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rAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONt^ THURSDAY, pj ^\xt ^xanklxn aatii Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 You Can’t Believe All You Hear-byA.B.g vol.. 1.1 Number 9 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter One Year .... Six Months . Eight Months Single Copy SUBSCRIPTION RATES $1.50 75 $1.00 05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as ad»er tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked “adv.” in compliance with the postal regulations. Freedom of the Press FREE press stands as one of the great in terpreters between the (government and the peoi)le. To allow it to l)e fettered is to fetter our selves.” That is the language used l)y Justice Sutherland of the Supreme Court of the United States in de livering the imanimous opinion of the Court that the tax on newspaper advertising, which the State of Louisiana had undertaken to impose, Avas un constitutional. This decision is the latest of a long series of rulings by the High Court upholding the speciiic provision of the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech and of the i)ress. From the time when the first printing press was set up there has been an almost constant fight for the right to print and publish without control by authority. Sometimes it has been the authority of the church which has attempted to curb the press; sometimes the authority of government. Jn the long run, so far as the English speaking world is con cerned, the ])ress has eventually won every battle. That is not true in most of the rest of tjie w^orld. (Outside of the United States, the British Common wealth of Nations and the Republic of France, there is no important country in the world in which newspapers are free to report the acts of public officials and comment upon public questions. 1 he first step that a dictator takes to make secure the power which he has seized is to sup press and curb the newspapers. So long as the newspapers of a nation remain free from political control in any form, Democracy is in little danger. Whenever a government or a public official at tempts to suppress or influence the opinions of a newspaper, that is a danger signal not likely to be disregarded.—Selected. Talking About the Weather 'Y'HERE may have been longer i)eriods of severe cold weather than we have had over most of the United States this Winter, but few people can re member them, and the Weather Bureau confirms the belief that, taken by and large, this has been the worst season in many years. There have been low’er temperatures, but seldom such prolonged cold spells and such a succession of cold waves. 1 he ainattui weathei ])iophets and the long-ranoe forecasters are putting forward the usual variety of explanations which don’t explain, and predictions which are more likely to be WTong than right. A favorite explanation for unusual weather conditions is that sun spots have something to do w'ith them But the theory that the 11-year^ cycle of sun spots affects teirestiial weather, whether favorablv or unfavorably, has not been borne out by the records of the Weather Bureau, which have been kept con tinuously m all parts of the United States since 1871. Some weather prophets are beginning to nredict that 1936 will be like 1848, which used to be re ferred to as “the year without a Summer” in the northern states. Another school of thought holds that a severe Winter is alwavs followed 1)v a hot Summer. The fact is that nobodv knows'enough about the weather and the causes of its violent changes to forecast it for more than a week or so ahead. Nevertheless, the weather is, always has been and ahyays \vill be the most interesting com mon topic of conversation.—Selected. is Bruce- Barton POLITICAL LEADERS NOT DUMB During the presidency of James K. Polk, one of tbe famous private schools of Boston was presided over by a salty old gentleman whose speeches to the boys were long re membered. Looking down from the platform one morning, he said: “Young geiitl'cmen, as I gaze into your alert and- intelligent faces 1 am thrilled at the thought of your latent possi- bilides. Vv'ho can say what contri bution to the history of your country may be in the making in this room today? One of you may become .a Washington. One of you may be an Adams. One of you may be a Jefferson. And Heaven knows any one of you can be a Polk with- out even half trying!” Jt is a well establis'hed American custom to ibelittle the holders of public office, from the President down No politician is great until att-er he is dead, and then, given tune enough, he becomes ,a states man. Washington’s letters to his wife and friends were full of bitter com plaint agamst the buffetings and sneers levelled against him. Lincoln was looked on. as a pathetic mistake y a large part of the intelligentsia of the nation. I have seen a col lection of sermons which were preached m the churches of Boston 'vhich “speak of him as a mln Nvho, in spite of lack of education be t” his best. Aot one preacher suggested hat he was great. Woodrow Wilson Calvi, r school-master; CaKin Coohdge was “an accident” Taken as a whole, our presidents have been a fine lot. If they hav not been “great” mpn ti, ■ is who question s. who in any generation peater or would have done th. k better? While I ex4t ^he clj clcnt' aS’‘cong"elf I grow a little wear^of th th? part“’^fsuperiority^o"n citizens ‘“best” gets to the too in ^ not mean that he is a certainly he is not dumf MOVE FORWARD ON COURAGE I used to attend the annual sales convention of a company which is so big that most people think it has no problems at all. The man in the street fondly imagines that all its officials have to do is to send out the bills and deposit the checks. The funny thing about the sales meetings was that one district manager after another would stand up and tell how the company’s leading competitor was stealing all the big orders. Later I had occasion to endure a _ similar meeting held by this principal competitor, and there the story was exactly the same. Each \ big companies was absolutely sure that the other was getting the best of the battle, he other day the president of sniTr®. ® moan. He roa 1 h if ’"‘^“stries the rail roads have the toughest “problem ” and S th beds, rjle ;bus«s run gaily along taxpavTrs’ '"‘*?hways built with taxpayers money, I bad hardly dried mv eyes be- ir or'T'""* >”“■ hfppv? He Was he hfm th. According to' to get lawQ n J legislatures session 1 almost every truranTbulef paI^s1s"ev?n“Lot‘tt\'’^ -es“^hfs °nly the successes of fellow. General C / °*^her whether he ^sked if so how be had m'' his battles. He repliedTh t ways assumed that th^ probably was iiKt r f ^'^emy he was, maybe mo {[«htened as tightened up his ,be?t' he ward, ^nd went for- Copyright, 1936 Letter-Pre k.f,s. The fet sht el world is at Niederf ‘he connecting German ■y, and Niederfino,. _ . .. raised or Barges arriving at be lower'edTz; which th?y arV" “‘ty are going. Franklin, N. C., Feb. 22, 1 Editor of The Franklin P Will you please allow in your paper for a few i In regard to our school especially the rules and n of our high schools., I w to ask the question—are and just to all the chilc our teachers try to train vate in the minds of our girls tbe principle of the golden rule, “Do unto you would have them you ?” Do they teach tlie tian principles ? Is it fair and just for girl who has to walk fro 4 miles through the mud, cold to get to school, to I from his or her class.-roon cause of the fact that li happens to be a few mini Is it right for them to ha turn home just because th doesn’t want to ibe disturl the child is late ? Do we not • all pay taxei carry on the schools? Dc pay the teach-ers, ,bus and county superintendent Should our children not the same fair chance? SI the child who walks froii miles through the mud, n etc.,, be allowed to go home rooms and their da the same as those who ride There have been some the child’s being sent bac or having to stay after sc cause he or she was “tard were they sent back, or wli they have to stay, aftet after a long, hard pull thn mud, just because they Just foT the simple good some of our teachers do no or do not try to understa the child has to go throng to school, and also becaii teachers do not have 3 Christian principles. Of all teachers are like that not a man or woman in • who would bar any child class-room, or home rooffl could only see what the t to go through to get t® Neither would they make I stay after schoiol if the? selves, had to walk over the rural roads in this some of the school child>^ Should the teachers things? Should the P’ county superintendent, par* taxpayers allow such u® things to be carried 'on schools? No, no, I thi«'' think it is time to ibegin sider a change when sud are going on as they are ent, Yours sincerely/ *
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