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(Ehe Zrbulmt tßrrorb THE FOUR COUNTY NEWSPAPER —WAKE, JOHNSTON, NASH AND FRANKLIN VOLUME XIII | This, That And ! * The Other. ! MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS | j. •>•>«!••}• *s* 4" ❖•K►>+•}• 4* <r 4* 4 , 4'4 , 4*4*4‘4* 4* 4 Call them by any name—white caps, night-riders, ku klux klar., vigilantes, black log-ion— l am still. far from convinced that there have ever been many occasions when law and order were bet=t served by those who pledged themselves to do their work secretly. Self-discip . iir.o is probably the only kind that need not be publicly imposed. And of those who go forth in the dark., ness to impress upon their fellow'., man his need to follow thei course they mark many don’t even know what self control means. This is proven by the lengths to which they go. During the days whein the Ku Klux Klan swept the South, not as the desperate protest of a strug gling people against intolerable conditions which it was at first, but as a dueis-paying, highly or. ganized secret society with a klea.. gle and everything, I used to feel that its membors must be actuated by a stern sense of duty. Other wise how could they have been willing to look so absurd? Only a few times did I see them in thtir regalia, uniform or whatever it was, but never did I feel the awe they wore supposed to inspire. When they interrupted a church service to march rather clumpingly down the aisle and hand the prea.. chor some money I thought they’d have done better to put it on the collection plate as individuals wdth out stopping the sermon. And I wondered if they could havo stood still if they could have seen their own feet, all of which looked large and dusty boneath the white—or not so white—robes. Even at a bu rial they looked more theatrical thon reverent. I may be one of the fools who rush in where angelsfear to trea but it has never been made clear to me, why if a person believes in doing right, he need not be afraind or ashamed to come right out and say so, letting folks know who he is. I mean of course,i n this coun try of ours at this period of time. Nor can I see why we can’t stand for justice in our plain everyday clothes. My ideas about this may de pend somewhat upon my first personal knowledge of the “white caps” in their pursuance of “cleaning up the neigborhood.” When we children went from home to school we passed in sight of the home of the community’s scar let woman. For years I was vaguely puzzled by the fact that although there were numerous children in that home there was no husband. And it was not long after I began to understand the situation when certain—or uncertain—men decid ed it was intolerable and must be changed. Disguised and in the night they changed it. An older school mate told me with a rather dreadful amusement how the brave men called the frightened creature to her door, how they forbade her children to come down from the loft when they slept, how they pulled her ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, THE TENTH OF JULY, 1936. Recorder’s Court What was anciently considered a perfect number was the sum to tal of cases disposed of at the last session of the Zebulon Recorder’s ( Court. Below we give a bird’s eye j view of thei past doing of some of our fellow citizens and a synopsis of the court’s dealings with them. It was less satisfactory to some of them than the New Deal to a good i Democrat. Morris Hood was found by the j court guilty of driving his car while under the influence of liquor and sentenced to the roads for a period of GO days. But the judge, re membering perhaps how hot it would be working on the roads suspended the sentence on condi tion that Morris pay a fine of SSO. and the costs and not operate a cai on the roads of North Carolina for a year. A. N. Pearce was found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and ordered to emrich the state to the extent of ssu.uo and to take care of the court’s expenses while ex tracting the fifty bucks. Dock Harris made an assault with a deadly weapon on somebody according to the State’s side and is to labor for six months on the State’s highways to tame him down into a good citizen. Allen Tuck assaulted some one and gets three months working on the roads for his moral health. It seems Allen just can’t stay out of court. As one colored fellow said “He gets into court mighty nigh every time. Leroy Jenkins was accused of car rying a concealed weapon. He may have had the weapon but ne proved to thtj court’s satisfaction that he did not have one concealed. J. C. O’Neal got into some one’s head that he was driving his car both recklesly and carelessly, but they did not convince the court, so he went home happy, we hope. Bernice Godwin was charged with an unusual offense—that of abetting in careless and reckless driving. He was found guilty and was his choice of working on the state highways 60 days or paying $25.00 and the costs. clothes, “shimmy and all”, over her head and twisted them so that her hands were imprisoned, how they gave her a hard whipping with admonitions and threats, and how they departed feeling that they had struck for the forces of right eousness and for the chastity of womanhood. The recital left me shaking with nausea and with a fury that I could not put into words. For with the carelessness bom of the conviction that they would never be called to account for the right’s work some had boasted of their part in it. Boasted confi dentially, to be sure, but the know ledge spread. And from things heard before I knew that in the crowd of stem disciplinarians that night were those who had at other times gone alone, secretly they hoped, and in the darkness of night, on missions that were not concerned with right living ar.d morality. And I thought I hated them. To ths day I regard with horror all such secret organizations. Ipl H wp ** w T sill Ji We are especially glad to be able to present this week with the sketch a picture of the sub ject. Numbered amonir the en terprising young busines men of the town, his establishment adds to the comfort of living in Zebulon. Name—Clarence Mack Hocutt. Native of Nash County. Domestic Status—Marred Miss Mary Lillian Wilder, Feb. 16, 1930. One son Church Affiliation —Baptist Business —Grocery and Market Has been in this bu«i. ess 6 jrs. ( erne to Eefculon in 1919. Building Remodeled The Gill building next to the Temple market and purchased some time ago by R. H. Bridgers is be ing remodeled. A new roof has been put on it, the second story is being finished into a number of nice rooms and the first floor will he made into a thoroughly up to date storeroom. We understand the second floor will be rented to room ers or as furnished apartments and probably a first class market and grocery store will be operated on the first floor. Mrs Perry Gets Radio A big crowd was in town last Saturday evening to get the radio that Stanley Shorr gave away, but only one got it. Mrs. Siddie Perry was the lucky lady. Also L. B. Saw yer went home with $15.00 worth of new goods and Mrs. Tommie Horton got SIO.OO in valuable mer chandise because she was there when her name was called. Stanley was apprently the happiest one present as he gave every one who caught his eye that Shorr-enough smila Stanley says these big gifts to his customers will be a regular feature each month or two. BARNING TOBACCO Ralph Strickland, who lives just over the line in the Emit section of Johnston county commenced curing tobacco on Tuesday. He had 450 sticks in his first bam. Mr. Strickland is a good farmer and ia always one of the first to start curing tobacco. At The Churches There will be the usual services at the Methodist church Sunday. Dr. Read, the pastor, will preach at both the morning and evening services. The evening services wiil be at 8:00 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to these services. Rev. Theo B. Davis will fill liis regular monthly service at the Kenly Baptist church Rev. J. N. Stancil will preach at H*»es Chapel Saturday after noon and Sunday morning at 11:00 o’clock. SEEN & HEARD MIXING MIDDLESEX We heard that a few nights ago Zebulon had an experience in which the town officers and a num ber of citizens were involved that for want of a better description we might call it mixing Middle sex.” One citizen ran into another man’s car. The man went after an officer and together they followed after. The second scene occurred in a filling station somewhere a bout town. There was a good deal of smell and profanity and threat in the air to the extent that or.e gentleman offered his lif to pro tect his friend from the officer’s black Jack or club, or whatever is is he uses when he does not shoot. The officers departed, a warrant was issued, an arrest made, bond given, and now the matter has passed beyond the realm of gossip where it will have to be adjusted by the facts in the case to the court’s satisfaction. o THE MEANEST SOMEBODY Mack Faison says that it is his and Stanley Shorr’s opinion that about the meanest, if not the meanest, person they know is the one who will deliberately poison a man’s dog with no justification whatever. Mack had a nice ordi nary family dog. Stanley had a sure-enough fine dog of family. Someone, a he or she, but not an it, poisoned both dogs a short time ago. That is why Mack expressed his opinion so emphatically about mean folks. TO SUCCEED Several months ago A. A. Wells landed in Zebulon looking for a job or a business. The Debnam shop had been idle for some time, so Wells rented it and went to work. He is a good machinist and wood and iron worker. At first he had a hard go of it, but we were around at his shop yesterday and he and two other men were so bury that work had to wait. A fourth man who works there was home sick. Wonder if this remark by Mr. Wells means much in his success; “To get business a man must turn out good work, quick work and reasonable priced work.” Our ex perience tells us he is right and we understand now why he has suc ceeded. “Silence is golden”. But some times it is yellow. GENERAL NEWS Census Reports Listings made by census enum erators show that in the last five years the number of chickens kept on farms in this country lacks more than 7.000,000 of the number in 1930. It is thought that the seri ous droughts in some sections has caused this as the decrease was much greater in proportion, in states that had suffered for lack of rain to produce feed. North Carolina was one of the states showing a considerable in crease in the growing of poultry. lowa leads the nation in this line. The raports also show that- of all farmers in the United States thirty per cent, or more than 2,000, 000 do some work off their farms for pay. This includes odd jobs, other business or profassions. A summary of the farm census showed that there are nearly 8,000,000 dwellings on farms in the United States and that 94 par cent of them are occupied. This includes all houses, from mansions to sod huts or hogans. The average num ber of" dwellings to a farm was a bout one and onefifth. State Gets Cloth For Roads North Carolina has received a shipment of cotton to be used in building and repairing roads. There wera 30,000 yards of cloth 74 inch es wide and about five miles of cloth 82 inches wide. Chairman Capus Waynick has announced that his first experi ment will be made on the Rham katte road. New Farms Electrified Notwithstanding the increase in the use of electricity during re cent years there are at present less than one out of nine fhrms in North Carolina having this con veniance.New Hampshire has 49 per cent of farms with electricity. North Carolina’s low percentage is said to be explained partly by the high percentage of tenants on farms. a Prominent School Man Dies * Ray Funderburk, Supt. of Schools in New Hanover county, and also President of the N. C. Teachers Association, died at Duke Hospital Monday of a com plication of diseases. He was a na tive of Union county and burial was at Monroe Tuesday afternon. He was brother-in-law to prof. E. H. Moser, their wives being sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Moser attended the funeral. The League of Nations has voted to suspend sanctions gainst Italy, July 15. It was argued that it had been impossible to complete the sanctions because important coun* tries were still outside the League. Another drought has struck the West and crops have already been greatly damaged in some sections. The worst drought is to be found in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Ont. and adjoining states. Heat waves brought the temperature as high as 108. NUMBER 1
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