THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER THE FIRST, 1937.
I HEZEBULON RECORD
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Zeliulon, North Carolina
THEO. B. DAVIS. Editor
Entered an second class mail matter June 26, 1325, at th«
Postoffice at Zebu lon, ' "na.
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ALTOGETHER LOGICAL
The RECORD has consistently refused to
advertise liquor athough a number of inquiries
and offers have been made by interested firms.
Such advertising pays well—but, like most oth
er matters, has its own peculiar troubles.
For instance: We know of a small town pa
per that does carry liquor ads. Recently the ed
itor received from a firm a letter containing the
following complaint:
“We notice that in your issue of you
placed church notices on the same page with our
ad copy . . . We feel sure you will agree with
us that advertising or news items such as this
being placed on the same page with our adver
tising is not productive for whiskey advertising.
Won’t you please let us hear from you by re
turn mail, assuring us you will watch future re
leases closely so that we may have no further
cause for complaint.”
This protest or complaint was wholly logi
cal. We have had letters from advertisers of au
tomobiles, refrigerators, and other merchan
dise asking that their copy not be placed on the
same page with that of their special competitors,
as it would then mean much less to them. And
we can understand why advertisers of whiskey
prefer that their goods be not offered on the
same page with their most powerful competitor,
the church.
JUDGE BLACK AND THE K. K. K.
Many things are done by statesmen and
near-statesmen in the name of public service.
Too often they have been done for purely polit
ical reasons. The President is accused of hav
ing appointed Senator Black to the Supreme
Court mostly through spite and perhaps anger
because of his Court reform measure’s defeat.
Regardless of whether Mr. Black affiliated with
the K. K. K. in the past, he is now Judge Black.
When appointed, his past record, whatever it
was, was left behind and he was appointed by the
President and approved by the Senate. There is
no more reason now to dig up his past than that
of any other man who sits on the bench with
him. We hold no brief for the K. K. K. No
doubt there are other statesmen filling places
of public trust who have in their record things
even more contemptible than that of which Mr.
Black is accused. So long as their past does
not enter into their present, who would pro
pose to go muckraking into their former private
life? It is best now to let Judge Black alone,
unless something in the future develops worthy
of investigation.
SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION
Last winter a great stir was made about
wornout school buses till the State invested
many thousands of dollars in new ones. Now
RED CROSS RESCUE SQUADS
As a part of the Life Saving Pro
gram for Wake County, eight res
cue squads have been organized at
key points throughout the County.
The rescue members are taught ar
tificial respiration, how to use grap
pling irons to recover bodies in wa
ter and something about First Aid.
It is the desire of the Red Cross to
let the people of Wake County
know about these rescue squads,
their purpose and location. In the
case of a person drowning, shock
ed by electricity, suffocated by
smoke or gassed, call the nearest
rescue squads and they will be glad
to give assistance.
Location of these rescue squads
are at the following places: Wake
Forest—City Fuel & Supply Co.,
Pohne 2221, Wake Forest; Zebulon
Zebulon Motor Co, Zebulon; Wen-
the hauling problem pushes to the front in some
nearby counties. School children prefer to
walk to a school three miles away to riding ten
miles to another. Our opinion is that those re
sponsible for transportation planning should
look into this matter of distance in more than
one case. We understand that children attend
Wakelon school who ride a school bus more
than fifteen miles when they could attend a
school not five miles distant.
Our school system is all good and little is to
be gained in one school above another. We see
no reason for the State’s spending school money
in extra hauling of children just to please par
ents, children or perhaps a politician. We be
lieve the overhead of our school system is en
tirely too much and a careful study of it should
be made by the State School Board.
“WAR IS HELL”
If a fight is ever justifiable between two
rr.en over property rights in which they engage
to the death, we would think every possible
means would be justifiable to the end. And, the
same argument would hold among a group of in
dividuals whether that group was a family, a
community or a nation. So if Japan’s war on
China is just, then whatever means she may use
to win the war is fair. Till America, England
and France take a positive stand against war—
outlaw it once and forever, even protesting
against Japan’s destruction of property and
noncombatants is with poor grace. War, like
all other human conduct is right or wrong and
there are no degrees of right and wrong in the
eyes of Him who observes acts of men, of the
Judge of all the earth.
SOMETHING BETTER THAN PROHIBITION
o
The true test of a man is what he will do
when all law and restrictions have been removed.
There are people who cannot be controlled or
restrained except by law. Such live in every
community.
When the County Liquor Store opens in
Zebulon, we shall have a fine opportunity to see
who has will power and manhood enough to stay
sober. Some who are moderate drinkers may
realize the danger to themselves and children by
the constant proximity of drink and become to
tal abstainers. Others will become constant
drinkers and may drink themselves to death or
their families into poverty. The good citizen or
the good Christian, will not only leave liquor
alone but his influence with his neighbor will be
to help him abstain.
If the church members ofthis community
will stay away from the liquor store, the county
will soon close this store for lack of support.
Wake county is not so foolish as to operate a
business that otherwise hurts its citizens which
does not show a profit. And we hope our people
are not so foolish as to spend their money for
that which provides neither food nor clothes for
themselves and families.
If the people of this community do not pa
tronize the liquor store, we shall have some
thing much better than prohibition. Public sent
iment arrayed against evil is a far more effective
weapon against it than law. A liquor store can
not make Zebulon a decent place in which to
live, or help to raise a family. But in spite of it,
the people may overcome much of its pollution
and corrupting influence, if not drive it out of
our midst.
Upon whom shall the forces of sobriety and
righteousness depend to wage war against this
agency of evil? We wait. We shall see.
dell —Town office, Phone 142, Wen
dell; Gamer, Rogers Service Sta
tion, Garner; Cary, Crickett Fill
ing Station, Phone 9102, Cary; Fu
quay Springs, Five Points Service
Station, Phone 2902; Apex, Jordans
Service Station, Apex; and for Ral
eigh and surrounding territory,
Raleigh Fire Station No. 1, Phone
414.
Patronize our advertisers.
SEEN&HEARD
Wealth Makes Snobs
1 While G. N. Harris, of Durham,
was waiting in the RECORD shop
one day last week for some type
setting to be finished, he told this
one:
A colored man was talking to his
friend and said:
“When you don’t have no money,
you’s a good feller. When you’s
dead broke, you’s all right. But
when you got some cash it ruins
you. An’ when you gits much as a
quarter, you’s wholly uncontrol
lable.”
i Having wealth affects many of
us somewhat that way.
I
She Deserved Killing
j Over in Wendell last week a V
dy bought a hen for cooking aH
when dressing the fowl, found H
contained six hard-shelled cgjH
Any hen that would hold out thl
way on her owner when eggs ul
* 35c a dozen deserved killing, I
case you want to check up on thl
: story, consult E. I. Bridgers arra
i Mrs. Riggsbee, of the hotel.
i
Another Tale Eggsactly True
The editor’s wife brought in re
’cently the eggs laid that day,
among them one unusually large.
1 When broken it was found to con
tain a smaller egg as well as a
! normal size white and yolk. The
! small egg had a yolk and a shell
1 firm enough to hold the shape per
fectly.
An Appreciated Call
Last week, because of many cir
cumstances, we were unable to get
out our paper on schedule time.
During the day that it was to have
been in the mails a number of per
sons came in to inquire why they
i had not received their copies. Am
ong the inquirers was a second
grader who asked rather anxious
ly whether The Zebulon Record
j “had come yet.”
BY THE SAME NAME
Sometimes it seems that it would
be better if n» two people should
have the same name.
I A few years ago a young man
named Eric Davis was killed in an
! accident. The editor’s oldest son
is also Erie Davis, and he and fam
ily received numerous letters of
sympathy. In Asheville is a Ted
Davis who is frequently tangled up
with bootlegging operations. This
might be confusing if such happen
ed in this section, since the editor’s
second son is also Ted Davis.
Durham has two young men
j named Louis Riggsbee, and one of
them has on several occasions had
trouble with the law. The other is
the one who married Miss Myrcelle
Bunn of Zebulon, and who has not
been connected in any way with
any of the trouble —except that his
name is similar.
FARM FOR SALE
119 acres J. M. Brewer farm, lo
cated between Mitchell Mill and
Fowler Cross Road, Wake Coun
ty.
60 acres Rittenberry Farm,
located between Zebulon and Mid
dlesex, Nash County.
79 acres Linwood Finch farm, lo
cated on Pilot and Middlesex
road, Franklin County.
Sold on Terms or Cash.
D. D. CHAMBLEE, Zebulon, N. C.
LOST MULE—Small Bay Mare.
Weight about 800 lbs.—Bosco
(Strickland, Middlesex, R. 1.
2t
MISPLACED—One pair of Dark
Blue Serge Pants. May have
been returned to wrong party by
Zebulon Dry Cleanerß. Please re
turn to Zebulon Record office, or
C. G. Weathersby, Zebulon, N. C.
Leave not in haste lest in thy
haste thou loseth thy purse, thy
clothes or even thy head—Plato.
Things I Never
Noodle Now
That American agriculture has
$290,000,000 invested in producing
beauty and it pays to the extent of
a gross return of $131,000,000 a
year. (These figures do not ap
ply to farms and nurseries engaged
in growing flowers and ornamental
plants.)
That all cantaloupes are musk
melons, but all muskmelons are not
cantaloupes. •
That allaifa means “best fodder”
in Arabic —the language from
which the crop received its name.
That the Javanese fowl is the
ancestor of our American chickens.
'e statue of a
horse, erected on the 100th anni
versary of his death at the Morgan
Horse Farm, at Middlebury, Ver
mont. He was the father of a fa
mous breed of American horses—
the Morgan.
That livestock represents about
1-3 of the value of all farm pro
ducts.
That livestock producers receive
cash for their cattle at the stock
yards.
That more fertilizer is used in
southeastern states than any oth
ers, and in North Carolina farm
ers spent on the average of $125 to
$149 per farm in 1930.
That flue cured tobacco is used in
the manufacture of cigarettes and
smoking and chewing tobaccos and
for export.
That the use of lime, particularly
themagnesian forms, tends to im
prove the burning qualities of to
bacco.
That manure is not now used so
extensively on tobacco land as for
merly and when employed at all it
is applied as a rule only once in ev
ery 2 or 3 years.
BILL POOLE.
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