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TOO MANY
that farm
DUtrtot wfll aat fat
ed their aaaghbon
of taking ana
with the holt woariL
tha fameta of thU
Mould profit fxaaa the end
of the farmer* of other
who failed to hoed the waro
I wore "cleantl op" by the
woovg.
Tho Dispatch would not advise the
Amin af tha Dana District to (top
rowing eettoat altogether, hat it
weold advise thorn to plant plenty of
aetoa In food and feod eropa to ia
, «a*a an abundance ’for home ecn
. tumptloa .and t<» plant cotton only
• aa a sarptua crop. Growing cotton to
J buy the fond and feed needed to op
i ***** • f*r» that win produce theaa
aoeemitles to a mighty bad policy,
• rruu whan the hoU weevil to not to be
' ***honed with, aad the farmer who
; **tempto U under boU weevil ccndl
Hone to beaded for bankruptcy.
The fact that tha farmer* of the
Dana District produced a good crop
of cotton last year will, it to to bs
feared, have a tendency to cause them
to toko too great a chance this year.
It to likely that tha ball weevil will
do modi damage In this section this
ysor. They worn horn in «■( num
bs™ !»«* year aad will bo here in
mocb larger number* next summer.
JCnay farmers la the counties border
Ing along the South Carolina lino
aude a bale to the am In 1M1 and
la IMS, tha fallowing year, an the
“pronucea jets tnan 100
pmunU of Mod cotton por acre.
This Is not written to scare the
farmers of the Dunn District, bat as
• warning to them of tht danger* of
taking ton muck chance with the rot
ten enemy—boll weevil.
Govern* Mention'* ship bill ho*
apparently gono to sea.
"1 TOU» YOU SO."
When n fellow goo* astray and
■aad* the sympathy aad help of hi*
friends It is a rntber sum spirit that
crisu -I toM you so.” It is simply
boasting of on*’* wisdom and fore
sight on the misfortunes of oca's fel
low man. It betrays a lack of the
milk of human kindness and reveals
tbo vanity aad conceit of kim who
gives utterance to the miserable tenti
wont. He matter bow guilty tbs poor
fellow who Colls My be or bow unfit
for the position he has held, when he
is overtaken by We aine, aad goes out
In disgrace, silence la the word on the
port of those who may have opposed
him aad area fought his promotion to
a plate of honor and trast. Tbo fore
goiag reflections ore Inspired on the
nreaaiiu of the retirement of A. D.
JEMfc.TM Hwn ifih
ously opposed Watt* appointment
by President Wilson to the Federal
Bevenu* Service, aad openly condem
ned bis political methods But Instead
of lambasting him in his humiliation
that paper refers to his hoaeat and
cMctcnt administration of Ms office
and Ma slant refusal to dodge the
consequences of hi* sin. That is most
Vedhnblo to the paper, as any other
course would have been unworthy. It
Is neither brave nor honorable to
kick a man whoa he is down and oat.
tt i* th* easiest thing in the world
to say "I told you «o,” which betrays
a half bidden hilarity at the man's
downfall. Tbo strong ought to boar
the In firm! tie* of the weak and not
phwse themselves. "I told yon so"
not only mfnaas to boar the Infimt
•*** of the wank bat pandora to the
ignoMa pliamsro of self. Nano of us
arc freed from weakness and sin. All
of ua am liable to be overcome by
temptation. To raise .the fallen and
•Boor the faint 1* not only the duty of
the Christian, but of any man who is
manly aad brave. To rise on step
ping stones of oar dead setvos to
higher thin as is fins, hot ta make tk*
attempt «o ria* on ateppiay atone* of
•them, kewever feeble end fealty, ia
deapienbla.—Charity and CM Aren
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HOMB-iniCTt YOU* '
CHAAACTE*
“A In* reflect* the ahem*ter of
thorn wko live within it," aeya Wee
Aysoo L Atbater, diatrict ham* dem
f*t«n nyowtwf the Ylerida Ayr!
cotta rat Ealonatoa DMrion.
Wa nr* told nlao that too annoy
P»m*o da* to* little thoayht to Urn
boom. A farmer will pay a hundred
(Mlsrs far a ridtay plow bat wffl
looo* hi* wife to aantb doth** with
her band* when mntb laaa money than
bit ririiny plow coat waald opy bar
* dnakte* ha do th* wiehtny and
4m* toko • beery load off her aheaJ
“*« wonder aw find to mot? home*
raflactiny lock of order sad baoaty
whoa Ik* heaaawlfe U cowynlloil te
•h«ri her enoryy to wrabbrny and
—ahlny and cnehbay O'.ro her tree
kkaatawa work b* do aad-ahe wfl
ted mar* time Id attend U the IWr
tkinya of ted bona," film Arbiter
__ _ Akcaariaw of
•to all Imputed! aabjaat tka follow
A team teoaM sod bo o ptao* to
•teply abater. dote* and load Ik*
bate# bat * ptao* whom the adnd ia
TOWt TOWN
It yo« **nt to llv* la the kind of a
town
That's the kind of a town yoa nke,
Yoa don't hare to slip your clothes
i» a grip
Ahd start on a tong, lapg hike.
, Youll oaly Bad what you've toft bo
bind,
For there's nothing really new.
It's a knock at yownelt if you knock
jroor town;
Fhr It isn't your town, it*I you.
Retd towns are not made by nrn
afraid.
Last somebody atoao geta ahead;
tforcvyone works and nobody shirks,
Yoa can raiso a town from the
dead.
bo secured from the G. 8- Department
c( Agriculture. Washington.
Comfort and baauty do not hecea
aitaio the expenditure of a great deal
of money, but may result from a
small amount of money wisely spent.
A little la (Tenuity, a hammer, a nail,
and a paint brush will go a long way
(n making a shelter a home.—Farm
ing.
IN MEMO* 1AM
The Grim Beeper to no reapoetor of
persons. He calls indtocrtminaUty *
ih* cabins of tha poer and at tha
palaces of the rich. The high and tha
low, the young and the old, ha rWta
them all. He teaches £helr eyelids
with dreamless slumber and they **n
aaleen.
On Ptbruary i, 1021, he naaos
c<l John Pipkin W ash born from tha
flinty path of human hardships and
•lecreod that his years here should
b* bat twenty and three. Verily—
"We live in doeda, not years, sot
hroalhs;
In feelings, not in figures on tha
dial.
We should count time by heart
throb*. Be most Uvea
Who thinks moot, fools the aobleet,
*cU the best.”
Tho subject of this eras
born in Pollock, La., September 9,
1600. His parents are S. H. and
Mattie P. Washburn who moved to
Harnett County, North Carolina, wtth
their, ton in the year 10OT. The de
ceased received his early education In
the public schools at LUtimrton, N. C.
In lha fall of 1916, be entered tho
University of North' Carolina, from
which Institution ho graduated wtth
high honoru in tho spring of 1999. At
tha University he uses a favorite
among his fallows, ami raaiHlj found
pleasure in all the activities of college
life, as witness his following college
statistics: Philanthropic Literary .So
ciety, Vice-President (9), fheoMoat
County Club, See rotary (3), Pruar
dent (4); Latin-Amo tic an Club, Vice
President (4) North C^roHna Club;
Y. MT C. A. ftabinot (4>; Secretary
Trvasurvr Class («), President Stu
dent Council (4); Campos Cahlnot
(4); Class Baseball (1, S), Captain
<S); Clast Tennis Team (f, a, 4).
Captain* (3, 4); Commencement Mar
shall; Associate Editor Tar Heel (4);
Herman Club; National City Bank
Scholarship; Assistant In Economics
(4); Ampltolerathen; Epsilon PM
Doha.
Immediately foltewiog graduation
r<”»*g Washburn went to London
Ragland. in the employment of th<
National C.ty Bonk oI New York
About eigtil Months later lie wu
tmnrlemtd to Chios, where he con
troeted tuberculosis anil waa force:
to rut urn home in Kay, ltH2. . Hi
spent the remainder of tie year a
the North Carolina Sanatorium
Moore County, from which lnatitutioi
ho was discharged on <8 December
1922. He Hied at hit home in Harriet
County, os 5 February, l#28, site
a brief lUnam—-slightly lew than twi
weeks of influense pneumonia.
! In addition to his parents, the do
* ceased Is survived by too sister*
Mn. Arch McDavid, of Brookfipld
Mo., and Mias Martha Washburn o
Lillington, N. C.
John Pipkin W ask burn was a nsai
of strong character and unusual at
talamanu. He was the seal of hono
highminded, strmigkt-farward, clean
cat and un re Ian ting fighter for thi
right Hs believed la a gospel of Jus
Men, in a religion of morality and il
the virtue* of right living. The lie*
of many have been, ranched by thi
rare sham of hid friendship, and, li
the hearts of thoaa who knew hin
beet, his immortality will abide
It is impossible to think of an .on
finished Ufa or that the usefulness
of one wall tpan^ Miould be lo*t It
th« democracy of death. There Is as
indescribable eaenes, ay something
that live* on. It refuse* to die In thi
hour of darkened shade* and In thi
evening of twiMgfct shadows. Proa
the grave, where “Victor's wreath
and monarch’* gems all blend In com
non dust,” it flies away and becomes
an aseet of priceless measure—thi
full sheaves of g golden harvest
My friend is dead, but the value ol
hit friendship stBl pros. His lip* an
voiceless, but his Immortality mil
mcaka. HU work Is dtue, but the In
On race of bis life M* on.
"Death is the veil which
Those who live cell life;
They sleep, and It Is lifted.”
Strong In action, loyal W hU pur
poeee, pun of heart, upright of life
0 noble soull kail and .farewell.
A FRIEND
C E. Gsrganaa, a brakeman ot
the Norfolk Southern between Win
ston-Salem and Roan eke, Va, ami
who lived in Winston-Salem, died
I Thursday from injuries received ■
| few hours before when he fell front
| a freight train, near Perrum, Va.
it Factories Have Advanced Prices on Tires
-And Tubes
We have on hand about 100 Urea, all first grade,
i we carry no second* in oar4took.) These run in sizes
UomJ-bmh Fabric tires to tie 5-inch Cord tire*, with
itch. I v
ing these atjuie old price, for a limited
w is tba ttm la bur*
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TH* NEXT WAR
It Is high time that writers cMK
1 making reference to the next world
war ai tf It wore a cortalnty. W#
k cannot believe there will be any next
' «rorM war. tf there should b* It would
■Mian th* annlhiliatloci of civilisation
I th* wreek and rain of Uie whole
( world. Vaat progress has been mad*
' in tho improvement of deadly rauni
1 bon* of war ataee th* armistice wa*
1 signed, “Lewisite" ga* the Invention
• Of as American, mekae the German
ga* pale into Insignificance. It spreads
1 far more widely than th* gas Used by
Oenwo* and poison* the person
• it touches. It fill* the atmosphere, and
. Uk* a cloud tetri** down where it
, is projected and destroy* people, not
by the hundred, but by the acre. Not
aoIdler* but civilian* win tp the ehtof
i victim* ,n th* next world war. The
. rule* of civilised warfare will not
stand in the way of thl* wholesome
, destruction of non-combatants. G«r
, many violated every rule of war and
. waged it* battle* like the barbarian*
1 wf tho early cuntune* The airplane in
i the last war was In its infancy. If
another world war should come this
deadly Instrument would become one
of the most awful meane for the do
etruction of human life that can be
conceived. The dropping of high ex
’ plosive* on crowded cities would
slaughter men, women and children
by the thousand. What th* terrific ex
plosive* left would be burned op, aa
a fire has boon iarented that water
will not extinguish, and this fire can
be dropped from the airplane* with
the bomb*. New York by this mean*
can be wiped out in a day. We e»n
not believe that men are so inwuio,
| aa to engage In such a war aa the
"next world war" would be, for any
cause. They tay that under certain
conditions a nation ought to Sgbt
W* do not believe It. Thorn can be
no Justification whatever for the de
struction of the haman race; and
with the advancement in scientific
njunitions of murder that baa been
made, that is exactly what the next
world war would mean. A very good
book to fend on this subject Is "The
God of War," by J. J. Taylor, which
takes th* ground that srar is never
justifiable for any causa. Another
horrible but santible and reasonable
volume It “The Next War," by Will
Irvin, the famous war correspondent
Whether Gen. Sherman defined war
or not the definition credited to him
is the unvarnished truth.—Charity A
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DUNN'S REST PEOPLE
SEE DELNORA DAILY
Many ef Dunn'* better-class ef
people are daily taking advantage of
msmsmam
HIKE SIGN SHOP
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BUY COfD SIGNS
IT COSTS BO MORE
228 Hajr St i.F«y«ttovUU, N.C.
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the great woil that tor Great Debtor*
U doing. She hga eond^ior many .n
tho paat mptjOT andLudfdtdcd great
aerreta tj£t yfa*^\ perplexing
queitlonf wiUr’frT'y Ulyttia art.
X%o*e yet been to
*ee her better To w ait one# at ah* will
only be here Ull the tatter part of
March. She copce bare from Philadel
phia, where aha waa permanently lo
cated for two year* She ha* acorcs
of tetter* from all over the United
State* prailing bar wortt. Located on
Magnolia Avaane, ju*t beyond and
acroaa the street from New Grammar
School—look for bar banner.—Adr.
JUST ARRIVED
ame Can ^
field fence
Any S le you Want
The Barnes & Holliday Co.
Dunn, North Carolina
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WE SERVE
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The record of this institutiorraTnce'ita in
ception has been one of service to ita commu
nity, its state. Upon that solid foundation
has been built a structure that is a matter of
pride to our citizens and. to those who have ,
had a part in its mal
Every employe is filled with
that spirit of it makes it agreeable
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The First National Bank
DUNN, N. C.
J. W. DRAUGHON,-Acting President
II. B. TAYLOR,..Cashier^
J..O. WARREN,-Assistant Cashier*
LI N C O L o \ \ iwji
SERVICE *]y*
owner* know ihai Lincoln cir*
m ordinary usage demand little attemgSr.
other than the replenishment of Jflvy
hoe, od laJ water. That iabectfeTihr
service requiretnenta of motor ta arc
in inverse ratio to the quality MA char <
*cter built zmo tbem by Jt lAariu
(acturtrs. \ W
Periodic inspection, propetyubricatam
and minor adjustment*. whfe necessary,
ye essential to tfa^prnper afd ptnloftfjcd
funcoomng of anAp.tee f machinery
With quality aa a mime (fetor, i.. is the
secret of eronoeraAl anf dcprtiddje
transportation. 1 I
To insure the operarAi <# f jraJ.-i cam
•» a source of untnterLpfe.-J safwf xt-xi
and enjoyment, thruuA lie Mcthuca ci
adequate and. oritivt-nn^M ac.* . er fict'i
tie*, it is the purpose pfe Pu>J *.i -Vr
Company that in eittirBdctVr o* .mj.
tattoo be equipped lu feeder ;f,, ,.„t
and intelligent service ;o ■r,r*Ai -yi /.vrs
Thousands of Ford I-ealcAi the i inited
States arc being equipped *n!i spna-ilty
trams*) Lincoln men, co*rpI*ro» to make
■•M adjustments and c< prov.ding fee
ordinary service requirements
Under Uus arrangement a Lincolo
owner, whether touring a continent or
cw-mg hia own city. may with confi
dence enter a ford Dealer's place of
busrnrw and he assured of prompt, cour
teou* and intelligent treatment by an
1 mpniatm with a personal interest in
his welfare .
It it not intended, or necessary, that al
Focd Dealer* be equipped to do major
r'f-i r v/urk or overhauling on Lincoln
car* Adequate provision is made, how
<r.-«r. whereby such work will be done
w cadi territory, when necessary, by‘
who *i« rtpecally e-pupped to
ro Jsr !i£h grade i-rvtcw in keeping with
flttficUT of th< product
v. c. .xlieva that the Lntcolit will run
fniiher .rod require lew atcdunral
st*ntf<»t than any other car in the
»v>»'-L It M significant ahd a matter of
uta.ott imprexance to prnspcct we own
rsof quality cam that the incmnpaisble,
wrrlJ wide facilities of the Tord Motor
Oumpany should make the ownership
of a Lincoln even store desiraisle than
ever lie fort.
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