THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935
THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
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PAGE SEVEN
NEWS
Of the Week
M reviewed by
WELLINGTON McCONNELL
(Continued from Page One)
that the state sent 19,257 convicted
law-breakers to prison during the
year ended June 30, an increase of
8(W over last year. White prison
ers made up well over half the in
crease. Durine the year, 504 whites
:mt Ml netrroes escaped, a total of
741 being recaptured.
OFFICIALS EXONERATED
All' of the five indicted prison
officials in. the recent Mecklenburg
"torture" trial were cleared by a
superior court, the jury deliberat
ing seven hours on the lafct three.
As principal evidence, the prosecu
tion showed the jury the amputat
ed legs of the two negroes, who
claimed they were shackled in an
upright posture for nine days in an
militated cell during sub-freezing
her. The defense proved the
net-roes had caused the condition
by tying cords under the shackles
ANOTHER "PURGE"
In attempting to make National
socialism the faith and religion of
unified Germany, the government
declared "war" on Herbew, Catho
lic, and Protestant clergymen. An
other "purge," though so far blood
less, j , Ll.1
MORE DILLINGER
Bringing to mind the recent ex
ploits of former Public Enemy No.
1, police recently reported the dis
covery of the famous "Woman in
Red," who, it was supposed, tipped
off the police and enabled them to
catch Dillinger. She is Mrs. Anna
Sage, titian-haired Rumanian, and
said that she did not know the
"Jimmie" she acebmpanied to the
movies on the fatal night was
Dillinger until she read the papers.
Constitutio
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THE SEED FROM WHICH GREW THE CONSTITUTION
OMEHOW the states struggled' which it derives its powers, the
"G-MAN" No Mote
Farewell Party
Given George Wallace By
CCC Camp F-9
George Wallace was honored by
the CCC boys of Camp F-9 Monday
with a surprise dinner, at which
time he was presented with a Ham
ilton watch, the money haying been
raised by popular subscription in
the camp.
Mr. Wallace, recently transferred
to Camp F-20 at West's Mill, has
been at F-9 as road foreman for
the past two years. His popularity
with the camp was shown in the
remark made bv one of the officers,
who said that during the 19 months
of his stay at Camp F-9, not a
single boy had been sent to him
lw Mr Wallace for discipline, and
that the boys had always been giv
en a "square deal."
Prepare the Silo
For Fall Harvest
Many North Carolina dairymen,
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not now using silage as a caiuc
feed, would find it profitable to do
so. f
"We have come to recognize sil
age as one of the best and most
economical home-grown roughages
for dairy cattle," declares John A.
Arey, dairy extension specialist ,at
State College. "Silage is succulent
and palatable. It is a good substi
tute for grass in winter and a
valuable supplement to pasture in
summer. An acre of corn that will
yield ten tons of silage when fed
to "dairy cows in the form of silage
will produce about 400 pounds more
milk than if the corn were fed in
the drv state. Then, too, the loss
of feed sustained during harvesting
and feeding operations is almost
eliminated when the corn is con
verted into silage."
Mr. Arey urges dairymen to re-
nair their old silos or build new
ones during the latter part of July
and through August while the rush
of summer work is over ahd fall
work has not vet becun. This will
avoid serious delay when the silage
crop is ready to cut.
The dairy extension office at Mate
College has plans showing how to
build the vertical silo and Exten
sion Circular 201 may be secured
telling how to dig a trench silo.
The trench silo is inexpensive.
Studies made last year on 372 new
trench silos dug in the state show
that the lsfbor cost per ton of ca
pacity was about 50 cents.
through the first five years of
the Revolution under their loose
and ineffective alliance, centering in
the Continental Congress. In the
meantime, plans for a permanent
government were being debated.
Such a plan had been drawn up in !
l776, immediately after the signingl
of the Declaration of Independence.
This plan was embodied in the Ar
ticles of Confederation.
The Articles of Confederation
Afere ratified by the thirteen states
m 1781. The smaller states, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, New
Jersey, Maryland and Delaware,
had held back, fearing that the
jther states, all of whom claimed
territorial rights extending west
ward to the Mississippi River,
would dominate by their mere size.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
Yfork, Pennsylvania, Virginia, both
of the Carolinas and Georgia, at
last agreed to let their westward
lands be carved up into new states.
The others then ratified the Ar
ticles of Confederation.
Under this new form of govern
ment each State remained com
pletely independent. Congress could
act only on:
1. Declaring war or peace, and
superintending the conduct of war.
2. Building a navy.'
3. Controlling diplomatic relations.
4. Coining money and emitting
bills of credit.
5. Establishing post offices.
6. Regulating trade with the In
dians. 7. Adjusting boundary disputes
between the States.
There was .no executive authority,
no Federal judicial system. The
Congress could, if it desired to, set
up a court of appeal. No vote
could be carried in the Congress
without the assent of a majority
of state delegations. On all impor
tant measures the votes of nine
states were required.
This plan did not bring about na
tional unity. When the War of the
Revolution ended, in 1783, the State
of Great Britain signed a treaty
recognizing each of her former
American Colonies as an indeien
dent State, but gave no recogni
tion to the United States as a na
tion. In 1784 the States claiming West
ern lands, ceded 430,000 square
miles, lying north of the Ohio
River, to the Congress. (This
Northwest Territory later, became
the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin.) In the
meantime, however, the government
under the Articles of Confederation '
had practically collapsed. The Con
gress in 1786 reported the Federa
tion "broke," with a debt of $42,
000,000 and no credit.
The States had to work out their
own problems. Since there was no
Federal regulation of commerce be
tween the States, each began to set
up protective restrictions against
goods coming in from other states.
This confused inter-state commerce
situation was the seed from which
grew the Constitution and our Fed
eral Government.
In 1785 the States of Maryland
and Virginia appointed delegates to
work out a plan of regulating com
merce on Chesapeake Bay and the
Potomac River. The delegates met
at the home of -.General George
Washington at Mount Vernon, Vir
ginia. They came to a satisfactory
agreement, and proposed a meeting
of commissioners from all the
States, to work out a system of
regulating commerce between all of
them.
A convention was called to meet
1780 at Annapolis. Unly hve
Constitution of the United States of
America.
(Next week: The Constitution
Drafted in Secret Convention) '
B. T. U. Meets Next Week
At Higdonville School
The annual meeting of the Ma
con County B. T. U. association
will be Jield at the Higdonville
school house Friday, August 2, at
10:30 a. m.
An interesting and helpful pro
gram has been planned for the day,
according to Mrs. J. Dfc Franks,
director of the association, and it
is expected that the regional lead
ers will be the principal speakers.
All churches in the association art
urged to send delegates, whether
having a B. Y. P. U. or not.
CHICAGO . . . Melvin H. Purvis
(above), youthful 'G-Man" of the
"U. S. Department of Justice who
tracked the nation's master crimin
als, during the last 5 years, including
Dillinger, is now n vacation after
resigning. It is reported he will es
tablish his own detective businej.3
here.
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states sent commissioners. the
Annapolis convention asked the
Congress to call on all of the States
to send commissioners to a conven
tion in Philadelphia the following
Spring, "for the sole and express
purpose of revising the Articles of
Confederation."
The call was made, and on May
25, 1787, fifty-five delegates, repre
senting all the thirteen States, met
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the Liberty Bell, in which the Dec
laration of Independence had been
signed eleven years earlier, drew
up the document upon which our
Federal Government rests and from
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