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(Eh? (ffrattldijt ^Jrpss and ?hr Jiiglilaitits jHarnuinu Published every Thursday by the Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LXt Number thirty-eight WEIMAR JONES , Editor-Publisher Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter Telephone No. 24 Obituary notices, cards of thunks, tributes of respect, by in dividuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be re garded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertis ing rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." In compliance with the postal regulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Six Months ' $1.00 Three Months .60 Single Copy 05 Worth Study SOMR years aj*<> II. L. Mencken set out to prove that Mississippi was the least cultured of all the 48 slates. To make his point, he cited statistics. He told how many bathtubs there were in Mississippi, and showed that the ratio of bathtubs to population was lowest in Mississippi. He quoted the figures on miles of paved highway, on number of telephones, 011 popular magazines sold, and on a score of other factors that have little, or nothing, to do with cul ture. In practically every case. Mississippi's rating among the states was 4Sth, and, to the person who failed to take the trouble to analyze Mr. Menchen's statistics, the point seemed made. Actually, of course, all he proved was the relative scarcity of bathtubs, etc.. leaving the question of culture ex actly where it was before h<- wrote his article. The Mencken article was a perfect example of the fact that "can you prove anything by statistics." It does not follow, however, that statistics should be dismissed as useless. Thev are very valuable, provided thev are not taken too literally; provided they are analyzed carefully, in the light of what they thev really show, and with a heavy admixture of common sense. The figures on Macon County, taken from the re port of the North Carolina State Planning Board, for example, show this county, in almost every in stance. far below both the state and national aver ages. The inference might easily be drawn that Macon, therefore, must be about the worst county i h the nation as a place to live. Actually, however, everybody who knows this county knows it is one of the best. Yet the figures have value and are worth con sidering. Bv analyzing theiti, we can see many ways in which Macon County can be made a better place to live. There are the figures, for example, on the num ber of homes with running water. The ratio of less than one out of seven may not be exact today: it may be larger since the figures were compiled. But certainly it suggests that, in this land where gravity water svstems are;/ comparatively simple to con struct, the proportion should and could be several times greater. And the other figures in the report are equally suggestive. They warrant study. Zeb Conley When Zeb Conley put up a building, everybody knew beforehand that it would be solid and sub stantial, the unseen parts equally as well built as those that met the eye when the structure was complete. It was inevitable that he should have built that way, because he was that kind of man. Ivven casual acquaintances recognized in him those traits that mark the solid, substantial citizen: the man who does well whatever he does. And to Mr. Conley, building was more than just a business. He was a builder by nature, and in his quiet, retiring way he constantly was seeking to build a better community. Into every new structure he built, there went ? in addition to lumber and brick and cement ? some thing of the man's character. And this community is the richer for the impress he left upon it. Please Sign Your Name The Press frequently receives unsigned communi cations. And because they are unsigned, they invar iably find their way to the waste basket. N'ot a few of them are letters to the editor. Let ters discussing matters of general interest always are welcome, but such a letter can never be pub lished unless accompanied by the name and. ad dress of the author. Most of these unsigned communications, however, are in the nature of news items. The Press, of course, always is grateful for news given it by mail, by telephone, or in person. Ordinarily the name of the person giving the news is not published, but the newspaper must know the source of the informa tion. And when an item come9 through the mail I without signature, the very lack of a signature casts doubt on the reliability of the news. So, when you write for publication, whether it Ix? a letter to the editor or a |>ersonal, please give your name and atldress. ??? LETTERS ??? THK SQUIRREL SEASON Mr. Editor: In a recent issue of The Press you stated that the Season tor killing squirrels opened September IS. Judging by the crack of the rifle and the roar of the shot gun, one would think It opened August IS. Every mother squirrel has her young during August and the first part of September, and to kill the mothers Own is de stroying, for the little ones die. These squirrel killers slip around with their .22 rifles almost to a fellow's door and get the last one; then, when the season opens, a law-abiding citizcn can't get any. So what good is a law and a game warden? The squirrel season should not open before October 1, and then enforce the law and not make a mockery of it. J. H. DEAN Franklin, Route 4. September 11, 1946. I Others' Opinions ? DEALING W ITH THK DRl'XKEN DRIVER In the last year of available record. North Carolina had a little more than half the number of automobiles registered in the State of New Jersey. We make this comparison because of some interesting, and possibly significant, figures which have been referred to The Citizen by a correspondent who wonders at the large number of North Carolina license revocations on charges of drunken driving. In August, for Instance, 300 drivers lost their licenses (for one year i in North Carolina. This was a vast improvement over previous months. Yet In the whole six-month period from January to July, 1946, New Jersey had only 447 license revo cations. or about 74 a month, though it has nearly twice as many registered motor vehicles. This disparity could not be for want of a severe law in New Jersey or for the enforcement of that law. The New Jersey State Highway Patrol is famous for its efficiency. "I can say," writes the deputy commissioner of motor vehicles, "that New Jersey has one of the severest laws to combat this (drunken driving i type of violation." One section of that law is worth quoting: A person who operates a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a narcotic or habit pro ducing drug, or permits another person who is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a narcotic or habit pro ducing drug to operate a motor vehicle owned by him or in his custody or control, shall be subject, for a first of fense, to a fine not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty days nor more than three months, or both, in the discretion of the magistrate, and shall forthwith forfeit his right to operate a motor vehicle over the high ways of this State for a period of two years from the date of his conviction. For a subsequent violation, he shall be imprisoned for a term of three months and shall forfeit his right to thereafter operate a motor vehicle over the highways of this State. There are no ifs, ands or buts to this most severe statute. Tl\f second offender does not get off with a fine or a second license suspension (for one year again) but Is subject at once to a three-month prison term and lifetime banishment from the highways. The law applies not only to drunken drivers but also to owners of cars driven by drunks. ? The Citizen does not propose to make -invidious comparisons and it would not reflect upon the North Carolina Highway Patrol, a faithful and efficient body of public servants. The point we would register, on the contrary, is the difference in statutes and court treatment of offenders. New Jersey's law, supposing that it is rigorously enforced, seems to work. It, or something, has reduced drunken driving to a minimum. ? Asheville Citizen. A TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH It is time, we believe, for this newspaper, of the South, in the South and for the South, to take issue with some of the critics of the South. In doing so, we do not advocate another War Between the States. We only ask for fair play. We havs seen in recent weeks the rise of Eugene Talmadge and the continuation in office of Theodore Bilbo. These two politicians ran on racial platforms. These platforms were supplied them by outside interference. This interference had its birth in the New Deal . the dream ers who wished to change the world overnight, forgetting that human beings are human and are heir to all the ills of man kind among which is prejudice. Prejudice is not found only in the South. Prejudice is world wide, wherever men of different beliefs, different color, dif ferent religions, meet in disagreement. Prejudices are formed by such small things as the way men talk, or the color of their eyes. " The South had been coming along right well In its own way with its own problems until outsiders decided to hurry up the process. They started on Bilbo and Talmadge, two of the worst demagogues the South has had in recent years. These two seized upon the racial question. The national ad minlstration's backing of the anti-poll tax law and the FEPC . . . and both of which all adherents of state's rights decry . . . provided Bilbo and Talmadge with further ammunition. Shortly after Talmadge'* election, the mass lynching of four Negroes in Oeorgia occurred. We lay these crimes where they belong, to prejudice and fear, born of Interference. The South still remembers Reconstruction Days. When outsiders speak of the South, they talk of Tobacco Road and Uncle Tom's Cabin. They forget the East Side slums, the hovels of Harlem. They talk of lawless killings, and forget the biggest race riot in recent years took place in Detroit. And they blamed that then on Southerners who had moved there to lhre. They talk of Southern dictators, and they forget Kelly of Chicago and Hague of New Jersey. ? When they talk of the South, you'd think all we had here were Talmadges and Bilbos and Ranklns. They forget our good men. This nation is presently doing its best to keep the pekce of the world. In Paris, 21 nations are sitting in solemnity now to try to iron out the difficulties of the warring European nations. The Associated Press serviced recently a picture widely print ed which we reproduce today with this editorial. It is a picture of the three men whose shoulders bear the responsibility of all America at the peace conference. One of those men is Secretary of State James P. Byrnes. Byrnes, of South Carolina. One of those men is Jefferson Caffery, ambassador to France. Caffery, of Louisiana One of those men Is Will Clayton, Mr. Byrnes' state depart ment adviser. Clayton, of Texas. They, too, are Southerners.? New Orleans States. With the Churches BAPTIST First Church, Franklin The Re*. Charles E. Parker, Pastor Sunday: 10 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. 6:30 p. m. ? Training union. 7:30 p. m. ? Worship. Wednesday: 7:30 p. m. ? Prayer meeting. EPISCOPAL St. Agnes Church, Franklin The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, Pastor ? .nday: 10 a. m. ? Church school. 11a. m. ? First Sunday, Holy communion. Third Sunday, Morning prayer. 8 p. m.? Second and fourth The Rev. R. L. Polndexter, j Sundays, evening prayer. METHODIST Franklin Church The Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt, Pastor Sunday:. I 10 a. m.? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. 6:30 p. m. ? Methodist Youth fellowship. Wednesday : 8 p. m.? Prayer meeting. Maiden's Chapel Pastor 10 a. m. ? bunday school. E. A. Roper, supt. 11 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: , li 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: IS 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's Chapel Sunday: 2 p. m.? Sunday school on the first, second, third, and fifth 8undays. 7 p. m.? Preaching on the fourth Sunday. S p. m. ? Sunday school on the fourth Sunday. i p. m.? Preaching on tlw 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 R6V. entries R. Parker, Dr. C. R. MCCUBBttls, and the Rev. W. Jackson Huney eutt. Tuesday: 7:30 p. m.? Prayer meeting. Ntoio 8t. Cyprian's Episcopal The Rev. James T. Kennedy, Pastor Sunday: 11 a. m.? Third Sunday, Holy communion. I p. m.? First and second Sundays, evening prayer. I p. m.? Church school. Friday: S p. m ? Litany. FrankHn MethsdtSt CtreaR (A. M. E. ZhW) 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. S p. m. ? Oreen Street church ? JOIN? Bryant Mutual Burial Association Oldest and Strangest la (he Gaunt? August Is the be*t time Mr the seeding of alfalfa. LEGAL ADVERTISING IN THE SUPHAlOK COUBt. NOTICE TO TAKfc DEPOSITION NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNT* JOS. D. fARliiH, AS EXECUTOR AND TRUSTEE UNDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT O* ARTHUii it. WOODMAN. DECEASED VS. JEAN OOULD, NANCY PARKS. ALBERT T. CLARK and RUTH CLARK ROWS Take notice that on thr 3rd day of October. 194?, at 11:00 o'clock A. M? anil thereafter In the Piedmont Hospital, Capital Avenue and Crew Street at Crumley, in the City of Atlanta, County of Pulton, Btate of Geor gia. before John A Walton. No tary Public, the undersigned will take the deposition of Dr. James E. Paullin, Miss Wilna Walton and Miss Susan Moon and oth ers, to be read as evidence lor the plaintiff in the above en titled action, which Is now pending in the Superior Court of Macon County, Sta.te of North Carolina; and you will further take notice that IK the taking of the said deposition is not begun and completed on the said day, the same will be con tinued from day to day until completed. This 29th day of August, 1946. JONES St JONES Attorneys for Plaintiff S5? 4tc ? S26 NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY WHEREAS. The undersigned trustee, by virtue of the power of sale in him vested by a deed of trust executed by Pauline Jones, dated the 4th day of January, 1946, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, in Record of Mortgages No. 36, page 117, sold the lands in said deed of trust described after due advertisement accord ing to law at the Courthouse door in Franklin, North Caro lina, on the 30th day of August, 1946, at which sale Paulina Jones became the highest bid der at the price of $300.00; and whereas, O. V. Hall has raised said bid to $330.00, and the Clerk of Superior Court of Ma con County on the 5th day of September, 1946, ordered the undersigned trustee to re-ad vertise and re-sell said land as by law provided: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue Of the aforesaid deed of trust and the aforesaid order entered by the Clerk of Superior Court of Macon County, the under signed trustee will on Mn.iday, the S3rd day of Septembe ?, 1946, at 12:00 o'clo k noon, at the Courthouse door In Franklin, Macon County. North Carolina, sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property: FIRST TRACT: In Franklin Township on the waters of Cartsogechaye Creek, BEGIN NING at an iron pipe near Alf Jones' house and about two feet N. W. from a W. O. and runs 8 64 W 2% poles to a stake Alf Jones' corner; then S 40 W 24 poles to a stake In Cozads line; then S 56'/j E 26 poles to a stake, Cozad's corner; then N 42'4 E 3/ poles to a stake; then N 13 W 33 poles to the BE GINNING. SECOND TRACT: BEGIN NING at a white oak on the . road leading from Jule Gris ham to Emma Addington's and runs with the road North 55 deg. West 12 poles to a stake; thence West 6 poles to a stake; thence South 45 de grees West 8 Vi poles to a white oak, Emma Addington's corner; thence South 30 poles to a stake near the creek; thence North 37 deg. East 34 poto| to the BBOlNlfMO. containing thifefc acres more or leas, and being that trtct of land conveyed to M P. Coley by deed from A. L. Jones and wife, dated June SOfh, 1M0, and recorded In Book of Deeds H-4. Also that same tract as deeded bv M P. Coley to Oliver 8. Anthony of dftte July 31st, IMS. and recorded in Book H-4 of the Regiater's Office of Maoon County, to which deeds ref ' erenee is hereby made. This 5th day of September, 1946 Q A. JONES. Trustee 813 ? 2t*? JJtJ ? Sift mmcr or sal* op AUTOMOBILE NORTH CAROLINA MACON rOlTNTT 8TATB n ROY RADCLIFP By virtue of an order directed to me In the above entitled cauae, I will, at the courthouae door In Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina, on Monday, September >7, IMS. at the hour of twelve o'clock noon, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described motor ve hicle: One 103t model Dodge Panel Body Truck, Kngtne No. Tlia-mas, Serial No. M2ftS77 This Seotember 1 1044. J. 9. BRADLEY. Sheriff of Macon County, N. 0. Sit? Ite? lit