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PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1327 The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, ' S. A. HARRIS.... .. ...Editor i SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) One Year $J-5jJ Eight Months t l- Six Months ........ -75 Three Months Single Copies r 5c ADVERTISING RATES Very reasonable, and wiU 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. 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? Franklin has a further tax cut of 10 cents, the total now standing at $1.40 per hundred dollars. . The f loggers .out in Alabama picked the wrong counties in which to operate. They shoucld have chosen Macon county where they would be free from molestation. All papers in the state, especially those of Western North Carolina, are delighted to wel-' come home Col. Wade Harris, editor of the Charlotte Observer, who has just returned to the United States from a trip to Europe. For the first , time in its history, Franklin .during the past summer had numerous mos quitoes, due; says the saintafy inspector, to cesspools and open sewers. This is only an other reason for an extension of the sewer system. The only surprise about the condemnation of Macon county's jail is the fact that such action was not taken twenty-five years ago. It would be interesting to know how many habitual criminals have been made by placing men in Macon county's pig pen during that period of time. . Mayor- Patton states that he gave Chief Henry permission to make the raid in Cowee township mentioned in The Press last week. It seems that Chief Henry knew the location of the still while the sheriff's force did not. We believe that the mayor should have full direction and control of the activities of the chief of police. . New construction work in the business sec tion of town is helping wonderfully in im proving the appearance of Franklin. Still there are several old! shacks built fifty years ago that ought to come down. But when we consider the fact that approximately seventy buildings have gone up in franklin in the past two years, there remains little cause for com plaint. . . . " i Now that the new street machinery has arrived let us hope htat the good people of Bonny Crest will receive the cpnsideraltion to which they are entitled in the way ol street improvement. Neither should they be forgotten when it comes to a question of sewer i. The citizens of East Franklin should likewi ie have sewers and better streets. Green street also needs both of these improvemnts. i - Franklin has reached the point where it must have more water and an extension of the sewer lines There are probably fifty families in town violating the law by the use of cesspools. A state inspector has been investigating sanitary conditions in Franklin for the past week. He say that cesspools must go. Consequently property owners must either build septic tanks or connect with a sewer, Whn no sewers are available each property TWtier -will be put to an expense of $30 to $2,000 for a septic tank. It therefore behooves thY cjtizfena of FrariWm t6 cohsSer Seriously the question of sewer extension. At- the reqent. meeting of the county com missioners when, they decided to revoke the order to issue bonds to build a court house and jail those present learned much concerning Macon county's court house. Among other things they learned that this county has the finest court house in the state west of Ahe villc, with the possible exception of Cherokee county. According to the announcement made the court houses of Haywood, Jackson and Swain show up in an unfavorable light' when compared to the "sturdy walls" of Macon county's court house. We fear that those who seek to find "our magnificent structure" are doomed to disappointment. Sells Dogs Buys Guernseys M R. DILLS whose first name is John, we believe, and who lives near Otto has recently sold four blooded fox hounds and will put the proceeds of' said sale into two thor oughbred Guernsey heifers, Should others do likewise the county would be benefitted to a considerable extent. There are entirely too many dogs in the county. In addition, to eating food that could well be utilized for chickens and hogs, these dogs cinsisting of "mongrel, puppies, whelps and hounds and curs of low degree" make sheep raising in the county a hazard rather than a source of profit. Speeders and Mufflers SO FAR as we can observe Chief Henry is maintaining the best of order in Franklin without seeking publicity. However, there are two matters to whiclj... the attention of the town authoritis is invited.. One is the matter of open mufflers on cars and trucks. Accord ing to our understanding the law prohibits the driving of any motor vehicle with muffler open. Yet little or not attention is paid to this violation of the law in Franklin. Speeding on the streets of Franklin is the second matter to which attention is invited. Now that chil dren are on their way to or from school dur ing the greater part of the day, drivers of cars should be particularly careful not to ex ceed the speed, limit. Yet we see speeders daily on the residential streets who apparently have, no regard 'for, human life. Just a few days ' ifcgo.' a speeder making around 60 miles' per hour on Harrison .avenue barely avoided collision with a truck filled with children. Unless some effort is made to control wreck less drivers any one injured would probably have a good suit for damages against the town. Keeping Pace THE LOCAL telephone company has re cently, expanded to include three near-by towns. It is how proposed to include wther towns in this section of the state. Along "with the increase in the number of towns served the Western Carolina Telephone com pany is installing new systems and otherwise improving the telephone service within its jurisdiction, This work is being done under the expert supervision of Mr. 1). G. Stewart, general manager of the company, i who is leav ing no stone unturned to keep pace with the general telephone development of the rest of the country. Incidentally, the telephone busi ness is one of the best organized and most highly specialized of any business in the United States. Under the caption of Fifty-One Years' Growth the Industrial News Bureau has the following to say about the use of telephones in this country; Fifty-one years ago in Boston, the first message was carried over the wires of a . new invention, the telephone. Today, half a century has wrought a change to the extent that that city alone averages 2, 000, 000 local calls daily, and, what was then unthought-of, 15,000 long distance calls. Throughout the United States this commod ity has attained an equally phenomenal, growth. ., Yet there is no secret of this success. It but proves again that quality, combined with the agencies of service and progress iveness will be rewarded. The American people are the quickest in the world to ap preciate value and make something wholly new into a necessity within an incredibly short time. It is the keynote of forward Bess, to put the new thing on equal terms with the old and accepted, and give it a ' fair chance to show its worth. , The telephone and all ofrer 6at indus tries are basically compounded of quaKty Sfiid service. An pen'-Jrrinded people have earned and received "honest and above- board dealing. They arc willing to allow leaders fair sjrwards and our people ' have always received as much, and often more than they give! That alone explains how a country barely a hundred and fifty years old can lead "nations that arc the product of centuries. , Others Comments VALUE OF NEWSPAPERS RECOGNIZED A.-A. ANDERSON, Secretary of. the Pacific Pacific Coast Building-Loan Association, in an address at the Pacific States savings and loan conference, . recommends newspaper advertising as the. most effective and econom ical means of reaching the public. Further, he urged that the building-loan associations throughout the United States should have a fund of at-least $1,000,000 for such a campaign. As Mr. Anderson knows, it has been fully demonstrated that the newspaper stands by itself as a' carrier of messages to the greatest possible number of people. It is the only medium that is sure to reach the citizens of a community and be read. This fact is being more fully appreciated every day. -, The smaller city dailies and country weeklies arc the great medium for reaching the masses of the people who represent' the majority of the reading and buying power of this nation. Industrial News Bureau. w GLORIA IN EXCELSIS E PENSION the man who fought to keep the Negro in bondage and the man who fought to make him free. We pay homage to him who fought to make the world safe for democracy and failed. We throw up our hat for the politician who refused to keep faith with those who sleep in Flanders' Field. We stand uncovered in the presence of medi ocrity and offer diadems of glory for physical daring and animal prowess. . But those who go down into the valley of ignorance and open the eyes of the blind;' still the pangs of superstition, and inspire a vision of a new heaven and a new earth, we reward neither with homage nor economic security in their declining years. She who can quicken a soul or inspire an intellect is greater than he who can take a city or direct a corporation. .. ,,, :- Here's to. the common garden variety of school teacher who seekcth not her own nor behaves unseemly, but who sees visions and dreams dreams for others and finds her happi ness in their success. Amen! M. L. W. (In, The North Carolina Teacher.) ' WHAT MORE COULD THEY ASK? LOADING up several ships with malcontents ancL radical extremists, the President of Chile sent them to an island in the Pacific with his good wishes and his hopes that they might work out a civilization . to their own liking. . Out there they can throw bombs, they can engage in any violence or do. any of the stunts which they were carrying on in Chile. If they object to. establish institutions in their own island bailiwick, it will be their right to bomb them. Whatever is wrong in the con duct of affairs, they can demolish with torch and blasting powder. Being of like minds, they can apply their philosophy of violence without challenge from those who ,be!i,eve in governments, laws and established authority. It is their island, and there will be no capitalistic hand to wrong them or oppose them or humiliate them. If they believe in the torch and the infernal machine and violence, why should they not on their own island domain pursue liberty as they see it, and shoot up the town or blow up the banks or burn up all the temples of authority? If with them the bomb is pre ferable as an instrument of freedom to the ballot box, it will be theirs, if they so will, to bomb the ballot boxes. If a written constitu tion is the concoction of capitalism, they can spurn it or blow it into fragments and perdi tion with injury to no emissary of the capital istic class.' '. Out there in the Pacific, where the ocean surf sings fhe song of liberty on their own island, they can carry out their inalienable rights and every man be vouchsafed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as hi sees them. Portland, Oregon, Daily: Jouril. 0f the greatest progress in dairying industry, but while these counties had "the start," they are st.dxlitig in danger of being outstripped by the remote mountain sections. The most striking evidence of the advancement of this industry is afforded in the neighbor counties of Jackson and Macon, which are divided by the great Cowee range. These counties em ployed skilled men in promotion of dairying and the pace which they have struck means wealth and independence. They had not budg ed until the good roads opened them to the markets of, the state, and the present develop ed prosperity is based on the . good roads. Just what has been doing in that direction is indicated by a brief report in The Franklin Press, which gives the information that one creamery the. Nantahala is selling approxi mately 1,000 pounds of butter locally per month and shipping from 12,000 to 14,000 pounds to Achpvilln each month. "Prospects apiiear bright for a considerable increase m the ' y creamery business here from month to month, says The Press, adding that, "recent prices on butter fat reached 43 cents." And that is the story of only one of hun dreds of creameries that have been organized in the mountain counties since good roads came along Charlotte Observer. . AMERICA'S STAGGERING FIRE LOSS FIRE TOOK a toll of . $560,548,624 in the United States las year a record loss, Only a rich country like America could stand it. But it is a tremendous tax even for such a wealthy nation, and the real tragedy is that much of it is avoidable and yet as a people we neglect doing the simple, necessary things to prevent such a drain on our re sources. A loss of a half-billion dollars from fire! The figures are sugestive of the devastation wrought by the Mississippi flood. The country was appalled, and rightly so, at the staggering flood losse' sthis year. And yet it reads the fire statistics, with only casual interest for fires have been with us every year, they keep coming, and no doubt many citizens have unconsciously accepted them as a neces sary evil, as a part of the economy of things The property loss from fire is dreadful enough, and when to that is added the appal ling safrifice of 15,000 Jives annually the popu lation of a small city the real proportions of this tragedy are more clearly revealed. Each year the people of the country pay the fire insurance companies immense sums for protection. During the past two years all this money has been paid out by the fire insurance companies and more. The compa nies have lost money during the past two years and find themselves confronted with ar. serious situation. Some of them are already restricting the volume of their business, ac cepting only highly desirable risks. It seems that it will be necessary to raise the rates, or else so impress the American people with the necessity of practical co-operation in this important matter that the fire loss will be substantially- reduced. Most fires . are due to pure, undaultratcd carelessness. Fraud enters into the situation, but only to a minor degree.. Fire Prevention Week is to be. observed in America during the week beginning October 9. It will be an educational week, in which emphasis will be laid on the. little, simple things that start fires and prevent them from starting. , The current record-breaking fire losses aire all- the more inexcusable in the face of the fief that the people of this country are now paying" tar' more attention to fireproof construction than ever before. The standard of construc tion steadily rises, and the proportion of fire proof and semi-fireproof buildings increases each year. And, tragically enough, it woulf seem, the tide of carelessness has steadily risen in recent years to offset the saving that otherwise would be effected by fire-resisting, types of construction.Industrial Index. 4 n 1 1 -L. 1 Letters THE COW AND PROSPERITY HE GENERAL w..-r. w j,, , M ' tfte piedmont counties, are feprescBtativH MOSES REPLIES I NOTICE, in The Franklin Press, of October 6, that the editor and also the editor of bouquets and Brick Bats critisiW R.v M Moses' letter to The Press of September 30 , i (to not. know whether he has chantred hi views as to building a new court, house and jail or not. J. think you will find in his report: as foreman of the grand jury that he says -"when practicable." The world would be in a bad condition , if people did hot have a right to change their views whenever they wanted too. Ray was asked by a representative "average citizen" to write what he did and it seems from the petition to the county com missioners with over 1,800 voters nanees t it that he expressed the views of by far the largest number of voters in the county. Ray is in Elon College and I do not knw whether he will reply to these critisims ojr not ut I feel it nothing but. right iat the people know thai he was asked to write. , There is generally "scape oat" in .; such casw and! he m weU b as any one. D. J. MOSES;
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