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PAGE FOUR the franklin press and the highlands MACONl^ THURSDAY, MARCH 5,, aitii £it:e Fublisbed every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL, LI Number 10 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR ANU PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter COMES THE DAWN by A. B. Chapin SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .... Six Months .. Eight Months Single Copy .. $1.50 .75 $1.00 .05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as ad#er tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked “adv.” in compliance with the postal regulations. Equality for Farmers (Reprinted from The PnogressiTre Farmer) I. The farmer is entitiel to just as good wages ‘for his labor as others get. II. He is entitled to just as good returns on his capital as others receive. JJI. He is entitled to just as good living condi tions for himself and his family as others enjoy. IV. His children are entitled to just as good edu cational advantages as other children enjoy. V. He is entitled to just as much liberty of action in organizing for selling his ]>roducts and for regu lating production to meet market demands as other classes exercise. VT. He is entitled to just as efficient and adapt able service from the country’s banking and finan cial institutions as other classes get. VH. He is entitled to taxation, tariff, and trans portation policies which will deal just as fairly with agriculture as with any other l)usiness or occupa tion. V'lll. He is entitled to equal recognition with other classes in the make-up of all governmental bodies, boards, commissions, legislatures, etc. IX. He is entitled to a civilization and culture, including an (fducational system, literature, art, drama, etc., which will recognize, reflect, and utilize the cultural influences of country life and its en vironment in the same degree in which })resent-day culture recognizes and reflects the influences of urban life. What the New Deal Has Cost, And What It Is Worth (From The Atlantic Journal) Those who think of th-e Roosevelt Administration as a reckless, 'fruitless spendthrift will change their minds if they look far enough into the figures and facts—provided, of course, their minds are open to the light. Some are in the case of the sixteenth cen tury worthies who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope at the moons of the planet Jupiter because, as they heatedly told him, they knew there were no moons to be seen. But those willing to use their eyes can verify for themselves the meaningful, though perhaps not generally appreciated, fact, that in the last three years of the Hoover administration our country’s net national debt increased six billion, two hundred and thirty-six million dollars, whereas under President Roosevelt? it has increased seven billion, four hundred and nine million, counting as far ahead as June 30, 1936. This is a dif ference of one billion, one hundred and seventy-tliree million dollars. And now for a practical question : “Is the New Deal worth a billion dollars more to the American people than the Old Deal?” This question, which can be answered by plain figures, we have quioted from one of the great independent newspapers of America, the Philadelphia Record. “Marriner Eccles, governor of the Federal Res;rve Board,” it goes on to say, “finds that the national income has increased more than fifteen billion dollars each year during Roosevelt’s administration, as compared with Hoover’s. In a period of thirty and one-half months, the national income has increasel thirty-seven and one-half billion dollars over what it would have been if the Hoover level had continued. A horse that pays thirty- seven to one is a good horse on any track. For that .billion-dollar greater debt we are getting recovery under Roosevelt, For a billion- dollar smaller debt under Hoover we were getting a one-way trip down hill. Conditions were never so black as they were after Hoover had rung up his six-billion-dollar debt increase. Business has not been as good in five years as it is today over the country as a whole, after Roosevelt has run up his seven-billion-dollar debt increase. And recall that Hoover’s deficits were mounting year after year, while Roosevelt's are decreasing. Remember these fig ures when the free-wheeling Republican orators and the anti-admin istration Democrats start working on you again about how Roosevelt has run you into dobt and increased your taxes. It is time the .Vmerican people went off their diet of elephant ‘baloney.’” The case, as thus stated by the Philadelphia Record, one of the few big Eastern papers that gives editorial justice to the New Deal spring- base NEWS WB Mortals i is in terms of economic results, because it is on this score that the Roosevelt critics are most garrulous. And if economic results were the only criterion by which to judge a national administration, they would abundantly vindicate the major policies imder which we have advanced from the depression of March, 1933 to the prosperity of this good day. But there are other and more vital values which the New Deal has produced, social values, human values. It has given courage to hearts that w'cre despairing, confidence to minds that had lost faith in government, security to institutions that were gravely threatened, a living hope and working chance to millions who be fore were friendless and forgotten. Judged by fact and by truth, the Roosevelt Administration is a thousand times worth its cost. BRUCt Barton there are OTHER WORLDS -A, man who has made some money without work, and therefore thinks he knows everything, was recently delivering himself on the subject of religion. He dismissed the idea of immortality as mere superstition, the yearning of chil dren afraid of the dark. “Of course there is no other world,” he said. lo which a friend responded quietly: “You yourself have already been a resident of another and very different world. The world in which we iiow have our existence IS a world of alternating periods of sunlight and dark; it is a world wherein human beings draw air in to their lungs and expel it, eat and drink through their mouths, and walk around on their own legs For nine months you lived inside your .nother’s body, m a world wW there was no light, no air where no nourishment reached you through your mouth and you were moved about on other legs than your own. Suppose an embryo were endowed w.th intelligence and im agination, How could it ever form any notion of this outside worTd^ Wouldnt any description of it say, as you have just said, ‘There can be no other world?” Ihe smart man is still thinkinE^ lip his answer. inmkmg Just before I left the house this forth h.s round eyes looking first at one of us and then the other m the same h^se, eats the same that do food, breathes the same air we do. But what we say and and think and hope is utterly beyond his comprehension. He and we are citizens of tw'o different worlds. I have friends who live in worlds which I never have been able to enter. Ihey see values in pictures my eyes can not see; music speaks to them in a language I do not understand; they have spiritual ex- periences which never have come to me When I am in the presence of Iv K diffi- culty in behevmg that there are P^sibihties of human. Kfe far and a^ve our highest imaginings. Even efSt^ THE SHOW ^ IS A FLOP laild^F' b'^tween Eng land, France, and Italy was at its ighest point recently, th« French veterans sent an appeal to £ remier not to make war on Italy =^™ed conflict w^th the soldiers who had bepn t), • brave allies was unthinkable. de;erpme"t m “le tavern, relating his dppH= c courage and urging the young t« prepare themselves for ^ When they too would fig't went\:c?;rthet re^S'e^ fhearts that never can k ■ modest, quiet ti^hM' ‘^cy are I^d^TirSe cause of hofiorable peace. The young people who conn my house tell me that in all leges and schools the anti-wan timent is very strong. 1 toes mean that modern youth is courageous than its forbears? at all. It means that the iJ world is coming to realize that as it used to be and w»ar as i are two entirely different tH There may have ibeen glory hand-to-hand conflict; there is glory in long-distance slaughtei The age-o'ld road-show ci War has lo'st its following. Ti the scenery is w'orn and tatti and spotted; martial music has its magic, the odstumes and well-worn lines. of the princi seem to belong to the yean Nellie the B'Cautiful Cloak 1I( The show' is a flop, (Copyright 1936—K,F.S.) Muse’s Corner WHEN OUR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED Behold the Man who was in t Was filled with love, and' from brags.. Had no sin and owed no debt, But conquered everything met! Built his Church on solid sto» And promised us a happy Gave no cause to ever quit; And He never frowmed a bit How could anyone turn Hint df He who wore a thorny cron'* And upon the cross He died When our Lord was crucifi* —Troy F. Ho: The Seine a^nd th'e Rhine Paris isn’t on the Seine, Rhine never reaches the sea, ^ graphers point out that the S* is o.nly one of the minor trib®' ies rather than the main br> of the river that «flows thrO Paris. The Rhine breaks up i”! number of rivers as it enters land. None is called the Rhi«. legal advertising NOTICE A convention of the Kep>i'>'' Party is hereby called to ni«| the Courthouse in Franklin on- tirday, the 14th day of March,! at 2 o’clock P, M,, for the! pose of electing delegates to State Co.nvention, Congress* Convention and Senatorial Co® tion. This the 3rd day of March, ^ WALTER DEAN, Chain DON HENRY, Secretary M5-2tp-Ml2
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