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quitely withdrawn, crawled back on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withdrawn from Argonne front.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**
<ihoes is being u*ed by the agents cf
Uncle Sam in taking the 1920 cenatu
of the United States. About the only
modern method of transportation eith
er on. over or below land or water
that ha* not been employed in enu
merating Uncle Sam'* nieces and
nephew* seem* to be the submarine.
Aeroplane* hare come in handy in
enmerating the dwellers on the is
land* off the coast of Florida; yachts
aad rowboats have baen used in the
harbor* of the country; native canoe*
have been in demand among the
Hawiimn Islands; "flivvers" are be
Jnk used everywhere: the tried and
: trasty mule team has carried the
census taker* out on the deeert re
| g'ons; and inowahoea litre become
i he trusted aids of the census gather
! er* in the northern state* and Alaska.
In the central part of New York
| state near Orwego, a few dayn ago an
enumerator making his roonda on
moxnhoea arrived at aa isolated
farai dwelling only to Ind that aa
able-bodied man was needed more
Jtan a census gatherer as the man oi
the family had been sick h> 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
<tf efficiency. Collector Roper ia dia
p»sed to excuse much it the rating on
the ground that new aire have been
I in the collector's office and are just
beginning to get thorough'? into the
nstroctiona of revenue accounting.
TV M Keep Durham Hick On
Tax Lists.
Durham, Jan. 90.—Four corpora
, lions and oneeitixen, pay more thai
half of the taxes on real estate and
i personal property in the city of Dur
• ham, according to statistics that hare
been complied by Z. A. Rochelle, city
auditor. The Liggett and Myera Toba-1
ceo Company ranks as the largest tax
payer in Durham, contributing more
than twice as much as any concern or I
individual to the city income. In lMf
I the company paid $100,457.28 to tfeej
city alone. The American Tobacco ■
I Company is the next largest contrib-:
jutor in Durham, paying 140.992.72.
' George W. Watts, who is said to he'
| the largest tax payer in North Caro
lina. came third in tax payments with
I40J9U4. TV other companies mak
ing up the tax paying quintet' are tfce
Durham Hosiery Mills and the Golden,
Belt Manufacturing Company.
OlMWpic CflMtlMtlHL
prodaced by a cathartic. Meet of them
'
AMERICA HAS FIDDLED
AWAY THK PAST YEAH
New York, rmh. U-lfta paat year
for tl» United State* kx bm am af
-ftedHn. —d datoy- —d
tarisad "tha tnfady at tr—a*-" by
Bwratur of the Ntn DuiMi, who
today of tha campaign far tha naar
Mat relief fund. Although Aaiilw
had not kept faith with tha alltoa, ha
■aid, ha had confidence that tha ft Mar
ican people would do (hair duty.
"One at tha haliafa that carri.d ua
into tha war," addad Secretary I)an
iala "waa that email paoplaa hava tha
right to libarty and to control their
own deetinien. Shall* Aiaarica alona
fail now ia euetaininir that principal?
1 do not be I lav a it. I am confidaat
that tha Amariran paopla will leapond
to thia ealL Giro tha Aimanlaa praa
ant ral/af fiom I ha per-'» of starvation
and than provide for tha freedom of
the country from tha rule of tha Turk.
They will reapond to thia call ai thay
hava r capon.'H to avary call tnada
upon them since April 8. 1917."
Secretary Darn.-la in » peaking of tha
navy raid that ihe popular idea of tha
navy waa that it only exiata aa a figh'
ing machine. Thia, ha added, ia ita
chief million hut if it had not proved
« r"— »»»■•••/ f*
people and upholding the dignity of
the flag at all times it had failed of
its munion. In the war. he declared,
it had proved ita worth and had done
its full share in bringing about peace.
There was nothing the matter with
the American navy during the war,
James W. Gerard, former ambassador
to Germany, said it. a brief addresa.
•The trouble with the secretary ia
mat he ia too good natured," added
Mr. Gerard. "If I had been secretary
of the navy and a bunch of admiral*
or anybody else had formed a board of
criticism, I would have had them on
the slide and their heads in the basket
IsiMi a* HIsm."
Captain George B. Hyde, a near
east relief worker, told of horrible
conditions and suffering in Armenia
and charged that the Turkish leaders
were still attempting "to wipe out
the Armenian people."
There has already been (1,900,000
subscribed to the relief fund in New
York city, it was announced during
the meeting.
The schoolhoose should be a social
center, a community capital, from
which should emanate everything at
educational, social, and material bet
terment of the cooununity. says the
Virginia Cotfmtlw Educational As
sociation.
Whet some of the Virginia com
munity leagues are planning to do ia
sketched in the following outline:
1. Conducting active campaigns for
solution of the citixen's leisure time
problem.
2. Incourcging folk frames and
song*.
3. Giving constant attention to re
creation and vocal work.
4. Uniting the young men of the
community into an extensive program
of athl-tics.
5. Establishing lyceum coursta,
bud concerts, and community sing
ing as community leisure tine activ
ities.
6. Organising group athletics,
fame, gymnastics, folk dvices, and
hikes for «tei jbedy.
T. Advocating gymnasiums, rwim
ming pools, JirH ruditoriari.* in every
school building.
8. Promoting rural 1'urartee sad
9. Establishing mholaships in bow
or of km world Isro of the section,
10. Mainteinirf a etsarJtjr iana
where the citisens can get togsthsr
and discuss makers of schrol, health,
roads, farming, juvenile dsiiquents,
etc.
Prime* Edward Islud Fm*
Rmttekmg Is Gf««fat F«it
CkarlotMtowi, Prince Edward Is
land, Dec. 22—Po* ranching on this
island province is steadily grrwing
and this season it is ertfaMrtod »hat
about 5.000 will h* sfclppi d from has*.
The prices nm*e from |<,«N each for
s0«*r fax sitea down to «M tar the
of the world'* '
Vaa
world is upturned. The nua
in the ferment at untried
Yet the way ii umple
It Hot through the child.
The road to the Golden Ago rmm
through the achooDiouae.
There i* no reform, Iwwwi twm
raaefcing, no eatablishment of juatic*
however revolutionary, that night not
bettor to accom pliahad by
through the instruction of
\ (tren, than through the «cham»» ot
politica or the violence of war.
Anna and diaorder. destruction and
overturning, are man'a way. The
school ia Thy way.
I jay upon the conaciente of every
teacher, the divinity of hia employ.
| Give him the enthuaiaam of hi:* oppor
| tunity. Show him the beauty, the
majesty of hia railing, the marvel at
j hia art, the proper pride of hia orafto
manahip!
»iirc oci j pairiu imiiMT uwi uiv
i best ifift in his power for the child is
the school?
I Lay deep in every child's heart an
' unmistakable ambition to learn, to
l know, to come to mastery.
And to unfold to us increasingly
what education means! Shake from
ua the ghost grip of the pec*, the nar
rowing hold of tradition, while wa
still preserve what ia (rood.
Deepen, broaden, enlarge our con
I caption of the school. MaKe us glad to
j spend more for it. as th» best of all in
vestments for the security of the
world. . . ,,, , a
A»d show us timt there can be n*
salvation for the race that doe* not
first mean salvation for the child, by
striking from hia brain the chain at
I' ignorance, from hia heart the iron
rim of superstition, and from his hand
the curse of the unskilled.
German! Retain Bust Of
Wilholm Id Tk«r Halls
With the American Forces in Gar
many, Jan. 1—The former German
emperor la not without hia friends in
the American occupied area in tha
' Rhineland. A motion recently propos
ed by a social democrat in the city
council of Coblent to oust from the
council chamber a bust of WilhelM
ft which had stood in the hall far
years wan defeated overwhelmingly.
The aocial democrat who introduced
the motion Raid: "It is our firm con
viction that a man whs haa so trampl
ed upon tha honor and duty of his peo
ple and of hia own coda can no longer
have a place among us."
Opposition was i aunediate from
spokesmen of several parties. Views
ranged from a declaration of allegenco
by a nationaiat speaker to the oppia
! ion of the Grabar party leader at least
the bust was worth while historically.
And so the former emperor's boat as
in the past, continues to watch over
council sessions of the city fathers at
; I'oblenx and its pedastal in tha ssoei
prominent part of tha graat room be
neath which is the billeting office rf
the American ferees hi Germany.
In Neuwied, also «i tha American
occupied area, the city council recent
ly rejected, by a vote of 1? to IS, a
I propoaal to remove from tha iwnl
| chamber a picture of ifce formar aaa
1 persr which hangs over tha hnvgwaa
i tar's high seat in tha fMat of the halL
Engliah lUctors (Ufa* Coal Of
Getting TW*
Black bom. England Jan. 14.—Cupid
ia being tatted ia tha HWkburn dis
trict to help liaigjmwi Meat part «f
i the tarrwa in tha caat of Ihrinc. Tha
that§a far getliag married haa haw
raised 60 to SO per cewt.
For many moathe the aeruaato af
the church of England have bees agi
tating far larger aalartae and aa da*.
perato has heea the need, arn
to it reports. that there haa haan