MOUNT AFRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2nd, 1922
CC AL MINK PUtC
IS 92 YEARS OLD
Wmmom Summit Hill fin Still
"mhili OtW Cm! Firee
reported
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. —1Tin
Summit Hill fin, the "liin«" of *11
■in* firn, is •till burning, but it is
well under control, according to a re
cent announcement by the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company, on
whoos property fiamaa have baan eat
ing up milliona of tons of anthracite
aaaJ for the iaat sixty-two yean
While thin one baa baan brought under
control, another mina flra, which ha*
baan burning nineteen veori near
Mount Carmel, Pa., In the heart of
the lower anthracite flalda, la still
trying to spread. A third flra, which
has been raging for three years, In
tfca Sad Ash rata of the Red Ash
Coal Company on the Wilkes-Barre
mountain, haa mada it necessary to
cloaa the old Giant's Despair road
known to many automobiliata because
of the hill climbing contests that have
been held upon it.
The Summit Hill fire in the Pan
ther Creek Valley between Lansford
and Coaldale, was discovered in Feb
ruary, IBM, in an abandoned gang
way. The hard coal dipa from 20 de
grees to about 70 degreee and is
about 50 feet thVk. The area in
volved Is about it « mile long by
1600 feet wide. Uow many millions
of tons of coal have been consumed
has never ben accurately ascertained,
bat It has cost the company more
than $8,000,000 to fight the longburn
tng fire.
In the early sixties an open cat was
made in the involved area which
asemed to Isolate the flamee for many j
years, but eventually the ftre travell
ed past this cut into the coal areas be
yond. Many efforts were made to
check the flamee but to no avail until
about 1910 when a concrete and clay
barrier, about twelve feet thick, 170 i
feet deep and 700 Int long, wu j
"Sat it pressed eleeely upon tha loca
tion of the new barrier before the
work was completed and the beat be
came so Intense that men could work
only in 20 minute relays. The harrier
eventually checked the progress of,
the fire I
In order to insure against > further
spread the coal company has been
stripping the overburden from the
coal west of the barrier. This opera-1
tion has been in progress nine years
and when completed the company of-,
fieials hope the fin win be certain to
h» under control. The coat of the
stripping operation, involving the re- i
movai of 3.500,000 cubic yards of
material. It is estimated, will approxi
mate $2,700,000. It is not known to
the present generation of mining men
how the fire started.
The nineteen year-old fire Is in the
abandoned workings of the Sioux
mine of the I^ehirh Valley Company
Mar Mount Camel It originated
when hot ashes wer dumped Into a
mine breach and ignited a vein of
eoaL Every effort to subdue the j
flames has proved unsuccessful
Where is Your Money?
The following wholesome adviee
was handed out editorially by the Coo
cord Tribune recently, which we paaa
along for the benefit of our reader*.
"Recently a woman in Sanford had
twelve hundred dollars stolen from
her. 8he had been carrying the money
ia her stocking, where, aa The Monroe
Journal points out, "it was safe until
« thug knocked her down and took the
—my from her." Just last Saturday
• negro's residence in the eastern
part of the State was burned, and
with the home went his $400 earn
ings. If the negro had carried his
Money to the bank, he would have had
enough to build another home.
"The bank Is the place for money
aid valuables. Too many people
carry money hidden on their person,
or storing it away in some dark cor
ner in their homes. The banks wars
organized to ears for money, and In
them your earnings are safe.
"Mot only srs you liabls to loos
four money if you carry it around, or
felde it in your hawe, but you srs
Uable to gat slugged by some robber,
who would not hesitate to use desper
ate means to get a good sised roll."
Poppies t ran ported from Flanders
Fields to dump heaps of Jersey are
adjudged a nuisance aad a peat to
agriculture by the Federal Hortlent
il Board. Thev are to be plowed
•r at once. The aead of the
poppies came over In earth ballast,
shipped from France by troop trans
port*. The pathologist of the Feder
al al Horticultural Board believes the
1
MANKIND ALWAYS
HAS LOVED COLD
It* Glitter mm of Cnm>«llh|
Fotcm ml HUtery
New York, Jan. 24. —Gold haa been
one of the moat compelling foreaa In
tha molding of human klatorjr, aaya
th» January Man tor Magaslna. In
ill Biff* and all language* the word
tta<'lf haa baan luring and command
ing. In tha aacond chapter of Genaa
ia, the land of Havilah "where thara
'a g'M." la mentioned. Tha ark of
h* Covenant waa extenaively oma
--n' -cl with gold Solomon's throne
vaa of gold, and when tha Queen of
heba visited htm, It waa flanked by
1 ildiers bearing "two hundred target*
f best<m gold." The Three Wise
'an of tha Eaat, who followad tha
Star of Hethlehari, bore rolden gifta.
,'n Revelation the Apoatlc John pie
urea tha Heavenly City aa one of
golden (treat*.
Gold haa usuclly keen tha lure of
'be venturesome. J anon and hla Ar
gonaut* aet sail from Sicily to tha
'urther shore of the Black Sea to
' ring hack the golden fleece. In
'nter time*, Phillip tha Good, duke
of Burt^indy, handed his knight* into
'be famous Order of tho Golden
Fleece.
Propertiua, whose life covered
roughly the fifty years preceding the
birth of Christ, wrote: "Thia ia In
leed the Golden Age. The greatest
-ewards come from gold: by gold,
love is won; by gold, faith ia destroy
ed; by rold. justice is bought. Tha
Sw follows the track of gold, while
modesty will soon follow it, when
love is gone."
Mamie Crasiua, the Roman gen
•ral, was so eager for the gold of the
Parthian* that he led hi* son and
eleven legkns into diaaatrous defeat.
As he lay dead the Parthfans poured
molten gold into hi* (aping mouth.
No symbol ha* *o prevaded hiatory
ir tha gold ring, The wedding ring
Into the sea, thua consecrating the
•nlon of Venice and the Adriatic Sea.
Wedding ring* of the seventeenth
-■"♦ury bore the motto, "the wife
will be subject to the man." Hannibal
•nded his life with a poison ring.
When one pope wished to rewara
• queen for her pioua work he pre
sented her with a cluster of roeee
•tnd buds worked in pore cold.
The Caliph of Bagdad was Inau
gurated by throwing over his head a
(ToWen veil, strongly scented with
musk.
The King of Asthanti on the Afri
•sn West Coast is to this day not
•■nthroned, but "enstooled" upon a
golden stool.
The lure of gold ■ more than the
'-sire for knowledge led to the dis
covery and conquest of America.
"'r-aiTo reduced the native population
of Peru from fifteen millions to
•<ght millions in his quest for gold.
Montezuma, King of the Astecs in
Mexico, sealed his doom when he let
Cortes, the Spanish conoueror, know
of a preV amount >f gold he had.
"n all timaa the draatas of trans
muting baser metals to gold has been
dream of man. Alchemy, a black
-rt. that swayed king and commoner
alike, only ceased to exist in the
•ighteenth century when James Price
"* distinguished amateur chemist, be
lieved that he had discovered the
secret. He preaented some of the
•nanufacturd gold to George the
"bird, but whan called upon to dem
onstrate his process to a committee
of the scientists, drank laurel water
md died almost immediately.
Would IWh Bible
in Hmdoraon Schools
Henderson, Jan. 26.—Recently the
ministers of Vance county and the
Woman's Club have aroused the com
munity on the subject of having aome
Mme given to teaching the Bible in
the puhlic schools. Three meetings
have been held thia month by the
ministers to discuss the several
Hjhases of the matter. And a mass
meeting of the people is to be called
,for Sunday night, January 29, when
some of the ideas will be given and
the parents encouraged to demand a
•mall part of the school time—at
least one hour a weak—for teaching
'he Bible. They approve also the
nlan to have high achool pupils desir
ing study in their oWn Sunday
schools under proper requirement!,
and earn the unit of standing towards
their admlaalon into State colleges.
One minister la already teaching
the Bible ones a week tat two of the
rural schools ens a high school—he
having been invited by the principal
TWO BLIND STUDENTS
I . AT THE UNIVERSITY
Thay Rafua* to Ibftrd it m
Handicap, But PUa Uaa#uJ
Caraars
I Under the title "Boy. Who Are
Thoruughbreda," an article in the cur
rent uuue of the A merle mi HifMiiM,
written by 0. B. Kfbbina, ia dedicated
to Sam Cm they, of Skyland, and Bu
ford Warn ham, both of whom are
blind, and both atudent* at tha Uni
veralty of North Carolina.
The boys rafua** to regard blind
neaa aa a handicap. Both are law stu
ilenta and atand with the highaet in
i their ctaaaea at the univeraity, look
ing forward to active and uaeful
careers.
In part the article aaya:
"When they were ft rat seen being
led over the univeraity campua in the
fali of 1010, they were thought of
with a great deal of sympathy. But
they have ahown that their handicap
waa as nothing. They entered tha
scholarship race, and are now recog
nized in their ctasa. Buford ia a
candidate for the coveted key for
high scholarship and 8am ia vice
president of one of tha leading liter
ary societies of the university, and is
ciaaa representative on tha campua
cabinet, an important student organi
zation.
"Sam Cathey waa born and spent
his early life with two good eyea in
Skyland, North Carolina, a few milea
from Asheville. His father waa a
contractor, and one day Sam, witk
some others, waa blasting on a rail
way grading near hia home town. The
fuae was lit, but for reason tha b*ast
failed to explode at the expected time.
Aa Sam was examining the fuae, the
dynamite exploded and blew him
down an embankment aeveral feat
away. He was 10 years old, and
from that day has been unable to aaa.
After he recovered from tha shock, ha
was sent to school for the blind at
RaMgh, North CaroHaa, whan ha
1 Urtfafr- •
ed tha freshman elass st tha Univer
sity of North Carolina in 1019.
"Sam and Buford prepare their
lessons by getting somebody to read
to them. They have good memories,
and after having a leason read once
they can remember it much better
than does the average reader. Their
written work is prepared on an ordi
nary typewriter.
"In this way, through lectures in
class, through private conferences,
and by their attitude toward life,
Sam and Buford are making splendid
records for themselves, and are gain
ing many frienda in the university."
Throe Bitten by Rabid Dog
Danhury Reporter.
Mr. Hartman Parks, of Quaker
Gap township, who waa seen at
Walnut Cove Thursday by a Danhury
citisan, stated that he waa en route
to Raleigh where he would undergo
treatment for hydrophobia, having
Seen bitten by a rabid dog. The little
"irl of Mr. Charlie Pyrtle and a color
ed man, both of Quaker Gap, were
alao bitten by the aame dog, and both
are at Raleigh taking the Pasteur
treatment
In relating the incident, Mr. Parka
stated that Bud Tllley and himself
became engaged in a fight some three
weeks since, and while they were en
gaged in exchanging blows the dog
came up and bit him several times,
""he colored man, who resides In the
same community, was alao bitten on
the same day, but it waa not until
»ne day last weak, when the dog bit
•he little Pyrtle girl, that it waa found
*o be mad. Immediately after his
little daughter waa bitten Mr. Pyrtle
«ent the dog'a head to Raleigh and
when a telegram earns back aaylng It
was mad all parties left for Raleigh.
Republican* Still Owe Over
$700,000
Chicago, Jan. 24.—The Republi
can national committee still owes
*708,181.82 for the campaign of 1920
which resulted in the election of Pre
sident Warren G. Harding, according
•o figures made public today by Fred
W. Upham, national treasurer.
The outstanding indebtedness in
cludes $621,260 borrowed from the
V«w York Trust, Empire Trust and
Chaae National bank of New Tork;
*126,000 borrowed from the Pint
National and Oh) Colony Trust com
pany of Boston, and 114311.32 bor
rowed from the Crocker National
ank of Sea Francisco.
At ths does of the campaign In
November, 1M0, the committee waa
11,68.1,000 in debt, including $1,406,
006 In loans; $l9t,000 in unpaid btlla
Mid |CMM owed to vattow state
THEATRE DISASTER
CAUSES 1M DEATHS
Washington TWtr* Roof Col
lapse. Undor Weight ol
Snow
Washington, Jan. 29.—On* hundred
I nfid eight live* war* lost in the
| Knickerbocker Theatre last night
I whan the roof weigh tad down by mora
! ' han two faat at mow. collapsed and
t .tried patrona of the houaa undar a
> cruahing blanket of concrete, plaater
and ataal, sccorJIng to unofficial, but
' arefully checked records.
Ninety-two of the victims had Seen
identified whan the force of volunteer
•vorkers, twenty-four hour* after the
disaster, approached the end of their
i long soarch of the dabrla. Nina ad
ditional bodies of those who had suc
umK.d to injuries after rescue, lay in
city hoapitala.
Senator Capper, of Kanaaa, member
of the Senate District of Columbia
committee, announced tonight that aa
noon aa tha Senate reconvened ha
would introduce a resolution calling
for an investigation of the Knicker
bocker Theatre diaaater and alao of all
; large building conatruction in Waah
I ington since the beginning of tha war.
Senator Capper aaid reports had
come to him that to -a mora or leaa
degree tha building coda of tha Dis
trict of Columbia has been violated
luring tha rush of construction fol
lowing the increase of tha city popu
lation during the war.
The large majority of the victims,
both killed and Injured, were resi
dents of the city, although many camu
recently from other places. Explore
'ion of tha ruins «vent on unchecked
ifter dark, but those In charge beltev
•d few additional bodies would be
found. Without regard to their own
riak, soldiers, Marinas, Sailors, police,
firemen and citisen volunters had
fought their way beneath tha wreck
lire over practically tha whole floor
space of the auditorium.
Tha met number In the theatre
-»hcn the steel and concrete span of
tha roof buckled and fell under ita
•hree foot load of snow, probably will
never be known. The stories of
ibout a hundred who got out unin
sured have been reported. These ac
>«unta for a few more than 900 in the
•tudience that was roaring in laughter
it a film comedy when the roof fell
•>n them like a blanket, carrying down
He front of tha 'vide balcony in ita
•rash.
Normally, the theatre has had every
"•v inirv «v iiiav iiuui anu
!>.O0O person* was its capacity. The
same unprecedented anow fall which
brought death to the ventureaome
few, kept the many at hotne. Street
car traffic had been abandoned and
'treet and aidewalka were all hut im
passable with drifts.
There has been no time aa yet for
; ifficial inquiry aa to the cause of the
I saster. The ruins themselves dis
close, however, that the entire mass
of steel-held concrete that formed
the roof had come down. The crash
swept the supports out faun under
'he balcony, aparently, and thia hing
ed down at an angle of 46 degrees,
adding to the tangled maaa of wreck
age on the floor below.
The whole theatre atood roofless to
the sky a moment after the first bias
ing sound of the breaking roof gave
warning above the music of the or
chestra. There la only one survivor
thus far who has told of having heard
that warning and seen the firat
powedery handful of anow sift down
over the head of the orchestra leader
; in time to make hi* escape.
Prom hia aeat well forward on the
| main floor, he raced for the dors at
back. A great blast of air ex
| pelled aa ths roof came down hurled
| him out through the doorway to
! safety.
Moat of the bodies were recovered
from the floor of the pit beneath the
| wreckage of ths balcony or from ths
'ront of the baleony itself. Following
the rule of motion picture audiences
and with an almost empty house to
pick from, those on the main floor
had grouped themsslvss in ths rows
of ssats Ju«t below the front of ths
Haleony. They Were back far enough
to sss well and ths front and bsA
rows were almost empty.
At the point they had choasn, ths
danger proved to he Jnst doable. Few
of those seated there could have ss
caped. Even if ths falling concrete
slabs and steel work of the roof miss
ed them, the solid mass of ths bal
cony front came down on ths first
wreckage with (rushing weight Ths
^learning brass rail that adorned ths
balcony front lay syi lad ever the
wt»llTH« of ths roof fifteen fest W
low whan rescuers reached the scare.
Thoae farther back on tha mats
floor probably all eaeapad. Tha
haama that aupported tha back end
| of the balcony did not let in their
•lutch on tha wad. The wide aweep
•f Mate they aupported tilled d.'wn
until the wreckage below took the
weight of the front end end then stood
covering the bark row* of tha maw
floor Ilka a tent.
WOOD ALCOHOL
IN ASHE LIQUOR
But Food Cfcomiat Alloa Wuti
it Known Ho U No Aanlyat
of Contraband
Kxleigh New* A Obaerver.
Even In An he county, where the air
and the water end the btoonaiiine
have been purer than anywhere else m
'he world, the manufacturer* of ard
ent waters have been corrupted, nnd
■nto their product* they have c m
nounded the blinding, killing ale
ment of wood alcohol.
Faith In thia last stronghold of the
demon waa broken down not many
day* ago when a citizen came aona
what furtively, and by circuitous
oaths, to State Chemist Allen with sn
infinitesimal sample of what pur
ported to he ^she county corn.
Friends had purchased some of H
from what waa deacribed aa one of
"the better rlass of moonahiners" up
; there. The friends had been almoat
! killed by It Indeed, they had been
j partially blinded.
Hn bo certain in their own minda as
to what had precipitated this disaater,
Mr. Allen was ssked to see what was
I n it He applied hia magic to the
liquid. and a potent percentage M
wood alcohol was found in it, enough
■o kill a man had he drank in temper
ately. Mr. Allen had no wonderment
at the fact that the frienda of hia
! iaitors had been made sick. Ha
that any were left to tall
«oi infrequently does the quiet,
retiring analyser or foods have theee
visitors who come with a small phial
of liquid that a "friend" had acquired,
iiually through deed of gift and will
Mr. Allen see if it is all right Some
times Mr. Allen sees for them, and
■isually it isnt all right at all. Most
<f it has wood alcohol in it in more
or leas quantity. But fuaet oil, that
he judges have been inveighing
igalnat, there is nothing to it he
\jrs. Fusel oil is nothing but the
higher alcohol.
Mr. Allan cannot countenance these
analysis. Liquor is not a thing whoae
existence he recognised by State law,
and he fee la that he haa no business
"xamining stuff that does not exist
'•gaily. He is persuaded that most of
'he liquor on the market la compound
ed of poiaona. but he encourages no
'>ody to submit samples of it to him.
'ie deals with legal foods and medi
•ines and beverages.
Connecting up tb« Public
School* and Sunday
Schools
In a conference with the pastor*
and Sunday school superintendent* of
I Mount Airy, it was unanimously de
■ cided to adopt a Sunday school and
Church Record Card which was sub
mitted to them in the regular pastoral
meeting Monday morning, January
23.
i The purpose of this card it to keep
before the school children the import
ance of Sunday school and church at
tendance, and to induce them to at
tend some Sunday school and church
| service every Sunday.
The plan is simple. The oards an
{placed in the hands of the public
school teachers, and they in tarn All
nut one for every pupil in school.
Then once a week, on Monday morn
ing, they call the roll from the cards
and record aa to whether or not the
pupils in their respective grade* at
tended either Sunday school or
church, or both, the previous Sunday.
This is all there is to it. The teach
ers, at this time, do* not wake any
comment about Sunday school or
church attendance. The mors calling
the pupHt* attention to it one* • wist,
immediately after Sunday, ought to
bo a sufficient reminder, and we be
lieve will bring results.
attends both Sunday school and
church during the month will he
placed on his moatMy report card.
This will enable the parents to sse
his Sunday "M sad church reeeed
as well aa bis public school rewii
However, K wffl not affect Hi pMh
LAW ENFORCEMENT
DOUBLES ENROLLMENT
Ottm Hundnd Forty-Four Ad
ditioMl School Child ran mm
Holla 1m Omm School
Raleigh News A Obaerrer
On* hundred and forty-four iM
tional school children enrolled in eoe
school by the enforcement of the
compulsory attendance law after a
'hree day inveatigation by Um super
intendent of public welfare la Cum
berland county la the record tor
•uccessful enforcement, ao far aa
' ' e Bursa a of Child Welfare, State
Board of Authorities and Public Wei
far* know.
At the request of the County Su
l 'wrintendent of Schools, Mr. Joha A.
Martin, Superintendent of Publi*
Welfare, visited a school community
and found only 78 children in school.
Upon inveatigation he found 100
names on the school census. Ha f|
knew there were mora children la
the community that should be to
school and decided to look for thaau
On an laland in the dietrict ha dis
covered 15 familiaea that did not
know that there was a compulsory ;Jj|
school attendance law. The 40 child
ren belonging to these familiea war*
I not in school. One hundred aad
! eighty-three children ware in school
| at the end of Mr. Martin's three day's
investigation, and the next week ha
returned for a visit and found that
' 317 had been enrolled. The county
| school officials had to hustle to fiad
teachers to take car* of tha unexpeet
I ud 144.
: More than 75 per cent of the child
. ren walk to school and many of them
come aa far aa three milea. Last
year the building waa burned aad tha
teachers are using small rooms la
four separate buildings—an old
barber shop, tha hall over a drag
store and rooms over the Maaaate
temple. In apite of these handicapa.
not a single unlawful abaence haa
been reported since Mr. Martia'a visit
1 to the community.
MbMotKo ur Linuiinu
PARTY ARE SENTENCED
Five Men Get Life Sentence.
As Result of Lynch in* of •
Negro
Oklahoma City, Okie. Jan. 24.—
(By the Associated Press)—Jostles
wsi speedily administered in district
court here today when five self-con
; fessed members of the party that
' l- nched Jake Rrooks, negro packing
. house worker, here on the night of
1 January 14, pleaded guilty before
j Judge James I. Phelps and ware sen
| fenced to life imprisonment.
R. P. Wood, assistant attorney gen
crel, said today he knew of no esse
Un which the participants ai a lynch
| ing were tried so speedily and given
inch heavy sentences.
Judge Phelpa told the defendants
| 'heir conduct warranted the electric
| chair. He declared it was a question
' ->f upholding the law, not of "whether
the strikers shall win or loeej"
Each defendant told the Judge he
did not know whether union officials
had any knowledge of the intention
of acts of the men in the lynching.
"Getting Jennie Oat ef the
Cornfield"
Asheville Times.
"How can I get ay It-year old i
daughter Jennie out of the corn
! field?"—this was the question that
| was asked and answered Friday at
the Southern group meeting ef the
| American Fam Federation.
Jennie has long been one ef the
mainstays of small scale farming. .
Her labor has often spelled for her
parents the differences between pro
fit and toes. She has beea forced te
go into the cornfield and perform
hard manual tabor boeraae there Ms
><*. other slternstive la the industry.
But the day when Jennie's preasasa
in the eomfWId could be Jitodd by
the public conscience la rapidly peev
ing. The country is realising that an
industry which sentenced Jennie te
such hard tabor rests upon Inmn
foundations and as est be overheated
for the good of Jennie and tor the
promotion of Ma own —« wltf.
Jennie Is eosstng set dt ths. sent
lata a realisetisn ef the fact thai