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Tim rzMiziri r:.:: 3 PACSTCU3 Roosevelt ao a Candidate (Reprinted from The Chapel I!iH Weekly.) uy i lucy c;;o:v CopyrlffM, . . Supremo Moments ci U.'o. Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin," North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. XLV1I BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON.... Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, NortlTciw'fina SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .... Eight Months Six Months . . Single Copy . . Obituary notices, cards oj thanks, lodnes. churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adv. in compliance The press invites it reader to express their opinion through its columns and each week it plans to carry Letters to the Editor" on its editorial page. This newspaper is independent in its policies and is glad to print both sides of any question. Letters to the Edi tor should be written legibly on only one side of the paper and should be of reasonable length. Of courie, the editor reserves the right to reject letters which, are too long or violate one's better sensibilities. --' A Real Crisis THE CRY of "Wolf! Wolf!" has been raised so ' many times in connection with the Tallulah Falls Railway that the folks served by this step-child of the Southern Railway have become somewhat skep tical that the rather frequent rumors arid threats of abandonment would ever be carried out. Now comes formal notice that J. F. Gray, Re ceiver, has taken definite steps seeking authority to discontinue service on the "T. F." and it looks as if it is more than a mere threat. With preferred stock of the Southern at 3l2 it is very evident that the parent company is having serious troubles of its own and cannot continue passing handouts to the "T. F." to meet its operating deficit. Furthermore, there is little or no hope of a short line railway like the "T. F." getting assistance from the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation, because guilt edge collateral is required for loans from that body. The outlook is rather unpleasant. Buses and motor trucks have taken much of the passenger and short haul freight busi ness that the smaller rail lines, the "feeders," are be ing discarded at: an alarming rate. Only within the last month or so the Southern has discontinued its branch line from Calderwood to Maryville, Tenn., once a link in the proposed trans-Appalachian line projected for the Tallulah Falls Railway via the bed of the Little Tennessee River. , What , if the "T. F." is, next? What would be the effect of its abandonment on Franklin and Macon County? The Press is hardly inclined to believe the result would be ruinous, but there is little doubt that it would be a severe blow, and mineral industries, upon which Macon County depends to a large extent be impracticable at prevailing prices in the timber markets to haul poles, cross ties and lumber from most sections of the county to Dillsboro or Nanta hala Station on the Murphy Branch. Although tim ber operations have been during the past year or two, Macon has reaped a large part of its income from this' source. Many families have depended on the occasional sale of cross ties or telephone poles for their cash income. Just now there "are few, if any, poles and ties moving ; but this business will pick up in over which to move them. that the "T. F." alone has ties in Macon County since the first of the year. The poles which have been shipped out- brought in con siderably more. The loss hard to make up, to say and minerals. Then, too, abandonment of this ' railroad very likely would result in higher prices in Franklin for many bulky commodities shipped in from elsewhere, such as farming implements, building materials and coal. The situation is serious. The business leaders of Franklin and every other town along the Tallulah Falls Railway should lose action is feasible to forestall abandonment of this line. If some means can be found to continue service over the "T. F." for another year, even though the service be drastically curtailed, general conditions might improve sufficiently to justify permanent, ope ration. But if steam should be allowed to die in the engines and rust to eat into the tracks, it probably would be many a long year came ot Franklin. There long, long time about the advantages of extending this railroad into Tennessee, with various whys and wherefores offered in explanation of why it has never been done. AH this is besides the point just now. Unfortunately,- this is a time of curtailment rather than expansion for. railroads ; new lines are not the order of the day. The problem that behooves Frank lin now is to keep what she Number 28 .EDITOR AND PUBLISHER N. C, as second class matter. , . . $1.50 $1.00 ... .75 ... .05 tributes of respect, by individuals, with the postat regulations. away from the railroads so especially to the timber for its income. It would considerably below normal time if there is a railroad The Press is informed bought $5,000 worth of of this business would be nothing of losses in lumber : . : . i no time in taking whatever before another train ever has been much talk for a has. HE plain fact, .which cannot be JL denied by any man capable of keeping his judgment unclouded by pailisan zeal, is this: if Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President in November it will be less due to any commanding ability of his own than to the country's resent ment against the present Republic an administration. Roosevelt's vic tory, if it comes, will' be the direct result of the-depression. If prosperity had continued no Democratic candidate, not Roose velt, or Al Smith, or Ritchie, or Baker, or Uwen- u. Young, wouia have had tne gnost or a cnance airainst Hoover this year. As it is, the general disposition to place upon the Republicans the responsi bility for. the economic, disaster gives the Democrats a good chance. With his characteristic frankJ ness the late Dwight Morrow said: "We Republicans took the credit for prosperity, and we can't expect not to take the blame for the de pression." The question, whether or not the depression would have come if the Democrats "had won in 1928, is ! academic. The Republicans ejected their man and a majority of Con-the gress, and seven months . after Hoover had taken office thebusi ness structure collapsed. The prom ises of a chicken in every pot and two cars in the garage, -and all the other fair promises, became a mockery. Month after month Hoover and Mellon and other Re publican leaders assured the public that the collapse was only a tem porary setback, and that soon business would "turn the corner." nstead, the depression became deeper. Manufacturing plants clos ed down, throwing men and'women out of employment; the prices of foodstuffs and other commodities fell : home owners, in town and country, were unable to meet the payments on their mortgages; thousands of banks crashed. Far from improving, commerce and in dustry and agriculture have gone from bad to worse, until now mil lions of people, who three years, ago were living in comfort, are now actually upon the verge ot starvation. Is it any wonder, then, that the American people, from one end of the country to the other, are re viling the Republican party as a bungler; a wastrel, and a promise breaker? .There: are economists of high standing who hold that the administration s policy of encourag ing or failing to discourage, in flation, and speculation, and its tar iff legislation, had much to do with causing the depression. We are not now discussing the correct ness or incorrectness of this opin ion; the depression may Or may not have been inevitable, which ever party was in power. What we are saying is that the Republic an party, because of its unfulfilled promises of continued prosperity and because of its failure to im prove conditions after they had turned bad, stands before the peo ple as a discredited prophet and an incompetent director of the na tion's affairs. This being so, unquestionably the Democratic candidate goes into the campaign with a tremendous advantage. For years, after the panic in Cleveland's second term was followed by the good times of the Spanish war era, a majority of the-American people were-taught to believe that Republican rule and prosperity went hand in hand This belief has at last been shat tered; the worst depression in the memory of living men has come with a Republican President in the White House and the Republicans in control of Congress. The natur al result of this is that the average man is disposed to say : "The Re publicans have failed us. They promised us . good times and gave us hatd times. Why should we keep them in power? A change could not make things any worse than they are now, and it might make them better." Why is it that Franklin D. Roos evelt has been chosen as the Dem ocratic standard bearer? It is not that he is the ablest man' the party could put forward ; few men who have known them both intimately, and who compare them dispassion- ately, consider - that Roosevelt is the equal in intellectual power, or anyVhere near the equal, of New- ton D. Baker. One of the two main reasons why he has obtained the nomination is that he carried the state of New York in 1928, when Al Smith lost it, and that he carried it again in 1930. - This made him what is called a "logical candidate," for Democratic succesS in New York is commonly regard ed as essential to Democratic suc cess in the nation. The second, and more, important .reason is that words on the 18th Amendment, to he lost no time- in launching a, keep their purse-strings tight this campaign for the nomination and year. in perfecting an organization to ' Here, then, wa' have the two place his name on Presidential pri-J dominant factors in the political mary ballots throughout ,the coun- situation the depression and Pro try and thereby to make sure that hibition working in favor of the a large number of delegates would Democrats. These are far more enmc to th convention instructed important than the candidate's in to vote for him. Thus he got a big lead. In the Presidential pri - maries he had. no opposition wor- thy of the name, except in a few states where Al Smith's influence was considerable, and the conse quence was that he had a majority of the votes pledged to him before the convention opened. There were a few hours of excitement over the struggle for the remaining 90-odd Votes required to' make up the necessary two-thirds, but the really important, work for Roose velt had been done" in advance. The opposition to him in the pri mary campaigns was so slight that he WQn the nominatjon almost by default. Now, to say, that Roosevelt 'is not the ablest man the Democrats could have put up is not to . say that he is a weak candidate; We think he is a formidable candidate. His record of victory in New York has .created about him an aufa of success. He is friendly and like able; he is vigorous, despite his physical infirmity ; and , his ad vocacy of so-called "liberal" and "progressive" policies his talk of the "forgotten man" and of the iniquities of' big business qualifies him to reap the full, benefit of nation-wide -dissatisfaction with the present Republican administra Hon. And, unmistakably, he is a gifted" politician. He has a rare gift fo? drama tizing himself and his cause. An evidence of this gift was his air plane trip from Albany to Chicago to appear before the convention and sound the battle-cry in the presence of the men and women who had chosen him as the party's champion. Never did a campaign get off to a better start. The opinion of many commen tators, and it seems to us a sound one, is that his appeal is strongest to the South and the West, to what is commonly described as the grarian element. "His nomination," says the Greensboro News, in dicates that Democratic leaders pin their hopes for victory upon the South and the West, the appeal being primarily to 'the little marr" instead of the seats of big bust ness and those who occupy them. Ihe progressive planks ot the par ty's platform offer a consistent footing for the personal views of the candidate. They constitute a patent bid for the agrarian, the workers' farm. ' industrial, and white-collar vote. The solid sup port of the Southern and Western states will give the Democratic nominee a substantial bloc of; 283 votes in the electoral college. If the scramble for the Central and Eastern states results in any ma terial addition to the Roosevelt total, the election will have been won. On the day the. Democratic con vention assembled Walter Lippman wrote: "If Roosevelt is nominated the battle will be fought on the pattern of the McKinlcy-Bryan contest of 1896. Along the lines they have decided " to pursue the Roosevelt leaders are prepared to lose the Al Smith vote in the great cities, to lose the support of many conservative Democrats, and to send back to the Republicans those business men who would, if they had the chance, like to ; vote against Mr. . Hoover. They are counting on general discontent, especially in the rural sections, to overcome that spirit of caution born of anxiety which is the main reliance of the Republicans." But there is one vast difference, between the 1896 and 1932 situa tions, of which Mr. Lippmann ap pears to take no account. In 1896 the country was in a depression that had come during a Democrat ic administration; in 1932 it is. in a depression that came during a Republican administration. In 1896 the Republicans were beneficiaries of dissatisfaction with the party in power; in 1932 it is the Democrats who stand to benefit from such dis satisfaction. . And then there is a question that did not exist in. 1896 national Prohibtion. "Repeal has been the insistent demand of the East''- again we quote the Greensborb News "and it is highly probable that some of the Eastern states, despite a strong dislike for the Democratic candidate, will give their support to the ticket because ' of its anti-Prohibition platform." Anybody who reads the news- papers in the East is impressed by the bitter disappointment, on the part of great numbers of Republic ans, with the Republican straddle on Prohibition. A case in point is the denunciation of it by Nichol as Murray Butler. And it is no secret that some of the men who have contributed most liberally to the Republican campaign chest in the past have determined, because of the party platform's weasel tellectual power. With a g6odjot;tne extreme of exulting in vio ! character and respectable ability ill n f n I1-- "w i ii i k f yFw- -i mw i vij-.m i i w yrr " ' i u n n r 111 i When your stolen do irttwirw juit as you toad given fUQp flil ltorppp &f even s&shw tootw aaw When your stolen do4 irttwirw juit as you fwod. - . and Roosevelt certainly has these any Democratic candidate this year is a formidable candidate. Clippings THE 'PORK BARREL -President Hoover speaks with truth, but with poor grace, when he characterizes Speaker Garner's relief measure as a "pork barrel." Mr. Hoover himself has been most active in this line of enterprise and his record during the last three years has been filled with hand outs of the pork-barrel variety. Mr. Garner has cited the Recon struction Finance Corporation, and he could have continued by men tioning the Hawley-Smoot tariff, the farm-relief program, the Ship ping Board subsidies, and dozens of minor ventures into the realm of solociting votes with special favorsASBURY PARK EVEN ING PRESS. THE RURAL BILLION Declaring that at le"ast half of the earth's two billion population are dependent on agriculture for a living and that the history of the next century or two will revolve around the strivings of theme mul titudes, "representing a promise as well as an appeal to society," Ken yon L. cuttertieltl, a speaker at the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, sum med up what is in" fact a key problem of modern times. "Mass production of modern in dustry must have great markets," said Mr. Butterfield. "These rural masses have been meager consum ers. If their income could be in creased only $10 , per year per apita the total .demand would con stitute an fnormous outlet for manufactured products. As a mat ter of fact, it is largely among these hundreds of millions of peo ple throughout the world, who live close to the economic margin, that the future success of large scale industry depends." . Industrialism prospered . during iits first century because the popu lation of the world increased enor mously, during that period""and it found its outlet in this increasing population. But that situation could not go on indefinitely. In dustrialism has been built up in no small measure at the expense of agriculture. - - This was true in the United States. It has been true, as the article which we quoted yesterday from the Wall Street Journal showed, in Japan. The problem now is to establish a balance between agriculture and industry. The necessities of the rural billion will no longer be de-nicd.-THE ASHVILLE CITIZEN. : : TOO PARTISAN When a man launches an active campaign for or against any im portant public measure or question it is mighty hard not to be one sided beyond all reason. For', in stance, rabid drys' go so' far as to condone those "bone dry" regula tions whiqh -would deny that spoonful fo whiskey which doctors might pronounce necessary for the patient s life. And rabid wets go lation of law, even when attended k i i with fatal consequences. It addds to the statistics they like to cite against prohibition, x x x Where there is too much partisanship there is an abandonment of reason. If the prohibition problem is ever really solved it will be done by those persons who have remained sane and cool.-THE PATHFIND ER. ' A little girl going to church for the first time saw the people in the attitude of prayer. "What are they doing, mummy?" "Hush, dar ling, they are saying their pray ers." "What," cried the child, "wiv all their clothes on !" NORTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ADVO CATE. Did You Ever Stop To Think? BY EDSON R. WA1TE, Shawnee, Oklahoma C. BUSS, Publisher of The St. Marys (Ohio) Leader. says: That the people of a com munity that is sold on advertising usually have something worthwhjje to exploit. They are not back ward in letting others know about it. If there is anything good to be shared, they are willing to share it with others. They let their light so shine that their neighbors about them, may join in the benefits ac cruing therefrom. Considered in this way, advertising has an un selfish and altruistic purpose. It stimulates trade and a stim ulated trad,e is a blessing. It peps up circulation, the life-giving prop erty to all well regulated systems of motivation. It is a doctors pre scription to keep the body healthy, so that the greatest efficiency might accede to the tasks under taken. Anything worth doing at all is worth doing well, and the greater the efforts toward" tactful and me thodical methods at sustaining the functional order of trade, the bet ter will all fare. Inertia is dis integration and disintegration is death. The push required for the uplift of a prostrate form is an injection of virility that will set the organs of , life to n-itural of fire! A hypodermic injection of scrum to help supply the sinews of resis tance will help a lot. That serum is advertising. When the gates of barter and trade are ajar, affording a ready exchange of merchandise at prices consistent with the times, results are far greater, even if returns are less, than if they were closed. Ad vertising keeps these gates ajar, beckoning all who enter into fields of action and life. To keep busi ness active is trantamount to pre serving the "potentiality for endless possibilities. When business is per forming in a natural way. all out4 lying dependencies are in harmony with it. We are linked together in a great teeming cosmos of inter relationship. The one cannot thrive without the other thriving with him. Business is dependent on the free interchange of commodity. We would never get anvwhere bv iso lating ourselves from everyone else. The agency contributing -to the happy condition of mutuality of consideration is performing a mis sion untainted by . selfishness or greed and is ever watchfuYat the cross-roads of public weal. That agency is ADVERTISING! IN APPRECIATION To The Franklin Press; We the Methodist class of Clear Creek, do thank Mr. W. S. Davis of Highlands for the present of a large nice Bible. We do heartily thank him for it, and" do trust that we may be blessed in reading it. Mrs. E. P. Picklesimer. Highlands, N. C, July 4, 1932. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Macon County, WHEREAS, power of sale was vested in the undersigned Trustee by deed of trust executed by Walt Prater and wife, Avia Love Prater, dated March 15, 1930, and Reg istered in the office of the Regis ter of Deeds from Macon County in Book No. 1 of Building and Loan Records, page 110, to secure the paymenH of One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars payable to the Macon. County Building and Loan Association; and whereas, default having been made inthe payment of the indebtedness secured there by, and the holders of the same having demanded the undersigned trustee to exercise the power of sale in him vested; I will, therefore, by virtue of the power of sale by said deed of trust in me vested on Monday the 15th day of August, 1932, at. 12:00 o'clock noon sell at the court house door in Franklin, North Car olina, ' at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the follow ing described property: Adjoining the lands of George Guest, Clint Ledford, Charlie Love and others, bounded as follows, to wit: - Beginning on a stake in George Guest's line, runs NE with Guest's line, 100. feet to Clint Ledford's Corner; then North with 'Clint Ledford's line 210 ft. to a stake, Clint Bedford's and Walt Prater's corner; then West 100 feet to a stake; then SW to the beginning, containing 1-2 acre, more or less. This 13th day of July, 1932. R. S. JONES, Trustee. J144tc-B&L A4, TALLULAH FALLS RAILWAY COMPANY J. F. Gray, Receiver NOTICE This is to notify all parties in terested that the Receiver of the Tallulah Falls Railway Company has filed, iu the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia an application for authority to apply to the In terstate Commerce Commission for permission to cease operations of said Railway. The hearing on this application will be had before the U. S. District Tudce at GaWa. i ville, Georgia, on July 22 1932. J. r. ukai, Receiver.
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