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ffita Tfixnttklitt Tfixtss nnb Che 3rtigltlfttt?is Jftatmuntt VOL. LXVII Number 22 ' 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 JONJE8. - -...Editor BOB 8. SLOAN Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Macon County ? Single Copy .10 One Year $2.50 Six Months. $1.75 Three Months.? ? $1.00 Out-of-County? One Year $3.00 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as advertising and User ted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked adv." ' in compli ance with the postal requirements. MAT 29, 1952 How Long? For some 10 years now, the Franklin High school has had to hold its commencement programs in the Macon Theatre. It happened once again last week. Once again the more than 100 young people graduating from this district-wide high school had no adequate school or other auditorium in which to have their commencement exercises. Once again they were ra tioned on the number they could invite- ? in many cases, they could not invite even all the members of their immediate families. How long are we going to continue to penalize our high school graduates? How long are we going to continue to do without an auditorium in Frank lin? We'd Better Want A Part Many things tend to discourage the average man and woman from voting. _ II Among them is the fact that the voter's right to express his will at the ballot box often is circum scribed. That is true both on the local and the na tional level. In the selection of members of our Macon Coun ty school board, for example, the choice is limited to the Democratic primary election ? and even the Democratic voters' choice has to be ratified by the general assembly. On the national level, the average voter has no direct say-so about who shall be the nominees for President ; he is restricted to the choice between two men, neither of whom may represent the will of the majority in the party. For instance, all indi cations are that, as of today, Senator Kefauver and General Eisenhower are the choices of the majori ties of Democrats and Republicans. But it is quite possible that neither of these men will be nominat ed. The average voter may have to content himself with choosing between two other men, the choices of the political bosses in the two parties. Neither of these situations makes sense. But it does not follow that we should react as many voters do: "I want no part in politics." You and I had better want a part, an active part, in politics. For politics determines how much taxes we pay. It determines how that tax money is spent. It de termines what sort of schools we have. It may de termine whether we shall have war (or peace. And it almost certainly will determine whether we shall have more and expanded or fewer and restricted freedoms. Of course the system isn't perfect ? it's up to us to keep insisting that it be improved. But if we wait until somebody makes it perfect for us before we take any part in the politics that operate our government, we are likely to find some A Lift For Today (Furnished by The Raleigh Timet) ? Stut^y to be quiet, and to do yoor own business, and to work with your own hands ... I Thess. 4:11. SEEKING GOD early In the morning enables us to meet the problems of the day and hold true to the principles of Christ te all the work of life. Almifhty God, help us to seek Thy face in the quiet of the Unihif that oar heart* may be filled with holy Joy for Thy yvwnlae that "my (race Is sufficient for thee." t body has decided to improve it by changing it ? that's what happened, a few years ago, in Germany. It's happened time after time, in country after country. The time, if you are a Democrat, to start doing your job as a voter is in Saturday's primary. The time to start, if you arc a" Republican, is in next fall's general election. Our American Civilization Demanding that the automobile have all the gad gets; wondering why it is s<> hard to liieet the pay ments. Shouting about the right to freedom of thought and speech ; ostracizing those who exercise that freedom as being "queer". V Insisting that nothing is too good for the chil dren ; being surprised when the children insist noth ing is too good for thi^m. ? Poetry Editor EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE Weaverviile, North Carolina Sponsored by Asheiille Branch, National League of American Pen Women t There Is a glowing jewel hung On the emerald gown of May; Rose-purple rhododendron . , . . though The world may rock and sway With wide tumultuous wars, and men May weep and curse and pray ? Still ? Rose-purple rhododendron blooms On the emerald gown of May. MAY BESS HINSON HINES Highlands and California. ? Letters AN OPEN LETTER To The Bootleggers I think If you could see the trouble you all cause us old women folks, and the money you beat us, and little children, out of, you surely would quit. Just what do you think is going to become of you? Just think how many accidents on account of liquor, how many deaths, how much Innocent blood is go ing to be required at your hands. God's holy word says: "Nay unto him that puts the bottle to his neighbor's mouth." I can't understand how you are going to get by with it. I hope you all will read this and quit. Get down on your knees and ask God to forgive you and lead a better life, and make a better place for our children to live ? what our boys are fighting and dying for. Are they coming back and find it a better place or worse? Let's all try to make it a Christian nation. MRS. DAVE ANGEL Cullasaja, N. C. ? Others' Opinions the right to be informed Freedom of the press is not primarily a privilege accorded journalists; it is the right of the readers, citizens, to be in farmed.? La Gazette, Lansanne, Switzerland. BYRD AND THE G. O. P. Senator Byrd said the other day that he would support a Republican President if the Republican stood for the mainte nance of national credit and a sound currency. Senator Byrd never has been comfortable in the Democratic party, and since this is so let us recommend to him that he frankly emhrace the Republican party and help the South get a two-party system started. We'll never have a two-party system in the South if so many natural Republicans continue to run for office on the Democratic ticket. ? Durham Herald. DOCTOR EDNA One thing that amazes me Is where in the heck Edna, our maid, accumulated all her medical knowledge. Doctors have to spend years in colleges and then take a four-year medical course plus an interneship in some hospital before they are permitted to diagnose the difference between a bad cold and an upset stomach. But every time one of our children gets sick, Edna skids into the room and diagnoses the cases right off the bat. This trait of hers must have been handed down from untold generations. "What dat child needs," she says, "is a little boiled rabbit tobacco and elem tea." "What the blazes is elem tea?" I've asked. I "It's a little plant wid three leaves spreadin one way and four de other," she replied. "You can find plenty of 'em back down on de creek." Surprisingly, I've run down, located the plant and some rab bit tobacco, then boiled them together, and the children imme diately get well. t Of course, they might' have gotten well anyway, but to this OUR DEMOCRACY b?M.t LEST WE FORGET The men we remember, on memorial pav CAVE THEIR. LIVES IN THt GOOD FIGHT TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN OUR. DEMOCRACY. We honor, them best when we devote oupl LIVES TO THE PRESERVATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE CAUSE TO WHICH THEV GAVE. 'THE LAST FULL MEASUK.E OF DEVOTION." day I haven't been able to prove that Edna was wrong. After all, penicillin Is just a plant mold? and look what it's done! ? Gus Travis In Charlotte Observer. TASSIXG THE BUCK Cameron West hands me a good one that answers the age old question of who's to blame. College Professor: "Such rawness in a pupil is a shame; lack of preparation in the high school Is to blame." High School Teacher: "Good heavens, what crudity! The boy's a fool! The fault, of course, is in the grammar school." Grammar School Teacher: "From such stupidity may I be spared; they send them up to me so unprepared." Primary Teacher: "Kindergarten blockhead! And they call that preparation! Worse than none at all!" Kindergarten Teacher: "Such lack of training never did I see. What kind of a woman must the mother be?" The Mother: "Poor helpless child; he's not to blame. His father's people were just the same." ? Jacksonville (N.C.) News and Views. STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES As a youngster, I dreamed of the day when I would be able to buy blue grass in quantity, and give one pound to anybody who agreed to sow it. That, I argued, in a few years would make this a land of mountains and blue grass, something beautiful beyond words. Having had that dreajni, I find considerable vicarious pleasure in something similar Burrell Motor company is do ing. With a view to a more at tractive Franklin and Macon County, that firm has bought hundreds of packets of Burpee's hybrid giant zinnia seeds, and is distributing them, without charge, to flower lovers in Franklin and throughout the county. All a person has to do to get a packet is to ask for it. Think what these tens of thousands of zinnia seeds can do toward beautifying the flow er gardens and fence rows and roadsides of Macon County this summer! And how this county would blaze with color If every body, next fall, would save the^ seed and divide them with neighbors and friends! SP Sometimes It seems a long way from other places to Franklin? or even to Asheville. I found, last week-end, how hard it is to get from Ashe ville to middle North Caro lina, especially if time is a factor. I was due In Chapel Hill Sat urday morniftg for the opening of the North Carolina Editorial Writers conference, but could not leave until Saturday morn ing. By flying, however, I fig ured I could get to Chapel Hill in time for all but the morn ing session; so made a plane reservation. Arrived at the Asheville Hendersonville airport short ly after 8 o'clock, I learned that the only way I could get from Asheville to Chapel. Hill that morning was first to fly ? to Bristol, Tenn. (which is no nearer Chapel Hill than Ashe ville is), wait two hours there, and then take a plane for Raleigh. By this around your - elbow - to - get - to -your thumb route, I reached the Raleigh-Durham airport at 1:10 p. m. Still 20 miles from Chapel Hill, I got a limousine (why is it that all automobiles, of what ever vintage and whatever style, are "limousines" if they operate out of an airport?). To cover that 20 miles, It took exactly a third as long, and charged more than a third as much, as the time, and the fare, from Bristol, Tenn., to Raleigh. * * ? And I learned how far off Franklin sometimes is, when I started home Sunday. Arrived in Asheville late Sunday after noon, I was told that the usual late bus from Asheville to At lanta does not operate on Sun days. In other words, there is no bus out of Asheville, If it happens to be a week-end, from 3:30 one afternoon until 11:15 the next morning ? a period of nearly 24 hours. I wondered, as I spent that 20 hours in Asheville, why the State Utilities Commission ever approved such an ar rangement? and if the com . mission considers that kind of service is "in the public interest"? SP An interesting sidelight of the editorial writers' meeting was the half-serious complaint of one of the critics, imported for the purpose from above the Mason and Dixon line, that all the Southern papers, not con tent with robbing New England of its textile mills, now are trying to rob the West of its cattle business. He insisted ? a little too em phatically, I thought, for a man who was joking? that it just couldn't be done! To which ?omebody replied: "You see, we're winning the Civil War. after all!" Ramseys Employing Right Use Of Land By LACY HARPER (Conservationist ) Using land according to its capabilities is the goal of the Soil Conservation service. Albert and Clayton Ramsey, of the lotla community, are working toward this end. On one of their alfalfa fields, rather steep land, It had become necessary to renovate and re seed. Instead of plowing the entire area at one time they have laid out strips across the slope and will coultivate in sec tions this year to kill out the weeds and grass. Next year these strips will be seeded back to alfalfa and other strips plowed and later reseeded. By this method, only part of the sod across the slope is plowed at a time and the erosion haz zard is held to a minimum. Capability of a field is the Idea of using it so the least amount of soil will be lost and also to obtain the maximum income. In other words, use the field for what it is best suited. Airman Walker On Leave Here; Going To Far East Leslie Paul Walker, airman first class, arrived here this week to spend a 30-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Walker. At the end of his leave, Mr. Walker is on orders to go to the Far East for duty. Di1. Janowsky Is Named Chairman Of Association Health Officers Section Dr. Carl C. Janowsky, district health officer, was named chairman of the health officers section of the Western North Carolina Public Health associa tion at a recent meeting in Blowing Rock. The association embraces 18 health departments in W. N. C. MRS. SOPER HONORS ANDERSONS AT DINNER Mrs. Ellis Soper honored Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair Anderson with a dinner party at her home, "Four Winds", Saturday night in celebration of the 53rd wedding anniversary of the An dersons. Guests Included Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cabe and children. Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Mrs. F. S. Jonnston and daughter, Miss Lynn, left Wed nesday for an extended visit to relatives in Atlanta and For syth, Ga. Mr. R. L. Porter and two children, DeWitt and Iris, were joined in Ashevllle by Miss Nina, who had Just come from school at Winston, and all went to Charleston to visit the ex position. They returned home last Wednesday except Miss Nina, who remained in Asheville with her sister, Mrs. Reid Craw ford. 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Jimmy Hauser has been appointed as fish warden for Macon County. After the eating contest is concluded July 4th, The Press is thinking seriously of putting on a contest to determine the biggest liar in the county. The eating contest is bringing out quite a few who should be eli gible for this distinction. Among the graduates of the Sylva Collegiate Institute this year were Misses Bonnie De Hart and Ruby Solesbee and Mr. Carl Corbin, of Franklin, and Mrs. Erwin Smith, of Telli Tune In tonight on WWNC and hear the musical celehreties of Franklin broadcast an ex cellent program from eight to nine. The program was printed in last week's Press. 10 YEARS AGO Carl Qoerch, editor of "The State", a weekly magazine pub lished in Raleigh, and Robert A. Erwin, North Carolina jour nalist now living in Washing ton and writing a weekly col umn, "On The Tar Heel Front In Washington", were visitors in Franklin last week. If you can get an automobile and some tires, you can have a nice vacation trip this sum mer, if you can get some gaso line. (This and That, by Frank ie' Macon). A man in Washington was arrested a few weeks ago for Impersonating a Congressman. Anyone with such a morbid form of mania Is clearly in sane.
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