THE FRANKLIN TIMES
Issued Every Friday
SIS Court Street Telephone 288-1
A. F. JOHNoON, Editor and Manager
James A. Johnson. Assistant Editor and Manager
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daM *??" matter.
October 29th has been set for the lottery to be drawn
calling the first contingent of draftees. This is next
Tuesday.
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If the Louisburg Chamber of Commerce wants to do
something of real value to Louisburg, its citizens and
visitors, let it get behind the movement to widen the
streets on both sides of the monument.
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Dr. McDermutt, of the Duke Law School, in an ad
dress before a meeting of building and loan executives
Monday said architecture in homes would soon undergo
a great change, that we would be building bomb proof
dugouts or shelters in our homes for protection. This
to some may be a jest or premature, but it is a serious
thought that is going to get attention. What we are
most interested in is how can a bomb proof home be
made!
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WHAT'S THE USE ?
The Grand Jury is one of the most important branch
es of our judicial system. This is strongly impressed
not only on the jury but the public* as well, by every
Judge holding Criminal Court. .This jury is charged
with the important powers of saying whether a case
may go up to be tried, it is directed to report and put
into Court fol* correction, all matters of law violations
coming within the knowledge of or information to either
of them within the County and to make investigations of
all Comity property and institutions. Its a great trust,
a wonderful power, a most delicate and important duty.
They are required to make a report to the Court.
But for the past long number of years we have noticed
after all of its work of investigation and making re
ports, offering suggestions, making demands, and giving
directions how to protect the property and public, and
the reports received by the Courts with orders that the
contents be noted ?and carried out. there has been a
growing tendency to lay it aside without consideration,
much less active attention. This tendency has ^rown
to the point where the effect of the report of a Grand
Jury, to all intents and purposes, becomes a joke. Very
few of its recommendations are ever carried yut.
It is a fact that the Grand Juries are composed of
good honest, straightforward citizens, who respect their
oath and responsibility and represent a fair-cross sec
tion of the citizens of the county. Their actions are us
ually the expression of what other citizens are thinking.
In the last Court the Grand Jury made an extensive
and comprehensive report, calling attention to certain
things and making certain recommendations. Will their
recommendations be given respectful and active consid
eration or will, or can, the Courts take notice anil force
compliance.
Oh, well, in the interpretation of results for the past
long period of time "its only the Grand Jury report."
What's the use of making them anyway?
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GRAND JURY REPORT
In another column will be found the Grand Jury's re
port for the October term of Court. It rings full and
clear on every item and the Jurorsj are to be congratu
lated upon their courageous presentation of matters ag
they found them. They gave the County offices in the
Court House, the County Home, the Schools and Prison
Camp a clean record and especially complimented the
Clerk of Court for the fine manner in which he was hav
ing the guardian funds checked and kept. It was notice
able however that they disapproved of the Sanitary con
dition of the jail which of course will be corrected and re
pairs made. Their position on the slot machines was very
clear and positive, showing they expected their di/sap
l>earance to last only through Court. They recommen
, ded that the officers see that the law governing them be
enforced.
Their recommendation as to the use of partiality in
the Welfare Department is well taken, in that their re
port gave expression to the feelings of many citizens.
An investigation will be well. It will show the real sit
uation! ^ ^ is properly made, and either correct an un
fair practice, if one should exist, or it will vindicate the
Welfare Department and its officials, either of which
will be of great benefit to the Department.
,The Judge was so well pleased with the report that
he ordered Certified Copies sent to all departments in
volved with orders that the suggestions of the Jury be
carried out.
But* it is a Grand Jury Report. Will it get any great
er respect and results than "the many gone on before"
is the question in every man's mind.
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SLOT MACHINES
The question of the h-gal operation of a slot hutching
is a vexing one to the average citizen. The argument
of many officers and citizens that the fact that the State
licenses ttem is sufficient to give them the right to be ,
run is strong. They claim that it' the State wants to
stop gambling it should not license them.' This is a
strong position but is just as strongly wrong. The fact
is the law against slot machines that produce a gamble
has not been changed, except as to paying license. The
legislature found that there were thousands of machines
being operated in the State without license and it had
no means of stopping it. It also found that the law as
written worked hardships on legitimate sk}t machines.
The old Flannigan law either blocked the machine out
or placed the responsibility of proving it illegal on the
State, with the result that the State lost a big revenue.
The 1939 law reverses that responsibility and places the
burden of proving the machine not a gambling device
upon the operator and owner. It also gives the State a
better opportunity to keep check 011 all machines and
collect license taxes on them. They are 110 more enti
tled to operate without paying license ?han any other
business. If they are not gambling devices then they
are all right, but the burden of proving them such is" up
on the operator or owner instead of the State.
If it is right for a town, an individual or an organiza
tion, even though it be a school, church, P.T.A, Mission
ary Society or otherwise to conduct a lottery or drawing
or operate a punch board for a prize by tickets, which is
strongly outlawed both by State and National laws, then
it is also right to give the slot machines a free range and
the little crap shooter should not be molested. In the
eyes of the law all such sire gambling, regardless of who
is runningvit. . If it is wrong to operate a slot machine
it is also wrong to operate any of the others. And the
higher and more prominent the operators the more
damage can be done.
Information coming to the TIMES from a county of
ficial is that there were estimated to be from 200 to 300
slot machines in the county with only 83 in 1939 and 21
in 1940 of them paying license tax.
This law, like nil others, should be enforced, 011 the
theory that if it is bad it will be repealed, and it' it^
good everybody will like it. Xo law should he allowed
to go unrespeeted.
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Parents would be shocked if they knew how much
their children know at the age of five.
HK ? ELECTED
NAT H. AYSCCE, Chairman
Franklin County Committee in
charge of the Agricultural Crop
Control Program.
HARDY B. GVPTOX
Hardy B. Gupton. 69, promi
nent Franklin County farmer,
died late Tuesday at his home
near Wood.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by the Rev. John Edwards at
the homtj on Wednesday, with
burial in the family cemetery.
Surviving are his wife; t-hree
sons. Arthur (iupton of the home.
Xed Gupton. uf Panama City. Fla.,
and Hardy Gupton. of (Baker,
Ore.; six daughters, Mrs. Ruth
Wester, Mrs. Annie Radford. Mrs.
Varo Burnette. Mrs. Wilma Leon
ard. Miss Elizabeth Gupton, all
of Wood, and Mrs. Dollie Tucker,
of Norlina.
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