franklin times A. F. JOHNSON. Editor ud Hanger OH YK .llf in MOVTUB, tftJMCB MONTHS. *I.UU .66 . S6 Friday. Dec. 12, 11*13. Statotteat. Of THE FRANKLIN, TIMES publish ed weekly at Louisburg for October 1. 1913. Editor, Managing Editor, Busi ?ess Manager and Publisher. A. F. Johnson, Louisburg, N. ,C. Owner, Mrs. A. F. Johnson. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities. R. B. White, guardian, Louisburg. N. C. Average number of copies of each " issue of this publication sold or dis tributed, through the mails or other wise. to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above. 2.645. , ? I A. F. JOHNSON. S?[orn to and subscribed before me! this 6th day of December 1913. W. E. UZZELL. N. P. My commission expires December 7. 1913 Do your shoping early? don't wait for the holidays. ? : Its quite a blow to our neighbor ing town of Oxford that it must lose t$e Horner School. yVre you ready forChristmas? Its coming Just the same and not paying much attention to the speed limit re quirements. ? , Cotton sold in Louisburg on Tues day for 13 1-2 cents per pound. This represented a rise of about 1-4 of a cent a pound from Thursday of last welt. About the most serious defect in the construction ofSnan_ today is the feature allowing him to give consid eration to personalities in questions of public service. Lets don't have any argument over | votes for women. There is no doubt that there are many men who would gladly hand their privilege over to thtm ? especially when there is a red hot primary between two friends. The train due to come into Louis burg at 10:20 o'clock Monday morn ing reached here at almost 12 o'clock. This isn't so much a matter of the main line trains being late as it the crew on this branch being overwork ed. as the failure to make schedules is a very common occurrence. It has come to a pretty pass that some men can't, have self-respect enough to refrain from cursing, ladies During the past twotweeks this act has been made twice. A man is getting pretty low when he resorts to such measures and especially when he shows his cowardict by using a tele phone Sundays dispatches carried the in telligence that Mr. S. E. Pierce had be?-n appointed postmaster for Youngs vllle. Mr. Pierce is a staunch Demo crat and is one of Youngsville's most prominent mep. mad there is no doubt but that his appointment will be a popular one. He succeeds Dr. P. K. Hatcji, republican. We don't honestly believe any man. i who will take the time to honest con- j tjjder the degrading effect upon liln^* self will enter into any factional fight | of any kind.'Ht breds ill will and bad thoughts*" of his fellow man. and in i cases exaggerated to a state of , untruth, and such conditions have no! p!are in the mind of a normal man. We notice the women of Washing ton City are conducting a boy-cot on the ffrg market. We are having no such experience here ? its the hens. It there can't be some agreeable means of settlement devised many of our people will miss their Christmas *>gg-nog, and it will not be a cas * where the credit can he given to the prohibition law either A gentleman on the local cotton J market Tuesday to the editor of the | TIMES that he carried a bale of cot- j ton to an adjoining marker on Satur-; day and had to take 11.62 1-2 for It, when if he had brought it to Louis- I burg on Tuesday he could have got ten 13 cents for it. Why should peo- j pie allow a little skepticisnf^enter be tween them and the opportunity of getting more for their crops. It is too often the case that some, people get the Idea that public office belongs to them. This is not true. Theyare always- open to anyone who wishes to run and whether you like the successful contestant or not it is no reason that he should not fill tlffc place. ^ 41 the same time ft might be remem bered that then; Is no wisdom dis played In throwing out a good official simply upon the ground that some other good man wants the Job. Chang? of Parrel Pm( Kates. (Concluded.) since the establishment of the parcel post service, as the present restrictive ; limit and rates on books are prohibi tive to a great extent except in the | case of catalogues" and that it was "not deemed advisable to place the order changing the classification of 1 books in effect January 1 as it was de sired to give at least three months' notice to firms whose catalogues were now being printed. .-Free Seed. The Secretary of /vgricuUure, in his annual report, advocates abolition of the free seed distribution bv mem bers of Congress. This seed distribution has long been regarded as an extravagant waste of money and a senseless draft upon the public treasury that is unwar ranted by any possible benefit to the people. . Each year members pf Congress send out tons upon tons of seed, done up In trifling sample lots that are of no practical value to anybody except to the Congressmen who get possibly some appreciation from constituents who are-~jfhus remembered. even though what they get is useless. Free seed is one of the petty relics of a day that is gone in politics and the present Congress should cut it out forever. ? Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. Own Telegraph and Telephone*. Washington. - D. C.. Dec. .10.? Gov- i ernment ownership of telegraph and telephone Hies is being seriously con sidered by President Wilson. Confer- | ences between the Presidents and Postmaster General Bunrleson have I led to a gathering of information about practical working of govern ment" ownership- in those nations where such a. system is in operation The subject will be discussed in the Postmaster General's annual report, though it is not assured- that he will make any positive recommendations. Though bills have been drafted looking to government ownership, non has been agreed upon as .an ad ministration measure. . "There is no doubt.*' said Mr. Bur leson today "that the inauguration of the parcel post and the postal sav ings system has givn a tremendous impetus to the dsire of people all over the country to have the government become the means of communication everywhere. It is a subject involving two or three hundred ^niilion dollars and we must go' very slowly in in quiring into it. I don't want to make any recommendations until I am ab solutely sure ? of my ground." It is said that the plan will nbt meet the unanimous approval of Pres ident Wilson's cabinet. It is believed in official circles Attorney General McReynolds, for ene would show his aversion to such a plan. Within the next few' weeks, the Department, of Justice will announce its own plan for relief in conditions accompanying in state telephone business. The Attor ney Gneral and G. T. Todd, the assist ant in charge of trust prosection* have been seeking to work out with officials of the American TeJephone Company plans whic.'i they hold will avoid any necessity for talked of limi tation in the courts, but which will relieve the situation. One suit against the Pacific coast arm of this concern is already in the United States courts, and pending its determination, the de partment litis not been anxioufTVo^lbe gin further ligitation. In his dealings in this case. Attor ney General Mc Reynolds has followed his conviction that it is better for his department to get so called trusts to agree to his terms after a few weeks of friendly conference than to take it into the courts and await for several years before securing anything at all with the possibility always of losing everything Callers who. have discussed ques tions of regulation of trusts with Mr. McReynolds. are of the opinion that he believes the Sherman act a suf ficiently powerful Weapon with which to better conditions. They understand his position t,o be that Tt is better to break up a combine so there shall be I competition: that if that can't be done, it is better to regulate IC fix .its prices, a^d if that Is not possible then competition; and tf that can't be acquire the offending trust and run It under the government's^ protecting wing. "Stories of the Old Child" I" a new j sort of holiday publication just issued J as a supplement to the Child Labor j Bulletin The first "story" is a play , and three or four poems. The "other child" is ipade vivid to the reader in ! these twenty "stories" told by writ ers who have touched the heart and the tragedy of the child labor problem. It is an attractive Ifttle. book in nletg azine form with illustrations and the Natjpnal Child I^abor Committee. (105 East 22d Street, New York,) is able to offer It at fifteen 'bents (twenty eents, postpaid), because the authors have given their work for t&e sake of j ' the chtldrn. The Ust for the stUol the children. The list of anthorslln cludes such hums ss Tfcodosla