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Qkt Jflrattklirt Ipxtss ntt?? (Eke Jiighlnttbs Published every Thursday by the Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LXIII Number five WEIMAR JONES Editor-Publisher jSnarxh Caroline v&t / A3*>CUrK*J\ Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter Telephone No. 24 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: t One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months ? .80 Single Copy ? .05 , 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 requirements. The Beer Ejection II MANY thoughtful persons are finding it hard to * decide how to vote in the beer-wine election in MaCon County February 14. tf . '/ They regard alcohol as an unmixed evil. But they find themselves unable to go along with some of the more ex'treme drvs in the view that alcohol is the worst of all evils, that it is the root of most other evils and, in fact, that it is about the only evil there is. On the other hand, this middle-of-the-road group cannot subscribe to the view expressed by many wets ? that the primary issue, in any consideration of alcoholic beverages, is one of money : that it all boils down to a question of revenue. For, if that were true, then the next logical step would be to license vice and gambling; because both these evils, like alcohol, continue, in spite of laws prohibiting them, and both, if legalized, would prove to be large producers of revenue. In fact, if we considered alcoholic beverages on a purely dollars-and-cents basis and nothing else, and if we carried that theory to its logical conclu sion, we should find ourselves encouraging the manufacture and sale of "moonshine" whiskey in Macon County, in order to keep all the money spent for alcoholic beverages here at home! The economic factor certainly is not the only factor to be considered in seeking the best method of handling the problem of alcohol. This newspaper does not believ?*it is even a fundamental factor. But it is a factor, and as such deserves consideration. * * * What are the facts about the revenue angle? The 1947 general assembly enacted a measure doubling the crown and stamp taxes on beer and wine. That measure provided that the additional revenue collected should be distributed among those counties and municipalities which permit the legal sale of beer and wine. The distribution is based upon population, not the amount of beer and wine sales in the individual counties and towns ; but none of this revenue may go to a county or town which prohibits the sale of beer and wine. That may be a good law or a bad law. But it is the law. And the situation that law creates is "a condition, not a theory". The increased tax became effective last July 1, and in December Macon County and the towns of Franklin and Highlands received their pro rata shares of the collections for the first quarter. The amounts were: Macon County, $7,201.73; the Town of Franklin, $644.24; the Town of High lands, $293.50. Total, $8,139.47. (it Those figures are for only three months. If reve nue collections throughout the year averaged the same, the total to come into Macon County would be $32,557.88 annually. That amount is approximately one-fourth of the total budget of the county government for a year. * * * That is worth thinking about. Just because the amount is large is not, in itself, a sufficient argument for the continued sale of beer in Macon County ; the money alone, even if it were ten times as much, should not be the deciding factor. But, other thing* being equal, the people of this county would be foolish indeed to refuse $32,000 a year ? that sum would make possible a lot of en forcement of the law against whiskey sales, would pay for a lot of education as to the effects of al cohol. Are other things equal? There are many factors that go to make up this problem. When all the pros are aded together in one column, and all the cons added in another are the two sums about equal? It is not the responsibility of The Press to at tempt to give any final answer to that question ? that is the duty of the voters. But in next week's issue this column will raise a few questions and point out a few facts it it hoped will throw light on the matter. J ? ? ? LETTERS * ? ? ? ? ? ? -j ? - ? - * ? THE BEER-WINE ELECTION Dear Editor: I'm a little bit worried about the coming beer and wine elec tion. It is practically upon us and I (ear many of us are not prepared for it. I've been hoping that The Press would come out with facts, figures, ideas and opinions that might help the voter to make up his mind with regard to what is best for the county, but so far The Press has said nothing about it, so I have a few questions I would like to ask, through The Press, concerning the election. Perhaps someone who really knows the answers will r^ply through The Press or in a personal letter. Here are the questions: 1. Who is responsible for the coming election? Of course I know, or at least I have heard, that a group of people have signed a petition for it, but who is really behind the petition? who is the daddy of it, so to speak? Is he a man who has the good of the county at heart and with an open mind has studied the beer and wine question from every angle? 2. If we vote the county dry, do we have reasonable assur ance that we can enforce prohibition now? We never have, you know, even when we had three or four prohibition officers all "cocked and primed" on every side road "North of the border" to Cowee gap. 3. If we vote the county dry, do we have reasonable assur ance that the young folks (and old ones, too, for that matter) won't keep the roads hot to outside drinking places and dan gerous hideouts within the county? That would really make bad matters worse, wouldn't it? CORA TALLEY Franklin, N. C., Route 2, January 14, 1948. 'FOOD FOR THOUGHT' To the Editor, for The People of Macon County: Use your heads and don't let the bootleggers run your county. As many of you must know, when things are hard to get, it only makes the situation worse. And if a person can not get his alcoholic beverage legally, he will want it lots more than if he could. (Smokers know how badly they want to smoke when they can't get tobacco.) I am not trying to influence your vote, only trying to give you food for thought, and I believe, if you will weigh the matter thoroughly, you will see my point. Drink is just like a black market item was during the war; many people bought things? whether they needed them or not? just because they were impossible to get legally. The same goes for liquor. I have been in almost every part of the United States, and there is more drinking? and more rough talk and rough action ?where there is no alcoholic drink available (legally) than there is where beer and liquor are legally sold, over the bar. VETERAN. Franklin, N. C. January 24, 1948. ? Others' Opinions ? ?FEATHER-BEDDING' The president of a non-union construction company re cently told a congressional committee that "feather-bedding" by supply companies Is adding SO per cent to the cost of homes. Houses that could be sold for $5,000 cost $7,500 because trade associations of middle men prevent a contractor from buying direct from the manufacturer. Inasmuch as the business man runs a non-union operation, he cannot very consistently be accused of protecting the unions.? International Teamster. WOULD HAVE ANOTHER LIBERIA Comes to The News and Courier a circular from a New York magazine containing praises by superlative Intellects of an article by a Negro telling why "he remains a Negro." The Southern states, those of the Gulf and Atlantic shores east of Texas, might have become Negro. Had the Stivens and Wade program of 1867-77 been suc cessful, had It appealed to the respectable North and been perpeturated by armed force, these Southern states would be all Negro now. Only those white people too poor and weak to leave the South would have stayed In it. Negroes would have dominated. They would have bossed. Absorption Into the negro race would have been the only chance for a poor white family remaining and obtaining food, shelter. Many a year before this, 1947, all the white people except the paupers among them and the dirty dogs willing to be Negro too would have migrated to the Northern and Western states. Seven or eight Southern states would have been converted Into seven or eight Haltls by 1900, and non-resident adventur ers and exploiters would now owii them In fact, however the Negroes might think themselves free. For the Negro people the white people of the South, the slave-owners and their white successors, have done more, have made more sacrifices, than have any ,other white group of people on this earth for any colored race. They, these South ern white people, are taklilg care of the Southern Negroes now. The masses of Negroes enjoy a measure of prosperity and education, because the white Southerners, themselves comparatively poor, give It to them.? Charleston News and Courier. I 'IMPROVED' MEN And It does seem to us that within the range of our ob I servation we have never seen a woman pass who did not serenely believe that the fellow she Is rela.ted to by friend ship or marriage had "improved" under her tutelage. This, we believe, qualifies as a major vanity of the human species. In classic male gallantry, it Is fashionable to pass this propensity off as harmless and quaint. It Is not harmless and quaint. This business of a woman "Improving" a man Is a symptom of varicose self-esteem and a will of authoritarian dominion over the Improvement project of her choice. And that accounts for the difference In the male and female ego. The ego of the male Is a war veteran, a combat infantry man. In the rough-and-tumble, moll, toil and defeats, of mak ing a living, the realities and competition strip and cut back his ego to Its proper size. He knows his limitations. The female ego, contrarily, Is not nearly ao subject to these alterations. In the pacific sanctuary' of her home, with her magazines and bridge, she meets few tests and so runs the risk of few defeats. Her ego grows to large size as a tree in a tropical garden that knows no woodmen's axe. We have observed with melancholy that the average woman can take hold of a man who drinks too much, smokes too much, won't go to yapplty-yap parties when the privacy of a tavern booth Is the requirement of his soul's solace, will not listen to "Tristan and Isolds" on any manufacturer's Sunday evening hour? and believe that association with her has wrought Improvements. She Is wofit to say that "everybody" has noticed the Improvement. The man may still keep his tall glass Invisible In a cloud of cigarette smoke, remain away from all possible yapplty-yap parties and listen to the Hit Parade? the woman nevertheless coolly believes that she has changed all that. The jagged truth of the matter Is of course, expressed by Oscar Wilde, who testified: "The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible Interest in life."? Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. Were half the power that fUU the human world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Qlvtn to redeem the human mind from error, Thsrt wen no and of irmiU and forti. -Hmiy W. bongMlov. LEGAL ADVXKTlSnfQ EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified as executrix of John H. Thomas, 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 7th day of January, 1949 or this notice "will be plead in bar of .their, -reoovery. AH' persons Indebted to said estate will please make immediate set tlement. This 7th day of January, 1948. LILLIE A. THOMAS, Executrix. J15 ? 6tc? F19 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of Virgil T. Potts, 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 14th day of January, 1949 or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This 14th day of January, 1948. J. C. SORRELS, Executor. J22 ? 8tp ? F26 EXECUTRIX NOTICE Having qualified as executrix of J. E. Palmer, 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 21st day of January, 1949 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This 21st day of January, 1948. ELSIE E. PALMER, Executrix. J29 ? 6tp ? F26 NOTICE OF SALE NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Macon County, made In the spe cial proceeding entitled, "Oilmer A. Jones, Administrator of Will Browning, deceased, vs. Newton Browning, et al," the undfer slgned commissioner will, on the 1st day of March, 1948, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Courthouse door in Franklin, North Caro lina, offer for sale to the high est bidder for cash that cer tain tract or parcel of land in Macon County, North Carolina, more particularly described as follows' FIRST TRACT: Being the same lands described in a deed from Andy Baxter to William Crump, dated August 1st, 1911, and registered in Book 8-3 of Deeds, page 113, office of Reg ister of Deeds for Macon Coun ty, N. C., excepting the lands adjudged to belong to William Crump by judgment of the Su perior Court of Macon County, N. C., August Term, 1914, copy of which judgment is recorded in Book W-3 of Deeds at page. 181, Register's office, Macon County, N. C., to which deed and judgment reference is here by made for a more definite description of said lands, con taining 32 acres more or less, being the land described in a deed from Lawrence Hyatt (un married) to William Browning, dated 12 November, 1921, and registered in the office of Reg ister of Deeds for Macon Coun ty, North Carolina, in Book 0-4 of Deeds, page 427. SECOND TRACT: On the waters of Tennessee River, BE GINNING on a pine, J. C. West's corner, and runs North 90 poles to a white oak; then S 58 deg. West 13 poles to a chestnut oak; then South 85 deg. W 42 poles to a stake and pointers; then 8 12 deg. W 80 poles to a black jack; then East 20 poles to the BEGINNING, containing 32 3/4 acres, more or less, being the same land granted by the State to Berry Johnson by State Grant No. 13519, recorded In Book G G of Deeds at page 411-412 In of fice of Register of Deeds for Macon County, being the land described in a deed from Harv ey Johnson and wife to William Browning, dated 10 December, 1922, and registered In the of fice of Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, ii ine trom^ In book 1-4 of Deeds, page 139.4 THIRD TRACT: Being Lot No. 1 S on mountain tract and Lot* Not 1 and 2 of the lower tract of Carter lands of Macon Coun ty, as divided: Lot No. 3 on mountain, BE GINNING at a stake or rock on tbe mountain, Roxie Burgess' S. W. corner and runs with old [line W 19 poles to a stake; then N 3 E 40 poles to a stake In back line; then with old line E 19 poles to Roxie Burgess' N. W. corner; then with her line South 40 poles to tne BEGIN NING, containing 4 3/4 acres, more or less. Lots Nos. 1 and 3 of the low er tract, BEGINNING at a black oak and persimmon in the old Tlppett line and Andy Baxter's corner and runs S 87 E 40 poles to a rock; then S lyi W 25*"' poles to a Spanish oak corner of the Dan Carter Lot No 2; then N 87 W 40 poles to a rock and pointer on a ridge; then N with Tlppett line 25 poles to the BEGINNING, containing 8% acres more or less, the above two tracts being all the land described in a deed frq R. D. Sisk, Commissioner^ Will Browning, dated 27 1 cember, 1934, and registered the office of Register of Deeds" for Macon County, North Caro lina, in Book Y-4 of Deeds, page 28. FOURTH TRACT: BEGIN INIG at a pine, stump 25^ North of a B oak ner of the Andrew! and runs East 80 pole stake; then N 40 poles] pine; then W 80 polesl chestnut oak; then S 4J to the BEGINNING, following crafty BEGINNIP the first line of the teact a! mentioned 30 poles East of the pfne stump and runs S 10 poles to a stake; then W 10 poles to a stake; then N 10 poles to a stake, the aforesaid line; then with said line W 10 poles to the BEGINNING and including Crump's garden, containing acres more or less, being land described in a de Charles Morrison toj lng, dated 10 Sej| and registered Register of County, Noij' X-4 of FIFTH Mountain ' a stake Mary Loj line, ruj poles chestnil.^^^^^^^^^? North 3l!?*^oUow; ? & to a stake lT\ * 19 P?*es " East withjMd cornet". . stake, MEry to the 43/4 " GINNING, confl||^. Lot No. 4 in LoMkdja GINNING on an wMRH and chestnut stump and^H^ North 87 deg. West 40 poles to a Spanish oak, the Dan Carter corner; then North V/i deg. East 12'/$ poles to a rock, Dan j Carter and Emits Slier corner; J then South 87 deg. East 40 poles d to a rock; then South 1V4 deg.V West liy2 poles to the BEGIN-] NINO, containing 3 1/8 acres/ the above described two tracts} being the land described in a V. deed from J. T. Burston and wife to Will Browning, dated 27 November, 1937, and registered in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County, N. C., in Book C-5 of Deeds, page 68. Any and all other lands or interests in lands, mineral rights and easements owned by Will Browning in Macon County, North Carolina, at the time of his death This 26th day of January, 1948. GILMER A. JONES, Commissioner J29 ? 4tc ? J J ? P19 TUT POST- WAR "FASTER ACTIHGT 666f??ur? Rtltvt Mm actios and "tlssp roMiN" MJsorios ol Cfl<i fit iHfc >11 (?<*!??? or CmMm Backache For quick comforting help for Backache, Rheumatic Paine, Oettlof Up Nights, strong cloud/ urine, Irritating passages. Leg Valns, circles under eyes, and swollen ankles, duo to non-organic and non-systemA Kidney and Madder troubles, try Cysfwx. Qjftck, complete satisfaction or money back gAranteed. Ask your druggist for Cystox today. HELP WANTED 40 Men Needed I ON REA CONSTRUCTION JOB See __ } KEITH STEWART, Snpt. / ZEIGLER CLINE CONSTRUCTION CO. ROGERS OARAGE Highlands, N. C J
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