French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-21
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OF Tue M0Qlln IaIuIly WIN are dSSuSOI
of having negro blood in their veins, +"
have stopped the Mount Vernon pub
lie school in House Greek township,
Wake county, located four miles from
that both the county Superior court
and the State supreme court have de-
cided recently that there is no taint
Of negro blood in the Medlin children,
according to the evidence produced at
the trial of the case in court.
The neighbOrs of the Medlin family
think the court does not know itself,
Or that they know more than tho court.
So the parents of all white children
accompanied their children to school
On the opening day of the new school
term, and when the school superinten-
dent declined TO bar the Medlin young
sters. all Withdrew their children from
the school. At present they have the
teachers and county superintendent
Giles "up a tree" and there's no school
going on at Mount Vernon, The coun-
ty board of education at last accounts
had taken up the matter, and is now
wrestling with the question of what
is to be done under these remarkable
conditions.
Paper Mills For North Carolina.
Newspaper publishers and other
large consumers of paper will be in
terested in the efforts that are making
to establish wOOd-pulp paper m lis in
North Carolina. The State Forester is
preparing a wonderful exhibit for the
State fair at Raleigh, the third week in
October. showing the possibilities Of
North Carolina in the field Of prOduc-
ton of wood pulp and Of ~high-grade
paper from our native wOOds-prOving
that this State can manufacture paper
and can establish splendid paper pro
ducing mills here if the proper efforts
are made.
The State fair management this
year is particularly stTessing the eco
nomic value of the fair to the people of
the State. The Better Babes Contest
will be under greatly improved coRdi-
tiOrs and will be under the direction
OF the Woman's Club of RaHMp, a1R
all parents are requested t3hmun-
icaIe with the Club for full informa- !
ton.
The fair. through the North Carolina
State Board of Health, will put on a.
motion picture exhibit equal to that of
any first-class theatre as a free attrac-.
ton. The black tent will comfortably
seat from three to four hundred peO-
pie, and there will be ushers and
music and the films will be in every
respect. ranging from Charley Chap :
lin and comic cartoons to Illustrations
of the origin and treatment of typhoid
fever, flies, tuberculosis, etc. |
Risky Thing to Elect Republicans.
AprOpos of the misleading 'criti-
s1-oo1,, e 4I,0 CGT,J41o. o-o1r5S, o-5 +ho
Republican spellbicders now stump
ing the state, OF the Democratic State
administrat on of affairs. it is peril
nent to show how the sixteen counties
of the State which have been under
republican rule the last two years or
more have Jared. Take the tax rate
levied n the State managed by Repub-
1ican boards Of commissioners in 1914,
the last year for which complete fig
ures are available. The tax rate
levied by these sixteen counties and
by the other eighty=fOur counties in
1914 is shown on page 2S2 of the an
ndal report of the State Tax4Gommis-
sion for 1915. This shows that the
average tax levy in the sixteen coun-
ties managed by Republicans (includ-
Ing the state tax, which is the same
in each county, is $1.19 on each hun
bred dollars worth of property. The
tax rate in the eighty-four
Democratic counties was 81 cents
on each hundred dollars worth of pros
perty. Soft MI. Buffers premise is
correct, and the governing party is
responsible in each case or the in
rea in taxes for public improve
ments. the citizens of those sixteen
counties should retire Their republican
40 M rs oa,,o+xy comm :Gcinnnp on6
nut Democratic boards in charge.
And notwithstanding the lower aver
age tax rate in the Democratic coun-
ties, those counties in thH State that
have made most progress in public I'M
prOvements will be found in the Demo
cratic list Of counties. MOI n in the
list of Republican counties has made
a conspicuous record for building pub
lie roads and other public improve
ments.
Comparisons of Democratic and Re-
publ: can records in the latitude al
ways show uD the Republicans in a
bad !ight-tO say nothing worse. When
it wasn't incompetency it was corrup-
ton that featured Republican direc-
ton of public affairs and Their past
performances and the great majority
Of voters know how risky a thing 1t
would be to ever give them another
trial in this State.
All That Was Expected.
Democrats here who talk about the
Maine election last week invariably
express satisfaction owe the result.
The Republican plurality is much
smaller than = has been in any presi-
Dental election year in a general on, i
with the single exception of 1912. when =
the Republican vote was spl between s
Taft and Roosevelt. If the same ratio ]
shows I'D in the doubtful States, Will !
son will defeat Hughes badly in the s
electoral college. The Democrats-w who /
were in office n Maine were elected in {
an eft year, when local and State t
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