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THK Hi in. . MhH AN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913
-if AGE TWO
THE ROBESONIAN
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1915
A WORTHY CAUSE
So dull c.f perception are we as
m rush alone our daily affairs, so
SitiU do we rcallv understand the
Jtnonvr Nthinn nround us. that w
"mar rub e'hcws every day with
hero and not recognize that fact un
411 something happens to bring us
short -wit, a punch that opens our
jres. And ,b the same token a he
vo may toil and sweat for years with
ut any recognition of his worth from
' ifinw ironnn him and he may be
"learf ully dis' uraged and may fee
"Hike riving up in despair when
presto! something out of the ordin.
rzrr occurs, he suddenly needs help
jpid men rush to his assitance and
overwhelm him with expressions of
-nnrpri.itinn for the worth of his
rork and wifh offers of help. Shake
jsoeare knew what he was doing
when he wrote: '
"Sweet an the uses of adversity,
which, like the toad, ugly and veno
mous, wears yet a precious jewel in
its head."
That precious jewel was found last
week by Rev. J. II . Hayswood, col--ored,
who ns been doing a noble
work amone the colored people of
and whose school building and resi
dence, contvning all his belongings,
z-ere burned down, with loss of ev-
ererything, Thursday. Hayswood
thought, pe-!aps, or he might have
thought, -that the white people of
I.umberten cared very little about
what l.e was trying to do, about the
good . he 'wa doing. But when this
calamity carve upon him busy men
tfuit their work, got together to see
-what could re rtcne; two oi mem,,
fps.-rs. R. ( . Lawrence and J. P.
-Russell, dev. 'ted all of Friday to so
liciting aid for this worthy colored
worker, and the expressions cf sym
pathy they Veard on eery nana in
iroine- over tewn. the willingness, ev
en eagerness, with which men con
tributed what they could and wish
ed they could contribute more, was
-enough to mike a strong man break
down and sled tears of joy and
-thankfulness for that his lot has been
cast among a people with such a
TiritrAnd then a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce was held Fri-
A o ninVf onrl cfrnnrr rpcnlntims
were passed endorsing the work of
this colored 'nan and expressing the
"hope that the organisation that hs
Sbeen backine him in his work would
rebuild for bim so that he may con
tinue the work he is doing among the
people of his race.
Hayswocd has been teaching boys
and eirls useful things and those
who have been in touch with his
work speak in highest terms of it.
IBe teaches- girls and boys, for in
stance, how to clean a room proper-
Jfv. how to tooK and make Baskets,
and put bottoms in chairs any num
Xber of rseful things; and he teaches
"his puoils always to bp self-respect-ittir
and noliie to everybody.
Now if you want to help nut this
continue this work, you have the orv.
liege of doine so. He lost all his
-jaersonal effects in the fire. Money
or books or foodstuffs would be
thankfully received.
Hayswocd does not ask The Rob
eson to make this appeal. But we
want to do it because it is a privil
ege to help such a work as he is do
ing. And w believe that some read
er of this n?pcr who havp rot been
-called upon personally will be glad
to help
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TnE COUNTY ROAD LAW
Contemplating- one of the manv
aggregating situations to which the
-present road law has given rise the
ftlaxtcn Scottish Chief is moved to
-submit the following remarks:
"Maxton township, so far as roads
are concerned, has suffered by the
change from the district to the town
ship unit. Maxton, smiths and Pem
broke townships were grouped under
the district unit law and the district
tnoney was spent in a system of roads
aloptel, Un Smiths and Pembroke
townships, the plan contemplating
'coming to Maxton township when the
Toads in these townships were com
pleted. But the politicians got busy
and changed the road law to the
township unit, and Smiths and Pem
broke refused to give up their pro
portion of the new fund to Maxton,
whose part had been spent in these
townships under the district law.
tn the meantime, a traction road .ma
chine had been bought by the Max
ton trustees, but under the change
they have had no money to work
the roads nor to pay for the ma.
chine and a notice of sale of same
is carried in the Scottish Chief this
week. The township is bankrupt because-
of the petty game of politics
that has made a football of public
roads in Robeson county. This dem
agoguery should be frowned upon by
the people. We will never have prop
. er rtads until the county unit is per
rnanently adopted ind funds pro
vided through a suffiicent bond is.
-sue. In the meantime Maxton town
ship is the goat and the people are
footing the bill."
The Chief puts its finger on the
trouble when it mentions "the pet
ty game of politics that has made
a football of public roads in Robe,
sen." But it is treason to talk about
using road funds for effective road
work. Maybe some day the people
wnj decide to see to it that money
raised by taxation for the purpose of
maintam:ng roads ;s put to better
use..
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CROUP
k the host (fail tiinnf every bear of t
dmld'i life. COWAN'S PREPARATION
txm imtiot iclid and comfort Just rob
H c don't cakxo lb tlomich witk
rU. Keep it in UK borne .1.00, MXt
2c. All dntiiiiU.
VALUE OF PREPAREDNESS
Representative Claude Kitchin,
Democratic majority leader in the
House of Congress, after a conference
with President Wilson at the White!
House recently, announced that he
could not support the President's plan
for national preparedness. He say3
that he will give his reasons in a
rpeech on the floor of the House and
that his opposition will be merely
personal and not as majority leader.
In opposing the program for nation
al preparedness that will be submit
ted to Congress Mr. Kitchin. puts his
opinion against the opinion of ex.
perts who have studied the subject
exhaustively, and he himself believes
that he will be in the minority.
Recognizing the fact that the
rmpstinn nf nnrinnnl Hpfpnse nn rlnnht
will be the leading question before the!
timore Sun is publishincr a series of
ly for the purpose, men who have
studied the subject of national de
fense and are pecoamlzed authori
ties thereon. From the first article
of this series is taken the followine.
which illustrates forcibly the value of
preparedness:
And to speak of the Civil War al
ways recalls the fact that the Unit-
ed States was at the end of that
struggle, at the very zenith of its
power as a fighting nation. Though
burdened with debt and with half of
its area a waste, this country was
nevertheless able to enforce its de-
mands against the most powerful na-
t'OnS in the World.
France had, while the war between
the States was on. Overturned
he government of Mexico and set up
Maximilian as its Emperor. Great
Britain had at the same tinr? given
material assistance to Confederate for a time utterly prostrated the wife, !
nrivateers. particularly to the com- while the brave and devoted nrinci-;
meree destroyer Alabama. Though in- pal continued to struge with the
"fnsed over these unfriendly acts, crcwd w-ho assembled there to ren
the United States made no move der What aid they could. We have;
against them until Lee had surrend- the idea strongly in o"r mind that'
?red. Then, conscious of the fact the calamity struck the hearts of
that we had the only ironnavy on the good people of the community ,
V seas and a veteran army unequal- in a manner we have never seen be-j
ed in the world, we issued peremo. fere which is shown- in the action!
n- demand that France get out o taken by the good townspeople andj
Mexico. France got out of Mexi. the Chamber of Commerce. j
co with amazine swiftness. Ther0- This body met in the court house;
Tion we turned to Great Britain with and after many good th:n"?s were!
an enufllv peremptory dmnnd that said by them they passed resolutions!
the Alabama claims be settled. Thev
were settled und were settled upon
our tpms without one day's- uineces-
sarv delay.
"These two circumstances illus-
trater-the value of preoar-
edness as do no other " in
all American history. ,'And they
ire a conclusive answer to the er-
roneous argument that a powerful
Tray and navy invite instead of pre-
vent war. It is doubtful if either
France or Great Britain would have
taken our demonstrances seriously had
we been too weak to back them up.
And what was true then is no less
true now and will be ust as true of
the future, if human experience
counts for anything
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"The present war in Europe af-
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elonnent oAmnlo of nn,rn
n
T in11 J I
Panized and eouinned for instant ser.
vice, has proven well-nigh irresist
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ible. That emnire and its allies are
l7hting simultaneously on four
fronts, each remote from the other.
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astonished the world. England, on
the cher hand nnprenarpd and un-
armed, -. has failed mnerablv - in her
effort to drive th conquerme Ger-
rr.an out of either Belgium or France
Only the overwhelm:ns- strength of
her navv has prevented an invasion
f the British Isles themselves.
"Nobody in the United States
dreams of the time when this coun-
try will have or want such an armv
:s that of Germany. It is not need-.
el and may never be needed. This
nation is not surrounded bv hostile
neighbors and is not now threatened
from abroad by powerful enpmies.
it is too much to hone that we that the o-ood people of Robeson cn
not some day find ourselves in 1 reed to-be 'nformed in order, to
conflict with such sn enemy and thnt n-r.oer what aid they can to -i 15.10 !
''mlomaov will fail us as it fade
urorie Ifi months aco. And in suh
" situntion the American people will
find that the Atlantic Ocean is no
so much of a proiect'nir barrier a
was a mountain mnfre 50 years ago."
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THIS IS IMPORTANT
Never forget, when you 'phone in
. .. ...,m w wie nW uiat tn-
thing to do is to give as near as pos-
ib1e the ex'.ct location of .the fire,
Give the street, bv all means. If thnt
hnd bppn done last. Thursday when the
colored school buildinw was burnine
it mitrM have been possible for the
fire company to save something. As
it was whoever 'nhontd in favp t.h
very indefinite information that, thp
fire was near where a certain nerson
lived. Some members of the fire
company happened to know where
that person formerly lived and thev
made for that place with all speed,
only to find ihat that was not where
the fire wa at all; and so precious
time was lost in hunting the fire. It
rannot fail to be ovious to any one
that or'vinp: the street location is ab
solutely nocec?ary. It is best to turn
in the alarm from a box whenever
that is possible
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Do a bloodhound do his dutv or
is he a bloomin' fraud? According
as vou honor or revile thi3 most mis-:
understood of canines will you be dis
nosed to contribute to a fund to pur
chase one of that breed to serve on
the police force of Robeson or to
scoff at the idea. For a fund has
been started to purchase one of these
hre same animals for the countv.
There are eood men who will stand
nn and tell you bold like, just like
they knew what thev were talking
"bout, that your bloodhound is a de.
lusion and a snare, a bluffer and a
sonuvaeun, not worth shucks in trail--a
criminal: that he is just as
?pt. to try to fasten puilt upon the
innocent as upon" fthe (guilty', and
that if he hannens by any lucky
"' "nA to stumble upon the crimin
al when no one is in sicrht as ant
as not he will make friends with the
criminal and co On aWaV with him
Others there are who stand up stout
ly for his worth, praising him to the
skies as the embodiment of all the
virtues a man-chaser should possess,
delighting to track down a criminal
under impossible circumstances, un
relenting in the chase, fierce to the
point of blood-thirstiness when the
ouarrv ;s f0Und. If vou believe
( blood-hound is a gentleman and a!
good dog and true who performs his
duty according to his lichts. vou mav
i ''III! muic iu a iuiiu ks puiL no
one; if you believe he is a loafer
and a fraud, you most probabl" will
do nothing of the kind. But let us
hasten to add that this is not writ-
t- an fr, rminAna flnvKnHv nnmef f Vt p
bloodhound. You miv search us.
J We don't know. We have merely
ted - the case briefly for and
aeainst.
which
way.
You may take your choice
. you are gon.g to do any-
n.-. i rnn nnrn vwnnr
In : ' i ..:u:
Rev. J. H. Hayswood Taueht Col
ored Youth Useful Occupations a
Great Calamity for Lumberton
Contributions May be Sent to R.
C. Lawrence or to The Robesonian.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
lastThursday morning the
ichool house and other build'ngs on
the
campus of Red Stone Acamedy '
department could reach the scene'
and ren(ler .effective a'd. Every
KniUmo. n tha ram miQ wiq ennn fnn. '
sumPd, together with all the school
furniture and all the nersonl prop-:
r.f P.v X H TTavQMnnrt t'n'
principal, and his wife. ' The nearly
onn sfnHpnts nf all no-p u-em thus.
rPTir'prp almnsf hnmploco psnepinllv
Rn with the hrnrdinir Ktndpnts and
fncnltv 4
This linpynrctprl hW ns smldpn-'
hv as a thunderbolt out of a skv.
of confidence in Hayswocd, and rec-
ommended that the same be forward-
ed to the home office at Pittsburg,
Pa., urging the immediate rebuilding
of Red Stone Academv bT'xuse of
the good work done by the school for
the youth of the race "nnd the good
influences this work is havincr on the
race and on the town as well,
Thus far over $225 has bfen rais-
by the good pecple of the town
and other things were promised as
are needed to continue the work,
, The church was thrown open for
the school and other houses near by
were rented for the time being and
the work 13 to be continued until
be"r quarters can be provided,
This school is teaching, besides the
literary branches, sewing, cooking,
mat-making, basketry, chairbottom-
me. house work and ireneral home
mnkVng, for furtu lsefulnessof
the young people. This school also
y.vr manir nf ifa nnnila fftf
IO l ' L fjl L lilt; IMUliJ J A. IV" .w
n.'ner nwui.iuii..u -
e race in this and others counties
The school therefore is doing a work
which-cannot be done n the public
school: and as such, the eood peo-
n'e of Lumberton feel that this
school cannot be soared from its
work amon the coloreH peop1e
Th;a hag been cleary slown by
the ibera, contbutions jriven HU
mor4 w,0nv by the bet white peo-
n1e of tne towJli an1 we simDiy take
mt method cf makin? an anneal not
to tne town's people only but to all
Robeson and surround;nt? counties
who young peonle even now are
lacking for admittance, and many
0f whom for years hnve attended.
We 2k the contributions of all
scenic of all races fcr te robuildinor
,.nd jn some deeree mn'cino' the
Lie cpS sustained by this fire.
We know, from pat exnerience-?
V'.crt. bmall sums from h'nlre.n
of prcple will ceon enable Hayswood
tJ acain begin his good wrlc.
The writer of this appeal is an
old citizen and teacher of the col
"rod race for over 43 years here and
is known by every man and woman
cf prominence in this part of the
State and he only now makes this
t - ok, the birch, the chalk and the
hell for younger hands. But while
he lays these aside his heart is as
much in the work as ever and he
M'till holds th confidence of both
"nr - e snd truly hopes th-jt this ap.
na1 not Pass unnoticed.
Yours ever,
D. P. ALLEN'.
S. Contributions may be pent
tt Mr. k . Lawrence and The
Robeson-an.
Catarrh and
Colds
To Be Rid
of
Catarrh
Relieved
s a crrcat achievement.
Mos
Most people would be well
and happy were it not for ca
tarrh. It is worth ten years of
any one's life to learn how to
get rid of catarrh.
PE-RU-NA
will show you, much quicker
than any one could tell you,
how to get rid of catarrh.
THE PERUN A CO, Columbus, Ohio
Mrs. Emma Cannon, 107 E.
Boutn SL, Kewanee, Ills., writes:
"For fifteen ytars I had catarrh of
the head and stomach. I could
hardly walk.. My attention was
called to 'The Ills of Life." I read
it through. Then bought a bottle
of Peruna. I am entirely well now
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The ThSnhtT
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IS WvN
a
High Speed Nerves
demand a mild but satisfying chew. '
The man who chews rank, black tobacco is
likely to find the "come back" on his nerves
coming at just the wrong moment.
fear ... -b 11
dllEWING-TOB AGGO
PICNIC TWIST.is the mildest of tobacco
with the good qualities of a strong chew. Its
gently stimulating effect lasts as long as its
satisfying taste r.:: J there are no after effects.
Try it out yourself.
Take several chews of this soft, cleanly
made selected tobacco. You'll have no more
use for black tobacco.
Look for the name PICNIC TWIST in
5c twists or in the drum of 11 twists.
bflAttjHytAAttoiacco Ok
"00-y! riyOorn-n!"
H-m, Uso 'Gots-lt'
Then Yonll Have Eo Corns to Bump 1
Your Corns Will Come "Clean
OfC Quick!
Did yon ever lee a corn peel off
After you've used "Gets-It" on HT
well, it a a moving-picture ror your
llfel And you hardly do a thing 1
to K.
Get B-It,' Corni
Pnt a little "Oets-Ifon, It dries at once.
There's nothing to stick. Put shoes
and stockings on right over it. No
rain, no fuss. 48 hours corns gone. "Gets
t" never harts the true flesh, nover makes
toes sore. If you have tried almont every
thing else for corns, you will bo much
more surprised to see how quickly and
easily your corns and calluses will come
right off with "Gets-It." Quit limping
and wrinkling tip your face with corn
wrinkles. Try "Gets-It" tonight on that
corn, callus, wart or bunion, and you'll
be glad you reud this.
"Gets-It" is sold by all druggists,
25c a bottle, or sent direct by E.
Lawrence A Co Chicago.
Sold in Lumberton and recommend
ed as the world's best corn remedy
by Pope Drug Co.
CENSUS REPORT SHOWS 8,777,794
BALES GINNED
Washington Dispatch, 22d.
The fifth "cotton ginning report of
the season, compiled from reports and
agents throghout the cotton belt and
issued today, announced that 8,777,794
b;r!es of cotton counting round as
.'alf bs'.es, of the growth, of 1915 has
been ginned prior to November 14.
That compares with 11,608,240 bales
cr 73 per cent of the entire crop,
i:nned prior to November 14 last
vcar, 10,444,329 baies,. or 74.7 per
lent in 1913 and 10.;!99,646 bales, or
r- r, I A. - I 1 1 O Tllfl fitrfl
10.4 ptr (.cm. i'i
age quantity of cotton ginned prior
to November 14 in the last ten years
was 9,257,817 bales or 73.0 per cent
of thejrrop. . , J 'EJ
M8or Corn Bomped y f
A 1 a sr.. M M - A
akiuui J bp m m
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rf tho Aumfra 1
w & . f J
Are the Tobacco Chewers"
said one of the greatest thinkers
this country ever produced.
food Shoes tor!
hoes and M
hnfts
At the Right Prices Direct
Sunbeam and Cherry Blossom Shoes in all sizes for Infants and
Little Tots, prices .. 65c to $1.25
Children's Shoes
All leathers and lasts, both fine and coarse in Southland Belle,
Little Scout and Red Riding Hood Shoes, prices $1.25 to $2.50.
Craddock and Red Riding Hcod Shoes for Big Misses, both lace
and button, prices $1.60 to $3.00.
Ladies' Shoes
Vici Kid, Gun Metal, .Patent Leather and Tan Shoes for Young
Ladies in both lace and button, prices .......... $1.75 to $3.50.
Ladies' Comfort Shoes with rubber heels and cushion soles, just
the thing for house wear and easy walking, prices $1.75 to $3.00.
Boys' Shoes
Craddock, Lexington and Tedcastle Shoes for boys, both stout and
fine, prices , $1.25 to $3.00.
Boy Scout Shoes, prices $2.00 to $2.25.
Men's Shoes
Men's Solid Service Shoes in Tedcastle and other brands, bota
high and low quarter, prices- $1.75 to $5.50.
Craddock Fine Dress Shoes for men, prices ...... $2.50 to $3.50.
PACKARD SUPERB DRESS Shoes for men, prices $3.50 to $4.50.
Remember we have one of the largest stocks of shoes in town,
and that we keep our stock clean and up-to-date..
Nice school book bags FREE with
every pair bought for
school children
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IL M. BIGGS
DEPARTMENT STORE
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