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V ■ ■ ■ Mi FOR VICTORY Volume XVIII. This, That, and j> the Other r By Mrs, Theo. B. Davis Quoted from last week's read ing: “Loundering reveals that if a towel is used as a mop, grit shortens its life.' Isn't science wonderful! Think of an educated man by long research finding out something any illiterate housemaid could tell him off hand. An account of a recent wed ding stated that “the bride wore cocoa embroidered marquisette with a pink hat and linen col ored allusions,” and I've puzzled over it ever since, wondering what y on earth the allusions could have * referred to. It sounded perfectly natural to read in one man's telling of his community, “The parson was a a peg on which we hung our il woes.” That’s how many of us use I our pastors. Os special encouragement was this sentence: “We must all be faithful, or else we arc little peo ple.” The author’s idea was that littleness depends more upon qual ity of effort than size of job. And this was found in another article: “Os every accomplish ment worth while nine-tenths is pure drudgery.” Os course the drudgery seldom shows and we 1 lose sight of it in viewing the fin - ished product; but it must have been endured. Most impressive of anything read lately is Thomas Wolfe's fc Anatomy of Loneliness, printed in Mercury for October. As a usual thing I don't ap prove wholly of Wolfe, though compelled to admit that his was a wonderful mind. But the article on loneliness commanded both ad fc miration and sympathy. I quote a few sentences from it. “For just as the Old Testament becomes the chronicle of the life of loneliness, the gospels of the New Testament, with the same unswerving unity, become the chronicle of the life of love. What Christ is saying always, what he never swerves from saying, what he says a thousand times and in a thousand different ways, but al ways with a central unity of belief is this: 'I am my Father’s son, and you are my brothers.' And the unity that binds us all together, that makes this earth a family and all men brothers and the sons of. God is love.” “The central purpose of Christ's life, therefore, is to destroy the life of loneliness and to establish here on earth the life of love. . . . And Christ himself who preached the life of love was yet as lonely as any man that ever lived. Yet I could not say that he was mistaken because he preached the life of love and fellowship, and lived and died in loneliness; nor would I dare assert his way was wrong because a billion men have since professed his way and never followed it." I wondered how much that last —have professed his way and never followed it might have influenced Wolfe to say . though the way and mean ing of Christ's life is a far far Lfcetter way and meaning than my K"V;n, yet I can never make it &T/e. . . . For I have found the Constant, everlasting weather of man’s life to be, not love, but , loneliness.” Anatomy of Loneliness i s us a posthumous book of She Zebulon 2Rrrnri» St frr BBHH riir ML mMf ■■■:■s 4 ; Pictured is Wladimir Selinsky, famous concert violinist, who will make a personal appearance in the state this winter. Rotary Club Holds Meeting The Rotary Club held another 100 per cent meeting October 11. Wilson Braswell had the program, his subject being “Citizenship a Full Time Job.” Wilson had asked a speaker to make the speech of the evening but lie failed to show up. Wilson told m a few words what he thought a good citizen should be. He was highly commended on his remarks. Wil son called on different members of the club for an expression on this subject. Every one that spoke said they could not add anything except what he had not said. He brought out that to be a good citi zen one must live and work for his fellow man and community. The expression was made that the Ro tary Club is an example as they foster every worthy cause for the benefit of humanity. The meaning of citizenship is a member of state or nation who enjoys political right and privileges. Food Campaign Under Way According to Dean I. O; Schaub, director of the N. C. State College Extension Service, the “Food for Freedom” campaign recently started on a Nation-wide basis, is aggressively under way in North Carolina. Every farm fam ily will be asked to participate, and to increase production in 1942 to help feed defense forces at home and abroad. Details of a house-to-house can vass, by means of which the food and feed production drive will be conducted, are being worked out at regional, county and commum ty meetings of agricultural and ru ral -welfare leaders. The Triple-A committeemen, who are the elec ted leaders of the farmers, will obtain the pledges necessary to meet the county goals of more food and feed next year. Regional educational and train ing meetings are scheduled Mon day, October 20, at Elizabeth City, Clinton, Raleigh, Lexington, and Waynesville, and on Tuesday. October 21, at New Bern, Hend erson, Rockingham, Shelby and Wilkesboro. County and commun ity meetings will follow as soon thereafter as they can be arranged. PHILIPPINES Despite the loss of European markets and other adverse effects of the European conflict, Philip pine export trade in 1941 has shown a marked improvement over that of last year. Wolfe’s writings, published this fall. It is not pleasant reading, but time spent on it is not wast ed. Poor Uncle Sam SIR: I read the colum by A1 Brown in your Sept. 6 issue and , think his “guess” is pretty near i right, except on the shortage at j the present time. The major oil companies all I have a large surplus storage ca pacity to take care of emergencies, and if they were really foresight cd business men, as soon as the government asked lor the 50 tank ers they would have at once looked around for some other means to keep these surplus stor age reservoirs full. The way was certainly available and it should have been quietly taken advantage of if the major oil companies did not have more important fish to fry. Twenty thousand tank cars de livering 200,000 barrels per day and only 174,000 barrels need to keep their surplus storage full! 1 am speaking now as an owner of a between-cities gasoline station. Mr. Government asked for 50 tankers (only a few from each major oil company.) This was a golden opportunity, and 1 mean golden! For years they have want ed a pipe line from Texas to the Atlantic, but because of the op position from the railroads and some government agencies they were blocked. Now, Uncle Sam, say the oil companies, taking these tankers will create a shortage, and the only way it can be relieved is for you to help us build a pipeline. This was agreed to, with government assistance. What a cheating for the government. But that isn’t all. The companies wanted more. So they said, now Uncle Sam, we must stop people from buying our gasoline so as to make it last. Who ever heard of a company wanting to do less business. So poor, blind Uncle Sam said, we will execute what you suggest, stop the motorists from buying from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. This was done, and the result was just what the major oil com panies anticipated. More gas was sold. But it was at their company owned stations in the centers of population, and not at the person ally-owned stations between cities. The between-cities stations sold from one-third to two-thirds less gas. When people plan to go any where at night and know they will be unable to get gas after 7 p. m., they naturally will have their tanks filled full where they start from and pass right by all be tween-cities stations. It is time the between-cities, pri vately - owrned station operators had something to say about this steal. BROOKS FARRAR South Easton, Mass. SIZE OF U. S. NO. 1 POTATOES The diameter of a U. S. No. 1 Irish potato shall not be less than 1 7-8 inches, and the diameter of j a U. S. No. 1 sweet potato shall not be less than 1 3-4 inches. Also, a sweet potato must not be more than 10 inches in length to meet the No. grade requirement. Baptist Church Services for Sunday, October 19, will be: 9:4s—Sunday school. 11:00 —Morning worship. Ser-! mon topic: “Building a Character ’ 7:00 —Young people. 7:30 —Evening worship. Mes sage. “To Go or To Stay.” G. J. GRIFFIN, Pastor ( Zebulon, North Carolina, Friday, October 17, 1911 Shown above is one ot the most rabid amatheur radio op erators in the South Fred Lipe of Wake Forest. Ringling Bros. Play Raleigh October 30 With Mr. and Mrs. Gargantua the Great, the world's most pub licized gorilla couple, as its sup cr-feature, the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey Circus will ex hihit in Raleigh on Thursday, Oc tober 30, bringing to that city 1,600 people. 5() elephants, 1,009 menagerie animals and hundreds of horses. The performances will start at 2:15 and 8:15 p. m., with the doors open at 1 and 7 p. m., admitting the public to the radi cally re-styled menagerie, gorilla tent, horse fair and big top all re-designed by Norman Bel Geddes, of New' York World's ! Fair Futurama fame. Among the outstanding features are: the new fairland fantasy, “Old King Cole and Mother i Goose," designed and costumed by Bel Geddes, with ensembles staged by the famous Albertina Rasch, Hollywood and New York mu sical show dance director; Alfred Court's three mixed groups of performing wild animals of al most every known specie, ap pearing simultaneously in three steel arenas; the new Birdland aerial ballet, starring Elly Ardel ty and costumed by Max Weldy of Paris; the many aerial and novelty aerobatic troupes from South America, headed by the famous Flying Diego-Fernandez acts; the new high school and liberty horse offerings, headed by Viscomte Roberto Vasconcellos, the famous Riding Cristianis; the great Truzzi, juggler; the three Flying Concello troupes, with An toinette. In all. 800 performers. Pleasant Hill News We are still having fine wea ther and the farmers arc all very busy. We arc glad to report Mrs. Irvin Privette is improving. Mr and Mrs. T. Y. Puryear, Jr., announce the birth of a son, Marvin Yancey, October 8. Miss Lillian Pace and a lady friend of Baltimore are spending a few w'ceks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Oakly. Quite a number of relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Carter en joyed a birthday dinner there Sun day. Mrs. H P. Robbins of Prince ton is spending this week with her sister, Mrs. T. Y. Puryear, Jr. We are sorry to report the death of Mrs. Daniel I. Massey of this section. Mrs. Massey was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. W. (Continued on page three) The call letters of his station are W4FPA. Fred is not ad verse t o local fans tuning in on him.- Galhmore picture. MASONIC SERVICE There will be a special service for all the Masons in the community at the Zebulon Baptist Church, Sunday morning at the elevent o'- clock hour. The Masons and their wives are to sit in a body for the service. Bring ing the sermon appropriate for the occasion will be the pastor of the church, Rev. G. 1 J. Griffin. All are invited to the service and the Masons are particularly requested to > be present. ; Mrs. Temple 1 Club Hostess M rs. Wallace Temple was host ess when she entertained members ’ ot her bridge club with Mrs. Paul Wright, Jr., as a special guest. The home was made more lovely ' with arrangements of roses and other fall flowers. The Halloween motif was car . ried out in the table covers, tal lies, and when refreshments were served, upon arrival of guests, the salad and sandwiches further car ried out this motif. t At the conclusion of the con , tract games, high score award was presented to Mrs. Robert Dawson and low to Mrs. R. Vance Brown. Those playing were Mesdames Paul Wright, Jr., H. C. Wade, Robert Dawson, Wallace Chamb lee, Russell Brantley, R. Vance Brown, Eugene Privette and Leon C. Thompson. j Sweet Potatoes Not Yams The sweet potato plant belongs to the morning glory family, though it seldom has flowers. The potatoes are enlarged roots, diff ! ering in this from Irish potatoes, which arc tubers and not roots. Columbus is said to have taken sweet potatoes back to Spain as one of the marvels of the New World. There are many varieties, some much dryer than others, and the color also varies. But not sweet potato is a yam. Yams are much larger than pota toes, often weighing as much as 40 pounds, while some weigh 100. They are used extensively in South America, China, Austra lia and tropical Africa. They are coarser in texture, and not so good in flavor as are sweet potatoes. Yams make fine feed for live stock. However, when you speak of a certain dish, very popular in these [ parts, do not say “candied yams,” but candied sweet potatoes. J E. David, Jr., of Richmond spent a part of this week here . with his parents. Champion Wood Chopper At Pilot H. E. Stallings, Pilot merchant, has secured the famous chopper, Peter McLaren, who claims the wood chopping Championship of America to stage a log cutting con test and demonstration at Pilot Wednesday, October 22, at 10:00 o’clock in the morning. This contest has been arranged by H. E. Stallinngs at his store at Pilot.. He is to be congratulated lor arranging for the visit of this color! ul champion, McLaren, whose wizardry with an axe has carried him from a poor farm lad in Australia, to the peak of his profession. In chopping tours covering a score ot years he has chopped be fore hundreds of thousands, both here and abroad. McLaren, who is nearly 50 years old, claims that 1 outdoor chopping is a great physi cal developer. His own condition bears out this claim. The contest is open to any local man who has not previously com peted against McLaren. A prize of fit ty dollars will be paid to any contestant if McLaren fails to chop through a log in two thirds of the time the contestant takes. The handicap gives all good choppers a sporting chance to win the prize money, as it is just like giving 33 yards in a hundred yard dash. The only restriction made is that no contestant be permitted to use a Plumb axe. This is the only axe which McLaren himself ever uses, and he refuses to chop against a Plumb Axe and allow the handi cap. Every one is cordially invited to attend the demonstration. Chop pers wishing to compete should bring their axes with them. It costs nothing to enter the con test. Garden Club Holds Meet The Garden club held the first meeting of the fall last week, chief feature of the program be ing a talk on growing peonies by Mrs. H. C. Wade. Miss Bridget Palmer pleased all with a solo, accompanied by Mrs. R. D. Mas sey at the piano. Several new mem bers were enrolled. It was decided that refreshments will not be served after meetings during the present club year. However, Mes dames C. V. Whitley and L. M. Massey, hostesses for the day, had prepared refreshments for the meeting before the matter was voted upon, and a social hour was enjoyed. Herman Cone has also been dis charged from the U. S. Army af ter serving some months. Methodist Church October is Church Loyalty month. Every member has an op portunity to help make the church a greater power for good. Make a sacrifice to help God with His work and He is certain to help you in times when you need Him most. It is hoped that you will be phy sically and spiritually able to wor ship with us Sunday evening. Services for Sunday, October 19: Church school—10:00. Young people service—6:4s. Church service—7:3o. V ■ ■ ■ ■■ FOR VICTORY Personals Mr. and Mrs Valdore Phillips are moving this week to Kinston, where Mr. Phillips has been em ployed for some time. Mrs. William Bunn has gone to Baltomore to join her husband, who has been employed there for several months. The Bunns have taken an apartment in the Mary land city and are doing light housekeeping. Miss Margaret Barrow of Char lotte arrived on Friday of last week for a lew days with her par ents, the J. K. Barrows. Mr. W. D. Maynard and daughter, Miss Lillian Maynard, of Apex spent Sunday here with the Phillip Masseys. Mrs. Lonnie Rutledge of Apex took her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Broughton, to Bethel Sun day to visit relatives. Charles Whitley was home for the week end from V. P. 1., Blackburg, Va., bringing with him his friends, Arthur White and Norman Powell. Mrs. Douglas Cooke of Ft. Bragg is spending some time here with her mother, Mrs. Will Liles, while Mr. Cooke is away on Army maneuvers. Mis. J. G. Kemp went last week to Virginia to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mine Run, both of whom have been sick. Mrs. Kemp is expected home this week. The small .happy little girl seen frequently of late with the A. S. Bogens is Eloise Bryant, whose parents were killed in an automo bile accident and who has been for some time in the Free Will Orphanage at Middlesex. Mr. and Mrs. Bogen plan to take Eloise into their home permanently. Cadwin Cone, studying music at the Shenandoah Conservatory, Dayton, Va., is having the Record sent him weekly to keep him in touch with homefolk. Mr. Alfred Hocutt, for the past three weeks on manauvers in S. C., spent the past week end at home. Mrs. Ida Hall attended the State Nurses Convention, which met in Goldsboro last week. The Public Health Nurses held a ban quet on Tuesday evening with Miss Flora Wakefield of Raleigh presiding. Dabney Gill is at home after serving for some months in the U. S. Army. He was recently dis charged from the service. R. L. Isaacs, in the Record off ice on Saturday, brought with him Mr. Wilkerson, of Denver, Colo rado, and his cousin, Miss Mary Wilkerson of Raleigh. Mrs. James M. Eason left Fri day for Lancaster, S. C., to spend a few days with her husband, Cor poral Eason, who is there on Man euvers. She returned Monday. Miss Louise Johnson of Gaston spent the week end here in the home of her grandparents, the Pittman Stells. Mrs. Ed Martin of the Hales Chapel community is recovering from pneumonia. Her daughter. Miss Linnie Martin, was sick at the same time with laryngitis and is also much better Number 13
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