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JACKSON CO. J01KAL i ' DAN TOMPKINS, - - Editor Published Weekly By the JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL CO. Entered as second class matter | at Sylva, N. C. We wish these New Yorkers would can their "Peaches." There may be 104 Americans miss ^ ing in China; but we know one young, man Who isn't going to look them up^ > Somebody's China is apt to get broken in the Orient; but it won't be an accident. .? ; Groundhog or no groundhog, there ean be but February, March, April, May and half of June left of winter. Dumb Mabel thinks that the Smoky Park, is where the ladies will stop their automobiles to take a smoke. It's funny how much richer we :< 11 feel since Presidnct Coolidge made that speech Saturday night, telling us of our great prosperity. THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLI MENT The Hendersonville News had evi dently been reading the""-, reports iqj the daily press, when the following, editorial was written. While the re-' ports of injuries were greatly exag erated; we still deeply appreciate the kind words spoken by the News: Sympathies of the newspai>er, pro fession as well as those of his many 'readers will go out to Dan Tompkins because of his injuries resulting from the explosion of a gasoline blow torch in his newspaper shop, which was also damaged by the fire that re sulted. O We thought a combination mayor editor was too busy for the mechani cal operations of the shop but that is one of the penalties of being a news paper publisher. We hope our brother soon recovers because Sjlva and Jackson county suffer every day he is in bed. Jackson County Journal J "A telephone message from Editor! Dan Tompkins of the Jackson Conn-; ty Journal to the Press last Monday! stated his plant was seriously dnmag-j cd by fire Monday morning. The) fire originated from the explosion of! a gasoline burner used in connection with the casting box. Mr. Tompkins will have his typo set by the Frank-: lin Press until his plant is again able j to take care of his needs. As a result of the fire Mr. Tompkins stated that the Journal will appear this week a day or two late. The Press regrets that the Jackson County Journal has suffered this misfortune. Western North Carolina could hardly get 11 long without the Journal, one of the most widely quoted papers in this, section of the state."?Franklin Press. SCHOOL PEDDLING Private concerns from outside the state are making the children of our schools their agents, by giving a com mission on the merchandise they sell to the school libraries or other school purposes. Often the articles sold arc of an inferior quality of candy, seeds, paper, or whatever it may be. The private concerns that are using the children of our schools..for their own private purposes evade the payment of privilege or other license7tax, and frequently dispose of inferior arti cles, that they would otherwise have a hard time selling. Thus the schools enter into competition, of the most unfair kind, with the business people ( who are helping to pay the taxes to support them. It is the same old game of the mail order houses, with the added feature of using our own chil dren as their agents, and of imposing upon the natural loyalty every citi zen has for his school. So far as this writer is concerned, and he believes that the great major ity of the people feel the same way about it, he had much rather give 50c directly to the purposes of the school than to pay 5c for an article >t!iat he does not want, knowing that at least two ahd half cents of the pay ment is going into the pockets of some foreign concern that is using! the schools as its agents to compile! with the local tradesmen. Someday the people are going to stop allowing themselves and their children to be imposed upon in., any suchh maimer. f" We believe that school authorities have never thought of the matter in this light, and that when they do, they will effectively squelch the plans of the gentlemen who arp mak ing the monev out of it. J WHAT DO THEY LEARN? We have been wondering just what they do learn in schools and colleges, these days. It is quite a marvel,' the number of things that people of a couple of generations ago knew, that arc a closed book to the students of today's high school and college. The Raleigh News and Observer is respon-1 sifele for this story: The News and Obscrver carried an urgent editorial j on the need of an eight months school term. The editorial was J^eade.] "Standing at Kiidesh-Barnea." V University professor asjeed where that! place is, and another college graduate | thought the wrong headline was overj the article.,, THE GREAT PARK The General Assembly will be call- j ed uj>on to make an appropriation of j two million dollars to supplement the > funds that have been rafted by pub-j lie subscription for the purchase of I the lands in the Great Smokies for, the creation of a national park forj eastern America. V: j % . The preservation of the last stand] of the mighty forests that once wero these mountains, would alone justify the expenditure, and future genera tions would rise up to call blessed the men and the women who secured it. . , But there are so many other con siderations. Every angle from which [ the matter can he viewed shows netvj reasons why the park should be es-j tablishcd, and why it now becomes the duty of the state of North Caro-i lina to conic to the rescue of the park area and buy the lands that will be developed into a park by the,national government.. jJThe timber of forest products arc! the great source of income to West-! crn North Carolina today. Those re sources are fast becoming exhausted, and a really large income from thcinj will sooti disappear. It is only a mat-j ter of a few short years until the forests will he goijc. Where, then, i? this region to turh for money, upon which to exist? The next greatest source of1 reve nue is from the tourist crop, llcnc", that should he cultivated with assi duityj The greatest drawing card that could possibly be played is the estab lishment of the park. It would ad vertise itself and would draw the thousands to Western North Carolina at all seasons of the year, thereby lengthening it he tourist season, whicl is all too short. By means of the park, \?c ?in keep our forests in the Smokies intact, and at the same time make of them a nev er ending and ever increasing source of income to our people. The great water powers of the re gion would be made permanent by the preservation of the forests in the Smokies and the Balsams, and anoth er valuable asset of the state would be saved. The truth is \that the extreme Western counties must have the Park or their development has about been reached. The Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park means the salvation of the counties of this part of the state. Tt is a matter of life and death with ; them. Gentlemen of the general assembly, the West has sent you an S. 0. S. And it expects' you to come to the rescue. BORAH'S WARNING This tnh.ii Borah has a habit of say i ing something almost cverytimc iio opens his mouth, here of late. Now ' he comes forth as a champion of the i rights of the states, sounds; a warning, that is both timely and sincere against the present tendency of centralizing government in Washington Bureaux. Writing in the current issue of "Tiio .Nation's Business," Senator Borah says: Unless a halt is called, it will be only a matter of time until there will be an officer for every ten per sons in^the republic. | "Every conceivable activity off i mind and bodv will be under the di-1 rection and, surveillance of a bureau." I ^ 'Inspectors and spies will leer up-j 1 on the citizen from every street cor ner and accompany him hourly in his daily avocation. Taxes will he $40 per capita. Forty per cent dff the nation i al income will be demanded for the I >< i public expenses. "We wfl have a republic in name, but a bureaucracy in fact?the most wasteful, the most extravagant, the 'most demoralizing and deadly form of \government which God has ever permitted to torture the human fam ily- ? '' The people must be taught that m encouraging the centralization of their-af fairs in Washington they are digging the grave of the American government as it was conceived br the Constitution-makers. "They must learn that in looking to the national capital to care their 1/ ! ailments, they are weakening the fib er of true citizenship and destroying the self reliant spirit of Americanism without which this republic can not endure. And we in Congress must stop heeding every little group, which,; like the tailors of Too lev Street, pe tition us as, "We,-the people of tiio United States." "We have before us a task worthy of the finest intellects. Our agricul-j tural problem, our transportation question, the regulation of our great natural monopolies, cos 1 and water-1 ]>ower, extravagant, and corrupt ten-| dencies of government State and na-| tional, the enforcement of law, the, protection of human life and proper-1 ty, the bold attempts to debauch <he; electorate through (lie profligate nso; of money?all these cry out lor our j mos(; serious attention. "As we. approach these problems,j it is most disturbing to encounter 011! every hand the erroneous belief tliatj the way to meet these new (|ue>:(ionsi is to effectuate some change in tho' structure of .our government, and thus everybody is proposing a change un til tho whole'structure is: impliedly under condemnation. "Our difficulties,and our evils flow not from our form of government, [ but from our failure to appreciate! hnd utilize, according to its great j principles, the government we already | have. / "It ? is easy to attack out* govern ment, but it is far more difficult, and it calls for greater industry and ability, to yiake wise ase of llie in-j struments which have been placed it our disposal. >j "This clamor for change meroiy* for change's sake, this , haphazard floundering in legislative a flairs, is nowhere and in no way more* pro-1 nounced than in the gradual, but cer tain destruction of the States and the centering of all govet-ynient;;! power in Washington. "In this irresponsible, vandalism, the disciples of Hamilton and the apostles of .lefferson jflwi hands. V> political party in Washington seems willing lo stand against'' this sub'le revolution, against this un-American, utt-deiiiocratic program." PUBLIC WELFARE WORK IN JACKSON COUNTY Ill the year HU!> I lie people of Jackson County, in accordance wi\h tin' |>];> 11 of the visile, organized a Public Welfare Hour*!. A Snporin intendent. of Public Wcli'nre was ap-i pointed and 1 lie people of tlie county set to work to carry out a worth wliiWj program of welfare work. A county public welfare heard lifts j many duties, too numerous to inen tiou. We nii?rht say, however/ that public welfare nims to deal primarily with four wide ?' spread conditions; delinquency, defectiveness, dependen cy, mid unequal, opportunities- of the child. Child labor as :i phase of, public V?'elfa?v lia?? not b?'eii a serious problem in this county, due lo the fact that our county is practically made up of rural sections. Only in a few instanc's has it been necessary to call attention to iue child labor law. While compulsory education has been a difficult problem, as it is in every county, I think we could not class it as the outstanding problem. In talking with people who have been directly connected\with public wel No Laughing Matter. Lita Grey Chaplin (above) and: Jier famous comedian husband are fit maritial odds. Suits and coun-* ter suits over money and the cus tody of their two children have taken the smiJe from Charlie's face. Mr. Chaplin suffered* a 1 n?irvou& poUapae wiifie in New fare work in this county, I find thaV the biggest problem in the past l?as ? been that of dealing with delinquent, or defective children. Let us consider compulsory educa tion and what it has meant in in- j creasing the average ,daily attendnce. j : 111 the school yer .1917-1918, which; was one yesij: before this comity had public welfare wo>k, with a school census of 5,388 children of compul sory ago, the enrollment was 4,410 and the average daily attendance was 2,454. This means that pproximatelyj SO percent of the children, were en rolled, but the average daily attend ance was only about 53 percent of those enrolled. In 1925-1926 with a school census of 4,5/5, the enrollment was 3,837 and the average daily at tendance was 3,043. These figures show that approximately 83 percent of the children of compulsory age was enrolled and that the equivalent of approximately 84 pcrecntof those enrolled remained in school through out the year. It is quite possible that additional factors have entered in to, reform the holding power, of our schools, but it seems that we arc jus tified in giving much credit in this respect to 1 compulsory attendance, j Since 1919 the juvenile court has disposed of approximately seventy juvenile cases. Six or seven delinquent; boys have1 been- placed in "The] Stonewall Jackson Training St'iool." It is impossible to estimate what this bar, meant1 to these hoys as well as to the county ?t large. The people of the county must look to the young manhood and womanhood for future leadership, and they as boys and girls must have the proper training. Ten blind children have been aided in securing a place in a blind school., Four children were placed in the | epileptic school at Raleigh. One' colored boy was sent to the school for delinquents at Oxford, North Car olina. About thirteen or fourteen homeless children ivere placed in The Children's Home Society, Greensboro, North Carolina, One crippled girl was given hospital aid and in a few montiks was reported cured. The above is by no means a com plete or accurate, list of the accom plishments of public welfare in this county. A large part of the program of public welfarp has been carried out through community organizations and private donations. The business firms over the county have made lib eral donations for the relief ot the needy. Thus, we (see, while Jackson County is yet young in public welfare work, it has accomplished some de finite and worth while things. Every good and worth while thing is an outgrowth ot much thought and your Things You Should Know 'by John'Joseph Gsinei. M. D/ WINTER-DAY SUGGESTIONS. In clays, when the front door is kept closed as much as possible, and the windows are jealously guarded,?when ventilation holds discomfort along with its purifying" influences, I cannot help thinking of the increased liability of infec tion within the winter quarters of those who live in the frigid tem peratures of our northern states. The out-door members of our fam ilies are abroad during the day, either from choice or necessity. Being exposed, they "pick up" colds, bronchial 'infections, throat disturbances febrile in character, and, certainly communicable. They bring their complaints home with them. Children going to school are extremely liable to contract lung or throat*diseases, by their association with groups some of whom are almost ccrtain to ba carriers of respiratory germs. Somebody in the fa:nily may be tubercular?a most serious infec tion. <,?. ,. What I am driving at is, to avoid the spread of disease in the home where we spend our even ings, or should, if we do not. I do not like to hear of colds "go ing through families," and I am convinced that such misfortune can be prevented by intelligent pre caution. Under no circumstance should expectorated matter be per mitted to dry within the sitting room or bed-room. The handker chief used by a sufferer should be thrown in a vessel of wate>- when soiled. ' -v ? Then, coughs should be carefully disciplined; a haH cough will hurl bacteria ten fest. It may fcs dead ly to sit in front of a tubcrcular who coughs immoderately without training for safety. It is just as easy to dispo e of expectorated matter before it dries, and sickness may be prever'od by kindly res triction. Try in your home. NEX 1 'YT'E-v ABUSE OF PRIVILEGE patient work. We cannot expect our public welfare program to lie at us best yet. It is up'to^the wide awake citizens of Jackson County to work toward a better organized system. Let us start the new year right by ever keeping in mind those children who have not the proper surroundings and with an up to date, weil or^.uii zed public welfare system help to place about them such conditions and opportunities that will help them to develop the proper habits and make the right kind of citizens. (Signed) Stelia Cowan, '28, Cullowhec State Norma!. Five silver trophy cups Will he awarded by merchants and bankers of Halifax for the greatest product ion of ?oro per acre in the upper part of Halifax County this year. . 1 ' ? Community meetings will he held .regularly in 13 communities oi Wayjie Countv during the next five months. Sausage will be more uniform in flavor if the seasoning is added to, the trimmings before they are ground rather than to thfc sausage after ii goes through the mill. This will be a good year to know more about how to grade tobacco. The State College of Agriculture is offering a free short course on the subject on February 8, 9 andlO. ALL AUTOS SELL AT AUCTION ?? 1 ?*. ?* ,i ? The auction sale of used ears I ?he Home Realty and Auction Co. |*pany, for the Cullowhet- Motor . pany, held yesterday attracted a la crywd of ]>eople and the entire i| of used cars, as advertised in Journal, last week, was sold to s isficd buyers. Twenty two farmers of the Euivi.i. Community in Wayne County h;v: treated their tobacco seed for U>;; spot diseases. How Doctors Treat Colds and the Flu To break up a cold overnight cr to cut short an attack of grippe, in fluenza, sore throat or tonsillitis, phy sicians and druggists are now recom mending Calotabs, the purified ar.-l refined calomel compound tablet t'n; t gives you the effects of calomel a;. I salts combined, without the unpleas ant effects of either. One or two Calotabs at bcd-tin.c with a swallow of water,?that's n!i. No salts, no nausea nor the slighted interference with your eating, work or pleasure. Next morning your co!,i has vanished, your system is thor oughly purified and you are feelir ; fine with a hearty appetite for bre;i'. fast. Eat what you please,?no dan ger. Get a family package, containing full directions, only 35 cents. At an;.' drug store. (adv) IM OTHERrict- J^i cher's Oisloria is cs pcctaiy prepared to W.( relieve I:rf'r.:Us in arms and Children r.'l .ages of Ccnsii;uLJou, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; 2Having Fcverishneii llx.efiom., and, !;y regulating the Stomach and Buv.eli, aids tlie a?j?iari!atio;i o? Food; givi.ig natural sleep To avoid imitations, alwr.ys look for th~ signature of Absolutely Harmless- No riiysklaas everywhere recommend ^ I WHERE WILL YOU BE Hi 12 MONTHS? Bfl '! ? I Twelve months from today will you be in the same financial rut in which you p now find yourseii ? Or will you be on the || high road to financial independence and | . economic freedom? 1 It all depends upon yourself. Work, save, deposit regularly in a good bank. y make a good backing connection. We will be glad to offer you every help that we c?an consistent with good banking. . S AJTETY FIRST ERVICE NEXT ATISFACTiON ALWAYS %JucIc asezaee 3$an/l CAPITAL AND SURPLUS 530,000.00 D. G. BRYSON, President J. N. WILSON, V.-Pree. BIIXY DAVIS, Cashier >? ? X 3 hi
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