THE FRANKLIN PRES4 THE HIOHIAWDS Thursday, . ^\xt ^itankixn l^vtss nnii ^cttmxmxx Published every Thursday by The Franklin i'ress At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LI Number 23 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, F'ranklin, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ' $1.50 Six Months 75 Eight Months $1.00 Single Copy 05 Need of ‘Short Ballot’ Emphasized |\^(.)S'r of the voters goinf^ to the polls Saturday * to cast their tjallots in the state’s biennial Democratic primary will have a pretty fair idea ol the issues involved in the contest for governor. This year’s heated cani])aigns have aroused intense interest in the candidates for governor and their ])latforms. Unfortunately, however, the gubernatorial race has overshadowed other contests to be decided in the ])rimary to such an extent that we fear chance, instead of enlightened public ojjinion, may })rove the deciding factor in the sefection of lesser state officials. "I'he state ballot, besides carrying the names of the four ccmtestants for governor and the four candidates for United States senator, confronts the voter with the names of 17 candidates for various state offices. Jlow many Democratic voters could list the of fices involved, to sa_\- nothing of naming the candi dates seeking them? Jlow many will know the flualifications of the various candidates for lieu tenant governor, for secretary of state, for state auditor, for state tr([;asurer, for sui)erintendent of public instruction, for commissioner of agriculture? All of which brings to mind the not new j)roposal for a “short ballot,” by which is meant fewer elec tive state officers and more appointive ones. The “short ballot,” of course, would give the governor more authority—too much, .say critics of the pro posals. But we still have a legislature to act as a balance wheel. I'olitically, the “short ballot” has always been unpo])ular in North Carolina. Politicians like to make the people think that they, the people, run the state’s government from top to bottom. But it doesn’t work out that way. 'Phe present arrangement—the “long ballot”— would be si)lendid if John i'ublic took enough in terest in it to iiKjuire as to the (j[ualifications of the numerous candidates in order to arrive at some in telligent decision. But John Public has too many other things to think about. Charles M. Johnson Indispensable il/Wi': long felt that a good, sensible woman would be a valuable asset to North Carolina’s council of State, which is composed of the state’s constitutional officers. Mrs. Helen Rob ertson W'ohl, who springs from fine old (iuilford county Quaker stock, seems to be that kind of a wcynan and we would like to vote for her in the Democratic primary June 6; but we can’t see why anyone would want to supplant our present state treasurer, Charles AI. Johnson, one oi the ablest, if not the ablest, man now in the state’s service. Air. Johnson not only has proved his duties as state treasurer efficiently and honestly, but he has ])roved a financier extraordinary by succeeding where there was but small hope of success in re financing operations during the dark days of the depression. 1 hanks to his abdit\' afld good man agement, North Carolina bonds are among the best on the market. But Mr. Johnson’s services to the state do not end in the treasurer’s office. He also is the guiding spirit of the Local (jovernment Commission, with out whose cooperation and helpful oversight many more counties would now be listed in the default column. Ciive Mr. Johnson and the Local Ciovern- ment C'ommission a little more time and, too, a little more authority, and they will pull most of the counties out of the red. We venture thev would have had a refinancing plan well under Way in Macon County had it not been for short-sighted local legislation enacted by the last General As sembly at the instance of our own re|)resentative. cAU cAhoard by'A. B. Sf^OVIN I'W IN driver's THE PiATPORM OH Yeah f f //XU Bruce- Barton I before the man has a FOUNDATIONS IMPORTANT Now we are told that hard drink ing does not cause sclerosis of the liver and is not, in fact, a direct cause of any of the other physical ailments for which it has so long been blamed. “Some peisons” says a Johns Hopkins authoiity, “can drink enormous quantities of liquor without doing themselves any harm. Others can’t go a quarte.'' of a small bottle without upsetting their livers. That is because of liver condi tions which existed drinking began. If a good liver it doesn’t make much difference how hard .a drinker he is,” In other words, if the young ster has grown to be sound and tough, nothing much hurts him; if lie has a functional defect, every thing hurts him. The same thing is true with the consumption of Communism and other subversive theories. People who have sound reasoning powers are not^ likely to be much hurt by t em. Ihey can imbibe large quan tities of cock-eyed economics and continue to walk upright. But give th, weak or the very young even a mild dose of Utopianism, and they get giddy. Says Schopenhauer: “There is nn absurdity that cannot be fixed per manently in peoples' minds if it is .mplanted there when they are young. All thoughtful men are in favor of the freest sort of free speech for adults, just as they favor allow m,g each adult to decide tor hZ- whiskey into nursing boUlel° It no good trying out all sorts of half-baked theories on minds th t ... Mill ,of, a„d I„" "htH" child ought to be taueht t^hmgs which human experience has prov^ed to be true. Two of established truths are that whiLev can be very dangerous, and that Communism is the ures and fools. =GS=| country. We can stop in before dinner. It’s just around the corner, right on Fihy-seventh Street,” But on: the morrow there was some reason why I had to be late at the office. And the next day I had to go to Chicago, and one things after another came up. Final ly, after a couple of weeks, I said: Let s go tonight to see those mur als,” And she said: “It’s too late now; they’re gone,” lhats human nature. For more than five years we lived almost op posite the Metropolitan .Museum, which is certainly one of the great show places of the ivoil visited it in other yeafi during the time we lookd it from our w'indows 1 nt ed its threshold. In that were in the British ilii the National Gallery and Aluseum and the Cairo and goodness knows li others. In fact, we hav looked much of anythii way of museums anyvvh' world—except right at When I was a kid Bosto,n. After we had Chicago we returned to land one summer, and made a pilgrimage to B We had meant to go residence, but it was so there that we never we I was looking yesten big ships in the harbor 2 1 could go to Pekin. I tl go one of these days, I if I ever get around 1 leries o.n Fifty-seventh (Copyright, K.F. recourse of fail- 1 MUST CONFESS -My wife said to mp- “t ''7 o«ght to go to Such an7S Museum to see the murals tLf on exhibition. They are f-> to be showman •'-’"n all over the Men One big lot of men’s Suits, $L5.00 value, on sale at $8.88 Just 18 Suits left at this price. Single- breasted, also dou ble-breasted, plain or fancy back. Schulman’s Dept. Stoi Franklin s Newest and Most Moden ^^epartment Store

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