THE rttAtaOJN TIMES Issued Every Friday 215 Court St. 1 Telephone No. 283 A F. JOHNSON, : BAD IE JOHNSON, Aaaortate Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES o?t r?? $i.ao Months 1.00 tf oaths .78 Months JSO Foreign Adrertiaiag Repwwfnf Mtc AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION York City at the PMtaOce at Loalabarg, N. C. * ' . Talk Town politics aad get roar cb?icu to {or office. ' <.* Farm relief legislation la now occupying the Attention of Congress. Lets hope some real relief Jrill be, the result. Probably North Carolina coald eliminate the Beceasity of a sales tax by permitting the sale of beer, and taxing that. President Roosevelt signed the beer bill at 2 p. m. Wednesday, and the sale of beer will become legal after midnight, April Cth. If this will help relieve the unemployment condition and con tribute to breaking the depression it will be a blessing. The primary for the Town of Louisburg has been called (or April 2&th. It's up to the voters to get the persons they want as officials to become candidates in the primary. The primary is the place to settle your differences. It is the place that the majority of the voters are supposed to speak, and the majority should rule. When the United States Congress says 3.2 beer is not ' intoxicating and is therefore perm Usable under the 18th Amendment, and the United States Supreme Court upholds ttyt position, if U does in a suit that is promised, what will be North Carolina's position in . prosecuting a person for transporting a keg of beer from Virginia? Another tax payer comes up with a splendid suggestion to assist with the collection of tax without confiscating property. The suggestion is to provide law by which the tax collector will be required to attach the returns from property to satisfy taxes. This suggestion is made to take care of cases where property has an Income and the income is pledged to indebtedness. The law would require the income to be applied to taxes before being applied to indebtedness. The Times is Informed that Chapter 83 of the public laws of 1931 provides that a tax payer may ? pay the tax jpn any particular piece of property and have It segregated and released from tax lein for any tax due on any other property. The tax collector Is required to give receipt for and release such property when requested to do so by the tax payer. The only provision is the tax payer must pay his tax upon his personal property first. This meets the suggestion made by Otoe of Franklin's prominent citizens recently, and is a privilege not generally known. When generally understood, it will no doubt help the tax collections as many ? will pay on the Installment plan having each tract released as the taxes are paid. WHY ARTICLES ARE NOT PRINTED Many local news items are published In a very brief or general form, or left oat entirely because of the fact' that it U Impossible for the local paper representative to get the facta from the parties who have the Brit hand Information. It la often the case the Times representatives call for Infor mation of this kind only to be sent from one to another, finally ending up with no lnformrtion of value (Or a news story. Newspapers are very tealoua about getting in formation and writing their own article?. They are not satisfied with Information passed through a, the.' second 'trr third panties, and when received in auch manner is nsoally handled as of secondary Importance. Then there is 'the angle of correct ness and responsibility that, must also be consid ered. Different papers have different rules and methods of determining the Importance of arti cles. For instance a happening that the Franklin Times would give one-half to a column space the local dailies would possibly give only two to three Inches. The Importance being confined to local territory. Another thing papers are very partic ular about Is publishing articles that are written Identically the same. This Is seldom done II known before publication, and is usually stronglj guarded against. Even If articles are taken from other papers changes are made to make It appear as a different article or proper credit is given. lb* Ifciwi Is anxious to carry nsws Items aboul All the happening! Irt fLouisburg and Franklin County, but it would prefer its information belni give* voluntarily or upon solicitation to ita rep rsee nUtlrClitW Ike son? a ef Hftitep, la tha form of information from which km article can b. wrtueriiqlr ? COB Dieted. article. hat this la wanted btfan H Id given to other paper* tor pub lication. Being a local paper we feel wa are en titled to this privilege. Then after it haa been published elsewkeit It lan't aeWa here, , j Artlclea or Information not glVsn In person to the papers representative should hoar the signa ture of the wrlftr. so that the paper may have some aaannlnce ltd Ita genulqphess. Many artlclea are receive# which c&taln no information show ing who wrote them and are therefore thrown away and naMr.Jped. We prefer not doing this, but we hay a to )^tyt THE OOUlAi j| Jf tfc ? COMMISSIONERS' BlLL Repreaentatlve W. L. Lumpkin during hla weak end visit home called upon the editor of the Ilmt and ahowed petition ijfrUlnlng seventy-five I to one hundrM HUM ilfc^l^lsjhJpaM>g ?H the change In the law goTernlag the election of the members of Orf ioM of^fcdttnty 'Commissi on ers, by requiring them all to be elected every two years. These namee were mostly confined to resi dents of Louis^tsAr. Fraaklintoa and Youngsvllle. Also we werwtdl^ that the solicitor Stated (hat oat of the one hundred he called upon only one re fused to sign. This apparently looks like splendid Jastiflcation of tife acts of Mr.' Lumpki* In Intro ducing such a bill. He further stated he intro duced the bill making thp ffcpt chme tya> yeara ago without conaalting the people ahd in the face of the petition fait that fee probably went too far then. In another colulnn we are publishing a let ter from Mr. Lumpkin., .to Ike Franklin Times, setting forth his position.^ iVe are glad to know he has taken position not to apply the change to the preeent Board, thus eliminating most of the prejudicial angle*. . . ^ The Times recognizes Mr. Lumpkin'! position and understands his feelings In the matter to a large extent, and can sympathize with him in the position he occupies. Tet In considering all of the surrounding circumstances and influences we can't agree that this action is wise, morally or politically. . In the first place considering the question en tirely from a public interest standpoint, entirely divorced from the personnel of the Board, and ac cepting Mr. Lumpkin's riew that he was (responsi ble for the passage of the law alternating the election of the Commissioners, we recall the tact that many compliments were paid him for this action, practically everybody taking the view that it was a wise measure and will profit the County by not having .a complete new Board taking over the duties at any one time! ' The principle Is still admitted to be good business policy and J* In use by many psbUc and private units of interprlse. Now as to the loo# and surrounding influences. Several matters havf come before the present Board of County Covmlasloners that have caused strong lines and dogged tenacity. The elimina tion of the Home Demonstration Department, the cutting the salaries, the reduction In the cost of the Health Department, and the refusal to remove the Accountant, the refusal to engage special ap plicants for public payrolls, all came In for a cer tain amount of influence against those of the Board, who stood for these reductions. Calling back the primary campaign, and regardless of whether we agree with the acta and policies of the Board or not. It will be recalled that thd pres ent Board was elected on platforms calling for this kind of action, and that Mr. Boone led the ticket in number of rotes and Mr. Hudson defeat ed hia two opponenta by a good safe majority. It so happened that these two officials were elected for four years with the voten having full under standing of thia new feature. ' And it also happens that these two gentlemen together with Commis sioner Beddingfield have taken the le^l in- the catnpaign for retrenchment In County activities. Now the Times position was simply this. The voters elected who ' they wanted for terms Satisfactory' to them. If they had not wanted these gentlemen they would hare voted for others. To throw them out of office by legislative action la not fair. It U not Democratic. It la an exceed ingly bad policy. It (tan easily spread to legislat ing the Sheriff, Clerk of Coitrt or other* officers out of office If they Should happen not to satisfy a few. We contend that If a person elected to Office Is not fit or qualified to serve the full teem he is elected to, theft he should not 'Bw allowed to serve a shorter term but ahonld be relieved of his official duties by aa order ot Court. Further, the Time* has seen one of a number of counter petitions asking that the present law be not changed. This petition contained about (0 s names, and Included many names that were on the first petition. Judging from the present status It doesn't seent that there Is sSch an overwhelming demand for a change. On the contrary It seems thst s large number ot Franklin's citizens want to be fair to their officials whether theqe offlclals do exactly as they wish or not, snd to offer every ad vantage to the County In conserving Its business. The Times hopes Represent* tire Lumpkin will allow the law remain as It Is at present. Now Is the time to light up the candle ot Indus try and economy. He who will erentually win plays the game on I* HOMX DEMONSTRATION ? - SKpartmknt f ? Aaae Wmiim Prteet, Afettt ? Monday 17? YoungBTllle 4-H Club. Tiudu SI ? Gold Sand Wom an's Club. Wednesday S* ? Cedar Rock 4-H Clnb; Hickory Rock 4-H Club; Seven Path* 4-H Clnb. Thursday SO ? Pearces 4-H Club; Pearces Woman's Club. Friday 11 ? Popes Woman's Club. CBDAK BOCK WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY The Cedar Rock Baptist Church is Justly proud of its Woman'* Missionary Society. Thla organi sation has been an active part of the' church for some >25 or more years. All the way^down through these years t*?e Have bee*. able] leaders whoea ? uittlrlng efforts tave left lastttg 1 Oppressions and ?Mold good has been done. For a number of years now this so ciety has been A 1. The monthly meetings are held la the homes of the mem berei The attendance is always ?xaeoU, onally 'good. The pro gram are very interesting and the women enjoy them. Much aid has been given th3 sick needy of this and near by communities through this channel. There is always much arok k of. this \fetnd~if -be done and they are hoping to be of even greater service in the futw% Through thW means, the Society extends Invitations to all women of this section to come and join the to&btef and help in tills great work. Visitors are always wel come also. The meetings art beld on Wed nesday evening , following the second Sunday in > each month. "Hie April meeting *' Will be at tbe home of Mrs. F. E. Dean, on -the evening of the 12th. The present offlcers are: Pres ident, Mrs. T. H. Sledge; Vice President, Mrs. T. B. Dean; Sec. and Treas, Mrs. C. T. Dean. In some Hungarian villages girls still wear from thirteen to seventeen petticoats. ??? PBOQR^M ~ Louisburg Theatre MATINKKH ft|fLY S:80 NIGHT 7:45jnd #:00 Monday ? Twad