THE FRANKLIN TIMES
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A. P. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager
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New Tork City
Entered at the PostoffW at Lonlsborg, N. C. aa second
rlM mall matter.
THEORIES DON'T CHANGE FACTS
The farm situation is a number one domestic problem,
for after all everyone has to eat. The draft rulings have
at last'officially recognized this fact. The question now
is how much damage has been caused by delayed decis
ions, that cannot be corrected this season.
To get increased milk production, once the supply has
been depleted, requires several years. Cows- must be
milked and fed regularly, and anything that interferes
with that, as has been the case for some months past,
depletes supply, or prevents an increase.
Farm wages have increased until they are prohibitive
on most small farms where a major part of the milk
comes from. All the theorizing in the world and plan
ning from swivel chairs will not ehange these facts. For
tunately, the small farmers working through their mar
keting cooperatives, are at last making themselves
heard. Otherwise, this country would be in a bad way
for its milk supply right now and in the future. The
same applies to most all other food and feed supplies.
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ALL IN SAME BOAT TODAY
The buyers of merchandise today have no conception
of what the storekeeper has to comply with in order to
supply their needs. Take the case of a typical country
store. The people for miles around depend on that store
for their daily necessities. The storekeeper works
throughout the day, and then additional hours into the
night keeping track of ration stamps, and endless rules
and regulations. Almost every move he makes is un
der threat of fine or jail sentence for a mistake. Thous
ands of stores are actually going out of business to the
Teal hardship of many communities, simply because the
operators cannot stand the strain involved.
Chairman ,Patman of the House committee on small
business, has ordered an investigation into all phases of
the issuance of orders and regulations by the OPA. He
says: "Conditions are forced upon retailers and whole
salers which do not comply with the provisions of the
Emergency Price Control Act."
It is' to be sincerely hoped that every effort will be
made to lighten or simplify the present complications
surrounding retailing? not for the retailers alone, but for
the consumer, who is the worst sufferer as thousands of
necessary* stores are forced out of business due to sheer
physical inability to meet the complications of operation.
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TAKING CRISIS IN STRIDE
It is refreshing to see signs that business men, in spite
of the oppressive dictatorial atmosphere that of necessi
ty pervades our lives at the present time, still have a
wide streak of good old-fashioned imagination.
For example, the retail distribution industry has felt
the effect of ironlianded control far more tlian most of
uk. Business men in that industry have lived very close
to government dictatorship for months. The goods they
landle are doled out as if to shipwreck victims lost at
sea. The question of price is decided at the helm of
government. But if the retail stores are any criterion,
the merchants are taking the crisis in stride.
The stores are wholeheartedly helping the government
in every possible way to get a disagreeable job done in
the shortest possible time. The initiative of manage
ments Is directed toward making the controls formula
ted by gQvernment a practical reality. In the field of
food, they carry on extensive nutrition efforts. Bullet
ins are issued periodically by the National Association
of Food Chains which show how to make food more pal
atable and go farther. These bulletins are compiled
"with brevity, clarity, and imagination. They empha
size nourishing foods and the recipes are designed to fit
war cupboards. The instinct of the good business rifan
to efficiently serve his customers is evident in these cul
inary messages to housewives. As long as this instinct
exists, the future holds promise. The public should co
operate. v
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WHILE THE BOMBERS ROAR
Twice within a generation it has been tragically dem
onstrated that the days of sailing ship isolation are gone
forever. Wars are no longer bound by mountains, cli
? mate nor seas. The last echoes of isolation have been
drowned in the roar of the bombers.
With recognition of the f?ct that isolation is an impos
sibility and that this country cannot shut itself off from
future wars no matter where they may occur, it becomes
? a matter of sheer self interest to help prevent wars. The
surest way to prevent war is by taking a hand in world
affairs and stimulating international trade. Only
through trade can the prosperous and fruitful world en
visaged in the Atlantic Charter be reaped. '
In the United States, the machiQ?ry$,#6i1 bringing
about expanded trade is already in existence. In the
?words of Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles: , ''It
consists of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, renewed
in 1957" an<TI940, under whish.thePi'esidenti# anthaftj,
OUR DEMOCRACY *m.>
MEN 0FTH? MERCHANT. MARINE.#
American merchant sailor* 3
IN 1776 , TURfJED FROM , \
PEACETIME TRADE? V
FORMED A PMMTINE NAVY
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR- I
Vll HELPED win that wax. \
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Oy 1 6^0 THEY WERE >j
MANfJlNS AMERICAN
WKALEH? AND CJJPPERS
' MADS VS SUPREME .
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Today our merchant sailors
ARE AGAIN CARRYING THE
WA? TO OUR ENEMIES ?
F/GHT/NG SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER WITH OUR ARMED FORCES,
THEY ARE "PEUVER/NG THE SOOOS"TO THE BATTLE FRONTS \
r*E VICTORY WILL BE WON.
ized, by procedure and within the limits stated in.the
Act, to enter into argeements about tariff rates, qifotas,
and the like with foreign governments, and to proclaim
the changes in American rates necessary to carry out
our part of the agreements."
The Act must be renewed in June or we will have in
effect served notice on the world that we expect to take
no part in efforts to establish lasting peace; that as far
as we are concerned peace objectives are words ? nothing
more. After victory, if we follow the path of isolation,
we can retire to raise another crop of youngsters in time
for World War III. Along with our imagined isolation,
we will have depression and bankruptcy. Our great
productive capacity will avail us little without world
wide channels of distribution. And industries which
don't produce, don't supply jobs or taxes. The wreck
age of our tanks, planes and ships will be scattered in
every corner of the world. Our men will be there too,
those who didn't come back. We will be "safely" at
home with a war debt of several hundred billion dollars,
minding our own business until the next war comes
along. ^
Is this what Americans expect of the future? They
will get it unless they make up their minds once and for
all to swim with the rest of the world toward peace and
sanity. At best it will be a long pull, but there is no
better way to begin while the bombers' roar is still in
our ears, than by wholeheartedly urging renewal Of the
Trade Agreements Act. *
Women in our war industry
wear slacks, which indicate they
are not slackers.
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If your garden plot is lirge
enough, demand will make it!
possible for you to raise not on
ly vegetables, but a few dollars.
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Now is the season when one
day a fan's swell ball club Wins!
and the next day his rotten team
loses.
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It may be common this summer
for the stockingles9 woman to
meet the shoeless man.
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A couple on the west coast
were married by telephone. That's
one way to get ^long.
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Girl babies learn to speak be
fore the boy babies, says a speech
expert. Meaning they get^thel
first word, too.
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It is expected that the air will
be full of pleasure planes after
the war. With trafTic directed
by helicopters.
A girt With a gun robbed a
man in Chicago. Since when !
did they have to use guns?
If the liquor shortage gets
worse, the first rose of summer
will be coming In about the time
the last nose goes out.
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More than 100 babies were en
tered in a baby show In Florida
? much to their disgust.
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With the arrival of moonlight
summer nights, co'at lapels will
be getting that school girl com
plexion.
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Folks in the country will ap
preciate gas rationing this sum
mer. Relatives won't be able, to
drop in.
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If the neighbor's chickens get
in next-door gardens this year,
some people will be foolish
enough to chase 'em back.
No tank runs, no ship sails, no
plane flies without cotton as a
part of its equipment or struc
ture.
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Petrified clams and oysters have
been discovered in North Caro
lina in deposits more than 30,
000,000 years old.
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AMERICAN HEROES
BY LEFF ,
Ll Clarence Lipeky, United States Air Force, from Great Neck, L. I.,
w?s one of the first American! to participate in the bombing of Germany
and the occupied countries. Forced down over enemy territory, Lt.
Liptky it now in a Nazi prison. *
To frea this American soldier, as well as guarantee your own future
liberty, buy Second War Loan Bonds with every cent not needed for
the essentials of living.
U. S. Treasury Dtpartmtn$
CHANGES DISTRICT
MANAGERS
Rumford Chemical Works, i
Rumford, Rbode Island, has
named Robert T. Hackett as Dis
trict Sales Manager in charge of
the Richmond District to suc
ceed the late W. Carlisle Burton, i
A native of Richmond, Mr.
Hackett joined the Rumford
Chemical Works as a salesman
for the Baking Powder Division j
in 1922. Mr. Hackett is assum
ing his duties immediately with!
headquarters in Richmond. He
will have charge of sales of Rum
ford -Baking Powder and Health
Club Baking Powder in the states
of Virginia. West Virginia, North
Carolina, Kentuck and Tennes
see.
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Some people buy old furniture
and others achieve the same end
by raising a family.
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? On Pay Day, Buy Bonds ?
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W/Uf BONDS
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The nlxtrrn-lnch coast gun ii the
moat powerful of all American gum
and coiti about $2,000,000 each. It
will throw a shell weighing up to a
ton many miles. The Coast Guard
alio has an clght-lnch mobile rail
way gun which will hurl a heavy
projcctilc about IB miles.
For defense of our homes, the
Coast Guard needs many of these
powerful weapons. You can do youi
iarl to help pay for thom by invest'
ing at least ten percent of your in
nrr.e in War Bonds and Stamps ev.
..-y payday. y.S. TVmv.ry . <
Some farmers cull their laying
flocks once or twice a year. T.
O. Minton of Champion, Wilkes
County, culls his 23,000 laying
hens'about every two weeks.
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: Cats and dogs may be kept in
apartment houses, according to
a rule in a Kansas town. They
ought to get real radical and in
clude children, too.
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Since there is a serious short
age of protein feeds, all cotton
seed and other oil meals should
go for animal feeding at this
time.
Leggett's
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