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Jfrattklitt Tfyrtss and Ore ZHighiattiiB ^JJatiminn Published every Thursday by The Franklin Preu At Franklin, North Carotin* - Telephone No. 24 VOL. LV1II Number Thirty -elf ht Mr*. J. W. C. Johnson and W. S. Johneon Publishers | Entered at the Poit Office, Franklin, N. C.. as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .......$2.00 Six Months .....$1.00 Three Months ^0 Single Copy OS Obituary notices, cards of thanlts, 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. Macon County Speaks In No Uncertain Terms TPHAT Macon county has already exceeded its quota of $145,000 is not surprising, in view of past performances in meeting all quotas assigned. The first and second war loan drives were oversub scribed. Now, when the war is coming closer to all, and as more of our men are facing the dangers of actual conflict, the citizens of this county have one supreme and united purpose ? to support the fight ing iren to the limit and get fhe war over with as soon as possible. Yes, this war has become the personal concern of all who are fighting on the home front. We want the boys overseas to know we %re backing them to the limit. We want to swell tlhe whole sweep of the nation's over-subscription of 15 billion so that we may speak in no uncertain terms to the Nazis and Japs. Yes, the people of Macon county and the rest of the United States are going to keep right on buying bonds with every dollar they can earn and spare to expedite and shorten the whole terrible business. V The President's Message JN a somewhat blunt manner, President Roosevelt', in his review of the war delivered to Congress yesterday, disillusioned that large circle -of opti mists who had reached the point of believing the war was all over but the shouting. The President emphasized that "we are still a long, long way from ultimate victory" in any major theatre of the war. But, nevertheless, Mr. Roosevelt's message brea thes far more optimism than gloom. He, like Mr. Churchill feels confident that, however long the time and dark the way, final victory for the Allied arms never can be in doubt. More encouraging, perhaps, than anything else was the fact that the Chief Executive presented statistics that cited the marvelous, well-nigh miraclous production of arm ament in the United States in little more than three years between May, 1940, and September 1, 1943. It must be borne in mind that we did not enter upon large scale production of airplanes and engines until after Pearl Harbor, less than two years agoj yet up to the first of this month in the period named we had produced 123,000 airplanes and 349, 000 airplane engines. Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that more than half of the total production of arm ament was recorded during the first eight months of 1943 ! In limited space a protracted review of a 5,000 word paper is not feasible, but the highlights of the message, which can give no comfort to Ger many or Japan, are the announced plans for the invasion of Germany itself by Russia ; advance ment of rhe Allied bomber line in Italy to bases from which Southern and Eastern Germany can be laid waste : an Allied offensive on Burma, and op erations in the Indian ocean and the Bay of Ben gal, theses being in the nature of heavy blows against the Japanese. Taken as a whole, Mr. Roosevelt's message is most inspiring. It sh< uld put the soft pedal on the tupennv-h'apenny cri'ics who have been sneering at the Administration''4 foreign policies and consist ently finding fault with its conduct of the war. Also, it should put a quietus on the parlor car generals who wout<f run the war to suit themselves, and in whose eye* nothing has been accomplished. ? The Ashcville Time#. OVERSEAS XMAS PACKAGES SEPT. 15 A OCT. 15 RULES FOR MAILING CHRIST MAS PACKAGES TO SOLDIERS OVERSEAS TIME OF MAtUNG ? Gift pack atttm irty be mailed to American soldier* omwo? w th out presentation of a reauest iron the zoMier during ths period from September 15 to Oc tober 15. SIZE AND WEIGHT ? Packages must not exceed lire pounds in weight. 15 inrhe* in length and 36 inches in length and girth combined. LIMITATIONS ? Only one such package will be accepted lor mailing by or oa be hall oi the same person or concern to the same addressee during any one week. It should be indorsed "Christnias Gilt Parcel". Perish able matter will not be accepted. ADDRESSING? Write legibly and give full name. Army serial number, service organiza tion and unit, APO number of addressee and the poet office - through which parcels are to be routed. PREPARATION ? It is absolutely necessary that articles be packed in substantial boxee or containers and that various gifts in a com bination be securely fitted. Pointed or sharp edged instruments should be protected. Candies in thin pasteboard boxee should be enclosed in woed. metal or corrugated paste board. POSTAGE? The rate on parcels of fourth class matter (exceeding eight ounces) is the zone rate applicable iron past offices where mailed to the post office in care of which parcel is addressed. The third class rate of one and one- half cssits for each two ounces applies to package not exceeding eight ounces. Parcels containing only books are acceptable at the special rate of three cents a pound. Inscriptions such as "Merry Christ mas" or "Doa't Open Until Christmas" may be placed on the covering but should not interfere with the address. . _ . f letters! From SERVICE MEN | * ? TAYLOR CROCKETT TELLS ABOUT NORTH AFRICA Friends of Rev. and Mrs. 8. R. Crockett will be interested in excerpts from a letter writ ten June 25th by theeir son, Pvt. Howe Taylor Crockett, which was published in the Waynesville Mountaineer. Pvt. Crockett, who has been award ed the Purple Heart and has been wounded three times, was with the famous First Division during the persuit of Rommel's retreating army. He says: North Africa, June 25th. Got your letter .today that was mailed on the 11th. Cen sorship has been relaxed some what. We are allowed to tell the places and battles we were in and the organization we be longed to. As perhaps you have guessed, 1 am in the First Div ision and landed near Arzew, November 8th. I was hit the last day of battle. We were moved from place to place around the front, moving by night and fighting by day, sometimes mov ing by day, too., Most of the fighting was in rough moun tains, some in the desert, and some in, perhaps you have gues sed, I am in Tunis. The Tunisian Campaign cov ered a good deal of territory; something like from North Geo rgia, through the Nantahala and Great Smokies and down thr ough the Cumberlands to Chat tanooga. As you know the Atlas jnoun tains rise to cover 13,000 feet; and the scenery varies from the cork "bak forest cover ing the slopes nearer- the Med iterranean and the high rolling plateaus which the Arabs plant almost exclusively In grain. Here for miles all you can see is almost unbroken grain fields planted clear to the top of the big dome shaped hills with the exception of some pasture land and the spurs and ridges which are too rocky and steep to cultivate. I wondered how so much land was turned until I saw forty big oxen plowing In one field. Five yolk to the plow. I also no ticed McCormick binders and a few ^combines and tractors. In this well watered country I also saw the best cattle and finest horses. A picturesque sight was to see a group of Arabs silhou etted on the skyline riding sin gle file through a green grain field; all astride white stallions saddled with big crimson sad dle blankets and high-backed saddles, all wearing white robes. The Arabs here were more pros perous looking than any others I saw. On the Sahara side there are sparce pine forests blending in to purple sage, and then cactus as the mountains and the des ert meet. Here the scene chan ges to a huge jumbled bum of barren cliffs and jagged, gro tesquely towering <pires and dabs of raek; with the level barren valley floor* lyitif b# Clippings The following letter appeared In the Asheville Citizen-Times o( September 5. Written by a young college student of Frank lin, it, will be of interest to many of our readers. THE "NEW DEAL" Open letter to John Temple Graves IX: I have loyally been reading your column as it appears in The Asheville Citizen during the last few years. For the most part your opinions on domestic and foreign policies have close ly paralleled mine. However, we have now come to a parting of ways. For the past few days your column has summed up in a closing sentence with some sort of quip such as. "The New Deal has been* dealt." I have read your reasons for the statement and to me they seem very tin satisfactory. What the new deal means to you, I have but a va gue idea; but to me and thous ands of the American youth like myself the term holds a great deal of meaning and promise. It stands for the militant fight for the further extension of American democracy; It stands for the fight to make Washing ton the nation's capital instead ?at a "way - station" of Wall Street;" it stands for a govern ment not-bound by the tradi tions which would thwart the utilization of our democratic precepts as set forth in the constitution; it stands for the intervention of government in the workings of our economic structure when that structure shall cease to provide for the needs of the majority of our citizens; It stands for an end to official condolence of nar row-minded prejudices which are apt to devide our republic; it stands for TV A which is helping our South rid itself of the leech-like hold of utility companies over local, govern ments; it stands for NYA which enabled worthy students to en ter schools, and colleges with scholastic ability as a measure Instead of financial ability alone; it stands for the encour tween the ranges. Such was the country we fought over. I missed out on the fighting around Hills 523 and 609 be cause I went to the hospital with an Infected arm as soon as the Battle of El Ouettar was over. When I got out of the hospital I was sent almost at once to the front. I rolled up in my blanket out in the middle of a wheat field about a mile and a half in frnt of a battery of our big 55 rifles. Every time they would fire It seemed that the ground would shake and the flash lit the surrounding scene up like day. As far around the horizons as you could see, the sky tw lit up by similar flashes: every minute all night lone- This wu part of the great barrage laid down before the fiMl drivt by the Allied fort*. Kyle . By MRS. FRED H. VINSON Cpl. Warren O. Eller has re turned to camp after spending several days with his mother, of Aquone. He la stationed at Camp Vandorn, Miss. Henry Ford Duvall has re turned to Great Lakes, HI., after spending ten days with home folks. He is stationed in the Navy there. We are glad to report that Clifford Nix, who lost a toe in an accident, has recovered and returned to his work. Pvt. Vester Pendergrass has returned to Camp Livingston, La., after spending several days with home folks. We are sorry to report that Charlie Solesbee is still very ill. A large crowd attended Sun day school here Sunday. Calvin Caldwell, who has been employed In Detroit, Mich., has returned home. Iotla By Mr*. R. L. PoinUxUr The farmers of this commun ity were glad to see the nice rain. Mr. Orian Cunningham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cun ningham, has been discharged from the army. James Polndexter is home from Charlotte where he has been employed for the past year. He will enter the Navy soon. The Iotla school is progress ing nicely with Miss Nora Moody, Mrs. Lawrence Ramsey, agement of progressive trade unionism and an end to the utter domination of worker by employer; it stands . . But need we go further? Mr. Graves, you say the new deal is delt. It would suppose that your alternative to the progression of the new deal Is a policy of "status quo-ism." I grant that a respite xto consoli date the social gains (of the new deal) made during the last decade might be advantageous but do you think that those selfish interests not benefitted by the gains of the new deal would sit idly by while liberals took a respite? No, Mr. Graves. The only course for new deal-ism is that one which It pursued in the "30's? a militant drive to attain its ideals. There are thousands of us southern Democrats (as distin guished from Southern Demo crats) who believe that the new deal is still an active movement behind which all those Ameri cans who see In the United States not an Ideal democracy, but a government whose desti ny lies In that direction to ral ly behind. Yes, Mr. Graves, there are many "tricks" for us new dealers to take ere you and those who believe as you do doom this republic to another era of Harding-Coolidge-Hoover mediocrity 1 Tours sincerely, A RESOLUTE NEW DEALER, Franklin, N. C. Press Comment TARHEEL EDITOR IRKED (New York Herald Tribune) Mr. Louis Graves, the usually calm editor at "The Chapel Hill Weekly," of Chapel H1U, N. C., complains in a well documented philippic that too many people, for some obscjire reason, don't seem to be able to tell the dif ference between North Carolina and South Carolina. He refers to a book which had the Wright brothers making their flight at "Kitty Hawk, South Carolina." He chides this newspaper for saying that the late T. Gilbert Pearson wrote a book called ''Birds of South Carolina," when actually the book was about North Carolina birds. Mr. Gra ves has a theory that when peo ple in the North think of the two states they think of their being in the South and there fore instinctively place the word "8outh" before Carolina. Maybe so. But the main count In Mr. Graves' complaint? one with a reverse twist? is poignant and touching. Why, he asks, does no one ever make the mistake of saying that United States Senator Robert R. Reynolds comes from South Carolina? No, they always get it right? "Sen ator Robert R. Reynolds, Dem ocrat, North Carolina." He's the man who said before Pearl Har bor: "The dictators are doing what Is best for their people; Hitler and Mussolini have a date with destiny; it's foolish to op pose them, so why not play ball with them?" Mr. Graves has a point there. But can't the voters of his state do something about it?" West's Mill The Cowee school Is progress ing nicely under the new prin cipal, Mr. Ed Carpenter. Mrs. Ralph Bryson and dau ghter, Nora Lee, have returned to Detroit, Mich., after a two week's visit with Mrs. Bryson's mother, Mrs. J. M. Morgan and other relatives. The Leatherman reunion met at the home of Mr-, and Mrs. S. C. Leatherman, Sunday, Sep tember 19. Many relatives and friends were present. The Cowee P.TA. will' meet at the school house Friday, Sep tember 24, at 2:30, for the pur pose of installing new officers for the coming year. All mem bers are requested to be pres ent. Mrs. Frank Gibson and dau ghter, Luanne, have returned home after a two week's visit with Frank Olbson in Detroit, who is employed there. We are sorry to report Carl Dalton Is still on the sick list. Gaston Clark, the son of D. L. Clark, Is to leave for the army, Sept. 30. Mrs. Claude Roper and Mrs. Truman Moody as teachers. The Baptist women of Iotla had their fall study Thursday with sixteen members present. The day was enjoyed by all. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Poindex ter Jr., of Matthews, N. C., an nounce the birth of a daughter, Frances Anne, August 27, 1943. SPECIALS THIS WEEKS Clean your home inside with Glass Cleaner 10-25c Upholstery and Rug Cleaner 25c Furniture Touch-up Polish 12c * WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE - - - WANTED: BLACK WALNUT LOGS FOR GUNSTOCKS Cash On Delivery to Farmer* Federation Pulp wood Yard Franklin, N C "From the working front to the Fighting Front ? Let's Deliver the Good* NOW!"
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