THEZEBULON RECORD
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MOTHERS’ DAY, MAY 8
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We have grown accustomed to doing cer
tain things on certain occasions, and they are
now somewhat automatic. We use holly and
poinsettias for Christmas decorations; we em
phasize hearts on St. Valentine’s Day; we buy
white lilies for Easter; we place black cats,
bats and witches for Hallowe’en; we use tur
keys and pumpkins as Thanksgiving symbols.
In between-times, if we get around to it we
plan a green-and-white table for St. Patrick’s
Day, a Fourth of July party in red, white, and
blue; and we may design or copy plans for
Labor Day functions and as many others as our
means and inclinations dictate.
Therefore, when on Mother’s Day, next
Sunday, we pin on a red rose or a white one,
there is danger that it may be only another per
functory observance of what was meant to be
a special memorial to all mothers. While we
would never in any sense advise that the day
be one of formal presentation of gifts or writ
ing of letters that should have been sent regu
larly through the years, we would urge that the
meaning be carried in the heart. In its fulness
the definition of Mother’s Day can not be com
prehended until time and experience have
broadened mind and sympathies; but we may,
at least, express whatever emotions are sincere.
It will not matter how often we have said the
same words, if only we mean them.
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SMART CHILDREN, OR TEACHERS
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When two Iredell county girls, only 12
years old, carry off the prize in debating in
North Carolina, the older children must be
quite dull. Or, perhaps these girls had better
help in preparing their speeches. We are
somewhat skeptical about their actually win
ning the debate without considerable help of a
sort that would not be permissible according to
the rules as outlined by the forensic folk. We
have had a suspicion for a number of years that
these debates in many instances are original on
ly in the delivery after some teacher has ex
hausted her elocutionary ability in giving as
sistance.
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HEIJ* A-COMIN’ AND A-GOIN’
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We learn from a bulletin sent The Record
from Washington by the AAA, or Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, that down in Flori
da and Louisiana, where a large part of the su
gar crop has been damaged from natural causes,
one-third of the value of the normal yield will
be paid the sugar cane growers. In S. C. the
farmers find they 1 have 5,800 short tons more
cabbage than the average for the last ten years.
So, the AAA is going to buy up a lot of this
cabbage and send it to other states to give peo
ple on relief. The news item did not say whether
a piece of fat back would be supplied with each
cabbage head.
Whether the planter grows too little or too
much, it is all the same. It may be right and
fair to thus assist certain agricultural interests,
but it seems to us that such help ought to be
extended to every class, not only farmers, but
producers of any commodity. And if this were
done, where would it stop and what would be
the end?
THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 6,1938
SCHOOL TAX K LECTION
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A few citizens are discussing the coming
school tax election, but the people as a whole
are not saying much. Many will not even re
gister and numbers who do will not vote. At
present it appears from conversations with vot
ers that the election will be lost to the tax pro
ponents. We are not giving any advice except
to say again that every citizen, whether he is for
or against the tax, should register and vote.
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“WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?”
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A short time ago while passing the A. B. C.
store in our town I saw an elderly man come out
of the store with a package. The wrapping was
newspaper. The man is perhaps seventy years
old and it was apparently with great effort that
he was able to get in his car. The following
day I rode up to the curb in front of Job P. Wy
att Sons’ store. Raleigh’s white working man’s
A. B. C. Store, No. 2, is located nearby. You
know Raleigh has some class to its liquor busi
ness—a place for the high ups to buy, another
for the countryman, and a third for the colored
gentlemen. I had hardly stopped my car, when
a man who appeared to be about 45 came out
with his’en wrapped in the tell-tale newspaper.
And almost immediately a second man came out
with his latest newspaper!
I almost expected to see a 15 year old boy
next in line, till I remembered that he must
look to daddy, or some grown up, for his bot
tle. And I might have also waited to see the
baby come crawling out with his bottle, had I
not recalled that the law permits infants keep
ing their own private bottles at home, giving the
mother full authority to regulate the young
ster’s time and amount of drink. The last
thing in the world that mother would give her
baby would be the bottle that father brought
home.
Our liquor stores are wonderful institu
tions. They permit the clerks staying in bed
late to catdh up on lost sleep from staying up
late to catch the last customer who might buy a
pint from some bootlegger and thus deprive the
county of a few cents revenue. They make it
possible for the legger to buy late at night his
supply for the holiday or Sunday following
when the A. B. C. store is closed. It will not
sell to a person under 21, yet there is no law
against any one of age and in his right mind
buying it and carrying it home where the whole
family may sit down convivially. These stores
are kept proverbially clean and have beautiful
gold lettering telling the passerby that this is
the place. They may not advertise the lowest
percent drink sold, yet the liquor manufacturers
may spread their tale of fountains, dreams,
virtues, roses, nectars, soothers and solacers
and whatnots all over the newspaper going into
our homes. There is no law agains( this; rath
er, the law is for it. And a lot of newspapers are
for the money in this advertising if not for the
liquor, which is not different after all.
These liquor stores are so high-toned and
sanitary that I heard a good Baptist churchman
say a few days ago that if the places from which
beer is sold were as clean and moral as the li
quor stores, then he would not mind drinking
beer. And about the same time I heard another
churchman, a Methodist this time, say that these
stores were conducted in such away that one
could go into them and buy his drink and there
was nothing dishonest or immoral in it like
buying from a private seller.
Somehow I cannot understand it. All things
are right or wrong. And if they are right they
cannot by legislation be made right. If they are
wrong, I can’t by any stretch of my imagination
see how legality, sanitation, Christian
and commissioners, can make them
have a fine setup. It is providing the vemffpH
( ?) liquor on the market for everybody,
and babies excepted. But there is all
shame on the faces of both the seller and HHB
Am I persuaded that deep down in the B'wl
conscience of these men there’s a convicßSi
that state approval of what they are doing (MSS
not bring Divine approval. V
I'CetterjpQ*'
MR. EDITOR:
In all the agitation for and
against a special school tax of 15
cents on the hundred dollars for
Wakelon school I have heard much
said. Considerable of it no doubt
was someone’s personal or preju
diced opinion with no basis of fact.
I cannot blame a man who has
children to educate seeking the ve
ry best school facilities possible.
But, on the other hand I cannot
criticise the man who owns prop
erty and already has a heavy tax
to pay objecting to more tax.
But I understand that there is a
certain man in the Wakelon school
district who is “hot” for this spe
cial tax and who has not paid his
local tax for a past year. In fact
his salary or income has been garn
isheed or attached by the tax cdl
lector Os course he may have over
looked payment. If he has not paid
this tax. I believe if I were in thal
man’s shoes I would hush and bl
mum till after the election is oveJ
Thi3 is largely a matter for the tafl
payer and if any one is entitled
be heard with authority it woul
be the fellow who would have I
go down into his pocket for mol
of the money, and not the one wfl
talks loudest and pays least. I al
not saying this either forß
against the proposed tax, but II
justice to those who bear the
dens of our schools and the govel
ment generally. H
PATRON OF SCHOOL. ™
TO THE EDITOR:
That the public schools of North
Carolina are not all they ought to
be is an admission made by all
who have studied our state school
system. For one thing, the teach
ers in this state are paid so little
as to force into other occupations
many college graduates who have
prepared themselves to teach.
There are, of course, other defects.
Raising the salaries of the
teachers would raise the stand
ards of our school system. Many
doubt, however, that a nine months
school term or a 12 grade school
would help our schools to any
great extent. In an agricultural
community a nine months school
term is undesirable Many eminent
educators believe that a 12 grade
school is just as undesirable in
any community. These educators
do not believe that the money nec
essary to maintain a 12 grade
school will yield sufficient bene
fits to justify the additional ex
penditure.
According to Dr. A. J. Loomis,
the average high school graduate
in North Carolina is a little over
eighteen years old. A boy or girl
of eighteen years is usually well
equipped either to obtain employ
ment or to enter college.
Concerning the supposedly great
er mental aptitude of graduates of
twelve grade school, please readi
data given below. The data ex]
plodes this myth. I
From a North Carolina collel
with an enrollment of 971 comß
this information. (The name of tB
college will be given to anyone B
siring it.) In this school durfif
the past year there were 26 sfl|
dents on the first honor roll. Os BE
26 there were 24 from 11 grSlj
schools, 1 from a 12 grade sell
and 1 from a preparatory sdlgj
On the second honor rol^B
grade school? Is the 12th grade
worth the additional expenditure?
And ought we not to pay the
teachers we have decent salaries <
before we add any more teachers?
FERD DAVIS,
Mars Hill College,
North Carolina.
SEEN & HEARD ' 1
THEN AND NOW 4
Paul Brantley says: Competition
was once the life of trade, but now »
it’s the death of business. N
UNEMPLOYMENT The spe
cial committee on unemployment
and relief of the United States
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OF WAKE COUNTY
DATE MAY 21st, 1938
On the question of levying not
more than 15 cents on the SIOO as
sessed valuation of real and person
al property, to be collected annual
ly for the purpose of operating
schools of said school district of a *
higher standard than provided by
state support and to supplement .
state budget allotment for such
purposes.
Begining at a point on the line
between Wake and Johnston Coun
ties where Little River crosses
said line, thence up Little River to
the line between Little River and
Mark’s Creek Township; hence in
a northwesterly direction along •
said township line to a point where
the road leading from Talton’s *
Store to Zebulon crosses said town
ship line; thence in a northerly di- • *
rection to the crossroads about one
lalf mile south of the Derry Horton
residence; thence in a direct line ‘
westwardly to a point on Buffaloe
Creek where the line between Lit
tle River and Mark’s Creek Town- »
ships crosses said creek; thence up #
Buffaloe Creek to a point where
the first branch north of the dam
of Perry’s Pond flows into Buffaloe
Creek; thence northeastwardly to
the forks of the road east of
. Fowler’s residence; thence north-