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THJS ALAMAMCX QLKANXA, OKA HAM, ?. O. IfiHKr ' 1 . ?r?? r " : 7" T"~ ? 1 HE GLEANER GRAHAM. N. 0., DEC. 18, 1930. ISSUED KVKEY THUB8DA.T. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. ?ntered at tue Pop'offlce at Uraham. .N O.. ai aecf>..ii Mhbh m*rr?-r. Senator Overman A wave of unfeigned reg t pass ed over the state Friday morning when the news came out that Sen ator Lee Slater Overman had pass ed at his home in Washington at 12:30 of the night before. Wherever known, throughout the nation, as he was, Senator Overman was es teemed as few men are. Senator Overman was rounding out his 28th year in the senate, and if he had lived beyond the 4th of .next March he would have been the dean of that August body. Senator Overman was the per sonification of dignity and honor and cordiality. He magnified 4he office to which he had been ele vated. He felt he was in the senate for service and he served. President Wilson leaned heavily on him dur ing the trying days of the World war. Senator Overman was born in 'Salisbury on January 3, 1854, and ?Salisbury was his home all his life, and there his mortal remains were given back to mother earth on last Saturday afternoon. The simple ceremonies held for his burial were attended by special committees and friends from Washington, by state officials and a large concourse of his home town and community friends. Senator Overman graduated from Trinity college in June, 1874. He ?was a pupil of Dr. Braxton Craven and emulated the precepts of hit prince of teachers. It was this writer's privilege tc have been Senator Overman's fel low student. We admired l;is friend ly bearing in school and never saw any change wrought by the honor! which came to him. Charity football games playec Saturday and Sunday in New York .produced about $750,000. On Satur day the Army and Navy teanu played at the Yankee Stadium, the Army winning 6 to 0, and on Sun ? day at the Polo Grounds the Giantr won over Knute Rockne's Notre Dame all-stars 22 to 0. It is under stood the players got not ling foi the performance, but tha all re 1 cetpts went to "charity," ? hich lr about all the Justification there i: for a big money-making perform ance on the Sabbath day. Mr. Hoover named Frank Mc Nlnch on the power commission U take the place of a Demi ;rat whose term had expired as provided bj . the statute creating the commis :slon. And that reminds us that Mr Hoover, when both Democrats ane Republicans began to talk him uj for president did not know or wai not certain, what his politics was That's about the kind of Demo crat that McNlnch is at this uine Senator Morrison, when asked a to his Democracy, said he was-] '"sorry Democrat." Not a very ele gant expression, but the truth nev ?ertheless Bank suspensions and closings g merrily on as panicky depositor I withdraw their funds. Hysterics "depositors can beat defaulting ban 'Officials ten to one breaking bank Every bank In the nation would g "broke if the depositors should rus! ? in and withdraw their deposit! Deposits are the blood In the vein of the banking business. The safet IL Of money in stockings Is not to I: / compared with that In. banks, an J besides It is a standing invitatlo J to prowling thieves to ransac / homes In search of loot. Folks, I you have money, put it In the banl F the safest place for your spai money. It will work for you thei and Invigorate business. /"Pellagra may be controlled by u! L Of low cost dietaries built from too materials produced at home.?Mil | Miriam Blrdseye. News comes from Washington that Coolldge looms larger, as the j days come and go, as the one that I can save the Republicans from de feat in 1932. The outspoken ones jcome from west of the Mississippi 1 and includes some who were large- : ly instrumental in putting the Hoo ver nomination across at Kansas City. Mr. Hoover is already over-load ( ed without piling on him and his policies the responsibility for the avalanche of bank failures that is 1 sweeping over the country. Former Governor Cameron Mor rison, appointed by Governor Gard ner Saturday to succeed and fill out the unexpired term of the la Senator Overman, took the oath of office Wednesday. He was the logi cal man for the place and is of senatorial size, but it is a little per plexing to note that he did not ob ject to McNinch, who may be J thankful that he is Mr. Morrison's ! fellow townsman. AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK . OR NLRTH CAROi .. A (Prepared by the Department of Agricultural Economics, N. C. State College, Raleigh, N. C., December, 1930.) Market demand?Foreign de mand appears unsettled, with little hopi for immediate improvement. 1 The domestic demand will be large I ly influenced by any change in the j industrial situation. Many factors indicate some improvement in 1931, but such change will probably be moderate. Production Credit?Credit will be , more difficult to obtain for 1931 production than for many years. By growing all the feed and food stuffs possible, many farmers can reduce their credit needs. Cotton?Prospective carry-over added to the estimated 1930 crop gives a world supply of American cotton of about ' 20,700,000 bales. This Is about 300,000 bales greater | than the annual average supply for the flve-year period 1925 to 1929. A continuance of unsatisfactory re turns seems certain. High acre yields that can be economically produced seems to be the only way In which cotton will be profitable. | Tobacco?Relatively, tobacco was I more satisfactory than other cash crops this year, and as a result an ' increase in acreage is expected. It i is feared that any increase in pro duction will result in much lower J prices, because of a very large pros j pcctlvc carry-over and a dcf lite showing up of cigarette consump tion. Feed Crops?North Carolina ir a deficit feed producing state. A e age made available by reducing cash-crops, may well be put into additional fed crops, grains, h y, pasture and garden truck for home USfV i | Seeds?The past season's drought did not affect North Caroltn i to the extent of many other southern | states. A good Immediate and fu | ture market seems certain for good seeds of adapted varieties. > Dairying?Temporarily reduced ! returns from commercial dairying f appears likely. Commercial dairy men should reduce production costs. The shortage of dairy prod ? ucts in the state suggests the need ' for more cows to supply farm home ) needs where this can be done eco 5 nomically. iieef Cattle?Consumption likely to Increase in 1931 if prospective improvement in the public buying ? power occurs. A moderate expan s sion where pasture and other con ! ditlons are favorable seems war ranted. Hogs?Slaughter supplies appear "^smaller than usual for 1931. The ! 1930 fall pig crop and the spring ! crop next year will be curtailed o dur to feed shortage caused by the s summer drought. An increase in pig j feeding for home consumption is advisable. k Poultry?No improvement is an s. ti< ipated for either meat or egg o prices until general business con h dltions improve. Feed situation of fers local poultrymen a good chance to compete with out-of-state pro 13 ducers. y Conclusions?With demand for ? farm products unlikely to show any d' material change, and with credit {unusually difficult to obtain, and n' with large supplies and low prices k In prospect for all cash-crops, it If t seems imperative that most farmers It, | follow a more self-sufficing system ^ i in 1931 in order to improve the sit uation. This means curtailment ol e cash-crop acreage, an increase in pastures, food and feed crops, and the growing of more livestock and le livestock products, so that the farm id family and animal requirement! is will be mostly home-grown insteac J of purchased. Foreword Heretofore, farmers were unable to receive a complete and authentic outlook report before February of the crop-growing year. For many producers, this date was too late to be irlost useful as a guide In plan ning the season's program. This fact being realized. Southern State college representatives and the bu reau of agriculaural economics. United States department of agri culture, met in Atlanta, Ga., in nid-November to prepare economic , data relative to Southern agricul- | ture. The department of agriculture economics, North Carolina State j college, has adapted the material ! from the Atlanta conference to meet North Carolina conditions, a summary of which is included in this issue of Farm Business. Demand conditions Little or no improvement in the domestic and foreign demand for (Continued on Page 3) agricultural products of the South ern states is to be expected during 1931. Tliis prediction is based on the following considerations: 1. The decline in domestic busi ness activity which began in the fall of 1929 has now developed into a major depression. As a result of this depression, unemployment has become general and seriously af ected the purchasing power of a large number of consumers. 2. The trend in industrial activ ity abroad has followed a downward course similar to that in the United States. Unemployment continues to increase in most European coun tries, especially the important in dustrial European countries such as Great Britain, Germany, Czecho slovakia and Austria. In France the economic conditions have been up to this time favorable, but there are indications that industrial ac tivities are on the decline. Improvement in the demand, ei thcr domestic or foreign, for agrl cultural production in 1931 is de pendent upon the following: 1. That there will be an increase , in industrial activities both in the United States and abroad during the 'next 12 months. 2. That the fiscal policy of this country which has been directed I towards checking business depres sion will become effective. There is, however, no assurance that this will be the case. 3. That the present low prices of raw materials will stimulate busi ness activity. There is some indica tion that industrial activity has been stimulated somewhat, al ihough it is not as yet wide spread or of any considerable magnitude. 4. That conditions in the Orient will continue to improve. The Ori ent is becoming increasingly im portant to Southern farming, es pecially as an outlet for cotton and tobacco. In China conditions have ' improved recently, but whether or not they will improve sufficiently during the next 12 months to affect ?he agricultural situation in the nited States is uncertain. W. KERR SCOTT, County Agent. Gets Cow Feed From Honey Locust Additional proof that North Car olina trees may be cropped and used as other crops of the state was discovered this week by R. W. Grae ber, extension forester at State col lege, who says honey locust pods may be used as an excellent cattle feed, Charles R, Hall of Sanford, R. F. D., I,ee County, is the person cited by Mr. Graeber as using the locust pods In this manner. Mr. Hall re cently reported to the forester the following information. "Recently when I harvested my crop of honey lcust pods, I took 100 pounds each of the pods and ear corn and ground these together on a ham mcr-mlll. To this mixture of corn and locust meal. I added one hun dred pounds each of mill feed and cottonseed meal. The combination made an excellent sweet feed and Is greatly relished by my cows." Mr. Graber says that locust pods contain 13.4 per cent crude pro tein as compared with 9.3 per cent In corn, 12.2 per cent in barley and 16.2 per cent In wheat bran. The pods are also high In carbohydrates and fats, having a high sugar con tent. In making the report of his ev periment In feeding locust pods, Mr Hall said he agreed with the idea expressed by J. Russell Smith, au thor of "Tree Crops," who said the American people are neglecting a great opportunity In not developing i the native food and feed producing . trees of this country. After years ol i soil destroying agriculture, we maj i yet turn to locust, walnut, hickory acorn producing oaks, mulberry ; persimmon and other food produc i tng trees to provide for livestocl I and even mankind. 1 At the same time. It would b< i well to plant some of these tree i to reclaim and cover mistakes li I j robbing the soil from the hillside, and steeper moan tains, he said. ... SUCCESSFUL 11 HOMEMAKING By GRACE VIALL GRAY ? -* Pre-Leavened Floor Takes Guess-Work Out of Muffin Baking Quick breads, of wbicb muffins are a type, have an important place In our meals since they act as an emer gency bread and are enjoyed by our fumllles for their freshness and vari ety in flavor and texture. Success with muffins as with all other quick breads depends largely upon the kind and amount of leaven ing agent used and the method of bak lng. Accurate measurement and good material are necessary, with close at tention to oven temperature. To be wholesome, quick breads must be thoroughly baked and free from a!! heaviness. Inasmuch as muffins de pend for their success upon the kind and amount of leavening agent used, that should be of utmost Importance to us in their making. And we can have good muffins every time we make them if we use self-rising flour in making them. Self-rising flour is pre-Ieavened flour. That is, it is flour to which the baking powder and salt have been added in the proper proportions. This combining of the main ingredients of muffins makes baking simple and easy for us. A chemist, highly trained and experienced, does all the actual hard work for us. All that we have to do is to add the egg or eggs, the milk and the fat and then we have our muffin batter. Not only has the chemist done this accurate, difficult task for us by com bining the flour and leavening in cor rect proportions, but under his direc tion the self-rising flour has been sift ed and mixed together by machinery for 15 minutes, which means that we have our principal ingredients, flour, baking powder and salt, sifted for us as we could never sift them ourselves. Because of tlds we get finer grain muffins. The successful ruler In Peru is one who does not spill his Lima beans. Nobody ever gets farther outside the law than a Chinese outlaw. Another evil of this machine age is the overproduction of politicians. Those who are always trying to get a kick out of life frequently get it on the shins. Maybe Einstein developed his theory that space Is solid by observing that between ears. What's the use of a machine for de tecting liars? Most of them detect themselves sooner or later. A pat on the back makes one do his best, all right, if it's done with a hair brush at the nge of ten. In a way it must be pleasant to live in a town where the issuing of a permit to build a house is on historic event The prince of Wales has been pro moted in the army, navy and air serv ice, which may set him back at least three uniforms. Syrus observed that "flattery for merly was a vice but now It has be come the fashion." Apparently one of the few fashions that never change. Mexico Is considering a law to force building on vacant lots. Evidently the parking problem and miniature golf haven't become acute In that country yet It haa come to the point where the quickest way to fame of a sort. Is to suggest the twelve to a hundred most famous somebody or something or other. The belated news that a small I cornet sheered oft from the earth Just 1 In time to avoid a collision shows what fortunate creatures comets real ly are. i ' "An American," says a Winnipeg ( paper, "claims to have invented fire proof matches." Just the tiling, this winter, for lighting the slate in the ! furnace. East India has a complicated sys tem of social relationships. An ef fort to nationalize it leaves the Ein stein theory of relativity scarcely ! > more dlfHcult. The brutality of some murders now adays rather inspires s feeling that | ' there should be some modification of the restrictions against cruel and on [ usual punishment ? The deposed president of Argentina S has asked permission to spend his \ days as an exile, that being the same s as saying that he Is willing to be .? pensioned in Paris. Found, In an old medicine closet: A cau of sun-tan powder, the kind that made last year's summer girl look as If she had speut a month In a smokehouse. In spite of the tremendous pros 1 pects for air travel, plans for road ! ways are eagerly discussed and real ; estate values continue to Increase as ' steadily as ever. 1 find it best to have a standard niullin recipe which can be used as a base for variations. If we lijaster one good muflin recipe then we can make an endless variety of muffins. Such a basic recipe is as follows: 2 cups self-rising 1 cup milk flour 4 tbsp. melted 8 tbsp. sugar shortening 1 egg Sift and measure the flour. Add j eggs, milk, melted and cooled shorten ing. Beat vigorously. Pour batter into well-greased muffin tins, half filling them, and bake in a hot oven (400 degrees F.) 18 to 20 minutes. This recipe makes 14 muffins. Now, you can take this foundation recipe and make blueberry or date muf fins, poppy seed, chocolate or coconut muffins. And then there are cereal muf fins, nut muffins, and french muffins, and I suggest you try some of the following delicious muffins: uaxe or naisin Murrins. Use basic recipe with but three fourths cupful of milk. Flour two thirds cup chopped and pitted dates or raisins and add to batter. If you like a sweeter date muffin add one fourth cupful more sugar. For vari ety one-half' cupful finely chopped citron and candied cherries may he used instead of the dates or raisins. Coconut Muffins. Use basic recipe, omit shortening and add one-half cupful shredded coconut. These are best baked in liny greased muflin tins so that you have about 24 small ones. Jam Muffins. Use basic recipe and stir in four tablespoons raspberry jam, strawberry jam or any other desired jam. Poppy Seed Muffins. Use basic recipe and sprinkle poppy seeds over the top. Household. Sdcnc* Lnatitui* As we understand It, the D^rk ages were the ages in which the attitude toward sex and the general refine ments of iife, was about what it is getting to be today. Not much of a future is seen for the midget automobile in college towns. If there are more than 15 boys in the party it would have to take them In two loads. ' Sometimes we wish some doctor I would rise up and say that lettuce and spinach and such like things are unhealthful. They might taste ever so much better it he did. , The Pullman company lost one mil lion dollars in a month. By a coincl t dence this is the amount the big talk er In the smoking compartment usu ally nets in his last deal. We suppose there will be pullman and day elevators in the 105-story sky-scraper in New York, and that there will be small children in the latter, munching bananas. More than one-fifth of our popula tion suffers with tonsils and adenoids, says a Chicago medical authority. Hereafter, the United States should be known as me wiae open races. An old manuscript recently come to light says that Columbus was born In Milan, not Genoa. It does not. how ever, clear him of the more serious charge of discovering America. The Supreme court will be asked to decide whether it Is the duty of a person in the back seat of an automo bile to warn the driver of danger. That's not a duty; It's a prerogative. Paris sends word that women's clothes for next winter's wear will be ?Dotn elegant ana sunne, * nut we ll probably have to wait until winter to Bnd out what "subtle" Is. More rich arclieologlcal fin<ls are reported from Mexico, but It Is doubt ful whether their value will do much to help the national debt The New Pace of Business Change Business evolution used to move slowly?it measured off Its gradual changes almost inv.sibly, like the hour hand on the clock. But today its tempo is that of the seccud hand. The move ment of evolution that is quickening business with rapid changes is alarm ingly visible and maies it difficult to keep up with them.?R. S. Hecht. The Danube river, through us Eu ropean commission, is all but a mem ber of the family of nations and some day will be a member of the hengue of Nations. The commission has its own flag and insignia, maintains a treasury by assessing and collecting dues, issues regulations which havs the effect of law and through these powers directs a traffic which in 1929 reached 1.409,103 tons, writes E. A. Blackburn in Current History. The existence of the commission and the tendency to enhance Its authority at the expense of the Indrridual riparian nations is merely one demonstration of the growing futility of arbitrary political frontiers not based upon log ical economic considerations. IF IGHABOD CRANE ! HAD A FLASHLIGHT: I By JOHN a LONSDALE | President American Bankers Association t17E ALL remember the story ot Icha " bod Crane and the headless horse man. There was the dark form by the aide of the road? thundering hoofs on the Sleepy Hol low highway ? and Ichabod flee ing In confused terror before this terrible monster. If Ichabod had only known that his hobgoblin was an Inventive rival disguised with a a pumpKin neaa. John G. Lonsdale h? would have had a good laugh and gone on with the business of van quishing his competitor. What Ichabod really needed was a modern flashlight. Then he would have discovered the trickery at once, j Many business men need the flashlight of analysis to uncover the hobgoblins in their business and then they might sit back and laugh at their rivals who hesitate to investigate and learn the truth. At this time, when business and banking are making strenuous efforts to have a clear vision ahead, It is espe cially important that the power of re search and analysis be employed to their fullest extent. When these twin brothers of good management have been pressed Into service in all fields, I am confident we shall see a further lessening of periods of stress. How ever, I believe business in general has learned the valuable lesson that any prosperity that is not leavened with a little adversity would not seem basi cally safe or sound. New Farm Activity For Eastern Carolina During September, October and1 November of the present year, farmers in twelve eastern North Carolina counties purchased 1,900 head of beef animals largely from western North Carolina with some few coming from Virg.inia and Ten nessee. "This is indicative of a new en terprise in the east," says C. A. Sheffield, assistant extension direc tor at State college, who secured the facts about the location of the beef animals. "One of the very val uable and significant things in this movement of cattle, is that 83 were of pure bred registered stock. Of this number 50 were cows and the other 33 bulls. These will be used i ' tor breeding purposes in Duiiaing up herds of pure bred cattle In the ;ast. Of the remaining 1,817 grade mlmals purchased, 503 were high type cows that will also be used for breeding purposes. In most cases these herds of grade cows will be headed by a pure bred bull." Mr. Sheffield says the remaining 1,314 grade beef cows and steers will be fattened and sold on the market. In announcing this movement of beef cattle to eastern Carolina, Mr. Sheffield pays a high compliment ? to the county farm agents in both sections of the state. These men, he said, not only worked to locate the cattle but also worked to locate probable buyers and then helped to select the animals and see the transaction through to success. Eastern Carolina has an abund ant feed supply this season and po tential capabilities for a huge live stock industry. legume hays and other feeds may be produced there more abundantly and economically than anywhere else in the state, says Mr. Sheffield. Another significant fact is that 1,341 head of the cattle came from western Carolina breeders and growers, while on 559 head were from out of the state. administrator's notice. Having qualified as Administrator ot the estate of Mrs. Maggie Martin, deceased, late of Alamance County, this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned acbisotfice in Burlington, N. 0.. on or be foie 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 2Mb day of November, 1930. W. LUTHEltCATES, Administrator of Mrs. Maggie Martin. Long & Ross Att'ys. administrators" notice. Having qualified as Administrator upon the estate of Mrs. YV. J. 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