THE ZEBULON RECORD
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THE DAILY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
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As an editor, as a Christian, as a citizen, and
in any other way possible we should like to go
on record as commending the work done in Va
cation Bible Schools. Right now one is being
held in the Baptist church in Zebulon. Teach
ers are without exception capable, a large per
cent having both college degrees and experience
in the school room. They work no less faithful
ly because they receive no salaries and at times
see no tangible results of their efforts. But the
good that has been done in this way is beyond
calculation.
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GETTING A JOB
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I read somewhere not long ago that the im
portant thing for the one without a job is to get
a job. It is more important to get a job than to
get pay—at least to begin. The young man fresh
out of college who sits around waiting for a job
commensurate with his ability will probably be
on the waiting list a long time. And if he is
thinking primarily of the salary, he will likely
pull down a few pay checks and then be looking
for a job again.
The young fellow with ambition and energy
says, "I’ll work for you for nothing; it’s better
for me than loafing around home or down town.” i
To get a job, one with a future, get work that <
leads in the direction of a job. The engine must 1
be started before the car runs. Begin work in I
the right way and the job will soon be found. A t
summer vacation job has led many a young man r
to a position and permanent success in life, c
Choosing between the young man who works r
for experience during vacation and the one who t
refuses because the pay is too little, I will take v
the former everytime if I am looking for the v
boy who wil grow and climb to the pinnacle of f
success. I
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THE NEW DEAL
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Because of his criticism of certain features
of the New Deal the editor of the Record has
been accused of being a Republican. We have
noticed lately in a great many of the smaller
newspapers published in the State hinted sug
gestions of changes that ought to be made and
veiled criticisms of prodigal spending of the
people’s money. And now some papers are
coming out in the open and attacking the New
Deal. Only a few of the big dailies still shout
“the King can do no wrong.” We believe our
present attitude towards the principles laid
down six years ago by candidate Roosevelt is
more consistent than that of President Roose
velt.
A citizen of this community said to us to
day that a few years ago the nation rose up and
put the Republicans out because they were not
giving the people a good government. He says
the New Deal is so inconsistent and extravagant
that the people will shortly be ready to kick the
New Deal out and try something else. He men
tioned especially the way dependents are being
multiplied by the depression methods of help
and the millions of dollars being uselessly ex
pended.
In New York City the relief system became
so corrupt that almost an army of investigators
were set to work to uncover cases of chiseling
on the part of applicants for aid. Thirty of them
were attacked recently. In one case a 60-year
old woman held a feminine investigator while
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another woman scratched and kicked the relie
worker.
Bruce Barton, the son of a minister, whi
broke into Congress with the promise to “repea
a law a day,’’ proposes seven separate commis
sions to examine the "seven deadly sores” o
the day: The Farm Problem, Unemploymen
and Relief, Social Security, Taxation of Indus
try, Reciprocal Trade, Public Competition witl
Private Utilities and Railroad Earnings. I
Representative Barton succeeds with his under
taking and gets honest men on his committees
they will uncover a stench, we believe, that wil
be in comparison with the Teapot Dome scandal
like a volcano beside a teakettle.
There has been so much power delegated t<
one man and so much money spent in this na
tion for chiseling and other corrupt evils tha
one need not be surprised to learn that the Lili
putians have grown into Brobdingnagians. The
New Deal has meddled with private business
and regulated public business till many of ev
ery class and condition are displeased and ready
to join any movement that will put the people
in control of their government. But with one
out of every dozen or more working for the New
Deal and other millions living off the taxes paid
by the earners, it will be hard to beat it. How
ever, unless retrenchment, reform and renova
tion are instituted in Barton’s "seven deadly
sores” so as to make the New Deal a Good Deal,
it will become a Dead Deal, and much of the
Democratic party will die with it.
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HAVE WE ANY RIGHTS WITHOUT DUTIES?
William Graham Sumner
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There is a beautiful notion afloat in our lit
erature and in the minds of our people that men
are born to certain "natural rights.” If that
were true, there would be something on earth
which was got for nothing, and this world would
not be the place it is at all. The fact is that
there is no right whatever inherited by man
which has not an equivalent and corresponding
duty by the side of it. The rights, advantages,
capital, knowledge and all other goods which
we inherit from past generations have been won
by the struggle and sufferings of past genera
tions; and the fact that the race lives, though
men die, and that the race can by heredity ac
:umulate within some cycle its victories over
nature, is one of the facts which make civiliza
tion possible. The struggles of the race as a
whole produce the possessions of the race as a
whole. Something for nothing is not to be
? ound on earth.—Shining Lines, Mergenthaler
Linotype Co.
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MORALS OF GOVERNMENT AT STAKE
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The investigation of the Tennessee Valley
Authority is at last under way. In the opening
sessions, a number of exceedingly grave charges
affecting directors, policies and activities of the
Authority were made. In the course of the in
vestigation, which will take a substantial length
of time to complete, all parties involved will be
heard, and will be given every opportunity to
present their side.
The important thing is to make this investi
gation thorough and impartial. Charges and
countercharges must be weighed, not in the light
of politics or of partisan considerations, but in
the light of truth. Nothing relevant must be
kept hidden. No one must be whitewashed.
The senators and representatives on the in
vestigating board are charged with a grave re
sponsibility. Few investigations in our congres- ,
sional history have been as important. Far more
is involved in this question than whether money ;
was wasted or spent wisely, or whether the TVA j
has been administered efficiently or inefficient- «
ly. The morals of government are inextricably i
involved in the TVA. And also involved is a great l
question of governmental policy that cannot help F
but affect every taxpayer, every worker, every 1
investor, and every private enterprise in this
country. *
Millions of thinking citizens will be watch- fc
ing the TVA investigation. They want the truth 1
—plain and unprejudiced. 8
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