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Franklin Sheet Metal Near the Freezer Locker Fr a n kl i y Drive-in II # THEATRE % Phone M2 STARTS AT DUSK FRI.-SAT., APRIL 27-28 I Double Feature SHOCK-FULL OF THRILLS! Also "APACHE AMBUSH" Plus "THREE STOOGES" ? 25 Minute Comedy SUN.-MON., APRIL 29-30 Km trial Mjv Wmw ? FQSIEI ? (Em ? WTKN ? AMESSOH tow hrfr hww *i *u i umT ilSm* iS^'friiuBaw mrf TUESDAY, MAY 1 John Wayne In "OLD CALIFORNIA" Plus "Play Hollywood" A former Highlands police chief, EM M. Rogers, died April 19 in Osprey, Fla. Seventy years old, he served as a police officer in Highlands for 22 years. In more recent years he made his home in both High lands and Osprey. Funeral services for Mr. Rogers were conducted on the 21st at the Highlands Methodist Church by the pastor, the Rev. R. T. Houts, Jr., and the Rev. Eugene Walter, pastor of the Highlands Baptist Church. Burial was in the High lands Cemetery. Born July 3, 1885, Mr. Rogers was the son of James Monroe and Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, of Highlands. He was a member of the Highlands Methodist Church. Continued From Editorial Page STRICTLY PERSONAL only a foundation for today, and for the tomorrow that must be made better than either. And so there ran through the staunch stability of her a pio neering trait; she was Interest ed In the new, and, If it semed promising, ready to try It. Her home was the first in Franklin to have waterworks, the first to have electric lights, one of the early ones to have telephones. Hers were among the first "light housekeeping" apartments offered for rent here, and I am sure were the first equipped with electric ranges. She pioneered In other fields, too. She was a charter mem ber ? probably the last ? of the first Methodist Woman's Mis sionary Society In this end of the state. Early reorganization (we'd call It "streamlining" to day) of the Sunday school, In which she taught many years, met with her approval, when more conservative persons shook their heads direfully. "Let's try it", she urged. And at a time when it was considered down right indecent to so much as qualify the stork story, she taught her children something about the beginnings of life. it * * One facet of her strength was her resiliency, evidenced all through her life by an amazing adaptability. During her 93 years, living changed more than in any previous 930! Yet she was al ways interested in develop ments ? though she deplored some of them; and, against the handicaps of blindness and in creasing deafness, she sought to the last to keep abreast of the times ? ever looking- forward to times that would be better. I have often thought the changes in moral standards must have been especially diffi cult for the long-lived of her generation. For whereas they : grew up In a period wtyen near ly everything woa either white or black (since they were "worldly pleasures", such things as card playing and dancing were sins). In their old-age al most everything was gray. But she seemed to have made that adjustment, because, dur ing her last Illness, when a daughter-in-law did some little service, she expressed apprecia tion by quoting: "That was 'a good deed in a naughty world'." Then, with a little smile, she added, "but maybe it isn't so [naughty, after all". All through her life, adjust ments were demanded by her own peculiar circumstances ? from the childhood disease that left her with a twisted body to what must have been the hard est one of all, made in the last year of her life. It was made doubly difficult by her strong loyalty. She was loyal to her Ood, her family and friends, her church, and her community ? and in that order. How her church loyalty had become something of a tra dition here is illustrated by an incident of a number of years ago. She was visiting us in Bun combe County, and Sunday wanted to attend an Asheville church, because a former Franklin pastor was the min ister. It was winter, and when we arrived, a little late, the night-latch on the church door had accidentally been released. We could not get In! So we waited in the car until the serv ice was over, and when the minister saw us and came to greet us, I Joked him about locking Mother out of the church. His reply: "Well, the only way you could keep Mother Jones out of the church would be to lock her out!" In the last year of her life, she had to substitute a half heard radio program, from some church she had never seen, for the benediction she felt ? and emanated ? when seated in her regular pew In the church she had attended since infancy. Yet she could put enthusiasm into her voice as she told callers of the beauty of the music, and then summarized the sermon with "his general idea seemed to be . . (At 85, she had be gun memorizing poetry "to im prove my memory", and I al ways suspected she made her self reduce the radio sermon to its essence as a mental dis cipline.) Earlier, when her eye sight failed, she had substitut ed for the printed word books put on records, and would often tell us, with zest, about the book she had just "read". Beneath her gentle manner was a deep sense of justice that made her quick to champion the under-dog. That trait was so characteristic, in fact, that it was a little family joke that "Mother would take up for the devil himself if enough people jumped on him". Nor was her long-suffering patience inex haustible. I well remember the time she discovered that a Ne gro girl, whom she had taken in, clothed, befriended, and WARNING: This is one of the most violent, Westerns ever filmed. ELEM BARBARA Hm snmmx EDWARD G A COLUMBIA PIC Tuff [CinemaScoPEI The ^ Xwim I Mem AND THEIR WOMEN' SUNDAY AND MONDAY FRANKLIN DRIVE-IN THEATRE STARTS AT DUSK Admission 50c; Children Free Phone 452 was teaching *u mtrlog her mentor's clothing. Mother took the girl to her room and made her strip to the akin; layer by layer, she had on Mother's beet garments. And as the girl strip ped her body. Mother stripped her soul ? by look, X suspect, even more than by the words I heard. ? ? ? When we were children, Mother often told us "where there's a will, there's a way". I thought of it as her way of refusing to accept our lame excuses for not trying, or, if we tried, not try ing hard enough; and some times the very unanswerability of the argument made me a little resentful. As I matured, resentment gave way to wonder. For her whole life seems to have been a series of small miracles, each proving the validity of her argument ? proving, too, that it was not just an argument with her, but a conviction. After disease had struck, In her infancy, her parents were told she would never walk again. She walked the mile or mile and a half, each way, to school. Growing up in the terrible poverty of the Reconstruction era, college seemed out of the question. But she attended and was graduate)! from college ? though she was 23 before she found a way to get there. In view of her infirmity, it was assumed she would never marry. But she did ? married a widower with six children, in the face of opposition from both her friends and my fath er's. Already, ran the argu ment, she was an "old tnaid" ? she was 32. Whatever her age, she lacked the physical strength to become the housekeeper on a farm. Finally, there would be the strained, unnatural rela tionship between step-mother and step-children. How natural that relationship became is Il lustrated by the fact I was a big boy before I learned the older children were not Moth er's own. (I never saw her so angry as she was at the "med dling" of the outsider who told me!) And the love they lavish ed on her for more than sixty years was proof that they be came equally unconscious they were not her own. In her later years, we often said to her that it must have taken courage for her to marry, under the cir cumstances. "I sometimes think it was foolhardiness", she would laugh. "But", she always added, "it was the wisest thing I ever did. For the greatest of my many blessings is the love of all my children, and my grand children." She was told she must never bear children. She bore four ? though, on at least one occa sion, it took her deep into the valley of the shadow. And so it went, all through her life; finding a way to do the impossible ? or, at least, the highly improbable. Even in her inmost thoughts. I am sure she never took credit to herself for these accomplish ' merits. (She Invariably defined "obstacle" as "something to be overcome".) "At every crisis In my life", she explained, "Ood raised up good friends." (After 70 years, she was still grateful to Jackson Johnston, a mer chant who was well-to-do by that day's standards in Frank lin. Learning of her determina tion to go to college, and know ing a little cash was essential, he volunteered to make her a loan: "and he wouldn't accept any interest, when I paid him back".) And she often told this story: One morning, when she was a child, she found her mother, I a widow with six children, In unaccustomed tears. Thire was no coffee in the house ? and no money to buy coffee. Feel ing she must do something to help, Mother picked up the broom and vigorously started sweeping the house, meanwhile singing, at the top of her voice, "God Will Take Care Of You". Before the sweeping was half finished, there was the sound of a horse's hooves on the drive and the rider, leaning from the saddle, beckoned her to the front gate. He was an uncle, come to bring the family some groceries ? among them, coffee! Nearly always, Mother would end these little stories with her favorite quotation from the Bible ? and this was the heart of her philosophy: "All things work together for good . . ? ? ? When death comes to a young person, It seems unalloy ed tragedy. Not so with one who HELEN'S BARN In HIGHLANDS Will Open Saturday, May 5 Square Dancing Every Saturday Night Hunter Young's string band will play. tarn Baa* ? bat ? purposeful, a. useful life. The lattar Man with It, of course, the unwelcome realiza tion that thte la the end of one phase of your own life: a nos talgic longing for the happjr past that Is associated with the one who Is gone. But not grlefl Instead, It la a little like turn ing the last page of a great book. There is poignant regret that you have come to the end of the story; but overriding the regret Is the uplift the reading has brought. You are a little sad the book Is finished, but you are glad, so glad! you were privileged to read ft. v Ma c o II THEATRE ll FRANKLIN, N. 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