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PACE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIA?^ THURSDAY, Clt:e ^ntitnmn Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL, LI Number 16 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 $1.00 Single Copy 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. We Are Proud of This Record "f^^ORDS fail us in attempting to say what we think should be said in commendation of the ])eople of Macon county for their splendid response to the ap])eal of the Red Cross for funds to relieve the suffering caused by the tornado at Gainesville last week. This county’s (|uota was set at $300, but that amount had already been received before the local Red Cross chaj)ter had been informed of this goal. Contributions ])oured in all last week and continued to come in this week. Yesterday a check for $259.36 from the employes of the Ritter Lumber Com])any, many of whom had contributed a full day’s wages, swelled the fund to nearly $900— three times the county’s (juota. This indeed is a record to be proud of. It is the linest manifestation ol a generous and wholesome public si>irit that the editor of this news])aj)er has seen in his five vears of residence in this countv. ticklish moments ty A. B. (; Our Hat is Off to Gainesville IF anyone is dubious about the future of (laines- ville, Ga., he is all wet. it would take more than a tornado to ruin that town. Even if a flood should sweep down upon it and bury it a thousand fathoms, we feel quite sure the business men of the town would emerge in an ark, and, when the waters had subsided, would be found doing business and serving the ])ublic at their accustomed i)laces. Hardly had the smoke died away from the fires which followed the tornado before Gainesville be gan planning to rebuild. The town’s come-back spirit is is reflected by the Gainesville News, which, with the assistance of the Atlanta Journal, was published as usual last week, albeit a few days late. The News shop was right in the midst of the'devas tated area and like other buildings in the vicinitv was turned into a shambles. Unclaunted, A. S. Hardy and sons, publishers, carried on the old tradition: “The paper must come out.” And no makeshift was it, but 10 pages chuck full of news and advertisements. Of course, tornado news and pictures predominated ; but Editor Hardv, instead of emphasizing the sorry plight of his connnunity, wisely played up its plans for rebuilding. The advertisements were in this strain: “Open for Business as Usual”—“Gainesville Will Rebuild” “We Have Opened Temporary Quarters”—and one merchant, spared by the wrath’^of the winds told his patrons, “Fortunately, We Have Never Closed— \’ou Can Ciet Anything We Have W^hether You Have the Cash or Not.” The forward-looking about widening streets better courthouse. Such spirit as this cannot be downed. For Gain esville we predict a bright future. From the hope less looking pile of debris that marked that town’s place on the map last week will rise a citv even more beautiful than the charming community we used to know. E>VnAMT£. RUSSIAN WwilMllfe l^iAuine r m 4 LC«APtw —71 should ,be governor because his name is Graham, are certainly hav ing a run for their money while that sleek colt from Forsyth frisks about the track, refusing to pay any atfention to the rules of the coursc. Just now it looks like anybody’s race, and we are not going to venture a prediction or voice a preference. Frankly, we haven’t made up our mind. But to our way of thinking, Mr. McDonald is certainly exercising a fine influence on the Democratic party in North Carolina. If it were not for such as he cropping up now and then, It would be mighty easy for the party, at least as far as state politics IS concerned, to lapse into a smug complacency revolting even to good Democrats. LETTER-PRESS 's citizens already are talking and building a new and This Fellow McDonald ^ FEW years ago Ralph W, McDonald was a total stranger to the voters of North Carolina, but not so now; every man and woman who pays sales tax knows he is trying to get elected governor by promising to abolish this levy and soak the rich a little more "It won't work; he’ll .bankrupt the state,” cry Clyde Hooey and Sandy Graham, with various officials, including statistical Allen Max well, Revenue Commissioner, adding their voices to the chorus Some rainy day before the primary rolls around we are troinir to study the whole situation in an effort to determine for ourselves whether this upstart from Winston-Salem knows what he is talk n a^nt or ,s the impractical sort of a guy his opponents paint him .Meanwhile we are having lots of fun watching the show Hooev who should be governor by political inheritance, and Graham who CONCERNING OUR SCHOOLS Editor of Franklin Press: Will you please permit me space in your paper for a few words? i suppose all of you have heard of the old saying that two heads are better than o.ne, if one IS a sheep’s head. Well, it may be true in some cases, but I actually be lieve that it would have been better if only the sheep’s head had been working by itself when some of our school laws were being made, although it would be too unjust to the poor sheep’s head to blame it for such rotten, unfair, and unjust school laws as some we have at the present time. I would like to look in the eyes of the makers of these laws, and 1 would like to clasp their hands and lead them over some of the roads of six or eight of our Western Worth Carolina counties. They could see with their own eyes, if thev were not blind, and if blind they could feel sufficiently to be con vinced that our school laws are not based or founded on justice- they do not, and cannot give jus tice to all the childern of our state long as any law does not give every boy, girl, man and womn he same equal chance, then Zt law IS rotten, therefore our con solidated school laws are not just because they have in the past are Joing so at present, and continue as long as they exist, to deprive hundreds of our boys and girK tne seventh grade, .because the law does not allow the rural 7m . ss way'''vh'."„etf f ^ up. ® pick them drlnX"5de b°usTeTbe°^ of them have to walk a To'' ‘o get to the bus line j ^ times they have to sland minutes in rain, snow waiting for the bus to arri^'’ Some of the rhiiH home so early and''^" ’ate that the/ ^ 'nust carry a light with them morning and night, from their homes to the bus hne. It is unfair to some children .be cause it compels them to put in rom ten to twelve hours and in some cases, even more time than that, each school day if they get a high school education. It IS unfair to the parents of chi dren in rural sections because children have to leave so early and get home so late that they haven’t any time to help their parents do any work at ail, and it deprives the er!c practical experi ence which IS, 1 think, a most es- sentia thing m the education of a t)oy or girl. f The consolidated school takes the boy to the city, w'hile the xrr* “ ovi.: ha!''.been’' ^hat eitizensT thrsSe-that law concerning the changing every payers of the state™^ sands of dollars 1 ^ for their rh-1rl books older boo2 £’ book " why would ifr. ", another ten or fift- thousands of dollars ou of th ! payers pockets an i ^ the hands of ti into Panies. It seems^^' com- must have been" n was doing he ^as passed seems to emn v i pockets just to f-" ^hat aC a FEW. justice? ■ you call that l^he consolidat°e*®'' ^ condemn happened in this nr and in niy own county, compulsory school The children up to fo, f “"^P^ls all to go to school ?.'". well,, but X • T set at ,s this: Tlierp ®y community S ^ boy in grade^r the ^he He took the examin 1^. ^™‘nat.on and was qualified to enter higtij the compulsory schoollij any ? No, because (h{ q school law put him 6'/j school, and gave him: transportation. The consolidated sclito rotten because they ibriii and girls from all oveij to the towns and dlij most of them when theij up to seek some kind d ment in the cities. In: the consolidated schoolii ed hundreds of boys toi country homes and tryl: ployment in towns and I believe in a good in® cases, the real blame: be placed on consolidji laws, .because in the ffc brings the country boyi to seek employment aftei ates and in many cases! find employment, wKcl lead some to criminal i had been educated in ll at his country school k have ever come to tie would have been conte: job on the farm. I have looked at the i school laws from mam angles and I can’t find does justice to all, a” see where there has .beei very much stronger tki the sheep used in the o passing of such laws. In the case of the 12 bioy—any one who li'! county knows the confi country roads., and alsol six and a half miles in co rainy weather is much t» a boy 13 years old to 8 Did the co,nsolidated' give the little fellow tbf his parents paid for, others ? Do you call Was the boy to be ,bla® his parents ? No. Thet' reason under heaven and that boy’s going througl only a SEVENTH GRM tion, except the consoKds laws. This case serves t illustration of the many ilar to this. Some of you people n> am “knocking” educatio"' you are entirely wro,ng. hundred per cent for edt boys and girls of otir for God’s and humanity* have laws and men at t them that will give bo* and taxpayers their j"*! est rights. It CAN ibe d® not s-tart? Franklin, N. C. Laugh From ih® A laugh to be joyou* from a joyous heart, kindness there can ,be
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