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I ■8TABUSHED 18 HO MOUNT AiRY. NORTH ("AROIJNA. THURSDAY. M»y 6th. IMO. $1.60 P; R YEAR FN ADVANCE. 1 «• ' i»rfr Thmm, OW CUth Wuhmitan, May t«— Hwntnl Barurh. .api taint. millionaire a fomti chair of the war indun'rl board. *ajr the hijfh rcut of living u be brought down if tho wealth I claaa* . not nar—arily tho poor, ww thotr hooa and clothe* longor and <1 claroe that "old patchrd clothe* a vrManre of courage and nalf-eateem In addition. Mr. Baroah, la a letti to tho «onate'* >pmal <ugar and h< coat in- Mttgating committre. hrtuU by Senator MrNary, of Oregon, ind rectijr advocated peace-t imp jper* ■Km of tha ahoa manufacturing an other induatrMa by tha governmon Ha attached a memorandum to hi* lei tar, which diaeuaaed method* of th war induatrtaa board during tho wai and bringing tha nemoramium up t data, Mr. Harach addod: "I have no doubt that ihe coat a manufacturing, handling and wis o ■hoee , ould bo very iitbxaiitiaHy re doead if tha manufacturer* whole Mian and retailor* woulJ |mr*ue >ub *taatlally tha cowraa-which waa botm pwraaed in lilt, and standardize am limit tha pa, xtylea and color a, ratbei than unnecoaaariljr multnlymg hen to appeal to tho fad* and fanciea of n uowaiumng public iwndijal in thoir aa< panditure*. "TTiik might bo accompliahad by creating a government tarrncy. iidoi whaae iuperri*ion and regulati >n not oat? thia iadiietry but ail ladnotry could co-operate to atandardixo pro d»etion. eliminate waata, stimulate 'afHeieni-y and radnee coata. Such a oaaxae la not patomaUatlc. It waa nat ate for tha government to permit the Wlridual unit of indaaUy to co-oper l at% much laa* combine for parpoaaa yMvfetion ot ft captbU &nd rffpcHv pwrrmrnt aconcy. aa without »uch Mparvoion and regulation tho temp tation to control tha prieea and profl teer would prw® too nWonff. Wear Tilt OH O*— Mr. BiMlfi letter to tha senate in vaatigntnra ndvocatee til* miai nip of oid clothe* and thorn, particularly by tha wealthier claaaaa, to and. profiteer ing ami high pneea. It admita there ii merit even in tha overa1! movwumt. "1 do not M»," *ay* Mr. Haruch, "hoar normility in production or Jiatri butioii -an come until the world is at pmaa. And it muat ha n 'Irmly «t»b llabad peace. Hundrada of thousands of man arc still in arms in Europe facing una anotbar aero** boundaries that should have haan determined km« ago. They dare not drop their arm and return to production for faar thej will be overrun by their neighbor* Hie re will be no peace until thi* it ended; no retum to normality an) production. "Think at how much beet sugai could have been produced in German] Poland and Ruaaia; how many shoei they could hav» made; Iiow much coa they coulu have dug; how much cloth * in( they would have; how much hop and optimiaaa they could he giving t tha world inatead at the fear* and pa* simiam that come with destruction. "The prohlem you hava in hand ii what can be dona to reduce the big coat of shoe* and clothing. The onl thing legal I know that can ha hel[ ful. ia to remove any illegal harriet which make for a restricted dlatribi tion of foods and clothing, and til prevent ton of propaganda and advei tiaamrnta which falaely state the sea: city or impossibility of obtainin these thing*. The people have becon ao alu med by what I think are unral able statement* they have been wil ing t'. pay any price. I believe no that the continuity of tha thought i eearcilv haa bean broken down. "Another helpful thing would be Cat all our people to conserve ai wear for a longer tune their shoae m ctodliiv; The overall movement wou 6a valuable. It would taach people n to be afraid of waring clothes shoe* that are somewhat worn, fray or patched. Plttkai Fvideere Of Nerve "Old patched clothe* are evidence eograge and self estaawa If peo| would uae their shoe* and clothing I II or M par eent. mora time, it woi praetii illv increase the prndortion IB or £0 par eent. Unfortunately, th M paopla who cannot extend th ■tea a/ apparel because their Ihni mean* Hava already fhrred them tha limit. It is tha people at bat M inMM wh* should maks the •(fort ■ xt »n vuaplt for oeerv m:° umI m mMmL "It is unfortunate that th* spirit serif ire mid denial a* proaimnt dv mt th* war ia net laari in trklai ••now. Ilunnf til* war, when we ft* • the priceao# material* rr» also limit f. th* oae to which they could ha pat. do 'I kn> .v whether the people of tl coo" i y «v»nid ha sdy to ^i.'port 4. 'irr* am ni that kt".( id "In my opinion. th« rituatlon ia no n correetinr itself. It la unfortun* in that we had to k» throvfh a cruel ii ir in prices. much of which, it xeema I vr me, has lieen unnecsaaary. After a p- he law of uppl- and demand work a nil thaae problems out. Hat the <ii1 ' ficulty with tha law. like th* law c •r the survival of the fittest. ia that I • work* terrific hardships upon th d v<-ak, and upon thou- who cannot pre !• tart thamaaive*. • "It ia tha duty of the stata to pre & tart tha weak elementa ia it. If am - fixe* a price, on* haa to limit th* d* • mand. But it ia curioua thin* tha r there seem* to t>e food and clothlni enough for all. Yet (ha whole com > nunity ut bidding agnin.t on* anothai for the available supply." r Mr. Baruch aaya this may ha due U ' several thinira—a real short ace. a feat <tf shortage, failure to economise anil ■ the human equation and tendency W •( -tr.mp*d*. He adds: "A* it appear* to ma now, tha only i thine that can ha done ia to move re strictions on distribution and manu facturing, cheek illegal profiteering wherever it exists, do what we oaa I to stimulate production, try to ioctu , cat* idea* of saving, economy and plain dressing in people until tha aup ply has caught up with tha daasand, and gat tha Inmdreda of thousands of men ia Europe back to work." Included in tha memorandum at tached to the Baruch letter waa a dis i cuasian of tha conditions imposed upon the shoe trade daring the '.ear. Then it was particularly required there should be no lowering of tha quality of tha shoos, whorMu^dnriiy came deterioration in quality. Daring the war it waa found that about 660 style* of shoes were manu factured. and nearly every manufac turer was planning further innova tions. The number of styles was re duced to 180 and it was agreed no new lasts should be made. It is dis closed that just before the armistice a conference with the war industries board had resulted in an agreement of complete co-operation with tha ftf ■ rnment. extending to the making of ehoea. i ' WvT No Word From Han On April 21st, Man made its near est approach to the earth, having com* to within 36,000.000 mile* of the earth f that time. It will be rem em l^M«d thnt Marconi, the inventor of wireleaa telegraphy, has claimed for some month* that he ha* received sig nal* from the planet Mara. A* that planet wa* to mne cioeeet to th« ea^th on the night of April 21at. it ' wa* thought hy many learned men 1 that that would be the most oppor ' tune time to both nigral and receive •• signals from there, therrf->re, in a lit '{tie farm house in an upstair* rooir 1' in Nebraska, the most powerful wire " lens apparatus ever set up wa* rare i fully listened to all night, long by Dr * j Fredrick Milliner and Harvey Garnet *j with the hope that the nigral* woulc f he received. Their listening was II ■ vain. "If anything on earth can catel * nuch a signal we can." remarked Ml "■ Millener. who with Dr. Gamer install B ed the power-full wireless instrument " "and," he added, "we have heard noth " ing." If * Wood Wina Two To Onm ,1 In Maryland PYimar m Baltimore. Mav 3. —Practically con nlete returns tonight from today B' presidential primary in Marylar id imve Major General Wood 14.rtflS vo id es to 7,113 for Senator Hiram J Johnson, a majority for the soldk °* -andidata of 7,860. General Wood ca fit* ^ ried all the counties hut Alleghar and Washington. Johnson's majoril in the former county was l,OOAt ^ According to the returns. Wood w ^ have 117 of the 129 votes to the sta or convention which will elect 14 del ltd galas to the Chicago convention. / of these will be inatmcted bo vote 1 '*'* him as lung aa tjlsy "eiinneientieui Mr . believe he has • chance of being not inatwd. In arce-dMnfe with the id* bar primary law. % xi FARMERS URGED TO * " PLANT LESS TOBACCl "J At a meeting held April 28. 1M0 ( 1 Wilson. N. C. hy the Tobaaeo Awtii '* lion of the United State* at which wm * |<.caent representatives from the varl ii> maiketa of eastern North Can * lina including dealers, Warehoureiaei ' ' and farmers, the following resolution '' .vere adopted. '' KiraC That under the rtrcumatancei of the unprecedented large crop a * tobacco being grown in i»l» aad salt * at the highest average ever kaowr aad that every incentive waa thua giv 1 rn to increaae the tobacco production ' and aa theee prices were unduly higt considering the sue of the crop and Ihe circumstances of the central Euro pean couatriea which take conaidera ' hie quantity of bright tobacco being '' debarred by the great depreciations ' of the rate ot exchange, everything : costing them five or six thaaa aa ranch | aa compared with the American dol lar aad the further condition that there haa been a sufficient stock of i tobacco accumulated for all practical purposes thai everything points to ; much lower prices even if no more to Imcco is produced than in 1»1». Second. Under the prevailing con dition of high tabor, fertillxar, aad j -v.rything that contributea to the making of bright tabaccc it haa been deemed wise and ippropriate to put theee facta before the producer* of1 1 bright tobacco with the exprnaaad opinion of the leading tobacco men that the production of any large ciaan-< tity than waa made last year would be fraught with the danger at vary nsucfe lower prieaa possibly !sea than the cost ot production. Third. Therefore the farmers ara urged not to plant aay crop that will produce naore than waa raada laat year' taking in consideration that the cropi laat year was nuaasia* J f surplus sufficient for the price of to- , hacco at the end of the season to bat ^taeed one-half without the last ; year's rains the surplus would have l<esn 126,000,000 pounds more. ^ Government eatunatea 16 par cant ia-, creaaa for 1980 for North Carolina which with an average yield would bring the crop up considerably over AOOOOO.OM pounds with the posaibie deplorable reaulta aa to the valuee and therefore there ia every apparent, reason that the crop should *>e materi ally reduced as compared with laat year In order that no more pounds of tobacco shall be produced. I Fourth. Be it further resolved that, these resolutions ha sent to evary leading bright tobacco Virginia, North Carolina and ^outh Carolina and stops ha takan to pro-, mulgate and apt before the farmers a* far aa poaaible the action. —— Philadelphia U Waging A Horn* Building Campaign Philadelphia, April 21.—A cam I paign for the building of home* is Philadelphia's answer to the question of how to keep rents down to a reason able basis. The tenant population is in ' desperate straits, for rents have been : going higher and higher and no end fteem.s to be in sight. The scramble for homes in the suburbs is so acute that when one woman moved some of the furniture out of her home, the other > 'lay, in order to clean the house. .16 i! imr.Hona triad to rent it from her with i in a few hours. To stop the profiteering in rents ■ and homes, several organizations art . attempting to unite on s program oi - house building to continue for St least six months or mitil the shortage hai been relieved. These organizations in clude association* of tenants, tradi f unions, representatives of (Jm building trades and mortgaging companies - They have been asked to undertaka s this work by the department of publii ^ welfare. Meanwhile camping ground acres sibls by street cars is in great demand ' Tent manufacturers say more order r have been placed for tents this meat] -. than ever before in Philadelphia his y tory. y Deed For AsWvilk Drag Store Executed hi Pari Asheville. April 29. -Coming fr»>r ■* Paris, France, where it was execute* H the >leed from Henry Renter to ! II .Sternberg for the Smith drug stor ,r property, at the career of Pack sqnar ly snd Biltmore avenue, arrived her yesterday ami was filed with the ty register of deeds. The considerate *■ was n30.000 and Mr. Sternberg hi already taken charge <rf the propert; DM Th* Cmm ' Til* question haa whether or net a < * mad* of thia tows una weeks eg | »h«n ths work was sappoeed to b liana. Cecil Carter and Oeerge Spar •car war* appointed to do thia work t and Mr. Carter mada tha emeus to - half tha town. Mr. Sparger refused ti ■ accept tha appotnteMnt and a mai ■ waa aant hara by direction at tha Win • ston-Halem office Bad ha waa jup i poaad to complete tha natlt. Now citi i xana tall ua that If th«T or their fami lies war* included la thia canvass the) ' are not aware of it. Thay alao tail ui that thay know of unt of thair neigh born who hare never been ranvaaaad. It wilt ha recalled that tan veari ago the man who waa appointed ta taka tha census of thia town got credit for doing the work ao poorly .hat tha town had tha work dona over and found that a big error had bean mada. The censoa report rare ua only 3.MW, while w* war* entitled to have I over 4,400. It laoka like w* may b* in a way to again net too low a report. We nowl that all citlzena la oar town who have not bean canvaaaad by tome man taking tha cenaua report th* fact to thia office at one* and, if w* find that there were many miaaad in th* canvsss, we win take th* mat ter up with th* propar authorities and it may be that tha error can yet ha corrected before th* report ia made. Absail Th. Mr. 9. L. Arlington waa a juror at Dobaon last week and wMle there made a visit to tha county home and waa kind enoogh ta give the editor of Tha News tome of his impressions mada by the visit. He nays that he mads inquiry from the inmates of tha home as to tha treatment thay get and the food they are nerved. He nays he taard no complaint and found that hey are satisfied and contented. The torn* ia now kept by Mr. Joe Wright, rhe smallest number of peo plain al< i rhile moat of the other* are laaiitlipy'1 incapacitated to rare for tbeaaeelvee. i1 lardly any of the inmataa are able to 1 lo work that amounts to much. Soma of the old people who have jI wan a* tha borne for years told Mr. 1 \rrington that they had recently" naile a little inquiry that to thean ia<| ntcresting. They find that the homo > ia* not had a keeper in many years ivho uaed tobacco. They think that :his is a bit strange. They are served I with tobacco by the county, hut no keeper in their memory has been ad dicted to the habit himself. / A Good Maatinf At Larabtborf Rev B. W. Phillips held a mHm of meetings at Ijunbiburir in the school hmiw at that ph»ce last weak. Pram day to day ha tails ua the people came in lama numbers from the whole neighborhood and showed (Treat inter est in the service*. Many people took part in the meeting and several were converted and sis were baptized on Sunday and were added to the church at Ivy Greene. Mr. Phillipa says that the meeting will be a great help in that section and that the best people there were in hearty sympathy with his work at that point. ^Laatatti Star Officers Install^ At the regular meeting of the Mount Airy chapter No. 18 Order at Eaxtern Star officers for the year wore metalled b> Mrs. Cape, at Greenaboro, district deputy of the #th district, and Mrs. Pate, of Span oar, deputy of the 9th district. The of ficers are as follows: Miss Sara Banner, Worthy Matron, J. D. Thompson. Worthy Patron; Mrs. C. Binder, Associate Matron; Mrs. H. Haldridge. Conductresa; Mrs. W. B. Moore, Associate Conductress; C. Bin der. secretary; Miss Bess Merritt treasurer; Mix* Belle Graves, organ ist. Mrs. T. G. Samuels, chaplain; Mrs Kugene Paddison. marshal). The Stai Points, Mesdames W. Pulton. B. A. Hannah and R. D. Clark and Miaaai . Lucy Barker and Woodward, i A social hour followed the buainaaa i -*>saion. during which cream and caka • were served. L ,r - > Convicts Hare For Bead Wort Thirty five convict* arrived in thii 1 city laat Tuesday and were carried a I once Id the camp prepared for then . near the home <it Milt Venable nut h 'he Little Mountains on the road froa » White Plains to t.'nion ehurrlv Durini > the peat few daya a forae at men ha • been busy building a house where the: - will he kept at night. The county ha n the stock and tools ready and they wil 8 at one® jo «n making good mads it '. >hat part of the county. r CANNOT BUILD HIGH , WAYS UNLESS MA TENIA. IS PHODUCEO AT HON go Vr* C« Bid Ob Wm SMI To Do II With. ' OraMkm News, May 4U. Tit* limit la the building at hai ■urfict roada baa baaa raarhul I North Carolina uaieoo the .rial. TMa ia tba opinion at Vran Hage, chairman at tlia state highwa yeeterday far tba purpoee ot open in I bids, If aay tbara »ai at tba divWo highway office, for noatructlun c 2.64 milee of atata higbwaj ia Rowa rounty from tba county harder t Maiiabory. Tbara war* no Mda. wbiel fart did not wmtm to »aipriaa tba com muuoner, who aaid it balpad to pro* 'his opinion sound. I Contractors, Mid Mr. Paga, ara do cliniag to bid on building road* fa tba riipi' ■—»n tbat tbay caa't af ford to bacaaao of tba uncertaiaty u securing materials. Cement ia tba big ■aot bugaboo, the contractera claim ing tbat tbia commodity rannrt ba aa curad at any price; neither can ordan bo placed for it for futaia doiWory tba manufacturer ftoclhiiag to malu any proauooa along tbat ltao. Ta illua tfU tba equation ia tbto raapoct. Mr, Pace aaid a well known road builder told him, ia timailu tba Rowan county project, tbat ba would ba glad to enter a bid if nbumi tbat ha can fret cement with which ta da tba work. Crashed rock, another amentia I mat erial, happoni to ba coaaparatirely eaaily available at Salisbury, bat it was pointed oat tbat reek ia oaateaa inlaee there is cesaent to go with it. Rock, howoror, generally speaking, a a hard » abject, aaid Mr. Page, aa ar aa Nartb Carolina aa a whale is ad par tag city rtisita. TMa, M. aid, ia apita at the fact tbat tbara ia | nough rock ia North Carolina ta aap Jy the gi eater part, if not ail, of the • ountry. The stata highway commis ioner thinka North Carolina roak ihould at laaat ba used for building forth Carolina roads. mMUcing what he preaches. The righway commission could not cat a •ontractor to build tbe hard surface -oad from Durham to Chapel HUl, so I ended to have the state do the job. State prison labor «u secured, tod hard by where tbe road will pass that labor is now blasting rack, locating the beet deposits with tbe aid of tbe geological department of the Univer sity of North Carolina. A real road building force i* being organized. It will construct the Durham-Chapel HUI highway aa quickly aa possible, and when that tark is finished the same organization will tackle another pro ject. Right now, the state highway department has 11 big projects—main highways—in various parts of tb< state, for the carrying out of which bids were asked—and none receivee because the contractors said the) would not contract when it appearec so evident they would not be able ti carry them out. Mr. Page hopes to gw quite a bit at road building done witl the organisation now getting a try out between the tobacco city and tb university town. Mr. Page said he finds no evidene that road contractors are trying fa profiteer, explaining that he believa they were acting ss they thought bee to protect them selves. He declare that he was confident no contractoi with conditions as they are now. roul figure within 20 per cent, of tbe cos of a big raad building job. Added t the other handicaps is the scarcity an high cost of labor. The commissioner said a slight! better situation prevails in buildin gravel roads. Ha said there are i Alabama construction forces whic moved there after that stats vote fifty million dollars In bonds for ma building and which are still there id! because tbe Alabama program ha been held up. These forces, he aafa are glad to come to North Carolina i 1 they can get six months' work, aa i job lasting that length of time woul : justify moving teams, machinery, et i Some of them aes coming. Mr. Pag i said, and the rsealt ia that gra«< i mads are being built much taster Um f hard surface aaaa over the state, i What ia true of North Carolina r also true of other states, according I > the comas ■aisaar. He cited the cat I of Pennsylvania, which state a yet i ago decided to build a thousand mih of hard surface roads sack year an) w mid*rn Kifk«i|ii. TSa _ pr*.«i.i >» that of tha fi.nt vaar a llttia ova* a L —_ war* bo lit, with tha pna»««t that at* tha rad of tha ■**aad k roada built will likaiy amount to I * thine lika four hundrad nuiaa. Om chanca ia laft far i built aftar bid*. Tha law prwdw that mm raaaa tha i oraiiaaina may lat traata pnvataiy if >acb ia il«iai»d ad viaahla. Thia bains tha caaa, thaw ia a poaaibility that tha Rowan coaaty prnjart and tha alavaa bfcr ooaa far main highway* will yat ba carriad oat. It iibi. howavar, in viaw <>f all » iatfeig chrvmaHiiicaa. that aa *tnapr 'TS.-4 than "poaaibility" caa ba ■*> viaadly uaad ia thia conna«tton. Whan aahad what ha thought of tha pwpmd bond iaaoa for roadMid ■ n* ia Guilford county, Mr. piiad that it waa not hia . think alooff tint lina, that inx oaa for tha board ot •ra and tha paofri* of tha county ta dacida I_■ Mr*. Pi To Vote la t Mrs. A1 Kairbrother, at a pioneer luffragiet as pioneer newspaper »■■>» btMi attending tbt it»"^ of the North Carolina Women'a clubs in Charlotte thia thinks that s good deal of anxiety is felt by the _ pect to participate in tha election tWs | fall on account of tha uncsrtatety about thair bains sbla to vota in the primaries. Mrs. Fairbrothar'a «il» to mown voters is to hasp out at tb» given tha privilege at recording choice at rindMatw Sha b it weald ba ansa to avoid allii Pairhrother ot will ba in its keeping the man guasaing polling tha choice of man to weart thair support. "I an looking forward confidently to being a full-fledged citizen in da* to caat my ballot ia November," mid Mr*. Fairbrother. "I am certain that the forward looking men in the Nortfc Carolina Legialature will realisa tha expediency of ratification of tha frage amendment at tha coming «paa ial session. as receMBmended by tha State Democratic convention Said re» cently at Raleigh, and balieve that ia 1 tha final roundup it will ba made unanimous. Whan in California last 1 summer I was urged to register aad vote in that State. I declined, however, i naiating that I would cast my first Hallot in North Carolina, where 1 in tended to hold my citi—nship. have my permanent Charlotte Observer. Courting Trouble The habit of many owner* and op erator* of filling the gasoline tank while the motor is running ia a dangerous one and there thould be moet rigid regulations forbidding it. The Kansas State Fire Marshal re ports many fire* which originated ia this manner, saying "We doubt if many people realize just how danger^ ous the operation is. For the indlrid ■ ual who has never had the mattar brought to his attention, there may be nn excuse but with the garage man who knows the danger of the practice, there is none. A lighted cigar or cigar* ctte is also a mighty dangerooa pre position to have near the tank 'lB> it is being filled, and yet there are thousands who take the chance daily. W. J. Christian Diee At Wife'* Grave In Durham Durham. May S.—William J. Chile tian. one of Durham's oideat and meet influential ntiaens. died suddenly » Sunday ofteraooe, abeet 8 o'clock, kg , »' Maplnwood oaesetary, by the stdi at i. bia wife's grave, whwh ha was viaifc- . J f ing, for the ftrs* time in ieieil week* a his condition being too feeble Cor titan itltogeeAH. 1 Attack*. subject be bilious attacks at regular interviUs know abon* wfceei *e aspect an attack Tb-y find that they have no <lesire for food when an '«ck to 'Itie but usually eat heceeaeik. to meal ties. *Mp ene meal ami taea three of Chainberlein's Tahlotg an* VOU may be able to avoud the attanrh. 1 f* sons subject to periodic bitieoa afc.x H tacks nhnuM not drink tea ee*ae 1 any time.
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