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rAY MARCH, 26 1936 ftJO A TIU 0 ABYAITOB OUTtSSB 1KB (WOITT
rWress Works; On Taxes;
Roosevelt Fishes fa Florida
t?rfiMW, M?Kh 35-WM* PWS
" "ly ?n *
:Wi ?"* "ip W fW,ia
|k boji on Capitol Mili are doing
^ seriom work trying to draw t?p
y* ? ..
Jtwflri 1800,000,000 a year that is
" v -V
to bill which WiH raise the ?4
aK(tstry to bring the Government
^ into balans.
fay have taken as a basis from
^ to start the President fe pro.
^ to ta* corporate reserves, bat
tie more they study it the less likely
if seen* that they will adopt the
plan as submitted.
Ib?* two reasons for this hes
j^v. One is considerable doubt m
M Aether it will really raise tin
J0&V)- rcunut a^d, second, the
^jerioo whether it would draw dowj:
K?ont? reserves to a |>oiut where
industriaa mitfht not be able tfi
ffftr on through another depression
t a many of them have done, by
aid of that part of their profit*
riiti they had put away for &' rain}
k
jx United States Steel Corpora
for example, has a reserve ol
1 #:han $250,000,000 which on th?
Ik if it looks pretty big; but th?
fgpntm last year paid out ovej
fsW),W0 in dividends on its prefer
I h stock, allhough it earned only a
I Sclt Wss tl^an $1^00 profits. Thi
ifmc? #amt' out of the reserve.
[. S. Steel is only one of mnny
J wjwtfions which have followed r.
I naijiir prfatict tliro^hout the de
fCittior. years, utid -a>. these are stud
the tfc-Iin? prows that it wouiti
*: be pood rconomics to go as fai
a lit TntMury hici propo^d.
Ways ?rA Means (Y^miaitte? of
it House will draft the first bil!
ud the Senate Finance Coeoenitt^t
*5 redraft it. The best guess now if
tti! the resulting ra^Asure will leave
a ikt mi burden on corporations
Ak ffitrr it n*w i<? but wjJl put h
wx burden upon the recip
wis of cotpMto dividends, thus hit
?f mainly the income-tax payer
*kcw pay on incomes ?f from $10,
I i ye?r up.
PuiliceUy thvs v.iii leok flood
& average votflr, who does nolt **"
arc. himself affected by tLfltea -wincl;
it d?? r.ot pay dirfletly, and it wil'
v, evTe the biff industrial eorpora1
tor any excase for roducin^e employ
i?t >>r curtailing operations. Thf
U thing thk: Congws wants to do
sto pa-s any laws which would tend
the rising tide of re-?m{ploy
*v.
There bas been ui increase of about
fcw percent tin industrial employ
snee last May, according to the
^figures of the Nationl Indufltri.
'l Caifercnce Board. At the samo
i s* there has be-en u\ increase in th<
' "?'?ge wage of iudu&triad worker?
$21.75 c week to $2350 a week,
figures do not show as great an
En*tee in enqfioyment and wages ft#
** folks wocl<J Ciko to see, bat they
^indicate a definite upward trend,
^ tto feeing on Capitol HiH ia to
* T<*y eawful tw to put over any
Halation which would check
rising tendency.
i ?? fflost coafit?cd situation in
wKtogt^Hi i* the housing program.
I W 80 ^V?rse points of view
I V/ m many important person
k*? to be in ahumt ho#** ?on
to smooth ouit th? situ-1
| u?w toward an adjust- j
r ' W^'c^ w'W take the Federal1
?ft . fntirely oat of the flnanc
t9. , cle*rancc projects, 1
^ e atid other pro
pTOv^^n? low ?out housing
(ltu\ rj***' ^ut set up one pow
bureau to stimulato
^ tor ?ii Un^Cr ^OVerTline^ guar
?* ^ese and other low
1 ejects.
Enro^*n
^ Ptov* M mopft ?WW?*
14 ^ y* realisation. that
** &n>' <*? of a hun
Wf<1* drag
fy'* into another war if
** *' w T^nt ??*?% resolu
5* by
u I6blv ?! if?
^?^f^ipou"0 e?<c^vc for iw
TODAY anfl
TOMORROW
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(By Frank Parker Stockhridge)
UTOPIA .j . diwu
More thai four hundred year-* ago
Sir Thomas' Moie wives ? book de
scribing <*<mythical land in which
there waa xto poverty azid no erim'1,
where everybody Hived happily ami
peaceably. Ule waa expressing un ideai
which all great philosophers ami re
ligious leaders have discusscd ami
prayed tor from the beginning ot
civilization
More'a wtard "Utopia", has eome
to mean as impractical dream of a
perfect world, I'ractical men axe in
coined to view with distrust any plan
for the reorganization of soeiet\
which does not take the fniltica and
perversities of human nature into con
indention and, ?o far, every effort
to bring aboat Utopian conditions by
political methods has been a failure.
I do not believe that universal hap
piness can be brought about either by
legislation or by force.
EQUALITY theory
The idea that all men aire created
equal and huve equal rights is ao mod
ern that il was almost born yesterday.
Much of ttie , world's present trouble,
it teems to mc, arises from the ac
ceptance of the ideal of equality witL
out the realization that it is only an
ideal and does not exist in reality.
The beet that can be hoped for, I
am convinced, is tu gradual approxi
mation, over a period of hundreds,
perhaps thousands of yeiw?, to a so
cial order in which everybody will be
secure in t|ic enjoyment of whatever
bis individual character and ability
entitle him to; no more, no less.
seems to me, w the TftiNiX trflii
ever expect to come to equality; and
that would not mean either equality
of wealth, equality of social status or
equality of intelligence.
DEMOCRACY ...? the world
If we are ev?r going te have any
thing resembling Utopia, it is gsoing
to be brought about by the slow pro
cesora of democracy, tnd not by the
dominance of a few over the mamy or
of ane ckass over another class.
The aacient Greeks had -what the;
called a Democracy, in which a small
group achieved a wide measure of in
dividual liberty and contentment at
the expense of a laige group of slaves
Oomn^unism, as demonstrated in Rus
sia, seems to me to consist of a anall
and limited group, membcm of the
Coaammist Party, living in measure
ble comfort at the expense of an
enormous mass of oppressd peasantry
I have not been able to diseove* that
either the Fascist regime in I*?ly, or
the Nazi rule in Germany has contrib
uted to the greater happiness and con
tentment of the masses in those ooon
tries.
GOVERNMENT . . . baited
Many of my friends try to oouvince
me that the sure road to human hap
piness lies in the direction of an all
powerful government. I do not agree
with them. When they talk that way
they are talking about intrusting the j
lives and the destinies of a whole!
people to a small group which is eon- J
veiyufcvtly tde?i^|ated by the Item, j
"the government". But any govern-)
ment, either of one man or any faz?
?r group, H composed entirely of hu- j
mam beings, themselves subject to all
the passions, prejudices, ambitions
and otlher frailties of the reft of the
human race. ,'
The weakness of all of the Utopian
plans for making the world over lies,
it seems to me, in their disregard off
the most precious of all human pos
sessions, individual liberty of thought,
speech and action. No government is
good enough to be entrusted with my
power over^ny individual except the
power to keep him from infringing
opon any other individual's liberties.
OHAftAOTEft .... personal
Democracy on the American plf.n
?s worked.witli Le.?s injustice to tin
ordinary eiti^en and greater eppor
tnnity for the exceptional individual
than any other system of government
that has ever been tried. Democracy
has worked in Anteiea because it has
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Republicans Name |
Gilliam Gris
?? .
Gillaim Grisaota, Collector of Interim
al Revenue for this State dujng
Hoover and previous administratis
was nominated for Governor by t!
North Carolina: Republican (*?nw?r
on, in Raleigh, Tuesday, defeating
Irving B. Tueker by a convention bak
lot of 694to 393*4, after which thi
nomination was made unanimous , . ?
Frank Patton of Morganton was
nominated for the United Staffed
Senate without eppo>*<tic?i. j
Federal Judge 1. M. Moekins, of*
El zabeth Ci1yf fafher of State Cbair^
man W. C. Mcekiua, of Hetjderson
ville, was endorsed for President of
the United States.
Sam J. White, of Mebane, was nom
inated for Lieutenant Governor; Dr.
J. L. Campbell, of Norwood, for me
rotary of state; J. T. Prevotte, ?f
North Wilkesboro, for stet** atlditor;
Claronee T. Alien, of Aurora, for
state treasurer; Fred D. Ilamrickj of
R/utherfordton, for attorney general:
Dr. John H. Cook, of Greensb.no, for
superintendent of public instruction;
Herbert F. Seawell, Jr.; of Carthage,r
far insurance commissioner; John!
Phillips, of Crcswell, for commission-;
or of agrieulture; D. T. Vance, of.
Aver}-, for commissioner of labv?i;:
and Kwi W. Thonas, J. Morri*.. J.,
Ray McCra-ry for supreme court .itt*
ticw.
The North Carolina defeation. to
the national convention i-*:
'Chairman W. C. Meekins, Chnrb'S
A. Jon?5, David H. Hlair, and ^tiuirt
W. Craiuer, with R. H. McNeill, C.
J. Harris, Mrs. J. L. Ganptell
J. Sam White, as alternate :
Jackson county Republicans <wcwe
represented at the convention by R,
M. Crawford, H. E. Mcnteith, GiMjeft
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The convention
demanding the repeal of the absentee
ballot, and other election reforms, di
vorce of educational institutions from
politics, condemning the liquor laws
enacted by the 1935 General Assembly,
and calling1 for "stridt, impartial and
effective enforcement of the prohibi
tion laws of the State"; calling for
reduction of the cost of federal and
state governments, and the elimina
tion of unnecessary bureaus. Witfh th?*
money thus saved, it was proposed to
abolish the general sales tax, and to
reduce the cost of automobile license
tags to a maximum of $4. The oon^ir
tion aailed for a farm program to aid
the fattmers in getting fair prices for
their products, and promised a state
cavil service system for public em
ployes*.
CLEVELAND . . . Mix Marian
Luf (above), secretary U the
President of the O.O.P. Convention
Yleitore' Boreas, is going to have
soma busy days next June. Her job
will be to get some 50,000 a bed
every night.
A. 0. COPE DIED SUDDENLY
Cling Coj)c died suddenly, last Fri
day, at tlu> Ilonie of his aon, Fred
Cope, at East La porte.
Mr. Cope, who was 69 years of aye,!
was a native of Sylva township, and
spent most of his life here.
He is 9nrvivcd by six darugbtres,
Mrs. Minnie Dillard, lvalmn Gap, iGa.,,
Mrs. Lena Clark, Sylva, Mrs. Xorfci
Parker; Mountain Rest, S. C'., Mrs.
Lola Eiisiey, Andrews, Mrs: Vera
Hudson, Tomiiwc, S. and Mrs. ,
;y?r.iie Deitz, Cull'nvhee, by oue sou,
Jh-ed Copt*, East LaBorte, two brxth
/K (1. 11. Cope, and C. Walt Ci/ja?,
W Sylva, and hp- othiv relatives,
t Funeral and iiitcrimrnt won? at'
B<Ha, Sunday afternoon, the obsequies
being eondue:<vi by Kev. T. F. Deitz
Ajid Rev. M. L. Hooper
^ANT TOTS AT SCHOOL
? POR PASTY, TUESDAY
.f_
Al^the children in Sylva school dis
irho will be old enough to enter
Be
?next fttaaday afternoon, at one o' (
dock, for jthe pre-seiool party anl
clinic. Gama and amusements of in
terest 1? thd ?hildren have been ar
ranged, an^ afefreshments wilL be serv-1
ed.
Dr. C. N^Sisk, district health offc
er, Mrs. ti|he T. Dillon, and Miss
Lillian Fo^Wer will be present to give |
the children physical examinations. |
It is especially urged that parents
accompany their children, so thait, in
case any physical defects arc detected
they caffi dfecnsK them with Dr. Sivk.
The party and clinic have been ar
ranged by the ?*f>unty school authori-;
ties, the State Board of Health, and
k committee of tho Sylva ParoiM
Teaohers Association, of which Mr...
Harry CroWeil is chairman.
MEMORIES ? by A. B. Chapm
SPRING
ttEMEDIBS OPLM *** mcutm awd taks
tmh Sulphur a*> molasses
YOU WE?0 A $PP*t? TOMIC ! I
O'
IP MOOR fWTMEQ MAD USTPWtD TO ME,
ME WOULDN'T Bt SOAktM'MIS PCST
tu mot Muraw, wn?* mid
FMMXINC OPF A COCO WITH
mftpfiMmue UMtarr aud
owiow SYftuPlll v
IC'CMCW f
ICCus* |
Torrential Rains Send^
Mountain Streams Raging
40 YEARS AGO
(Tuckaseige Democrat, Mar. 26,1896)
Mestsrs. J. D. and Oscar Coward j
were here Tuesday.
, Mr. J R. Taylor, of Glcnvillc, was
h?rfe Wednesday.
Mr. DiHard L. Love got back WVd?
tiesday, frruiiMossy Creek, Tettu.
Mr. R. A. Painter left Monday on
u business trip to A&heville and Ral
eigh.
Mr. James Priiitt, a successful farm
er of Big Ridge, was in town Monday j
Mrs. Neil Buchanan and children
loft Wednesday for a viirit to rela
tives in Thomasville.
Mrs. Dr. Wolff returned today from
a visit; of several weeks in the east
ern part of the State,
Mrs. O. B. Coward returned from
Ashoville, Friday, where she luud been
for medical treatment.
Capt. J. W. Terrell showed the liffht
of his genial countenance Imtc fof
brief time, Saiturday afternoon.
Miss Emma Si'orn!l, of DfiTlsboro,
visited our low?; Monday, in the in
terest of the oyster supper to take]
place at the Springs Hotel, tonight.
Mrs. J. D. Bairtbamun, of Webster,
being here viwiting her sons, received
a telegram announcing the illness of j
her daughter, Mrs. J. A. Wild, left
this morning for Asheville.
to be held at Ashevilie this year iii- ]
stead of Morehead City, will insure
the attendance of a much larger num
ber of our teachers tlum usual. It is
thought that the Assembly v.ill bring
one thousand visitors to Abbeville.
The new bridge over the mill pond
is at last completed and is a substan
tial structure in every respect. It js
tihe only bridgo in the county having
tffconc abutments. It cam not be used
yet, because the approaches have not
been finished. We understand thr?t
this will be done Friday. It would be j
a piece, of econoivy to put a roof over
it now, which would insure its lasting
for many yews.
A. J. Mitdhcll. who lives in a lktb;
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A heavy rain, this morning, caused
Soot t's Creek to rise quickly, flooding
bottoms, covering highways uiud rail*
ways, invading lawns, fields and indus
triad plant*, atid generally doing much
damjigc.
The T. U S. E. trestle, across Cope
Creek went out early in the day. A
section of a- Soul hem trestle at the
40 mile jH^t waslu'?t <mt. Hog* were
washed from their |>eiis, and in I ho
tannery dociion, j"H*o|?li* i,i.?.hed to
ike rescue o? hog* Mid other an'n.a!-.
Au unconfirmed report states that 11
man on Nation's Creek k*t a pair id'
mules. The Allen Branch, .Uonteith
Branch, and other tributaries of
Scott's Cioek brought down great
quantities of water, rocks and debris,
doing grea'i damage to roads, yards
and gardens. Wateit was over the
floor at Maple Springs filling ataitinn,
and the oil tanks were washed away.
The wooden bridge across the creek
near Maple Springs, went out. The
yard of the Builder's Supply and Linn
ber Company was Hooded, and the
Creek completely surrounded the plant
of the Sylva PaiHTbojvrd Company,
and followed the railway clear to the
trestle near th?* Nation, completely
cohering !>i 'li highway*; No. 10 and
JOo, 1vh.1V they ronverg?. Tlw; .Mailt
street of Sylva was covered with mud
and rocks, brought down frotn
mounta'inside. AIL yards and field*
iu the low Iwtiouis were flooded, and
a new mill, the property of Paul War
ren and 0. J?. Monteith, was Washed
away.
Ih# storm, coming up from the
west, and following the Smokies and
Balaam*, sent torrents of water rag
ing down nearly all the tributaries of
River
villo turned back at Balsam, and the
one from Murphy was blocked by a
huge slide nearBushnell
SYLVA SCOUTS PROMOTED
Five Sylva Boy Scouts were promot
ed by the court of honor of the Smoky
Mountains District of the Daniel
Boone Council which was held at Bry -
son Cilty, Monday night. Marcel] us
Buchanan, Ray Clark and Marion
Cooper were advanced to tendertoot
rank, and Roy Hall was promoted to
second clas.s. Star Scomit Glenn Frarty
was awarded several merit badg.1*.
The Scouts were accompanied <0 Bry
son City by .T. C. Allison of the tnx^?
committee.
Hugh Battle, Gordon Bryson and
John Buchanan of the Cul low hoe
Troop were promoted to second rank.
GARFIELDsOOOOlKS 18 DEAD
News reaches ns of the sodden
death, at hin home in Mountain town
ship, of Garfield Coggins.
QUALLA
The audience at the Baptist ohorcit
was entertained Sunday morning hv n
very interesting talk by Senator
Vance Browning of Bryson City. Hj:?
subject was the Lord'a Acre Proji rt
He also pave many other helpa ar4
.>U?Sf*estionr, to advance the work* of
the Kingdom in the "home fields".
Mr. drover Cooper, Quail* sdhool
principal, .^nt Sunday in Qoalk.
Mr. Go!roan Kinsland is making t?
buhineas trip to Asheville.
Messrs Jfcke Shulcr /itid Glenn Skat
or of Highlands .'-pent Sunday night
at Mr. T). M. S tailor's.
Mr. \V:iy:i?- Ferguson, of Hender
aonvllle, andMr S. P. Hyatt, of Glen
ville, *ert Qua 11a visitors, Sunday.
Mr. \V. P. House visited Mr. .To*
Bock, of Olivet, who has not been wfN
for Hoveral days.
Mr. J. M. Hughes and fSamilv, ?t
Cherokee, visited among relative*,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Springer oaHfcl
at Mr. Do*?k Snyder's, Monday.
Mr. Claud Hughes and D. 0. Jr.,
mailed at Mr. J. K. Terrell's, Snnday.
Mr nnd Mrs Ottman Rot em left
Monday for their home in MfehigW,
after spending the winter with MX9
Dons Davis
Mrs. Robert Guitar spent Simdfcy,
with Mrs. M. L RlwWn,