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Iks JUmkUii ??b (jttktoniitis Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press VOL. LXTV Number S7 At Franklin, North Carolina ; WEIMAR JONES Editor BOB 8. SLOAN Business Manager Ente~d at Post Office, Franklin, N. C? as second class matter. Telephone No. 24 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year I $2.00 Six Months $1.26 Three Months 1 .75 Single Copy ? _ .00 For Boys and Girls i (Reprinted from The Press of August 29, 1946.) *J*HIS is written to and for the most important people in Macon County ? the 4,000 children who have just returned to .school. Except for size and "years, you boys and girls are much like adults. And, like adults, you want to he like everybody else. If all the other boys wear shoes to school, you don't want to, go barefoot. And if all the other gi^ls wear kerchiefs on their heads, you aren't going to be caught at school wearing a hat. But, because humans are contradictory beings, you also, want to be different. There can be only one best-dressed girl in school, and being the best-dressed girl i.s being different : yet everv other girl in school envies her. Only one student can make the best marks. an:l making the best marks makes a student different ; yet most students try for that honor. There can be but one captain of the ball team : yet that is a difference that the other bays would give their right arms to have. Fortunately, there are many other ways in which all of us would like to be different. There are three verv important ways in which you can be different without the money it takes to be well-dressed, with out a brilliant mind, or without an athlete's body. ***** The first of these ways is by being courteous. Th"re was a time when the words "Southern" and "courtesy" usually went together. But today in the South we are inclined to shove and push in ahead of the other fellow like people do elsewhere, and many of us are forgetting our "sirs" and "ma'ams" when speaking to older persons. Of course it isn't what we say that matters so much as how we say it ; but those words are important because they ex press something that, if we are courteous, comes from inside. The really important question is: Are you, in your little every day actions, thinking most of your self or of the other fellow? It probably is true that today there is more real cotirtesv in the Southern mountain regio.n than anywhere in the United States. Let's hold on to that distinction ! The second way you can be different is a little harder. It is by doing whatever you do well. There probably never has been a time when so many per , sons were doing so much shoddy work ? in the school, on the farm, in the factory; and. never a time when employers were so willing to pay a bon us for good workmanship. To do a thing really well takes o.nly a little more effort than to do it merely well enough to get by, but the rewards for good work are many, many times greater. The third way is hardest of all ? but it's well worth the extra effort. The third way is to be hon v est. It is true that few of us make a practice of lying or stealing. But real honesty is something much bigger than merely not doing these things we all know to be wrong. Genuine honesty is being your own best self ? not trying to be somebody else. To. be honest, you must be ready to admit, once you are convinced of it, that you are wrong, and the other fello.w is right. Honesty means being willing to look squarely at the truth ? at such impleasant truths, for instance, as the fact that you can't make good marks without hard work, and that what your school and your teacher do for you aren't half as important as what you do for yourself. ***** Courtesy. Good workmanship. Honesty. If you can learn these three while you are in school, you will be paid handsomely for them all your lives. They are differences that mast people envy and everybody respects. And. most important of all, if you have these, you will respect yourself. Vital Job ' Most 'iklt$h people will join heartily Iri wlihlng Mrs. Florence S. Sherrili Success as she assumes her duties today as covlttty home demonstration ?..agent. ' ' ? > That wish, in part, Will be a deserved personal tribute. Even more, however, it will be a recogni tion of the vital part the home demonstration clubs play in this community; for these clubs* have pri marily to do with home-making, and it is generally agreed that the solution of most of our present-day problems lies in the building of better homes. The home agent's job is one of the most impor tant in the county. In a sense, it is even more im portant than that of the farm agents. For while thev seek to aid farmers to make a better living, the home agent's task is to aid their wives to make a better life. Please Sign Your Name The Press continues to receive communications that are unsigned, and once again readers are re minded that all unsigned communications are con signed to the waste basket. Bo.th news items and letters to the editor are wel comed. but we must know the source of everything published. While it is not necessary, as a rule, to publish the names of persons sending in news, we must know from whom news comes : otherwise, we have no way of knowing whether it is genuine. " As to letters to the editor, on rare occasions, where the facts are unquestioned and the subject is not controversial, we can publish a letter under an assumed name. We much prefer, however, that all letters carry the real name of the writer, and in no case can we publish a letter unless we know, and have o.n file, the real name and address of the author. Credit Due The interesting article o.n research at Coweeta ?hit appeared on last week's editorial page of The ^??ess was by James R. Daniels, of New York and Franklin. Tt was taken from The Raleigh News and Observer. The credit line was inadvertently dropped when the type was placed in the page form. The Press regrets the omission and hastens to give credit for so excellent a description of the unique wo.rk being done at Macon's experimental forest. POETRY CORNER Conducted by EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE Weavervllle, N. C. Sponsored by Ashti'ilU Branch, Notional Ltagu t of American Pen Women NEVER LOST No good aim is lost Though it may be delayed. From ashes of failure New courage is made. ELIZABETH FIELD Asheville, N. C. Others' Opinions CALLED TO WORK Dallas Community Guidance Clinic, they call it. A young man comes in and wants advice about What line of work he should follow. He Is sent to somebody who has established himself In some business, trade or profession, and there they talk it over together? boy and man. If education is really fitting the individual to life, surely this Influence is goad. Because, you see, a young man U not fitted to life if he chooses his work merely for the money that is in it. On the other hand, if he looks into a calling and sees it as an opportunity to serve his day and age?sees it as a way to help make a better world while he is earning bread and butter for himself and his loved ones? that young man is really fitting himself to life. Don't think that the youth gets all the benefit out of this sort of contact. The man at his desk or counter or work bench who is visited by a fine, upstanding, clean lad gets Inspiration out of it. He knows that he is looking at the future of America when he looks into those clear young eyes. It takes the hum drum out of your day to have a visit from hope and high re solve. It is something of a thrill to meet young Mr. Great heart and give him a few road directions as he starts out on his pilgrim's journey? Dallas Morning News. PROTEST HOLLYWOOD FORMULA We see by the papers that special detectives are objecting to Hollywood portrayals of the "private eyes" of the world. They would like for the men with the dramatic cameras to portray the breed minus slugglngs, Scotch, blondes and cold showers. We sympathize with the hired-snoopers? newspapermen have been wishing for a similar break for a long time. We're still wishing. Like the detectives, newspapermen would like to be portrayed without slugglngs, Scotch, blondes and cold showers? not to mention arguments with city editors, single-handed solutions to major mysteries and shouting "do this or else" to all concerned. We've often thought a nice quiet, philosophical movie about a weekly newspaperman who builds a good solid business and helps build his community, would be appropriate. The movie could show the average conflicts which any community news paper editor sometimes faces, might show him uncovering the once-ln-a-llfetlme big story between making collections from the slow-moving account and selling a full-page ad to the town's progressive merchant. In the long run we can only solace oureelvei and advise our private detective friends to do likewise. To them we might say, forget it. You won't change the scheme of things anyway. Besides, we rather like seeing a "private eye" slugged once in a while? on the screen, that Is-even If It doesn't happen often in real life. And maybe they enjoy seeing a reporter slapped around. ?Publishers' Auxiliary. OUR DBMOcTaCY ? -byM?t I dfonstvkuU ~ Somber IT CnTHIS UAVIN 1737, TV. C J;!VI <i- TS!* tlMltEO STATES . v.A?coMPLETea?.ii)::;.. 1 r..*j r.-iccesirtc TO GUIDE THEM, f.'O J-W. , CRN *.0 : 1 CV.'? V(? tKlgSA.. J TO THE CONVENTION HAD SCCCr C'ZO IN FORMULATING A DOCUMENT SO SOUND IN ITS fc-ASIC CONSTRUCTION, YET SO FLEXIBLE IN PRACriC?.TI|,.|- IT IIAS SERVED OUR COUNTRY WOO. FOR MORE THAN |60 YEARS. ALEXANDER HAMILTON SHAKING &EFORE THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION Today, as throughout our history, we must upholo THE PHILOSOPHIES AND WAV OF LIFE SET FORTH IN THE CONSTITUTION AS A SURE WAV TO MAINTAIN THE DYNAMIC EVOLUTION OF OUR. DEMOCRACY. FACTS IMPORTANT To The Historiographer (EDITOR'S NOTE? This is the tlhlrd of three articles by Silas McDowell furnished the Maccm County Historical Society by Mr. McDowell's niece, Mrs. Albert Skaggs, Sr., of Portland, Oregon. The article, Mrs. Skaggs explained, was published in "The Expoeler" in June, 1873. She added that the T. C. D. re ferred to was T. C. Draper, of Madison, Wise., and that the John H? was Jolin Hall. It was Mrs. Hall who told where the "Black-Hole" battleground was situated. (This is tihe final article of the series submitted to the His torical Society in connection with its recent contest.) By silas Mcdowell t T ,c- . of Madison, Wis- , consin, who is writing the life a? Sumter' of Revolution. , ary War notoriety, and as he wanted to establish the point in . the Tennessee Valley, in Ma con County, where the Chero- j kee Indians at some defile at- I WiCHiftm^Ited. the army of Gen Williamson in the summer of ilii wr.ot? , t0 me some weeks asked assistance In lo of In8 t defUe ln our valley or the Tennessee River. riiHnr lhC 1,ast flfty yea" tra dition has located that battle lrM? I)?t far from Smith's IvinM'i n,ne?r ten miles above Franklin, and I immediately re P Bed to Mr. D-, informing^ I. ^ c'- a short time he replied that tradition was in er rernraHndt?COrltradlCted a written ~ the marching ^2 ? ?en Williamson's hnHio T^,S record located the battle below and not above he^nt"' Snd ln proof of thls I diar^ in than ?X,tract from the a figures fOUOWlng words "Sept. lflth 1776? March all I eaym? Warwoman Creek, cross ed Blue Ridge at a low gap and 1 1 camped at the foot of a'moun ?J!5L17: 1767? This day we I X ,to Grassy Plains, 16 1 1 miles and camped. II 1776 ? This day we w fl 0Wn the rlver. pass Forks and^,UthK and North town wL he bur?ed Indian S'o 2uassee' and reached ^ ' Whe? ?en- Rutherford n? ! l a detachment to care I sick and wounded. This day we marched 12 miles. y Sept. 19, 1776 ? This day we th^lndiR0"? th* rlver toward ,an town called Can nutta, six miles, and there en- I tered the Black Hole, enclosed om three sides; had a battle I with the Indians and returned to Cowee with our wounded." I frfrfm?urs,e thls Proves all our ed thn?S lak^,that have ><*?" battle near Smith's Bridge, but it furnished me a and? to rthh ttUf battle-8round; a way taVe f?Und and ln .B^mbertng that an old Jady (the widow of John H? ) ?ad sp*n1t her girlhood some town the old Ind?? town of Cowee, i thought it the indi th*f 8he 1x8(1 heard of the Indian town of Cannutta Sen wmiamJh? deflle where' wen WUUamMn'g army was at wlth Mri? uhftdJln lntervlew in . Hr whlch resulted tow tag MU tM Kl" ? SKT.fi dW you ever hear the Indifni 82! ??}r ** <"*? S?e replied, "I have." I Then { uked, "How ftr wu hat town below Cowee?" She replied, "It must be near lifteen miles." "What was the name of that ;own," I then asked. "Oh, I have forgotten its name t is so long ago since I have haard It, but |iv? ma tiM W think," and olasping htr fori* head betwixt her nandli she bowed her head lot lor more than a minute, then suddenly raising It (with flashing black eye3) she exclaimed, "(Mi, I ? / ? i , r-.o" , the tndians named .t E-Qu:h-ne ee." My next question was, "Did you ever hear of an old battle ground where the Indians at tacked our troops between Co wee and E-quah-netee?" She answered, "Yes, and have been over that, battle-ground frequently. The old Indian trail that passed through It, and on over the mountain, was more than a mile shorter than the pike-road down along the river and around the point of the mountain, ro Mr. H? and my self always went that way, If on horseback, when visiting my father. I replied, "But how did you know It to be a battle-ground?" The old lady answered, "Be cause Mr. H? told me so. His father was a clergyman and served as chaplain for the South Carolina army.' His name was also John H? , and his brother, James H? , was chap lain for the North Carolina army. Mr. H? has described to me how the Indians sur rounded the army on three sides, after it entered that dark hollow, a ridge on each hand and the top of the .mountain in front. Our men whipped them and from this cause: the army was below the Indians, BAUXITE PRODUCER '* The state of Arkansas pro duces most of the bauxite In the country. In agriculture it ranks high. The state is also endowed with great forest wealth. LEGAL ADVERTISING EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of LilUan Rose Slater, 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 1st day of September, 1950, 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 1st day of September, 1949. PERCIVAL B. SLATER, Executor. S8 ? 6lc ? JJ? 014 NOT DUTY, BUT GRATITUDE Where they will be most often .seen, two bronze plaques will be erected on either side o.f the Courthouse door, one bearing the names of the veterans of World War I, the other bearing the names of the veterans of World War II, who lost their lives in the service. The scho.pl children and a few individuals have already contributed $120.00 toward the plaque to the veterans of World II, but the total cost will be $975.00 for both. It is hoped that no drive to raise the remainder of this money will be neces sary, but that each school room, each church, each Sunday School class, each civic organiza tion, and each individual in the county will help according to their desire ? according to the depth of their gratitude. The form of the memorial was decided upon by representatives o.f the American Legion, Amer ican Legion Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign War.s, and Macon County Memorial Association, but it will be erected by the people at large ? it will be their tribute. Some may not agree with the form of the memorial, conscientiously believing that a more practical, a living memorial should be created. , Such a memorial exists to the memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice in World J, in the form of a students' memorial loan fund which be gan with $1,000.00 a number o.f years ago and which now amounts to more thdn $4,500.00. This fund has aided nine young men and women of Macon County in securing a higher education. If more than enough is raised to p&y for the plaques it will be added to this trust fund in memory of the veterans of World War II and will be made available to all deserving and needy young women and young men of Macon County who desire a higher education. Let's give according to the .depth of o,ur grati tude. Contributions may be made to the following: H. W* Cabe, Treasurer, Macon County Memorial Association. Weaver Shope, Commander, Veterans Foreign Wart. Woodrow ShOpe, Adjutant, Veterans of Forelgh Wars. Mrs. Lon Dalton, President, American Legion Auxiliary. Gilmer A. Jones, Chairman, Macon County Memorial Assn. Pritchard Smith, Finance Officer, American Legion. Hoyt Evans, Chaplain, American Legion.
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