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Mount Airy News. Mt Airy, N. C, Nw. t«, IMS HL JOHNSON * »ON. Air*. M- O. WHY SUMY CHANGED Of toam it la IHwirtm to wma much Inefficiency of the public's to them to waya. Especially waa it shown to the tangle that waa made to making out tha tu hooka aoma two or throe years ago whan a miataka waa mads that taeoWed several thousand Mian and caused no and of confu aion to gat it straightened out. Again It waa wall known that tha county ■has several thousand dollars tiad up to tha bank tangla at Elkin. In Uia face of all thia, it la wall known that tha county is borrowing mo nay to Meet current bills and making no affort to collact from tha bondaman of tha tiaawm who aza back of him tor tha uwat tiad op at Elkin. And than, there waa oppoaiUon tor tha reason that scma thought liquor paople were not looked after aa dili gently aa might hare bean dona. Soma dtisaaa of tha county ware much wrought up orer the failure ef the officers of the law to atop tha dealing to liquor that thought to exist to some aec m trying to account for the ny tit* folk* voted much is uid about the gambling: at th« Pair in thia city last fall It ia well known that ex aheriff U. G. Belton raised a terrible racket here when he closed down aome of the gambler* at a Fair when ha waa high iheriff of the county. Thia year the gambler* get credit for playing a game that was allow ed and that raked in more money than ia usually lost by people on such eccaiiona. The gambler* seem to have had a game that' went beyond the dime* and quarters and fleeced many citixens of "many dollars. Of eourse no one knows how much waa lost by Surry citixens to these gamblers, but it is currently reported that several thousand dollars chang ed hands in this way. It is known that many young fellows just out of knee pants lost to the gamblers at the Fair and that their parent* were very resentful that the officers al lowed such to be a part of the Fair. Many think thia had much to do with creating a sentiment in the' county •gainst the officers and their asso-1 date* In politic*. Naturally there were many things \ that entered into the change of sentiment that caused the defeat of the men who were so confident of •lection. Oft the fact that the peo pie of the county have prospered during the past eight years as never before is, no doubt, the real cause of * * the change, though on the surface other reasons appear to be the cause. i Up to the time when Wood row Wil aon was elected president the people •f thia county pot eight cents for their tobacco, and every republican •rator told them that was • plenty, a food price for tobacco. And rainy believed K. But the people remain ed poor. They could not build home* or Improve their land* or launch ant into any kind of new undertaking, for they had no money. The reeult waa that hundred* of our cltlaen* left the country during a period of • few year* and moved ■way to factory town* rather than try to eke oat an existence on a Cam with tobacco sailing at eight wnta the pound. After the election of Wilson the Carmen began to praepet and farm Bfe took on a different aapeet in all parte of the county Men who had ■ever had any money before In their tteaa, became pasaniid of money and lands, now homaa sprang ay on wary mad la the county, new bams and ssw out ho usee and new fields where. And sH ^thia under a^demo Yon cm Mkm ^f*Uw of the time, but you cannot Awl aO tha paspla all tit* time, at aardi I* that effect. And wHwlly tha folk* of Dwrj ara awaka to tha anil of tha county, if oaa can Judge by tha way thay voted la tha newt election. THE BOYS AND C1CAK rrras A boy not over twelve yaata of age walked tha itnata »f thla city • fow daya a|» pofftag Moka fawn hla noaa and holding a eignrette In hla hand Man «ld nfca. Anothar fifty par eaat of tha boy* of twlia year* of ago la thla n—try an amoking aigarettea. It waa am to aa, and w w»o«a tha hoy making If fifty par east of tha Httla boya of thia nation ara nHij, than ma «a aaa in print about tha wonderful growth of tha cigarette buaineea. Wa art aoadarim If tha people of thia nation ara going to atand for thia propaganda that tha tobacco compantaa ara working that aakaa new customers for their buaineea of many boya before thay gat out of knee pant*. We fuapect that one of theae daya aome far-aeeing man will gat intereatad in thia aubject and atart a movement to and tha whole cigarette buaineaa. Nonaenae yon aay. All right. But juat aup poaa, for the Bake of argument, that aome preacher or woman introdocee a bill in the legialature to make it unlawful to make or to aall a cigar ette in the border* of thia atate. Now if that bill ahould he introduced in our legialature every preacher and every teacher and every woman in the whole atate would vote for it, if they had tha chance. Thla thing of allowing tha boy* of tha nation to amoke la going to be the undoing of tha tobacco companiea. The thinking people will not atand for it, and unleaa the tobacco com paniea or eoaoe other influence, bring* a atop to aolling cigarettes and tobacco to children it will pro voke a campaign against tobacco aa certain at time goea on. Aa condi tion* are now, we ara expecting the thinking men and women of thia country to make a fight on tobacco before anothar ten yetn goea by. LIQUOR FORCES LOST During the past few months the liquor interests of this nation made a supreme effort to get elected to congress men who would make laws to permit of the sale of wine and beer in the old time saloon. They thought this would be the entering wedge to establishing the old order of open saloons. When the election was held, at once, when only a small part of the returns had come In, the wet forces heralded it over the world that they had won and that they had gained 80 new members of congress for their cause. Now that the returns are all in it is found that in place of gaining a victory the wets received a crushing defeat. It now appears that the lower house of congress will be composed of 135 wet members and 295 members who are pledged to support the pres ent prohibition laws. To the wet leaders this must have come as a seven defeat, for they made a great effort to carry the country. BUSINESS MEN WANT GARNISHMENT LAW The business men of this state will ask the next legislature to make a new law to be known as the garnish ment law. It to a way to reach the man who has no property and de clines to pay a debt. In this state, for many years, there have bean thousand* of mm who own no pro perty, but receive good wages. They mad* debts and when they fail to pay, as is the ease at times, as with all other clsssee, there to no way to oollect from them. The Man who lay* by some propel iy can be reached by the law, but one of these wage earners who spends an ha makes each month tonth is the big problem to the man who moat do business! with him. And ae ths legislature will bo asked to make a law that win permit something like an ment to be ran against his and in Ola way make coUectioo H to a Joot earn to that MMh a law MISSIONARY TO CHINA MIRK In. D. W. Harrteg, Miaaionary la China, waa a rialtor bar* thla waak to aaa hia atator-i*-»aw, Mra. k. J. OaUoway, and whUa hara Bad* a* •ddraa to tha Ladiaa Miaaionary » ciaty of tka First Baptiat church, at tha bom* of tt H. Haynaa on Sock ford atraot, Monday aftantoon. at which plaaa tka aociaty Mat. Tha viait 0t Mr. Hairing to tola city la of mora than paasing interaat for tha rum that ha ma mad ta thla town whan a young man, mora than thirty yaara ago- Ha waa juat oU at collaga and raady to go to China aa a missionary whan ha Mat •ad won tha hand «f Miaa Mania Nutt, ilator of Mra, 1 J. Galloway. Togathar thay want to China and ramalnail aararnl yaara and took high rank aa oaafal miaalonarlaa. After soma yaara hi that ooantry thay wlwmi hoaaa aa a viait and whila •pandlng aoma tima hara hi Mownt Airy Mra. Hairing waa takan akk and (Had. Mr. Barring want hack to China alous and again took up hia lifa*! work. Later ha marriad a lady who waa ki China aa a missionary from Australia. Thay hara apant many yaara hi uaaful work hi that country and an hara now on a ra satin* Mr. Hairing la a mm of mot* than ordinary ability and la Mar a dlatlngniahad looking whlto halrad old man who baa gtran a long and oaefnl Ufa to China. Hia With la good and ha looks to ba abia to yat gire many mora yaara to uplifting that country. GOVERNOR MORRISON AND THE RAILROADS Governor Morrison has a plan on foot for the state to buy and own and ope rata a number of stoamahipa to ply between northern cities and aeaports along the coast of this state. Thus ha would set for oar people a cheaper freight rata. The plan has appealed to the people aa a way to let relief from the high ratea of freight charges that are supposed to he oppressive. Now it would be a great thing if some way could he found to save freight, but if we could ship by water and eliminate the railroad what would baeome of the sections where there are no water routee T Of eourae water rates are cheaper and always will be than where a right of way must be maintained. • What, our leaders need to do ia to find some just and equitable baaia for freight charges and quit any seeming knock of the railroads. We need the loads aa badly aa they need us, and to try to find a way to cut out the railroad gets us nowhere. Any plan that suggests a knock of the railroads Is popular In this country, and that is one of the big troubles that must be eliminated be fore there is any satisfactory settle ment of freight ratea or any kind of rates. So long aa the general public ia hostile to the roads there is con stant friction, and ever will be. Just how and why every man got it Into hia head that the railroad is a big soulless corporation that you can beat 'and be proud of it, or give a verdict in court against and feel that you have rendered humanity a service, is more than we know. It seems to us that the rail reads need to spend a big amount of money, if that will do the work, showing the people ^of this country that they1 are not the enemy of the country.' They need to establiah more friendly j relations and in that way and that alone will many of the things that annoy the roads disappear. ITS NO WONDER With the people wanting to pay j their tax before Dec. 1, so they can | save one per cent discount; with the county paying interest on borrowed money instead of collecting the tax; with several thousand dollars tied up in the bank at Elkin and nb one being held accountable for the mis management; with a t4x rata con siderably higher 'than Democratic t,-overn«H counties of the state; with all this existing its no wonder to any person that a thouaand cltlsena of Surry voted for a change In the November election. J. Luther Wood Securoa Frank t Ha Farm /j. W. White, owner of the PiukV fin far* near this city, has made a trade with J. Luther Wood of the Rockford township tn which they ex change farms. While the community' regrets to lose Mr. White and hia family, yet they are glad to wel come Mr. Wood who is well known In thia city and vicinity, having lived hare sobm years' ago and being a A A. — I _ 14 r, — *■ / irequMit visitor nerty Both men will mofe their famlliee next week. Mr. Wood has opened Of a Farm Loan and Insurance office in the Goldsmith hloek next door to tks Far be tt from aa to Um peet u tlfc jfmii of Um age, for Umji are not. Bat Ml h Of the old Mil how to yoaw ago to whore Um winter eupply of •wij. Long about now, folk* would leave off and dry, and to Um pile of Imtm would bo made had oa thia pile of leaveo a Mg BMad o< would bo piled, to pyr— Id cover Um Mill" and over all thia a big blanket of dry dirt, aad over thU aoma boards or »toak would bo told to torn Um Moot at Um rata. And thia plla of applaa waa Jul aa aura to keep aa tbo aorn to Um <wib. Aad all alone to Um wtotor Um would (• to Um applo boto to Um «ardaa and toko ou day they it TVooe wor» tbo dajra of Um old liMbertwlg aad neverfall, aad wblto have nothing -at can good eating tbo ktod that tor yoar* ago bofora Um brosibt out tboir fancy blade. Surry Maa Takaa HU Life ' Whllo fitting to kia homo by tba firvalda on toat Thuraday morning about nino o'clock Eli Dickona firad a bullet from • pistol straight Into hia foreboad. HU wifo bad Just atoppod out of tbo room and bad not •tapped off tbo porch wbon aba beard tba report of the gun. He bad said nothing to anyone that would toad to believe that be waa contemplating such aa act, although ha had not been feeling wall for aoma time. The deceased lived oa a email farm at the foot of the Mountain above Lowgap and leavaa a wife and several child ren. He waa 47 yean old. , Node# To The cooperative warehowaee of Mount Airy will bo claaad from Nor. 29th to Doe. 4, obaervtng Um Thanka gtvtog i Bxchahrt Agent VAN LfNDLBY'S CUT FLOWERS W. S. Wolfe Drug Co. Nyml R. A. Martin We have reduced our pricce on Shoes, Sweaters, Underwear. Now offering some bargains. Be sure to see ue before buying your needa. R A. MARTIN Scholar Block Next Door to Bottom'* Grocery Store. 11-24-c MOUNT AIRY, N. C Valuable City Property I offer for m1« my rwidenc* on Pin* street and vacant lot adjoining. The houee haa 10 rooma, bath and light* and ia located on 100 ft lot fronting Pin* street Vacant lot adjoining it ha* 72 ft frontag*. Anyone interested can get foil particular* by calling Sale on me. 11-24-p \ E. 3. REECE I The Shopping Center of I Mount Airy This store is rapidly becoming the shopping center of Mount Airy. There is a reason—we hs« • lege selection of goods et prices that yen cannot beat anywhere. If you trade with us once you will trade here all r - • - - - —— the time. Our Specialties Men and Boys Clothing. Solid Leather Shoes for the whole family. Dry Goods and Notions. Ladies and Misses Ready-to-Wear. iiMtftr'rt' it n - ■ Men's and Boys' Hats and Cape. Good Morning Kiddies— A Warm Morning to You! Send them off to school, coxy, warm and happy in a suit of our warm knitted underwear. A new fleeced weave in union suit or separate garments which we have priced specially fona short time only. ' - '* e » 75c. to $1.00 per safe.
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