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NEWS BRIEFS Williamson Raleigh Commissioner Mayor Iseley and Commissioner Fountain appointed Wednesday Roy L. Williamson Public Works Commissioner. He succeeds the late J. S. Furguson. The position pays $4200 a year. He has been City En gineer since 1935. Commissioner Williamson is a brother of Mrs. J. M. Whitley of Zebulon. UACKSON SUCCEEDS REED President Roosevelt has appoint ed Robt. H. Jackson as solicitor general of the U. S. to succeed Judge Reed who was recently ap pointed to the Supreme Court. NIGARA BRIDGE COLLOPSES At 4:10 o’clock Thursday after noon the pressure of an ice jam a gainst the railroad bridge across the river at Niagara Falls caused it to collapse. It was swept away by the current. A number of men try ing to save it were taken off only a short time before. The bridge was two hundred feet above water. Ter rible conditions are being experi enced in that region because of the intense cold and high winds. Nine people are known to have perished in the cold. RELIEF FAMILY MENU New York City—Graduate stu dents of Teachers College, Colum bia University, have prepared sample menus showing how fami lies of five on a relief budget of $1 .25 per day can keep body and soul together. The following is qf fered for a father, mother, boy of 14, girl of 9 and a boy of 4: BREAKFAST: Prunes, Oatmeal, Milk for children, coffee for adults, LUNCHEON :Macaroni and Cheese, Shredded Cabbage Salad, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Apple-sauce, Milk: DINNER: Hamburgers, Es calloped Tomatoes, Bread and But ter, Chocolate Rice Pudding, Milk. ‘THE CHILD IN THE COMMUNITY” IS CONVENTION THEME The 1938 Winston-Salem conven tion theme for the N. C. Congress of Parents and Teachers will be the “Child in the Community.” Several aspects of the main theme will be considered, such as present-day education, parents’ responsibility, health and character-building agencies, cultural opportunities, and leisure time. The convention will open Wednesday morning, Ap ril 20, continue through Thursday, with a Thursday evening banquet, and adjourn at noon Friday, April 22. Headquarters will be at the Robert E. Lee Hotel. For the current year, 35,000 all inclusive memberships have already been sent in to the state treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Burke, of Gibsonville, who says, however, that the mem bership work is just getting under way good. FREE RICE TO NEEDY The North Carolina State Board of Public Welfare announced today that 480,000 pounds of rice hare re cently been received for distribu tion t’o persons on relief rolls. This rice was donated to N. C. State Board of Charities by the Federal Surplus Commodities Cor poration, and results from their surplus removal operations. The Corporation is now engaged in buy ing surplus stocks of rice in Louisi ana, Texas and Arkansas. To date 29,400,000 pounds have boa* pur chased, at a cost of approximately $684,000. For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful, indeed, what we say.—Confucius. ] THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JAN. 28,1938 The Peril Os The Irresponsible j AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE By CHARLES L. BROOKS I am very sure that many of the things I am w. iting v.i.l not be rel ished by a large element of the American people, but perhaps tha is not important because it is likely that few or any of that irrespon >ible group will ever read what 1 iiave written. America is utterly fickle. Its dominant life is shallow, gullible, sellish, indifferent, insincere, cyni cal, wisecracking, bombastic, jazz minded, and pleasure-mad. With feverish haste we rush from one fad or ism to another. The whims of one week are lost in the follies of the next. The life-span of a popular song is less than two weeks. Our nervous eagerness to find something “new” has produced in stability in conscience and morals. What is revolting to moral con science today is accepted with com placency tomorrow. Out of such it is impossible to build civilization. Just what is the cause of this? We are governed by public opinion, and public opinion, in large mea sure, is created by propaganda. The three great agencies of propaganda are the press, radio and the mo tion picture. Designing men of this generation, wiser than the sons of light map out what they want to put over, then harness these agen cies for action. The unthinking populace gulps it, and calls it “good,” no matter how diabolical. Only 40 per cent of our popula tion has the power to reason and initiate anything, and only 3 per cent of that 40 has outstanding ability in that respect. If that 40 per cent were suddenly wiped out, the remaining 60 per cent —without reason and initiative of their own —would immediately revert to bar barism. Our present peril—the greatest our Nation ever faced—is that the politicians have organized this ir responsible 60 per cent, for the purposes of exploitation, into a merciless voting machine that will ultimately crush our Nation unless it is smashed. Our imperative need therefore, is of men and women who have the ability to make proper evaluation of things, who can separate the wheat from the chaff and will act according to conscience no matter what the consequences. Patriotism means personal in tegrity. No drunkard, adulterer, murderer, liar or thief—in short, no one given to lawlessness—can be a patriot. It is impossible to fit the essentially bad into any decent scheme of things. Men are re quired who will stand up and refuse to take their moral standards from the vacillating multitudes, or to sell their convictions for a price. Their moral power cannot be com puted. One such can chase a thous and, and two of them can put ten thousand to flight. Before them li centiousness will flee and around them decency will rally. If America escapes the abyss in to which Rome, Greece, Assyria, Babylon and Egypt plunged, it will be because a few men of inflexible purpose hurl themselves against the onrushing tides of human sel fishness, greed and hatred, and turn them back into the gulf from whence they came. SPLENDID INVESTMENT Alaska purchased from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000 in gold, has produced in the past eighty years minerals totaling a value of $722,- 222,000. Beginning with the Klondike dis covery forty years ago, mining ac tivities have developed rapidly, the irincipal products of which are gold, silver, copper, and coal. Minerals account for only a part jof the wealth produced in Alaska. During the fiscal year 1937, canned salmon vaiued at $45,386,512 was 'shipped to the United States. This was a gain of 62 per cent in quan ity and 70 per cent in value over t 936. T.ade between the United States and Alaska last year totaled $114,- J 24,169. Exports to the states amounted to $76,448,062, including i'ish and fish products, copper ore, fur skins, gold, silver, and other products, the report discloses. Travel interest greatly increased during the past year. Water trans portation faiclities alone carried an approximate total of 72,734 pas sengers to Alaska, an increase of some 9,000 over the preceding year. Many miles of new roads were built and other road mileage improved. Air se:vice began some sixteen years ago. Uncompleted figures show that 89,068 passengers and 10,113,932 pounds of freight and mail have been transported to our great northwestern territorial com monwealth by airplane duiing the past ten years. E. R. SAFETY FIRST Detroit—Modern automobile ac cessories are designed with three major purposes in mind—comfort, safety, convenience—and the most important o fthese is safety, ac cording to M. D. Douglas, manager of Chevrolets’ parts and accessories department. “The motoring public, along with civic-minded organizations through out the country, is paying more and more attention to safety on the highways,” Mr. Douglas declared. “This is largely the result of con certed campaigns which have been sponsored to a large extent by auto mobile manufacturers themselves. ‘‘While all automobile accessories try to effect improvements to the comfort and convenience of motor ing, all are at the same time con cerned with increasing motoring safety. “Chevrolet accessories are cus tom-built, engineered especially to Chevrolet cars. They add to the in herent beauty of the car and they increase driving comfort and con venience. Their primary function, however, is to give Chevrolet driv ers the advantages of the latest de velopments in safety devices.” STATE COLLEGE ANSWERS TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS What is the best way to protect tobacco plant beds from flea-beetle damage ? MONUMENTS oOo Do you want the most durable and most beautiful as well as the most reasonable priced monuments to mark the resting place of some loved one? If so, write Box 48, or call phone 2561, the Zebulon Record office, and they will be glad to show you cuts and samples of monuments and markers. They will also be glad to give you prices on what you may want. We represent one of the biggest monument companies in the South and furnish any kind of grave stone. oOo *4.41^.’ CALL WRITE PHONES 2561 or 2951 P. O. BOX 48 ZEBULON, N. C. The trap bed has given excellent [results in the control of this insect. Tnis bed is made by fitting boards closely around the margin of the bed and bank-soil around these boards so that the beetles cannot crawl under them. A trap is then built at least two feet around the I tight bed. This area is sown with i tobacco seed and as soon as the plants are up they should be kept well covered with poison at all times. Full directions for building | j a trap-bed for the control of flea beetles as well as control measures for other tobacco insects are given ! in Extension Circular No. 174 and , copies may be had free upon appli ' cation to the Agricultural Editor at State College. When should lespedeza be sown on small grain ? This, of course, depends upon the variety seeded, but Korean variety geminates in about two weeks. Seed ing should be made early enough to become well established before the hot-dry weather, but late enough to avoid freezes. If the seed are broad cast at least one bushel of seed (25 pounds) should be sown to the acre. When drilled in, less seed is requir- PUROIL SERVICE STATION Expert Washing and Greasing Special Gas —lB cents Oil-15 cents quart C. E. SEAWELL, Manager Tobacco Growing's My Job" f MY LAST CROP OF LEAF TOBACCO WAS \ ( THE BEST I'VE EVER GROWN AND CAMELS GAVE )| JBf > ME A TOP PRICE PER POUND FOR MY S ( BEST GRADE LEAF. AS THE FELLOW WHO * 3 \ GETS THE CHECK,! KNOW CAMELS USE MORE VS* iKg [ EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS. YOU BET I SMOKE CAMELS. / Jim \ THAT GOES FOR MOST PLANTERS, TOO J MR. HAROLD L. CRAIG, 1 I ‘OBACCO quality is an open a tobacco planter X book to the men who grow to- y , arv f bacco. Do they favor any particular m cigarette? "Yes,” says Harold L. Craig. “Camels.” Camels are a matchless blend of finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS—Turkish and Domestic, OopTTteht. IMS, R. 1. tUrrnoUm T«b«oc» Ctw, Wl»«tap-8al«»n. N. C. “WE SMOKE CAMELS BECAUSE WE KNOW TOBACCO” say ed, but the drill should be set to run very shallow and the seed mix ed with superphosphate basic, slag, or ground limestone for better cov age. Should eggs be handled after they are set for hatching? Yes. All eggs should be candled on the seventh day and all dead germs and infertile eggs removed Care however, should be exercised in the handling. A fertile egg will appear to contain a spider the germ representing the body of the spider while the blood vessels rep resent the legs. An infertile egg will be clear with the yolk slightly visible. The candling should be done in a dark room or at night. Fifteen Americans go abroad for each European visiting Amer ica. £% f* f* SALVE bob c 0 : r Ds Liquid-Tablets price Salve-Nose Drops 10c & 25c
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