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311je J&ntthficlQ Jfcralb £ ESTABLISHED 1882 Pufalkhed Every Tuesday and Fri day By Beaty & Lassiter Printing Cou !111H Court House Alley, SmHhfield. N. C. J. Mi Beaty Estate, T. J. Lassiter nd Ectpte, and W. M. Gaskin, Props. kA.TKS OF' SUBSCRIPTION: 5 (t;ash in Advance Only) One Year.$2.00 Six' Months.1.00 Thibet Months. 50 •If Foii'lgn Advertising Representative AMT$RICAN PRESS ASSOC! ION —— SDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1925 The city of Asheboro is till suf fetitib from drought. The water sho^tjage in that city has been So ncuM that \t is necessary to op erate) a special train of 15 tank carijfrom High Point carying a lOOjCBO gallons of water daily for Ashifboro’s relief. No doubt Secre tur|-1 liarron would not begrudge bhej iain here of the last few days if 81 had fallen in Asheboro. Midway at the fair grounds would prenably present a drier aspect. w> wreck happened at the grade crossing at the station here Sat urday in spite of the fact that a gliard had been placed at this dniu$erous point. Smithfield kept working until a guard was placed heijet but now it apparently seems not? jto be entirely effective. Wo understand tjj|e hours of the watch maji; are fr<i£i seven in the morn ing Jintil six in the afternoon and the accident is said to have oc curj'Kl just a few minutes after six! pfter the watchman had gono off duty. Six o’clock seems a little ear)i to leave this crossing un guarded. Six o’clock in the summer is tHe popular hour for motoring, nind jif the railroad really wishes vert danger, the crossing d not be left at thi§' hour, ijfast train going South which jthe automobile Saturday, is du« .to pass here at 5:54 o’clock, andpier reason for keeping a man on ffftSy, certainly until this train passes'. "The' train does not) stop here, and naturally passes through the town at a greater rate of speed than if it had to slow down for sti lift*. Hhe importance of really safe-guarding traffic at this cross ingf^hould be called to the atten tion? of the railway officiaRTY £_; - .£ *■ crying need hbti rER HOMES A At the forty-second international convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and Canada which was Iheld in Washington last) week, Prseident Coalidge in an address called upon American parents to' a firmer hand in controlling children in the home. His take] ).he warding and his suggestions were timay Almost everywhere today thbrfc is complaint about the dis obedience of children ahd their gen eral disregard for home and pa rental authority. Perhaps there is no ieed to look on the dark side of tjie picture, but it must be ad mitted that some steps should be takan to teach children good mor als and to respect other people, their rights and property. Almost everywhere there is a cry of alarm at t^e so-called crime wave that ap. pears to be sweeping over the c^itry. Possibly the best way to r^jnedy this evil is by properly tailing children in the home. This is an age when everybody is busy rin a.hurry, and too little time i^tMiven "to the training of the cit i«|jfs of ttomorow. In his speech the president said, “The home is tW> cornerstone of the nation, and aHy effective better home move rOept must begin with the training of jthe youth, for those responsi bilities, or we shall see the dis position to attempt in some way tlj. turn over to the government the ijpponsibilities for the rearing of <*0dren constantly increased.” president Coolidgo has at least one Methodist preacher backing tyti* up in his idea of parental au tih<k-ity. Rev. A. J. Parker used this the theme of his Sunday morn ipi sermon coming at the close of observance of Children’s Week 0:, iis chuEch. imi ^Teedter: Johnny, give me a sen tence using the word “diadem.” Bright Pupil: People who drink moonshine liquor diadem sight quicker’n people who don t tx. The Steady Subscriber How dear to our heart' is the steady subscriber, Who pays in advance of the birth of each year, Who lays down * the monay and does it quite gladly, And casts round the Office a halo of cheer. He never says, “Stop it; I cannot afford it, I’m getttng more magazines now than I read;” r But always says, “Send ^it: our peoflle all likg, itp In fact, we all think it a help and a need.” How welcome his check when it reaches our sanctum; How it makes our pulse throb; how it makes our heart dance! We outwardly thank him; we in wardly bless him— , . , The steady subscriber who parys-in advance. (These verses were included* in the report of Mrs. Bissell, of Con neticut, to the National Society Daughters of the American Invo lution, on the D.^A. R. magazine,) (Continued from page one) BAPTISTS HEAR the world today is a condition that calls loudly for backbone of the stiffest type. Over State and nation and the entire world- ungodliness and lawlessness and* immorality are sweeping- }n .p tidal wave that' alarms all who have'eyes to see and hearts to feel. Seldom does a judge deliver a charge to a grand jury, without dwqjlijpi on tic crime wave and the drift toward lawless ness and utter ungodliness.. And it has become the habit of judges and statesmen, and leaders in the world of business, and editors of secular papers to preach earnest ly the necessity of vital religion as the only way to escape world dis aster. . i ( Some analysts of the situation may offer a due t6 its solution. Three main symptoms of a deep segteA <U*ase may- be named: 1. Lawlessness. Our nation jfy far leads all the rest of thif woHJ in the number of murders and horn, icides, and in the general disregard of law. Our local courts illustrate. Every term of our court has a miwitpd docket. Men in vast nunf bers seem to have lost respect for law. Respectable citizens trample on any law in their path without any sense of wrong. A pleasing, intelligent, prisoner in ear jaiL -ar gued with me that, he did .nothing wrong in selling liquor; it was good liquor he sold, and he sold it to . people who were able, to buy. As ! if- ourtlaws and our 'Constitution were nothing to him! In another city I sat at the table of a promi nent physician and business -man' with him and his boy of 12 or 14 years. In his presence the father said: “My boy is (not old enough to drive a car according to law, but. I told him to drive mine. The chief of police warned me that he would indict me, if he did. He kept driv ing and I had to pay a fine. Then I told the officer, ‘That is all right; you have to enforce the law, but you don’t have to see everything; if my boy comes driving down the street, you can be looking an other way. My boy is a good driv er, and he is going to continue driving my car!’” There was a prominent citizen teaching his boy to trample on the law,- and also trying to corrupt the officer, sworn to enforce the law. I did not won der when I read in the daily press sometime ago that the State Board of Medical Examiners revoked the license of that physician to prac tice medicine for illegally selling narcotics. It is a marvel, ahd it is alarming, how little conscience the i average man has today about obedience to law. 2. Divorce. Again, we lead the world by far in the number of di vorces granted. We now grant a divorce to every eight or nine 1 couples married. And the "number jis increasing. It seems a trifle to day to marry, and then to sepa rate and ask for a divorce, if all ^is not pleasant. Divorce has be come a commonplace of the movies and the vicious literature of the day. It means that regard for the marriage contract is waning, and that' the home- is'•breaking down under the frivolous ide&ls '61 the day. If the home goes, all is gone, and civilization goes down in ruin. S.Immorility. It is sickening to read the shameless display of im morality i'n the daily press and the filthy literature of the day, to see it on the movie films,, or to hear it in the court room. It flaunts itself before the public eye on the streets and the highways. The daily papers tell of protests lodged by respectable citizens against turn ing certain rural districts into vice resorts frequented by car loads of immoral people. Adultery and the breaking up of homes is a comon place of the movies and the news papers and the court room for al most every community. Just the other day a reputable citizen told me that to his certain knowledge there is a place in our town on a highway where, as openly as they buy gasoline, men buy openly and unrebuked devices to conceal the effects of ^their prostitution of women. The tragedy lies mainly, not in the fact that these things occur, but that the moral sense of the community has become so ' deadened that the public cares so little about it all, and that such ^difference gives indecency a status, making the vilest evils ap pear respectable. Wherever such conditions are al lowed to continue long, a lament able result is sure bo follow. The moral standards of the community are lowered. We become blunted in our moral perception. We cease to be shocked. In the open and be fore our tiles people will dare to fiafrht, fhei? wickedness ami indec ency, 'Vndwbfg that we have be come so accustomed to it—in the newspapers and the movies, in the court room and on the highways— that we will not be shocked by it. It can dare "To invade the churches—known graft and greed, profanity and drunkedness, impur. ity and adultery—And evetn the church members of the better sort are not greatly arouseel by it. We have become morally blunted by familiarity with it all. It has be come an old tale; it stirs in us no^nev^ Sensation; it excites in us nb pfrotx4t. As God’s prophet I would arouse you by declaring that our own community is in much the condition described. Our churches have become deadened In their moral sensibility. The world look ing on reproaches us for harbor ing within the fold of our churches grafters and swearers, libertines and adulterers, and the Bride of Christ has to hang its head in shame. Bub /[.he average church member is not greatly concerned about it all. He cannot understand what it is all about, when some with enough moral sense to feel a righteous hatred of evil and in decency lift their voices in pro test, saying it is not proper for bhe church to parade, the profane or immoral in choir or in official po sitions. The moral standards have become so low, the moral judg ment so blunted, that some cannot see the point in the protest. “Why not?” they say; “Jesus was the friend of signers; he ate with pub licans and sinners; if these are bad, lift them up. give them an office, put them in the choir, place them on a pedestal!” What maud A nnouncement— WE HAVE OPENED THE NEW CENTRAL CAFE in the building formerly occupied by the old Busy Bee Cafopn cornet' Main and Third Street, oppos ite Hood Brothers Drug Store. CoAie to see us. Call for what you want. We have it and serve it in lirst class style. Make our place your home while in Smithfield. SPECIAL DINNER EVERY DAY f 9 r-- ■ --- Special Chicken Dinner Every Sunday Operated by PETE LEVENT1S & FRANK SCHACHNER --- f . _ I jlin sentiment! What ungodly rot! Why cannot people see a distinc tion between loving the sinner and hating his sin? Christ lifts up the sinner, but only through sorrow for sin and through sincere repent ance. To pat the sinner on the (back and to exalt him to a place among the elect is to damn him to the hell of the self-righteous. This course brings another la mentable result. It perverts the moral judgment of the young gen eration! Young people see that the citizen and the church member make no difference between evil and good. The good and the bad man stands equally high in the esteem of the community, even in the esteem of the church. The best people go to the court room and beg off the law breaker—beg to treat him as if he had done no wTong. The church people beg to let alone the worst evil-doers in its fold, if not even to exalt them to positions of prominence. The young generation looking on become mud dled in their moral judgment. “W'hat difference does it make,” they ask, ‘‘whether one is bad or good? Ail fare alike in the pop ular esteem.” It is to make wick edness and indecency respectable, and to tell the young generation they may sin with impunity. Like a trumpet blast the text should ring out on the ears of a comun ity so morally blunted, “O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil!” Two things are needed, the preacher said, as a remedy for such a condition. First, a new vision of God’s holiness and his hate of evil. Such a vision Isaiah had, when he saw Jehovah high and lifted up on his throne," and the seraphim above him crying, ‘‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the 'whole earth is full of his glory.” And instantly Isaiah was cut to 'the quick with a sense of his sin and the sin of the people, and he cried out, “Woe is me!” To see the holiness of God and his hate of evil, is to have the same hate kin dled in us. And that is the other thing need. , ed for our day—a God-like passion •to hate and to destroy evil. For :great revivals have always come, ■not by treating evil as good, but by showing men the awfulness of sin, and God’s demand for repent ance and cleansing. Such a hate is the first step toward saving a sin ner—a hate ■ that will not cover it up and ignore it, but that will [demand that it shall either be re jpented of and cleansed away, or else punished. i (From the Literary Digest of September 5 the Chicago New’s was quoted as condensing the entire Bible teaching* on the subject: “One of the basic principles of ! religion is that justice comes be ifore mercy. . . . The Old and New | Testaments alike teach that only I when there is genuine and com plete repentance does grace sus i pend the judgment. “The church should battle the maudling sentimentalism which is jturning criminals loose and put | ting a premium on wrong-doing. It 1 should rebuke those who forget the victim and sympathize only with the criminal. It should proclaim that he who violates nature’s laws pays; likewise he who breaks the moral code should be required to pay. It should proclaim unflinch ingly that law without penalty is Juseless, but with penalty it is i effective. Hie church can do this and still uphold with perfect con - Isistence its cherished doctrine of 100 Boys Can Have New Suits Without a Word From Father “What, another suit for Junior?” Yes, Dad—but don’t get excited—that’s what this advertisement is for—to calm you down. Good suits at $10.00 to $16.50—how do you like that? Suits with 2 trousers—some with a pair of long and a pair of short at $12 to $20. This boy’s department can stand the pun ishment of comparison on any count—espe cially if you are still old fashioned enough to be counting your dollars! N. B. GRANTHAM Head-to-Foot Outfitters for MEN AND BOYS Smithfield, North Carolina Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN’’ and INSIST! Colds Pain Toothache Neuritis Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism J Accept only "Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—-Druggists. iaplria la tbo trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mouoaceticacideater of Salleylicacid I mercy and forgiveness. When law breakers repent, then mercy and forgiveness may be exercised. But the burden of proof is upon them to show that the repentance is genuine. NOTICE OF SALE OF VALU ABLE FARM Under and by virtue of the pow ers and authorities conferred upon the undersigned Commissioner in a judgment of the Superior Court in the matter of D. T. Barnes, et als, I will offer at public auction for cash, on the premises on Thursday, November 19, 1925, at 11 o’ clock a. m., the lands known as the dower lands of the late Mrs. Nancy Barnes, described as follows: “200 acres of land on the North side of Middle creek and East side of Mill Branch, bounded as fol lows, beginning at a stake on the road, runs S. 110 W. 40 chains to a stake, thence W’est 10 chains to a sweet gum on Mill Branch, thence down said branch to Mid dle creek, thence down said creek to a beach, W. D. Wood’s corner, thence his line N. 46 E. 20.50 chains to a willow oak, Wood’s corner, thence N. 11.50 chains to a stake, thence N. 3 E. 15.50 chains to a stake on a small branch, thence up said branch to a I stake, Wood’s corner, thence S. 88 E. 10 chains to a stake, thence N. 20 E. 20.61 chains to a sweet gum, thence S. 75 E. 3.20 chains to a stake, thence N. 14 E. 17 chains to a stump, persimmon Wood’s cor ner, on the road, thence with the road and line of Godwin’s land to the beginning.” This is the old home place of Mrs. Nancy Barnes and sale is be ing made for division among heirs at-law and any bid received will be subject to confirmation of the court. This October 16, 1925. WINFIELD H. LYON, Commissioner. NOTICE Ip the District Court of the Unit ed States, for the Eastern District of North Carolina. At Raleigh N. C. THE FIDELITY & CASUALTY COMPANY, OF NEW YORK. Plaintiff, vs. Johnston County Board of Edu cation, at Griffin Manufacturing Company, Inc., L. P. Britt (trad ing as Goldsboro Plumbing and Heating Company; (trading as Hood Brick Company, Charlotte, N. C.); W. P. Rose Builders Supply Company, Inc., Borden Brick & Tile Company; T. R. Vick (trading as Vick Plumbing & Heating Com pany); II. A. Hinnant'; J. A. Gil christ; (Trading as Princeton Motor Company; W. W. Summers and W. L. Summers (trading as Sum mers Electrical Company); (Trading as Raines Hardware Company; and T. C. Wood, defend ants. In accordance with an order made in the above entitled matter by Hon. I. M.^ M'eekins, United States District Judge for the Eas tern District of North Carolina, appointing the undersigned as Special Master in Chancery to hear the above entitled case, notice is hereby given to all creditors, claimants and any other persons having interest in this cause that the same will be heard at' the court house in Smibhfield on Fri-1 day, November 6, 1925 at 10 o’ clock A. M. This 22nd day of October, 1926. JAMES D. PARKER, Special Master in Chancery New Telephone Directories New telephone diiectories have recently been printed and were dis tributed yesterday by Mr. E. H. Dixon, local manager of the Tel ephone Exchange. Many changes have been made since the other di rectories were made and the new ones will be gladly received by all telephone-users. %. ■ |({][g! YOU WILL MISS THE TREAT OF 1925 IF YOU MISS THE JOHNSTON COUNTY Negro Fair! -THREE BIG DAYS AND NIGHT Novelty Mule Race Wednesday — Great Singing Contest Wed. -EXCITING HIGH SCHOOL FOOT RACES GREAT HOME-COMING REUNION WEDNESDAY—FREE LUNCH SERVED TO ALL. Beautiful Baby Parade — Good Music — Good Speaking THE PARENTOS—Sensational Novelty Acrobatic and Contor tion High Ladder and Table Act—the only free act of its kind in the world. s COMPLETE AND GORGEOUS MIDWAY BY THE FAMOUS _BRUCE GREATER SHOWS. Daring Flying Trapeze Free Act. Difficult and Dangerous Feats in Mid-air. Big display of Agricultural, Educational, Industrial, Poultry and Live stock Exhibits. Big purses in prizes and pre miums paid Friday at 3:30. I We want you to come to the BEST FAIR in Eastern Carolina AT SMITHFIELD, NOVEMBER 4, 5, 6. $995 - f.o.b. factory X Sedan $995 f. o. b. factory AJAX SIX NASHrBUILT ^ < Touring $865 > t. o. b. factory }■' The Ajax Six is an entirely new conception of fine-car development I in the moderate-price field, origi nated and designed by C. W. Nash. 7-Bearing Crankshaft Force-Feed Lubrication— To all main bearings, connecting rod bearings and camshaft bearings Four-Wheel Drakes Full Balloon Tires Five Disc Wheels NASH MOTOR SALES COMPANY Nash and Ajax Representatives Davie & Blount Sts. Raleigh, N. C. PHONE 2440
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