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This, That, and the Other
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
Teddy, my seven-years-old
grandson, spnet the weekend here
with grandson Leary, who is six.
Teddy’s maternal ucnle, John I.
Barnes, Jr., is Albright’s campaign
manager. Leary’s father, the ed
itor of this paper, is, as some may
know already, allied with Scott’s
forces. So it was not surprising
to be told that Teddy and Leary
had a fight over politics. It seems
to have been one of those scratch
ing, biting, knock-down and drag
out combats.
After Teddy went back to Clay
ton Sunday I asked Leary about
the fight and how it came out. He
said, “I really don’t know. Teddy
fought me until I said I’d be for
Albright, and I fought him till he
said he’d be for Scott.” The situa
tion as a whole is probably un
changed.
More than thirty years ago a
colored girl who was working for
me quit without notice. To a
neighbor she confided that she
couldn’t stand having so many
dishes to wash as we used at meal
times.
There might have been a bit of
smugness in the way I reacted.
Having our food served in num
erous dishes betokened a measure
of gentility, a reaching toward the
gracious living one reads about.
But in these latter days
these helpless days I keep re
membering that girl’s complaint
and wondering what could be done
about it.
This morning my husband had
for his breakfast tomato juice,
cereal, two slices of toast and some
balckberry jam. His beverage was
coffee weakened almost to death
with milk added. Now for his
dishes: One juice glass, cereal
bowl and spoon, breakfast plate,
knife, fork, another spoon for jam,
cup, saucer, and little sauce pan
used for heating milk for coffee.
By Carl E. Bjork
“Those who in quarrel interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose”
—Gay
Sunday afternoon past I visited
with a public spirited gentleman
in Warren County. He knew the
men, and he knew the issues in
volved in the present press for the
executive mansion in Raleigh.
Asked as to whom he thought
would be victorious in his section
of Warren, he replied that Kerr
Scott would finish first. Charles
Johnson, he inferred, would be a
close second, and that the other
candidates would not receive
many votes.
However he did say this: “Usu
ally a week or less days before the
election, some candidates begin to
swing a heavy stick at each other,
and that may so becloud the issues
that anyone might get the vote
who is considered as a strong con
tender.” Or words to that effect.
Such tactics are to be regretted
but they are used. In the present
race Charles Johnson seems to
have started the “name calling”
when the efficiency of his office
was Questioned. Such questioning
is to be expected of public serv
ants and an answer is expected by
the public.
Before the primaries and gener
al election have become a part of
state history, some of our sons
who aspire for high office may
have so dirtied the issue and
names of one another that it may
take years to clean both of them.
But the most intense quarrels
are not in the sphere of public re-
Ten pieces to be washed, and for
no more to eat than Theo. had
looks all out of reason.
And that’s just the beginning. It
keeps up all day long. But what
could be left off? And how can
a housekeeper with no help at
all keep from being chained to a
dishpan for a great part of her
natural life? I don’t mind dish
pan hands; it’s the pan itself that
has me on the run.
There can be little in this boast
ing that is personal, for I have
been for some years too sorry a
club member to be counted. But
the rest of them have done a sight
of work. Listening to the annual
report yesterday at the final meet
ing for this spring, I felt proud
enough to shout.
Being a member of a federated
woman’s club means that one must
have diversified interests and a
mind for civics; an eye that looks
closely upon the home scene, yet
once in a while takes the far view
to the ends of the earth; a tax on
time, sympathies, energy, and
purse; but altogether worthwhile.
And, if the club did nothing but
serve as a starting place for com
munity activities, it would still
justify its existence; for in no oth
er way can contact with all women
in the town be secured so quickly
as through this agency.
The junior club is now a larger
organization than is the senior; and
the two work well together.
Just a few weeks ago I learned
that the Jaffa we read about in
Palestine these days is the same
town that was called Joppa ’way
back in King Solomon’s time; and
that we also see mentioned fre
quently in the New Testament.
Tel-Aviv is a new city right next
to Jaffa, and the two are said to
be entirely unalike. Tel-Aviv be
ing wholly modern, while Jaffa
is as far from modern as is pos
sible.
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lationships. They are found in the
realm of religion. Since the things
of the spiritual are more valuable
than temporal things, men hold
tenacily to them, and will die for
what they believe to be God’s will.
Religious quarrels, whether in a
nation, or a denomination, or a
community, or a family, can make
more bloody noses than any train
ed pugilists might dream of.
I recall stopping along a rural
highway and looking at a church
building that has been closed for
years. The sideboards were fallen
away, the windows were shatter
ed, and the weeds grew in profus
ion about the door. Seeing a farm
house nearby I drove over and en
quired of the situation.
The lady residing there told me
that on a certain Children’s Day
in the Church, a disagreement
arose in the choir over the first
hymn to sing. To settle the dis
pute, the Sunday School Superin
tendent was called in to iron the
the difficulty. He selected a hymn
that did not agree with the pianist.
The choir took sides in the new
issue. \
Finally two of the more heated
singers began to belabor each oth
er with the hymn books. Soon all
were in on it, and even the flow
ers for the occassion were used as
brickbats. The superintendent and
pianist meanwhile, in this case a
lady and a man, went out on the
lawn and began to strike at one
another; the gentleman getting the
best of the match by pulling on
the lady’s hair.
The spectators, mostly children
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dressed for the day, were so im
pressed, that upon returning home
minus the scheduled service, they
never did come back to that
church, and no amount of persua
sion could ever arouse the com
munity to continue services in a
once prominent Baptist church.
This sickening sort of affair can
be multiplied in practically every
religious assembly.
To conclude her story, the farm
lady began to berate the ones with
whom she disagreed over the in
cident of many years standing, and
emphasized her position in the
quarrel long past.
I hope when the next govenor
takes his office in our capital, that
he can lay his head upon the pil
low of rest on the first night un
der the executive mansion’s roof,
say, “Dear Lord, I did not revert
to the gutter while traveling the
high road to this hour.”
Machines and Parasites
Observers in Raleigh tell us that
never has there been such con
sternation among old-line ma
chine politicians as there is today,
and all occasioned by the decision
of Kerr Scott to run for governor.
Never has the machine been
threatened with formidable oppo
sition as Scott offers it, and from
a man that will be so fearless in
setting State affairs in shape when
he gets in office, we’re told.
We’re told also that many of the
old-line parasites who have been
hanging onto their jobs only be
cause they have been instrumental
in political campaigns, have come
to life and are beginning to set
their affairs in order in hope that
the new governor, whom they fear
as no other man, will permit them
to stay on. Some, we’re told are
even beginning to talk about get
ting old and it is too late for them
to start in other vocations, after
serving their state for so long. All
in an effort to gain pity and public
sentiment.
It’s going to be mighty hard on
the political parasites in Raleigh
when Kerr Scott takes office as
govenor. He is a man who believes
in making a man earn his bread if
he’s going to continue to eat out
of pay from public funds. And a
lot of folks in Raleigh have been
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eating bread for a long time with
out earning it.
The machine this year finds it
self in much the same plight as a
ship without a rudder. Its steady
hand and guiding brains are not
there. The hand and the brain of
the Gardner-Hoey political ma
chine died with O. Max Gardner
as he was preparing to embark for
England as ambassador.
Without Max Gardner’s guid
ance the machine is slowing down
and actually breaking up. A cog
here and a bolt there refusing to
function; a vital nut falls off here
and a pin comes out there, throw
ing the whole machine out of
kilter—disintegration is the word.
Sensing the futility of efforts to
continue the creaking old ma
chine, and the apparent complete
confusion, many people in all
parts of the State who have been
going along with the machine,
are now drifting away from its
somewhat worn folds and teaming
fair to be the next governor of the
state. They are tired of machine
politics and bottom-kissing; and
Kerr Scott has no machine. His
political successes are spontane
ous, springing from a forthright
honesty and a will and ability to
get the things don that need do
ing. They see in Scott a man who
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is representative of both the agri
cultural and business interests; in
the little fellow is just as great as
his interest for the great and the
near great. They see in him a man
who will no more hesitate to put
his foot in the blacksides of a big
politician than he will the smallest
employee of the State, if he thinks
the man isn’t doing his job as he
should and in a manner to merit
his pay and reflect credit to the
State.
Kerr Scott is a man who can sit
on a fence rail and discuss farm
problems with a tenant farmer,
or sit at a directors table and say
no to a group of business men.
No wonder the followers of the
machine and the political para
sites in Raleigh are quaking in
their shoe—well they might be.
Their steadying hand and guid
ing brain are dead. They have
nothing but confusion and bewild
erment —and the strongest oppon
ent they have ever had the
misfortune to face in a political
campaign.
—Elizabeth City Independent.
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