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Providential Possession of a Network of Great Natural Waterways By HERBERT HOOVER, U. S. Secretary of Commerce. OUR agriculture is based upon higher standards of living than those of our foreign competitors. If we would maintain these standards, we must omit nothing in the economies we can bring in transportation. Every cent we can save in transportation to market is an addition to the income of the farmer and an assurance that ve can maintain these standards in agriculture.' No one can contemplate )he p flS t and the future of our country without an earnest prayer that „'e shall maintain at all times the refreshing force of -a strong farm population in our national life. ftor does this problem extend to agriculture alone. For if we would rovide our manufacturers and our workmen with the most economic assembly of their raw materials, which they must receive from all parts of the world, and if we would provide for them the cheapest access to the vorld for their finished goods, we must also secure to them the cheapest transportation. The providential possession or a network of great natural waterways, t l, e advance of engineering science which renders feasible their com pletion to the cheapest form of transportation for primary goods, the moderate capital outlay required for so reproductive a work, the re vered economic strength of our nation places us in a new era in this irreat project, and it bids that we provide for the increasing traffic of our country; that we sfct in motion the economic forces that will tend to e better distribution of our increasing population and the wider diversification of our industries, and, above all, that will contribute so great! v to overcome the difficulties of our farmers. Approximately 5,000,000 Radio Set Owners in the United States By ORRIN E. DUNLAP, JR., in New York Times. , , # The outstanding radio development in 1925 was the advancement in transmission and reception of waves under 75 meters in length. Five other prominent milestones which 1925 will leave on its record are the improving of the tone quality produced by receiving sets; the stabiliza tion of the industry; the winning over of world-famous artists to broad casting: the improving of transmission, especially the usage of higher power, such as in the 50-kilowatt plants at Schenectady and Bound Brook, N. J., and the invention of a combination photoelectric cell and vacuum tube, which is likely to lead to more rapid development of tele vision and radio motion pictures. The passing year leaves a record of approximately 5,000,000 radio set owners in the United States, about 600,000 of whom are on farms. There will probably be 2,000,000 set owners added to the invisible audi ence during the next twelve months. The market has scarcely been scratched and the saturation point is far from being in sight. There are now about 550 broadcasters in the United States. The sales volume of 1923 in the radio industry was estimated at 1 $115,000,000, and a survey of the field this year shows a total estimated at $350,000,000. Indications are that the sales within two years will reach $500,000,000, according to leaders in the industry. "One-half of the Lawyers in the Country Are Parasites on Society" By DR. HUGH MILLER, George Washington University. Due acknowledgement should be paid to the legal profession for its services to civilization in the past and to the high-minded and efficient members of that profession today. The profession as a whole, however, is all out of joint with the requirements of our present-day civilization. So much so that I believe that one-half of the lawyers in the country are parasites on society and perform no useful service. To explain this let me say that congress, composed mostly of lawyers, paid by the public SIO,OOO a year, spend their time passing laws which they violate themselves every day, together with a large part of the popula tion of the country. Other lawyers employed by individuals and corpora tions earn $50,000 a year and upward by trying to interpret or evade the laws which the first group of lawyers have passed. In other words, the legal profession, by reason of its control of political and economic machinery, are playing both ends against the middle and are fattening themselves at the expense of the public. More over, lawyers %s a rule talk too much and act too slowly for modern con ditions. Engineers proverbially talk little, but act quickly and efficiently. Our Young People Have Certainly Emerged From the Age of Authority By DEAN HERBERT E. HAWKES, Columbia University. Our young people have certainly emerged from the age of authority, either parental, social or divine. Each is master of his own destiny in an anarchy of individualism. It is high time that some one who possesses the vision clears the way for the next step, which is in sight. So far as °w students are concerned, the slate is wiped clean for a consideration °f religion. The most striking feature of our young people is not their interest in religion, but their ignorance of it. With the falling away of home train lng in religious matters, our students have no idea what it is all about. And they are interested to find out. The man who is ignorant of and is not interested in religion is in •be same class as the man who is not interested in science, or art, or the **ial sciences. We do not frame our curriculum for those exceptional °r imperfect minds who have blind spots, but rather for the normal ®und that is anxious to obtain a well-rounded education. It Has Often Been Flippantly Stated That Man Created God" By RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER, Cleveland, Ohio. It has often been flippantly stated that man created God. There to my mind, a profound meaning beneath the surface of this phrase. n is so fashioned that he must create a God idea; withput it, he can e*ist. Man needs God in order that he may have a sense of at-home belonging in the universe. Man would feel utterly lost, lonely '"d helpless but for the consciousness that there is in this vast scheme , purpose and that he is in some way allied with it, an essentia! i ' n chain of universal purpose. Man needs God in order that L ' lav e a sense of dignity in life. Man's body is weak; his sense?- ' life is brief; his existence and his experiences would be "Wher humiliating were it not for the faith that, in spite of the in of his physical intellectual equipment and in spite of the i of lif®. he is, somehow, co-working with the great Creativs | ~ ,n the fashioning of the world. I—American Falls at Niagara frozen over dry for the first time since 1909. 2 —Members of house Judiciary subcommittee listening to Attorney Clarence Darrow's argument for the McLeod bill abolishing capital punish ment' In the District of Columbia. 3 —Statue of Dr. Crawford Long of Georgia, discoverer of sulphuric ether as an anesthetic, made for the Hall of Fame. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President and His Critics Accuse Each Other of Playing Politics. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT COOIJDGE, personally ' In conversation with the Washing ton correspondents nnd then through a White House spokesman,, told the country last week that the critics of 11 his administration were "playing poll tics" and should not be taken too seri ously. Mr. Coolidge alluded apparent ly to the Investigations of the Depart ment of Justice for failure to proceed against Secretary Mellon's aluminum company, to charges by Senator Nor rls that the President exerted ques tionable Influence to keep the tariff board from making sugar tariff recom mendations before the election of last fall, and to attacks made on the fed eral trade commission. Mr. Coolidge said these charges were unfounded, that the government was not derelict In enforcing the law and that such at tacks were seasonal, coming In years In which Presidential elections were hold. No sooner were these statements made public than Senator Pat Har rison of Mississippi arose In the sen ate to express his great Indignation at them. He described Mr. Coolidge as a "matchless politician" and said: "It does not become a resident of the White House to tell the country that all the speeches here are to have a political tinge. There are political speeches made here, and we invite the President to make his political speeches, whether he makes them to the farmers In the West or the cham ber of commerce |n New York. He has not made a single speech from that In New York to the fly-by-nlght Journey to Chicago but that was an effort to win favor with the people—playing politics In his speeches. When he per suaded some gentlemen on the other side of the aisle to change their views with respect to International peace In the world he performed one of the seven wonders of the world." AMONG the Important statements | of the President's attitude, ema- I natlng from the White are these: f~ The President Is disappointed by the postponement by the League of Nations of preparations for a disarma ment conference, and If the league's conference does not materialize, Mr. Coolidge will return to his original plan to convene In Washington another conference on further reduction of naval armaments. Mr. Coolidge Is still as much op posed as ever to the United States joining the League of Nations, be lieves the country still overwhelming ly determined to stay out, and regsrds our entrance Into the World court not n step toward the league, but a dem onstration of our care to avoid league entanglement. The President condemns publicity statements emanating from the War snd Navy departments charging de terioration of our national defenses, characterizing them as misrepresenta tions, designed to obtain larger ap propriations. Mr. Coolidge regards the condition of the army and navy as satisfactory. GERMANY'S application for mem bership In the League of Nations probably will have reached Geneva be fore this 1* published and It Is expect ed that Sir Eric Drummond, the sec retary general, will convoke an ex traordinary session of the council at once to act on It. The next procedure wl'l be a special of the as sembly, probably In March, to take Germany In formally. The foreign af fair* committee of the relchstag by a vote of 18 to 8 decided to apply for membership and rbe presidents of all the German states were summoned to D«rlln for a float discussion of the form of application. Germany will be the fifty-sixth member of the leagu*. Occupation of the first zone In the Rhineland by the allies came to an end when the last British troops THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C. marched out of Cologne, the French evacuated Bonn and the Belgians i moved out of Moers, Dusseldorff and Alx la Chapelle. Thus 2,500,000 re turned to the sovereignty of the relch. It was said In Paris that the occupa- I tlon forces would be reduced to 60,000 I as soon as Germany entered the i league. But the official view In Ber- 1 lln Is that after Germany has entered i the league and all the provisions of ' the Locarno pact and the Dawes plan are carried out, any occupation of the i Rhineland will be an Incongruous ob stacle to general pacification. FAIRLY rapid action marked the senate's consideration of the tax bill last week, and on the controver sial features the "regular" Republic ans and Democrats voted together, sustaining the finance committee's ac tion and defeating the efforts of the radicals to amend the measure To ward the end of the week the pro posed repeal of the estate tax and of the publicity provision of the present law were the most interesting features remaining to be acted upon, ft Is be lieved the house will accept the sen ate's changes which make greater re ductions In the middle brackets. THE house received from commit tee the War department appropri ation bill, which calls for an army of approximately the existing Btrength and recommendr the expenditure dur ing the next fiscal year of 1330,581,000. This is nearly $7,000,000 more than last year's appropriation and $1,087,- 000 above the budget estimates. Of the total amount military activities would be given $261,081,000, or an In crease of $1,223,000 above current funds and $864,000 above budget fig ures. Nonmllltary activities would re ceive $78,500,000, an Increase of $5,- 741,000 over current funds and $223,- 000 above the budget SMUGGLING operations along the United States-Canadian border are to be thoroughly Investigated by a special committee of the Canadian parliament as a result of sensational charges made by H. H. Stevens, minis ter of trade and commerce in the for mer Conservative government After asserting that the smuggling during the last year had caused the Canadian government a loss of $200,000,000 In revenues, Mr. Stevens declared that a notorious crook, perjurer, thief and smuggler had been promoted to be chief customs officer at the port of Montreal though the cabinet ministers knew of his activities. George H. Bolvln, minister of cus toms and excise, told parliament he was willing to institute the Investiga tion demanded. He said the Immense smuggling of silk, cotton goods, cig arettes and tobacco Into Canada, with return cargoes of whlsk.v, was not con fined to the Quebec border. Condi tions at Toronto, Windsor and right through to Vancouver needed the thorough probing which the govern ment was prepared to give. Conser vative leader Arthur Melghen ex pressed entire accord with the pro posal to hold u wide open public In quiry. ANOTHER attack on the dry laws, from a rather unexpected source, cume last week. Rev. Dr. James Eni prlngham, national secretary of the Church Temperance society of the Episcopal church, announced that a poll of the 20,000 members of the so ciety showed an overwhelming pre ponderance In favor of modification of i the Volstead act. Consequently Doc tor Emprlngham reported to a meet ing of Episcopal clergymen In New York that the society as a whole was i In favor of such modification, for these reasons: "1. Because the effect of prohibition has been to put an end to scientific temperance teaching. "2. It has discouraged the consump tion of wine and beer and increased the demand for distilled liquors, which today are mostly poisonous. "3. It has resulted In increased i drinking among young people. "4. It has brought about disrespect I for all laws. > "5. It Is class legislation, dlscrlml > natlng In favor of the rich. , » "6. In our survey we found Intem perance Increased." \ The society has no official connec i tlon with the church and many of the i Episcopal clerfjmen are not In ac- ?ord with Its new policy concerning' ( prohibition. KENTUCKY authorities (rave an ex hibition of efficiency last week In protecting a prisoner from would-be lynchers and this was followed hy the Bwlft meting out of justice to the of fender. Edward Harris, a negro, was accused of murder and an attack on a woman, and when a mob gathered at Frankfort, where he was confined, a thousand National Guardsmen with all equipment. Including tanks, were called out, the threatening crowds were dispersed by tear gas and Har ris was safely transported to Lexing ton. There he pleaded guilty to the criminal attack and was sentenced to death on the gallows on March 5. WILLIAM M. WOOD, millionaire resident of Andover, Mass., and former president of the American Woolen company, committed suicide near Daytona, Fla. He had been in poor health for several years and had been despondent since his son was killed In an automobile accident in 1&22. He also had grieved over the partial abandonment of his plans to build a model village for the thou sands of employees of the woolen com pany. His associates did not approve of the expenditure of millions for this philanthropic purpose. He retired from the presidency of the company In March, 1929. WILLIAM A. CLARK, former sen ator from Montana, who died laßt March, left a fortune of some $50,000,000. The other day three wom en appeared In Butte, Mont., as claim ants to a share to this estate, assert ing that they were Clark's daughters by his alleged marriage to a woman In Missouri In 1809. Attorneys for the Clark estate say they know noth ing of these women or of the alleged marriage. GRADUALLY some of the truth concerning the renunciation of Crown Prince Carol of Rumania Is leaking out. The stories coming from Bucharest reveal a palace scandal that reflects seriously on Queen Marie and Prlrce Babu Stlrbey, her favorite, whoSe power In the government the opposition party has been trying to de stroy. Gregolre Phillpescu, a deputy, lias been issuing a series of posters lampooning the prince and the latest report Is that Babu has fled from the capital and that the queen has fol lowed him. Phillpescu's paper accuses Prince Babu of robbing the Rumanian deputies and of falsifying the parlia mentary reports to deceive the people. ANOTHER gallant rescue of sailors on the storm-swept Atlantic marked the week. The crew of the sinking Dutch steamer Alkald was taken off by the men of the Hamburg- Atnerlcan liner Westphalia In mid ocean, the rescuers displaying great bravery. Captain Fried and his men of the President Roosevelt, who Raved 25 men from the British freighter Antlnoe, have been awarded gold, sil ver and bronze medals by the British government, the British board of trade and Lloyds. r KTUOAL had another of Its In cipient revolutions the other day under the leadership of Col. Justlnlano Eateves. But the government put It down with neatness aofF dispatch and the leader and lieutenants were arrested while they wefe attempting to capture the barracks at Campollnl. The day before two batteries of artil lery revolted and were shelled Into submission by the fortress of San George. In Greece a communist plot to as sassinate Premier Pangalos and other government leaders was uncovered by | a raid on a Communist center. FINANCE MINISTER DOUMER of France announced that the govern ment was ready to receive offers from any American syndicates for the pur chase or lease of the operation of the telegraph and telephone system and the monopolies ID tobacco and matches. An American group, reported to be backed by the American Tobacco com pany, recently offered approximately tJ .000,000,000 for a 90-year monopoly on the sale of matches and tobacco. A syndicate has been dickering for • long time to take over the operatic* of telephones and telegraphs. MCLEAN BUCK OF "iosiEr TOUR WILL OFFICIALLY SPEED TOUR ON ITS WAY AROUND CONTI NENT. Raleigb. Governor McLean gave h}s enthu siastic endorsement to the projected Carolina's btoster tour across the con tinent and promised to be on hand at Hendersonville next June to give the party an official sendoff. A delegation from Hendersonville ed by President C. E. Rodgers and J. S. Stubbs, of the chamber of com merce, was here in the interests of the proposed eight thousand mile tour. In addition to calling on the governor, the delegation saw Major Wade H. Phillips, director of the state depart ment of conservation and development, ind enlisted the support of the Raleigh chamber of commerce. Governor McLean wished the pro moters of the tour success in the un lertaking and readily agreed to book himself for the day in June when the tour is scheduled to leave Henderson ville on the long booster Journey. He saw wonderful possibilities of giving North Carolina a lot of highly valuable advertising by carrying the news of the state's progress through seventeen states and into 200 and more cities along the route. Major Phillips will ask his conser vation board to lend its support. His department is in position to provide important advertising material. The board of directors of the Raleigh chamber of commerce gave a prompt endorsement to the prospect, making the seventh chamber to regis ter official approval. The others are at Charlotte, in ston Salem, High Point, Salisbury, Spartanburg and Hendersonville. State School Enrollment Increases. School enrollment and attendance for the last year Improved over that of two years ago. The February num ber of the publlation gives theie facta: Last year, 559,396 white children were enrolled in the pubUc schools, and of this number 426,999, or 76.5 per cent, were in average daily attend ance. In 1923 25 (he enrollment llgnre was 544,142. and 406,661 children that year attended school daily a percent age of 74.7. In the negro schools, the enrollment was 248.904 In 1923-24 and 250.438 In 1924-26. The average daily attendance figures for the two years were 164,698 and 169,212. Expressed in terms of percentages, the latter figures mean that 66.2 per cent of the children en rolled in 1923 24 were in daily attend ance, and 67.6 per cent in 1924-25. The city jgcbools continue to show a big lead In dally attendance over those in the rural sections, but the publication quotes figures to show that the rural schools are making gains on the city schools in the matter of daily attendance. Carteret county. In daily attendance in the white schools, led all the coun ties In the state and most of the cities. The county's percentage of average attendance was 88.2. There were but five of the city systems which made a better showing than Carteret conn ty, says the publication, and the aver age attendance percentage in Carter et's rural schools was better than In any of the eight largest cities In North Carolina. Carteret came up to the leading place among the 100 coun. ties in North Carolina from seventh position in the matter of attednace in 1923 24. Stanly county, sixth in 1923-24, wai second last year. Dare, first In the former year, dropped to third place last year. Northampton moved up from tenth place two years ago to fourth in 1924-25. t , Revenue Department Does Business. Collections by the State Department of Revenue during the first three days of February totalled over $200,000, or practically as much as the entire sum of 1220,000 collected during the whole of January, It was announced by Com missloner R. A. Doughton. The bulk of the February collec tlons to date has beeir in Insurance taxes but there hav* been good collec tlons on other items, despite the fact that collection of inocme taxes has been seriously delayed by the fact that many citizens are waiting to pay their Federal and State taxes at thf same time. The Federal government has not yet sent out tte blanks due to the pendency of the tax reduction bill in Congress. Committee to Draft Resolutions. Governor McLean announced the ap potntment of E. S. Parker, Jr., and A. M. Seales, of Greensboro, and A. H Price, of Salisbury, members of the resolutions committee to frame spit able resolutions on the death of Judge William P. Bynum, member of the board of trustetes of the university. The governor announced the ap pointment of John A. Hendricks, ol Madison county, and A. H. Graham, ol Orange, members of the visiting com mlttee. Tanlac builds strong bodies "J'ssMMMaAsatfllMi iHVPVrfIfiFVMMP , Uft mm sml and wait*d. Itoil20lk». Afttr jtvtn kottl*.t of Tanlac I taintd kack my wtigkt. S strfgth and lath. ißtfill!' W Tanlac to knild a# Packman, Sn wi> wank**, Wit. There's nothing like Tanlac to purify the blood, pnt the stomach and liver in working order and bnlld np a run-down body.* Millions of men and women have been benefited by this great tonio and builder that Is compounded after the famous Tanlac formula from roots, barks and herbs. 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