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PAGE FOgR THE FRAP«CLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, JAN. 9, isjj Oik? |tr«s3 njtit (Lk:e ^ntixninxx Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LI NUMBKR 2 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES „ V , $1.50 One Year ^ iLoo Elight Months Single Copy What Bodes the AAA Decision TnVMV: is little doubt that the Agricultural^Ad justment Act has l)ccn the administration s most successful measure to improve agricultural!: prices, albeit there may be room for considerable argument as to the extent of its influence in bring ing about healthier economic conditions in general. Now that the AAA has gone the way of the NR A we all are wondering what the outcome will be. We sincerely hope the farmers wall suffer no more than the industralists after the Supreme Court clipped the Blue l^agle’s wings; but we fear the ])arallel will not lead to the same conclusion. It would be interesting to wait and see; but it would !)(■ f(;(jlhardy. Because industry continued to improve after the NR A was invalidated does not necessarily ])oint to continued im})rovement in agriculture since the Supreme Court has ruled against the AAA. One thing that has kept industry on the up- and-up is the increased income of farmers, a large jiart of which is directly traceable to the AAA ben efits. With diminished ex{)orts it is gravely doubtful if industry’s momentum tow'ard better (lays will carry agriculture with it. More likely the farmers’ lessened buying power will retard in dustry’s climb. Yes, it would be an interesting experiment in economics to follow^ a laissez faire policy just for the sake of seeing whether the affirmative or the negative side would win. But such would be a dangerous experiment at this time. We hope con gress is not of a mind to try it, but rather it will developed enough f(M‘esight to see through the situ- rttion and i)rovide some substitute legislation that can stand the acid test of the courts. Unless it does, we tear agricultural America is in for a bad case o1 jitters belore the next harvest ri}>ens. Concerning Sex Hygiene Cl',X h_\-giene has been kej)t in the dark so long that the actual iacts conceriaing it have not only been obscured, but also grossly distorted through the bootlegging of misinlormai;on. It therefore is an encouraging sign when magazines of the better kind face the situation squarely and endeavor to give their readers accurate knowledge on the sub ject. One i)ublication which is following this com mendable policy is The i’rogressive I'armer, which in a recent issue printed an article by Dr. F. M. Kegist(u, Jrom which we (juote this significant passage; srx FACTS ALL SHOULD KXOW (1) Syphilis is the most prevalent disease that we have. In 1914 in the (ierman army there were 19 cases of^ venereal diseases ])er thousand soldiers. In the United States army in 1914 there were 167 cases per thousand or 30 cases of syphilis per thou sand. In the same year it was estiniated that in the ciydian population of the United States 18 out ot every 100 had syphilis, either acquired or in- ented At^the same tmie, 1914, it was estimated that _d0,0(Xj people died from these diseases every HELL-BENT FOR ELECTION by A. B. Chapin vear. (2) Having syphilis and being cured does not pre vent another case developing upon renewed ex- l>osure to the disease. (3) Syphilis is one of the few diseases that are hereditary: “Sins of the father to the third and lourth generation.” (4) h'ewer primary cases of syphilis are innocently acciuired than of any other disease, innocently accpiired are negligible. (o)Syphilis is one disease'that could be completlv (6) Syphilis is' a disease that there is no vaccine or sertm, to prevent. It is the one lisea™ that he ,„l,v„l„al who has it in primarv stage can blame on no one but himself. ^ ^ The case; BRUCt Barton •V MUCH TO DO, PIONEERS Mixed up with a great deal of justifiable complaint about existing social conditions there is a certain proportion of plain ordinary self-pity. It expresses itself after this fashion; “You who are older have grabbed all the opportunites. You kad it easy in yo.ur day. If you couldn’t find ,a job, or if you didn’t like your job, there was always the land. You could pioneer.” Seen through the rozy haze of emotion, the pioneers appear a-s a company of hardy young men and women, with their attics full of ham and potatoes and their cellars full of hard cider—dancing barn dances and holding husking bees, B,ut what were the facts ? You get a glimpse of them in a recent biography called Old Jules by Alarie Sandok, daughter of a Nebraska sod-hut pioneer. Merely to escape starvation. Old Jules was driven from one home stead to another, ,a half-dozen moves. Sand storms and drought destroyed his crops; his cattle died from lack of food or water or were frozen to death in terrific shelter less winters. He had to fight off thieves and wolves, and labor from star-light in the morning to moon light at night. Four wives wore themselves out trying to carry on with him; he could hardly have been punished more by sentence as a galley slave. His case is not exceptional. Out of the multitudes who started West with the Forty-Niners, only a few arrived: thousands traveled only a little way before the privations drove them back. The western fronters are gone, it is true, .but if any boy or girl has in him the courage of the pioneers he will not be downed in this age, any more than he would have been hundred years ago. Courage is timeless; so, unfortunately, is self- pity. TOO MANY BABIES MEANS WAR On the subject of Peace I am a middle-of-the-roader .and am accord ingly shot at from both sides. My prepardness friends criticize me as a contributor to peace movements; my peace-at-any-price friends re gard me supidously because I advise a strong nati-ona.1 defense. The horrors of war ought to be innoculated continously also with the serum of caution against for eign propaganda. Thus far I go along with the peace workers. But when they talk about the cause of war they frequently talk nonsense. The World War, in its effects, is still going on; the depression of 1919-23 and of 1929-36 are as much a part of it as was the Battle of the Argonne. Is any body so child-like as to think that Big Business is as well off today as it would have been if peace had reigned since 1914? The re,al causes of war are not bankers or battle-ship builders or scheming politicians. The real causes are babies. Havelock Ellis pointed this out years ago in Essays in War-Time. The French did not want it. The German people did not want it. But in forty-four years the Germans had increased from forty millions to eighty millions^ there was the war pressure. Today Soviet Russia has about sixty peo ple for each acre ol tillable land; the United States has a hundred. But Italy has more than four hun dred; Germany more than five hun dred, and Japan miore than twenty- four hundred! The nations with declining birth rates cry, “Peace.” The crowded nations talk about their “destiny.’’ The rulers who make war are not rulers really; they are distracted nurses, at their wits end becausc of too many babies.. (Copyright, 1935. K. F. S.) CHURCH Announcements FRANKLIN METHODIST Chesley C. Herbert, Jr., Pastor (Each Sundiay) 9-.45 a. m.—Sunday school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning worship. 6:45 p.m.—Epworth League meet.' ing. 7:30 p. m.—Evening worship, Carson’s Cheupel (Each' Sunday) 2:30 p. m.—Sunday school. (2nd and 4th Sumdays) 3:IS p. m.—Preaching service. ; PRESBYTERIAN Rev. J. A. Flanagan, Pastor Franklin 10:00 a, m.—Sunday school. J. J , Lancaster, superintendent. ^ 11:00 a. m.—-Preaching service- | sermon by the pastor. J 7:00 p. m.—Christian Endeavoij prayer meeting. Morrison Chapel 2:30 p. m.—Sunday school, Bry- ant McClure, superintendent 3 :30 p. m.—Preaching service sermon by the pastor. EPISCOPAL j Rev. Frank Bloxham, Rector ’ ! St. Agnes, Franklin 'i (Sunday, Jan. 12) v->; 10:00 a. m.—Bible class. ^ 11:00 a. m.—Morning Prayer sermon by the rector, 'I’ Incarnatioin, Highlands (Sunday, Jan. 12) ‘ 10:00 a, m.—Church school, j 3 p. m.—Evening prayer j sermon by the rector. 1 (Wednesday, Jan. 15) * 7:30 p. m,—Bible class. Texas is the second rice-produc- ing state m the union, bemg ex ceeded only by Louisiana, legal ADVERTISING NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The annual meeting of the stock holder of the Macon County Building & Loan 'Association will be held m the Building & Loan Office m the Bank of Franklin Building on January 16, 1936, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. All stockholders will please be present either in person or by proxy. This 6th day of January, 1936. S, JONES, Secretary, J 9—2tc—J16 CATHOLIC Catholic services are held ev«ry|; second and fourth Sunday morn-| ing at 8 o’clock at the home of| John Wasilik in the Orlando apart-T ments, the Rev, H, J, Lane, of| Waynesville, officiating, FIRST BAPTIST , Rev. William MarsJihall Bums, Th.G j Pastor Sunday 9 :45 a, m,—Bible school. 11:00 a, m,—Morning worship. 6:30 p. m,—B, T, U. 7:30 p, m,—Eve.ning worship. W ednesday - 7:30 p, m.—Mid-week prayer andj praise service. On November 1 the sun passe*; the meridian about 16 minutes be- fore the clock shows 12; in Feb- r.uary it passes the meridian I'f or 15 minutes after 12.
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