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Publi!rhu(i cvtry i'hurs'lay by The Franklin Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
Teleijhoue No. 24
Number 7
BLA( KI!L i:>; W. JO,HNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
l-.iitcuii! at llie I'o.st Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter
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Concerning Juvenile Crime
I.A,\'( l.\(j over.the I-'>, bruar); 8th issue of The
Slate, ( arl GcxTch’s Aveekh' survey of North
C'ar>hua ik -,\s and our attention was at-
ftrac.led b\- a liinely article by Judge J. Will I’less,
Jr., (jf Marion, t oncernins^' the juvenile dehnquency
problem, -r
: (;rwiinolog'ists and sociolog'ists are agreed that
\lhe solutic^n of the crime; j)roblem lies principally
in the; correction of juvenile lelin([uencies before
they become a habit. iUit North Carolina, like
■ jnatiy other states, has been woefull}' slow to pro-
yide means of cf>ping with youthful offenders. As
:i|udge i’less ])oints out, our reformatory facilities
are altogether made(]uate. As a result, many
youngsters' who have broken the law must be
))ar(ded int-o the custody of their parents, who in
^nany cases already have di'uionstrated their in-
cibility of rising to the responsibility. The big
trouble is that there is no fit place to send fledging
criminals. The r(‘formatories are full.
" _ “As tl]e Situation uow exists,” Judge Pless con
tinues, “our superior courts have the choice of
I'ither continuing the treatment that has failed—
|)y lecturing the boy and exacting a promise that
he w'ill not rej)eat his offense—or of sentencing him
io the roads or the penitentiary with the fear
|(which ^s• u.4+ta1ly ■well-founded), that he will be
forced to associate - with hardened and violent
Criminals who will convince him that he can beat
t)ie.la>y..iy,si)ire him to worse crime and teach him
niwe trick.i (?f the criminal trade.”.
imprisonment (U‘ juvenile law-breakers, especially
fiist Oi lenders. Judge I’less believes, will frequently
oorn'ct their criminal tendencies and give them a
pvw slant on Hie, ju'ovided the\' come under the
proper influences during their incarceration.
. A practical man. Judge I’less proposes a practical
?i(\-in.^ of p_r(.>viding j)laces to send juvenile de-
Kn-iuen';-; without putting the state to great ex-
^)cnse. lie :;u;4gests that six or eight of the forty-
f)dd prison camps scattered through the state be
set aside as “bows’ cau'])S,” to which no one should
be assigned excei>t boys under 21 vears old who are
serving their first sentences. Idle superintendents
and guards t.l these camps, he suggests, “should be
^ho.sen for their high character and abilitv to train
and ins])ire the boys.” A bov sent to one of these
eamps would learn what the 'loss of his liberty im-
p.hes without being sul)jected to influences tending
increase rather than correct criminal tendencies,
^nd on being disi harged, he would not carry with
him the stigma of convict’s stripes, but only the
^lemory of having been to “l)oys’ camp.”
* with Judge Pless that this
plan has the advantage ol being ])ractical inex-
p,ensue and immediate.” A\'e hope the next Gen
eral Assemljly will give it thorough consideration
I lie ever increasing j)opulation of our penitentiary
and prison camp's should imi>ress anyone of the
importance of coping with the crime problem in
Us first stages—^juvenile delinquency.
Bruc
Barton
StJLL CHANGES
AHEAD
heritance tax, and do a lot of other
_ thmgs, my children may perhaps
A n.an has just b.-cn worry ^ ^ off.
As far as insurance is concerncd
I have been a booster for it all
my life. Aly father, who was a
preacher with a large family, and
worse
me ab nit the childri n. fh
l ilt that tuKL’i arc j.;ctlint
and I am scttiii; ildcr, and that if
I ,si‘t up anniiitii's and insir.m.c
trusts. :ind c^tablish-^a residcucc in i a small sajary
used to remark
F'lorida, wlicre there is no state in- i that he had “kept himself poor
by A._B^jChapin
Valentine Season
Mister KwowitAll
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Mbter knoY/tT Au.
O' 4K>utle
5weetie,frtte^
ofonlij one^
on(u You!
Cea$e your Viowd’inj,
Take a nap!
Your jabkle iVte we.
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'Some folk's hwe
'A picki«' 'Hveir
BtiT I Kave Kvou^tfi
For me,tKeres
Foe ruE RABiB eiD8-B§S$=Sto x
FftOM TH6 AMTI \ lO
Cease your sKou+ing',
Take a Yiap!
Yowr irks me,
14idebou.nd Sajsll,
Foa T*4E RABiP AjNTi wEw-^EA16M '
PftOM THE NEVtf-'DEALEn.s’'"’^ ^
'A^ I lowe 'joit,
N/o Knife can ouP ^
Oux love iniwo*
Dont- look, so Viollovv’,
Por iears fo come \
TKeres (Vnoretb follow.
paying insurance premiums.” But
the ins.urancc premiums enabled
him to sleep peacefully at night
and, having seen us all through col
lege, he proceeded to cash in his
insurance, and he and Mother had
always lags when business bebins
to pick up. But the time ciomes
eventually whe,n there are more
jobs—and that time is almost here.
So I ask the Brass Hats of busi
ness to take as much time as pos-
good time on it during their last I sible from their balance sheets and
years.
How completely they might have
invest in helpful conversation with
and generous efforts for young
spoiled their days and nights if | people. By so d/oing they will lay
they could have looked forward in
to the future. Suppose they had
known, in 1900, that this country
was going to do a nose dive in
1929 which would .be followed by
the worst depression in history.
Well, they couldn’t 'have done
anything about it. And, as things
have turned out, we are still eat
ing regularly; we have a dry place
to sleep, and so far have neither
applied for a dole or sought ad
mission to a nudist camp.
The changes that are going to
come in these United States are
beyond the imagination of apy one
to forecast. Our children and
grandchildren will have to meet
them, as we have had to meet the
problems in our own lives. What
we can do for them beyond health
and education is not much. Having
tried to take care of these two re
quisites, and being now an old
man, I propose to save up the
hours hitherto devoted to confer
ences with insurance men and de
vote those hours to golf.
heaven, or,
bargain prices
Recently I wrote a piece about
J. Thomson Willing, an elderly
man without much money but Sh
m friendships because all his life
loday I should like to preach mv
nef sermon to those members of
the cotigregation who occupy safe
“L'ItT ■” ‘“ini'
1 should like to lay upon their con-
sciences a sense of sDerial y^Ki*
tion toward the younT
I steppea out of coilege into a
r,f'°rvS” on .h!
up for themselves treasure in
Heaven. If Heaven seems too far
away as a depository of treasure, I
might point out that they also will
be buying some highly trained tal
ent at bargain prices.
Copyright 1936—K.F.S.
CHURCH
Announcements
ments, the Rev. H. J. Lane, ij.
Waynesville, officiating. x
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PRESBYTERIAN
Rev. J. A. Flanagan, Pastor
Franklin ^
10 ;00 a. rru—Sunday school. J. ■
Lancaster, superintendent.
11:00 a. m.—Preaching service-|
sermon by the pastor,
7:00 p. m.—Christian Endeavi
prayer meeting.
Morrison Chapel
2:30 p. m.—Sunday school. Bn
ant McClure, superintendent.
3:30 p. m.—Preaching serviceJ
sermon by the pastor.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
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EPISCOPAL
Rev. Frank Bloxham, Rector
St. Agnes’, Franklin
^Sunday, Febrfuary 16)
10:00 a, m.—Bible class.
11 a. m.—Morning prayer and
sermon hy the rector.
Incarnation, Higthlands
(Sunday, February 16)
10 a. m.—Church school
3 p. m.—Evening prayer and
sermon.
(Tuesday, February 18)
7:30 p. m.~Keno party, Pearson
House.
(Wednesday, February 19)
7.30 p. m.—Bible class.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrat(
of T. G. HarbisQn, deceased, lai
of Macon county, N. C., this is t
notify all persons having clain
against the estate of said decease
to exhibit them to the undersigne
on or ibefore the 12th day of Fel
ruary, 1937, or this notice will I
plead in bar of their recovery. AT
persons indebted to said estate \vi|
please make immediate settlemeni
This 12th day of 'February, 1936.1
T. C. HARBISON, Administratotj
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^treets of Chicago I m;f the"cap
tarn of our football team Aft^r
eating the pavement for weeks
he had succeeded, throueh •
ual lab;r/‘If/'^^.7«‘h^at man-
get into the publis^g businlsT
tion camp i„ Montana '
but we td g:t"Sbrp
the youngsters who hav°e'^
of college since 1932 th
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FIBIST BAPTIST
Rev. William Marshhall Burns, Th.G.
Pastor
Sunday
m.--Bible school.
11 a. m.—Morning worship.
6:30 p. m.—B. T. U.
7:30 p. m._]7venjjjg worship.
Wednesdiay
orLs^p prayer and
Pi^aise s ervice.
FR \NKLIN METHODIST
Ches ley C. Herbert, Jr., Pastor
(Each .Sunday)
^-“Sunday school,
a. m.—Morning worship,
mg.' ™-~^Pworth League meet-
7 ;30 p. m.—E vening worship
Carson’s Chapel
v.-tach' Sunday)
m-—Sun day school.
(2nd and 4th Sunvdays)
p. m.—Pre aching service.
CATH ^IC
mg at 8 r,’ Sunday morn-
Mn wLL home of
wasiltk in thy Orlando apart-
TRUSTEE NOTICE |
Having qualified as trustee of 1
M. Bradley, deceased, late o
Macon county, N. C., this is t
notify all persons having claim
against the estate of said deceasei
to exhibit them to the undersignei
on or before the 12th day of Feb
1937, or this notice will be plead i'
'bar of their recovery. All person!
indebted to said estate, will pleasi
make immediate settleruent. Thi
12th day of Feb., 1936.
Mrs. Maggie Bradley Breedlove,
Trustee
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