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THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CA ROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28,1938 THE ZEBULONRECORD s' North Carolina v / P*IIS ASSOCIATION Vi Published Every Friday By THE RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY Zcbulon. North Carolina THEO. B. DAVIS, Editor MRS. THEO. B. DAVIS, AssormU Editor Entered as second class mail matter June 26, 1925, at the Postoffice at Zebulon, North Carolina. Subscription Rates: 1 Year SI.OO 6 Months 60c, S Months tOc. All subscriptions due and payable in advance Advertising Rates On Request Dsath notices as news, first publication free. Obituaries tributes, cards of thanks, published at a minimum charge of 13c per column inch. ZEBULON’S DELINQUENT TAX LIST o Elsewhere in this paper will be found an ar ticle about our local government and its indebt edness. Every citizen appreciates the very diffi cult position our town Board occupies. This has been greatly aggravated by long standing debts that are in process of refinancing if not liquidation. Being a taxpayer, we have for years insisted on reasonable publicity being given through the press of just how the town’s business affairs stood. But this has not been done. The people generally are ignorant of both the laws and the financial affairs of the town. If an audit of the town’s books has ever been published, we do not know it. Yet, we understand this is required by law. If our present Board of Commissioners will let the citizens know exactly how the town af fairs stand, we believe the people will take a deeper interest in cooperating to lighten the Commissioners’ responsibilities. On the other hand, these men have been elected to represent the citizens of Zebulon. They meet frequently and stay long to discuss and devise ways and means of settling knotty problems. The money must be provided for current expenses and also to pay the interest on bonds and other matters. When $25,000 in de linquent taxes accumulate, there is something wrong with our government. We do not believe the fault lies altogether with the Commissioners. The tax collector has personally requested pay ment of these back taxes. Paid public notices have been made. Many people have received all this with the same composure, if not indiffer ence, that they would a grocer’s bill or other per sonal obligation. Mayor Privette, in a private conversation, gave the editor to understand that the time has come to cease crying wolf, wolf, and to seek the recourse offered by the law in collecting these taxes. We believe this is exactly what the aver age citizen wants him to do. And when it is done, it will be better for all concerned —the de linquent taxpayer and the town of Zebulon. Let’s pay up! Recorder’s Court Two sessions of the local Record ers Court are included in this re port —one held two weeks ago and the other last week. First Court It seems that within the Hicks family there was a sort of family misunderstanding and one, Troy Watkins, a relative, armed with “a deadly weapon”, namely, a poc ket knife, went after Otis Hicks and his son. For his fun if such it may be called, he paid a fine of $5 .00 and the costs. Will Austin, a colored man for got his marriage vows by failing to provide bread, meat and mo lasses for his family. Judge Rhodes ordered him to support his family or else. . . . Hurley Horton went on a ram. page at the Riley Hill colored Bap tist church with a shot gun. No damage was done except a few shot went through a girl’s fall hat, yet for such threatening and dan gerous business Hurley will work on the highways for one year. A month ago Guy Dean was be fore the court for getting cut (?) with a white handled razor in the hands of another. Guy learned fast, got his razor and went after a white man. The razor seems to have slashed only air, so the court fined him $5.00 and costs. He also must behave himself for one year. Clarence Morgan made his car go like it was drunk, only it was Clarence instead of the car that was full of booze. He was put on probation for one year and paid the costs of the court action. Four years ago Harvey Lee Hodge broke into a home and at tempted, so the records show, to commit rape. He left the commun ity, but just could not stay away, or thought the law forgets. On POLITICS SUPERSEDES THE LAW o Two men ran for Congress. Both claimed to be elected. The State Board of Elections, ap pointed by legislative enactment for such a pur pose, sat for days and decided that Mr. Deane was legally elected and so ordered. Judge Har ris found the problem too knotty, so passed it on to the Supreme Court. That august body tossed the whole matter back to the judge, the Board, or anybody who could or would legally settle the matter. After sundry delays of Boards, judges ana laws, the matter again came into the hands of politics and three lawyers quickly handed out their decision. It is not known on what they based their decision. On their first round it is reported they differed. Then they decided to agree and declared Mr. Burgin the winner. This whole procedure of the march of the majority of the law is a sad comment on our election laws and law in general. When the law breaks down as seems to be true in this case, and matters of right and justice have to go be yond the law to be settled, there is something fundamentally wrong with the wheels that grind out justice to the people of our state. If the State Election Board is not legally competent to rule on such matters as this, pray then what are they competent legally to do? If, when creating this department, our legislature did not provide teeth that could chew such tough problems, then the next should provide them. And we would suggest that it make them two pairs of teeth in case . oOo THE LABOR STANDARD ACT .o It is, perhaps, too soon to form an opinion of the value to business and labor of the Labor Standard Act. No doubt it will benefit a great many people, but at the same time there will be others who will suffer thereby. If all men were pegs of the same size, then there would be little trouble in fitting them in holes of equal size. But no one can argue that because all men were created equal, that their earning power is equal. In our own business we have had men physically equal, yet the one could produce twice the pro duct of the other. For the safety of our busi ness we necessarily had to pay the better pro ducer larger wages. Our opinion is that the effort of the New Deal to “put a floor under the feet and a ceiling over the head” of the working man will never work except in a general way. Whenever it seeks to pay all laborers for the same type of work the same wages the system will fall down. This is a beautiful theory, like a great many other things our government has tried, but it will not work except where men are found of equal ability in filling the same job. There are thousands of small businesses that will be ruined if Mr. Andrews insists on equality of wage for all men and industries of equal ability and size. If by nature a man is un able to produce enough to justify the wage de manded, then the only fair thing to do is for the government to levy a tax on all business to pro vide the money to pay the difference in what the his return Sheriff Massey nabbed him and he was haled before the court. Probable cause was found and Harvey was sent to the county jail without bond to await the Superior Court’s verdict. When a woman is furious, drunk or sober, men had better beware. Mary Pace filled up on good ABC or bad bootleg liquor and assaulted one, Elmer Harris. She was placed in the town jail to cool off, but did not cool very fast. She breathed out excessive profanity along with liquor stench. Preston Chamblee, landlord, bailed Mary out, put her in his car and drove away. But Mary had to express her feelings some way, so kicked out a glass in Mr. Chamblee’s car. In court she was very sober when Judge Rhodes told her she could go free if she would pay $43.15 to satisfy the demands of the law. Douglass Perry was overtaken in a fault, that of operating a car without a license. Judgment was suspended on condition that he pay the court’s expenses for his violation which amounted to $13.85. Johnny Warren, his wife, Beadie and Otis Woodard decided to cele brate something or other on a Sunday night. They chose in front of the Baptist church for their celebration. So while the preacher preached inside’ the church these three carried on outside. Beadie got the prize for the loudest curs ing which was a SIO.OO fine and the costs amounting to $16.00. Johnny and Otis tied on second prize and the judge divided it equally between the two totaling SIO.OO fine and $21.00 costs. Carl Mobley of Williamston was in somewhat of a hurry as the records show that he operated aj truck at an excessive speed. Fa the same he paid $14.85 costs, i Second Court Thomas Carter and son 1 found that North Carolina still some laws against bootleg lij They were charged with theJ ufacture and possession of nJ paid liquor. Tom got 6 montl Dave 4 on the roads. This wj pended on payment of costs. They decided they cfl off with less work or nfl appealed their case to the* Court. John Coley was before for careless and reckle, and paid a $lO fine anj for his taking liberty wj June Jones and Heni assumed the rights anl of married folks with! of magistrate or minist* immoral conduct they® tenced to 30 days ini sentence was suspenc* ment of the court cos* Allen Perry was fl more or less brandy tax paid whiskey.” Hv y -iimi I ( BAD ANY HEAC I «. nurse vj I suffered from headaches. I ped them uJ commended® I NERVINE. H j ine stops hfl \ they get a H Three I found DR. M| NerrousnMj ness due Hj | digestionmß Travel | Get DR.fl| 1 INE at yoifl| I Large btl. S®§| EFFEKVKiBH I Large nkg It, v i TO EXPLAIN The editor of this paper is forced to make public ex planation of a matter which might otherwise be considered private. Recently there came to the office a woman who intro duced herself as Mrs. Ruth DeHaven and who wished to secure subscribers on commis sion for The Zebulon Record. The references she gave as sured us thatshiMray^to^^
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