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THURSDAY, JAN. 2 Wt THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE . HIGHLANDS MACONJAN PACK NINE 1 J 2 .1.' " t 4 Kill STEAM . ... . . tpeed The other day I saw men work ing on the first of ten new stream lined locomotives being built to haul passengers between. New York and Boston at 100 miles an hour. These new giants of the rails are neither electric nor Dieselsthey are-steam engines. Checking over some' figures of railroad speeds, I found that none of the modern high-speed trains makes as fast time as used to 'be made from 1897 an foit several years between Camden and Atlan tic City. The regular daily schedule called for 69 miles an hour. .Railway, speeds slowed down when steel cars replaced the old wooden ones which weighed only half as much. But now the steam locomotive builders have put more power and speed into the "iron horse," and I look .to see new long distance speed records made for heavy trains. CHIMNEYS . . . ' , . exit? " Two newspaper items about chim neys caught my eye the other day. The Duke of Windsor, who was King of England for a while, en tertained the chimney sweeps of Enzensfeld, Austria, the boys who climb up (or down) chimneys to clean them. And chemical engi neers meeting in New York discuss ed a new way of "scrubbing" chim ney smoke, to recover .sulphur and remove posionous gasses. All of which reminded me that chimneys are quite a new invention in the long history of the human race. Tt was not , until about the time that Gutenberg invented print ing, not long before Columbus dis covered America, that people began to 'build flues to carry off the smoke from their ': fires. Before then, a hole in the roof answered the purpose, as it does still with the Eskimos and the Siberian peasants. Maybe chimneys will become ob New Arrivals Schulman's solete again.; when we do all our cooking and heating by electricity. WINDOWS . . . . . . taxed Thinking of chimneys made me think of windows.. People put win dows in their houses long before they had chimneys, but it is only very recently that ordinary folks have had glass in their wondows. Glass ) was for the rich. Poor folk used skins scraped down thin enough to let some light through, or oiled paper, after paper began to be made. Windows, with or without glass, were long regarded as luxuries and taxed as such. They still are in France. A large part of the reve nue of the French, government comes from the tax on doors and windows. That is one reason why the cottages of French .. peasants are So badly ventilated. lt England abolished the window tax in 1851, but some 'American states still levied it up to a very few years ago, as the windowless barns I have often seen in Con necticut testify. . DISTRIBUTION If you want to make a fortune, devise some sure-fire way of dis tributing merchandise to consumers more economically than anyone i? doing Jt now. I am not joking when I say there are millions to be made by anyone who can do that, for millions upon millions have been made by those who devised the most efficient distribution sys tems now in use. Chain stores, mail-order houses, advertising of every kind, are all parts of the most efficient distri bution system yet evolved. No where else in the world are all kinds of good so readily and cheap- ' ly obtained by everybody as in America. From 40 to 80 per cent of what the retail customer pays for most low-priced goods represents the cost of getting the article into the consumer's hands. Nobody makes much of a profit anywhere along the line, but everybody who helps to pass any article on toward the buyer has to be paid out of the final selling price. Find a way to cut that cost, young man, and the world will reward you with mil lions. x FLYING . . . . . 1937 service It won't be long now before reg ular airplane passenger service will Oxfords for fashion IpRtM oxfords . ; , '. . correct companions for the .new Spring (ailored suit or the smart nw coats. So comfortable and outfof-doorsy. And not at all ex pensive. $1.98 - $3.98 QREY, brown or blue leather Dress Shoes to match your Spring ensemble. We carry a full line of Pari Euhion shoes in all" widths. Dept. Store opr. be available across the Atlantic. The largest planes ever built are under construction in England. American aviation interests are co operating with them. By next Sum mer we may see. regular scheduled flights between Ireland and New foundland, perhaps between Lon don and Montreal. Flying has made great advances in the past two or three years. Frying over water is now regarded by airmen as safer than flying over lands. Planes are being con stantly improved, new navigation instruments make night flying as safe and certain as daylingt flights. I expect to 'be able to fly around the world in three weeks, before the end of 1937. I probably won't do it. I'd rather go slower and see more of the world. The man at v the theatre was an noyed by the conversation in the row behind. "Excuse me," he said, "but "we can't hear a word." "Oh," replied the talkative one; "and is it any business of yours what I'm telling my wife?" V WWiWV.V.V.VAV.V.W.-. j&'--i&VAv.j!.-.,.-.v.v.'...';-...-.-.:.:.:.:.;viXJ AiXS me m m i. Record-breaking sales of new Chevrolets make these better trade-in values possible! 1931 Chevrolet Sport Sedan, A-l Condition $235 1934 Chevrolet Standard Coach 1937 license ............ $365 1933 Chevrolet Master Coupe, Looks Like New $300 1935 Chevrolet Cab and Box, A-l Condition ...... ...... $335 1932 Chevrolet Coach New Tires $220 1931 DLCA 1 1-2 Tons (Chevrolet) .. .. . $165 1931 Ford Coupe, A-l Condition .. ... . . .. .. $195 1935 Chevrolet Cab and Box P2 Ton, looks like new $365 1936 Plymouth Coupe Deluxe, looks & runs like new $495 1932 Ford Coach, New Paint Jobgood shape ............ $195 1935 Plymouth Coach, looks and runs like new ......... $435 1930 Chevrolet Coach, looks bad ........... ..... .................. $60 1931 Dodge Sedan, A-l Condition, looks good ............ $195 1933 V-8 Ford Coupe, Good Shape . . $220 1935 V-8 Ford Coupe, looks like new; runs like new $385 1934 Chevrolet 1 Ton DLCA, like new ....... . $300 1934 Chevrolet l'fTon DLCA, Good Condition .. $295 1936 Chev. Stand. Sp. Sedan, looks and runs like new $595 1929 Studebaker Dictator Sedan, Best Buy in Town $135 1933 Dodge 1-2 Ton CCBX, A-l Condition .... . ..... $295 1934 Oldsmobile Town Sedan, 1st Class Condition ...... $450 SEVERAL OTHERS TOO LOW PRICED TO ADVERTISE TERMS TO SUIT YOUR PURSE ON GMAC PAYMENT PLAN Bpb Gaines and The Homeland Tailoring Co., Inc., of Baltimore, Md., Presents , "A NEW DEAL" In Made-to-Measure Suits and Topcoats Now you can buy a TAILORED SUIT or TOPCOAT on the INSTALLMENT PLAN. YOU PAY AS LITTLE AS $1.00 PER WEEK. For a limited time only I will give with each suit, topcoat or pants order, a chance to get a $22.50 three-piece tailored suit absolutely FREE.' (This offer is for advertising purposes, and will last only a few weeks.) c 200 ALL-WOOL FABRICS AND OVER 100 STYLES ,TO CHOOSE FROM. PRICE RANGES FROM $22.50 TO $45.00 PERFECT FIT AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR MONEY BACK For Particulars See or Phone BOB GAINES Scott Griffin Hotel Phone 67 mmmm .'.4S53-:: 1 Franklin, N. C. mm mm Burrell: Phone 123 M Compa otor ny FRANKLIN, N. C. Franklin, N. C.
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