glume is.
!Hls, THAT
AND THE OTHER
By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
learing an unusually loud noise
de by airplane motors one day
t week, I asked a colored girl in
yard if there were only, one
ne. “No," she said, “there’s a
ht smart handful of ’em.”
>n one of the days when I used
try to teach, l was on my way
ne from school. With me were a
nber of pupils and one of them,
mall serious boy, was telling of
•ecent happening. To give the
per setting he said: “It was on
t little path that goes from our
>.se across the branch to Cousin
n’s. You know that way, don’t
t?” I acknowledged my ignor
■e, but he insisted: “Why sho’lv
i know that way! Vester knows
and he ain’t but three!” Again
eclared that I did not know it.
th an air of shocked surprise he
Tied away and said in an audible
ce to the world at large: “Well!
tryin’ to teach school an’ don’t
>n know the way from our house j
cousin Tom Dodson’s!"
At about this time of the year:
>wn folks as well as children are
jle to over-eat on fruits of vari- j
kinds. M.v father, who had to be
y careful in choosing his food,
■d to efuse all fruit except that 1
ich was ripe and perfect. All de
tive or windfall fruits were des- 1
ated by him under the general
id of “trash.” He would say to I
• mother: “Lou, that child has
*n eating too much trash,” there
amazing those who did not un
•stand his meaning. But my 1
>ther —who liked green apples as!
11 as any child she had—would
d it hard to reprove us. And she j
■uld quote our family doctor, who
id that if a person ate fruit all
y and still came to the table
th a good appetite, there was
thing to fear; that it was only
ten it kept one from eating his
•als properly that there was dan- j
r. j
Dr. Price’s statement as given
ove may not be in line with pres
t day medical opinion; but it
is a great comfort to many chil
?n years ago.
Cousin Judy Thompson, who was j
r nearest neighbor when I w r as a
ild, once planted the seed from
apple she thought especially!
od. I saw five of the trees'after
;y had come into bearing—-and
jy were all different. She had
inted the seed from a summer
pie. and the five trees ripened at
ervals from early summer until
1. She said one tree bore apples
e the one from which she got
i seed. Bees, you see, are not
reful to keep varieties separate
len they do the pollinating. That
why you must set grafted trees
be sure of getting what you
nt.
Did you know that out in Wash
rton State-—and probably else
lere —owners of fruit ranches
■e bees during the blooming sea
n of the trees so that the fruit
ay be pollinated and develop?
v sister told me about it. The
res are moved to various orchards
the proper time. Os course the
ntal fee is paid to the owner of
e bees, which take their own pay
lumey—and then get robbed of
When we lived at Newton I was
rprised to learn that the Star
wn Nursery bought peach seed
’ the bushel—just any kind of
ach seed. But 1 understood when
Id that the tiny seedlings were
ed merely as a foundation for
e variety of peach that was de
red, which was budded or grafted
i.
I remember, too. an appie tree
i our farm. The fruit was not like
ly other in flavor and the tree
ivei failed to bear. For that rea
lm and because we did not know
s name, we called it the “Never
iil.” One day I spoke of this apnio
» an old lady who had lived a? a
hild cm the farm which we then
tvned, and she told me that khe
pd, when a young girl, grafted an
fple twig on a lit tl° pear tr e, a - ’
(the Zrlmlmt Wittorb
Report On
Relief Work
Raleigh, July 22.—Total relief
expenditures in North Carolina for)
June were $928,468, according to a!
statement made public today by
the Governor’s Office of Relief.
This sum represents a decrease of
approximately 11 per cent below j
the $1,043,666 which was spent dur
ing May.
The expenditures for June repre
sent a decrease of approximately
30 per cent as compared with the
expenditures for March which was j
the high mouth of the winter. The
total outlay for March was $1,323,-
346.
This decrease in total expendi
tures has not kept pace with the
decrease in number of families aid
ed, the statement made public to
day said. The number of families
aided in June was 97,272, a decrease
of 13 per cent as compared with
the 111,778 aided during the previ
ous month. The decrease as com
pared between June and February,
when the peak number of 164,000
families were aided, is about 41
per cent.
Since the peak winter months, it 5
is therefore pointed out, the num
ber of families aided has decreased
41 per cent and the total amount
| of money spent 30 per cent. The ex
j pianation, it was pointed out by re-
I lief officials, is due to the fact that
j families now remaining on relief j
[require more aid than in previous
i months. For instance it was pointed
. out, the average expenditure per
family in February and March was
approximavly SB.OO |er farrlily,
whereas it was about $0.60 during
June.
The total relief expenditures for
June, in Wake, Franklin, Nash and
Johnston, follow: Wake, $51,760;
Franklin, $4,342; Nash, $10,303;
Johnston, $18,257. This help will
! diminish gradually over a month or
| two longer, and then probably
cease altogether for the present.
Obtain Permits To
Destroy Cotton
County Agent, John C. Anderson,
I announces that he now has a sup
ply of government permit blanks
for plowing up cotton, and all farm
| ers who have not yet received a
written notice of their Cotton Bene
| fit Contracts may obtain a special
j permit contract by calling at the
[ County Agent’s office. “There has
been some delay in receiving the
Notices of Acceptance from Wash
ington,” states Mr. Anderson, “but
we hope to receive most of these
notices, this week.” Growers who
received these Notices of Accept
ance will not have to obtain special
peunits to destroy their cotton.
"Ev#ry grovHer who signed a
contract, must plow up or destroy
the identical acres of cotton that
! he listed in his Benefit Contract,
and we hope to arrange to have the
local committeemen begin inspec
tion at an early date. The farmers,
members of the local committee,
and County Agent, must all sign
j the necessary papers to 'certify
that the crop has been destroyed
before settlement can be made.
Those in charge, in Washington,
have assured us that prompt set
tlement will be made after these
! papers have been properly filled
I out and executed,” continues Mr.
Anderson.
Durham county dairymen have
selected a central committee to
study feed prices as compared with
milk prices as a result of the tri
county dairymen’s meeting at Carr
boro last week.
this grew into the big tree we were
so proud of.
I don’t know how many genera
tions of peaches are required to
produce one that will come true to
seed. My brother’s wife planted
those from peaches which were all
: alike and she has a nice young
(i -hai-d of trees that come in at
1 intervals from early in the season
until late.
We have a number of seedlings
from peaches that are said to have
j com • true for forty years. They
' were grown by a Mr. Harmon at
! Buie'-. Creek. It they do well for!
is. I’ll save seed for all Record
. rulers.
ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, JULY 2\ 19:33.
|
Letting Down The Bars
This country of ours is passing through one o! the most hectic periods in its history.
Zealous efforts ate being made in all directions to bring about a readjustment of con
ditions. Everybody admits the necessity of such efforts.
Practically all of our troubles can be traced to one thing—a change in our attitude
v ith respect to some of the fundamentals of our civilization.
It used to be that when a man committed murder, he knew exactly what to expect. If
he were caught, he would be executed without any delay. Nowadays, not one murderer
out of a hundred ever pays the penalty for his crime!
It used to be that preachers preached a stern and strict religion and confined their
preachments to strictly orthodox lines, but for the past decade or so there has been a
marked change alpng these lines. We haven't heard a sure-enough hell-fire-and-brim
stone sermon in many a day.
It used to be that when a man made an obligation, he paid it. When he went to the
bank and borrowed money, he could get it without collateral or security other than his
word to promise and pay. It was a disgrace to be in debt and not Ire able to make pay
ments to one’s creditors. It hasn't been so terribly long ago that men were placed in
jail for incurring obligations which they were unable to meet. Nowadays, nobody seems
to pay much attention to such things, and everybody owes money. Consequently, nobody
can borrow any—and the banks get the blame!
It used to Ire that all law-abiding citizens respected the laws ol their land and tried
to obey them. Today, when one sees flagrant violations of prohibition laws, income-tax
laws and other laws on our statute books, it is apparent that this former opinion is not
in existence any longer, so far as many of our people are concerned.
It used to be that when a man got drunk, he considered himself disgraced; and when
a woman got drunk, she was officially and definitely ostracised. Now it’s considered a
joke: something to be laughed about and regaled as an interesting and enjoyable topic
of conversation.
We’ve let down the bars to such an extent that most of us are just naturally running
wild. And when you come to think about it, is it any wonder that we’re in our present
day fix! Is it any wonder that national leaders of industry, of religion and of social
welfare are holding conferences and are appointing commissions in a desperate effort
to find out what’s wrong!
One of the first things necessary to be done is to put back some of those bars which
we’ve been letting down for the past ten or fifteen years. 'I hose of us who have lived
in the country know what happens when we go out to the pasture and toss aside the
bars. The livestock immediately proceeds to pass through the opening and roam at
large. That’s what we’ve been doing—roaming at large. And that’s what we're going
to continue doing, unless something is done to change our attitude with respect to the
fundamentals mentioned above. —Carl Goerch, in The State.
j
- ■
Cotton Campaign
Regarded Success
Uncle Sam asked North Carolina]
I cotton farmers to remove 121,000
! bales of cotton from production
this season and North Carolina cot
ton farmers had agreed to remove
122,843 bales at the close of the
j campaign on Sunday, July 16.
North Carolina was given an al-
I lottment of 363,000 acres to remove
from cultivation. At the prevailing
rate of production for the cotton
belt this meant 121,000 bales or
about one-third of a bale to the
acre. It so happened that this state
usually average over one-third of
a bale and that prospects for the
crop this year were the best ever.
At the t-lose of the ,campaign,
North Carolina cotton growers had
contracted to remove 219,363 acres
from production and about 1500
contracts had been finally passed
upon. Therefore, the campaign is
regarded as a success in the State.
Wallace At
State College
j Henry A. Wallace, secretary of
j the department of agriculture un
, der President Roosevelt, spoke at
i State College on Monday night of
this week, to an immmense audi
ence at the beginning of the farm
ers’ and farm women’s state con
vention.
Secretary Wallace spoke on the
Federal Farm Program and declar
ed that the New Deal is not fasc
ism, dictatorship nor communism.
He urged his hearers to stand by
the government in its efforts to aid
the farmer. ,
The tobacco acreage in Surry
county was reduced by approxi
mately 25 per cent by the dry
! weather, and will be cut to 50 per
j cent in pounds if the drought con
tinues.
Press Association
Meets At Manteo
i *
! The North Carolina Press Asso- j
I ciation met last week at Manteo.
John A. Park, publisher of The Re-'
I leigh Times, was president, and
| Miss Beatrice Cobb, of Morganton
news-Herald, was secretary. In his
address Mr. Park praised the state
press for the part played in help
ing to bring back prosperity. Ad
dresses were also made by Canus
Waynick. of the High Point Enter
prise, and others.
J. Roy Parker, of Ahoskie, and
the Hertford County News, was
elected president of the association
for the coming year.
The hospitality of Manteo was
evidenced by the courtesies shown
the visitors.
Chamblee Reunion
Sunday. July 23, was a very
happy occasion to Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Chamblee. They have a
large family of children, most of
them living elsewhere and it is not
often they get back to the old
home. Os the nine sons and daugh
ters, all were at home except Don
ald, of Richmond. The dinner was
served on the beautiful lawn of the
residence.
Those present were: Dr. afcid
Mrs. H. R. Chamblee of Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. F. R. < onyers of
Rocky Mount, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
■ I>*e an<j daughter of Smithfield,
Mr. and Mrs. John Terry and s*m
of Wendell, Mr. and Mrs. D. D.
Chamblee, K. A. Chamblee, Mr. and |
Mrs. C IL t'hamblee and Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Chamblee all of Zebu
lon.
i
1 Though they grow their cotton I
• in small patches in Granville Coun- j
ty, farmers have responded to the)
acreage reduction plan in a com- 1
■ mordable way, reports the farm j
r.sren f .
New Schedule
For Sales Tax
A uniform sales tax schedule has
been announced by Commissioner
Maxwell. Merchants will have no
choice of systems, but all must use
the new schedule which follows:
Less than 10 cents, no tax.
Ten cents to 35 cents, one cent.
Thirty-six cents to 70 cents, two
cents.
Seventy cents to $1.05, three
cents.
Above $1.05. a straight three per
cent tax will be applied, fractions
to be governed by major fractions.
No merchant may include tax in
price of goods. It may be computed
on the entire amount instead of on
separate purchases in one store,
which often resulted in a higher
rate than three per cent. This is
called by Commissioner Maxwell I
the cumulative rule, and is of ad- j
vantage to the buyer and at the j
ame time is less trouble to the
seller.
Appointment !
Os Waynick
Capus Waynick, editor of the]
High Point Enterprise, has been 1
appointed head of the re-employ- ]
rm-nt bureau of North Carolina He
is expected to open his office in j
Raleigh this week. As implied in j
his title, his chief business will be
to set people to work.
Editor Waynick gained great
[>raise for his help in settling the
-trike at High Point last year, and
his appointment pleased many.
Remarries
Elliott Roosevelt, son of the
j President, divorced the first of la t
[ v eek. was married on Saturday to i
I Miss Ruth Googin, of Texas. His
| *ister, Mrs. [tail, was th** only]
member of his family pro--- \t.
Colored School
On Accredited List:
The Council of Secondary Educa
tion, through the report of the
State Inspector of Negro High
Schools, H. L. Trigg, found that
the local Negro high school merited
being added to the list of accredit
ed schools.
The school was accredited as of
July 1, 1933. This means that all
future graduates of the school will
be admitted to colleges without ex
amination.
Efforts have been put forth in
former years to achieve this mark
of distinction for the local school.
The past school year concentrated
its efforts to this end and through
the help of the patrons this was ac
complished.
During the year over two hun
dred volumes were put into the li
brary; nearly three hundred dol
lars worth of science equipment
was purchased and used for the
better instruction of the pupils; an
office was provided and equipped
for the principal; a hundred dollar*
worth of maps were purchased.
The parents did a great deal by
sending their children regularly to
school in order that the required
attendance might be maintained.
They also pledged money and paid
to assist in purchasing the needs
of the school.
A large portion of funds needed
was donated by the Slater Fund,
secured through the efforts of N.
C. Newbold, Director of Negro
Education in the state.
The parents in the district are
urged to help keep the school ac
credited and raise its present stand
ing by sending their children regu
larly to school during the coming
year. The same type of well-pre
pared and experienced teachers will
be provided by the state for their
instruction as heretofore.
Mr. E. H. Moser, superintendent
of the Wakelon Schools, was of
great assistance to the local prin
cipal, R. H. Carroll, ,Jr., in making
this great step forward.
R. H. Carroll, Jr.
Stores To Close
Wednesday Noon
Commencing at 1:00 p. m., Aug
ust 1, most of the stores and other
I business places of Zebulon will be
closed each Wednesday afternoon
through the month. The Record
force would be glad to join our
neighbors and go swimming or fish
ing or just be around in the shade
for an afternoon, but our present
program provides the printing of a
newspaper on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday of each week, com
mencing August 1, and consequent
ly our program will be quite full—
f i’l to go vacationing.
Those signing to close each Wed
nesday afternoon are: Finch and
Wade, Frank Kannon, Wallace
Temple, Baker and Hocutt, Progre
sive Stores, Inc., Debnam Hardware
Co., Zebulon Dry Cleaners, J. A.
Kemp and Son, Page Trust Co., G.
K. Corbett, C. M. Revere, B. Kan
non, M. J. Sexton, J. L. Stell. Sted
f man Stores Co., Zebulon Supply
i Co., R. E. Brantley, Chas. 11.
j Hhodes, Massey Lumber Co., C. B.
! Eddins, M. H. Alford, A. D. An
! tone and W. B. Bunn.
Patrons are asked to transact
! their business by noon Wednesdays,
l ince there will be no opportunity
I to do so again until Thursday morn
| ing.
New Rulings Os
State Commission
The state school commission has
rubol that all children living under
two mile* from school will be de
nied bus transportation, and that
no bus may leave main roads more
than one and one-half miles to pick
up children. I>ast year’s cost of
: transportation of 240.000 school
lildren cost the state more than
two million dollars, it is said. An
other ruling forbids the use of
l -chon! trucks for any purpose oth
er than taking children to and from
school.
This wrfs done by the state com
mission. I,et no parent of a child
i who ha* heretofore ridden and now
; has to walk blarre local authorities.
NUMBER 6.
'YE FLAPDOODLE"
By The
Swashbuckler
I
Well—Well—Wei! Now some
dope make that “deep subject”
gag and I'll be tearing my wig
1 find that a Don Poncho de Toro
has been tossing the bull-o about
his women-o (ah-o). If the news
1 comes to me correctly (via the
grape vine telegraph) a certain
young fellow from Wendell is put
ting on the canine and in no mean
way! That, within itself is enough
| to start the ordinary scandal mon
i ger’s tongue wagging.- hut here’r.
j a bit more. Said Don-o not only
is good, (he must be for he admits
it himself) at one arm driving,
but boasts that he (tsk tsk) has
all the technique while driving one
armed, that mere man can acquire
when parked. All young ladies wish
ing dates with this heah “great
lover” will have to refer to a ycrung
femme of our town. Correct (?)
notices have been received that she
holds all copyrights and patents
on Don. His name will be mailed
anyone (pansy or female) upon
receipt/ of one dollar. Oh. the
1 young lady? She’s what might be
termed a brownette. Have you
sympathy within youi soul? Then
spare a tear for the poor tuba
player who, after a hard day’s work
blowing his tuba, hurries home only
’ to find that he has to kiss his wife.
That, indeed, is a hard life, blow
ing a tuba all day and kissing his
wife, all evening. Imagine the mo
notony of doing the same thing all
the time An,[ now, dear mon
gers de la scandal, other morons
included, I shall, without sparing
anything but the names of the par
ties envolved, give you a sweet
morsel to smoogee. On Monday
night, the road leading South of
I Zebulon (toward Selma) was the
happy scene of a mock wedding.
Miss “ —,” officiating as the
master of ceremony, acting in place
of a minister, or justice of the
I peace, did, on the twenty-fourth
j day of July, in the year of deliver
[ ance from the evils of poverty by
i Roosevelt, without proper permiss
j ion of the Swashbuckler, perform
i a ceremony not at all unlike that
when in Holy Matrimony, two peo
ple are made as one (excepting the
fact that they still require the same
amount of clothes, food, and li
berty). Since mentioning absolu
tely no names cramps my style,
and I (an not afford the making of
myself a liar, I am forced to revert
to the use of initials. So*—Miss H.
M., who works in the check and
' alance sy tern of the Zebulon S.
C., was the bride. Since the groom
tops me in height some two inches,
j I shall refrain from mention
ing his initials. After the lovely
I ceremony, the couple was showered
with rice (lacking rice, the wed
ding party used fine gravel). No
I honeymoon will be taken—away
from home. A*id (mother re
nowned ‘ vice versa” is that con
cerning the wooden leg and the
bald head. Vicey verse it and see
what you have. I have just dis
coverod the money-making project
of the moment, Raising Blasts. Yes
. .-dr! A recent catalogue of one of
the prominent mail order houses
advertise* within its covers a pair
ol auto horns for the amazingly
low price of $4.98. "Just press the
button,” continues the ballyhoo,
“an,| you get a sls blast.” Now
. for instance, say you buy two of
these horns for $4.98. Then when
you press the button, the horns giv e
forth a sls blast. You sell the
blast for sl4 (one dollar less than
list price) and you have a dear
profit of $9.02. Think of the vast
possibilities of sales by making at
' tractive displays with the blasts in
your show window, stacking them
; in a circle or piling them horizon
tally toward the ceiling. Too, you
might run specials one week. Why
there ai»- thousands of usable ideas
, in connection with your blast fae
to,;.. Try it. If it pans out, I might
come in as a silent partner.(That
I was suposed to be a iseway ackray,
.Imagine my being silent at any
. thing!) And another thing.
< You (eople who have the general
. idea that I am without facilities
, ,or perfect harmony of thoughts
are dead wrong. At one time I was
.: a moron, but no more. I have suf-
I lered a relapse!
If you sell ’em, you have to tell ’em