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PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONJAN THURSDAY, JAN. 137 Sits rattiditt: lctzs Sta Mixdilnxxbs Mtttmximx V&'s On Wis Way by A. B. CHAPIN Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press . . -At Franklin, North Carolina , 7 . t .j.', '' Telephone No. 24 ' ' VOL. HI Number 1 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON.. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office. FrnnWlin N P! ne cprnnH rA mttr :. . . I ' ' : J'"' SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year. $1.50 Six Months ...71... 75 Eight Months ............. ....... ,'..'$1.00 Single Copy .05 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 tight to reject letters which are too long, are of small general interest or which would violate the sensibilities of our readers. Our Oceans and Our Navy IN 1922 delegates from the principal nations of , the worliJ met in Washington and agreed "to limit their navies until January 1, 1937. Again, in 1936, the United States, France and Great Britain signed a naval treaty limiting the size of guns on naval vessels to 14-inch caliber. That treaty also expired on January 1. Now the great sea-powers are again engaged in a n.c iui uavui :upci iui uy. japan is starling to build 38 naval craft, four of them huge battleships with 16-inch guns. The United States has 83 new naval craft planned, two of them big battleships with 16-inch guns. Great Britain's new navy pro gram contemplates 99 new ships, Italy is planning 66, France 43 and Germany 39. 7, Someone once defined the word "peace" as mean ing "the interval between wars," and that seems to v fit present conditions. XT 1 -..il a ' .t . . . xavai autnonues in tnis country are urging an even greater and faster program of warship . con struction. Ever since the Panama Canal was open ed we have been on a "one-navy" basis, because our ships can be moved so quickly from one coast to the other. Now there are beginning to be doubts as to whether that is a safe policy. ; The recent earthquake in Central America was much too close to Panama to be pleasant. All of that region is volcanic, and it would not take much t of a 'quake to block the Canal. Our navy, which is mostly in the Pacific, based on San Diego, would have to steam around South America to get into the Atlantic in a hurry if the canal were chok ed up. Enough more ships to provide two navies, across Nicaragua, are what the big navy people are now calling for. Whatever the cost, such a program would be cheaper than war. Selected. This Cockeyed World THE people of Germany have been put on short ' rations because of the shortage of Germany's 1936; wheat crop. American farmers have sowed the largest acre- fc,v- ,v y iu vviiiii wiicat, Willi d JJlUSpctl VI a bumper crop of 600 million bushels or more. Un fortunately, however; Germany's international polit ical policies are such as to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the people of that great nation to obtain sufficient suTplies, of wheat from this coun try, or for the farmers surplus to them. The w-heat shortage in Germany is so acute that the sale of fresh bread has been prohibited by the government. Bread must be at least one. day old. This is expected to reduce bread consumption, since people will not eat as much stale- bread as they would of fresh bread. Thus 60 million people are, made to suffer because their government seeks to be self-contained and rigidly restricts the importa tion of veven food supplies from other countries. It would be a different picture if Germany were "broke." But while its people are on short rations, the Hitler government goes ahead with prepara tions for war on a tremendous scale. This is -indeed a cockeyed .worlddin which we live. Selected- of America to sell their ! i i s yen- OUR PRAYERS ANSWERED A lady from Kansas sends a very personal question : "Have you," she asks, ever known of any instance of the efficiency of prayer ?" The answer is, Yes. r And this is the story. Years ago when Dr. William Doodell Frost left Oberlin College to take the presidency of the strug gling little college at Berea, Ken tucky, his friends thought he had made a mistake. The buildings were old and dilap idated. There were-plenty of debts, and no income. (In addition to his scholastic duties he was expected to beg forfundsJto meet expenses. Full of courage; he journeyed .up to Cincinnati and called upon the pastor .. of the leading Protestant Church. v ' . "Will you. invite someof the generous people of your city to a meeting and let me tell them about the needs of the mountains?" Frost asked. "Oh, no," replied the pastor. "I couldn't think of that?" "Will you let me preach in your pulpit bunday morning?" "No. We have a positive rule that the Sunday morning service is never to.be devoted to any charit able appeal." , Frost persisted. "Will you let me speak Sunday evening?" Again the preacher refused. "How about the Wednesday evening pVayer meet ing?" "No." ' "My brother, since you . can do nothing to help us, will you join me in prayer for your church and your ministry?" . The pastor - could not' refuse. Down on their knees they went together and Frost proceeded to send up to the Pearly Gates not only a prayer for the church but a most eloquent and 'moving pre sentation of the needs of the Ken tucky mountaineers and to the little college. When the prayer was finished the preacher's eyes were full. "You must come to my, church Sunday morning. "My people must hear you. EVERYBODY RULES , ANYBODY A man stopped me to', say that 1 o isj v r he had some important informa tion. "They are going to put the market up in the next few weeks," he said. "Who are they?" I asked him, He looked at me scornfullyXas though I ought to be ashamed $o confess such ignorance. "Why they," he answered, "are the big shots, the insiders, the international "bankers, the Interests." ' "Oh, I said, and thanked him and I went on my way. When I graduated from college I had a great deal of awe of the; Interests, f and at that period they were indeed pretty powerful. Im portant corporations were compara tively few. Their stock was con trolled by a compact group of men who, could often make or break the market.. ..... . ' B,ut times have changed. Corpora tions are enormous; shares 'are scattered among millions. They, the interests, aire not what they' used to be. - One time I served on a civic committee, most of whose members were bankers. The executive secre tary was- a bright young ,s college graduate. He said to me: "I don't have to worry; when this job is over these big bankers "wil take care of me." -'v Wtll, the' job was ': over, and I told him ; "You are going to have a great shock as tV the power of these men. They may control mil lions, but one thing they can't do is to get you a job. . V It turned out as I predicted. The young man finally secured a job, but not by any help of the bankers. In the last analysis, who are they? .'. V '': ''', I'll tell you. You and I are they. We run . things. A business may have millions of capital, big plants, and huge sales , forces. But if you and I do not like its product,' all these huge assets are merely lia bilities. (Copyright, K. F. S.) HOLLAND (PA) Dr. de Hass, University of Leyden,. succeeded in recoraing a temperature oniy one fifth thousandth of a degree above Absolute Zero minus 459.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Lake Emory RAINFALL FOR NEW YEAR OFF WITH GOOD START Uecembcr raintail amountea. to 7.30 inches. The year 1936 totaled ,40 inches. Comparative figures i io"r Franklin are -not available, but avqragoA jpi: ine vjsi t years. , Franklinainfall. for 1934 was 49.32 inchis; for 1935, 39.32 inches. Thpz&d 1937 is off to a good stiQtwith 3j08 inches for the first three days. Records are being kept at several points in Macon county. If these records were available for publica tion in The Press each month, it would not only prove, interesting, it. would be surprising to see the dif ference in rainfall at places only a . few miles apart. Miss Pauline Reid has retiirnjd to the Dorland Bell School at Hfct Springs, after spending the holi days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Reid. Pauline has a rating ot "A on every subject so far this year her. usual record. j. idun. Junes, vv curuiicc ai Barnardsville, has returned to camp after a few days at home. Everett Sanders, another of our CCC boys who , was located near Fort Bragg, is at home and will health. s . '. Mr. and ' Mrs. " Virgil Ford, of Georgia, have been visiting at the ,, home of Mr;, and Mrs, Z. D. Buc hanan.: ' ,. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gibson, of vumt wtc unu4y quests at me nonie oi - ivir. ana Mrs. Clyde . powns. " , ' . 1 Mr. .and Mrs. Victor Shytle have returned home after spending sev , eral months at Marion, N. C. Warren Guest spent the holidays with his parents here, and has re turned to Gastpnia. ' ."'.' '.. Mr. and Mrs, Wade Buchanan have returned to their home in Atlanta' after a brief visit with the former's father, "Uncle" Ben Buc hanan. V , J. R. Berry, miller and miner, seems likely to become the champ- 1A11 h rrr rrrnurAf Ma hia m..1..i. ' hogs to the amount of over $300 this season. Mr. Berry deals in teeds; out finds it much niore prof itable to turn the feed into, porl at present prices. ' ' DALLAS, TEXAS (PA)-Theff price of imported Chinese tung oiM how being produced in six south em states, fluctuated from fivfe cents a pound in 1933 to more than 40 cents in 1935. , ; i'I
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