North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. VIII.— IHIS, THAT AND IDE OTHER Mrs. Theo. B. Davis Is there ever a day more nerve-j tacking than the first day of school? i It is not the school itself, but the 1 matter of getting together the books I that every child feels must be ready for the second day if the very bul- j vvarks of education are not to totter •and fall. Every home where there are school children knows fit—the frantic scurrying to and fro in the effort to secure the used books that are so much cheaper than new ones;] the ringing of the telephone bell j every few minutes; the regrets that j a certain book has already been prom ised, or can’t be found; the half-tear ful declarations that one dares not go to school tomorrow unless the books are in hand; the final exulta tion or disappointment, depending up on whether everything required has, been provided, either used or new. And yet they feel they have some of the bother - down at the Zebulon Drug Store! On my way down street Monday p. m. I was much impressed by the, swaggering walk of a very young. gentleman. He strode along w-ith the air of being on top of the world with a rainbow ’round his shoulder. He j wore one garment which allowed a splendid view of his muscular develop ment. He was the eleven-moths-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Early Lewis. And anyone who can walk that well at that age has a right to strut. Can anybody tell me the name of! the vine that shades Mrs. Pattie May’s | back porch ? She told me it came from one that Mrs. Guy Saunders used to have. The leaves of the vine are a bit like elder leavs and it bears clusters of berries that at this date j shade in color from pink to almost l black. The darkest colored berries are as large as small grapes, and j they have a pleasant acid sweetness. Mrs. Mae said she didn’t know whether they are poisonous; but I am quite sure one is not. The vine is i quite the prettiest climber I have -een this season. One day this week I saw a very small girl and a very large cow going down the middle of a street together, i They were not only walking together, but a rope went from the cow’s head to form a running noose around the body of the child. Serenely they strolled along. One or two cars turned aside to give them room. No damage was done, except to my nerves. Several times this year my hus ’ and ba- s id to me that I ought to see the collection of fowls and animals that Mr. S. G. Flowers keeps in en closures in the yard back of his store. On last Saturday, impelled partly by \ sense of obedience and partly bv eu'iositv 1 vent : rto the store and asked if I might see that yard. Mr. Flowers very kindly detailed Miss Thompson to act as guide and we vent from the back door of the store into an aisle or lane that had wired in. covered enclosures on each side. Some coverings were roofs and some were wire netting with brush on it for shade. I suppose. As T entered the aisle a white rat ouit lookirg at a spotted rat and transferred his beady stare to me. Squirrels peeped at me from small holes in lone row of boxes. Rab bits—white. black, gray and parti colored —hopped sociably to the wire and flopped their ears at me. Some ( of the largest guinea-pigs I ever saw looked as foolish as guinea pigs al ways do look. Pigeons fluttered. Two lots of pegions. On one side wer« the ordinary kind—except that the« were some in the lot that were wearing feather leggings. ' On the; other side fantails obligingly spread their fans for me to admire. Chickens j were busy eating their supper. Four pheasants slipped quietly from one corner of their space to another, the, brilliantly colored neck feathers of the male gleaming hs be passed. In and out and round about bantam chickens treated all others of the aommunity with that easy familiarity that belongs especially to bantams. A duck waddled out of my way with a protesting quack. There may have been more than these; I mean to go tack some time Slitv Jfolmlpn Sigirgrft ! and see. But, without being slangy, I had an eyeful, and my time was I limited. It was certainly an interes | ing visit. ANNOUNCEMENT O Because of the meeting of the Cen tral Association at Wakefield next | week the Wakefield Home Demonstra* ! tion Club will meet on Saturday p. | m. of this week at 3:00 o’clock. Mrs. Mclnness will be present to give a j demonstration lesson. The Civics and Literature Depart ments of the Woman’s Club will meet at the club house next Tuesday p. m., Sept. 27 at 3:30. All who intend to take part in the work of these de • partments for the year are urged to attend. - - The women of Wakefield Church will meet today (Friday) to put the church house in order for the associ ation next week. All who can do so are requested to help. Some one will be on hand both morning and after i noon to direct the work. —— ——— I DR. CARL TAYLOR TO SPEAK AT WAKELON Dr. Carl C. Taylor, nationally known | educator, writer and speaker will ad ' dress the Annual V S S Patron's ! Meeting to be held in tbe High School 1 Auditorium at Zebulon on Friday evening, September 30, at 8:30 P. M. j All farmers of the vicinity, their | wives, families and friends are cordial ly invited to attend. The 1933 V S S Advisory Board, consisting of five lo cal farmers, will be elected to repre sent the interests of farmers of the i community in all co-operative pur j chasing activities for the coming j j year. The present Board,which con-, ! sists of Go. T. Taylor, Chairman, O. ! D. Massey, O. H. Massey, T. B. Davis, and W. P. Lewis, invites the farming public to be present The VSS representative will dis | cuss the co-operative, non-profit plan |of purchasing andservicing farmsup- j ! plies as employed by the VSS which is owned and operated by some 50,- 000 farmers of Virginia, North Caro lina and adjoining states in their own interest. The organization works at ! absolute cost; any net earnings being | prorated at intervals among patrons | jon a basis of business done through | j the organization. There will be group singing, enter- j i tainment and refreshments. Successful Revival At Hales Chapel A week’s revival meeting closed at bales Chapel Baptist church Sunday night. Pastor Davis was assisted by Lev. E. R. Stewart, of Fairfield, N. C. i The house was filled to overflowing j almost every night to hear the un-l usually fine Gospel sermons from Mr. Stewart. There were eight additions to the membership, and a great many church members who had not been living vUrht rededieated themselves to > during the meeting. Nearly a thousand chapters in the Bible were read by those attending the services. Mr. Stewart is assisting pastor Davis this week in a meeting at Henhzihah Baptist church. STATE FAIR MOTORC\DK COMING On Thursday, September 29th. a group of Raleigh business men will arrive here, bringing a message of good will and an invitation to all the people to attend the State Fair, to be, held in the Capital City. October 10-' 15. This community was chosen as i I one of the stop-overs, because of the important position it holds in Eastern North Carolina. There will be several j buses loaded with visitors, who will be accompanied by a brass band, which will give a short concert be tween addresses. Souvenirs will be | distributed. The motorcade will be heralded by men on motorcycles and J | the entire community is invited to turn out to greet tbe visitors. Tbe i State Fair this year will be featured jby greatly reduced admission prices and record breaking crowds are ex pected. Many a man who cals himself conservative Is only a coward. A man’* gratitude Is always ita best fust before you do him a favor. Weigh gome people and they will be found Wanting in everything ex cept weight. Zebulon, Wake County, N. C., Friday, Sept. 23, 1932 P.-T. Association Next Tuesday 7:30 —o- Next Tuesday night the first meet ing of the P.-T. A. for this school year will be held in the school audi torium, with Dr. L. M. Massey, vice president, presiding. It’s earnestly hoped that every former member of the Association, together with all in terested parents and friends, will at tend this meeting. Reports from va rious committees will be given, and recommendations for the new year’s work will be presented by the Exeeu utive Board. The dues again this year will be only twenty-five cents which we hope you will bring if pos sible to this meeting. One of our big objectives this year will be a paid up membership of at least one hundred fifty. Tt will be an easy matter to have this many mem bers if we will bestir ourselves to secure them. With eight hundred and fifty-six pupils enrolling in Wakelon schools, the first day of school, we should not be satisfied with having fewer than two hundred members of the Parent-Teachers Association. Talk P.-T. A. and what it stands for to every neighbor and every patron of our school between now and Tuesday. Come to tbe meeting Tuesday night with the determination to help your association carry on an intelligent and helpful Child Welfare Program this year. As parents interested in the welfare of your children, and as citi zens who are interested in the future citizenship of your state, you should be an active member of the Parent- Teachers Association which is work ing and planning for your child and for future citizenship of your state. Another objective this year is to j better inform ourselves as to the kind of service which Wakelon school should render—and is earnestly trying to render —to this community. The school will have charge of your child and your neighbor’s child of each day six hours for five days each week and for eight months of the year. The Parent-Teacher Association is the agency which is striving to bring about an intelligent and sympathetic cooperation between the parent and [the teacher. Can you afford not to take advantage of every opportunity for strengthening an organization , whose sole objective is tht of helping j your child and your neighbor’s child? * 5700,000 SHRINK AGE IN COUNTY j FUND SEEN o— Wake folks who think they have lost about all the money that they i: ; re expected to give away by busted i hanks, misappropriation, failure of brokerage houses and stock market ■ osses, calmly accept a possible shrink, [age of 8700,000 in the sinking fund of the county ..hi; h has been so gon | erously loaned by county treasurers. The newspaper men have been , reading the array of loans now held in the officer of the local govern ment commission. The persual ex pending ever a fortnight caused th<* whole ou'fit to sleep. There warn nothing much to say about it until : omething is done about it. I here i j probably going to be some collectm r attempted. There is for instance in Holly Springs enough money loaned to oiti-. zens of that section to buy a good portion of the little town. Some of the loan- have borne interest 10 yrs. and not a few of them have paid no tiibute at all during that time. Hundreds of thousands are in real estate which at the time of the loan-! fairly "ell covered the principal bor rowed; but it is estimated that if the Icountv should take over all the prop erty given in exchange for the money , borrowed the county would not get 25 per cent. The sinking fund, therefore, stands to shrink about 75 per cent under present expectancies. This is not the biggest jolt of the several shake-ups for Wake. But the county is getting through tax foreclosures more real estate than it can handle. The county has had treasurers who were kind to their friends.boro Daily News. REVIVAL CLOSES The revival meeting at Hales Cha pel closed Sunday night. There were eight additions to the church. Bap tizing will be next Sundav afternoon at 3:90 o’elpck at the bridge across Moccasin creek near Aaron Creech’s home. Idle curiosity peedg deflatioflt N. C. Radio Program —o On Monday night, Sept. 26 will be he dedication of the “Parade of the States, program of that evening to North Carolina s part of the educa tional plan of the General Motors Corporation to give the people of the rest of the country a more intimate glimp»e of each of the statas la turn. The program will be broadcast at 9:30 p. m. Eastern Standard Time over the National Broadcasting Company’s network and will be heard in every section of the country. An orchestral medley of songs of the cotton field has been aranged as one of the program features and will be played by the concert orchestra under the direction of Emo Rapee. Lamar Stringfield, one of North Carolina’s composers, will be repre sented on the program through “Cripple Creek,” one of his best known pieces. Another number, “The Aeroplane’’ will pay tribute to the Wright Brothers who flew their first plane in North Carolina on the sandy hills of Kitty Hawk. BIRTHDAY PARTY —o— Last Friday afternoon the home and back yard of Mrs. Jarvis J. Brantley, of 51 Easton Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., resembled that of a play ground. A birthday party for Master Gilbert Denton, formerly of Zebulon, N. C., ws in progress. Sixteen happy youngsters were be ing amused by Mrs. Brantley, Gil bert’s aunt, with whom he is making his home since the death of his mo ther, Mrs. J, W. Denton. Games of all sorts were played and many prizes awarded to add to the zest of the contestants. Mrs. Brantley’s distinctive style was demonstrated in the unique adornment throughout the house. The rooms were a dainty tanglement of pale blue and pink crepe paper, giving a cheer ful aspect and harmonizing with the caps, balloons, and other noveties given the small guests. Pink candles in silver candlesticks illuminated the table which was em bellished with pink roses and blue Larkspur, with an elaborately decor ated birthday cake containing five candles as the center piece. The young friends and neighbors who extended thir kind wishes shared t the joy and happiness of Master Gil- beet and a lovely time was had by all. Gilbert still insists it "'as his first birthday—never had one like that be- - fore. BEWARE LOTTERIES A lottery is an interesting arange nient, and is worked on the principle that a small amount from a large number of persons will soon total a large sum which may he distributed, in part, to the holders of the lucky numbers. A great many charitable and religious institutions in the conn, try have bee raising funds for good purposes through the lottery system, hut the federal government has start-, led a campaign to put a stop to this j practice which is clearly against the law. Tt’s a quick "ay to raise money, but something for nothing just won’t work.—Stanly News and Press. A] Smith has h< ome amazing editor. He has announced that l • had been signed up as editor-in chief and monthly contributor to the “New Outlook” a monthly magazine, which is an outgrowth of the “Out. j look and Independent.” In an inter view which Smith gave out concern ing his new work he stated: “Remem ber I don’t read books. I’ve stated that four hundred times. I don’t want to reverse my position now just because I am an editor. Yes, I read about seven papers a day and some | ■ magazines, but books no, never any j i books.” The Outlook was founded in 1865 j •|by Henry Ward Beecher and the Late President Theodore Roosevelt was at ■ one time one of its contributing edi i tors. The magazine will be non-par tisan. ~ When a village youth makes a flying trip to the city he usually has ■ a bird of a time. | o Tt doesn't matter what planet a i man is bora under so long as he is ! able to keep on the esrth. ) It sometimes happens that a man is kept from buying mining stack because he hasn’t got tfee Wakelon Opens ° Wakelon School opened Monday af ter being delayed two weeks because of crop conditions. There will be 30 teachers this year. The opening devotional service was conducted by Rev. R. H. Herring. Short talks were made by Rev. N. B. Johnson and Theo. B. Davis E. H. Moser, Supt., delivered an ad dress stressing the relation to the school of ihe teacher, the Community and the environment, and urged that everything possible be done to make the community both wholesome and happy. There were 889 enrolled; 237 of the number high school pupils. This is probably the largest total for an opening; and is certainly the largest number of high school pupils enroll ed on any first clay in Wakelon’s his tory. J * ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EXCERPTS E. H. Moser Public school music will be car j t ied on this year. Piano Music will be under the direc tion of Mrs. Barbee. Expression will be offered this year by Miss Campen. We solicit your patronage to the lit tle entertainments we give here in the school building. We use the chil drn in these entertainments and the proceeds for the benefit of the-school. Book rent—4o cents in book rent saves each parent about $2.00. Each child is required to read 5 or 6 books. This plan saves you from buying but one or two. Most of our youth realizes that the pot of gold is not at the end of the rainbow. But many of them realize better than we do that there are bows of promise right here in this corn community—in good citizenship—in a fine climate —in |oil responsive to in telligent cultivation. Let’s strive to make our community rich in fine liv ing. This can be done through oun school. We must strive to make it en rich the lives of our children to the fullest capacity. Education is not anything more than training the young to take the place of the old. Every citizen in the com munity has his part to play in mak ing this ideal a reality. Our dream 1 for this year is to do our best to put I living in this school and in this com munity on a higher plane. It is a task worthy of the best that is in leach !>f us. Let us think in terms of jan excellent school —afiner life a more beautiful community. If we can do this we will achieve, and be happy I in the effort. j COFFEE GROWN NEAR NEW BERN Coffee is being raised between D i ver and Cove City by two Russian ■families brought to this counts The coffee loans are fully developed lend well formed, and c (servers are .richly pleased So far wiht the suc ! c of the new crop '! ho Russians raised coil *•» in their ; M.i vo country, and they state tha» through the in trumentul tv of Dr. A L. Hyatt, of Kinston, it is reported ea: * Carolina is wel suite.l for tic p.* * ( sc. ■he t v'o taun.ies have pur c! a hundre • ■ o-v of lan ’ < ach jci •; e<i part • I Ihe grouti* 1 . erect"-:, • nr • ami barn nes are n'-v ’atm in.r >. earn. -4. Other R.i-s an®. Ki el' ’ eg a Ri:s priest, a-e expect led !.<ler. COTTON ROAD Cotton roads may he constructed in Oklahoma if tests prove to Chairman Sam Hawks of the latest innovation in road building is practical. Engineers at Baton Rouge, La., are | testing a roadway made of cotton fibre, cemented with asphaltic oil, | Hawks was informed. Initial tests, he said, indicated the material could be fused successfully at low cost, i “I want to try out a mile of it in Oklahoma and see how it works,” the -chairman said today. “We’ve got plen ty of cotton and oil. Tt would help in I more ways than one.” The road is constructed by a layer | of cotton fabric followed by an ap plication of asphaltic oil covered with gravel. Engineers claimed that for * cost of between $3,500 and $4,500 a mile, a road more durable than ce ment 1s obtained. Hawks was told the road would withstand heavy traffic of 3.000 oars daily. I Jf » man can’t Bl’FU* hall f ji° 11 tl Number 14. General News In Brief —o— POISONED BY CHEAP SAUSAGE In Raleigh last Saturday 10 negroes were poisoned by eating sausage which had been bought at the rate of 40 pounds for 20 cents. It is thought that the sausage may have been some that had been thrown out of the markets because of being stale and that the seller gathered it up for sale. All of the eaters are expected to recover, after having been car ried to the hospital for tdeatment. DANIELS ON ROOSEVELT In this week’s issue of The Satur day Evening Post Josephus Daniels has an interesting article on Roose velt As I Know Him.” Mr. Daniels has known Mr. Roosevelt since 1912 and should be qualified to speak of the man who was his assistant when the editor of “The Old Reliable” was ! secretary of the Navy. THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING RACKET The United States Government scatters approximately 300,000 pam phlets, documents and bound books over the country every working day. In the 1931 fiscal year the Print ing Office issued almost 3,500,000,000 copies of printed matter. It is now doing still better. In the six months following July 1, 1931, the amount of type set was 129,000,000 ems greater than in the same period the previous year. This is at a time when taxes of alt kinds have jumped, in the face of * lowered national income. The gov ernment printing department offers a fertile field for some real needed economy. —’ l n J t SAPPING THE NATION —o — In a recent address, Harold McGu gin, Representative from Kansas, held that taxes are draining the life blood ! of the nation. In 1913 the total annual tax burden of the country was $2,900,000,000. At present, our ability to pay is less than it was then. Yet in 1930 the total burden reached $12,200,000,000, and it is appreciably higher now. Where, in 1913, the total public debt averaged $43.33 per capita, it n>-w averages more than $255.00. Congressman McGugin, like other qualified observers, lays the principal 1 blame for exorbitant taxes on the con jtinual widening of government ac | tivities. More and more billions are demanded for “relief” for ventures into business, for subsidies for states. The great bulk of these appropria tions in I nefit hut a small part of the country, and raus he pal f< y peopli who gel little oi not: . :n„ ill return. In concluding his address, Mr. Mc- Gugin quoted an editorial from lb® g lona. Kansas. Time, which criticised I the habit of many persons, who are i opposed to increased governmental ac tivity in general, to ask for it when .they believe it to be in their intere-t, and said: “Let every weekly news • ot- in the United State express ■ I;at thought and sooner later the people in every nook and corner of thi- country will be awakened to the | need of reducing these governmental activities. ...” That is true, and it should he remembered. The country papers of the nation are well fitted ito lead in a campaign that will stem the rising tide of taxation nd pre| are the "'av for renewed industrial ac tivity and stimulated employment. Central Association The Central Association will meet with the Wakefield Baptist church on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 28 and 29. There will be timely and in teresting discussions of matters re lating to the work of kingdom build ing. Among the speakers will be Mrs. J. W. Bunn, Home Missions; J. jS. Farmer, Periodicals; L. S. Gains, Sermon; F. B. Hamrick, Orphanage; Dr. W. L Poteat Morals and Tem perance; Dr. W. R. Cullom, Sunday Schools; Mrs. J. O. Gough, Woman'* Work. Dinner will be served at the church on both days of the meeting. Luck is the trump card played by jjfcill* ill Hill liilTi