Pupils Overflowing:
Mount Airy Schools
t Situation Creates a Problem
g Early Solution
.
at Meant Airy
they cm not 1
ft the moat out tf tktir i
"Let me ahow yoatheiituation in thai
to
IS pupil* hot m (Mt art th* i
for homing »pace that
had boon placed in th* aialea, \
of the
every available inch of
with Mo. Sranl of
to a dooen
aon pupils in a room than cnM ho
advantageoualy accommodated. la thla
hallway a Ugh achool teacher waa
a riaaa, down in the baao
ia houaed th* conatrHal depart
ment, and in another room of the haae
went ia the rhooi leal laboratory and
hi the chemical laboratory ia another
dat room. Thoae ban aunt room
will not he comfortable When winter!
time aeta in and they will have to be j
abandoned. The writer happened to
notice a davenport in one of the hall-1
waya and waa told by the Buperinter
deat that thia waa the only place he
had to pot a pupil who happened to
faint or get nick during achool hour*.
The auditorium of the hl|h achool
building aeata normally 22ft peraona.
Th* achool haa enrolled 240 pupil*.
Laat year there wera enrolled 22# pu
pil* in the high achool and all the elaaa
rooma went filled to rapacity. On
you imagine how the condition ia to-,
day with 157 grade pupila in the aame
building* To accomodate the influx
of pupila the library haa been torn!
from it* room and ateewn around the,
auditorium walla; the Superiaten- j
dent'a office and the teachera* reat
room thrown together for a rlaaa i
even the little aix by aix foot)
dreaaing rooma at each *ide of thai
Mage have now become recitation j
Mount Airy haa never had a I
acience claa* room there 1*1
for It The Superintendent
and the Principal lack decent office*,
where they can keep recorda *o they
My he readily ammlblo.
The achool haa no gymnaahna, than
L1 • L HAikiaMifliaAM U ammA I
wnirn noininari»»m*»re nwiNw nouni1
Airy. 11m Southern Aaaociation «fj
High Schoohi demai
ahaII have I
• wary and a reading room and In I
the achool la defldec
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Hurat explained that
haa availahla from a
we aoaae $40,000 with
U.a—J a. ,..a M
WWj HUCIW W VTWt aan NQI -
H
Airy"* adtoato to ton Mi
Um Mwilifw that Mount Airy tow
to offer in education. The town tou
grown heyewd the corporate ttmita.
so Much that probably 4MeMldm of
achool age H|||| with hi • radio* of
tknc ailo from tha town. The par
anta of many of thaaa dHWrw work to
Meant Airy and Mn to aaml their
childr*n to town for tha srhaal term,
that their children may torn tha ad
vanUfta of tha lancer torn aai the
superior instruction found Wee. Many
of them are frank to any that their
children who have attended school
here for a term learned more than
they did to the little ant —mm achooj
houae not to the country dm Ilia two,
three, or mere terma. They any that
•team halted rooms, remfartabla
deaks and aolleffr trained tiidun
somehow hiring better reaolta than
can he had to the country, with poor
accommodation* tnd often poofiy pff.
pared teacher*. But it ceeta mere to
conduct such a achaol aa Mount Airy
haa, and for thia reason parents of
pupil* restimr outside of Mount Airy
are required to pay tuition not alone
for the *rtra three month* term to
the town'a achm! hut al'o the ii'fer
ence between the of schooling a
pupil here and in the county acboois.
By a careful comparison of coat it
haa been found that to achool a pupil
in the elementary fndea in Mooa*
Airy for aix months coata $30.46,
while in the rest of tha county it
coats $7.43 leas. In the high school I
grades It coata per pupil for six
month* *62.81, while anywhere else
in the county the eeat la S18.69 ieaa.
Nevertheldaa acorea of parenta over
the county, and more particularly on
the outskirts of town, an be seeching
the achool authoritiea hare to take
their children into our aehools at any
price. Of course in aome instance*,
and particularly in the high achool
the county pays the larger portion of
the tuition of these outside pupils for
a six months term. But in no event
is the town of Mount Airy out a cent
for tuition or for accommodations for
such outside pupila As may be attend
ing the aehools here, save only for
the achool building which houses them.
And right here we rub elbows again
with the grant achool problem can
fronting tha towT..
With Mount Airy'* achooU already
crowded to the banting point, with
N outside pupil* in the high school
and 160 to the trade* and Superinten
dent Hunt refuting adit—ion to
country children daily what will Mount
Airy bmtoaaa men and taxpayer* 4a
about it. 8 out tote* a problem In
trllicently and fairtr itetod i* half
solved. Thi* la a matter for the earn
est conaideration of the rariooa ctoha
of the town; for a catiaiiewtleit free
from boat, narrowneaa or prejudice.
The Near* repreaeatative pat thia pro
blem up to ann of our tewnaaaoa.
Here la what they aay:
Profeaaor Hunt, Superintendent of
Mount Airy aehooia. aaid: -The only
thinir to 4a la to buy |m*4 and anal
a modem kith achoal buildtot to ae
mt mm. It ia
mm f«r»M fiuilii Mm
a# the
"I consider tl|
ft crime Id rpfiiM any child m
tloti. Mm; spent hv Mown*. Airy [
eitisfM it pifliklifH bctttf
dationa for the children will be i
well htoM. W# moat bMtir
selves iMMdUi'iy to MM for *|
bigger tad batter town."
J—iaa Lovill, B»e»tx" of tha School |
Board, wid: "I have tha t
fi denes in the ability of Prof*
ha ia rigfct The
the high school ran at
over for only a year or aoch
If Hoiat Airy ia to glow (and it i
(trow), wa nut provide
Bare follow, what kmh of Mount
Airy* neighboring town* are doing j
to nut their school bowing pro-]
Mem*. Reidaville. with a tunaller nut
ber of teacher* than Moant Airy, is |
now potting over a bond iasue of|
1260,000. Hickory ia making a tttt.
00* addition to their high *ehMl.|
Morganton ia in the midat of a $200,
000 program. Kinston ia erecting 11,
0WJ00 worth of achoal building*.
Newton baa Juat completed a lltt<
000 h|gb school.
It eaata money to rdocate children,
bat it coats infinitely mare to allow
them to grow up in ignoraace. WOI
Meant Airy rise to meat the obliga
tion and the opportunity, or will It
trail along behind the advancing age?
Citiiena of Mount Airy are invited
to viait their achool building* and *oe
for themaehrca whether rondittoi
there jMtify the sUtemeaU made in |
this article.
Olin Joom Dim, at HU Hom
in WiMlMi
Winxton-Salem, Oct. SI.—Olin W.
Jane* >f«d 69 years, on* of the beet
krown citizens of Winston-Salem,
died suddenly in the yard at hia liowi
114 North Green street, thU morning
at about 10 o'clock. He was engaged
in moving some srood when the sod
den sunmons came. Death is said
to have been caused by an attack of
ipoplexy.
Mr. Jones was known throughout
North Carolina and parts of other
states as a successful real estate
auctioneer.
Cbat's Murclaret- Haunted by
Bad Draama
Berlin, Oct. 31.—The leader of the
band which murdered the late esar of
Kossia and his family la at present
in Berlin, according to the Lakal An
teiger. The man fc under medical
treatment in a nursing heaae suffer
ing from hallucinations which have
haanted him since the day at tW
The soviet embassy ia Baffin, which
hi said to be looking after the man.
has pruvidad him srfth money and fit
If a person in goad
health, but who Im|IhI himself sfek
should send far yan, what woald yam
WnjOWS TALK TO K
HCAMD ALL OVU LAUD
loned In the yard of the "1" itml
how*. AaipUfM by thu apparattu it
irill be mrlal on telephone wirea to
the WCAP btoadcaating station bm
m4 or another art of win* to tha
WKAF station la New York, where
K will be MpUflM apin before be
in* broadcast on a different ware
ba«th from that wed by WCAP.
Tbia mrsaage by Nr. Wiiaoa wilt
be qette apart fraai any ha nay de
Mhrer to the iiuwite that will auka
• third visit to Ma haM an Armis
tice day. Anawgeatenia far tbia 4am
•Nl mUm by a
hy
•on, of the federal trade
Mr. Ants Owner who Mat in bis
dollar fifty to for Having bis toU
rcfiMtrad n Ikitvti cwild not itnl
it, is likely to bar* a (lorioa time gut
ting Ma dollar refunded. The papers
last woek announced that a rutin# of
the Attorney General waa to the ef
fect that a dollar of toe fee collected
woo Id be returned, as the Secretary of
State had ao right under the atotote
to collect but M renta. Since that
announcement the daily paper* report
that the whole nutter ia to be re
viewed in the state Supreme Court,
and thia will mean that the dollar
refund will he sometime showing up.
PoUoering is an explanation of the
muddled affair.
Kaleigh, Oct. M.—Teat case of the
automobile title registration law by
which Secretary W. N. Everett may
be safe from prosecution for faflura
to uaa the groat seal of the state, was
being planned this afternoon by Sen
ator Charles U. Harris ao that an
agreed case may go up immediately
to the Supreme court.
Attorney General Manning's letter
riven out last night from hia office
reversed an earlier ruling as to the
H.BO itgiatration foe. In that letter
the state's counsel holds that the seal
of the state is not required by the
ntatute, but a special seal for this
work. He therefore advises 'hat the
registration fees he reduced to 50
cents and that the dollar excess paid
by 7<r,000-odd automobile owners, be
returned.
However, the secretary of state will
not send this money back until the
Suprmne court has interpreted the
law. Senator Harris, who always
thought the rsgtotrotloa foe waa
meant to be M cents, b getting Manly
Pennington, owner of a ear, te make
the teat case. There wfll bo no dispute
whatever aa to the facte. Mr. Harris
wfll than cany the matter hsfses the
wart, argue the law and the fhete and
sak tor a Judgment. Should the court
then hold that the $1 extra Is illegal
all msneys collected above the M
rente, will be returned.
in rural
fall. They m on
to wll every kM of I
M
of tkte. Dr. EUgor. kw
written • latter to all the fiaM work
er* of tha State College and Depart
mont aaklnf tlaa
fluenc* in tha right way 1
their cooperative farmer* ra
chase of aeeeeaary wpyliw ai
mont and ia tha mc of i
far tha pnwhaee of (
will add to tka comforts of tha fa
home, to pay back Mb and to
prove pandit to na for batter farming j
•text year.
Indications ara that thara U a reg
ular oaptifn on to gat as much of
ha farmers' money ai possible thru
the nae of agent cany—m. G4
■rally, it ia found bjr worfcem of the
Extension service (hat such thing* as
ha farmer will need for his farm
"ind home equipment or for his
venience and hame beautjficatior can
be purchased beat through the regular
channels rather than from same trar.
cling agent or canvaaaer. The buai
neas men of the homt town are those
who pay the taxes, support tha public
institutions, advertiae ia the news
papers, and keep things going in the
home community. The integrity of
'hese men ia known. An unaatiafae
tory article may he i«turned to them
and settlement made; hot, with the
canvassers owe* he gets the money
—tha fanner may or may not got
the article purchased, or he may or
may not he satisfied with it should
He get it.
"Let the traveling agent alone.
Purchase from your hoaM merchants
ind invest your fbrplus money wiae
ty.' is a warning Dr. Eilgore issues
■it this time.
Heretofore President CmlU— >»|
not bom a church meaabei
been recently received in |
by the First Congnfalioiii] church j
of a
ed since he first willed on Ms i
of vice-president. The Natienal Coun-j
cil of Congregational churches,
in* at Springfield, Mass., elected thej
prwltt honorary Moderator. Dr.
J. N. Pierce, pastor of the Washington
church, asked Mr. Ceolldge's per
mission to enroll him aa a nihir ai
the church without the enstaMary for
mality of baptism The prssids
ceptod the invitation and Us
was entered on the rails of the
The
August (, the
Mr. CssW|i first attandad the i
sftor r
$10,000 F«r
PmKt Br Gi
Va^ Oct. M.—The ad
aC the esUto of tha lata
tev. K. ». Ptercs, of Cwahsrlaa 1. who
was shat aad IdUed la his siwn >ari la
Jane last by ft. O. Garratl. aad 1
0. Oaiiett. haa rataiaad fttrhssd B.|
STATE
miaaian. the
mjm
year ia S14M.
Ortr twry iqaara mile ef Untlw;
in the atata, if the atata war* to ha
apportioned eff ta to
would ba foor
An an*war t the implajaHul
tion in North
by tha
two yarn whan tha lobar m|lw
to a terra extent baan utilised hi 1
huildmr At tha
ara 1M00 an
ion throughout North
Thaoch the licanaa tax hi <
in* hi tha itita
tha preaewt
*r way. It hi
maximum ipead hi i nmylitlag ra
Durin* tha BMOths June. July
Aofwt, 80 aflat of hard
ich month, la
an ara raft of two mi la* of top
and aaad Hay raada naphtad a
day ao that tha approxiaurte
average of caaxpialad n
tha public ta uaa haa baan 14* mllaa
a month.
Raada naphttd ara bttm kept ap
by tha atate which haa a
organized maintenance aj
hikhwaya arc iaaparted by
at regular interval* aad placaa
na«d ra pairing ara eared for at a
Tha maiatrnanrt lyatfix, which
bam onranixad from tha ttoa tha 1
ayatam of buildinc raada tin rami
fective. ia counted aa ana of tha
important diriaioae of tha i
ind ia perforata* a
work.
Washington. Oct. 28.—The United
State* submarine O-S wan tank In
Limond Bay. Canal tone after a col
lision early today with the United
Fruit company** vessel Aban*area
the nary department waa notified by
radio. Five member* of the aoh«o
rine's i few were reported miaaing.
The Ahangam was undamaged, h
the belief that the fire men missing
went down with the sabmarina. dliaaa
immediately began efforts to utoiW
their bodies.
At the tiaM of the accident. ottt
rials familiar with operatiena hi can
al water* said the tropical an wnU
have been well ay and it was impoah
able that a oolliaion woo Id have ocent
red in the perfectly charted boy ante