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Time, A Healer or Troubles
Time is the greatest ' healer of
ttouble and destroyer of malice yet
known in the way of' solutions.
It seems in a way to be God's
looking glass which He holds' before
Hie eyes of men that they may take
j' look at themselves in their sober
moments.
Seven years seem to be the tiycle
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of time that changes every spoke in
the wheel. It is proven in the ease of
the many nations so recently engag
es. s,
ed in the World war.
Seven years ago practically every
important liation on earth wys" ex
iting every ounce of power at its
command to kill their neighbors. The
v.ar dogs were all on the death hunt,
every statesman in the known world
was engaged in a "scneme ,to kill or
it keep from being kijcil, old and
xtiunv were engaged in war service,!,
even the ministry was using the pul-
I-it to recruit armies and to stimu
late soldiers on to their deadly task."
We were a war menagerie, all kinds
of—animals performing. I+nt /iow the
bow is over, the tents are down,
the drums are muffled and Germahy'
France, Belgium, Old England, Tut
We wish to sincerely thank our friends and patrons for the
business which they intrusted to us in the past
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!:iy and Greece ami every other de
cent country, on earth except the
United States are Hitting at the
I siiiw table where good sense takes
the place of foolishness, where love
u.kes the place oi hate, where things
are carried on decently and are done
in order, where our friends can see
our. mistakes and help us to mend
them.
"Peace on Earth and Good Will
Toward Men" sounds louder in that
great interval than the teriffic crash
( f Germany's 70-mile gun. Looking
over the World Court as it convened
last Wednesday and unanimously
voted to receive Germany as one of
its members pf the world family of
i.;;lions, with France casting the first
and loudest aye when the vote was
taken, resulting in a unanimous ac-]
cr ptanee makes u; wonder what mor
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fij'ht as we did from 1914 to 1919.
It does seem that if the world had
exercised one .single sober thought,
we' might have avoided the World
war which resulted in 10,000,000
deaths and a war debt of about $160,-
000,000,000. We are Wondering after
all where all the wise folks were
during that period. About the
explanation yet offered is that every
generation has little enough sense to
have a war.
It is a fine thing to see France
and Germany sitting together as
brothers and in such good company as
their neighboring nations afford.
This World Court business, (or]
really Wilson's League of Nations, j
we have to call it World Court to
overcome the selfishness of th«i Re
publicans) is going to so civilize and
'Christianize people that they will be
too respectable to have war. It is a
great thing. It is what we ought
to have had for a thousand years and
even longer, because it is nearly two
thousand years since Jesus said,
"Love thy neighbors as thyself."
| Immorality Increasing
It seems as if society's greatest
problem is .brought about by common
men and women who are afflicting it
with scabs and scurvy.
There has always been depravity
in both men and women, but it was
narrowed down to a fairly low per
cent, and the saving feature was al
ways the attitude of the people a
round or among whom questionable
conduct Yorced itself. '
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Now it seems different. People pay
less attention and do not even ap
pear to care. One North Carolina
county reports fourteen husbands de
serting their wives in one week, and
most of them leaving large families.
A close check on such things will re
veal a very small percent of these
e;:ses brought about by the wife.* She
may have been high strung and even
unbearable, or untrue in her life, but
a close check will find the fault at
the husband's side. In many cases
he is found prowling around the
country seeking whom he may de
vour. This class is seen going through
the country riding in their automo
biles, stopping at hotels, boaufing
houses and in many cases, at some
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deserted tenant house around some
town or city.
Such people are breaking up homes,
taking from others that which they
"have no rightto take, causing un
told suffering and spreading sorrow
and disease ip practically every step.
Martin County Building'
and Loan Association
Statement of Financial Condition
* JULY 31,1926
ASSETS
Mortgage loans * ifi72fioo
Stock loans -- IgjJJO
Iteal estate ' r
Accounts receivable .
Cash on hand and due from banks _ 9,231.4^
Total assets ! $123,401.28
LIABILITIES
e Shareholders installments paid in $ 87,001.26
Shareholders prepaid stock
Notes payable o'lSi'ii
i Accounts payuble 2,441.11
Profits reserved for prepaid stock 213.90
Profits apportioned to running shares ... • 14,096.02
—— Total liabilities i $123,401.28
CERTIFICATE
We hereby cetrify that we have made an audit of the books and
accounts of the Martin County Building 1 and Loan Association,
Williamston, North Carolina, as at July 31, 1926, and that, in our
opinion, the foregoing statement reflects the true financial condi
tion of the association as at the date named.
(Signed) FREDERICK B. HILL and CO.
Rocky Mount, N. G," Certified Public Accountants.
September 4,1926.
The automobile has proved s great
aid to immorality and prostitution.
The increased opportunities make
the practice easier, while at the
same time making the crime harder
to detect.
There is .doubtless, a crying need
for more stringent laws against
women prowlers and husband aban
i doneders. Nothing short of a long
prison terny>f the reform type should
' fee given such women and certainly
men who suffer themselves to be
drawn from their families to follow
such people should be made to Buffer
a penalty. It is said that in a ma
jority of the cases of the women who
are going up and down the country
are found to be girls under 21 years
of age. Instruction at home is faulty
or else this would not be the case.