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Zebulon Tobacco Market Opens Tuesday, Sept. 3rd. (£br ZrfroUm sU'rorit —— Volume V. THE RECORD, Zebulon, Wake County, N. C., Friday August 30, 1929. Number 12. MUMwi... ■= WAKELON SCHOOL OPENING AROUSES GREAT INTEREST For reasons known only to them- j < selves the citizens of the community i have a great interest in the rapidly i approaching date for the opening of ' Wakelon school. As the time for the arrival of the teachers, new and old, • draws near people may be .heard to speculate upon the possibilities and probabilities of the coming term. ( BEGINS NEW ADMINISTRATION A large part of this unusual con cern may be accounted for by the fact that this year marks the beginning of a new administration. E. H. Moser will serve as superintendent, being as sisted by W. M. Johnson as high school principal and athletic mentor. During a term served here several years ago Mr. Moser gained a repu tation as a competent handler of stu dents, teachers and school patrons. His return is attracting attention from the local citizenry because they expect his methods and system to pre vail in making radical changes in the management and conduct of the school. Evidence of this prevalent spirit of watchful anticipation can be gained from a talk with any high school boy who has received news of a statement that Mr. Moser is said to have made to a few of the students. In a talk with two of the boys he intimated that the habit of not studying would be come a thing of the past at Wakelon High School. His position seems to indicate that he expects a certain Standard of scholarship from his stu dents, this having been reached, par ticipation in extra activities would be permitted. This attitude seems to have instilled in the boys a respect for the new teacher and at the same time to have guaranteed their co-op eration. One project which Supt. Moser ex pects to carry out is the organization of a school band, which he believes v.mid aid materially in improving the school spirit and furnish an excellent means of musical expression for the boys of the school. It is Mr. Moser’s idea to have S. A. Braxton, well known band director of Raleigh, to organize and teach the boys. Mr. Braxton has been successful with stu aent bands in Raleigh, where he has a Boy Scout organization, in Wilson, with the high school band, and in Dur ham where he put the Duke Univer sity Band on an operating basis. Those students who have been in terviewed by the writer of this article expressed an earnest desire to work in an organization of this type. With a nucleus from the local town band it would be possible for the school or ganization to play in public within a short time. Such an effort on the part of the school officials should receive the hearty commendation of the par# ents of school boys interested in the band. For several years Wakelon has not had a first rate athletic coach. Teams have always managed to appear on the field but never seemed to have the punch that a competent tutor can give. Mr. Johnson comes here with an excellent record for developing en thusiastic and strong teams. While at tending State College he coached bas ketball here and is remembered by the •old timers” as “Red” Johnson and a good fellow'. Consequently, his coming arouses attention second only to that sourrounding the activities of the su perintendent himself. Mr. Johnson has not announced a definite policy but he has given local people to understand that his major interest is in basket ball and baseball. He will also devote considerable attention to intramural athletics. Under his direction Wakelon is expected to make a strong bid for the county title in the two major sports. ARRIVAL OF TEACHERS /In addition to his duties on the ath letic field, Mr. Johnson will be at the helm of the high school faculty and will teach classes in mathematics. He and Mr Moser are expected to move their homes here at an early date. Mr. Moser will live in the house belonging to Mrs. C. M. Bunn which borders on the school campus. Mr. Johnson will occupy the house formerly used for the boys dormitory. Mr. W. T. Whit ley, caretaker for the school property, lived there during the past few years. However, he has recently moved into a new home in Zebulon. ' Mrs. Carrie Sykes of Columbia, N. C., will operate the teacherage this year as she did last year. The lunch room in the grammar school building will be run under the auspices of the Parent Teachers Association again this year. The arrival of the teachers, which has aroused so much interest, is sche duled to begin by the time this paper shall appear. Since they must attend a county teachers meeting at Mt. Vemon-Godwin the 1 latter part of the week it is expected that several of the teachers will arrive here short ly in order to be present also for the local teachers meeting. Monday At any rate it won’t be long before we will know what to expect from the students and teachers in Wakelon school this year. According to the teachers themselves, all that is re quired to make the old Wakelon ma chine run smoothly and successfully is the cheerful co-operation of every one concerned. Will Carry On Spirit Os Wakelon On the Wakelon School Campus last week, I looked at some of the trees i and thought about the time when they were only sprouts. In a fevP years they have grown up and taken the form of trees. I thought too about the boys who planted them. They too were young then. Now they have ta ken on the form of men and the du ties as well as responsibilities of manhood. The girls and boys of that day are scattered. I have run across them in many cities in this and other states. Most of them are doing well, leaders, in their community activities. Suc/i is the spirit of Wakelon. This spirit has been manifest since I first met the school board in Dr. Bell’s Drug Store on a spring day in 1911. The school has progressed. Its leaders have had the forward look. Today, however, new tasks face us. High school pupils, in order to meet life as they will find it make heavier demands on the schools than ever be fore. We are facing a change in the social scheme. To meet this change the schools must give opportunity for more points of contact with every day activities. Schools should touch the vocations and interests of the community through the state. can be done through the teachers, courses of study, library and general community interest ,in the welfare of our school children. It is our ambition to keep the pur pose and spirit of Wakelon forever looking forward. We want as far as possible to make its courses of study, and its allied activities meet the needs of every child who places his develop ment in our hands. Schools assume large responsibili ties. They should be made for the chil dren and not the children for the schools. A child enters school to find himself. The contacts he has, such as courses of study, library, outside ac tivities, and teachers help him to do this. From observation and experi ence, I am persuaded that any normal girl or boy will respond to some wor thy interest and find a means through which he can develop if that way is opened by a sympathetic teacher and backed up by a friendly attitude on the part of the child’s parents. If we hold a sympathetic attitude towards school girls and boys in school and at home, we find a pleas ant task in keeping up with their ever extending desires and ambitions. School age is not the age to quench the spirit of the inquiring, but to di rect and help. Remember the child does his own growing. He only needs guidance, encouragment and wise administration from grown ups. What an interesting task for teacher and parent if we follow It through. This is not an article for the pa per. It is a conversation I would have with any parent interested in a wide awake girl or boy. We give our best to our children. Our character is ex pressed in them in a little while. Our Ideals are the measure of our charac ter. What our nation is tomorrow de pends upon the training of our youth today. The sturdiness of our future manhood and womanhood depends on ——— l I II . * 1 ; First Coast to Coast v JSbfiili ' ;' ri . - - 'The Spokane Sun God refueling at Roosevelt Field, N. Y., just be fore it headed back for the coast. The trans-contmentai endurance plane is piloted by Nick Narner and Art Walk the character of the teachers and par ents of today. We cannot evade this task if we would. We should take joy in the team work required to accom plish the task of moulding the citizen ship we desire manifested in our men and women of tomorrow. If we care to continue to be the land of opportunity and the home of the free we must con tinue to call upon the home and the school to produce men and women of character. In this way our nation is perpetuated. E. H. MOSER. P.-T. A. Plans Its Year’s Program The Wakelon Parent-Teacher As sociation has plans made for a fine year. The first meeting will be held September 10, at 8:00 p.m. The corps of officers want to get this oi|e idea across right now, that the Walfej lon P. T. A. belongs to YOU just ; <Js much as Wakelon does. If you can’t take part in the programs, come to the meetings, anyway The Associa tion needs you there. The children of Israel, returning to their native land after the captivity, could never hav* rebuilt their temples had not Joshro. and Zerubbable and other prophets encouraged and inspired the workers. The officers for the ensuing year are ns follows: Mrs. S. H. Hoyle, pres ident; Mrs. W. N. Pitts, vice-presi dent; the secretary is to be elected; Treasurer, Mrs. A. R. House. Com mittee chairmen are: Mrs. W. W. Bul lock, ways and means; Mrs. W. N. Pitts, Program; Mrs. E. C. Daniel, Social;»Miss Maude Johnston, publici ty; Miss Annie Rose Southerland. Membership. The main objective of the Associa tion this year is to retain the public school music teacher. The school lunch room will open its doors Thursday, September 5, the second day of school] It will be man aged by Mts. C. M. Bunn, a woman known by a large majority of Wake lon patrons to be a most capable and business-like person. The lunch room will be under the auspices of the P. T. A. and an advisory committee will meet with Mrs. Bunn once a month to help keep everything running along smoothly. This committee consists of Mrs. S. H. Hoyle, Mrs. F. E. Bunn and Mrs. J. D. Horton. It is hoped that a “milk fund” can be raised to provide milk in some form for all under-nourished and un der-weight children in the lower grades. Anyone wishing to donate milk or money to this cause will please advise any one of the com mittee. Plan to attend the first meeting of the P. T. A. September 10 at 8:00 p.m. Meet your children’s teachers and enjoy a sociable evening. DAY AT KNIGHTDALE Mr. F. N. Day, lay evangelist of Winston-Salem, helping Rev. Oldham in a revival meeting at Knightdale this week. Mr. Day, it will be remem bered, helped with a meeting here several years ago and a large number of persons were brought into the church. MEREDITH MAN TO PREACH Rev. H. Judson Perry of Meredith college, Raleigh, will fill the pulpit at the Zebulon Baptist church Sunday morning. The pastor, Rev. R. IL Herring, is holding a meeting at Boiling Springs. Zebulon After Spinning Mill ALL PAPERS SIGNED, BUT MUCH WORK YET NECESSARY BE FORE MILL IS CERTAINTY What about the spinning mill for 1 Zebulon? That is a question that has been much discussed the past few weeks and has even been the subject of a news article in other newspapers. Well, it seems that an agreement has been reached, whereby capital will be raised elsewhere, the local people sup | plying the building with necessary alternations. It is true the Center Brick Warehouse has been considered for the mill, as * the most suitable building for such * an important project. This will not 'in any wise affect,the tobacco market, as the Certeivj/rick will operate as ; usual this ShouM the plans 3 carry out, proyision is already being ** matle to build a larger and better * warehouse to care for the market ~ needs. This was the only fessible plan to get the mill promptly and yet * t interfere with the tobacco market. However, it might be said there is ' “many a slip betwixt cup and lip,” and what looks like a certainty now * may prove a dud. We are all for the r mill, but we are not making whoopee over it yet, and will not until the ma chinery comes in and operating cap ital is raised. Wendell very nicely congratulates use, wishing us well. The Gold Leaf Farmer says in part: “Local people feel in the mood to congratulate Zeb ulon of the acquisition of this new industry, and it is hoped that with . cooperation and earnest effort it will 2 be possible for local citizens to crys talize the plans that haye been on foot 3 for the past several months leading 5 to the location of a similar industry - in Wendell. With the present tendency l to decentralization of industry it - seems that the small towns and vil i lages, where there is an active and i progressive effort on the part of local . citizens, may be coming into their l own in regard to the location of fu i ture industries in all lines. This is ? especially true in the textile indus * try at the present time, since, due i to great depression in this line, "‘and a consequent lowering of wages, and 1 cutting of working time, there has ! been much unrest in the ranks of tex ‘ tile workers and leaders in the in dustry, noting that less trouble has 5 been experienced where the units ofi l employment have been small, and ' where there have been fewer mills in one town, are inclined to scatter - future mills, putting them into small * towns.” i SCRAPING STREETS Chief of Police L. A. Baker is a t man of his word. When citizens of Zebulon and the drivers and passengers , of the busses that come through here began to complain about the wash ( board quality of the dirt streets in , the town he promised immediate re , lief as soon as he could secure ma chinery to work the thoroughfares. Monday found him at the job. A huge tractor and scraper, the property of Wake county, were seen going meth odically over the main unpaved ; streets, putting them into shape. r - ■ Wouldn’t a modern girl look ef feminate wielding one of those feathered fans of bygone days? I , Big Market Opening Is Zebulon Outlook Zebulon’s Business Forecast For 1929-30 By E. C. Daniel, Jr. When discussing fall business the merchants of Zebulon maintain an un decided spirit of conservatism. That was the observation of the writer, preparatory to writing this article. Twelve months ago a similar survey was made, disclosing the prevalence of a similar state of affairs. However, a significant feature of last year’s pre dictions was this: That under the con ditions we could expect no better than a fair fall. The keynote of this declaration was sounded by L. M. Gould, cashier of the Zebulon Banking and Trust Com pany, in a statement made during an' interview for The Record. Again we find that an idea propounded by the bank official is the one generally ac cepted and argued by his business as sociates. . . - Depending upon the farmers and farm crops as we do, a change must needs be made in the agricultural sys tem of our section before we can be assured of any degree of economic success. That is the general idea as presented by the majority of the men interviewed for this column. In other words we can not depend on making a living out of a group of people who only work a few months of the year, raising crops of uncertain quality, and quantity, and price. According* to the business men of Zebulon, a radical revolution must take place among the agriculturalists before we can ever expect to benefit greatly from trade with them. Mr. Gould and ethers were the opinion that stark necessity and not education or a system of farm relief would accom plish the desired change in this state of affairs. The remedy they offer is diversification and a twelve months working calendar for the farmer. However, no one seems able to offer a method whereby the farmers can be brought to recognize the importance of a new departure. Mr. Jones ,a master farmer of nera Wake Forest, spoke to the Zebulon Rotary Club on this subject at one of their regular meetings during the summer. He declared that the far mer who arranged his crops ,so that each month in the year would yield a harvest and supplemented his ‘money crops” with the raising of minor com modities would never find himself in difficulties, financial or otherwise. The same idea was urged by a speaker at the East Wake Fair when it met here last fall. In fact, businss men and economists of foresight are en couraging a similar principle every where. The practice of raising insufficient foodstuffs, for family and stock, is a related problem. Farmers and mer chants alike have said that this has al ways been one of the most serious drawback in the farm program of of Eastern North Carolina. Illustrat ing this point, a local man has empha J sized the importance of such a small 'item as canning vegetables. He says that a saving of many dollars can be made with a mininjum of cost and trouble by employing a bit of fore sight and judgment, i Even the time merchants of this and other towns are beginning to real ize that the existing system of long term credit to farmers who raise to bacco and cotton exclusively is un profitable to all concerned. Conse quently, farmers now face the danger of having their credit cut off unless they take the precaution of supplying themselves with “ready money” earn ed through complementary home ac tivities. We have already seen the eviden ces of reform among the agricultural ists of several counties. During the year $12,000 was brought to this com munity by the sale of poultry. That is a hopeful sign, for when this type of project proves itself to be profit able to a few we can expect its adop tion by the majority. Prof. P. H. Mas sey, of the Wakelon High School fac ulty, who sponsored the poultry cars here, expects the returns for the com ing season to be even greater. Anoth er important activity is the operation (Turn to page eight.) Every preparation has been made by Messrs. Mangum, Horton, Baker, and Pitts and Co., at the two local warehouses, the Center Brick and the Farmers, for the big opening next Tuesday, September 3. And there is strong promise that it will be one of the best openings ever experienced in this section. For many months these gentlemen have been riding the section, inter viewing the tobacco growers, and as certaining what is the general opinion of the Zebulon market. They have met with expressions of good will and ap proval on every hand. The tobacco growers and cotton growers like to come to “The Friendly Town” where they are sure of a hearty welcome whether they come to buy, sell, or just visit and be sociable. There is a degree of friendliness in the very at mosphere about this town that cannot be overlooked. Tuesday’s opening heralds in the 38th year of tobacco selling over warehouse floors in eastern North Carolina. The start was made back in 1891 in Greenville in a warehouse 70 feet by 120. Today the movement has spread over the whole of eastern Carolina. * -■* 4 Zebulon makes its bid for tobacco on its record for good prices, good warehousemen and efficient buyers. This year adds to that another rea son why the farmers in this section should sell in Zebulon—the agreement of the large buying companies to stabilize prices on the various grades. The result of that decision will be a set price; the sanr> price will prevail here as on every o ;her market in tho b°lt. 7«bulon will benefit by such move, because it has to offer our far mers a paving in marketing It is not necessary towerm? WBl* and spend a couple of days in order to get a load of tobacco sold, during which time the grower must be at much expense and trouble.. It offer* the ' shortest haul and the quickest sale for our growers. Then, too, the buyers, not being in the great rush as on big floors, givn more time and attention to the quali ty of leaf offered and the grower is more certain to get a just classifica tion for his crop. That means money; in his pocket. Opening day, to those acquainted with it, is a joyous occasion. It meaiui pay for months of hard work and wor ry; it is harvest time when the til ler of the soil reaps the financial gain from his work. He “closes books” on the year’s work. His is a full life. In the spring he faces the year’s work with optimism and a light heart. The balmy spring air, the fresh smell of the upturned sod, the return of the birds—all stir the blood that has grown sluggish through the winter’s inactivity. Through the summer he enjoys a peculiar satisfaction that comes to one who creates, and no one enjoys that feeling to a greater degree than the farmer. To those who are strangers to the opening day scene, it is a revelation. The auctioneer, going up and down thd long rows of baskets piled high with the golden leaf, chanting uninn telligible phrases in a weird, musical, unknown tongue, is stared at and listened to by the open-mouthed stranger who is watching his first to bacco sale. There is no question aboat it, an auctioneer must be born; he I cannot be made. *# > * Meet your friends in Zebulon Tues day and plan to give this market s trial. Aside from the fact that yon will get just as much for your crop here, it is always worth while to be loyal to the home market. It all works around in a circle: Sell in Zebulon, trade in Zebulon, and Zebulon will be able to take care of you in times of need. It is a give and take proposition, in away of speaking, wherein there cannot possibly be any taking unless made possible by giving. You get PERSONAL consideration here where you are well known, whereas in the larger places you are only another cog in the wheel, with nothing to dis tinguish you from all the other cogs. An exchange tells of a citizen who dropped a bundle of laundry on the sidewalk and broke both bottles.
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