THE FRANKLIN TIMES
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NEW LIGHTS FOR HIGHWAYS
Most of the 40,000 people who are killed every year in
automobile accidents meet death on the open highways,
where traffic is not unduly heavy but the temptation to
take chances on speeding is the greater for that reason.
A high proportion of fatal accidents are due to dark
ness, and the dazzling lights of approaching cars.
Experience has demonstrated that there are few ser
ious night accidents 011 well-lighted city streets. Un
fortunately, it has been impossible until now to light long
stretches of country roads. The cost has been prohibitive.
Now two new systems of highway lighting have been
invented and have given good results in practice, which
are so inexpensive that any rural road district can af
ford them. One system, which is useful only for hard
paved roads, is based upon imbedding a reflecting ma
terial in the road surface, so that the headlights pick out
the roadway and show clearly whether there are any ob
structions ahead. The other system is an ingenious re
flecting device placed on posts or telegraph poles along
the roadside, which catches the beam of the headlight
and projects it ahead, lighting up the road for half a
mile or so. Two or three of these to the mile are said
to light the highway almost as well as daylight.
Betters-lighted roads and non-glare headlights, which
have now been perfected and doubtless will be as com
pulsory as safety glass in a few years, will help cut down
the ghastly toll of motor deaths.
OUR LIBERAL PENSIONS
The last Congress enacted pension laws for the benefit
of families of disabled veterans, and increasing pension
rates for veterans themselves, which are estimated to ;
add around 13 million dollars a year to the Nation's pay- j
ments on account of services in past wars.
The annual cost of pensions is now above 400 million
dollars a year, and as time goes on it is inevitable that
the total will increase, even if this country never gets
into another war. There are now about 850,000 ex-ser
vice men and about 250,000 widows drawing pensions.
The pressure for "liberalizing" the pension laws and in
creasing the pension payments is constant and increas
ing.
In the last week of June this year there died in Buffalo
the last surviving widow of a veteran of the war of 1812.
That war ended 123 years ago, in 1815. Darius King,
who fought in it, married at the age of 71 a girl of 19. He
live^Pto be 89, but his widow drew a pension for 52 years
aftaLhis death, until she, too, died at the age of 89.
If future Congressmen are as liberal in the matter of
?widow's pensions as those in the past have been, we may
have widows of World War veterans drawing pensions
"well into the 21st century.
THE CONSUMER PAYS
There is a great deal of confusion in people's minds
these days, which is not cleared up by consideration of
some of the policies and practices of the Federal Govern
ment. It used to be taken for granted that the most im
portant economic problem was that of the consumer. We
are all consumers. One may be a Democrat or a Presby
terian or an Elk or a farmer, or all of those at the same
time or none of them. But whatever his other'-affiliations
every one of us is a consumer. That is the only class label
or designation which fits every human being.
There are two kinds of consumers; those who work for
a living and have to buy and pay for their own food, and
those who do not work for a living but are fed by those
who do, who thus have to pay not only for their own
food but for that of the non-workers.
Nobody wants to let the non-workers starve, but it
would seem reasonable that they should not receive at
public cost more food or better food than the workers
can afford to buy for themselves. Yet we have before
us the spectacle of the A.A.A. buying surplus agricultur
al products in order to keep the prices up, and giving
them free to people on relief, while the workers who have
to pay for their food are thus compelled to pay higher
prices, because that presumably benefits the farmers
.whose surpluses have been bought up.
That sort of thing has been going on with potatoes,
apples, flour, canned goods, fresh vegetables, raisins,
cheese, butter, eggs, oranges and many other commodi
ties. That it benefits the farmers when Government
pays them more than the open market would pay for
surplus products may be conceded.. That it benefits the
non-workers on relief when this high-priced food is giv
en to them is apparent. But in between are the great
masses of ordinary consumers who are certainly not
benefitted.
Th?y Are the ones who pay. They pay a higher price
for their fobd in order to keep the farmer's prices up,
and to feed the non-workers. They can eat only what
they can pay for. jj
i It sounds a bit screwy to us. - > ft' . A 3
Makes Good
The following story by Carrol
Dulaney in a Baltimore Daily,
st<rlls of the wonderful success a
Franklin County boy, Luther Pitt
man, son of Mrs. Pattie_ Pittman,
of Louisburg, and a brother to
Mrs. Forrest Joyner, has made in
Baltimore. It will be interesting
to know that Mr. Pittman's grand
father, C. C. Horton, was a form
er Clerk of Court in Franklin i
County. The story follows:
"Political history often repeats
itself, just as do other kinds of
history.
"I see by tjie papers that more
than a thousand members of the
Baltimore Bar petitioned Luther
Pittman, now Clerk of the Super
ior Court by appointment of the
Supreme Bench, to seek election
to that office. Mr. Pittman suc
ceeded Stephen C. Little, who died
last February. He has been em
ployed in the Court for 19 years
and is recognized as an authority
on pleading and practice.
"The petition is 26 feet long
and bo impressive that Mr. Pitt
man Hied his papers for the of
fice.
It was 59 years ago ? April 3,
1879 ? that a petition signed by
367 lawyers was sent to Francis
A. Prevost, who had been appoint
ed Clerk of the Superior Court by
the Supreme Bench, to run for
election for the same position.
The petition, frayed and faded,
is still preserved in the court re
cords and the signatures attached
show that the Maryland bar at
that period was among the best in
the country. Among the famous
names noted are Severn Teackle
Wallis, I. Nevitt Steele, A. Leo
Knott, Reverdy Johnson, Bernard
Carter, John P. Poe, Randolph
Barton, Orvllle Horwitz, Robert
A. Dobbin, Roger W. Cull, A. W.
Machen, Frank Gosnell, Joseph
Packard, Southgate Lemmon, 'J.
H. B. Latrobe, Jr., Joha EL, Serti
mes (what a fighter he was!),
Frank X. Ward, George M. Sharp,
Albert Ritchie (father of our late
Franklin County Budget Estimate
FOR 1938 - 1939
As by law required the Budget Estimate for Franklin
County for the year beginning July 1st, 1938 and ending
June 30th, 1939 has been filed in the office of the Register
of Deeds, Clerk to the Board of said County, on this
Monday, July 11th, 1938, a summary of which is as
follows:
GENERAL FUND
DEPARTMENT ESTIMATED EXPENSE
Board of Commissioners $2,800.00-,
Listing Taxes, etc. 2,300.00
Sheriff's Office 3.200.00
Collecting Taxes ' 4,000.00
Accountant's Office 3,700.00
Court "House and Grounds 1,500.00
Register of Deeds 4,150.00
Jail . 2,000.00
County Home ' ? 6,000.00
Courts 7,000.00
Clerk Superior Court 4,350.00
Home Agent - 800.00
Farm Agent 2,635,00
Coroner 250.00
Elections 600.00
Emergencies 1,000.00
Audits 600.00
Welfare' Administration 6,995.00
Poor Relief ~ ? ? 3,620.00
Old Age Assistance 6,000.00
Dependent Children 2,880.00
Health Department 3,900.00 /t $70,280.00
COUNTY WIDE DEBT SERVICE
Interest and Exchange 23,865.91
Bonds and Exchange 28,027.00 51,892.91
Township Road Debt Service
Dunns 1,844.60
Harris 5.714.25
Youngsville 2,045.10
Franklinton 13,258.10
Hayesville 4,107.25
Sandy Creek _ 2,947.35
Gold Mine - 3,729;30
Cedar Rock 1,483.70
Cypress Creek 3,007.50 { 4
Louisburg 3,749.35 ^ 41,886.50
County Wide Schools
Current Expense 25,796.43
Capital Outlay 10,996.00
Debt Service ' 36,698.62 73,491.05
Grand Total . $237,550.46
This 11th day of July, 1938.
W. N. FULLER,
Franklin County Accountant.
TEMPORARY BUDGET OF EXPENSES FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 1938-1939
TOWN OF LOUISBURG, N. C.
As- by law required the Budget Estimate - for the Town of
Louisburg, N. C., for the year "beginning July 1, 1938, and ending
June 30, 1939 has been duly filed in the Office of the Clerk to the
Board of Town Commissioners on this Tuesday, July 5th, 1938, a
summary of which is as follows:
DEPARTMENTAL. EXPENSES
General Government Department Expenses $ 5,800.00
Street Department Expenses . 7,035.00
Light) Department Expenses 27,400.00
Water Department Expenses 7,200.00
?Police Department Expenses 5,100.00
Fire Department Expenses 2,380.00
4 T
Total Departmental Expenses $54,915.00
DEBT SERVICc EXPENSES
Bond principal $ 9,000.00
Defaulted Bond principal 200.00
Street Notes ^ 500.00
Street, Water, and Light Notes, 1938 issue 1,000.03
Interest and Exchange on Bonds 11,410.00
Interest on Notes 70.00
Total ????" * *22,180.00
SINKING FUND REQUIREMENTS > 750.00
Total Debt Service Expenses and Sinking Fund
Reqniremente $22,930.00
GRAND TOTAL :. $77, 846. 0ft
An itemized statement ot the above Expenses la on file at t<be
Town Clerk'* Office for public inspection, until and after August
ba. i>3$.
l74^ *rr.*. - --W ?;?*. v... T. K. 8TOCKARD, Tewa Clerk.
A- N
Home Sweet Home
' " ? ?
' H-M-AA-A*pf THOUGHT Yt>U WERE
COtN?. TO DO tw' house WORK WHILE
I WAS Doing -th' week end buyin? i
A PINE UOW-DEt-DO, I'D SAY
Just because You wot a swctt ?i<u.
(S?ADUATH COUPLE OF WEEKS A CO, IS NO
SlCM VOO'VE CCADUATeX) F?OM MELPMG
YOUR MOTHER. ! !
PO YOU TUiMK VWJiRB OME OF 1?0? M0Uy?OOD
BUTTER FLIES YOUVE BEtN "?TViNC To IMITATE 7
HOW MARCH YOUASMLF OUT MIRI L
AND MANICURE THESE DlttTY DlSHES WTOf- f
V -TWOSE ENAMELED ALABASTER FIKI8CBS . /
? <W BLSt'.'lJ
Governor), John H. Thomas, Wil-'l
liam F. Frick and J. Wilson Lea- ;
kin.
"I almost forgot to say that [i
Prevost ran and was elected. Mr.
Plttman is hoping there is a good
omen in this."
STRANGE FATE
i
Oakland, Calif., July 11.? av-i
erill B. Clifford, 30, awoke today |
? surprised at being alive, he told
officers ? and . then accidentally
caused an explosion which in- 1
jured him fatally! j.
Policeman Eugene Van Houtte :
said Clifford turned on the gas be- I
fore he went to bed last night, ex
pecting to kill himself.
Van Houtte said Clifford awoke
this morning, rather pleased by
being alive. . Then he struck a
match to light a cigarette.
The blast from accumulated gas
wrecked the house. Clifford jump
ed from a window, his clothing
iflime. He died several hours
later from the burns.
NEW AERIAL
West Saugerties. N. Y., July 10.
? John Schafft. decided that his
radio needed a new aerial today.
Mrs. Ella Simon said she'd help
him.
Eleven-year-old Jacqueline Kra
ble watched.
Schafft colled the wire, tossed
lit over the roof of a summer cot
i tage.
Mrs. Simon caught it ? and fell
dead.
Schafft rushed to her side,
stooped to lift her jerked con
vulsively and died.
Jacqueline's childish hands
tore once at the two bodies ? and
death took her.
The uncoiling wire had looped
over a high tension line, carrying
4,440 volts.
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