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IF IT HAPPENS ITS E THE DISPATCH OXLY IJ OO A YEAB '1L1LH2J PabUahed MONDAY ml THURSDAY T H E PAPE F, HE P E OP L E, F O R T H E PEO P LEAN D WITH THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED 188 BIX PAQES TODAY IiEXIXGTOX, N. 0. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1928 VOL. XL NO. a 60,000 PEOPLE READ , THE DISPATCH WHY KOI IOC ' I l i I I 1 . : r II ARmFIELD CASE-:. WILL BE TID : ATC0IIGTE1 No Bail Likely Before " Court-Statement As -' i to Shortage . ' After It had been lentativelyagreed for counsel for J. I Armfleld to appear , Thursday afternoon before Judge B. P.' Long at Greensboro to seek an order in : habeas corpus proceedings this plan was abandoned for the time being and no further steps, so far as have f been announced, . weVe taken during the iremender of the week looking to the release of the former banker. - It was sorted at the time plans were changed" as to the habeas corpus proceedings that;- an effort - would probably be - made" this .week to lower the f 175,000 bail, in default of which Armfleld is in JaiC How ever, It is not likely that, bond will be furnished, t ;' : . " W. L. Armfleld, brother Of the pris- :.. oner and a prominent banker of Ashe boro, came to Lexington Thursday , . afternoon and consulted regarding the case. , ft"-'-'' . ! ' ;K'r': ::-r''.-'- It is understood that Armfleld tried several ; times on Wednesday and Thursday to communicate with : his wife by telephone, but she was re ported tQ be ill tit her home. How ever, she appeared here Friday after noon on No. 46 and spent some time at the jail with her husband. 'Two sisters of Armfleld accompanied her here.- . Mrs. Armfleld will probably remain here with friends much of the time until after the. trial. . Preparations have been going for ward for the trial of the bank cases, both those In which Armfleld is charg ed and the counts brought separate ly against Zed CSrlflith, brdther-ln-law of Armfleld and cashier of the defunct Bank of v Thomasvllle. , So far as has been disclosed the 'two defendants will fight separately their respective causes, each being repre sented by different Counsel. ., Thursday of next week is the day sat to call these case In superior " court- It is not unlikely though that they will be, specially set and the ' way cleared of everything else,' as" it will require several days 4n all ro . b&biltaMo talsh-the trials. " ' According to a story In the Chair- town. News last week, Armfleld was accompanied to Salisbury by his wife and father-in-law, . Ex-Sheriff C. ' Mi Grlflith, and it, was agreed there that no letters should be written, between then until after six months , bad ex plred. He is said to have used the name of W. O. Uritt .in .Securing a . passport' to enable him to cross the Rio Grande inta -'Mexico. His mother's maiden', name' was Brltt - A, hearing was ' held; by Mex ican officials, The News was informed, and Armfleld ordered sent eut as an undeslrablo citizen.. It is not stated, however, whether Arm- field at the time knew anything about - the hearing or was present. Accord ing' to statements he Is quoted, as making upon his arrival here he did not attend any hearing and no papers were served on him. ' Chief of Police G. B. Wlmberly, of Thomasvllle, who went to Mexico City and identified Armfleld for the Mexi can olTicers and then brought him from the Rio Grande to Lexington, 'was here Saturday. ... He said that Armfleld. was not operating under his own name in Mexico City, as had been reported prior to his arrest, but was using the name of W. O. Brltt, which was signed to the passport when he entered that country. When Mr. Wlmberly went to the office of the insurance man for whom Arm fleld was working the manager identi fied his photograph as that of the ' man known as "W. O. Brltt."- There seems no doubt now that the bank canes will be tried at the next term and It is not likely that bond will be given for Armfleld, in view of the nearness of the court term. His local counsel, Walser, Walser and Walser, will have associated with them In his defense Frank Armfleld, prominent lawyer of Concord, whose (Continued on Page 1 Column I) LKXIXGTOtf AND ALBEMARLE PIjAY HERE TOMORROW NIGHT Lexington And -Albemarle high school basketball teams moet on the Erlanger court at SOO tomorrow night In the first of the championship series in which the Lexington team will en gage. One of the two will be elimin ated In this contest. The locals ex pect to win this game, an their re cord (or the season is said to be su perior to that of the visitors, but they - expect the Stanly boys to put up a real vigorous contest. Since this Is a championship game. the attendance is expected to be large. The Frlanger Y"audltor- lum has fine facilities fur handling ' the crowd and the floor Is a good one. Lexington's team returned yester day from a three-day road trip, dur ing which they woo from Burlington and lost to LaaksviUe and Durham. Injuries and poor condition of some of the players probably caused the Ions of the last game, which Durham won II to II. Islington started oft with a rush, and the ncori soon -stood 10 to 1 In thulr furor, but two hard garni s on previous i.lkhl and extended trips duiing two days had sapped their endurance and they wers un able to keep up the ptce, t .Station Fight To State Corporation Commission Soon - Lexington Chamber of Com-' . . merce will make a. fight to. se- 1 cure a new passenger station for this city 'and will take the claims of the community to recognition' before the State Corporation Com mission as soon , as that body grants a. hearing. , It was voted by the directors ' of that body at a meeting Thurs day night to petition the Com mission at once to grant a hear ing. It was also decided to se lect a committee of five or more to appear in person before the Corporation Commission at the hearing and present the argu ments on behalf of Lexington. ': President J. F. Spruill was au-. thorlsed to select. the committee.' , This step came after the dlrec tors hod been ' Informed that . President Harrison of the South ern Railway had vetoed the plea -; for a new station here for this ' road. ,-. Every step considered advisable- had been- taken ' with the , railroad officials, starting i. with the division supernltendent and going on up to the head of this big railroad system. At every step the need of better facilities r here Is said to have' been ac ;. knowledge by Southern officials. Lack of funds is said to have been, the reason assigned by President ' Harrison and others for turning 1 down the request. . ', , ROBBERS HELD AT I ARE WANTED HERE Huffmans ' Had Gotods on i nem otoien rom Welcome ' . i . '. ' i v. " J.: . ( . ,n ' . . "Roy Huffman and Charles Huffman, alleged , bandits who were .arrested at Waughtown, Forsyth county, early Thursday morning after they are al leged to have been scared of! from an attempt to blow. -tho safe at th ."Bank oTVlwmillgrire fnougnT ie have been the men .who robbed the store' of A. M. Ripple and entered the safe of the Welcome Milling Com pany about two weeks ago. . . Bheriff Fred C Sink sent two war rants for each of the Huffmans to be served upon them by the sheriff of Forsyth county. They '.are now in Jail at Winston-Salem. Both are oharged in the warrants with each of these jobberies. i , X ) , An overcoat belonging te )A. M. Ripple, of Welcome, which was taken t-he night his, store-' was robbed, is said to haw been wont' by one of the Huffmans When : they were , arrested by a band of Forsyth deputies and Wlnslon-Balem police, - Several gold colus In their possession are said also to have beefr. identified. They are believed to be the same parties who also -attempted to get Into the safe in Woodrow McKay's garage here on the night that the Welcome robberies were committed, although there is no clue to connect anyone with the attempted job here. ADout one o'clock Thursday morn ing Mrs. Dewey Musten, night tele phone operator who was sleeping in the telephone exchange over the Kernersvllle-bank, heard someone making an attempt to gain the In terior of the banking house. She telephoned the mayor and police chlei ana it is believed the would-be rob bers heard her, got 'into their 'car and fled toward Winston-Salem. The plucky operator quickly called 'Wlns- ton-Salem and had officers sent to meet the car. A Kernersvllle police organised immediately and took the trail, coming up with the Huffmans and two companions, Grady Cheek and J. D. Cardwell. Just after thev had been arrested by Forsyth officers. The automobile tires Were tracked from Kernersvllle. Hoy Huffman, one of the men ac cused of participating In the Wel come robberies. Is said to have had nltro-glycerlne, fuses and dynamite caps In his possession. The four will probably be tried in Forsyth -county for their alleged part in the foiled bank robbery, but the evidence connecting them with the two robberies In this county Is expected materially to strengthen the rase against them there and assure conviction. They would still stand charged hera and could be returned for trial after completing any sen tences that might bo Imposed upon them. . This Is not the first time that rob beries committed In this county have been traced to thugs who hung around the outskirts of Wlnston-Balera, and It has been suspected - that Other crimes committed In this section had their origin with . the same . band. Several big house robberies have re cently been committed In the Twin City and It is considered probable that some of these and a long chain of other crimes may b traoed to the four men now in jail. They seem I to be successors to the Frank Bntpes gang, which operated considerably In this county and who did some store breaking Jobs at Welcome and other places ' The Near East In all Its splendor and beauty Is found In "The Sheik" a hlch comes to the Lyric , Theatre next Thursday and Friday, . HOI SALEM IfilOVEMEHISAT COUMTY HOME ARE NOV CONSIDERED Estimates Being Secur ed for Lights, Water and Sewer System Estimates are being secured by the board of county commissioners with view of making considerably Im provements and changes at the county home,', which are calculated to add much to the' comfort and convenience of the unfortunate people there. The improvements that the commissioners have In mind, it 1s understood, will probably cost in the neighborhood of 13,500 and' upon.' their completion should. result in a county home In line with modern ideas. - ' - It la contemplated to Install a water and light system; with -. sewerage. Electrlo - lights would , be placed " in alt parts of the building to replace the oil lamps now In use, while sewerage facilities would be made available at Convenient points, i Running ' water would also be placed in all parts of the building. Changes are also contemplated in the rfangement of the dining room so that there 'could be a more com plete separation of the races than is now said to be possible, . Windows would also be cut so as to afford much more light than is now available in the daytime in the dining room. : Re pairs would also be made to the floors where needed. It is understood that the commislon- era hope that estimates will be in sueh shape that they may be formally submitted to the board at the next regular monthly meeting. It is ten tatively planned to begin work with the coming of milder weather in the spring.. - ..i ' . : . A deep well would probably fur nish the source of water supply, with an electrically operated pump from a plant that would also furnish lights for the building. A tank -would be necessary In, order, to give water pres sure sufficient to afford running water and sewerage.- ' This would also af ford much: better protection against fire than -Is now.' available. At present there is a violent patient tnere, a young man wno has been an smw&sH It was. found, necessary to keep tied. H Is stated ' that the commissioners had under consideration plans for pro viding special quarters tor him. where he could not easily Injure himself or others. However, there is thought to be a good chance of getting him into a state institution where much better care, can be given. i - . ' LEXINGTON MEN FOIL - : ., ALLEGED HOLD-UP MEN Two cases of suspected hold-ups Of prominent Lexington citizens were reported as, happening Thursday and thursday nighty, Thursday near midday Dr. E. jT. Buchanan was ac costed near the old Patterson lumber plant, Just south of the city, when a man darted out of. the bushes and made signal to halt Instead of doing so the doctor fed a little more gas to his machine and dashed by the man, who made an attempt to Jump on the running board. Dr. Buchanan believes it to be entirely probable that mischief was Intended , by the stranger. Thursday night while he was re turning here from Greensboro, W. F. Brown reports that a man waved a lantern In the road In front of him. He mads as if to, slow down until near the man, who planted himself in the roadway, then made a dash with the car that sent the stronger tumbling off tht roadside. , About noon Thursday a young man attempted to board a freight train her and slipped and fell, the right foot . being crushed underneath a train wheel. He was taken to a hospital at High Point where he gave his nra as Edward Outlaw, of Nor folk, Va. He Is said to resemble the man . who attempted to stop Dr. Buchanan. . .' , ROYAL ARCH MAHOXH TO LEXINGTON NEXT YEAR Lexington will get the next meet ing of the Royal Arch. Masons of he district embracing chapters In a large number of towns' and cities In Piedmont North Carolina, It was voted at the meeting held In Greensboro Thursday. . This will bring to the city quite a number of visiting Ma sons. A chapter will be selected to exemplify the degree work and a num ber of candidates from various points will ba Initiated at that-time. Eight members of (he local chapter attended- the district meeting at ureensboro, Lexington being among the best represented points In this territory. Those from here who at tended were P E. Peacock. Dr. W. L. Crlpllver, Joe K. Cecil. W, R. Red wine, W. A. Grimes, R. C. Lyerly, 1. J Hitchcock and 8. D McMillan They were splendidly entertained 'by the Oreensboro Royal Arch Mtpon. Mrs,-Thomas R. Taylor,-who hai been spending severs) days here visit lng her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. I'lckaid. left last Friday for Greens boro to spond a few duys with re latlves and friends, after which she will g0 to New York City to Join her husband, who frent there two weeks sgo to take charge of the New York ornce of the Mavis Powder and Per fume Co, ABBOTTS CREEK MAY BE CHOSEN - AS WATER SITE May Get Basjn Desired by Building Dam Shorter Lexington may yet get Its water supply from Abbotts Creek, Instead of from the Tadkln River as was con templated about tea .days ago when ordinances authorising the issuance of over a halt million dollars In bondB Were passed.' - - "", It Is learned authorlttvely that fur ther surveys hava been made look ing toward the location of a source along Abbotts Creek; Where a dam can be erected more economically than at sites at first surveyed; 'Initial sur veys to points where k was expected to tap this water puppy source in dicated that a' concrete dam . from 1,500 feet long wool! be required in order to form a- basin: sufficient to hold water that 'wpdld . afford Lex ington an unfailing ujply.; " ' More recent' investigations, it is said, have disclosed that by seeking another location along this creek a dam can be built thai would be less than half the length necessary at old prospective sites. ,-, "'i.v.1 ; . Should It be necesaafy, 'it Is said, the dam can be built some distance up-stream and- the Water conveyed to a reservoir and filtering plant fur ther down the v stretn- where, the pumping station wouldf be located and from wtiich point the jaftter would be sent into Lexington through the large main, f --j 1--;ss- '"."'' - ; It is believed that tHers la no doubt about Abbotts Creek -being- a large enough, stream to supply .any con templated need for w)tr here for a very long period of A mev There Is said to- be a' water shf " of about fifty miles, which is con si i pie. . The stream ,ab Highway also is said than the -usual pollm water.; YJf -., The cheapest way, be. to go to 4he -cr east of Lexington, bn it below its .'conflui Fork into, which Ti age Is emptied. V sd quite am a the' Central 0 contain less a, for surface course, would almost due i would tap with- Klch 'le sewer Would be aoasftijev; A tni water as to make. it safe for drank- ing, yet for sentimental reasons, if for no other,, this would be an un satisfactory source of supply. It a suitable site Is found on Ab botts Creek, where a, shorter dam will serve the purpose, it' will amount to a large saving In the construction of the system. Probably as much as $150,000 could be saved In con trast with what it would cost to put a pipe line to the Yadkin River. The city commissioners are pro ceeding very carefully, It is said, with a view to getting the best sys tem possible at the least expense. Birth Rate Higher, Death Rate" Lower In North Carolina Undertakers and tombstone mak ers will not attain the opulence of cradle and baby carriages merchants In North Carolina so long as the State continues to lower the death rate percentages and to Increase Its birth rate at the figures made public by the State Board of Health last week for 1S21, showing 8,623 births and 9,964 deaths. Already at the top of the column for births and at the foot of the column for deaths. North Carolina has lengthened its lead over Its sis ter State by the statistics tor the past year. No tat In the Union has so high a birth rate, and no State has so low a death rate. Chi cago aloae has a lower rate of deaths per thousand population. In 1910 there were IIS babies born In every 10.000 population. In 1921 there were 111 babies for each 10. 000 population. In liiO the deaths were m per 10,000, and last, year the rate fell to 114 for a like popu lation. New York Is nearer the stan dard of North Carolina with 122 deaths per ten thousand Inhabi tants. .The State has again lowered the records. ' -, j The net gain In population to the I State during the year la 6,6& peo ple, one and a quarter - times the population, of the largest city In the Slate. With that ratio maintain ed, the Stat will pass the 1.000.000 mark In population befqre the cen sus takers make their rounds again In 1930. The estimated population of the State In that year is 1.200, 000, as against the 1,511,000 for 1910. Lowering the death ' rate Is the matter in which Health officers Uke chief pride,. In eight yoars the rate has been lowered from 111 per 10,000 to 112, In actual fig ures, It means that compared with the proceeding year 1,191 people are living In the State who would have been dead but for the lowering of the death rate. Compared with 1914 It means thst 19.SHI people are liv ing who would have died during the year, ' . Rleven deaths per thousand popu lation, annually is as low as the death rate can be brought. In the opinion of many health officers. People cannot lire forever, and one per cent per year ef the entire population is a death rate that must be regarded as exceedingly low. DR. EATON GIVES NORTH CAROLINA . HIGHEST PRAISE Purest Anglo-Saxons in Nation-Addresses Business Men . Dr. Charles Eaton, president of the American Educational - Association, former pastor of .the Euclid Avenue- Baptist church in Cleveland, O., and the Madison Avenue Baptist church, New York, churches attended by John D. Rockefeller, addressed an enthusi astlc group of business men and man ufacturers here Thursday night, un der the auspices of the Chamber of Comemrce. "'". Dr. Eaton spoke on the subject of "America s .Oreatest Need, which he declared to be education. He said the time was at hand for the south to come to the rescue of the north, for the nation could only be saved through the real Americanism that is fonnd In the south as in no other section of the country. New York City, with its mixture of -all the races, of peoples having different languages. Ideals and pur poses, is regarded as hopeless by Dr. Eaton. The Philadelphia suburb in which he lives, he said, has a foreign-born population of It per cent. , He counted newspapers pub lished in twenty languages on a sin gle newsstand In Pittsburg, and when he, asked the dealer if he sold more English' papers than any other, he was informed that fewer of these were disposed of than any other, Dr. Eaton,. In his address congrat ulated North Carolina heartily. 'The state of North Carolina is the best off of any under the flag at tnis moment," tie declared, its giv ing credit to Ub soil, its climate. almost . hundred per ' cent pure Anglo-Saxon' blood and inviting North Carolinana north to help solve the problems and ifneet the Issues of an increasingly complex life. "In North Carolina, he said, is to Be found the purest expression of the dominant trait of the . Anglo Saxon the will to be free, and pas sion for liberty." - ' '.i1. ' .AJnsrWa's..-raste- fceeAK hi - the,1 growing -complexity of Its civilization the speaker sold is "intelligence and character." . "Our one Instrument of defense ana safety is education,"- he said stressing the need for a new leader ship, The weakness of our present edu cation system, he pointed out, is the confusion of information for educa tion. "They come out of our schools and -"" so many cioines pine- all of them alike. You greet one on the street. Fine dayl you , say. What's the answer 'I'll tell the world!" "We need beyond else," he con tinued, "an education that teaches nn to think and Judge and act, ac cording to the eternal standard' of trutn. , "An education that makes each man master of his own powers, that kindles his ambition, gives him an objective, cultivates loyalty and co operation, makes' work a sacrament and thrift a Joy in a word and ed ucation that makes manhood wherever it is applied, This U the only way In which we can meet America's need." "As the Jew gave the world reli gion, the Greek, art, the Roman, law, so is . the freedom of the English speaking peoplo spreading to all na tions or the earth," said Dr. Eaton, adding that the fault with the social ist, communist and other such Utopian movements is that they leave out the 'time element. "You can't grow great Oaks In a night, nor can you establish a democracy In a week. It takes all the discipline and burdens to make a man or a nation," he de clared. . i GIltL'S TRIM DKKKATKI) ' ' THE MARTINSVILLK BIGIW Lexington high school girls basket ball team returned last Thursday from Martinsville, Va.. where on Wednes day night they won a clearcut victory urr me gins or tne Martinsville high school, 16 to I. Dlckerson shot thirteen points, while .Raner, substi tuting for Owen, caged the remaining two points. The locals had Martins. vllle easily -outclassed all the way. On the night previous the Lexington team lost at Danville, 29 to 11, to an older and much heavier team of girls, our 01 wnoni are sam to have been postgraduate students of the Danville nign school. The team sejit against them was not the one the game was scheduled with, accord Ins to th. locals, and an entirely different vn of game was played from that to which Lexington is accustomed. Six players were used on a side and ths court was laid off Into three divisions. wnne Lexington girls were adjusting themselves to the situation the Dan vltleltes ran up a 20 to 4 score In the first half. - Lexington girls play Mnoresvllle on the Mooresville court Friday plght of this 'week. They won from Mooresville here but expect a hard game this week, , as Mooresville has a good team. , Dr. D. R. Perry, county health of fleer. Is back on the Job again, after having been confined for several days on account of a case of chlckenpox that overtook biro, 1 , Sixty-Four Cases Set On Criminal Court Calendar Sixty-four cases appear on the first criminal court docket published in Davidson County under authority of an act passed at the special session of the Legislature. Twenty-four of these are "liquor" cases, Including manufacturing, retailing, transport ing, possessing, : drinking or oper ating automobile while drunk. Eight of these are for manufacturing liquor all of the defendants being white men. There are seven cases of larceny, ' one charging the theft of ah automobile, with another as accessory to a theft. Fourteen cases are set for trial on the first day of court, Monday, Feb ruary 2T, most of these having to do with trafficking in liquor. Two groups of cases that will prob ably take considerable time to try are set for Thursday, these being the embezzlement charges against J. L. Armfleld, Zed : Griffith and W. E. Boone and the group of cases from Tyro township, listed as against "Lloyd Davis et al." ' Under the system of setting a docket much time will be saved to witnesses and others, it is claimed, as those pearlng In a case set for trial late in the week need not be summoned to" appear on the first day of court as) heretofore. SITUATION HERE Supt. Cowles Says Mat ter is Pushed Rapidly - s , ; as Possible It is doubless a source of much gratification to. the people of our com munity who are Interested in the pro gress of Lexington to know that the Junior Order at a recent - meeting pledged t -Influence .and energies, to ward "getting work On our new High School building started and carried to completion. ', When this patrio tic organization with its membership i of more than 500 of our citizens throws the weight of Its influence in favor' of a proposition something is likely to happen. This Is especially true In any -proposition in connection with the improvement of our public schools, for one of the fundamental principles upon which the Junior Order is founded is ' loyalty to and support of our- public schools. , Alter tne supreme court oi tne state had upset our former plan a state wide bill was passed by the special session of the General Assembly In December, which bill, It is thought by persons in. position to know about such matters, will take care of our particular cas. - As soon as this bill had passed the special session of the legislature our local Board of Education appointed a committee composed of O. V. Wooslcy, W. H. Phillips,, and J. T. Hedrlck to take up the. fnattcr with attorney J. L. More head, and to proceed as rapidly as pos&ne in accordance with advice from him. , This committee advises us that they have urged all possible haste on the part of the attorney in the cose avho assured them that he was proceed ing rapidly as possible to be certain of each step. The petition has been in the hands of our local committee for several days, and we understand that school committeemen are sign ing up as rapidly as the committee oan see them to present the matter. Unless some unexpected opposition de velops within the next few days the committee. will be ready to call a moss meeting of the citizens of Lexington and the district, that are proposing to unite with us in' tho High School district, to present the petition and to ask the citizens to request the County Board of Education to call a bond election. When this election Is railed, and when, if special registration of voters Is ordered, then the Junior Order, Patriotic Bona of America, American Legion, Masons, Elk, Moose, Knights of Pythias, Rotary Club. Chamber of Commerce, Women's Clubs, Parent Teacher Association, and any other community organizations that may have been omitted will have a real opportunity to show the quality of their -enthusiasm for-the completion of our school. And when the mass meeting la rail ed let us have a real Mass Meeting that will tax the seating rapacity or the Davidson County Court House. J. H. COWLES, Supt. Lexington City Schools ., Kntrrtalnmcnt at Tyro - Everybody la Invited to come to the entertainment at Tyro next Wednes day night, Feb. (2, 7:19 o'clock. Those who enjoy a good play will be thoroughly entertained. ; Admission It and 26 cents. Mr. W. O. Burgln returned Satur day after an absence of several weeks In New York snd Baltimore. While In j the latter city he was a victim of a genulns attack of "flu" and was In a! heepltal for a week. ELECTION SOON IH H NEW TEXT BOOKS ARE CHOSEN FOR L Purchase of New Books No Hardship, Says : Dr. Brooks New text books for use In the public schools of the State, first J;o , seventh grades, Inclusive, were adopt- . ed Friday by the State Board of Edu cation. Twenty of the twenty-seven recommendations of the State Text Book Commission were adopted. This will within the next two years make, an almost complete change in the books In use. In most Instances there are no arrangements for exchange pt old books, but Supt.- Brooks states that the new books are to go into effect under a schedule that will pre vent this fact from being a hardship. In speaking of the ' change,. Dr. Brooks says in part: . "The new -adoption will not work any hardships on the patrons. ' The PUB IC SCHOOLS enrollment In the seven grades of ap-Jthe year 1920-21 was as follows: First Grade, 214,966; second grade, , 105535. Third Grade, 90,680; 411,080 62 1-2V per cent; fourth grade, 84,622; fifth grade, 70,286; - sixth grade,' - 64.062; ' seventh grade, 39,563; 248,623 37 1-2 per cent.. Total, 659,603. "In the first three grades one ad ditional primeri and reading series have been added. Hehetofore only one series of readers have -been adopted. But the schools have been compelled to use a second series , a great need in these grades. ' ' The -board has adopted a second series to ' be used as -basal in order to supply a great need in these greades. , The one that has been widely used in the. slate for the past two or three years was adopted. The speller language, and arithmetic have been changed. , But the State Board made no exchange contract price for these books. ' Therefore, wherever ' the children have the old books in these subjects they may use them next year; But whenever new books are to be purchased the adopted book . must .be secured. . . pupils who are promoted from the third grade to the fourth ' grade-wW;v's STrsjle-. carry these books with them, since third and fourth grade subject mat- ter in language and arithmetic iar bound in one book as a rule. The same Is' true of fifth, sixth and sev enth grade subject matter in these ' subjects. Therefore, third grade chil dren as a rule, are compelled to buy new books. Moreover,-one spelling book is used for thethree grades. The first grade, ' therefore will be compelled, as a rule, to buy new books anyway. The lifetime of a book Is barely three years. There fore, before the third : grade ' la completed the book Is, as a rule, of little use, and new spelling books are bought In large numbers In the third grade. , ' - "Under this arrangement each f the fourth, fifth, sixth and sevenTh. grades will be compelled to change by the beginning of the school year 1922-23 the subjects of geography, physiologies and civics, and by the beginning of the school year 1923 24, the subjects of readers, language, histories (except sixth grade), arith metics and spellers. But since per haps one-half of them will be com pelled to buy these books this .year because of the promotion of classes . and the loss or destruction of, old books and next year twenty-five per cent of the remainder will be compelled to buy new books for the same reason, the en'ect of the change so far as the cost of text books Is concerned Is small. Moreover, in the grades from four to : seven In clusive there! are .usually two booker in each subject, except In ''reading and history, one book for -grades four and five nd one book for grades six and seven, i Therefore. I , "1 '"rth, r'df! that buy text books this year will buy no texts in those subjects next (Continued on Page 2 Column 4) THHKK rXIVF.R8ITY STITOEXTS AND JITNEY DRIVER. KILLED , Three students of the University of North Carolina and a Jitney driver were killed anil two other students Injured, Friday, when the automobile In which Ihey Vers riding crashed Into a switching engine at Durham. These killed were: Ooorge Hadley, ' Mount. Airy, George T. . Peoples, Townsville, Vance county; Charles ' Iceman, Monroe: and F. A. Bryan, laleville, Ala., the chauffeur. The Injured are: P. Boney, of Coldaboro, and J. C. Spach, of Winston -Salem, neither of whom were seriously 4iurt. . loeman Is the son of a prominent cotton mill man at Monroe. The accident happened about four o'clock Friday morning, when the party were returning from a dance at Bute College. Raleigh. -. The Stu dents were all practically asleep when the car, driven by Bryan, crashed into the water tender of a switch eni gins backing down the track at the Vlckers avenue rrosnlng In Durhum. A traveling man who passed the scene of the aci-ldi-nt before hn bodies hud been removed v.tis In Lington Friday sTternoim end . 1 that the sight so tinnn-i .-! Mm tb.it he 'had Jc.n unti,;. 1., l(1 B. y 1 wnrW inrin i . ,? , v