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1 HE GLEANER GRAHAM. N. C., FEB. 20, i ') ISBl'ID EVEkY THCBBDlt. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered at toe Pos'oflice at Graham, N. 0.. ait itecuuu-oia?M matter. * ? Away off in Australia a widow's three bachelor sons, aged 73, 75 and 77 years, respectively, got nervous because their 102-year-old mother slipped away and took her first ride of three miles on a train. Straws show which way the wind is blowing. Recent elections in Kentucky, Georgia, Indiana, New York and Virginia?Democratic victories forebode a reversion of for sobriety must be nurtured in feeling toward the Republican rigime unless there is a decided the peticoat complexion of the coun try will not be the same as it was in 1928 and next year may see a complete change. It has been rumored that Hon S. M. Gattis will not be a candi date for the nomination {or Con gress in the Democratic primary or June the 7th. This may be prop oganda on the part of the friend; of some other candidates to elem inate Mr. Gattis from the race, 01 to minimize his prospects. II then are those who believe he - ill no be a candidate they should se themselves right. It is assured not withstanding the rumor, tha Mr. Gattis is a candidate, and tha when he decides to drop out, th public will be fully advised. There appears to be developini a strong sentiment in favor of re sclnding the Volstead act. It is : big bone of contentful, but ther Is little prospect of it ever beln repealed. The manner of its en forcement has tended to anythin but popularizing it. The people se millions being spent to clean u the bootleg business and the coun try little or no drier than it wa ten years ago. There is somethin wrong, somewhere. The senLirnen for sobriety must be murtured i every sort of preachment befor the ideal is attained. The voters favoring the nomina tlon of Josiah Williams Bailey to Senator can learn something fror the activity of the Simmons for ces. Whatever else might be sal of Mr. Simmons, it Is an open se cret that during the days whe he was state chairman he lai special stress on organization, an therein was the secret of his sue cess as a political leader. His sup porters are now organizing, start lng with the state and comin down to congressional districts an counties. It Is possible that It I going on under his direction. Or ganizatlon Is co-operation and on of the most potent forces in th production of results, and the sam is as true in politics as in buslnes affairs. The prosperity program of the party In power at Washington shows but litUe sign of material izing. Sluggish business and tight money have produced a long un employment list. It is the habit to saddle the predominant party with any let down in business. If Smith had been elected instead of Hoover and the business of the country had slowed down as t has. a big uproar and condemn; .ion of the Democratic Party wou.J have swept the country and the I told you 80s" would have been legldn. To be sure. Smith's election could not have made things greatly worse than they are. Whether hard times can be Justly attributed to one party or another is a debat able proposition. It is true, never theless, that party policies produce results, both favorable and unfav orable, and it Is true too, that times of depression in business come per iodically, regardless of what party Is in power. Tl confirmation of Charlie bo... Hughes took place toward tin- nnuk end of last w-ek l?y a voto of 52 to 26. Both North Carolina Senators voted agaiusl it The disarmament parley in Lon don is not making a great deal of headway. Countries whose trade extends all over the world feel that j they need protection. Nations are ambitiqtas for new trading terri tory. A strong navy is not neces sary for conquest, but it will serve in a very salutary way for pro-1 tection. VV H. Jordan, the founder of North Carolina Newspapers, Inc., publisher of a chain of 43 weekly I papers, of Greensboro and Bland, annouuces himself a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket. He states that he was the "first publisher to boost .Vr. Hoover for president" as one of his qualifications "to serve the good people of the Fifth." 1 MASSACHUSETTS ELECTS DEMOCRAT TO CONGRESS It may be claimed that this be ing an "oft year" Is responsible for a Democrat being elected to fill a 1; heretofore Republican seat in the 1 rock-ribbed Bay State, and that 1 when the general election comes 'round, the district will right it self. It is suspected and believed that there is something more to the 1 turn-over of around 14,000 in less 1 than two years than the "off year" l* alibi. 1 Chairman Jouett Shouse of the 1 Democratic National Executive B Committee, interprets the pheno menal Democratic victory in the Second Congressional District of Massachusetts?ex-President Cool ^ idge's District?as a direct defeat for the Hoover administration up e on the clear cut issue of whether g or not the present national admin istration should be sustained g Chairman Shouse said: e "Senator David I. Walsh, in his p speech for the Democratic candi date, specifically called for a Dem -s ocratlc victory as a protest againsl g what he termed the failure of the it,ad: nlstratlon to acknowledge the grave unemployment situation and to move for its remedy. He brought e the tariff fight into It, with par ticular reference to the distressed condition of certain Massachusetts - j industries." ir On the other hand, Senator Gtl n lette. Walsh's Republican colleague he pointed out, called on Republi j cans to rally to the "splendid ad ministration of President Hoover.' " This was the one issue, as the lo n cal issue of prohibition was prac d tically eliminated by the announ d cement of both candidates that they would vote to repeal the Vol stead Act. Chairman Shouse points out that " the election was a complete turn g over. Representative Kaynor, Re d publican, carried the district by 8, 1S 500 in 1928, and William J. Gran held, the Democratic candidate tc nil the vacancy caused by Mr e Kaynor's death, carried it at the e special election by between 5,000 e and 6.000. registering the first Dem ^ oeratic victory since the District was formed, forty years ago. "It Is one more indication of ai unbroken series of bye-election that point the dissatisfaction o the country under the present ad ministration." Chairman Shous continues. He reviewed the recent Demo cratic Congressional victories ii Kentucky and Qeorgla. the Demo cratic municipal victories in Net York State and Indiana and thi overwhelming state victory in Vlr glnla. and then commented 01 them as follows: "In all of these elections th same appeal has been made fron Washington to 'stand by the Presi dent,' and in election after elec tlon it was shown that the shatter ed condition of the Republican del egations in the State was reflectei throughout the country. When ever the national admlnlstratioi has been made an issue the Demo crats have gained. "Under these conditions, t h Democrats have every reason to b satisfied with the situation am are looking forward to the genera Congressional elections next fa! with the utmost confidence." 41J tUtCKIBB rOR THB QLBANBJi CHAIN STORES A crusade has started against chain stores and naturally the in dependent store is in the fore front. Some of the argument is reasonable and some of it is un reasonable. Some have accused the chain stores of selling inferior goods and giving short weights and measur es; that they have goods put up for the sole purpose of under selling the independent store. If chain stores resort to such methods, then they should be re strained by legal process. There is a law against cheating by false weights and measurers. One never gets very far by be rating the other fellow. Grant the j competition is close?that the in dependent has a hard time meeting j it. Surely there is a legitimate i remedy. The trouble may be in the buy ing. Invoke the trite old adage ! 'That goods well bought are half sold." Without a doubt the chain stores buy in large quantities in order to stock their many branches. There are many more of the in dependent stores than of the chain stores, and they do the big bulk of the distribution. If they should revise their buying and selling methods?buying in larger quan tities and coming near a cash bas is, matters would be simplified. A lot of consumers do not treat the Independent store right. They buy and have charged and pay at their leisure. The chain store sells for cash?no bad accounts and no book-keeping, and often gets the time-buyers cash that should be applied on the accommodation ac ? count. It is not fair to the inde pendent store to ask credit and spend the cash elsewhere. Cash talks and buys for less than prom . ises. ON WITH THE BATTLE! The captains have been named ' anil the battle i.s on! Chas. A. Ilines of Greensboro is made manager and Col. John D. Laug , ston of Goldshoro his first-aide . for the Simmons forces. C. L. I Shaping of Greensboro and Judge Jas. S. Manning, as heretofore mentioned, will direct the Raiiey | forces. Both managers are from Greensboro. Now that the commanders have been duly appointed the contest will begin to take on more in terest. What will be the result of this campaign no one can foresee with any degree of certainty. It is unfortunate, however, in that it will uot teud td heal the breach made in the Democratic ranks by the attitude of Senator Simmons in the 1928 campaign. It looks liko Simmons is seeking vindication, whereas, had he left o!T his unseemly pro-IIooveractiv ity in 1928 he, no doubt, would , have entered the race again with l out auy grave opposition in the ranks of the |Mtrly. It would be uon-sense for any one to claim or assert that the 1 Simmons following in the State is ! negligible. It is yet a big force and to overcome it will be some i thing more than child's play. WISE WHISPERS . ~i. Imitations are seldom valuable; be yourself. What la thy duty? The demand of the present hour.?Goethei ' ? Rebuke backbiters and encourage them not by hearkening to their tales. ?Richard Baxter. I _ Be less ashamed to confess thy Ignorance than, by holding a foolish argument, to betray it?Ella. Jocellne. I The church began Its worklhg life on the day on which one young man said to another, "Come and see."? ' Charles E. Jefferson. Who Is a wise man and endued with i knowledge among you? Let him show , out of a good conversation his works I with meekness of wisdom.?St James. ' The greatest miracle that I know ' of Is my conscience. And If God has been able to work that one, there are , none of which He is not capable.? Vtaet Did You Ever Stop To Think (Copyright J9ii8) By Edson R Waite. SJntwuee, OkJa. Charles F. Scott, Publisher of the Iola (Kansas) Register, says: That It Is continuity in advertis ing that counts. No stock grower would expect good results if he fed his hogs or cattle regularly for one week, then gave them nothing for two or three weeks. It is just as unreasonable j for a merchant to expect his busi ness to flourish when he feeds it with irregular advertising. No suc cessful merchant In the world ever i followed that practice. The successful merchant gives as careful attention to his advertis ing as he does to the selection of his goods, and he is as careful not to let his advertising run out as he he not to allow his stock of mer chandise to become depleted. No merchant who expects to make a real success of his busi ness should ever allow any news paper published in his home town to go to press without carrying in its pages a new and carefully writ ten advertisement of his business. United States Senator W. B. Pine | of Oklahoma says: That the Government controls , many of the conditions that con trol your business. You succeed or fail largely be cause of the equitable or inequit able administration of the laws. Business is a contest for the wealth produced in the nation and the part you get is determined to some extent by the rules governing the game laid down by the Govern ment. The Interstate Commerce Com mission has control of transpora tion and as our civilization develops and our wants become more diver sified and complex the one who controls freight rates determines whether we have dried apples, grapefruit or prunes for our break fast. He has the power to say whether the farmer shall operate as a profit or at a loss. In one sec tion of the country the industries are located and made to thrive by his orders and in another section established industries are destroy ed by his unfavorable decisions. | The Federal Reserve Board has ! control of the nation's credit sup- i ply. By inflating and deflating \ credit the average commodity price level Is controlled. The extension of credit has the same effect on business that rain has on a plant. Where there te inflation of the ) credit supply there is apparent prosperty and where there is de flation there is stagnation and | bankruptcy. California is now draw ing more credit from the federal reserve system than during the war period and Los Angeles can hardly build houses fast enough to house ' people who are moving to that city. J The New York 8tock exchange loans are about five times what they j were In 1920 and the business is unusually active and stock prices were never so high. The agricultural regions are draw ing only about 25 per cent of the credit from the federal reserve they drew In 1920 and as a result in that territory we find business depres sion and bank failures. The de flation inaugurated in 1920 con tinues in the agricultural regions and the credit withdrawn by the small country banks from the farm er is causing the inflation in the financial centers. An equality of opportunity and an equitable administration of the laws will solve the farm problem. SUGGESTS GARDEN WORK FOR PRESENT SEASON , I Tender garden plants started in ' the hotbed must have constant ' care during their early life. The bed must be ventilated on warm, 1 sunny days' and protected on cold 1 nights. Hardier plants growing in I cold frames will allow the covers to be removed in the day and on I warm nights. These plants should I be gradually hardened as the time ' approaches to set them in the open I field or garden, says E. B. Morrow, ' extension horticulturist at State J College. y1 t If early garden plants are forced too quickly, they will have spindl ing tops, poor root systems and will not survive so well as those that have been gradually hardened off Mr Morrow suggests plantings of aspagagus. beets, carrots, kale, mus tard, lettuce, onions, peas. Irish po- j tatoes. spinach and tomatoes for this season. One year roots of the Mary Washington variety of as paragus are recommended for planting in February and early j March. The first plantings of beets I $4.12" RETURNED FOR $1 SPENT ~ ' FOR FERTILIZER IN N. CAROLINA I V ' For every dollar spent for fertiliser In North Carolina, growers receive in return more than four dollars in in creased value oi the crops grown. This statement is based on estimates of nearly 5,000 North Carolina farmers who were personally interviewed re garding their experiences, opinions, practices and results from the use of commercial plant food. Their answers developed the fact .hat more than half of the total crop of cotton grown in North Carolina ii\ 1927, for instance, was produced by fertilizer. This means for cotton alone in North 5,000 North Carolina Farmers Tell Interviewers How They Receive $4.12 for Every Dollar Spent for Fertilizer. Carolina an increase in value of $3.86 for each dollar spen. for fertilizer, vlth similar large returns for money spent for fertilization of other crops grown In the state, averaging $4.12 for all crops. The added yield for cotton?54.8 per cent of the total yield?resulting from the use of commercial plant food has a mon./ value of $49,741,000, of which $36,854,000 is returned over and above the -coat of fertilizer, only $12,887,000 having been spent that year for this crop-producing commodity. These facts, along with other vain able information regarding fertilizers and fertilizer practices in -North Car olina and 32 other states, based on a recent survey conducted under the su pervision of The National Fertilizer Association, were brought out In a pg per presented by H. R. Smalley, di rector of Sofl Improvement Work of the Association, before the annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy in Chicago. Consumer Survey. Farmers all over the country?more than 48,000 in 35 states?were person ally visited by representatives of fer tilizer companies doing busines-. In the states. The "Consumer Survey," as It ' la called, was made to obtain facts re garding fertilizer practices on Amer ican farms. Of the total number In terviewed, 4,994 were North Carolina ' farmers. The Information developed was util ized in connection with data made I available by the United States Depart ment of Agrlc .tlure and shows the re I suits indicated. For cotton, more than half of the total crop produced in North i Carolina produced by 452,170 tons of fertilizer, gave estimated increases in the value of the cotton crop of nearly 400 per cent for every dollar spent for commercial plant 'ood. For the corn crop In North Carolina, 34.2 per cent of the total crop was pro ' duced by fertilizer, the added value , produced in this manner being $15,? 814,000. Total tonnage of fertilizer used : on corn in North Carolina in 1927 was 298,700 tons, bought by farmers at an estimated total cost of $8,364,010, and ind carrots are advised at once and nn the risk of the plants being tilled by cold weather. Kale and nustard can be planted now to ceep up the supply of spring greens, rhe new mustard-spinach recently ieveloped Is good and Is sometimes I known on the market as tender-; freen. Lettuce may be planted In the partially spent hotbed or the cold frame and set in the open as soon is the plants are of sufficient size.1 Seeds of onions may be planted for1 i crop about March first. Thomas 'Atxton and Telephone are good' rarities for the early garden. The early crop of Irish potatoes j nay be planted with safety by the '? nlddle of February In the coastal j ind eastern sections of the State. I Use plenty of seed and fertilize leavily. The Norfolk Savoy variety if spinach is the best for the early ;arden Plant tomato seed In the vindow box or hotbed before Mar. I ays Mr. Morrow. The Statesville Klwanls Club Is >flering $75 in gold as prizes to' redell farmers who follow balanc-j rd systems of farming this year. I resulting la- an increase In the value of the crop of $1,89 for every dollar spent for fertilizer. On tobacco the returns were even greater than for cotton and corn, the increase in value of the tobacco crop in North Carolina for each dollar spent for fertilizer being estimated at $7.48. The percentage of the total tobacco crop produced by plant food is given at 61.8, an unusually heavy return, worth $61,139,000, from the 263,560 tons of fertilizer used on tobacco at a cost of $8,170,000 to the North Carolina to bacco growers. The percentage of the total yield pro duced by fertilizer for other crops is given at 23.7 per cent and the added value at $13,952,000, with an increase of $2.96 In the average value of the crops for each dollar spent for fertil izer. For other crops than cotton, corn, and tobacco, 166,970 tons of fer tilizer were used, costing $4,720,000. Taking all crops considered, it was found that the percentage of the total crop produced by fertilizer in North Carolina was 47.7, with an added value of $140,646,000 from the use of 1,171, 000 tons costing $3J,141,000 and re turning $4.12 for each dollar spent for fertilizer. Farmers' Own Estimates Used. The foregoing figures and conclu sions are based on North Carolina farmers' own estimates of the increase in yield obtained by the use of fer tilizer, the percentages of acreages fer tilized, the value of crofts as reported by the United States Department of Agriculture, the approximate quanti ties of fertilizer used oa certain crops, an estimate of the average price paid by farmers for fertilizer on cotton as shown by figures of the United States Department of Agriculture, and an es timate made by The National Fertilizer Association on the average price paid for fertilizer used on other crops. The farmers' estimates of increased yields obtained by the use of fertilizer are the most comprehensive estimates of this kind ever obtained, and it there fore seems worth while to employ them to determine approximately the returns that the farmers obtain from the use of fertilizer. The 2,490 cotton farmers interviewed in North Carolina esti mated their average yield of cotton without fertilizer at 155.3 pounds of lint per acre and with fertilizer at 367.2. For corn, the 1,364 North Car olina farmers questioned estimated the yield without fertilizer at 14.9 bushels pST J ^ *2186 ?20 ' 4? ? -I /- I #|5 -V #Bij? g ^ ?HM ra i 0 100 1 200 1 320 1 450 1 600 | 750 | 950 ? POUNDS OF FERTILIZER PER ACRE This chart shows the profit obtained i from the use of increasing quantities of fertilizer on 14,534 cotton farms located in Nor:h Carolina, South Car olina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. N per acre, with fertilizer 28.7. For to bacco, 1,615 gTowers estimated 286 pounds as the yield without fertilizer, and 853.6 with fertilizer. And it is from th?se estimates, made by the farmers of North Carolina them selves, that the conclusion is reached that the returns from the use of fertil izer in that state reach into the millions I of dollars. jiadleys Jke JeWelers ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having -ualtfled ac Administrator upon the estate of William Hatlilf. late of Ala* mane* County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present the sama to the undersigned duly verified on or before the 10*h day of January. 1831. or tbUhotice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery; sH persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate settlement This January *, iwa W. H 8TOCKARD. Adm'r. of the estate of William Ratliff J. S.COOK, Atty. Magistrates' Blanks-State Warrants, ciril Summons, Transcripts, of Judgments, for sale at The Gleaner office, Graham. Chattel Mortgage Blanks?For sale at Thk Gleaner office. VIRGINIA FARMS For Sale In The Shenandoah Vallev Level, Smooth Blue-gran* Stock. Dairy, Orchard and Poultry Farms of lO to lOOO Acres, Highly Im proved, Good home mark ets and Near Large Cities. . 157 acres, splendid 7 room residence, large new bank barn, now tenant house and barn, all needed farm buildings^40 acres bearing orchard-fruit net $4,750 pasty years?well fenced, water ed and timbered?one mile R. R. town, i 16,000. 200 acre dairy farm, level and smooth, two houses, one 0 other 5 rooms, new dairy barn, silo and milk house, cost $3,500. An abundance fruit, water and timber, 3 miles this city.$6,000. 153 acres, new t! room resi dence, barn antl usual buildings, 12 acres timber. 30 acres creek bottom blue-grass with running water, 3 springs on farm, 400 bearing apple trees?plenty all kiu I fruit?40 acres wheat in cluded if sold at once?school and churches* near, one miie highway,?5 miles this city. $5,000. 100 acres, fertile, smooth and I level, new 6 room dwelling, i large barn, large family orch ! ard, 8 acres timber, well fenced j and watered, half mile*of large j school, 3 miles city over good iroad. $4,000. 50 acre poultry and truck I farm, good 7 room house, barn, i poultry and hog houses, school, j churches, mill and store at farm, | 7miles this city over solid road. $2,500. Our taxes are low?we have no State tax on land?our Highways are built and paid for. If you want to Jive where farming DOES pay, investigate these farms. Write for details ?tell me your wants?come see for your self. W. T. BIRMINGHAM, 35 West Water St., Winchester, Va. Mortgagee's Sale of Land! Under and by virtue of the power contained in a certain mortgage deed executed by To ny Jannacone and his wife, Za relda Jannacone, to the under signed mortgagee on the 2nd day of August, 1929, to secure a certain bond therein describ ed, due and payable 2nd day of January, 1930, recorded in Book 113 of mortgages, at page 303, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Alamance County, default in the payment of said bond having been made, the un dersigned will, at 12:00 o'clock, M., on the 24th DAY of FEBRUARY, 1930 the same being Monday, sell at the Court House door in Gra ham, to the highest bidder for cash the following real proper ty, to-wit: A certain lot of land in the Town of Burlington, adjoin ing the lands of M B. Lindsey, W.S.Sbarpe, Washington Street and others, and beginning at a corner with lot No. 2, owned by Henry Eesley, up the line with W. S. Sharpe 00 feet to a stake, corner with M. B. Lindsey; . thence N. 160 feet to a stake on Washington Street; thence up said street to a corner with lot No. 2; thence up line of said lot 160 feet to the beginning. This is the lot that was conveyed to mortgagors by C. D. Story, see Book No. 82, page 490, aud is part of lots 1 & 2 of the Ireland property, as shown by plat in Book 30, page 108, and upon which there is a dwelling. The purchaser will be requir ed to pay 10 per cent in cash on day of sale as aguaiantee ot his compliance with his bid, and advance bids may be made on said sale for ten days after sale as provided by law. This the 21st day of January, 1930. J. S. COOK, Mortgagee. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified a? Administrator ol the estate ofSeymour Croeson.3r.,dceeaaed,late ot Alamance County, this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of the said deceased to exhibit them. t<> the under signed Administrator on or before Jan. 14.1981. or this notice will be pUaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estates will please make immediate settlement. This Jan. 14, 19L0 BEY MOT It CBOSbON, JR., Adm'r. of Estate of Seymour Crcason, Sr. Clarence Boss, Atty.
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