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Page Two POLITICAL SLANDER Politics, so Mr. Webster says in his dictionery, means "the science of government.” Politics, as exemplified by the senatorial brawl between Dr. Frank Graham and attor ney Willis Smith, means taking a man’s character and ripping it asunder, making derogatory criticisms, slan dering, and employing tactics that are loathed by righte ous men. The one conspicuous instance that riles us most is the accusation by his opponents that Dr. Frank Graham is a communist. We have been led to fear and hate commu nism and things communistic, and now when we wish to damn a man in the eyes of the voter, we brand him as a communist. The one great fact which is intentionally over looked by Dr. Graham s opponents is that communism and Christianity can not exist together in a nation or in an individual. Christianity and communism can never he reconciled. A person who believes in God is a deadly foe of communism. Dr. Frank Graham has been correctly described as “Christ-like.” He has spent his entire life working for others. He has been generous with his time, money, and energy. He believes in the Almighty God. How, then, can anyone with a conscience insinuate that Dr. Graham is a communist or is in sympathy with the communists? To make a false or misleading statement through ig norance is sometimes forgivable. A child frequently does wrong because he does not know better. But the scoun drels who, whether for personal gain or through fear, ma liciously attack the reputation of Dr. Frank Graham lay themselves open to the righteous indignation of all patriot ic Christians and foes of communism in North Carolina and the world, WE NEED A BIG VOTE In spite of frequent statements by office holders that they look to the needs of everyone with fairness no mat ter where they live, the fact remains that there are politi cians who cater to the whims of centers with the largest number of active voters before they manage to get around to the less populous areas. The reason for this is that said office holders enjoy being remembered favorably when election times rolls around around. This explains why our presidential candidates come al most entirely from the heavily populated states which car ry with them a large electoral vote. And that, too, is the reason why representatives from those sections speak loud ly and are heard. We hoped for a record-breaking vote in Little River Township on Saturday, but we were disappointed. Two years ago exactly 1,000 ballots were cast, and this year we failed to equal that total. But we did turn in the larg est vote of any township outside of Raleigh. Did you no tice how the candidates flocked to Zebulon to court the favor of our people? Did you see how they all recognized the importance of swinging Little River Township their way? The 727 votes which were cast for Philip Whitley played a big part in nominating him in the first primary. If we keep Little River Township in the lead so far as the total number of votes is concerned, we can speak with a big voice when we require something done. "Remember, ’ we can tell those who try to ignore our needs, "a thousand votes are not to be sneezed at!” So let us all vote in the sec ond primary! ON LAWFUL ELECTIONS Zebulon has been noted for quiet and lawful elections. We certainly hope that it continues to hold this enviable rep utation. With this hope in minds, we quote from pages 34 and 35 the N. C. Guidebook for Election Officials. In a primary election any voter, disabled or not, is al lowed, upon request to the precinct officials, to have a “near” relative go into the voting booth with him and get what ever help he wants from that relative. The Statute defines a “near” relatives as a husband, wife, brother, sister, parent, child, grandparent or grandchild. A physically disabled voter who obviously cannot go to the booth and mark his ballot alone, and an illiterate voter (allowed to vote only if registered under the Grandfather Clause) who cannot mark his ballot intelligently, after stat ing their incapacities to the registrar, are entitled to help . . . If no near relatives is available, any other voter of the pre cinct who has not given aid to another voter may be called upon. ... In a primary election every ballot marked by another in one of these ways is recorded in the poll book as follows: “Ballot marked by . . The Zebulon Record Bvtared 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 With a fire in the kitchen heater on Saturday and Sunday mornings I reflected that heat in winter is a necessity, and as such is taken as a matter of course. But a lit tle extra warmth on a chilly May day is luxury that is due special appreciation. In looking over advertisements and articles on doing over rooms and thus “bringing color into the home,” it is dismaying to find how often I prefer the pictures taken before to those taken after the re decoration. It must date me as hopelessly old-fashioned. You have probably heard of the rnan who gave up his job grading potatoes because deciding whether they were large or small was such a strain on his mind. The socalled new potatoes on the market now make me sympathize with the grader. When ever I start pre paring them for cooking I don’t know whether to treat them as one does old potatoes. Usually I begin with scraping, get tired of taking off tough skin that way Those who are bewildered by the fact that the Federal government can’t seem to make both ends meet, no matter how great its tax revenues are, would do well to read and reread —a piece in the May 1 issue of Newsweek call ed “Well, It’s Only Money.” It deals with Senator Paul Douglas’ brave but wholly ineffectual ef fort to do something about a sl,- 565,000,000 rivers and harbors bill. These bills are the traditional pork-barrel measures. As News week puts it, “The whole princi ple is: ‘Don’t ask questions. You vote for my project, and I’ll vote for yours.’ ” Partisanship is for gotten as the bills are rushed through and every state is given its share of the pork. Senator Douglas, who was formerly a col lege professor and who made a dis tinguished record as a volunteer Marine combat officer when he was past 50, generally favors the philosophies that are associated with the “New Deal” and the “Fair Deal.” However, Senator The 1950 National 4-H Club Camp will be held in Washington, June 14-21. North Carolina will be represented by two boys and two girls to be selected on the basis of their outstanding record in club work. • Farmers and business interests of Columbus and Brunswick coun ties are cooperating in an inten sive program to improve the qual ity of sweet potato seed stock be ing bedded this year. • Cleveland County farmers are expected to increase their turkey production to about 7,000 this year as compared with a total of about 2,000 in 1949. In average beef herds, less than one set of identical twins occurs in every 2,000 births. • Turkeys brought farmers 31.6 cents a pound live-weight in Feb ruary compared with 44.1 cents a year earlier. This, That and the Other Economic Highlights Tar Heel Farm Facts and finish by peeling. But the scraped ones are better. With school vacation right upon us, there are probably many mo thers deeply grateful that vacation Bible schools will open soon and take care of the children for two weeks’ mornings. Not to mention what will be learned during the two weeks, the little ones will be off mother’s hands and well cared for; which is no small considera tion. My husband woke from sleep with a groan. “I have had the most terrible dream,” he explained. “I thought I went somewhere to preach, and just as I walked to the pulpit found I did not have any sermon.” I told him not to worry; that a great many preachers had done that w'hen it was not a dream. Some of them didn’t find it out. My husband and I went last Friday night to Middlesex school to hear the recital given by pia no and voice pupils of Mrs. Line berger of Wilson, who has a class at Middlesex. It’s not to be de- Douglas also hates waste, unbal anced budgets, and the kind of political cynicism which creates them. As Newsweek says, “Douglas didn’t ask the Senate to cut the pork from the bill . . . All he re quested was elimination of the bal oney.” Even this would have re duced the appropriation by more than half. The Senator explained precisely why the projects he wanted to kill including two in his own state of Illiniois were wasteful. And here is what re sulted, again in Newsweek’s words: “Each amendment was greeted with raucous laughter. Each was howled down, and some of the loudest shouts were from those Republican and Southern Democrats who moan most about economy between appropriations bills. Only one voice was raised in support of Douglas —by Dem ocratic Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia who pointed out that, unless whittled down, the rivers and harbors bill eventually would cost Farm fence post treatment is proving highly popular with Wayne County farmers, who to date have ordered enough mater ials to treat an estimated 360,000 posts. • Pastures seeded by Gates Coun ty Negro farmers are in good con dition at the present time. • A total of 41 young rural Amer icans have been selected to spend this summer on farms in 15 or more European countries as par ticipants in the International Farm Youth Exchange project. • Sheep production has proved to be a profitable sideline for Jack Camp, Jr., Rutherford County dairyman. Starting with 14 ewes, he has sold and used at home $263.70 worth of meat and wool in just one year’s time. He has kept his feed costs low by growing plenty of Ladino clover and or chard grass pasture. Tuesday, May 30, 1950 nied that the main cause of our going was to hear granddaughter Lynne play a simplified version of Liebestraume; but it should also be said that we enjoyed the en tire program. Stage decorations were beautiful. Nowhere else have I seen quite so large floor baskets of larkspur and other flowers. En trance was under a trellised arch entwined with rambler roses. And a basket of flowers near the piano with the large bowl of red and pink roses and Queen Ann’s Lace which sort of presided from the top of the instrument would have held my attention a long time, even if nothing else could have been seen or heard. On Saturday Mrs. Lineberger’s class at Middlesex went to Atlan tic Christian College and repeated their program. At least three other Nash County schools sent music classes, and the recital lasted for hours. Lynne declared that the concert grand on which they play ed at A. C. C. was "so long that when you sat down at it you could n’t even see the ends.” Had I been one of the performers, I think I couldn’t have seen the middle either. Trying to play before any one scares me out of all reason the nation $30,000,000,000 . “While the Senate was laughing at Douglas, the House also demon strated that in Congress economy is a word that rhymes with hypo crisy . . . The only savings effect ed were a 10 per cent reduction in the $12,000,000 Federal contribu tion to the District of Columbia, which has no votes, and the elimi nation of a $7,000,000 contract au thorization for the Institute of In ter-American Affairs, for which there was no basic authorizing leg islation anyway.” Newsweek went on to say that the 1951 Federal deficit is now likely to reach the incredible fig ure of $7,300,00,000. It is a com mon political practice to claim that this is the result of such costly undertakings as the national de fense, the rebuilding and rearm ing of Western Europe, and so on. But Congress’ unbridled amuse ment when Senator Douglas at tempted to take the baloney out of just one bill indicates how emp ty that claims. The early lamb crop is estimat ed to be 2 per cent larger than that of last year. If an increase is shown, it will be the first in nine years. • Nearly 85 million acres of wheat were grown in the United States last year. The 1950 crop is ex pected to be less than 73 million acres. • Cattle numbers in the U. S in creased about two million head in 1949. • Records of cash receipts from farm marketing show that only five states topped the billion-dol lar mark in 1949 as compared with 11 states in 1948, says the U. S. Department of Agriculture • Cotton consumption in the Unit ed Kingdom has been increasing steadily since the war and is ex pected to reach 2,150,000 bales during the 1949-50 season.
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