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. ESTABLISHED 18 8 0 MOUNT AIRY. NORTH CAROUNA THURSDAY. JUNE 2nd. 1921. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, BLAIR WINS IN CONTEST 3on*te Voted 59 to 15 In Favor Of Confirm* tion Washington, May 27.—David H. Blair, of Winston-Salem, whose nom ination to be commissioner of inter nal revenue, was confirmed by the aenata Thursday after a bitter fight, will not take the oath of office until Saturday, or possibly Monday. This la not because Unity Is Friday, for Mr. Blair said he was not at all supersti tious because hi' was bom on Friday, the 13th, and Friday has always been a lucky day for him. It la understood that Blair's com mission cannot get back from the White House in time for him to lake oath of office today, and it may take longer, altho every effort will he made to expendite the matter in order that the commissioner may take charge of bis new duties as early as possible. Confirmation or Mr. Blur is ex pected to result tn the speedy clear op of a number of important matters that hav« been h#ld up in the revenue bureau for a number of weeks.. Mr. Blair's nomination «fas con flrmen yesterday by a vote of 69 to IS, eight Democrats and seven Repub lican senators opposing. Senator Johnson made his final light in an executive session of the senate but was voted down after sharp debate. Mr, Blair's confirmation fills a vacancy in the office of internal rev enue commissioner which has exist-, ed for a fortnight, with Secretary Mellon acting in the interim. Johnson accused Mr. Blair of hav ing violated the North Carolina pri mary law as a delegate at the Chicago Republican convention last June by failing to support the California senator, who was high in North Caro lina's preference primary. Senator Johnson also contended that Mr. Blair was disqualified be cause income tax appeals of the nominee's relatives were pending for action before the internal revenue bureau. Both charges were denied at racent hearings before the senate finance committee, which recommend ed confirmation The opponents of Mr. Blair, it was said, included the following: Borah, Johnson, Jones of Washing ton, Kenyon. I.add, La Follette, Nor beck and Norris, Republicans; and Aahurst, Harris. Harrison, Reed, Sheppard, Walcott and Watson, of Georgia, Democrats. Besides a multitude of tax matters which have been held in abeyance dur ing the past week, many important prohibition questions await settle ment by the new commissioner, treas ury officials said. Foremost of the liquor problems is the issuance of regulations covering the use of beer for medical purposes under the opinion rendered by former Attorney General Palmer on March Srd. These reflation*, it in said, have been prepared and await the study and approval of the commissioner. In this connection, it was explained. Mr. Blair must decide whether all brewers ahatl be permitted to put beer on the market for medical purpose* or only certain breweries under special per mit*. Another medical use of alcohol awaiting the attention of the commis tioner. it was said, is the issuance of regulation* lifting the limit from the number of prescription* a physician may write for whiakey. Under the •ami' opinion, handed down by Mr. Palmer, official* declared, It wa* held that the bureau ha* no right- to- fix arbitrary limit of 100 prescriptions in M days now In force. New regulation* have been drafted tertiatively in this connection, it wa* added. One of the mo*t delicate prohibi tion decision* Mr. Blair will be called upon to make, official* asserted, i* in connection with aacramental wine. Under the bureau'* rules, it was aaid, wholesale liquor dealers have been forbidden to do business and church - as are required to obtain wine for sacramental purposes from wholesale druggist* Protest has been entered by re ligious bodies, officials said, on the ground that the church could not ob tain winea of standard quality from the druggists. The churchmen con tend. It was explained that wholesale liquor dealers who confine their bust neaa to supplying sacramental wine to religioua organisations *hould be eiempt from the bureau's baa to that the churches may obtain the proper winas for si iluei. Senator* Simmon* and Overman in apaaktef Ml Mmlf of Mr. Blair did as briefly, It being anderstood that what they had to My was that he waa a sua ef slsaa Ufa and habita, >Mriw> • good mum ia North Carolina a CONSTRUCTION WORK IN NORTH CAROLINA Col. Old* Tell* About the Big Plant* Owned By State Near Raleigh (By Fred A. Old*) One of the most important place* tn North Carolina U the headquarter* of it* greatest enterprise; th* |60, 000,000 plan of highway building, for 110,000.000 i* allowed for 1020-21 In 1MI, directly after North Carolina seceded from these United Stntes (or rather attempted to secede, a* the re sult in April, 1865 showed) the state took over a wide area a couple of miles west of Raleigh, for the princi pal camp of instruction for its infan try soldiers, Tamp Mangum. Little did any one dream in those days that In 1918 this would be called chief "Tank" camp of the United State* and that in 1919 it would be bought by the State Prison Board and be made the state farm. Fact I* far stranger than any Action and here is a case in point. rue prison rarm embraces s.uuu terra; one of the Aneat location* In jril the state. There are now 226 con vfcta quartered there. Hereafter the great majority of the state convict* will he employed on the public high way* and about 450 will he available for thin a* able-bodied men. The State Primon will be maintained in its old quarters, but largely a* a hospital, as there are many feeble convict*. On five acres of the pri*on farm iind in a few yards of the Southern nnd Seaboard Air Line railway* and the hard-surface Central Highway, i* the hig workshop of the State High way Commission. Several buildings are completed and in use. all being fire proof Ore is a strange building df conemte. ISO by !>0 feet, for sup plies; another a workshop of the same dimensions of steel And glass. Work is in progress on two sheds of steel each 50 feet wide and 1.000 feet long, to contain SO0 of the big truck* which the U. S. army used and which the general government has turned over to the Highway Commiwio*. A. strahgesned for parts of machine*, etc., will he between these two great sheds, all standing on concrete "foot ing* " Everything is on a big scale. A steel derrick, wiih gigantic booms, SO feet long, each a stick of timber over two feet square, i* going up. There are two or three acre* of equipment now in the open, but to go inside the iked in the next 60 or 90 day* There are also stored part* of machines to the value of $100,000, There is a pile driver on a steel car, wiffc great pow er, which cost the government $128. 000. In all the equipment cost origin ally several million dollar*, and all of it will be salvaged and made usable As Mr. Charles D. Farmer, who i* in cbarire of this big plant, says, "Noth >ng will he wasted or thrown away; we will restore it all and put it to the best sort of use." At this plant 14 convict* are at work. A few men can do a vast deal of work, at the numerous machine*, all electrically operated. There are groat mixer* of concrete, manv sorts of truck*. automobile*, and queer bomb-proof cover* of cor-1 rugated iron; special car* for carrying hijrh explosive* such at TNT (trini trotoluol). The prison farm i* largely culti vated by gasoline tractor*, of which there are three. Last year there were 600 acres in cotton—this year there 1 will be only about 260, but there will be that much more in corn. .Captain Christian, veteran manager of con-j ivicta, (who greatly like him) ia in I charge of this big farm and it like the '"Truck Patch," (the alang name for 'the place where the highway trucks jare kept-, is to be an object-lesson J i The former Confederate drill-ground ; ia now in perfect cultivation. Draining, hillside ditching, clearing of foreat* land and all sorts of other things have. kept the prison force at the farm aa ibur.y as bees ever since it was ac-1 quired from the private owners in the late autumn of 1919. The concrete quarters are the old • barracks of a part of »the "Tank Corps"; in the stables of that organi zation are th« horses, mules and cattle. There are hundreds of hogs, and no end of poultry. The buildings o« the farm have been made attrac tive and in theae live Captain Chris tian and the others of the direct forreJ ' Highly trained and dependable labifti working full time and every day, has wrought a wonderful transformation Any farmer will find It worth while to visit this farm and thence go to another great one, that of the Central Hospital for the liam (easily one of the (Inert In the state) and that of the 8teto Cell age of Afriealture and engineering. Th» convicts sm also making brick, for uw In public build ings. There arc a <»* mill and cotton Kin. Thi» college far* U«a between thos* of the State Prison and the Central Hospital. It ia In bettor ihape this season than the writer has svar seen it. The work is don* by hired labor. Tha range of activities of the colleg* is, of course, wide and Its farm* can be made a notable object-lesson in agricultural methods. The college has a large dairy, the extension work sec tion, the iron and wood-working shops, but It has many other possibilities. In the future there will probably be a great many student workers on the farm. The college ia hut young and in ten years will no doubt have thrice as many students as at the present. Its textile school is already the largest in the United States, and has won a high reputation. The biggest building plan is now about to begin, with much needed new dormitories, and mess hall enlargements The earliest dormitoriea yet remain in use, and are very small and not at all modern. Quite near then? a pair of dormitoriea are at last nearly ready for use, after fearfuf*and' Wbndcrful delay* in construction. At least they would have seemed »o ten year* ago or even less, but in these degenerate ■lays, when at least half the world de vote* itself to the avoidance of nil work, many folks have become callous. The college farm adjoins the big one of the Central Hospital, the latter holding now the record as the "star" form of all state institutions. At the Ontral Hospital a-vast building pro gram is now to begin, with $750,000 appropriated- more than all other appropriations put together for build ings. Kirst to be constructed will be two congregate dining-rooms, one for msli'*, ^e other for females, these to b- connected with the central kitchen, by far the largest and finest ill the state. Each of these dining rooms I* said to seat 760 persona. The coat of the two will be about 1100,000. They! will be fire-proof like the kitchen, of. reinforced concrete and brick, A re ceiVng patients, to correspond with the one for women which ia in uae. It will be1 near the men's wing of the great building. A new dormitory for women will be built, near the one for improved patients known as the Erwin building (named for William Erwin of Dor ham) and will be joined by a covered way with the latter structure, which is for 100 patients. The laundry burn ed accidently last October. It has been rebuilt and doubled in size and in capacity for work and is fireproof. It is 190 by 50 feet, two stories, is admir ably ventilated and equipped. Direct ly after the fire 'he laundrv work had to he'sent to Kaleigh to be done, anu ! this cost $700 a week. Hut quickly1 a temporary laundry was extemporiz ed in part of the new 1 itchen building, i In the new laundry all the work on ■ clothing will be done, including mak ing and mending. It was in 1913 tnat] the notable conference on hygene met at this hospital. Even since that time the legislators have had the vision of liberality. Rickard't Receipt* Break All Record* f'arpentier fl(rht for the world'* cham pionship ha* broken all box office ] record*. With the dat« of the bout five, week* distant Promoter Tex Rickardi today announced that the receipts had reached $525,000. Thousands of teats yet remain available. Receipts of the Dempsey-Willard battle constituted the previous record of $452,622, nearly twice as much as the high mark which had been estab lished by the Johnson-Jeffries battle, when Rickard gathered in $270,756. All seats except the live-dollar gen eral admission pasteboards hare been on sale here for the past two weeks. General admission tickets will be sold' only on the day of the bout. It is im possible to predict what the attend- j ance and receipts will total because it; is planned to extend the site of the arena within reasonable limits, to satisfy the demand. Interest in the coming bout is far greater than in any other contest he has promoted, Rick ard declares. Eggs At 20c In Chicago hirago. May M.—Freak eggs quoU ed at forty-one cents a dosen whole sale May 1, 1M0, dropped to twenty cents a dosen up to May It, this yaar, according to figures made public to day by O. W. Olaon, preetdent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, gutter and cheese, the l|Hw show, have *» cltaed shailarly New York, May 26.—The Dcmpaey PRISON NEWSPAPER IS EDITED BY A TAR HEEL " " 1 H. O. Princa, S*nrb| T»rm la South Dakota, Helping To Uplift Prisoner* Sioux Falls, S. D., May 29.—Tb« publication of a prison newspaper— The Meaxvnger—with th* "Golden Rule" as its motto, published and edited by the prisoners at the Si uth Dakota penitentiary here is the latest plan of the warden, George Jameson, to "make men, rather than ex-convicts out of Inmates." H. O. Prince, of North Carolina.' who is serving a term for check forg ery. is editor of the publication, which is issued monthly. An editorial in the paper says: "When a man is sent to prinon, he is socially dead. He is, however, still a man. capable of the likes and dis likes in the same way as those out side. He will respond as quickly as snyone to the treatment he receives, whether that treatment is for his in terest of against it. The frills, skamn and false pride and th* thousands of other little arts of deceit are struck away in prison. His character is bared, ready for the work of develop ment to go forward or backward. When a man leaves a prison it depends Isrgely upon what prison treatment has dune for him whether he is a man or Just an ex-convict. "Uur mm*ion m to represent th* man inside, having justice done; to help the world to realize that much valuable manhood tan be reclaimed from the 'scrap heap' by simply recoirnlxinir him as a man. instead of withholding the chance to make pood, which ia hi* birthright. "If. therefor®, we can help the man inside to pet, rajram on keep charac ter; help to see how to be a success and help in doing away with social prejudices and ostracism which a pris , oner meet* after he has been released,' we shall not have worked in vain." Death Of W. S. Sale At Elkin **.» XC JJr. W. S. prominent (itlifn and business man of this town, passed away yesterday morning at 9 o'clock In his home on Bridge street after an illness of seven day* with bronchial pneumonia. He wax 52 year* old and ia survived by hi* wife and four small children. He had been a member of the school board here for several years and was elected a member of the town com missioners at the election the first Monday in May. He was a good citiien and had the full confidence of his fel low men. For many years he had been a member of the Baptist church. The funeral services were held in the Bap tist church yesterday afternoon at 3:S0, conducted by the pastor. Rev. H. T. Bancom. assisted by Rev. W F. Staley, of North Wilkesboro, a former pastor of the deceased, after which the remains were conveyed to Holly wood cemetery and laid to rest in the presence of a large concourse of soi - rowing relative! and friends. The floral offerings were very beautiful and pro fuse. One design, contributed by the principal and teachers of the graded school, was a beautiful token of es teem to his memory. Americana Go Into Mexico To Get Man Mexico City. May 2rt.—Thirty Americans are reported to have cross ed the international boundary at Veges, state of Coahuila, on Tuesday in pursuit of Leondro Soria, a Mex ican, charged with violation of the United States laws. Advices received here declare Soria was captured and taken bark acrosa the border, it being alleged that he was dragged across the boundary line by his captors. President Obregon has ordered the foreign office to make an Inquiry with a view to making representation* to the American government. NOTICE North Carolina, Sorry Count? In liKordrr'i Court Before The Ji C. A. Shelton, Plaintiff. VS. Seymour McCraw, Defendant The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled aa ahove ha* been commenced In the Recorder'! Court of Mount Airy town ship, for the purpose of recovering the jum of money due the plaintiff, and that an attachment haa boen issued krainst the said defendant, and the said defendant will further take notice that he ia required to appear m the 1st day of Jily, 1921, at the Town Hall in Mount Airy, and answer or damnr, or tke plaintiff will apply to «nt for the relief d—mUJ In said complaint. Tfaa the #7th day of Ma*, 1MI. BRYAN RETURNS TO LAW "P*«rl«M One" Again Hang* Out Hi* Shingl* And now Mr. Bryan, after a pro tracted excursion into the Aalda of politic* and sociology, roturned to the practice of law. He has again "hung out hia shingle." Mr. Wilaon'i example ia eatrhlnc. Mr. Bryan la no interesting a man and has run so interesting and distin guished a mura*. observers, in a per fectly friendly way and spirit, some t imt'H indulge in spwulation about him. Was he "cut our for" the bar, for politlca, for reform in general on lay lines, or for tha pulpit? Mr. Bryan's return to the bn- n«* at a time when tha law be< kon* most invitingly. Disputes, about domestic as well as foreign affairs, are multiply ing. There is abundant busineaa for men i' ic*,t«'d for court procedure. Inter national law in particular was never before so promiaing of reward for those qualified by study and ex perience to follow its course and intri cacies. The Washington bar has had three notable accessions in a short time— Robert Lansing, Wood row Wilson and now William J. Bryan.—Washington Star. Baldwin-Felt* Detective* Are Found Not Guilty Six Baldwin-Felt* detective*, indict ed in connection with the death* of three persons who were killed in the battle at Matewan, W. V., more than a year airo, were found not guilty hy( a jury in circuit court at (.vwisburg | Tuesday. The MictmmU airainat the detect jives were returned by a Mingo county grand jury and the trial w»« held in, the Green Briar court on a change of venue. The Testerman indictment was tak-, en up first. The defendant |>1t\ded not iruilty, and Isaac Brewer vu placed on the atand by the proaecution^itf chief of police of Matewan. shot the mayor, who waa standing in front of a hardware store. Hatfield, the witness testified, fired from inside the store. On cross-examination, council for the defense stressed the point that the (rtiot which ended Testerman'* life came f--om inside tl.e *tor«, and that all of the Baldwin men w«tv on the; i.utside. Campaign In Interest Of School Bond* I* Pushed Salisbury. May 29.—The campaign in the interest of bonds for schools and an increased tax rate to maintain schools is being pushed by friends of the movement but this week their ef-, forts will he confined to converting those who are registered and arc against the proposition. The registra- j tion books closed Saturday evening with probably less than half the vot . ers registered and with the hor.d peo ple hopeful of carrying bo»h priposi tiorn. Mass meeting* held during the past 'ew days were !argel> avended am1 many enthusiastic ! l'ks were iniide by citizens in a>l walks -A 1-fe. j A number of the fraternal orders have endorsed the movement as has also the central labor union and other organ izations representing many citizens. Send* Monkey To Jail Woodbury, N. J., May 26.—The county jail ha* a new occupant—a man-size monkey—and it does not like its quarter*. Warden Mager is ready to give it up to anybody who wanta a monkey of that kind. Surro-, (rate F. D. Pedrick, the real owner of the animal, li willing to impart all hit rights, title and intereat to the first person who cornea along and la will ing to assume ownership. The Surrogate's brother in Phila delphia won the animal in a raffle. He aoon discovered how much he didn't want the hungry and mischiev ous beast and shipped it to the Surro gate. The latter tried it a few days and then had the big simain locked up on a charge of diaorderly conduct. First Of Gen n OAean Tried Leipaic, May ».—Sergeant Heine, accuaed of having ill-treated British soldiers who were prisoners of war at the prison camp at Herne, West phalia, waa sentenced to ten months'j imprisonment by the high courts km today. Hs was the first German of ficer to be tried on criminal charges s rising from the conduct of the war. Tits attorney fsnsral demanded that Heinle be sent to prison for two years. The next sase to he tried will bt, that of Csptsts Mostler, wke wm m cuss^of m-trsattot^Mtfak alta BattU Of LittU Big Horn Jum Twenty-Fifth BUlina, Mont.. May 17,—With ttm United States cavalryman and meaa bers of the American Legion taking the part of General Custer's Ill-fated frocru and Crow and Cheyenne Indiana representing the Sioux, tha battle of the Little Bit Horn la to be re-enactad on the forty fifth anniversary of tha Custer mas*a«re. June 25. I'lana for the observance which will Include the unveiling of n monument to General George A. < unter at Hardin, Mont., 13 milea from tha bat tleirround. have heen announced by 'he C'ualer Hattle Annlve iry Asao ciation of Hardin. The reproduction of the battle on the acene of the massacre will take place at 11 o'clock In the forenoon and after a banket dinner In the govern ment park In the Crow Indian recur vation. the spectators and participants will go to Hardin for the unveiling of the monument. An Indian pow wow and a street dance sre planned for the evening a-tivlties at Hardin. Permlsalon. it is announced, has Iwen obtained from the government for the uae of the national cemetery established on the battleAald. where are buried the victims of the masaaere and co-operation of the war depart ment haa been tendived. General Hugh L. Scott, of the historic Tenth cavalry, which participated In the battle, and Mr*. Custer, widow of the commander of the heroic little hand, have been invited to attend. ■■ ■ " A Prairie Dog Village Did you ever see a prairie dog vil lain?? If you have been on the big prairie* in western United State*, any j where, perhaps, from Montana to northern Mexico, you may have seer these curious and wonderful little vil lages. If you vliiited the too in Cen tral Park, New York City, you rau»t have »een the tiny imitation dog vil a few feet apart, but the prairie dog* themselves only appear above ground occasionally, for they are very thy little creatures, and even in their na tive haunts seldom show themselvea above ground in the daytime if them are people about. The prairie dog, or harking squirrel, as he it sometimes called, bccause hia hark sounds something like that of a puppy, is not really in the least like a dog in appearance. He is a little wood chuck in miniature He is usually about 13 inches long, and is of a cinnamon-brown color, and yellow white underneath. He has a black tip to his tail. In the winter he does a bit of "camouflaging" and turns more trayish to match the landscape His cousin, the prairie squirrel, is somewhat smaller and looks and be haves a good deal like the striped squirrel* of the eastern statei. The prettiest of the prairie squirrels is the striped gopher, a slender, lithe little creature, with beautiful striped and spotted fur. Most common of all ia the pocket gopher, or pouched rat. a* he ia called. He it so shy that he it seldom seen by travelers. He hat capacious pockets on each tide of kit head, which are not connected with his mouth at all, but open on the out side! They are l'V<l with short hair, and he uses then, to carry food into hit burrow. They are very convenient receptacles for packing hate I nuta, roots and seeds of prairie plants until they ran be stored away in the cup boards of hit burrow. Hit neat i« a small round chamber under the ground, a coty little place, lined with Jried grasses and fur. TIM prairie aquirrel is eaaily tamed, and make* an axccllent pet One man carried two of them about in his pockets. _ Wouldn't you like to looli inside of a prairie doc's house * They are built close together, and .consist of under ground passageways. From these go labyrinths extending for miles, and having many avenues of escape, a great many back doors, which bring them out a long way apart. Near the entrances are hillocks about IS laches high, which the prairie dogs use aa watch towers. It Is a very funny sight to see the little creatures standing upright on their hind feet on top of their towers, taking an obeerratkm. At the least noise or sign of approach the shy little things whisk into their holes with • comical flourish of their tails. But their curiosity gets the heft tar of them tmaaediataiy and oot pop their heads the next silooti -to mm what's up " Prairie D«c chat* a» hie *mr ■—■Hi to'hie My kmnOm'
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