THE MONROE JOURNAL
JOHX BEASLEY, Editor.
America and tb Children
The Public.
America spends t:s times cs much
; for litjuur ar.d tobacco ts she does for
raunried in 1894 bv the present education. That alone should be suffi
owners and publishers, G. M. and cient justification ft r holding the con.
r. r. ..... I fernn-rt on child welfare standards
A. r . octtairj i s
I ' being conducted under the au-;Y
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The Journal Buildinr. corner oi ones oi mc wf" -""-Jeffe-aon
and B.'asley Streets. onie of the facts brought out by the
1 AuierrUn and foreign experts are 1
Published Ear-It TuewUy and Eridaj. worthy of even wider distribution
than they are now Letting. The fruit j
I1JS0 a Year, Invariably in Advance.
THE MONTHLY FASHION BOOK ILLUSTRATING
PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS
FOR JULY 1919.
Telephone No. 19.
'in numerous ways. The draft disclos-'
led a most menacing condition among
EKIItAY. 41NE .
:M,SiH VV. IHL IM51tL,ll,l dL Ir-ftlKgU LL"S
Many Warm Weather Specials
in Every Department
... j, ,:,ti-. lminni those who should b? in the full vigor i
A notice to dtscont.au? Journal nisnhooj Seve hundrei ,holIsand X
LnV?Tly L LI nt 51 illiterate! of draft age- testified to
granted that you do not ant the- -duration. This sfarva- Si
yeper when you fail to roi:cw.
in the draft. Yjj;
for physical i 3.A
vcre prevent- ' yv
tion of mental requirements wasjY
paralleled by almost equally serious
physical conditions. Out of the first!
, , I 2.510. 70S men examined
lllitenuy in iiimhi loumj. 1730.756 were rejected
. .defects, most of which were r
In the Inited States there able fcnJ nich were largely due to
Ivv.l'vu niiieraits i uuu '", anuses torceu upon minimum. 1 ue yy
454 of thetu are in Union county. Children's Bureau figures that 30.-jYY
Pare county, the smallest and ,mMil,'0 infants die annually who. Jl
, . ... ., 1 deaths are largely preventable. 1
ifolated of the lt'O North Carolina- r(? of ,,,,,,,,,,(3 deaths
counties, has the fewest and Bun- . fro, tne immediate child-bearing oc- ' XX
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combe leads with Miss cur annually. It is not time that we
Elizabeth Keliv. director of adult il-! engaged in a few conferences such
"... ,. . ... as are now going on?
literacy for North Carolina has com-; y 0O,lfron,inp ,h( re
plied this information and sent It to . , jon jn lnjg respect are of course
ail fount v .iiiieriiitemleiits who are , fundamentally economic. The necess-1
urged to remedy this condition j i'.v for certain palliative legal ineas-; f;
me? iii.ij le i.tnrti n iaiiuu. it... . yv
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xnrougn tne esiaoinmc... v. educa0!1 is mandatory. Child labor
light schools. Many of the counties j mUf!t he rthlessly suppressed. But
have already made splendid appro-; the economic caums will remain and
priations to meet this need.
When 454 young men and a pro
portionate number of young women
uake their mark instead of signing
their name the situation becomes ap
palling. Working alone no matter
how industriously and wholehearted
ly, Mr. N'esbit can accomplish almost
JiVlbl'T Volunteers, whether teach
ers or hot, are needed to assist not
only in establishing moonlight
schools, but to keep them moving. It
requires only from three to six weeks
to teach an adult to read and write
and when that stage is reached he
becomes so interested and thirsty for
knowledge that he can continue with
only a little guidance.
Whether the county makes an ap
propriation or not, enough - capable
men and women should enlist with
Mr. Nisbet to make this u record
jear in accomplishing results among
the grown-up illiterates of the county.
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the necessity for repressive law will
perist as long as poverty persists.
For it is as true in our day as Solo
mon's that the destruction of the
poor is their poverty. For inequality
of opportunity mear.s inequality of
education and inequality of health.
The Labor Department figures
that when the parents' wage
250 a year one baby in every sixteen yy,
dies. Wh-n the wage is 1450 one 'ntXX
everv siv dies. The record of child Xi
destruction is a record of povert
Tk . kink... MAMnlitf nA Ik. hltvll
I Hi uis;!irrL miri mini aim i.ir uip.ii- ; aa
est illiteracy are in the isolated, farm j
and the close packed tenement to YY
which are driven those forced out by XX
monopoly of the more advantageous j
parts of the earth. ,XX'
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SutTrajre Win
The Hi tilth Kefuiig to
Literary Digest.
To one class t lie Church is always j
'declining." The wish being father to r
the thought, their reply to the ques- XA
tion. '"Is the Church declining?"
would Instantly express the alTirma-1 XX
tive, says the The Rocky Mountain ' A.
News (Denver). This class is. of!Y,X'
course, ot iioutmui size oecause in
accessible to the statistician." It
I looks with pity on the section of the Yi
! public who "stick by the Church XX
1 ihtoiigh thick and thin; who shut yy
waitini: and st nig- their eyes 10 its shortcomings, believ- Y
in i.A
all circumstances, to more than offset
ajiy bad there may be in it." The
question to church people seems only
"ai'i impertinence." They, in their
turn, see that the other side are
"temperamentally hostile to the
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One Solid Case of Extra Fine Quality Voiles, only 25c
NEW DRESS VOILES, 25c.
25 cent Quality Beautiful New Voiles in dainty and
bold patterns, also printed patterns 18c
PAJAMA CHECKS, 15c.
Yard-wide Pajama Checks, extra good quality, at
old prices 15c, 18c and 20c
ENGLISH LONG CLOTH, $1.98
Five Hundred Bolts, full 10-yards to the bolt, fine
English Long Cloth, worth $2.50. Special at J $1.98
PILLOW CASES, 15c.
One Solid Case of Pillow Cases, values for 25c, on
sale this week at 15c
SILK CREPE DE CHINE, $1.18 YARD
All Silk Crepe d Chine, yard wide, in all colors, values
at $1.50. Special $1.18
CROCHET BED SPREADS
$1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00.
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See these values in Bed Spreads, only one case of
these left at $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00
NEW LACE CURTAINS
$1.00, $1.50, $2.00 up to $5.95.
Large Shipment of New Lace Curtains, just received,
in white, ivory, cream $1, $1.50, $2 up to $5.95 pair
MATTING SQUARES, $4.95
Full 9x12 feet New Jap Matting, Art Squares. Spe
cial $4.95
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After veal's of
gling ardent suffragists have seen the ! ing that the good in it is bound
Susan B. Anthony amendment go
through and now it is up to the states
to ratify or reject it. Four state legis
latures are now in session due to ad
journ this month and because of
pressing reconstruction problems
many special sessions will be called
this year. Governor Bickett will in
all probability soon receive such a
suggestion from suffragists tor an an
nouncement from the National Wo
man's party has ulready been sent
out stating "the women of the coun
try will vote in the 1 1) 2 ) elections."
From the time of (he Revolution i to whom any signs of its decline
women have worked untiringly ton "'l be a matter of grave concern,
their righ.s; in many lnstanceS"thei.- w" doiibllH this class which
, Bishop Thomas Nicholson, ol the
overzealousness leading them to i Methodist Episcopal Church had in
foolifh actions that lost rather (had j mini! when recently, addressing the
gained followers for them. The agt-l North Indiana Conference, he culled
tation was first carried on bv peli- "'''n to the fact that in the last
, ;, ' fitly years there h.id been five-year
tions and small meetings until 184 8 j)(.,0jH in which the Church gained
when the first t o suffrage demon-j more followers than in the first nine
etratlon was staged and fortv-one wnturies of its existence.
years ago the Anthony Dill was intro
duced Into congress by Pefcatfir Bur-
eent California. In 1887, a vote forcpurfd by Dr. H. K
y c
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HiC Deartiiient
Stores is One
IU-aMin Why We
Sell It for Iss.
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Belk Bros.
tif Carolinas Largest Distributors of
RELIABLE MERCHANDISE.
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Stores Is One
Reason Why We
Sell H for Lewi.
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I'resiilont'K Cousin
Lives in Wade I
Chruch regardless ot the efficiency of f boro,
its administration." and are "there-: wadesboro Ansonian.
fore, prone to believe that it must of -r(ie Ansonian learned several
necessity be declining." The Rocky wwk8 aco tna( nr(,t cousin of I'resi-
.Mnuntain .ews points to a tertium j
'liiid n class much larger than both
of these classes combined, found out- j
siile i's well as inside the Church, '
who j
"By no means believe in the infalli- j
bility of the Church, who, in fact, are
ever ready to point out its faults, yet !
dt nt Woodrow Wilson has lived In'
! Wadesboro for nearly twelve months. I
j This good citiaen is Mr. B. S. Mash-1
: burn and he holds a responsible posi- j
tion with the Seaboard Air Line rail
Iway company here. He is. in fact, a
I double first cousin of the popular
president and is so very modest about
lit that he declined to permit the An
jsonian to publish the facts. But we
jhave waited and waited and now take
jthe liberty of giving the public tho
j facts, even at the expense of losing a
I good friend.
Of course Mr. Mnshhurn is not'
iiehamcd of his distinguished cousin;
I he is very proud of him and the re
j semblance is so striking that persona
'who have seen the president cannot
trimiht the blnnH Win whlrh pvifita fr
"The number of members gained In I Mashburn lias lived In various parts
mi,, according to the Bishop, was of the i-niled state8 and entertained
isix times as many as in ijui.a tame Mr vilson two years ago in Char-
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showed 18 yvas to 34 nays; by 1914
.tfe atiii'iiuTiient liad gained a hlajori
ty of one but still lacked 11 votes of
nBRsnirp: In 1918 it failed by two
votes, and lust February by one. j
In many states the laws have been
altered to include women, but North
Carolina has always proven adamant,
Senators Summons and Overman vot
ing" against the amendment to the
very last. Senator Overman, accord
ing to a Washington correspondent,
taljt'? a philosophical view Jf ta0
fclluallMil- Hi1 IS iiuoted a saing.
Kd.ral Council of Churches ot
Christ, show the growth In member
ship' of the thirty-three Protestant
denominations rrl!',,pented 10 ,,e ' 46
000 for the year l!ilT.
"Moreover, satistics issued by the
Census Department at Washington
show on increase In the duoade l06
1916 of about 15 per cent, for the
eiirht lesdine deporniratlons.
iiratt-r riie i iiaii '""p. ,lf x,t
Ch'trch. it Is evident that it is not
c!?t'lliiing ill numbers. There la evi
dence as well, tho naturally not of
so i.usitive a chavscler. that it is not
declining in spirituality. The sOhis
raised for benevolence, greater hot
only tfl volume but per csplia then
lotte when he came there to deliver ,p
en address. The fact that he has held
various positions with the Seaboard
during the past thirty-five years is
evidence of his loyalty and staying
Qualities. As above stated, he is
proud of his distinguished cousin and
believes that one of Mr. Wilson's fin
est qualities is his extreme modesty,
coupled with his great power of con- I
centrating his nilnd,
I'tiiov have finally won, said mut...... before, mav be cited.
senator, "and we accept the result soj ..Tne cani,,aigns waStii for recon-
far as the United Mates senate "u ipfrtictive worn an "er a war-wasieu
the congress is. concerned. It is now
a matter for tne state lesis'""'""-
voted against suffrage as I voted bs
.,.waiis( 1 do not believe the
world: the cmmn-Viulon movement;
the voluntary ftreenient between cer-
lam I'enumjiiaiions io uum uuyii-
tlon of wir In the same territory
all this "silicates that the Church has
Tieard the bugle-call of an aroused
S-Mni Ui uroke into the Brown
Dm lonipany of Warsaw and stole,
practically the entire supply ot mor
phine. Access to tne store was gam
ed through the plate glass window
which was cracked. Nothing vras
molested but the "dope" and no ar
rests have been made although sus
picion points to an out of town man.
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majority of the women of my state
th hatiot and because, further
more, nf the race Question. It is trot i w0Wrience.
necessary to discuss the latter. Every j -why should it not? Churchmen
one knows that the opposition. j to-day ate not hermits. The man who
principally back of the state's r.'"1'' I occupies a pew on Sunday Is in the
lo decide suffrage matters fartjieiii- P0Uting room. bank, office, shop, or
selves. In the soutn we nave emnim- factory the other days or tne wees.
Should he as a merchant, clerk, man
nfarinrer. lahor-unionist. citizen. Re
publican, or Democrat, be lapped by
the new currents of thought, and yet
as a churchman be content to lie In
stagnant pool? It would ge a strange
and anomalous condition
cations which do not exist in other
..ntimu and I believe we should be
perniltted to decide in. North Caro
lina whether we want woman suff
rage instead of having suffrage pos
sibly thrust upon us by a constitu
tional amendment. That has been
my position and I oted that way.'
MaW Charles N. Hulvey. I". S
Early Wedensday morning, nea j Army, has been detailed to the State
Rich Square. Northampton county, ;cneee Summer School to give Jn
voiiv xviHon. a hard working farmer. ia,P11-tinn In nhv-sical education. The
. hi. wifa'a throat with a razor, aI-!5limmBP crhnni is one; of the two In
most severing her head from her j the UnIted states to have a military
body. It appears that they had a 1 0fflrer detailed for service during the
cuarrel and sne ran uuiu iesslon, and tnis is oetng aon uy iuc
Featured by the presence of Col.
S. S. Graves, chief forester, the one
day conference of forest, supervisors
and tlmbernien from North Carolina,
Kentnekv and Tetmesse. held in
Aahpville. resulted In action being
taken by which appeal will be made
to the governments or me tnree states
to enact legislation providing for the
conservation and perpetuation of the
forests In thelf borders. Colonel
Gram said the situation in America
is critical and something must oe
done irr tlie supply of limber would
be rxh-au'sted.
C.o. intn h vard. he seizing ner
and cutting her throat Taking his
twelve-year-old boy by the hand, he
wvUo the home of Mr. O. C. Bryant
a neighbor, an told him what he had
done. Nelson was given a prellral
' nry hearing and placed in jail. He
tas not been considered strong men-
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government by way of experiment. If
It nrnves a success It will doubtless
hp tended so as to embrace other
Summer Schools another summer.
Nearly a Hundred Gendron Bicycles are at our store awaiting your inspec
tion. There are large Bicycles, small Bicycles, at almost any price you want
to pay. Come tomorrow and take a look. It will make you want to go back
to the Bicycles. Probably you've already heard "the bicycle is coming back."
But the truth is "you are going back to the bicycle." There is nothing so good
for the inside of a man as to be on the outside on a bicycle.
Knavery's best helper is the man
wno minds his own business and neg
lects tt puWlc "bufclness.
fcradv Moore, a nine-year-old boy
vf Mrs. Ophelia Lamm of near Wil
son, was kicked to death by a muie
Monday afternoon. The sad news
was wired to his brother in training
for an aviator at Camp Bragg, and
reached him too late to catch a train.
His lieutenant remarked: "Cheer up,
young man; I'll get you to your home
In a Jiffy." And after leaving In
structions that the mayor of Wilson
be requested to make a good landing
place with , large white crosa, the
big Curtis machine "hopped off." and
landed on the Country club golf links
in the vicinity where the tragedy oc
curred In time for the funeral Tues
day afternoon. The 'distance, 75
miles, was covered in one hour and
20 minutes. .
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