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PAOXTWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS mi THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY, SEPT It, IfM Red Letter Day& By A. B. Chapin nob Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. L ' Number 37 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON.. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, ' $1.50 Six Months ....... 75 Eight Months $1.00 Single Copy t .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 Natural Death IT would be contrary to the standards of civilized living to attempt to justify or condone the assassination of Huey Long. Murder is murder, regardless of who the murderer or the murdered may be. Nevertheless, it seems to us that the death of the Kingfish was in keeping with his life. It was as natural as cause and effect. "He who lives by the sword, by the sword shall perish." It, therefore, was not unanticipated that the. turbulent career of the self-appointed dictator of Louisiana should end so suddenly and violently. Long himself possessed a fear of attack amounting to an obsession. For some years he had surrounded him self with bodyguards. Only recently he charged on the floor of the senate that his, life was being plotted against. Whether anyone harbored such a plot, it is impossible to say. We think, however, that it was very unlikely that the young Baton Rouge physician who mortally wounded Long, and in turn was mowed down by bullets fired by Long's bodyguards, was a party to any such plan. It is more probable as The Asheville Citizen points out, that he acted in a moment of anger, engendered by coming into personal contact with Long, a political enemy. Had the act been premeditated, it more than likely would have been wrought in a different manner, at a time and in a situation affording the assassin at least a gambler's chance of escape. In Long's citadel, his capitol, with guards and armed friends all about him, there was not the slightest possibility of escape, and Dr. Weiss knew there was not. It is far more probable that Long's presagement of death was born of a realization that his mode of living and dealing with his fellow man boded an ill end. The Tax Tangle THE subject of taxation is uppermost in the minds of all who have anything that can be taxed. It will inevitably become an even more absorbing subject of everyday discussion. We seldom find two persons in agreement on this matter of taxation, except on one point. There is unani mous agreement that something is wrong with our tax systems, local, state and national. With that general agreement as a starting point, it seems as if it ought to be possible to arrive somewhere, but instead of getting better, the whole tax situation seems to get worse. What is fundamentally wrong with it is, of course, politics. Our political system is built on taxes. Parties are organized and maintained on the strength of public patronage which is a polite way of saying, jobs for tax eaters. The more jotys, the stronger the party organiza tion. Nobody knows how much of our tax burden is due to conniving politicians seeking to intrench themselves in office, but certainly a great deal of the taxation has, ac tually, no other purpose. There is nothing that can be called an intelligent or scientific system of taxation in effect anywhere in Ameri ca, that we know of. It seems to us that it should be possible at least to mark off the fields of taxation that might be occupied by different governmental units. It does not seem right to have Federal, state, county, town ship and municipal taxes overlapping, each political unit trying to extract blood from the same turnip. There is a great opportunity for real statesmanship, as distinguished from opportunist politics, in the effort to so redistribute taxation that it will bear fairly on all and not too heavily on anybody. But the man who un dertakes that Herculean task will have all of the tax hungry politicians, of all parties, on his neck. fonsuWuoipS? JSSSL Caub Johnson JX. THE BILL The Constitution could not take effect until it had been ratified by conventions in at least nine of the thirteen States. Deleware was the first to ratify. Pennsylvania was next, New Jersey third, all in 1787. By the middle of 1788, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Mary land, South Carolina and New Hampshire had given their sanc tions, and the Federal Government was at last actually in existence. Virginia and New York ratified later in the same year. The feeling that the rierhts of the States were not sufficiently pro tected was so strone that the vote for ratification was verv close in many States. Little Rhode Jsland refused even to call a ratification convention until assurances were given that immediate amendments would be made to further protect State independence and the rights of citizens. The result of this was the submission of the so-called "Bill of Rights," constitution, the first eleven amendments tr th .v aa Constitution. As things turned out. thes -y amendments were as imnnrtant the people of many of the States believed they were. Most impor tant of all of them is Article I. "Congress shall make no law re specting an establishment of re ligion, or prohibiting the free ex ercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peace ably to assemble, and to petition the Government tor a redress of grievances." On Article I re$t the liberties which the people of America have enjoyed from the beginning of our Nation and still enjoy. Relying up on the Constitutional guaranty of "rani tal stock' Of "Riurfnft.iin ' ' Building and Loan Association, and said Deed of Trust stipulating that "the makers of said Deed of Trust f would, on Saturday of each week !tpayto the Macbn County Building and Loan Association the weekly "interest upon said sum of $1,600.00, Tit the rate of six per cent per an trum, until the Twenty-ninth Series yi the stock of the Macon County a.r Building and Loan Association tn should become due, and also stipu ating that the makers of said ar )ced of Trust would, on Saturday ur )f each week, pay to said Associa- ar cat tnimou v -WaVt .v.vc t?.Ut" t speedy and public trial when ac cused of crime are among the guarantees sought and given in the Bill of Rights. Herein was estab lished the principle that no per- OF RIGHTS son can be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense, nor compelled to be a witness against himself, or deprived of life, liberty or proper ty without due process of law. The principle that private prop erty may not be taken for public use without just compensation is laid down here as is the prohibi tion of the excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments. And to make it doubly certain that all na tural rights not specifically dele gated should be preserved, Article IX of the Bill of Rights says: "The enumeration in the Consti tution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage oth ers retained by the people." The Bill of Rights was speedily ratified by all the States, and the new nation was off, in 1789, to an auspicious start, with George Wash ington elected unanimously as its first President. Letter-Press TELLS ABOUT NATIONAL YOUTH CAMP Hello Frieinds: This is one of the girls from Franklin, N. G, trying to spread the news of the camo that has been placed in Brevard, N. C, for the young girls and women who are unemployed. Our state director of National Youth Administration is Mr. C. E. Mcintosh ; our state director of the git' YA Camo is Miss u o Ime s noes ano uoots, W - V S odd coats and odd pantjlr0UKn the fa" and winter in en' sweaters underwl1 8hapI' t!?ey wiU be ready for en s sweaters, unoerwCayy production in the spring, ac- fact everything to WCarbrding to, Frank B. Meacham, en- f c Just Ihink You can buv it chei Keeper8 ana Pay ca"ful atten- lou can buy it cne t0 the condition of the Want. Lion t think. W nount of honey, number of bees Give US a chance to 1 wm - , ' your classes in your scnooi le subjects are not the same. We e informed that Mrs. Roosevelt at the beginning of this, and we ant to thank her for this great portumty. There are one hundred girls here, re feel that more would be glad come, had the college dormitory ten large enough to accommodate them. The most interesting parts of our work are social science, and journ alism. In this we are being taught the meaning of the ERA and the different projects that we have never really known the meaning of, also the current events of the out side world. Friends, may I now end by say ing I hope that if we are fortunate enough next year to get another camp, 1 hope that every county will be able to send more girls. Beatrice Younce, Brevard College Brevard, N. C. From the Files of THE PRESS TEN YEARS AGO Town Board purchased electric lines of the Franklin Light and Power company. Definite plans announced for a Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bryson an nounced the birth of a daughter. George Carpenter appointed . U. S. Commissioner. THIRTY YEARS AGO George Bulgin was doing black smith work for the railroad. Will Moore went to Union, S. G, for a few days. George Stiles was clerking in the Wright and Robinson store. R. A. Henry gave a magic lan tern show for the benefit of the" Franklin library. , Bees Need Careful Attention In Fall The value of next year's honey crop is largely dependent upon the care and management given the bee colonies this fall. IB If the colonies arp lA ivjiyc u cuiuuics a inorougn ex mination in Sentemhpr h 1 1 for a o , ... viv.uuu, 11c UlgC w i mn U15V..I shdld sPace for brod rearing and . 4 . .PPflr otAroma Young queens are best, since they produce a large amount of brood in August, September, and part of October. Bees produced at this time are the ones which survive the winter. Weak colonies can be united with strong ones by placing them together with a sheet of news paper between. By the time the bees eat holes through the paper, they will have become acquainted with one another and will not fight.
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