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FACE FOUR. THE FRANKLIN PRL. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, WZS, if; The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subacriptiont Payable in Advance) One Year --Sl-SO Eight Months 1(W Six Months ' Three Months w Single Copies ......... Sc 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. i Entered at the post-office at Franklin, N. C, tor transmission through the mailt ai tecoad tfatu natter. Foreipn AdvertUing Representative I THEAMERICAN PKESS ASSOCIATION J THE FRANKLIN PRESS PLATFORM A commercial hotel for Franklin. Extension of the tewer line. . Beautify the achool grounds. Two hundred summer cottages. A aewage disposal plant. More official activity in the aale 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 achool library. Courteous treatment for visitors. Improvement of county roads connect ing .with Stale highways. Co-operatLln, vim, push, work every thing for tie good of Franklin and Ma con county! " New couVt house and jail combined. How About It? V' Gene Tunney says if he ever marries he will quit fighting. That shows how little he knows about marriage. . stWhyt-'is it that so fathers around -,j Franklin blamedie cussedness of the younger v ; generation oh everything but heredity? i ". V '"" V ' ' ). '' " ',"'' -November is certainly the month of the axe. First the candidate gets it and then the tur- '' v key. y . ". , If Billy Sunday is looking for a real tough t. ' job, let him try putting on a revival at Hcr- ; ! rin, Illinois. ' ' A Franklin woman recently hit her finger ' with a hammer and said nothing but ."Mercy." That must have been an awful strain. " J ' .' . Lee Barnard says that 'tooth they found in ' Montana, thought to be a million years old, , V was lost' by some man while he was sitting ; around waiting for farm relief. , y"' ' L- The simnh'st wav to learn how to dance the v ' Charleston is to catch the itch. It takes 50 years to grow a decent forest, . and then some man comes along with a match. In the last Macon county court such a match cost one man fifty dollars. County Agent's Salary and Work JJLSEWHERE on this page appears a letter from Mrs. F. E. Mashburn who asks some pertinent questions regarding the county agent and his work. Mrs. Mashburn refers to the report being circulated that the county agent charges a percent on the carloads of Guernseys he has brought to the county. This report is nothing more nor less than one of the underhanded methods his town opponents are taking to discredit Mr. Arrendale. The facts are as follows: Mr.- Arrendale has gone into other States to purchase dairy cows to I advance the cause of this industry in - Macon county. These cows on arrival here are auc tioned to the highest bidder. To the original ost of the cows are added the transportation, harges, feed bill, etc. , Should the car of cows Iring more than the cows cost delivered at lranklin each buyer is refunded a proportion- part of his bid. Should the cows sell for Is than it cost to deliver them here, each Idcf is assessed a proportionate amount to icr .the shipment. le agent's salary is $3500 per year, of th the county pays only $1300 out .of the jral fund. V Taking into consideration ' the int of taxes collected for the general fund, Arrendale's salary per tear .cost each er only -20.7 cents cn each thousand Hence, a farmer who pays taxes on Worth of property will k ay the county Vhe insignificant sum of 41.4 eens cr ' 5 that amount? If the farmer has sold .8 pounds of chickens each year, yes. If the farmer has bought one sack of acid each year, yes. l'.ut the reports are now going the rounds that the Farmers' Federation is saving the farmers much money on fertilizers and feed stuffs. True, but who established the Farmers' Federation? None other than the county agent, and, according to well authenticated re ports, at least one man who is now drawing a salary from the Federation is moving heaven and earth to get rid of Mr. Arrendale. Mr. Arrendale has brought four carloads of Guernsey cows into the county. He has placed pure-bred bulls in 23 communities. He has established a creamery at .Franklin. He has organized poultry clubs and a bee keepers association. He has held innumerable meet ings of fanners and supplied experts along-all lines ' to address these meetings. The tax digest shows that the dairy cattle in the county are now listed . at approximately three times the value of beef cattle. What was this percentage four years ago? Just the other way around.. At a conservative estimate he has placed in the packets of the farmers in the last four years at least $15,000 in co-operative poultry sales in excess of the amount they would have received under the old haphazard methods of selling. This year he has sold .nine cars of poultry for $23,400. Under this plan .it is safe to assume that this poultry brought 20 percent more than it would have sold for before co operative sales were started in this county. Hence, this year alone, Mr. Arrendale has made. $4,680 for the farmers on car lot poultry sales. This does n6t include shipments made by express. Mr. Arrendale has also conducted wool sales, and sales of other farm products at a great saving to 'the "farmers. And yet, unless the farmers of the county wake. up and assert their rights, they will per mit a few a very few men to persuade the county commissioners to let Mr. Arrendale's transfer go through. Next , year, provided he remains here, Mr. Arrendale ' is planning to provide a feed mixing plant for the farmers to save them approximately $10 per ton on j tion of Go Aftcr imIustries," dropped into cow and chicken feed. He is likewise planning !' the Press office last Saturday with an offer system cxtei, to all parts of the town is provided for their-convenience and health. We have such a system in the business section of town installed by a previous issue of bonds. This system accommodates very few .resi dences, yet the entire population of the town pays, interest on these bonds. The people living in outlying sections .of the town and in East Franklin are entitled to the benefits of sewers. The town board has. placed this matter squarely- up to the voters, and after having done so, some members of the board, so we arc reliably informed,, are working against the issue of bonds. 'Wc confess our inability to understand their attitude. Politics is probably the answer, and; as all men know, politics in cludes many strange angles on all public questions, i The question of politics no doubt "influenced the paving of certain streets of the town. And we leave it to the public whether the paving of short sections of certain streets is more important than a sewer system for the entire town. The question of expense seems to have made no difference in the pav ing referred to, and now when the question of a bond issue comes up for an adequate sewer system, some members of the town board become exceedingly careful. Such care might well have been exercised some months ago before thousands of dollars were spent on paving that could have been left undone until a sewage system was installed. We have .no criticism to offer on the paving that has been done. It was of benefit to the town. However, we cannot understand why certain members of the board should now become so penurious when a question of a sewage system is1 broached. . '''..' There is another phase of this matter that the public might do well to consider in cast ing their votes. The outcome of several dam age suits against the town, now. pending or to be instituted, will depend upon the question of a sewage disposal plant, the cost of which is included in the proposed bond issue. With out such a disposal plant the town will in all probability be called upon to pay damages as a result of unsanitary conditions reported to exist at the mouth of the present sewer. Why not install an adequate sewage system and disposal plant and thus avoid paying large sums as damages? chants use liberal advertising space in their home newspapers the mail order revenues arc not, as great as in communities where adver tising is not used to offset catalogues. We offer this as a gentle hint to the man who has the mail order catalogue as his strongest competitor. Now that that competition prom ises to become stronger it might be a good idea to think it over." Who Runt the Government? 117E note that Wayne P. Wheeler has place " his stamp of approval' on the Govern ment's proposal to allow a private corpor ation to make and distribute liqupr for; medicinal purposes. Since when, has. it become necessary for the treasury department to get the approval of a private individual before submitting a bill to Congress? The truth of the matter is that Wheeler has about three fourths of Congress and many other Govern- ment officials bluffed to the extent that they do not dare call their souls their own. The public might as well hand Wheeler a crown and give him the title of Wayne I. Others' Comments Getting Ddwri to Brass Tacks DR. Furman Angel, after reading the edit-.t-!n1 In lie- wnjtlr'e Pfcc itnlnr tti ran-- a cannery, a. storage plant for sweet potatoes, and a fattening plant for chickens. ' All of these plants arc badly needed in Macon county. . We hear it said that another, agent will be secured instead of Mr. Arrendale, provided the latter is transferred. District Agent Goodman says that the State and Federal appropriations go '-with the man. Consequently, if .Mr. Ar rendale is transferred, additional appropriations from the State . and Federal governments would have to be made to pay the agent. There are many counties in the State now on the waiting list for county agents' If Macon county is foolish enough to permit the transfer of its county agent, the counties now on the waiting list would necessarily take precedence over Macon in the matter of a county agent. Even should another agent be sent here, he would require a year or more to familiarize himself with conditions in this county. " 'The editor is not personally interested in a county agent. Soon after ' Mr. Arrendale leaves wc can buy chickens for our table 5 cents per pound cheaper than wc can now, and so can others. However, wc agree with Mrs. Mashburn, that the transfer of Mr. Ar rendale would be nothing more nor less than a calamity to the farmers . of the county. Transfer our present agent and the chances are that Macon county will be without a farm agent. This would please some of those who buy the produce of the farms. However, there are others who are perfectly willing to pay more for farm, produce, since a prosperous farmer means a prosperous county. ' The matter of a county agent is now- strictly up to the farmers and they should not per mit a few disgruntled ones to ruin ,the oc cupation, of farming in this-county.. ' ' The Bond Issue RELIEVING a.' we do, that sewers in all sections of the town are absolutely neces sary if Franklin is to continue the growth that has so signally marked its progress dur ing the past two years, we take this oppor tunity to urge the voters to go -to the polls on December 6 and cast their ballots in favor of bends. We are aware of the fact that the town is new' heavily in deft, yet the most important factor neccssarty kna greater and better Franklin has been sadly 1 neglected. We refer to the question cf scwert, In this jay oi sanitation no consiJerabld st-anrrr;n lj:ate here 'it1 number of "s a sewfe to donate $500 in cash to' pay the expenses of a committee of citizens to visit industrial centers with a view to interesting capital at Franklin, and to study the cost of manufac turing and marketing various products, such as furniture, handles, overalls, etc. The doc tor placed no strings on his offer other than he be permitted to name one member of the committee of three, leaving the matter of naming the other two members to the editor of the Press. This kind of public spirit on the part of Dr. Angel is simply getting down to brass tacks. Writing letters is all right, but rarely does such method bring results. Personal contact is necessary to interest men in the industrial expansion of Franklin, and Dr. Angel is to be commended for making such contact possible, HENRY DAVIS RETURNS FROM NORTH CAROLINA,, LJenry T. Davis, who has been away for the past thirty days, visiting five sisters and old neighbors and friends at Franklin, North Carolina, returned home Tuesday. Mr. Davis brings back a very interesting account of his trip to the old home. He describes the great industrial development of' the country.. Every town has some kind of in dustry with a good pay roll, and times are prosperous with everybody. Aside from the low price of cotton, there is no other gloom over the State. His description of paved . f.. . r xt . ..it 1; i roads, wnicn tne otaie oi xsonn . aruuna Has been constructing, is far in advance of any tsing being done in Montana. He said the nnvffl rnnrk rri uncrossed the count rv connect ing the rural communities with the national highways and the boulevards of the cities;: i that no part of the country was neglected, and everybody had good roads, j He said taxes were much lower there than here and from appearances there were fewer debts and mortgages. . With all the flowery report made by Mr.. Davis, he has no idea of quitting his fine' ranch and returning to his old North Carolina, home. He did not bring back any "simmons," at least did not exhibit any. Belgrade (Mon tana) Journal. Letters Let Us Be Decent N the night of November 9, two women and a man, giving their home as Ashc ville, were locked in the same cell in the Macon county jail. Officers state that the man and one of the women claimed to be. man and wife. The next day this man and woman were bound over to Superior court on charges of immoral oonduct alleged to have been oemmitted the previous night in their cell at the jail. Later in the day the man was released on bond, while the women were kept in jail. The same day (Saturday) ' an other .Asheville man breezed into Franklin. He was promptly locked up on charges of driving an automobile without proper license. This man claimed the other woman as his wife, and was placed in the same cell with the two women. .Evidence in court broughtout the fact that all three occupied the same bed for a short time before being placed in separ ate cells. ; The officers have been doing excellent work in apprehending whiskey runners and, conse quently deserve the thanks of the entire county. However, placing men and women together in the cells of the county jail . does not show due regard for public opinion nor even for the common laws of decency. A Gigantic Merger IT is reported- from Chicago that the two biggest mailorder houses in the world both . located there are csoon to combine. To do so they must get the permission of the Government, but there is no question, as to their ability tp secure Uncle Sam's consent. It will mean less duplication, of mail-order' soliciting, and millions of dollars will be saved in catalogues and postage.. It will not mean, a lessening of competition for . merchant's in the srplle'r' towns of the. country, hewever. On dhe other hand, the chances arc that the country will be still' more thoroughly combed for frders. Statistics show that. ti,vss where mer- Dear Mr. Editor: Upon the" arrival of County Agent Arren dale in- Macon county' the county stood far' benhind its standing of today. There was no poultry being shipped by carload 'lots from Macon county, , and; any man 'knows that a carload of poultry will bring more than only a local shipper can pay. And at that time there was no Farmers' Feder ation, in Macon county, nor was there any creamery, nor any good grade milck cows. And today . we have all these things, and' all these good things are valuable that Mr.. Arrendale has done. And as to his salary,, he has not drawn 10 per cent of what he has been worth to Macon county, and I feel that it is the duty of every level headed citizen to stand up for the, keeping, of Mr. Arrendale for our county agent, as the county needs him. ALEX ANGEL. Editor of Franklin Press: You seem to be a fcarieWmaii who doesn't mind going to the bottom of a matter to get the truth. Now in regard to Mr. Arrendale, to my . way of thinking, there has never been a man in Macon: county who has been so beneficial to the people's welfare as ' he. I can hardly bear to . think of the condition the farmers' finan cial welfare will drop back into if he is permitted to go away. Now " some of the miserable" things -re ported are: that he requires a small pet cent when he buys cows, etc., besides his salary, which , they say is $3500 a year. Does he collect this small percent? (I don't believe he does anything dishonesty and I want it proved, to the public). What is his salary a year? How much does the Federal government pay.? .' About how much of his salary would a man of $1000 or $2000 worth of property 'pay?' Then just figure out. how much he has saved that individual farmer on fertilizers, cotton seed meal, lime, wool' sales, chicken sales", . and last but not least, by having a creamery established in Macon. All this and more he , does for each individual farmer if that farmer will only co-operate. How can Macon county "dirt" farmers sit, idle and allow a few men who axe looking out fo'cnly No. 1, to drive away their best helper ? . Scrcl!, N. G, N, Very truly yours, 1 MRS. F. L MASIIliV'lN 1 La-
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