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Site jfraniilitt Tfixzss sad Che HighlanitB jHarunian .Published every Thursday by The Franklin Preaa At Franklin, North Carolina WEIMAR JONES Editor-Publisher Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C? as second class matter Industries In Western North Carolina AN OPEN LETTER to Mr. Percy B. Ferebee, President, Western North Carolina Associated Communities <?? Dear Mr. Ferebee: The .written statement of the aims of Western North Carolina Associated Communities, which you head, is quite broad. Hut you must have noted, as il have, the heavy emphasis that already has been placed 011 industries for this region. Undoubtedly you havu observed, too, that Asheville, which natur ally has the place of leadership in Western North Carolina, in recent years has completely reversed its policy, and today subordinates every other phase of development to the industrialization of the moun tain region. This is in line with the widely accepted theory that : (a) Industrial pay rolls will cure all our troubles. Uj) The more we get. therefore, the better, (c) We should go after any and every industry, the only standard being its availability. Your organization' seeks to give direction to the combined efforts of the communities in Western North Carolina, and the direction into which these efforts are steered is likely to determine what West ern North Carolina will be. 5. 10. 25 years hence Because that is true. 1 am addressing this letter to you. 1 wish to submit, respectfully but without apology, some comments on industrialization, and a few suggestions. The first of the assumptions above ? that indus trial pay rolls will cure all our troubles? is absurd 011 its face; there is t)o cure-all for anything. The second is 110 more sensible. For us to assume that because one industry is good, a hundred would be better, is like a doctor's assuming that because a little strychnine helps his patient, a lot would cure him. And the third won't stand up under analysis. I have no quarrel with the good intentions of those who hold these views. But 1 am convinced they cannot have given the subject any real thought. 1 think that they have forgotten that the ideal is a balanced economy. And 1 think they have oxer looked some rather important facts. Many of us, for example, forget that manufactur ing is not the major business in the United States. The census figures show that more Americans earn their livings in the service trades ? communications, trade, transportation, the professions, etc. ? than in either factories or on the farms. And. in our zeal for more factories, we are in clined to forget that a balanced economy often is possible without manufacturing. There is a town in Virginia that will permit no factories within its corporate limits ? yet. when the depression came, its four banks all remained open. Many communi ties have gotten along very nicely for many dec ades without factories, and for some ? such as High lands ? the coming of a factory would prove noth ing short of a calamity. * * * jjc ^ Industrialization, anywhere, has its disadvant ages, and if we are honest with ourselves, we will examine those disadvantages before we bring in too many factories. For us here in Western Xorth Carolina, the most obvious one is the effect of industry upon another ' source of income. Thanks to nature, this is a natur al tourist countrv. Our tourist crop already is a major one; it can become a much bigger one. It is a crop 1 do not believe we can afford to plow under. But tourists and smoke stacks won't mix. For we are a tourist country chiefly because of our scen ery and our pure air and water. Mar th? scenery and pollute the air and water ? and industry tends to do just that ? and you destroy the tourist busi ness. Application of a remedy all too often creates new symptoms, and industralization is no exception. We will create for ourselves many new problems, if we persist in thinking of industry as something desir able in itself, rather than merely something we need in rather small doses to balance that we have al readv. ( Economically, we'll be putting all our eggs in one basket. You and I, several years ago in An drews. had the opportunity to see what happens to a community that depends chiefly upon industries when those industries close or curtail operations. And industrialization tends to create new and difficult social problems. Whatever the reason, the fact is that the more intensively a community is in dustrialized, the more the community tends to be come one of extremes of wealth and poverty. Industrialization, unless management is of the highest type, and unless it and the labor it employs understand each other, brings with it management labor strife. That is bad for the whole community. It creates political problem*, too. Do yon know am cuntpiumiy which depend* upon one, or a few, :ony)s?raiivelv big industries that isn't politically Others' Opinions ? ALL PARTLY WRONG Editor Weimar Jones, of The Franklin (N. C.) Presi, hold* no brief for Bilbo and Talmadge but s?y? we should "thank God that the people of Mississippi and Georgia still have the right to elect them If they want to." Amen, Brother Joues. Let's be thankful, too, that you and I still have the right to damn them for doing It. And that people up North have the right to criticize all of us fairly and unfairly, and that we have a right to criticize the criticizers. Let's pray, too, that when criticism sometimes somewhere is correct it will be taken to heart. We are not all wrong or even half wrong, nor are they up North, but we are partly wrong, all of us. ? John Temple Graves II in his syndicated column, ?This Morning " controlled by those industries? That is not democ racy. liven with the best of men in control, it is a l'ortn of benevolent tyranny. Another political problem grows out of what heavy industrialization does to the characters of men. Is it not true that, as a rule, the poorest citizenship and the worst government in America are found in those cities that are most heavily in dustrialized? Would vou exchange the citizenship of Western North Carolina for that of Chicago or Detroit or St. Louis? The test of a civilization is not the wealth it cre ates. but the sum total of human happiness it makes possible. And the test of a community is not chiefly whether it is a good place to make a living, but whether it is a goo^l place to live. Again let us com pace. Would you prefer to live in a highly indus trialized city or in Western North Carolina? And isn't it the very fact that this region isn't highly in dustrialized that makes it a better place to live? Industry, as it usually operates, takes away from men some intangible but very precious things. Perhaps the finest quality of the people of the mountains is their independence ? most of them are entirely dependent upon no one man or corporation for their bread. Industrial pay rolls tend to destroy that independence. If you doubt that statement, compare second or third generation cotton mill op eratives with their parents and grandparents. And much industry ? especially mass production industry? takes away from the worker the one thin? that keeps work from being pure drudgery ? pride of workmanship. The man who feeds the same kind of screw into the same machine hour after hour, dav after day, week after week, ceases to l>e a workman ; he becomes the slave of the machine. ***** The southward trek of industry now is an estab lished fact. The industrialist recognizes what the South has to offer him. And we, here in Western North Carolina, have things unobtainable elsewhere in the South. Why, then, should we l>eg and bribe industry to come to Western North Carolina? The industrial ist, in quest of intelligent labor, good climate, pure water, etc., needs us worse than we need him ; and if we are half as good "hoss traders" as our fathers, we will take advantage of that fact. If we are willing to have a bit of patience, and can forget the idea that we must industrialize this whole region overnight, we can select our indus tries. And if we are smart, we will do just that. ***** Which ones should we select ? I suggest that we shoidd vigorously discourage any industry that cannot meet the basic standards outlined below. 1. Western North Carolina industry should be home-owned; not necessarily by the people who now live here, but by people who will live with and in the industry. Absentee factory ownership is quite as great an evil as absentee land ownership. 2. Western North Carolina industries should be small ? so that no one can dominate the community ?and diversified ? so that a single shut-down can not paralyze the community's economic life. 3. They should fit into the natural economy of ? the community, preferably manufacturing raw ma terial alreadv present ; that would seem to make sense economically, and socially it would create fewer changes and frictions. 4. They should employ local labor. There cer tainly would be little advantage in a factory that brought its labor from elsewhere, with our own leaving home in search of employment. 5. The community should select the management of its factories as carefully as management selects its labor. It is not enough that the plant manage ment should be a good citizen ? in its labor, as well as in its community relations; the management should be able to understand and fit into the com munity. The American Enka Corporation is an ex cellent example of a management that does not. That corporation is a good citizen. Yet it ? and Asheville ? has been beset by strikes because the management, made up of Europeans, completely fails to understand the mountain people. 6. Our industries should be those that will not de storv the God-given, irreplaceable things we have here in Western North Carolina. Our mountains have been marred and our air and water polluted enough already. 7. Each industry should be fit ten carefully into the community it is to serve, and we should have just enough to give us a proper balance with farm ing, tWe tourist business, etc. Too few would be much better than too many. 8. The final test, in every instance, should be the question: Will the coming of this industry make this a better community in which to live? Sincerely, Wniingr Jofttl With the Churches BAPTIST First Church, Franklin The Rev. Charles E. Parker, Pastor Sunday: 10 a. m.? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. 8:30 p. m. ? Training union. "7:90 p. m. ? Worship. Wednesday: ' 7:30 p. m. ? Prayer meeting. EPISCOPAL St. Agnes Church, Franklin The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, Pastor f unday: 10 a. m. ? Church school. 11 a. m. ? First Sunday, Holy communion. Third Sunday, Morning prayer. 8 p. m.? Second and fourth I Sundays, evening ] prayer. METHODIST Franklin Chareh The Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt, Pastor Sunday: 10 a. m. ? Sunday school. '1 a. m. ? Worship. 0:30 p. ^1.? Methodist Youth fellowship. Wednesday : 8 p. m. ? Prayer meeting. Maiden's Chapel The Rev. R. L. Poindexter, Pastor 10 a. m. ? Sunday school, E. A. Roper, supt. XI a. m.? Preaching, third Sunday. 2 p. m. ? Singing. 3 p. m. ? Preaching, first Sunday. First Sunday: Franklin Circuit The Rev. D. P. Grant, pastor Preaching services as follows: Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Bethel church. 3 p. m.? Salem church. 7:30 p. m. ? Clark's chapel. Second Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Snow Hill church. 3 p. m.? Louisa chapel. 7:30 p. m. ? Iotla church. Third Sunday: 11 a. m.? Clark's chapel. 3 p. m. ? Salem. 7:30 p. m.? Bethel. Fourth Sunday: 11 a. m.? Iotla. 3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel. 7:30 p. m. ? Snow Hill. PRESBYTERIAN Franklin Church The Rev. B .Hoyt Evans, pastor. Sunday: 10 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m.? Worship. Morrison Church Sunday: 2:15 p. m. ? Sunday school. 3:15 p. m.? Preaching on the second and fourth Sundays. CATHOLIC Franklin (In American Legion Hall) The Rev. A. F. Rohrbacher, Pastor Every Sunday: 7:45 a. m. ? Confessions. 8:00 a. m.? Mass and com munion. INTER- DENOMINATIONAL Sloan'* Chapel Sunday: 2 p. m.? Sunday school on the first, second, third, and fifth 8undays. 2 p. m. ? Preaching on the fourth Sunday. 3 p. m. ? Sunday school on the fourth Sunday. 4 p. m. ? Preaching on thf days. Starting with the first Sun day, the ministers who conduct the services are, in order: The Rev. W. R. Oreen of Jackson County, the Rev. Charles B. Parker, Dr, C. R. McCubbtns, and the Rev. W. Jackson Huney cutt. Tuesday: 7:30 p. m. ? Prayer meeting. NEGRO \ St. Cyprian's Episcopal The Rev. James T. Kennedy, Pastor Sunday: 11 a. m.? Third Sunday, Holy communion. 2 p. m.? First and second Sundays, evening prayer. 3 p. m.? Church school. Friday: 5 p. m.? Litany. Franklin Metbadist Ctrealt (A. M. E. Zlon) The Rev. John O. Williams Pastor Preaching services as follows: First and third Sundays: 11 a. m. ? Oreen Street church. 2:30 p. m. ? Cowee church. 8 p. m. ? Oreen Street church. ? JOIN ? Bryant Mutual Burial Association OMmI aa4 StMafMt ta (be County LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE NOTICE OF SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION In TIm Superior Coart NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY FURMAN ANGEL Vs. HATTIE B. ANGEL The defendant. Hattle B. Angel, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Super ior Court of Macon County, North Carolina, by the plain tiff for the purpose of obtain ing an absolute divorce and an annuilment of a marriage on the grounds that the plain tiff had a living wife by a form er marriage and for the reason of the want of will or under standing plaintiff was unable to contract a marriage; and the defendant will further take notice that she is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Macon County in the court house at Franklin, North Caro lina, within twenty days after the 30th day of August, IMS, and answer or demur to the complaint of plaintiff in said action or plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. EDITH C. BYRD, Ass't. Clerk Superior Court, Macon County, North Carolina. Jly 25-4tc-al5 ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix of Mary Catherine Mc Guire, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C , this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of July, 1947, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make Imme diate settlement. This 18th day of July, 1946. LEILA McGUIRE, Administratrix Jly25 ? 6tp ? A29 NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS In The Superior Court NORTH CAROUNA MACON COUNTY ALBA PEEK SW ANSON vs RUEL RAY SW ANSON The defendant, Ruel Ray Swanson. will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced In the Superior Court of Macon County for the purpose of securing a divorce from bed and board by the plaintiff, Alba Peek Swanson. Said defendant will further take notice that he Is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Ma con County, North Carolina, on the 24th day of September, 1946, and answer or demur to the cor ilalnt In the said action or tht plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint This the 26th day of July, 1946. EDITH C. BYRD, Ass't. Clerk of Superior Court A1 ? 4tc ? J&J ? A22 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of A. O. Edwards, deceas ed, late of Macon County, N. C., this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 26th day of July, 1947, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This 35th day of July, 1946. JOHN W. EDWARDS, Administrator A1 ? fltp? 85 EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified as executrix of R. F. Henry, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or be fore the 2nd day ot August, 1947 or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make Immediate set tlement. This 2nd day of August, 1946. INA HENRY DUVALL, Executrix A8 ? 6tp ? 812 NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUWW Under and by virtue of the power of sale vested in the undersigned trustee by a deed of trust executed by Pauline Jones, dated the 4th day of Jan uary, 1946, and recorded In the office of RefUter of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, in Book No. M. pate 117, said deed of trust having been exe cuted to secure certain Indebted ness therein set forth, and de fault in the payment of said indebtedness having been made, I will on Friday, August 10. at II o'clock neon, at the Court houM door to franklin, North Carolina, mU to tha hlglwit rtM for art tht following 4e *4V?M??rt m Hp Plff
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