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e franklin |k:e*s RIti> ?Jt* 3Ii0hlaai? ^aranimt i Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LXIV Number 42 WEIMAR JONES Editor BOB S. SLOAN Business Manager Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. Telephone No. 24 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year. .... Six Months Three Months ? Single Copy. Obituary notjces, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked adv." in compli ance with the postal requirements. $2.00 $1.25 .75 .06 Try Again, Mr. Allen "117RITING about politics in Ohio, Robert Allen, Washington columnist, the other day made a remark that typifies the thinking of a great many persons who call themselves liberals. Referring to the Ohio congressional races, in one of which Rep. Mike Kirwan is the Democratic nominee, Mr. Allen said : "Kirwan, running for his seventh consecutive term, is a militant liberal". And then Columnist Allen explained : "He has a 100 per cept pro-labor and pro-admin istration voting record." So a 1950 liberal is one who invariably favors labor-sponsored measures and the Truman pro gram? And liberalism is a mere matter of group and party loyalty? We wonder . . . What is liberalism, any way? Isn't it a deep and burning conviction that men should be free? And isn't a liberal one who consistently favors the great est freedom, for the greatest number? And can a genuine liberal confine his efforts to measures in behalf of a single group, or his loyalties to a single party? Liberalism seeks freedom, and freedom for all. And a true liberal easily may be found opposing, today, the ex'treme application of the very program he favored and called "liberal", yesterday. For not infrequently what started out as a liberal program develops into one that pinches freedom's toes. That is why a genuine liberal appears, politically, so un stable, and why liberal parties usually are so short lived. Your 100 per cent liberal could never support all the measures advocated by a single economic group, because some of those measures are sure to inter fere with somebody else's freedom. And your 100 per cent liberal could never vote 100 per cent with any party, because all parties ultimately tend to subvert freedom to party advantage. An honest liberal's devotion is to all the people, and his loyalty is to freedom, for all. With Coupons, Too "And now for a word from our sponsor." Well,v that "a word" is the trouble of it all. For, true to form, five minutes and two thousand words later those syrup-voiced announcers are just beginning to warm up. It's no wonder that it is a world for neurotics, and the cause lies with that "a word" . . . Individ uals are no longer individuals, they are slaves to the radio commercial. Announcers' words seer th?ir souls and pocketbooks, taunting, even forcing them to buy the sponsor's .product. Fear enters into it, too. "If you don't use it" your neighbors will laugh Up their sleeves, dogs will shun you, you will be ostracized by all . . . Yes, an outcast in the modern world. "Mothers ! Attention ! Think of your child's health . . . are you thinking?' Good . . . Imagine little Rollo, emaciated, a shell of his former self, only because you, mothers, refused to feed him Ran cid Reubin's Red Rhubarb, the only vegetable in the world with a built-in automatic swallower for reluc tant children." That's the way they usually go. Mother just won't look in proper form unless she wears one of Gruesome Grieselda's Glamor Girdles, and Junior Ls shunned, or will be shunned, by the girls because, preserving some of his individuality, he downright ^ refuses to us? that sensational new underarm de "o3^a??ri**^or men, that counteracts that "fresh dainty" odor of ordinary deodorants, and replaces it with that "manly" smell. And Father? Why, he. just wouldn't be able to go to work in the morning unless* he devoured a bowl of that delicious Cre&m of Sawdust. Without it, the announcer warns, father may become irritable and grouchy, and might even blow the top of his head off or something. And Sis just must read Mouldy Malcomb's Movie Mag which gives the inside tips on how to snag a man, and what all of the male movie idols are do ing, and what all of them want in a woman, in ad dition to their just being a woman. And on and on it goes, every day something new has beett added or taken away ... ail other brands 1 of cigarettes except Old Btfotlace use alfalfa instead of tobacco -j.,. and be sure to get the genuine article . . . the original wrapped in a circus tent with 1900 coupons glued to the back . . . Yies indeed, 'tis a world for the psychiatrists . . . < and no wotader ! He Deserves It Cynics among the newspaper fraternity in Ashe ville, a bit fed up with that city's emphasis on its ideal tourist weather, used to assert that the Ashe ville Weather Bureau had two places for its ther mometer ? just over the furnace, in winter, and under an electric fan, in summer. Nobody really believed that, of course, but it made a good news room gag. Now the Los Angeles Weather Bureau actually comes out with one that would make the Asheville storv, even if the letter were true, a piker by com parison. Admitting a 104-degree downtown temperature in Los Angeles one day last week, the Los Angeles Weatherman blames it all on Florida ? an unusual "six-dav flow of Florida air" and a "Florida sky pattern" are responsible, he asserts. That, we submit, is one tar the book. And we respectfully suggest to Californians that the Los Angeles Weatherman has won the right to election as an honorary life member of the Cali fornia Chamber of Commerce! Reminder T o Candidates ? The attention of party organizations and candi dates is called to the policy of The Press, under which this newspaper accepts no political advertis ing for the last issue before an election. Only two more issues of The Press will be pub- - lished prior to the general election November 7,*the issue of October 19, for which political advertising will be accepted, and that of October 26, which will carry no political advertising. Letters ? A NAME FOR OPERATION ROOM Editor, The Press and Maconian: It seems to me that it would be most fitting for the emerg ency operating room of the Highlands hospital to be dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Hays, a young surgeon who once did some splendid work in and around Hlgh!ands (Dr. Hays, by the way, was the husband of the late Mrs. Mable Hays, and Miss Eva Cleaveland's brother-in-law). Many times I have heard of an operation performed by this doctor, which I think is a good example of not only of his work, but of the work of all the doctors who have served in the past and are now serving Macon County. Work that only men of courage and resourcefulness can do. Work done by men who are free to follow their own initiative and who take more "second-mile" steps to relieve suffering humanity than any other group of men, Including the ministers of the gospel. This operation was a major operation and an emergency. It had to be done "then and there". The late Dr. Rideout, a'.so of Highlands and a sick man himself at the time, was drafted to administer the chloroform. Neighbors and members of the patient's family were detailed to hold the patient on the kitchen table, which had been placed near the room's one small win down. When the operation was well under way, members of the family, who were assisting, became hysterical and wanted to call it all off. They deserted, but the young doctor, just out of medical school, carried on under these conditions. The opera tion was entirely successful. CORA TALLEY. Route 2, Franklin, N. C. Others' Opinions HARSH OLD DAYS A quip in one of the current magazines was to the effect that at least "grandmother didn't have to defrost the old spring house." Grandfather didn't have to pay electric bills either, but somebody in the household had the "smelly" job of cleaning and filling the old oil lamps and keeping their wicks trimmed. When we speak of the "good old days" we are apt to recall the pleasant things they gave us and forget the unpleasant details and discomforts of life in the yester-year. ? Morganton News-Herald BUT WE WILL We hope that we shall not have carried on during world war two to see again the silly practices when air raid wardens were required to run about over inland towns and cities order ing lights out, nor do we want to see the blackouts in inland towns and cities. There was never any danger of enemy bomb ings or attacks on small inland towns the last war, towns in which there were located no war-producing plants. But we had the blackouts and all the emergency precautions, whereas if the enemy had chosen to bomb the vast expanses of the United States, he'd have had a heck of time pinpointing any certain spot unless mayhap some large war-producing center of vital rail head or large seaport? Asheboro Courier-Tribune. BY WAY OF CONTRAST A union representing 2400 employees of the John Wanamaker department store In New York, Is spending thousands of dollars to place newspaper advertising for the store, mailing 10,000 letters telling of the store's advantages, sponsoring an essay contest. All this for bettering economic conditions where they work. By furthering business they feel they are keeping jobs secure. It is a bright picture of labor and management and adds to our hope that cooperation between union members and the employer will find another "Wanamaker Plan." To keep the position, to keep wages up, both employer and employee must prosper. Another side of the picture comes with a speech by secretary treasurer of another union,, before a rally of leftist union lead ers. Hie pro-Communist union official said: "We say that any worker who sits down with employers to speed production Is merely working himself out of a job. And since when do we care about employers?" Who Is to gain, who Is to lose, who fol low the leaders? you know the reaction, tor past history has pointed ttu way.? McDowell Ntwi. OUR PiM O C RACY- by m* Noah wad a Word for it Wmsn Noah in itza, published thc must AMERICAN OtCTTONARY, HC OAV? POWER. AMD AUTHORITY TO A COMMON LAM*UA3r IN A COUNTRY WH09K /VOTLS CAME MM 4 *WVy LAMPS. ' . ' His lexicon was a source of education AMD A FORCE FOR NATIONAL UNITY. Noah VVS&3TE A.% work-anp that of other. scholars ano EDUCATORS INSPIRED SV AMERICAN IDEALS ? HAS SEEN fOTENT IN THE FUSION OF A4AMV RACES INTO A NATION THAT LCAKMS AND TEACHES /TS DEMOCRACY IN A COMMON TONGUE. ' MEN OF THE SOIL When looking at the realty wonderful farm products exhib ited at our recent Western North Carolina Pair I thought about all,the people who worked, most of them from sun up to sun down, to make the exhibits possible, the men of the soil. When we buy fruits and vegetables and farm products we merely take It tojc granted that these things are ready for our use. People In the city drink their milk, eat their eggs, bread and other products of the soil little thinking of the long hours and hard labor that was experienced to make it possible for them to enjoy these things. Mostly men of the soil are God fearing men. They live close to the world of nature. They live clean, healthy lives and are intelligent citizens. They keep well informed, now more than ever, through the radio and efficient distribution of news and reading matter. The late Will Rogers said that when he lec tured In the city his jokes which were mostly about public men and current events would often fall dead but when he toM the same jokes out in "the sticks" he always got a laugh, the people knew what he was talking about and appreciated his wit. They keep abreast of the problems that are uppermost in the world. They do their own thinking and have hours alone In the fields when they can digest what they have read and heard. They do not have the many things to distract them that city people have. ? Mrs. J. C. Sales ii Western North Carolina Tribune. 'WHAT HAST THOU . . .?' The rush to hoard commodities likely to become scarce in time ' of war too seldom extends to those treasures which "neither moth nor rust doth corrupt." II some measure of^the effort put into material preparedness were diverted into build ing up mental resources, mankind could become much surer of victory over the forces threatening national and individual security and world civilization. Once in a while evidence of genuine civilization comes to light. The truly civilized store up the kind of rations which no foe can confiscate. The Belgian physicist Cosyns, remem bered for his balloon exploration of the stratosphere with Pro fessor Picard, furnishes the inspiring example. During World II he was sentenced to death by the Gestapo, and while awaiting execution was confined for a whole "year in a completely dark cell. His sentence was, it appears, commuted to a term at Belsen, which he survived. Lt. Col. Vladimir Peniakoff, writing in a recent issue of the English magazine Time and Tide, quotes Cosyns as saying, apropos of the solitary confinement: "For 12 months I found I had enough material within jne to keep my mind busy and productive. It was not an unfruitful time, nor an unhappy one. Toward the end, however, I began to feel the need of a reference library." How many of us are storing up "enough material" to keep us "busy and productive" through a year's investigation of our thoughts? Or to meet even the normal day-by-day demands of the fight for individual freedom and world peace? Or to state the question as the individual must put It to himself: "Am I?" ? Christian Science Monitor. ADOPTS 77 CHILDREN The Rev. John Vogel of Corbin, Ky., Is taking a cue from Tommy Tucker to help support his 77 children. They're his foster children, all young orphans of foundlings from the Kentucky mountain regions near Corbin that he and his wife have officially adopted as their own. Mr. Vogel, his wife and daughter, brought eight of the girls up from Corbin to sing as a choir at churches in Orand Rapids, Mich., and incidentally, to obtain free will collections that will help support the family he acquired quite by accident. It started 11 years ago while Mr. Vogel was preaching to his backwoods congregation. A postcard plea from a father asking the pastor to take care of his illegitimate son resulted in the Vogels' first foster child. The word spread through the hills and soon he had 11 youngsters in his tiny mountain cabin. So he put a one-dollar down payment on a nine-acre tract of land, 14 miles by mule train in the mountains from Corbin. "prayed to God" and went to work. Friendly mountaineers lent a helping hand to build cozy cabins to serve as dormitories, dining room, kitchen, and class rooms. They were paid tn used clothing, contributed from Illi nois relatives and fellow classmates at the Moody Bible Insti tute. Any foster son or daughter can leave Vogel's Galilean Chil dren's Home at the age of 18, but to date only two boys have left. Two of the girls have Joined "the staff" as teachers and are helping care for the younger children. Besides regular schooling, the children get "on-the-job" training in such fields as gardening, sewing, and manual training. Mr. Vogel stopped off in Grand Rapids because he and hla wife met while students at Calvin College there and because there are a lot of places to sing. But he wanted the reporter to get one thing clear. "None of the children are available for adoption to outsider!. We're a family? not temporary resident* of an Institution." ?Religious News tenrtoe. LEGAL ADVERTISING NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY Under and by virtue of the power of sale vested in the undersigned trustee by deed of trust executed by Herman Evans and wife Ava Love Evans, dated October 27, 1948, and recorded In the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, in Book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust No. 42, page 367, said deed of trust having been executed to secure certain indebtedness therein set forth, and default In the payment of said Indebtedness having been made, I will, on Monday, the 30th day of October, 1950, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Court house door in Franklin, North Carolina, sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described land: In Franklin Township, Ma con County, N. C., BEGIN NING at a stake in George Guest's line; runs Northeast with George Guest's line, 100 feet to Clint Led-'ord's corn er; thence North with Clint Ledford's line 310 feet to a stake, Clint Ledford's and Walt Prater's corner; thence West 100 feet to a stake; thence Southwest to the BE GINNING, containing one half acre, more or less. Also the right of way de scribed in a deed from Charles S. Love and wifa Julia Love, to Avia Love Evans, said deed bearing date of 27 October, 1948. This the 27th day of Sep tember, 1950. GILMER A. JONES, Trustee 05 ? 4tc ? 026 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of Estena O. Bidwell, .deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this Is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 8th day of September, 1951, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This 8th day of September, 1950. W. N. SLOAN, Executor S14 ? 6tp ? 019 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator C. T. A. of W. J. West, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned on or before the 20 day of Sep tember, 1951, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recov ery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make imme diate settlement. This 20 day of September, 1950. EMILY WEST, Administrator, C.TA. S21 ? 4tc ? 026 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of E. C. Wood, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 11th day of September, 1951, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This 11th day of September, 1950. H. S. TAT .LEY, Administrator. S14 ? 6tp ? 019 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of M. J. Talley, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 12th day of September, 1951, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make Immediate settle ment. This 12th day of September, 1950. HERMAN L. TALLEY, Executor S14 ? 6tp ? 019 IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear husband and father, James T. Vinson, Sr., who departed this, life two years ago, October 8, 1948: Our Hearts are filled with sor row, Our Eyes are filled with tears, God only knows how much we miss you, At the end of Two Long Years. ?Wife, Daughters, Sons. TAXI and Trucking Scrrice L. B. Roper Plxw No. 232
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