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THE GLEANER ! GRAHAM. N. 0., MAK 13, 1930.1 ISSUED EVKKY TBUHSDAI . J. O. KERNODLE, Editor. 91.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Bntared at tne Postoffioe at Graham. N. 0.. as aecouu-olaM matter. FARM CENSl'S Under an act ot Congress of June 18, 1929, a farm census will be taken this year along with the general census. In accordance with the said act the Bureau of the Census has pre pared a farm schedule or ques tionnaire which embraces 232 items. In this schedule the farmer is requested to report every thing he knows and does about the opera tion of his farm, and many things he never thought of. It is surmised that much of It will be guess work and wide of the mark at that. No farmer can an swer more than half of vuestions included in the schedule, because no record has been kept. If more than a year ago farmers had been furnished with a cheap book for listing the various items under proper headings, they could have kept a note of the transactions as they occurred. Such a report as is scheduled will be of little help to the farmer him self. But, if a book, properly head ed, had been distributed it would have been helpful to the farmer. In fact it would have been a system of book-keeping, something that is practiced by very few farmers From such a schedule the farmer would have been able to vision the profitable and non-profitable side of all his operations and make changes to his financial advantage The farmer has many preplex ing problems to deal with. Some of these he solves and others-staj with him to harass and make hirr dissatisfied with his occupation. Before another such census if contemplated, the Bureau shoulc prepare a bex>k as above Indicated and furnish each farmer with one at least a year in advance of the date it is proposed to make out the report. By so doing a vastly more accurate census would be ob tainable and the census-taker and the farmer both would be relieved of much worry and trouble, and the farmer would reap in advantage by keeping a daily record of the Innumerable transactions which at tend the conduct of a farm. Next Saturday night Is the time for the Jackson Day dinner in Ra leigh sponsored by the Young Dem ocrats. There will be a large gath ering?all that could be accommo dated, but not all who had a desire to attend. The committee had to limit the number, it is claimed, hence some are peeved. Neither ol the United States Senators will at tend on account of their duties in Washington. There will be eating and speech-making. Amnpg the speakers named are Jouett Shouse National Democratic chc'rman; Marry Flood Byrd, former Gover nor of Virginia; J. W. Bailey, candi date opposing Senator Sunmons; Josephus Daniels, Qovernor Gard ner, and others. The result of thli gathering and speech-making will be watched with interest and there will be criticism a-plenty. It dow looks like sugar will curat higher. An effort was made ii Congress to retain the old rate o: $1 .76 per pound on Cuban sugai and $2.20 on foreign sugar. Bui the upward revision of the tariff goes on and the consumer foots th< < bills. The new rate Is two cent! and 2.50, respectively, and sugai users will pay 32,000,000 a yea: more for their sweets than undei the former tariff. That business boom that Mr hoover projected almost a year age by calling together the heads ol "big business' has not yet material ized. The country want and need* It to give the army of unemployed something to do. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Former Chief Justice and Presi- [ dent Wm. Howard Taft died late Sat urday afternoon at his home in Washington, following a stroke of paralysis. He had been reported; to be Improving for several days,1 and the sudden end was a great! surprise. Mr. Taft was 72 years of age and j a native of Ohio. He is the only man to have filled j the two highest offices in the na tion?President and Chief Justice, j The nation liked Mr. Taft. His j kindness and human sympathy won the people. He was much liked in North Car- ! olina, where he appeared on sev eral occassions while president. Every honor was shown his re-; mains which now rest in the Na- | tional cemetery at Arlington. Prohibition and tariff arc the leading topics in Congress. With tariff there is tinkering always. IWhat one Congress does will not ["stay put" when another Congress I comes along. It is sort of an end less chain. And as to prohibition, the enforcement is the big and un solved obstacle. There are a lot of pure "wets" for one reason or an other who never have a good word for the Volstead Act. Lately the prohibition amendment has been attacked from another angle?to wit, that it was not properly rati fied, that the people should have voted on its ratification and not the legislatures of the several states. There may or may not be anything to the contention. R. B. Newlin is announced as candidate for the nomination to represent Alamance in the Legis lature. Whether or not he gets the nomination and the election is un determined, but it is certain he has opinions about matters. He don't always agree with everybody else ' in taking the popular side, but he i does what he conceives to be right. He has the courage to speak his 51 convictions. He formerly served on lithe Board of County Commission I crs and Is well known throughout i the county. Judge J. J. Parker, United States , Circuit Judge and Chief Justice Stacy of the Supreme Court are being urged for the vacancy on the U. S. Supreme Court, caused by the sudden death of Justice Ed ward Teary Sanford in Washing ton last Friday. The former is a Republican and the latter is a Dem ocrat. Mr. Hoover may have a po litical friend to honor, and in that event neither of the No'rth Caro linians would get the appointments. The Piedmont & Northern Rai way has begun work in South Caro lina and this state, to complete , links from Greensville, S. C., to Gastonia, and on to Winston-Sal I em, notwithstanding the adverse (decision of the Interstate Com merce Commission. If the con struction of this road is permitted II to proceed, it will likely pass thru , this county and on to Durham. Earl B. Horner, now and for a long time, Mayor of Burlington, has been suggested as the Democratic candidate for Congress. He says , he has no desire to go to Congress I and nips the proposition In the , I bud. He has made a name for himself as mayor. Grover Cleve land rose from the Mayoralty of , Buffalo to the Presidency of the i United States, r ? The Ella May Wiggins trial came to an end last Friday. The five . men who were on trial for her un , timely death at Gastonla were freed , by the Jury In a few minutes. It . ; may have been a mis-carriage ol . justice, but the state has. It seems r done what it could to bring about the conviction of the guilty ones. Babe Ruth has signed a contract i at $80,000 a year for two years tc [ play baseball. That beats Mr - Hoover by $5,000 a year. Bat* i wahted a contract for more thai I two years, but he took what he could get. Live At Home Plan Is Widely Broadcast Incomplete reports from the home and farm agents of the agri cultural extension service at State College indicate that these work ers alone reached approximately 100,000 persons during the "Live at Home " week of February 10. Reports received from the farm agents by C. A. Sheffield, assistant director of extension, show that about 50,000 persons attended the various meetings held and addres sed by these men and while there are fewer home agents, they did much of their work In the schools and at meetings of women's organ izations where it Is believed that another 50,000 persons were ac-1 quainted with the principles of the "Live at Home " movement. All of this is in addition to other work done by the school teachers and state and county organizations that took an active part in the program. Early last week, Mr. Sheffield had received reports from 39 counties showing that the farm agents had held 169 meetings at which there were 39,420 persons present. When it is considered that there are 84 farm agents and two assistant agents at work in North Carolina, it is believed that the estimate of 50,000 persons reached is rather low or at least conservative. Not half of the agents had reported when these figures were secured. Some of the men and women re port that they had never been thru Isuch a strenuous period. In some counties there were as many as four different meetings held on the same evening. The home agnts say thtr curb markets were better pat ronized than usual and that folks are beginning to understand that home grown foods can be made into excellent menus for the home table or banquet supper. HENS PAY WELL FOR FEED THEY EAT Hens on 133 farm flocks totaling |26,231 birds, paid a little more than 22 cents each above feed costs for the month of January, according to reports of these flocks made by the owners to C. F. Parrish, poul try extension specialist at State College. "These demonstration flocks were located in 36 counties," says Mr. Parrish. "The report for January shows that each hen produced a bout 12 eggs for the month or a total of 308,874 eggs. The eggs sold for $11,537.43 or an average of 44 cents a dozen. The highest price during the month was 65 cents and the lowest, 30 cents a dozen. The average price was near ly five cents more a dozen than for the same month in 1929." Mr. Parrish says each bird in the 133 flocks consumed 3.30 pounds of scratch feed and 3.66 pounds of grain each during the month. It took 7.13 pounds of feed to pro duce one dozen eggs. The total value of the eggs produced by the 26,231 hens amounted to $11,537.43 for the month or an everage of nearly 44 cents a hen. With an average feed cost of 21 cents a hen, the birds returned a profit above feed cost of more than 22 cents each for the month or a total profit of $5,968.55 for all the hens in the flocks. The value of good housing, proper management and the feeding of an egg-producing ration to the farm flock is beginning to be realized by the poultrymen of North Caro lina, says Mr. Parrish. The hen j is no longer kept as a scavenger on the farm but now plays an im portant part in the annual in come. With better breeding stock and better methods of housing aria feeding generally followed, she is destined to become of greater im portance in the future. BOWLING OVER THE BOLL WEEVIL Announcement of a new means of assisting in combating the boll weevil by disinfecting the seed a galnst certain plant disease is at tracting the attention In the south , It makes unnesessary the comipon practice of planting an excess a mount in order to secure good 1 stands. In treating the cotton seed - and ethyl mercury chloride dust t called ceresan is used. The com pound was developed by industrial ' chemists working in cooperatlor ' with experiment stations in several leading cotton states. One of the great benefits to be - derived from the new dust treat > ment is the protection from disease attacks that it gives seed and seed , lings during the early stages o! growth. It makes early planting ' safer, thus It generally assures : ' good stand of healthly plants anc a setting of the balls prior to se r Did You Ever Stop To Think; (Copyright 1928) By Edsoo R Waite, Shawnee, Okla. J. Langley Levy, Editor of the Johannesburg (South Africa) Sun day Times, says: " When I opened my front door the other evening I thought I saw quite a Utter of letters on the ground. I bundled the lot together and was astonished to find, Instead of letters, half a dozen circulars. Next morning I discovered another j half dozen of the same circular I pushed beneath the gates of my: garage which lets on to another | street. This circular had been is-1 sued by a local advertiser whoj would be offended if one regarded him as being anything but astute, j It was devoted to a cut-line sale of| all sorts of commodities, and among j other statements, contained this paragraph: 'The greatest function of adver tising is to create as wide a circle as possible of wUling purchasers, people who are pleased because they know they are paying a reason able price for a good article, in stead of (as frequently occurs) an exorbitant price for an inferior article. The customer wants his, or her, money's worth, at today's standard of values.' Our advertiser seemed to be able to define advertising and to have some idea of it, but the methods he adopted were not those calcu lated to give him the results he was striving for. He knew that the greatest function of advertising is 'to create as wide a circle as pos sible of willing purchasers,' and yet I, a single individual, received 1 something in the neighborhood of a dozen of his circulars. He knows that the customer wants his money's worth but, as an advertiser he chooses a means of publicity that deprives him of the satisfac tion he demands for others. If he had been as astute as he j imagines he is, he would not have spent his money on the printing of useless circulars and would not have paid a small army of distribu tors to place these circulars to the best advantage. These distribu tors are only moved by one desire ?to get rid of their circulars as . quickly as possible. In accordance with this desire, each householder received, instead of one circular, half a dozen or more. The advertiser who understood just what 'as wide a circle as pos sible' really means, would have chosen the columns of a newspaper as a means of conveying the mes sage of his cut-price bargains to the public. Here, at a far smaller cost than he would have to pay to ] print a hundred thousand circu lars and to secure the casual la bour to distribute them, he would appeal directly to a hundred thou sand householders and readers in stead of to a possible fifteen thou sand householders. The power of the newspaper, as an advertising medium, has been proved by everyone who has spec | ialized in advertising. The hand j bill and circular is a futile meth od, out of date and reactionary. The press is mightier than the bill distributor." Buncombe county farmers have adopted Korean lespedeza as the variety for that county. About 1,000 pounds of seed were ordered for planting this spring. vere weevil infestation. i In reporting the results of their tests with seed disinfectants on cotton, the North Carolina Experi ment station says: "The least effective treatment resulted In an increase of 95 per cent in number of seedlings, while the most effective treatment increas ed the stand by 355 per cent. The average Increase of stand in all treated rows over all untreated check rows was 146 per cent." The report further states: "It is now be lieved that the use of these disin fecting dusts on cotton seed will in many cases give sufficient pro tection to enable the grower to plant his seed from a week to ten days earlier than would otherwise | be safe." In cotton tests at Sumpter, South I Carolina, the treatment Increased the yield from 1147 pounds per acre ! on the untreated plots to 1337 pounds on the treated plot, or an I increase of 190 pounds per acre. At , Orangeburg, the treatment lncreas I ed by the yield of 93 per cent. The South Mississippi Branch , station of the Mississippi Experi ment Station, states that the new , treatment, increasd he yield from [ 377 pounds per acre on the untreat > ed plot to 428 lbs on the untreated j plot. At the Raymond Branch the t treatment, increased the yield from I 9327 pounds per acre on the un treated to 997.1 on the treated. MODERN EDUCATION REVERSES OLD IDEAS Business Institutes Use the Plan of Getting People to Think Rather Than Merely to Learn. There Is one general principle at the basis of all good teaching and It I is that a person learns more readily j by assimilating the experiences which he himself encounters than In any other way. says Harold Stonier, Na tional Educational Director of the American Institute of Banking. This Institute is the educational section of the American Bankers Association through which 35,000 bank men and women are receiving scientific instruc tion In their chosen business. "The most advanced people In teaching today are emphasizing the Importance of activity on the part of the student," he says. "In the school room of former days we often heard such phrases as, 'Be still,' 'Learn by heart,' 'Don't do that,' 'What does the book say?' The newer education asks, 'What do you think?,' 'What was your reaction to that experiment?,' 'What did you discover?,' 'What rea sons have you for answer?' The New School Calls for Action "The 'expressing' school is taking the place of the repressing and lis tening school. The classroom is be coming an open forum, a studio of self expression, a place of mental growth. The modern concepts of education are personal experimentation, individual investigation, critical discussion and creative self-expression. The pupil really learns only as he is able to assimilate the new meanings of facts and principles with his previous ex periences. Activities therefore con stitute the pivotal force around which are grouped the new factors In educa tion. The primary responsibility of the teacher is to furnish a constant stream of activities Which will afford the stimulating urge to mental growth. "Education is a process of experi encing, and the program of the insti tute is so arranged as to give the greatest opportunity to gain by such experience. Through this we develop the art of thinking. Thinking has been described as the ability to ban die experience and to bring it to bear on a problem. Effective thinking arises when we are presented with the choice of conduct. Our previous experiences become helpful aB we marshal them and bring them to bear upon the matter of our choice." The students In the American Insti tute of Banking by reason of the fact that they continue to go on about their employment in banks while taking the banking association's study courses have an opportunity to combine learn ing with practical thinking and action. Alamance farmers cooperated to buy 12,000 pounds of grass and clover seed for pastures and 12, 500 pounds of lespedeza for pasture and soil improvement as a result of the recent campaign for more pastures in that county. Summons by Publication. NORTH CAROLINA? aLAMANCE county Id the Superior Court, Special Proceedings B. S. Parish, Petitioner, v8 Lalia Zeaglar and husband LeRoy Zeaglar, Mrs. Ellen Browning and husband, W. C. Browning, Banks Terrell, and the Children and heirs at law of Mrs. Cora Lovelace Doyle,deceased, whose names and whereabouts are un known. Let the above named respon dents take notice that an action entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Alamance County for the purpose of selling real estate for division; that said respondents are required to appear at the court house in Graham within ten days after the service h ereof and answer the petition, copies of which are filed with said Clerk, or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief de manded in said petition. This the 13th day of March, 1930. E. H. MURRAY, C. S. C. J. S. COOK, Atty. NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT! Notice is hereby given that George W. Clapp of Alamance i County has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors All persons having claims against said asslguor are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Alamance County, promptly, in order that they may share in the distribution of the assets in my hands This'the 25th day of Feb. 1930. T. H. WILLIAMS, Assignee. Chattel Mortgage Blanks?For sale | at Thk Glkanrk office. Commissioner's Sale ol Real Property. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Alamance County, made in a Special Proceedings whereto all the heirs of L. B. Ward, were made parties for selling the lands in Alamance County, of which he died seized, the under signed will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court house door in Graham, on SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1930, at 12:00 o'clock, M., the follow ing valuable real estate: Lying and being in Pleasant Grove township, Alamance County, adjoining the lands of S. N. Ward, Dr. Watson and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at pointers with the old Hessee line, thence 1 deg w 22.85 chs to a black oak, Wat son's line; thence S 894 deg E 21 chs to a white oak: thence N 7J deg E 22.70 chs to a rock with the old Faucett line 88 deg W 23.50 chs to the beginning and containing 50 acres more or less. Second tract: Beginning at a large rock by the branch cor ner with the old Hessee line (now Ward), running thence S 244 deg 8.25 chs to a rock, cor ner with Z. B. Ward's lot; thence with his line 88 deg w 14 chs to a rock, corner with the old Lea line; thence with said line 24 deg E 14.76 chs to a rock; thence S 68 deg E 18.55 chs to the beginning and con taing 21 acres more or less. Both tracts adjoin and are the same upon which L. B. Ward lived at the time ofhfs death. On this place are 4 tobacco barns, pack barn, feed barn, crib, smoke house, dwelling house and kitchen and tenant house. This land lies well for cultivation, has two good wells, and is a good tobacco farm and will grow grain. Terms of Sale: Cash. The sale will be left open 20 days for advance bids and sale subject to confirmation of the Clerk of the Court. This the 5th day of March, 1930. J. S. COOK, Commissioner. ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE. Having qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Millie Walker, late of Alamance County, this Is to notify all persons having claims against the said estate to (lie the same with the undersigned or her attorney on or before the 7th day of March, 1931, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons ihdebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This the 7th day of March, 1930. OLLIB CHANDLER. Admrx. of Estate of Millie Walker, Clarence Ross. Att'y. Notice of Sale of Real Estate. Under and by virtue of pow er and authority contained in that certain deed of trust, dated February 1st, 1929, and record ed in Book 111, Page 281, Ala mance County Registry, and executed by W. J. Parker and wife to the Citizens National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., Trus tee, default having been made in the payment of the indebted ness secured thereby, whereby the entire amount of said in debtedness became due and demand having been made by the holder of said note upon the trustee named therein to adver tise and sell the property des cribed in said deed 01 trust, the undersigned will offer for sale for cash at public auction at the Courthouse door in Graham, Alamance County, N, C., at noon, on FRIDAY, MARCH 28th, 1930, the following described real estate: All that certain tract or par cel of land in Burlington Town ship, Alamance County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of W. J. Burke, E. C. Ingle, and Public Road, and bounded as follows: Beginning at an iron pin in center of Public Road, and 1,692 feet in a southeasterly direction from the intersection of said Public Road with the Alamance - Burlington Road, and corner with W. J. Burke; thence with the linee of W. J. Burke South 20 degrees West 739.2 feet to a stake; thence South 14 degrees West 1,142.5 feet to a stake, corner to E. C. Ingle, thence with E. C. Ingle's I line Sonth 87 degrees east 767.6 feet, to an iron pin; thence North 36 degrees 45 minutes East 1,446.1 feet to an iron pin in center line ot said Public road; thence with center line of said Public Road North 57 degrees 30 minutes West 1,294.2 feet to the beginning, contain ing 37.63 acres, more or less. This 15th of February, 1930. North Carolina Bank and Trust Company, Trustee, Successor to Citizens National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., Trustee, By: JOHN P. STEDMAN Vice-President. Terms of Sale?Cash. Place of Sale?Courthouse door, Graham, N. C. Time of Sale?Noon, Friday, March 28th, 1930. Receiver's Sale ol Real Estate! Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed of trust duly executed by James D. Christopher and wife, Blanche Christopher, in favor of Pied mont Trust Company, Trustee, on the 28th day of April, 1919, and securing the payment of a series of bonds numbered from 1 to 14, both inclusive, bearing even date with said mortgage deed of trust and payable to bearer, each in the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) default having been made in the payment of said indebtedness as in said mort gage deed of trust provided, and by the further authority of an order of the Superior Court of Alamance County in an action therein ending, and being No. 3682 upon the Civil Issue Docket, the undersigned Receiver of Piedmont Trust Company will on the first Mon day in April, .1930, at ten o'clock a. m., the same being MONDAY, APRIL 7th, 1930, at the courthouse door in Ala mance County, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for rash the following described real property, to-wit: Three certain lots or parcels of land in Alamance County, North Carolina, described and defined as follows, to-wit: First Tract: Adjoining the lands of William Boon, J. S. Malone, W. B. Malone and others, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone, John S. Malone's corner; thence N 86$ deg W 69$ yds to a stone W. B. Malone's line; thence N 2$ deg E 69$ yds to a stone; thence S 86$ deg E 69$ yds to a stone in John Malone's line; thence S 2$ deg W 69$ yds to the beginning, containing one (1) acres, more or less. Second Tract". Adjoining the lands of H. L. Coble, William Jeffreys and others bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone, W. B. Malone's corner; thence S 87 deg E 8 chs 66 Iks to a stone in Lindsay's line; thence N 3^dog E 2 chs 90 Iks to a stone, Coble's corner in William Jeffreys line; thence N 86$ deg W 8 chs 8 Iks to a stone in W. B. Malone's line; thence S 15 deg W 2 chs 94 Iks to the be ginning, containing Two and Forty-four One Hundredths (2.44) acres, more or less. Third Tract: Adjoining H. L. Coble, William Jeffreys and others, bounded as follows: Be ginning at a stone, William B. Malone's corner ;running thence S 86$ deg E 8 chs 59 Iks to a stone in Lindsay's line; thence S 2$ W 11 chs 30 Iks to a stone on W. B. Lindsay's line; thence N 86$ deg W 8 chs 59 Iks to a stone, William B. Malone's corner; thence with the line of the said William B. Malone N 2$ deg E 11 chs 30 Iks to the beginning, containing Nine and Seven Tenths (9.7) acres, more or less. On the above described property there is situated a six room cottage. The terms of the sale will be cash upon the date of sale and the purchaser will be furnished with a certificate by said Receiv er certifying the amount of his bid and receipt of the purchase price, and the sale will be left open ten days thereafter for the placing of advanced bids as re quired by law. This 25th day of Feb., 1980. THOMAS D. COOPER, Receiver Piedmont Trust Co. J. Dolph Long, Atty.