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dJt t ffltnnklxn ijjfem atrit (Dt t JitgWaaite Jttatimratt Altered at Post Office. Franklin. N. C.. m eeoood el am matter Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press Pkaakhn. N. O. Telephone M BOB 8. SLOAN . . . J. P. BRADY . . . BOLTS NOLL MB ALLEN 8ELER . . MBS. MARION BR Y SON ? P. CABB . . . : A. STARRETTK . . . Advertising Manager News Bdltor-Photogrsphsr Reporter Society Bdltcr Offloe Manager Operatcr-Mschlnlst . . Compositor E. WH1TT1NQTON DSHD H SUTTON . . . . Commercial Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ovtsxbs Macon Coowty Iivsxds Macom Oocwtt Tear 13.00 One Year . 1.78 81x Months . nths .... 1.00 Three Months ? Yean . as Years 325 7J50 Two Ysars Three Years l.TS 1.00 44 Political Note This calls attention to the long-standing policy of The Press to publish no political advertising in the last issue before an election. Since this year's general election falls on No vember 6, that rule means that next week's issue of the paper is the last for which political advertising will be accepted. The deadline for advertising is Tuesday noon. Three Cheers Three cheers for Mrs. Mary Schoenheit, of Cedar town, Missouri. We hope she stands her ground and wins her fight. For if somebody doesn't win some fights like this one, then may the Lord help us! Because if some of us don't win some fights like this one, then the Lord alone can help us. Mrs. Schoenheit, a former Illinois teacher, is edu cating her seven-year old daughter at home. Mis souri school authorities last week ordered her to send the child to the public school, immediately ; the alternative, she was warned, would be legal action to force compliance with the order. Mrs. Schoenheit says the child is doing "very well under my program, and she is not going to the public school." "Our public schools", she declared, "are anti quated institutions consuming our children's lives and our money, and giving us in return trained seals who balance balls on their noses and bark at the right signal". She added, significantly, that the public schools' "inhuman passion" is "for confor mity". While we had supposed conditions surely were not that bad either in Macon County or North Car olina, or possibly even in the nation, there can be no doubt that that is the trend in public education. And if it takes a bit of exaggeration on Mrs. Schoenheit's part to call attention to the trend, then more power to her to exaggerate! Come to think of it, maybe it isn't such an exag geration, after all. For hear the pontifical words of Raymond McDaniels, county superintendent of schools at Cedartown : . Mrs. Schoenheit, he says, may once have taught in Illinois, but she does not hold a Missouri teach ing certificate. Besides, she "does not qualify as an instructor capable of giving the child equal educa tion at home". Now just when and how was Mr. McDaniels given the wisdom from on high to determine when a mother is and is not capable of teaching her own child? What he really was saying, of course, has nothing to do with capability; what he really was saying is that the child belongs not to the parent, but to the state. Good, orthodox doctrine ? in Russia! About Time? It has now been sixty years since the Post Of fice Department started free delivery of mail in the rural areas. For more than fifty years, that service has been available to rural families in Macon Coun ty. But there still is no mail delivery in either Franklin or Highlands. For years now, we've been trying to do some thing for the under-developed nations and areas. Wdl, when are we going to get around to remedy ing the terrible conditions in the regions that suf fer from over-development? it's Your AMERICA1 k- jluttJl-L ? ,'Jhi.imitfl Wl| FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ficiTOR, JOHN PETER ZEN5ER, JAILED WITH OUT TRIAL TOR CRITICIZING THE ROVAL tfCVBSNCR OF NEW SORK.SPENT TEN MONTH? WHISPERING EDITORIALS J THROUGH THE KEVHOLE OP HO PRISON / POOR TO HIS WIFE, WHO CONTINUEO I SECRETLY TO PUOUSH HIS RAPE* / EACH WEEK* * THE MAN WHO DARED AnPREW HAMILTON. RISKING HI6 REPUTATION, D?PY1N? TWREAT5, CARED TO DEFENP ZENKER. He FORCED ATRIAL ANP WON ZENGER? FREEDOM. PATRIOTIC AMERICANS TOCAV CARRY ON IN THE SPIRIT OF ZEN6ER AN 0 HAMILTON FlWriHG TO UPHOLD THE INALIENABLE RltfUTS OP ALL AMERICANS. The Whole Job From now to November 6, we'll hear, over And over, the admonition : ''Do your duty as a citizen ? vote." That is as it should be; for it is, as the admon ishers insist, the duty of every citizen to vote. But if the mere casting of a ballot were a virtue, we'd enfranchise everybody, including children and lunatics. Every citizen should vote, true; but, first, every citizen should prepare himself to vote, honestly and intelligently. If you and I are really to do our duty as citi zens, in the coming general election, isn't it high time we smarted getting ready? First of all, we'll inform ourselves. Then we'll ask ourselves some questions ? questions such as these : Am I going to vote a straight party ticket? and if so, which party do I think will give the better ad ministration, national, state, and county, for all the people? Am I going to forget party and vote for the man? and if so, which of the men running for each office, national, state, and county, is better quali fied, by character, intelligence, and experience, to do a better job ? again, for all the people? And every time we answer one of those ques tions, we'll ask ourselves another: WHY do I think that? Finally, we'll ask ourselves : Am I fit to cast a ballot if I don't do my own thinking, and reach my own conclusions, and vote my own convictions? For even children and lunatics could follow the in structions of would-be party bosses and election booth "markers". Wo must avoid (International) violence by every means In our power. The only unity that would come from violence would be a unity of ashes and death. ? Sir Winston Churchill. Others' Opinions I (Opinion* ?pr?Mil In thit ipm an not nicmirtlf tbox I of Tb* Fm. editorials satoctod for nprlntln? bm in tee*. 1 in ehossn with a Tin to preaasttac a nurtstr of rt?wpolnt? Thmj an. that u. Just what ttw caption aaja ? onDQUr Opinions.) Common Now (Hoolyoke, Cola, Enterprise) There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted. Now It happens to everyone! Silent (?) Sufferers Santa Barbara, Calif., Dally News) Many people suffer In silence, having first made certain that everybody knows about It and is watching. One Thing Worse (Windsor, Colo., Beacon) There Is one thing that's worse than a tyrannical minority, and that's a tyrannical majority. It's almost Impossible to get rid of the latter, once It gains power. Democrats Started It , (Windsor, Colo., Beacon) Democrats can't complain very gracefully about the Injec tion of the worn-out Communist issue Into the present cam paign. The Democratic-controlled Eastland sub-committee had already set the pattern. Its Investigation of the so-called Communist ties of Jacob Javits, Republican candidate for governer of New York, was nothing but smear politics. STRICTLY 1 PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES It's the little things that count. I realize more each year how true that Is. And I was re minded of it, vividly, again only the other day. I did not see her as I walked along an Asheville street; but she saw and recognized me. A little diffidently, she touched my arm; then, as I turned, she smiled and spoke. I would not have remember ed her name; she thoughtfully told me, without waiting for my embarrassment at having to ask. But I remembered who she was, instantly. A tiny person when I knew her, the years seemed to have shriveled her, and the muscles around the eyes had sort of sagged, so that the lids revealed only a narrow slit. But through that slit the old fire still shone. When I had known her, long ago, she was an unpaid worker in some purely local social work organization, and she remem bered something I long since had forgotten; it seems I once wrt>te a newspaper article about her work. Apologetically, she explained why she had stopped me: she wanted to thank me for it . . . after all these years! I was touched, of course, as who isn't by such gratitude, for so little a thing, so long ago. ? * * We chatted a moment, and I asked her about the work. Her whole body became vibrant. It had not always been easy, I gathered. Her organization is not a part of the United Fund (but there was no trace of bit terness in her tone as she told me; it was evidently simply a fact to be accepted.) There must have been difficulties and disap pointments and frustrations, though she used none of those words. But both her posture and her tone suggested that those things were of no real consequence; it was the cause that counted. Then her words confirmed it; for, just before she turned the conversation to another sub ject, she brushed everything else aside with the matter-of fact comment: "Mr. Jones, the dream grows bigger." ? * * The dream grows bigger . . . For how many of as, I thought, does the dream not fade entirely. We lack the cour age and the faith (and blame lack of time) to hold on to any part of the dream. And for how few indeed does the dream grow bigger! ? ? * By now, the little old lady may have forgotten our chance meeting. I doubt if she remem bers a single word she said. And I am sure it never occurred to her she had said anything un usual. But I remember . . . the dream grows bigger . . . And, as I walked on up the street, a bit more slowly, I wondered if in those four words she hadn't compressed the sec ret of happiness and fulfillment that has escaped many a phil osopher writing a learned tome. I wondered, too. Should her secret become generally known, if it wouldn't create mass un employment . . . among the psychiatrists. , ? ? * The dream grows bigger . . . And it was she who thanked me! VIEWS i BOB SLOAN Despite the fact that since 1948, more than a million and a quarter dollars have been spent for. school buildings In Macon County we will soon be short classroom space. To meet this problem the ob vious answer is to build mora classrooms. However, If we haven't been able to keep pace with the building problem at our recent rate of building, maybe we will have to find another solution. As a means of getting more use from our present system, I wish people would consider the following suggestions: 1. The school buildings should be used twelve months out of the year the same as other business buildings. The school buildings of North Carolina are worth many millions of dollars. We, as stockholders In the busi ness of the public school sys tem of North Carolina, cannot afford to have these buildings Idle one-fourth of the time. Perhaps staggered terms could be worked out or special classes for the retarded and advanced students at this time. 2. I believe that by planning and study a more concentrated course of study could be out lined which would give as good or better basic education In a shorter time than is now being presented. Undoubtedly, I am old fashioned In this idea, but I. feel that the smatterings of the great variety of material now being offered the students oftentimes tend to confuse rather than educate the child. Extra curricula work, and op tional courses should be offered sparingly and with great care. If time devoted to these, were spent on basic courses perhaps we could offer two grades a year. This would do a great deal towards meeting the building shortage. The cost of time and space for each extra activity at a school should be considered; it seldom is. When it takes bad ly needed dollars away from basic education, can we afford it? Above all else I am convinc ed that we in some way must get more utilization from our present school plant rather than just expand it to meet the needs, i do not believe either North Carolina or .Macon Coun ty can afford the, cost indefi nitely at the present rate. LOLETA KENAN POWELL ... MOTHERS AREN'T REARING CHILDREN ANY MORE . . . In Smithfield Herald I have been wrong before, I shall be wrong again, and I may be wrong this time. But I do not believe I am. I very strongly believe that the young mothers of our country are pil ing up a tremendous debt for themselves and all the rest of their generation. They are not rearing their children. According to the Biblical con ception. marriage Is the only legal method of propagating the race of man. Not until there are children is any marriage or any home complete. The blush ing bride undertakes the moth er role at the altar. No one has yet found a mo ther-substitute. It is the moth er's duty ? and a pleasant and rewarding, though tedious, task ? to rear those children. Yet, statistical records last week showed more women working than ever before In our history. That many of these are moth ers of young children is in escapable. I know one woman In anoth er county who has allowed her self three to four weeks away from her teacher's desk to give birth to each of her four chil dren ? that's all. Three young mothers have themselves told me they'd go crazy with bore dom if they had to mother their children and not return to desk, machine, and office. Off they went to the glamor there. They Will In the end have smoother hands, fewer aching backs, and more Intercourse with the fas cinating people in this world. But they will miss the plea of little sticky fingers for "an other cookies" ? those Impish grins that exchange an ac knowledgment of love at un predictable moments during the day ? or the cherished "I love you, Mother" and the countless precious remarks that amaze the mother of children growing up. Who Is to walk hand In hand with your child to see nature's miracles ? a bud opening, a worm, a snail, a frog, a grass hopper? We have just conquer ed a new word at our three year-old's house ? "praying mantis" ? so proudly told about with eyes that stretch with wonder. Who Is to give your child those spontaneous hugs he craves to be reassured you love him ? who but you, working mother? Who, also, is to treas ure up these delightful new ex pressions and experiences to Share with Daddy, who must be away? Admittedly, women can't work and pay someone to keep their children fabulous prices. Most of those ? not all, but most ? available are Negroes. Yet I have heard many mothers out spoken championing the Pear sail Amendment which they felt, would keep from happen ing In their school the very same thing they are bringing each day in their home. Really, the home situation Is more se rious because it Involves chil dren in their more formative pre-school years. But the race of the keeper matters not. Last week you may have read of one of Franklin D. Roose velt's sons who declared he was denied security in childhood be cause he saw so little of his parents but was always shifted to nurse or governess. It hap pens in families of every social level. As I see It, we had best value God's gift of children as the supreme gift they are. As such, they rate more attention than do new cars, fine houses, wear ing finery, and the satisfaction of some childish whim carried over into adulthood. There is no role more honorable than motherhood. Far fewer of our mothers actually must forsake it than do. I know. I left our first daugh ter. Though much more fortun ate than most in keepers for her, I denied her, my husband, and myself, much pleasure. I could leave now. Who could use $300 a month more easily But there's something here worth lmmeasureably more ? a son and a daughter. Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The new bell for the court house was hung in the belfry last Friday and it now sounds the hours of the day and night In a clear, ringing tone. It weighs 575 pounds and cost $170. Drawings and plans for the new bank building have been received and steps will be taken to get the building under way as soon as possible. A telephone message from Smith's Bridge Informs The Press that the residence of Mr. Thos. Liner, near Otto, was de stroyed by fire Sunday after noon. 25 YEARS AGO The Nantahala Creamery Co. won first place in the creamery butter contest at the State Fair. They took second prize last year and first the year before. Mr. Louis Edwards gave an open square dance Saturday night on the floor of the new building he is erecting on Main Street for his woodworking shop.? Highlands item. 10 YEARS AGO Due to the difficulty of ob taining materials, the Van Raalte Company has decided to use such materials as now are available to complete at once a section of its East Franklin plant and thus get operations under way. The section to be finished will employ about 70 persons, chiefly women. Approximately 200 people at tended the Harvest Festival and all-day singing at the Highlands Baptist Church Sunday.? High lands item. Sgt. Richard C. (Dick) Angel has returned to the National Airport at Washington, D. C., after spending a 15-day fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Angel. He hopes to be released from service soon.
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