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VOLUME XLIII
FRANKLIN, N. c THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1828
NUMBER FOUR
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" Fffll RELIEF
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W l he r cllowing Speech yv as
Made by Congressman
V ,. Charles L. Abernethy to
fw, the farmers last night Ov
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from Washington, D. C.
' The question of sflbstantial farm
relief at this session of Congress is
largely dependent upon' the forces of
the. South and the West harmonizing
and getting together, thereby insuring
sufficient votes to over-ride the veto
of the President - if necessary, and to
place upon the : statute books- laws
which will grant to the farmers equal
ity with industry, and with those spe
cially favored by Jaw, insuring to the
farmer a reasonable return for his
labors and efforts.
, For one .who has consistently sup
ported the Mc.ary-Haugen Bill, I
desire to appeal to those who each
Congress put this legislation to the
forefront to call into conference, ot
only the Western members of. Con
gress, but also those members who
come together this session of Congress,
and so frame this legislation as to
enable the Souehern members of Congress-
and the Western members of
Congress1 to join forces and organize
and to pass substantial farm : relief
legislation through Congress, and to
have' enough votes to over-ride the
veto of the President, in the event
of his disapproval. The situation ot
critical.: for- us to
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lo&Itcotinn anri this we Cannot secure
at this session of Congress unless wel
iron out the differences ana come
together on the substantial principles
of the McNary-Haugen proposal re
gardless of -how it may. efefct the for
tuheV of certain statesmen ambitious
to become President. ;
v'Those who represent the, great farm
organizations of the country must
realize that the plight of the farmer
at this time makes it imperative that
those of us who are consistently try
ing to give relief to him need more
votes in Congress than we had at the
last sfslion of Congress; ancj, to se
cure these votes there must be unity
among farm, leaders and the real
friends of the farmer in and out of
Congress, and that there must be free,
open and full co-operation and organi
zation to secure genuine farm relief
this year. . So let us counsel together
for ' the common good.
There are loud proclamations from
certain quarters that -the country is
enjoying an era of prosperity, but no
one ca nseriously contend that the
farmer is sharing in this prosperity,
if it really exists. Agriculture is be
set on every hand. The prices to be
paid by; the farmer for what he is
required to purchase are fixed by oth
ers .than by himself, and the prices
which he receives for his labors and
the things he produces is also beyond
his control. And in this dilemma he
finds himself year after year sinking
deeper into the mire, and the fi
nancial slough of despond. He has
been told and rightfully so, that laws
now in force in the land are protect
ing and benefitting industry and others
. with no resulting benefit to' lumself,
and. naturally he appeals to the Con
gress and to tb,e powers that be in
the Government, to grant to him the
same rights and privileges, or to
abolish ; the special privileges granted
to others. It cannot bedenied that he
is right in his demands.. How is. this
to be brought about ? The forces who
are the recipients of privileges are
strong and powerful, united and well
organized, and the vantage ground
gained by them, they, 'will seek .to
nain tain and defend, and the battle
is one which can only be won for the
farmer by unity in the camp of his
friends; hence the great necessity of
harmonizing our forces for the con
flict. ;;
There are many strong men in the
country who have set forth this
".plan and that plan, and there are
many bills pending in Congress which
have, for their purpose the relief of
the farmer, but unless we can get
away (rom pride of authorship and
can center our forces on one concrete
plan it is well known, with the pres
ent conditions as they evist, that the
..nriVk for farm relief is not bright.
favorable signs are appearing during
the hearings before the House Agri
cultural committee that lead us ito
expect from that great committee this
session, one legislative plan which will
have the backing of the committpe.
instead ; of having three bills; reported j
from the committee as was the case
at the last session of Congress. -j
One of the crying needs at thisi
time is . for thr various . states and
i-.lso theXc'.tl'.i.o.i Government to brinr 1
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Macon County Timber
Operations Are
FRANKLIN MAY
MERGE SCHOOLS
Prof. Billings Plans Bringing
County Graded, Units
Under One Roof
(By George McCoy)
Franklin, N. C, Jan. 18 Consolida
tion of the Macon county schools from
the fourth - grade up into one big
unit at Franklin is now being planned
by M. B. Billings,, county superin
tendent of schools. -
1 Mr. Billings, who has-scrved - the
school system of this county for 21
years as superintendent; is very much
interested in doing away with the
six months term, one-teacher schools
in Macon county, and has perfected
the plan of consolidation in an attempt
to do this. His plan would not af
fect children below the fourth grade.
They would still be given instruction
in local schools throughout the county.
The improved highway , system,
which has become the, vogue in
North Carolina in recent ' years, will
permit the carrying out of this plan
of consolidation, as busses may be
dun with ease into the various parts
of the county bringing children to and
from school here.-.
Mr.: BillingiiJhas lalready succeded
in consolidating s high .i.sc.hi?othe
county into" one - big ' school at : Kranfes
linwith the' exception, of the school
graltiSmg
grade on up ard now brought to
Franklin by. busses, while pupils in
the sixth and. seventh grade now
have to provide their own transporta
tion to school here. ,
Some pupils, who attend the six
months term schools in the county
with the session ending before Christ
mas, also attend the school here af
ter the holidays,, thereby securing in
struction during '10 months and three
weeks out of the year.
Franklin now has adequate facili
ties to accomodate its school popula
tion, but it . is expected that by year
after next another graded school will
have to be built.
The present enrollment in the
Franklin High school is 300, while
the elementary school has 350.
Excellent work, Mr. Billings states,
is being done at the Highlands school,
where there are seven teachers, with
an enrollment of over 100 in the
elementary school and between 45
and 50 in the high' school.--Ashevi!le
Citizen.
about the reduction in "the - farmer's
taxes. The totaf amount of taxes paid
on farm property increased from about
$344,000,000 in 1914 to about $870,
000,000 in 1925, and in the years
1926 and 1927 there has been practical
ly no relief given the farmers in his
taxes. Landtaxation is all out of
proportion a"s compared with other
forms of taxation. Prices received for
farm products rose from an index
of 100 in 1914 to 209 in 1919 and
dropped to 136 in 1926 and to about
130 in 1927. The, burden oj taxation
practically wiped out farrh earnings
during the years of low returns from
farm products.
Need for deadjustment of freight
rates on agricultural products is im
perative. The agricultural situation
has been and is now being studied by
various groups and from various ang
les , '
Members of Congress have been
supplied with interesting and volumi
nous data. The Nationad Industrial
conference board, and the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States have
Men's Commission on agriculture, and
more recently there has been s'ent to
our desks a "Report on the agricul
turar situation by the special commit
tee of the association of land grant
colleges and universities," and various
other organizations, gYoups and in
dividuals have sought to give us light
o. hthis perplexing problem.
These various dissertations are help-:
ful in the study of agricultural con
ditions, but our divided ranks is the
most serious porblem that confronts
us in Congress today: and it is my
candid opinion, asj said in the outset,
what we need most at this critical
time is more unity and not so many
plans more, votes to effectuate legis
lative farm relief. Can we secure this
harmony? I believe we can. When
we , do harmonize, there are enough
real friends of the farmer in Congress
to frame and pass appropriate legis
lation which will benefit the agricul
tural masses and give them equal
nchts ?nd opportunities with others
under the laws. J
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Large Tracts Are Being
Opened Town Of
Franklin Growing
Franklin, N. C, Jan. 19. A single
band plant has been erected, a log
ging railway has been extended for
miles into the forests, and a regular
village-has been built in the Rainbow
Springs section of Macon county by
the W. R. Ritter Company for the
purpose of tapping 14,000 acres of
hardwood in the Nantahala Mountains.
Operations started this' past faill
and it is estimated that there is suf
ficient timber in the boundary to last
10 years. Around 200 men are employed-
in the woods and at the mill.
Theompany. is cutting now a Jiiillion
trees;a montp.
The logging railway built, by the
Ritter Company extends from An
drews into the Nantahalas, a distance
of about 37 miles. Tracks are now
being built up and down the creeks
of the section for the purpose of
securing the timber.
In Tellico Section
Another extensive logging operation
is being carired on by the Porter
Moody Lumber company on the east
ern slopes of the Nantahalas in' the
Tellico section of Macon county. A
circle saw mill has been established
and about 40 men are employed in
cutting about two millon feet of hard
wood a year. The boundary being
tapped has about 2,000 acres of virgin
timber. '
Besides theseT two" large" operations;
Macon county iitts t munoi smu
saw mills. .
a year. A number of companies and
individuals are engaged in this work
including C. L.Pendergrass and M. L.
Dowdle and company. .
It has been estimated, that there is
sufficient timber available in Macon
county to afford a constant supply
of 4,000,000 feet a - year for wood
working purposes without decreasing
the amount, this beng based on the
rate of natural growth of the timber
in the county. '
Plan Cotton Mill
Negotiations are now under way
for the establishment of a cotton mill
here. Although the plan is in a ten
tative state, it is known that Georgia
captialists are interested in combining
with local capital in the establishment
of a mill.
' During the past, year Franklin has
enjoyed a sugstantial , growth, with a
number of business and residential
structures erected.
Besides at least 15 new, residences
built during the last six months . at
costs ranging from $2,000 to $8,0(K,
Franklin has two new apartment hous
es built by George E. Wurst, of Or
lando, Fla; One of -'these,-, containing
four apartments, is on Harrison ave
nue, and cost about $20,000, while the
other is on Iotla street. It has two
apartments and cost about $6,000. All
the apartments are now rented.
The latest adition to Franklin's ho
tels is the Scott Griffin, which opened
last year, and has proved very popular
as a commercial house. It has been
leased for four years by Steve Porter.
The hotel contians 30 or more rooms,
is of modern construction, and cost
around $60,000. It is owned by Sam
Franks, Bill Cunningham and Henry
Cabe.
The Franklin Furniture company
has completed recently a large ware
house near the depot. The Franklin
Hardware company has also completed
recently a new warehouse in the
main business district. j
The Standard Oil company has just
completed the . construction of ,. two
filling stations and a large bulk plant
which will be used to store gas and
oil at an expenditure of about $3t0.
OOOTTThe plant here' is considered
the most modern in the state.
Elnloe and ,Malonc, Gulf Rcfiniay
company agents here, have completed
the building of a filling station at the
corner of Phillips and Palmer streets.
Income from the power plant built
by the Town of Franklin is more than
sufficient to pay, the interest on the
bonds issued to build it, it stated
The plant is located three miles nrth
of Franklin and backs water for Smiles.
Some 1,500 horsepower is generated,
and an additional 750 horsepower can
be secured with very little more ex
pense. The entire plant cost'" around
$300,000. Surplus power is sold to
industrial t enterprises, including the
mica and kaolin plants operating in
this county Asheville Citizen.
Do You Want Trout?
Those interested in stocking streams
in their neighborhoods with speckled
trout, native to these mountains, will
please drop into The Tress office
when in town.
ROTARY CLUB
INSPIRED BY
LOCAL MEMBER
Atty. G. A. Jones Addresses
Rotary Club of Franklin
' Wednesday of Last Week
Points Out What Ro
tary Means.
At its weekly luncheon last .week the
Rotary Club of Franklin was in
spired by an address given by one
of its members, Attorney G. A. Jones.
Ihe full membership was present and
allvtook occasion to congratulate Mr.
Jones on his talk. The speaker stress
ed the fact that Service is the key
note of Rotary and cited the story of
the- Bishop and Jean Valjean as an
illustration of - the - point-Jnquestion,
Mr. Jones- talk, in part, follows:-
A few days ago 1 was' appointed a
member of the committee on Rotary
education, and since that time 1 have
undertaken to educate myself as to
what Rotary stands for, and upon
what principle it bases its philosophy.
I will attempt to give the conclusions
I have drawn, and especially my con
ception of some of the fundamental
principles upon which Rotary is based.
If the philosophy . of Rotary were
treated at length it would take a
library larger than the Encyclopedia
Brittanica. The Rotary idea of "Ser
vice" is a whole religion within itself.
Each member has, before entering
Rotary, put his own construction on
just what the word "Service" means.
Rotary does not undertake to make
its own definition of the word. Its
iaeaf is to broaden uu tui.Biu0if7ol
it, atid to teach us that "Service m
and Cnnsctian conceptma' orervictf:
can only be attained through ac
quaintance with tire person, the work,
or the thing that we desire to serve.
It is fundamentally an economic prop
osition. All of us undertake to serve,
and do serve, in one way or another.
Rotary undertakes to make that
"Service" accomplish the most that is
possible in proportion to the effort
and thought expended in the service.
Service, without or with the ideal of
Rotary, compares with the use of an
axe, before and after sharpening.
Each of us has working within us
two instincts. One, the instinct of
self preservation, teaches us to store
away and keei for ourselves exclusive
ly our property and our ideas, the re
sults of our labor and thought. Thc
other, the fraternal instinct, teaches
us to put- these forth in such a way
that our brother may share the results
of our labor and thought, with us.
Rotary undertakes to make these two
instincts reach and equilibrium. . In
the beginning of civilization this latter
instinct was limited, only extending to
our closest blood kin. But with the
progress of civilization we recognize
more and more that the whole world
is kin. -We realize more from age to
age that what we have is not ours,
that it Ms only something in which
we own a life estate, and that we have
little control over its management af
ter the life estate has terminated.
Nothing stresses this fact more than
Rotary's philosophy of life.
Rotary recognizes the fact that each
man's ideas and ideals are valuable;
that the portion of this world's goods
that have fallen into each man's hands
to care for; that the ideas which have
been carved out of his brain; the
ideals which have come to him from
somewhere have been given him fn
trust for society, and the v philosophy
of Rotary undertakes to " help that
man carry out his trust in such a
way that these things will. be of most
good, not only to him who' holds them,
but to his brother as well. Without
knowing our brother and his work .we
unknowingly treat this trust, as the
talent wrapped in the napkin.
Cases arise where, although a man
may have the legal title to property,
arid may be entitled to the possession
of this property, till the law says
that he only holds it in trust for
some third party, and is hold account
able to this third party for the Way
in which it is 'held, 'and the manner
in which it is used. Rotary, it scenis,
applies this doctrine of trusts to
everyday life.
You' will remember, that in the
November issue of ' Rotary, on one of
its first pages is given a quotation
caled "A Christmas thought from
Hugo's Les Miserables." The extract
gives the incident of the traveler's
stopping at the pot house and noticing
there an eight-year-old child that, had
been taken in by the keepers of the
tavern and used as a menial. Half
clad and improperly, fed without
knowing the meafhing of a word or
act of kindness, this child had li,ved
a wretched life. Still, with the hope
that, always exists in children, the
night before Christmas she placed her
wooden shoe nt the corner of the
fire place, hoping that it ' might be
BREAK GROUiS)
FORBUWG
Joines Motor Co. To Erect
New Home For Cars
Judson McCrary Builds on
Adjoining Property To
Cost Near $40,000.
l . Work will begin at once on erec
tion of a business block on the fine
corner lot at West Main and Caldwell
streets, opposite the Brevard' Banking
company. Joines Motor company
owns the corner lot, facing 52 feet
on Main street and '100. feet on Cald
well, while Judson McCrary is owner
of 30 feet frontage on Main street
adjoining that of the Joines Motor
company. Buildings on both lots will
becarried Tnrat'the fame time, and
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plans can tor a tront on :lain street
that will have the appearance of only
one business block, having total front
age on Main street of 82 1-2 feet.
The building will be of steel struc
ture or reinforced concrete, with face
brick, and, according to tentative
plans, will be one of the most. at
tractive business blocks of the town.
Two units of a four-story building
will be erected now, with flat con
crete roof so additional stories can
be added as desired. The building is
to be steam heated. Estimated cost
of the structure is around $40,000.
' Ihe lot upon which the new building
is to be erected is one of the most
valuable in the town. Being a corn
er lot, right in the heart of the town.
Brevard Banking company, the-Tins-
much to the town and be of untold
value to the business district Mr.
Joines announces that the building on
the corner will not come out to Main
street, but will be so constructed
that the corner will be rounded in
rlinnA 1 !,vt M re in .l-! V. 1 ! .wf
corner. Some see in this plan prepa
rations i or a service siauon, as ine
new corner building is to be used as
the home of the Joines Motor com
pany, local Ford dealers.
The building is to be so constructed
that there will be opportunity to con
vert the building at any time into
a business block for business houses,
giving three separate store rooms fac
ing oa Caldwell street should this plan
ever be desired. The Caldwell street
has frontage of one hundred feet. '
The McCrary building, facing Main
street east of the Joines building,
will be for business purposes, with
30 feet frontage and 100 foot depth.
Mr. McCrary has not indicated as yet
just what business is to be located tn
this building,
Mr. Joines came here a few months
ago, and purchased the Ford agency ,
from the Lowe Motor com pany. He
has already bought two residences in
Brevard, and this further mark of
his faith in the future of the com
munity is an inspiration to the,, resi
dents and property owners here.
Mr. McCrary is a large property
owner in the town and county, and
is considered one of the most far
sighted business men of the "town.
The fact that he is building, in the
heart of the business section gives
evidence of the fact that he sees a
bright future, for this section.
Ground will be broken at once for
the work, and even in the erection
of the buildings there is great prom
ise for this community because of
the, additional work provided for the
mechanics and laborers here. Brevard
News.
found that night, 1
The traveler, perceiving the lot of
the child, slipped into the room where
she was sleeping, after the house was
quiet, and finding the shoe, placed in
it a gold coin.
The quotation stops iherc as it is
only intended to give one of the
most beautiful illustrious' of the
Christmas spirit that has ' ever "been
written. But let us go - little farther.
The traveler so deposited this coin,
for, according to his philosophy of
life, the coin was only something given
him to hold in trust and to use in a
way that would do the most good. And
according to the story, this philosophy
was not, original with him.
Ten years before, this same traveler
was walking the streets of a small
village in France, hardened in body,,
mind, spirit, and soul. His only desire
was to wreak vengence on mankind
in general which he considered had
handled him unjustly. From inn to
inn he went, but was always turned
away, being refused both food and
lodging, for, at each place he was
called upon to produce. h pass-port,
and it was found that he had recently
been discharged from the galleys, hav-
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