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PAGE TWO THE ZEBULON RECORD s'" North Carolina vA. /PttSS ASSOCIATiON*)} \e^ Published Every Friday By THI RECORD PUBLISHING COMPART Zebulon. North Carolina THEO. B. DAVIS, Editor MRS. THEO. H. DAVIS, Associate Editor Entered as second class mall matter June 28, 1925, at the Postoffice at Zebulon, North Carolina. Subscription Rates: 1 Year SI.OO 8 Months 60c, S 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. SOMETHING MORE TERRIBLE THAN THE TERRIBLE TURK Only a week ago one of the most unusual men of modern times died in Turkey. At the close of the great war, he proved himself a match to the greatest diplomats of more pro gressive peoples and won a place for himself and his people among the nations. He instituted re forms previously considered impossible among his own people, such as to attract the attention and move the admiration of the world. He made his nation modern socially and politically. But mastering men, he met a foe more terrible than the most terrible Turk. That foe was drink. It gripped him, held him and mastered him. At the last it bit, it stung it killed. We have known more than one citizen in this community who was led captive by this se ducer to his ruin and death. Yet others will not or cannot learn from these terrible examples and so follow on, perhaps to the same sad end. oOo GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE From the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the Jews have been God’s chosen people, except when they were not! As they forgot him and went a-whoring after other gods, as the Book tells, God delivered them into the hands of their enemies and they have suffered as no other peo ple since they crucified the Christ. They claim to be a nation, yet are without a country. In business only do they equalize themselves with the Gentile. In society and re ligion they hold aloof. They have become a pe culiar people in a peculiar way. Their God seems to look on indifferently while Gentile dogs hound them to death. The dictators hate them, the democracies have no love for them. Their state is worse than the man without a country, for they have neither country nor God so far as his mercy or protection reaches. The Jews’ con dition is extremely desperate. One thinks of the words of the prophet: “Watchman, what of the night? . . . The morn ing cometh.” The promise of God to restore Is rael will never be fulfilled till that people return to Him. Possibly their hopelessness to find re lief in man, will compel them to turn to God. And when that day dawns, all the force of men and devils cannot keep the Jew out of Zion, but it will be spiritual kingdom. The gold which he now loves as life will be used for paving the streets on which his feet tread in the other Je rusalem. And the blessed knowledge is that all the promises to the regenerated Jew are also the Gentile’s for the seeking on conditions God pro poses. The Jew may be godless and wicked, but perhaps less so than many who profess faith, love and loyalty to the Jew whose life is an in spiration to believers and whose death was for the redemption of both Jew and Gentile, the Christ of God. oOo A DEMOCRACY AKIN TO AN AUTOCRACY The Baptist State Convention is the largest gathering of its kind in North Carolina. Probab ly 1,000 delegates met in the Tabernacle church in Raleigh this week. A Baptist meeting is the most democratic thing one ever sees. Every body is supposed to express his opinion if he wishes and then vote as he pleases. But sometimes the very thing on which they pride themselves most becomes the most dangerous, and may defeat the will of the ma- THE ZEBULON RECORD jority. To illustrate: One year ago a special committee was appointed to investigate and re port on tthe advisability of the denomination’s purchasing the Biblical Recorder from its pri vate owners. This committee gave no previous notice of its findings or recommendations be fore they offered them to the Convention as sembled. There were certain details that many wished to know. A limit of thirty minutes was given to the consideration of the matter. No one had an opportunity to study it in the light of the facts involved.. Most of the delegates were forced to act on the findings of the special com mittee. In this case the will of the majority pre vailed so far as the vote showed. However, judging the expression, nearly half the delegates did not vote at all. Our own opinion is that in matters of im portance of this character, there should have been given publicity previous to their considera tion by the body so that when the recommenda tions were offered each delegate might have previous knowledge and time for consideration, so his vote would record his opinion and not the findings of others. The strength and safety of a democracy, whether it be civil or religious, is found in full access and consideration of all the facts as they pertain to the matter at issue or in question. Then each individual may express his conviction intelligently. We believe if the committee in this particular instance had published their re port and recommendations at least thirty days previous to the meeting of the Convention, then from every viewpoint the final .action would have been much more satisfactory to all the Bap tists of the State. oOo THE JOB BIGGER THAN THE MAN The biggest man in America should be president of these United States. In Mr. Roose velt we have one of the biggest, but many are beginning to doubt his being the superman. He has accomplished much under great difficulties. Some of the progressive measures of the New Deal will live even if the Republican party comes into power. But our President has a weakness that shows itself more and more as his administra tion progresses. We do not believe he wants to be a dictator such as are found in Europe, but he likes power. He is not satisfied with running the government in name but wants to rule it in fact. The job of supervising the whole setup of alphabetical repeating relief departments that employ about one-tenth of the population is too big for even a Roosevelt. The real test of a big executive is his wisdom in selecting proper heads who work under him and are loyal to his policies. Every day one hears of more waste till he expects to see evidence of it wherever one of the government’s special departments func tions. For instance: Up in a New England city a chief and a number of assistants are busy count ing the light poles and even the bulbs found in the place. The city manager has blue prints that show the location of every pole and light in the city and he says he has a complete list of the exact number. Yet we are told that months will be used and thousands of dollars spent in get ting facts that will be wholly useless for any practical purpose. We are told that this sort of thing is going on all over the country. Even in Raleigh a number of both white and colored men are busy making a housing survey that will probably be of little practical value to anybody. Big business has been lukewarm if not an tagonistic to the president for sometime and this opposition is growing with a tide that can be heard all over the land. Unless our president heads up the many spending agencies of the government with men who are more interested in saving the people’s money than they are in feathering their own nests, men who will cut out unnecessary expense and make every dollar spent under their direction count for the most possible good to all concerned, then this grow ing criticism will become a flood that will safeep the president and his-party out of power two years hence. 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