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Ik> JffiM;.'. *?b (Ek* Jliglilaitb* ': i Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina VOL. UUV WEIMAR JONES BOB 8. SLOAN ... Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class mat.er. 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 snd inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." in com pliance with the postal requirements. Editor ..Business Manager $3.00 *1.25 .75 .00 Fine Showing Franklin's high school football team pave a thrill to the hundreds of persons who. attended last Fri day night's game. And word of the local players' victory quickly spread among those who were un able to be present, giving the whole town a feeling of pride. There was good individual playing by the Frank lin boys : more important, there was excellent team Somewhat less spectacular, but involving just as much painstaking effort and also requiring perfect teamwork, were the efforts of the high school band, making i'.s first public appearance. Director Beck and members oS the band are to be congratulated upon such a good showing in so short a time. Th? cheer leaders worked hard and effectively, and added their bit to the color of the occasion. And behavior of the crowd was exemplary ? except in one particular, and that was a bit of thoughtlessness. From habit, many persons left the .statium seats to go on the field. With .plenty of seats now avail able. there is no need for persons to. stand on the sidelines; furthermore, it isn't quite fair to those in the stands. School authorities will find prompt cooperation from the public, we are sure, in insisting hereafter tint no r.ne be permitted on the field except play ers and football officials. work. Farewell To Freedom Science has brought many blessings to man, voti saw Nuts! To the women, maybe. But to, men? ? we're oppo.v;d to science and all its works. Just take, for instance, the latest .product of the P. F. Goc lrich company. It's a dish- washing glove. "The idea", explains the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "is that if van give a housewife a good grip on a d'.sh, rv*v? won't dro? it and break it." The further idea appears to be that, in a household where there is a pair of these dish washing gloves, there just won't bo anv excuse for breaking dishes. We're ag'in it ! It's wron;*! It'* unAmerican! Why, it's down right unconstitutional! The wf/nen may not know whv it's all these things, but most small boys and all husbands will. For it's onlv the ladies' fear for their dishes that keeps us males free. It's taken vears and years and a lot of broken dishes finallv to convince them that we iust can't be trusted. Now .science would wipe all that out ! * * * Whv. iust look at us! We're beginning to get "dishpan hands'' already! Worth Thinking About We've heard a great deal in recent months about what a dismal failure the British experiment in so cialism ha.f? proved. We've heard, too, that Great Britain is finished, the inference invariably being that its present plight is due almost entirely to its socialistic experiment. And we've been to.'d and told and told that it is the socialistic extravagance of the British Labor government that makes Amer ican aid necessary. When the prophets of gloom so regularly ignore the fact that Great Britain has been through a ter rific war, and that it's plight would be terrible, re gardless o.f its form of government, one cannot help thinking these prophets either are dishonest or are wishful thinkers. And if they aren't exactly straight-forward in their thinking about one aspect of the situation, isn't it possible they are no more accurate in their conclusions on other aspects? However that may be, one Arthur B. Phelpi, ft Canadian visiting in Britain, presents ft picture of the British situation that is in rather striking con trast with the picture fts it has generally been ptinted. In a letter to the London publication, New Statesman and Nation, Mr, Phelps t?Ui what he I <? ? I i I ? , hit Men tlurihjr hit Umi menthi id Brluin, ind ie*cbe* inttrestmsf ewehalonii i hire teen a*ed fefaftt I flfUtttMtt Brili iflUka-irfter ' ? 1 i-tUr absence. Befcre we Itfcded at, all ett th? ahtp . g^swsgglraqitai ? beard moat "grurtome tales of un*crupul0U? dentist* and careless doctor*. As tor the labouring cliupeC nles? on the football pool* and the dog* and the horses. The funny thine was that all thla horrific story' of inner decay and pending collapse waa never attributed to n oral weakness inherent In the British character a* such and now coming out. Bather, the ruin was all wrought bv something ou' side- an iniquitous piece of iniquity call ed the Labour government. I am a Canadian, and a Canadian proud of his Statute of Westminster; but proud also of his British tradition and connection. What am I to conclude after three fas cinating month* over here? not living in posh hotels on a fat expense account, meeting the right people and rarely out of London, but living and moving Instead here and there over the countryside? in towns, in villages, in country places? in the black centre of England and on her sea-silvered edges? This Is the picture a* I see It. The press of our con tinent has, on the whole? there are exceptions? been busy writing you off? 1* even busier Just now. Conditioned by that pre**, the Canadian comes over here almost expect ing to see you rubbing fire Stick* together and dressed in woad. And it Isn't only a translatlc press, motivated sometimes perhaps by a partisan economic Ideology, that doe* you In. It'* often, as well, your own runaway Brit on* who have come out among us to tell their story; sometimes, be it said, more In sorrow than In anger. Further, It'* you your*elve* who do yourselves In. After a speech the other week by a man who, In his greatness, served not only Britain but humanity, and yet whose speech was grist for the transatlantic propaganda mill*, I looked up the post-war production statistics for Europe. It is an understatement to cay that this speech bewil dered me. The figures of your production statistics seem to make you lead almost all Europe In poet-war re covery despite your relatively higher war cost*. When I talk to the right people? the crooned, salaried positioned people, the nice people like myself, In hotel rotundas, and at good dinner tables, I am persuaded that Britain Is on the wrong road, and that almost every thing that can be wrong with a country is wrong with Bri'aln Just now. Regimentat'on. mechanized arbitrarily by the Incompetent, authority vested In the self-Indul pent and the Ignorant, the masses of the worker* para sites, all absorptive gut and no backbone . . . Now, I have two eomments. 1. The first U that this buslpe* of bow some people talk In clubs and drawing rooms and what "the people" do when they rote with a ballot In a free election Is a strange and frightening? or reassuring? business. I was in the United States during one of Roosevelt's elections. Everywhere Roosevelt was decried. Intelligent people suddenly lowered their voices and told us intimate dread ful things about him. With considered unanimity, the press was against Roosevelt. But the people once again rolled Roosevelt In as the symbol of something they wanted kept aHve among them. Is there a parallel here to something that may t# happening among you? 2. My next comment ?? very slinpfr:. merely tftlaM^lt when one Is wanting to conclusion based , as it were, on rational Joking, it's exasperating to realise how Insist en u-vfeual observation can be! My point Is thiu jw-MTve <?? Britain. There may be many reasons fertht difference between IttT and now. But the dif ference exists. That difference Is in the stride and ap pearance of people on the streets, of men earning out of mines; It is In the faces and bodies of babies and children; It is In the vitality of young people. When I half wonder if I am imagining all this I turn to one incident and know It is not Imagination. Twelve years ago, as tourists, by accident, we stumbled on the Iron Square in Edinburgh. It was horrible. We had seen things like it In Chester, in London, but here we felt was the trapped essence of the misery and deg radation of the old world expressed in the tolerated de privation of Its poor. In Iron Square en that day wash ing was strung across in the corners between windows. It wasn't really garment*- pitiful fragments of gar ments and all of filthy grey. The mothers were shuffling and slatternly; the children pallid and diseased. On the forehead and face of one child was a running sore; all were unkempt and dirty with the dirt of accepted misery. Last month in Edinburgh we went down the Iron Square again. Providence had set the drama for us. The Square was still there, the central paved spaee, the solid stone and windowed walls . . . the- washing was there, too. But, so help me, It was waahiag. The pieces were whole garments and they were white. Tbe children were there. They were handsome, gay, sturdy and clean. They were happy. There was a supervisor in charge and there were toys and picture books and bottles of milk. Now, for good or ill, that's the revolution that has oc curred all over your Islands. The thing has happened. You have liquidated at least the most miserable poverty of your poor. An A. A. man, one day In one corner of Eng land, when the talk had turned to the good feeding in Dublin and Brussels for those who could pay for It, stood it no longer and cried out, "Ah, but don't you know it, man; nobody today starves In England!" Whatever you do about changing or not changing your political custodians, I believe you are going to continue on the right road for Britain. Whether one approves or disapproves of Britain's experiment in socialism, no honest person can read that letter without wondering . . . Do political and economic theories mean much to the man who is ragged and starving? Is political freedom of much value without an other freedom ? the freedom from dire want, and despair? And isn't that philosophy and that government going to survive under which the lot oi the aver age man is best ? "The greatest good to the greatest number . . .' "An equal chance for all . . Those are good American ideals. Maybe the Brit ish are applying them, but just doing it in a dif ferent way. It's worth thinking about. For if we want to pre serve our free enterprise system in America, we'd do well not to be too smug about it. And we'd do well to be honest in our comparisons; kidding our selves about thn facts is about the worst thing we could do. To make people totter, educate them better; to educate people better, educate them iotiger, ??BUNO if MAS., PRODUCTION TU* LOCAL (OHUR. ?P .'.I VMUAMlKC't..... ' i mum mm aukt. At MIS 70. IK MANY HOUR* r .-.SiUOMCO THC IKfT AM* _ .III III ..tl It. ShOC MAKMM UMA1NIO A MANMCNATT uwni MIS, WHEN THOMAS BCAMCMAKO. A NOV W4UNMK, WWWTEO A UMHWMMUCIMlMTt. BUT IT MAS NOT WNTHTMC ACMTTATMN Of IUM MOWIS SIWlfM MAC N INC 1? THT ?TirCHIN4 f Ullll M TNC iATK iMOk THAT TMC lAIWOTTW ynnftit mnf MANUfArrtiai ma imduitxv waa ccKAiiiiucA. ToCAV, WITH IMPROVED MACHINES AND PR0CKSM*, Tut tMOiMTRV (M AMCRICA P? JUCff MOKff THAN SOOO PAIRS or ancma ivtcv minutc... an important contkwvtjon W WKIMN fTANOMPOTUFt. Letters ?ONE MAN RULE' Dear Mr. Jones: Your "Dollars and Sense" editorial (issue of September 22) hit me so hard I must say a word if you will allow me space. Since my wife and I are a part of the number you speak of in your column, and have been for 10 years, and will be for at least four more years, we can understand what you mean. We have one child at State college and one at W. C. T. one with Grade A certificate fromJL^r1 . y fy.ig '<* "TZTZZtv. three ??r? ?t w r T n m ? 4 ?na one with XlrY?lr". would have finUhed^ut she answer to help out in our struggle with th?* dictators of the world in What -would hare been her fourtti year. She was "froMn" on the Job, and still is with the Southern Bell Tele phone company. Just how we have kept them in we do not know, unless it was Just dose cooperation of parent and child, each one doing all they could; but to say we are proud of this is Just putting It mildly. Now let's look at the sad side of the picture. You asked the question how long we can go on exporting our trained talent and money. My answer, at least as far as our schools are con cerned, is that so long as we have one-man rule or dictation in Macon County, to import the trained talent (and possibly less trained), ours will be exported, or laid on the shelf. It's Just too much for one man to b? county superintendent of schools, county board of education, local school committee, utUltie* lawyer, architect, blue print man? and by the way I understand there is only one carpenter fai the county that can read his blue prints; that makes It a little sV>w on our build ing program. The people of Macon County voted $400,000 for school bonds. Just how many taxpayers, have been consulted about school locations? I suppose the man I referred to is all I said, and more too, for I asked same different ones on the board of education and some committeemen how school teachers are hired, and they did not know. The gentleman himself told me that "Sutton had net a damn thing to do with hiring teachers", so that's another job he has. I don't think he is big enough to carry all these things to a successful conclusion, and I favor, If we are forced, as we have been many years, to keep him, looking around and getting him a little help. J. M. RABY. Franklin, N. C., Route 4. Others' Opinions WAR ON N. C. BOOTLEGGERS Governor Scott seems to be breaking precedent again In his plans to call a meeting of all sheriffs and police chiefs of North Carolina in Raleigh for launching a drive to rid the state of bootleggers. It seems that no one can remember that the county and municipal law enforcement heads ever have been called into one meeting for any purpose. Chairman Robert W. Winston, Jr., of the State Alcoholic Board of Control has been working vigorously for some time in efforts to cut off the bootleggers' supplies at the source, the wholesale dealers In Baltimore aod other cities. - A dub which the State ABC has been seeking to use with the dealers who supply the bootleggers In dry counties of the state la the big business which the ABC gives them. Chairman Winston has indicated that thoee who continue to supply the bootlegger* need not expect to continue to supply the ABC store*. But that seem* not to have been successful to a satisfactory degree. Chairman Winston and Governor Boott are working together on plane lor the state-wide drive against bootleggers, in whleh they hope to enlist the active co-operation of all sheriffs and police departments. 13m purpose of Governor Scott and Chairman Winston Is commendable. . ABC,*tore* ire to operation In nearly to of the state's too counties and than liquor eta be boufht legally. But In thoee counties Whare tha law forbids the eue of liquor, the dry law like all other liwi ought to M enforced. !f the Majority of the Votert in a county refuse to apprOra the legal tale of liquor, the meal tale i? Wch county should be jfMttted, at leaat U m aa tha ahforcatoant officers can pnftent it. Chlriotta Obtarur. -TflBhRKSSP3 NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY Under and by virtu# of ad order cf the Superior Court of Macon count v, made la (be special proceeding eutliJed Flor ence McMahan Oreen and hus band Thad M. Green vs. Cora McMahan. widow, et al, the undersigned commissioner will, oo the 18th day of October, 1MB, at l> o'clock noon, at the courthouse door In Franklin, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder, upon the ollowlng terms: One-half cash, balance clue 2 b % in sin months and 25% In twelve months, de ferred payments to be secured by deed of trust upon said prop erty and to bear interest at the rate of 6% per annum, that certain tract of land lying and \ being in Nantahala Township, Maeon Coun y, North Carolina, adjoining the lands of B. F. Lowery, May, Holden, and oth ers, being a part of the late Henry Holden Farm, described as jn!lows BEGINNING at a hickory on top of a rlilge in the West boundary line of Tract No. 48, runs North 25 degree* East 63 poles to ? hickory corner of B. P. Lowery; thence South 60 degrees East 80 poles to a steak la the line of No. 48; thence South 35 West 76 poles to - a black oak passing a hick ory corner at 64 poles; thence South 57 West >3 poles to a Spanish oak at the head of the lane; thence North 25 West 10 poles to a 8. oak; thence North 18 West 37 poles to a stake In the mouth of the land; thence North 20 East 19 poles to a W. oak on the Lowery side of the Dills Road; thence North 73 West 44 poles to the BEGINNING, containing 43 acres, more or less, being the same tract of land described in a deed from ti D. Taylor and wife Easter Taylor to S. L Mc Mahan, dated the 8th day of February, 1803, and reg istered in the office of Register of Deeds for Macon County in Book B-3 of Deeds, page 496. A deposit m 11115% of the amount of the jn*!*bid must be ""*H" n/i -thfir* ttf s*1*. time ?jf? and notice is hereby given that if said deposit is not made, that the commissioner will resell said property at 3 o'clock P. 11., on the same day. This 19th day of Septsmber, 1949. GILMER A. JONES. 833 4tc ? JJ ? Q13 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NOTICE OF SUMMONS NORTH CAROLINA MACON COUNTY ETHEL P. MARTIN, Plaintiff, ?? DAN N. MARTIN, Defendant. The defendant, Dan N. Mar tin, will take notice that an action aa above entitled has been commenced in the Super ior Court in Macon County, North Carolina, to the end that the plaintiff may secure an ab solute divorce under the laM of the State of North OaroUaa, and the defendant will take notise that he is required to ap pear on or before the 34>h day of October, 1940, In the Office Of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Macon County, North Carolina, and answer or demur to the complaint In said action' or the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief de manded. This the 13 day of Septem ber, 1949. /?/ J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRB, Clerk Superior Court Macon County, North Carolina SW ? 4tc? 013 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as ?Mentor of Lillian Row Slater, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C? this la to notify all pencils having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or be fore the 1st day of September, H?50, 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. 8 LATER, Executor. 88^?tc~JJ014 ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as adminis tratrix of Albert L Ramsey, de ceased, late of Macon County, N, C , this la to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned pn or before the 11 day of Sep tember, I960 or this notles will fee plead In bar of their rseov ? All psnoM Indebted to aid ' will phase make uSi 11 mahoamt h. ramiiy.
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