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BURLINOTON, ALAMANCE COUNTY. NORTH CAKOLINA, TL'ESDAY, JANCARV 12, 1915.
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THE SCHOOL ROOM AND ^ ITS
equipment.
_ school room should be 1-ii'ge
UrilUi* enough to tojitair, a certain numbei'o£
; On the eve of the Republican gath^with sc^ieri't aislepi on'
ering 'in the city of Baleigh, where every , row and without
plans are to be laid for the ne:;6 gi-eat wasted .spacc-. li double desks aro
national and state contest for Fres- ; “ spuee eLic feet wide should be
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f2?t y.'itlo
to contain four rows of desk.s, 18 feet
to'contaiiv three rows of double desks.
Jf sjng-le desks are used, foui- feet
should be provided for each row, in
order to have ample room. On this
the room. 24 feet wide v/ou!d
seat six rows. In seating a given
room with single desks, you cannot
seat nearly as many pupils as seen
by the number of rows of desks.
However, the single desks are prefer-
able for proiicient service, but not
from the standpoint of economy of
space or economy of cost. given
styl« of desk that costs $3 for ii double,
the single costs about 52.40 an.l seats
only half as many- The school room
should be so constructed and,tlie das.ks
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make suitable candidates for some ol
the more important oiRces, of t-our.?e
who the Presidential candidate will bs
is uppeirmost in our minds, still to
those of us who want to see the StaiC;
of North Carolina takfe her place
in the Republican column, the question
of who will be our standard bearer
I is a vital question because a wise se
lection for this position means an
easier victory at the polls. The Be-
publiciin party has many natira sons,
^any one of whom would gracefully
adorn the Governor’s mansion, but to
those of us in this section of the State
there appears the name of a man who
in our opinion would make an ideal
candidate and an ideal Governor. This
man IS William E. White, better known j P-^ed that the light coraei^ from
as the furniture king of the South, j*®® (preferably the left) ir ths
a man who ha.s managed his ownj^®'^^®’'both. Cross lights are injuri-
business and that of his associates! ®«» ^be eye and should not be in
successfully and to their entire satis
faction, not only this, but he has prac
tically built a town, and a progress
ive, wide awake progressive town at
that, and today there is harilly a man,
woman or child in North Carolina that
has not heard of the thriving tomt of
Mebane, N. C., and of the 'White Pn*-
niture Coj, to whopi this town
ROilMilNiA AND ITM STILL HOLD
CENTER OF INIRES^
Both Are Ready U» Flghi ana assismd asa Fsar.cc Sc!i=rs Aefion
Will Not Be Much Longer Delayed—The Battle Liees Dead
locked—Desperate Fighting Near Soiasons—Otticiaa Comntun-
ications Do Not Agree as to Otttcome of Rerent Fighting—But
Little Heard of Turks Since the Rout in Caucasus.
GOVERNMENT WiU AUI JOBLESS MAN.
Sir-
Huse rtaii to Bring Maitlesa Job and Jobless Man Together—
Begin on Big Scale—^Plan Is Along the Line of Sug^cestion
Made in President Wilson’s Indianapolis Speech.
Washington, Jan. 9.—^A National employment bureau reachmg
into every section of the United States will be put in operation
by the Labor Department next week. It will be operated along
the lines of President Wilson’s suggestion in his Indianapolis
speech for a ‘'systematic method of helping the workingmen cf
.^erica.”
Preliminary work for the bureau has been completed, it was
anEOOEced toni^kt by Commissioner Caminetti, of the Immigri:-
tion Bureau, and instructions sent to postmasters and rural mail
«arrieii3 throi^hout the country and to nearly 200,000 field agents
of the agricultural department, who will co-operate with the 1^-
bor Department in bringing the jobless man and the manless job
together. Agents of the Immigration Bureau also will aid in the
huge task, and blanks and reports for their use already have been
printed and will be forwarded without delay.
The generarplan was outlined by Mr. Caminetti as follows:
“Notices will be posted in all posto(5ces announcing that ap
plications for work or workers will be received by the postmaster,
who win be supplied with fc-ms to be filled out and forwarded tf-
the labor Department agent in charge of the zone in which the
offics ia located. 'Ihe distrTrmtirm branch of the Ijnmigration Ser
vice will handle that part of the work and to it also wiB go reports
of the Agricultural Department's agents as to sections where la
borers are needed. Applicants will then be informed of the ’lear-
est point where they can obtain work of the kind they seek.”
Commissioner Cwninetti said the plan had been tried out in n
Ptngl) w:ay and the results had been most satisfactory. After
the fire at Saleiii, Mass., last June, when nearly 4,000 factory op
erative were thirown oirt of iemploynnent, the Labor Department
succeeded in finding work for many of them. •
By a co-incidence, he said, Secretary Wilson of the Department
high toned Christian ^ntlematl, 3
staunch loyal and patriotic Eepubii-
caii, and yst of sviA a compromising
I disposition that he has not mad? him
self objectionable to that element of
the party who saw fit two years ago
to break away from the regular or
ganization and cast their lot with thu
Roosevelt Republican^. Mr, White
believes in harmony within the ranks
and so staunch is he iri this belief
tiiai he could ana v.outJi iiatmun;.,.; -uy
lavtio.'ial uiifcrenees that may stiU
exist. With VI. E. White fo” Gov
ernor and James N. Williamsoki, Jr.,
for Congress it would take something
more substantial than a mere Demo
cratic promise of returning pro.sper-
ity to keep North Carolina and the
fifth district from the Republican col
umn where she rightfully belongs.
Respectfully,
J, ZEB. WALLER.
Burlington, N. C., Jan, 11, 1915.
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SALARY ACT ECONOMICAL.
$li>0,000 Saved to Guilford County in
Eight Years.
Gi^nsboro, Jan. 3.—The Gordon
act, which pi wed Guilford £0u::ty of
ficers on salaries during 1914 saved
to the county $18,186.69, which goes
to the road fund. Until eight yeftri
ago the county ofiicers were on fees,
and the act has saved in the eight
a school room. In no event should the
desks be arranged so that the sUident
looks directly toward a windov/; but
on the other hand the desks should be
arranged so the student's eyes rcii
upon some wall or shaded surfacc.
This leads us to consider the wall.',
of the room and the interior paint-
inj^. The appearance of the inside of
room should claim our
special- attention. How deadening and
dangerous is the dark and dirtj’ schoyl
room. How inspirinc and retining is
the painM, well-kept room, jtcoirat-
ed with suitable pictures. Lei tht
nr.cessary cleanir.g always precede
decoration. Tliere should be in each
iin some prevailing color schcme.
If this is not easily carried out in
full, it should be kept in the .main by
avoiding anything with a color that
on»ir>1y out of harmony. If the
room is properly lightei liiit- Wiisdc
spac^i one-fifth Oi' o!*»j-sixtli
of the floor spacc) a light gray or
light green is one of the best color.s,
A soft white is good v/herc and only
where much light is de.' ired.
Select pictures to suit the graoe and
the kind of work that is done. Se
lect pictures to suit the life cf the
grade or grades of papils, and pic
tures that lead into the life that you
want the students to live. Piitares
teach. A story is told that a mountain
boy went to sea, and very much
against his mother’s will. She la
mented and lamented his going. She
not only regretted Ws' going, but she
was puzzled to know why he wanted
to gS^^he soliloquized: "Why did
myl^^ntaAn boy want to go t-5 sea?"
upon the wall of her
she sorrowed and only to see
a ■ 'W'-f ni c ship with sails set and
U, . . upon a surging sea. The ex-
■ The present tariff la\v, the gift of the Democratic party to the
uati«.n, has nbt. stood the test, and is, not fitted to keep in good
condition the. iiidustfisil interests of the country. This is a fact
that is now adinitted by even Democratic leaders. There can be
no real prosperitj' in the United States unless her Industrie.'}
thrive, and this they cannot do. under the.burden, of a lavv that
does not equalize the advantage of the foreign competitor in the.
\niges which he pays and the'conditions under wliich he r/ianu-
I'actures his product.
This point is now clear. How unfortunate it is that it could
not be seen :n 1912. How-foolish the country was to change its
course at that time. Times were good and mills were bUsy. Th^e
was plenty of work, and good and increasing wages for aU. But
the country listened to the siren song of Democracy which told
how prices would fail under a low duty tariff, and wases still re
main the same, The air was fiUed with bubble promises, pretty
word.s and high-sounding speeches. The voters forgot for the
moment the tariff history of the country, and the r^ults have
ahvays foHo.‘'ed a tariff that does not protwt American indusry.
They permitted the success of the Democratic party and have
regrett^ it ever since.
In 1912 there was on tap a vast amount of Democratic eloquence
in regard to the horrible burden of tariff taxation which the peo
ple of the land were compelled to pay as the result of the tariff law
then in operation. What wa.s that burden? What effect docs a
tariff law have upon each person? There is always a great cry
about tnis burden. Let us see just what it really i?.
Under the preceding tariff law, the receipts .rrom custom duties
v ere something over three hundred millions of dollars a year,
.i-'or the fiscal year that ended in July 1S12, the year (jf the i>03-
idential campaign, the receipts were three hundrert :i-id twclv'e
millions. In round numbers, the popuIat)on of the United States
is one hundred million people. So the share of each person in this
tariff taxation woud be a iittle over three dollars for the year.
The sum of three dollars per year the people of the country could
protect theinselves against the competition of the cheap labor and
surplus manufacturers of Germany and England and France and
Italy and Japan and other industrial nations of the world.
Under absolute free trade, with all duties removed, it would
not be possible for the people to save more than amount each.
Under the hybrid tariff that we now hame, the saving is much
less, than that. The burden .upon each person, even under this
low tiiriff law, is about tv.'o dollars. So for the saving of one
dollar a year each inhabitant of the United States, the whole
business .situation of the country was changed, and men sought
employment insftead of employers seeking for workmen, as waa
the case under the old law.
That tariff burden of three dollars a year per person was in
reality the paying of an annual premium upon an insurance policy
that insured against being out of work. It was the cheapest rat.?
th?.t ^"iy nolicy ever carried, for it was a policy that guaranteed
good wages and gooU dividends alike, and steaay. business aii the
counry over. How many are there in the industrial worid today
who would not eagerly go back to the payment of their share in
the tai-iff taxation of the year, and receive in return the benefits
that a protective tariff always confers upon the United States?
—Phiiadelphia Press.
years something like $90,000 to the'
county. The increase last year overjB* ^
i picture should go up because jt a
the year before was more than |4,00u
j ii. .r i >1..* iK „ 1 picture only. It should have som,’
despite the fact that officers were si- _
lowed increases for clerical hire.
StiU, we, the taxpayers of Alamance
do not know whether the salary sys-
^tr. hss saves or jost them :
Editor.
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MRS WILLIAMSON IMPROVING.
Mrs. Lynn Williamson, of Graham,
who was taken to the Stakes-White-
head sanitorium for a serious opera
tion, is now rapidly improving, her
merit. Its merits should be explained
and known and admired and appre
ciated.
Good taste never overdoes anything.
LToo many pictures can be put into
a room. To> wany pictures can be
put into an art gallery. Certainly
too many can be put into a school
room. Select some, not too msny, ar
range them from the student’s point
«f view, and not the teacher’s,
- Nciihing j« .better foi* school room
walls than -WBll-chosen mottoes and
They impress gr%at truths
many friends of this city will be glad. epigracis.
to know. Mrs. Williaradon is the' upoa the mind of the students that
of Labor, approved only yesterday, the date of the President’s | niece of Mrs. B.C.Gla5a and has spent! are never forgotten. They often be-
Speech, the final report made to him by Mr. Caminetti, anncunc- j many pl^sast weeks here, and has | come principles that reign in the mind
ing completion of the plans. la host of friends^Dorham San. i Cou^tiM on Ciac«4.
Burlington. N. C., Jan. 8. ’15.
Mr. Editor:
Before the iasit election at tha joint
speaking of our county candidates at
Burlinjfton. our Register of Deeds
pledged him.self that after Dec. 1st,
’14, that be would publish a state
ment showing what has Ijcen .sav
ed to the tax payers of Alamance by
the Salary system, and we believed
him and re-elected him. We have
waited long and patiently for this
statement, but no statement have I
seen published. I ask why or if not,
giver these facts.
DEMOCRAT.
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WILLIAMSON MAY BE REPUBLI
CAN’ CANDIDATE.
Raleigh, Jan. 9.—With the approach
of the date for the Republican State
E.’cecutive Committee meeting to bo
held here January 12, there has start
ed around a report that there is .i well j
defined and favorably considered move-
U' l'iin aai?!ss“K. W’iniaiii.'.'iis, of
Burlington, for governor in the next
campaign. He is the national com
mitteeman for this .State of the Pro
gressive party.—Durham Sun.
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CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our good friends
and neighbors for their kindnesses
shown us during the death of our
wife and motlier.
May God bless each and every one.
BUCK WILSON and CHILDREN.
WITH THE LAW-MAKESS.
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Of Course Hiey Were Worrird!
Passing of a bill providing a jus
tice of the peace in Oak Level towr-
shtp, in Nash county, without delay
was urged in the Senate today by
Senator White. 'Hie Senator declar
ed that a justice of the peace there
had marirad a couple after his term
had expired and that both the couple
and the justice were considerably wor
ried.
Would Tax Pistols.
A bill to place a tax equal to the
present poll tax on every pistol with
in the State was introduced in the
House today by Representative Laugh-
inghou«t’. Failure to list weapons
would Hibject the culpable person tn
a p t‘ uf $50.
Ai.iong the new bills was one to
reduce the number of commissioners
in Orange county.
Kiu honored.
Hon. John H. Vernon, reptesenta-
tive from this county, has been high
ly honored by being place upon the
Committee on Corporations. This is
one of the most important committee
assignn^nts. The friends of Mr.
Vernon are hij^lily gratified to see him
so signally honored.
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Teacher—Now, children, name soma
of the lower animals, starting with
Willie Jones.—Boston Transcript.