Page Four
But Nobody Does Anything
We recall a classic quotation from Mark Twain to
the effect that while everybody talks about the weather,
nobody does anything about it. We may add that the
weather is no longer unique in this respect.
When Governor Scott held his press conference earlier
this week, many of the reporters present were singing the
blues because of what they considered inexcusably harsh
disciplinary practices in North Carolina prison camps.
The press was practically of one mind about the situa
tion, agreeing that Governor Scott should appoint a com
mission to investigate prison disciplinary practices. The
Governor immediately appointed such a commission, said
commission to consist of the reporters requesting same,
whereupon the visitihg dignitaries of the press sheepishly
begged off.
Well, that’s about average. Talk is cneap, and
action comes high. The more sensational an event, the
more people talk and the less they are willing to do them
selves. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does any
thing about it, except the people who have been trying to
solve the problem all the time-
Recreation Authority Needed
We are witnessing just now the completion of an
amazingly successful softball season in this community. It
is most amazing because, like Topsy, it just grew. What
the administration of the program amounted to has been,
in essence, arbitrary assumption of authority by a self
created commission and voluntary acceptance of that au
thority by players and spectators. That such a basis pro
vided a sound program is a tribute to commission, players,
and public alike.
At the same time, this particular situation points up
a need for a recreation commission in Zebulon with au
thority based on ordinance. The local Board of Commis
sioners will shortly have the privilege and responsibil
ity of creating such a unit, looking toward year-around
provision of recreation for our community- We are con
fident the commissioners will meet this challenge with wise
and immediate action.
Join Your Local Farm Bureau
The farmers of North Carolina, allied with labor and
educational groups, have now become the dominant politi
cal factor in our state. Wise use of farmers’ political
power will make North Carolina, still largely agricultural,
a richer state and a better place to live, provided we accept
the thesis that when Tar Heel farmers make money Tar
Heel merchants and manufacturers also make money.
If we accept this thesis, we must look for ways to keep
our farmers prosperous. One of the first steps to be taken
in this direction by an individual farmer must be affilia
tion with a national organization of farmers and other agri
culturalists, either the Grange or the Farm Bureau. In our
locality this group is the Farm Bureau.
Through effort and circumstance the Zebulon Farm
Bureau has played an important part in the furtherance
of both the state organization and a sound program the
two go hand in hand. At present the local Farm Bureau
membership constitutes about one per cent of the North Car
olina total; while a tremendous increase in state member
ship is anticipated for 1949-50, by increasing local mem
bership we can continue to play a strong and a sound part
in state Farm Bureau affairs and therefore the agricul
tural program in general.
Zebulon merchants have presented for the past two
weeks other phases of the Farm Bureau membership cam
paign; all these considerations make it purely and sim
ply good sense that every farmer in Little River Town
ship join the Zebulon Farm Bureau this fall.
Dr. R. E. Earp of Thanksgiving, who delivered an
address at the local Rotary Club last Friday night, has
applied himself to his duties as a member of the State High
way and Public Works Commission with energy and pur
pose. Whatever his decisions may be, they will be based
on personal information and observation to a degree not
previously attained by any divisional highway commissioner.
The Zebulon Record
Ferd L. Davis Editor
Barrie S. Davis Publisher
Subscription rate: $1.50 a year. Advertising rates on request.
Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office
■t 7j*hulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 187®
The Zebulon Record
Jojjm y wA W or±
IMMEI
ML’*"' M fi»
Every calendar day brings new
proof that cooperation with Com
munist groups is dangerous to all
that gives life value belief in
God and the possibility of higher
spiritual life. Denying this, com
munism strips the human being
of dignity and rejects his individ
ual responsibility.
Individual responsibility and the
right to make decisions affecting
one’s own life do not fit in with
the aims of the Poliburo; hence
Golden Text: “O magnify the
Lord with me, and let us exalt
his name together.”—Psalm 34:3.
Scripture lesson: Psalms 23, 42:
1-2; Psalm 90: 1-2, 1&-17.
Next Sunday, September 25, we
study three Psalms from which
many of our hymns have been tak
en. The 23rd Psalm, probably
the best known and mosi beloved
of them all, has been set to mu
sic, and is all the more impres
sive and inspiring because of it.
“Lead, Kindly Light,” the great
hymn by Cardinal Newman, was
taken from the 42nd Psalm, and
“O God, Our Hope in Ages Past”
Down at the bus station the
other night some of the fellows
were discussing the vagaries of a
late resident of this community,
interested in sawmilling, among
other enterprises.
It was generally agreed that the
deceased was a fine hunter, a won
derful mechanic, and an astute
business man. However, from that
point on, the discussion dealt more
with fancy than fact.
the churches, which uphold the
moral responsibility of each hu
man being, must be brought un
der control of the Politburo. When
the chur-ch resists, force and in
trigue are employed by the Com
munists to the end that religion
may be abolished.
Free trade unions were one of
the first groups to learn that they
could not cooperate with Commu
nists without becoming tools to
serve totalitarian ends. This was
Sunday School Lesson
was inspired by the 90th Psalm.
These three sources of Christian
hymns are all included in our
scripture lesson this week.
We shall consider three major
points in this lesson: the Lord
is our shepherd, the Lord provides
us with sustenance, and the Lord
is the source of our satisfaction,
our happiness: he is our reason for
existence.
We must believe as did the
psalmist in the familiar refrain of
the 23rd Psalm that, whatever
conditions obtain in the temporal
world, the Lord will guide and
keep us, if we but keep him in
our hearts.
Seen and Heard
The conversation stopper, as
usual, was given by Hugh Pip
pin: “That man,” he declared,
“was so tight that when his boiler
burst and blew three of his men
into the air, he docked them for
the time they were off the job.”
From our Record files of 9 years
ago this week: Mrs. Avon Priv
ette presided over her first meet
ing as president of the local Wo-
Friday, September 23, 1949
the meaning of the recent confer
ence in Geneva of representatives
of 47,000,000 workers of free lands
who were determined to organize
a new world federation of labor
along democratic lines and free
from Kremlin control. That con
ference agreed upon the kind of
organization that could serve free
trade unions and appointed a com
mittee to draft a constitution.—
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
With another psalmist, we must
agree that the Lord provides for
all our needs: material, intellec
tual, and above all spiritual.
We will agree that the desires
of our hearts cannot be satisfied
unless they constitute a wish for
God’s ntrance into our lives. “As
the heart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my coul after
thee, O God. My soul thirsteth
• • • for the living God” (Psalm
42: 1-2). The soul of every man
who has known possession of ma
terial things thirsts for God,
whether that man knows or admits
it. Let us resolve to satisfy that
inborn longing for unity with God.
man’s Club. Mrs. C. G. Weath
ersby took office as president of
the Wakelon PTA.
Local sports fans are torn by
many a loyalty just now. They
want to see the softball play-offs,
they want to see Raleigh and Bur
lington in the Carolina League fi
nals, they want to see Big Four
football, and they want to listen
to major league broadcasts. Tough.