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Able, But Not Willing
We covered a large portion of the world’s surface dur
ing the conflict that ended a short five years ago, our
sight-seeing tour being financed by that most generous
and forgetful gentleman, Uncle Sam. During our travels
we witnessed a large variety of scenes, from men being
cut to pieces by machine gun bullets to the shining, smil
ing faces of little kids as they were given C ration candy
by American Gl’s.
Somewhere between these two extremes we saw a
woeful lack of chaplains (those gentlemen on whose shoul
ders we were always told to cry when things went wrong).
At one time or another w'e were with groups who were never
visited by chaplains of any denomination, and the absence
of the men of God was evident.
Our pet peeve then was the way some able-bodied min
isters took advantage of the deferment offered them by
draft laws and stayed safely at home where there were no
stray bullets around that might have their names written
on them. And at this same time men who had never before
so badly needed help from God were fighting and killing'
and dying. We understand that beds with sheets on them
are hard to leave, and maybe the good Lord made special
allowances for those poor Gl’s who had no one to help
them straighten themselves out with Him.
We have another pet peeve today which is joining the
first in rubbing us the wrong way— this time it’s the lack
of doctors in our armed forces. In our minds, preachers
and doctors are something out of the ordinary, and since
they give their lives to help out mankind, a person should
search his soul before heeding the call to enter either line
of work. Once a doctor and a preacher, his time no longer
belongs altogether to himself and his family, but any per
son who needs his help owns a part of it.
During World War 11, thanks to the generosity of
thousands of good people who paid their taxes and bought
war bonds and gave their lives to keep the Hun and the
Jap from coming on this side of the waters, quite a few
thousand stalwart young men were given a medical edu
cation in our best colleges. Night after night they sweated
over their books, burning the mid-night oil, while all that
lucky GI Joe had to do was learn to dodge a few bullets
and shells that came his way. The college boy wiped the
sweat from his brow and waited for his stomach to settle
as he hacked away at cadavers while GI Joe was having the
time of his life making cadavers out of various Japs and
Germans who came within range of his trusty M-l.
But what of these doctors we paid to train? Where are
they now? Several thousand of our government-trained
medics never saw military service, and now they are badly
needed. GI Joe is back at work trying to convince a bunch
of communists that our democratic way of life is worth
fighting for. The government has sent out an urgent ap
peal for the help of these doctors so that GI Joe can stay
alive and fight a while longer. Do you know how many of
the thousands heeded the call for duty? Exactly one!
That’s the reason congress is talking about drafting
doctors. These boys we helped train just can’t see their
way clear to repay our kindness and fulfill their obliga
tion. We have drafted thousands of men who will be trans
formed into an efficient fighting machine. It is only fair
that we draft these government-trained medics who never
saw active duty to help care for them.
Civilized Population Control
We Americans apparently have found the way to
guard our world against the dangers of too much popula
tion. In India and China they manage a famine or an epi
demic of disease to kill off some of the surplus. We here
in America have a more civilized method: we kill them
off with cars.
During the past weekend well over 300 people were
murdered on the highways. It’s high time we made some
concerted effort to lengthen the life of the motorist. You
never can tell when the motorist killed will be you.
The Zebulon Record
Ferd L. Davis Editor
Barrie S. Davis Publisher
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.
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. Ollie Pearce, Mrs. O. t. Mullen, Mrs.
Barrie Davis, Mrs. Jack Potter, Bobbie McGee, James M. Potter,
Jr., Hilliard Greene. Jr., Jimmie Greene, Loomis Parrish.
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THEY ARE PERPENDICULAR
TRAVELERS Most of the work
of power linemen is done aloft,
and it is a dull week which doesn’t
find a lineman climbing some 30
to 50 poles. At left top, John L.
Herring and Sam C. Harrelson,
Jr., Carolina Power & Light line
men, are shown at work at Marion,
S. C. They have covered nearby
“hot wires” with rubber hose. 260
The family of Theo. B. Davis
celebrated his birthday last
Thursday with an outdoor supper.
Present with members of the im
mediate family from Raleigh,
Middlesex and Zebulon were Pas
tor Mitchell, Mrs. Mitchell and
their two children.
J. S. Buffalo is out again after
being kept in bed some days by
an injury received in an automo
bile accident. Mrs. Buffalo is able
to be up a good part of the time.
Rev. Theo. B. Davis preached
Sunday at Morehead City where
he was pastor from 1908 till 1913.
He made the trip with his son,
Ferd, and grandchildren, Leary,
Teddy and Ann Davis, returning
in the evening.
Rev. R. H. Herring supplied the
pulpit at Pearces Baptist Church
last Sunday.
such linemen keep the Company’s
lines hot.
At right, Allen Ivey, line crew
foreman, who has climbed some
200 or more miles in 25 years of
working on the hot stuff. Nowa
days, he leaves most of the climb
ing to younger men. Linemen start
out as “grunts” (groundmen), and
ascend both in altitude and in
rank with experience. At right
below is a close-up of the line-
Local Personal Items
Mr. W. R. Whittenton, princi
pal, of Wakelon School, and his
family are living at Dr. G. S. Bar
bee’s home until they can locate
a house.
Mrs. Mary Pearce Carter went
Monday to Rex Hospital where she
was to undergo an operation on
her ear in an effort to remedy
partial deafness.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Bunn and
baby son of Greensboro were here
for the weekend with the F. E.
Bunns.
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Chamblee
of Norfolk, Va., with their little
sons, visited the C. S. Chamblees
over the weekend.
Mrs. Clyde Rives of Fort Lau
derdale. Fla., is visiting her sister,
Mrs. E. C. Daniel.
Mesdames Ruric Gill and Edwin
Richardson were hostesses to the
Tuesday, September 5, 1950
man’s friend one of his hooks.
Attached to his shoes and leg by
two straps, it makes even a mon
key’s aerial work seem clumsy.
Bottom shows standard equip
ment of your lineman. It includes
belt with tools, safety belt, hooks,
and a pair of rubber gloves encas
ed in a paper of work gloves. With
this equipment, lineman regular
ly work on hot wires carrying up
to 4,000 volts of current.
senior Fidelis Class of the Baptist
Sunday School on Monday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pippin
of Washington, D. C., left Mon
day afternoon after staying since
last Thursday in the home of their
brother, Clifton Pippin, of Wake
field.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jenkins
have begun keeping house in the
apartment in the home of Mrs.
Edith Freeze.
Lt. Frankie Hall of Norfolk, Va.,
was home for the Labor Day holi
day with her mother, Mrs. Ida
Hall.
The 25th anniversary of the
Guilford County Board of Agri
culture was celebrated August 26,
with farm and extension leaders
from all over North Carolina at
tending.