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THE ZEBULON RECORD Member North Carolina Press Association Published Every Friday By THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY Zebulon. N. C. THEO. B. DAVIS - Editor MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS Associate Editor Entered as second-class mail matter June 26, 14*26, at the Postoffice at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year _ . $1.60 Six Months 80 Three Months - 50 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE “RICH MAN—POOR MAN” (Continued from page one) Then take the case of the crews of men who are building privies for the public as told in the preced ing: article. This illustrates the other side of the situation. I cannot see how any set of men with one iota of conscience about honest labor could accept wares for such results. On the one hand we have a crowd of men and women who sit back in their of fices with “Sunday” clothes on administering relief at long range. On the other, we have a crowd of people in working men’s clothes standinp back and piddlinp till pay day and then beinp handed out the pay for time of an honest hour’s work. My sympa thies are with the needy and the povernment In honestly tryinp to pive relief. It is such a thankless and next to impossible task. But even these facts do not excuse such pross and willful waste of public funds on the part of those in charge of administer inp relief. The povernment has made a prltvious blunder in its relief program in not taking the people of a lo cality more into its confidence and its work in places being aided. In the relief work being done in Zebulon community an employee has come down from Raleigh for a few hours and met those seeking relief for a few minutes at most. They had to accept the word of the applicant, and to my own knowledge, people have been helped who needed such help no more than half the people of our town. The district mana ger in charge told me that they wanted some one to investigate local cases who did not know the folks so there would be no opportunity for partiality. I think it would have b'*<*n much wiser to have put some one in charge of reliable reputation who knew local conditions and could have intelligently adminis tered the relief work. There may always be found in every community some one who could pive reliable information of this sort. Sam-suckers, yes, we have them everywhere a broad in the land. They seem to think the govern ment's ability to pive succor, or suck, is unlimited- And, too, they seem to feel that if one is dealing with the government, no matter what he does or how he does i«, there can be no moral wrong if he pets what he want-. But this attitude has been grow ing for years in our nation and finds an opportunity in the present conditions for heading up among the common people. The higher ups have had their in nings in such cases as the Teapot Dome scandal and more lately in the Air mail contracts. And, if Mr. Roosevelt does not in someway succeed in stop ping tiie present c liselinp, grafting and sucking out of the nation’s already empty treasury, the Demo cratic party will be standing naked, nothing but a skeleton, before the nation when it presents itself at the polls for approval again in 11*36. The CWA is an honest effort to handle an unprecedented con dition of need; it also has the outcropping of the biggest graft scandal ever seen in America. Holloway’s Hits By Jiaw H. Holloway The American Dollar has beent reduced to less than 60 cents based : on its Gold content but it has not yet made any appreciable differ ence in the purchasing power of any kind of dollar John Litizen has to spend. An early rise in all com modities is expected to follow the devaluation of Gold. The money THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA. FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH. 1934. question seems to be a real Chinese puzzle to everybody but the people are not alarmed over the Presi dent’s manner of handling the sit uation. Some of the big fellows set up a howl when devaluation was first proposed but their yells found no echo among the vast citizenship of the nation and they are quieting down again. The Senatorial investigation of tlie Air Mail contracts made under President Hoover’s administration is now in full swing and many facts have come to light which I>R. PASCH.U.S DIAGNOSIS Dr. Geo. W. Paschal, professor at Wake Forest, is a ready writer and usually hits true. He gives a two column write-up about attorney fees paid in bank liquidations in the state to prove his claim that politics dominated this department of state, and he made a good case of it, too. But w'ho would contend otherwise except the politicians? Did not the legislature of two session* ago create more big, brand new jobs than any as sembly of the past, ard did not the governor fill a! most every one of them with those creating the jobs? Sure, that legislature* looked out for its own interests SEEN AND HEARD POTEAT’S POLICY I have just been wondering if Dr. Poteat felt tha‘ the call of his slate was so important that his patrio tism demanded that he sell his stock which was n» doubt bought with the economy of years and would be sold at a great sacrifice in order to serve his state at the princely salary of 8900 a year. I am glad hi did not feel that he was called upon to save the state at his own personal loss. No doubt the state needs saving from a lot of things, but I believe the doc tor’s policy in this instance. A I TEACHER’S RUBBERNECKING I was talking with a minister the other day abou about a member who said die kind of preacher the\ conditions in his churches, and he* was telling m< wanted in his church was one who rubbernecked When l asked more particularly just what he mean by a preacher’s rubbernecking, he exlpained that the> wanted one who could stretch his neck enough t overlook their sins anel mistakes. I suppose this i the modern way of rubbernecking—being blind to what one sees. A HOME PATRIOT I asked a man from another town the othei day for some business, telling him what reasonable prices we charge for our work. He said he appre ciated that, but that they had a print shop in his town and he always tried to patronize the home town for whatever he needed if it could be had. I would call that business patriotism. And, I war real ly pleased to hear him say that. I wish he lived in ray town. BUSY DIZZY The other night after the P. T. A. I saw Dizzy Liles with a tremendous slice of the birthday eak< going towards the dormitory in haste. Some one tried to stop him, but he said no, he was carrying a piece f cake to a sick teacher. I wonder if she was a sick teacher or just going to be one. GIVING A MULE AN IDEA A mule may have but half-horse sense, but hi* has sense Dr. J. (\ Mann, who comes to Zebulon once a month to help folks see better was telling me a bout his idea of work stock generally and how* to manage them. He said when he was a boy it seemei that his father got hold of some of the most con trary horses and mules he ever saw. Some of them did not like to woik, others were just too stubborn and contrary. Well, he said, if you tie a string around a balky animal’s ear, or a handkerchief a round his foot, he would go right along. All the mule needed was just an idea and that gave it to him. Well, perahps so, 1 wonder how it would work on some people I know. THE TRUTH WITHOUT EXPENSE A neighbor was in to see md the other day about a little matter of business. In stating his proposition he said, “ Now I’m telling you the truth. You see. I don’t mind telling the truth when it doesn’t cos' me anything.” How like thu mosto f us. I am stil , wandering how many of us don’t mind telling the , other thing when it profits us something. JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS Last week I tol about a man not so far away j from Zebulon who, when in cahrge of some men do ing relief work, had a ditch dug across his land. Now a lot of folks immediately concluded that the man was the one in charge of work being done in this community. The truth about this matter is that it occurred in another county. Knowing how the gov ernment has been imposed upon by individuals, this rr.ight hapen in Zebulon or even Wake county. | look bad for the Republican Ex ' Post Master General Brown. It i seems impossible for a National Republican administration to avoid scandals and crooked deals. Presi dent Roosevelt has just ordered the cancellation of all Air Mail con tracts, which came like a bolt out of the blue and carried consterna tion to the crowd responsible for the situation. The fine work of Sen ator Black in his persistent and a mazinglv successful efforts to un cover the rotteness in these con tracts deserves superlative praise. He has rendered the nation a splen did service and before he gets done jome formerly piominent men will n all probability spend several ears behind the bars of the Pene entiary. Governor Ehringhaus made the leadlines a few days ago by al lowing his colored Chaffeur to run lis new Lincoln through a red light : n a small Piedmont town. The fact was played up strong by the Press if the State and some very harsh ind unjustified criticism was di rected towards the Governor by various writers. Any one who knows he Governor and his respect for aw and order knows he would be he last person in the world to will fully violate any law. He was prob ably thinking about the very ex cellent speech he was enroute to -nake and had no more idea that his Chaffeur was violating any aw than a man in the Moon. He übsequently displayed fine sports manship about the occurrence and has refrained from any public ef fort to justify his action. The three reportorial Musketeers, ’om Bust, Wade Lucas and P. I). IcLean took this humble, scribe for wild buggy ride a few days ago u the Greensboro News and Ral igh Evening Times, because of an irticle published in the Courier- Journal two weeks ago in which he statement was made that Dick •’ountain was coming back strong nd would probably be in the race gainst Senator Josiah William lailey two years hence. The fur ther statement was made that num rous friends of Dick Fountain vere still grieving over his defeat or the Governorship two years ago and that many of them honest ly thought he was elected but count ed out by crooked politicians. The above excellent scribes ex pressed complete ignorance of any -uch rumor and launched into a ather lengthy discussion of the ritor’s appointment by Governor ■Jhringhaus as the “EXPERT” >f the Atlantic and North Carolina , Railroad, broadly intimating that ; his appointment carried with it n implied restriction on his utter ■ nces of he desired to be loyal and j rue to the Governor. This is such; n unusual position for members j f the press to takcj towards other 1 vriters that it caused comment. If, hese three erudite and quick wit ted writers have been around Ral-, eigh all these months since the last ’ Gubernatorial Primary and utterly; 'ailed to hear only rumors of elec tion frauds in that memorable cam paign they certa inly must have kept cotton in their ears. It was com mon street talk here in Raleigh that fountain had been deprived of the ! 'ruils of vetory by fraud and poli ical skulduggery. Os course there was no intimation that Governor Ehringhaus was a party to thej transaction or had any knowledge j •f the matter. He conducted a lean and dignified campaign and ie is furthermore perfectly incap able of unfairness in an election. It does seem strange that a simple, reference to the matter in a gen-j •ral News Story should bring such t vio'ent reaction from the three' best news writers in the state.. There is not a man or woman in North Carolina who is two degrees removed from a Moron who is not advertent to the political corrup tion practiced in every election in the state. As an illustratin take a look at the City of Raleigh and Wake County. There has not been in honest election held in this City i and County in a quarter of a cen ‘ury. Vote buying, Negro registra •ion and other forms of corruption i have always controlled the politics l of this community. If this state ment is not true, why is it always | necessary’ to spend Thousands of Dollars to elect any candidate in the City or County? The Present ! Governor is too broad minded and fine a gentleman to entertain for one moment the idea that his ap pointment of any man caries wTth it a jnuzzle to prevent his appointee Earpsboro Events Mr. and Mrs. Leon Chamblee j visited Mrs. Birdie Murray, near ; Mount Pleasant, last Thursday,, | who is sick. Mr. Edward Bailey, of Middlesex, . spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Eugent Bailey. Mr. J. H. Faucette, Herman Fau cette and Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Fau cette attended the burial of their aunt, Mrs. Grissom, at Oxford, last Thursday. , Mrs. Dennis Richardson, who was in an automobile wreck about two weeks ago, is still in bed at her mother’s, Mrs. Bissette, at Middle j sex. j Little Helen Flowers Fuller was sick last week, but is better now. Several of our young people en poyed a candy party at Mr. John nie Pulley’s Thursday night. WAKEFIELD NEWS Mrs. Edgar Perry, a recent bride, was honored at a miscellaneous | shower, by mesdames D. D. Cham jblee, L. H. Jones and Alvin Bridges, I at the home of the latter, on Thurs" day night, Feb. Bth. A number of games and contests I were enjoyed by the guests, after : which a musical program was ren dered. The honoree received many ’ nice, useful gifts. The guests were invited into the dining hall where they received tiny valentines so rfavors and wore serv ' ed a delicious salad course by the hostesses. Friday, Feb. 9, Miss Daphne Ed dins became the bride of Herbert Fuller, of Louisburg, Mrs. Fuller is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Eddins of Wakefield. Friends of Mrs. Robert Eddins will be glad to learn that she is ion the road to recovery after a re-, cent operation in Mary Elizabeth Hospital. Guy Moore of Momeyer filled the pulpit at the local church Sunday. Mr. and M*s. Alvin Bridges were guests at a birthday dinner last Sunday at the home of Mrs. C. Y. Williams honoring Mrs. J. M. Knott on her 81st birthday. Thomas Kimball, a member of the CCC at Stantonsburg visited his mother last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Winstead of Durham spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Winstead’s mother, Mrs. Ft. P. Jones. Miss Lillian Kimball of Wake field, has been quite sick for more than two weeks. Because of this she was forced to give up her work and come home. Regional Codes Announcement has been made from Washington that regional codes for the NItA will shortly supplant the national code. It has been realized that no one code can prove satisfactory in all parts of a country as large as the United States. National industries will still be regulated largely by national codes, but those which are purely local in service will be governed by local rulings. Bootleg Licenses From the western part of the state goes up a wail of protest against a number of N. C. citizens who have bought 1934 tags for their cars in Georgia at a cost of i only $3.00, instead of paying more than four times that amount into their state’s treasury. Efforts are being made to compel 4 he neighboring state to stop sell ing licenses for N. C. cars. The worst evil of wars is the moral laxity that follow* them. from giving utterance to his honest opinion on any subject about which he chooses to write or speak. To assume otherwise is a disservice to the Governor.
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