The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-04-02
IS RALEIGH PATRIOTIC!
Awful Frost Given Returned Soldier
Boys OH Controversy RACES
Over the Meaning of the Undem-

Awful Frost Given Returned Soldier
Boys OH Parade-Controversy RACES
Over the Meaning of the Undem-
onstrative Attitude of the Town
Raleigh Cor. Greensboro Daily News.
Raleigh's newspapers are contro-
verting sharply over the funeral re-
view of the marchin~ third regiment
Sunday afternoon March 25) when
the boys, home company, flags and
colors in galore swung about the town
ard returned to camp with about the
same eclat as the home team does
when it has been beaten six straights.
Under "Nil Admirari" caption the
Times goes after the town in CLASH
cal shape, declaring that in it's
thorough sophistication to the fiction
of greatness it islands silent, chill
in countenance, passive in demeanor,
watching the troops that mean its
life pass by. The paper confesses
it's inability to understand the psy-
chology of "such a melancholy exhi-
bition" and putting the Latin again
to the town, "Nii Admirari," Says
Raleigh with is provincial superior
ity," asks "does it occur to Raleigh
that nobody else finds anything adj
Somebody else does, the News and
Observer which for the once finds Mr..
Taft useful and applies his "bawling
iingoes' to the UNNAMED chose who
do their fighting with their voices.
The lesson taught by the Taft ex-.
preston is that noise is not patriot
ism.
"There are those who grow red in
70 oh oil
eigh on Sunday afternoon did not
throw a fit of yelling when the pa
rade and review of the third regiment
took place. Whereat it may be I'M
derstood that these people do not look
beneath the surface. 1t is an old but
true saying that still waters run
deep.
Raleigh is a patriotic city. If
there be call for real service we
doubt not but that it will be repre-
sented-and handsomely-at the roll
call. That it does not attempt to en-
plate the Comanche Indian, throw up
it's hat and yell itself hoarse at the
parade of fine young men, shows
that it is not swent off it's feet, that
it does not mistake noise for patriot
ISM. And the paper explains the
whole sad phenomenon by recalling
that it was Sunday and southern peo-
pie do not demonstrate on that day.
All of which is interesting as rails
ing another controversy and that
whether 1.-THE Raleigh people loves
Moses more or fear Germany less.
The truth is that the parade was an
awful frost, one of the most sorrow
full spectacles that ever took place
here. The afternoon paper, whole
hearted for war has often spoken of
the utter surface Indifference to the
condition of the country. It was OBJ
servable that girl or q child would
give the marchers an occasional hand,
but for the most part it was the most
Indifferent reception ever given any
body on the return from any sort of
mission.
AS for Sunday, nobody has ever
forgotten how Len Broughton fetched
the Raleigh people March 81, 1912,
to a wonderful shout when the big
preacher stopped in the middle Of a
Sunday afternoon sermon and hoped
that "the party with which have al
ways affiliated will have the wisdom
to nominate that princely, scholarly"
and other kinds Of the greatest in
terpreter of Democracy, Woodow Will
son. The preacher got the Sabbath
rianism out of the system for the
once.