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THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY AUGUST 4, 1527 PAGE The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS Eo' SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscription! Payable in Advance) One Year... .$150 Eight Months LW Six Months Three Months - Single Copies 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. sewage disposal plant. More official activity in the sale of sur plus power. . .11 The construction of business, blocks. ' Plant trees along the State highways of the county. Make a white way of Mam street. An excellent school library. Courteous treatment for visitors. Improvement of county rpads connecting with State highways. : A fish ladder at the municipal dam. Co-operation, vim, push, work-everything for the good of Franklin and Macon county. New court house and jail combined. How About It? It may be that the mills of the gods grind slowly because they" get paid for overtime. JIf the public can flout one ordinance, there is no reason to enforce any of the city laws. I The Juniors had a great time here last Thursday. Come again. - , .. .., ...... ,. , ... ,..vtr ... ':i Black cwalnuts ; have" ready sale, Consult , . w , w w w w There arc some around Franklin who do nothing, and do it both wholesale and retail. , No matter which way-you' drive, if you don't drive the right-way it may be the way to jail. ' The nice-thing about being a man. is. you don't have to stay home after you wash your head.. ' An eye specialist says green quiets the nerves. This is especially true of green backs. ' . And so the earth is losing speed. Well, that sounds hopeful. Perhays it is on the up-grade. ',' It might help some if the manufacturer would use a miniature figure of a coroner as a radiator cap ornament. , ' '' Have you seen the road work in the Culla saja gorge? If not, then you have missed seeing a wonderful feat of engineering. The Orlando, Franklin's newest apartment house, will soon be completed. This name sounds like we are getting into the city class. . If they keep' on "rupturing" that tripartite naval parley, it's. going to be a bad shape pretty soon. The proper authorities would do well to have a historian appointed to V write the ( history of the county. , .; - Five GOOD cows, on a farm mean, an an nual net income of $1,000. Didja ever think about that? , , ' The municipal water situation is gradually improving, but the necessity for economy in the use of water still remains. The feeder roads to the highways in Macon county will never, be what they should until we have the county unit system of building and maintaining roads. . ;-,'' - ' ' , ; '.v. Work on the Highlands -golf course is under' way. Few of us realize what a golf course,, such . as. planned at Highlands, will mean to this county. '.. .'' " " -.-'. The. marketing bureau of the federation trucked 6,000 pounds-of chickens to Dillsboro las week. This bureau, i properly patronized, will help thfc farmers of the county wonder fully. Living 10 miles front Franklin and milking seven or eight cows, and he didn't know of the loeal creamery. Yes, Washington was tfie first president "of. tie United States and the Civil war has been over for some little time. ..,. A permanent man on the street machine is a wise move on the patt of the city fathers. There are many streets in , Franklin that need attention. This is especially true of the Bonny Crest section, ;', " The tourists this season seem to have adopt different tactics. They rarely remain more than two days in one place. Our good high ways probably have much to do with this tendency to keep on traveling.' The boy scouts will make an effort, Satur day night, to clear their cabin of debt. They are sponsoring an excellent entertainment at the court house. Help the scouts by buying "a ticket whether you attend the show or not. The fact that the creamery has changed hands is no reason why the citizens of the county should cease to supply butter fat. With a man like Bert Slagle at the helm the crcanvery will continue to grow rest assured of that. . The Press had no intention of deceiving the public when it announced, sometime ago, that the cannery would be open in time to can blackberries this season. It has taken longer than anticipated to get the cannery in operation. . ' On more than one occasion bootleggers have escaped the officers here by swimming the river, but not until recently has one endeavored to conceal the evidence of his illicit traffic by trying to plunge an automobile into Lake Emory. Let us hope that the next one to try this, experiment remains in the car. , A. man with ten acres of land has 750,000 tons of nitrogen right over the farm. Why pay $60,000 per ton for nitrogen when, at no cost, you can let plant life gather of the abundance provided by nature? The Press would appreciate an answer to. this question from' a nitrogen-buying farmer. ,,'.' The cannery will be in operation by the middle of next week.' The next thing will be something to can." "And since no one wants to can the county gaent, .the president , of the cannery or the operator, the produce of the farms will have to be brought in and sold to the cannery. What have you? ' Forty per cent of the infantile deaths in Macon county due to a lack of milk ! Three hundred and eighty-three farms in the county without a cow of milking age! When, the dear little one passes over the river from lack of proper nourishment will your con-, science be clear, Our readers will note in this issue, a list of important farmers' meetings to be held by the county agent next week. The county agent will have many things of importance to the farmers to discuss at these meetings. There fore, the Press suggests that as many farms as possible be represented at this series of meetings. .'";:. " : , s Mr, H. N. Moore makes' one more Moore who has arrived to become a. Moore of Frank lin. No doubt he will add more luster to the .name -of Moore. No more prominent name can be found in this section than that of. Moore. Moreover, if we 'bad more Moores like the Moores who have been living here for' more years than most of the Moores can remember, our more progressive citizens would be more satisfied with this Moore community. ' Three quarters of a century ago when land , became "worn out", the fanner just simply cleared more land and started the same pro cess again. It -was a question of "take all and give nothing." In those days this method of farming was, probably Justifiable, buV not so now. In the first place there is precious little more land to clear. In the second place timber is becoming more valuable each year and to cut timber for the privilege of "wear ing out" - a - piece - of land -' is bad - economy, What is taken from the land by certain kinds of crops must be returned to the land by means of nitrogen-gathering cover crops. Wear out your land and starve. Take care of your ground and prosper. ' Easy to Forget Worth Investigation THAT some one should look into this matter is a foregone conclusion. According to reports reaching Franklin a woman was re cently passing along a road in one, of the townships. Her method of locomotion was ( the old time one, now fast going rout of fashion walking. She by chance happened to. meet a wagon and team and 'was brought to an abrupt halt due to the fact that there was no possible way of walking around the wagon. The driver of the team was apologetic, but since a mighty cliff on ,the" one side, and a deep chasm on the other precluded the possobility of getting around the team the woman finally, crawled tinder the wagon and went on her. way rejoicing. . We submit that a woman of Macon county : has a right to walk along the roads without being compelled to crawl under wagons. AMERICA had always driven its horses from the right side of the dirver's seat That left the whip in its socket, handy for right-hand use. The wagon turned to the right, why should not its driver sit to the right? Then came the automobile.. Its driver was governed, in choosing his seat, by none of the old reasons. Yet, to tht , right he went. Harry F. Kreugcr, to whom first oc curred the idea that for the auto the reason ing was all the other way, recently died, at the age of 60 years. But automobiles had been in existence nearly 10 years before he thought of it and they had been in existence over 10 years more before the right-hand drive was wholly abandoned. The entire change in custom of driving from a seat on the right to a scat o nthe left has come about in less than 20 years, yet how many of us around Franklin remembered the man who was responsible for it? Expert Testimony THE NAME of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., may be unfamiliar, to most Franklin people, but they wil quickly realize its importance in theindustrial and financial world when we point out that he is president of the General Motors Corporation. In discussing the apr propriation of millions of dollars of General Motors money for advertising, Mr. Sloan recently wrote his advertising counsellors this expert testimony: ' ' "I believe in the country weekly. I believe that no printed matter in the United Stales is more thoroughly read or has more in fluence than the pages of these home-town papers. I believe it , is not too much to hope that advertising placed in them will discover for us thousands of prospects to whom we 'can send fuller information -L about one or another of our cars. I. feci that any organi zation to be great must advertise. And it is not good advertising if it overlooks or chooses to-keep its messages out of the weekly news papers."" '..'; Self Service MANY good folk are lamenting the pass ing of the era when men and women consecrated their - lives to unselfish service and parepared themselves to become ministers, missionaries, teachers or country doctors that they might administer td hc spiritual, mental and physical needs of humanity without thought' of large worldly gain. , They are not in error when they charge that modern men and women are choosing vocations today in which they can. do the greatest service to themselves.- People today are coming to the belief that the best way they , can help others is to produce so much that their profit shall be large and that they shall never , become dependent upon society. The old idea of service was direct! The new service is indirect. Twenty years ago it was still thought that-only minis ters, doctors 'and teachers served humanity. Today every' workman who 'carircs his. whole day's wage home is known to have earned wage in service to society. ,-.- Elbert Hubbard's version of the Golden Rule was, "Do unto others as though -you were -the others," but an even more up-to-date version is "Do yourself much good and no bad to others," Getting something for your self is reprehensible only when it is gotten at the expense of another.- "" ' - J Build and Let Build AS FAR back as history begins, there have been persons who have stood , in the way of progress, some for reasons merce nary, others because of a real lack of vision or natural narrow tendencies. It is . a matter of record that the builders of the ancient cities and . public monuments, J some of which still exist were met by hun dreds of obstacles placed in their . way by visionless -men, who did not have the future interests of their community and the world at heart. ' - . This same condition may be applied to our own community today We see opposition to things which would expedite busines or cause an economic improvement or would in hu manity's sake afford protection against sick ness of the killing of hundreds of motorists or pedestrians. Here there should be jio room for the obstructionist. Macon county is building pages of" history and there should be nothing at this time to hamper its progress. The truly great man of all time is the builder, the one who produces or helps to produce. The parasite who does nothing for himself or fellow-man is a cheat and the one who interferes with progress is little better. "Build and let build" should be our motto and the future will' comfortably arrange itself. There are many things to be considered in the bailding up of a community. Ten men can do more than one and when these 10 men are arranged in team formation, their work can not only count much more than 10 times but, in fact, -20 times as much. dull seasons of the year. Ridiculous as it may seem, before that discovery the average business man slowed down in his advertising when business slowed down. He generally ended up the dull seasons with a quarterly sale, but as far as his newspaper advertising was concerned there was no advertising when there was no business. The modern business man holds a different conception of the purposes and uses of news paper advertising. When business is not up to his satisfaction he brings it up through increased advertising so that now the merchant, schooled in . productive advertising, knows no dull seasons nor diminished business. There are a few phases of business which have always been known to all business men. Among these arc the alternating busy and dull periods of the year, month, week, and day.- A systematic, effective and economic plan of advertising had to be constructed up o na full knowledge of this business cycle. u.icinocc liae pvpr' fomc without coaxing beW fore Christmas, at Easter time, and ni the fall. Extensive advertising has been found to be th,c only remedy for the business de pression epidemic between these three rush periods. People have a habit . of confining their shopping to the last of the month, the three last days of the week and the later shop ping hours of the day. . From experience merchants have learned that newspaper advertising has successfully eliminated the rush periods and spread the volume of business more evenly over the day, week, month and year. It has prevented congestion, simplified salesmanship and mer chandising and increased business. Others' Comments SELFlHELP MEANS DOUBLE PROFIT! MANY a community in the wide sweep of the Southland is more alive to its in dustrial, commercial and agricultural oppor tunities than ever before. ; There is a spirit of enterprise abroad in the land. Sections, cities and towns aer advertising on every hand; for industry, the latch ' string distinctly hangs on" the outside I All this is comendable, and the spirit of welcome to new citizens and new industries is both fine and generous. It is in line with the gospel of. good cheer and of ' welcome preached in this very journal. , But while inviting outsiders to come in an,d' share these privileges and opportunities with them, our home people should not fail 'to liberally cash in, themselves, on what their home section offers, v "'. It is fine for outside capital to come into a community and build a cotton mill, install a stone quarry, build a .great store or de velop a plantation to splendid productiveness; it is even better, when these things are done by the home people themselves. When the home folks thus show their faith in their town and section, and demonstrate by their o.wn efforts that money can be made in these various lines of industry, outside capital does not "need any urgent invitation to come on in where the water is so obviously fine!' Nothing succeds like success, and what a community is already doing, in maunfacturing or any other, line .speaks in clarion tones that command both the attention and the respect of the investing world. '.','.' It is better . for the development to be ini tiated by home capital and h.omq enterprise. for that "not only attracts new money to the community but also gives the home people their proper, legitimate share in profits. The; is something sad in thereally good things of a community passing on to strangers, while the home folks, who should be aprticipating in all this, stand by and pat themselves on the back, congratulating each other that outside money believes in their community sol ; Self-help is thus double profit: It puts the home people in line for dividends first fruits, if you please and it also attracts new blood and new capital, so that growth and develop ment go on and on. Industrial Index.. Letters No More "Dull" Season ONCE AN ingenious merchant discovered that the logical time to advertise was when business was slow and in the periodic R. F. D. 1-When af Home. Franklin Press : I noticed in your, last issue that the county agent's office was a good place, to go to rest, get 'knowledge, etc., of which we were glad to know, as some us hoof -worn mossy-backs spent a good part of, the day last Saturday trying to find just such a comfortable place in Franklin, but failed until late in the evening, when we were welcomed into the furniture store of Mr. Bryant's and also by Mr. Dudley whete we were delightfully entertained with fine music and ajso enjoyed being shown through the different departments of their fine supplies on exhibit. , We wish them success in their business. But Mr. Editor, you failed to state where we mossybacks could find the agent's office. : GEO. M! JOHNSON. . For Mr. Johnson's; benefit we wil? state that! the county agent's office is located in the old Citizens Bank building just - west of tne farmers federation on West Main st. al!
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