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Qlh:e ^XKuVVni ^r:es6 ajtiJ Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklia, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL, LI • Number 22 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. G, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ’ Six Months EJght Months ^ Single Copy ^ 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. Our Community-Building Campaign DUSINESS men of Franklin and Highlands have joined The Press-Maconian in launching this week a conimunity-huilding' campaign which we hope will elicit the sup])ort of the people of the coiinty as a whole. While one of the major ideas of the movement is to imi>ress ui)on the ])ublic the advisahilit}'—or necessity, if you please—of i,rading at home, the purpose of the cam]>aign is far broader than this. It is intended to drive home the message of co operation in every conununity endeavor. I^or with out cooperation of the citi/.enship any conununity would he a sorry place indeed; or, we might say, there would he no conununities as we know them. Without cooperation we would have no churches, no schools, no government, no conununity organ izations and but few of the multitudinous services rendered by business and professional men upon which we have come tf) depend in our daily living. ICvery week in the \ear this newspaper tries in every way it can to encourag:e conununity improve ment, but for the next live weeks it will exert more intensive effort in this direction. 1'he messages set forth on the “double page si)reads” which will a])])ear in each issue for the next five weeks will speak for themselves. The publisher wishes to express his a])preciation for the hearty su])port he has received from the business houses in this nujvement. S;ii.'h a spirit as they have manifested bodes well for the com- nuuiity. A Fine Example AL\VA\'S like to see new' construction work going- on in a town. It is a healthv sign-—an indication of a prog-ressive comnnmitx- and an index to improving- times. We know noth ing- that will inspire more confidence in a town’s future than plenty of building activity, and we al ways like to congratulate anyone undertaking the erection of a new home, l)ut more especially any one wh(t is investing in a new business building. I'his week our hafis lifted to the Leach Brothers. Lee and (his, who have announced thev are going to build a modern brick building on their Alain street lot adjoining the Alacon Theatre and the Dowdle Building. W’ork on the structure is to start in July. Such a concrete example of confidence in the future of Franklin should serve to encourage other property owners to undertake similar i'mprove- ments. I’erhaps the new Leach building will take care of the town’s business exjjansion for son-ie time to come; but there is still an urgent need for more modern residences in Franklin. We do not profess to be an expert in the matter, but we sincerely believe investments in a number of small- to-medium-size homes in Franklin will pay good returns. More Power to the G-Men .1. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation otherwise known as the “G-Men,” remarked the other day that America’s “Public Enemy No. 1” is not any i«irticular criminal, but is politics. Nothing can be more certain than that. Xobodv knows better than Mr. Hoover the powerful influence of politics and politicians in the protection of criminals and the encourage ment of crime. It is to be hoped that he can arouse public sentiment to back up his demand that law enforcement in the United States be taken out of politics. Anyone who has been around much can point to niJiny communities in which criminals have established relations with the political groups in power and are all but immune from punishment. •In such communities even the law-aibiding live under a reign of t-rror, knowing that the courts, the police authorities and even the grand juries are under political obligations which prevent justice being done. The work of the G-Men in the field of their particular authority has aroused jiation-wide admiration, and their chief has won the respect of every law-abiding citizen. I DEDICATE MYSELF AMEW ^ H to "WE PURPOSE. ; OP OPPOSiUG WAR,WITH ALu,ie TfriUS as MA'/.IWG- IT LESS IWSViTABit es '’■‘T THAT MY SOW pi ^ ^ SHOULD MAKE T*4E SUPfiSMf V/mCM TWl§ DAY ^ FITTIKIGLY COK\MB(AOm . ///f/fW no OP TW09E W«0 vjAVe- — I The MOTHEfi? OF TODAV CIIAPl Sovereigns Chosjr Rhododendron BRUCt Barton GO SLOW FOR SPEED A short while after the Pittsburgh flood t visited the president of a company which has three plants, all in the flooded area. 1 expected to find him dictating memoranda, juggling long distance calls, and jumping through all sorts of busi ness hoojis. Instead, he was calm and unhurried. “Do you know the secret of mak ing fast progress in an emergency?” he asked. “It is to 'slow down.' When men try to rush they al ways stumble. “The superintendent of one of our plants phoned me that his force was working day and night and would have the wheels turning m a week. told him; ‘Stop the night work. Go round and tell the men to take it easy. Plan to start m Uiiee weeks then you may make it in ten days. But if you try to rush things the men w'ill dry the motors out too fast and get them all gummed up. You will be in trouble all along the hne. It’s vital that we get going at the earliest possible moment. Therefore, slow clown. There come times in every busi ness man s hfe when so many ap pointments and pieces of work are shot m from all directions that it seems as if there can’t possibly be hours enough in the day. A good scheme on such occasions is to leave the office, sit down in a quiet p ace, and make up a Hst of th ^'^rioiis jobs m the order of their importance. This may use up an hour or more, but instead of Lin^ ime wasted it makes all the other mg things under pressure P / on and dozens of other orms that were to settle big quef tions forever t\-ere i ^ at break-n-eck speed Thf no good, The^ F^deS Bank was the result of l ? years of studv a.^ d b,te ‘."t" stood the test I am in f rapid progress; that’s why we should go slow. BIG IDEAS PLENTIFUL A young man rtcentUr t from Central AmerTca . asked about it replied - “I wu®'’* looked like a whale of a ? ^ a proposij. tion,^ 'but when 1 got there 1 foand It meant several years of the tough est kind of work. No people but In dians and half-breeds, no comforts, no pleasures, nothing to do but hack through jungles, fighting pois onous insects and reptiles. 1 got all I could stand of it in a couple of months.” The unfortunate fact about this particular gentleman is that he has made several journeys into various Central Americas of opportunity and has found mosquitoes and half- breeds too numerous in each case. A cursory examination of his busi ness record reveals a list of at least a dozen different jobs. Another thing which has handi capped him has been his vast fer- [ tility in .Ideas. He can sit in his I chan- almost any day and think up I ^ scheme by w'hich some big cor poration could make a lot of mo ney. He bemoans the fact that he I never has been able to get to ! Henry Ford. I I don’t know what vour exper'i- I ence m business has been, but it is my observation that Ideas ' are about the cheapest of all commo dities. The Patent Office in Wash- ington has issued worthless patents on millions of them. Every execu tive gets hundreds of letters and men who can execute Ideas and (Copyright, K.F.S.) 10 Graduate at Berea Allffl^l "^Miss Mrs C l of Mr. and 1 will' ’ ^'■^"klin Route 1, will receive her A r \ with special work L Berea colle!./ sociology, at 1 M- of commenceme: “ ^I-ss Slagle came to B ASHEVILLE, Kennett, and Miss tt' berley, both promineCj^ of the younger set iif will reign as king anil a the ninth annual rhodte^ tival, to be held here,'j; Tours of the rhododt^ ering areas near .A^sho^^ featured during the celebration with the rhododendron gardens ce mit of the Craggy il«| Asheville as the centerc tion. Five parajcles, tlit e parade June 17, the and negro baby paraJtJ and the mutt-dog pataij nival night parade o:i will be features on the week. The- three principal* fairs, the military baSi; Park Inn June 16, tkii dron ball at Carolina i«| 18 and the sponsors will be brilliant cosK replete with pageantry.- people in costume rhododendron pageant i -i The University in E.tj ed of (jerman scholars" Nazi doctrines, seeks i $375,000 to continue ffS years. It’s not a myth. A® physical. education depK tistics from several • the average freshman s and shorter every y®'- ne Aree yearr“ago aTT having completed , "^^'^’omore, college work at ur ^®^r of Teachers college zT\ c'"" coming to Berpa *“Ullowhee. Since member of Kapn’a ^ society P; p Gamma literary Sociolo"'";" president of her served as the second semestp society heen a SmK ,and A. W- “ic past year. NOTK Our poultry tf not make its schedule calls u' ther notice. B.&E Feed & BREVARD'
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