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3be Jflonnt iVirj} Krtow. ESTABLISHED 18 8 0 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY. MARCH 10th. 1921. fl.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. HARDING NOW OUR PRESI DENT fcmpU But loymtm Cm*, mni Mark* Hb lMipr. b«—WmMmt 14—1 for tfca Waahinffton March 4.—Warren G. lardim. of OImu. and Calvin CootM«« •( Maaaachuaxtt*. war* InaofmM •day Praaident and Vlca Praaidant of •tm Urn tad Sutaa. Mr. Hagdtec took '.ha oath at t in p m . and Itr. Cool 4|i a* 12 21 p m Preaalng hia Itpa to an historic Bible, naad at the inauguration of <>oriro Waahington, the naw preai 4ant took the oath, adminiaUTed by Thief Juatier White. Ha had choaen tke eighth venie from the aixth chap «r of Micah, aayinit: "What doth the Lord require of Ifcee but to do juntly and to low atny and to walk humbly with thy Ood?" Immediately after the admini»tra uon of tha oath. Mr Hardin? turned 'o the vast crowd which *tretehed bnw the capital plaxa, and began Ae delivery of hi* inaugural addreaa. •Sound amplifier* carried hi* voice to the outakirtx of the hi* aaaembly K chill wind, feebly warmed by a Wright nun, swept the broad »pa«. ■fclch uppearod strangely ia ccntmM W other yean when it ha* been iliumi •ated by the uniforms of We«t Point aadets, midshipmen from Annapoli* •d troops Pledging Hi* faith anew to Am^ri ran institution*, President Harding Mternted a plea for thr "rutum to aormalry," for Industrial peace, for •nendshlp with the world, and a poke •gain a promise of work for an aaan riation of nations to bring about (Marc, and "approximate disarms •ait" Bo( he coupled his rrnawed •declarations with fresh pronoume rnnt against entan^linr alliances "America," he said, "ean enter in to no political committment*, nor s-tsume any economic obligations, which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority." "I am sure our people will not mis anderstaad nor will the world miaeon flMfi "id the new jKMfcbmt. "Wti fo impede the paths l* closer relationship. We wish to promote understanding We want to do our part to make offensive war-] (are so hateful that government* and people who resort tn It must prove the righteousness of their cause or stand as outlaw* before the bar of elvfllaa tion." Thrn speaking of nia determination to enter no eatangling alliance. Mr. Harding declared: "TM« is not selfishness: It it sanct itjr. It is not aloofness; it is security. It it not suspicion of others; it is patriotic adherence to the thing* which made iw what we are." He said the republic must pursue s policy of non involvement in old world affairs A» he spoke the sen tences which followed in his prepared manuscript concerning other aspects of American foreign relations. Mr. Harding punctuated his delivery with rigorous gestures which repeatedly got the crowd cheering. Mr. Harding spoke in s clear full tone proceeding more deliberately than he usually does in public ad dresses He put a solemn emphasis upon his condemnation of "super-] government" and the crowd respond-' ed with another crash of applause. There were more cheers whm the President delivered his condemnation of war profiteering. Ho then had been speaking for about fifteen min-i ntes and was half thru his manu script. In the midst of his address Mr. Harding departed from his prepared manuscript to make mention of the -wounded soldiers just below the in augural stand. He assured them "that this republic will never be un grateful for the service you have rendered," and added that he hoped for a policy in the future for those wounded in war time. While he was speaking • wnwi fainted Just In front of the stand and Mr*. Harding motioned to a secret service man to go to her aid. The first lady of the land turned her at tention away from the inaugural speech and followed with her eyea the first aid rendered to the strickened woman A marine had led the wom an away before Mr*. Harding again turned back to follow the addrees. President Harding concluded hit sddrest at 1 :KS after talking 17 .min utes. "n»«re wat another roar of ap plause when he concluded and turned to receive the rongratula tioas of those on the inaugural stand. Yiee Presi dent OnsHdgv was the first to duln heads with Mm At the Preaidaat sad Mrs. Harding started from the -land thr marine hand pltytd • ntanaa of "AaMrica" whan tha crowd lx*mn to dtaparaa and tha Inaugvra Uaa wu ovar. I.eavtnf tha inaugural ■Und tha new IVaaUaat ratamad to I hia room off tha Sanata chambar. j Tha Sonata raaaacmhlrd and ap- [ pointed a committee of two to wait •in Prvaidant Hardin* It than want into axarutfv* aaaaion to consider nominations of cabinet offtrera by tha naw preaident Oath at Administered by ChiW Justice White Washington, March ♦.—Tha oath of [office of President an admin lata rad J by thr c hiof juatirr of thr Unltrd i SUltra, Kdward Doutrlaaa Whltr, fol I Iowa: I "I Warren Gamaliel Hardinr do lolrmnly xwear that I will faithfully execute thr nffirr of Pr««ident of thr United Stale*, and will, to the brat 1 nf mv ability, preserve, protect and iefvnil the Constitution nf the United ' StatM." Governor Morrison Name* Road Commission Raleigh. March 4.—Gov. Mormoni this morrinir »<*nt to the senate the 11 imri of eight iippointees to the state highway ciinnilssion ur ti. r 'he newly adopted state highwnv l«w. The memlwrs include W A Hort, of Tarhoro. cotton1 mill man and farmer first dial riot. W A Girt, of Wilmington. presi dent of the North Carolina (»o«>d Hand-, Association, third district. John Sprunt Hill, Durham, bunker, and huaineaa man, fourth district J. Elwood Cox, High Point, manu-1 fai turer, fifth diatrM. Word 11. Wood, Charlotte, preai-1 dent American Tniat Company, sixth' district. Representative R. A rVoughton. Sparta, hanker, farmer, seventh dia trirt. John C. McRee, RakeravilU, law yer and manufacturer, eighth diatrict. James G. Stikeleather, Ashovillr, business man and present commis sioner, ninth district. The commiaaionera, newly appoiat t. J. X. Cameron, Republican, of Kin*ton. present member of the com mission, continues to serve, his term not having: expired, ss does Chairman F.ank Parr. Mr. Strikelcather's ap pointment ia for another term. The minority on the commiasion ia represented by John C. McBee, of Dakoraville, and J. Elwood Cox, of High Point, new appointees, and J K Cameron, wfco remains on the body. Expressing the belief that he had named a committee acceptable to the people of the state, Gov. Morrison declared hia only regret was the fact that he had not named a member fromj the far east, across the sound. Ha has determined, however, to aak the commission to name as attorney for itself. Mr Walter Cohoon, of I'asi'jo Unk. The governor niat.e it plain 'hat he had no notion of appointing a com miasion of road building experts, out a commission of successful business men who would efficiently administer the road building program of the; state together with the proMenu. which financing it involves. HEIR JAPANESE THRONE STARTS ON VISIT ABROAD "* > Tukki. March 3.—Prime Hirohitu, heir apparent to the throne of Japan, left Yokohama today for Kurope. Hi* departure was marked by an im posing military and naval display. Fifteen thousand soldiers and police lined the street* from the palace to1 the station and the crown prince passed under beautiful arches, whicn had been constructed in his honor. The special train taking the crown prince from Tokio to Yokohama was boarded by members of the imperial family, cabinet ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and upwards of a hundred Japanese officials. The prince is the first member of a reigning family to take a voyage j abroad since Empress Jingo-Jojoj crossed the straits to conquer Korea in the third century. He will visit a number of British porta enroot* to England and newspapers here declare he took with him 1500 troika, miiny of them containing gifts for penoM he will meet daring his trip. The prince will be accompanied on his journey by an extensive suite, in cluding General Prince Kaain, su preme military councillor, and Vis count Qunda, minister of foreign affairs, and at one time Japanese ambasssdor to Great Britain STATES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM LcguUtur* Proridti for Six Moathf Term for All Schools Kal<ti*h, March I.—1W educational pmjrrun of tha state department of ■■duration which waa submitted to tha uvneral assembly in four bill* ha* therefore become the school law The four acta are aa follow* I An act to provide ravanua far the public school* for nix month* for teacher-training. Thii act provttaa for annual appropriation of $1,4004)00 of this amount 1400,000 will be uaed •01 an aquallitiig fund to aid tha wok counties, (<160,000 will be uaed to provide toachar-training, that ia, for the support of Cullowaa Normal school. Appalachian Training school, tha three negro normal achoola, and the Cheroke* Indian Normal achool, which are placed undrr control of the stale board of education In addition to this extra appropriation! are made for teacher training in county summer hoolh. ta> high achoola. etc. Two hundred . and twenty-four thousand dollars are appropriated for the en couragement of vocational •■duration and the aid of high schools in rural district*. The act also creates a division of teacher-training, a division of certifi cation of teachers, a division of norm education, a division of physical eon i ation and a division of publication The hill provides that the maximum cate to In- levied by any county is 30 cent*, and those counties that cannot provide a six-months' school term with a 30-cent rate may draw the re malnder nwessury from the equaliz ing fund 2. The wrnnd important act i* that providing a bond issue of $8,000. IW) by the state, to be loaned to conn tics on a basis of 20 yearn, l-20th with accrued interest to he paid by the county annually. This act will make it possible for counties to se i-ure funda to erect a more permanent type of school building It provides1 that none of this *und can be uaed in •recting school 1 adding* containing lest than fir* tons. It will aid Mtaataliy In .Jinito county-w4dir onsolidation. 3. The third act provide* for the adaption fo tert books for the elemen tary school* According to the pre cision* of thi* art the governor and the superintendent of public instruc tion will appoint a text book commls «ion composed of aeven representa tives of the teaching profession, rhese will be allowed about five month* in which time to select a multiple list not to exceed six on iny subject. The state hoard of edu -stion will then adopt books from this multiple list. It provides for two basal n ailers and two basal primers and one basal book on all ither subjects. It further provide* that at the end of the five-year con tract only s limited number of book*; •an be changcd in any one year. 4 The fourth important act con-1 sins s numlwr of smiill amendment* J l« the school law. The more import-' int one provide* for the consolidation j »f district* and permitting the con so ' iilaleil district* to vote taxes Thia; nclude* sperial charter, special tax, ind non-special tax districts. It also' provides for the State Board of Edu j a'ion to amend or repeal charters >f special charter districts upon the; i.'tition of the governing authority. It further provide* that the county j H.ard of education shall orgsnite at | Lhe April meeting, and permit the) ounty hoard of education to elect' county superintendents before the i Iuly meeting It permit* the coanty j ommissioners to allow a salary of 16 per day to the member* of the rounty board of education. These are the more important provision* of thia j set Mai! Order House* Reduce Wage* Chicago, Illinois—Waxes of more ■ in 20*X» of thv employee* of Sear*, Roebuck A Co., Chicago mail order houses, have been reduced and other* are to be cut until the scale* of wage* in force before the last increase last spring has been reached. The reasons for the reduction are given by the management as a falling off of busi ness in January and February and • general lowering of the coat of living. Business in these last two months has been only one-half of what It was In January *nd February, 1920, accord ing to the statement of Albert H. Loeb, vice-president of the company The percentage of redactions made varies in different departments and ia individual cases, the basis far tke reductions being the wage scale of Aprile 1010 Pro#. Epp* Write. About Com pulsory School Low Dear Mr. Editor: I K«v«? noticed recently mini arti cle! in your paper, um« writtao by you. I judge, aad other* by otter citizens of the town and county, rela tive to the enforcement of the Cool pulaory Attendance Law. I am sore that a majority of our people know the condltiona aa they eliat In oar schools at this time, bat in order to five those who may not have had aa opportunity to becoma acquainted with these conditions, I shall be (lad If you will find space in your paper for this article, lest they he mislaa of the real conditiona. It ia not my business to discuaa the conditions of the county schools, be sides I do not know them, but I be lieve I am more or less famlllsr with our own conditions, ami shall limit my remarks to them. I should like to say here that what you have had to «ay about the Com pulsory School Law in both the coun ty and town schools is (nod bu« not timely. I rather think that It i( coming too list•- to do moch irood In the country, for >-e!r s<h»->lf will soon be out. And n* for -j4i dont you think you are a littie advance of the season? I believe that if you had spa-lit a little time going thr.iUk'h any of our school rooms, and investi gating the conditions as they actually exist, and had seen from a third to a half, and in many instances twice aa many children as the state recom mends that teaehnrs undertake to enre for, and in addition to this, had observed that in dozens of instances two children were sitting on a desk designed for one, you would have decided tliat a later date would have done just as well to advocate the en forcement at the Compulsory School I .aw in this town. When I said that your article was not timely, I had In mind the comple tion and occupancy of the new North Main building. I think that what you have said about compulsory at tendance, would te entirely proper next year, pmriM Wl |M In tte new building now under construction, and do not enforce the Compulsory Attendance Law. For I think we will then have ample room to care for all our children. I grant' you that the condition ia deplorable, and there is nobody that it affects more than It doe* ma. I never see a child who is not attend ing school, whether he be working or loafing, but that I feel the awfulnaaa of his condition I have a keen desire to see him In school, and feel that somebody ia re«pon*ible for hia' not being. But when my mind wanders over the various school rooms and 1 see the crowded condi tions there, 1 do not feel that the responsibility rests on me. I,et s reason together a little and see if you are not attacking the wrong crowd Really, whose fault it it, if our children of compulsory age are not all in school, anrl let me state here that nearly all of them are. It it the teachers' fault? I should say no, unless there is room to take car* of them when tkcy are forced in. If the real truth were known about it, it is not the duty of the teachers toi get the children in school anyway. It, is their business to report absences, j and teach them when they are there. This matter of getting children In school belongs to a truant officer, but there is none for Mount Airy except the Welfare Officer, and I am frank to say that the Job of a whole county is too big for any one man. But granting your contention, that it ia the duty of the teachers to see that children ;umt to school, ;t is not their business to build school houses, j That it a prerogatfve that belongs! to school boards. Then it is the business of school boards to furnish, the buildings. But again, how ca>. school boards build school houses without adequate means to do it > with? Whose business then is it to furnish the means? You will readily see that this responsibility falls back on the eititens and tax payers. Tnenl why not begin at the beginning? But let's see if there it any need of doing this, at thia particular time. Our people are doing their beat at present to relieve the condition. They' are cooperating with the school at they never have before, I am repeat-: edly told. This is evidenced by the splendid Parent-Teacher Organiza tion; by the way most of them an tending, to school; by the good baild ' ing under construction on North Main; and by the liberal way they have recently contributed to the pre paration of the much needed play ground behind the Rlfh- school Other wajrt rosld be mentioned near ly m viaibla. I do not know of • town in Um great Commonwealth that 4dm M have • auffletaat of item to lalu car* of tba trade; H|> automobilea to tska mm ti the traaa purtaUoa and pleaaaaa wdoa; ■nough garagaa to taka car* of the rare, hut thara are faw toama that haw enough Mhuol houaei tn tall* cae* of thair chlldr n In i meeting of a 'majority of the city auperintendenta at AaharlHa, Thankagiving, tkara waa a fraa and i onthuaiaattc discuaaion along thia vary point, and oit of tka large nam j bar who took part in thia diacuaaion I racall only ooa superintendent who Mid that thay wara strictly •nfoprin thc Compulaory Law in hi* town. Tha rv«t attributed.. tha lack of enforce ment to a lack of room Therefore.' unleaa moat towna hava a building program andar way. wa ara going to lend in thia reapect next year. Then let'a continue to pull together, und diacournge anything that will hnva a tendency to divide our people in thia important work, and all will bv well in the future. L. M. ICppa. Supt SENATE CONFIRMS THE NEW CABINET Republican Majority, R ©en forced by Newly-Choaen Member*, Break* Precedent by Action—Many Chances Noted. Washington D. C.—Nowhere *u th« fhantrf in the national adminis-1 tration effected more nw«pinr than it was in the Senate of the United1 States. That body, the alleged home of long-term statesmen, underwent on Kriday afternoon on* of the moat sweeping changes in its history. In the yielding of the old order to the new. 14 United StaUa senators bade farewell to the body, and their place* were taken by 14 new senators, the1 victors in the last election. Eleven of the new senator* are Re publicans and three are Democrata. The Kspoblican Party la the Senate now luster* O. while the Democratic ranks are rednced to 17. Ten of the Republican senator* who were sworn in by Vlee-President Calvin Coolidge after he himself had taken the oath of office administered by former Vice-President Thomas Riley Marshall, succeed Democratic senator*. These were the men who were swept into office on the tidal wave of last November. One Republi can, Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois' did not desire reelection, and one De-j mocrat, James Gay of Louisiana, re tiree for the same reason. In every other case the change is due to the; vicissitudes of politics. When the; new House assembles with the call for the special session there will be over 100 changes, almost all Republican rains, but the change in the lower house is always less noticeable than | the change In the Senate. In conformity with custom Presi dent Wilson had called the new Sen ate into session before hi* retirement from office. Senator Harding aent up the Cabinet alate shortly after he took the oath of office. The Senate tost no time in conven ing. There was no contest over Se confirmation of the appolntmenta of President Harding In fact there i«| no precedent of any Cabinet appointee! being refused confi-mation, but the Senate's action yesterday is said to have set a precedent for quick action. The Senate meets again at one o'clock today. There are thousands of nominations which come within the spoils of victory, and moat of the Senate's time will be occupied with dealing with the large list of presi dential appointees. It is barely possi ble that the Senate may find time to take action on the Colombian treaty whii h "President Harding is anxioua to have enacted as a preparatory move toward the putting of South and Central American relations on a more friendly plane. M'Swiney's Brother Cots 18 j Yean in Jail Cork, March 4.—John (Reanl Mc Swiney, brother of the former lord mayor of Cork, waa one of the ten men who were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment hare today for making war against crown forces, being in poaaeaaion of arms, monitions and ax plosives. Another aocuaed man waa sentenced to ten years penal serrt If we wen as satisfied with oar fortmes as we are with oar Jt»dg- 1 meet, what a contented old world K would be! DEATH CLOSES CAItllK OP CHAMP CLARK A* Earf Cm* IWr Hm Li««4 Afta b M .wry Hi* Day* A* Huliir mi Hi—i. Washington, March I—Death e We ed today th* career of Champ Clark, of Miaaouri, far mot* than a quarter rentury • tow*ring figure In natioaal politic*, a stalwart af atalwarta la the Democratic party. Ha dkad In tha ftrj shadow *f th* capltol. Juat o»*r th* wuy fro* th* hotel where he ha* lived many y*ar*. hou** and **nat* s**th*d in th* c'oa !nir hour* of th* Congr*** of which he was an honored member and Wader. Th* *tir of lee is la tie* battle wu with him to th* end. He lW*d Sfain in memory, a* hi* puis** flagged, th* day* of the eight ysars he wielded th* speaker'* gavel in the hnaae TVm* .sorrowing at hi* bedaid* heard the old i-hiaftain mutter in hi* la*t delirium. "The question i* an adoption of th* i-onffrence report " By mandate more binding than any written law, Congreas hare v halted in reverence to mark the panfing of the aged member. Knowing a* th* years had taught him to know th* vital urgency of time in the cloahtg day* of a Congress. the former speaker made known hia will from what he knew was hi* death hed. Hi* wish was carried to both houses that no halt in public business should be made at hi* death In obedience to that behest, tha L.. »-J V«_ friend* of whatever party, halted • short half hour in adjournment, then marched on with it* crowded pro cram. In that preasing work. Mr. Clark look actve share up to little more than 10 day* aro, counseling hi* party •olleague* aa Democratic leader until k cold struck him down to become a victim to the infirmities of his 70 rear* of driving life that reckoned willing of his own physical welfare. Ills death threw a shadow over every [act in the chamber when Repre Matatlve Rocker, of the Missouri Iflsyation. arose to announce ft, voles .hoked with emotion. Tt wn* a halt in*. brief eulogy he prono"rced, Kt»t it drew from member* signs of sor row more eloquent than words to tell >f the place the dead leader held m heir affection and respect. The for *sl motion for a half hour adjourn nent was made by Representative Mondell, Republican leader. Mr. Clark would have been 71 years >ld had he lived until next Monday, sQt hi* 26 years of service in the louse would have ended Friday, for le was defeated for re-election. In the subdued talk on the floor or ri cloakroom* while the house pause<f n honor of hi* memory, friend* of rear*' standing scorn.H the sugges iiv.n that the stout henrt of the Mis tounan had Keen shaken by political lefeat That he had foreseen long :n ul nnce they said It wss i more jierifc-nal matter that hs l Sroken hi* ipirit, they insisted, the death a year igo of hi* idolized thr»«> year-old rrandson and namesake. Champ "lark Thomson Since that blow, it was sail, Mr. "lark's colleagues had noted a wnnirig >f hi* keen interest in public affair* ind a little droop to the massive ihoulders ao familar through the , «r* In the corridor* of the capitol. "here waa one thing upon which all van agreed that Mr. Claris had died is he wished to die, in the harness of Ilia life work. He had planned re tirement to hi* hone in Bowling 3reen, Mo., after March 4, but the •nd found him still serving hi* coun try and his state in the house, that nade it possible for the house to vote lis widow a year of her husband's talary as its first business when the nemoria! adjournment was over Dr. Jesse Shoup, Mr. Clark's physi 'ian, had little hope from the day his Mtient was taken down with a cold, fieurisy developed quickly, but be lind that there was an accumulation if ailments due largely to advanced ige and the reckless energy Mr. "lark had thrown into his work. Both houses of Congress on Sattu lay will pay respect to tS« dead eader in a manner which had been luplicated only a few times in the listory of the nation's law making tody. Tentative arrangements for ■he funeral as announced tonigbt nrovide for fraerai service* it lf:» •'clock SaCbrtiar morning in the boose hamber Aa Meal Iwsiy far CmmtlpaMni It would be hanl to find a batter ■emedy for constipation tkin CkM xrlain's Tableta. Por Ue beet af 'ect they shoald he taksa taam*4iatal> ifter supper. IVjr aa* easy to take tiki milf* and gentle in effect.
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