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She Zebulon tßeeurit THE FOUR-COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN. VOLUME 10 *4> ++ +4* -h +♦<•*► 4*+<•4*++ | i HIS, W ! ! AND 7 ; OTHER! t $ * ' * tßy MRS iO. B. DAVIS + v 4-4-t <V fr«fr+4 M i»+*M ,, J ,, fr+++ There v while during the latter part'Tft'" last week and the fust of this when I wondered if small town fairs really pay in any way for the prodigious amount of labor required to prepare for them. Here we were, scores of us, rush ing around doing dozens of jobs making plans and changing or dis carding them, buying, begging, or borrowing equipment for booths leaving housework undone for the doubtful privilege of slaving lor one organization or another, be coming almost tearfully discour aged and fearing the whole thing might be a sad and silly Hop. However, by Monday night the warehouse really began to look fairish. All afternoon workers mainly women, had toiled at the booths. Os course the men had to biing in the heaviest articles, drive the trucks, do a good bit of ham mering and sawing, climb the tall est ladders, etc.; but the high thinking and artistry were strong lv feminine. (And be it remarked in passing that the man who can’t submit to being bossed for a sea son has no place in preparations for a fair.) On Tuesday we were all proud of ourselves and our neighbors. Such canned fruits and vegetables! Such flowers and fancy-work! Such school and community exhibits! If the prizes didn’t go to us individu ally, we felt glad for some one more fortunate —as well as more skilful. It is hard for me to be properly enthusiastic over the gorgeous dis play of fireworks that A. V. Med lin supervises each night at the fair. My saving soul recoils from the sight of so much money going ir. so short a time. But it is thrill ing for those who enjoy such sights and sounds. I saw A. S. Hinton wearing a red ribbon and thought he had taken jsecond prize for husbands. I knew who had the best one. But A’onious hadn’t taken any prize; he was merely a superintendent of something or other. There is lots of fun in wander irg around looking at exhibits and watching folks. Why I’d rather watch folks than monkeys! And there is pleasure in seeing friends and meeting their friends, and in going out on the midway to gasp and shudder while those acrobats risk their lives —or at least, their bones —giving the shows that are free. I haven’t had time yet to see any of the pay shows except the mice, the monkeys and the min strels. but I liked them. I’ve de cided that, after all, fairs are worth while. P. T. A. Meeting The regular monthly meeting of the Wakelon P. T. A. will be held next Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock. All parents and friends of the school are invited to be present ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1931 ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS For the last hundred years or so voters have gone to the polls and found two lists of candidates on their ballots. One bore the name Republican, the other Democrat. Today both major parties are torn and battered, mainly because of internal dissension. Authoritative observers are forecasting that we are on the verge of a political re alignment that will mean tlie death of the old parties, the birth of new ones. have the support of logic and If that realignment comes it will reason. In the old days a political party stood for definit'things and every candidate who ran on its ticket gave them his allegiance. At the present neither party has a program that a majority of its members honestly support; neithei ran consistently obtain the alle giance that is essential to party Jiscipline. In the Republican par y, for example, are such diametrical ly opposed men as Senator Reed i>f Pennsylvania and Senator Nor ris of Nebraska; it would be haid to think of a single issue on which they agree, yet each carries the same party label. In the Democratic party, a conservative such as Sen ator Glass of Virginia is faced with a radical such as Senator Bone of Washington- while the head of the party. President Roose velt, maintains a middle ground between these opposing attitudes. The titular leader of the Republi cans is former President Hoover -yet close to half of the party’- members in the Senate oppose his principles, and many of them, such as Johnson, Norris, La Toilette and Borah refused to support him when he ran for reelection in 1932. New parties, when and if they appear, will be definitely opposed in principle as well as name. One will consist of conservatives the other of liberals and radicals. 11,I 1 , is a noteworthy fact, as the al ways astute Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun recently pointed out. that President Roosevelt did no’ once mention the name “Democrat’' during the speeches he made on hi tour of the United States and ter ritoiies. Many persons close to Washington affairs think that th« President is seeking to effect tnc realignment now, that he wants to do away with the Democratic party and start a new one made up of people who believe as he does when it comeg to national policies. A more concrete illustration of the current trend is afforded by the California primaries. In that state j Republican Senator Johnson filed for both nominations, carried th m both by heavy majorities. And Up ton Sinclair, a life long Socialist but a Democratic candidate, rode easily into the gubernatorial nomi nation over all “regular’’ Dem v rratir candidates. In many states party lines have been destroyed in this manner. The textile strike has upset all the business barometers, and has clouded the outlook for fall im provement in general business. The 3 largest species of snake in! South America are the boa cons trictor with a length of 15 feet the yellow anaconda, 20 feet, and com-j mon anaconda which reaches a! length of 20 to 25 feet, ( General News Wilson Cannery Running WiT on’s NRA cannery has be gun opera*ions with a force of 58 persons employed. Others will be added until quota of 361 are at work. The plant has a capacity of 5 000 tans daily. Raleigh’s cannery opened on Tuesday with more than 100 workers. Jt has been stated j i hat the cattle for canning in Ral ! 'igh will be slaughtered at Wilson | thr same abattoir preparing the (Carcasses for both plants. The President Speaks On last Sunday night President Roo .ovelt spoke over the radio t. he nation. He reviewed the work ■ f die NRA, stated that it will i hortly be reorganized and re vised inri promised omission of features that have proved not to work well with retention of more important ■we!ions. He declared “we are mo\ | ing forward to greater freedorr i and greater security.” Johnson Retired Gen. Hugh Johnson since its or anizutiou the head of NRA has cured from leadership and ha; been succeeded by a governing 3t»d\. 1! ' stated that the proposed ;'euig"iai: tion is that which was advocated by him weeks ago. In a farewell speech Gen. Johnson de dared the moment of his retire ment to lie at once the saddest and the happiest of his life. .Margin Os Safety Prof. R. C. Kddy, director of th ■ Mass. Highway Accident Survey declares that few accidents ><vu through unforseen circumstance and that the margin of safety maintained by the driver is the great factor in prevention. The margin of safety is willingness to ccur delay for the sake of possible iangcr, and is determined primar ly by the driver’s mental attitude. Prof. Eddy says. Enrollments Increased The fact that college en Toll men's during Sept, show an in 'roase of about ten per cent over last fall is attributed partially to he fact that jobs are still scarce md that farm prices are better; hut mainly to the availability of federal relief funds to students. Western colleges report the larg • t gains. Hauptmann Case I*iogresses Officials are busily at woik •> s king new and conclusive evi dence to convict Bruno" Haupt mann of extortion in the Lindbergh, kidnap case and ussert that they ] are making satisfactory progress.' The accused man’s lawyer may 1 have him plead insanity. The State of Delaware has plac-1 ed in Statuary Hall, Washington,i D. O’, a statue of Caesar Rodney,, famous colonial statesman who! , hile ill, rode 80 miles to vote the Delaware colony into the Revolu tionary War. When the committee appointed to build a fence around the apple tret planted by Samuel Reed, at Evanston, 111., in 1840, decided to have a look at the landmark they found that the tree had disappear ed THE FOUR COUNTY FAIR I This week perhaps the best fair ever held in this section is in full swing in Zebulon. On Wednesday night there were more cars parked along the streets in the business section than ever was seen before i m ‘he town at one time. ! The exhibit hall is in the Center ■ Brick warehouse. It has on dis play some of the best farm prod uct., ever seen in this community. In addition there is a great va iety of novel and useful things on xhihit. The flower exhibits are un sually good, especially the dahlias : d zinnias. There are many side shows and luies of almost every kind. The hows are clean the cleanest ever • eon in this community. The tin orks at about ten o’clock each veiling are well-worth coming to 'ebulon to see. The last day will be fat unlay. If you have not been to Ise fair, you had better come. If oil have been, come again. It is a o' d show any way you take it On Saturday night Mr. Roberts he efficient manager, will give the public the grand climax of the cook's entertainment when tw'o lo al young people will be married, 'hey are Miss Virginia Williams md Edson Wood. Rev. Then. B Davis, by the special request of he young couple, will perform the lemony on the grand stand. The aerophone will be used and the ieople may both see and hear the ceremony. Control Os Hessian Fly North Carolina wheat growers can save themselves thousands oi dol’ars every year by controlling the Hessian fly. r llie only positive method of con trol is in keeping the fly out of the wheat, for little can be done to prevent damage after it infests a field, says C. H. Brannon extension entomoligist at State College. The flies lay eggs in the plant v/V ich hatch maggots. The maggots feed between the leaf sheath and he stem, greatly damaging thi plants and reducing the yield. Thi dlmi infests barley and rye, but coes not attack oats. Methods which will aid the wheat resist the fly damage are: nor rotation, plowing under infest ed s'ubble after harvest, destroy ing all voluntary wheat, using good , ed, fertilizing well, plowing early to seture a compact seed bed, and < < operating with neighbors in in sect control. Flies from one field will infest nother so it is important that all growers in a community w'ork to gethor in eradicating the pest Brannon stressed. Ihe -greatest, control measure is trat of planting at the proper time to avoid the fly. The planting shi ul 1 be as late in the season as the seed can be sown without se riously reducing the yield. Dr Z. P. Metcalf, head of the entomology department, has recom mended the following planting pe riods for North Carolina: Coastal plain region, October 15 to Novem l,er 1; Piedmont section, October 1 to 15; mountain area, September 15 to October 1. NUMBER 13 Hear ye! Hear ye! All yez mem bers of the Mutual Admiration Club. Sister M. F. (Monkey Face) Cockerell desires to join with us in our group of growlers as we sit in melancholy discontent. Peeved peeveder, peevedest, that’s her I evidently rubbed her the wrong way. I’m sorry Mad-wa-zell. Have just read where a gentle man up North, has decided to bui'd an organ that is twice the size of any in existence today. To my way ofthinking, that’s some “pipe dream”! “A Navajo Indian,” states a news item, “eats as much as a ton of dirt each year in his food.” So that’s where they got that “Another red skin bites the dust!” My good and trusted friend, Mr. Corbett, of the Barber shop Cor betts, Esq. informs me that our mayor can be seen at practically inv old time wtih a bag of popcorn n his paw inhaling it by the five •ent:, worth. “Quite evidently.” commented the above heretofore mentioned commenter, “The way to the mayor’s heart is paved with perpkem.” Dinna ye mind Knight Corbett hat Fair Week is the only time in ’he year that it’s permissable for one of the mayor’s standing to tread our spacious boulevards with a sack of popcorn in one hand and a pass to the side-shows in the other? Taking everything into consider ation The Four County Fair is the cleanest morally that the Old Swashbuckler has ever witnessed vitl. the naked eye. And I’ve seen 'hi m all. Well, I have seen two or three, at that. I have had a cold, a bad cold, for early a week now and for the life of n o I can’t learn to blow my nose tract-fully. I have, however, loam o hold it down to two blocks. I ould be heard three blocks at first. One ~f the younger gentlemen of • ir village informed me that they -’hot four da-go bombs and two pop icles during the fireworks Monday light. Oh Mr. Ripley. Tha’sall, Tenk you. AGRICULTURE CLUB The Y. T. H. F. Club of Wake ’on met on Monday September 24 for the first time this year. The to *al number of members was 43 : which is a great increase over last year. The officers of the club are 'is follows: President, Troy Mayes, Vice-President, Harold Ferebee; Secretary, Proctor Scarboro; As sistant Secretary, Marshal Strick land; Treasurer, John Fowler; Censor, Richard Hoyle; Reporter, Francis Wall. The club is planning to put on an exhibit at the N. C. State Fair she last of this week. Reporter. “A sharp tongue may sever a good friendship.”
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