THE ZEBULON RECORD
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North (ai '.lia i Press Association
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THE ItKCOKI) IT WASHING COMPANY
Zebulon, N. C.
THEO. IE DAVIS Editor
MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS , Associate Editor
Entered .as second-class mail matter Jurie 2S/192r»,
at the P • >s‘office .it Zebulon, North Carolina, under
the Act of March 1878.
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AH. RATS!
Sometime ago this paper mentioned the high cost
of privy construction in Wake county and the super
intendent explained to his own satisfaction at least
that the cost was much less. Now we would like for
some one to come forward and explain if it really
did cost the government, which is us, the pitiful
sum of 870.00 each to destroy a few rats. But why
not? All the Pied Pipers of Hamlin are dead.;
Here’s what an exchange has to say about this rat
killing business.
We don’t blame Brooklyn for dropping its CWA
rat campaign. Seventy dollars a rat is entirely too
expensive for skilled workers, and it is evident that
the workers were not very skilled when 261 CWA
workers could not even averse a rat apiece per
day. The sum of 8218,000 was appropriated for this
very unusual CWA project, hut after a trial of 45
days, during' which time only 00 or 70 rats per day
were trapped, it was decided to drop : t.
PAID FOR PREACH I N(»
Here is another item from an exchange which we
would like for you to read. After reading it. you
may se» you pastor in a different light—maybe so. i
Let’;il hope so, anyway, if you are not seeing your
duty to your pastor and church definitely and j
directly.
A business man in a Southern city, who writes 1
for a number of newspapers an unusual and usually
humorous column, states in his extravagant style—
behind which there is a very sober suggestion—that
if he allows his payments to the church to lapse for
three or four Sabbaths, he begins to question the
sincerity of the men in the front pews; if he lets his
dues get three months behind, he finds fault with
the preaching, and if he so neglects his obligations
as to owe on hi-; pledge for a large part of the year. 1
he begins to suspect that the preacher is a hypocrite
and that there ought to he a change. This brings
to our minds tae saying of an old deacon; “Preach
ing that ain’t paid fur don’t sound good.”—Stanly
News and Press.
LHH'OK IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS
The Record wishes to commend to its readers the
following dipped from an exchange, because of the
truthfulness of its statement in regard to all clasps
of people without respect of person:
If liquor is ii<> f especter of persons and can take a
prominent man with too much under his shirt and
cause him to be unable to handle an automobile with
danger to all in his path, why should an officer
make any difference between them and those who
are no* so prominent?
That, is one trouble and the reasoi. why so many
accidents occur and the road is dangerous to venture
on with a machine.
A prominent drunken man can see double as well
as the man who has little money and influence. The
way to handle the situation and stop all of them,
and every one who has so little sense as to get in a
car under the influence of liquor and take hold of
the steering wheel, should be stopped at once, and
be made to understand that it will not be allowed.
Licenses should be issued, and the reputation of
those who are in the habit of imbibing too freely
and trying to drive a car under the influence of
liquor should be taken into account when the licenses
THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH C AROLINA, I SIXTEENTH, 1934.
RECOVERY DEPENDS UPON INDIVIDUAL
RESPONSIBILITY
The heading to this piece is taken from the state
ment of General Johnson, head of the government
, recovery program.
I la i that Uncle Sam has at last leen -
r'ayli. ht and *is .awake to the fact that much of
what lias been done to bring back conditions to the
normal has had a radical tendency to destroy indi
vidual responsibility and weaken self-help. Gev ral
Jobr .-' n’s statement is fine, only it should have been
made a year ago and then he should have set up a
program that would relieve only the urgent imm -
diate needs and provide self-help.
I believe much of the CWA has aided and abetted
the disjiositior of nvm people to become more de
pendent.
“There are national perils and emergen ies in
which individual responsibilities multiply, and this
happens to be one of them.
“The real objection of the few enemies of the
Blue Eugh goes much deeper than they are willing
to admit. They are of an ancient, Tory school of
thought. Although we call ourselves a democracy,
their idea is that the people must never be trusted
to think or act for themselves. Alexander Hamilton
said: ‘The people' are a great beast’, and proposed
a system under which all their affairs would be
taken care of by the good, the wise, and the great.
“The 'trouble with that has been that the good,
the wise, and the great have fallen down on the job.
Education and training have so evened up things
that nobody has r, monopoly on goodness and wis
dom any more. Times have changed. The news
papers and the radio and the moving pictures have
enabled the people to know 'instantly what is going
on. and more nearly every year to think ami art as
ore. Given a trusted and able leadership, and with
such a medium of unified action as the Blue Eagle, i
our people, for what I believe to be for the first
time, have the opportunity to solve a national dco- j
nomic problem by their own action. Instead of sit
ting hopelessly and helplessly under the impact of !
forces of disaster, every person has an individual
ai d important part in a symphony of action.” —Gen- 1
eral Johnson.
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
While the Record has its subscription campaign
on, perhaps the following from the Christian Science i
Monitor, one of the*best edited newspapers in Amer
ica, vt ill be of interest to our readers, and incidental- j
ly help them to a better appreciation of country
newspapers and especially The Zebulonßecord:
Turning from city newspapers to small town press
exchanges that come to the editor's desk is like step
ping from the slums full of vice, into an old-sash- }
ioned garden sweet with lavender and thyme and the
scent ot perennial flowers. The pages of big dailies
are so full of murder, thievery, immorality and sel-
I fishness that the better news is obscured by these
•glaring shatterings of the Decalogue. One puts the.
papers aside with a feeling of depression and heart- i
ache that the world is so full of terrible and un- *
happy things. !
Then picking up the papers that record the hap- (
peniiigs of the little towns around us, one gains re- 1
newe.i faith in life. Here are set forth only that
which uplifts a community—the activities of the
business men, the church items, the happy social
gatherings of the people, the marriages, births and
deaths, fanner’s items, and all the thousand and
One daily occurrences that make up the simple an
, mils of the great common people, who are really the
i fcundati< n <■;’ is broad country of ours.
Sometimes people speak lightl yof the country
newspaper, but it is one of the most potent and up
lifting factors in our national'existence.
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SEEN AND HEARD
AN ACCOMMODATING OFFICER
j
Chief of Police Baker is a man of varied duties
in his official lfe. The other day he was seen!
living a two-horse wagon through town and back
towards the town jail. With him was a citizen from
the country. Later the chief told me that that the |
fellow was drunk and asked him to drive for him,
that he could not find his way out ot town. In the
otherwise empty wagon was a half-gallon of liquor.
So the chief accommodated him. driving around to
the jail, hitching the team and lockng the man up.
Yes, Chief Baker is a very accommodating officer.
SAFE fc>R SAVED DRIVER?
I went to Durham last week to see a young man
from a nearby community who was in Duke hospi
tal. Passing another car rather closely, my friend
on the seat with me said: “I 'am somewhat like a
nan I know about riding with preachers. He said
they are mostly thoughtless or careless drivers and
he does not know why it is unless it is because they
are better prepared to die than most folks and so
don’t mind much what happens. Anyway,” said he,
“I am not so well-prepared to die that I am willing
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