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I~s=l THE ROBESONTAN '• 4 . ' • ■ - . —. ... ■ . ...... VOL. LV. VOL.‘no. 24, SERIAL NO. 26. . LUMBERTON, N C FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924. - ooohtht. ood and t«uth kttabijwwkd .rr« mc» nn ~ Mr. Stephens Makes Appeal to Church People To Clear The Decks For Action Powerful Sermon On Personal Responsibility Last Niglil • .1 ■■■II ■■■» If You Are Not Fisfeuog For Men You Are Not a Disciple of Jesus Says Evangelist in Ring ing Message. 6od Has No Otter Plan Jesus is Counting on Every Christian to Win Others—Back'Seats in Hea ven All Were Taken Long Ago He Tells Those Who Hope to Get to Glory by the Skin of Their Teeth— There’s be Tears in Heaven Over Starless Crowns—One Week of Meeting Gone and Church People Are Urged to Lose No More Time. Making an earnest appeal at the conclusion of his sermon at the taber nacle last night to church people not to sit quietly in their pews, at ease in zion, but to lay aside all suspicion and criticism and indifference and clear the decks for action, Rev. George Stephens told how the people of Tarboro sat cold and indifferent for five of the nearly eight weeks of the meeting there jfnd then when he and his helpers were worn to a fraz zle, all done in, they handed him a petition in which they confessed their shortcomings aqd ple§d with him to stay longer and npt to close the meeting. “One week of this meeting ha3 gone by", he said, “and the other four weeks wiH go by quickly. Don’t wait to get busy, but begin now”, “It’s a dirty shame the way chuttft people diqcugs and cuss and criticise and hang back, and tare'suspicious," he eaid. i ■ > V< n C!’" ‘ 1 ■: i ' Personal Responsibility. "* . Mr. .Stephens had just cohdluded a powerful sermon on '“Personal1 ‘Re sponsibility’’, or “Whq 'Cqres’*1 jjf® text was Ezekiel 33:8, “When .J say unto the wicked, 0 wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I re quire at, thy hand”; and John 4:35, “Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look’on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” He said in part: “Daniel Webster was once asked what was the most solemn thought that ever came to him, and he re plied that .it was his personal rodi possibility to God. I would add thh< it ,is also my personal responsibility to those around me. • ■'i 1 ’ ' “God expects you to wiH some one else , for Jesus. No Other Plan. “F. B. Gordon said he had tried to imagine the welcome Jesus received in heaven when his mission on earth was done. He imagined Gabriel, af ter the glad rejoicinjf'Wus over, walk ing quiety with Jestis and talking with him about his work on earth, about how he must have suffered, and asking him jf all knew about' how he had died for the whole world, and what his plan was. And he imagined Jesus sayipg that only a few knew about it, but that He had told Peter and James and John and Andrew and the others to tell about it. ' • “ ‘But suppose’, urged Gabriel, < ‘they forget about it. Suppose down in the Twentieth century men get so. busy with worldy affairs' that they forget about it, and fail to tell others, What other plan have you?* “And the Master replies, ‘I have no other plan, I am absolutely de fending on them.’. f Counting on You 1 “It is a great fact that Jesus ex pects and lovingly demands that you win somebody else. He is counting on you. “We’ve got to get back to the Bible. I‘m sick and tired of men’s opinions. “If you are nqt fishing for men, How do you know you are a disciple of Jesus? He is counting on us. Are you doing it?” Back Seats Taken Long Ago. “What are we saved for? Some people say they will be so happy if I ***** * ****** * AT UNION TABERNACLE » * - _ * * Prayermeeting this evening at 7 * * in the annex. * * Song service begins at 7:30. * Sermon at 8 o’clock. ****** ***** * * . * ****** ****** * SUNDAY MASS MEETINGS * * • * * Sunday afternoon at 3:30 a * * mass meeting for men will be * * held in the tabernacle! * * At the same hour Sunday af- * * ternoon a mass meeting for wo- * * men will be held in the First * * Baptist church. * t ****** ****** _* ,* * * * * ****** * STUDYING EPHESIANS * * _ * * The book of Ephesians was * * taken up yesterday afternoon at * * Chestnut Street Methodist * * church in the series of Bible * * studies Mrs. Perkins is conduct- * * ing. Two chapters were taken * * up yesterday. Study of this book * * will be completed at the next * * meeting, which will be held next * * Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. About 50 * , * women attended the meeting yes- * * terday. * ****** ** **** they just get to heaven. Shame on .you if you have no higher conception 'ofwfyyfc is t,q,be a Christ jap than jusUo be ,apve^. I yvouldn’t giye a , snap | of, igy finger foj; such a ,relig i0PA-.U -.Mr' - •- oil’ . ,, Tou ll be thappy if you justf slip I in and get g bgck seat,? The : back I seats Were all taken up years ago. J don’t want a back spat. 'Those who are counting on slipping in by the j skiri of their teeth will be like the gunboat in the Spanish-Amercan war j that got caught far out at sea with its coal all gone. They stripped it of every piece of wood and barely sneaked into harbor with a shell. And bo it will be with those who hope just to get by. “Thank God for the wonderful city with its streets of gold and its gates of pearl, but that isn’t going to make j heaven for me. I wan!**1 to save souls—that will make heaven for me. I'd hate to have to walk through the golflen streets and not meet souls who could say they vyere there be •caiise of the, r. i ears in Heaven. "There will be some tears in heav en, tears over starless crowns. “It means something to be a Chris tian. It means more than scads of 'people think it means. Churchanity is not chris&anity. Christianity means to have Christ in you.. “Charlie Alexander said that ‘any man who professes to be a Christian and is not doing anything to bring somebody to Jesus either has some sin in his life or has never been con verted.’. I know I am a Chrstian be cause of the big burden on my heart for lost souls, because of concern to win souls. “The Bible does not tell us we are saved by feeling. Feeling has nothing to do with it. You are saved by faith, by taking God at His word. “Do yoit ever feel awful? Do you ever feel concerned about those about you? ’Follow me and I will make you to become fishers of men’, says Jesus. Will anybody meet you in the glory land and say ‘I’m here because of you.’ No Man Cares. “There are some people about here who are saying ‘no ,man cares for my soul’. Is the blood of lost ones go ing to be on your soul ? if we went af ter souls like the politicians go after votes we would win the world for Jesus in a few months. “But you say, ‘I never could talk about the things of God.’ You car talk about business, about money, about history, about politics. ‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth spcaketh.’ “Jesus cares; He is moved with compassion. He touched men, or pul REV. GEORGE STEPHENS. Nurtiber of Deaths In Series of Tornadoes ^ Wednesday Increases South Carolina Worst Stricken of Seven States With Death List of 81—Total Death List Now Placed at 112—Relief Work Well Under Way. An Associated Press dispatch of the 1st, from Atlanta gives the fol lowing: , "Towns and rural communities, stricken by an epidemic of tornadoes that dipped ruthlessly through seven southern states yesterday, were re covering slowly tonight. Relief workers frdm organized services, and volunteers, had their task well under way in the scores of villages levelled. Reports gathered placed the total list at 112. There still was no definite estimate of the persons injured, but belief persisted that the number wbuld 'reach libO.’ Property ( dama^i* wilt''fete lirtich gj^a^er |nan ',at jfir$^ antlc^ite'd, * ft' whs . "indicated bod^y^ TM ohly1 'estimate attempted, jthat,j$> $l6,WW,6b6; proliably will be eclipsed ih the final check up. , _ ■ Sbiith Chj-oliba was worst stricken of the seven states visited by the tornadoes. Red Cross workers ,.and others' were at Anderson and Horrell Hill settlement and state troops were on guard. Property damage at An derson alone was $750,000. Latest tabulations disclosed the following deaths: ' South Carolina 81, Georgia 18, Ala bama 11, North Carolina 5, Louisiana 1, Arkansas 1. The additional deaths ^yere report ed from Columbia, where two injur ed persons died in hospitals, and at Robersonville, ,N. C., where belated reports told qf a twister striking there. Thirty homes were1 S isaid W have been destroyed, and •an iappeal for aid y/as sent out ’ben Mayor G. Hi Cox. One- unidentified woman waif killed;. A baby! also died'at Bynum1,* N„ C., from ’injuries received whert 4 Pace’s mill collapsed. , , f. Columbia, S. ‘C.', May 1—Organiz ing for relief measures following Wednesday’s scourge 'of tornadoes, which caused the death of 81 persons in South Carolina, a central commit tee to administer state wide aid to the hundreds of injured and the thou sand homeless was formed today at a conference attended by Governor Thomas G. McLeod, state 1 officials and representatives of the Ameriican Red Cross. I - I - .... himself where men could touch him. “I am sick and tired of those who say that Jesus came to givte Us a new ethical principle. He came to seek and to save the lost. At Ease in Zion. “The trouble is we are too miibh at ease in zion; we are dead with the dry rot of indifference. God forgive us for-our namby-pamby indifference and fire us with a passion for souls. There are 50 million people in Ameri ca away from God. “Are you concerned.” » Time To Work is Now « In speaking of the Tarboro meet ing and the earnest petition for him to continue the meeting, Mr. Ste phens read the petition which he said j was handed to him by Dr. R. C. Bea man, former pastor % of Chestnut j Street church here. He said he did | not lift a finger to come to Lumber ton. The invitation^to hold a union meeting here cdme about in such a •( (Continued on Rage Three) Naval Construction Program -May Call For Great Expenditures Washington, May 2 (United Press) —Possible necessity for a new naval construction program involving enor mous expenditure engages members of the House naval affairs commit tee today. So far this session the com mittee has authorized the building of eight coiisers costing eleven mil-! lion dollars each and reconditioning six first-line battleships costing IS millions. Admiral t'oontz’s report thgf the navy is under the arms con ference strength has awakened the committee to possible requirements dj; a thoroughgoing construction pro gram. Bill introduced today calls for $6,500,000 for elevated turret guns and 13 battleships as first step. , :■ --- Democrats Reach . Agreement To Ex pedite Tax Bill Washington, May 2 (United Press)—Agreement to expedite the tax bill was reached in Democratic caucus last night and revived hopes of early clean-up of measure in sen ate. Under the agreement the Democrats put forward a substitute sliding scale corporation tax and slight revision of Inheritance tax. It appears that those going out of party lines on the.bill are coming back. Mr. Thomas Kmlaw of R. 7, Lum fcerton, is among the visitors in town today. Mrs. G. W. Thompson and daugh ter Miss Margaret of Fairmont were I.umberton visitors today. ;j 1 —..-.. ."V ■ - '.-- -j— Newspaper Next 5 Weeks Primarily to give as much publicity as possible to the un ion evangelistic campaign, in which all the churches of Lum ' berton are united, THE ROBE SONIAN during the next five L weeks will issue a daily news paper. This will entail great sadditional expense and: it will |be > necssary for the people^ of iLumberton to give it liberal; , ‘support’if they want this ad | ditdonalr publicity given ^this |i campaign in which practically the entire town is so much in terested. * ( SUBSCRIPTION RATES SEND to dr subscriptions IN AT ONCE If you want this PAPER DAILY. Subscription Rates are as> follows: | TO REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS ! By Mail— ’15 cents per week when paid by the Week. j SO cents for the 5-weeks period. I By Carrier in Lumberton— 17 cents the week when paid by the week. 65 cents for 5-weeks period. To Those Not Already Subscribers to the Semi-Weekly. ! By Mail— 20 cents per week when paid by the week. 75 cents for 5-weeks period. By Carrier— 25 cents per week if paid by the i week. tl.OO for 5-weeks period3. (Money will be refunded to any who have paid higher rate). TO ADVERTISERS. Those desiring to advertise in The Kobcsonian during the next 5 weeks will confer a great favor if they will let us have, copy as early as possible. It is a great effort to issue a daily paper and we ask your hearty co-operation. For rates and other information, ’phone 20. j IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE*BOYS STEP LIVELY, DRIVE IN FULLER’S FILLING STATION Corner Chestnut and 2nd Street Woman Cuts Rival With Razor In Row Over Man - • Negro Wfwwn Mi* It Up "Ovtr tfie > River”—Dora Oliver In Serion* Condition—Neccaaary to Take 2*1 Stitches to Sew Up Gaping Wound*—Maggie Council In Jail Charged With the Crime. A MAN IN THE CASE Maggie Council, negress, who lives: “over the river’’, is in jail and Dora! Oliver, also a lady of color, is in a serious • condition as the result of a■ fight which occured between them last night about 7:30 on the hard surface road near the oil mill. Maggie .did not like what had been going on and what had been said. nfcout her man, so she proceeded to use a razor very effectively on her; rival, cutting her to such an extent that it was necessary for 28 stitches to be taken to close up the gaping wounds on her back. Some of the : cuts were deep and her condition is still considered dangerous. The woman who did the cutting1 was arrested by Chief of Police D. t M1. Barker, assisted by Officers J. B. Boyle and Ed. J. Glover. She will remain in jail until Dora is able to attend trial, or succumbs to wounds. North Carolina’s Death Toll In Tornado In creased To Five | 14 Persona Seriously ,Injure«f—Pro perty Damage Estimated at More Than Quarter Million. An Associated Press dispatch last night from Raleigh gives the follow ing: The death toll from yesterday's tornado was increased to fjve in North Carolina tonight when the four-day-old infant of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Johnson succumbed to injuries! received at Bynum when a sawmill was destroyed. Earlier in the day the death of a I negrow woman had been reported from Martin County, where the torpa j dic disturbances did thpir greatest i (damage in the state and Ipst night •;Mr. and Mrs. bave Blalock end their , 16-year-old son, Charles, were killed | when the saw mill at Bynum was dfiti stroyed. The situation in North Qifolinp to night appeared to be well in hand! with damages estimated at more than, 3 quarter million dollars, 14 seriously j injured and 25 suffering from minor: injuries. This afternoon Mayor Cox of Ro bersonville, the center of the distur- j | bance in Martin county, requested the Associated Press to broadcast an i appeal for outside help in caring for the sufferers in that community, where 30 homes were destroyed and 1 150 rendered homeless. Robersonville, May 1—One life lost' 14 more or less seriously injured, two of them perhaps fatally, 30 oth ers injured in lesser degree and prop- j cifty damage to the approximate amsunt of a quarter of a million dol lars appeared tonight to be an ac curate estimate of the damage) wrought yesterday afternoon by a’ tornado which ^wept through this section of Martin county, cutting a - pathway 15 miles long and 400 yards wide and leaving death and destruc-' tion in its wake. ' ' J FUNERAL OF GENERAL CARR TO BE HELD IN DURHAM SUNDAtf. Long-Standing Request That Friends Should Not Lavish Money on Flowers for His Grave. Durham, May'l.—Funeral Services for Gen. Julian S. Carr will be held from his home, Somerset Villa, Sun day afternoon at three o’clock, with Rev. W. W. Peele, of Trinity Metho i dist church and pastor of the deceas ed, Rev. R. C. Beaman and Rev. R. Hibbard officiating. Internet^ will be in Maplewood cemetery and his body will be laid to rest beside that of his wife, who preceded him to the grave several years ago. it was the general’s oft-repeated request that when he died he pre ferred that his friends would not send" flowers, as in his opinion, the ex penditure of large sums of money for flowersat funerab was not right. He expressed a desire that those who desired to pay him tribute use the money they would have ex pended in flowers in purchasing* books for the Durham public library. The hour of the arrival of the body is not known, but it is expected to ar rive sometime tomorrow afternoon ! or night.' Immediately upon its ar ■ rival it will be taken to his home, ' where it will await the funeral and ’ burial. MISS NANA BURBRIIM1EofChica go, pianist with the Stephens evangc-j listic party. No Word Received from Missing Round World Flier ■" - .» Cordova, Alaska, May 2 (United Press)—Coast guard cuttera and I fisher boat* report that search for i Major Frederick Martin, missing leader of round-the-world fliers, thus far has proved fruitless. No word 4ias been receded since he hopped off from Chignik Wednesday bound for Dutch Harbor, where his three' associates await him. Re ports from Dutch Harbor are that unfavorable weather has continued since Martin started in a blizzard. I _I Formal Report Made House On Farm Relief Bill Analysis Made of Existing Ills and Manner in Which Measure Pro poses to Cure Them. Washington, May 2 (United Press) -‘-The agricultural committee today tendered to the house formal report on the McNairy-Haughen farm-relief bill with analysis of existing ills and : manner in which the bill intends to <jui*e *thbm. It is expected that the biH will Ibo’befWfctheTiodse for cori-' Siderdtion by the Cndof neat'week'. The report sets forth: First, fhat aiff as . many banks failed in 1920 rtd’ l'-923* as during thfe whole period 1902 to 19SJ0.’. ‘ »'•** 1 Second, that four-sevenths of the total farm incomb is taken by taxes/ mortgages, interest and debts. Third, that farm labor has become so costly that the average farmer cannot afford to hire. m Fourth, that more than 1,120,000 farmers and hired men deserted farms in 1920 to seek industrial em-! ployment. Fifth, that one-fourth of the farm owners in the wheat and cotton belts are bankrupt. Sixth, that the purchasing value of farm products is less than one-half the value before the war. As described, the bill would \ first create $200,000,000 corporation, capital to be furnished by the gov ernment. The board of directors \ would be made up of secretary of agriculture and four other presiden-; tial appointees. A ' ‘ Second, it would empower the cor- j poration to buy and sell wheat, flour,! corn, rice, wool, cattle, sheep, swine j and food products whenever emergen- j cy was declared. When market price falls be>ow ratio price the corpora-! tion would buy enough for foreign shipment to restore the domestic price. The ratio price would be de termined so that the same ratio would exist between farm products and all other commodities as existed before the war. Wadsworth Probably Be Named Per manent Chairman Washington, May 2 (United Press) —Senator Wadsworth of New York probably will be named permanent chairman of the Republican national convention, according to indications at the white house. No statement of his selection has been authorized, but it is strongly indicated that he has been picked, Represenative Bur ton, Ohio, already has been named temporary chairman. MRS. P. P. JONES SLIGHTLY IN JURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT. By ‘Phone* to The Robesonian: Fairmont, May 2—Mbs . P. P. Pones was slightly injured this mdrning when a Ford she was driv ing became unruly and ran head-on into a telephone pole. She suffered a slight facial laceration. ----i GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL SUNDAY AND STAY FOR CHURCH. Eyewitness Teds Of Scenes Of Havoc In Wake Of Tornado Rcr. I. E. Wki." rt Writ** of Dnlnc tirm at lawrcneerill*, Ga.—Hnmh Torn ) to Splinters, Tree* Tw toted Off, Part of Large Factory Blown Away. BARELY MISSED THE STORM. Rev. I. E. Wishart, non of Mr. A. S Wishart of R. 3 from Lumberton, barely missed being right in the path of the destructive tornado that swept * parts of Georgia Wednesday He left Lumberton Monday to return to his home at Buffalo, Okla. The follow ing interesting letter to The Robe sonian from him was dated April 30 at Lawrenceville, Ga.: "Will write a short desription of tornado that struck Lawrenceville, Ga., just before the train on which I was traveling arrived. "The rain was very heavy but not so much wind with us. But when we arrived at depot the passengers were much surprised to find track covered with broken pieces of timber and boards and that houses had been tom into splinters,, Trees were twisted off or blown up or alt limbs broken. I saw one tree that had lost all bark for some fifty or sixty feet on its body; another tree had fallen across a house and crushed it to pieces. One wooden building had much weather boarding blown off and shingles tak en off and the roof looked that some thing about the size of a horse had been thrown through the roof. “One brick residenee had been lit erally tom to pieces. Some farm houses had been left standing while big oak trees had been piled all around them. At least two churches in the town had been tom down and I would not try to say how many dwellings had been shattered. “The most remarkable thing that I saw, I believe, was a large factory brick building that had been tom off at first floor almost exactly like men might have taken it down brick by brick, except one comer was left standing juat a bit higher than the floor and carried some half-mile away, i <f ->-'b ^rfr i rt “Only through the - leading hamf ! of the God tef heaven we Would hat* been in the very jaws of death in the 1 Storm. Our train was delayed about three hours In reaching Atlanta. ?' i I am leaving Wednesday p. m. 4:i°d f?r I1*? West,. "Best wishes for the paper and the meeting. *% E. WISH ART’’ Items of Local News —Among those from here at tending the Bar association meeting in Pinehurst today are Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. WL S. Britt, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. McNeill, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Proctor, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Varser, Messrs T. L Johnson, H. E Stacy, J. B. McLeod, John G. Proc tor and J. J. Goodwin. 1 —A large crowd of rooters and' * supporters of the local high school baseball team left here this afternoon ; for Laurmburg, where a deciding ' game will be played between the lo cals and Rockingham. The winner of the game will play Sanford highs Tuesday and that winner he allowed participate ip the state championship games in Chapel 'Hill. Bonus Bill Expected To Reach President Today Washington, May 2 (United Press) —The house expects to write final approval of the soldier bonus bill and send to President Coolidge this after noon. Senate has already adopted conference report without roll call It is expected that President Cool idge will veto the bill. ****** ******* * REV. GORDON MINES IN • * CHARGE OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. * * _ * * For the five weeks during * * which it will publish a daily * * Rev. Gordon R. Mines, who re- * * cenetly resigned a« pastor of the * * Gospel tabernacle on account of * * his health, will work for The * * Robesonian in its subscription * * department. He will be station- * * ed in the rear of the tabernacle * * at the close of every night ser- * * vice and will be glad to wait on * * any one who may wish to sub- * * scribe. • ***** ****** • Cotton Market Reported by J. g, Barringto* Middling cotton is quoted on the local market here today at 28 cents the pound
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