LOUISBURG'S Leading Department Store WANTS YOUR TRADE Everything for Everybody ?*! At Lowest Prices F. A. Roth Company The Store That Always Sells The Cheapest LOUISBURG, North Carolina That Goes Into the Bank Today Each pay day set aside a certaifi proportion of your wages to go into your Savings Account. It is only by following some definite plan of this kind that you can get ahead Take out the Savings first ? and economize on other items if necessary. The advantages of this plan will be evident to you after you have tried it for a short time. ,T. H. DICKENS, President H. M. STOVALL, Oashler E. M. PARHAM, Asst. Oashler DIBC0T0I8: T. H. Dickens, Ohas. N. Sherrod, H. M. ? Stovall, J. 8. Howell, 0. M. Beam Mfcl ? The Qoioloe That Affect Tbe Head LAj^ fiVE BROMO* by anyone wlth_ to the bead. E,V > can be taken aueina oervoo mmn or rin?* Lb signature oo fcojulOc. FOE-SHERIFF I wish to extend my depeat apprecia tions to the many voters In Franklin County for the support they gave me in the primary held on June 7th, and at the same time say to them that I will appreciate their further support, and the support of the voters who sup ported other candidates, in the second primary to be held on Saturday July 5th, 1924. In the first primary I pro posed an agreement with my oppoents to let the high man win and thereby n?i have a second primary and they saw fit not to agree, so in justice to myself and supporters I see no alter native except to run It off. With your enthusiastic support I am sure I can be your next Sheriff and will see it nominated you will have no reason to recret your action. 6-20-St JAMES J. LANCASTER. Tom Tarheel says that since the curb Market was started in town hie wife hasn't asked him tor any money ; in fact, she has made him one or two email loans. SiAeache Backache 04*" te summit" FOR THE imims ATTORNEY GENERAL SEES ME NACE TO BOTH PUBLIC AND 1 INDUSTRY IN LOCAL SUPERVISION. By JAMES 8. MANNING Attorney General at State of North Carolina. State regulation of the public utili ties la a comparatively tie* govern mental function. And yet within eighteen years It has been adopted by tbrtytwo States. There, must he a Mason. In roufid numbers the population the United States has Increased % In twenty years. In that time the demand {ot and use ot street railway service haa Increased 186%; tie of gas service has Increased 201%'; use of telephone service has lncrea ed 1000%; use ot electric light and power service has Increased 2000%. according to figures furnished by the North and South Carolina Public Util ity Information Bureau. t These estimates appear to explain the almost universal adoption of regu lation of the utilities. The organized community life of today ? commercial. Industrial and domestic ? la built around these public utility services. As they function efficiently or In efficiently. so the community functions efficiently or Inefficiently and becomes attractive or unattractive to new enterprises and new population. The utilities, therefore, having be ?omo so vital a part of the public life, the government In Its various units has taken cognizance of them. Time was when utility service was regard ed aa strictly a private commodity. The system then was one of a utility and a municipality "horse-trading" or battling over the terms of contracts and each trying to get the better of the other. But utility service rapid ly outgrew local limitations; electric and gas central station plants began aerving many communities from One large system, often aa many as 100 to 200; transportation lines became not only urban but lnterurban. A State-wide Interest, therefore, rather than a local one Immediately came Into existence. It was found that local politics; graft and local prejudices of ten en tered Into the settlement of utility matters with expert engineering ad vice. valuation, accounting, rates and aervice counting for but little, leav ing the public helpless against either poor, or inadequate aarvlce or unjust rate*, to sa ynothlng ot blocklngde velopment and driving capital from the community. The common seoae ot tfce American ptjbllc soon dlscefneA Aat because Of the nature of the servlcea ot the utilities, State regulation and super vision wej-o not only deslrabl# but necessary. So that, since the creation ot a full-fledged utility commission by Maesachusetta In 1906, the States have rabidly fallen Into line. The ten dency during these years haa been to odead the powers ot these commis sions' and to in ct ease their responsibil ities' to the public. One exception In tfcls regard Is noted In the recent ao(lon ot the South Carolina Legisla ture curtailing the powers ot its rail road commission. This la contrary to t\e trend In practically every State 19 the Union. publlo service commission? Stand as arbiters between the pub llo a*d the utilities. It Is assumed that disputes will arise between muni cipalities and their utilities. The com mtsslons, created by law, represent the government. They are courts ol appeal where fact and argument may be presented and decision rendered. Such procedure fulfills the American principle ot representative govern ment. The utilities, I am lead to believe, and by all means they should, Invite public discussion of their policies, ser vice and rates. Such discussions would tend to a better understanding between the public and the utilities. State regulation of the utilities ? not -only desirable but necessary tor tBe'fbllowing reasons; First, because utility service Is a matter of such Importance to our con venience, welfare and progress that the public has a right to provide for Ita complete adequacy and continuity. Second, because utility service re quires tor Its provision the Investment ot capital in such enormous propor tions and the expenditure of such vast amount* as to warrant safeguards ?Mpb only properly constituted gov a?tnent authority can afford. Charle s <3 . D AW*s ILUWOIS Sees Son Graduate Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, first lady of the land, and her oldest sou, John Coolidge, as he was graduated from the Academy at M> rivrsharg, ra.. last week. Mrs. Coolidge motored hum the capital to .ittnul the exercises. iDttlon and the Influence of localities, Qua placing it. on terms reasonable both to the public and to the utility. Fourth, because wasteful compel it)omlc and, therefore,' a Fifth, tp ogdarp that the public aer rlce commissions of the States ma; bp i^a!^ Justly and equitably to deter mine ' and decide controversies that tpay arUa between the public utilities and the pUbUc,'* it l? essential that these nubile "service commissions be adetyately provided with competent stall* of engineers and accountants to de\l *Uh the complex technical ques tions that constant!; arise, and to make independent Investigation? to ascertain the facts upon which theli decisions will depend. , He's afraid his wife will read the bargains in the ad vertisements in THE FRANKLIN TIMES Webster's New bnTRNATlOHAL DICTIONARY Xutttonty Gel the 'Rest KW-. apoHnMn IS G. A C. MERRIAM T~T TT|.iI?M1^ M*m 111 ? THIS FRANKLIN $1.50 Per year Is SUCH IS LIFE . ri ?.

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