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the franklin press and the highlands maconi^
Thursday,
Home Demonstration Club News
BY MRS. T. J. O’NEIL
Macon County H'ome D-em'Omstration Agent
NEW CLUBS
Several new home demonstration
clubs and 4-H clubs have been
organized within the past few
weeks. A Home Demonstration
club has been organized at Otter
Creek. The officers are as follows:
President, Mrs. Anna Boone, vice
president, Mrs. Vestal Cochran;
secretary, Mrs. G. W. Douthit. The
Home Demonstration club which
has been organized in the Patton
community has the following of
ficers : President, Mrs. Leona Dun
can; vice president, Mrs. Tom Bing
ham; secretary, Mrs. D. T. Liner.
The club at Hickory Knoll has the
following officers: President, Mrs.
Frank Stiles; vice president, Mrs.
C. W. Ramsey; secretary, Mrs. L.
S. Penland. 4-H clubs have been
formed at Hickory Knoll, Scaly
and Highlands. The officers are as
follows: Hickory Knoll, president,
Virginia Penland; vice president,
Wayne Pendergrass; secretary,
Reba Lee Cunningham; Highlands
Junior 4-H club, president, Vick
Smith; vice president, Mildred Lit
tleton; secretary, Felicia Ediths
senior club, president, Steve Potts;
vice president, Sarah Thompson;
secretary, Estelle Edwards; Scaly,
president, Vera Vincent; vice pres
ident, Frank Dryman; secretary,
Louise Burnette.
TIMELY RECIPES
Sweet Potatoes laitd Sausage
8 medium sized sweet potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
. dash pepper
1 egg, well beaten
Cream
1 pound small pork sausage
Wash sweet potatoes and boil un
til tender. Drain and pee,. Press
through ricer or mash with fork.
Add butter, salt, pepper and egg.
Beat well, then add enough cream
to make light and fluffy. Pile into
greased dish, press sausages light
ly into surface and bake in a hot
oven until sausages are brow.ned,
about 15 minutes. Reduce tempera
ture to moderate and cook ten min
utes longer. Serves 6.
elects our Presidents. ^
But without the parties and their
organizations, what a hit-o
affair a Presidential election wod
foe! Ideally, I suppose, we all ough
to write in the names of our pe
sonal choices for every °ff‘ce, bu
in that case nobody would get
majority and it would take
Winter to count the votes.
POLITICIANS . ■ • ■ •
It is the fashion to denounce poh-
tics and politicians wholesale 1 do
it myself sometimes. I don t like the
methods of most politicians, and a
have known very few m that c'^ssi-
fication whose word I would
willing to take without question.
But government is a political mat
ter and the men who can r,un gov
ernments most effectively must ot
necessity be endowed with the poli
tical gift. Some of the ablest men
we have ever elected to high of
fice have been failures as admisis-
trators because they did not under
stand politics. And some of the
most successful men in public of
fice have not had much equipment
except the deep understanding of
human nature and how it reacts in
the mass, which is the 'essence of
political education. ,
Politicians seem to me, therefore,
to come under the classification of
“necessary evils.”
WORK PROGRESSING
rapidly on highway 286
Work is progressing rapidly on
highway No. 28^. Already the grad
ing is practically done and the
road graveled most of th(j way to
the Lost Bridge.
Charles L.
Crunkleton..
Hr
‘^Wning
and
TCNMYond
RMU(£R
BRID6E
pensions . . for everybody
I am convinced that we are com
ing, in America, to a system of old
age pensions for everybody, re
gardless of need. The idea has
grown rapidly since Dr. Townsend
launched his project, and was giv
en an impetus by the Social Secur
ity Act. I do not imagine the ulti
mate scheme will be like either of
those.
If anybody is going to have
pensions,, then everybody should
have them. At present, only certain
favored groups are pensioned. Paup-
ern get old age pensions, as do
veterans of some of our wars. Rail
way employes are pensioned, so-are
employes of the Federal govern
ment, of most state governments
and of many municipalities.
It seems to me to be the fair
thing to pension everybody at a
given age, and tax everybody to
pay the pensions.
UNEMPLOYED . . . count ’em
I hope the next thing the Ad
ministration at Washington does
will be to make an accurate count
of the unmber of persons still .un
employed. Nobody knows how
many there are, just -as nobody
knows how many of them ever
were employed. A truthful census
of unemployed should tell us how
many are unemployed, by reason
of physical or mental incapacity,
and how many are out of work be
cause they don’t want to work.
It is certain, in my mind, that
we have been providing, out of pub
lic funds, for some millions of
shiftless, lazy and generally in
competent persons who never have
worked when they could avoid it,
yet managed somehow to keep go
ing. ■ '
We have made these folk into a
favored special class, which is not
good for them or for the rest of
us. But why not count ’em and let
us know where we stand ?
DEMOCRACY .... it works
Last week Tuesday the greatest
demonstration in history of the way
democracy works was given by the
people of the United States. No
where else in the world has any
s.uch number of men and women
ever had the chance to express
themselves and their views on ques
tions of their own government.
I know of no other great nation
in which the only qualification for
voting is citizenship, regardless of
economic or social status. Nowhere
else do the people elect the head of
tbeir government; they choose only
members of their parliaments or
assemblies, who in turn choose the
executives. And nowhere else that
J know of has any such number of
persons ever cast their votes with
out coercion or interference by gov
ernment.
It has taken ISO years to con
vince the rest of the world that
democracy works, but it works only
when it is absolutely free from all
restraints on the free will and the
honest expi-essions of the voters.
PARTIES necessary
The two-party system has been
functioning in Amcrica since our
nation was a baby. Theoretically, it
is the wrong way to run a nation.
In practice, human nature being
what it is, it works better than
any other system which has ever
been tried.
Under our party system the in
dependent voters, who do not want
to affiliate permanently with either
party, always hold the balance of
power. The actual enrolled mem
bership of either of the major
parties has never comprised a clear
majority of the electorate. It is the
independent vote which, after all,
Oak Grove
Reported by Oak Grove School
DeHART-QUEEN
Miss Lois DeHart and Mr, Lon
Queen were married at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon at Oak Grove by
the Rev. T. D. Denny.
The bride, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude DeHart, of Bryson
City, is a graduate of the Swain
county high school, class of 1935.
Mr. Queen, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Queen, of Oak Grove, attend
ed the Oak Grove school some
years ago.
The couple plan to make their
home here.
CLUBS ORGANIZED
Dr. and Mrs. O’Neil have been
doing splendid work with the boys’
and girls’ clubs and also the ladies’
club in this community
Officers of the 4-H club are Violet
Lakey president; Bedell Bradley,
vice president; and Annie Byrd
Bradley, secretary. The program
committee is composed of Elzie
Martin, Wynona Potts and Grace
Offic^ers of the boys’ Good Heal#
club are Harold Martin, president;
Nelson Lakey, vice president; and
Rudolph Parrish, secretary. On the
program committee are Quinton
Half, Zeb Bradley, Willard McCoy,
SCHOOL DOIn^p, j
Our school IS getting aio„ ^
ann, principal
M»e McCoy'
teachers. ^
The Rev. T n
regular appointment ll'r
and preached a very
sermon.
We arc
eral persons in this"'coZI
confined to their beds withjJ
Miss Vernice Bradle
friends and
Salem.
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relatives at
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fourths of the land
.States makes it
erosion.
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subject
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