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• . ^ The ROBESON PL A.CE Subdivtd id On Highway, Near GODWIN, N. C. xj
SATURDAY, MAY 17, 11 A. M.
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; 379 acres in high state of cultivation. Several tenant houses, fine loca
: tion, 100 acres river land. This property is located 2 1-2 miles south
; west of Godwin on the highway.
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House ad Lots and Buisnes* Property at Auction at 2 p.m. at God- j
win Station. This property consists of 4 Dwelling Houses, 7 Vacant i
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THU Valuable Real Estate Will Be Sold On Easy Terms anti the Purchasers Make the Price. J. M. Jon es, Owner
ill Mlin*A*"* Raleigh Real Estate & Trust Company rale,gh-n-c
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JUSTICE FOE THE FOtTER-FAR
ENTS OF OUE CHILDREN
U U strange that generoaa-heart
ed A atari m a people, who poured out
'h«ir riches aa prodigally to rcaponte
to CTery patristic, every charitable
appeal, and who accorded inch ea
tkuaiarile and liberal support to ev
en measure and to oven group that
Lclcfd v-iB tb„* war. should hsrve neg
lected to properly encourage aad re
ar rd t’ i so’ vices of one of tbs noblest
refer*,?a- in the Acid of human ae
r-'Wea—a profession that la lefty
id ala. In oneoHtvh principles, la sacred
r .ponalbllitirv, stands side by side
w 1» the aiaiMry aif the Gospel itself
We wish to b:*pcak, with whatever
P*" * and aurttx nty we any have aad
»Mk »u:h words aa may be granted
to as, seme measuro of consideration
for the feder-fathsra and mothers of
oar children—the school-teachers of
the United. States of America.
There la no class of workers of
which we demand so mack. We com
mit into their keepii^ the minds, the
bodies, and the very seals of our chil
dren la the tender aad formative
yean sf their Una, aad they, raceiv
ing these children, can indeed be add
to bold in hallow of their hands the
fat ore of America. We aspect these
devoted jama aad woman to wateh
over aad eats for ear sens aad daugk
iefca aa tbo they warn theiv’vsry own,
i* **+** * MW erisacm.
tram Ahsm hi hadbaruad br
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ttglug^ht^a^Xa1 isaposai&tty
eratad men aad women. No darn has
psiNetmed their incruaaiagty heavy
tf*M mere devotedly, mere coneelea
Hmmly, aad with lean thought of self.
He cbm served their country more
wholeheartedly, mere loyalty, daring
the trying aad tempestuous timaa of
peepla. sad through the children the
parents, to see tbs struggle la its
true light, than securing (be coopera
tion for Use community Tn .very meaa
are undertaken by the Gevoramant to
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win the wnr.
Truly they lift mad* tha nation
their everlasting debtor. Truly bod
they not done their work so well this
republic would not outlast the spaa
of a generation.
What than have the teachers receiv
ed at our hands (n return T Thsy have
received little of honor and somewhat
tom °f pay- Other els sees he vs pros
pered : other claaees through powerful
organiaatiics have meurad generous
wages. The teachers have no spokes
man. however, to demand even tha
simple justice of a living wage, so to
them we give their petty prewar pit
tance, ao meager, so pitifully Inade
quate, that K places a burning brand
of sham# and dignet upon this na
tion.
Tha man and arimen who are mak
ing the Americans of to-morrow are
being treated with laaa coosidarntiin
than the janitors who sweep out the
buildings in which they are employ
ed; they are earning on the average,
lam thao tha wages given to the
scrubwoman employed In the public
buildings of United States Govern
ment. Normal school graduates re
ceive leas aalarty than street-sweepers;
high-school principals and superin
tend leas than section foramen; coun
try school teachers Um foe instruct
ing Um farmers’ children than ha papa
hie hired asm to feed his bogs.
la a certain town of Illinois. for
mftooce, tbo average wages of fifteen
fto -fn owe month so ntf,
the average monthly salary of
•ftoea twaihira k tha same town was
W. la another town a miner, who,
by the way. su an enemy alien, draw
more than 12,700 last year, wUU tha
mhury at tha high-school principal
in the same town was $7M. Vs wei
coma with aO our hearts the longbe
tated recognition that is being grrsa
to tha man who erarka with his hands.
We believe that this tame working
man will be the first to join with us
to mkisg bettor pay for tbooe who
tiach his children
No wonder there are fifty thousand
vaesuteies in the Leaching forces of
the schools. No wonder the ranks
are being filled with weak seen and
with Immature women who merely um
tbs profession aa a stepping-stone to
something bettor. No wonder there
are thirty thousand teacher* In tha
United States who have had no sffiiool
i«t bayond the eighth-grammar grad*.
Small wonder, indeed, that aeaan mil
lion of our acbool-childran are being
trained by teacher*, mar* boy* and
girli themselves, who have had no
professional education whatever
Whan w* consider that the 740,000
teachers of America are paid an aver
•** salary of *6*0 a year; whan,
moreover, wa consider tha fact that
Ihring costs have actually advanced
10* par cant since th^weginning of
the war, thereby tip buyfhg-power of
these insignificant salaries in half,
w* can easily determine that only a
fool or a martyr would choose teach
ing aa a profession or would long
raasmio in it unices these terrible con
ditions were swiftly remedied.
What a crime is this! What an
indictment! What an unpardonable
sin at the doors of an enlightened peo
ple who now find themselves at the
head and forefront of the democracies
of the world! How can wa batter pr*-'
para for the great undertaking* of
reconstruction than by setting our
eehma immediately to remedying this
perilous conditio* • In these trying
UM chaotic times whan the worid is
beset by unrtat, by anarchy, by re
volution. by tha devil’s brood of ap
pelEr.g evil* that follow in the train
of war, wa miss* snake sure **»■> the
'oundation* of our republic are set on
a rpek that It may stand ag?unstth*
(rood.
The peace and security of the worid
of the future will he in the safe keep
ing ef the generation now in our
aebaols. These boys and girls must
Mw»v* up tha raveled sleava” of civil
tnation. Their hands must minister
to-the wounds of the nations. Thalr
minds must meet and solve the difficult
and crucial problems that will be their
lDh*ritaM«. Th*ir hearts most be so
Irabu ad the horrors of war and
with the poverty and anguiah t)mt
inevitably follow in its wake that they
ia their time will enter upon it only
Y d last resort in national aalf-de
fensee or ia support of some groat
principle of humanity.
Never haa there been a more urgent
need for high-minded, great-hearted
splendidly trained. 100 per cent
American Instructors to drive home
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the Vital lessons that theae time* hold.
Never has the future of the nation
been so dearly committed into the
hanili of the teacher* And yet thou
«»nd.< of men and women of ability
who prefer to tench are reluctantly
leaving their chosen calling, forced
by tut hard necessities of their vary
oriel ence.
Tic teachers aak no largess at the
hand* of fortune. They enter their
profession for service, not riehau. But
they invert year* and money in pro
pel a.ion for the life-work and the
knov kdee they gala ia shared with
other* who themselves ue* it to their
tkon' by every
right aod in all justice expect a ro
tum that will permit them and their
dependents to live decently and la
comfort.
In every commaalty reached hy The
Literary Digest there are readers of
fortiifht, of vision, broad-niiid«d
men and thoughtful woman who aril]
—»»y, perbsp* have long dry-*
nwn—the critical aod compelling Im
portance of this problem. We era
directing this appeal to them. We
urge them to compare the —
of their teachers with the aragaa of
those who ant doing work of equal
value. There wfll be a challenge in
the facts that will stir the community
in action. *•
Let each cqn*> unity invest in
schools so that * may thereby invest
■ n - *—|--t rs-iabrif i mil vaasaahoed
that caTpUytSfijmrt in the great
period of rebutting aod reconstruc
tion that hei hhfore us. Let each
community set for its goal, aa fa* aa
js practicable, a minim tint wage of
at least 11,000 a year for tbs teachers
of America. Ibis would coat the tm
tiou perhaps as much as we spent
«> gloriously h> but one week of the
Great War.
We are pleading merely for the
welfare of soma tingle profession; wa
hi* not pleading for a special clam;
we are pleading for America: for her
larger, her brighter, bar richer future,
for the fulfillment of bar glorious
promise. We are pleading for a com
ing race of men and women who shall
be qualified to make complete the
work of our forefathers who found
ed this nation and dedicated It to
liberty, and who will bring to full
iimaa
fraitloD the new Victoria* that w*
have won in freedom's ana*. We
arc pleading for a wider teaching of
the principle,, the pwpaenTaSFth.
ideal* of due nation that all near
•hall know her meaning and d»»n
hare equal access to her opportoel
tlei; that the light of American lea
will ao shine that It will flood every
home, every heart. In oar great land
—I.itarery Digest
A GOOD r»IENP
A good friend stands by yea when in
»»nnp#opU Ull how Doan's
Kidney Pill* have stood the tost Mrs.
A. H. Hargrove, ' 207 & Magnolia
•treat Dunn endorsed Doan’s foar
yean ago and again coaflras the
•tory. Could yoa ask for mar* con
rlncing testimony.
“My back ached and I bad palm
aeroea ay loins" «aye Ha Hargrova
I was annoyed by headache* and
dlaay m#Ua and ay tight was blurred.
■ y kidneys acted irregularly end ay
ankles were terribly swollen. 1 bought
s bog of Doan’s Kidney Pills
■an using them. Dean’s
lief, banishing aU thoeO
kidney trouble.” (
June 19, 1914).
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On July S, 1918,
added: ** am as firm _
^“^^tdneyKBje bqw as
AJ! I have foraoriy aid in nahn
*W. holds rood. My kfiaoys
5“v* in good_eooditioo and ay
^ boon •toeaw ever atoea.
Prtce «0c, at an dealers Don’t
•imply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan ^Kidney Pm*—the same that
Mr*. Hargrove had. Paatar-M Ohara
Co., Mfgrs, Buffalo, R Y.
“God give us patience sad strength
that we amy work to build op schools
that shall be as a light ehiall«
throughout the land—ton, flfty, a
thousand candle poorer. Behind this
movemsnt for the education of the
eWldrsn of oar land there stand. One
who said, Let there he light.”—C. B
Ayeoek.
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your old car new life
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* AVA tery that makes the car go.
What Is tha condition of your battery? la k —'“tuir~f
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wry. It U our business to take ears of any tealsties,
to repair sfl makes. Ui. our principal business is to sea
you get an Eeeready-the btutry with a written
fuarantee for IK year*. ( (/
I J. \V. THORNTON. Dunn. N."p. V
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The Heart of Humanity
; Far more than a war-story—the director has used the great war as a gigantic curtain for
I his human characters.
DOROTHY PHILLIPS
has become one of the screen's greateft actresses through this picture.
It depicts the wonderful work of the Red Cross in rebuilding the brains and bodies of war
orphans, borne of the most, remarkable cloae-upa of trench fighting ever recorded by a
motion picture camera arewshown J
Cooties—Machine Guns—flatties—Scenes of Beauty—War and Wonderful Mother Love
WIiTE
Monday and Tuesday, May 19-20
Matinee Tuesday 3 o’clock
PRICE 55CTS.
T!9^'ToWn P*tr°n*: 00 not this opportunity of seeing this wonderful pro
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ENDORSED BY CONGRESSMAN _J_ J
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Dunn, N. C., May 13th.
Mr. Marsh Morrow,
Dunn, N. C., j;
Dear Sir:
I am glad to see that you have booked
Heart of Humanity for Monday and Tues
day, May I 9th and 20th. Will say it is the
greatest picture I h$ve even Seen, and am
glad that the people of Dunn and vicinity will j
9 J,ave oppprtunity to see this wonderful i!
picture. | j
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Wishing you the vefy best of success, lam^ \\
Yours truly, ; i
* H. L. GODWIN.
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