The Robesonian., 1918-09-30
A BOND IN EVERY HOME.


Acting Chairman Lawrence Fires
Liberty Loan Workers in sple,,-
did Address-Facts That Hurt
fresented-Robeson is Expected
to Make Better Record in the
Fourth Liberty Loan.
Ringing the changes on the I'm
proud record made by North Caro-
INA IN general and Robson county
~ ~ particular IN previous Libertc loan
or1ves; whitening with fine scorn tie
yelioW. dog who would withhold his
hafd from buying Liberty bond now
~ Che nope OF being able to buy later
a. a. lower figure; holding aloft as
ene thlng more to be desired than
name and fame the purchase by Robe
soil oon county people Of more than $780,
Ooo In bonds Of the fourth Liberty
lean within the next weeks, a goal
for the attainment of which band
or faithful women and men must run
and not be weary, must work ana not
Ialnt, must push forward and never
falter, Mr.. r. C. Lawrence. acting
chairman of the fourth Liberty loan
committee for Robson, addressing atI
the court house Friday morning a
goodly number of committeeman from
over the county, made such a speech
as Tired his audience with deternlina-
ton OF the "Berlin or bust" variety
and sent them forth to put Robson
SO lar over the top in the fourth Lib
efty loan that generations yet un-i
BORN snail be proud of the record.
1t all the people of the county could
have heard that speech the county's
allotment Of 5000 500 would have been
oversubscribed then and there.
Parkton District Not Represented.
Nine of the 10 districts into which
the county has been divided for TIE
fourth Liberty loan were represented
by committeeman appointed for the
drive which began on the 28th and
who were asked to come to this meet
ING for conference. Parkton dis
tr1ct was the only one not represented.
goodly number of ladies of the
Women's committee also attended the
meeting.
Some Startling Facts.
Mr.. Lawrence revealed some start
ling and unpalatable facts in re gard
to North Cardinals and Robeson
county's records in previous Liberty
loans. Leading up to his figures by
reference to the proud position North
Carolina holds in the National Gov
eminent, having when war was de-
clared Cabinet office, an Ambassador
at the court Of st. James, chairman1
OF the Senate finance omm4ttee /
chairman of the House ways and
means committee, besides other I'M
portant chairmanships in Congress,
it being true now more than ever att
the Nations capitol that "where North
Carolina sits is the head of the table,
he showed that North Carolina has
stood at the very bottom Of the list
in every Liberty loan campaign. The
Government keeps record, and from
that record he quoted the following
facts:
In the first Liberty -oan, the pur-
chase of bonds by the people OF other
States in the fifth Federal Reserve
district was S11.93 per capita, while
North Cardinals was 1892 per capit:l
in the second, other States, S21.75,
North Carolina, $1169; 3rd. other
States, S2o.26, North Carolina, S1c224.
In North Carolina, only men ut Of
every 100 have subscribed to ~ Lib
erty loan; in Arizona, a desert, 20
out Of hundred; in Iowa, a farming
State, 19: in Maine, poor TT, Is;
Minnesota, 25; Montana, %; New
Hampshire, 10; Wisconsin, 21; Wyom-
irg, &c,
Robson is above the average, and
yet in the last Liberty loan the aver
age for the county was S7.15 per cap
ita. "God help her." he exclaimed,
"69 per cent of the average Of North
Carolina, which was only S10.24.
These facts hurt, he said, but we must
face them. It is not due to lack Of
patriotism, but to the fact that we
are so miserably busy about our own
affairs we have not gone out and told
the people. It reminded him Of a man
sitting in comfort before his own fire,
reading and smoking an elegant cigar,
ignorant of the fact that his property
in the country is burning up, with no
insurance.
Liberty loan workers form the third
line of defense, as important as tie
first, composed Of men at the front,
and the second line, composed
of men in the camps; for the first
two lines will fail unless we at home
keep going to them a steady stream
Of money and supplies. There are
only two ways for the Government to
raise the money for the war: first.
by taxation, and the largest tax bill
ever passed by any country will
shortly be passed by Congress; the
other way is by the people lending
their money by buying bonds. The
ever floated by any government. I'll
just way, based upon bank resources.
North Cardinals part is $39 900. 900
only SIS per capita, while the appor-