Franklin County's Welfare
Department Appropriation
Is Woefully Inadequate
Let us remember January 26,
U40! 81* inches of snow and ice
blanketed the ground! The ther
mometer was almost down to xero.
Ob this day hunger, cold, "Ickneiw
and misery, struck Wtth ghoulish
dee at our poor and needy people.
On this day the following pitiful
human problems presented them
selves In the Town of Loulsburg:
Family A. A family of three
white women badly in need of
food and fuel. I
Family B. A white family !
Members of this family werej
scantily and Inadequately clothed.
Some members of this family were
sick In bed. No fuel was in this
home and very little food was
available.
Family C. A colored family.
This family was found to be living
in squalid conditions, without, any
food or fuel In the home. They
bad little clothing or bed clothing.
Family D. A tragedy. The
father of this family is employed
on a WPA project. His total in
come per month is about $30.00
per month IF he works full time.
This family had no money, no
food, and very little clothing. A
baby in this family became ill,
and was finally taken to a hospi
tal. The baby died and the fam
ily could not pay for the very
cheapest of funerals.
What was to be done for these
cases?
Sympathetic friends got busy I
when these cases came to light. I
John Doe decided to do something
to relieve these families. Our Wel-|
fare Department was called upon
to help them, and it's answer was. j
'?We have no funds with which to
provide relief. We have only some j
flour that we can give." The|
Junior Woman's League was call- 1
ed upon, and this splendid organ- 1
izatiou of public spirited women. I
gave to the utmost.
And what' about the little baby j
that died? John Doe again pass-]
ed the hat around, and enough
money was raised to bury the
baby.
During several days following
January 26th, the thermometer
fell to BELOW ZERO. The suf
fering among needy people became
more intense, ? the cries for re
relief increased in number. The
Junior Woman's League of Louis
burg sent food, clothing, and fuel,
to several more families. Some
-few Loulsburg citisens gave gen
erously to the relief of suffering
families, and other citizens gave
leaser amounts. The Town of
Loulsburg gave money in addi
tion to the $25.00 that it contrib
utes each school month for the
purpose of charity. A total of
about forty persons were aided I
during tihls emergency in a hap
hazard manner. This is a picture
of Loulsburg only. What must'
have been the suffering and mis
ery throughout our whole Coun
ty! We wonder how many of our,
people were unable to find relief j
from hunger and suffering from
our Welfare Department.
This is written as a proof of
the fact that we have a shameful
condition existing in Franklin
County. Our Welfare Depart
ment Is woefully Inadequate and
inefficient. BECAUSE IT HAS
INSUFFICIENT FUNDS WITH
WHICH TO RELIEVE POVERTY
AND SUFFERING IN OUR COUN
TY. Certain families receive
certain foods regularly from the
Commodity Store Room, but there
teems to be no funds provided for
the care of emergency cases.
Emergency cases are tossed back
Into the lap of a charitable pub
lic. If an appeal for aid is made
to the County Commissioners the
answer is "We are sorry, but it
is not in our Budget."
The solution of these problems
of hunger, sickness, and misery,
lies within the hands of our Coun
ty Commissioners. Let them -ap
propriate sufficient funds, ear
marked for the Welfare Depart
ment. and PUT IT IN THE BUD
GET. This increase for Welfare
Work would raise the county-wide
tax rate so little that few of us
would feel the slight increase iu
our taxes. This is a systematic,
businesslike solution of a definite
public responsibility. If sufficient
funds for the operation of an ade
quate and efficient* Welfare De
partment were secured through
taxation, the burden would fall
upon the shoulders of those who
are most able to bear tt. ? the peo
ple who list the most property for
taxation. Huge corporations that
own valuable property in our
County, would contribute to the
relief of our poverty stricken peo
ple through taxes levied for that
particular purpose.
Another County Budget will be
adopted wltihin a few months. Let
'us hope that our County Commis
sioners will make an appropria
tion to our Welfare Department
that will suffice, and thereby save
us the humiliating experience of
witnessing cold, hunger, and mis
ery clutching the throats of our
poverty ridden people. Remember
that they are human beings like
you and me. They are our unfor
tunate people. t
There is no prob'^'ii more wor
thy of the thought of our people
than the insufficiency of the ap
propriation of funds for our Wel
fare Work. We need an emer
gency fund that is quickly avail
able. and one that is not bound
tightly by the red tape of long
drawn ouo investigations.
The Louisburg Chamber of
Commerce hereby requests the
Churches, the Parent-Teacher As
sociations, the Kiwauis and Lions
Clubs, the Junior Woman's Lea
gue, and citizens of Franklin
Distilled and Bottled by
THE K. TAYLOR
DISTILLING CO.
ANNOUNCEMENT
This is to announce to the people of Franklin
County that I have opened a
REPAIRING DEPARTMENT .
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FOR
Watches - Jewelry - Clocks
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Typewriters
and other office equipment
in White Furniture Co., Main Street, Louisburg,
jSf, o. All work guaranteed and prompt service ic
MACK STAMPS, JR.
County to give this problem your
best thought. If you agree with
us, write your opinions to the
FRANKLIN TIMES (or publica
tion. It you do nob agree with
us, write your opinions to the
FRANKLIN TIMES for publica
tion.' It is a County- wide public
problem, and one that should be
openly and thoroughly discuss
ed, ? by so doing we can find it's
solution.
LOUI9BURG CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE,
By: W. G. Lancaster,
President.
PEARCK INFANT
Willis Gene Pearce. seventeen
day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Du
mas Pearce, died Friday, Febru
ary 2 in Park View Hospital,
Rocky Mount. Funeral services
were held in the home of his par
ents on Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Burial was in the
family cemetery. Surviving arej
his parents and one sister, Bettie
Lou.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture has announced that) the
Food Order Stamp Plan for dis
tributing surplus agricultural
commodities will be extended to
Greenville. S. C., and the rest of
Greenville Qounty,
MBH. MARY BAILEY
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Frankllnton, Feb. 3. ? Mrs.
Mary Bailey, 71, died here Janu
ary 23 at the home ot her daugh
ter, Mrs! E. C. Wright, after two
years' illness. Funeral services
and intermeut were held January
25 by Rev. BurneMe, of Louis
burg, at the Corinth Church.
Mrs. Bailey is survived by three
sons, John and Sam Bailey, of
Franklinton. and William Bailey,
of Stem; one daughter. 14 grand
children, 3 great-grandchildren
and Ave brothers.
. Another solacing thought about
trouble is that the more we have,
the more skilled we become in
dealing with it.
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W. L. LUMPKIN
Correspondent
LOUISBUKG, N. G.
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