THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31ST, 1937
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THE BENEFICENCE OF DRUNKENNESS
We clip the following from an exchange.
It illustrates the inconsistency of the law so fre
quently in dealing with the drink evil, that we
give it to our readers, hoping it may help to
mould a sentiment to force our courts to treat
all crime alike regardless of the source or condi
tions bringing it about. We have known of cases
right here in Wake County that remind us very
much of this one.
A young man and his two-year old son
were struck by a car driven by a drunken driver
and instantly killed in a street of Lowell, Mass.,
last August. The wife and mother was also seri
ously injured in the same accident. The driver
who ran from the scene, was later tried on the
charge of manslaughter by Judge John E. Swift
in Middlesex Superior Court, and having waived
a jury trial, was found by the court guilty of
drunkenness, drunken driving, and of operating
his car so as to endanger public safety. The con
viction of drunkenness was placed on file. His
punishment consisted of a suspended sentence
of six months in jail and a S2OO fine on each of
the other charges.
The judge in his subtle “reasoning” said:
“Manslaughter must result from wilful, wanton,
and reckless conduct. If Curry (Joseph F. Curry,
the defendant) was so drunk that he could not
formulate his will, can it be said that he is guilty
of being wilful, wanton, and reckless?
The court applied the same unique reas
oning to the charge of leaving the scene of acci
dent. stating: “He must have left knowingly. He
must know what he is doing at the time?”
Under such a sophistical doctrine, what
recourse at law is there against a reckless, drunk
en driver, to say nothing of the malicious person
with a grudge against his neighbor, who has but
to get drunk, kill him, run from the homicide
scene, and then plead drunkenness as a defense?
Most laymen, while refraining from dis
putation with so subtle a mind as revealed by
the Massachussetts judge, would prefer the
more simple mental processes of old Lord Coke
who held: “A drunkard who is voluntarius dae
mon hath no privilege thereby: whatever ill or
hurt he doth, his drunkenness doth aggravate
it."
BALLOTS OR BULLETS
The bill introduced into the late session
of Congress should have been passed without a
protest. Incidents like the sinking of the Panay
and the Maine stir resentment to a fever heat
and a nation may be plunged into a war that
will cost millions in dollars and lives. Many a
personal difference may be peacefully settled if
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
Under and by virtue of the pow
er of sale and authority contained
in that certain Deed of Trust to
the undersigned Trustee, dated
February 24, 1937, recorded in the
Registry of Wake County. North
Carolina, in Book 738, Page 208,
default having been made in the
payment of the note thereby secur
ed, and the holder thereof having
directed that the Deed of Trust be
foreclosed, the undersigned Trus
tee will offer for sale at the Court
House door in the City of Raleigh,
North Carolina, at 12 o’clock Noon,
on MONDAY THE 24TH DAY OF
JANUARY, 1938, and will sell to
the highest bidder for CASH,
those certain parcels or tracts of
land, situated in New Light Town
ship, Wake County, North Caro
lina, the same being more particu
larly described as follows:
FIRST TRACT: Begins at the
northeast comer of the dower;
only time is allowed for conference and consid
eration. It is equally true with nations. Nobody
wants war except those who live by war. Offi
cers whose lives are not risked, munitions manu
facturers who make millions, and a few selfish
trouble makers include the war inclined. The
great mass of the people do not want war. Not
one time in a hundred is it necessary to go to
war. National differences ought to be as easily
settled among nations themselves as differences
in a community.
We hope the first measure that passes
the next Congress will be a bill requiring a pleb
ecite before war may be entered by this nation.
Let the mothers who furnish the “cannon fod
der" approve before we send their sons to their
deaths for wrongs no greater to the United
States than are happening daily among the peo
ple today. If provocation arises so great as to
require bloodshed, let the President with the ap
proval of his cabinet call for a vote of the people
to declare war or not. This will give time to deli
berate and consider and confer. Probably even
before the vote is taken the crisis will be passed
and other means will be found to satisfy our
honor without sacrificing life. If the law of the
land says all differences anmong its citizens may
and must be settled without shedding blood or
surrendering life, then surely the same principle
will apply in relations among nations. Yellow,
coward or fool, we favor every right means to
delay and defeat the march of the war god into
the peace of our land.
AN EXPLANATION IN ORDER
Last month ten stills were found in Wil
son County. In Raleigh a few days ago the big
gest bootleg joint uncovered in years was re
vealed. Officer Andrews is busy running down
operators and destroying distilleries over Wake
county. More cases having to do with illegal li
quor are being tried in our Recorders’ courts
than before ABC times.
It is hard to explain or understand. Sure
ly these illegal manufacturers of drink are not
producing it to supply the county stores! It
what appears on the surface be true, then one is
led to believe that the manufacture and sale of
illegal liquor has lessened little since county con
trol began. Added to that the ABC stores them
selves have become a source of supply for the
bootlegger. What’s to be done about it? We
should like for the Wilson Times and the Raleigh
Times to tell us. We confess we do not know.
NORTH CAROLINA TODAY
4
The story told by Mark Twain of the man
who wanted a better home and advertised
through the local newspaper his place for sale
is familiar to most people. You remember when
he saw his ad in the paper, he decided that was
just the place he was looking for. One can ima
gine his surprise and perhaps his disappoint
ment when he found it a description of his own
dwelling place. Perhaps he learned the lesson of
his own that all need to realize.
With somewhat the same feeling we turn
ed the pages of the last issue of “North Carolina
Today.” It gives in pictures and words “The
Story of Tobacco." It is issued by the Board of
Conservation and Development, of which Gov
ernor Hoey is chairman, ex officio. Every person
in the state should see it. Pictures finish what
words fail to convey. It sells for 25 cents. The
Board is doing a wonderful piece of work both
from an artistic book to efficient advertising.
runs thence South 88 degrees East
372 feet to a stake; thence South.
3 degrees West 1830 feet to a
stake; thence South 87 degrees 36
minutes West 372 feet to a stake;
thence North 3 degrees East 1850
feet to the beginning, containing
15 5-7 acres, more or less. This is
Lot Number 1 in the division of the
Albert Keith lands.
SECOND TRACT: Begins at the
north comer of Lot Number 1,
thence South 88 degrees East 374
feet to a stake, thence South 3 de
grees West 1800 feet to a stake;
thence South 87 degrees 36 minutes
West 374 feet to a stake; thence
North 3 degrees East 1830 feet to
the beginning, containing 15 5-7
acres more or less. This is Lot
Number 2 in the division of the Al
bert Keith lands. See Book Num
ber 298, l age 529, Wake County
Registry.
THIRD TRACT: Begins at a
stake notheast corner Lot Number
2, thence South 88 degrees East
380 feet to a stake; thence South
3 degrees West 1780 feet to a
stake; thence South 87 degrees, 36
minutes, West 380 feet to a stake;
thence North 3 degrees. East
1800 feet to the beginning, contain
ing 15 5-7 acres more or less. This
is Lot No. 3 in the Division of the
Albert Keith Lands.
FOURTH TRACT: Begins at a
stake, the northeast comer of Lot
4 in the division of the Albert
Keith lands, runs thence North 84
degrees 6 minutes East 370 feet to
a stake, thence South 2 degrees 36
minutes West 2030 feet to a stake;
thence North 71 degrees 54 minutes
West 402 feet to a hickory; thence
North 3 degrees East 1920 feet to
the beginning containing 15 5-7
acres more or less. This is Not
Number 5 in the Division of the
Albert Keith lands.
FIFTH TRACT: Being an un
divided one-seventh interest in and
ito the dower tract of the Albert
Keith lands (Subject to the dow
er of his widow) which is describ
ed as follows: Begins at a stake,
the northwest corner of the Albert
Keith lands; thence South 88 de
grees East 1132 feet to a stake,
thence South 3 degrees West 1850
feet to a stake in the old road;
thence South 87 degrees 36 minutes
West 433 feet to a stake; thence
Nnrth 10 degrees 24 minutes West
1178 feet to a stake; thence Noifl
87 degrees West 434 feet; thejfl
North ,3 deg. East 732 feet
beginning, containing 32 ®
more or less.
The aforesaid first, secondHHlS
fourth and fifth tracts of itnm
the same lands described
veyed in that certain deed®
March 6, 1933, recorded in
644, Page 551. fl
This December 24, 1937. fllBB
(’ALE K. BURGESS, TrAHH
Dec. 31— January 21 fl||HH
SEN AND isl
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simpler still, slice the
place it in a pit l pan
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grease and prefer
frying.
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A BANG-UP
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to make reply: ours nWmpHHi
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THOUGHT FOll
Here’s hoping the N e
enters tonight
Ma\ give us from outfl
No more .f depre s si
Nor even recession;
But few politicians
Upon their own missfl^t'^t^s^*-
Friends that are too
To give much advice fl
Work that we can do;
Plain rations to chew;
And if we have these, we needn’t
ask more.
New Year, if you’ll give them, our
future is bright.
T ULAREMIA
Now that the rabbit and squirrel
hunting season is open in most
States of the Union , the reporting
of cases of tularemia, a disease of
rabbits and squirrels is to be ex
pected.
The Medical Society of New Jer
sey offers hunters four suggestions
to avoid contracting the dis< ase.
These suggestions are: wear rub
ber gloves when handling or clean
ing these animals after shooting
them; be suspicious of rabbits and
squirrels which are lacking in the
natural pep characteristic of them;
don’t handle rabbits or squirrels
found dead; be sure the meat is
thoroughly cooked, preferably boil-
before eating it.
Tularemia is an infectious dis
ease of squirrels, rabbits, and ro
dents which can be transmitted to
man through any abrasion on the
| skin when direct contact is made
with an infected animal, or by eat
ing infected meat which has not
been thoroughly cooked. Thorough
cooking destroys the causative or
! ganism.
The disease gets its name from
Ihe fact that the first cases were
j reported in Tulre County, Califor
nia, in 1911. Cases of the disease
have been reported in nearly every
State in the Union.
The disease renders the patient
very uncomfortable, is usually ac
companied by glandular swelling,
j causes a general systemic disturb
°T'W anM ig »--eoinnsllv fatal. It is