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Two Potter Patter By Eloise Potter Jack and I are the world’s worst about over-sleeping; we are late to work nearly every morning. Tuesday morning, however, we got off to an early start because when seven o’clock came there was a puddle of water between Jack and the alarm clock. Yes, a puddle of water! Rain? Not quite. The attic fan had pull ed in moist air during the night. Water from the air condensed on the Venetian blinds and dripped to the floor. While Jack wipped up the puddles, I cooked breakfast. • Whenever I do anything stupid, I’m always unduly upset until I see the humorous side of my error. Take Tuesday night, for instance. That was the night I learned the hard way that you have to know not only where you are going, but also where you are when you get there. Having read in the Zebulon Rec ord bless it that there would be a meeting to make plans for the United Fund drive, I prissed myself downtown Tuesday a little before 8 pm Foster Finch met me at the door of the Municipal Building and escorted me upstairs where we took seats near the front and chat ted about this and that until a large group of men entered. V. C. Whitley called the meeting to order. “What happened to Mr. Debnam?’’ I wondered.) As I listened to Mr. Whitley’s preliminary remarks, I began to feel a bit uneasy. (“Was the paper mistaken or did I misread the arti cle?” I debated. “Should I leave now or wait to see what hap pens?”) No one asked me to leave, so I convinced myself this was just an early meeting which would ad journ shortly. Then would come my meeting. (“After all, aren’t these men interested in the United Fund, too?” I assured myself.) Mr. Whitley and several others talked convincingly about the ben efits, to the town as well as to individual investors, which would result from the building of a suita ble industrial site here. (“This is WAKELON SECOND GRADE TEACHERS ■ IP I ■ I j | /■ . ..§i v mssmmm w*?9Sf*\ * *v.- ,r,; /: . ■ Jg wT' - 'A Mrs. Edith B. Hilliard Miss Lucille Gay Second, Grade Second Grade > 'wV ■FWBBi f? |g||jg|g , v >. A Stop sign means just that, 24 hours a day. So, think DRIVE CAREFULLY ... the life twice and don’t ignore it. you save may be your own I interesting. I’ll take some notes for a news story,” decided our ju nior-grade Jane Arden.) However, as the nature of the gathering became clearly apparent to me, I could no longer delude myself. My piggy-bank-type sav ings wouldn’t go far buying stock in a $80,000.00 building. (“Eloise, j old gal, you’ve tested the gallan try of these gentlemen long enuogh. Scram”) • Firmly believing my meeting to be in progress elsewhere in the building, I made a hasty, but em barrassingly conspicuous, exit. (“Why didn’t I sit on the back row?” I mentally kicked myself.) But I could find no one downstairs. Outside I located G. C. Massey and asked him if he were helping ladies in distress that night. Deputy Mas sey explained that the United Fund folks had met in one of the offices, but they left when only two peo ple showed up. TWO PEOPLE. I could hardly believe my ears. (Well, I, by intent, made three.) The Community Chest members voted overwhelm ingly for the United Fund; the board members are competent men; the project certainly is wor thy of community support. What happened? • When I talked with J. C. Deb nam Wednesday morning, he seem ed somewhat dismayed that Harold Bronfin and key board members did not attend the Tuesday night meeting. Several conflicting meet ings, he and I agreed, probably ac counted for most of the empty seats. Since publicity is an import ant factor in the success of any project requiring community par ticipation, I have volunteered this column as a news organ for the United Fund organization. Begin ning right now I am urging all of you to watch the Record for an nouncements concerning the meet ings called by Mr. Debnam; if at all possible, attend them. The unit ed appeal cannot have too many people actively working for it. There’s a big job to be done, so lets all do our share. The Zebulon Record MORE TEACHERS ARE LISTED FOR WAKELON V-.; . 'JM B Herbert Holt Head Coach Math jSI 1 Mrs. Fred Page First Grade •' - - ■ f ' T *% B . m- ■” * n > % ~ - t / m „ s , w ■ ■ • * ’ _ J J' ■ ■* ~ V* * A ■Bi’ iTiTiT fffi'tfn' ■ ■ .'. .v.w»* Miss Blanche Gay History N I jdf ■ mm Miss Janis Cooper Third Grade Baptist Services Sunday morning the youth choir will sing A New Heaven and A New Earth —by Lorenz. Mr. As bury’s sermon title is Stars and Candles. Sunday night is communion ser vice. The adult choir will sing To Thee We Sing By Tkach. Friday September 4, 1953 Air-Conditioned Peli&ion Bev. A. Asbury On my recent vacation, I was visiting my home in Georgia. Dur ing my stay there, my Mother and I drove to Atlanta for a day’s vis it. It was a hot, sultry day, and it was no pleasurs to be bn the highway. Hot and tired, we were driving along, and only occasion ally was there enough energy to break the silence and monotony of the trip with a few words. And even those remarks were largely confined to the subject of the in sufferable heat and the roasting crops. As we were approaching a town, our attention was suddenly and simultaneously grasped by a road sign. Following an increas ingly modern custom, a church in the next town had erected a bill board to advertise itself to tourists. But this was not the usual run of :hurch signs. It did not point the way to the church. It displayed no slogans, such as “Jesus Saves,” or ‘you are in danger of hell.” Noth ing so commonplace as this deco rated this landscape. Rather, the sign read:: “Our church is air-con ditioned.” It then gave the name of the church and the times for services. Yet, it was that “air-con ditioning” note that set my sleepy mind to thinking. “How nice it would be to hav’e air-conditioning right now,” I thought as the seemingly endless miles rolled away. Then it occurred to me that it would have been won defful to have been preaching this summer in a cool church, that more people would have come, and that we should keep up with the times. Then, on second reflection, it struck me that the sign had made no mention of the worship of God. There was no appeal for tourists to stop at that church long enough to acknowledge their Maker, Sus tained and Redeemer. Jesus Christ’s name had given way to the cultural phenomenon of air conditioning. Here was a sign that pointed once more to the materialistic na ture of our lives. It used the psy chology that to be cool and com fortable is a necessity for most people if they are to go to church. In our day the slightest excuse is enough for people to stay away, and the churches find themselves in a plight. Just as moie theatres are offering lavish gifts and prizes to 'ure people away from TV and back to the cinema, so are many churches resorting to gimmicks and devices of every nature to get the people out. Ministers are rack ing their minds for new slogans, new contests, and new gadgets, for it is certainly a fact that the church and the lives of the people are be coming separated. Either “people are losing God,” as some say, or else, the church has failed to change and adapt to meet the constantly changing sit uation in which people live. I hap pen to believe that it is largely the latter, and the churches are right in seeking to meet the problem although it is late in the day to be awaking. However, the answer is not to be found ; n air-conditioning, or gimmicks, or contests, or de vices. That is simply beating around the bush, and it is not even getting close to the heart of the problem. You cannot cure a skin VACATIONISTS GET YOUR TRIP INSURANCE • • . at . . . Lowery's Insurance Agency PHONE 5121 ZEBULON rash by applying external medicine when the cause of the rash is due to an internal illness. So it is with the churches. It is time for the churches to come forward with new programs which meet the needs of people where they are. It is high time to relate the message of the Chris tian faith to the hard cold facts of politics, and economics. There is a necessity upon us to reinter pret our faith into the language people speak, understand, and love. This is no time for “air-conditioned religion” and all the apologies for the threadbare church life that ac complishes it. It is the moment to proclaim Jesus Christ in His love and in His demand upon us in such away that we may believe and know the transformation that He works in us and in our world. Then the lure of air-conditioning will not be necessary, for people will ome to hear a Gospel that con fronts their lives and they will leave church and go into the world to practice it. Let’s not brush the surface with air-conditioning, for we must dig deep to come up with the answer we need. Dr. L. M. Massey DENTIST Office over Zebulon Drug Co. Office Phone 4281 Dr. J. F. Coltrane DENTIST Office Hours: 9-12:30 a.m. 1:30-5 p.m. office 4961 Dr. Chas . E, Flowers Physician and Surgeon Office Phone 3311 Residence Phone 3901 DR. R. A. 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