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THE FRANKLIN TIMES A. r. JOHHSON, Kilter ma* H*aa*?r ; V ?+?: Oh Vear /.?.< XI? h t ?oath* 1M Six Mouth? .76 W*ur South? M Porelm Advertising R*prf??nUtlve THF. AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Cntered at the Poet Office at Louls * frnrg, N. C., aa second class matter. Senator Penrose died the past week. ? Is having quit? <t sensation In the Inuiii'iil "iivni ~nrr iliuilh nf rimu Uton. The new Are engine purchased by LoulBburg is quite a nice piece of ma ohlnory nnrt hna possibly all Wtd> "SaV ed its cost many times in the incen diary flres this week. THOMAS WALTER BICKETT. The-citizene of Loulsburg were deep ly shocked on Wednesday of last week ?when the news of the death of Hon. erdR of North Carolina, and a former citizen of Louisburg, was received from Raleigh, where he breathed his last at his home there. He was held In the highest esteem by all who knew lim for his actual worth to his country and humanity. He was one of the few men who possessed broad and gener ous ideas of right and had a heart big enough and a courage strong enotigh to fight for them. Governor Bickett will be greatly ?N-v-nh ollnlans whose position ill life caused them to seek the counsel and assist- I ance of a friend who could see their j troubles and was willing to contribute to their relief. As a husband and father he was an example that made home worthy of the sacred name and ?1 way a reingnlzeri his debt to his Mak er in his daily life. Not only in Louis burg and Franklin County was his ?worth appreciated. But the whole State and many portions e- the Union realize the loss in bis death, and join his^home town in the deepest sorrow ?r. <?;. l.^-nnirnrt fnreily A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN'ACT TO SUBMIT TO A TOTE THE QUESTION OF SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Car ollna do enact: Section 1. "That at the next gener al election to be held In the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty two there shall be submitted to the voters of Franklin County the ques-1 tlon "Shall the Officers or Franklin County continue upon Salaries or shall they be put upon a fee basis." At the said election each Toter who shall favor compensating the officers of Franklin County with salaries In accordance with the present provis ion? of law shall vote a ballot da~ ?which SBalfUe written or printed the ?words "For Salaries"; and each voter who shall favor the abontlon of said salary and sthe placing of the County officers of Franklin County oh a fee basis shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words "Against Salaries." The said election shall be hyd at the same time that the general election is held In the year One Thoun?nd Nine Hundred and TTwenty-twjf and shall be held and Under laws applying to gen ?ami elect iona. Section t. That If a majority of the vote? cast In Mid election shall be "For Salaries" then the existent provisions of law relating to the com pensation if the officers of Franklin County and their deputies shall re main In force and effect. But If a majority of the rotes cast In said elec tion shall be "A(tainst Salaries" then the salaries of said officers of Frank lin County" and their deputies shall be abolished Xrom and after the first Monday 111 December One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-two. Chap ter Fprty-tvePpbllc Local laws 1M1, Chapter SI* TTundrod and Ninety- one Pnbllc Lotfcl Laws 1*18 snd Acts ?mends tor^ thereto shall ne no ?? ?r In fore* and effect and "ie officers of Franklin County and their deputies .?hall reoelre their compensation from i In accordance with the provisions Ijwr. ? - ? ' Section I. That this Act shall be il foroe from Bad after Its rail ?catkin. U WILS01T WIHB SUIT. Wilson won the nit oi away by the SerrtM I ere to the one bold imeky i lucky nam Thomas Walter Bickett Record of his Service By FRANK S*FTHUBST Thomas Walter Bickett w*a born Id Monroe, February 28, 1869, the son of Thomas W. and Mary A. Bickett. Having received his ?any training In the Monroe High School, ne began his Studies at Wake Forest uotitge In 1886 leaving that institution with an A. B. degree in 1890. and aq unusual record as a college leader and debater, popu lar and able. For two years thereafter, the future War Governor of North Carolina tau ght school in Wmston-dalem. going to the University of North Carolina from Winston-Salem in 1892 to study law after preparation in the office of his uncle, D. A. Covington. It was In Ifi'H (hit he rnr?iv?*d lironao and hrst began the practice of la*1 in Wun- ? loe. put his practice in his home town JR^as^short. After six months I | hi rviuuviNl 10 uanoury'ifnere he prac-1 ticed for a year, going: from there to I louisburg in 1S95. In Louisburg he was married to Miss PKnnie Yarbor ough on iloiemb^r 28, 189S and U was ' while he was engaged in practicing law there that he began that active 1-articipation on State affairs that rea-' ched its climax in his election and four i years of service as Governor of Nortfc-. Caroltna. In Loufshurg. he was senior member of the firm of Bickett, White & Ala- j lone ana a prominent figure ?n the pol- i itics of the county and ^tate, Tn 1907,; 1 e represented his county in the low er Hnuse ot the General Assembly and in 190S was nominated ana elected Attorney General of North Carolina, i His first nomination t<5 State office ; w?s in the 190$ democratic Conveu-1 ! rfoif in Charlotte. Governor?Bickett. eveuMhen known for his rich humor, and his effective- oratory made the. speech putting in nomination Ashley Home for the Democratic Guberna torial nomination. Home was de flated but Bickett stepped to the iirout as one of the outstanding State figures and in -the same- vonvehtion was nominated Attorney General. Not Sudden Leap It was not a_sudden leap into proGL Ti.fiif*. 111? lift in been cue of steady growth In which he established himself as a reader at the bar. a splendid advocate-, a wise coun- ? sellor and a resourceful friend. His election as a member of the legisla-. ture in 1907, the first time ne had al lowed his name to be u?;? ror public ; Cilice had been followed by sixty.days of .distinguished service in which be i. thered and fought for measures .to., regulate lobbying, to give the State an I c.ual number of challenges with the defendant, to allow the draving of a jury from another i-tm?ty where there ? would be trouble in getting a. jury. As on active member ot the ruuimittee on i education, Le "worked for the estab lishment of the East Carolina Teach ror?' Training School wtana the bill ap piopriating $500.000 for the purchase of land and the construction of neces- ; sary buildings to care Tor atl of the in sane, epyleptics and dangerous idiots was drawn by him and bore his name. 1 ?3o H Was that ho carried -grlt h him, into the office of Attorney Oeneral in 11*09 a nne legal and legislative exper ience. It was the beginning of eight years of training for the ^umrnorship. Here, he came into close and intimate touch with all State departments. He learned their limitations, understood their needs, interpreted the laws gov- | eming them. On all s:des, his com mon sense, breadth of understanding' and ready sympathies witn any move ment for the promotion of the good of the people brought to him a tremen dous reaction -of friendship, and ap preciation. As Attorney General, he was more j than a prosecutor of State cases. Re peatedly. his interpretasron of the law ^as embodied in Supreme Court opin ions, and In no case was he wanting in that sound common sense that found its expression in illuminatfhg reference or pointed application. Reform Kederal TrflniU Reform the Supreme Court of the I'nited States, he appeared in notable cases, prominent among them being the "Red C. Oil Case" m tne summer of 1911 when he made wtiaz was char acterized as one of the three beet speeches heard by that court in twen ty year3, and the Tennessee-North Car olina Boundary case which was de cided In faror of No?*th Carolina. In the case which went to tne Supreme [Com t InTolrtng repudiated X<trth Car oltna Carpet ha K bonds which found their way Into the possession of Cuba, Attorney General Bickeu prepared a brief which. It ts believed, for all time mswers the question or ihe validity of these vitiated obligations. Before he appeared before the United State? Court with Bis argument, the action was withdrawn end the stato waa giv en assurances that the attitude of the I State would be respected by Cuba. In addition, he was an able advocate for North Carolina Interests In freight rate cases before the Interstate Com merce for shippers and receivers of freight. No less valuable were his service? as counsel.in the ttrree months hearing before the Justice Freight Rate Commission In 1H4 oat of which came a settlement highly satisfactory to the people of the State. It la a notable fact that the State of North Carolina was victorious in ev ery esse In which Blckett aa attorney general appeared before a federal tribunal. It waa daring these <*gwt years he waa called upon to speak in virtually every county In the 8tate. Conven tions. school rallies, commencements, fraternal gatherings, good roads as semblages ^11 of them sought hlrn. Id tact, some of his political opponents made frequently the admiasion that ha could not ha beaten tor office, be caaae be had spoken In every school district la North Carolina. Of course, waa exaggeration hat Ma wide ac his thorough appreciation I of the conditions of life In all parts of I North Carolina, and his ready sympa thies with the problems o* folks, every Governorship from the day. he an nounced his candidacy. i It was s stiff fight. E. L. Da ught ridge was his Democratic opponeni 4?= the primary. But Bickett won by a -handsome plurality. In the election I that followed, he conducted his own I kind of campaign, defeating Frank Linney after s canvass of tne 3r?te that for cleanness and high stciulard ? of political appeal had not omq assur ed in the State. ? His StitfKeit ef Polk-j When he took over the reins of State government in 1909, he outline! his "imriHinul pullMrnl attlturir rn npme of I his friends in this statement: ?"Am inny an 1 am Governor of Noith [Carolina. I am going to be Governor. I am not going to look over tha fencc iOr through the crack." "When it is over," he added some time when friends talked to uim about candidacy for other offices. "I'm go ing back to practice law, to raise ros ?es and tomatoes. His inaugural addiess was a pro TFormrement of a program most of which he saw written into law in his tW r.fnpmi Assembly, richly supple mented ia later legislative enactment*, i "I have no genius for destruction," ho declared in the opening words of his inaugural. Hundreds of times during his administration the thought crept out in his utterances. I "For four years." he went, on laying down the general platform of his ad ministration. "I want capital and labor, learning and art, and the life and letter of the law to be devoted -to making every acre and every stream every human and every mechauicnl unit in the commonwealth be and do its level best." "The first and dearest work of th's ^administration." he proclaimed, "will be a supreme effort to translate the tenants of the State into landlords. Here and now, in the presenco of God and these witnesses. I consecrate my self tmti till tile-power and prestige of. My to ilily eiiaeavui. I shait: neither rest nor permit the State to rest until every honest, industrious HTT'l fruKul mail wl a decent chance to own it. s His Own Valuation Four years later?on Thursday, Jan uary <?,: -1921. ?ta. be exaui^-wheu h? stood before the joint session of ; he 'House and the Senate to de iver his far^v.c.! message, he gave an account of hi* stewardship. L_ "The sole rlaim that 1 rr?*fca fnr my. self and the woman who has walked and worked by my side," said he. "is that in peace and in war we nave dili as a lever to litt the State to higher levels and as a light to lend the, peo ple into more excellent ways." j It was then that he placed his own valuation upon the achievements of the administration. It waa not reval uation, the earnest endeavor to make ilit? tax Wuks speak tlie ti mil, not the strengthening of the public health I work, not the extension of education through the six months school, not the inauguration of a Statewide system of highways, not the reform in prison conditions and in the treatment of prisoners, not the improvement of ru ral living conditions, not tne endeav or to maintain Just relations between capital and labor, not the promotion of ' more friendly relations between the | races?it was none of these things i that he stressed. "I shall carry with me from the of? fice many sweet and glorious memo . ries, but the one memory tnat will for ever outshine them all is of the eighty ; thousand sons of Carolina who at their country's call marcned forth to fight and die tor God and humanity," he dechMd. "Lest we forget, I write tit down In-his last chapter and certify to all the generations that tjie one sta I pendous immortal thing connected with this administration is the Dart j North Carolina played In the World War. "Everything done In the fljeld of tax ation, of education, of agriculture, or mercy to the fallen, of the physical and social regeneration of our people ?all of It is but a snowflake upon the river In the gigantic and glorified pres ence of the eighty thousand men who plunged Into the blood red tide of war. "Of these eighty thousand men, two thousand three hundred and thirty eight went west?far beyond the sun set's radian^ glow. I shall always be grateful to remember that I was Home - time their captain and always their comrade In The Great Adventure; and my fervent prayer la- that when my summons comes and for me "The sunset gateq unbar "I shall see Them Waiting 8tand "And White against the evening star "The welcome of their beckoning hand"" I The title of the State's War Oorer-! nor was hi* right and his pride. And well he earned II. HI* Udnlithe iMiirl Bat aside from his war activities, his Influence upon legislation daring the' foar years of his administration was | tremendous. Daring this time, as be : stated hi his fiareweil message, be had ! ricommended forty-eight specific mM aures to the Oeneral Assembly and ' forty of the forty-eight were enacted into lav. | His flrst legislature saw sixteen of the outstanding recommendations of bis Inaugural written upon the statute books. The sixteen Included an act re-submitting the Constitutional amend ment calling for a six months public school term; an act submitting oon St national amendment exempting fr*m taxation notarand mortgages given for the purchase price of a home; tU? crop WE THANK YOU For the liberal patronage of our many friends and cus tomers for the past twelve months, which serves to as sure us of the fact that we have been the means of sav ing you-many dollars on your purchases. We will en ?, % large our efforts in the coming year to be of even a greater service to the people of Franklin County. C. C. HUDSON CO. (WIDM-AWAMB BJiKCHIJm LOtflSBUBG, - KOBTH CAHOLIWi ilen act designed to give the small far mer ar chance "to break out of Jail"; an act providing for the teaching of agriculture in every rural public school; an act to encourage installa tion of running water, electric lights and telephone in country homes and communities by furnishing expert ad vice free of cost; an act to make the school house the social center and to provide wholesome entertainment in cmintry school houses; an act provid ing for medical inspection of all school children, attending public schoolp; an act forbidding the sale Or advertise-^ ment for sale of medicines purporting] to cure incurable diseases; an act pro viding for the improvement of high ways by the expenditure of the auto mobile tax for this purpose; an act providing for absentee young; an act providing forythe appointment of state tax commission; an act consolidating the management of the three hospitals for the Insane; an act limiting chain gang sentence to five years; an act au thorizing the construction of sanitary quarters for convicts on the state farm; and the Turner for prison clar riflcation and compensation for pris oners which was in entire harmony vlth tho Governor's recommendation. Second Legislature His second legislative experience in 1919 was no less fruitful or measures designed tor the upbuilding of the State. Among the notable pieces of legislation which he endorsed and which became law were; Ratification of the Federal prohibi tion amendment; the adoption of the budget system; the revaluation act; the establishment of machinery for a six months' school term; provision for operation upon incurable lunatics and Imbeciles in 8tate Institutions and physical examination of school child ren; the establishment of sanitary privies; the provision for co-operating with the Federal government for the suppression of vice and the prevention |c: diseases Incident to vice; the estab [llshment of State warehouses; the es tnbliahment of a unified State and county ay ?tem of aoclal welfare work and the creation of Juvenile court?; and the requirement ?or county main tenance of road* constructed by bond iMue. The ipecial aeetlon of 1920, called by Governor BIckett to put the final touch?* on the State'* tax *y*tem un der revaluation and to act on the *uf frage amendment to the United State* constitution, stood by the Governor'* pledge In the first but In the second It would not follow blm In his change of | heart toward suffrage aa a thing in evitable. However, it did resubmit an Income tax amendment to the State constitution, made ? start toward the segregation of State and local taxation in accord with hi* Inaugural pronoun cement, pror<ded machinery for the in crease of teachers' salary tn accord ance with a new claasiBcatlon, author ized the appointment of a commission to prepare a workmen'? compensation act, and authorised anoiner commie To My Friends and Customers This is wishing you a Happv and Prosperous Year for 1922, and don't forget I am at the same j>Jace doing the best I can. So come to see me when in need of any thing in my line. Yours truly, J. W. PERRY NA9H STREET LOUISBURG. N. C. Blon to prepare plans (or the establish ment of a reformatory for delinquent negro boys, a sanatorium for the treat ment of negro tuberculars, a first class teacher, training school for negroes and safe and sanitary accommodations tor negroes on trains. These things he recommended or endorsed, and these things the special session pro vided for. (TO BE CONTINUED) When Jos run an ad In The TIMES we know that yea want a good ad, nicely displayed. That Is the only klad of aa ad we want to glre yon, bat II take? a time t? set good ads? so get oat of that habit of waiting un III the last day before rren thinking about yoar ad. K K THE FRANKLIN TIMES shoald be In roar home. If yoa ?*e not a sub scriber, be oae. Sea d In yoar tab scrtptlon and help as to boost for a better commanlty. FORECLOSURE SALE OF LAND By Tlrtuo of the power ?f sale con stained In that certain deed of trust dated Feb. 18, 1*19, and recorded In the Registry ot Franklin County In Book 224, page 193, made by R. Q. Person and wife-to Wm. Ht Ruff In, Trustee, default having been made In the payment of the debt thereby se cured, and demand for foreclosure hav lng been made by the holder of said debt upon said trustee, the undersign ed will, on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 1922, at about the hour of noon, at the Court House door In Ijoulsburg, N. C., of fer for sale at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the lands con veyed In said deed ot trust and there described as follows: A one-third undivided Interest, sub ject to the dower ot Mr*. A. Person, In the lands of the lata Wm. A. Par son, more particularly defined as fol lows: Bounded on the North by the lands of amis Ayscue and Oeo. and Wm. Ball, on the East by the lands of Ben Harris and Wm. T. and Mat thew M. Person, formerly the Bam J. l Person tract, on the Souta by the Carr | lands and on the West by the "Branch Tract" formerly owned by J . M. Al len now Camp Lumber Co. contain ing by estimations 786 acres, mor? or less. This Jan. 6, 1922. WM. H. RUTTIN, l-6-6t Trustee.
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