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THE MONROE! JOUFVAL, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1923. p J ' T r - Uncle Phil Whitley Asks Rev. Reuben James Who Made God Rev. Reuben H. James, one of the beloved old preachers of the county, held a regular reception out on the court house square Wednesday morn' ing. He had not been in town for some, time, the day was pleasant, the iron seat rather comfortable, and many people passjng. Nearly" every one stopped to "howdy" with the old veteran, and he had a joll-v word for all. The conversation ran from scrm- ture to good roads and every one ex pressed some sentiment of friendship or asked some question. All the ques tions were answered with the quick flashes of wit that the old man is noted for that is, all questions but one were answered. -? That one was pronounded by. Mr, Philip Whitley, and though Mr. James did not answer it, Mr. Whitley ac knowledged that he had made about the best try at it that he had ever heard. And what do you suppose that auestion wasT Here it is as Mr. Whit ley propounded it: "Now, preacher," said Mr. Whitley, ''I am not meaning to be objectionable or to insult you, but I want to ax you one question. God made men and things and made the world, and everything, now who made God?" "I don't consider that a fair ques tion." said Mr. James, some what tak en back, "but I'll answer it the best I can." And after he got through with the explanation Mr. Whitley said that it had come neigher his own idea than anything he had heard, "You were in the Confederate army, weren't you-" .Mr. James was asked. "I was, he said, "and they mighty nigh perished me to death." And that was all that he would say about the old war and he never men tioned the world war. He lives in the present though an old man, and rec ognizes the fact that old men are prone to tnink that times past were the best times, so he does not say much about old times. Like Sam Jones Mr. James began preaching when he was twenty three or twenty four years old and kept at it steadily for fifty-three . years. He has been the regular pastor of forty-two churches and served one, Clear Creek in Meck lenburg, for sixteen years in succes sion. He is not a book man but thinks for himself, clearly and sharply. The writer heard years ago that the late Sheriff A. F. Stevens said that Reu ben James was the best preacher in the county. "This is the first year that! I have not been a pastor in more thail fifty years," said Mr. James, regretfully, 'But I had to quit. I can still go some but there's friction in the gear some where that I can't get out and I have slowed down. Maybe its a bad spark plug. - cut 1. can do like bam Jones did on his first circuit. When he and his wife moved to the parsonage there were no provisions and nobody brought any the first day or night. Next morning Sam got up early and went out and began splitting stove wood. He split lor an hour or so and had a big pile. Directly Mrs. Jones went out and said, 'Sam, what are you cutting wood for when there- is nothing in the house to cook,?' 'That's not my business.' said Sam. 'that's the Lord's business. I'm going , to cut the stove wood and expect him to pro vide the rashions.' And sure enough pretty soon a two horse wagon load of provisions drove up to the parson age from the flock." "I ain't doing much now but cutting the stove wood," "said Mr. James. , What the Human Heart Craves Asked what he thought about old times and present times. Mr. James said that while he knew it was the tendency of old men to think that their day was the best, he thought he could say that there does not ap pear to be so "much spirituality as there used to be. "So far as the church is concerned," he said, "there is more organization and more money raised, which I do not object to at all, but it does seem that there is not enough spirituality in proportion as there should be. do not object to organization, but 'what we need; is more personal christian contact. There are many fraternal organiza tions, and I do-not object to them, they are good, and they have sprung up because the human heart cries for fellowship. The mistake1 that, the church made was to make too wide a gap between the church and the world. Men outside the church felt that they lacked understanding, sym pathy and comradship and the church did not reach them. They needed fel lowship and the consequence was that they built up other organizations. Christ intended that his church would supply all the organization that we needed for fellowship, and it would had it been kept like he intended. But it got too far away from . the mass oi people." Mr. James' youngest daughter came up and. took hrm off to dinner. , . The Friend of the Fatherless Mr. James was very much enjoy ing the visit he was 'making to his daughter as well as seeing his old friends. But he regretted that he was not at home Wednesday because Miss Edwards, the field agent of the Thomasville Baptist Orphanage had gone to see him. Mr. James has been known for many years in his. work throughout this section as the friend of the fatherless. He never tired of making speeches in behalf of the or phanage work- It was close to his heart. And whein he arose before a church or an association to plead for supp'ort for the homeless children he was sure to bring tears, to the eyes of his hearers and contributions from their pockets. He never tired of tell ing how he himself was reared as an orphan and what the duty of the peo ple was towards the support of insti tutions caring for motherless and fatherless children. Many years ago he made a special trip to the Bap tist orphanage by invitation and found out just how the hundreds of little ones were cared for and that trip resulted in many dollars increase to the orphanage. The old Christian warrior is how nearing his 77th birthday, - which comes , in August. His wife, who is some older, is, he says, the best cook anywhere, and he is still able to keep her in stove wood and they are hap- py. AGED WOMAN RECOUNTS BOOTLEGGING TRAGEDY Her name was Mrs. J. W. Allen, of 390 Woodward avenue, and she was little, old and gray, says the Atlanta Journal. Her slight, well-bred figure, bent beneath the we.ght of three score years, was clad in gray, as if to match her hair. Her lip trembled and tears poured down her tinkled cheeks as she stood before' Jwigo T. 0. Hath- cock Tuesday motjng awl testified against her husbanilf . Monday afternoon she caused her husband, her companion of nearly thirty-seven years, to be arrested on a good behavior warrant, because, as she to!d the judge, he had been drunk tor seven weeks except tor a brief respite when he was .contmea m the city stockade for twelve days, Her story was grimmest tragedy. unrelieved, it was one of the most pitiful chronicles of human frailty and deathless devotion that has ever wound its way across the stodgy annals of the municipal court. Such a story as was frequent in a pre-pro-hibition ero; but has grown less fre quent in recent years. i . . Drank Sparingly Then She began at the beginning. 37 years ago, when in the glor- of the youthful devotion, they started life to gether, as husband and wife. She fal tered frequently and dabbed at her eyes with a bit of lace; it seemed as if every word was tearing at her very heart strings, "He was a good husband in those cays, judge," she said. "I never knew he drank at all until after we were married, and then he only touched it occasionally, he was never drunk. Sometimes, on Saturday nights, he would take a drink; and sometimes he would go for weeks without it. He could take it or leave it alone. "He was a good carpenterone of the best in the country, I guess," and she straightened for a minute with some of an old-time pride, "and be always made me a good living un til lately. "And new I don't know what I am to 'do. He has pawned every article in little home except the barest necessities- he has pawned all his carpen' ters tools and cannot work and all the money has gone for whiskey. f "It makes himcrazy. It looks as if he wants to work, to brace up, but the bootleggers won't let him. They are ruining this county. He has spent the last seven week3 at their houses almost altogether. " Pleads for Younz Men "I suppose it is too late to save my husband; but "you might save some oi these young men. If some thing doesn't stop the sale of whiskey they all will be in the gutter. "My husband is as good as there now, and ,1, who am innocent, must suiter. ... "Oh, I hate, the stuff, I hate it and always have. It looks like this wlh be more than I can bear. The only comfort I have is that I belong to God. I am trustih- him to take care of me." And then Judge Hancock turned to Mr. Allen, wk4 was sittinsr on the prisoners' bends, his head buried in his . hands. "Ten days in jail to sober up," said the judge, "and then I want to talk to you." As they led him from the court- "And what is the remedy?" he was' room his wife rushed up to him with asked. "Why, more social and fellowship work on the part of the church, more personal wotk and contact by church members. The hardest thing for a christian to do' is personal christian work and when one starts to do this the devil jumps astride of him and t "o stop him. Love and friendshin '. Jpfuiness and understanding j .e Deanng oi each other's ur t ' are what we, need. Every cnurch r i not only to have a social com- i,.iee but each church itself ought 10 De a committee or the whole. We need more Welcome, more friendship, more understanding and the bearing of each other's burdens are what we need. Every church ought not only to have a social committee but each church itself ought to be a commit tee of the whole. We need more wel come, more friendship more under standing. Why a wicked man doesn't Ike' to talk to a preacher, and yet if he could but unde and it the preacher is his best frieriu." And then the 'interview was ter r ' nt.'l 1'or Mr. Sherman Pigg, who ' i IJr. James' oldest daughter, ; 1 i-r and said, "You've got r re I tra ' i grandson down ' ; , j i r t c e to see him." " - -, -" - - ' v ' o i . ! tears in her eyes and pleaded with him again to brace up. He asked her for the loan of fifty cents and she. reaching into a shabby purse, gave it to urn. Ana that was all. . NOTICE. North Carolina, Union. County In the Superior Court. , James Watts, Plaintiff, , vs, Corne- ua watts, defendant. . ' A To Cornelia Watts, defendant: Take Notice: You are hereby no tified that an action entitled as above has been commenced by James Watts in the Superior court of Union coun ty, N. d, to declare the bonds of mat rimony existing between the plaintiff ana defendant dissolved a vinculo, on the grounds of adultery, as set forth in the complaint, and you are hereby notified and required to appear at the office of R. W. Lemmond, Clerk of the Superior Court of Union County on Monday, the 25th day of June, 1923, and answer the complaint which has this day been filed in said offico, or a judgment will , be taken at the next term of Superior court of Union county for the relief daman-! i in the said complaint, as by law provided.' This the 22nd dy of ' l: ;3. R. W. LL.r c, , c. S. C. John C. .kes. Atfy f ir I ::. GOOD ROADS HAVE THROWN GATES OF THE WORLD OPEN TO WOMEN (Continued from page one) ties. This condition is responsible for the saying that it takes two women to raise one farmer's family; and the all too familiar fact that in the in sane asylum at Raleigh an alarming per cent of the inmates are farm women, may be traced to the same source. They are there because of the deadly, monotonous grind of work unrelieved by recreation. I once heard this story. A farmer's wife lost her miiid and was carried to the asylum very much to the astonishment and Chagrin of her husband. "Why," said he, 'I dunno how in the world Liza lost her mind, fer she ain't been off the place in night fifteen years!" Ac cording to his theory she certainly had not been anywhere to lobe it, but she had nevertheless mislaid it, and he, poor man, was in rather a sad fix with a home, farm and family on his hands and no Liza to help look after them. Another thin? that' doubtless would be potent factor in driving these poor women mad would be the hope lessness of the- situation for their children. I heard a man say this the other day: "I was raised within thir teen miles of Monroe, but until I was twenty-one years old I had never been there but a few times. It was too much of a journey in those days to be taken often. I shall never forget the loneliness of my childhood on the farm! That, together with the primi tive farming methods we used then, made me vow that when I reached twenty-one I would leave the farm forever and I did! ' . Naturally the restlessness of chil dren under such conditions, and the limited ODDortunities for their educa tion and development are enough to break the endurance of any mother heart. There is no way to evade the laws of nature. God gave us inquir ing minds, and He made us social creatures who demand association with our fellows, and when .we break these laws the price must be paid, And what a fearful price it sometimes IS! " -. --:.vV With good roads and automobiles came the farm women's release. They opened the gates of the world to these women, and freed their minds and bodies so that they might live life fully, and see their children come into the:r own. When a woman knows there is a car under the shelter, and a good road that will get- her 'to town in no time for an afternoon of neces sary shopping, or a good sermon on Sunday or perhaps a ride after sup per to cool off after a long summer's day of work, there is a magnetism in the knowledge that charges her body with a new energy, her mind is filled with optimism, and her home is no longer a prison house of drudg ery, but a home which she loves and delights to work for. Her children are no longer pitiful little waifs whom she has brought into the world to trn through life longing for and beingl denied the things which satisfy the soul; they are healthy, bright-eyed little chaps who wait each v winter morning for the school truck' which they know will take' them to just as good an education as their town brothers can get, and fit them to stand shoulder to shoulder with these town children in life's later scrim mages. Then, touching the eternal feminine, which, the men are privileg ed to laugh at if they can see the hu mor through the pathos of it, the chil dren can dress as well as the town children, for mother ban run into town often and keep m sight of what other people are wearing. And even the small additional cost will melt away like mist in the warmth of satisfac. tion that comes from the knowledge oi naving just as good a cnance in the world in every way as the other fellow. ' .. .. - '....; ' And speaking of cost; what is the value of a happy home, a contented healthy-minded wife and . mother, children who love the farm-home, and are proud of it, .and willing to stay by it when they grow up, not to men tion the peace of mind that such a condition brings not only tothe in dividual, but to county, state , and nation? -Does it sound as if a few dollars more of road tax would be a high price to pay for all this? "I do not believe that any one will deny the fact, after thinking it over care fully, that good roads will do more to bring about such an ideal situation than any other material factor of civilization. If good roads tax is a burden then so 'is the rest of civili zation. If we should return to the cave man style of living, we might be able to hoard up a few more dollars. But who wants to do that? Learned economist pointed .out to us years ago that economy is not hoarding dollars, but wise spending. It seems logical that a little judicious spending, for good roads now will be the best in vestment the farmers of Union coun ty, and all other citizens, could make. In view of all this is it necessary to urge the women of Union to go to the polls on the 9th of 'June and rote for the good roads bonds ? The women can carry r-r defeat the issue, and I have faith in them to believe that they can be depended upon to yovt for the interest of their homes and children, and that they will see io it that the bond issue carries i so" that henceforth we Union county - people may enjoy every American's birth-pgrt--lifc, liberty; and the pursuit of happiness. - - . , MEMORIAL SERVICES AT ZION AND MILL GROVE Rev. 'J. W. Stridor, t.ha nounces that there will ha hnm coming and memorial service at Zion Methodist church next Sunday, mak ing an all day service. Everybody is invited to come, bring dinner, and have a good time.. At eleven o'clock there will be services bv the TiaKtnr nA Prnf Hon. ry Baucom. After dinner there wi.1 De an aaaness cy Mr. w. is. Love and short talks by others. Memorial ifrvice at Mill t.rnvp will be held Sunday at. four o'clock in the afternoon. - ' Service at Unionville at eight in the evening. - .- N Harried women should rorvx--1 r. that.: mzz?3 doesn't r-! 9 tVe i ' NOTICE OF SALE By virtue of the p6wer of sale con tained in a deed of trust executed by W. H. Alsobrooks and wife, Ristie Alsobrooks, on Dec. 19th, .1921, duly recorded in the office Register of Deeds for Union county, North Car olina, in Book A-i, page 443, default having been made in the payment of the obligations therein secured, the undersigned trustee will sell at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the courthouse door in Mon roe, N. C, at 12 o'clock noon, on . . Saturday, May 26th, 1923, the following .described real estate in Union county, N. C, more particular ly described as follows: , First Tract: All that tract of land in Monroe township adjoining', the lands of Ed Crow, S. A-Rogers, D. H. Benton and others, and more par ticularly described as follows:- Be ginning at a pile of stones and dog wood stump by a pine, and two dog woods, H. M. Houston and the divis ion corner, and runs thence with the division line N. 29 8-4 E. 125 1-4 poles crossing a branch at 92 poles to a stone in a field on Benton's line: thence' with his line N. 58 1-4 W. 97 poles crossing said, branch at 15 poles to a stone by a small b. j. and t. o.. H. M. Houston's corner; thence with three of his lines S. 43 1-2 W. 70.60 poles to a p. o., S. 26 1-2 E. 112.3-4 poles to an oak stump and pile of stones, S. 67 3-4 E. 20.40 poles to the begin ning, containing 70 acres, more or less, and being the same land convey ed by S. A. Williams to W, H. Also brooks by deed duly registered in of-, fice of Register of Deeds of Union county, N. C, in Book 34, page 518. Second Tract: All those two cer tain tracts of land in Vance town ship, Union county, North Carolina, on the waters of Crooked Creek, ad joining the lands of aSarah Wentz and Zeb Wentz, and more particularly described by metes and bounds in a deed executed by D. M. Stallings and wife to W. H. Alsobrooks on Dec. 26, 1919, and recored in the office of the Register of Deeds of Union county in book 57, page 48, excepting, how ever, 80 1-2 acres of said land this day conveyed to H. H. Creft by said W. H. Alsobrooks and wife, Ristie Al sobrooks, by deed recorded in office of Register of Deeds for Union coun ty in book.., , page to which reference is. hereby made for a more particular description, x . Sold to satisfy provisions of said deed of trust. -. . This April 24th, 1923. W, S. BLAKENEY. Trustee. a . a B B B ' ' .. ,1 , NOTICE TO CREDITORS . Having qualified as administratrix of the estate of Arthur S. Helms, de ceased, late of Union county, North Carolina, this is to notify all. persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Monroe, N. C., on or before the 10th day. of April, 1924, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All . persons in debted to sa id estate will please make immediate payment. v This 10th day of April, 1923. MRS. GEORGIA HELMS, Administratrix of Arthur S. Helms. deceased. John C. Sikes, Attorney. . i if A iy Sill A GOOD INVESTMENT AND A CON STRUCTIVE FORCE .. Swing in line with progress and good business and join the Building and Loan. . .' Thirty-Second Series of the People's Building and Loan Association open Saturday, May 5th. - ' A great agency in the, upbuilding of Monroe that has never lost a penny in its twelve years of operation. , Over 2,500 Shares now in force with $3,500 6 undi vided profits to-be distributed to its stockholders. Endorsed by all the banks of Monroe and by the State Department of Insurance. You are cordially invited to take some shares as a good sound interest paying7 investment -arid your money will be. loaned to build houses in Monroe. Book's open at Lathan & Haigler's Store. PEOPLES BUILDING AND LOAN . ASSOCIATION S. E HAIGLER, Secretary and Treasurer. - Directors W. B. Brown, President; W. A. Lane, R. H. Har- "gett, R. W. Lemmond, C. D. Roberts, W. 7 . Faulkner, H. Bowles. . Gaao A REPLY by the Standard Oil Company (N. J.) in the May issue of its magazine, "The Lamp' to the findings and charges of the sulvcommittee of the U. S. Senate ap . pointed to investigate conditions in the petro-v leum industry a reply in which the true V position of this company, its policies and actions, are frankly set forth. . , . . t - , v . . . ... ik-i, . . v- . ; -:: v ,"v r"" - - Also in this number, aVi article by Dr. Warren ; : K., Leuis, .head of the Department of Chem , ical Engineers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the possibilities of "dollar gasoline"; cn analysis dt the ra&rcmmittee's use of figures by It L. Welch, Secretary of the American Petroleum Institute; a resume of the current crude cil ciruntiocj arid letters ; . and newspaper comment, inspired by 1 ' the report. ' S A copy of the malarias nabe obtained free cf cLrs from ths Stsnd-rd OU (N. J.) . cctn:arc:t'ca,Crbyrc7-crt tdireed to -TL3 Lcrrp, 25 Ere- J.vay, I Jew Ycik City. ' . ' . ' ' ' . ( ' v' STANDARD OIL COMPANY n t; ti v, u ti n 'u M U ' o a a a u
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