THE R0S230NIA2I THURSDAY, FEBItUABY 17, 1918
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N. C
Don't Forget to Take Stock
ssssssssmiiN the
Robeson fiuilding & Loan Association
!&& - NEW SERIES .,
January 1 st, 1 9 1 6
All stockholders in first series should take new stock in new se
ries because the first series will mature before another series opens.
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
STOP PAYING RENT AND OWN YOUR OWN HCME BY PAY
ING FOR IT WITH RENT MONEY ' . Y,
CALL ON C. V. BROWN AT THE NATIONAL BANK OP LUM
BERTON, who will cheerfully give any information you may de
sire on this subject.
C. V. BROWN, Sec. & Treas.
Economy of Democratic Administra
tion of Public Schools of State
Clearly Shown Cost Per Child Per
Day Slightly Hig-her Than in '98
to Send Child to a School Equip
ped 541 Per Cent and to Teacher
Paid Salary 77 Per Cent Higher
Former Senator Marion Butler has
shown that he will be in the fight
thi3 year by circularizing the State as
the Republicans and Progressives arc
re-uniting and holding their prima
ries to nomniate delegates to county,
State and compressions ronv-pnt.inns - .
' In his circular Mr. Butler writes,
"I hope to-meet you as a delegate at
J the Republican State convention in
rtaieign , ana ne proceeds to pre
scribe the conduct of the convention.
The Butler pamphlet "Excessive
Taxes and Debt" is being used be
cause of the handy figures which
are said to have been taken from the
Democratic records, but A. J. Max
well, chief clerk of the Corporation
Commission, is shooting holes into
the statistics and interpreting them
to the glory of the Democratic party.
In relpy to Mr. Butler's charges
against the public school system of
North Carolina Mr. Maxwell writes:
In my former anrwer to the at
tack in the Butler pamphlet on the
record of the State Tax Commission,
and the charge of execessive taxes
and extravagance in Democratic State J
administration, I did not try to cover
his charge of extravagance in the
msnagemesrofThe pabttechoolsys-i
tem of the State, as it was not de
ft sired to present an article of too
L? i great length.
Hi The Democraic State administra-
Fit i ' J . . j I- tt
lion deserves 10 siana or ian on its
management of the public schools.
If it na3 heen eitner uniaithiui or
inefficient or extravagant in a mat
ter so close to all the people of the
State, it would be undeserving of
continuance in authority.
The Butler charge of extravagance
is based on just two statements:
1. That the school fund was in
creased from $894,000 in 1898 to $2,.
703,990 in 1913.
fSSEhat the lengttuef school, term
was oniv increased irom i..uo
weeks in 1898 to 18 weeks in 1913.
Of course. Mr. Butler could not
state even theba1&c-ils accurately.
The repor""6f Mr. C. H. Mebane,
Superintendent Public Instruction
(f ushion") for the year 1898 shows
expense of public school for that
year $931,082.86, instead of $894,000
as -given by Mr. Butler, and the re
port of Dr. J. Y. Joyner for 1913
shows length of school term 20.48
weeks, instead of 18 weeks as giv
en by Mr. Butler.
But the increase in length of
school term is not the largest item
in the inventory of public school im
provements 1898 to 1913.
Mr. Mebane's report for 1898
shows value of public school prop
erty $930,214. Dr. Joyner's report
for 1913 shows value of public school
ATTENTION
FARRIERS !
We CaH Your Atten
tion to Our Com
plete Line of Plow,
Cotton Planters and
Corn Drills
Oliver Plows
Syracuse Plows
Blount Plows .
Avery Plows
Booster Corn Drills
K. P. Fertilizer Distributor
Cox Fertilizer Distributor .
Dixie Plows ...
Lewis Cotton Plows
Wrench leas Cotton Plows
Simth Cotton Plows
New South Cotton & Com Planters
Cox Cotton Planter
Craven Cotton Planter .
We especially call your attention to Oliver Plows as we have a car load in transit
sold wholesale or retail .
Oliver Plows
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DEPARTMENT STORE
LUMBERTON'S LEADING
to overwhelming revolution.
The Democratic State administra
tion will take more pride in its in
creased expenditures to improve the
public school system of the State
than in any other feature of its ad
ministration since 1898. The people
know that they can't have good
schcols without paying for them.
And in this connection it may be
mentioned that every penny of in
.l-.-. . - J.1 n. - 1 . - '
li caBe in me oiate tax rate since
1893, and more, halftone to the. pub
lic schools and? pensions for Con
federate soldiers and widows. The
last revenue act under the Butler
regime levied Stat- taxes as follows
State, 22 2-3; pensions 3 1-3; schools",
The revenue act of 1913 levied
btate taxes as follows: State, 23 2-3;
prions, 4; school, 20. Chapter 33
of the public laws of 1913 provided
that live cents of this levy for State
purposes of 23 2-3 cents should be
set . aside for distribution to the pub
lic school lund of the several counties
to make a six months school term,
so tnat tne tax ; rate actually levied
for general State purposes is now
four cents on each hundred dollors
worth cf property less than the tax
levied tor State purposes under the
Butler regime in 1898.
And the net fact still remains that
property $5,030,710.02, an increase of after spending economically and
541 ner cent. wisely three time3 as much on public
The average monthly salary paid; education as the Butler crowd spent
white teacners in '1913. 'was $42.37 we still pay less taxes per capita
for maies and $22.90 lor females for than the psople of any other State
average term of 71 days.- Jin the Union.
The average monthly salary puiu
WITHIN THE STATE
.1
white teachers in 1913 was
fnr Hooracp. term of 102.4 days.
With log school houses and '22. items cf News in Short -Length
teachers in 'ihifS there' was only. 84.3. Form From All Over North Car-
Tier cent ox tut; www; - i uiiua
GIRLS! HAVE A MASS
OF BEAUTIFUL HAIR,
SOFT, GLOSSY, WAVY
25-Cent Bottle Destroys Dandruff
and Doubles Beauty of
i our Hair
a a-.. : I -., i rw
pjiemon;tof IJanderjine 'you Vcan hoi nm at the Ltfihno,raaw?cnol'
una a single trace ox dandruff or
falling hair and your scalp wilPnot
itch, but what will please you most
wm De alter a few weeks use, when
you see new hair fine and downy
at first yes but really new hair-
growing all over the scalp
A .little Danderine immediately
doubles the beauty of your hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle
and scaggy, just moisten a cloth
with Danderine and carefully draw
it through your hair, taking one
small strand at a time. The effect
is amazing your hair will be light,
fluffy, .and wavy, and have an ap
pearance of abundance; an incom
parable lustre, softness and luxuri.
ance.
Get a 25-cent bottle cf Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or
toilet counter, and prove that your
h:ir is as pretty and soft as any
that it has been neglected or miur
ed by careless treatment that's all
you surely can have beautiful hair
nnd lots c-f it if you will just try
little Danderine.
school age attending the schools, or
, . i ..'iu. ct.,u f 1Ail1IV In
iProve'il
toYourOwn
Satisfaction
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1
cluiureu in xi'JH, multiplied by the
average length ei term, gives y, 811,- j le-fa
vuu iirii a. f.oiir.nuiinc mftm-
, . , ctu f 14il1(V In'. . - -
a total lor wie , -- ui wmj .a.iouui uuaia, you are
1913 54. Per cent of the white cnil-i eACli;it iiom jufy auiy according
dren were in actual attendance or a. u lullUg oi tlu,rnfcy general isiLK
total of 235,504, the average attend-, t Auc lllaiur 1Uli) causca muca
mice being nearly double. . ... J cviuaaioa. la vue Suiie, judges noid-
lhe average un,enuui.o ""-- uuxereuny us .m uit law, anu a
was iitiKfed lor by Adjutant
'.it V mi m ' I ' l j vnl; nr h o u
;uu scnooi uays, couiamg c.t b(JU out l0 tac sul(.nor court judges
vi oite, and will settle the uis
pate. otate Agronomist J. L. Burgess
nas prepared lor tne farmers and
u uCvcra ot the State, a new f ertii-i-cr
xorniuia lor sweet potatoes and
aiso a new lorrnula for Irish po
laioea. ine lorinuue have bean
wv-rKCd out wild great care, the
ii:gcst authorities have been con
sulted and they should prove helpful,
commissioner Graham nas approved
tnem and tney are now available to
iM-iui Carolina farmers and trucic
ers, who have only to write to the
department. t
iwaieiga Cor., Charlotte Observer:
Fostoria Mazda Lamps
NATIONAL QUALITY
make three times as much light as "carbon lamps from the sarr
amount of electricity. You can' burn three Fostoria Maz;la
lamps for the same cost as one carbon lamp. Or you can burn
one Fostoria Mazda lamp three hours at the cost of burning a
carbon lamp one hour. We wsnt you to prove this, with your
own eyes, your own meter, your own lieht bill. Without paving
more for current you can have a brighter' home, if you phone
us to .send you some of thfse lamps. Phone 9
L.
. CALDWELL'S
HARDWARE DEPARTMENT
,n, ar.ifiuiaiice bv each cnuu
The average attendance of white
children in litt3, multiplied by the
average length of school term, gives
2-1 fc2i,o09 scnooi days or near y tnree
times as many days of actual school
attendance as in 1898.
So that while the total : cost m
1913 is three times as great as in
1898 the actual cost per child per
day is but slightly greater than in
1898 to send a child to a school with
equipment 541 per cent better tnan
in 1898 and to ateacher paid a sal
ary 77 per cent higher than m 1898
Which is extravagant, the old log
school -use and board bench and the
$22 teacher, or tne moveiu . Coi jred A. Olds, persistent hunt-
house and the $42 teacher . ViirH ' oi nistoncal relics, has brought
In 1898 State-aided i rural- mgu, oacK-from KeU ypringg a candle
schools were unknown i the -stick said to nave nel(1 a candle that
In 1913 there were 21- rural xug" j h ue(i no leS3 a personacre than
:hools, preparing the boys auu General LaFayette, the great French
rfaSiaJI
Fertilizer isJisli
So the thing to do is to buy Agricultural Lime and buy it on
time. Send us an order. Will deliver to you bagged and tag
ged anywhere in Robeson county at $5.90 the ton, car lots.
1.
FAIRMONT, N
of the rural districts ior - u"l"j'!man. He also brought many Con
r,t. rountiner ol course u.c vj, b -
Y'
federate relics from Fayetteville, In
dian relics from Kobeson and other
interesting things', all of which will
not counting
tUTW was almost supemsion
of the public schools m 10''.rtifV bo properly labeled and displayed in
Mebane making the statement m ni3jine of Hist whlle roam.
annual report tor lbu tnai. ' , iiV, &r0Und through that section Col
Olds visited Flora Macdonald
and delighted the young to
ture
annual repoii. .xv ; , n. lag aro
ermtendent of schools o 3 0
hivinc in charge tne expenu i , c i;
ehS annual schoo f und of J -
i ..ion nf nn V
H r Thage salary of coun
ty superintendents in 1913 was
$9fhe9olain facts need no argument
to enforce them. They :
nle answer to any charge of extrav
aPgance if indeed any answer need
ed All the people of the State
knowlhese things in a general way.
But no amount of statistics can ade
ouately present a fair comparison
of te efficiency of the public schoo.s
in 1913 with conditions that prevail
ed under the Butler regime in 1893,
when not only poverty was written
over every school house, but when
theshadow of the negro school boards
having the management of both wnite
and colored schools, furnished a large
part of the indignation that grew in-
How Mr. Davis God Rid of a Bad
Coueh
"Some time ago I had a v-y bad
rmitrb" writes Lewis T. PavY .back
water, Del. "My brdther ? '
Davis gave me a small bor. :
Chamberlain's Cough , Remedyr Af
tr tftkine. this I bought half a doz
en bottles of it but only ui one
of them as the cough left me and
I have not been troubled since.' Ob
tainable everywhere.
Moses Speaks is dead- Moses is
the High Point man who murdered
his wife and son-inlaw, stabbed two.
oificers and attempted to murder
other members yf hi3 family and
was pronounced insane. The court
gave him U years in tne oiaie s
prison.. Many people will remember
the sensation the murders created at
the time. He died at Raleigh Sat
urday in the department for the
criminal insane at the State's pris
on .
Talk of Ousting Kitchin is Nonsense,
Says Speaker Clark
Speaker Clark of the House of
Congress, has issued a statement
cnaracterizing as nonsense talk ol
ousting Representative Kitchin from
the House majority leadership be
cause of his opposition to the pre
paredness programme and othei ad
ministration plans. He said he ex
cected to leave the speaKer s cnair
whenever he felt it necessary to op
pose or support any masure, but
would do so without any intent to
supplant Representative Kitchin' or
anv other committee chairman or
leaders.
"It's a pity," said the speaker,
"that all Democrats do not agree
about all things; but Mr. 'Kitchin has
as much right to his opinion as the
President has to his or I have to
mine. -I have faith that by the ex
ercise of forebearance, moderation
and wisdom we will evolve plans for
preparedness and other great ques
tions such as raising revenue on
which we can all stand. That's my
hope and expectation.
"No man can bull a proposition
through the House by main strength.
The entire philosophy of success in
that able and tumultuous assembly, is
to take thinirs bv the smooth handle,
to rub the hair the right way of the
hide and to confer freely with mem
bers, persuading rather than attempt
ing to drive, yielding in non-essentials,
firm as a rock on fundamentals.
There are 435 members and every
one of them has a perfect right to
his opinion as to express it when
ever it seems to him meet ana prop
er.
. "If the busy bodies who afeltryine
to stir up strife by magnifying small
differences Yf opinion among Demo
crats would help eliminate these dif
ferences of opVuon among Democrats,
they would constitute themselves pa
triots instead of marplots."
GRAMMAR GRADES
TEACHERS MEET
G?.nra artment of Rob,
won Teachers Association Held
Thegramrner grades department of
nnimin m ........ ,.
v" mruay. mere were
thirtjr members present, besides Prof.
Poole and one or two visitors. Tbo
meeting was opened with the Lord's
prayer and then the association, call
ed to order by the vice president.
Miss Roberta Coxe, proceeded to elect
a president. This office was left
vacant by the resignation of Miss
Mary Livermore. Miss Livermore
has had to give up her work at
Pembroke as well as her position as
president of this department on ac
count of poor health. Miss Ethel
Cobb was unanimously elected to fill
her place.
An interesting feature of the
morning was a talk by Miss -Eliza-,
ocui -.need ou tne teacmng of Dodge's
Geography. This is considered by
inoi.t teacners a difficult subject and
ct-iiocquently was of interest to all
prenc. Miss Sneed brought out
the fact that all things old-lahion-tu
la teaching are not necessarily
uulc3, that learning States and
the r capitals, boundaries of coun
tries, location of rivers, cities etc.,
is as important as the geographical
facts which enter into the growth
oY c ties and towns. And i am sure
ail present were greatly benefitted
by it. Although Miss Sneed had
cover. d the ground pretty thorough
ly, yet a general discuHt.ion of the
subject then took place. Four or
five of the teachers took part in this.
xvir. 11. c. lilackwell, who was
on the program for ajtalk on history,
at first very much disappointed us
by saying-that he was sick and un
prepared to make a talk, but would
read his paper, poor as it was, f
we cared to listen! lie then sur.
prised us by reading a very interest
ing and instructive paper. His top
ic was that in order to arouse the
pupil's interest, the value of the study
of history to a person's life should
be clearly explained. He also said
that the characters of our great
generals, rather than their battles.
should be studied, that the results
and bad effects of wars, rather than
the wars themselves, should be em
phasized. Make cause and effect
more important than dry facts.
Prof. R. h. Sentelle endorsed Mr.
Blackwell's ideas, while Prof. Poole
suggested that, in teaching history,
if all thepupils of the class were
held responsible every day for one
or two facts and dates, thoroughly
learned, at the end of the year they
would have a pretty good knowledge
of historical fact3.
The subject of our county com
mencement was brought up, and Prof.
Poole urged the teachers to make
preparation for it.
- The association adjourned to meet
again on the 7th of March in joint
session with the other departments.
NOT AN ISOLATED CASE
Many
Lumbertoa
Robesonian Want Ads Are
Popular. Everybody Reads
Them.
Has Used Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy, for 20 Years -"Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy has
been used in my household for the
past twenty years. I began giving
it to my children when they cwere
"mall. As a quick relief for croup,
-hooping cough, and ordinary colds.
ha3 no equal. 1 Being free from
(.;: :m and other harmful drugs, I
v- t felt afraid to give it to the
i hi Yren. I have recommended it to
g larre number of friends and neigh
boir., who have used it and speak
kighly of it," writes Mrs. Mary Minke,
Missionary Meeting at Court nouse
Next Sunday
A meeting will be held at the court
house at 3 o'clock next Sunday af
ternoon for the benefit of the Mis
sionary Home Society of Maxton, re
cently incorporated without capital
stock for the purpose of caring for
aged colored people, fallen girls and
orphans. The program includes a
welcome address by Mayer A. E.
White and addresses by Mrs. W. W,
Carlyle, B. F. McLean and Rev. A.
A. S. Davis, colored, president of
the society. Music will be furnish
ed by a choir of 25 or more negroes.
Special seats will be reserved for
white people.
What Children Need Now
In spite of the best care mothers
can give them this weather brings
sickness to many children. Mrs. T.
Neureuer, Eao . Claire, Wis., writes:
"Foley's Honey and Tar cured my
boy of a severe attack of croup after
other remedies had failed. It is a
wonderful remedy for cougha, colds,
croup and whooping cough." It stops
lagrippe cougha. Sold everywhere. ' Props., Buffalo, N. T.
Similar Cases in
and V lcinay
This Lumberton man s story giv
en here is not an isolated case by
any means; week after week, year af
ter year, our neighbors are telling
similar good news.
T. G. Britt, prop, blacksmith and
machine shop, 908 E. Second St.,
Lumberton, N. C, says: "I had more
or less trouble from kidney disor
der for twenty -five Vears Sharp
pains took me in the small of my
back and I could not move for sev
eral minutes. After stooping, I
found it almost impossible to
straighten. Mornings I felt worse
and I could hardly crawl out of bed.
My back ached almost all the time,
so I couldn't rest nights. I doctored
and tried different medicines but felt
no better until I used Doan's Kidney
Pills," procured at McDonald's Drug
Store. After I had finished one box,
my back felt as well as ever and has
caused me but little trouble since.
Whenever my kidneys are not act
inir just ris-ht, a few doses of Doan
Kidney Pills fix me up in good
shape."
Price 50c at all dealers. Don
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidnev Pills the tame that
Mr. Britt had. Fortr-Milbni Co,
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