$150 the Year in Advance in the County , Sylva, N. C.( Wednesday, January 19,1927 $2.00 the Year in Advance Outside County GOV. WILL NOT Western North Carolina members of the general assembly have been ijivcn definite assurance by Governor McLean that there will be no oppo sition from the executive branch of the government to the proposed issue of two million dollars in state bonds to supplement the funds already raised by private subscription for the purchase ?f the lands for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This statement was made following conferences with Governor McLean and members of the North Carolina Park Commission held in Raleigh Tuesday. The Governor insisted, how ever, that a definite plan be submit ted by the federal government as to what it proposes to do in the de velopment of the park area, and when the development is to begin. A committee will confer with Sec retary Work, in Washington in the immediate future, and will whip the plans into shape, having them ready to present to the North Carolina as sembly within a short time. There is a feeling among those in formed upon the subjcct that with 110 tear of executive opposition, the bond issue will have slight opposi tion in the legislature as it is general ly recognized that the park is a mafc ti'r of state wide importance, a cot*.-! struetive policy that will affect the entire state of North Carolina as well as the other states in the Southeast, and in fact the whole of Eastern America. AUTHORITY OF HIGHWAY BODY AGAIN CURTAILED ( Kaleigh,\Ian. 12?Invoking the gen eral principles laid down in the cele brated Newton road case, the Su preme Court today further restricted the discretionary powers of the State Highway Commission and, uphold ing a restraining order granted by Judy-c Garland Midgette in Robeson Caunty Superior Court, refused to allow it to make one road do the work ot two. The ease was that of Carlyle and othesr vs. the Highway Commission, and involved the right of the .Com mission to unite Route 70 and 20 thirteen miles out from Lumberton atid run them into the town as a si.i erle road. Sylva Wanner than Elsewhere ^ > Sylva with a temperature of 11 above zero, was one of the warmest si>ots in North Carolina, Sunday morning. AsheviNe's recorded tem perature was just a fraction more than 1 above zero, while weather folder than that in the valleys West ot' the Balsams was recorded at all points cast of those mountain bar riers. The o cial recording in Atlan ta was 10, just one degree lower than Sylva. Painter Undergoes Operation. Mr. B. 0. Painter is recoverihg at the Franklin hospital, following an y'(*Tation, which he underwent at that institution last Sunday. DEHOIMTS ELECT REPUMCJN SHERIFF j There has been much good humored ! speculation thorughout the state, for the past week over the action of the Democratic board of county commis sioners of Randolph electing a repub ; lican as sheriff of the county. I It came about on this wise: J. I<\ Cranford, republican, elected as sher , iff in the November election, resign ed. The county commissioners, com posed of Ernest Watkins, democrat; W. C. Grimes, democrat; J. W. Mc Elhanlon, democrat; W. L. Ward, re publican and E. L. Leach, democrat, proceeded to elect, J. A. Brady, a former republican sheriff of the county to fill the vacancy. All the of ficers of the county are democrats except the sheriff and commissioner Ward. i, ? ' '*) ( A POULTRY GRAVEYARD ?? t . "Within tlie boundaries of this re gion from Virginia to Georgia the veg ctalien of the Southern Appalachians reaches its highest expression in the Great Smoky Mountains. Here on the vast cloud bathed slopes of; these giants among the eastern rang es, plant life runs riot and many hundreds of species characterizing the region are distributed in lavish profusion. No richer botanical col lecting ground exists in America than that of the Smokies. \ "Of the approximately 3,000 spec ies of plants in North Carolina a large proportion of them are distinc tivc of the mountains region. Here they distribute themselves in accord-! ancc with differing habitats, certain1 ones preferring the lower altitudes with their milder climate, others the higher, with their severer boreal con-, grass or any form of green feed > available. The hatches from these! eggs were poor find of the chicks more died than lived and with good haiidl-l ing only cue third of these clucks ( lived to grow off. In August a neigh bor farm poultry keeper helped cull the old flock and those hens left along with the pullets were placed in the laying house. They were fed com mercial feed bought altogether at the store while this farmer sold all his home grown grain to the mill for half the price he paid for the grain in his commercial bought feed. By Do-; cember of that year this farmer had! decided his poultry was a losing proposition and sold off every chick en on the place. And there stands the houses empty and the socalled poul try graveyard. Most any farmer in that mountain community will tell you if you want to take mighty good chance of mak-J ing a poultry graveyard for your self to get your chicks in -May or June, so you will have a lot of late pullets to feed all winter to get 30 cent eggs in the spring, or save hatch" ing eggs from hens without plenty of good green feed of some kind, or feed your hens altogether on bought commercial feed while you and farm ers in your community sell grain to the mills for only half to two thirds the price you pay for it in com j mcrcial feeds. And fail to cull your pullets or,, hens close less than 2 or 3 times per year. Either of these pratices just mentioned or a mix ture of them will soon build a poul try graveyard on most any farm. You will find the really successful farm poultry keepers in that com munity wil| tell you to follow this plan if you will keep chickens for profit or for your healths 1. Build , standard brooder house ton by twelve feet for one brooder and 300 chicks only, and build standard laying house 120 x 20 feet for 100 hens only. 2. Get your heavy breed chicks from 20 of February to 20 of March and get the light breed chicks from 20 of March to 20th of April, no sooner and no later for profitable layers. Get 'chicks from flocks you know are carefuily mated and properly fed. i3. Raise your chicks en commercial dui<*ns. Noting tlicse subdivisions or natitfal plant communities constitutes one ^of the interesting occupations of the -mountain climher whomsoever he migat be. Nowhere else in this great Southern Appalachians, are these contrasts in vegetation which are of so iauch interest to everyone, more strikingly observed, than in the bo iauM&l center of the region of the Smfflty Mountains." I" #*? Wells closes his work by suaqling up the necessity, from the stapijfcpoint of the cultural development offimerica, of the establishment of thd Park: "In America there is cer tain to develop a much higher culture th|kff "we now possess. If the artists, musicians and poets are to enjoy as ; foilfterly, the inspiration which pe rennially glows out of the primeval wilderness, it is imperative that poolWt not' this wilderness must be saSved. If scientists of the future are to have the privilege of studying liv ing species, rather than reading musty books on extant life, these species must be saved. If the citi zens of the nation (now mostly in cities) are to have awes of wild country in which to make amateur studies of wild life, and incidentally; restore their nervous balance, such areas must be saved. There can bo no question whatever about the vast importance of National Parks in relation to the culture of the coin-i ing generations. ) "When we judge the Great Smoky Mountains area from this standpoint, the student of its flora knows that no wiser move qould possibly be. made than to set aside in perpetuity as much of it as possible, for here in coming generations, will come thous ands annually to see the great forests and the glorious pageant of wild flow-. crs. From the mountain tops thay will, gaze at the distant, vendure clad slopes through the Smokies' eternal haze, and will ever after in memory possess something of the stimulating intellectual interests, the infinite charm and the supernal beauty of the Great Smokies." ??????^ SOUTH'S NEEDS ?A Frankly the South needs industrial prosperity, but not at the expense of the grace and charms of life. We need education for the masses and expert training for thoso who are to be lead ers, but we should not like to have vocational and technical training en tirely take the place of liberal culture. We want all that modern science, can bring us, but we do not want to become scientific and rationalistic at the expense of the spiritual values of life. We can get along without a liter ature that finds its material in the garbage can and without a theatro that ministers to the obscene snick erings of the audience. We have seen some of the effects of these things ? on the modern mind and we want to j avoid them.