THE FRANKLIN TIMES ; Iamud Irwy Friday 218 t>ottrt 8ti? i TtltjAou Mo. 283 gjr President Roosevelt has thrown quite a bit of con fusion in Congress by his new tax recommendation in which he expects to tax corporation surpluses and un divided profits. New York is undergoing a strike by elevator oper ators. -The reports indicate much inconvenience to in nocent parties. Wonder if the government agencies can settle this amicably. There seems to be great pressure brought to bear with Governor Ehringhaus by leading tobacco men in eastern North Carolina, to call a special session to take action on the tobacco control for 1936. The position of the advocates is that North Carolina producing around seventy-five per cent of the flue cured tobacco should not wait on Georgia. Others think it would be unwise for North Carolina to control its crop and allow Georgia to profit by this control. THE CONTEST The TIMES wishes to congratulate each of the win ners in the recent contest and also all the contestants for the splendid work they did and the high grade sports manship displayed in their every act and contact. The contest was a very pleasant venture and considering the miserable weather was very successful. We also wish to thank the public for the splendid co-operation given the candidates in the work they did. Our force is now busy entering the credits and new names. Many of these will go out this week and it is hoped all will be com pleted and on the list for our next issue. To Mr. H. W. Kobbins goes much of the credit for the successful conduct of the contest. He was especially well qualified and in the splendid and pleasant manner of his contacts made many friends in our County. As a result many new names will be added to our mailing list and many old names will show a current con dition, for all of which we thank you. THE TVA DECISION Everybody seems to be satisfied with the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Tennes see Valley Authority case. It reaffirmed that the Federal Government has full control over navigable streams and that this control in volves the right to build dams and otherwise improve the channels of such streams to make navigation safer or easier. And that, as the Court put it, the Govern ment then becomes the owner of the power generated by the waters flowing over the dams. Being the owner of the water power, it can sell the water power to whom ever wants to buy it, either as wtfter power or by con verting it into electric energy. The Supreme Court decision stopped there. It did not go into the question of the Government's right to set up a model community in the Tennessee Valley and go into the business of distributing electric energy at retail or doing other things for the betterment of the lives of the residents which have been announced as parts of the TVA program. The Government's case as presented to the Court omitted all reference to the latter items. They likely will be brought before the Court in another action. What the decision will be remains for the future to dis close. So far as the T(VA decision went it was clearly in accord with Constitutional precedents. It seems clear from the language of the Court 's de cision that the Federal Government cannot go into the power business as a primary objective and so compete with privately owned utilities. It can only sell power whose production is incidental to the carrying out of another purpose, so far as the Court ruling g9es. It is difficult to see how the utilities can be seriously harmed, especially as they are probably in the best po sition of anyone to buy and distribute the power gen erated at Federal dams, without going to the capital ex pense of building the dams themselves. Timely Farm Questions Answered at State College Question: How can I prevent my hens from eating eggs? , Answer: Egg eating Is usually aqulred by certain birds in the flock and starts by an egg being broken In the nest If yon can pick out the bird or birds that have formed this habit they should ? be taken from the flock and sold aa there is no way of breaking them of the rice. If the whole l flock Is eating eggs there la ap- < parently an insufficient amount of mineral matter In the ration and the trouble can be corrected by balancing the diet and adding the necessary minerals. Question: What preparation is necessary In seeding a new pas ture to carpet grass? Answer: Moisture Is the chief essential to good growth of carpet grass and, while this grass will form a sod more quickly on a good feed bed, It will eventually make a good sod on poor soli with next to no preparation provided there i? enough moisture. Many good carpet grass pastures have been started by simply burning 5Ter bottom land and sowing the RESOLUTIONS On the afternoon of February 6th, ltX, M It, mult to all men came to Bam Boddle. He wet 1't a* he had met life, facing unafraid. There wu nothing :1t* 1b the life or character m Boddle. He waa poeltlre iloas and la hla acti vi and 'kwdly to hia #nd?r In hla iyra In hi* friendship, roytl to every cause he espoused and generous to ft fault. Verily lje waa a man's man. H*rtag served in practically every office within Its gift, he gava unstintedly of himself, his time and hla means to the sup port at the Klwanis Club from ita te#? -beginning. >' -