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THURSDAY, JUNE f, IMS PAGE SIX THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN SPRING . . . hp our wy Spring has come at last ,up in the New England hills. It has been the latest season in recent years so late that I hear many of the younger folk in our town say that this May must have been the cold est on record. Well, I can remember one New England Summer in my boyhood when snow fell on the Fourth of July! Not much, to be sure, but enough of the rain that fell all that day and spoiled our "celebration" froze under the chill of a Cana dian north wind to enable us to see the white flakes. And I re member one Memorial Day we used always to call it "Decoration Day" when my sisters and I were looking for wood violets to place on the soldiers' craves, we found a snow-bank a, foot deep in a shaded gully. And just above the snow the violets were blooming. There is no precedent that any body can go by in forecasting the weather. No two years are ever quite alike. FLAGS ..... increased sales The Chicago Association of Com merce reports that three times as many American flags have been sold so far this year as in the first half of 1934. I don't know that that means that the reaction against Communism has set in, as the Chicago business men seem to think, but I would be glad to see a general revival of the old-fashioned "flae-raisings" that used to be a regular Fourth-of-July affair in the smaller communities, and even in some' big cities, in my youth. Every rural town in the East used to have its "Liberty Pole," and the hoisting of the Stars and Stripes, with a prayer by the min ister, a "concert" by the local "brass band," and a patriotic speech by some local or imported big-wig were fitting preludes to the sports and games and picnic feast in which everybody took part. There is a little hill on my farm where the Liberty Pole used to stand, up to forty or fifty years ago. The pasture around it is still known as "the flagpole lot." If I thought anything could di vert my neighbors from their holi day joy-riding to an exhibition of patriotism, I'd set up a new Lib erty Pole on the old flagpole lot and invite them to an old-fashioned Fourth-of-July picnic. RADIO .... fin in country I don't think that any modern invention has ever brought so much real pleasure and value to so many people as the radio. I drive around in the country a good deal, calling on neighboring farm ers and friends, and it is the ex ception to find a country or village home where the radio is not going. There isn't any doubt that the radio has proved a powerful in fluence in setting all sorts of peo ple to thinking of social and po litical questions, to which they nev er gave attention before. It is bringing religion into many homes whose people, for one reason or another, seldom go to church. Then the music, the household talks for the home-makers, the en tertaining features for the children, the farm market news and all the rest of the good things that are broadcast. WAR . . . ... two sides Listening to and reading all the anti-war talk that is going around, I am reminded of the most stir ring speech I ever heard Wood row Wilson make. It was 24 years ago, in June, 1911, at Denver, when he spoke of "The Bible and Prog ress," spoke as a believing and practical Christian to an audience composed of most of the members of all the Christian churches in that city. "Liberty," he said, "is a spiritual conception. . . . There are times in the history of nations when they must take up the crude imple ments of bloodshed in order to vindicate spiritual conceptions. . . . When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare." That was spoken more than three years before Europe went to war in 1914, more than six years before the United States went into that conflict. Nobody wanted war. But when a situation arose in which America was called upon to vindi cate the spiritual conception of Liberty, as Mr. Wilson had phrased it, we went into the war in that spirit. Don't let anyone tell you Ameri ca went to war for profits or to save somebody's investments. CHAINS and gambling How many chain letters have you had? I've only received one ; myself but my wife has had four or live in tne past tortmgni ana I think my daughter's latest score is around fifteen. We have one very simple system of handling these chain letters. That is to throw them in the waste basket without answering them. The chain letter craze is just one more evidence of the wide-spread gambling spirit which prevades the whole country. The trouble with this form of gambling is that the odds are so heavy against every one who tries it. I suggest that anybody who has money to bet and the urge to get money without working for it would better wait until he can lay his wager under some controlled and well-policed scheme where he at least has a chance of collecting his winnings if luck should hap pen to be with him. MAKE YOUR OWN WAVE SET Wave your hair at home for a penny I New improved Wildroot Wave Powder makes a pint of professional wave set for 10c 3 pints for 25c. You make your own wave set by mixing powder with water. Keeps indefinitely. Leaves no white flakes. Approved by Good House keeping Bureau. Simple directions in every package for finger waving or re setting permanent. Get a package now at any drug store or toilet goods counter. 25c size MAKES 9 PINTS 10 SIZE, 1 PINT NEW GOODS We Have Jus Received a Large Shipment of NEW SILK DRESSES $1.98 $2.98 $3.98 Cotton Dresses 9&c, $1.48 and $1.98 Big Savings On LADIES' WHITE SHOES $1.25 $1.50 $1.98 LADIES' HATS 50c -79c -98c Men's Dress Shirts 95c and 69c Men's Work Shirts 65c and 50c Men's Overalls $1.25, 98c and 89c Boys' Overalls 69c and 59c Men's Pants 98c, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.98 Men's Work Shoes ..$1.25, $1.48 and $1.98 Children's Oxfords 98c, $1.25 an $1.50 tiSit Travel anywhere.. any day 4Hm oh the SOUTHERN Wfg Ajarejor even purse,:! muni ONE WAY and ROUND TRIP COACH TICKETS .for Each Mile Traveled ROUND TRIP TICKETS Return limit 15 Daya for Each Mile Traveled ROUND TRIP TICKETS Return Unit 6 Months for Each Mile Traveled ONE WAY TICKETS for Each Mile Traveled Good fat Sleeping and Parlor Can en payment of proper charges for space occupied. No surcharge. Economize by leaving your Automobile at home and using the Southern Excellent Dining Car Service j Be Comfortable in the Safety of Train Travel J R. H. DEBUTTS. ASST. GEN. PASSENGER ACT. Southern Railway System I II UCT10N I H of the Corundum Hill Farm Now Owned by Mrs. Laura Lease Jolly Consisting of 130 Acres Divided into Lots and Tracts WILL BE SOLD 10 A. M. - THURSDAY, JUNE 13 for the last and highest dollar on Very Easy Terms 1 12-Room Stone Residence. 1 Small Bungalow and 1 Rock Barn suitable for storage and could be converted into a tea room or residence. Also All Farm Tools 1 Mowing Machine. 1 Farm Wagon. Harrows, Plows etc. Live Stock, Milch Cows and Team of Mules. SALE TO BE CONDUCTED BY Home Realty & Auction Company priced far below the usual selling figures. Come in and see. Moses Blumenthal Franklin, N. C. R. A. PATTON, Mgr. FRANKLIN, N. C
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