Page Two MORE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOL Wakelon needs a public school music teacher. How many times in the past few years have we heard this refrain? Wakelon needs a refurnished laboratory to remain on the accredited list. How often lo we hear this statement? Only at each Parent-Teacher meeting, each gathering of the school committeemen, each time any of the school patrons settle down to a constructive critique of the local school. These embarrassing questions are not asked of our local school only; they may be asked with equal pertinence of any patron of any school in Wake County. We are proud of our school systems, but they are.far from what they could be —indeed, they are not even what they should be. The simple answer to all such questions lies in two words:.adequate financing. But these two words bring on more talk —a lot more talk. • Many local citizens maintain that the State of North Carolina is morally bound to support the local school pro gram with adequate finances to provide for public school music training, physical education directors, laboratory equipment, and all the rest of the facilities not now avail able. The fact is that, regardless of moral considerations, the legislature feels that it has done enough for locol edu cation in increasing teachers’ salaries. In any event, nothing further can be done until the next session of the legislature, and the need for more school funds is immediate. At a panel discussion held at Wakelon School earlier this month the district school committees of Wakelon, Wake Forest, and Wendell voted unanimously to promote a sup plementary tax for Wake County schools similar to the tax now being paid by citizens of Raleigh. Since this method of providing additional funds for our county schools appears to be the only feasible plan, we await action by these com mitteemen. WEAR THE RED FEATHER Os all the non-sectarian charitable programs, the most appealing is that of your local Community Chest, because of the truth of its slogan "Everybody gives; everybody benefits.” The people of this community are asked to give only to the phases of the Community Chest program that benefit them. These benefits are from the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Wake County clinic, the Salvation Army, and county welfare work. Your support of the Chest program will result in direct returns to you —give as liberally as you can. Wear the red feather! HEARTBREAK REMAINS CONSTANT The return of bodies of war dead to the United States from foreign battlefields is the occasion of reopening of old wounds in the hearts of parents of these fallen heroes. In an attempt to ease the heartache of a mother who lost a son, the following lines were written: My heart aches for you, my dearest mother, in this over whelming sorrow! Your loss is indeed a great one. It is true that this son was one of the most worthy that could be; and this was recognized by all who knew him. But is not this very fact a great source of consolatioh? Your son, my dear mother, had already made a voluntary sacrifice of his native land to go and serve his God, his king, and his country, in another and a newer world. His generosity of spirit induced him to undertake this, and yours to consent to the carrying out of such a noble resolution. And now, by the good pleasure of Divine Providence, he has left this new world to go to that other world, which is the oldest and the most desirable of all, and where you will see him much soon er than you would have done, had he lived ori fighting and struggling as he intended to do. Be comforted then, dear mother, and let your troubled spirit be at rest, adoring that Divine Providence which does all things sweetly; and though the motives of its decrees, may be hidden, yet the manifest truth of its goodness obliges us to believe that it does all things in perfect love. Meanwhile, until the hour for your departure strikes, calm your mother ly heart with the consideration of that blessed eternity into which he has entered, and upon whose very brink you your self stand. Pray to God for him, and he will soon receive the help which your prayers and desires have obtained for him. Written yesterday? Not quite. That letter was written by St. Francis de Sales in 1547—four hundred years ago—to Madame de Peysieu who had a son killed on a battlefield in America, the New World. The real human problems of life and death never change. Heartbreak remains constant. The Zebulon Record Ferd Davis - Editor Barrie Davis Publisher Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate: $1.50 a year. Advertising rates on request The Zebulon Record By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis You Meet Such Interesting People I was in Cincinnati early Mon» day morning that I next saw the passenger who was so much -con cerned about the young mother and baby, on the train for the first time. The train had stopped and we were both in the dressing room, I remarked that I wanted to get off the train to mail a let ter and she said, “I’m going to get off, too, for breakfast. What say we go together,” This we did, I following her as she strode briskly along, wearing brown moccasins, blue socks, black slacks, white blouse, a biege coat Q. What benefits does the dis abled veteran receive under the vocational rehabilitation program that are not available to him un der the G. I. Bill? A. The disabled veteran re ceives several additional benefits under the Vocational Rehabilita tion Act (Public Law 16). Dur ing his vocational rehabilitation and for two months after his em ployability has been established, he receives at least 105 if he has no dependents, or slls if he has a dependent, plus $lO for one child, $7 for each additional child, and sls for a dependent parent. He may receive more than these By Barrie Davis Stories of the rough times members of Uncle Sam’s armies had in acq airing a bath have been told and retold throughout the world. To make the record com plete, we’ll bring a couple of these fablet into print on this page. There are all types of shower baths provi led by the army. Some were rather ritzy, even by post-war civilian standards. Such were he type we had at Maxwell Field, down Alabama way But up in Missouri we had a la trine and shower built for every four barrac