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Published every Thursday by the FrankHn Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
VOL. I.XIII Number thirty -tw.
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A Good Job
This community owes appreciation to Highway
Patrolman I'ritchard Smith, Jr., and the law en
forcement officers who worked with him for their
latest excellent job. Mr. SmitVjind Franklin's police
chief, C". IX Raird, although occupied with other
duties at the time, were quick to spot a suspicious
looking automobile, and prompt and efficient in ar
resting all four occupants of the car when the evi
dence showed arrests were in order. And Mr. Smith,
with the cooperation of the representatives of other
agencies, worked tirelessly until the case was
"cracked"
Once again Macon County has proved to be a
place where "crime doesn't pay".
It Can Be Done
The need for a good physical education program
in the school and for a directed, integrated program
of community recreation during the summer months
long has been felt here,, and has been much dis
cussed.
It was first publicly proposed on July 14 that
the two needs be combined, that a man trained for
this type of work be employed, and that firms and
individuals in the community donate $2,000 to make
the project possible.
By July 24 the $2,000 had been raised by a joint
Rotary-Lions committee, and a director had been
employed. The whole job was done in less than two
weeks !
Those responsible for this commendable project
not only have taken a big step toward solving a
major problem here. They have demonstrated that
this community can do just about anything it wants
to do, and do it quickly, provided the people of the
community waitt it done badly enough.
The moral is that we can make the Franklin com
munity just about the kind of place we would like
it to be. All that is necessary is to know what we
want, and to want it badlv enough.
What's Wrong With Civil Rights?
II
Ouite aside from the question of the need for the
President's so-called civil rights program, and aside
from the political implications and the demogoguery
and hypocrisy exhibited by some persons on both
sides in the current fight over the issue, Mr. Tru
man's program is mis-named and basically wrong
in its approach.
Recause it was drafted, not as a body of funda
mental law for the protection human rights in gen
eral. but admittedly is designed primarily to protect
a specific minority, it really is a Negro civil rights
program, and it should be so labeled.
Furthermore, because it is specific rather than
eeneral, it contains the seeds of the same sort of
evil it seeks to overcome. And because the reform
and the punishment proposed chiefly apply to. and
are aimed at, a particular section of the country,
the program is sectional legislation from the view
point of the prohibitions it would impose, as well as
class legislation from the viewpoint of the protec
tion it seeks to afford.
And what usually is true of class legislation is
true in this case: Such legislation, sooner or later,
penalizes the very class it seeks to benefit ? it robs
its intended beneficiaries, at the least, of character.
In this instance, the Xegro already is suffering a
wrong from which he will be fortunate to recover
in a generation; he is losing ? perhaps already has
lost ? something strong and fine in his racial char
acter.
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Those who glibly refer to the difference in races
as a mere difference in "the color of the skin" are
either unobservant or dishonest. While there are, of
course, individual exceptions, certain weaknesses
an 1 strengths, vice and virtues, are accentuated in
each race.
Among the Xegro's many strengths is patience, an
ability to accept life philosophically: He is not na
turally inclined to indulge in self-pity. But the long
drawn-out fight over civil rights is fa9t tending to
give the Xegro a martyr complex. No enemy could
have done him a worse turn.
And surely loyalty is one of the Negro's admir
able traits: one proof that that virtue is a racial
characteristic is the fact that, though many whites
?n 1 uuiians have proved traitorous, there appears
Iw no rccord in the entire history- of the United
States oi a Negro Benedict Arn61d.
Since the days of Reconstruction in the South,
the Negro has thought of himself as an American
first ; as a rule, he has thought of himself as a Ne
gro only in the sense that some other citizen might
thing of himself as a white man, or a farmer, or a
Westerner.
Rut the crusaders for Negro rights and the South
ern extremists, quite unintentionally, have com
bined forces during the past decade to make the
Nogro race conscious as never before. One illustra
tion is the boast of Walter White that the Negro
has become so unified as a race that his vote this
year will hold the balance of political power in 17
states. A second is that the threat of another Negro
leader that segregation must be abolished in the
armed forces, or the Negro will refuse to register
for the draft.
* * *
Whatever the merits of the civil rights proposals,
and however pure may be the motives of the ma
jority dI" persons on each side of this fight, the chief
results to date have been damage ,to the Xegro's
character and disunity for America.
LETTERS
HIGH COST OF BEING SICK
Editor, The Press:
This was told to me by a person who had first-hand knowl
edge of the incident:
One rainy, slushy, winter night, or rathgr one morning at
2 o'clock, not long ago, a doctor of Franklin, who was called
out in the country on an emergency case, found that he could
not get his car within a mile or more of the patient's home
because ol the condition of the dirt road. There was only one
thing to do, and of course the doctor did that. He took off his
ohoes (slippers), rolled up his trousers, and waded through
mud and melting snow half-leg deep, to the patient.
Now, I'm not trying to show the doctor up as being a martyr,
cas a matter of tact, I'm pretty sure that he wasn't one, be
cause all the martyrs I've ever heard of who set out in the
dead of winter on such medical missions were equipped with
a dog-sled or snow-shoes or skiis, or at least a pair of boots).
I am only trying to show one reason, perhaps, why it is not
practical to treat many rural patients in their homes. With the
scarcity of doctors making his time so valuable, surely it is
most impractical and expensive for even a well dressed doctor
to flounder around in mud and snow for hours trying to get
to one patient when there are dozens waiting on him.
It may be that roads have a little to do with the high cost
of being sick, and surely, if so, it is not primarily the business
of the medical profession to build roads.
CORA TALLEY.
Franklin, N. C.,
July 27, 1948.
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
My Dear Sir:
In various discussions that have been brought up in certain
letters to The Franklin Press recently, the question of socialized
medicine has put in its appearance several times.
You stated that it might be an alternative to the present free,
- open American plan. One of the authors of these letters that
you have been good enough to print stated that, of course, the
government would have to bear the expense of the socialistic,
communistic or collectivist plan. There is only one way that the
money can be raised for such a plan, and that is by the use
of the two most dreaded words in the English language, "more
taxes". Once the collectivists start a program, they never reduce
it, they add to it; pile mistake on mistake, regiment and regi
ment, spend and spend, tax and tax.
The federal government today owes 250 billion dollars, every
rent of which must be paid. There are no short cuts. Germany
and China tried to wipe out their debts by Inflation. Their
linancial houses collapsed in a great mass of worthless paper
money. There is but one way the public can be paid and that
is by work, sweat and taxes. Every government bond outstand
ing will be paid to the last penny, both principal .and interest.
A socialistic pLan of medicine will only add to the burden of
taxes which the people are bearing.
If Governor Dewey, in his capacity as Republican nominee,
goes in as P-resident there is hope for all who desire the reten
tion of quality medical-care for .the American people. In this
regard he is sound, solidly so. In a personal letter he has ex
pressed his opposition to any type of nationalized medical care.
Governor Dewey learned from experience by personally spon
sored research and investigation in New York state at a cost
of $200,000 that medical care cannot be improved by passing
laws of regimentation. The American people could view the
'uture of medical care in this country with a measure of con
fidence if Dewey makes the White House, because of his firm
position against medical compulsion.
oui on me omer nana there Is Earl Warren who stands
firmly on the other side with the propenents of political med
icine. At the Philadelphia convention the Republicans dished
it out hot and cold lor physicians and their patients, first
Dewey then the blasting of soaring spirits with Earl Warren.
Governor Dewey, if elected, has already declared that; Earl
Warren will be a working vice-president, and assistant presi
dent. If elected, Warren will become an important cog in the
administration. The same Warren who said last year, after his
state compulsory Insurance scheme had suffered its last de
feat by a Flight margin, "Before I finish my term as governor,
California will have a compulsory slckn?ss Insurance law".
California does not have such a law as yet and It Is my sincere
nope that California never has such a law, and that iio state
or territory ever has such a law,
The attitude of Harry Truman and his administration is not
known. However, it is my firm belief that Harry Truman would
never sponsor compulsory medical Insurance.
Governor Thurmond, the Dlxiecrat Democrat candidate, is
against socialistic medicine.
Hank Wallace, the left wing Democratic nominee, of course,
Is for the socialistic plan all the way. If he should slip Into the
White House with his communistic following, he would call up
Joe Stalin and ask for a blue print of Stalin's medical scheme.
American medicine under the American plan has made great
strides. There is no doubt but that today it leads the world.
Our only real competitors, the Germans, have lost ten years
through the unwise acts of a leader named Adolph Hitler who
regimented his people and the doctors and carried them
straight down to destruction. No one knows the exact quality
of Soviet medicine but all reports from army medical men who
had an opportunity to observe them indicates that they are
lar behind American free medicine, practiced on a competitive
open basis as it is today.
It Is my humble opinion that socialized medicine will never
happen In these United States, and It is my fervent hope that
American medicine will go forward to greater attainments ex
actly as It has in the last fifty years, in the American way.
Very truly your?,
Franklin, N. C? DR. FURMAN ANGEL.
July 34, 1946.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified aa adminis
trator of AUle Garland, de
ceased, late of Macon County,
N. C., this is to utiqr all per
sona having claims asaiiut the
estate of a?ld deceased to ex
hibit them to tne unueraifcutU
on or before the 2tS day of June,
1949 or this notice will be plead
in bar of their leco.ery. A.l
persons indebted to said estate
will please make Immediate set
tlement.
This 26 day of June, 1948.
JOHN BROWN,
Admin istator
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EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix
if Mary Esther Huger, III, de
ceased, late of Macon County,
-J. C., this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to ex
hibit them to the undersigned
>n or before the 19th day of
July, 1949, or this notice w.ill
be plead In bar of their recov
ery. All persons indebted to |
.aid estate will please make |
mmediate settlement.
This 19th day of July, 1948.
Charlotte Barnwell Elliott.
Executrix
Jly22? 6tp? Aug26
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
GILMER A. JONES, Adm. of the
Estate of ROBERT SCRUGGS,
deceased.
vs. .
ADDIE SCRUGGS; HARLEY
SCRUGGS and wife, CLAUDIA
SCRUGGS; CHARLES B.
SCRUGGS and wife ALICE
SCRUGGS; DORA WOODWARD
and husband, RICHARD WOOD
WARD; SALLIE KEITH, widow;
ROOSEVELT SCRUGGS and
wife, MATTIE SCRUGGS; LIL- 1
LIAN MARTIN, widow; LAURA
JEAN JACKSON, wUow; THEL
MA JACKSON, widow; and
ROBERT SCRUOOS.
It appearing irom the affi
davit oi Gilmer A. Jones, com
missioner in this action that
Harley Scruggs, Claudia Scruggs,
Charles B. Scruggs, Alice
ociuggs, Dora Woodward, Rich
ard Woodward, Sally Keith,
Laura Jean Jackson, Thelma
Jackson and Robert Scruggs are
not to be found in Macon
county and cannot, alter due
diligence, be iouad in uie
oi North Carolina, and it fur
ther appearing that a cause of
action exists against the delun
dants that a sale of lanus oi
the administrator intestate to
make assets to pay the ??debts
and that this is one of the
cases in which service u.
mons may be made by publica
tion:
It is therefore ordered that
summons be served on the said
Harley Scruggs, Claudia Scruggs,
Charles B. Scruggs, Alice
Scruggs, Alice Scruggs, Dora
Woodard, Richard Woodward,
Sallie Keith, Laura Jean u nel
son, Thelma Jackson, ana Kouen
Scruggs by publication and to
mat end that notice of this ac
tion be published once a weetc
for four weeks In the Franklin
Fress, a newspaper published In
Macon County, North Carolina*
setting forth the cause of ac
tion, the purpose of the sanpe
and requiring the defendants to
appear at the office of the Clerk,
of the Superior Court of Ma
con County at the courthouse in
Franklin on the 1st day of Sep
tember, 1948 and answer or de
mur to the complaint of the
plaintiff at the office In Frank
lin, North Carolina.
This 27th day of July, 1948.
J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE.
Clerk of the Superior Court.
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