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THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issaed Every Friday ?IB Court Street Telephone A. P. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES || I Om Tew 91-M Btgbt Month* .... 1.00 Six Months 7o } Foot Month* .... .50 , 1 j forctp AdTcrtUing RepreMBUthe AMEBICAK PKESS ASSOCIATION New York City Entered at the PoMottloe at Loulsbnrg, N. C. u second eUw mall matter. The FRANKLIN TIMES wishes to commend the of ficials of Franklin County, particularly, County Ac countant J. H. Boone, for having published the finan cial condition of Franklin County. This gives the peo ple of the county a condensed showing of the finances of the county or the tax setup. This shows the county ob ligations, its taxable property values, the amount of de linquent taxes <it various dates, and the surplus reve nues and their disposition, and also the estimated 1943 tax rates, both for the county and the townships. This commendation is especially deserved since it will be noticed that it is required by a 1927 law and has so sel dom been complied with. ?uuu LIVES ?. THE PRICE OF STRIKES Many people have not realized the full threat to the "war effort that attaches to labor trouble in the coal mines. In 1943 it is estimated that upward of 100,000, 000 tons of coal will be chemically utilized. Coal deri vatives are used in explosives, plastics, the priceless sulfa drugs, solvents, food preservatives, insecticides, fertilizers, lacquers, rubber, nylon ami hundreds of oth er vital war materials. Total demands for coal have..grown to astronomical proportions. Prior to work stoppages in the mines, the industry waJT endeavoring to meet all demands placed upon it. It was succeeding. Now it remains to bo seen whether there will be a coal shortage. No power oil earth will be able to bring back the lives of the service men who may be lost because of any shortage. Men's lives are the price of strikes in wartime. 1 j % ; " S GOO REFRESHING REMINDER Speaking in behalf of marketing cooperatives before the food forum recently held in New York City under the sponsorship of the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, Congressman JerVy Voorhis of California declared: "I want to tell why I believe in cooperatives. 1 believe in them because I know the econoimc prob lems that have been destroying democracy and freedom in other countries must be solved. Free government cftnnot live where there are no free farmers . . . (Co operatives.) -can and they have restored to farmers in this country and in many .other countries the control over their own economic destiny. I believe in them be cause they are the one means that I know whereby our problem of poverty in the midst of plenty can be solved without resort to government dictatorship or to the de velopment of a" dependence Of millions of people upon government support. ' ' In these days of subsidies and artificial restrictions, it is refreshing to be reminded that the farmer can, if giv en the opportunity, shape his own future the same as he and other American citizens have always done in the past. i oOO SUPER AVIATION REQUIREMENTS A modern airliner can flash across a. state in minutes and across the continent in hours. After the war there Will be thousands of these liners operating, instead of a few- hundred. Commercial air transport will be an international service industry. The Lea-Bailey Bill now before Congress, would modernize Federal legislation affecting ?ivil aeronautics. Unless air regulation is un iform, development of the aviation industry will be stunted. Airlines, because of their interstate character, are al ready operating under Federal regulation in many res pects. Commenting on the value of such regulation, the New York Times says, there could be no more dramatic illustration of the need for it "than the major opera tion which had to be' performed in our air transportation system about a year ago. Due to the peculiar relation ship of the system to the national defense it became" nee* essary suddonly to mobilize: the industry, to Tedaeeil* nearly 50 per cent the number of planes in common-diu^ rier service, and to set up a nation-wide and even world wide network of special operations for the Army. This required a drastic readjustment in common-carrier schedules throughout the nation, a change in routes, a reshuffling of stops, and even changes in rates. Yet it was accomplished smoothly . . . because the entire system was subject to only one law administered by on ly one agency." In addition to regulation, the Lea-Bailey Bill provides for compensation for property, or for loss occasioned through Federal airport zoning, and for cooperation with local authorities, thus recognizing individual and states' rights in Federal legislation. ooo : if i ? ? FOR RENT ? SPACE IN jHtf PAPW m a?*, n. &* 000? NBGHKNtS-PttCES TO RT YOUR BU9NESS FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORY By KEY. E. H. DAVIS Among Franklin County's na-| live eons it is probable tbat none baa attained a wider celebrity tban Joseph John Allen ? not as in able lawyer or judge or a great orator but as one having a prodigious memory and so far is records show an unequaled reputation as a speller. That reputation went beyond county or State lines. Having come out victor in more than one State-wide contest of that sort here he received invitations or challenges to go outside into oth er States in quest of ?imilar laurels which he ever declined to accept. Even now years after his death the family gets an oc casional letter of inquiry from some one in a distant State as to the credibility of the reports current there regarding Mr. Al len's prowess as a speller. Born in 1847 when he had reached the age of 9 in 1856 he and his bro ther, William, two years older were entered as pupils in the Male Academy at Louisburg un der the charge of M. S. Davis. Ad interesting report of their standing that session in Mr. Davis' own handwriting hangs framed in an honored place in the living room of the Allen homestead* today. It begins ? "Louisburg Male Academy, Fall Session 1856. During the ses sion just closed William and Joseph John Allen have applied themselves very diligently and made rapid progress in their studies. Joe John in particular has studied with more than or dinary diligence and gives evi dence of a superior intellect." In the grades that follow Joe John is marked 1 on every thing and it is stated this is the highest distinction given. Regarding de portment there is this inter<?stins ?statement. "William has 4 Faults, no IMPRISONMENTS and one SLEEPING MARK. Joe John has no faults, no improson ments. no sleeping marks." "Im prisonment and sleeping marks" may have passed out of our ver nacular so far as having place in grading school and college pupils but they are suggestive even now. Br. Chas. G. Hill, of Baltimore, atld Bishop Joseph B. Cheshire, of Raleigh, were fellow pupils with Mr. Allen at the Academy in Louisburg. To speak of Mr. Allen's mem ory as prodigious is no exagger ation. In his marvelous feats and attainments iu that Held he was something like Mithradates of old. King of Pontus who without being a scholar only a soldier even from his youth ac quired the mastery of 22 lan guages so that he could converse fluently in any one of them and was said to know the name of every soldier in every army he ever commanded during his 50 years of continuous service of that sort- Mr. Allen often said that he ntver forgot the spelling of any word he had ever seen In print. He not only know how to spell every word in Webster's blue back Speller and Prim?jry Dictionary but knew also on what page in the book on what column on tbe page and how far from the top in the column such word appeared also the definition of the word wh?n given. This seems well nigbt incredible but numbers tested him in the mat ter and there is no instance of a single failure. He said frequent ly that when a word from either of those books was gvien to bim to define and spell there appear ed before his mental vision the page In the book on which it ap peared as distinct and real as the actual book could have appeared to his physical eyes. At the close of one of the contests in Raleigh out of which Mr. Allen came as usual triumphant it is said that he turned upon the inquisitorial committee who had given out the words consisting of two well known teachers and a prominent lawyer of the .city and drawing from his pocket a copy of the old "blue back" said, "Turn about is fair -play. These learned gentlemen have been grilling us' clod-hoppers for an ho'ur or more ? now let us see what they know or do not know about this old book." The committee protest- I ed but the audience applauded and the show went on to a con clusion richly enjoyed by all present except the committee as one after another they soon took their seats as words like CINNA MON, ETYMON, COROLLARY, HYPOCRISY, were thrown at them from that old authority by this veteran retired them in con fusion and rapdily. The muse of poetry Inspired an accomplished lady in Raleigh to write about one of these events in an interest Jing way: ine iiiue-isat'K npener By Miss Fannie 10. Heck I N ! I'd been mighty busy plowin' When there came a half a peck Of letters, sent from Raleigh, And askin' me direct, To come and take a hand with them At spellin' in a Bee, For helpin' on a set of folks They called the Y. M. C. I'd been a famous speller In the days of Old Lang Syne, But that was thirty years ago, And I hardly thought to shine; Bht Charlie Cook said "Risk it," And I wasn't loth to show That the good old blue-back spel ler , Is one thing that I do know. The house was Well-nigh crowded When the time Mime for the Bee, And, after sDmS per*uadin', There came up along with me M. D. and D. D. doctors And M. A.'s full a score, And editors and teachers. And lawyers several more. T'was funny then to see 'em, As the hard words came like hail, A pausin' and a stammerin' And a turnin' almost pale, Statement of Financial Condition County of Franklin Pursuant to the requirements of section. 11 of chapter 14ti of the Public Laws of 1927, tile following statement of the fi nancial condition of the County of Franklin is made as of 30 June 1943: (a) Assessed valuation for the fiscal year 1943-1944 $12,335,246.00 (This amount is subject to change on account of undetermined corporate excess) (b) Outstanding county-wide bonds 331,000.00 Outstanding township road bonds 470,000.00 Outstanding school bonds . . . ._ 35,060.00 (c) Taxes levied during the fiscal year 1942 1943, at rate of $1.02 175,528.28 (d) 1940 taxes uncollected 30 June 1941 $27,878.19 16.75% 1941 taxes uncollected 30 June 1942 24,130.57 13.55% 1942 taxes uncollected 30 June 1943 14,904.03 8.50% Average per cent uncollected . . 12.93% Of the amounts uncollected at the close of the three preceding fiscal years. $41,576.20 had been collected as of 30 June 1943. . _ (e) Miscellaneous fevenue other than taxation for the .fiscal year 1942-1943 '. 21,220.20 (f) There are no deficits in county funds. (g) There are no deficits in funds of any subdivision. (h) Surplus seventies in county funds: General Fund .......* $13,517 01 Health Fund . 1,694.98 School Fund, including current ex pense, capital outlay and debt service 11,597.98 Rent account ^ . . . 789.14 (Each item listed above has been applied" to the appropriation for 1943-44 for the respective purposes listed.) (i) , Unencumbered balances of the county ^ind subdivisions None (j) Estimated county-wide rate of taxation nec- - essary for the fiscal yea* 1943-1944 ? $1.02 Estimated rates necessary for township road debt service for the fiscal year 1943-1944: Dunp Township . $0.20 1 Harris Township .55 Youngsvllle Township .28 .. ? Franklinton T<*wnship .23 Hayesville Township . . > . .67 * ?, Sandy Creek Township ' 1 >.43 \S' Gold Mine Towliahtp .75 , Cedar Rock Township . . . .10 Cypress Creek Township ! ..< .68 Loulsburg Township .21 1 ~ Dttod thla 14 July, 1>43. r, J.Ti/^OONE, County AccounUat. EADACHE^ After boon o t anxiety, s h? dschs is ths lsst straw. But it quickly yields to I Cspudios, which also soothes nerves upeet ay "*? vmta. \j?y ****** m liquid. No waitin* for it t? dlsftolva before or after tak ing. So It's really Quick- Um only m directed. 10c, SOc, 60c. rarv-TrrrrTJ But law, it all came to me Like it used to long ago, And I saw the blue-back speller. With each long and even row. And I gave 'em, with the column, The place, the side, the page, For I saw those words like faces Ot old friends that do not age; But those learned folks kept droppin' Like the leaves oil any tree, And at last there wasn't standin' But a D. D. up with me. And then there came a poser, And the doctor he went down,/ And a shout went up that starMed Half the sleepy folks in town. But I didn't care for prize/? The thing that made m^-iJlad Was to down 'em with' the blue back I studied when a lad. Another certificate of profic iency from another teacher of Mr. Allen written and signed by that teacher himself hangs on the wall of that same room in the family homestead. Barring ac cidents it is doubtless destined to a long life ? on that wall or else where. Here is what he wrote and his name all written in his own once familiar hand. Washington College Lexington, Va., June 28, 1870. Dear Sir: , I have the pleasure of commu nicating to you the action of the Faculty of Washington Collega commending your son. John J. AUen, for his distinguished in dustry and success in his studies during the late session. With best'wishes for his future welfare, I am Very respectfully, ROBERT E. LEE, President To Joseph F. Allen, Louisburg, N. C. From Ingleside A ride around the county with Mr. R. F. Freeman Monday after noon through the Rocky Ford, Bobbitt and Epsom community revealed a promising outlook for most all crops, along the route. H ? 1! Mrs. Beulah Bledsoe, of Ral eigh, is spending a part of her vacation here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Edwards. 11 ? II Second Lt. and Mrs. Richard W. Poole and little daughter, Mary Ann, of Camp Sutton, near Monroe, returned Wednesday from a week's visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Edwards, here, parents of Mrs. Poole. She is the former Miss Lilly Ed wards. fl? H A recent copy of the FRANK LIN TIMES was sent to a former county man in California to read of the good tobacco crops in this part of Franklin, as prev iously noted in this correspond ence, as well as the paper as a letter from home. ' We are still having an abund ance of rain in this part of the county, and the general rainfall is reported to be even heavier over in the Epsom community. 11?11 A community social event, an ticipated with much pleasure and interest by friends of the popu lar couple, is the marriage of Miss Mary Kathryn Foster and Mr. Maurice Clifton Joyner, the vows to be spoken in Trinity Church near Louisburg this ^Friday) evening at 5 o'clock. II? u Mrs. Pat Shearin, of near In gleside, was a week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Harris. 11? H #Mrs. Lucy Matthews and Miss Miriam Rose Marks, of Louisburg, spent the past week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Turner Harris. Miss Annie Belle McCraw, of Warrenton, is visiting ? Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Wilfcon. IT ? II The announcement by Mr. Charlie Ford that I^r. Thomas Connel Wilson will be connected with the Southside Warehouse as assistant Sales manager this sea son we feel assured will meet the approval of Mr. Wilson's many friends throughout a wide area of the tobacco growing commu nity. Being the only brother per manently located at home, Mr. Wilson has for some time been in charge of the management of the large Wilson farm interests, and was conducted with credit and ability commensurate with the undertaking. He knows to bacco, and also likes the work required for the successful hand ling of the weed from the plant bed to the sales room. H? H Mr. and Mrs. Alex W. Wilson and their two little daughters, of Newport News, Va., arrived this week for a visit at home, and in cidentally to blend pleasure with matters of business. . o She:>"I don't think I ldbk thir ty, do you " ' He: "No, but you used to." A,, temperature of ninety de grees is hot anywhere hut seems a lot hotter In New York City. Soldiers Oh The' Home Front Every pei-Bon in Franklin County can and should be a sol dier In this war. Over 1200 of our best young men and women a/e training for the firing line, and we at home ] should do what we can to back up the man behind the gun. The call comes to buy War Bonds and Stamps to help pro vide needed materials for our ' men at the front, but we should do more than that. We are not asked to risk life and limb as are the men who are fighting to pre serve and maintain our way of life, but we should be willing to give our time to the war efTort on the home front. There are Jobs available for all types of personB and each one I ! i.l ihould do the Job for wfiicb ne >r she is best fitted. Our Covernor has issued an ;dict which says that a person who does not work can and will be made to work, but we hope that no person In our county will be so unpatriotic as to require :he enforcement officers to call In Captain Baker to see that the ?Work or Else" program is car ried out. o Sunrise barley produced 33 bushels per acre for R. L. Sprulll of Columbia and it was 10 days earlier than the Iredell variety. "Would you scream If 1 kissed you?" "How could I- if you did it properly?" , , If there 1b any problem for Which Dorothy Thompson has no aniwer, please name It. BETHANY SET 375.00 Engoguntnt Ring 300.00 BRENTWOOD S?t 87.25 Engog?m?nt Ring 62.50 w K? GENUINE-REGISTERED *| eepsake DIAMOND RINGS His hand will be the stronger for her confiding touch. Her heart will be the lighter for love that means so much. You may choose any genuine regis tered "KEEPSAKE" with confidence. 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