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VOL. LXIII Number thirty-nine
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Ln Memoriam
\17HAT would be most appropriate as a memorial
* * to the young men of Macon County who gave
their lives for their country?
It should be something that will serve youth ?
for most of those w"ho died were young.
It should he something that will contribute to the
upbuilding of Macon County ? for those young men
loved Macon County. -.wdhk
It should be something that is not merely orna
mental, but something of use ? for those young men
were realistic folk.
It should be something that will last ? for their
memories deserve perpetuation.
It should be something that, by spreading en
lightenment, will tend to destroy the curse of war ?
for unenlightened war claimed these young lives.
And it should be something, surely, that will en
rich men's spirits? for it was a flame within these
young men's souls that carried them on their un
flinching way to death:
What one thing, more than any other, fits those
specifications?
Is it not education?
It has been three years since the last of these 70 |
young Macon County men laid down their lives that '
you and I, and those of generations yet unborn,
might live in freedom.
Three years, ahd we have done nothing, as yet, to
perpetuate their memories!
It was not because we did not care, that we have
done nothing. It was because we were busy. Even
more, it was because we "have been waiting for
someone to suggest the form of the memorial, and
to take the leadership.
The local post of the American Legion now has
done both.
The Legion proposes a fund ? to which every
man, woman, and child in this county is invited to
contribute ? to lie dedicated to the education of
Macon County youth.
The principal of t'he fund ? the nickels and dimes
of children, and the dollars and hundreds of adults ?
will never be spent ; it will be kept intact, to be in
vested by trustees.
The interest from this fund will be available to
assist worthy young men and women of Macon
County to obtain higher education.
But those young men who died would not have
favored pampering youth, and so this help to am
bitious young people will be. in t'he form of loans.
As the loans are repaid, the principal will in
crease ; and thus, as the years go by, this memorial
to our war dead will grow larger and larger, mak
ing it possible for an ever-greater number of young
men and women ? no matter how poor they may be
? to enjoy the blessings of education.
* * *
Could you and I ? even if there had been no
World War 2 ? contribute to a worthier cause?
Could you and I better express our gratitude to
the young men to whom we owe so much?
And could you and I find a better way to make
sure that there are capable hands, among the men
and women of tomorrow, to pick up and carry for
ward the torch those 70 men of yesterday carried
so well, so far . . . ?
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The Air Show
This is an air age. To be strictly ground-minded
today is to attempt to live in an era that is past.
And so this community is in the debt of those in
dividuals and organizations responsible for bring
ing an air show to Franklin ; because the show
tended to give us a much clearer idea of the impor
tance of aviation in American life.
All of us, of course, have known about airplanes
and air travel for years. To a lot of us the show was
enlightening, nevertheless, for. even in this remark
lable twentieth century it still is true that "seeing is
believing".
And few of even the most air-minded of us had
any idea of what is happening in the way of avia
tion right here in Franklin: Since January 1, 278
visiting planes have been at the airport here; dur
ing that period ships of the Macon Flying Scrvice
have flown 43,000 air passenger miles of chartered
service, and 7,680 miles of sight-seeing service ; and
flight instruction totaling 730 air hours has been
given to G. I.'s, and 50 hours to non-veterans.
Peace In A Calloused World?
Are the following incidents true indications of the
moral fibre of our citizenry?
A casual survey will show that at least three
young people here had their dogs run over by auto
mobiles last week. So what ? .Dogs get killed in this'
manner every day.
Just this:
The thfee young dog owners were a veteran who
lost his eyesight in the war ? his puppy was a con
stant companion and a great source of satisfaction ;
a young girl whose dog had been her friend and
companion since early childhood; another school
girl who had lost three canine friends previously
via the auto or poison route. The fact that these
dogs were pedigreed, valuable animals is not the
point ; they were valued by their owners as friends
and not for their monetary worth.
The condemning feature of these incidents is
that in not one of the three cases did the car oper
ator stop either to see how badly the dog was hurt
or explain to the owner how the incident occurred.
It requires a little of the milk of human kindness
to care whether the "d ? ilog" lived or not. It re
quires a certain amount of courage and moral re
sponsibility to stop your car and explain to an
owner that you have killed his dog and offer to
make amends in any way possible.
It is easier to drive on, but it helps to form a
callous ? a callous which acts as a barrier to the ex
change of the little human kindnesses between in
dividuals, and eventually between all the peoples
on this earth. On such a human foundation rests the
hope for eventual peace,
* LETTERS
FAVORS RULES FOR BICYCLISTS
Editor, The Press:
As always, people wait to lock the barn yjntil after the horse
is stolen.
I have been thinking what might be done in this commun
ity to prevent the reoccurrence of last week's accident which
cost the life of one of our young boys.
We must tighten our enforcement of the regulations govern
ing operation of motor vehicles, of course, but it seems to me
we also should have strict regulations for bicyclists.
My suggestion would be a city ordinance forbidding any one
under 12 years of age to ride a bicycle orn the city srteets, and
requiring children over 12 who wish to ride on the streets to
tike a test, to be given by the local police department, on the
rules of the road This test, I believe, should be very similar
co that required of auto operators. A child would have to know
what all the traffic signs meant and be required to have a
license in his pocket at all times when operating a bicycle on
the streets.
I also believe bicyclists should be arrested for traffic viola
tions the same as you or I would while driving our cars, and
that, after repeated violations, the child should lose his license.
I hope that something will be done before there is a reoc
currence of last week's tragedy.
D. C. CARR.
BLOTCHES ON YOUNG MINDS
Editor, The Press:
You don't know what I think unlesa I tell you.
I want to speak out against what are called "funny papers",
and aren't funny, and the pictures on the screen that our
youth ase entertained with. We first blot their young minds
when they are most Impressionable with distorted, ugly crea
tures of every kind. Why don't we give them the real thing,
which is beauty and truth, Instead of deception and lying? We
send our children to school to get knowledge, and we trust it's
higher quality than they get at home. But I say no teacher
can erase the blotches already stamped on these young minds
and make them clean and white for the good, the true, the
beautiful. Go to Nature that reveals our God in such a wonder
ful way, from the everlasting hill to the smallest flower that
in color and fragrance gives glory of the creator of it all.
I think there are others of my way of thinking, but we just
keep quiet and let that avalanche of trash flow down over us
and do nothing about it, Instead of setting fire to It and burn
ing it up.
If I were encouraged a little, I would fight this evil. I think
it is like giving poison and following it with an antidote.
Very truly I mean all this.
MRS. HENRY SLAOLE.
Franklin, N. C.
R. F. D. No. 1,
September 13, 1948.
Others' Opinions ?
"IN FINE"
This will be one of the "short" months? SO day*. Remember
the old rhyme??
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone.
Which hath but twenty-eight. In fine,
Till leap y*ar gives It twenty-itine."
I don't know how I'd ever keep up with the number of days
In each month had I not as a child learned those lines. I've
often wondered what the phrase "In fine"? In the next to the
last line? means. I asked a teacher one time and her explana
tion was that the poet had to have something to rhyme with
twenty-nine. Oood enough reason for dropping it in at that
place, I suppose. If anybody who reads this ever heard of Its
being used in any other connection, I'd like to have the ref
erence? Miss Beatrice Cobb in Morganton News-Hearld.
' NEW HONOR
Mississippi has pledged her electoral votes to the Thurmond
Wrlght ticket. Immediately Senator Howard McOrath, chair
man of the Democratic National committee, puts out the Infor
mation that Truman may come to Mississippi on his speaking
tour. He may come to Alabama, too.
This Is the first time. In the history of the state, that such
an honor has ever threatened us. We shall hardly know bow to
deport ourselves under the weighty necessity of receiving a
president on a campaign tour.
In short, the old, old saying that "Mississippi Is in the bag"
has been proved erroneous. The state Is definitely not In the
bag any longer. If President Truman wants the votes of Mlss
isslppians, he's going to have to work for them with might and
main and more than likely hell be disappointed, even then.
We don't think that Mlssissippiant, by larga, are going to vote
(or Dewey any faster than they are going to vote for Truman.
A few here and there may cast a Republican vote, but not
many. Traditions and prejudices lie deeply rooted.
But these same traditions and prejudices have been mocked
and shocked by Truman, head of the Democratic party, and
that hurt has stung Mississippians as little else is capable of
doing They are going to vote the Thurmond-Wrlght ticket or
we are much mistaken.? Laurel (Miss.) Leader -Call.
NOT FOR MAKING WAR
The young men now going forth to register for the draft
are opposed to war There isn't a lad among them that wants
a war or wants to participate in war Every mother and every
mother's son wants peace.
Well, that 4s the business on which they are now to be en
gaged. These boys go Into training, not to make war, but to
keep the peace.
Here arises an old dispute. It has been argued in the past
that armies are made for war. 8ome have gone so far as to
say that the mere making of aimies makes war. When kings
ruled for power and glory for themselves this was true. Where
a people rule for their own benefit, the ooposite is true.
Do we train policemen to make war? When we call out the
militia to disperse a mob, is that making war? We maintain
the police, we call out the militia, to keep the peace. Hardly
anyone except perhaps the war-making mob disputes that now.
We know now that if we had had the army and the will to
stop the Fascists in Europe, those makers of war, before they
built up their strength, the last war would have been escaped.
The army that accomplished that purpose would not have been
making war. It would have been putting down gangsters, mak
ing peace.
The old Idea was that we work at war, but that peace can
take care of Itself We have fought our wars with energy, then
the war over, have gone off and left the peace. While we neg
lected to work at peace, the next war stole up on us. How
tragically we let that be so when we deserted the League of
Nations, 30 years ago, gave no heed to sustaining the peace.
It is a militia for keeping the peace we begin to set in mo
tion now. The least war-like of nations begins to be actively
peace-like now. It is a function is which every patriotic youth
can take pleasure, in which he can be proud
It presents a hope for peace to comfort every mother, a
right to pride and pleasure as she sees her boy march away?
not to make war, but to defend the peace.? Atlanta Journal.
POETRY CORNER
Conducted by
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE
WeavervUle, N. C.
Sponsored by AshevUle Branch, National League of American Pen Women
HIGHLANDS FALLS
Have you ever seen It
Highlands Falls? J
It's a beautiful sight to see.
It should be a picture to many more
People like you and me.
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It's nature at its very best,
Ood's masterpiece, sublime
In art no man could paint.
It took the Hand? divine!
W. EUNICE FREEMAN.
N. C.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
' ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as adminis
trator C. T. A. of T. B. Crunkle- '
ton, 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 undersign
ed on or before the 13 day of
August, 1949 or this notice will
be plead in bar of their recov
ery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make im
mediate settlement.
This 13 day of August, 1948.
EARL CRUNKLETON,
Administrator, C. T. A.
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EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix
of Robert M. Rlmmer, deceased,
late of Macon County, N. C.,
this is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them
the undersigned on or before
the 7 day of September, 1949
or this notice will be plead in
bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will
please make Immediate settle
ment.
This 7 day of September, 1948.
ALICE RIODON RIMMER,
Executrix.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
OF SUMMONS
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
CHARLES E. PALMER
T ?.
LOUISA E. PALMER
The defendant, Louisa E.
Palmer, will take notice that an
action entitled as above has
been commenced in the Super
ior Court of Macon County for
the purpose of securing an abso
lute divorce for the plaintiff,
Charles E. Palmer.
Said defendant will further
take notice that she Is required
to appear at the office of the
Clerk of Superior Court of Ma
roe County, North Carolina, at
the Courthouse in Franklin,
North Carolina, on the 13 day
of October, 1048, and answer or
demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff will ap
ply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
This 8 day of September, 1948.
J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE,
Clerk Superior Court.
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE OF SUMMONS ?
NORTH CAROLINA,
MACON COUNTY,
MACON COUNTY
8ALLY LKDFORD and husband.
MACK LEDFORD,
ED GUY and wife L ?
GUY, and IKE GUY
The defendants, Sally Ledford
and husband. Mack Ledford, Ed
Guy and wife Guy,"
and Ike Guy, will take notice
that an action entitled as above,
has been commenced In the Su
perior court of Macon County,
North Carolina, for the purpose
of foreclosing a tax lien on
property In Macon County,
North Carolina, and in which
the defendants have an Inter
est, and are proper parties
thereto.
It is further ordered by the
court that the defendants, Sally
Ledford and husband, Mack
Ledford, Ed Guy and wife,
? Guy, and Ike Guy
are required to appear at the
office of the Clerk of the Su
perior court of Macon County,
North Carolina, at his office In
Franklin, on the 11th day of
October, 1948, and answer or
demur to the complaint of the
plaintiff, or the relief demand
ed in said complaint will be
granted.
This the 9th day of Septem-'
ber, 1948.
J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE,
Clerl? Superior Court.
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