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**Tm caat att down aad wrtto a sas-ts.jws.tff',, to aw at MM* to* milee of 1 > tn Ml hi i TVm M Hicbwajr Gommiaaioner ■M rf • u IU gfc to find Mt Juat what eort of Ma M to bo pulled to got • Mm road (MM, whjr aomalady Mil t behind that fWhOta* contractor "He'e kaaa phUllaf alone thara aaw tinea laat September, and not 4ma yet. Looka nke ho will not bo •nuaffc tWa whole lummrr Wbjr. took at ■a—." Ami ao on. Ba jHt couldn't understand It, rauldat aae any raaaoa wlnr they didn't gn an aad (Mak It and tot people gwt aome aae out of ft boom A Leaaea From "Haw moay tona of fertilizer did yoa bay tkla year?" The queation Wall the mtht rltlwn aomewhat aback Ha waa thinking about the • lowneaa of contractor* "I fot forty toaa thla yaar. Why?" "How far did yoa bar* to haul it and bow km* did it take yoa?" Toar aitUa. and off and oa, the boya were about a weak at it, maybe more than that. The weather waa bad eoneef the time aad * "Do yoa know how many tona of mek aad aand aad cement that piddl iw ooatractor haa rot to baal, aome of H to* milaa, before he fialahee that jabrom are kickinr about?" Jw didn't know He hadn't thought It, thought ha had eeen trarka back aad forth. "Wall. TO toll That contractor haa get to awee l|U tona of atuff, aome of it ten ■flea and all of it an average of f]ve ■Waa. and he haa rot to haul it In food weather," atated the Commie eianer. Wby Not Hairy? "Well, why don't ho nt kirn some asor* tracks and get through with • *" The inquisitor was in Bo wise ready to nurrender. "Why didnt ron rt-t alt the wagon* ■ the neighhorh'**! and get through with your fertilizer in on* day?" the Hammtssioner countered. "Wouldn't pay." Wouldn't pay you. would it* Well, bow long did it take yon to get your fertilizer under the ground?" "Part of it under the ihed yet. Ten know how to put out fertilizer. It took shout two week*, one distri butor, one plow and then a cotton planter." "Why didnt jrou get half n dozen distributors and half a dozen plowa and do it all in one day?" •Ray, don't you now any more about farming than that? Dont yon know t hat's-fool jahnesa?" The reativ -tticem. who happened to be a farmer and a member of the board of county coauniaaioners back at horn* was be ginning to think that the Commis sioner waa gone plnmb beyond all reason, or that he was not good enough "far Heel to know even the rudiments of fanning. "Dont you see it, dont you see that there haa got to be common aense In building roads Just like there la in 'arming You cant get your fer tiliser home in a day. plant your crop the next, harvest It the day after and spend the rest of the year doing nothing. Tt just doesn't work out that way. It'll the same way about building a road." The Commissioner had convinced one citisen that it takea time to build a road. All of which about sums up why North Carolina cant get Its roads built overnight. Building a mile of hard surfaced road involves more sbor and more material than the construction of a ten-story building. ' but stretched out along 6,280 feet of ground K doaant show no. and most of the work done out of *ight of the **Mc. Rome Science <■ tt Building a road Involves a mors highly developed technique than building an office building. Things have got to be juat so, even to the number of seconds that the rock and •Mid and cement are mixed together in the mixing machinery, the number of gallons of water that ro into the mixture,-the accuracy of the measure ments of material, the texture and rlitiea of the material, the set and curing of the mass after it la belched out of the mixer. The weather haa got to ha right. It cant he done In the rain, nor right after a rain, and when it doeant rain, the croaks run dry. and drouth ia likely to stop work for weeks at a Km. Hard surfaced roads come ~nlv Ihroiich patience and conatant attention to the minutest detail In the measuring and mixing of the ag gregatea and the 14-day vigil that rambb while the cement is getting its Id Ml lea Par Weak Throe hundred feat of pavement par day, and an average of four days wort a week in the spring, summer sal fall la an average that eootrae ters and highway engineers and In spattcta dream about at night. Juat now there are TO construction gang* in the Mate maintaining that average, and MjDM feet af pavement are add ad^tc^tW^BIjte sgatsai "jJJjJ ___ ha bn*» • rtamp "Why east It fat tkmi faatar T Haw «• «ot to itarf far that datoor far tW Ml of a«r ftraa T" Cnnntantly tha qu«>tin«i Mm, tka folk* rvaa aK«ut fattiftf Ml m • datawt anmawhara ind wrlta MMvaaHc lattan about tka wfcnla htiainaaa. Chiaf Ea fhwwr Upturn ralla It a w4*tmrr raar," a yaw wka* m mwh nf tka taurrn* [n North Carolina irlll ha 4rtnartaff H'» ■ IMaeaMe M But why cmI tt be done IwUr ? How many of thaaa ristlsm dtliiH know what the ltd* of North Cnd lino wk< for whan It tffm a mad to a mntrartor, or how ha wilt go ahowt •riling tha rotui to tha State? How many *v*r taw the specification* of a aiae* of hard surfaced construction Take for inatance that project to ba Irt down in Cumberland county week after Mxt. Thl* la what »» wanted. Clearing and grubbing. IT acres; excavation, ftO,2W cubic yard*; ditch ed, 2.000 cubic yard*; 1,111 lineal faet of caat Iron pi pa, It to SO inch** in diameter; pavement, 11O40 *quare yarda, 641 inch thickress. The job la 11.07 mjle* long, *tretching toward Raeford, and In raott particular* la an averag* of tha condition* throughout the State. The contractor will figure the thing out on the unit basis and *uh»nit hi* bid. Shoo'd ha happen to be low. he will aaaembla about 176,000 worth of machinery and equipment, buy dbS carload* of cruahsd itona, MS car loada of sand and 187 carload* of cement. He will go to work, and in • year or *o, he ought to be through tha Job. Hew Jeb ia Started • Back of the bidding in of tha con tract ia yet another itory, of how the State found out exactly how much work there was to ba done, and set the * pacification* d.wn on a piece of paper. First, of cour*e, Comraiaaion er McGirt designated that road aa one he want* built aa *non a* poaaible, and it wa* designated for "immediate construction" Instruction* went out to the engineering department. Preliminary surreys were made to locate the road, to mark whether It •haaM go this -tide er th« ath*r sMe of roch and auch a field or (oat where it should croas this hill. After the first survey came other eningeer*, and designed the road, accounted for every shovel full of dirt that would have to he moved, computed the last truck-load of rock that would be need ed. Then the plans came to Craven's department and every foot of the road, grades, curves and the like were made ready for the blue print. Find Loral Material* Before the apecificstion* are *ent to the contractor*, the Department of Inspection* and Tests take* a hand. One of it* man roe* down to the pro apectlve lob and over every acre of the groud looking for native material that will come op to the apecifirat tjona. If there ia any atone, he find* out if it will do for road building. He look* foT aand, 'or gravel, calculated the quality, and meaaurea the haul, and take* note of the acceaaiblllty. Report* of theae investigation are attached to the call for bida. The contractor can figure Just how much local material he can uae. and how much he can aave. One contractor recently made out hia bid before ha got the material aurvey, and when he did get it, he cut $65,000 off hia bid ana got the Job. Otherwiae he might have be .1 buying atone from Weat Virginia when there are acre* of it within a atone'* throw of hia Job. Thin department coat* nomething like 12 000 per month, and aavea. well, nobody know* how much. Ordinarily the contractor doea not 'my hia cement and in aome caaea the purcha*c of the aand and (tone ia left to the Commiaaion. A fixed price i* made on materiala, and the bid ia figured on that basis. The Commia aion buy* through competitive bid ding. in large quantity, and gem-rally la able to effect a big aaving. If he doea W* own buying, he geta *tuff a* low aa he can, and uaually at a price obtained before the bid la submitted Included in the contractor'* outfit la a concrete mixer, eight to twelve 3-ton motor track*, with dump-bodie* -id a very abort wheel baae, a loading crane, ateel forma, and a raft of amaller miacetlany. For the grading, twenty to forty team*, and If the work la heavy enough, a a team * hovel. For the 1,190 carload* of material that ha will uae, the railroad will provide aide track*. He build* loading and meaaurinr bin*, and a warehouse for cement. Get Ready Firat Firat the grading. Any achooy boy who haant tor trot ten the formula for extracting the cube root from (10,000 cubic yard* will Kc *bl<> to figure Juat how big a pile of dirt that ia. It la a tratnendou* pile of dirt, but it coma* in handy filing up low place* on the right' of *4ky, asking embankments and fill* and the like. Five par rent 1* the maximum grade allowed on a State n>*d, a rale that ha* been abro gated not inore than twice hi all North Carolina, fend then for special reaaona. Water aipea have to he laid, and the machinery aet us. Theae thlnga are done saually while the grading is letting upder way. and the *uh-grada allowed 4 aettle. If aub-grade fa too technical k tern. It is the gmwnd, Juat ** -fa-revts. "s ( wklrM irmd and »miw< In Ikt mhurr • alutca opaiw. and tha grwf, atfcky mm mm not into • 'ravaltn* hMMt. Tka Mm! ahnota not mImC ■ aaraap. Ik* hnttotn 4m pa not and the mm la aptttad not o»ar tha aoh •a»da. which ha* kNR —laathart nut I ilea • floor. Tkm lahorar* with ipadn amooth It not, and tuck it op iralMt tha ataal iIiIm nf tha form. Tha flrat aMCfata la laid, two and ona tbird robtc yard* of It. Mora trurka and mnra whirlin* of tha miiar, morv fallinjr oot of tka bottom of tha barkrt Thru* hundred fc«t in ona day ta a tramendmia trip for tka mt*ar to ■«» alnnr tha rifkt nf way. and thara *r» antilaa of aatta fartion. If tha aekadnle of tha troeka la not earafoHjr workad out, tha mixar moat wait, or troeka moat atand In lina wajtinr tkatr torn to diacorn 'ha dry alamanta that win praaantly Iweome concrete. Or If tka watar dnaan't flow in a itaady atnuun It ta • highly aynchrontxcd buainaaa. Rat that la not tha and of tha read. It ta net fMahad. Tka naxt fourteen Hara arc aa critical aa tka proyarbial baby'* aaeond. Than la tka tjm« that tha lumwr mat iruloua ear* moat ba rakan. Otkarwiaa tha eoocrata will crack. It moat fat tta act, and tkan tt moat ba corad. and aoaaabody haa got to ait op at night with it. Mm comes a man witn wnat tney call templates, a aort of • riorified and magnified trowel that smoothes the smallest wrinkle* oat of the wet *«Hfy surface. and leave* it it clean aa a pane of rlaas. Then wry ten derly they lay neary burlap or canvas over the new-laid pavement, and turn in the hoae. For 24 hours a steady stream of water is kept fanning over it. The burlap is k«-pt soaked. After that they take off the burlap ind spread two inches of earth over is tvmnved and at flit end of the 0th day. traffic can bejrta to travel over it. By that time it has its set. and has been thoroughly cured, to use a Dhraae that these road technicians have borrowed from the tobacco grower. The road it finished. "Contractors air just as honest and conscientious aa any other class •>f men in the world, but some of them have to be watched." Mr Pace says now and then. He watches them all all the time. Never a second while the work is in piofress is it away from the eyes mixture that goes into a road, and the specifications say what it is. Sand is cheaper than cement, and stone is cheaper than sand, and there art eon trctors who would not hesitate to put in leas cement if they could get away with it. the surface. More water, constantly. The specifications u; that the road must be six inches thick on the sides and eight inches thick in the middle. Hal? an inch cut off the depth anywhere would mean eight per cent less coat in the road, and last much more profit to the contractor if he could get away with it Some of them try it. and some of them lack training, and many of them dont need watching. Bat they all get it. lip at the loading bins, there is an inspector who watcne* every bag of cement that goes into the box, meas ures the stone for H and the ssnd Down at the mixer is another man who watches the indicator to aee that the mix is ninety seconds. Thirty I seconds off would speed up the job, I bat it would show ap later when the ' cement began to crack. Another check is maintained back in Baleigh in the testing labratory. The contractor submits to the Com mission an account of every bag of cement that he uses and an account of every foot of pavement ha lay*. ■ They can figure out to a yard how much pavement he ooght to have laid with so much cement. They do fi gure it out, and some recent figurine will probably develop some things. One Inch of the rignt sort of cement haa two and a half Dill Ion particles in it. On that depends Its value. Other cement is not good for roads, bat the I contractor can gat it for leas money. i Some contractor* would use it, but i the tasting department testa every • shipment of cement that comes to a job in North Carolina Vary often the manufacturer wails and gnashes I his teeth and sell a rejected car load | of cement to somebody who is leas careful. Bat why cant all this be done fasterT Hard surface road* ar* II feet wide, and there la room for bat one concrete mixer and three men work ing abreast. Two mixer* on differ ent locations would double the sise of the organisation, the overhead coat of operation, and the coot of equipment. Concrete work has tt» limitations, and anyhow, the roads art going to laat several life times if time la taken with building them The native citizen got hi* hat and went home. H* didn't know antll ha got to figuring ea the back of an vnvelap that tfis year North Car* Has Norfolk. Va„ May ef a tuoty tw i to the (round In m Nottoway County, It of foH for a ndlui of fifty mllee, tWb the brilliant glare of the body ill •oath«nt Virginia and sections of North Carolina. Tho trail of H|it a* tho notoor fall in a alow ' turn from tho xenith at an angla at aboot 46 lisgisaa. waa vhfkk in thia city, Rlrhmond and at point* a kmc the James river, creating general exeite ment and even consternation oa tho part of negroes. The meteor, composed of a metallic substance, crashed into a |wn of oak tree* with an explosive roar HOC distance from any hoose. making a hole with an area of #00 aqoaro foot and barying several trees with K. Flames which immediately shot up wore risible for many miles, while trees caught firs. A party of scientists and newspaper men immediately left Richmond and thia city for the scene, which la ISO miles west of Norfolk, hat the results of their investigation war* sot known tonight, aa telephone communication waa unavailable. The shock of the fall waa felt at Lawrcncevifte, Petersburg, Chaae City, and other points. At Lawrence ville, 100 miles weat of here, windows rattled and houses were shaken while j at Chaae City similar effects were noted. Automobiliata on the roadways aa though their can had caught Are. so great waa the illumination. In Norfolk the meteor appeared to be about half the diameter of the full moon and much like a street arc light. Ita tall, of orange brilliance with a sharp blue flame fading oat at the extreme end, apparently was about ten or twelve times aa long and fully as broad aa the body. In Richmond a streak of light waa noticed More the ball of fire waa seen whirling through space to be followed by the reverberations of an explosion. The entire aoutheaatern skies were illuminated aa if by a flash of lightning and a burst of flames Mrtwr Causes Shack as if by aa Earthquake Richmond, Va., May 12.—Almost the antjre aouth aide of Virginia waa shocked aa if by an earthquake whan a meteor resembling a large ball of fir* fell last night about 11:15 o'clock. A yreat streak of light la reported to have been noticed in the sky Wore the ball of fire began swirling through apace end before s noise that sounded like a gnat explosion waa heard. A report from Chaae City, ninety milea from Richmond, is to the effect that the meteor was not only seen there, but that the explosion eauaed buildings to shaka, dishes to rattle and furniture to rock in Many ho—sa. A ntrnnoMHst* who were on roadways in Mecklenburg county are quoted aa saying that it seemed as if their cars had caught fire, so great was the illumination. One Chaae City man said this morning that the meteor fell north west of that town. He said tnhabitanta of Chase City and Mecklenburg coun ty wars badly frightened and rushed from their homes, fsaring that an earthquake waa causing the hoasea to shake. He reported no damage to property, however, and said no one seemed to know the exact point at which the meteor struck the earth. If it landed at alt The phenomenon waa witnessed by asany Richmoaders who wars on the streets shortly after 11 o'clock. The entire aoutheaatern skies ware brightened aa if by a flash of lightning or a great burst of flaaaa. While the shock waa not felt here aa at poiats sooth of tha Jasaes river, tt attracted a gnat deal of attention, a nojse similar to that deacrihed by per sons at LawranceviUe and other points beiag heard la Richmond when the detonation occurred. 1. What per rant of the Keatacfcv Top MinM to the AnoHntion baa been nld by the iMwittwa t 2. WW par coat of tka tobasss •old was the baat tihsm delivered la Dm Aaeociatioa T Answer: Leaving out tka green rridM. til# tobtrro nol/i via m| above tha average of what wa (till have on haad. TbU question wtll ba< answered mora fully balow. 5. What par cent of tha tobacco now in tha handa of tha Aaaoeiatioa la conunon tobacco T Aaawar: That* ia approximataJy twaaty par eaat of tha tobacao wa hava on hand unsold which ia cotnaton tobacco. 4. What par cant of tha 1921 crop of Burley tobacco that has baan de livarad to tha Aaaoeiatioa, ia still in tha handa of the Association unsold? Answer: Sama aa number one. 6. Whan will tha Association sail thia tobacco, that ia still in the handa i of tha AaaoeiatioaT Anawer: Wa sold five Billion pounds of our re-dried tobacco last week, and judging from tha demand we have far it, it will k* sold ia tha nest sixty day*. «. When will the Association pay the farmer ia fall for hia 1921 crop of Burlejr tobacco? Ann war: Soon aa all tha tobacco ia sold in orderly and profitable way. 7. When will the association be able to tell the Kentucky farmer what his 1921 crop of tobacco sveraged? Answer: As ao«n aa all the tobacco is sold. 8. What Der cent of tha value fil ed on the kentucky tobacco, did tha five p. r r. nt of hia crop to our receiving plants. 9. Does the Association require you to deliver all of your tobacco crop at one time, or can you deliver it one load at a time? Answer: The grower can deliver it all at one time, or one load at a time to suit his convenience. 10. Ia the Association liable to you in case the tobacco you deliver to them damagea, before it ia sold or redried? Answer: No when the grower de livers hia tobacco to the Association, he ia issued a receipt showing the number of pounds of each grade ha has delivered and the identity of each man's tobacco is lost from that time on and each grower owna his pro rata part in the total number of pounds received by the Association of the gradea delivered by the grower, if any tobacco la damaged in any grade all the gtuwers in the Association, who owna any part of that grade stands that damage pro rata. 11. When will tha Kentucky farmer know what it has cost him to sell his tobacco through the Associa tion? Answer: Aa soon aa all tha 1921 crop has been sold and the final dis tribution made. However, we hava thoroughly demonstrated to the satis faction of our members that the ex penses of our first year's operation will not be aa much as the groarer in the paat paid in actual warehouse fees to sell his crop over the loose leaf floors. Up to the first of April 1922 by which time all of our receiving planta had been cloaed, and the largest ; oart of our expense of operation had | been paid, it cost 40 cents snd 1 mill par 100 pounds for sctusl, operation i expenses. Aad thia operation expense includes all receiving plants manage ment, including common labor, salar ies of graders and general office ex ' pense including salaries, but does not include the coat to tha farmer ia pay ment for the real properties which 1 are being used for receiving planta. I Thia will be about 1 cent per pound per year. 12. What per cent does the Asso ciation agree to advance North Caro lina fanner on hia tobacco when de livered? *7 Answer: inn no ooum win oe 1i*cidod bjr the Tobacco Growers Co ipcrntivr- Association «»f Virginia, North and Sooth Carolina in connec i tlon with tobacco representatives of the Banlu famishing money for ad vance. 11. What per cent did the contracts signed by the Kentucky farmer agree to advanceT Answer: There was no agreeaant In the contracts of the Burtey Tobacco Growers Cooperative A ssodation agreeing to famish any particnlar amount bat the amonnt to be advanced was decided by the ufflaws of the Association who represented the mm hers of the A«*o.-.»tion and expert tobacco mew representing the banks who agree to ftiinlah the money. 14. Who ptaoaa the vales ea the to bacco delivered to the Association! Answer: Answer hi gaist|«a 15. Daea the farms* sm Mi to baat» aaMT ^ ^ ^ ^ MEREDITH COLLEGE TO MOVE rROM RALEIGH ladethis order without opposition am KalaigM part The institution has oatpMB its city quarters on Blount sad Ma tes streets. When ths (iris com down from their roosss they are on tils side walks, objectionable flues their standpoint, beautiful for ths city dwellers. By going to Method they will km scrss of recreation space, fmsnds foe golf and every modern The first work will be ths i tioa of s fl.0OO.MO plant. Ths I tution will hardly open wjtkost rasas for 800 girls and boildngs adapted to easy enlargement Ths transfer earn not possibly tabs place within two ysars snd it may tabs four. The money most be rsisaJ before the transfer is completed. The |7ijNi, 040 campaign will release $250 M0 tor the rollege. The grounds in the heart of the city will be salable doubtless for another 1250,000 Today's action was the result of a resolution a ysar ago. PnsMsst for its KM girts in the with great difficulty The tion has resched its capacity and it now merely marks time. This neces sity overcame the sentimental argu ment which was decidedly sgainst moving to s place bounded on the north by the state penitentiary and the south by the Method population. Look to Lightning Bug to Alter Radio Methods Peoria, 111., Mijr 11.—If Mitaei eu discover how the lightning bog's •ending apparatus flashes light waves present day radio science May be sap erseded, E. 0. Shalkhauser, professor of physics and radio science at Brad ley Polytechnical institute hers, said today. Professor Shalkhaoser believes that the firs fly can send out an si si Ills magnetic wave, hot its somes is still a mystery and this he is investigate "If we could find this source, I think we could throw away all oar aa. tennae, sudion bulbs and other appar atus, because in ay belief the lightn ing hug may have a little power plant of his own more highly perfect thaa any fruit of radio science," said Pro fessor Shalkhaoser. "It has bet* proved repeatedly that the wave transmitted by the bog is a cold light wave. The light wave, heat wave and radio wave are the same in a sense because they have the same frequency. It may be possible to tone down Ura sufficiently'low wave length to dia rem the bog code. in Honor of Wilson Hot Spriitf*. Ark., May 10.—A in honor of WUaon; adoption of tiona at yraattaga to Mr. WQmp. Preaidant Harding and Sacratorr mt State Hofhca; tha reading of on tha col taction and of canteBMT fund*; the of • quantity af I tlM ittcfrtiit 1mm rata* to tha conference of tha
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