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FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday Telephone 2K3-1 JOHNSON, Editor and Manager A. Johnson, Assistant Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bone Year *1-80 Eight Months .... 1.00 Six Months 75 Foor Months 50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Nra York Oity Entered at the Postoffice at Louisburg, X. C. as second cUm mail matter. It is hoped that before *11 the street funds have been Vpent arrangements may be made to open another outlet from town in each direction. This is badly needed. In an opinion given Rose's Stores the Attorney Gen-i eral says: "The giving away of a radio to the holder of ^ a ticket drawn from tickets furnished to purchasers when sales are made would violate the North Carolina lottery laws." The former operators of slot machines who have b^en made to discontinue their use by the Courts of the State, want to know why the Courts don't stop others from using the lottery schemes that also are violations, of law. THOSE MOUNTING TAXES The Chamber of Commerce of the United States alleges that the increase of taxes by Federal, state and local gov ernments, by diverting a high proportion of the national income from private enterprise to non-productive gov ernmental uses, is a powerful brake upon the growth and activity of business and industry. j In its recently-issued booklet. "Facts about taxes and public spending" this national organization of business men ?ives some surprising statistics. Sinctfl the volume of money collected in taxes'. in the I'nited States has nearly doubled, it savs. The tax burden of the individual citizen has increased from $79.8<i a year to $130.75, of which practically half is in Federal taxes, the rest by other governmental unitsfc - The increase in the proportion of Federal taxes, ?rom less than a third to nearly half of the total tax burden, has not kept the national Government from going into debt. On the contrary, Government is still spending near ly 50 percent more than it collects in taxes. Out of every dollar of national income taxes take 17.G cents, while expenditures run at the rate of "24 percent of the earnings of the people. Since 1930, the Chamber says, the Federal Government alone has spent $24,000, 000,000 more than it has received. There araonly two ways in which the annual deficit in the national budget can be averted. One is to reduce Federal expenditures, drastically. The other way is by increased taxation. MR. WALLACE'S TWO-PRICE PLAN The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Wallace, has. sug gested a project for utilizing farm surpluses and at the same time contributing to the relief of the needy one thiifd of the population. The Wallace idea is what might be termed "domestic dumping" of the agricultural sta* plus instead of giving foreign buyers the benefit of lower prices than American consumers pay. The Wallace "two-price plan" would be for the (JoV ernment to buy surplus crops through the Federal Sur plus Crop Corporation at a lower price than the open market will pay the growers, then induce the railroads to make a special low rate, and at terminal markets offet the products so handled only to persona unable to pay full market prices, at a price to be fixed by government. The plan seems to offer several complications. Are these goods offered at low prices to be sold through the regular retail trade? If so, how is the dealer going to be compensated for handling them? How is the dis crimniation to be made between those who can pay the regular price and those who are to be the beneficiaries of the low prices ? ' , > The Wallace plan ife stated to be an answer to the advocates of the domestic allotment plan who would dump surplus crops which America cannot consume, on the foreij^i markets at whatever they will bring. So far the plan is in the early conversation stage. It- looks as if Mr. Wallace had proposed it as a "trial balloon" to test public sentiment. Our information is that the idea has not met with encouragement by farmers. Mr. Wallace seems to have forgotten the merchant ?who contributes his mite to the maintenance of the gov ernment and community. If you take his retail trade by selling goods for less than costs, and thereby put him out of business what is going to become of him? OLD AGE PENSIONS In the face of the increasing pressure from many sources fo* "liberalizing" the system of old age pensions for everybody, and the very considerable number of mem bers | >f the new Congress who are committed to one or anotlMr of the various pension plans advocated in dif ferexjjjparts of the country, it is more than probable that ?eriovf iiffoHs be mader wheQ Congress meets to omen*! the Social Security Act in vferious ways. Plans . whi,ch are said to have support by the Admini# ~ i v- m ^ ?> ? -*t.. . . .jkJ Korean Favlowa Dances In New York , i ? I NEW YORK ? Sai Shaki. H^Wean noblewoman and premiere dansuese ->f the Orient, who has just appeared at the Guild/Theatre, New Ycrk, on her tour of the world as dsnee interpreter <j/ Oriental History. She will incorporate American dance designs in un original pattern symbolizing the spirit of the Occident. t ration in "Washington include raising tlie maximum Fed eral grant to states for Old Age Assistance administered by the states, from $15 a month to $20; beginning month ly payments, under the Old Age Insurance provisions of ?the law in 1940 instead of in 1942 and to change the rates, from the present minimum of $10 a month and maximum of $85 a month, to $30 and $60; to provide monthly bene fits to widows and young children of beneficiaries dying before the age of 65, and immediately to extend the provi sions of the law to cover farm workers, domestic servants, self-employed persons and other groups not now covered by the Act. There are many questions which need to be answered before anybody can say positively that any one of those proposals would be desirable. There still remains unan swered the question as to how far the Government of the United. States ought to commit itself to making liberal provisions for everybody above a certain age. There is great difference of opinion abouuike financial soundness of the insurance phases of Social Security as now^set up. A?d great confusion and many disparities .have arisen from the workings of the scheme of coopera tion between the Federal government and the states in the matter of pensions for the indigent aged. We look for exciting discussions and the spilling of a lot of loose, language when the new Congress gets down to the consideration of old age pensions. I - THE NEW LABOR LAW One result of the m;w. Wage-and-Hour lii-w, wliich has ] just-Vone into effect, is 'bound to be some yew decisions by the courts -of what constitutes intqrstate commerce. The whole question of the line where Federal authority begins and State rights end is involved in this Act of Congress, which is a far-reaching statute and likely to give employment to' lawyers for a long time. The essence of the new law is that any person, firm or Corporation doing as much as 20 percent of its business ?interstate commerce- must pay its lowest-paid' employees a minimum of 25 cents an hour for all time, worked up to 44 hoiUT a week, and if they are required or permitted to work more than 44 hours, they must be paid time-and a-half fprjhe overtime. . It is difficult for the ordinary business nut n to decide -for himself whether he. comes under the scope of the new law. What is interstate commerce? How" much of the raw material used by a local builder, for example, has to come from another state before the construction of a house comes' into the stream of interstate commerce The house itself is, of course, not ah interstate transac tion: it remains in the state where it was built. But the lumber may have come, and often does, from a state a thousand or more miles awav; the nails, hardware, electric fixtures, plumbing equipment from other states. Does the builder's business come under the scope of the Wage and-Hour Act or not ? Reports have been published of numerous business en terprises, especially in the cheap-labor regions" of the. South, which have practically shut up shop and dismiss-' ed numbers of workers, for fear of being penalized if they do not raise wages all around, or of doing business at a loss if they do. Nobody .in America wants to see the American Wage earner gettirtg less than a lining .wage. But certainly everybody in America wants to see exemptions made in cases where conforming with the law may put a man out of business. 'We do not know that that will bo the result of the ne}v labor law in many cases. We hope that it will not. But business" men have expressed doubts and fear? about various businesses alid it is essential that these Cases be carefully analyzed. DOLLARS SENT ^ AWAY FOR ? PRINTING c<rrTrr' Never Come Back Uj^lb/ Let U. Do Yo? Print** to *-* ? ? FOR RENT ? SPACE IN THIS PAPER WlH Arrange To Suit GOOO NEIGHBORS? PRICES TO FIT YOUR 8U9NESS Home Sweet Home TURN THAT DARN TUIN<r OFpf IT'S BLAH , BLAH ALL THE TMt , | JUMBLED JAZZ AND ADNOID CROONERS | I 'TILL I'M ABOUT CRAZY DONT Yoa LIKC DOROTHY LAMOUR?) I THINK she's JUST DEE -VINE.? STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN . . Princess Margaretha, daughter 01 | Prince Gustaf Adolf and greal grand-daughter of King Gustaf oJ Sweden, makes the award to thf winner at a parade on children's day in Stockholm. The Princess will be four years old this month. | HUNTING .A XI) FISHING GUIDES The N. C. State Employment Service is making a State-wide survey to obtein datj as to the availability of guides, including both commercial and sport fishing, and also hunting guides. In order to secure this information for the benefit of the public, all hunting and fishing guides employed,, or unemployed, are requested to reg ister at the nearest State Employ ment office fn the community in which they live. As a public service to Individ uals in North Carolina, and ot-her states who may vacation in North Carolina, all guides are urged to register with the Service so that the availability of guides will be known. In this way the Employ ment Service wishes to cooperate with pei^ons who would require the services of hunting and fish- , ing guides. SWbfccribe to The Franklin Times ? 1 ?? ? i ? ? i '? ' The Choicest of | MEATS for all occasions at greatly reduced prices. Visit our Market and let us serve you. Also A NICE LINE OF GROCERIES and FEEDS Cash and Carry Market JOHN W. Harris!" Proprietor Sell Tour Cottfli and Tobacco in Loitobgrg. NEGRO ORPHANS COMING Sunday evening, Nov. 20, 1938. ' at 7:30 P. M. there will be render- ' ed a concert by the Negro orphans from the Oxford Orphanage at South Main Street Baptist Church, i This is a state institution, very i much in need of funds. We ex- ' tend a very cordial invitation to both white and colored to attend ' this concert. We hope our people , will turn out in large numbers, to j help this institution get some nec- ! essary furniture. This is a golden . opportunity to help our needy boys and girls. Rev. D. P. Lewis, Chairman, j Georce C. Pollard, Secretary. The penGum IT JUST StfS OXJ.O 'ROUND And ms J NOTHItf, IS HHE ke market penguin EGGS'? NO/ TO DO BUSINESS, ADVERTISE CHECK THESE VALUES LAND 0' LAKES AMERICAN CHEESE, 2 "" 31' PICKLES ?iKf- I#* DC A C DRIED ^ lbs. IQc r LAJ BLACKEYE 0 10. BROOMS 39? P A V F Q CHOCOLATE ICc t /i IV L J PECAN TOP lb. W ' TISSUE WALD0RF 4 rolls 17? ?SYRUP S3. 19? COLONIAL MACARONI, [} pkgs 10c SPAGHEni C0L0NIAL 3Pkgs. 10? NOODLES COLtwIAL 3 Pkgs 10? DAT GORTON S Deep 14-oz. JCc ** v ?? Sea Can r i UT Chocolate Malted Milk V A A? Large Size DP I C COLONIAL <5 No. 2 TCc 1 LA J SWEET " Cans *** rnrrrr DOUBLE-FRESH 1 Ec t U r r L tfGOLDEN BLEND, lb. AW WHOLESOME ? DELICIOUS ! OU9 PRIDE BREAD 'fr, 8 >; 5
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