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THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday SIS Court Street Telephone 288-1 A. P. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager James A. Johnson, AaalcUnt Editor uud Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear $1 .60 Six Mi>nths 70 Eight Months .... 1.00 Poor Months SO Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York City Entered at the Postoffice at Lonisburg, N. C. as second class mall matter. THE town can complete Cedax- otreet without hardly any additional outlay of cash. Wouldn't it be w<41_ to do this now! oOo ' LOUISBURG is now enjoying a building boom. Lets hope other buildings will be begun before the present ones are finished. . oOo THE thing that has contributed most to the blocking of the streets in Louisburg has been the delivery trucks which stand for hours, parked double, in one location. * oOo r THE City. Fathers are to be congratulated for im proving the street to the cotton yard. Lets hope the cotton yard will be used this year in place'of Main Street. i oOo IF Germany attempts to take over Danzig, which it looks as she is doing, it mear ' c:.. .wo things, either war or Britain and France w* >k down again. ? i : OC * NOW that Treasurer Johnson .. of the (guberna torial race, what is going to happen between Broughton, Horton, Cooley and Lumpkin, would be interesting to the general public. of)o IT is a distressing sight to see so many fanners seek ing labor with which to house their crops, and at the same time to see so many able bodied persons on the gov ernment relief rolls. It's a pity that this labor could not be turned over to the farmers for housing crops. 0O0 < ?v~. .. IT is plainly evident that if 31 distributors and less than 4000 slot machines have been licensed, in North Car olina under the new law, the operators, distributors and makefs of the machines are not keeping faith with the State. They may make "a run" now, but, Olf My, what /will the next Legislature do to the business. > , . . . oOp i? "WE notice in the headline of a daily newspaper that the State Highway patrol has made arrests resulting in three executions and 5102 years imprisonment. The re ports failed to stress the amount of assistance the pa trollmen gave the public to keep them out of court. It looks to us this angle is bad to brag about. It would be better if they would show the other side, and better still to replace some of these prosecutions with kindliness that will lead the would-be criminals to a better living. oOo THE NEW PARKING REGULATIONS THE new parking regulations adopted this week by the Board of Town Commissioners will no doubt, work quite a bit of inconvenience to those of our citizens who have been used to driving down the street and parking their cars. It is a law that will be embarrassing to our officers to enforce because of its wide difference from the past practices of our people, and because of the close family feelings existing between our citizens. But all of us recognize the fact that the parking problem in Louisburg has grown to serious proportion and with the new highway to Ealeigh completed will make some move absolutely necessary. This view has been express ed to the town authorities by the Highway authorities who have assisted in working out these arrangements. In addition the town is negotiating arrangements for free parking lots at points nearby the business section of the town. This parking regulation makes provision for marked spaces to be used by such as doctors cars, merchants delivery trucks, ambulances, etc. This mark , ing spaces for special purpose has been a much criticised practice in Louisburg. occupying entirely too much street space, and it is hoped that only such as is absolutely necessary be given under this new system and then be used only when absolutely necessary. It is known that it is necessary for a doctors car be convenient in answer ing an emergency or hasty call; it is necessary that the merchants delivery truck shall have space to load up, fend it is necessary for an ambulance to be convenient to the funeral home on occasions. It is also known, how ever, that it is not necessary for these vehicles to be park ed on the streets at all times. It is just this special pro vision that has broken down all such laws passed by the town for 4he convenience and comfort of the trading and traveling public. Lets hope it won't be abused. I The whole problem presents a most serious and ded icate situation, and our town authorities are making an honest and sincere effort to remedy the matter. There for?ft feV) be hoped that our people, every one of them, jwill heartily cooperate with our officials and lets see if ]we, all together, can't solve this parking problem ? ad mittedly the most serious and difficult problem facing all town* today. Let > px?ll together for a bigger, bettrt more united Louisburg. , _ TIME TO BAIT OUR hook/ LOAN SHARKS UNDER the above heading Sunday's News-Observer carried the following very timely editorial: 1 "Tennessee, having gotten into. the tpi's of the small loan busi ness, is finding that' statutory reduction to 1 ? per cent in the legal interest which on such business previously jiad been 42 per cent has failed to eliminate or seriously curb- the vicious loan shark operations, "A case in point, originating in Chattanooga and reported by The Chattanooga Times, is highly illuminating as to loan shark procedure and harassing technique. "The Southern Loan and Trust Company, a small loan concern it seems, sued in a magistrate's court on a note for $15 signed by a factory worker and a fellow employe. Neither the maker nor the endorser was present when the magistrate gave judgment against t'hem in the amount of $26, including principal, interest and attorneys' fees. "An appeal to a higher court was met by the plea of the plaintiff loan company on the technicality that the time limit for appeal had expired. When Hie court ruled otherwise and called upon the company to produce its evidence, the company refused to bring forth the note. Whereupon, the court dismissed the action. "The attorney who appealed t he case for the factory workei stated that had the plaintiff produced the note, he would have shown that interest at the rate of 120 per cent had" been charged. "The law and tliemorals of the case are clear enough. In the vast majority of cases, we know very well that the makers of notes for small sums representing exorbitant interest payments to sharks for jelief in distress and helpfulness, would not appeal such judgments. Loan , shir ks know this and t^ir business is predicated on the knowledge. ' The hapless vldtttti pf the judg ment. with the power of the law arrayed behind the plunderer to persecute and harass him would be hounded unt'i^ in desperation he found another loan shark and anotijer willing friend to share the burden and the risk of submission to accumulating outrage. "Loan sharks, operating illegally, it is a matter of common knowledge, continuously prey u pon the poor in desperate need ? of a littCe caih. The legalization of the business, even at inter est rates which seem positively benevolent beside the rates pre vailing in sub rosa practice, doesn't increase their amiability. It merely arms them with the legal power to oppress and to collect' their pound of blesh, regardless of the blood, with the processes and the blessings of the court, The above conditions exist in North Carolina, many in Franklin County, and should be given serious attention by our Officials and our law making bodies, .. These sharks prosper and get by on technicalities and upon the chance that no one will take them into Court. And if they should get into Court they depend upon the argument that it-was a contract agreed to and provides only a rental, forget ting that our Courts in past years have held certain contracts, of a standard nature, to be force and unenforcable. The real evidence behind most of these agreements,, will show a bonafide sale with the title h$ld as collateral. The fact that property under these con tracts #re taken in under claim of title and resold pri vately, without a legal foreclosure, makes their operation contrary to the laws of the State, which were provided for the protection of property owners. This is one of the public matters the Courts should look into. ' INTERESTS IN COMMON The farmer. and tbe urban busi nessman are often represented as having drastically, conflicting in terests. Tbe tirutb of tbe matter U that their basic Interests are identical. As Secretary Wallace recently said, "Underlying the agricultural situation and seriously limiting the progress of agriculture toward a higher standard of living, <s tbe low level of^ndustrial activity and the large volume of city unem ployment." And, looking at the other side of the medal, is the fact thati bad conditions among farm ers mean limited, profitless mar kets for manufacturers. The wise farmer knows that prosperity among businessmen is essential to agricultural prosperi ty. And the wise businessman knows that good conditions on the farm are essential to wide and growing consumption of manufac tured products. It is for this rea son that representative business Is solidly behind sound farm-bet terment activities, such as the growing marketing cooperative movement!. CONDITIONS TO COMK It was President Wilson who once said, "If a man does not pro vide for his children, if he <j?es not provide for all those depend ent upon him, and If he has not a vision of conditions to come, then he has not opened hla eyes to an There are few Ben who laek this urge, made up partly of rea son, partly of an Instinct that Is found dominant in all animals, to provide against the future. And tbis country is singularly blessed, in t'hat our people have bad tbe wherewithal to purchase protec tion beyond that achieved in any other land. The life insurance fig ures, the deposits in savings banks and trust funds, tell the story. And, in bad times as well as good, the totels of stored savings tend to rise. These are tbe fine fruits of our "vision of conditions to come." HERMAN CAHEY, SLAYER, OK KIN8TON, GRANTED PAROLE Raleigh, July 16. ? Governor Hoey today carried out the terms of a compromise reached by a deadlocked, Jury six years ago and paroled Herman Casey, of Lenoir County, who was serving 25 to 30 years for second degree murder. Unable to agree, the Jurors in 1933 decided to return a verdict of guilty of the second degree murder of James C. Causey, of Norfolk,/ Va. and Goldsboro, and after Ave years to petition for his parole, said Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill. Gill recommended the clemency extended by the Governor ti Casey. > ? "If T'had known hetw the jury arrlvefl at Its verdict at the tine of tni trial," wrote the presldlig Judge E. H. Cranmer, In comment on the cu?, "1 would have set the verdict aside." In (ranting the. parole, the gov Imr ttaoneMM M. tkat Casey had served Mie equivalent of alive Opened With A Bang ! Still Going Strong ! FOX'S Are making every ef fort to dispose of our present stock, no mat ter how great a sacrifice we have to make. 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Casey has been in and out of the headlines intermittently since July 3, 1930, when Causey was shot to death in Lenoir County. Causey's charred body was found in a burned automobile. Customer ? So you've got to get rid qf that pretty assistant you had? Druggist ? Yes; all my men cus tomers kept saying that a smile from her was as good as a tonic. An electric egg cooler with a capacity of 2,500 to 3,000 eggs in ' cases or other containers is now j available from a commercial man ufacturer, says C. F. Parrish, ex tension poultryman at State Col lege. During the fiscal year ending June 30, the Federal Surplus Com modities Corporation purchased nearly 1,700,000,00*. pounds of surplus agricultural Commodities at a cost of approximately $66, 000,000. Our ancestors moved towards responsibility. We shrink from it'. 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