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BY MRS. TSAEO. B. DAVIS I
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because of the thought expressed
or because of the way it was writ
ten.
For instance J\J\n editorial writ
er in the New(s>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
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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.
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