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PAGE FOUR . THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, JAN. 14 1S37 'A E It 3fl xk n k I in: x tss Published, every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LII BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON. ......... . .EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at 'the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .....4..- ...... ........ $1.50 Six Months ..;.... .75 Eight Months $1.00 Single Copy ..................... ...i.. ........... ................. .05 Obituary- notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodge V churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." in compliance with the postal regulations. The Courthouse Project pLANS and specifications for remodeling Macon County's courthouse have been drawn and sub mitted to state officials of the Works Progress Administration ; but a difference of opinion over the material to be used in surfacing the building's old brick walls is reported to have resulted in a situa . tion amounting almost to an impasse, threatening the entire project. The architect employed by the county commis ioners recommended the use of concrete paint for refinishing the exterior walls ; but this material, The Press has been informed, does not meet with the approval of a WPA engineer sent here to inves tigate the project. He prefers tle" use of stucco. What the difference in cost would amount to, we do not know; but a qualified expert tells us that stucco would not cost a great deal more than the finish proposed by the architect. On. the ad vantages or disadvantages of either type of finish we are not prepared to argue. The fact is, we don't think the general public would be the slightest in terested in such a discussion. t$ What the public" wants ana it. will be sorely disappointed in all parties con cerned if they allow a minor technical question, or even a slight (inference in cost, to jeopardize the long 'cherished hope of remodeling' the county's courthouse. t We hope and trust our county commissioners,, who fully realize the inadequacy of our county ad ministrative building, will be able to pour the right brand of oil in the troubled waters. If they are suc cessful in obtaining WPA approval of the court house remodeling project they will deserve the commendation of every resident of the county. Even though it should mean a few thousand dollars expense to the taxpayers, it would be far better to spend this sum of money now than to allow the courthouse to disintegrate. It will not take many more years for the weather to ruin the building, if it is allowed to go unrepaired. If the necessary im provements are not soon made, the county doubt less will be. faced in a few years with the necessity of erecting a costly new building and saddling the taxpayers with a heavy bonded indebtedness. William Green's Day Dream lliILLIAM GREEN, president of the American " v Federation of Labor, says every American family should have at least $3,600 a year to live on. That is a fine objective, .and it- may be wise to set one's sights high; but we should think a man of Mr. Green's position and influence would be a little more practical even in his day-dreaming. We wonder if Mr. Green realizes that thousands of laborers in this country would consider them selves fortunate if they could earn. $1.50 a day con sistently. We wonder if he knows that there are thousands of farmers who never see-as much as $200 cash in the course of a year. We wonder if he realizes that there are many, many professional folk lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers and others who have completed costly educations who have annual incomes of $1,500 or far less in too many instances. ' Mr. Green may have tickled the chins of a great many union workers with his Utopian yearning, but the average man will be more content with a sure hope of a smaller income than in wasting his time in dreaming of $3,600 a year. To many hard-working men such an income is beyond comprehension. Number 2 is a better courthouse Mtfc FORCES MORE POWERFUL THAN MEN The principal lesson one learns in going around the world is that men do not make national policies and that the forces underlaying national policies are tremendously more powerful than men. I am not fond of the Japanese, but I understand their problem the terrific pressure of sixty million people pent up in tiny little islands. I do like the Chinese, and I have some understanding of them also. They are a vast collection of fam ilies. Their loyalty is to the family, and as for who rules them the great mass hardly cares. v In India the Mohammedans hate the Hindus, and both hate the English. How India can ever be anything but a seething menace is difficult to see. I do not know the Italians, but in looking at the map I saw no outlet for their over crowded population but to the south. I like the Austrians and Hunga rians, both proud people with dis membered territories, economically strangled. I like the Germans, and I wonder how long they can posr sibly be kept tied clown inside their pinching boundaries, Carlyle's old mother, when she laid down her son's first book, "The Life off Schiller," remarked: "1 see that foreign peoples have much the same feelings as our selves." These are not optimistic thoughts,' but mighty plain blunt truth. TRUTH ,IN CLASSICS FOR LAW MAKERS "In order to spend on one side," k Editorial HOW CAN SOUTHERN FARMERS PROSPER? Every so often distinguished speakers and writers proclaim that the future of Southern agriculture is gloomy and Southern farmers doomed to sink to the level of sub sistence farming. Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, thinks, however, that there are measures which may be taken to prevent this. Discussing ways of helping families maintain a stand ard of living in keeping with an automobile age,, Dr. Poe says: ""First of all, in my opinion, the South must quit paying freight costs and middle-men's costs on Northern and Western farm prod ucts we could grow ourselves. Take North Carolina, for example. It is probably better off in this respect than other Southern states whose cotton production is larger, yet, the state agricultural college reported some time ago that of the food and feed products used in North Caro lina the state imported from the North and West -1 out of every 4 cars of corn 2 out of every 3 biscuit 1 out of every 4 bales of hay 1 out of every 3 pounds of beef r-5 out of every 6 mutton and lamb chops 2 out of every 3 quarts of milk 1 out of every 2 chickens and eggs. "What we primarily need, of course, is not . simply a 'livc-at- homc' policy so far as practicable for each individual farm, but we need to go further and supply also the needs of Southern towns and cities. As The Progressive Farmer has so often insisted, there are two great arms for producing agri cultural wealth:- "1. Plant Production any and afl kinds of crops. ' "2. Animal Production livestock, dairying, poultry raising, etc. "It is the curse of the Sbuth that we depend primarily on a. one- armed system of farming plant production alone. Take the 15 rich est states in the Union and com pare them with our 15 Southern states and what d.o Ave find? , In the latest . year for which I have compiled statistics these richest of all states produced only about the same crop values as our Southern ' H SI " said (jocthe, "nature ,is forced to economize on the other." Taking up this theme,' Drawin- simplified it in "The Orgin of. Species, declar ing that "if nourishment flows to one part or organ in excess, it rarely flows, at least in excess, to another part:' thus it is difficult to get a cow to give much milk' and fatten readily." Goethe and Darwin were consid ering Nature's law of compensation, which is as ancient as the rocks. Emerson discussed it in a famous essay which every Jaw maker ought to be compelled to read at least once a year. "This law," he says, "writes the laws of cities and nations. It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist and will appear. If the gov ernment is cruel, the governor's life is not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. If you make the criminal code san guinary, juries will not convict. If the law is too mild, private ven geance steps in. First or last, you must pay your entire debt. Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement. You must pay at least your own debt." The leading manufacturers konw that the only road to larger profits is via lower prices. All business men recognize that every added price burden means fewer; sales. Unfortunately there seem to be some law makers who cling to the notion that they can ovef-milk and still have a fat cow. . (Copyright, K. F. S.) Clippings states. In plant production we were not materially behind them. In ani mal production, however, they were 200 per cent ahead of us and hence 400 per cent ahead of us in wealth per farm family. These richest states had a two-armed sys tem of farming with plant produc tion and animal production almost equally balanced. For each $5 they produce in , crop values they pro duce $4.16 on livestock values. But here in the South for each $5 in crop values we produce only $1.76 in livestock values. "To sum it all up: Our Southern people cannot maintain modern liv ing standards without a more pros perous agriculture. And we shall not have a more prosperous agri culture until we add animal pro duction livestock, dairying, and poultry to plant production,." J ONE-STROKE LAWMAKING Nebraska has inaugurated her one-house legislature. With the blessing f Nits sponsor, Senator George WcNorris, the unicameral non-partisan assembly has begun its session. But Senator Norris warned the members that "special interests" would do all they could to embarrass . the experiment and m'iscon'struc its effects. This seems a rather needless whacking of the bushes for goblins. Tt may be that professional poli ticians and lobbyists do' not relish a change on' the rules by which they have learned to operate. Mr. Norris may have some special in formation that "representatives of greed and monopoly" arc conniving to make the work a failure; Still, the probabilities are that the forty three members of the new house will need to look within as much as without for the factors that will determine the success of the uni cameral plan, v It was not by accident 'but by experience that the two-house, r bicameral, legislature became the prevalent form in the United States. Pennsylvania hd a single-house as sembly in Benjamin Franklin's time and he urged it. for the national government. The conscious purposes, however, of preventing 'hasty legis lation and of representing both the popular and the conservative im pulses of the community impelled the state-government designers generally to set up the bicameral machinery.1 It might be slower but it would be safer, they thought. ' Whether citizens and their repre- scntatives have n6w reached a stage " of political education where they can trust their first thoughts as much as their second or else can trust their own seJf-restraint in matters of doubt this is the ques tion. If so, states can indulge the desire for a quicker, more decisive lawmaking machinery. The quality of judgment exercised by the Ne braska legislators 1 will be watched intently by states potentially inter ested in following the new lead. Christian Science Monitor. Barber "How is the razor, sir ? Does it go easy?" . 1 Man "Well, that depends on the operation. If you're, shaving me, it goes hard, but if you're merely skimming me it goes tolerable easy Muse's Corner MY SCHOOL WORK By Mattie Pearl Raby At evening when the lamp is lit Then with ray school books, down 1 sit ; While all the others talk arid sing, I cannot play at. anything. Then with ray pen and papers all And with a- slow and painful scrawl, I follow history's awful trend, (A thing, it seems, that has no end). My English teacher (she's a dear), Would surely shed one lovely tear If she could see my sorry plight And see me study every night. She says, "Now don't do- this and that," And the first two months she failed me flat; But after that I. made a "B" And, boy, that's good enough for. " me. . A Word of Appreciation for a Beautiful Life In the death of Mrs. R. C. Dady, the people of Franklin and com munity feel that they have sustain ed a real loss. Coming to the Franklin High School, in 1928 as a teacher of languages, she was soon recognized as a very capable, cooperative and intelligent teacher, inspiring her pupils to a more earn est and serious study of the sub jects which she taught.' Possessed of - a charming and dynamic personality, the embodi ment of enthusiasm, culture and refinement, Mrs. Dady was an in spiration to all who- contacted her. Idealistic in her attitude toward life, emotional in her temperament, , she lifted others who knew her in- .... to a higher realm of living and to a new vision of service. Her ability and qualifications as a leader among the young people in the church made her invaluable. 1 The pastor of her church in Frank lin said that she was the answer to a minister's prayer. Utterly ' unselfish, her thought was always of others. No task was too heavy, no labor too arduous, no burden too great, no sacrifice too, much, if through her efforts she might help some one in trouble, or make life a little easier for some one. ;,' Hers was a short life as measur ed by the passing of time, but in the richness and fullness of that life, it was a long. one. Many people have sought to live on and t on through writing thci v; dreams into a book, to be read by ' generations coming after them; others have left an invention, a discovery, a painted picture, a for tune, as a memorial of their ef forts to cheat death. She vested all her hopes, her ideals, her dreams in serving others. A book may be forgotten,6 a picture may lie covered with dust a fortune mav be quickly dissipated,. b,ut a beauti ful life as hers truly was lives on forever. Today is less than we dreamed but better than it would have been had we not known her. Through knowing her others, will live more nobly she will live etern-v any. . . ' ; j? By Friends who knew Arid loved her. ltc-(Adv.) .- ' ' If? f i
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