North Carolina Newspapers

Mr? if P iCfe mm m mwm ! I II Volume XXXIX. FRANKLIN, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924. Number 29. S. S. CONVENTION HELD NEXT WEEK The Macon County Sunday School Association to Meet at the Union Methodist Church, July 22 and 23. From officers of the Macon County Sunday School Association comes the information that all indications point to a record-breaking atttedance -at the Annual County Sunday School Convention, which meets at Union Methodist Church,' near Franklin, on 'Tuesday and Wednesday, July 22nd and 23rd. ;the prominent Speakers on the proSNjwill be Miss Flora Davis, of Raleigh7sociate Superintendent a North Caroling Sunday School Asso ciation, and Prof. D. W. Donaldson, Washinton, N, .C, Director of Re ligious Education, Washington Col legiate Institute. During the. conven tion these workers will discuss va rious phases of Sunday School work. As has been previously announced, a pennant will be presented to the Sunday School having present in the - convention the largest number of representatives sixteen years of age or over,' based on the number of miles '..from that particular church to the churoji in which the convention 1 is f --held. The contest is'cpen-to all Sun day Schools in the county. The pen vnant will be presented at the session of the convention Wednesday after noon. '- -'- '-.---- The full program for the convention follows : -. Tuesday night, July 22: 8:0O-Devotional. 8:15 The Worship Period in the Sunday School. Miss Flora Davis, Raleigh, Associate Superintendent North Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation.' 8 :45-Song. . . 8:50 How to Get and Train Teach- - ers and Officers. Prof. D. W. Donald son, Washington, professor of Relis: . ious Education, Washington Colleg iate Tnstitute. ' 9:20-Announcements . 9:30-Adjourn. ' Wednesday Morning July 23: 10:30 Devotional. 10:45 Tests of. a Good Sunday School. Prof. D. W. Donaldson. 11:20 Period of Business: Reports of Comity and Township Officers; . Appointment" of Committees; .Record of Attendance. ' ll.:40-Song. , 11:45 Our Common Task. Miss Flora Davis. 12:15 Offering for Support' of County and State Sunday School As sociations. 12 :25 Announcements. 12:30 Adjourn. Dinner on the Ground. Everybody come and bring a basket, Wednesday Afternoon, July 23: 2 :C0 Devotional. 2 :f0VThe Most Important Work of the Srfnday School :, Evangelism. 2:35 The Children: the Greatest Responsibility 'of the Home and'the Sunday School. Miss Flora Davis. 3:05--Song, . 3:10 The Young People; How to Hold and Teach Them in the Sunday School. Prof. D. W. Donaldson. 3:40 Question and Discussion Pe- riod. Everybody requested , to take part. ' 4 :00 Period of s Business : Reports of a Committees' and Election of Of ficers ; Presentation of Attendance Pennant. . 4:10 Adjourn. Wednesday Night, July 23: , 8:00 Devotional. 8 ;15 Teaching Missions and Tem perance in the Sunday School. Prof. D. W. Donaldson. 8:50-Song. . 8:55 A Big Task for Big People. Miss Flora Davis. 9:30 Adjourn. -Three Things to Remember: 1. To bring a notebook and pencil to the convention. "Aiotebook has a good memory." ' ; 2. To be on time at each session. ' The sessions will begin promptly at the time giveir-on. the program. 3. That a 'pennant will be given to Sunday SchooMiaving in the con--vention the largejU number of repre sentatives, sixteen years and over, according to the number of miles traveled. Records will be taken at each 'session of the convention. The pennant will be presented at the close of fhe Wednesday afternoon session. MISS KELLY HAS A NEW POSITION Distinguished Woman, ' Edu v cator Quits Department of Education to Join Co-Op-erative Association. Raleigh, N. C, July 1. Miss Eliza. betlv Kelly, President of the North Carolina Teachers Association, who has held a high position in the State Department of Education and is one of the most prominent figures in the educational work 'of North Carolina, this week jbjned the field service forces of the Tobacco Growers Co operative Association ' as the head of its new -department of women's work. ' V The tobacco association now has 1800 local units, or community organ izations, in North Carolina, Virginia, and. South Carolina, and Miss Kelly will devote herself to the work of de veloping . the.se- local organizations and directing the increasing activities and interest in co-operative market ing of thex women on the tobacco farms of the three states. Miss Kelly, who was born and reared on a North Carolina farm, has spent her life in close touch with the roil and the country people. Her sympathies and affections are with the country people and the spirit with which she enters her ne.w work with the Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association is evidenced by the fol lowing letter stating why she has left her high position with the Depart ment of Education to aid the move ment. for .cooperative marketing of tobacco: . i "Years of teaching and supervision in rural schools have .kept me close to farm people and their problems'. No one knows better than I that as a whole farmers desire opportunities as good as any for their children and for themselves. It. is largely a ques tion of ability to pay the required price.. With. them it is not so much a question of ability and willingness to produce wealth from the farm as a question of . how to retain a fair share of that wealth for the farm. "There must be some way found by which the farmer may not only live himself but may become econom ically . independent so as to insure the products which all other classesJ of people must use to live. An intel ligent, system of , marketing points the way to economic independence for the farmer. With this indepen dence will come good homes, good schools, good churches and other conditions that insure and perpetuate the welfare of any rural community. North Carolina is primarily an agri cultural state . and primarily upon agriculture must the state's welfare depend. ' - "It is one thing to boast of our great agricultural wealth and quite a different thing to realize that no reasonable or just share of this wealth is insured to the producers. For -this reason I am ready to do what I may to establish the princi ples of co-operative marketing since this seems to offer relief from condi tions past and present which- tend to keep in bondage a people that should by all rights be more free than any other class on earth." Eastern Star Meeting. There will be a regular meetfng of Nequassa Chapter, No. 43,. Order of the Eastern Star, Thursday evening, July I7th. Special business and de gree work. It is hoped that all mem bers who can possibly attend will be prescht. Meeting opens at . eight o'clock . at Masonic Hall, Visiting members of the Order are welcome. The Resemblance. " Several , old . college chronies had been invited to dinner, a little reunion at the home of a member of the class. While they were enjoying some pre liminary chat the host remarked: "My brother George is going to-be with us today." "Let me see," said one of the chums, "I know most of your folks, But. 1' have never met your brother George. Which side of the house does he look like?" "The one with the bay window," in terposed the small boy of the family. Ill R'member . now the foiw ojep id pave ABour . i uAi.i i il i i rrTfT r '. WR W0NPERP- 60LDEN . LOCKS -AND llUW I IS THERE -v crjS- WINDOW OPEN ? - . . '"ms '. i M'mTdtm-1 fEEL a waft IT COSTS TO RIDE IN AUTOMOBILE Secretary of State Licensed 285,000 Cars in YearGas Burned in North Carolina Cost $45,000,000. Raleigh, N. C, July 14, Not count ing the cost of oils, repairs and equipment, it cost automobile owners and tourists in the State of North Carolina $53,723,750.87 to operate their mofor driven vehicles during the year ended July .1,' 1924, according to a compilation of figures obtained from the - automobile department of the secretary of state. This amount includes the money spent for gasoline at 23 cents per gal lon; the state gasoline tax and the license fees charged by the state. During the year the "secretary of state licensed 285,000 motor vehicles, including 260,000 passenger ' cars, 25,000 trucks, and 1,400 motorcycle's These 2,85,000 vehicles consumed, the compilation shows, 198,992,770 gallons of gasoline which netted the state a tax of $3,979,855.40. r . The gasoline burned in the running of these passenger cars, trucks and motorcycles and also tourists motor vehicles cost $45,768,337.10, basing the cost of gasoline at 23 cents per gal lon, the average prevailing rate throughout the state for the fiscal year just ended. The addition of the tax increased the cost to $49,748,192.50. The income from the gasoline and tax and the license fees for automo biles brought the state the sum of $7,955,513.77. The automobile fees amounted, to $3,975,658.37, which was $4,197.07 less, than the gasoline tax. Good roads are responsible tor the big increase in the purchase of motor vehicles , as well as for the' big sum expended for the operation of the cars, it was said. The expenditures increased considerably when the cost of repair work, oils, tires and other necessities are considered. Attractive Investments. "Thcst.cady growth and consistent earning! records of public utility companies,'' says r the National. City Company in its booklet, ''Mighty Ser vants of Civilization," "have'' within recent years begun to attract a sub stantial portion of large sums avail able for investment by insurance companies, -banks and trust com panies. At present time approximate ly $2,000,000,000 is invested in public utilitier by such institutions. "Taking into consideration the 27, 000,1100 depositors in banks, of whom half arc savings bank depositors, and the 60,000,000 holden of life insur ance policies, not overlooking!""' xf course several million private owners of public utility securities' practically every individual in the United States should be intimately concerned with die prosperity of the public utility industry. . . 'Public utility bonds are beginning to be recognized as suitable invest ments for savings banks; already the laws of nine' important states, permit their purchase by such institutions, and the legislatures of many other states. ai'e considering the enactment of similar laws." . ' . NOW ORGANIZING PHONE COMPANY New Telephone System Be ing Organized for Franklin and Macon County Capi tal To Be $25,000. At a meeting held at the Court House on July 12th, it was decided to organize the Macon County Tele phone Company. The par value of shares will be $10.00 each. The com pany will be capitalized at $25,000, and authorizedto start business when $5,000 has been paid into the treasury. A committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions for stock. It is needless to dwell upon the necessity for an adequate telephone system for the county. The new company will make arrangements with the Bell Telephone Company to connect with long distance phones; When the new coinpan is ready for business a subscriber may telephone from his home to any part of the United States. An up-to-date-telephone system in -Franklin will enable the farmers all over the county to build connecting lines and receive excellent service. Get behind this movement. Let's have an excellent telephone system for the county. : Rabun County Road Work Getting Well Under Way Rabun County is congratulating herself that every project, that has fecn asked for in the way of aid, eith er State or Federal, is under way. A party of ten surveyors , headed by H. W. Morgan are camping at Lake mont, preparatory to starting the sur vey of the, hard surfaced road from Talhilah Falls to the North Carolina line. .They will begin at once the sur vey which the Ordinary predicts, will be finished' and the road laid but within three months. At the con clusion of the. survey the contract will be let and work will begin on the road. Another party of surveyors are at work - on" the-Chechcro road. - They are headed by C. H. Faulkner. Other members 6f the party are Messrs. J. N. Richardson and W. K, Holt. : The Clayton-Hiawassee road pro ject has been let to Camp &Trammel, who will begin work at once upon the completion . of the.- highway from .Clayton to Hiawassee. . The Tempson creek bridge contract has been let to J. S. Scott, who will begin at once the erection of this bridge and when the two last named contracts have, been completed the people of our neighboring county, Towns, will have an outlet to the rail road and a good highway. Our Ordinary and those wjio have assisted him are to be congratulated on their success in having gotten these aids in the making of the high ways through the county, east and west, and north and south, which when completed wjU give us a splen did nucleus of highways to which the county will be able, to build lateral roads and will' soon have a good sys tem of roads. Clayton Tribune. FAMES CAN BE A MONEYMAKER Mecklenburg County Agent Believes That There Is a Good Chance for Farmers to Make Money. Raleigh, ' N. C, July 12. "I know that farming can' be made to pay if done right for I have made money each year," is the unqualified state ment made to. County Agent Kope Elias of Mecklenburg County by g, F. Withers of that county. Mr. Elias states that B. F, Withers would be classed by some as a city farmer but that he is doing the kind of fanning of which any dirt farmer could well aftord to be proud. ,In reporting on a trip to the-Withers farm recently, MY, Elias says ; ... ,2. J "Five years ago his doctor told D. F. Withers that he would have to get out of his office if he wanted to live. He therefore turned his attention to the worn out farm of his childhood. He bought a few cows, a car of lime, sowed soybeans and cowpeas in the summer and put in some crimson clover and vetch for winter cover crops. On a recent visit to this farm found a field of oats that would make an average of 60 bushels to the acre. In anotfcr field, of eleven acres alfalfa was about three feet high. When Mr. Withers started to improve this land it . would not pro duce as much as ten bushels of corn to the acre. Now it is one of the most productive farms in JhS vicinity," Reports like this come to the State College Extension division week af ter week telling how the use of legumes will improve the soil, bujU up the fertility of the land, and help to convert a worn-out farm into a money making enterprise. Agrono mists of the extension service state that now is the time to- make plans for sowing winter cover crops this fall. Many farmers are making a success of alfalfa and land can be started this fall for planting to al falfa later, .iome part of the farm should be planted .to legumes each year, state the extension agronomists. Rates and Grade Changes. No attempt should be made to solve the grade crossing problem by grade changes until other less costly meth ods have been given a trial. There are a quarter million grade crossings in the United States, cost of eliminat ing which would equal three-fourths of appraised value of all railroads, or in excess of fifteen billion dollars. If in eliminating grade crossings, railroads had to expend full amount of the cost, or $15,000,000,000, it would mean higher freight and passenger rates. If the people had to spend large sums for grade changes, higher taxes would be inevitable. In either event the people, and not the rail roads, pay the bill. Grade crossing accidents can be prevented by less costly methods .than'- grade changes. Requiring ve hicle drivers to stop, look and listen before crossing a railroad track is just as effective as a grade change and costs nothing. In this connection, it is well to con sider, the consequences as related to rates " in compelling th " railroads' to invest any large sutr for purposes which would greatly i: rease the cost of tli cir plant without screasing their facilities or capacity to earn and serve. Better for the public that un productive or dead investments like this be avoided and the money ex pended for additional facilities and improved srevice. Banks Make Good Showing. The Press this week carries state ments from the three banks in Ma con County, all of which make excel lent reports as will be seen by refer ing'to them. ' ,- ' . ..''..'' This is usually regarded as a rather lean time of the year with bank de posits, as a -large amount of money is drawn out to finance crops and va rious business establishments.' 'Not withstanding this the banks have maintained good deposits during the spring and summer and approach f ill with hones for even better business.