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PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN l-'REbS THURSDAY, DECEMOCR 20,. 1327 The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) One Year -$J-50 . Eight Months l.W Six Months . . 75 Three Months 40 Single Copies i 5c ADVERTISING RATES Very reasonable, and will1 be made known upon request. ' I We charge 5 cents, a line for Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Respect, and for no tices of entertainments where1 admission, is charged. Entered at the post-office at Franklin N. C, for transmission through the mails as second class matter. 1 Foreign Advertising Representative . THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THE FRANKLIN PRESS PLATFORM Extension of the sewer lines. Beautify the school grounds. Two hundred summer cottages. A sewage disposal plant. More official activity in the sale of sur plus power. The construction of business blocks. Plant trees along the State highways of the county. Make a white way of Main street. An excellent school library. Courteous treatment for visitors. Improvement of county roads connecting with State highways. A fish ladder at the municipal dam. Co-ooeration. vim, ' push, work-every thing for the eood of Franklin and Macon county f . . .i . i i j I New court house ana jau comDinea. rjff How About It? ,.' If all reports are to be believed a speeder last Friday was the cause of a wreck on Main street. Only luck prevented two or three by-standers from being killed or in jured. For years speeding on the streets of Franklin has been the usual order with little or no attempt to stop this dangerous practice. Let us hope that the chief of police meant what he said when he recently .announced that speeding ' must stop. Speed .limits are " pre scribed byy'state laws and the fact that. Frank lin ha9"-a police officer does not relieve the sheriff andhis deputiese from responsibility. Pave the hool house street. - 4- Others' Comments p-'i, ; NUGGET FROM GEORGIA Editor Tells of Remedy For Choking VERY OFTEN when a person gets choked and axloctor is not convenient they can be relieved by beating them in the back. And there are other ways. We once had an aunt who frequently got choked while eating. Worse after losing most of her teeth. Her husband relieved her by sticking the end -of a feather down her throat until it tickled her f and she caughed. When the two went off on ' a visit , the husband carried a bunch of wing feathers along. One .day upon being invited to a corn shucking and a play they lit in the wagon which had been sent for them, forgetting the bunch of feathers. While eat ing supper after the corn was shucked, the old lady , got choked. Her husband felt in his r pocket and realized what had been forgotten, yelled for some one to bring him 'a feather. One was soon in his hands. Then, a .lady took hold of ajjnt's.head holding it back like preparing fyf the extraction of a tooth. Uncle puMhe father in motion at the proper place, jhe Caughed, and a big dumpling tempered with chicken gravy flew out of her mouth, . clear across the room, hitting the strings of a fiddle which bad been tuned and laid on the bed to be started up for the dance a.s soon as supper Was over. Aunt wiped her tearful eyes . . dry, . soon quit , coughing and enjoyed herself sitting by the side qf her husband watching the young people dance. But there is still another way of relieving a choked person in 1 )ahlpebcsides pounding them in. the back r tickling their throat, by putting the sufferer in a car and dashing across the public square, or up or down a street after a rain and a freeze. It will make the dumplings fly Dahloncga (Ga.) Nugget. ' Pave the school house street. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT WISCONSIN and Minnesota have nearly as many dairy cows as all the Southern states combined. . Western North Carolina has nearly a hun dred days longer growing and grazing season than Wisconsin and Minnesota. North Carolina needs annually to meet home demands, 30,000,000 more pounds of butter, 11,000,000 more pounds of cheese, 10,000,000 more gallons fluid milk, and 6,000,000 gallons more ice cream over and above the state's , ability' to supply, ' . : Other nearby Southern states are also im- , S . porters of these, product.-; , in amazingly large quantities. Out, of 45 carloads of live poultry placed on the ' New- York market one day in November, only four cars , were from the South. , Okla homa supplied one of these and Tennessee the other three. ' ' - Any one of the several states of the North and Middle West supply the markets daily with two to three times as much poultry ' and eggs as all the'. Southern states combined. : Atlanta is a convenient 'near-by market for Western North Carolina products, and yet hundreds of. carloads ' of California eggs are .sold" in Atlanta! Most of these shipments come from sections far less fortunate in climate and soil resources than Western ; North Carolina, Jwhere the ' growing and grazing seasoiJ cxtenlls from the middle of April to. the middle, of December. Is. there need for a $250,000' fund to help . in the promotion . of , two or three major farm industries through combined production and marketing project ? Farmers Federation News. . v; . , r Pave -the school house street.- ' ANOTHER CONVERT TO CASH IN ADVANCE THE FRANKLIN PRESS has seen, a great light and it has illuminated what has been to all . the. newspapers of the state a very dark spot covering an extremely knotty prob lem. ' Here is what The Press has to say about it: . "It is mighty hard to collect for legal ad vertising after the ads are run. Conse quently, after January 1st no legal adver tisements will be published without the cash in advance," ' ' T In taking this step The Press lines up with The Times-News and many of the best news papers of the state, - all of which belong to the class that refuses to handle fegal adver tising without cash in advance. Within a short time all the newspapers of North Caro lina will be on the cash-in-advance plan for legal advertising. No newsapper can afford to handle this class of advertising otherwise. '. Legal advertising is the most expensive and troublesome class of advertising placed in the nevvespapers. It cost more to handle than any other class of business. Few newspapers charge more than their commercial rates for legal ad vertising, and, many' newspapers have a legal rate which , is lower than the rates made on any other class of business. In view of these facts, the newspaper that extends credit on legal advertising, and waits for from six months to never to make collections, is en gaged in a losing business. Most newspapers that accept legal advertising on credit would be as well off if they never printed a line of that class of business. It , is encouraging to know that many of the leading newspapers of North Carolina arc demanding and receiving pay in advance for legal advertising. If this rule was made to apply to alf clases of business, it would save the newspapers large sums of money. It would reduce their volume of advertising; but a large volume-of business, much of which will never be paid for, is-ont worth much to a newspaper when it comes to meeting the payroll and other bills. Ilendcrsonvillc Times Pave the school house street. 1 Letters ALDERMAN SLOAN MAKES SUG GESTIONS Franklin, N. C, Dec. 26, 1927. Maj. S. A. Harris, Editor Franklin Press. J )ear Major: I was interested by the letter from Mr. E. Geo. Wurst in regard to the water problem, appearing in The Press of December 22. Mr. Wurst's interest in Our 'common pro'Llemi,"and his suggestion of a possible solution, show him to be the type of citizen which, if a lit tle more plentiful,, would prevent our being in the predicament, in regard to our water sup ply, in which we now find ourselves. However, without decrying Mr. Wurst's commendable attitude, I wish to point out two or three things which seem to make his plan impracticable. Mr. Wurst advocates, first, installing a pump and laying a water main for the purpose of . pumping river water, di rectly into our water mains in case of emer gency, such as a fire. The most important but not the only thing wrong, with this plan is that we could not fill our ' water pipes with unfiltercd, untreated river water without sub jecting ourselves, to the danger of an epidemic of typhoid fever. This is something which we, 'of course, cannot consider. Mr. Wurst has a plan, though, for"' avoiding this danger. He T advocates laying a separate system of water pipes all over town, and installing additional plumbing in all houses ; one system to carry well water for drinking, and the other, river water for all other purposes! He says, "Con nect all fire hydrant, toilets, lawn sprinkler to the river water main." Now the trouble with this plan is !;ut this. .Anyone who Will ascertain the cost; of labor and .materia!, and then go through the necessary exercise with a paper and pencil, can readily determine the fact that this duplicate .water system,-by the time it was extended to every toilet in town, would cost more than the recently proposed' bond i issue for water purposes. And,, of course, necessitating as.it would the tearing up jJf, all the streets in town, and , the installing of ad ditional water pipes in ail of the houses (to mention' only two of the numerous disad vantages), it would be' very much less satis factory. I .realize that I am offering only destructive1 criticism, but I believe that the town board has offered to the voters a good constructive plan for providing' sufficient water for the town's needs, and since they, in their om niscience, have seen fit to reject it, it may be some little, time before a suitable substitute .plan can be1 evolved. Of one' thing i am cer tain. I, for one,' will not be in favor of any makeshift plan 'which spends money merely to defer the time when a sptisiactory water sup ply will have to be provided. I consider such money thrown away... ' . After all, In this situation, as in all Others, we must admit the impracticability of trying to get something for nothing.- If we had de sired a satisfactory water supply,. wc could have 1 had it by paying for.it. Since we do' not wish to do this, the best alternative seems to be to do without it cheerfully until such time as, the view-point of the, people who do the voting is changed, either by the increasing ly urgent need of more water, or by their own increase in the knowledge of the steps necessary tp proper civic-'growth.' Very truly yours, , . W. N. SLOAN. Pave the school house street. MR. JAMISON MAKES SUGGESTIONS LET'S HEAR FROM OTHERS Franklin, N. C, December 22, 1927. Mr. S. A. Harris, Editor, Franklin Press. Dear Sir : .1 have just read in today's issue of The Press Mr. Wurst's letter in regard to a bet ter water supply for the town of Franklin. There is no' doubt that our town is badly in need of more water, . in fact most of us should feel thankful for the kind hand of Providence in preserving our properties which could be-destroyed by fire, because from the lack of sufficient water for the last several months it would have been impossible for our fire department to have gotten under control any fire that had made much progress in the first few minutes, and will continue this way until more water is had from some source. Mr. Wurst made some good suggestions, and should be commended for his thoughts in try'- ing to help us solve a very serious situation, and if more of our town people will give this matter a few hours' though and ex press their views through the columns of The Press as to the best method to get the most water at the least expense our town councihnen might from the different views ex pressed put together a plan that would meet the approval of enough voters to put over a reasonable bond jsstte. The' proposition of getting the most . water at the least expense should meet the approval of a majority in favor of a bond issue for more water, and judging the future from the past it appears to me that if by boreing another well and thorough-: ly over hauling both our present wells, would be by far the least expensive. The cost to bore and equip another well should not ex exceed 10 to 12 thousand dollars, and to put the old well down, say 200 feet deeper and equip with a new pump ought not to xcecd three thousand dollars, and to "blow" the new well, clean it out, and reinstall the present pump should not exceed one thousand dol lars," making " a total probable amount - of sixteen thousand dollars. Let's figure that the work can be done for fifteen thousand dollars, and that we ' could reasonably expect a flow of 300 gallons per minute from the three wells, and see what this would amount to at the end of ten years. We get, on an an average of 20 cents per thousand gallons of wafer sold. Suppose that we mark off 10 cents pere thousand gallons for up-kecp and operating expenses, what would the town realize from the sale of water over a period of ten years, at a nect of 10 cents per thousand ' operating each well an average of 10 hours daily?. At this rate the income would excetd more than four times the cost, and -the three wcllsV would liquidate the debt in less than three years. Besides when it became necessary the pumps could be operated up to 24 hours a day, which would more than take care of our needs, or at least do so during the ten years, and then let the people decide whether they want another well should the de mand for more water be as urgent as it now is, or abandon the .wells altogether. We can pump well water as cheap as water can be filtered from the river or nearly so, and with the source of supply that we already have it 'scents to me that the better plan would be to enlarge our present system of geetting 'more' water. . Our sewerage system should also be ex tended, and the town ought to estimate the probable cost of sewerage , needed to take care of people living on, streets without sewer age, and provide sufficient funds to finance thej cost of constructing a sewer on any street where a majority of the property own ers pectitioncd for the same to be done. As 1 understand it all improvements put .in by the town from now on will have to be done in accordance with a state statute regulating the manner by which such improvements can be made, and if a majority of the property owner's' living on any street offer to take care of two thirds the cott of building a sewer agethe town certainly ought to, comply with their, wishes, and I believe that if a 'sewerage, bond issue is put bctore the people- stating xactly how the money will be used, and what ft rdci- i the properly owners will have to do in ore to get the town's aid in constructing any proposed ' line, of sewerage, that a good ma jority can be had from the voters of the town, and, we should remember that people who have money to make improvements with are' more apt to build where they can get the advantage of accommodations expected by people wanting to live in town, and to be against this k'ind of a proposition would ruin our prospect of ever being anything else, but a little (very little) town, Respectfully, ' GROVER JAMISON. Pave the school house street. YOUNCE BELIEVES IN GAME PROTEC TION y j. B. Youncc, of Fossil, Oregon, writes the following letter commending game protection and makincr certain sueeestions for ammendiii!: the law: Fissil, Ore., Dec. 17, 1927.. Editor The Press: .''' ; Dear Sir: ''.' - I am inclosing check for another years-' subscription. I am glad your people arc be coming interested in the preservation of game, and have made a good start toward stocking up, undoubtedly your laws will have to be ammended considerably yet before they will meet all' requirements, but very likely the legislature had this in mind when they established, a game code. - Your . open season is too long and your Lbag limit too large. I came here from Iotla in 1904,. and had been on the ranches and range four years when I saw the first deer track. At that time the Oregon law on bag was three bucks and two docs, . and the season , aguust . 15 to October 31. That was not sufficient, and the law has since been changed to . bag 2 7 bucks with horns, but no buck in his first, and season. September 10 to October 20. The Oragon law has a considerable sting in it for instance to take a deer, out of seaeson the maximum penalty would be six months in jail, five hundred dollars fine, and two hun- . dred dollar damages for destruction of the state's property. It has been estimated that in some of the Oregon counties there ' arc sixty to one hundred thousand deer. . A closed season on elk has brought the herd up quite large -and' .well scattered. An; open Reason on them has been proposed fori wmcn inc. icmsiau i v. mav .vi .nitiv nu i . . . . r . . f.i-' best hunting states, and sportsmen from many other states hunt here. A closed season onu scarce game for a number of years is the only remedy. . Yours truly, J. B. YOUNCE;. Pave the school house street. Asheville, N. C.,- December 20, 1927. The Franklin Press, Franklin, N. C. Dear- Sirs We have received copy of your December 15th issue, and we note, with pleasure the prominent space, you gave to the opening of ' our, bulk plant and service station in Franklin. W'c are glad to be able to serve Franklin and Macon county in a more efficient man ner, which our new plant and service stations will encablc us to do, through our agei; Messrs. Conley. and Joincs. ) Yours very truly, r ' STANDARD OIL COMPANY, OF N. J W. A. GOODSON Ma Pave the school house street. Bon, Wash., Dec. 15, 1927. Editor Franklin Press, Franklin, N. C. Enclosed find post office money order to renew my subscription to your paper for one yeear. We have been away from Macon eight years, but still enjoy hearing from there and of the graet improvements Macon is making. Wishing success to all undertakings for the good of old Macon Sincerely, . ! - , REESE BIl-DLEY.
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