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THE CHEAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. IV great flood that to mow de> straying the wealth of the Mississippi valley and taking the life of many peopk to arousing the whole country The vastness of the diaaater to —tea ishing. Whole cittos are being flood- i ed with back water from the great river which to a new experience to them. Hundreds of mile* of toad { alone the great river to bow covered with water and haa bee* for many 1 days. Crope are destroyed, cattle drowned, homos washed away, and property destroyed that to estimated to be worth as much as half a billion dollars. If you can comprehend how i J much that to. There are only a few of these great | river systems In the whole world.' The Amason in Sooth America, the Nile in Egypt, the Yangtso In China and our own Mississippi. The land drained by the Mississippi to so vast in extent that H to a wonder that so I much water can And an outlet through one river system. When the , spring thaws come and snow and ics|< of the past winter melts, for weeks h the great river is full and hacks water over much territory. To pro-. tact farm land from these spring < floods hanks of earth have been i thrown up along the river that pre , named levees. Thchr banks of earth ordinarily hold the flood waters back 1 until the surplus water passes out to , sea. This year the melting snow and Ice raised the river as In ->ther years, but the rains came too and <o increas ed the volume at water that a flood j has come that Is beyond anything In the history of man. The country to aroused over the disaster as It has not been aroused before. Last Saturday night every | radio broadcasting station In the , whole country put on the air appeals , to the millions of folks who listen la for aid te the sufferers. Large sums of money wore in this way raised. The Red Cross is active ia every town and community where the organisa tion is and money to being liberally sent in for the suffeieis. To sseot the pressing needs of feeding and caring for the thousands of hamslsss people along the grout river to a task i almost as large as that asnnsrtsd i «*»J» hawjatawfcra m i -n'm - Uwt Uo moraW !■ rmrj hick HU ° i tacraaaod $M«0. Tha not ■ cwL In tnrtk, Um| of tlM taachin* rttf ao low a* It la ti far be forthcom- J riM a it aa the •ad m poor u the " reflect the >f the public. ii*her than thair MQBM, which is tho| leople the mi WhoB the permit. i tki ptthHf intidpAtM poor It la unfair to blinM (mm 4 par eaat Ktckm (or not dota* M >or cant, teaching. Bottar leaching la lot in tham. Why do aehoola » par east teacher* ? It ia I ha low talarlee offered do not attract | k mora daairabla type of ^orty-four pupil* crowdad int rith thirty-five laati in charaa of a K) par cant teacher—what la tne puh ic. ana war Who car*.' Not achool dkiab, not the city. New York ha* achool* aa good aa | m and mare highly Mid are undeniably mdii Mrs. » is right We need bettor K-hooU. Bettor school* may h* had >y paying competent teachers high ■alaries and by treating tmlwn 'airly. But without batter manage ment our mchoela will never ha satis 'actory. So long as teachers' salary icbedules are aot readjusted hi ac cordance with the cost of living, and .base schedules increased in the same ■atio as the erages of workers in the a boring fields and professions, just » long will our schools not improve, fresent salary investigations with no tction are causing discontent and ill* ■ouragement among the teachers New York must open Its purse and ipend considerably more money if >>ur schools are to he as rood as thoet in Mewarfc. Jersey City. Patterson ind ither nearby cities, where opportuni ies for the' educator are now greater '-an in New York City. EBEN S. BURG New York, April U. White Plain* High School " Friday Night The new White Plains High School; tuilding will be opened to the public i Friday night with appropriate as- j iirises to which an admission of SO ind S5c will he charged, the proceeds' « he used for equipment. This school under the direction of *rof. I. 0. Hauser is doing excellent rork and has grown rapidly, making ! he splendid improved building Monthly community meetings have teen a feature in the life of this whool and have centered community ife and Interest in the school. Among he speakers who haw spoken that* n recent months are S. P. Graves, E. C. Bivens. W. E Woodruff. Rev. i. H. Marshall and others. The program Friday night will be vorth hearing and the public is ronhally Invited. At this tiase a' mndaome new |M0 stage screen and Kjuipment made possible hy the *se trous use of advertising space by oral merchants and The Mount Airy "Jews will be praaentod to the school. - tttomw GROMASH WEST-HILL COMPANY Mmmmt Airy, N. C Remember that Mm WIIMa, Um tha rnlairt coraat paopla, win U Today (Thuroday) Bar Mrln and aarvtca to •ad w» waat jrou to ttka advantage of bar m>ln and h flttad in Um roraat 70m •hould war. Jackson Bros. Dept. Store This Ad. Is Worth $3 *3 Eugene Permanent Wave REGULAR PRICE, .. $14.00 PRICE WITH AD .. $15.00 Bring thin Ml with you. (This offer good during month of May) Wf uw til* Harper Method tn our aeatp and facial •paciaHiinr ta —Marcolling —Fing«r Waving —Water Waving Hair Bobbing Garine Beauty Shoppe 147 rnmka. SUMt Mm* Ah, K. c. F-R-E-E-! WTMkFMt few padiran af W. & Wolfe Drug Co. MI HAULING? Look IWm Used Cars Over Ford Vfc-Toa. new express body 91HOO Dodgs Brothers, %-Ton, screen body WO 00 Graham Brother* 1-Ton, with cab WMO Garford 2-Ton. solid tiros tMMO Graham Brother* 14-Ton, steel gravity damp body t30M0 Graham Brothers 14-Ton long whselbase, with cab MKXaO Graham Brothers I 4-Ton, damp body and hand hoist mo oo Graham Brothers 14-Ton, canopy 5ody, ... 92SO.OO Those Tracks Are Piitsd Right Terms la IiKiMi Parties Norfleet-Baggs, Inc. Podge Brothers Dealers South Main at Belews Winston-Salem, N. C. An Invitation The hou*ewives of Mount Airy, those using elec tric range* already, and other* who are not using electric range*, are invited to attend a aeries of cook ing clamex and electric range demonstrations to be conducted at the National Theatre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Miss Viola M. Decker, a home economist and cooking expert of national reputation, will be in charge of the classes. Miss Decker is being brought to Mount Airy pri marily for the benefit of those housewives who are already using electric ranges or who contemplate purchasing them, but her cooking classes will be of interest and help to housewives generally, regardless of what kind of stove they are using; and it is the hope of the Southern Public Utilities Company that every housewife in Mount Airy, who desires to add to her knowledge of cooking and kitchen practices will be able to attend these classes. Southern Public I Utilities! Company
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