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Page Two Familiar Scenes This Month Now that cotton picking time is here, you are seeing many scenes like the one on the right—and less and less like the one on the left. The familiar handpicking scene is fast disappearing throughout the South, as more cotton workers leave the farms each year. The particular mechan ical picker shown above does the work of 40 men. The Number Two Men V . Depending on where your sympathies lie, the recent Nixon case of the hidden expense account appeared to you as ending in a vindication or a whitewash. It probably had also the desirable result of making you more interested in the nation’s second highest elective office. Perhaps you even recalled 1944, and shuddered a bit when you realized that Henry A. Wallace came close to renomination for the vice presidency, in which unhappy event he would have represented the United States in negotiations with the Reds. And even Mr Truman’s severest critics (outside of those manipulated by the Kremlin) had rather have Truman deal ing with the. Russians and Chinese than their devoted friend and admirer, Henry Wallace. Seven United States Presidents have advanced first to their high office through the death of a chief executive; so you will choose on November 4 not only the President, but also his potential successor keen interest in the number two candidate is justified. From the point of view of most southerners, there is no real comparison between the two vice presidential aspir l ants. Mr. Nixon is a Ouke man and has made the down payment on a $45,000 home near the southern city of Wash ington. Outside of that, he seems to have little in common with the people of the South, while Senator Sparkman is as southern as an Alabaman can get (that’s saying a lot!). Sparkman wants the South to continue its industrial and agricultural progress. He can understand and deal with the problems of tobacco and cotton farmers—take Harold D. Cooley’s word for it. He can assist in the passage of legis lation helpful to southern agriculture; he can help prevent harmful legislation. Mr. Nixon would of course find him self in the same position; unfortunately for his appeal to rural voters, he has practically no record at all on which to form a valid opinion. There are other considerations—moral, for instance. Senator Nixon stated in his now-famous TV-radio explana tion that he used his “expense” money to avoid having to make the taxpayers pay for his franking privilege on polit ical correspondence. But before the GOP convention he used his franking (free postage) privilege to send out 23,000 letters to California Republicans asking them who they be lieved would make the best candidate. Is Nixon honest? Senator Nixon accepted only $18,235 from wealthy con stituents for, “expenses”—but Senator Sparkman accepted nothing. Whose hands are tied? W'hose hands are free? Which man can better fight corruption in Washington? These are pertinent questions relative to important voting decisions. Perhaps your view of the number two men on the two tickets differs from our own—but we are sure you agree with our major point: You should have a considered opinion relative to the two candidates for the vice presidency and it should influence the way you vote next month. The The Zebulon Record Entered as second class matter June 26, 1925, at the post nffice at Zebulon, North Carolina, under the act of March 3, 1879. Member of the North Carolina Press Association. BARRIE S. DAVIS Editor Published Tuesday and Friday of each week at Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year. Advertising rates on request. The Zebulon Record Somehow or other we’ve got to find time to move the collection of broken plaster and 2x4’s which litter our front lawn at the shop, or Zebulon will not present too pretty an appearance for the close of the Finer Carolina pro gram. • Saturday seemed like a perfect day for football —for nearly everybody except State College, anyhow. • Figures don’t lie, especially in Bikini bathing suits so the news sheet from Stallings Air Base at Kinston tells us. • The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion, so says Elbert Hubbard. • If you have not visited the park and seen the shelter and fire places, there’s no time like today. This seems like one park which will be used by the entire community. • Folks are kind in their compli ments of our new press. If you have not seen it, drop by some- Behind The Business Scenes By Reynolds Knight The heretofore halting trend to ward later hours for retail stores seems to be turning into a stam pede. More than 80 per cent now have late evenings at least once a week and some are open four evenings a week. Robert A. Whitley recently went as far as to predict that a 12- noon-to-9 p. m. “day” would re place present store hours with in five years. There are, however, serious drawbacks as well as advantages to late openings. For one thing stay open-late outfits are capitalizing on consumers who can’t shop dur ing regular hours. That doesn’t mean everyone is ready to shift habits. Having to carry over large sums of cash to the next morning because the banks close early is another difficulty, particularly for the small retailer. And sales peo ple have been reluctant to work one night a week, let alone five. To top it off, general operating ex penses rise rapidly after dark. The retailers may shift in five years, as Whitney says, but it’s going to cost a lot of money and a Cocks and Elephants (News and Observer) In an editorial entitled “The Muted Cock,” The Washington Post learnedly comments on a Chapel HiH ordinance limiting the crowing of roosters at night and in the early morning. And with roos ters forbidden to crow beyond a prescribed number of decibels, it’s the opinion of the Post that once a few examples have been made of the offenders “the roosters of North Carolina will come to un derstand that the duly enacted laws of Chapel Hill are not to be trifled with.” The newspaper ad mits that it doesn’t know how well such laws are being enforced else where but declares that it antici pates no trouble from Chapel Hill. “The inhabitants of North Caro lina,” the paper says, “are known to be a Gcd-fearing, home-loving and law-abiding lot, and it is many a long year since it has been ne Seen and Heard time and we will be happy to show it to you. • If you think you could stay in business without your printer, try for a week to get along without the multitude of forms, sheets, and papers which every business uses. • Before we left on a trip we packed our one handbag full of clothes. When we were packing for our return home, we had to stand on the bag to snap it shut. Why do soiled clothes take up more room than clean clothes? • Whenever someone buys a new car, we always think: “He must be making money.” Chances are that it is the finance company which makes the money, because folks with paid-up bills who can buy a car with cash are scarcer than hens’ teeth. • “It is a disgrace,” a banker told us, “to see the number of grocery stores in a farming community like this.” He was not condemning the grocerymen, who have a living to make; but he was laying blame on farmers who grow money crops lot of headaches. THINGS TO COME A light weight, portable vegetable peeler for restaurants, cafeterias, hos pitals, hotels, etc., is on the mar ket. The machine peels 20 pounds of vegetable in one minute, the maker states, and has an automat ic timer which prevents peeling of more than the skins . . . Brass, copper, bronze and silver can be cleaned in ten seconds by dipping in a new, liquid tarnish remover. . . Another cleaning device for metals utilizes a jet of scalding water at a pressure of 60 pounds per square inch. Detergents can be added intermittently or continu ously in automatically controlled consecration. . . Officers can bind their own reports, records, blue prints and the like inexpensively with a bookbinding kit containing a small paper punch and a supply of plastic binding tubes. PRICE TREND Recently bus inessmen have turned cautious and some have even done a little re trenching. The reason is a gen eral belief that prices are about to level off and that there is a strong possibility of a recession in Turpentine Drippings cessary to bring prosecution under the ancient statute which for bids any North Carolinian, regard less of age, sex or condition, to use an elephane for plowing o cotton field.” That last statement brings up a question. Rooster crowing at Chapel Hill doesn’t disturb us late risers in Raleigh; and, although at the moment I have no inten tion of replacing a mule with an elephant to plow the cotton, I won der under what circumstances that old law of N. C. came to be on the books. Just what happened in the dim, dark past of North Carolina to compel some honest lawmaker to introduce and see to the passage of such legislation? It ought tq be a good story. • The Deformity (Rocky Mount Telegram) Os course it’s safe to leave Bil Tuesday, October 7, 1952 alone and then must buy all their groceries and feeds. • Luxuries have been blamed for unbalancing most budgets, but ours is thrown for a loss long before the luxuries are brought into the picture. Cut out cigarettes, an in frequent moving picture, twice-a year trips, and other similar luxu ries which put spice into life; and groceries, rent, lights, water, tel ephone, fuel oil, and taxes already have the budget toppling. • Folks always like what appears to be a bargain, and itinerant ped dlers do a good business through house-to-house selling. But folks in Zebulon frequently forget that these peddlers never have a li cense to do business here, and that the merchants of Zebulon who buy licenses to do business also pay taxes and help support the town in many, many ways. Too, the merchants will be here to make good on faulty merchandise which proves no bargain. • Note to the Chamber of Com merce: the plug above is made without charge. 1953. The possibility of a mild reces sion cannot be ruled out but most authoritative reports indicate a slow, long-range price rise. De fense spending will level off but at a high level. And you can’t readily take away wage gains made by labor. Moreover, once a currency has been devalued, as ours has, it’s one of the most diffi cut tasks to revalue it upwards. BITS O’ BUSINESS The bo vine population is dropping fur ther behind in its race with the soaring human population. Cows produced only 754 pounds of milk for each person in the country last year compared with 814 pounds in 1930 . . . Deposits in mutual sav ings banks rose SIOB million in August, bringing the total for the first eight months of the year to $1,021 million . . . The Department of Commerce estimates that sup plies of fertilizers should rise 12 per cent next year. Even with the increase, though, fertilizers might be short, particularly nitrogen . . . Shipments of brass and bronze in gots rose from 18,947 tons in July to 21,897 in August. ly anonymous, but an exchange that goes across our desk re counts: « “Billy,” said his mother, “you’re old enough to be learning about character. If you’re always brave and try to do everything well, you can overcome any obstacle. You learned all about George Washington in school. Can you tell me the great obstacle he had to overcome?” “Sure! The poor guy couldn’t tell a lie!” • The New South (News and Observer) The changing Southern scene was described recently by Hodding Carter, the Greenville, Miss., edi tor, in this fashion: “Cotton has gone west, livestock growing has come east, the Ne groes have gone North, and Yan kees have come South.”
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