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One Lord and Master
The Dixiecrat movement, posing as a championing Qf
Southern ideals, is far from being what it claims. The fact
is that it is backed by the men who hope to maintain the
past industrial supremacy of the north, to keep the South
in a state of turmoil by promoting racial hatred, and, most
of all, to elect a Republican president. The News and Ob
server yesterday spoke of the DixieCrats:
“Their real purpose, as shown by their own votes in
1944 is to further the candidacy of Thomas E. Dewey,
the Republican candidate then and now.”
Their real purpose is shown by evidence other than the
way they voted in 1944. Politicians who dash from meetings
with Republicans to strategy sessions with Dixiecrats are
not, appearances to the contrary, serving two masters;
their master is one and the same —Thomas Dewey, who is
seeking to destroy the progress made in years of national
service by the Democratic Party.
Bumblers or Connivers
Exactly why the agricultural powers-that-be chose this
month to announce the 5 per cent increase in tobacco ac
reage for 1949 is a deep mystery and likely to remain one
even to the hocus-pocus boys who looked into their crystal
ball and decided that this year’s acreage cut should be ex
actly 27.52 per cent.
The announcement of the increase was greeted by
groans of anguish from farmers and warehousemen
alike, and they had good reason to groan—the next day
a drop in prices of all grades of tobacco was noted. Five
per cent less on tobacco this season is two cents a pound
and that is a lot of money to a big farmer or a little one.
Some farmers have laid the blame for the early an
nouncement on the tobacco companies. They say the move
proves conclusively that the Big 3 control both the U. S.
Department of Agriculture and Tobacco Associates; that
when the tobacco companies hold the hoop, government and
farm organization officials fight for the opportunity to be
the first to jump through it.
We are not prepared to argue the truth or error of
this statement, but we do know that if these officials
were actually on the payroll of R. J. Reynolds or Liggett
and Myers, their actions would necessarily have been
exactly what they turned out to be this month.
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Last year the enormous cut in tobacco acreage was an
nounced with the accompanying statement that the an
nouncement itself would aid in supporting prices; by their
own statement, the responsible officials have convicted
themselves of timing their 1947 acreage so as to lower to
bacco prices, either by blunder or by design.
The situation seems to us to have called only for the
exercise of a little common sense Is it asking too much
for the tobacco royalists to use their heads?
We predict that a few more moves like this last one will
bring their palace down on their heads. Such action will
result among other things, in a ruling on the constitution
ality of Tobacco Associates, a ruling certain to be unfavor
able to its leaders. But, worst of all, it will continue to pull
the price of tobacco down, affecting adversely the last one
of us—except the cigarette manufacturers.
A Change Must Be Made
This year is admittedly not a representative election
year, but it has served to highlight the electoral injustice
perpetrated on all the people every fourth year by our out
moded system of choosing our chief executives. We can
not vote for our choice for president or vice president; we
can only choose electors who may do as they please about
voting for any candidate.
Whatever reasons the founding fathers had for set
ting up the electoral system and however good they may
once have been, the reasons are no longer valid. Today
the system actually operates to deprive many Americans
of their suffrage.
The knive cuts more than one way. Truman Democrats,
States Rights Democrats, Progressives—all find themselves,
in one state or another, in danger of not being able to vote
for their choice. The one problem common to them all could
be easily resolved if we elected our Presidents the same way
we do our constables, our governors, and our legislators.
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Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office
at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879.
The Zebulon Record
By Mrs. Theo B. Davis
Mothers who have to look after
small children during these days
of uneasiness are to be excused
and understood if they think first
of polio whenever a child is ailing
or fretful. But it should be re
membered that the little ones con
tinue to cut teeth, fall down and
hurt themselves, and often eat
what they shouldn’t. So look for
swollen gums, stone-bruises, in
fected cuts or scartches, and plain,
everyday stomach aches as well as
infantile paralysis symptoms, and
it may be a little extra worry can
be avoided.
A columnist in a daily paper
asked last week whether any one
ever gets up now in time to see the
sunrise. Yea, verily, there are still
among us many who rise earlier
than the sun. Os course it would
be straining a point to claim that
all who start the day before it
breaks do so because they love na
ture and want to observe her
manifestations; but at any rate all
such have a chance to see the sun
rise.
By Verna Stanton
Cantaloups are plentiful this
year and along with their appetiz
ing color, flavor and texture, they
are a good source of vitamin C.
Those of deep yellow color also
are good source of vitamin A.
Cantaloups today are sweeter and
riper than they used to be. This is
because of the newer trend toward
picking riper and pre-cooling be
fore shipping. Many cantaloups to
day are harvested at what growers
call “full slip”—that is, when the
A disabled veteran who was
wounded three times and has risen
from a Public Law 16 apprentice
to a department manager with a
large New York
export firm has
been selected by
the Disabled Am
erican Veterans
as “The Hero of
The Month.”
He is William
Mindlin, a Flush
ing native, who
is employed by
A. V. Morano &
Company in New York City. He
enlisted in the armed forces in
1942 and served in Africa and It-
The lesson for Sunday, Aug
ust 22, concerns itself with Dorcas,
the lady of Jaffa who was raised
from the dead by Peter. Emphasis
is placed on the service of Dorcas
in her city, and the service we
should render to our community
as Christians.
Particular emphasis is placed,
fittingly enough, not on the fact
that Peter was able to perform the
miracle of resurrection, but on the
reason behind his being willing to
undertake prayer in her behalf.
This reason was that she was a
Christian woman, “full of good
works and almsdeeds which she
did.”
Only a hypocrite would place
This, That and the Other
Hints for Homemakers
Rehabilitation of Veterans
KW.I>M.,
Sunday School Lesson
This month is about the last
chance for completely satisfac.ory
blanket washing. September days
are too short for woolen blankets
to dry thoroughly before the early
dew dampens them again. And I
can’t remember when or how I got
the impression that August is the
time for this work anyway. Com
mon sense indicates that early
summer would be better for clean
ing all bedding not in regular use;
but August sticks in my mind
whenever washing woolens is
mentioned. Maybe it’s because it
must be done now, if at all.
If you use a washing machine,
be sure not to let the blankets
wash or rinse nearly so long as is
taken for cotten clothes. That will
mean hardening and matting of
the fibers.
And speaking of the season re
minds me of the delightful nights
we are having. It is as if summer
reigns all day but sleeps at night
allowing autumn to reconnoiter
before coming to take possession.
Neither my youngest son nor I
stem breaks easily from the vine
indicating ripeness. At this stage
the melons ripen easily to their
full sweetness.
Iron with the grain of the fabric
—it makes ironing easier, though
the difference may be almost im
perceptible. An even more import
ant reason for ironing with the
grain is to keep bias-cut garments
from sagging out of shape.
“Pressing” means to set iron di
rectly down upon fabric and lift it
aly. He w r as wounded three dif
ferent times, and was hospitalized
each time. He holds the Silver
Star, Purple Heart, and five Battle
Stars.
The selection is part of a nation
al program to honor each month
a seriously disabled veteran who
has successfully rehabilitated him
self.
Zebulon has its share of these
men Braxton Eddins, for one.
But here as in every town in Am
erica the mental readjustment as
pect has been of greater import
ance than physical rehabilitation.
And here the readjustment is not
a matter with which the Veterans
Administration can help; it is a
great value on what people
thought of him to the exclusion of
what he knew himself to be in his
heart, but it is a wonderful thing
to be loved by one’s neighbirs
for living a life of Christian ser
vice.
We have dozens of such women
as Dorcas in our community; they
are, by their works and their ex
ample, our salvation. We have
men, too, who serve the Lord with
good works, but they are over
shadowed by women in both
number and service.
These souls who show us the
way to live the golden rule should
serve as an inspiration to us
and also a warning. We are a short
Friday, August 20, 1948
had been to the home of my son
Ted in Fayetteville until last Sun
day, and so did not know just how
to find Glenville Avenue where
he lives. The best idea was to ask
directions and a filling station was
the logical source of information
out on Fort Bragg Boulevard.
The first young man we spoke
to said he knew exactly where
Glenville was, but couldn’t tell us.
I think it was not a military sec
ret, however. He went inside the
station and came out with another
young man who said he could di
rect us, not right to where we
wanted to go, but to the vicinity.
“You keep on this way,” he said,
“till you get about two hills over
and then turn to the left.”
We started off, I counted hills,
and after we went down the sec
ond little one, there was Glenville
Avenue waiting for us on the left,
nice as you please.
Coming home Sunday we saw
from a car just ahead a left arm
extended, the hand holding to the
car’s top. We imagined the driver
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directly upward without to and fro
action. Wools must always be
pressed to avoid distortion of
shape and damage to surface fin
ish. Delicate laces, nets, and the
like should also be pressed, lest
the iron tear the delicate meshes.
Use a pressing cloth.
Avoid “lost motion” when you
iron—it causes fatigue. Avoid us
ing a wobbly iron handle or a
wobbly board for they increase
“lost motion’ and thus increase fa
tigue.
matter between God and man.
Hundreds of factors enter into
mental rehabilitation financial
loss from having to leave good
jobs and businesses, feeling of re
sentment against those who were
not called, homes broken by war
conditions, misunderstanding of
motives by civilians—every veter
an has been required to readjust
himself and his thinking in some
way.
Most of them did a pretty good
job. There will be no “lost genera
tion” resulting from this war; the
rightthinking and right-acting
members of today’s society al
ready include most of the veter
ans of World War 11.
time living, and a long time dead.
Aside from the partially selfish
desire to assure our place in the
hereafter, we should feel impelled
to make the world a better place
for our having lived here.
The Christian recognizes and re
sponds to his obligation to his less
fortunate fellows. The manifesta
tion of his love may come in hun
dreds of ways—contributions to
organized charity, work in such
organizations as the Masonic Or
der and Rotary, taking an active
part in the work of the church.
But the most important service
—and the service which may be
rendered by all of us—is that of
Christian example.