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THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN THURSDAY. JUNE 29, 1939 Army Engineers Build Footbridge in Eight Minutes PAGE FOUR (Ike 3Uigklimitj5 ffintnttinn Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LIV Number 26 Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson and B. W. Johnson ,.,.f... Publishers P. F. Callahan... Managing Editoi Mrs. C. P. Cabe..... ..... ..'.....Business Managei Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year . $1.5 Six Months 75 Eight Months ..i...... $1.01 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. Greetings To The Lions Club IT is our pleasure to extend a word of welcome and good wishes to the members of the newly organized Lions Club of Franklin. These younger business men of the community are banded together! for fellowship, and service. While this club has the outward characteristics of the usual luncheon clubs for business men.it is understood that they also carry on a large program of activities which will be of lasting benefit to the entire community. io one win deny tnat we nave need of the activities which this club will supply. The program is large and while it is not expected that the local club will embrace the whole of the program at the outset, we are of the opinion that as need arises, and opportunities present them selves, we may count on this club for many things. Talking with officials we discover that the ac tivities of Lions Clubs embrace many things. To mention a few: The implanting of civic pride among all citizens by participating in and the public support of, move ments designed to .improve the general physical as pect of the community. To build the community with pride, vision, faith and with the services of the people who live in it. To promote the highest edu cational, cultural and moral standards of commun ity life. To improve ' and safeguard the general health of both the individual and the group, and constructively to aid those who are in need. To dedi- LdlO UU1 CllUi L& IU Mglll LU11SC1 VdUUU dliU IU UIC service of those in darkness through blindness, by inspiring, illuminating and bringing joy to their lives, by helping them to help themselves. To serve the best interests of youth by fostering and promot ing athletic, recreational, social, cultural and spirit ual advantages. We shall follow with a good deal of interest the activities of the local Lions Club and we wish for them many years of useful and happy service coup led with such fellowship and social intercourse that shall make of both business and service a-lasting pleasure. ' ' Which Is The Real Germany? "IT IS NOT surprising that the Naxi government has restricted the sale of Bibles and also has taken steps to ban the radio broadcasting of ser mons. The teachings of the Bible are so fatal to the ideology of Hitlerism that the two cannot live to gether in the same mind or in the same country. Long ago the dictatorship denounced entire pas sages of both the Old and New Testaments, and published its own version of the Sermon on the Mount. "More and more it is seeking to enforce the Gos pel according to Hitler, which means paganism : not the kindly paganism of ancient Greece and Rome at their best, but the paganism of Goths and Vandals at their rhost barbaric. The classics, we, are told, have been thrown out of German universities ; it would never do for the Fuehrer's subjects to read Plato , and Aristotle on the State, or the speeches of Demosthenes, or the history of Thucydides, or Attic dramas that show forth the dignity and the rights of the human spirit. Least of all will it do for them to read books which enjoin, "If thine enemy hunger feed him," and which proclaim, "God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth." "The same Nazi ruthlessness that has persecuted Jews and that is beginning to persecute Roman Catholics and that is denying Protestants also their simple, rights to a free conscience, will scruple at S l V t fia tat t.i ... -,-v -w V .-V I ... J 1 L'vi.jnStli If MMkWT C s 4 ' Rapid assembly of footbridge across the channel of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal was demon strated at Delaware City, Del., recently at the annual reunion of the First Engineers, U. S. army. Right: Army engineers assembling the footbridge, the work being completed In eight minutes. Left: Army troops on the run as they advance over the footbridge. MaJ. Gen. Julian L. Schley witnessed the event. no scheme or violence to put Christianity down; for -in Christianity it sees its inexorable;. judge. But the more sharply and the more speedily this issue is drawn, the sooner the German people will regain their sight and their lost freedom. If the blood of the martvrs is the seed of the Churchy it is also the dragons' teeth that devour tyrants We clipped the above editorial from the May 30 issue of The Atlanta Journal. Now, another side of the picture has been revealed in an arresting and well documented article in the: June 24 issue of Col lier's magazine by Quentin Reynolds, entitled ' In Spite of Hitler." ' J Here are disclosed some of the daring methods being used by anti-Nazi Germans to' combat the doctrines of Hitler. Ingeniously disguised propa ganda is being distributed through the mails and by anonymous broadcasting by those loyal Germans who willingly risk their lives to save their beloved Germany from this dangerous enemy who is de stroying from within. The finest spirits of Germany are in this movement. Some, like Thomas Mann, in exile in this country, are writing these scathing jn-. dictments of Hitler that tell of his lust for power that is resulting in the spiritual and economic de struction of Germany. These writers of anti-Nazi tracts that are today flooding' Germany in spite of Nazi vigilance and punishment, make it clear all Germans are not won to the repudiation of their Christian heritage. They are demanding that their pastors be returned to them from the concentration camps and that their misled children be allowed again to have the teach ings of the churches. And today many are suffer ing martyrdom for these activities. As the World Turns A brief survey of cur rent events in state, nation and abroad the facts boiled down to a few pithy lines. PROPOSED AIR SERVICE TO ASHEVILLE A transport plane of the Pennsylvania-Central Airlines stopped at Asheville-Hendersonville Airport Monday on a survey1 flight for future service between Norfolk, Va. and Knoxville, Tenn.f which would include this airport in its route. . BULW.INKLE PLEADS . NEUTRALITY REVISION In discussion of the controver sial revision of the neutrality act, Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle pleaded with the House on Tues day to support the measure re ported by the foreign affairs com mittee in order to permit the pres ident to take steps to prevent the outbreak of a war. "It must be plain to everyone as a self evident fact that if there is no general -war, our chances of stayiiTg'-! peace are many," Bul winkle saM. "It must be equally as plain th34Jf a general war does break out, rw ;lfeatter what policy we may follow thereWill necessar ily be dangers and threats to our peace and pur chances of staying at peace are greatly reduced." PRESIDENT WARNS CONGRESS President Roosevelt told congress Tuesday it would undermine na tional defense and return control of money to Wall street and in ternational bankers if it refused to continue his power to devalue the dollar. The devaluation power will ex pire at. midnight Friday unless con gress drives' a monetary bill to speedy final enactment. A senate vote yesterday to strip from the measure a . section extending the devaluation authority raised doubts over the possibility of that action. The President pointed out ; that the loss of his power to reduce the gold content of the dollar would strike a definite blow at national defense through a weakening of foreign trade. AMERICAN LEGION ELECTS STATE COMMANDER Junius H. Rose of Greenville, was elected commander of the N. C. -department of the American Legion at the 21st annual conven tion meeting in Raleigh Tuesday, succeeding Burgin Pennell of Asheville. The department urged re-dedication to fight "a trend in govern ment which robs men of those in dividual liberities which civilized people were centuries obtaining." Two thousand members of the' Leg ion and affiliated organizations attended. RELIEF BILL HELD UP IN SENATE On Wednesday the relief bill to continue WPA after the expiration of the present fiscal year was still pending in the Senate with dis putes over various proposed amend ments. Majority leader Barkley warned that the bill must be pass ed before Saturday. - SCANDALS IN LOUISIANA Scandals are breaking thick and fast in Louisiana politics. Follow ing investigation of WPA and PWA funds Gov. Leche retired a few days ago on the plea of ill health in favor of the lieutenant governor, Earl K. Long, brother of the late Huey Long. On Monday the president of Louisiana State University, Dr. . James M. Smith, disappeared, with $300,000 reputedly missing from three banks and $100, 000 of university funds. Handing the governorship over to Long, Gov. Leche said "It's all yours now, Earl," and leaned over and kissed Mrs. Long. Under grave charges of misappropriation of fed eral funds, the retiring governor added that his s motto henceforth would be "better a little with right eousness than great revenues with-: out right." . JAPANESE SOVIET AIR BATTLE Clashes continue between Russia, and Japan along the frontier of Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia with heavy airplane fighting. Rus sian sources report 25. Japanese planes "annihilated" in a two hours battle between 60 Japanese and 50 Soviet planes, and that three Soviet planes failed to return., BRITAIN THREATENS BLOCKADE British riaval authorities at Hong Kong on Monday threatened to use warships to break a new Japanese naval blockade of the south China port of Swatow after two British merchant vessels were turned away with their passengers and cargoes. SOVIETS THREATEN DEADLOCK Soviet Russia Monday warned Great Britain and France in diplo matic communications that she will withdraw into "voluntary isolation" unless they "meet Moscow's terms for a tri-power military alliance demanding direct Anglo-France military guarantees to Esthonia, Latvlta and Finland at the price of including the Red army's 2,500,000 trained troons in the F.urooean "peace front." JAPANESE SEEK PARLEY ON CHINESE DISPUTE British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Ciargie has reported to London that Japan has agreed to open for mal negotiations with the British government in Tokyo in an effort to obtain a peaceful settlement of the Far Eastern dispute. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to our friends for their many acts of kindness dur ing the illness and death of our wife and mother. W. A. NORTON -AND CHILDREN,
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