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The Zebulon Record Published every Friday by THE RECORD PUBLISHING CO., Zebulon, N. C. G. W. Mitchell, Own^r. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Year f 1.50 Six Months .80 j Three Months .50 Advertising, per inch, .'lO cents. Address all communications to The j Record Publishing Company, Zebulon, N. C., j RECORD TELEPHONE NO. 27 Entered as second-class mail matter June 26, 1025, at the Postoffice at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the Act of Mav.h 3, 1878. FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926 LET US KEEP IT THE LAND OF THE FREE After declaring that excess legis lation is a basic cause for present law lessness, George W. Reiily, Pres., Pennsylvania Bankers Association, said: “Another dangerous and growing tendency of govenin “/it in this coun try r the disp , etii r of legis’ i m r - to pass laws, and of governmental agen.-ies to make and enforce regula tions that are jnm ee airily bar: .- ing and restricting to business and the individual. “We have developed a passion for lawmaking and govermental super vision. Unless this disposition is checked, every movement and action of our lives will be supervised and corrected by some government agency, bureau or commission, whose salaries and expenses must be provided by us j in taxes. “We boast that ours is a land of 1 liberty, and yet the curious fact is. j that the American people are, by law. forbidden to do more things, and or dered to do more things than was the case in Russia under the Czar, or in Turkey under the Sultan.” MUTT AND JEFF MEET The largest electric locomotive over built and the smallest were recently brought together and photographed 1 side by side, making a modern ver sion of the old “Dignity and Impu dencc” picture. The giant of the clan, built for heavy freight duty, is 152 feet long and weighs 637 tons. It parries mo tors of 10,000 horsepower and can haul a two-mile train over heavy grades. The pigmy locomotive is forty-one inches long, less than one-forty-fourth the length of its big brother, and weighs thre e thousand pounds. It motors are rated at four and one half horsepower, and it has been built to work in a mine, where it will dis place a more picturesque hut lc industrious mine mule. SPEAKS OUT FOR RURAL CHILDREN Philadelphia, June 29. “Any pr<> gram of education for country boys and gii-ls is inadequate which does not provided for them opportunities approximately equal to those pro vided for city children,” declared John C. Lockhart, superintendent of Rural Education at the Nation::! Education Association here last week. “Certain conditions in the citi< and towns,” Mr. Lockhart added “have been favorable to the develop ment of school systems which offei advantages superior to those which, the rural schools provide. These superior advantages are due to: (1 > larger schools which favor speciiiza tion on the part of teachers; (2' longer school terms; (.1) better pre pared teachers; (4) better building and equipment; (5) more adequate financial support. In order to im prove the opportunities offered rural children it is necessary that these far tors be made the basis of the plan for improvement. How can this be done? “The answer is to be found in making the county the unit of sup port and organization. For example the question of how large an area i to be served by one school must be answered, not in terms of district lines established a quarter or half century ago, but in the terms of the needs of boy» and girls of today. !!: school unit must be large enough to provide the conditions which has made possible the development of adequate city schools. Such schoo units can be provided for mo : ad vantageously by a county wide plan of school organization and con-olida tion as distinguished from th ( . small district type of organization. ______ e "The responsibility for working out and putting into effect a county wide plan of school organization should rest with the County Hoard of Education in the same way tha; the responsibility of organizing ell schools rests with city boards o education. This is the principle un derlying the reorganization of the schools of Wake County. In short, it is our purpose to put into effect a county-wide plan which will givi to the rural boys and girls modern educational advantages under mod ern conditions.” A London woman recently wa: ••warded damages of $2,220 from a* air dye concern for injuries claim d to have been caused to her hair y its preparation. ICE (KiAM FOR THIS SI XI) \Y DINNERS Sue Br ges lives on a large dairy farm. a few miles away from a j »d zed town. One Saturday, while r-h ping, she hoard a stranger say i i tr- woman with her, "I wish we ci ; ! have ice cream for dinner tomorro. put my cook can’t make it : /I 1 don’t can* for :he bought kind.” S > had been longing for a lh«s.i nakc money, hesitated only a m 'iv.en before she went up to the lady :ir.■ ’ ffered to supply her with the fr< dessert. Tb: day she delivered the very best am she could make of pure cream, -h eggs and fruit straight from the tome orchard. The custo mer flighted and when Sue call on M ' for the b'.s kct and meld, she order’d more for the following week. She told her friends about it at <!--•• Sue, wish the help of her younger brother, was making from 50 to 60 quarts every Sunday besides taking .-.■<-cial orders for parties or itijor occasions. Now sheds thinking ‘ installir /1 electric frilezer so : > make the 1 work cm . -r hut she says that she expects always to serve her custo mers with the same homemade ice cream that brought her success i;•? the beginning. She uses only the fin est home grown ingredients and mea sures and mixes with the care and ■xaetnes of a chemist. Thus she has built up a reputation for an especial ly fine product for which people are willing to 1 pay a good price.—The Progressive Farmer. 4 PAR HEEL WINNER OF EFFICIENCY MEDAL Gaither Monroe Pickard, Seaman econil class, U. S. Navy, of Kerners ille, N. C., has been awarded the I>. \. R. Efficiency Medal at the It. S. Naval Trading Station, Great aikes. 111. The medal was presented <> him by Mrs. Louis F. Hopkins, Reg ent, of the Chicago Chapter after he and been designated by a board of Naval Officers as being the most ef icient man in the performance of bis duties at the Avation Mechanics •chool at Great Lakes. Pickard was born at Kernersville, 7. February 24, 1906. His father s Erwin J. Pickard, of Kernersville. le enlisted in the Navy on Novem ber 17, 11125 at Raleigh, N. C., and was transferred to the Naval Train rig Station at Hampton Roads. Va., .here he decided that he wanted he Avation Mechanics School at Ireat Lakes, 111. He convinced his uperior officers of his ability, and, n December' 18, 1925, was trans crib'd to that station. The first record attained by Pick id gives excellent promises for his uture Naval career. WHY HE II \l> ONLY WHITE TENNANTS “Yes. that’s a farm that I have lone but white tenants on. You see, his farm is in a white neighborhood with white farmers all around it, so 1 don’t think it quite fair to sand wich a lot of negroes in among them.” Such was the remark we overheard m a train a few mornings ago. It a great pity that other absentee 'undowners are not equally thought ul and equally just in dealing with • hite farm neighborhoods. The rural ections of the South are thinly set led at best. Even in communities there all the residents are white, it s hard enough to support an ade tuate white social life and provide -roper patronage and support for bite schools and churches. In any neighborhood where half the popula ion is i f another race, this situa- j ion becomes all the more difficult. V> ought to develop a robust pub lic opinion which would compel ab entoe landowners to do as the one ve overheard was willing doing- re ■ peciir.g the social and community ife of the peojde living around his 'arm. Os course it should be said hat it is equally unfair to negro eom- I munities to put white tenants on a 'mi, surrounded by negro farmers, but a matter of practice, this is not likely to happen. And since each race mu t have its own churches, i boob, and social life, a vigorous public opinion should encourage the deveinpn- r.t of one-race neighbor- j bond as far and as fast as possible, j i'nc re gressive Farmer. IRE 1 M R MULES GET! INC! MOKE OF 10l R CASH THAN YOUR FAMILY? Earn K by, the wide-awake pasture > .-■pedal, of the North Carolina Ex- 1 d tension . rvice, last week made an i a. oi i.n: statement, based on his study of Eastern North Carolina con d.tions. Here it is: “Ike avelSrge Eastern North Caro lina farm family sp: mis more for feed for stick than it ‘does for cloth ing for the family!” "On • of the greatest drains on the farmer’s income is the ;roney spent; or iced for the livestock. L had the ge of <- ; miring the books of a I i : dit mcrch recently ard was sur- 1 ’’n. ri to li .in that many of the 'armors fur;; la-d spent a great deal more for f< than they spent for] ic family su; alien. It seems hardly | sir to the fan ly when the •mile gets more of the f i. • aer's cash income than the wife and children.” Isn’t it high Hme. men and brethern! (we know thi “women and sisters”j •ml! agree) V grow our own feed on THE ZEBULON RECORD FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1926 ! our own farms and give our own i wives and children the money that our mules have been getting? Maybe 30 years ago you or your father didn’t think you could grow 1 your own hay, but since that time big changes have come along. Two great new Southern hay crops have been introduced. These two crops are soybeans and Sudan grass. They are adapted and produce well all the way from the Rio Grande to the Po tomac, yielding from one ton per acre on poor land to four tons or more on rich land. They will solve the 1 hay problem and any Southern farm : can solve it with these two hay crops. Soybean hay is richer than alfalfa hay in feed value; and Sudan grass, when properly cut and cured, makes' a hay superior to the timothy hay ‘hat is hauled to us 500 or 1,000 miles. Let’s plant more soybeans and Su dan grass than ever before, more corn than ever before (with soybeans, cow pons, or velvet beans with the corn), -ml give “Molly and the babies” the cash our mules have been getting.— The Progressive Farmer. HOW TO GROW PLENTY OF HAY AND FORAGE Hay is about the easiest and cheap- j •st and also the most important crop Southern farmers can raise. Within the past few years we have adopted two hay crops which can be made to 1 supply our hay needs at very low' cost of production. These crops are soy beans and Sudan grass. In the Coast al Plains region we have a third crop of recent adoption, the velvet bean. All over the South we have the old standby, cowpeas and sorghum. This gives us five important forage! ■ crops for sowing now. These five hay crops are just what we need in an emergency such as has arisen from last year’s drouth and now that the time to sow them has come, let's see what we can do in the way of growing all our hay needs for the next 15 or 18 months. Three of these are nitrogen-gath ering and protein-carrying legumes, and two (sorghum and Sudan grass) ire among the best annual grass hays to be found. They yield heavily, ma ture quickly, and are rich in carbo hydrates. Now as to the time and manner of sowing soybeans, cowpeas, velvet beans, Sudan grass, and sorghum for hay or pasturage: They maye be sowed or drilled from the time dan ger of frlst is past on until late July. Os course the methods of growing these crops are commonly known, but as emergency crops and for getting th t . seed in the ground this month or ■arly May, the time required for ■■owing an acre and the cost are very low. On most farms there is land enough for producing more hay. Most “f this land can be gotten into good seedbed condition by breaking and harrowing, or by disking and harrow ing without breaking. Land that now has a crop on it that wiTTTftature by July will produce a good crop of hay from soybeans, cowpeas, sorghum, or Sudan grass. Soybeans, cowpeas, and velvet beans can be sowed in the drills with corn or in the corn middles. This will increase the forage from an acre of corn by about half and improve the land. This gives two crops instead of one Tom the same land and pays by furn shing feed for stock and improving the land.—The Progressive Farmer. RYE and oats are IN GOOD CONDITION Frank Parker, crop statistician of the State-Federal crop reporting service, summarizes the oats and rye crop situation in North Carolina at the present time in his June 1 crop report, which states: “Oats, like corn, are grown in practically all states. North Caro- I lina is one of the least important of 'he oat growing states. The present condition shows 73 per cent of a nor mal of 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 plain belt it is cut semi-mature for combined grain ; nd forage purposes. For the State | i a whole 46 per cent is grown for grain; .!4 per cent for unripe com-1 billed grain and forage rations; 18 per cent is cut green for hay; while w i per cent is used for pasture, i abandoned or turned under without j cutting. The coastal plain countries >rodueed the largest percentage for forage and hay purposes. “Whle North Carolina is not re garded as an important rye pro ducing .State, we rank 13th in the production of rye for grain this year. The condition at the time of harvest was 87 per cent of a full I crop, which is six per cent below the ten-year average. Last year's har -1 vert was almost 20 per cent more than was made this year. The lands were fairly good, but, due to the dry and cool spring, all small grains were rather low in growth.” \\ HY SCREEN YOUR HOME? There are just two reasons for screening your home: !. For your physical comfort I\i:h flies, mosquitoes, and bugs swarm ing into a home night and day there is ru> rest for the occupants of that home. No one can relax and rest where these winged marauders have free and easy access to every mem ber of the family. If screens gave only physical comfort, they would he : worth many times the cost. 2. To prevent disease. Screens pre vent these winged devils from bring- - ing disease into the home. Malaria ; is transmitted from sick to well by the mosquito only. The Anopheles mosquito (one variety of the mos-1 quito family) bites a person who has 1 malaria, then b.tes a person free of malaria and thus transmits malaria from person to person. Screens prevent the mosquito from getting into the house at night. The J mosquito doe- practically all of his ; traveling in the night. Screens pre vent that filthy fiend, the fly, from entering the home, bringing in filth, slime and disease. He is filthy enough ’ to keep out, goodness knows, hut in addition to actually bringing in un speakable dirt, he brings in disease germs to drop in your food and drink. He is a known carrier of typhoid fever, diarrhea, and enterities, and no doubt other diseases. The windows, doors, fireplace (for insects swarm down chimneys in the summer time), and porch should have tight fitting screens made from 16 mesh wire—that is 16 meshes or op enings to the square inch. Do not fool yourself and waste your money by I buying sliding screens these are the j kind that you stretch out and place under the window. They arc sup- I posed to fit any window but never : do. The insects that these poor con j traptions keep out would be so old and blind and feeble-minded they would do little harm if they got in. If you have your house screened, be sure the job is well done and don’t forget the fireplace.—-Dr. Register, j in The Progressive Farmer. THE LEISURE CLASSES | There was a little beggar maid Who wed a king, long ago; ! Os course ‘he taste that he displayed Was criticized by folks who know Just what formalities and things Are due to beggar maids and kings. But straight the monarch made reply: “There’s small difference as I live, Between our stations! She and 1 Subsist on what 'the people give. We do not toil with trength and skill. And, pleasing Heaven, never will.” —Exchange. LIVE AT THE CROSSING That all streets and roads that intersect a main highway should be made stop streets, is the contention of the Albany, Oregon, Herald-Dem ocrat. It says: “If such a practice had beer, in force last Sunday it is very likely that the sad accident in which a baby lost his life would not have hap pened.” Change the picture to a main line railroad. Would the operating of ficials of the railroad permit cars to enter the main line from spurs, switches and branch lines without stopping to be sure that the track was clear ? . The block signals and locked switch es help explain why railroads that carry millions of passengers annually do so almost without loss of life. Another reason, of course, is that engineers don’t operate locomotives until they know how and until their eyesight and judgment are tested. There will be no real safety in mo tor operation until a master traffic | plan has been adopted and enforced. If railroad systems did not enforce every precaution to over-balance the carelessness of thousands of people, they would kill thousands annually. One railroad, the Southern Pacific, feeis it has far in mak ing people safe that it has a right to sue motorists who collide with its cars and trains. Lives won’t save themselves at the crossings. The baby that might have , lived, hail the traffic plan enforced , a safety stop, tells the storv. j. WE BOOST OUR OWN LIVING AND COST I« A study of the cost of living in 32 < representative cities of the United ! < States, under the auspices of the Bu-1 < reau of Labor Statistics, U. S. I)e- < partment of Labor, indicates that tax- < ation has increased faster than any t other element entering into the cost < of living. i On January I t of this year, the < cost of living in these cities was 78 * per cent over the 1913 level, while < the cost of government, as expressed in taxation, has arisen 200 per cent. ' Federal taxation which was $6.92 per capita in 1913, has risen to 525; state taxation, from $3.18 to $8.50; and lo- cal taxation, from $12.03 to $35.00. j From theses figures it will be seen 1 that the cost of federal taxes is 1 1-2 T times, and state and local taxes 2 1-2 J times as great as in 1913. SAFEGUARDING AMERICA 2 AGAINST FIRE i Ju- , ... One of the greatest works which j the National Hoard of Fire Under- *3 writers has donb in the interest of J the public, was the inauguration of j Fire Prevention activities in 1892. J This work seemed like a hopeless « H.sk at the beginning. Tin- general A impression used to be that if prop- A erty was insured, it made little dis- R l’er< .re whether it burned or not— A ihe insurance company paid the bill. A If the insurance business had R •vished to follow the easiest road, it R could have accepted th... view and R have charged rates sufficient to cover] R the risk involved. It raw. however, | R that -•! had u public duty to perform R from the standpoint of educating the i public as to the necessity of fire pre vention. Tt was an uphill struggle to obtain public co-operation. But today after 24 years of fire prevention ac tivity, the American people are really i co-operating in the effort of the in* : urance companies to reduce fire loss and th'-reby reduce the cost of in i ‘•urance, which means the saving of j lives and property. 't he average town government over bis land realizes that if it wishes | lo'v insurance rates it must enforce j laws and ordinances which keep the town clean from the standpoint of rubbish, dangerous building construe-* ■ ion and all sorts of fire hazards; and that it must have, in addition, a agitable water supply and fire fight ing equipment. Public schools are teaching children the danger involved in the careless handling of fire_. The general public has been pretty well awakened to the fact that our aver age annual fire loss of $5 per capita is the greatest in the world and a heavy drain on the resources of the nation. IT’S UP TO AM, OF U« “Fire protection of cutover lands will solve the reforestation pro!>!< in, declares A. I). Osborn, prominent Wis consin lumberman. “Lands naturally restock themselves with timber if fire is kept out. The crime against timber has been the indifference of thi public to the prevention and sup c. '.sion of forest fires.” All authorities now agree that the solution of the fire problem is the real conservation issue, and next to it is the problem of timber taxation, . hich forces early cutting and makes legrowing unprofitable. WAKE CROSS ROADS NEWS Mr. R. W. Rodgers was a business visitor to Raleigh Saturday. Mr. Branch Taylor was a visitor at he home of Mr. I. C. Carter Sunday. M rs. W. A. Roger’s baby is sick vith the whooping cough. We hope t will soon recover. NEW HOPE NEWS Mr. Bob Andrews was in Raleigh Monday on business. We were all glad to see Mr. Dick Ellington at church Sunday. Miss Anna Helen Rogers and Ray nond Rogers were visitors in this ;ection Saturday. rHREE ARE HELD IN PITT COUNTY TRAGEDY Greenville. N. C., June 20. 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