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THE ft4 K AIN&L1IN 1 lMhb Issued Every Friday SIS Oonit Street - Telephone 283-1 A. F. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Om Tear $1.00 Bight Months 1.00 Sir Month* 78 Four Months SO Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York City Entered at the Poatoffloe at Loaiabnrg, N. O. aa second THE FIDDLER'S BILL Anti-inflation palliatives are doomed to failure unless quietly followed by effective measures to control the cause of inflation. The cause of inflation is directly traceable in a large measure to Federal financing poli cies. As long as tax favoritism and wage favoritism toward great masses of voters prevail, and as long as those so favored fail to invest a large share of their re cord wages in war bonds, no power on earth can stop inflation. *.>;??? OOO . REDUCING PRODUCTION In stressing the need for a government policy that "will result in maximum food production," John D. Miller, president emeritus of the National Council of Farm Cooperatives, says "price ceiling experiments tracing back to the Roman Empire have a record of un interrupted failure as a method of preventing inflation or keeping down the cost of living. "An effective ceiling on any commodity will in time restrict production. A planned economy spells the doom of our system of tree enterprise. Rising commod ity prices are not the cause, but the result of inflation. "Inflation should be attacked on two fronts: First, by adopting policies that will result in the greatest pos sible food production, thus increasing supplies; and, second, by siphoning off buying power through taxation, thus reducing demand." Mr. Miller described subsidies as higher food prices with the money being paid by the citizens to the gov ernment as taxes, and then distributed to the farmers by government. "Farmers resent being placed in a po sition where they cannot support themselves, , but must accept government handouts. Food prices can be so regulated that farmers will receive a living price, and with consumers paying as low price as is consistent with production cost, transportation, processing ami market ing. This was done during World War I and food pro duction rose to the maximum. But now we have price ceilings which have always resulted in decreased food production." ' , ? ? ouo * CLOSED SHOP CHALLENGED In support of constitutional states' rights, Attorney General Watson of the State of Florida has filed suit against two corporations operating under closed shop agreements, to test the legality of the closed shop con tract in a 4?ti8h founded upon principles of justice and equalty. In Commenting on the suits, Mr. Watson says: "In both cases we have proven that to employ a worker the employer must first send him to the business agent of the union. This business agent classifies the employe to the union which he is required to join. An initiation fee is fixed by the union ? these fees in the two cases in question ranging all the way from $10 to $125 per ini tiation. It was proven also that the business agent could and did in cases arbitrarily refuse to certify the name of the proposed employe either to the union or to the employer; that also, even after certification to the union under application for membership, the union's membership committee arbitrarily refused to admit him, in which case he became immediately disqualified, and if he had gone to work upon a tempprarv permit from the business agent, his employment was immediately terminated because of the union's refusal to accept him as a member. We also proved instances where men seeking employment, accepted membership by the union, after paying their initiation fee, were shortly thereaf ter terminated from such employment without cause and Solely upon the union's dictum. ? We also proved that persons were terminated by the union's dictum in their employment for failure to pay union dues, akyl in several instances where controversies have arisen among ufiion members in the same .employment, the u?hm&< would take the side of one against the other and terra!*1 nate the membership ... of the one acted against, and thereby bring about his immediate discharge from his closed shop employment." These labor excesses have been practiced with the ap proval and encouragement of the Federal government. That is one of the reasons why the coal mines have been socialized temporarily, why legitimate unionism may suffer lasting injury, and why, when our men come back from war, they may find that before they can get a job they must pay tribute to a labor dictatorship just as deadly to freedom as the European military dictator ships. It is not too late to restore constitutional government. Courageous men like the Attorney General of Florida are leading the way and deserve public encouragement and support. ? Selected. The outcome of this action will be watched muqh interest from the many true American^ wijp Jjelievf gq equality, based on old time freedom anw'liberty guaran teeing justice and equality. j Folks who don't take thai* time about it do a P9W job of growing old. -fl; ? _ .11; ? Ramirez Pledges Friendly Actions Government Proclaims In tention To % Strengthen Ties in Hemisphere Buenos Aires. June 8.? Argen tina's new government, successor by revolt to an administration that followed a strict neutrality, line, tonight proclaimed Its in tention of strengthening "not only by words, but by deeds," its relations with the other Ameri can Republics, all of which have declared war on or broken rela tions with the Axis nations. At the same time, the govern ment moved to obtain formal re cognition abroad and, in a ges ture of confidence in the perma nence of the revolution that un seated "isolationist" President [Ramon S. Castillo only four day? | ago, raised the state of martial) law existing Buenos Aires. (It was the first official an-j nouncement that the Argentine1 'capital had been under jnartial law, although Montevideo dis patches indicated troops had been1 in control of the city since Fri-j day.) Troops were returning from buenos Aires their nearby en campments when President Pe dro Ramirez etperged from a two-hour conference with his new cabinet to issue a' statement on the foreign and domes'lo pol icies of his new government. Close Cooperation Ramirez, whq helped install Gen. Arturo Rawson as president of the republic~^tfter Castillo had resigned and tl?en succeeded to the presidency himself when Rawson failed to form a cabinet, made it clear in bis statement that he intends to pursue a pol icy of close cooperation with the United States. and all other Wes tern Hemisphere republics. "With respect to Argentina's attitude toward the war," the statement said, "the provisional government considers yesterday's declaration of its position suffic iently clear. It should be add ed that not only words but deeds bringing us closer to our sister American nations will be carried out'." Neutral "Fop. Present'* In its Initial statement yester day the Ramiret gpverument de clared that it would adhere to u policy of neutrality "for the pres ent," leading diplomatic observ ers to speculate on the possibili ty that a change in thfU policy might be contemplated. There was a growing opinion among foreign observers that the new government was studiously seeking to cultivate the friend ship of the other American re publics, which had been strained for months by the fact that Ar gentina alone had maintained diplomatic relations with the Axis. ? ?' o Canning Project The Canning project sponsored by the Junior Woman's League will be held in the Mills School lunch room beginning June 21st. Mrs. E. V. Stone, ol Justice, will be in charge of the canning. Mrs. Stone, who is very competent in this line, canned over two thous and quarts last summer. Anyone living in Louisburg may bring their vegetables pre pared for canning to the lunch room. Either quart or pint size jars may be used. The only charges are as follows: if you furnish your jars, the lunch room is given one out of six; or, if the lunch room furnishes the Jars, it is a fifty-fifty proposition. The Junior Woman's League has been Interested in getting a Red Cross bandage room (or Louisburg, but was advised by National Headquarters In Wash ington that another was not need ed. This canning project Is .be ing sponsored as a War project in order to cooperate with the Food Conservation plan. All cit izens with surplus vegetables are urged t'o take advantage of this opportunity. Further notice concerning the project will appear as announce ments in the FRANKLIN TIMES and notices placed In the stores. ? ' o "North Carolina Echo", Hol stein Friesian cow at N. C. State College, has produced 672 pounds of butterfat and 18,181 pounds of milk in 361 days. This is 3 Mi times what the average dairy cow produces. o ? Experience becomes a teacher ' when we no longer look on it as merely another misfortune. Grant Wood's famous painting "American Gothic" re produced by permission of the Art Institute of Chicago.* Dear Senator : v : 1 !? Mother and I missed seeing you when you were home for the holidays, so I wanted to write you now that you're starting your new session. Jim is overseas, Junior is in camp and Mary is working in a war plant. This leaves us a little short-handed, especially with volunteer work, O. C. D., U. S. 0., Yationing boards and so on. But we'll make out if we can keep our patience and work hard enough. Senator, I'll have to admit we did lose patience a few months back. Junior used to say I always scolded him too late ? after, he had already made up his own mind to do better. f guess I was waiting till I got my temper under control. And thatV what i'-.i & I've done in your case, too. First (this is just the way I used to start in to take our boys down a peg), I hope you fellows we've elected to Congress are going to take some more responsibility. Now that the business men and the farmers have turned into production wiz ards, we wouldn't mind if a few poli ticians that, you and I know would turn into statesmen for the duration. Second , I wanted to warn you about money. We know you have to think in big. sums and spend a lot of money for the war. But try and remember how hard Mother and I worked to buy $ 200 worth of bonds. Don't let them throw our money away or waste even a little. A wasted million dollars won't save any soldier lives. And it will hurt five thousand families like ours who sweated it out in bonds and taxes. And listen, Senator, don't worry about whether we're going to co-operate of not. We've given Uncle '9dpi our boys, our businesses, our mcHfty'and all our con fidence and, if you think anybody that will give this much is going to quibble about a gallon of gasoline or a can of beans, if you think that, well, somehow or other when you took the train to Washington you left all your common sense on the platform back here! Mother and I and everybody we know * * * want you to have everything to work with and want to give you the most loyal, intelligent, whole-hearted co-oper ation that was ever given any govern ment in the history of the world. That's what you can count on from the folks back home. Now you know usy Senator, you know we all want to win this war just as quick and as positive as anybody in Washington does. You know something else, too, sir. You know we have faith in you ? faith you'll do the right thing. . I remember how we put it up to Junior when we mortgaged the place to send him to coilege: Son, we're counting on you." And, somehow , Senator , Mother and 1 feel you and Congress aren't going to let us down. Respectfully yoars, r * Middleville, U.S.A. ?Beneath the stern and unyielding righteousness of the men and women who conquered the soil of America, Grant Wood has depicted their fixed belief in a better tomorrow ... an undying patriotism ... * readiness Co sacrifice, that their sons and daughters might go forward! message, prepared by the J. Walter Thompson Company, is one of a series contributed Jointly by advertising agencies and lite Nsw York Times Wl*? f. ? "?* vA ' f. And Is Presented Here To Ybu by The Franklin Times. it:.
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