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MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, RSTAB1ISHKD 18 8 0 MAY 27tta, 1MM. "I Rfret that Senator Overman aaa iiclfcuil to meat me in joint debate tknofiiost the state, in order that the people might more clearly understand the real contoat between ua. It ia not • content at individuals for office, merely, becaoae that woakl be un worthy it either of oa. "My campaign to baaed aoiely upon a desire to serve the state and nation hi the new world criaia through which we are passing. I do not believe that thia aanua can be rendered merely by tiMtaf around in coaamittee room* and MliKttat investigationa, when a ti tanic straggle of intellecta over the fl« utala of omr goveraoMnt aad the rigJt of democracy to setf-exprwa wiem ia being waged oa die floor of the v aeeate. For nearly a year now the ■rat aavare debates of all timea have been in progresa in the aenate, in which Democracy haa been aaaailed. Preaident Wilson denounced, and the idaala and purpoeea for which we entered the great war have been ridi culed and flaunted. "If Senator Overman haa been too busy to meet me in debate in North Carolina, why does he not stand up on the floor of the United States senate and challenge these Republican de tractors. and let the world know what North Carolina stands for and ia will ing to fight for? ■ 1 Cin LCU W HIV na bC. • MU» be able successfully to contend with these enemies of Democracy, but one thin* is certain.—I am at least earn? enough to fipht them in the open; an<l before I will permit them to romp over me. as they have done over others this last 12 months in the senate, with out a fight. I would resign my seat. It has actually become so bad that John Sharpe Williams, a veteran from Mississippi, said in an address before his legislature that he had rather be a dog, sitting on the ground and baying at the moon, than to serve with that body longer. He is getting old and wants to quit. But we cant quit. The fight must continue if the principles of Democracy are to survive and th« great work of Wilsan is to he p-eserV. ed for future generations. "There is another very important matter which needs looking after in Anahington thr.t seems to be re---.hr in»r no attention, rr-H 'ku is a s.*p!l fl iton of our ta< *>Mem so th Jh< aveiagi- business >ran lan unde • h' * to make out hit re| ort, and no! l.uve to employ counsol in every case (fientimes when he is not liable foi taxes. It ia perfectly i.i>parent tu an] business man that these questionnaire! and tax blanks could be greatly sim plified and the governmental machin ery pot upon a business basis. I hopi to be able. If elected, to aid in bringini ( about a reform in the tax system. "And again, the riotous waste 01 maintaining innumerable bureaus commissions and all aorta of govern mantel bodies created during the war la still running at full tide, with n< auggeetion of retrenchment, nor ap parent desire to repeal these unneeee sary government appendages. "TV Republicans have si ways can r tended far a centralised goweinmen M Washington. The war neeeaattete tench of Ikia centralisation, bat th ttem kaa now cease for de-can trallsa Uon and the ftcpjhlfcans tai efcarg will never cunwnt to it unlaaa Ik T>—siisli ilpiaenaly fight far thai 'it ran know., that :Saro la a wMa fWM for i-onairurtiva !eg>aUu<Jn lymg i—Id lately in 'rw»t of aa, ami the ▼a la tha future. "Senator Overman -ays ha ia run ning on kia record. I would Hka far him to explain to the people of North Carolina what ha ha* dene in the sen ate during all than agonising months. to the people the benefit* of all the work which Wilaoo accomplished in the negotationa of the treaty and the league of nationa. "Borah, Johnaon, Lodge and others have romped around the aanata, fling ing defiance into the very teeth of every Democratic senator, and openly set out to destroy the reaolt of Wil son's achievements. "Whore, oh, where was Senator Overman during all these fighta? Somebody suggested that he waa on a committee, inveatigating bolsheviks. If he had gene in the sonata chamber he would have seen some political bol sheviks at work day and night, and might at laast have caaght one of them. Mar* A boat Moat Airy'* , Editor Mt. Airy New»:— In u much as ther has been so much in your ptp«r with reference to census of the town of Mount Airy, I just wish tn state ray side of the quN tion. I am the one that the Supervisor >ent to Mount Airy to complete the aking of the census in that town, and ( visited every home inside of the boundary, that he assigned to me, and in several instances I had to visit some of the homes several times before I found the occupants at home and in some instances I was forced to |tt the information from the minor members nf the family. But every home with every member nf the home is on the list, and if there is any shortage in the census of Mt Airy it is either because they were not properly taken in some previous cen sus or have moved out or overlooked I in some other boundary, as 1 was very careful to visit every home and con I tinue to visit them until I jrot the re : quired information. Yours very truly, , Eddie M. Bryant. RULES GOVERNING WHO'S WHO" CONTEST Any person ii eligible to enter ex cept those connected with this paper. Answers mutt be written in blank spaces under each question. When your answers are complete write your name and address on mar gin of sheet and brine or send to this office. Address your answers to Who's Who Editor. Answers to be considered must be in this office not later than noon Fri day, June 4. The full complete answers together with the names of winners will be printed Thursday, June 10. Contestants are permitted to ascer tain in any 'way possible, the proper answers. Ask if in doobt. Get your answers correct. Incom plete firm names and incomplete an I swers wiir not be counted as tyha* with complete answers. Combinations with the view of ' creating ties are not permissable To win, it will not be necessary to have all the answer*, but you must have more of them CORRECT than 1 any other contestant. i Dont ask for information at this . office aa there la no om hare who knows. The anrwers are known only to the "Who's Who" Editor. It's • pretty safe plan to keep a • copy of your snswer. t Get In the contoat—it's mighty u> , teresting, and what you will learn a boat toe buahteaa firms of Maonl 1 Airy will ha worth the time and trou • Me whether you win a gold prise oi Gold prises will be on display st W L. Steele's jewelry etore or r Moore avenue.^ •T narting ' by thf joy and thankfulness to Cod tar their aft return. Oar wlOwil The war is over now, the boys home, and month* are swifHy minute filled to the lam the rush of reconn traction, of thinir. back to normal. The me staved at home were able to money in ways which now hmi to bo bringing in enormous amount*. They had no competition to apeak of. A young man's services during the dark days at the war here at hoana were worth hia own price. We stop for a little while and look the aituatloa clearly and squar 4y in the face and wa see simply thia Our soldier boys are being left out, tSey are living in a sphere all their own, working at whatever they can find to do, and nine cases oat of every ton at a saUary 60 per cent lower than the ooe held before entering the service of their Wa look around and see ooe t bey. ha ia a i now. Three ymmn ago he was —mUL tnt naniw of • biff light and water power company, making 9X75 par month, and rark a wonderful future to look forward to! Now we see him. nfter serving nearly three years in the army, working for $76 a month all day and from one to three hours' work at night. We go farther and find that the company la composed of two men who for some rsaaon were exempted and who, during the war were given the chance, if there waa a chance to make money, due to the great demand for their products. Our boy cornea home. We find that he has not only lost the three years and the oppor tunity which he ha.I before enlisting, but his life is shortened at leant five -« ten years due to exposure and ex periences undergone while serving his country. At any rate he finds himsflf compelled to accept the offered posi tion. if such it could be called, being told by his prosperous employers that he will have to work himself up. that he is of little us* to the company due to the fact that he has £e*n in the army for so long and necessarily got ten away from the business world to a reat extent. So he starts in the stock i room to climb the ladder once more, starting on his journey at stated, with a body much weakened from hard | ships, nerves unstrung and unsteady. , He is to support a family on a salary •>f |75, which is Isss than a common laborer. He is a returned soldier, with an honorable discharge showing three i years in the service of his countrf. Ii ■ this right T in *rr naving cans lor medical am in our own little fitj and in towni nearby from returned soldier* *whc are only now giving way under strain . which was caused by the war. Only a few days ago my Attention was called j to a young man, a friend of mine. wh< served in France, was wounded, but recovered it was thought, and wenl , hack into action. He served until th« end and received his honorable dis charge. supposedly in good condition (both mind and body. But for several months now hi* partner had noticed I that he was nervous and very mucft unlike the stalwart youth who weal "over there," and today this sam« young man is in Morganton, chained, unable to tell you his own name, and a St. Louis specialist say* his con dition is caused from wounds received in Prance. This shows that oar boys' lives an shortened and we know not haw maaj of thee* cases are to occur, haw maaj of oar boy* who are seemingly sttont and will later develop tubarculoeia loes of eyesight or snsai other dreadM disease caused from getting even i turn who had *• beek te y* mai #d himself while ho, tow boy and mux. was in camp and than in Frtatc, fighting far you, for mm and for hia country. Is thia an aaampia of the man who was gains to do ae much for the rata mod soldiar? Are those the oppor tunity aa which wara to b« poured cot to him? It mmm that it ia, a* the above incident ia only one of many which I could relate. It teams that tha average fallow ia now too buay to look at hia next door neighbor, who ia starting all over, so to apeak. We ha*e dimply forgotten our promises and m tentiona. We aay we mean to do wail by them. Our intantfon* are goad, but what we export,to do and what we are Mac an two the returned soldier wants the bono* or not. Let ae Mr hare that he does. He is voting for it, and he feeia that he deserve* it, mnd wmtch my word: Whan ;« see a man oppoaed to it look into his own family trae and you will find that his nearest relative serving in the war was a nephew; or possibly he will be a man of means whose son has all the financial back ing needed; or again it is a man who fears the taxes or what not that it will take to give these men the amount I they are asking will in some way cause him to have to go down in his own "jeans" and pull out the alm^hty : dollar stored away .or luxuries which 'he soldier will never know. Some w 1Uf that the framed "honorable dis charge" is enough, that tha( is all the "loval soldier wants. But this is not the way to look at this matter. Let me say here that the soldier showed his loyalty in enlisting on the battie : field, and in every other way triad and it must not b« said that he is dis loyal because he needs a little help to establish himself, and not be humiliat ed by being told his services ar» prac tically useless, due to the fact that he has been in the army so long. Some thing should have been done for him without the asking, and the man who will fight the soldier and try to kill the bill that is soon to go before Congress asking for means to help pay for a little home, paid-up insurance, or any . of the three other ways of helping to put him on financial equality with 'the fellow who stayed at home and Had the chances, is worse than a slacker— a thousand times! Let's search our hearts and remem ber the time when practically every window waved a service flag. W. wen depending on the men behind thoee Hags to fight for us, we thought ai we looked at them that when ear hoys returned we would |old oat ear arms to them and establish them la their chosen vocations as they have estab lished true Americanism and its stand I for democracy for us. Do net forget the returned soMWm who are steading asking for year work, not begging I—no, far be it from them!—hat promising you reived Give them a chance. God I they deoerve K. A soldiorVwifo. A* hi ■ sa« subject to hiHoos attack* at regular intervals know about when to expect aa attack. They find that they have no doeirv for food when an at tack la duo hot usually eat bocaosa II la meal tee. Skip one meal and tain three of Chamberlain'a Tablets and rou may ho abb to avond the attack. toMisbeiHM drmktea or coffee a« "This pnhli." bo aii -«• m much tha city raan'a u it b tha (mat Their intaraeta arc inotrinUy bound ii tha peopia of tha citiaa realise bow cloaeiy tha problem rames homa to than. With tha nt^tioa at tha pack ing cantara, tha citiaa of tha nwntiy have on hand at any on* tima only enough floor to laat a few weeks. Their vegatablae and fruit* emmm in from day to day. Practically am j thmg they eat is only a faw days, ar *f moat a faw waaka. removed from tha! farm. Whenever there is s shortage of production it is stmoat instantly re flactad on the people of tha citiaa. tain adequate acreage. Net nlnne is there I ako-ti(i 'if 20 par - ent in the supply of hir*d farm labor, the coun try over, hot far* work is greatly hind bemuse of the backward spring. , "Evan with the bast possible isaioa, from now until harvest, those two! thin**—shortage of labor and !at> i spring—mean reduced production. With a poor muok from now on. a food scarcity is inevitable And food scarcity is a menace to national pros perity everywhere High wage* would mean little to the city worker if he annot buy food except at famine "The curtailment of emigration alone daring the war has been suffi cient to make a deep cat in the nor mal supply of labor of all kinds. With what labor supply there is. the farmer 'eels he is unable to compete with the higher paying industries of the cities. If he is to get the help he needs this -ummar he must rely on a thorough awakening on the part of the city People to their responsibilities in [he -it-jation. They have got to realize as 1 'ar as agricultural production is con cerned that an emergency faces the country as grave in many respects as that which faced us during the war. and calling for the same degree of patriotic response. "During the war city residents 'howed what they couM do to help the farmer. The present shortage of farm labor exactly corresponds in figures and fact with the shortage which ex isted in the summer of lilt. Yet ex ceptionally large crop* were produced that year. Why ? in the first place be cause the individual farmer gave every oance of his energy to the pa triotic duty of seeing that the country at war did not lack for food rirwn Were LtjriL "Old, rati red and milllil crip plod farmers with tkair ■!»«« ■—> to th« (Md to Up. Bat important ato to U>« (act that to|* ■—>«n of tho city mywAd to tka appal that tWy a pond lUr vacation in the ttaMs kdpiat tka faraara. Oady by aiaailar •nanrancy in tka agrieeheral itlaa tkm WOI tko dty folks roopood? Tha aocratarr aaid ha «aa>d aat pradict wkat tka >nnai break ta food pricaa. particularly to tka gmki aaar ka*. ia gaiiw to Baa* to^tkknw, three mjti in i»hkh t|)M IWv ia th« earning at typhoid firwee. to contend with, and hat they M upon tubercular sputum, pas, typheM dejecta aa waO aa candy, cake, arilk ate., and carrying deadly diaaaaa germs. not only in their ill|aaUw track but upon their WW. aa It is very eaay far thaat to carry and spread diaaaaa* such aa typhoid fever, tuberruloaia and diarrhea, by Ispseet far the fly, oifiue dtctyinf there is the arrnmnhrtion of fDth you are (vine to have the house fly. By domg sway with the decaying organic matter yon will let.sen the danger at disease. Screen your window* and doors and swat the stray flies that gat through opening and closing of the doors. L. L. Williams, County Health Officer. Boy's Pba For A Library The city of Mount Airy should have a public library for many reasons. Education depends largely on good books. Also a man or woman has to keep informed of daily events, to keep op with the times, to be educated. Also anyone wishing to learn a trade, etc. could get books on that oarticular trade in the library. Reading affords recreation from daily cares and time spent in the library will not be wasted, but will make better men and women of the people of this tcmn. The chil dren. also, will spend many happy hours in the library, instead of getting into mischief. It would also help the schools for people who cannot read and write, see ing the pleasure and profit other peo ple get from the library, will want to do the same am} send their children to school and probably get someone to teach them. The expense would be nothing for a nice, granite building could be erect ed. say between Franklin and Ptoe streets near Main, for about The Chamber of Ctrasm and Mer chants Association could devote the funds they had for the Armory to the library, the town could give money and the r -st raised by subscription fti - nearly would give sotiething for a library, of such a benefit to the tow*. Summing up the should have the Mhrary, it is i to h good wfacattnn. especial] thoee who ha veal a library in ham, it la h« • trade, that the expease would ha why cant we get a public libraryT W. f. T. Jr. WA hi fact*
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