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n PAGE FOUR ' Iks ntttUttt frss xnb mi,, Publishedvery Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VQL.LVI . Numbers Mrs. J. W. C. Johnson and W. S. Johnson Publisher Entered at the Poit Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter " SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Jl.Jv. One Year 10(j Eight Months " 75 Six Months ' " Single Copy The Flag of Freedom This year the nation will do homage to the flag of the nation with a new emphasis. All for which it stands is etched more sharply into our conscious ness as the flag itself is silhouetted against the skies over every continent and every ocean. Flag Day, Sunday, June 14, will serve to remind and to teach the nation, as never before, the signi ficance of the Stars and Stripes. We will remem ber that this banner of ours, born out of our strug gle for freedom, has been hallowed by the lives of all who have fallen in battle under its colors. It has been the banner which has led every army to vic tory. Today it is a token of the unity of this nation in the colossal task which confronts us. But the flag of the United States of America is more than these. It is the foremost flag of peace. Loved and revered by the citizen of this nation it has likewise won the love and gratitude of thous and under other flags, representing for them their only hope for a better world. Accustomed to the secure protection which all have enjoved in our lifetime under this nation's flag, there are still those who take the blessings afforded for granted and fail to regard the mean ing of the flagiat all. For them Flag Day this year year should be an awakening to a new sense of ob, ligation. Indeed, all of us are, aroused to pay homage to "Old Glory", and we welcome the reminder which Flag Day brings. We are, for the first time, cons cious of the absence of the flag from places where it should be waving. We remember what it means to our men whom we have sent to keep it flying, with their lives, if need be. To them it means home land, loved ones, all that it worth fighting for and dving for freedom, justice, all that these other na tions long for and will not possess unless ve keep it also the flag of victory. For them, as well as for us, our flag stands for the hope of liberation. So let us keep the flag flying - over our town and over our doorways, everywhere, for the duration. Our boys will be glad to know that the flag means as much to us at home as to them. rrogress Of The War INURING the past week momentous happenings U on many fronts have been largely in favor of the Allies. The battle of Midway Island which be gan last week promises to be one of the major en gagements of the war. Admiral Nimitz disclosed yesterday increased losses by the Japanese, show ing that the force of men and ships defeated by the Americans was an armada of more than 30 war ships, with half of them casualties in the first three days of battle. Thousands of the enemy perished, and the fleeing remnant could not stop to pick up their men who were cast, into the sea. The score of losses shows two, possibly three, aircraft carriers sunk with all their planes, one de stroyer and three battleships and probably 11 other ships damaged. American losses show one destroy er, one aircraft carrier damaged and an undisclosed number of planes. Two cracks at the Japanese have come to us from irrepressible editors. The Honolulu daily headlined, "Japs Lose Pants Trying To Save Face." A Chin ese newspaper made a pun in English, "There Are No Limits to Nimitz." Simultaneously with the Midway attack, the en emy sent another armada against the Aleutian Is lands at Dutch Harbor. Claims that the Japs have landed an invading force there were denied Wed nesday. The battle on the Libyan desert continues to rage with new peaks of fury. American tanks and planes are playing a vital part in hurling back the mass of reinforcements brought up by General Roromel. The situation is grave on the Kharkov front in Russia where Marshall Timoshenko's recent sur prise offensive broke up the Nazi advance on the Caucasian oil fields. The Sevastopal fortress and naval base is holding out against overwhelming odds, as Nazis pour in fresh troops. The Germans continue fiendish vengeance against the Czechs for the assassination of the "butcher" Heydrich by wiping out a whole village, murdering the male population and taking surviving women and children to concentration camps. Thousands of RAF and American planes have been sweeping over Germany and enemy-held ports and military bases with devastating destruction of Nazi means of production. The great city of Co logne, center of arms and munition plants, is in ruins. However, from an aerial photograph, one of the world's greatest buildings, the great Gothic THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE McROWONES COMCEALEP It4 "UK FElJCES -MAT 5UPROONP MANy FACTORIES HELP TO SUABC A6AIMST SABOTAGE . IP AU INTffuPER TOUCHES THE FENCE TM6 SO0WP IS CARRIE!? "TO "ME PLANT 6UARPHO0SE AS A WARN IMG SI6NAL I ft One mew was plant has a rlhree-inch laver. of m0vin6 water. t tub roof to help kebp "the plant cool in summer. cathedral, may still be seen outlined by its cross shaped roof kitact. For this, all Christendom is thankful. Allied shipping in the Atlantic continues to be destroyed at an alarming rate three more reported yesterday, making a total of 258 since Pearl Har bor. Against this is the fact stated by Chairman Vinson of the Naval committee that not a single American soldier had been lost in transport to for eign fronts. It is evident that the navy is not equal yet to adequate patrol to protect merchant ship ping. In addition, eight American cargo carriers have been sunk between Hawaii and California. The American and British heads of food supply have pooled all supplies, as al arms output is under joint control. This will enable the Allies to work with greater efficiency and economy in the battle of production. Great Britain's minister of production, Oliver Littleton, speaking from Washington to a radio audience Wednesday night gave amazing figures of British war production, saying that the swiftly ris ing rate of American production would soon exceed Britain's. Upon this rising tide of Allied production the fate of the world largely depends. But, as Little ton said, the most important factor ismanpower. Press Comment IS IT RIGHT? The past decade has brought .about great improvements in hous ing conditions in the cities, while rural homes have declined in num ber, value and livability. From 1930 to 1940 the value of farm buldings, including dwellings, declined 9.7 per cent, according to the National Planning Associat ion, and it is estimated that "in 1940 at least one million farm homes were in urgent need of re placement." We don't begrudge city folks their nice homes; but this striking contrast in urban and rural living conditions prompts us again to ask : "Is it right that thirty per cent of the people of the Unittd States our farm population should re ceive only twelve per cer.it of the national income?" Carolina Cooperator. ANGUISHED PROTEST (Path Finder) A demure chambermaid ttstify ing in a New York court os to what she had observed in her hotel where a murder had been committed, uttered an reclamation that should be heard the length and breadth of this democratic land. Turning defiantly on the cross examining attorney, she shouted: "Don't you holler at me, Misttr, please. You'd think I was guilty of something, the way you holler." Anybody familiar with court procedure takes for granted the regular practice of lawyers brow beating witnessts for the purpose of disconcerting, confusing and unnerving them. A fierce and tru .culent manner with witnesses is the main reliance of some lawyers to fret guilty clients. An ordinary witness, probobly on the stand for the first time in his or her life, finds the ordeal very trying at best. He is honest and sincere, and from a sence of duty dtsires to furnish what light he can for the sake of justice. Un expectedly re finds himself bad gered and bullied, his word is impeached, his motives are im pugned, and he is glared at as if he were to blame for the whole thing. And the judge, the jury and the spectators take it all as THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN m "We umber Beooinep to cunv eOMeeH FOB. SHIPMENT IS EUOU6M 19 e vitp a Five oom House One souiice of sukm poa -rue tropical Hue hive MttriHt tUOWPOOM rue pc or eauToem. apaka . normal. Why is a citizen, . accustomed to respect and consideration every wehere else, treated like a cur when he is compelled to take the witruess chair ? If is served the ends of justice there might be a defense for it Th cntrary is th fct. The shout ing lawyer, with his pretended in dignaticm, is trying to subvert justice by making the nervous and defenseless witness contradict him self. He-is openly seeking to em pair testimony. This practice is unfair, undemo cratic and a disgrace to Ameri can jurisprudence. The little New York chambermaid spoke for all decent America in her anguished protest. "DEMOCRACY IN DANGER" A Louisiana congressman said our democracy is in danger be cause of the ridicule of congress men by newspapers. Was he more angry than truth ful? A member of the English parlia ment gets a salary of $2,000 per year. A congressman gets $10,000 a year. (Through nepotism many congressmen's families get much more through easy jobs). A member of parliament gets no pension. American congressmen tried to slip through a pension bill and back-tracked only because of pitiless publicity on the part of newspapers. Members of parliament asked for no special consideration in gas rationing. Hundreds of congress men get unlimited "X" gas ration ing cards, even though their of ficial salaries would not have been affected if they got no gas at all. Thousands of traveling salesmen and others who make their living by the use of gas, are cut down to very meager gas rations. "Democracy in danger ?" Yes, in deed, when congressmen vote and act in such selfish ways. Newspapers are doing their best to keep democracy out of danger. Rock Hill Herald. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and relatives for the kindness and sympathy shown toward us during the sickness and death of our dear husband and father. Also for the beautiful Floral bearings. Mrs. Hez Dills and children. This and That By FRANKIE MACON It sounds confusing but it seems that the principal feur of the Ger mans in Russia is that a front may be opened in their rear. There are too many experts mak ing predictions as to when the war will be over. Maybe we need .a tax on excess prophets? A noted surgeon says in a mag- tzine article that no surgical opera- ion is a laughing matter. It does, however, leave the patient in titches. i ' Y. But if they stop running automo biles, how are the hitch-hikers go ng to travel? . Admiral Land advocates "some form of freezing for all labor re- atiojis" But how can they freeze era when they're so hot ? A pessimistic New York paper says the war will last a hundred years. We hate to have to wait that long to find out whether he's wrong. Maybe those interned Japs from the West , Coast are being housed at the Santa Anita race-track in the hope that they may acquire a little horse sense. Stopping the production of type writers won't ibe so bad if it stops the .production of some of the drivel that's written on them. Poet's Corner The following poem was published recently in The Charlotte News, shortly after that city practised a Blackout : "BLACKOUT" On a quiet Sunday night A siren screamed: Blackout ! And quickly everybody's light Snapped out. Daddy, why are we iro the dark? A small boy asked. Lights out ! Fumbling for the right remark Dad went out. Dad went out aind saw the sky Sprinkled clean With .stars. And there he found the answer why Lights were out. Son, he said, wher. he came back, We're in the dark They say, We Pledge Allegiance. . To the flag of the United States . . . and to the Freedoms for which it stands. To pre serve these rights, we pledge our lives and fortunes that this country may continue to be "one nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all !" FLAG DAY JUNE 14 The day after Pearl Harbor our flag went up in front of our store. It is put out every morn ing and taken in every evening just as Uncle Sam orders. CEILING PRICE TAGS Are on Everything in Our Store According to Government Regulations VISIT OUR STORE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF THE LARGE STOCK OF MERCHANDISE WE ARE OFFERING AT CEILING PRICES E. K. Cunningham & Co. Th4 Shop of Qmu&r THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942 Because we see best, after 'black, The light of day. . John A. jonnson THE TEACHER MUSES (By Request of a Macon County Teacher) Year after year they come to me These children, with questioning looks, Year after year they leave me, As they leave their outgrown books ; And 1 wonder sometimes if I've taught them Just some of the worthwhile things, Just some of the things they'll need in life, Be they peasants! or poets, or kings. Of course, they've learned civics and history, And how to divide and add, But have they learned that these are not all Tliat make life sad or glad? Have I taught them the value of smiling When things are at their worst? Have I taught them there's noth ing that helps like a song When the heart seems ready to burst ? I Have 1 taught them the joy of clean living ? That Honor is better than Fame? That good friends are the greatest of treasures? Wealth, less than an untarnished name? Have I taught them respect to the aged ? Protection to those that are weak? That silence always is golden When gossip bids them speak? . Have I taught them that Fear is a coward Who is beaten when they say, "I , can"? That Courtesy ranks with Courage In the heart of the real gentle man ? Have 1 taught them these things and the others That will help make them brave, kind, and true? If I have, then, I care not if they tell me That Irkutsk is a town in Peru ! R. J. GALE Your pocketbook and your check book are no longer just symbols of what you can buy for your self and your family-also for your country. Your state has a Bond quota to meet! Remember that! Don't waste anything, for that means wasted money. Wasted money is wasted lives in wartime. Every dollar you can save should go toward War Bonds to help your state meet its' quota.
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