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iPEBRL'AtO . 1?H RURAL COMMUNITY HELP TO Kl New Centres Offer Ever 3 Billiards, wth a Bit of f Movement Extending t Over the Country. A new factor is being utilized in rural districts to create* and foster the community spirit. It is the community house, a magnet which draws the people of sparsely settled localities to meet frequently for their welfare both as individuals and as a group. It. offsets to a degree the lure of the cities and makes for contentment. It provides much that the small city might offer in the way | of social diversion with none of its drawbacks. It is only within a comparatively short period that the community hnnso ar>nparoH Prior to 1.900. there was no established place where dwellers living far apart in agricultural districts could meet, unless it was in the schoolhouse or church. A dance in the barn and the interchange of gossip furnished the usual forms of group social diversion. j This was equally true of New England, the middle west, the south and southwest and the farwest. True New England had its clambakes and camp meetings and county fairs, the middle west bad barn raisings and corn roasts and fails; the south barbecue-. and revival meetings, and the west its rodeos, when widely scattered neighbors saw one another perhaps once a year. The county seats and village settlements of, course, had a community life but these activities did not embrace the casual visitor, man or woman, who came to town on market day, or when it was necessary to replenish household or farm supplies, nor did they "reach out into the daily lives of those who dwelt many miles away from the main street. There was no real communis life outside the villages. Then the. growth of cities and the extension n\ -orlace car lines brought rural r dents nearer to the cities and in- -ased their opportunities f. or diversion. The autt?nioo:k made vids to neighbors and cities mon feasible. But this did not mean nor did it arouse the community spirit. The community was still a number of seperate units. Amusement was the chief aim and each individual sought it in his own way. The Grange sprang into being and made rapid strides in membership and influence, but it was organised for the benefit of one class in the community jmuvi inttii KM i.iv V.UIU;IUII.HV aa a whole. But ali these improvements over the old conditions tended to cause a demand for an organization or symbol around which would center a community movement The community house became this symbol. Two hundred and forty-eight community houses have been built since 1,900; 202 since 1912, and 90 since 1915. There are more than 500 of them. A census taken by the department of agriculture shows that 201 are situated in place of 2,500 inhabitants or fewer 82 being in open country and 55 in towns or amuH cities having a population of more than 2.500, 9 are farmers' fraternal society buildings, 29 church community buildings, L'O of these being seperate from the church, 9 are farmers* frati rnal soi iety buildings, and 8 are combined library and community buildings. The S2 buildings in the country iuc controlled or doimnat. d by the people of farming c ommuiuT ? and t _ membership usually include eve r. lair.u \ resident in the neighborhood. They are. the homes of ta' u.x rs'^Biuir- of varous kinds, educatio .d. purely social, economic, /raternai : .! general. There are three types of ?* .amun lty nouses wmcn may oe ae?crine?i as mini mil m, medium and maximum. The minimum typ. J:a.auditorium with a stage drc- ing rooms, dining room, ki;e>cn and a playground Its activities 0:1 the economic side include agricultural S. society meetings, farm demonstrations, cooperative purchasing and marketing, fairs, canning and cooking demonstrations, and boys* and girls club work. The educational and recreational features embrace lectures, entertainments, masicalos. community sings, local plays, table games, debate and spelling bees. Pure'y social diversions take in club meetings, socials, dancing and sup?er parties and luncheons and teas, oiitic^l rallies, caucuses and elections are held there. A visit nurse gives instructions in hygiene and in some there is a union church and Sunday School and a church auxiliary . The medium type has. in addition to the features possessed by the minimum, a library, woman'.-, re&lrocm and committe-room and on its recreation side, adds basketball, volley ball, gymnasium games and tennis and baseball. The maximum type, in which the community house both structurally and in its appointments and the scope of its activities reaches far beyond the conceptions of t.hp Arii/inatnrc tKu # has a gymr.asilnn, a room for games, special rooms for various committees, municipal offices, a health room, bowling, club rooms, swimming pool and showers, ware veterans' room, farm bureau room, amber of commerce room, red Cross or charities room, museum, stock sale pavillion, art room music room, and MEN W Men Wanted by E,le< Shulls Mills, I WAGE $2.0 "'t Find Manager at Rob HOUSES SEP BOYS ON FARM fthing From Movies to Education Thrown in? o Outlying Sections All lodge room, in addition to the faculties included in others. The community houses have been constructed or acquired under a variety ol" conditions and serve different types of communities. For example, ihere is the building at Valrico. Fla. Many of the residents had left the north and west to go to that sparsely settled region and take up fruit farming. Church, school and fraternal ties of long standing had been severed. The newcomers were strangers to one another. But in 1015 they formed a community improvement association, and by the sale of stock with dues, and the proceeds of ba7aars erected a community houses of two stories 50 x 80 feet, containing a lobby, an auditoriura, kitchen, assembly hull .stage dressing room, two community rooms and a motion picture booth. Much of the labor was done by volunteer members of the associatio . Maintenance expenses of $220 a year are met by dues and receipts from entertainments. The Dixon township building at Argonia, Kansas, represents in t! form of a community house, a?: at tempt to unite the interest and aspirations of ibc farming community with those of thetraining te.i ter. the township serving as tht unit. The state legislature permitt the township to vote bonds t.' th-. amount of $b,000 for the erection i the buildings. It contains rooms f<> township officials, a 1-brary of ffih volumes, ah auditorium with 60( opera chairs, and a balcony seating 17C?: a largo stage with five droj curtain.-, one moving picture curtail and six wing curtains and dessini rooms. Between the stage and tl;< : ts, n- a concrete floor la feet \vid? running across the building, witl large (ioublc door- at each end. Dur in?r fairs and stock shows the ani mala are brought into the buihiint through these doors, there to be t . amined and judged before the pub lie. About eight years ago a boy wen ; to the secretary of the Matinecncl neighborhood Association of Locus valley New York and asked hint t? start a boys club, saying there wa: j no place for boys to go for a goo< i time except to the saloujis of neigh boring towns. The secretary fount that there was in the village a voum man's athletic club which met in ! blacksmiths shop. He persuadei : this club to join the Neighborhood : association as a recreation depart | raent to provide recreation for th< I whole community. An executive committe was appointed, consisting of atimber dealer, a barber, thre carpenters and a clergyman. Tem porary quarters were found in ai old barn, which was titted u through a general contribution, th equipment including a phonograph a piano, a pool table, a stove> dishc: an indoor baseball outfit and maga zines. Soon 148 young men wer governing themselves .financing thei enterprise and furnishing mippen dances, euchres and athletic enter tainments for the community. The barn soon became too smal for them and as the Neighborhood association aiso was in need of home an effort was made to get vol unitary contributions for a buildin which would house both. The wor h;a! aroused the community spir: and : U pt r cent of the families i the village contributed. With vol uiiim \ i<i-iur nuilll piU3 cn fund raised, a community hous costing $32,000 was erected. A lie work was done by residents o he community, every piece of tiir .and iron used in constructio vva, fabricated in th< village. Ther was provided an auditorium seatin HO) persons, a stage, a social roors a motion picture booth, a room fc ; the village lire department, tiv | baths, four bowling alleys, pool t? : hies, a player piano and kitchs j china and cooking: utensii >. Th ; building is in constant use, the ai ; tendance being an average of SO j persons a week. The annual but I get of $4,000 is met from receipt and dues. Motion pictures are give twice a week. And so many other communit houses all over the iand are hclj ing to make the country less ionel and to spread the mutually helpfi spirit, in the country . ^ ^ \JUUU CIGARETTES ioc ^ GENUINE Bull" DURHAM ANTED :tric Construction Co. ^crth Carolina 0 PER DAY bins Hotel. THE WATAUGA C LEAVE THEIR ANCIENT HOMES | Ancestral Mansions of France Ara j Passing Out of the Possession of Proud Families. The old families of France are feeling the pinch of adversity and. as w In London. Devonshire house and ^ other ancestral homes are being ^ turned to baser uses. s?? in Paris the (i famous mansions of t!.e c"untry'$ v great families are finding new own- j ers. Tlie resident' of the princess p of Wagram Is now the Spanish embassy, the wonderful hotel In which ^ Princess .Inclines de Broglie once gave ( her "hall of precious stones*" Is now the United States embassy; the new Czechoslovak lan representative lives In the mansion of the ancient le Llgne family, while the residence of the late due de Pomar. which was inspired by Mary Stuart's Edinburgh home. Ilolyrood manor, now shelters the Bulgarian ambassador. The Halliard mansion. Place Malesherbes, a copy of one of the wings of the casfte of Hlols. Is to become a branch office of the Bank of France, while the ancestral home of the Rourg de Boras, In the Rue Pierre ler de Serble. Is now to he hired for dances or entertainments. Other ancestral homes, a Figaro writer points out. have been taken h.v antiquaries, notably the Sagnn mansion and the Moray mnnalon? And the list could be continued.?From the Continental Edition of the London Mall. NOVELTY WOULD WEAR OFF i Boss Had Right Idea as to Hew to Do Away With Excitement In Otfice. He had boon totting to work lute t with such regularity that the boss' ire was nryitsed nt><l <?? lie resolved to ) begin arriving at the more puno 1 tually. Anyhow, all the standard all' bis, such as the alarm clock failing to ring. the crowded s'rrci ears passing him up at his corner. were* about worn out In his case. And so cue morning al) week he drifted with attempted nonchalance into iho ofllee anions the early arrivals. The others of the office staff at once set up a clamor. ? "What's the matter, couldn't yon t sleep last night?" some asked. > "He probably was out all night and > hasn't gone home yet," others re1 marked* ^ "The clock at his house must have , been an hour fast this uiortilng." sa'.d a another of the gang il Then tlie target of all these re1 marks became Indignant. Going to the boss* desk, he made hla complaint. "If it is going to cause' so iaru much L ' excitement for me to pet down on n time, I guess I had better be late every day," he said, n j "Nope." said the boss, without lookP tng up from his work. "Get down on e time every morning and you won't '* i cause any excitement." | ;:i e ; Far. Save* Coal* r; Long Island commuters, who ara * among those hardest hit by the cirnl shortage, have adopted many expedij ents to eke out their supplies and lo make the utmost of what fuel they a have. I- . line of them tested an Idea with so g much success tliut many other users k of hot-air furnaces are following his lt example, lie dosed the damper of his 11 .take pipe, shutting off all air froiu _ the eutsl'le. !>nd t?t5,?-p?l small elce> v trie fan "in the cold-air duct between H the outer wall of the cellar and the f furnace. i- The fan drives the hot air Into ti'3 n room heated to a much higher tea* c pernture than it formerly was when j drawn from outdoors. ? lie snvs fhe*cost of mnninir the f?ti e la of no account compare*? with i- Improvement in the heating of tLa n house.?New York Sun. o i - q Facing the Fact. i.l My employer, who most strenuously' v objects to smoking, comes to the ?tttea n every morning and invariably leaves at noon for the balance of the day. y Immediately upon his departure I ' draw my pipe from my pocket and * en.1 ?y It to the fullest extent. tine afternoon he gave us a sur: prise by walking in. 1 hastily pat my pipe In my pocket, not knowing what el^e to da with it. While bending over my books he kept remark) lug about smelling something burning, i Finally the stenographer proceed ! a glass of water, and as she dashc !t I on my burning coat I will confe- it was the most emhnrrusslng moment of my life.?Exchange. . Owoed Rouses; Lived in Cowshed. An almost unbelievable ease of a YYlWJI.tll ?1U1 MIX I1IIM1I t_ II UMIIK > ? cowshed has come to light !n Leicesler* | shire, Eng.. when the husband, "ha has been nine weeks in a sanatorium,! and is shortly returning to the shed, appealed to the council to ^et them rooms in the workhouse. They have lived In the cowshed for 19 months. "It snowed on us as we lay In bed last winter/* the man said. "Wf cannot stand another winter there.* I One girl of seven had died from thfi cold. The curious part of the matteti Is that the man owned four bonse^ j but could not get possession of tl cm, owning to governmental leasing regul* tions. Noiseless Riveters. Noiseless riveters operating on * j rotary vibratory system are now offered, of bench or pedestal type, which it Is clain?ed will rivet the most intricate Job Id silence, at a speed limited only by the operator's ability to feed, j the work.?Scientific American. i ' DEMOCRAT AAKIN-j STUDY OF CHIMNEYS ohns Hopkins University Professor Has Planned Careful Experiments Concerning Their Behavior. Why are factory chimneys buiit the .ay they are? The answer to this uestlon, according to Prof. A. O. "bristle, of the department of inechaniiil engineering at Johns Hopk'os uulorsity. Is that the first smoke-stacka iap|?etied to be built 'That way." and 'Verybody else has followed tlie example Little Ls really known, says Pro essor Christie, of the interoal actloc ?f the guses !n a chimney, and he It iccordingly undertaking some Invest! ;a;ions into the matter. He has constructed on the grounds of the unlver ilty a chimney with two platforms >ne "Jo feet from the ground and th? >thor 25 feet higher, both of their vc.ched by an Iron ladder. At eaci irfutform the masons have left open Jigs, which will ordinarily be plugget up. but will be cleared whenever th< >bservers are at work. Through eacl Iperttire !t will be possibe for the ex liertmenter to project Instruments fo the study of the gas flow. Careful rec ords will be kept as material for ; more precise knowledge of the factor mi which an effective draught dr pen ds. Aj* explanation will thus he founc It Is hni>ed. of the difference In til behavior of chimneys?why. that Is t say. one smoke-stack will draw Ilk a vacuum cleaner, while another wi choKe like a "flivver" which has lOi a cylinder or two. WILTED BEFORE THE THREA S'udent Saw Awful Possibility In Tw Words Addressed to Him by Prefect of Study. Fifty-fly? years ago a certain Indtni a polls man was a student or, as I always insists, a pupil, at Notre Dair university. At that time he was on a ynitngster and, he admits, "cut up Hi tie." ' ?"e fatal day, he took with hi Co the study hall a copy of "Hilly Bo\ legs," which be hid in his geograpl and began to read avidly. In fact, 1 h?<ifme so interested that he failed hear the prefect of study when '.he lu lor called on him for a recltatlo Finally the prefect called him to il desk in the front of the room. The was no opportunity to get rid of t! book, so up to the desk he walke I"?ok In hand The prefect unostentatiously to< "Hilly lWttitgSj" banded our hero h geography a tad told him to return Ma seat. Several days later, when the India polls man of today began to whlsp and to grow fractious, the prefect sa to him Just two words. "Now. Billy.* Instantly, the pupil became ve quiet and always In the future was V, i n. lul cinHai? n-kll.. In ik..i ?1.. >.<vu< ?>uuctll, nuur 1U Iliac I IU33. For he feared the prefect would (1 close the dreadful truth and he won go through school, branded with ti mime, "Billy Bowlegs."?Indiunapo News. Captain Also Had Grievance. One of the petty grievances of p vote soldiers and iion-connaUslom officers at Camp Taylor during tJ late war was the ban on rolled le gings. But they were frequent smuggled in and worn on trips lion i ?n such an occasion a private frc Camp Taylor had reached Vincent* rut!., in the full glory of borrowed ai illegltiniate loggings. Howc\or. I pride or possession was si?>rt-|iv? for he soon saw a captain whom had known slightly in civilian lil The captain, after looking al him ! tently for a while, strode up to h and our private bad uncomfortable v ions of a panorama from the guai house to the firing squad. "Do th allow you to wear rolled leggings Camp Taylor?" the captain demand with a flashing eye. "No, sir." t private stuttered. "Humph," said t ofllcer indignantly, "they don't at Cai Grant, either, and 1 think It's a go awful shame!" Panel's Interesting History. A gruesome story attaches to Flemish glass panel of the Foi teenth century, which was on exhl! tlon in Tvondon, with other stain glass work centuries old. Gn t panel Is represented the suicide Judas Tscarlot, with vividly cireu stantlal and morbid details. In < books of the period reference Is ma to a glass painter, known as Cbnrl of Ypres, who Is known to have ei cuted a great part of the most i mar'i.able work of the time, havi hanged himself to a tree. This a other evidence makes it probable t)i the panel was the actual work of tl very man. Another panel represer what Is probably the only content] rary portrait on stained glass Richard III. It recently came light after being stored away In Essex mansion for 113 years. Comparatively New Game. The history of the game of rat eta, the world's championship which whs recently disputed in N> York, is a comparatively short 01 for :t only came Into vogue early the Nineteenth century. Dickens fers to it in Ms "Pickwick Papei In connection with Fleet orison, wh< Insolvent debtors enlivened the r notonv of their life by plnvl against a single wall. It was mo3 played at the hack of taverns. The name Is supposed to have b* derived from the Arabic ra'hat, mej | Ing "palm of the I.and," but lives ; the only near survival of that to | of the fame. FARM DRUDGERY LESS { 300,000 Farms Lightening Work by Electrical Means. On Others Women Carry an Average [ of Forty-five Tops of Water Every Year. I 1 a Old fashioned drudgery without any { social compensation is decreasing . t among the farms of America. This r can be positively etated after examin t lng a survey of farms made by elec- i trice i interests. The chief revelation of that survey was that one-tenth of * ell the farms of th* United States are equipped for electrical operation. * It sounds significant to say that 300.000 farms are now "doing it eleo1 trically." But it sounds 5Ten more b significant to state that there are I 1,700.000 other farms where electricity - is unknown. r On these latter the old burdens are 9 borne in the old way. The women feel 3 them probably more than the men. s Any farm woman who has reached s middle life and who has nerer had an electrical appliance in her house ^ knows bow drudgery can kill the spirit Q The Investigation mentioned brought e out certain information. It was found II that 61 per cent of the farm women on unelectriflad farm? carry water from the well every day and average about forty-five tons of water a year. Often _ the women assist 1c the dairy work of ? the farm, and 33 per cent of them wash the uiilk palls, while 65 per cent clean the cream separators li In their daily housework the same ' tort of work that city housewives per form?9i per cent of the women do their own baking and 95 per cent of le tl m do their own sewing, le They cannot fall back upon the conly venient corner bakery or grocery for a u .oaf of bread or a dozen or so of IU ''vwna^nnnmM NOT ri- . ed tie '*ie Aj rai mentr. have 1 i in ^ ^ I '? a each and ever', o, | be in- Lj \V7 i i,o> 3 \V atauga ' 1 ut I WI ZI FIRESTONE ea *5 m- y ?M 0 * 1 68 pe 3 K ce- 9 re- w n? I of all the ne wears n.i iat llB ? FIRF.STC of to This statement shoul< sk-j of is the best tire to be ew ne. In re rs" ?re noW. Ralpl en "s Firestone Dealer rm 1 BBHHHnMl ]HURGH SOCIAL WITH | BIG SURPRISE FOR Ml Electric Lights Brought About a; Regular Transformation. The most memorable church supper tnd social that has occurred In year* : n a certain town in the middle west ook place last winter. The town 1* a ! ural community in the center of a t arming territory of considerable ex- f ent. Because of the scattered population i he church supper is one of the annual' >ccasions when everybody meets ev-1 ryboc! v else and a whole year's sup-1 ply of gossip is exchanged In tha otirse of a single evening. Mora than hat, however, the supper enjoys a oig reputation. And whan the last ona was announced the whole countryalda planned to be on hand. When the farmers began driving in. shortly after dark, they were amated upon coming in sight of the church to perceive blaze of light pouring out of every window. Out in one corner of the churchyard a little gasoline engine was chugging away, and inside, suspended from various points about thn building, were a number of gleaming electric lights, replacing the battery of kerosene lamps with which the church had previously been lighted The curious farm folk soon di3COT ered the "system' a self-contained farm electric light and power plant, consisting of the gasoline engine, an electric generator, the necessary wiring and the Mazda lamps It was a contribution to the success of the so rial by the town's electrical supply agent, end It certainly made a lilt The whole church was filled with the rolls Neither can they readily call it* a dressmaker when they want to hare new clothes. And or. most tonus ths noonday meal is the big meal of the d?yp representing an appalling amount* of labor Then, if ever, they need a power aside from their own hands If black drudgery is to be overcome, y~ On form* where electric power has beeh put to work the story is not what It usAp to be And the spread of the . electrical id^a among farmers la f brightening the future for young f3rn? wives just "setting up" with their husbands. so that these young women i may amid the bowed harks and ua-j timely traces of advanrim H*e which their n-.others and their frardmothera suffered The new emancipation, most observers will say. In koIuk to couie anions those *.700.000 farms where electricity has not yet taken up Its abode. Tfuit's PiiibT ^ Unar^aled as an +r IAMTI-6U.I0US KEDKME J stimulate torpid liver, strengthen 8 diueitive organs. regulate the I bowels, relieve sick headache. I ICE! r 3een made to supply ^ TH : FABRIC OR TIRES r cent 9 are equipped with )NE TiRES I i prove to you which l Winkler 1 Boone, N. Carolina
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