THE FRANKLIN TIMES
Issued Every Friday
?15 Ooart Street Telephone 288-1
A. P. JOHNSON, Hdltor and Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
?Om Tear ?1M
?a?ht Morthi .... t^o
Six Months 75
Fou Months BO
American P?ejj Association
' N*w York ? Chicago ? Detroit ? PtiiladolpMa p
Entered at the Pootofflee at LoiUbnrg, N. C. aa aecond
YOU ABE YOUR OWN SANTA CLAUS
According to Business Week, revenues from income
and excess-profits taxes will decrease. Profits of large
industrial corporations after taxes, as compiled by the
Federal Reserve, bit top in 1941. The over-all return
for 1943, on muchjjreater volume, was close to 20 per
cent below 1941. There will be no more "rich to soak,"
so more of the money to cover all waste, extravagance,
and incursions of government into the field of business
will come out of the small taxpayer. Uncle Sam isn't
Santa Claus. He is just the tax bill collector from
135,000,000 little Satita Clauses.
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LABOR SLACKERS UNLIKE FARMERS
Farmers in some sections of the country are equip
ping tractors with headlights so they can work nights
to overcome adverse spring conditions. Many a farm
er works 12 to 16 hours a day. He must contend not on
ly with the problems nature lays upon him, but with
man-made rules that run counter to the laws of nature.
With politics entering more and more into the field
of agriculture, farming becomes an intricate business in
which only the most competent can hope to make a suc
cess.
But in the face of all their problems, farmers do not
Btrike. This is in-glaring contrast with the tactics em
ployed by industrial labor which destroys production
to enforce demand^ We would not win this war if far
mers struck to cum their grievances.
THE LOW DOWN
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HICKORY GROVE
I Just run into a book ? It It
210 years old. Joe miler'a Joel
Book. It is ail
original I mean
? my copy is .11
reprint and-only;
41 years old. It'
cost me 4 dol
lars, phK
cents tax. It if
?worth it. <8 Sow,
when some rav
d i o Jokesmith
dishes up a rau
cous and non
Tiumorous ver
sion and concoc
tion of a Joke, I
Jo Serra
just look In my Joe Miller book
and' get the straight of It, and
get the point, which on the ra
dio, you don't get, except maybe
it is once in a full moon.
But about this Joe Miller. He
?was something like AEsop. Every
body knows, I guess, that it wai
Babrius who wrote down the fa
bles, about 200 years after AEsoi
told 'em. That was in 600 B. C
And It was Mr. John Mottley who
?wrote down the Joe Miller Jesti
in 1739. Joe Miller was English
? lived from 1648 to 1738.
You know, folks who are fed
tip on Horror, Murde#, and her
other-husband type books, might
switch over to AEsop or Jofe Mil
ler, and improve the &igestion.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
Cost of Living
Raleigh. ? The cost of living
has risen since the war began,
?which Is, of course, one of the
necessary evils of war. But the
OPA has controlled this rise un
til Its a mere drop in the bucket
compared to the rise of World
War I. 66 months after the out
break of war our living costs are
26.3% higher while in the corres
ponding time of World War I the
rate rise was 62.9%. This dif
ference Is Indicative of the (act
that without Price Control out
living costs would be three times
greater than they are now, whicli
should be an encouraging note tc
those of us who complain of high
prices.
The cost of food, rent, and
clothing are the maip items con
sidered In a "Cost of Living'
scale. Taking them separately
and comparing with correspond
ing items from the proceeding
?war we And:
This War 4 Last Wai
Food " 4-44.0% -1-78.0%
Rent - - 8.6% -|- 7.4%
Clothing -|-36.5% -|-120.7%
The above comparisons should
prove to tIfejknMfle (he value oi
Price Contrdl ?tmi necessity for
Its continuance.
Young Lawyer (to witness)?
Where was the defendant milk
ing the cow?" W: > i
Witness ? It's bard to describe
it, bmt ii yon brtn f la the cow,
fa .how rum the exact place..
War Map
Mr. W. B. McDonald, repre
senting the Standard Oil Co.. and
calling upon Fuller Esso Service
and other Standard dealers in
, this section, presented the TIMES
. with a large edition ot the Esso
War Map No. 2, which he explain
ed a home copy could be obtain
ed by any one by calling at Ful
ler's Esso Service station nnd
other Esso Stations without cost.
These are global maps of the war
centers and contain interesting
data on countries at war. H?
also showed a farm account and
information book, that would be
of great value to farmers. This
also is a gift from these stations
to farmers who need and will
use them. For late information
on automobiles and accessories
keep in touch with Fuller's Esso
Service advertising.
PROMOTED
George . W. Gilliam, of the Air
Service Command, who is station
ed at McClellan Field. California,
aas been promoted from the grade
of Private to Private First Class,
according to an announcement
from Brigadier General Clinton
W. Howard, commanding general
of Sacramento Air Service Com
mand in the western theater of
operations.
Prevate First Class Gilliam's
promotion was made in recogni
tion of outstanding service with
his organization at McClellan, one
of the Air Service Command in
stallations charged with the serv
ice, supply, maintenance and salv
age of all flying craft assigned to
Army Air Forces.
Private First Class Gilliam is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Gilliam, of Louisburg.
He entered service Majr9, 1942,
and now has an important job to
do at the depot which sends many
j airplanes to combat zones and
trains both enlisted men and civi
lians for duties wherever Air Serv
' ice Command units are needed to
'keep 'em flying: ? whether on the
sandy wastes of North Africa, the
jungles of the Solomons or the
lice fields of Alaska.
PROMOTED
Maxton. N. C., June 19. ? It's
1 "Sergeant" now for Mary H. Free
1 man, of Louisburg, N. C., mem
1 ber of the Women's Army Corps
1 Detachment at Laurinburg-Max
ton Army Air Base, glider in
l' stallatlon of the First Troop Car
? rier Command.
Sergeant Freeman, who was
' one of the first Wacs to report to
~ this Base, is assigned to the Pub
! Ucations Section of Base Head
quarters which handles supplies,
various paper forms, Army Regu
i lations, Memoranda, etc.
Before enlisting in the WAC,
Sergeant Freeman was connected
with Rose's Store in Loulpburg.
' She attended Mills Hicfe and Loa
lsburg College at Louisburg
The sergeant Is the dfctffchtfef
of Mrs. Veil H. Freeman, of 608
. Kenmore Avenue, Louisburg.
A wife in Tennessee- advertised
I for a husband gone three years.
| Maybe shramt -Mm to match
WD? ribbon.
SHERIFFS TO MEET? Pictured above are Nash's Sherlfl O. V. Faulkner
(left), president, and John R. Morris of Wilmington, secretary- treasurer,
of the North Carolina Sheriffs association which holds its annual conven
tion In Henderson vllle July 6-7 " At Its 1M3 convention, the association
adopted a resolution commending the voluntary cooperation program of
th?, Brewing Industry Foundation's North Carolina committee.
$500 HOTEL ROOMS FOR
GOVERNORS, PAST,
PRESENT AND FUTURE
Asheville, N. C. ? A former
Governor of the State of North
Carolina, its present Governor
and the Democratic nominee tor
that office paid $500 a room to
register at the Langren Hotel
this morning.
They wer^ Clyde Hoey, J. M.
Broughton and Gregg Cherry.
The price of rooms at the
Langren has not gone up. The
three distinguished visitors
simply bought $500 in bonds
apiece, which Is the quota set
by the National Hotel Associa
tion for each room rented in
each member hotel during the
Fifth War Loan dTive.
They saw to it that the quota
for at least three rooms was
met in full, at once.
This is the season when little
germs are waiting for flies to
take them on a trip to your home.
Swat!
An Indiana husband got a di
vorce because his wife knocked
him put with a skillet. They
left each other flat.
OPA REVEALS PRICES
FOR COTTON CLOTHING
Washington, June 20. ? The
Office of Price Administration has
announced dollar and cents prices
for men and women's low-cost
clothing being put into produc
tion by special War Production
Board program during July, Au
gust and September.
Administrator Chester Bowltes
announced cotton bouse dresses
will sell for 11.49, women's cot
ton slips for ?5 cents, men's
shirts for $1.39, men's shorts for
39 cents. Extra sizes of house
dresses will sell at $1.69 and ex
tra size slips at 75 cents.
Earliest purchase of the first of
these garments probably will be
August, WPB said.
App.oximtely 17.000,000 yards
of cotton fabric have been alloca
ted by WPB for this program
which calls for 2,142,852 shirts,
5,000,004 pairs of shorts and 1,
596,000 house drecves end about
1,021,272 cotton slip?.
After the war will come the
unscrambling of lend-lease and a
few other little matters to keep
[the super-men busy for a while.
? On Pay Day, Buy War Bonds ?
I ? ?
MY HEART IS OY(R THERE
That's why my HANDS are
busy lrar?!
Millions of American women
are applying their hands over
here, answering Uncle Sam's call
to help with our national food
crisis. With 20 million Victory
Gardens and five billion jars of
home-canned foods, they con
served our resources of fight
ing foods in 1943., ? ,
In 1944 you are being asked
to raiM^ind prese'rve 20 per
cent more, to assure every fight
ing Yank and his brother ?
as well as the home front ?
with needed nourishment.
For success, can with care,
following proper instructions, *
and use Ball Jars. They have
been the housewife's prefer
ence for more than 60 years.
Leaders always!
AI H>*'S MODERATE PRICES BUY
GOOD SHOES! why pay more?
NON-RATIONED PLAY SHOES
Take You From One Summer Activity to Another?
? PLATFORM BOW PUMPS $j yQ
? LOW-HEELED GHILLIE TIES To
? . ADJUSTABLE STRAP SANDALS
*2.95
StTetch your shoe wardfobe between ration coupons with
cool, comfortable fabric shoes. " Wear them with summer
cottons, play clothes and slacks. The fabric soles are treated
with plastic for extra durability. Your choice of white, red,
green, brown, black, biege.
FOXS
LQUISBLJRGIS BEST DEPT. STORE
HORTON WILL BECOME
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Raleigh. ? W. P. Horton of
Pittsboro, former Lieutenant Gov
ernor and a member of the advis
ory staff of Governor-Nominate
Gregg Cherry's campaign, said
here today he would accept the
post of national committeeman at
the Democratic National Conven
tion next month.
Horton, who has no announced
opposition, would succeed Clyde
R. Hoey, nominated in the May
primary for U. S. Senator.
Horton will be named by the
State's convention delegates, who
usually follow the wishes of the
Governor nominate In such mat
ters.
WILLIAM A. BURNETTK
Funeral services for William A.
Burnette, who died at his home
on Route 2 early Sunday after-*
noon, were conducted at 4:03 P.
M. Monday at Mount Zion Baptist
Church by the Rev. John Edwards
and the Rev. Charlie Howard.
Burial was in the church ceme
tery. Interment was made with
Masonic honors, Louisburg Lodge
having charge.
Surviving are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. C. G. Cash and
Mrs. Z. R. Allen of Route 2, Lou
isburg; three sons, W. L. of Lou
isburg, W. B. of Route 2, and J.
I W. Burnette of Rocky Mount;
jand a number of grandchildren.
CARD OP THANKS
I wish to thank my folks,
' friends and neighbors for the nice
' presents given me recently. I
[sincerely thank each and every
jone, and especially the one with
out a name on It. I will always
remember you and the love and
sympathy you shared with me.
Sincerely,
TEMPIE DAVIS.
? On Pay Day, Buy War Bonds ?
WE SAY ? SPEND LESS
SAVE AND BUY U, S. BONDS
Citizens Bank & Trust Co.
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