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Mount Airy News* EK**. w. c. <wt i* tti* trate : , da CHA«. V. MtTAN For Omnty ComiMiaMn W. 1. BYIRLY ALEX CHATHAM Far J Ml** linriirt Coort H. H. UEWKLLTN A MILLION DOLLAK JOB IN We heard the atory M long ago • Surry citisen that la worth Hf wh a man of largo landed property, bat ba ha<f no auntey. Ha could hardly naka a living a Cam, far not one m ten of hia was undar cultivation. Ha atock. Ha had almoet no tools. Ha aat about kom on Sunday and dwt ad whan ha thought it worth whila which waa only occasionally. Ha and hia family rarely want about —iwig the neighbors, and they rare ly arar went to church, for they bad a poor and shabby way of going Then tie automobile' erase got 'the eoontry by the throat, ft got the Man by the throat, too. Ha sold a piece ofjjuid and bought a good aoto He bad plenty of land W1 on aaw Ufa He wanted to ba going about now that ha had an aa a now dress and a hbaoelf and they wont to (hay had mmm way la go. The man on new life. Ha changed al overnight from a drag-along to a prugreaaiia up-to-date eitlsen. Can he hold the paeeT Not be falls in tine with modern in many ways. Not unleea ba carries that automobile to a skill ed mechanic for repairs rather than to the blacksmith. He must make mora and save more and atay awake if he ie to bold the pace. All tbia reminds us that Surry county waked up a short time ago. She got oot of the mud. She got out of the woods. She pot on new clothes. She built a thousand or two new farm housea along the linea of mod ern architecture. She bridged her streami so that automobiles can go to every nook and corner of the eoonty. She apent a million dollars of borrowed money to do all this. Think of H, a million dollars. Now what ie to be the result. Two years ago she saw all this and aaw that it la a million dollar Job to autnage this eoonty. Will aha hold this i at election day this ama of ability hi office to this million dollar Job or will take ehancee and pot la a now eet to manage? Time will tell, bat if of Barry have the practical m m that the above a million dollar propoaMoa over to naa who are untried and who lay claim to the pooitioa for poUtkml rea i a man la a good K doee not follow that ha aaage a million dollar Job. Be a mmm la a clever fellow and of $nry oaa afford la far their big < ta i at a eeat that It ta • for yam la come. for year* It tlwt th* tirkrta can ha hunrM of to aoft the U'aden and aurlwl an th tbata marM. Than they era nut to th* rotor* to ha put hi the ha aa tha leader* iteatre thaw to to in. All thi* la poaathle whoa tha rotor hi willing to lea re hi* rutin* to hla political friend. And that ia Juat tha kind of a hallotinir aystom the poli tician* wat. We are not nui |»r laad that the pro f***ioaal politician who ha* Ion* been familiar with tha nld system hi not wanting to change to something new. for he haa long Seen able to play tha nld came to hia satisfaction In many election*. With thia new Australian ballot he will not ha able to dictate to hia friend how ha fhaD rote. Tha ne| law makea it the rule for the voter to go to th* election official* and aacure a paper an which are ad name* of thoaa to he rotod far. Then he take* thia paper aad foe* into a little mow, called a booth, a W there alone with an eyto to look a* and no one to dictate te him how ha (hall rote, he checka off thoee who he de» ■irea to be Ma choice for office. Nothing could be daplw Nothing who waata to rata hia aentiaMnta aad want* to ha left alone and not be de viled by eocae ward politician who wanto to dictate to him how he ahall For tha man wha ia sot able to read or even write there ia a blank apace at th* head of the ticket that he "an make a mark in and that mean* that he vote* the atraight ticket of kin choic* without eren reading a nam* or making any other mark except in thia one blank apace at the head of the ticket. To a man of any Judg ment at all eren without being able to read a line or know a letter or a | figure in "the book, thia to th* ideal way to rote a ticket atraight for the I party he supports. Buf then, if th* rotor doe* not care to undertake to rote hi* senti ment without Bome one aaaiiting him to make out hi* ballot the law -pro vide* that the election official* ahall appoint aoaie citizen to aaaiat tha rotor In marking hia ballot Th* law makea it a heavy penalty to try to influence the rotor in the manner he mark* hi* ballot and It would be the aim pleat thing at all for a voter to report the man .who tried to in fluence him. if each there should be. In the light of all theae fact* it imm stftnft to w that there should j he oppoattioa to the Auetralian bal lot from members of either party. To our way of thinking it ia far aupw iw to the old way we hare had for yaar*. and one* the pupil blew* ac customed to Ita uae they will never go hack to tha aid syst— aa hsg hi aae hi aw state. .littler#* I i^Ufpllun Vtn/4ir>A#A#l I jtaoge Leweuyn vnnncated1 In Sunry Supwipr Court I SERIOUS CHARGE DISMISSED! fM h Mm mm facta aa Mm Maffiatrata A. L. Sparser The Hem had indicted Judir* LeMaHya in • ar 4 eaaaa arMnc from tba fight ha bad with T. W. Davin 111 tMa city during tba Mr. Tba mm that mm triad Ttieaday mm on appeal from Mr. Sparser'" »er Hlrt of guitty if balm drmk and die orderly. TV defendant waived a bid of indictment hi tMa mm and want to trial immediately, Aftar hearing tV "vidanct of both aides Jade* T. B Finiey dtimliad tba charge m batnr according to tba «>idaiii» that bad been praeantad bafora Mm, and did not allow tba Mattar to is bafora tba lory. Darin* tba day Toaaday tba fraud fury ratumad a Mil of Indietliiant againet Judge Lrwaltyn foa an aaaanlt with aarintM in jury an T. W. Davia, it being intppaaad that tMa action wma taken by them on tba taatfennny pres ented by Mr. Davis. Tba proaeeutlon slao aant a Mil of indictment bafora tba (rand Jury aaking that it indict lodn I/awallyn for bate* drunk, rant ing and dietarblng a public gathering to-wit; tba (atbarinf at the Caralina Vinrinia fair. But when tMa bill mm returned to tha proeecutor it MM marked: "NOT A TBUK BILL." Then it mm only for tha court to t aba ap tha mattar of aa aaaanlt arith aarioM injury. Bath Mm aglsod to leave tha question of gnflt in thia rase to Judge Finlay and aftar hear ins the evident* ha foand no eeriaM lowing mm) that Dart* la rapidly gaining- in popularity. Every day it ta becoming mora evident in the campaign that the Republican office holder* have had to boy many of the heat office* at the highest bidder. Men who ware in high position have literally sold theae offices to the people. Detectives 1m*« an earthed the fact and MR have turned on their dsapoller* and told how they were held op for cold hard cash before they could secure the offlcr. Theae little fourth elaaa poet office* have sold for from 171 up, and many office* have brought a* much aa ISM. It was not enough to filch from the government many millions in the way of oil fields, but the politicians have gone after the pocket books of the people who want ed such offices aa rural carriers, poat offices, and any other offices in the gift of the politicians. The knowing one* have discovered that the man who is so often sleeted in September la rarely elected in Novmber. Of course we will have to all waft to aae who la the hast gueee er. Col Many people of this county CoU. I. M. Moekln* Republican candi date for Oormor, apeak Mi( kia «wfn( throark Sorry. Monday nljrkt ke apoka at Elkin, Toeaday ke fpoka for three koora to an audience at Dob- i m«i and Tnaaday nlrkt ke spoke ontil j about »l»iw o'clock to aa in tMa ctty. Hta apaaekea abwrndid In to My that to b a oaa of baantifnl •lone It atatlng H I In tto eooity *m fJaa front tkoi affain aa kit party aaaa It. Aa 1 fellow myrtmil H. Oat MaaWi I ka a wtole of a apankar * to! MM W II MM w*m Im and Mr. Dn (Mr t«miA mm nigfct, In which mm of than M St Wmi an iHwntlaii be tween two dtisena of prtvat* walks of life. Mr Im Mtterly denied the charr* lodged arsirmt Mm of Mii( drank and fflanr4*riy and -rmUrrui* that tMs charre «ai brought ill only for the purpose of emharraas Ing him and nam* H in an effort to { hring about Ma defeat la the coming • lection. "Sine* the trill Mm A. L. Spar-, ger, when the people had an op no rt unity tn loam the real motive hark of the rhartr^n, my frtenda in | both political parties hsve realised the injustice of the charv.es and have rallM to my supisnt ha no othaf move r "ild rauae thrta to," aald fudge Lewellyn following Ma vinrti ration at Dohaon. The people," he aald, "rra'ixe that the entire proceed 'nga waa a llek at the Democratic ticket in thia township, and at the -ntirs county ticket for that matter, aa well at at me, and the nature at the evidence produced against me Haa strengthened thia view on their part. With a elear vindication of the falae chargaa that mar* pis fened against me for a purely political motive t pre Mct that the entire Democratic con stituency, with many frlenda of the KrptMlrsn party, will roll op such «, Mr majority In thia township on on election day that the reeoit will sweep every Dertucratir candidate on coonty aad township tickets Into of fice." FORCING NEGROES ON THE SOUTH The Republican party b iH»p'o«»d to (arc* the negro em the .Southern prople »lww»r it can. In a —port J town the eadMior of tbe part ia tW moat important office to be had. it coma pond* to the poat oflfice in aj town like Mount Airy. Down at Maw* Oriaana they ara ap in aw aboat a negro being made collector. TW lata W. 0. Harding appointed the ne gro collector and a Republican Senate rrfuaed to confirm the appointment on the gnmnda that the negro waa not acceptable to the people of that ,*»ty. Then Mr. Cool id** came to the presidency and he too appointed the negro. After much delay and At cuaaion the Senate confirmed him and be baa little enoagh aapaa to try to aerra a pecpla who do not wait on hia entrance into aach a reaponaible poaition. Any man who triea to fovea a negro on a people aa i* being done in Maw Oriaana aimply ia ignorant of the race feeling that axlata is the Sooth. It la a gnat mietake that no waO-to formad man would make. It ia Mi the part af a patriot or a atotomaas to aa «aabarraa* the city to aay noth ing of the aagro. If the negro had ha would hare eeeae enought aot to try to fill thia high poaition when the people ha moat eerve object a* T. F«l»| Col Dr. 'l>r. M. ■. Martto Mt Twihi rfj far Nnr York Cttjr to i Colhc* of fcrfMMlMU ta'tk* dorf-Aaterta Oetokw M- 84. | . 4 . ,-k.jtiii Judo T. B. Fin ley of North Wilkn I hnro t« hold mar * term of criminal ami civil court attJobaon tb» week. Thl* I* a two **Im' term bat owing to the null calendar and tiw near nm of the rlacUun it la expactd to • ndJfHirB about Frahy The etm on | the docket are of • minor nature, m.»at of them originating from hand i ling Hqoor. Daring the fimt day of hi* court Judge FinU-y (truck terror to the -arte of thoee who have refuaed to livulge the mum of their liquor. It haa been the ctsatom for tome time Sere in Mount Airy for the Recorder a pawing *entence in liquor caaea ; to make it a little heavier whore the fellow declinaa to an ewer the ques tion aa to where he aecored hi* liquor. And on tbt* laaue Judge Llewellyn ha* coma in for mm criticiam. *ome of ->ur beat citiaana taking aide* again* him and feeling that thia move waa not right Many of theae rim before the I*, rordar have been appealed to Pobaun • rut bow cornea Jad«a Fin ley who Monday promptly *ent a young fallow to the roada for aix month* when ha elected to *ecret the name of the friand who had been supplying him. In hh remark* the Judge atatad that the defendant u—d a greater doty to hi* state than ha owed to tba fel low who unlawfully dealt In liquor and than expected the fellow who get* caught to kaep hi* name a aacrct.' The ietian m this caae on the part of '.id*e Pinl-y ha. mad* many feOowa around thia city think serioue about '"hat l hey are going to do when Mr >-aae pomm before him ami ha toqair mi from them what* they iwal their liquor Jailer Hutrhena Mate* that he haa n priaon at the preaent time If ta mataa—a greater nuinbet thin haa aver before been confined In Dohaaa Jail at one time. About half of them are serving nentencen impoaed on thaai ti the Recorder'* court of lfouat Airy an«i the remainder are waiting for -ial on chargaa of lelllnr and utak n«r liquor, larceny and n«r and in all the raaee the atory of Jiquor ii wound about. In the )afl are 12 white men. three white w mi. one colored woman and S colored aMU A* aoon ae the cowrt can dear the jail raaaa it ia n>«rtad that an a4» iournment will be taken. Mr*. Pojr C. Prrkm* a flesh wound on the forehead Mi mm other abort the knee and tb* m*m nmoni shock when the car t* wWA •he waa ridinr. driven by Mrs. Hard harger. collided with a ear dilsea fey Jim Johnson one day last weak. Ska was carriad to the hospital wlw* her wounds were dmssi d and aha re mained severs 1 da71 to recaewr (na the shock. rl ^— V I Buick curtains open and ' close with the doors 011 al louruKg^rottBiCTrooocts Tky ait sari fitting and keep out wind and ram ~ Any child cai operate them Greenwood Auto Company . / Ummmt Airy. It. C DkK N. &
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