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THE EOBESONIAN, LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1921. PAGE THREE NEW LOW DEATH RATE FROM TUBERCULOSIS IN N. C Figures Tell an Eloquent Story of the Winning Fight Against This Dis ease in North Carolina. (State Board of Health Bulletin) A new low rate for deaths from tuberculosis in North Carolina was established in 1920 according to sta tistics just compiled by the State Board of Health. The total number of deaths from this cause for the past year was 2,865 as against a total of 3,005 for the previous year. The re duction in deaths from tuberculosis was one of the important items in enabling the state to achieve a re markably low death rate as a whole, the rate for all diseases having been 12.9 per thousand. Figures tell an eloquent story of the winning fight against tuberculosis in North Carolina during the past few years. In 1915 this disease, popular ly known as "the Great White Plague," filled 3,710 graves with Tar Heels. Since then there has been, a steady decline, so that last year there was a difference of 845. The people of the state are demonstrating that tuberculosis is a curable, and a pre ventable, disease. A comparison with the United Blood Is the Sap of Life; . Keep It Pure States as a whole shows that this I NEARLY 300 PEOPLE BURNED state has an enviable record. In 1919' TO DEATH IN N. C. LAST YEAR tuberculosis caused a total of 111,579 Ton grow by good blood aa a tree grows by sap. Rich blood, robust man. Good sap, sturdy tree. Keep the blood healthy and wholesome; poor, impoverished blood cannot nourish the body or remove the waste as nature intended. When your blood Is impure, itching, flaming skin eruptions often break out, and your body gets run down and weak easy prey for disease. To be safe, keep the circulation wholesome. For this S.S.S., the famous vege table blood remedy your druggist keeps, is excell ent. Start enriching your blood with S.S.S. to day, and write about your condition to Chief Medi cal Advisor, 838 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. " MAKE THIS BANK YOUR BANK. WE GIVE YOUR BUSINESS PROMPT AND CAREFUL ATTENTION. The Bank of Proctorville vr.- pRoor v 3 - - - : W- B. SURLES, President X P. GRAHAM. Cashier II death8 in the United States, only or. ganic diseases of the heart being charged with a greater number of deaths. The rate was 131 per hundred thousand of population. The rate for the same year in North Carolina was 117.5 per hundred thousand of popu. lation, and last year this rate dropped to the new low level of 112 per hun dred thousand of population. In the nation tuberculosis is charge able with slightly more than ten per cent of all the deaths that occur. In this state it causes approximately eight per cent of all deaths. In other words, one out of every twelve deaths in the state is from this cause. Fatalities from tuberculosis have been much greater among the colored people of the State than among the white. During the past two years a special educational effort against this disease has been made among the colored people by the extension de partment of the state sanatorium and the State' Tuberculosis association. The recent General Assembly made an appropriation of $100,000 for a sana torium for negroes, and health author ities feel confident that equally as good results can be obtained in the reduction of deaths from this cause i among the negroes as have been at tained for the population as a whole. AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER? By Richard H. Edmonds, Editor Manufacturers Record Above all else this country needs a nation-wide revival of old-fashioned prayer-meeting religion A religion that makes men realize that if there is a Heaven, there must also of necessity be a Hell A religion that makes a man realize that every act ia recorded on his own conscience, and that though that may slumber, it can never die A religion that makes an employer understand that if he is unfair to his emoloves and nays them less than fir Majority of Deaths from Burn Were Children Death Rate From Nearly Every Disease is Being Steadily Reduced. (State Hoard of Health Bulletin) Nearly three hundred people in North Carolina met their death last ; year by fire, the total being barely j below the record for the previous 1 year. In 1120 there were eighteen j lives lost in conflagrations, while 279; died from other burns. The total was ! 297. For 1U19 there were 24 lives! lost in conflagrations, and 276 from i other burns. The total was 301, just four more than for the last year. The statistics were announced by the State Board of Health last week. ' j The majority of the deaths from! bums were children, resulting from the accidental catching fire of their. doming eitner irom open Iires or playing with matches. In the list of those dying in conflagrations are also children who had been left in houses that caught on fire and who could j not escape. During the past two years the records show one death by suicide by ! burning, one of the few deatha from this cause ever recorded in the State, j The death rate for nearly every j disease is being steadily reduced, ac-: cording to the statistics of the Board' of Health, but the accident hazard,: as the figures for deaths by burning show, remains practically unchanged. Members L (fori rl J vy U No. 1 Timothy Hay, Oats, Molasses & Dairy Feed, C. S. Meal & Hulls, Flour, Meat, Lard & Provisions, Fertilizers, 16 per cent Acid & Nitrate Soda. High-Grade Goods at reasonable prices. Ko M. BIGGS LUM3ERTON, N. C. Farmers Exchange Saves Thousands of Dollars. During the last year a farmers' ex- j change in Beaufort county, N. C, saved its member, and the farmers in j the community between $75,000 and; $100,000, according to a roport to the1 United States Department of Agri-1 culture. j The organization, formed to aid po. j tato growers, has shown high profi-, ciency in co-operation. Last season its activities were confined to the pur-1 j i !. l i. - , n .wages, jneasu --suaoiMis ; . .. fTneir efficiency and zeaf.ne is'itm? selling 6t "potatoes"." Thirty-five thousand barrel covers were bought son's successors in office are follow ing his lead in so many things. Then, when we're all protruding our chests, and feeling good, along comes some carper like the Greensboro News, who can't be happy in seein', other folks happy, and up and says that "America lavs claim to all the rights, but evades responsibility for all the wrongs resulting from the peace treaty." Now doesn't that make you mad, for a joy-killer to butt in that a-way? And the worst is that it adds to the mad because we can't for , the moment think of a fitting reply. Statesville Landmark. EASTERN N. C. TRUCKERS SUF FERED BIG LOSSES FROM FROST Eastern North Carolina truckers anfforori lnaso eHmtHi to be close to $100,000, as a result of the damage 1 done the early fruit and vegetable crps by the unusually heavy frost that visited this section Tuesday I morning. Undaunted by this the maj ority of the farmers yesterday began replanting and it is not believed that truck movement will be delayed long er than 15 days. The frost was most untimely for the truckers- as everything had indi cated that the crops this season would have been one of the best in year. It had been figured that at least 30 per cent more fruit and vegetables would be shipped north from the estern part: of the state than was moved last year. Although strawberries, lettuce, potatoes, egg plants, okra, squash, cantaloupes, tomatoes and peppers suffered badly, the greatest damage was done to snap beans and cucumbers- as practically 75 per cent of these vegetables was killed. The truckers were able to afford these two crop but little protection. Z. W. Whitehead, editor of the Car olina Fruit and Truckers' Journal, yesterday received long distance tele phone reports from many of the sec tions and he estimates the damage as follows: Snap beans, 75 per cent; cu cumbers, 75 per cent; strawbrerries, from 10 to 15 per cent; lettuce, 15 per tent, and varying damages to the other crops. Wilmington Star, Apr. 13. A Correction To thm Editor of The RotHnriwn. Will you please publish these few lines to correc t a mistake. Rev. W. L. MoOre will fill appointment the 4th Sunday evening in May at 3:30 o'clock instead of April, as before stated. I trust thi will bring all things right and a large crowd will be out; the place, at t lipssaiomca M. E. Church. A. B. SMITH. St. Pauls, N. C. R. 2 W ANTED r0 POUNDS OF GOOD CLEAN COTTON RAGS. APPLY MECHANICAL DEPT. OF THE ROBESON IAN. FLORESTON SHAMPOO refifps a vift, creamy lather Chat clranwd t he rmlr anl soalD hpinoves all flirt and lundrurr, makes the li.itr soft, fluffy aod ., ... ... . I . ,., !i.,,tui. n k mi. 1 1 I tflACox Chemical Works,"Jat;horae,5. T 'Save the surface and yrju save all a robber A religion that makes an employe know that if he does not give full and efficient service, he too is a robber A religion that makes a farmer,' who packs bad fruit at the bottom and deceives the buyer by the good fruit on the top, realize that he is a thief just as much as the one who robs a hen roost at night A religion that makes a man who robs a railroad of its fare, or its freight bill, know that he robs himself of all right to feel that he is an honest man A religion that. makes a man realize that by driving too hard a bargain with his servant, his employe, or his merchant, he can be just as much a profiteer as the seller or producer who swindles by false weight, false pack ing or false charges A religion that will teach church members who fail to contribute to the extent of their ability to the support of religion, and th$t compels them to recognize that if they are paying at a saving of $700, and 126 carload lots of potatoes were sold with a sav ing of $r0,000. A great growth in cooperative mar. keting and purchasing has been one of the outstanding results of exten sion work in the South. County agents, assisted by marketing special, ist, through marketing demonstra tions and by instructions and advice, have aided local and county associa tions of farmers in the co-operative sellint? of manv kinds of farm nro- ! duce and livestock, and in the co operative purchasing of a great var iety of farm necessities. Farmers have gained knowledge of methods and acquired confidence in their ability to do business on a co operative basis. They are beginning to undertake definite business organi zations on a county-wide and even State-wide scale for the marketing of their main cash crops, such as cot ton, tobacco and peanuts. Owing to the co-operative work in their pastor less than a living salary, ! cotton grading, classing and stapling nm LL IT IS TOUGH WATER PROOF DURABLE V YOU Will Be Delighted When You Use Carmote Floor Varnish N 'Made In Clear Varnish and Cherry Walnut Mahogany Rosewood Lt. Oak Dk. Oak Golden Oak Croon A WONDERFUL FINISH FOH FLOORS - FURNITURE WOODWORK R. D. CALDWELL & SON LUMBERTON, N. C. J GOOD BREAD That's the kind you get at the LUMBERTON BAKERY A complete line of good things to eat, includ ing a full line of Fancy Groceries. LET US SERVE YOU. G. B. CROM ARTIE, Proprietor. 'Phone 71. they are robbing God and man alike In short, we neea a revival 01 tnai religion which will make every man and woman strive in every act of life to do that which, on the great Judg ment Day, they will wish they had done, as with soul uncovered tney stand before the Judgment beat 01 tne Eternal. 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Fire In j delity;& Casual Bonds,Automobile liability Insurance and Accident and Health Insurance. I Iihk l Really INCORPORATED A. T. McLEAN, Manager. and information given as to the mar. ket value of the various grades and staples by extension workers, it is : estimated that between $1,000,000 ' and $2,000,000 were saved to the cot- j ton farmers of Texas during the year in increased returns. University News Letter. Our Elation Disturbed. Secretary Hughes has repeated to Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan what President Wilson, speak ing through Secretary Colby, had said to these countries about our rights overseas; which is in effect that while we are not a party to the treaty of Versailles we have surren dered none of our rights with refer ence to the overseas possessions of Germany; that inasmuch as we were an important factor in winning the war we claim the right to have a say as to the disposition of the spoils, even if we take no spoil for ourselves. The new Secretary of Stae quotes the former President Wilson in tell ing the allied powers that when they undertook to give Japan a mandate over the island of Yap (in which we are concerned ,as to cable rights to the extent that we don't want any one power to control the island), that they went beyond their authority in ignoring our rights. All of which pleases all of us more or less. We like for our government to stand up and tell the "furriners" what's what. We swell with elation, pride and importance when we feel big enough and strong enough to say things that we believe will be respect ed because we are sufficiently power ful to compel respect. And so we all feel proud when we read Secretary Hughes' firm words; and friends and admirers of the former President have a little extra pride because Mr. Wil- See Our Work tad get oar. prices befort placing an ordn for any kind of monumental work. Lnmbertuo Marble & Granite J. a. Floyd. Prop. Lunbertoa. N. 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All kinds of hard wood and pin lum ber, rough and dressed. Red Cedar Shingles in transit at rJl times. DAVID H. FULLER Attorney at Law Office on first floor Planters Bank & Trust Company Building LUMBERTON, N. C. JUNIUS J. GOODWIN ATTORN EY-AT-LAW. Office on ground floor McLeod Bids Opposite Robcsoniaa Office. Thomas L. Johnson E. M. Johnson JOHNSON ft JOHNSON Attorneys and Counsellors at Law LUMBERTON, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts Notary Public in Office. Offices over First National Bank. A. W. McLean Dickson McLean L. R. Varser H. E. Stacy McLEAN, VARSER, McLEAN & STACY. Attorneys At Law. LUMBERTON, - North Carolina W. B. IVEY Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office on Second Floor Cotton Mil Office Building, Elm Street. Lumberton, N. C DR. GRAHAM McLEAN DENTIST Second Floor Jones Building FAIRMONT, N. C. DR. C. M. FLOWERS Grauduate Veterinarian Office White's Stables Phones: Office No. 17; Residence No. 346W. Calls answered day and night DR. S. R. McEAY DENTIST Office on first floor of The National Bank of Lumberton Building. PHONE 203. d!TrXsto! EYE SIGHT SPECIALIST; Hours: 9 to 12; 2 to 5 Appointments preferred Main St. Laurinburg, N. C Stephen Mclntyre R. C Lawrence James D. Proctor Robt. A. Mclntyr McDXTYRE, LAWRENCE ft PROCTOR, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law LUMBERTON, N. C. Practice in State and Federal Courts, Prompt attention given to all business. B. J. BRETT and LUTHER J. BRITT, Attorneys Practicing law under the firm nam of E. J. BRITT & CO., with offices in the Pope Building, Lumberton, N. C. Practice in both State and Federal courts. Prompt, Attention Given All Business. T. A. MeNEILL. Jr. V. D. HACKETT. Jr McNeill & hackftt Attorneys-At-Law. OLD NEWS PAPERS FOR SALE AT THE ROBESONIAN OFFICE,'""