Thursday, June 13, 1935 (jUjrrolw ^roixt Official Organ of Murphy and Cherokee County. Xorth C-irolina PUBLISHED El'ERY THURSDAY Entered in the Post Of-ice at Murphy. North Carolina, us second class matter under Act of March 3. 189/. >AM CARR _ Editor L. A. LEE . Ouner And Monager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year .... 51.50 Six Month? .75 Payable Strictly in Advance I^cgal advertisements, want ads, reading notices, obituaries, cards of thanks, etc., 5c a line each insertion, payable in advance. Display rates furnished on request. All communication* must be sismed by the writer, otherwise they will not be accepted for publication Nam? nf the writer will not be publish * 1 unless agreeable, but we must have nam of author as evidence o? good faith and responsibility. Murphy. No;th Carolina. Thursday. June 1935. TV A I YD THE Rll'AL POV F.RCOMP. i.MES The greate-t increase in business prosperity of private power companies in the entire Lnited States has taken place in the a:ea oi th-* T\ A since the Authorit\ be era n operad ;> in the summer of 1933. I he Tennessee Electri* Power C ?:npan\. operating in lb very heart ??f 1\ A a tivity has just been -elected by the Edison Elect:; Institute, represent in:* the Electrical Industry, as the t-tanui::a ?nipanv lor the year J931. because it has . tabli-died *'?e:e <>i th.s most, it not the most. : h.ihle .-ale- : reases in resident: il. commerical, I indi st.*ial ; ow ;i in the hist tire Electrical I d;,-: \." i i. - ,-|d o. :l,e , . i"I'lpa:ii t!i.i' in the : i : i . V i icralion I .t -1 : I -.... "The farl thai private power companies in t! > . ' TV V ari-i I.a..- lev r .!. : uah . . :.m. in a section ii , datively lev -;> ia!<1 - i: m-. shears how unfounded are the .l.il;a?o. private p-wer interests lli.il til r\ \ will de-t: i .j busir.es- Im pair their investment lit e< tor David E. Lilitenthal said. "The exa< t contrary lias been the vase." If tin* power companies throughout the Lnited Stales were to -xperience the same growth and prosJierily as has been experienced by the Teiinersee V alley private power companies during the short peiiod <>f IVA. operation, tiie Electrical Industrv would be brought to a new high point. The fact ot the matter is that the Electrical Industry has talien into a state ot seli-pitv. 1 he evs-uiive.s ire spending their time complaining about the Federal Government's activities and seeking to lead the people of the county to believe thai the Government's policies with respect to electricity are driving the private power companies into bankruptcy. These executives havt been devoting their time in seeking to destrov the TV V and other Federal activities, because of alleged fears that these activities are unjust interferences in the exclusive domination they have exercised oves this essen uat 01 lite- I he people of ihe United States are entitled to an explanation from the Electrical Industry. They are entitled to know the answers to the following questions: "(1) If r\ A is destructive of the piivate powei business, how does it happen that in the whole coun try the outstanding examples of increased business and prosperity in the electrical field have occurred in the three states most directly affected by TV A, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia? "(2) If the charges made by the Holding Companies, that TWA is destructive of the private power business, are true, why did the organized elecliical industry this week award the Coffin medal for the most distinguished contribution to the electrical industry in 1034 to the Tennessee Electrical Power Company in the very heart of the TV A area? P"(3) How does the Electrical Industry explain mat I ate It-uutuuia mouC it. the Tennessee Vall-y area due. as it is said, to the destructive forces of T\ A ? have resulted in the most remarkable increase in utility sales in the history of the industry? "(4) What becomes of the charge of power surplus. which argument the utility industries are using againrit the completion of Federal projects on navigble streams, in face of the fact that in the Tennessee Valley area private power companies have increased their power consumption in a single year by 30r'r ? In spite of those facts, if the power industry still insists that them is a surplus of power, is the power industry ready to take the responsibility of meeting the drastir power shortage predicted by the Federal Power Commission? How will it avoid responsibility for the retardation of recovery rhie to a shortage of powjr for industrial and domestic use? The Cherokee Scout, Murphy, Nor A CRISIS The events of the past few weeks in our National apitol have been so far-ieaching in their l>earing on the gove nmental principles >>f our countrv that they will probably go down in history as the most important | onstitut' nal steps since the drawing of the constitution itself. I I itr. iglt the agency of the NRA and other institu-' tions by which the government tried to lak- over the, affairs . the nation, our country was faced with the ziavest situation causing direct conflict between the | n-erva' ,es and the radicals, since the nation was | founded. Finding itself in the groove of an apparently tinsolvable depression the president. Franklin D. Roosevelt. and Congress attempted to put a wave of overproduction that suffered from crippled distribution back on a properous basis thiough the direct medium of the governmentA sy -letn of ' fair practice" principles were set up and declared to be law by the government and a huge loaning and spending program was iaimched through the same medium. Had all this been done throuch some sot: of a private institution everything would have gone well- But because the gove:nment took lb--- movements upon itself, cries of "communism" am! "-oi ilism" were begun, which may or may not be tru \ ">h .re the Wealth" plans, "spending picnics" and si: :;iar ?barges, following the due course of those who own im.itT.maii.vna Iv^l: "l.v -- .. -- -- -? ??ci?::?cu nir> Id outdo the president. took the order of the day -ind were I lung broadside into the teeth of the c.ivH ernment. Pi;' utilities, representing the investments of i Hi i - of 11 11a:-. saw the -ystem of fair prarlicel eat in a \ tally away at the cream which i mt-s from . pilali-m. and tlie fight wa- . i he Supreme- urt ruled it.- judgment o:t the basis . i:-::tu;i'inalit\ and naturally found pait ai the _ o.e i,i; e;,;\ unde.takina- um ii.-titntion d and if fur. in -ligation i- made they will probably hand h>w tile -an .- charge t ? the ther in^tituti ns of the a oeminent. \ we are about to see the eld constitution, which w > learned t repeat by I'.eart in the third grade.' but which very few of us really understand, undergo a complete changeSuch a procedure is perfectly natuial. But if the u-tilr.lion i- to be revised so as to make the Roosevelt spending policies abstract law. then why start all the wrangle in the first place? Frankly to us anil everyone else, we are altogether in the dark, and when all the chips arc in, we will find ourselves right hack where we started hunting some new angle for which to solve the old, unreleutless qucj tion of labor versus capital. I If It.l-s .llu'tlVS K?An llrua o.-sel ?III I - tr . v mvv? uiuj uuu ainata v> 111 OC? Wt' are at war now just as much as we were during the | secession?hut this time the weapons are politics and governmental interestsHowever there is no need for undue alarm. When all the firing is over we'll be faced with the sameihiug same problem of the honest people wotking for a living and feeding the dishonestFIGHT SOIL EROS!Q.\ Did you know that?when the slope of land is ini creased four times, the speed of the water flowing over it is about double, the cutting power is multiplied by 4. the power to carry soil is multiplied by 32 and the size of particles it can carty is multiplied by 64? Erosion removes twenty-one times as much plant food from the soil as cultivated crops? Erosion costs the State of North Carolina 66 million dollars yearly by removing plant food alone? Rotating crops reduce soil loss about one-third? Buzned-over woods lose over 38 times as much soil as do unburned woods? Grass sod loses over 11 times as much soil as unburned woods? \TftrA ikon =:fl ?s * -' 1 * " ...... -jyj pci ten 01 tne cultivated land in the Piedmont region is severely eroded and gullied? Seven and one-tenth per cent of all land in Pied nont North Carolina has been abandoned due to excessive erosion? Three and one-tenth per cent of all the land in North Carolina has been abandoned due to erosion? increased use of electricity could be obtained in other sections of the country by private power companies as are obtained in the TYA area that a tremendous step toward recovery would be taken through increase production of electrical appliances? "(6) Are not the people of the United States entitled to good spoitsmanship on the part of the private utilities, and should thev ? ? ?~} ..v? uvRuumcugc mat irte prosperity of private power companies in the TVA ar-n is due in considerable part to rate reduction a?d the spotlight of public attention, which has stimulated these companies to move out of the lethargy due to monopoly?" ? th Carolina TURNING BACK HIi 10 YEARS AGO , >> Friday, June 12, 1925 j Mrs. R. H. Sneed. Miss Margaret | ? land Max Sneed. of Lemon City. Fla.. j ' arrived a-t Friday to sp nd the i summer in Murphy. Y Mr. C. E. Long ar.J Miss Inet ? L t' Ranger were visitors in X Murphy Sunday. Y Mess:s J. N. and Ralph Moody are attending court ir. Robbinsvill- X this week. "1" Mr. Harry Mill r who has been { attending Emory University. Atlanta ? returned hom "Wednesday to spen i his vacation with his parents. Mr. ,,, and Mrs. E. S. M ller. Mrs. Robert Barclay and littl >n returned to their home at Cop. perhill. T.nn.. Monday after spendI"? here with Mr?. Rir. clay J parents. Dr. and Mr?. J. W. i Thompson. Miss Mary Bell returned last week from Gr ensboto where she has p.. been attending the North Carolina Coll ge for Women. p, Miss Hattie Axley spent one day this we k in Blue Ridge, Ga. Mr. A. B. Dickey and son. Charles . n.i James Axle;.- are visiting r li- frc ives i" Hirlan and Middlesbonus'n, Ky. Be vis 20 YEARS AGO Ft:day. June 11, 1915 an Mi? Cunningham of Cop? rhill. ur was a visitor here Sunday. Mrs. Cailie Hall has returned from jgc a business trip to Atlanta. r(> Jacob Fulmer >f Marbi . was a ,0, pleasan. caller at this office. to Mrs. Em.ni Hall of Atlanta. Ga.. ? is :h _ f M.s. E i -at Darnell. Mrs. . V.". Hand nix left Thursday a i: a . a visit to Atlanta. .M -s L is Holland of Andrews i spend: - g a f.w days in the city. Mrs. J. .;. Dickey of Ranger, was J in town Tuesruy on business and r aid us a visit. ti Mrs. Reha Wood ::a? returned i front Asheville wit ere she has ! t attending school. Dr. H. N. Wells spent s veral days b the first cf the \vem a visit to Robbinsville. Mr. Sandy Munday and wife, of anklin were in town Thursday. Mrs. M. R. Turnbill, of Kayesvilte visiting r-latives here this week. Allen A. Fain returned Thursday im a business tiip to Robbinsville. W. G. Candler and daughter . Miss nnie. arrived here Saturday to ;it friends. Mi-s Fmma MeCiy, of Dill+oro rived Thursday for a visit to her ele, Capt. R. L. Herber". Messrs B n Posey, Edmund B. irveil, Marshall \V. Bell and P.. L. oper, who have been attending lit at Robbinsville, return 1 home utsday. Nervous, Weak Woman Soon All Right "I had regular shaking spells from lervousness," writes Mrs. Cora San* lers. of Paratrould, Ark "I was all un-down and cramped at my time intil I would have to go to bed. After ny first bottle of Cardul. 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