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/ <Ih? Jflrattklitt -jJrtss *ni> r&Iigklimits fMattxttinn^ Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 VOL. LXI Number two | WEIMAR JONES, Publisher Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year L: .^2.00 Six Months a *31.00 Three Months : ? .60 Single Copy 05 Gold Through Our Fingers II TOR nearly a century Macon County has seen a * large proportion of each generation of its young people go elsewhere in search of opportunity. We have learned, with mingled pride and regret, of their successes, somewhere else. And we have fejt ? if we stopped to think about it ? that there was something wrong; that it didn't make sense for us to rear and educate our youth, only to have many of our most promising young men and women con tribute their talents to the upbuilding of other communities. In spite of it all, Macon still is a good county, of course. But we can't stand such a drain forever. And today we face the danger of losing the ap proximately 1,500 men who have served in the armed forces, for they are going where they be lieve the opportunities are greatest. But because many of them would like to stay at home here in Macon County, the situation carries with it an op portunity as well as a danger. Never in its historv has Macon County had such an opportunity. For never has this county had so large a proportion of its youth so well educated ? by experience: by travel: by contacts; and by spe cialized training, either received in the service, or now available to them in the colleges under the (I. I. Bill of Rights. If we can keep this youth at home, we can make of Macon County almost anything we wish. If we lose these young men ? well, we'll be on the road to becoming an old folks' home. To capitalize on this opportunity is far more im portant than making street, water, and sewer im provements in Franklin; than building school houses .in the county: than getting the biggest possible industry. For, with this youth ? this youth with its intelli gence, its experience, its ideas, its drive and en thusiasm ? we can get all these other things. And, much more important, we can build Macon County into a better place to live. - Can we do anything about it t - Well, we certainly can try. The first and most obvious problem, of course, is the opportunity to earn a living here. What arc the economic opportunities in Macon County? Nobody knows ? knows, that is, definitely and in detail. And nobody will know until a com prehensive, thorough, impartial survey has been made of the county. Exactly what are its resources? What are its handicaps? Balancing the two, what are its possibilities? What are the county's needs? What small industries and what businesses fit the county and its people, and are, therefore, most like ly to succeed?. Such a study would require both time and money. But it would be worth far more than it would cost. In the meantime, we can, "and certainly should, establish a jobs-veterans clearing house, designed to see that every possible job in this county is made available to a veteran, and that the right job and the right veteran are brought together. In the second place, we can do something about housing. A veteran who has been away from his family for years r isn't going to stay cooped up h in-laws, noi^is he going to l>e content with a iiiu'd-rate house. Third, we can make Macon county a more in teresting, attractive place to live. For one thing, we can provide some desirable amusement ? modern youth and recreation are inseparable. Finally^ there's a job of "selling" that needs do ing. Too often we have assumed ? and passed the idea along to the young people ? that they must leave Macon County to succeed. True, we can't offer the same opportunities t'hat a great city does. But the reverse is equally true. Many of the things a man can have here in Macon County he can never get in a citj\^^? ? ? ' Here'^?^KiR job. And if Macon County wants to go forward and not backward, somebody had bet ter do it. Certainfy it's too big for any oneJperson, Jjjht. if its to be done, some one person, ultimately, ?Srnust be named to head it/lip. It's public [tasiness, and as such it is a challenffe to the Bo^td-o^County Commissioners and to the Boards of Aldermen of Franklin and Highlands. But it's your business and mine, too. It's a job that somebody had better do, and do quickly. 'Desperately Needed Right Here At Home' * By VIOLET MOORE (In Atlanta Journal) Betsy's up in her old room packing her suitcases, folding and smoothing down the quilted crepe robe that was mother's Christmas gift, and folding In tissue the alligator purse that was dad's. . Into one corner she tucks the Christmas red fascinator that 1 Aunt Hattie thought would be warm to wear in New York blizzards, and into another, the gaudy nail polish set that must have cost Big Sister a pang tt> part with. f Down in the kitchen mother's moving about, cutting thin | slices of turkey for sandwiches to eat on the train. The cup board door creaks. She's getting down the fruit cake, Dad's moving the car around to the front. He didn't feel up to going to the office this morning, he said. Oh, if they would only know how she feels inside, all mixed up between wanting and not wanting to go back. If there were just something to do here in Georgia. . . . There goes the telephone. That would be joe. . . . * 'i * * ALL OVER THE STATE, in the large towns as well as the small, the Betsies are packing their suitcases and catching the trains and the busses. Some of them came back for a week, some for as little time as two days, For a happy little in-between time, the streets are gayer because of their giddy hats, their "city" shoes and fur jackets. "Career girls," they are, with hairdos just a shade sleeker, the right kind of costume jewelry pinned at the right angle, and their frocks a little? well, they'll tell you, it's something that started on the cutting table and ended with the label sewed inside a shoulder seam. New phrases tumble off tk\eir tongues, they've been to the Stork Club and to see "Harvey," and had a date with an atom scientist. But when blundering Uncle Joe asks right out whether they're thinkin' o' gettin' hitched up to a Yankee, they laugh with a little nervous note and say, "No, not yet. Too busy even to think about it." ? ? ? BETSY WAS A GOOD STUDENT when she was in high school. Mother could show you the report cards right now. She and another girl had to draw straws for salutatorian and valedictorian, Betsy did even better in college and mother, re membering her qwn attempts to eke out the family income during the depression, saw to it that Betsy followed right through" to a degree. Dad had a vague idea that Betsy would teach for a couple of years right there at home, living with him and mother, and finally marry Joe. That, to dad, seemed a good, normal pattern for any woman's life. He even bought the lot next door with Betsy and Joe In Mind, meaning to hand over the deed as a wedding present, but he only brought the subject up to mother once, and, WOW! Seemed like Joe and his garage were not to be mentioned In the same breath with Betsy. Not to mother, anyway. Mother was softening some toward Joe when the Army took him. Then Betsy graduated and because she had good marks in chemistry, a Northern concern offered her this job. They talked until midnight, the three of them, about Betsy's job. But there hadn't really been any doubt about it since the be ginning. Even dad, who had done pretty well for a small town fellow, had never earned anything a week like what those folks were offering a little bob-haired trick like Betsy. ? ? * AND ALL THE TIME, in Betsy's home town and the towns surrounding, there were classes falling apart because of lack of teachers. There were young minds eager for the things Betsy knew so well, young eyes hungry for her fresh, attrac tive appearance, and young tongues ready to imitate the very inflections of her speech. All the qualities that made Betsy valuable to her far-away employers were desperately needed right at home. But the pay. The pitiful pay. The board and clothes and doctor bills, the church dues and insurance and travel expenses, all to come out of a salary that many a girl could earn by purely mechanical work learned in a few short weeks of training. Georgia's Betsies, riding the trains and busses back to the sky-scrapers, the Government offices, the bktck-long hospitals, the factory research laboratories, leave an empty ache in the hearts of their mothers and dads. There should also be an ache in the heart of Georgia. And anger in the hearts 01 the coming generation. For it is for them the bell tolls. Only it's not the school bell. | ??? LETTERS ??? * HAS READ PRESS FOR 60 YEARS Your introductory editorial of December 6th was a master piece. The last paragraph appealed to me for I was reared in Macon County and often coasted from town to "the house at the foot f the hill." where Uncle Jesse and Aunt Harriett lived. For 60 years I have been a reader of The Franklin Press and before that I worked weekly as the "printer's devil" when the Franklin Reporter was published by Alfred Morgan. Enclosed please find $2.00 to extend my subscription for an other year. Sincerely, Daniel Lyle Peck, Idaho, December 28, 1945. ' ? Others' Opinions ? 1 NEW PUBLISHER THE FRANKLIN PRES8, whose former owner, Mrs. J. W. C. * Johnson, died last August, now has at its helm Weimar Jones, a native of Franklin who has had many years of active newspaper experience. The new publisher of The Press at one time was editor of a paper in Andrews and is well known in this county. His latest work was with the Asheville papers. With a background of both weekly and daily newspapering, We know that Mr. Jones will prove an able editor and pub lisher of his home town weekly. In fact, evidence of his pro gressive spirit and the loyal support of his community already i& revealed in his weekly issues. To this neighbor publisher we wish all the joys, success and good fortune that can come to such a servant of the public. We congratulate Franklin and Macon county on their excel lent newspaper, and the fact that Weimar Jones has gone home to realize the dream of most newspaper folks, "publish his own weekly." ? Cherokee Scout. "If I lose my honor, I lose myself.? Shakespeare. If you want to put the world right, start with yourself. Remember that what you possess In the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else, but what you are will b? youri forever.? Henry van Djrltt. * Salt will oorrode silver wry Quickly. Open salt dlshea and shaker* should be emptied and washed thoroughly alter each use. Colmar, which lies along Prance's Rhine border with Germany, was settled as early as 833 under the Roman name Columbarium. Normal weight does not mean the weight that makes you look like the latest fashion silhou ette; it means the weight that Is most likely to be compatible with the best health. Oood drainage can be obtain ed in a (lower pot by placing a crimped bottle cap over the bole before filling pot with soil. JOJN Bryant Mutual Burial Association Oldest and Strongest in the County Notice To The Public . . . -\I 'have sold the Franklin Amusement Parlor toj Bob Sanders and D. L. Johnson, co-partners, and this is notice to the public that, from this date forward, I am not responsible for any obligation* contracted by the -Franklin Amuse-, ment Parlor. I also wish to take this occasion to express appreciation to my customers and the Macon County public generally for their patronage. Franklin Amusement Parlor UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT We have purchased the Franklin Amusement Parlor from W. D. Gunnin, and wish to assure ?the public that it will be operated on a high plane, as it has in the past. We solicit your patronage and your coopera tion in keeping it a clean, above-board place of recreation for Macon County people. We will remain open each night until Franklin Amusement Parlor i 11 O'CLOCK BOB SANDERS D. L. JOHNSON POOL Basement of McCoy Bldg. BEER SOFT D T \ about New York . . . Asheville Macon County . . . and the news ii/i 3 The Franklir/ Press and The High lands Maconian can't compete with The New York Times or The Asheville Citizen. They give you the news of the World. ? * * Nor can The New York Times or The Ashevil^*- Cjti/en compete with The Press. It g\^s\ you the news of Macon County. ' * * * It's the ONLY place, in* fact, that you can get all the news of this county. The only way you can be sure of get ting all the Macon County news is be getting The Press EVERY week. And the only way you can be sure of getting it every wetfk is by SUBSCRIB ING. and keeping your subscription paid "JHh advancc. THE FRANKLIN PRESS-i^*
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