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THE FRANKLIN PRESS end THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, i::2 o.v V' ftj- -1 , : ., nit it I It r M i 9 It I a u it s Jifar mt tan Published ncry Thursday by The Franklin Press . . At Franklin, -North Carolina , Telephone No.. 24 VOL. XLV11 :. ' . BLACKliL KN v" JOHNSON Entered at . the Post Oir.ee, Franklin, 1 tfttttttt" ' I " PRESS ASSOCIATION V One Year Eight -Months Six Months . . . Single Copy . . Obituarv notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notice! will be marked "adv." in compliance with the postal regulations. The press invit?s its readers to express their opinions through its columns end each week it plans to carry Letters to the Editor on its editorial page. This newspaper is independent in its policies and is glad to print both sidos of any question. Letters to the Edi tor should be written legibly on only one sid of the paper and should be of reasonable length. Of course, the editor reserves the right to reject letters which are too long or violate one' better sensibilities. WEEKLY BIBLE THOUGHT " Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 1 John 3:21-22 Linking Industry and Agriculture rjECLARING that "the industrial age has scarcely tlawned," Henry Ford predicts that future prog ress in industry, will depend to a large degree in co ordinating it with agriculture. "For a loner time now," he writes in an an article entitled "Farm and Factory," I have believed that in dustry and agriculture are natural partners and that they should begin to recognize and practice tha.t partnership. Each of them is suffering from ailments Which the other can cure. Agriculture needs a wider and steadier market; industrial workers need more and steadier jobs. Can each be made to supply what the other needs? I think so. "The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn we are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from sunflowers to soy beans. We pass the crpps through our laboratories to learn how they may be usecf in the manufacture of rnotor cars arid thus provide an industrial market for the farmer's pfoducts. I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in makine but shall draw its raw. material largely from the annual Droduce of the the world is not a sufficient outlet for the farmer's nrndiires: there must be agriculture is to be all .The adjustment of agriculture and industry, Ford believes, will be accompanied bv the development of small industrial Vants m materials will be processed big factories. Seven village industries started by Ford in the vicinity of Dearborn about ten years ago have proved successful because thev have lowered overhead costs and the workers have been more satisfied than they were while in the central Ford factory. Now, with thousands of the workers in Dearborn out of em ployment and destitute, small village plants are self-sustaining. When they are not attending machines in the factory they are working their gardens, growing food for their tables. In the last decade there from the farms and villages to large industrial can ters that, for a while, it has .seemed that the days of, the small rural town were numbered. Mr. Ford's experiment in village industries and the recent re turn to the farms and small towns of thousands of workers who have lost their jobs in the cities seem to indicate that the pendulum is swinging back. If anything, the villages should become more strongly entrenched. But, as the experiments of the auto mobile magnate indicate, villages must have small industries using the products of the surrounding countryside, if they are to survive permanently. The biggest problem facing the farmer of today is not one of production but of disposal. Fine crops are useless unless there is a market for them. The wise rural community iwill study how to create a demand for the farm products of the region. ' "Man and Mule Labor" CHAIRMAN E. ;B. Jeffress of the State Highway Commission haj announced that "man and mule Number 32 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER K. C, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES $1.50 "'' $1.00 .... .. ............... .75 "'" ' .05 fields. The dinner table of found a wider market if that it is competent of be tne country, where raw betore being sent to the those who were sent to the has been such a mieratfon labor'' will be employed as road-buil(jing program soon to be undertaken with the aid of funds from the Emergency Relief Act. It is a radical change of policy but a wise orie. The depression has impressed upon us some of the dangers of becoming too mechanized. Perhaps ma chines do things more quickly and more efficiently, but what availeth speed and efficiency if the welfare of man is not bettered? What good is. a machine that can do the work of ten men if the meruit re places have no other work to do? ' Of course, machines have done much to advance our civilization and it is while machines have put -many out of employment they have provided employment for others. , They, al so have ha4 much to do in shortening the laborer's day. But now that millions of laborers have nothing to do it is time to consider, whether we are not get ting ahead of ourselves. Perhaps we have been pro gressing too rapidly. ! ; It would be fallacious to abolish machinery. No sensible, progressive-minded person would advocate such a course. But machinery should be rnade the slave of man rather than man the slave of machinery. I Like the I LIKE the depression. No more prosperity for me. I have had more fun since the depression started than I ever had in my life. I had forgotten how to live, what it meant to have real friends, what it was like to eat common every day foods. Fact is, I was getting just a little high-hat. Three years ago only one man of our organization could be out of town at a time and he had to leave at the last minute. and get back as soon as possible. Many times I have driven. 100 miles to a banquet, sat through three hours of bunk in order to make a. five-minute sgeech which was 90 per cent hooie and then driven the 100 miles back again in order to be ready for work the Nowadays as many of us as are we stay away as long as we want the office now and it wouldnt make I like the depression. I have new ones. Two vears aon whpn' I stayed at a hotel. Now I go home with my friends, stay all night and enjoy home cooking. I have even spent the week-end with some w wv;i nviv fiiliu LUVUgll It's , great to drop into a store hour or two or three or half a day are wasting valuable time. I like the depression. I'm getting acquainted with my neighbors. In the last-six months I have become acquainted with folks who have been living next door to me for three years. I am following the old biblical admonition, "Love thy neighbors." One 6f my neighbors has one of the best looking wives I have ever seen. She's a dandy. I'm getting acquainted with my neighbors and learning to love them. Three years ago I ordered my clothes from a merchant tailor two and three suits at a time. I was always dressed up. But now I haven't even bought a suit in two years. I am mighty proud of my Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. When I dress up I'm dressed up, and I don't mean maybe. I like the depression. Three years ago I was so busy and my wife was so busy that we didn't see much of each other. I never had time to go anywhere with her. If I did go on a party with her," I could never locate her, but since there was always a good looking , blonde or a snappy red head available I didn't worry much about it. My wife belonged to all the clubs in town. She even joined the young mothers' club. We don't have any chidren bat she was studying. And between playing bridge and going to clubs she was never at home. v We got stuck up and hifalutin. .. We even took down the old family bed and bought a pair of twin beds on uneasy payments. When I would come in at night if my wife was at home she would already be in her bed and I would crawl in mine. If she came in last it was vice verso. . We like the depression. We have come down off our pedestal and are really living at home now. The twin beds have been stored in the garage and the old family affair is being used. We tare enjoying life. Instead of taking the hot water bottle to bed these nights she sticks her heels in my back just like she did before Hoover was elected. I like the depression. I havn't been out to a party in eighteen months." I have even lost my book of telephone numbers. My wife has dropped all the clubs. I am pretty well satisfied with my wife. I think I'll keep her, at least until she's 40, and then if I feel like I do now ' I may trade her for two twenties. . . I am feeling better since the depression. 1 take more exercise. I walk to town and a lot of folks who used to drive Cadillacs are walking with me. I like the depression. - My digestion is better. I haven't been to see a doctor for a year. I can cat anything I care for. I'm getting real honest to good ness food. We used to have fillet mignon once a week, now we have round steak with flour gravy. Then we had roast breast of Guinea hen, now we are glad to get sow I like the depression. Three church. I played golf all day Sunday, and besides I was so darned smart there wasn't a preacher in the state who could ,tcll me anything. Now I'm going to church regularly. Never miss a Sunday. ' And if this depression keeps on I may be going, to prayer meeting before long. I like the depression. Public Opinion DAD WRITES HIS DAUGHTER My Dear Daughter: You ask me if your husband should stay on in his present po sition at an "adjusted" salary, but you forgo to fell me what he would do if he didn't. You and he couldn't very well come here just now. Your brother Sheridan's salary has just been "reconsidered," so he moved into his old room at home and brought his wife. Your lister Eloise telegraphed the next day that Wilfred hai far as possible in the true to some extent that Depression next morning. invited can make those trips and to. The whole outfit could leave much ditterence. time to visit my friends', and make Wnt tn a noicrliKM-Snrr tn-nm T oi.iTo.ra LtJ lllVilt UlC. . ' and feel that you can spend an just visiting and not feel that you . bosom with the buttons on it., years ago I never had time to go to just been offered a new contract that was an insult, so your moth er is airing out her room. Wilfred never could endure insults. . Your sister Frances, you will recall, has been a private secretary, and wrote last week that if anybody thinks she is going to drop to the level of a common typist, they are mis? taken, so we "expect her any day. What with these and. the young' er children, I imagine that at long as Rupert's salary it merely being "adjusted" he hid better itay, Ah When There's a Boy in the If tlJrrflSI :l 1 1 adjustment U nothing like a re duction. It's hard for me to keep up with the new language of big business, but as I understand it, an "adjustment" is the equivalent oi a raise. Of course,. Rupert wouldn't know that i he has been working only since 1928; he should! ask some old timer to explain what a raise is. My own business is coming along fine. It was sold on the court house steps last Friday, but there were no bidders, so the. sheriff let me keep it That makes the best month since the upturn. Your Affectionate Father. . Clippings ROOSEVELT'S CONDEMNA TION OF HIGH FINANCING In his recent statement concern ing the financing methods employ ed by some of the nation's large, utility holding companies, Govern or Roosevelt made it clear that in the event of his election, he will urge strict governmental watchful ness over such organizations. Further, Governor Roosevelt in sisted upon the right of the gov ernment to own primary water power if necessary, but said this right did not envisage public own ership of all utilities. He stands unqualifiedly for the strictest reg ulation and closest scrutiny of both operating and holding companies, but feels that his campaign, which will be direct and incisive, will not be adverse to those companies which are basically sound. In short, Governor Roosevelt will undertake a fight for the protection of the people, who have been largely help less because state regulation of public utilities, particularly where power is brought across state lines or holding companies have sprung up, has proved inadequate. While there has been a semblance of state control over operating companies, nejther the state nor the federal government has been prepared to cope with the franken stein holding organizations. These grasping overlord groups have, in, many instances, not only mulcted the consumer by draining the prof its of operating companies, but have pillaged the innocent invest or. This holding company scheme and the greed of many of the men who engineered such organizations as that built on watered stock by Samuel Insull and his associates, have battened on the public under Republican complacency or stupid ity, to put it mildly, x x x x x It is because Governor Roosevelt thoroughly understands and vigor ously opposes any inflation or merging which will work a hard ship on either consumer of invest or, that he is none too popular with the buccaneers of high fi nance, a predacious gentry which prefers a complacent Republican administration to a virile govern ment of. by and tot the people. ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, . Family BETTER AMERICAN HOMES "Housing the people of the Unit ed States in properly constructed homes is a big part of the job ahead for American business." These are the words of George D. Robertson of California, a member of the executive committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Mr. Robertson goes on to say . "two-thirds of . the people are living in homes that are unsanitary or in other respects undesirable, and that are not fitted with many of the improvements and conven iences which modern living de mands. One-half of the homes of the country are without bathrooms; 40 per cent have no electric con nection, and an even higher per centage are without gas." Again Mr. Kobertson tells us that, "in the acquiring of homes two problems must be solved, cheaper construction and cheaper financing. So far as construction is concerned, in the last quarter century more engineering thought has been given to the hinges on an automobile door , than to the whole problem of home construc tion, and design. Some one .must come forward with a plan of con struction that is cheaper than ex isting methods and some one must devise a material, or a combination of materials, that are cheaper than those commonly in use, but just as durable." So in the restless quest for prog ress methods must be devised by which the American people may build more cheaply and also live more comfortably. The suburbs and newen residential districts 6f cities of this country already show how much has been done in this direction. Nor . are the achieve ments in rural districts of the na tion to be lightly passed by. We have newer and better types of homes, as well as of apartment houses. Our schools add public buildings are marvels of efficiency and completeness. Progress has been made such as was undreamed of . a generation ago. Tl details of home equipment are remark able in , many ways. Yet the ma jority of the people continue to love and to work in old-fashioned buildings that lack many of the conveniences that are already in use. And the materials and meth ods of construction are being ever brought down in price, so that the nation may live more cheaply as well as more comfortably. Doubt less the process of tearing down will go on hand in hand with that of upbuilding. - vYet in all this amazing energy and work for improvement it is to be hoped that certain fundamen tal principles will not be lost sight of. There are types of houses in America that will ever attract ad miration. Colonial and Federal de signs of buildings- are handsome and impressive. Pillard entrances, the New England and Southern plantation types of architecture, should never be lost sight of. Homes of beauty for the poor as well at the rich can be erected. Apartment hornet tan be built ac By Percy Crcslby cording to attractive and elegant designs. And public buildings that combine dignity and elegance "with efficiency are often constructed. There have Been periods when American architecture has been ugly and unsightly, as well as oth ers when it was all that could be desired. The best designs should be adhered to or improved upon, while other good ones are being evolved. And details that furnish taste and elegance in appearance should be utilized in' this era. of zeal for efficiency and comfort. Architects of imagination and brains have a wonderful field be fore them. Doubtless the people of the country will benefit by the progress being made in all that makes for cheapness and comfort. But the aesthetic should never be lost sight of. The nation will im prove as its architecture improves. Handsome homes and public build ings, spacious parks and play grounds, broad, avenues and thor oughfares, imposing statues and public monuments all cultivate the best in us. Perhaps no city will be as uniformly beautiful as was ancient Athens. And yet architec tural progress in America today i' laying the basis for a healthier, happier and a more aesthetic peo-ple.-ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Tal lent, on Saturday, August 6, a son at their home on Green street. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brendlc, of Millshoal township, announce the birth of a daughter, Dora Eliza beth, on . Sunday, August 28. On Monday, August 8, a daugh ter7 Betty Jane, was born to Mr. and . Mrs. Harry A. Wilhide, at their home on Cartoogcchaye. A son, Thomas Ray, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Tippett, on Friday, August S, at their home in Millshoal township. Called To Rest JOHN W. SHULER . John W. S'huler, 50, died at hie home I on Watauga Sunday after noon at 2 o'clock after an illness of three years from tuberculosis. Funeral services were held at, the Oak Grove Baptist church Monday morning at 11 o'clock with the Rev. D. C. McCoy con ducting the final rites. The deceased was a farmer of the Watauga section. He was a mem ber of the Baptist church and waft highly respected by all who knew him. ' Those surviving are his widow, who was formerly Miss Julia Brad ley, of Oak Grove; three daugh ters, Mrs. Humphrey Browning, of Bryson City; Mrs. Inez Hipps, of Hopewell, Va ; and Miss Mildred Shuler, of Watauga; two, tons,. Lyle, of Hopewell,' Va., and Joe of Watauga. -4
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