Newspapers / The Franklin Press and … / March 3, 1949, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of The Franklin Press and the Highlands Maconian (Franklin, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
IJi* ?Sr?M Rltij t , $Ixe Jli^klanto JftarjuusB ? Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. I.XIV Number S WEIMAR JONES ........... ? r Editor BOB 8. SLOAN Business Manager Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. Telephone No. 24 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Six Months Three Months Single Copy Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as advertising and Inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be maked "adv." In com pliance with the postal requirements. $2.00 $1.25 .75 .08 One Thing Lacking AMONG the wealthiest and most highly civilized countries in the world are some that are poor est in natural resources. The explanation, of course, is that they have developed the most important resource of all ? their people. For, as Charles D. Mclver once point ed out, it is "people ? not rocks and rivers and imaginary boundary lir.es" that make a state, or a nation, or a country. iDr. Mclver added that "a state (or a nation or a county) i& great just in proportion as its people are educated"; and he might well have gone on to say that the poorer the natural resources-, the more important education becomes. Here in Macon County we are not without nat ural resources, of course; but certainly we are not as fortunate in that respect as many other areas. For that reason, our school* are doubly important. Macon County, however, is blessed indeed in the one resource that is indispensable ? people. For no body could live here long without being impressed by the quality of this county's citizenship, by the generally high level of character. Furthermore, hardly a week passes without providing new proof of the vast amount of talent that is here. Unfortunately, it also is true that no visitor could fail to be impressed by something else: The number of persons of fine character and great native ability who lack the training to do anything really we'If. ? ? ? Nowhere are there basically finer people ? ask the man who moved here from elsewhere! Nowhere, perhaps, is there more latent talent. On that foun dation, we can create wealth here. And on that foundation we can build a Macon County commun ity ? can build it in a single generation! ? that would be a model for the whcle nation. We have the character. And we have the talent. All that is lacking is. training. But we cannot do it by being .satisfied with schools that "will do". We cannot do it by justifying ourselves because some other county may have worse schools than ours. * We cannot do it bv making our goal the state average, or the Southern average, or even the national average ? they are all too low. And there is nobody to say we must be satisfied with any mythical average. We can do it. But we can do it only if we make up our minds not just to have better schools, but to have the best schools possible ? and then keep on improving them. ? ? ? Among community enterprises, schools come first. Without them, all our other efforts will be fruitless. Our best opportunity lies in the development of the one resource in which we are rich. And we are so rich in that resource ? the most important one of all ? that our possibilities are almost limitless. It is considerations such as these that have prompted this newspaper, in season and out, to talk schools. What is much more important, it is due to con siderations such as these that so many Macon County people stand ready to do whatever may be necessary ? to make any sacrifice, to pay any taxes, to nush aside arvthinp- or anvbodv that stands in in the way ? to get really good schools. Consistency ! North Carolina drys who always have insisted on local option yellim? their heads off for a state wide referendum on the liquor question. Wets who never before have riven a han<* flbont local self-government yelling their heads off for "home rule." And drv*. a few vears aco. and wets, todav, prating of democracy in one breath and loudly I ?rmJug Ja tht o?*t th? t the peoplt should not be given a chance to vote on the question. W? Make A Start ) Late last year Mrs. Eloise G. Potts, county superintendent of public welfare, gave fair warn ing that early in 1949 she would start indicting parents who kept their children out of sohool with out a legitimate excuse. Mrs. Potts has been as good as her word, and to date four convictions have been obtained. That proves several things. It proves, first of all, that the welfare super intendent intends to discharge her responsibility to enforce the compulsory school attendance law. It proves, in the second place, that we have at least made a start toward eliminating illiteracy in this county ? and we could eliminate it completely, among young and old, within a few years, if we really set our minds to it. It proves, too, that this is a better county than the local cynics and pessimists thought. They sol emnly assured us, a few months ago, that nobody ever had been convicted in Macon County of vio lating the compulsory school attendance law, and nobody could be convicted now ? public opinion just wouldn't stand for it. "Better pussyfoot," they suggested ; "don't actually carry a case into court." We'd been pussyfooting for decades, and had got exactly nowhere on this problem. So what's happened proved, finally, that bold action, packed by faith in one's community, is safer in the long run than a timid course of always playing safe. An Enviable Reputation Macon County people are fast winning a repu tation for being progressive and community-mind ed ? and for doing extremely well whatever they set out to do. A list of community accomplishments, even for the past year, would be widely varied and surpris ingly long. To mention only a few: We didn't stop bu\ing U. S. bonds when the war end?d, but are still buying more than our pro portion, according to population, and many more than our proportion, according to wealth. A group here decided we should have a full time athletic coach and physical education director and a stadium at the Macon County school that is situated in Franklin ? and promptly got both. We were assigned a polio quota double that of last year ? and oversubscribed it. And now indications are that a community pro ject of a different nature but quite as important is going to be put over in typical Macon County fash ion ? the N. C. Little Symphony concerts. The or chestra's appearances here are financed through memberships, and far more memberships have been obtained so far than at the same period in any of three .previous years the orchestra has been brought to Franklin; the situation, as of today, .suggests that seats may be at a premium for the evening concert March 22. The symphony movement is fortunate this year, too, in several other respects. In pjist year&, the Macon Theatre management has graciously made the theatre available for the concerts. By using the Methodist church, however, it will be possible to hold the evening concert for members al 8 o'clock instead of 6 or 6:'30. And by using the larger Friendship tabernacle, approximately 400 more school children can be accommodated for the free children's program. It is noteworthy, also, that assurance has been re ceived from state school authorities that school buses legally may be used to transport children from the schools to the concert, whioh will make it possible for many more rural children to hear the children's program than has been true in pre vious years. Letters BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Editor, The Press; You are so enterprising I Congratulations on enlargement and Improvement of The Press; it is a fine paper. Compulsory school attendance comes very late Indeed, but better late than never. Franklin is very fortunate Indeed to have such a fine officer who has mad* such ahd so many important arrests. His rec ord could not be bettered anywhere. Keep up the good work! Yours truly, RENWICK WHITE. AJo, Arlaana, February 21. 1MB. Others' Opinions THE WHOLE TRUTH So long u ntwtpapen "give truth to the public," dectan* JamM M. Oox, "w? can depend on the common -sense and pat riotism of the bum of the people to keep us free." The former Oovernor of Ohio tad one-time Democratic nominee for Pmldent, ?u speaking at the dedication of * new plant to Atlanta, Georgia. Me expreeeed the with that the new preei never "turf into the printed sheet an untruth dtfiber* ?My." Hi Quoted the remuk of Thorn*! JeUtnon thtt, if hi WHCN ?0L0 WAS MSCOVCIUO M CALIFORNIA , THOUSANDS OTAAtEAICANS Iff T THEIR. PAMtun ANO HOMES , TO STAK& EVERVTHINO -EVEN THEM. lives ? OM TMC CHANCE O* FIN 01 NO SOLD. THtY WCRS WILLING TO SACRIFICE ' WHAT fCOAOMIC StCUH/ry THCY , fMJOYSO IN THt HOP T <W I 'STRIKING IT RICH. " ///,/ ... ...J/l Tm* SPIRIT or AOVENTUftC -<v TAKING A CHANCC- REMAINS STROM IN AMERICA. SINCE IMf , HOWEVER, OUR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES HAVE BROADENED GREATLY. The modern *forty-niner* m seeking new fields of ENDEAVOR , PLACES LESS RELIANCE ON CHANCE AND MORE ON THE MEASURED RISK - GREATER RELIANCE ON THE FACTORS OP HARD WORK, INSENUtTV AND THRIFT. had to choose between the press and government, he would say that the press should come first. We are In thorpugh accord with the Ideal expounded by Mr Cox but, it Is necessary tor the press of the nation to go) fur ther than merely to refrain from printing something untAue. The truth, upon which people can depend, must not only include facts but they must be presented in such a balanced manner as to give the reader a correct Impression of the whole pictur^ Involved. It Is quite possible for propagandists to print nothing but the truth yet distort the correct conclusion by suppressing other facts which are also true. We greatly admire newspapers of the United States and the journalists who present them to the public. Nevertheless, there has developed quite a tendency, both on the part of newspa pers and on the part of radio stations, and those connected with them, to over-emphasize incidental facts and occasional occurrences so that the net result! is an untrue picture of the situation as an entity. Herford County Herald. ? Music And Happiness By FRED WARING In The American Press America Is alanmed because there are so many signs of disorders among our people. Crimes of violence are increas ing, divorce Is common, juvenile delinquency if a problem of the whole nation, our mental hospitals are filled to over flowing and the mental disorders not serious enough for confinement are widespread. All this is the result of our living at a faster and faster pace . . . developing more and more problems to which the individual must adjust himself ? without proper prepar ation for life's emotional problems. Our children take scien tific miracles and ease of living for granted. They need to experience the primitive, the wonders of simple things, the tnrill of feeling a kinship with the natural forces in the world They need to plant a seed and marvel at Its growth, to feel the accomplishment of creating something for them selves. They have the finest educational system in the world, but it is not preparing them for all the problems of life. Emphasis is on making a living and "getting ahead" . . . not on finding happiness and peace of mind In the turmoil of modem existence. The seriousness of this was brought out in a recent nation wide survey. The people of America clearly indicated they know every child needs training in self-expression, in the discipline of creating something of his own, in the teamwork of group activities. An overwnelming number of people said music would help provide that training. They thought the opportunity to learn to play a musical Instrument should be given to every child. Yet U was found that less than five per cent of all children get that opportunity in school now . . only one in 20 Is being he!(^d In developing his emotional and social personality through music. Music has been an outlet for the emotional expression of people since prehistoric times. It Is universal, enjoyed by the most primitive savage tribes as well as the most cultur ed people in our civilization. Those who cannot read a line, write their names or add two small numbers enjoy music and find a way to express themselves in song? yet the study of music Is unavailable to a substantial portion of our child ren in the schools. In modern living, there is scarcely a day when we do not encounter music. It Is the llfeblood of radio, an Integral part of every motion picture, and essential In almost every church service, a theme at weddings and funerals, a pleasant back ground in restaurants, a feature of most public entertain ment. The sad fact Is few of us learn enough about music In school to appreciate fully all that we hear, and fewer still benefit from the pleasure and emotional outlet of playing music ourselves. America Is re-evaluating its educational system. The need tor better buildings, facilities and teachers is a matter of national importance. The whole concept of education la un dergoing change, with lncro ling emphasis on the development of the child's personality. la making plant for the future of our children ... for the future of the world ... we must main certain that the personality builders are placed high on the lilt of aenntlali In education. Among all the per sonality feuUdift on* of the most ?ftetlvt Is musio. LEGAL ADVERTISING NOTICE OF SERVICE OF SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION North Carolina Macon County c. d. Mchenry ? V8? louise Mchenry The defendant, Louise Mc Henry, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced In the Sup erior Court of Macon County, North Carolina, to obtain an absolute divorce from the de fendant, and said defendant will * further take notice that she Is required to appear at the office ?>f the Clerk of the Superior Court of Macon County in the Courthouse hi Franklin, North Carolina, within twenty days i.fter the 24 day of March, 1949, ind answer or demur to the complaint In said action, or tlie plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 19th day of February, 1949. J. CLIINTON BROOKHHIRE Clerk Superior Court, Macon County, N. C. ""24 ? 4t ? M17 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT BEFORE THE CLERK NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY M. P. KEENER and wife DIXIE KEENER, et al vs. E. D. CHASTAIN, et al NOTICE OF SUMMONS The defendant, Tom Chastain, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been com menced In the Superior Court of Macon County, North Caroli na, for the purpose of selling for .partition lands in which the defendant has an interest and is a proper party thereto. The defendant, Tom Chastain, will further take notice that he is reauired to appear at the of fice of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Macon County, North Carolina, in Franklin, on the 14th day of March, 1949, and answer or demure to the peti tion of the petitioners, or the relief demanded in said petition will be granted. This 4th day of February, 1949. J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE, Clerk Superior Court, Macon County, N. C. | F10 ? 4tc ? JJ ? M3 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY WFT.T.F. TURPIN VS. ZEB TURPIN NOTICE The defendant, Zeb Turpin, will take notice that an action for absolute divorce, entitled as above, has been instituted by the plaintiff above named in the Superior Court of Macon County, North Carolina. The defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Macon County on April 3, 1949, and answer or demiir to the complaint in said action or the plStot^ff will apply to the Court for thfe relief therein demand ed. This the 8th day of February, 1949. J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE, Clerk Superior Court, Macon County, North Carolina. F10 ? 4tc ? GLH ? M3 NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY Huntsville, Ala., Is a famous cotton manufacturing point. Under and by virtue of the power of sale vested in the undersigned trustee by deed of trust executed by O. W. Dills and wife Bell Dills, dated Aug ust 18, 1948, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, in Book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust No. 42, page 201, said deed of trust having been executed to secure certain indebtedness therein set forth, and default in the payment of said indebtedness having been made, I will on Thursday, March 17, 1949, at 12:00 o'clock noon, at the Court House door in Franklin, North Carolina, sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described land: All the land described in a deed from L. L. Shoek and wife Ollie Shook to O. W. Dills and wife Belle Dills, said deed bearing date of March 10, 1948, and regis tered in the office of Reg ister of Deeds for Macon County, North Carolina, In Book V-5 of Deeds, page 83. This the 14th day of February, 1949. R. S. JONES, Trustee. F17 ? 4tc? JJ? M10 TbRMmn ^ f
The Franklin Press and the Highlands Maconian (Franklin, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 3, 1949, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75