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Page 2 THE SYLVAHERALD Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackeon County J. A, GRAY and J. M. BIRD JPublishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as Second Class'Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County 42.09 Six Months, In Jackson County 12$ One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Jackson County... 1.50 ' All Subscriptions Payable In Advance ^^North Carolina /HISS ASSOCIATION*^) THOUGHT FOR THE WpEK No words can express what the world owes t< sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born In a wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in prison The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through the fire. The greatest poeti have "learned in suffering what they taught Ir song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards indited, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the "Pilgrim's Progress." Take ?tSmfort, afflicted Christian! When God is aboUt to make preeminent use of man, He puts him in the fire.?Macdonald. : 0 A Good Name ? "A good name is rather to be choser than great riches, and a loving favor rather than silver and gold." This aptly applys to the life of Miss Lura Taylor whc was so brutally murdered near here las* Wednesday. "She was my best friend anc a most lovable character", a neighbor o the victim was heard to remark. Every one who knew Miss Taylor speaks in th< very highest terms of her sterling char acter and pleasant personality. She wai quiet in manner but aljvays looking fo] an opportunity to do a kind act or favoi for those with whom she associated. Re ports of high esteem come#from the com pany for whom she worked'the past sever years. ' To have so beautiful ? life as Miss Jay lor's snuffed out so brutally by a fiend ish degenerate male, and whose childrei she had been feeding and clothing, ii incomprehensible. But he has a soul. / soul that has been fed with indolence jealously, hate . . . till it was so cankerec that all love, honesty and decency is gone Christianity and education should a wake more keenly to the need, not onh everywhere else, but in Sylva and Jack son County as well. o Changing The Picture ? According to 1945 figures (the lates available) just released by the Divisioi of Commerce and Industry, N. C. De partment of Conservation and Develop ment, Jackson County farm families pro duced only 308,825 dozen eggs and ir 1940 only 263,419 dozen, while Wilke; County, which has been producing hat ching eggs 15 or 20 years, produced 2, 197,575 dozens in 1945. * i This figure-picture is rapidly changinj in Jackson county since our farmers start ?d their hatching egg producing progran just about a year ago. Our farmers ar expected to produce near 1,000,00 dozens this year, and the program is jus getting started here. Hatching egg pre ? ? - i on on ducing flock owners now nave ou,uu hens in the county with more flocks be ing established all the time. Good hatching eggs are now bringin the flock owners 80 cents per dozen. Fig ure that out for an annual income. Nc tbo bad for a county just getting starte into the business. Our Chamber of Commerce and oth< civic organizations are now exertir much effort toward securing more indu try for the county and a bigger percen o GOALS FOR 1950 (1)?NEW INDUSTRY. (2) ?IMPROVED 8CHOOL FACILITIES. (3)?HARD-SURFACING AS MANY ROADS AS POSSIBLE. (4)?AN EXPANDING HEALTH POLICY. (5)? A COUNTY FAIR. ( )?CONTINUING EMPHASIS OF TOURIST TRADE. ' (7)?DEVELOPMENT OF HATCHING EGG, TURKISH TOBACCO, AND CASTOR BfcArx tnuro. 1 (8)?HONE8T, EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT ON ALL LEVELS. THE S\ SUMMER ? Officially summer arrived yesterday, June 21, but summer weather arrived last week here in Jacksop County. Sev-j eral days during the past week-end were the hottest we have experienced in the A T~i . . A. : 4. U mountains tor some time, nut wim tiicj late cool spring these warm days are, welcome. Hot weather here means that| it's hotter in the low lands and large cit-! ies. The coming of these hot spells drives! people to the mountains seeking comfort ^in the cool breezes of evening and night ^xwhere they can relax and rest. That is v just^wija^is happening now as we note ?irf unusually large number of tourists in I Sylva and this section at this time. The heat is one factor that sends tourists flocking to this area, but it is the less-! er important in their minds ? beautiful! mountain scenery with the chance for outing ahd recreation are the main factors bringing them here. The month of June is always a lovely .? ?i ) time in the mountains with the name azalea gradually climbing from the lower altitudes in the early part of the month 5 to the highest peaks in the latter part, the i bloom of pale lemon to deep orange, , coupled with the pink mountain laurel ? in large showy clumps is a beautiful sight i to beholds There is the rhododendron1 with its bloom of purple-pink growing in the higher altitudes, which can be seen along the highway clearings at its best as it clusters the mountain sides a mile or more above sea level. Summer has arrived in the mountains and so have the tourists. - ?: ?F~0 Bringing Home The Bacon ) Comparisons of commodity prices in t the various countries of the world mean i little unless thev are related to wage f' rates. In other words, it is the ability of ? the workman to "bring home the bacon" a that counts. The U. S. Department of Labor has s calculated the minutes of working time r required to earn enough money to buy a r pound of bacon in ten countries. It is a < - revealing example of the superiority of - our living standards as against those of 1 the rest of the world. The average American worker works . 30 minutes for his pound of bacon. His _ equivalent in Canada works 45, and in i Great Britain, 53. In Ireland he must s put in 96 minutes. Finally, the Soviet Union?that wonderful "worker's para-" ,f dise"?is last on the list, with 466 minutes 1 of work needed for that precious pound of bacon! The communist workers see bacon 1 at long, long intervals, if at all. j These enormous differences are principally due to the economic and social systems under which men work. In the United States we have a free economy. That pound of bacon is one of the products of a highly efficient, extremely t competitive industry which can live/*^nd ' * * - - i i ^ # i prosper only it it meets tne neeas 01 iree - consumers. The same thing is true of - everything else we buy, whether it be an - automobile or a pair of shoes or a ticket i to a movie. The fact that only a free ecos nomy can produce abundance for the - masses of the people can't be repeated too - often. ? o g "The Rape Of Our Roads" The Buffalo Evening News has printed 1 an article called "The Rape Of Our ? Roads" by Frederick G. Brownell. It is J: one of the most revealing pieces yet to * appear on what heavy commercial trucking is doing to the public, tax-supported highways. "America faces a transportation crisis of the first magnitude," writes Mr. & Brownell. "Under the relentless bat>" tering of outsize and overloaded trucks, the 3,000,000 miles of roads that cont'd prise this nation's arteries are going to pieces faster than we can find the money ?r to replace them . . . ig s- age of the tourist business of this area, t- which is all well and good. However, we feel that if these organizations supported an already established ^industry" and - - ? i 1 1 A * * _t. 11 one with much greater possioniues wmur not only spells progress for the participating individuals but for all businesses and Jackson County as a whole, which is the hatching egg and dairy program they will have rendered a big service. There has never been a time in the history of the county when the opportunity was as great as now. The machinery foi the program has already been set up anc it is rolling in high gear. It only needs the backing of the entire community t< JJ keep up the momentum. 'LVA HERALD AND RURA "JOE BEAVER" Forest 8< "Alwayi be careful?the wood The Everyda; By REV. HERBERT Each recurring Spring and Sum- | d mer causes those of us who look p at the handiwork of Mother Na-11 ture with the eyes of the soul to : r gasp in wonder, f and amazement. 1 g jBl Where in this c imm great universe I J| can you go and! see more wonder- c ^^ful evidence of a KH^^ine nanaiwurit. ux; \ Mother Na- s Jture has some t wonderful and beautiful lessons c for us if we would take time to ] learn them. 11 & 1 Some weeks ago I was driving il through the mountains of Western \ 2 North Carolina. At one sharp turn 1 I saw something which caused me i to stop and look more closely. Growing out between the ledges, ( of a rock on a great cliff were 11 several evergreen trees. At first | it looked as they were growing out 1 ? of the rock itself. Then further 1 examination revealed that they., were growing out of crack in the i rock. Apparently the roots reached on down into Mother Earth underneath the rock. Gradually as the trees had grown the cracks had widened. x I have been walking over a more ] wonderful example of that each j day in front of my office at the ? Little Church on he Lane. There < was a low place in the cement in front of the steps where water j g&hered after a rain and would 1 * - J-M1. j 11 not run on. we ormea a sman |; hole through the concrete in the ; center of this low place. This ' permitted the water to seep away slowly. Along with the water apparently a few seeds of grass washed in and now for many weeks I have been walking over several vigorous green blades of grass which having found a root in he earth beneath the concrete have sought sunlight and warmth thru this small hole. As I walk over this spot day after day and see these few blades of grass growing up out of the hard surroundings of man-made concrete, I have ever been reminded of what God can do if only given a chance ? even a small chance. There are many lives which are just as hard as the concrete in front of my office door. In their hearts, apparently nothing grows. Their minds think only of self and the things they want and don't have. Hear them talk, and they are always thinking about what hov Hiclilco And what thev want for themselves. But these hard hearts can be penetrated just as we penetrated this concrete sidewalk. We can 1 MUGGS AND SKEETER I I 7 wUlT?Vf-1 SAID. SRAkJDMA) ( WWI n 0UT ^ 4 r ?gg 1 BjE ) LITE By Ed Nofziger ira srvice, U. 8. Department of Agriculture It you tavt arc your own." """"" y Counsellor ' SPAUGH, D. D. trill a hole into them by prayer, >lant a seed, keep the hole open >y prayer that God's power may each down. If I had put the seed or a tree in that hole instead of ;rass seed washing in, in due ourse, I would probably see what saw up on the mountain top. If your life is hard and barren, Irill a hole in it with prayer and isk God to let something worthwhile grow out of it. If you have ome friend whom you would like o help whose life is hard, try Irilling a hole in it with prayer. ' f ?/mi uianf + r\ oof q1 nnff a liftl A > 1 J VU TTHtiV VW ? 'aster, get some close friend who relieves in prayer to join with fou. Continue in prayer daily, be patient, and you will be amazed it the results. Why don't you give God a ?hance with your life, your home, pour business, your friends? A quick look AROUND W.N.C. JUNE 19-24 18 CLEAN-UP WEEK MURPHY ? Next week is cleanjp week in Murphy. The Town of Murphy and Murphy Regal Club Are co-sponsors of the effort, and ire asking that everybody in the :ommunity participate. All residents of Murphy are asked to clean up their premises, ooth homes and business places, and have the trash ready to be picked up by town trucks by TVinrcHav Tho tmrka will be sen1 to all areas of town Thursday, Friday and Saturday to collect the rubbish, states J. H. Bayless, clerk Special emphasis is placed or making and keeping Murphy i clean town, for the purposes ol beauty and health, as well as making a good impression on visitorj to the community. EMPLOYEES AT CHAMPION PLANT GET WAGE RAISE CANTON ? A mill-wide increase in wages and salaries \oi all their employees was announced yesterday, June 14, by the Canton division of the Champion Pape: and Fibre company, and at th* same time their policy with re spect to holidays was considera bly liberalized. The base rates of all activ* hourly employees are to be in creased by four cents per hour ef fective next Monday, June 19, an* employees working on piece rate and salary rates will also receiv an equitable adjustment effectiv on the same date, company ofli cials said. This is the second upward re WHAT OTHER YOUNGER AMERICANS AMD THE CRIME RECORD Here are items in a crime report offering material for thinking that should go deeper than usual into the subject ? if anyone knows how to delve to that extent. Thirty-one per cent of all persons committed last year to Federal prisons were between 18 and | 24 years of age. Seventy per cent of all first offenders in the Fed| eral criminal courts last year came : from the same age group. There will be capacious variety i in the causes assigned for this recj ord among the nation's younger I otto ffrmm Some will begin the "??*- O* C ? _ diagnosis by declaring prohibition a near cure; then the American home, the school, the automobile and other institutions and agencies vyill be introduced as impressh<? exhibits. Like many others, The Times has tried and failed to find the answer. But, beginning an inquiry at home in North Carolina, the State was reminded recently by an expert in penology, Dr. McCormack, who made a survey of the State prison system, that the task of rehabilitation ? the job of trying to find and save any worth-while material in the prison population ? has been almost entirely neglected in North Carolina. A start, a good start, has been made right where something new in prison belief and practice is needed. At the Butner Prison Camp for youthful first offenders North Carolina is making an earnest attemnt to overcome way wardness before it becomes a settled, hardened habit. And even a reasonably large percentage of scoring would vastly change the crime records in this State. Here and throughout the nation prevention of crime habits, like the prevention of disease in the realm of medicine, is the thing. An ounce of sure-enough rehabilitavision of Champion's wage structure within the past six months. Last January a Cooperative Earnings plan was installed by the Canton division which has resulted in a gradual but constant increase in the earnings of Champion employees. TOWN GIVES PAY B003T TO WORKERS JULY 1 CANTON ? A pay increase foi employees of the Town of Canton has been approved by the city officials, it was announced yesterday by the finance officer, Alderman Robinson. All full-time employees on the hour rate, will receive an increase of 5c on the hour while all fulltime salary employes will be giver a $10 per month raise. There an i approximately zs worxers m xn< first bracket and 18 in the latter CAR-TUNES Blf * ' 'Ili-Jb?Sfe : - <= ^ i i BOBCRT s t?A<toue y* e ' - "If you'd let KIRK-DA^ a new motor, your car wot W Pmm (ML* W Do WE WAVE TD T? YEP... M<GK v GO ALL TVE WAY<$ WELL.. YOl Thursday, June 22, 1950 ' PAPERS SAY tion for a youngster may prevent a life of crime. ? Asheville Times. UNFAIR GOVERNMENT ^ INTERVENTION IN PRIVATE BUSINESS AFFAIRS A short time ago the Saturday Evening Post printed an article called "The Federal Snoops Are After Me," written by Robinson ^Mcllvaine, publisher of the Downington, Pennsylvania, Archive. Mr. Mcllvaine and his wife had bought this little weekly paper on the proverbial shoestring, and were getting along nicely until a representative of the Wage and Hour Division of the Federal government appeared with a long bill of particulars of. unfair practices which the publisher had unwittingly committed. Mr. Mcllvaine has since followed up the Post i piece with a further recital of events which he printed in his paper. It all amounts to an interesting^ first-hand account of how Federal laws whose intent is perfectly good can be carried to extremes of interpretation which make them almosj incredibly on' erous to business ? and especially j small business. Newspapers of less than 4,000 circulation are exempt from the Wages and Hours Act, and. Mr. Mcllvaine assumed that his Archive, with a circulation of about 1,600, naturally fell into this category. However, it seemed that I the printing end of the paper had been set up as a separate corporation, and this legal quirk brought it within the scope of the law. Mr. Mcllvaine didn't think he was engaged in interstate commerce either. But he was wrong again ? simply because he printed letter? ? ?? - -?ii i.i, Heads tor urms wmcn mau letters'out of the state! That was only the beginning of the troubles. It had been a common practice for years for groups of people, young and old, to drop Continued on page 3 . who will share in the wage raise. This increase will be effective ^ . July 1, it was stated, i According to present indications* f officials stated the town tax rate i for the fiscal year 1950-51 would > remain the same, although the * budget for that period has not been completed. EFFORT TO KEEP BUSINESS DISTRICT CLEAN BEING MADE i KERNERSVILLE ? An effort is being put forth by the town to help keep the business district - -clean? T o m?Tarkington,?sec. treas. of the town, stated this week. i Merchants are asked to co-op. erate with the effort by picking l up or sweeping up paper in front 5 of their individual places of busi? ness in lieu of sweeping it into , the street. by Kirk-Davit lii!! /IS CHEVROLET CO. install ildn't stall so often." BY WALLY BISHOP'. rj*s B y^Lstiu. IMA.6IMES ? ^ SHE CAM OOTTALK ) J s~t AM OUTBOARD ^ ?? V_ AAriTOO II . ' _
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