The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-15
FROM ANOTHER SLANT
How About the Tendency Of the
Folks to Gamble-Folks Who
Ride in Autos Sundays Ought
to be Willing for Poor Folks to
Ride Hobbyhorses Weekdays.

To the Editor of The Robesonian:
We are not seeking an opportunity
to defend Mayor Proctor or Mr.. ". o.
Thompson for anything they did IN
connection with the Robson county
fair and carnival that accompanied It.
neither do we want to censure them
for anything they did not do in cor
nection herewith, for we feel that
they need no defense.
Without seeing Or hearing any
statement from them, we desire to
say that it will be a pleasure to US
to go our "bit" in unfolding the hands
of those gentlemen in what they did,
for we know they had the best inter
est of our communityat heart ard
were actuated by good motives IL
what they did. So far as we are con-
cerned, they will not have 20 repent
or get down on their knees. After &
fellow has done all he can for you
it is not even good taste to try to
blame him because something con-
nected with the enterprise did not
work out as you desired it.
corning this matter in the paper since
the thing adjourned, but the wors.
side of the picture has not yet bee
suggested. The fact that the love
for gambling among the people C
Lumberton and Robson county is
such as to create demand for % gam
blers at one time and give them bus
mess for several days is the appall-
ing side of the picture. A show O.
carnival usually goes equipped to Of
fer to the community in which it
shows whatever will take best in thai
community. There must have beer
several hundred people in and around
Lumberton and Robson county very
anxious to gamble or % gamblers
could not have carried on their bus
mess several days in succession. Then,
too, people must have very poor judg-
rnent and must have had very sorry
training that will walk up and risk
/ their good money On a game of chance
! the arrangement or design of which
! they had nothing to do with. This is
where the reflection comes in. Who
is responsible for the several hundred
that were already here and gambled
when they got an opportunity Do
not you and come in for our part CT
the responsibility for the standard cf
/ citizenship we have in our con1muni-
ty? When we think about the matter
in the proper sense we have very lit
We heard one of the women gamb-
lers, one of the bunch, touch the vi
tai question in this whole matter
when fellow told her he didn't care
to play at her game because he was
a preacher. She looked at him with
considerable amusement and asked
"What do YOU preach?" The fellow
seemed to be lost and never did tell
her what he preached. That seems
to be our trouble If we knew what
we preach and teach and if we were
preaching and teaching the right
thing, punches of that kind would MOI
find so much demand in our midst fol-
their product.
Some folks are finding fault also
because of the racket and noise. This
was music furnished by the hobby
horse people and free to everybody
It cost only a nickel, they said, to ride
1t was one of the real attractions fol
: young folks and children and seemed
to be enjoyed immensely by great
crowds. 1t is strange that folks VIII
are said to be spending large sum.
of money for gasoline to run their au
tomobile on Sunday in search O
pleasure, violating one of Gods sac
) red commands, would object to thi
: feature of it. It really looks lik
they would be willing for folks VIII,
are unable to have an automobile t,
ride a hobbyhorse, especially durins
2 the week.
WADE H. KINLAW
2 Lumberton, N. c..
: Nov. Is, 1917.