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. THE &OBSONIA27, LUIIBISTOZI, RO&TS GAfiOZTA MONDAY, ZIAY 23, 1921. FAGfi TWO t. Dn a new size pacEtape vNigaretteAn 10 for 10 cto MANY smokers prefer it. They'll find that this compact package often Lucky Strike Cigarettes will just suit them. Try them dealers now carry both sizes: 10 for lOcts; 20for20cts. It's Toasted j?HE BOBEkSONIAN Pabliahed By EOBBSQNIAN PUBLISHING CO. TJBSCBIPTION BATES: One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 'Three Months 50 Office 107 West Fourth Street Telephone No. 20. Entered as second class mail matter at the postrffice at Lumberton, N. C, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1921. PICKING ON THE "SWELLS" Some public speakers sometimes delight in curling the lip and having a little fun at the expense of the fel lows who part their hair in the mid dle or give other evidence of dandy ism. They never fail to get a laugh out of any crowd; and it is all right, only they make a grevious blunder in putting all dandies in the class of good.for-nothings. In his "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" Oliver W. Holmes says he finds that pluck "lies at the bottom of all true dandyism. You remember that the Duke said hi8 dandy officers were his best officers." And further: "A good many powerful and dangerous people have had a decided dash of dandyism about them. There was Alcibiades, the 'curled son of Clinias', an accomplished young man, but what would be called a 'swell' in these days. There was Aristotles, a very distinguished writer, of whom you have heard a philosopher, in short, whom it took centuries to learn, centuries to unlearn, and is now going to take a generation or more to learn over again. Regular dandy he was. So was Marcus Antonius; and though he lost his game, he played for big stakes, and it wasn't his dandyism that spoiled his chance. Petracha was not to be despised as a scholar and a poet,' but he was one of the same sort. So was Sir Humphrey Davy; so was Lord Pal merston, formerly, if I am not forget ful. Yes, a dandy is good for some, thing as such; and dandies such as I wag just speaking of have rocked this planet like a cradle, aye, and left it swinging to this day. -Still, if I were you, I wouldn't go to the tailor's on the strength of these remarks and run up a long bill which will render pockets a superfluity in your next suit" So. Just "lest we forget." When next you hear somebody with a one story intellect and a one-horse vo cabulary talking tall and big about folk who would rather be neat than: alouchy, think on these things. I o CLEARNESS VS. MUDDINESS "I used to soar until I got sore", said Dr. Hagerman in his Chautauqua lecture the other day, after explain ing that ne was going to talk in a conversational way, for he had long since learned that in order to help anybody it is necessary to keep one'a feet on the ground. He said he found out that when he was soaring there was nobody up there but himself and that if anybody else had been up thera they would not have needed him. So he decided to quit that sort of talking and try to be clear, though he said he was fully aware of the fact that some people think a speaker is deep just Jn Portion to the nr-t Jbig -wwfl he used and as fie Spfrr8 things difficult to understand. That is not depth, he explained: it is simply mud. dying the waters. The trouble with many people, he said, is that they always associate clearness with shal lowness; if they can understand what a speaker says they think he is shal low. Too many speakers and writers think their occupation would be gene if they were to keep their feet on the ground enough to be really helpful. It i8 so much easier to soar and mud dy the waters than it is to be simple and clear. On a card about another matter, Mrs. Emma Lee Olmstead, Maxton, R. 1, writes: "I notice that some of your folks wish a change from 'teacherage', so why not call th place 'teachers' rest'? if there really is rest for that class of people." Nothing against it in Holy Writ, s'far's we know. The Book does say something about rest for the wicked bein' mighty seldom, if not altogether not there, but that does not mean teachers. Teachers are meant where it says "There is rest for the weary." If the work does not make them weary it makes them weary trying to make ends meet on what they get. The only trouble about "teacher' rest" is that it takes two words to do the work of one, which isure waste. Teacherage suits us, va we are raising no objections. Sorry to learn that "Aunt Becky", Mrs. Olm stead's mother, does not seem strong these days. Robesonian readers, all of whom love "Aunt Becky", will join with us in hoping that she will regain her strength and send more of her interesting letters to The Robesonian. o Local interest is given to a dispatch from Warsaw telling of the arrival there of equipment for playground by reason of the fact that the local Woman's Club is accumulating a fund to purchase playground equipment for the schools here". The Warsaw dispatch referred to says swings, slides, "giant strides", "ocean wave", merry-go-rounds and seesaws have been placed on the school grounds The equipment was purchased with money made by entertainments given by the teachers during the past year, supplemented by a donation from the school board. School children of the present in many places have advant ages their parents never dreamed of. Praise be for it! And playground equipment is as important as any other equipment. Everthing that con tributes to physical wellbeing and fitness lessens the luring power of dissipation and immorality. To excell in any sort of game one simply has to steer clear cf dissipation. o A Republican member of the House of Congress gave members of his party in that body a bad quarter of an hour the other day when he de clared that the Civil Service I fraud and proved it Bight upon the heels of that comes an executive order from the White House which fixes it so the Postmaster General may su PUT.CREAW IN K0SE . AliD STOP. CATARRH Tells How To Opea Gorged Koi- . trOs and Ead Head-Colds, Too lea! flne iat few momenta, Your Id is head or catarrh will ho foao. mit to the President for appointment if" l-v Jj any one of the three making the high est grade in examination, and it is yoa eaa breathe .freely. , No mora 4all- B4M, headaches bo hawking, snuffling, fil an that TWirwmtn mav K mucous aiaobarges or dryneM: bo strug- Put out ad replaced by Republicans. n$&2f Vraal Vamall Your-Civil Service is a flexible' sort bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, -Apply of thing. Ingenious party men of any little! this fragrant, antiaeptia cream method of making it look like a merit as4 beal the swollen; inflamed nraeoua system while at the same time taking BMmbrase7and relief comes JnstaaUy. care of the faithful whom it is desired 1 7! "?i24rr punerer, maeoa, w a. jwt wmwiif ad.Wrafclat . , .. to reward for party services. o Insurance Commissioner' Wade is sues another warning against Texas oil stock, offerings of another slick mail-order stock salesman having come to his notice. Mr. Wade thinks practically all such stock is worthless! In every case where there is chance of striking oil 'there is plenty of money available to finance operations and the outside public, does not have any of it offered to it4 If you are offered stock in a Texas oil company the offer itself is pretty good warning to in vestigate thoroughly before buying. ': The Chautauqua which closed here the other day gave ten performances two a day for five days of such a uniformly high order that Lumberton, which heretofore has been backing and filling on the Chautauqua proposition, seems now thoroughly converted and it i8 hardly probable that there will be any further difficulty about book ing, the Red path every season t More than fifty people Signed the' ion unj&f for next year. o - Mrs. Bergdoll gets off with a fine of $7,000. Bah! That's like fining a blind tiger $5 and costs, remarks the Greensboro Daily News. So. The Bergdolls, mother and son, are things to be handled with tongs, holding one's nose the while. A fine amount, ing to all the gold upon the possession of which" this woman build, her pride would not be too much. o News items in the papers about activities of chambers of commerce in other places reminds one forcibly of the impression one gets that" the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce has gone to sleep again. A committee was appointed some months ago to employ a secretary at once, but if any action has been taken nothing has been said about it o NO MONEY HAS BEEN BOR ROWED ON NEW PROGRAM Craven's Charge Warmly Denied by I.arv. - ... i L "Majori Bruce ,Qer(&5v Jd j.aoiiJViic vvniniwiif viuiuoi vfey; kiay liar", State Treasurer Lacy is quoted by the Raleigh correspondent! of the Charlotte Observer as saying in commenting upon the charge that the State had borrowed a half million dollars in New York at 9 per cent Mr. Lacy says that not a cent has been borrowed by the State during t the D re sent administration on ... th new road-building and permanent im- provement program, i ; J Monev borrowed thu far thm TJa and Observer says Governor Morrison made clear Tuesday, has been borrow, ed in accordance with a long custom, and to pay for work already under construction or completed at the various institutions of the State. A total of $500,000 was borrowed, it develops, from the Page Trust Co. at Aberdeen at six per cent interest with the State receivinr three ner -cem on denosltT Thin monev ' was borrowed for institutional purposer ana none ox it zor road buuding. , Only $50,000 has been borrowed for road building and- this was to antici pate the. automobile tax. money that will nt be available before July. A total of $100,000 was borrowed fo r the East Carolina teacher train ing school and $20,000 for the Golds boro hospital. : , "Likkered" Candy a Joke, gays State Chemist; ,:-;- ... ..,-,;; Recently some Charlotte school children showed all signs of being drunk after eating -some candy brought by the father of one of them from Chicago. ; Charlotte .health authorities concluded that the candy, which when broken gave out the old familiar smell, had made the children drunk and that maybe some wonder ful process had been discovered by which "likker" had been locked inside the candy. Samples were sent to Raleigh, tests were-applied and State Chemist Allen deposes and says not a trace of alchohol waB found. So "What made the Charlotte school children drunk?!' remains an unsolved question. . J GIRLS! BLEACH SKIN v .- -. ; , WHITE WITH LEMON -Squeeze the juice of two. lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White which amy drug store will supply f or few cents, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of harmless and delightful lemon bleach. Massage this sweetly frag rant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day, then shortly note the beauty and whiteness of your skin. Famous stage beauties use this lemon lotion to bleach and bring that soft, clear rosy-white com plexion, also as a freckle, sunburn, and tan bleach because: It doesn't irritate. : :,7i ; Railroad Labor Board ""Decides to - Reduce .Wages. -vi.-;;r-!' The United States Railroad Labor Board announced Tuesday that it had decided ' that "prevailing 'conditions justify to an extent, yet to be deter mined, a readjustment downward of the wage,, of the employes of the car riers which are parties to the dispute already heard by. the board." - The announcement,' which 'affects labor on practically every road in the country was entirely unexpected. The board declared it would hand down its final decision in all wage disputes docketed prior to April 18' on June 1, to be effective July . ' . II . ; Mrs. Cynthia Britt returned Thurs day afternoon to her home jn Wil mington after spending several days here visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Britt, Second and Walnut streets. Cheapert accident injuranca Dr. Thootaa' Eekctle OH. For burnt, acakfa, ewta and emerctneica. All druffcut sell tt. 0 and 60c .State College of Agriculture arid Engineering SUMMER SESSION -Jane 14th to July 27th Combes fo Teachers. 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