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Opportunity's Empire-Waynesville Altitude 2,850 Feet-Unsurpasstd Natural Resources For the location of Manufacturing Industries WAYNESVILLE, HAYWOOD OOUN'Y, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. JUNE. 4, 1925 $2.00 a Year in Advance, $2.50 if not bo Pid Volume XXXVII. Number 21 County Schools To Have Supervisor Superintendent Allen of the County Schools Favors a Larger Program For Haywood County in All Educational Matters. Superintendent Wm. C. Allen, in coming superintendent of schools of Haywood county, was asked by a rep resentative of the Carolina Mountain, eer what his views were upon the supposed drastic reorganization of ihc Waynesville township schools as mm tioned in the "contributed" editorial in this paper of last week. Mr. Allen .said that he had not heard that any drastic reoganization of the Waynesville schools was contemplat ed, heard such a thing discussed in ; ny meeting of the Board of Educa tion that he had attended; and felt ;uite sure that the Board of Educa tion had not ti.ken any action looking to such a thing. It is not for me,". said Mr. Allen, "to speak for the iM'tnber- of the board as I am yet a month this side of be'iig the s.ipei intendent of schools, but I :.m glad to give my own views upon the matter if such a thing will help to clear up the present apparently lid Inuded situation." "First of all," continued Mr. Alien. "I am in favor of a larger program of educational activity for this county, and being in favor of that I could not begin by helping to undo or cripple any school system that has already started. I am in favor of the Board of Education taking all the people into its confidence and with them to work out a plan of enlarged educational progress that will reach every nook and corner of the county. Waynes ville township has set the example by being the first to go into the county-wide system, and I felt that Waynesville people would realize their straggegie position and help to extend the good thing which they have found in the township system to the rest of the county, and more particularly to the rural districts. "Feeling that way I gave expres sion to the thought that, inasmuch as the County Board of Education paid two-thirds of the salary of the town ship supervisor and Waynesville town ship through its special tax, paid one third, Waynesville township people should be willing to let the rural dis tricts share in the good thing that was happening here in Waynesvil!?. In other words. I expressed myself as in favor of not taking anything swap from Waynesville. but to give the same thing also to the county us a whole, or more particularly to the rural districts where the supervision is needed worse, and especially so as the county as a whole is paying for two-thirds of it and getting no bene ifit outside of Waynesville township. "That is the view I expressed, not supposing that anybody would think that I was trying to foist my views upon anyone at all. With the plan of county supervisor as decided upon by the Board of Education in their meet ing Monday, the people of Waynes ville may rest assured that the full proportional part of attention by th? supervisor will be given the Waynes, ville schools. "Another evidence of progressing backward as seen by this interested contributor of the Carolina Moun taineer is the fact that there is to be no summer-'school for teachers in the county this year. In explanation of that, it may be said that the ques tion of whether or not a summer school should be held. Mr. Safford and myself decided that, inasmuch as. six weeks only of county summer school would give one no credit toward get ting certificate and the further fact that only a few had applied for a summer course, it was decided that no school would be held. A letter from the State Superintendent of Public .... , iL.i instructs aiso sratea in the policy of the State Department of Education to do away with the county summer schools and thus en courage every person who wished to become a teacher to attend the rec ognizd standard summer schools. 131 I . . .1 1 Vf- A 11.... . -1 am giaa, concur .. "that t.hi matter is receiving So much attention at this time, for when we get the people to discussing a matter, there is obliged to be progress and a good deal of it. I confidently look forward to the time when the County Board of Education will feel author ;.ij V... iVio nwnlp in Kpirin a huildinc program for the rural schools tW'ss Silverthorne of the Gift Shop will place a modem school house have arrived from Aiken, S. C, where with up-to-date equipment in reach of they spent the winter, every child in the county." Istone Mountain ... Memorial Coins AN APPEAL FOR THE CONKED-' BKATE MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN. . I have accepted the chairmanship in North Carolina of the iislvibut;o;i . campaign for the Cmfeieiaf? Mem morial Half Dolla-. 1 hop? :he poo pie of North Carina wiil accord me their enthusiastic c-opei ntion 'n a I rousing interest a'id sympathy in the sale of these memorial coins. The United States Government, act ing through an administration con-1 trollel by the Republican party in , every branch, with great unanimity authorized the minting and sale of these coins by the Stone Mountain ; Association for the pupose of .-titi ini? in the construction of the .great me-1 ma rial, as an expression of re. pert for the valor and sincerity of the chieftains and soldiers of tm armies, of the Confederacy. It was ; noble and magnanimous thing, an I the South, and particularly the State if North Carolina, which I'l'in-bod i latter imm c r of soldiers to '.he ar mies of the Confederacy than any other state must respond to it by enthusiastic and generous purchase of these coins. It would nut North Carolina in a most hidefc'i-ibl' po.-i-" tion not to participate generously in the purchase of these coin:. It can not withhold an expression of appre ciation of this noble tribute to the greatness of Lee and Jackson, end the valor of the soldiers who made the' armies of the Confed.-racy. ! The coin is a beautiful one. It ha a likeness ol bee an.l jacKson upon, it, and an inscription: "Memorial to! the Valor of the So!dit"s of the South." That this tribut? o: respectj and admiration should havt been made; Dy me uniiea orar.es uuvei onicui i Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and me raoitn vi vnW. , golaj )ace ol. the tentn district. ought to be a sour-e of pride to every: pa8t decade hundi-eds of s.l- true North Carolinian and every son mirera tnroughout the tenth district of the Southern group of States. Ihavc been insislent that Waynes- The coin is be'mg purchased gener-: awve1. O1.ator and Democratic . It. 1 I " r I - f sJAkAHtf 1 ously even by the people of the North., ern States. Banks all over the North are making application for the coins and a heavy saJe in the North is a certainty. Surely the people of North ; R A1py mad(, (hc nominatinK tpCT.-h cut remuneration and has leen re Carolina will go to the banks withjn lAjineviile f)1. Walter E. Moore sponsible in many instances of swing enthusiasm and without delay, and f(jr .onRress ad leaped into fame as ing entire counties into the Demo arrange for the purchase of these o he KreRtvst oratore of the ciat'c ranks. During the past cam coins, j day. In fact the newspaper comwent paign, Transylvania county succeiled I appeal to the people of the State ,f ' tha( tjme likentd Mr. Alley to in electing all Iemociatic candidates not to wait for committees and local Bryan and other noUbles. It was excepting two and it is beVieved and 01 sanitations, but to go at once to c,aimoJ that Mr. Alley and his claimed by manv who are in a posi their local bank! and open negotia-. frjeads ha(J a hard tjme preventing a tion to know, that a wonderful ild Hons for the purchase of these coins Expensive organizations .advterrtis- j ing, etc., will but waste the profit in the sale of these coins, and I cannot believe it will be necessary through these .methods to excite North Car olina to do its duty. I appeal to the whole press of the State, and the peonle generally ta move voluntarily and without commit tees to inform the people in every community of the State, and save all possible exDen.se in the sale of these coins. Inasmuih as the authorization of the sale of the coins constitutes with in itself the greatest step towards a truly united country since the fall of the Connfederacy ; and as a re-united country must be desired by all good people, I make bold to appeal to the ministry of the State to call atten tion promptly from their pulpits to the sale of these coins, coupled with an appeal to the people to complete the bauty of the expression made by the United States Government, by a generous find prompt purchase of these coins upon the part of cur people. I appeal to Chambers of Commerce, Kiwanians, Rotarians, Civitan and Lion Clubs, Farmers' organizations, Labor organizations, and all cdvic and I patriotic organizations which may IU...n M.l. fVlA MOV fciD UTAAt I pan p.- have meetings in the next few week.-., to have some member call attention to this matter, and help arouse our peo ple to the precious privilege of pay respect to the valor of the Soldiers of th Confederacp, and" appropri ately responding to the noble tribute United gtates emmem to ' , . .. . ,, . Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and the immortal armies they commanded. (Signed) Cameron Morrision, Chairman Confederate Memorial Coin Distribution Campaign. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Schulhofer and Hon. FeVx E. Alky for Congress Jt Hf'C -' H ''"'-V y X. ' NNJ4T WBf Ama i,yy, Mountaineer Statesman" Race for CongteSS rafflOUS Democratic UratOr n.marn.ta anA fri(,nds throughout Norti, Carolina are jubilant over tj,e decision made this week by Hon. ' ... . tne Imr statesman tnrow his hat into the ring to represent his country. flnen in congress. . ... , ,..,. tna. 1!n0 Fellx Jnovetm;nt to .stampede the conven- tion and nominate Alley for congress, ln 1!)12 Mr Alley placel in nomina-, turned t'.ie tide and from the verge if tion at Raleigh Governor IxK-ke Craig, defeat swept the Democrats into glo this was the only nomination speech rious victoiy in the last election. made. This convention was said at the time to have been the largest con vention ever held in the State. The speech was widely published with much editorial comment. Felix E. Alley has never oefore consented to allow his friends to enter his name in the congiessional race. He has always been busy making a liv- on-trated when he was last a candi ing and educating his children. date for Presidential elector. He ran Mr. Felix E. Alley is a native of way ahead of every other elector in the Western N '.h Carolina, having been jtate and was only outdistanced by a born in Jackson county. He came of few number of votis by two other good old 100 per cent American stock electors and they were delegates at ancf like Abraham Lincoln, his folks large. were poor but proud. In early lif' Mr. A:'. ley upholds the splendid tfa Mr. Alley had a hard stiuggle. He ditions of his profession, believes in worked hi s way through grammar law enfoicement. and is an ardent .id school, studying at night and dur-jvocate of '.he Golden Rule. He be ing his spare time, the old Blue back lives in upholding the law and because speller and the family Bible. 1 "capital punishment" is a law of the He cooked his own meals, work- State of North Car., Mr. Alley has nev ed at odd jobs, knows what it er publicly expressed his private views means to split rails, and all about the on this vital question. But recently it hard drudgery of farm and country will be recalled, two men were par life. He worked his way through high doned by Governor McLean. These school and at the same t;me helped men were sentenced at one time to die to support his parents. j by electrocution and their sentence Felix E. Alley never attended col- . djd ,uate flom the h,igh ' . school. He is self taught and truly a Locke Craig. Mr. Alley believed these self made man. His fir't public office ' men were innocent, he was so posi was clerk of Superior Court of Jack- tive that he spunt the entire night ison county and he served in that ca-1 with the Governor pleading and di l from 1898 to 1902. He studied succeed in saving their lives. These law from) an eariv age and was ad - mitted to the bar in 1902. Mr. Alley pointed out that he learned more law out of the Bible than all other books on law that he studied. He ever refers to the Good Book when needing help in a knotty problem. Mr. Alley is a leader in his profos-.two of the older sons are both law- sion. He has one of the largest prae. J yers. Eugene and Hayes. Mr and tices in Western North Carolina and; Mrs. Alley are members of the Meth - owing to the fact that he is so oftenloHist church, and Mr. Alley is affil- connected with important cases, alljiated vr'th the Masonic lodge. ovcr this great Union, he is a mem-' (Continued on another page) Definitely Decides lO Enter ber of the bar of five states: North and South Carolina, V rginia, Tennes. me ami Georgia. n 1015 Mr. Allev represented Jack- son c untv in the legislature and in 1)10 lie was elected solicitor of the 20th juivial district. He was an elector for Woodrow W'ilson in 1!16 and again for Cox in 19-20. During the last ten years Mr. Alley has cn vasscd the entire congressional dis trict each campaign. He has given lvlilnv hours of his valuable time W'th time enthusiastic Democratic SK-ech made by Felix Alley at Rosnian, N. C, Mr. Alley will be tifty-two ill July and has been a thorn in the side of the Republican party and- an inspir- ing Democratic bailor ever since he was L'l years old. That Mr. Alley is viry popujar s not only witnessed by his tremendous law piactice, but was thoroughly deni- was com.mtutted at the very last min ute to life imprisonment by Governor . . ... ; prisoners were recently pardoned on ' account of a sworn statement of the real murderer on his death bed; Ed j Williams. Mr. Alley married Miss Hayes of Swain county in 1899. There are four I children; one daughter and three sons,. Death of Thomas n:i.. a L. 1 1 Riley Marshall as Vice-President During Eight Momentous Years of Nation's I Iffctory Great Personalty j Won Many Friends. ' now has been in progress more than I Washington, June 1. Thomas Riley ja nllinth is near its close. Next week , Marshall, Vice President of the United pm()at;y see its fin.sh. The lack ! States for eight momentous years of I f l aJn wni,.n 'cgother wit'.i the late tits history, has followed his chief , I , r()StK nas reduced the yield is also Woodrow Wtilson, into death. j bringing the end of the ha -vest along Recurrence of a heart attack, which (,., ,.!,,,. ,nan t W0MU: have come if sent him to his bed last Monday im-1 ,(.,.,, hail fallen Mi usua'. amount of I mediately after a trip from Indiana, rain J brought on the ,.nd unexpectedly to- j i-J(,u(rh I he tr 'mis complain f 'day, after reports had come from h' short crop ther- has hern no com jsick room throughout the week t h h t , I p.rili ,n ln,. pi(1t 0f their customers I despite his years, he steadily was re-,in covering from nervous exhaustion and j a cn nomas R. Marshall. folksy -implicit y and the incority of Thomas It. Marshall The folksv -implieity and the pa; nt set him apart and made him disti" ipart and madi' him disti'- gu: i his hid among the public olheials o! g. nerat ion. Public ollire never -poded him. To the end of his days 'he was a statesman who was utterly : incapable of guile or o.-tcntatio.i Hi- reputation for straight dealin.I ( ltUj . MlaiK. iK,n ;',,. -riawberric j was never tarnished. ibat giow m and ilea round about j .Mar-hall nl;u ed his personal an I mimia"i town. 1. .. doubtful it' i political faith in the old fashion, d a nl.aity ,an be found li."r a com- i i tins. The ixilitical fads and i'" :,;;,( of -oil ami moi .- t:i e and sun ',, thes,. latter days did not win h.s ini . am altitude and atmosphere I approval. The old ways were the iet j: faV),.ablc to the priMluction of I to him. u bei iv superior to I 'ay wood's straw- I Yet he was benignantly tolerant id' , Herein lie an idea and po.-- difference ol opinion. He did not te" L, n.j-sary to denounce those who happened to .lieagree with him. While i no uepiorea meir juugmenv mm somv. I times poked good-natui-ed fun at them, he kept their friendship and conceded their integrity of thought ami pm- pose. "e WBA ueueisunmo ini.vn. ... the true sense of the word. He be - lieved with unwavering faith that Thomas Jefferson del ned the genuine strjve to .,,0duce. Tiii. rivalry is not principles of demorcrucy and his con l0nflned to strawberr - , but .'Xter.d fidence in the opinions of the Sage of )(( otn,,r .mfliket garden crop.:. Monticcllo as a guide to political con- r pmncis thijB r-nrinj planted duct never weakened. He clung fast (Mm arld r. Swayigini 7,000 st raw to them and sought to give effect to ;1(,nv plants. These pirn's are about them even when they were being aban- (ouniv divided between two va doned by their Democrats of light and leading. Marshall was not an ambitious iirin. He preferred the peace of his own conscience to the strife of politics. He lounted, personal friendship as worth more than all the empty honors of high office. He demonstrated his lack of ambition by the way in which he demeaned himself when Mr. Wil son was stricken. Then an effort was made in some quarters to declare the President disqualified by physical in capacities and to elevate Marshall to the Presidency. The Vice-President lefused to be a party to such a 'oa spiracyi Throughout this whole .crisis he conducted him.-elf like, a true gentleman and an honest friend. Mar-hall's speeches bristled witn wit but his humor was always kindly. Even when he lapsed into sarcasm, his shafts were never poisoned. The laughtei which his sallies invariably provoked niver caused him to lose h's head and indulge in ill-natured humai just for the sport of exciting more laughter. The Democratic partp honored itself in tht. honors which it heaped up.m Thomas R. Marshall. He was a real statesman and gentleman. Wiser men have risen to public office, but this generation has not known a public official who was more bonest or more lovable. Asheville Times. Some Noted Epigrams of Thomas K. Marshall. Thomas R. Marshall, Idiana's governor and the nation's Vice-President, was full of epigrams many of which have been wide'y quoted. In nearly every speech he made was at least one odd observation on cur rent events. Some of these sayings follow: "The only difference between th generation and my generation is .jia they have different ways of making fools of themselves." "The average idea of home is j fiat and a flivver." "A man should miarry and then k s. his wife every day as, an evidence of j good faith." I "Let us live our democracy. l et us ( level all distinctions on class and make this America really democratic.'' "I believe in vested rights, but not in vested wrongs." Strawberry Harvest t lliiniinni of Haywood STRAWBERRY NOTES 1 1KLI1 UNDER AVERAGE, BUT QUALITY HIGH. The local strawberry harvest which n,r,,.( (,, the quiili.y of the berries On tin- contiary the line llavors of the lllv praised . b t ries been . commented un.ui oy the many who l,:,;-,,ae keenly enjoyed and appreciated ,u, , , ,...! . Some olio ha.- oft m been quoted as -aying that Cod i.i'eht have made ,;i betui' l. 1 1 v than the strawberry but didn't . There ,u m Wayncs- . ville -trawbeiry i n hu- i.i: t - who are ' ' en iii'h tn doubt if a better bery vildlif .. which wi.' be discussed in riumnS f ihc Caniina Moun- t l.-,l,r (il.nng the :.Mr future. i , ,. ni st t..xter. r. e growers "i ,, ; , , 1S ,..i,' Wij i.esville, are nen.y Kiyncis and I'M Swayngim !lbout Uvo mii, s out in the h'rancis ovc. Their farms lie adjoining and tn,,lc ,,lst a llveiy mr. rnemuy uvai- '. v betw-en thfm Iwth . to quality . .. 1 nyMtitv of the stiuwberries they rieties, the The Cand" rip n of the varieties of Anima and Gundy. i the latest established commercial Ft '"iwherric-. 'n this loiality the very lat- varieties a 11 iu!e pi ovc the must '.i otitahle. The Excelsior is the tal lies; variety g:own here. The Klondike is an other (ally kind and is not-,i n a berry of the very highest qual'ty. (i. W Justice oui 111 the Pigeon R,ia , u;!s ,.0iiariv the lir.-t to do inv- thing noteworthy 1)1 a i ket ganlenin" th, t he vit init v of Vaynen-ville. Althoin. h his planting -o large as those of Mi" .Mr, Suavin.'ini, Mr. -hi-' ami still continue- to be 11. 1 w are not Francis and 1 lias beer, a wrc siic- i csst ul st ra wb 1 ri y g. owe '. II'.- little f:n m of thiee acres on wlib li lie hcea:i stiawbeny growing an.l 11. like! eaideuing lo years ago pMsent- a line example ;n the way 01 whet r iv i e ,a!le I intensive !'a) 111 ing. A- one of lis notable succosso, Mr. .lu-tiee lelatos that a few years ; ;'0 fro in a idol of giound ot) feet vride .'iid 100 fot long he sold 1.000 lUai ts- of -'. raw'eei ries. He says there j... no guess work about 'his thai the p .,. us aecuratelv measured, and imoI'uI account kent of the berries sold. Hut the berries sold were not )) the plot produced. His family used what thev needed and not a fpw ls we,.e ivi,n a ,() friends and neighbors. Unless one stops to figure a little 1,0(0 ouarts of berries from so small a plot of land seems an almost im possible production. But stop to fig ure and you will find 50 by 100 tc.t irvans 5,000 square feet divided by 1,000 gives 5 square feet frim wh'ieh to nick one quart of berries. It beconiss interesting then to fig ure how many quarts of berries at that rate an acre would produce. An acre contains 43,560 squarr? feet, which divided bv 5 gives us a quo tient of 8,712. So we see that at the rate of Mr. Justice's production it is possible to """' ' suacernc. .- : o T10 . - e .. ...1 . -"'d at 10 cents per quait only would mean$871.20. Interesting Sgurcs the-c and show the possibilities of strawberry giow- ing in Haywood county.