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BIBLE THOUGHT
"Righteousness exalteth a nation; bat sin is a reproach to
any people:" Proverbs 14:34.
DEATH AND TAXES
I
T'S an old saying: "Man's
pay his taxes and die." And
overcome him before he can fulfil the other obligation.
Everything else has come down in price and is still sink
ing, but taxes seem to keep climbing despite the fact that
few persons have the money to pay them. Congress and
other law-making bodies apparently think the only remedy
is to spend more money and
the fortunate few who can still
our legislators have never heard about "killing the goose
that laid the golden egg.
"Do you realize," asks Robert Quillen, famous South
Carolina editor, "that one-fourth of the money earned by
the people and the property of this nation is required to
pay the expenses of government?
"Do you realize that one person in each eleven derives all
or part of his income from
"Never before 1917 did any Congress dare to appropriate
as much as a billion dollars. In 1916 only three-fourths of
a .billion was required for all fixed charges and operating
expenses. Yet this year the fixed charges the burden
tnat cannot be lightened will
erating costs more than 2,662
"That is the cost of federal
cost of state, county and municipal governments is greater
sun.
Raymond Clapper, Washington correspondent for the
United Press, national news gathering organization, writes
that not only are "senators and congressmen keeping wives,
daughters, sons and other relatives on the payroll ... but
they are also managing to continue to live in the style to
which they have been accustomed.
"They have completely escaped the ravages of a depression
which has even stripped millionaires of their yachts and
caused "such men as Charles Schwab and Percy Rockefeller
to hint as publicly as possble that they may spend their
declining days in the poorhouse."
Citing, among other instances, waste of taxpayers' mon
ey about the national capitol, Clapper said that the senate
still maintains a barber shop , where a squad of barbers is
kept on the payroll as "skilled laborers" so senators might
get free hair cuts, shaves, shampoos and massages. He
also called attention to the fact that $600 or $700 a month
is spent to supply pernickety senators with fancy bottled
drinking waters.
Chesla C. Sherlock, writing in the Ladies' Home Journal,
says that "every working day in the. year we are spending
$40,000,000 to support government federal, state, county
and local.
"We are devoting almost one working day a week the
year around, earning money to support them all of us.
"If you live on a farm, from 2 to 20 per cent of your net
income went for taxes in 1929; more than that was required
in. 1930 and 1931. ,
"If you are in business, out of everv dollar nf nr' r.
pprate profits, 30 cents go for
high as 68 cents out of each
taxes.
The press the countrv OVer
Republican is employng its most vociferous language to
deplore the ever increasing tax burden. But the press is
powerless unless it can arouse the nnhliV tn onnnorf
tion. lhe American people are too slow to express their
opinions: they are prone to let the other fellow attend to
public business for them and they don't wake up until that
other fellow has done the wrong thing.
Ter'3 little doubt that there is an overwhelming demand
in all the counties of North Carolina for tax reduction. Yet
a North Carolina congressman, Charles L. Abernethy, of
New Bern, representing the third congressional district, has
wipuuuy io mane an aaaress on the floor of congress
opposing the reduction of salaries for federal employes.
Mr. Abernethy and any other North Carolina congressmen
or senator who has such an attitude would do well to
come.back home and see how his constituents are strug
gling to grow meat and bread to give them the strength to
tfw0A S t0 It .themo??y t0 the taxes to keep men
like Mr. Abernethy m Washington.
Editorial Clippings
SENATOR MORRISON ANQ
THE CAMPAIGN FOR SEN-;
ATORIAL NOMINATION
One of the peculiarities of humn
nature and politics is illustrated by
the news coming out of Ruleigti in
recent weeks to the efK'cl that
Senator Cameron Morrison - has
been losing ground in in campafijri
for election by reason V f the fact
that he has been in Washington
occupy'i'g hj seat ((). Senate
chatmV: ind ati. rnl: n; to his duties
as a repres-jntatve cf tnc ;ie- lo of
, t . .t rt i r . ,
xsortn viroiuij m tne united antes
Cotv .8
. The. talk at Ralii,b. summed tip
more than onoe by "he. Fuleiyh
correiyviident of The Times-News,
il that 5i'iator Morris .j'j f-ition
Number 17
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GOT to do only two things,
it looks now as if death will
raise the taxes still higher on
pay. It would appear that
the public treasury?
be 1,699 mllion, and the op
million.
government alone, and the
taxes. In some industries as
dollar of net profits go for
indpnpndpnt Domnnvofin an A
has be?n watc-iKU by the fact
that he his bcoi ;ut of ihe State,
while his three opponent? foi the
Democ-atie nominal1 'i have born
in Nnr ?(, f,H1 oii i i.activelv at work
4 and speaking throughout the State.
If conditions are accurately guag
ed by our Raleigh correspondent,
and Senator Morrison's strength,
has been diminished because he
has been attending to the business
in Washington for which he is
being paid and which it is his first
duty to attend to, the facts are an
illuminating commentary on the
crooked thinking and perverted
views of some of the citizens of
the State.
Where should Senator Morrison
bt at this time the most period in
the history of this country since
the War Between the States in
Washington, performing his duties
as a representative of North Caro
lina and a public servant of the
whole country, or in North Caro
lina, seeking to promote his per
sonal ambitionsa nd interests by
making a campaign for election 'to
the office he now fills?
One of Senator Morrison's op
ponents, Mr. Grist, holds a State
office and draws pay from the
public treasury for service to the
people of the State in filling that
office, According to the reports
coming out of Raleigh, he is tak
ing the time which belongs to the
people of North Carolina, by reas
on of the fact that they are pay
ing him for that time,to go over
the State office. The Times-News
does not hesitate to condemn Mr
Grist's action. We have no criti
cism tof Mr. Grist's ambition to
go to the United States Senate
That is laudable and legitimate;
but he should have- resigned '. the
State office he holds, if in run
ning for another office he is go
ing to be compelled to neglect the
duties of the office he now holds.
If Senator Morrison returned to
North Carolina for weeks or months
to wage his campaign for the nom
ination, temporarily vacating his
seat in the United States Senate
and neglecting important duties
there, he would deserve to be de
feated. There ought to be tens of
thousands of citizens of the State
who will, be influenced to support
him by his determination to do
his duty inWashington regardlessl
of the consequences to his cam
paign in North Carolina. HEN
DERSONVILLE TIMES-NEWS,
PROVINCE OF A NEWSPAPER
It would be comical, were it not
somewhat pathetic, the way news
paper offices are besieged every
day by their "friends, urging them
to "roast" this and that; to "see
to it" that this and that is cor
rected ; to have this and that done
in the city or county; to start this
and that kind of movement to cor
rect evils in the state government
These friends actually appear to
believe that it i the newspaper's
business to handle all these affairs
But a self-respecting newspaper,
though ready and willing to carry
all reasonable responsibility, must
remind its readers that they the
people are the . . authority upon
whom rests the responsibility for
the present state of affairs, local,
state and national. -
A self-respecting newspaper tries
to report the news of what actu
ally happens, not what it might
wish had happened. The relation
of a self-respecting , newspaper to
the general public is . not always
understood. It is the duty of
newspaper to be in a position to
support any good act and criticize
any bad act of public policy.
This relationship cannot exist
where favors are asked and granted
Honesty is the only policy for a
newspaper.
If the objectors don't like the
way things are going, they should
qualify as voters, and then raise
Cain about it. FLORENCE, S.
NEWS.
THE COST OF GOVERNMENT
The cost of government in the
United States has grown more than
twice as fast as the national in
come and more than three times as
fast as the population, , says The
New York Times in a discussion
of the high cost of federal govern
ment. The Times says:
"The combined governmental ex
penditures, federal, state and local
for the fiscal year ending in 1929,
as computed by the statisticians
of the conference board, amounted
to -13,048,000,000, an increase of
3.5 per cent, or $439,000,000 over
1928. This the statisticians declare,
represented a per capitaa cost
$108.37, as compared with $105.20
in the preceding year. For 16
years, from 1913 to 1929, the costs
of all the governments in the Unit
ed States are asserted to have in
creased 347 per cent, while in the
same period the national income
increased 148 per cent and the
population only 25.9 per cent. I
other words, its is said that gov
ernmental expenditures grew more
than twice as fast as national in
come and more than three times as
fast as the population." TH
MORGANTON, NEWS-HERALD
Tellico
Misses Lola and Jessie Ramsey,
who have .been attending school at
Cullowhce, spent the week-end with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Ramsey.
Mr. ahd Mrs. George Ramsey
went to Franklin on business
Thursday.
Mr. Luther Conner has found
four bee trees this spring.
. Tornado Kills Six
At least six were killed and more
than 20 injured by tornadoes in
the Memphis section on Monday.
Property damaged was. reported
heavy. '
Of Apponriitoi:,.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol
lowing etsay by Ted Eaton,
on of Mr. and Mr. S. Ed-
ward Eaton, of Franklin, was
on of two paper awarded
prize by the Macon County
chapter of the United Daugh
ter of the Confederacy in a
contest conducted 'among stu
dents in the, Franklin high
school by Miss Helen Macon,
history teacher. The essay
dealt with various phases of
Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
The other winning essay, writ
ten by Miss Elizabeth Poin
dexter, was published in The
Franklin Press, issue of April
14.) '
BY TED EATON
The. question has often arisen of
the value of. the Civil War.. Here
we have Wilson's opinion : "And
all for a belated principle in gov
ernment, an outgrown economy, "an
impossible purpose!" Let us now
look to see what the two sides
were fighting jor, 'and if the result
justified the cost.
The surrender at Appomattox
was a yielding not only of a gov
ernment and its military forces but
of the ideals and beliefs of that
government as well. From the be
ginning of the government, there
were two opinions in regard to the
power of a" state under the Con
stitution. At the time of the Civil
War the people of - the North
thought that nearly all the powers
of government were vested in the
United States aut:..iities, but the
people of the; South held that a
state retained a considerable share
of independence. From these
opinions developed three points of
conflict, nullification, "squatter-sov
ereignty" and the right of peace
able secession. The Southerners
thought that the United' States was
confederacy, not a nation, and
that, therefore, a state had more
power than the federal govern
ment. This leniency toward state's
rights was manifested in different
ways. The Webster-Hayne Debate
emphasized the opinion of the
South that a state legislature could
nullify a federal law. The com
promise of 1850 and the Kansas
Nebraska bill brought out the be
lief that a state had the right of
making its own laws : concerning
certain problems such as that of
slavery. The majority of the peo
ple of the South believed that
state could peaceably secede if it
found itself out of harmony with
the other states, as was shown by
the succession of South Carolina in
1860, With the surrender at Ap
pomattox, these beliefs of the peo
ple of the Confederate States col
lapsed and the ideas and beliefs
of the conquering side supplanted
them.
The people of the North based
their prevailing opinions on the
rights of the federal government
just as the people of the South
based their opinions on the rights
of the . state. The Northerners be
lieved that the laws of the federal
government had supremacy over
the laws of the state and so, in the
Webster-Hayne Debate, they op
posed the theory of nullification of
a .- federal law by a state. The
opposition of the North to "squat
ter-sovereignty" (leaving a certain
question up to the state and not
to the federal government to de
cidc) was shown by Lincoln in the
Lincoln-Douglas Debates. The ans
wer of the North to peaceful se
cession was War. They wanted to
save the Union the Nation.
Love of one's country, national
ism, and Union were arrayed
against love of one's State, state's
rights, and Confederacy. The sur
render at Appomattox did not de
cide : which ideals were right, but
which should prevail. The question
of peaceable secession was settled.
thus - ending the constant sectional
squabbhngs and bickerings. , But
may we realize that the. Civil War
was not fought "all for a belated
principle in government, an out
grown economy, an impossible pur
pose," for with the surrender at
Appomattox came the striking of
shackles from four rrrtllion. men.
Webster's dream ha"d corae true
"Liberty and -Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable."
N. C. Social Service Meeting
Over 300 attended the yearly
meeting of fhe N. C. Conference
for Social Service which opined in
Durham, Monday. Prohibition of
women doing night work in indus
try and of men working more than
55 hours a week, setting a minimum
school term' of eight months, and
forming i a continuing appointive
board of education or the state,
were matters approved in' .csolu
tions. 10 Killed in Dam Break '
Ten men were trapped beneath
tons of mud at Marmet, W. V.,
Saturday, as earthworks at a gov
ernment dam project gave way.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
' y NOTICE
North Carolina, .
Macon County.
IN THE MATTER OF THE
BANK OF FKANKLIN - :
Whereas, Gurney P. Hood, State
Commissioner of Banks, did on the
28th day of November, 1931, direct
the Board of Directors of the
Bank of Franklin to levy an as
sessment against the stockholders
of the said The Bank of Franklin
in the sum of $100.00 per share:
And whereas, the said Directors
and Stockholders did on the 14th
day of December, 1931. levy an
assessment of $100.00 per share as
directed by the said Gurney P.
Hood, Commissioner of Banks:
And whereas, said assessment has
not been paid or arranged to be
paid by the persons and upon the
number of shares hereinafter set
forth: .....
I will, therefore, by virtue of the
authority vested in me under the
laws of the' State pf -North Caro
lina, sell at the office of The Bank
of Franklin at 12 o'clock noon, on
Monday, the 2nd day of May, 1932,
the number of shares of the capital
stock of The Bank of . Franklin
hereinafter set forth as follows :
Bradley, L. M., 1 share,
Bryson, S. A., I share.
Bryson, W. M., 1 share.
Franks, E. Ii, 5 shares.
Franks, Sam L, 2 shares.;
Hardman, Mrs. J. B., 2 snares.
Higdon, T. B., 1 share.
Higdon, W. L, 12 shares.
Jamison, Grover, 20 shares.
Moore, W, T., 2 shares.
Moore, Alex, 2 shares.
Murray, Frank I., 6 shares.
Porter, Tas. A., IS shares.
Porter, Jas. A, Exec, 20 shares.
Ramsey, Robert, 2 shares.
Ramsey, J. R., 1 share.
Rickman, Evcrettet 1 share.
Rogers, Mamie-A:, 90 shares.
Roane, Mrs. Minnie, 5 shares.
Sanders, M. E., 1 share.
Smart, Mary, 1 share.
Smart, Ada & Marinda Brown,
1 share.
This the 30th day of March. 1932.
By order of theXommissioner. of
Banks of North Carolina, and the
Board of Directors of The . Bank
of Franklin.
Cashier of The Bank of Franklin
H..W. CABE, "
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NOTICED SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
North Carolina,
County of Macon.
Under and by virtue of the pow
er and authority contained in that
certain deed of trust executed by
James T. Vinson and wife, Ella
Bell Vinson to The Raleigh Savings
Bank and Trust Company, trustee
(the undersigned trustee having suc
ceeded to the rights and title of
the named trustee, under Chapter
207, Public Laws of 1931), which
said deed of trust is dated May
1, 1926 and recorded in Book 30,
Page 121, of the Macon County
Registry, default having been made
in the payment of the indebted
ness thereby secured and in the
conditions therein secured, the un
dersigned trustee, will on Saturday,
April 30, It Of ftfolt tWllvt
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
o'clock noon, at the courthouse
door at Franklin, N. C, offer for
sale and sell to the highest bidder
for - cash the following described
property: ,
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land containing One Hun
dred Seventy (170) acres, more or
less, situate, lying and bting on
the Tessenta Road, about two and
one" half (2) miles almost East
from the town of Otto, in Smith
Bridge Township, Macon County,
North Carolina, having such shapes,
metes, courses and distances as will
more fully appear by. reference to
a. . plat . thereof, -made by W. N
Sloanev surveyor on the 'day of
March, . 1926, and - attached to the
abstract now on file with the At
lantic Joint Stock Land Bank of
Raleigh, the same being 'bounded
on the North by the lands of the
United States Government and M
B. Norton; On the East. by the
lands of M. B. Norton and W. H
Patterson, on the South by
the lands ' of S. C Conley
and on the West by the lands
of S. C. Conley, and being
the identical tracts of land convey'
ii by deed from the Central Loan
and Trust Company, a corporation,
to J. T. Vinson by deed dated 22nd
day of October, 1924, which said
deed is duly recorded in the of
fice of the Register . of Deeds for
Macon County, State of North
Carolina, in Book of Deeds No
"J-4" page 369 to which reference
is made for a more complete de
scription of the same.
Terms of sale cash and trustee
will require deposit of 10 per cent
of the amount of the bid as his
evidence of good faith.
This the 30th day of March. 1932
NORTH CAROLINA BANK AND
TRUST COMPANY, Trustee,
Successor to The' Raleigh Savings
Bank and trust Company, Trustee.
J. L. Cockerham and
Robert Weinstein, Attorneys
Raleigh, N. C.
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ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix
of L. A.' Franks, deceased, late of
Macon County, N. C, this is to
notify all persons . having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to. exhibit tliein' to the undersigned
on or before the 19th day of April,
1933 - or this ' notice will be plead
in bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will
please' make immediate settlement.
This 19th day of April, 1932.
Belle Houston, Administratrix
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NOTICE OF SALE "
By virtue of a Deed of Trust
from J. L. Collins, to the under
signed trustee, dated the. 15th day
of July, 1927, and recorded in Book
31, Page 13, Office of Register of
Deeds for Macon County and given
to secure the sum of Four hundred
($400.00) Dollards, purchase money
of the hereinafter described proper
ty and default having, been made
in the payments of the notes thus
secured and parties to whom said
money is due; having demanded
that laid land bt, 10W to pay laid
debt 1 I will it iisfciio tttifba it
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
the Court House door in the town
of Franklin, 'County of w Macon,
State of NorfwBCarolina, on Satur-
day the 30th day of April, 1932,
and between the legal - hours of
sale, sell for -cash to satisfy said
notes" the following described prop
erty, lying arid being in Franklin
township, County of Macon, State
of North Carolina, and described
as follows: ,
Being part of . lot E. in Block 3,
in the Bonnie' Crest subdivision.
Beginning at a locust stake in the
Southeast corner of the C F. Ol
iver lot and runs with the line of
the Oliver lot South 79 West 109.
feet to a stake "the Southwest corn
er of said lot; then South' 32 1-2
East 60 feet to a stake; then South
79 West 116 feet to a stake in the
line of lot E &F.; then with said
line South 32 1-2 East 525 feet to
a stake on the North side of drive;
then with North side . of .drive
North -43 East 195 feet to a stake
the Southwest corner of lot D.;
then with the line of lot D' North
29, West 470 feet to the beginning,
excepting about one-fourth of an
acre" known as the Boston ' lot
Dated this the 30th day-of
March, 1932. . .'
W. B. McGUIRE, Trustee.
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NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue ofa power of ; sale
vested in the undersigned trustee,
by a Deed of Trust from E. B.
Duvall and C. A. Shiek dated the
6th day of September, 1928, . and ,
registered in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for Macon Coun
ty in Book vNo. 31, Page 123 given
to secure NiJie, Hundred ($900.00)
Dollars, of fhe purchase money for
the land hereinafter described, and
whereas default has been made in
the payments of the notes secured
by said Deed of Trust and where
as there - is now due and unpaid v
the sum of Six hundred seventy
four dollars and forty-three cents
($674.43), principal and interest to
date and -the undersigned ..trustee
having been requested by the own
er of said notes to exercise the
power vested in him by said Deed
of Trust: - '.
I will, therefore by virtue of said
power of sjiileso vested in me on "
Saturday the 7th day of May, 1932, "
at the Court House door in. the
town of Franklin, County of Ma
con, State of North Caroliha, and
between the legal hours of sale
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash the following de
scribed property:
Lying and being in Cowee Town
ship, Macon County, North Caro
lina and being all the lands de
scribed in a deed from H. W. Cabe
and wife . Lillian Cabe to E. B.
Duvall and C. A. Shields, said deed
bearing , date of September 6, 1928,
and being recorded in the Office of
Register of Deeds for Macon Coun
tv, North Carolina, Book R. 4 of
Deeds, Page 226, to which deed
reference is hereby made for a
more definite description of said
lands. '
1932ated ths the 4th day of Aprir,
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