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r?0 COUNTY-WIDE NEWS BRIEFLY BUT THOROUGHLY TOLD ESTABLISHED 1835 OLDEST PAPER WEST OF ASHEVILLE 7 VT v V if" J. .1 VOLUME XLV ? HIDDEN DESPERADOES FIRE ON ROAD CREW PHftTftGRAVIIRFl ryi 10 liL LAiMlLl) Elson Art Exhibit To Be Held In High School Auditorium COMES MARCH 19-20 Beautiful Carbons, Photo gravures and Color Prints To Be Shown Recognizing the educational advan tages to be derived from opportunities to see good art, the P.-T. A. has ar ranged with the Elson Art Publish ing company, Inc., of Belmont, Mass., for an art exhibition of two hundred pictures to be held vin the Franklin High school auditorium, March 19-20. This collection, consisting in large part of carbon photographs, photo gravures, and prints in full color, made directly from the original master-pieces, is. selected by experts and should attract large crowds. No ad mission is to be charged, but the P. T. A. hopes to sell enough prints to pay the expenses of the exhibit. In case the receipts exceed the express charges, they will be used to purchase pictures for the school. The purpose of the exhibition is thus clearly two fold: . - ,-,' j- First. To give people an.1 oppor tunity to see a collection of the world's famous pieces of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Second. To make ; it possible for the school to own a few of these pictures. : Why should this exhibit interest you? Because, throughout the country, people are awakening to the impor tance and value of good art as cre ative of a refining influence and in spiring atmosphere and just so sure ly as people become familiar with the best in art, just so quickly will '.the crude in art be displaced through ap preciation of something better. It is, of course, idle to suppose that one shall become a competent judge of art simply through studying for a time photographs of prints. Appreciation But what can and should be' ob tained is a large .measure of apprecia tion. A work of art which is really great will bear reproduction, and even though this may not possess the pleasure-giving power of the original iru a (Continued on page five) "Passing The Buck" Leading Indoor Game At Washington (By Fred Holmes, Washington Cor respondent of The Frankii Press) Washington, March 12. The favor ite indoor sport at the Capitol this "' -week with many an outdoor over flow contest was "Passing the Buck." To those of our friends who are in terested in sporting activities, no ex plantation of this absorbing game is necessary. To others, it may be ex plained that "passing the buck" is a X game in which the loser, in a jam from which he finds difficulty in ex tricating himself, attempts to camou flage the situation by dodging re sponsibility for conditions. In other words, he yaps : "Yeah, it happened all right, all right; but I didn't do it. . George did it." . Reaching a point where they could no longer belittle the facts, the Sen ate called upon the Hoover Adminis tration to take immediate' Steps to relieve the unemployment situation. The Administration was accused, of at tempting to incite a "red scare" with the idea of "drawing a red herring HEART OF A MOUNTAIN EMPIRE RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT INQUIRIES FROM NEIGHBORING STATES COME I TO SECRETARY OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BAPTISTS EXPECT TO ELECT PASTOR SUNDAY MORNING The Board of Deacons of the Franklin Baptist church, in session at a. call meeting last Monday night, has set next Sunday as the date for electing a new pastor to fill the pulpit. The board will rec ommend Rev. W. E. Abernathy to the church for election. Rev. Abernathy, who has filled the Bap tist pulpit for the last four Sun days, will preach again next Sun day morning. A large attendance is desired for Sunday's services. KU1RE JAKES PHI BETA KAPPA Student From Franklin Is Member of Nat'l Schol astic Fraternity Davidson, N. C .' Mrch 6 Five Davidson college seniors were this week selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic fra ternity; which has a chapter at. David son, and with; the choosing of these - men," the 't)rgamti'ort has completed its selection fort this scholastic ses sion. Seniors honored were . J. L. Brown, Hendef sonville ; Frentis W. Johnston, Jefferson, Ga.; W. B. Mc Guire, Jr., Franklin; W. G. Mc Gavock, Franklin, Tenn., and F. D. Miller, III, Surgoinsville, Tenn. All of these men are prominent in outside activities "at Davidson. Brown is adjutant in. the R. 0. T. C, and a member of Delta Pi Kappa and Sigma Upsilon, honorary journalistic and li terary fraternities, respectively. John ston is captain of both the basketball and tennis teams, a captain in the R. O T.. G, and a 'member of Amicron Delta Kappa, honorary leadeship fra ternity. McGavock is on the student council, assistant editor of the annual and in Sigma Pi Sigma, physics fra ternity. McGuire is president of the senior class, on the student council, R. O. T. C. captain, varsity debater and in Omicron Delta Kappa. Miller is a leader in several fields and is a member of Delta Pi Kappa, Sigma Upsilon and Alpha Phi Epsilon, hon orary journalistic, literary, and foren-.' sic fraternities, respectively. across ' the path of economic depres sion" during the three hours in which the serious unemployment situation held the attention of the Senate. The charge of White House futility in dealing with the problem of unem ployment was replied to when the Ad ministration passed responsibility for distressing conditions now existing back to the Senate, where the charge roriginated. Failure to-pass-the-Tariff .bill, failure to pass the public im provements appropriations and failure to equip fully the Department of Labor with adequate employment and statistical agencies these are the de linquencies to which the Administra tion points in accounting for ' the spread of unemployment during the last four months. Senator La Follette called attention to the fact that when the stock mark et crash" occurred the President of the United States called in the lead ers of busirless and industry in this country. They had conferences -at (Continued on page eight) . INVESTIGATE MACON COUNTY FRANKLIN, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, Mrs. Pearce Asks Operators of Boarding Houses For Information CAMPS ARE WANTED Location; Rates, Altitude In cluded In Informa tion Desired Inquiries from various . points in Florida and South Georgia are begin ning to come to the Franklin Cham ber of Commerce in increasing num bers, asking for hotel rates and ac comodations, availability of furnished cottages in and out of Franklin, and of furnished camps in and near the mountains in this vicinity. There are also many other questions cn various subjects which should be answered ac curately and in detail. In order to be able to answer these inquiries intelligently the' Chamber of Commerce is endeavoring to estab lish an information bureau-' for tour ists in the office of its secretary,, krs. Alvah . Pearce. To do this it will be necessary for the Chamber of Com merce to maintain a list of all hotels and boarding houses in Franklin and vicinity, with their respective rates, accomodations, and a limited number of interesting facts about each. As soon as this data .can be accumulated the Chamber is planning to have, in addition to this Bureau of Informa tion, a hotel and boarding-house di rectory, published and issued in con nection with the attractive new pam phlet which will soon be ready for distributidn. Information Requested All people in Franklin and vicinity who can furnish the secretary with the following information will not only be aiding the Chamber in its effort to establish this phase of its work, which incidentally is one of its most important duties, but will at the same time be forwarding their own. inter ests in accomodating our summer visitors. Mrs. Pearce has issued the follow ing request: "To all owners and operators of hotels, boarding houses and rooming (Continued on page eight), WOOD TO INSPECT CLAYTON DISTRICT OF NAT'L FOREST Supervisor A. A. Wood, of the Nan tahala National forest, left on Monday of this week for a tour of inspection of the Clayton district of the forest in Rabun county, Georgia. Assisting Mr. Wood on the inspection, tour will be John B. Byrne, junior forester. Mr. Wood will return at the end of the week. . While in Clayton, Mr. Byrne will conduct a forestry marketing school for the benefit of rangers and fores try timber marketers of the Clayton district. Taxes Must Be Listed To Avoid Penalties . The county commissioners have an nounced that tax listing starts on lpriLXAjLproperty, real and per sonal, money, credits, investments in bonds, annuities, ahd other things of value must be listed. A heavy penal ty is imposed by law, state the com missioners, on any one failing to list property. V meeting of the Cabinet with President The tax listing date has been chang ed this year from the first Monday in May to the first Monday in April. 10TLA SOCIETY TO MEET The Ladies' Missionary society of the Iotla Baptist church will "meet at Mrs. Charles Shields' home on Friday afternoon at 2 p. m. 1930 MOCK RETURNS; TO FILL PULPIT ON NEXT SUNDAY Rev. R. F. Mock, pastor of the Franklin Methodist church, return ed last Monday from Winston Salem where he has been visiting his sister, "Mrs. T. M. Weisner. He will hold services Sunday in the Methodist church. Mrs. Weis ner and Mrs. J. H. Mock returned to Franklin with Rev. Mock for a visit. Rev. P. N. Pickering will hold the quarterly conference at the local Methodist church Sunday night at 7:30. TRAINING CLASS ISSUE DELAYED Edition To Appear April 10; Ads Are Used This Week Unavoidable circumstances have again delayed the edition of The Press to be brought out by the Teacher Training department .of Franklin High school. The task of getting together the volume of material planned by the students and the" length, of time ne cessary to put it in presentable shape have made advisable setting forward the date of the special issue to April 10. Miss Helen Burch, supervisor of the Teacher Training class, issued the following statement: "The Teacher Training department regrets deeply that it is unable to edit The Press this week. There was so much ma terial that it could not be put in shape to go to press. This material will be used in the near future in a special edition. We would like to express our gratitude to the people who have helped us, and arc helping us gather the required information. "The Press is giving us credit for the advertisements that the students i gathered last week. We appreciate these, too." Students of the Teacher Training department are being paid a commis sion for the ads solicited for this week's edition. They .will not solicit additional advertisements for their edition of Anril 10. This arrange ment, it is -believed, will he satis factory with all advertisers, but if (Continued on page five) NUMBER ELEVEN SHOTS SPLINTER BRIDGETMBEliS Negroes Jump Int6 Ditches To Escape From Bullets OTHERS ENDANGERED Sheriff Finds No Clues As To Identity of Un known Parties Ambushed on the crest of a high, wooded hill over looking the Walnut creek bridge on highway 28, un known desperadoes, or pos sibly a lone desperado, last Tuesday afternoon fired 15 or more shots from a high powered rifle at a crew of Negroes employed by the Rickenbaker Const ruction company for work on cul verts on the seven mile stretch of the highway east of Franklin which is to be surfaced. Bullets came perilously near many of the members of the crew. Leaden balls were embedded in bridge timber, struck points bordering the highway, and endangered white men who. were on the scene. The rpad crew dived into ditches .for safety. " T. .R. McMeekin, superintendent of construction work on the stretch of highway, came to Franklin for Sher iff C. L. Ingram, who, with Deputy Derald Ashe, investigated the affair. No arrests were made, nor informa tion secured that might lead to the identity of the unknown parties or party responsible for the shooting. The Walnut creek bridge is ap proximately seven miles east of Franklin in the direction of High lands. Natives of that vicinity are reported to be disgruntled because the Rickenbaker Construction com pany, of Union, S. C. brought South Carolina Negroes to Macon county to be used as laborers on culvert work instead of employing native labor. This is the motive to which the shooting is attributed. -Messrs. Pennell and Harley, of Spartanburg, were recently awarded the contract for surfacing the portion of highway 28 between Franklin and D. C. McCoy's store at Cneiss. Cul vert construction on the undertaking was sub-contracted to the Ricken baker Construction , company. ,
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