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THURSDAY, JULY 1, iZl PAGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone No. 21 VOL. XLVI BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year .' $1-50 Eight Months .'. $1.00 Six Months .75 Single Copy 05 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." in compliance with the postal regulations. f The Prest invite it readers to express their opinion through it column and each week it plan to carry Letters to the Editor on it editorial page. This newspaper is independent in its policies nd i glad to print both sides of any question. Letters to the Edi tor should be written legibly on only one side of the paper and should be of reasonable length.- Of course, the editor reserves the right to reject letters which are too long or violate one's better sensibilities. Weekly J5ible He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love . mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8. The Birds of Franklin and Macon A MONG the attractions of Franklin and Macon county that in- "stantly appeal to the visitor . . . after the first amazement of mountain and valley . . . are the number, variety, and. melodious chorus of the Birds. Of course, this section is within in which, perhaps, a larger number found than in any other section, Kensington region near Washington'. But whatever advantage that locality may have is due to the migrant Birds and flit across it, some making their winter flight toward and mating flight toward the forests ada. There must be, of course, many, migrants, birds of passage, in this mountain region of West North Carolina, but most of "them seem to be home Birds, residents And the country-side and town lawns and gardens offer an appealing lure for the Birds. They love a love a country-side - that abounds, and a wonderful bird-table of foods also, of trees, groves, and forests, slopes, up to the umbrageous crowns afford the Birds shelter by day and ment and noon-day repose For siestas. One is almost astounded to hear, edge of garden or grove, the inspiring call of "Bob-White." ...This never fails, in the early morning or Bob-White walks in the garden in told that God himself did in the White is emboldened bv the friendliness of his neighbors, and he frequently visits, in his short sharp of the town; Possibly the sweetest song , that is that of the Thrush the Wood Hermit Thrush may be caught on Bird loves the quiet and 'solitude is heard with memorable frequency of Franklin. The Wood-Thrush is, our notion. His song has phrases us longer than even the "holy-holy" are many Wood -Thrushes, and one any minute, if only one will himself The squawking Jay, though not lows of mid-South Carolina, who arc looking bird. His cries, mostly imitative or stolen from the Hawk, are enlivening as are his presence and other birds. He does a good deal his extinction. The Robin is, of course,-the observed of all Observers, He and his less, brilliant mate are part of every out-of-doors scene. His song is rather monotonous, although it is sparkling and cheery to most auditors An .exceedingly helpful bird to insatiate devourer of hurtful insects without the Robin, would be Denmark without the Pane. The splendid King-bird, Bee-Martin, or Tyrannus-tyranntis, head of his clan, is a superb fighter and and woods. He drives off all bird Hawks. -.''-.- . The Flycatchers, especially I'eto, quent visitors on their aerial foray Peto may be long wutchVd with his victim from the air, and returns observation. The Mocking-bird is rarer here department-store assortment of glorious . chattering, and mimricry is heard many times every favorable day. While he is a greater artist than, a greater virtuoso, than the not so precious as the solitary and Another sweet singer of Israel is must pay rapt attention to catch his from some spray or tree-top or from bush. His song, like that of lute or the bird choristers. '...'.-. Nor should we neglect the "shippings" that give his name to littl Chipping Sparrow, the small-boy chorister, wearing a white band, 'doubt less some order bestowed upon him, The soft cooing of the uxorious the mornings and late afternoons, ment to his brooding mate a sweet, melancholy a song. The Cardinal seems somewhat shy not know why, but we have invariably caught his keen whistle, crack ling like sharp whip-lashes or horns of elf land, faintlv blowing. Why we wonder, is the Cardinal . ... Red . he is so warmly and neighborly south ? He should be heard and his startling loveliness -seen oftencr. 1 And there is, of course, the "nuzzling Xuthatch," uttering his "cheerio" single note,, quickly .repeated." "as if , you thought he never could recapture that first fine careless . rapture." This was said or sung of the "wise Thrush" (by Browning) but we like to apply it to that listened-for second cheer of the little sprite as he clambers, head first, DOWN the dizzy tree-trunk. He is, we believe, the only master acrobat among the birds, that can 'achieve so 'easily this smart trick of running down tree boles as if he were hopping about (h the lawn. Red-Head, the glorious woodpecker so called,' is . a glamorous pageatit in himself, with his black and white -.uniform, and his red crest. His song or cry, the latter a predatory 'ran: ing cry of the eagle or hawk Jet, like the Jay, he has borrowed his slogan from fighting kings of the air is exceedingly, almost extravagantly, exhilaratiiiii. It is a challenge to be up and doing, a summon to battle. There is also an occasional Golden Fh'cker. This is a larger wood pecker than Red-Head, and a more showy fellow, and his similar ranging cry a little louder than his, but he is not so friendly and not "the free and flowing savage" that Red-Head always is. He bears a number of Number EDITOR AND PUBLISHER N. C, as second class matter. Thought the great 'Bird Realm of the South, and wider variety of Birds may be unless' it is slightly excelled by the the Gulf, and others their spring of the northern states ami Can and neighbors for the whole year. grain-growing country. And they as this does, in succulent berries of great variety. The abundance in the town and along all the of Trinioiit and her. sister crests night and leafy places of retire the Birds must have their shaded ringing char and fresh from the in the cool of the afternoon, for the cool of the day, as. we are arbors of Eden. The Franklin Bob forays, the gardens and orchard greets us from the groves -and wood - Thrush. I'ossiblv the note of the the edges of the forests, for this of the deep woods, and no doubt , even from the hills and gardens however, the sweetest singer, t and dulcet harmonies that haunt chant of the Hermit. And there may hear a Thrush note almost be mute and listen and adore. so large or handsome as his fel famous among Jays, is yet a fine brusk busyness n interfering with of injury, but not enough to justify fanners and gardeners; tireless and and cut-worms. The bird kingdom jjuardian of the air, gardens, field - raiders including the Raptorcs, or the Least Flycatcher, are fairly fre and safaris, against winged insects, keen interest as he darts out, plucks to his carefully chosen perch of than he is farther south, but his Wood - Thrush, his whole repretory is matchless song, of the Thrush. the little Song-Sparrow. But one delicious and delicate grace notes the sequestered heart of tree or zither, is the "chamber-music", of over his bright little eyes. (wife loving) Dove is now heard, in as .he murmurs delicious encourage but somewhat too soothing and in this commune of Birds. We do - bird ... so aloof ish here, when friendly in other parts of the warm titles, like a member of the British er, High-Hole (because of, the unusual height at which lie builds his "better 'olc,") and Yellow-hammer, SOUtll. Wc have seen here, also, the alluring Starling fondled and invilid in Europe (Russia is building 2,000,000 ly suspected in this country a strikingly handsome bird, worth his weight in gold just as an adornment to the lawn or the scenery. We have seen, also, a rare visitor, seen, because of the brightness of his uniform and the slender grace of body and plumage. And, of course, Hawks and an Eagle an oc casional raider of the forests crows and blackbirds, and other of the long-settled bird-residents. , If we have omitted any prominent Birds are important, to nature-lovers, farmers, gardeners, or ohardists, ... we trust they will forgive us. There lacks space and time for our praise and fond devotions. But we hope that the human loing so much to help uplift the heavy weight of depression, by their cheery songs and by .their heroic and sect enemies of man and nature, will guard and nourish the Birds, their earth-born companions and fellow mortals. They arc the friends ind helpers and vigilant sentinels and haw their sustenance from Nature. THE FUTURE of the Mountain People By RAY N.MOSES Route 1, Wilson, N. C. Folks who play checkers often notice that persons riot in the game can see many good moves that seem hidden from the eyes of the players. Some times in the game of life those who are not too closely connected with the game can give worthwhile suggestions to those who arc playing. It is for this reason that I venture to make some suggestions about life among the mountains. Most of my life was spent in the mountains; but four years of college study and three terms of teaching outside the mountains have given opportunity to observe conditions there from two viewpoints. People in the lowlands do not have an adequate view of the mountains and the mountain Ticople. Their thinking is too much like thatof my sister Fay's pupils in Wake county who asked if the mountains were as big as Mr. Adam's barn. Outside the moun tains, I am often asked questions like, "Folks up in the mountains make a lot of moonshine liquor, don't they?" Or, "Ain't they a lot of mountain people that, don't know the war between the states is ended?" A splendid dean of women in a splendid college asked me at the dinner table, "What do you folks grow up there except mountaineers and moonshiners " Now, like Moses of old, I am not eloquent ; nevertheless I told her an ear-ful pretty fast. I told her of the . world's finest oriential em erald taken from the Corrundum Hill mine, of the rhodolites from Cowee worth more than all the other gems mined in the state. 1 told her of Sam L. Rogers, di rector of the Census under Wood? row Wilson, of Governor Ammons of Colorado who went from Macon county, of Rev. George W. Truitt, who was one of our mountain pro ducts. ' It is hard to say whether such questions make me full of "righte eous indignation" or just "devilish mad;" but the right answer is not to be found in quarrels and argu ments. Some mountain students are finding the right answer by living among the lowland people in such a beautiful spirit that their lives bespeak a beautiful and elo quent answer. It is true that there are some shadows on the prospects of the mountain people. Many people are trying to farm by methods that do not fit the conditions im posed by nature. Now, no scient ist, business man, or farmer ever made or ever will make, a success without working with nature. For a type of farmer who is not mak ing his farming fit and who will not learn to make his farming fit, there are only two things in the future move out or starve out. The fundamental things to con sider in farming to fit in, the moun tains arc, to keep timber growing, or start it to growing on the really steep slopes; keep enough grass and clover growing on the other land to absolutely prevent the best soil from washing away; The mountains, because pf their Public To the Editor: We have oftimes boasted of bur town Franklin as the most quiet burg among the peaks of Western North Carolina. It has been re marked of her citizens, that if they are farmers they arc so quiet triat they would not even disturb the soil. " , Notwithstanding, a road contrac tor wishing to share in our quietude unloaded and rigged up a steam shovel ready for business during the quietness of the night while! the angels- slept. Thieves came on the scene, drained his gas oline tank of its .contents and also borrowed his tool box containing peerage . . . Flicker, Golden Flick This last principally in the deep feed - houses for him!) but ignorant- the Redstart, never forgotten, once or important Bird, ... and all neighbors of these Birds, that are tremendous onslaught on the in allies of all that must, like them, Stanhope Sams. naturally rich soil and rainy clim ate are especially adapted to grow ing grasses and to the raising of cattle. Also they arc splendidly adapted to the growing of certain fruits and vegetables for the great cotton and tobacco sections just outside the mountains. Now that wc have some, splendid highways we should make the most of them. But if a man is running his busi ness so that he spends more than he makes,- the good roads will only mean that his dollars can roll away from his faster. The mountain people have a greater variety of resources than the people in any other part of the state. They have minerals, water power, and beautiful scenery in abundance unknown to other sections. And when even moder ate prosperity returns to the coun try as a whole and it will come in ' a few years at most the re sources of the mountains will be of greater value than ever be fore. Thousands upon thousands of tourists may be expected to visit our national park, and they will not expect to take back with them all the money that they bring. If a man can buy mountain real estate and has the financial strength to hold it for awhile it ought to be a good investment. But we must not think our only resources are material. There are in the mountains more varied and beautiful scenery, more mountain ranges like billows on a sapphire sea rolling away to the world's end;, more crystal streams beaten into snowy mist as they slide over gray ledges inot mirror-like pools "where the gray trout lies asleep", and where the glories of trilium, azalea, and rhododendron are re flected; more quiet peaks where one can go up among the stars and draw near to the transfigur ing power of the Divine Artist the mountains have more of these and other beauties than all the rest of the state. But these beau- tics will never be valued most by other people either in dollars and cents or esthetically unless we lear nto appreciate them more ourselves and make our apprecia tion real to others. Wc need artists painters to tell the world the glory of our land scapes and flowers, and story tel lers and poets to put into words the romance of our history and the beauties of nature and of the hearts of our mountain people. Because of natural beauties such as called Jesus up into the moun tains to pray, and because there are still mountaineer firesides where ageless principles of right living arc taught by parents who arc willing to bear crosses to make their visions real ; and because there are clear-eyed mountain chil dren ready to respond to such teaching, I believe that, in spite of some shadows in the outlook, tho sun will some day shine brightly t upon the mountains, and that in the brightness ol its light an incrcas i r 1 i . . ' ing number of great leaders will bq given to the world by our mountaineer homes. Opinion his wrenches and other tools valued at nearly $200. and have not re turned them. It has been a common thing tor the past few months that theives have been breaking into stores, gas stations, ec. But only recently a thing hap pened which climaxed everything which has occurred during, thi.s Hoover administration: Actually, a thief invaded the county jail and stole a poor prisoner's clothes. Oh Hoover! Is there no place in- all thy kingdom where one .can rest secure from thieves? Is there no place to be found - where thieves cease to trouble and the wearv be at rest? One j. 1'. By PERCY CROSBY Soc'ta I WorKr (io wo on vdvbse bttfband hdf just - J I I ij administered WacKeye): CXi,UVl!j Jc - , Yxivi itn aors- J J S I I Sense and Nonsense BY CARL GOERCH 'This - is the sad, sad story of Horatio Gurganus, a potato farmer in the Aurora section of Beaufort county. Horatio put in an unusually large acreage in Irish potatoes this spring. When he got ready to dispose of them, the best price at which he could sell them was $1.60 per barrel. He was sorely distressed. Ter ribly so. However, he managed to keep a stiff upper lip, despife the fact that he went into the hole several hundred dollars. Then, one day, he received a telegram that his sister, Malviney Gurganus, who lived in Richmond, was dangerously ill. Hurriedly throwing some articles of yipparcl into a handbag, he caught the first train for the Virginia capital. On the way he got hungry, so he went into the pullman diner and ordered a meal. When he had finished, he called for, his bill. It was presented to him and he glanced at the various items. Slid denly he let out a yell. With one blow he smashed the table and dishes in front of him. Then he went completely wild, and before he could be subdued he had killed three waiters and seriously injured eight passengers. It was all due to one little item on his bill ; Two baked Irish potatoes, 50c. All of the men who have been mentioned as possible candidates for Governor of North Carolina are outstanding in some particular line or other. J, C. B. Ehringhaus in the smil ingest man in the state. His smile is the sort that you can bask in. I never really knew what basking in a' smile meant until I became ac quainted with the Elizabeth City man. I ick Fountain is thq handshak ingest man in the state. He does it unconsciously. The only filing he hates about passing from this with his pall-bearers and the un dertaker. Dennis Brummitt is the most whimsical man in the state. He always has the appearance of chuckling bout something or an other. Heaven knows; there've been plenty, of things in this old states that have merited a good chuckle. during the last. few months. Albert , Cox. is 'the most formally polite man to be found within the boundaries of North Carolina When he bows at folks, they stay bowed for a long time to come. Macey's or Gimbcl's department stores would be glad to pay any price for his services as a floor Walker. There's a shoemaker in Concord, X. CI by the name of Barefoot. Not that there's anything import ant about that, but 1 happened to hear of it a few days ago and it sort of interested me. If you hap pen to know of any similarly un- Editorial Clippings THE DANGER OF WAITING Life can play, foul jokes on peoplcvsome times. In a large middle-western city there was a grocer, who worked very hard and save his money re ligiously' so that his old age would be provided for. For 50 years he stuck to his grocery store. He 'worked and saved too hard to have very much fun, but he was looking forward to the day when he could retire. Then he would have his fun. He would have money and leisure, and he would make up for the years of hard work. Well, he finally retired money in the bank an assured income, a nice home, everything he needed. "Now," he told his friends,' "1 am going to enjoy life." And just 24 hours after he had retired he dropped dead. If a novelist put that in a book, we wouldn't believe it. Wc would say that things don't really hap pen that way, and wc would ac cuse the novelist of" straining too hard for an ironic effect. But life takes queer twists that arc not permitted to good fiction. It all happened, precisely as it is described here ; and all wc can do is to admit that there arc times when wisdom nd prudence arc hor ribly confounded. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing happens fairly often in a little different way. Not many people who have prepared for- a carefree and leisurely old age die just as they begin to taste their reward, of course; but they get cheated out of their dues, just the same. They find that leisure, after a lifetime ; of hard w-orK, is bore dom. They find that they have forgotten how to play. They find that the empty hours are depress- usual ' names in your community, let me have them. . The business depression- still seems to be with us. Here's some thing which came to me with a rather startling degre. of sudden ness the other day ; If I had all the money now; that I've thrown away foolishly (luring the last two years, I wouldn't know anything about hard times, depressions or anything, else of that nature. Funny I'd never figured that out before. Tlie chances are" that the same thing applies to you. iTalking about economic condi tions; there's one thing I've never been able to understand, and that is why the price of eggs vaires to such a great extent. As a general thing there are just as many, eggs laid by hens one summer as there are the next. This time last year, e-;:gs were sell ing at 34 cents! Today they arc 21 cents. Nert summer . they arc liable to be 18 or. 42 cents. I've always been of the opinion that . it necessitated 'just (, as much work on the part of a hen to lay an egg during good times as it does during times of depression. However, never having laid an egg myself, it is possible that I may be mistaken. Back o tho Flats If. ing because they do not know what to do with them. They find themselves feeling that they have been put upon the shelf, and they grow 10 years older in 12 months. Perhaps we arc'nt meant to be too cautious. Deferring one's hap piness to the end, when one will have time and the means to take it, is risky. For most of us that gilded tomorrow will never dawn. .1 f .1 U ...-i 1 ' .1 ii we uon i gei uur nappmcss aiong the way -we. shall never get it at all. - That is a lesson worth learning. The real joy of living is not some thing that can be banked and drawn on at some future date. It has to be taken from day to day. It is compounded usually of many little experiences. The haze of ax autum afternoon over a flaming woodland ; the confiding smile of a child, nestling in one's arms for a fairy talc; the smell of a dear wind as one trudges along a beach by blue water; the sudden revela tion of tenderness in the eyes of a loved one; the brief, vanishing strain of a bit of music of such things is' a satisfying life fabri cated. You cannot .postpone them, you cannot wait for them. You must, get them .as you go along, or you. will miss them entirely. STANDARD, EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MISSOURI. POETRY IN NAMES John .Ludlow has gathered to gether a lot of names that sounds like calling the roll of the police force of New York city or the names of the football stars of some northern college. These names smell of peat and taste of spuds and bear the scars of per sonal conflict, but where can you heat them? Listen to the rollick ing swing: l.rannigan, Flannagan, Milligan, Gilligan, . '. Duffyv McDuffy, Mullarkey, McKcon, Raffertv. Laffrrtv Donnelly, . Dooley, Gilhooly, Mu Downey, Malone, Farragher, 'Carraghcr' . Brallaghan, ( alaghn, I-rdl.v. O'Malley, G'HouIihai, rlynn, Ileneghan. Lenihan, Halligan, Galhgan, Kelly, O'Shclly, McGinn is, t McGinn. ' , . -NORTH CAROLINA CHRIS TIAN ADVOCATE. PLEASE SIGN YOUR NAME Nothing provokes an editor more than to open a letter and find a good, newsy item enclosed, . and then fmd no name of the author attache,!, and maybe it was just the news Horn, that he was looking for but could not use because the author is unknown. ' Scarcely a . week passes that we do not have to throw away some good ews items just because we-' do not know where they came from-maybc srne 'lay the public w.H learn that the newspaper must : know the author of the news they print. CLAYTON TRIBUNE
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