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THE GLEANER ! GRAHAM. N. 0., DEC. 11, 1930. I8BUED EVERY THUB8DAK J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADV ,NCE. Entered at tne Pos'offlc? a < nam, ,N O.. at aeooou-olaaa n 1 ? i- l .= This is a day of baim iMiures in North Caroliua?almost one a day for the past month. Tom Bost, the versatile newspa- I per correspondent, says about 20, 000 "lunatic" football fans wi'ness ed the Duke and Carolina teams play in a mudhole in a constant down-pour of rain at Chapel Hillc last Saturday afternoon. Th con test was a draw?0-0. Dr. William Caio, 83 years old, long-time professor at the Uni versity and an outstanding math ematician, was the victim of an automobile accident when cross-1 ing a street in Chapel Hill last Saturday evening. He was a Dative of Hillsboro aud was burn d there Monday. A tax supervisors' school opened in Raleigh Wednesday with about all of the 100 counties represented by the appointees who will have supervision of the new real estate re-valuation which takes place next year. C. R. Love was present from Alamance. For the valuation of real estate there can be no uni form hard and fast rule. There are not a few elements that enter in to the value of land?its location, productivity, accessibility, topogra phy, etc., and last but not least, if farm land, getting it properly and profitably farmed. Two Ten-Year Terms This week two defaulters have been given ten-year terms iu the penitentiary. Mason W. Gant, former Clerk of Guilford Superior Court, was indicted in IS cases for embezzle ment, forgery and malfeasauce in office in connection with handling Confederate pension funds over a period of 17J years. His defalca tions aggregated more than i58, 000, aod this does not include the shortage in other fundi in the Clerk's office. He plead guilty. Judge Devin gave him t< > ears Riley, former cashier he Ef land Bank that was held up on Nov. 1st by robbers, was found short about $40,U00. Judge Grady at Hillsboro gave him ten-years, the same length term as that given one of the would-be robbers. Safest To Plant Certfied Seeds The Increasing Importance of les pedeza as a soil building, pasture and hay crop In North Carolina makes It doubly imi ortant that planting seed be secured from cer tified stock. This Is the opinion of Gordon K. Mlddleton, seed specialist at State college, who says that at least 4, 000 bushels of this seed will be cer tified or approved for 67 different growers in the state this year. Es pecially should prospective buyers get seed free from dodder. He tells the experience of one grower who paid about $400 for seed and found that he had planted about as much j dodder as he had lespedeza. He was Intending to seed 18 acres of the land to alfalfa but so thick was the dodder that he had to put the field back Into cultivation. Similar experiences have been re ported to Mr. Mlddleton from other growers, and those who have had experience In fighting dodder con tend that such seed are dear even had they been a free gift. ~ To be certified, lespedeza must pass two Inspections, one In the field and one of the cleaned seed. At th first Inspection, the field must be free of dodder and contain not more than a trace of any varietal mixture. After harvest, the seed are cleaned and a representative sam ple sent to the 8tate Seed Analylst of the State Department of Agri culture for germination and purity tests. The sample must be 98 per Cent pure/show 80 per cent germi nation, and be absolutely free of dodder. The approved seed must meet all requirements except that specified for purity. This must be from 95 to 08 per cent. The approved seed may contain a little more trash ?mi ffigMn"*1 weed seeds than do ferttfled eeed, says Mr. Mlddleton. Nothing has more of a poker face than a uiuskmelou. Dispatches from Itagdad Indicate that the Kurds are badly curdled. A fellow with a terrible thirst might apply to the drought relief committee for some assistance. : The meek may Inherit the earfti; but they will never get anything out of the stock market. There are enou; h wheels turning. The trouble Is the aren't producing anything but mile- ge. Any list of those who rule America Is incomplete without the name of the | fellow who Invents fads. The oyster may be dumb In some ways, but It has sense enough to get a four-months' vacation. No report Is In yet on the motorist who attempted to fatten up bis midget ; motor car on a heavy grade of oil. j Habit gets a fellow. Many a fa- | ther who worked his way through college Is now working his boy's way through. We suppose the word "volunteer" sounds nicer than the expression "self starter," but both mean the same thing In politics. We have decided to do nothing at this time about buying one of those "fountain pen pistols," for fear It would leak in the vest Arguments pro and con don't seem to have any effect whatever on the prevalence of divorce. People go ahead as though nobody were talking. We never rated the mosquito a gentleman, but here Is an entomolo gist, after exhaustive and painful re searches, reporting that it prefers blonds. Jackie Coogan's record of being a retired movie star at the age of eleven has been slightly bettered by little Michael of Rumania who Is an ex-king at eight Some day a manufacturer of shirts will spend 3 cents apiece putting regular collar buttons In the neck bands of same, and sell 2,000,000 the first year. "New Brunswick claims to have the largest sardine cannery In the world." The largest sardine, we Imagine, Is as sensational In Its field as the larg est midget It Is a mistake to talk about "fear of flying." It Isn't flying that people are afraid of, but the possibility that flying may come to an uncomfortably abrupt end. Psychologists who are studying eye speed as a measure of rapidity In reading are on the wrong track. What they should study Is brain speed and mental grasp. From the way things are going In j Peru, a couple of United States ma rine sergeants may have to go down there and show how a government really Is seized. A chicken with four legs has been hatched at Kmbro, Ontario. For the family that Includes growing boys, the drumstick problem seems well on the way to solution. The useful trait of a leaking foun tain pen, we have found. Is that you can put It Into a drawer with a sup ply of postage material and cancel your own stamps. Professor Rlnsteln's new theory, boiled down. Is that space Is eating up matter. Uowever, we believe the experience of the average news editor la that matter eats up space. Among the things we don't care about knowing, even now, Is that the odds against any specific 13 cards appearing In one hand in a game of bridge are 035,013,559.000 to 1. It must be a great comfort to men who have been out of work for months to be told that their suffer ings and the sufferings of their fam ilies really are good for them. A corporation has paid a New York church 350 for a strip of land twenty feet long and five Inches wide. They must be going to erect one of these efficiency suites for newlyweda. A nature writer In London reports that cuckoos seem fascinated by the I running of a motor car. But with so ' many of them at the wheel. It keeps the rest of us jumping Into doorways. Poets and musicians have sung of the "happy farmer." Farmers would no doubt like to reciprocate If they | could lay claim to any greater happi ness than that ordinarily afforded to poets and musicians. A Berlin engineer says the human voice may be projected hundreds of miles by loud speaker. It will be In teresting In the next war when the generalissimo commands, "All troops on the western front?at easel" The other day a member of ths younger generation asked who Ad miral Dewey was. Yet It seems scarce ly more than yesterday sines the ad miral came home from Manila to be given superlative honors by the na | Uon. Hospital Library It Is to furnish medicine for the mind and the body that the Presby tetlun hospital maintains a library, says the Chicago News. Psychic and physical health are closely Inter related. Fretting and borrowing trou ble? practices forbidden by Scripture ?preoccupation with self and loss of temper hare toxic effects, and retard convalescence. Peuce of mind and spirit, on the contrary, aid recovery. Yet It Is probable that those who de signed the library at Theges bad other matters In mind. Such maladies as Ignorance, Indifference, prejudice, hard ening of the conscience, atrophy of the ; civic senses dullness of sympathy and of imagination may have been among the diseases which the library was In tended to correct The havoc men and women make dally of private and pub lic affairs demonstrates that man still needs medicine for the soul. In many cases a Judicious course of reading would prove therapeutic and prophylac tic. The well-stocked public library is an Institution of social healing. The farmer holds the key to con servation and restoration of the great er percentage of wild life, and It Is Indeed gratifying to learn of their en thusiastic co-operation with Mr. Howell Buntln, state warden of the Tennessee department of game and fish. Literally thousands of pledges were received from them In reply to Mr. Buntln's request that every care be exercised not to destroy quail nests during the mowing season, says the Detroit Free Press. These farmers are also welcoming the use of their land for the establishment of small game refuges In every county In the state. Undoubtedly the farmers In every state will co-operate just as en thusiastically when Invited. It may sonnd uncomfortable to read. In connection with the report of a com mittee of the Actuarial Society of America, that the risk of fatality in travel by air Is 200 times as high as that In passenger travel by rail. The discomfort will diminish when we read that travel over airways now connts but one fatality to 1,250,000 passenger miles. At that rate the traveler by air can count on going a million and a quarter miles on the average before he Is killed, says the Brooklyn Eagle. On scheduled air lines the rate of fa talities over the past three years has been one to 5,000 passengers. Acci dents tend to diminish steadily. In pro portion to the number of trips. It is an old question, "What Is a lawyer}" and It has Just been settled In Oakland, Oalif. A man was tried for murder In fonr hours and the jury rendered a verdict of guilty In four minutes. This followed a murder case that took three weeks, and the Jury dis agreed. That makes the definition. A lawyer Is the difference between these two cases. Americana are not much Interested In the exploit of the Spaniard who droTe his car from Seville to Madrid with olive oil as a lubricant We are too accustomed to seeing cars run on the banana oil, which Is all that keeps tbem frpra going back to the dealers In default Man's kindness to animals Is worthy of all praise. A Kansas pilot started on an airplane flight, discovered that there was a rattlesnake nnder his seat realized that the rattler wasn't ac customed to flying, and came down Just as quickly as possible. Th* American system of politics Is often referred to In European com merce as highly complicated. It has the obvious advantage of permitting every subject that comes before the people to be thoroughly discussed In all possible aspects. The prince of Wales Is te throw off his heavy ceremonial yoke and, for a brief period, be boss of his own time, state London dispatches. Even a prince ought to have a day off occa sionally, just like his butler and chauffeur. ? A day on the newly found planet, Pluto, Is the equivalent of 250 years on earth. So we Imagine a Plutonian could grow a beard and raise a family while awaiting the return of the gent whose sign says, "Back In Ten Minutes." The best way to start the day la to open one of those sun parlor envelopes expecting to find a notice that another premium la duet and then discover that the company merely wishes to sell you additional Insurance. ; "Declble," employed by tbs New York Noise Abatement commission to express the minimum unit of percepti ble sound. Is an unfa miliar word, no occasion ever having arisen for Its use In the ordinary vocabulary. Men described as students are In evi dence In Peruvian disturbances In numerous nations social complications are sometimes threatened because so called students develop sudden Im pulses for a rough vacation ... SUCCESSFUL I HOMEMAKING ; By GRACE VIALL GRAY . j What tastes bettor than Hot Biscuits and Honey, whether it be morning, noon or nlghtf These appetizing-looking biscuits were "mads in a Jiffy" with self-rising flour. HOT BISCUITS AND HONEY "Eat natural sweets" say the doc tors and dieticians. They are more healthful and less Injurious to the teeth and digestion than rich, heavy sweets, and by natural ..weets we mean dates, tigs, raisins and honey? nature's own preserves. And with honey, of course, the nat ural complement Is hot biscnltsl Pip ing hot biscuits, plenty of sweet but ter and pure, unadulterated honey? what could be a more perfect com bination for that Ugh Sunday evening supper or to serve at an lnfonnal gathering? The biscuits need not cause you any anxiety If you are not a thorough ly experienced housewife. A great deal of the uncertainty can be re moved from biscuit making by the use of self-rising flour; that is. soft wheat flour t / which has already oeen added at the mill the right amounts of pure mouo-calclum phosphate and bicarbon ate of soda, which is really baking powder, and salt for seasoning. To use, the flour Is sifted only once and the mixture should be bandied as little and as lightly as possible. Here is the recipe which Is as sim ple as it Is economical: Hot Biscuits, t cups self-rlslns % cup milk flour (whole or fresh S tbsp. fat buttermilk) Sift and measure the flour. Add the shortening and cut or rub it Into the flour. Then add the milk a little at a time to make a soft dough. Roll until about one-third Inch thick and cut with a biscuit cutter. Place on a baking sheet and bake In a hot oven (450 degrees F.) about ten minutes. Serve at once with butter and honey. RELIGION NEVER MORE VITAL Br REV. OR. HUGH BLACK, Union Theological Seminar/. i: THE democratic ideal emphasized so much in current discussions never can be realized without the help of Christian ideals of broth erhood. For that reason, religion is more necessary today than ever before. Many people think that religion has seen its best day and is now on the decline. As a matter of fact, science has never been more hospitable to all that makes religion possible than it is today. In this age of machinery, when every emphasis is on the practical, many think that religion must die. And yet this apparently dangerous empha sis may be driving us nearer to the heart of our Master. Predictions about religion always were hazardous, and in every age Christianity has received what appeared at the time to be a death blow. It was sorely oppressed in the Second and Eighteenth centuries, which seemed so easy and stodgy, there were tremendous controversies whose last effects are just being felt. Evolution really had baffled Christianity for a while, but it was no longer even a problem for religion. In many of those things that caused head shaking and fear for the future of religion, such as the breakdown of denominational lines, lies the real strength of religion. The worst heresy is the heresy of finality. We must make way for the creative spirit of God and the mature of man. America's diverse races, with their individual problems, never will <be blended into a democratic and harmonious whole except through the medium of religion. I. - il NEED FOR EMOTIONAL GROWTH By HELEN GIBSON HOGGE, Mental Hrfieniat, Detroit. . Most adults need to grow up emotionally before they can train chil dren successfully. Adult infantilism is our chief difficulty as a nation. We need to grow up emotionally to grow into life. Children are imitating the parent, and consequently we must not allow childish emotions to get the best of us before them. All life is grow ing, either negatively through fear and anger, or positively through love. Uiirmony brings about the only true growth. When all children are trained to turn to beauty, harmony and love, there will be no child problems. Love has to be built into the child by the parent. Then the child must be taught to express that love through service and interest in things. We can harm the child by prohibition of acquaintanceship or acts. We must help them build character by exercis ing their own judgment from infancy up. NO SURETY OF LASTING PEACE Br GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING, in T)k Country Hook. PKOPLE ?ay we should disarm. America is already almost dis armed. Good men and good women (ell us (hat we should throw away our armaments. We have very little to throw away. I pray fervently that there will be no more war. With all my soul I hate it. But what have 1 to be so sure there will be no more war? We know that we will not provoke a war. But what is there ill his tory which authorizes us to conclude that some one else will not pro voke one? It is not a question of whether or not we believe in war. It is a question of whether or not we will defend this wonderful country of ours if another natioh, which does believe in war, should attack us. We are all lovers of peace now. But somehow it is possible to change us in a few months. The same people who one month denounce war will be found the neit month clamoring for war. Suddenly we see men and wr n and little children?not soldiers?but peaceful civilians, clergy men, mothers and kindly old ladies and quiet men shouting for war. It is easy to point \ut the fallacy of the argument that a large army is a dead expense. The pioneer work in the West; building of the Pan ama, Krie and other canals; controlling the floods of the Mississippi; con struction of highways and public buildings; development of devices aid ing commercial aviation; development of chemicals for treating disease I and flghting crop pests are a few of the civil functions that hare been .performed by the amy in times ?< paaoa, _ _ % LOW FARM INCOME DOOMS TENANT SYSTEM The antiquated cropper system of farming, as practiced in North Carolina and the South, is doomed. "This is no new revelation," Mays R. H. Rogers, farm management economist at State college. "The system has been doomed since its Inception, as it is not logical to ex pect a year's living from a half year's work. Neither is it likely that slip-shod operations and manage ment in any business will long sup port one family let alone two or more." The day of reckoning will be has tened, says Mr. Rogers, by six things and these are the expansion Df cotton growing towards the west, the increased use of rayon and oth-1 er cotton substitutes, the continued heavy boll weevil infestation, mouning cash expenses Including taxes, the expansion of the tobacco, acreage which has resulted in over production, and more recently a curtailed domestic buying power. Mr. Rogers says the unprofitable ness of the tenant system is not new. However, in former days it would provide the landowner with enough cash to pay his taxes and to arrange for the next season's production. At the same time it would give the tenant some kind of living. Now the tenant gets a living and there is nothing left for the landowner. This makes it im perative that a change be brought about. The live-at-home program must be intensified. This will release ten ants who must find other farms or go into the over-crowded ranks of labor. At any rate, the landown er cannot continue to feed and care for tenants who return him no profits Alert farmers are now changing, says Mr. Rogers, and others will son be forced to change though bankruptcy or curtailment of credit. In the future more work must be done with modern machinery, caus ing small farms to be thrown to gether for economical operations and extra labor needed will be hired on a cash basis, says the farm economist. Butter made at the new milk plant in Tarboro is being well re ceived locally, reports Herman W. Taylor, Edgecombe county farm agent. Magistrates' Blanks?State Warrant*, Civil Summons, Transcripts, ot Judgments, for sale at The Gleaner office, Graham. To be sore, Russia, may, as the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs threatens, quit Importing from coun tries that know bow to manufacturs goods, bat It Is pretty certain to find that doing without such things Is darned Inconvenient. ' Four hundred and thirty-eight men, more than ever before In the history of the Institution, worked their way through Princeton last year. The boys are steadily getting on to what a fine handicap this gives them over their non-employed classmates. When Eskimo dogs discover a mem ber of the pack that Is wounded and weakened, they turn and try to de vour him. Some cynics will regard this fact as an evidence of almost bo man Intelligence. Archeologlsts credit the Philistines with bringing at least one great Inven tion to the ancient Kingdom of Israel. This Is the safety pin. But they do not tsll Who Introduced it Into Scotland. Let The Gleaner Of fice do your job work. Chattel Mortgage Blanks?For sale at The Gleaner office ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Havln* qualified as Administrator of the estate of Mrs. Maggie Martlu, deceased, late of Alamanoe County, this Is to notify all per sons hiving claims against the estate of said .deceased to present them to the undersigned ac bis office In Burlington, N. C.. on or be fore the 29th day of November, 1931. or this notioe will be pVaded In liar of recovery. All persons Indebted to said estates will please make Immediate settlement. This the 29th day of November, 1930. W. LUTHER CATE8, Administrator of Mrs. Maggie Martin. Long & Ross Att'ys. ADMINISTRATOR'^ NOTICE. Having qualified as Administrator upon the estate of Mrs. W. J. Quake nbusb.late of Alamance Co. this is to notify all persons having claim against said estate to present ttie same to the undersigned duly verified on or before the 21s*: day of n ovember, 1931, or this hotice will be pleaded in b r of their recover; all persons indebted to said estate are.requested to make immediate settlement 1 his November the 10th, 1930. l>. 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