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THEO. It. DAVIS. Editor
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PLANT A TREE
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He who plants a tree is a benefactor to the
race. In a moment one may destroy a tree, but
it takes years to replace the loss. At this sea
son is the best time to set trees —any kind. With
little trouble and no expense the people of Zeb
ulon might dig from the woods the most beauti
ful shade trees and transplant them now. They
would immediately begin growing a root system
so when summer comes they would not only
keep right on growing, but withstand the
drought. In a few years our town might become
almost famous for its shade trees.
Any home may have fruit trees. It takes
very little space for a few plum trees, a pear
tree, two or three peach trees and a grape vine.
The cost would be from 10 cents to 35 cents for
any of these. Tenants often refuse to plant
trees because they winn not be benefited by the
fruit, yet we know farmers who have lived on an
other's land for a quarter of a century. Then if
every tenant would plant a few trees, no matter
where he moved he would likely find fruit.
Let’s make 1938 a tree planting year in and
around Zebulon. Nothing is better and cheaper
to grow than fruit. Most any sort may be grown
in this section. On our place of less than three
•i
acres we have pecans, walnut, fig, apple, peach,
plum, cherry, and a number of shade trees grow
ing. We also grow strawberries, blackberries
and dewberries successfully. So no one need be
lieve he cannot have fruit. Good fruit may be
grown in this section if one is willing to expend
a little time and money. It requires less cultiva
tion and fertilizer to grow fruit, but it does need
both as certainly as any other profitable crops
grown on the lot or farm.
Yes, plant a tree, several of them.
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—“ER-A”—by Dr. Widmer Doremus
o
A friend once said, “The only thing 1 cannot
forgive is being bored.” The remark was not
directed at anyone in particular, but the follow
ing sentiments are:
A gentleman giving a talk to the Rotary re
cently, used up nine of the eighty minutes of
his forty-minute discourse with “er-a.” There
SEEN AND HEARD
HE WANTED TO MAKE IT
RIGHT
Into the RECORD office on Tues
day afternoon came G. S. Ferrell.
He wanted to know whether it was
the editor’s car which had its bump
er hit by him as he backed from
his parking place on Monday. The
editor was not in, and Mr. Ferrell
was told that no one here knew
anything about any damage to any
car. He was worried considerably
• saying that his wife was with him
on Monday, they were in a hurry,
and he saw no one around whom he
might have asked about the car.
It was an old model sedan and he
thinks he bent the bumper, which
is of the two-piece variety. He is
anxious to know who owns the car,
and wants the owmer to know that
he is ready to pay for any dam
age done. The c*r was parked in
front of the RECORD shop.
Whoever he mav be, the owner
of that car is nrobably not nearly
so much worried as is Mr. Ferrell,
1 HE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON- NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY, JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST, 1938.
j who wants it understood that he is
j no hit-and-run man. We are also
, sure he is not.
1 & U
In a letter written jointly to the
editor and his wife Mrs. Helen
Whitley of Siler City remarked that
her father used to say it is no won
der a person always thinks himself
right and others wrong; that even
in the alphabet all the I s, both cap
itals and small letters, are straight,
while all the U’s, both capitals and
letters, are crooked. This
proof is new to us, but we can readi
ly see its logic, and pass it on to
be enjoyed by others.
A BIG LITTLE PIG
C. F. Wrenn, Zebulon Rl, was
in the Record office a few days
ago told about a pi? he had
just killed. It was 9 months and
12 days old, and weighed 380
pounds. He said he h*d not
bought a pound of feed for P—
home grown, home fed and would
,be home eaten.
were two or three in each sentence. I had met
him on the sidewalk just before the meeting and
there his speech was fluent, but when facing the
audience his sentences scraped against the ori
fice of their exit with “er-a’s” that sounded like
a cart-wheel on a dry axle.
“1 er-a take great pleasure in
er-a speaking to you tonight about er-a
salesmanship.” And so on. Meanwhile we
all fiddled with our spoons, hitched our chairs,
and looked at our watches under the tablecloth.
Here was a man of brains, a man who had writ
ten a highly successful book, a professor of a
major subject in a distinguished university. How
on earth could he teach?
A person who has this miserable habit al
ways tempts me to cup my hand under his chin,
slap him between the shoulder-blades, and cry,
“Spit it out!”
His trouble is in trying to construct a sen
tence after it is started, groping in the dark for
the other end of the strand. One should culti
vate the habit never to utter the first word until
the whole sentence is clear-cut in his mind, even
when in conversation. Such cultivation pro
duces clear thinking. It may make for slow
and deliberate speech, but that is infinitely less
exasperating than hesitant speech, with the
chinks filled in with “er-a.”
The brain is an obstinate servant; it does
n’t like to work unless its owner forces it to.
The er-a habit itself provides it with an excuse
to be lazy. The brain says to its owner when he
emits an er-a, "It’s all right, old man, you’re
saying something anyway,” and, satisfied with
its er-a armchair, it sits back complacently and
resists all prodding to make it do aught else.
The most polished speaker I ever heard,
read his sentences from the air. He printed
each one there before he uttered the first syl
lable. The very thought-out completeness of
each sentence gave him time to organize the
next. His discourse, in consequence, was some
times almost painfully slow, but it was decisive,
concise, and convincing. You believed him be
cause his deliberate speech was a token of de
liberation. His words went from his mouth into
the public print without revision. The way he
did the thing was not difficult for him, for he
had trained himself into what became the easi
est way, and can be the easiest way for anyone
who will take the trouble. He always finished
on time, when he finished he had reached the
end, and his hearers had a clear idea of what he
had said.
The er-a habit takes all the punch out of
personality. I have a professional friend, well
gifted, but only a mediocre success. He always
says, “Er-a,” before, “Hello,” in the telephone.
New patients calling him get the idea that he
lacks decision.
All I remember of what the distinguished
professor and author said the other night is
_ it
er-a.
—Shining Lines—Mergenthaler Co.
ALL MEAT TO BE INSPECTED
As the associate editor of this
paper walked in the City Market
on Tuesday morning she overheard
a part of a conversation between
an employe and a representative
of some state department. This
was regarding all meats to be sold
in this and other North Carolina
j towns hereafter. It must be in
spected and pronounced fit for hu
man food or the butcher is liable
to prosecution. No more butcher
ing locally and selling the meat.
The idea is that it may be all
right—but may not be. Zebulon
butchers must take their meat to
Raleigh, if locally owned, and have
|it passed upon there and certified
before it may legally be offered for
sale.
A farmer may still kill his own
stock and eat it, but may not sell
any part of it, unless it has been
inspected.
Ix>cal meat markets are glad to
co-operate with the regulations.
The first recorded Chinese im
migrants to the United States ar
rived in 1848 in San Francisco.
Death Is Coming
By Mrs. Myrtie Baswell
Text—“ But God said unto him:
Thou fool! This night thy soul
shall be required of thee.” —Luke
12:20.
The year 1937 is passed and
gone; it is in eternity. As we
are living in such an awful day we
wonder what the year 1938 will
bring forth if Jesus should tarry.
Sin is abroad in the land. The
devil is hanging around, seeking
whim he may devour. He is de
vouring souls by the thousands. So
many people seem to care nothing
about God and His goodness. THi
devil has them bound. He is teH
ing them to take their ease, eH
drink, and be merry. You haH
many years yet. Just have
own good time—enjoy
but you must remember the deviflj
a liar. He will get you in trotHl
and leave you there. HI
Death is abroad in the 1:
Some are shooting and kill
some are drowned; some are
over on the highways; some'
from heart failure; some dij
the electric chair; some coil
suicide, and the trains kill s|
Some die one way or anol
They seem to take no heed tol
warning that any one gives ■
and death comes so quickly I
don’t have time to call onß
Luke 12: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20: 1
He spake a parable unto ■
saying: The ground of a cH
rich man who brought forthH
tiful and he thought withilfl
self, saying: ‘What shallfll
because I have no room
bestow my fruits?’ And
said, ‘This will I do. I wH
down my barns and build Hi
and there I will bestowHj
fruits and my goods. Ann
say unto my soul, thou haHB
good laid up for many yeaiHß
thine ease, oat, drink, and HB
ry.’ But God said untHl|
‘Thou fool; this night
shall be required of thee’.HH
So many people today jdjtt
ting off their soul’s salvaHH
thinking of a good time. fl|
girls, mothers and fatherHH
ing, playing cards. cursinHH
ling, and car-riding. Oh,H
going to have a good titHflj
God said, “Thou fool!
thy soul shall be
thee.”
How sad to see mothers
thers wasting their tim
Some even go so far in
they don’t seem to care
thing. They are saying:
take thine ease, we hai
years yet.” But God sai<
fool! This night thy soul
required of thee.”
Oh, so sad to see you
and girls wasting their
sin. They seem to thi
have plenty of time yet. 4
going to have a good time,
on girls, take a drink and a
What a good time we are f
have.”
What a sad sight to s
drinking and som edo t
drunk. “Come on for a go
—we have many more yearj
thine ease, eat, drink,
merry. But God said, ‘‘Tin
This night thy soul shal
quired of thee.”
How awful it will be so
to come. You will have to
and meet God unprepared
you stop for just one m
Look and see that broad r<
are on and where it will le
And how terrible it will b
you get to the end. It will
hell and damnation, and th
will have to burn forever ai
When you have been tl
thousand years, you will
less time to stay there,
continue on, and on, and oi
thew 25:41. “Then shall
also to them on the left
from me ye cursed, unto t
fire, nrennred for t
and his angels.”
Tocr sinners, Jesus is knocking
az you- heart. Will you let him
in ? Or will you turn him away
and keep going on in sin, thinking
that you have plenty of time,
when you have no promise of to
morrow ?
Listen to his tender pleading to
day. It will be sad, very sad, if
you wait till it is too late. You
owe every minute of your life to
God. Will you serve Him or will
you serve the devil? You can take
your choice. Dat please remember
death is on your track. It is com
: ing to th’e rich and poor, high and
low, free and bound. Death is
» coming.
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