Monday, J uly 2, 1923- brains energy AND UN, im SELFISHNESS ABIDE. ■ '!'!•' I'plift. Wi* 1 " '-to * hat had bccn ac ~ B*# H carß hy the I parities I h <^ r hcard »' ffinn .- f ~rational progress ■ a \- \ 1 dwred to get some **achieve ■*»/’/, m- earned. .when mt ; r co mpnrcd what I saw Bp*w. I hiUlt of Stanly with Os alerted educational Bl'2W wco:,rt!l - Tcn years W 0 county was lung ways m ( ]% a nhl- fiHl dl ihrrc no ,o>>g ' MP°:\ {hc possibility of ft com- «>•«' d ; # i ' reut cla * s ' B • ’ an official’ of. the ■fSarional Department re .t • *tli*it' seem-' to he less W jLotiomillv in Cabarrus than the state.” What B?Staniv. In* was asked. “On ami her aclneve- BTare little short of marvelous/* Bf„ a first-hand knowledge of B\/ ; n the two counties. I" was BJ m l that thi> departmental rep- Bltn-,. kept a close tab on edu- B in the state. W?r . w ith the irood folks about rk* I found that the livest BJJjwitli these awakened people K*matter of rural education. It l developed that credit for this BSinon wa- assigned to the wisdom Esdivitv of the■ enmity education- Btod and its executive officer. character of the public schools Etkf*r success. niway> reflect the of the county hoard. If Ejb progress being had. the board Jeomposed of competent and pa- Lie men: if the cause is lagging. ■La sure indication that those in tre are either incompetent or sel- Coriioth. No cause can rise high- K jiaQ its 50nr.ee. unless a great Kiier is exerted from without: ■ When I stopped and took in the jjMtion where a splendid brick tool building, with auditorium, desks, complete school eqnip- BOt m evidence, a great piano, had i«n provided for the children of a Tj«t territory formerly composing six districts, ami truck- to take care ts. the-children, I wondered if it fouiii not he possible to persuade the Cabarrus couniy Board. Messrs Odd 1 . McAllisier and Smith, and lien executive clerk. Prof. Robert son, to make an official visit to Stan irifld learn the rudiments and the primary facts that govern the great educational campaign that is sow going oii in the state to tlie j pride awl iov of all progressive peo ple? ' 1 Geographically these modern school htuidmg- serve different sections of tie county. We present pictorial reterences to only live of them; there re three others complete and three otiie:.- are in the making. Last year Board purchased 8 pianos for ties; modern buildings. Why should child not he in hearing dis !wc of music as well as su tovfii ■jid—who decreed that a town child oc'ened more privileges than a wain- child ! same board purchased 1050 cuairs for the modern school ■fcorimns. Has not a country S*;eman as much right to Re com while he sits witnessing the ious school entertainments as is b.u gentleman. The clay that **" OUe made the other.' the year this same pro *■‘‘ C board purchased 1,500 pat s,' le ' k ' ; " r their rural schools. >k (lt ,l! “ I 'ca>c»n win a to\*n child J ° Ul ' 'tou a comfortable seat, to.iutry cousin be compelled * las1 ° out 011 a slab bench or an IVkard home-made desk * I,Lr ‘ : -' the year this very same 8 A e * body county board has p ■' f Use alHw @1 AQUADALE PUBLIC SCHOOL A qM;i!(i . P .''* 'hiding serves h a . ' lx districts. This vs i’ttpil, ar * n Scll ° ol rooms, and , l - ar ran^ Wn . ' Uttl 1, - v tw ° trucks • ie h v>„ n t Ult K so modern and " ttractive **» ‘-'icatioiial tause in A increased the number of school trucks to 18. Is there any reason why a little country child should toddle through mud and slush to school, and the town child carried to sehool in street cars; automobiles or on paved greets a-foot ? One is no beter than the other. Tliat our school officials in Cabarrus may know what a school truck looks like, we have secured a cut of one that car ries little Stanly county children to school in the morning and in the late afternoon carries them back to their homes. What would our people think had come over our school of ficials if they happened to awake and consolidate six districts into one, providing a modem building with splendid equipment and unbobbed teachers to conduct a modern school in the county, and use a truck oi trucks to ebnvey the far-off pupils. Answering our own question, they would at first be jarred and finally conclude that the school officials of the county show some signs of life and a disposition to function com petently and efficiently. The school board of Stanly'county is sure of the wisdom of its course— with them it js no longer a problem or an experiment/ They are rcjoice ing ill their achievements, and al ready the fruits of their courageOqs and progressive legislation is bearing groat fruit. Just this week, Prof.,Reap was re elected. having declined a $4,000 po sition elsewhere* He preferred to remain to personally see the am bitious programme he and his board had mapped out brought to a suc cessful issue. It is a glorious tiling to have a real man, a competent man, in charge of a cause where helpless children con fidingly depend on the leadership of others. Their lives and their future are largely in their hands, and to withhold them from the best of op portunities is no less than a cirme— that's the most decent name you can give the act. Oh. for more Reaps and County Boards like Stanly county enjoys. In this issue we carry pictures of five of t,h£ eight complete, modern school houses, serving consolidated districts in Stanly. At present there are eleven projects of consolidation of districts being worked out, and be fore a great while they will become a reality. These buildings,, are a proper recognition of the rights of the rural people, they speak a lan guage of consideration, of justice, of interest, of. service to fellow man, who must depend upon devoted leaders charged with a sacred duty. They are monuments to the wisdom, devotion and energy of Prof. Reap, who works in season and out of sea son. Sueh a man is a credit to a county, and no wonder Stanly coun ty is proud of him; and just the other day they re-elected him, not that he “ stands high among educa tors in the state, knows the county and the people” but because he re cognized his responsibilities, knew his duties and went about them like a man full of good, rich blood and determination, All this has been accomplished in four years —what was done in Stan ly, could have been done in Cabar rus if the Executive officer “had made up his mind” and had energy and capacity enough to tackle a man's job. But his administration seems to have pleased the board of education and, it follows, that this sorry and sleepy administration of the educational affairs of Cabarrus county lies at the door of the board of education as much as with Prof. Judge Buxton Robertson, who “stands high among the educators of the state and knows'the county and people. ” ; any town or village, such as Mt. Pleasant in this county. But a barrier, | who has taken an oath to promote | education in the county and to give : each child the of adequate educational facilities and to en ; courage education in general, decrees | otherwise. * Yet thi* handsome school building stands as a beacon light out among the hills of rural Stanly j and the people are proud of jt, and love the kind of government that ®ade it possible. The enrollment last session was 1 " 'j . •""H •. " • I * c » : -r I :*v-*Y’ I '*:/. P'-,' '** Mist 2 113 *9 snim .■ |j IS H W a IQBmIHB«?»B’??B ; ,>*9 3illiiwßifTiWi iißßu >,& ififl U; w mllLam Syilr agl > . v ENDY PUBLIC SCHOOL. ’’VT"' .>f. y y ' . ■ rj,-,- ■- .. j : *'■ '/ - *. . V ■ , / '■ : 1 f ! ' y ■ ' * lß'Jkaß v l® 4 This is a brick building, contain-. 1 ing eight school rooms. It serves the’ school purposes of a territory former-s ly divided into six districts. The; trucks are operated for the con venience and eomfort-of the pupils.! The enrollment last session was 307, oi whom 42 were in the high school. The course covers nine (9) grades. The building is supplied with all conveniences, has a piano and a mus ic instructor is employed. This effort on the part of the board of education (Stanly, of course) to bring school advantages and opportunities under a favorable environment is loudly praised by the fathers and mothelrs of the consolidated district. .There has grown out of this progress a bet ter community spirit and a greater delight in dwelling in the rural sec tion. arrangement or injuring the archi tect ual effect. The enrollment last session was 304, ot“ whom 30 were high school pupils.. The course cowers nine grades. This building like all of the modern rural school buildings erect ed by this progressive and patriotic school board is supplied with a piano and maintains an instructor in mus ie. in the High School department* The course covers ten grades. The creation of a fine school interest was observable throughout the entire consolidated district. The pupils caught the spirit of progress and the mor ale of the entire school was pleasing. -This building is on the Concord-Albemarle highway, eight miles from Mt. Pleasant. The school owns a piano, and a teacher of vocal and instrumental music is a part of the splendid faculty of this modern school undertaking. )LIC SCHOOL. to towns —deserting the farms for the excitement and the glitter of towns —ceases to have an influence. It is brutal to withhold from the rural children f the convenience and the opportunity that they know- exist in the towns where patriotic and unselfish men direet the educational cause. of school officials that do not make an hon est effort to meet this crying demand from the rural sections is unfit to occupy positions of honor and trust such as the sacreduess and importance of the work involved —there should be a way,,' if they lack suf ficient pride and self-respect to vacate, to remove them from places where they are committing a sin against the rising generation. Naroloon’s Lucky Day. Napoleon regarded tlie second of the month ns his huky day. He wns made consul on Auftttot 2, was downed : December 3, won the battle ig Auster- Rti, 2 and mfffned the arc-h --dU chugs of Austria April 2. that the building rs supplied with a piano and there is instruction in music. No wonder the people are happy in their rural environment, when they seo that the authorities of government ' are willing to hand out a square deal to them. ALL SORTS OF THINGS. l < (By JOHN R. ELKINS). If iu my writing I sometimes descend from the sublime to the ridiculous, please -change it to a few drops of Irish blood that that course in my veins.' I am not ir “nungwump” either in religion |or politics, nor in the social realm, aa [for that matter, just “plain as an old shoe.” but sometimes, somehow in some way I get in a terrible mixup, and I can hardly discover in which direction the compass is pointing. In this instance, while visiting in my home town, I find myself in about the condition the fellow was who is described in the following story: A bully came up to a group of men. aiid with an air of bravado remarked : “I can whip any man iu the county.” Si-■ lence reigned supreme. .He then remark ed : “I can whip any man in town.” Still* there were no tokens, so until a threat of man" in this group.” This was too defiance he shouted: ”1 can whip any much for the group, one threat too often. At this juncture a solar plexus blow from one of landed on his an atomy and for an instant his corporal ; majesty toppled .across the border line. ‘Arising, he said: “Gentlemen. I just took in too much territory.” See the applica tion? In attempting to write of .things old and new, visible and invisible, inlportr ant and otherwise, I find that the-city has expanded to such an extent and events of interest have multiplied so rap idly that like the bully. I realize that I have taken in too much territory. And iu mjj meditations. I am brought to thiuk of John Howard Payne stranded on a foreign shore, lovelorn, penniless and homeless, but made himself immortal ov en* ight by the comjiositioxi and song of these words: “Home. Sweet Home.” This song, these words cannot die. and will never die as long as human souls are in existence. It has reverberated around the world again and again, and as long as the English tongue is spoken it will thrill with joy and send a linjp of glory among the sons and daughters of men. “He it ever so bvyUbleV there is- ilo place like Inane.'' . “ , > - Sww! OM Relic*. Keepsakes are ofteu very interesting; they bind the past with the present. A piece of furniture, an old garment, a poeketknife, a thimble or some such thing, that father. ■ mother or grand-par ents once used becomes a veritable treas ure after these dear ones have'gone West, and we would not willingly part with them at any price, not because of their intrinsic value, but because they are gentle reminders of our departed loved ones. Recently my Texas brother, Wil liam, and myself, by special invitation, were visiting at the home of our friend, Mr. Ed. Correll and family, on South Union street. I am glad to know that t'ripud Ed has had success in life, has a comfortable, well-arranged home and a happy family Among other things he showed us was the fife his father used to ‘play long “befo’ de wah.” It was a treat for me to see and put my hands on this old piece of musical ebony that thrilled me so. more than sixty years ago, when Noah Correll manipulated it. I have always fiad music in my soul, but in applying this instrument to my mouth 1 did not have wind enough in 'my sails to make a blacksmith's skew —it wouldn't go otf worth a cent. No one could blow it like Noah Correll. He carried it all through the war between, the States, and it will remain as an heirloffi in the family for all time. The Old Halter’s Shop. • While I am dwelling on old relics' I will again refer to* the old hatter s shop as the present generation of youngsters don't know that at one time men’s hats, fur and wool, were manufactured in Concord. This enterprise was carried on by Albert Arey in a shop iu rear of his store on Corbin street. It was dur ing slave time and the hatter was Alfred, a slave, the property of Mr. Arey. Often have I watched him preparing the ma terial for tiie hats. He used a bow simi ilar to the bows aud arrows of the boys, though much longer, aud with this, much after the style of a banjo picker, lie would pick the wool or fur to pieces, thus removing the krfots and making it uni form iu texture. Then he would place the materials in a boiling caldron aud when sufficiently cooked or made pliable, lie would form it around a hat block and place in the sun and air to dry. These hats were heavy, too heavy for comfort, bar they found a ready sale. After a long wear they would occasionally “go to seed," but wear out, never, no never. But. friends, in writing this series of articles which have appeared in The Tribune from time to time, .1 have dwelt r too much iu the past, and if I- continue in t his fashion I know where the la ml ing will bo. _ Again, in ransacking the com munity for old items of special interest I have about reached the condition that the Judiciary of North Carolina was in .during Reconstruction Bays. Old events [of special interest are about exhausted. with the broad mantle of charity I cover the past, live in the present, and ‘peer into the dim. distant future, aud no prophet or philosopher can tell What the future ages hold in their embrace. When a boy 1 learned this piece of doggerel which ever aud auou confronts me: "When I was young and pretty, The girls they loved me so. But since 1 am old and ugly. They call me old Rosiu-de-C >, ’ The first two lines t'ckle me. but how caiT I prove I was ever pretty i The witnesses are about all dead, or gone to •‘parts unknown.' The last two lines almost piake the cold chills creep over me as l can't Hope to be anyone's darl ing But why grow old and go around with a chip on your shoulder for some -one to knock off? We get out of life pretty much what we put into it.. Vse the magician's wand, be lively, cheerful, helpful, thankful. All cannot accumu late. but a fellow having the blessed sun shine to bush in, pure air to breathe, good water to drink, a good roof over him. pleatv of friends, three square meals a day, fair physical health aud a clean conscience. ought to be as happy as a blue bird iu the month of May, when the roses bloom. Mj*s Elizabeth Lorraine Wooster, former state superintendent of public in struction. and the first - woman to be elected to a State office in Kansas, is being urged by her friends and support ers to become a Candidate for the gov ernorship. An imposing soldiers’ laonumebt re cently unveiled in Winnipeg was model led by a woman, Mrs* Hilliard Taylor. PAGE FIVE S HEM WELL IN STRIPES, TREATED AS OTHERS •Given Same Treatment, No Better, No Worses as Other Convicts on Davidson Chaingang. The Lexington Dispatch in its last is sue carries the following: “Baxter ShemWhll, who was arrested in Salisbury Sunday afternoon, brought to Lexington and placed in the county jail, want to work on the county roads Monday afternoon to begin a sentence of thirty months given him by Judge J. Bis Ray for an assault with deadly weapon on Wade H. Phillips and J. C. Bower on January 10, 1021. “Mr. Shemwell was carried to the road camp which was on Monday at work iu Reedy Creek township, but today to Sil ver Hill and upper Eininous, where they will be engaged in road construction for (.several months. * Foreman Fred Everhart is in charge of this camp. It as learned here that Mr. Shennvell was dressed in convict garb after his arrival at the camp, and was placed at work with the other con victs. It was stated that the same treatment accorded to all prisoners would be given him—uo better and lip worse —apd that no special privilege would be granted. Jain. He is 65 years of : age. but according to the report of the county health physician who examined him Sunday afternoon, is in splendid physical condition.” FAMILY COW DEVELOPS CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA Uneasy Feeling Among Neighbors in Buford Township That Other Bovine* May Be Affected. - J Monroe. June 29. —Two whole fami lies in Buford fpwnship" are faking the Pasteur treatment again* hydrophobia since a milk , co\v j • from which the families were drinking has developed hydrophobia and had to be killed. The cow belonged to Rev. K. W. Hogan, who together with his wife and six children are victims of the unfortunate eircum stances. The family of Vance Plyter was supplied from the same cow and their lives are also endangered, s A few days ago the cow’s head was seat to Raleigh and a genuine case of rabies whs reported front* the examiua tiou. Tliere~is also an uneasy feeling among neighbors of Rev. Mr. Hogan because of the fact that four other families kept cows in the same pasure that Rev. Nr. Hogan's cow was iu when the maid dog visited that community. The .oMfer <*ows have been inoculated against the disease and the milk diet. jtaV'been dis continued by the families involved. Giving the. Sheriff 'Bogus Checks For • '*#'■*•> Taxes. Dunn Dispatch.; Wed call it flirting with the law, this plan of handing the “high sheriff" a bog us check for taxes. Yet it appears that many Harnett county citizens had the nerve"required* to do that very thing. By way of the Harnett Comity learn that Sheriff McArtau has now in his possession bogus checks to the tune of $4.0.00,-given him in payment of State and county taxes. Many of the checks bear the signatures of prominent citi zens, some of whom live in Dunu, ac cording to the story aiqiesnnug iu the News. It appears further that the sheriff lias . set about to tpst out the law ou giving worthless checks in payment of taxes. We thought at the time that the last ‘General Assembly should have passed some law which would decrease this bog us checjc business, and we are of the same opinion still. The result of the f sheriff’s action in this check matter' will be watched with interest. Instability Weeded Out. [Charlotte Observer. Judge George P. Pell, of the State Corporation Commission, indicates in a statement sent out from Raleigh, that the bad timber in the State’s banking system has been about weeded out and |tliat - the days of State bank failures are over. The commission has made a “’survey” of the banks under its juris diction and seems confident of tlig soundness of their condition. This is “assurance that uo unlikely prospects art now doiug a State banking business and the smaller institutions are able to. take care of themselves. The State bank examiners have given the existing bank* r clean bill of health, the assurance to the public. being of the encouraging nature that the banks now doing busi ness are on a bnsjs to invite the con fidence of depositors. It would be judged by the course of events in recent years in this State, that the unsafe institu tiofis have been about self-eliminated. Union Services Will Begin Tomorrow \ -- Evening. \ Union services will be held in several of the uptown churches during the month of July. The first one will be held Sunday evening, July Ist, in Central Methodist Church, and the preacher will be Dr. G. A. Martin, of the First Bap tist Church. Next Hiluday the service will be held in the First - Presbyterian Church, ajid R> v. YV. A. Jenkins, of Central Methodist Church, will be tk>* .preacher. Other services will be an nounced later. These services are opeu to all of the churches who care to par ticipate. They are not confined to any particular denominations as stated re cently by some one. It is hoped that all of tiie uptown churches will tgke 1 part in them. On account of the trouble aud expense of getting the lawn ready at the Y. M. C. A. the services this •year will be held in the different churches at the regular hour of worship. W. A. JENKINS. A Strange Spider. Albemarle News-Herald. Mr. Adanx Burris, who lives a short distance \Vest of Albemarle brought a strange and dangerous looking qpider to Albemarle Last Saturday. It was one of the largest ever this county, aud it seems t be of a species never be fore seen in this section. Mr. Burris says there are many of them, on his place aud that they build their nests with a kiud of trap door which closets behind them when they go in, making it difficult to destroy tliem, even u »rn oij or hot water. Venus, if you can beat this, trot out your spider. - -i f » Salisbury \outh qn Long Auto Trip. Salisbury. N.'C, June 80.—Cicero E.- McAlister, Salisbury joutli, who left this city last Wednesday in an automobile made by himself, has arrived in Saranac Lake. X. Y-. according to information received bj his friends here. - ... ✓ It’s easier to do'a thing right then to explain why you did it wrung.