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^AQE rOUR. THE PBANK1..N .-». >«■» TMt HIMtANDi MACOWIAW "fNURSD^Y, ®h: ^rattkiitt ^r:ess \\^ Vacant Qhair atid — ■ ^ ’’y A. B, cha2 ®lt:e ^ntnnxRU Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LI Number 48 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 $L00 Single Cotiy 05 Obituar,, 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 vpill 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 one 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. Beautifying Country Churches i\N example which many country churches might well follow has ■been set by Endn Baptist Church near Oxford, N. C., which has worked thiough a number of years to beautify its grounds. Here is an accouni of its campaign as given in The Progressive Farmer:— “At one time the church in conference voted to launch a beauty campaign .n a large scr.Je, and subscribed $125 on the spot for trees and shr.ut.bery. They nai.-.ed a committee to buy what was needed. Next, tliis was made a standing committee, and through all the years since, this committee iias continued to function actively. In'all, sev eral hundred dollars has been spent for trees and shrubbery alone. And buying and planting has toeen only a minor part of it; the com- mitt-ee also looks after the lawn and sees that it is kept tidy and beautiful. ■: Three times a year a large crowd of the members may be seen at work on the lawn: spring, fall, and before the annual revival meet- mg. Loads and loads of manure, teams, plows, rakes, hoes, pruning shares—these are some of the accessories to a day of good fellow ship amid the beauty of the church premises. It does not cost us any thing. The people en joy it and take a pride in it. Better still, they carry away an ideal that will inevitably be reflected in their own premises at home. Beauty of their church lawn will promote beauty about their own homes—even beauty in their souls. And it makes them ohjurch-conscious. Our churches are weak largely because their mem bers express so little .of their daily life through their churches What-ever makes one’s church loom large in his thoughts is a bless ing. The danger is that so little of one’s life will be expressed through his church that it will drop out of his thoughts and out of his life. The sheer beauty of otir church premis'Cs compels our mem bers to think about their church. “Beauty is contagious. It preaches beauty. Why should not a church feel a divme call to make its premises preach tidiness and loveliness to all the community round about? Is not that indeed a part of the gospel? Did not Ruskin give us the great truth that bea:uty in art and nature promotes beauty of character?”—Selected. 1 WACNEP -WlM TO QUIT IXXN' So MUC+4 4-JlSK ' AW ' ^IC+^ ^ATtW ' —^ • 1 TOLD HIM IF HE O.lPN'r STOP g-plSUTTItW ^ APDUNO SO MUCV4 •n^'OTV SLICI£15S WO\JU> TAk:£ WlM TOQ A ■RlPE. — I f • Y'WT THLL T^£ A TWlKK? KJOWAPAVS f ^;;Novemb^ 12-3 TTT7 ■ 8 >0 n 12 13 ^ n ]& iQ 2, 22 23 24 252627 25 50 PoorI BOYf (1- Machinery and Unemployment IT was only three or four years ago that the whole country was talking about something called “technocracy,” That was a new eco>nomic philosophy based .upon the theory that the causes of all our unemployment and other troiubles was that machines were re placing man power in industry, and that if that tendency kept on it would not be long before there would be no work for anybody to do, Tbe technocracy idea was an echo of the outcry which has been raised whenever a new invention has been brought out to do work which was formerly done by hand. When the first cotton spinning machinery was invented, the first power looms set up, there was a ' tremendous outcry aibout the bread being taken out of the mouths of the working class. That was more than ISO years ago, and it is only necessary to look back into history to realize how foolish the opposition to those early machines was. For, instead of making less work, they made more work. By producing cotton cloth more cheaply and more speedily than it had 'ever been made by hand, the machine production multiplied the demand and the market for cotton cloth, so that within a few years ten persons were employed on the spin ning and weaving machines for every one who had been employed at hand labor in the same industry. To a generation which knows nothing of industrial history the re vival of this outcry against the machines seemed convincing. The evidence to the contrary, however, is right in front of the eyes of anybody who will look for it. The best example is in the automobile industry. More automobiles have been made and sold in the past year than in any one of the previous five years. Very much more of the work of building automobiles is done by machinery than at any time in the past. It is no uncommon thing for an automobile manu facturer to scrap $10,000,000 worth of heavy machinery to replace it with new and more efficient equipment. But has the machine thrown automobile workers out of their jobs? Quite the opposite is true. In one great factory alone, which formerly employed 60,000 workers to produce a million and a half of automobiles in a year, last year 90,000 workers were employed to produce a smaller number of cars. ITiere was no reduction in wages; on the contrary, wages went up. Yet the price of the car came down. Precisely the same -experience has followed the introduction of modern machinery in every line of industry. There are temporary readjustments and shifts of employment, but in the long run the en larged market created by offering better goods at lower prices results in the employment of more people than could find jobs before the new machines were put in.—Selected, /: Bruce- Barton THE FARMER HAS IT Waking up in a sleeping car, I discovered that we had got stalled behind a derailed freight train dur ing the night and were four hours late. There was no diner, no news paper, nothing to do hut wait until we reached Buffalo at one o’clock. So I settled myself philosophically in the smoking compartment and gazed out on the landscape where farmers were busy with their plow ing. My mind went back to the sum mers I worked on a farm in Mich igan. And partly because of the memories, partly because of the lack of breakfast, I began to feel envious of the sturdy tillers of the soil, “You have many troubles,” I said to myself. “Yqp have long hours;, you are at war with the winds and the sun and the storms; you are afflicted by every imagin able kind of pest. But one great and glorious gift you do enjoy. You have an appetite.” On that Michigan farm the boss and I and another hired hand used to rise at four o’clock in the sum mer mornings. By half past six we had tended to the horses and milk ed the cows, and were ready for breakfast. What a breakfast! Then out to the fields.. By about ten- thirty we were beginning to be hungry agam, and for an hour and a half we would live in the contem plation of dinner. Again a tremen dous meal Then more hard work until sun-down-with again a couple T anticipation. In New York high-priced chefs a«ri\ their hotels and clubs and dress them up with all sorts of fancy sauces and trick ornaments. But I am never reallv hungry. My house is warmer than sSte?T tf"’ softer, I am better paid for a much shorter workmg day. But I wish that just once more in my life I could smell that cooking acrosrthe fields and know that appetite again, LET’S DRESS THE PART ele^ato^r''stit''““' ed me bf hail- I had seenS" tV”Vh“.' It dawned on me that ' el..a.or i„ , an a good d„l ™ J jjo looked rougher, unkept, less attrac tive, and I realized why: I ,nwcr had seen him without his uniform. Perhaps you have happened tO' pass a big city hospital at the hour when the nurses are going off duty. Ihey come trooping out of the side door, a nice enough lot of women, but no different from the other thousands on the city streets. Are these the alert Angels of Mercy who, with their starched whiteness, their cocky little caps,, and their brisk movements, make such an alluring picture in the. wards ? Clothes do not make the man,”' says the proverb. But clothes do make the soldier, as every military man knows. It would be impossible to win a war without uniforms. And clothes do help to make the public official. David Lamson, in his dramatic book “We Who Are About to Die.” describes the court scene when sen tence of death was passed upon, him, and records his feeling^ of surprise that the whole tragic ac tion seemed so remote, so impres- discovered the reason. We have abandoned the fuss and furbelows; we force the unfortun ate Law to play its scenes in the barest of settings, in street clothes, without the makeup or costumes or lightmg necessary to the illusion. • . . The British, with a better feel- mg for art forms, dress their judges in silken robes and impressive wigs and insist upon the observance of lormahties,” We ought to dress our public of- dignity. A mayor T ^ mayor, as the Lord Mayor of London dies. Our mayors look just like ordinary men. (Copyright, K. F, S,) Lake Emory By LUTHER ANDERSON RIDGECREST CHURCH GROUNDS IMPROVED Grounds in front of church have been graded smoothed by the road forces, drive from the highway to church has been graded ,and faced with crushed stone. This il includes considerable space j parking. A num'ber of citia joined in the work, but credit j to the road forces for the nil portion. The Sunday school,throi The Press, wishes to express deep appreciation, collectively i individually, to the officials of State highway forces operatinj Macon county for this splei improvement to the church groffl D. Lee Crawford is superintenJ of the Sunday school. A Lesson In Salesmanship Assistant: “No madam, we haven’t had any for a long time.” -Manager (overhearing) ; “Oh, yes, we ave it madam: I -will send to he warehouse and have some send out for'lt'.’’ ' anything. As the lady went out laughing, she “What did Assistant : “She said, ‘We haven’t had any rain lately.’ ” Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stei left for Raleigh early Moi morning. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, of Otto, returned i them Tuesday, The elder Mr. Mr^ Stewart had been m M with their son, George, wno injured seriously in a ' dent some weeks ago, and v\ i now making good progress to* recovery, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sffiitk Mr. and Mrs. Crawford SrnitJ of Sylva, were visitors at the» of Gordon Smith Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. W, turned Thursday from a tnp Miami, Fla. Mrs. Frank Sellers went to lanta on a shopping Thursday. Mrs. Clyde Downs, who was ically ill, is reported to be m ing. . ,g Miss Mildred Moore is rew from a severe case of y Mr, and Mrs. Troy She W Rainbow Springs, were g , Mr. and Mrs. Buford Downs ■ day. Slightly . Young Doctor. } ■ -i made a mistake in fillm? ‘ certificate today.” ,),( Old Doctor: “How was Young Doctor: “I ® ^ jpace ly signed my name in for ‘cause of death. ^ And That’s That Benny Busted Now have refused to marry you’ll return my ring. Cinthy Clutts-Thats J . I refused. The jeweler » yesterday, . Quick heat is assured of vulcanizing patch by a fuse that is a match. ^ f(
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