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THE ZEBULON RECORD MEMBER NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION Published Every Friday By THE KE( OKU PUBLIBHINO COMPANY /.rtiulon, North Carolina THEO. H. I»AVIH, Editor MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS, Annotate Editor Entered as second class mail matter June 26, 1925, at the Postoffice at Zebulon, North Carolina. Subscription Rates: 1 Year 11.00 6 Months 60c, 3 Months 40c. All subscriptions due and payable in advance Advertising- Rates On Request Death notices as news, first publication free. Obituaries tributes, cards of thanks, published at a minimum charge of 13c per column inch. WITHOUT COMMENT The following comments were given to the editor by a citizen of another county. We give them as told us and leave our readers to form their own opinions relative thereto: The county has an ABC store. It has a full time clerk who gets $125.00 a month. He also has an assistant on occasion who gets $75.00. In the community live a man and his wife. They are 60 years old. He is totally disabled. All they have to live on is what the wife makes on a few acres of land, half belonging to another man. Sometime ago she found there was a de mand for illicit liquor at profit. Needing funds on which to live she sold some. A detective was hired for one week, receiv ing SIOO for his services. He secured evidence to convict the woman of selling one pint of li quor which she probably secured froif the county owned liquor store. The county sales man got his $125.00 for his sale to the woman and other citizens; the detective got his SIOO for discovering that the woman had sold a pint of liquor; and the woman who had sold the pint to buy bread got six months in jail! WHEN CLOUDS RETURN AFTER THE RAIN Since the first efforts at crop control when with more or less enthusiasm farmers and stock raisers plowed under third rows, killed pigs and sows, and otherwise regulated matters mundane we have viewed with mixed feelings the progress of this movement. At present we are thinking of the tobacco crop and allotments thereof. What with the rain and plant diseases and ene mies, it appears that the only certain thing a bout it all is that man knows not how to plan for the elements. - t ■' STRANGE TIDINGS o Almost as strange as an editorial that does not criticise, advise, suggest and preach is the following because it is so different! For a change we give it to our readers. It is taken from the Christian Science Monitor. o Curious country, the United States! Tele phone poles are growing in Nebraska. Shingles are being mined in New Jersey. The rye on a western farm is too tall to cut. And they are mowing the roof in Washington, D. C. It’s like this: A number of green poles were used to replace old ones along a prairie highway this spring, and rain has been so plenti ful that small branches have sprouted on them. Thus far no one has suggested plowing them under. Gianl cedars have been discovered buried in Jersey swamplands, from five to ten feet below marsh level. The logs are still so well preserved after centuries that they are being mined, brought to the surface and cut into shingles. It was a farmer near Franklin, Neb., who re ported the heavy rains had made his field of rye grow to a height of six feet and two inches —too high for the binder, and he doesn’t know how to cut it. And where, of all places, are they mowing the roof but at the White House! When the ex ecutive offices were remodeled early in the Roosevelt administration, larger file rooms were constructed at the basement level extending many feet back from the main building. In order THE ZEBULON RECORD. ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 24,1938. to preserve the appearance of the grounds and to spare the lawn on which the President’s office looks out, the rooms are below ground and the roof is sodded over. So any day the farmer from Hyde Park may glance out the White House window and see a workman running the lawn mower over the roof as well as the rest of the lawn. And hardly any of this year’s crop of fishing stories or summer sea serpents have appeared. POWELL’S FOLLY o Quite a furore in local dailies the past few days over discovery that Charlie Powell’s mother has been receiving about $21.12 a month in a sewing room at Oxford. Mr. Powell is chairman of the North Carolina Unemployment Commis sion at a salary of $5,500 a year and the papers profess horror that he should allow his mother to go “on relief.” Mr. Powell’s mistake was in not getting his mother a job that paid S2OO a month instead of $21.12. Mothers and wives of other high sal aried persons have these good jobs and nothing is said about it. For instance: The mother of the solicitor of this judicial district is superintendent of wel fare for Wake county at a salary more than ten times that drawn by Mrs. Powell. The wife of the mayor of Raleigh was for some time on the ERA payroll at a good salary as a supervisor. So was the wife of a former chairman of the board of county commissioners, who is a reasonably wealthy man. Federal, state and county relief offices em ploy wives and daughters of high officials and it is apparently the accepted thing. Salaries of WPA administrators, supervis ors, stenographers, ditch diggers, privy builders, sewing room workers, etc., all come from the same source—the billions of dollars appropriat ed for relief. Custom has estahUcßoA « that if the pay a government servi on which to subsi If Mrs. Powt her S2OO a montl honored and bar official. Such hoi the state welfare of a well-known rectOF of the old is a prominent a Mr. Powell er’s connection that if any way which she rece' ury he will pa’ If Mrs. Powell the pittance sh funding it is fi precedent; foi sioners of labo have to refun treasury by their immediate relatives there just will not be room at the wailing wall for them — and money lenders will be stampeded. Perhaps the placing of Mrs. Betty G. Powell on the sewing room roll at Oxford is hard to justify. Perhaps the criticism leveled at Chair man Charlie is proper. But why make such a hullaballoo about it, when the payrolls of re lief agencies are and have been all the while packed with mothers, wives and daughters of other officials? Is it really true that the man who steals a dollar goes to jail, while the man who steals a million goes to Congress? Is it shameful to accept from the government relief fhnds a pittance for honest work, and honorable to draw from the same fund a salary twice as large as the recipient could earn in private in dustry? This writer does not know Mrs. Powell. He professes no love whatever for her son Charlie. But simple justice revolts at the policy of hold ing up one person to scorn and another to honor for doing exactly the same thing. Speaking of knowledge, the poet once ad vised his readers to drink deep or touch not the spring. The same advice applies to getting money from relief. Dig deep and you’ll be honored; dig up just what you need and you’ll be scorned. The Courier Journal | Alvin S. Bridges Last rites were held for Alvin i Sterling- Bridges of Zebulon, Mon : day afternoon at 4:00 o’clock in the Wakefield Baptist Church. Scripture, prayer, and beautiful ly telling words by his pastor, the Rev. Carl L. Ousley were followed I by a loving tribute spoken by Dr. W. R. Cullom of Wake Forest. Mrs. .Percy Pace and Mrs. Clif ton Pippin sang “The Pearly White City” and a choir of voices selected from Wakefield and Zeb ulon sang the hymns ‘‘Sun of My Soul” and “Saved By Grace.” Commitment was in the Wakefield cemetery. Mr. Bridges was a Baptist, a Junior, and until illness became his lot a Rotarian and Legionnaire. He was the beloved letter carrier for the people of Zebulon route 1, who brought a very large circlet of flowers. Many, many flowers were banked in the church. From the eleven brothers and sisters came a wheel with a missing spoke. After a long period of illness death came to him of a heart ail ment in the Veterans Hospital at Columbia, S. C., where his last weeks were spent, every attention being given him by capable physi cians and nurses, and with his wife and a number of relatives from time to time there to cheer him on. The eleven remaining brothers and sisters are: W. S. and Char lie Bridges of Raleigh, Early and Henry Lee Bridges of Greensboro, Thomas Bridges of Fuquay Springs, Julian Bridges of Win ston-Salem, Edward Bridges of Morganton, Miss Etta Bridges of Carolina Beach and Willow Springs, Mrs. R. R. Pendergraft of Durham, Mrs. N. A. Bailey of w ake Forest and Mrs. Frank rumpler of Raleigh. Nov. 26th, 1919 Mr. Bridges was arried to Miss Lida Howell Page Morrisville, N. C. She sur ves him, with a daughter, Edith, n, and a son, John Howell, ght. !0Y SCOUT NEWS Troop Number 40, Zebulon Boy out Troop, met Saturday even ?at the Woman’s Club. At our eting we were given some first id camp information from three our Scouts who have just re n®d from spending a very valu e week at the new Scout camp Lake Sycamore. The boys were it so very actively interested ile at camp that in no case was re a chance to become homesick, reality the result has been that ry boy is sick for camp and all ce definite plans to return for I Gat Your Cloth** I iIOSPITAI’cUWa IN^H^IUEBOxI 1 OUR PRICE I Concentrated Super Suds (for clothes) 2 for 19c Palmolive Soap 3 for 20c Super Suds (for washing dishes 2 for 19c Octagon Soap 4 for 19c Octagon Powder 3 for 14c Octagon Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Octagon Granulated 2 for 19c Octagon Chips 2 for 19c Octagon Cleanser 2 for 9c Crystal White Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Klex Soap 2 for 9c Hollywood Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Universal Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Vogue Toilet Soap 3 for 14c Temple’s Market ZEBULON, N. C. !an additional week at camp thia I summer if possible and have high hopes of spending the entire sea son there next summer. Each boy has been able to work off some of his requirements for advanced rank in Scouting and each engaged in some handicraft. Our boys all have taken up handicraft work in leather. Each boy was instructed in swimming, life-saving, canoe ing, and in ceremonial procedure. The values derived from the con tact with other Scouts, the disci pline enforced at camp, and a full week of supervised play offer our troop a real opportunity. Wilbur Debnam, Donald Massey, R. H. Brantley, and James Robert Fow ler, Harmon Mclntire, Dave Finch, Jack Liles, and Jack Gregory have all spent a week at the camp. Jack Gregory is spending a five week period at camp. It is hoped that many other of our boys may go soon. A week end camping trip is planned for the coming week end under the leadership of the Scout master. All Scouts see Charles Hinton for information. Charles is acting as troop scribe during the absence of our troop scribe, Jack Gregory. Our next regular Scout meeting will be held at the Woman’s Club on July 2 at 7:30. 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