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THE r.lANXUN PRESS THURSDAY, OCT. 23. 1231 fSS FOUR (Eta JflriutJdht tyxtss Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina ' Telephone No. 24 VOL. XLVI Xumbrr li BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON ...EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ... Eight Months Six Months . Single Copy '. 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. The Press invite its readers to express their opinions through its 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 paper and should bo 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 I can do all things in him that Franklin as a Trade Center PRANK LIN'S; first Fashion Show Monday night at the Macon Theatre, proclaimed by those who saw it as a signal success, was of considerably more sig nificance than a mere amusement program or adver tising stunt. It was a master stroke for the "buy-at-home" movement. The wide variety and fine quality of the ladies' ready-to-wear models exhibited by the merchants participating in the style event would do justice to the big stores of a city many times the size of Franklin. It was a surprise to the audience that such a class of merchandise could be purchased on our -own Main street. As for prices, all one has to do to convince himself or herself that they are as low or lower here than elsewhere is to compare the advertisements of local stores with those in other towns or cities. It even has been demonstrated by Franklin merchants that they can "meet or beat" the vaunted cut-rate prices of the big mail order houses. Franklin already is attracting considerable trade from outside Macon county. Why? Simply' be cause its merchants offer attractive goods at attrac tive prices in attractive stores. If everyone in Frank lin will' join hands with the support they deserve, sive in their individual will bid fair to increase in wealth. With good roads all directions, and most of paved, "The' Gateway should become a commercial center not only for this section of Western North Carolina but also for North Georgia. , With the demonstration of so charming a variety of the newest styles, such as presented at the Fashion Show, we venture to say that many women who have been accustomed to order Asheville or Atlanta for their clothing, will now tind this unnecessary; Here is an opportunity for ad vantageous economy and community loyalty. Fur thermore, aside from the selfish consideration that what is of benefit to any individual or a group in a community is indirectly of advantage to all, there is a happy and wholesome spirit in developing one's conscience to help one's kind of way possible. This economic consciousness with a disinterested and unselfish motive to cooperate with every phase of community life and action, com mercial as well as social and religious, creates a rare quality of good will that makes for health, happiness, progress, and prosperity. The tide of a small town may be completely changed, difficulties overcome and new channels Opened by the psychological effect of a 'community spirit of mutual helpfulness. A Promising SINCE time immemorial one of confronting newspaper editors, weekly publications, has been what '. is known In and "out of the shop as "country correspondence." Many an editor and many a type com positor have had to work laboriously, patiently over illegible, migrant rnatical and 'an-, unreliable communications from correspondents' and editorial contributors. So, when a well written, "clean" piece of copy is received by an editor he is overjoyed. When he finds a dependable correspondent with a real "nose for news" he waxes almost ecstatic. The purpose of this editorial is not to "cuss out" our correspon dents; they labor for love and deserve only sympathetic encourage ment. Rather,V this, outburst is caused by the fine news reports we are receiving each week from various rural schools throughout the county. These reports are compiled by the well written and intelligent communications and should be of interest to every reader of this newspaper. ' We wish especially to mention the history of the Oak Grove sec tion, prepared and written by pupils in the grammar grades of the Oak Grove school under the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Elsie Franks, which appeared on the fr&nt page of last week's issue of The Press. This is only an instance. Other school reports of absorbing interest will be found in The Press almost every week. When the public' schools, even the one and two-room schools far out in the country, can produce such concrete examples of their work, one cannot help but feel encouraged over the prospects of the rising IPL. .. ..II L , ' .IJ,.. generation. i nc yuuiiKici swu t3ded:leiioni. $1.50 $1.00 .75 ...05 Thought: strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13. our merchants, give them and be equally as progres lines of business, Franklin reputation, population and leading to Franklin from them paved or about to be to Southern Appalaclua by mail or journey to own little corner in every Generation the most troublesome . problems especially those who edit small school pupils themselves. They are wm uc learning lueir ciuci mucu The Georgia Ghost By David McFall j FCC .,'tars btfoit i r.c outbreak of the Civil War a certain small town in dcoigia was noted for the culture and the gracious hospitality of its inhabitants. No finer culture ever flowered on English stock. It was an upland town and a number of rich planters from the low country established homes there. In every line of these spacious homes, two or three of which are still standing or were a year or two ago comfort, leisure,, and dignified repose were written. I he community and the sur the rounding country supported two small but select schools, one an academy for girls and the oilier an advanced school for boys. In these schools instruction in literature and the arts, though thorough, was subservient to rigid insistence on a high code of ethics and deport ment. The town also boasted two beanly spots,, a large, shady open green at its cent' r and a well at tended cemetery at the outskirts. The open square was the scene of festivities throughout the summer months and the graveyard was the inevitable venue for more enduring trysts. I mention the open urcen and the cemetery for a definite reason. On the green began a happening, masked in mirth, which ended in the cemetery a few hours later in a tragedy oi peculiarly appaiung character. I shall describe without further preamble the train of r i 1 - 11 events, without the slightest exag geralion or distortion. The schools closed on the same day for the summer's long vaca tion, and the happy circumstance was made' the occasion of a dance on the green that night. For two generations this custom held, until it had almost become a sacred duty. On the night to which this nar rative refers the dance was excep tionally brilliant. The school year had been highly successful, and the highest academic honors had gone to the most popular boy am girl. The weather was perfect, and the nalc enchantress arose to throw her witchery over the scene The only music was that supplied by a negro fiddler, but unsuspected by him on every note sped Cupid's arrow. At a late hour a few of the dancers adjourned to a cold supper at the house of the young woman who' had gained scholastic distinc tion and was the popular favorite. She felt it her place to. affix the seal on a happy evening. Some ten or twelve young people sal down at the table the older folk had been asleep for hours. The carefully prepared dainties were enjoyed but not thougjit of; bubbling talk was the crown of the feast. It so happened, as it always happens on similar occasions, that the conversation at one time or an other touched upon nearly every topic that had ever entered the talkers' brains. At last it veered around to the grotesque and the uncanny. This gave to a wit his longed-for -opportunity to shine, ami he threw out a challenge to anyone to go to the nearby grave yard, reporting the experience up on return. "I'll go!" exclaimed the hostess still flushed with recent victories and unwilling to yield her lead. "Do !" replied the challenger, de risively. "Go out and stay in the shadow of the house awhile, and then come back and tell , us your graveyard experiences. "No," she said, flushing at the scoff. "I'll go and I'll leave a memento and you'll find it there in the morning as you're afraid to go now! I'll leave aa" As she glanced around her, her eye fell upon the carving fork at her side. ."I'll leave this fork stuck in Matt's grave" (the newest addition t the silent camp.) No. .you II not. commanded a young man whom the aimless ar row had struck; but before re straining hands could prevent her she had grasped the fork and had fled from the house; and they heard her. feet running swiftly down the gravel path. ' The. talk suddenly lost its sparkle. A vague uneasiness, poorly dis guised as nonchalance, took pos session of every member of iW party. Their tongues forgot their activity; their brains; conjured up no repartee. They counted the Editorial OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER This period through which the world' is struggling is more than an economic crisis. It involves more than a study of strategic plans to ambuscade the dollars which fled. ' . Humanity itself is on trial. The civilization which we have evolved is undergoing the -supreme test. If there is such a thing as broth erhood among men, now is the time to show it. Drunk with wealth, we have strayed a long way from the fun damental and eternal truth. We have been living in a house stuck minutes, furtively, by the mantel lock, The young woman had been gone for what seemed to them an un reasonably long time, and each member of the party was thinking secretly of proposing a search for her, when A loud, piercing scream burst upon their ears. All were lifted to their feet in stantaneously, as by a single mo tive (lower, to the confused noise of overturned chairs, and glasses that dropped from treinning fing ers. If was not the scream that had shaken them, and had driven the blood back to its fountain, for a scream might be' feigned. It was not only the fearful INTENSITY of the scream that appalled them; it was the indescribable note of HORROR in it that . palsied ' nerves of every hearer. Nerves were numbed and muscles remained inert until a, quick suc cession of screams, through winch the young woman's broken voice was recognized, shocked her friends to action "Oh, save ;nc! Save me! Oh, save me! lit has seized me! He has seized me! Help! Help ine!" Two of the girls in the party fell to the floor in a faint. . The others were weeping and wringing their hands, or going to the door and peering out into a darkness they now 1 aded worse than death.. . ' - The men, frenzied into imme diatc action in which no thought out plan had time to shape itself snatched candles from their sockets and, shielding the feeble and un steady flame: ith their hands, ran out and sped toward the grave yard. Before ihey reached it, the voice was stilled, and they feared tint death had claimed their best-lovcJ friend. They knew the location of the grave and went directly towarl it, over mounds which were unat tended and forgotten, and over newly made heaps of earth which were still altars. As they drew near, they saw a figure crouching on the grave, ut tering no sound, not even a moan, but gently rocking itself from side to side, as though nursing a ter ror or a grief which could find no other expression. When she heard them corning and saw the wavering lights, a last effort was awakened in her momentarily ; she rose to her feet, sprang forward with all the strength she could summon up, and fell into arms held out to catch her, unconscious. She was carried to the house and placed upon a couch and every ef fort made to revive her, but with out avail. She was breathing, but that was all. A neighboring doctor was sent for and arrived quickly. Under his more skillful attention she re covered so far as to sit up and look around her, but her dull eyes recognized no person or thing. By slow degrees, after many weeks of careful nursing, her physical health was restored in a measure, but her brain, stunned by some unknown horror, never again revealed, and probably never felt, the faintest glimmer of intelligence. Her too finely attuned mind was dethroned forever. Leaving undone nothing that could have been done, the phy sician made a thorough examina tion. He was pnvinecd that the agency that had wreaked its havoc upon her was purely mental, not physical. Every -organ was normal. He found upon her. body no sign of scratch or bruise. But in the hem of , her dress was a rent it was jiist such a t as the fingers of a hand reaching up from the grave would . (Guest the Ghost Correct . Expla nation To Be Published Next Week) Clippings upon golden stilts. .'Arid it has crashed. In our r.gon have discov'"' meant what V Rule was not and suffering we that lesus Christ said. The Golden a '..pleasant homily intended for reward-of-merit cards with silk fringe 'on the edges and diamond dust shining on the snow scenes. It was a simple state ment of the eter ' law, the same law that keeps the stars in the skies and the world turning on -its axis. We speak of breaking the law and commandments. You can break them; but they break yfcu. "Levi & cut set roo tt3 V50 svciert rr f mm,m,Ht o? ikjaq if ipisnY Give ut a tctctf m.Ttifc scAxSy out another" was more than an admonition - to - light the path of virtue.- h was the statement of an eternal principle upon which all law, all philosophy, all business, all ethics, all civilization rests. Like all the doctrines left by the Christ, this was the sublimity of common sense t' finality of prac ticality thc only sure foundation upon which civilization can rest. 1 Hiring ' i;1 Jutted years we have U u -i i ui li to go our own way alone. Y.ars of greed and money list have ended with this terrible lesson : That wealth evap orates and leaves men stark and with naked hearts. It is for us to see that this ter rible rebuke has not been in vain For us to see l':at we rebuild the fallen structure on the rocki of brotherhood. . This winter will be a period that calls for all men to have fortitude, strength and sympathy. It is, for once, clear to the dullest mind that we can only help oursejvesby helping others. Out of this pcriodof re-adjust inent we can regain our souls. It can be a better world because of this period of h..ngcr and sorrow a stronger America and a sounder civilization if it brings to us , a realization we are given the priv ilege of being our brother's keep er. . The remedy for our financial crisis lies not in laws, federal commissions, in panacea or finan cial errors. . . The sound and practical answer was told two thousand years ago in a sermon s poken on a mountain in- Palestine. - LOS ANGELES TIMES. ADVERTISING REDUCES PRICES Some people have always argued that advertising adds to the cost of goods, and that the business house that eliminated this form -of ex pense could afford to sell cheaper It is interesting to think what wouhj happen if all at once firms stopped advertising. The result would be that the 'enterprising and successful store, the one that gets a good trade because it sprves the public leff iciently, would be unable to hold its position. A store of that kind could not show enterprise in attracting the public, because the public would not know what it was doing. Peo pie would buy in a haphazard way, largely of the stores that happened to be nearest to them. If the en terprising store attempted to handle some big- lot of goods at low prices, the' public would not know that the. goods were there, and the sale would not be a success. This would discourage a man from 'special, .at tempts to serve , the public, and he would run along in a routine way The tendency then would prob ably be for a lot of small stores to spring up and get the trade away from the enterprising stores . that now advertise freely. The public would not know that one store was better than another, and a dealer could charge high prices and the customers would not have the Store advertising ' y which the could tell what prices should be. Merchants would find that it did not pay to Held iptcial lilti, fti AUoweo zxr urrcc coy to the public, would not notice them much if they were held. The con stant stream of trade that has been flowing through enterprising stores would dwindle. When a store sees its volume of trade fall off, the charge per article for retail dis tribution has to be increased. The cost of distributing goods could be expected to double under such a system, and there would be a lack of the special' apportnnities by which the thrifty buyer no,w saves money.-THE ROCK HILL (S. C.) HERALD. Farm Hints CATTLE OUTLET Approximately 3000 head of beef cattle moved from Western North Carolina into the eastern part of the state during the fall of 1930 where crop farmers . fed the ani mals and saved some of the best for breeding purposes. "We believe that equally as many animals from the western part of the state and from south western Virginia will be purchased by eastern Carolina growers this fall and winter," says L. I. Case, animal husbandman at State Col lege. "A number of carloads have already 1 been shipped and indica tions are that many others will move into this territory in the next few weeks. The east has a good crop of forage and hay this year and this rough feed may be used in the production of beef in ad dition to adding valuable fertility to the soil." Beef production can well have a place on any well rounded pro gram of farming in eastern Caro lina and at the same time afford the producers of western Carolina an outlet for their surplus am mals. Mr. Case and representa tives of the State Division of mark ets will give considerable atten tion to this project for the next few weeks, he says. Roof cement or putty is good for stopping leaks in the roof or chim ney. This material comes in air tight cans and hardens soon after exposure to the air. Clean the opening, then fill it with the putty, using a large putty knife or small, pointed trowel, and smooth the surface. , Do the work in dry weather. This joof putty will ce ment a composition roof to a brick or stone wall. There is also on the market a new "plastic wood" that is fine for filling small holes arid cracks in weatherboarding. If not stopped up, these holes and cracks will begin to decay when moisture gets in and will let in cold air in winter. The best way to rid lawns and gardens of moles is to trap them, says the U. S. Biological Survey Another way that is fairly effec tive, especially if there are only a few moles, is to open up the runway at the edge of the lawn, drop in a few moth balls or a spoonful of naphthalene flakes, and replace the earth. Size and qoality of eggs, as well as the number laid, are important characteristics to consider in choosing breeders from the poultry fleck, ' pallet that y 225 egfi Hack o' tho Plata ojz voa uaicn.wuuvi. eoe hc'd crcs mc 4 ' I oH good shape, good quality of shell, and standard size, will make a better breeder than one . that lays 275 undersized and poorly shaped eggs. The name "sardine" does not ap ply, as many people think, to a certain species of fish, but means any 'mall fish' suitable for the pur pose. The name is derived from the island of Sardinia, in the Med iterranean f where many sar dines are packed. iD. L. Thompson of Anson coun ty has 30 hogs harvesting a field of corn and says this is the best way of selling com. For the last three or four years Mr. Thomp son has received' more money for his hogs than any other crop on his farm. . The soles of street shoes can be made more water and wear re sistant by brushing them with warm neat'-foot oil, castor oil, or lanolin. Take care not to get the oil on the uppers. ' LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Macon County. Whereas power of sale was vest ed in the undersigned trustee by deed of trust from R. A. Pattou and ' Mamie Patton, his wife, to Henry G. Robertson, trustee for Effie Love Powers, dated the 6th day of August, 1927, and registered in the office of the Register of Deeds for Macon County in Book of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust No. 29, page 435, to secure the payment of a note for Twenty-Five-Hundred ($',500.00) Dollars with interest thereon; And whereas default has been made in the payment of the in debtedness secured by said deed of trust; And whereas the holder of the said note," has ma.',; demand on the undersigned trustee to exercise the power of sale vested in him by the: said deed of trust: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the power of sale vested in me by the said deed of trust, I will,, on Monday, the 23rd day of No vember, 1931, at twelve o'clock noon, sell at the courthouse door in Franklin, Macon County, North. Carolina, at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the follow ing described real estate, towit : All that tract or parcel of landM situate in Franklin Township, Ma con County, State of North Caro lina, described as follows; Begin ning at a box elder on the bank of Cartoogechaye Creek, Dock Liner's; corner and runs thence with said! Dock Liner's line S 34 1-2 E 6ft poles to a, stake at the public road; then with the road and its mean ders to a persimmon on the bauk of the road, D. C. Rogers' corner ; thence North 40 West 50 poles to a stake ; thence North 63 East 22 poles to a stake in Angel's line; thencei with Angel's line North 40 West 45 poles to the creek; thence up the creek, with its meanders, to the Beginning. This the 22nd day of October, 1931. HENRY G. ROBERTSON, Trustee 029-4tc-TJJ-N19
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