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Let's Stick To Principles
A PETITION' urging the United States Senate
** to abolish the filibuster has been signed, says
an announcement, by 3,600 Southerners. Western
North Carolina signers listed include Clark Fore
man, of Highlands, president of the Southern Con
ference for Human Welfare, a sponsoring organiza
tion; Ci. Mines, principal of the Chapel (Negro)
school at Franklin; Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs, of
Asheville: and the Rev. Fldon Durham, of the
Presbyterian church at Marshall.
The petition terms the filibuster "disgraceful
and intolerable", asserts that "majority rule is fun
damental to democracy", and declares that "the
time to permit filibusters in America has passed".
All that may sound right and reasonable- ? on|the
surface.
But let's examine it a bit.
First of all. this petition is provoked by the fili
buster against the bill to create a permanent Fair
Employment Practices Committee. That fact raises
a question about the petition; because a fight
against a method of government ? and the filibuster
long has been a recognized procedure of the Sen
ate ? should be based upon the conviction that the
method is wrong in principle, rather than the mere
fact that the method interferes with enactment of a
specific piece of legislation. Would the signers of
this petition object to the filibuster if it were aimed
at preventing legislation that discriminated against
the Negro or the Jew? The answer, of course, is no.
That puts the petitioners somewhat in the position
of the child who objects to the rules of the game
when he finds he is losing.
Second, is a filibuster really "disgraceiitl and
intolerable"? .After all, it is nothing but an endur
ance test ? a group of senators matching the endur
ance of their vocal chords against the endurance of
the patience of senators favoring the legislation. It
is an awkward legislative method, certain; and un
doubtedly it frequently has been abused. But neith
er of those facts makes it wicked in principle.
Finally, this group appears completely to ignore
? as is happening so often in America today ? a
principle fundamental to the American system of
government. This government was set up not only
to provide for majority rule, but equally to protect
the rights of minorities. In their zeal for the rights
of racial minorities, the petitioners completely for
get the legislative rights of another minority ? those
who oppose the FEPC. For ? quite aside from the
merits of the controversy ? the opponents are quite
within their rights in fighting this legislation; and
the filibuster is a recognized senate method by
which a minority may make a last-ditch fight to
protect what it considers a right.
It may be that the filibuster should go. *
But it should not be abolished merely to facili
tate passage of this, or any other, legislation.
And it should not be abolished until a workable
substitute to protect the legislative rights of minor
ities has been found and put into effect.
Who'll We Pick
The filing of Rep. Zebulon Weaver as a candi
date for reelection calls attention to the fact that it
is only a few weeks until the people of North Car
olina and of Macon county will select their candi
dates for public offices.
Who will those candidates be? Will thev be the
persons best qualified for the particular offices they
seek? or will they be merely men who are person
ally popular? Will they be those whose characters
assure up of government that not only is honest but
also is positive and progressive ? or will they be
, merely men who aren t dishonest?
The answer lies with you, Mr. and Mrs. Voter.
It's your business they will transact; it's your re
sponsibility. And it's none too early to start think
ing about it,
The world it (ood-natured to people who iri tood-natured.
? 1 Thackerajf.
One always tends to fear another whom he has wronged.
? OaUagher J
Wilmington Finding Way
To Keep Veterans Home
RALEIGH. "Where does a job
come from, Pop?'1 j
The answer to this question
is sought by many communities, ;
now that large numbers of war
veterans, war workers and oth
er workers are forming a back
log of workers in some sections
of North Carolina.
One community is going after
the answer and expects to get
it. Enterprising newspaper peo
ple, backed by enterprising
groups of civic organizations, in
cluding veterans, in Wilming
ton, are calling upon the citi
zens of that city to suggest
new enterprises, small indus
tries, service needed by the cit-?
izenship, as a means of devel
oping Jobs for those who are
looking for methods of earning
livings for themselves and their
families.
R. Mayne Albright, state di
rector of the United States Em
ployment Service, cites the page
advertisement carried in Wil
mington papers, which calls up
on the citizens to send In sug
gestions for industrial, com
mercial or service activities i
which are needed and which :
are not now readily available. <
Replies are to b* made In a
>lank carried In the advertlse
nent, and returned to the Vet
erans Employment representa
ive at the local USES office.
These replies are to be aa
embled and compared, and the
ypes of industries or services
or which need is expressed are
o be suggested to unemployed
vorkers. If small capital is re
tired for a start, the civic
irganizations may assist in pro
'iding It.
Already one veteran is reaping
;ood returns in operating a
notorized grocery store in one
section, housewives responding
o the clang of his bell and buy
ng their daily needs at the
:urb. Another veteran, with
iome skill and a few implements,
s repairing broken chair and
.able legs and other pieces of
furniture.
''Almost any community In
tforth Carolina can follow Wil
mington's example, or work up
,ts own program of creating
iobs for any surplus workers by
jiving a little cooperative
thought and time to developing
new activities, however small,
tor their own unemployed work
ers", said Mr. Albright.
? Others' Opinions ?
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"BAD ROADS CLOSE SCHOOLS"
|OW many times /have you seen this lately?
How many school hours have been lost this winter for
this reason?
McDowell County system has been closed since December 13
according to County Superintendent N. F. Steppe, and are still
closed. A tentative date was set to reopen the schools Wednes
day of last week but until that time the roads were still im
passable.
Bat Cave road is, and has been all winter, in a deplorable
condition. Don't try to go over it.
The rural roads outside of the city of Black Mountain are
in no better condition than our neighbor's roads.
Western North Carolina has the most beautiful scenery of
any place in the United States, that is taking in a lot of terri
tory, BUT it would be a difficult proposition to see it in
winter time.
The public: Mr. Commissioner why don't you gravel and
grade our rural roads?
Mr. Commissioner: Well, when its raining and snowing, I
can't get to them; and when its real pretty weather they
don't need any work. ? Black Mountain News.
THE OPEN FIRE
technologists tell us that we shall live in a wonderful
* new age tomorrow. We shall fly through the air at ter
rific speeds, sweeping to the far corners of the earth in a mat
ter of hours. We are to have wondrous new kitchen and
garage gadgets. The mere pressing of a button will fry our
steaks In less time than it takes to write about it. There are
to be enchanting new motor cars with liquid springs and
heavenly upholstery. Our pre-fabricated house will contain so
many new electrical devices that we shall have to have a card
index to identify all of them. In short, the prophecy is of an
exquisite, dreamlike existence with every intricate device of
physical force at our command, an Aladdin-and-his-lamp ex
istence in which we are surrounded every minute of the day
with scores of invisible slaves awaiting our most unreasonable
command.
So far have we come since those countless centuries when,
to that primitive Aryan ancestor of ours on the cold steppes
of Asia, the very acme of physical comfort was to shed his
sheepskin and bask in the warmth of his crude open fire
place. So far have we come, and yet so little ? because in the
end shall we not grow exceedingly weary of all those intricate
devices? Then the only thing that will give us real joy is the
very same thing that warmed the heart of the primitive Aryan
and the many generations that came after him. When we want
real rest and relaxation we shall return, just as he did, to the
open fireplace. When all the items of this wonderful new age
of tomorrow grow monotonos we shall, as always, be refreshed
as we watch' the flickering fire throw eerie shadows on the
wall and form marvelous castles in the flames. We shall de
light in the aroma of burnt pine or oak, just as people of all
ages found their best enjoyment in simple things.
The devices of science will come and go; newer and greater
things will take their place. They will be interesting, helpful,
of course; but they will never quite serve human emotion in
the same way as the age-old custom of warming one's toes
before an open fire.? Atlanta Journal.
Where God is not, peace cannot come; where peace is not,
j God cannot come.? Erasmus.
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Farmers and Woodmen
The prices on Dogwood for shuttles
has been raised far this season.
Anyone having Dogwood to out
should contact W. H. Waldroop at
the mill for specifications before
cutting.
We have several boundaries of Dog
wood stumpage bought. If inter
ested in contract-cutting, see us.
We are also buying good grade
Persimmon wood far shuttles at top
price*.
Highlands Briar, Inc.
Phone 1)03 - 1305
8? net dlfturbed at triflt* or at accidents common or un
avoidable? Btnjam in franklin,
Little 1? much, If the heart be turned towatu heaven.
?The Talmud.
Never content yourself by doing your second best, however
unimportant the occasion. ? Gen. Sheridan.
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other v
man. ? Dwlght L. Moody.
One on God's side is a majority.? Wendell Phillips.
AUCTION SALE
OF
Household Furnishings
Farm Tools
One Horse
AND OTHER ITEMS
Saturday, February 9th , at 2 p. m.
? AT
LON CAMPBELL HOME
ON BRYSON CITY ROAD
YOUR EYES examined the modern way will mean better
and more comfortable fitting glasses for you.
EYE EXAMINATION as a side line to some other activity,
seldom are of much satisfaction.
CONSULT a specialist who devotes all time and interest
to examining eyes and the fitting of glasses.
DR. LON BURROUGHS
Specializing in examining eyes and fitting glasses
Elliott Block Clayton, Ga.
Hours: 9:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Closed Wednesday
SUNDAYS, BY APPOINTMENT IN ADVANCE
speaks well
. . . advertising
... in your paper ...'
?
The following letter, for which
we are grateful, speaks for itself:
BELK'S DEPARTMENT STORE
FRANKLIN, N. C.
. Jan. 28, 1946.
Mr. Weimar Jones,
The Franklin Press,
Franklin, N. C.
Dear Mr. Janes:
About ten days ago this store received a bale of wide*
sheeting that had been damaged by oil in shipment.
On receipt of this merchandise we placed a small ad
in The Franklin Press stating that the sheeting was on
sale in our Basement Store at a substantial saving over
the regular price.
We sold the entire shipment of approximately 1000
yards in 5 days and at this time are still receiving in
quiries every day about the sheeting we advertised in
The Press.
I think this incident speaks well of the pulling power
of advertising in your paper.
With best regards, ' 1
Yours truly,
T. H. CALLAHAN, .
Belk's Dept. Store
Pei4iaps the explanation for "the pulling
power of advertising" in this newspaper lie*
in two (ictll
1. The Press U read every week by thou
sand! of Macon gounty persons.
2. It U read thoroughly? "from cover io
cover", as some reader* have phrased it<
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