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Mount Airy News. J.&JOBMON. MHvm Mount Airy, N. C, February 7, 1*111. SVMCKIPTION RATH: iui THE FOOD LAWS. Id this iaaue of 1VS«W« we pub lish all tJ>« facia that apply to riii- j aan* of thia section an to the new I ruling auule al«ut the saving of food.' In talking with intelligent pvopla we ftn>i that many do not understand the | ruling, and widely .liffering opinion* prevail as to what ia the law laid down hy the authorities. In a nut shell, an we lead the law, I these are the fact*. To make it plain suppose w« name some nf the thing!1 you can not do and comply with the j law. You cannot hoard food. That j mean a you cannot buy a larger amount th ■» .supply sufficient to taut your family a month. You cannot buy wheat flour unless | you buy from your merchant at the j time you buy the flour, an equal amount by weight of some other bread material, such as corn meal, oat meal, rice, etc. You ran not buy more than 48 j pounds of flour at one time if you i live in town, and 9*> pounds if you I live in Uie country. You can not buy more than five! pounds of sugar at one tim# if you live in town, and 10 pounds if you live in the country. Some things You Can do. You can keep what wheat and corn you have produced on your own farm. You can sell it a; you wish to u miller, but you cannot sell to a private citi zen more than a mon'hs supply. You could sell a miller 100 bushels of wheat, but you could not sell a private citizen but a small amount, say two bushels. If you have corn of your own you can have it ground into meal and Tar ry the meal to your merchant, and _ aalL the meal to him aim) buy it back along with an equal number of pounds of flour. You can not get the flour unless you actually have your corn ground, and actually carry and deliv er to the merchant the corn meal, and then buy it back at the time the mer chant delivers to you the flour. The merchant can not deliver to you the flour if you have corn. The corn must be in the form of meal. The small country millers are not required to have license, and the same is true of the small retail merchants. But the small country merchants and the small country mellers are required to retail flour along with an equal amount of meal. To repeat. You can carry ten bush els of your own wheat to your neigh bor miller and have it ground into flour and carry the flour home, but if your miller sells you 50 pounds of flfur he must, at the same time, sell you 50 pounds of bread meal, to com ply with the law. A WARNING. According to the diagnosis of some •f the doctors here there have been and are now some cases of small pox in this county, both here in the town and in the rural di.-'tricts about. Many •itizens laugh at the idea of it being the dread disease, antl call it chicki/n pox. They are just as positive that it is nothing but chicken pox aa the doctors are that it is small pox. Any way the health officer, Dr. H. B. Rowi, has advised that all persons be vac cinated without delay. He has posted notices warning of the danger. It is currently reported that the trouble' Is not appearing in a form yet that' is alarming, and tho.se wno have had it■ are not badly marked. . ' All lh<' blaod nil the herolam. all the munitions and all lb* money la tha world will ant wla this war ua ton our Roldlers. our Ballara and our fight Inc Aieoclataa are fed They will not k»a lad tkla terrible aarrlllca of htoM • al money will ba la train, aad Mia < auaa af Damor racy will ba ditMiad, ualaaa every paraan, In avary heme, every day, guarda Iba Natlua'a aupply of WHEAT, BKKF, i'ORK, FATS and nrOAR. AM YOU DOING TOUR SHARK? ABOUT Otm SCHOOLS It would ba humanly impoa .,bla to have our achooU aa good aa wa ■would Ilka to have tham. It would ba ntca of wa could alwaya hava tha baat (aathani and tha baa of everything i-unnartod with tha nrhooU, but thl» too, ia not poaaihla. for veara it la a vary wall known fact taat tha man who hava hwii on tha board hava triod to keep tha vary baat n«"n at the I wad of tha achoola, and usually thay hava baan aucrasaful. Tnay hava triad to hira tha baat u-r.rhci a who lu tha raal work of leading tha younir rnirula out of 'ha taniclaa, and thay hava initially bean aucceaaful in mak ing wim selection:.. All of whit'll being tha < a»a it ahoutd not ba conaiderfd un unfair thruat or unkind ait if wa, in tha right way, point out loma of the hurt coming Ihut might ba changed to the batter men! of condition:!. To the mun on the out ide there ha.-, nlways I wen what appear* to ba too mu<-h friction lntWMn the larger lioys ■nil the teachers, Thin in the rune •very year. The teacher* are not giv pfi authority jmrfcient to handle these rase*. ax we understand it. In other towns if a young fellow get* dlsobe ilient the teacher* hold a court of in quiry and decide the cane. Here the teaching force ia not allowed to make » disposition of the trouble, but the School Board reserve* the right to say when a "had" boy -hall leave -school. At we see it there would tie lcaa confunion here if the teach ers were given the authority to dis pose of theiie cases and not be draw ing the Board into the active management and disposition of the troubles that naturally arise. Of courea there would be the right of ap peal to the Board. Again, in the .selection of teachers it is but natural that, in rare cases, a teacher would lie employed who would fail to make good. To keep a teacher on the job for a whole year and cause the children to lose the years work, liecau.se of her inability, is not just. A teacher should be em ployi i with the proviso that tlyt vices could be distai>Vr,..*iT if the man agement HO desired. As we under stand it the custom here has been to employ teachers for the term and then keep them, sometimes when ordinary justice would make a change. Again if a man of education and ex perience is selected as Superintendent he should not he asked to have a teacher in his employment who is not acceptable to him. for any reason. It has been the custom here for the hoard to employ teachers at times when the Superintendent recommended that they not be employed. To do this could not otherwise than work a hin drance to the best interest of the schools. To ask a man to assume the responsibility of being Superintendent of our schools places him under such great responsibility that he certainly should not be asked to retain teach ers who, for any reasons known to him, are not qualified to do the work as he thinks it should tie done. The welfare of the tmlerit body is of so rrnii'h more importance than the interests of any one teacher, or half ilozen teacher*, as to that, that the service rendered should be reasonably Acceptable to the Superintendent who is naturally held responsible to the public for the successful management of and highest success of the school*. And because we have written the above it is not to be inferred that there'is or has been any great confus ion during this year, or under the present management, for there has not been. The schools are running smoothly and doing good work and the teaching force is of a high order. Hut to say so does not mean that we have perfection or that we are not making mistakes. It is not human to be perfect, and the man, or the peo ple. who is able to cut out the little sources of friction and confusion acta the part of the wise man. Ij Teacher* Entertained. Misset Thompson ami Johnson were charming hostesses to the Senior claJ and the teaihers of the Mount Airy High School, Friday evening hi 'he home of Miss Thompson. Progres siva hearts and dice with many other games were played during the even ing. Mian Piathir assk>tod the hos tesses in serving a delicious ice -num. Ma*or ILa'oa Hare Mayor O. b Katcit, at Win •uwHao lam, addrexaed the (maul— am uI Mount Airy in iIm rooms of the Cam awrriaJ (tub, Monday aftarnu<m. Thara wan a larira and representative crowd thara. the mnau h«n| com fortably Allad. Mayor Katun made a •rholarly ami utlinf address on tha importance of savin*. Ha declared, that the war had already n*t mora than any war known to history, had destroyed enourh propert y to rebuild avary city in tha world if they ware tarn down, and coating iu forty mil lion dollar* a day. Hi- made it plain that we a.a in the war and must "lay in it until it is won, and that the way to win it in to »av» and i "iir.rrve our lesources. A reprenenialive audience of our citizens heard the speech arid no doubt the interest here will lie in creased much l»y the coming of thin ■ istingui-hed speaker. Mr. A. V. Went, who is chairman of the Saving" nmmi'tee, introduced Mayor Ka'on and at the"Whctoion of the adilreaa made appropriate remark* an to the er^at need of the public taking inter rut in this vifort to raiHe funds for the war expense*. Buy Fertilizers in Time. A citizen who known nsk* m to sound the warning to farmers to not wait until the last minute to buy their fertilizer*. He says that the farmer who expect* to grow tobacco thin year, or anything el.se that re quire* fertilizer should waste no time in making hi* purchase!. I-ater in the season when the demand for car* is even greater than now it may he as had to get fertilizer here a* it is to now get coal. The man who huyn in time will surely make no mistake. TERRIBLE CONDITIONS IN OCCUPIED SECTORS. Germans Have Organiezd a Slavery Army in a Zone in Northern France. Ottawa, Out., Feb. 1.—A I.or,don dispatch to the Ottawa 'jjeiu;- cf [ terV l*™"' fi, aays it hu > received frcm u trustworthy Belgian citizen who has ju»t reached liondon from the Get man military zone at Valenciennes, an ac count of terrible condition* existing in the occupied districts of France, from which virtually no news ever reached Knglund. For obvious rea son* it could not be stated how this man escaped. He still bore traces of a heavy blow on the jaw, and showed Reuter's representative a handful of natural teeth which had been knock ed out by the butt end of a German guard's rifle. He said: "The Germans have organized a slavery army in the zone of northern F'rnnce. When I left St. Amand a few weeks ago conditions were un bearable. All the men between the ! ages of IT and 50 had been taken away. Unmarried women under 40 are obliged to work in the fields while girl* from 12 to 14 must collect acorns and nettles. "Besides civilian prisoners the Ger mans have a great number of war prisoners behind the lines, working under terrible Conditions. The Kng lish are e-pecially badly treated. All want food, but the sufferings of the Russian* owing to lack of food are awful. It #as while I was endeavor ing to give a starving Russian of my small supply of food that the guard knocked out my teeth." The informant told how domestic clocks and lamps are broken up for copper, mattresses are ripped up for wool, and sacks and clothes are seized. Farmers and peasants must declare everything. "I have seen people dragged to pris on," said the refugee, "for hiding a pound of potatoes. Hiding an egg in volves a fine of five marks. One wom an was deported to Germany for keep ing three pigeons. Another was sen tenced to 14 months for hiding an Alsatian refugee. The refugee wai immediately killed by n non-commis sinned officer who struck another woman with such violence thai she became denf. A litle girl was shot without warning because she fio i 1 the Krance-BoU'ian frontier for bread." The Belgian di.clu.-ed dates and the names of the pertton* in all cases. "Whenever you ti»rn your even the same tragedy i- eterywherr starva tion slavery and untold brutally," he concluded. ALLIES ON WEST FRONT | NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR AmMioni Now m Actual Bat tlafront, Sajn B* kcr in bn Weakly Ravia* WuhmntMi, Fj»h. 4.— AII report* U the war department imln ate that the allie* utill hold a very apprwialik | numcr..al superiority l->th in m«n mul pin* un the we»tem frnil, de»pitr the heavy Carman concentration there i>iiKt the lefec.lion of !iu»*ia. Sac; clary Haker'a weekly war ra v;rw today made thl.. announcement anil in rnmmenting later, Mr. Hakar • iiaiii it represented the heat jU'lge-1 ment of the department baaed upon ail vice from nil noiinn. The review thia wk! rive* lirat place to the .tutrment that "American troop* which have completed J hair training are now occupying a portion of the actual baUlefront." It warn* the rountry that "the world ha* lieen Hooded" with report* of internal un-' reat in (iermany which must not he! allowedto" afTert the efTm'tivenena or spread for our own preparation*." Commenting on the meeting of the aupreme war council at Veraaillea,j the review *ay* it "promise* to nhow poxitive results" in the way of unity! of action on all front*. Reviewing operation* for the week ending February 2, Secretary Uaker say*: /imcrHan infupH wnitu uuve mm completed their training are occupy ing a portion of the actual battlefront. | The operation* in which our troop* j have ho far been engage*! were of a , minor character. "On January 30, the German* at tempted a strongly pushed raid against our line for purpose* of iden tification. Under cover of a heavy l mi*t the enemy was able to reach our * I advanced P' ition*. A -hort brush en dued and the raide. • were compelled to withdraw in haste, after inflicting j slight casualties. "Two day* later thu • ■•^..r attempted another reconnoiter mg thrust, but wu di [>ersed before any headway could be made. "Our patrols have been active in j "No mun'a land" and our scout* have made themselves familiar with the de tails of the hostile po;iitjons opposite them. "Another event of importance took place in France. The inter-allied su preme war council met at Versailles, attended by General Bliss, chief of ' staff of the army, and General Persh ; ing, as well as the representatives of ; France. Great Britain t and Italy, t'omplete and close co-operation be tween the allies and ourselves, and a harmonious understanding between , the supreme commands of all the I forces engaged, promises to show po~ | itive results. Unity of purpose on '■ all fronts will thus be attained. ~ "During the past s»-ven-day period the world has t>een flooded with the , news of very serious internal unrest in Germany. Widespread strikes | 'among monitions workers are report ' ed. While dissatisfaction is no doubt rife in Germany, and strikes of in 1 creasing seriousness have occurred, I we must not allow any reporteddistur-1 bunco within the German empire to affect the effectiveness or speed of our! own precautions. imring tne week hostile concentra- j jtion.s in the west continued. In ccr- j tain tguarters the reports spread by i the enemy, that he holds a preponder ous numerical superiority in the West j j have (ruined some credence. While i positive proof has l>e«n received that i the enemy has removed troop* from | the eastern theater, and is stripping j other fronts for the coming struggle! in the wi >t, nevertheless, the allies i nre believe*! still to hold a very appre- j ciahie numerical superiority both itv| men and (tuns. "In the Rritish theater numerous ■ raids took place. South of ^ens and northeast of l.migcmarrk, as well as -south of the'Scnrpe, the Germans sent' out reconnoiterirg detatchment*. The: British forces were also busily en gaged sounding the enemy lines, iden tifying new u:iits, taking measure of; the value of the new contingents which are arriving aK<n-r the German lino in the west frdtn other theaters. "Northeast of Tlayrinrourt and near Kpch.v, HritUh patrols brought in prisoners. "Hostile artillery keep up a heavy iflre throughout the week in the Ypres md ('inbrti aiUnrtf. WM the MM o# rary llfdy akaUinf anal the ragMMM at KrtM ud Laaa vara alao principal target* fnr the <jaiwi. "The French war* alao buay rauiing lh« enemy and kept a careful uulluok ibmif thair entire fri.nt. Opposite the French, tha (iaiMUinii on fined »p ■rationa to minur nidi north of tha Ai»na. and in upper A liar a. "I'mAtinx liy tha favarable almoa pherir rendition* whirh pre> ailed, air mtd» un a large uale were undertaken. The Kritmh aueeeaiaully I* mbod rail way renters in hinder* and air w|Uadrona undertook attnk* upon monition plant* and oilier military objective* in the Rhine area. London and I'aria, an well a* Dunkirk, Calaia and Boulogne, were vivited hy hostile aircraft. in limy a runner improvement in the combat Kitualinn in noUvl. The Italians were very ituccessful in fol ! wing up their plnnn to retrain point* of particular "'rntegic importance along their baitiefrimt. A* a coun terpart of the Fr« nrh a- nult in the region of the Monte TVroha, the Ita iiun early in the week launched a powerful offensive thrust against the Austrian positions along the Asiairu plateau. This attack wan directed against the strongly entrenched ene my position* in the region between the Freniela and the Rrenta. "The Italians succeeded in captur ing the hosile strongholds of the im portant peaks of the Col del Kossa ami the Monte di Val Bella which result ed in an appreciable advance of th« Italian line in this area, the captur* of 11)0 officers. 2,500 men and a largf quantity of munitions. By this verj fortunate operation of the Italiani were able to regain the important ground lout in this area in Decemhei and their hold on their positions ii rendering more secure. "Austrian reaction was prompt. At a- nult against the new Italian p«>i *Tcr. •'•» »Se Mr—di Val Bella wa: undertaken. The attacking forcei were stopped and the Italians imme ilintely drove a fierce counter sitae! and inflicted serious casualties on th< enemy. Patrol encounters took plac. in the Val d'Aatico, and in the Va Guidicana a hostile raiding party wi driven off by hand grenades. "Along the Balkan front a renewei activity is recorded. J'atrol encoun ters took place west of Lake Doiran British and Serb detachments runlet Bulgarian positions, and enemy con fenerations in the vicinity of Sere and in the valley of the Vardan wer< ; i,i llt.aul tf mirrrmft. "ta Nwiim Ika BnUak in ymt og tlowly but ataadiiy forward. aw iwfu« rhar ipkm of prat mm ia4 < MMlUtaliif lk« frmiW won." I have r early tor shipment una 141a. «arn mill and una 3* in., alaa ana • ia. feed grinder. One • h. p. karuaana engine, two 1 «i h. p.. ona **J light electric lighting plant for lighting |™uiilrjf nrnidmcm, all new. Ona 10 k. p. ultam tiai tion engine, A No. 1 ••hap«, aarund hand. D. E. Naiion, ; Ararat. N. C. : WANTKD to employ young married man t« take charge of farm and * ara for young orchard. The farm ta muatly naw ground, what I naad la hcneat hard workar. I will inalca good promotion to man who can inane good, fjive full information aixmt yourself. Prefer North Carotinian. 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