Page Two TheZebubn Record Adnrtwag rata* funuabad on Member NCPA md APA $1.50 year in advance Entered aa 2nd claaa matter, June 2s, 1826, at the Port Offire, Zebu lon, N. C. OUR PRESIDENT—I 944, 1945 OUR PRESENT AND OUR NEXT PRESIDENT Even a bad Repubkca.. will ad mit that Mr. Roosevelt has shown good judgment „n a great many things connected with the admini stration since he became president in 1933. With so many needs aris ing he could not well have done otherwise. Likewise, it would have been almost a miracle for him not to have made some mis takes and even blunders. How ever with all the good things we might say about him as a man and the highest executive in our coun try, no one capable to discern and willing to admit the facts will not agree that Mr. Roosevelt has done things that under the circum stances are well-nigh inexcusable. We believe most of the mistakes our president has made are due to the fact that he in all his life nev er knew the need or the value of money considerations how to economically administer big busi ness in away to save all unneces sary expenditures. Perhaps this is largely due to the fact that he was bred and born in the lap of plenty and never has known what want was or why he should live thriftily. He must believe in these things, but seems to be unable to put them into practice. We recall in his Pittsburgh speech during his first campaign that he said.something like this: For three years, the Federal gov ernment has been on the road to bankruptcy. Let us have the cour age to stop borrowing to meet def icits. Stop the deficits. He fur ther said one of the two most im portant things he proposed in his adminisration would be to “bal ance the budget.” Almost immediately after his % \ | For HIGHEST PRICES \ & BEST SERVICE Sell Your Tobacco | _ With I Johnson & Planters I WAREHOUSES I Oxford, N.C. I MARKET OPENS SEPTEMBER 18 | C. R. Watkins Jno. Ray Watkins S. J. Watkins and Lee Gooch election, a spree of spending began, i such as this country never knew. During the first four years of his administration he spent more than $22,000,000,000 an average of 25% over the amount spent by the government during the year of his promise to reduce expenditures. In 1936 the Democratic platform again reaffirms its intention to reduce the expenses of the gov ernment. By this time its debt was 14 billions more than it was in 1932. And this was before one cent had beer spent in waging the present v.ar. V i:_n t' s war ends next year, as many uelieve, our country will face a financial situation un dreamt. of in 1932. It is next to impossible fo r any man to visual ize how iwch a million dollars is, much less a billion. But we shall have a debt of billions in stead of millions. Os course no one would say Mr. Roosevelt is to blame for all the big debt of the present. There is little if anything any one could do to prevent it. Much, if not most, of it was abso lutely necessary. Yet not all. Mr. Truman and his committee did much to stop or forestall much useless spending* Senator Byrd saved the country millions in his efforts to prevent waste of the people’s money. Even lately Mr. Roosevelt made an extended trip to Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands. Many be lieve it was largely political, though some claim it was to build morale. Naturally our president traveled in the most expensive way. A number of officials and others accompanied him. The cost of this swing around the Pa cific, we. are told, was the small (?) sum of twenty million dollars. And all this at a time when our citizens see nothing ahead but tax bondage that will keep our country down for many decades. *We feel that this seeming indifference or inability of our president to pre vent prodigal spending of the peo ple’s money is his one great weak ness. It is fearful to contemplate the results of another administra tion with him at its head under the present financial conditions of our country. We need a man who has a lot of hard common sense, one who believes in economy and thrift. The best business men in The Zebulon Record America at the head of our gov- : ernment is the peed of the hour. And as much as we admire our president, we do not believe he is the man qualified to lead the country back to a safe and sane basis of governmental operation. On the other md we d übt Mr. Dewey’s being me man who can do that. It has been proven that Mr. Roosevelt “has away of his own” and refuses to follow the f advice of practical business men w l, o advise him. ML Dewey may or may not be such a man. In our opinion had the democrats nomi nated Mr. Truman and Mr. Wal- I lace, then we would have had one J of the strongest possible teams for those trying years that certainly will come immediately after the war ends. As matters now stand we would not dare attempt to ad vise our people how to vote. We liked Willkie very much as a prac tical business man, but he is “wa ter gone over the dam.’ Listening to politicians on both sides gets one nowhere. The only thing left for most of us is to forget political premises and parties, study as best we can the men running for of fice and then vote as our judgment j and convictions may lead or dic tate. But as we face the future, ; we must realize that “the good old ! times before the war” are gone forever and each of us must face , and accept conditions in which ne cessity and not choice will largely determine the lives of this and the I next three generations. MRS. n s. 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