I THE FRANKLIN TIMES
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A. P. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager
Jame? A. Johnoon, Asfciatant Editor and Manager
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LIVING in a town does not make it prosperous ? it is
buying there and selling there that does the trick.
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MAKE your arrangements to hear Hon. Willis Smith,
who will deliver the Memorial Address at Franklin j
County Memorial Association Services to be held in the |
Court House 011 Sunday afternoon, May 28th.
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FROM one source comes the suggestion that Congress
man Harold D. Cooley will enter the race for Governor
of North Carolina in 1940 and that Capt. Charles P.
Green will run for Congress to fill Cooley 's place. This
sounds good to Franklin.
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A MILLIONAIRE citizen is worth little to a town if
he does all his buying and selling elsewhere. Likewise
a merchant who sells all he can in his town and never
spends a cent for what he can buy there, if he would, is
one of the worst enemies a town can have, regardless of
his preaching otherwise.
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THE TIMES understands the Attorney General has
made a ruling that the election of the ABC Board can
be made before June 30th, and be valid. This we think
is a good ruling or will serve a good purpose, as a new
Board, even if composed of the same menfffcrs, should
know in advance, of their responsibility so they can give
the matter more conservative thought.
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THE new tax law does not legalize the operation of
Slot machines. It only imposes a tax 011 such machines
that are operated. The enforcement of the anti-Slot Ma
chine (Flannigan) law is squarely up to the local offi
cers and the local community. If local sentiment is not
sufficiently strong against these gambling devices to stop
them, there is no other agencies that can.
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IF EUROPEAN despatches are true Hit liJttiaft begun
his march into P^lafnd. He is following his old method
of rushing in enough German population to carrying an
election, and thei> forcing an election, which according
to well made plans will turn the section wanted over to
Germany. Of course this method is employed in small
sections and as soon as one is taken over the plan is be
gun in another section and repeated.
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CONGRATULATIONS to the "City Fathers." Tliev
have adopted a schedule of light rates showing a neat re
duction. This, according to one of the Commissioners,
is a start and other adjustments will be worked out later.
The new rates provide a minimum of $1.50 for 20 K.W.'s
instead of the former $1.80 and cuts from 9 to 7^* cents
for current graduated on down to 2 cents for excess of
250 K.W.'s.
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IF the Anti-Sales taxers are intending making another
fight for the Governorship in 1940 it looks that Senator
W. L. Lumpkin would he their best bet. It certainly
would be a just and proper appreciation for the splendid
work he did in managing the McDonald campaign.
There are many who still hold to the idea he would have
made a better run than McDonald. Any way it is a well
known fact that he was the vote-getter of that organi
zation.
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BECAUSE of the possibility of a little timidity of the
three Boards in calling a meeting before, the TIMES
suggests that the joint meeting of the Boards of County
Commissioners, Education and Health be held on the
first Monday in June for the purpose of electing mem
bers of the ABO Board. This time will be most conven
ient and the three Boards usually meet at this time any
way, and it will give the members of the Board time to
formulate policies before the end of the fiscal year.
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POSSIBLY the wisest thing the Town administration
has done in years is the paving of Spring and Franklin
Streets and a portion of Cedar Street. It will not take
many years for the saving in upkeep of these streets to
pay back the cost of paving. The next wisest thing they
can do is to complete the extension of Cedar Street to
Halifax road. The earlier this is completed the earlier
the State will take it over as a connecting link, between
highways 56, 561, 39 and 59 without sending this traffic
through the busy streets. .
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THE following paragraph taken from an editorial in
the Wilson Daily Times, applies to LouiBburg and other
towns in the State as well as to Wilson:
"We have long thought about the parking prob
lems and it has given the authorities and the police
of th6 city headaches while seeking some solution
Golgotha, 1939
that would give - the motorists of the city a maxi
mum of comfort and convenience and to prevent
clogging of tlie streets. Unfortunately when th^
streets were tirst laid out the automobile problem
was not with us and so we must accommodate our
selves as good citizens to their narrowness."
In most of tlie older towns when the streets were laid
off they were surveyed, no doubt, for convenience then,
entirely too narrow for, today's traffic. Just what to
do, that is practical, to solve the problem, it seems no
one knows.
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THE present members of the ABC Board are to be
congratulated upon the splendid business method with
which they have conducted the ABC system in Franklin
County. They have no doubt done things different from
the ideas of many citizens, many of whey no doubt
would have changed had they known the frets surround
ing them in detail, but the fact remains that tlie present
Board took the responsibility of establishing this busi
ness without money or credit anil have developed it
successfully. They have not only paid its way and for
its capital investment but has turned in money to the
County that would represent a tax saving of around
15 to 2U cents on the hundred dollars, had it not been
for this revenue. In addition they have guarded the
funds so that there have been no losses. They haven't
stopped whiskey drinking, nor reduced the number of
arrests, but if reports are correct they have greatly re
duced bootlegging, and blockading, and drinking and its
attendant lawlessness throughout the country districts
where there lias been no adequate police protection.
This is not written to influence the re-election of the
members of the present Board, in fact we don't know
that they wish to be re-elected, but is intended to give
just credit to the ones who have been responsible for the
great changes for better in Franklin County.
UNDER our Farm News department it is pointed out
that Franklin County farmers by failure to comply with
the farm program last year lost over $:56,000. While
this amount is not so large in itself it represents more
than a dollar a piece to every inhabitant in Franklin
County and almost two dollars a piece for all inhabitants
outside incorporated towns. It is too much to lose, how
ever, and should be kept within the County. This, we
hope, though, is not intended as a criticism of the farm
ers. They are not entitled to be criticised. They are as
much entitled to a living from their chosen, or enforced,
vocation as any one else is from theirs. They are as
much entitled to assistance from the Government as any
other class of people or business organization. And pos
sibly the Government has made an honest effort to as
sist the farmer, who has done wonderfully well in trying
to live under a plan so full of inconsistencies, inequalities
and injustices. With few exceptions the system has
contributed largely to a depleted farm-ownership instead
of building up better living conditions, has substituted
a dependency on the government for support for the self
confident individual independency. Tins condition has
been brought about largely by the methods imposed in
farm production and dealings with tenants and land
lords. Quite different from the conditions in all other
lines of business that government helps or subsidizes.
There is no one system that will work over a section as
large as a state much less as large as the United States,
satisfactory. Kecfional conditions, requirements and
necessities are too different. Unless a more equal and
elastic plan can be devised these will be many more
farms delegated to idleness due to the unwillingness and
inability of the landlord to comply with the tenant re-i
quirements or the inability of the farm to support itself I
on the acres allotted.
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TRI-COUNTY LEAGUE
Standing of ('labs:
Clubs W L
Pilot 2 0
Warrenton ...... 1 0
Pine Ridge 2 1
LOUISBURG ... 1 2
Greystone 0 1
Epsom . . 0 2
LOUISBURG TRIUMPHS
OVER GREYSTONE, 7-5
Louisbuig was outhit by Grey
stone, 11-10, but the locals won
7-5, Wednesday in a Tri-County
League game here.
Troutman and Lamm hit home
runs for the winners. Troutman
and Matthews, each with two for
four, were the locals' leading bat
ters.
Top hitsmiths for Greystone
were Richardson, with three
doubles for four tries, and S.
i Fields, with a triple and a double
for four.
Batteries: Greystone ? Preddy,
Blake and Richardson; Louisbuig
? Wills, Barrington and Fuller.
IMl.OT DEFEATS EPSOM,
GREEN' HURLS TRIUMPH
Epsom, May 17.? Pilot defeated
Epsom, 8-2, today in a Tri-County
League game.
Pea Green pitched the win fox
Pilot. Renn and Edmonds hurled
for the losers. Ferrell caught for
Pilot; Poole, for Epsom.
Mitchell and Hoyle contributed
three-run homer# for the winners.
Lassiter, with three hits for four
tries, led Epsom.
WARRENTON IS VICTOR
IX TRI-COl'NTY LEAGUE
Warrenton, May 17. ? Warren
ton defeated Pine Ridge, 7-6, to
day in a Trl-County League game.
The winners led in hits, 15-13.
E. Richardson, with three for
flve, and Poole, with two for five,
were the leading baiters for Pine
Ridge.
Lewis, with three for four, and
Miles, with two for three, topped
Warrenton's attack.
Batteries: Pine Ridge ? R. Rich
ardson, E. Richardson, Taylor and
Moody; Rlggan, Rains, Lloyd and
Mayfleld.
PINE RIDGE WINS
OVER LOUISBURG
Pine Ridge. ? Pine Ridge scored
nine runs in the first inning and
coasted to a 13-1 victory, over
LouiBburg In a Tri-County League
game here Sunday.
It was the second win for the
locals In as m&ny league games.
Pilot has a victory to show for its
only start. Epsom has lost one
game; Louisburg, two. Warrenton
and Greystone have not played
league games as yet.
The locals made 14 hits, six of
which came in the first inning.
Ben Nowell, with a double and
two singles for Ave, was Pine
Ridge's top batter. Albert Lamm,
of Louisburg with three singles
and a double, batted 1.000, The
losers made seven hits.
Batteries: Louisburg ? Hllbert,
Troutman and Fuller; Pine Ridge
? R. Parrlsh, G. Earp and Kemp,
Griffin.
ytyabel ? And once you said you
wouldn't marry James on any ac
count.
Dorothy ? Yes. but at that time
I didn't know it was such a big
one in tlye bank.
THE PERIliK OK HPKINM
Hush, neglected mopstick, don't
you cry, i
Cleaning time Is coming, by and
by.
8UBBCRIBE TODAT t
Rastus ? .Mandy, after I dies, I
wish you'd marry Deacon Shorter.
Mandy ? Why so, Kaatus?
Raatus ? Well, Mandy, I'll tell
you de truff. Deacon Shorter trim
med me on a mule trade once.
Modern He ? Let's get married.
It wouldn't be much trouble. You
know my father is a minister.
Modern She- ? It's OK by me.
We might try it anyway. My dad's
a lawyer, you know.
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against
LOSS BY HAIL
Farmers now have about their entire crop of
Tobacco and Cotton out and if hail should
destroy these you would be "out of luck" for
the year. Save worry and loss by letting us
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Policy. Remember the losses in Franklin last
year and prepare to be a winner.
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