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The Campaign for Lights
The campaign for lights for the Wakelon athletic field
is now underway. With nominal aid from the people of this
community, the field will have lights in time to play at least
two night football games this fall.
The use of the lighted athletic field will not be confined
to school football; it will be available for softball next sum
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mer —when the program begun before the war and discon
tinued during the emergency may be expected to flower
again, if a playground is available at night when farmers
and merchants have time to use it.
Your support of this campaign is urged. Your contribu
tion, however large or small, will materially aid the school
program, and provide young and old with essential recrea
tional facilities.
No Dewey Carts, Please
We had occasion this week to travel over virtually all
the territory immediately surrounding Zebulon trying to
locate a Hoover cart to be used in publicity in connection
with the President’s visit to Raleigh. We visited not just the
houses on the highways, but instead we took the homes as
they came, some of them miles from a state maintained road.
We failed to find a Hoover cart. Under a Demo
cratic administration the farmers have just been too
prosperous to have to resort to this means of transpor
tation. The farmers have discarded the carts or have
converted them to trailers.
Another evidence of Democratic prosperity lies in the
homes themselves. Every last house was in good repair, and
most were well painted. One farm had nearly as much mo
torized equipment as did all of Little River Township in
1932. Many homes had running water, and each had a car,
a truck, or a tractor —or all three.
We are frank to admit that we don’t know enough
about economics to present a successful argument that
Mr. Hoover should receive all the blame for the depres
sion, but we do know one thing: it took a Democrat to
get us out of the mess we were in.
Mr. Hoover was bound with the same ties that already
bind Thomas Dewey—the ties of northern business interests
that dwarf any corporation doing business exclusively in
North and South Carolina. When we decide which candidate
to vote for, come November 2, we shall do well to remember
this fact—and to cast our ballots against an era of Dewey
carts.
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It's Time to Register
Today and tomorrow are the last two days that persons
desiring to vote in the 1948 general election may register
Regardless of the result of local balloting on November 2,
Zebulon can look with pride on its voting only if a majority
of the local electorate exercises its right of suffrage.
Mrs. Irby Gill will be at the Town Office tomorrow
with registration books for the convenience of all the voters
—Democrats, Republicans, Dixiecrats, Wallace-ites, .Social
ists, and Prohibitionists. All citizens possessing voting quali
fications owe it to themselves and their country to see that
their names are on the registration lists.
Free Enterprise Pays Off
Ed Sykes of Wendell, speaking before the Zebulon Ro
tary Club last Friday night, told some of his experiences on
his recent trip to Europe. He made the interesting observa
tion that of all the European countries he visited, Belgium
has the most nearly normal economy—and Belgium’s polit
ical thought most nearly approaches that of the United
States.
All the credit for Belgian recovery cannot be attributed
to free enterprise (including the use of incentive goods such
as tobacco), but freedom of enterprise allowed the recovery
to come about—and recovery has been absent from the So
cialistic English scene.
The practical answer is simply that men work a little
harder for personal and family gain than they do for simple
state gain. They produce more for themselves and for the
state under free enterprise, and come out ahead of regi
mented peoples.
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The Zebulon Record
This, That and the Other
By Mrs. Theo. B. Davis
If there is anything in environ
ment, mine should be a column of
flowery writing this week; for I
have had the house fairly filled
with them for two days. Last
night Mrs. Jethro Stell and I
spent hours over a tray of labeled
.specimens for part of an exhibit
at the State Fair. Interested gard
eners had brought or sent most of
the blossoms; but we had to write
names for them all and fasten on
with Scotch tape.
We debated over whether to use
botanical names or the ones gener
ally used; like saying antirrhinum
Continuing our study of the
Bible as living literature, we con
cern ourselves with the life of
Solomon next Sunday. Commonly
considered the wisest of men in
temporal affairs, Solomon offers a
gripping picture of what may be
come of the wisest of us if we do
not obey the commandments of our
Lord.
Solomon was the son of David
and Bath-Sheba, by all odds Div
id’s favorite wife. The fact that
David arranged the death of Tier
husband and took her by immoral
means played a great part in the
selection of her son to reign over
the kingdom.
But Solomon had no easy time
of it. He first removed all his op
ponents by the simple expedent of
killing them. Then he set himself
By Carl E. Bjork
When I was a very small boy,
about thirty years ago, the Bap
tist church which I attended in a
small Pennsylvania city had reg
ular Saturday afternoon “coven
ant meetings.”
As I recall it, the venerable
pastor announced the previous
Sunday that all members of the
church should be present “to cov
enant one with another, and with
God, to walk together in unity,
love, and peace, and strive to pro
mote the Kingdom of God.”
I never attended any of those
meetings, but I was told that mem
bers who did attend stood up in
the congregation to make their
covenant. The Pastor did that
first, then the deacons, and finally
the entire group.
The church considered any
member who would not covenant
together as a prospective back
I wish to say I am very glad
the P.T.A. will sponsor a supper
for the benefit of helping raise
funds for the school and I hope
they will make some money. Also
I have a suggestion which I think
would help.
After the menu is planned, ask
the teacher to give each child a
list of things which they want
to be furnished by their parents.
I feel sure other parents are like
us. They will be glad to help
cook and donate everything to be
used as all of us know food is too
high to sell for much or any profit.
Now I want to express my sin
cere appreciation to all who were
for snapdrangons, vinea major for
periwinkle, and so on; but Mrs.
Stell thought the judges might be
more charitable if we did not
claim to know much, and I was
sure she was right. We had more
than forty-five varieties, from ab
elia to zinnia, and early this morn
ing Mrs. Stell came hurrying up
with an African violet and a ger
anium bloom to add to the list. We
are hoping for a good many points
on that tray.
Mesdames Allan Pippin, Ruric
Gill, R. H. Herring and Exum
Chamblee went early this morning
to arrange the entire exhibit. They
Sunday School Lesson
up as something of a politician by
marrying the daughter of Egypt’s
reigning Pharoah. But he was
troubled by the state of his coun
try’s affairs, and when God of
fered him whatever he wished
most, he aptly chose wisdom. He
needed it.
For many years he ruled his
kingdom with a stern but just
hand. Solomon extended the bord
ers of the Israelite nation to its
greatest size, and through his al
liance with Hiram of Tyre he de
veloped commerce on an unpre
cedented scale. During this golden
period of his reign he built the
great temple as a monument to the
blessings bestowed by God upon
himself and his people.
But as Solomon aged, he turned
away from the tenets of Jehovah.
Bjork’s Tips
slider, and in need of spiritual at
tention.
Consequently, every member
who could attend, attended.
Moreover, that church observed
“strict” or “close” communion. To
that observance came only those
who had covenanted together.
Somehow or other that church
was a great movement in that
city. The services were crowded.
Conversions were constant. Har
mony was the habit. Prosperity
was prominent.
I was converted in that church
within that period of unseen urge.
However there came to the pas
torship of the lively church, a
young man, a good man, the first
man with a seminary education,
and he had new ideas, or had nev
er known the ones in practice
there.
Eventually the “covenant meet
ings” were pooh-poohed into the
Readers' Forum
so kind to help me Farmers’ Day
as I was only trying to help raise
building funds for our Methodist
Church which is now being built.
I made no profit because we had
too much food left on our hands
which we could n<?t sell and after
working so hard for nothing, 111
admit I felt like crying for I was
working for the Lord’s service and
not my own.
I hope I don’t fail to mention
anyone’s name who helped us in
our effort. Please pardon me if
I do. Mr. Ferd Davis, Record of
fice, Mr. R. L. Phillips Grocery,
Mr. Willie B. Hopkins, Mrs. Ros
coe Pearce, Mrs. M. J. Sexton,
Friday, October 22, 1948
carried some of the most gorgeous
dahlias I ever saw anywhere,
grown, I think, by Mrs. Lester
Greene and Mrs. James Pulley.
Mrs Stell furnished more than
thirty big dahlias —and how they
all kept the things thriving during
that long dry spell is a mystery to
me. Others gave chrysanthemums
for display, and the committee,
feels most grateful for such co
operation.
If you are not certain about be
ing properly registered for voting
there’s no time to lose. See to that,
and then study the ballot. It’s go
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He indulged his many wives—
whom he took from the royal fam
ilies of neighboring nations in or
der to maintain friendly relations
—in their pagan worship. The
people to some extent followed
not the worship of Jehovah, but
the many new religions brought in
by the foreigners.
The net result of all Solomon’s
shortcomings was the ultimate
dissolution of the kingdom, and
the collapse of the Jewish nation.
Had Solomon used the wisdom
given him by the Almighty, the
story would have been different.
We may take warning from this
biblical episode that if we wish
the American way of life to pre
vail, we must not fail to observe
the moral and spirtual laws of our
Maker.
style of former years; everyday
evangelism was made light of;
“stirct” communion was sneered
at; new methods were formulated
for conducting business for The
Lord in that church.
The rest of the tale is a story of
any excursion into the cellar of
“burdensome religion.” Disharm
ony, factions, quibblings, erasures,
“wild-fire” preachers, “piano
rolling” evangelists, evil surmis
ings, distrust, etc., etc.,
The whole situation was sum
med up last summer by my sister,
when she said, “Its one big mess.”
Now why am I telling you this?
Because last Sunday I taught
the Baraca Bible Class in a Chat
ham County Church, and the les
son had to deal partly with “cov
enants.”
Not only have Baptists lost that
mighty impress of Christian life
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Mrs. Maylon Temple, Mrs. Fred
Page, Mr. Fred Pace, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Junior Watkins, Mr. Earl
Watkins, M. Earl and Edmon Med
lin, Mrs. Joe Pulley, Mrs. Williams
and Betty Jean Gay, Mrs. Vera
Rhodes, and Mr. Wade Privett.
The cakes which were sold, at
auction, I was well pleased with
their going. Also I hope they were
enjoyed.
The apple sauce cake went to
Mr. Worth Hinton. It sold for
$25.00. The caramel went to Mr.
William Bunn. It sold for SIO.OO,
and the cold filling chocolate went
to Mr. Elton Price for $6.00.
I sincerely thank you «ii-
Mrs. James Pulley.