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(Eke Iflnmklitt press nttit (Eh* 3i:ghlan?ts jMarummt Entered at Post Office. Franklin, N. C., as second class matter Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press Franklin, N. C. Telephone 24 WEIMAR JONES Editor BOB S. SLOAN Advertising Manager J. P. BRADY News Editor-Photographer MRS. ALLEN SILER Society Editor Office Manager MRS. MARION BRYSON Proofreader CARL P. CABE Operatqr-Machlnlst FRANK A. STARR ETTE Compositor a. E. CRAWFORD Stereotyper CHARLES E. WHITTINGTON Pressman DAVID H. SUTTON Commercial Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Macon County One Year $3.00 31* Months 1.75 Three Months 100 Two Years Three Years 5.25 7.50 INSIDE MACON BOUNTY One Year $2.50 Six Months 1.75 Three Months .... 1.00 Two Years Three Years 4.25 6 00 THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1956 Mark Of Greatness After his crushing defeat in the Minnesota pri mary, Adlai Stevenson told reporters that he is "no longer the front-runner" for the Democratic Presidential nomination. ? That is fairly obvious. Yet how many other pol iticians would have been so frank? (For nowhere is it truer than in politics that "nothing succeeds like success" ) Recognizing and admitting the facts, Mr. Stev enson will keep on running ? "harder than ever". And how will he run? "My plans are not changed, and neither are my ideas. I have tried to tell the people the truth. I always will. I have not promised them the moon. And I never will". This is the man who says to Negroes outside the South exactly what he says to whites within the South; who says to industrialists exactly what he says to members of labor unions : who faces facts as they are, and talks about facts without veneer ing them. That may not he the way to become President of the United States. But Adlai Stevenson must have decided long ago that, much as he may want to be President, he wants even more to be honest. His performance has raised the standards of in tellectual honesty in the whole nation And what ever his future, that feat marks him as a great man. Proposed Bus Changes The announced purpose of proposed changes in the Franklin-Asheville bus schedule is to improve the service. Changing the departure hour of the first bus to Asheville from 7 a. m. to 6, and that of the last bus from Asheville from 4 p .m. to 6, will give bus pa trons from Franklin and intermediate points more time in Asheville for shopping and other business, it is pointed out. This newspaper has not hesitated, in the past, to criticize the bus service when it was poor It has tens, now, to commend this effort to give better service. * There is ,a question, however, as to whether ihe longer time in Asheville will compensate for the inconvenience of leaving Franklin at 6 o'clock in the morning (and most other intermediate points before or about breakfast time). Involved is not only the convenience of the public but the financial interests of the Queen City Coach line; if people refuse to patronize such an early bus, the com pany's revenues will decline. In that connection, we pass on. for what they may he worth, (a) a hit of information: and (l>) a suggestion The information : The comment of one of the company's own drivers, several months ago when the early bus was leaving Franklin ahout 6 a. m. ? "People aren't going to get up this early to ride a hus ; besides, these farmers have to milk before they can go anywhere." The suggestion: If the 6 a. m. schedule is put into effect, and patronage drops off, we suggest a return to the 7 a. in. departure hour ? rather than discontinuance of the run for lack of business. Plowing Under The number of small farms in the United States is rapidly decreasing, the number of big ones is on the increase. ? News Item. In other words, instead of plowing under the little pigs, as we did twenty years ago, today we are plowing under the little farmers. Ugh! We see by the paper they may take a vote, over in Buncombe County, on fluoridation of the public water supply. The purpose, of course, is to get fluoride into the drinking water of all the children, so they'll have better teeth. Fluoridation, usually the subject of bitter con troversy, is a subject on which we've found it hard to get worked up ? either way. For our guess is the results won't be so miraculous as to put all the dentists out of business ; they apparently don't think so either, because most of them are for it. Xor, on the other hand, do we anticipate all the dire consequences some opponents predict. Our chief reaction is to wonder about the waste of fluoride. If the sole purpose is to get fluoride into children, why not just prescribe it for the children? Why put it into all the water used for industrial purposes? into all the water used for washing clothes and dishes? into all the water used for bathing? Why, in fact, waste fluoride on adults, whose teeth already are formed? And why, in the name of all that is sensible, give it to the thousands with false teeth? Wouldn't it make equally good sense to put the children's cod liver oil into the public water supply? Yes, sir, it would make just as good sense. And since it would, it seems reasonable to conclude that if we ever fluoridate the public water supply, sometime we might get around to cod liver oiling it. That thought convinces us w? do take sides in this controversy after all. Fluoridation? We're ag'in it ! Cod liver oil in drinking water! Ugh! Poor Vision (Frederick, Colo., Parmer and Miner) Surely there is something wrong with the vision of some people who do their duty as they see it. Not That Old (Smithfield Herald) The story was told to us that a young Kenly woman was cited to appear in Kenly Recorded's Court to answer to a charge of speeding. When arraigned, the young woman entered a plea of not guilty as charged. As Solicitor Wiley Narron proceeded to prosecute, the worn an admitted she was speeding. "Why did you plead not guilty?", was asked. "Well," came the reply. "The patrolman had my age down in the warrant as 39, and I'm certainly not that old." STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAK JONES Is there a relation between such things as high per capita income, on the one hand, and things like neighborliness, on the other. I think there may be. And what set me thinking along that line was something I saw, last week, on Bryson Branch. About a month ago, a freak storm struck out there, wreck ing the barn of Elbert Bryson. Last week, it was being rebuilt. And how and by whom? With voluntary labor, by the neigh bors. A few came one day; a few another. Some of them could work all day, some only part of the day. But tbe big Bryson barn was being rebuilt. Wednesday was the "big workin'". That day there were a dozen men, who brought their own hammers, saws, and other tools; and all day the sounds of building echoed from the moun tainsides. Meanwhile, in the Bryson kitchen, Wednesday morning, the women of the community were busy, too ? preparing din ner for the volunteer workers. Hiat kind of thing once was common in the United States. Today, in most areas, it simply could not happen. Why not? Well, while I am convinced there are no better people any where than we have in Macon County, I don't believe we have a monopoly on qualities like kindliness, unselfishness, and sympathy ? the qualities that result in neighborliness. I don't believe those qualities are con fined to any one area; they are nation-wide, even world-wide. Why, then, was what happen ed on Bryson Branch last week a bit unusual in today's world? .My guess is it's because peo ple today, in most areas, sim ply don't have the time to be neighborly. In most places, peo ple work under a tight schedule ? a tight time schedule, a tight production schedule, a tight profit schedule. Under our modern industrial set-up, it is out of the question for a big manufacturer to let his employes off for a day, or an hour, to give a neighbor a lift. It would disrupt the whole, carefully- worked -out factory schedule; it would lower pro duction; it would thus cut into profits ? and the manufacturer would face the possibility of operating in the red, and soon have to go out of business. That calls to mind one of the two paradoxes of this age. The first is that the more time saving devices we have, the less time; the other, that the short er our work hours (the highly paid automobile workers in De troit undoubtedly are on the job far fewer hours than farm ers on Bryson Branch), the less time we have for such things as reading, visiting, and neighbor liness. One explanation of the latter is that neighborliness has been organized to the nth degree; it's no longer an individual thing, but a community or na tional thing. How many people, even in Franklin, have more than one or two evenings a week for leisure-time pursuits? Usually, they are off to a meet ing of the Red Cross or a church group or civic club, or some other highly desirable and valuable organization. All of which brings us right back to the old truism; You must pay a price for anything you get. Goodness knows our per cap ita income in Macon County is too low; I want to see it raised. All I'm suggesting is that we keep a sense of proportion, a sense of values; that there is such a thing as a middle ground, where you don't have to completely discard one good thing in order to get another. In other words, I'm all for buying a higher standard of physical living. But, even In this day when many of us have more dollars than sense, I'm still enough of a trader to hold off buying till I'm convinced the price isn't exorbitant. 7 HE EASTER STORY '3 tie 3:5 fykt.x . . . ?jS^re Jffttta ^xnt' As ioW In The Four Gospels A ND now when (the even was "? come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day be fore the sabbath, Joseph of Ari mathea, an honourable counsel lor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were al ready dead : and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sep ulchre. And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus beheld where he was laid. t t t ^OW the next day, that fol * ' lowed the day of the prep aration, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, 'After three days I will rise again', "Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples, come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead': so the last error shall be worse than the first." Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can." So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. J. JL JL ? T l AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had brought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morn ing the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sep ulchre?" And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. /nd entering into the sepul chre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, cloth ed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. And he saith unto them, "Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here; behold the place where to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you." J So they took the money and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly report- ' ed among the Jews until this ! day. .t t t ? DETER therefore went forth, ( ? and that other disciple, and , Here is a man who was born in an ob- . scure village. He never ivrote a book. He never held an . office. He never < went to college. He never traveled two hun- 1 dred miles from the place where He was born. ? He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. Nineteen centuries have come and gone. Today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column \ of progress. I am far within the mark ivhen I say that all the x armies that ever marched; all the mt-ies that ever were built; all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put togeth er, have not affect ed the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life. they laid him. But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Gal lilee: there shall ye see him as he said unto you." t t t VOW when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests, all of the things that were done. And when they were assemb led with the elders, and h^d taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, say ing, "Say ye, 'His disciples came by night, and stole h^m away while we slept'. And if qpis come came to the sepulchre. So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. Then cometh Simon Peter fol lowing him, and went into the sepulchre and seeth the linen clothes lie, and the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and be lieved . . . Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. But Mary stood without at ;he sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down and ooked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sit ting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, 'Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him." And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her. "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seeketh thou?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, "Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away." Jesus saith Unto her, "Mary". She turned herself, and saith unto him, "Rabboni"; which is to say, "Master". f t t IT was Mary Magdalene, and * Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apos tles. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. . . . And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore fur longs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said unto them, "What manner of communi cations are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?" And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, "Art thou only a stranger in ? Continued on Page 3 VIEWS Br BOB SLOAN I was disappointed in a vein of thought that ran in Gov. Hodges' speech in Asheville. Saturday night. In expressing concern over the fact that North Carolina is 43rd in per capita wealth among the states, he attributed the cauye to a "predominating farm popu lation" within the state. It was his solution to this situ ation that I found disappointinr,. His only remedy was more in dustrialization. He obviously con cludes that there is nothing that can be done to help the farmer. Granted that Governor Hodges' own experiences have been in the business world, I think it is a narrow view which would incline a governor of a state to tell a large portion of more than half the population of his state that they should change their way of life. Study and work of the type that Governor Hodges is doing to help the already prospering industry could help the farmer. Recently, our chief executive has been going over the state helping to get people to subscribe to a fund which makes money avail able to bring small industries to our state or help those here de velop. How about a fund to help the small farmer? A graat deal could be done to help the market ing situation of the farmer. I do not believe that heavy in dustriallzation will help to give us the kind of society that most North Carolinians want to live in. Crowded living conditions and robot factory work do not pro duce the same gind of society that open fields, and do-it-yourself farm life do. * * * Concerning the farm problem on a national level. Senator Ke fauver, seconding an idea of Senator Scott offers a good sug gestion. In regard to price sup ports, he suggests that we have a graduated parity scale ? pay ing 100 per cent parity on the first $7000 worth of crops pro duced and then reducing the par ity payments on a graduated scale on the remainder produced by any fanner. This would ?ive full support to the small farmer who needs it. and at the .>ante time reduce the temptation to the large farm er, to produce just to cash in on the parity benefits. Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Members of the Epworth League will serve refreshments during court week for the bene fit of the Methodist Church and parsonage. The public's pa tronage is cordially solicited. Harry Jarrett has recovered from an attack of pneumonia sufficient to be out on the streets again. Mr. F. A. Hull, of Danbury, Conn., arrived last week and will be here several weeks look ing after his business interests in this county. 25 YEARS AGO A number of young men, di rected by the Rev. McCarty, cleaned up the Presbyterian Church yard last Saturday morning. ? Highlands item. Judge and Mrs. Willis ar.d daughter, Miss Mary Willis, re turned to the Franklin Terrace Monday, after spending the winter at Crystal River, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cansler and two children, Virginia and Rogers, of near Brevard, spent the week-end with relatives on Iotla. 10 TEARS AGO Mrs. Chesley Parnell, of At lanta, spent several days here last week visiting her aunt, Mrs. S. T. Marett, at her home on Main Street. ? Highlands item Mrs. James W. Roper ar.d daughter, Miss Mildred Roper, have returned to their home here after a visit with relatives and friends in Bradenton ar.d Palmetto, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Smith ar.d family, who are spending the winter in Daytona Beach, Fla , spent last week at their suir. mer home, Lullwater, at GneLv
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