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E ffll AJUAMAJiCX QLIAJim, QBJlHAM. B. ft 1 HE GLEANER GRAHAAi. N. 0., DEC. 4, 1930.1 ! ISSUED EVEEY THUB8DAT. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered at tHe Pon'offlce at i raham. N. C.. an wckuu oIhin niMtti r. The people of this county are ex pecting much of the new officers who assumed office on Monday. The good majorities given them on the 4th of November is evidence of faith in them that they would dis charge their official duties efficient ly and satisfactorily. Now it is up to the new officers to make good I and justify the confidence. Tt will1 be too much to expect that the new efficers can make water run up hill, but they are competent to dis charge the duties of the offices to which they have been chosen. Ef ficient, courteo'us and honest serv- j ice is what the people will expect, and are entitled to. The retiring officers, no doubt, did the best they could. For both personal and political reasons they aimed to give satisfaction, and they did so in some measure or they would not have received such a flat tering vote at the recent election. These have many friends who will wish their lines to fall in pleasant j places. Guilford superior court is heading this week the case against formei ; clerk of superior court, Mason W Gant, and the surety on his offlcia bond for the recovery of a large sum of Confederate pension rr ley received by him and misappropri ated. It appears that he has regu larly received pension warrants from the state for pensli ?rs who have died, some of them more than 15 years ago. The sum received on these warrants, according to an ex- j haustive investigation, aggregates $57,539.00, and the state pension department is claiming $76,773.44 interest on the money wrongfully > collected and misapplied. I'rom an I audit of the clerk's office It appears ' there is a shortage in Mr. Gant's | accounts of about $138,000,000. Next Monday has been set for trial of Mr. Gant, in thirteen cases in which he stands indicted for em bezzlement and malfeasance in of fice. Frank R. McNinch, the leader of the anti-Smith campaign In this state in 1928, has been appointed to a place on the power commission by President Hoover, and It appears that there will be opposition in the senate to his confirmation. Mr. Mc Ninch was urged for the place of secretary of the navy In Mr. Hoo ver's cabinet. At last, tardily to be sure, Mr. McNinch Is com'ng to his reward, provided he can get by the senate. It Is claimed that his appointment has no political sig nificance, but no one will take that statement seriously. Is not Mr. Hoo ver looking forward to 1932? The Southern states which gave him their vote In 1928 faced about on the 4th of November. These signs must have Inspired Mr. Hoover to begin mending fences wherever op portunity presents itself. Senator Simmons strongly en dorses Frank McNlnch, appointed by President Hoover a member of the power commission. It would be ungrateful If Mr. Simmons did not approve Mr. McNlnch, considering how valiantly the latter stood by the former In the Smith-Hoover presidential campaign of 1928. But there will be opposition to the ap pointee's confirmation. It may be that the Republicans will appuve of this appointment with more una nimity than they did that of Judge John J. Parker, seeing that the hold they thought they had on tne south by reason of the results of the 1928 election, seems to have slipped away from them In the last Novem ber election. Senator-elect Josiah William Bai ley will address the North Carolina society In New York city on the nlsht of the 10th Inst. On last Monday twenty-six coun ties In North Carolina, which had been presided over by Republican officers for the past two years, were at-.ain turned over to the Demo crats and turned loose quite a 1 t?e Pock of "lame weaks." James J. Davis, Republican son a r-elect from Pennsylvania, vas seated Tuesday over the protest of the Nye campaign funds invif :at ing committee. The senate seems to be in favor of a candidate spt r.d ing as much as he can afford and his friends will contribute. The short session of I he 7 isi Congress convened Monday. The feature of Tuesday was President Hoover's message. He stressed drought relief ami unemployment He asked that an emergency ap propriation ho made to accelerate federal construction and for relief of farmers. With existing comji lions throughout the couulry, the president was compelled to plod thio t It without any trumpet blasts. t Mrs. Alice M. Council of Hickory celebrated her 98th birthday Mon day. She was a close friend of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. She keeps aoreast of the current news and literature. Two shipments of heifers and ba'oy beeves from Halifax and Hert ford 'counties topped the Baltimore market last week. There la little that la dramatic In climbing an ordinary mountain. The road la rough and difficult and per sistently uphill. There la not much chance to see where you are going nor anything else except the trees beside the trail, the rocks under foot, the small streams that take short cuts Into the volleys. Only rarely on the way and at last nt the top Is the traveler really aware of the mountain?of height and space and freedom and ac complishment A symbol of progress Is the farm telephone. Tiie farmer's problem Is not one of production only, but find ing more efficient methods of selling his products. Ills telephone enables him to compete with other farmers and keeps him always within voice reach of half a dozen markets. What modern farm machinery has done for production, the farm telephone has done for distribution. It has gone far toward putting agricultural mark* * ig on a higher plane of efficiency. History has always shown that the "oppressed" of any country, once they got In a position to rule, proceed to be come as socially conscious of their place as their predecessors ever were. From Russia comes the word that Dic tator Joseph Stalin has exiled his own son for marrying "a poor but prerty senmstress whom the Soviet overlord does not think Important enough to be admitted to the highest circles of Red society." Three cheers by and for the proletariat ueauvuie musi oe more moaesi, ac cording to its mayor, who even insists that bathers wear some semblance of clothes and refrain from dressing and undressing on the bench. Thousands of French and foreigners alike will fervently hope his snails disagree with him; the crowd will move on to some other little town up or down the coast, whose municipal executive is more tol erant where propriety is concerned. Said to be the only papyrus of Its kind recovered from ancient Egypt, a "dream book" dating back to HOI) B. C. has been presented to the British museum. Egyptians of that day prob ably had their own equivalents for hot mince pie and Welsh rarebit eaten Just before retiring. A Rovpntoon.vonr.olil ivlrl In 6u-I?*ap. land, whose face was permanently scarred In an antomohlle accident, was awarded $05,000 damages for the loss of her esthetic value. That's a new one to us. who are now busily en Raced In estimating our esthetic value. If any. ? iiiui la luc men in nellig presenipij ?t the Court of St. James?" some one writes to a questlon-and-answer depart ment That Is a query that United States ministers and ambassadors hare been wearily propounding to them selves for many years. Human nature loon will hare to be altered In the opinion of a savant If a world food shortage Is to be avoided. Let the ladles carry this reducing fad a little further, however, and all will be well. Europe assumes to set the Ilterarj pace for the world Id spite of the fact that the people In several coantrlei over there are still reading "UneU Tea's Cabin." JEWEL THEFTS SHOW INCREASE IN YEAR More Arrests and Convic tions Recorded. New York.?There was an Increase In the number of jewelry thefts and swindles during the first nine months of tliis year over a corresponding period of last year, according to the Jewelers' Security alliance, but the i extra losses suffered by jewelers were more than offset by the additional number of arrests, convictions, and re coveries of stolen goods. Convictions have been obtained in 100 cases and a large number, having occurred within the last two months, are still pending. "Almost three-fourths of the tricked Arms are members of the alliance," the | report states, "warning Jewelers to take precautions against robbery, and greater care would have prevented every one of those losses. Be on Your Guard. "A loss means action by the alliance ?a hunt which may extend clear across the country and may last for months or oven years. A loss means the payment by some Insurance com pany of a sum of money. It raises the total of crime losses for the year In our Industry and will perhaps re sult In an Increase In Insurance rates for next year or the years to come. "Be on your guard. Don't trust anyone you don't know Intimately. Don't let a single piece of Jewelry out of your sight for a moment. Watch your customers, especially strangers, every minute they are In the store. Count every Item you display as soon as you finish waitihg on a person. Honest people won't resent your care and crooks will see that.you are alert | and won't try any tricks on you." carelessness in uispui/s. The report points out that the in creased number of thefts from un locked showcases Indicates that many losses to sneak thieves are due en tirely to lack of ordinary precautions on the part of the jeweler. Addi tional precautions are urged during the holiday season near at hand. Care lessness in merchandise displays after ' closing hours leads to many losses through window smashing and this form of loss can be greatly reduced through the use of common sense and proper protective measures. "We are 'everlastingly at It' to pre I vent robbery as far as possible and to punish robbers when our members are attacked," said H. C. Larter, pres | ldent of the Jewelers' Security alli ance. "Only about 5 per cent of our j members are robbed each year." Alaskan Hunt Yields Many Big Game Specimens Seward, Alaska.?Packing a large Kenal moose head, the antlers of which spread over five feet, and two gpecimens of mountain sheep In addi i tlon to other trophies, Itobert F. | Walsh, Philadelphia Investment brok er and member of the Academy of Natural Sciences and Philadelphia Botanical society, has just ended an Alaskan hunting expedition that furnished diversified experiences. During his six weeks in the wilds, Walsh encountered more than 80 huge northern moose, 53 black bears, a number of brown bears and herds of mountain sheep. lie obtained speci mens of the moose and sheep, but said the bears were so amusing he didn't kill any of them. In the moose lands of the peninsula game was so plentiful that Walsh said it resembled a zoo. He gathered a large number of botanical specimens when tired of hunting big game. t * . r\ t_ ?_ r? i _ nome uwnersnip crusaue Launched by Bankers New York. ? Representatives of banks and savings and loan associa tions throughout the country are plan ning a 1931 crusade for home owner ship. Their opinion, voiced through Col lier's, is that there never was a better time than right now to build or buy a home. They do not mention straight sales, as nearly all home owners bor row to build and save to pay. For most home builders it is a 10 to 15-year job to complete the deal, the bankers state, but the joys and satis faction of home ownership last for ever. "Home ownership comes near being the keystone of American credit,*' it is asserted. "The land is indestruc tible; the loan is the buyer's spur; the material makes the buyer the cus tomer of American industry. The ex perience is the best discipline to which I a family can dedicate its energies." Mexican* Living Abroad May Lose Citizenship Phoenix.?Mexicans living in the United States, or other countries, for a period of more than ten years, who have not received special permission from the Mexican government to re main away that long, will lose their citizenship, according to a circular is sued by the Mexican consulate gen eral at El Paso. Deed Drawn Up 68 Years Ago Is Recorded in N. Y. Herkimer, N. T.?A deed drawn up here 08 years ago was Bled only re cently. It listed the names of Maurice t K. Vlele and wife of Albany and Ellia I II. Davidson and James J. Cook of , Salisbury. It was dated January 28, 1802. POLITICIANS AND LOBBYISTS By WALTER LIPPMANN, Newspaper Correspondent, in Woman's Home Companion. Coercion is more powerful than cash bribes and more often used. Lobbyists are in the saddle and there is nothing to be done about it. Dsing influence is one of the rights of the Magna Charta, but money is one of the smallest factors in obtaining the votes of legislators. Politi cians are often as guilty as the lobbyists, i The safe course in public life is to speak vaguely; to use words which i mean different things to dilferent people. Examine political platforms and try to find out what they actually mean. Examine campaign speeches and see what they contain on the important issues. It is in this air of j sub-truthfulness that lobbyism has flourished. Bribery, by direct payment by private interests to public officials is ! not very common in politics. But there are many kinds of subtle bribery I that are very common. They include campaign contributions; free and i favorable publicity; the bribe of re-election and promotion; inside knowl I edge, special tips on the stock exchange; social bribes; election to clubs; I bribes of vanity, tragic and comic alike. No one can dispense with the host of those who pretend to represent ? largo blocs of votes, business, farmers, labor, nationalities or religions. This is the greatest terrorism to which elected officials can be subjected. ? ? II "II MOVING TOWARD MATRIARCHY By PROFESSOR VAN GINNEKEN, Belgium (Catholic). i The machine age has revolutionized the world. Nine-tenths of the home has been swept away by machines. With all the perfections of our modern technical age, woman really has nothing to do at home, com pared to the slavery and drudgery of past ages. So what is the modern girl to do? She goes out; she looks for work outside the house. She goes to factories and offices. Girls who formerly didn't walk a step alone outside the house now hold meetings and become conscious of their per sonality and their power. We are going right straight toward matriarchy. This isn't the first time that women have come into their own. All sudden changes in civili zation are due to the alternating predominance of men or women. Woman is often pictured as a dangerous being, capable only of pick ing forbidden fruits. But mind you, woman has done her part iji shaping the world as it is today. Woman invented farming; woman cfeated the first bit of property, that is, the garden, where she grew the plants she needed to season the meat her husb'and and sons brought back from their hunting. Every sudden change in styles, tastes, art, science and literature is due to a victory or defeat of man or woman. When the women get the upper hand, they make things over to suit their fancy. That happens in periods of feminine domination. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS i By JULIUS H. BARNES, Chairman U. S. Chamber of Commerce. 11 The individual welfare of all people is wrapped up today as never before in a proper understanding and relationship between government and business. Government policies which obstruct and dislocate the func tions of employing industry react into distress as never before. That distress individually reacts on government itself. In a people of high literacy, trained in self-control and self-govern ment, reaction takes the form of orderly expression through the process of ballot. In people of lesser attainment in self-government or feeling more keenly the selfish or ignorant burden of ineffective government, it takes the forth of military revolution. The headlines in the daily press shew both processes under way continuously. They will continue in some measure until there is found between the exercise of government authority a harmony with the everlasting princi ples of economic law. Through this period I submit to you, with sober emphasis on the responsibility thereby laid, that the major continuous force in social stability lies in the field of economics of business, rather than the field of politics of government. ? ? [ ???1 EUGENICS AND RACIAL DECLINE Br DEAN WILLIAM INGE, England (Episcopal). I ? - ' J There is an uneugenic selection going on, the cumulative effects of which must result in degeneracy. These effects are masked for the time by promoting at public eipcnse many promising working-class children into the professional clafis; bnt to promote the ablest sons of laborers into this sterile class can only accelerate progress of the real decline. At present we are not breeding from the professional classes or from i the capable artisan class, but from the slum dwellers and mentally defi cients. If, as Christians, we say this is no business of ours, how shall we justify the activities of the church in combating drunkenness and gam 6 . I am not an advocate of any progTam of racial hygiene. I know enough of the complexities with which this young science has to deal. It is the mental attitude of churchmen on these questions that I wish to see modified. Eugenics do not wish to introduce methods of the stud farm into human life. But we cannot repeal the laws of nature by ignoring them. DEPRESSION CAUSED BY FEAR By REV. DR RALPH W. SOCK.MAN, Mrthodiit (Nrw Y?wk). The world depression is basically a thing of the mind'a creation, since the earth still yields its crops and the world's gold is still in exist ence. The spread of this business depression shows more than anything else the universalizing of the human mind, and one feature of it is that this is the first business depression the world has known since the wide use of the radio has made local minds more sensitive to outside condition* and public fears more contagious. We must arouse the people? of the earth to loTflltios larger than those of class and nation. Religious forces will have to give the answer. If this cannot be done through the existing churches, they will have to tie discarded and a better agency devised. This, of course, :s not beyond the Imumle of imwitnlity. Value of Shade Tree* Strikingly Illustrative of the dollar and-cent value of shade tree* Is the definite appraisal placed on them by city authorities, observe* the Ameri can City. Springfield, Mass., may be cited as an example. Figure* show that Springfield has more trees In pro portion to population than any other American city, and the municipal gov ernment places an appraisal value of $100 on each tree. With a total of 25,000 trees in the city, this give* an appraised value of $2,500,000 to be counted as an added asset of the com munity. Ann Arbor, Mich, uses a similar method of computation and reckons the value of Its 8,000 trees at $800,000. Ill reaching these figures the city officials follow the formula worked out by Prof. Flllbert Roth, one of the foremost of American foresters, who formulated the first basis for shade tree valuation In this country. Two thousand selected Mimosa trees were planted on highway No. 70 out of Morganton In Burke coun ty on November 11 as a memorial to Burke county boys who served In the World war. The trees were se lected from local forests by R. L. Sloan, county agent. Four poultry flocks In Davidson county paid $2,089.30 above all feed costs last year according to records kept by the owners. They started with 1,647 birds and closed the year with on 602, the others being culled out for low production. Changing his fertilizer formula from an 8-3-3 to an 8-3-5 meant an increased price of $34 an acre for tobacco grown by W. C. King, of Union Ridge, in Caswell county, he reports to H. L. Seagrove, county agent. First Relative?The idea of old Uncle Sneezer willing all his money to have a mausoleum over his re mains. It's just a willful waste. Second Relative?Huh! I call it a wasteful will. The pig crop of Beaufort county, one of the largest shipping counties in fat hogs in North Carolina, is short this year. Breeding stock has been cut down, says E. P. Welch, county agent. Subscribe (or THE QLEAVBR Magistrates' Blanks-State Warrants, Civil Sum mora, Transcripts, of Judgments, {or sale at The Gleaner office, Graham. Ii ~ A Much Abused Word Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is right IB saying that uH of the word 'cap italism" to describe the existing eco nomic and social order is misleading. The word Is "liberalism." As the Springfield Republican says: There are already 67 kinds of liberalism more or less. ... If there Is a movement backward or forward or an organized propaganda, or a reform group of any sort that does not like the name It bears or seems In peril of acquiring through popular usage, tt takes over the name "liberal." The Republican suggests "individualism" as a proper substitute for "capitalism." It appears a very good suggestion, says the Houston Post-Dispatch. "Individ ualism" has often been used by Amer ican orators as descriptive of our so cial. economic and political structures. It Is a familiar and comprehensive word, certainly better than that pro posed by Doctor Butler, which Is a term as vague in America us nation alism is In China. Let The Gleaner Of fice do your job work. Chattel Mortgage Blanks?For Bale at The Gleaner office ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Havliv- qualified as Administrator ol the estate of Mrs. Maggie Martin, deceased, late of Alamance Counry, this is to notify all per sons living claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned ac his office in Burlington, N. C.. on or be fore the 29th day of November, 1931. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. All persons Indebted to said estates will please make immediate settlement. This the 2rfth day of November, 1930. W. Ll THElt CATE8, Administrator of Mrs, Maggie Martin. Long & Boss Att'ys. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Having qualified as Administrator upon theestate of Mrs. W. J. Quakt nbush.late of Alamance Co. this is to notify all persona having claim against said estate to preeent tr.e same to the undersigned duly verified on or before the 21s' day of .November, 1931,or this hotice will be pleaded in b r of their recovery; all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate settlement This November the 10th, 1930. D. 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