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PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS. FRANKLIN. II. C. THURSDAY, I.OVJ i;. Hie Franklin Pi1 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY DR. CALEB A. RIDLEY - ; -Mtor J. H. CARELOCK. . ..' Managing Ed.tor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) One Year ................ Eight Months :"' Six Months....: Single Copy. per cent; in 'Georgia 85 per cent; in West Virginia 71 per cent; in Tennessee 77 per cent. It would be interesting to speculate on the growth, of the public school system, the decline of male teachers, the universal cry that's being heard throughout Amenca for greater efficiency and stronger chaacter building m and by the schools. Is there any relation between the $1 "50 tw0 . ... -i i i-.or: fViati wnmtn. or 1.00 Do men make Better scnuui i.v.. , .75 do they do better work because they are making it a .OS nmtcinn h? most women who are teaching are just 11 71 Jl vJ J'-' - . A i-L o A holding on "until they get married r Are any ADVERTISING RATES ' ii .:ii u mAo tnmKii iinnn reouest. thincs true? Verv reasonaDie, anu wm uc mav r - a- ' i : u - "T TT3 Can any man or woman do first class work in-the Legal advertisments, commun. y r . room usingJt as a stepping stone to some character will always be charged ,or v q the proession ana iuoim-u. i , 5 something else than menr Obituary Notices, Cards of JJu. . and wbo is brave enough to make an honest effort at Respect, either Dy inaiviuuais, iuu6, Baptist Church News The Baptist Young Peoples Union at Franklin is taking a new life since the days are becoming shorter and darkness comes sooner. Practically all divisions are functioning and . the combined attendance aggregates from about fifty to seventy-five or more. Perhaps special mention should be made of the large attendance and ef ficiency of the intermediate, group under the general direction of Mr. Ernest DeHart. This is mainly., the group which takes the choir platform at the evening preaching services and lead the singing. Last Sunday evening there was not room for all of them on the platform. There has been a tendency in the past among some of the groups to read the quarterly comments on the either by individuals, lodges, enurcne. " f5 tw is no doubt but our tions or societies, charged for as for advertisments. un answering -. - must accompany manuscript, and all suclr notices wll be pubhc schodls are better equipped than ever to io g v independent rUs. A campaign r : uu t Prct1 Rpnmrements. , j cn manv believe and declare, ' . t. . . .... marked adv. in conioramj wu wv worK, anu n " a j k. the cost office at Franklin, N. C, for trans- that they are falling far short of what they once were mission through the mails as second class matter. "If you like this page, tell others; if you dont, tell us. in teaching fundamentals. We are told on all sides that it is no longer necessary for a child to study if it has a good memory. If these things, or any part of them are true, ,1s it in any way related to the decline in men teachers? Who knows anything about it that he. or she will dare tell r Franklin's Whiteway Do Men Want Children? mMF AROVE Question was recently asked and answer- 1 ,l ?n Parent's Magazine. So far as we now recall, we had never before seen the question in print. We WERE approaching the city from the west and -..i. c,nnnCP(1if we supposed anything that of W rparhed the foot of the hill below the Log cnrSC men wanted children. Cabin Filling Station we saw a dozen dazzling light has been waged against this practice, and a noticeable improvement is ev ident. Members are using their own thoughts more and commenting on the lesson topic independent of the print ed discussions as set forth in the quarterly. , . The fourteen young people who oc cupied the choir Sunday evening did credit to themselves and the solo sung by Miss Helen Shephard was very much enjoyed and " should be emulated by others of the junior choir. The B. Y. P. U. is planning to go ourse men wanted chudren. LaDin filling Jr 0i to different churches its the county But now that the. question has been raised let us shedding their soft h uildinc in and helpt0 organize other B. Y..P. , ..:..,.. WANT CHILDREN? - and .outlining" the Deamnui xuemuu, , o . As a matter of fact our American forefathers wanted thedistoce. that we forgot ourself until children. Do their sons and daughters want them? The we reached the court house and stood dazed pioneer wanted children for several reasons; many of m the white light of a perfect white way-the darkness these reasons have long since disappeared. , was gone and we wondered that such a transformation When pur American fathers with bare fists and robust cohaken ce in courage began carving a civilization out of a wilderness Then . children were worth something-at least in promise A ; tomorrow would come", and then other tomorrows, when w ARE BING T0LD that prosperity is just around the son would take his place along side his sire for the 'corncr. We would certainly go after it if we knew either work or battle with the savages. which corner. Then it meant something in the old days to have. QNE us that the legal sale of wine son who We the name of his sire. The old man looked furnish employment for a lot of people; on the young one with fatherly pride and dreamed of a about the number of poor hard-working bootleggers day when the son would be in charge of things and he, it w0Uid throw out of a job? . the worn out sire, would spend his old age in the light .' of the son's love and veneration. He dreamed of length- THE HUNTING SEASON is here and we rise to re- ening out his own life in that of his offspring. mind our fellow sportsmen that during la seasonjve ening out nis own , . , f killed out-right 21 people and seriously wounded 58 more This dream ever lived in vivid colors before the eyes X, 0 the .tate. It is a good time to be of the son. Not only did the father look forward with pleasure to the days when the son's protecting arm v ' would be about his bent form, but the son never torgoi WHT A pITY that some of these people, who are his responsibility and longed for the time when he might clammoring for a five-day week and an eight hour day show appreciation to his sire. , ' couldn't run a weekly newspaper for a few months. We In these "good old days" the law "of God was the law have a thirty hour day, a ten day week, seven weeks of the land, that children should, "honor and obey" their in a month, and then never catchup, parents. They were not to honor them for anything they had done, or for anything they had forgotten to AN EXCHANGE SAYS that a man's fore finger do; they were to be honored and obeyed for no other shorter than the one next to it and that a woman's is reason than that they were parents. And that is enough. longcr e know a number of women whose fore-finger. No matter about the short-comings of those who are Qn Tht hand is ionger than her arm. responsible for your being here; they may have strayed from the straight and narrow path now and then; they . ' ... r.-..iM T,e eavs a .-T be a.. ,he, might have been; bu, ,hey are your MK- ,n n e . - , parents, and you are unworthy of , hem ,f you forget '"J J lessen the number of But there are few parents today who think w.th pleas- count es ot tne siaie ure of facing old age totally dependent on their chil- count, es. 25 f So far we hav not been ab e dren for support. Where is the modern son or daugl, Z ufand seeHne paper, ,er who goes out of h,s or her way to strew rose, m ted 4 ngs we ai, for the referendum, their parent's pathway? 1 3 6 ,Do men of this generation want children? One thing is certain: If they do the reasons are very different GOV. GARDNER is sponsoring the "Buy Now Move from what they were with our fathers. ment." We are in favor of it alright, and know several vWe are told in the . magazines that those mn who others who feel as w do about it, but the fellow we want children today are dominated by a deep desire for wanj t0 buy from is contrary;, he wants us to pay. We lasting fellowship; that parent and child relationship is wonder if the Governor, has any recommendation for the the most stable of all earthly ties. . But who can prove other s;de 0f the question? We don't like to bother the that statement?' Governor but we wish he would take some action against Before his marriage the modern son looks upon his tne fellow who refuses to sell to us until we get the father as a sort of guardianwhose business it is to money. . supply him with means for an education; who holds for I him a sort of allotment to be paid out on demand. And p CURTIS is n0 longer managing editor of The thus he is fitted for life at the old man's expense; but : from our staff iaSt week and is, so what son charges himself up with the amount the Jath- - q back ,fl road as a salesman er spent on him, expecting to return , m KINDNESS J unders a g g . & and LOVE at the farther end of the old man's journey? s L In whatever line he goes he will carry with The Chinese, and the Japanese, and the Italians, and "V ' q editor and tfae boys about the Mexicans all vie with each other when they come Je goo name appears on. our staff to Aemrica to see who can have the largest families; but " p"vce and Mr: Carelock is capable-and con the original American has found out how he can keep m cms ymv. , from having any family at all does he really want scientious. Let thank high heaven that he Mountaineer is still JUST 'A WEE LITTLE SONG in the child business. He turned the tide of battle j knew a s;nger who sang a little song, at King's Mountain with his old squirrel rifle; his sons The song rang truei the notes were clear, and daughters are still here ready for any emergency The people ali ioved the singer dear and long , that may arise. For somehow sorrow hushed its plaint to hear, j , . - Tenderness healed all the hurts of wrong School Teachers Courage breathed a tiny word of cheer, v !T!IRTYyearS ago fifty per cent of the sch,o teach- Forthe singe " 1 ers in North Carolina were men; twenty years ago wn cn rang so y . , i if I its ecnoes eacn nau a luiucu iuubuv : no i mon . ton voirt acm onlv IS tier 118 CLUUt' v " Only &0 per tCUl wcic mm, ivu ,jv' "-j r- and help to organize other B. Y. P. U. Dr. Abernethy, at his Sunday morn-ino- epfvirp used as a text: "Lord I will follow thee," Luke 9:61. The preacher said in part: - The ministry of the Master was closing, yet he calls for followers. The first to vol unteer was a scribe who had been used to every comfort of life, but Jesus stopped him at the gate, say ing; "The son of man hath not where to lay his head. No more was heard of the scribe. He was an emotional Christian and nothing more. Jesus had no time for emotion that ends in sloppy sentiment. A great crowd stands at the judgment bar ask ing admittance ; but Jesus said, "In as much as ye did it not." I never knew you, that is the. end of emo tion, Jesus dying on the cross to save the world. From that cross let us hear his call: "My life, my all I 8ve for thee; what hast thou given for me?", o : ; Everybody in Macon County should read The Press. It is now within the reach of all $1.50 per year! WILLIAM L. McCOY Attorney. At Law FRANKLIN, N. C. Careful Attention Given Legal Matters In All Court of Law and Equity Just Plain Thankful It's a pleasure to sub scribe to the spirit of ' thankfulness that pre vails on this happy day, especially because we are reminded of bur in debtedness to our pa trons who have given us so much to be thank ful for. CITIZENS BANK Broadcasting The Biggest v USED CAR Values! In order to get ready for the trading season on new car models we have slashed our pri ces on all used cars. Name your own price and terms every car is a guaranteed bargain. Joines Motor & Tractor Co., Inc. 2 cent were men. For nine years this percentage stood at fifteen per cent. Last year there was a gain of one per cent for male teachers. These figures, while not accurate and binding on the other states, represent the general drift of things as to r.,Un aro nur srhonl teachers. Thev are women. In Whisnerine dadness all down the years- And Faith was strengthened, hearts were healed And life moved on minus fears. The singer died but his song lives on Still cheering and blessing all who hear, Each time its message we pass on The singer lives and still sings clear, ' V i ....Ly L3-i Your Suit FortHe Holiday If you want to look your best for the holidays wear a suit that is tailored in the latest style from fine all-wool lab rics. We have them and at prices that leave money in your pocket Come today . . . .look over our large selec tion. . .youll find something here you like. ' READY-TO-WEAR for Men, Women, Children Lake Emory Stores, Inc. ANDY REID, Mgr. Xtz-- - :cr- cc"t arc v;c:::cn
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