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VOL. LXVII Number 19
Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
Telephone 24
Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter.
WEIMAR JONES /. .Editor
BOB S. SLOAN Business Manager
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Just The Beginning
In a period k^f six weeks, Macon County has been
given notable recognition in three different fields.
Macon is said to be the first county in the state
to approach completion of its school building pro
gram. and on March 25 the governor and state
superintendent of public instruction honored the
county by visiting every school in Macon? the first
time such a thing ever had occurred in this (per
haps in any) state.
April 23 this county was honored for being one
of the 10 best Green Pastures counties in North
Carolina.
And the day before yesterday Macon County and
its two towns were given unique citations for their
1950 traffic safety records.
These honors are deserved ; otherwise they would
not have come to us.
And they are a much needed shot-in-the-arm to
Macon County morale ; they .suggest what we can
accomplish.
What we have done can be, and should be, mere
ly the beginning.
Speaking Of Conservation . . .
Not in a long time have we seen so much sense
put in so little space as a passage that appeared in
Roy L. Smith's "Sidewalk Sermons" column in The
Asheville Citizen one day last week.
He puts it all in just three sentences :
It is always so easy to toss valuables out with the trash.
This generation has been doing it at an accelerated pace
during the last twenty years.
In our almost frantic search for thrills and sensa
tional entertainment we have tossed a very great deal of
modesty, delicacy, good taste, and real beauty into the
discard.
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Would Be Nice 'Payroll'
Fontana Village reports that conventions are be
coming an integral item in the community econ
omy.
Put in ordinary English, conventions held at
Fontana leave a lot of money there.
That is a tip for Franklin. A series of small con
ventions here, starting in the spring and continu
ing into the fall, would giv(e Franklin a "payroll"
that probably would dwarf what we get from
every present industry, plus all our farming.
There is no reason why Franklin couldn't have
such a series of conventions.
No reason, that is, except that there's no place
for them to meet.
We need an auditorium.
A Matter Of Policy
This calls attention to a long-standing policy of
The Press on political advertising: This newspaper
publishes no political advertising in the last issue
before an election.
The purpose, of course, is to forestall the possi
bility of use of the paper's advertising columns to
A Lift For Today
(Furnished by The Raleigh Times)
? Wealth maketh many friends. ? Prov. 19: 4.
FALSE FRIENDS are like our shadow; keeping close to us
While we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we
cross Into the shade.? Bovee.
Our Father, enrich ns with knowledge and virtue that we
Mjr be friends to those about os, for Thy sake.
spread charges or insinuations at a time when they
could not be answered.
Candidates in the May 31 primary who may wish
to publish political advertisements in The Press,
therefore, are asked to get them in for the issues of
May 15 or 22. Thq advertising deadline is Tuesday
noon of the week of publication.
Mrs. C. A. Cabe
The death last week of Mrs. C. A. Cabe broke an
other of the few remaining links with a .Macon
County past that was indelibly marked by char
acter, loyalty, neighborliness, and respect for good
ness.
Mrs. Cabe was typical of the period.
While she and her husband put first emphasis on
home and the rearing of their children, she found
time for labor in her church and community; most
of all, always there was time for her to mother all
within her reach who needed mothering.
Unknown beyond the confines of her own coun
ty. she won in her 79 years something those who
have fame would gladly exchange for ? the love of
all those who knew her.
Sad News For Men
Scre-e-e-e-e-e-e-ch !
Your brakes stop you just in time. You've miss
ed the other car by a hair. You breathe again.
And then you say to your companion :
"A woman driver ? of course!"
That "woman driver" reaction is practically
unanimous among male motorists. Take all the
women drivers off the road, most men will tell
you, and you'll eliminate the bulk of the accidents.
Well, brother, think again!
When did you ever win an argument with a
woman? That's right ; you never did. And you can't
win this one, either ; because the ladies have the
statistics ort their side.
The N. C. Department of Motor Vehicles has
just sent out to newspapers as a filler ? as a filler,
mind you ! ? a bit of news that is headline material
in any man's newspaper.
Here it is ; read it, brother ? read it and weep :
"Male drivers were responsible for nearly nine
times more traffic accidents than women last year
in North Carolina."
Whisperers
(Reprinted from The Press of May 6, 1948)
This primary campaign, unless it is different
from most, will be marked by a certain amount of
whispering ? whispering aimed at discrediting one
or more candidates.
A citizen who wishes intelligently to vote his own
convictions, rather than being misled by someone
who has a selfish motive, would be wise, when he
hears these whispers, to ask a few questions.
Before he believes what he hears, he might well
ask himself :
Who started this report? how reliable is he? and
what is his motive in spreading it?
Is it reasonable to believe that the charge is true?
is it in line with the known character and past ac
tions of the person accused ? and has the accused
had a chance to disprove it?
Then the voter should ask the whisperer a ques
tion or two :
How do you know this is true?
|f it is true, why whisper it? ? the truth should
be said publicly.
Are you willing, right now, to go with me to see
the person you are accusing, and say this to his
face?
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Usually, the whisperer will have disappeared be
fore you get around to the last question.
Our American Civilization
Holding heated Presidential preference primar
ies; then letting a few politicians pick the candi
dates.
Southerners boasting of Dixie cooking; Southern
cooks getting their receipes out of damnyankee
cookbooks.
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Saying, by our words, that we put our faith in
intellect and spirit ; saying, by our actions, that our
real god is physical power.
Failing, ourselves, to produce great music; as
suming, nevertheless, that we are capable of im
proving the great music of the past ? by modern
izing it.
OUR DEMOCRACY k,M.t
EACH ACCORDING TO HIS FAITH
America's fi&st sunpav school was foondcp in
VIRGINIA IN 1785. . ... .
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TSrAV, OUR. NATION HAS OVER. 2.15,000 SUNDAY SCHOOL'S
WITH ts MILLION PUPILS AND 2 MILLION TEACHERS.
IN AOOITION TO THE SPIRITUAL TRAINING IT GIVES, THIS
ONC-OAV-IN- SEVEN SCHOOL IS TREMENDOUSLY POTENT
IN BUILDING HONOR, FAITH AND MORAL STAMINA INTO THE
CHARACTER, OP TODAYS YOUTH- TOMO&ZOw's CITIZENS. ,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL WEEK.- APRIL 14 -20
Editor
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE
Weavervllle, North Carolina
The last born sense is a knowing heart
Singing clearly in every tongue.
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE.
? Others' Opinions
'MAKE TIME YOUR ALLY'
Dutch Princess Juliana on her visit to the United States said
to President Truman: "Let us take time and cultivate patience
and yet be always on the alert". That's good advice in anyone's
language. And she said further: "Make time your ally; it is a
safe one." Insight and energy are quite necessary to our con
tinued advancement. Too many of us try the short cut, the
quick way, without waiting for the fruit to ripen. ? Fort Meade
(Md.) Leader.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH WOMEN?
The death notice of a 75-year-old former North Carolina
teacher contained the item that she was "the first woman
principal of a North Carolina high school ? at Chapel Hill."
This statement somehow suggests that after the first one
there were many more. Actually in the State today there is
only one woman high school principal, Miss Kate Finley of
Rockingham. In the whole State also there are only three
county school superintendents, Mrs. Mary L. Evans of Dare,
Miss Lucy Jones of Haywood, and Miss Clyde Fields of Alle
ghany. There is not a single woman city superintendent. Also,
though the higher education of women has greatly grown in
the last half century, there does not come to mind the name
of a single woman as president of a woman's college in this
State at this time.
In a profession largely composed of women this seems un
fortunate. For more than half a century women have been
educated as teachers in North Carolina. If a good job in edu
cation in this State has been done, women have largely ac
complished it. Yet apparently there is some barrier against the
promotion of women to the higher places in the teaching
hierarchy.
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In other fields women have not been held back from the
higher positions. A woman today is superintendent of public
welfare in North Carolina. Other women preceded her in that
post. In education, however, the field in which most women
are engaged, practically all of the higher Jobs are held by men,
though it is often said that the best men cannot be attracted
to the field of public school education because of the low pay.
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Maybe women are not capable of advancing to higher ad
ministrative posts in education. Maybe on the other hand there
is a silly, old-fashioned prejudice at work against them. After
more than half a century of educating women to teach, it
would seem about time that some of them got. a chance at the
better jobs. If women are going to teach, the abler and more
ambitious ones of them should not be scared away from the
profession tiy the knowledge that, even if they are gdod, they
hardly hope for a chance at the better job. ? Raleigh "News and
Observer.
Fame is a vapor. Popularity is an accident. Riches take wings.
Those who cheer today will curse tomorrow. Only one thing
endures ? character!? Horace Greeley.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By WEIMAR JONES
There are two things we all
have to learn to get along with
this modern world. One is peo
ple. The other is machines.
And they present complete
ly different problems.
People can be the most
warmly lovable, the most hero
ic, the most godlike beings im
aginable. But they also can be
other ways . . . Most of us are
ornery, cowardly, and even dev
?ilish some of the time, and
some of us most of the time.
But the thing that makes
people so hard to get along with
is their unpredictability. None
of us ever does the same thing
exactly the same way; and
often we react to exactly the
same treatment in completely
different ways. What the old
song said about women is true
of all human beings:
"You never can tell about a
Woman,
Perhaps that's why we think
they are so nice;
You never see two alike any
one time,
And you never see one alike
twice."
As the song says, this unpre
dictability of human beings is
one of the reasons "we think
they are so nice" ? or, at least,
why they are so interesting. But
what a strain it puts on us as
we try to get along with them!
Machines are' different.
There's nothing warm and
lovable, nothing heroic or god
like about the.ni. You'll never
get any solace for the soul, any
inspiration, any companionship
from machines.
But they ARE predictable.
i You know just what to ex
pect of them. They will do
exactly the same thing in ex
actly the same way in ex
actly the same time ? every
time, and all the time.
They will, that is, if they are
properly adjusted. Machines are
things of precision. They oper
ate perfectly ? or they are op
erating wrong. The best ex
ample of that is the adding
machine; either It adds cor
rectly EVERY time, or we can't
trust it.
One of the main reasons we
have machines is because they
can be made to operate to per
fection, so that we know ex
actly what to expect. When they
do not operate to perfection,
we are wasting a large share
of the millions we spend on
automobiles and washing ma
chines and the thousand and
one other gadgets we use to
day.
Yet how many of us go
through life worrying along
with machines we can't trust!
And most of the time the ex
Continued On Page Five ?
Do You
Remember?
(Looking backward through
the files of The Press)
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Hon. Garland S. Ferguson ex
pects to be here Saturday to
deliver the annual address at
the veteran's meeting.
The mercury went up to 90
degrees in the shade Sunday
afternoon.
If young men would start out
with the intention of earning
their board instead of seeking
their fortunes they would be
better prepared to meet what
follows.
25 YEARS AGO
At the St. Agnes church last
Sunday the Rev. E. J. Pipes an
nounced to his audience that
he has accepted a call to Man
istee, Michigan, and will leave
here the last of May to assume
his duties in that city.
At the meeting at Pinehust
last week Miss Lassie Kelly was
honored by being elected vice
president of the Court Report
ers' association.
Election day passed off with
out any excitement excepting a
fierce dog fight between a col
lie and bull dog.
10 YEARS AGO
Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, of Ral
eigh, state superintendent of
public instruction, will deliver
the commencement address to
75 graduates at the Franklin
high school Friday evening, May
15.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Houk and
Mrs. J. E. Perry attended the
district Rotary convention
meeting in Asheville on Monday
and Tuesday of this week.
Mr. Horace Mann, who is
working on a defense project
at Durham, spent a few days
here visiting his family "and rel
atives.