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News and Comment By J. M. Fleming We often wonder why a certain type of newspapers delight in taking a part of their space to tell the preachers how to preach.* They get enough theological shucks elsewhere. It is amazingly surprising that the modern refinery doesn't make out a program for the angels. We are not yet ready to believe the Almighty has ever yet made a mistake in calling men to preach the gospel, and we further beliefs that those whom He calls answer and go to the task, and that they are cared for and protected while thus engaged. "Cyclone Mack' got good money for his services in Greensboro and we hope he may have continued success in several other places until he shall he made able to pay up his bankrupt-! cy. It hurts the cause for a preacher] to be in debt even though the courts declare him insolvent. The people just won't forgive him. ' For our part, we hate to hear peo ple criticising President Coolidge for not being a member of the church.) That is a matter strictly between him and the Master. We should be glad; to know that he was a Christian and i identified with the church as was the lamented Harding, but he is not the only President that was not a mem-! her. j We hope that at no distant day the presidency of our country may be made easier. It has gotten to be so . burdensome that, instead of having a man to toon alter tne aiiatrs or our nation with comparative ease, his life is in jeopardy from beginning tb end. Yes, Lieutenant Governor Cooper should resign his office. If he wili not do so the good old State of North Carolina should show him the way to the hack door. We are real sorry for him. It may be that Mr. Cooper is sincere and innocent. He may not knowingly have done any wrong. To resign as Lieutenant Governor would not necessarily be admitting his guilt, hut it. would show that, guilty or not guilty, he is unwillingly to see the fair name of his State encroached ^apon. Somewhere there is wrong. Somebody is to blame and he is unddr censure. It makes us sorry to see men play ing hide and seek with their lives in flying machines. They are a failure. M^the long ago men undertook to build a tower by which to climb up into heaven and the Almighty came down &nd overthrew it and made it impossible for them to proceed fur ther with their plans. He meant to show men they could not get into His heaven by means of their own inven tion. If He had wanted men to fly He would have given them wings. Maybe the time hasn't come yet in the pro cess of evolution for the wings to ap pear. Mr. Q. T. Williams and family have our most sincere and deepest sym pathy in the loss of the good wife and mother. May great grace be upon each one of them in these hours of isolation and sorrow. Our meeting of days wili begin at Oakdaie the 3rd Sunday. Rev. J. L. Shinn, D. D., of Linwood has promised to c^pae and preach. Everything is in shape for a good mee ing. It was an exguisite pleasure and privilege to spend an afternoon and night recently in the splendid home of our good and long-time friend Mr. W. C. Townsend, of route No. 6 from Lcmberton. He is a most excellent man and has a fine farm and very at-' tractive home. A married daughter j and her husband live with him and an unmarried son. Their lives seem most pieasant and agreeabie together. We just wanted to stay a whole week right there with them. Mr. Townsend has a son, Mr. Bunnie, in the U. S. navy who is doing well, we were glad to hear. Some years ago we had a most delightful pastorate with the church at Raft Swamp, of which Mr. Townsend and his children are all mentbers. It has been six years since the good wife went home to glory. Everybody in aH that section of good old Robeson is our friend and we just wish we might have time to visit each family again. We were glad to hear good things about the present pastor, Rev. Mr. Paul, and the church. Nice,' Sept. 3.—Isaac R. Stray horn, of Durham, N. C., who was in jured when a sight-seeing bu3 fell over a 300-foot precipice near Guil laumes last month, died suddenly here today from the effects of a Mood clot on the brain. He under went a trephining operation ten days ago._ WM6LEYS Take it home to the hide. Haw a packet ia year pocket for aa cwr-rcady treat. A dethiOM Ceafee tiaa aad aa aid b Mb beb, appetite, dgeatba. dL ^Seated io its Parity Package Whipping Ovt The Weevil Thg American Cotton Association, of which Harvie Jordan is managing tH rector, has this year operated 933 demonstration farms and in this week's issue of Cotton News, Mr. Jordan is giving summary resuits The farms are scattered through eleven States and.on every farm th*= work is being csrred cn to ' of the season, except in less than haif a dozen cases where the crop was practically destroyed by naa storms, bad stands or sudden loss of labor. The gratifying feature of the campaign is found ih the success oi weevii control and the prospect to date of a splendid yieid of cotton per acre on all of the demonstration farms. Many of the operators, under the simple, practical, yet effective methods empioyed, feei assured of harvesting from one to one and a haif bales of cotton to the acre on their test plots- , ^ * The weevil fighters seem to have proved that it is possible to conquer the pest, bat the important point is that the work must be started m time. What Mr. Jordan has to say along this line ought to be impressed upon the mind of every cotton farm er. Th. time to begin fighting the weevil is the time the farmer gener ally 'knocks off work" for the year, ft is in the Fall, as soon as the cot ton crop is picked out. Then the farmer has a chance to get at the weevil and destrqy him before he das an opportunity to burrow in for protection against frost. The line of fight is to either turn the stalks un ier with tractors or turn plows, or plow the stalks out so that they will die before frost, n tms is viaes Mr Jordan, all' adult weevils and grubs in the field wili die. The farmer is advised to 1 oep :he ditch banks terraces .aim .edgerows around the cotton f ch: ^ can with hoes or burning. Do not r ant cotton next year where cotton grew this year. Rotate the crops. Thousands of weevils will come out of their long Winter's sleep next Spring and die of hunger looking for cotton in the same field they left a few months before. Old weevils do not live, on an average, longer than a week to 10 days after they come out of hibernation iA th@ spring, unless they find young cotton to feed upon. Bum out old stumps and destroy dead trees near cotton fields. The clean, well kept farm is a very unattractive place for a weevil to hang around on in the Winter months. Don't wait until next Spring to begin the weevil control campaign, but do all the damage possible to the insects before they leave the fields this season. Plant this year's cotton fields in small grain or pre pare them for com and velvet beans or peanut crops next Spring. Put your next year's cotton on the othTer side of the farm where other crops grew this year. The farmer who does this may contemplate the casting, cultivation and picking of the crop of 1924 with a comparatively untroubled state of mind.—Charlotte Observer. THE COST OF CRIME (From The Winston-Saiem Journal). Speaking of deficits, the biggest ieak is not in wasteful expenditure of the people's money, but in the ex-1 pense of crime. Every year, it is esti- i mated that crime costs the American! people $3,000,000,000 — or roughly, $30 for every man; woman and child in the entire country. This is the es timate by the National Surety Com-j pany, which bonds employes who han ile money—cashiers, treasurers, etc. It is only part of the real bill, of course, for it covers only the visible) ar reported crimes. Petty thefts, which never get publicity, never are called to attention of public officials, must mount up to a staggering sum eacn aay. What do you think is the most cost ty form of crime? Stock frauds, an swers Cromwei!, president of the New York Stock Exchange. He fig ures that swindling by the sale of se curities costs the American people $1,000,000,000 a year, or a third of total cost of crime. Fraudulent bank ruptcies get away with $400,000,000 a year. Based on police estimates, the National loss from burglary, larceny and general petty thefts is only a fourth as much as the stock swind lers. , Embezzlers make off with $100, 000,000 a year. Forgers get about the same. A fourth of this amount cov-i ers railroad freight thefts. Bonding ; companies' books show that between : 1010 and 1922 the losses from burg-j laries increased 1,200 per cent, while embezzlements jumped 500 per cent. These figures are based on money losses. The average criminal job. of * course, involves more money than it! uged to. Putting it on a straight dol- ! lar and cens basis, and eliminating! moral considerations, the theft of $200 today is equivalent to the theft of $190 before the war. Even thieves have to figure on the increased coat of living. A prominent expert attributes the increase in financial crimes to dis content, envy, unemployment, desire for luxury beyond earning capacity. are stolen, unfairly low pay and "widespread disrepect for property rights and law, caused partly by the World War." The last reason may be the most important one. Comparing the National crime bill with the total income of the American people, about $1 in each $15 or $20 that is produc ed by honest effort is stolen by the parasites. \ i "The development and progress of 'the Klu Ulux Klan is stopped and ! disintegration is setting in through out the entire bounds of the invisible empira, due to lack of leadership and [constructive programs of activity." jThe foregoing is a quotation which Bound to Disintegrate Physically RunDown nnipB DOOR of opportunity Rings Jt wide Its porta!s tcoily to the man Who Is up and doing—who i3 Riled with pep and punch—with rich, red Moo* tingiing through his veins. Mountain size obstacles dwindie to ant hills and ambitions become ao complishments to these sort of men. Where is the employer who ^ seeks the man who is physically run-down? —The man without stamina to with stand the knocks and gaif of the jhur ryihg, scurrying world of business? S. S. 8. is the long established and time honored creator of red Wood ceils. You cannot expect to get very far up the ladder unless you are equipped with a body that is strong and vigorous. S. 8. S. will start you on your way. Don't allow the "Door of Opportunity" to be closed to you because you have not the stamina to withstand the gaff—because your nerve power is lacking. Build up your system! 8. S. 8. made of carefully selected and scientiHcally prepared and pro portioned herbs and barks makes you At! Get back that oid time punch! When opportunity knocks be ready to answer the call! S. S. 8. is sold at all* fading drug stores. It is more economi cai to buy a large size bottie. tjhe Atlanta Journal prints as part 3f an appeal from W. J. Simmons, $0 called emperor of the klan, to one CiaTke at Indianapolis, to whom Sim mons offers the supreme command of the order. This paper has never had any doubt of the disintegration of the order. The better element that went into it without due thought will not stay in it because it is im possible; and the worse element that went into the organization bedsttse of the opportunities for evil fMH have to get out after the Pub lic sentiment of the country get$ in good working order. But in the meantime there is, and there will be yet for a time, a fearful harvest of the klan sowing.—Statesville Land mark. * BENTONVILLE A great many people who know ittle or nothing about Bentonville, N. 1., will be reading up on its history vltk information that a monument narking he spot of the last Confed rate victory of the war is to be ded ca ed in October. The BMatte of Ben onville was in fact the last of the truggle. In the vicinity to this day tones of Federal soldiers slain in the ight are occasionally uncovered. Ben (inville has figured only slightly in he histories of the war, yet it was! me of the bloodiest fights since Beth 1, remarkable for casualties con idering the comparatively few men ngaged on each side. Doctor Alexan !er Graham, veteran now, was a boy odier in the fight, and unless he hould find time to write a story of he engagements and the incidents, ome of the most valuable and enter aining of ail war literature will die vith him.—Charlotte Observer. * Drink Water If ] Kidneys Bother Take a Tablespoonful of Saits if Back Pains or Bladder is Irritated Flush your kidneys by drinking a quart of water each day, also take saits occasionally, says a noted au- . thority, who tells us that too much rich food forms acids which almost paralyze the kidneys in their efforts to expel it frotn the blood. They be come sluggish and weaken; then you j may suffer with a dull misery in the ! kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, your Sto- i mach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have , rheumatic twinges. The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. To help neutralize these irritating acids; to help cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste, get four ounces of Jad Salts from , any pharmacy here. Take a table spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for . few days, and your kidneys may then act fine. This fa mous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and hAs been used for years to help flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys; also to neutralize the ^cids in the system so they no longer irritate, thus often relieving bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in- i jure and makes a-delightful efferves cent lithia-water drink. By all'means have your physician examine your kidneys at least twice a year. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBESON LAN. $RM A YEAR. IF YOU BUY YOUR At Our Special Carload Sale Price We Wiii Give You a Set of Ex quisite Saxon Dinner China For Oniy 1 c We have purchased a carload of the famous SeHers Kitchen Cab inets. In this large quantity we got a low price. The Sellers Kitchen Cabinets does not require any premiums to sell it. Women in every town and city in the United States know that it is the greatest kitchen convenience of modem times. We sue offering the SET OF DISHES for one reason only. We want to move this car of Sellers Kitchen Cabinets quickly. As fast as the car is unloaded we want to deliver the cabinets so as not to crowd our floors. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6,7,8. 42 HECES FOR lc 42 PIECES direct from Saxon Potteriea. Every piece has been inspected. The *"*!""* warrants it hot to erase. Tour own eyes wili teli yon that the design and nnim-iny are very exclusive. Sets table for six people. A real bargain at $12.50. WE GIVE YOU THE SET with each Sellers Cabinet purchased for only lc. Furniture of Quality LUMBERTQN, N. C., FAIRMONT, N. C.
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