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THEZEBULON RECORD Carolina v -\ /PBESS ASSOCIATION - © ' Published Every Friday By THE RECOUP PC BLISHI NO COMPANY Zebulon, North Carolina THEO. B. DAVIS, Editor MItS. THEO. B. DAVIS, Associate 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. UP IN “GOD’S COUNTRY” Rev. O. L. Stringfield could refer to the mountains of North Carolina as “God’s country” in away that made one feel that Western North Carolina was just about as near heaven in other respects than elevation as any place on earth. While raised among the mountains, the editor thought he had seen big mountains till he rode and tramped around Grandfather mountain last week. Climbing The N. C. Press Association met at Blowing Rock July 14-16. Leaving Zebulon Thursday afternoon with Lee Roy Harris, shop foreman, we rode for more than 200 miles over roads, after leaving Winston-Salem, that were both steep and crooked. One not used to riding sharp curves, will sometimes get seasick. Perhaps mountain sick would be the more correct ex pression. However, the feeling is not different. The road winds up over hills and into valleys so gradually that one does not realize how fast he is climbing till he reaches a peak and looks down on the world below. The journey was made in about hours —about 225 miles. The Press Association The opening session was at 8 o’clock Thurs day night. This meeting was more or less formal. The chief address was by David Ovens of Char lotte. It was a mixture of sense and nonsense. One thing he emphasized is that newspapers are not truthful. After adjournment the younger set danced, older ones played bridge, the oldest went to bed. At least one of them did. The morning session of Friday began about 9:30 and lasted till noon. Group meetings for week ly and daily papers were held. Advertising and other practical matters were considered. At nite a banquet wgs given and an address was made by Francis S. Harmon, a movie director. On Saturday morning addresses were made by W. C. Lassiter, attorney for the Association and Major A. L. Fletcher, N. C. Commissioner of Labor. The following officers were elected for the next year*: Talbot Patrick, Goldsboro News- Argus, President; Mrs. F. E. McCullough, Blad en County Journal, Vice-President; Miss Bea - jr trice Cobb, Morganton News-Herald, Secretary- Treasurer; B. Arp Lawrence, Mecklenburg Times Historian. A memorial service was held for the following newspaper men who had died during the pasf'^par : Robt. j. P. Rawley, W. C. Manning arid ißone H. Lewis. The Association yen* on record urging the legislature to Set Tuesday as the day'for hold ing primaries instead of Saturday and to provide for closing of jphe polls at 6 p. m. instead of 7 P- m- - V ; '.r The Mountains Friday afternoon was given over to seeing bigger things than a Press Association. Blowing Rock, Grandfather mountain and Linville were visited. Mr. Harris tested the much advertised handkerchief return at Blowing Rock. He threw it down, but it came back. Then putting a rock in it, he cast again. When the stone fell the hand kerchief returned. A toll road leads from the highway up Grandfather mountain for three miles. It is steep and undergrowth grows densely on either side. One does not realize what is there till he comes into the opening near the summit onto a great floored space for parking. A climb THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY 22,1938. of a half mile brings one to the first peak of Grandfather. There are two others farther on that are still higher. One of these is called Grandmother. One climbs upward over rocks that are bare save for a cluster of rhododendron or wild lettuce here and there as he nears the top When the summit is reached everything is rock, bare and blazing in the sun. Pools of water from rain the night before, stood in bowls worn in the rocks. Linville valley lay miles below. A train could be heard somewhere far away puff ing up the valley towards Johnston City, Ten nessee. To the south could be seen a bare space where the scenic highway was being graded. Mount Mitchell like a blue pencil line could be seen southwestward towering high above the lesser peaks. The warden told us that we stood on the oldest known rock in the world according to the wisest geologists. Temperature While Zebulon was sweltering in a temper ature of around 100, Blowing Rock barely went above 70 and the average temperature during the two days spent there was under 70 degrees. Boone is over 3300 feet high, Bowing Rock a round 3500, Grandfather mountain is over 5900 feet high. Gambling At Blowing Rock in cases, hotels and other public places are found a number of gambling devices. And the people played the game! At least the newspaper folks did. Without benefit of clergy or consent, prizes were provided for ladies of the Press Association to play bridge Friday morning. A crowd of the press early and late gathered around the slot machines. Not only men but women indulged their gambling in stincts. We heard it on good authority that one man lost $35.00 playing. A number of the mem bers had a regular game of crap on Friday even ing after the session and the fortunate man won the pot—s3l.oo. Some one said newspaper publishers are nothing but gamblers any way when they go into the printing business. Some of those who unhesitatingly played the machines at Blowing Rock doubtless would not think of doing such back home. One wonders what such editors would do back home if called on to help rid the community of such degrading devices for the sake of children who will be the leaders by and by. The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the slot machine gets the wielder when he goes to Blowing Rock. Appalachian College A whole page could be interestingly written about Appalachian State Teachers College. As the guests of the college we ate dinner in the college cafeteria. A dinner of corn on cob, Eng lish peas, roast beef, butter, salad, gravy, bread, tea, milk and ice cream all to cost not over 30 cents. A 600 acre farm supplies all the beef and pork meats used by the college and also all the vegetables used in season. Many fruits and veg etables are canned. The college has its own re frigerating plant. The exhaust steam from the power plant is used to heat the buildings and also to heat water. The power plant furnishes power for the town of Boone and also subsidizes the plant in Blowing Rock. They have two hydro plants besides the steam plant. Large brick and stone buildings are scattered over the slopes on either side of the little valley. While no survey could g?ve order to them, yet the arrangement is wphderful in its natural setting. A mdderp infirmary has just been com pleted. Seventeen new residences of brick and stoqe are being built for faculty members of whom ihere ere 85. From what we saw and learn ed, President Doughton is the most practical man in the state who heads one of our larger in stitutions. As a final proof, he has succeeded in giving the best educational and other advantag es for the lowest cost of all our schools in North Carolina. A thousand students now matriculate in the college. When dormitories now in process of construction are completed 1250 students may be housed and educated in its walls. Roadside Glimpses Between Winston-Salem and Yadkinville there is a place by the road-side called Pfaff’s Tavern. And it looks like a place to get good things to eat. An elderly woman was seen by the road with a big old-fashioned slat bonnet on her head and 'a big gum tooth (snuff) brush in her mouth. For more than 100 miles one rides towards Boone without seeing even a stalk of cotton. Just beyond N. Wilkesboro is a plape called “Car Grave.’’ Dozens if not a hundred of cars are to be seen. Most of them appear to have been burned and all were so battered that no part seems possible to be repaired. Among the cars was a large Carolina Coach Co.’s bus. Most of these were wrecked beyond repair on the mountain roads. Every few miles one sees a neatly painted sign by the roadside something like this: “New Hope Church 1% miles.” Such a sign was seen on the side of a mountain more than 5000 feet high near Grandfather Mountain. Acres and acres are planted in cabbage in Watauga and oth er counties around. While the [ farmers get only about two cents per pound, they make more from an acre than many farmers down east do on an acre planted in tobacco. Blackberries are not yet ripe in the mountains. Cherries are just gone. Yet in Yadkin county j tobacco is being barned. While at breakfast in a case in Blowing Rock, a woman from New York asked, “Where are you from?” When told, “from Zebulon”, after waiting a mo ment she asked: “Is that in the United States?” ) OPEN FORUM THE LOW DOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE Fellow Farmers: I do not often get steamed up and froth at the mouth or excited about what is going or not going on. Most stuff being done, you for get about it anyway, by tomorrow, and all you get out of stewin’ around, is a bad stomach. And I want to preserve my stomach for things like baked beans, etc., which my Susie, she is a champion at fix ing up. But once in a full moon some thing happens that gives me a half-way pain in the neck, and the latest, it is this talk about helping'the farmer—like it used to be the fashion to get elected pop pin’ off about electric lights. ' But farmers, I feel more like en vying them, than being sorry. You don’t see any farmer who is worth a hoot, going hungry like people in the city. He just waltzes out there and digs a few potatoes and car rots, and his wife pops a chicken in the skillet— and depression number one or depression number 2, it makes no difference. Feeling sorry for a farmer hid ing behind a plate of fried chicken —brother that is comedy. • Yours, with the low down, JO SERRA. FAMILY NECESSITIES Sewing machines “hold their I own” in numbers in American I homes. But stoves have been dis- I carded for heating plants. The I open milk-pan in the cella» has I been promoted to an honored place I in the Frigidaire. Oil lamps are I scarce. ■ Three out of every four families I in the United States own a radio I —a device that was in its cats-1 whiskers stage less than 20 years I ago. Piano ownership in villages B ranges from 27 to 42 per cent of I homes, and phonographs— the rage I before radios, are only about half as numerous as pianos. Bicycles are having a steady boom in popu larity, but the Government statis ticians have neglected to supply figures about them. A recent Government statement says that “American village life definitely includes the automobile.” The cars are 100 per cent superior to the models of 20 years ago, and standard machines are only about
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