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THE FRANKLIN PRESS TiiitocnAv wnvcnrD 11 l?ff PAGE FOUR. Tlie Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS .....Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscription Payable in Advance) One Year ......... . .$1.50 light Months Six Months - 7d Three Months '. 40 Single Copies -. .., jC ADVERTISING RATES Very reasonable, and will be made known upon request. We charge 5 cents a line for Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Respect, and for no tices of entertainments where admission is charged. Entered t the post-office at Franklin, N. C, tor transmission through the mailt as secoad taM matter. Foreiftn Advertining Representative I THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THE FRANKLIN PRESS PLATFORM " A commercial hotel for Franklin. Extension of the sewer lines. Beautify the school grounds. Two hundred summer cottapes. A sewage disposal plant. More official activity in the sale of sur plus power. The construction of business blocks. Plant trees along the State highways of the county. Make a white way of Main street. , An excellent school library. A proper heating system for our school building. ' Courteous treatment for visitors. Improvement of couaty roads connect ing with State highways. Co-operation, vim, push, work every thing for the good of Franklin and Ma con county. New court house and jail combined. dilating petitions addressed to the county commissioners requesting them to Use their influence with the district agent to keep Mr. Arrendalc in Macon county. The farmers of this county know what our county agent has done for the county, and, it) our opinion, a great majority of our farmers are bitterly opposed to having Mr. Arrcndale transferred. No doubt the commissioners arc aware of this sentiment, among the majority of the farmers of the county and we, therefore, do not believe that our commissioners will be in fluenced by the growle of a few disgruntled men who, for personal reasons, desire to sec Mr. Arrendalc transferred. The recent re-election of tne two Demo cratic members of the commission was noth ing more nor less than a mandate from the people to continue all progressive movements affecting the county. Messrs Cabe, Pierson, and McClurc are progressive men men who will devote their time, energy and brains to the advancement of Macon county. It is, therefore, extremely unlikely that they will permit the transfer of Mr. Arrendalc to go through, since such transfer would, in all probability leave Macon county without the services of a county agent. and unceasing activities m uenau or incse hildrcti, who are handicapped through no fault of their own, the institutions established or their benefit find themselves unable to care for 'hundreds who apply fr protection because 1 their financial resources will not per mit them to accept them. Make an offering on or near Thanksgiving )ay direct to the orphanage of your choice, or through your lodge, church or Sunday school. Do it cheerfully, with the confident iope that you are helping reclaim helpless ttle boys and girls from lives of vagabonds. and training them. for, good citizenship. A Corn Grower How About It? 1 1 It is rumored that Asheville is offering a substantial reward for the capture and de livery to' that city of one queen. Last known whereabouts, Pacific Coast. Maybe the number of railroad wrecks these days is due to the scarcity of red petticoats. "The average Franklin boy becomes well ac 'quitnted with hardships when he is required to' was)v his neck and ears each morning. Another thnV'to be thankful for the latter part ef this month is that there isn't another general election this year. A lot of men would rather be the mnon than the sun. They figure they would see a lot more. VES sir. folks agriculturally Macon county is hard to. beat. The Press is thinking of making its office a sort of county fair where some of the remarkable products of the soil may be exhibited. People by the scores have conic to the Press office to see the big potato grown by Mrs. . E. Calloway A while back visitors from the lowlands could hardly believe their' own , eyes when they saw the disnlav of bit; amiles one weighing 30 ounces in the Press office window. Now comes Mr. J. F. Palmer with a clus ter of corn nine cars on one stem. One ear is full-grown, .four others about half, the usua size .while' still four others had quite a start when the frost put an end to the growth. When it comes to choosing husbands Frank lin girls do as well as their mothers did. Dancing, they say, is merely wasting . time, but some young fellow's seem lu squeeze a lot of pjeasure out of it. r Danger! TPHE fact that a small school boy was re- Cently struck by ' a motor vehicle serves again to call attention to the tact that traffic laws are constantly ignored in Franklin. . The re cent accident may or may not have been un avoidable. The fact remains that Jhe school children, on their way to and from school, are not receiving the protection to which they are entitled. Armistice Day TTODAY rnaks the eighth anniversary of the close of the World War. Many problems arising from that conflict are yet unsettled, and no man can predict when the scars will finally disappear. When the armistice was signed more than , four miKion Americans were under arms, and mMKons f others summoned to the colors. At 11:00 o'clock in the morning of November 11, 1918, the bugles along two hundred miles of battle front sounded "cease firing.". Mil lions of weary men under arms, beard this call with shouts, of gladness, while hundreds f milhons ; in the various homelands ele brated the peace in mighty demonstrations of joy. t Still other millions had passed to the Great Beyond during this, sanguinary . conflict. 'Hie people of every comity, village and ham- What Will Five Years Bring? THERE can be little doubt that five years will see much more business in Franklin than is here now. .Either as a result of the growth of the town or of a development of the tourist business, or of both, more business is coming and with it will come a traffic jam on Franklin's narrow Main street. ; Like all problems, there is a solution for the traffic problem here, and the town, na doubt, will find the solution when the time comes that it must be solved. But, if it sets out to solve the problem now, instead of. waiting, it can save the tax payers many thousands of dollars. For, after all is said and done, . the ' fact remains that the simplest and most practical solution o the problem is to provide more space to widen Main street. If we wait until we have to do it, it will -mean thousands probably hundreds "of thousands of dollars' expense If we start out to do it now, gradually, in five or ten years it can become an accom plished fact with comparatively little expense Main street can be widened say 20 feet in 'this way. The town board can order a buildings constructed in the future set back 10 feet from 'the sidewalk. This might work a temporary hardship on a few, but it would be but a short time until the majority of th buildings on Main street would be set back In five or ten years the street could' be widened 10 feet on each side by condemning 10 feet of LAND on either side, rather than 10 feet of land AND buildings. In othe words, by such a course, the street in a probability could be widened within five or six years without the necessity of condemning more than half a dozen buildings. For surely the town will see many old building torn down and new ones erected in their place in the course of the next half decade, This plan is not an idle theory. It is being put into practice in rmmbers of cities. It could be put into effect in Franklin NOW, and save the ' town thousands. Every month of delay means added expense when the time comes that we are compelled to widen Main street;, and each month's delay means postponing by that much longer th solution of a problem that is already scriou A Duty and a Privilege ALL those who feel it a duty and privilege to manifest ' their appreciation of; the blessings which the Giver of all good has vouchsafed unto them by helping the less fortunate brothers and sisters, ought to ltt in the rnimlripQ pnc.'irrrn htm raie or more!.. ,. . ... . . -c .ma Orphan Association; relative to assisting sons wno nau maue ine supreme wtciintc. ft is to the dead in the World War from Macon county that we dedicate this day. Theirs is the honor, theirs the glory of hav ing fought and died in the cause of human liberty and human rights faithful even un to the end. We can do no less than cherish the ideals for which they fought, and thus keep faith with those who have crossed over the river. The County Agent TTIIE news carsicd in the Press two weeks ago concerning the transfer of County Agent Arrendale to another county, has caused widely spread indignation. Regardless of party affiliations; farmers in many sections of the ceunty arc discussing the advisability of cir- To lead the county ticket is no little honor. This honor belongs to Macon county's effi cient and popular clerk, F. I. Murray. There is just one difference between the candidate and the pauper. ' "The poor ye have with ye always;" the candidate, every two years. 1 To the average voter, it is simply a case f the election being over. But to the un successful candidate, life though not over- might as well be, he feels. What happened to that story about the umbermen destroying the park? Have they ceased their depredations ? If so, isn't that bigger story than the first? Bill Cunningham says he saw a girl coming out of a beauty shop in Asheville a few days ago who looked , as though she had not been waited on. 3. Insisting that a thing is impossible, be cause we ourselves cannot accomplish it. 4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences in order that important things may be ac complished. 5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind by not acquiring the habit of reading. 6. Attempting to compel other persons tc believe and live as we do. 1 7. The failure to establish the habit of sav ing money. Morganton News-Herald ENGLISH QUITS PLIGHT is a confession of guilt. The, pub-. lie official who quits under fire in effect enters a plea of nolo contendere, Such will be the popular reaction to Judge English's resignation. The Senate was to as- . semble next week in special session to try him ort impeachment charges preferred by the House. He has elected for reasons best, known to him to return his judicial commis sion to the President. He can't quarrel if the public insists upon placing the most na tural interpretation on his resignation. Perhaps this is the most satisfactory out come of a case that gave promise of creat ing a real judicial scandal. The nation's ju diciary should keep itself above reproach. It should avoid even the appearance of evil. If the English case had been prosecuted before the bar , of the Senate, it might have led to disclosures that would have weakened popular faith in the fitness and disinterestedness of the judiciary. As it is, a man palpably dis qualified for court responsibilities has elimin ated himself in, the most painless way. Ashe ville Times. Others' Comments in the maintenance of the. twenty-three or phan homes located in various sections of th State. Can you think of any human being more deserving of' your attention during the Thank giving season, or at any other time, than the thousands of orphan children in -our State w.ho have no kinsfolk able and willing to care1 for them until they can manage for themselves? ' 1 Can you think of any cause . that merits your charitable and monetary assistance more than these ofphan homes which are attempt ing to care for, educate, ami., render self supporting so many of , the fatherless and motherless little ones picked uj from the highways znd byway; of our State J, V Remember that wkh aH the plan.i, cfTorts, ., ..''- ' 1 - ( THE UNAVOIDABLE SMITH THE Democratic Party is now squarely Governor' Alfred Smith, of New York. There is no dodging or detouring it. Be he an asset or a liability of the party, Smith is now greatly more of one or the other than he was prior to Tuesday. The result of the election has added vastly to Governor Smith's prestige and heavily in creased his political power.;' No one can rightly doubt that his Presidential candidacy has received a powerful stimulus and that the country is deeply impressed by his winning of the New York Governorship for the fourth term. Success wins followers, and the election result 'undoubtedly added many thousands to the number who will support Smith, the proven success. strong contender, prior to Tuesday, Gov ernor Smith is now. the outstanding candidate for the supreme nomination no one else even approaches him in prominence. Conditions may of course change and the Smith candi dacy be hopelessly wrecked in the months to come, but if conditions in the summer of 1928 arc as- now, the Democratic party must cither nominate Smith of deliberately reject him, not because it prefers another but because it does not want him. This, we believe is a fair statement since it considers the unknown future in terms of the present, when, to use a homely expression, no specific rival stands knee-high to the per sistently triumphant Smith. If so, the Demo cratic voters should now turn their attention, critical or approving, to him he is no longer one of many "favorite sons" suggested for the highest post, but one who commands wide spread national strength.. The question faces the party, is Smith an asset or a liability?' If Smith be argued as, an asset to the party, abundant evidence is adducible to prove this conclusion. Here is a man in the prime of life, clean personally, mentally well-balanced, an executive of admitted capability, it may be reasonably claimed, is so popular in his own pivotal State and others of Republican tendency that his nomination will assure a large number of electoral votes to his party. But if it be argued that Smith is not, an asset that he could not be elected his very strength makes him a liability so great as to plunge his party iritto political bankruptcy. If the party refuses him the nomination a great part of his great support will likely conclude that Smith was rejected because of his .,religion,,,..Rightly., or.wroagly, .many will so conclude, and in their anger and by way of rebuke will vote against the man who is nominated. They will not listen to any claim that the party rejected Smith because ; of his "wet" viewis or because he was an Easterner or for other reason however real it be. The question is far more accentuated than it was in 1924. Then the. convention issue was whether to nominate Smith or McAdoo--the matter was one of preference between two 'candidate. Now it is likely to be ' whether the party wants Smith or does not want him, From a purely political standpoint would or would not the National Democratic Party be better off if no Alfred Smith existed?- Did the National party win or lose with his win ning Tuesday? Asheville Citizen. Letters SEVEN MISTAKES "'THERE are seven mistakes of life that many of us make," sail a famous writer, and then he gave the following list: 1. The delusion 1 that individual advancement is made by crushing others down. 2. The tendency to worry about th:n;xs tht .aanot be changed or corrected. ABSENTEE VOTER'S LAW "MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN"" Editor, The Franklin Press : . The Absentee Voters Law was enacted for' the purpose of giving "our boys" in France a. chance to vote while the World War was in. in progress. Tts day of usefulness has passed. The idea of letting pur feeble citizens vote,, as well as those who are called away from, home on business, sounds good. But the law does NOT work well. It has caused members of each party to suspect members of. the other party of stealing votes. Officers have been accused of securing their jobs through the votes of persons who were VERY absent some of them in "the happy hunting, ground." Now it may be true that two parties are needed, but surely the public interest de mands that the feeling between the parties shall be as good as possible; A law, that causes distrust and hatred has one strong, point against it. Another way in which this' law is . being abused is through folks, staying away from ; the polls and sending in a vote when , they arc able to move about quite comfortably in other parts of the neighborhood. When some one does this he need not wonder if his neighbor thinks he has received cash for his vote. The absentee voter gives the vote buyer his only ' chance, under the Australian system, to see if he is netting what he pays for. . .... '.. .'.'.: ... It will rarely happen that a person who is. not able to endure a short car ride to the polls will be able to use wisely the power to- vote; and the person who is away from home is not usually in a place where he can ,get as clear an idea of home conditions as art the citizens who are in traveling distance of their precincts. However, the big . charge against tlve Ab sentee Voters Law is that it gives crooks of both parties a chance to carry on dishonest work.; It ought to be clear that if the time conies when our officers are chosen by the party that is able to steal most efficiently, certainly "government of the people, by the people and for the people," shall have flickered out. If ' our liberties are ever taken away and we are not allowed to choose the . men who shall carry on the public business, let. the man who causes us such loss have to fight for what he gets and not have it given to him by a citizenship which is too .flabby to guard its ballot boxes from whispering snin drels with sackfuls of absentee votes. Nearly all of the best citizens in both parties favor the repeal of the absentee htJ This fact needs-to be expressed in some way that Mr. SoUesbce can use when he goes down to Ralei&h,' for a; majority of the legislators will be Democrats arid they may think that the, repeal of this law is only desired by Re publicans. ' The best thing we can do, I think, is to circulate just as widely as pos sible, a great petition, asking' for the repeal of the Absentee Voters Law at least in-so-far as it applies to Maeon sunty. It '-will be best for many persons who sign this petitiott to state after their names whether they .are Democrats or Republicans. The repeal of this' law is wanlfxl not just by a pafty, but by the people. If we express our wishes on this subject so stroigly that they can be known and felt at Rakygh when the Gen eral Assembly convenes, we shall get the thing wc want, and we shall find how sweet it is for free men'-to rule themselves. . ' R. N. M. TTig'.louville, N. C. 1 ' -' ' , , '.' N.-voiher 8, 1926.
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