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Two A Challenge Members of the Wakelon Senior Class stirred up con siderable discussion with their open letter to the community published in Tuesday’s Zebulon Record. The teen-agers cited the great need for some place for wholesome recrea tion in Zebulon, accusing adults of talking about the con duct of young people without'doing a thing to improve it. On the other hand, the teen-agers should not expect adults to do all the work. For the young people to say “We’re going to accomplish our recreation in parked cars and roadhouses unless you get us a better place” is no good. This problem of a place for recreation is so big everybody’s help will be needed to solve it, and the young people are not excluded. If a sound plan for a youth center is presented, and the young people give a sincere promise of their complete coop eration before and after the youth center is completed, we believe the adults will meet the challenge to help the young people and will get things done. A Stitch in Time The members of the North Carolina Legislature who are supporting the measure to roll back the weight limits on Tar Heel highways to what they were two years ago are to be commended. Tests and past experiences have demon started repeatedly the destruction done to our public high way system by motorized mammoths, which are loaded too heavily for the road surfaces to support. With money, men, and material all in short supply, the task of maintaining our present highway system becomes more difficult with each passing daty. The action proposed by the Legislators will do much to extend the life of our roads in the days ahead. Through All the Days y By Carl M. Saunders Editor, Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot ‘At Anzio and Okinawa, and Inchon and Taegon no man asked of his comrade on his right or on his left: “Are you Catholic or Baptist; Jew or Episcopalian?” No man asked aught. All had faith and understanding. A wounded comrade cried for help from the battle zone. Those two, or half dozen, who bravely crawled through en emy fire to rescue him never paused to question his relig ion, his color or his race. In Korea, too, as in the battle zones of that last World War, fighting men paused in the rear lines to listen to the “Mammy” singing of a man now dead AI Jolson. Nobody called A1 Jolson a Jew though his father had been a cantor in the synagogue. They called him great —a great American. Yet back home there are those who divide themselves from others who are as loyal to democratic ideas, as faithful to American dreams. They mentally point a scornful finger to say: “They are not like us; they are Jews,” or Methodists or Catholics. That is where brotherhood must begin in the minds of men and women. Superficial surface fraternizing is meaningless. It serves no lasting purpose to gather once a year with arms entwined and to dwell vocally upon the virtues of brotherhood if what is said and done then ends there. The true spirit of Brotherhood Week is based on under standing. It must be deep in the heart and in the mind, func tioning not just today or in Brotherhood Week but through all the days and weeks functioning for America in the American pattern of tolerance and understanding. BROTHERHOOD WEEK February 18-25, 1951 Sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews The Zebulon Record Published Tuesday and Friday of each week at Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina Barrie S. Davis Editor James M. Potter, Jr 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, Scott Summers. 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 The Zebulon Record A barn burned down a year or so ago and the farmer called a lo cal insurance man and told him of the accident. “All right,” the insurance agent assured him, “we’ll build you an other barn.” The farmer had expected to be paid in cash. “Well,” said the far mer, ‘if thrt’s the way you do business, you can cancel the in surance on my wife I won’t want another.” ' • There are all sorts of stories cir culated about Some are printable and others are naughty. We overheard a new one the other day. Seems that a Duke graduate was applying at the News & Observer for a position on the reporterial staff. The city editor was not entirely sold on the new grad, but the boy seemed to show promise and was hired anyhow. That night the city editor peer ed over the office for a reporter to cover a high society wedding to take place in Durham. Nobody was around but the new cub. “Jeffrey,” he barked. “Go over to Durham and cover that wedding. When it’s over call in all the de tails, and don’t miss a thing.” When press time rolled around, Freedom does not bring security for slavery may bring the great est amount of security. The free man is living a dangerous life. He is in danger of losing his free dom by violence. He is in danger of losing his freedom by enemies. He is in danger of losing his free dom by living a life of ease and complacency. He is in danger of losing his freedom to his friends. There is no freedom but what has cost blood and suffering and heart aches. The free man is in danger of losing freedom all the time. By Forrest W. Seymour Chief Editorial Writer, Des Moines Register It just happened that during re cent days there drifted into our acquaintance, long enough for brief chats, an Anglican from Aus tralia, a Moslem from Pakiston, a Catholic from Austria, a Luther an from Sweden, a Moslem from Iraq, a Protestant from Holland, a Jew from Israel, a Catholic from Argentina. In every case these persons had been reared and educated in cul tures quite different from our own some of them markedly differ ent. Yet as we recall these pleas ant conversations now, we realize that we found ourselves imme diately “at home” with the visitor, and talking about the simple things which all human societies face in common problems of health, and better education, and security, and respect for law; per sonal family problems; the values in our respective traditions and historical experiences, as nations and peoples; and so on. The whole World is akin in these things. Differences of religion, of color, even of political creed, dis solve and are forgotten because they are but mists that sometimes blur our vision of the common hopes and common characteristics of the human family. Seen and Heard nothing had been heard of the re porter, and the N&O, we are told, had to be printed without the im portant wedding story. The next morning the young re porter wandered in, threw his hat across the room, and was prompt ly confronted by a fuming city ed itor. “Where,” exploded the edi tor, “is the story on the wedding?” “Oh,” said the reporter. “There was not any story about a wed ding. The roof of the church fell in, killed the groom-to-be, put the bfide-to-be in the hospital, and knocked out the preacher; so they did not have a wedding for me to write about. I went to the movie instead.” • Away back in the days when I was working with the Boy Scouts, I was examining a candidate for the Merit Badge on Home Repairs. “Robert,” I sqid, “why does a fau cet drip?” “Because it can’t sniff,” he ans wered. • The average income of a college man is about midnight. • Up in lowa a cub reporter wrote that a local farmer had been robbed of 2,025 pigs. The cagey Uncle Sam Says The free man is in danger of los ing his freedom in a world of ideas. A world of freedom allows all people to choose their mode of government and ways of living and doing things so long as this does not interfere with the freedom of other people. There is danger in the thinking which only runs in one groove and becomes narrow and biased. To retain freedom a person must be resourceful and self reliant. It is easy to lose freedom by leaning and relying on others. Through the Mist If this is true of peoples as di verse as the globe at its farthest reaches can provide, how wide is the area of agreement among us who live in the same environment of freedom, who respect the same laws, who worship the same God, who enjoy incomparable comforts and conveniences together, and who have toiled and fought side by side for so long to preserve our common security and ideals? In this Brotherhood Week, spon sored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, let us all take the opportunity to step through the mist of prejudice and fear and shallow habit, and see our neighbors for what they truly are Americans, family groups, hum ble citizens, as anxious as we for their children and their ideals, as willing as we to sacrifice and share in our common purposes. • By Hank. Greenberg Manager, Cleveland Indians Brotherhood, which is apparent in all'facts of American life, is nowhere more apparent than in the sports world. There is nothing more democratic than a football summary, a baseball box score. In these only the record is printed not the social prestige (or lack of it) of the individuals involved, not the standing of the player’s Tuesday, February 20, 1951 night editor thought the figure pretty high and phoned the farmer to check up. “Is it true you lost 2,025 pigs?” “Yeth,” answered the farmer. The editor thanked him and changed the copy to make the loss read, “two sows and twenty-five pigs.” • Lela Young, who works for my brother’s wife, told us once that kissing a man without a mustache was like drinking coffee without cream and sugar. It brought to mind an old saying: “Kissing a man is like cooking a rabbit—first get the man.” • One of the new Privates of Bat tery A came back from camp last summer and had this to say of Sidney Holmes: “A first sergeant is a source of information that can always give you the details.” • The lost-and-found department of a certain transit system got & telephone call from a girl who said she had left a package containing a brassiere on a bus. “What bus?” asked the transit company employee. “Size 36,” replied the girl. On one side there is danger of a person becoming a slave to wealth on the other side there is clanger of becoming a pauper. There is danger that a free man • may became dissipated, drunken and vile. The nation that would maintain freedom must use con stant vigilance because it is con tinually beset with danger. The individual who would remain free is beset with danger in every ave nue, walk and channel of life. Those who are free must live dan gerously. family, but only what the contest ant did in competition. Brother- hood is something that is part of ' the sports creed. It is something that is taken for granted. We in Cleveland have adopted the motto that ability counts, not race, color or creed. It is only natural, therefore, that the Cleve land “Indians” lead the way by judging players on performance only. Our daily lifie-up includes two Irishmen, an Englishman, a Scotsman and two Mexicans, Pro testants, Catholics and Jews, Ne groes and Whites, and all Ameri cans who work and play together in perfect harmony. This speaks for itself. Cleceland Line-up: Roberto Avila, Ray Boone, Lawrence Doby, Luke Easter, Mike Garcia, Jim Began, Bob Kennedy, Dale Mitch ell, A1 Rosen. Substantially more dairy prod ucts moved in international trade in 1.949 than in any other year since the war as larger supplies became available from rehabilitat ed European countries that were important in dairy trade before World War 11. • Grade A milk purchases by North Carolina distributors were nearly one-fourth higher in 1950 than in 1949.
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