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-7 THE FRANKLIN PS$ AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY. MARCH U, mi PAGE TWO ' : "- - ' ' ; ; . '! . .. .. ..''i BARKER MUDOE FACTS . . important Nothing is harder than to get people to look up the facts of his tory before they try to discuss them. Lately we have heard much talk about the Supreme Court thwarting the will of the people by declaring Acts of Congress un constitutional, and many point to the famous Dred Scott case as a glaring example. ' The fact is that Chief Justice Taney, in the decision of 1857, -upheld Congress. The Missouri Com promise Act of 1820 had prohibited slavery anywhere north of Mis souri. But Congress, in 1854, passed the Kansas-Nebraska law, permit ting those territories to vote on the question of slavery, and spe cifically repealing the Missouri Compromise. So when the owner of a fugitive Negro slave, Dred Scott, brought him back from a free state and the question came before the courts as to whether he was still legally a slave, the Supreme Court held that the Missouri Compromise law which had set him free had been repealed, and added that it had been unconstitutional, anyway, though that was not the major Question before the court. In that celebrated case the Su preme Court .upheld the latest Act of Congress on the subject. CHRISTIANITY . .. . ..' united l ean see no good reason why all Christians cannot unite in a single church federation for the defense and propagation of our religion. I see many reasons why it is particu larly necessary at this time. I was ereatlv nleased when I heard John TV Rockefeller. Tr.. over the radio, call on all Christians to unite in a league or federation on the same basis that the states united to form the United States of America The plan indorsed by Mr. Rocke- eller, who is a Baptist,' was pro posed by the Rev. Dr. E. Stanley Jones, a missionary to India. Me would call it "The Church of Christ in America." Only a united Christian world," said Mr. Rockefeller, "can stem the rising tide of materialism, of self ishness, of shaken traditions, of crumbling jnoral standards. If we who call ourselves Christians could catch the vision . from the moun tain top we would see. that there all roads meet," CHEESE , . . . . . a cave Roquefort cheese is one of those things, like -parsnips, which one either likes very much or positively detests. I am very fond of Roque fort, with its threads of greenish mould running through it. Roquefort cheese gets its name, from a town in France, near which are some caves in which the tem perature and moisture do not vary the year around. The fable is that a shepherd boy who went into one of the caves for shelter left a piece of cheese from his lunch pail inside. Returning some months later he found it mouldy but ventured to eat it and liked the flavor. Soon all the farmers and villagers began to take their cheese to the caves to ripen, and a great industry was born. Lately someone discovered that an abandoned coal mine in Penn sylvania has the same temperature and ftmidity as the Roquefort caves, and plans are afoot to use the old mine for ripening cheese. OIL . .... from North Every so often we hear that the reserves of the world are peter- I - a ing out, ana people Degin to asK what we will use for motor fuel when the oil is gone. But just about as often we heard of new oil dis coveries of vast extent, so perhaps we are not in imminent danger. The latest oil report comes from northern Alberta, in' Canada, up toward the Arctic circle. Geologists have found there great deposits of oilbearing shale, calculated to yield as much oil as all that is now (be ing produced in the world. Canada's enormous mineral wealth has as yet hardly been tapped. A high" proportion, of the world's gold, silver, cobalt and nickel, and the To Study Weather at North Pole I 'MM if Q t. .... --: Ai f","ltrv ruff' MfGrttror rabove with wife), of the Newark Airport Weather Bureau, sails next Spring for 2 years at the North Pole, there to accumulate data essential to Jong range weather forecasting. He is shown at the wheel of the General Greely II, the three-mast schooner he will sail into the North. Sulphur, an important element in explosives because of its inflam mability, is also used in the man ufacture of fire extinguishers. ; . largest part of all the radium, pro duced comes from Canada. HOLE . ... fceat Twenty-five years ago' Sir Charles Airroi-nnn Parson, famous Uritisn V.t....v - engineer, proposed to sink a shaft several miles deep to tap tne semi molten rock stratum and pipe the heat of the earth's core to the sur face, to supply power and heat for industry. The cost would have been tremendous, yet the project was de clared feasible and probably would have been attempted but for the World War. Now an American engineer has demonstrated to an engineering convention a drill which will cut a five-foot vertical shaft to any depth, os far o the tipat will nermit. It goes thoughrhe; hardest, rock, and is the most economical, method yet devised for boring a big hole in the ground. It would not surprise me if some practical application' were made of Sir Charles Parson's idea. How handy it would be to heat your house with a pipe from a five-mile-deep hole in your back yard ! CARD OF THANKS We wish td take this means of expressing ouf deep appreciation for the sympathy and kindness ex tended to us during our recent bereavement in the death of A. M. Shope. BY HIS FAMILY. Up (adv.) , . Investment of capital in new chemical industry plants in the south has totaled $85,000,000 m-he last three years OLJLJLAJ -vigor nan iA.ihT IndicaU SmJi in Bulk FRANKLIN Anpel Drug Co. Roy Cunningham. ., Farmers Federation Inc. Franklin Hdwe. Co. , J. R. Pendercratt HIGHLANDS -TaDejr & Burnett F. A. Edward Highlands Hdwe. Co. a W. Mattt , SCALY J. D. Burnett ' SYLVA . Farmers Federation Inc. Syhra Pharmacy ATM .TV -1 P'T't 1 1 1 TT TV C WiafarnrEMrTIWMa"i T.WtWM4 nop E. K. , (Qtimaiuahi Co Are how showing all the New Spring Styles in Men's and Women's Easter Togs . . . such ias Men: New Spring Felt Hats -( Van Heusen Shirts ( Cheney Ties,, in Fancy Stripes and Checks Pajamas Sox and White Shoes I) White Linen Suits Blouses Coat Suits, Spring . Goats Underwear Silk Hosein all the new shades White, Blue, Beige, Grey and Patent Leather Shoes 111 1 1 SEE THEIR WINDOWS . IC. Cunningham & Co. THE SHOP OF QUALITY x
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