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?h t <Iflrattklxtt ^Jrrss nni? Che j$t<irmunu Published every Thursday by the Franlclln Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LXII Number forty-two WEIMAR JONES ; Editor-Publisher bntered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C.. as second class matter Telephone No. 24 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, 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. 1 , ; ? i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ! $2.00 ?:x Months .'. $1.00 Three Months J. 60 Single Copy 1 05 A WorltL That Is Kind C< ) ! the world has gone to pot, has it? Nothing left but the philosophy of grab, eh? Well, consider for a moment the case of six-year old Forest (Nubbins) Hoffman, of Denver. When he was three, his doctors mistakenly said he 'could not live until Christmas. So his parents arranged a "Christmas-in-November" for hi'ln and gifts poured in from all parts of the country. And last week, three years later, it was front page news to Americans that Nubbins had under gone another serious operation. Why did the papers play ii]) (his story? Was it because of the unusual nature of the operation? No. Because of the promin ence of the parents? Not at all. Because of something child had accomplished? Certainly not. The only explanation is that all the world loves children, and the soft hearts of people of all classes and condi tions are touched by the thought of a child in pain. Nubbins lives in Denver; but right here in Frank lin the same sort of thing happened only last week. Whether it be in Western -North Carolina or .Denver, or the Balkans, a fellow human being's trouble quickly brings to the surface the innate kindliness that lies in the hearts of most of us. Something To Be Proud Of It is high time we in Western North Carolina got away from the habit of offering, and being .-willing to accept. something that merely "will do". The best always is cheapest in the end. and there is no reason why we in this region ? should not demand and receive excellence, whether we are paying for government, education, amusement, merchandise, or service. And E. J. Whitmire and Oscar Ledford, in the construction of their freezer locker plant, have paid this community the compliment of assuming that the people here want the best, and that offering them the best will prove financially profitable. The owners of Franklin Frozen Foods, Inc., could have constructed a tiny plant ; they could have cut corners in their planning, perhaps; and they could have installed second-rate equipment. Instead, they have boldly counted on the growth of. this community, and have planned for the future. And they have so planned and equipped their plant that it is not just another business, but something of which the entire community can well be proud. In the natural and qnite legitimate effort to make" money, Messrs. Whitmire and Ledford have' shown the way to good business through seeing a com munity need and setting out to fill it well. Good Management Any business is essentially a partnership between ownership and management, on the one hand, and employes, on the other; while each has its rights and perquisites, it nevertheless is true that neither could function without the other. When there are business losses, it is inevitable, and just, that employes should bear a part of the loss in reduced wages. Conversely, when profits arc good, it is certainly just, though not always inevitable, that employes should share in the gain they have helped make possible. Some such thought must have been in the minds of those who direct the Zickgraf Hardwood com pany when that firm announced a flat 10 per cent increase for all its employes, as well as a vacation wit h pay policy. In any case, it is an indication of such intelligence in management as has repeated proved itself the best, and only, insurance against so-called labor trouble. I ' " ? ? Others' Opinions ? * ? ? - JAMES EDWARD SHEPARD Dr. Shepard believed that " 'sweet reason' Is a, much more ef fective weapon than the sword.." He said so many times. He tasked for his race neither privilege nor charity but .fair and just treatment He got It in North Carolina. Few men attained his stature in the difficult history of the Negro in America. Dr. Shepard began and ended with educa tion. In 1910 he founded North Carolina College for Negrcfes at Durham. The site was little more than a trashpile In 37 years it has spread like the green bay-tree on a rich, neat campus with splendid buildings and a student body of 1,500. This was done with the help of North Carolina, which main tains at Durham the only state-supported Negro liberal arts college in America and one of the very best of a,U types. North Carolina college is thus a monument to a man and a monument to a people's understanding of how to live in con cord with a minority race. Dr. Shepard was the symbol, more than any other man of his group, of that understanding. Like Booker T Washington, whom he followed as disciple and, inevitably, we think, as successor, James E. Shepasd knew that progress comes slowly and through hard struggle. He never minimized racial Injustice but he never made it a flail of discontent. His was the approach of conciliation and reason. This philosophy took Dr. Shepard far, as Indeed it has car ried his race with him in North Carolina. He was eternally proud of this state and the opportunities which it afforded I lie. Negro. Four years ago this month in a memorable speech at Buffalo, he spoke of "the ideology of a democracy of culture in which the Negro has an increasingly important share": In North Carolina we have been able to do this without pressure groups, without litigation in the federal courts, without mandamus to make state officials give the Negro his guaranteed rights, and without injunction to restrain him from receiving them. We do not pretend that we have won everything; but, we have earned the fri?nd s.hip and the cooperation of the best judges, the best preachers, the best lawyers, the best universities, and the best Christian men and women. And we have won these blessings, we have registered these gains at the hands of North Carolina Americans whose one lament has been that they oould not at that time do more. ?. The place which Dr. Shepard occupied in his race, in his state and in the nation will be difficult to fill. He was a scholar and a wise man. He wrote beautifully and he had an immense command, in writing and speaking, of the under standing and helpfulness of the white leadership. North Car olina can hold up its head in good conscience that James E. Shepard lived and prospered in its midst ? Asheville Citizen. SEE WHAT WE MEAN? We were remarking a while ago that it would be a long step forward if many of us, especially in educational and govern mental circles, would stop using overstuffed words and take to talking and writing plain English. Little did we expect at that time that so choice an illustration of our meaning as the one we're about to reprint would be so soon forthcoming. It was, though, Dr. Wilbert E. Moore, as sistant professor of sociology at Princeton, recently addressed the seventeenth annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in the Columbia University Men's Faculty Club; and, as reported by the almost always accurate New York Times, here is a paragraph from the speech, so help us: "The lack of theofetical preoccupation on the part of many sociologists actively at work observing industries is not so much in the failure to make a conceptual scheme explicit as It is in making hypotheses and analytical problems explicit. The strea of research is the 'social structure' as formally constituted and as it informally operates. Within 'that area the aim is clearly descriptive and not analytical." Now, it well may be that in that mess of words Dr. Moore i ttered a truth capable of moving mountains, electrifying the hearts of men, and maybe even causing the angels to sing a rong. But If nobody understood his statement, how could a waiting word profit from it? We know we can't understand it; we'd be willing to bet that few if an>- of the 300 sociologists who heard the Moore speech understood the passage we quote; and we'd like to ask Dr. Moore: In plain English Doc, just what the hell were you try ing to tell the world, anyhow?? Colliers Magazine. NOTE ON THE TIMES Periodically The Auxiliary carries on its state news pages a department headed "Hail and Farewell," listing new commun ity papers just opening shop and old ones which have folded. This department is recommended reading fo? critics who charge that concentration of economic power and dwindling opportunity for the individual are killing off the weekly press. In the past four months "Hail and Farewell" has reported 25 new papers and only eight suspensions. The department does not claim to offer a complete report, but it is complete enough to indicate the trend unmistakably. There's plenty of opportunity in the community weekly field for those who look for it! ? Publishers' Auxiliary. AMAZING It is hard to believe, but since the State Highway Commis sion vouches for the truth of the statement we are willing to accept it as accurate. The statisticians of that commission tell us that if the 820,000 automobiles and trucks licensed in North Carolina at present were lined up 50 feet apart, they would form 16 paralled lines from Manteo to Murphy. ? And that Is not all. These same statisticians have prepared some equally amazing figures on road construction in this state. They declare that if the 11,186 miles of roads being surfaced or improved in the state thi* year fan in a straight line, the pavement would stretch all the way from Ashevllle to beyond Tokyo. ? Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. WRINKLELESS COTTON News now comes from George S. Harris, president of a group of cotton mills, that cotton fabrics, treated with a new and exclusive chemical process, .are rendered as wrinkle-resistant as woolens or worsteds. The fabrics to which the process has been applied include corded chambray, gingham and tweed In the women's dress categories and plaid In men's sport shirting. The process is said to be permanent, retaining Its wrinkle resistant characteristic after washing. The fabrics are not to be available as yet for over-the counter sales in retail stores, being supplied at present to manufacturers where distribution is not expected for several months. ? Will Arey, Jr., in Cleveland Times. SPLURGE AND SPLASH One thing you have to credit our folks with. We ride high, wide, and handsome when we do. catch on. Splurge and splash in our way of life. Look here at our sudden wake-up to a lack of recreational and athletic facilities All at opce we start building a high school gym and raising thousands of dollars for a town athletic park. A short way back, we put more thousands into the country club kitty, and made a modest be ginning on playgrounds for the kids.? Roy Parker In Hertford County Herald. . ONE KICK TOO MANY Epitaph on the gravestone of an army mule: Here lies Maggie, who In her time kicked two colonel*, four majors, ten captains, twenty-four lieutenant*, forty-two sergeant*, four hundred elghty-*lx privates, and one bomb.? Ml** Beatrice Cobb to Morgan ton News-Herald. Smokey Says: [MOST FOREST FtlUSj START FROM SCRATCH/,. Tip to campersf LEGAL ADVERTISING National Forest Timber For Sale Sealed bids will be received by the Forest Supervisor, Frank lin, North Carolina, up to and not later than 2:00 p. m. No vember 3, 1947 and opened im mediately thereafter for all live timber marked or designated for cutting, located on an area em bracing about 360 acres within the Brushy Fork Unit, Greens Creek watershed, Jackson Coun ty, Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina, estimated to be 226 M feet B. M. more or less of hardwoods and softwoods. No bid of less than $17.00 per M* for white oak; $15 00 per M for northern red oak; $14.00 per M for white ash, $9.00 per" M for red maple; $7.00 per M. for black oak and chestnut oak; $5.00 per M for pitch pine and scarlet oak and $3.00 per M for hickory and black gum will be considered. In addition to prices bid for stumpage, a deposit of $1.00 per M feet f?r all timber cut will be required for sale area betterment. $500 must be de posited with each bid, to be ap plied on the purchase price, re funded, or retained in part as liquidated damages, according to conditions of sale. The right to reject any and all bids reserved. Before bids are submitted, full information "concerning the timber, the conditions of sale i and the submission of bids 1 should be obtained from the Forest Supervisor, Franklin, ! North Carolina. 02 and 016? 2tc 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 undersigneo on or before the 13th day ol 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, m Administrator S25? 6t3c? 030 ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix of A. F. Brown, 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 be fore the 25th day of September, 1948 or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make Immediate set tlement. This 25th day of September, 1947. MRS. GRACE BROWN, Administratrix. 02? 6tc-*-Nfr IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY ETHEL MARTIN vs. DAN MARTIN The defendant, Dan Martin, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been com menced In the Superior Court of Macon County for the pur pose of securing a divorce from bed and board by the plaintiff, Ethel Martin, and for the pur pose of securing the custody of the infant child, John Martin. Said defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the office of the 01?rk of Superior Court of CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our neigh bors and friends for the many deeds of kindness and expres sions of sympathy shown us during the illness and at the time of the death of our father and husband. J. H. Sellers, also for the lovely floral offerings MRS. J. H. SELLERS AND FAMILY. CARD OF THANKS We want to thank our neigh bors and friends for the many deeds" of kindness and expres sions of sympathy shown us during the illness and al the time of the death of -our wife and mother, Mrs. Harley Bald win, also for the lovely floral offerings. . * THE FAMILY. Yankee AS ? That's nothing, the galley of our flag ship is so big the cook has to go through the Irish stew in a submarine ta see if the potatoes are done. con County, North Carolina, on the 7th day of November, 1947. and answer or demur to the complaint in the said action or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint. The defendant will further take notice that the plaintiff will, in the December term, 1947, request the 1 Court to enter an onier awarding the custody of John Martin to the plaintiff. This the 3rd day of October, 1947. J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE, Clerk of Superior Court. Macon County, North Carolina 09 ? 4tc ? 030 NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY "Under and by virtue of the power of sale in me vested by a deed of trust executed by Will Browning to R. S. Jones, Trus~ tee, dated the 23rd day of March, 1946, and registered in the, office of Register of Deeds for Macon County in Record of Mortgages No. 38, page 590, to secure certain indebtedness in said deed- of trust set forth as sp recorded, and default having been made in the payment Of said indebtedness, and the hold er of the note representing said debt having made demand upon the undersigned trustee to ex ercise the power of sale by said deed of trust in him vested: I will, therefore, on Monday, the 10th day of November, 1947, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Courthouse door in Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the fol lowing described real estate: FIRST TRACT: All the lands described in a deed Jrom Charlie Morrison to Will Browning, said deed bearing date of September 10, 1935, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, in Book X-4 of Deeds, page 409. SECOND TRACT: All the lands described in .a deed from J. T. Burston and wife to Will Browning, said deed bearing date of November 27, 1937, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, in Book C-5 of Deeds, page 68. THIRD TRACT: All the lands described in a deed from R. D. Sisk, Comm., to Will Browning, said deed bear ing date of December 27, 1934, and recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, N. C., in Book X-4 of Deeds, page 28. EXCEPT the lands hereto fore sold to Myrtle Scatcs and Robert Scates. A deposit of " 10% of the bid most be placed with th? trustee at the time of sale. If said deposit is not made, notice is hereby given that sii<l prop erty will be offered for rale at 2 o'clock the same day. This 8th day of October, 1947. R. S. JONES, Trustee. 016 ? 4tc ? J&J ? N6 SQUARE DANCE EVERY Saturday Night at the Slagle Memorial Building ? Music by the Franklin String Band ? ? Sponsored by the Lions Club Admission 50c
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