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page roun THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, KZ.l The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS.. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscription Payable in Advance) One Year $-5jJ Eight Months : 1-W Six Months ' Three Months 40 Single Copies ; ?c ADVERTISING RATES Very reasonable, and will be made known upon request. V We charge 5 cents a line for Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of Respect, and for n-; 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 tills i ((( 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 collecting 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 cafi't be done" is the refrain sung by the lazy ones. , That 'SDriniz oueht to be rurining through the house in pipes. This nice spring weather makes one think of the neccsity for a chamber of commerce, but thinking costs nothing. , . - . .. and get more milk at less cost. Also eliminate "nSncenlhf'h'e-sicknessmcmprrotir her1.- . . .. .., . .. L, The 4-H club boys and girls will likely knock a lot of "bright" ideas out of the heads of some, of us old timers. Uncle Sam is going to need a new building nere for a post office by, July first. Who wants the contract? ' One hundred and seventy-nine 4-H boys and girfs. growing chickens in Macon county ought to wake others Hip to the opportunities in the poultry business. . It is interesting to watch the candidates re duce taxes before the election. After the election they arc going to have a. whale of a time explaining to the voters. n )f( S(( )( )(t John .1 Jills, on the Cullasaja, claims that he and fourteen -others -slept- in -the same bed on -the coldest night of the present year when the thermometer stood at 8 below. The 4-11 club boys and girls are getting in their supply -of baby chicks by mail. We presume that climatic conditions in Macon do not favor the operation of a 10,(X)0 capacity incubator. That's right. 'Go. 'to it. Pay $4.00. per hun dred for chick feed when you can grow it at home and have it crushed for less than the freight on imported stuff, or for around 75 or 80 cents per hundred pounds. . A resolution has been introduced in the United States Senate calling upon Secretary of the Treasury M ellon to resign. He is the best secretary the treasury ever had and is too big a man to 'pay any attention to a reso lution introduced because of personal spite. t r f t John Dills is not woTryingaboat-thaTgrip . . f - 1. ! j i J .1 1 f I I . some oi nis ncignDors siaiea inai ne naa lost. John. just simply cannot supply the demand for "furin" pigs. An object lesson like, the one , John has put over helps wonderfully. But then John tends to his pigs and lets the other fellow do the fox huntin.' ' . '' , . Flatten out the food containers, known as. tin cans, that ,are opened each year in Macon. county and there would be enough tin to put a roof, over Pike's Peak from top to bottom' every twelve months. Now that the farmers have a cannery of their own it is up to all of us to grow produce for the cannery and to buy our own canned goods. Those going into the chicken business need not expect; sucess when they pay $4.00 per hundred for chick feed. You can grow ex actly the same ingredients here in Macon county and have the same crushed for less than the freight would cost to bring it in. All nhont iivip rtr! lavi:r-' ina-.li, chick etc., is nothing but buncombe. We do not know what l)r. Rouse paid for the Lake Ktnory holdings, but it is a safe bet that he got this ' property, at a bargain. With the establishment of the Smoky Mountain National Park assured and with Franklii's airport, ready for daylight landings, the doc tor and his associates should make a mint of money on the best development proposition in Western North Carolina. ' - ' One hundred and seventy-nine 4-H club boys and girls growing poultry with ,an aver age of 100 birds each means a lot to the county. Still there is one politician, in par ticular, who is rearing tp put .these boys and girls out of business along with 258 others who : arc trying to . make a - little money to brighten an otherwise dreary existence'. The politician who will dare to stick a knife in he backs of the boys and girls of -Macon will hear from the people in no uncertain terms. Among the counties of North Carolina Macon stands fourth in the number of cows according ,to the .population! Alleghany heads the list with One cow for each two persons, Ashe conies second, and Watauga third. Ma con has one cow for every 3.3 persons. Dare county is at the bottom of the list with one cow for every 94.7 persons. We. do-not know what the babies m Dare do for' a living. When Macon county has 3.3 cows for each person then-ther-citizens wil -really begin to prosper. r Friday of last week the county agent was notified by the T. F. Railway officials that it would not be possible to have a poultry car here fin the 26th. Mr. Harris immediately got busy with the wires and within two or three hours had assurance that a poultry car would be here on Monday even if it be came necessary to use a special engine to bring it to Franklin. Macon county is fortu nate in having a county agent who can do things. Under similar circumstances . many agents would have thrown up their hands and called off the poultry sale. -A The town board, so we understand, is con-, sidering the advisability of boring anotheer well 4 - av.tr" -"''itlMfc'a.ir- for this purpose.' The board has tried hard -enough -to get -an adequate-water supply-for the town but has b(?en balked by -the-people on every hand. Surely the voters will author ize ten or twelve thousand dollars for this purpose now. Otherwise the town will barely have suficient drinking water during the com ing summer. With no water in the tanks the town is doomed in the event of a bad fire. . Wagons, trucks and other vehicles brought poultry to the sale Monday. In fact there were hundreds of people in town from the farms. While the merchants did a good busi ness most of the money realized from the sale of chickens was stored away as part payment 'of taxes that come due May first. There will be two more poultry sales before that time an'd ih most cases the people will have realized enough money from the sale of poultry ' to pay their taxes. One county in California has' an annual income of $13,000,000 -from - poultry and -eggs. When the- people -ou Macon realize that they can make more money on chickens and eggs than they can make growing corn and wheat, then money will, be 'plentiful and there will be no worries about taxes. This county should have an income from poultry products ofv more than a million dollars per year, but of. course such a proposi tion would uproot the whole scheme of things and reflect upon granddaddy's ability as a money maker. So let's stick to corn and wheat even if we do have to rustle like the mischief to get tax, money. methods 'if fanning, belter livestock and bet ter poultry, and when these youngsters have a leader who is filled with energy and who is equally, interested in the success of the boys and girls, there is hope for such a county along the lines mentioned. Today we find Macon an outstanding example of a county where the boys and girls have been aroused by the county agent to the importance of mixing brain work with labor in their efforts to make the farm a paying proposition and an attractive place on ( which to live. Hereto fore the youth of the county havtf .drifted along in the 'footsteps of their .parents .in matters pertaining to 4 farming methods. If the parents were sucessful, then so were -tli childrcn.' and vice versa. The parents in many cases have recognized this fact and arc anxious that their offspring practice improved' methods in farming and in stock7 and poultry growing. Thus we find that 437 boys and girls m the county, backed to the limit by .'their parents, have joined the 4-H club. These ; youngsters have entered into their work with an en thusiasm that is remarkable. Day after -day, under, the able leadership of the county agent, others are joining the club, and day after day their enthusiasm becomes grcatcrv It is hardly possible to predict the effect upon the county that is destined to result from the work of the 4-H club boys and girls. They have chosen many lines of work and the knowledge gained by each will be passed on to the others. One hundred and seventy-nine have entered the poultry business, 74 will have bet ter gardens, f2 will; fatten pigs- by-the- ex tension '"'method',-" 45 will breed better pigs,- 26 are destined "to ra1scbettcf)6tatocs724will"' .show dad how to grow corn, 14, will beautify their respective homes" with a variety of flowers, nine will grow dairy calves and the same number beef calves, 7 have gone in fori sheep while four are destined to be stung by bees, 2 will try to grow, better turkeys than Mrs. Elliott and one will grow all the peanuts he can cat and have bushels left to sell. Thus the good work is started and the politician who tries to stop it is destined to. go office hungry. What's the Matter With Macon? WHAT'S the matter with Macon and for that matter many other counties in the s'tate from an agricultural viewpoint? Well, It is" conservatively', estimated, "that "Macon coun'tyscndstQL.outsidcSQurceseach yean approximately $300,000 for farm products that could be grown right here in the county, or that would not be needed under proper man agement. A considerable portion of this amount is spent for fertilizer, nine-tenths of which would not be needed provided proper methods in soil building were practiced. About $50,000 goes out for pork products. It's a sad commentary that this county with the best natural conditions in the state for hog-raising finds it necessary to send $50,000 out of the county eaech year for side meat, lard, etc. Seventy-five thousand dollars go out for flour and other wheat products." The broad valleys of Macon could grow all the wheat necessary for home consumption on half the ground now planted to this cereal provided the soil was properly built up and ,' prepared. The people of Macon live out of tin cans to the extent 'of $25,000 per year, . all purchased outside the countv. Now that the farmers Clean-Up Week NEXT WEEK has been declared "Clean Up Week" by the city fathers. A truck will be placed at the disposal of the public for carting away all trash1 that has accumulated during the winter. The chief of police is! particularly interested in having all vacant lots and back yards1 in good condition. . The -truckivill beusyiallweeknhisjji'Qrk LNow that the town board has done its part toward a clean town the citizens should at least -6perHetotM extent "of" placing "Trash in places convenient" to the . truck.; A little effort and forethought on the part . of the citizens should result in making Franklin the cleanest, town in the state. Summer visitors judge a town by its appearance. If the town can win favorable comment from the tourists, both they and their friends will return again and again to enjoy our delightful climate. Their are too many clean towns these days for a tourist to spend his time in a filthy place.. Provided the citizens will "clean up the town there will be hundreds of visitors here this summer who will make Franklin their head quarters while 1 visiting the Smoky Mountain National Park and other places, of interest. w A Hopeful Outlook HEN THE 'yctmg people of a county. become intensely interested in better have a cannery of their own, k is expected that this expenditure can " be . avoided ibis year. Western apples are shipped into the countv and sell for 5 and 10 cents each, yet Macon '.county is one of the finest apple growing sections in the United States. The , apples grown here taste like: apples and not. like balls of sawdust. But mighty- few of the farmers spray their trees -and grade their ap ples and no concerted effort is made to mark et co-operatively. .Cabbage, lettuce, Irish po tatoes and scores of other ; farm products, grown in other counties and in other states, find a ready niarket at Franklin. Thousands of dollars go out of the county each year for baby chicks. Incubators evidently will not work in Macon county. Still more dollars go out for cattle and pigs, but this ,is necessary to get a start in thoroughbred livestok. Thus the cash in an endless stream finds its way to the outside while we of the mountains sleep and dream of the good old days when grand dad and grandmother lived at home. nexation to Cherokee county provided we judge by the letters received from that community and published in The Press. Their principal complaint seems to be that the county of ficials have neglected them in the matter of roads. 'Suppose we look into this a little bit. Isn't it true that the county commissioners spent several thousand dollars in co-operation with the forest service in building a road from Aquonc to Nantahala station? Isn't it true that the commissioners had a special bill 'passed through the legislature permitting Ma con county to build a bridge in Swain county across the Nantahala at Nantahala station ta give the good people of that township an out let, to No. 10? Isn't ti true that Macon county has spcint more money on the roads of Nanta hala ;tovvnship than on the roads in any othcF townshio of the countv with the execution of two or three traversed by the highways?1 Who .builds-the roads in this county the' townships or the county? Everybody knows that under the present law the townships arc responsible for -thcjr.I.own roads. No doubt this is a bad system , and the law should be changed by making " the county the . road unit, but until that is done no township is justified in blam ing the county for lack of roads. :Now let us look into the tax -situation over in Nantahala - township. . In round number:, the township pays' into the county treasury approximately $20,000 per year in taxes.' Of this amount the railroad, lumber and power companies all absentee owners pay - about $13,000, the remainder being paid by the resi - a...,..-, u . i i i i. iik,iu9 iiieiee. ici.ou lA'iimy jiujs uaiiv niur the township" for schools alone $4,920 per year. So the peoplcTn that township are not treated so badly after all in the matter of Uxes. But it is not our intention to blame the good folks of Nantahala for wanting an out-. let to their county seat. Neither can they be blamed for wanting to. be annexed to an other county, provided such annexation will result in a narasuriacea roaa. we nave ueen told by a citizen of Andrews that the tax rate in Cherokee is $2.70 per hundred as compared to $1.58 in Macon. If this -is true, then the citizens of Nantahala township have something: to think about. Possibly a hanlsurfaced road would be worth the increase in taxes. Re gardless of everything the fact remains that Nantahala township has no suitable road, but there are other townships in the county in "a similar, fix. Th Nantulnln ranm U a natural Nantahala township. Macon ' county must recognize mis iacr ana io an witnin its power to build a road to that; township when the law is changed putting this responsibility upon the County. With a , good road from Franklin to their homes we. are convinced that the people across the mountains would wish to remain a. part . of Macon county. Within a few years this section of the county will be worth a king's ransom and it therefore be hooves the people of Macon to remain on good terms with the fine1 citizens of . Nantahala township. Others' Comments Shut off communications with the outside world and two-thirds of the t population of Ma con; "bounty would starve to death in six months and this is primarily an agricultural county. Excepting for such articles as wear ing apparel, sugar, salt, coffee and soap Ma con has no need to send money out of the county. The forest products are probably maintaining a balance now,. in favor of the county, but when' these are exhausted within a short -time the cat will begin to squall, un less in the meaentime the people have learned to live at home and board, at the same place. When Macon county has a frade balance in farm products of $1,000,000 per year in its favor all this howl about high taxes will be come a thing of the past There is nothing impossible about such a balance' T About Nantahala Township HEfEOPLE over Nantahala way are put ting up a mighty chorus in favor of an- THE VALUE OF SCENERY THE PROPOSITION of Commissioner Stikeleather to make slight detour in highway No. 28, so as. to carry tourists through the magnihcent scenery in mountains, , valleys, .waterfalls and gorges along the way, is or.e that will no doubt meet with the approval of the State Commission. OurViwn people, large ly because they are not familiar With the scenery in sections heretofore reached by highways, arc rather unappreciativc of vhnt this routing of No. 28 would mean, from-the financial standpoint, to the state, for it would open a new attraction for tourists and one that would make, oonular anneal to motorist the country over. The Observer has made the proposition that the extra cost would be covered in . one season of auto travel over the route. .Development of scenic effects is one that has popularized Westeren sections. The Canadian . Government has proved more alert than our own Government to this scenic development. It not only routed its main rail roads and highways so as to carry travelers through the best of its mountain scenery, but is now building cfetours in order that the -au tomobi I p world r a n-pp t in tv sn r t inn c n,-.f (-31 w,,,vafc, VV reached by the railroads. Of- course the state could count on the co-operation of the. Southern Railway company in the broadening program before it. ' Until all the mountains were opened by highways, the Southern necessarily-confined its publicity ac tivities to Asheville and thei immediate region.' but the arterializing of the "Yellowstone and Yoscmitc" regions of the state through good roads, has enlarged- the opportunities of that company. It can take -advantage of scenic values in the same way the Canadian Pacific . has done and is doing. The Southern's line to Murphy skirts the Smoky Mountains Na tional Park, which has been described as the Yellowstone of the East, while one tof its branch lines comes up( from Georgia into Franklin, the gateway to the Yosemite; so, whether the Southern is incline to renewed activities, it is bound to benefit by the pene tration of these - new highways. Charlotte-Observer.
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