'Garden Week to Be Observed Yearly Until
America Is the Garden Nation
By URS. JOHN D. SHERMAN, General Federation Women's Clubs.
GAEDEN WEEK, SO successfully observed throughout the coun
try the last two years, has become a national affair. It will be
observed every year until America becomes the Garden Nation
of the World.
Gardens mean a better home and community spirit, and a 'deeper
sense of the meaning of good citizenship. The qualities of a normal and
tiarmonious life which makes for good citizenship are based upon health,
contentment, industry, tolerance and a spirit of co-operation. These are
crops that I hope will be grown along with the radishes and spinach when
we plant gardens.
I hope that some degree of contentment will be found in our 1924
gardens. This state of mind is not entirely dependent upon pleasant
surroundings but upon the inner serenity of soul. And nowhere can this
be so quickly acquired as in the garden. All the wonders of creation are
born anew in - the tiniest garden. There the eternal cycle of birth and
re-birth goes on without ceasing. In the garden man finds himself ad
mitted into the glorious enterprise of storing up the vital energy of the
sun at his pleasure. He is in harmony with the universe. There creeps
into his consciousness a friendly feeling for his fellow man. And little by
little he loses his discontent and envy. There is no time in a garden,
after the frost is out of the ground until the bulbs and vegetables are safe
ly stored for the winter, to nurse a rear or fancied grievance.
As a sure, swift route to good comradeship there is none better than
the common love of gardens. You may not agree with your neighbor on
anything else, but if you have swapped tomato plants and watched them
grow and talked over your garden plans together, you are friends.
I hope that gardens will help to strengthen the family group. The
greatest menace of our modern day is the disintegration of the family
group. The garden will help to draw the members of the family to
gether and to establish friendlier and closer relations.
Irresistible Urge for Maintenance of Highest
By CALVIN COOLIDGE, In Washington Address.
If we are to maintain the nation and its government institutions
with a fair semblance of the principles on which they were founded, two
policies always must be supported.
First, the principle of local "self government in harmony with the
needs of each state. This means that in general the states should not
surrender, but retain their own sovereignty, and keep control of their
own government.
Second, a policy of local reflection of nation-wide public opinion. Each
state must shape its course to conform to the generally accepted sanctions
of society and to the needs of the nation. It must provide a workable
similarity of economic and industrial relations. It must protect the
health and provide for the education of its own citizens. This policy is
already well recognized in the association of the states for the promotion
and adoption of uniform laws. -Unless this policy be adopted by the
states, interference by the nation cannot be resisted.
Throughout our whole nation there is an irresistible urge for the
maintenance of the highest possible standards of government and society.
Unless this sentiment is heeded and observed by appropriate state action
there is always grave danger of encroachment upon the states by the na
tional government. But it must always be realized that such encroach
ment is s hazardous undertaking, and should be adopted only as a last
resort . :
The true course to be followed is the maintenance of the integrity of
each state by local laws and social customs which will place it in com
parative harmony with all the others. By such a method, which can
only be the result of great effort constantly exerted, it will be possible to
maintain an indestructible union of indestructible states.
Holds Fast to the Institutions That Safeguard
By PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS, American Federation of Labor.
At its name implies the American Federation of Labor embraces in
its struggles, its hopes and aspirations, the workers of all America, re
gardless of race, color, creed, sex or nationality. It is a movement of the
workers by the workers and for the betterment of all mankind.
Unlike European labor movements it does not believe that the pres"
ent social structure must be first destroyed in order that an improved
social order may come into being. It holds fast to the institutions that
safeguard human freedom and permit of the full play of human forces
that have made for constant and helpful progress in all the sciences and
arts of man. It does not accept or cling to any arbitrary dogma of c**
treme individualism or collectivism.
It repudiates anarchism as readily as socialism and communism as
affectively as monarch ism.
The experience of man has been that too much government is as bad
as too little government To strike an equal balance is the great task of
all peoples and governments of today. Much of the woes and ills of the
old world may be attributed to extremes being manifested on one or the
other side of the scale. Fortunately, we of the new world, the United
States and Oanada, are the present-day exemplars of that sanity and rea
son so essential to safeguard the rights and promote the interests of the
people.
College Does Not Appeal to the Young Girls of
the Flapper Type
By MART E. WOOLLEY, President Uont Holyoke College.
There has been too much emphasis on the college flapper of late.
They have been pictured, in some quarters, as painted, jazzed ap, smok
ing, bob-haired scofflaws. My experience is that college doesn't appeal
to young girls of that type.
Even if some members of this class, which exists, to a great extent,
in the imagination certain ptople who are always ready to decry the
womanhood of America, do come to college, they soon find that college is
no place for them. Generally they are obliged to settle down and work
hard in order to keep up with the standards of the institution to which
they belong.
It it the duty of educational institutions to show young girls that
Christianity really means something. In this matter college authorities
sure on the defensive. We must interpret to youth the meaning of re
ligion in the light of preeent-day needs.
I hold, that the women of this generation have ssseited themselves
intellectually, and therefore, arc more independent. Indqtendenoe, how
ever, is not a fault, though I would say it was a liability which needed
fftreful watching. _
Possible Standards
Human Freedom
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I—Seven hundred Itnlluns on bourd the steamship Dante Aiighierl, denied admittance to the United States,
talking with friends on the pier at New York. 2—Mrs. D. A. McDougal, Mrs.Emlly Blair, Mrs. T. L. Browu and Mrs.
Bannister, leaders of Democratic women," completing arrangements for the New York convention. 3—New home of
Prince Eric of Denmark r.nd his bride at Arcadia. Cal., where they have a chicken ranch.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Congress Adjourns and the
Country's Eyes Turn
G. O. P. Convention.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
CONGRESS adjourned on Saturday,
and the country heaved one great
sigh of relief. Business, which had
been depressed, began to perk up; and
stocks, which had been In something of
a ■lump, regained some of their lost
values. The people of the United
States turned with Interest, unmixed
with excitement, toward Cleveland,
where the Republican party was gath
ering for the purpose of nominating
Calvin Coolidge for President.
In the closing days of the session,
several pieces of projected legislation
went by the boards. The McNary-
Haugen bill designed for the relief of
the farmers was defeated In the house
by a vote of 224 to 154, and modifica
tions of It were also rejected. The
farm bloc did not wish any of the
other farm relief bills passed, anti
then President Coolidge told the con
gressional leaders that he would not
approve of any measure that Included
price fixing. That settled it for the
present.
As for Muscle Shoals, that also went
over until next session. The senate
agriculture committee, reporting fa
vorably the Norrls hill providing gov
ernment control of power from the
site, denounced unspnrlngly the bill
which would give the project to Henry
Ford and exposed the financial fal
lacies of the Detrolter's offer. The
report was written by Senator Norrls,
who took full advantage of the chance
to say what he thought of the admin
istration. Pointing to Ford's denun
ciations of Secretary of War Weeks
and Indirectly of the administration
at the time the Oorgas plant was sold,
the report said:
"To appease his anger a vacillating
administration publicly announced that
the amount received for the plant
would be credited on the $5,000,000
Ford offered for Muscle Shoals ff his
bid was -accepted by congress. This
kindly favor, perhaps superinduced by
pther considerations, so pleased Mr.
Ford that his anger at the adminis
tration was not only turned Into love
ami admiration, but he became so vlo
lently friendly that he himself with
drew as a candidate for President and
announced lifs support of the execu
tive who made such liberal conces
sions."
Senators Heflln. Ladd. Smith, Har
rison and Caraway submitted a mi
nority report favoring the Ford bid,
but the best they could do was to ob
tain unanimous consent to make
Muscle Shoals the first order of busi
ness after the next session on Decem
ber 8. x
Senator McCormlck's resolution pro
posing the twentieth amendment to
the Constitution by which congress Is
empowered to control the labor of
persons under eighteen years of age
was passed by the senate, the vote be
ing 01 to 23. The house approved of
the proposed amendment last April,
so It now goes to the states for ratlfl
"■"Wlun.
Sixty bills for the modification of
the Volstead not were left reposing In
the room of the house Judiciary com
mittee. despite the efforts of their
sixty authors and of others who de
clare that 2.73 per cent beer should
not N» called Intoxicating. .
rtESIDBNT COOLIDGE took the
tax reduction bUI and the Treasury
department's analysis thereof on a
trip down the Potoiuac. hnd
when Te returned to the White House
Monday be signed the- measure. At
the same time he Issued a statement
severely criticising many features of
the bill and pledging himself to do all
be can in the next session of con
gress toward the passage of a tax bill
"less political and more truly eco
nomic."
The President said that in Its ad
ministrative feature# the bill repre
sents geaerally an improvement over
Opting law; that it will provide suffl
;r " .v /.
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C.
dent revenue for the fiscal year 1925,
and probably thereafter If unforeseen
expenses do not arise; that the retro
active tax cut of 25 per cent Is ex
pected by the people, and should be
promptly given, and that It Is desirable
to have a definite determination of the
taxes as applying to 1924 Incomes
while the Income Is still being re
ceived. For these reasons he gave it
his approval.
SO &AR as the Republican national
committee could do so, everything
was fixed up for the Cleveland con
vention. Frank W. Mondell, former
congressman from Wyoming, was se
lected as ..permanent chairman and
Charles B. Warren, ambassador to
Mexico, was chosen to be chairman of
the resolutions committee which builds
the platform. Mr. Coolldge picked on
Marlon Leroy Burton, president of the
University of Michigan, to present his
name to the convention, and Doctor
Burton accepted the grateful task. He
told the press that lie would speak not
as a partisan but as a citizen and a
friend and admirer of Mr. Coolldge.
Fred Upham of Chicago announced
thqt he would resign from the post of
treasurer of the party, and his elec
tlqn as national committeeman from
Illinois was assured. Chairman Adams
nnd Secretary Lockwood of the na
tional committee also will retire. Roy
O. West of Chicago will succeed the
latter. He has been long prominent
In politics and 1B even more silent than
the President.
Naturally most of the pre-conven
tlon discussion was concerning the
vice presidential nomination. There
developed a strong demand that Frank
0. Ix>wden be given the honor, and.
Mr. Coolidge let It be known that the
Illlnolsan would be "very acceptable"
as bis running mate.
No arrangements were announced
for placing Senator Hiram Johnson In
nomination for the Presidency, and the
headquarters In Washing
ton said the Wisconsin senator's name
would not be presented to the conven
tion. His little block of delegates
probably will vote for him to the
end.
TURNING now to the Democrats,
one reads with Interest the state
ment by Franklin D. Roosevelt, man
ager for Gov. A 1 Smith, that the New
York delegation as a wliole will make
no effort to have a dry plank Inserted
in the platform, nor will the New
York Democratic organisation sanc
tlop such an attempt.
Senator Ralston seemingly put him
self out of the running by requesting
the Indiana stnte convention to send
nn unlnstructed delegation to New
York.
It Is probable that Senator Thomas
Walsh of Montana will be permanent
chairman of the Democratic conven
tion. George Brennan of Illinois Is
for him, asserting that "aside from
geographical reasons, the distinguished
record made by Senator Walsh In dis
closing to the country scandal* with
out parallel In the history of the na
tion. should make his selection In
evitable." Senator Pat Harrison of
Mississippi has been selected as tem
porary chairman . and the keynote
sounder.
IN SOME respects the report of the
sennte oil committee, prepared by
Senator Walsh and submitted Thurs
day, was surprisingly mild. It charged
flagrant disregard of the law In ,the
Sinclair and Doheny leases, which
were declared to be "Indefensibly
wasteful" and based on a policy which
congress alone had authority to deter
mine. Former Secretary Fall's secret
negotiation of the leases was described
as In disregard of the statutes, and his
acceptance of SIOO,OOO from Doheny
was called "In tjw» last degree repre
hensible." The executive order by
which President Harding transferred
the oil reserves from the Navy to the
Interim- depaitment was held In the
report to* have been Illegal.
On the other hand, the report exon
erated former Secretary of the Navy
Denby and Assistant Secretary Roose
velt of any part -whatever In the nego
tiations leading to the leases, and de
clared that the committee fonnd 'BO
facts of Importance In support of the
rumor that s4ihUc officials had specu-
lated lij Doheny and Sinclair oil
stocks. Furthermore, It said "the evi
dence failed to eßtnbllsh the existence'"
of any conspiracy between oil oper
ators and others nt the Republican
national convention In 1920 for ex
ploitation of public resources.
The sending of marines to drive
claimants from Teapot Dome after
Sinclair lease had been signed was de
nounced "as a perfectly outragepus
use of the armed forces of the United
States," resorted to "to avoid a ju
dicial Inquiry Into the validity of the
Sinclair lease."
HARRY DAUGHERTY refused last
week to testify before the senate
committee that lias been Investigating
him, so Chairman Brookhart —who has
Just been renominated by the Repub
licans of lowa —drew up a partial re
port, and the future course of the In
quiry will depend on the Supreme court
decision as to the committee's powers.
In a letter read by his attorney, Mr.
Daugherty expressed his resentment
against what he considered the unfair
actions of the committee, and added:
"At this point I take occasion to con
tradict and deny any Inference, sur
mise or suspicion that I profited In any
illegal, corrupt or unethical way, dl
retftly or Indirectly, by reason of any
activities of political associates or
.friends at any time; or that my con
duct, either official or personal, was
directly or Indirectly Influenced at any
time. In any way, by and cor
rupt motives."
PREMIER POINCARE of France
has resigned, and President Mll
lerand has invited Edouard Herrlot.
leader of the radicals, to form a new
ministry. But Mlllerand himself has,
up to the time of writing, refused
stubbornly to comply with the de
mands of bis opponents and get out of
office, and the members of the left are
not willing to form a government under
Mlllerand's presidency. Paul Palnleve
Is the man the left bloc wants for pres
ident, and as a step toward that he
was elected president of the chamber
of deputies. ,
Opposition parties in Germany hav
ing been unable to get together for the
formation of a government. President
Ebert reappointed Chancellor Marx
and his cabinet, despite the howls of
the Communists and Nationalists. Mars
told the relchstag that the Dawes re
port was "Germany's last chance of sal
vation" and that the government was
prepared to receive the report as an
unalterable and Indivisible whole.
WHAT was at first reported to be
a serious attempt at a revolution
In Rumania turned out to be a peaceful
demonstration by 10,000 peasants, led
by General Averescu, who marched
into Bucharest and presented a protest
against the government of Premier
Rratlano. and then quietly disposed.
The opposition to Bratlano Is growing
so strong that his re«lgnatlon Is pre
dicted.
' Albania, however, really has a revo
lution. led by Rezed Schalja. The
rebels are reported to have captured
Scutari and Skodra, and there was a
rumor {hat they had taken Tirami, the
capital. The fighting Is fierce. In re
sponse to the request of the American
minister. Vice Admiral Andrews, com
manding American naval forces In Eu
ropean waters, wns to hold
a warship in
Duraszo.
CHANCELLOR SEIPEL OF AUSTRIA
was seriously wounded by a young
Communist, and thereupon the Hun
garian police announced J)mt this at
tack was part of t vast plot for the
assassination of-K ng George of Eng
land. President Mlllerand of France,
Chancellor Marx of Germany and othet
national leaders. The plot was dis
covered when the Hungarian police
arrested a man named Zetaron, mem
ber of a secret anarchist death society
with headquarters In Lob ben. Austria,
foi an attemot to kill Regent Horthy.
OUR world encircling army avia
tors, after a pleasant stop In
Japan, flew last week 500 mites over
the China sea to Shanghai, where thej
were given a great welcome. Tbej
planned to start for Ami on P*tar
day.
DOINGS IN THE
TAR HEEL STATE
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
TOLD IN BHORT PARA
GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Carthage.—Miss Mary George Mc-
Donald, youngest daughter of Senator
D. A. McDonald, of Carthage, died at
his residence here after protracted Ill
ness. She was 28 years of age.
Asheville. —The Conference Club of
America, composed of the leading
electrical contractors of the country
will hold its annual meeting in Ashe
ville July 18, 19, and 20, according to
Information received by Kenilworth
Inn.
Oxford. —Extensive preparations are
being made at the Masonic Orphanage
tor the annual celebration of St. John's
Day on June 24th. The orator of the
day will be Dr. W. R. Burrell.
Fayetteville.—The State Highway
Commission has officially adopted the
Fayetteville-Fort-Bragg-Sanford high
way, has named the ne.w route "State
Highway No. 58," and will take it over
for maintenance on July 1.
Asheville. Bernard Baker, 23,
grandson of .the late J. H. Rumbough,
was instantly killed when his auto
mobile plunged 200 feet over an em
bankment near Hot Springs, where he
resided. The automobile was com
pletely demolished.
Greensboro. Robert, ten-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Shaw, of this
city, formerly of Washington, N. C.,
and Raleigh, was instantly killed by a
passenger train here.
Rutherforflton.—Ex-Senatfir Solomon
Gallert difed suddenly six miles east
of here. He was out campaigning
when his coupe stuck in a, mud hole
and he over-exerted himself. He call
ed a neighbor to help him and died
soon after the neighbor arrived.
Asheboro.—While the officers had
gone on "Baptist Hill" to attend a
fight between three negreos, Isley,
Georgetown, and Moffitt, one of whom
shot in the back, resulting from a
drunken ffght, six men escaped from
the jail. The six were all white.
Elizabeth City.—The first shipment
of potatoes this season through Eliza
beth City arrived from Old Trap. The
shipment, consisting of nine barrels,
was made by W. J. Burgess. It was
consigned to a Boston produce house.
Salisbury.—The city of Salisbury
voted three hundred fifty thousand
dollars school improvement bonds by
a majority of 55.
Bethel.— The rush of the potato sea
son opened here by the shipment of
the first car of the season by M. O.
Bount and Sons to the northern mar
ket. A safe estimate is that there will
be approximately two hundred cars
shipped from this locality in the next
tew weeks.
Winston-Salem/ —At a meeting here
of the directors of the R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company a quarterly dividend
of ?1.75 on preferred and 75 cents on
Cbmmon stock was declared. The
dividend will be payable July 1 to
stockholders of record at the close of
business on June 18.
Greensboro. —It is not often that a
thief steals the entire stock of goods
in a store, but when I. B. Iseley, who
operates one near bevel Cross, Guil
ford County, returned to it recently
after a trip to Greensboro, he fmind
that some robbers had backed a truck
up to it and taken everything in it.
Greensboro. —Triplets born to Mr.
and Mrs. Clark Kirkman, of Pleasant
Garden, in Guilford county, near here,,
are doing well, as is 'the mother.
There are two girls and a boy.
Bethel, —Reckless driving claimed
another victim here when Lymon Jen
kins, sixteen year old colored boy died
as a reuslt of injuries received in an
accident Tuesday afternoon. He was
employed by C. D. Whltehurst as dri
ver of his delivery truck.
Greensboro, —The 'total of J>onds
required in the case of 49 men indict
ed by a Federal grand jury here on
charges of using the malls to defraud
in connection with selling campaign
of Bailey Brothers Company, defunct
tobacco manufacturers of Winston Sa
lem, will be $285,000.
Wilmington.—Customs receipt for
the Wilmington district during the
month of May amounted to $497,177.63,
an increase of 497,177.63, an increase
of $37,240.14 over the receipts for the
same month last year; and receipts
for the first five months this year are
$325,717.58 In excess of thtf five
months' receipt for 1923.
Winston-Salem, —Identification of
the skeleton of a man found on a creek
bank near Walkertown has been im
possible so far and authorities have
little hope of ever ascertaining the
name of the deceased. The body prac
tically stripped of flesh, offered little
basis for clues to identification and
was in such condition that recognition
is impossible.
Rutherfordton. Tench McArthur,
25-year old son of W. W. of
this place, was killed during the storm
near Mooresboro. He was on the back
porch of his home holding a clothes
line when the line was struck, killing
him instantly. He is survived by a
widow and two children.
Wilmington.—Work on the Hotel
Cape Fear, Wilmington's millon dollar
tourist and commercial hostelry, is
progressing rapidly and most saUsfac
torly at the present time and the con
tractor la confident that be will have
no trouble in completing the structure
bv early fall.
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Tell your druggist you want only
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children of all ages printed on bottle.
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