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:r.r. rcu.i THE FRATAXIN TRTLZZ. rRAHJILIIJ, n. c. TIIUHCDAY, AUGUST 3, V.Li The Franldin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY S. A. HARRIS Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscription Payable in Advance) One Year : $1.50 Eight Months 1.00 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 n tices of entertainments where admission is charged. Entered at the post-officV at Franklin, N. C, lor transmission through the mails as second class matter. Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION THE FRANKLIN PRESS PLATFORM Extension of the sewer line. . 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 fourt house and Jail combined. How About It? One good way to keep the corn borer out of Macon; is to refuse to feed the pest. The progress the corn borer is making on its way southward will soon force the farmers of Macon to make progress when it arrives. . When this county has 40,000 dairy cattle the farmers can laugh at the depredations of will sec more than one concrete mixer at work." Charlie Teague lias 11 acres in masting cars which he is now gathering and s . 1 1 i i i u fur about $4.00 per bushel. Charlie is netting between $90 and $100 per acre "a whale of a lot more than 1 can make on growing or dinary corn," states Charlie. Thus docs head work prove of value. According to reports Highlands will be represented in the race for county commis sioner. If the man mentioned will consent to run, he will be mighy hard to beat. In cidentally, he will make an ideal commissioner and The Press is for him first, last and all the time. Have you investigated the possibilities of growing sour cherries in Macon county? It figures to around $500 per acre. But divide this by five and one still can make $100 per acre on cherry trees. However, the people will probably stick to corn until the corn borer takes a hand in the proceedings. , Half of the farmers in the county take pride in bragging about having "the best spring water in the world" while their wives con tinue to tote that water to the kitchen. Not much reason here for bragging. The man who is really entitled to' boast is the one who pipes the cold spring water to his home and thereby saves' his wife an annual hike of 200 or 300 miles. Under the present arrangements there is much opposition to having a county manager. As we have before stated we believe that a county manager is necessary provided the county is made the road unit and the manager placed in charge as road supervisor. So long as the townships have charge of the feeder roads to the highways such roads will always be in bad condition. . Some folks must think that it improves beans to truck them to Cant6n and Waynes ville and then bring them back to sell at the cannery. Also when going to Atlanta take a truck load of beans along and sell' them for two cents per pound when the local cannery is paying two and a half or three cents. That -jci.avITTak'Tj iMi- of growth. When the power plant is sold, if ever, why not include in the sale the water supply system. No doubt a privately owned water supply would result in plenty of water for the town. At present chasers are scarce. Before the town finally decides upon a budget it should include sufficient funds to pave the depot street from the Standard Oil filling .station to Davenport's mica plant. No doubt the town wants new industries. Such industries must ' necessarily locate along the "railroad. This being the cacs the town should make provision for a paved street over which raw material may be hauled to the door of new and old plants. The short sections of street mentioned has more traffic than any other street in the county and underprcsent conditions this traffic must plow through mud. knee deep. With mud everywhere in the vicinity of the station strangers arriving by train receive the impression that Franklin is a one-horse town. Who knows? He Finds Time CHARLIE TEAGUE as everybody knows is a farmer of parts and also general manager of the local cannery. The cannery takes up a considerable portion of his time. We saw Charlie in town Tuesday and asked him when he finds time to do any farming. Mr. Teague pointed to his nether extremitios which were' wet from soles to knees. Long before the sun came over the Cowees Teague was in the fields. "That's when I find time," he said. One never finds Charlie at the cross roads store sitting on a nail keg and telling the people just how to run the world. And when taxes are due Charlie generally manages to scrape up the money without taking a verb al whack at the tax assessors. . These Traveling Shows EVERY WEEK or two traveling shows" put up tents in Franklin under which ham actors and actorines spring suggestive jokes in the presence of the. youth of the town. - These tent shows pass hither and yon and always with a letter of recommendation farmers in his territory would be vastly bene fited by sowing sweet clover. The banker was not slow to accept the challenge. A sweet clover meeting was arranged at the school house, to which surrounding farmers were invited, the invitations coming from both Air. McNeely and the county agent. One hundrdd and fifty farmers turned out and wcr much interested in hearing about sweet clover, its advantages, how to grow it, etc. As a result of the meeting 34 bags of sweet clover seed were ordered, a larger amount than had ever been planted in the entire state. Banker , McNeely helped make up the order, distribute , the seed, and also financed several farmers in the purchase of the seed, when it arrived. Mr. McNeely says, "You . know, Yeargcr, this is the finest piece of work I have ever undertaken, i have had opportunity to make contact with several men in a friendly way that I have never before known" The Corn Borer d UNDER THE heading, "The Corn Borer Moves Southward," B. R. Proulx of Michigan State College, has an article in the Southern Planter of August first. This article is well worth the serious consideration of every Southern farmer. The pest has already reached West Virginia and its migration south ward continues at a rapid rate. The moths are known to fly at least twenty miles. Con sequently the pest will very soon span the narrow state of Tennessee' and find its way into Western North Carolina. Experts esti mate that the corn borer will be. making its home in Macon county corn fields within two or three years. As a general rule people do not believe in crossing a bridge until the bridge is reached. In most cases this proves to be an excellent trait of the human 'race' and tends .toward more happiness. - But in the case of the cor? borer it is well to take time by the forelock and prepare for the appearance of. the pesi in the corn fields of this county. Both - the' United States and Canada have spent millions of - dollars - in unsuccessful efforts to control' JPiJv.'vt ii UKJi c . . -V &.' sa-'w ''. . When any office holder gets bigger than th? people . who elected, him it is time to , throw him out on his ear. '-7ir:s: .. . When it comes to a question of "layin' low" the Republicans of the county have Br'er Rabbit backed off 'the map. It is time to begin the preparation of ex hibits for the county fair. The 4-H club boys and girls' will no doubt show their ciders a thing or two. On the fourteenth this month the citizens Of Franklin will learn whether or not they will continue to be taxed for the support of the tvhite elephant. V We have been informed that Arthur Huggins is absolutely opposed to water spouts. But ' after losing his kitchen, corn crib and crops and after having' his home filled with mud, one can hardly blame Arthur for viewing mat ters in this light. ' It matters not to us who represents the county in the next general assembly provided' the man elected will pledge himself to iass a bill placing .the county officers on salary and another bill making the county the road unit. . A representative of a New York firm was in Franklin last week investigating the "power plant and making inquiries as otthe resources of the county. As we now recall this is the fourth company that is considering the pur chase of the plant. Quite a number of Macon farmers have changed their methods of farming within the last few years. The corn borer will soon force the remainder to follow suit. The pest has an efficient auger, but "never uses it, on dairy cows and poultry, to say nothing of truck crops and swine. During the month of July the creamery jnade 22,956 pounds of butter. This butter, according to official tests, is the best1 butter made in the state. Dairy herds in the county' are constantly increasing and when the corn borer arrives watch the dairv industry flourish. - . ii : .1. . .There are probably 100 farmers in the county who want electricity in their homes. If the power plant is sold these farmers will .have some one to whom they can talk bus iness. And not before. Let 100 farmers put lights in their homes and a thousand more will soon follow suit. ",'. , ;'Next Tuesda'y is the day. set for the town . board to receive bids for the sale of the pow er plant. Let us hope that the board may itach some agreement with one of the pros pective buyers. A citizen of Franklin re cently said: "Sell the powr plant and you and independence" even 'though' if be " somewhat costly. ' ' ; . '. .. .: ,. Thursday of last week 1,000 pounds of mail t order catalogues reached Franklin. These catalogues cost around three dollars each to print and bind. Hence on one mail $3,000 worth of advertising reached. Franklin. This advertising was sent out by one firm and is only , a small' part of the advertising matter sent into the county each year. Probably as much as $8,000 worth of advertising matter is sent into Macon each year by the mail order houses and THEY get the business. In continuing a news article from one page to another certain daily papers have adopted the expression of "Please turn to Page 2" or some other numbered page. Half the time. the headlines are not the same on both pages. As a result one spends useless time trying to find where the article is continued. What was. wrong with the old custom of specifying the page and the colum on which one can find the remainder of the article? The new way has a tendency to make a man mad enough to bite a ten penny nail in two. , According to reports reaching Franklin from Highlands Prof. T. G. Harbison has a . nice field of corn which has never been cultivated. If the ground is properly prepared before planting Prof. Harbison, if he has been re ported correctly, states that corn can be grown in this county with little or no cultivation. The professor also . has about 3,000 bushels of apples that have been properly sprayed and that, will bring top market prices. When it comes to growing crops heeadwork is of more importance , than brawn. A tree nursery in this county is of the ut most importance , from the standpoint of re forestation. The state is going to establish such a nursery in Western North Carolina. Then why not in Macon county? When one travels .about-over-the -county and seees the are paying taxes, one ceases to wonder why tax money is hard to raise. These moun tain sides could easily be put in pasturage or planted in trees. If any particular piece of ground is too badly washed to set to pastur age, kudzu will soon build it up and at the same time make an excellent pasture. It is absolute folly to allow any kind of land to lie idle. ' ' As we predicted early last spring Franklin is how short of water. Both wells are sap plying only 71 gallons per minute. Those who now live 6b high points in the town have no pressure in their water pipes.' Should a fire in the business section of town get well started there would be nothing else to do but watch the whsle town burn. The people seem to have made up their minds not 'to put any more money in the water system. Under si.Kh rorditior! the tnyn h rcpr"1"'' 's liivt formances" last occurred. . Such shows pay no taxes and always succeed , in taking rom each county a wad of money. If the shows Were in any way elevating and served a useful purpose we would not object to their coming. But a little thought should convince one that an actor with sufficient tallent to get on the stage of a theatre would not be, spending his time traveling about' the country with a tent show. It's high time the' proper authorities declare these bum shows a public nuisance rand prohibit them from coming to Franklin. We Go To A Golf Game LAST FRIDAY WE were asked to go out to the golf links to report a tournament between Franklin and Cornelia. Jever having seen a game before we hardly knew how to proceed. However, we looked wise and sat on a bank while the golfers whaled the ball. To begin with quite a number of the players made clean hits ,tbc first time at bat, others dropped Texas leaguers, three or four fouled down the right . base line and one or two merely bunted. The fielders were small boys each wearing some kind of a bag over their shoulders. They made practically no efforts to return the balls to the home plate. In fact their fielding was the slowest we have ever witnessed. About the time we got com fortably settled and began to taking notes all the players disappeared over the hill and we therefore presume the tournament was called off. Rain then began to fall and we came home thoroughly convinced that golf is a good jame. How A Bank Helped BELOW WE REPRINT an article from the Bulletin, Agricultural Commission, American Bankers Associaatjon, showing how a bank at Cleveland, N. C, helped the farmers in that community in growing sweet clover. Banks in many parts -of- the -country have means more money in the bank tills. Banks nearly everywhere have advanced money to the farmers to buy dairy cows, thoroughbred pigs and poultry. And the banks( have thereby profited. With reference to advancing money for sweet clover seed Mr. McNeely, cashier, of the Citizens Bank at Cleveland is quoted as saying, "This is the finest piece of work I have ever undertaken." The article from the official organ of the American Bankers Association follows : Banker Aids Distribution of Sweet Clover A banker, a feed store, and a county agent, made an effective, combination when they set about bringing sweet clover seed into the com munity. Ifc all happened in and around Cleveland, NORTH CAROLINA. v " County agent Yeager, a friend of Mr. Sam McNeely, cashier of the Citizens Bank, called Mr. MrNcclv's attention to the fact that the gress. ' ' We have refrained from referring to'theS corn borer as a calamity in so far as ritv -iminent appearance in Macon county is coiW. cerned. Perhaps it will be a blessing in dis guise, but only, in the event that the faoritirs;; prepare for its coming. If the farmers of Macon continue to make corn their chief icrc-p and fail to prepare for -, the coming of -the borer, then, in that case, its appearance Will indeed be a calamity for two or three .'years, at least or until the tillers of the soil' have; time to adjust themselves to a cornless county. At most the farmers in this section have three; more planting seasons before the arrival of. the corn borer. Instead of growing corn only , during the next three years the farmerst should be experimenting in growing barley as: a feed substitute." They should also grow all the truck crops that can be 'disposed of at the cannery. But above all, they should turn their corn fields into pastures and enter the dairy business as their chief sourceo f income. The advancing orn borer is not a theory but a fact and those who now fail to change . their farming methods to meet the changed conditions that will confront them in two or three years will suffer severley from a finan cial standpoint. Out in a little town of Alabama some years ago the people Vrectdd a monument to the boll weevil. This pest had caused the farmers in that community to diversify crops. Its ap pearance had brought ' prosperity to the county by forcing the farmers to grow crops other than cotton. Perhaps the corn borer will do the same for Macon county. With an aver age yield of 22 bushels of corn per acre, Ma con county is wasting its time in growing this staple. Whether or not there is a corn borer in the,, world, this" county should not put so much dependence' in corn. Then why should the citizens of the county wait until their chief crop is on the eve of destruction before turning their atttention to something more profitable? Corn in this county is doomed and the sooner the people realize this fact the better prepared they will be to meet the corn borer on its. arrival. 1 With proper preparation to meet the inevitable change of conditions this pest should hold no terrors for the farmers of Macon. Letters The Franklin Press, Franklin, North Carolina. Gentlemen: i Enclosed please find check in the amount of $10.00 as per bills of July 24th. Adds for j Highlands Inn and Frank B. Cook in your good paper of July 5th. Many thanks, I think it well worth the money. With all good wishes, I am " . v. i v.. j ii .uijr I FRANK B. COOK ( o v t i 0
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