ac
cording to the announcement
made this week by T. C. Waikius,
manager of warehouses for the
association.
Attempts to drive tobacco of
association members to the auc
tion floors have been repeatedly
frustrated by loyal Members of
Eastern Carolina. Oliver Willi
fori, a member from Wendell,
N. C., when served with a claim
of delivery by his landlord, a
time-merchant at Wendell was
enabled to deliver his load to the
association by fifteen fellow mem
bers, who signed a bond to cover
the value of his deliveries. Wil
liford's tobacco brought an aver
age cash advance of over sl4 per
hundred.
The cash advances paid to
many members of the association
for deliveries in the past few days
have run close to the average
prices on several auction mar
kets. While the average of the
auction markets at Wilson, Rocky
Mount, and other eastern towns,
have barely exceeded S2O per
hundred in the past week, many
association members have re
ceived cash advances running
from sls to S2O per hundred.
Among the good averages re
ceived this week are those of It.
R. Brake of Rocky Mount, whose
first cash advance on 1,142
pounds brought $188.62, an aver
age of $16.52 per hundred. Mr.
Brake averaged 20 cents for 302
pounds. A load of 1,018 pounds,
delivered by J. 11. Lanier at
Rocky Mount, averaged $15.04
per hundred, aud for a load of
540 pounds W. H. Kiligrew re
ceived a cash advance of $89.48
at Rocky Mount last week. Jas.
F. Bland at Vanceboro received
an advance of $20.15 for a load of
426 pounds.
The prices paid by the aucfion
markets have dropped so close to
the first cash advances paid by
the association at a number of
points, that farmers from eastern
North Carolina are joining the
marketing association in increas
ing numbers each week. One
batch of 41 contracts reached
Raleigh headquarters with the
signatures of new members from
Sampson, Duplin and Ponder
counties Monday, September 17.
Prices on the association floors
in the South Carolina' belt con
tinue to go higher, and in some
cases have exceeded $25 per hun
dred. Among the highest recent
cash advances reported are those
of John Huggins, who received
$'228.24 for a load of 922 pounds
of tobacco, an average of $24.74
at Nichols, South Carolina. Italy
Page on the same market aver
aged $23.73 first advance. A total
of 75 new contracts have been
sent in to the association head
quarters from its market at Lake
City, S. C. South Carolina farm
ers continue to join the associ
ation each week, as the better
grades bring higher advances on
the cooperative floors. The as
sociation has received over 15,-
000.000 pounds of tobacco from
the Eastern and South Carolina
belts during the past two weeks.
Ten acres of pecans with ten
trees to the acre will pay the taxes
and upkeep of an average Tar
heel farm ia ten years, if the trees
are properly cared for, finds Farm
Forester H. M. Corran.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1923
COTTON CO OP ASSOCIATION
FAVORED BY FARMERS
In Three Days 38 Alamance Cotton
* Growers Join—Fine Spirit Toward
Movement—Several Meetings This
Week and Otliers to Be H£ld.
The first three days of " the
membership campaign for the co
operative marketing o/ cotton
resulted in iiß cotton growers of
the county joining tho associ
ation.
Mr. T. D. McLean, Field Dime
tor of the Association for this
district, was well pleased with
tho spirit of the farmers ami busi
ness men toward this movement.
Mr. Sherman Vestal, receiving'
agent for the Association, will
soon be busy with Co-op Cotton.
Some cotton gins will be running
next week.
Mr. Chas. A. Scott, cashier of
National Bank of Alamai e, is a
regular Co op man. Not only is
he director in the Co-operative
Creamery at Burlington, but has
spent much time at meetings,
urging the fanners to line-up for
an orderly system of marketing.
His bank offers to make loans up
to 20 cents per pound on every
bale of cotton delivered to the
Association for sale.
Meetings are called at the fol
lowing poiuts: Maoudale, 171h,
8 p. m.; Manndale, 18th, 8 p. in.;
Center School, 19th, 8 p. in.;
Eureka School, 20th, 8 p. . n .;
Rock Creek Church, 21st; Sylvan
Schoolhouse, 22nd, 8 p. m.
W. KEKK SCOTT,
County Agent.
PULL NO FODDER
Save Roughage With Mowing
Machine.
" A mowing machine will save
*as much roughage in an hour as
one man can save in a week by
pulling fodder and every time a
dollar's wjrth oL' fodder is pulled,
a dollar's worth of corn is lost,"
is tiie way E. C. Blair, extension
agronomist for the State Cu.le 0 e
and Department of Agriculture
explains his condemnation of the
bad practice of fodder pulling in
North Carolina.
He says, "During the latter
part of August, I made an extend
ed trip through eastern Carolina
where I Haw many Hue fields of
corn with a good .stand of soy
beans between the rows. Most of
these beans were about waist high
or better and were excellent in
every way. This should prove to
any man that a large amount ot'
roughage could be grown on an
acre of land, yet in a number of
these fields every blado of fodder
hail beeu stripped from I Lie corn
stalks.
"It seems that many of our
farmers do not believe that good
roughage can be grown, or at
least quite a largo number of them
are not taking advantage of the
fact. Or else why would they
worry with fodder pulling by
hand when a few acres of soy
beans or some other legume may
be grown and cut for hay? The
mowing machine can save hs much
roughage in an hour as a man can
save in a week by pulling fodder,
and such hays as furnished by
soybeans and other legume crops
are moift nutritious and less cost
ly to save than fodder.
"Then, too, every dollar's worth
of fodder pulled causes the loss of
a dollar's worth of corn, so that,
the day of pulling fodder is
thrown away. Would you pay a
dollar a day for the privilege of
forking at a job that paid you
only a dollar a day? That's just
what pulling fodder amounts to,
for the yield of corn is decreased
as much as the fodder is worth.
"The way to get out ot' pulling
fodder, or cutting tops, wnich is
just as bad, is to plant a liny crop.
Oats and vetch may bo sown this
fall, soybeans, cowpeas, sudan
grass, sorghums, and other crops
next spring. We kuow that all
these crops are adapted to North
Carolina and will give good re
sults. Try them." ,
Joseph P. Knapp, a millionaire
philanthropist of New York City
and a winter resident of Curri
tuck county, is having the grounds
around the county court house
beautified under the direction of
[County Agent J. E. Chandler.
BILL BOOSTER SAYS
V* uvce urn*
V FOLKS VJE StE GOING TO
'SCHOOL VJtU- B6 RUMVUVXi
OOft -CCWU A.POU MtKRS\
OVJW. SCHOOLS AJ4O -reACHtRS
HAVE Ml SUORIAOOS KESPOU
' S*&\UTtM AMD via SHOVJLO
SHOM Am \UXERESr \Vi -TWtVR
VWORVC AUO -TVAEiA
oua Support t MCB.9nM
Sv+ufue
Magic Word. ,
A Whittles mother was teaching tier
little con to say Amen at the end of
his ptfayers, and the child suddenly
asked: "Mother, what doe# Amen
meant" "Amen means the end, my
dear," the mother explained. A few
days later the little one was disobedi
ent and the mother gave him a severe
lecture. She felt he ought to have a
whipping and talked on and on, to
nerve herself for the ordeal of admin
istering the spanking. Imagine her
surprise when suddenly the child be
gan crying "Amen, mother, Amen."
Venetian Grand Canal.
The Grand canal is the name given
to the principal canal and main water
thoroughfare of Venice. It Is nearly
two miles In length, Is in shape like
the letter "S," and divides the city
Into two nearly equal parts. The "Ca
nalazza," as it Is called in Italian, Is
Bpanned by the Rlalto, and is lined
with palaces which 6 , although appear
ing stained add battered In the day
time, loom up grandly Ik the moon
light.'
The Adventure of Work.
We are In grave danger in these
days of dividing life Into two utterly
unrelated portions, and the true func
tion of play as something that is es
sentially creative and life-renewing In
the fullest sense Is being forgotten.
The best work must ever have In It the
spirit of play; that la, the spirit of
adventure. Great work, as another
writer has said, Is play Itself.—Cape
Argus.
_____________ \
Bad for Nlghthawks.
In Spanish cities at eleven o'clock at
night the doors of all rooming houses
are closed and locked. After that hour
one can get In only by calling, the
guard or watchman of his particular
block. This is an old Spanish custom
which holds over to the present day
in nearly all the cities of Spain. The
watchman carries a lantern and the
keys of ull the houses under his
cnurge. \
Attacked by Lion.
A British railway engineer, named
Fane, engaged on the construction
the new Uasln-Glshu ltne, was retort
ing to the construction camp when he
walked into a lair of e lioness with
two cubs. Before he could fire the
lioness leaped on him and severely
mauled him. Then the beast fled.
Much Good in Laughter.
Always laugh when you can. It Is
cheap medicine. Thackeray said: "A
good laugh Is sunshine In the house."
Merriment Is the sunny side of ex
istence. Laughter la a constructive
force which buoys up your Bplrits and
helps you to achieve results.
The Origin of s Word.
The meaning of the word "curat*"
Is, nowadays, a very different one from
that of former times. Previously the
j curate was the person responsible tot
the cure of souls of the parish; today
he Is the assistant clergyman.
j , .
Railways In Spain.
Although rich In minerals Spat*
has comparatively few Industries, and
only 10,000 miles of railway.—lndian
| apolis News.
Proves One Thing.
Jud Tunklns says a man who laughs
at his own jokes at leaat proves be
has a patient and cheerful dispose
\ Hon.
Knowledge That Marks Qenlus.
i The true characteristic of genius—
I without despising rules It knows wbea
I and how to breakfthenu—Chancing. 
Make Entries Early
For the State Fair.
Raleigh, Sept. 17. —Believing
ju the old tillage that a stitch in
time saves nine, Mrs, Edith Yau
derbiltt, president of the State
Fair, which will be held October
15-I'J inclusive, announces that
all entries for the livestock and
poultry divisions must be made
by October 1, while entries for
other divisions must be in by Oc
tober G.
Preparations for starting the
Fair off in apple pie order shape
on the opernug date are now under
way, iwtroui) of the important
thing/ that must be attended to!
is fisting the exhibits lined up!
before hand. This is necessary in i
ord r to have the judges start in
early in the week.
All entries should bo made toj
General Manager E, V. Walboru,
whose poatofiice address is fSlate I
College Station, Raleigh, and they;
should be made early lo insure j
having them properly entered be-j
fore the Fair gets under way.
Running a State Fair is no little
job, and present indications are
that»it is going to be bigger this'
year than ever before.
Some of the exhibitors havel
already started getting their e\-|
hibits installed, but, of course,!
they are the ones who are plan j
□ing to put in elaborate exhibits
of machiuery. The majority of
the exhibits will not be put in I
until the week before the Fair.
It's going to be a great Fair if |
hard work and substantial prizes
count for anything. The Raleigh ,
Chamber of Commerce has put]
itself behind a great houie-com
ing proposition, and it is plan
ning to run through ;
the central part of State in |
October to tell people about it.
Bigger aud better than ever be-,
fore is to be literally true this
year, the management states, and
this means that it's time to begin ;
thinking about getting in ex
hibits.
Alamance Cooperative
Creamery Notes.
The butter fat honor roll An
August is as follows:
VV. L. Spjon, $00.12; Alex Mc-
Ivpr, $59.85; V. T. Woods, $44. 'J9;;
F. W. Winn, $42.40; U. P. Dixon,
$41.77; S. C. Wilson, s.'!'J.26 ; W.l
C. Cray ton, $39.07; Martin Mur
ray, $38.48; W. M. Goius, $37 51;
I{. L. Spoon, $3").77.
The manager states that the I
pay-ioll is 12,084.23, which is tin ;
highest in the history of the j
creamery. The creamery is still
unable to fill the demands for
butter.
Butter fat will bring higher
prices from now until spring. If 1
you have feed for that cow which
it; coining fresh, hesitate before
you sell her.
\V. KEKK SCOTT,
County Agent.
Why Lambs are Docked.
A number of Tarheel farmers
seem to be unable to fathom the
reason for docking young lambs,
and fiuite a few questions have
been asked G. P. Williams, Sheep
Field Agent lor the State College
and Department of Agriculture,
as to the need for this practice.
Mr. Williams says that most of
the farmers who ask this question
have never cut the tails from
their lambs and can't understand
why it should be done, lie ex
plains, however, that the cock
ing of lambs was not started by
any experiment station or agri
cultural college. "Before any
agricultural college was ever
established," he says, "practical
farmers docked their lambs to
keep them free from tilth and
from soiling the wool. Wherever
sheep ara raised now in a com
mercial way the lambw are always
docked to prevent their accumu
lating this filth and becoming
untidy."
Mr. Williams states that the
tail of a sheep serves no practical
purpose auyway, and that the
wool from the tsil is of an inferior
quality aud has a large percent
age of worthless hair mixed up
with the commercial fiber. When
the tail is cut off at oue week of
age the lamb hardly notices the
operation and suffers much less
than he would If allowed to carry
around a filthy tail for a nuiubei
of years.
OH, WHY SHOULD THL SPIRIT
OF MORTAL DE PROUD?
11 (This whs Abraham Lincoln'sj
1 1 favorite poem. He cut it from a|
| newspaper and committed it tor
'j memory. "I would give a greatj
'ldeal to lcnAw who wrote it, but II
1 j have never been able to aseer-
I tain," he once remarked. Subse- 1
'lquently he learned thai the I
'sauthor was William Knox, a
jyouug Scotch mini and eontem-'
| porary of Sir Walter Scott. Knox |
I died in 18"-2f> when about 37.)
j Oh, why should the spirit of mortal
be proud ?V
[Like ;i swift-fleeti: g meteor, a
, fast flying cloud,
A flush of the lightning, a break
of t he wave,
| Man passeth from life to his rest
in the grave.
| Leaves of the oak and tlx* willow
shall fa'itr,
IJo scatter .! around nd
be laid;
And tlie young, and the old, and
Llj ' low and the hif;h,
Shall molder to dust-, and together
slm'! lie.
| The infaui a mother attended and ,
loved ;
ITh'; mother that infant's alfection
wh i pro ved;
|The husband that mother alid in
fant who blest
I Each, all, are away to their dwell
ing of rest.
The hand of the king that the
sceptre hath borne,
| The brow of the priest that the
mitre hath worn,
j'The eyu of the sage and the heart I
of the brave,
I Are hidden and lost in the depths
| of the grave.
The peasant whoso lot was to sow
and to reap,
The herdsman who climbed with
his goats up the steep,
The beggar who wandeied iu
search of his bread,
llavs faded away like the grass
tha' we tread.
ISo the multitude goes—like the
flower or the weed
That withers away to let o'hers
succeed *
So the multitude comes—even
those wa behold,
To repeat every tale that has I
often been told.
For we are the same our fathers'
have been;
Wesee the same sights our fathers
have seen;
|We drink the same streams, we
l view I he same sun,
Ami run the same course our'
fathers have run.
iThe thoughts wo are thinking,
■ our fathers would think;
| From the death we are shrinking,
,| our fathers would shrink;
|To the life they are clinging they,
also would clintr;
But it speeds from us all like a|
bird on the wing.
I They loved—but the story wej
| cannot unfold;
i iThey scorned —but the heart of
j' tie haughty is cold;
, | They grieved -■ but no wail from;
s their slumber wili come;
i!They joy.d-but the tongue of
s their gI nines* in dumb.
' |Th«j'died aye, thev died; ami
w« ! Ii itigs t hat arc now i
iThat walk en the turf that lies
over t '"'it brow,
I And mailt ,n t:eir dwellings a
transient. abode,
eet the changes they ;ntt on
I their pilgrimage r.ad.
'I Real hope and despondency,
pleasure and pain,
r Are mingled together in sunshine
1 • and rain;
the smie and the tear, the
' song and the dirge,
r |Still follow each other, like surge
upon surge.
s
.i'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the
> 1 draft of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the
(. paleness of death,
j From the gilded saloon to the bier
e and the shroud;
r Oh, why should the spirit of
mortal be proud V
P, . :
II W inter is coming. Keep only
if those farm ani.nals which pay
e their wav.
s |
y Lime and legumes—vetch and
>r clover
I Make the old farm rich all over.
NO. 33
Watermelon Rind Sweet Pickle.
One of the best sweet pickles *?J
that can be made by the busy
| housewife is thai, prepared from
1 watermelon rind. The firm part
|of a ripe cucumber, which has
! turned yellow, is also very good, fj
and both of these can be made
| into pickles by a process which
has been used tor years by Mrs.
| Jane S. McKimuion, in charge of
Home Demonstration work for
the Stale College and Depart
ment of Agriculture. The recipe
1 is as follows:
7 pounds prepared watermelon
rind.
0 pints vinegar.
4 pounds sugar.
J ounce cloves (whole).
"I sticks cinnamon.
1 \ ounces ginger root.
Prepare 7 rounds of rind. Re
move tii« green part and cutoff ,
the pink melon until the rind is
i firm. Cut these pieces into uni
form strips inches wide and
- inelie- lot:or cut into fancy
shapes i\ i Ii •11 .:I cutters. ■
f.- 1 nd ,• x-111I.• in weak
i*;*. ue. .... i- ,i.... until I.JU- "
der iii a .iter. (2 icvel Uiv
;sp jonlula o; powdered alum to 1
quart of water). Rinse again in
cold water.
IMa .'i- in a pore> l-riu-iiued ket
t;e, aiiu viiieg*r, einna
, ii.oii, slightly pounded ginger
root and s;iie • iu bag. Cook until
| rind is tendi-r. i* aiv in jars.
>eal, and allow pickle to stand G
weeks before using.
The fair is the pla.. o to display
the agricultural Wealth of u com
munity. What will you add to
| the display tnis year'/
Registered sows aud better
I equipment toliowed a demonstra
tion with pastures lor hogs rn Per
quimans county.
SUBNCIUBh FOR rU'A. OLBANKtf,
6 6 6
is a Prescription for Colds,
Fever unci LaGripp . It's the
most speedy remedy we
know, preventing Pneu
monia.
PROFESSIONAL CAEDS
J. B. BALL, D. C.
; cuiMOPßAcroit
Nervous and Chronic Lbseasos,
BURLINGTON, N. U
• H ire: (Hor Ml*). Alice Kowlauu** Store,
l t'lepliuuei.: oittcc. !»«-,. le»ldeuce. 10.
LOVICK H. KEKNODLE,"
Alloraey-at.Law,
ti K A II A iVt , N . C.
l»»oclatctl with .luhu J. tic.iid-'rsion.
Office "iver National Hank MX A'amaucc
THOMAS D. COOP£rT
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
Associated with W. S. Coulter,
No;. 7 and 3 Firjt National Bank Bldg.
S. C/SPOON, Jr., M.- D.
t (iraliam, N. C.
Offiei- o&;t Ferreli Drug Co.
flours: -to ami 7 to'.i p. in., and
• by appo'Uitnent.
i'tione 97*
GRAHAM HARDEN, M D.
iius aiiiitun, N, C.
Oilicu Hours: y to tt a.m.
aud by appointment
I 'in. i- Over Anne Dru ; Cu.
otiire 1 lli -Hc»nleiice 'jtil
JOHN J. lIENDERSGM
Attorney-a t-Law
GItAIIAM. N. C.
Jlllct over National Bankol Ala——a
V, S. COOK,
1 / Attorney -at-L*» e
j .RAHAM, '-- • - N. 0
OT--JO l'atlergon Building
teuond Flwor. • ,
! :ia. WILL S.LOAGJK.
DENTIST : 8 e 1
d Graham, .... North Caroiiaa
OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING