The Robesonian., 1918-03-04
A VARIETY OF COMMENT.
Persuade "Aunt Becky" to Write Up
Songs of the Civil War Period
Children Crusaders of Today-Year
OF Jubilee For Intelligent and In.
dustrious Negroes-Russia.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:

Not only do our young people en-
joy "Aunt Becky's" war stories, hut
their seniors do also. Now, if these
young folks will persuade Aunt
Becky" to write up the songs of the
Civil war period they will be we'll re-
paid, if she will heed their request.
Those were days when rays of light
from the star of hope could barely
pierce the gloom that had settled over
the South, and the melodies that we'll
ed up from the soul spoke of the
purest and noblest sentiments of
fair women and brave men. Much Of
the semi-ragtime music Of the present
day does not compare in its power to
influence life for good, to the music
of more serious epoch. / merely
suggest revival of these oli songs,
because we are approaching condi-
tion parallel to the Civil war. I,fee]
sure Aunt Becky could do justice to
the subject, because in the secret
chambers Of the soul the remembered
voices of the long-ago still have
charms for the listening ear Of fancy
You young people who have been
my pupils will laugh when I speak OF
songs; you know | never try to sing
but every one of us has treasured
away on the sacred pages OF memory
faces, voices, songs, and thousand
| little incidents ever to be revealed in
/ times whenever a pensive hour call:
up the musing spirit and turns the
mind upon the past. Those sentirnen
| tai and patriotic songs that vibrateo
| with the intense feelings Of the
South's darkest period, revived now
would be as silver clasp binding tht
twilight of a closing day with the
GAVIN of a new one.
Today Mrs. C. T. Pate informct
the school that her husband had give1
cotton still in the field to the Ree
Cross, if the school children woult
pick it. The children responded will
a will.
! Never before in all the worlds his
tory has hundred million people Civ
en- such spontaneous and inteligen
support to a war as the people of tn
U. S. It is true that hundreds o
thousands of christian children joi1le.
the crusaders against the mohame
dams, but they and their leaders wer
foolish zealots, who expected to cap
ture Jerusalem without human instru
mentalities, other than faith. FAITH
the Red Cross, and a British arm
have recently captured the Holy City
The children crusaders more than
thousand years ago prayed for the de
liverance of Jerusalem and were mu.
dered for their faith; the children Q
today have been instruments in ar
swering their prayers. Faith an
. works have given victory
The Billiard family of this neigh
: borhood has a first cousin, Maj. Gel
Robt. Bullard, in France, second
command to General Pershing. Il
3 was graduated from West Point {
|. the age of twenty.
+ The scarcity of labor in this sectio
will undoubtedly be serious problel
to deal with this year. The year .
jubilee has come to the intelligel
and Industrious negro farmers. Mar
of them are making more. One
my colored neighbors recently bong1
two fine young mules for about $50
paid for 1876 acres of land, but a
other told me "the white folks wor
give me no chance" He has made
reputation for loafing. These ty
= first, and the latter, are the extrem
. VI tHe toloTeu race, as We'll as OF t.
white.
II Russia has murdered her inoffe
. sive Jewish population, and forced h
millions of common people to rema
in ignorance; the civilized world +
, mained passive while her helpless pe
= pie suffered. We must all suffer for
"Am my brothers keeper?" is n
tional in it's import.
!. H. l.. EDENS.
Purvis, N. c., Feb. 26, 1918.