PAGE TWO
THE FRANKLIN PfrESS ad THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1135
T WANNA GO HOME"
by A. B. Chapin
Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
Telephone No. 24
VOL. L
Number 28
BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year ' $1-50
Six Months 75
Eight Months IM
Single Copy -05
Obituary 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 notices
will be marked "adv." in compliance with the postal regulations.
We Invite You
FRANKLIN is happy to be host to so appreciative a
group of nature lovers as the hiking clubs that have
chosen our mountains for their annual meet.
We invite you to behold the surpassing beauty of our
horizon, to feel the cool depths of our forests ; to hear the
ripple of brooks, the rush of waterfalls, the songs of
birds; to plumb the depths of trout pools and to scale the
heights of peaks'.
We invite you to stand in awe and wonder even as
the Indian did when all this glory belonged to him.
From Standing Indian you will see the Cowee range of
mountains to the north, the Fishhawks on the east to
wards Highlands. On your right are the mountains of
northern Georgia and Rabun Gap, at your feet are the
romantic Nantahalas. In the distance and beyond lie the
Great Smokies, beckoning you to yet unsealed heights.
The ribbons of water far beneath are the Little Ten
nessee, the Cartoogechaye and Wayah Creeks, the Culla
saja, lying in the richness of the farms and fields they
water.
We invite you to drink it in, to fill your soul, your
mind, your memory. It is yours richly to enjoy. It is
yours to carry away as much as is your capacity. For all
this beauty of forest and trail, of mountain, mist and
cloud, of green trees and sunset gold is yours.
St. Augustine of Africa suggested a satisfying aim a
thousand years ago. This from his meditations
"And the people went there and admired the high
mountains and the mighty downward rushing streams
.... and the course of the stars, AND FORGOT THEMSELVES."
America Carries On
IT WOULD be hard to find a man of intelligence who
could undertake with any confidence to point out what
goal our social order is heading for, or to foretell the re
sults of the tremendous activities of our Federal Govern
ment. We hear on one hand expressions of dissatisfaction,
apprehension, and even of despair. On the other hand,
many see steps toward a perfect state, which they believe
is being created under the New Deal. One group says
the country is heading for ruin; the other group believes
that we are on the road to security and contentment.
We think both of these points of view are wrong. We
don't believe that either catastrophe or the millennium lies
in our immediate path. What we do believe is that the
United States of America will go on just about as it has
been going on for a century and a half. The pace may
be somewhat accelerated, the burdens of taxation may
weigh more heavily upon different individuals and groups
than in the past, public enterprise may take the place of
private enterprise in many fields, but on the whole we
do not believe that our children and grandchildren will
find America very much different as a place in which to
live than we and our fathers and grandfathers have
found it.
We say this because we do not think that human na
ture changes materially in one or two or a dozen genera
tions, and we do not believe that the temper and the fun
damental spirit of the American people are going to be
permanently changed by any political devices. After the
making of new laws and regulations has come to an end,
the people will pay no attention to such new rules of con
duct as do not suit them, and will more or less observe
the laws which, after a reasonable experience with them,
prove -to be workable.
That is the way the American people have conducted
themselves in the past and we think it is the way they
will continue to conduct themselves in the future. Selected.
A Praiseworthy Project
FROM, what we have read and heard about the Presi
dent's "Youth Project" it seems to have much to com
mend it. Mr. Roosevelt has set aside $50,000,000 out of
his Work Relief Fund to help young people between the
ages of 16 and 25. The announced objectives are :
1. To find employment in private industry for un
employed youth. A
2. To train and retrain young people for industrial,
technical and professional employment opportunities.
3. To provide for continuing attendance at high
school and college. . i
4. To provide wotk relief upon projects designed to
meet the needs ofyouth.
Whether or not this project succeeds in its announced
objectives, it is at least a commendable attempt. Its' sue-
cess or failure will depend upon a great many factors,
but particularly upon the intelligence and ability with
which it is administered. It would be very easy for it to
become merely another dole. Many are of the opinion
that there are too many doles and too many people draw
ing money without giving anything in return, as mat
ters stand now.
This "Youth Project," as we understand it, has for its
main purpose the assistance of young people to develop
qualities of mind and character. No such development is
possible unless the recipient of the benefits gives as much
as he or she takes.
We can imagine no greater disservice to young people
in their formative stage of life than to encourage them
in the idea that the world owes them a living, or that
there is nothing shameful in taking money without giv
ing adequate return for it.
The new "Youth Project," under highly skilled ad
ministration, might become the greatest character-building
enterprise ever undertaken. But it also, might easily
become a character destroyer. Selected.
Sharing the Wealth
WE EXPECT to hear a great deal of discussion about
the President's proposal to levy inheritance taxes
in addition to the present estate taxes, and to increase
the percentage of taxation on very large incomes. There
is, of course, a tremendous popular appeal to the man in
the street, in this plan to redistribute wealth. We doubt,
however, that even if such taxation extended to the point
of complete confiscation, it would make very much ma
terial difference to the average citizen, just as we doubt
that the imposing of these proposed new and higher taxes
would have the dire results that some people are loudly
predicting.
It is, of course, true, though most folks do not realize
it, that no man has a right to say what shall be done with
his wealth after he is dead. A dead man can own noth
ing. The passing on of his property by will is a privilege
granted by statute, and not a fundamental right. The
State, which has granted the privilege of leaving wealth
to one's descendants, has a perfect right to revoke that
right at any time. There is, therefore, no question of
elemental rights involved in any proposal to tax inheri
tances up to as high as 100 per cent. The only question
of consequence is one of public policy.
Since practically nobody who has any material amount
of wealth keeps any large part of it in cash, the payment
of death duties and inheritance taxes often, if not general
ly, involves the forced selling of property, which usually
results in realizing much less than its real value. That
is why many states, and the Federal Government, allow
long terms of years for the payment of estate taxes, to
give the executors of large estates ample time in which
to raise the necessary cash for tax payments without
sacrificing values.
J. P. Morgan has lately been selling pictures from
the art collection founded by his father, and disposing of
considerable real estate holdings for cash. Mr. Morgan-is
approaching seventy, and seems to be attempting to pro
vide sufficient cash to pay the death duties after he pass
es on.
We think it is probably right to tax the man with a
ten-million-dollar-a-year income if there is any such man
in these days at a higher percentage than the man with
only a million-dollar income. But when we get up into
those high income figures we touch only a very few for
tunes, perhaps not as many as a hundred. Selected.
UNCHURCH
PLANSPVIVAL
Dr. W. W. Gist, Negro
Evangelist, To Conduct
Series Of Meetings
A special series of revival meet
ings will be conducted at the Green
street A. M. E. Zion church Juiy
15 to August 2 by Dr. W. W. Gist,
Negro evangelist.
Dr. Gist has been conducting re
vival meetings in Asheville sine
Easter. He is president of the in
terdenominational League ot Salis
bury. The Rev. E. Johnson McKay,
pastor" of the Green street a. At.
E. Zion church, and the officers of
the church joined in issuing an in-
Ivitation to the public to attend
IVl ! 1 1 . It! 1
ine revival services, wiucn win De
held each night beginning at 8:45
o'clock.
Restaurant Patron 1 want a
good-sized glass of orange juice;
two strictly fresh eggs poavhed
medium soft, on buttered toast that
isn't too brown; coffee with no
9ugar and plenty of cream in it,
and a couple of doughnuts that
aren't all holes.
Waiter Yes, sir. Would you like
to order any special design on the
dishes?
LEGAL ADVERTISING
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of Sam Cunningham, deceased, late
of Macon County, N. C, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 8th day of July,
1936, or this notice will be plead
in bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This 8th day of July, 1935.
ROY R. CUNNINGHAM,
Administrator.
Jll6tc-A15
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE,
Having qualified as executor of
John L. Cabe, deceased, late of
Maoon County, N. C, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
on Or before the 11th day of July,
1936, or this notice will be plead in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate settlement. This
11th day of July, 1935.
MELL CABE, Executor.
Jll 6tp A15