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PAGE FOUR ' THE FRANKLIN PRtSs ANt THt itiGWLANbS MACbMfAN THURSDAY. FEB. IS. MS? cA Uoke from the ??ast . . . ; , by a. b. Chapin Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press ; At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LI I ' Number 7 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, 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 Horse is Still With Us pVHRY so often we hear the prediction made that the horse will vanish from the American scene in a few years. Most of the prophets are fond of saying that their grandchildren will be able to see horses only in zoological gardens. But right on the heels of these dire4 forecasts, there always pops up some hew evidence that the day of the horse is not yet over. It is human nature, we suppose, to imagine that the new must always displace the old. Not long ago it. was electricity that was going to displace steam. More recently the belief was current that internal rm'nhiistinn motors werp prnnp" tn make stpam en- - gines obsolete. , But along comes the United States Navy with the announcement that the two new battleships about to be i built will, be powered by steam-engines with out any electric driving mechanism, although five of Uncle Sam's capital ships have electric drives. And in spite of the excitement and publicity about' Diesel-engined locomotives on some of the modern streamlined trains, the newest highspeed locomo tives being built for important railway systems are steam engines. .i ComingJack to horses, Jt is true thatj there are not as many' being used as there were twenty years ago, but there are more than there were five years ago. The highest count . of horses on American farms was in 1918, when the Census enumerator's found 212 million. By 1931 the number had dropr ped to under 13 million, but the most recent count shows more than 15 million horses now at work. New York state has just announced that its farm ers will have to import 19,000 horses from the West this year to provide the motive power they need on their farms. Good work horses are no cheaper than they ever were. An average of $200 each is about the ruling price in the East. , Horseshoe "makers- have just reported a heavy ' drop in sales since 1933, but a good deal of that is accounted for by the growing practice of farmers of using unshod horses. Where horses are us,ed only for field work and their hoofs do not have to ham mer on the hard highway, horseshoes are unneces sary. Modern concrete roads full of automobiles have driven the horse off the thoroughfares, but he is coming back on the plowed fields. Selected. Xf td. THAT 'PCCAIPEWCE-, . v; , . CM '. x V MP WUICW HAS GUIDED US SO LONG- pt- If? $: THROUGH SUCM A LABYBlNTtl,:' , VVftv ZS WILL WITHDRAW ITS PROTECTION ' -SJ Our Natural Resources 'HERE is a widespread, revival of interest in the subject of conservation of natural resources. It . is empnasizea Dy tne dust-storms and Hoods, wnich I t III I ll I ll 1 J I I I I I ll I I J I llf ill 1 I 1 I I f- m - m-m mat recklessness of humanity. Doubtless the plowing unuer or me uuiiaio grass in parts oi ine ureal j icims nas ujuiiuulcu lu luc ciUMUii ui iuc sun uy wind, while the cutting off of-the virgin forests probably has had some effect in making it easier 'for rain to wash away the. fertile soil and to flow unchecked into flooding rivers. s Any program -of conservation, to be effective, must go below the surface. There is serious talk of renossession bv-the State-of -Pennsvlvania - of thei 'anthracite coal mines, whose owners say they can- ; ,'not operate them profitably, but which are being mined by "bootleggers" who have no legal right to ;the coal. Some such talk is heard about our oil re- sources, believed by some to be in danger of ex 'haustion. The time may come when the whole question of1 ho actually owns the natural resources of the na-- on will have to.be reviewed.One of the grievances 6i the New England colonists against the British, contention that all forests were Crown property, and1 no colonist might cut timber fit for frames, masts and planks of the Royal Navy without per mission'from.the government. ! If that principle were carried to its logical con-, elusion, then-' all of the timber and mineral wealth of the nation would be Government property, to be extracted ' onlyf by Government permission and "under Government regulation. Perhaps that might work out .well, but more probably it would work about as badly as did the system under, which the Government-owned lands of the West1 were given to anyone who would comply with simple and easy regulations. ' . TheVe' is . no doubt that much of ; our natural wealth has been depleted, and cart never be restored. More and more the -population of the United States will have to depend upon industrial labor to create new. wealth rather than upon taking wealth directly from the land. This is going to mean a .progressive shifting of population toward industrial centers, and that will bring a new set of social . problems with it. -'. ; ;. .' I ., ' , The question is how far any government will ever be able to deal wisely and effectively with these social changes. Selected. O ) rv n n it ' 1 1 i barton SERMONS SHOULD, BE INSPIRING ' Last summer I went to a white church in a New England towii. The preacher, for the day "was a tamous man , from a big city. . Ihe church was only about : one-tenth filled. Even 'his famous name was not enough, to pull . people away from the cool woods and 'beaches. When the preacher arose 1o. an nounce his -text, I thought : 1 "Now we'll catch it. We shall .be told that these emptypews y mean that he world is going to the dogs. We few, who have come to. church, shall be crucified for the sins of those who have . stayed1 abtVJ.v.'A, But I was due for a pleasant ' surprise. He announced alext from Paul's letter to the Corinthians. He explained that in this passage Paul was . really making a pjea for a generous collection from i.'the Cor inthians for" the straggling churches elsewhere. Having told . them 'how kind Ihey are, how courageous, how faithful, Paul "concludes .bt sayjing, in eiffect: "Since you have all these many, good qualities, I ask you to have also thjs grace 'which was in Christ Jesus, ' who being rich be came poor for our sakes'." The . preacher then proceeded to tell us wha$ a grand thing it is to belong to the human race how good people arc, how courteous to each other, how brave under their sufferings," how 'hopeful in the face of an inscrutable Fate. He said that God created men and women' because lie wanted companions and that He was 'pleased, with His crea tion. .., "He-made us all proud of our hu manity and " sent us out more cheerful and , better able ; to' fight t?:eAweek. I wonder, why there are not ntore such sermons? EXCUSE US HIGH PRESSURE An earnest gentleman wanted me to write on merchandising. I asked him what he meant by merchandis ing. He hemmed and hawed,vand finally remarked: "Why, you know, merchandising; everybody knows what you mean by merchandising." I told him that I had listened to much conversation on that subject in 1929, but had never heard any one define the term. "In those boom days it seemed to mean over selling," I. continued. "It meant pushing up the sales quota twenty five oer' cent everv vear: lvincr awake nights to think up ways of making people buy more than they needed; going out extravagantly to tpnl th nther " man'c rnctnmprc All that sort of high pressure , activity- was called 'merchandising in . 1929," 1. said, "and if, when .we speak of 'getting back to normal' we mean getting back to that rush and strain then I am not much interested." ' ' - V , He went away shaking his head, as if I had uttered treason against American enterprise. The kind of merchandising, prob lems that I believe our country must face sooner or later are prob lems like the following : Why, with so much wealth, are so many men out of work? Why, with so many labor-saving .devices, have .we so little leisure? Why were our parents, who were so much poorer than we, still so much more contented,- peaceful and se cure? , How can we think more about human beings and less about mo ney? How can we. recognize the economics of distribution so that PVPrvHrvfW ran havo mn rf thu good things of life as a result of steady, , smooth production? I cannot answer these questions, but I do believe it is' important to, get as many men as possible think ing about them. t , (Copyright, K. F. S.) Get Good Baby Chicks ' We farm flock owners have had a profitable year. The drought in the West prevented the nnultrv t x raisers from over-expanding, and so prospects are good this year. But with a normal growing season and increasing employment, there is going , to be a large increase in the number of chickens on farms this .year. So in planning for . the new; laying flock, we must start with better, chicks and with better feed and care raise a better and more profitable flock. - The most common mistake is to buy cheap chickens because they are cheap. We learn by experience iVtnt 1.rliJrt 'Ua I- 1 .1 yuv. mi, jjiicc is iow mere is usually something the matter with the goods. The cost of the baby chick is but a part of the cost 'of the layer, and it takes as mut-h r more feed and care to produce" a poor layer as a good one.L. H. j.v4.vaj in . x lie x-roeressive harmer.
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