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THE FRANKLIN PRESS PLATFORM
Extension of the sewer lines.
Beautify the school grounds.
Two hundred summer cottages.
A sewage disposal plant.
The construction of business blocks.
Pbnt tree, along the State highway, 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 fh ladder at the municipal dam.
10,000 Dairy Cows, 50,000 Sheep. 400,000
Hens, 4,000 Brood Sow. and. 20.000 Stands
JfBee. in Macon county. The above will
Water and light, in eacVfarm home.
SloO Acre, in Improved Pasturage in
peS vim, Pu.h. work-everything
lor theTod of Franklin and Macon county.
New court house and jad combined.
to keep a few cows. And when a man once
starts in this line of work his herd will grow
and he will prosper.
How About It?
No doubt the cannery will can what you
can't can.
A cold storage plant is badly needed in
Franklin.
We predict that the Anti-Saloon League
will soon have a new head. .This job will
nrobably pay better than that of a bishop.
,,
Those interested hope that' Gilmer Crawford
will now be able to keep some of his engage
ments to go gigging for frogs.
The California flyers remained in -the air
for more than ten days. Ten .minutes will be
sufficient for us.
We see that the Florida officials are talking
of "eradicating" the fruit fly. Might as: well
.talk of damming .Niagara Falls with a fish
net.
Uncle Charlie Slaglc has' invited" the editor
over to the Silcr. reunion.- U is. needless to
say that we will be there provided our 1918
Ford will climb the Nant:ih:ilas.
After ,' Rev. ' R. . Jv -MA; sUirled the' ball
rolling we "see in the . papers" where, a
Methodist preacher :. (Vea has taken
a fall out of. Bishop Ca-.v.vn.
When mud ' turtl e; an -driving cars on
'the streets 'of Frnu'.ln ii ' U ti-e for other
drivers to stay.' o;Yr :h;' ;:-vet; The; town
board will no doubt .-p:i .r: or inanc.; -keeping
turtles out of cars. '
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A taxi driver in New York- when offered
a new one dollar hill in. payment , of fare
'lowed as how he no loncer 'accepted coupons.
In payment for subscriptions The . Press will
accept most anything,, including stove wood.
tf if. i;t
'Now. who will, give ihe .Irrmers of Macon
county some first hand information about the
farm relief -measure? 'The . government- has.
appropriated half a- billion dollars to '.relieve
the farmers and the farmers - in this neckk . of.,
the woods want tn know whether or not this
relief is to take place secret Aor openly.
, '
The Sunday A?hevi!le Times had a p-ctire
of Bridal Veil falls on- highway. No. 28 be
tween Franklin an'l .Highlands. The ..picture
showed an automobile standing .on the road
way behind the falling water. We know of
no other highway in Eastern. America that
passes behind a waterfall.1 ' But then, there
is no highway east of the . Mississippi to
compare in beauty to that section of highway
No. 28 between the two Macon county t nvn.
To Welsome Bishhop Denny
IN ALL probability Franklin will have the
opportunity to welcome Bishop Denny in,
August. Mr. J.' A. Porter, a great admirer
of the bishop, . has had a letter from him
stating that he expects tocome to Frankklin
next month. Franklin will take delight in
giving Bishop Denny a hearty welcome. This
noted divine believes, in a church devoted
solely to the saving of souls. His protest
against the mixture of church and politics
has. met with the approvel of all true Meth
odists, even though such protest is reported
to have "astounded" Bishop Cannon. If the
Methodist church is to survive, it will be
through the efforts of men like Denny, Cand
ler, and Mock.
The Matter of Rewards
REV. Alvin Solesbee was in -town, last
Friday with an offer of a private reward
of $80 for the capture of Wishon who is
alleged to have killed the minister's-brother,
the late Pink Solesbee. . The parson asked
the commissioners to augment the reward by
twenty dollars. The matter was put up to
the county attorney, who, we understand, ruled
that the county has no authority to offer
rewards. Other attorneys seem to disagree
with this ruling. We do not claim to know
which is right, but we do know this: If
the county has no' authority to offer rewards
then a special law should be passed giving
the commissioners such authority. There was
some talk-last Friday of the matter having
to go to the governor along, with the findings
of the coroner's jury and a lot of other red
tape. To the average citizen this procedure
seems absurd. If, before a reward can be
offered, an outlaw must.be given time to get
as far as Timbuctoo, then there is something
wrong with the laws of the county or the
State. When a reward is necessary iit should
be made available after the commission of
the crime.
vided by law, and that puts a premium upon
waste.
But listen to (ioycrnor Roosevelt a bit more.
"We ought to know that for every $1 paid
out in taxes to our federal and state govern
ment, we pay $10 to ' local government," .he
declared. "The overwhelming majority of
expenditures which are of importance to us
individually arc made right back at home.
But there has been less progress in improving
local government than any other agency of
government.
"The counties are governed under the same
form, the same officers and the same business
methods as were established by tne Duke of
York in 1688. Most things, have improved
since then. Local government has not!
Forward-looking political leaders in every
state are beginning to appreciate the necessity
of improvement in local government. The
county manager plan-has been tried out with
success in Virginia and North Carolina, lhe
men who lead in the reorganization of county
government in North Carolina will carve . their
names deeply into the regard of the people.
Others' Comments
County Expenditures
THE LAW, so we are told, requires that
the county expenditures for each year
be published -so that the tax payers may have
the opportunity to see what became of their
money. The expenditures of Macon( county
for the. year ending last December have not
been made public. There is much talk at
present of what became of approximately
$18,000 of county funds. Wc have no hesitancy
in saying .that, in our opinion this apparent
shortage is not real. In all probability there
has been an error in bookkeeping. If so the
tax payers would like to have, some definite
information along this line. But so long as
the . county expenditures arc kept .secret, from
the people most anything, is likely to happen.
The ''present board of commissioners claim that
it is not their business to publish the expendi
tures of the former board. It should be re
membered that one member of the present
board was also a member of the former board
and in justice to this man the expenditures
of last year shoukl .be made public. If 'a,
county can ignore the laws of the state, there
is no reason why all citizens of 'such county
can not 1o the same. The tax payers have
a, right to know how their money is spent
and when this information is denied them it
is high time that steps be taken to compel
obedience to the law. "On the first of August
the lands of hundreds of men in Macon county
" will be advertised for taxes. ' It "is nothing'
more or less. than, an outrage to sell a man's
land for taxes when he is not permitted 'to
know where, how and when his tax rnoiuy
is spent. . - ' ' .
A SIX-COUNTY PAY ROLL
The Observer had made suggestion that if
Secretary Mellon's "vacation tour" . in North
Carolina should result in a' still larger invest
ment by Mellon and interests, it would be all
the better for the State, and advice from Ashe-
vill in yesterday's paper might indicate that he
had come down into the State with that very
idea in mind. It appears that for a couple of
vears Mr. Mellon has had in mind an extension
of his aluminum activities in the State and
that he is now going to convert a section of
the Nantahala Gorge into a great industrial en
terprise, to location of an aluminum plant
against which the Badin investment will appear
quite diminutive. The Nantahala enterprise
calls for construction of three dams, relocation
of railroad tracks and the filling of the gorge
with a lake, the estimated expenditure in gett
ing the plant going being around $15,000,000.
A bit of natural scenery will be destroyed,
for a fact, but there are other gorges up that
wav of more extensive reach than that which
is to be filled with water, and this industrial
development will open up to the people of
Cherokee, Swain, Macon, Clay, Graham and
Tackson counties a pay roll that will make
the mare go. It is about the biggest spreader
of prosperity yet developed for that part of
the State. Charlotte Observer.
A Rccocvclt Again Hits Hard
The Dairy Industry
UNDOUBTEDLY the greatest single asset
to the Macon county farmers is the
creamery owned and operated by Bert Slagle.
During the past twelve months the , creamery
paid out around $75,000 "for butter fat. The
timber products of this county .are fast dis
appearing. Hence, the farmers are finding
it necessary to turn to other sources for a
cash income. Of course nothing we can say
will persuade any man to enter the dairy
Cnsiness. Hewever, conditions will force many
HALLENGIXG the "inefficiency" and
"backwardness"- of .county and. ' township
government,. Governed ' Franklin' I). 'R osevelt
declared in an .-adP&Aon July fourth that
hundreds of thousands7 of . dollars; Could be
' save the. State of New;, York every year by
reorganization of these branches. .
- One of the interesting features .of the Gover
nor's (( address was the applause which inter
rupted it. Although speaking in a rural com
munity, the governor clearly had with him the
sentiment of the 2000 people of the country
side who had turned out for the Occasion.
, The hope of reduced taxes had eliminated
whatever resentment might otherwise have
resulted from local "pride."
What the governor had to say about New
York is true to a large degree of county and
township government in North Carolina. It
is downright inefficient, and every- intelligent
public official will admit it. These men are
for the most part doing their jobs-just as
well as they, know how ! We have no criti
cism of them. ' They are not responsible for
the decentralized organisation that is pro-
FORWARD! BUT HOLD THE COURSE
It is not by accident that the United States
today enjoys the most widely distributed pros
perity that any country has ever enjoyed in
the world's history.
' Our prosperity is the result of a novel and
truly American political and industrial philos
ophya great human principle that can be
put into five words: Individual Reward for
Individual Merit. . - '
Here in America we have said to our boys
and girls: "You can. go to the very top in
any line of endeavor. The sky's the limit.
Your destiny lies not in your birth or heritage.
Your destiny is in your own hands."
This philosophy is now threatened. Grave
and reverend Senators, themselves reaping
the rewards of this political philosophy,, point
another way for industry. Politics can-do a
better job they say; politics can offer more
to our boys and girls in government operation
of business. -
Politics should run a merchant ' marine pol
itics should make and sell electric light and
power, and fertilitcr, and the farmer's grain.
It is time that we fixed in our minds the
metes and bounds of government. What is
the true province of government? What can
government do, and what should government
do?
The evil of government operation of business
lies not so much i money waste. . We are
rich and can afford that.. The wickedness
of. government "operation is that it deprives
the .individual of the .opportunity to hazard
his energy and "ability and to reap the
reward if successful. ( that policy has brought'
us our prosperity none other.
' Detour? ... Down 'an unpaved road, without
guide posts, with no certain destination?
Rather, FORWARD! -Holding to the 140-
year course wc have come individual reward
"for individual merit, with government cast in
the role of umpire, guaranteeing a fair course
and no favors MERLE THORPE, Editor,
"Nation's Business."
FEATHERED FINANCE
During the four weeks ending May 25 this
year, cooperative poultry shipments were made
from 36 of the 46 counties in South Carolina
and 14 of the two counties made two ship
ments. It is expected that not less than 200
carloads will, be shipped this year, bringing
the farmers at least $1,000,000.
That Georgia farmers are doing something
besides killing grass is evidenced by the fact
that cooperative sales of poultry in May
amounted to 49 cars that soJdfor $162,441.17
an increase of 200 percent , Oyer last year.
Cooperative sales of poultry during April in
23 Northeast Georgia counties brought $72,555.-
88.
From December 1927, to. May, 1928, the Se
quatchie Valley, Tennessee shipped out 284,668
pounds of live poultry in carloads that brought
$60,679.49. Southeastern Tennessee ships a
full trainload of poultry to the Eastern markets
every week.
Cullman county, Alabama, 'iarmcrs have a
perfect right to adopt some such slogan as
"Cullman County Converts Chickens, Cow
and Cotton into Cash." Ticy sold close to
a million dollars' worth of poultry and eggs
loct vear ranked third among Alabama counties
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in cotton production and supplied the local'
rrpamerv with $41,000 worth of cream. L. Jv.
Patrick, of McKenzie county, Alabama, says
hU poultry oavs better than cotton or corn.
Hp made $510 wrofit last year from 200 hens.
Union county. North Carolina, farmers una
hens more profitable than banking. Their
fVi ran an avpraPP. $2 a head. They v
I1CU3 die WUl l" c.. v. . . o-i -r
laid an averace of 216 eggs last year which
cnld for an average of a fraction of a cent
abnvp 30 cents oer dozen. Labor, board and
lodging averaged $2.35 per hen, leaving
clear profit per hen, wnth the hen reaay ior
another year's work.
Money and Turkey Talk the Same Language
Hilary McEntyre of Gordon county, beorgia,
is paying. his way through college by growing
tnrWpvs. . He Droved that there are no in-
crmniintable difficulties m the way ot raising
turkeys by growing 300 year before last and
8nn 1act vpar.
Alahama turkey growers sold . carioaas
fnr thP Thanksgiving and Christmas trade last
vpar for which they received $105,000. An
Aiken county, S. C, farmer raised 487 turkeys
loct Vpar on which his net profit was i54.i.
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t tu wMi whn hves near iNasnvuic,
i,i ctartPd a few vears ago with a setting,-;
irh she raised seven
Ul luinv; 'BO" .
... -.a 11 . 1 1 . r
hens and some gobblers. She soia me ioiu
fnr Pnnugh to supply her. kitchen witn an
the utensils except the stove, lhe. next year
cho iparprl pnough to paint the house, inis
v- o - . .
year she expects her turkeys to net her $i
fi- parti Hav in the vear.
Fmm a breeding pen of 22 hens and L toms,
rr Walter Kenney. of Bourbon county, Ky,
' - w . ,
im Tr.-vf.4-he vniitiir mms sne
raised oou iuiR.cy. x w j o
ro.pivpd $10 each and for the young hens
$7 each. Experienced turkey raisers say it is
nnt n,,c,ia1 to raise $400 worth trom tour nens.
Some of them-raise as much as $60U wortn
from four hens.
Hoe Hands and Feather Pillowt
We have never heard of but one goose that
crnMpn ecss but i lot of Southern tarmers
say their geese are pretty nearly worth their
weight in gold. They find them hardy tnriny,
Hp to raise. No other tarm
fowl or animal asks so little.
E. L. Hncy, of Crisp county, Georgia thinks
there is more money in geese than in any
other form of livestock. According to his
experience, fifty geese will keep. 50 acres A
of cotton free of crab-grass, which means a
saving of $40 for hoe ' hands. He says he
picks' at least 25 pounds of feathers from the
fifty geese and gets $1 a pound for them.
From the 50 geese he" counts en raising at least
15, to sell at $1.25 each. .
The goose population of Van Zandt county,
Texas, has doubled in the past three years and
the demand exceeds the supply. One farm
,.n-rr ovs he has toOO geese and would
like to 'have as many more. The geese are
use 1 to keep down grass in the cotton fields
and to kill Johnson and Bermuda grass. They
save labor bills and pay extra dividends in
young stock and feathers.
(Vovcrnor Dan Moody passed through tlv
county one ' day when, 'it was raining and
saw the geese at work in the fields. He
remarked that they were the only farm hand,-
he knew of that would work in the rain.
In Eastern North Carolina geese keep down
grass in the strawberry fields. Mr. A. C.
McGoogan, of Robeson county, N. C, says
there is nothing equal to a flock ot geese tor
keeping grass out of a sweet potato patch.
During the five years that he has been keep
ing geese, Mr. R. G. McCarty, "of . Smith
countv, Mississippi, hasn't used a hoe in his
cotton ' except to thin or chop it. The geese
take care of the grass- for him..
Guineas, Ducks and Pea-Fowls
Guineas are considered quite a delicacy
nowadays and have been bringing good prices
for several years. People who know say that
if you go at it in the right way, guineas are
no harder to raise than other fowls. There
is room to spare on every Southern farm for.
.a small flock of them. . v . . . ,
t..-i. o ot' tn hntrb-as chickens and
JJUCKS ell I M vcijjt
pre easier and more cheaply raised. They
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qrow faster than chickens and some are iuuy
matured by the time they are ten weeks old.
Some , breeds will begin laying when they are
four months old, and nearly every, variety
starts laying whem five or six months . old.
Duck eggs are as nutritious and healthful as
hen eggs. The price of duck 6ggs varies very;
little throughout the year and as a rule is
highest when the ducks are laying the most.
H. A. Clarke of Bedford county, Tennessee,
bpaiitifies his farm and adds to his revenue
j by raising peafowls. Says he used to eat
one every now and then before he tound out
what they were worth and at there is
nothing to compare with the white, tender
meat of pea-fowls. Ht gets his own price
for all that he, can raise.