V olume VII.
Tree Planting
In keeping with the bicentennial
< lebration of the birth of George
V. ashington, a nation-wide tree plant
ing project is being sponsored by the
national bicentennial committee.
Schools, churches and organizations
oi all kinds, all over this great coun
try of ours are taking part and
thousands of trees will be planted in
cities and along highways in the next
weeks. Could there be a more fit
ting way to celebrate the bitrh of
the father of our country.
In Zebulon, the Woman’s Club is
taking the initiative in this campaign.
All organizations in town; churches,
Sunday school Casses, lodges, civic
clubs, social clubs and the schools
ar< ir.vii.cd an ’ urged to take part.
It is planned that at least 200 trees
shall be planted within the city limits
next week. And it is hoped that
every child in Zebulon will partici
pate in the planting of these trees.
They will watch them grow to ma
turity and will enjoy their beauty
and shade long after many of us have
gone.
One hundred and fifty water oaks
have been offered by Mr. C. H. Cham
1,1,e. Crepe Myrtle and dogwood are
recommended for planting. They
Further announcements about the
grow rapidly and flower beautifully,
tree plantings will be made in the
churches Sunday.
“AS MAN TO MAN”
The following letter was written to
young Theo. Robert Potter by an un
married uncle. “Speaking as man to
man,” it is rather unusual, and for
this reason is published. Mr. Robert
Potter is preparing to go as a teach
er in a missionary college on the
foreign field.
Dear Sir:—“But he that is born on
the Sabbath Day
I 1 lithe and happy and good and
gay.”
May it be so. . . Only this morning
! learned through a letter from home
of your arrival. I am writing this to
bid you welcome. Congratulate your
dad and mother for me also.
You will have to be quite an excep
tional fellow to even hold your own;
for it is an open secret most folk
wanted you to be of the so-called
weaker sex. I'm glad you were
f-expressive enough to be a man in
this woman-dominated world.
Moreover, you face a tough prob
lem in tath you have such a model
i, .ther. Nearly everybody certain
ly, 1 among them —is an ar,ient ad
mirer of Jackie; consequently the de
mands upon you will be all the great
er.
But I feel sure you are fully equal
all of them. In this country Feb
ruary is traditionally a month for
me birth of great men; and I believe
in your coming we have further con
i':! mation of the tradition.
\gain welcome!
Uncle Rob.
•{OK E.N ALARM VPPARATUS
IS CAUSE OF RIOT SIGNAL
Kinston.—The first riot call this
. :>\ has heard in many years was
sounded yesterday and caused citi
zens to wonder if the county jail was
>• nu stormed or the nation had gone
, war. A erowd that foleked to the
city hall was allayed by officials who
explained something was wrong with
he fire alarm apparatus.
Fire broke out in a clothing store
m the business district. This wrong
nber was registered at the Queen
ireet engine house. The gong
langed out the number seven and
repeated it several times. This was
automatically transmitted to the elec
tric light plant, a mile and a half
away.
Persons at the plant remembered
that repeated “sevens” were a riot
cal'. They started pulling the whistle
on the plant. Then someone recalled
the riot signal. A crowd quickly
gathered.
The fire in the store of H. Abdal
lah. Hid $2,000 damage.
CHAPEL HILL
The student newspaper at the Uni
versity of N. C. has taken a poll of
the girls on 17 college campuses and
finds that th* composite “ideal man”
of their choice is big and ugly. Other
requisites listed are neatness, hon
esty, ambition, kindness, energy,
generosity, and a sense of humor.
olhr Irlminit Simi rh
Milk And
j Health Campaign
1 VII.K \M» IIK.AI.TH (AMI-AKIN
! Sponsored by the State Board of
Health and endorsed by Governor
(). Max Gardner, with many county
and state officials cooperating, a state
wide Milk-for-health campaign is
being launched for the week of March
14-20. The state is far below the
average to one keeping abreast with
its ranks in other lines. A cow, like
a garden, is one of the best invest
ments on the farm. Around Zebulon,
many farmers and tenants havi a
collard patch and a small summer
garden. A very small per cent of them
keep a cow. Yet no one other invest
ment next to a good garden is more
profitable anil conducive to health
i than a good cow. We hope many will
secure a cow just as soon as possible.
During the late spring, summer and
early fall, one can keep a cow with
little expense. Even in the heart of
winter, she more than pays for her
keep. By looking ahead most tenants
could save enough crab grass, or
grow a patch of peas or other hay
‘crop, sufficient to feed a cow through
the winter, with a minimum of cost.
We commend this campaign for milk
and health that is being sponsored
by the State Board of Health.
CALL FOR
CEMETERY CLEANING
Another call to arms has been is
j sued by the cemetery clean-up-com
-1 mittee. Work on the lots, driveways
and walks has been going on for some
time and with gratifying results. But
the committee believes there are any
number of citizens who have not yet
done their part, but who want to.
Monday. February, 29th, will be
donation day. Citizens are asked to
bring trees, shrubs, bulbs, any kind
of flowering plants and flower seeds
to be planted on the cemetery grounds
Members of the committee will he at
the cemetery from 10 till 12 o’clock
to receive the donations. They want
the citizens to come and see what
has been done and to offer sugges
tions for further planting and beau
tifying.
It is the aim of this committee to
make the cemetery a real beauty
spot in Zebulon.
MARRIES OFF LAST DAUGHTER
Greensboro. —Austin Jones, Quil
ford county negro, has just married
: off hi« last daughter.
R. H. Wharton, register of deeds,
was faced by the Negro who wanted
a marriage license. During the con
versation Jones explained:
“This is the 28th chile T’se had
t ( , net married. This is my last arftl
she’s 21 years old.”
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$5,000 FOR SHAW
Raleigh. Dr. Robert Tylbr, an
I alumnus of Shaw University, (color
ed) has donated $5,000 to he used for
the development of the University’s
•library. It is to be paid in five annual
payments. He is a practicing physi
cian of Washington City.
NEW PRESIDING ELDER
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, of
Charlotte, has announced the appoint
ment of Rev. F. S. Love, pastor of
Client ,n Street Metthodist Church,
Raleigh, as presiding elder of the
Raleigh district, to succeed the late
Dr. Harry M. North. The Rev. Mr.
Love, a native of Monroe, came to
Edenton Street Methodist Church
over three years ago from the First
Methodist Church of Elizabeth City.
He is a graduate of Duke I niver
sitv and Columbia University and
has been in the ministry for 22
years. Appointment of his successor
will be made within the next two
weeks, until then he will continue
at his present post
v \NDAI.S WRECK TOMBSTONES
Mt. Olive. A piece of rather un
i usual vandalism and the first of its
kind known hen was perpetrated Iri
jHr night when parties whose identi
ty had not been definitely establish
jed this afternoon entered the Mt.
Olive cemetery and overturned about
30 tombstones, some of them of con
siderable size. Blodohounds were
procured and put on the trails of
. the vandals and two or three ar
j rests were made but late this aft
| ernoon officers were not sure that
: they had the right parties.
Zebulon, Wake County, N. Friday,
WORK BEGINS AI GOLD
j MINE IN STANLY COUNTY
| H. Burwell Reid, of Washington.
'D. C., who recently leased the
i Hearne-Hathcoek gold mine owned
by R. L. Sibley stated to the News
and Press yesterday that 15 assay
runs had been made already, and
I that he was very much pleased w: h
the results. Assay runs show the ore
to run at between SIOO and SOOO per
jton. Mr. Reid feels sure that the
mine will net at least SIOO per ton
for the ore.
Mr. Reid plans to sink a shaft at
the mine, and work at the present
time, but this number will he in
| creased at an early date.
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WILL NAME AIRSHIP
FOR GEORGIA CITY
j Washington. What the navy hopes
jti make the bigg';', airship in Ihe
j world for some year- to come will be
i rained for a small Georgia city- Ma
con.
In two years or so the floating
giant will take its place in the skies
; alongside the 0,500,000 cubic foot
Akron, which now is its sister ship.
Naval officials hope to make the Ma
con 1.000,000 cubic feet larger, how
ever.
: A German firm is building a 7,000-
000 cubic foot airship. Rear admiral
William A Moffett, chief of the navv’s
i aeronautics bureau, and other naval
officials hope to veil the airship Los
Angeles and use the money to make
| the Macon just 500.000 cubic feet
bigger than that.
’j T
j CUTTING SALARIES!'
The farmers have had their cut in
salaries or income or whatever it
may be called a long time. They have
taken a seventy per cent cut, with
* cotton dropping from seventeen to
I six cents and tobacco prices falling
'jin the same proportion. Now the
i railroad workers, aft n r considerable
I discussion, have agreed to take a ten
; per cent cut. In reality, however,
their income has been cut much more
! severely since the decline in railway
business began several years ago.
I 'i hev now labor many hours less and
jn e often idle. In discussing the
1 jton per cent cut in the wages of the
! laborers, and also in discussing loans
Jto the railroads from the new Fi
• nance Board, there has been a strong
demand that the enormous salaries
i of railway officials be cut also. 1 his
J w ould seem only just, but the de
imand for it was successfully resist
-led in both houses of Congress. The
cut in salaries that is uppermost in
IMe minds of people in North Caro
j lina just now is the cut in the sal-
i ar ies of State officials and of those
j whose salaries •’re provided for in
J whole or in part 1 •" appropriation -
from the State Treasury. This cut
' ecemes effective on March 1. Along
with the announcement of the cut
: there was given to the press a list
j of those to whom the cut applies, and
•the amount of the salary of each.
Some of them, even after the cut.
will receive salaries that many would
covet. Governor Gardner again takes
'a voluntary cut in his salary, which
j for the salary of a Governor of a
'Great State was already small. His
i salary and that of other constitu
j tionl officers are not necessarily af
fected by the cut. but several others
: have also voluntarily cut their sal-
I aries. Some of the salaries of our
j important elective officers are so
small that no cut could reasonably
}expected. They are smaller than
'♦hose of many of the appointive offi
i eers of no more ability and no more
; responsibility. It may be said that
this cut was rendered necessary by
the fact that the State is not raising
enough money to pay the budgeted
salaries and cannot borrow the money
to pay them. —Biblical Recorder.
DEATH VALLEY LAKE
Death Valley is several hundred
(feet below si a level and usually as dry
las the Sahara'. Recent rains and
j flood waters have covered the bot
tom of the valley with water over a
; fifty mile stretch. When spring
jcm i-k-s, the vail-, y will become a gar
jden of great variety of colors. Ihe
I seeds that have lain dormant lor two
j years will soften and the desert will
j become a wilderness of Columbine,
' blue larkspur, delphinium, bluebells,
1 daisies, wild geranium, buttercups,
I poppies, Indian paintbrush and cac
* tus flowers.
READ THE ZEBULON RECORD
February 2K, 19.52.
Garden Plan
For Charity
The Governor’s Council on Unem
ployment and Relief in North Caro j
lina has a Garden Plan which is de-j
signed to supplement charity and re- j
lief funds next winter. The council
believes that if nothing unforseen oc
curs, there will be a greater distress
load to be carried next winter than
r ,/v.; because history of past depres-j
sions shows that much time always i
elapses after the up-turn before the
greater part of the unemployed find
gainful occupations.
The gardens as planned fall into
two general classes:
First, gardens for those people who 1
may be unemployed or partially un 1
employed, and who need a food sup
plement for the family, but who have!
not applied to any charitable organ!-
zation for reliel.
Second, gardens for those people
who ai'e able-bodied and who are now
receiving aid from charitable organi
zations and who should be forced to
cultivate gardens as a part of the re
: lief program of the community. The
plans also provide for securing land,
fertilizer, seed and for supervision
i of labor and division of produce. The
l surplus is to be canned and saved
i for the relief work of 1932-33.
? These gardens would doubtless be
3 ol untold benefit, wherever grown.
And surely it would be best for every
one to work this year, if not in his
private garden, in a community enter
.
prise.
We should be glad for some organi
zation in our community to investi
gate and learn fully what is propos
ed by the Governor’s Council; and,
if it seems to be what we need, to
sponsor the movement among us. (It
may not be out of place to remark
that the Organization we have in
mind right now is the Rotary Club.
Any desired information may be
secured fixim R. W. HenningeT, Ex
ecutive S«r., Raleigh, N. C.
VOODOO POWER
GETS MURDERER
New Orleans.—Trembling lips in
the Negro sections of New Orleans
are whispering about the terrifying
powers of the Voudou serpent god
which they say drove Elijah Wheat'ey
to the line watery grave tea* claim
ed his sweetheart last Sunday.
A night watchman told polic • he
sa w a Negro answering the descrip
tion of Wheatley push I.ucilla Wil
liams, 19 into a canal and flee.
Her body was recovered and rela
tives buried with the Congo Vou lou
j rites prevalent in the old slave days
jof Louisana. The ritual included a
I ceremony whereby the Serpent God
i was askd to bring the murderer hack
to the scene of his crime.
In keping with the Voudou creed,
the young Negress was buried face
j downward in her coffin with a fresh
| egg clasped in each hand and a rope
'tied around each wrist,
j Kinsmen of the girl told police of
the ceremony and advised them to
watch the canal for Wheatley’s body.
Meanwhile, they also spread news of
the rites through the Negro section
jso that he would hear of it.
Early yesterday Wheatley’s corpse
1 was found floating in the canal at
the exact spot the girl was drowned.
• Police said they have no doubt he
heard of “Gris-Gris,” (petition to the
Serpent God) and went forthwith to
i fling himself into the water.
GOVERNMENT LIQUOR
CONTROL
While wet organization - in the I
1 United States are asking Congress
!to repeal prohibition for economic j
'reasons, the Woman’s Christian Fern-j
perance Union, of Ontario, in con
junction with religious bodies is ap
pealing to that government to stop
1 its million dollar a week sale of |
liquor and divert this large sum to
I industries suffering from business de
pression. A communication to that
| effect has been received at the
World’s W. C. T. U. headquarters
I here. I’he petition declares the On
tario government spent $58,000,000
for all purposes in the last fiscal year ;
and in the same time the expenditure (
for alcoholic liquor was approximate
ly the same amount. The petition de
clares that “this enormous expendi
ture is unquestionably a contributing
cause to the economic depression.”
N. U. Christian Advocate.
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Much Robbery
At Bunn
It is reported that several places of
business in Bunn were robbed one
right this week. The thieves got about
S7OO. from one place of business.
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Ford Announces
A lew Car Soon
He announced that within the
next few weeks the Ford Company
will bring out an improved four and
a new “V” eight cylindi r model and
coupled with it the statement that
he had deti rmined to “get the price
of an automobile down to the mark
where the public can buy it."
At the same time Mr. Ford ex
-1 pressed the hope that “raw r> d'r <
supply men” would not begin to raise 1
Detroit.—Henry Ford today disclos ‘
ed his latest plan for breaking loose
the jam that for nearly two years
has retarded the automobile industry.
1 prices coincident with the effort of
manufacturers to “start the wheels
jot industry.” Such action, he said,
might “throttle the whole effort.”
“In times like these,” he said,
“every one has to take some risk,
make some sacrifice, and even he wil
ling for a time to do business with
I out profit in order to start the nor
jmal processes of industry and busi
ness again.”
“We’re not certain of the market
j for the new cars,” Ford said, “but
I were going to risk it. Some one
jhas to risk something to get things
j started and you know, faith is eatch-
I ing; if we have confidence others
will too. The chief thing to do is
to meet the publics demand for
I something new and better at a price
the average man can pay.”
In automobile circles Ford’s re
mark that he was determined to
bring prices down to the point where
the public can buy was interpreted
as indicating bis intention to initi
ate a period of ’the keenest competi
tion in the low priced field.
Disclosure of the Ford plans serv
ed to dispel much of the uncertainty
that has surrounded the industry for
many month . Their real effect, how -
ever, will not he fully felt until
! the trade knows the price of the
! new cars and exactly what mechani
1 . d advances are incorporated in
! them.
Included in the specifications for
( the new models is a single ehasis
capable of carrying either a four or
jan eight cylinder engine. The cars
are to be of wholly new design.
! longer wheel base, heavier frame
1 and lower hung chassis.
No definite date was set for the
! formal presentation of the new mod
jels, other than a statement that, the
(new four will he ready for delivery
• “early in March.” The eight cylin
der type will be introduced some
I time later.
The Ford statement gave no inti
mation of what plans had been made
for recalling workmen, but if de
liveries of the new four are to be
made early in March, many t.hou
>ands of mm are expected to be
brought back to work within the
j next few days. Coincidentally the
release of large orders for parts and
raw materials is expected. News &
Observer.
N. 0. ( ASH BALANCE
Raleigh. The stab of North Car
olina has a cash balance in its treas
ury January 31 of $6,550, 1 17.79, the
I combined statement of the auditor
and treasurer revealed Saturday.
The general fund showed an over
draft of SI. 190,281.62, a- compared to
a deficit of $114,569.74 on January 1.
and the highway fund had a balance
of $5,758,281.65, as compared to a
balance of $7,324,472.08 on the first
of the mnoth.
It was shown that general fund
bond interest aggregating $95,182.19
bad been me* by obligating the high
way or other pocial funds a the gen
eral fund was overdrawn.
The funded debt of th< State jan
uarv 31 was $175,509,000 and tem
porary loans increased the total in
debtedness t’ $181,811,371.
HE DOES
A woman is like a railroad crossing
sign. When a man sees one he stops
and looks. When he marries her he
I listens.— -Florida Times-Union.
Number U7
Chino-Jap War
Furious fighting continues around
I Shanghai as the Japanese strive to
force the Chine to evacuate the po_
sitions held. Forty army and navy
plane ; ar** used by the Japs in the
greatest conflict that has yet raged.
I The Chinese have warned foreigners
shipping away from the Japanese
• military base on the Whangpoo,
j which may indicate a determination
| to stop with guns the landing at
j Japanese reinforcements.
Foreign consuls have ben asked
•to get their nationals out all sec
tions of Shanghai close to the Hong
kew strongholds.
Japanese casualties during the last
three days are said to have been 500.
The Chinese claim to have lost in the
last four days, 1700.
Japan has put a censorship on
movements of troops and the Japan
ese people are said to he given only
meager account ■ of the events that
jure taking place. They are said to be
be— ■ nxious concerning the reactiol
abroad, and fear that Japan may Is
harshly judged. It is thought that
Japan would consider a blockade and
act of war.
The Chinese general, Tsai jTing-
Kai, states: "My army could force
the Japanese out of Chinese territory
quickly, but we are not taking the
offensive because we want peace, and
we want to preserve the neutrality
of the international settlement.” Gen
eral Tsai further says: “The Jaj >ane«e
may win after a long fight, hut we
shall he winners in principle. We
will resist to the last bullet and the
last minute.”
VANDERBILT’S SCHOOL OF
RELIGION IS DESTROYED
Nashville, Tenn.—Fire swept
| through Wesley Hall, one of the old
|est and largest buildings on the iam
pus of Vanderbilt university, yester
day destroying the theological library
and leaving the school of religion
without a home.
Chancellor J. H. Kirkland said the
building loss would amount to ap
proximately $350,000 and the loss of
the library, one of the finest in the
South together with destruction of
personal property of students and
professors, would raise the total dam
age to $500,000, or more. Cause of
the fire was undetermined.
SALVATION ARMY REPORT
•■O
Raleigh.- In its report for January,
1932, the Salvation Army in Raleigh
shows that it had 1230 applications
for aid. 311 beds were supplied, and
1932 meals were served. Assistance
to me Is, bed or clothes, was given
to every call for help. In addition
jto the above, there were 160 families
I investigated and assistance render
led with gin,-cries, fuel or clothes,
making a total of 20' (I person ; "*■
ed by the army during J r-’i' '••
also assisted the Red Cross, churches,
vchools and welfare workers in min
istering to 73 other people.
VIOI KNURS FLEE AS
dead body sirs i p
i Goldsboro. —The corpse sat up «ud
jdenly at the funeral and all the
mourners left, a Goldsboro man who
recently attended the funeral of a
negro woman in Robeson county re
lated.
T>, woman had been drawn with
rheumatism so that he: body was bent
at the hips to an angle of almost 45
degre. The undertaker, in trying
to niaki the body lie in a natural
looking position, in the coffin, used
straps, "lie across the chest, another
across the lower limbs. During tha
funeral th* strap over the woman s
chest broke loose and the body rose
t, •• cpth •' position, which was more
than the i .ngregation could stand, so
they made a hasty exit.
N. C. News From Oregon.
The following news item is taken
from the Industrial News Review.
Portland, Ore. Zebulon community
Hatchery operating in new location
near Wakelon school.
Daytonna Beach, Ha., Feb. 24
Sir Malcolm Campbell. 47 years oM.
has set up another automobile speed
record, making a speed of 267.733
miles per hour. He expressed himself
a not at all pleased with the new
record, and declared that the strong
wind slowed him up considerably.
Sir Malcolm’s wife declared her
! husband’s success made her the hap
piest woman in England.