WRE ZEBULON RECORD
MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRE°S ASSOCIATION
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Zebulon, North Carolina
THEO. B. DAVIS, Editor
Entered aa second class mail matter June 26, 1925, at the
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FACING THE FACTS
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The use of intoxicating drink as a beverage
is wrong. We know no one, who, knowing its
moral effects, believes to the contrary. To a
Christian, if a thing is wrong, it is wrong in every
relation or connection. To a church member no
argument should be necessary to persuade him
as to his duty in doing all in his power to banish
this curse from society. To a consecrated chris
tion seeking to do God’s will, no argument is
necessary to get him to vote against this evil
power.
However, there are those who do not know
the pull and appeal of drink to human appetite
and passion. From experience we do not
know, but from observations of a half centuTy
we need no other evidence.
That our readers may know (if they do not
already) why we are going to vote against ABC
stores in Wake county on June 22, we offer the
following reasons:
A man may and ought to be temperate in
legitimate things. But intoxicating drink
is not legitimate. It is morally wrong. Dram
drinkers become drunkards. The father s ex
ample starts the son on the road to ruin. To
tal abstinence is the only safe way. The drinker
may argue temperance, but seldom practices it
long.
Self-control is a great virtue. Control is
mastery; it means overcoming. If flood water is
so controlled as to cease pouring over a dam
through diversion in a new channel, it is a con
trol of direction and not volume. When we say
that the county proposes the control of liquor,
according to facts gathered from A. B. C. stores
already in operation, we find that the sale of
drink has greatly increased under so-called coun
ty control. It gives the county a monopoly on the
sale of drink and the consumption has grown un
der such management. As it is, it is an effort to
confine the sale to the county, and not to curtail
the volume sold. We shall vote against such con
trol.
Everybody wants money ; most of us need it.
Open Forum
THIS BOTHERS ME.
(From News and Observer)
To the Editor: The moon shone
mellow upon a desolate row of a
bandoned huts. Two girls tending
yam spindles, in an idle moment by
their window, gazed out upon this
sickly landscape. "Imprisoned
angels,” I thought, and the watch
on my car panel said 11 p. m., in
answer to my glance and these re
actions: "No future. What they
make they spend today to live. No
hope. Disease and old age will
eventually release them, but this
will hold them in its relentless
clutch.” I drove a short way, stop
ped, sat alone there and listened in
the moonlight at the mill’s rum
bling, and I asked: "Do I want a
daughter to live like that? Why,
just why don’t I?”
The next day I rode by an ABC
store and glimpsed a clerk passing
a bottle to a handsome youth who
left immediately in a shinning car-
The May sun bore gloriously down
upon a Negro ploughing tiny com
in a meadow over the way. In the
hedgerow a swamp bird sang leis
THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE EIGHTEENTH, 1937.
ure, intermittent snatches of as
sweet a tune as God thought its
pretty throat could stand. Again I
stopped my car, and in sight of
store & field I asked myself: ‘‘Do I
want my boys to end selling liquor
to other folks’ boys? Do I prefer
they remain ploughand or landlord ?
Is it snobbery or what that I sit
up nights to lift my children to an
ambitious goal that classifies life’s
tasks? Ought a State ever suffer
any permitted employment to de
stroy by poor wage or to make
poor with disease a patron pro
duct?”
I wrestled alone in the moon
light over the future of my daught
ers and I meditated in the sunlight
over the careers of my sons. I toil
both day and night to rear them '
tight and to hate some conditions
and to want to be and to do nobly. 1
I have come to a feeling that when <
an honest man has to ask himself i
whether he is a snob about the law- <
ful employment his children fol- i
low, it is time to check up on con- <
ditions which make one occupation
less worthy or examine their wage- i
scale lest toil of the hands fail to i
furnish enough bread. i
Raeford. ARTHUR D. GORE ]
With taxes mounting each year, the people feel
the need of new sources of revenue. Probably the
greatest appeal that comes to the voter in the
coming election is the belief that the revenue de
rived from the sale of liquor will reduce his tax
es. When we add to the original cost of the li
quor police protection, court actions, operation
of the stores not to mention the suffering
brought on by drink, the cost will exceed the
revenue derived from its sale probably three
, times over.
Read the full page of reasons against liquor
and ABC stores carefully in this paper where
the facts are set forth. W’e cannot see how any
citizen except those who love drink for its own
sake, can afford to go to the polls next Tuesday
and vote for the legalizing and selling of intoxi
cating drink by the county with the people’s ap
proval.
We appeal to sober minded and pure heart
ed church members, to the fathers and mothers
of our boys and girls, to every law abiding citi
zen to keep this outlaw who robs and murders
men’s bodies and souls from under the protec
tion and patronage of the people. We beg you to
quit yourselves like men at the polls on Tuesday,
June 22. May the God of aM that is true and
good and beautiful in human character, save us
from becoming the tool of liquor barons and the
agent of this monster evil.
SUNDAY CLOSING
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We are glad to note that a place of business
previously kept open during Sunday School and
church near the Baptist church will hereafter
be closed during the time of the services. We
have noticed a crowd usually "hanging out”
there when the worshippers came out of the
church house. It did not look well for the town
nor for the business nor for the hangers out.
For years it has been our opinion that no
places of business should be kept open on Sun
day except such as served the necessities of
life, such as food and medicines. Our Town
Board would do well to consider closing every
place in town selling anything but these. Such
things as drinks, gas, and beer should not be
sold all day long on Sunday, and we believe
every kind of business should suspend its sales
during church hours. Our opinion is that beer
should not be sold at all on Sunday.
With Sunday baseball going with hundreds
paying to see the game, gas stations and such
places wide open, we wonder if our new theatre
will not also, when it opens, seek to substitute
itself for the Sunday evening church service. As
it is half the church members take no interest
in their churches and most of them attend more
and give more to their lodge or club or some
similar affair than they do to their churches.
Whose side they are on the Lord only knows.
ONCE I’LL VOTE AGAINST
MONEY
There are so many different
angles and view-points of the liquor
question on life’s journey that
sometimes a person will say to
himself: which is the right road to
follow? Sometimes a road looks
very good at the beginning, but
after following it awhile we come
to an abrupt ending or some batter
ed and wornout patch that makes
travelling difficult. Then some
times a battered and torn road
leads u& to a magnificent highway.
Each person travelling life’s high
way seeks happiness and success.
The sad part is that so few are
successful. We may have resources
today that will buy us anything we
want, take us any place we desire
to go. Tomorrow we may be broke,
depending upon our neighbors or
charity. There are persons on
charity who have once been worth
more money than anybody else in
our community. You might say,
what has that got to do with me or
with the liquor question? What I
am trying to do is to get you to
analyze yourself. I have done so.
I found myself wanting.
In expressing the following state
ment I do not expect all to agree
with me. As I see and understand
why we should not legalize the
sale of liquor in Wake county. I
admit that liquor is being sold in
practically every county that sur
rounds us. People have drunk li
quor for hundreds of years, before
this present generation. We have
had prohibition, but people still
drank liquor. The surrounding
counties and bootleggers are get
ting the profits for the sale of li
quor. The profit of liquor should
go into local and county purses to
reduce taxes- But, allthese state
ments, in a measure are true
It is the last statement we should
carefully study, li vet ypte for the
county to sell liquor, so tiatthe
county might be abb to maISHH
money on it. then art we
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SEEN AND HEARD
A QUESTION FOR SOLOMON
Two certain women of Zebulon
were talking together. The moth
er of the one and the husband of
the other listened in. The mother
said: "Do you suppose there is any
one who could tell which of them
talks the most?” He replied: ‘T
doubt it. Solomon decided the own
ership of a baby, but I doubt very
much his being able to judge which
of these talks the most”. Does the
reader wish to try ?
•HERE SHE COMES” and STOP!