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.^HE R0BE80NIAN THB BOBESONIAM, MC. 5= JL A. SHARPS BUB8CBIRnON RATES: Oa# Tw —... u* A* D*H**«t Ryturht h OM T< 1A$ _ <R M* <RL**b*fta*.N. C OaetWw* Fifth Stw* N*. 2*. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1926. GUARANTEED MORE THAN THEY KNEW Underwriting chautauquas Has been a pastime engaged in more or less joyously by a number of Lumberton citizens for some years, and a small deficit has been made good more or less regularly without undue com plaint. But that such guarantees may cover more territory than any guar antor hereabouts ever thought about being called on for, is shown by a story which comes under the above caption by way of the Statesville Landmark. Chautauqua folks, as is well known, like the county fair folks and others who are noising abroad something good for what ails the public, have a habit of stretching strings across streets and hanging advertising mat ter on the aforesaid strings. Now it came to pass in Jefferson, county of Ashe, that a fellow riding high on a truck load of cement, was cqught by such a string, which was supposed to be stretched high above the traffic, and flung violently to th?^ ground. When he woke up several dayu4ater, and came to himself, he hied him to a lawyer, and they cooke^ up a suit against six men of substan^ among the 36 guarantors for $20,006, T&6 salve for his hurts. They didn't ge&lhr $20, 000, but the jurors after longTdelib eration decided that the guarantors guaranteed against any damage the chautauqua might?inflict and assessed the six unlucky ones $362. How they arrived at that figure is not stated. With costs and lawyers' fees added it is pretty certain that the six guaran tors found it a pretty expensive Chau tauqua. If that case means that ctmutauqua guarantors are liable, aMttphracts usually are written, for suen damages, future contracts, at least in Jeffer son, are going to carry a brand new danse before erstwhile enthusiastic chautauqua guarantors are caught falling over themselves in eagerness to sign. -0 CRANFORD COES FREE. That amazing trial that blazed its sepsational path at Albemarle for two weeks, came to a close Thursday night with the acquittal of Nevin C. Cranford, former Stanly county chain gang boss. It had been freely predict ed that that would be the result of the trial. It would have been surpris ing in the extreme if any other ver dict had been reached. And if by any chance a verdict of guilty had been reached the bars had been let down so low and so broad that a new trial wonld have been a certainty. If the whole thing was just a frame-up by ex-convicts, they over played their hand. They told lurid and hair-curling stories about horrible cruelties prac ticed by Cranford, which the jury evi. dently did not believe. But the sur prising thing is that some people of excellent reputation testified to cruei treatment of his charges by Cran ford. What the real truth about the whole business is no doubt will remain a sealed book to the public outside of Stanly county. The trial was an as-j tonishing performance, any way you look at it. Cranford's enemies painted him so heartiess and so black that Negro would have looked like a rosy qheeked altar-boy by comparison, and his friends held him up as the model of all Christian virtues. You can prove anything in the court house, and you take your choice. -0 THOSE WICKED BONDS. Every once in a white somebody bobs up to inquire how a^op^ those bonds which were sold right and left by the wicked during Reconstruction days. Seeing as how Great Britain owes some money to the United States which she would like to have further conversations about, somebody re members about those bonds and sug gests that those old North Carolina bonds, and those of other States, be applied to reduction of the British debt. The late Colonel Neill Archie Mc Laan startled Dae State Bar -associa tion some years ago, a yeaT or so be fore his death, by boldly advocating payment of these old bondF. His sug gestion raised a storm of protest. Colonel McLean seemed to stand alone, but his idea was that as those bonds had been issued by those who then were in charge of the State gov emment, the State ought proudly to pay them as a morai obligation, not as a legal one. But every Governor has pointed out, when the matter comes up, as it is sure to do down to the end of the chapter, that it is neither a moral nor a legal obligation. Those Englishmen know it is not an obligation, but they are not overlook ing any bets in the matter of conver sations about the little bill they owe Uncle Sam. -p BEACHES WINNING OUT. Eastward tourist travel is trending more and more, aiso the inciination of those who are seeking summer homes or homes in year-round resorts. Up to this year the trend was large, ly toward the mountains. The moun tains were regarded as the natural playground. But the tide of tourist travel toward the mountains has fal len off .this summer, and the coast re sorts have gained correspondingly. People in increasing numbers are realizing that the coast resorts, like Wrightsville Beach, where the Shore Acres company recently has made a wonderful development, offer more nearly ideal conditions for a year round resort. The mountains of North Carolina got improved highways first and nat urally attracted many thousands of people who were kept from going to the coast resorts on account of un improved roads. But these conditions have changed. One, can travel now from Asheville to Wrightsville Beach on paved highways, with the exception of about 14 miles, and that short stretch will be paved before another summer—within a few months, in tact—and the seaside resorts are com ing into their own. It is estimated that tourist travel to the western part of North Carolina has fallen off forty per cent this sum mer. Unless all signs fail, the sea side resorts after this summer will divide such patronage at least equally! with the mountains. BRIGHTER DAYS AHEAD. Tobacco is the entire walk and con versation of a large per cent of the population of Robeson county now, and business is confidently expected to rouse itself from its summer snooze and take on new life and vigor. It is! surprising how lively and bouyanti everybody becomes just before one of} the principal money crops is to be marketed. It's in the air. Prospects appear much brighter, tobacco men say, than they did a month ago. It is estimated that the crop will fall around twenty-five per cent short of last year's crop, but it is predicted that the farmers will getj as much money for their tobacco this year as they got last year for the larger crop. Tobacco markets open a week from tomorrow and it will be a different story from now on. Big things are ex pected. Recent rains have helped the late tobacco and the cotton crop is fine, if only too much rain does not come in August and give the boll wee vil too favorable working conditions. If present prospects hold, Robeson county will be in better shape this fall than it has known in five years. LAST OF LINCOLNS. It sometimes happens that sons of noted men appear to be handicapped and embarrassed by the greatness of the name they bear. Robert T. Lin coln, last male descendant of Presi dent Lincoln, who died the other day at the age of 83 years, had a double portion of shrinking modesty which he did not inherit from Abe. He seems to have avoided publicity even as his father sought it. He was iittie known, though his successful handling of large affairs might have attracted public notice if he had not been so! sensitive about anything he might do being attributed to the pull given byj a great name rather than to his own ability. He was appointed secretary of war by President Garfield and was retained by President Arthur, and served as ambassador to Great Britain under President Harrison, posts which would have brought fame to other men; but the last of the Lincolns didn't advertise his claims to great ness worth a cent; so the world took little heed of him. He was successful in business, and so far as he cared the world might go hang. -0 Jim Ferguson charges that the Ku Klux klan was the "silent force" that defeated Governor Miriam Ferguson, his faithful spouse. With the except ion of Jim it seems to be about unani jmous that Jim himself was the cause, I that it takes too much vindicating for jJim and that the only way to get rid of Jim was to retire the whole fam i*y -0 j The Bobesonian welcomes "Monte" jback to its columns. Your "Uncle jWalt" never did anything better than j "Monte's" riming piece in this issue. "Monte" is a free lance and hits ev-! erything in sight and out of sight. If you faii to read his "Passing Show" you wii! miss a good thing. -0-. Some items coming from an un known person under a Fairmont date !ine cannot be pubiished because the writer faiied to give any name. Strange that anybody would go to the trouble! of writing items for pubiication and then negiect to do the one thing nec essary. ——-" The city fathers of Fayetteville have reduced the tax rate front $1.35; on the $100 to 55 cents. That is or^e; move that no kicks wii! he registered against. That looks strange to citi zens of other towns that pay a much higher rate, with no relief in sight. -- An English surgeon rises to remark right out in mcetin' "Any one who takes the trouble to make the obser vation will find that few women have straight knees." Most people do but don't count it any trouble. „_fl - ATHLETICS IN HIGH SCHOOLS. Number of Hoys Graduating in Local High School Has Increased Undef Organized Athletics. To the Editor of The Robesonian: There has been considerabic discus sion through your paper in the past severai months and on the streets re eentiy about athletics in the high schoois, and v.e want to submit a few remarks through your columns. In a few more weeks the schoois of the county wi)i he opening and foot baii practice begun. Aiready the boys are discussing their position and how they are going to tackie the other fei iow, and the question arises: Does 'St pay to have athietics in the high school? Being a beiiever in ai[ kinds of athietics, we are of the opinion that it pays, and to have something to base our opinion on we called at the office of Supt. W. B. Crumpton to iook over the records of the schooi for the last four years, and we found that in 1923 with practicaiiy no or ganized effort in athietics in the school, 17 graduated, 4 boys and 13 giris. Only one boy who graduated that year took part in athietics. In 1925, 28 graduated—Hi boys and 12 girls, 10 boys taking part in athletics. In 1926, 33 graduated—18 boys and 15 girls; 12 boys were on the athletic ; squad. Thus it wiii be seen that since the schooi organized and secured coaches that dhe number of boys to graduate has increased untii the boys outnumber the girls for the last two years. One outstanding feature about the athietics in schooi is that the boy be fore he is ai iowed to piay must pass on a majority of his vvork, and, if he faiis, he is cut off the squad. To my way of thinking this feature aione is enough to convince anyone that it pays to have athietics in the schooi. If one more boy graduates each year from high schooi on account of athie tics, wouid you not think it pays? If it wouid cause one to go to college that otherwise wouid be denied the priviiege, wouid you not think it pays ? Not having the schooi privileges like the children of today, we will have to admit that if athietics wiji cause a boy to get a better education who otherwise wouid not, then we are wholeheartedly in favor of athietics, and we are in favor, as a citizen of the town, that as good a coach as can be found be secured for the coming year. "Citizen." LARGEST NARCOTIC KAO) IN HbSTDRY MAHE IN NORFOLK Norfolk, Va., July 30 (A.P.)—Arm ed with more than fifty warrants, a combined force of 123 city policemen and 47 federal agents, led by Col. L. G. Nutt, chief of the narcotic division of the treasury department, late this afternoon swept through Norfolk in what is declared to be the iafgest simultaneous,narcotics raid in the history of the Washington division. Tonight, less than four hours after the raid had started, 35 persons al ready had been arrested, taken before a federal commissi^er, arraigned and their bonds, totalling rn rre than $323,000, set. At least 13 other per sons were being sought. The bonds of those given a hearing ranged from < $1,000 to $20,000, depending upon the ' seriousness of their charge. None of ^ those arrested had succeeded in meet ing the requirements and all were in jaii. Those arrested included five drug-! gists, with two more being sought; a ; dozen or more white men, long sus-j pended as drug venders, and a num-; ber of negroes, as welt as several women, i Atlanta Court Officer Found Shot to Death. Atlanta, July 30^—(AP)—Bert, Donaldson, special investigator of) Solicitor-Genera! Boykin's office was) found shot to death here this after-} nocn. Donaldson's body was found on the i outskirts of the city. He had been j shot twice in the back of the head' with a shotgun. Mr. Donaldson had been missing. since he left his home Thursday night. The body was found in a room at a ; north side hote!. Every investigator of the solici-' tor's department was ordered on ti.e ! case today after he was reported missing. M. Luther Gordon, 23, attorney, was fnund dead in bed at his room ing-house in Raleigh Thursday with a builet wound in his head. Despond ency is thought to have been the cause of suicide. AW INTERVIEW WUH DR. FRANK CRANE Popular Gifted Author Began at Dollar a Day To Put Across His Idea. Now One of America's Great Writers. Will Contribute Regularly To The Robesonian. by R G. P. As I sit opposite Dr. Crane at a hioad flat-topped desk in his commo dious study T yea* impressed by the great breadth and depth of his hu man symnathy, his anxiety to serve his feiiow men. Of course I know that originally the church had been his calling and that as a young man he had dedicated his lifesto such a service. But 1-had felt that possib.y it was either a latent iiterarv taient asserting itself or a desire to preach through the press rather than from the pulpit that switched his course and converted him into the worid's foremost newspaper feature writer. It was surprising to iearn it was whoiiy another motive that changed his career—a sincere sympathy for human foibies and a deep-seated yearning tO'Wrve mankind. , "Early in mv life as a preacher," ho told me when I asked him how it came about, "I learned that people didn't want to hear long sermons. So I made mine short. They never ran over twenty-five minutes. In that space ^1 generally tried to develop five outstanding points. Gradually I discovered even this was too much. In overhearing comments about them after their delivery it became apparent to me that most people carried away only one point, never more than two. The other three were wasted." Brings You Cheer and Courage [_ DR. FRANK CRANE "The man with a mitlion friends" joins the staff of this news paper, starting with this issue. This is another enort on our part to suppiy readers with the best features obtainable. No one has ever had so huge and diverse an audience as Dr. Crane—the banker— the scrub woman—rich—poor—young and o!d—a'! find cheer anti courage in Dr. Crane's? taiks. Read Dr. Crane this week—every week in this newspaper. Dr. Crane opened a volume of hrs editorials tying on the desk to show me the brevity of His articles. * ** * "This set me to thinking," he pro ceeded. "If people oniy seemed to grasp one point at a time why not give it to them just that way ? Bat I found that the dear and concise'de velopment of one point was not enough even for a short twenty-five minute sermon. I felt if they could see this one point briefly stated right before their eyes in print it would impress it on their minds as no speak er could possibly do." So Dr. Crane resigned his pastorate in Worchester, Mass., and came to New York to try out his idea. It was a bold step. Be he was willing to risk it as he was convinced he had something serviceable for the world. Finally a syndicate editor thought he would take a chance on "this Crane stuff." He wasn't at all sure it would go—rather doubted it, in fact—and offered Dr. Crane $1 a day to write six editorials a week. This wasn't even a clergyman's salary. But it was all he could get so Dr. Crane Ac cepted it, so great was his faith in his idea. That was less than fifteen years ago. Today his editorial is one of the most widely read newspaper fea tures in the world. * . * # "My job is to study people, to write for and to people," said Dr. Crane. "I know themenough to know they don't want to be preached at, ncr to hear me moralize about them. They are atmr Koowieuge aoouv ment sclves. That's what they want to Imow—themselves. And they don't want to be to!d in fancy language, but in dear, simple words they un derstand on sight They don't want to he taiked to, nor up to hut on a ievei with them, just like neighbors." With such a conception of his job as this I realized how it was that the college professor, the high-school girl, the bishop, the actor, the grocer, the clerk, the shop girl, the club woman, the scrub woman, the busi ness man, the iinancier all read Dr. Crane's editorials with such consecu tive interest. He made it j dear that it was his chief hope to make himself considered the t sincere friend of the saint and the ; criminal, the poor man, and the rich : man, the 'learned and the ignorant ' alike. And, with all, his main effort is to keep clear of all sectarian argu ments and have the confidence of the adherents of all sects. He docs this so { successfully that many think he is a Roman Catholic, many think he is a! Christian Scientist, while almost j every sect of Protestantism has: daimed him. And some of his mostj enthusiastic admirers are Jews. "To tell the people a^out them selves in clear-cut language with a punch that drives the point over every time—one point at a time—so that they will be encouraged and be-' come self-reliant,'' he concluded, "I consider 3s one of the most vital scr-! vices any man can render." Second Costliest Church in the Car olinas. Charlotte Observer, July 30= The contract for the new Tryon Street Methodist church, to be erected at Tryon and Eighth streets by the com bined Tryon Street and Trinity church congregations, was let yesterday to J. P. Little & Son, Charlotte con tractors. The contract fos* the new church wi!l total $550,000. The genera! con [ tract amounted to $440,000, the sub contracts bringing the total up to more than half million mark. The new church will be the second costliest church building in the Caro lines, it is understood. The recently completed First Baptist church of Winston-Salem cost $750,000 and stands as the costliest church in the two Carolinas. ill* ONE MORE MAY —Electrical Cooking Demonstration— If you didn't come today, be cure to come Tuesday at 3:00 p. m. CaroiiM Wiitys Light Co. Eumberton, N. C. Specia! Ctuh Offer The Robesonian and Your Choice qf 13 Popular Magazines. L Befow we have 5 special club offers of The Robesonian and popular magazines of the day! 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