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PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND the highlands MACON^ THURSDAY,, '^XKViklin ®jr«ss atiii Published every Thursday 'by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Tel'Cphone No. 2A VOL. LI Number 39 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., .as second class matter 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 adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked “adv.” in compliance with the postal regulations. This newspaper invites its readers to express their opinions on matters of public interest through its. columns. The Press- Maconian is independent in its policies and is glad to print both sides of any question. Letters to the editor should be written legibly bn only o,ne side of the paper and should be of reasonable lenj^th. The editor reserves the right to rejcct letters which are too long, are of small general interest or which would violate the sensibilities of our readers. ' Upon Communism vs. Fascism Two concepts o£ government, both relying force, are warring for control of the world. They are Communism and Fascism. The present civil war in Spain is distinctly a war between these two forces. When Spain rose in rebellion against its an cient monarchy and expelled its King, the idea of the leaders of the revolution was to set up a demo cratic form of government, a republic somewhat on American lines. The Spanish people, having never had any ex perience or training in self-government, fell an easy prey to the Communist propaganda, and two years ago . the government got into Communist hands. Now the leaders of the anti-monarchist revolution are in rebellion against the Communist government, seeking to set up ano.ther sort of dictatorship, of the type to which Mussolini gave the name of Fas cism., It has been Europe’s experience that only a dic tatorship can overcome Communism, once that doc- , trine has taken root among the masses. Communism is international. From Moscow the effort is unceas ing to stir up discontent all over the world and con vert the workers to its pro'gram of seizure of power by force. The first nation to feel this influence after the World War was Italy. Communism threatened the throne and the church. Mussolini’s bold seizure of power was a successful effort, with King and Church giving tacit encouragement, to resist force with force and set up a stable government. Hitler’s rise to power in Germany came about in much the same way. A Communist uprising was im minent among the -impoverished German people. Hitler seized the opportunity to gain control of the , government and its armed forces, and has brought a semblance of internal order, though at a frightful cost not only in human lives but in' the suppression of human liberties. We in America want neither Communism nor Fascism. We have learned how to operate a demo cracy and we wdll sustain it.—Selected. Peace or War? IN addressing the third World Power Conference *at Washington the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, remarked that “unfortunately, a vastly dis proportionate share of the skill and energy of scien tists and statesmen alike is being devoted now in many parts of the world to the creation and organ ization of forces of destruction.” Every thoughtful person with even a slight un derstanding of the forces which seem to be driving toward another world war will agree with Secretary Hull in deploring the activities of governments and leaders who, under the guise of preparing for na tional defenses, are stimulating the war spirit and preparing to plunge civilization into chaos. It has lately been reported that so many of the German people are engaged in the manufacture of arms and munitions of war that an illusion of pros perity has been created. To what end is suggested by the recent remarks of Chancellor Hitler, in which he suggested what Germany might do if she pos sessed the mineral and agricviltural resources of (Memories ’’y A. B, CL THE EARLY MOftMIMfr ■START FOftTUE COUNtYjftl|^;^: TvJEBE early muff p. c AM' MA''t OUiil’iMMea- r Before WIUVUW\ ^ 9TAB.TS SPEAW'IM'— ■ \ WAMT TO _eCT T;4E2-E EAtLY,ToO, So 1 CAM ENT£P- MY QLIlMCe ?C.ESe5?VE (tj WE ACT VIAuL ' Yes AMD MV Log- caB)w COILT fCOKY, Soow IM SoiN'OkJii MA.RY-Go-fioUl* % 4ljk Sae? S'va/Am •H0M5 n I? IN -I. Russia. That, coupled with his demand for a return- of the German colonies taken away by the Treaty of '\'ersailles, comes very close to being an actual threat of war. Russia today has the largest standing army ever known in the history of the world and one of the best equipped. Russia fears attack both from the West and from the P'ast. Japan is reaching farther Northward and Westward from Manchuria, and the day seems not far off when the Soviet Republic will be fighting for its life on both fronts. Italy and France both seem to be watching for the time and the opportunity to dismember Spain and parcel it out between them, Britain’s colonial empire is threatened by all of those developments. In the event of another great wsf, it seeing impossible that England can stay out. And it is far from im possible that the United States would also find it self involved. _ If ever the times called for the utmost exertions m the name of peace, it is now.—Selected. Soon Wifi II All Be Flying ^HIS has been a great season for flyers. In one week m egrly September two record-breaking tS Atlantic. Two men, Dick Mernll, a veteran alp pilot, ^nd Harry Rich- man, an actor, crossed from Newfoiindland to Ur New air sps-sil records have been made in the Sa.it few weeks, and women fliers have made sLfof them. A new record of 14 J ^ seconds for the flight acros^^ t’in' ' ^9 New York to Los AnaeW ' froni women, Mrs. Louise Thlden and Mrs. Blanche Noyes of Mp Ark., woman, Miss Laura and another .-a«, less than hour Sin “‘th?'' Amo.,, fliers and those im reste/irth"' ■' t.on of comm„fial aviation, all the tal rtf is of the tnne, not fa; i„ the fnt?,, ‘"“'Hdays a.r service will he estabiished a ™’, Th The French governmprt" Atlantic, weeks ago a priz'g of a mill; S CQppl^ pf the winner in an’air race frn^ on the tenth anniJefsarv ofT i^?^' P^rig feat May 21, 1937. The British great Imperial Airways are p/ ^nd the own government -and thp ^ith our navigation system, to find American air sign the best planes for mail and across the “Big Pond.”^Selected Muse’s Corn “'Uncle” Jess Cole White wijigs, white wingi In swift, directed flightj: Coming for the soul of a 11 In stillness of the niglit' White wings, white wiap Scaling heavenly heights; Bearing the soul of Ujidf into perpetual light j I I White wings, white wgi, Up to the throne of Goi, And show to the Lord tko That tilted His own good Show him the hands that mi To the sick as life grewi And Christ will plead tli Jesse, Ministered unto Hig. White wings, white wijigS) robe, Prepared for the relW Kobe that is washed iii of the lamb. Shining, s])otlessly clean. Let him sing with you then Which no,ne may ever ki Save those whose gar®ii White as the driven snw —Norvin C Asheville, N. C. Sept-ember, 1936. Bulletin Tells Tow Figure Crop Cost Farmers wHO w'ish " productio.n costs will .be 'helped ,by a » issued by the N. C. 3g periment station. The bulletin, prepartd Green, research assistao management, shows hoft figured for v^no.u? «f resentafivp Nprtl? &''■ - It also shows ® ° determine the he can profitably appV to increase the y>e certam point, , will cost more than is worth. . L, Experiment station 305, “Cost of Producing , ucts in North J obtained free 'by w Qultural editor at Raleigh. GARI? QP appreciation tor , kindness and w'or extended to us dur^ illness and death , wife and mother- and ^ Itp ' /
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