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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
HE HAD SUFFERED
FOURTEEN YEARS
Hicks Says Since Taking Tan.
lac All His Troubles Have
Disappeared.

"Tanlac made a well man of
me after had suffered for four
teen years and spent hundreds
OF dollars in trying to get re-
lief" said E. A. Hicks, a we'll
known merchant of Blackwell.
Tenn.
II was in miserable shape" he
continued, land ter years ago
| became so much worse that I
had to quit working at my trade
and bought a store where the
work would be lighter on me.
| had hardly any appetite, and
after forcing down anything 1
would become nauseated and be-
gin vomiting. Gas pressed so
on my heart that I would al
most smother to death and
would feel as though there was
a hard lump in my stomach, and
often | would be in so much mis-
cry that I would have to go to
bed.
Il tried everything I could
think of but got no relief till 1
started on Tanlac. By the time
| had taken half a bottle l was
feeling like a new man. When
| had taken three bottles I found
| had gained ten pounds and my
food did not hurt me at all. NV
appetite picked up right away
and now I don't have a bit of
trouble with gas or Indigestion
and everybody round here is
talking about how we'll 1 am
looking. ! sure do feel fine and
1T was nothing but Tanlac that
fixed me up"
Tanlac is sold in Rockingham
by L. G. Fox and S. Biggs, and
by all good druggists every
where.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

Reynolds, Donnie Sedberry, Tom
Goodman, Lula Mckenzie, Eliz-
abeth Nicholson, Elizabeth Ter
ry, Luella Reynolds, Wilma
WEIGH, McPhail Tutor, Ned Glib
son, William Ballard, Rufus Boil
ton, James Brown, Robert McIn-
tosh, Reece Sedberry, Bernie
Stogner, Ella MAZE Bennett, Re
becca Halton, Sena Dunn, Lena
Dunn, Elisha Gibson, Herman
Hamilton, Wade Hooker, Mary
Reece LeGrande, Maggie Stog-
ner, Mildred Terry, Arthur
WEIGH, Oracle Covington.
High School; Bertha Boxley,
Julia Gibson, Ada Lovin, Evelyn
Terry, Hunter Key, Cameron
Lovin, Glenn O'Brien, Bonnie
Rainwater, Guy Reynolds, Steele
Reynolds, Charlie Jones, Bessie
Easterling, Viola Gibson, Beat
rice Gibson, Rosa Hudson, Pearl
Reynolds, Minnie Terry, Fonnie
Covington, Armon Crouch, Ray
mond Sullivan, Jane Culberson,
Effie Easterling, LESSEE McIn-
tosh, Annie Reynolds. Josie Ter
ry, Bernice Terry, Clara Stog-
ner, John Bailey.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
RoberdeI Honor Roll.

The following pupils of the
Roberdel High School made per-
feet attendance records for last
month:
Primary Grades: Jessie Bal
lard, Margaret Lisk, Hester
Hamilton, Bessie Hamilton,
Frances Terry, Jasper Dunn,
Joan Nicholson, Walter Deaton,
Welton Goodman, Frank Sed-
berry, Robert Dunn, Thomas
Baldwin, Mack Dawkins, Cecil
Terry, John Halton, Alton Gov
.ington, Susie Carter, Frances
Easterling, Nettie Gordon, An
ME Lee Mckenzie, Katherine
WEIGH.
Grammar Grades: Willie Rey-
|nolds, Clyde Terry, Webster
Dobbin, Lille Hudson, Lucia
Bolton. Henry Childress, John
Dobbin, Ralph Key Bolton Earl
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

The Government is talking
business now! Beginning Dec
LIST a series of conferences will
be held in Washington by the
Internal Revenue Department
looking to ways and means to
either medicate or decrease the
potability Of BARRIERS supplies,
liquid medical compounds and
favoring extracts. It is realiz-
ed that these three classes Of
liquids are furnishing a large
part of the DRINKS of the coun-
try, and in many places drug
stores, groceries and barber
shops are bar rooms in disguise.
It is intended now to control
these more closely. Good.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

The elections held in France
quite recently resulted in a VIC
tory for the friends of Premier
,Clemenceau, who will have about
five-sixths of the next chamber.
The Socialists waged a bitter
fight to control the chamber and
GUST the premier, but the loyal
French people rallied to the sup
port of the government and law
and order.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

Lawyer H. F. Seawell, of Car
thage, will not let whiskey be
made in Moore county if he can
prevent it; and he can prevent it,
because, forsooth, he goes after
the blockaders himself. Last
week he learned by the grape
vine wire that a still was in
operation on his farm; imme-
diatelyhe got busy. Getting
two officers, he and his two sons
drove to the farm and after a
diligent search over hill and dale
he came full upon the still--and
it was in operation. The block
aders, unfortunately, made a
getaway, but Mr. .Seawell had
the satisfaction of pouring out
the beer, fresh whiskey, several
quarts Of concentrated I've and
other notwithstanding ingre-
dents.
Where there's a will there's a
way. In too many instances the
owners of farms are afraid to
root out stills. The Sea
is commended to law-abiding
Richmond county citizens.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

Greater production is a cry
ing need of the day, and because
of the devastation in Europe the
bulk of this burden falls upon
America.
We must increase our produc-
lion.
We must feed the world and
we must eat at the same time.
We must furnish the nipple
ments of cultivation and manu-
facture, and we must have them
for our own use. Greater produc-
ton alone can do this.
" Future disagreements between
capital and labor should be set
tied "out of court" - in other
words, without recourse to the
paralyzing results of a strike.
Surely the government and
congress can devise some tri-
bunal which will have the au-
thority to settle all disputes and
enforce it's decisions on both
sides alike, doing equal justice
to all and injustice to none.
Nero fiddIed while Rome burn
ed.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

Tomorrow thanksgiving Day.
everyone is requested to give one
days income to the orphans. 1t
is a request that everyones should
gladly comply with if the amount
can possibly be spared.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

The strike which produces the
greatest good to mankind is the
one which hits a hot piece of
iron, the head of a nail, or 9th
erwise aids in the work of pro-
duction.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
Hol THE sPRINGTiME!


Ho, The springtfme,
Springtime young heart thinking.
Then spring, when gave my signore the flowers
the field,
fumed gardens yield;
sealed
Ho. in the campagna! the flow of the sap of the
The blossom of dawn the beach surf
And ali their joy in our bosoms the bud
unfurled,
One 's sEns one thrill one 'hr00 Of the manitoba p's'
Flooded and blended our being as the grapes
Sweet there was our life together the garden this side
of the grave,
And the springtime smiling on the smile of flower
and wave.
+ o my heart!
Ho! the springtime
Time of kiss time of blossom
Time of faring the seas blue bosom
Time Of thinking of another spring
When we lived, young, open hearts together
Clover. poppy, almond-bough
Love is coming this is it! this is it!
Passes the bloom! oh, to miss it!
TIE voice, the touch. the fond caress
That undivided lovers bess!"
my heart. how sad is thinking!
.Ho. is it spring." in the dawn wake up saying
] hear far off, mymother tpoveretta) praying
For us three
And Italy!
There mighty Etna, snow-cad, thundertorn and
earthquake-r1ven,
Lifts breathing springtime to the freblack heaven!
Oh the spring!
Ho, is it spring?
ST. thoughts, kiss, flowers, caresses!
Time of blossom and eadearing,
To dark death forever nearing!-
Time Of weeping,
Time of the black hour toward US creeping!
Sigaore. signor'i
Iio! is It spring?
Time of wandering forth earth's green bosom!
Time Of passing Of youths alroondolossom!
wandered far wandered, far, and far away
Across the greening the violet and far
far away
Flowers of the field cannot bring, signoT.
Thinking, to thee send the kiss Of spring signor.
&C. Z. Woo1berry, in Scrbner's.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22

separate their feathers and carefully
pick out all particles of refuse. Pig
cons, cockatoos and larks like their
bath in the form Of a copious rain;
game birds and poultry the dust bath
but the sparrow loves to combine
these styles-he takes dry dust
shampoo, then plunges into the water.
Close observation will show that
practically all insects and animals
have some way of preserving cleanii-
ness. The observer will be struck by
the pride that most of our dumb
friends manifest. From the prancing
race horse and strutting ueacock,
down to the humble bat. each has
some degree Of pride. Watch the care
with which the butterfly folds its
beautiful wings before going to sleep !:
some of us are not nearly SO careful
of our clothes on retiring.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
A PLEA FOR THE DERELICT

( him what 1t should do He loses his
vote usually because OF frequent
journeyings. There is no joyousness
in his life. He has never learned
how nor had time to play.
When liquor was sold In the
northwest he drowned his sorrows
and encouragement in drunkenness.
There is no liquor now. With $50
in his pocket, he comes to town and
lives a month. The !. w. w. agitator
mixes with him, is one with him; In
fact, he buys the agitator's litera-
ture. In sordid dens beneath the
sidewalk he spends the social part
OF his existence debating, in his half
baked way, political economy. So
ciety passes him by. 1t has cast him
and his aside.
He becomes, therefore, foe to
society. The agitator is his friend.
| Society is their common enemy. The
seed is sown and passes from one to
the other. What the harvest will be
none can foretell.
Personally, ! believe that something
must take the place of the saloon,
and that quickly; that great amuse-
ment halls, etc, must be opened, that
4 USlLeT living COuultlOIS must NC
| brought about in all camps. and that
the workers must be provided with
reading matter stating the facts and
not perverted conceptions.
Society has neglected the great
masses of Hinerants. These timer
ants are now society's menace. Add
! TO these itinerants few thousand
Russian bolsheyists, few intel
lectual socialists, half dozen red
trade unionista and you have a rea-
sonably critical situation.
Great public works must be in
augurated Immediately by city, state
and nation. These should be financed
on longtime bonds. Great areas OF
land should be developed and sold at
cost to the actual user. Every en-
couragement should be given to the
settlement of land and development
Of our farms. The antagonistic alien
must not be allowed to enter this
country If already here, he should
be deported.
Our country is great enough to be
just and just enough to be great 1t
is only bad management on our part
If men willing to work are forced to
become idle We have plenty OF
great big things to do. Let us do
them and employ all our available
labor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
A WORLD LANGUAGE.

Dubuque Times-Journal Can you
speak English?
If 80, it will pay you to read the
following statement made recently
by Professor Brander Matthews Of
Columbia university:
AT the beginning of the nineteenth
century probably about twenty mil
lions of men and women spoke Eng
lish, while about thirty-one millions
spoke French, and about thirty mil
lions spoke German. Now, at the
end of the second decade of the TWEEN
tieth century, it is believed that
about fifty millions speak French,
and nearly one hundred millions
speak German, while nearly two hun
dred millions speak English. Our
language Is spreading more rapidly
than any other; and the prophecy
has been made that at the end of
the twentieth century the number of
those who use the English language
will be more than FIVE hundred mil
lions. AS the people of the United
States are in no wise inferior to the
people of Great Britain, it seems
likely that hereafter the Americans.
rather than the British, will be recog-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
SCHOOL GARDENERS.

Along with other signs of spring comes a
hurry call to the school garden army. In the
program proposed this year the need of chang
ing one hundred thousand idle acres into pro
!ducing land is prominent With the three mil
hon recruits which the army declares it viii
have this ambitious proposal is by means i'm
possible The work is good in itself and the by
products of it may be even better School
children who get along with their vegetables a
notion of the business Of contributing to their
own support, of the duty of working for liv-
ing in the concrete fashion that garden tending
means. will be richer for it all their lives Chill
Idren who are made to realize definitely the
value of putting garden where there was only
waste have lesson that this whole nation
needs to learn. Children who get, as they can,
from the land-labor better than anywhere else
the demonstration that it means work to pro-
duce food will start with good concept of the
relation OF work to getting living Every
thing being equal, the school gardeners ought
lto be the best educated of all our pupils, for
they will do things and see results Of what they
do Ii all our education promised as much and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
fulfilled the promise, it would be better than it
THE RUSSIAN NIGHTMARE.

| Nothing more horrible than the present con
dition of Russia can be imagined Compared
with it an earthquake is picnic. The lur1d
scenes of the French revolution were terrible
indeed, but they were not SO degrading TO hui
man nature as what is now taking place in Rus
STA ~
Moscow, the old capital, the most genuinely
Russian city in the world, has only one
million inhabitants. Before the destructive re-
gime of Lenine and Trotsky it had population
of three million. The people of Moscow are
dying of starvation and plague, and thousands
OF them have been arbitrarily executed.
Starvation and misery have driven many
persons mad, and the insane assylums so
crowded that they have no room for additional
patients. In the maternity hospitals twenty
per cent of the women die after childbirth.
The dead receive no individual interment. The
corpses are borne in carts to common grave In
which they are flung in heaps. This is the way
in which the bolsheviki have Mathematical"
funerals, burial being at the expense of the
state.
The Russians are religious people, but the
bolsheviki are the enemies of religion. No
priest is allowed to officiate in any Of the
churches. But thousands of worshippers fill
the churches day and night, fervently praying
to be delivered from the nightmare which has
made life in Moscow veritabe inferno.
Death is so widespread that Moscow has
been called 'the graveyard - People have
been dying SO numerousy of typhus that the
undertakes cannot meet all their orders. In
Petrograd, according to British businessman,
the situation is worse than it is in Moscow.
Russia only wake from her nightmare when
bolshevism is destroyed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22

Ole Hanson. Mayor of Seattle: In
order TO understand the acts of Il
person, one must first understand
that persons surroundings and living
conditions. When | first came to
Seattle seventeen years ago our main
industries were logging and lumber
Ing. vast areas OF wonderful forests
covering every hillside and valley.
Great lumber companies had been
formed. which were rapidly turning
the timber into lumber Itinerant
labor was principally the labor used.
These laborers were housed in board
shacks, slept in wooden hunks and
furnished their own blankets and
quilts and packed them from camp
to camp. The pay was fair, the
work hard. but camp conditions were
deplorable. There was no amuse-
ment in the camp and no means OF
improving the mind. 1t was work
from sunup to shutdown, then hasty
meal and slumber on plank bed, in
dimly-lighted and bad-smelling quar-
.ers.
Three or four weeks of this mo-
notony and the worker demanded his
pay. He went to town, and his only
place. Oh WclCOuS Was Lll6 UdStiAChl
saloon with all that goes with 1t.
Discouragemen and poverty made
him drink to forget, and in a few
days his bank roll was gone and out
TO another camp went this poor aeie-
lict. At the camp the only literature
was T. w. W. The only hope held
out to these itinerants was the hope
of an international brotherhood. The
only companions these men had were
l. w. W. agitators and leaders, who
showed the poor devils how gen
eral overthrow would benefit them
and that they, too, would have
home, wife and children.
To great extent this condition OF
affairs is being remedied in the
northwest. Today many of the great
numbering camps are providing SAM
tary quarters for their men, with hot
and cold water, shower baths, read
ing rooms, monographs and billiard
and pool tables. In some of our
camps may be found the Y. II. G. A..
The itinerant worker receives less
than any other person on earth. He
works hard, ne wears poor clothing,
he sleeps in cheap lodging-houses, he
eats cheap meals, he is exposed TO
all kinds of weather, and he has no
home. wife or children Potentially
he is an outcast He knows this. He
knows that society has not done for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
CLEANLINESS OF ANIMALS.

l.. E. Burbank, in Our Dumb AMI
mails: Some people believe that ami
mails prefer uncleanliness, ct least
that they do not care Most people
have seen the house cat doll Iup" by
the use OF her tongue and paws, but
they would be surprised to learn that
most other animals, too, prefer to
Keep clean. / have heard more than
one stockman say that cows would
stand all night rather than lie down
on badly soiled bedding. Sometimes
horses all but speak their gratitude
to the keeper who curries them. Dogs
too, especially among the house pets,
generally show aversion to filth. l
have known a fox terrier and a cock
er spaniel who would invariably wipe
muddy paws on the door mat before
entering the house. or course, they
had been trained but they learned
with significant ease. The terrier once
worried himself nearly sick over a
smear of green paint on his pretty
coat
All animals OF the cat family use
the tongue for toilet purposes, wash
ing the face by moistening the paws
and rubbing them over the eyes and
nose. The prickles of the tongue make
good comb. and enable puss to polish
her coat very satisfactorily. These
prickles Cor papellae) on the lions
tongue are nearly a quarter of an inch
long and can be used with the severity
of blacksmith's rasp, when the ami
NAL so desires. The rabbit washes its
face just as the cat does: and mice
and bats also rely on licking.
The hOnpy-hee carriec itc oop,b -,
the fore leg and uses it to clean the
antennae. Some beetles are similarly
equipped with a comb, which forms a
deep notch protected by spine at the
lower end of the front tibia. Flies of
all sorts use the fine fur on their legs
az comb for their wings and bodies.
Owls, herons cormorants and other
birds use the foot for comb. the
claw Of the middle toe. Larks and
some ducks have a saw-like blade run
ming along the inner side OF the claw.
Snakes soak themselves; elephants
dust themselves and enjoy their bath.
tigers and some bears like
to wallow The polar bear likes his
frigfd dive, and spends half his time
in the icy arctic waters. MONKEYS
scratch themselves continually. and
this Is more an effort at self currying
than search for parasites. The horse.
both Wild and domesticated, likes his
roll. That wild beasts attach consider
afle importance to ablutions and
drinking is evidenced by their behav-
ior toward each other at the water
hole when they are seldom attacked
by others not Of their own kind.
Nearly all birds believe in per
sonal neatness; some take great
pains to pluck out with their bills all
frayed or ill-shaped feathers. TheyI
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22

nized as the chief Of the English
speaking peoples"
a moments thought should bring
the Importance of this to the Ameri-
can business nina. We have now an
international language. English. We
do not need Volapuk, Esperanto, or
any other artificial tongue. The
head of one of the great wholesale
houses of Chicago recently declared
that all of the firms extensive
foreign business could be handled
by correspondence In English. The
leading commercial houses in
Europe, Asia and South America are
now prepared to do business on the
basis Of the English language. This
means that the markets of the world
are open to the commerce Of the
English-speaking peoples.
The people of the United. States
will do well to make use of the ad-
vantage thus given them. Let us
hope that they will bend their efforts
towards this result, that as they
stand numerically first among the
English-speakng nations, they may
never stand commercially second.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-22
AMATEURS IN MUSIC.

1t is curious to note how devotion to calling
grows binders on the best of men. Here is
Philip Hale, than whom no writer on music is
more widely and justly respected, saying that at
last music teaching is bending its energies
away from mere amateurism;' that it is seek
ing standards of performance of its product
based on professional ideals and abilities; in
short, that music teaching is now directed to-
ward turning out artists and not diletantes.' -
Mr.. Hale is eager to see good teaching; he is
earnest advocate of raising the standards of
music teaching as the standards Of all educa-
tional work are being raised; he wants to see
results and hear results in performance and he
says that the ideal is to turn out artists.
Now of course this is all wrong. It is only
necessary to call attention to the meafing-the
real meaning-of the word amateur. 1t comes
from the French amateurs which signifies
lovers. Amateurs are lovers Of whatever they
devote their time and attention to and especial
Ily are they lovers of the arts. Moreover it is
by them and because of their support that arts
have become great and must continue to be-
come great. When an art ceases to make its
chief business &c ucationally to turn out anna
iteurs, it IS on its way to a closed career In a
very large degree artists-real artists-cannot
be produced by education at all; the natural en-
dowment of artistry is so much factor that
education is mere developer The broader
function of education is to furnish the soil in
which art is to flower; to train the mass in
which special talent will distinguish itself
The real trouble with our music education is
that it has never recognized its duty toward
amateurs at all. 1t has always emphasized per-
Torrance and it is to be feared it has always
held out too many promises of artistic perform
ances where the possibility slight or nil.
A real program Of music education will come
when it bases itself on training to knowledge
and love of music; performance is, of course, a
necessity; we learn to do by doing and know by
doing; to perform music is one of the best ways
to know it and love it. But knowledge and
taste should be the goal; not performance for
money or applause.