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®I}i> Seralh « 48th Year of Publication Established 1882 Published Tuesday and l''ririay morning at 11 Hi Court House Alley. Entered at Post Office in Smtihfield a , second class matter. MRS. T J. LASSITER. Editor - VV. M. OASK1N, Business Mgr. T. J. La.Sslter Estate. Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, W. M. Claskin, Owners. TELEPHONE 10—ALI. DEPARTMENTS SUBSCRIPTION PRICES: (By mail, all subscriptions strictly payable in advance! 1 Year.-.$2.00 3 Months.30c 9 Months.... 1.50 1 Month .25c 6 Months.-. 1.00 Single copy . Oe (Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request! NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Look a! the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when tiic subscription expires, forward your money in ample time for renewals. Notice date on label carefully, and if not correct, please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address on their pwper changed, please state in their communi cation botli the OLD and NEW address. MEMBER OE’ NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AND NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION . / i HOW LIVE-AT-HOME WITHOUT A HOME?— i TVE-AT-HOME has become a familiar phase during re cent weeks. The governor’s slogan is being preached and practiced all over North Carolina. ’Hie term means | just what it says, but Johnston County’s welfare superintend l ent has read more into it than simply taking care of one's own j by raising plenty of food and feed stuffs. She is advocating an ,, other phase of live-at-home. This week. Mrs. Thurston visited \ the “Baby Haven.” as she calls it. which is no more nor less than the home of Mrs. E. F. Crump, who takes care of homeless jf children who come under the care of the welfare officer. Listen ^ to Mrs. Thurston’s appeal after this visit: “We are hearing so much of the ‘live-at-home’ crusade. J and we know the truth of the injunction, but how can those t live at home who have no homes? \ “Before me comes a scene of the afternoon. 1 had gone with a field secretary from Thomasville Orphanage to Baby U;T Haven to look over the little folks. From the bed came a complaint from Billy Kinston—eight weeks old Billy from H Lenoir, who never says anything unless his feeding bottle ■©* sltps from his reach—then he puts on a real Kinston cam j/f paign. Billy quelled—attention was drawn to Jimmie New *■' Bern, a bright little tot from Craven County, who proudly .H ’ gave a demonstration; he has just learned to walk. And • * Joseph—aquatic Joseph—came shuffling in with feet as wet as water could make them—(one would think that his ^ native land had been the sea from his habits) though he is f really from Clay toil. Joseph attended to. six other boys from % 20 months to 13 years, and a bright little fourteen yeur old ~~ girl were inspected and interviewed by the. field worker, while blue-eyed Mystery <from we know not where) did some inspecting herself. "While several o'f these children are from other counties, sevfii boys and the 14 year old girl are from Johnston, and ^ would like to join the live-at-home’ crowd if they only had homes. They arc bright, fine children with the same yearn ing for home and mother that other children have. Their mothers are dead and the Orphanages are overflowing. ^ The field secretary held out little hope of taking any of them—not more than one or two at the most. It is probable that, every one of them will make a good citizen if placed in a real Christian home. The great redeeming feature for Johnston County is its love for children, and the Welfare Officer is hoping that the right kind of homes will open to these little ones. Those who are interested in them can see them by calling at the Welfare office.” RESPONSIBILITY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT— In a recent editorial In the Concord Times, the theme of which was better citizens and fewer crimes, it Is suggested that local communities need not look to Congress or to Mr. Hoover to solve law enforcement- problems. The writer states that un der our s ystem of government, we have no right to expect the federal authorities to do our public work, and that if we accept our own responsibility, crime will quickly diminish. This shouldering of responsibility is what many, otherwise good citizens, shrink from. From time to time there comes to our ears rumors and even more than rumors of conditions in sections not a thousand miles away, condition's that could be remedied tf men and women would accept, their responsibility. We are in hearty agreement with the Concord Times' editorial which concludes as follows: "Honest neighbors and friends in any community can get rid of lawlessness, to a large extent, by banding together and insisting upon action. Let only ten per cent of the de cent people of any community organize and without delay the criminals can be routed. Let a small group of honest men in any industry get together and no gangster can FI organize his racket." GIVING. The little boy’s stocking will soon be hanging beside the fire place. Soon he will be tumbling out of bed to empty it gleefully of its treasure®. And his father and mother, standing smiling iear Gy, will know the literal fulfill ment of the old assertion that wIt is better to give than to re ceive.” The blessedness of giving is not § ffr-oGf promise but i^medwle aim real in its fruits. Whoever ffives wholeheartedly gains in return the satisfation of dbeying a generous impulse and the joy of sharing in amother’s happiness. And if ever that “good measure, pressed down, and shaken togeth er, and running over/' is render t\j to those who give, it is at (Christmastime. For then most giving is to children, and they aJbove all others, have the power iof imparting their gladness tu ! ethers. j lit is in many ways appropriate that the anniversary of Him who •was bom in the stable at BctVe Jiem should be an occasion for giving. No other ever revealed po 'can do tiow is pray that he can g< t ! giving. 'No other gave so aljuud j-anlly as He, Hut most appropriate 'of all is -the fact that His nat») day should be one when the world turns 'it* thoughts to children For He who said of them that “of (.such is the kingdom of heaven' Isa id also: i “And (whosoever shall give re# drink unto one of these little ! ernes a cup on cold tv a ter only . . verily I say unto you, 'hr shall ir no ■wise lose his reward.**—■Coun try 'Gen Hitman. ! The Way I of Life | By BRUCE BARTON j HONEST T IN BUSINESS 1 graduated from college when muckraking was in its greatest |glory. The magazines and newspapers and reformers had filled our youthful minds with so much distressing information that we hardly knew whether the world was a sate place for us to step i out Into or not. | We looked askance on all the (fellows in college whose fathers [had made money. To be sure, the 'fathers seemed decent, enough old 'codgers when they visited us at the fraternity house. But we felt that something was dark and bad in their past somewhere. A business man was a being without conscience or intelligence, like a slot-machine. Vou gave him a nieklc and he gave you a niekle’s worth of goods. If he took your niekie and withheld the goods, then he was a successful business man. We know better now. In fact! I believe it could be shown that »he greatest force for righteous ness in the United States today Is nothing more nor less than the! once maligned business. Business is the greatest ally and promoter of Honesty. And more and move I have come to] feel that Honesty is. after all. the corner-stone of all the vir* j lues. Nothing has impressed me more than this: Get. In the top of a big business enterprise, and nine times out. of ten you will find an idealist. You will find n man who has long since ceased to be interested in mere money-making who is staying in business because of what he wants ills business to, do for his employees, his com munity and his country. 1 do not say that Business is perfect. Far from it But f do say that the time is past when t lie young man who goes into business needs to feel that he is making a selfish choice —a choice that cuts him off from service to his fellow men. "Be not slothful in business.” said Si. Paul, "fervent In spirit; serving the Lard.” Many a man. building a big business in America, has, as a by-product of his building, strengthened the character and lifted (lie ideals of hundreds of his associates, and helped tn the regeneration of a whole com munity. And the number of such men i —the idealists of BUSINESS in America—is increasing very fast. ! THE DYING DRUMMER BOY. I Two or three times, in my -life God in His mercy touched my heart, ajwl tw ice before tiny conver sion l was under deep conviction. During the American, war 1 was surgeon in live United States' Army, and after the battle v»f Gettysburg there were many hun dred wounded soldiers in my hos pital, among whom were 23 who had been wounded so severely tha Whey required my services at once-wme whose legs had to be amputated, some lost an arm, and others both an arm and a leg. One of the latter was a hoy who had been hurt three months hv the service, and being too young for a soldier had enlisted as a drum mer. When my assistant surgeon and a steward wished to admjms ter chloroform previous to the am putation, he turned his head aside and positively refused to taike it. I When the steward told him that, it was the dotor’s orders, he said, ‘Send the doctor to me. When I came to his bedside 1 raid, “Young man, iwby do you refuse chloroform ? When I found you on the Ixattlef ield you were so far gone til tat 1 thought it hard ly -worth while to pick you up; but when you opened those large blue eyes I thought you had a mother somewhere who might at that moment be thinking of her boy. I did not want you to die on the field, so ordered you to b< brought here; but you have irov lost so much 'blood that you aix too weak to endure an o^eratioi without chloroform, therefore yo\ | had better let me give you some/’ I He laid hi* hand on mine, and | looking me in the fate, said, “Doc j lor, one Sunday afternoon, in the •Sabbath school, •"'lien 1 was nine | in i a half years old, I gave my ; heart to thrift. I learned to trust Him then; l have been trusting J Him ever since, and 1 know I jran trust Him now. He is my i length; He will ’support me i while you amputate my arm and I then asked him if he would j allow me to give him a little ’Tandy. Again he looked me in the face, saying, “Doctor, when 1 was about, five years old my mother knelt by my side, with her arm j around my wck, and »aid Char lie, I am now praying to Jesus that you may never know t)i€ taste of alf-otig drink. Your papa died a drunkard and went dowr to a drunkard’s grave, and 1 promised God. if it was His will that you should grow up, that you would warn young men against the hitter cup. I am seventeen years old, 'but I have never tasted any thing stronger than tea or coffee; and as I am in all probability about to go Into the presence of God, would you send me there •with brandy In my stomach?” The look that the bo-y gave me 1 shall never forget. At that time ! ha’ted Jesus, but. I respected the boy's* loyalty to His Saviour; and " hen l saw how be kwed and trusted Him to the last, there " as -something that touched my [heart, and I did for that boy what I had never done for any other soldier—I asked him if he wanted to see his chaplain. "Oh, yes, sir,” cam© the answer. When Chaplain R—:— came he at once knew the boy from having often met him at the tent, prayer meetings, and taking his- hand said, "Well, Charlie, I am sorry to see you in this sad condition.” "Oh, I am all right, sir,” he answered. "The doctor offered me chloro form, but 1 declined it; then he wished to give me brandy, which! I also declined; and now, if my Saviour calls me, I can go to Him , in my right mind.” "You may not die, Charlie." said the GhaipLain, "but if the Lord should call you away, is there anything 1 can do for you after you are gone?” "Chaplain, please put your hand under my pillow and take my lit tle Bible; in it you will find my mother’s address. Please send it to her, and write a letter and toll her that since the day l left home I have never let a day pass with out. reading a portion of God's Word and daily praying filial, God would bless my dear mother - no matter whether on the march, on the battlefield, or in the hospital." "Is there anything else that. 1 j can do for you, my lad?” aAed [ •the chaplain. "Yes; please write a letter to till© superintendent of the Sands Street Sunday school, Brooklyn, N. Y., and tell him that the kind words, many prayers and good ad vice he gave me 1 have never for gotten; they have followed me through -all the dangers of battle, and now, fn nry dying hour, ! ask my dear- Saviour to bless my dear '•id superintendent; that is all.” I Turning towards me. he said, ::TJow, doctor, ! am ready, and * promise you that 1 will not even groan while you take off miy arm and leg if you will not offer me chloroform." I promised, but ! Irad not the courage to take blur knife in my band to perform the oper ation Without first going into the next room and taking a little stimulant to nerve myself to per form my duty. 'While Gift ting’ through the flesh Charlie Ooulson never groan ed, but when 1 took the saw to separate the bone, the lad took the corner of the pillow in his month, and all that I could he air Him ut ter was, “O Jesus, blessed Jesus, stand by me now!” He kept his promise, and never groaned. That nigl^t i could root sleep, for •whichever way 1 turned I saw those soft blue eyes, and when 1 closed mine the words, "Blessed Jesus, stand by me now;" kept ringing in nvy ears. Between twelve and one o’clock I left my bed and visited the hospital, a thing I had never done before un less specially called; but such wa^ my desire to see that boy. Upor my arrival there I was infonnec by the night steward that sixteen of the hopeless cases had diet amt been carried flown to th( deudhouse. "How is Charlie Coul son, is he among the dead?” asked. "No, sir,” answered tlu* steward "he is sleeping as sweetly as « -babe.’ When I came up to the bei where he lay, one of the nurse informed me that about nin o'clock two members of the U. £ Christian Conxm^ssion cam through the hospital to lead aai sing a hymn. They were accom panied by Chaplain R-wh knelt by Charlie C-oulson’s be and offered op a fervent and soul si'ning prayer, after which they sat*?, "Iiile still upon their knees, (lie sweetest of all hymns, “Jesus, [ over of M;y Strut” i,n which Char lie re sod. I could not understand how that troy, who had undei-grme such exerudi»tmjr pain, could 1'is e days after 1 had amputat ed I hat dear hoy’s arm and leg he sent for me, and it was from him mi that day I heard the first gospel s€Tiikbi« “’Doctor,” he said ‘my 1 iine has come. I do no evfKH’t lo see another sunrise, but than't God, I am ready to go ant before J go I desire to thank ye; wi'h a!! my heart for your kind »ies <0 me. Doctor, you are a Jew you do not believe in Jesus; nvil i you please stand here and see rm | die. trusting my Saviour, to th< test moment of my life?” I trier i<> stay, but 1 could not, for I hac not the courage to stand by anti see a Christian iboy die rejoicing in the love of that. Jesus whom ) had been taught to hate, so I hur riedly left the room. About twen ty minutes later a steward, who i'-un-i me siuing m my private off fee covering my face with ray hand, said. “Doctor, Charlie C'oul son wishes to see you.” “1 have just seen Mm,” 1 an swered, “and 1 canned see him “Bait doctor, he says he must see you once more before he dies.” 1 now made up ray mind to see him. say an endearing word, and let him die, but I was determined •hat no word of his should influ ence me in the least so far as his Jesus was concerned. When I en tered the hospital 1 s.aw he was "iking fast, so I sat down by his bed Asking me to take hiis hand, be ‘aid. “Doctor, I love you be ■ause you are a Jew; the best, I Friend I have found in this world was a Jew." I I asked him who that was. He answered, “Jesu« Christ, to whom , 1 w ant. to introduce you before I die, and will you promise me. .doctor, that what ! am about to -ay to you, you will never for get .?” I promised; and he said, “Five days ago, while you amputated m.y arm and leg. I prayed to the l-orf| Jesus to convert your soul.” These words went deep into niy heart. 1 could not understand how, when I was causing the most in lentee pain, he could forgot all about himself and think of noth ing but his Saviour an<j my un converted soul. All I could say to hitm was, “Well, my dear hoy, you will soon- !*• .all right.” With .these Words I left him, and twelve min utes later he fell asleep, “Safe in the arms of Jesus.” Hundreds of soldiers died in my hospital during the war, but I only followed one to the grave, and that one was Charlie Ooulson, the drummer boy, and I rode three miles to see him buried, I had hith dressed in a new uniform and [placed in an officers coffin with I a United States flag over it. I mat dear boy s dyimig words made a deep impres'sien on me, I was 'rich a* that time. so far as money is concerned, I?ut ! would' have given every penny 1 pos sessed if I could have felt towards Christ as Charlie did; but that feeling cannot 'be bought w'it»h J money. Alas! T *soon forgot all j aibout my Christian soldier’s lit* | tie sermon, but I could not foTgrf j the boy f now know | that at tihat time I was under deep ccnvktion of sin, but l i fought against. Christ avith all the hatred of an orthodox Jew for nearly ten years, until, finally, the boy’s prayer was answered and (rod converted miy soul. (About eighteen months after my comersion 1 attended a prayer meeting one evening in the city | of Brooklyn. It was one of those I meetings when Clirisitians testify to the loving kindness of tbeir ] dear .Saviour. After several of them had spoken, an elderly lady arose and said, “Dear friends, this may lie the last time that it --, Renew Your Health By Purification Any physician will tell you that “Perfect Purification of the Sys ! tem is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect. Health.”. Why not rid1 yourself of chronic ailments that are undermining your vitality? 1 Purify your entire system by tak I ing a thorough course of Calotabs, , —once or twice a week for several ■ weeks—and see how Nature re i wards you with health. ■ j Calotabs are the greatest of all . system purifiers. Get a family II package with full directions. On ly 35 cts. at, drugstores. (Adv). SORE IOA One swallow of Thoxine isgu«r anteed to relieve sore throat. Quicker, better and pleasanter t* , than anything you nave ever ,i 1 or your money bank. Soc., 60c., All druggist*. THOXINE iw ityy privilege to 'testify tfbi Christ. iMy family physician toh me yesterday that my right ltm$ is very nearly gone, ami my let lung is very much affected, x« at the best 1 have but a shoir trine to be with you; but what h left of me belongs to Jesus. Oh. it- is a great joy to know that i shall meet any boy with. Jesus in HeavenMy son suras not onlj a soldier for. his country, hut wise a soldier for Christ. He wa? wounded at the battle of Gettys burg, and fell into the hands of -i Jewish doctor, who amputated hi arm and leg, but he died five day: after the operation. When I heard this lady’s testi mony I could sit still no longer. 1 left my seat, crossed the room, [and taking her 4>y the hand, said, I God bless you, my dear sister, your boy’s prayer lias been heard and answered. I am the Jewish doctor for whom your Charlie prayed and his Saviour is now my Savio u r. ’ *—(Selected. THE SIGNAL LIGHTS OF LIFE’S HIGHWAY. “It was well you stopped when the red light flashed,” She •said 'as we drove along. “For an officer stood at the cor ner there i In charge of the traffic throng.” And I smiled and said to my daughter fair As we waited on the spot, ? “I always s-top when the- red light shows, Be an officer there or not.” There she sat in thought as we drove along, And suddenly this she said: "There ought to be lights for us all through life. The aimiber and green and red. What a help f would be if a red | light flashed | When danger and shame were near. Ami rw© all Plight wait till the green light cam© To show that the road was clear.", “My dear.” said I, “we have tried to light Life’s road for your feet to fare, . And we pray you’ll stop when th? red light glows, Though none of us may be there, j We’ve tried to teach you the I signs of wrong And the way to life serene*. ! So .stop when your conscience post •sinews red. And go when it flashes green." j —An th or Unknown. Sunday School Convention, Micro. 'Micro, Jan. 29.—'The Intel de nominational Sunday school con vention of Micro district met at Micro Methodist church Sunday, January 2b, at 2:20 o’clock. Rev. j J. H. Frizelfc of Kenly /[gave I a very inspirational lecture on j “How to Teach ■•Sunday School.” i iMr. J. VV. Hollo well of Kenly I presided over the business session. There .were three jmperinl endw'l s j present, twelve teachers, two * preacher's, twenty-five visitors?. Mr. I Ho) low ell made a welcome ed ! dress, introducing1 Miss Lillian • Blue, assistant-secret ary and sti periiwtendent of Oh ildren s Divis ion hi Johnston counity. Mr. H. J. Corbett, superin/tend ent of the Freewill Baptist Sun-' day selrool reported the largest on-1 rolinnemt, Mr. S. C. Batten, sup-1 erintendent of Micro Baptist Sun day "school, next largest enroll ment and Mr, <M. Richardson, rep resenrtaStrve from Carter's' Chapel reported a large enrollment. Each one had predicted more efficient work and enrolling campaigns for this year. The following officers* were i elected: R. C. Pearce, president; j H. J. Corbett, vice-president; 'Mrs.!: Wiley L. Wall, secretary and] ! treasurer; Mrs. Garfield Brolwn,! ! superintendent of young peoples’ division; Mrs. C. L. Batten, super intendent Children's Division; Rev.* A. R. Greed* pixmounecul IR*ikii i<xliciioai. ; ' $‘. ■ VOlTR BIBLE. Read it through. Believe it, true. Pray It in Live it out. Give your money To send it about Here and There—everywhere Doing good in Jesus’ name, j' —D. H. TUTTLE. [ i (Please memorize). *1 Three farmers of Edgecomb) county report a damage wf |5, SZ5 from flood1 damage to crop! and tamid utvrs year. ‘ * id HAVE YOUR watch cleaned, oil i - cd and adjusted at Jordan's Jewelry store. fLdV0RlnE p.™„ — •*—’ Special ^TRACTS,1, 50 HOOD BROS, This Will Help You Enjoy Motoring You can enjoy the finest motoring performance' il‘ you bring your car here regularly for expert attention. 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