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MOTHER AND HOME COUNTRY’S SAFEGUARDS, SAYS REV. SUNDAY I (Continued Erom Page Six.) of the fashionable booze joint where the bloods of the town used to go and hit it up, and saw six young fel lodrs standing out there, with their hats on the back of their heads look ing like fried eggs; breeches creased so you could sharpen a lead pencil on them, dressed in the height of fashion and I said: Where Their Mothers Were. “I supopse the mothers of those boys are down at some bridge whist or literary meeti discussing me, or leaving the “dis” off. (They don’t know where their boys are or don’t care.” I looked again in a minute and I said, “By gosh, I take my hat off to the old cow.” And if we live right, then our children will never grow up to wail —as did my friend the poet, Thom as Hood: “I remember, I remember The house where I was born; The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn. He never came a bit too Soon Or brought too long a day; But now I often wish the night Had borne my soul away. “I remember, I remember, The fir tree—dark and high; Why, I used to think her slender top Was close against the sky. Oh, it was a childish instirtct But now it’s little joy to. know That I’m farther off from heaven Than when I was a little boy.” Oh, there are a lot of men just like him, God pity them! I tell you we are drifting away. Home Like a Barometer. -If things go right at hoYne, they go right everywhere; if they go wrong at home they go wrong everywhere. Oh, the doorsiH of the homes is the foundation of the state. A man never gets 'higher than the garret of his home; he never gets lower than its cellar. When Henry Clary lay dying his mind wandered back to his old Ken tucky homes and his dying words were: “Mother, mother, home, heav en.” , Men will never get away from what they were taught around their mother’s knee, that wll be the last thing they think of when they are drifting out with the tide. ! Many things pre tending to de stroy the home. The social and po litical interests of woman are mak B K U S W I C. K \ ! Console phonograph of authentic design and superior workmanship. ROYAL Model ~ $1150° SPECIAL TERMS OF PAYMENT ARRANGED There’s an almost human quality about a Brunswick phonograph—due to the fact that the men who build it put their whole hearts and souls into their work, generations of skilled Brunswick craftsmen have fcfiilt wisely and well with the result that the name "Iphinswick” carries the convincing message of superlative quality. / The Brun^wfek Royal Model offers an unparal leled value at ^15.00. 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Then what about the man who makes no preparation for the future • - of his loved ones^ What about the man who goes on through life, rapidly approaching old age* - arid who makes no preparation for himself for that time of helplessness that comes to all whcif live to old age? « ' ;; He is most certainly going to be a burden upon some one, some day. There aire more than one kind of crime. When a man is in full vigor of youth, or in that settled, earnest period of middle life, then is when he should make his arrangements so he will not be a burdn upon his loved ones when old age and helplessness come upon him. Now, in the beginning of a New Year, is the best time of all to start planning for the day when you can no longer do for yourself. This bank always love to help people plan for the future. For nearly fifty years we have rendered this service to people of this section. We want to serve y*ou, too. / MERCHANTS AND FARMERS NATIONAL BANK CHARLOTTE, N. C. ss in* them competitor*, of men. Now, you may not agree with me, I don’t give a whoop< I challenge you to answer what I have-to say. This God-for-saken birth control propa ganda is going up and down the land. It means this: It means the empty ing of the homes and schools of the children. When you remove from the girl the fear that if she exer cises her passions she will become a mother, you remove one of the greatest safeguards of virtue. When you remove from that young man the fear that he will become a fath er you remove one of the greatest safeguards of womanhood. Assail* Birth Control. This God-forsaken birth-control is Ailing the brothels. And then the motion picture influence too—welj, if it is one-fourth good it is three fourths bad in my opinion. It sep arates families in the evenings; it is open on the Sabbath; it acquaints* children with crime. Marvels of daring rather than of nobility. It is impossible to picture before the younger generation infidelity, and nudity in dress, success in crime, without evil effects having some in fluence on their thoughts and lives. * * * * Proper Way to Run Home. The proper way for a home' to be run is for the hysband to earn and the wife to spend—if she has any sense. 'The man is supposed to earn, the woman to spend. The pay en velopes in 1921 amounted to $72, 000,000,000; $50,000,000,000 was spent in stores. The average sav ings account was $175. The last United States census listed 23,000, 000 women in this country as house-’ wives; and if they were out in the busy marts earning money at stand ard wages they would have earned arourSd $30,000,000,000. Twenty three million Women trying to make homes out of all sorts of places. ' The women make nine out of ten of all the purchases made in the retail stores. The woman today is the purchasing agent of the United States, she spends the money. Eighty-five per cent of the money earned in the United States is spent by women. The children are a composite of three things: blood, food and en vironment. You can’t get away from it. They should be taught in school and at home how to earn, how to save, how to spend. They ought to be taught how to avoid disease, how to be fathers and moth ers. I hope to God Almighty the day will come when we will have sexual hygiene taught in our high schools. I wouldn’t teach it in the grades. A lot of our school curri culum is a lot of bunk and junk, not worth a whoop. When they go out in the world they won’t use it. * * * * • A Hero’s Tribute John Randolph, withi the excit able nervous temperament, rose in the House of Representatives at Washington and said: “If iti had not been for my moth er, sir, who taught me when a boy to kneel by my trundle bed and shut my eyes arid say, ‘Our Father who are m Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name,’ and ‘Now I lay me down to sleep,’ I, Johtf Randolph of Roa noke, would b6 hn infidel.” Gray, the author of ‘Elegy in a Country Churchward,” said, that he was one of a large family of child ren who had the misfortune to sur vive his mother,' and a ,life a ‘little longer than she lived, t Oh! what a tribute, my friend, to the memory of her. The ideal mother, my friends, is the product of that civi lization, which culminated in aryi radiated from the manger of Beth lehem, Jochobed, the mother of Moses, and Hannah, the. mother of Samuel, to the Spartan mother, who said to her son who claimed that his sword was too short, “add a step to it, my boy.” There are prototypes of Christian motherhood that should govern our land, and she must be godly. Fathers are busy. Oh, the par ents. And you in the creation of a soul and the development of char acter. So great is the responsibility that you must be a Christian. Fath ers may fail, and God pity them, if they do. God have mercy! God have mercy. oGd held our world when women can go into restaurants and cross their legs and smoke cigarettes and drink booze and be respectable. I say to you this, the web of a nation is made from the thread that is spun in the home and you never will save this city, you will never save New York or Philadel phia; you never will save Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, or any other city from intemperance and degra dation and’ ruin, when you run a barroom in your homes and keep wines and champagne on the side board. No blessing at the table, no Bible in tne nome, no prayer. * The Need of Prayer. Now this nation has no better friend than the mother who will taech her boy to pray. Home is a refuge. Life is a good deal like an army on the march. At evening we put our heads on our knapsacks and slumber through the night. In the morning the bugle calls to action. How pleasant to rehearse the tasks of the day and the surprises around the campfire of the old home circle. Like a Storm at Sea. Life is like a storm at sea, with the sails torn and masts bent before the wind. We go for repairs into the drydock of the home. Jails, penitentiaries, armies, nav ies, they are not our best defense. No, the door of the home is a bet ter fortress than any other fortress ever built in the universe. The household utensils ar'e better artillr ery than cannon that can speed a shell fifteefi or twenty-five miles in to a besieged city. I wonder if in any of the homes of any of my congregation tonight no voice of prayer is ever lifted? What? No supplication to God to protect you? What? No thanks giving in the morning for His watch ful care? You never thank God for the clothes you wiear on your back, for the food you eat? * * * * Leave It to Mother*. If you haven’t got the manhood to arouse and defend our wives and our mothers and, our children against the assaults, of evil and ini A.F. OFL WANTS LABOR TO ASSIST GERMAN UNIONS Financial Condition of Ger many Has About Wiped Away All Traces of Utaionism. To the Officers and Members of In ternational Unions, National Unions, State Federations, City Central Bodies, Local Unions, Trade Unionists and Friends: Dear Sirs and Brothers: A disaster threatens the trade union movement of the world. The German trade union movement is bankrupt.- Union funds have been wiped out of exist ence by the depreciation of the mark, to the point where it is worthless. Without funds trade union offices can not exist or operate; union officials must give their time to earning even a bard livelihood; communication within the movement stops; the trade union, which is essentially organized personal cooperation, disintegrates. Due to the catastrophic drop in the value of the mark, the German Fed eration of Trade Unions and affiliated t trade union bodies have been forced 'to discharge practically all employes. One by one official journals have sus pended publication. For a while mimeographed notices maintained some degree of cohesion but now even this is being discontinued through lack of funds. When com munication through union centers stops, unified action among trade unionists in defense of trade union standards wall cease. How serious the consequences to German wage earners will be is manifest through information relating to efforts to lengthen hours of work. If the German labor movement is not assisted in this time of dire need, the achievement of forty years of struggle will be wiped out. A plain statement of these facts was officially communicated to the American Federatoin of Labor in a joint letter signed by L. Jouhaux of France, C. Mertens of Belgium, Th. Leipart of Germany, and J. Oude geest and Johann Sassenbach, secre taries of the International Federa tion of Trade Unions. Sustaining information has come to the, office of the American Feder ation of Labor, through individuals recently returned from Germany and from General Henry T. Allen who was in charge of the American Army of* Occupation in Germany. We have a duty to help the Ger man trade union movement maintain itself as the defender of democracy against the terrific onslaughts of bol shevik propaganda which continue in cessantly with the direct backing of the bolshevik machine in Moscow, more dangerous because of its prox imity. The German trade union movement has stood courageously against bolshevist attacks, but witn its machinery of organization broken down and out of business the red ef fort to capture German labor as a means to furthering the program for red domination will be a much easier matter. Even more potential, the German trade union movement is the only important organized force in Ger many that can come to the defense of the Republic and defeat the mon archists. If Germany should revert to despotism a great tictory bought • at terrible cost would be in a great part lost. It was our war aim to de stroy the imperialist autocracy. We have a duty to sustain the German labor movement as a force for hold ing the freedom won for the Ger man people by the American and Allied sacrifice. The American labor movement was united in its support of the war against the Imperial German Gov ernment and we were an important and essential factor in bringing the war to a successful end. After our Republic had entered the war the con vention of the American Federation of Labor decided that while we could have no meetings with repreesntatives of the people of enemy countries dur ing the wiar, “when victory is achieved none will be quicker to extend fra ternal hands of trade union fellow ship to organized workers in' all coun tries with which we are at war, or will do so more heartily than will the A. F/of L.” Now is the time that American labor must make good that pledge. While the people of our nation are giving generously to various relief funds, this '•is the distinctive relief work that devolves solely upon America’s workers. Nor is the fra ternal appeal the only one that con cerns us. If the German trade union movement fails the tide of influence will be felt the world around, and with fearful consequences in central Europe. We in America would have tio meet the effects in our home I markets and foreign trade. In our •collective bargaining conferences we would have to meet the. problem of lower standards of work within com petitive production centers. We learned in the World War how closely the world is knit together by the ties of wrorld organization in science, in education, in finance, in production, in commerce, in labor 'and practically every relation of life. We owe to those who gave their lives in that war, to make constructive use of all information gained in that frightful debacle. If aid is to reach Germany it must come from America, for the workers of European countries are at present in a more ceonomic condition than obtained before the war. Unemploy ment and actual need is all too gen eral for them to make contribution. The American. Federation of Labor is undertaking to raise a relief fund for the German trade union move ment—to be used only to maintain that organization. If only a skele ton organization is sustained the vital thing will be kept alive until some • 1 .——— quity and the damnable whiskey traffic; if we are nit brave and decent and manly enough to do it, then put the ballot) in their hand jmd they will drive it into hell.” Good-bye, Howdy, 1924! HOW DO YOU STAND, FRIEND, ON THE THRESHOLD OF THIS NEW YEAR? Are you in any better financial cona tion today than you were one year ag««t We know several people who have prospered during this year. They have been saving all through 1923, and now they can face the New Year with confidence. Sometimes they did not have much to, save, it is true, but they SAVED SOME THING, each pay day, and now those small savings amount to a nice sum. i We want you to start NOW, start sav" ing, and it is for YOUR OWN GOOD that we tell you this. Take Old 1924 by the hand, as a new partner, a real friend, and when the time arrives for you to bid 1924 goodbye, as you are now bidding farewell to’ 1923, you will be a happier mafi, a bigger man, a better man. Each one of these New Year’s days is taking you one mile-post nearer that time of old age when you’ll need money, and need it badly. Deposits Made Up To January 5, Will Bear Interest From January 1. Union National Bank H. M. VICTOR, President. SECURITY! “SECURITY: “The state of being so strong or well made as to render loss or failure im-,4 possible. Funk & W.agnalls Dictionary. A word that stands for protection, shelter, safety, certainty—a word that is truly descriptive of this .be-* liable bank, which stands ready to help you with coun sel, security and four per cent interest, compounded semi-annually, on amounts from $1 to $1,000. Future comfort and prosperity will live and grow in the savings account you start now and freshen up each week with another deposit. Security Savings Bank 4 SOUTH TRYON STREET thing of economic order is restored. We present to you this dire need of the German trade union move ment confident the cry for assistance will appeal to your judgment and your heart. All of the information has been considered by the Executive Coun cil of the American Federation of Labor and the council has decided upon this immediate and urgent ap peal for money contributions to sus tain the German trade union move ment. Appeal, by authority of the Executive Council, is hereoy made for contributions front trade unions, whether International, National, State or Local, and from trade union ists and friends everywhere in Amer ica. We can not in this limited space tell the entire story of the destitu tion of the German trade union move ment, but we have set forth the prin cipal facts as officially communicated to us. We urge the need of imme diate action. A world crisis con fronts labor. We must help or be untrue to our ideals and our convic tions, Make checks payable to Frank Morrison, Secretary, American Federation of Labor, A. F. of L. Building, Washington, D. C., who will return receipt for the same. The contributions received will be for^ warded promptly to the financial of fices of the German Trade Union movement and upon the completion of the purpose of the fund the re ceipts will be printed in detail and by whom contributed; also the ex penditures and the dates when trans mitted to Germany. Act promptly and generously. WHEN "EYEGLASSES ARE NEEDED There is NO other permanent relief, Treatment is like giving a tired man a drink of whiskey; he feels better temporarily, only. Wear BECOMING glasses. Dr. J. C. Denison, 305 Realty Bldg. WORKERS ARE ENJOINED FROM STATING FACTS KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 2. an injunction issued by Judge terfield, musicians and nun ture operators are enjoin^ tetanding “adjacent to the and informing the pubj a theater in this city is organized labor. The court provides agains workers conveying the infold in other forms by prohibiting statement “to the same effect.” theater managemen is attempiiig ?o lower wages. I—' " • .11 i CARPENTERS ANQ FARMERS. Meet regularly at our store— because the Tools they want are here. Farmer? Hardware Co. NEW STOCK/1 GARDEN dTfiJ All Varieties In Bulk ONION SETS Stock and Poultry Remej CHARLOTTE DRUG Q , I. N. Edwards, prop. ’ Corner E. Trade and S. Coll PHONE 266&i 3
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