THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday S10 Court Street Telephone 288-i A. K. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager James A. Johnson, Assistant Editor and M ana kit II SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om Tear ?1-M Bight Month* .... 1.00 Six Months 75 Foot Months .... JW Foreign Advertising RepraKnlMlvi AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York City Entered at the Poetottlce at Louisborg, N. C. aa second class wmQ matter. tfhe Republicans have called their National Conven tion to meet at Philadelphia on June 24th. , /!??; ' oOO Attorney General McMullan rules that sound trucks for political campaigns are subject only to local taxes by towns and counties. i . ?' oOo No douift, but that the next Legislature will take ac tion putting enforcement of State laws under the De partment of Justice, after local officers have failed. oOo "Democracy is waging a battle within itself against the forces of centralization which, in the name of effic iency or benevolence, are cutting the ground of govern ment froin under the citizens and placing it in the na tional capital. * '-^-George D. Aiken, Governor of Vermont. ^ '? oOo "Our public debt ? national, state, and local? now av erages $430 for every man, woman and child in the coun try. Thfe present generation has placed a mortgage on all the people and on the property of all the people in order to prime the pump for the present generation. ? Harry Flood Byrd, U. S. Senator from Virginia. This is a nice present to hand to unborn generations. What will they think of. the intelligence of their forefathers? oOo LIKE BUILDING A BARN The motive behind agricultural marketing coopera tion is identical in principle with the motive of the far mer who calls in his neighbors whenjie builds a barn. He can't build the barn properly alone, so he sensibly obtains help. No farmer, disposing of his produce alone, can get the most out of it. Nor can he expand his markets, deal on an even basis with the middleman, or kd<^quately deal with any number of other problems. Marketing coop eration combines the production, energies and abilities of thousands of farmers into an organization capable .of properly Mid efficiently representing them. The cause of each individual participating is thus served by group action. ?nfln ? BUSINESS OUTLOOK Nothing unexpected has taken place in business. The spring decline is on, with steel leading the drop, but that is seasonally normal. The decline, think the ex perts, will continue about two more months, then be ar rested. Commodity prices have been comparatively weak, which, is logical in view of the general business trend. Considerable importance is placed on the automobile industry's activities. Normally, production increases in late spring, to prepare for summer buying, and this exerts a salutary influence on steel output. It will be a very bad sign if motors fail to respond as usual this year. It is significant that most of the economists are being cautious about forecasts now ? they are putting in plen ty of "ifs," "ande," and "buts. " Matters are too cha otic, here and abroad, to be dead certain about anything. oOo ANOTHER BUSINESS KILLER The bright bovs down in Washington, in their desper ation to find new sources to tax to stave off the day of reckoning when the heavy hand of taxation will fall "directly" on the working man and average citizen to save this country from bankruptcy, have hit upon a new idea ? namely, a tax upon income taxes paid. In other words, if you pay $100 income tax, you would be assessed another $10 on that tax. It is reported that promoters of this tax believe a super-tax is desirable be cause it would not affect consumption. Commenting on the hypocrisy of such wishful reason ing, Raymond Moley, in Newsweek of January 22, says: *' Increasing the amount a man pays for taxes presum ably will take away from either what he saves or what he spends. ... It will pry loose private savings and route them into the Treasury. To the extent that it does, it will prevent them from flowing into the capital investment market. It will be in line with those very spending policies that have acted as business deterrents. It will empede investment in private enterprise and im ped? re-employment. If, on the other hand, this tax is not iii large part paid out of savings, it will be paid out 6f what would otherwise be spent, consumed. It must therefore directly affect consumption." The tax spenders are coming to the end of their rope when they argue that $10 added tax on each $100 in taxes a roan pays, will not affect consumption. Take glO out of your pocket, and see if you have it to spend for shoes. . , , . ! " - Times Advertising Pays "LABOR MUST CLEAN HOUSE" It is a telling commentary W the- times that many of ' labor's most militant friends are urgiag the working man to break the hold of the labor racketeers. ' The New Republic, for instance, recently rail a long ! editorial entitled "Labor Must Clean House." The , New Republic is extremely liberal in policy, and many . regard it as definitely radical. It said this: "Respon sible union men should, without waiting for the govern ment to push them, do away with jurisdictional disputes. They should end the restrictive and sometimes conspira torial practices which keep prices high and prevent the introduction of new products. . . . Next, the racketeer ing leaders should be swept aside and the racketeering unions with them. The kind of labor movement this country needs should have no place for a leader who talks about aprison sentence for having been a pander as a mere boyish peccadillo, or turns up with thousands of dollars of income that he can't explain. ... If labor doesn't clean its own house, the job will be done by someone else in a way. that neither labor nor its friends will like. " Labor ? legitimate, honest labor, that wants to make progress ? never got better advice than that. And it is significant that it comes in this case frojn the "left" rather than from the "right." Labor racketeering has already disgusted a large portion of the people. It has bred distrust and fear and hatred. Long enough con tinued, it is the surest possible way to bring about a re action that, to quote the New Republic once more, would see "the trade-union movement in this country set back a generation." If labor continues to maintain a disorderly house it will mean tragedy for millions of the working men of (his country. ? OQO ? ? PRESS OPPOSES DISCRIMINATION At its annual meeting, the New York State Publishers Association passed this significant resolution by unani mous vote: "Resolved that it is the belief of this As sociation thqt retail merchandising, which so intimate ly touches the pocket books of wage earners and consum ers generally, should be free from all unjust, punitive and discriminatory taxation, local, state and Federal, in whatever form imposed." This is not an isolated instance ? press associations in many states, representing big dailies and little weeklies, have gone on record with similar resolutions. And that is a highly important fact. For America's working newspapermen are second to none when it 'comes to un derstanding and analyzing America's problems. They know full well that millions of families have an exceed ingly difficult time in making both ends meet ? and that the higher costs which inevitably follow punitive taxa tion Avould be a harsh blow to their welfare anrl stand ard of living. They know that AmcrifJ? retail mer chandising. under the open 'competitive^fWstem, lias done a superb job in serving the consumer at lowest cost, and distributing the products of farmer and manu facturer. Thev realize the immense dangers of political destruction of this proven, established system would involve. Equally important, the American jutes*, rooted as it is in the democratic tradition, knows that punitive, dis criminatory treatment of one kind of business will pave the way for similar treatment of other kinds of business ?and eventually all business. There is no room in a democracy for class legislation or class taxation. And the American press is fighting for democracy when it apposes them. * MORE THAN 20 BALES of TOBACCO CANVASS CLOTH All Widths and Grades NOW ON SALE AT THE LOWEST PRICE Not only in Louisburg but through out Eastern North Carolina. Tonkel's Dept. Store offers a great many new Spring Dresses, Shoes and Ladies' Hats now on display at Very Low Prices ! Remember you can SAVE by shopping during our FEBRUARY CLEARANCE SALE! TONKEL'S DEPARTMENT STORE, INC. "Always Something New" ? This is only one of an all-star cast of amazing used car bargains we are now offering? from Plymouth, Ford V-8, Pontiac, right on up the line to Buick and Lincoln-Zephyr. Smartest used car buyers head in here first, because they know we're getting the cream of the used cars? all Mercury or Lincoln-Zephyr, and all priced low to move fast! The used car you want is here, at your price now! Come traded in for the great new Ford V-8, Standard or De Luxe, in and drive it away. GRIFFIN -THARRINGTON MOTOR COMPANY Authorised Ford Dealers Sales tad Service MARKET STREET LOUISBURG N. 0. FflMI FOR BETTER USED CARS OF EVERY MAKE SEE YOUR ' DEALER f ? NEW ? [guiffcurf THEATRE Saturdays Continuous: 2 - It Sunday: 2-4 and ? Mon. . Tom. . Wed. - Thar. - PrL 8:80 ? 7 and 9 10-2Sc Matinee - 15-80c Wight 1 J' LAST TIMES TODAY Without a doubt one of this year's finest in comedy-romance entertainment. CAST GRANT ROSALIND RUSSELL ~ IIS GIRL FRIDAY" SATURDAY, FEB. 24 tb (Double Feature Day) GEORGE O'BRIEN THE FIGHTING nor and JOHN PAYNE and JANE WYMAN TO NIGHTINGALE Also Chapter No. 4 '*> "Zorros Fighting ? Legion" SUNDAY-MONDAY, KHB. 25-SK ?' Sunday Shows: 3-4 and 9 . JOEL McCREA , ,J) NANCY KELLY ? li:n ROLAND YOUNG ' ? I? ? ?1 i rt HE MARRIED HIS WIFE" >T TUESDAY, ~ FEB. 27th ; W/IKKKN WIIjIiIAM and . . JOAN PERRY ' THELONE WOLF STRIKES" WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28rrh 8-4-B Hpenrer Tracy - Robert Yoang Walter Rrennan ? Roth Hussey ? In ? Kenneth Roberts' "Northwest Passage" a Metro-doldwyn-Mayor picture In Techntaalor. Dae to the length of this great show there will be only two per formances a day Sunday at 9:80 and 1:45. Monday and Tuesday shows at S: 80 and 8:00. Admis sion Matinee IB-AO?; Night HWWVr