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PACE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, API I [ cause ANDE^ V by A. B. 0, ] ^ntxinmn Published every Thursday by The Frankhn Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL, LI Nun>ber 15 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 Montb« 75 Eight Months $1,00 Single Copy 05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by inilividuals, 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. An Opportunity for All To Aid Tl'II'I terror of great catastroi)he was ])oignantly inijjressed upon us last week and this when tornadoes swooped down upon the southern states, leaving in their wake a death toll that threatens to surj^ass 5(X), untold niunbers of injured persc^ns and l)roj)ert\- damage running into nian\- millions of dollars. VVe are still stunned by the extent of the misery and havoc left by the twisters, unable to compre hend what has taken ])lace. We were inclined to believe the first, fragmentary rej)orts of the devas tation at (jainesville, (ia., to be grossly exagger ated; but as relief workers clear away the debris the casualty list continues to mount. Tuesdav night the known dead at thq beautiful Georgia town les^s than a hundred miles to our south, numb ered 185, and many individuals were still unac- coiuited for. Well over a thousand j)ersons were injured. Property damages were variously esti mated froni six to ten millions of dollars; the busi ness district and some of the residential sections were shambles. At Tupelo, Miss., the list of dead exceeded 200. At Greensboro, N. C., 1'3 were killed last Thursday night; at Cordele, Ga., 18. Certainly, all this horror—not at some distant place, but almost at our doorsteps—should move all of us to a deep feeling of sympathy and a mov- mg desire to "do our bit” toward easing the suf- termg and sorrow of our neighbors. The prompt and efticient manner in which the Red Cross func tioned should impress upon all of us a better realiza tion of the ever-present need of this great relief organization. Wednesday morning the people of Franklin and vicinity had contributed $322 for use by the Red Cross in aiding the stricken community of Gaines- vdle, and the fund was still increasing. The post of the Ainerican Legion is planning to send a truck load of food l^riday. Some of the legionnaires and others from here went to Gainesville immediately upon hearing of the catastrophe and gave their services in searching for the dead and carrying the wounded to improvised hospitals. All of which manifests a commendable spirit the spirit ot “the good neighbor.” May everyone in this community have a part in it. The need is be yond comprehension, and no gift to the cause will be too small or too large. Donations will be re ceived by any officer oi the Macon County chapter )t the Red Cross, by the Bank of Franklin the American Legion, or by this newspaper. WE SO-CALLEO tNTELUffENT MUMANS CIIAI’IM beyond death, a life of release from toil and sorrow for such as truly believe and strive to live up to their belief has been the most powerful force in the history of our modern civilization. In this faith men have found a common tie of mutual service foi the common good. All of the concepts of duty honor, self-denial, self-respect and loyalty upon which great nations have been founded de- nve from the faith which is the very root and heart of Christianity. Let no one say that the faith of our fathers is outmoded, that it no longer has its old power to msj)ire our lives. We are living in troublous times old truthVh. f f ^ T old truths haye tailed, the old beliefs are dead But even as they scoff, Spring brings her perendal s> mbols of the eternal life. And this comin^ Easter —Selected Bruce- Barton A Thought for Easter pROM the beginning of time, men have hailed the coining of Spring as the resurrection of the earth from the death of Winter. Long before the Christian h,ra began, every religious cult celebrated in one way or another the returning season of grovyth and sunshine, with its promise of life be yond the grave. If the dead trees and grasses could so demonstrate immortality, why should man alone die to rise no more.'' In a few days the whole Christian world will join '’"f ■''=* that death ,s not the em , that life goes on forever i„ new and tuikiiown, Init more glorious forms that we earthi.ottml plo.I.lers can no more i.nagine than can the maple tree or the wistaria, shedding its scarlet robe ol Autu.nn tmder the killing breafh f V\ ,nter s frosts, nnagine the glory of ?he Sprin" t.n.e gartnents ot green which it will wear in it, new life. “ The belief that this is true, that there is a life WE OWN AMERICA One day in a debate with Stephen “In^h f Lincoln said: lir !• communities, pub lic sentiment IS everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail ■ without a nothing can succeS^ cons.equently, he who molds public deeper than he who • i>tatutcs or pronounces de cisions. He makes statutes or deci executed'be That paragraph ought to ,be print gather tables or newspapers. Men gather in karnprl r ences at univer.i I. ? confer- sume that the n * tacitly as- divided into a smalf" ing peonle” n Sroup of think- Die” ^ unthmkino- oeo people, and alnn * “'important that 130,000,(XX) ha's " upbraid"4^^the^:T^f’ ’s impertinent The i ° time; it '«"•> is to win a.” V”i; Statutes OT decision ""^^e ■^possible to b? or «= " They ^hey own America 7 intend to give it\p er merged his company b' ger one, and today is i! of industry.” Each has expressed puzzled fashion about The retired brother says: a fool. He has been a sincc he was forty yearsi he works like a dog. Why; making money when youitj than you can ever use?” The business brother satif any on« wants to live| country and pretend to ■ more than I can understi| just ran aw'ay from the gi^ They typify the two this country that are ai nagging at each other-tk, man and the intelligentsia. | plenty of repres’entatives groups, and the difference! them is not a difference ini or morals. The essential that one of them was k the competitive spirit, andtl was .not. Certain iboys are born games, and others are bon on the side-lines and the watchers the game ofto senseless and even revoltinj get all muddy .and bruiseil’ push a ball over a line?”, s And the players look at tl murmur : “How can any * around and criticize whentk is so much fun?” (Copyright, F.F.S.) Muse^s Cornf ■ ,• ■^'■ound banquet figure that theivTtockhoM f-ol so many millior dolla of property and that fu therefore, the owners of A They are n7 d.e America. They are servants whom the ers of Amerin t, own- employed to some automobilerfo7tJ or run some railroads ! ture some clothing ’ MEET two smart BROTHERS in their eariy^sixTier now different as two’ T can be. human beings husiness°and sJayS""- enough to acquire a" whereupon he esta.hi'l ^“"^Petence,. the country to read A DISAPPOINTED w We had planned to have a® Many had prepared to ? And our hearts, of coutit beating, ; Yes, for none was sayinS; So they thought it mightyi Just to call some noted ii Who were high up, gifty In the present-future tai^ I Well, the leader was our Who has many fancy So he called on Houk, ourl* To consolidate with Bu» Still, they never thought ing That it could be once in'' But when they got thro®.® nouncing. All they had that day wa* -Troy F. » From all the fuss through which the United S® now passing, and will have' dure, until the campaign i* * a fine thing U.ncle Sani ^ good constitution.
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