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PACE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY. SEPT S. ltt The Long, Long Trail by A. B. Chapin Published every Thursday by The Franklin Prest At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 yOL. L Number 36 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR At PUBLISHER i i i " - i Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1-50 Six Months Eight Months H-jg Single Copy . f J Time for Quick Action A DEADLINE for filing applications for projects un der the Federal Works Progress Administration has been set for September 10, only five days hence. After that time those communities which have not submitted proposals for needed public improvements will be the losers. Four million dollars has been set aside for activities of the WPA in this congressional district, the eleventh, and the government is anxious to put this money to work as soon as feasible by the first of October, if possible, for by that time all direct relief is to end. To encourage local communities to submit project pro posals, the government has simplified the red tape in connection with obtaining WPA funds and has offered a most generous bargain. On approved projects the govern ment, roughly speaking, will supply three out of every four dollars spent. It is a fine opportunity for towns and counties that can raise a little ready cash to undertake improvements of streets, highways, sanitation facilities, schools and pub lic buildings. The money the government advances will be in the form of an outright grant; it will not have to be paid back, except, of course, the public in general will later have to bear its proportionate part of taxation levied to liquidate the debt incurred by the federal gov ernment's work relief program. But this burden will fall on all alike, regardless of whether one's own community has benefitted. It, therefore, behooves every Citizen to see that his or her community gets its snare of the WPA funds. It is gratifying that the governing boards of both Ma con county and the Town of Franklin, and doubtless, too, of the Town of Highlands, already have submitted applications for projects. If any residents of the county desire to propose other improvements, they should lose no time in acting. Frank Norton THE untimely death of Frank Norton as the result of an automobile accident has shocked and grieved many people throughout Macon County. ThereWas not a section of the county where Mr. Nor ton was not known. Hundreds of people valued his friendship, not for any ulterior motives, but because they respected him, liked his obliging manner and knew that he was always the same dependable Frank, ever ready to lend a helping hand to a neighbor, to give a word of en couragement, to speak well of his fellow man. No mat ter how urgently pressing were matters of personal con cern, he never missed an opportunity to offer his as sistance where it was needed. The death of Mr. Norton is a sore loss to the whole community as well as to nis family to whom we extend our deepest sympathy. War Touches Us All NOTHING could more effectively demonstrate to every body the fact that war or even the threat of war in volving one of the major Western nations, touches the interest of every other nation and of all of their people, than the excitement and concern now being exhibited in all of the world's capitals over the questions which have been raised by the advance of Italy upon Ethiopia. Italy is more than 3,000 miles from the United States and Ethiopia is still farther away, yet the question of our own neutrality and of what our Government should do toward cooperating to prevent the war is a vital and important one. It is one thing to talk about prohibiting the sale of war supplies to one or both belligerents in a war. It is quiite another thing to make such prohibition effective. What are war supplies? Canada has announced that she will not dump her wheat reserves on the market but will hold them in the expectation of high prices, because of this war. Wheat is a war supply, no less than bullets or gunpowder. , ' We earnestly hope that our nation will not become in volved in any way that will further strain our relations with Italy and the rest of the world, but we believe it would be in the interest of every American for our State Department to lend all the moral support possible to the efforts which the other great nations are making to avert this silly and senseless war. Selected. on6 .kxi rAitm I nun Y) A. wiafc w .. VIII. RIGHTS OF The hardest job the framers of the Constitution had to do was to draw the sharp line between the powers granted by the States to the new Federal Government and those which the States retained for themselves. The conflict between the new spirit of nationalism and the old spirit of independence of the States was acute. "The task," wrote James Madi son in his notes on the Constitu tional Convention, "was to draw a line of demarcation which would give the general Government every power requisite for general pur poses, and leave to the States every power which might be more beneficially administered by them." On that principle of entrusting all matters of common interest to the Federal Government and reserving the very large field of purely local interest to the States, the Consti tution was finally drafted. It is a very short and simple part of the document, Article IV. It provides only, in substance, that the citizens of any State shall be recognized as citizens by all the other States, and that the public acts of each State shall be given full faith and credit in every other State. There was no delegation of pow er from the central Government to the States. The process was the other way about, the States dele gatinig limited powers to the cen tral Government. In return, the central Government guaranteed to every State a republican form of government, protection against in vasion and, at the request of the State authorities, against domestic violence. The Federal Government, thus, has no right or power toend Fed eral troops into any State, even in case of violent rioting or insurrec tion, unless first invited to do so by the Legislature or the Govern or of the State. We are so familiar with the pro cess of extradition of fugitives from justice that it is difficult to day to realize how easy it was, be fore the Federal Constitution was adopted, for a criminal to escape the consequences of his crime by simply crossing the line between one state and another. One of the most important pro visions of the Constitution is that it requires each State, in case of a person charged with any crime who has fled from justice, to de y r mw ism THE STATES liver the accused on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled. Likewise, the principle that trials of criminals ' not only shall be by jury but shall be held in the State where the crime has been commit ted, is so generally understood that the importance of that provision of the Constitution is not immediate ly obvious to the present-day mind. But there was a time when States assumed the right to try and con demn men for crimes committed in other States, or even beyond the seas. The Federal Congress had au thority under the Constitution, from the beginning, to admit new States, but not to create them out of the territory of other States In the one instance in which a new State was set up out of part of an old State, the nation was engaged in a civil war. Virginia had se ceded from the Union, but when its people in the region between the Shenandoah and the Ohio ask ed to have the new State of West Virginia recognized, the Federal Congress granted that request. Some of the States were not sat isfied with the protection of their tights appointed under the original Constitution and refused to ratify the new national set-up unless it were amended to meet their objec tions and calm their fears of Fed eral domination. (Next Week: The Bill of Rights) From the Files of THE PRESS TEN YEARS AGO A L. Bramlett, principal, an nounced the opening of the Frank lin school. At the formal opening of the "Georgia" road, Charles A. Webb, Asheville, and T. D. Bryson, Bry son City, pointed out the advant ages of a Smoky Mountains Na tional Park. The Iotla post office, in the store of H. P. Ray, Was robbed. THIRTY YEARS AGO "Thank God for President Roose velt's courage," said the Pope, af ter the President succeeded in stop ping the war between Japan and Russia. George Lyle Jonesi of Franklin, was admitted to the bar. Announcement was made of the Edison moving picture machine which would be demonstrated in the court house. Pictures of trains moving at full speed were to be shown. CHURCH Announcements FRANKLIN METHODIST Chutixy C Herbert, Jr., Pastor (Each Sunday) 9:45 a. m. Sunday school. 11:00 a. m. Morning worship; 7:15 p. m.Epworth League meet ing. 8:00 p. m. Evening worship. Canon's Chapel (Each Sunday) 2:30 p. m. Sunday school. (2nd end 4th Sundays) 3:15 p. m. Preaching service. EPISCOPAL Rev. Frank Bloxham, Rector St Agnes, Franklin (Sunday, Sept 8) 7:30 a. m. Holy communion. 8:00 p. m. Evening prayer and sermon. Incarnation, Highlands 11 :00 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon. Good Shepherd, Cashiers: 4:00 p. m. Evening prayer and sermon. k CATHOLIC Catholic services are held every second and fourth Sunday morning at 8 o'clock at the home of John Wasilik in the Orlando apartments, the Rev. H. J. Lane, of Waynes ville, officiating. PRESBYTERIAN Rev. J. A. Flanagan, Pastor Frenldfe 10:00 a. m. Sunday school, J. E. Lancaster, Supt. 11:00 a. m. Preaching service Sermon by the pastor. 7:3Q p. m.Christian Endeavor prayer meeting. Morrison 2:30 p. m. Sunday school, Bryant McCIure, Supt. 3:30 p. m. Preaching service Sermon by the pastor. Slagle Memorial 10:00 a. m. Union Sunday school, Rev. S. R. Crockett, Supt. FRANKLIN BAPTIST (Sunday, Sept. 8) 9:45 a, m. Sunday school. 11 ;00 a. m. Worship with sermon by Rev. J. A. Bryson of Missouri. 7:00 p. m. B. T. U. 8:00 p. m. Worship with sermon by Rev. J. A. Bryson. (Wednesday, Sept 4) 8:00 p. m. Prayer meeting. 9:00 p. m. Choir practice.
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