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Sylva, North Carolina
The County Seat of Jackaon County
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BIBLE THOUGHT
? "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land: "But if ye refuge and rebel, ye
shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of
the Lord hath spoken it." Isaiah 2: 19,20
OUR HOSPITAL NEEDS
Realizing for some time that C. J. Har
ris Community hospital, although filling
a great need, is inadequate to take care
of the demand now being made upon its
facilities for properly caring for the
people who seek treatment there, the
board of directors have launched an ex-'
tensive expansion program for the hospi
tal, according to a news item carried in
this issue of the Herald.
Those who have had occasion to need
and use the facilities of this hospital also
realize that the community is now in
great need of a building to provide more
beds and equipment. We feel that there
are enough people in Jackson county in
terested in the program which the di
rectors are trying to put over to make
the program a success. Funds will be ,
required to carry on the work and a drive
to raise this is comtemplated. We urge
everyone to respond when called on for
money in order that Jackson county may
have the type hospital now so sorely
needed.
This newspaper commends the C. J.
Harris Community hospital of Sylva as
well as the hospitals of North Carolina
for the magnificent service which they
have rendered and are continuing to ren
der to our people. We look with admir
ation and sympathetic understanding on
these noble institutions as they now strug
gle to provide service agaijist tremen
dous handicaps. We have fullest confi
dence that our hospitals will survive this
crisis, as they have overcome previous
obstacles which they have faced. We be
lieve that the Good Health program as
sures a bright new era in the health and
happiness of uorth Carolina, and the hos
pitals, you may be sure, will play a major
role in this development.
During this week, State Hospital Week,
we appeal to the people of Sylva and
Jackson cbunty, as well as other counties
and communities served by the C. J.
Harris Community hospital, for a more
careful consideration of the problems and
handicaps with which they are faced to
day. Give and give gladly when called
upon by one of its directors for your do
nation for the expansion program on
which it has launched out. It is a "friend"
standing waiting when you need it. "A
friend in need is a kiend indeed."
What Of Our Boys And Girls?
By the time this issue of The Herald
reaches you practically all of the schools
of Jackson County will be closed, the chil
dren will have received their report cards,
and parents will have checked the acco
mplishments of their children for the
school year 1947-48. Are you satisfied
with the results? Have the children done
their best? Have they acquired the know
ledge that they should and could accord
ing to their mental abilities? If not, let's
check these: Home enviroment, physical
condition, transportation to and from
school, school buildings, classrqpm eq
* uipment, teaching load, to these we would
also add the faculty. Because, if all the
above were perfect and the faculty mem
bers lacking in ability and training, the
accomplishments of the child would not
be its best. But this, we know, is not the
case in Jackson county.
The greatest need for the boys ar\d girls
of Sylva and Jackson county is more and
better school buildings. Are we going
to sit around and argue against and be
selfish in our efforts to help provide these
buildings when the time comes to vote
INSIDE WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON ? Gen. Dwight D.
(Ike) Eisenhower's blunt announcement
through his close friend, Maj. Gen. Floyd
Parks, that he would refuse a Democratic
presidential nomination "draff' was good
news to political-beleaguered President
Tr^iman.
It buoyed Mr. Truman's hopes, because
the Democrats may have nowhere else
to go. Many anti-Truman Democrats
were (and still are) hopeful that Ike
might reverse himself on the loud "no"
he gave Republicans in January.
Had Eisenhower done this most poli
tical observers believe the odds would
have been heavily against Mr. Truman's
being in the running.
They figured on the support of most
New York delegates, counted certainly
on the rebellious south, and estimated
they could capture strong support from
the west.
However, with Eisenhower having
twice declared himself out, the Demo
crats may have to take Mr. Truman or
leave the party when they go to the polls
in November.
GRIST FOR MOSCOW??A House
adopted amendment to the European Re
covery Program has administration fore
ign policy leaders deeply concerned lest
it cripple the aid plan and make grist
for Moscow propaganda mill.
The amendment gives the ERP admin
istrator final authority to say what Unit
ed States goods can be exported to Russia
and iron curtain countries.
More important, it provides that Mar
shall Plan participants shall receive no
aid if they refuse to put an embargo on
their own exports on goods the United
States declines to send to Eastern
Europe.
The focal point of Moscow propaganda
against the Marshall Plan has been the
charge that it represents an American
attempt at "imperialism" and interfer
ence in the enternal affairs of European
countries.
United States Government officials fear
the amendment will be used by Moscow
to "substantiate" these charges. More
over. Britain and other ERP countries
may feel that the American Congress has
no business legislating the operation of
their economies.
Some Capitol Hill observers believe
that Senate opposition to the amend
ment will result in its elimination from
the ERP bill when it is in the joint con
ference stage.
STASSEN BIDS FOR CALIFORNIA
?Harold E. Stassen, by announcing he
will not enter the California GOP presi
dential primary, has made an open bid
to capture the state's delegation if Gov.
Earl Warren withdraws at the national
convention.
It is considered likely Warren will
quit if his candidacy does not "catch on."
In that event, he will release his dele
gates to whatever candidate they choose
after making his own recommendation.
Political observers think Stassen made
a canny move. If Warren breaks with
Taft, Dewey or Vandenberg, Stassen
stands a good chance of snaring some of
California's bumper crop of votes.
STALIN'S "NO COMMENT"? Rep.
William Colmer (D), Mississippi, it tell
ing friends on Capitol Hill how Premier
Stalin reacted to an invitation to visit the
United States and "talk things over" with
President Truman.
Colmer said he extended the invitation
in 1946 when he visited Moscow as chair
man of a House committee studying eco
nomic conditions abroad.
The Mississippian said: "I asked Stalin
through an interpreter to come to the
United States and talk thing over with
the jDresideRt. I said if he did so it would
be regarded as an indication that we
could do business."
Asked what Stalin replied Colmer
stated: "He just looked at me and shrug
ged his shoulders. He didn't say any
thing."
on the bond issue?just because it isn't
your comunity that will get a new build-1
ing ( for certainly all can't get one)?
Don't stand in the way of other boys and
girls getting one. What helps one com
munityhelps the county as a whole.
Seidel, who is quite a beerologist and
has made a deep study of the bubbling
brew, says that beer, next to water, is
the world's oldest drinking fluid.
As soon as the caveman invented beer,
according to S. J. S., civilization got un
derway.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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The Difference?"
The Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT 8PAUGH, D. D.
"What makes an alcoholic," is
the title of a full article in April
19 Newsweek, which gives the
findings of Dr. Robert V. Seliger
of Johns Hopkins Hospital, chief
psyciatrist of the Neuro-psychia
tric Institute, Baltimore. It is bas
ed on his twenty
years of experi
:MW[' lli ence in handling
drinkers of all
^ ' degrees, from the
drinker to the
j: pronounced alco-i
should be by
everyone who drinks alcoholic
beverages.
Dr. Seliger admits with all au
thorities on alcohol that for the
third-stage alcoholic, the one who
is allergic to alcohol, there is only
one' answer ? total abstinence for
the rest of his life. It is to these es
timated 750,000 alcoholics that the
Alcoholics Anonymous particular
ly directs''their attention.
Dr. Seligeyj; goes further than the
chronic alcoholic, and points a fin- .
ger of solemn warning at the so
cial drinker. Jtie says, "I am con
vinced that heavy social drinkers
actually cause more trouble, as a
group ? and this group numbers
into the millions ? than do the
estimated 750,000 alcoholics." He
warns of the increase in heavy
social drinking or "incipient al
coholism," and the dangers ?caus
ed by these heavily "bourbonized"
men and women in a "supersonic
mechanical age."
The heavy social drinker, accord
ing to Dr. Seliger, gets himself and
others into trouble, and from his
ranks the chronic alcoholic usually
develops. He says their number is
increasing ? "At any hotel bar
or grill you may see at any dining
hour a number of well-dressed,
presumably influential men who,
as the rounds pile up, become loud
er, more argumentative, and ex
pansive in movement." This pro
duces inefficiency. "When calm
in business or profession is re
quired, alcoholic states of mind are
comparable to a cut-off in elec
tricity at a peak hour of produc
j tion." He said that the executive
who dictates a wrong letter, there
by losing several millions of the
PERSONALS
Miss Chris Rucker has returned
to her home in Shelby after spend
ing the week-end in Sylva with
Mrs* T. O. Wilson and family.
Mrs. Elwood Home of Durham
"Ts" visiting her sisters, Mrs. Keith
Hinds and Mrs. Leon Sutton. While
here she attended the graudation
exercises of Sylva High school. Her
niece, Miss Linda Sutton, is ?mem
ber of the class.
Mr. and M?s. Nelson Shepherd
of Asheville were week-end guests
I of her mother, Mrs. Care? Allison.
Mr. Shepherd returned Sunday but
Mrs. Shepherd remained for grad
uation at Sylva High, where her
niece, Miss Peggie Jo Sutton, is a
member of the graduating class.
Capt. Sam C. Allison arrived
last week from Puerto Rico, where
he is stationed at an Army hospital,
to spend three weeks with his
mother, Mrs. Carey Allison.
stockholders' investments, "hurts
and harms in a bloodless way," as
does the clerk who drinks during
the noon hour and makes other
errors the rest of the day. "Such
episodes of 'absenteeism on the
spot' from the top down are prob
ably as many as, perhaps more
than, those of orthodox absentee
ism due to alcoholism," Dr. Seliger
said.
He blames this condition on thf
prevailing social attitude towards
heavy social daytime drinking. "If
we could/change this attitude so
that it wduld not be considered ob
ligatory or 'smart' to drink heavi
ly, we would be saved much trou
ble and so far as auto accidents
are concerned, much tragedy."
Most of us ara.careful about the
drugs we take into our bodies, and
try to learn what the results will
be. Intelligent people should do
the same with regard to drinking
alcohol, even if it is sold as a bev
erage.
TIMBER TALKS
b^vc c. hinIieSsii
While we are growing trees to
replace the millions of board feet
cut in Ja^KstfE'Cdtfntx during the
war years, let us use wisely timber
we have left. Avoid wasteful prac
tice whenever possible.
Cut only trees that are mature
and are ready for market. As an
example of what I mean. Did you
know that it cost more than twice
as much, in both time and labor, to
manufacture 1 board foot of lum
ber from a tree 0 inches in dia
?tex; (.i^i jlf. .J&fvf, t^e 'ground)
as from a tree 25 indie* in diame
ter. Less than ape-half as much
saleable lumber i? obtained from
a cubic foot of wood in an 8 inch
"tree as from a cubic foot of wood
in a 25 inch tree. Furthermore,
the lumber obtained from an 8
inch tree has less than half as
much value per 1,000 foot as that
from a 25-inch tree.
Small ?rees make big tr^es by
and by.
LET'S KEEP JACKSON COUNTY
GREEN!
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CANDIDATE
For
STATE SENATE
32nd
Senatorial
District
W. H. (Gudger) Crawford
In making my Campaign for Ndmination in the
Democratic Primary for State Senate I wish to
state that I am running entirely on my own plat
form.. As far as having lined op with any Faction,
such statements are not true..
MY PLATFORM FOR TEACHERS
1. Reduced ClassroomIoad^with at the most 30 pu
pils, preferably 25.
?
2. Some provision of security for holding position,
including a 30-day notice before school is out of
non-reelection or change.
3. Fair salary increase (Minimum of $2400.00).
4. Equalization fund whereby poorer counties
might get aid for buildings and equipment.
My Platform on Roads Will Appear Next Week.
Your Suppori Will Be Appreciated.
W.H. Crawford
BRANDON P. HODGES
OF ASHEVILLE
CANDIDATE FOR
STATE TREASURER
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
_ MAY 29, 1948
Brandon Hodges has the support of his homefolks for the office of
State Treasurer. The Buncombe County Bar Association unanimously
-endorsed him . . Democratic Chairman Robert Williams said the Demo
cratic partv "could offer no person better qualified to fill this important
office." . . The AsheviUe Times said editorially that "Mr. Hodges has out
standinn qualifications for this highly important office." . . Asheville's
Mavor Clarence E. Morcian described him as a "man of outstanding abil
ity." PhiliD Woollcott, Dast president North Carolina Bonkers Associa
tion. said. "Mr Hod^s is well aualified for the office of State Treasurer
by character, education, experience and business ability/'
Brandon Hodaes is a native of Asheville . . educated at University
of North Carolina and Wake Forest colleae . . an outstandina member of
the Asheville bar since 1926 . . Buncombe county attorney for 10 years
. . member of the 1943 and 1945 State Senate . . chairman of Appropria
tions committee in 1945 session . . chairman of N C Advisory Budaet
commission 1945-46, and legislative counsel to the Governor during the
1947 session of the General Assembly ... -
B*ANDON_HODOEB FOR ST ATI TRfASTTRlH
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