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PAGE TWO THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1935 LISTENING IN by A. B. Chapin Iks $xMin attit Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. L Number 44 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 $100 Single Copy , & 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 Conviction Nailed Down 'THERE may be some folks who still believe Bruno Hauptmann is not guilty of the kidnap ping and killing of the Lindbergh baby, even though the High Court of Appeals of New jersey has af firmed his conviction. Apparently in the hope that the orderly processes of law can be stayed in their course, a great effort has been made and still per sists to create doubt. . One can hardly blame a man under sentence of death for resorting to any means to save his neck'. But if there still were any reasonable doubt of Hauptmann's guilt, the last vestige of that doubt seems to have been removed by the disclosure that even the very nails with which the kidnap ladder was put together came from the identical keg of nails he bought to build his own garage. The tracing of the wood from which the ladder was made, to the floorboards of Hauptmann's at tic, was a most remarkable feat of scientific detec tion. Now it appears that this was matched by painstaking work of another scientific investigator, who found that all the 45 nails in the ladder match ed in every detail the unused nails in a keg m the' Hauptmann garage, but also some 275 rtails Which had been Used in building the garage, even, to minor imperfections. There would seem to be no way for a criminal to escape detection, if sufficient skill aftd "patience is devoted to his pursuit. Human beings may give false evidence, intentionally or by inadvertence, but boards and nails, tool-marks and fingerprints; tell nothing but the truth. They cannot lie. Selected. About Pronunciations IT IS gratifying to learn from the National Board on Geographic Names that the right way to pro nounce the name of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is as if it were spelled "Ahdis Awawa," with the accent on the first syllable of each word. That goes to show how little most of us know or care about the right way to pronounce the names of foreign places. Practically every Ameri can pronounces "Paris" the way it is spelled, in stead of calling it "Paree," as the French do. Any body talking about "Mathreeth" would be regarded in these parts as a sissy, but that's how Spaniards pronounce the name of their capital city, Madrid. As far as that goes, most of us are as careless with Italian names as we are with those of Ethiopia. If we've got to say "Ahdis Awawa," why aren't we under equal compulsion to say "Roma," "Napoli," "Firenze" and "Genpva" instead of our slipshod American way of pronouncing Rome, Naples, Flor ence and Genoa the way we spell them? Most of us, anyhow, feel like pronouncing this whole Italian-Ethiopian war a mistake. Selected. 76eStory onsmuTio '6 Caleb Johnson XV. FINAL: THE CONSTITUTION, TO DATE The recent Supreme Court de cisions that the National Recovery Act was unconstitutional set in mo tion a nation-wide discussion of the situation' which made this series of "The Story of the Constitution," a most timely subject. The Supreme Court's decision was, in effect, based upon the fundamental principle that the Fed eral Government is one of delegat ed powers. , Under the Constitution, all pow of the er rests in the Congress, which re ceives its authority from the peo ple and the States. The Executive power is to see to the enforcement of the Acts of Congress. The power of the Judiciary is that of I determining whether or not the I Congress has, in any given ease, ' sought to exercise power which has not been delegated to it. In the NRA case the Supreme Court held that Congress had re ceived no power from the people to delegate any part of its law making function to the President; that the States x had granted the Congress no power to regulate commerce or industry except as they are in the stream of inter state commerce. I Within the limits of its delegat ed authority, Congress has' usually' been upheld in its efforts to legis late within the. nepds of an ex panding national economy. The Supiroe Court is expected" to take a realistic ; view f current condi tions and recognize the necessities of the times when this could be done without infringing upon the powers reserved to the' States or the people, under the Tenth Aniepdment, By this process, the Constitution has operated ' for 148 years. The flexibility of the Constitu tion to meet new conditions has been testified to by generations of statesmen. In the few instances, during recent years, when the con sidered will of the people could not be executed under the powers already granted to the Congress, amendment has proved to be a simple and speedy process, once public sentiment has become crys tallized. The 20th Amendment is an apt illustration. This Amendment changed the terms of office of the President and Vice-President and of all Senators and Representatives. Under the 12th Amendment all of these took office on the Fourth of March following their election. But Congress was required, under Ar ticle 1, Section 4, to meet annually on the first Monday in December. That resulted in what came to be known as "lame duck" Congresses, many of whose members, although defeated at the November election, held office until the following March 4th. In March, 1932, Congress sub mitted to the States an amend ment making the terms of Senators and Representatives begin on Jan uary 3rd, and those of the Presi dent and Vice-President on Jan uary 20th. The annual meeting date of the Congress was changed to January 3. In less than one year, 39 States had ratified this 20th Amendment, which was pro claimed as a part of the Constitu tion on February 6, 1933. It took even a shorter time to establish the 21st Amendment, re pealing the 18th or Prohibition Amendment. This was submitted to the States m February, 1933, by the present administration, and be came a part of the Constitution on December 5, 1933. Both of these amendments had an overwhelming weight of public opinion behind them. Such has proved the rule; than in like man ner, when a proposal to change the Federal Government structure has behind it strong, nation-wide public opinion, then is our Consti tution usually amended and chang ed. (The End) Letter-Press IMPROVEMENTS AT THE CHAPEL COLORED SCHOOL To The Franklin Press May we publish in your valuable paper a word about the colored school of Franklin? In asking this favor, we wish to thank The Press tor past favors and its friendly at titude towards the advancement of our group along all lines. The colored school opened early in August with four teachers and an unusually heavy enrollment. The average attendance for the time taught has been much better than in previous yeaVs. The pupils are making much better progress than in the past. In many ways, the school is being made over. Professor M. D. Billings, our splendid superintendent, is sparing no pains or expense in readjusting conditions to new and higher stand ards. Twenty new desks have been put in, relieving us of the crowded conditions with which we. were handicapped during last term. Home economics has been added to the work, and Professor Billings has gone the full length in supplying equipment for carrying on. In this department four classes have been organized, and Mrs. Bculah Mar tin, an experienced teacher, is giv ing lessons daily in cooking, sew ing, and home-making in general. She is also teaching night classes three nights in each week, free to all who wish to attend. Another new feature is a work shop for the boys in which they will be taught -the care and use of tools., and how to do many useful things about the home and prem ises, such as repairs, ordinary con struction, making tool handles, re pairing furniture, making porch furniture and other articles of use in the home. The shop is about completed, and the superintendent has already sent out a liberal sup ply of brand new tools for starting the work. The principal has had much experience in this kind of work, and will train the boys in this .new field of endeavor. Pro fessor Briscoe Barber, aside from his work in the -classroom, will train in athletics. He is well qual ified, having taken fopr, years of college work in Teachers College, Durham, N. C. The school is also fortunate in having the services of Mrs. Emma Lillian England as pri mary teacher for the "beginners." Ntfw, in view of what is being done by the superintendent and the faculty to improve the school, it is but fair that the patrons give full co-operation by keeping every child in school regularly and help ing to furnish supplies to enable us to carry on successfully. Thus we are asking and begging that every patron and friend will visit the school and fall in line and help us carry it to the top. It is your school, maintained by the .state and county for the benefit of your children. Let us make the most of it. We thank you in advance. R. B. Watts, Principal. From the Files of THE PRESS TEN YEARS AGO Special edition given over to the Boy Scouts, attracting widespread comment, published by The Frank lin Press. Bob Patton bought 15 acres from Norman Barnard on the Georgia road. Read graveled between Franklin and Bryson City. A boat landing completed at the bridge. THIRTY YEARS AGO John S. Trotter put a .new shingle roof on his .house. Charley Franks was at Rome, Ga., with the Western Union. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Bulgin and daughter, Bessie, left for a visit in Los Angeles. Xylophone Old Instrument Xylophones are one of the earl iest of the percussion musical in struments known. The name is taken fr6tfi. a Greek word meaning sounding wood, and, Josephus in his "Antiquities," about A. D. 70, speaks of a festival of xylophony. They are also known to have ex isted in Africa at an exceedingly early date. In the Orient In the Orient the gin sling is considered a native drink, concoct ed of gin, cherry brandy, fresh limes, soda water and sugar, all well mixed with a swizzle stick. Use for Sugars Sugars of the glucose group can be used in making vinegar by fer menting the sugar with yeast, after which the resulting alcohol can be converted to vinegar in the pres ence of ecetic bacteria. Ten thousand students at a Los Angeles relief school are paid to go to school and docked if thejr cut classes!
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