The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1918-02-11
unwilling to make a sacrifice )?

Mr.. Stephenson is tremendously Il ,
earnest in presenting the importance |
OF the War Savings campaign. 1t is
being fired with zeal to do something
to help win the war. And a very i'm
portant something that every one
can do is buying War Savings stamps
and Thrift stamps. Fewer people
own government securities in this
country than In any other. The peo-
pie. simply have not been accustomed
to buying government bonds In the
two Liberty bond campaign 100000
people became government bond hold
ers, but in the War Savings cam
ralgn the Government wants at least
$4,000, 900 of it's citizens to become
bond holders.
More Than Money Involved.
This campaign involves infinitely
| more than raising two billion dol
lars. 1t will be Of incalculable edu-
| cational. and moral value. People
who have never saved money before
will be taught the value Of thrift and
| will be caused to realize that in or
der to win this war the Government
needs the support Of a united people.
The people of North Carolina, as we'll
as the people of some other States,
have not begun to realize the serious
ness Of the war ard that it is going
to take real sacrifice to win. The
war is being carried on 5000 miles
away, money is plentiful and folks
were never so prosperous before. 1t
| is hard to realize the stern fact that
the United States is engaged in the
most serious war, war that involves
i ynfSpifo1 fho,,
the country has engaged in.
Far From Horrors Of the Conflict.
/ No enemy airplanes fly over the
country dropping their death-dealing
bombs on innocent women and chill
dren. Here Mr.. Stephenson recalled
a picture that had impressed him
very much. 1t was the picture Of a
scene in England. An enemy airplane
y had passed over and dropped a bomb
that wrecked home. The lifeless
form of the mother lay upon the bed
the father sat beside the bed with his
face buried in his hands. A little
girl stood beside the father with a
hand upon his shoulder, and, looking
with grief-stricken features upon the
form of her mother on the bed, she
said, Daddy, mother never did any
harm"
No Home To Go To.
Our land has not been overrun by
barbarous enemy. A group of Of
ficers were standing just outside {
tent in France. An English office
t joyfully exclaimed, "Men, I am going
e home tomorrow to see the wife ant
r children. I've been in the trenches
), six months now and I'rn going home.
, He was bubbling over with joy. H
e turned to a French officer and aske'
: him when he was going home. Tn
: answer was appalling. "Home?
0 said the French officer, "Home?"
t again. / had a happy home in one o
Y daughter. The enemy overran tina
e section of France, destroyed every
n thing in my town, and carried m,
I wife and daughter away to fat
e that is worse than death. And roth
ing was left for him to 10 but figh
i and die in the trenches.
Facts like these have not brough
i the awful seriousness of the war HON
s to the people of North Carolina.
Ell We are obsessed with the idea, sal
d Mr.. Stephenson, that we can't los
l. because we have never lost and be
: cause our cause is just. The cause 9
a Belgium was just, but that did nc
II keep that country from being destroy
e ed. And we are at war now with a
II enemy that has made war his bus
d ness for generations, while we hav
l. been pursuing the arts of peace.
ISL Peace Seems Far OF.
l. Mr.. Stephenson made the startlin
II statement that we are as far froI
IS peace now as we were in 1914, whe
10 Germany started the world war. H
10 was not unmindful Of the various base
lie for peace that have been subDitte
'e and the persistent peace talk Of n
Sc cent months. And he backed up Il
IS assertion with convincing argumen
lg Germany's man power is as gre;
lg today, he said, as it was al the b
a ginning of the war, notwithstanding
es the tremendous casualties suffered
'v that country. AS fast as men ha'
es to be taken from industrial ente
their places are filled with Peep
id their places we're filled with peop
n taken into slavery from Belgium a.
n, France and Servia and Roumania al
rs Russia. Hence her industries ha7
ft, been kept going without impairn1e1
Her material resources have not be-
ok impaired, for in spite Of the IRENE
Cd dous cost Of the war, Germany, il
no stolen vastly more than she has !os'
lr. Lend and Get Interest OR Pay it
mt Taxes.
no It was a gloomy picture Mr.. Step
oh enson drew, yet he said he was not
ar pessinist and declared he had
nd doubt we were going to win the w:
IN, But in order to do SO we must 81
he freely of our goods and service
the Government. We must learn
lot save and lend monty to the Gove1
'dy ment. Uncle Sam has got to have
LaS money and he comes to the DeORle, J.