Cite $\t&nklin tyres s nnb ?hr ^aruttiatt Entered at Post Office. Franklin, N. C . as second class matter Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press Franklin, N. C. Telephone 24 WKIMAR JONES BOB 8. SLOAN Business Managt J. P. BRADY News Edltc CARL P CABE Mechanical Supertntenden PRANK A STARRETTE Shop Supertntenden DAVID H SUTTON Stereotypy CHARLES E WHITTINGTON Pr*ssm:ii SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Macon County Inside M\con County One Year $3.00 One Year $2 5 Six Months 1.75 Six Months 17 Three Months 1.00 Three Months l.fl Two Choices Take all the facts about our Macon County school situation. Then take all the facts about the pro posed $50,000,000 state bond issue for school build ing. Put all those facts side by side and study them. You'll come up with this conclusion. ' We can hope the bond issue carries ? work for it and vote for it. If it does, we'll get many of our school building needs met, and without any increase in county taxes. Or we can be indifferent about it, or oppose it. If it does not carry, we'll have to do some building, ourselves, to meet even the most pressing needs ? with an increase in county taxes certain. Good News It's good news that comes from Western Caro lina College that that institution this year is start ing courses in agriculture. Agriculture is important to this area; a large proportion of high school graduates who continue their education want to go into agriculture; and it makes sense for them to have an opportunity to get such training close to home. This is another step at Cullowhee toward mak ing W. C. C. really serve the area in which it lies. G. I. Training Again For neariy a million" young veterans of the Ko rean War, the deadline for starting training under the Korean GI Bill ? similar to the GI Bill of Rights set up after World War 2 ? is less than a year away. Of the Korean War veterans separated from the service prior to August 20, 1952, nearly a million have not yet begun the training that is theirs for the taking. How many of that million are Macon County young men? None, we hope; because surely this is an oppor tunity that comes hut once in a lifetime ? and not even once, except to those who have served in the armed forces in time of war. It is virtually impossible to earn a good living today without training; this is the veterans' oppor tunity to yet that training ? and to get it "on" Ct . .'- -am. Youth Not Enough "?.'ton A. Lennon, of Wilmington. who i-i filling'' ear Editor: ? As a fellow citizen of Highland.?, i wish to extend my hearti est congratulations to you on the succe ss of ' Hillbilly Day", 1953. That day, along with the natural scenic beauty of High lands and the surrounding area, is making Highland! the number one resort town in the East. I say, keep up the good work; it's a job well done. A/2c W. R ( BOBBY ) POTTS. AF 14390325 6135th ABSQ Box 202 APO 950, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif. LET'S PLUG FRANKLIN Editor, The Press: Please allow me to express a thought that many people may be Interested In, if you may can use this In your paper. While in Miami, Fla., last winter, I was told by realty brokers that greater Miami was on the increase to the tune of 40,000 people" annually, which sounds fantastic. After a check, I was told that this was about right Including the stork visits. Why this great Influx of people In normal times? First, Miami was built overnight, as you know, by advertising the "climate". They still advertise through many channels. Once In Miami, you are a Mlamian. They have found that it pays to draw people to their area. More people, more business for every one, and every new citizen is a booster that brings more people. Western North Carolina has the most wondexful climate, that makes for good "rugged health", of any place we can think of. Cool summers, mild, short winters that are only in vigorating, makes us eat more good "ham and sausage" for breakfast with an extra good cup of coffee. We eat hearty here, sleep around the clock at night; something that many people do not do in other climates. Suppose that Franklin could increase its population 10 per cent in the next 10 years? We would have 4,000 people added to our long 2,000. It seems that a town must have 5,000 to 10,000. more stores, and more places of amusement, to attract the average public. If Franklin could reach that stage, it would be a springboard to really go places. Realty values would in crease from the increasing demand. People, like sheep, follow each other. If it U good for them, It's good for you. Some advertising at this time in Northern papers, of our climate, would start a trend of people here to dodge the zero weather. Old timers here, 90 and past, tell me there ain't a better place to live than Western North Carolina. It's stili big new country with opportunities If we only let the people know what we have here. Franklin, with its location, five highways, the new U.S. 441 now coming through, should at tract attention for more people to come. Folks, Franklin has the spotlight for becoming the brightest little city in West ern North Carolina. It will not take business away from any of us, it should Increase it two-fold. The Franklin area has made big strides In the last couple of years, many new mod ern schools, more civic pride being shown in our countryside, all of which will attract more people. Look at five years ago! OWEN C. FURLOW Franklin, N. C. Editor DEHICJ Weaverville, North Carolina Poetry EDITH DEADERICK EBSKINE SORGHUM COOKING Cool night's calling Leaves are falling And there's longing in the air. Sorghum's cooking while we're looking Just to know the other's there Squirrels chatter, "What's the matter?" And far off the fox hounds bark, Hearts are meeting in their greeting Finding sunlight in the dark. tVeaverville, N. C. EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES An interview with Federal Judge E. Yates Webb, which appeared recently in the Ashe ville Citizen-Times, recalled a newspaper situation ? amusing now, but far from funny at the time ? created by the Shelby jurist in Asheville a number of years ago. In the interview, Judge Webb set forth his views on liquor and prohibition ? the conviction that liquor is the greatest single cause of crime in this country, and that total, nation-wide pro hibition is the only solution of the problem. Judge Webb long has held that conviction, and during the years he presided over the ses sions of district federal court in Asheville, he virtually always expounded those views in his charges to the federal grand juries. It happened so often, in fact, that we' on Asheville's aiternpon newspaper often felt we'd be safe to write an ac count of the charge and put it in type before court even con vened. That feeiing carried with it no disrespect for Judge Webb, for nobody can fail to admire the dedication of a man who, believing that one evil is the root of most others, continues to hammer on that topic; and especially the courage of a man .who sticks to his convictions long after public sentiment has gone the other way. The point was that the same ness of the judge's charges cre ated a major problem for news papermen, who always are in search of something new and different. Finally, Claude Ramsey (now executive news editor of the Asheville newspapers, then court reporter for the afternoon Times) and I cooked up a scheme to get a new and dif ferent charge. It was at the time when the controversy over the Roosevelt "court packing'' bill was at its height, and Judge Webb, being a member of the federal Judi ciary, naturally was keenly In terested In the bill. So Mr. Ramsey approached the judge with the suggestion that his next charge be devoted to "court packing". He accepted the suggestion with enthusiasm. Not only that. He accommo dated us by writing out, in ad vance, the substance of what he was going to say in his charge, and giving it to us so we could write our story, get it in type, and thus be able to carry the story in the day's first edition, which would be on the streets within a matter of minutes after the charge was made. It was a streamer story, and we even wrote the headlines and had them put in type. Nothing was left to do except wait for Mr. Ramsey to tele phone me, from the courtroom, that the judge had made his charge. The presses could then start rolling. The wait for that telephone call seemed interminable I paced the floor, and looked at my watch a hundred times. Finally the phone rang anl I recognized the voice of our court reporter at the other end of .the line. * "Everything O. K.?" I asked impatiently. There was a sputtering, as Mr. Ramsey sought for wjrds. Then he exploded: "Weimar, the story's out! The judge made his same old liquof charge! "Called me aside, right after he got through, and apologized. Said he was terribly sorry, but he got to talking about liquor, and just forgot about the 'court packing' charge he had plan ned." ? ? ? What did we do? My recollection is we hastily grabbed up some little item about the corn borer in India, or something similarly exciting ? some story that had been set ' in type to plug a hole on an inside page one day that week or the next ? and wrote a streamer on it, to take the place of the "court packing" charge that never has been made, to thLs day. News Making As It Looks To A Maconite ? By BOB SLOAN An incident occurred the oth er day which caused my blood to boil and brought forth some thinking concerning our local merchants. An out-of-town woman came to The Press office accompanied by one of our local ladies solic iting advertising which would help to pay for a project of one of our organizations. After taking one of the smaller ads, I casually remarked that our merchants were called on more than any other group to help with community projects. I add ed that other groups are per haps as willing, but It U just easier for those soliciting to see the merchants. You can see more of them in less time. Well sir, this brought forth quite a volley of criticism against mer chants from the out-of-towner. For some reason (and to those of you who know me best this will be hard to believe) I didn't argue with the woman, but the more she said the more I be came convinced that small town businessmen do contribute more than their share on commun ity projects. Then I got to thinking about Franklin merchants and I came to the conclusion that for a town the size of Franklin we certainly are fortunate in the group of businessmen we are served by. I can't think of a town this size with similar economic conditions that has as up-to-date and modern stores and business firms as Franklin, and these firms are run by men who are unusually honest and civic minded. That sister can say what she pleases, but the more I think about it the more I think, "How fortunate we are in our businessmen." * * * ? Over in Yancey County the other day something happened which shows how far to the front Macon County has come in the livestock field ? that is particularly our boys and girls. At a livestock show when a Macon County man was intro duced, one of the officials stop the show and said, "tell your people over there, we are going to stop their winning all these livestock shows." Our boys and girls are the mark the rest of them are shooting for. Don't let them catch us. Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Mr. J. P. Bryson has gone to Charlotte to accept a position with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company: Charlie Robinson went to Wil son, N. C., last week to take a position with the graded school of that town. Mr. John S. Trotter is build ing a new barn in the eastern part of town on the lot where the Trotter pin mill is located 25 YEARS AGO Recently The Press had occa sion to gently chide the "ex tension highbrows" down at Raleigh for failure to give prop er publicity "to the fine work of the extension service in Ma con County. Since that time there have been four extension specialists here and another to come "within a few days. Attorney T. B Higdon, of At lanta. came up last week to at tend the Higdon reunion. ^ Miss Margaret Cunningham left Wednesday of last week for Weaverville, where she will en ter college for the winter. 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. Arnold Garrls has re turned to her work at the air plane depot in Macon, Ga.. after a visit with her small daugh ter, Jeannette Oarris, at the home of heir aunt, Mrs. Orover Edwards. Mr. Garris is on a defense job in South America. ?(Highlands Highlights). ? ^ Louis B. Anderson, of the Nantahala National Forest headquarters here, has been promoted to the position of principal clerk of the Pisgah National Forest headquarters in Asheville.