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/(THE FRANKLIN TIMES
Issued Every Friday
215 Court Street Telephone No. 283
A. K. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager
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The Franklin Times again calls the attention of the
voters of Franklin County to the election to be held on
Monday, when it will be your duty as well as your privi
lege to determine whether Franklin County shall have
Alcohol Beverage Control or not. The TIMES has uo
desire to attempt to direct your vote. Its interest is
the same as yours. It is your duty, however, to yourself
and your fellowman, to inform yourself, listen to all the
arguments and advice, learn of the origin of it, and the
reason for its offer, also how the influence extended you
is effected by the result of the election. All arguments
and advice given you which you have reason to believe
is the outgrowth of prejudice or from a source without
any real interest in the result should be discarded. This
is the time you should decide this question purely upon
its merits as you see it, as it will effect you and your
neighbors and your County. Don't fail in this duty, but,
make a thorough and impartial study and go out and
vote your own convictions ? not as some one else thinks
? but as you think and wish ? Monday.
THE ORGANIZATION OF LABOR
The split in the ranks of organized labor over the
question of whether workers are better organized in in
dustrial unions than in craft unions has resulted in the
resignation from the American Federation of Labor of
President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers.
This followed the defeat of the industrial union move
ment at the recent convention of the A. F. of L.
The strength behind the so-called "vertical" union
movement was, however, so great that there seems a
reasonable expectation of its ultimate triumph. Many
industries, such as the garment makers and the textile
workers, are already organized by industries rather than
by trades. The greatest resistance to that form of org
anization is in the building trades, where the A. F. of L.
has its greatest strength. If the trade union system is
to be extended to _cover all wage earners, it is difficult
to see how this can effectively be done 911 any basis other 1
than that of organizing workers by industries instead of
by crafts. Anid all the signs of the times p6int to prac
tically complete unionization, sooner or later.
THE 200 -INCH EYE
The human race is on the verge of learning hitherto
unrevealed secrets about the universe. The casting of
the great 200-uich telescope lens for the great new obser
vatory in California has been successfully completed.
It will take three years to grind it to the proper shape
to reflect and magnify the heavens. The unaided hu
man eye can see only six thousand stars. With this new
telescope more than a million and a half heavenly bodies
will be visible and the moon will appear as if it were only
25 miles away. It is hard to measure the value of know
ledge in cash, but the more mankind learns about the
composition, the organization and the processes of the
cosmic universe, the more we may hope, in time, to learn
abqut how to live on our own tiny speck of dust which
we call the "earth."
MILLION -DOLLAR INCOMES
Only one man in the United States reported a net
income above $5,000,000 in 1934 there were 38 income tax
returns showing incomes below that figure.
That looks as if the process of "redistribution of
wealth," of which we hear so much, were actually under
way. We don't know the name of the fortunate indivi
dual, who, according to the Treasury Department, re
ceived between 6 and 9 million dollars, of taxable in
come last year, though it might be easy to make a fairly
close guess, as to his identity.
There were only 32 million-dollar incomes, all told,
in 1934, but there were almost 4 million persons who re
ceived enough in that year to require the filing of in
come-tax returns. More than 2 1-4 million of those re
porting incomes below $5,000 paid no tax, while the 32
biggest incomes, aggregating almost 60 million dollars,
paid more than half of their incomes, abont 33 million
dollars, as taxes. It is obvious that if all of the incomes
of a million or more, instead of only 55 percent, were
taken, it wouldn't help the Treasury much.
Most folks would be willing enough to pay Uncle
Sam half a million dollars or more if they had million
dollar incomes. There would still be a surplus left on
which almost anybody could live in comfort. But the
fact that a man received an income of a million dollars
in 1934 is no guarantee that he will get that much in
1935. The one thing harder than making money, those
who have had experience say, is keeping it after you've
made it. Even millionaire are alive to the need of lay
ing something by for a rainy day.
_ After all, the big returns to the Government from
the income-tax are not from the .few immensely wealthy
but from the middle-class group with incomes of from
$2 ,500 to $25,000 a year. And when we get down to
those who make no reports to the Government, the in
direct taxes paid are probably higher, in proportion to
income, than those of many of the direct income-tax
payers.
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Naming 4-H Champions for 1935 Difficult Task
CHICAGO . . Crowning the 1935 Boy and Girl 4-H Chib ehampiona
this year m difficult enough, even before they came to the "Health"
group. Then the deadlock developed. . . . The aeoring waa ao eloae that the
judgea named aeven ehampiona. They are shown in the top picture, reading,
left to right, Howard Cobb, 18, Greene, N. T.j Eloii* Garrett, 15, Uriah,
Ala; Frederick Abel, 20, Gadaden, Ala.; Marion HeLatighlin, 15, Trenary,
Mich.; J. Alton Riffle, 20, Pleaaant HiU, Mo.; Jnne Caatine, 15, Ridgeway,
P. C. ; and Charlea Jordan, Jr., 18, Beioit. Kaa. Below, are the national Boy
and Girl Leaderaliip ehampiona, Vile; Johnson, 19, MeAleater, Okla. and
Betty Brown, 19, Emporia, Kaa.
GREETING
TO EACH AND EVERY ONE
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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BROWN FURNITURE HOUSE
v Y0UMG8VILLX, N. 0. ?
Most of the criticism of "Ma
terialism" comes from men who
make their living by writing about
it.
Twelve Duplin County farmers
recently cooperated to order 225
fruit and nut trees to be planted
about their homes.
Benefit payments to peanut
growers In Bertie County will a
mount to approximately $150,000
this year.
If more corn means more hogs,
as the farmers contend, then Pink
Hooper wants to know what it is
that makes more "road hogs."
LOUIS BURG
THEATRE
Matinee Daily 3:30 ' 10 & 25c
Night 7:00 & 9:00 15 & 30c
SATURDAYS CONTINUOUS 2 TIL 11
10c and 25c Till 6:00 O'clock
THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DEC. 19-20th
WILL ROGERS in His Last Picture
"IN OLD KENTUCKY"
Admission this attraction
Children 15c Adults 35c
Matinee and Night
SATURDAY, ... DECEMBER 21ST
TIM McCOY
"The Man from Guntown''
Comedy ? Serial
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22ND
Ginger Rogers? Geo. Brent
"IN PERSON"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23RD
Aline MacMahon ? B. Rathborn
"KIND LADY"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH
Ben Lyon ? Helen Twelvetrees
"FRISCO WATERFRONT"
Xmas Eve MIDNIGHT SHOW
Roger Pryor ? Leila Hymes? Sterling Holloway
?Edgar Kennedy in The Saturday Evening
Post Story
"$1000 A MINUTE"
WEDNESDAY, Xmas Day December 25th
Ronald Coleman ? Joan Bennett
"The Man Who Broke The Bank
At Monte Carlo"
THURSDAY, _ DECEMBER 26TH
Wallace Beery ? Lionel Barrymore
"AH, WILDERNESS"
GREETINGS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
We have all said Bon Voyage to
armloads of gifts . . . The carolers
are awake and break into song.
. . . The ChristmAs court is being
opened'/". . and Christmas is here
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. . . the happiest day throughout
the year.
Forlhis day, of all days, the mem
bers of our organization want to
have part in the happiness, the
gaiety and the joy. . To all we say
j . . . "Merry ... a very Merry
Christmas" and sincere thanks to
you for making ours a merr^ one
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WHELESS ? BURGESS, INC.