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Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
Telephone No. 24
VOL, LI Number 33
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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, where the writer of
this small article lives and works on a news
paper, is only five or six hundred miles from
Franklin, North Carolina, where he is taking part
of his annual vacation and which he has known
since 1911, or thereabouts.
Not only is the distance short, but the roads are
excellent and it takes small time and little money
to make the trip back and forth. It would be
hard to imagine sections where the face of the
country and the business concerns of the people
themselves are any more sharply different.
Down our way in West Tennessee the land is
as flat as the palm of a man’s hand and you can go
for miles without finding even one little pebble of
natural rock. 'There are very few little bumps in
the land that they call hills. Our folks are chiefly
interested in cotton, which is still the main cash
crop, but in some sections they are growing straw
berries, cabbage, tomatoes and various other vege
tables.
On the whole, though, it is cotton there, and
cotton everywhere. The methods of farming are
about as different as the crops, too, and the only
similarity in our business interests lies in the fact
that Memphis is a great lumber market. It is a
different type of timber, even at that.
There is no point in telling folks in Franklin and
Macon County what they do, for they know better
than anyone could tell them. It may be worth
while to suggest, though, that there are possibilities*
for interest and profit if the people in these two
sections could manage to get together, get acquaint
ed and each discover what the other is like, what
it has to offer.
It is to be believed, for example, that there are
hundreds and even thousands of people in Memphis
and West Tennessee who would come this way for
their vacations, if they could be made to realize the
beauty of the mountains, the ease of getting here,
the relief they would get in the oppressively hot
weather.
By the same sign, there are plenty of people up
here would find themselves aroused and interested
if they would come to West Tennessee and Mem
phis to find out what we do and how we do it.
Memphis is a great city in -many ways, one of the
most prosperous and progressive in the nation just
now, and the trip between here and there would
have many points of benefit and value.
The editor of The Press has an idea tours ought
to be organized and run between different sections
of these United States for the special benefit of the
farmer and the business man, and he probably has
the right idea. The more we really know of our
country, the more intelligent and patriotic citizens
we are likely to be.
* (EDITOR’S NOTE—The above editorial, which speaks for itself,
was contributed, at the request of the editor, by W. C. X4ague, an
editorial writer on the staff of The Commercial-Appeal, Memphis,
Tenn., who is spending a week’s vacation visiting his father, the
Rev. J. L. Teague, at his home at Prentiss, this county. One of
the principal rewards of newspapering is the fellowship of the
fraternity. The editor always enjoys a visit from ano'ther newspaper
man, especially one from an editorial writer of Mr. Teague’s calibre.)
All that is human must retrograde if it do not
advance.—Gibbon.
Good health and good sense are two of life’s
greatest blessings.—Publius Syrus.
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Barton
HOMETOWNS QUESTION
SUCCESS
There is a certain little cross
roads hamlet which in all its history
has produced just one famous ruan.
A visitor parked his car in front of
the general store- one day and, hav
ing made a small purchase, sat
down on the steps beside a griz
zled old resident.
“Come from the East?'’ the vet
eran asked. “New York?”
The visitor nodded.
“Ever hear of a feller nam'ed Sam
Smith?”
“iTf you mean Dr. Samuel Smith,”
said the visitor, “why everybody
has heard of him. He’s one of the
famo'us surgeons of the world.”
“So they tell me, so they tell
me, the old settler ruminated.
“They tell me he has a private
chauffeur and makes thousands of
dollars a year. Can’t hardly believe
It, myself. Seems like there must
be some mistake. People in New
York ain t so smart iis they’re sup
posed to be, I guess,. Why, I knew
Sam Smith when he used to run
around this here town with his
pants held up by one shspender.”
An interesting treatise could be
written about the astigmatism of
the hom.e town. It seldom can see
the full stature of its famous son
because its vision is blurred bv
memories of the insignificant boy
Nazareth “where he had been
brought up.” He had attracted
crowds in Jerusalem, performed
mighty words but the hometown
met Him with a sneering soepti-
cims. In Springfield, Illinois, there
were stiibborn folks who contended
up to the very end that Abraham
Lincoln was over-rated
^ The home town answer, in most
S^h-L^e-veT
forget that it knew hi'mThen^”,;:
on^y onetspenLr^
SUCCESS IN "SECOND”
MILE
A sermon which stick*;
said
secret formula for successful living.
Who is the man who gets ahead
in business ? It is be who, being
compelled by the rules to travel the
first mile—the mile from nine
o’clock to five—voluntarily adds a
second—the mile of over-time, extra
thought, added effort. Who are the
couples who enjoy happy marriages ?
those who, having sworn to travel
the first compulsory mile of fidelity
and financial support, gladly add
the second mile of thoughtfulness,
tenderness, and mutual respect.
A friend had a very sick child,
and his own physician, baffled and
worried, advised calling in one of
the most famous consultants in
New York. The consultant is ,a
Quiet, assured man, well over sixty
years of age, and it took him only
a few minutes to make his diag
nosis and prescribe a treatment
under which the child began im
mediately to improve.
^ My friend said to the doctor:
How'm the world does he do it?”
To which the doctor replied: “That
man has had one of the best con
sulting practices in New York for
twenty-five years. His annual in-
rome must have been around $100,-
■ But all that time, and right up
to now he sees patients only half
fi, afternoons he spends in
the hospitals, going through wards
casT Th every
case. Ihe result is that where one
of us sees a dozen cases of a cer-
m ype in a year, or even in a
fe-time, be sees a thousand. An-
heirJL reached the
ghts of the profession, might
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l« lie I. j ® '"*■ Tl'is man
™'3 «1>» anv
l/™''”* •'’» fint mile diligent-
‘y, a man can make a living- it i,
the second mile that
. makes success.
(Copyright, K F S)
To be Presented
By Epworth
Three one-act plays
sented at the courth
day night August 21,
worth League of
Methodist church. On
is a roaring corned
other two are more
three are intensely d
The comedy is e
Morning, Parson.” It:
in the home of a
parson on a rainy 5
ing. AnO'ther of the
Color Line,” and it
colorful and draniati
the office of a coll
The third play is
Whirlwind.” In it tl
drama in a hospital
mobile accident.
Each of the plays i
a cast of unusual^ t;
teur dramatics. The
been at work for
therf roles.
Brysons To Reunite
Sunday at West’s Mill
home of Mrs. T j
West’s Mill Qa " 1 * -^^yson at
fri=.d, and
Pected to hp counties are ex-
many members r
this county ah'"
urged to be presem! '
Lake Ei
By LUTHER A
The box supper
school house Saturd;
enjoyable occasion 
a net sum well abo
pay for a piano
church. Raising mon
pose is difficult just
cess of those sponso
ment is highly grati
Ridgecrest will have
fully adequate to t
small caunfry churd
Mr. and Mrs, ]■
turned Sunday
among relatives ui
Buncombe counties,
companied on their
iind Mrs. Wallace V
Mrs. Davis is a gr.
Mr. and Mrs. Down
Mr. and Mrs. Ar
Asheville, spent the
Mrs. Jacobs’ parent:
Z. D. Buchanan.
George Stewart,
located at WiHia*’’^
a member of the
Patrol, is at honie
Mr. Stewart visit'
Charles W. Stewar
ory last week. We
Williamston Friday.
Mr. Crouse, of Ga
ing some time at
sister, Mrs. D.