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page Pour THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1037 Cits xanklin trcss (Eta Highlands Tarxntimt. Published every Thursday toy The Franklin Press, ' At Franklin, North Carolina ' ''',".. '' Telephone No. 24. VOL. LI I , . Number 30 Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson and B. W. Johnson..... .....Publishers P. F. Callahan.. '.' ..Managing Editor G P. Cabe........ .... ..Advertising Manager Mrs. C. P. Cabe..... Business Manager Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter - SUBSCRIPTION 'RATES- One Year . . $1.50 Six Months ii ; 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. ' All Cannot Receive Aid ClNCE the social security program, went into ef feet on July first, over 500 applications for old age assistance have been received by the 'Macon county welfare board a number far in excess of the. quota allowed at present to this county. -This number is partly determined by the amount the county is able, to contribute, which is one-foitrth of the sum allotted, the other three-fourths being supplied from federal and state funds. It is readily seen that all who apply cannot re ceive aid. Indeed, only those persons over 65 in dire need, and who are entirely without any other source of support can hope to receive old age assistance at this time. The amount, will range from $5. to $10 a month, according to need, to those whose applica tions are accepted. We believe citizens may rest assured that every effort will be made to distribute this aid in a fair and impartial manner. The county welfare officer secures all information and forwards applications to the state department of welfare after having been passed upon by the county welfare board. , Assistance to the aged needy is part of a great humanitarian program that has resulted from the social security legislation of the present administra tion. It sets in motion vast; machinery that must be administered finally through county channels. Bet ter understanding will come, as the plan is worked out during the coming months. Much congestion will be spared our county de partment of welfare if only the most needy apply. Those who have children or others that have pro vided for their needs should not apply. Those who. are still able tq earn even a'bare living by their own efforts should do so. For there are funds available at this time to supply only the barest necessities for the sick, indigent and helpless. . ' ' The Fight (From Raleigh News and Observer) 7ARIOUS high authorities are now gleefully pre- dieting that in the shelving of his court reorgan ization plan the President has suffered a permanent 'defeat and that this defeat means a "reassertion of the independence of the judiciary." ' But it was never intended that the three branches of the government executive, legislative and judi cial should be independent. Rather it was intended that they should be coordinate and cooperative. ' That is plain in the history of the American Con- 1 stitution. It was the Supreme Court that set itself up to be . independent in an absolute and unprecedented sense. It made itself, in fact, not, only independent of but superior to the other branches of government. It placed across the path .of legislation, designed to meet expanding needs, the threat of nullification and hung over the head of the Executive the. assum ed power of veto. That is not independence but domination. f Under the President's leadership the country has been shown that it was in danger of coming under the dictatorship not of executives but of judges. And he has made his revelation so clear that it is no longer possible for the courts to negate reforms without protest. He has brought down the Supreme Court from its realm of mystic absolutism to its coordinate level and called on it to don its proper harness. Under the compulsion of the tremendous ma jority of Democrats the country over a majority still clearly for Mr. Roosevelt and his program Goes On the process of liberalization in the court will go on. .More, the party is revealed in the light of , the court fight, com;nittcd to the projection of the liberal pro gram into the succeeding administration. . The indications, as pointed out by Robert E. Williams, Washington correspondent of this paper, are that the whole 'program of liberal legislation 'may proceed from this point more directly and more conclusively as a result of the late interruption of fered by anti-administration Senators. Out of the temporary setback,' the administration has acquired a Senate leadership uncompromisingly sympathetic and loyal. There has btje'n a -clear: counting of noses and a revaluation of Senatorial .grouping. The latest Gallup survey shows-that, in the party ttig-of-war between liberal and conservative groups vastly clarified by the Supreme Court fight, the New Deal wing starts off with a majority support among the Democratic voters in the country. The cleavage is dramatically illustrated by the figures. The American Institute of Public Opinion asked thousands of Roosevelt voters throughout the country to express a preference 'between a conserva tive and a New Dealer candidate for 1940. The country over, 67 per cent of these rank and file Democrats preferred a New Dealer and 33 per cenj? a conservative. In the South. that furnished a sub stantial contribution to the recent Senatorial revoU, New Deal preferences comprised .68 per cent of .the total. : In the light of these farts, there is scant sunnort for the theorv that the. l'beral advance which has . nroceederl farthest under Roosevelt will be material ly slowed down in the middle of his second term or will be stopped at the end of it. A TRIP UP NORTH By W. C. LEDBETTER On July 3, I left home for a visit with my son, G. E. Ledbette , who lives in Boston1, Mass. . I notic ed on my way up on the train. that the crops were all very good. To bacco crops through North Caro lina and Virginia looked fine. The corn crop looked to be good for the time of year. Wheat, through the state of New Jersey, was be ing cut and it looked to be. well filled. Alter arriving in Boston, 1 wen. to the home ot my son and spent two nights. He was going on a ousiness trip through the state oi Maine, so 1 decided 1 would go with him. We left his place on the 6th day of July and spen. most all of the 10 days traveling through the state of Maine, which is a great grass country. The gras looked very good, to me. There ' w; a very small amount of other crop -rowing until we got 'up as far as Portland. . There were not many cattle to be seen from the highway We were traveling in a car am spent our first night in Portland. The second day .we started out viewing the fine forest-covereo country. Grass and potatoes art the only crops raised 'through by Lewiston and Auburn. Lakes w;eri surrounded by timber along tin road which could be seen from the highway on up as far as Bangor which is a fine town, with a popu lation of y 28,749. It is prepared U take care of travelers in any way they might wish to be cared for The town is in the heart of the grass and potato country. There are several beautiful lakes along the highway which are very at tractive to pass'ersby. After spending the night in Bangor, we started on for anothc .. day, which carried us to Houlton Maine. We crossed through the forest for about 40 or 50 miles, which . was a' very thinly settled country. Only forests and lake, could be seen. The most attractive thing to mc was the way the lane lay. It was rolling so as to draii.. to the lakes with a heavy forest o; balsam, cedar, maple and silver oirch timber with alder and box wood for underbrush. When w arrived in town-we found it to be a nice clean' place witli a lot of shad along the streets. The shade tree were mostly elm, which almost cov ered the streets. We were in tin heart of the potato belt in Aroos took county,- which is said to, hi the greatest potato country in the world. I thought; I had seen po tatoes before going there, but. it was all a mistake or a dream. The potato rows were all- run u and down the hills, the very steep est way of the land, and when I asked why it was done I was told that it was for each row to take care of its own rainfall, to .keep the land from washing the potatoes Out. Their soil is a light sandy loam and will take up a great deal more water than our clay will. We went from Houlton to Fair field and spent several hours there, then we went Presque Isle and spent the night, after which wc started out tor Caribue, where wt ;pcnt some time looking around. Then, it ibeing Saturday, we smart ed out at noon for a fish, so wc drove to Cross Lake and fished a while. I only got six,-while Gerald caught one. We came in to the camp and spent the night. There was no cleared land except just a small place where the camp house? were. It was a thick forest of silver birch and cedar, except the smaj underbrush for about 15. miles. Then there were a few farms along the highway. There were .said to be about 75 miles that lay west of there of forest and lakes that was not settled at all. There was not even a road through it, and it was said to be the wildest place in the United States. After leaving there: we went , to Fort Kent, which is on the St. John river, between the United States and Canada. We drove down the river to Madawaska and cross ed the river into Canada at Ed monton and drove 26 miles down the river to St. Leonard and then came back to the United States( in to Van Burcn, then back to Pres que Isle, and on down to Houlton and spent the night, leaving there for Calais where we 'spent sonic time. We walked over the river tc St. Stevens, in N. B., Canada, the! left there for Eastport on the coast and spent 1 the night and about half of the next day. It was all something sjrange t me and I sure did ask plenty of questions. There had probably 'been greenhorns there , before, but I was certainly glad that T was with my son so people wouldn't know how ,green I really was. I was sure -he wouldn t give me away because he wouldn't want anyone to know his dad was so dumb. Wc, left Eastport for Bar Har bor which is out "on an , island. It is a small town with a mountain 1,532 feet high, and a- good 'road to the government park, which is on top of the mountain. We saw everything from there that x eye could see. We spent the night there and left for Portland and 'stopped at Rockland. There we saw the new U. S. Plane Carier which had just' arrived the day before from Newport News, Va. We traveled on down the coast with tired eyes viewing plenty of new things. With many lakes and back water from the Atlantic ' there .was onl'y a small acreage in cultivation. I was puzzled to know how the people lived there, it was just one town after another all the way you might say. We, spent the night ' in Port land where" we .visited the ' dock and saw many vessels from several different places. I had sever seen a large vessel until I made this trip. , After being gone 10 days, we started back to Boston, where' Gerald lives. We traveled on our way back ib'y Portsmouth, New H a m p s h i re, Newbury port and through Vermont into Massachus etts, arriving at his home about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. We were a little tired, but feeling fine in other ways. 1 .never felt better than 'I did while I was up there. I never suffered with heat while. I was gone. Everything worked well. The weather was fine, everybody mov ing like they had plenty of life. I never enjoyed a trip anywhere any better than I did. this one. I enjoyed being with Gerald and his family very much. He has a wife and two children, a girl, Mary, 14, and a son, Jerry, six. They arc fine, healthy children. They moved to Boston from Akron, Ohio, in February, 1936. Gerald has been working with the Champion Spark Plug company for about 12 years arid is now sales manager of the New England states. He seems to be getting along fine with his work. He has bought ;i nice home in Boston. They have a sea breeze there all the time and it is also a nice shady plate with a lake cjose by. They intend to make a trip south next year, some time during the month of August and eat , some bread with me. I only hope that they will enjoy their trip as much as ' I did mine. I hope that you readers, who have not already been able to make this trip, will have the privilege of making it some time during life, for I am sure you can not take another trip that you will enjoy any more than this one. Lake Emory By MRS. J. R. BERRY Clyde -Tlppctt is snecializincr on snake-killing. One day last week he fired one shot, and killed 17 snakes. This included the mother snake and 16 small ones. Mrs. Bccchef Downs and her two 'boys, . Billie and Jack, from Leicester, have been spending sev eral days with Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Downs, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Downs and .Mrs. Bill Hyatt. A very large crowd of boys and girls of Ridgccrcst made a trip to Lakemont Sunday. " We are glad to have Miss Maude Saunders back with us at Ridgecrest v again. She has been spending some time with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Bailey in Canton. Mrs: A. J. Cochran and daugh- In.' I.' ,1 . . . . in, Hum ixumucKy, caned on Mrs. Herman Dean last week. Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Peck and little daughter, Mary Wanda, from Charlotte, visited relatives here the past week. . ' . 'Messrs Wymcr and Billie MJnccy and George Sellers spent Sunday at Arrowool. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Eurrcll, from Jotla, spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Lon rhomfson, a sister of Mrs. Biirrell." . Mr. and Mrs. Wade Buchanan, from Atlanta, were visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, Sunday, ' . ' Molton Buchanan will accompany his brother and sister back to At lanta where he will be employed in bridge work. A North Carolina corporation with , one paid officer and six other paid employees and with three other officers who receive no compensation-, is 'subject to' the N. C. unemployment compensation act, an official interpretation by the commission holds.. The three non-remunerated officers are counted as employees for the pur pose of determining whether or not the corporation has a sufficient number of employees eight to bring it under the act. Such a cor poration pays contributions on the salaries and wages of the remuner ated employees and officers only since the other thnee officers draw no compensation. This interpreta tion is in line with one already issued by the bureau of internal revenue, .
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