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AGE FOUR THE FRANKLIN PRESS THURSDAY, OCT. IS, 1331 tliw p vnnk Hit By PERCY CROSDY And They Get Away With It Published every Thursday by The I V..i,Uii A l Fr;inklin, Xoith Can.lina Telephone No. 2-1 You Say Vou OnIV 6unko rut 3 Pre: UlATCH? COOKT TO MC A If it ' rv r1 Yer- the - - ' - f Ov gAN60 Up pRCTTY HAR0. ('tC HAVE (iHfc MtCHANte LOOK fX T VOL. XLVI ELACKJjURN W. JOHNSON KHITOK AND IV lil.l.-I 1 1- M Entered at the Post Office, Franklin. X. (' as sinmd c.I.is, nuti.-r. EdnaFqrber rr rNi v 1 I J TAWG AiJAUT A I ,11 niNfTt TO UK I '0k V SUBSCRIPTION KATES One year Eight Months Six- Months . . Single- Copy . . . Obituary notices, cards of thanks, fribuks i.f respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies will be -unaided as advi-r-Using' and inserted at regular classified ad-.trluiii".' r.-n.-s. Smb 'u-di, i-. will be marked "adv." in compliance with' the post.d regulations. The Pre invites it reader to express their opinions through it columns and each week it plans to carry Letters to the Editor on its editorial page. This newspaper is independent in its policies and is glad to print both sides of any question. Letters to the Edi tor should be written legibly on only one side of the piper 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 Bible Thought: Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Kejoio- Philiipi.inr. 1.4 The Tax Delinquency Evil I AST week's issue of The Franklin I're.ss carried - 82 notices of loreclousie saK s for 1025 and 1026 taxes taxes due five years ao hut still uncollected.-; in some of these cases it is 'thought thai, with money scarce and property -value:- depressed, Hie land will riot hrino- as much as I lie taxes. and .penaliies that have accumulated oer .this period. In 'other words, the county will, have to hid it in, therehv, in creasing its unproductive acreage and decreasing; its source of revenue. And, of far worse cone(jue)ices, some poor farmers will he deprived of licnlv all they possess. Why is it that taxes are permitted to run for so long? Is it because the officials -charged' with their collection think they are bestowing a favor upon a man to allow his assessment to go unpaid? True, it oftentimes is necessary for .an individual to defer pay ment, of his. taxes. But is it necessary or right to permit him to disregard for five years? Is it helping him? Is it helping the county government? Is it fair to other taxpayers who settle more promptly? As a temporary relief measure, it ..sometimes is wise to allow the taxpayer a respite; but lo let his taxes to pile up year after year; all the while accumulating large penalties, will amount in the end to confiscation of property.; Many of those who have not "paid' llieir 1925 and 1926 taxes could 'have done so several vears ago, when times .were good, lint iiovv, with no money in hand and no one willing to lend on farm land, many delinquent taxpayers will have to stand by and see their homes and' (arms sold under the hammer. As for the county, long delinquent taxes mean a depleted treasury. And a depleted treasury means higher taxes. It is safe lo sav that if this "county's taxes were paid up through 1929 it would he in a far better financial situation todav than it is, and that a larger reduction could be made in its 1931 rate. Furthermore, it would not be necessarv for it to de lay meeting pledged payments on bonds. . . v -. Then, too, a habit of tax delinquencv is like a con tagious disease. One -frequently hears the comment. "Well, so-and-so gets by without paving his taxes, so I am not going to pay mine." And there begins a vicious cycle. The county can't function pioperH because the people . don't pay their taxes and the people suffer because the count y can't operate an . effi ClPnt frovpl-nmon) n-illi,oit ... .1 1 .' ..... -i-t r -""-" ., iinom tuuvv. 1 1 1'ijL; vta.CS. I 1 10 very fact that taxes go unpaid year after vear 'tends to depress the value of property and. hence, diminish the source of taxes. When one. can g,.. to tiK- court vjieuse.. door: and buy at; farm for less than its real value, under a tax foreclosure suit, ohn lories- doesn't stand much chance of getting. $20 an' acre, though it may be worth that much, for the surplus. acreage-he wants to sell. So' John Jones has to keep more land than he needs. It would he ruinous for him to in to meet tax 'foreclosure-price's.-. So he 'holds --on to more land than he profitably can cultivate in the -Mind hope that some day, some how things will be dif. ferent. j . , It would be a wise policy for-. ever- county not to allow taxes to go. unpaid for longer -'than two years. ouen a poncy soon would cerned, , Editorial INTERESTED IN RAILROADS. I Ihe typical American reaction to any organization that lias reached the size of railroads is to take out as much as possible, put ' hi '.noth ing. But the railroads have hi en striking it so tough recently the people are in sympathy. ' Why Because in the midi i this selfish, socialistic tendetn to 1 1 . i i .... . r uieeu Dig companies and corpora tions we suddenly realized the hor rors of the predicament n which we would find ourselves ' if the railroads went to the wall --w hich they never will, because of freight and legislation against motor truck? to be brought on by public bpin ion. There are 75,000,000 people in. the $1.50 $1.1X1 .75 ....05 prove, benelicial to all con Clippings '1 States vitally and im.nii-i:,! 1- m-i up with the rai'i-iad-Banks, . iiu-,t coinpaiii. s, insuiiiiu. v......,..v.-, uni. .savings nimis, in- U'si in railroads, making every de positor ' .insurance hi iu ficiarv . ami policy holder a part owner. On' loj oi all Ihese, the iii, i..u.s tli,s :tn''!s and ihon-.n-.N ,,f tliein. ' The . railroad pi-oklcui is if, problem ,., the nation--the'-pnibh-ni "f . the peo.le. When they lo.se, we all lose.. Tins' is no p'ha f, hiH biisines:,; it is a statement ,. facts. - SkAkTAXHl kG HkK A LI . . IN D . . , GOOD COMPANY Vre know a man in this county who is broke. Of course there is t ..3 V rs (t V.iiiinutil from last we;k) CHAPTER, XIV ' '! ( ra- .,1. Mill Oklahoma, I H i.t i L;H against ' - . . 'i 1 ion ol th'- I' 1 1 v 1 SSUolliall 1 1 a 'I Mnrli-il ;i Marled 1 be- I in ran fill in W ml towns Willi ;iu imposing parly of Iwenty made up ol 1 1' in t i- oil men, 'C-nal'i-,' eoiin ssincu, and editors, she led the way lo liowbgs, new i, .-I and 1. 1 ndest i .1 ihr n ,v oil situs's. i 1 1 : S IIKi, USaJC ,VCI' :.ua ,,c i' n,:h iii a ' i" laci- way. tint what oiiii'l a ilaii i -.lifii oil was i-u i -in (.,111,:, ilj. in uiii-a.( t I -'I i'i.i- t s, Inm;. in;.-, lln d.v. , o; "it k i;n ha.'. !. avail! .-" At -it n ' ii ';, (lisi . i i . -i 1 ,. , t i ( i 't '!.,,,w 'I ';.:( i ic-li aiid - crainOii . Anoliirr l: ..:i I 1 .0 i . kA !i --ii an- ii mi ihe pi-.i II ; ii'Ms dna i vliiiij Ijlarlv ; (il I n - t:lanl;i .'l ; l'al- -i I ..il woo l; n -rlr.ukr. inn il a oin s 1 r 1 1 illai-. 1'aiKi- halls. Ikotln-ls. iiunmui I'rav.ls. o-al. I lii.-s,, l.iit. ('riiiii-. I In (lank i.f inailiiiii.i'.-. 'lln roar I. irafiii: hialin ir.cr a load m-v-' t nn .t'nt nil 1 1 1 i-- than a plodiiiiiK wai nii. .Nil i o j-lyct-nn cars bcr ni;.; tiu-.ir (Uadl 1 1 1 ilii. Ucralls, '.'i.nliiinys, 1 j 1 1 i .- i lints, tiiints. The hinnan miiiii if'c'a-,h ne w oil tuvvn was like iljr sc inn df the Run, I. in Ininltr, cnnUr, inure wolfish and d( ;-radi-(. 'lln- iiniKini; .par.ty, in jiijjli powtii'd niuliir cars, l)iniipe(l tjver lln- terrible nnuUt ereaiiny a rc-l dnsl harragr. "It is all due In mir i(tten Okla hunia .slat'-' politics," Sabra i-x-plaitn-il In the real seii'ator. from I 't ii o - k ani.i who sat at her ri. -til uni tin tiiat editor Ironi .cv rU who sal at In r left in the InK Inxiirioiis car. "Our laws ai l.nnJied al. The capilol is . 'rotten witli'.raU. Anvliiin i;oes. Okla homa is still a territory' in very tliin; but title-. This town of I'owhs, It's a throw-back to the li'ontier days of forty years an' - ami worse. It's like tt1c old Ci. nat ron, t'eojile who li.te lived in Osaj-'t1 all their Ikes don't know what n.ies 'on' out here. , 'J..cy don't care. It's more oil, more niil !i' .ns. .Thai's all. Any 'one of on nun, 'hi II known as.wm are, ei mid conn: out (here, put cm' (; r ;'dk, and be as lost as thoimh vi i: had aiiisiied' in the wildenn. s:-," The I'eiinsykani.i senator launh- if new-' in thai, for everybody is In oke, kill t Ins man. laki s it hard. Ik- thinks lie is ruined and feels llkt he is tin- only one. Of course it i Hard lor a man lo kimwMhal In li.l.. lost what he had 'wmked eat s n, aecuniulat'-,. It . is hard reach a' tinie ,,i Ine when it -i-eins. imp. .'Mlile to siai t o(:r. Hul we h.ne' kieiv ii se ei ai, ineli .in this -lix. In n they loiiud they were broke in ( -fleet t)iey said, "Well you .can break in 'credit or mv huMiiess but yon- can't br.eak.-nie." I h. y ' let a liile, sUn led ov er in a . nioiv niodesi way, and soon lound thai ilu v were a lot happier Nina- men inn t it. that, way and 'ionic ale so upset by it that tiny :--iiew iheiiisehes to death or .seel i nioie loh nt way of leaving lb w or I'd. Now, lnother, as, the ex Ifilers say, look ' ere. . You di tin besi you could. You are no the "oulv one who has failed. Yoni liitnre was, iiol your own fan 1 1 N on couldn't buck a world-wide de l-iession, i in- loank oi l-.uiJand h broke,--t I if L. S.. "treasury is broke North " ( arolina is broke, Unioi count.v is broke, Monroe is broke So ..buck, up' and say, "1 am brok !'"! 1 in d . . . ; o,,d company W e all went lifoke to'-ether a n't i'.e'll .all :c ,,u-- it t,,;;i tirr j, -me v'ay. '- . OX KOF. JUUUNAL -It t-oi'.d j.laii lo wliiu-wash lln- dairy barn o;nv or -twice ' i 1 To. make a tlisinleclant whitewash, dilute 1 1 ..' ipiarts o ',' iiiuiH reial Jiiiiersiilpliur wit h- ahou i gallons of -water, . and add tablespoons, of c;miuont sail, pre' i-'ii k .lis ;.-k . ,! j,, ;,- ,;lt ,,f w.;iU,, To. this '.solution,.' -add; while stir i ini! conManily, a lime, cream mad.- b; fiiixiii-! a heaiiiii'-i (mart of uo.wl v ''i.i'. d lime with . water, or h Likiiif 2 1-2 pounds of fresh quick lime and straining through a wlf fly screen, ed a jdiunp laugh and with elbow neai est Sabra made a little move ment i hat would have amounted to a undue -in anyone but a senator Mom Pennsylvania. "What they need out here is a woman gover nor er, Lippm;-- ..'!" to the. e'lat editor. Sabra said notirmr . ' ' Onthe drive . out from Osage they stopped for lunch in an older (til town hotel dining room a sur prisingly good Junch, the senators ;md editors were glad to find ;i tcn-Jer steak, and littie yj,,u onions, and near beer, ami rht -sc, aial coffee served in gnai thick euts, hot and strong and rcfiv-n- - 'Hit, waitress was deft and friendly : a tall angular woman wiih something frank . and engagn..; about the two. circles of vermilion on the parchment of her withered cheeks. "How are you, Nellie?" S'ibi-.t -aid to her. "IT rand, Mis' Cravat. How's all your folks?" ... . The senator from Ohio winked at Sabra. "You'ie a politician, all right."- - Anived at liowlegs, Sabra show ed them everything, pitilessly. Tin dreadful town l:m in tl,,. I.r.t I sun, a scarred thine.' flies I over, it, the oil drooling down its C i: .iee, a Mimy sueaili. A one-street. wooden slianly town, like the towns of the-ohl territory 'days, but more sordid. A red-cheeked young Har vard engineer' was their official guide: an engaging boy in' bone rimmed glasses and a very blue shirt that made his pink- cheeks pinker. That is what I wanted my L'im to be, Sabra thought with a great wrench at her l,i.-n-i I mustn't think of that now. The drilling of the oil. The workmen's shanties. The trial of a dancehall girl in the one-room pine shack that served as court room. The charge, nonpayment of rent.. The little room; stilling, slinking, was already crowded. Men and women filled the. doorway, lounged in- the windows. .The judge -was a yellow-faced fellow with a cud of tobacco in his cheek, and a single law book on a shelf as his library. If was a I rial by jury. The jurors were -nine in number, their faces a rogues' gal lery. There had happened to be nine men loafing near by. It might have been less or more. Bowlegs did not consider these fine legal points. They wore overalls and shirts. The defendant was a tiny rat-faced girl in a soiled green dress that parodied the fashions, a pathetic green poke bonnet' i i. i , nowii-di-iicci snoes, and a great mi, in Ht-i MocKing. Iter neiids were there a dozen or more dam hall girls in striped overalls, am jockey caps or knee-length ging nam dresses with sashes. Theit ages ranged from sixteen to nine teen, perhaps. It was incredible that life in those few years, could nave etched tl t look on their faces. The girls were charming,' hospit ame. lney made way for the im posing visitors. "Come on in," they said. , "How-do!" like friendlv children. The. mid-afternoon sun was pitiless on their sick eves their bad skin, their unhe.-ilthv l,ai,- Clustered behind the rude bench on which the jury sat, the ' girls irom time to time, leaned a sociabl elbow on a juryman's shoulder, oc cask.nally enlivening the judicia proceedings by a spirited commen tittered in defense of their iso.r and spoken in ,ihe near-by ear or ilotid, for benefit, of the ,l,,s.. (lacked crowd. . "She never done no such thing!' "He's a d--n liar, an I cat 'rove it." ... ' No one, least kf all the tobacco hewing judge, appeared lo fin, these i ii lish informalities at al unusual ,in the legal conduct of th case. , - , ' Jn the corner of th,. r,.,i., was a kind of pen made of wood en slats, Hike a sizable chicken coop and in it, on the, floor, 'ay a man "What's fie there for;" Sabr asked one of the girls. "What that?" i "That's Bill, He's in jail. II shot a man last night, and he's up for carrying concealed weapons It ain't allowed." "I'm go! to ",1k to himViald V WHV VOU MOST mt OKWPeV TUAr ,..i-r ONTHe PAV6M617'. THC SPGWff G0NC WL HAVt TO PUT Nli " 1 " Si y. ,IA - v ; r tTioiTS Mir it I LONG UJILt (V1- If f& J rrr. 1- J w (.vs., r : - -- I "i -j- ( i THt?ee loeKr: a watch in that V CONOITDW (MHjhkl'v tte rAMir im I err I Tme yoo know a uiatch OeoAcje me want to ee It's o.k. r Sabra. And crossed the room, wd. The itirors had through the c jusi filed nut. They repaired to a draw al the side of the road to fake their finding. Two or three of the dance hall girls, squatted on the lloor, .were talking to Bill through the bars. They asked Sa bra her name, and she told them, and tiny gave her their own. lools. L'evvee. JJee, The lace of, the boy on the floor was batlered and blood-cakt.d J here was a leslering sore on his left hand, ami the hand and arm were swollen and angry' looking "You were carrying a concealed weapon?" Sabra asked, squatting tliere wild the girls. A senator or two an ' an edilor were just behind her. An injured look softened Bill's battered features, lie pouted like a child. Wo, ma am. I run the dance hall, see?. And 1 was stand ing in the middle of the floor, Working, and 1 had the gun right in my hand. Anybody could see. I wasn't carrying no concealed weapon." The jury filed back. Not t-uiltv The rat-faced gill's shyster lawyer said something in her ear. She spoke in a dreadful raucous voice; simpering.' "I sure ' thank you, gents." The dance-hall eirls cheered feeb ly. ' Out of that fetid air into the late if lei noon blaze. "The dance halls pen about nine, SabrH said Well wait lor that. In the mean linn I'll show you their rooms, lln- rooms -V she looked about for the fresh-clu'eked Harvard boy. "Why, where" ' - "There's some kind of excite leut," said the New York editnr "People have been running and shouting. Over there in that field we visited awhile ago.. Here comes our young friend now. Perhaps he'll tell us." - The Harvard boy's color was higher 'still. He was breathing last, lie had beer, running His eyes shone behind the bone-rimmed spectacles. "Weil. I oiks, we'll never have a narrower squeak . than that.". "What?" "They --put fifty miarts in the fiypsy pool but before she got noun the oil came un "Quails of what?", interrupted an nitonal voice. ""Oh excuse me nuarts of nitro -.ivcerin" "My C-d!" "It s in a can, von. know. A thing like a can. It never had a halice to -explode down tliere. It lust shot up ith the gas and oil. It il hail hit the ground everything lor miles around would have' been shol to h 1 and all of . us killed. lint he caught it. They say he just ran back like an ''outfielder and ganged i' .with his eye while it was un m Ihe :nr anil rn t , . . v. 1 (.1, where it w mid fall, and caught i m his two Hins, like a baby, -right on. In chest. It did tit he's dyinir. Chest all cavpd In They've sent for ih "Who? Who's he?" "I don't know his rpal ti am He's an old bum that's bleti afOflfld -r ML TWCLUe I, Olucr i. am ACIfrrT. DO ME A fAVOr?. TM6LT - . TO ANY Afttif 'N' TRY Ak0 ' wow (Ve 60T IT irTArT6?i ix a te'RvH jure rj ) r the field, doing odd jobs and drink- ing. ihey say he used to be quite a fellow in Oklahoma in his day Picturesque pioneer or something. Some call him old Yance and I've heard others call ' him Sim or Simeon or " . Sabra began to run across ihe road.' "Mrs. Cravat! . You nuistn't where arc you going?" CI. . . .i ... one ran on, across me oii-soakei field and the dirl, in her lillh buckled high-heeled slippers. She did not even know that she was running. The crowd was dense around some central obiect. Thcv formed a wall roustabouts, drillers, tool dressers, shooters, pumpers. Ihey were gazing down at some thing on the uroun'd. "Let me by! : Let me by!" They fell back before this white-faced woman with the white hair. He lay on the ground, a queer, crumpled, broken figure. She flung herself on the oil-soaked, earth be side him and lift d the magnificent head gently, so that it lay cnshionei by her arm. A little mirnlish hub ble rose to his lips, and she wiped it away with her fine white ham kerchief, and another rose lo lake ils place, "Yancey ! Yancey !" He opened his eyes those ocean gray eyes with the lonu curlinc lashes like a beautiful girl's.. She had thought of them ot'ien and of ten, in an aony of pain, ("dazed now, unseeing. Then, dying, thcv cleared. T-Ti? hps moved. He knew lier. Even then, lying, he must sneak in measured verse. 'Wife and mother you stain- Woman Hid M. -Hide Me in Your Love!" less woman hide nit hide m,. in your love ! She had never heard a lino nf it She did not know that this was 1 eer Gynt, humbled before SoK,.; The once magnetic eyes '"glazed; stared; were eyes no longer. .She -"d them, gently. She forgave him everything. Quite sim ply, all. unknowing, she murmured through her tears the very Words of Solveig.i "Shep, -iy boy, my dearest boy. (THE END) IM -L . 77 DOLLARS zr .- WHy THAT'S A-to iro i . r 6T I7l utu jTHeRe!r one . i STATEMENT OF THE OWNER- SHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCU LATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, .1912 Of The Franklin Press, published weekly at Franklin, North Carolina for October 1, 1931 State of North Carolina, County of Macon. lie fore me, a Clerk of Superior Court in and for the state and county aforesaid, personally ap peared lilackburn W. Johnson, who,' having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the publisher and editor of The Franklin Press and that . the fol lowing is, to ihe best of his knowl edge and belief, a true statement of the ovvncisliip, management, etc., ol the aforesaid unification for th.. dale shown-in the above caution. required by .the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Post al Laws ami Regulations, '.low-it: I. That the names and addresses oi.. ihe publisher.' editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, JJluc.kbm u , W. Johnson, rankhn,' N C; Editor, Plackburn W. Johnson, Prank hn, N. C; Man aging Editor, Blackburn W. johin son, 1-raiikbii, X. r . tsi,.c! Manager, lilackburn V lohnc,,., Franklin,' X. C. 2. That the owners :ne- f!l-jl " - J . M V . . burn W. Johnson, Franklin; N..' C; -"s- J- W. Cantev lohtw,,,, Franklin, v. C, . tiadmg as The' hrankhn Press, Franklin, -q i. lhat the known bondholders mortgagees, . 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Thai the to linrnot-ntilie nv- above,, giving the. names ' of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of Stockholders mA c." lit ctirity holders as they appear upon - me uooks oi me company but also, in cases , where the storkhohlor security holder ant.ears mmn ' ti, hooks, of the company as trustee or in any otner tiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation" for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two para graphs contain , statements embracing- affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under vvhieh stockhold ers and security holders who do 'ict appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stork anrl securities in a capacity other than mat ot a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no rrawn ir. lieve that any other person, asso- uauon. -oj- corporation liae interest direct or indireM in .1,. v i ii ill v said stock, bonds, or other secur ities than as so stated hv him (Signed) Blackburn W. 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