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?lt? iflntitklitt Tftxtss attb ' (Eh? xHighian&s jUtorutnatt ! VOL. LXV1I Number 5 _ Published every Thursday by The Franklin -Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 24 Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. ! 1 , WEIMAR JONES -...Editor BOB S. SLOAN Business Manager One Year Six Months ... Three Months ingle Copy... ClAtuary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, urcbes, organizations or societies, will be regarded as advertising and inserted at Bu1?r classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked 'adv." in compli ?e with the iv.stal requirements. ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 ? $1.25 75 06 c Heart Warming, Too The "house wanning" at the new Cartoogechaye i school last week was heart warming as well. It was community spirit at its best. It was a demonstration of a community look ing forward. The Cartoogechaye folk were not content merely to show off their new school ; the ^ event was an effort to start improving it at once. A benefit affair, the funds raised will go to equip the lunchroom. It was a fine example of community selflessness ? ? it was reported that almost every penny taken in at the supper was clear profit, because virtual ly everything was donated. It is worth remarking, too, that some of the women who worked hardest on the snapper have neither children nor grand children in the school. It was .proof that mountain hospitality still lives. The Cartoogechaye women put on a "com pany" supper that many che?s who serve hotel banquets would have done well to see and profit by. Finally, it showed a community pride that ex tended the community far beyond the valley of Cartoogechaye creek. It wasn't simply Cartooge chaye people patronizing a Cartoogechaye event ? people came from far and near in Macon County, to admire the new school, and to share with Car toogechayeans pride in this tangible evidence of a Macon County that has its eyes to the future, and is moving rapidly forward to a better life for all. Who Serves Best? Someone recently raised the question : What man or woman has contributed most to Macon County in the past five or ten years? This piece, of course, is not going into the realm of personalities. It's purpose is to pass along some additional questions the first question seems to raise. What type of service is of most value to the community? The erection of a building or the de velopment of a business needed by the commun ity? Generous contributions to worthy causes? Leadership in community endeavors? Raising the intellectual and moral tone of the community? De velopment (in the home and in the .school) of the minds and characters of children? And who knows how much or how little any particular individual may be contributing? And how often do we give credit in the wrong place ? Whatever the answers to these questions, SOMEbody has done a lot of contributing in the past. The good community we live in didn't just happen. Much of our boasted progress today has grown out of the thinking and the efforts of those unselfish men and women who labored here dec ades ago. A Case In Point There appears to be no limit to the heights to which the human spirit can lift men and women ? heights of heroic courage, of steadfast devotion to a cause, of selfless service to others. This spark of the divine within men is demonstrated day in and day out ? in the fighting in Korea, and in homes and on street corners throughout the world. But if human beings often are only "a little low er than the angels", they are capable, too, of be coming lower than the devils. Th'e story in this week's Press about men who prey on the emotions of the grief-stricken families o! Korean dead to grab, unearned and uncon m lonable profits is a case in point. Some Modem Definitions Watch the use <>j these words, and see if bese are not today's defo ions in the popular -mind; ? Prejudice : Disagreeing with a noisy minority. r Progress: Becoming exactly like others. Education: Getting a superficial knowledge of ( ;verything and a thorough .knowledge of nothing. The American way: Making more and more noney to buy more and more gadgets ? and find ng less and less contentment. Our American Civilization Spending so much time attending meetings to solve the problems of modern living we have no time left to do something about the problems be fore they develop. J ? Others Opinions LOCKED O. K. I Then there's the yarn about a Marine vehicle being driven rverboard in the Inland Waterway canal. Out came the driver iputtering to a youth sitting on the shore. "I thought you said ;he water wasn't deep and I could drive through." "That's funny," said the youth. "A duck made it and the water was only up to his waist." ? Billy Arthur in Jacksonville (N. C.) News and Views. > ' SO THAT'S IT Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Westmoreland. Rural Hall. Route 1, weren't j feeling so good the other day, but are now fully recovered. Early one morning, Mr. Westmoreland said his head was * swimming, and Mrs. Westmorelmd complainot'. that her glasses | were pinching her nose. fc He went to the doctor and gbt some medicine About mid-afternoon they found out they had te?n. wearing 6 each other's glasses all day. ? Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel. SORRY, BUT . . . Why anyone will continue to live in a city and stubbornly re fuse to avail themselves of the many good things incident to life in such parts as we live, is a mystery for us, and we refuse to even try to figure it out, even though we in our fullness and plenty simply can't help feeling sorry for them. It's almost time now for backbone and spareribs, coll&rds and ? oh, well, we'll Just go on living happily and let the city dwellers make out the best way they can.? Harnett County News. * MIGHT WORK There are three ways, at least, of balancing the federal budg et: (a) Increase taxes. (b) Decrease the value of the dollar. (It looks like 30 cents now.) (c) Economize. We have been working overtime on the first two methods to the point where people may say, "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther." But why not try the third plan? It might work!? Coopersville (Mich.) Observer. ? ? ? ? ? ' THE REAL NEED The admonitions and appeals to automobile drivers by high way safety departments, law enforcement officers, and editorial writers, and the efforts of safety committees and insurance companies to effect a reduction in accidents, axe praiseworthy and ought to be kept up, because they do some good. But all these activities add up to nothing more than a pecking away at the problem. The disheartening truth is that men and women have got to be made over, in mind and heart, they have got to have far more sense and decency than they now have, before they stop killing and wounding themselves and each other with automobiles. With a large element of the people such nitwits as they are, and with another large element of people so selfish and reckless as they are, and with both these ele ments numbering millions of people, tree to drive high-powered cars, every one of which is a potential engine of death, It is ridiculous to expect any considerable falling-off of death and destruction on the streets and highways ? Chapel Hill Weekly. COW PEAS A supply of "cow" peas, z. little late for New Year's Day, but Just as good for any other day, came to me early In January. Unfortunately I am unable to thank the donor because, when she came into the office with them, I was occupied on the telephone, and the gi:l at the desk did not get her name. Evi dently she had read of my inability to have one of the tra ditional dishes for the first day of the year. "Wouldn't black eye peas do just as well?" someone asked. Not for me ? cow or clay peas top my list ir the dried peas and bean line. For some reason, for which I have found no satisfactory answer, a once plentiful article of produce has practically disappeared from the lorai market. There are a number of substitutes (all of them imported. I think)- ireat Northern whl'e b'. ,-ns, lim;>s flarfje and small), pea beans black-eyed ueas and ot.iers ? but has beei. years since I have seen in the i?cal stores ?ny of the old-fashioned clay or cow pe.ts, which v '?e arrr.n? the staple articles of winter-time fo?d at ou housi vhi.ii ? were , row ing up. Joe Poteat has been In the habit for several years of furnishing me a "mes>" for Ncv? Y? ar's. but was unable to pet OUR DEMOCRACY -by Mat OF THE BOYS, BY THE BOYS J FOR THE BOYS BOYS JOIN THE SCOUTS BECAUSE THEY WANT TO- BECAUSE THEY LIKE THE IDEAS AND IDEALS THE SCOUTS STAND FOR, AND THE PUN AND HEALTH AND SELF-RELIANCE THAT SCOUT TRAINING MEANS. The boy scouts are NO* YOU TH MOVEMENT/ BUT RATHER. AN ASSOCIATION - FREE OF REGIMENTATION OR COMPULSION AND RELYING ON SELF- DISCIPLINE AfO TEAM SPIRIT IN WHICH BOYS WORK AND PLAY TOGETHER. WITH COMRADESHIP, SELF-RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION FOR. OTHERS. SCOUT/ NO ENCOURAGES THE QUALJT/ES OF INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE ANP RESPONSIBILITY THAT ARE THE ESSENCE OF OUR DEMOCRACY ANP FREEDOM EVERYWHERE . any at any price this year, he said. Somebody who may have 1 been an authority offered the explanation that the yield on these little brown peas is scanty, that thfey are hard to grow ( and that they are difficult to shell ? in other words they are i no longer a profitable crop. ? Miss Beatrice Cobb in Morganton News-Herald. FEDERALISM, ANSWER TO COMMUNISM As a man who has studied, lived and practiced war, Dwight Eisenhower ? a repeated denouncer of war as a method of in ternational settlement ? is remarkably well-suited to advise how war might best be eventually outlawed. Unlike Douglas MacArthur, who says he Is a champion of peace but declares a holocaustlc war must be fought (appar ently at irregular intervals) to achieve peace, Ike Elsenhower In his stand against war has declared there is no such thing as a preventive war and that war only aggravates the Issues it seeks to solve. As a first step In the elimination of war from the global society, Elsenhower has borrowed from the original well-head of American democracy. He has proposed the federation of free European nations ? the pooling of lesser sovereignities into a greater and far more effective united sovereignity, in the same, manner as our first states abandoned their weak and separate sovereignities to Join In a union whose collective strength ? economically, socially, militarily, d plomatlcal'.y? achieved pro portions which no mere alliance of Individual states could ever have achieved. On Tuesday Elsenhower urged that a constitutional con vention should be called for the pu pose of dra.'tlng a consti tution which would unify Europe In a United States, melding the spiritual, economic and military resources of the various European states into a common strength and purpose. This challenge must be accepted and achieved, the general declared, If the cold war Is to be ended and the threat of Russian expansion brought to a halt. We are told that the Western European countries hold great faith in General Elsenhower. His accomplishments In the past year, in the face of the gloomy pessimism which met him upon assum'ng supreme command of NATO forces, sup port that view. We earnestly hope, therefore, that his call for a constitutional convention for Western Europe will be heeded. If It Is, the United States of America must exert every en couragement and assistance to bring the United States of Europe Into being. When a common flag Is raised over the capital of the U.S.E.. democratic government will have entered a new era. The force of united action, the creation of a com mon law, a common police, a common welfare, a common fran chise greater than the law, the police, the welfare and the vote of the particular state or the peculiar region, Is the only alternative man has ever devised to International anarchy. To have the Atlantis. Ocean flanked on the east by the United States of Europe and on the west by the United States of America, each governed by its own people under a consti tution, would not only end the cold war without resort to hot war, but would be an Irresistible example to the remainder of the woild not yet enslaved by Stalinism. The economic and political benefits of federation become quickly apparent and there Is no doubt that some nations which might hesitate or decline the original invitation to form sutn a union, would soon be knocking on the door and asking to Join. It would soon become apparent that a new and re vitalized force was abroad In the world? federalism, the an swer to communism, the real hope of men who seek oppor tunity,. dignity and poaca, who now are desperate but desire an alternate choice to the sham promises of Communism. And America, which conceived this political faith, must be gin actively to propagate and sponsor it.-- C'oveland (County' T:n"?s. . Business Making News ? By BOB SMftN There Is a large area In ranklin which contains at least ' business establishments and hundred or more homes which ? not served by a swer line. The' rea is Loganville and' Bonny rest. The residents and busi ess,m?n in this area are charg 1 the same tax rate as we y lore fortunate citizens who do ot have to maintain septic inks. There are undoubtedly ther areas within the city mlt? where the same Is true, ut we believe this is the larg st area and are certain that it ontains the most business stablishments. if these taxpay rs are not furnished water and ewage disposal ? the minimum hat any municipal taxpayer las a right to expect ? then we hink they should receive and nake adjustment in their tax ?ill eaual to the cost of main aining and building their only ewage disposal units. We are very gratified at the svorable comment we have re vived concerning our New fear's resolution to work for ax reductions in Macon Coun y during the year 1952. Last i'eek we proposed to bring this ibout by asking for an equallza ion and .revaluation of the >roperty valuations in Macon bounty by outside firm of im >artial tax appraisers. If any >erson will ask themselves if hey would sell their business tor twice what they have it isted for taxes for I believe -hat they will find the answer ?O whether or not our property valuations have kept up. With the construction of an other feed mill here by the Pu rina feed company it looks like business people think that the dairy and chicken business here Is still on the upswing. This new plant Is going up next to the Franklin Feed mill, In Log anville. The building being con structed on U. S. 64, west next to Macon Motor company Is be ing constructed by W. C. Bur rell and will house his tire re capping shop which has been situated in the rear of Burrell Motor company. We hope that with the rout ing of a publicized North-South route through here (U. S. 441? the Uncle Remus route) and the building of a hard surfaced road through Wayah gap to Nantahala lake that local tour ist businesses will really get to gether and spend money to publicize and put Franklin on the map. You get what you pay for and vou can't spend $10 for advertising with the chamber of commerce and expect $50, 000.00 worth of business. How ever, If each tourist business In Franklin and surrounding ter ritory would spend $100 to $200 to publicize this area they would be surprised at the results. If vou don't believe it try it some time. LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of Hattle Jacobs, deceas ed, late o' Macon County, N. C, this Is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 27 day of December, 1952 or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make Immediate settle ment. This 27 day of December, 1961. LEE POINDEXTER, Administrator. D29 ? 6tp ? J31 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of Frank Miller, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C., this Is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate of s&ld deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 16 day of January, 1953, or this notice will be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make immediate settle ment. This 18 day of January, 1952. JAMES MILLER, Administrator. J 24 ? 6 tp ? F28 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as adminis trator of Lawrence Myers, de ceased. late of Macon County, N. C., this Is to notify all per sons having claims against the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned on or before the 18 day of Jan uary. 1953, or this notice will be plead In bar o their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please juake imme diate settlement. This 16 day of January, 1C52. A. G. CAGLE, Adminlstrf '35, J24? r.ip? F23
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