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Page Two Community Council (or Zebulon? At a meeting of one of Zebulon’s civic groups, the suggestion was made that a Community Council be form ed of the organization presidents, church pastors, and lead ers of other clubs and fraternal bodies in Zebulon. This group would serve as a clearing house for problems affect ing the whole community, doing away with the duplica tion of effort and eliminating any conflicts in meeting dates, projects, and other matters. How many have had to choose between two meetings held the same night? And at Christmas who remembers the worry over whether two groups would give baskets to the same family or whether some family would be left out altogether? These are but two of the many problems which could be solved easily by a Community Council. Some time ago a great deal of dissatisfaction was ex pressed about the Raleigh Community Chest, and some in vestigation was made toward establishing a Community Chest for Zebulon. A Community Council, with represent atives from all the civic, fraternal, and church groups, would be logical choice to head the Community Chest. Right now we are in the midst of a campaign for funds for the March of Dimes under the capable leadership of Rev. R. H. Herring. During the year we are called on to help numerous other causes. One fund drive often follows closely on the heels of another, until the saturation point is reached and folks refuse to give more. Here too, the Com munity Council will be able to play a part, consolidating and coordinating the drives until more results would come from less effort, and we would all like it better. Other good suggestions have been made, praised, and then left to die from inattention. This should not be the fate of the Community Council. Mission Concluded Myron C. Taylor deserves credit for having served with dignity and discretion in a post which was contro versial from its inception. As personal representative with rank of ambassador, he was the envoy first of President Roosevelt, then of President Truman, to the Vatican. While his mission may have been useful as a channel of information during the war, this newspaper feels that it should no longer be continued. Mr. Taylor’s resig nation affords a good opportunity for ending a diplomat ic anomaly and an affront to the historic American policy of separation of church and state. Theoretical basis for diplomatic representation at Vat ican City was laid when the Lateran Treaty of 1929 gave temporal sovereignty over its territory to the Pope. That territory is less than one-sixth of one square mile, and its population is given as 1,250. If representation were scaled to area and population of the Vatican State, the post there would be at best a consu lar one, not an ambassadorship. San Marino, Monaco, and Andorra, diminutive, independent states of larger area and population, receive not even a consul from the United States. Liechtenstein has a consul general. If diplomafic representation to Vatican City is based on the importance and scope of the Roman Catholic Church as an institution, that is a recognition not accorded to any other church, nor desired by any of the large Protestant church bodies. Moreover, if ambassadorial rank is designed to sig nify that though Vatican City is small, the Roman Cath olic Church is conceived to represent, as among nations, its many millions of adherents in various parts of the world, then another question entirely and of great seriousness is presented. Does not that come perilously close to an asknowledge ment of dual citizenship such as Hitler’s Nazi philosophy claimed for persons of German blood under whatever other national sovereignty they might reside? That claim was properly and vigorously rejected. Roman Catholics them selves deny they owe any dual allegiance. For these cogent reasons, we believe the mission to Vatican City should be terminated.—The Christian Science Monitor. The Zebulon Record Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post office at Zebulon North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year. Advertising rates on request. Ferd L. Davis Editor Barrie S. Davis Publisher Staff Writers: Mrs. Theo. B. Davis, Mrs. Ferd Davis, Mrs. Janice Denton, Miss Bonita Bunn, Mrs. T. Y. Puryear, Mrs. Polly Fuller, Mrs. Iris Temple. Office Personnel: Mrs. Barrie S. Davis, Mrs. Ollie Pearce, Mrs. O. C. Mullin, Hilliard Greene, Loomis Parrish, Bobby McGee, Jimmy Greene Miss Eloise Fretz. Jack Potter. The Zebulon Record From our Record files of six years ago this week: Mrs. Ruric Gill was ill with influenza. Lt. Charles Whitley was home on leave from Camp Mackall. Mrs. Robert Ed Horton was on nurs ing duty in Louisburg. The engagement of Miss Mary Barrow to Major James Coleman was announced by her parents. The home of the Ed Richardsons on Sycamore Street was damag ed by fire. Zebulon was hit by epidemic of whooping cough, measles and flu. The fourth war loan drive was under way in Zebulon, with com mitteemen including L. M. Mas sey, C. V. Whitley, D. D. Cham blee, Graham Bunn, William Rich ards, Forest Broughton, and Rob ert Ed Horton. Here is distressing news: drunk en driving is on the increase in Minneapolis. Up to October 1, 1948, 520 cases had passed through municipal court. In the same period this year, there were 652 cases. Last month 86 motorists either pleaded guilty to drunken driving charges or were convicted of them. That figure set an all-time rec ord. What is wrong? One obvious answer is too much leniency . . . The maximum penalty which may Mrs. Sprite Barbee is visiting Dr. and Mrs. G. S. Barbee for a few days. Dr. G. S. Barbee is home from Duke Hospital and will soon be able to return to his office. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Whitley left yesterday for High Point to attend the furniture show. Their daugh ter, Nancy, will return home with them-for her mid-semester holi days. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Barnes spent Sunday with the Fred Becks. Gilbert Beck and family moved yesterday into the house former ly occupied by Mrs. W. N. Pitts. Mr. Beck will be in business with his brothers at the veneer ing plant. Mrs. R. H. Brantley, Jr. and baby ajre visiting the R. H. Brantleys for a few days while R. H. is in Charlotte. They will move to Charlotte next week, where he will be with the Associated Press. Bill Brantley is home from Wake Forest College with his par ents for a few days. Bob Brown and S. G. Flowers were home from Campbell Col lege Sunday for the services at the Methodist Church. Mrs. C. M. Watson has been sick at her home for the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Watson and son, Jimmy, from Franklinton, visited Mrs. C. M. Watson Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Watson and family and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Meacoms and baby from Bailey were visitors in the Watson home Sunday. * "r. and Mrs. Rom Moser spent the weekend in New Bern. Mr. and Mrs. James Creech and family visited Mrs. Drury Partin of Raleigh Sunday. Seen and Heard With Other Editors Zebulon Personal Items The man who edited the Record before your present editor does not see eye to eye with his suc cessor. He disagrees with his son on such matters as crop subsidies, liquor control, politics, whether the Baptists should take that hos pital money, Kerr Scott, and the weather. The former editor also doesn’t like the way we work late at night, and take off during the day, should there be a ball game or the like. His response to our plea that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is simply that all work and no play makes Jack! All of which reminds us of the Canadian executive who thought his office staff was procrastinat ing a bit too much, and posted the be given for this offense is SIOO fine or 90 days in the workhouse Perhaps what the situation needs, in a period when drunken driving increases sharply is more workhouse sentences. Beyond that it also needs a greater meas ure of public support for those judges who impose stiff penalties where warranted, even in the face of private pressure . . . The in dignant howls that go up when some citizen is faced with the pos sibility of a workhouse term might almost convince one that Mr. and Mrs. Sid Holding and daughter, Cimber, of Raleigh vis ited the Sidney Holmeses Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Alford and son, David, visited the Her man Dickens of Louisburg Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Harris and daughters, Anne and Caro lyn, from Fountain, spent Sunday with the Foster Finches and at tended the services at the Metho dist Church. Mrs. Phillip White, a charter member of the Zebulon Methodist Church, Waldo, Wallace, and Wil lard White from Wendell attend ed the Methodist Church services Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Powers and son, Cornell, from Wendell, Mr. and Mrs. Devitt and son of Raleigh, Dr. and Mrs. Sigma Finch from Oxford, and Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Finch and two sons from Dillon, S. C., were in Zebulon Sunday for the services at the Methodist Church. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Coltrane left for a trip to Florida the first of the wee k. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Miller and children of Wake Forest visited Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Davis Sunday afternoon. Tar Heel Farm Facts Christmas trees are ready for market at eight to 15 years of age, depending on the species, soil conditions, and the size desired. • U. S. farms now produce about 75 per cent more than In 1910 and nearly 40 per cent more than In 1935-39. Tuesday, January 24, 1949 following notice on his bulletin board: “While it is true that bread is the staff of life, there is no rea son why the life of this stalj should be one long loaf!” ■ When you argue with a fool, be sure he isn’t similarly engaged. Willie B. Hopkins was called out by neighbors of a colored cou ple to stop what sounded like the battle of the century. When the fight was ended, the chief lec turned the recalcitrant husband. “Fighting again!” he exclaimed. “Liquor?” “No, suh, Mr. Willie 8.,” came the reply. “She won dis time.” Being positive is sometimes just being mistaken at the top of your voice. drunken driving is a trivial of fense, comparable to overtime parking . . . But as a matter of fact, drunken driving is an extremely serious of fense. The drunken driver is not a simple mischief-maker; he is a potential accident looking for some citizen to maim or kill. If the threat of fines will not deter him, then let us have more work house sentences. The judges need the public’s moral backing when they hew to a strict line in such cases. —Minneapolis (Minn.) Tri bune Mrs. H. M. Brinkley and Mrs. Chris Hibbard of Durham visited in the home of Mrs. C. E. Flowers last week. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Screws are in High Point attending the furniture show. Mrs. Woodrow Watkins has the flu. Cloid Wade, Jr. was home from school last week with a virus in fection. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Debnam from Holly Springs spent the weekend in Zebulon. Mrs. Frederick Chamblee’s par ents from Boston are visiting her before going to Florida. Mrs. J. M. Potter, Jack Potter, and Eloise Fretz were visitors in the home of Rev. and Mrs. Theo. B. Davis Sunday. Visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barker Kannon Sunday were, Mr. and Mrs. Farris Kannan and children from Franklinton, Mr. Isaac Kannon and Katherine from Wendell, Mrs. Ellis Nassif and Miss Louise Bolus from Wake For est, Father Frederick Koch, editor of the North Carolina Catholic, from Raleigh, Mr. and Mrs. Eunice Kannon and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kannon. An increasing number of farm ers and small woodland owners are finding Christmas trees a profita ble cash crop, says the U. S. De partment of Agriculture. • Production of alfalfa hay has increased 50 per cent in the last 10 years.
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