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THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, and ^Rtixuxnw Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LI Number 47 BLACKBURN W. JOPINSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.50 Six Months Eight Months $1.00 Single Copy Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, vifill be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Swch 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 on only o,ne side of the paper and should be of reasonable length. The editor reserves the right to reject letters which are too long, are of small general interest or which would violate •the sensibilities of our readers. Recovery is Here ¥F there were any doubt left in anybody’s mind ^ that economic recovery is well under way in Amer ica, the action of the United Steel Corporation in raising the wages of its employees ought to be con vincing evidence. It will cost the steel corporation somewhere above $75,000,000 a year to grant these pay increases. # Other and smaller industries have been gradually restoring wages to the pre-depression level, but steel is the key industry of them all. When the steel com panies are prosperous, all the other industries are prosperous. It is the first to feel the effects of a slack of business activity and the first to realize the effects of business recovery. Another evidence that w^e are back on the main highway leading to prosperity is the enormous in crease, in automobile production and sales and the promising outlook for that industry for the com ing year. The new models for 1937 are just now being shown to the public for the first time. With out exception, they are better cars for less money. And it is easier today for the ordinary citizen to buy an automobile than it ever has been before. Credit terms have been extended and interest rates deduced. The Federal Reserve Board’s commercial and in dustrial review of 1936 confirms the evidence of recovery. The board reports that the current level of business activity is higher than at any time since 1930. That employment is substantial is indicated by the marked expansion in residential and industrial construction, which were the lines in which recov ery had lagged. Employment and payrolls in indus try and commerce continue to increase, along with corporate profits and dividends, the board reports, while electrical powder production and railroad traf fic show marked increases. It seems apparent that America is in for another great era of prosperity, in which more citizens than ever before are sharing.—Selected. A Thought for Thanksgiving ALL the holidays which we customarily ob- serve, there are two of distinctly American or igin which are celebrated all over the United States. Those are Independence Day and Thanksgiving Day. Both of these have peculiar significance to all Americans. They go back to the roots of our na tional life. Independence Day is, or should be, an annual reminder that our national liberty was achieved only because free men were ready to fight for the right to govern themselves. And Thanks giving Day, now about to roll around again, should be a reminder that the foundations of America were laid by men and women who cherished spiritual liberty even more highly than they held personal and political liberty. “Liberty,” said Woodrow Wilson, “is a spiritual concept.” Liberty of conscience is one of the funda mental precepts of our national structure, guaran teed to every citizen under the Constitution. Spirit ual liberty is, perhaps, the most precious of all the bounties for which Americans should give thanks on the last Thursday in November. So far in our historv America has been more Outward ^ourui ■by A. B. Cha I mmmSi v(-/('w J VAAPlN abundantly blessed than any other nation has ever been since the beginning of recorded time. We have prospered as no other nation has ever prospered. We are just beginning to realize that the latest world depression let us off more lightly, as a people, than it (lid any other race or nation. We are now beginning to realize, too, that we are well on our way out of the depression, heading swiftly toward renewed prosperity of a magnitude beyond our present dreams. For such material blessings it is well to give thanks to the Providence w^hich has guided us; but it is also well to remember that there are greater treasures than money and the wealth of which money is a measure. Let us, in the midst of our Thanksgiving feasting and merrymaking, not forget that we are possessors of a great spiritual heritage, and make the day an occasion for pledging ourselves anew to the uphold ing and perpetuation of that spiritual liberty, that freedom of conscience and of thought, which our forebears sought and found in their New World. —Selected. Bruce* Barton I ADMIRE THE COPS As we drove along beside the Hudson river we noticed a crowd at one of the piers. A disco,uraged gentleman had attempted to drown himself. Dripping and dejected, he sat on an empty barrel, while the cop who had pulled him out of the water talked to him like a big brother. I resently the patrol wagon arrived to take them away, the cop still utteiing words of friendly encour agement. At a busy corner stood a woman with a baby in her arms and a youngster tugging at her skirt, anxiously viewing the torrent of traffic, afraid to plunge in The cop in the middle of the street sighted her, and raised his arm with a knightly gesture. The city stopped while the timid little mother crossed over. It was late at night. On the steps of a residence, the windows of which were shuttered, a man was slouched in an obvious state of intoxication. A cop touched him on the shoul- c er. bp held a brief conversation. Pre^sently the cop hailed a taxi, loaded the inebriated citizen in it, story. And what do you suppo! based it on ? The Bible He has charge of the comp; personnel. It is a job to sort hundred young fellows in o: find the one who will start small wages, work long hoars, fight his way up to the top.- The prizes are big, but tie is hard, and only the tO' survive. | The part of the Bible to ivki the vice-president referred «j Feeding of the Five Thousand. 0 thoiUsand tired and hiingry peopi The Lord said, “Feed them.” ■; His disciples, who were practi( men, were aghast. “We can’t it,” they protested. “It would taS too much money.” Finally a boy was discovered] the crowd with five small low and two fishes. Said my friend; fl they had to work with was «li the boy 'had. “So with our company,” he coi tinned. “It’s one of the leaders,I there isn’t a really brilliant nt in it. We’ve all come up from" ranks. “We can get money to do thing that we need; but.mo« alone won’t do it. “But all we really have to n with is wliat our four t boys have. They are going gave instructions to the taxi driver, and the taxi drove away. These incidents, occurring within my own sight and close together, reminded me that I have long in tended to write a little something about Cops. I admire most of all their self- possession and the sound commpii- sense way in which they go about their work. Adlai E. Stevenson, o,nce vice-president of the United States, .Used to quote a friend’s re mark that “the Constitution of Il linois is; an almost perfect docu- rtient, but it should have one ad ditional paragraph. It should pro vide for an appeal from the Su preme Court to any two justices of the peace.” The idea was that when all the high-priced lawyers and judges ’had finished their legal wrangling, then a couple of country chaps should render a final decision on the basis of simple common ' sense. hard work THE TEST You run across all sorts of sur prises in the course of a business week. For instance, the vice-presi dent of a big chain store organiza tion was telling me a business to 1 Doys nave, j “ t ‘ cide what this business will the years to come. | (Copyright, G. !*■ Crippled Children s Clini To Be Held Nov. 21 The regular monthly W children’s clinic for the co Jackson, Macon, Swain, Cherokee and Clay will be the high school building' City on Saturday, November beginning at 9:30 a. ffl' , - All crippled children are invited to .attend ^ examination. Dr, John ^ . .j of Asheville, is the exa sician. S;mo„ P. "J " City,, is chairman of the , mittee. Others serving ^ Davis on the comrntt«e_ Morgan and Mrs. ti. secretary. . , j si J. H. Clippard, vssistan^. vocational rehabilitatfn will attend the clini- Mrs. Appelt, of the Nf ^ crippled children’s be Further information ‘ (,j tained from Mr; Davi^^^^^ members of his comr from .any member of f gjy clubs of Sylv.a, Frankl ^ ( City, Andrews and the J at Murphy. 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