North Carolina Newspapers

THE FRANKLIN PRESS Friday, May 23, 1924 Page Two fJEVS 0FTEEK OF HIGHLANDS Brief Items of Interest from Macon's Pretty Mountain City as Told by Corres ' pondent of The Press. ' Mr. Ben Keener, who died Friday morning at eleven o'clock, was buried by the Junior Order, Sunday at 12 o'clock. Mr. Keener has left a large family to mourn his loss.. Mr. and. Mrs. Wendell McKinney, their daughter Mary, Mrs. Edwards and Ethel Pierson left Saturday for Pisgah Forest to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Potts." They: are expected , to return Tuesday or Wednesday. , Miss Rose Valper, who has been visiting Highlands and staying at the Smith House, returned to her New Jersey home last Thursday, May 15th. Miss Gertrude Patterson has gone home for a few weeks', after, which she will return to stay with Mrs. Crosby. Highlands is looking forward to a brisk summer season. -One of the at tractive features will be a cafe, rim by Mr. Anderson, from; Anderson, S. C. The building is now u'ndar pro cess of erection, beside the bank and opposite the Martin House. Mr. Will Cleaveland has the. work in charge. The Anderson House, formerly known as the Norton Place, has again changed hands, having been bought by Mrs. Phoebe Crisp, of Fairfield. : The Baptist Church was disap pointed that the ' evangelist, Mr. Hughes, was delayed in coming to Highlands. We are anticipating a great meeting beginning next Sunday, May 25th. At the Cullowhee High School 'graduating erercises we are glad to announce that Highlands' has a rep resentative in Miss Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Rice. While we are proud of our boys and girls who have made good in high schools away from here, how much greater cause for pride we will have when from our own auditorium we can send out a class of bright young men and women from our State accredited High School, to en-j tef higher schools that will prepare them for a life of the greatest ser vice of which they are capable and so, as our superintendent expressed it, leave the world better than they found it. . Politicians Must Have Jobs. In. a recent interview, Ole Hanson, former mayor of Seattle and advo cate of municipal ownership, gave hk present vrews with characteristic . vigoV. He s,aid :' ( 'Interest rates on bonds are less. They are tax-exempt. Municipally owned utilities can obtain franchises at no cost. Run properly; they should be able to sell their product cheaper than private companies. But do they do this? I do not think so, and the reasons are obvious. "Municipal properties are immedi lt ately removed from the tax roll, thus ' increasing the burden upon every cit izen. The purchasing power of every ' dollar he spends for food, clothes, rent and entertainment is reduced by that fractional sum necessary - to make up the deficit in the public treasury caused by loss to city of " taxes formerly paid by the private company. ' "The loss of efficiency in operating staff resulting from municipal own ership is a well-recognized -'phenomenon. Private companies Will pay for brains, and brains are one of . the chief requisites for successful opera toin of a business as technical, and intricate as a public' ut'lity. "Municipal enterprises often will pay a higher rate than current price lor labor. Municipal or jovirnment ownership is synonymous with more jobs, mpre pay, less work. They will not, however, pay for brains, for sal aries are fixed not on account of what a man can earn', but what the public thinks is a fair wage. "The cause of spread of municipal . ownership is largely attributable to selfish desires of politicians, who see in the control of utilities an oppor tunity for more power. They are aided by theorists, who believe that it will work." The Manufacturer. The Biped Called Man. ' The biped called Man is the only animal . Who wears a hide other than his own. Who is bound by the fetters of caste. Who considers 'that his own is the only species entitled to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Who will not give his heart fully and freely to the Master who loves and tSnderly cares for him. Who preys upon his own kind. Who will attack or whip the fe male of his Own snecies.' - Who makes a gala occasion of the agonized death of other creatures. Who, when he is imprisoned, gets "time off" for good conduct. Who considers that he alone is entitled to the love of his Master and the Joys of eternity. " Cull Poultry; Save Best March and April Pullers And Make Hens Pay Eig "I wish to thank you for your strong co-operation in building up the farm poultry on our farms," writes Allen G. Oliver, in charge of r"hc' of fice of poultry extension of the North Carolina Animal Industry division, in a letter to County Agent John V. Ar middle. In laying great -stress on the importance of cloae attention to the flock at this time,- Mr, Oliver tor.iiir.ies : "Now I want to ask iliat you put a little otra steam on at once to save the March and April hatched pullets up to the -number that each farmer or club member should keep. All the publicity you can give to this very important r item will be none too much. "We want to go into winter quar ters with- from two-thirds to three fourths of all flocks to be Mafch and April pullets. The matured pullet is what we must have if we want fall and winter eggs. There is no way to jog by this. When we put it over we will be able to have somewhere near enough new laid eggs to supply the people of our state and in time pcr-( haps shut out the cold storage product. "Many counties are putting on co operative car lot 'shipments of poul try and that is what we want and more of them. However, if you allow the above pullets to be shipped you know what will be the result. N9 fall and winter eggs. Many of you' have contracted for new laid eggs the year round at good prices and of course we are all for more and in time hope to be able to have all the hotel, cafe and cafeteria trade. We do not want to fall down, on those contracts but have more .and -more of them. If you fail to get your people to keep the March and April pullets, you, however, will be absolutely un able to fill jour present contracts to say nothing of hew ones. Failing in this we will be right back where we were with a very limited supply of high priced eggs. "We will, of. course, have the usual heavy spring supply for a short time. That, has always been the case and always' will be. You do not hear so much kicking about the price of eggs for the last six weeks- from, the fellow who had lots of high priced eggs during October, November, De cember, January and February. Hatching season was'on for him then and he set cheap eggs and got his chicks out. There is quite a difference between setting eggs at 18 cents per dozen and 60 cents per dozen. "He then commenced to carefully cull out his old and low producing hens or his old rbosters, and if he wished to have one hundred hens he is now about down to what he knows he should have, or twenty-five, these his very best ones for next year's bleeders, He put these cull hens on the market before the flush of fryers and has, gotten good-prices for them, has the money, some of which he may need to buy some feed with in order to properly grow out his early pul lets. Then on top of this he is sell-.' ing his cockerels and pullets that dp not suit him at 50 and 60 cents per pound as fryers. In other words he is attending to his knitting and doing the job.with a .view to business and has his farm on a money crop basis. If he does not do these things he will not be handling. his farm poultry as he should. "We saw an article in the News and Observer of April 15 in big head linesCheap .Eggs Is Alarming and I suppose some folks got all fussed up about it and will say over-production. We will find that these hens on farms will soon be setting, carry ing and raising chicks, broody, etc., and hot weather will soon be here and eggs will very soon get scarce and then up, up, up goes the price. Then about September and October out comes the 15 cents a dozen eggs from cold storage and back to the people at 40 and(50 cents per dozen. "The fellow who now has only 25 hens, his best ones, carefully culled will just about produce enough eggs for his home use and some to sell. He is feeding out his pullets, and not his old hens, to have then! matured and readv to, lay high priced eggs in competition with the . cold storage eggs-- : ' "Only for his new laid eggs he will get frprh 5 to 10 cents -more per dozen and be able to make good his part of a cpntract if his county has a poultry producers' association and he is a member of same. This places the 100 lien farmer, and those after all are the big producers, on a safe business basis. He will not be hard hit at all and will beable to go right ahead and make his flock pay and pay, big profits for the money and time in vested. He also can put down 30 dozen or more eggs in water glass' and this he should do by all means. It's sure, safe, and economical. "Cull the old hens ind old rooster. Sell the cockerels for fryers and all runty looking pullets "but stick tight to. the big, -strong, March and April pullet up to the number you want. These are for your., own use and are the money makers.; "Folks, there is just no way to beat this pullet and by prooef housine and feeding .he will deliver the goods to you all carefully packed in a good nousmg dox. , Rgifift Live Stock For Country Markets: That's a funny subject, is it not? Where are the markets for country livesotck? When' and where is ' the fellow in Western Carolina 'who has found a market in. his own village for his livestock? We have a few men who have. Let's see. 1 There is a market fdr your , live stock, Mr, Farmer, in your own com munity, but the kind of livestock I'm writing about is the two-legged kind. The boy or girl on your farm is- an animal. , Are they not livestock? Livestock they are, in the truest sense. If the average boy or girl on the farms of our communities are not alive there is certainly a lot of dead stock around. The rearing of this variety of live stock is one of utmost importance. It requires brains and a. normal sized heart to cater, toward this, end of the farm's produce. Finding a market for livestock, though, is the hardest proposition that confronts the farmer. Why this, you ask. . . ' The reasons are many but the city's beckon is probably the main one. The bright, dazzling lights send out a brilliance that calls the .young man and young woman from the handles of the plows and the kitchen doors of the farms in our country. The routine of city life seems to offer the young people on our farms the pleas ures that they are so anxious to have. The moving picture theatres, dance halls, shining cafeterias and many other things in the city slowly call them in. They want the socials that are so common in the city and when once their heart is set on these, city activities it is hard to keep them un der your roof. . -. Why, my dear sir, is it that with all the wonders of our beautiful farms do these boys and girls want to catch on the chain that dropsthem into the city? Are there not more sources of inspiration on the farm than in any other place? Has the sweet perfume from the hay mow in the fall and the blossoming meadows in the springtime ceased to givejhem a thrill? If id, this thrill is not taken in so easily as the thrill of the city. ' With all the modern improvements and the various sources of amuse ments that can now be had on our farms it certainly must be that the city will not "gobble up" all our live stock. We need some of them, at least. Ah! There's the radio. It gives much pleasure to the whole family, and hiakes our- cold winter evenings pass very pcasantly. The radio of fers dance music, and we have part of the city's so-called pleasures Will they leave when their services are so needed to help out in their own com munities? . "What does this have to do with mv children?" I hear someone re mark., Well, it's just this. If the livestock market in your community can be made more profitable, it must be done. Too many boys and girls, when their education is finished, have left the village of their birth and gone to the city, "to make their for tune." The farm community jiecds these red-blooded ' men and women at home. They 'are.; needed -in -the communities to teach the younger ones what American ideals are. Then, Mr. Farmer, if you are for tunate enough to have a young lady br a young man who enjoys farm lire, see it you cannot persuade him to make home his home. When the boy or girl has completed his college course and begins at home he will be an advantage to your home com munity and nation. You, sir, will have then learned where and how' to market country livestock. Farmers Federation News. One Way to Help the Farmer Soil fertility lies at . the very basis of human life. As the soil grows poor the human race dies out. Amirica is consuming and wasting its soil fer tility at a rapid rate. We have' tome to the point where oor land must be fed if it would feed us. The question asks itself. Can soil be kept indefinitely fertile? The answer is found in land that has been cropped' for 2,000 years and more, and is yet very fertile! But ihch land is not to be found' except in stable civil izations. Within the memory of men now living, commercial fertilizers it America were hardly known. Amer ica now consumes over 6,000,000 tons of these every year. Of this, 80 per. cent is from raw materials found in our own country, but the 20 per cent we.bnv from abroad costs us more than $35,000,000 every year. This money goes mostly to Ger many for potash and to Chile for nitrates. Pottassium .nitrogen" and phosphorus are the three elements most needed for soil sustenance, and these are what we seek in commercial fertilizers. Raw phosphorus we have in . abundance, indeed, the world comes to us for.it. because our depos its now open, tre very rich and easily worked, ' One way to help the farmer besides lending him money and marketing his products is to ensure him cheap fer tilizers as a national policy. LYNCHBURG COUPLE RELY ' ON .TANLAC FOR HEALTH Mr. and Mrs. Unrue Turn to World's Greatest Tonic Whenever They Feel Need Of A Tonic. Among the thousands of people everywhere who have come to rely upon Tanlac to keep, up their health and strength are Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Unrue,' 901 Eighth St., Lynchburg. Va. 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