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VOL. XL VI I Number 38
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Franklin Needs a fark .
CRANK II. HILL, of Horse Cove, who recalls
Franklin as it was fifty years ago; when hogs were
allowed to Wallow on Main street, looks at Franklin
today and suggests an improvement.
Mr. Hill .observes that when people come to own
from the country they can't find any 'place to sit
down. The two hotels would be overrun if every
body triecf to pack into them. And as it is now, thei
streets are crowded with, standees every Saturday
afternoon. Mr. Hill suggests a city park. :
The ideaitseems to us, is sound, and lends itself
to development. Not only would a park, with bench
es and attractive shade trees, be as welcome meeting
place for townspeople arid their county friends, but
it would attract more tourists. And more important
than that, there should be in this park a community
centre for the women of Franklin for the Women's
Club, the League of Women Voters, the Red Cross.
To be candid about it, Franklin's hub, with a jail
i r t i ' ' ti. ,
on one siae 01 tne square ana an unscruDDea court
house on the other, and a couple of filling, stations
in between, is far from attractive.
Mr. Hill's idea can't be materialized overnight, of
course. But let's try.
Simple Arithmetic
AS USUAL, it was Walter Lippman who first
stated' the soldier bonus problem in its clear fun
damentals. ' Following Mr. Lippman's line of reason
ing, let us look at it this way: ' -v V '
Suppose you owed a man $100which you had
agreed to pay him in 1952, twenty years from now.
And suppose this man came to you and said : "Why
not pay me the $100 now? You owe it to me, I need
the money, and you can afford to pay it."
You would take out your paper and pencil and
show this man a little simple arithmetic. You would
say: "Yes, I owe you $100 in 1952. But let's see
just what $100 means. If I invest $100 now at six
per cent, compound interest, it will yield me in twen
ty years $220. In other words, I shall have $320
instead of only $100. ' .
"In asking m to pay my debt now, you are ask
ing me to pay not $100, but $320. I would be a fool
to pav the $100 now."
Consider this simple arithmetic when you consider
paying the soldier bonus. Consider the obvious fact
that the government would lose hundreds of millions
of dollars by paying that bonus now. And don't
make the mistake of considering the government as
an outside agency with which you have nothing to
do. When the government has to pay, you have to
pay. You are the one that will pay three times as
much in taxes if the bonus is paid now.
A Triumph in Towncraft
pHE dignity of its deliberations threatened by 'per
sonal differences over the route of Highway 28,
the board ot aldermen of the town of Franklin was
one week ago split in serious schism. Their differ
ences were very -real. Highway . 28 is an arterial
roadway, important economically to the town of
Franklin. Its route deserved thoughtful considera-
- tion. : - - - - - - --
Some thought that the highway must be routed
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inrougn iviain sjreet, arguing that to route it else
where was to divert certain patronage to other towns.
Others said that, the town would lose nothing finan
cially by the suggested Palmer Street route, and that
the town should gratefully accept from the state the
expensive gift of another paved street,
Today, the opposing theorists have, by generous
compromise, reached a full understanding and have,
settled all their .differences. This reconciliation is,
to us, a little miracle of towncraft. Our people will
be grateful that the affairs of their community are
in the hands of leaders capable of forgetting personal
differences for the best welfare of the town.
Considering the importance of this highway and
the scores of influential persons whom it directly af
fected, the town council ended its disoute and reach
ed an agreeable compromise in remarkably short
time.
Certainly, the opportunity to get a street paved
at no cost should not have been neglected. Highway
28 through Palmer Street will give the town such at
street and should, instead of, deflecting business, bring
more of it here. And wjth Highway 285 and U. S.
23 to remain as now located through Main Strqt,
fears of business men along this street are abated.
Patent Medicine Fakirs r
EASILY within the span of 'most of jpur mernorjes
is the recollection pf standing awe-strickefl, twid
dling our bare toes in the dust, bef ore the? platform of
a traveling patent medicine show. Aji'iron voiced
magician, like as not, did incredible tricks of l)lack
magic, or perhaps there was a fuJJ-blooded Indian
Chief emitting vastly satisfactory war whoops and
grunts that made shivers fun up and down our youth
ful 'spines. Or maybe there "was a loose-footed nigger
with his banjo, dancing $ shuffle in the ilafe of the
gas jets. , ''v:"."--- - . ;.: ." " '
It was a grand show, as typically American as corn
on the cob or apple pie. Somehow ve. ieel a' faint
nostalgia for those old medicine shows, for they are
symbols of a gone era, an era a "credulity and hoW
liness fled with the advent of radio and lipstick: 'and
other modern gadgets. ' - ' '
Of course, when the entertainment was over,1 the
medicine men sold the crowd many bottles of dark
brew guaranteed to cure anything fromiepjlepsy to
ingrown toenail. And of course, the dark nostrums
were nothing but harmless, bitter-tasting herbs stir
red up in a bucket" by 'the medicine man the night
before. They never cured anybody anprobably the
purchasers themselves never thought they woultf.
Odd, but the American people have an incurable pen
chant for getting gypped, t S
Most of big shows of the patent medicine docs are
gone, disappeared with bustles and chaperones, but,
to our surprise, we learn that the Federal government
Still considers the patent medicine man, a threat to
the health of the nation. And" perhaps rightly. To
our amazement, there appeared on the square in
Franklin during court week several fakirs, barking
the guaranteed health in each bottle of their brew.
To our further amazement, several persons bought
the stuff. . . , '
One medicine man described .the content of his bot
tles, and though we were never more tjjan a passing
fair student of chemistry, we re willing-to bet a""dol
lar andva half that if his medicines had really con
tained what he said they did, tha mixture, would have
exploded in spontaneous combustion and burnt the
roof off the courthouse. . -
Queer people that ' we are, we are wiUiar ta ty
good money for swill offered by unknown and highly
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suspicious salesmen, out unwilling to consult tne
family doctor or to take his advice wheji wt do hve
W MA W ja A A mi
"When We Wera Very Young"'
CINCE publication of that editorial, "Drovi the Old
Men!", so many protests have been hurled at our
heads by vigorous old gentlemen that the editors of
l he Press have aged twenty years, and now look back
on the days of their youth, a week ago, with mixed
emotions ot amazement and tolerance. What mes
sianic youngsters we were, indeed!
And yet, now that we are twenty years older, we
remark with some pride that we were precocious kids
those seven long days ago. We were on the right
track, although we expressed ourselves with juvenile
frenzy and succeeded in hoisting ourselves on our
own petard. Yes, now that we are very old, we look
back on Lite with jaundiced eye, and wonder if it
was All Worth While. Age has brought ns neither
tame nor tortune. Age has brought us naught but
toil and tribulation. Age has brought us no wisdom
to rearrange and settle the economic and social ques
tions we fretted our young heads about last week.
Age has taugh us, alas, that Life is not a bowl of
cherries. . ' .
We have consulted other old gentlemen,' aid theyi
too nave no solution. Most ot them tell Mi that
theyd give a lot to start air over again. Most of
them say, "Now, if I was just a young fellow again,
a u xu vi mem, n iney were just young teilows
again, would make this a vastly sweeter world to
live in.
And so we close on a note of dank despair. The
boys were right. We are ancient, and nq good, and
certainly unfit to edit a newspapers Bring on your
sacK ana arown us. .
Clipped Opinion
Trivial Good News Over
played
The danger of over-doing the
publication of the evidence of re
viving business is not serious but
it is very real. Clearly indices , are
being played out of proportion to
their significance. The slightest
hint of optimism in business the
increase of the hours of employ
ment in a factory, the addition of
a few to the payroll, a slight in
crease in the rate of pay all these
break into print and are publishtd
all over the country. .
They are the items that are out
en the trunk line wires of the Ai
sociatea JPrtts, st gatiuriof
agency that would spuro tfe idoa
ot being propagandist, but that is
beginning to tak so seriously its
responsibility for saving the coun
try that it may be in' danger of
trying to savo it jn torn way.
Everybody wtlcotnM rwl nws
of the progress of business cut of
the slough, but ballyhoo eome
times can be so pitched as to kill
confidence in the claims of the
ballyhoo man. It is to b' hoped
that the over-emphasi of th tri
vial in this kind of newi will not
result in weakening publla cpnfl
dence in the revirl ltielf.-ngli,
Poiit Enterprise.
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Plant Now For Greent
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a hppV gro?Uafy
YgtebJa Ibis faU ;anl .wiuHr
final planting this nwotk l '
Colkwif a4 -turoias ar - the-
pPB&ta of thtee vfgetablM
tv lo witty w otbw eroa
midt w Uk, sQioaca, broccoli sal
ad, and tMeccraea ikoul ba-add-
d to tb? nUatina W B.
If orrwr, axteaaiou aorticulturist t
8tat CDUecc, The last two ntn
ttoaad ajsi lev additiont t our
lift of treena but are proving pop
ular with- grover and consujaera"
Plaatinp m kales broccoli, and
laadergreca ikauld be made' aarly
ia Beatttabaa aad agaia about the
lattar part w tka snonta or aarly
he October, aiata lit. Morrow.
Taaaa plastiuge will furnish a leafy
vcgetabl kp the greater part of
tka fall aad wintea and will- alao
gWa a welcoma change ot tka diet
tJTaile epiaacii h aol aa popular
witU foatham.cudeaera m tha
otbae graane H k probably tka
Uadmmt of til od ehomld baaa a
placa la evexy $3gSm tf
JUortov.
in ftno pMottng or traa crop
hotud be made aaxtar u Sapteco
bar with another planting about
tha first of October.- The Virginia
Savoy variety hae glvan beat re-
suite ia this 9tata and Mr. Morrow
recommende tUe varlaty Uf hash
filaatlage.
air. Uormm aaja tnat rt bow
a tittla late jroa eoost coot arape
hot that aarl wile tie of turaipe
such ae Vkita Wllaa, Purple Top
Strap Leaf aad atker early irur-
ng lariedea mmy ba plaated with
lai astoraaaa ew a good atop.
Radishes eaa alao ba planted oace
each week p ta withia flte
ia weeke af tka first killing fratt.
tern early carina aaloas Ifr. If ar
row f ecommeade tha Norfolk) Qucea
tad Vklu Pearl Tartetlee with
pjaat&g" ta tha third r fourth
imtk ai feptetnbor..
m - Horn to fflahfyMPay
" ForSpring Grazing
BV )tTiN'0 tafi
io(t ;lras -thin faU ' im
Control Field Mica
aaU other radenta t orchards in
North Carolina running into thous
anda oj dollara annually, fruit
groweca ahould take st at aace
ta aaatrol tbeaa pceta
AU or char da ehould ba inspect
ad a( intervala during Ue fall aad
wtstex fAOBtha to determine if these
pests are pteaent ia deetructlve
numbera," eaya A. & Oman, rodent
control epapalist at State College.
TM can readily be determined by
looking for the openings and tun
nels which ire the home of the
mice.
Since these peats feed at night
or on very dark days it is un?
possible to tea them anleea'the
tunnels ate f tared rp art ft ia
necessary to make close Uispec,
tibn of all orchards.
According to Mr. Oman, there
is , very little " damage from the
pftit mouse or the field mouse in
clean cultivated orchards. Grass
mulch at ether artificial mulch,
however,, nnisH an Ideal feeding
pbea Kitr tbe pufi end At tire
tame (tinl prollTeU (Hewfrom frtV
The Farmers
. Question Bos .
Timfily Qu$twins Antitersi
h , C. Stat Whig
W am ewiatmllgs hM as.et
ega- eaaea. Csw esta . I cce ai4 af
Aatawar Csufcaa eUaulf k4a au
ed oyaa tke gsaot aa glaoad at
paaa cm tap f tka ejeala will eoa
trail tkasa aaaaa. Vkeaa tka grein
b ha ucad aa f aad tka eaixture
soay ha pourad airactly ai ton but
wkera k a ta ba uaad for eaad
tha earbaat dseulphtda ahould ba
placed ia paaa an tofi af tka grain.
Ia both caeaa tka aaaruxe evap
orate aad tka fuaaea etia ta the
battoaa. Faa hast raeultj, tka Via
or etoraga waaa sheaia ha tgt
tights ataaii .
Qaek h ae waraof f
fung paUeM cuftidaot U tii tham
of wonna ar -wQl the dose hate to
ba raoeatadj
AiMwav Tbia wiU icuwd uxn
tha degree af wfastation but,
si e
yoa wm aararsurjr cau aat tinase
birds that are. aisaasad ar ran
down, aaa wacaisg ahauM he ta
ficiaal A eaxafosl ahaok abaald ha
made, hawerar, an all hirda that die
or are elreaced favhaailarr after
tka fisat vonsaiag s aoapleted.
If there w still a' fair iafaetation,
the iH ehauM ha repeated. Di
rect ioae aa tha warsa tablet pack
g ssteeM aJaa ha aaaaMly sal-
Quaetk What aaa I aa gaw ia
iaeura gea heal hac aalaaiee
aet sjpttag : ;
Anewaa Dnct'tea thai al eala
aiea are headed by a yung, vi
gOroue quean. This will aad young
beea for lhe winter and will alao
build ... ui tha eolwojr oaxt spring.
Tbe beae rauet have plenty of food
and at ieaet fifte aauods of
hones ahould be allowed far each
colony. In some eases mast af the
honey is ranavad with the eupars
and ae - a rcault braadnraariog il
restricted. (This weans a small
colony with pearly developed bees,
deck all colonies and tea that
at Ieaet fiftaaa pounds af honey
is reserved for winter feeding. '
datarz bird and atfrar animal
enemies,, he states. . "
An effective method of control
is to expose the poisoned Vgrain
bait in glass bottles near the trees.
Ia tbVavr tha bait is nrotected
frees the weather Wt n eastatly
expoied n a prevwitifTve to re?
infestation Specially constructed
stations made of sheet Iron and
boards may also be used,
This bait may be made by mix
ing one-eighth ounce of powdered
strychnine with . the same (uaount
of ordinary haJdnc soda. This
mbctnre ilionrd be l.l.-evtr O
tan ! r;...i Kiti i&i
early
it o
faat sawg, eaws.awf
kefit frajes tbevpenaaneot .tpm.:
until $M:. ad aa the m$k Mffr
aajr- h''BBietoie4 '
s "Af eV au4 tkioa aairggstea haa
UtUa nihag af tea tka tin erf .
aisaah. iMpaciaily is thi eaiia
trua a, fanes vithaut silo aad
vice few eew are kept tar -ere
:priduciaa,,l aejs 1 Jakex
Arey, dairy extansida epacialiat at
lute eollega, Wke a sow has .
paceed tha wiate aa dry ravgh
aga, hat i syetetm deeirca aa f -petiaiag,
succulent food such ee aaay
ba abtaiaed by temporary paetcw.
Sack feed is aot nly appetiaiac .
aad autritiaus but ie als oaa ejf
the saoat acoaomiaal snilk pradne
ar tha dairyasaa aaa nravidc.
Abraaai rye as a saLsture-af it
rye with other avail graia, clavev
and i vetch fills, tha bill aicely."
Ua Arey heJieves it wiea t
plant a surtax ai the asnsdl gveks .
aad Wgtoaas with Abraaai rya, as '
this) w31 give batter grastog m
acta. R racommand a mhcto-a
made p ai follows : one-tuaJf busjh- '
el if Apruari rye; one-half bushal
of BCEiraies wheal, an bushel of
Norton oate;' one bushel f beard -Use
barley and. 10 pounds of crun
aon fcvr;9i IS pounds af,
vetch. Jhis will plant an arv
X assure sarly spring aWiag,
this'mixrure should be planted We
tha middle 'af September. If t$M
growth ie good, it enay be aecaaeary
ta graM in the late fall ta prsveat
the rya aad, barley from wiatea
kijlieg. Tw teas af grauad luaa
stoae aa acre applied ta the had
heere seeding would help ia grWi
as would' a small appUeatiaa ai '
aaauasrcial fartiliaea.
are cbeuld bs exereiead, S.
Arey, la grating weh a pasUI
whea she .sott ss tea wei,
stirred eaostaatjg ta esre aa
evea distribution af the toisoa.
"The grain bait is then put ia
self-feeders made of glass ,botVs
or old pieces of tile . o even a
email trough and placed wor
every other 4re, with some loo
grass r weeds as a cover for Ck
eantaiaers,'' says . Mr. 'Oman, , ;
Walter gurch af Clay caunty has
increased, hi ears yield during she
past ,tan,yeau from 19 to 40 bush.
els an acae. Red olovcr an 4 peas
get the .credit and County Agenr
Bovrditch 'says that other crqps
on the farm haya been incretis4
in the sm ratio.
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Farmers in Jackson unty wh-
planted the Canadian Ween Moun-.
tain variety of potatoes this. year
will harvest from 200 to 250 bush
els an acre. Tfas plants ar u
usually free frsm disease, reeM
County Agent Vestal.
More trench silos are reaertad
frost Caldwell county, C. O. "0
hy, of Granite Falls started
frMn'Vhich to feed 16 cows tar
121 fays. The slid will be 4p fH
tiSht feet "wide Mid
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