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The Schools in Danger. American schools arc in danger of grave depreciation unless the American people face, the school problems squarely as they have faced every other problem that has confronted them. The schools are suffering from the two all absorbing problems of the day?the war and high co3t of living. Wages and salaries in almost every other vocation have risen pretty much in keeping with the cost of living. Still the teachers srrind on at practically the same old starvation wages. If the harm done were only in forcing a number of people to live on iuadaquate wages, the matter would not be very serious. But the harm does not stop here. The impossibility of obtaining living salaries is in CTiiaui; null up. nit- muuiliuus II lit II or woman out of the profession and into some other culling that is more generous. The natural result must he the filling of the schools with a lot of second-rate teachers, boys and girls who regard the school room as merely a stop-gap between their own school days and a profession?nice boys and girls, we grant you, but lacking much of being competent instructors. The only possible result of this condition must he the grievous neglect of the youth of the land. ? And just at this crisis this country can not afford to neglect her children. America has had too hard a struggle to reach her present intellectual plane to afford to yield one fraction of the progress she has made. We have made too many sacrifices in the name of education and rnUnro o...l i ,,11?,.? .... 1 1 I SUPERIOR BUSH | GOMtMfEES E 1 BOaiNESS i $ \ Piedmant?Live, Proj I location, Ideal climate, i ? plete equipment, college t I tative enrollment, Select ? Practical Courses, Model ? ard, Strict requirements, | cient product, High-clas: @ service, Permanent emp 1 ary, Rapid promotion. I 1 CIVIL SERVICE S I COMMAND HAND IN WAS1 Uncle Sam is in need raphers. He is holding e day in 450 big cities and men to Civil Service pos starting salaries of $1,00G k of his employers earn fro g sands of/commercial hous young ladies to fill vacan | pleted office forces. If yo | it is your patriotic duty U % the tremendous and unj % ofric help. We have foun % cial and Teaching positir % schools. About a dozen % vi ; desire We positior a are now in training to th | UNDUPLICA'iED PR I IMMEDIATE IF | AND AC( & ? f., i - ? 01? fi ttuum> oiiuru Twentieth Century Boot | scholarship or monthly ? or $10 monthly after le ? fare paid from your ho | tions guaranteed on daj | $900 to $1200 a year. Sf | ladies in private homes | Established employment | facilities for locating pos I for placing students. Lb 1 ers free. Thirty years % favorably known. The S Pivjfoi'i'ofl 1111 f'i11K* y<mj * I V I V i * VV I. i/V-dlllil llil > '! alog, showing photograp <* students in positions fr< <% free on request. Write | Blank and Attractive > School Students. 1 PIEDMONT BUS! I LVNGHB I W. P. Musick. Pres. uplift to be willing to take one back- j ward step. We must go on, in Justice ] to future generations, in justice to the ideals that have inspired us. Already the complaint comes from many sections of the country that numbers of the more competent teachers, disgusted with the meager salaries, are leaving the school room ' for more lucrative callings. Once out, and this talent is forever lost to the schools, because the channels of bus' iness will quickly and eagerly absorb them. There is but one remedy, ami that is for tin- people to look the situation squarely in the face, and be will! . iug to levy taxes for school purposes that shall put the teaching profession J up and abreast the other professions.! .oure, pernaps, man on any otner class is the future of this country I dependent upon the faithful work of her pedagogues. We must suit thej reward to the magnitude of the' ' work. Airplane l-'nelory lluriied. San Francisco, Cal. May 21 ? Seventeen airplanes in various stages of construction and a considerable quan [ tity of dry spruce and Irish linen were reported destroyed here today j in a fire which swept the plant of the Fowler Air Plane Corporation. The Pulpit and the Pedagogue! and the Parlor and the Press are the mighty forces in the production of 'personality. As we neglect these, our manhood deteriorates. Money 1 Unvested in them brings us our lor-; gest dividends. We neglect them at jthe peril of our civilization. They i are not to be reflectors but molders [of opinion. i NESS TRAINING jfTRAORDlNARY SUCCESS \ gressive School, Central I, Beautiful building, comrained faculty, represen- ? ; class, Choice material, | rn methods, High stand- I Thorough training, Effi- | s positions. Satisfactory | loyment, Handsome sal- ? , ITENOGRAPHERS 11 SOME SAURIES f 9INGT0N I ( ) of thousands of stenog- $ xaminations every Tues- | nnnnintinor mpn *inrl w*n_ $ "11 ""ft ",v" """ " v itions in Washington at I i to $1,200 a year. Many ni $2000 to $5000. Thou- | ;es are calling loudly for f cies in their recently de- | u cannot go to the front. ? > qualify yourself to meet I 1 *7 / 4) irecedented demand for ; d Civil Service, Commer- $ ?ns for students from 45 ^ Piedmont students are ; is in Washington. Others \ at end. | 0P0SIT10N MERITS | (VESTIGATION XPTANCE | land, Touch Typewriting, * [keeping, Tuition sold on : plan, payable in advance | aving college. Railroad I me to Lynchburg. Posi- | J of enrollment, paying 1 >are time work for young | to pay board and room. | t department. Superior | >itions. Effective methods | /e-wire service to employ- | established. Widely and 1 i jfuiiiuni I ifpait'll iU'L* ^ illustrated 200-page cat- c| hs, letters and records of g mi many schools, mailed j us today for Application | rroposition to Summer g NESS COLLEGE, 1 urg. u. i Sam Jack Musick, Mgr. | Helping Rebuild Kurope. There is probably a lot of good business methods behind the announced plan to put samples of American wood on displny in the rooms of the Rotyal Architects in London. American lumbermen are doubtedl.v figuring on what they will have to do when lhe war ends, and iiie permanent exhibit of American building material is likely to be a considerable is likely to be a considerable step in their program. For Kngland, no less than war wast? Belgium ami France, is going to have a lot of building to do when she has time to turn again to the ways of peace. The lack of new houses is a thing being felt pretty keenly right here in Philadelphia, but over on the other side they will have to build whole cities?houses, factories, sheds and storage places. The call Tor material is likely to be heavy and long continued. In the case of England alone The Nation's Business, organ of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, has compiled some interesting figures. That magazine says that England's shortage in houses by the end of 1318 will amount to about 300,000. Going a little further, and figuring that each of these houses, when built, will be on the cottage plan?living room, kitchen and three bed rooms -there will be required: Six million bricks. Three millon doors and frames. Three hundred millon roof tiles. One hundred and twenty million slates. Almost twenty-four millon square feet of glass. Two and a* half million windows. Five hundred thousand tons of cement. Six hundred thousand tons of lime. This is but one part, and perhaps a small one, of the building program which must In* faced. America is going to have some catching up of her own to do. and she must be prepared to help the Allies catch up, as well. The first phase of the war for Aim . ca i going to consist 1 trgely hi lettering down. but when that part is ov? r the second phase will be <?nl\ started and America can gain ne \ 1 mrels by helping rehabilitate the houses of her friends. Philadelphia Ledger. The Sailor lloy's Vocabulary. , Anna Steese Richardson in "Soldiers All" in the June Woman's Home Companion says: "The sailor lad has a vocabulary quite his own, by the way. Recruits are 'regrets;' later, as common seaman. they are 'gobs.' Food Is 'chow,' and ketchup is 'red lead.' 'Binnacle list' means the sick list. The guardhouse is called a 'brig'. Instead of reveille, he says 'rise and shine,' and when he tires of noise, he calls out pipe down.' 'Leave' for the army is 'libertv' For tlm naw Tun cufc itiov have named 'Fay Day* and 'Extra Duty.' It is not hard to guess which of the two felines is more popular." A Model Colored I'reaelier. The Monroe Knquirere tells of a colored preacher Rev. Diehard Allen who is exerting his active efforts to the benefit of the lied Cross. He .s pastor of a crhurch in Anson county and lias recently held a big rally lor that organization. .More than that. The Knquirere says. Rev. Allen "has done and is doing good work among his people in every way to help out during these v.or times." Truly a pulpiteer to pattern after. Charlotte Observer. u Told in Texas. "Tile story said Representative tRirdmr it a Providence reception, apropos ot a hyphenated xplana1 ion ot a (ierman sabotage plot, "is \?ry fishy, it reminds me of Texas. 'Once in Tev.is, i came upon a itill chimney, like a factory chimney, rising in an arid waste. " 'Friend.' 1 said to a native. What is that ehiintw.i il/iinn i?. " 'Thai ain't no chimney,' said the !i. live. ' 11's o well.' A well?' 1 said. 1 Vcs,' said he. "It's old Jeff Thatcher's well. A cyclone turned her upside down and inside out." Washington Star. ? oCanned Fruit .luice for Winter. The June Woman's Home Companion prints this roceipe: "Juice extracted from fresh fruits .may he bottled, sterlized, and kept as .any canned fruit. Class jars, or ginper ale or other left over bottle with small tops that are not usable for other purposes may be utilized for 11 his. "Kxtract the juice from fruit, either wit If a rider press or by cooking Strain through cheesecloth, add sugar to taste it' desired, heat to hoilinp pond pour into hot bottles, and light ly pliiK w it 11 *.ibsorhent cotton. Sol I s in hoilinu w ater up to neck ol li'itt!. and sterli/e at a ti mpernfurt lii* decrees I', tor forty minutes I' : i"\ bottles from w ater, jdur v It stoppers. and when rool <Ii| loptn's ,;i melted paraffin." o ? ' in i i tie- preachers in town .ait oi.*e ?iie- at-'o that there were tliret (lasses of people in the church workers, jerkers and shirkers. Is no this sometimes the case with a com inanity also? Harmony and co-oper ation and the spirit of every-man-art lit will make a town what it shoult be. The British Crown. The present crown of Great Britain is called St. Edward's Crown, and Its shape and form date from the earj llest annals of English history. Many of the stones have been used over and over again in the various crowns for centuries and centuries, ulthougti the form has never been changed, the weight has been made less. Poor kings, they used to have to parade through the streets and stand nine and ten hours at a stretch, with a crown which weighed six pounds on their heads. She Made 'KM HKAK. Patriotism is a strong instinct in the breast or a certain elderly English lady, who was much troubled at the failure of three of her nephews to enlist. They were such stalwart, 1 sturdy fellows that she was ashani|ed of them. When strong hints had been received in silence, her patience became exhausted. One day 'she sent a telegram to each of the three. These all bore the same message: "Your country is calling. Wire reply if you wish to bowow my earI truuiphet." She is now very proud of her three lads in khaki.?London Times. She Knew. Hub?During the time it took you to select that hat I went out and made $ 100. Wife?I*iii so glad, dear. You will need it. Frwiwrrv uiirKii-iH'r- | ry orates, :1U quart size standards. I(M), oaoli ??,">0, ! eaoli. I t<-?."iOO, enoli I? < Staudaid corn mites, earh IH?\ l'earlie basket-, standard hushel size, eaoli :{2c. Piokers baskets, standard I bushel size eaoli, :10c. Itarrels - seeonds, suital)le fur |M?tatues, eiu-fi :{6c. I Push with order. i The Cash House FAYKTTI.VIM.F, X. C. 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