1lkt ' nub Ike JKigblanita Jttntttnmn Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. LXIV Number 30 | WEIMAR JONES Editor BOB 8. SLOAN ; Business Manager Entered at Post Office. Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. Telephone No. 24 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Six Months - $1.25 Three Months .75 Single Copy .08 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. Tolerance And Tax Money THE attacks of Francis Cardinal Spellman, first on North Carolina's Representative Graham A. Barden, and more recently on Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt, are unfortunate: they are likely to halt the movement in this country toward greater tolerance. But since they come from the best known Roman Cittholic leader in this countrv, and since they deal with something that is fundamental in American government, t'hey are significant ? too significant for Americans to, ignore, ostrich-like, even in the in terest of tolerance. * * * Tt is the job of government to provide, through tax monev. free public schools, open to all children. And it is the responsibility of government to see that all children attend school. But an individual has the right, if he wishes, to have hi.5? child educated bv .private tutor. Or a group of parents have a right to establish, and operate their own private school. Tn the same way. the Catholic church has the right to maintain its parochial schools. Catholic parents have the right to send their children to those schools. And, so long as these private o.r paro chial schools meet reasonable educational standards*, * * * no governmental agency nnav demand that these children be sent to the public schools. But this right, like everv right, can be exercised onlv at a price. Tf the individual parent wants a tutor for his child, he must pay the tutor. If a group of parents want a private school for their children, they must pav for it. And if Catholics want their parochial schools, they must pay for them. That is ordinary justice. Any other course would be in violation of the American concept of no special privilege.1-. That is true quite aside from any ques tion of separation of church and state. There is. however, in the current controversy a very definite question of separation of church and state ; for the controversy has to do with the use of public fun-rls for the support of Catholic parochial and other non-public schools. And certainly there are abundant grounds to argue that once tax money is used to. support church institutions. Catholic or Protestant, church and state are inextricably mixed. Yet that, apparently, is exactly what certain fig ures in the Roman Catholic church are demanding. First thev wanted ? -and obtained, in some states ? use of public school buses to transport children to and from the parochial schools. No.w they want public funds for the direct support of parochial schools. The supreme courts in a few states have held that state funds mav he used for the support of paroch ial schools, and the senate has passed a federal aid to-education bill which would permit use of federal aid funds by parochial schools in those states where use of state tax funds for parochial schools is legal. Representative Barden, however, has introduced a substitute bill which wo,uld limit use of federal aid funds to the public schools. In writing this limitation into his bill, Mr. Barden has done nothing more than reiterate what most of us understand the Constitution of the United States to saw But he has been bitterly attacked bv Cardinal Spellman. And, when Mrs. Roosevelt defended the "Barden Bill, the Catholic prelate turned his invec tive on her. What is most unfortunate about the whole inci dent is not that the point should have been raised ? What is unfortunate is that Cardinal Spellman, in stead of applying logic and argument to the issue, has descended to the o.ld trick of attempting to dis credit a cause of a principle by name-calling. He shouts "bigot" and "religious prejudice" at Repre sentative Barden, and he tells Mrs. Roosevelt that she "could have acted only from misinformation, ignorance, or prejudice", and that her stand is in line with her previous "record of anti-Catholicism". Quite as disturbing is a dispatch that quotes Mr. Barden as fearing his bill will not pass because "the controversy has made members (of Congress) very cautioui". It certainly ii a danger signal when any group, Catholic 6 if Protestant, labor or capital, white or Negro, can intimidate congress. * * * Any American, Catholic, Protestant, tor Jew, has a right to his religious beliefs, and to worship God " in his own way. To deny that right is bigotry. Furthermore, Cardinal Spellman or any other Catholic has a right, in his role as a citizen, to ex press himself on political matters; he has a right even to work for the elimination of the constitu tional provision separating church and state. But distinctions need to be drawn. In the first place, the controverted question of how tax money is to be spent is a political, not a religious, issue. I In the second, religious rights do not carry over into the political field. And Cardinal .Spellman has no right to attempt to influence purely political matters under the cloak of religion ? to seek to af fect political decisions by raising the cry of re ligious prejudice. * * * All Americans thank God that this is a land of religious tolerance. We need more of it. But we will no.t get it by name-calling. We will not get it by refusing to face facts. And we will not get it ? at least, we will get only a synthetic sort of tolerance ? by politely dodging every issue that niigfht, bv any stretch of the imagination, involve tolerance. Tolerance is an American fundamental. But it is onlv one of our fundamentals. There; are others equally precious. With Just A Little Effort A person who recently bought property here and moved to Franklin to make his home was over heard. one day last week, in conversation with friends. They were discussing Franklin. "We love it here", the newcomer was explaining. "A beautiful place. And the nicest .people. There's inst one thing . . ." The speaker looked around, then lowered his voice: "Really, thotigh, it's the dirtiest little t?wn I ever saw." The perfectly natural reaction of all of us who live here i.s to deny the charge ; there must be o.ther towns that are dirtier. The natural reaction, too, is to say: "It's none of his business; we have a right to a dirty town if we want it that way". And the final natural reaction is to say : "Nobody made him come here to live". Those are natural reactions to any loyal Frank linite. But isn't the important thing not so much to be loyal to Franklin a?v it is, but to ask ourselves: I.s it true? Is it even approximately true? With just a little effort, we could have a town that visitors and newcomers wouldn't have to whisper about. With iust a little effort, we could have a town they'd talk about out loud : "really, though it's the cleanest little town I ever saw." ? * * One of these days we will ! Up To Asheville! Near "the redlight" (at the Murohv-Heorgia highway intersection) is a road sign: Highlands 21 Asheville 73 Just to the left of the names of the two towns are, as would be expected, arrows. But the arrows point neither right nor left, backward nor forward, south nor east. They point straight up! Now that might be all right for Highlands; for Highlands is certainly a lojig way up from Frank lin. But Asheville! Has the Asheville chamber of commerce stolen in here by night and done this thing to us? Why, Franklin is higher than Ashe ville ? well, if it isn't actually more feet above sea level, at least its farther in the mountains; you cross two mountain ranges between Asheville and Franklin. Our civic pride iANKKROR.THC LAtVYCR.. t /(/ The CREAT ITUMTH OF0OR. nation's EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OCRJVES FROM THE PARTICIPATION AND INTEREST OF THESE LOCAL CITIZENS, WHO ClVC WILLIMOLV Of THEIR TIME AMO TALENTS 10 P.IOV IOC THE BEST POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES POX THEIR. INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES. Others' Opinions POSITIVE CHRISTIANITY Jesus' code of ethics is primarily positive rather than nega tive. He Judged goodness as being good for something rather than ? refraining from doing bad things. Note, for instance, Jesus' list of those who were shut out from heaven's rewards. The Foolish Virgins had not done anything which would be considered bad or to which a chaperone would object. As far as we know, they were nice young women, but they had a duty to perform and they failed to do It. At the moment of privi lege and opportunity, they were not ready. The rich man at whose gate the Beggar Lazarus lay may have been an upright man In his personal character and among his friends, but the call of need came to him and he did noth ing about it. In the parable of the Last Judgment, the persons who went to hell were condemned not because of any positive wickedness but because of what they had not done in minis tering to human need. "Inasmuch as ye did it not" is the word of doom spoken to them. Therefore, in disciplining our lives we should not merely re frain from doing wrong 'things, but we should keep in mind the many good things which we most certainly should do. Each of us has only so much time and so much energy to spend in this world. Let us resolve so to live that we will make the best possible use of our time and energy for the good of others as well as ourselves. Christian living consists primarily in posi tive living for that which is good and right.? Biblical Recorder. THE SOCIAL SECURITY DELUSION At last the social secnrlty cult has thrown off the mask. It now tries to tell us that government handouts are not a privi lege, not an emergency measure, not a humanitarian means of helping those who through no fault of their own have become dependent? the handouts are none of these; they are the right of every citizen. Those statements were made at the National Conference of' Social Work at Cleveland by no less authority than Earl J. McOrath, United States commissioner of education. Moreover, said Mr. McOrath, the citizen can take his social security without losing any Jot of his freedom and it can be "Indefinitely extended." Hear him: "I believe that the history of our nation shows a steady growth In the well-being of our people with a commensurate growth In freedom." Those are true words, but did we get that way on govern ment handouts? We most assuredly did not. We got that way by providing opportunity for every man to rise above his en vironment and find a place in the economic structure that Is commensurate with his own abilities, his own energy, his own determination to improve his situation. We got that way, in short, by adhering to the natural law of Incentive, of reward for effort. In Europe, where they have had social security for decades, the people have neither the opportunity nor the inceptive to rise above their environment. A waiter is always a waiter. He seldom has a chance to open his own restaurant. A mechanic remains a mechanic. He seldom opens his own garage. The money and capital are In the hands of one class, and stay there. The rest are laborers and they stay In that class. Because of that hard and fast class division, capitalism as the Europeans understand It, is entirely different from Amer ican free enterprise. Europeans have never seen real free en terprise; consequently, they think the American system is the same as their abominable cartels. When we try to explain free enterprise to them, they think of class divisions and cartels and turn away from It to socialism. And the German workman, .with 20 per cent of his wages deducted for various kinds of social security, never even dreams of driving his own automobile. But Mr. McOrath tells us that social security can be "In definitely extended" without loss of any personal freedom by the citizen, because, forsooth, the government does not specify how he is to spend the money. We are already losing our personal freedom for social se curity. How is the government getting the money to pay for those benefits? It gets the money by garnlsheeing our wages and salaries without due process of law, and If that Is not a loss of personal freedom we'# like to 'hear somebody's defini tion of It. No property is more personal and private than a man's wages. When we gave the government the right to dip Into our pay envelopes before we ever see them, we surrendered the right to control our most Important private property? our means of living. When a man has lost control over his private property, he has lost all of his liberties? not Just some of them. That old cabal about property right* vs. human rights Is the VtriMt nonsense, because property rights are human rights. -Tfe* Charlotte Obeervir. LEGAL APVEE1U1WQ NOTICE OP ?*" NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY tinder and by virtue of the power of sale contained In a certain deed ot trust executed by E. C. Wood and bis wife, Mamie Wood, dated the 7th day of June, 1947, and recorded In Book No. 40 at page 191, In the Office of the Register of Deeds ot Macon County, North Caro lina, default having been made In the payment of the Indebted ness thereby secured, and said deed of trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure, and the holder of the indebted ness thereby secured having re quested foreclosure thereof, the undersigned Trustee will offer for sale and sell at public auc tion to the highest bidder for cash at the Courthouse door In Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina, at 12:00 o'clock noon, on Monday, the 1st day of Aug ust, 1949, the property conveyed in said deed of trust, the same lying and being in Highlands Township, Macon County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a stake on the East bank of the Short off Road in the South line of C. L. Wood's property, said stake being situated South 74 deg. 30 min. West 352 feet from the Southeast corner of C- L. Wood's prop erty; runs thence, with the East bank of said Shortoff Road, North 35 deg. 15 min. West 152 feet to a hemlock; thence North 74 deg. 30 min. East 290 feet to a stake; thence South 35 deg. 15 min. East 152 feet to a stone in the South line of C. L. Wood's property; thence, with said line, South 74 deg. 30 min. West 290 feet to the BEGINNING, containing one (1) acre, more or less. This being the same land described In the deed from C. L. Wood and wife, Sarah Wood, to E. C. Wood and wife, Mamie Wood, dated 1 June, 1940, and recorded in Deed Book E-5, page 366, Records of Macon County, North Caro lina. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding unpaid taxes. This the 28th day of June, 1949. J. H. STOCKTON, Trustee Jly7? 4tc? J&S? Jly28 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NOTICE OF MOTION NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY CHARLES E. PALMER, Plaintiff, vs. LOUISA E. PALMER, Defendant. TO CHARLES E. PALMER and JONES & JONES, HIS ATTOR NEYS, Sirs: Please take notice that the defendant, LOUISA E. PALMER, is appearing specially for the purpose of this Motion, and for no other purpose, and is filing a written Motion, copy of which is hereto attached, requesting an order striking out the judgment heretofore made, at the De cember Term, 1948, ef the Su perior Court of Macon County, and dismissing the above en titled action, for the reasons set forth in said Motion. - Take further -notice, that the defendant will cause said Mo tion to be presented to the Honorable Judge holding 'the regular August Term of the Superior Court for Macon Coun ty, at the Court House, Frank lin, North Carolina, on the 22nd day of August, 1949, at 10:00 o'clock in the forenoon, or aa soon thereafter as counsel can be heard for argument and de termination. This the 6th day of July, 1949. /s/ T. A. UZZELL, Jr. /s/ J. M. HORNER, Attorneys for Defendant Jlyl4? 4tc? 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