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The Robesonian., 1918-01-03
N. c. LEADING BLOCKADE
LIQUOR STATE
So States Collector Bailey-Cites
Figures to Prove His Assertion.

Mr.. j. w. Bailey, collector Of inter |
nal revenue for the eastern district |
of North Carolina, declares it his opin-
ion that "North Carolina is the lead
ing blockade State on earth," and he
cites figures showing the increase
year By year.
Using the figures furnished by the
office of internal revenue in Wash
ington, Mr.. Bailey shows that in 1911
there were only 290 seizures of dis
tilleries in this State; in 1912 there
were 4G2 but no figures are given for
/ 1913 because the two States, North
and South Carolina, were under one
jurisdiction. But in 1914 there were
612; in 1915 were 780; in 1916 the
} number reached 80 and finally in
1917 to $50
w. Z. Bost. giving the facts stated
} above il the Greensboro Daily News,
writing from Raleigh, continues:
Mr.. Bailey declares that these fig
. ures show a decrease from 1916 to
: 1917, but he declines to take comfort.
His deputies had pelnty of time for
:, their work in 1916-1917 when they
l caught SO many stills either operating
! or ready for work. Since the second
f half of 1917 the officers have had
n many other duties and have had to
p leave the raiding field for them. In
o the nation at large there were 1882 il
y licit distilleries destroyed. North Car
S olina furnished more than 80 per cent
|: Of them. In the period covered by the
a raids and North Carolina furnished
e 4.333. Since 1910 the State has fur
r nished nearly one-fourth Of the raid.
e. in the nation.
n Il estimate that there are $500 il
ID licit distilleries in North Carolina" tn,
II collector says. He bases his belief OF
'e the known difficulty of getting NOR
TO than one in five. And he would prob
ably be willing to think the State an
at county, town and township officer
Id will catch one in each 100. Anyway
1e Collector Bailey doesn't think tn
d. number Of stills destroyed is compa,
e. able to the number made alive.
IN Collector Bailey sees in the trf
ly mendous price of booze the creates
of incentive to the illicit maker. Viii
it sells forS2Sa gallon,a man who doe
&C. not fear his county officers can we
nd afford to make try at it. The vel
be fact that it is scarce in the State ar
TX growing so in the nation automatica
:co ly encoura ges the illegal manufactur
he The field is great and the fear sma
1g, One hears when he goes over tt
nd State good deal of criticism of Bail
he for "butting in, but the records she
au- the reason. 1t is not an uncomm
EN- thing for sheriff to call up reven
viii officers in Raleigh, tell him that
of blockade still is running in a certa
township and to come up "and get i
IN 1t has been difficult to get the of
ner GERS away from the old idea that ra
hly ing dlstilleries is a Federal functi
WI because these men are taking libert
sri- with the government. Even State p
its h1bltlon, re-enforced by special az
ar the quart law and the felon's strip
for has not impressed county officers v
Who 90 not like raiding.
The Robesonian., 1918-01-03
Reunion of Children and Grand
children of Late Preston Lock

Correspondence of The Robeson1an.
Pembroke. Dec. 511There : was a
grandchildren at the old home of Pres
ton Locklear on Christmas day. All
the children and grandchildren were
there except a few. This was the first
reunion Of all the children and grand
children since his death occurred on
January 21st, 1915. There were 13
children in all; are dead and II are
living. There are SO grandchildren
and 18 great-grandchildre
This reunion was in honor of the
late deceased, Preston Locklear's
widow, E. Meline Locklear, who is now
in the years Of her sixties. Dinner
was served and all seemed to enjoy
it greatly. After the meals all form
ed march and marched around once
or twice. All went home quietly.
| G.. G. LOCKLEAR
The Robesonian., 1918-01-03
Guatemala City Laid in Ruins b.
Earthnuakc

Guatemala City. capital of the lit
tie Central American republic of
Guatemala. was laid in ruins by Sc
ries of earthquakes beginning Christ
mas day and eliminating on the night
of Dec. % in violent shocks which
completed the work of destruction. A
cablegram to the Navy Department
on the both ult. said 125 900 persons
were in the streets without shelter,
and that number were killed by fall
ing walls.
Naval vessels in Central American
waters have been ordered to the strick-
en- city to render all possible assist
I, ance.
The Robesonian., 1918-01-03

more than nine per cent, and $4,000
addition for a corporation or $4,000
for a partnership or individual. These
{ The dedu~ lions which axe not tax
able.
Definitions Of terms, particularly
the items making up invested capi-
tal", have been made in a number of
recent regulations issued by Commits
sioner Roper.
Excess profits taxes and income
taxes may be imposed on the same
earnings, if they are sufficiently high
The law specifies, however, that The
amount of tax payable under the ex.
cess profits provision may be deduct
ed from gross income, before determ
ing the net income on which taxes arr
paid.
The Robesonian., 1918-01-03
Negroes Pledge Loyalty to Govern

ment.
Resolutions pledging the loyalty of
the negro population Of the United
States to the government in it's con-
duct of the war were adopted at a
mass meeting held in New York Sun
day under the auspices of the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. The resolution al
so condemned lynchings and German
propaganda designed to stir up feel.
ing between white and negro soldiers
Asbie Hawkins, of Baltimore, pre-
dicted the elimination of "Jim Crow
cars from Southern railroads now tina
the government has assumed contro
of the lines.
The Robesonian., 1918-01-03

The name-Doan's inspires conf
dence-Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney
ills. Eoan's Ointment for skin itch
ing. Doan's Regulets for a mild lax
ative. Sold at all drug stores.
The Robesonian., 1918-01-03
Y|N0L MAKES
STRONG

And Invigorates Old People
Any doctor will tell you that the
ingredients of Vinol as printed below
contain the elements needed to I'M
prove the health of delicate children
and restore strength to old people.
D Cod Liver and Beef Peptones. Iron
y and Manganese Peptonates, Iron ana
Ammoniuna Citrate, Lime and Soda
Giycerophosphates, cascaEin.
- :; r.}-1 ,1a7e rl1ay, aiGng or
rundown children or aged parents
nav prove this at our expense.
Besi1cs the good it does children
end the aged there is nothing Like
Vinol to restore strength and vitality
to weak, nervous women and over
worked, rundown men.
Try it. IF you are not entirely sat
isfed, we will return your money
without question; that proves our
fairness and your protection. Nil.
lions of people have been convinced
this way.
J. D. Mcmillan & Son Drug Co.
Lumberton, N. C.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
New Glory for American Arms.

Around Argonne wood Americans have
added new luster to our arms in France. Posi-
tons the Hun had held for four years. fortified
and improved for defense until his confidence
in their strength was unshakable fell to Amer
lean attack. Argonne wood itself, filled with
machine gun nests and other devices and traps,
was surrounded, and now is entirely cut off from
the German army, its defenders left to their
own devices for the time, but certain to become
prisoners or good Germans" as they elect. A
French correspondent writes in most glowing
language of feats thus performed, saying they
even excel the dash that took St. Mihiel. The
word passed on the Marine front that Our boys
could not abide to see the colors move to the
rear is being kept in letter and in spirit. Amer
lean soldiers have not only justified national
faith but are fulfilling the hope of the world.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
People and Events

Not the least of the joys undisturbed by war
springs from the return of the summer-ost vest
to the bosom of the male family.
1t should be understood before the CANDY
pull begins that soldiers, sailors and Red Cross
nurses are exempt from the rule limiting candy
purchases to one pound Should they elect to
do the treating off goes the limit.
A vigilance department equipped by the cap
tal issues bureau at Washington is already gun
ming for wild cats and other showers of unau-
thorzed stock. Untagged promoters are as
sured lively time if the vigilantes see them
first or later.
The esteemed rumor factory of Mole St.
Nicholas, which lent much gaiety to war news
during the Spanish American fracas, would be
a fourtt-rater now in competition with Hun
Munchausens The Cologne Gazette of August
81 fills the popuace with stories of submarine
commandments of Atlantic coast cities, Cheap
bunk for home consumption.
The War Industries board seems to have no
fear of the now or the hereafter in their hearts
The members tackle the style shape, size and
bands of mems lids as though there is no hope
of comeback. Evidently they know how
thoroughly the home guards are subdued and
responsive to the lash. But wait awhilel Wait
until the board tries its collective hand at mil
linery. The mixup will be mere mans hour Of
holy glee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
Tz~ R+~m
A Concomltant Phenomenon

An official statement issued in Metz informs
the people of that city that the bombardment of
the place by American long-range guns is mere
ly "a concomitant phenomenon"
The idea was put up to Rastus the boot
black, who did double shuttle in honor Of the
boys, but he wanted to know what the word
merely was doing with the other two. 1t
struck him the Americans must have old Metz
in an awful fix when they can do that to it.
"Concomitant phenomenon" ought to be a
delicious morsel in Boston, Greenwich village,
New Rochelle and Indiana where literary cul-
ture is farmed intensivey, but in the rest Of the
country it sounds lot like swearing Indeed, it
sounds to the average American like swearing
when expressed in German Here's the way
the English German dictionary (no violation Of
the espionage act intended) puts it:
"Concomitant--Begleitend, mitwirkend,
damit verbunden."
We did not raise or train our boys to do
"a concomitant phenomenon" but it's remark
able how readily they have picked it up. Now
if they could only get at Potsdam with paral-
lelopiped and Berlin with hypochondriac, we
might expect the war to be over in short time
thereafter.
So far as we know "concomitant phenom.
enon" is not mentioned in the laws OF war Of
Christian nations, hence the people Of Metz
cannot appeal to those laws in protest against
the use of this new and strange devce.-Minne-
apolis Tribune
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
ALONG THE ROARING BATTLE LINE.

Foch has completely disrupted the defensive
plans OF Hindenburg by an attack that prac-
tically involves the entire Hun organization
from Archangel to the Dead Sea-
1t is difficult even for close observers to
visualize and comprehend what is involved in
the concerted movement of the Allies on every
battle front Not in all the worlds history
have such forces been engaged, and never did
generalisslmo move mighty armies with such
perfection of skill in detail and fnesse
This admirable strategy is made possible by
the absolute coordination of the forces and
vindicates magnifcently the unihcation of COM
mand made possible by Pershing's generous
action IN May, when he placed his entire force
at disposal of the French general.
Berlin now sees Bulgaria suing for peace.
Turkey flying in disorder, Austria weakly re-
sisting and the proudest of the kaser's soldiers
being crushed and broken by the Americans.
British and French along the western front.
While Won Hertling and Won Risberg are utter
ing brave words before the Reichstag, deliver
ing vain boasts of ability to hold back the forces
OF Liberty, Foch was launching blow under
which the entire. structure of Germanys plans
is crumbling.
The major offensive, so long looked for, is
under way, and on scale so extensive and
OF such magnificence as to stagger the mind.
Resstess as doom, relentless as fate, justice is
overtakng the Hun. His pride is being hum
bed, his ambition turned to disappointment and
his lust for conquest brought to defeat that
even he must acknowledge. As his front lines
melt away under the gunfre of the soldiers of
democracy, SO does the vision of world dom-
mated by force directed from Potsdam vanish
from the kaiser's view and cease to be night
mare for humanity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
Bulgaria's Plea for Peace.

Bulgaria, it seems, knows when it has had
enough, and by asking for an armstice in hope
that peace terms may be arranged comedies its
hopelessness of victory. The Allied advance in
the Balkans has scored complete Knockout,
and the formal protest from Berlin will hardly
be heard in the din of the crashing guns of the
victorious army of freedom. While the French
general, to whom the request for forty-eght-
hour cessation of arms, pending the arrival of
the Bulgarian messengers, has been preferred,
has declined to check the fighting, he has
agreed to receive the message on its arrival
Thus ends Bulgarias share in the most Infamous
compact ever made between nations.
Bulgaria's entrance into the war was ~,
elimination of cold-blooded bargain, Ss,;hsr.
atey negotiated. Lord Grey suffe.,r.d nrs.t,v
in his standing as diplomat - h.,;na f,u.d
to rivet King Ferdinand tc. T.. En.s,.s .a.s.
but it has developed s 1.e that the British for
''''e.~' Il not reconcile his obligation
p,, "D..l'" '' with the price demanded by the
VIZ
-. IN Jagow had no such scruples, and pur-
assAased the adherence of Ferdinand by conced-
! ing practically all he required. This mainly
consisted in the right to recoup himself at the
expense Of his neighbors. Roumania, Serbia,
Albania and Russia were to contribute territory
to the expansion of Bulgaria's domains, while
the matters in dispute between that kingdom
and Turkey would be adjusted on basis salts
factory to Berlin.
Failure to realize on the ambition and with
defeat at hand, Bulgar opinion is now swinging
around to the belief that Ferdinand made poor
bargain. Whether the reported move of Pre-
mier Malinoff presages revolt is not especially
important. 1t might be subterfuge of the
willy Ferdinand to save his royal face. Its sig
nihcance is that Germany's allies are not in
clined to go to the last ditch in support of the
kaiser's program, nor to make heroic sacrifices
in order that favorable terms may be secured
for the junkerthurm.
Only the peace of victory can be extended
to any of these. Unconditional surrender must
precede any talk of terms.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
Cotton and the South
We are confident that the American De

We are confident that the American people
as whole will bear up bravery under the Of
fetal notice from Washington that the president
is soon to fix price for cotton and order con-
troll of its distribution; but as to the effect of
this sacrilege upon the SOUTH there must be the
most dismal forebodings.
It is all right for the government to name
prices for wheat, iron, steel and copper. 1t is
perfectly legitimate to deprive man OF his
beer and stronger ~drink. 1t is admissible to
say that wages shall be limited and profits
standardized in order to meet certain precon-
ceived notions. 1t is even happy and patri-
otto thought to accuse and tax citizen as a
war-profiteer when as matter of fact the war
las almost ruined him.
But when il comes to cotton, is not the holy
Of holes profaned, and how is liberty to prevail
If the very ark of the old-time covenant is thus
to Be violated How can the president place a
value upon cotton which every planter and spec
ulator in the south knows is priceless? How
regulate q crop and a gamble both of which
claim all the prerogative of kings?
We can find no answer to these queries in
yesterday's closing quotations of the New York
cotton exchange, which were about 80 cents a
pound for the staple, as compared with 9, II and
cents m the pre-war years of 1912, 1918 and
l9d=Neu York World.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
Foot Ball and the Bigger Game.

School and college coaches are making a
brave effort to carry on in foot ball, but the
gridiron looks desolate. The boys have gone
to places in the greater game, and those we
used to hail through the frenzy of the sporting
editors imagination as 'gridiron warriors" are
now indeed warriors. The "tin hat" has taken
the place of the head gear" and puttees re-
place shin guards. But what they learned on
the campus and foot ball field is we'll redeemed
in trench and No Mans Land. Formations
may vary little and signals differ in sound,
but the spirit is the same. Hit the line hard,
and do not finch" the watchword of the college
coach, is now heard over sorely stricken fields,
where the goal is human liberty and the umpire
Great Jehovah himself If Waterloo was won at
Elton, as has been said, what have American col
leges contributed to the cause of humanity when
most it needed strong men for defense? Foot
ball teams may fail for want of frst-class men
this fall, but the game will not have been
wasted. And when in happier days to come old
grads return from Europe, with soberer faces
and steadier eyes, the sport will not be loser
because they join in the jollihcation after the
contest In the meantime, carry on, college
boysi
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
A Wonderful Feat

General March, chief-of-staff, on Saturday
made the following statement, which is pregnant
with meaning:
This Afternoon $4,000 men went ashore at
one of our base ports and 1000 more will be
off before noon tomorrow (Sunday) Fifteen
which II were unloaded and will be ready to
return to America tomorrow"
If the kaiser harbored the belief that the
presence of his submarines on the American
side of the Atlantic would slow up troop move
ments from the United States, he should now
be dislusioned. With 10000 troops landing
during period of "a hours and the troop ships
making the turn-around and starting back in
the same time, the plan to have an American
army of 100000 in France by June so next
seems certain of fulfllment 1t is a marvellous
performance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28
A SIGNED EDITORIAL.
It's the stuck pig that squeals!

It's the stuck pig that squeals!
That is again the explanation OF the unpro-
voked bitter personal assault upon me which
Senator Htchcock's hreling editor makes in
the columns of his hyphenated sheet
The fact that the World-Herad is suffering
in prestige and pocketbook from its rank record
of pro-Germanism and kaiser -coddling is no
special concern of mine, but | cannot afford to
let newcomers here, unacquainted with the de-
vous past and malicious mendacity of the
Hitchcock paper, accept as true the lies about
me with which it is trying to cover its own
nfamy
The hireling Hun worshipper seeks to boil
ster up the World Herald by running down The
Bee. He talks about me "inheriting from my
father" a fine newspaper building and flourish
ing and successful farm journal (which have
passed from my control" He knows that in
herited from my father less than one-twelfth
of the stock of the Bee Building company and
never had control of it, and that the lease of
the building to one tenant instead of to 100
tenants is an advantageous business arrange
ment. He knows, or could easily ascertain,
that the farm journal was sold after just one
year of my control Of it for nearly twice what
was offered for it two years before, and was
sold solely to enable me to give my undivided
attention to The Bee, the result of which is
plainly seen in its steadily improving standing
and patronage, which is really what is hurting
the World Herald
One of my chief inheritances from my father,
but the one of which the Hitchcock mud singer
makes no mention, is the inherited venomous
hatred and INSCRIPTIONS stetto warfare of the
World-Herald outfit of which my father was
the constant victim during his lifetime and
which has been passed along to me. To Hitch
cock and his paper every political crook and
scalawag exposed by my father just naturally
turned as duck to water, and Hitchcock
eagerly seized the chance to benefit by their
rascality. Thus it was disclosed that he had
"a slip" in the looted city treasury cash drawer,
and that BARLEY, the embezzng republican
state treasurer, had split" with Hitchcock
some of the stolen public school funds. Hitch.
cock sold out to the silver bullionaires in the
sound money fight and let Bryan run his paper
for them, and then later sold out b yam and
became his mos: tvindictive enemy.
what 49, oothering the hyphenated paper
f,e"t noY', however, is its notorious liason with
'ne EEs.ltorous German American Alliance, by
witch it became the organ of German propa-
ganda in America more Jealous than the kaiser
bought New York Mail, and at the same time
blossomed out in fine new newspaper building
which was not inherited" The faint of kaiser
ism sticks out all over the Hitchcock paper.
and to get away from it this fierce gas attack is
made upon me. While do not court such a
personal controversy, feel that owe it to
myself and to the public to let people know
what it is all about.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

II the farmers of Nebraska are not altogether
fools, they will recall with very little difficulty
that Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock sought to prevent
the shipment of foodstuffs to France and Eng
land during the war, thus cutting off the sale Of
Nebraska's products and fixing prices on basis
Of an oversupply at home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

AT any rate, no one even suspects that any
part of the kaser's propaganda fund helped
build new eight-story home for The Bee al
though without doubt lot of easy money could
have been had had The Bee been willing to
champion the kaisers cause as did Senator
Hitchcock and his hyphenated World Herald
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

The World-Herald has been in the paid
propaganda business so long and so often that
1t is now selling its extra purity columns for
paid propaganda for the Mormon church.
Watch that paper every Monday for the Nor
mon PROSECUTING stuff.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

General Won Risberg might as we'll secure
permanent quarters in Berlin, for he will have
steady employment explaining why the Hum
are falling back
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

Trotzky has revoked" the terror, but it re-
mains to see how we'll he controls the evil he
set in motion. Meantime, his Red Guard is so
busy on its murder assignment it leaves to
starve the prisoners it is supposed to protect.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

Needless bundle wrapping is to be stopped
in the interest of paper conservation. In
word, when you hand someone package, either
fguratvely Or literally, never mind wrapping it
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

It ought to cheer the lawyers to know they
are to be permitted to go to war just the same
10 other folks.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

General Won Sand, who deserted his army il
Turkey, is qualified to add the word shifting
to his other distinctions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

incidentally, it must be kept in mind always
that the opposition to the presidents plan OF
having woman suffrage dispensed with by con-
gressionai action comes from the democratic
side of the senate chamber.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

of means of heating the buildings
and no provision was made for the
cold weather.
The president OF the Union Pa
cific railway, Charles Francis
Adams, is expected i'll Omaha Sum
day from Boston.
Falls City division No. 20,
Knights of Pythias. arrived in town
on their way home from Sioux City
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

Loyal service as policemen or iremen ant
divided allegiance between the city and thu
labor union do not go together.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

Stein is reported to have resiggsE -.
IAN war minister, and thus is anothW 800
d to the scrap heap. Let thsse,. 49,
reeed. %TWe9&a Fu, ~, y.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-28

The sultan says he will quit if given "favora.
terms" How sadly he will miss the bal
i of power" now in the permanent junk