North Carolina Newspapers

(Eite Tftrzz* *n?> ?be SrtighiattftB jfttarflnian Published every Thursday by the Franklin Press ? At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LX1I Number thirty-two WEIMAR JONES Editor-Publisher Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter Telephone No. 24 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by in-i 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. SUBSCRIPTipN RATES: One Year ?;x Months Ihree Months Single Copy $2.00 $1.00 .60 .05 Dear Teacher (The following editorial, in the form of letters from a Macon County public school pupil to his teacher, was contributed. ? Editor. ) Macon County, August, 1947. Dear Teacher: It will be school time again very soon now, and 1 am writing to ask you a question. Before we begin the study of reading and writ ing and arithmetic, and races and religions, and politics and government, vand language and indus try and history and geography, why not learn some thing about our, own county? Couldn't you and the other teacher^ take your pupils, during the first fevv days of school, on a tour of Macon County? Wouldn't it be a good idea to give us a chance to find out what it is we have here that makes thousands of people travel thou sands of miles each year to visit this county? You might even want to ask the newspaper editor, the county farm agent and demonstration agent, and business men, and anybody else who was interested to come along. I'll bet they'd learn something, too! We'd like to see the monument erected where the last battle was fought between the Indians and white men in Macon County. And aren't there other historical spots in this county? Won't you take us up the Cullasaja Gorge, and let, us .see Cliffside and Lake Sequoia and Bridal Veil Falls and Dry Falls and Satulah Mountain and Whiteside Mountain. Where is the Highlands Museum and what is in it? Where is the Highlands Country Club ? and what is golf like? It would be fun to come down the Dillard road and back to Franklin by the Georgia road, stopping at the old CCC camp. What did they do at a CCC camp, any way? 0 yes, are there any mines in Macon County? And what is mined there. We'd like to see one. On the second day's trip we'd like to visit the Holly Springs community ? aren't business men from away from here interested in that area? Then could we go down the highway to Bryson City and back through Nantahala township, coming up Winding Stair? But will there be time to fish in Xantahala Lake? and could We see the power house? And would the day be long enough to visit Wayah Bald and Arrowood Glade? ' And there are lots of other places we might go. 1 sort of hate to mention this, but then 1 do want to make this trip : What I'm going to say is, we'd be willing to take notes, if you said so. Besides, maybe the year's work would be more interesting if we could refer to what we saw on the trip in our studies in class. You see, teachers from other states bring their pupils to Macon County for study. We wouldn't have to travel far to see and learn about the things ? because they are right here at home ? that they come to study. May we go ? Respectfully, Johnny Smith. ? * ? September, 1947. Dear Teacher: I'd always planned, when I got grown, to go to New York, or maybe West, to live, where there are more chances. But. that was before our tour! Now I'm going to get an education, then come right back to Macon County. ? Johnny. The Story Of The Smiths No more poignant story has come out of the war than that of the Smiths, of Asheville. Robert Lee Smith, respected attorney, is himself a disabled veteran of World War 1. Mrs. Smith, in the face of blow after blow, was active through out the war in Red Cross and other patriotic effort. Their eldest son, George, enlisted long before this country became involved in the war, and became a flier, He was killed in the crash of a test bomber before Pearl Harbor. i ' ' Robert, the second son, a navy flier, was killed early in the war in an aviation accident while pilot ing a plane over the Pacific. Now the third son, William, is dead at 21, a war casualty no less than his brothers, even though the circumstances of his death were tragically different. A quiet tboy, William Smith joined the V-12 navy officer candidate group in December, 1943, nearly four velars ago. But, unlike his brothers, he failed the officer course and became an enlisted man in the navy. On an August night in 1946, while serving in Asiatic waters, he went berserk and fired 20 bullets at his sleeping shipmates, then stabbed himself three times. Nine of those shot died, but young Smith recovered. Last week, while awaiting navy court martial, he hanged himself. He was in solitary confinement at the time. How long he had been in solitary con finement the dispatch failed to say. When an individual or a group is responsible for violence, society is accustomed to make inquiry. In this case, it would seem, society has the right to demand some explanations from the navy. Does a man, with such a family background, have to add suicide to a mass attack upon his com rades to convince the navy that he is mentally ill? And does the navy recommend solitary confine ment for mental illness? Since, for some unexplained reason, the navy deemed it proper to try this man as a criminal, why was it necessary to postpone the trial for a year? Going back a little farther, who was responsible, in this day of advanced psychiatry, for young Smith's admission to the navy as an officer candi date? Those are questions to which the public would like answers. Whether the navy will answer them remains to be seen. ? ? ? LETTERS ? ? ? THE WHITE CROSSES Editor, The Press: Did you ever stop to realize what the White Crosses in our Square represent? The men died that we might have a democracy in which men can gather where they please. I never pass this without thinking of the supreme sacrifice that these men paid. Respect this plot of ground enough to throw your cigarette stubs on the street, your peanut bags and candy and chewing gum wrappers in the trash can. ?A SOLDIER. Franklin, N. C., August 3, 1947. WOULD OUTLAW ALCOHOL Dear Editor.: - I would like to urge all good citizens to sign the petitions for an election in regard to the sale of alcoholic beverages, and when the election time comes, to vote dry. Here are some of the effects of alcoholic drink that have com i to my attention: I have seen several public entertainments changed from times of social enjoyment to confusion and near panic by a few drunks who considered their right (?) to drink more im portant than the right of the public to assemble peaceably. In many communities can be found farms that do not now belong to the ones who inherited them, because the drink habit separated them from their rightful owners. I have had classmates and pupils who had the qualities of personality and the brilliance of mind to qualify for positions where they could have rendered valuable services to society ? but drink blighted these young lives and they have fallen far short of the goals to which they might have attained. During the recent war, there were dark days when the pro duction of various supplies at a rapid rate was absolutely necessary to the safety of the nation. In some plants making these desperately needed supplies, there were all too many workers who took all too many holidays. And the employers with whom we talked in the U. 8. Employment service, with out exception, stated that these absences from work were nearly due to drunkenness or to the hangovers following that condition. I wish that all voters could have been with me when I was at a certain crossroads in the eastern part of this state sev eral years ago. They would have seen something that would have been burned indelibly into their memories. On the porch of a farm home lay the body of a woman. A short distance away a handcuffed man sat in a dazed stupor in the automo bile of deputy sheriff. A little boy and a little girl, with tear stained faces, were walking In bewilderment between the dead body of their mother and the drunken father who had killed her. Not to mention the stark tragedy of such an occurrence, think how much it cost the taxpayers In dollars to arrest and try that man, keep him in prison for IS years, and rear the children at public expense. I once heard Judge Harding state that both concealed weapons and alcoholic drlnlc are concerned in 45 out of every 50 cases of homicide In North Carolina. Some will say that there always has been drinking and that there always will be and that we should legalize alcoholic beverages for the sake of the tax money to be secured from the traffic. Likewise there have always been some stealing, and murdering. Shall we apply the same rule to those crimes? I believe that a sober and industrious people can produce wealth enough to get along without taxes from legalized al cohol. I do not want my government to sponsor anything that causes so much crimc and sin as does beverage alcohol. The right to display and advertise alcoholic drinks will In crease the sale and use of these just as it Increases the sale and use of other goods. Of course the law can not do everything that is needed In developing wholesome, sober citizens; but for the sake of Ood and humanity, we should see that the law does prevent the establishment of "joints" In this county which In the nature of things must be breeding places of crime and sin. Very truly yours, Franklin, Route 1, RAY N. MOSES July 29, 1M7. Let me not pray to be sheltered from danger*, but to be fe?rleu In lacing them.?' Tagore. With the Churches BAPTIST First Church, Franklin The Rev. Charles E. Parker, Pastor Sunday: 9:45 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m.? Worship. 7:00 p. m. ? Training union. 8:00 p. m. ? Worship. Wednesday: 8:00 p. m. ? Prayer meeting. EPISCOPAL St. Acnes Church, Franklin The Rev. A. Rufus Morgan, Pastor Sunday : 10 a. m. ? Church school. 11 a. m. ? First Sunday, Holy communion. Third Sunday, Morning prayer. 8 p. m.? Second and fourth ? Sundays, evening Drayer. METHODIST Franklin Church The Rev. W. Jackson Huneycutt, Pastor 10 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. 7 p m. ? Intermediate Youth Fellowship. 7:30 p. m. ? Senior Youth fel lowship. Franklin Circuit The Rev. D. P. Grant, pastor Preaching services as follows: First Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Bethel. 3 p. m. ? Salem church. 8:00 p. m. ? Clark's chapel. Second Sunday: 11 a. m.? Snow Hill church. 3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel. 8:00 p. m. ? Iotla church. Third Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Clark's chape!. 3 p. m. ? Salem. 8:00 p. m. ? Bethel. Fourth Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Iotla. 3 p. m. ? Louisa chapel. 8:00 p. m. ? Snow Hill. West Macon Circuit The Rev. P. E. Bingham, Pastor Preaching services as follows: First Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Maiden's Chapel. 3 p. m. ? Gillespie Chapel. Second Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Mount Zion. Third Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Gillespie Chapel. 2:30 p. m. ? Maiden's Chapel. Fourth Sunday: 11 a. m. ? Mount Zion.* ' * PRESBYTERIAN Franklin Church The Rev. Hoyt Evans, pastor Sunday: 10 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. Wednesday: 8 p. m.? Prayer meeting. CATHOLIC Franklin (At John Wasilik's Residence ? Rogers Hill) The Rev. A. F. Rohrbacher, Pastor Sunday: 8:00 a. m. ? Mass. CHURCH OF GOD Prentiss The Rev. H. L. Helms, pastor Sunday: 10 a. m. ? Sunday school. 11 a. m. ? Worship. 7 p. m. ? Young People's En deavor. 7:30 p. m? Evangelistic service. INTER-DENOMINATIONAL Sloan's Chapel Sunday: 2 p. m. ? Sunday school on the first, second, third, and fifth Sundays. 2 p. m.? Preaching on the fourth Sunday. 3 p. m. ? Preaching on the first, second, and third Sundays. Tuesday: 7:30 p. m.? Prayer meeting. Friendship (Angel) Tabernacle Sunday: 2:30 p. m. ? Sunday school. River Bend Sunday: 2:30 p. m. ? Sunday school. 3:30 p. m.? Preaching Fourth Sunday, conducted by the Rev. V. C. Ramey. Wednesday: 7:30 p. m.? Prayer meeting. Olive Hill Sunday: 2 p. m. Sunday school, E. A Roper, superintendent 3 p. m.? Preaching Third Sun day. NEGRO 8t. Cyprian's Episcopal The Rev. James T. Kennedy, Pastor Sunday: 11 a. m.- -Third Sunday, Holy communion. 2 p. m.? First and second 8undays, evening prayer. S p. m. ? Church school. Friday: 5 p. m.? Litany. Franklin Methodist Circuit (A. M. E. Zlon) The R?v. John O. Williams Putor Preaching services as follows. First and third Bundayi; U ft. SrOTM etTMt Ohurch. LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as admlnls-^ tratrix of R. 8. O'Mohundro, de ceased, late of Macon County, N. C? this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned cn or before the 21st day of July, 1948, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make imme diate settlement. This 21st day of July, 1947. MRS R. 8. O'MOHUNDRO, Administratrix J24 ? 6tc ? A28 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of Arry Press'fjy West, ' deceased, late of Macon County, , N. C., this is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned on or before the 7th , day of July, 1948, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will pleas? make imme diate settlement. This 7th day of July, 1947. W. R. PRESSLEY, Administrator J10? 6t^-A14 NORTH CAROLINA K MACON COUNTY By virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed by Ralph Elklns and wife, V^rnia Ma^ Elkins to the undersigned trustee to se cure the payment of the indebt edness in said deed of trust set forth* said deed of trust being registered in the office of the Register of Deeds of Macon County, North Carolina, in Rec ord of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust Number 41, at page 223. I, the undersigned trustee, will at 12 o'clock noon on the 4th day of September, 1947, at the Court House door in Frank lin, Macon County, North Caro lina, offer for sale and sell at 4 public auction the following de scribed land: Being the same land as de scribed in a deed from J. H. Ledbetter and wife Essie Ledbetter to Ralph Elkins, dated April 13, 1944, and registered in Book K-5, page 446, and comprising two tracts of land, first tract of approximately 17 acres; sec ond tract' of approximately 38 acres. Reference is here by made to the above deed and the recording thereof for a more full and com plete description. A deposit of ten (10%) per ; cent of the amount of the bid ? is required to be made at the v time of the sale, and upon fail ure of such deposit to be made, notice is hereby given that said lands will be re-sold at 2:00 p. m. on the same day. This 4th day of August, 1947. GILMER A. JONES, Trustee. A7 ? 4tc ? A28 GOOD FOOD CAGLES CAFE GOOD SERVICE Hotel Langren When in Aaheville Stop at Aaheville'a Largeat ? Enjoy the "talk of the town" food at the i Rhododendron Grill ? m i * I: SO p. m. ? Cowee church. ? p. m.? Green Street church.