STATE SHOULD BUILD MOUNT
AIRY-WINSTON HIGHWAY
ixmstrucooKi would Lieveiop
Wonderful Farming Section
Best Interests De
mand Division
of District's
Funds
We in not able to understand Jnat
Salem Ik** to kavt -heir «ye set on
Km com plat inn of the Boon* Trail
read rathar than othar roada that
mm to ba of vaitlf mora importance.
J oat Haw much sentiment thaw la
aannaetad with tha nan ef "Bum*
TmII" ws an not ahla to say, hot
suspect that than la noma.
Tha bnsinsM man of Win*ten-#aJ
am are supposed to hnee mm influ
enee with tha policy of tha road offi
cial* of thia part of tha atata, and ha
question they hat*. No better
Urt than at Winaton-Sa
leoi. They an Just aa far seeing Just
M patriotic ami Just an anaetfiah m
leople. That doea not mean, of
that they are able to aae the
of the country in the fulleet
iwt) time.
For month* we hare had It in
mind to My that it ta a miatoke to
bend all enoririea to the completion of
Trail -when there i
to the
It ia common here about thia town
for careful *en to fat op before day
in the boey aaaaon. when they plan
to drrre down to Winston-Salem, and
make the atart before, day thai avoid,
tor the rnah of traffic that ia on the
road after the public (eta out. To
bear the casual maafka made about
the volume of traffic on the toad be
tween thia town and Winston-Salem
will convince anyone that H must ba
Immense.
If the merchants of this town, the
(•tail merchant*, could vote on th*
■abject we suspect that many would
vote to make all other roads before
the on* from her* to Winston-Salem
Tor it la well known that many peo
ple. now that the automobile la with
oa, /«*fer to do their trading where
th*y hare the opportunity to make ■*
lections from larg* stocks. Anyway
there is a disposition on the part 01
people here and all orer this section
to make fmqoent business trips to
Winston-Salem.
If the roads moat oaed are the most
important, and thia mast be the case,
then the road from this town to Win
aton-Salem moat be rastly more im
portant than th* Boon* Trail at this
stage of the development of the coun
try. It is very well known that more
than 5000 people lire at thia town, to
say no thine of th* number that lira
In th* suburbs. PUot Mountain la
1 settlement of no small proportions
and th* same la tru* of a half doaan
other tow a* along the road from her*
*a Wmston Salem and the** people
aO Wr* to nm down to th* big town
mmi n^y I
NitiiMl Mffcwiy Ntrth
A ntudy of the map iIimn that Um
nwit inyiftMot hifhwiy l^wttny into
Winnton-flalcm for Um hard-aurfac
tnir of which no prariakm Hm aa fit
been mad* la Dm mad from Mount
Airy. In fast, thia highway la, hi
many f pacta, mora important to
Winnton-Salan and a large faction |
of tha Seventh Djatrict than aoma
roada that hare been or ara now be
ing hard-eurfaead by State and coun
ty. Wa kan Heard that tha mgiaaei
of tha Seveath Diatrict givea it aa hia
opinion, haaad on cloaa oheerratioivi
that there la no road la tha Aeventff
Diatrict on which the traffic la haz
ier than on the forty-mile highway
<4>imect)i<g the rtty of Mount Airy
with the rity of Winaton-Saletn.
Rut nothwithatandinr thia, and la
■pita of the fact that thia highway
mnnecte tha two lanreat ritiea in tha
Seventh Dfctrirt. nj pmriaian haa'
been made aa yat for haH-aorfaehiff
any part of thia road earept the link
between Mount Airy and Pilot Moun
tain, which ia new being graded.
The t«t toad forsyth county Mid
Winston-Salem should strive to com
plete la tbe Mount Airy highway.
Forsyth's link of thia highway ex
tends from Winston-Salem to the
Stoke* cotmly line, a thort distance
beyond Rural Rail No other high
way conntnjcrion project should be
allowed to come liatwin Fonyth and
thia project.
If Forsyth builds the link It the
Stnkes (hie there wfll ha left a sector
of only about tan er sierra mQes
aeroaa • comer of Stokes cotmty.
With hard-surface extending from
Pilot Mountain to Mount Airy and
from Rural Hall te Winston-Salem,
It would then clearly he the duty of
the State Highway Commies ion and
the Monty of Stokes to make pro
vision for the construction of the
Stokea link, in order to complete one
of North Carolina's crest interstate
highway*.
Hie map of Northwest North Caro
lina and Southnsat Virginia shows
that the Winston-Salem-Mount Airy
road is far more than a local thor
oughfare. It ssaksa direct connec
tion at Wytherilfe with the Lee
Highway to Roanoke and Bristol. It
taps the "Danville Pike" at Hills,
rille. It furnishes an outlet to North
Carolina's largest city for the people
of Carroll. Patrick and Floyd coun
ties. Virginia, and for Surry, Stokes
snd a part of Alleghany counties in
our own State. It offers to the tour
ists one of the moat beautiful acenic
highways across ths Blue Ridge to
he found in all America.
mere u every nuon to expect
that thi« highway will be com plated
heyond Mount Airy >mI uraM the
moataiM. Governor Trinkle of
Virginia it on record as strongly fav
oring Ha construction And Virgin
ia is BOW building road a. In a re
cent communication to a friend tat thia
city, the Governor of Virginia «
preeeed the opinion that thie high
way would certainly he built to the
North Carolina line.
Winston-8aleai ought to hs ths
first to ists hi a genainely earnest
and aggreeeive effort to cossptoto tits
construction of the Monat A by ss*4
without furthei delay. It baa waited
Dm
hi tha uotwMj dlatrieta la mm
Jtwt thia wash tt ta ra
papor that tha Uaral
Fork aartien, whkh la Juat aima tha
in Carrwtl
Dr. 8. A. Cotwhiff, who Is «
In law of our townsman. O. ■ Wahh,
taking hta wtfa and son wtth Mm,
laat waak laft tar Haw York,
ha will taha a pnat cradoate
In madlrina In tha Columbia
Dr. Conduff will rrmain In that etjrt
for ntna montha and it la not mrrtain
what hat ho will rrturw to Lmrol Fork
or locate alaawhara. R la loamad
that tha doctor wrote M*«ral atadlcal
arhoola for tha purpoaa of aaruring
a phyairian to loo« after hia prac
tioa whila ho la away, hot that apon
looming that hia waa a tounti y
tiaa. Invariably tha fmmf doctor*
'■lined tha
/ The pic hauler Is mi addad proot
that apring '» «*ning, for within the v
past week he has again Keen passing!
thru Mount Airy with his trwka and
wagons loaded to the guards with
annealing pigs. The spring crop
whirh is asually marketed about sis
weeks old la now just beginning to
rome upon the market. Figs raised!
this wtnter and spring will no doubt
figure ill nest winterV fat hog ron
Laat fall the supply of pigs
rather iinwluns. it bat*
in tuna of the demand. This
it is thought that the price will rang* i
a little higher than last fall and the
supply will not W ortr abundant.
World News Briefly Told
SAIL SEAS IN M FT. ■OAT—
Eighty year* old. Captain R. W. Nye,
hii wife and John Sjsntna are mom
to aail from San Francisco hi a for
ty-foot boat in March of pearls in
the Galapagos islands in the Sooth
Smb. At tifhtf Ny« ha* mad* and
loat throe fortune* and now ho and
his aged wife aro to bra** tha mon
aoons of a troarherooa Ma in search
of another fortune.
R. R PRESIDENT KILLED FALL
ING FROM HIS HOBSE—Alfred H.
Smith, who started aa a messenger
boy with the Lakr Shore Railroad in
Cleveland at 94 a week ar.d tom to
the presidency of the New Tork Cen
tral line*, wu thrown from hia hone
in Central Park New York city Bator
day afternoon aa he polled op to avoid
colliding with a woman rider who**
hone *addenly iwerred in front of
him. He died in Fifth Avenue Hos
pital a few minute* later of a broken
neck.
LETTERS FRO* TRENCHES
CONING—Many ■ mother and sweet
heart wondered during the war why
•on and soldier boy wrote so seldom.
It was customary at the lero hoar
ju«t before an engagement for the
boy* to writ* hone. It baa now bean
learned that the reason many of
these letters never reached their de
stination waa beeaoae they were
stored instead of being mailed. Re
cently SO boxes of these letters were
found stored with an army supply
dealer and the poet office authorities
bars ordered that they he forwarded
immediately. This paper wanta to
print the (fast on* to arrive to Sarry
coonty.
BOTH REED AND MCADOO UWB
|—So far as Missouri la iibiiihI
I both J ha Reed and William McAdae
i can go away back and alt dawn. 1st
urday In th* statewide township and
ward conventions both asphnnts tor
White^Roues honors failed to elicit
,i 3
CrirtnHw tktkim, wUk 9
fill in ii. U ill 111 in
mrnim CwrtCriHlillliMii
New York, March %1.—Mm. Vary
Hans of Ma. M *Mt lMth atraat
birthday a ywrtrfcy. About the only
drawback to old a«e aha flnda. to Mm*
you rant r»t ■ cake hit enouirh to
hold the birthday randlea.
A ynr sao. for ImUmm, hat
whuw she lira*, bad to^coatant bar
W -a I aL M a I — —— ^
wwii wiw ox ®o®ovpia
and tracing mi tba Miht tbat tt waa
bar mother'* 1001b hi«thday Uhto
candle-power electric light and owe
toper, but inatead tba caka waa dis
pensed with.
Mr*. Han* had too much to ba (lad
about to fret over a little thin* Ilka
that. Nine of bar eieean children art
livinar and attondad tba birthday din
ner Ia»t Mcht. To Hven thing* up a
bit tnay brought along b«r fifteen
rraiMk'hiidran and thirty greaugriMd
rhildf-n
Aim lira. Han* waa ip and about
the house in bar usual apnghHy man
ppr and that waa something elae to
he thai kful for. She atill .naiata im
Purlin* )>otataaa, helping waah .liahea
and -rwtof hetweea tim»a to hcl;
paaa tlw montha between >h»hday*.
But aha la strictly "modern" in bar
Ideaa.
\ "Certainly women ought to rota,"
aha aaya, "and you might aay I'm
mine to caat my ballot againat Pro
hibition If It ater put up to the peo
ple. I don't believe in It."
Mr*. Ran* waa horn In Raden-Bad
en In \Ml and came to thia country
when she waa seven. Until twenty
four yeara ago aha lived in Albany.
Since then aha haa made bar home
here witl/Mra. Reardon. two unmar
ried daughter*. Josephine and l-Mie.
and a eon. Prank.
Other children present at the fam
ily reunion wan Anthony and Joeepfc
Han* of Albany, Mr*. Fannie Farrell,
191at street and St. Nicholas Avenue,
and Mrs. Caroline Schneider of St.
Mark'a Place. Brooklyn.
VOTERS TO U SHAVED—To pre
mt npnttfi is the fwiMnitlil
flections to b held in lut* Dwinfo
March 16, safety num km bean
ordered and as each • lector casta his
ballot, • judge of the staction will'
shave a spot on his haad back of tha
right ear. In preview election lyk
voter was required to stick hi* fin
rer in a pot of indelible ink bat wi
ly politicians discovered a chemical
that wonld rtwoTt the ink and permit
the rotor to "repeat" aa many time
as bo wished.
COOLIDGE DENIES FILIPINOS
INDEPENDENCE—Before the Fili
pino people are granted independence
they most make greater strides to
ward self government, declared Presi
dent Cool idee in a latter last week to
Manoel Koxas, chairman of their in
dependence Commission. For several
yean the Filipinos have been de
manding that the United States with
draw its Governor General and permit
them to "go on their own." but H
has never been thought wise to per
mit them to do so.
ARIZONA HAVING A DROUGHT
—for nearly thra* month* Arizona
according to pa
ra ?» reaching Mount Airy. In Um
moantaini a ft* light mows hare fal
len bat over the atata the pracipiU
tion has bean
Moom and ta Ti
of alfalfa hay.
v ■ i
rors INSTALLS
THEFT OF NAVY'S OIL
SHOCK TO DANIELS
Says He ^Sweatee
Fields for Use i
Now York, Mar I Joaaphna
Ma, chubby Sotitham
•lippad «|ui«rtljr Into town marly jiato
day ConfuMwl by th» May* of tirmf
fk, ha ptotifad about tba tfty an
boor lata for all hi* appointment*.
Only one* did tba ahrawd twtnkla hi
hia poefcarad ayaa van lab. ft wan
whan ha waa «paaking to • rapartor
for Tha Haw York World of tba naval
oil aaaraa«, wbiek ha fenfht to ftm
«ar*a aa Secretary of tha Nary tor
atffht yaarn hi tha Wllaon Adminia
trrtion.
"T awaatad blood to kaop than for
tha na»y." ha tald graraly. "Then
to aae them turned o»«r for tha a*,
nloitation of Dnhany and Sinclair waa
Ilka lta»lnr a child yon had rataad
batrayad.
"Guilty of a Crime"
"Any member of ths Nary Depart
ment or the Interior Department who
knew of the leaning of the naval oil
ruaervas to private Interest ami did
not ftght to prevent It «aa guilty of
a crime ami ought to fat oat of office
or be pot out."
Ha waa going down on tha elevator
of tha Hotel Pennsylvania to kaap an
appointment for which he waa long
overdue. A few m inn ten before, in
his room on tha seventeenth floor, ha
had discnaaad the oil acandal at
length. Ha spoke In explosive bursts.
He waa diacaaainc tha merits of tha
laaaaa made by the Harding Adminis
tration with Harry T. Sinclair and
E. L. Doheny.
"The whole purpose of the oil re
serves waa that the navy might have
oil hi eaae of emergency." ha said.
"President Taft act the fields apart
for that porpoae. Every adminis
tration that followed guarded tha re
serves jealously. What would happen
if there were a shortage of Mexican
oil and we ware at war? Our navy
would be helpless without oil. These
reservea were ty be there for Just
such an emergency.
Rebuffed Daheay'a Agent.
"It waa never intended that those
fields should be developed by the
Government or turned over to private
I Blood" to Keep
o Emergency
year* I fowrht tn le tha ad to
the 4ay when the nary wasM Baal 11.
I fnmrht tt hefnre Cuu»WM. VIh •
about tha ail naarvaa 1 Mi Mai thay
wm»M ha tohaa tmm tha navy ■"*
Uaaad to private la to* eat aaly mr
my dead body. •
"Safer* thay eooM have tiawafamd
tha rnntiwl aver tha etf hiihm fits
tha Wavy Department to tha hitoftoa
Department thay wnald have had to
Mi ma. Tha aU waa tor tha navy
*nd far it alone.
"There la nothtaff hi thia atory that
I favored leaatng tha ad raaarvea. I
mwgaated to Cangiaaa and it waa ea
artad that taaaaa ha it allied along tha
edft* of tha ail raaarvaa to offaet tha
leaka#a into wad* Joet ootaida tha
Oovarmnant limit which were drate
to amall tarn pan lea. Thay were far
na- other purpoae than preneiitinf
welH nutaida draininir off the naval
ad.
Hn|^| Hy
"Thin thieving haa shocked me. II
ha* shocked every one. The Repub
lican* of conscience, the independent
voter* and the Democrat* art looV.it*
to the nest Democratic National Can
v.-ntion here Id bring forwaH a mar
whom character and MfOtRtM. la
«ueh there can ha no donht ha woaM
not countenance the tomtn* i v*r of
(!nv»«i«ffit property. eio-*cialW tha
Mavy'* ill reaerve to prtv-itw lute re ato
for 'Mr exploitation.
"There ooght to he two planka la
the Democratic Pre*ldential platform.
"Thoo Shalt Wot Steal." whether
through 'stupidity.' intimate frianda,*
loan*,' or crookednesa, and The*
Shalt Not Kill/ meaning that the
country which fought so hard to end
war should go hack to tta effort* to
hrinjt about peace in the world. Ft cry
man would ttand hack of that plat
form who did not believe hi thieving,
'Stupidity or- war".
Mr. Daniel* had riaan. The twfn
kle returned to hi* puckered eye*. Ha
araa asked if he woo Id ha a candidate
for President at the Democratic Nat
ional Convention. He nailed, leaned
forward and whispered:
"Too may aay Mr. Daniel* said the
Democratic Party might ga far and
not do so well -
McAdoo Will Enter North
Carolina Primary
Washington, March 9.—The imw
of William G. McAdoo ia to he mt«r
H m the North Carolina primary.
That person may ha aa dead, politi
cally, as the proverbial dodo, hot facts
are facta. The name cf McAdoo, if
preaent plana do not trader**) a eeM
pleta chance, will he filed wUh the
state board if election w'tfcin ike
«*t two wckc. •
All of wl eh signifies. o* --.orsc
that McAdoo and his friends are oat
to captors the state delegation to
the New Boric contention.
The question immediately
What is this rotate to do. to the Dm.
T The
giea Mr.
of
to I
1w
it will not to doM. If
the state IiIb—Mm to wfll torn to
fight far it, and to wfll have to fight
McAdoo. the mam wtoae cause to aa
• to« while ago. He wee a
«# tto
sthte
thai V H !
HZ
tnal McAdan 1
K
V to
of
ti popular rata. If It 1
and it ia pointed not that the con
vention would not be justified at ll
in Miminf that no on* would enter
the primary, ereo if ne niaw abouM
he filed by that ttae.
There ia the consideration toe. that
the legalised primary »-#l not ha
held until Jane 7. and this vote wffl
he binding. If the Daniels people
•SouId ask the conrentioa to indoraa
their man the effect of their actio*,
if seriously tonaMawd. would ha. la
forestste, or nullify, the rale of the
people who participate hi the June
primary, and it aiapiy could not ha
do>»e. legally, for Mr. Daniels or tar
any other candidate. Ia 1M0 8 ana
tor Pimmons waa |N* the support
of the state ecBTeatioB, hat « hoik
rnoaa waa votad on In the primary.
If Daniels therefore la la gat • Mt
fa. ha will hare la gal lata the pri.
la the priaaary ha wnald ha cMLaai