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THEZEBULON RECORD MKMBBR NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Friday By THE RECORD PUBLISHING (OMPANY Zeliulon, North Carolina TIIEO. li. UAVIS, Editor Entered as second class mail matter June 26, 1925, at tho Postoffice at Zebulon, ' ’*na. Subscription Rates: 1 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 13c per column inch. WAKE S ABC STORE Reports are that Wake’s Liquor Control Board are planning to open at least five liquor stores in Raleigh. On the first day of sale over SI,OOO was spent for drink. On last Saturday $4,000 was spent. With a store convenient to every citizen and liquor sold under bootleg pri ces there is no reason that Wake County can’t put bootleggers out of business, if such a pro cess will ever accomplish the desired end. But the bootlegger has no tax to pay, no rents, no clerk hire. He is open for business all the time and will deliver his goods anywhere. However, Wake county can still keep a mono poly on the business. Just keep good liquor, de liver it anywhere day or night and give it free to everybody. That will get the bootlegger. Poor old bootlegger! And poor old Wake! SUNDAY SELLING A merchant in Greensboro was haled in to court this week and fined for selling grocer ies on Sunday. He stated that other business concerns were permitted to keep their places open and sell their supplies and that he was of the impression that there was no difference be the sale of food stuffs and other merchandise. There may be legally be a difference, but morally there is not. In fact, there is morally more justification for selling food for folks up on Sunday than gas for autos. Neither should be allowed. We have never been able to see just why a filling station may be kept open all day Sunday and sell any service for an automobile any more than any other business may keep open and glean the sheckles on the Lord’s day for just as necessary sales. But locally the high school board, all SEEN AND HEARD CALL HIM DUGGER We have heard W. D. Spencer spoken of and to as Douglas or Doug until it has got on our nerves. For the man’s name ie Dugger. If that happens to sound odd to you, take a trip through a certain section of Vir ginia which has more Duggers than you could shake a stick at unless you’re an extra good stick-shaker. Should you not like to call our fel low-townsman Dugger, try Dug, but leave the o out of it even in speaking. Or, if you must use it, say O, Dug, and not Doug. TRIPLE TOMATO Mrs. Clarence Kemp brought in to the Record office Monday a trip le tomato, or three tomatoes grown together. We are not sure which is correct, but the three measured eighteen inches around and weighed one and one-half pounds. They were grown together only at the base, seeming to have developed from a triple bloom i *' v s GIANT MELONS In a store in Fremont Monday, I saw fifteen not just large but im THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST THIRTEENTH, 1937. merchant how much the fifteen weighed I found they weighed just “eleven hundred pounds”. The largest weighed over ninety. They weer grown by a Mr. Finch who lives in the community- He is known as the water melon king. The largest grown so far this year weighed 114, but he has others growing that will really “get their full growth before they’re picked.” Graham Finch on the Cliff Pip pin farm has some big melons too. Kannon’s Case has one that looks as if it would weigh 75 lbs. Gra ham has larger ones in his patch. ONE WAY We clip the following from a state publication in its free ad column where one may see “For Sale” or “Wanted” anything ’most from a pup to a pony, an onion to a farm, a shawl to a wife. WANTED: A nice, good woman to live in motherless home, work with children —two boys, two girls. Must know how to cook and be kind to children; age 30 to 40, good look ing, weigh around 130; no children. K. F. . FINE FIELDS We went ’cross country to Eure ka Monday morning. Around Fre mont one sees some of the finest farms in the state. They are equal good church folks, permit if not approve the use of the public school property for sport and profit. We understand that some members of the board objected or did not even know about the permission given. A citizen came to the Rec ord with his complaint about this and the edi tor agreed to call the attention of the public to the matter once more. This man’s opinion was that everything Sodom had Zebulon has. It may be so. However, we know that it is not what it ought to be and when every Christian citizen has done the best he can, it will still be bad en ough. Right or wrong, public sentiment may be too strong for anything to be done about it. The columns of this paper are always open for discussion, protest, or the expression of opini on by its subscribers, readers, and the public generally. REFRESHING AND THEN SOME We wish we knew his name, but any way we do know his character. The Greensboro Daily News tells the story. The man when a bank clos ed became a judgment debtor for the sum of S9OO. Ihe bank gladly accepted S6OO in settle ment in full. That man came the other day and tendered his check for the balance, saying: ‘‘l knew that I could pay all of it, and I knew that I would feel better by paying all of it. So here is my check for S3OO in payment.” We would like to know that man. There are perhaps thousands like him in North Carolina so far as unpaid obigatons are concerned, but few of them will ever satisfy their conscience of creditor by doing as he did. It reminds us of a man who made a pledge to a church in good times and failed to pay it till hard times hit. He said, “I could have paid this any time after I made the pledge for years but did not do it. Then I was not able to pay it. Now when I can, do you think I ought to pay this pledge?” Our own opinion is that a debt is a debt until satisfied by settlement. Even after death it is still an obligation standing before the rec ord of a man. One’s inability to pay in no wise lessens obligations. We know people who make debts. Adversity overtakes them and they can not pay. Later, prosperity comes, but by a very strange process of reasoning they seem to think because they could not pay in the past, the obligation is in a manner discharged and they are no longer accuontable. “For value received” by the laws of God and man creates a debt, that stands through time and eternity until it is discharged justly and conscientiously. ton I haven’t see finer cotton, to bacco and corn than I saw between Kenly and Fremont and between Fremont and Eureka. A LIFETIME JOB Mr. Geo. W. Duke, owner of the buildings housing the Record and Post Offices has had trouble with the roof for years. He tried patch ing it for months and finally had an entirely new roof put on. The new roof soon leaked, so another roof was put on by a new man who guaranteed it against leaking. Be fore long, however, Mr. Duke was informed that his roof was full of holes, maliciously torn by some un known person. Another roof was put on. A better roof, and barbed wire was strung around the edges of the building. A reward of SIOO was posted to be given for informa tion leading to arrest of anyone trespassing thereon. Apparently his troubles were over. But only last week the roofing man went up to inspect and found it full of man made holes again! At a cost that will run his roofing bills past the $2,000 mark, Mr Duke is having a new roof put on. Mr. Duke cer tainly has either a Jonah, or a nig- in the woodpile, however, we seriously doubt if that is what Mr. Duke feels like calling him. H. T. Creech of Snow Hill sold OO 1 16 Carolina Markets Open Tuesday in the Border Belt Uncle Jim Says Terraces are one way to keep good land where it belongs. SMOKY PARK TO BE FINISHED The Senate has just passed a bill for an appropriation of $743,265 to complete the Smoky Mountain Na tional Park. Senators McKeller and Reynolds are due credit for the ap propriation since it was through them passage of the bill was secur ed by unanimous consent. LIGHTNING KILLS FOUR GIRLS Near Creedmoor Tuesday after noon about 4:00 o’clock, four daugh ters of J. Edgar Hester ran under some bushes for shelter from a shower. All were killed instantly when lightning struck them. Other members of the family were near by, but none of them wore hurt. The girls were all grown and be longed to 1 of the most prominent families in the community. No marks or burns were to be found on the bodies- COST OF STATE WELFARE The 100 counties of North Caro lina, spent for their welfare depart ments last year $358,151.57 plus $70,000.00 from Federal funds spent by the state in helping the counties making a grand total of $428,151.57 for Welfare Administration for the year ending June 30, 1937. The administration of Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children will add to this approxi mately $436,438.88 of which $150,- <l4. <6 will be paid by the counties and $285,724 12 will be paid by the State and Federal Governments for the coming year. CURING TOBACCO The time required varies from 84 to 96 hours depending upon the rapidity of the various curing pro cesses. After hanging the weed, maintain a temperature about ten degrees higher than the outside temperature until the leaf is fairly yellow. The heat is then raised 4 to 5 degrees an hour until a tem perature of 120 to 125 degrees is reached. This temperature is held until the tips of the leaves are dry and then raised to 140 degrees. This will dry out the entire leaf. The temperature is again raised to 180 to 190 degrees and held until all parts of the leaf stem is dry in all parts of the barn. AEROPLANE WRECKS There have been a number of serious aeroplane wrecks lately in the United States and foreign countries. The last occurred at Day tona Beach Tuesday in which four men were killed- Others were ser iously hurt. A light line had been strung the day before and the pilot Capt. Stuart Deitz, did not know about it. He was among those kill- plane became entangl- The sixteen North Carolina and South Carolina tobacco markets that compose what is known as the “Border Belt” opened Tuesday with a 25c average and heavy selling on all floors. The latest dispatches obtainable listed prices much better than the 1936 opening Carolina sales. Farmers appeared to be sat isfied. Experts declare that 18.4 percent increase in the North Carolina weed crop is to be marketed this year over last year, or an estimate of the state’s crop placed at 541.620,- 000 pounds. Four other marketing belts in North Carolina open later. Speaking at the Lumberton ware houses, Governor Hoey said, “From a hasty inspection and judging from the estimates of experienced tobac co men, the farmers in this section are engaged in harvesting the best tobacco crop in recent years in both quality and quantity.” He com mented also that “This is a signifi cant occassion. Tobacco is North Carolina’s greatest money crop and this state leads the whole nation in the growth of flue cured tobac co.’’ WARS IN THE EAST Continued fighting goes on be tween the rebels and royalists in Spain. Battles rage on three fronts. While insurgents claim gain’s there is little change in the lineup. Each day just a few more to die. In China the Japanese have oc cupied Peiping. Heavy forces have been massed outside Peiping for an offensive into Chabar and Suiyuan provinces. Both China and Japan are making feverish haste in pre paration for what will be the great est war since the World War. It is thought that Japan will subjugate North China before beginning a campaign against the rest of the country. It now appears that there will be no way to prevent a major war between the two countries. BOOTLEGGING GOES ON Thirty-six individuals and six corporations from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were re cently indicted for participation in the largest bootleg ring since re peal. But the bootleggers only furnish illegal drops which do not cut in very much on the tremendous production and consumption of li quor over old prohibition days. And so, even in North Carolina we read of distilleries destroyed and bootleggers arrested. ABC stores do not quite bring in the millenium. NOW DO SOMETHHING Congress, according to reports, is at last showing signs of “econ omy mindedness.” It is no secret that the towering national debt, which recently reached an all time high of $36,600,000,000, is worry ing legislators. They certainly should be worried for the principal adverse affects of a gigantic debt, with its necessary accompaniment of rising taxes, falls on the poor and the moderate ly well-to-do. Every laborer, every professional man, every white-col lar worker, every storekeeper, to day can buy less than he could otherwise— because a great part of the cost of everything he buys or uses is t;*x levy included in the price of every article. Concern over the debt, now ex hibited by Congress, should be fol lowed by “doing something about the debt.” A policy of budget bal ancing, and regular debt reduction, would do more for real economy Jj}gn_all the expensive political pan-
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