Volume VII.
JUST ONfi THING
AFTER A? I ?OTHER
CARL GjOBRCB
1931 has passed into history and
1932 is coming up J/ver the hill. Most
ol us are holding a>ur breaths to see
what the new year) has in store for
“ -L i
The past year las bpen a rather
strenuous one fror a more than one
point of view. It 1 las left us rather
bedraggled. Thd cl lances are that it
will go down in hi; (tory as the Year
of Patched Pani^
And we’ll bfc dui|r«*f hkky 'f 1932
doesn’t go down n history as the
year of No at All.
What we need is a change. We’ve
had the same o\ld prowd running
things, and theyye made a jolly
mess of everything]. Republicans and
Democrats don’t sefem to be able to
accomplish anythin® at all. They re
just running aroump in circles, chas
ing each other—except when they
join forces to chaße the general pub
lic. I repeat’—what we need is a
hange. A drastic change.
I’m in favor of making Aimee
Semple McPherson president during
the forthcoming year, with A1 Ca
pone serving as vice president and
Bishop Cannon acting as speaker of
the House. Don’t laugh. You’ve got
to admit thnt they couldn’t possibly
do any worse than the crowd that
has been in charge during 1931.
Let’s make Frank Grist Governor
of North Carolina, and by all means
let’s elect Estep to the United States
Senate.
If we all join in and do our part,
we can make 1932 a great year. It’s
the Bicentennial year, you know.
Two hundred years since the birth
of George Washington. Suppose old
George could come back and take a
look at what he fought for so vigor- 1
ously. He’d never forgive himself for,
having been born. He was first in I
peaee, first in war and first in the
hearts of his countrymen. He and the |
early colonists of this great and i
glorious nation threw off the British
yoke and went to war with the slogan
“No Taxation Without Representa
tion."
In those days they only had Tax-j
ation to worry them. Now we’ve got I
both Taxation and Representation
to worry us. In other words, with I
only one burden upon our shoulders, j
we fought for the privilege of carry
ing two burdens.
j
And did we succeed in getting
them!
However, the chances are that things j
will turn out all right. All of us
right at this particular moment, are:
busily engaged in shouting "Happy
New Year!" Our pockets are empty,
our clothes are rather frayed, there
are past-due installments on the
furniture, notes to meet at the bank
and nothing to meet them with and—
but what’s the difference! It’s a
we didn’t have the Depression to kick
pretty good world after all, and if
about, we’d find something else. So
Happy New Year, just the same.
PREACHER’S WAY TO RID GAR
DEN OF NEIGHBOR’S CHICKS
In Upperville, Va., Rev. Everette
Hinks was annoyed by neighbors’;
chickens eating the flowers in his
garden. Chicken-owning neighbors
of lfr. Hinks denied their fowls had |
committed the depredations, j Mr.
Hinks, ingenius, got many pieces of ,
string, tied on* end of each to a
kernel of com and the other end to a .
placard, left them in his flower gar-i
den. One day his astonished neigh- j
bors heard their chickens crowing
lustily found hanging from their
beaks placards bearing the legend: j
“I Have Been In Reverend Hinks’
Flower Garden.’’
WEDDING BELLS
On last Saturday afternoon Mt.
Worth Horton and Miss Maggie
Marshbum were united in marriage
by Rev. Theo. B. Davis at his home, j
Three things to cultivate—courage, i
affection and gentleness.
Zrlmlnn tßrrorit
Frank Jeter Writes
! His Appreciation
The Ret-ord is in receipt of this line
'letter from Frank H. Jeter, who
1 writes the fine agricultural news we
carry each week. We appreciate the
news, too, as well as he appeciates the
space we allow him, because we want
to see this section grow in fertility,
productivity and prosperity. His let
ter follows:
Dear Mr. Editor:
Again I wish to thank you for the
fine way in which you have cooperat
|ed with this office during the past
year. Ev«ry week you have received
I this package of news material from
lus and I have been gratified at its
reception. I feel very humble that
you should find the items* of enough
news and informational value to use
them as you have. As in the past,
we have tried to play fair with you
and to send you only short stories
that daily newspapers have not had.
The way you have used these stories
has been largely responsible in our
getting the people of the state the
timely facts have been develop
ed her® at the college. I don’t believe
any other agricultural college editor
ir, the United States has had any bet
| ter cooperation. The people at Wash
ington who gather facts from all ovei
the country have been kind enough to
suggest as much.
And so I extend to you my sincere
good wishes for a happy Christmas
season. I am not unmindful of the
debt I owe you in giving so freely
of your space to promote the agri
cultural welfare of our state. Some
people laugh at the idea of service—
perhaps you do, but I know that down
in your heart you get a thrill and a
glow of delight from knowing that
I you are helping. No one knows how
much you are helping as 1.
; I wish you good luck,
Sincerely,
J. H. JETER.
N. C. State College
School of Agriculture.
Hatchery To Open
Monday, Jan. 18th
We learn through Mr. o>en D.
j Massey that he will start the Zebu-
I ion Mutual Hatchery on the 18th of
j January. He is moving the hatchery
Uo his home just beyond Wakelon
! school, and will be conveniently lo
rated to serve the public.
Mr. Massey has been interested in
the poultry business for sometime,
has had experience that assures the
1 public of his success in operating the
! hatchery. He has a fine flock of i
! poultry from which he expects to,
supply the chick needs of those who
1 wish to buy. He will also be in a
! position to supply chicks of all stun !
dard breeds if the demand justifies.
The earliest spring chickens bring
' the best prices. They also taste the
j best! So get your eggs ready by
‘January 18th. and put in at least a J
tray. Watch for Mr. Massey’s ad if
■ next week’s Record.
Galvanized Still
Taken In Raid
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One never knows nowadays justi
what he is drinking if he he inclined,
to the juice that intoxicates. There!
are two ways of finding out, however.
One is to drink it and then see what
the result will be. That is highly
dangerous. The other is to see what
the sheriff brings in after a raid.
Deputy Sheriff Guy Massey and Chief
Baker took in a still and four barrel?
of mash Wednesday night on the Lit
tle River farm rented by Oscar Todd,
colored. The still was a galvanized
iron drum affair—the kind which
turns out perfectly nice poisonous!
liquor—with the fire still going under
it.
AMONG THE SICK
Mr. Furney Southall, formerly ot
Ztbulon but now of Clayton, continues
seriously ill.
Mrs. P. L. White of Wakefield, we
are sorry to learn, is confined to her
home with sickness.
Mrs. J. M. Knott who has been si«k
for several weeks, is improving.
Mr. j. E. Gill is home after a stay
in Rex hospital, but is still confined
to his room.
Mrs. L. W. Fuller on the Hales
Chapel road continues quite ill.
Zebu Jon, Wake County, N. G* Friday, January 1, 1932
What 5 Cows On
Farm WiU Do
Since the establishment of a but
ter plant in Albemarle, and, for that
matter, prior to that time, this news
paper has continually called the at
tention of the farmers of the county
to the importance of keeping cows on
the farm. Although many farmer*
contend that keeping cows is a losing
proposition it still remains that dairy
farmem throughout the world are the
most posperous.
The newspaper at Allendale, S. C.,
recently carried the following editor
ial telling what five cows on thfc faign
would do. We believe that the fucts
given below are about light:
Much has been said and written
concerning the advisability of keeping
a few good cows on every farm. Gen
eral statements advising such a course
are more or less effective, but a more
definite illustration recently set forth
by a country banker is even more con
vincing.
He declaed that if each fanner in
his county had five good cows, and
sold the milk and cream which they
produced, the cash returns would do
these things in a year.
Pay the farmer’s state and county
taxes.
Pay his automobile license and buy
two new tires.
Provide a S4O kitchen cabinet, a
SSO sewing machine and a S4O suite of
furniture for the farm home and
school books for the children.
Clothe a farm family of five per
sons.
Buy SSO worth of paint for the farm
buildings.
Besides this the fertilizer produced
would increase the soil fertility of the
farm, and the farmer would in addi
tion have all his calves for sale or for
keeping to augment his herd.—Stanly
' News and Press.
PIPPIN,—CARMICHAEL. JR.
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The following interesting announce
ment has been received here:
Mrs. John T. Pippin
announces the marriage of her
daughter
Margaret
to
Mr. Neil J. Carmichael, Jr.
on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth of
December
nineteen hundred and thirty one
Zebuion, North Carolina
At home January 15th.
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Three things to command —thrift,
industry and promptness.
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“MONEY MADNESS”
The author of this article was rear
id on a cotton farm and has worked £
on newspapers in Georgia, South Car-
olina, New Jersey and New York. In
recent years he has engaged mostly in
lives Ligating and writing about eco
nomic subjects, including agriculture.
In the last four months he visited sev
eral hundred farms in the Carolinas
and talked with many kinds of farm-
ers in all parts of the two States. 1
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BY A. H. ULM
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“While I believe they are better off i
than they think they are, farmers j
around here are in a terribly depessed <
state of mind,” said an editor of a i
newspaper in the eastern section of t
Noth Carolina. Statements like that i
had been made to me almost every- j
where and most emphatically, aa to (
the depressed state of mind part, by i <
farmers themselves. This editor’s lo- t
cality was a good background for a
query I often had wanted to pro- ]
pound. i
“I’ve seen a good deal of farming <
in this and a little in other countries," \
said I. “But I never have viewed a j
farming community that appeared to '
the eye better off than yours seem i
to be right now. Your farmers have !
made record crops this year; their
storehouses are bulging with food and
feedstuffs as never before. They un- i
rfouhtedly have more of everything
except perhaps money, than they ever
before possessed Why, this depressed
state of mind?” ,
“Money Madness" vs Bulging Cribs.
“Money madness,” the editor replied.
Continuing, he said: “In the war days
of rising prices, farmers around here
made greater profits than they ever
had deamed possible. Land values]
rose but not disastrously. But mostj
of the farmers turned plungers. They
operated as if high prices and big
profits would continue indefinitely.
Then came the period of falling prices
aftd the plungers got caught. Most of
those in real difficulty are burdened
with debts incurred in the hope of
making lots of money. Money mad
ness is the main trouble.”
What he said reminded me that
not one of the several hundred farm
ers I had talked with in all parts of the
Carolinas had evinced the least fear
of distress for lack of means to meet
future needs. Everyone that talked
dolefully,—as did even most of those 1
who were getting along all right.—
spoke of distress in terms of money <
only. “I won’t make any money this
year.” “I have lost money now for j
two years.” “When are we going to i
make money again?’ Such are sam- •
I
pies of their expressions. The most
doleful wails I heard wtre on the
score of money that had been made in
f. rming and lost in spheres other than
farming.
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Supplies for Creature Needs.
There ia no ignoring the fact that
fanners, like everybody else, must
have money and thnt many of them,
like millions of others, are having
a hard time getting the money they]
need. But I havent heard of any cam
paigns like ones carried on in the
cities, for funds to relieve creature
distress in farming communities in
the Carolinas. In every farming com
munity where I thought to ask about,
it, I was told that there were ade-j
ounte local applies to carry every’
creature in the community through)
the winter.
“I was chairman of the Red Cross
Relief Committee for this county last
winter,” said a prominent man in one
of the worst “hit” farming communi
ties in the Carolinas. “There was
practically nothing for me to do.
There were a few cases of creature
distress, but they were taken care of
by neighbors of the persons. I’ll have
less to do if I am relief chairman this
winter, because there are more food
and feedstuffs on the farms.”
No Place for “Money Madness”
The fact that economic depression
does not necessarily portend creature
distress in farming communities, as
it does in cities, gives inverse illus
tration of the out-of-placeness of
“money madness” among farmers.
' Os course money madness is not
indigenous to farming circles, which,
| alter all, probably have been less af
ifected by it than urban communities
have been. But, being more out of
place there, it may be more productive
of lasting harm in farming than in
other circles.
Farmers are not ettpccially blamsxj
for becoming infected with the "mon
ey making” fever, which, however,
has put upon farming a load of bur
dens that probably constitute the most
difficult obstacle to complete recovery
of America agriculture.
A good deal of the actual fever still
prevails. I ran into symptoms of itj
everywhere I went. Many so-called
farm relief proposals and measures
tend to stimulate it.
Eliminate the burdens that were in
curred out of money madnessd that
was made epidemic by the skyrocket
ing of prices during the war period
with all the remaining fever for mere
“money making”, and farming in most
Fires Destroy
Beautiful Homes
The home of W. A. Carroll, with all
its contents of household effects and
clothing, burned Saturday about one
o’clock leaving the family nothing
saved except their meat which was
being salted down a short distance
from the house. A defective chim
ney is thought to have caused ike
fire. This home was located near
Thanksgiving, on Selma, Route 1.
Lonza Richardson, Wendell Rt. 1,
host his beautiful home by fire Tues
day morning, between the hours *f
5 and 6 on account of a defective fine.
By quick work, the most valuable of
his effect were carried to safety.
The fire siren sounded here Monday
evening about 7:30 o’clock and away
j went the engine to Rurie Gill’s home
(out towards Wnkelon and next <toor
■to M. T. Debnam’s home. Everything
in the house burned. The fire was
i hold in check to the extent that the
framework of the house still stands.
Local Boy Writes
For Navy Paper
Under the title “Ye Flapdoodln.”
and signed “By the Swash Buckler,”
Ted Davis contributed the following
; bit of humor for The Observer, regu
lar publication of the U. S. Aircraft
Carrier Lexington. Ted is a son of
Rev. and Mrs. Theo. B. Davis and in
a member of the crew of the taxing
•ton in Uncle Sam’s Navy. Here ’#k:
Miscellaneous, according to ike
magazines I have been reading, m
still the greatest man in Italy—Still,
the speakeasies of Seattle aren't
where they used to be—And when the
visiting “sweet young thing” asked
a hospital corpsman if he was a doe
tor, he answered, “No, I’m a fizzician”
—And when he kissed her onee, she
cried, “My lips are for another!”
“Another what?” he yells. “Another
kiss,” she— I always did bke
parrots, because they can repeat j««t
what they hear, without trying to
make a good story out of it—-Saw a
couple of young men the other night,
who, by the way, were well under the
weather. One points to a street lamp
and says, “Do you she that-Rie
|lampsh?” "That ain’t no hie-lamp,”
says the other, “thatsh an arc lam pah”
—And I know a fellow who is wall
papering his house with rejected
green chits—And then there was the
football star who slowly turned
around after each play, so that the
reporters could see his number —Nev-
ertheless, Methuselah lived to be niae
hundred sixty-nine years old. Boy,
think how old he would have been if
he had had a physician—And on*«
upon a time there was a Captain who
was holding quarters for inspection,
when there arose a disturbance in the
rear ranks. Said the Captain, “Will
you gentlemen please quit passing
those pieces of paper around while I
ain inspecting?’ “That ain't paper,”
replied one, “that’s dollars; we're
shooting eraps!" “Oh,’ said the
Captain, “I beg your p.ardon”—But
when better dates are made, they
won’t be blind; ask the man who
phones onel—Still, when a fellow
trades his tailor made blues in on a
JTirl, there must be something wronr
with the blues- Then there was the
g.sjlor who had just returned from an
extensive cruise, and was telling bis
girl about when he was in Egypt.
he, “I saw the Sareopha*-*-
gus of King Tut.” "Oh.” she says
blushingly, “You’d better not tell me
about that”—But I still can’t see the
point to the one that goes like this,
“Did you ever hear about the girl in
the cotton stockings?” and the other
guy says, “No, what happened to
her?” and the first one comes back
with "Nothing!” Top, it’s beyond me
—“Hangar deck secure, Sir!”
Two demonstrations in killing and
curing pork for a home supply were
well attended in Bertie County dur
ing the past week.
J G. Staton of Martin county killed
190 hogs that dressed out over 34,000
pounds of pork in middle December.
The hogs were grown and fed on home
grown feed largely.
of the South, and particularly in the
Carolinas, will be on a good footing—
especially so in comparison with farm
-1 iag in other big areas of staple emps
and, aow, with urban bustness and in
dustry in general.
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