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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1134 How About A Labor Day for Ma? by A- B. Chapin ' i ' 1 MEB 16 WOUBD ftttft Published every Thursday by The Franklin Pros At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. XLIX Number 35 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter " SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ' $150 Eight Months $100 Six Months 75 Single Copy -05 A Marvelous Trip 'THE writer had occasion the other day to go to 1 Asheville on the Smoky Mountain Stage via High lands and Brevard. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most beautiful trips in the Southern Appalachians .... or anywhere, for tfciat matter. We had traveled this route before, but always as a driver, which necessitates close attention to the ever-curving road, instead of as a passenger free to look at every glorious view. This trip affords untold variety of scenery close ups of mountain flora and sweeping distant pano ramas. From Highlands to Gneiss one sees the mists lifting from the verdant Cullasaja valley, and then begins the breath-taking ascent to Highlands through the awe-inspiring Cullasaja Gorge. One cranes his neck first upward to see the tops of the towering cliffs and then downward to glimpse the bottom of the ravine, where the water dashes madly between the rocks. The water falls, the Lower Cullasaja, the Dry Falls and the Bridal Veil, are passed all too quickly. One would like to linger at each for hours. After the climb, the emergence on the broad pla teau where Highlands is situated brings a new delight. Placid lakes and forests, dotted here and there with beautiful homes and simple cottages, give a refresh ing variety. Then, beyond Highlands about five miles, the road turns abruptly to the left and there unfolds the grandest of mountain views. One's eyes sweep from majestic Whiteside Mountain at the right out across the quiet Sapphire Valley with a rim of monolithic mountains beyond. In the valley below there comes a contrast. For miles and miles one passes through beautiful wood lands, marred only here and there by the axe. A rider is taking a string of fine saddle horses for a morning trot. One wishes he could exchange his seat in the bus with the rider and go for a canter along one of the many forest trails. But while he is mus ing, the scenery changes, offering something new to divert his mind. The wash-out at what used to be Lake Toxaway. What a torrent of water it must have been to strip the earth fromthe rocks below the old dam! We wonder if anyone will ever try re building the dam and restoring Toxaway to its form er position as an outstanding mountain resort. Beyond Brevard the route passes through fine bottomland farms and skirts the Pisgah Forest. As the bus nears Asheville, one catches a glimpse of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station on the left. A jittle farther on row after row of tall pine trees follows the road on the right. They were planted years ago by the late George Vanderbilt, one of the pioneers in forest protection and reforestation. It is a marvelous trip over this route and in time it should become one of the most popular motor drives in Western North Carolina, which, of course, will redound to the benefit of all concerned. Discrimination in Gasoline Prices AUTOMOBILE owners are wondering why gaso- line costs 2Zl2 cents a gallon in Franklin, while just over the line in Rabun County, Georgia, the price is 18 cents, and in some of the Piedmont sections of North Carolina it is as low as 15 and 16 cents, tax in cluded. Where, they would like to know, is the justi fication of this wide differential in prices? Certainly the difference in freight rates does not require this wide variance in prices. So, Mr. Auto-Owner can arrive at only one conclusion: the big refining com panies are basing their prices on what they think the market will stand, rather than on actual costs plus a fair profit? We thought this manner of doing busi ness had disappeared with the inauguration of the NRA, but evidently not. Unless the refining companies voluntarily change their tactics, organized action should be taken by the public immediately to force them to do so. THROUGH CAPITAL KEYHOLES BY BESS HINTON SILVER Don't let anybody tell you that reorganization of the State Revenue Department has been completed. Even as you read this the Motor Vehicle Bureau is undergoing a thorough overhauling and it is en tirely possible that some of the hir ed help may get the gate. All this is being kept as quiet as possible because most all employes can pull political strings and bring on a miniature war. Daily press dis patches that reorganization of the Revenue Department was finished were evidently inspired. If they had read "about finished" they would havejbeen more correct, since the Motor Vehicle Bureau is' the last unit to feel the axe that Dr. M. C. S. Noble, assistant commis sioner, is wedding with an approv ing nod from Commissioner A. J. Maxwell and Governor Ehringhaus. HAS CONFIDENCE The grapevine reports that Rep resentative Tarn C. Bowie, the "cut-'m-to-the-bone" leader of the 1933 house of representatives, is telling it about among his friends up in his native county of Ashe that the reason the Raleigh, news writers do not mention him in speculation on who will be the next Governor of North Carolina is because they know he would be. nominated and elected if he decided to run. Ral eigh news writers give other ex planations. The vocative Tarn is said to favor installation of radio facilities in the house of representa tives to broadcast his and "other important" speeches. HAS HIS TROUBLES- One of North Carolina's two baby Congressmen, Harold D. Cooley, of the Fourth District, is having his troubles over patronage. Many con stituents are up in arms over his appointment of a woman Hoover crat at Rarfdleman, Randolph coun ty, and Selma dyed-in-the-wool Democrats complain in that he is about to appoint another Hoover crat as postmaster of that Johnston county town. Like getting married, when a man's elected his troubles begin. POWER RATES The State Utilities Commission is getting all set to cut power and electric light rates on the Carolina Power and Light system in West ern North Carolina, where the fed eral government's TVA rates are causing utilities headaches. No re lief is in prospect for Eastern North Carolina from the C. P. & L. at present. In fact, it mav be months before the western reduc tion is effective but it's in the cards. YOU MAY GET STUCK Don't get the idea that your Uncle Samuel is going to pay for knocking down the bumps and fill ing up the mud-holes in your road if you live off the primary state highway system. Federal aid funds are limited to 10 per cent of the state's roads and you may live along one of the other 90 per cent. And if the .next legislature gets its hooks on more than the $1,000,000 that is now being taken out of motorists' pockets to pay bills in stead of building roads, federal aid will be cut one-third under pro visions of the federal statute. On top of that cities and towns are de manding that the state maintain streets in the highway system. Be tween diversion, loss of federal funds and upkeep of streets it looks like the farmer is in danger of losing what now parades in dust in the summer and mud in the winter as a road. THREE RING CIRCUS- There wasn't half the scramble you might have imagined after reading press reports, for the $4,000-a-year job on the Industrial Commission, set adrift by the res ignation of Major , Matt Allen. A lot of the boys got mentioned in the newspapers for the simple reas on that news was dull and ,the average reporter lives by the old axion that "names make news." The reporters had no idea who would get the job so they mentioned everybody they could think of who was eligible. They even included George Ross Pou, former prison head, who is generally supposed to be making twice the amount of the salary of the Industrial Commission job in his law practice in Raleigh. DOES THIS MEAN WAR? Former Senator-Governor Cam eron Morrison, in his speech to the embattled farmers at Swannanoa, among other things said. "Public officials who voted against any of the presidents agricultural relief program ought to be retired to pri vate life." Senator Josiah William Bailey was the only member of the North Carolina delegation to cast a vote opposing the Agricultural Ad justment Act. No matter where he was aiming, "Cam's" dart took ef fect on Senator Bailey's button and politicians are wondering if he will bestir himself to. get Senator Bail ey's scalp in the campaign of 1936. If "Cam" smears on the war paint, "the fur will fly." r Enameled furniture in delicate colors should be cleared with sift ed whiting applied with a moist cloth, and wiped clean with a cloth moistened in clear, cold water: Pol ish it with silk. Public Opinion Mr. Editor: In reference to your editorial last week concerning the condition of the streets, I would like to say it is a most timely article. Personally, I do not indorse your suggestion about moTe taxes. It costs me around thirty dollars a year now to have the garbage re moved once a week, maybe, during the summer, and not at all in the winter. Any of us who live on West Main street, walk in the mud from the beginning of the side walk beyond the creamery to the top of the town hill. Some years ago Dr. Siler went to the expense of having a large sewer pipe put under the highway and into our meadow to carry off the wash from the Bidwell road. The entrance to this drain pipe under my driveway is completely stopped up, so the water runs down the side walk. My neighbor's drain under his driveway is also entirely stopped up, so all the water and mud run over my sidewalk and till it with mud. Last December George Dalrymple came with a half dozen men and cleaned the walks free of grass growing over the edges that turns the water and mud on to them. He cut the ditches deeper and for the tirst time the walks were in first class condition. I hoped as they had once been fixed right that they would be kept that way. I was away all the winter and when I returned in May I found the grass grown walks and mud as usual. If you do not come forward with your town taxes you are advertised. Why does the town not do its part as promptly as they require you to do yours? I thought town taxes were to pay for the privilege of living in town. Well all the privilege I get for that thirty dollars is walking on muddy side walks and having gar bage sit until it sours. I have no doubt that my neigh bors on West Main street would put their rtames to this if I were to stop and show them this letter. And the present town board is no worse than those that have gone before. It is just no better. We have paid double the amount of taxes we are paying now with no better services rendered. If We had a brand new town "outfit" we might y see if " a new broom swept clean," for it is sweeping, cutting and digging and mowing that we are needing. -MARGARET R. SILER. Egg stains may be rubbed from silver with the aid of a bit of table salt.
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