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LISTEN! IT IS NOT TOO LATE VOLUME XML This, That, Cr | che Other By MRS. THEO. B- DAVIS ■ MISCELLANEOUS Br PARAGRAPHS If “Are you helping out with the r Vacation Bible School this year?” # I asked Ill's. Ralph Isunn. “I cer tainly am,” she replied, “I am sending four children to it every day." The lour are her husband’s young brother and sister, her own little daughter and a young cous in who is visiting them. To my mind getting that many off ev , apry day is a very real help in the fyuftchool. ■TR One of housekeeping's surprises is how many pieces a water glass ! can fly into when it makes up its mind to commit suicide- You know how sometimes a glass will stand almost any treatment; then again, if you barely look carelessly at it the crash comes. However, it may be more a matter of tempera ture than of temperament. We have finished what I hope is a final experiment with sweet cherries in this climate and soil. pypwßecause both the head of the house and I came from the moun + tains it has taken us years to realize that they are right who say one need not try to grow here the cherries we used to know and love. Sour cherries will do well here as wdll some that are sweet: but not the big blackhearts or the wide-sweeping late red ones. With # memories of a cherry tree more nine feet around we have time and again bought young / only to see them make a brave start, slow down and at last die Pulled up, o r grubbed up, each showed a knarled, knotty root _ system instead of the mass of necessary for enduring -growth. I wish they had died all at once, instead of waiting about two years. This is a lovely season, and if I can only live till the privet ▼ bushes, and the chinaberry trees >P blooming, I expect to be good for much longer, barring fire, flood and catastrophe. Somehow the scent of hedge and of china berry sickens me until it takes ~ strong, bitter coffee to make life I se< m anywhere near right again. Yet the majority like the fra jgrance of both, and they are or namental « f There are various so-called tests for determining when boys have * put away childish things, becom ing adult. One fairly reliable • rule is to note when they quit begging to scrape the bowl in which cake batter was beaten up * Wr the pan -n which the icing was cooked. Hilda Lewis told me this week about being asked by Mrs. George Broughton to bring some nastur tium seed from town. Hilda kept 9 saying “nasturtium, nasturtium” all the way to the store and then went in and asked for nar- Jissus seed. She said the clerk unted for some time through the packages and at last asked her if she could have meant nastur tium- Then the name came back to her mind, sc Mrs. Broughton was not disappointed. i One day recently I was inspect ing boxes of berries in Temple Market and turning to Jack Tem ple I asked. “Which is the best m bg% of all?” “The other one.” Jack solemnly replied. And I think he was right. No matter which box I select, the other one seems better We have had a rhubarb pie from our own pie-plants, but my husband found it not half so good as those his mother used to make j I A w p.en he was a boy. I knew it I wouldn’t be; and it is less my I cooking than his taste and appe that are responsible. Years P a(r< , rhubarb pies were the first I fresh fruits of the garden, if long I (Continued on Page Three) Zubxilon Stururi* Johnston Sunday Schools to Meet On next Sunday afternoon there will be a meeting of the Johnston Baptist Sunday Schools at Be thesda Baptist Church. This church is about five miles west of Smithfield toward Clayton on the main highway. The meeting will open at 2:30 and continue until 4:00 o’clock. The devotional service will be led by Rev. H. F. Harrell. Following him. Mr. C. H. Brown will discuss the Vacation Bible School. Con ferences will be held on Sunday School work led by Associational Department Leaders. S pending Waste Pointed Out ! I n one of his recent columns, David Lawrence pointed out a groat and often overlooked danger in the governments present spend ing program. I “Drastic taxation the most severe Amerca has ever experi enced is planned,” he wrote. “And yet not a word is heard about cutting out wasteful ex- I penditures. “If the American people submit to a tax program such as is being rightly proposed to finance de fense and still permit spending as-usual on projects that can be omitted or else postponed, it will mean that the day of reckoning will bring an economic depression in the United States far more perilous than that of 1929-33- . ~ “Scarcely a week passes that there isn’4 some impetus given proliSts which are being plan nd on a big scale which have relatively little to do with de fense, but which are being drag ged into the picture with de i sense as an excuse .... Only an alert and aroused public opinion can do something about it and maybe the nation will have to or ganize its own economy campaign and make it an issue in the con gressional elections of 1942 ” Mr. Lawrence doesn’t just criti cize he points to definite places where major cuts in government spending are both possible and de sirable. There is, for instance, the proposal that $450,000,000 be spent on farm subsidy payments —a boost of $238,000,000 over last year. There is the fact that some $1,000,000,000 a year i = still being spent for relief, even though employment is at the high est level in our ’ history and in many sections there is a serious labor shortage. There is the fact that strong forces are behind measures to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the St. Law rence and other socialized power projects despite the undeniable evi dence which show's that the exist ing private utility industry i« 100 per cent ready and able to meet all present and prospective power needs and to develop and build new facilities with private njoncy, not with tax money. The Cham ber of Commerce of the United a* ist passed resolut asking that at least $2,000,000,000 be saved annually by curtailing non-defense spending and devoting this money to defense needs, hold ing down debt or tax requirements by that amount. Mr, I-awrtnce goes to the heart of the matter when he says that only the American people can do anything about this situation. | They are willing to spend any j amount necessary for defense. Are they willing to make unpre cedented tax and debt sacrifices merely to pay for political luxu ries, for experiments i n state so cialism, for a bigger and bigger bureaucracy, or for any activity which is not absolutely unavoid ' able. Governmental waste at this j time is a certain guarantee of an I unprecedented economic and soci al collapse at some future time In 1850 the two largest towns in North Carolina were Wilming ton and New Bern The concluding feature of the meeting will be an inspirational address by Rev C. L. Gillespie, pastor of the Smithfield Baptist church . The public is urged to attend. It is said that only one child out of three in Johnston County attends Sunday School. This meeting is held for the purpose of enlisting these children and older people in Sunday School work and attendance. Rev. A C. McCall is pastor of Bethesda Church. Photo Service Begun Here Mr. L. W. Alexander, member of Wakelon School faculty, has es tablished himself in the business of developing and enlarging pic tures- This business comes into being as results from a hobby that he began when he first came to Wakelon two years ago. He has fitted up the basement of his home for developing nega tives and making prints of all kinds. And he offers this expert service at a reasonable price. Not only may local people have the convenience of this quick service, but they will be helping this in fant industry along. Have your picture taken: carry the film to Mr. Alexander and let him show you results you will be proud of Hocutt-Braswell Wedding Miss Sadie Mae Hocutt and Wilson Bunn Braswell were mar ried Wednesday, May 21, at high noon in the Duke University Chapel. Only members of the two families were present. The Rev. G. Carl Lewis officiated. A program of nuptial music was played by Edward Hall Broadhead, organist- The couple entered together un attended. The bride wore an en semble of navy blue crepe. Acres series were navy and white. Sh- 1 wore an orchid corsage. They left immediately after the ceremony for a motor trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park* Th bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Costa William Hocutt of 7-ebulon. She attended Mere dith College and E. C. T. C- For the past three years she has been a member of the Princeton High School faculty. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. J A. Braswell and the late Mrs. Braswell of Zebulon. He is Rural Mail Carrier of Zebulon. The couple will make their home *in Zebulon after May 28, having an apartment with Mrs. R H. Jenkins. Three North Carolina counties border on the state of Georgia The chances are that not one per cent of the people living east of Greensboro know what these three counties are, so we’ll tell you; ' Cherokee, Clay and Macon- 1 Make Garden Additions Now There are still many vegetables that the farm family may plant in the home garden as late as June. Sweet com, field pears, New Zealand spinach, Swiss chard, lima and snap beans, okra, egg plant squash, and cucumbers are good crops to plant. In the moun tains, June is the month to plant the main crop of cabbage. It is suggested that the space betweeen the rows of vegetables ZEBULON, NORTH ( AKOLIN.y FRIDAY, MAY SO, 194! • > WILDLIFE Fly Fishermen Note An article in Ma\ “Southern Sp rtsman” magazine tolfs us .bout a bill that wou'd prohibit the I use of lega'ly killed wild bird j feathers for making flic-! Better act. fishermen! Rudderfish The “wreck fish” or rudderfish | derives its name from the fact that it has the curious habit of accom panying floating logs or planks, or of taking up its abode within float ing barrels or broketn boxes- i Two on One One of our readers of Citronelle, Alabama, Mr. Charles Stewart, was fishing in a Florida phosphate pit vhen his line back lashed. He was using an underwater minnow- It must have b en trailing along the bottom when a good sized fish hit it and brought the minnow to the top. Then he dived. “I finally got my backlash untangled,” writes Mr. Stewart, “and started reeling him in. I nearly fell over when I saw two fish one on the upper set of hooks and one on the lower- Their not fighting or pulling together couteracted real resistance so it was like pulling in a log. One weighed four and one quarter pounds and the other two and one quarter pounds. Boy, whatta thrill!” Fish Cleaning Flash It’s so much fun to catch ’em and such a job to clean ’em! Some fishermen come in so tired from a hard day afield that they much pre fer giving their fish away rather than go through the misery of cleaning them. The way some sportsmen go about this job makes it a pretty miserable situation all light! Try thic easy, quick method of cleaning sometime. Have a pail of water boiling on the stove or campfire- Place your fish, ju-c as it comes fr m the lake, in the lc iling water. B> much experi menting we have found that a two-pound bass should be left in the boiling water until you can count forty without hurrying. If the fish is bigger, add ten addition al counts for each pound—up to five pounds. Seventy counts will serve for all fish weighing over five pounds. Salt water fish are tougher, it seems Starting with a two pound fish, have fifty counts as par and then add fifteen for each additional pound. When your fish is removed from this boiling water, its fins can be pulled out by the roots. Then by slitting down the backbone and along the belly, fore and aft, the sca’ing can be accomplished by sim ply stripping off the skin- like peeling a banana. To complete the job then, all that is necessary is to cut the backbone back of the head and pull down and back. The en trails will come out fastened to the head Your fish is ready for the frying pan and it wasn’t so bad, after all! be utilized for a second planting of the same vegetable or a dif ferent one if the garden is small. June is also the month to be gin planning for the fall garden. As soon as the early or mid-sea son vegetables have been harvest ed and if the area occupied by these vegetables is to remain idle, the land should be cleaned of all dead plants and vines Next step is the broacasting of a liberal application of stable or Determined Bird Nests in Mailbox Bluebirds are small but at times show great tenacity of purpose, as is attested by the following story: Last year a bluebird tried over and over to build a nest in the mail box f the T. C. Pippin family. For days and days she patiently car tied grass and tiny twigs into the box only to have them taken out by the Pippins and the mail-car rier. One day Mrs- Pippin saw the bird fly across the road with a let ter and drop it in a field. But they finally discouraged her enough to keep her from nesting. This year the same bluebird or one from that family was again Sumner Here With C. P. L. John D. Sumner, formerly head : of the service department of the Carolina Powr and Light Com pany in Raleigh, who has been named manager of the Zebulon district of the company. The dis- j trict includes the Zebulon, Spring Hope, Nashville, Wendell, Bailey, and other communities in this section of the State. Sumner suc ceeds F. A. Woodcock who has been named manager of the Ox ford district of the company. Bell-Poole Vows Are Spoken Mr. and Mrs- J. V. Bell of Route One, Middlesex, N. C., an . nounce the marriage of their only daughter, RuDene to Frederick H. Poole, of Raleigh, on February 22 in Lawreneeville, Va., by Rev. David S. Hammock, pastor of the Lawreneeville Baptist Church. M rs. Poole graduated from the Corinth Holder High School in Johnston County on May 9 of this year. Mr. Poole, so n of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Poole of Clayton, N C., graduated from the Archer I<odgc High School in Johnston County. Mr. and Mrs- Poole will make their home-in Raleigh where Mr. Poole is employed at the Orange Crush Bottling Company. Colored Man Found Dead James Hartsfield, negro youth about 17, was found dead Sun day morning near where the Zebu lon dirt road enters Highway 39. Bruises were on his body and a wound was on his head- He is known to have been in a automo-, bile wreck Saturday night, but is <aid to have walked about two miles afterwards. Officer.' of the law are making an investigation. Stores Close In addition to stores listed las* week as clo-ing on Wednesday as ternoons until Tobacco Markets on the border open, City Market. Duality Food Store, and Page Sup ply Company will al-o close. chicken manure and acid phos phate and then plowing this ma terial under. After each rain the land should be cultivated and the grass and weeds kept down so as to have the soil in good condi tion for fall planting. Other areas not occupied should be prepared also for fall gardens. Insect control in the garden is important. Dust cabbage, collards, broccoli ,an dsnap beans with one pr cent rotenone dust to kill worms and bean beetles. determined to build in that same mailbox. And they thought they might as well humor her Each day Carrier Braswell carefully placed the mail inside so as not to disturb the tiny builder, and it was removed with equal care. The nest finished, eggs were laid in it, the bluebird brooded until they hatch ed, three younglings were cared for until they, were large enough to leave the nest. They are gone now; the box is | once more used for mail only; but the Pippins hope one brood this year will satisfy that bluebird. Moser Speaks To Rotarians Zebulon Rotarians held the 69th i consecutive 100 percent meeting : Friday night, if Hoyle Bridgers and Wilson Braswell make up their attendance. Judd Robertson had the pro gram. Mr. Moser was speaker, his | subject being of circumstances ! beyond our control circumstan i ccs so unrelated to purpose or de sires that they seem the product of an overwhelming fate. For that reason, Americans, regardless of opinions in the past, are seeking the psychological materials out of ! which to produce unity. When j | people find themselves in the I midst of a lot of open powder kegs it doesn’t matter who opened them but who is carrying the matches. He stated that war can be brought on by weakness or shortsighted ness at any time. It has happen ed before and can happen again; ] 81 percent of us seem to oppose the United States entering war; 82 percent of us seem to believe we will go into war. Is this the indicate n of a vast overpowering I fatalism? Do the American pe i pie no longer believe they can ! control their own destiny? Roy Park and Earnest L. Lay field were visitors from the Ral ! igh Club. Baptist School Ends Friday Tliis week brings to a close the two weeks Bible School held in our church. On Tuesday the enroll ment of the school was 123 and at that date the average atten dance was above 95. Much credit must be given the faculty mem hers for the fine way they cooper ated in making the school a suc cess. Those helping out this year have been: Mrs. John D. Horton, »pianist, Mrs. J. A. Young, Mrs. Thurman Murray, Mrs. K. P. Leo nard, Margaret Marshbum, and Doretha Parrish in the Beginner Dept.; Mr-. I. D. Gill, Mrs. Allen Pippin, Mrs Eugene Privette, and Mrs Billie Hopkins in the Primary Dept., Mrs. F. E. Bunn, Mrs. M. T. Debnam, Mrs. Wallace Chomblee, Mrs. Ferd Davis, and Mi Cl. „ Glover ip th<- Junior Dept., Mi - Mary Barrow, Mrs ('. C. Pippin, Mr. and Mrs CrifTin in tie- Intermediate Dept. The commencement pr* , r ram if the school will be held Sunday eve ning. At seven fifteen the hand work will be on exhibit for ail who care to see it, and at seven forty five the program will begin. For one part of the program mov ing pictures of the school will be shown. All in the community are invited. Bond Purchases Are Urged The Government needs money and that’s the reason why special bonds and stamps have been placed on the market. But the Treasury Department seems to be more enthusiastic over the bond program than the American pub- TO DONATE TO THE BOY SCOUT HUT Local Church News METHODIST CHURCH 42 members were present Sun day morning for Church service. 65 members attended Church during the month of May- Our aim is to get one hundred members to attend Church servi ces during the month of June. Sermon topics for June: 1. How People Have Found God 2. Doors We Shut Against God. 3. Bridges. 4 How to Overcome Worry. 5. Meet Yourself. Services for Sunday, June 1: Church school—10:00. Young people—7:ls. Church service 8:00- Sermon “How People Have Found God.” BAPTIST CHURCH Services for Sunday, June 1, are as follows: 9:45 Sunday School 11:00 Morning Worship. Ser mon subject: “How to Live For ever” i:ls Instead of the Young People’s groups this time will be civen for the parents and visitors to view the handwork of the Bible School which will he on exhibit. 7:45 Commencement program of Vacation Bible School. All are invited. WAKEFIELD BAPTIST 10 a.m., Sunday School. Mr. D. D. ChamlJee, Superintendent. 8 p.m., Worship Service. The Vacation Bible School which is now in progress will continue throughout next week. We are having a fine school, but there are a few more children who should attend. Those who have not yet enrolled may do so and receive profit from the remainder of the school. HEPHZIBAH BAPTIST 16 a.m., Sunday School, Mr. T. I ’■ Baker, Superintendent. l a.m., \\ orship Service, Ser* '■ion T pic, “The Child. Our Joy ind Responsibility”. Carter Dies Brantley Dies Mr Arabella Brantley Carter at the age of 71 died at her home near Zebulon on Monday night after an extended illness. The burial was on Tuesday after noon in the family cemetery. Funeral services were conduct ed by the Rev. A. D. Parrish- Survivors in the immediate family are the husband, Bertis B. Carter and a son. Theatre Rob r e J ; Sometime between the hour that Wakelon Theatre co-ed on Saturday night and Sund: m m ing a robber t >k about w-oty dollars frori tbi building. Manager .tack- i at ; to explain hov entr"’-.. was Ts - t ‘d, inclinin ' to the be!i< that cither du[ icat< k< y was ircd or that the thi< r contrived to be locked up i n t’ theatre, leaving by the door : fter securing the cash. No acre t has been made. The first public schools in North Carolina were opened in 1840 and the first State Superin tendent of Schools was Calvin H. Wiley, a native of Guilford Coun ty, who served from 1853 to 1866. lie because sales of these Na tional Defense Securities are be low expectations. If you don’t help the Government out on bonds that will pay you interest on your investment you are quite sure to “pay through the nose" in higher taxes. So, there is more than one way to figure out that bonds are a good buy. NUMBER 45