North Carolina Newspapers

be lllmint ESTABUSHED 18 8 0 MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, it® | march, n. IMS. 81.6.0 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE PUTTING STOKES COUNTY ON THE MAP Stat* Will Build Hard-Surf aco Highway from Winiton Salam to Danbury. Danbury Reporter. Stoke« county citisens are »«rj mur^i slated ovsr the announcement of Commissioner A. 8. Han**, of this district, that the State Highway Coin mission will build a hard-surface road fiom Wlnaton-Salem to Danbury aa anon aa poaaibla, and that tha laat lap of tha Danbury-Weatfteld road will alao be built at an early data. Commissioner Hanea, who had juat returned to Winston-Salem from a Bleating of the State Highway Com mlaaion In Raleigh lart weak, gava out thin hit of Intereatlng information Saturday, and no news will ever ba mora important to our paopla than thia announcement It wan stated by Mr. Hanea that Vhile all hard-surface road building waa being delayed by the shortage of cement and that none of tha projects authorized could be completed at onca, all tha roada would be aurveye<l and graded and the bridgea pot in aa <pilrkly aa poaaibla ao that the cement could he put down as soon aa H wan available. Other road building authoriied to 1»e done In thia dlatrict at last week'* ■meeting of the highway commlasion, according to the announcement of Commiaaioner Hanea, include* hard aurface from Pilot Mountain to Mount Airy, from Winston-Salem to Mocka ■ville, from Lenoir to Hickory, from Wflkeshoro to Mulberry Rap, Boone and Blowing Rock, At* milea of hard aurface on the Boone trail from Wilkeaboro to Winston-Salem, and from Sparta to Jefferson. It is not thought that any of the Toad projects named above will like ly be awarded to rontraet at the next letting on April 3, aa some of them are not even surveyed yet, but they ■wfn no doubt be contracted as soon aa they can be made ready by tha high way commlaaion. It to mt» to My that wftti the com pletion of the Danbory-WeatSeld rrviid, which Is soon to be built, and the finishing of the Danbury-Stuart, Va., rond. which is now being built b" the county, the traffic going Into Winston-Salem over the road from ■here to that city will he fully *« great or rreater than that of any other j highway reaching the Twin City, the | Boone trail not excepted. Danville Officer* CHase Bootlegger; Get Blf Car. Danville, Va., March 20.—-Pour • shots fired by two local officer* at j a speeding cur freighted with tin - r«»-« tnniw Krt i»«lln?t« I of liquor resulted in the car and the liquor consignment being seized, the driver of the machine, however, es caping. The car entered the city from Bchoolfleld and wan 1H by a pilot eat, a ruse frerniontly resorted to in rum ruftnlng expeditions. Hm officers saw the tin cans and took •p pursuit of the car down West TWair street. The bootlegger recog nized quickly that he was being pur sued and put on speed, pasted the pilot ear, which was left behind to ■harry the officer* and to block pur suit. The chase continued through town, the bootlegger turning and racing back and heading for the open eountry south of here. Hie officer*, unwilling to use firearms in the resi dential Mctlon, hung on and on reach ing the outskirts opened fire. This1 had the effect of causing the car containing the liquor to stop, the driver leaping out and taking to the ■woods while the pilot car put on ■peed and disappeared. The officers have seized the car and the liquor and are now trying to trace the ma chine's ownership through its license plate. ^ England to Make First Pay ment on It* War Debt. Washington, March 21.—The Brit 'ah povemment is oreparinx to mak< the foil p»y»r>en< 1< r this verr onderl tk» recently ih>|! •'int^d refunding ar- \ tairement arvl, swording to in for- j k nation reaching the treasury depart T mept, will not exM-.-'se its -tpfion to defer half of its first yearly install-. mant It ia understood to be the intention | •f Qreat Britali. so make ita first payment of M9.000.000 on Jane IB.! TMs amount ia half of tlie yearly In-1 ataflment of Interest provided for in fba agreement, the balance falling tm Deoasnber IB, trton payment of 9ta.000.000 principal ia expected alao tab* made. TELLS FARM BOYS TO GO TO THE CITY Secretary Wallac* Say* Farm* Ara Producing a Big Surplus. Washington, March lit.—For th* last twenty ream tha ery ha« b»«r. incessant and from the houae top to young men to stay on the farm. At least 52 per rant of th* popula tion of the country arc housed in tha cities and tha nation waa told tha fact portended famine. Now Hera comes the secretary of i agrirulturs with a Maat on his dinner hom for tha plow boy to stop his tractor and hurry to town in order I to make fanning worth while. Mr. | Wallace says the country is now in danger of having too many farmer* ' with too much wheat, too much cot- j ton, too many potatoes, too many{ melons. Tha big problem now in; agriculture is how to gat the boys, off the farm and started right In the cities. The secretary in his annual report says: The rreatty accelernted movement I of farmers and especially fartneri' sons from the farms to the cities and industrial centers is one of the hope fu] signs." I The sc>*M«ry has reached this con I elusion, he say a. Wans* only 52 perj cent of the people are required to produce the food that it needed by this country anil that cart be profit ably sold to the outaidc world while 4* per rent of the people still re main on the farms. In thia country three men can feed ten men now so 1 efficient hat become agriculture. The reduction In the number of farmers meant that all poor and un productive lands must be eliminated and that f irmt furtherest from mar ket must be abondoned. Farmers then will be compelled to ship to mar ket only well graded and desirable products. Tt la now estimated that 10 per rent of the cotton sold on the market la dirt and traah. Ten per cent of the heat Worth Dakota whegt WarrC-An tin f^lrnmattermust he eliminated on the farms. It is not more credit the farmer needs. All these new credit lnws nnd the establishing of credit banks' will not make him prosperous. What he does need is a profitable price for, his producta on th? market. With the present plethora in the number of farmer* with overproduction, the i-nlt»v»tioo in tiT*Tw^«»e»»re lnnds, and the expenses in transportation, farm prgi? It tail liut sold at a profit- j able price. The war ha* 90 increased the Of* j ficlency of the American farm that the over-efficiertt farmer Is actually work-; Inn Vlmself out of a job. We sent, four rWtflion mm to th« wnr and we took a million of the daughter* of the; farmers and pwt them in office*, /ac toned and munition planta and (n i spite of *11 these falati we increased1 our farm products 20 per cent dur- i in? the war. Thi* increase has pone i on since the war notwithstanding the fart that a irreat majority of the farm boys who went to the camps and trenches, did not return to the farm after the war and the cities have (rone on trowing by leaps and bounds. The war greatly increased the use of the tractor and other machinery on the farm. Bwt most of all the farmers learned the art of rotating crops and producing profitable sidelines such as! vegetables, fraits and poultry where such products Were before unknown. Take the Southern states where only 9,000,000 bales of cotton were produced last year because of the ravages of the boll weevil. Many farmer* seem disposed to believe that because of the presence of the boll weevil they should turn their atten tion to grass growing nnd stock raising but as Secretary Wallace analyzes the situation such farming on the part of the South will only I bring the prices of grain and meat lower and will not improve conditions in the South. The problem nf producing enough and now a (Treat surplus on the farm ha* been solved and what la now needed are enough customer* to consume thia (Treat mrpluK. If En rope could buy our anrplui farm pro duct* to the same extent it did before th« war the prices would be batter. We need Europe and we need fewer people on the farm, aa Secreary Wal lace aeea it. About 7000 people read The Mount , Airy New* and ban been reading it for many years. Ton haee It eaot to Mir home the next time yoo mom to town. OlD BATTl ESHIP IOWA vjOES to ocean crave One* Proud Man • o • War, Famed For Dood At Santiago I* Sunk in Practico. Aboard U. 8. fl. Maryland. Panama Ray, March 21.- Amid strain* of the Star Hpangled Banner and the flrln* of national salute* the old battleship Iowa *ank her* lata today. After a •helling by the superdreadnaugh Mis sissippi's 14-Inch rfflee, the battered, hulk turned slowly over on Its aide and • lipped henaath the wave*. Secretary Denby, members of the congressional party, naval officers and observing ship's companies stood at attention in silent tribute tv> the once gallant ship that won fame In the destruction of Cervera'* fleet at Santiago. With thi* dramatic climax the win- 1 tor maneuver* at the United State* fleet ended. Tor part of tw o day* the ■ Iowa withstood the battering from this Mi**i»ippl which v if using thin walled »heel* hut her end eeme with in 17 minute* after the superdred naught o|>ened lip with aervice ahell* from a range of approximately nine' mil"*. Nine, five (run aaivo* *«•!* fired. The flrat went wide hut the second carried the Iowa'* death hlow, one *hell hitting at the water line, sirfrtahlng through the thick armor arid exploding inside. At len*t five other direct hit* were *cored, hasten-) infr the end. Before u*ing service shell* the Mi*aln*ippi fired 120 round* of «pecial ahell*. Salvo after aalvo (truck the hulk, carrying away the! forward *moke stark, riddling ven tilators and the auperatructure and tearing nearly a dozen hole* In the hull from *tem to *tem. It had been the intention to ma neuver the Iowa by radio control dur ing the firing but Juat before thia leaaly in the *ea a* ahell* rained down upon her. The second aalvo of the 'ir*t at-1 tack itart»d up her boilers, smoke pouring out of the after funnel. Twice shell* stutted Are* on her deck hut the*® w»r» extir^'ishnd b® e«l"mn« of water thro-am v.p by !~ ••ins of nlit'IU b**, Vt .tl thf ' ■ furl oil 'f^nrted the trnoVr pouring from the hull. A Big on Casual | Convffmtion 6ii Pullman New York. V < h 20. A casual conversation !' 's* ccn |uwM'np>n in u western Pullman car a year ago, which was overheard hv a federal revenue agent, led to an investiga tion which resulted today in the fil ing in the federal di«trirt court of an equity income and excess priflta tat atrft for $\790,R42.44, with inter est. from 4fi0 individuals and cor porations in the United State* and Canada. The defendants were stockholders In the Warren Realty and Develop ment company of Arizona, which A» nistdrrt Federal Attorney House said today, was sold in April. 1917, for *2.202,000. The government claimed the properties, largely Arizona cop per mine claims, were acquired for a little more than $500,000 and that the 1 company's 1917 tax return failed; properly to show the profit resulting from the sale. Discovery of the alleged tax fraud, the government attorney declared, was made by a field agent of the in ternal revenue service who, during the course of a conversation In a western Pullman car, overheard de- j taila of the sale of the Arizona com pany and made a report which formed the basis of the subsequent inquiry. The Investigation led, Mr. House said ( to Arizona, Washington, and oth^r state* and cities. The government's suit it brought ngainst the stockholders on the the ory that the amount* received by them were tru*t funds which the government may follow in order to recover the tax due It, Mr. House de clared. Administrator's Notice Having been appointed Adminis trator of the estate of W. H. Black burn deceased late of Sony county N. C. This is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present tha same to the undersigned, within twaive months from date of thia notice or this notice will be plead ed in bar af their recovery. An per sons indebted to aaid estate will make immediate payment torn*. 5-« p THs March 14th IMS. B. A. Booker. Admr. CO OP TOBACCO CANT BE TAXED IN VIRGINIA Attorn*? General Declara# tha Tobacco Still B«lo«fi to th« Farmar# Danville, Va., March 17.—The de clalon of th* attorney general rela tive to the taxation of tobacco held by the Tnkircn firower* Co-Operative Marketing aaaoclatlon, holding that no atate tax ran he ievld on *ueh to bacco wa* mad* public h«r# today. hy I». 0. Ragland, commla*k>n#r of th# ' revenue. Concurring In an opinion glvenhy C. !<## Moore, at ate auditor, Attorney General Maunder* holda that farmer* who are member* of the "pool" nrganltatlon have not parted with their tobacco, that It la atlll their »inr«' they them«elve« form th* aaao ! elation, The decialon mean* a loaa <?f many thouaanda# of dollar* to the ' Htatt. tn N.irth Carolina auch tobacco la taxable ami during paat month* th# marketing as«<>. lalinn ha* xhlpped many hundred* of hogahead* Into Vir ginia—moat of theae to DaHVIll# to evade taxation and to be atored here. Several month* ngo Mr. Ragland •oupht an rxpre*«ion on the auhject hy the attorney general rraliilng that tome Ick*1 ponatructlon would be »ec e«a»ry before th# lima came to a**r*a property. Th* opinion given to Mr. Rowland I* contained In a copy of a letter which Mr. Moore wrote to Meaar*. Cardwell and Cardw»ll, at torney* for the pool In Richmond. The attorney (feneral indor*aa th* opinion over hi* *ignature. Mr. Raglarid haa written to Mr.. Moore aaaerting that he will he guid ed by the d#ctaion. fie rxprraaea th# opinion that the construction of the law will "cau*e a grept deal of trouble In the future." claiming that In th# future a great deal of tobacco will be difficult to reach for the purpoae of making aaaeaamenta. Negro Fi«lU 10 Storiea to C.r«*en*horo. March 2S.—Douglas Tewns, a negro laborer, died at St. l.co'« hospital, thla city, at 8 o'clock 'ant n'.irht, 27 hour* after he fell 1 (i •tories at the 'Jeff»rw>n Standnrd huilrling. Towns was working on the 14th - ory of the hie bnildini* now m of "<■"><** ion when the timber •t;on which he stood wn struck hv ,ii vltivatur. Us ff!l 1-nrV into ni\ ( rt»vnlnt an') ' 0 *hc fwilfoMihjf »n<!inJt !i'n fill nt the fourth floor. i Tt'i" piece of timber which gave the negro a stand'ntr plr-e had been placed over »tn elevator shnft which whs open hut not beta'' UM»1. An other shift. in use adjoined and the timber projected p-irt of the way over the used shaft. Suddenly a descending elevator hit the timber on which Towns was standing, whereupon he lost his footing and the fatal fall followed. In hia fall the workman struck several pieces of scaffolding In the shaft, a fact which tended to ch#ck hia down ward progress. On the fourth floor the scaffolding makea virtually a complete floor and it was there that Towna landed. It was found that the workman's right leg was broken at the ankle, while above the knee that leg also wns broken. Hia head received a terrific blow, he was bruised in many places and suffered a number of internal injuries. The gravity of his condition was apparent at flrst; in fact, it appeared almost a miracle that life lasted more than a day after the accident, which occurred at 6 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Keen Intercut In Poetry and Short Story Contest Quite a number of Woman's Clu^ members entered with seat into the^ local preliminary content for honors in writing poetry and short stories. Mesdames E. F. McKin;iey and W. M. Ix-wis and Miss Teter, the latter of the high school faculty acted as judges and awarded the prices; to Mrs. Oscar Merritt for the best poem, the winning poem being entitled "K Spring Shower," and to Mrs. R, R. Jackson for the heat short story which was entitled. "You Cant Loss Some Reputations." The judges considered the contri butions very creditable and found H hard to render a decision. The winnng numbers, together with one or more selection by each con tributor, will be entered in the state contest for the Separk ISetry cap and the Joseph Pearson Caldwell and the OHenry cups for start stories. RUM-RUNNERS ARE WORRYING OFFICIALS Six VmmIi, Sailing From tha Bahama*, Ara Fut en tha "Suspicion List." Naw York, March IJ.-~Raporta that •la more rum ladan veaaela had left! the Bahama* for American water* and that three arhooner* believed to he tha advance guard of a aprin» rum flprt from (It. Plerra, M iquelon. had itrnppad anrhor off tha Rhode laland roaat, today added to tka worrlaa of prohibition enforcement authoritlaa. R. Q. Morrlck, newly appointed aona enforcement chief, mat tha newa with tha atatement that thara, waa nothing ha could 4o aboot It Tha federal pmhlbWon enforce mant ofllce ha* no fleet to *end oat to ropo wjth tha altuatlon, ha aald, and was compelled to rely on tha coait guard and cuatoma »arvlca to break it up. Captain Read, roaat iruard com-' mandar for tha New York dlrislon. (aid thara war* thrra cv»«t guard veaaela In hia district which hat a i-oaat Una of ahout 200 mile* -doing "occasional" work agalnit tha rum runnera. Ila polntad out that tha coaat guard had othor dutlea to par form. Custom authoritlaa aald they had tha ruttar T-axInrton on tha trail of tha nim-runnara, but declared (ha wa* far from able to copa with tha traffic. Touching on tha wiralaaa maaaaira flaahed laat night from tha rom runninr yacht later to a man In • Tlma* Square hotal and purporting to adviae him that a amall boat of liquor wa* drifting off tha Hlrhlandi. Captain Read daclarad ha waa pro ceeding on tha tbaory that it Waa a coda maaaaira. TSa mv**ara a* received by cua toma officer* read: "Motorboat adrift. Haadad far Naw Inlat. Yocra for tha aalvare. latar." Tha man to whom tha maaaaga Wa* addreaaed aant two maaaaffaa to tha Tatar, tha ftrat reading: "Tha airent will ba out thia aftamoon," and the * *ond, "Am aendinsr thraa Imata to < (Terent pointa." Tba hter It waa aald, la loaded with Scotch whiakey taken on at Claacow. from which port the Rritlah fleet wa* a*pa"ted to oparata. New Row of T«»«*th In Anti Wf»p(M! Law. Raleigh, March 23.—Hid away ».m»ng t>i«- eleven mensure* enactH, J:; the rwent j-ncral <«semhly in ■ rv*w nf for tta a»ll-w«>ap*n law, nime<i at the pistol-carrying population, wHett. d«npit« a law the nitrrh"'*" *f w'*h ' out a permit from the clerir of court, ha* succeeded in (retting around the provision thru the assistance of mai? order houses. The teeth, contained in an amend ment to the original anti-weapoa mcaaure, merely make* It a mis demeanor punishable by fine or im prisonment. or both, to receive a pistol, pump (run. bowie knife, dirk, dagger or metallic knucka from a postmaster, postal clerk, employe In parcels post department, rural mall carrier, express agent or employe, without possessing a permit signed by the clerk of court and without exhibiting the permit to the peraon making delivery. The flrst anti-weapon law con tained In Sertkm 5106 P, the con solidated statutes, was enacted some sessions ago and made H a mlade meanor to buy a gun In the state without procuring a permit from the clerk of court specifying that the weapon was to be used only for the protection of the home. The same law forbade a dealer from , making the sale until the porrhaser , had exhibited the permit. NOTICE. By virtue of an onbr mad* in the matter of W. TV. Atkins, adminis trator of Harriet Atkins against !"hn Atkins and others therein ap pointing me commissioner for the mirpose, I will sell, foT cash, to the highest bidder on the prealises the following described tract or parrel of land: Lying and being in Surry County, N. C., Westfield township, adjoining the lands of W. W. Atkins, Tommie Atkins and other*, containing SB 1-4 acres, mora or 1ms. Sale to be made on Sale mad* to raise aaaets to pay debts and cost of administration. A deposit of 10 per cent of the amount Md will be required m day of sals. This March " * 1. H. Ttlet REPUBLICAN RECORD TO BE CHIEF ISSUE Harding Administration Hu Bmd "Motl Conspicuous Failure" hi History Washington. Msrch 21.—T>ia foU low in if statomrnt was kasuad hrra Monday by Cordsll Hall, chairman of tha Democratic National Esara t Its rommlttaa: "Ths semi official announrvmast by Attomsy Ganaral Daayhrrty that President Harding will bs a candidal* for rennnrv nation la of am"II lalaisal as nsws oosnparsd with th# hmw for making tha announcement at thta tbna. "If Preaident Harding had only riMn to the level of an ordinary Preaident It would have hean tikn for jrantwl that the party would rv nominate Mm. The itoubt concerning-' hla renomination haa been ralaad by th« ftrt that hla adminiatratton t» data haa bean tha moat conaplcuoua* failure of any in tha twenty-nine na tional administration*. WH* ***1, fact Mnfronting them, tha progreaaiv* element tn tha IUpublican party a# Wall aa conservative* of aound poli tical Judgment, Ion if ago realised thai Mr. Harding could not be re-elected, and 4>egan to look for another candi date. Tha failure of tha Hardlhg ad ministration wa« demo nitrated and emphasized by the repudiation given it at tha polla laat Norasmbe*. "The reactionary supporters of tha Prealdant. largely confined to tha office-holding, and ofllc* Making claaa ea. evidently realized that If Mr. Harding waa to be re-nominated soma thing would have to be done to rrrtra interest In him which waa faat waning and alao to auppraaa thoaa party leadera who are rapidly deaartlng tha Harding cauae in search of another candidate. Hence tha announcement of the Harding candidacy by tha Praa ident'a cloaeat personal friend and moat bifrrwnttal political adviaer. At torney Oeneral Daugherty. Hanea, too, the President'* announced pur pose of making a speech-making tour of the country. "The announcement of Attorney General Daugherty will have littla or no effect upon the national polit ical situation in either party. Ona of the ouatanding i«suea in tha 1M4 campaign will b« tha r^ord of oml« -ion and coinmlaalon of the Harding administration whether Mr. Harding head* the ticket or not. On thi» ia .•ue the Democratic party is ready now to W • * \ OLD LIQUOR STATUTE IS UPHELD BY COURT. Supreme Court Hold* State Can Convict Under1 (Uglier Liwi Despite New A it Hnlcttfh, March 21.—The state can convict under the old prohibition law notwithstanding the Turlington act, the Supreme court held today in Ita derision on the appeal of Eugene Foster. Franklin county. The defendant was convicted of hav ing liquor in hia possession for the purpose of sale and also for receiving more than one quart at a time. "The defendant was not affected III this trial by the new act which did not go into effect until March, the opin ion reads in part, "and he could not plead, and In fact there was ro evi dence, If so pleaded, that be bad liquor in his home for hla own pur poses, for bis own testimony was that he did not have any at all." The declaration also says that the new act prohibits the receiving of any intoxicating liquor while under the former act it was lawful to re ceive as much aa a quart and even more than a quart if received at dif ferent times, but as the new act did not take effect until March 1, the defendant was not tried under It and cannot complain tha' the prospective change was made prohibiting any te he received after March I, as al ready stated." Continuing, the decision assert* that under the old law poaaesalon of more than • gallon of liquor waa prima facie evidence of poeeeaeiee, for the parpoee of sale, while under the ne w law the pcusston of any quantity of liquor to prima ftds evidence of poaauealaa for aala, fro rid«d not in a private dwelling of the pi tea to ttya atoo.