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THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT PROBABLY SHOWERS ————^ V THE ROBESONIAN LUMBERTON. N. C, TUESDAY. MAY 20, 1924. COUNTRY. OOD RND TRUTH <rTAH!.KWTU ml# ?RfUR MV# VOL. LV—VOL NO. 28, SERIAL NO. 36. "Be Sure four Sin Will M Yen ttnl" SnBjnctctStrnti^i'innnBtjBnn.Stetiltcns Many Instances Biven W HitMen Sins Canting TeLigM Those Who Defile Their Bodies Will be Punished Here and Hereafter. _ * . MR. CARR LIKES LUMBERTON - < Mrs. Carr Comes at His Request to See if She Would Like to Make Lumberton Their Home—Mrs. Carr Speaks. Mr. Ralph Carr, the singer for Rev. George Stephens, promised the con gregation Friday night a surprise for Saturday night. It was a great surprise indeed when he announced that Mrs. Carr was present and would say a few words to the people. Mrs. Carr said Mr. Carr wired her that it was important that she come to Lumberton at once, which was why she was here. Since coming she found the reason her husband was so anxious for her to come. He liked the town and the people so well he would like to come here to live, and wanted her to come and see if she would like it too. Mrs. Carr said the thought Chris tians had even greater privileges than the preachers, for as they preached we should pray that God might be moved to pour out a bless ing on us. "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" and we are exhorted by Paul to pray without ceasing," she said. "If we wanted salvation more than anything else, we would be more per sistent in our prayers to God for a spiritual awakening." Mrs. Carr spoke of how persistent her boy was for a bicycle, he wanted that more than anything else and did not fail to mention it often, so he told him to save up his pennies and work to get money with which ito buy the wheel. "That's what we masi; do" she said, "save our pennies, work and pray, that the town may be brought to the feet of Jesus". Christrans Get Right Mr. Stephens said he wanted to begin his sermon by urging people to spend much time in prayer. ,"if you couid see the letters coming to me", he said, "such heart cries from women and men that need the Lord! I just covet for this meeting that the Christians wiii band themscivcs to gether and go out after the unsaved. If the Christians wi'l just get right themseives, so they can help some one else, and not be a stumbiing block, if they will pray mightily that this may be a memorable occasion for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, Why can't we have a spiri tual outpouring as in the days of Moody and Wesley?" Mr. Stephens said his text was* -as much to Christians as to sinners, apd not to the heathen: "Behold, yop^ve sinned against the Lord..Be sure your sin will find you out." A Man Convinced. He told of a man in his meeting once who spoke out during the service several times, saying he Hid not be lieve it. Some one wanted to put him out, but Mr. Stephens told them just to leave him alone. There was a de tective in the meeting also who found out this was the man who had com mitted a crime 17 years before, and hand-cuffed him right there. After that the man believed it. He also told of a dying saloon keeper, who was in the same hospital he was once, at Spokane, Washing ton, how he would cry out "Oh, oh, oh!" and then ask the nurse where he was going. He died in convulsions. Mr. Stephens said he was glad tp get away from there; every time h" looked at the hospital he would think of the verse "Be sure your sins will find you out". ' He said he never looked at a peni tentiary but what he thought of it, or an asylum. A physician at an psy lum once told him the majority of those ins&ne were guilty of wrongdo ing. "If people could get awake to the heinousness of sin, how awful it is, and how it is damning individuals and nations! Belgium reaped what she sowed. When Leopold was king he sent to Congo, Africa, to get rub ber and when the natives did not get it as he thought they should he would have their hands cut off, tongues split or some such atrocity. The Ger mans did the same thing to then." He mentioned other nations that had sinned and received punishment thereby. The first punishment is the execu UNION MEETING Evening service at 7:30. Ser mon subject, "Shams and Hum bugs." Business women's iuncheon at First Baptist church at 6:15 p. m., and women are invited to gather at this church at 7 p. m. to march to the tabernacle in a body. East Lumberton Mrs. Dora C. Perkins wi!i lec ture in the Methodist church at East Lumberton Wednesday evening at 7:30. tion of human law . He told of a noted physician in England who murdered his wife, be cause he did not think she was his aihnity, as it is so hard to get a di vorce in England. His sweetheart dressed as a boy and they sailed to America as father and son, but were detected and ar rested after getting into St. Law rence river. Get Right With God "Be sure your sins will find you i out", he repeated often during his discourse and the only way to get out of it is by the blood of Jesus. "Young people", he implored, "don't think you can get away with it, for God has said, that which is done in secret shall be made known. - Those who defile their bodies, which are the temples of God, with the lusts of the flesh, and drink bootleg whiskey, will be punished here and in the world to come. Not only are we pun ished, but our children also." He! told an incident of a physician re ceiving a drop of blood to test, from a boy he had never seen. Mr. Ste phens was present when he made the test. The physician said the man from whom the drop of blobtjl was taken had inherited a disease from his father caused by sjn. Mr. Steph ens himself WnCw the boys's father and knew it to'tic trup. Not only a' sin of the lust of the fiesh but the* sin of jeatousy, hatred, slan der, critising, omission an'dj not thinking right is. awful in the sight of the Lpr&trAs a man thihketh in his heaft, so is he". He tdld Of a ^womah Who went into a rage over something and nursed her baby directly after, and her blood was so poisoned by her anger that her baby died in convulsions 2 hours after. Therefore sin affects our bodies physically also. If people would obey the physical laws of na ture, keeping out wrong-doing and wrong-Hiinking, we would not need to take so much medicine; Mr. Steph ens declared. One man m Boston said he cou!d I drink whiskey orleave it alone as he i liked. He had a son who would get on a spree occasionaiiy in spite of ail his father cquld do. At other times he seemed a perfect gentleman. Mr. Stephens begged the people to get right with God and keep sin out of their lives. If you need to go to any one and confess that you I have treated them unjustly do it and get the peace of God in your hearts, he said. "There are so many ways we can sin and aii are heinous in the siglit of the Lord." "If you have stolen money give it back. No matter what the sin may be," he exhorted, "get it right with God. If you have iied about some one go and ask them to forgive you, then you'll find peace and joy in your hearts. If you are a Christian, take a pencil and paper, get down on your knees and ask the Lord to show you the sinful things in your life. If we do not confess and kill our sin it will kii! us. LUMBERTON WILL HAVE REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA AGAIN NEXT YEAR. Necessary Number of Guarantors Se cured Yesterday—Exceiient Pro gram Rendered. Lumberton will have a 5-days' Red path Chautauqua again next year. Mr. Brownlee, superintendent of the Chautauqua which closed Saturday night, remained over yesterday and with the assittance of Mr. E. W. Dunham secured enough signatures to the contract to bring the number of guarantors up to fifty. An excellent program was ren dered during the five days last week —13 entertainments, including three especially for children. Every num ber was enjoyed, and for the first time the advance sale of season tick ets more than took care of the gua rantee, leaving about $50 for the lo Two Wen found Builttj On i Liquor Charges Appeal Recorder Ivey Hands Out Road Sen tences To Alleged Rye Liquor Deal ers—Six of The Seven Quarts * Seeking A Level In Lumber River —Caught Red-Handed Near Cotton Miii West of Tpwn—Brought Here to Ceiebrate Wedding. IN JAIL IN DEFAULT OF BONDS Leon Bioom and R. Gordon, are in jaii here in defauit of $500 bond each, required by Recorder W. B. Ivey when they appealed to Su perior court from his sentence of 12 months each on the roads f^r possess ing and transporting whiskey. The trial was held yesterday afternoon after the men were caught red-hand ed with 7 quarts of rye whiskey in their possession. Chief of Police D. M. Barker, Po licemen Ed. J. Glover and J B. Boyle, believing that a car containing liquor was on the hard-surfaced road near the National cotton mill, which is out of the town limits, went with Sheriff R E. Lewis and Rural Police man A. R. Pittman to bring in the bootleggers. The Ford touring car in which the men were riding was found parked near the mill, and one of the men was seen going into the mill with a package under his arm. The officers followed, and as soon as the superintendent's office was reached the package was searched. One quart of bottled-in-bond was found. The car and the other man had already been taken in custody by the ofHcers oh the outside. A search was made and 6 more quarts were found. According to tne evidence given at the trial, the man who went into j Supt. Penny's office offered Mr. Pen ny a drink; but he refused, and told the man not to bring the package in to the mill. The aiieged bootlegger stated that he had nothing in the j package but his personal belongings j and he didn't care if the police were j watching him. According to M *. Pen-. ny, the man had tried to get a place: in the mill for a family to work and j Tvas there, he thought, primarily foi j that purpose. On the stand, Gordon stated that j he had a wife in Rpwland and uhut his home was there. His wife, he j said, is an invalid and needs his care j and attention. His plea did not change Recorder Ivey's judgment, He, also stated that he did not know* thej whiskey was in the package or in the car. Bloom swore that he brought the whiskey from Baltimore and was going to attend a wedding, at which it was customary to have a smad amount of good whiskey. They made the plea that they were traveling men and had some sample cases with a goodly number of sam ples. Gordon was at one time asso ciated with P. Lienwand, men hunt.; of Rowiand, and Bloom was employed by Mr. Lienwand. All but one quart of the whisttey was poured into the street in front; of the courthouse by Sheriff R. E Lewis this morning, ope quart being retained for evidence. The car was ordered confiscated and will be held pending the outcome of the higher court's decision. Preparation To Pay Bonus Prodigious Task Washington, May 20 (United' Press)—Three government depart ments have begun the prodigious task of preparation to pay the veterans bonus. The war and navy depart ments have begun search of acres of records, while the veterans bureau got machinery in line to issue certi ficates. It is estimated that 3,420, 00<^will get some form of bonus. It is esti mated that if 30,000 applications are handled daily it will take the war de partment 9 months to go through the records. The honus is not effec tive until January 1. Payments should begin promptly on that date. cal library fund. "An Evening in Hawaii", the at traction Saturday night, was one of the most delightful on the entire pro gram. The scenic effects were won derful, especially the teach scenes with a peacefully rippling ocean, a low-hanging moon and an erupting volcano in the distance; and the songs and instrumental music were a rare treat Cotton Market Reported by J. H. Barriugtoa Middling cotton is quoted on the local market today at 28 cents the pound. t* J.A. Brown Of Mourn ts Reeleote!) Co-op Oirector Delegates From Robeson, Columbus, Bladen and Brunswick Met Here Saturday and Re-Eelected Columbus Man—No Opposition On Account of His Untiring Efforts For As sociation. BELIEVES IN ORDERLY SYSTEM At a meeting of the delegates of the Tobacco Growers Co-operative association of Robeson, Bladen, Co lumbus and Brunswick counties held in the court house here Saturday, Mr. Joe A. Brown of Chadboum was re elected director for the district which includes these counties. The re-election of Mr. Brown was without oposition and gave evidence of the confidence the members of the association hold in him. He has handled the affairs in the capacity of a director in a very admirable man ner. He believes in the systematic and orderly marketing system and gives a large part of his time to the betterment of the association. Soldiers Bonus Law. Provides fcr Cash and Paid-Up fn surance—Cost Variously Estimated from $2,250,000,000 to. $4,000,000 000. As stated in yesterday's Robeson ian the soldier bonus bill finally has become law, the measure, which was the subject of a fight between Con gress and two successive Presidents, having been re-passed yesterday by the senate over the President's veto by a vote of 59 to 26. This was a margin of 2 votes more than the nec essary two-thirds majority as com pared with the 52 votes that were to spare when the veto was overridden in the house last Saturday, President Cqolidge made a futile last minute effort to have' his veto sustained in the senate, calling to the white house for a breakfast con ference seven Republican senators. Four of these, who previously had voted for the hill, cast their ballots in support of the President. the cost of the l^qnus has been va riously estimated at from $2,250,000, 000 to $4,000,000,Q00, treasury offi cials making the higher estimate. The only cash provided for is $50 to eabk service ,man not entitled to more than that in adjusted service credit. Others would receive a paid up 20-year endowment insurance po licy. The cost for the next ftscal year, when it is figured the cash payments wii! be made, has been estimated at $150,000,000 which proponents of the law say can be taken care of and taxes reduced at the same time. After the next fiscal year the cost is ex pected to decrease slightly and it is figured that as annual appropriation of $100,000,000 will be necessary to meet the cost over the 20 yean. Machinery to put the law intj operation will be set up as rapidly as is possible. ,4 It is estimated that 3,038,283 ve terans will be entitled to the insur ance policies provided by the sol dier bonus bill whil* 389,583 will be paid cash of $5 or less. The bill also provides for payment to, dependents of deceased veterans of the amount of adjusted service compensation to which they would have been entitled. Mr. P. Leinwand of Rowland is a Lumbcrton visitor today. KEEP UP WITH GREAT EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN Sermons Reported DAILY IN THE ROBESONIAN' Also Special Wire Service SUBSCRIPTION RATES TO REGULAR SUBSCRIBERS By Mai!— t5 cents per week when paid by the week. By Carrier in Lumberton— 17 cents the week when paid by the week. To Those Not Aiready Subscribers to the Semi-Weekiy. By Mai!— 20 cents per week when paid by the week. , By Carrier in Lamberton— 25 cents per week if paid by the week. "the Christian Life" Subject OfTalti Btj Mrs. PerMns —— Foundation. Obligations and Inspire tion of the Christian Life Clearly Presented to Large Congregation of Women—Yon Can't Live the Christian Life in Your Own Strength. SOMETHING FOR ALL TO DO. A iarge number of the older wo men as weil as young giris, met Sun day afternoon at the First Baptist church at 3 o'clock to hear Mrs. Dora C. Perkins talk on "The Christian Life". Before beginning her talk the young girls were given a chance to testify. Many had been reconsecrated while several others had been saved during this meeting. Mrs. Perkins said the people of Tarboro went to work when the meeting was over to save the people in the surrounding country, so the revival did not stop when the Steph ens party left, but had only begun. She began by reading the 2nd chapter of Titus, beginning with the 11th verse: "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appear ed to all mdh. "Teaching us, that, denying ungod liness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, "Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people,, zealous of good works." Mrs. Perkins said the thoughts she would present were founded on three words: Foundation, obligation, andj inspiration. The Foundation. Jesus Christ is the rock on which the Christians' faith is founded, she said. The grace of God is God's free gift. God hath-blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Jesus Christ .the same yesterday, today and for ever. To be* a Christian <s different from anything else in all t^e world/ it is super natural, it is not external' but something within. Those who: plant gardens will not go out and! tie beans on, but they come by growth, she explained by way of il lustration. The fruit will come on the trees from the life given by the tree as it develops and is given sun- ^ shine and rain. The Christian grows in grace as he feeds on God's word and prays for divine guidance, keep ing himself away from worldly things that might blight his life and and hinder his growth in the Chris tian life. ho many, she said, just join the church, try to tie on a iittie goodness a iittie gentieness, etc., and te first sjorm that comes along just blows it a!i down. She asked aii Christians to taka as their motto Cai. 2:20—"I am cruci fied with Christ: nevertheiess I !ive; yet not I but Christ liveth in me: and the iife which I now live in the fiesh, I iive by the faith of the Son of Cod, who ioved me, and gavehim seif for me". Search the Word. Mrs. Perkins said none need be oneiy after the meeting, bu search God's word, and the gospei of John was a good book with which to begin. "The gospei will make you grow; it is food and drink to the Christian iife, it is sweeter than honey in the honey comb; it is the rock of our saivation". Obiigation. Then she evpiained the second mainspring of her theme— Our obiigation is to iive as near as possibie what our new name Chris tian wouid impiy. She read from the 5th Chap, of Gai. 18th verse—"For the fiesh iusteth against the fiesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye wouid". As she read on the 21st verse, "Envyings, murd ers, drunkenness, reveiiings, and such iike: of the which I teii you be fore as I have aiso toid you in time past, that they which do such things shaii not inherit the kingdom of God" DON'T FAIL TO REGISTER In order to- vote in the June primary persons who have not registered are asked to do so at once. The registration books wiii close May 24th, and no one will be aiiowed to vote who has not registered. Mr. Ben. G Floyd has charge of the North Lumber ton registration book and Mr. Ed. Glover the South Lumberton book. See the registrars today and regis ter for the Democratic primary. Mean fliers Reach Main Islam) HI Japan Minato, Japan, May 20 (United Press)-Braving^ a blizzard. the Amer ican fliers hare reached the main is land of Japan. The plane* landed in the waters off Minato, northernmost point of Island Sondo, this morning a few minutes before a terrible snow storm drove down out of the north. Because of the storm and heavy fog in the south the fliers will not contin ue their flight until tomorrow. The n$t jump takes them to Kasumiguara naval base at Tokio. Mrs. Perkins said, Wouid you think it was aa bad to be envious aa to mur der or Ret drunk? Yet, God haa it aii along in the same light. Would you think it as bad to hate some one aa to commit adultery or murder? God has it written all along together, all are the same to him. So many try to live a Christian life in their own strength. You can't do it, as tRe son? says 'You'd have to move out and let Jesus move in'. She said if we arc left to ourselves this 5th chapter of Gallations would be a dark picture but if we fully surrender at all times just keep ourselves yielded to God's will, He will be victorious through us. "Jesus said, 'If ye live after the flesh it profiteth nothing,' Paul said, 'That I would do, I do not, That which I wouM not df, that I do', Job, 'I abhor myseif;' Isaiah, 'I'm a man of un clean lips." Mrs. Perkins said a whi'e after she was converted a friend of hers, old er than she, asked her to visit the jail with her as this friend had been accustomed to doing regularly. While there, after the friend had read and prayed with the prisoners; she asked Mrs. Perkins to talk to them for a while. She, never having done any thing of the kind pondered a moment, asking the Lord to give her a mes sage, then, for the first time, she came face to face with her real con dition and said "Friends, I'm not any better than you. You have trans gressed the^ laws of North Carolina; I am saved by the blood of Jesus Christ but have sinned against His law, inasmuch as I h&ve never done anything for Him". "How many self-righteous Chris tians are saved by the biood of Jesus Christ and sit down and expect to sail on 'flowery beds of ease, while others fight to win the prize and sail through bloody seas'? Will they be held guiltless in the last great day? rrutt of the Mptnt "The fruit of the spirit is iove. Do you need iove in you$ heart?" she asked, and joy? You may have it aii if yu have Jesus in your heart. You don't have to tie it on,—patience, iongsuffering, meekness iove for one another—just yieid to his refreshing spirit. Like sunshine and rain, he wiii give you patience, joy, persever ance etc. * Inspiration. Inspiration was the next key-word of her discourse. As wc iook for the reappearing of Jesus, it is an inspi ration to us to read his word,writ ten by hoiy men of God. She gave as an iiiustration a story toid by Dr. A. J. Gordon. He said as he started off on a trip one day, he toid his wife and children he would be back one day the foiiowing week. Mrs. Gordon toid her husband afterward it was no troubie to keep the chiidren ciean every day that week. Each day they expected him until the iast of the week, when he came. "How we shouid iive each day with ciean iives watch ing for his reappearing— a * ciean tongue, that we may not speak any evii; ciean hands, that we may not touch any unciean thing; ciean ears, that we may not iisten to unkind or evi! remarks. He wiii give you fresh manna every day. Don't say you can't iive a Christian iife where you are, the Phiiiippian Christians were members of Caesar's household and he was an enemy of Christ. "If God sees in your heart a desire to live right every day he wiii be with you according to that desire. If we go before he comes, shaii we be ready? Let us iive each day as if that was one lifetime," she said, "growing more and more perfect untii that day when we shaii be iike Him, and dweii with Him, in that house not made with hands. Let us meet our obhgatmns , she said; "God has something for every saved man or woman to do," Roanoke, I"d., May 20 (United Press)—Six persons were kilted and a score injured when a Wabash ftier of the Indiana Serviee Co.'s in term ban iine crashed head-on into a f-car train tast night. Mr. J. J. Beard of Rex was a Lumberton visitor yesterday. Midge Wilt Mot Veto tax Bitt Despite PMSKpOfRonus Washington, May 2d (United Press)—President Cooiid?e will not veto the tax hi!) despite the passage of the 4 billion doiiar bonus bill over his veto, according to word reaching the capitol. Administration leaders beiieve the President should approve any tax biii Congress sends to him in order to get the tax question out of the way as a campaign issue. !f more revenue is needed later, spe cial taxes can be levied rather than try to revamp the tax bill now. The hi!!, however, must be made accept abie to President Coolidge by elimi nation of tax to reduce publicity pro vision and modification of guaranto r! 3vy. This wii! le done in conference K:t3M3, f3iliOOSV))iC9 ... 6735 0 L11 Hiio, Hawaiian Islands, May 20 (United Press)—Hilo was treated !*st night to the moat spectacular demonstration staged in 140 years when \iiaueg, famous volcano, be came active. Two are reported miss ng and one dead as a result T. A. Tayior, engineer on a sugar plan tation, was hit by a white-hot bould er. E. J. Hinman and H. J. Sim mons, soldiers, are missing. Jess Smith Mired 3Mt MM Wiit Witness Teiis Committee Washington, May 20 (United Press) —How Jem Smith virtually ran the bureau of investigation of the depart ment of justice was told the senate Daugherty investigation conunittee by L. J. Baiiey, former chief of the bureau. "Smith was recognised as the most powerful man in the depart ment of justice outstde of the at to!?ey general himsetf , he said. Agents of the bureau were hired and fired iy Smith with Daugherty's knowledge, he said, ^ etating specific instances of dismissaio under Smith'* (Erection. Sharp Decline* On Stock Exchange Fol low Bonus Vote New York, May 20 (United Press) —Sharpest declines in month* wafe registered at the opening of the stock exchange as an aftermath of news of senate overriding President Cooiidge's veto of the bonne MU. The passage of the bonus speiied one thing for Wali street, that the hope for tax reduction had gone. Up to the very iast minute it was hoped the veto would be sustained. Though the large operator* had bean assured of the passage? they fully discounted it. Tragic phase* of it were the overnight call for mar gins and those who could not put up enough additional funds sold out and are broke. Prospect* Bright For Big Cotton Crop !n Texas Dallas, Texas, May 20 (United Press)—With approximately 15,150, 000 planted to cotton, banks aTe stili flushed with $150,000,000 of last year's crop bought. Prospects are generaiiy satisfactory for the year. Texas farmers are looking forward to another big year financially. Due to cold, wet weather, cotton is late in some localities, but as a whole pros pects are bright for big production. Experts predict 3,000,000, bales un der favorable weather conditions. CHIEF JUSTICE CLARKS FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON. The body of Chief Justice Welter Clark, whose death at his home in Raieigh yesterday, following a stroke of apoplexy Sunday, was mentioned in yesterday's Robesonian, iies in state today from 11 to 3 o'clock in the rotunda of the capitol. The fun era! services wiH be heid at 4 o'clock at Central Methodist church at Ra ieigh and interment will take piece in Oakwood cemetery. The capitoi was ciosed yesterday in respect to the deceased jurist and ast night Governor Morrison issued a statement deciaring that a leading figure in the state had passed away, one who would be sorely missed. The Supreme court adjourned when news was received of Judge Ciark's death.