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PAG c ro'.,Ti THE FRANKLIN PRESS, FRANKLIN, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1333 The Franklin Press PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY LYLES HARRIS Ed;-or MRS. F. M. TESS1ER ....Ad. Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) One Year ' -Vf Nine Months I-50 Six Months LUU Single Copies ; ,C5 ADVERTISING RATES Very reasonable, and will be made known tipon request. Legal advertisements, communications of a personal character will adways be charged 'for as advertisements, and so marked. : Obituary Notices, Cards of Thanks, and Trib utes of Respect, either by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, charged for as for advertisments. Cash must accom pany manuscript, and all such' notices will be marked "adv." in conformity with the Postal Requirements. . Entered at the post office at Franklin, N. C, for transmission through the mails as second class matter. Let's Co-operate IN THE past several years Franklin, by knocking instead of boosting, has lost sev eral opportunities to better the community. On the front page of this issue will be found a news article telling of the organization of a hunting club to be located on Buck creek on the line between Macon and Clay counties.. The management of the club asks the moral support of the community in putting this prop osition across in a successful way. Informa tion that we have received concerning this matter leads us to believe that success will attend the efforts of the promoters. When the hunting club is a going concern hundreds of men and women who have never heard of Franklin and the Nantahala mountains will florV i in -tliK romtniinity A- -rertain - percent ile cost of production of each, article that is produced on the farm has to be credited the proportionate amount for house rent, fuel, board and all the other" things that the farm er gets by the mere fact that he is living on his plant. Another thing that has to be credited to the cost 'of production is the idle time that a' farmer indulges in at different and very frequent times thruout the year. And there is the rub. Were a cost accountant to charge to each crop its proportionate share of the time wast ed we will not mention the other innumer able wastes that occur all along he would find that the lowest living rate (this for time idled only) of pay, this time would come to more than time put in at actual work on the crop itself; Thus we see that Mr. Average Farmer is living in a mighty flimsy glass house when he hollers about the way he is being 'treated. Until he himself faces the fact of his own remediable shortcomings and sets hirri--self about to apply the remedy, there is real ly not much sense in his being set up, or setting himself up, as the matryr of our eco nomic system. Thus the time honored custom prevails in farming as in all other vocations, viz., if the one concerned would have his house in order, he may as well make up his mind to do it himself. . Others' Comments OVERCOME THE DROUTH . . THIS section has experienced something of a drouth this year thas has done some damage to early crops. In the main, crops will be good and the damage will be repaired by the abundant rains that have fallen in the past week. Let the farmers look well' to-the late bean crop, fall gardens, and small grain crops and winter cover crops for making early feed for next spring. Don't neglect the small grain and feed crops such as wheat, rye, oats and cover crops which are harvested as early hay in spring. We can qquickly overcome what ever damage that has been done by quick, intelligent and effective work. There is yet time to grow a., late., bean, crop . and,, possibly- Jatr ' ciate in value and become unsalable. If soil for cost the merchant has profited. With the cost money .back, the merchant is better off than to have the goods stored in his plate of business. The progressive merchant believes in keeping his stock ncwand up-to-date in styles. Athens Banner. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY HARD TIMES? WHENEVER I hear my younger com petitors among the farm-goods dealers complaining about "hard times" I get a good laugh. All this talk among the farmers about . the "farm problem" makes me chuckle to my self. An old fellow like me is supposed to have a sort of time-worn or God-given right to lament over "the good old days." That is not my style. My memory. is too good. Since the early eighties I have been a .country merchant. , All my life I have lived in the farming country of the upper Shenan doah Valley of Virginia. ' I have seen a lot of changes. The great Gladstone once said, "I am an old man and I have seen many 1 changes; and most of them for the best." There is a lot of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth this summer about the plight of the farmer and the hard times of the coun try merchant. 1 -think it would be a good thing for some of the farm and garden sup plies dealer! to know what those famous "good old times" we hear praised up so high and fine were really like. A' smart young farmer who inherited his farm several years ago was in here the other day complaining as to how he could not afford to own a second automobile and telling me that they were just about as necessary out where he lives as a good spring on a farm.. And economical, too, because it would save wear and tear on the big car. His granddaddy farming on the same place, could not afford two horses. - Thirty years ago, the fertilizer companies used to count as AAA1 credit the farmers who were prosperous enough to own a surrey and a span of horses to come to church Sundays. Aside from that fact that they don't come Mo church so often as tr the movies, the good We arc the ones who make good business or bad; fine, times or 'poor. And when I hear these sorrowful complaints about bad times I just remember how much more bad they used to be. They are so much better now, that I wonder how, grand and glorious they are going to be in the fu ture. I reckon our grandchildren' will be all hot and bothered about not being able to own three airplanes. Robert C. Agnor, in Farm & Garden Supplies. WASHINGTON LETTER By FRED HOLMES, Washington Corre spandent of The Franklin Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. The ladies are again monopolizing the center of the stage. The usual summer lull , in Washington's social activities has completely obliterated the Dolly Gann-Alice Longworth tilt on precedence but it fell far short of taking. Princess Alice out of. the spot-light. , . , Even the intense, heat failed to keep Wash ington from interesting itself over the mak ings of a political controversy between Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson, the new editor-in-chief of the Washington Herald, a Hearst publication, and the wife of the Speaker of the House. Prior to Mrs. Patterson's incum bency it was announced by a reporter on the Herald staff that Mrs. Longworth would take an active part in .Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor mick's campaign for the Senate in Illinois. The new editor, as one of. her first editorial efforts and over her own signature, character-; ized the "news" that, Mrs. Longworth would campaign publicly as well as privately vfor Mrs. McCormick as "interesting but not true," ana men proceeded to acta tnat Mrs. mc Cormick "takes no advice, political or other wise" fftm Mrs. Longworth, who "gives no interviews," "cannot utter in public," and whose assistance to her lifelong friend "will, therefore, -resolve itself, as usual, into posing for photographs." Mutual friends of both Mrs. Longworth and Mrs. McCormick expressed amusement over Mrs. Patterson's "statement," and assert ed tnat Mrs. Lonpworin nan; nor-iH-iwiPiitMr: stav in the mountains will remain to become permanent citzens and will invest in Macon county. Hence, it behooves, us all to lay no stumbling block in the way of the Nantahala Club, Inc. . Using Our Economical Facilities EVERYDAY the editor of The Press is asked, "Do you know where I can sell so and so or where I can buy so and so?" These questions are usually thrown at him as he goes to meats )r to the post office, in fact whenever he passes along the streets. Now, he appreciates the' veiled compliment given him that- he knows every thing, or is supposed to, from where the old gray hen is setting to where thev bestuvrealsurenufkornlikker can be secured or disposed of., One man only yesterday said, "Do you know, here I can, sell a cow? I have been all. over this county and nobody wants a cow." That great amount of traveling must have cost him a pretty penny in time and fuel. Not once had he thought that for twenty five cents he could have told 6,000 people of this county that he had a cow for sale. The same applies to the man that has a tool or implement he wishes to exchange for another, or to sell. He c;ui find liis wants by using the want ads in The Press. The same applies if he wants to buy something. We hear a lot of talk about keeping money at home. It almost becomes a joke when we look into the methods used to accomplish this. WThy do two things seem useless? One is to buy something away from home, and the other is to take so much time trying to find the thing that we want to buy or swap for or sell when for twenty-five cents worth of want-ad space in The Press we can tell 6,000 people about it? r. It's an economical investment to use .your local newspaper for advertising. The want ads bring results. For your own sake, try them. Farm Prices WE HEAR much talk more or less based oh common sense and sound reasoning about the low prices paid farmers for their' produce. Now,, its good political thunder and a mighty ' appealing topic of the professional arid semi-professional spellbipdcr with which to get the attention of his audience' especial ly if this audience hSppens to be farmers. And most any audience is either from off the farm directly or the farm is still on them. But let's look at this thing thru the eyes of cold bare facts. What is the , cost of pro duction? We hear that the crops are not bringing1 the cost of production. That's a large statement; ior no one knows the cost of production. And that is a good thing. . If farmers kept cost accounts half of them would quit farming and then the rest of us who have to buy our food would come , near starv ing to death, owing to the prevailing inef ficiency in production. That brings up the question of the farmers' methods. First,' against J I' J ir trra ciaih" ty. The larger number of crops planted, the more successful we will be as farmers. Mr. E. J. Wells, of Forest Park, Clayton . county, Georgia, made $2,213.30 profit on his farm of 117 acres in 1929. The first; thing he did was to work. The next was to have eight differ ent things from which to get his products for the market. The third and last thing he did was to work and put business into his farming. Tri-County Advertiser. GOING AFTER BUSINESS THE MERCHANT who advertises, during the dull months of the year creates . a business that otherwise would be lost. That much has been demonstrated by merchants in. the small cities of the country as well as in the trade centers. A leading department ' store in one, of the larger, cities of the country used the heading for one of its advertisements which read: 'Business Is Good, If You Go After It." The advertisement attracted atten tion and the sale proved a success. The buy ing public can always ' be depended upon to take advantage of special- prices offered on staple merchandise. In commenting on ad vertising during the dull months of the year, The Christian Science Monitor, presents its views in the following: "Despite any threat of a mid-summer slump in retail merchandising, a large department store " advertises a clearance sale under the slogan, "Business Is Good, If You Go After , It." The proprietor, makes the point that the adventure of living moves merrily forward, the old automobiles are being exchanged for new ones, that the call of changing fashions" is still obeyed, and that there . is no let up in demand for a vast variety of articles which add to the measure of personal enjoyments. , "Tn's hopeful vand far-sighted advertiser sounds a greatly " needed note of confidence vand enterprise to offset the clamor of the ravens' chorus whose principal refrain seems to be that of widespread economic distress. It niay require more resourcefulness and grit to sell some kinds of goods today, especially the higher priced luxuries, but markets are to be found by dilligent effort, and-purchasers stand ready to buy what they need. To put up the store shutters, dismiss half of the clerks and submit supinely tocoridition of sluggishness which in the majority of instances need not exist, is to block effectually the steady flow of trade. "Confidence in the essential stability of business and courage to act from this stand point are powerful aids in offsetting much ap parent lethargy and stagnation. Intelligent advertising and genuine initiative are powerful collaborators in dispelling the 'bogey of de pression and re-establishing normal conditions of trade," Special sales judiciously advertised during off seasons of the year is one of the best invest ments merchants can make. .There is in all stores merchandise left over from season to' season that if allowed to remain in the ' show eases and on the shelves, is bound to deprf- (counting radios and iceless iceboxes and what not) than their fathers had on the whole farm. Just this morning one of these poor, problem-stricken agriculturists down the valley a spell was in here complaining that he would have to have a new binder and crying all over the place about the old one having worn out so quickly. And he had owned that binder and used it for ihirly-one years," during which time he admitted he had owned twenty-eight different motor cars, They didn't have truck bodies either. And you can guess pretty easily whether he took, better care of his binder or his flock of automobiles. When I first went into business I was run ning a country store and a farm both at once. In those days running a farm was a real man's-sized -job. ' Wheat was my crop. It was just about the only cash crop in the Valley, if you bar out rye, which was change able on the basis of a bushel for a gallon at any one of the sixty odd whiskey distilleries between here - and Winchester. Wheat was then worth fifty cents a bushel. I used to plant my crop by hand, cut it with a cradle, thresh it with1 a horse machine. A hundred bushels was a great big day's work at harvest, and they clean up six hundred to a thousand bushels today by machinery, not muscle. I used to get the local cooper to make me up some barrels, and I would haulM my grain to the mill eight miles away, to have it ground into flour, haul the barrels back. And what did I get for it? Just two dollars and a half a barrelr barrels returnable, and all sold. on long-term credit! Think that over, some of you younger fel lows in this farm supply business. It will go a long way towards curing you of thinking times are so bad. In those days corn brought the farmer thirty cents, and .most of it was made into whiskey. Ordinary cattle was worth two and a half ' cents and fine, first grade 14001b. steers would bring such a big price as four cents for export to England. If you think those prices are low, they were even lower still further back. I remember my grandmother saying that in her day a fine wether would bring as much as a quarter for the whole sheep alive and that you could not give away milk, eggs, butter, or chickens. To day the farmer gets more for an old hen. than his grandfather could get for a sheep. There are thousands and thousands . of 1 dollars that come into this section of the country from the shipment of those very farm products that two or three generations ago could not be given away. , Once a man makes a success of himself and starts living high and free he forgets the strug gle; of his youth, and we are all more or less like that. But we must have our . excuse, if we run into a couple of stumps in the furrow. So, we have got the habit of . blaming the government, and passing laws to make us all , rich again. Republicans ur Democrats have mighty little to do with it all It is not Uncle Sim; but we, Us & Company; we, the people of the United States as the Constitution says. Cormick. The news story, published as a rumor, was denied by Mrs. Longworth, al though she did say that her interest in her friend's political fortunes probably would move her to go again to Illinois and join in the pre-election councils. The friendship between the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and the daughter of Mark Hanna, which is said not to include Mrs. Patterson, began when Alice Roosevelt was a . White House debutant and Ruth Hanna was serving as secretary to her father, then Senator, and -often as his hostess at Sunday morning pancake breakfasts during the Mc Kinley administration. Inasmuch as Mrs. Longworth has been, in the news for twenty-five years, of course she has paid the penalty in photographs and is regarded by the newspapers as a good and cheerful subject. Her friends declare that if her photograph could help Airs. McCormick she would gladly consent to pose. They also declare that while Mrs. Longworth has never, given an interview nor even made a speech on any subject, it is not true that she cannot "utter in public." Letters HARBISON WRITES LETTER Highlands, N. C, Aug. 11, 1930. Editor Franklin Press: Many thanks for your timely and pertinent editorial on Highlands taxes. I wish also to thari our county board and county attorney for the kind and courteous treatment they gave to' three of us who appeared before them to explain why at this time the assessment of the Highlands Estates nronertv shoald not be raised above the amount handed in by the Highlands township list-taker. I have no doubt that the person or persons who made complaint to the board were sincere and meant well. He or they simply did not understand the situation ancl did not realize the harm that could be done at .this critical period of the development of our section of Macon county. Lest some of your readers get the idea that r ,. ividi assessment oi ail me property purchased by the Highlands Estate I will add that there is much additional. Every one of the numerous cottages nestling among the trees on property that was lately aban doned farms is valued at $3,000 additional to the $27,700, and every lot sold is valued at $1,000 additional. The present assessment is awui icn uui(,a wuai ii was oerore Scott Hudson gave a ymidas touch to Buttermilk Level, and if not? discouraged or thwarted in his plans, that Section will be a golden egg laying goose. ;tet us hope bad boys do" not kill this gosling. What Macon county, needs js more development and less devilment. We need more people who are so busy attending to their own business that' they have no time to attend to jot hex people's business. IV G, HARBISON.
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