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PAGE TWO tfp HirHLANDS MAGONIAN THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE H attii ^Ktixnmn Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LI , Number 40 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, vifill be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such- notices will be marked “adv.” in compliance with the postal regulations. This newspaper invites its readers to express their opinions on matters of public interest through its columns. The Press- Maconian is independent in its policies ,and is glad to print both sides of any qiuestion. Letters to the editor should be written legibly on only o,ne side of the paper and shcmld be of reasonable length. The editor reserves the right to reject letters which are too long, are of small general interest or which would violate the sensibilities of our readers. Youth in Uniform 'T’HE French Chamber of Deputies is considering * a bill to enforce compulsory physical training for all boys and girls over six years old, as a begin ning to prepare them for army service in the ele mentary schools. This is only following the trend of most European countries. Austria has lately put all boys between 11 and 18 into uniform for purposes of sport, military training and political education. In Italy every boy of 12 has to join the “balilla,” wear a uniform and be subjected to military dis cipline, and lately Mussolini has promulgated an order that boys of six shall be put into training and uniform against the time when they are old enough to undergo the more rigorous discipline of the balilla. In Germany the “Youth Movement” has become almost a brown-shirted militia. In Russia the age of military conscription has become lowered to 16 years. Every boy from 18 years onward must do compulsory military service in France and in Gei^- many. Europe is preparing its cannon fodder for the next war. For back of all of this military pre paredness lie the scarcely concealed designs of the rulers of the dictator-ridden nations to take the first opportunity to seize the territory of their neighbors. France alone is arming for defense of the fatherland. Under such conditions, how is it possible for war to be avoided? How Quickly We Forget! *TWO, three years ago Roosevelt was the idol of the nation. He had averted the panic which seemed inevitable during the last days of the Hoover administration. Now that times are better, the poor man’s hunger assuaged and the rich man’s stocks and bonds put back on a dividend-paying basis, insidious efforts are being made to minimize the part that Roose velt had in it all. Prosperity, panics, depression and returning prosperity, we are told, are inexor able phases of the economic cycle. They come and go like the seasons, and politics and government exercise no more effect upon them than upon the weather. The rich man was willing and the poor man was eager to give Roosevelt a free hand to guide the Ship of State out of the gales in 1933. They were only too glad to know that someone had the cour age to accept the responsibility and the character and ability to face the complex problems besetting the country. But now many of those who have profited most • are prone to accuse Roosevelt of dictatorial ambi tions and to insinuate that he really had little to do with overcoming the depression. What short memories many of us have, and how quickly we can reverse our opinions! We were hungry and scared three years ago and we wel comed Roosevelt as a savior. But now that he has saved us, we frequently hear the criticism that he is ruining the country! ^ Modern loshua A. B. Qj STAND STill FoJ about a V/eek. VA/W1L& I Do Br Bart EXPERIENCE TEACHES DOLLAR WORTH One day the vice-president of a trust company was showing me around and explaining how careful ly the company handles the funds entrusted to it. B-eing asked by him for a comment, I modestly put forth the following; “There would seem to be one defect in yoiir set-up. You take young men from the rich dormi tories of Prinoetou and Harvard and Yale, and you transport them straight into the paneled offices of Wall Street -without ever ,a chance to find out what life is all about. A dollar or a hundred dollars or a hundred thousand dollars are just so many marks on a piece of white paper to them. No boy ought to be allowed to come into your trust company un til he has first worked a year on a farm or as a section-hand on a railroad, or behind the counter of a country store. A dollar never again wmld be simply a mark on a piece of paper to him. It would mean struggle and sacrifice and sweat. The vice-president didn’t pay anv attention to the suggestion, of course, but I still think it was good. A great danger to this coim- try come,s from the lack of under standing between different sections and classes. I wish it were possible for avery big city banker, lawyer leas one year in seven with a small-town storekeeper, or a day laborer. It would be fme if every \ U° ‘^"■^‘^tors had one place which would be filled by a farm.er-a different one every y^r How much more humanity there would be in business if the men 't fresh their L tact with the problems and hard ships and heartaches of the ordi nary man and woman. keep righT'otT' keepjng on Young people write askino-- “u does one get into business?” Several ^'^^ertismg vertising people reS? down their business Here are somrsa^pTe?"‘°^-PW.es. 1. Young rnan. Delivererl papers. Errand boT er. Real estate saresman, life guard, salesman, advertising. 2. Young woman. Reception clerk. Ass’t. Credit Manager. Advertising department. Selling space, house-to- house selling. Clerk, newspaper sub scriptions. Writing. Advertising. Ad vertising agency. 3. Young man. Making and sell ing photographs,. Picking straw berries. Selling soap products. Church janitor and organist. De livering newspapers. CLerk Railway ilail Service, collection agency. Ed itor, printing, free-lance writer. A.E.F. private. Advertising agency. You will note that no one found a job for any of these people; they just went around kicking at the doors until one opened. In the periods between jobs it never seems to have occurred to them to sit down with folded hands and com plain that they were born too late. They just kept right on keeping on. LET’S SAVE ABOUT 65 PER CENT If it had ,not been for the patriots of the Revolutionary period the task of naming the counties of the va rious states of the union would have been beyond the ingenuity O'f the poineers w'ho settled them and the surveyors who fixed the ragged boundaries. There are enough Wash ington, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, hranklin, Hamilton, Putnam and Warren counties to stretch from aine to California. Altogether we ave more than three thousand counties in these United States. these petty principalities were necessary in the early days. Com- mumcation was difficult; there were no te cphones. Transportation was con met to oxcart and horse drawn rn living near the m ore o travel to the county seat, tu could not be much larger }'stance a sheriff could r on horseback to convey a ‘''.f “'“'"ty jail, telpini ^ railroad came and the ele^hone and the automobile and county counH^'''' disappeared, yet the because* continue. ^ They continue countv m provide jobs. Each commls ^ house, ■ Id all the rank and file of tiny officeholders who, as i draw little .'enough kt i gregate are a huge exp® have estimated that ads cent of all the monej county gov'ernment coiii iby sensible consolidata. Human nature being n! I were a county commiss deputy sheriff I have my job not please me to go« or on worK relief, llijl can be done about theci but 1 hope some one« loud call for county aM time soon. With all At in New York City I ptc no need of a sherifi, 1 liquidated any time n think it will endanger i MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS An ambitious and sens ster confined to his ioi months by an accident able to move about tbe wh'eel chair. It was s«s he might go out witlil the park. He shied aW suggestion. “I can t stJ: of having everybody it he said. At length he was P make ,a trial fhgM' wheeled him several the busy streets to a ture. He came home was thrilling” he exdj father, “and do you * single person on tte any attention to tne. His father said, one of the most iniP“ eries anyone ton m e have found out t ^ ^ do is to make yo»r« without too much reg ‘they say.’” . Som'6 years ' important by the comer to belong jo he could use and o priced car than The size of one’s car of success. A big the house was the a a big shot inside, wife received a visi place from an mQ® . “What kind of a husband drive? s * pointed to a couple o in the driveway. , The lady’s face « f ed expression. ’ ed, “I always ^ ; was getting alo.| Undoubtedly slie port in the plac^j do the most good from a consider ^ Visils from want to run the with failure.
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