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Jflnutklht attii Cite Haitian its M trivtirttt VOL. LXVII Numfcei 6 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. Editor Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Three Months. .75 Single Oopy .06 OMtaarj notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, Aurcfces, oqtanirations or societies, will be regarded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." in compli ance frith the postal requirements. WEIMAR JONES BOB S. SLOAN The Real Solution What .should he done about Macon County's school situation? Although something more than three quarters of a million dollars (of state aid and local bond funds) has just been spent here, the county finds its schools with more needs than there is money many more needs. How could that be? The reason, of course, is the explanation given by Mr. J. C. SorrelLs, member of the county board of education, in a talk at last week's Franklin Rotary club meeting ? what we have just bought in the way of school facilities was needed 10 or 20 years ago. Instead of bringing the county up to date, it .simply brought us to within 10 to 20 years of up to date. Must the county increase its tax rate in order to provide sufficient funds for the schools? Or can we, perhaps, divert other funds to the .schools for a year, or a few years, to take care of the situation? If we adopt that temporary expedient, can we maintain these bigger, better schools, when we drop back to the old levy for schools ? the same levy we provided to maintain the .smaller, often ramshackle buildings ? The problem poses these and other difficult ques tions for county authorities. The immediate solu tion, whatever it may be, will not be .simple. As a long-term .policy, however, a genuine, hon est, fair re-evaluation of the taxable property in this county would seem to offer a solution ? and would be well worth-while, even if there were no problem. Ii is common knowledge that, under our present Tiaphazard method of fixing the value of property, none of it is listed at anything like its true worth. An honest evaluation would enable us to reduce the tax rate? and have more money. Furthermore, there is such a wide variation in the way property is list ed that some taxpayers are bearing only a half or even a fourth of their just share of the tax burden, while others are paying as much as two or three times their fair share. Little Things Count Almost nightly, at movie time, motorists park on sidewalks in the vicinity of the theatre. Sometimes it isn't a question of the front, or rear, wheels get ting on the sidewalk ? sometimes enrs are parked not across the sidewalk, but along it, as though the sidewalk were an automobile throughfare. The ped estrian finds himself crowded out into the street. Garbage collection in Franklin often is anything but regular. People put their garbage out Monday one week and it is collected that day. Perhaps the next week the garbage truck arrives Tuesday or Wednesday ? =or occasionally not at all. And, on the weeks when the collection is late, the owner must haul his full can back onto the porch or in the house : otherwise, he is likely to be kept awake that night by dogs overturning the can. These are comparatively small matters. But a v number of such small matters go a long way toward determining whether a town is well or poorly run. They are things that part-time members of the | board of aldermen cannot be expected to spend their time checking on. They are the type of thing ,? a competent full-time city manager could and would supervise, and correct. It Should Be Repealed The American Legion magazine voiccs alarm at a movement to repeal the law that gives war . etcr ans preference in filling federal jobs. But whv shouldn't that law be repealed? As a temporary measure, to give the veterans of World War 2 an opportunity to reintegrate them selves into civilian life, it possibly was both wise and just. And some similar temporasy measure may be desirable for the ;ien who have served during the Korc n fi'. hting. But t givr all veterans, for at* inde in.te tii.ie, a job pre 'erenc* is class legislation, pi re and simple. "Iris ctaS.s *fa VOTrtism . ft ts in direct opposition to Universal Military Training i NOT NEEDED Says SMITH FIELD HERALD Let's keep straight the mean ing of "universal military train ing" as the term Is currently used In the discussions relating to national defense. UMT ? as universal military training is popularly called ? means permanent peace-time conscription, not simply com pulsory military service. Compulsory service Is not the issue before Congress. Most of those who oppose UMT are In favor of Selective Service or the draft In times of war or great emergency. UMT as a PERMANENT policy is the Issue. Do we want that In America? Do we need that in America? The Herald believes that UMT ought to be rejected because it would be a further step toward perpetual domenation of all American life by a military caste system and, therefore, a move away from democracy toward dictatorship or thought control. Furthermore, as we see it, UMT ought to be rejected at this time because it is not needed now for national de fense and military men them selves admit as much. General J. Lawton Collins, chief of staff, has testified be fore a Congressional committee that the army will recommend that UMT be run on a volun teer basis for at least the first two or three years. Does this tes timony not indicate that there Is no need now for UMT? We may be sure that the army would not agree to a voluntary UMT set-up If there were an acute need for the UMT plan as outlined by the National Se curity Training Commission. Fact Is, adoption of UMT now would weaken national defense. Hanson W. Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times, has written: "It is unlikely the UMT would be Invoked by the President for some time to come, for to start it now In the midst of our present emergency would greatly complicate our preparedness program." If made effective now, UMT would drain the pool ol young men from which Selective Serv ice must draw to keep the army at authorized strength. Thousands of officers and non commissioned officers would be tpken from the army to train MAKES SENSE Thinks STANLEY NEWS * PRESS Opposition on the part of re ligious groups as well as many individual citizens to universal military training seems to us to be a short-sighted attitude. Twice within the memory of this generation, the United States has been saved from de struction by European nations who fought off the enemy un til we could draft fighting forces to equip them. We can not continue to depend on our friends to suffer and bleed while we prepare to defend ourselves. Military service is unpleasant to the average young American, but we are still living lnx the sort of world that calls fox a large measure of precaution. We believe that every young man, without exception, should be re quired to give of his time and energies in preparing to defend this country. If he is physically unable to fight, there are other spots in which he can serve. The only way to deal fairly with all young men In seeing that they share in this respon sibility is a system of universal military training. If you favor the plan, your representatives in Washington will appreciate you writing them to this effect. Those who do not favor it are writing by the ream. the UMT draftees. General MacArthur made sense when he declared before a Congressional committee last August, "I should advise most seriously, If I were considering (UMT) that I would wait and get through the emergency that faces us now, and then on what has resulted, and what exists then, I would sum up the facts and make my decision." There are no facts now to show that America needs con scripton of youth as a per manent policy, in peace and war. On the contrary there is plenty of evidence in history ? Germany after 1870, for In stance ? to show that the way of permanent peacetime conscrip tion is the way of dictatorship and destruction of all those democratic Ideals on which our nation was built. A wise America will not be frightened into a policy so fraught with dangers to democ racy. UNDERPAID In all the discussions of corruption in high office we have yet to hear or read anything that would point up what we have long considered a major inequity In the matter of get ting men and women of ability in government service . . . that of paying them In proportion to their earning capacity In priv ate life. During the past several years a great many honest public servants have resigned their government posts to accept private employment. They have been frank In stating that they Just couldn't get along on what Uncle Sam was paying them . . . couldn't support their families, couldn't educate their children. ? Chatham News. ? Poetry ; . i' l SNOWFLAKES Little white fairies of the North, To whom the clouds gave birth ? Little white angels of the sky Floating down to earth. How glad I am to see you come So lightly through the air, Resting like the love of God On all things everywhere. BESS HINSON HINES. California and Highlands. the traditional American ideal of "equal rights for all, special privileges to none". Because it is in con tradiction to that philospophy, it is much more "unamerican" than some of the "unamericanisms" that the Legion so vehemently crusades against. ? ? ? ? ? Our* American Civilization Shouting About high property taxes ; paying three prices for shoddy < >ods without complaint. Ruining our teetii with soft foods and sweets ; bpendir >?? thousands to put chemicals in our drink ing water t< rc :.iedy the trouh1 , ( Political 'eadt , bon <ing of American democ racy; those same pr.luical icadc giving the people no voice whatever in the selection 01 the i. liness for President I EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE Editor Weaverville, North Carolina ? Others Opinions TRIBUTES TO MINORITIES / Isn't it funny that tributes to minorities usually come from politicians running for office In regions where the minorities live?? Jonesville (Mich.) Independent. MIGHT BE He who pays his taxes has paid for the right to question what the government does with his money. If he used the right more often, the taxes might be less. ? Greenwood (Miss.) Com monwealth. PIOUS BLAZE On Good Friday in 1788, a fire started In New Orleans and the whole town burned down except for two buildings. The local churchmen had passed a rule against ringing bells on Good Friday, and nobody dared tquch the fire alarm, bell. ? Winston-Salem Journal. MIND AND SEAT Went to a meet-and-eat with Harold Essex, the WSJS boss, the other night. After about 45 minutes of food and two hours of talk, Harold observed that "The mind can only absorb as much as the seat can endure." Then everyone went home. ? Roy Thompson, Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel. DAVIDSON'S MEN These Davidson College alumni go a long way. One even went to the White House ? Woodrow Wilson. Dean Rusk, Assis tant Secretary of State, a graduate with the Class of 1931 and a Rhodes scholar, has just been named head of the multi million dollar Rockefeller Foundation. The President has re leased him with a pat on the back. "To few men still young In years has it been permitted to serve their country so long and so ably. For more than a decade you have met and discharged, always with tact, skill and efficiency, duties of highest impor tance," Mr. Truman wrote Rusk. The new head of the great charitable organization was in college with Pinehurst's W. A. 'Leland McKeithan, now presi dent of the North Carolina Bar Association, and his law part ner here, John D. McConnell, former administrative assistant to Senator Frank Graham in Washington. Another Davidson graduate, John's brothfer, Joseph D. McConnell, is president of the National Broadcasting Company. ? Plnehurst Outlook. NEEDS RENOVATION One of the most Important and vital of the Hoover commis sion reports was the one proposed, for the post office depart ment. And it is doubtful if any governmental department or bureau is more in need of a complete renovation. The collapse of the nation's mailing system during the Christ mas rush is sufficient evidence that the department must be reorganized, removed from politics and placed on a business like basis. The fact that the delivery of mall has sunk to the lowest level Since the days of the pony express is further evi dence of a need for reorganization. The fault does not lie in the local post offices in most in stances. In nearly all of these local offices, the employes are working tirelessly and doggedly to keep the mails moving on schedule, but they are bogged down by political orders emanat ing Irom the central department in Washington. The Hoover plan for the post office Is designed to cut out unnecessary ex penses and institute economy moves that will not interfere with the movement of the mails. ? Waukegan (111.) News-Sun. THE CASE OF ZONING A man built a home Just outside of the corporate limits of Carrboro, on the Hillsboro road, a few years ago. When he came out of his house one mourning he saw giant gasoline and oil tanks being erected on the adjoining lot. A wholesale oil dealer had bought the lot and was preparing to carry on his business there. The home-owner was dismayed; he knew the tanks and the operation of the business, so close by, would practically ruin his home. He asked a lawyer if there was any legal move he could make, to protect himself from such use of adjoining land. The > ^ lawyer said there was not. The upshot of the affair was that the home-owner and other persons in the neighborhood, whose homes would also be dam aged by the Intruding business, clubbed together and bought the lot from the oil dealer. Also, they paid the cost of having the tanks removed and set up in another place. If there had been a zoning law, separating business and in dustrial zones from residential zones, these home-owners would not have had to buy their way out of trouble in this way. Their homes would have been protected. This case is a lesson for the persons who are opposing the proposed zoning of the country around Chapel Hill. Any home owner, or any owner of land who wanted to build a home on it, or who wanted to sell It for residential use, might wake up any day to find that his property was about to be seriously damaged by a bad use of adjoining land. And he might not be able, as the homeowners near Carrboro were, to solve the prob lem by buying the stranger's lot. Zoning laws have been enacted all over the country, in cities and towns and country areas. They have withstood the at tacks on them in the courts. They have benefited both the general public and individual property owners. The areas around Chapel Hill certainly eight to be zoned In such a way that (1) the land along the highways cannot be cluttered up with bill-boards ur.d unursirable structures and (2> the ow: .< rs of property will be prote ted ainst the en croachment by Junk yards, hot-d ig stand., arni other rtamag ? Ing forms of development. ? Chapel Hill Weekly. UNVEIL PLAN FORFARMING Long -Range N. C. Farm Program Develops From Study What can North Carolina farm people do to Improve their lot? An. exhaustive study present ing at least some ol the an swers to this question was made public in Raleigh on January 28, when the North Carolina Board of Farm Organizations and Agencies unveiled its new long-range agricultural pro gram for the state. The program was presented in a 76-page booklet entitled "North Carolina Accepts the Challenge", published after a full year's work of fact-gather ing and sifting by members of the 11 agencies making up the sponsoring board. First section of the booklet deals with the state's present agricultural situation, as re vealed by 1950 census data. It points out that the Tar Heel state has the nation's largest farm population, the farms are too small, too much work is still being done by hand and mule power, and farm enterprises are not as balanced and diversified as they should be. The main section of the study presents specific recom mendations for Increasing farm Income in the state as a whole and in each of the 12 types-of farming areas. Five main recommendations are made lor the state: In crease size of farms, follow bet ter management mechanize, use recommended practices, and - seek more off-farm employ ment. > Another section deals with ways to Improve family living, and the concluding section points out how the overall pro gram can best be put into ef fect. The program will now be car ried to the people In each of the state's 100 counties. Phillips Is Receiving Training At San Diego Carl F. Phillips, of Franklin, Route 2, is receiving boot train ing at the U. S. Naval Training center, San Diego, Calif., ac cording to the Fleet Home Town News. The seaman recruit is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Phillips. He enlisted December 11, 1951. Prior to enlisting, he attended Warren Wilson Junior college, near Asheville. Cpl. Crawford Is Home After Okinawa Duty Cpl. George R. Crawford, who has been with the army on Okinawa for the past 19 months, Is spending a 30-day furlough with his Wife and with his mother, Mrs. R. M. Crawford, of Franklin, Route 3. At the end of his furlough, Cpl. Crawford will report to Fort Jackson, S. C., for reassign ment. He entered service in August, 1949. Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Nearly every place has invited Prince Henry to visit it, but Needmore and Hanging Dog have not been heard from so far. "Uncle Paul Kruger" was In town F.riday evening. Any one who has seen "Oom Paul's" pic ture in the newspapers recog nized him very readily. We did not learn certainly whether he was soliciting aid for the Boers. We learn that sixty or seven ty of the pupils of the high school have measles. 25 TEARS AGO Franklin Tuesday celebrated the formal opening of its new $50,000 hostelry, the Scott Grif fin, easily one of the best com mercial hotels west of Ashevlile. Somebody Is always taking the Joy out of life. Now comes Bryson City and claims that James Teague, a former sheriff of Swain, wears pants size 58, thus putting our own John Henry In the shade by two Inches. The Bryant Furniture com pany is now comfortably housed in the store room formerly oc cupied by Smith's Drug. ."tore. 10 \EARS AGO Ttv F-anklir trcop of Boy Scouts of America obii rved the firs' day ? ' Boy Scout v eek by attrudinv; the ucout-C : .a at Cullowhec last Friday evening.
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