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VOLUME 10 ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER TWENTY-SIXTH, 1934 NUMBER 17
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i AND THE OTHER
t By MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS
One day last week a lady I had
never met introduced herself say
ing that she knew me because I
look exactly like this column reads.
Ever since then I’ve been rather
puzzled as to whether that was a
compliment.
If you ever want something for
dessert and have little time to pre
pare It, try this—if your family is
fond of soft food. Put on to heat
all of a quart of sweet milk except
about one-half cupful, adding
three-fourths of a cup of sugar.
Beat two eggs light with a pinch
of salt and one-fourth cup of plain
flour. Add the milk reserved from
the quart and be sure this mixture
is smooth and free from lumps.
Just before the milk and sugar
boils pour in the egg. flour and
milk mixture, stirring it very care
fully. Cook it for a short while
over a slow Are, or you may use
a double boiler, in which case long
er cooking will be necessary. Set
it to cool, flavoring with vanilla.
Now for the serving: You may
call this boiled custard and serve
it in glass cups with or without
cake. You may use it as a sauce
for puddings. You may add cocoa
or chocolate, a little more flour
and a lump of butter and have
a pudding. You may sprinkle grat
ed cocoanut over it, may pour it
over sliced bananas —or, if it is
thick, put the bananas over it. You
may use another egg and make a
pie by pouring the mixture into a
baked crust and putting meringue
on top. In faet, it is most accom
modating stuff and will be just
whatever you choose to call it. And
you don’t even have to chew it;
merely spoon and swallow.
Since the days began to grow
cool I have heard two young house
keepers say they mean to sit in
their kitchens this winter, because
it is a matter of choosing between
the kitchen and the bedroom and
they prefer the former. Which to
me seems a highly sensible proced
ure. I always did love kitchens and
in this day of improved appliances
for work there’s no reason why
they should not be attractive. And
for a husband to come home and
sit in the kitchen while his wife
finishes the meal, is per
fectly natural and proper. They
can talk things over as she works,
and he is lots more likely to dry
the dishes if he is right there
while they are being washed than
if he had to be called away from
a paper in another room.
These high-toned architects and
efficiency experts who tell us our
kitchens should be very small and
compact—laboratories really—have
lost sight of the biggest reason for
having a kitchen, which is having
a home. A place where you can
cook a meal without moving more
than three feet in any direction is
all right to read about, but hard
to live with. (To say nothing of
living in.) A kitchen ought to be
big enough for the whole family
THE FOUR-COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, N ASH AND FRANKLIN
$1,600,000 NEW
TAX VALUES?
Fred Young and Steadman
Thompson, employed some weeks
ago to ferret out and list unlisted
personal property in the county
! report that they have found more
than a million and a half dollars
worth. Several hundred thousand
; has already been put on the tax
books voluntarily by the owners
* when the matter was called to their
attention, (but other owners ar<
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protesting and will be heard by th<
j commissioners before the property
j is listed.
Young and Thompson are to get
•25 per cent of the taxes
collected from their discoveries. A
the present rate a million and t.
half dollars will yield about $12,000
in taxes—s 3 000 for the finders and
$9,000 for the rest of us.
“Don’ts” For
The Huntsman
Concord Tribune.
A few simple precautions on thf
part of hunters will reduce to a
minimum the annual toll of human
life and injury each season in
North Carolina. John D. Chalk
state game and inland fisheries
commissioner, has prepared a lis*
of cautions which hunters shoult
observe for their own welfare and
for the benefit of the state:
Don’t point your gun at anyon«
even if you are sure it is empty.
Don’t carry your gun whei
climbing fences or brush piles.
Don’t handle your gun by th
muzzle or pull it toward you.
Don’t carry your gun so that ar
accidental discharge might shool
vour companion.
Don’t shoot any game unless you
can see it clearly enough to identi
fy it positively. There is safety ir
our North Carolina deer law ir
that the deer you can shoot must
be a buck, and all bucks have
horns.
Don’t violate the farmer’s hospi
tality by leaving gates open, cut
ing fences or destroying his prop
erty.
Don’t throw your smoke out of
the car or into the brush without
nutting it out.
Don’t hunt without a license—the
game warden may get you at the
time you are enjoying the hunt
the most.
to assemble in it and leave space
for the cook to do her work.
After having tried two of those
“tiny, compact, planned’’ rooms I
know that the ideal family kitchen
is a big one. It should have space
for a wood stove, no matter how
much oil and electricity one can
buy; for a comfortable chair and
■ a couch, if possible; for papers,
magazines and a few books; for a
work-basket and vases of flowers;
for a table where meals may be
eaten in cold weather; for a wood
box on whose edge a small boy
may perch to talk over the day’s
events while supper is being
cooked. Experience has taught me
that the combination of cold weath
er, food odors, a mother who does
her own work, and the comer of a
deep woodbox will do more to open
the door to a boy’s confidence than
News Briefs j
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N. C. Sixth
North Carolina is sixth among
the states in aeronautics with 99
planes and 98 licensed pilots. The
average in the South is 85 planes
and 151 pilots. Florida leads the
South with 155 planes and 306
licensed pilots. California leads in
the nation, having 928 planes and
2 915 pilots. |
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More Than Ever I
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The number of deaths in this
state from automobile wrecks dur
ing September was the greatest
ever recorded. There were 106 per
sons killed. It is said that the ma
jority of these deaths could have
been prevented by observing prop
er care.
Into Stratosphere
I
The Jean Piccards have again
gone into the stratosphere in the I
interests of science. This time
starting from Detroit, and landing
in Ohio, they estimate the height,
they reached to be about ten miles
They were in the air nearly eight
hours, and landed without damagt
to their gondola or instruments.
State Supt. Education Dead
Dr. Arch Turner Allen, for 11
years State Superintendent of Edu
cation, died at Rex Hospital last
Saturday. Perhaps his outstanding
work in office was the consolida
tion of state schools. Governor
Ehringhaus, on Tuesday, named ;
Clyde A. Erwin, 37-year-old Ruth
erford County superintendent, to
sncceed Dr. Allen.
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“Pretty Boy” Floyd Dead !,
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Charles Arthur Floyd, Oklahoma ,
desperado, known as “Pretty Boy,”
public enemy No. 1 since the death
of Dillinger, was shot and killed
by officers of East Liverpool,
Ohio, on Tuesday.
Legion Meets
The American Legion is in the
sixteenth annual convention this
week, meeting in Miami, Fla. Not
able among the addresses was one
by President Roosevelt. There were
in attendance 70,000 veterans of
whom 1,200 were officials and dele- 1
gates. 1
Bankers In Convention <
Bankers of the United States
are in the 60th annual convention ,
this week, meeting in the nation’s
capital. Because of unusual con
ditions this is considered one of
the most important bankers’ meet
ings ever held.
During the last 13 years, Joseph 1
Sabath, Chicago judge, has granted *
38.000 divorces and persuaded 2,700 1
couples to reconcile their differ- 1
ences.
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almost anything else. Particularly j
if the others of the family have
not come in. Let the architects (
have their way about the rest of j
the house, if you will, but use (
your common sense about your \
kitchen if you do your own work; (
[love it and live in it. i
DOUGHTON TO
SPEAK TUESD’Y
Hon. Robert L. Doughton, con
gressman from the ninth district,
and dean of the North Carolina
delegation, will address the voters
of Wake county at the court house
next Tuesday night, October 30th.
Appearing with him for a brief
talk will be Congressman Cooley
of this district the newest member
of the North Carolina delegation.
This will be the first and perhaps
the only “big speech” in Wake
county during the campaign. The
election will be held on the follow
ing Tuesday. There is very little
manifestation of interest in the
election hereabouts. The local re
sult is so certain to be Democratic
that there is no fight. The hope of
party leaders, however, is for a re
spectable vote to offset almost cer
tain gains by Republicans in some
dose counties.
And attention is once again "ail
ed to the fact that the registration
books close at sundown tomorrow —
Saturday. They will be at the
, ‘voral polling places until foui
o’clock. After that and until sun
down they will be open at the home
of the registrar-—and at sundown
Ihey close finally for this election.
Even though you feel sure yous
name is properly entered no harm
will be done by checking it.
Mrs. Stoll Returned
Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, wealthy
Kentucky society woman, is safe
at home again. For awhile after
| the $50,000 demanded as ransom
hod been paid no news of the kid
naped lady was heard, and hei
family feared she had been killed.
She has been able to clear up much
of the mystery surrounding her
disappearance and her where
abouts afterward.
Her abductor, Thomas Henry
Robinson, Jr., is a former inmate
of an insane asylum wkh a mania
against capitalists. His wife and
his father have been apprehended
as his companions in crime, though
Mrs. Robinson claims that it was
mainly through her instrumental
ity that Mrs. Stoll was brought
home. The large daily papers give
many dreadful details of her cap
tivity.
This is said to be the 32nd case
of kidnaping investigated by the
federal department of justice since
the passage of the Lindbergh law
in v 932. Arrests have followed
every case except one.
Gov. Speaks
At Smithfield
Governor Ehringhaus officially
opened the Johnston county Dem
ocratic campaign Monday night
at Smithfield. Johnston is one of |
the counties that sometimes goes!
Republican and observers see some
danger there this year, so the big
gun of the party was bronght intoj
service.
Harnett county is also showing 1
signs of being unpleasantly close
in the November voting. Various'
causes are assigned for this atti
tude, dissatisfaction over the op- j
erations of the Bankhead bill being
among the chief reasons.
POTPOURRI
(BY OII.I.YNXIS)
It is estimated that something
more than $50,000,000 has been
paid tobacco growers in North
Carolina this fall. That figure does
not include rental and benefit pay
ments from the government. It is
a great deal more than the farmers
received last year or the year be
fore and before the season closes
the growers will have received
more than twice last year’s income.
Which calls to mind a conversa
tion a few days ago about the suc
cess —the financial success—of the
State Fair. Several men were at
tributing this success to the effici
ent management of Mr. Chambliss
and Mr. Hamid. “If you want to
know the real secret of its success,”
said Sherwood Upchurch, “you’ll
find it in Roosevelt’s recovery pro
gram. For the first time in five
years folks have money to spend
and feel like spending it. Fairs and
circuses everywhere are making
money this year.”
Raleigh papers a few days ago
had the story of a negro being ar
rested for stealing flour from the
sidewalk in front of an A. & P.
store. But none of them enlarged
upon the fact that in putting the
flour out on the street the store it
self violated the law. Board of
health regulations prohibit such
display of foods whore they may be
contaminated with dust and germs.
But the poor negro was tried in
court; the big store still puts out
its flour.
I North Carolina continues to lead.
> Not only that, but the old state
betters i's own wanning record.
During the month of September
106 persons were killed in highway
accidents in North Carolina. The
highest previous month was 105
During September 545 people were
more or less seriously injured in
automobile accidents.
Like Mark Twain’s comment on
the weather “everybody talks
about it, but nobody seems to do
anything about it.” It is useless to
curse the highway patrol. In the
first place the patrol is entirely in
adequate for efficient policing of all
the roads in the state. In the sec
ond place, no one knows how much
heavier the death toll might be if
it were not for such policing as we
have. The only sure way to avoid
accidents is for every driver to act
with common sense. And one way
to aid that is to adopt a state
driver’s license law. That won’t
keep all the fools off the road, but
it will help.
R. M. Hanes, president of the
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company,
a former president of the N. C.
Bankers Association, takes a crack
at President Roosevelt and the
whole r<j • .very program. Mr. Hanes
confesses that the fiscal policy of
the govc ..ment is beyond his com
prehension. He points out that
more than half of the government
bonds are owned by the banks, nrd
that since the banks are financing
the government they have a right
to some voice in its administration.
I wonder if Mr. Hanes really
thinks the American people are
dumb enough to fall for that sort
of argument?
A fool hath no delight in under
standing.