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el. 50 - Year in Advance in .Thc'\)untv. > ;? * ?* ^ BYLVA, K> ^ C C. Masov ' iving holidays r ?* daughter, M, \ i ? JL. : WH.TA, NOME ca&olika. thtotoat, deoehber i, mm $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. COLONEL ROBINS N0W RESTING IN Its FLORIDA HOME ***? :':,Ym-h,l with amnesia, is re - ), is Brook sville, ' Fta.. ,jU John Parr is, J*.) . u^vmond Robins, noted dry '"'j,. pewonal ftiend. of Hoover, who was found1 J*''" . P, .,t Whit tier, ami. said tvio ' ... y at'l'iiH ti? h'", D-vii-r. of X-v Yorki nephew ; Jrv i- r us. -i ?U'r, fame to Ashe-. <* tw ?'"?* '? ? ,-.r f hat was employed to carry. JS" Kohins to Brooksville. Mr. , ,r ?;iil that Col. Robins expects ^uine l 's norn.al activities after 1 ?l* 'eoMvalescence. . \ standi <>f tVce months come to mi Nov. K wiwu Carl Bvrd y.l[r |.}ycar ol'l school boy dis ,1 i!,:lt a stringer living in miii-r nnilcr the name of "Rey ,|. was rtallj the mfcsing Kehins, W,,0,K a ,iation m, i^rrh had been made. . , (1i I'ulti us disappeared lnyster ? i.. s. , t> -mber '1, while he was on lOtt"'.* 1 ... , . I,h way ti"iii Maine to- A ashington, n C for confeivnce with Presi . , j|0, ot. When Col. Robins did , liis d"stination a search lli'l - ' V'H'i. and it was almost three ll01l,hs' later that he was found in Whiiti, )- win re he bad bc-en living HIMl,.r ;in assumed name, while In (|i,| ?uite :? I'it prospecting in the wntfafe ?.?r Whirtier. Mad" Many Friends It Ml-m that Col. Robins was a miv.r. and a {Treat friend t > vw-r* plf- I)"1'in- the 80 <lavs btfc uvetl in Whittier he made fvirt tftirt t" become <i_ helping it/rsire m\V youujr '?fe of the little u7I.il'.'. Vw* v.as not a Bunday jHtsnil th:it Cfli.K?hins did not take a frronp !>f hoys and frirls to hi^f Ijok-i'Ht tar un nit liatjle- Coye^KnotyJ Hhith limsfil flown on tho vnhifre OT^ lViiitti?r. < t , > -f'/ Oik of rf ? most interesting of the maiir fhin < that Col. Robi'iS did rfciic lit' wns Watid ?t Whittier was thaf fill" SiMi-ii'V afternoon he led a piO'i|> of h:>ys and girls to his look out, surf lb re b- fore a throne which he h'l ! r ct d h- le d members of the irr??i|? id ?na?t a scene from Sliakes pear? *s "A Mi-1 un:nier Night's Dr?*anj, * II. ? seemed to have been an k apt stixUnt of the work of William ^ i1 -n H'f. ami his interest in tifrhiii? tlii* "roup of girls and boys Stak'sH ,i aui.-.ties, leaves a Si';'" ? ?) ? :!'?! i i tin* minds of many 't' !.;? u ;. ? afflicted with am K'.VI. ? ; v i. o.|. of Western .\oi?t' t .1:1 i';nii ? j !; contact with : 1 1 1 1 they luul, and still tan*, h f?clin? of friendship and kiw1 lilies t.i^su'd this man who canu' intn ih-jr u'rotip and took up their way df livin r. And it is with deep ~"'t tliat the p-ople of Whittier :l'- 1 " -'irroiiiuiiiii* territory, n:oupn '' ' |''iN-iii'? of Col. Robins from !,r '?t?r tlu'in.- : 'tis m t In" ' Klondike Rold m>l: in lav away Alaska, Raymond Kv|i!'.?. at'cf jt li-ht with the death y i"ii! >1" tliat country, dedicated lite Ik 7?r.in'ni? service. -With the ? ot *| c;udr wooden altar sur "'I'-iitiil In- a cross in the hills near ^hitti"r, a story is recalled of this n'a" f'"' H'l iun UiV 1ms had a vast ftl1' in-.'. It was after he and two ^?mi?:jni?;,s ]1;|I| wrt,st?d threfe" for > of y.llovv metal, which men k"1 ?1'l'i<<) ll..' i o il of the Artie, to inm ||?. stubborn earth, that ty'J ?nine almost lo death's door. 1 then an adventurous V""'" mil n fresh frm the stiver ,",n,s ?>t' III- v.- est, decided to stal^e ' mi ? irillion-to-one shot 3,1,1 n?ak ? a hrenk for civilization 'liM li" preferred to face death l"ll'"r flic sidi in-swept sky, h Afl1 r liit. n y weary miles of travel iipim a tn(| y-iunt and senr ? -tiii,. | i|, , jjs j(,v arms out like ' w bite siiitini'1. Overhead a pale ' ' r'it"' S|in sllone with cold radian co, J1,1 !,t his feet was a shadow of the 1 '*? 'li" p!'if?ct shadow of a cvnsfc. ' * "I. tin-re in the far North that fell to his knees and |r^''l to a (luil he hnd never known lif"" ^ didicated his " in man service, s? here in the beantifnl hiii ""ii\ ot \(>ith Cnro'ina Cfti. HoK 'j" ('am" t ? build a cross to resemble #t 0tte in tivo Arctic, where be TODAY and 1 TOMORROW ? (By Frank Parker' Stockbridge) ? , i , - ? ? ,r. Missionaries . . . their yalne Mrs. Pearl Buck, who wrote the great novel of Chinese life, "The tiood " flarth,'' confirms from her own intimate knowledge of conditions in China what imany good Americans have long believed, that a great deal of the Christian missionary work in the Orient is liot only wasted effort hut actually detrimental both to the cause of Christianity and the reputa tion of. America in the Chinese minds. ? - v Inqiortant religious leaders anc bodies have been making a study < :? the missionary situation. They re port that too many j>ersons arc sen4 out as missionaries who are narrow minded, biguted and entirely sec tarian in their outlook, and who hav* not the eduoational and tempera mental equipment for the jab. Magnificent social work has been tl'Oiie by many missionaries, but when th.e Chinese observe so-called Christians quarreling among them selves over inconsequential points o* doctrine they do not only don't kno^ what it is all about, but begin to dis trust the professed motives of the missionaries themselves. ?One of the fundamental teachings j;f Christianity is the duty to "go forth into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature," lint it isn't everybody who wants to be missionary iwho is quaj'ifjf-d &?? pVcacli the gospel to those who have never heard it. Telephones . . . and distance The dream of telephoned conver sation between all parts of the world has almost come true. There are now 108,000 miles of international telephone circuits which Connect with almost all the land line tele phones in the world,, so that tele-' phone conversation between tho re motest part of South America and ^o?bei? -ETmrper Wt*eeiT Sbotfi" Africa and. ChicWfO, or \#ny other p>int in North America, between Se,n Francisco and Manila or .Japan across the Pacific, in fact, between almost any two parts of the world, is not in only practical but is in almost daily use. 1 This telephone is one of those in credible marvels which we accept as commonplace because we have got used,, to talking to people at a dist il nee. I can well remember Ihe very first telephone and th< skepticism with 'which Professor Bells announcement that he could tnlk over a wire was received. No body believed that it could ever he ? rue, no more, than thev believed that fiom? of the other tilings which T have seen come true were possible, such as the electric light, the phono irftoli, tlie motion picture and es pecially the airplane. T'd like lo come back in a hundred vears and see the new miracYs that our grandchildren will then be re garding as commonplace. Birth . . a certificate 1 had occasion the other day to apply for a passjwrt to enable n:e to leave the United States and make a trip to Kuijope. But my first at tempt was blocked when the passport bureau dcnuinded proof that I was born in tlie United States. I just didn't have any sure proof. I was born long before any of the states re quired the registration of births. I finally succeeded, by means of tin affidavit from my sister and the presentation of an old family Bible in which my birth had been recorded, to convince the U. S. Department of State that I was a native citizen. They told ire at the passjiort of fice that only twenty-six states make Wgihtrtrtion of births 4a,nn,,^S01tyr> *-?> that there is still a large propor tion of .native born citizens who have no means of proving, except by the testimony of relatives, that they were actually born here. Til Eur.ipe every citizen is required V-) carry hift birth certificate and all ?flier documents to provo his iden tity. nationii I'y n i??l occupation, whenever be travels even from one town to another or moves into a different house. That- sort of super vision r?P the individual can ensilv lie carried too far, but it seems to ?>io that we don't carry it far enough in America. ,W>uld go each day and worship in the cathedral silence that prevailed in the mountain! near Wbittier. * "<-?> FUNERAL IS HOD AT CULLOWHEE FOR MACK BROWN Funeral services for Mack C. Brown, who died suddenly/ at his j home in Spruoc Pine, Friday, were ' conducted at the Cullowhee Baptist church, F.unday morning., by Rev. I. K. Stafford, Rev. J. Gray Murray, and fhe pastor of Spruce Pine Bap tist ehurch. Prof. E. H. Stillwell, of thf ?hair of history of Western Caro lina Teachers College, a life-long | friend of and co-worker with Mr. Brown on the Board of Deacons of the Cullowhee Baptist churcfi, deliv ered a funeral oration. The service at th< grave was in charge of llnaka Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which Mr. Brown had tofen a member for many jrears. Mr. Brown was a native of Jack son county. He spent his entire life here, until al)out'two year sago, when he moved to Spruce Pine, and was promineut in the ehurch and civic life of his community. He was em ployed by the Harris Clay Company for n;?ny *nd was known as an excellent mine superintendent and prospector. He was a son of the late H. R. Brown,. Mr. Brown is survived by his wid ow, and seven children, Misses Em ma, and Louelia Brown, Mrs. E. D. lIoo]K>r, of East Laportc, Mrs. Helen Willis, of Spruce Pine, Mrs. Willie Monteith of Sylva, and "Kenneth and John Brown, of Spruce Pine. Surviv ing also are two sisters, Mrs L. A. Buchanan, of Svlya, and Miss Emily Brown, four brothers, Jesse Brown, Sylva, Basil Brown of Spruce Pine Robert Brown of Cul'owhee and John Brown of Lakeland, Fla. CO$T OF fOHOOL?_Ht JACKS** HAS SEEN GREATLY REDUCED ' . .] f I Italcigh, Nov. 30.? Jackson county has reduced the current expense item of its sch.?ol expenditures $64,56)? in the past three years, or from $169,-! 040 for the school year 1928-29 to $104,475 budgeted for the year 1931 32, according to figures compiled in the office of the Superintendent of public Instruction, Total eust of operation of schools hi this county has been rcductd from ^2o6,865 in 1928-29 to $124,052 in 1931-32, a reduction oi $132,813. This total cost is divided into cur rent expense, the reduction iu which is shown ubove; capital outlay, wiiicn is the erection of uew buildings and permanent impioveuieuU, reduced | from $64,284 for 1028-29 to nothing! for .1931-32, and debt service, pay- 1 inent of interest and retiring bonds, which was $23,576 iu 1028-29, as compared with $19,677 tor 1931-32. For the State as % whole the total I expanses readied the peak of $50,- J 155,928 in 1928-29, which figure has been cut to a budgeted $32,463,074 for 1931-32, a reductiou of $17,682 908, or 35 per c?it in the period of three years. The current expense item, which includes teachers' sal aries and sa la lies of school officials has been reduced from $31,959,830 to $24,887,196, iu the same period, a decrease of $7,072,634, or 22^2 per cent. Since the State has reached the peak of school building construction and hns :i fairly well rounded pro gram, the capital outlay item has been reduced from $9,236,299 four years ago to $1,380,720 last year, a reduction of $7,855,579 or 85 per cent. Debt service is also gradually lessen in/?, the cost of $8,059,853 four years ago having been reduced | to $6,195,157 last year, a drop of $2,764,695, or 31 per e,?nt. While these reductions of raor< than one-third of the annual cost of the schoo's were being made in three years, the teachers of the State have been reduced in number by 215, taught 14V2 days longer in the aver age term and taught 47,420 more children in daiiv average attendance, in 1930-31, as compared with two years before. While iu 1931-32 fig ures arc not complete, it is certain that the enrollment and average at tendance have been again increased, thus heavily increasing the work of t jv, teachers and lower teaching ooet cost v;' : CONSTRUCTION OF BRUGES STARTED I ON HIGHWAY 106 Wfrk on the structures on High ; way 106 from Sylva to Cullowhee is starting. The bridge across Tuck aseitfie river at Cullowhee is the p'aeJ where the first work is heing done, and laborers there are clearing off jtbe ground preparatory to con struction work. Itf is thought that the work on the Scoi t'? creek bridge, in Sylva will he gin at once, a contention between the tow i and property ' owners and the towii having been compromised nt n meeting of the Board of Alderiaen, on Monday, and the way having been cleared for the State Highway Com mission to begin construction o? the bridge and its approaches. The town awarded Dr. D. D. Hooper the sum of $1750 for the parts of his lots that will be taken and for damages to his buildings. the exact date when work on the highway itself will begin has not b.epn announced. The present plans art to pave the whole of the unfin ished portions of the road from High w^y No. 10, in Sylva to connect with tKe present paving in Dick's Gap. CATAMOUNTS CLOSE SEASON , WITH LOSS. TO WEAVER The Western Carolina Catamounts I brought their 1932 football season to a close Saturday at Ash?ville with the Weaver College Tornado. Tho Catamounts brought back thhe short j end of a 7-6 score, but outplayed their opponents and came very near scoring on two or three occasions. A field goal was missed by Bare inches and the Catamounts missed making a first down on the six inch line by a scant half inch. All in all it was a thrilling game from start to fin S' r and served notice that the West Carolina outfit Kill have to J?c reckoned with next year. . From the standpoint of games won the 1932 season was not so success ful, but from the way the team steadily improved from game to game it was very successful. The season started with I a new coach and a squad of players that had never played together and most of them with very little football experience. A hard schedule was played and the players gained valuablo experience that should stanil them in good stead next year. With most of the squad due to return next year, prospects are bright for a real team and fans in ibis section will look forward to. next season with expectations of seeing the Catamounts go places. Monday afternoon basketball prac tice was begun in earnest by both boys and girls. Coach Poindexter is coaching both outfits and with larg? squads ou hand prospects are prom ising for two good teams. The boys on the football squad were excused from practice this week, but will get into the grind next week. A meeting will be held at Greensboro the first part of December / to make up the schedule. Western Carolina is now a member of the North State Confer ence and is anxious to compote against fast company. Two or three practice games are being arranged Iwfore the Christmas Holidays to get a line on the players. POSTPONE PLAY AT W. C. T. C. "The Football Captain,'' a three act play scheduled to be given last Friday at Cullowhe.e will be given Friday night of this week. On ac count of the death of Mr. Brown, the play was postponed from last week. The Monogram Club is sponsoring play and a large attendance is ex pected Friday night. The play is based on the rivalry of two boys for captaincy of the football team. These two parts are played by two Sylva boys, Walter | Thomas and Paul Buchanan. Other j leading characters are Harry Sams,, I Charles Morgan, Mark Ferguson, Richard Miller, Emma Thompson. [Ruth Brown and Joe Weaver. Coach | Poindexter is helping with the re ' hearsals. There will bp other features along with the play including music by thr Western Carolina string band. A nominal admission fee of fifteen cents will be charged with the pro ceeds going toward buying Cata mount ooats for members of the Mon ogram club. Congress Likely To Vote On hege&ization Of Beer In First Week Of Session TU0KA8EIGEE MAN PASSES J. 0. Powell, _ 72 year old citizen of River township, died about noon, yes terday, following an attack of pneu monia, and' a stroke of paralysis. He had been id poor health for two or three years.. Funeral and interment will be held nt East Laporte at three o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Powell is survived by his wid ow, two daughters, Mrs. Mary Wil son and Mrs. Annie Middleton, five .sons, Walter, Ed., Harley, Robert, and Troy Powell, one sister, Mrs. Mary Deitz, of Dillsboro, three brothers, T. J. Powell, of Tuckasei gee, Joe Powell, of Hendersonvil'c, John Powell, of Blantyre, and other relatives and friends. BROWN AGAIN TO HANDLE AUTOMOBILE LICENSE TAOS Mr. A. M. Huggins, manager of the Carolina Motor Club Branches Service has completed arrangements whereby D. H. Brown twt the Jack son Chevrolet Co., will again handle the issuance of license plates for automobiles and trucks for the coin ing year. The 1933 plates may be used on the 15th day of December and will be sold on the weight. basis ? the same as last year ? which is 55< per hundred. All applicants for licei'w arc u rged to bring with them the long card which was mailed by the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Bureau to .ill motor vehicle owners. The Sylva office will serve Jack son, Macon, Swain, Graham, Chero kee and Clay counties. In case it is not convenient for the owiur to rome-to Sylv^ be-may buy a IT. S. Postal Money Order mad* payable to the Carolina Motor Club for the amount shown on his 193? application card sign his card and mail to rite Carolina Motor ?lnl* Branch Office, Sylva, and the li cmsc plates will be sent by return mail. QUALLA Mr. J. E. Freeman and fami'v have the sympathy of our entire community in the death of their son Donald, who died at their home at Cherokee Friday evening. Many friends and relatives from Qualla at tended the funeral Snnday irorniiur at Cherokee. The body was taken to Smokemont for interment. Mr. Free man had recently moved from his Qualla home to his store at Chcrokre A Thanksgiving program was e riven at Qualla school Thursday afternoon. Several parents and other visitors were present. Mr. and Mrs! I. Hyatt served n turkey supper to several guests at li o 'clock Thursday afternoon. Miss Louise Hyatt returned to school at CtiHowKee after spending Tranksgiving with home folks. Mr. Tyler Buchanan and family of Webster called at Mr. D. M. Shuler's Sunday. Mrs. I). L. Oxner Is visiting rela tives in Cantos. BALSAM Monday morning mercury stood at 13 and rose to 78 about noon. " Mr. Lloyd Quiett was badly hurt whib* working on the skidder for Snyder and Long1 up in the nfoun tains. However, he is recovering as well as could be expected in Ange' Bros, hospital in Franklin. Our school gave a very interesting program Thanksgiving Day. The school children enjoyed seeing and talking with Santa Claus Mon day. He gave them whistles, etc. A benefit "cap supper" was giver at the school house Thanksgiving night. The proceeds, which amounted to $7.50 will be used for a Christ mas tree for the . Baptist Sunday school. Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Boice wiH leave Dec. 1st to spend the winter 'n their home -at Clearwater Beach. Florida. Mrs. D. T. Knight and Son's store was broken into and robbed aerain the' fifteenth. No clue has been found exeept the tracks of a woman's [shoe on tie freshly oiled floor. Washington, D. C., Dcc. 1. ? Pol itical forecasters here arc up to their ears in sacculation ns to what the "lame duck" Congress, which will open its final session next week, will do about beer legislation. It is expected by all to be the first piece of major legislation to be taken up. The general opinion here ia that the House will railroad through a Bill modifying the terms of the Vol stead Act so that n beer satisfac tory in strength to all drinkers will become legalized. Ales ahd light wines will also, it is expected, be permitted of a strength now de nied by the present Act. The Bill, when passed, will be sent over to the Senate for similar action and the joint bill will then be ftcnt to Presi dent Hoover for his signature. Practiea'ly everybody here admits the wets possess sufficient majority in both Houses to pass any legisla tion desired by them. Even staunch dry Republicans like Senator Van d< nburg, of Michigan, have bowed to the storm of wet votes cast in the receent election and admit they will no longer oppose the expressed wish nf the people, spoken as they were in no uncertain tones. The day has gone by, it is ad mitted, when Congressmen need to listen to the voices from back home, lemanding that they vote against the "Demon Rum." Even the power ful lobbies that have haunted the halls of tho ?Cnpitol Building for fifteen years, watching that the People's Representatives did not break from their dry stand, havo practically ceased to exist. May Veto Wet Bill The one factor that has not changed in the situation, it is said here, is^ the veto power jxisseseed by President Hoover. Those close to tlw President assert that he has de clared open y since the result of the election was learned that ho will veto any bil. ottered to liberalize the Volstead Act, taking the stand that Tie considers any action of that kind to be a nul lification of the Eighteenth Amendment. Even the most vigorous supporters of repeal do not feel that the Seventy-second Congress possesses enough wet votes to go counter to the Presidents wishes and pass the Bill over his veto. That makes it look more than likely that no changes will be made in the Volstead Act until President elect Roosevelt is sworn in next March. During the campaign the Demo crats did not disabuse the mind of the public, which plainly believed that the country would be made wet by action oT Congress in its first week after the elections^ While no definite promises were made of action before next .March, yet the feeling was a lowed to exist that immediate action was quite likely. It is generally believed h-.re that Congress will pnss wit legislation quickly and put th/> issue squarely up to the President, thereby redeeming1 the Democratic par'y promises even if it fails to result in the country getting the beer it p'ainly voted for. One significant trend since the election has been a general let-down in enthusiasm in ngard to the ex pected amount of revenue to be real ized by the legalizing of beer and ight wines. During the campaign the idea was fairly gene al that taxes on alcohol would practically turn the present deficit in the budget into a surplus, or nearly so. Xow the amount generally being accepted by merc'y modifying the Volstead Act is $300,000,000, an amrunt that will fall far short of balancing the budget. This would be increased by complete repeal of the Eighteenth Anrrdrr.ent. However, this amount is not al? that can be expected to rn.=nH from the new tax, observers hor^ ??? rt. The enormous number of men vrvi, will be employed in the industry and the hundreds of millions of dol lars that must be sp^nt to put the indnstrv on its feet will provide many more mil ions for the Treasury, while there will be an imposing sum saved by the abolition of the Prr> hibition forces, the freeing of Fed eeral Courts of all liquor cases, and the enormous reduction in expense in caring for Volstead Act offend ers in Federal prisons in a'J parts of (Continued on Page Two) -A