MOUNT AUT, NOBTH CABOLUfA THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 5th. 1M0. at tha A ■•Hon attack than, la told la m account tasuad to-day by the tank corpa. The object at the expedition, to draw the matiy'i attention from tha Tha St. MiUal «aUent had been r>aamil up and tha first anay waa pre paring to strike the firat blow at tha Maaaa Argonno drive wfen tha tank corpa fMMawter, with Ganaral Per •hlnr1* approval, put into execution a naw device to bawildar tha an amy aa to where tha next blow would fall. TTnder command of Lieutenant Hlg ffine. a platoon of the 344th tank bat telion entrained oa a narrow sauce line paralleling the front to the north west of tha real future battle zone. They were to stop aach night, make a reconnauaance In front of the poai tiona and immediately load up and repeat the operation the following night further down the fine. "On tlia 19th of Septum(!*• tne rive tankii and their crew* were loaded and the expedition started." the statement ■•id. "That evening they stopped in the rear of a little wood, many kilo metre* west of St. Mihiel. About 11 o'clock all waa ready and the minia ture army started forward on its mis sion. Everything went off aa wan scheduled. The tanks rolled through our poeitiona and into no man's land. They were operated back and forth ( for half an hour. After this they were quitely withdrawn, crawled back on their little narrow gauges, and startad merrily on tu*ir wmy. TSiey timed their work perfectly .and as they polled a oat terrific barrage hit the weed ttor had left "The following evening the proce dure was repeated. Again the barrage descended too late to hurt the jaunty band, and again the sound of hunting shells waa greeted with jeers and shouts of derision aa the /tattling, bumping little train carried them to ward the next night's adventure. , "For six successive nights the troupe staged their one night stands, and the reports all along the sector showed that the Hun was up ia tht itr. All day long the sky waa full ot planes searching for tbe army of tanks which the enemy waa sura was concentrating on this front. All suspicious looking places were homhardel with the usual Hun thoroughness and intensity. All night long the darkness was dispelled by hundreds of flares and rockets. "Beat of all, just as the little band was preparing to entrain to get into the big shew in the Arbonne. there came a message from the intelligence section stating 'two German diviaions withdrawn from Argonne front. En training for your sector.' * bt Order To Lhrt With White Wife Lumberton, Jul. 27 —Dr. G. W Locklear, Indian, of Pembroke. Robe eon county. leave the state in order to lire with the white woman whom he married in Atlanta, Ga. Locklear was indicted by Solicitor 8. B. McLean, the indictment being breaght upon the groands that tht laws ef North Caroiwa do not permit the intermarriage of race*. Lockleai pleaded ruilty and prayer for judge ment was continued upon payment of the eoet. Locklear and hie wife to re turn to the state in which they wen The father of Locklear's wife, wbc it is said, is a prominent attorney of Atlanta, at traded the Mai and lent his efforts in the doctor's behalf Locklear married another white wo man la another state several yean ago and was later divorced upon tlx ground of illegal marriage, t* is said TMs is the first caas of it* kind to oesae up in Bobeeon. | Makes $228 Waek New York. Jan. SO.—Peter B. Stef a**, a Proohtgn boot Mack, makei tut a week shining »hese. accordinj to his wtfa, Mrs. Jeeephine Stefano wbe entered suit in the Brooklyn 8a pisan court to-day far a separation Ike charged irwl go to a •ewrte." Pubfca wa ad ea her mart fer f a w MM (kNM to gO l»'« • I will < *1 the hick priee at KlRltlr • great which ha could mU if ha only had. Only I mat m«k ka • atora I of tad in a | city at ghighasaa m dia^lajr ia a N to that can ba I) gill of. Not only have tkaai conditio— af fected the marrkant. and vartMa an. tarprlaaa in thai- way of doing buai naaa but tka saiuo it trna of tka I , paper buainrx*. TW« ia a demand for printing than avar in tka jj H ia being pnntad and eior* ■oncirna an uaing tha eoinma at tha newspapers titan ever before. All this —akea a greater supply at papar nec uary and which ia not bain* pro duced by tha mill* no far. Wharo print pnper formerly could ha boaght for two canta a pound it ia now coating from eight to ten canta. This ad vance ia fearful to tha buainaaa whan you consular that aavaral of our own tate papara uaa more than a car load of paper every week—fifty thouaand pounda or Ave hundred 'iollara worth an incraaae of four hundred par •ent in this one item of expenae. The moat serious problem tha large* Tlcaa are having to face ia the ahort nt;e of printers and machine men. Formerly a .rood printer could ba had for fifteen doliara per weak, but now from forty to aixty doliara can be secured by moat any workman in hit line. We have in mind men wkoae duty it ia to aet the advertiaementa on tha large dailiea who have been making aa much aa four hundred dol iara a month. Of aoaraa thia larffa; * of all claaaee aeem to ba drifting to | the larger canters. A man doaa not stay satiafled long in Mount Airy and so moves down to Winston-Salem. After working there for a while he geta reatleas and decides that that ia too small a place and aa ha goea on to Richmond. He remains there only a short time until the large metropoli tan papers lure him to their shops with fabulous prices. And ao it is next to an impoeaibility for the offices in tha amaller places to secure help. This office haa been trying for sev eral months to employ a good printer. Personal inquiry waa made in two of the larger towns of thia state a few days ago and we ware ratlaflatf fflaf j there ia nothing to do but nuke out with what helpwe already have for the present. Luckily for The News and its patrons that the editor can. by assembling his family together, have 1 quite an array of printing germii, as ! ye editor's family ia a family of i printers. wnjwr uumnff 01 inc nrwsjmprr »iw nation it might not be amiss to men tion something of the effort of some of our citizens to establish a larger and more useful newspaper for thin com munity and county. Rumor has it. j and we have rood reason to belie" > I there is something of the truth ir it. that the politician* ef the count; . "he democratic politicians, want to < vn. control and operate a newspape fo». and solely for. the democrat' - party. It would be their aim, so we have Seen told, to make it a "rerl-h. t" demo cratic sheet. In fact the clitor they would place at the heed rf it must make it eo "red-hot" fr- oppo-ing parties that there would be nothing for them to do hot nme right ovsr into the democratic ranks and cease I being an enemy and bee owe a "pal." ! It must be so "red-hot", we have far ther been told, that no firing perso* could oppose it and withstand the i darting shafts of ridicule and sporting flames of nurua that would flow unceasingly from the pen of Ha fluent editor. And it would be their aim to carry this good work en. not for three 1 months before each campaign, but continuously every week in the year witSout any let up. This at course would tickle the fancy of the demo cratic party. It ia Mid that the pra (noters hope to get started la their new venture in a very short time and that they already have their editor selected and looMag lata Mm aitua& n. It la farther understand that several MlmM 4aa "Wn Ol BIWWJ In VOT MWHI1W HPlBi have ksmmi interseted ta the venture and »01 net let the enterprise die la its infancy far lack ef financial sua •rn Baptist EAmtlmU association, i spreaentina the Irfng aiecutivee of tha educational institutions in the II Journed Satarda*. Tha aaaociatlon alao want on record in favor of paying mora adequate iai ariaa to collate instructors and named a committee to formulate tha means for bringing every educational Institu tion foatared by tha denomination 09 to tha high eat standards. Another theological seminary anJ one aouth wida Baptist university were suggest ed aa early needs. When the Baptist 75,006,000 cam paign has been completed the value of the property Invoated in schools con trolled by southern Baptists will be )4f>,000.000, it was announced. Dr. W. L. Poteat. president of Wake Forest college. Wake Forest, N. C.. waa elected preauleat and Dr. A. D. Bond, of Nashville, re-elected secre tary Nashville waa named aa tha next meeting place and January 27-30, 1921 aa the date. surry i vfuoca. Of the 280.000 orphan children with out clothing in the Near Rait, Surry county haii been assigned fifty fix of these to feed and clothe for a year at tOO each, makir.p a Hum of $3,300 for our people to contribute. We must give this amount or soma of these M helpless children will pejnah. Their lives depend on our h«lp. We must not fail them. We can not afford to. Wo will not. if I know and fraternal organisations are urg ently nqmiN to make at least one collection during this month for the purpose. Supt. Eppe of the Mrunt Airy Graded schools, recently preaented the condition of the starring children to his school children and practically eve ry child in the town made a smalt con tribution, raising more 'hsn enough money to feed and «u"v>rt a child for a year. And they id it fftidly, and are going to do it i faia. These children vet a fine example for the older peopl<- One of the prom - inent citizens of F.vin ,-ent a gener ous chock last wilt. We should give liberally for C id ha* abundantly pros pered the people of our county the past year. W • easily have twice as much money as we ever had. These J^rentlf homeless, penniless and helplesi children only ask Mr the crumbs *hat fall from our tables of abanl'. re. Just a small contribution from e cry ow» would save them. Send your contribution today before you forget it, to R. C. LeweOyn. Treasurer, Dob son. N. C. and save a Kfe and see if vou J .n't feel better. '.emus Takers Um Aeroplane* Everything from aeroplane to xno** bed for several days aad the fans animals ware autferiag for lack ef food and water. 11m census man, like any gq^d -|i| - , — I -t t« ,lim . A lM - Df .gnlwr Wf>«i <1, 1 lOF.g rriouifn to da the chorea, dig oat paths through Forty-five the flotr of the Ml, 4,414 in the bai for 1.M 11m fourtb-itory ml* and granite inrtii in IMS, at • coat or n,000,000 ii Mid by th« InrMu of niorlsl bid Id in ga of the War Clamp* Community nrvict to be "the fill—t and moat coetly Hrocture at Ma Mad in Aairki." It ia one of a group of public buildings in the civic canter. Thar, arc two large auplementary ball In the building. One will *eat 900 person* and the othar 760. In ad dition there are eight other hall* and 19 rooms that might be uaad for com mittee meeting*: Through the .¥7 no pa rate exit*, ft ia eatimatod, the building, though crowd ed to capacity, could be emptied in aix or seven minute*. Han Franciaco reaidenta consider the big organ in tha auditorium the flneat in the country. Several other municipal auditorium* have main ball* somewhat larger than the one here, Denver1* teat* 12.500. i "he one in Oakland, Cal.. *eata 12.000 and St. Paul'i accommodate* a like 'lumber. The Surry Sheriff To Q«t Appointment After All Washing-ton, Jan 30.—Internal Rev cnu« Collector Roper has written Sen ator Lee 9. Overman that he will within the next few daya appoint 1 Sheriff C. H. Haynei, of Surry eoun j ty, aa chief deputy of the income tax division at Collector Bailey's office aa a partial solution to the problem Colonel Watt* left when he quit the service. The selection of Sheriff Haynei for thla berth was forecast several. daya^ago and at the same time the at rapervieor at North Caroline would! he aboHiM "for the gnad of the' service." w1 Effort* at Senator Simmons and Overmae now are being directed toward elgaHng a place in the de partment flkr Sheriff Manly McDowell that will he acceptable to the sheriff and to this end Senator Overman haa been urging Commissioner Roper to re-eatabliah the office of collector inj the western district. Commissioner Roper, it is under stood. is oppoaed to re-establishing the office but ia in thorough accord with the plan to abolish the office at superviaor. He has practically aaid to the senators that be would not ac cept a man a* successor to Colonel Watts who waa unfamiliar with the internal revenue work in the state. Then, too a superviaor ia thought to be objectionable to Collector Bailey. While it seems to he true that the * Raleigh office has not measured up ! with some of the others in the matter