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PAGE TWO , THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN Thursday, july k, iws NEWS REEL - - Aquatic Number by A. B. Chapin Cite JEigkkttits Mvctninn Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. L Number 30 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON '. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' " One Year $150 Six Months .75 U1U T1D& TOLD You HQfT To Go SwiMMiMC IM TV4AT MUDUOIP I kWEVJ THAT ' ORUERY JONES BOY WOULD TiE tUti Shirt and SVeal bURWVUTSl ':. ' Mm Eight Months $100 Single Copy .05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, 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 with the postal regulations. A Welcome Addition to the Staff THE editor is glad to announce the addition to the staff of The Press-Maconian of Mr. Wellington McConnell, who for the remainder of the summer will assist in the reportorial and editorial work of the paper. Mr. McConnell's home is in Atlanta, but he is well acquainted in Franklin. For a number of years he has been coming here with his parents to spend the summer. For the past two years Mr. McConnell has been a student of Journalism at Emory University and has been ap pointed to serve as managing editor of the college paper, "The Wheel," during the coming session. We don't know the professor of journalism at Emory, but judging by the approach of one of his students, he is an improvement over a certain type, all too prevalent for many years, who gave many a would-be reporter a bad start in the game and aroused many an editor's dis peptic ire. Mr. McConnell, and we suppose, too, other journal ism students at Emory, has actually learned something about newspaper work. But what is more important, he knows that he doesn't know it all, and he is willing to learn by experience. If colleges in general will instill that attitude into their students, their work will be far more effective. Perhaps, however, that depends as much on the student as on his alma mater. We are glad to have Mr. McConnell with us and we feel sure our readers will agree that he is helping us to turn out a better newspaper. We Are Drinking Less THE population of the United States is 26 million more persons in 1935 than it was in 1917. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, the people of the United States consumed 85,248,000 gallons of whiskey. In the fiscal year just ended, a population more than one-fifth larger drank a third less whiskey only 55,500,000 gallons. The Government's Internal Revenue statistics, from which those figures are taken, tell a similar story in regard to beer and wine. We drank, the 26 million more of us, 322 million fewer gallons of beer, as compared with 18 years ago, and 15 million fewer gallons of wine. We have no comment to make at this time on the moral aspects of the repeal of the Prohibition amend ment and the laws enacted under it, but we do think it pertinent to point out the disproof of the oft-heard as sertion that the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors was greatly increased under Prohibition. If that were true, then certainly the volume of alcoholic drinks con sumed now, by a much larger population, would not show a decline, but an increase. There probably is a considerable volume of bootleg liquor still being peddled. That would not show, of course, in the Government's revenue tax figures. But it is hard ly likely that such illicit traffic can be large enough to account for the wide gap between the figures of 1917 and those of the first full fiscal year since Repeal, the year just ended. The plain fact seems to us to be that the Amerltra people are doing less drinking than they used to do. Moreover, we believe that the use of alcohol will continat to decline, as the younger generation begins to discover for itself that booze and motoring, liquor and athletics, don't mix. Selected. Life is a piece of paper white Whereon each one of us may write. Lowell Not the cry but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to flv and follow. From the Chinese. If you wish anyone to keep your secret, first keep it yourself. Seneca. Every man should measure himself by his own standard. Horace. .M.J. - Tr0 Antazinci phenomenon which occared on-tWo AkUtfhc seaboard recentij wasy narky, MpTT -Hh Hidrthdc ever recorded . TL usaritic inland sweep of uuafcot- caused W"w biftfesr Crowd m years alono ;3evn Mi If each iatarj a dip ik Old Br'wj- FAJVIPLD, ILL " J Severe Wder WAttV, O.C. . bpVa kino ffoon The Weatv Bureau. 1 has accompanied the n umerou.s ftotMS nereabouxs during The recetit 1omdT Spell and Qwte a number of persons hfKe been sruck by liorhnmrf. Late reports SaUe Hiat none hwe been fatally inju.red, and mostvaill DELUGE report -from cod- e Coast tr rotf- prodigious downpour Since lash July. WILD WAVES fteafydiw trotter day VfcwiUNKpe4d place and in jpW ( OH ! THAT NMH Tl HE NEVER CLEANS TMS Mb CiWEVA ALA. l I w i - mi mum) for hi$h water were butted latt" eek . Much visible effluvi a. adnudwerj? depo$id durw CVWTHIANA . KY. -T 3I3fcI was Submerged by wild waves of talk Ustweekwhen Miss Goldie Dare h-ied out her ncv bMhu) Suit Ker backyard. LETTER-PRESS BROADWAY NEEDS SCHOOL FACILITIES Editor, Franklin Press: We thought that perhaps it would interest your readers to know that up in the high Appalachians on the very crest of the Blue Ridge, four thousand feet above tide water, there reposes a sequestered little valley known as Broadway. It seems to be always happy; the birds are constantly singing; the brooks are continually babbling; the breezes are forever blowing, and the refreshing showers wafted in from the distant peaks that gleam in the far-away haze, bathe the shimmering landscape, and above all the glorious sunshine crowning the rugged scene with an undulated diadem of regal beauty. As you aze with astonishment upon this more than royal splendor, you ex perience a feeling of awe, a com pelling force that causes you to bow to the omniscient and supreme. It is truly the Holy Temple of the Cod of the universe. It is ixopulated with true pioneer Americans of the Anglo-Saxon stock, whose ancestry harks back to pre-Kevolutionary days. They possess hearts of good old moun tain hospitality and muscles of steel, working hard and making an honest living, owing no one, but assuredly, asking for their rights as free American citizens, not de manding, but simply asking. These people arc so isolated in their mountains, that they do not have the privilege of church or school without climbing high preci pices and over rough country roads, which in winter become pitfalls of langer from the accumulation of snow and ice, then often rocks of gigantic proportions catapult down the sides of the steep slopes, ren dering the life of the traveller very hazardous. True, the little, but beautiful village of Highlands if on ly ten or twelve miles away and has fine school, but these children, although very active and alert, do not possess the fortitude to makn the attempt to accomplish this dis tance in a school day, therefore some are well on in their teens and older, that have not had the op portunity to attain that which is due every American citizen an education. This is a peculiar situation. It certainly is not the fault of the County Board of Education, for they have made every effort to remedy this- defect. There are not enough pupils to have an elemen tary school, and the parents do not think it safe for their children to climb out of this gorge to meet the school bus on the bleak moun tain road that leads to the village school at Highlands. Here it was that Miss Frances Morgan, the daughter of Dr. Ar thur Morgan, the manager of the TV A, taught for two short terms. She gave her time to these chil dren and people, besides building her own school house and furnish ing her own equipment. "Miss Morgan" is a household word in every home, and she is always spoken of with reverence and af fection. She will always be re membered as a great benefactor and a ray of sunshine in these beautiful hills. Others, too, have found out the need of these good mountain folk, and are giving a part of their time to them, also supplying them with literature and books, which keep them somewhat in line with the great outside world and the changing times. Dr. Hcadrick and Miss Isabelle Batho of the University of New York ay.- now engaged in teaching and working among these people. It was our privilege a few days ago to visit Miss Batho's little school house, in which she and her pupils were busy at work. O, what a lovely spot ! A real gem of a school house, cuddled down among tht: hemlocks and rhododen drons and numbers of vines adding their woody ensemble to the great blue hazy slopes that form the background to this sylvan 'retreat. A dream of a musical brooklet that was dashing rapturously over a bed of snow-white pebbles, mingl ing its notes with the woodland chant of the Hermit Thrush and Scarlet Tanager was near; a fi bower for the gods. There are 46 people in this val ley, ten of whom are children un der the compulsory school age, 10 fo 14 years old. There are 14 or 15 others up to 20 years old, who arc willing to attend school and many of the parents would like to take lessons in home making, agri culture, poultry production, farm accounting, live stock production, spelling, reading, arithmetic, and modern and current history, etc., if they had a chance. Here it seems that one or two of our ERE teachers would supply the long felt want. Why not? Of course, children under 16 years old could not be enrolled in the ERE schools, but a plan could be worked out by the teachers and people, so the children could take part in the work. Some people may not think it but the ERE teachers are a very busy set of workers. We not only put in the required 30 hours of work a week and quit, but most of the time work twice that long, walking long distances each day to reach our classes. We generally begin at 8:30 a. m. and finally get into bed at 11 p. m. Not a very soft snap. No, but we never grumble; sometimes we talk to our selves and work right on, glad to do so. In a situation like the above any of us would be glad to do a little extra "heaving" to help the younger folks. It would help in the work with the parents and old er children very much. We trust that this matter will he called to the attention of our su periors and ths$ some teachers will be placed at Broadway at the open ing of the session in September. Yours for success to the EKE program in Macon county. E. N. E. Scaly, N. C. July 23, 1935 Gneiss Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Barne's three-weeks-old infant died recent- Owing to the illness of his daugh ter, Frances, Howard Keener is home for a few days from his CCC camp. Mr. and Mrs. Keener are living in their new home on Ellijay. They are planning to mow to New Hampshire in September. Jim Keener is home from Hay wood. Miss Bonnie Wood, from the Shortoff section, is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. Pearl Moses. Miss M. G. Moses was a recent visitor on Ledford Branch. Miss Lucy MashburnJs now liv ing with her grandfather, I). J. Moses, and her aunt, Miss Maymc Moses, on Ellijay. She is planning to attend the Higdonvillc school this fall. Friends and neighbors' are wish ing Mrs. Henry Stiwinter a speedy recovery from her illness. Rev. Mr. Crockett, Franklin, preached at the Walnut Creek school Sunday afternoon. He is to preach here again the afternoon of the third Sunday in August. Lillie Harline Stiwinter, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stiwinter, died July 16. In addition to her parents, she is survived by two sisters, Ora and Hazel, and one brother, Odel. Surprise Picnic Given Prisoners at Quarry A surprise picnic was given the forty prisoners working in the state quarry at Riverside by Mr. and Mrs. Rymer Styles, assisted by many neighbors of the district: After the dinner, one of the pris oners gave an impromptu speech expressing the appreciation of the group.
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