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Starting to School
GOLDEN shadows of adventure lie ahead
...babyhod passes into memory.. .a new
recruit in the . great army of life, holding his
mother's hand, 'salutes with singing heart the
trumpet call of his first serious march towards
manhood.
Sad at the thought of sharing his affection
and interests with others, happy in the dream
of his classroom glories which will lead him
on up to the summit of manhood's success, the
mother of this little fellow leads him to the
threshold of a new and challenging career. In
frames of sunshine, she pictures him already
through Grammar school, high school valedic
torian, college honor graduate!
But the little fellow's career and . education
mv. -not, unfold in - the path of -his i mother's
school busses when they are taking on or
discharging passengers. There is such a law.
And, greatly unlike' many laws, this law is
strictly enforced. Many cases have come to
trial in many parts of the state and every one
lias been severely dealt with.
Capper Medals to Two Best Girl
Canners in Country
SPECIAL awards by Senator Arthur Cap
per, of silver and bronze medals to the
two club girls who enter Macon county's
best jars of home canned fruits, vegetables
and meats in, the National". Canning contest
at Shenandoah, Iowa, is announced in a mes
sage to The Press from Shenandoah, Iowa,
where the contest is being held under the
auspices of the Household Science institute.
Senator Capper, long a friend vof the 4-H
clubs and a member of the national committee
on Boys' and Girls' Club work, in making the
awards said that he hoped these awards would
serve to encourage home canning work among
farm girls and that they would prove of value
to 4-H club leaders and extension workers in
furthering this work.
The Capper medals are in addition to the
list of 47Q prizes totaling $4,250 in cash, loving
cups and ribbons which will be distributed to
the winners in the contest. The grand sweep
stakes award of the contest carries with it a
cash prize of six hundred dollars.
The contest is open to every Woman and
girl. There are no restrictions as to the, na
ture of the' food sent. Contestants may nter
the fruit; vegetable or meat division, any two
of these divisions, or all three. Entries should
be sent immediately upon canning. These will
be kept on exhibition at She randoah till the
closing of the contest on Octooer 1.
The list of contest judges includes five of
America's outstanding home economic experts
and nutrition authorities, headed by Dr. Louise
Stanley, chief of the bureau of home economics,
JU. S. Department of Agriculture. That the
judging may be thoroughly impartial and the
display of jars absolutely uniform, contestants
are required Jo send their entries in standard
glass jars of the quart size. A sample Ball
Mason jar and carton, together with prize en
try Jabels and full information, for entering
our over-zealous Democrats against the purest
of patriots, the Republicans, and that there is
little or nothing in it.
Reports now indicate that all the colleges
will be full to overflowing. Some of our
State colleges have waiting lists and all. "ex
pect the biggest enrollment in history."
All, of which means that football is safe
and that the chief aim and object of the
human race is not to be dwarfed by the un
important matters of life, such as making a
living, dodging the sheriff, paying taxes, and
hoping for the best in spite of the fact that
most of us see through a glass darkly in such
matters.
College presidents and faculties are to be
congratulated on the magnificent success which
they have made out of their institutions.
They manifest a spirit of progress and up-to-dateness
which is. highly to be commended.
The old theories as to the object of college!
are now thoroughly discredited and flavevbeen
relegated to the scrap heap, in the highly
original words of the sports writers the really
worthwhile literatti of the day. Greenwood
(S. C.) Index-Journal.
COMPARING SOUTHERN SCHOOLS
NORTH' Carolina's rating of eighth among
sixteen southern states as to public educa
tion emphasizes anew that the school program
should not be curtailed at this time.
. This ranking, however, may not be taken as
an infallible indication of . the state's standing
Other considerations besides the five items
on which this classification is based might re
sult in a different rating. "The items are: (1)
percentage of enrollment in average daily at
tendance (2) length of term; (3) average
salaries of instructors and supervisors; (4)
percentage of total enrollment in high school;
(5) average value of school property per
pupil.
To these points any educator could add oth
ers that relate vitally to the efficiency and
completeness of public instruction. Qualifica
tions of the teachers ; the number and per
centage of one-teacher schools; and the per
centage of pupils promoted from each grade
are examples of other factors.
Many of the shortcomings . of school sys
tems in the South date U the post-Civil war
period-. This may exiduiu partly . why such
Of the 4,000,500 boys and'girls who will enter
the first grade of public schools this year, only
2,700,000 will finish Grammar school. Less than
1,050,000 of these will graduate from high
school. Approximately 150,000 of this number
will achieve college or university degrees. In
other words, our little fellow has less than 4
chances in 100 of going all the way.
By the overwhelming ratio of 1 tQ 25 the
odds are against the little fellow attaining
the heights of his mother's dram. That's the
record , of the millions that have gone before.
And there is nothing transpired to make us
have any. hope that- it will be any different
with these, that are coming on now.
In the light of these incontrovertable facts,
there is indicated a duty to parents and to
all others that come in contact with the on
coming citizens to look well toward giving
these little ones every advantage. Theit are
many ways that this may be done. Take this
picture and look at it well. Here is a .little
fellow, just bubbling with' joy and excitement
and importance, over his frst day at school.
He just gotto get home to mummy and tell
her so quick. He rides flie bus from his home
to the sclfool. What a big fine thing it is
to do that. He must tell mummy what a fine
thing it would be to drive a school bus. And
the teachers, and the big rooms in thc"school
and all the seats' and all the other children.
He' must, tell daddy all about it just as
soon as he can possibly get home. He gets
on the bus andvafter an hour or so the man
driving the bus just doesn't care a rap. Looks
like it is so slow. But after a long, long time
the bus stops in front of the house.
There is mummy. There's little sister. Oh.
the little fellow must run and tell them quick
about all the great and wonderful things about
the school and everything. Off he jumps and
starts' to run toward the house. But it's only,
a start A car coming from the opposite
directon, catches the little fellow and his little
soul is on its way to eternity an-' a mass of
crushed and bruised and bloody matter that
was just this minute 1 so happy and cherry
and bright is gathered up and taken to his
mother's house. Tomorrow there will be a
new little mound r.f fresh -'red 'earth in some
lonely grave yard and that story is over.
Just by the barest chance, there was no
deaths to report on the Georgia ro;id the first
day a Franklin school bus ran. A citizen of
Franklin, who by the way has had so few
mishaps, and these only minor ones, was com
ing home when he parsed a school bus that
was letting off passengers. He unthoughted
ly drove on past the' bus. As he passed a
school girl came out from behind the bus. She
jumped just in time. But in jumping she
tripped and fell and was very badly bruised.
The car did not strike her because the driver
was watching his business and managed to
swerve to one side. There are hundreds of ,
others that, like the man referred to, do not
know that there is a law providing for the
safety of school children getting ojii pr off
busses. '
It may not be generally known that there is
a. state law requiring motorists to stop for
'Any preferred method, of canjtiing may be
used although it has been found that the hot
pack method . together with the use of a
pressure cooker forT the sterilizing is best,
especially for non-acid vegetabUs, states Grace
Viall Gray, nationally known tanning expert,
who is secretary of the contest. This method
of canning is recommended by the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture because it saves time
and fuel and assures sterility, whle preserving
the natural flavor, color, and texture, of the
canned article.
Thinking of School
THE SCHOOLS of Franklin have this week
thrown open their doors for the new
school year. This year there will be better
teachers than ever because the old teachers
will be improvedVby anothr year of experience.
Many text-books have been improved, and in
general the coming year should show an ad
vance over the past. While our town may not
have the best schools in the world, they are
so much better than the schools which the:
fathers and mothers and grandfathers and'
grandmothers of the present pupils attend
that we can justly feel pride in the progress
Frankln has made in education.
Why not translate some of this pride into
action? Why not resolve to unite with the
educational , authorities in making 1931 a
bigger and better year than ever? A little
co-operation with the teachers will go a long
way. Stop and think how you, gentle fathers
and patient mothers, have from time to time
been aggravated by the antics of your own
children. Consider that and then decide what
you would do, if you had several dozen more
just like them and had to be responsible for
.them throughout each school day of a school
year. . The path of the teacher is by no means
fringed with roses, and when we consider how
much our teachers do accomplish in spite of
difficulties, we can but wonder.
Let us resolve to co-operate this year with
the teachers of Franklin. Let us resolve to
contribute liberally of our means to the ac
tivities of , the schools; to visit the schools and,
in short, to fully discharge this one of the
most sacred duties incumbent upon him or
her who has a heart felt desire to be a good
citizen.-
Oihef?' Comments
"B0urTranK-ancau wiurirr- oaiu w
of the states which felt more the effects of
that war. Also, the negro has been a greater
problem for educators in the states of the
Confederacy than in those farther north. No
excuses are necessary, however, for North
Carolina. This state's educational progress
in the last decade has attracted favorable at
tention throughout the nation.
Grading on the foregoing five items shows
two outstanding weak points, one, of which
surely could be remedied this year. The
average annual salaries of teachers and su
pervisors totaled only $837; probably that ca"n
be raised only slightly, if at all, until depres
sion has passed. The percentage of enroll
ment in attendance was only 75.5. With
schools just opening for another season, par
ents and school officials should co-operate to
raise that figure aNeast 15 per cent. Asheville
Citizen.
WASHINGTON LETTER
By FRED HOLMES, Washington Corre
spondent of The Franklin Press
FOOTBALL DAYS
'JHIS political business will' have to be. en
dured for a few days yet but soon jt will
be a mere memory a sort of disagreeable
dream and we will be all ready for the really
serious and important business of lift, to wit:
football. '
Forome weeks we have had a little uneasi
ness over the college openings. There have
been persistent rumors of tight money, awful
tight money, hard times, and a slight lull
in the automobile trade, but it.seems to have
been all propaganda on the part of some of
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. Funny what a
whale of a difference just a little, point-of-view
makes. For nstance, if one wants to
belittle anything, it "isn't a drop in the buck
et." But try dropping a lighted match into a
bucket of nitroglycerine.
Among the outstanding political develop
ments of the week is that of the relegation
of acknowledged bosses to the shadows and
the usurpation of their scintillating halos by
subordinates better known to those on the
inside looking out than' to those onthe outside
looking in.
Believe it or not, effect of the new tariff
law, adequacy of farm relief - measures, cause
of . business . depression, alleviation of - drought
distress, curbing food profiteering, wrecking
the water-wagon, complexion of the new tariff
commission, consequences of naval limitations
all consigned to at least temporary oblivion
when one man was found to be a big enough
drop to fill the whole bucket and became the
main issue here in Washington between the
two great parties.
That man was Charles Michelson, for years
a familiar figure in the press gallery of the
National Capitol through long service as cor
respondent of important newspapers, and more
recently head of the publicity department of
the Democratic National Committee. Conten
tions that "Charlie" Michelson ismerely the
mouthpiece of John J. Raskob, chairman of
that committee, and receives a salary of $25, -000
per year for promulgating Democratic doc
trines, did not serve to deter his personal in
jection into the campaign. t
Newspaper correspondents fairly stormed lh
publicity offices of the( National Committee
headquarters to learn what answer Mr. Michel
son had to make to the charges of "misrepre
sentation" brought against his publicity efforts
by John Q. Tilson, Republican floor leader
of the House of Representatives; by Will Ri
Wood, 'chairman of the Republican Congres
sional Campaign Committee, and, finally, in a
nation-wide radio address, by Senator Simson
D. rcss, chairman ot the Republican National
Commirfcc. True, the Ohio Senator did not
name Mr. Michelson, but he stressed ' once
more the alleged "false" statements issued
against the Republican party and President
Hoover from high Democratic official sources
and the sources he had. in mind were not
hard to guess.
Of no little assistance in the thrusting jf
Mr. Michelson into the limelight was another
prophet better known and therefore . more
highly honored ni his own country than across
its borders. By tfiose who know him and his
works Frank Kent is rated among the ablest
and best of political columnists, but unfortu
natelyor fortunately, as you prefer his en
viable reputation is largely confined to the cir
culation area of a prominent Baltimore news
paperthat is, it. was until there appeared in
the current issue of Scribners' Magazine his
arficle subtitled by the publishers "Michelson
Hoover's gadfly."
Not for. many a long day has a tnagazine
article stirred national political quarters so
much as Kent's breezy tale of how Michelson
put life into the Democratic party, within a
few months after the most crushing defeat in
its history, by devising and maintaining a
brand-new type of political publicity. It was
immediately seized upon by Representative
Wood as the disclosure by a Democrat of a
"plot" of John J. Raskob "to bring about a
systematic and malicious misrepresentation" of
President Hoover. '
Mr. Michelson was asked by his interviewers
if it. was true that he was the basic cause of
all the troubles Mr. Hoover may have had in
the line of making himself understood and ap
preciated, and that the statements attributed
to Democratic statesmen released to the press
through him were in fact, as Mr. Kent sug
gested, written by him. On these points Mr.
Michelson declined to be quoted and intimated
that he was so unaccustomed to being a' major
political issue that he was not yet able to
discuss himself with that immodesty which
possibly he would acquire after further ex
perience in public life.
Someone has suggested that there is at
Ipast one- striking difference between Republi
tKelrnborters with swiffTsure and unyielding
justice ; the Republicans reward theirs with
campaign- support and select committee assign
ments apparently in the hope that they won't
bolt again.
- On one hand the , case of Senator Norris,
of Nebraska, is pointed out. If Norris is a
Republican, they say, so is Pat Harrison, of
Missssippi. Mr. Norris was elected to Con
gress in 1902 as a Republican and has been
wearing the Republican badge ever since.
However, he has been insurging ever since his
official advent . at the Capitol and yet he is
now the recognized regular Republican nominee
for the Senate. Furthermore, Senator Fess
the new national rhairman derlarPQ that Mr:
Norris will have the support of the national
organization in the November election.
On the other hand, consider what happened
to Furnifold Simmons in North Carolina and
Tom Heflin in Alabama. Senator Simmons'
refusal to, support Alfred E.1 Smith jwas the
only instance of party irregularity in his long
politcal career, yet the North Carolina voters
returned him to private life by an overwhelm
ing majority. Senator Heflin even found the
door of, the Democratic primary closed againsts
him as punishment for his bolt of the Smith
ticket, and while he may still have a chance
of reelection, runnnig as an independent, that
possibility is considered rather remote.
At that, maybe there is "method in the
madness" of the generals on both, sides.
Trying to follow the gyrations of the. tax
reduction whirlgig is certainly net conducive
to mental relaxation. On general principles
most of us chortle; with glee over a tax cut,
but the process (of first being carried from
uncertainty to hopelessness, then from hope
lessness to elation and finally from elation
back to uncertainty is somewhat exhausting,
v,aine iruin ine ireasury warning mat a de
ficit was amonp- the nnssihilitiee anrl nno n( '
ficit was among the possibilities and one of
such proportions as to blast all hope of tax
reduction next year. This led to a White
House-Treasury conference, and the clouds in
the financial sky were lifted by the announce
ment that prospects were good for continuing
the present one per cent reduction on the
normal ncomeNtax rates voted last year. Then
came calm analysis of the situation swith the
inevitable conclusion that it is impossible; at
least unwise, to -pre'dict( now what will be the
state of the Nation's fi'nances next December.
As neither President Hoover nor Secretary
Alellon is willing to make anv actual promises
at this tme, the political aspect of the situation
is more interesting than economic considera
tions. Ability to reduce taxes, of inability to
reduce taxes is capitalized by both" parties
but, after all, being solely a matter of dollars
and cents, tax reduction depends s upon what
is shown when the books are balanced for
congressonal inspection next December and not
upon who is elected in November.
At that, departmental economy, voluntary
or involuntary, will undoubtedly figure largely
in the final analysis.'