artd Observer in speaking of a ri imoythat Paul Red fern, flyer who disappeared eight years ago, maw y« V»e alive, said it would be bett« p RVifem’s rela tives could knovime is Teallv dead than for him to*be “a ghost who walks in the newspapers, too tang ible for resignation too intangible for faith.” How expressive! In two unrelated articles in The Atlantic Monthly I found passages so nearly alike that they were doubly impressive. The first is a quotation from ‘‘Great Men and Small,” by Sir Esme Howard, former United States Ambassador from Great Britain; the second is taken from Professor Gilbert Mur ray's International Letter to Rab indranath Tagore. “I have grown \vith years only more firmly fixed in the belief that there is nothing more fatuous in international affairs than to be lieve in the unquestioned super iority of one’s own people and the inferiority of others.” “The first step towards interna tional understanding must be re cognition that our own national habits are not the unfailing canon by which those of other peoples must be judged, and that the be ginning of all improvement must I be a reasonable humility.” THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, THE SEVENTH OF JUNE, 1935. I CHURCH NEWS Sunday School attendance was small last Sunday because of the •nee of children, who were kept v because of warnings of the er from infantile praralysis. I further notice the primary junior departments will not i Central Circle of the Baptist . S. will meet on Friday after > fthis week in Mrs. Lela Hor flower garden. A full attend c greatly desired. WAKEFIELD e revival meeting which had planned for this week at oaKefield Church has been post poned because of the health situa tion. PEARCES For the reason mentioned above the Children’s Day exercises at Pearces Church have been postpon ed indefinitely. Announcement will be made later, when a date has been set. Explanation Please On last Sunday evening during ; the amateur hour conducted hv Maj. Bowles, the radio in the edi tor’s home was turned on while the editor, his wife and fifteen-year-old j son all sat reading in the same room with the radio, which is a ' table model placed on a stand. On the stand were also a Bible, a Sunday School quarterly and a glass vase of flowers, the vase be ! ing of colored glass, thin, and with a narrow neck. It was nearly full I of water. As a tenor soloist performed on the air there was an explosion like ! the bursting of an electric bulb, and Ferd Davis was splashed with l a part of the water that had been in the vase. It had blown into frag ments, leaving several inches of the lower part standing on the ra dio table full of water. Os course there is a physical ex ' planation of this happening. But the three w r ho saw it have no rea son whatever to doube that the " • T '- 1 -~ -c-u oftpr the long j Seen & Heard SKIN. DEEP BEAUTY We have been asked by a good looking woman (and she was good looking before the beauty parlor came to town) to say this: Since the beauty parlors opened up in Zebulon the women of the commun ity have improved 25 per cent in their looks, and some of them have improved even 90 per cent. Well, we’ve said it for her and leave the rest of the men to pass final judg ment. LOOK AND LISTEN It was interesting to watch the ways different persons listened to the singing at the vocal union Sun i day. Quite a number patted their feet earnestly in time with the music; several sat with their mouths open, j watching intently as well as hear ing; a number swayed gently back and forth or from side to side; oth ers beat time with one finger or tapped on the arms of seats as if playing a piano. Somewhat conspicuous among the vartous types of listeners was Bernice Eddins, wdio “picked the tunes” on tKfe crown of his hat as they were sung. ANOTHER SNAKE TALE The item in last week’s paper about the garter snake was set up and held over a week for lack of space, which put the date wrong. Last week’s snake was a big, long, black fellow, twisted around on ! the running hoard of an automobile on Zebulon’s main street and at tracted considerable attention. Despite the repeated assertion that black snakes are harmless as regards poison, no one seemed in clined to experiment with this one, preferring to observe him from a respectful distance. EMI’HASIS HERE Some men prefer riding in their neighbor’s cars to buying one of their own; other prefer borrowing a newspaper to subscribing. Pullen Park To Be Dedicated June 21 The swimming pool and other usement features at Pullen Park lilt in co-operation with PWA — now open to the public and the c is making use of them. ’ton Beckwith, assistant to j issioner Ferguson, is plan- | sort of dedication ceremony ne soon, tentatively set for iks from today, June 21. On •asion also tribute will be the long and faithful ser uperintendent Howell. The the program are incom a feature wrill be an ad- Iharles U. Harris. There n demonstrations of life ied Cross experts, hi#£ ids, fiddlers, and others iply musk for square I be invited to come i tuff. More definite an ay be expected within ; Club News CLUB PICNIC Mesdames A. R. House and Ray mond Pippin were hostess to the Wednesday Afternoon Club and eleven specially invited quests on Wednesday of this week at 5:00 p. m. On a long table in the park on the bank of Little River a delicious two-course supper was served by the hostesses assisted by Miss Joc elyn House. Large bowls of mixed flowers graced the table and pan sies were given to each guest. This club was organized about twenty years ago, the first of its kind for women in Zebulon. As with most clubs that meet in homes the membership is limited. Os the six teen charter members only the fol lowing are still members: Mes dames G. S. Barbee, W. C. Campen, J. F. Coltrane, E. C. Daniel, J. D. Horton. VOCAL UNION But for the warnings issued con- I ceming the danger of crowds in ' the spread of infantile paralysis ! the auditorium at Wakelon would ! never have held the crowd which gathered Sunday afternoon for a vocal union. Very few children were present. With Arthur Lewis presiding the exercises began just before 2:00 o’clock with the singing of Blest Be the Tie by all who would join ! in. After this the various choirs, j quartets and trios took their turns | each group singing tw’o songs on j the first “round” and the same number on the second, except for : two numbers given as extras by I special request. Hales Chapel had seven members j of the choir taking part; Hopkins j Chapel had twenty-four; Rock i Springs had two small girls, one of whom played the piano as she sang, |and a man; Nash Choir had ten; Bethlehem had ten; the Wake Choir was really a quartet; Macedonia i sent nine; Union Hope seven; the ! N. B. L. K. guartet were all pres- I ent and Mrs. Wesley Liles, one of j the group, played for several other | ' groups. The Hales Chapel male quartet took part on the program as did three singers from Rocky Mount., one of these being a small girl with an amazing voice. Knightdale was represented by fourteen singers., who left at the close of the first period of singing. All others took part in the second division. The Moseley sisters sent word that they were unable to be present because one of them has mumps, which deprived the audience of the privilege of hearing any of them. A collection amounting to $6.24 was given for Thomasville Orphan age. The next meeting of the union will be at Lees Chapel Church on the first Sunday in September. All numbers were well received, close attention being given all sing ers. , The entire program took a little more than three hours and fifty two songs were sung. Earthquakes sometimes change boundary lines and property areas so much that new surveys are nec essary. General News ANOTHER RECORD SET • ' The Normandie, fastest liner on the seas, a French vessel costing $53,000,000 set a new record on Monday by arriving at New York after having crossed the ocean in 4 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes and 38 seconds. Will Rogers comments that this ship will probably be the | one most used by the leisure class i who will rush across the ocean to do nothing. I ~ THOUSANDS KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE An earthquake last week killed thirty thousand persons in north wetsem India. Rescue workers are ; burying or burning the bodies as i rapidly as they are able to do, but jackals from the surrounding coun try have gathered to feast upon the corpses. Several towns were totally de j stroyed. I FRUIT CROr PRACTICALLY RUINED One of the great losses suffered from the recent hailstorm is the loss of the greater part of the fruit crop. Many trees were stipped of all they bore while others that had some fruit left had it badly bruis j ed that it will be inferior if it ma tures at all. It might be well to plant an in | creased number of tomatoes and I melon seed. It is hard to make a substitute do the work of the gen uine article in fruit, but it is far 1 better than nothing. KIDNAPED CHILD RELEASED George Weyerhaeuser, nine year i old boy kidnaped in Tacoma, Wash ington, was released unhurt miles from his home after the payment by relatives of $200,000 ransom. Police and government officers are making every effort to apprehend the child’s abductors, who are be lived to be members of a notorious gang. CRUCIFIXION IN N. C. At High Point R. J. Riggs filling station operator, persuaded his sis- I teen-year old son to nail him to a j cross where he lay for several hours before being released and taken to a hospital. No bones were broken, nails having been driven through the flesh only of hands and heels. Riggs clai;n to have planned the crucifixion in the hope that it would induce his estranged second wife to return to him. The son compelled to help him was by a former marriage. Later news is that Riggs has been committed to an asylum for the insane. FLOODS BRING DEATH More than 200 persons are re ported as having lost their lives in floods that swept through mid western states last week. Property damage is thought to exceed ten million dollars. South Dakota, Ne braska, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Wyoming, and Texas have all suf fered from the storms. NUMBER 48