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PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, SEPT, 16. MSI tint , Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press ' At Franklin, North Carolina . Telephone No. 24 VOL. LII Number 37 Airs.j w. u jonnson anu u. vv. jonnson ....iuuumicu P. F. Callahan. . ..... ... . .' .Managing Editor C P. Ca-be.... J .....Advertising Manager Mrs. C. P. Cabe. Business Manager Entered at the' Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter T SUBSCRIPTION RATES : , One Year $1.50 Six-Months .75 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. A Notable Birthday (")N next Monday, September 20, our friend, B. V M. Angel, '.of Higdonville, celebrates his 88th birthday, and it is a remarkable birthday y reason of the fact that he looks younger today than many men of 50. Still straight and upstanding, brisk in movement, and with his mind undimmed by the weight of accumulated years, he is as keenly inter ested in current happenings over the world as any youngster just out of college. In thinking of the many years this man has walked the earth there comes the vision of theHre- mendous panorama which has unrolled since he was born. In 1849 when he first saw the light of day the Argonauts were rushing by. land and sea to the newly discovered gold fields of California. Zachary States had been inaugurated in March of that year and was destined to die on July 9 of the next year and be succeeded by Millard Fillmore. There were already rumblings of the storm to come over the slavery question, and far-sighted men Could vision the War between' the States and the result thereof- The ''Winning of the West" was be ing attempted, though the Indians were fighting hard to retain their ancient heritage.' The telegraph was new and trying to make head way against the hootings of unbelievers, and there were a lew lines oi rauroaa, aitnougn some preach ers were still crying but that to travel 20 miles an hour was against the will of God. When Mr. Angel was 12 the first Battle of Bull Run was fought, and. hcv was nearing 16 when Lee surrendered at Appomattox. In his youth there were no telephones, radios, talking machines or motion pictures. Transportation was still by horse-drawn vehicles,' on horseback or afoot. There were no roads to speak of and it re quired a week to travel a distance that is now cov ered in a couple of hours. There were newspapers, published, filled mostly with political discussions, but few came into the mountains. There were great events happening abroad but the mountain men knew nothing ,6f them. All interest was centered in the affairs of the immediate neighbors, who might live miles apart, and in the home. There were fights and frolics, but little scandal. In the days : when-Mr. Angel was growing up the happenings of the outsider world meant little, and there was no hurry. . Were those days better than these days in which we live? ' Who knows? , But, anyway, The Press wishes for Mr. Angel 88 more birthdays. A New Way to End Wars JWIANY men and women have proposed plans' to end warfare almost since the world began, but it remained for Dr. R. R. Renshaw, of New York University, to announce the most novel of all plans at a meetinjj of the American Chemical Society last week. The plan is to put the combatants to sleep by means of a new and powerful drug. We quote the following editorial concerning the matter from The Asheville Citizen of Tuesday: "Chemists, it is now claimed, have invented, or discovered a new drug capable of putting a whole army to sleep. This drug, named acetylcholine, is described as a nerve-end hormone bridging mind and matter Dr. R. R. Renshaw of New York Uni versity, told the American Chemical Society last week that a single grain of this drug would lower the blood pressure of 1,690,000,000 catsT It would be interesting to know how he found that out. "Put a grain of acetylcholine in a 'scatter shell,' said Dr. Renshaw, and fire it at an army of a mil lion men and every n1an who was struck by a frag ment of the exploding shell would fall to the ground in a faint, so rapidly would the blood pressure of the struck person be lowered. After a time the wounded individual would revive and be none the, worse for. what had happened to him; but while the effects of the drug lasted he would be dead to the world. The enemy could walk in and take pos-' session of the field, stripping the drugged soldiers of all their arms and equipment, and . the battle would be over. "Here at last would seem to-be the formula for which the world has waited, the formula for putting a stop to vyars. If one nation can equip its armies with 'scatter shells' loaded with acetylcholine other, nations, we may be sure; will quickly follow suit. Victory will then lie with the army that gets in the first shot or if both armies fire at the same time we can only conjecture what would happen. But why wait for a war to try this potent' new drug out? Why not turn it loose on some of those who start wars?" . ' County Health Department Report for Month of August Sixteen cases of whooping cough and one of septic . sore throat, along with six new cases of tub erculosis, constitute the contagion reported to and investigated by the Macon county health department, (luring August. The county nurse visited all these oases one or more times, plus a number of visits made to tuberculosis cases already dis covered. The health officer and nurse be gan school examinations in this month. Typhoid vaccination clinics were begun in conjunction with routine school work in five of the county schools but this schedule was changed. Tuesdays will be de vted entirely to school examina tions and Fridays to vaccination clinics. Thirteen children were immunized against diphtheria. In the school hygiene program 247 children from one colored and four white schools were inspected by the nurse. The physician made 281 physical ex aminations. The state dentists in stituted prophylaxis to a total of 606 cases. Seven children fcaving diseased tonsils and two with de fective eyes vere - reported cor-: reeled. Sixty-one ' flooroscopic examina tions were made .and 21 children skin tested on August 6 and 7 in the tuberculosis clinic conducted by Dr. Dcnholm, ' of the state 'sana torium, Sanatorium, N. C Upon the suggestion of Dr. Denholm, and from the aid of the welfare de partment, nine patients were X-ray? ed .and pictures servt to the state sanatorium foV diagnosis. Five of the 21 skin tested were positive. Six new cases of tuberculosis were discovered in this clinic, thus bring ing the total of known cases of tuberculosis to nine. Medical examinations were given to 18 adults for food handling, mid wifery and teachers' health ' cer tificates were issued to all passing examination. Thirty-seven schools and one pri vate home were visited by the san itary engineer in his general sani tation work. Twenty-one ..visits, were made to food handling establish ments in making check-ups on san itary ratings. " " ' ' Seventeen 'blood specimens were sent to the laboratory for test, of this group one was returned pos itive. This patient is now receiving treatment, Two sputum specimens were sent to the laboratory for examination and one was returned positive for tuberculosis. - Twenty-eight live births and one stijl birth were reported in Macon county for the month of August; There occurred' three deaths under one year of age. One tuberculosis death occurred. Total deaths from all causes in August amounted to 21. t ' Iotla Every farmer in this section is busy, putting up feed for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Poindexter were visiting Mrs. H. P. Ray lasr Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Young, of Clayton, Ga., were visjting Mrs. H. P. Ray last Sunday. Miss Fannie Burr Bennett gave her friends a party last Saturday. Mrs. L. B; Liner, and her sister, Miss Ruby Russell, of Maryville, Tenn., were visiting Mrs. J. R. Morrison one day last week. . ' The Iotla B. Y. P.. U. is progres sing nicely. They gave an excellent program last Sunday night. Fannie Burr Bennett was in charge of the program. We urge all to come out and join us We need your help. Miss Alice Bennett, daughter of R. H. Bennett, left for college last week. 1 Lake Emory Mrs. J. R. Berry is spending sev eral weeks in Charlotte, and while there will be the guest of her sis ter, Mrs. R.iM. Peek. Jesse Thompson, the tunnel mafj, came in from New York to spend a few 'days at home. His next job will be at Swannanoa, near Ashe ville. J Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Buford Downs and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Downs attended th Howell reunion which ; was held this year, at the , home of; Luke Howell, near Franklin. Misses Beryle and Gwendolyn Morgan, of Franklin, were week end guests of Mrs. J. C. Higdon; Mr. and Mrs. Z. D. Buchanan have returned from, a visit to Ashe ville. Bill Hyatt, who is employed at Canton, visited his home here Sun day. , -j The Shiddles relatives of this section were present at a family dinner Sunday at the, home of Tom Franks. , ' , Mr. and Mrs. Howard Steele, and Miss Lassie Mclntyre spent the past week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mclntyre. Mr. and . Mrs. George Miller spent several days'with Mr. Mil ler's mother. They, have returned to Perryville, Ohio,, , Afrs. Roy Mclntyre spent the past week with her parents. Miss Moial Home, of Greenville, S. C, has been spending ' several days with his aunts, Mrs. Victor Shiddles and Mrs. Lyman Frady. Ridgecrest church has recently been repainted which adds much to the appearance of the building. Rehabilitation Program Under New Set-Up The' rural rehabilitation . supervis ed loan program will continue as heretofore, under the newly estab lished Farm Security. Administra tion, of the U, S. department of agriculture, John R. Faison, county supervisor in charge of rural re habilitation work in Macon, Clay, Jackson, and Cherokee counties, an nounced early this vweek from, his office in Franklin, following assur ances received from George S. Mitchell, regional director of the farm security administration in Raleigh. Mr. Faison stated that the Bank-head-Jones farm tenant act, which the farm security administration will administer, provides for con; tinuation of the rural rehabilitation and ' farm debt adjustment work which he represents in this section and that he has been instructed to carry on substantially as before, under the new agency. Rehabilitation loans, accompanied by farm and home management ad vice from county supervisors, are made by the government to low in come' farm families whether on their own ' land or on rented land, but who" are Vnable to secure prop er credit from other sources to make a crop or to "purchase needed livestock and equipment. . in aaainon to tne rural renaDiu tation program! which will be con tinued as an' important phase of the new agency, the ' farm . security administration will conduct the ten-' ant loan program, as provided in the farm tenant act. for the mir- JV a v uiifi v VIMVIa t V 1M 113 for selected tenant farmers, and will complete unfinished farmstead projects, including those started by the resettlement administration and those turned over to tliat organiza tion from other agencies. Details concerning the handling of applications for the tenant loans will toe" announced later by the reg ional office, Mr. Faison has been advised. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express of deep ap preciation for the many kindnesses and expressions of sympathy ex tended to us during the long illness and death of our beloved "father, THE STILES FAMILY. ltp I . . ; Loyal Order of Moose Franklin Lodge, No. 452 Meets Second and Fourth Friday Nights 8:00 P.M. Under Amerioan Legion HaM S. J. Murray, Sec'y QUESTION: Is it worth while for Camel to spend millions more for finer Tobaccos? -I" ; 1 wmimmimii m m 1 ANSWER: Camels are the largest-selling cigarette in America! IT is homespun fact that noth ing man does to tobacco can take the place of what Nature does. .People prefer Camels because Camels are made of FINER, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS -Turkish and Do mesticinto which Nature put extra goodness.
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