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Page Two Wistful Thinking (Letters to Santa Department) Dear Santa: I have been a good boy, and I backed the right man for Governor. Please bring me the 4th Division highway commissioner’s job for Christmas. Bob Winston Dear Santa: I have been a good boy, and I backed the right man for Governor. Please bring me the 4th Division highway commissioner’s job for Christmas. R. O. Heater Dear Santa: I have been a good boy and 1 backed the right man for Governor. Please bring me the 4th Division highway commissioner’s job for Christmas. 1 will leave some ice cream on the mantel for you. George L. S. White Dear Santa: If you bring me the 4th Division highway commission er’s job for Christmas, 1 will accept it. R. E. Earp Dear Santa: Me, too. Ferd Davis Dear Santa: I don’t care which one of these boys you bring the road commissioner’s job to, just so it’s the one who will keep me on as divisional engineer. Romilous Markham Please Send Crystal Balls Dear Santa: Please bring me a crystal ball so I can always tell where Kerr Scott is. Last time he left the state, 1 had to send a reporter by his farm twice a day so I’d know when he got back, and, Santa, you’d be surprised how expensive that is. Jonathan Daniels. Dear Santa: I want a crystal ball, too. I ran as a presidential elec tor for a man nobody thought had a chance, and got a half million votes, but I couldn’t get 200,000 for either of my candidates for Senator and Governor, and they were supposed to have things sewed up. John Dawson Dixiecrats Want New Necks Dear Santa: Please bring me a new neck. I got mine chopped off in the November presidential election. Wiley Barnes Dear Santa: Likewise. John Hinsdale Dear Santa: Please bring some friends who are on speaking terms with Kerr Scott. I got him to make a speech for our for estry association, expecting a nice recital of platitudes, but he gave us hail, Columbia! Don P. Johnson A Few Other Modest Requests Dear Santa: Please bring me a nice, inexpensive house back in Gas tonia for Christmas. Or you can wait until January 6 to deliver it, if you prefer. I sold my place for what I thought was a good price, but how times have changed! It seems that ex-governors are supposed to pay twice as much for real estate as anybody else. If I had known that, maybe I wouldn’t even have run. R. Gregg Cherry Dear Santa: Don’t bother about bringing me a gift at Christmas, Santa. I got mine back in November. Harry S. Truman Dear Santa: Please bring me a 12-gauge shotgun for Christmas. When a man doesn’t have any more friends than I have, he needs a gun. Henry Wallace Dear Santa: Please bring me a shipload of pumpkins for Christmas. J. Stalin The Zebu lon Record ~ f DON! WOS27- f Sunday School Lesson j The greatest story of the year is told in simple language in next Sunday’s scripture lesson the story of the birth of our Lord, Je sus Christ. Christmas, the fourth ranking holiday of the Roman and Ortho dox churches (coming after Eas ter, Whitsunday and Ephiphany), has become the most popular hol iday in Portestant countries. Cer tainly it is the commercialized feast day in America, but the grandeur of the nativity has been dimmed only imperceptibly, if at all, by the giving of gifts in this country. Joseph and Mary came to Beth lehem by necessity. They were required to list their taxable prop erty and themselves, and could find no lodging in Jerusalem. Nor could they in Bethlehem, save in a barn. In the barn, or grotto, the Christ child was born, probably about 6 or 8 B. C. (The date is subject to question, but faulty calendar calculations are general ly believed this much in error by Bible students.) To this barn from Persia came the wise men, or magi, who pre viously had been adherents to Zoroasterism, to bring gifts and Farm Home Hints By Ruth Current State Home Demonstration Agent People who are careless about their breakfasts may ask whose business it is if they choose to live that way. But it does con cern others. 11l nourished peo ple are not at their best, and in this machine age they jeopardize the safety and lives of others. Children in families which start off the day with scanty or unap petizing breakfasts are off to a bad start for school or work. Thus continually deprived in their growing years, they fail to build the stamina necessary to resist disease and premature aging. There is no end to the ills of a people who cheat their stomachs at the first meal of the day. The new prune spice cake, re cently developed by home eco nomists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture for school lunch kitch ens, is a good choice for a family worship at the manger. There are popularly supposed to have been three wise men, because their gifts were three in number: frank :ncense, gold, and myrrh. The celebration of Christmas be gan first about 200 A. D. At that time it was believed that the bhth occurred in the spring, because of the custom of listing of taxes by the Romans in that season. Before the calendar reform, the date had been shifted to January 6, but when January 6 was set as Epiphany, the date was moved back to December, at least in Anglo-Saxon countries, where advantage was taken of the De cember 22 holiday of the Druids, who worshipped the sun with ritu als on the shortest day of the year. We should not be disturbed by the supposed pagan beginnings of the greatest popular holiday, just as we should not be worried by the mass of gifts bestowed on Christ’s birihday. The important conjsderation is the use made of the holiday today and the spirit in which gifts are given. Let us think of the poor, the bereaved, the distressed at the Christmas season, and Christmas will remain what tradition has taught us it should be. dessert. It is suitable for children and grown-ups alike, features the dried prunes now oil the list of plentiful foods, is easy to make, not expensive, and holds its moisture and freshness for a day or two. This recipe furnishes about 16 portions. The ingredients are: 1-2 cup fat; 1 cup sugar; 2 eggs, well-beaten; 1 1-4 cups finely chopped, cooked, pitted prunes; 2 cups sifted flour; 1 ]-2 teaspoons soda; 1-16 teaspoon nutmeg; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 3-4 teaspoon cloves; 3-4 teaspoon salt; and 1-2 cup sour milk or buttermilk. To make: Cream the fat and sugar. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy. Blend in prunes. Sift flour, soda, spices and salt together three times. Add to the creamed mixture, alternating with the sour milk. Line a greas ed 8 x 10 inch pan with waxed pa per. Pour in batter. Bake in a moderate oven (350 F.) for 35 to 40 minutes. Friday, December 17, 1948 Insurance Rates There has been much to-do and ado recently in the daily press of North Carolina about insur ance rates, particularly insur ance rates paid by automobile owners. The many columns of type which have been devoted to this subject appear to us to have been mis-directed. Insurance rates, as we under stand them, are based in the fi nal analysis, whether there is a public hearing on them or a star chamber hearing, on experience, and on nothing else. How the hearing is held is not important. The important thing is: WHAT STEPS, IF ANY, ARE BEING TAKEN TO REDUCE INSUR ANCE RATES. This is the important factor, be cause it also represents what steps, if any, ARE BEING TAK EN TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DEATHS ON THE HIGH WAYS. A human life is a precious thing. Human life should not be sacrificed on the altar of careless ness, ignorance, or indifference. Highway accidents, both fatal and those which only cripple or result in property damage, have been and are being reduced in those states which have adopted common sense methods of combat ting this scourge of modern life. But here in North Carolina we are content to rest supinely upon the methods which were up-to date in the days of the Model T. We don’t educate our people in highway safety; we don’t prop erly engineer or mark our high ways curves are laid out for Model T vehicles, centerlining is a hit-and-miss experiment of here today and gone tomorrow; and markers in most instances ap pear to have been pulled out of a grab-bag and installed. Based on Experience We repeat: insurance rates are based upon experience. Any eighth-grade student knows that if fatalities are numerous and prop erty damage is extensive the in surance companies must pay out huge sums of money. That money comes from premiums collected; and the higher the losses, the higher ihe rates. A competent, up-with-the-times and on-its-toes highway depart ment could do much to reduce highway accidents in North Caro lina through placing in effect mod ern engineering practices in the building of highways and in the proper marking on highways. An educational program in highway safety and in this field the newspapers of North Carolina could make a valuable contribu tion and a fairly and squarely administered law enforcement program, all three of these togeth er, could and would reduce ac cidents, both fatal and non-fa tal. and would also bring about a material reduction in insurance rates. Let’s don’t continue to kid our selves. Highway travel and lia bibty Insurance rates are high, not because of the manner in v-hich they are set, but because of carelessness, ignorance and seeming indifference. There is a remedy, and it is our prediction that the p» <mle have elected as their Governor the doctor who will cure the desperately iU patient. Death, as far as is possible, should be banished from the high ways of North Carolina. The Zebulon Record Ferd Davis Editor Barrie Davis Publisher Subscription rate: $1.50 a year. Advertising rates on request. En tered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office at Zeb ulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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