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VOLUME IX. THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS A five-year-old boy. in telling the story of the creation of the world, said this: “And then God made some men, and then He made some folks.” I wonder whether the smoking done by women increases fire ha zards—and I am talking about this present world. Some one told me recently that chrysanthemums always bloom be fore frost; but both Mrs. Ballard j Ferrall and Mr. C larence Chamblee! told me they saw frost Sunday! morning; and who has seen ai chrysanthemum bloom this fall? » t * V On Sunday morning when the teakettle began to boil it also be-! gan to sing; and 1 was so delight ed to hear it that I called my hus band to come and listen. I asked him why the kettle does not sing| in summer an ( | he gave me some explanation that had to do with | currents of air and their tempera- i ture. 1 have an idea that the use of oil-stoves discourages singing by kettles; and I use one of them in hot weather. But to me there is no sound more exquisitely homelike and com forting than the music made by a boiling kettle. And the first prose poem I can recall is that which is ' in Dickens’ “Cricket on the Hearth” and which gives words to the ket-' tie’s song. The cricket had a part; in a duet with the kettle; but I prefer to leave the cricket out j when the music is made in my, home. There are so many sounds which remind us of home whenever we hear them—the slow ticking of bigj clocks; the crackle of flames in a fireplace; the satisfied cheeping of little chicks as their mother hovers j over them; the creaking of a wind-; •lass as water is drawn from a well, j I (And wouldn’t anyone, reading this & list, know that I was raised in thei country!) There are also nagging, irritat ing sounds which can drive one j nearly frantic —a fly buzzing around the room; a mosquito sing-i ing as it hunts for a place to alight; the creaking of a rocking- j chair as its occupant sways slowly I back and forth: the banging of a ; door or shutter, especially at night; the popping of gum by an indus trious ehewer. Finish this list to suit yourself. It will vary with the individual. Why is it that demonstrators of furniture polish invariably arrive on the days when the furniture is dusty and you have bee . too busy with other duties to do much about it? And the demonstrator manages # to imply, without saying one word to that effect, that the reason your house looks as it does is that you do not use the polish she sells. I Before you can prevent her she moistens a cloth and rubs it over a corner of the piano or a table' and sho" - s you how bright that place at once becomes and how dull the rest of that piece looks.! You are somewhat embarrased, hut! it does no good to say that you do ! t dust and rub the furniture once in I a while. |c The demonstrator is so cheeryi U and helpful that the chances are \l g»"d for her Ao make a sale, if » you have any money. If you don’t have any, you may be able to con y vince her that you are truthful > when you ay so. T In any case, as she leaves you * register a vow to do the cleaning | ' from that day forth before doing j another thing that could wait. And your only consolation is that , after a day or two the spot pol l ilhed by the demonstrator is very J little, if any brighter than the res 4 ( of the surface of whatever it was . k she rubbed the polish on. Next Wednesday p. m. is the . time for the meeting of the Demonstration Club of ftimakvficld. Mrs. .Vein lies requests ■ Jluit members bring in advertise- W JmonU that they have found inter- I ig*;sting striking. ®h£ 2rbulmt Wittmb Injured Girls Are Improving | . On last Friday morning in the Apex High School an explosion of chemicals being used in an experi ment conducted by the science teacher painfully injured nine pu pils and their teacher, Miss Kate Allen. Two girls. Marie Finch and Lucille Allen, were seriously hurt. They were rushed to Raleigh for treatment and for some days it was thought that each would lose the sight in the right eye. Later news, however, gives hope that the vision is not destroyed and that both girls are improving rapidly. Their eyes were badly cut by the glass container used in the ex periment. Such explosions are by no! means rare, but are always dan-I gerous to a greater or lesser ex-J tent. Marie Finch had moved from Zebulon to Apex only a few weeks ago, and her friends here are deep-1 Iv concerned over her condition. ! I The Woman’s Club The Literary and Music Depart ment of The Zebulon Woman’s Club held its regular meeting Tues-; day afternoon at 3:30 in the Club building. Mrs. C. E. Cooke, pro pram leader, having as subject for the afternoon, “Trail Blazers,” pre sented a program that proved un usually interesting to all present. Three papers, The Life of Lucy Stone read by Mrs. Mcßay Faison; Sarah J. Hale read by Miss Pitts and Lydia Sigourney read by Mrs. Raymond Pippin. Mrs/ Sam Lee, in charge of the music for the pro gram presented Charles Winstead who sang two of Clara Bond Ja < obs compositions Perfect Day and I Love You Truly. After the program Mrs. Mc- Guire and Mrs. Lela Horton hos tesses, served hot chocolate and wafers. —Mrs. H. C. Wade. A Loose Screw I want to say to begin with, that 1 feel like a small potato to dis cuss such a large problem. But I feel like somthing ought to he said in plain English to bring these facts before the community. Our moral 1 standard is lower, ar.d there is lessj respect for law and order, than Ij have ever known. Right here at home, we have a| young man serving on the road fori taking up with another man’s wife. We have people making liquor near by, (and w e don’t make any bones about it either.) One negro killed another in de fense of his home, less than two weeks ago. Another negro charged with cut ting some of his own people and' general disrespect for the law. Kill-! ing our own sherif and having to b‘- killed in self defense. And the Scripture says: li“ not over conie with evil, but over come evil with good. Are we doing it? Go to the churches, and they are empty; but the roll books are full' of what ? I say this with due respect, andj thank God for the few consecrated Christians, Liquor dicks, moonshin-! ers, bootleggers, fornicators, adult-j eiers, liars, and profaners of God’s* holy name, and hypocrites of allj 1 descriptions. One of the first things our pres-j i <-nt administration did was to open j up the beer shops, which means the ! return of the saloon. I had a min | isler of the Gospel tell me he was I in favor of the saloon, so that the government would get money from it. Scripture teaches us that such money is an abonination of God. And our statistics show us that for every dollar the Government col lected from the saloon it cost five. So that kind of money seems to be an abonination to the Government as well. And since March there se' ms to aave been practically no effort to curb the liquor traffic. And a big lot of our supposed to * be best citizens are either making it or having it made, right under our nose. One of the next act* of our ad ministration was to cut our schools and the salaries of teachers, who have spent their tin*. . • ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 20, 193,7. | New Fish and i Oyster Market Mr. W. T. Whitley has opened! up a first-class fish and oyster market in the building of J. D. j Horton on the highway where Mo ther’s Cupboard was located. Mr. Whitley will carry a full line of! fresh fish and oysters in season, j This is a good location, and we i are glad Zebulon is to have a mar ket handling these sea foods regu-j larly, since no merchant makes a specialty of these articles of diet. Pork for the People Raleigh. Oct. 14.—The county al lotments of pork for relief pur poses were announced today by I Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, relief ad i ministrator. A shipment of 607,- | 500 pounds has been made avail- I able to North Carolina from the! Federal Emergency Relief Admin istration in Washington. This 1 shipment is being allocated to the 1 , counties on the basis of their re -1 lief case load. I The pork, which is dry salt-cur- \ J ed, is put up into small cartons containing three and six pounds, each. It will be shipped into North j Carolina in car load lots of op- j proximately 30.000 pounds per car. It is expected that delivery will be made early in the coming week. In order to avoid small lot ship ments the state was divided into 18 convenient shipping points of Salisbury, Winston-Salem, Greens-, boro, Durham, Aberdeen, Raleigh,j Fayetteville, Wilmington, Golds boro, Rocky Mount, Washington, New Bern, Ahoskie, Sylvia. Ashe vi’le. Morganton, North Wilkesboro; and Charlotte. One full cal' load will be shipped) to each of these points with the exception of Charlotte and Raleigh j where two cars have been consign- j ed. The various counties have been' assigned to some one of these shipping points and will themselves transport their allotment to their own county. Wake county will receive from this shij ment of pork, 15,861* pounds; Johnston, 11,142; Franklin, 5,754; Nash, 5,325. The three first counties will be served from Ral-' e:gh. while Nash will be served j from Rocky Mount. Jew To Speak Baptist Church On next Sunday night there will he special services at the Zebulon Ba< tist c hurch at which Rev. A. C. Fellman will speak. Mr. Fellman is, a native of Jerusalem, living there till he was 16 years old. He is a member of the Baptist denomina-, tion. having been a missionary among the Jews for 18 years. Atj the present time he is a missionary, of the Southern Baptist Convention, working all over the South among the people of his blood. The public is invited to come out to the service Sunday evening and hear this eloquent Christian Jew. A number of year ago he spoke in the i local Baptist church and many re-; member the impressive story of hi* j life as told by him. | Hoey To Speak Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby,j I will speak in Raleigh next Sunday 1 at three p. m. The City Memorial j Auditorium ha- been secured for i he occasion and a large crowd is {expected to hear Mr. Hoey. who w : U represent the Dry Forces of the state. preparing themselves to teach our children* below the wage of the mechanic who wa- paid while learn ing hi* trade That in poor induce-, ment to our young people to seek higher education. I say to loosen up on the liquor and cut down or Tighten up on education in our re-, turn to prosperity—it is a long way to Temperatory. So I say there is a loose screw some where, and who is going to tighten it? And how? I say a good dose of old time religion is what we need. Return unto me and I will return unto you saith the Lord, which may be applied to the individual or the community and nation. C. B. HODGE. Washington Current Comment On a stormy day about a century ago, a skipper named Thomas Sum ner was having a hard time of it near the Irish coast. He did not know the position of his vessel, ho suspected that he was off a lee shore, and so far as established rules went, he had nothing to guide him. In his extremity, ho tried some experiments. His specific doings i are well known to navigators, andi they would interest no one else. Let i it suffice to say that he not only) steered his ship directly into thej haven where he would be, but also laid the foundation for a system of navigation which has not been bet tered in principle during a hundred years. There is no occasion to preach a lengthy sermon with Captain Sum ner's story as a text. Indeed, the text is often better than the dis-! course that is based upon it. It isj enough to state simply that thej present economic gale will be rid- j den down, and that the future willi profit by the methods of Captain Roosevelt. One hears less and less about the mysterious thing known as infla tion, as the days pa»s, and it may safely be regarded as dropping into disfavor, both with the public and with those having the say in such matters. The time is not remotely in the past when plenty of cheap money was looked upon as a cure for many, if not all of our economic ills. The demand for inflation was based on a process of pure reason ing, hut experience sometimes is the most effective means for ques tioning what appears to be a bit of perfectly soun ( j reasoning. The instructive experience to which the people in general have been treated is the increase in prices that has occurred during the past few weeks. Although the min imum wage has risen from $7 to better than sl4, there is an under current of opinion that incomes taken by and large, have not risen in proportion to what consumers are called upon to pay for what they buy, and naturally enough, the purchaser cannot see clearly where he is going to get off, if he trades through the medium of a depreciated dollar. The foes of inflation include such respectable organizations as the war veterans group and organized labor, backed by many who have no particular affiliation which they can use as a mouth-piece. As their demands took on an audible tone, the friends of inflation replied with increased vigor. The tumult was met by proposals tending to ac complish all that was claimed for inflation, with no corresponding ri.-k. Chief among these were the placing of the banks in a better po ,-ition to extend credit, the loosen ing of deposits locked up in closed banks, easier credit for the farmer, and the purchase by the govern ment of staple products. Without presuming to take sides, or to con demn either the inflationists or the anti-inflationists, it seems certain that the curtain has been drawn, temporarily and perhaps perma nently, before the inflation figure, which a little while ago held the' center of the stage and spoke soj clearly that no one in the house' missed a word. j The talk at a doctors' meeting generally is of little interest or profit to a layman. A notable ex ception is found in a remark let! fall by a speaker at a convocation of American College of Surgeons in Chicago. "It ha- been -aid that men fear thought as they fear nothing else in the world. This is a way of saying that many are too lazy to think and would rather have it done for them by others, or that they are unable to follow their thinking through to a logical con clusion.” A newspaper notice that a three pound nugget has been found at Ajoßriz may lead to a study of ge ography, or to better type-setting, but it will hardly give direction to a new gold rush. According to a touching Xovie* props .uidu romance, a person wh'J Stedman Store New Location t The Stedman store has moved in to the Robertous building lately va cated by the Progressive store. This store was refurnished some time ago so as to give a fine dis tractively. Whether you wish to play of staple groceries, and Mr. Finch has his stock arranged at-* buy something or not, visit the store and see one of the finest dis l plays of groceries in our oom [munity. | Mail Robbery On Wednesday at Wilson there was an attempted robbery of the mail which is puzzling officials. Hugh Hawley, contract mail carri er, told police that he met the Coast Line train at about four a. m., re ceived the mail pouches and started with them to the postoffice. He j -aid that a man with a pistol in his ! hand jumped into the cab of the I truck, disarmed the mail carrier I and forced him to drive out on a j country road, where he was met by another man with a car. Haw ley stated that the men demanded to know which of the pouches con tained money, and when told that he did not know, selected three from seventeen on the truck and carried them to their car. One of the robbers was said to have gone off in the bandit car, while the other drove back with the mail car rier for about a half-mile. Hawley stated that he was again forced to stop, get out of the truck and sub mit to having his hands tied be hind him, the second robber then disappearing down the road in the direction the first had gone. Hawley made his way to a nearby farm In use, aroused the occupants, and asked that police be called. Officers rushed to the scene, but efforts to trace the bandits were unsuccess- 1 ful. Later in the day the three hags of mail were found in a deep ditch partially hidden by weeds. They hail not been opened. A check of all registered mail, including that in j the stolen pouches, showed that none was missing. Hawley is being held pending a | complete investigation by police and postal officials, but no charges have been made against him. did right by the state went bravely j to his death and had his grave marked by a red flag. It is to be i suspected that at heart the Rus-j bin- are practical enough to prefer) to be alive, with a suit of red flan- j nel underwear. I Such matters as economic recov ery, progress in the arts and sci ences, and neighborhood news, get a chance in the papers if too much space is not required to chronicle the doings of someone who goes by I he name of Two-Gun, the Beer King, or some similiar significant title. Gangster new- is depressing on account of its mere quantity. It is doubly so when subject-matter is considered. A plain every-day mur derer too often merely is inconve-1 nieneed by be accused of tax eva sion or running past a traffic light, and then set free. It is clear that either the law s, or their enforce- j ment is at fault. This is a day j 1 of codes, a time of direct and ef j fective methods, so far as the con j luct of the |»eaceful citizen is con l cemed. For the handling of the j law-breaker of the ganster type there is no effective code. It is reported tha 4 in a locality in which racketeering on a certain Asiatic {race was begun, several racketeers were picked up in out of the way places with knives in their backs. Thereupon racketeering erased. I Private vengance of course can-! not be countenanced, but it is evi dent that in.the rough and ready, method referred to, there was some element that did the work. The program presented is how to identify that element clearly and embody it in the lawful and regu lar administration of the statutes of the land. Those who fa*or -hooting gangsters at sight and on general principles cannot be given their way, yet it is no more than just to admit the efectiveness of that plan. It is riot beneath the dignity of the science of crimino logy to try to segregate from the bumping-off process, the step that i the law ca ’ oprrl<v justly ar.d pro - • fitably. Wa R. Patterson Killed Thursday Thursday morning about 10:00 o’clock \V. R. Patterson was killed at the Privett mill about one mile west of Zebulon on Highway I*6. He was at the mill trying to catch a ride to Wendell. He flagged a cat down and ran to catch it. being on the opposite side of the road. \\ il laid Gill of Zebulon was coming from Wendell when Patterson ran across the road to the car which was stopping for him. Apparently his attention was fixed on !> : - ob jective and he did not see the com ing car. Gill’s car struck the upper part of his body with the wind shield, crushing in his skull, break ing his neck and mutilating his body otherwise. No blame was attache! to Gill, since the accident from hi- respon sibility was ur.avoidab'e. Patter-on came to Zebulon a number of years ago from Wake Forest and operat ed a case here for a long time. At the time of his death he was run ning a small store. He was 65 or, more years old and his wile sur vives him. P. T. A. Conference The Parent-Teacher Conference for the Central District wa- held in Raleigh on Wednesday of this week, with Mrs. Roy Wilder presiding. A feature of the day was an address by Mrs. Henderson, State president, on “The Child an ( | Community,” emphasizing the cost of lawless ness and the importance of train-; ing for citizenship. Mrs. Martin, field representative, declared that next to government j itself the P. T. A. best represents the people. Attending from Wakelon i’. T. A. were: Mesdantes R. H. Bvidgers. C. M. Watson, W. P. Lewis, A. A. Pip pin, M. T. Debnam, K. E. Pippin, I>. C. Pearce, Oren Massey and Mamie Kimball. Frost on 17th j Frost on Sunday morning was seen by a number of early risers, but no special damage ha- been reported. Again on Monday frost was seen. The light shower on Monday night and Tuesday did much to revive parching vegeta tion. N. C. Is Greatest Producer of Mica North Carolina leads all the states of the Union in the produc tion of mica, with about 4,900 tons last year. New Hampshire comes second with less thae 'half the amount of N. C. Announcement The Woman’s Club will hold the regular business meeting for Oc tober on next Tuesday p. m. Mrs. 77. I). Davis, chairman of Civics, has been promised by J. I. White of tl> J. M. Chevrolet Co., that he will address the members of the club or the subject of beau tification of the town. Following the program there will be a social hour in honor of the new members. The f arolina Pine- C/0., will donate ginger ale for the occasion. Withdraws Germany has withdrawn from I the League of Nation-, following a ; dispute over a disarmament deci j siori decided upon by other mem j bers of the League. Proclama tions have called upon the German people to starxi fast for their rights ; to equality among other European nations. The Reichstag has beer: iormally dissolve,] and a new elec tion called for Nov, 12. Votes <>n i that date will registei confidence in national policies of the adminis j tration. I'r< ident Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler are said to be > agreement on the -owse being pursued. The results of Germany - with drawal in y be far-reat liing s >tw fortig i diplomats a*<"rt that It ha ..mk d the work of r- -> year* striving L r w >rld harr:m.. NUMBER 18 ¥E FLAPDOODLE By The Swashbuckler You should have seen the look on the face of a palmistrv artist o after I had finished with her. She looked into my palm and decided That I should commit suicide imme iately if not sooner. (I couldn’t do that by myself though. You ask, "How am 1 going to do with some body else?” Well, you made your bed, now answer it.) After reading the ri -lit hand, l decided to see /.hat >lip could find in my left. Boy, was hm- ’ace red! Yes suh.’she did n’t know I’d rung a road map in on her! Next time I’ll let her read the lines around my eyes. I understand that the unde feat able bridge undefeatables of the Wakelon faculty have been van quished. In that case, further com ment would be supererogatory. And that famous cluck of the fourth estate who. when asked if he could write a short novel on a moment’s notice replied. “Yes, but I prefer to write it on paper.” You hit him some. I’m tired. They tell me that Mr. J. K. Bar row was sin; ing a verso of “Bar nacle Bill’s” song. You know the verse that goes: “Who’s that knock ng at my door?” One of our good friends of the town spreed around and played a little “scratch-on-the window-pane” and “knock-on-the door". Outside of scaring about half the female poulation unto tears, no damage was done. My dear friends and patrons. It certainly did my heart good to see other Simple Simons at the fair besides the old Swashbuckler. When I drive up in the drive of the fair grounds next year there will be a movin; van following with a load of blankets and overcoats. I have fought the cold my last round. Next •> ear I’ll have Hie edg ■ on him, I may lock funny to others, but 111 at lea-* be almost comfortable! Went in the dog show to look a round. Was having a fine time un til a bull-dog made some dirty re mark out of the corner of his mouth Os course I being human, jumped some thirty or forty feet away. The attendant (t>> the dog of course) who wa - standing nearby dribbled these words from the lower lip of his face: “He won’t hurt you stron ger, he'< just grinning at you." “In that case,my good man,” I replied beseechingly, “please don’t let him begin laughing out loud!" Is there a slight shade of roman ce in the air or is it just Indian ummer all about? At any rate, I aw that new linotype operator of the RECORD force speeching his .a v toward a date (?) with that good-looking bookkeeper of the Zeb ulon Supply's fuiniture department. Tsk. Tsk. What next? People keep remarking with un due -urprise about the vast amount of room in my Austin. The room inside is truly great, but think how much more room there is outside. Th" <■ is really more room outside an Austin than there is outside a I v <nr. Ves. I make an interesting discover y every day. Ben Horton pulled a rank one cm a lady visitor the other day. Says Ben, “That’s a lovely coat you have on Marge. Where’d you get it?* “Hoik's", replied Marge. “Where?** asked the Big Ben. “Belk’s, Be Ik’s. BULK'S”, vehemently repeated the lady. “Pardon me,” said the indomi natable Ben, “but u spoon of soda would remedy that. Now once mora, where did you get the coat?” Ftm i ral s' rvlc-es .-ill be held next Tuea-
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