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Mount Airy News. J~Y JOHNSON A HON PuMlakar* WICtffTWW R-ATKlT Ww yw II 80 Ma month. . T» Enter*.) m Maund-claaa matter at j MM poatofflrr at Mou^t Airy, N. C„ unrt«-r the art of Ol>njreee of March' I, I ITS. Settling With Ctrmuy. A conference will be held in the city of London during the next few ilaya at which an effort will be made to reach • final dec la ton aa to the amount of damage that Germany ■mat pay for the part ahe played In the late war. The a I lie* demand that Germany *ign up for M billion dol lar* and ahe come* hark with a coun ter propoaltion agreeing to pay five billion. Some difference, yoo *ee, between fifty ill billion and five bil lion. To rive the reader aome little Idea of how much five billion dollara amount* to we remind you that every bit of property in the utate of North Carolina would not be more than flva billion dollara, every foot of land, every town lot, every atorr and Ita ■tork of rood*, every hank and ita monev. every factory, every railroad, ••very piece of peraonal property of every name and nature in tha whole *tate of North Carolina would not be of greater value than five billion dollar*, which fa the amount that Germany i* willing to pay. But tha demand* art- for Ml billiona. It will he intere*ting to know how they nettle the matter, Work for Somebody. Now that the folk* of this town are beginning to talk of the coming town election there are those who are in sisting that an effort should he made to arouse the women to their duty as voter*. Some are talking of form ing a civic league and get the women to attend and hear diacuaafona of the needs of the town. Other* are advo cating the forming of club* where the women will meet alone—no men pre*ent, and discuss among them aelve* what can he done in the way of bringing about a better state of aocietv in our town In thin connection it may be well to remind the women that there ii much that they can do if they only m-rnuade themaelvea to fall in line and help. Let u» enumerate. Seventeen hundred children between the agea of aix and twenty year* In the corporate limlta of Mount Alrjr and eleven hundred of them on the school roll. Five thousand people living in Mount Airy and three-fourth* of them non I church goera. Si* hundred surface closets un screened and many of thorn without a cover of any kind. And " many of them so located that there is no wAy for the garbage wagon to serve them. Hog pens by the hundred in every part of the city and no system of in spection. No system of inspection of restaur ants, markets, or places vhero food is sold. Men and women here by tac dozen who have had the benefit of college training and yet apparently indiffer ent to all these conditions that no community should permit. But why name the other* You know them. Truly there is work here to do if our people coti'd wake up to the opportunltj Airing Dirty Linen. u Down at Greensboro last week a suit was tried in the Federal court that has attracted attention in the whole state because of the seriousness of the charge and the prominence of the parties. H. B. Varner. of the fBWn of Lexington. N. C. is suing his wife for divorce charging that she has been criminally intimate with a wealthy negro man in that town. Mrs. Vamer as the result of his suit brought action in the Federal court for a division of their property. The ablest lawyers in the state were em ployed in the case, and for ten days the court listened to an airing of one of the most sordid bunch of circum stantial evidence that ha* come before the people «in many yean. The jury decided that the woman has been criminally intimate with the negro and that she is not entitled to any of her husband's property. Mr. Varner is wealthy and is suing the negro who is also wealthy, for $100,000 damages. Mra. Vamer is sick in • hospital ia Greensboro and appears to have lost her mind as the result of the shock that came to her when the verdict was rendered. It is j trial that the state will do well to forget at the earliest possible moment. ^Rer. Olive Accept* Call. A telegram was received by the pul pit committee of the First Baptist church Saturday from Rev. Eugene Olive of Dunn, accepting the call to the pastorate of that church. Rev.! OMre I* a young man of about 30 yean, of age, I* • graduate of Wake Forest and also of the Seminary, and It unmarried AmUmt VMWfMti of Um Sell—I Law By Chaa, D. l.ucas, Principal of Rock ford atreet arhuol. Aa principal of the Grammar Krhoola Of Mount Airy a faw facta liavc com under my obaarvatuin which pertain to lha compulaarjf M'ho<>l law now being diacuaaed In ;>ur town pa pan Ona article offered rnticiama be :auaa tha umallar chlldran attand M-hool only a half day. That ia true It ha* been found that tha chlldran »f tha flrat and nacoiid an.fit <l<> more ■nd battar work on a half day aaaalon tnd that • faw houra of cloae applica lion train* thair plastic mlnda mora rapidly than a wnole day's (rind. Ho half day aearlona for tha primary rradi'n have ♦an universally .olontcd by all tha baat achoola of tha South. In Mount Airy, dua to tha fact that it la a manufacturing town, there ia ■ large numbar of paranta who, being raised in ignorance, cannot appreciate ihn valua of an education. an n^urat ly thay an antagonistic to all afforta put forth to place their children in ichoul. We are full up In our Gram mar achoola. each teacher bavin* more than double the numbar of pupils the State Board recommend*, yet we are willing ami glad t'i tal'. • those who ahnuld he in school For it ia far batter that we should t>a ■verrrnwdad than to allow tham to trow up in criminal ignoranca, who when grown will in turn raiaa families that will oppose all the lawa "of so ■iety The queation naturally ariaes why ire thea'e children not in achool. and who ia to blame for not having them put then-' Some put the blame on the teacher*, aome thTnk the county welfare officer ia lax in hia duty, while (till othera believe that the wel fare officer and the teacher* are working together to keep the child ren from achool. Wonderful cr'i -lama but where ia the remedy? Wt have on file a list of all the children In Mount Airv who are within ihc ■ompulsory school age. except may'* > few transient* We'll lie very glail to furni*h thia liat to anyone wh i wishes to enforce the nchool law a> ive have not the time to aerve in the ilual capacity of teacher and law of ficer. It ia al*o a very difficult matter to u*e the gentle art of p'-r suasion upon those parent* who will ingly allow their children to he iWnt from school. I* it po*aihle that the town rigid ►>. to bbime for thi* condition? Mount Airv is a wealthy little town Th« trade from « large territory noun in to it It ha* large manufacturing establishments and many stores. II has one of the large*! quarries in th< world and ita fruit madkSet runk» among the fiint in the state. Much money pour* into it* coffen yet it send* it* children to school' where three occupy the same spart one should occupy. Hundreds of acres of flat lane lie around Mount Airy, yet the smal boy* and girls who love no well U play have a aide of a puny hill fill.w with rocks a* their athletic emporium Mount Airy ha* resident building) coating tens of th >u*and* of dollar* yet the roof of the Rockford Sir* il achool building tremble* over thi heads of 600 children every time th< wind blows. I .L.LI J! . « ,, ain,,k ui«v«inc num iuwii uii« of the largest qusrrie* in the world yet:*everaT hundred primary childrei go In school in a ramshackle wrwxlei barn where in three of the rooms t«' inches of ice ha* been known to free* over the floor wheie the water ha; run in. At Kockford Street school w< minish the bov* for using tohir-co 01 the school grounds or on their way t« •ind from nchool, yet 1 ran rite vou t< lit /i J,, of cane* where Imth 'ntK-r hpi mother use tobacco and give it ti their • hildren Go into tie »rlv m ' store in town and u will find nl brand* of *mol inir 1 chewing !«• b>«« unil snuff which the mcrcn.m1 sell to any boy or girl who is larg< enough to carry a nickel. In cn< room in the Rockford school 88 p»M ■ ent of the boy* hahitually use oi have used tobacco. Go into nnv of the warehouse; about 10 o'clock at night when all tht tobacco wagon* are in and lo<<i thirsty while you di*plav a $10 bil und *ee the result. Not long »<ro on. of my schoolboy* came to school wit I a four inch gash cut in hi* head. H< had been hit with a bottle by som< drunker bully who went not only un punished but unsyupht. Within one hundred vards of Mair street I know of a huildihg where i certain clique of boys assemble near ly every mjrht to gamble, tell dirtv stories and later to prowl the street< and alleys. I have seen two witV daggers ®nd have taken a pistol from a third. I-eft to themselves withir ten rears the majority will have at tained the penitentiary or elertri. chair Go into the side streets, and that i» where the majority of our childrer come from, and you will find mud axle deep, tin cans and all rubbish i.> pitched out the back door, wastf water is dumped it* the streets foi irerms to breed in. stables go foi weeks uncleaned and are the hreedinn places for flies, and the odor of pig? cows and boneyard mules polutc th« air. Rather than pass a curfew law tc keep the children at home to study they are allowed to roam the street* at night mingling with company from which they can learn but evil, which if the price of idleness. Dice, cards tobacco and loafer* are congenial company, and seme parents aeem to care very little where their wander ing Willie's are at night although some are surnrisingly young. From this kind of environment how can the children he expected to mak. good citiiens? Oh that's the school's lob! That's right it It the schools job, but mhat about a little coopera tion ?. - Our "Righteously Indignant Citizen' teems to think the teachers of Mount Airy are not earning their salary Maybe not, but they are doing thf amount of work that double the pre. tent number should he doing while tome of the indignant tax payers howl at the amount of taxes they have to pay, not knowing that they get more value received from money ■pent on education than from any In vestment. Properly educate the com ing generation and the poor houses THE MOUNT AIRY penitetiUariM, and (0 par cant of tb« inmat«a of the ujrluau will not bi Cor education hanlahoa aoualid filth and in their plate* apring >iu home* fili.il with happiness and (Mir lnatead of dl**ip*u>d man hood and womanhood char* would t>e man and woman each with trained minda and Muod physique* all timid injr equal In promulgating aociety and it'a law*. Let tsa all (at together and pull in : ataad of trying to ahlft th« reaponal- 1 MMtf. Chaa I). l.uca* Th« Fight Ovar tha SiU*m Bridga i »„ i ,£-u;rc^ sf pSK 'saws®** :aws 8>sr-j sras* & res.: !£?<*£ ■xVLr^n"."^'«h.s: jfussr uSSr ssrfc!\ SS MIS bain* much more lhan that « •" kin^calU f- % '»Xr Se* T« hv Surry. When the nnage* ™ Mkin and Crutchfield were ImlH Surry count*, by rea*on of *hi"J£ut wnn compt'lU'd to ;*y three-fourth* of the coat. Since thaw were built our oomi»i»»i""j" *||2 felt that they had all the bndge work within th«* county to do that wii tmasihle with the amount of money in Cd and for thia re.aon have not !£™*d with the Yadkin comm.H.10^ rr>- >n eroding m..rc- brldgea acn>»* > Yadkin river at tlie preaent^ Recently a new effort waa atartea t„ ret a bridge built at Siloam by a tpmal act of the l,egi*Utiire making i. mandatory for the two ^ build thin bridge. The bill havi further required Surry iounty ... ,.hv for three-fourth* ofth • ■y** and Yadkin county the bill came up b,-f,.re the .ommitU. 1 large delegation both from Surry nr.I tfadkin was prcaent to their tide* of the quaatlon. Yadkin I put forth evidence before the wm' lee "showing that the people of their (county neeSid thia bridge in o^'r , e ach the railroad which is on Surry a aide iind were Kenoualy liatnpervd 'V not having it. All of which |j>* Su"y county representative admitted. J they took the position that they *er< doing all they could at preaent in the wav of internal work in the county. In defenae of their paaUfen thay »how ed where thay hadbullt five ateel bridge* within tha pa«t flva years and had a program of work mapped out for the next year that oouldnot be at the preaent time aban doned To further ahow the advant age Surry waa giving It* neighbor, /adkin. the fact of the railroad in the southern part of the county was cited^ Year, ago when the people of that Dart of the county wanted this rail road they were .ailed upon to vo* bond* to help build it, which thcydid Since then they have paid •n*"*"* ■" along on theac Iwnds withont a mur mur. and aliathr time th. Yadkin, who assumed no part of the coat of building thia railroad wet* .receiving the tame benefit* from it that the people of Surry wen-. 1 At the end of the hearing the com mittee refused to ropoft the bill tak ling the stand that It appeared that the Surry commissioners wen- already doing all that they coujd reasonably lie called upon to do with the fund* thev were able to procure, nnd to pas* thi* bill would seriously injure the work the countv had on foot and 1 in progress within its own border* ,\* we understand it there is no real objection among the people of our county to the erection of this bridge ' but it is impossible for Surry to do mil this work exactly at the time I when the people of the various sect.on >«H f..» ft. — Dr. Madison Swadener, of the Anti Saloon League forces spoke at Central Methodist church Tuesday night. His I lecture whs rich in thought and de livered in an interesting and forceful Imy, ■ Now because we tum our folks loose and Rive them their liquor back the citizens of Elkin must not con ■ elude that we will be as liberal when they come over to air their troubles. NOTICE North Carolina. Surry County. Under and by virtue of an order of ! the Clerk of the Superior Court of Surry County, made in the special . proceeding entitled A. J. Deatherajre, ! Administrator of the estate of Ed. A. i Midkiff. deceased vs. Nannie Midkiff 'at al., the same being No on the | special proceeding docket of said court, the undersigned commissioner i will, on the 31 day of March 1921 at 2 o'clock offer for sale to the highest bidder on terms of one third cash, balance in six and twelve months, that certain tract of land in Mount Airy Township upon which is the home of the late Ed A. Midkiff near the Flat 'Rock and described ns follows: I Beginning at a stake and runs S. 30 deirrees W. 27 feet; thence 8 44 degrees W. 123 feet; thence 8. 48 1-2 degrees W. 100 feet to a stake; thence IN. IB 1-2 degrees W. 1113 feet to a i stake; thence S. 82 degrees 30 minutes i E. 125 feet; thence N. 2 degrees and I 46 minutes 262 ftet to a stake; thence N. 14 decrees E. 421 feet to a stake; thence hT 40 degrees and 30 minutes E. 2S0 feet to the beginning. For better description see deed from C. B. Keesee to Ed A. Midkiff and tltl«| bond from C. B. Keesee lo Id A. Midkiff E. C. Riven*. Commissioner I This the 28th day of Feb. 1921 NtJ« MifthW, IB! IMPORTANT! The National Real EiUtt Company now ha* offices in Hm Goldsmith Bldg., next door to Fulton Insurance Agency. During the past year we sold nearly THREE HUNDRED THOUS AND DOLLARS WORTH OF PROPERTY in and around this section. Ask the people who have dealt with us. Men who have ability and experience along this particular line can get highest prices for your property, either privately or at auction. If you want action see either of the following men on the street or in the office. J. H. Gwyn, Martin Bennett, J. A Atkins, T. B. McCargo, Jr. Read these letters from satisfied customers. We can furnish many more of the same kind. FVb ll'th , IMl. Mr Martin Bennett, Cttjr. I >t »r Sir: Anawering your inquiry with reference to ay biuiiMM tranaartiona with your company, it «rv*» me pleaaure to teatify that they have baen ^atiafactnry in a high degree. The membera of your firm arc capable and energetic; and, in my opinion, people having property to aell cannot <fc> better than to Hat it with you. I have in mind particularly your »al« of the J no. L. Worth property whereby you diapoacd ot all the property belonging to thia eatate at ex ellent pricea and in a moat aatiafactory way. I im glad to leam that you have had equal aucceaa «lth your other aalaa. V I] FVh «, mi t Mr. Martin Bennett, > City l)«r 8lr: It givrt me plrMiturt* u> rraimoifiul your com pany. My dealing* With y»au haw been very latiafactory. You undoubtedly know how to conduct an auction *ah* of real mi Late, and I have confidence that the member* of your company will bend every effort to xatiafy your ruatomer* by lecurinK the very higheet price* for property >mted with you. J T Monday iBnuiB jwu Kinununj buutbb, i itm * Your* truly, W. F. Carter. Our iucccw for other people prove* what we can do with your land THE RESULTS WE HAVE PRODUCED ARE OUR BEST ADVERTISE MENT. NATIONAL REAL ESTATE COMPANY Office in Goldsmith Building May! We're Coming Kiddos! Old Tige Says He Will Perform for You n i "s And Don't Forget We promise a Souvenir to every boy and girl who comes to Met us. Just think boys! girl^! It's free won't cost you a penny. Bring them all—father, mother and big sister, too. We want to meet everyone of them. Where will you meet us? Why of course you know. S. M. Hale's Monday, Mar. 7, 4 p. m.
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