5SCvI,.' ill Advance in The County.
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SYLVA NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY ^ ;UST 18, 1932
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
0IOHOF POWER
l0jm MAY BE
0 IH UmiBH
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iiWuW""' ( ? August 37.?
Ifobittfton in tnr dog days has
l?0tbii#to lf" h[r sil ar0ll"d a"d gos
,,ji The tfosup is nhvays political
t;lj istutly uiiii'tmnipil. As a mat-;
jt',r ui J""- ?t ally none of the
[iiujui;'" Hcli'i'.'- <?t cither party fo
.jV, iii lln; i.i?J capital. Tlw
,j;j rifiul r"'il'i '? ad(|iiarters of
- .mWirmis Hie in Chii-airo, while
. K(|
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nit it- national committed
.. ,,,nt4 rlnrliv I rum New York
party has ns yet actually
? ; way. The Democrats have
rim"'"" st;"' U'? ,{t'Pub,i<'ans
IrtLllv" tl"' ??'!>ublioan campaign
,, li'-til M'- Hoover <le
,1(1 U'1' ,Mf' .
his >l> " ? ot acceptance, on
^ . nth, tin- day after his fifty
'ib.birtlitiay- T,u' Democrats start
*4>otiii/ tlir minute their Chieagc
oav.atiori was over.
h Washing !,:! ""c of "ic
, ;>.il issif< > ? Iiat will be stressed
DfillfiP'" .
the TreM'fi ntuil campaign will he
, issue between the Rooscveliiiui
fc.nnciplc of governmental ownership
r ^ !e.i*t more rigid governnienta'
iiutrol if water power and electric
,tiutin, mid the ]>oliey generally m
>* Republican, of leaving a!
[u<int-si i.|H?rat ions to private capi
;l| nut enterprise, under only suf
iVllI j>,,viru!ae!ital supervision t?
[isiiiv the consumer a square dea'
here niv signi that this issue may
ecnio an acute <>ue before Xovem
>r.
The Democratic politicians arc
aVmic heavily upon the business
and unemployment. They
\W\ \\\(< gt iicrul sentiment ofl
P he euuiAtv \? for a change, no mat
'cr what kim\ nf& chanpe. Naturally
with the franchise uo\v so genera'
tluil everybody who is twenty-one I
years old, < ithrr male or female, has
the riichl In vote, there must be ?
Wgb j H'nvntHgp of voters who are
influenced by nothing more fiuida
'?ntal than the state of their indi
?(ual ftomiielis niul pocket books,
?for that reason, the Republican
ianmrfmcnt is bnnki n?* upon every
?ncoura^ing si^n of re in ning to pros
prity. It is too much to expect that
i'i heels will he turning again be
:ore rleetion. hut the evidences that
tip worst has jinsseil and that the up
ti?ni hus definitely bci;un nre being I
Hired upon nnd undoubtedly some
what magnified by ,\fr. Hoover's sup
porter*.
HENDERSONVILLE TO MEET
SYLVA NINE HERE SATURDAY
I The schedule ot the Si?i*?kv Moun
tain* Baseball League brings Render
I'tiville hito Saturday to meet Sylva
n u* Kccoiitl nu-nunter of the sea
Wwlersouville was the first I
It'JB to *Wh the locals were forced
Iw* in deft at.
present Sylva is leading the
Ififlif by h half uamo, duo to the
hMulnl Black Mountain by
l|'ni f'ak. \\ n|i 0i,|y throe pamos left |
|? lip played tho local tribe is mak
'"S <? final effort to win tho pennant.
(?vin?ton's Sport Shop of AsHe
u'-l> '* offering to the winning team
the S'ipoky Mountains League, in
^ni'lual miniature cold baseballs. The
v,ctors wiH prohaldv play the winner*
I'' huhist ri a | 1,-atjne, whioh in all
wiil he Hazel wood, whioh
h** H margin that will b?
I "r|! to overt nke hy any other team
I"1 Wgue.
I ? I'liiiiliil pitching bv .Taok Robln
f 4 'ias Wn a great holp toward the
I',. *tgmlinjr nf t\H* Sylva club.
I'L on,> <>(" tlie host pames of
I 3' *a*on )when Ik op|>osed Ralph
tV,rmor \V,ke Forest College
l,tr' hm' Asheville Tourist player,
I, the I eioostor club only
1 ' buttered hits. .Tnmes allowed
I;11"' kits and Svlva took the contest
T 1 fi 3 count.
Ita" ^ ^ frame, Fincannon
K?th* 01,1 Fort ciub (i?wn to tho
?(?[? '' to 1. llis opponent was Jess
|y' f?rnipr pitcher for the New
I Giants, who is now on his va
I J"n st Old Fort. "
Pr\fIt UHlw,^?y. Sylva will piny
|^!,n im Allison Field. It will
1 '^'rd time tho two teams have
I'lr,' ' ? Hryson lost tho first
I j ^an'"* a?d is out for revenge.
ItilV "r',ay's C!lme with Henderson
| L ell|l tin* season in the leagne
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Vv. 0. T. GRID SCiiiiDJin;
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With the exception oj jt'.vo dates
which are doubtful, "Cullowhee's
football schedule, as announced by
Coach Poindexter yesterday, is as
follows :
Oct. 8, Rutherford College, there
Oct. 15, Cuisoii-lNtwuian, taexe.
Oct. 22, Biltmore, at Cullowhee.
Jet. 29, Tennessee ( Teachers
there (pending).
Nov. 5, Hiawassce, at T!ullowhee.
Nov. 11 (Pending, at Sylva).
Nov. 19, Mais Hill at Cullowhee.
Nov. 26, Weaver at Weavervi le.
Coach Poindexter also announc
ed that he was trying to arrange
a week or ten days practice before
school starts, in which case a game
will probably be scheduled for
Cullowhee on October 1. A game
may also be played with the In
dian All-stars during the Fair.
MISS DENMARK APPOINTED
DEAN OF WOMEN AT W. C. T. C.
Miss Beatrice Denmark, of Del and,
Fla., a former faculty member of
Meridian college and Moman's Col
lege in Mississippi, has accepted the
position of dean of women cut West
ern Carolina Teachers' college, Pres
ident IE. T. Hunter has announced.
Miss Denmark will also be an in
structor in the primary education de
partment of the college.
The new dean of women was edu
cated at Mississippi Normal college,
the University of Alabama, the Uni
versity of Chicago, and Columbia
University. She received her A. B.
degree from the University of Ala
bama and her M. A. degree from Co
lumbia. She also received a diploma
in elementary school supervision from
Teachers' college, Columbia
Western Carolina Teachers College
will haVe two other new faculty mem
bers next year. C. C. Poindexter,
former University of North Carolina
football and wrestling star, will be
at Cullowhee as director and coach
of all athletics and teacher in the
history d opart men t ! "Miss Hula Craig'
at present a member of the nursing
staff of the Harris Community hos
pital, Sylva, and^foritfcr night su
j>ervisor of the Norburn hospital,
Asheville, will be at Cullowhee an
college nurse and matron of the
Walter E. Moore dormitory.
W. E. Bird will ret um to the col
lege this fall" as dean after serving
in that capacity for over a decade.
Mr. Bird was director of the college
summer school this year.
Practically all of last- year's fac
ulty members will return to the col
lege this M, President Winter n
nounees.
4,368 ENROLLED IN JACKSON
SCHOOLS DURING LAST YEAR
Statistics in the office of Supt.
M. B. Madison reveal that the Jack
son County public schools had a totai
enrollment for the six-months term
1931-32 of 4,3(58 pupils. The total av
erage attendance was 3,596.1. Th
average per cent attendance for the
county was 82.3.
Below is a summary of enrollment
and attendance:
Enrollment, white, 3,686; High
sohool, white, 597; (Colored (ele.),
J 85; Total 4,368.
Average attendance for six months:
Elementary, white, 2,943.5; 'Iligh
School, white, 514.3; Colored, 138.3;
Total 3,596.1.
The following facts are of interest
also : )
The are 38 public schools in -Tack
son County; 119 teachers. There are
13 six months schools, the remainder
of the^ schools are eight monts, ex
cept Cullowhee, which is nine months.
There are 14 one-teacher schools; 7
two-teacher schoo's; 6 three-teacher
schools; 4 fo^r-teacher schools; 1
five-teacher school; 1 six-teacher
school; 2 eight-teacher schools; 1
nine-teacher school; 1 ten-teacher
school; and 1 eleven-teacher school.
HUNTING SEASON OPENS SOON
Mack Ashe, County Game Warden,
announces that the squirrel! season
opens September 1st. That the deer
season opens November 1st, and c'os
es December "1 5th. The bear sea so:
opens October 1st, and closes Jan
ary 1st.
Hunting license are now in the
hands of the warden and at other
convenient places in the county and
may be purchased at any time.
SALESMAN CUT AND
ROBBED BY BANDITS
A hold robbery was perpetrated,
Monday night on Balsam mountain,
when Mr. Shumate, a travelling sales
man lor Iviorretl Packing Company,
was severely cut and robbed of some
$14!) by unknown parties.
ShuinaL* is now in an Asheville
hospital, wher<? his eondition is said,
to be serious.
According to reports, II r. Shumate,
who had been making his territory
in this ami adjoining eounties, and
who had left Sylva a short time be
fore, was traveling toward Asheville,
when a stone was thrown through the
windshield of his automobile, lie is
said to have stopped to investigate,
and was set upon by the robbers, who
eut him in the ensuing encounter,
took $140 from his person and fled.
CONGRESSMEN STUDY PUBLIC
NEEDS DURING SUMMER
Washington, I). ('., August 17. ?
Many members of Congress, perhaps
the majority of both houses, are put
ting in the summer in various pub
lic services besides looking after
their po'itical fences. There are at
least a l dozen committees of both
houses conducting hearings and in
vestigations on the various subjects
of public concern. Onp of these is
the question of governmental com
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petition in the printing business.
Kansas and Missouri publishers had a
chance a short time ago to tell a Con
gressional committee what an in
justice it is for the government to
print return envelopes for private in
dividuals for twenty- four cents a
dozen, thus taking millions of rev
enue away from the , owners of local
printing plants. There is a belief
here that the next sesion of Con
gress will do something to remedy
this injustice. . 1 ?(
McCULLEY GOES TO RICHWOOD,
Mr. C. M. MeCulley, who has been
connected with the Parson's Tanning
plant here for a number of years,
left the first of the week for Rich
wood, West Va., where will assume
chiirgr of a tannery. -
Mrs. MiCullcy and the girls wi I
remain in Sylva for the present.
HOME COMING AT CULLOWHEI
Sunday, August 28 will ho the reg
ular hoin<> coming mid decorat ion day
at Cullowhee
The following program has been a
ranged :
10:00 A. M., Decoration of graves.
10:30, Address, Kcv. Mark Q. Tut
tl,e of Cullowhee Methodist church
11:00. Rev. S. II. Milliard, S.Vlva,
Hev. K. Allen, Wayncsville.
2:30, Rev. W. X. Cook, Webster.
R. I). Phillips, Com. on Program
HUNTERS GO TO NEW YORK
FOR SUMMER VACATION
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I)i'. 11. T. 1 Hunter, pipsident of
Western Carolina Teachers Calleg'. ,
left Tuesday morning with his fam
ily by motor for Ithica, N'ew York,
where they will spend a three weeks
vacation, doing in the party were
President and Mrs. Hunter and their
two daughters, Jane and Elizabeth
Anne. Miss Martha Lou, the other
daughter, left a day or so earlier, for
Arizona, where she will aittend school
(his year.
Through a unique arrangement the
Hunters will exchange homes with
Dr. R. B. Birch, head of the veterin
ary experiment station of Cornell
University, Ithica, N. Y. Dr. Birch
arrived at Cullowhee Wednesday for
a three wciks vacation. He was ac
companied on his visit by Mrs. Birch
and their sen and daughter.
While away ihe Hunters plan to
visit Niagara Falls and other points
of interest.
WILL IMPROVE CEMETERY
Friends of the deceased who are
huried at the Still well cemetery are
requested to meet there at 8.30 o'clo, k
Tuesday, ' 'August 23rd, for the pur
pose of cleaning off and improving
the grounds. Picnic dinner will br>
served at .noon by the ladies. Ser
vices will be hold and the groves wi'l
be decoratcd.
Everyone interested, is requested
to come, bringing a basket of food,
and a tool with which to work.
Fate^Of S.C.I. Will Be
Discussed By Association;
Plan For Junior College
' TODAY and
TOMORROW
( (By Frank Parker Stockbridgc)
Jefferson . . . shrine in Danger
The beautiful old home of Thomas
Jefferson at Monticello, designed b>
the third President hinisolf, is one of
the historic buildings of America thai
ought to be kept as a national shrine
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Association, which purchased th< i
property several years ago, restored I
and maintains it for visitors to see
and admire, has been hit by the de
pression, like everybody else. There
is danger, unless something more than
a hundred thousand ) dollars can be
raised quickly, that the small remain
ing mortgage 011 the property will be
foreclosed and it will pass into pri
vate hands.
I have a peculiar interest in Jeffer
son. 1 think his ideals and principles
ought to be kept alive, and I do not
know how that can be done better
than to keep Monticello as a monu
ment to him and them. I sent the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Associa
tion, New York, a dollar toward the
mortgage. If everyone else who feels
as I do about Jefferson ivill do the
same, there will be no foreclosure.
Frost . harnessed by industry
I went to a luncheon in New York
the other day at which everything
that was served, except the celery
and the coffee, had been frozen
while fresh by the new dry ice pro
cess. Fish, steak, strawberries, every
thing , else on the table had been
subjected to a temperature of fifty
or more degrees below zero and
thawed oat only just as the meal was
.being prepared.
Instantaneous freezing like this
does not cause ice crystals to break
the cells of meat, vegetables or fruit
and so there is no change whatever
in the flavor, and they can be kept
perfectly fresh for years, as long as
they are protected by dry ice.
A big corj>oratioii is spending mil
lions to establish these "frosted
foods" as a new industry. It is quick
er and cheaper than canning, and
ought to be of benefit to farmers and
fishermen.
Oxen . . . again in service
Up in my Berkshire country, far
mers are beginning to swing back to
the use of oxen for heavy hauling and
! plowing. The slow, sturdy, reliable
I yoke of oxen has become a rare sight
in recent years. Even in New England,
where the hillv contours make farm
ing with tractors more difficult than
in the West and South. Now we are
beginning to see them hauling great
loads of hay, dragging "stone boats'
and doing many of the farm opera
tions for which horses and tractors
have been uned.
Oxen are cheaper than horses, am'
easier to feed and take care of, for
one thing. A well-broken yoke of
two-year-old steers is worth about
$200, while a good working team of
horses brings almost double that. Th<
farmer who needs motive power can
raise his own fuel for the oxen, but
he has to pay cash for gasoline foi
his tractor. There are very few far
riers left who know how to shoe an
ox, but the art is not entirely lost.
I think this return to "hay-burn
ing motors" is one indication that
our national economy i is swinging
back toward self-contaiivd local com
munity units. I find my neighbors
saying that the craze for modern im
provements has been overdone.
Actors . . . broke bat cheerful
The most interesting dinner I had
last week was at the Actors Dinner
Club. Even in good times there are
lots of actors out of work, and in
these times the majority of them have
no jobs. So somebody ? I don't know
who ? had the bright idea of starting
a restaurant where actors who have
the price can get a good dinner for
fifty cents, and the general public
can dine for a dollar the extra half
dollar going to pay for the dinner
of some actor who can'it afford it.
The waitresses are all actresses out
of work, who serve at the tables for
their meals, and the bus-boys and
other attendants are actors in the
same situation. I was greeted at the
The Baptists of the Tuckaseigec
Association are meeting at Shoal
Creek today, tomorrow, and Satur
day, for the one hundredth and thir
ty-third session of the Association.
JRev. Thad F. Deitz is moderator
and Rev. W. N. 'Cook, clerk.
The program for the Association
was published in The Journal last
week. ' ? ,
One of the big problems that is
expected to be brought up at the
meeting is consideration of the pro
|x>sal to make a Junior College of
Svlva Collegiate Institute.
leading Bpptists in this i^egion
are interested in the project, as an
citizens of other denominations. It is
pointed out that the need for a high
school has greatly dimioished in the
Western Counties during the past
few years, due to the fact that the
State has established high schools in
almost all parts of the country. On
the other hand, the State school at
Cullowhec, which was first a high
school, then a normal school, giving
junior college work, has been raised to
a standard four-year college, thus
leaving this entire part of North
Carolina without junior college fac
ilities. It is expected that the matter
will be given a great deal of discus
sion in the Association, and it may
be that definite action in that direc
lion will be taken.
FUNERAL FOR MRS. ALLEN
Funeral services for Mrs. J. K.
? i k
A len were conducted Sunday after
noon at Scott's Creek Baptist church,
Beta, by Rev. J. G. Murray, and Dev.
W. C. Reed. Interment was in Old
Field cemetery.
Mrs. Allen died Friday night al
her home here, after a long illness.
Before her marriage, Mrs. Allen
was Miss Mary Winchester. She is
survived by her husband, one daug
ter, Mrs. B. O. Painter, two Grand
children .one sister, Mrs. Ed Anderson
of Hayesville, three brothers, Mr. .
W. Winchester, Hayesville, J. L
Winchester, and Lewis Winchester, of
Wavnesville, and a large number of
friends.
The deacons of the First Baptist
cfinreh of Sylva, of which Mrs. Allen
had long l?een a member, served as
pall bearers at the funeral service.
WORK PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
ON NEW ATHLETIC FIELD
According to word from Western
Carolina Teachers College, the board
fence around the new athletic field
will be completed within the next day
or so. Work has progressed more
rapidly than was anticipated and the
new field and fence will be complet
ed in time to greet the students when
school opens.
Several sections of movable bleach
ers are also being erected for the
field. This will enable those attend
ing football and bast-ball games to
enjoy them more fully. The new
field, new fence and new bleachers
will be a great improvement over the
accommodations in the past and
should prove to be an added incent
ive to students to attend Western
Carolina and spectators to attend
athletic contests.
Another ? improvement that will
grealy aid athletics and physical ed
ucation is the enlargement of the
dressing room and shower facilities
at the gymnasium.
Coach Poindexter and the other
school officials are optimistic for a
record number of students and are
doing everything passible to accom
modate them.
Miss Oliver reports that reserva
tions are coining in rapidly and all
indications point to a banner year
for the school.
door by a former screen star who
was one of the most popular person
ages in the films a few years ago,
and the young woman who brought
me my soup had her name in electric
lights on Broadway only two seasons
ago. There were probably two hun
dred actors and actresses dining there
but I did not see a single doleful
face. Everybody was cheerf rl in spite
of adversity. And it was a good din
ner too.
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CONSTRUCTION OF
TRAILS IN PARK
TO BEGIN AT ONCE
The following trails will be
constructed in the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park this season:
In North Carolina section: Indian
Gap to Sinokemont via Thomas Ridge
II miles; Deep Creek Trail, Bryson
Place to Indian Gap, 8.5 miles, An
drews Bald Trail, Andrews Bald to
Mill Creek, 4.5 miies.
In Tennessee section : Rainbow
Falls Trail Cherokee Orchard to Mt.
LeConte via Rocky Spur, 6.5 miles;
Boulevard Trail, Mt. LeConte to Mt.
Kephart, 6 miles.
Common to both States: Appalach
ian Trail, Newfound Gap to Mt. Kep
hart, 3.3 miles.
Trails built this year will be Class
A, or horse trails. The ruling grad
ient will not exceed fifteen per cent.
Funds for trail construction will
be expended equally in the States
of North Carolina and Tennessee. All
labor will be recruited from those
living in the park, married men pre
ferred, and crews will be organized
with an equal number of Tennesseans
and North Carolinians. The minimum
wage scale will be twenty-five cents
per hour. As this work will be done
by foree account, and is therefore
not subject to the requirement of a
thirty hour week as is the case by
contract, plans are based upon n
forty eight hour week.
Bids have been solicited for sup
plying trail building tools. It is
hoped that equipment will be on hand
and the work will be started not later
than August 22.
ENROLLMENT BEACHES 580
IN SIX MONTH SCHOOLS
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Reports filed in Supt. Madison's
office from twelve of Jackson Coun
ty's thirtee.il six-months schools re
veal a total enrollment of 580. This
includes the enrollment for the first
month which ended last week. All the
six-months schools were reported ex
cept Zion Hill
A summary in order of boys, girls,
und total, follows:
Balsam Grove, 41, 33, 74; Double
Springs, 17, 20, 37; East Fork, 30,
20, 50; Gay 35, 41, 7(1; Green's Creek,
28, 22, 50; Oak Ridge, 19, 15, 34,
Pleasant Grove, 5, 11, 16; Rocky
Hollow, 37, 35, 72; Sol's Creek, 12
14, 26; View Point, 41, 31, 72; Wolf
Creek, 23, 17, 40; Yellow Mountain,
18, 15, 33; Totals 306, 274 and 680.
BALSAM
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Duncan an
nounce the birth of a girl, Helen
Irene. She arrived Wednesday, the
tenth.
Mrs. D. L. Cope and children oof
Asheville were guests o? her slater,
Mrs. Walter Haiti, last week end.
A large number of Ualsamites went
to Lake Junaluska Saturday evening
to see tlio Pageant "Heaven Bound."
Robbers broke into the store of
Mrs. D. T. Knight and Son, Monday
night and stole a lot of overall pants,
overalls, cigarettes, eatables, etc.
This is the second time this store
has been broken open within the last
month. The rogues broke a glass in
a side window the first time, and
this time they broke and entered
through a front window.
1ST GRADE TEACHER RESIGNS
A change has been made in the
personnel of the Sylva Elementary
School faculty, by the resignation of
Miss Sue Johnson of Ard<-n. Mrs.
Dan Tompkins has been elected to
fill the vacancy.
Miss Johnson has been teaching in
the Sylva Elementary School for tin*
past five years.
Mrs. Tompkins has had several
years teaching experience in the pub
lic schools of the City of Augusta,
Georgia.
P0WELLS-SLATT0N8 TO HOLD
REUNION AT TUCKASEIGEE
The P'owcll-fllattjon reunion will
be held at the home of T. J. Powell,
at Tuckaseigce, on the first Sunday
in September. It is planned for all
members of the families and their
friends to gather *at the home with
baskets of dinner and spend the day.
Good speakers will be on the pro
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