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THE FRANKLIN TIMES Issued Every Friday MB Court Street Telephone 288-1 A. P. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear 91-00 Six Month* T8 Eight Month* .... l.OO Four Months 00 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York City Entered at the Poatoffkse at Ixraiaborg, N. 0, a* second elaaa mall matter. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF Influenza and pneumonia are creating growing alarm in Franklin County, as elsewhere, not only among the people but among their doctors. There is no reason for panic. Franklin County has ?weathered disease stormfe before. It can weather the present seasonal siege. It is doubtful that it would do any good to close all public gatherings. Certainly it would not be wise to close the schools and turn the children loose to run where they will. At the same time, each oue of us can begin to look after himself and his family. If you have a cold, pamper it ; cure it. It may develop into something serious, meaning loss of manhours on the home front, the infection of others, even death. If you have a cold or are ill at all, stay away from theatres, crowded stores, even churches, until you are sure you will not spread illness among your neighbors. Finally, take the normal precautions before you get ''bo ill that a doctor's care is necessary. Save the doc tor's time and strength. The doctors are badly over worked as it is. Get plenty of sleep, eat properly and be sure of a proper diet. Avoid unnecessary exposure during the changeable weather of the Winter season. Take care of yourself and Franklin County probably will have nothing to worry about. ? ? RULE BY FORCE Under the threat of strikes, the government's entire price and wage stabilization program has degenerated into a series of sparring-for-time compromises. The final surrender to force came with imposition of the current work contract between the government operated coal mines and John L. Lewis. The country needed coal. The miners seized upon that need, to get more money, even if it wrecked the war effort. They got it by striking. Of the subsequent contract, Wayne L. Morse, public member of the War Labor Board, ob served: 'I The contract proposed in the instant case is not a collective-bargaining contract. Its legal status is an anomaly. However, it does purpose to set forth the terms of a wage agreement which is to prevail in all the coal areas. It is to be applied to the private property of citizens who were not parties to the. contract. It is true that the contract supposedly is jto govern for only the period of time during which the mines are operated by the government, but it is a virtual certainty that the mine owners will have to accept a contract embodying the same conditions when their mines are returned to them, or be faced with strike action. The mine owners best of all know this to be a fact. They had no voice in determining the terms of the contract, yet their prop erty interests are vitally affected thereby. Private pro perty interests throughout the country have the right ? to be concerned and alarmed over such a procedure." Individual liberty cannot be retained where unbridled force is superior to law. DROP IN THE BUCKET Pleading for the right of District of Columbia resi dents to vote, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says that they were discriminated against originally, for fear "gov ernment employees might be controlled and in turn con trol the people of their country." But, she adds, "now they are but a drop in the bucket of voters. ' ' That ain't the way we heard it. Tlhs proportion of Americans in government employ never approached ?within shouting distance of what it is now. Nor did the founding fathers dream, in their most fearful mo ments, that it ever would. Washington i-esidents should have the right to vote, of course. But not on such diseagenous grounds as Mrs. Roosevelt cites. We suggest that the First Lady go to the record when she purposes to write on such subjects. ? Reidsville Review. 0O0 A COMMON-SENSE AMENDMENT The Department of Internal Revenue continues to collect heavy taxes on the "deferred maintenace" funds which the Interstate Commerce Commission is allowing the railroads to set aside against the day when mater ials and equipment (currently on the list of war short ages) will again be available /for rail rehabilitation. The tax collector takes up to $4.26 out of every $5.26 of these funds. This would be bad even if the railroads were being subjected to normal wear ? which they are not. Actual ly the railroads are operating at a rate that has cut the Me expectancy of their equipment and rolling stock in half. When the war is over, much of the rail 's equipment will be obsolete as well as worn out. If they aire to meet the competition of trucks and airplanes, they must spend billions of dollars replacing and rebuilding their plant. While the existing taxing policy continues to drafe away railroad reserves, the sincerity of govern ment postwar planning remains open to question. Hie Saturday Evening Post observes: "Looking for 4 OUR DEMOCRACY VyM* p * : ttOj, d*t *6r~*s ?*$>: 0 fiwnutd! lncomc 12 c finnuaf Sxpefvcititvte srfog, owe C fi|c a? u,iu.a("ptu-i nrmece)iaxy ipen 3mg) 0^e4-u^t j. aitu ? J. and^U/cmt. I ctfnnuaf Income. $ f c flnnuat Sxp endiiwie GwPu ?ko uah tot, ' caiejut Ramify tlvincj 91 Xor.eij to put into <^VaidBoHdsL cTo fca-fcmce tije rxe , -iavingi accot'-f.U -tfte account ^cu*oUie*& ar2 $ecu*ihj, wanhgothe postwar world, one fact stands out in bold relieT^WkVe shall have with us a tremendous reemploy ment problem. In possession of the necessary funds, the railroads can do much toward helping with that problem. Billions of dollars and an army of men will be needed to re-equip the railroads. . . . "Given just treatment, the railroads can make their own plans for their future and carry them through themselves. But, to do it, a simple amendment to the Internal Revenue Code must be made now and the whole question of justly and economically deferred mainten ance funds settled on a common-sense basis." UUO NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT There is strong evidence that the United States is abreast of Great Britain in the struggle to pay the cost of the war so far as possible from tax revenues. In this country, latest estimates place total Federal revenues for the current fiscal year of approximately $45,000,000, 000. Total Federal expenditures will be around $90, 000,000,000. This is about the same revenue-cost ratio maintained by Britain, and is apparently the practical maximum. ? However, before we begin to brag about the sacrifice we are making in this country, we should consider just who is paying the taxes. Unfortunately, the burden is not distributed evenly. Politics lias guWed the enact ment of our tax laws, with the result that large segments of the voting population have been let off comparative ly easy, while other groups, corporate enterprise in par ticular, have been subjected to a crushing burden. This is perhaps the main reason why we have so far not con trolled inflation. The time has come to equalize the tax burden, not pass more punitive tax laws. Once taxes are distribu ted fairly, problems of economy and inflation can be solved. ? ----- - ooo "We are fighting not for democracy; not for four, or five, or a dozen freedoms. We are fighting for our very existence as a nation." ? Edward V. Robertson, U. S. Senator from Wyoming. A PEEK AT THE FUTURE T He chap who deaigna Greyhound Super-Coachea recently came up with the above idea. It'a not built yet, bat it will be a* aure aa Nippon'a "rising tun" will aet. Yea, the bua ridera' fu ture is bright. Some day you may even travel by Greyhound helicopter if present plans pan out. So don't judge tomorrow'* bus ride by what you're gettin' now, when we are short of buses and long on passengers . . . doin' our best to serve the Armed Forces, war-workers and other essential travelers. BUl-tU*luud>Ual CPFYHOUN a New "Azores" of i South Atlantic Ail airport gouged out of the volcanic rock of a tiny Island In the wastes of the South Atlantic has become an essential pivot for flights that help us win the war. Ascension Island, measuring only five miles by seven, lies roughly half way between the downward bulge of Africa and the outward bulge of Brazil, and represents a most remarkable bit of American enterprise, guts, imagination and tenacity, in the opinion of John Gunther, noted author and radio news commentator. He reveals for the first time the hitherto closely guarded se cret of this remarkable airport, "God'j gift to ocean fliers," in an article in the January Read er's Digest. Gunther's plane, which left Accra, .Africa," in the morning, landed on Ascension Is land, around noon, resumed its flight in the aftfrttoon, and land ed in Brazil that same evening. The trip. **s ' comfortable and safe, thanks in large part to As cension, .Gunther claims. The island's pride Is a runway, which British engineers frankly said could not be built. We built it in 91 days, writes Gun ther ? scalloped it out of the side of a rust-colored mountain. We also built hangars, machine shops, barracks, hospitals, rifle ranges, mess halls, storage dumps, an overnight hostel for air passen gers, and all the multifarious paraphernalia a great new airport needs, including even open-air theaters and baseball fields. All this was created on what Gunther terms the loneliest and most isolated place he has ever seen on earth, or water. Except for 'St. Helena, about 800 miles away, "there is nothing but the vastness, the inconceivable empti ness of the Atlantic." He des cribes it as a water-swept, sun scoured chunk of rock, and says that every cubic Inch of food must be brought in, except eggs laid by the thousands and thous ands of terns that cluster on the rock. There is no water on the island, but Gunther says that our chemists purify the sea water and make it fit to drink. Ascension has no native islan ders and was uninhabited until the early 1800's, when the British ? 1944 ? An old adage assures us that "silence is golden," but, on the Eve of New Year's, we can hardly agree. We believe this is the time to speak up and tell you how much we have appreciated your patronage during the past year, and to wish you good luck in 1944. RAYNOR'S Radio & Jewelry Shop "We Sell the Best and Service the Rest" Louisburg, N. C. built a cabin station there. To day, writes Qunther, the whole Island Is swarming with crowded activity. Several thousand Am erican troops are garrisoned there, and are officially considered a task torce. Officers and men wear steel helmets always, and, according to the article, every eventuality is kept in mind, even the possibility ot a landing at tack by Axis submarine. Gunther found morale on the island flrst class, despite the fact that Ascension is the loneliest and most inaccessible spot any American troops are called to serve In. o Nowadays he's a lucky man who has what it takes to find out if he can take it or leave it alone. With more cows on (arms than last year, milk production was down 2 per cent in November. Egg production was about 4 per cent higher. O RENEW KUUR SUBSCRIPTION 91.50 per year in Advance WAra EXHAUSTION lads /<, Headache^ I Don't let headache double the mis ery of exhaustion. At the first sign , of pain take Capudine. It quickly brings relief, soothes nerves upset by the Pfin. It is , liquid? already dissolved ? all J ready to act-all ready tot . bring comfort. Use only as di- 1 reeled. 10c, 80c, 60c. CAPUDINE \ Not much like Christmas A white CHRISTMAS . . . sleigh belli in " the snow . . . the laughter of little children, and then ? clear and nostalgic on the frosty air ? the miracle of tiny voices tinging "Pea ce on earth, good will to men." There's the Christmas we all dream of ? but especially those of our sweethearts, sons and brothers who are fighting in the muck and mud of a trench . . . Think how they must dream of it! And they do .. . "It was like any other day ? " so wrote a soldier (a boy you might know) of Christ* mastlme last year. "We landed about noon and tried to aleep ... In the eve ning we went into a funny little African town and taw an old movie . . . thea turned in. Not much like Christmas." He's in the tropics now, that boy; it won't seem much like Christmas there, either. But thit year ? thia Christmas ? the folk* back home are buying him the on* present' that can help to bring him back ? back H a white Christmas? War Bondsl De cide now to give your boy an extra Wa? Bond or two! And so there'll olwmy* be * Christmas, make every gift "The Present! With a Future"? War Bonds! ! ; FOR PEACE ON EARTH* BUY WAR BONDS This space is contributed to America's all-out war effort by "leggett's Leads Xk Louisburg"
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