Mount Airy News.
&B.J
Airy. N. C
to
Public
to bo inclinod
hi*h
11m local
to« thai rat** ba
to think that tha
■MVfk. Tha company flftaan jra
ago antarad Into • contract to fur
nlah, for a pariod of 26 jraara, aarvira
at • Iliad prlca. In tha flrst place
tha company uaad poor bualnaaa Judf
mant in antaring into any auch con
tract. Condition* at that tima might
havr haon auch that tha aarrlca could
ba (tftn at a nira profit, whila a par-1
iod of tan yaara migh maka tha bu»l
naaa a daad aipann. to tha nhara hoi
Now tnere are many people «mi
mainUin a plume *y>tem in their
honHM who think of it a* a luxury,
and to them it la a luxury. They ran
aaaily diapense with (ha aervics. But
to moat paopla the talaphona ia a
necessity, and they muat hava ona or
more at the price that prwvaila, ba
that high or low.
Now if the telephone ia a neceaaity
then some man or combination of men
muat maintain the service. Ami the
men who do thia are entitlad to "»
reasonable amount of remuneration
for the service they render, and for
the uae of the capital stock tiad up
in the buaineaa. Theae are facta that
no buaineaa man can deny.
Now if the local company wanta the
rates increaaed it ia up to the share
holders, to uae the language of the
street, to ahow the officials and the
citizens who patronize the phone, that
a reasonable charge is not heing made
for the aervice, and that the rates
should be increaaed. If thi* can be
done there ia every reaaon for think
ing that the citizens of the town wilt
endorse the action of the officials in
making the increase asked.
There ia no denying the fact that it
is common talk that the local com
pany is a paying one, and that the
stock is no bad investment. The pub
lic has it that the present rates are
sufficiently high and that to increase
the rates would only be taking money
from the citizens to make a paying in
vestment an even better paying in
vestment. Now a fair and full inves
tigation of the facts may show that
all this is wrong, and that the public
is not properly informed as to the
real conditions as to the business of
the local telephone company. And,
so, to a (fain use the language of the
street, it is up to the telephone com
pany to show us.
W. S. S.
11 ML TO COOPERATE.
These are times when people ran
cooperate with each other »s never
before. Before the summer is (tone a
large number of the young men on the
farms will be (rone to the army. In
many rases the real force of the farm
will be gone. Most farmers arc good
neighbors, and there is much coopera
tion in the way of swapping work,
but there will I* even greater occa
sion for this exchange of help. In
many instances farmers can assist
each other by the loan of stock for
breaking land and doing the helvy
hauling.
There should be a free exchange of
seeds. One man may have more of
one kind of seed and be :ihort on an
other which his neighbor may have.
It would be no bad idea if every neigh
borhood would form clubs at the
school house and mtet occasionally to
find out the needs of the neighbors.
With the young men gone many
others will also leave the country.
Already practically all the servant
class has gone and in many sections it
ia almost impossible to get help in
rases of sickness. The man i»ho cares
to be a good neighbor can in these
times And wonderful opportunities to
•id those about him. Before the
snmtner Is gone many homes will be
saddened by the news that will come
hark from the battle fields of Europe.
While no human aid ran do much to
W.g.1.
It would bo no bad Mas 11 tha i
down it or noar Btreh Station could |
bo movad up ta thi» city wbara
of our youngatara could got tha
At of tha parauaaion that M«U to bo |
»o a ff active down thoro.
W. 8. n,
Tho aataamad Tlmoa Lao dor balk*
at helping Wilaon make tho world aafa
for democracy, but ha la parfactly
willing to halp "deatroy autocracy and
mak* tha republican inatitutlona aafa
in tha world." Good for tha Timea-\
Leader.
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To pleaae the folk we often have to
go and nuppr*M soma mighty good
nnr* iUma, but thara ia a young atrip
of a girl teacher down about Ruak
who, if the world only knew of her
ability and spunk, would be in Mich de
mand aa a teacher that nhe would be
awamped with offera.
W. S. 8.
Theae Mount Airy fluhermen and
their talea about their catchea, and
these Chicken fancier* and their talea
about how many egg* they pick a
day are beautiful atone* that make
one wonder juat how the trick ia turn
ed. And then again one wonder* if
theae fellow* ever think of the way
the other fellow thinka about their
wonderful experience*.
W. S. S.
Some of theae local fishermen have
been out on the creek bank* and come
back and tell about their luck, of
course they are not wanting it in
print, but they manage to let the edi
tor know. Now the time once wax
when we cared ao little for—well for
what Saint Peter might think, that we
gave apace to theae fishermen, but we
are wiser now.
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To a newspaper nan new* ia ncwi,
and if it in bad news it ia news, never
theless. Which remind* u* that there
is likely to be coming this way tome
news items that will make mighty
interesting reading, to say nothing
of any other impreasion* the reading
may make. The story ia going the
rounds that most of our citizens seem
to be perfectly innocent of the faict
that there ia a single law or custom on
the books that regulate the driving
of machines. Which, if true, means
that some entertaining stories of
wrecks are due in future issues of this
fireside companion.
W. S. S.
It in bad enough to have to pay
prevailing priced for things that one
must eat, but when it comes to putting
up the price on such simple items as
an old fashioned drunk the limit is
reached. The Honorable Mayor of
this village has gone and raised the
price of just ordinary drunks from a
dollar and the cost to ten dollars anil
the cost, making a drunk cost the
citizen the neat little turn of $11.95.
Kour of our citizens have recently
been held up for this amount, and it
would not lie no bad if one could get
drunk on a decent grade of liquor,
but to have to pay such prices and be
forced to drink these ginger escenses,
hostetters bitters and other pateat
drugs, makes it a real hardship on the
man who must put up the coin.
W. 8. S. -
Next week's issue of The Mount
Airy News will contain a general
write up of the business interests of
the town. A large number of extra
copies will be circulftted. Mr. J. G.
Claiborne, of Lynchburg, Is assisting
in the work, and it will be his endeav
or to call on each and every business
man and firm in the town, but if he
should fail to see anyone who would
| care to be represented, a telephone
message to this office will put him
in touch with you. A full representa
tion of the firms and enterprises is de
sided. In this issue you are offered
a medium of publicity that cannot be
surpasses, and no concern in Mount
Airy should be omitted from the list.
L/A. Bmith uitUmt ». *.
IfHM, «f Mibauad. ▼*, k>f« va
cantly baan ranndtng ay tha fallow*
who hava kM turning gaad Mrs Into
luiMT la tftfa mUn af tlM HMrsJ
fiMfwi Hmm 'irii ■ Ml Iwnilii,
Vl, during tha laat day* rf Fafcconry
and rant* tkmfk Um country itarow
la* whom the could ft»<J and mHwd
tkia aortion dM Drat mt tMa wall,
la tha raid through Um countlaa ba
twaan km and Kaanaha thay found
him largo plant* uaing ay tha corn
la a hurry. In tkia Immadlata tac
tion thay I oca tad aavarnl planu but
all vara doing buainaaa on a oaall
•eala.
Tha word got to Richmond that
|md bread corn was being mad* into
liquor In many of tha mountain roun
tiea and Mr. Brama told t&eae officer*
to dopart and not let him look on their
facto again until this dtatilling of
bread mat*rial *aa a topped. And ao
thay have boon and ara buay
By tha tima thay reached this city
thay ha<l daatroyad aa many aa nina
«till», had some man undar bond and
viaitad a numhar of places whara tha
atilla had been carried away.
The officer* ha<l a moat rara exper
ience in tha eaction of country a few
milaa north of thia city. For years
it haa been wall known that an auto
mobile rould laava here and he hack
in a hour and coma back with the ar
dent, auch aa they now make in theae
part«. Time and again .Mr. Monday
aays they have raided in the aection
where thia liquor waa auppoaad to be
made, but it waa alwaya a hungry and
tired and diaappointed aet of offlcen
who returned, for never could they
And a thing. And yet the autoa would
continue to make tripa into that aec
tion. Recently aome vile and wilful
peraon had to go and give the officers
the tip to hunt in the dry hollow*.
Now may be you don't know what that
means. We will explain. When an
officer goea into the wood* to hunt a
atill he hunta the *treama and
branchea, for it ia very well known
that it takes cold water to condenae
the steam from which the fumes of
alcohol are aecured. And ao they
hunt the branches, and hunt as they
could never could they locate a atill
in that section. But when they got
the tip to hunt the dry hollows they
went, wondering what they were to
find. Carefully they went along the
dry ravine* and, as luck would have it,
they found two well* securely secret
ed under timber* that were covered
carefully with forest leaves. Only
by the man on the hunt and with a
practiced eye would the well* ever
have been noticed. And near both
the*e wells they found well established
still places where one would believe
operations have been going on for
possibly years. The trick was to
pump or draw the water out of these
wells and thus cool the still worm,
and in that way make liquor where no
officer was supposed to intrude his
vile presence.
And to make the story complete the
officers were strain lucky. In examin
ing the wells they saw something
suspicious down in one ami proceeded
to examine further. They got a long
pole and actually fished out of one of
the wells a still where it was resting
securely at the bottom, under eigh
teen feet of water. One of the offi
cers crawled down a pole and tied a
rope to the still and safely landed it
on terra tirma. And the officers know
very well that a gang who can invent
>uch schemes as these will be hard to
beat, and may continue their business
as long as they know the art of mak
ing the ardent, but it is a game for
your Uncle Sam to tee they play as
little as possible to the hurt of the
country.
If these wily blockaders could be
rounded up to pit their wits against
the Germans dollars to doughnuta
that the Germans would be the losers.
In the meantime your Uncle Sam is
saving Rome of the bread corn.
^ W.S.S.
Dr. lackey who hat practiced medi
cine in the Ararat, Ya„ section ten
miles from here, volunteered some
time ago for military service and l*ft
here this week for Richmond, Va„
where he go** to take a position in
0>e service of the Navy.
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U»« whole plant la thf <w»inili. pom
Mbly fatal attack of aotMBobite few
that haa laid tU baavy hand an Will
Johnaon, tka man whe ataya in (ha
and doea practically all tit* work
la worth whila. Tha fata* have
decreed that ha baeona owner o' a
of thaaa thing* thay call a Chevrolet,
and ha haa practically i|Uit Ikuimm,
and ia now giving hi* tima to atudy
rarburatora—whatever that may j
ha, piniona, dutchaa, tranamiaaion*.
puncturea, ignition ayatema and a
dnxan othar thinra that la all for
•itn lingo to ua. It ia the umi lina
of diacour*a morning n< and night,
and to ua it appear to ha a /aaa that
will nead expert treatment if it grta I
much wor*a. Jur.t what. (ha o"ice an I
Tha Nawa ia to do in tha :iaantima
ia mora (han wa -an >ay. Wa
•arneatly implore our customer* to
haar with ua in thia calamity, and ha
patient in their damanda, for it ia to
ha hoped that tha attack will »oon run
ita courac, at laaat auch ia tha caae
with chicken pox and other auch peaky
troublea that befall ua all.
w. s. s.
Labor Troubles Adjusted.
On last Friday night the utone cut
ter* of this city the men who
give employment adjusted their busi
ness differences in a way to continue
operations, and the men went back
to work Saturday morning after being
off the job for three weeks. The fact
that the Quarry is the greatest en
terprise here made the business tan
gle of special interest to the general
public and everybody is rejoiced that
the men have adjusted their differ
ences and are again making things
hum at the Quarry.
—w.a.a.—
man wofluin Km to tftcklt
iufcl— individually. No
am cm imnp other paopla's wono
miM. All tint ona can iui(ut to *n
othar la that aack should consular
what ha would da If Ita found hla la
coma suddanly radurad to a 'St1atn
amount; in other word*, that ha
should consular what ha would sars
on if rompailad to sa»a.
W 8. ».
Tha .Sunday school on Main straat
Methodist church at (iastonia has sub
scribed a thousand dollars. Good!
What Sunday school in Hurry will ba
flrst T
W. 8. 8.
tt til religion* to wn and teach
other* to *ave, and it in rcligiou* to
be obedient and loyal to the govern
ment; *o after all the Sunday whool
that invest* in War Saving* Stamp*
will be in ita regular line of work.
W. 8. 8.
THKirric
Sing a Hong of Thrift Stamp*
Sixteen in a row;
Take them to an agent.
Add thirteen rent* or ao.
Change them for a War Stamp
And for your loyalty
YouII get a criap |5 bill
In nineteen twenty-three.
W. S. 8.
The County Board of Education of
Rutherford County ha* placed Thrift
and War Saving* Stamp* on *ale at
every school in the county. To da
thin the member* of the board gave
their note a* collateral for money to
make the origiaal purchaie of the
Stamp*. Making it convenient and
Morgan ton, (fatally gat Ma Iwrt ta
tha right piaca aad wfcaa ha dtf km
waa all thara. Ha had nat tahaa tha
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war vary barfawwly Mil ha laamad
that Garmaii waa try lag ta work ap
a raw Bat a■an thia country aad In
leo, and thaa ha loohad ay Ga»a»any'a
barharoua rarard una* aha had haan
in hta waj. Tha raaoK waa that hw
bought 11,000 worth at aWr Savinga
Stampa. Lat tha fainri ml Surry
romm alia, Thara ought ta ha twa
huadrad in thta county who waa Id join
Tha Limit Club by becoming uwiiaia
of II ,000 worth of Hlam pa.
W S. S.
Buy Thrift Stampa and War Sav
ing! Stamp- It will halp you and
your roartry.
J. H. Folf«r Buy* Country
Attorney J. H. Folger last week
bought the home place of Mr. C. C.
Hub-hen* on the Dobaon rwd at
White Plain*. This ia a »plendid ras
idence and it may be that Mr. Folder
will make it hie home in the Hummer
time to rive hie boy* a chance for
Mime experience on the farm. Any
way Mr. Folger doee not nay what hi*
purpose wa* in making the purchase.
W. S. S.
Notice Democrats.
You will please be at Dobeon Mon
day flrit day of April, to elect dele
Kate* to the State convention, we
want every Democrat in this County
there. It* important that you come
and let* discus* certain matters that
pertain to the party. Meeting at 12
o'clock sharp in the Court house.
Now come one and all.
Clarence E. Lundy,
Chm. Ex*. Com.
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