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FAGE FOUR 7J W F THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY FEDRUARY 21," '112T The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY-THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS........ ........ Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Sufccription Payable in Advance) On? Year ;. ..,.$1.50 Eight Months 100 Six Months' ' -75 Three Months .40 Single Copies .......... . i ....... 5c 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 at the post-office at Franklin, N. C, for transmission through the mails as second class matter. ... ' Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THE FRANKLIN PRESS PLATFORM Extension of the sewer lines. Beautify the school grounds. Two hundred summer cottages. 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. Courteous treatment for visitors. Improvement of county roads connecting with State highways. Co-operation, vim, push, work-e very thing for the good of Franklin and Macon county. New court house and jail combined. y How About It? According to reports Cartoogechaye has an optimist de luxe. He planted a dogwood tree and expects to raise a litter of hound pups. There is nothing to be gained by recogniz ing Russia as long as we have Herrin, 111. Mussolini says whiskers are a sign of decay. He ought to know he has had a lot' of close shaves. Some brides take a man for better or worse and others take him for what they can get. .. Now they're claiming that Paul Revere was the first radio fiend because he Wadcasted with only one "plug.", ' : Prohibition has reclaimed a lot of land, the ocean now being dr for 12 miles out. It used to. be , "wine, women and song," but now the three H's hootch, hug and hurry- seem to hold sway. .. : ,,, If the move for changing our alphabet suc ceeds, we are in favor of cutting out the I. 0. U. altogether. You - have also probably noticed that a man always chases a woman until she catches him. ' ' ; With three commercial hotels, one run on the European plan with 24-hour service, , Franklin is now prepared to take care of the traveling public. ; - . Franklin has high hopes of, a wood-working industry. , The Citizens Bank HPHE Citizens Bank has announced that it . is the only bank in the state making loans on veterans' insurance certificates. Sev- eral have come from Asheyille to get loans on their certificates. As a nation we are , prone ib forget the services our citizens render " in time of war. " It is therefore 'refreshing to note that a local bank has not forgotten those who carried our flag to victory on the fields of France and those who remained in camps in America ready to make the supreme sacrifice, if need be, for the honor and glory of the United States. It is needless to say that the public appreciates the services of the Citizens Bank, in materially assisting the ex-service men. , , The Press Moves IN order adequately to accomodate its grow ing business the Press-is moving this' week into more commodious quarters. As a result the Press , force has been kept busy, moving machinery and supplies to the Franks building on East Main street. This issue is therefore not up to the standard that the Press is con stantly endeavoring to maintain. Consequently we ask the indulgence of our readers for the time being. After this issue we hope to be in a position to give ur readers one of the 1 . rvMoii' c3fprt 5tl flip r I The Rabun Gap School ACCORDING to Press dispatches John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. has offered to the Rabun Gap School $50,000, provided the school can raise $100,000 more from other sources. This school under the management of Mr. A. J. Ritchie has been doing an excellent work for the mountain folk for many years. It is understood that the campaign to raise the additional $100,000 conditioned upon Mr. Rocke feller's gift is now under way. The many friends of the institution in Macon county, wish Mr. Ritchie the success which his ef forts and work so richly deserve. ;. .What Is Boosting? THE word "boosting" has' many interpre tations. So far as it applies to the news paper it covers a wide range. There was a time when the newspaper editor was the packhorse of the community, and when he had to give away the only .thing he had . to sell space in his paper. Then he woke up to the fact, if he hadn't starved to death in the meantime, that the merchant desen't throw in a bolt of cloth when you make a purchase, . and the dentist doesn't throw in a new tooth free when you get him to pull an old one. He boosts his town and community, but the man who expects a per sonal boost simply because he subscribes for the paper is putting the worng interpretation on the word. We still find now and then a Franklin man who doesn't fully understand that one sure way to kill a newspaper is to expect it to boost private enterprises without receiving a legitimate monetary return. They ought to take a few minutes and learn the real meaning of the word "boosting." graph companies are expanding their facilities in keeping with the railroads and the tele phones. " ' "V We are now spending", Over .$1,200,000,000 a year on highways, and this will probably be increased within the next year or two to $1,500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 annually, and even then it is doubtful if the expansion of highways will be equal to the necessities of the day. We are spending $15,000,000,000 a year ' on the purchase and maintenance of automobiles and motortrucks. We are increas ing our insurance and our savings-bank de posits in keeping with the other activities of material development.. During 1926 the legal reserve life insurance companies wrote a total of $16,400,000,000 of new.; life insurance, ' and , the aggregate insurance now outstanding Dy these companies is about $80,000,000,400. Our savings-bank deposits increased last year by $1,500,000,000. Our building association invest ments likewise gained at a tremendous pace. Here are but a few brief, concentrated facts, startling, staggering in their significance. The mind of man 'cannot grasp their magnitude nor comprehend their full meaning. They are merely a few tangible evidences of the things that are being done in the way of our national increase in wealth beyond any thing that the world has ever before seen or tver dreamed of. What of the future? The lamp "of human experience is not bril liant enough to illumine the pathway ahead. The future, as far as man can judge, is prac tically beyond the power of the human, mind at present to conceive. No wonder we are everywhere being faced with the evidences of enormous business expansion, of increasing wealth, of a gain in population and power so Stupendous ..that all adjectives fail, and the human mind falls back .upon, itself as it at tempts to forecast what is ahead of us. Manu facturers Record. Another Ford Scheme HENRY Ford is quoted in the daily papers as saying that 20 days is all the time that need be spent in raising and harvesting most of our staple crops. He has taken over a huge farm near Dearborn, Mich., and will attempt a practical demonstration of his theory. His estimate allows two days for plowing and harrowing, oneday for the planting itself, five days for cultivation during growth and two days for harvesting and threshing, which' can now be done simultaneously by a machine which cuts, threshes and bags wheat as it is drawn through a field. Ford says the day is coming when pirvate companies will be organized to farm for the farmers. Such a company would have its own machinery and laborers. They would make the rounds of farms, first plowing, har rowing and sowing, then regular trips to culti vate and finally make the harvesting round. In this way a large number of farms could be cultivated by the same band of workers, and the owner of the farm would take his profit after paying the company for doing his' farming for him. To the. average Macon county citizen this will sound like an impossibe dream. But be fore passing it aside as such it might be well to remember that the world said Henry Ford was dreaming when he started to make an automobile that would be a necessity. A few weeks ago a New, York company offered him one billion dollars for his "dream." Others' Comments THE NATION'S MATERIAL GREATNESS GOVERNMENT estimates place the popu lation of Continental United States on July 1 of this year at 118,628,000, or a gain of 12,917,000 since July 1, 1920. V This increase alone is nearly equal to the entire population of Mexico, and by reason of our, greater producing and consuming - power -of - Mexico, perhaps even much larger than that. This gain of 12,917,000 in our population is greater by 3,200,000 than the total population of Cana da, with all of Canada's vast wealth1 and business development. It is greater by 400,000 than the combined population of Sweden, Nor way and Denmark. It is nearly' twice as much as the combined population of New Zealand and Australia, which have a total of 7,250,000. ; What staggering totals, what vast signifi cance, in growth in population in seven years! No wonder the world stands amazed at our. progress. This increase in population, however, is of necessity demanding an ever-expanding activity in transportation and in all the activities of business. The railroads are counting upon the necessity of spending $1,000,000,000 this year, and every year, for a long time to come, simply to keep, up with the increase of traffic. The American Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany is planning an expansion this year which will involve not far from $400,000,000. It is estimated that electric light and power -companies must spend at least $1,000,000,000 a year for the next ten years to keep even step with iSe demand for pnwer and light. The tc!e- NEW INDUSTRIES HEADING SOUTH THREE large milk-condesning plants estab lished in the South by the great milk concerns of the country is one of the suggest ive facts in connection with Southern develop ment which shows that, while cotton mills and iron works and paper mills are looking to the South as a field of activity, other industries equally as important in their influence , upon the future of the South are also being estab lished there. A few weeks ago we announced that the Carnation Milk Products Company, one of the great milk concerns of the country, would build a $500,000 plant at Murfreesboro, Tenn. A little later came the announcement of another large milk-condensing plant by the same company to be located at Tupelo, Miss. Some months ago we gave particulars in re-' gard to a $750,000 milk plant established at Starkville, Miss., by the Borden Company. There are other plans under, way for establishing milk plants and large dairy interests which have not yet been announced. The Souther Dairies, Inc., one of the great milk and ice cream concerns of the country, has for the last 12 months or more been steadily expanding its operations in various. Southern States, and has under consideration other plants not yet definitely located.' All of this means that the strongest dairy and cattle interests in the country are begin ning to concentrate their work upon the en-, largement of dairying operations, the estab lishment of condensed milk plants and ice cream factories and all that goes with all of . these industries in the South.- This will mean. more ice and refrigerating plants and wider ramification of business in everything which pertains to these industries, and an enlarged market for the products of the dairy farms, which are steadily expanding throughout the South. When the announcement is made of a million-dollar cotton mill, or of some other million-dollar entreprise, great, attention is given to it by the newspapers and by the public. But even enterprises of that kind are scarcely 'as vital to the well rounding out of Southern prosperity, the development of diversification in farming and that means a broader market for equipment and maschinery of every kind created by the establishment of dairy interests, ice cream making and kindred lines of work as are these big milk-condensing plants. Man ufacturers Record. good roads do not abound. It is for the general welfare that we should spread the gospel of good road? until it taps arid develops th'e hindermost regions, adding wealth and greater prosperity to our unified nation. In- dustirial News Bureau. - i '" '" : 1 ; ''"';,.v' ''y WHY MORE COTTON? S"""0ME remarkable arguments are advanced as to the reasons, why the government should spend $125,000,000 building , a danv and powef plant on the Colorado River' at Boulder Canyon. . " ' ..' , .. - The logical plea is that such a dam is neces sary, for flood, control purposes to protect settlers; and property along the river. The building' of a dam for .this purpose riHttaet' jo'of government, but it is stated, that govern ment engineers have estimated fhat the , floods, of the Colorado River could be' controlled by a dam at Topock, Arizona,; which would cost about $14,000,000. ' . ' When the government treasury is to be. tapped, modest schemes grow to gigantic pro portions. Instead, of $14,000,000 for flood con- trol, the" Colorado River project immediately grcw to a $125,000,000 undertaking which in cluded the greatest dam in the world, a canal, to prevent diversion of-twat.ers and a great hydroelectric power plant. One argument advanced for. this enormous, expenditure is, that it would furnish additional, water for the city of Los Angeles and addi tional power for Southern. California, although that section, now has more electric, power developed' than it can use, Another argument, is, that with the Colorado River water for irrigation purposes the Imperial Valley could. be made, the greatest cotton producing section, of the United States. Why should the government furnish water to the city of Los Angeles? Why should it develop electric power for Southern California? And why should it spend millions to raise more cotton, when our present cotton pro duction is so enormous that cotton prices are so low the Southern planters have been almost , bankrupted. Men who know the cotton situ ation in the United States say that what the South needs to bring about .agricultural pros perity is not a bigger cotton crop, but a reasonable price for a moderate crop, What would be accomplished by the government's, spending $125,000,000 of the people's money to add a million , bales of cotbnjhs. cwr-A' )jivuui.imii vt 11119 tJvp W null WC dlltclU uavc- in the South?: . ' The next cry wouid be to furnish irnoney to finance cotton planters who were unable to move their crops. If the Boulder Dam proposition with all the side issues proposed, developed into as big a farce as Muscje Shoals, and there is no reason to believe 'that it would not, with all the! log rolling and wire-pulling which would result from a half-dozen states 'being interested, 25 years would not see the project finished, and $125,000,000 would be only the first installment collected from .the taxpayers. Industrial News Bureau. - THE GOSPEL OF GOOD ROADS IT is not so long ago tha the Caterpillar pillar Tractor Company published a most interesting volume, entitled "Out of the Rut," This book's story began almost at the be ginning of time and showed the history to road building up to the present. ' It brought out forcibly the fact that in many sections of the country the gospel of good roads is still in that stage characteristic of the middle . 19th Century, coyering only the veriest beginnings) of modern roadway systems. - It is almost inconceivable that any American community could contenance indefinitely the handicap of poor roads. The whole history of the world's-advance is inseparable from its transportation facilities. The world has pros pered with , the development of transportation rather than transportation with the develop ment of world. . ' Those who Jive on the great highways suffer because there are' pl.t rr in ;; ,..,:.,., WORST ADVERTISEMENT NORTH Carolina quite properly boasts of progress in many directions and millions are proposed to be spent to advertise" the- " '" State. And yet we persist in three courses, that offsets much of this good 'advertising: " 1. We deny to rural children an eight months school. 2. We defeat a measure to reduce the working hours of women (some at night!) from '60 to 55 hours -a week. 3. We make no legal provision to protect forests, provide for reforestation or by a severance tax '"V" such as Lousiana ha?, to 'require owners of J J V forests to protect young trees. To fair in this conservation of the child, woman in industry and in trees is the sorriest advertisement that could go out from the State. It is the reverse of business administration. This Legislature can remedy all three. It should not adjourn . without doing so. In comparison with these things all the talk of budget and audit and efficiency and business administration is comparatively unimportant,. Human conservation is the supreme duty and next to that conservation of trees. These , preserved there will be, as Aycock said, "are-, outburst of industry'-News and Observer. Lett ers G. T. STILES REMARKS 1y xne jtaitor ot the Press :-I thought 15 would drop you a few lines to let you f " and my friends, know I am still in the land ' of "sunshine and flowers.", They tell me here they haven't had any rain to amount to anything in four months, until to-day, they had a nice shower. -Florida is not out of buisncss yet, by a r great deal with all of her storms, freeze? and slump .in realestate. Polk county fruit was-, hurt very little by the freeze. She has hund reds of fruit yet to ship. ' " '.,':.. ' The Highlands Grocery Company is ' doing a . nice business and many other things here seem to be doing; well. Polk county has over six hundred miles of paved roads and twenty . one banks; all in a prosperous condition. , They .are hundreds -and hundreds - of tourists here now; This is a great place to spend four or five months in the winter. But Franklin, N. C is the place to; spend the 'eight' months of the
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