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§th£ Ztbttloxx W&t&tb VOLUME 10 IfHIS, THAI I ! AND IDE OTHER! T • f ❖ . * «g» ■ —— % By Mrs. THEO. B. DAVIS t -u ❖ Once more we approach the glad season of the year when those w r hc own beautiful evergreens or small and shapely young cedar or holly trees had best watch them night and day if they want to possess them much longer. There’s no tell ing who might come along, nor when, to “swipe” one for use in celebrating the birth of Christ. No, I am wrong; for use in cele brating a festival. It’s rather pathetic to see tiny trees trying to stand upright in front of a store, waiting for pur chasers and turning pale or dying from disappointment. But that is far better than indiscriminate cut ting in woods that belong to some, one else than the cutter. The state is trying to conserve green ery, but jurisdiction seems to ex tend only 100 feet on each side of the road. The rest is a matte: between owners and wanters. Even at the risk of being thought a heretic I’d have to ad mit if asked about it, that I am not wildly enthusiastic over that famous poem called “The Night Before Christmas.” And this is not because I object to the use of the word that rhymes with jelly. Nor is it because a pupil of mine in a high falsetto once misread two of the lines thus: “Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the hash.” My main objection to it is that it never rises higher than the top of the chimney. It seems a pity that so many of the Christmas songs are worth so little and that so few of us mem orize those that are truly beauti ful. “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks” has been partially spoiled for me by getting it wrong when I first heard it years ago. In stead of “Thus Spake the Seraph” I thought it was “Thus spake the sheriff,” and lost the meaning. It would be impossible to estimate the number of children who mis take words in songs they are taught, and we seldom pause to make sure they understand. To me no Christmas songs are quite so lovely as “oilent Night” and “O, Little Town of Bethlehem.” If you can not sing them well nor hear they sung, read them over and over. They will make Christ mas every year seem as old as eternal love and as new as birth. And there is something in “We Three Kings of Orient Are” that, is so heart-breakingly sad the only thing more painful than listening would be not hearing it. May Christmas be beautiful to us all. Even should the year have brought sadness unspeakable and losses almost too great to be borne; though we may face the future with dread and loneliness; THE FOUR-COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, N ASH AND FRAN KLIN. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, 133 L CHURCH NEWS On Monday night L. L. Morgan, State S. S. Field Worker, Miss Mary Alice Biby, Southern Bap tist Convention Representative, and Mrs. Lane, State Intermediate Leader, spoke at the Baptist Church emphasizing the import ance of the Southern Baptist Sun day School Convention to be held in Raleigh the first week in Jaun ary and urging those present to attend and to arouse deeper inter est in others of the church con cerning the conference. Local problems and [dans were discussed briefly. The Christmas program at the Baptist Church will be presented on next Sunday night. The Season of Prayer for For eign Missions was observed on last Thursday with an all-day service and lunch at the church. The Southside Circle of the W. M. S. met on Monday in the home of Mrs. S. A. Horton. Greenbsoro Loses In Attempt to Put Its Debt on County Guilford county superior court last week decided that Guilford county should not be required to assume the school debt of the city of Greensboro, amounting to three million dollars. The case will go to the supreme court on appeal of the city. The result had been anticipated and so had the appeal. The case is of peculiar interest hereabouts because the Raleigh school board is preparing to start suit to force Wake county to take over its debt of about two million dollars. The situation here and in Guilford is very similar and if the supreme court decides that case soon it may be used as a guide for action here without court action. Kingfish Loses One of His New Bills Dictator Huey Long accepted an amendment to one of his pet bills before the special session of the | Louisiana this week when one of | Louisana Legislature this week! when one of the few opponents of Long in the assembly discovered that it gave the Senator power through his creature appointees to hire and fire at will all the school teachers of the state. Disguised as an innocent looking measure to permit children to attend school in other than their own parishes, the bill with its deadly “joker” al most got by without detection. no matter what of disappointment and failure we have known; may we for a little while, if no longer, at this season “rest beside the weary road and hear the angels sing.” Fassauer Ferron, of Pasadena, Calif., has produced the smallest J violin ever made. The instrument which is 1 3-4 inches long, is com plete in every detail. NOTICE There v. ill be no Zebulon; Record next week in order that' the Record force may take a day off for the Christmas holi day season. Safecrackers Get Money and Jewels From Local Store There has been an epidemic of safeblowing the past few weeks, evidently the work or an exper ienced gang. Saturday night the safe at Hudson-Belk’s store was blown and tin robers got away with nearly four thousand dollars in cash, negotiable checks and jew elry. Nearly a thousand dollars worth of the jewelry stolen was 1 family heirloom pieces belonging j to Mrs. Will Hudson. The robbers j entered the store through a sky | light, wrapped the safe in heavy blankets and blew it with nitro glycerine. The same night—or at least be tween closing time Saturday night and Monday morning— the Belk- Parks store and Efird’s store at Albemarle were robbed, that haul amounting to about S7OO. Then i on Monday night the safe in the bank at Rustburg, Va., was crack ed and some $7,000 taken away. What Should the Firemen Do? A house burned in a suburb of Atlanta, Ga., the other day with a fire company standing by and not lifting a hand to put out the flames. And for that inactivity the fire company has been bitterly criticised. But there are two sides |to the question. The house was * outside the city limits in a subur ban neighborhood where a num ber of citizens had joined togeth er and hired a fire company for their protection paying them by subscripton—a sort of mutual in surance society. Some of the citi zens did not want to pay the sub scription, just as some property owners do not want to pay pre miums on fire insurance policies. But is the insurance company so condemned when it fails to pay a non-policy holder for the loss of j his property. j The same question arises every once in awhile in almost every city or town having a fire depart i tnent mantained by taxes. The cit izens of the town pay the taxes in order to get the protection. If some fellow decides he does not want to pay town taxes and moves just outside the city limits, has he the right to expect the fire com pany and the police department to protect him. Many of them ap parently think so, but it doesn’t look right. Two palm trees, each weighing approximately 35 tons, were moved to a new site from ground they! had occupied, at Los Angeles, Calif., for the past 100 years. Suffering a paralytic stroke while walking on his farm, ncar i lonia, Mich., Charles Richardson fell face downward into a puddle | of water two inches deep and drowned. Grand Jury After Commissioners Wake county grand jury calls attention of county and city com missioners to recommendations for improvements about the jails and says it hopes the matter will be attended to without further delay. The grand jury can indict either board for failure to comply with its recommendatons and the inti mation is clear that such a course may be followed. Want Cooley on Agriculture Com. The other ten North Carolina congressmen are being asked to support Harold Cooley for a place on the house committee on agri culture. It is pointed out that this state has never had a member on that committee although we rank fourth in value of all agricultural products. Aviation Only 31 Years Old Now Airplane stunts and mass flights at nearly every airport in the en tire country Tuesday celebrated the thirty-first birthday of avia tion. Just 31 years ago, on Decem ber 17, 1903, the Wright brothers achieved the first flight of a heav ier than air machine. Bankhead Bill Not So Very Unpopular C< tton farmers throughout the Souili last week voted overwhelm ingly for continuance another year J' the compulsory control pro gram, popularly known as the Bankhead bill. The vote was about 10 to 1. In Wake county it was about 15 to 1, indicating that the farmers of this county are very well pleased, thank you, with the present control set-up. Freezing Point Reached at Miami The extreme cold weather of the first of last week was unusual in many respects. The cold wave reached farther south than usual, reaching freezing point at Miami, Fla. This was the first time on record when it was that cold so far south so early in the winter. Many deaths were reported from the north and west due to cold and exposure. Jump on School Administration Class room teachers in Wayne county in open meeting jumped all over the administration of the state school system, declaring that the welfare of the children was! being sacrificed to mistaken econo my and that school teachers were grossly discriminated against as compared with other state em ployees. Beware of a still dog, still water j or a still woman. YE FLABDOODLE BY THE SWAHBUKER Dear Santa: I don’t want anything that will cost much money this Christmas. I know I’ll get a bill after Christmas saying “Your cheek will he appreciated. Help the wife pick out some socks that won’t let my big toes stick out ’ere I have worn them thrice. Help brother to use a slight de gree of intelligence when he chooses the tie. You did an awful job last year. Bill Poole said bring him a 1935 Plymouth, he didn’t care whether it was new or not. You might bring the garbage man with you, he hasn't been af ter our garbage for nearly three weeks. And don’t forget my wash woman. She’s been begging me for the last month not to let you forget her. Now that I’ve told you you’ll have to assume all re sponsibility. Lawrence Tracy said bring him anything that was paid for. Bring Clarence Hocutt’s wife a sponge rubber rolling pin. (Don’t forget to take the hard, wood one his boss got last Christmas. Bring the wife some silk hole proof, snag-proof, hang-nail proof pull-proof, push-proof, stain proof, tear proof and everything else-proof hose. As for the old Swashbuckler, just a five thousand dollar certi ficate on Uncle Sam will do. I won’t be a cad, make it ten thousand. Pleas don’t leave my pants in the hall with the pockets empty and a note reading: “I. O. U. ten dollars” like you did last year. Yours truly, THE SWASHBUCKLER. P. S.: If you’ve got to bring any fireworks to any little boys, let them live in Wendell. NOTICE The sale of persona, property of the late C. H. Chamblee will be held on Thursday, Jan. 10, 1935, and not on December 29 as is stat ed elsewhere in this paper. In the United States there are 3,805 negro physicians and sur geons. A nine-foot earthworm has been found in Australia where six-foot specimens are not uncommon. The brink of Niagara Falls is moving hack several feet yearly due to erosion. Love creates blindness; marriage cures it. NUMBER 25
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