THE ZEBULON RECORD MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Friday By THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY Zeholoa, North Carolina THEO. B. DAVIS. Editor Entered as second class mail matter June 26, 19J6, at the Postoffice at Zebulon, s n» Subscription Rates: l Year SI.OO 6 Months 60c, 3 Months 40c. All subscriptions due and payable in advance Advertising Rates On Request Death notices as news, First publication free. Obituaries tributes, cards of thanks, published at a minimum charge of ISc per column inch. THE BAPTIST DANCE There seem to be ways and a way to have a thing that is denied. Many recall the furor stirred among the Baptist folk not so many moons ago over the Wake Forest Trustees’ act al lowing dancing in the college under certain re strictions. The denomination, or certain leaders, put the whole crowd “on the spot,” including some professors who had previously been consid ered very orthodox. In a late edition of the summer school pa er, The Wake Forest Herald, we are told that the students and certain members of the faculty assembled on a hot July night in the gymnasium and had a regular good time. The dance, so the paper stated, was that good old time dance, the Virginia Reel, and Dean D. B. Bryan was master of ceremonies. Well, there could be worse things at Wake Forest. But we are told that compari sons are odious and probably are unless com pared with better things. Any way, they’ve gone and done it! Had a dance within the college un. der direction, sponsorship, or something of the sort by faculty members. “KILL” AND “EXECUTE.” The Biblical Recorder takes exception to a reporter’s use of the word “kill” in connection with the execution of a criminal by the state of North Carolina. But the state does exactly what the executed man has done. He killed someone and the state in turn kills him. In both cases a life is taken, something neither man nor the state can restore. Now we are emphatically opposed to the killing of human beings by any one under any crcumstances. The state has a right to punish, but executing a man is not punishment. It is death. It is the end of sensation, of reason, of life, every thing goes with the physical man which the state destroys. The state does kill a man when it takes its life. It may sound awful to say it. It may look bad in print. But we approve of the use of the word, of every word, that will hdp to stop the state’s executing, or killing, if you please, its citizens. Let the great state of North Carolina punish in any way that will pro fit and protect society, but God speed the day when it stops killing people for any reason. Hu man lives should be as sacred to the state as to society. The Jews killed Christ legally by cruci fying him according to God’s foreordained pur pose, but no man will,argue that it was right. “Thou," man or state, “shalt not kill.” -W" ~ 1 “IF” WITH AN APOLOGY ALL HOUND •> ‘ • ■’ In the Record of July 2, there appeared an editorial relative to public officials, mentioning particularly Exective Sessions and guarded re cords from the public. We referred to a late meeting of the Wake County Board of Commis sioners. Our information came through a lead ing daily. There was no intention on our part to reflect on the character of any person on said Board or anyone in any way associated with it. We understand that the Register of Deeds of Wake County who is also clerk to the Com missioners resented a statement in the editorial. He believed it reflected on the integrity of his character. This gentleman is a friend to the edi- THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FR| tor and is a good officer. In our statement wel did not even think of him in connection with thft matter. We are sorry that he felt personally agfl grieved as the statement was not intended aK all in criticism of his act or character. Our “if* made no mention of him nor called names of an* one. Perhaps we ought to apologize to all cost cerned and so do all ’round for any thing wB said that might be construed as an attack oft their character. ft —4 ft STATE COMPETITION WITH NEWSPAPEW In our mail lately came a bulletin fromft North Carolina state department. Only yestjijj and hundreds of weekly newspapers in Nll||| Carolina open to give free publicity to all BB ters of public concern, we see no reason ft ever for all this waste of the people’s moneyHßj do not believe there is a newspaper in the IBg that would not publish any matter of inti about the state's business without charge anfljl it gladly. So when there is already a competent medium of publicity, why s P en l|jjf| this money unecessarily in this way? Whftfllll so much money in a horn to blow the bift and importance of Mime department’s °pi n i