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-THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT." -THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT." Monroe Journal rr-rr PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No; 65. . Monroe, N. C, Tuesday, September 19, 1922. $2.00 Per Year Cash Two Monroe Pastors Steal a March on the Congregations Dr. Weaver and Dr. Burrell Ex change Pulpits Without the Knowledge of Their Folks HANDED SOME. GOOD STUFF TO HEARERS Dr. Weaver Told the Baptists He Wanted Hia Folks to Hear Some Good Preaching and Had Sent Their Pastor Around to Deliver the Goods While Dr. Burrell Would Have the Methodists Believe That Dr. Wea ver Wanted to Look After Some Stray Members Some Baptists Alo -Astray. Stealing a march on their conirre-; Rations Dr. C. G. Weaver, pastor of Central Methodist church, and Dr.1 W. R. Burrell, pastor of tha First: Baptist church, exchanged pulpits! Sunday night, neither congregation knowing anything about the arrange-j ments until the respective preachers, appeared in the other fellow's pulpit and began the services. Of course j everybody was guessing what had; happened to his rnstor that he could j not preach Sunday night, but the sus pension was soon broken when, be-f fore announcing their texts, each preacher explained that an exchange of pulpits had been agreed upon be tween the two pastors in a secret meeting where the pact had been worked out, sealed and probated "un beknownst" to the victims of each " denomination. At the Baptist church Dr. Weaver told Dr. Burrell's congregation that he had decided he wanted the Meth odists of Monroe to hear some good preaching und had sent their pastor around to deliver the goods. But Dr. Burrell announced at the Methodist church tha; Dr. Weaver had some stray members that he wanted to look after. He also stated that a number of the Baptist folks hadn't been seen at their church for some time, and that "some of them are in th.s congregation tonight." For some time it has been known that Dr. Weaver and Dr. Burrell are very close friends. They are men of broad vision and large experience and they are big enough to rise above petty jealousies and little thinking and-to join hearts and hands for the best interests of the town and com munity in which they live, and it is to these men whom Monroe and Un ion county people love that we large ly owe the splendid fellowship and kindly feeling existing between the different denom. nations of the city Dr. Weaver's Line of Thought At the Baptist church Dr. Weaver handed Dr. Lurrell s congregation a idoscourse along the. lino of lethargy Mir shirKin on the part of church members. J He declared it had always been the ,ase that too many people are willing to stand buck and let others do the work ami then claim or at least ac cept the benefits derived therefrom. The burden of his sermon was not so much what people do that they should leave undone ns it was what they fail to accomplish not so much the sin of commission as that of omis sion. lie made it clear that it an pears to be the business of many to criticise and find fault with the lead ers. They are willing for progres sive movements to be carried out, but they don't like the leaders and they therefore won't have anything to do with the movement. Uhey lie down on the job, let the other fellow do the work and then reap the benefits. Not having heard Dr. Weaver's sermon, the writer is not in position to give the language he used, but it is easy to imagine that he likened the slug gard to the old man who climbed upon the joist in the house when the bear entered and let his wife, with her butcher knife, fight the beast and w;n the battle and then came down and said, "Just look what we did." Those who heard Dr. Weaver state that he handed Dr. Burrell's conzre gation some or the same kind of medicine he has been dosing out to his own crowd, and that they took it ail rignt but d dn t lick the spoon. Dr. Burrell Talks About the East At the Methodist church Dr. Bur rell drew a Very dark picture of con ditions in the East ami declared that since the Japanese defeated the Rus sians several years ago the colored races of the world have maintained an air of defiance and that some time the white races will be compelled to fight lor their predominance. Dr. Burrell has traveled extensively in the Cast and is in position to know conditions as most people cannot know them. He told how the Moham medans are waring an aeirressivlt tampaign and preaching a religion if depredation and waste that an- Ipeals to the natural inclinations of the savage or non-christian races. tind declared that it is spreading like (wild fire. The christian religion, he ec la red, is the only thing that will A t can stop this awful onrush of de struction. He Pointed to the pres ent ravages of the Turks upon the hristians as a symptom of these con- titions. But, after the dark picture ad been hung before the congrega tion, ne turnea ine otner Ride ana nade a most impressive appeal to hurch members to awake from their leep and counteract this poisonous !ropaganih w.th the wholesome in- luence ci me cnristian reunion, MO.KOE CRAFTSMEN GO BACK TO WORK Yesterday morning the fifty or sixty shop craftsmen who have been out on strike in Monroe since Julvl went back to work, following terms agreed upon a few day ago. A like number of men who have been doing the work in the Mon roe shops., were transferred., to Hamlet and Jacksonville and will be retained in the service for the present at least. It is reported that the striking craftsmen and the extra force will be needed to put the rolling stock in fi.st class condition in short order. Trainmaster S. H. Adams states that the guards have all been re leased from duty and that every thing is moving along smoothly. Mr.Adams states that at one time thirty-five guards were employed here, but that the splendid order and gentlemanly attitude of the local men who were out on strike caused the Seaboard to reduce the guard force to s?ven men. Mr. Adams further states that the craftsmen on strike in Monroe have given no trouble at all, that they have conducted themselves as real gentlemen and that so far ai Monroe is concerned the work has been carried on as though there were no strike that the shops have been working on a hundred per cent eficienry. He makes the statement that the craftsmen went back to their work yesterday morning in good spirits and with., the best., of feelings toward all. It is also to the credit to Mr. Adams and other Seaboard employees here that order and efficient work have been maintain ed at this place. The gentlemanly and wise attitude of these em ployees toward the craftsmen and also the sensible view taken by the strikers and the citizens of the city has hud much to do with the peaceful operations of the work in Monro; during the past two and 0 hail' months. Preslar Wants Journal Readers to Kr.ow He Doesn't Cuss Concord, Sept. 15. Now you have played it, sure enough. Quoting my letter .of the 8th in last Tuesday's issue of The Journal you make me say "casus hell." Now I don't know what that means nor what it takes to constitute it. I d dn't say it, any way, and if you could read every other part of my letter correctly, as you evidently did, then I think you could have guessed at this part of it. What I said, in part, was this: "Last Tuesday's issue of The Journal has not made its appearance yet and :f we should not get it this, in our opinion, would very nearly constitute an ho-est-'o-goodness "casus belli." "I am afraid you have created a wrong impression and if you will give this snac? in the next issue of Oe Jo. rnul ! will appreciate it. I wan the gnnd people who read the Journal to k:v v that I don't chew tobacco, drink 1'quor nor cuss. Thar!:ing you I am, Yours very truly, S. W. Preslar. The Joui r 1 has always known thit it 's exiremuly dangerous to use Latin phrases, because if they get by lino typo operator and proof reader and finally make their way to the public the average reader doesn't know what you are talking about. But Friend Preslar hasn't anything like as great grievance as he imagines he has, and he also came much nearer "cus sin'" than he likely thinks he did. Doesn't the Latin phrase "casus belli" mer.n a case of war, or cause for war, whichever phrase Prof. Preslar likes better, and didn't Sherman say war is hell? We regret very much that Prof. Preslar has come so near do ing that which he declares to tha public he does not do. What Shall He do? Ex-Governor Hooper of Tennessee is said to be in favor of indirect criti cism. Speaking the other day of the transportation act, he said: "Indirect criticism is more effective. I know a man who pulled up his clerk in the following manner: "'George, if Atkinson calls today teii nun 1 m out. And don t be work ing or he'll know you're lying!' " which is of necessity always militant. He referred to the beauty and hap piness of the City of God as pictur ed by John and declared that to his mind this city must exist in the hearts and minds of the people if it is to exist at all. He believes that some time the teachings of Christ will so grip the people that-they wi" no lon ger let profit in the!r business be the uppermost thought, but instead service will become the watchword. Much Interest Created The clever trick nullad off Sunday night by two pastors that the city is indeed fortunate in having among us has created quite a bit of interest and favorable comment among mem bers ol both churches, and the ser mons of both were greatly enioyed, which means that these arentlemen are very popular not only with their own congregations, bat with the en tire membership of the two churches and wiah those of other denomina tions. And now both congregations are wondering what their pastors will have to say next Sunday in re gard to the exchange of pulpits. MARSHY I LLE SCHOOL HAS FINE OPENING Starts Off with Enrollment of Three Hundred and Forty-Six Good Corps of Teachers Marshville, Sept. 28. School open ed Monday morning with an enroll ment of 346, of which 130 are high school students, and an able corps of teachers. Prof. Biggers, principal, is assisted in the high school work by Miss Hines of Seneca, S. C, Miss Clegg of Charlotte, and Miss Fish er of Andrews, N. C. Miss Mullis of Penfield, Ga., has the seventh grade Miss Faircloth the sixth, Mrs. Ed wards the fifth, Miss Plyler the fourth, Miss Gibbs of Beaufort, the third, Miss Little of Denver, the sec ond. Miss Ketchen of Winnsboro, S. C, first grade. The music department has Miss Floyd of Fairmont, piano; Mrs. F. W. Ashcraft, public school music. Several boarders are coming in to attend school and there will be oth ers and with the new annex, an audi torium and many rooms, when com pleted with steam heat, this school will be well equipped. Two things are sorely needed in Mr.rshville, some way of fighting: dust and fire, for now, we are at the mercy of both or rather, are helpless in the midst of both. One is a menace to health and the other a menance to our property. Let's see if something cannot be done to relieve this sit uat;on. Mrs. James Marsh, Mrs. W. J. Scrogsrs. and Mrs. Irene Marsh spent last Wednesday in Charlotte. Miss Edna Burns of Charlotte spent Sunday with her parents. Miss Lucy Leonard of Harts ville, S. C, who spent some days with her pnrents here, left last Tuesday. Mr. Shelton Harrell of Charlotte spent Sunday here. Mr. Myron Green of Hartsville, S. C, spent the week-end here with his parents. Mr. Jas. Hamilton and Wife, also his son, .Jas. Jr., visited Mr. and Mrs. T. 1. Marsh Sunday. Mr. J. M. Burns and daughter, M ss Gladys, spent Sunday at Oak baro. Mr. W. M. Gordon says Mr. W. B. Love, teacher of the Men's Bible class of Central Methodist church, was given some kind of title at a Sunday schoul meeting in Matthews last week. Mr. Gordon doesn't remember just what the title is, but he believes it is "general counsel for the Bible c'asses of the Charlotte district." Much Cotton Bein" Sold and Delivered- Cotton Association Around five hundred bales of cotton were delivered to the Cooperative As sociation in Union county during the past week. About fifteen hundred Sales were sold on the Monroe mar ket, much of it coming from Anson and Chesterfield counties. More than 1,200 bales of cotton .are beinr delivered daily to the North Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-opera tive Association, according to General Manager U. B. Blalock, who expects the daily average to pass the two :housand mark before the end of this week. In line with the policy adopted by the board of directors to make an nd var.ee of approximately fifty per cent of the market value of the cotton at the time of delivery, the association management has arranged to make a further advance on long staple cotton to bring the total advance up to that mark. The additional distribution will be made in about ten days after de livery and will be based on govern ment figures for the Charlotte dis trict. Cotton of an inch and one six teenth or over is known as long sta ple. The advance of fifty dollars per bale was decided upon by the board of directors as being approximately fifty per cent of the market value of a standard bale of cotton. The defi nite figure was selected to facilitate Neighbors (From Indiana Farmers' Guide.) Our understanding of the term, ne'ghbors, undergoes changes from generation to generation and from locality to locality. The plainsman of the west includes among his neigh bors everyone within a radius of something like a hundred miles, whle in the congested agricultural areas of the east, the neighborhood com prises something considerably less than a section of ground, unless it be a region of large farms, when the township will hold at least half a dor.en such areas. And when we get into the greater congestion of the city, the neighbors have practically disappeared. The term is nearly ob solete. Neighbors are general in their sig nificance. They mean more than the people who live near by. They mean the people with whom we commune frequently and easily in terms of common fellowship but without any bonds of religious, fraternal or other logical relations. The neighbor is the fellow from whom we can borrow readily and to whom we lend trust ingly. He is next to the family in his relationship to us. But strange to say, the farther we travel and the faster we fo, the more limited seems to be our neigh borly circle. Grandfather had no aj tomobile and he had more nrzMws and knew them better than we. The 1 telephone has brought us more neigh- 166 PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH IN ONE YEAR Governor Issues Proclamation Calling I'pon People to Observe Fire Prevention Day Raleigh. Sent. 18. Governor Mor rison today issued nrnlimitinn calling upon the people of the state to ooserve Monday, uctober Sfth, as "Fire Prevention llnv." tn ha ed in such a way "as to visualize and prevent tne irreparable loss we an nually sustain through individual neg lect." "We cannot make poverty a crime while we regard extravagance as a virtue, neithpr run u-a ,hni m to carelessness and waste and there by postpone the day or financial ex haustion." the nrrwlamatinn h.-irina "Living in a land of plenty we are apt 10 conso e ourselves with the de lusive thought that what U'o luca iv a can replace. How about what we des troy? That which is lost may be re- covere::, mat wnicn is destroyed by fire is bevond restoration Fir imoo destruction, not loss. How improperly, tneieioie, no we continue to rtter to our annual toll of burned as 'property fire loss.' It is destruction; deplorable Decause preventable; criminal because murderous. "North Carolina waged a more in tensive campaign in the cause of fire prevention during the past year than anv 1'fce nerinrl f it hiutnrv mt lt$ persons lost their lives in burn ing Duuumgs, while property destruc tion rBrhp.'l tilt ninrt-ri-;tiintof. cum Hll-i 1.UVUVU OH II of $7,500,000. Are we becoming more inouirn.iess, more careless, more wasteful, or must we admit that we are beeo:ning a state of incendiarists ? Lst each community determine the cause and meet the problem with the determination to apprehend the crimi nal, reform the careless and elimi nate the enormous and unnecessary fire waste." Governor Morrison asks the peo ple, in observing October th as fire prevention day to eliminate rubbish, waste and other combustible mater irls. He asks .the local authorities to give publicity to fire prevention or dinances, to inspect thoroughly all busine-s and residential premises with the view of eliminating condi tions which may cause lire. He urges public end private institutions to make a thorough inspection of their heating and chimneys and to effect such changes as will safeguard the lives of occupants, and that institutions, factories and public, parochial and private schools instruct their children as to I he dangers of fire and accident. the handling of accounts of members. I Further advances will be made as I fast as sales permit, j Receiving agents have been appoint j ed for more than two hundred points and contracts have been closed with sixty-nine warehouses with prospects , of securing at least a dozen more. This i Will ni'OVido the HSKfM'intinn u-itli mnm ' than three hundred points for receiv- ing cotton. j General Manager Blalock returned to the office Monday from a trip into the Piedmont section and reported j that cotton was being delivered in large quantities to the association i Saturday. He is very much gratified I over the prospects, j North Carolina banks have arrang I ed to lend the association two million ! dollars for its revolving fund. The as ; sociation has a credit of ten million i dollars with the War Finance Cor i potation, which will be available when I needed. , The association is still keeping its doors open for members, according to uomer n. n. wasK, manager of the field service department but it will soon be necessary to clJse them as it will, be impractiblc to receive a cot ton grower as a member after he has sold a part of his cotton on the open market. The Association has more than 400,000 bales of cotton signed up, which is more than fifty per cent of the North Carolina cotton crop. bers, perhaps, but it has not drawn us any closer to them. In many cases it is indirectly responsible for neighbor hood estrangements. The advantage of "listening in" is offset by many unfortunate evils. Emerson was probably right; there is no advantage that does not re quire payment. And we wonder whether our blessed automobiles and our indispensable telephone are event ually going to cost us all of our good old-fashioned neighbors. We do not bow as we pass by any more for fear of ditching the family. And we do not stop to chat, because we are seized with the hurry-up bug, and also be cause the starter uses up current extravagently. And so we flash by and ask each other "Who was that?" when we meet on the road the people who used to be our good neighbors. A profiteer bought a magnificent steam yacht and went for a cruise in the Mediterranean. Off the Spanish coast the yacht hit a rock and sank, and the profiteer was nearly drowned. "Yes," he said, recounting his ex perience to a friend. "I had a narrow escape. I thought I was done for." "Tradition has it," said the profi teers companion, "that when a man is struggling hopelossly in the water , ne rememoers every evil aeeo ne ever committed. Old that happen to you?" "Well, not altogether," said the profiteer. "You see, I was only strug gling about eleven hours." Bands of Turks Heartlessly Killing Helpless Christians THE RAILROAD STRIKE IS AT LAST SETTLED News from Washington and Spencer under date of September 18th indicates that the railroad strike of shop craftsmen is fairly well settled over the country at large. From Spencer the follow ing comes: Messages from Washington both representatives of the strikers and the Southern railway that the strike had been settled with the signing of the Chicago agreement late this afternoon, brought a thrill of joy to the 1,700 strikers and their families at Spencer. It is unlerstnod the men will return to c ; us early as possible. They suppose, however, to take it least one day to celebrate, and lttend to detail, business.. Camp fires are burning around the picket lines tonight. From Washington this news is given out: Officials of the Southern rail way and representatives of the un ion shop crafts system late today signed the Warfield-Willard-Jew-ell agreement. The strike among the workers of th Mobile & Ohio railroad, which is controlled by the South ern, also was settled on the same basis. The workers of the two roads and those employed on all other lines controlled by the Southern, who went on strike, are to return immediately to work with senoirity rights unimpaired. Orders were telegraphed by the shop leaders toniht to the division at chairmen of the various labor unions throughout the south to in struct their men to return to work at once. Similar orders were sent out by the Southern's officials to their superintendents to put all of the former workmen back at their old jobs as they applied. If You Want to Find Out How OU You Are "Forget the calendar," says Doug las Fairbanks. "If you want to find out how old you really are. try your self out. Look at the next flight of steps you have to go up. See how long the treads are, maybe six inches, seven, never over eiarht. Steps are planne-1 for the old people, planned for you at eighty years. Youth has to jump them two or three at a time, or run up. You can tell how near eighty you are by the way you feel toward those steps. If you want to walk up, you're eighty. But if you feel their slowness, if they make you impatient to get to the top, if you want to runup or jump up, don't let thosa eighty-year-old steps impose their age on you, get up the way you want. Let everyone refuse to walk them except the eighty-year-olds. They are their steps. Gates we don't have so many of them now were made for old people; fences for the young. How do you look at a fence? If you want to get over it, you're young yet, no matter what the calendar suys. Go over the rails, leave the gate for the fellow it was built for. "Trees talk. To an old man they menn rest and rhade, but every sinale tree in the woods shouts to a young fellow, 'You son cf a gun, you can't get up me!' "If they say that to you, you're yju:u. Climb! "These stunts I am suggesting to viu are undignified? You lawyers a,,.d busine?s men can't exactly see leaping up steps and jumping fences and climbing trees. Well, Theodore Roosevelt managed to be President of of the United States and to plant himself firmly in history, and to do all of these things because he knew lonLp pthey we erwo r th more inZ they were worth more than this thing we call 'dignity.' That the accelera tor of age. Why, you can sit down every birthday, beginning at twenty, and add to your 'dignity' reserve by figuring out how much you ought to add with each extra year, and you'll be a fiatfooted old man at thirty. How ought you to act at thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. Exactly as you feel you want to act. Life was meant to be a sport. Don't take yours-lf seriously or you'll spoil the game." Didn't Think That Much of It. An Englishman, newly arrived in this country, was taken home to dinner one night by a friend. There was corn on the table and the host, knowing that most Englishmen are not very familiar with this vege table, asked if he liked it. "Oh, yes," replied the visitor, ap parently not wishing to appear dis courteous, "I like it." But when the platter of Golden Bantam was passed he did not take any. "Why," said the host, "I thought you said you liked corn." "I do like it," explained the Eng lishman, "but I don't like it well enough to eat it," Defined. Professor (in an engineering class) "What's a dry dock?" .Student "A physician who won't give out prescriptions." Dry Goods Economist. Average life of a ton dollar bill is ten months.. Then they must all be! made in October. I When Fire Was Worst American Destroyer Swamped by Vic tims Begging to be Saved GREAT CROWDS HELD OFF AT POINT OF BAYONETS American Flag Like a Beacon of Hope Hundreds Claimed to Have Been in United States, But Could Give No Satisfactory Proof Big H?art ed Blue Jackets Overcome With Emotions and Gave up Own Bed Rolls, Clothing and Rations Smyr na Vast Sepulchre of Ashes Cn'.cn tou:.ty boys who went to ; France ar.J w.cr.essed the vast de I structum ia the late world war can i better than anybody else picture in their mir.ds the awful devastation now j g.in or. in Smyrna, where the j Americans are looked upon as angels i of mercy, and mothers of those boys can sympathize with the victims of this terrible catastrophe as no others can. Heie is tho horrible story as told by disi alchis from that far away land: Smyrna, Sept. IT. Smyrna no longer exi;-;.-.. The fire, which has been raging f'r three days with un abated fur;., has swept the city and is extending to the suburbs. Only blackened r.iasonary and a small vestige of the Turkish quarter re main. All the patients crowded in hospi tals, numbering not less than a thou sand, have been burned to death. All relief supplies sent from Con stantinople by the American rtlief organisations were destroyed by the fire. Major Claftin Davis, of the American Red Cross, and H. C. Januith, of the near east relief, rre bending all their efforts to evacuate tha Christians as the only means of savin them, but are handicapped by kick oi vessels. Band of Turks are heartlessly kill ing the helpless Christians and the whole city is in the throes of terror. Rescue work among the ruins is pro ceeding slowly, the Kemalists leaving the tire victims to their fate. The catastronhe is so vast that only the cjliect.ve efforts of the allied nutior.s can cope with it. When the fire was at its worst the American destroyers Lawrence and Litchfijld were almost swamped by thousands of maddened survivors who plunged into the water in the darkness of night and swam out to the vessels, imploring viteously to be saved. The American blue jackets rescued hun dreds from drowning. The American sailors ashore were obliged to hold off great crowds at the po'nt of bayonets in order to keep them from the frail destroyers. The flag was ho sted on the quay and the blue jackets went among the panic stricken people, picking eut those with American citizenship pap ers. The American flag was like a beacon of hope, hundreds that could speak only a few words of English claimed to have been in the United States but could show no satisfactory proof. Others said th;y had rela tives in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other American cities. The Americans, however, were forced to turn a deaf ear to these appeals. The big hearted blue jackets were overcome with emotions at the dis tressing scenes and did their best to comfort the terrorized women and children, even giving up their own bed rolls, clothing and rations. Commander Merrill, of New York, aide to Rear Admiral Bristol, is hail ed a fa hero, men, women and chil dren falling their knees and kissing his garment3 as he passed through the refugee concentration areas. A Sepulchre of Ashes Smyrna, Sept. 18. Smyrna, which the Turks have called the eye of Asia, is the vast sepulchre of ashes. Only the shattered walls of 25,000 hemes and the charred bodies of countless vict m.3 remain to tell the story of death and destruction un exampled in modern history. The ruins are still smouldering like a volcano which has spent its fury. No effort has been made by the Turks to remove the dead ana dying. The streets are full of the bodies of those who sought to es cape, fvr the most part women and children. Every build:ng in the Armenian quarter has been burnt, with the dead lying about The bay, which covers an area of 60 acres, still carries on its surface the poor rem nants of those who were massacred or- sought to escape the ruthlessness of the fire One water front holds thousands of survivors who fear death at the hands of soldiery; there are no boats to take them off. One ship captain declined to take any of the wretched sufferers, but in contrast to his indifference Cap tain Walters, of the American steam er Winona, rescued 1,800 and took them to Biraeus. American sailors of the destroyer Litchfield snatched 450 orphaned boys from the pier and carried them safely to Constanti nople. The Jack Tirs slept on the iron decks or under torpedo tubes while the youngsters occupied their bunks. In all the acts of gallantry by the Americans at Smyrna there was nono more inspiring than this. Allied Preparations The latest edvices from Constan (Continued on page eight.) . t 4
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