Mount'Airy News. . ' KTMCKtmON RATMh ST.S. -4te ptdtfflM at Mount Airy, N. C, ■tin Ik* Mt rf Con areas •/ March ». urn. _ THE ACE OF HIGH TAXES Mm; in waking up to tha fact that this hi truly an »** of btgh Ium. Mailings an hafcaf held la mm parta at the state In protest against the pvaaant truod of the tlnaea. The ta foMiean party la roing la make aa laawe of tha Us rata and try to eap tara tha ■ Lata on a promise to give relief A ad they may da It. Thara art mom who would like to Man la tha daya of low taxaa, ao fraat la tha lava for tha dollar. Wa all can recall tha day* whan thata waa not a bride in tha eouaty, •nd whan the roada were impaaaable far aaythlng In tha nature of an auto mobile. Tan yean ap men who car ad to croaa Surry county put In a aoUd day of hard travel over tha ta«Ch hilly roada to do It. Today tfaay croaa tha country in a hour. Wa all recall the daya when a little wm apent on the poorhoaaa. aa wa called It, and a little apent to run tha aaarta, and a little to operated tha •lata gorernaaent, and wa kept a three aaontha achool far tha few child M who carad to attend. If tha peo ple want to return to tha daya of low taxaa they have the choice before It coats money to brtdga a vary atraam In a county like this; H coats to support asylums where every In sane person is properly cared for, and arhora every blind child is trained and adaeatcd. It rusta money to ran a achool system that or^ride* for tha education of all the people in a way mat win develop »n intelligent ana worthy citizenship. No thinking man can figure out how we are to maintain oar road* and our schoota and our assylums and at the same time have a tax rate mirh a» we had a few yean ago. A high tax rate is not and never will be popular, but the people of thia state are too intelligent to be willing to go back to the dayi of a generation ago and thas aave the mnejr 'hat la WW required to Maintain oar present standard of living. WANT WOMEN ON SCHOOL BOARD There is sufficient interest here in oar city schools to make our citizens think of the many ways that might he found to make conditions better. It is very well known that one of the tiveat organizations here is the Parent-Teacher association and that the women of the town are very largely in the majority at tlie meet ings of the association. This is one way of knowing of the interest that ia taken in the schools hy the jwrerts of the town. It is very well known that the pres ent city administration went into of fice with sotneth'ng lik" r t-»c!t under standing that the women were lining ap for the winning ticket and that they were to have recognition on the school board. We do not underrtanif that any demands were made or .iny promises given, but there was much talk about women being given places on the board, if the present officials were elected. There are two vacancies on the board this spring and citizens are already canvassing the svailable women as well as men who may be elected. We have heard almost no criticism of the Management of the schools, so far as the work of the present board goes, bat there are many who think that if two women who were interested in the school were on the bosrd it would be the cause of more interest, and possibly have a tendency to take the schools farther from the field of the politician. Just what would be to gain by having two women on the board no one seems to know, and yet than are those who want this change Women are ham an and Jut aa aspiring aa men, and, naturally, if they are to rote they will want to hn some recognition in the distri bution of the placea of honor and trust. If the schools will be helped by baring women on the board then we all want then there, to be sure. THE LABOR SITUATION A1 THE QUARRY We are this week using much apace hi The Newa at the requeet of those hi targeted hi the labor situation at the Quarry. If a frss discussion of Mm whole sabiect will la say way aid h WmIm about an agreement, or faad to >t—Insttoa of Um differ all we are 4staf la worth beaaftt of our readers the rttJsZfZgrL The achool gf • community should be the moat popular plan la the town. The children ahould be encouraged to r»t op all kinda of entertainment* aad tha public ahould ' ba encouraged to attaad. In theae day* of a multiplicity of ahowa, chaap ahowa and eoetly ahowa, of every nam* aad natora, it ia hard for tha achool to compete and auk* an admiaaioa char**. Tha attend ance of tha public at tha achool ahould ba of much greater importance than tha little amount of Money that la raiaad by an admiaaioo faa. It would ba no bad idea to make a general ruling that no admiaaion can he charged for any kind of a achool entertainment given at our achool auditorium*. If thia rule waa made it would have much to do with filling the houae at every effort the children make. Tha achool ia aupported by the taxea of the people, and they ahould not have to pay for admiaaion when they want to attend aome achuol function. SCHOOL ENTERTAIN. MENTS SHOULD BE FREE WANTED—A THOUSAND CATS A neighbor of ye editor tuui recently had three fine icsng* of chicken* fc hatch out and the peaky rata have caught them all but three at this date and the neighbor has given up in dia gust—he will make no farther effort to raise chicken*. Over in Europe the paper* tall how they have been making mighty effort* to rid the country of rata and they have found that all they have done ia to thin them out and give them a chance to breed even falter. Some week* agr> thi* town gave away poia on and tried to get the people here to kill the rata, and practically nothing was done. Here i* your remedy. Let every family keep a cat. But, mind you, a cat mu*t have a cat hole. The cat i* a hou*e animal and thrive* and doe* well only about the home* of pe< ple where it ha* some protection nnd care. One of these modern homes with no cat hole ia no place for a cat. If the people here wanted to rid the town of rata and cared to cut a cat hole, and then every family go into the bu*ine*s of keeping a few cat* the rat problem would fade away a* *un> a* fate. Take it from ua the cat hole and the I cat w^'.l do the work. CITY SCHOOLS TO HAVE NEW SUPERINTENDENT At a recent meeting of the ichool board of thia city it waa decided to make a change In superintendents. It is understood that thia decision waa reached by a vote after due con sideration and that the vote was not unanimous. A year ago there developed opposi tion here to the management of our schoola, but the school board was not willing to' make any change. Since that time the matter haa been much in the minda of the people and waa finally disposed of at the recent meeting at which a change waa order ed. Sentenced to School In these strange times many new thinir* are coming to light,'and the wisdom of men is being dr.iwn on in many wuy* in the effort to handle th« new situation* that arise. We .have in mind the case of a street hip pocket salesman who the police finally round ed up this week and who went fre with a sentence ol twelve Month* in our graded schools. The man was 19 years of age and this was one way out, for his rase was such that If ft want the ordinary coma it wnuld meen the roads The decision of the court may be a wise one, for to reform the fellow ia the thing to do, if it can be done. He certainly has Us chance if he now una to use K. There la Tat mother side to tha oeeatinn that may appeal to tome, and that la, lust where does tha watfars of thoee children come in who most new aawetato wtth the man who fera year la to aerre his tee In school- And yet he star be not one whit worse than Mayo! time about Um. part in (thcr towns and sacttoaa that It is not uh far visitors to patmnla* >ur citisens who an angugnti to the once lucrative business of going about our atreeto with a pint la each hip pocket and supplying the need* of local and Waiting thirsty ones. The report that baa played the wild la to the effect that our local hip pocket •a I ••■man have and ate adulterating their product with wood alcohol, se cured, the report says, from some of the loaal furniture factories where this chemical la uaed in the mixing of paints. Now, they toll us, that visit ors here from other sections are sfraid to buy from our people, and either bring their spirits along whan they corns or remain thirsty during their stay with us. The result of all this la working » hardship on our local salesman to the extent of. destroying the profits of the business, for the demand la so reduced that It has been f