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{Th t Zebulon Kecorb Member North Carolina Press Every Friday By THE RECORD PI BUSHING CO.. Zebu lon, N. C. *■* THEO. B. DAVIS EDITOR Mrs. Thro. B. Davis Asso. Editor Entered as second-class mail mat ter June 26, 1925, at the Post dffire at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year $1.50 Si* Months .80 Three Months .50 Sde/crw/ About the greatest comfort poor people have these times is that they do not fear being kidnaped. It appears that those High Point mill operatives do not want to re cover, but are rather determined to go under in spite of the President’s Recovery Act. Elliott Roosevelt, the President’s second son, got a divorce the other day and immediately left for Chi cago where a Texas girl awaited him. The court rendered its deci sion in his favor; the public re serves its opinion of the man. The revival closed at the Bap tist Church Wednesday night. We think a lot of good was accom plished. However, we wonder if a lot of social leaders will now re sume their card gambling parties. North State News, Apex. We wonder if the bridge players of our town even stopped playing for the revival. MORE TAX EATERS Dr. Noble, Executive Asst. Com. of Revenue, has more than 125 men going to a tax school in Chapel Hill. The last legislature did very little constructive legislation, in our opinion, in actually reducing taxes. And all the savings instituted will doubtless be swallowed up in new departments since set up. This Sales Tax Commission is a fair illustration. With more than 125 employees paid an average sal ary of $1,500 and SSO a month ex penses, the state will slice into this tax pie about $275,000. Every office- or official from policeman and constable up should be officers of the state and should be enlisted wherever possible in the state’s business. If the Governor had en listed all patrolmen, sheriffs and other officials of like character in administering the collection of the sales tax, we believe it could have been collected without one cent ex tra cost to the state, except the cost of the salary and expense of the head of this department. “TO H WITH LAW” The caption of this editorial is virtually the conclusion logically reached in relation to all law by most people today. We have heard it used frequently. All the whoops and hurrahs of those determined to destroy the 18th Amendment in the last anal ysis say that all law is bosh, a failure and should be discarded and sent to oblivion. To carry the argument on. When the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped, the government passed very drastic laws to prevent a recurrence of this deplorable act. Instead of lessening, this crime has become almost an ep idemic. No one for a moment would even think of repealing the present laws against kidnaping, but rather make them more severe. Every law regulates conduct, and takes away more or less of one’s liberty. Also every law has been broken by some one at some time. Yet, never in the b*tory of our country, has there gone up such a cry of repeal as that against the 18th Amendment. Talk about fanatics! The craziest, narrowest fanatics in America are not the people who believe in law — broken or kept—but those who are shutting their eyes to all else and wishing “hell bent” to repeal one of many that are constantly being broken. The acreage to gardens in Cas well County has increased by 40 per cent over the 1932 acreage and corn planting increased over 12 per cent this season. WAKELON SCHOOL BOARD S<mctime ago petitions were cir ; culated in the Wakelon School dis trict asking that a law he parsed to elect the Board by popular vote, so as to get a more general repre sentation of the committee. Supt. ■ Lockhart and others assured those (especially interested that if this was what the patrons' wanted, it would doubtless be done. A new committee has been ap pointed, or rathei the old commit tee has been reappointed. These men are all excellent men and no charge can be made against any of them, except that all are Zebu lon men, two are not patrons of the I school, since they have no children in school, and perhaps that one or two take too little interest in the meetings of this committee. This paper believes if a commit tee selected from the rural com munities and Zebulon, and from those having children in school, had been appointed, that it would be much better for the general inter ests of the school. The effort to get a bill through the Legislature to elect the committee hy the peo ple was stopped because of the as surance given that this matter would be adjusted so as to give the country people membership on the committee. There is considerable dissatisfaction over the fact that Zebulon controls Wakelon school, and had at least two of the new members of the committee been from other sections of the district, it would have allayed in a good measure, the unrest that was in evidence sometime ago. But—since this action has been taken by the County Board of Edu cation and Supt. Lockhart, nothing more can be done or need be said about it for the present. It is the duty of every patron now to get behind the school and do all he can to make this year Wakelon’s best. • The school will be more or less handicapped by the cut in funds, so we should do our best to supple ment otherwise that the record of the past may be carried forward with greater glory to our childrens’ future welfare. Hazards Afoot Pedestrian deaths in 1932 were 44 per cent of all deaths due to au ' i tomobile accidents. There were 12,- , | 770 foot travelers killed out of a I I total of 29,000 automobile accident deaths in the United States. This fact appears in an analysis by Max i well Halsey, Traffic Engineer of i the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, j Mr. Halsey finds four chief facts 'Jin pedestrian accident problem: I 1. Auto-pedestrian accidents a>'e 1 1 only 5 per cent less than auto-auto i accidents. 2. The pedestrian is almost twice as likely to he killed as the motor ist. j 3. Only 25 per cent of all acci \ dents occur outside of cities or towns, but they are responsible for J more than 50 percent of all deaths. 4. Accidents to pedestrians walk ing along rural highways are at least four times as fatal as any other type of accident. The following are the chief dan ger points to pedestrians: Narrow roads; Mack pavement that offers i less contrast to the pedestrian and requires greater illumination; cuts through hills, fills and curves; re creation and refreshment locations ; where parked cars interfere with pedestrian visibility; schools, sac ! tories, parks, etc., where pedestri- J ans walk on or cross highways; ve hicles passing vehicles; “thumbing,” 1 where pedestrians stand on edge of ! road to attract attention; roadway laborers inadequately protected by | signs; glaring lights; wet pave ment. Pedestrians should walk single | file facing oncoming traffic; avoid blind spots; get out of the way of meeting or passing cars; wear light colored clothing at night or carry a reflecting device. The motorists, in turn, should know that pedestrians are not entirely visible at night. They should avoid the edge of the road and sound their horns for any pedestrian situation that seems doubtful. Street light ing, wide sidewalks and traffic j signals should be provided. States without laws prohibiting | hitch-hiking, or laws requiring pe- I destrians to walk to the left facing traffic, should pass them. These are j constructive suggestions and should be seriously considered by all intel ligent persons.—lndustrial News Review. The newly established cream | shipping station at Morganton paid I Burke County farmer? $366.13 for] surplus milk and cream during the i first month of operation. THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORT H CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933. Washington Current Comment On his vacation, President Roose velt walked about on Campobello Island, a place from which ten years ago he was carried on a bed, paralyzed beyond what was then re garded as the hope of recovery. As a public official, a state of paraly sis was thrust upon him on the fourth of last March. In ten days, the President of the United States, officially considered, was no longer a paralytic. The name of Roosevelt has been linked for all time with the idea of recovery. As he conquer ed his own physical ailments, so he has conquered the ailments of the land. For some unknown reason, the general impression seems to pre vail in Europe that the United States is in a position in which it has to do as it is told. It is true that internal affairs h./ve kept the President busy, but the resolute manner in which he has handled matters within our own boundaries ought to mean something to those who live outside of them. The Unit erf States is far from being down and out. Mr. Roosevelt’s actions can have teeth in them, if neces sary. Our domestic problems are moving rapidly toward solution, and with peace and prosperity secured at home, Europe may learn in the near future that it has to deal with an administration that is in a posi tion to demand, rather than to ask or suggest. The business year of the govern ment began on the first of July. Its plans for the coming twelve month cover a good deal of ground, and are not easy to understand in their entirety. Here and there, how ever, something stands out which is so plain that the wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein. For instance, there is the determi nation that bankers shall not spec ulate with the money entrusted to their care by depositors. If that can be accomplished, with everything else going into the discard, the ad ministration will not have labored in vain. The new year will inaugu rate a closer control of industry. How far that control can go, and how far it will have to go, are mat ters of conjecture. Will a heavy socialistic hand be laid upon the business of manufacturing? What must be done in order that wages may be kept up and work provid ed ? Is a curb to be placed on the amount produced? Just now, the only purpose that a gold dollar serves is to land its possessor in jail. What will be the condition of the currency at the beginning of the fiscal year in 1934? Much stud ying and have s>een done during the past few months. What was determined upon is now to be put to the test. Those who live until the first of next July will be likely to have more to say about the year now beginning than about the year that closed tvith the last days of June. The new and untried is about to be put into practice. “If a copperhead, water mocca sin or rattler bites you, treat it quickly.” Sound advice, but what is a person going to do if the snake does not drink? It is said that whiskey has to be three years old before it is fit to drink. There is not enough three year old whiskey in the country to go around, in case of an emergency. Sixteen states have voted down the Eighteenth Amendment. If the oth er twenty register their disapprov al of prohibition in an unexpectedly short time, nothing will be left but to fall back on the bootlegger, per haps as a public-spirited dollar-a year man, to help out the country n a pinch. Americanization classes for ali ens are being held in Washington. They will be taught arithmetic, among other things. Why does someone not open a similar school for financiers of the sort who have been testifying before Senate com mittees? When it comes to the in come tax they cannot caunt beyond ten. Camera, the new champion of the prize ring, is a member of the Black Shirts of Italy. He won the match with Jack Sharkey because he was the larger and stronger man, and packed an unscientific but walloping smash. Mussolini and the Black Shirts control Italy. Is it because they „too are of the blind battering-ram type? Sewral noble experiments in gov ernment that are being tried in Europe are not receiving the whole ; hearte ( j support that might be de sired, either at home or abroad, on account of the fact that they have i attempted to deal with the delicate j question of the relation between j state and church, or with the still more delicate question of the rela tion between state and religion. ® man may not have much religion in i his make-up, but when dictation along that line is attempted, it is J usually found that he has more re ligion than he or anyone else sus pected, and that tampering with it | is a bad thing for governments. Alfred E. Smtih has had some good things to say about recon struction and putting the world again on its feet. They have been printed so widely that they need not be repeated here. A word of comment on Mr. Smith personally may not be out of order. It may be said of him, as Seneca said of Plato, that philosophy did not receive him as a noble, though she made him one. The Economic Conference at Lon don is having hard sledding. The word from Washington is to keep it alive and working. Back in 1918, we had a song about a long, long trail a-winding somewhere or other. There was an end and a favorable end, to the war trail. Sticking ever lastingly to it may clear things up in London also. Mount Everest still raises its 29- GOO foot crest in the air, a patch of ground never pressed by the foot of man, the latest British expedi tion having returned with its ob ject unaccomplished. The story is much the same as that recounted by the parties that set out for the summit in 1922, 1924 and 1930. Storms and wintry conditions were too much for the explorers. Per haps the cog railroad, built pain fully foot by foot, will be the way out, or rathei up, and a trip to the crown of Mount Everest may some day mean no more than a ride up Pike’s Peak. The fact that Senator Borah has i been on for a typical old | man’s disease, recalls the fact that j he was born in 1865, and the fur j ther fact that he is getting well rapidly is in line with other events j in his life. He is one of the men whom nature selected to come out on top. Borah isn’t a Democrat and i he is not particularly popular with | the Republicans, but he bears his i sixty-eight years easily, and it will take more than the surgeon’s knife | to put him down. With the Hollywood payroll | standing at about a million and a half a week, and with the florists trade running at )appsoxi|matf>ly two hundred million dollars a year, the depression must have a bottom that is still somewhat remote. The Fourth has passed, but whether it was safer and saner than ! ordinary is something to be deter- I mined from statistics yet to be compiled. Seventy-five children on •the average are blinded each year by fireworks, and the total eye in | juries run in the neighborhood of a i thousand a year. The price paid for ■ a noisy Fourth is heavy, but the j matter is of so small consequence , that it has not been considered i worthy of federal action. i I The campaign of the government j to secure the return of gold to the Treasury continues, but is not being i carried on with high-handed force, j About two hundred have declined to turn in their stores of the good | yellow metal. Gentle measures still prevail, and there is wisdom in such a course. It is well to continue col lection plate methods until such plans fail. If the club of prosecution is used there will he resistance, and the courts may hold that the gold return edict cannot be sustained at law. Those who have parted with their coin have received paper that seems to do fairly well. Perhaps it is the duty of the good citizen not to force the government into what might be a very unfortunate posi tion. Things more valuable than gold have been surrendered to pro mote the general welfare. The King and Queen of England were married forty years on the 6th of July. It would be interesting to know all the things that they had disagreed about during that time, but the story, although inter esting, probably would not disclose anything differing materially from what is passed back and forth now and then across the garbage col | lector’s breakfast taMe. Four sheep growers of Cumber land County pooled 2041 pounds of wool and sold it for $511.50 cash. Holloway’s Hits By James H. Holloway Cotton at twelve cents a pound and wheat at a dollar and a quarter a bushel is bringing a smile of happiness to the faces of the farm ers of America and is, also demon strating the overwhelming success ot the “New Deal” of President Roosevelt and the Democratic Con gress. If the present prices can be maintained throughout the fall, so as to give the farmers time to har vest and market his crop, the coun tiy will be back on the main high way of peace and prosperity again. Moreover, if the President can de vise some plan to keep the tobacco manufacturers from again stealing the farmers crop, the South will be setting pretty. We have already come a long way from the depths of depression and despair which gripped the country for the four long and trying years of Hoover misgovernment and the brilliant sunrays of the dawn of the new day are visible over the hills of hope. The Textile Code has gone into effect and this will soon reflect it self in a largely increased buying power among the operatives. Short er hours and increased pay will give many men now idle a job and new inspiration. As soon as all the vari ous industries of the nation put their codes into operation our re covery will be very rapid. Large buying power is the mortal enemy of depression and as soon as all those who want work find a job at a living wage the fight will be won. The strike at High Point and Thomasville is very unfortunate at this time. No doubt the workers have many grievances, but this seems to an outsider, a very inop portune time to take such drastic action, to remedy the conditions complained of. With the govern ment straining every nerve to help the workers, strikes should be post poned for a little while, so as to give the new plans a chance to function. The North Carolina Sales Tax is now in full swing and we will soon know just what it will raise in revenue. Several hundred new jobs will be created and filled by incom petents with a political or personal pull. This will absorb about a mil lion dollars of the tax and will also tend to make the law obnoxious to the people. As soon as all the little inexperienced tax collectors start to running around over the state the fireworks will commence. It seems impossible to perform any service for the people of North Car olina in an efficient and economical manner. Five thousand dollar sal aries for one thousand dollar offici als is being continually saddled on the tax payers of the state. No matter who is elected this shame less graft goes merrily on. A moun tain was once said to have been in labor and brought forth a mouse. Dr. Noble, the newly appointed ex ecutive Revenue Collector, after several weeks of hard labor and secret conferences, finally brought forth a lot of little political mice in the form of tax collectors which will soon proceed to gnaw away the proceeds of the sales tax. It is a safe ten to one bet, that the limit will be raised two years from now, in all probability it will then be 5 ~er cent instead of three. North Carolina Democrats are a long-suf fering people and unless they take charge of the state government soon the government and the crook ed politicians will take charge of them. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution will he repealed, if reports from widely scattered states can be believed. This state will go by more than a hundred thousand majority for repeal. If any man ha ( ] predicted this five years ago he wmuld have been laughed at, but any one who travels over the state at this time cannot fail to see the rising sentiment for repeal. Ernest Bain will no longer make water safe for the people of Ra leigh; he is out. Collection Set-Up In the rearrangement of districts for collection of taxes in the state there have been made 54 districts. Collectors will look after all other taxes in their districts as well as the sales tax. Wake and Franklin Counties comprise district No. Seventeen. The Consumer Always Pays Our law-making bodies are be coming past masters in figuring out ways and means to dodge responsi bility for increasing taxes which the public has to pay. A legislative measure will be broadcast to the public as a tax reduction measure for the people, but pull aside the curtain and see what the real truth generally is. The net result of most tax re duction measures is a shifting of taxes from one class of voters to another, hiding taxes under a new name, or the collection of more taxes through splitting up the le vies in various smaller assessments. The reason for constantly climb ing net tax collections is obvious— thousands of new laws, a great per centage of which demand increased public payrolls and expenditures. As an example of tax camouflag ing, take the Federal 3 pec cent tax on electricity which was formerly added to the customer’s electric bill. This was in line with special taxa tion such as the gasoline tax, the tax on bank checks, the Federal tax on automobiles, etc. Congress, to make some k;nd of a tax reduction showing for electric consumers, has shifted the 3 per cent electric tax from the user to the company. In other words, the 3 per cent must come out of the scant earnings of the investor. This hides the tax from the gen eral public, although it will still continue to pay the tax in one of three ways, namely: It must be de ducted from the earnings of the millions of investors in the power industry, thereby reducing their previous income; or it will be re flected in increased 7-ates to cover this tax; or it will prevent a reduc tion of rates which might otherwise have been secured. Switching this tax from the elec tric user to the security holder is on a par with switching the gaso line tax from the buyer of gasoline to the oil company. The politicians know the electric company cannot add 3 per cent tax to its bills unless it goes through f Tlotf '“f Beds- -Springs- -Mattresses In spite of advancing prices, we are still offer ing our full line of staple Home Furnishings at the same low cost-saving price. Come in and see for yourself how reasonably we will sell you a good bed complete. Zebulon Supply Co. Furniture Department Funeral Directors ZEBULON NORTH CAROLINA /crisczcooo NEVER 6IT ON THE NERVES . . . NEVER TIRE THE TASTE *" Fertilizer P " ' BEANS A Cl CORN PLANT NOW Corn, Snaps, Beans, Cane, Turnips, Suda* Grass, Millet PLENTY CORN FIELD SNAPS A. G. KEMP, ZEBULON, N. C. j the long process of securing a rate I increase from each of the regula- I tory commissions in the various states. They also know that no such ; regulatory price restrictions apply to other taxes, such as on I gasoline, where companies affected can add the tax immediately to the consumer's bill. This political process of dodging responsibility for tax increases is all part of the breaking-down pro cess that is trying to discredit the iir.estor and inflame the public against the individual wHo has j earned and saved, and is trying to make a legitimate return on his capital—the stored-up labor c years of hard work. How much longer the people can be fooled wi.h these tricks remains to be seen, but she longer their eyes remain closed, the heavier will be the bill they have to finally pay. Never forget that the taxpayers and the consumer ultimately foot every bill for every dollar that our lawmakers add to the cost of gov [ emment. —Industrial News Review. J | Despite the drouth, John Rowe, of Catawba County, harvested 1000 bushels of oats from a 15- acre field. Gardens, hay crops, corn and pas tures are seriously hurt in Cleve land and adjoining counties by rea son of the prolonged dry weather. The 15 strawberry growers who formed a small selling association in Catawba County this season re alized $2,847.28 from their sales. Corn following clover has been domaged by dry weather less seri ously this spring than corn planted on other land, observe a number of piedmont farm agents. Nineteen Edgecombe County farmers sold 198 fat hogs for sl,- 525.32 net and 11 other farmers sold 104 lambs for $327.35 net last week. Lenoir in Caldwell County eight months ago, is now s« lling over SSOO worth of farm produce each month. There are 21 farm families that sell each market dav.
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