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VOLUME IX. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER • j Bv MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS The son who does the milking called to me inquiring what yellow flowers those are which grow near est to the coiner of the house ami 1 told him they were California poppies. Then he said for me to come out there and see something funny. I left the dishes and went to where he stood, milk-bucket in hand, w'atching a big bumblebee trying to get honey or pollen from the shallow, satiny cups of the pop * ies. You know what slender stems they have. Well, the bumblebee would alight on a blossom, it would l begin to sway under his weight, go farther and father over, and then would right himself, spread his wings and fly just high enough to I settle again on that blossom or an ti other, and the swaying and the ! fall would be repeated. We watched > him until he had landed on the ground at least a dozen times and ; never once did he seem at all wor ried. His body was upset over and over, but not his mind. Finally he flew slowly oft with his load and [ I came back into the house still { smiling, but admiring his persist j ence. My husband suggested, when j I told.him about it, that perhaps the bumblebee realized he was con tending with a natural law and | that there was nothing personal * about his being thrown out so of j ten. 1 am sure that if I had knock s ed him out of the flowers, he would t have retaliated, but I am not ; enough of a naturlist to know how well a bumblebee understands phy | sics. ( When you make meat balls or I hamburger steak and object to the f meat’s packing tightly together L and being hard when cooked, try R adding to the raw, seasoned beef all the sweet milk it will absorb l without becoming too soft to han | die. You’ll be surprised at the a i mount it takes. This will keep it ! soft and help in making the most satisfying of brown gravies. Down at the far edge of our lots last Monday morning the north west breeze brought to me a deli cious fragrance. It was familiar, yet elusive and it was perhaps a ) minute that I stood there sniffing like a pointer dog before recog nizing the scent of sourwood blooms t And at once my mind's eye saw a plate bearing a slice of green ap ple pie, not too sweet, and on its top a wedge of sourwood honey comb, the honey oozing slowly out to blend with the juices of the pie. was the standard July dessert where I was raised; and, if you have eaten "ft, you don’t forget it. There were nearly three hundred persons at the meeting of the W. M. U. of the Central Association at Harris Chapel last week. The day was stiflinglv hot and fans and ice water were at a premium. But ■ it was a wonderful meeting. I \fe listened to Dr. John Lake tell * of his work in China as one having I both knowledge and love; and I I was more than ever convinced that * while Mrs. Pearl Buck’s Chinese ‘ may be so well satisfied with their i J' own religion that it is a pity to j disturb them. Dr. Lake - ( hinese I need the gospel of Christ and want it. . Every part of the program was good. The hospitality of the church was delightful. Knowing by ex [ pet ience the endless amount of work required to make ready the building, the tables, the food and all the rest that makes such an ■ casion pleasant. 1 always stand j k just as tall as I can when the com- j mittee on resolutions calls for a rising vote of thanks to those wh r have labored so faithfully. Not least among the enjoyable features of the day was meeting a number of ladies who said withou* being prompted: “I am glad to ■ meet you, because I read the Re Pcord.” ■ Fifty of the 600 inhabitants ot ■ Waynesville, Ind., are widows. -ri- n..‘umu Zebulon Sternrb The Dry Forces Make Challenge To Men and Women Voters of N. C. On May 27, 1908, the people of North Carolina voted aaginst the manufacture and sale of intoxica ting liquor by a majority of 44,196. We are agin called upon, on Tues day, November 7, 19.13, to do battle in this righteous cause. No family, high or low, rich or poor, has escaped the galling curse of the liquor habit. It is the canker worm that has eaten into the heart of the body politic. It has made the sweet water of life bitter. The tears that have been shed by an army of mourners speak to our heads as well as our hearts. “In the sweetest bud the eating canker dwells.” No race is exempt; especially is it injurious to the Negro workman. Neither the employer nor employe wants about him in their daily tasks those who drink. The people of North Carolina, in the genera tions gone by, have resisted to the last ditch tyranny and oppression, cruelty and wrong. This issue appeals to men and women in all parties; to men and women of all creeds; it is above party, above creeds, above nation alities; it is a matter of conscience. Be not deceived with false ar guments, and let no foreign hand —the predatory wealth gained and to be gained from this evil—dictate to North Carolinians, a free and independent people. The economic waste of money spent for intoxica ting beverages is appalling. Mil !;on; of dollars that should be de voted to home-building and eco nomic recovery will be siphoned out of this State by Liquor Lords living in the cities and states out side of North Carolina. Our birth right shall not be sold for a mess of pottage, a tax that in the end comes from a wreckage of those made in the image of our Maker. We call upon you in this contest for the mastery to be temperate in word, language, and action. WE ARE AGAINST THE EVIL, NOT AGAINST THOSE WHO DIFFER WITH US. In other vocations and duties, we would wish them God speed. We would regard the repeal of Meets Death In Collision A collision between a car and a truck on the highway between Zeb ulon and Wendell at about one o’- clock on the night of June 26 re sulted in the death of the car’s owner, Charles A. Clarke, of New- York( and the injury of five others who were in the car with him. Two men in the truck were unhurt. E. M. Vick and Miss Minnie Denton of Bailey were said to have been most severely hurt among the in jured. Coroner Waring held that Clark’s cai elesness caused the accident and that the truck driver was not to blame. The young owner of the car was said to be only 18 years of age. Peculiar Accidents W. C. Stallings, Guilford County anitary inspector, was burned se verely on last Monday while ex- ] amining the septic tank of a school near Greensboro. The tank had not been in use since '-'’hool closed ' and was tightly closer. The in spector took a lighted lantern for use in the inspection, having no j flashlight with him . At the in- 1 stant the top of the tank was lifted an explosion occu'ed, burning Mr. Stallings on the arms and face. He managed to push back the cov er, extinguishing the flames which had already scorched the sleepers of the schoolhouse. His injuries are thought not to be fatal. Dr. Tassilo Schultheiss, of Berlin, Germany, can read, write, speak, and understand 140 different lan guages. He also has mastered many iialects. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE ill. 1 the Eighteenth Amendment as a calamity to our Nation. We be lieve that prohibition at its worst is better than the legalized sale of intoxicqA-ing liquor for leverage purposes at its best. Let’s not mix liquor with ma chinery and the automobile on the public highway. It is our duty to be temperate, but to destroy the pitfalls, to protect the innocent. Shall our boasted uplift and civi lization in North Crolina be turn ed back by foreign Goliath Liquor Barons ? We earnestly appeal to the young men and women of the State to enter this contest; they may not be aware of the tragedy of this evil until it is too late. We call upon men and women in every community, township, and county of the State to forget past /differences and enter into this con test. It is non-partisan, non-poli , ticai, and non-denominational as a fight. Organize under the Uni ted Dry Forces of North Carolina at once, and do it yourself. Do it now! The battle is on until sun set on November 7th. Be sure and see that these community, township, and county organiza tions have the men and women registered and at the polls election day. 'The National Act submitting the repeal of the 18th Amendment makes no provision against the re turn of the SALOON and its TRA GIC EVIIjS. It provides for NA KED REPEAL. Therefore, vote on November 7th “No Convention.” This is in keeping with the pledge of the State Democratic Party plat form on which the present officials were elected: “The Democratic Par ty- always has been responsive to the will of the people, and in obe dience thereto has SPONSORED AND ENACTED ALL THE PRO HIBITION LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA.” The National Democratic plat form says: “Believing that a par ty platform is a covenant with the people, to be faithfully kept by the j party when entrusted with power. . . . . we urge the enactment (Continued on Page Two.) Temple-Hoggard The following announcement has been received: Mr. John H. Hoggai'd announces the marriage of his daughter Rachel Pritchard • to Mr. Wallace Gardener Temple on Tuesday, the twenty-seventh of June nineteen hundred and thirty-three Rocky Mount. North Carolina At Home Zebulon, North Carolina After July 1. Mrs. Temple is a graduate of Meredith College and has taught in Wakelon School for two years. Mr. Temple, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Temple, attended Wake Forest College after graduating at Wakelon, and is now employed in his father’s market and grocery | store. After a short honeymoon, they j will make their home in an apart ! ment at Mrs. J'. E. Gill’s home. What To Grow In The Fall Garden T here are five vegetables that should be grown in every fall gar den. These are snap beans, turnips, collards, cowpeas, and Irish pota toes. Other desirable ones are cab bage, beets, kale, tomatoes, sweet' corn, and lettuce. A complete list of these fall vegetables together with planting dates is given in Ex tension Folder 31 and copies of this folder will be mailed free upon ap plication to the Agricultural Edi tor. State College Station, Raleigh, N. C. Patronize Our Advertizers. Revival At Local Baptist Church Beginning next Sunday morning. July 2, a series of services will be held daily at the Zebulon Baptist J Church and will continue f<»r a week or more. It is planned to make singing a special feature of all the services,) and the attendance and co-opera tion of the people of the entire community is sincerely desired. Pastor R. H. Herring will be in charge of the services ami Mr.‘ Furman Betts of Raleigh, will be present to lead in the singing. Surely in times like the present we may expect the prayerful in terest of all members of the church and all Christians of our communi ty. Services Sunday at 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Each week-day at 8:00 p. m. Day services for the week will be announced Sunday. R. H. Herring, Pastor. Notice To Loan Applicants To those who are more or less interested in Farm Loans, I wish to give you the following opinion in regard to Joint Stock Land Bank Loans that every one is try ing to have transferred to the Fed eral Land Bank so the terms and interest will be cheaper. The Fed eral Land Bank is not willing to take these loans up at face value for the reason the stock is selling so low on the market. If they will scale down to some where to pres ent values then they would take flhem over. For instance: when these loans were made a present day dollar was woTth about forty cents. The Farm Loan Bureau is not willing for the Joint Stock Land Banks to profit on the farm ers, but they cannot make them accept the reduction. I am of the opinion that within fifteen or twen ty days there will be something doing. Possibly, they will throw the Joint Stock Land Banks into the hands of receivers. All this is my opinion, but there is something in the air. I am suggesting to those who wish their loans to be trans ferred to wait and it any one wish es to redeem his loan, I can make out his application and can make loans to take up individual loans, etc. Remember, I am on the job al ways to write your insurance so when you think of insurance see me and I will be glad to help you decide on how much you can carry. Insurance is the most important thing for every one who ilwn? property.—D. D. Chamblee, Man ager Record Agency. Rain Relieves Rural Worries The rain on Tuesday afternoon is said to have amounted to .66 of an inch at Raleigh, and was prob ably about that here. Other sec tions had fine rains on Sunday night and Monday. Pilot. Roles ville and Bethany all reporting improved conditions thereby. Weather reports state that un less the next few days are unus ually rainy this June will set a record for both heat and dryness. Active Baptist Laymen At the Baptist Religious Insti tute at Meredith College we had a deacons’ day, when there were three addresses delivered by dea cons, one by Judge L. R. Varsar, one by J. M. Broughton and one by R. N. Simms, all lawyers, all good speakers, and men who are gladly | heard in any assembly in North! Carolina. Judge Varsar, we believe! it was. speaking of the duties of | teachers said that there is only one side to the Eighteenth Amend ment on which a deacon can stand. The deacon must preach and prac tice total abstinence. We hope every Bptist deacon in North Carolina will take this one sentence to heart, l—Biblical Recorder. If you sell em, you have to tell ’em The Boy Problem In Our Industry By P. G. Holden Field Director. Agricultural Exten sion Department International Har-vester Company It ttakes two things to make a great nation—a great people and a fertile soil. I was holding a meet ing once in lowa and I asked the audience to name the two greatest things on earth. I do not remember all the things that were named, but | I do remember what one man said: I can never forget it because it seems to me his answer struck the keynote of all development. He re plied, “Home folks and farms.” It takes a great people and fer- I tile soil to make a great country. ' Where there is a desert there are no cities, no homes, no industries On the other hand when this coun try belonged to the Indians, the soil was fertile and productive, but it was not worth much. Mexico possesses some of the most fertile valleys in all the world but what a difference there is be tween Mexico and the United States. When Brazil declared war on Germany, the Kaiser didn’t tremble, but when he heard that America had declared war against him, he turned pale and was much cast down. Japan is a world power but China, with nearly three times the population, does not occupy a prominent place among the nations. The Lord has given us these mil lions of acres of rich, fertile land. It is ours for a short time and we must guard and protect it or we shall destroy it. And we cannot preserve it unless we are a great people. How are we to make great peo ple? By breeding? We have not yet accepted the breeding methods ve apply in improving our corn and live stock. We have just one way— education and direction. When shall we begin—when the boy becomes a man ? Theodore Roosevelt said: “If you are going| to do anything permanent for the average man, you must begin be fore he is a man. The chance of success lies in working with the boy, and not with the man.” That is a truth we will all have Revival At Bethany The annual revival meeting will begin at the Bethany Baptist church, six miles northwest of Wendell, next Sunday morning Jul.y section, at eleven o’clock and will extend through the following week. Services will be held each day at three o’clock in the afternoon and at eight o’clock at night. Rev. L. R. Evans, the pastor of the church, will do the preaching. Ralph Moore, a ministerial student, will preside over the services. Mrs. C. R. Weathers and the local choir will have charge of the sing ing. The public is very cordially in vited to attend the meetings. Wake County Cow Sets New Record Raleigh--A cow in the herd of the North Carolina State College has just finished a new official record for production which en titles her to entry in the Ad— vanted Register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. This ani mal is the six year old Cherry Bell of Hygeia Farm 3d 207013 with a production of 11274.1 lbs. of milk and 627.9 lbs. of fat in class A. First Cotton Bloom J. B. Holder, Wendell, R. 2, who lives in Johnston county, .brought the RECORD the first cotton bloom of the season last Saturday morn ing. Then Tuesday Will Tippett came in with two blooms which had shedded frm the- stalk. He said they were in bloom Saturday, but he was too busy to come to town. J to admit. There is a responsibility that is our; a responsibility we can not escape or shove on to others. We must make it possible, and not only possible, but imperative for all ( children—not merely the majority ! of children-—but all children to get this education and direction. Are we doing it? The child is here. He has no choice but to be here and to bo what he is. He cannot help himself. He is not to blame for conditions, nor can he change them. It is up to us to make conditions what they should be, and this can be done only by concerted action. We must make a beginning with one boy—or perhaps a dozen boys. We cannot help all the boys in the world at the start. The successful duck hunter is not the one who shoots blindly into a flock. He picks out a certain duck and aims at it. Often he brings down two, but he knows if he shoots at the whole flock, he is apt to miss them all. So we must begin with one boy ! or a few boys. In all probability we will help all boys. And not only i must we begin at the boy end of | the problem. We must direct his activities and j we must direct all his activities in ' cludijig his work, his play, his health, his civic and social activi- I ties. To my mind it is not a curfew law we need- it is not restrictions or repressions that boys need, it is direction, education and encourage i ment, and not only is this what the boy wants, it is what our factory wants, what the community wants. I have received letters from sev ! eral industrial corporations and concerns regarding what is being done for the boys between 14 to 18 years of age in their employ. These letters show they have no definite plan for helping boys in industries or anywhere else. This is probably the weakest spot in our whole eco -1 nomic system today. Fitting boys . tor industry is the one thing we must depend on more than anything else for our future business, for future America, and yet we have given it no conscientious study— (Continued on Page Two.) Slot Machine Owners Fined Gatesville.—L. K. Smithson and P. M. Morris entered a plea of guilty to ownership and the placing of slot machines with filling station owners in Gates county for the pur pose of operation, at the regular term of county court held here this week. The defendants had placed six machines in the county—threei penny machines and three nickel machines and classed them all as merchandise vending machines, but all contained jackpots. They were found guilty, and fined SSO each and one half of the costs. The ma chines were ordered confiscated, the disj osition of them to await fur ther orders of the court. Earpsboro Gets Best Os Middlesex On last Saturday afternoon a very interesting game of bail was pleyed at Middlesex between Mid dlesex and Earpsboro. Earpsboro won, by the score of 12 to 1. Franklin Lewis pitched for Earpsboro, and pitched a good game of ball. Leonard Lewis drove in seven runs with a homer, a dou ble. and a single. i This makes six games the Earpsboro boys have played and they have won a!! six. They are trying to arrange a game with Wakefield and believe that they can beat that winning team or put it to its best to beat them. Tite State of California allows automobiles traveling its highways i to use nine lights on the front of j the car. all of which must be of or white color. NUMBER 2. YE FLAPDOODLE By The A.HHBUCKLER I have been approached, with dif ferent offers from time to time, but a young lady of our fair city brings me the most generous of all offers. She proposes that for one week I allow her to write this col umn. What she writes not being subject to my censure nor to the editor’s. That anything she puts in about me is to ride “as is,” so long as the thread of truth runs thru it. Now this is indeed a pleas ant thought at first glance, but closer scrutiny reveals slight de sects that were not noticed upon first inspection. Consequently, Mary Barrow will not be allowed to write this Flapdoodle for some days to come. However it would be nice to have someone to lay things to when belligerent patrons come around with whys and where fores of this and that statement. Imagine their surprise when I said, “I cannot tell a lie, she done it.” Did you set eyes upon that colored class of “Sun Beams” who were seen to be roaming about the streets of our fair city on Monday last? Os all the little pickaninnies (incidentally I am an authority on pickaninnies) I have seen, I have never seen quite so many so near the sj.\ e hue of darkness, the samo size and with the same degree of expression upon their faces. “How dy,” I said, and immediately some twenty black, shiny faces split across lower halves and twen ty some piping voices replied in unison, “Howdy.” Well, there is one consolation in looking at Negro children, you certainly don’t have to wear dark glasses. Geron Gay was seen imposing upon a small Shetland pony last Wednes day. The pony was hitched to a Hoover cart (which would have pulled him over backward had it not been for weights under his stomach) and Geron was riding up on the seat. Where, oh where are the S. P. C.’s, or whatever they are. I would have delighted in see ing Geron between the shafts and the pony on the seat. Sober ing up for a moment, I find myself wondering just how many of the people who spent so much time in earnest prayer for rain, will spend half that much in thanks now that they have it. Carl Goerch seems to be falling into some kind of a rut now. Is it that he will drop from his editorship back into the realm of a weekly newspaper col umnist? Let’s hope for the best, even if it be the latter. Lancelot has contracted a most irk some habit of late, that of running out of gas in some of the most out of-the-way places. She has done it twice within the fortnight. Now when I put within the spacious confines of her tank five precious gallons of petrol, <m the night be j fore, and park her under a tree at the back of the house until day [doth arrive, and then cranking up her wheezy motor, begin my daily trip. I am indeed surprised to find that ere I have traveled eight miles her tank is like unto the limey structure of the body. As this has occurred twice. I am inclined to be lieve, much as it grieves me, that someone is withdrawing the much to be prized gas from said tank and using it to further his own pleasure. In other words, some my gas! There is no scandal this week dear mongers except that a certain young lady with a perma nent was seen riding in a southern lv direction with a gent who might have just returned from the beauty shop himself (if I am to go by the waves in his hair.) His intentions so far as I could see were quite armorous. At any rate she didn’t seem to mind the fact that he used only one hand to maneuver the au to. the other was about her shoul ders (?) Also I wonder who the young lady was who rushed quickly into the house on bared feet after ascending from a gas chariot on Tuesday night in the wee hours of the morn. And the gent who openly admitted that he breathed a sigh of relief upon finding that the whole family was asleep when he returned from a (Continued on Page Two.)