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f THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 50, 1027 PACE FOUR The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS Editor t SUBSCRIPTION RATES t (Subscription! Payable in Advance) One Year i-$J-50 Eight Months Six Months 75 Three Months .40 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. , A sewage disposal plant. ' More official activity in the sale of sur plus power. - . . Li l 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? Pave the school house street. Don't forget the .Red Cross roll call. Now that Andy has a billion to give way we hope he doesn't overlook us. ... ' Now is the time to set out shrubbery on the school house grounds. - - Two hundred to the farm is just about right. r . Ten hives of bees to the .farm wotld also be the proper caper, ,. A fish ladder at the municipal dam is a necessity. ' Tare the school house street. A colony of Dane or German farmers and dairymen iii Macon county would help con siderably as an object lesson. . . Pave the school house street. The fact that a goodly crowd turned out, Monday to the poultry meeting is indicative of a growing interest in the poultry industry in Macon, county.. "'. It took a fire tox get telephone connections with the fire alarm. We trust that it will not take the death of a little child to get the street to the school house paved. . Pave the school house street. The AsheviHe Times, the Asheville Citizen, and the . Charlotte Observer reprinted the editorial which appeared in The Press two Weeks ago under the caption of "200 Hens 800 Dollars." ; '." In wet weather the traffic jams on Porter street in front of the school building are a source of danger to the. children. - Let us hope that the street leading up to the build ing may be paved before a child is killed. , A quarter to six says the court house clock 24 hours in the day. Thus the clock has the cortect time twice daily which is quite an improvement over the time when it struck the hour now and then. v Pave the school house street. . We understand ' that a bus runs between .Franklin and Cornelia, but no one seems to know the schedule. Perhaps 'those in- charge are trying to keep the hours of arrival and departure a secret. . '' Pave the school house street. ' . Elsewhere in this issue appears a letter from Mrs. Rebecca Ramsey ( concerning the conveniences purchased for her home with chicken money. There is nothing to prevent others doing likewise! ' " Pave the school house street. : County Agent Harris states that lie ex pects to organize more than a score of 4-11 clubs in Macon county, lie needs the co operation of the parents in this important work and states that all the parents so far consulted have given him assurance of their co-operation. Mr. Harris is likewise pleased with, the' enthusiasm shown by the children of the county. Pave the school house street. t Almost twenty years ago when M. I). Bil lings was editor of The Press he advocated a road between Macon county's two towns over which "one may drive, from Franklin to Highlands in three hours, instead of eight to twelve as it is now." Twenty years is a long time to wait but the road advocated so earnestly by Mr. Billings is now under con struction .and when completed we hope to get to Highlands in forty minutes' instead of three hours. Mr. Billfngs was also talking about the Board of Trade in his issue of January 23, 1907. In this connection he had the fol lowing to say:. "In the rush of other busi ness we should not forget the Board of Trade. All should make it a point to talk this organization, get down to business, and do something and not wait too long." The Town Gets Busy THE FIRE Monday morning served to call attention to the fact that there was no way of. turning in an alarm of fire by telephone. As a result a neighbor walked to town and turned in the alarm Monday morn ing. At its meeting Monday night the town board ordered push-buttons placed in the Hotel Franklin and in the home of Fire Chief Jos. Ashear. When a fire occurs telephone cither of these places and the alarm wilt be given immediately. George Wurst is Best GEORGE WURST, a citizen of Florida, in his quiet way is doing much for Frank lin. He has under construction two apart ment buildings and has built other houses in town. Mr. Wurst has complete confidence in the future of Franklin and it is a pity that more of our own citizens are not imbued with the same faith. He is a man completely above petty bickerings and goes about his business in a manner to command the respect of all with whom he comes in contact. We would that more like him might see the light and come to our pretty little town. Purebred Cattle Cheap THE COUNTY agent returned last week from a trip to Chester, S. C, where he purchased a purebred Guernsey heifer 18 months old for Miss 'Maybcryl Moody. This heifer contains three of the greatest strains of Guernseys in existence, namely, Border Raider, Cavalier and Rosewood. The price was exceedingly reasonable. The , county agent reports that Guernsey cows and heifers are selling at Chster for 7 to 10 cents per pound. He says that now is the time for the citizens of Macon to get together and order two or thre carloads of Guernsey cattle form Chester. Too Many Censors "SOMETHING ought to be done," said a lJ well-known Franklin "man a few days ago, "to keep the fast-growing number of rusty, dilapidated, worn-out flivvers off the road. They are a menace to the good ma chines." In. a way he is right. Few drivers of the Old rattle-traps carry insurance to take care of any damage they may inflict upon another car. But keeping them off the road would be just another form of censorship, and we've got too many sensors in America now of various kinds for the good of the country. It's the bane of the age. From legislating our" morals, it promises to develop into limiting our jr,operty. rights. ' It is , unfortunate .'that we have irresponsible drivers, who drive just with in the law. ., But we must: find more reason able means to discourage them than by tak ing even their rusty old cars away from them. Whiskers and Farmers AN OFFICIAL of the American Farm Bu reau Federation, returning from a tour of 23 states, says he was surprised id . find so few farmers with whiskers. "Not even the old men had them," he said. ; He feels hat we may as well abandon all notions that the farmers of today wear long whiskers and go about with a straw between their teeth, as the cartoonists , picture them. Like most men, the farmer wears clothes adapted to the kind of work he does. He would be foolish to go into the field dressed like a floor-walker. Mentally, he comes as near being "dressed up" all the time as the average man. He is Well informed, we mean, and knows what is going on in the world. With all modern means at hand for keeping in touch whh things he takes ' advantage of them. And if there is anyone in the . world who is really behind the times it is the fellow who thinks the farmer is. Another Reason AT Till', fife Monday morning there was not sufficient pressure to throw the water into the second story of the building. ' This is only another reason for an additional water supply. Moreover and a,';ain, the fire truck should have a pump attached to give more pressure than is afforded by the mains. Many homes in town are almost as high as the water tanks and, in the event of a fire at one of these homes, it would be futile to de pend uppn the, pressure in the 'mains. Burning a building is a pretty expensive way of wak ing up a town, but let us hope that this will be the result. The town ' board has set the election for water and sewer .bonds for December 20th. It is to be hoped that the citizens of Frank lin will take a sensible view of this matter and go to the poles and vote bonds. At the fire Monday morning the tanks were almost empty, it is reported. Had the fire occurred in the business part of town Franklin would be in ashes today. ' u Old Books Best NITED States Senator Willis of Ohio is advocating a return to the old school readers used back in the 'eighties. He con tends that nothing before nor since have ap proached the old McGuffey readers in merit, and that the readers used today are made up of a lot of literary jazz and poor philosophy. He points to the patriotic lessons, sound phi losophy and high moral tone of the old readers, of the wonderful selection . of poetry and the strong lessons that impressed the boys and girls who read them so faithfully as to make them of untold value during their later lives. We know there are hundreds around Franklin who can readily recall the old school readers, but few who know just what the readers of the present day look like or contain. It is interesting to know that a U. S. senator has .taken the time to look into the modern ones. It is of even more interest to the older generation to learn that he has only declared war on them, with the declara tion that the boys and girls of today should be using the same ones " their fathers and mothers used. Why A Jail Only? THIS ISSUE of The Press carries a news article with the resolution of the county commissioiners concerning the building of a new jail. There is no question but that the county must' have a new jail, but why build a jail now at a cost of not less than $100,000 when it is only a matter of .a few years until the public will be demanding a new court house also? In our opinion the building of a new jail without a court house in connection is a short sighted policy, a policy that the en tire county will shortly regret. In other words a plain waste of money. The opponents of the proposition to build a court house and jail combined emphatically told the , people that the- increase in taxes for this purpose would be "confiscatory," whatever that is. It has been conservatively estimated ' that ' to erect the two buildings together, would save the county forty thousand dollars of more. Then why deliberately waste this amount of money by building a jail now? If the county does not feel able to erect a court house and jail combined now, why not wait until a more favorable opportunity nad then build the tw6 together? Children on the Highways PROBABLY nobody would for a moment . question the right of pedestrians, wheth er adults or children, to the use of the con crete along the highways. They have a per fect right to walk on the pavement. But the question -of the safety of their using the pavement certainly anything other than the extreme left hand edge is another matter., ...The schopls have done a, valuable work for safety in teaching the youngsters to' walk along the left hand side of the highway; by so doing, they are out of danger from traffic from behind provided, of course, that drivers keep to the right and they can see traffic coming from in front. But any school day, 'about 3:30 in the after noon, one can pass groups of children along the nighways, far out on the pavement. It is comparatively simple to dodge them, on a straight strecth; but on a curve, if one meets another car, it is not infrequently a close call between one of two alternatives: hitting . the other car, or hititng the drldren, who monopo lise one-fourth to one-third the pavement. Town youngsters, too, walk along the pave ment going to and from school in Franklin. Possessed of the dare devil spirit that one admires, but which sends cold chills up , the spines of careful grown-ups, many of the youngsters will jump in front of a car, then out of the way' ligain; and other such tricks. It is a problem that calls for the utmost care on the part of drivers of motor vehicles, and for no little drilling of the boys andirls by teacher and parents. J An Injustice to Sons NINE YEARS ago . tomorrow the world celebrated the signing of the armistice which brought to a close the greatest 'war in history and, as many hoped and some be lieved, put an end to wars on earth. Gladly would the human race end wars if such were possible, but until human nature changes or until the horrors of war become too pro nounced for human beings to tolerate, there will be "wars and rumors of war." In our own country the regular army has been ac cused of fostering the spirit , of war. All kinds of idealists organizations and some with ulterior motives have come into 'existence and vented their wrath upon all things mili- tray. Perhaps no organization in the country understands so thoroughly the horrors of war as does the regular army and for .this, reason the army has always sought to maintain hon orable peace. For the past two or three years we have Heard much in opposition to the maintenance of military ' units in the schools and colleges of the country. As a general rule' such opposition comes from the mothers who want their sons to grow up in ignorance of military affairs. A little thought on the part of these ' mothers should convince them that they arc doing their sons a great in justice. When the next war comes, as. it sure ly must, not only men, but wealth and every material resource of the country will be draft ed. No doubt the time for preparation will be short and the man or boy who understands something of how to defend himself in battle will stand a better chance of coming out of the conflict alive than the one who is totally ignorant of military life, Thousands, of un trained American troops now sleep on Flan lore Pipld anrl rUpwhrrp in Eurone ant Amorxr No rlnnht manv of them would be alive today had they known something of military Science. ' The next war will be worse than the last and God pity the boy or man who enters that conflict untrained.' May He also pity the poor, ignorant mothers who to day are seeking to keep from their sons the vital knowledge that may be the means of saving their lives. upon the field of battle. d Others' Comments THEY DRIVE OLD CARS IN GEORGIA COUNTY Policeman Grizde requests us to state that all persons caught running . a car under 16 years of age, or a person run-; ning a car drunk will be prosecuted. It is. also a violation of the law to run a "car with only one light. So all had better take 'warn ing. Dahloncga (Ga.) Nugget. Letters MACON GIRL WRITES ON HEALTH Cullowhee, N. C, November 5, 1927.. Editor The Franklin Press, Franklin, .N. C. Dear Sir: In anticipation of National Edu cation Week, November 7-13, the students of Cullowhee State Normal School have prepared short articles bearing on subjects suggested by the program of the. National Education Association for emphasis at' this time. The topic of Health being one of these subjects, the following article was Drenared : Health Habits As we are all beginning to realize the im- nation, we too realize that in order for the citizens of tomorrow to be strong and healthy the proper health habits should be formed when the child enters school. There are many health habits that we would consider good but those which are gen erally known to be best and which can easily be formed are as follows: ') 1. Brush the teeth twice' a day. 2. Bathe at least twice a week. 3. Eat vegetables every day. ' . ... 4. Eat fruit .1 every, day, ... 5. Take some outdoor exercise every day. 6. Sleep s ten hours with windows open. 7. Drink at least one quart of milk a day , These habits should be so riveted on the child's mind that he will see the importance of them and know that it is for his good, to form them. The child should not have to be rewarded for keepipg these habits buX shouM be taught to keep them for his health's sake. ' . - .'. " In this as well as in many other phases of the chool work the parents can do much by co-operating with the teacher in seeing ; that the children form these habits. After they are once formed, they are much easier to be carried out. On this "Health' Day," which is , set aside by our National Education Association, we -should do all in , our power to help the parents and teachers to realize the importance of en couraging the "Health Habits" both among children and adults. Respectfully yours, , RACHEL DAVIS. (Student in Cullowhee State Normal School ',' from Macon county.)
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