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VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2
SALARY LESS
THAN SBOO.OO
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Education Makes
Progress Under
McLean
While North Carolina’s progress iij.
educational lines has increased in a
material way since the incumbency
of the late Gov. Charles A. Aycock,
the State, during the school year of
1924-25 paid its superintendents, «rin
cipals and teachers average salaries
of less than SBOO a year.
This fact is pointed out in the
current issue of State School Facts,
publication of the State Department
of Public Instruction, which was re
leased Friday. The current num
ber presents a detailed study of how
the dollars expended for education
in this State are spent.
Approximately 62 per cent of all
public elementary and high school
funds are used for current expense
items, the remainder being spent for
permanent improvements, or “cap
ital outlay.” The publication, hav
ing discussed the expenditures in a
general way in a previous issue, de
votes the current issue to a study
of current expense items.
Growth of the educational system
in the State is reflected in the ex
penditures over a ten-year period,
the figures showing that the expen
ditures have nicreased $16,815,631.95
since 1914-15. In that year the ex
penditures were $4,215,178.28, while
in 1924-25, the expenditures were
$21,030,810.23.
The curret expense dollar In the
school year 1924-26 was distributed
thus: teaching and supervision, 83.4
cents; administration, two and one
half cents, and operation and main
tenance, 14.1 cents.
The big item of current expense,
teach ng and supervision, was for
three purposes, the publication says:
white teachers’ salaries; negro teach
ers’ salaries, and training and super
vision.
Os the 83.4 cents for teachings and
supervision, 67.4 cents went for
white teachers’ salaries; 11.6 cents
for saiaries for negro teachers; and
4.1 cents for teacher training and
supervision.
The administration cos’s cover the
per diem and expense of the county
boa - ] of education, the expense of
the r-iporintendents of schools, cler
ical and office expense of the ad-1
ministrative officers, and other ex
pense recessary to administering the
schools.
Operation and maintenance repre
sents the amounts spent for fuel,
janitors, school supplies, rent, in
surance, lights, water, transporta
tion of pupils, and other operating
items.
Os the $17,536,526 spent for teach
ing and supervision, $11,021,242 was
for the expense of the rural schools
and $6,515,264 for the expense of the
special charter and city schools. The
total sum for teaching and super
vision “represents the annual salaries
of nearly 23,000 school teachers,
principals, supervisors of public wel
fare,” says State School Facts. “If
it were divided equally among these
officials each would receive less than
SBOO apiece.”
Operation and maintenance ex
pense ftr 1924-26 amounted to $2,970,-
367. It took $1,981,115 of this
amount to run all the rural schools
and $989,252 to operate the 120 spe
cial charter and city schools.
Turning to the per capita current
expense, it is shown that 10
ago the per capita expense in the
rural schools was $5.78, and in the
city schools, $12.62. The past year it
was $21.81 in the rural schools, and
$38.92 in the city schools.
Over twice as much was spent
toward educat : ng the city child than
was spent toward educating the rural
child, 10 years ago. Today, the pro
portionate difference is less, it is
shown by the figures above, and
School Facts comments:
“There seems to be a tendency for
the gap between the school advan
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The Zebulon RECORD 1
REPRESENTING FOUR COUNTIF.S—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH and FRANKLIN
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY SMALL TOWN COMMUNITY PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA.
WAKE COUNTY MEN
GET DOCTOR S DEGREE
Philadelphia, June 20. —Three stu
dents from Raleigh and vicinity
were among those to receive degrees
at the commencement exercises at
the University of Pennsylvan.a.
Charles P. Eldridge, of Raleigh, and
Cecil H. Rand and E. G. Rand, of
Garner, were all graduated with the
degree of Doctor of Medicine.
This year’s graduation exercises in
which the above named students
were participants, mark the 170th
annual commencement of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. At the
ceremonies which lasted throughout
the day, over 1,700 degrees and cer
tificates were awarded, the recipients
of which represented every State in
the union and over 20 foreign coun
tries.
Cecil and Emmett Rand are both
graduates of the University of North
Carolina and members of the Theta
Kappa Psi and Alpha Psi Delta
fraternities. Cecil Rand will shortly
take up duties as interne at the St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.
while E. G. Rand goes to the Poly
clinic Hospital, Pa., as interne. Ce
cil was graduated with honors.
Eldridge is a graduate of North
Carolina State and of Wake Forest
College. He is a member of the Phi
Chi and Acacia fraternity, and of
the North Carolina Medical Society.
Recently Eldridge was appointed in
terne at the Roanoke Hospital, Va.,
where he will take up his duties
shortly after graduation.
B. Y. P. U. STARTS
ANNUAL MEETING
An enthusiastic gathering of more
than a thousand young peofrte
crowded the auditorium at the new
Meredith College Tuesday night for
the opening session of the 17th annual
meeting of the Baptist Young Peo
ples’ Union of North Carolina. The
hall was not only filled to capacity
with a large number lining the
walls, but available space in doors
and windows were crowded with
young people eager to hear the wel
coming words from Governor Mc-
Lean, President Charles E. Brewer,
and R. N. Simms, Jr., representing
the Baptist young people of Ral
eigh.
Special music was furnished by
Miss Evelyn Rhea tVood, of F.nf eld,
while Miss Lbretta Carroll, of Win
ston-Salem, responded to the cordial
welcome extended the delegates
Rev. J. A. McMillan, of Wake For
est. preached the annual sermon on
‘“The Universal King.” State offi
cers of the B. Y. P. U. were intro
duced by President C. S. Green, of
Durham, who also presided at the
meeting.
STATE’S REVENUE
HAS BIG INCREASE
With the end of the present fiscal
year only ten days* away, north Car
olina’s revenue collections are almost
double what they were for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1925.
Last year's total collections were
$6 ,246,816.20, whTe collections for
the present fiscal year total $11,059,-
174.29. These f gurcs are exclusive
of automobile license and gasoline
taxes.
This month’s collections to date
total $484,882.96, with inheritance
and Schedule B (license) taxes
making up a big portion of the total,
figures compiled by A. S. Carson,
cashier of the State Department of
Revenue, show. Collections for the
whole of June, 1925, totalled $318,-
031.07.
The inheritance tax collections this
month so far amount to $112,825.80,
as compared with $39,295.17 for the
entire month of June , 1925. This
difference is largely accounted for,
however, Mr. Carson said, by the
recent settlement of a big estate.
The license taxes collected this
month amount to $292,654.87, as com
pared with $203,942.76 for the whole
of the month of June last year.
creased term for the
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JUNE CROP
REPORT FOR N.C.
Rains Improved All
Os Crops In
The State
In spite of the known cool and dry
weather conditions which the Weath
er Bureau report to be about the worst
on record at this time of the year,
there is a chance that the crops in
j North Carolina may be better than
expected. According to the late and
| dry springs in the past, crops were
i quite up to average or perhaps a
• little better than usual in the final
: harvest. After all, it is not so much
how many units of weight a farmer
makes of a crop as it is the value he
gets out of it. This is particularly
j true of so-called cash crops. At least
' a dry year permits the plant roots
j to get their plant food deeper in the
! soil, thereby improving the soil depth.
Splendid rain June 4th, extendiYig
practically the entire Coastal section
! and eastern counties of the Piedmont
but dwindling out into local showers
through western Piedmont and Moun
tain counties.
Our reporters state almost unani
mously that the drought has been ex
treme with the season unusually late
and cool. Several of our oldest report
ers in the Piedmont districts informed
us that it has been the driest April
and May in their memory. Practi
cally every growing crop, with wheat
least so, has suffered from lack of
moisture, gardens are considered a
practical failure and streams are un
usually low, with many almost dry.
[ Cold nights and low temperatures
have been general which has been the
largest cause for setback to the cot
ton crop. Reports of poor stands are
frequent.
The report on the wheat crop, with
82 per cent condition which is slight
ly below the ten-year average, indi
cates 10.7 bushels per acre or 4,562,- j
(700 bushels this year. TJiis is slight j
!y better than last year, but one-half
million hushe's below the f ve-year
average. We were growing about two
times as much wheat ten years ago
as we are growing now. The crop j
is regarded as fairly good in stands
and grain development. We had three >
good wheat years in succession now. |
The stalks are short this year. There
has probably been an increase in the
acreage of winter wheat this season.
The drought has not been noticeably
damaging to wheat anywhere.
Oots, like corn, are grown in prac
tically all states. North Carolina is
one of the least important of the oat
growing states. The present condition
shows 73 per cent of a normal or full
crop growth, indicating 18.5 bushels
probable yield per acre.
The oat crop is grown for thresh
ing primarily in the Piedmont coun
ties. In the Coastal Pla n belt it is
cut semi-mature for combined grain
and forage purposes. For the State
as a whole, 46 per cent is grown for
grain; 74 per cent for unripe com
bined grain anil forage rations; 18
per cent cut green for hay, while 2
per cent is used for pasture, aban
doned or turned under without cut
ting. The Coastal Plain counties pro
duced the largest percentage for for
| age and hay purposes.
The crop appears to be fairly good
with the exception of stalks be.ng
quite short, making it difficult to
harvest either for threshing or hay
purposes. The heads appear to he
better than thpy would should the
stalks he taller. This will somewhat
reflect on the yield. There has been
a tendency to increase the acreage or
proportion of the crop that is cut
semi-mature for hay.
WAKELON NEW HIGH
SCHOOL BUILDING
Strickland Bros., the contractors of
j the new high school building at Wake
lon, have a great deal of the material
on the ground and work on the foun
dation is about done. From the prog
ress already made, it seems, with"
reasonable good luck, they will have
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ZEIiULON, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 25,1926
RALEIGH WOMAN IS
MADE STATE OFFICER
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Mrs. Z. V. Fitzgerald, worthy Ma
tron of the Capital Chapter, No. 162,
Order of the Eastern Star who was
appointed Grand Martha, one of the
star points, by the presiding officer I
of the State, Mrs. Maude K. Hester, i
worthy Grand Matron of the Grand
Chapter of North Carolina at the
recent meeting in Winston-Salem.
Mrs. Frank Gunter was appointed
chairman of the committee on cour
tes es during the coming year.
Grand Chapter was greatly honored
in having the most worthy Grand
with tftem during their session, Mrs.
Henrick, of Kentucky. It is the first
trm e the most worthy Grand has ever I
visited a North Carolina Chapter. The
visitor were treated royally by the
people of Winston-Salem. The first ,
day was given over to pleasure, a
I Tea at the Country (Tub. Opening
exerc'ses at night in the First Baptist
church and a brilliant reception to
the Grand officers at the Robert E.
Lee Hotel afterwards.
The next Grand Chapter meeting
j will be held in Salisbury. Other rep
[resentatives from the Capital Chap-;
| ter were, Mrs. D. B. Ramsay, Mrs. !
Frank Watson and Mrs. W. J. Rich
! ardson.
ALL SMILES—IT’S A BOY
—
Last Wednesday morning the writer -
was at work at an early hour in the
Record office, when our friend, C. E.
j Parker came in and he was all smiles,
I just the happiest man in town.
The stork came along about 4
I o’clock Wednesday morning and left
i i fine boy at the home of Mr. and !
Mrs. Parker.
Mr. Parker said: “Well, I have four
girls and one boy. I feel happy, and
the mother and C. E., Jr., are getting
along nicely.”
FOUR OUNCE EGG
-
We have received in this office one '
; of the largest hen eggs we have ever
j long way, and 6 1-2 inches the
longing to Mrs. R. F. Brantley one
day last week. The hen that laid this |
egg is a Rhode Island Red, and is
about three years old. The egg mea
seen. The egg was laid by a hen be- j
! sures 8 1-2 inches around the
short way, and weighs four ounces.!
Four eggs l,ke this will weigh one
pound. Can any one beat this for
arge hen fruit?
WOMAN’S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY WILL MEET
The Woman's Missionary Society i
| us Wakefield Baptist church will meet
with Mrs. D. D. Chamblee, June 26, 1
at 3:30 p. m.
MISS BAGGETT ENTERTAINS
From the (Windsor) Ledger Ad
vance, in the Lewiston-Woodvilie so
c a! column we copy the following:
Miss Dorothy Baggett entertained
a number of friends Thursday night
to compliment Mr. Leslie Humphrey’s
sister and brother. Miss Alice Hum
phrey and Mr. David Humphrey, of
Zebulon, N. C. The home was bright
; w'ith garden flowers and durfng the
evening delicious ice drinks and home
made cakes were served.
SERVICES AT UNION CHAPEL
Owing to the rain there was no
COTTON ASS’N.
FILES COMPLAINT
Complaints Against
o!0 Railroads On
Raw Cotton
Complaint has been filed by the
North Carolina Cotton Growers Co
operative Association, in conjunction
with : 11 other of the cotton co-oper
ative associations in the South, with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
at Wash ngton naming 610 railroads
as defendants in an action brought
to secure a reduction of 20 per cent
in cotton rates. The North Carolina
complaint was filed on .June 14th, so
stated General Manager U. B. Bla
lock, of the North Carolina Cotton
Growers Co-operative Association.
The Cotton Co-operatives have been
quietly investigating and making com
> parison of freight rates for the past
I four years and came to the conclu
sion that freight rates on raw cotton
were out of line with freight rates
on other commodities. It is a well
known fact that manufacturers and
shippers of all commodities other
than agricultural commodities have
their traffic managers and traffic
organizations who make it a point to
be on hand whenever traffic inves
tigations are being conducted or when.
! ever a revision of freight rates is
being considered. But there are no
; records showing that the producers
, of agricultural commodities have ever
1 had traffic managers on the job
| watching out for their interests when
1 freight rates were being made up.
It is pretty generally conceded that
railroad earnings are greater now in
the cotton belt, in the Southwestern
territory, as well as in the Southeast
( ern section, than are general railroad
; earnings in other parts of ihe United
States, and that they are in excess
of the minimum guarantee set out by
law. It is the contention of the cot
ton producers that this excess of the
minimum guarantee is largely re
| ceived from the transportation of
j cotton.
Mr. I. M. Porter, Traffic Manager
of the North Carolina Cotton Grow
ers Co-operative Association, has been
compiling some comparative figures
on freight rates on various comrao
<J:ties and he finds that the present
j rate on cotton fabrics from Raleigh
|to Atlanta is 61 rents per hundred
pounds as against 74 cents per hun
dred pounds on raw cotton.
On cotton fabrics from Raleigh to
Boston, Muss., 74 cents and on raw
I cotton, $1.15.
On cotton blankets from Monroe,
j N. C., to New York, 78 cents and on
'raw cotton, $1.12.
On furniture from Mebane, N. C.,
: to Boston, Mass., 9G cents, and on raw
i cotton, $1.14.
On furniture from Mebane, N. C.,
to Atlanta, Ga., 28 1-2 cents, and on
! raw cotton 64 cents.
On lumber from Raleigh to Nor
folk, Va., 15 cents and on raw cotton
I 58 cents.
On lumber from Raleigh to New
YTirk, 33 1-2 and on raw cotton $1.06.
If the producers of raw cotton can
j show that freight rates on cotton are
j out of line with other comoditics and
arc granted the 20 per cent rcduc
j lion asked for, it will mean a saving
i of aproximately seven million dollars
annually in freight rates on cotton.
It so happens that the Aberdeen &
Rockfish R. R. Company, of North
Carolina, heads the alphabetical list
of the 610 railroads named in the suit.
Attorneys representing the Ameri
can Cotton Growers Exchange are
Aaron Sapiro, of Chicago and Earl J.
i Davis .of Washington, and represent
\ ing the North Carolina Cotton Grow
ers Co-operative Association are Bur
gees & .Joyner of Raleigh.
DELIGHTFULLY ENTERTAINED
I
Mr. rnd Mrs. A. S. Hinton deligh*
fully entertained a number of their
friends and relatives at a picn.c at
Lake Myra last Friday evening.
After a cool dip in the lake there
, was spread on the picnic table, fried
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PRICE: One YearJ
TAX DODGER AND HIS
LYING TO TilE LIST TAKER
Some have said there is something
wrong with our government. We
are interested; and therefore we ask
ed all the county and State officers
to please tell us the faults in our
government. Every one of them
told us that government, in its true
sense, was nothing more nor less
than r.n organization of people for
their mutual good, w.th both bur
dens and blessings.
Good government provides that
every man shall share equal in both
the burdens of government and the
blessings which it gives.
Then we inquired if the folks were
all granted equal rights in the distri
bution of the blessings of govern
ment. The answer was that every
body has the same rights to the pub- ,
lie roads, the public buildings, the
same police protection, and the same i
rights in the courts. It was found )
that every child of school age, both 'j
rich and poor, white and black, had
an equal right to attend public
school. i
When we had made a fair invest-1
igation, it looked as if there was no#
ground for any complaint against ff
the form of government.
We then met a list taker, who told |
us h e knew a few things. He becamsJ
so interesting in his conversation j»
that we asked him to tell us all about
the laws which fix the burdens of I
government on the people.
He told us that the state law re-£
quires every citizen to come to himl
once each year to enlist for a year’s#
service, that the government might*
be protected and sustained.
He stated that the folks were all
classified into two divisions. He said/
it was his duty to place every man» .
in his proper division according / I
the requirements of the law. l\ (
said he picked every strong, ablej '<
bodied person between the ages of *
21 and 50 years in the first
and made them pay poll tax, becaus<
they were able to carry the burden* * (
of State. s
Then he turned to the roster of y
the second division. This roll cop ‘L
tained none except property owner ' i
We were told that the law require u
them to list all of their property < I
every kind and nature, whether the J
be white or black Americans.
This list tak.. : i told us frankly
when he was listing horses and cows—
and sheep and hogs, corn and lruy*’
in fact, most of the visible proper J
within the common knowledge q
people, he generally got an hones (
list. Yet he said that when he caml ,
to the stocks and bonds, the silvet A
and gold, the diamonds, the securij I
ties and property that could be hidi t
den, that things changed. Where* |
upon the question was asked 1 (
every man did not have to take _ _ ,
oath as to the property listed, 1
said yes, but even that had no effe;
on lots of folks. We said, “yo:
don’t mean to say that people w4P
perjure themselves to keep fro: I j
hearing their equal portions of [
governmental burd-ns 1 "’ He a?3r
swered that he was sure they woulT/|
and did.
We asked if he imant to say vl
many of our own American citizt
are deserters and run every year rl
dodge the battle-c:.ll of service
our country and our people. '
The answer came, “Yes.” . jsfl
Then was asked who has to c$ ; ■■
the burdens of our country. H ~ jr'm
swered that it was those wR y’ I
hones enough to tell the ' j
their property and list it for,'' VJ a
|as the law requires. \ WJI
Then we asked if it did not
a heavy strain on the willing ;■
carry so much load. He said
d d and that it was the reason ( j
the government is so harshly r--*p|
cized; some honest fellows are I 1 r||
ing out under the load, and soms a.
sorters ami shirkers are reapinf’-jj* I
reward. 11l
The question was then asked I
how you might know a tax doa'Y
shirking deserter from other Pi'’ ( I
He answered quickly that you »l' ‘ii
always tell by their looks. HowJj
there is one pretty good way to j
them—just find the fellow wh
squeezing the poor, msdfiyr^
rn-.n- rrq n.ms mr