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Cht Jf r a tt k 1 i tt Tfixtss and (?hc 3iii^hlaitits jitarmtinit Published every Thursday by the Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. I X II 'VE1MAR JONES Entered at the Post ?llice. Franklin, N. C., as second class mattCT Telephone No. 24 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by in dividuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, wtill be re garded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertis ing rates. Such notices will be marked "ady." in compliance with the postal regulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: : . $2.00 : $1.00 : 60 05 Success Story )M M F.X'TI XC; on th'c return home of this ** county's servicemen, this newspaper remarked in January, 10.46, that: ? . . . today we face the danger of losing the approxi mately 1,500 men who have served in the armed forces, for they are going where they believe 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 opportunity as well as a danger. Never in its history has Maeon 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 specialiied training, either received in the service, or now available to them in the colleges under the G. 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. livery body seemed to agree. Everybody said something' ought to be done about it. And, with a few exceptions, everybody waited for somebody else to do it. At least, there was no concerted ef fort to make it possible for these young men to stay at home. We have lost many of them? though a lot of those who have gone elsewhere would come back if the opportunity were provided. We will lose others Soon, unless something is done on a community wide basis. And we stand to continue to lose other youth in the years ahead, just as we have done dec ade after decade. Fortunately, however, the situation offers a con tinuing opportunity as well as a continuing danger. We can, if we will, keep our youth at home to help us create here a better place* to live. What can be done is illustrated by the achieve ment of a town in Alabama. True, the situations in Macon County and Decatur, Alabama, are not the same. Decatur is in the cotton belt, and we are in the mountains. Decatur is a town several tjmes the size of Franklin. And Decatur was in a far worse condition, when it launched its experiment, than Macon County ever has been. Number thirty-nine Editor-Publisher /Worth Carolina / Hiss assoc i anon v\ One Year E:x Months Three Months Single Copy Because of the differences, the solutions, of course, would not he the same; we might, in fact, not want to do some of the things Decatur has done. Hut the general principles it applied are sound for anv community. It has sought to provide employment for all of its local people. It has industrialized onlv to the extent necessary to provide a balanced economy. It has sought industry not indiscriminately, hut "never has lost sight of the main objective-? pro viding markets for the products of diversified agri culture". Its plants, with a few exceptions, are small, and home-owned and home-operated. And its people recognized that they had to accept the responsibility for building their own commun ity? nobody else was going to do it for them. The story of Decatur is told by Paul W. Chap man in The American Mercury magazine, under the caption, "Decatur, Alabama ? Success Story". By special permission of The American Mercury, the article is reprinted below : Decatur is a prosperous and progressive county seat located. In the rolling cotton country of northern Alabama. Fourteen years ago it was, as its leading citizens put it, the "most busted" community in the South, but recently a visiting re porter dubbed it the "Wonder Town" of the Cotton Belt. The change was brought about by the application of a simple prosperity formula that increased the incomes of farmers in Decatur's trade territory, created a balanced farms-and-factory economy, and ? most important of all ? provided jobs for every person in Morgan County who wanted to work. Providing work for all the labor force in a rural county in the Cotton South is almost unique; few county seats can offer enough attractive jobs to retain in the community their most productive workers. No major cotton-producing state, because of the predominatly agricultural-labor pattern, with very small farms, has ever provided jobs for all its people. The South's net loss from intersectional migration is now estimated at about four million; each year during the war period the South sent an average of three hundred thousand workers to industrial plants in the North and East. From the standpoint of employment opportunities, Alabama is typical of the Cotton South. Every day during the five-year period to 1940 an average of 190 persons moved out of Alabama. They went into every other section of the United States where work was available. Last winter, for example, while Interview ing a bulldozer crew in the Redland District below Miami, I asked two boys where they came from? always a proper and logical question anywhere in Florida. "I came from Alamaba and my buddy from Georgia," replied one of the boys. "Those two states must have sent a number of people to Florida," I observed. "Everybody in Florida who works came either from Alamaba or Georgia," said the boy. Naturally, this statement was an exaggeration. But It U ture that Alabama and Georgia have contributed more than five hundred thousand citizens to Florida's permanent population. In the light of such a migratory record, it is remarkable that Barrett Shelton, editor of the Decatur Daily, can print in his newspaper,. "No person needs to leave Morgan County to find work. We have jobs for all returning service men and women. And as mechanization releases workers from the land, all can find employment at good wages in Decatur's growing industries " ? ? ? * For the first time in history, high wages are forcing wide spread farm mechanization in the Cotton Belt. Last fall cotton growers in northwest Alabama were compelled to pay hand pickers as much as $60 a bale, but the few who were able to arrange for mechanical picking paid only one third this amount. Mechanization, long overdue in the only section of the United States that farms with hand and mule labor, will, of course, increase per capita farm earnings. But it will also destroy 1, 500,000 farm jobs and reduce the population of every rural county that does not create some new non-farm employment. Economists in the United States Department of Agriculture estimate that five million off-the-farm jobs must be added to the prewar total if the South is to have "anything resembling full employment. It rests upon the small towns to determine the outcome of the major economic adjustment which is required of the South as a whole. The largest oities of the region, even though they are growing faster than large cities in other sections of the nation, can carry but a fraction of the responsibility for pro viding full employment. Either the typical county seat and other small cities will create payrolls to attract and hold vet erans, displaced war-plant workers and families "tractored off" the land, or the South will continue to pour its "Arkies" and j "Okies" over the nation to disrupt the economy of other sections. , It seems likely that there will be no "Okies" from Decatur, Alabama, or any other town that adopts its prosperity formula. Decatur's awakening came about 1932, when the price of cotton, its only local cash crop, dropped to five cents a pound A de velopment program was then instituted to encourage diversified farming. At the time the city did not have a single industry, but by assuming responsibility for marketing all farm products and for manufacturing the supplies and equipment required in diversified agriculture, Decatur stumbled upon the most prac tical means of creating off-the-farm jobs to open it. Maynard Layman, who writes a farm column for the Decatur Daily and who served for years as chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, which spear headed the movement, has kept a scrapbook record of all de velopments since the inception of the program. "With five-cent cotton as our only source of income, we were desperate," Lay man explains: A public meeting was called; the chairman asked for suggestions. Someone explained the so-called Moultrie Plan for diversifying farming through providing markets and processing plants. Arrangements were made to send a committee to Moultrie, Georgia, to study the plan. Our people liked the Moultrie program; they were favorably impressed with a slogan? "A Market for .Every Farm Product 365 Days a Year." On returning home the group called a second community meeting at which the plan was adopted. We've been working at it ever since. Because Moultrie had a meat curing plant, this was the first new enterprise prompted at Decatur. A local ice and cold-storage concern was persuaded to go into the busi ness of buying hogs and cattle from local farmers, pro cessing the meat and selling it through local food mark ets. This concern, Arrow Provsions, is still in business. Last year it paid local farmers $314,000 for livestock. In addition, it provided industrial jobs for more than thirty workers. Next, we turned our attention to providing a market for milk; this was a little -more difficult. A cheese plant? the first in North Alabama? was established; today there are cheese plants in several towns in this section of the state, including Ardmore, Boaz, Russellville, and Scotts boro. To start the cheese plant a capital of $15,000 was re quired. This money was raised through the sale of small amounts of stock to many people; the largest shareholder had a block of stock which cost $300. Those who bought the stock were told that they might never get their money back, but fortunately the shares proved to be a very profitable investment. The cheese plant has been able to pay six per cent dividends; the stock sells above par; it represents ownership of a plant mow worth not less than $75,000. i Alabama Dairy Products buys milk from 950 producers, not one of whom produced milk for sale before the plant was established. Fourteen milk routes are operated. ? Continued on Page Seven # Others' Opinions ? WHAT A 'FEIST' IS In giving us an advertisement of his u?t dog Parks Mc Gimsey told me that he had already looked up the spelling of the word "feist". I took his word for it, but decided I'd see whether or not it was listed in a Webster's New American Dictionary, rather recently aquired, which I keep on my desk. It was not. I found it, however, in the Unabridged with the notation that it is a "local word" and the definition was given as "a small dog".? Miss Beatrice Cobb in Morganton-News Hearld. OVERLOADING THE WAGON The inflation wagon is being hauled higher and higher ud the hill. When will the traces break? The jackasses pulling the load are too dumb to realize that hamestrings are loosening and trace-chains are weakening. Many followers ? as well as innocent by-standers ? are going to be hurt when the load breaks loose. _ By the time this issue of The Tarheel Banker reaches its readers many pounds of inflationary dollar weight will be added to this wagon in the form of cashed Armed Forces Leave Bonds. Bankers should, by all means, advise the O. I. to retain his bonds until maturity date. These bonds can be classed among his AAA investments. A good bond with a two and one-half per cent interest rate and only four years to go is something "To have and to hold" these days. To load the inllationary wagon with a possible 1.8 billion dollars at this time only removes more feathers from the cush ion that could protect the O. I.'s posterior jar when he is knocked down after the trace-chains on the wagon break. ? Tar Heel Banker. NEW TYPE OF LABOR AGREEMENT A contract, described as something new in the relations be tween management and labor, comes from New Jersey, where the Continental Power company and its employes have en tered Into an agreement by which the laborers are given a "share of production" pay plan. The plan, drafted by Allen W. Rucker, stipulates that 30.51 per cent of the company's "production values" is to be dis tributed to the workers in the plant. These values are determ ined by subtracting the cost of raw materials and supplies from the company's sales receipts. While workers will continue to receive their weekly checks, representing regular straight time and over-time wages, there will be a check-up every four weeks to see If the 3051 per cent of production values is more than the wages received. If it is, part of the surplus will be distributed among the em ployes In cash, part will be paid into a pension fund to pro vide retirement lncomc and the remaining 25 per cent will go into a reserve account to offset any dip In Income in the future. Mr Rucker, explaining the philosophy of the plan, says that what he seeks to do is "to take the ceilings off earnings and production." He explains that "earnings must come out of production, and it Is the teamwork of men, management and machinery that makes production possible. This program will help labor and management make money with one another, and not out ot one another."? Marlon Progress. LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix of C. A. Setser, 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 12th day of August, 1948, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons In debted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 12th day of August, 1947. NORA SETSER. Administratrix. A21 ? 6tp ? S25 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of Sheridan N. Reed, 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 on or "before the 5th day of September 1948, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate settlement. This 5th day of September, 1947. W L. REED, Administrator. 511? 6tp? 016 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of Mrs. Emma Childers, 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 13th day of September, 1948 or this notice will be plead in bar of their re covery. . All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate settlement. This 13th day of September, 1947. J. R. CHILDERS, Administrator S25 ? 6t3c ? 030 TRUSTEE'S SALE Notice is hereby given that under the power of sale given in a deed in trust executed by D. E. Worley to the undersigned Trustee, Dated July 24, 1942, and lecorded In Book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust 34, page 575 in the office of the Regis ter of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the debt secured thereby, and the holder of said debt having demanded that the undersigned Trustee exercise said power of sale, and sell the property thereby conveyed, as provided in said deed in trust. THEREFORE, on Saturday, October 25, 1947, at Twelve o'clock Noon at the Court House door of Macon County, North Carolina, the undersigned will offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for cash, that certain lot of land In the Coun ty of Macon, State of North ! Carolina, more particularly | bounded and described as fol- j lows: All those certain pieces, par cels or tracts of land situate, ly ing and being in Macon County, North Carolina, fully described : in a deed of conveyance made by Universal Liquidating Com pany to the said Gay Green dated July 1, 1936, and duly registered in the office of the Register of Deeds of Macon County, North Carolina in Deed Book A-5 page 349, but EX CEPTING HOWEVER, from this conveyance all lands conveyed by the above mentioned deed, located in Jackson County, North Carolina, and EXCEPT ING ALSO from this convey ance that certain tract located in Macon County, North Caro lina, fully described in a con- j veyance from William Browning, to Cowee Mountain School, Inc. by deed dated May 30, 1917, and duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Ma con County, North Carolina in Book X-3, page 585, and EX CEPTING FURTHER all por tions of said lands so located in Macon County, North Carolina awarded to William Browning by Judgment of the Superior Court of said County In a suit wherein William Browning was plaintiff and Gay Green &nd Rocky Face Mining Company were defendants entered on the day of May, 1941. Ref erence is hereby made to the above deeds and to the above mentioned Judgment for full particulars. And being the same property conveyed by Gay Green and wife to the said D. E. Worley, this conveyance being made to secure balance of purchase money. This sale as above set forth will be made subject to any and all liens and encumbrances against said property and to any and all taxes or assess ments which are a lien against the same, and the highest bid der will be required to deposit five per cent of the amount bid with the Trustee on the date of sale. This, the 22nd day of Sep tember, 1947. EUGENE C. WARD, Trustee. S3ft-4t0-OM Smokey Says: One lighted match thrown carelessly abide can burn up valuable timber. DR. W. L. CUTTER CHIROPRACTOR PHYSIO-THERAPIST Over Leader's Dry Good* Store SYLVA, N. C. Telephone 143 Macon Dry Cleaners Prompt Efficient Work FOR PICK UP SERVICE Phone 270 FRANKLIN LIVESTOCK AUCTION ? 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