Two
. The General's Campaign
Just as a good bunch of football players are easily
molded into a good football team, thereby making a good
coach; so can good troops make a leader into a good gen
eral or a good general into an excellent leader. The Ameri
can soldier has a hard-earned reputation for being a super
ior fighting man, and the names of those men who have led
them are many, including General Dwight Eisenhower,
one of the greatest leaders ever to have served his country.
The good general is finding the game of politics con
siderably different from the game of war. No longer is
iron discipline the rule. No longer is the commander the
only voice to speak. No longer can authority and respon
sibility be delegated and blame placed where it belongs.
For the game of politics is a complicated, ruleless contest
where virtue does not necessarily triumph and showman
ship frequently outdoes statesmanship in attracting votes.
Too, General Eisenhower’s troops are not of the caliber
of those valiant men who followed him unquestioningly
in Europe. Many of them swear allegiance to no one man,
but only to personal gain. They speak with many voices
and many minds, and when the General stands to speak,
he can expect certain of his cohorts to punch holes in his
arguments and kick the props out from under his campaign.
The good general has a lot to learn, and while his
knowledge of the innerworking of politics is increasing, the
members of the Republican Party seem to attempt to com
plicate his education rather than expedite the process. This
is standard practice for the Republicans, who would change
the present system of government which has brought pros
perity to the country for a mass of promises.
Watch Those Children
Schools over the country have been in session for only
a couple of weeks and already the newspapers are carrying
tragic stories of school bus accidents and highway deaths
in which school children are involved. Too often it is a
careless and reckless driver who paints the highways red
with the blood of innocent children. Too often it is the ab
sent-minded man behind the wheel who permanently crip
ples a child too young to know the dangers of the highways.
With the roads crowded with a record number of chil
dren going to and from school each day, it is important that
every person exercise extreme caution whenever on the high
ways, because, whether it be our fault or not, none of us
want to go through the rest of our lives knowing that we
have caused death and heartbreak which might have been
avoided.
Correct Emphasis Important
The refusal of folks to support a losing team is again
evident this year, even though the gridiron season has just
begun. Everybody likes a winner, but nobody likes a loser
and noboby goes to see a loser play except the losers them
selves. This attitude makes difficult the task of those who
would use athletic competition as a means of increasing the
character of the players, because without the financial sup
port provided by paying spectators, there can be no athletic
competition.
The truth of the matter is that at most high school ath
letic contests the players exhibit more and better sports
manship than their supporters along the sidelines. When
the play becomes rough and tumble, it is usually the spec
tators who would incite a row rather than the players in the
game.
Whenever school patrons will accept the fact that some
body has to lose in nearly every game, and that nobody can
win all the time, and whenever school patrons realize that
there are more important things involved in sports than a
long string of victories, then those who guide the destinies
of high school athletic teams can concentrate on the charac
ter of their players rather than the “win-at-all-costs” atti
tude of their teams.
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.
Member of the North Carolina Press Association.
BARRIE S. DAVIS 1 Editor
JAMES M. POTTER, JR Publisher
FERD L. DAVIS Fifth Wheel
Published Tuesday and Friday of each week at Zebulop,
Wake County, North Carolina. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year.
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The Zebulon Record
Judging starts at the Five Coun
ty Fair at 10 o’clock this morning,
with fruit, tobacco, needlework,
and hundreds of other items get
ting the once-over from judges.
Sixteen years ago today there was
similar judging at the Wakefield
Home Demonstration Club, with
the canned goods of Mrs. Sanford
Joyner and Mrs. S. H. Hoyle being
rated tops in the community.
The next item is published in
the admittedly forlorn hope of en
lightening Mr. Arthur Ferrell,
Little River Township’s leading
(and almost only) Republican.
The last time a Republican gen
eral was elected president was in
1368 when U. S. Grant and the
railroad lobby turned the trick.
Within a year money was worth
so little, it was hard to tell wheth
er the Yankees or Rebels had won
the war. Eighty-three years ago,
for instance, a gold dollar cost
$1.44 in paper money. Silver coin
was likewise high.
Now, in the unhappy event that
the railroad lobby wins this elec
tion and puts General Eisenhower
in the White House, I hope Mr.
Arthur will understand the reason
why Vance Brown gives him just
seven dimes when he asks for
change for a dollar bill.
Fourteen years ago today Wil
lard Morris scored a touchdown
on a 2-yard plunge to enable the
Wakelon gridders to beat Jimmy
Gerow’s Raleigh outfit, 7-0. A
pass from Robert Lee Kimball to
Thurman Pate and a line plunge
by Vasser Eddin s set up the score.
John Paul Jones, the celebrated
yachtsman, made his famous re
ply to the commander of the Brit
ish ship, “Serapis,” 173 years ago
We saw a very effective illus
trated folder telling why a stay
in the hospital (any hospital)
costs so much. It pictured the
nurse, surgical nurse, laboratory
technician, pharmacist, medical
records librarian, and a host of
others needed to care for a pa
tient.
We here at the print shop could
apply a similar attack in our own
advertising. “How come my tickets
cost so much?” is a question we
hear from folks sponsoring barbe
cues. We could answer them
something like this:
“Well, there are a whole lot of
folks and machinery involved in
getting out those tickets. We have
to employ a bookkeeper, a linotype
Most Everything
(Asheboro Courier-Tribune)
Young lady came in Sat’day
wanting some lime. “No, Ma’am,
don’t have it.” “Thought you had
everything,” she said.
Young feller from Worthville
dropped in Monday. “Have any
washboards?” “Sorry, the factory
went out of business,” I told him.
Town’s getting sorry. No plate
hangers, no fiddle bow, resin, no
chin rests, no snath bolts, and no
washboards.
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The Capitol’s Stone
(News and. Observer)
Some weeks ago, in writing
about the stone used in the Capi
tol, we mentioned that State Geol
ogist J. L. Stuckey said he didn’t
know the origin of the stone used
in the trim of the new Highway
Commission Building.
Uncle Ferd’s Almanac
today. Mr. Jones, captain of the
Americans’ “Bonhomme Richard,”
was obviously beaten in a naval
engagement with the “Serapis,”
whose captain invited him to sur
render.
“Why, shucks, I have just begun
to fight,” said Mr. Jones; and sure
enough he had. He kept fighting
long enough to whip the “Serapis,”
to the intense embarrassment and
mortification of the British cap
tain.
Checking the Zodiac, I note
that today is the first day of Li
bra, the period represented by a
pair of scales. The constellation
representing Libra used to be ov
erhead this time of year, but in
the past 3,000 years has moved
smack dab into the middle of
Scorpio, the next sign of the
Zodiac.
Originally Libra represented the
period between summer and win
ter, which hang in the balance
this time of year. When the scale
tips toward winter, water spills
out and it rains; when the scale
tips back toward summer, more
water spills out, and it rains some
more—thus late September is al
ways cold and wet, or hot and wet.
The only way to enjoy this time
Seen and Heard
machine operator, a compositor,
a make-up man, a pressman, a cut
ting machine operator, a shipping
room clerk, and somebody to clean
up after them all. Then we have
to use a $6,000 linotype machine,
a SSOO saw, a $3,000 press, a $2,500
paper cutter, and we have to pay
for the lights, power, and heat dur
ing the time the work is being
done. And you complain about
paying $4.60 for 200 tickets!”
Truthfully, the printing indus
try has to use more expensive
equipment to turn out a single,
one-of-a-kind job than any other
business we know.
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Are days and years shorter than
they used to be; do hours pass
Turpentine Drippin s
The stone for the trim is known
as Crystal Gray granite” and was
selected by Architect Allen J.
Maxwell, Jr., of Goldsboro. Mr.
Maxwell said the dark polished
granite was selected for spandrel
material to form the background
for ornamental grille work main
ly because of the color. After
reading the item here Mr. Max
well wrote the Cold Spring Gran
ite Co. in Minnesota, from whom
the material was obtained, which
replied that the granite is obtained
from a quarry on the bank of the
Sauk River between Cold Spring
and St. Cloud in Minnesota. For
a long time Crystal Gray granite
has been used for monuments and
it was only i n recent years that it
was developed into a building
stone. The company told Mr.
Maxwell, “Yours was, we believe,
one of the first building granite
jobs to come out of this quarry.”
Tuesday, September 23, 1952
of year is to get in an air condi
tioned room and pretend it’s Octo
ber.
People born under the sigA of
Libra are not apt to leap before
they look. In fact, they are not
apt to leap at all. They weigh all
sides of a problem, and spend so
much time considering every as
pect, that their decisions, while
sound, often come too late to do
any good. Thus people born this
time of year seldom make good
soldiers, but they make excellent
lawyers, ministers and teachers.
Libra-ists are often good bridge
players, but they slow a game
down considerably. They make
good baseball pitchers, but are apt
to walk a lot of batters, especially
lead-off men.
Libra-ists make lousy shortstops.
I saw one in action out at Wichita
in a game his team was winning
by a 4-1 score in the last of the
ninth. With the bases loaded and
two out, the batter hit an easy
grounder to this shortstop, and
true to form, the Libra-ist consid
ered the relative advantages of
throwing to first, second, third,
or home for the game-ending play.
Unfortunately he spent so much
time weighing advantages and dis
advantages that all four runners
scored, and by the time he decided
the best thing for him to do was
to keep the ball and step on sec
ond base, it wasn’t there—the
groundskeeper had gotten tired of
of waiting, taken up the bases,
and gone home.
Don’t ever let a person born un
der Libra catch you doing wrong;
he’ll turn you in for sure. Thus
a Libra-ist makes a good sheriff,
but a poor politician.
faster than ten years ago; or am I
just growing older?
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Everybody has enough troubles
without our trying to burden them
with a story of our own.
Although it requires a college
degree to teach in the public
schools, we are finding out more
and more that the best educated
person is not necessarily the best
teacher.
I’ve seen Ph. D.’s who did not
have the ability to teach, and I’ve
seen people who never went fur
ther than sixth grade who made
superior instructors. Teaching is
a talent which may be developed
but cannot be acquired.
Mr. Maxwell says that the ori
ginal plan was for the ornamental
grille work on the new building
on Capitol Square to be of bronze,
but this had to be changed to
aluminum because of the Korean
War.
Higher in Bottles
(Charlotte News)
The clerk said, “$8.97, please.”
The customer at the check-out
point of the self-service grocery
store said, “My goodness, what
for?”
W ell, said the clerk, pointing
o a $2.85 bottle of imported sher
ry and a case of beer, “that’s
over $6.”
Said the customer, “What am I
gonna tell my wife when she
comes home from her vacation and
linds IVe spent over S6O in ten
days for groceries?”