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She Zrlmlnn IRgrorii VOLUME XL THIS. THAT AND THE OTHER BY MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS When our second son was in first grade he had a habit of stopp'ng every day on his way home from school to play with ‘Little Griffin,” who was a small Negro boy of in determinate age with only one eye and little else except an imagina tion that frequently ran away with him. On one occasion Ted came in elate with a vicarious triumph to to tell me that Little Griffin had killed the devil. As told and retold it had been an epic batfle with the outcome at times in doubt. Howev er, Little Griffin declared he finally had chopped off the devil’s head with an axe. He said that then he called his smaller sister t~> his aid, that she dragged the head by its horns and he dragged the body by its forked tail and they both threw their burdens into Falling Creek. Thus the devil could never harm anybody again. It was a thrilling tal? with a climax and a definite result and even now I can picture in my mind just how those two children looked pulling at their horrible burdens and how the dark, sluggish waters of Falling Creek splashed and clos ed over the devil. It seemed a pity to be unable to corroborate Little Griffin’s account of it and to tell Ted that we should all have to keep up Ihe fight as long as we live, o e Last Sunday when Mr. Herring deplored the fact that so .any of us are more enthusiastic over base ball and other sports than over church activities 1 found my self re membering the above mentioned in cident. It seems to me that one rea son we become weary in well-doing is that so often the outmme is not clearly revealed to us. We should not care much for a score-board that left us in doubt as to which ' side won. And having to wait so 1 long for victory discourages us. We { glory in a hard battle when we are conquerors, but this fight-on-my soul-’til death tires us out. Not being in at the beginning nor the ending of the war with evil, we feel little responsibility for our part in it. We must be a great tria] to the Lord #- well as to our pas- ! tor. o— —c When our son came from Hawaii he brought a paper fish eighteen feet long and gaily colored; the kind the Japanese use in celebrat- j ing Boy Day, which is their annua] custom. On Sunday 1 felt that with four sons, a son-in-law and three grandsons all here it was time, if ever, for me to celebrate Boy Day. I Accordingly the fish, supnosedly a car]), was hung high and floated in the breezes all the afternoon. The fish’s mouth is fastened open with a hoop so the air passes through easily. We enjoyed watching it and i watching the people " ’•e THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER—WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN ZEBULON. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. TWELTH DAY OF JULY, 1935. Commissioners to Fight Exemptions The state association of county commissioners has declared war on one of the propsed amendment's to state constitution —that one provid ing exemption from taxation of a homestead up to SIOOO in value. The commissioners say that will cost the counties millions of dol | lars in taxes and the counties can’t stand the loss. Floods Take Toll Life and Property Floods have taken heavy toll of human life and wrought extensive ' property damage during the past week. New York state has been one ! of the worst hit. Thirty nine dead and hundreds more or less seriously injured is the toll there. Property damage is estimated at more than ten million dollars. ! Railroad and highway travel has i been disrupted, and communication lines are down. i Some middle western states have ' j also been victimized by unusually heavy rainfall resulting in flood waters in streams. In Europe and - Asia, too, floods art reported to J have done heavy damage. Polio Spreading j In N. C. and Va. Infantile paralysis continues to I spread, not only in North Carolina but in other states. More than 80 | I cases have been reported in Vir-: ginia. while to date 338 have been reported in this state. Representatives of the U. S. Pub- i lie Health Service are here 3tudy j ing the disease and aiding in its j control, but the doctors freely ad mit that they know little about it Prison Officials On Trial at Charlotte ! H C Little, superintendent, and Dr. C S McLauchlin, physician, in charge of the Mecklenburg prison earn] past year, at the time Robert Barnes and Woodrow W. Shrop- j shire lost their feet by reason of j ill treatment arid neglect, art on trial at Charlotte this week. j. John D. Rockefeller 96 Years Old Mon. John 1). Rockefeller Monday cel ebrated his ninety-cixth birthday. The axed financier is in pretty good health though feeble. H» j received five million dollars Mon day from insurance policies, having outlived the maximum expectancy of the mortuary tables, and all of his ordinary life policies became endowments. Mr. Rockefeller has probably made more money than any other man in the world. There may be a few now who are wealthier because ■ •ckefeller has given away many f ions of dollars. Henry Ford has vgiven away anything. A few potentates also rank well M-di Jhn D. in estimated riches, S ' did not earn their mom Church Column —o— , Services will be held at the Zeb ! ulon Methodist Church on Sunday j July 14. Sunday School classes for adults will meet at 10:00 a. m. Preaching services will be held at 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. In connection with the evening service at eight, a playlet, “Her Heritage,” will be presented by Misses Jocelyn House, Pattie Rue j Denton, and Mary Anna Howard, j This playlet has a special message I for the young people. The public i is cordially invited. —o — Join; Meeting On Monday afternoon of next week at four o’clock there will bo j held at the Baptist Church a joint j rneeing of the Methodist and Bap- 1 list Missionary Societies. Mis. C ; L. Read will address the gathering on the subject of Christan Social Relations, making her own choice i as to the division of this work pre ' sented. All members of both societies j should attend and other women I of the churches are cordially invit | ed. This will be the regular July ! meeting for both denominational I organizations and marks the begin ' ning of a new' quarter’s work o Study Clase —o — The members of the W. M. S. of Wakefield Church met today at the. j home of Mrs. A S. Bridges for aj | study class. Lunch will be served I and the latest book on Personal 1 j Service will provide the day’s les sons. 11 List Property or Suffer Indictment Speaking of taxes and things:— The county commissioners have issued a warning to all who have not listed their property for taxes this year that unless listing is done | before August 1 the gTand jury will be asked to bring indictments. Fair Building To Be Started Aug. 1 Application has been made for a ; loan and grant of $27 000 from P WA for rebuilding the structure at 1 the fair grounds which was bum i od last fall. If the loan is made the | state will immediately pay $15,000 j of it and get the rest free. If the | request is denied then the board of ; agriculture proposes to rebuild as much as can be done with the $15,- 000 available. It is promised that work will begin by August 1 in any event and that the building will be ready in ample time for the fair in October. War Feared Americans have been warned of the advisability of leaving Ethiopia because of the danger of conflict [ with Italy. Mussolini is assemblmg a large array of forces and there, is grave danger of war. Whether the Suez Canal would be open to Italy in case of attack upon Ethi y.opia is being earnestly considered. Recorder’s Court Persona's j— _ 1 All things come to him who waits and at the July 3 term the depres -1 sion came to the Recorder’s Court of the Little River Township. Only five cases appeared, and Judge Rhodes disposed of these in record time in time for Record publication. Clarence Price likes our roads j so little he tried to leave them at 1 a rate faster than the law allows ! The Judge gave him the choice of ; paying SIO.OO and costs or staying | on those same roads for 60 days. Clarence said his opinion of the roads was unchanged and naid. Ia compliance wfith court instructions,! j he will restrain the gypsy in hirn i self for the next two years , E. P. Privette, suffering from j avoirdupois of the foot, with ac celeration complications, was charg-. ed $lO and costs as a remedial mea sure. Ninety days are suspended over 1 C. C. Privette and there they shall ] remain if he does not further vio-1 late the prohibition law in the com ing two years. Mr. Privette paid $lO and costs for a very dry ltc-! ture on ‘The Possession of Whis- i key.” There was no sales tax. John May gave a good account! of himself in the Zebulon AC fights! of 1924. How his balanced after his last fight, this time with a ! female, ip not known. The Judge) decided the battle occurred outside i his jurisdiction and refused to ref- i eree. j Lelon Horton possessed whiskey illegally. And he doesn’t like the Navy or its nomemclature; so he paid $lO and costs and pomised to be good a whole year rather than put the next 60 days in the brig. 1 Restrain Collection Processing Taxes Judge Johnson J. Hayes in fed eral court for the Middle District, at Greensboro Tuesday, granted a temporary order restraining Rev-! enue Collector Robertson from col-' lecting the processing tax on cot-; ton from half a dozen or more mills which were parties to the suit. A j full hearing later will determine if I the order shall be made permanent. At the same time a dozen or so flour mills in the middle west have started similar actions on the pro cessing tax on wheat. The issue will finally have to be decided by the United States Su preme Court. | Lend Relief j i 1 New York City aldermen are j j considering having applicant i for j relief promise to repay the funos J used, if and when they are able to do so. Removal of relief families to the country is also being recom mended as is a t ax holiday on building of homes. • * Fred E. Beal ( leader of the Gas- J tonia strike six years ago, and who skipped the country while under j bond after conviction of man slaughter for the death of Chief 1 Aderholt, has returned from Rus sia. He prefers an American prison i l-to freedom in the land of Stalin. ] Knowing the embarrassment it might cause I shall refrain from mentioning any names whatsoever in the following incident, but the Mayor and his wife went fishing last Wednesday afternoon. Yes sir, fishing out on the placid waters of Lake Wendell. The fish were biting fine, but it so happened that those who took the dainty, tempting mor | sels of worm a la hook were not so large as those continually swim ming hither and thither about the canoe. Watching the large lazy bass swim past the hook with never so much as a glance, Mrs. Mayor naturally grew more and more exasperated. Despite the warnings of her kindly husband, and despite her own good common sense, she aimed carefully with her hands and dived after a large chub which happened to be passing at that par ticular moment. Now that the affair is all over, she claims that she fell overboard, but I have it on very, very reliable information that she was after ye chubbe. While we are on the subject of married people I’d like to mention a little incident which occurred to me quite recently. While walking down Fayetteville Street over in Raleigh, on Tuesday last, the Missus met an old friend whom she hadn’t seen in several years. In the course of the conver sation the lady asked if Evelyn was married. “Oh yes,” replied my silver lining while pushing me up to handshaking distance, “Meet the stooge!” Times must be petting better, there were more killed on the 4th than have been in years. If they improve much more, we’ll be set for another war in a couple of years.” ; And while running through my ! scrap book yesterday, I ran onto • this poem whose author is unknotvn to me. “To be your friend! It hasn’t been the least bit hard, To call you that down through the years. It makes me happier to know you’re g'ad. I weep a little when I know you’re sad ; We’ve mixed our smiles, and then j our tears, ; And so, it hasn’t been the least bit . hard To be your friend.” Kinda catchy, isn't it? And Oliver Goldsmith wrote some little time ago— " Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.” A modem columnist brings Gold smith up-to-date with— " Man gets but little here below, Nor keeps that little long.” Marriage is life’s biggest job, therefore little folks fall down at it. Punishing children while parents are angry is doubly cursed; it harms both child and parent. NUMBER 1
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