THE BOBKSONIAN. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1917
f AGE FOUR
f EE ROBESONIAN
Published
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
By
ROBESONIAN PUBLISHING CO.
I. A. 8HARPE President
MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1917
Office 107 West Fourth Street
Telephone No. 20
Entered as second class mail matter
st the postoffice at Lumberton, N. C
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year...' $2.00
Six months I-00
ThrM months .50
FOOD SAVING DAY ,
Mr. Herbert Hoova-, national food
administrator, who is trying to arouse
the American people to the tremend
ous importance of conserving food for
ourselves and our Allies, has written
every minister whose name he could
secure a personal letter asking him
to preach upon the subject of food
conservation next Sunday, July 1.
Mr. Hoover expresses the hope that
tViis riav mav become known as "Food
Saving Day," and that it may be made
the purpose and motto of every house
hold in America to "Save the Waste
and Win the War".
Wa sir a a, sinfullv wasteful people.
Maybe we do not mind the qualify
ing word. Mind it? Shucks, we are
positively proud of it, as a nation.
But when folks learn, as they are
beginning to learn, that it is vulgar
and cheap and common to be waste
ful, and that, besides, every tiny
waste now means suffering for some
body later, and that maybe that some
body will be you; and that people
who are wasteful are playing direct
ly into the hards of the Kaiser and
fighting against their own country
maybe these things will make all
of us sit up and take notice and give
heed when we are warned to save
and save and save, and avoid waste.
Notip but vulgar and impossible
people are wasteful and extravagant
in normal times; folks who m this
day are wasteful and extravagant,
DRIVE GERMANS FROM AIR
Win the war by driving the Ger
mans from the air! There is that
about that program that appeals.
Germany has appropriated ,th inven
tion of an American to murder wo
men and children- on the sea, and it
uses the air as far as it can in the
LIBERTY LOAN 52 PER
CENT OVERSUBSCRIBED
4,000,000 Persons Purchased Bonds
Tota Subsections $3,"35,226,850
99 Per Cent in Sums Varying
From $5 0 to $1 ",000 How -Subscriptions
WiU be Pared Down to
2,000,000-000.
-, . - . ' I WaoWnoiin Disnateh. June 22.
same brave iasnion. jnow lor Amer- w , r , ' . L , ,
ica to make the necessary outlay of , S "SSr'SbsSSS
money and build so many air fight. $3,03E 26,850 an over-subscription
ing machines as to drive the Ger- ofj nearly 52 per cent .
mans from the air, thus ending the - Ane "C"',
war, appeals to one as poetic justice.! announced tomght, showing that
Not enough fighting men can be sent,?0? thMM?0 2tl
to the front in France to be of ma- DO: iu-mxic
L 'scriDtions. or those of 3,960,000 per-
i -fatiHT.nmt.. Rnfin rtooiriw,.' sons, were for sums varying from
the United States can sh ne. T;$50 to $10,000 while twenty-one sub
only thing the matter with the prop-1 "nbere applied for allotments of $5,
w ic 000,000 each or more.
sible that it is to be feared that gen- The New York Federal Reserve
.:n :6 i I district, led the list with subscrmtions
uemeii in vAmgiias wm never uei: . r- noi! "
able to see it, or at least that they totalling $1,186,788,400 or more than
will ho nhlo n coo i i V three times the amount subscnbed in
ifl.flionc t-p i !the next district, Chicago, $357,195,-
ev, o -! 950. The other districts sent sub-
MWl LG c uiuuuoiuuu ceil I , - J? 11
ii .- -. in ' scrmtions ns follows:
it crtn0. nZJwLed Boston $332,447,600; Cleveland
xrrv-i. .:ri $286,148,700-. Philadelphia $232,309,-
n ,,1 v. j? 250: San Francisco $175.623,900:Rich-
ally 0 U1C ICOUll. Ul HCailUU XlVlll ' , nn. nnn -. rn. V m
oacK nome, 11 tnose wno reaa tms ana, "i" 'm"r'.' Tr; :, n
11.. t a. XT.- 758.850: St. Louis $86,134,700: Min
nie arucie ueiiiiig auuui mis program ' ,.' zn i n j. ' .m
niihlished elsewhere in this nanpwill neapolis $70,255,500; Atlanta, $50,-
LABOR SUPPLY AND MARKETS
The Lumberton Chamber of Com
merce might perform real service to
the farmers of the county by listing
the names of men and boys who will
volunteer for labor on the farms and
getting in touch with farmers who
need help. The farmers have not
the time to come to town to look for
laborers and probably would be un
successful if they did come. The
Ghamber of Commerce might well
afford to employ a secretary to work
up this information. No doubt there
are farmers in Robeson county right
now who need laborers, and 4t is a
, cinch that there are men loafing
,bout town who ought to be at work
There are not many loafers here, it
is true, but there should be none;
this is no time for any man to loaf,
The Robesonian carried a news item
the other day about a young man go
ing out West to help harvest the
wheat crop. That is all well and
good, and we have no criticism to of
fer; but young men who are willing
to work and who are not employed
no doubt can find work a-plenty
right here in the home county,
Another thing fthat the business
men of Lumberton cannot afford to
neglect is the problem of a 1 market
for locally produced food and feed
supplies. Farmers have been plent
eously urged to increase the produc
tion of foodstuffs, and they are go
ing to raise more this year than ev
er before. A -county-wide campaign
wa8 carried on recently to this end.
the county commissioners making a
special appropriation for the work.
That was a wise thing to do. And
now it is up to the business men o:
Lumberton and every other town in
the county to see to it that loca
markets are iurnished lor every
thing raised. The need for raising all
the foodstuffs possible is going to
continue fo several years' that is.
the special, urgent need, on account
t the war: as a matter of fact, for
ways going to exist for raising al
the food and feed stuffs that can be
consumed locally and it will be no
trouble to pet farmers to raise nlen
ty of foodstuffs if they are sure of
xewung Iair pnees on local markets.
But if the market problem is not solv
ed it will be useless to appeal to the
farmers another year to raise a sur
plus of foodstuffs, and the blame will
Test firmly upon the business men of
the towns.
If the Lumberton Chamber of Com
merce will take on new life it can
i-;rrrtirwr and Dallas $48,948,350.
ator and urtre unon them th adoption1 These subscriptions include those
of this aeroplane construction plan sent direct to the Treasury and ap
it mn-ir ho that this sW tnwarH nut. 1 proved among the various reserve dis
-.-,1, fVini'i Tityic dry A witTi inlOibC f ?-rv a onaoir onH rk Vl 1xtqi mnn Tint tTlCtS.
ij.nncc riXAfocc rv thinV that 1 rjA Allotments will db made, Secretary
nil! It- I I I I I UUllCi3i1 Ul lVJU "W 1 C. I lr I IUa I '
ail this talk of waste and economy
applies only to poor people, are trai
tors to their country, besides being
vulgar ard impossible.
"Save the Waste ana win tne war
is right.
"WHY THE WAR"
Editor Johnson of Charity and
Children winds up an editorial on
Whv th War" with the statement,
"But folks are not yet fully convinc
ed that we have a causus belli. it
would be interesting to know what
would convince those still not c-on.
vinced. If a man does not consider
that he has a causus belli when an
inhuman wretch comes aiowg ana
murders his wife and children and
punches him in the nose and spits
in his face, it would be impossible
to find anv causus belli for him. Ger
many is ruled by the most inhuman
set of fiends that ever cursea tne
earth, beside whom barbarians of old
were angels of light and healing, and
if the United States, in entering the
war to free the world from the dom
ination of these wretches, has not
entered upon a holy crusade, there
is no such thing as a cause for war.
If we havp no causus belli then we
have.no cause to fight the devil and
we'd just as well close our churches
and invite the devil to take posses
sion. Charity and Children says it
does' not know exactly what Mr. Mc
Adoo means when he says we are m
the war "to prevent the destruction
of our own great country," and it re
marks, "if Germany were to invade
the United States ten million men
would spring to arms between suns."
Fine. Why not say twenty - million
men? They would do that same, of
course and would be slaughtered
like lambs. What would it skill for
ten million men to spring to arms
between the suns if they were un
armed, undiscipined, unofficered-?
They could die like men, and would,
before trained, well-armed, season.,
ed soldiers. Might as well scout the
idea of fighting some deadly dis
ease at its source and trying to pre
vent its spread, and say with fine
rhetoric that if the disease comes the
whole family will turn themselves in
to nurses between the suns. They
would be devoted nurses, but hardly
effective. It is no fancied danger
that threatens this country; Mr. Mc-
McAdoo announced, as follows:
"Qn subscriptions up to and in
cluding $10,000, full amount. These
hands the other day and said it had
failed, that it could do nothing more,
and God help the publishers, or words
to that effect, for the government
icould do nothing. It would seem -that
the only thing left is for the govern.
ment to step m and take control of
paper prices and distribution. The
publishers are absolutely at the mer
cy of the paper manufacturers un
less the government steps in.
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North Carolina registered more
men for war service under the selec-
rtive draft than the Census Bureau
estimated would be registered in this
State several thousand more. When
it comes to furnishing fighting men
North Carolina beats the world.
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Date from Drafting National Guard
Ifito Federal Armies May be Postponed
Drafting of the national guard in-
The Federal Trade Commission, af-
tov TinMinnr rmt TiAnA trv nnVklic'Viova
t 5. I subscriDtians totalled $1,296,684,850.
biiat mauiuonuiwo uj: ucwbmxiiit ya- - ? ' . j
may nrm ,1 a v i,rtVri f v,v.-l "More than siu.uuu up to ana m
them with impossible prices, and af-1 eluding $100,000, sixty per cent of
. . . j ii - - ' rtho omnnnr cnhamrwrt. hut. Tint IPSS
ter actually securing some paper ior. -j -- . ' r
distribution at much nearer a , fair than $10,000 in any instance. These
price than the manufacturers had been subscriptions totalled $560,103050; al-
offenng for some time, threw up its, iU"ue"L&, ,s,c'
"More than $100,000 up to and in
cluding $250,000, forty-five per cent
of the amount subscribed, but not
less than $60,000 in anv instance.
Subscriptions in this group totalled!
1 $220,455,600 and allotments will ag
! ereeate $99,205.000.
"More than $250,000 up to and in
cluding $2,000,000, thirty per cent but
not less than $112,500 in any instance.
The total of subscriptions in this
group was $601,514,900; allotments
will aggregate $184,381,800.
"More than $2,000,000 up to and
including $6,000,000 each, twenty-
five per cent but not less than $600,-
000 in any one instance. Subscrip
tions in this group totalled $234,544,
300; allotments will total $58,661,
250. x
"More than $6,000,000 up to and
including $10,000,000 each, twenty-
one per cent. Subscriptions m this
July 25 and August 5, the relative
rank of its1 officers would be estab-
Jished on an unfair basis. The na
tional defense act provides that .na
tional guard officers shall take .rank
as of the date of draft ' :u
The additional time gained y
postponing- the draft until August 5
would be valuable to the department
in miking ready the divisional camp
sites, and would permit the assemb
ling of additional equipment for the
troops.
The War Department has received
numerous requests for early draft
ing of forces from, some States, mem
bers of Congress stating that the
troops were ready and eager for the
call, while from other sections, not
ably agricultural regions, requests for
delay have come as the loss of the
number of ' men involved durinp the
harvest neriod mie-hf. rrpatA a l'fr
Aaoo was not inuuigiiig m a mean-, shortage. :
ingless phrase when he said we are; Preparations for mobilizing of the
at war "to prevent the destruction state troops are going forward
of our own great country." If France! smoothly, officials say. Recruiting
and England had not stopped Ger- v has been good for the last month,
many ana were not noiaing mat . particularly among regiments not
I 11 1 --rj V S 1"a J
to the Federal armies for war -rvice to.anea ?4.iou; allotments
may de delayed until Ausru 5 -be-1 will aggregate $9,801,600
cause it has been found that under Tw0 subscriptions of $25,000,000
the present plans for drafting the' eBch. were received. The allotments
p-uard in t'op inprpmentn .TnKr "i k i to these subscribers will e at the
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country now the United States, un.
prepared, long since would have fall
en an easy prey. Ten million men
springing to arms between the suns
called into Federal service for police
duty.
Reports from headquarter contracts
show that clothing, tentage and oth-
find in these questions of labor sup- An
v aiiu i 1 1 1 i ii 1 1 om ui wnn n it
- y x' "wuw n viljf
sounds fine, but they would be about er equipment for the troops will be
as effective in stopping a trained ; available, there are sufficient rifles
army of a million men as the un-jin store to arm every regiment ful
numbered myriads of sparkling dew- j yt signal corps and engineer equiD
drops that gather between the suns ment will be available on time and
are potent to arive away xne orD oi
value of $5,055,000 each. One sub
scriber to $25,250,000 the largest
will be given 20.17 per. -cent or $5,
093,650. ."The paring down process thus
"will apply chiefly to7 the large sub
scriber. 1 In cases where larger sub
scriptions have' been reported to the
Federal Reserve banks as consisting
of a number of small subscriptions,
provision has been made for allot
ment in accordance with the several
amounts of the smaller subscriptions.
"One of the chief purposes of the
campaign was to distribute the Lib
erty bonds widely throughout the
country and place them as far as pos1
sible in the hands of the pepole. This
was important because the strength
of government policies, rests -upon
the support of the people. The large
number of subscribers, especially the
large number of small subscribers, is
most gratifying and indicates that
the interest of the people was arous.
ed as never before in an issue of
bonds.
The widespread distribution of the
bonds' and the great amount of the
over subscriptions constitute an elo
quent and conclusive reply to the en
emies of the country who claimed
that the heart of American was not
m the war."
of the best efforts of the business
men of the town.
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It takes an awful lot of explaining
to make, some dense Congressmen
y1 -p.. ..... , . I J.Ul(. -It JO lldLILCl 'IKJt.
Zr . t Jtr3 omK T,some.just to single out for special
eminently sensible thing.
the only delay anticipated will be
with artillery.
On the basis of present returns,
there will be enough infantry regi
ments to organize immediately after
the draft 13 or 14 of the 16 divisions
war . with a number of regiments left ov-
rt1- I . X J.1 1 . r . i ia
hiVPTV . 4-a-vr4-ls- kiiniA 1.1 r.4- i L I X . f x 1 1
toov he makes shows that h ! h 'euol"c " eT .lo Iorm ine nucleus oi other di
- ------- -a y iiis anv Droiits out oi tne war. tr.at
arl tCt v -h tthif- common Peple" has had expenses enormously in-ffVrt-t
JS akinthe responsibil-! creased by the war, and that the gov
lty that rests upon him of pointing mmmt. i-olioc ,nr,r, .n i,Qi
Sip, Hr-I??u, 1 nm!: m .the.se7ar the war. Everybody knows the war
a bSbSS i ynr?.WAf mllted,t0 registration, the Liberty loan and the
w - t!a i Durham5ie Y.-Red Cross campaign for $100,000,000
ieemWl, TLt' .barLecu would not have been successful but
CdelwH S mA thi'and for the patriotic and unselfish. work
nhr hP IILa J fi,fdviSe that.the of the newspapers at their own ex
to th Rwl rrna iZa7 7" Pense. Intelligent folks realize these
to the Ked Cross.. Nobody ever de- thines but while them ar o f.w
SiLa7t PJySiCal bT-fit r0!n SR exceptions, ConIres?men 2S
vtHheco a berbece, and in times not long on intelligence, so they eith
Ttoi it ?viU? dS ...L-er cannot understand cr are m5S
eS STnSRl by Pviciousness. 6,
believes and get to the heart of a it a;a tt.i. q
matter as the Governor does. He isWiv tn 77, Z7"rZ" ?f"
certainly n0 bromide.
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Four millions of people oversub-
ny to carry out the war. registration
m KODeson. uierk of the Court C. B.
Skipper had a lot of extra work to do
scribed th T ; Wt7r ua u " J" tunnecuon witn lt ana it would
Hohenzolleri vi LX tA' F' county; but SOI"e patriotic ladies and
S see whe?; vX- fifu be able,men offered their services, the cards
o see where your finish is coming, were divided up, and the work was
done without a hardship on anybody
Catarrhal Deafness Cannol Be Cured
Jh-'f aPP,,catn. as they cannot reach
1? ? l8ea"0d Pr"" of the ear. There
Catarrhal AS a ?ontlt'onal remedy
kfi' ?,eafneB is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucou. lining of
win be destroyed forever. Many Cai nf
deafness are caused by catarrh which u
WW" wlI Kiv One Hundred Dollars fn
t F. J, chewey A CO.. Toledo. O.
and at no cost to the government.
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Youne lady out West shot and kill
ed a married woman because she lov
ed the married woman's husband and
the woman would not agree to let her
hae him. Most unreasonable wo
man at all, that married woman.
When an unmarried female comes
along and says she wants a woman's
husband, why of course the married
woman ought to hand him over right
side up with care and apologize for
having taken him in the first place.
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What this country needs is more
roe ,m .Congress with ability enough
to 'deviate into sense" occasionally.
visions.
Thompson Hospital Notes
Reported for The Robesonian.
Mr. G. P. Higley. city, underwent
an operation yesterday and is getting
aiong very nicely.
Mr. John H. Paee. Clarkton. T. F
D., was operated on for appendicitis
yesteraay ana is getting along fine,
Mrs. Frank L. Smith, R. F. D. 2,
who was operated on three weeks ago,
will return homeoday.
Mr. Dock F. Barnes, Proctorville,
is sick in the hospital with typhoid
j-cvei- anu is geiiing aiong tine.
Mr. Wm. M. Bryant, who was ope
rated on two weeks aeo. is recover
ing nicely and will probably go home
in a wees.
Mn. Emory Hester, Bladenboro,
who was operated on for appendicitis
a few days ago, went home this morn
ing
Mrs. H. F. Purvis, Proctorville, who
was badly shaken up in automobile
wreck at the iron bridge across Lum-
er.ner ?Pday P' m" a patient
at the hospital.
EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix of
the last will and testament of Irvin
Jenkins, deceased, notice is hereby
given to all persons having claims
against the said estate, to lodge them
wiiu me unaersigned, duly authen
ticated for payment, on or before the
first day of July, 1918, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re,
covery.
All persons indebted to said estate
must make immediate payment. ,
MRS. NETTIE JENKINS, (
McLEA'N, VARSER & McLEAN'
" Attorneys. ( 6 25 6inon
VETERANS GRATEFUL
FOR FAVORS
Old Soldiers Express Appreciate lo
County -Commissioners and Others
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
Please let me express through your
columns our deep appreciation and
gratitude to the county commission,
ers of Robeson for their thoughtful
and liberal appropriation to meet our
expenses in attending the recent
Confederate reunion in Washington
city. We wish also to express our
gratitude to the East Lumberton
brass band for its kindly attention
and service, to Messrs. White & Gough
for cloth to print streamers on car, to
Mr. Ed Freeman for printing badges
for the occasion, and to The Robeson
ian and Lumberton Tribune for their
Kindly attention and notices.
M. G. McKENZIE,
For the Committee,
W. O. W. Memorial Service July 1
To the Editor of Th Robesonian?
On account of bad weather the W.
O. W. failed to have their memorial
service on June th 3rd. ThA W. n
W. at Raft Swamp intend having it
uuiy at o p. m.
All the W. O. W. are invited and
tne puDiic at large We are expect
ing one or two good speakers
J. C. BAXLEY,
n . Consul Commander.
Buie, N. C.
July 23, 1917.
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