Peyton, Ohio, Feb. ST.—An alrytasM
carryinf Maj. K. W. Sekroadar, HM
tMt pilot at Me Cook field. to lay M
Are milm after nirltinf m alti
of M.OW feet, said to be K.OCC
higher than the world'* record.
Tonight tha major It In a hoapital
suffering from shock and temr«rao
partial blindneae. Inatranenta on th.
machine indicate that It fall mora thai
five miles in two minatae. While still
1,000 faat above the ground. tha air
plane waa righted and gilded to a
graceful landing. When the plane set
tled, attendant* who rushed toward t<
found Major Schrooder in the machin«
apparently lifeless. for a brief time,
reaidenta of Dayton were aure a romet
had appeared in the sky. They had
mistaken the trail of vapor escaping
from the machine aa It aped downward
for "a stranger la the heavens."
Thousands of persona gasad sky
ward. watching the plana, which had
sn hour* before, plung*
His (r« Fnxn Mat
Hia hmn numbed and hia eyea
froaan drat in a temperature aaid to
have been 67 degrees below aero,
Schroeder regained partial conscious
mh whan 2,000 faat abova the earth
in time to right hia machine and pre
vent it from crashing to the ground,
out of control.
The thousand! of spectators ware
unaware at the time that they were
witnessing a j'tinuna of the sky." They
saw a speck of black silhouetted
against the blue, to which was at
tached a."tail" of grayish color. Grad
ually the object was enlarged aa it
aped to the earth. When but a few
watching saw thai it was an atrpfena,
turning in a tail spin It was at this
point that Major Schroeder regained
control of his plane and headed it to
ward McCook field.
Here Major Schroeder made a safe
landing and collapsed.
He wa* blinded and his limbs were
numb, <te*pite the electrically heated
suit in which he was encased. He was
suffering 'rom the effects of a lack of
oxygen. When nearly seven miles
above the earth, his oxygen tank be
came exhausted and it was thia which
robbed him of consciousness and
caused him to fall.
BliadneHs la Temporary
Mechanics and officers at McCook
field lifted Major Schroeder from the
plane and he was given first aid treat
ment. and later removed to the poat
hospital, where it is said his blind
ness will be only temporary. It will
be several days before he will be able
to use hia eyes ,ao irding to Dr.
Howard V. Dutrow. an eye specialist,
called into consultation.
The thermometer on Major SchroeJ
er*s machine -egistered a temperature
of 65 degree; belcw xero, centigrade,
or 67 degrws l;«l3W aero, Fahrenheit.
Altitude figures from the barograpn
reading indicated a height of S7.000
feet, and when calibrated by Capt.
Harrison W. Flickinger showed an of
ficial altitude of 36,020 feet, a new
world's record and a variation of less
than 1,000 feet.
The mark set by Major Schroeder
again gives him the record, which Ro
land Rohlfs won from him July SO,
1919, with an official altitude of SO,
000 feet and later increased in a sec
ond flight to 81,000 feet. It also breaks
the record of Adjutant Caaale, a
French pilot, who was credited with
an unofficial record of 33,197 feet.
Dreaeed For Polar Cold
Major 8ehroeder wax dressed heari
•r than any polar oplonr who mr
eat forth. He ma Itterally wrapped in
Ihrikb electric htaten. HU flying
hK tci Hnad with for at Chineee
Nochwang dega, and between the fur
and outer lining, flexible electric heat
unite, connected by ailk corered wire*
wfth the dynamo of the engine, heated
the entire rait. In a like manner hi*
headgear, glares and moctasin* ware
heated. Major Sehroeder wore an oxy
gen inaak of hia own deeign.
Capt. Harriaon W. Flicktngar, chief
calibration officer of McCaah flald,
■id Major Behroeder'i record weald
he flrat aent to wax department effl
dale at Waahingto* and later to of
IMala of the Aero Chih ef Amarine
The Aero dab of America, magabed
hy the Fedaratia. Aereaatiqwa Inter
national*, will bo iiW I* certify the
-•ami of the wertd.
Mi^K. W.Sehroeder tonight told the
, ■tory <rf Ma flfkt i|tlwt tha wfo4.coM
, and lack a/ oxygen aim net anaa milaa
above tha earth. That ha had ah attar
ad th« world'a altitude rea«d. fallen
Mora than fhre milaa, and narrowly
, aacapad death, did not aaan Import
, ant to Him in view of hi* failure to
roach a height at 40.0M foot, tha goal
ha aat for himaalf whan ha took tha
air thia morning. Relating hia battla
for Itfa above tha elooda. Major Sch
roadar, lying on a cot in tha army
poet hoepital, Mid:
i "I waa thinking of nothing but that
I wanted to attain a height of 40,000
faat whan nuddanly tha oxygon stop
ped flowing. Than all at owe. It nam
ad aa though a terrible expioekm took
place within my head. My ayah hart
and I could not open them. I realized
I waa falling.
"I guana I pulled hard on the itiek,
for I kn <w I muit straighten out for
a glide. The plana aeemed to ride eaay.
I opened my eyea, but could aae noth
ing of the ground. I cloaed my aye*
tightly and again opened them, aeo
ing that I waa over Wilbur Wright
field, cloaa to the hangera. I couldn't
land there.
**I tilted my machine for a climb, in
tended to make aura at a good altitude
and then juAp for It with my para
chute. But at that iaatent McCook
field came into view. I gueea I juat be
came an automaton and came down
all right."
Maior Schroeder announced hia in
tention of making another attempt to
reach an altitude of 40.000 feet.
Influenza And Its Prevention
There are certain precautionary
measures that we can take in hoping
to keep down an epidemic of influ
enza, this we have been doing in
Surry county and no far we have been
lucky and fortunate in not having aa
- identic, hot for two wih we have
been on top of the fence, seemingly,
eat-fi day, !hat our ffcte had come to
u«, after all of our timely known pre-'
caution* had been put into play, but
from report* received by the public
hnolth officer, I trust that we can
feel safe in saying that we are over
the top, but in being too hsstv in lift
ing the restrictions, and the persona,
who are recovering from an attack of
thf disease, not using precautions and
taking care of themselves, then, w?
would I'me all that we have been striv
ing for. The life of human beings.
In instituting all kr wn precaution
ary measures against an epidemic in
this county, your County Board of
Health has been unjustly criticised.
| At the time, they felt they were do
ing the right thing, and now they not
only feel, but know they have done the
thing, and public sentiment seems to
be with them. The idea has been ad
vanced by some of our citizens, aa to
why a quarantine would not be effect
ive in this disease as in other disease,
which would do away with the clos
ing order, but influenza h> spread by
the discharges from the mouth, nose,
and throat and as we know the trans
fer of these discharges may take place
in many and devious ways, the mater
ial is often given off in minute par
ticles which are invisible, and it is
discharged frequently, unexpectedly,
unknowingly, and thus making it im
possible for a health officer to erect
I effective barriers, but isolation, quar
i in tine and disinfection applied to a
mmunity In which exists smallpox,
measles and cerebrospinal meningitis,
does have some effect, in the control
j of their spread, but the success of pre
| vention lies with each and every indi
vidual, so then it falls for the public
to become educated, wherein every
. person may be able to do all in his
i power to protect himself, and his
1 neighbor. Education must commence
in the schools, and results may be hop
ed for along these lines from the com
! ing generation.
There arc, however, some disease in
vrhich the methods at prevention are
rfrtth In their result*. We have what
we roald or might term as Nature"*
method, and an artificial method, de
vised by man. Where immunity la
induced as In aaaOpox and vaccine -
tion, nature* method of prevention is
utilised, bat in diaoMes which are car
ried by Insects and thoee spread
through intestinal discharges, purely
artificial methods sre especially use
ful. With regard to the former K may
be Mid that "no anopheles moequitoee,
no malaria fever" and "no stagomjla
moequitoee—no yellow fever" are slo
gans which have beaat proved repeat
edly. Of diaeaaee of the tntaetinal
type, we know that wall organised
preventive ■«— rn. t-yieeny appH
ta a ne*li*ibi« qiulty la ttw eo
called "filth" Iwm It the way
la which A* Infeetioua aataiW Is
vmM, m in the Amm of tk* («•
piratory type.
la nuauainf up It would mm that
the communicable dliMM could or
aiikt ba placed la two groapa,
thoaa the control of which depend*
mainly upon education and individual
effort, and thoaa la which preventive
meaeures depend mainly upon edaaa
tion and community effort. In either
captr education is tkt foundation opoi
which all preventive meaeures muet
'ha built
L. L. William*. M. D.
County Health Officer.
School Spirit la Mount Airy
In a previous artkle under thia ti
tle, the school spirit of Mount Airy
waa, in a way, compared wtth that of
other town, of similar «iie. and aa
stated, if the reader will take the trou
hla to lnveetica«e tha school spirit in
othar towns, and than compare it with
tha school spirit hera. ha wilt find that
in moat Instances it i» aa rood here aa
in othar towna.
Tha purpose of this article, there
fore, is not to praise the school spirit
here, but to try to point oat some of
the things that hare a tendency to
break down and daatroy good school
ipirit. Tha chief of these, and the one
that is dlacusaad moat frequently by
the teachers and a good par cent of
the citizens, la looee home govern
ment. and its effect on the Mount
Airy schools. This !» what this article
will briefly deal with. My attention
has been called to It over and over,
and to use an old famllar saying.
"Where there la much smoke there
mast be some fire." The veracity of it
is evident, and haa been demonstrated
time and again by the way a number
of our pupil* play out of ichool in
daylight and loaf the utraeta at night
Thia subject. I believe, ia as essen
tial to the good school spirit aa Preai
dart Wilson says Aatldo X late tha
Peace Covenant. Tf chidren aw discip
lined at home, all will he well else
where. The schools will have little
trouble. Truancy will almost be un
heard of. and the teacher* will get far
better results from their efforts. In ^
course of time, the city authorities :
and state will find in them good citi-,
lens.
H is next to impossible to get a I
child interested in school who has had
his way at home, in the first place,
he had not been tausrht discipline, and:
when the teacher tries to correct him.!
he rebels, and in many instances,
makes puni*hn>e»-t necessary. Thia in
turn will give the child a dislike for
school, and consequently he will stay
out every ti nvenient chance. Hi* mis
sing time will get him behind in his
work, and this gives him another op
portunity to lose interest. He fre
quently uses this opportunity to per
suade his parents to stop school. Oi
again, when there in looee discipline In
the home, the child many times
finds attraction* on the way to school,
or plans them while up town at night,,
and deliberately cuts school because
he finda it more pleasant elsewhere,
and krwws he can get by his parents.
The had results of this can be discuss
ed ad infinitum.
Now how can these defects be re
medied? There ia but one way, and
that ia for the parent to do hk duty
towards the child, the school, and the
community. The proper place for the
parents to help the school with ita dif
ficulties ia at home. It ia a wellVnown
fact that if the parents are looee at
their end of the line, the school will
have a hard time securing control at
its end of the line. The reverse of this
is true. Too many school children are
allowed to loaf on the streets at night
in thit and moat other towns for tha
good c f the school and the child. Here
Hi where he learns moat of what he
»houM not know, and hera is where he
becomes more intereeted In other
things than his school work.
There are many other evideneea of■
looee government in the home, besides
truancy, (treat loafing, and bad coo
duct In school, but let theee three *af- <
fiee at this time.
■I gives m« pleasure to state that
these nrnarfa u* Mt uldrMiwd to I
lanre number of our patrons. There
art scores of homa fai this town that
do haws rood lioaM diacipline, and the
results ara evident to the tsarhsrs,
and stmi to the town aothorKies.
Wa sincerely hope theae issinh
torjr, aad tf thaaa i s— its fit their
caaa, that they wffl isaalrs to |N aa
better support the rwaahrimg Maths
of the school.
L. ML Eppa, Saperlntaadant.
"Y«SkJIKM»TlM
Tnrtk, Ami TW Truth
9mK ftUW Yn F*W
(Br Gavamar T. W. Bfckatt.)
Far Many r«n the State at Nertk
RtnliM atruggled alone under the
yoka mf mm unwtaa and an just ijlli"
of taxation. Tha yoke wai not aaey
nor mi tha burden light. It praaocad
a aanae of irritation that ha* bean con
stant and univeraal. The whole State
waa aore on tha rabjact. Governor
Glann, ta hia inaugural addraaa. and
two year* later bi Ma bannlal waaa
■age to tha Ganaral Aaaaaably, rigor
oualy denounced tha fatly of maintain
ing in thia State propatty valuea ridlc
ulooaly low and tax rataa terrifyingly
high laataad at maintaining trua
valuea and low rataa.
i Governor Kitchin, in hia maaaaga to
tha Ganaral Aaaambly in 1911 and
1918, poiata oat tha evila of underval
uing tha pro party of tha State.
During tha firat month of tha Craig
adminiatrmtion a banquet waa given In
tha auditorium in Raleigh in honor of
Governor Craig and Senator Simmona.
At thia banqnat Governor Craig made
a apAch in which ha inaiatod that the
General Aaaambly of 1913 ahould not
levy any taxaa, hot ahould provide for
a ganaral raanaeaament of the prop
erty of the State at Ha trua value, and
after thia waa done that the General
Aaaambly ahould be called into apeeial
aaaaion and levy a tax baaed upon the
true value of the property of the
State diacloaed by a general reaaaeea
mart.
The Legialature did not adopt thia
courae, but appointed a Conatitutional
Commiaaion to eonaidar, among other
thing*, the eubjeet at taxation. Thia
Commiaaion made ita report, and at a
special *e**ion of 1914 a taxation
amendment waa aubmitted to the pec
pie and waa voted down at the paila
that year.When the people voted
down the taxation amendment they re
affirmed the present conatitutional
provision which emphatically require*
that all property ahall be tinted by a
uniform rule according to ita true val
ue in money.
nuan uw uuierm AUNHIDiy 01 UM»
cami to deal with thin vexed subject it
at once realised that it wa* impossible
to proceed with intelligence or with
justice until the actual facte were as
certained. It wan known of all men
that the old system had failed misera
bly to ascertain values that even re
motely approached the fact*. Hence
the machinery of the Revaluation Art
was devised for the sole purpose of
finding out the truth, and the Revalu
ation Act is bottomed on the declara
tion of Jesus Christ, "Ye shall know
the truth, and the truth shall make
you free."
No matter how fundamentally hon
est nor how scientifically accurate any
plan may be, there will, of course, be
some errors of administration so lone
as it is human to err; but the truth
in such a case is to reduce the errors
of administration to a minimum and
not to hark back to a system that does
not even pretend to look for the truth.
The Revaluation Act is finding the
farts with remarkable success of a
new measure. It it finding and plac
ing on the tax books millions of prop
erty never there before. It is assess
ing the property of the State with
wonderful accuracy. The returns that
have come in to the State Tax Com
mission indicate that about 80 per cent
of the people are assessing their prop
erty at what it is worth; that about 5
per rent are assessing it too high, and
the authorities are having to reduce
these assessments; that about 15 par
cent are assessing their property too
low, and the authorities are having to
increase it. And just in proportion as
the truth apperas on the tax books, in
equal i ties and injustices will disap
pear. This is the ultimate objective
of the Revaluation Act. The General
Assembly passionately desired to
equalize thi- burden of taxation. It
was realised that this couM be done
only by first finding the farts. True
values are always equal values, bet
the Wisdom of Solomon and the
genius of Edison combined cannot
equalise a kettle of lies.
JtiHt how the art i* wiping oat in
equalittee will be shown by ■ few 0
luatrationa taken from tha books.
I. In om of the roanty-eeata tttrt
lireo upon the nunc ttreet a lawyer
and • widow. The lawyer owns * *al-1
••Me piece of piapoitf in a deeirable ,
portion of the town, and this, undo*
the old mlw. wm »■■■■■< at SMM
The widew had 110,000 that efce reeefr
ed from Hfe Insurance pilifiai on her
real »ota>o mortgagee wkkk ware Hat
ed far taxation at their par raloe of
110,000 Uadar Beraluatior. Act tho
yiayatiy of Ike lawyer waa ratal J at
11 (.000. and ha can gat thia aaiwt
of aaaey far k aay wnhf Mm
:#4£flL ' .s
breahfaet. Vm4m the eM lew the wid
ow, la pipnXia to her reel worth.
the esparto of the Tax Conmiwim re
cently ixmM two rattan mills.
They found that ana mill area oa tha
tax books at 17 par eairt of Ha rani
valve, while the other sail! waa oa tha
hooka at M par cant of ita real value.
Under tha Morainetlow Act thia vtd>
one to equality dlaaa peara. Beth aUlla
will be placed oa the books at their
true value, and thia year tha IT par
cent mill will pay a great deal mere
tasoo than It baa heretofore paid,
while the 6S per cent mill will pay a
great deal leaa.
I. in i etrttln mountain comfy,
and in the mum neighborhood, (km
lived two farmers, ono on a twelve
aero, and tho other am a fifty-aero
farm. Undor tho old law the twelve
acro farm was ■muid at $M0 and
the fifty-aero farm likewise at HM.
Now when thoao faraaers received
their queationnairoa tho twelve-acre
farmer swore that hia land waa worth
M60. Tho fifty aero farmer aworo
that hia land waa worth 94.000. Under
the Revaluation Act the two honest
fitixana, when they had an opportuni
ty to do ao, corrected a rank Injustice.
i Down in WUeoa county a man
had a aon and a daughter. In Ma wfll
he atatod that ho doairad to five them
an equal amount of property. Ho had
a farm which, in hia will, he aaid waa
worth $10,000. and it ia worth it. It
will brin^ that amount on the market
any morning, he gave thia farm to
hia son, and then he gave tnhis daugh
ter. 110,000 in mqpey. When the
sheriff rame around he collected from
the daughter five timea an much taxes
aa he did from tho eett. The daughter
naturally complained about it, and
naked the sheriff why she should pay
five timea aa much taxea aa her broth
er, when their father had given them
ai stated in hia will, exactly the name
amount of property. The sheriff ox
plained to her that the land wan aa
teamed at only S2.000. though he ad
mitted that it waa worth 110,000, while
the money wok annexed at f10.000,
and that he (the sheriff) had no power
to rhange it. The Revaluation Act
loe* change it. It carries out t»e will ,
of tho dead father and makes the son
and the daughter equal before tho law.
The correction of equalitida Hke
those cited above—and there are hun
dreds of thousands of them in North
Carolina—justify the statement that:
the Revaluation ia bottomed on the
relestial declaration, "Ye shall know
the truth, and the truth shall make
you free!"
Thirtieth Division Leads hi
Number Of Medal. Of Honor
In an official table of figures cor
rected to February 8, 1920 prepared
by the statistical branch of the Gen
eral Staff, War Department the Suth.
Division leads all other divisions of
the A. E. P. in the number of Medals
of Honor awarded. TT>is number is
twelve, while the 89th. Division comes !
next with nine. The Second Division
leads in the total number of awards,
693. This includes Distinguished Ser-,
vice Crosses and Oak Leaf Clusters as!
well as the Congressional Medal ot
Honor, but does not include foreign
decorations. The First Division takes
second place with 420 decorations
from the hands of the American Gov
ernment and the Thirtieth Division
takes fourth place with 319. The 27th.1
Division which was the fighting mate
of the 90th. gets 169. Of the large
number of awards of the Second Divi
sion 386 went to Marines and Naval
personnel serving with the Division.
Of all the award* made by the Amy
89 per cent ware made to officers and
81 per cent to enlisted men. In a great
many cases the recoasmendatioa was
made for an enlisted maa aad before
the award was made he had risen
from the ranks and joined the com
missioned personnel.
School Notice
After making a vary thnrengh fc>
veetigatioa at the infloenaa situation,
the Board ef School CcmMmmii
of Mocnt Airy met last night and ky
a unanimous vote «■■»*■* that it was
both h«<m aad not safe to the
schools this woeh. The wheels wB
open Monday March 8th. d« the
sitae Pen at thai Mm 4a ■■famafcls
A. G. W*h, SwVy.
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Baak of Mt. Airy,
J«M ». IHI.
Tint Nail
Jun* IT, l»lt. Amu
tu State Trw,
Dm. IS. l»l*.
County Hi|)nr*y
Dm. S, J#19, Raed, ot
1»1» Road tax, .....
Jan. It, 1M0. Total
H in kit tnd Crti* MTJt
H inkle and Craig, by J. B. ^
Sparger, MMM
wrat-Hin c® .... .. »t.n
E. K. Craren Co,
J. B. Sparger,
Gran it* City Motor Co. .
A. M. Smith
Southern 8Lamp Worka,
J. M. Mitchell. aa-ahariff, 7V1JS
* B rough ton. MJS
Exprm, Ca, JB
J. 0. Hatcher 1HJ»
J. B.
S. A.
j. l. :
Waat HU1 Co. MMS
W. B.. Karritt Co^ lUJt
Elkin Boner Mill 191M
Tha Atkinson Co.. IBM
Baa nor Mfg. Ca MB
W. H. Gilbert, M.1B
H. 0. Harris. 1MB
7. D. Hotcenb C*. (U1
Arnold Qnisenbury MLM
Mount Airy Mew. UM
The Bank ot Mount Mry^.. MUM
Southern Stamp Worka, IV
J. L. Buaaell. Bng BUI
Southern Stamp Worka, 44
Western Unioa Tel. Co., 1.75
Mt. Airy Telephone Co., MB
Herbert Thomas 1LM
Willard Ball 8J»
T. J. Smith witk. 9MB
W. H. GUbert, UJB
Rowdy Sutphm. .............. l.#0
Caleb Alderman, 6.M
J. G. Cullin, \»
Dirk Mays 24.10
T. M. Atkins 20.M
John Whitaker, UM
W. L. Kirkman . *1J»
Ledger Page Na 1
Pilot Township Bond 600.00
J. R. Edwards, 200.0V
Matthews Merchantile Co., 68.86 '
I.in Cook, ... 1«M
J. R. Edwards 386.0#
J. L. Russell, Eng 664.14
W. F. Snow 26.00
Surry Hardware Co., 8.45
W. F. Finney, *.»
W. J. Snow 5.00
Elkin Hardware Co., #.75
Surry Wilkes Yadkia
Supply Co, 90 14
Elkin Roller SCilla 207.67
G. C. Lovill Co 160J*
R. J. Banlu, vetrinarian :. 16.06
W. L. Kirkman 2JJ»
Nora H. Jones A Co, 86.66
A. L. Ring 154.17
The Atkinson Co, 106.60
G. C. Lovill Co, ltN
First National Bank, 2SS.OO
J. H. Mikels 180.28
J. R. Edwards 496.00
J. B. Sparger 150M
A. L. Ring 214.8#
Un Cook 76J5
S.A. Hennia, ItM
Manufacturer! Record, 11 JO
F. A. Bate* 10J»
J. R. Hudspeth,
J. F. McGee
J. L. Russell, En*., #67.75
J. L. Russell. Eng 2SS.M
Mt Airy Feed Store 47.1#
J. H. Nifkels, 286.18
Lin Cook, 1SU5
W. B. Smith., L 664.7#
I. L. Russell, Eng., #05.15
W. G. Bell, agent, L4>
Secretary of State N. C, M5
M. C. Gentry 1M0
I. B. Sparger 17J#
ledger rage Urn. I
B. F. Crawi Co, St5#
A. H. Wolfe, 20.06
\. J. Key 17JO
r. A. Bate*. 16.60
L F. Am field. II
H. P. LoMa.
C. B. 8tm*
W. H. Md
IT. L Kirkaan.