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THURSDAY, OCTOCER 6, 1927 inc. rnniiM.ui rivt.jj BOUQUETS AND BRICK BATS (NOTE: In publishing this col umn, the Franklin Press does not place' its stamp of approval or dis approval upon any thing in it. It is written and edited by Weimar Jones, and sole responsibility for the ideas and observations below rests upon him. The Editor). Ain't it quare this thing we term human nature? We say one thing today. Say it with no little rhetoric and terrific emphasis. And tomorrow we repudiate it com pletely, shocked at the very idea. And the funnv thiner is we don as a rule, realize that we are repud (t9 a luic, icaiiA mat. vvv an. ivfwu ating we forget mighty soon what we said a little while ago. " Read this and see if you can tell hen and where you read it before: "The rooms in which the Clerk of v work are too small for the proper tarnsar.tinn of business .the jail building itself is cause for shame to every citizen of Macon county. The floors of the cells 1 1 . 1 1PArtt unM J in which the orisoners are kept can not be washed because water will Ipak through into the rooms below, The wall shows a serious crack on one side of the trap door. There is npithpr sufficient lierht or fresh air. "Right thinking people will realize that innocent persons are otten con fined in jail. Our jail might have been satisfactory in the dark ages. Christian American citizens cannot al low the torture of darkness and foul air as part of the treatment of any human being. "As soon as it is found practical, , A BUILDING FOR BOTH JAIL AND COURTHOUSE SHOULD BE ERECTED." There undoubtedly are many pers-' ons in Macon county to whom the words have a familiar ring. But probably there are few who could say off hand who wrote them, on what occasion, and when. It is quite possible, in fact, that the man whose ( name was signed below the passage from which this extract is taken did not remember, last week, that he had . ever written such a passage. The quotation is from the report of the Grand Jury at the August, 1926, term of Macon Superior court. The re port was signed by Kay JN. Moses, foreman of that grand jury. The ex- U alia vwvi v -' - - dealing with the courthouse and jail. The full renprt, on file in the office of the Clerk of Court, was published in the Franklin Press at the time. And now Mr. Moses has written again, this time a letter to the Press, published last week. He is shocked that the commissioners are about to spend some money for the "building for both jail and courthouse" which he recommended a little over a year ago. To quote his more recent utterance: "Mr. Average Citizen is saying that the proper thing to do is to spend three or four thousand dollars to make the jail a safe and wholesome place for the few who will occupy it" ("few" is right, to judge from the experience of recent months!) ;. "keep the courthouse clean; and wait a few years before beginning a new combined courthouse and jail. . . . , "tan it De snown toai . , . . . me (courthouse) officials are seriously in convenienced because of the Jze and arrangement of the present building?" Now what is one to make of these contradictory statements coming from the same pen? Are we to conclude that Mr. Moses is insincere? Or shall we say that he was sincere one time and not the other, and that it is a matter of conjecture which time he meant what he said? By no means. The writer hasn't the slightest doubt of Mr. Moses' entire sincerity on both occasions. He simply forgot, last week, that tne jail building, 'a year ago, was about .. t j .i ii : all the bad things he could call it, ESSIG MARKET UO.ESSIG.Pnp. Fresh Meats of All Kindt Fins Home Mad Sausage , Everything kept in a first class market. Phone 42 New York Life Insurance Co. Established in 1845 A Mutual Company Protect your . family with a policy in this old line com pany. ' REIDCABE LOCAL AGENT including, a "cause for shame to every citizen of Macon county;" he simply forgot, last week, that a year ago the offices of the Register of Deeds and the Clerk of Court were "too small for the proper transaction of business;" he simply forgot, last week, that a year ago he recommended that "a building for both jail and court house shold be erected." The complete contradiction in Mr. Moses' statements is not, by any means, proof of insincerity. It is just an illustration a wellnigh perfect one of the axiom just laid down that human nature, at best) is quare. It will say one thing today, emphatically, and with no little rhetoric, and stand in shocked amazement at the same sugestion (particularly if it comes from another) tomorrow. Aint it quare f To Mr. Henry' Ford this column xj ivii, iituijr iuj u mis wiutiiii offers its admiring congratulations on the shpcpss of his advertising cam yaign, Wdgcu diuuiiu suatifeit. word, i "WAIT." The campaign has certainly had its subconscious effect. For the folks in these diggins have An.n-M .xaivaJ M.....4 ft.tafflf livious of the fact that it was meant tor application to a certain mane oi a automobile, are using it with reference to everything in sight, incluuding the new courthouse and jail It '. i- f wait a few years. . . . .," urges Mr. Moses. Wait! Wait! Wait! One cannot but wonder, why? Has anv hnnonent of the oroiect yet put forth a single reason as to why Macon county will be in any better shape to build the courthouse and jail in "a few years" than she is now? They have not. Honestly, if the "waiters" would have themselves psycho-analyzed (whatever that is), wouldn't they find, primarily, one thing back of all their waiting arguments Old Mao Procrastination, himself? He it is who keeps us from having most of the thines we want. And he it is who is fighting hardest against the proposal tor a new courtnouse ana jail just as he always fights the pro nosal for anvthine new. whether it be schools, roads, or a courthouse. An eldeflv man once commented in substance as follows : "T havp heen maned three times. And each time I got married I felt as thmich T weren't readv I wasn't quite where I felt that I ought to be, financialjy. But 1 realize now., tnat if I had waited to get entirely ready, I wouldnt yet be married the tirst time. For we never really get en tirely ready to take any decisive etpn TWaiisp aftrr all. when we sav we aren't ready, we mean that all the obstacles haven t been removed and thp conditions aren't ciuite ideal WpII ' thp nhstacles never are all re moved, and the conditions never are quite ideal.' f That, it is submitted, is a pretty cmnA nhilnsnnhv for everv dav aoim cation in a very practical and far frnrn fiprfprt world. And it SCCITIS to apply with considerably more logic tr thp ntirstion of the courthouse and jail than do the arguments ot those who urge that we. wait, without once suggesting what we will gain by "wait ing" . The obstacles never will be all re moved, and the : conditions never will be quite ideal. V Tt is nrettv eenerallv admitted that we must have a new jail. Most peo ple -will even go so tar as to concede that it is a Question of a compara tively few years until we will feel compelled to build a new courthouse. And those who ought to know are authority for the statement that bv building the two, at the same thv in a single building, the county can save several more thousands of dol lars than most of us have in the bank. That beini? true, is it eood oolicv sensible economv to spend now. and save in the long run? Or is it better to spend now only what we actually have to, and lose in the long run? Ttio rriainritv of the commission The majority - of the commissioners came to the opinion, a short while ago, that it would be wiser to make a long-run savings. But they have and have had no iintention of trying to put anything over on the people of the county they have repeatedly said thev want to do . what the ma jority wants done, regardless of their own opinions. And while this subiect is in mind, here comes another bouquet to the commissioners for a very wise pit ot forethought for which it is safe to sav 95 per cent of the people they j represent have given them no credit or tnanKS. . There is, wide discussion of the desirability of the lot purchased. That question, like most othefs, prob ably has more than one angle. And it undoubtedly will afford material for discussions that will occupy hun dreds of dollars' worth of the time of men who can't pay their present taxes, much less higher ones! - It isn't the wisdom of the choice, but the way the purchase was made that we have in mind. The commissioners made up their mind what lot they-thought most de sirable for the purpose, and quietly bought it before most people knew a new courthouse and. jail -were being seriously, considered.. .. And they gpt it. at a price that is not unreasonable, according: to' a local business man who undoubtedly knows i real estate values, and who is a leader in the movement opposing the new courthouse and jail. Had they announced their decision FIRST, and then looked about for a lot everybody knows what would have happened the sale price of every available site in the town of Franklin would have trebled overnight. The commissioners used some wise foresight, and they deserve credit for it. Lookout! Here comes a ton of brick. Thrown by request. And it is aimed at the heads of certain young night owls who evidently do their sleeping in the daytime, and spend the night keeping other people awake. Nobody will for a moment dispute that a man has just as much right on the street at 3 o'clock in the morn ing as at the same hour in the after noon. But common ordinary consider ation would dictate at least a mini mum of noise. Bouquets and Brick Bats by no means suggests that every man out in the wee small hoiirs be locked up. But it might suggest to the town au thorities I.-. an . indirect method of putting a stop to this post-midnight revelry along Main street prevent ing sleep in local hotels it could soon be quelled by' means of arrests of .the noisiest ones for vagrancy. This department has no law- books handy, but it would appear that a man who takes the early morning hours for his boisterous antics there by poves that he doesn't make a habit of working by day, and that, in consequence, he might be brought to a decent consideration of the rights of others via this method. But no doubt the mayor and chief of police will find a way of accom plishing the desired end and how it is accomplished is of no concern to this column or to the hotel keepers, so long as it is. WEIMAR JONES. 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