Volume XXXIX.
FRANKLIN, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1924.
Number 17.
TRAINING CAMPS
FOR YOUNG LIEN
Uncle Sam Offers .a Govern
ment Camp to Young Men
17 to 24 Years Old July
3rd to August 1st.
You will receive free transportation
from home to camp and return. 30
days' training, with good food, shel
ter, medical attention, clothing, ample
opportunities for ahtletics and recre
ation, comradeship with "bully good
fellows, and training in citizenship,
under officers of the United States
Army,
Ask any boy who went last year.
Work hard! ;
The Government is offering one of
the greatest gratuitous' opportunities
to young men between 17 and 24
years of age that has ever been of
fered by this or any other govern
ment. With your expenses paid, and
more than paid, from-your doorstep
to a well, organized, wejl ordered
training camp and all expenses paid
there, and recreation and sports, man
ual training, military training and
physical development of your body
and mind, under expert Army Offi
cers and Physical ' Directors, then
thrqugh transportation on return 'to
your doorstep, it becomes an oppor
tunity that no young man should miss
and that every parent should take ad
vantage of. The moral, social and
religious influences of these camps
are kept at the very highest stand
ards; discipline is administered and
taught in such a manner that it is not
repulsive: every officer is oicked with
the greatest car? and he must be a
man who can control young men
without harsh methods and can de
velop in the company of these young
men a spirit of absolute trust and
confidence.
The Camps are open to all men be
tween the ages of 17 and 24 years,
who are of good moral character, in
telligent, and in good physical con
dition. Candidates must be native
born citizens or must have made ap
plication at leastifor first papers of
naturalization.
If you attend one of these "Little
West Points" you can learn care of
health, to swim, ride a horse, radio,
citizenship, hygiene, marksmanship,
athletics, first aid. to play in the mili
tary band, etc. Remember, all your
expenses are paid from the time you
leave home till you return, even your
clothing is furnished. Macon County
boys will be trained at. Fort Bragg,
near Raleigh. . '
, Any one interested in the Military
Training Camps Association may se
cure further information by calling
on or writing M. D. Billings, Macon
County Representative of the Mili
tary Training Camps. Association.
Dairy Week.
During the week, of April 14th to
19th, Mr. F. R. Farnham, Dairy
Specialist for Western North Caro
lina, visited several communities with
County Agent Arrendale urging . the
farmers to produce more and better
winter feeds in order that theymajH
be able to make more money with
livestock Where the farmer has or
can build a silo and wants to feed
eight cows he recommends corn as a
feed crop. With a few cows or no
silo, he recommends stock beets or
mangolds as a soflrce.of green or
succulent feed. As a dry feed to go
with silage and a source of protein
soy beans are recommended.
True Community Spirit.
My community is where my
home is founded, where my busi
ness is located, where my vote is,
cast, where my children are edu-'
cated, where my neighbors dwell,
and where my life is 'chiefly lived.
I have chosen it after due con
sideration from among all the
communities of the earth. It is
the home spot to me. My" com
munity has the 'right to my civic
loyalty. It supports me and "I
support it., My community wants
my citizenship, not partisanship ;
friendship, not offishness; co-operation,'
not dissension; my intel
ligent interest, not indifference.
My community supplies me
with law and order, trade, friends,
education, morals, recreation and
the rights of a free-born Ameri
can. . I should believe in my com
munity,.work for it; and I will.
BEANS ARE RICH .
VITH VITAJIINES
Everyone Should Eat Plenty
of Beans May Be Grown
in Home Garden, through
out the Year.
Raleigh, N. C. April 21. In North
Carolina a continuous supply of beans
may.be had from the garden .from
early spring until the first frost In
the fall. Beans are rich in yitamines
which are essential to good health.
Also green beans are bulky and some
bulky foods should be eaten at ev
ery meal.
"To produce beans Successfully in
the home garden," says R. F. Payne,
Extension Horiculturist for the State
College of Agriculture, "the soil
should be broken deep and thorough
ly pulverized with a harrow and drag.
It should be well drained and contain
plenty, of organic matter. A sandy
loamy soil is preferred for the early
crop and a heavier soil for the mid
season and late crop. . ''
"Stable manure should be applied
to other crops in. the rotation. A good
high grade fertilizer,1 applied at the
rate of 800 pounds per acre' will give
good results on most soils'.
"Beans should be planted to 2
indie's deep on heavy soils and 2 to 3
inches deep on light soils. Snap'beans
should be IVi to 3 feet between rows
and 3 to 4 inches apart in the row.
Pple beans and pole Hmas should be
4' ft. between rows and 2 to 3 feet
apart in the row. Bush limas should
be 3 ft. between rows and 6 to 10
inches apart in the row.
"The best varieties of green podded
pole beans are Horticcltural Pole,
Lazy Life, and Kentucky Wonder.
Green podded bush beans are String
less Green Pod, Red Valentine, and
Refugee. Wax podded pole beans
are Golden Carmine and Golden Clus
ter. Wax podded bunch beans are
Pencil Podded Black Wax, Rustproof
Golden Wax and Wardwell's Kidney
Wax. Dwarf Lima are ' Improved
Henderson's Bush Limas and Ford-
hook's Bush Limas. Pole Limas are
arly Leviathan and Sieva.
"The limas and pole beans should
be planted after, all danger of frost is
over. Successive plantings of snap
beans should be made to have a con
tinuous supply throughout the season.
"Snap beans should be picked be
fore the pods are full grown. Beans
should not be picked while the vines
are wet as this will spread anthrac
nose." GOVERNMENT SENDS
KILGORE TO EUROPE
Raleigh, N. C, April 14 According
to an announcement from the State
College of Agriculture, Dean B! W.
Kilgore, director of the Experiment
Station and Extension Service, has
been selected by the Federal Depart
ment of Agriculture as one of nine
delegates to " represent the United
States at the General Assembly of
the .International Institute of Agri
culture to be held in Rome, Italy,
during the month of May. This trip
is arranged for by the Department of
State and all expenses are paid by
direct appropriation from Congress.
The United States maintains a per
manent delegate at this Institute and
sends its proportionate share of dele
gates to the general assemblies which
meet once every five years.
It is considered a very high honor
to receive an appointment of this
kind and generally only those who,
have tendered outstanding' services
to a commonwealth or the Nation are;
considered for he honor. It is felt
that Dr. Kilgore because" of, his years
of "earnest endeavor to improve the
farming practices of North Carolina
and because of his long connection
with the agricultural educational
work of the State has won this de
served honor. He plans to join the
other delegates at New York City
and sail for Italy on April 18. He will
return about the first of June.
The International Institute is sup
ported by about CO nations all of
whom send nelegates 'to the general
assemblies. It is housed in a perman
ent building at Rome built and
donated by the Italian nation. The
institute is. the outgrowth of the
dream of an American, David Lubin,
who saw the need for a great inter
national ctesring house of agricul
tural information and who prevailed
on the King of Italy to bring' the in
stitute into being. Mr. Lubin was
for many years permanent delegate
from the United States and spent the
last years of rm life in making thq
plan a success.
CHAMPION FIBRE
SALE CONFIRMED
Gigantic Pulp Mill at Canton
Has Changed Hands Is
Bought by Hamilton, Ohio,
Business Men.
Asheville, N. C, April 20.-Sa1e of
the controlling interest held by Peter
G. Thompson and associates in the
Champion Fibre corporation, includ
ing the large pulp mill at Canton, was
confirmed today by Reuben Robert
son, general manager of the fibre
plant. The preferred stock in the
company is listed at $2,000,000 and' the
common stock at $1,000,000. The gen
eral offices will be removed from Cin
cinnati to Hamilton, Ohio, the 'home
offices of the Champion - Paper Com
pany, the buying concern being lo
cated at the latter city.
The Champion Paper Company has
for some years had the contract for
furnishing the United States govern
ment with' its immense stock of pos
tal cards and has, besides., been -furnishing
a large number of -the -great
magazines with fine paper for those
publications. Walter D. Randall,
vice-president of the Champion Coat
ed Paper Company, at Hamilton,
headed the- syndicate which pur
chased Mr. Thompson's interest. Mr.
Randall announced today that im
provements will be made at, the Can
ton plant as well as the general of
fices, amounting to $750,000. Reor
ganization of the board will be made
at a meeting this week. Mr. Robert
son was unable to say whether any
changes would be made at the .Can
ton plant.
New Southern Tracks
To Expedite Traffic
Washington, D. C April 12.-An
extensive program of new track con
struction to expedite the movement
of traffic will be carried out by the
Southern Railway System during the
next few months, Vice-President H.
W. Miller, in charge of operation, an
nounced today.
Included in the program are eighty-five
separate projects at as . many
different points on sixteen divisions,
About thirty miles of new track will
be laid involving an expenditure of
approximately $650,000.00. .. '.
Ten new passing tracks, each more
than half a mile, long, will be con
structed and forty-four existing pass
ing tracks will be extended. Short
double track connections will be made
at Harrinian, Tenn., and Loyall, Ala.,
new yard tracks will be ' piit in at
Charlotte, N. C, and Princeton Ir.rl.,
and house, team and, storage tracks
will be added and extended and new
wyes and crossovers put in at a -number,
of points.
The 'new and extended parsing
Iracks will make' room for the long
trains now being operated and will
also help freight trains to get over,
the road without . delaying other
trains. Each of the other projects
will contribute in some way to the
facility of train movement or the ef
ficiency of station operation.
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Studying the Plans
PEOPLE SHOULD
EAT MORE EGGS
Extension Workers Say We
Could Use More Eggs To
Advantage in Diet They
Are Cheap Now.
. Raleigh, N. C, April 2i.-From field
workers of the extension division
come reports that there is an alarm
ing surplus of eggs now being pro
duced by the farm flocks of North
Carolina. Unless these eggs are dis
posed of to advantage by the farm
ers, the extension workers feel that
the growing of poultry as an impor
tant part of the safe farming pro
gram advocated by College and de
partment workers will receive a set
back; therefore, it is suggested that
now while eggs are cheap and plenti
ful, they be preserved in water glass
or in lime water for use later in the
winter whet! eggs are scarce and high
in price.
.It is pointed out also by pr. B. F.
IRaupp, head of the poultry work' of
the State College Experiment Station,
that eggs furnish a perfect food. They
are rich in mineral's, proteins,' fats
-and vitamines. This is proven, he
says, because they produce a perfect
animal, the chick. This being the
case, every one. could use more eggs
to advantage in the diet. Nor do the
eggs lose any of their food value. be
cause they are plentiful and have de
creased In price. They may be used
in a great variety of ways and are al
ways nourishing and health-giving.
It is urged, therefore, that house
wives all over the state use more eggs
in the diet during the next few weeks
and also buy,, them - when fresh from
the farm for preserving. The exten
sion division has published Extension
Circular Number 87 which gives
definite information as to how the
eggs may be preserved. Many people
are now following the methods out
lined in this circular and saving eggs
for the winter months. A card to the,
Editor, Extension Service, Raleigh,
will bring your copy free of charge.
The County-Wide Pla
The 'county-wide plah for schools
is being advocated throughout North
Carolina. Scyeral. counties have al
ready adopted - it, - while in several
others it is to be voted on at an early
date. The county-wide school sys
tem does away with the small district
school and the small school districts.
It tends to equalize the schoolad
vantages of all children within the
county, irrespective of local wealth
and willingness.
The following are the main .fea-i
tures of thc-county-wide school .-plan-:
1. Only one system of schools. or
the whole county. . ' .
2. line superintendent for the whole
canity. , , .
.iN principal for each high school.
4. Atleast an eight-months term
for the whole county,
5. The establishment of an adequate
number of high schools. :
6. Transportation to schools where
necessary,
7. Better schools in every meaning
of the term. .
8. An equal opportunity to every
child in ,the whole county.-
9. All property in the county to
bear the same tax rate, for school
purposes.
LOCAL MEN HAVE
STRANGE ILLNESS
Several Franklin Men Are
Victims of Mysterious Af
fliction Hopes Held Out
For Their Recovery.
Friends and acquaintances of Col.
Henry Robertson, Jim Roper. Doc
Pcaree,' Bill Moore "Chinny" Buird.
Osrar A clip nnrl n fpir ntUnr rn'i
men,, will be grieved to learn that
they are suffering"'1 from a strange
malady that seems to call for the ser-'
vices, of an alienist.
The first symptoms were noticed a
few . weeks' aeo. nil a warm Mnrrli
day, and began with a severe itching
of the feet and low-voiced multerings
of "only a few weeks more." ' .
During the past week, the disease
has reached the acute stage. All arc
suffering from a high temperature,
or fever, and are seeing red spots
before their eyes, together with
vague shapes that are more or less
cigar-shaped, only much larger.
The Colonel seems to be under the
impression that he is a great poli
tician or a musical director. He talks
continually about "leaders," including
"tapered leaders," "six-foot leaders,"
and thin, strong leaders. It was
feared that "Chinny" had gone to the
bad, as the first of the week he
jumped suddenly from his chair and
muttering ' something about "new
reel," started out the door.
Charitable friends insist that he
was talking "about the movies, in
stead of the after-effects of the boot
leggers' product.
All of them are bothered with im
aginary insects, for they are contin
ually talking about flies, gnats and
ants. Roper speaks of old friends,
including Reuben Wood and the
Dusty Miller, and some one he calls
the Professor. Bill Moore and Doc
Pearce seem to think they are going
on a journey, for they were heard
talking of "Montreal" arid a "Pink
Lady."
The disease is a baffling one, and
unless 'some relief is obtained within
the next few days, it is feared that
they will have to be forcibly re
strained. One cure suggested was
that, they assist their wives in spring
housecleaning, but this seems to
make them more violent than ever.
Hope is held out by the doctors that
if they have strong enough constitu
tions, they may recover late in the
summer. . '
Tom Leach, Judge Willis and Theo
Munday arc beginning to show some
symptoms of the same illness, but in
a much milder form.
Forest Rangers Often Use
. m m irr im
Remarkable instances where offi
cers of the Forest Service ha-ve
caught offenders against the fire laws
of national forests arc often reported,
says the United States Department
of Agriculture. ;
One such instance recently i oc
curred in California, where officers of
the Forest Service secured evidence
against an automobilist who violated
camp-fire regulations before the camp
fire was even built. This sounds like
Sherlock Holmes at his best. Here
is. how it. happened.
A tnurist from one of the Eastern
States established a temporary camp
in the Trinity Nation I Forest, Cali
fornia. On an inspect1! ti trip a forest
ranger photographed his particular
camp to secure a piet' .ru for use in a
report on . camping sites in his
district. ", ,
A few days later this ranger was
called out to fight a fi,rc that had
plainly started from a.'camp fire left
burning by some careless camper who
had rnoveK on to 'carts unknown.
The ranger remembered having in
cluded an . automobile in the , photo
graph he had taken of this particular
camp site a few days before. Hurry
ing back to headquarters he exam
ined the negative and with the aid of
a "magnifying, glass- picked out the
number of the license plate on the
pictured automobile. lie then sent a
description over the telephone to ad
jacent towns and rangef stations and
landed his man. who admitted his
carelessness, paid his fine, and coit
tnucd on his way with a new appre
ciation of what was meant' by "Be
sure your camp tire is out then
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