THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH TWENTY-NINTH, 1935.
THE ZEBULON RECORD
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REORD Editorial-
From what we have read lately it seems that
the Dionne parents are rapidly reaching the
stage where they will slap at the governmental
hand that reached out to help them when the
arrival of five babies created problems too great
for them to solve alone. They are said to have
tried to move into the hospital with the quin
tuplets and to have planned to move across the
line into the United States where they might
be free to exploit the babies. Papa Dionne has
evoluted from the humble being who stated at
the time the five infants were born that T’m
the sort of man who ought to be killed” into the
sort of man who proclaims that his family is
his own concern regardless.
We fear it is one more case of too much pub
licity.
DRUNKEN OR DRINKING
In the Atlantic Magazine for April Curtis
Billings, member of the National Safety Coun
cil, discusses in Alcohol and Motors the effect
of drinking upon drivers. He declares that the
real menace to safety on our highways today is
not the drunken driver but the driver who has
merely been drinking. He gives results of scien
tific experiments to determine the effect of
small quantities of alcohol upon the human body
and its reactions and because of knowledge thus
gained he asserts that persons who intend to
drive cars should not drink at all, or if they
have been drinking, should not drive.
These conclusions have been reached not by
religion nor by politics but by scientific proof
that alcohol slows up mental processes danger
ously, even when taken in very small quantities.
Yet there are probably those who would con
sider Mr. Billings a narrow'-minded fanatic.
HURRAH FOR HITLER
We have never been a great admirer of Hit
ler but we do say we are glad he has called the
bluff of the other nations. We have always had
the militarists and munition makers and big
■mm rp , 000,000. of which *4,000,000,000 is tures, and almost 30 per cent of
1V1.01*6 A aXCS - j reflected in rising indebtedness, total tax collections.
Hi<rhpr TaYPS IThe other 00 - 000 - 000 is made There are the fi * ures > and the *'
fllgUtf! I j jjy n on-tax government receipts require little comment. The gap
’ such as earnings of general de- between income and outgo is stead-
The increasing gravity of the J partmentSi assessments, fines, etc. ily widening with the inevitable
tax problem is well illustrated in j Xo give stiil another illustration, result of more taxes and higher
a recent survey by the National j th cost Q f ( j ebt service—interest taxes —at the expense of employ
industrial Board. j retirement of maturing bonds ment, home-building and industrial
Dunng the past four years, ac- j n a year for ail units of expansion.
cording to its findings, the public government combined, amounted
debt has increased at a more rapid tQ 16 5 per 0 f gross expendi- ‘‘Let’s laugh and try once more.”
rate than at any time in our his-
debt —federal, state and local—is + ‘ LESPEDEJZA GARDEN SEED +
now in excess of $47,000 000,000. ♦ OATS DYNAMITE +
Total tax collections, on the oth- f NaVy Beans +
er hand, are at a lower level than * Sugar 5c lb. Black Eye Peas 7c Truckers Corn +
in 1930, in spite of the numerous ♦ Coffee 14c lb. Northern Beans 8c Adams E Corn *
new taxes created by government ♦ Dried Peaches 15c Lima Beans gc i
in the years since then. Most of | Canned Vegetables Cobbler Potatoes T d ° 5 ♦
the money now being spent by gov- * 9c can 25c k Snaps. Peas 20c lb. ♦
ernment does not come out of its * Oat Meal 9c Bliss Potatoes Stock Peas $2.25 bu. +
income, but is represented by bor- * Gold Dust 2 pks. 5c 35c peck Soy Beans $1.75 bu +
rowings against the future. The | WANTED-Young Milch Cow,Corn, Potato and Onion Sets. \
tween tax collections and pi £ll A. G. KEMP ZEBULON, N. C. f
expenditures is now about S6.OW,- ++++++++++++4 . ++ 4. +++++++++ ++++4.++++++*++++4.+^(m».4mM. < .
men who would not have to carry arms and
have never wanted peace unless it was to their
gain.
Germany has every right that any other na
tion has to adequately arm herself for her peo
ple’s defense. By Hitler’s stand he has called
the bluff of other nations and laid bare their
hypocrisy. If the great mass of working people
and those who furnish the young men to be sac
rificed could decide on whether we shall have
peace or war, we believe that more than 90 per
cent would be against it. So long as military
leaders and munition makers and others who
will profit most directly by war rule this or any
other country, just so long will there be the pos
sibility of a war at any time.
So we say hurrah for Hitler this once if nev
er again.
FOOLISH WISE MEN
The way the legislature has gone at the prob
lem of legislation reminds one of a man trying
to die: a well by beginning at the bdtton, or a
woman trying to cut out a garment before she
buys the cloth. There is no doubt that we have
some of our best men in the General Assembly,
but when one notes the way they go at the bus
iness of legislation, he feels that they do it very
foolishly—sometimes. For instance: the first
thing they always do is pass all the little local
bills that might just as well go unpassed before
they even think about matters of vital concern
to the state at large. And when they finally take
up these they proceed on the pianos apportion
ing moneys according to what they want and
not what they have. It is'our humble judgment
that matters of statewide importance should
first be disposed of and that these should be
passed on a basis of the actual revenue avail
able.
THAT OBNOXIOUS SALES TAX
After these months the House has passed the
3 per cent sales tax —what everybody knew from
the first it would have to do. It has not been
the 3 cents people have had to pay as a sales
tax that made it obnoxious. The law made every
purchaser constantly conscious of it every time
he made as much as a 10 cent purchase. He was
often more conscious of the tax than the price
of the article. Realizing this obnoxious feature,
many merchants would have absorbed the tax,
but the law would not let them.
If the sales tax had been placed and collected
like the gas tax, the public would have accepted
it without a complaint. Let the merchant pay
the sales tax on bulk goods and then add enough
to the retail price to cover the tax and he will
never have to explain, nor a customer complain
about the sales tax.
We must have revenue to carry on the gov
ernment. The people themselves must provide
it. The sales tax is in our opinion just as fair to
all the people as any other tax so we are in fav
or of keeping it till a better way is found to
raise revenue.
Professional Cards
DR. CHAS. E. FLOWERS'
I'hy3iciar. and Surgeon
Office hrs. 8:30-10 a m —l-3 p m{
Phone: Off. 76 Res. 91
Back of F. & F. Kannans’
DR. J. F. COLTRANE j
DENTIST
Robertson Building j
Office Hrs. 9-12:30 1:30-5 J
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ZEBULON SUPPLY CO.j
We Feed & Clothe The Family J
And Furnish The Home
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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Fire, Wind, Tornado Insurance <
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GROCERIES DRY GOODS j
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Phone 24
Zebulon, N. C.
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R. L. Harper
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