JACKSON (0. JOURNAL
DA2T TOMPKINS, - - Editor
Published Weekly By the
JAOKSON COUNTY JOURNAL 00
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Entered aa second elass matter
at Sylva, N. C.
THE MISSING LINE
Wheni the counties prepared the
list of highways to be adopted as the
state highway system, Jackson coun
ty commissioners included a road
from Sylva via Cullowhce State Nor
mal School to Cashier's Valley and
the South Carolina line. That high
way was especially requested, all of
it and designated by the commission
ers as, in, their opinion the most im
portant highway in the county. It
was believed for a loiig time and the
people were so informed, that State
Highway 106 started at Sylva and
ended at the South Carolina line..
When the maps were published, how
ever, some ten miles were whacked
off, on the south end and the high
way stopped without apparent reas
on at the upper end of Cashier's Val
ley.
The people of the county have been
promised, by the Highway Commis
sioner of this district, that the miss
ing1 link would be added. The reason
now assigned why it has not been
done, is because of the failure of the
South Carolina legislature to provide
for the extension of South Carolina
Highway No. 2, to meet 106 at the
state line..
We had always believed that North
Carolina led the South, not waiting
for some other state to blaze the way.
In fact we, and other North Carolin
ians have boasted of this. There is no
reason why this should not be imme
diately placed on the map as a part
of the state highway system as was
originally intended and as has been
promised.
The important reason for adding
this link and we believe in frankness,
is because it will change 106, the day
it goes on the map from an important
community road to ortp of the great
est ihter-statc highways, and wilt
thus force the completion of the en
tire length of it, with the best sur
face practicable. (
Give us the missing link, Mx. Stike^
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SOME EXPLAINING DUE
t There is due the people of the state
especially the counties of the extreme
west, including Jackson, an explana
tion as to how the commission arriv-jJ
f ed at the allocation of the state J
equilization funds for schools. >
This year Jackson county receives
an increase of $600 from the fund,
not sufficient to pay the salary of
one teacher. Ashe, another small coun
ty with similar conditions prevailing
receives an increase of $90,000.00
Why? All the counties of the extreme
west are in about the same boat with
Jackson. Why?
Jackson county has labored hard
and faithfully to build up a system
of public schools with the .highest
standard of excellence. In doing so
*the people have placed an unusually
heavy burden of taxation upon them -
selves. When the last legislature prac
tically doubled the equilization fund,
the people of the county expected,
that they would receive a substantial
allocation, of the fund, sufficient to
in some manner relieve them of part
of the almost unbearable burden.
They got $600. Why?
Governor's McLean's rich pgricul
tural county of Robeson received $10,
843.77 from the fund, last year. The
i^ew allocation gives it $82,859.51.
Please explain! Beaufort got $6,
798.65 last year; now it will receive
$53,087.73. Cleveland county was in
creased from $6,798.65 to $47,201.93.
Cumberland's fund was swelled from
$3,138.38 to $47,611.04. So on it goes
through the list, with what is ap
parently a most unfair anjd unjust
allocation of the fund. Leaving the
weak counties of the extreme west,
already staggering under the burden
they have placed upon themselves ia
an effort to educate their children,
with no substantial relief. Of course
Jackson's $600 will help pay Vone
teacher. ' N 'i
....The truth is and it cannot be de
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nied, that the equalization fund is but
a makeshift, a sop handed out to fore
stall and prevent the growing demand
for a state system of education sup
ported by the state as a whole and Of
fering equal educational advantages
to every North Carolina child in ev
ery part of the state. That is what
should be done. That ,is what will ev
entually be adopted, because it is> the
only fair, just equitable way of edu
cating the children of the state with
out placing glaringly unequal tax
burdens upon part of the state. Every
child in North Carolina is a North
Carolinian and the state owes it the
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equal advantage of an education,
whether it lives in one of the cities,
Or in the coves of thhe mountains.
The state will wake up to that fact,
some day.
But, that is not really what we arc
talking1 about. The important thing
just now is an explanation as to why
some counties received practically
nothing at the hanjds of the equaliz
ing board while others had their share
of the fund increased ten-fold.
If the next legislature will multiply
the equalization fund by ten aiijil the
present board does the allocating, we
may get enough increase to pay a
couple of teachers.
Seriously and in all solemnity, this
paper asks, demands in the name oil
the boys and girls of Jackson coun
ty, an explanation of why the equal
zation board thinks they are entitled
to only $600 increase from the doub
led equalization fund, wh'ile the chil
dren who live in the home county
of the Governor of North Carolina
received #111 increase of sonic $70,
000.00?
the cullowhee
PRACTICE SCHOOL
(By Lisbeth Parrot)
Shades qf the blue back speller and
Mark Hopkins! ,
The model elementary school at
?Cullowhee rpn on the lines of modern
educational theory, has proved ko
pleasing to its small pations that tliev
have come in crowds ol their own
I free will, to attend tliie ? sumnfrr
term! Such an unprecedented number
! of boys and girls have arrived to on
i roll that President II. T. lturtijtor'of
the Normal School, of which the mod
ol school is a branch, hius been oblin j
ed to engage an additional teacher. 1
Every morning before seven o'clock
many of the small boys and girls of
Jackson county are enthusiastically
getting ready for school. Sonie o t'
them must walk two or three miles
Ho reach the main highway where
they stand by the side of the road and
wait for the school busses which 1111
from East Laporte and from Speed
well, to pick them up, All roads nny
not load to Cullowhee but the two
'lanre busses"1 find the way each day,
bringing thirty or forty pupils in a
load to the Cullowhee Demonstration
School.
One hundred ami forty of these
bovs and girls are' attending the si
.weeks! summer school. A few have
conditions to work off, but the lanic
majority come because they have a
good time.. ? Many of the seven'h
grade graduates of the spring have
come back for the summer, "just to
get a good foundation," as they say.
> And why is this school so attractive
to theni when all our lives we have
heard littto- boys bemoan the fact that
their school houses never burn dowi!
Perhaps the explanation lies in the
fact that there ,is a great deal of en
tliuiasm at home.' The people of ti e
county are furnishing the drivers and
school busses for transporting: the
pupils. This is a new obligation taken
over by /the county}, and its assump
tion is an evidence ?f increased inter
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est in educational progress in the
county, according to J. N. Wilson,
Jackson County Superintendent of
Schools. /
, Parallel with this concrete proof of
cooperation with the Normal > School
comes an increased attendance at the
Demonstration or model school. Last
year, the principal was forced to go
out and solicit students in order to
bring .the enrollment to the neces
sary "100. This year on the first two
days over 140 children were enrolled.
But the school itself must satisfy
the children or the parents at home
would have gotten themselves intj
trouble! The school, conducted by an
experienced elementary faculty of.
which J. W. Grise, Principal of the
Hcmcway and Tilcstoii Elementary
Schools of Willnington is head, seeks
to give to the Normal School students
who spend many hours each week in
observation at the. school, a concrete
illustration of the practicability oi
modern educational theory. This the
ory holds that learning should pro
ceed from normal living conditions,
rather than from a strained atmos
phere. The students are set to work on
various projects which cbll lor stud
ent activity, and in the working out
of which the students must meet and
solve new problems. When a student
j solves a problem, he is learning, ac
j cording to theory v
One of the grades, 'the fourth is
learning history, geography, language
and whatnot from a comparison of
Swiss life with the life in the moun
tains of this section ol* the country.
The seventh grade is spending its
time on British life. This topic is of
interest to the pupils because they,
the natives of the moWtain section,'
represent the purest Anglo-Saxon
blood in America. >
The little tots of the second grade
arc building a flower shop. This pro
ject has been undertaken because of
the excellent opportunity the country
affords for nature study. The chil
dren arc making clay bowls, painted.
or stencilled boxes; and when they(
complete the physical equipment of
the shop they will begin the study of
native flora.
It is a well known fact JJiat many
children from the country districts'
fall below the health standards when
compared to the children of-, cities.
Health projects, have been inaugurat
ed in order to attempt to remedy this
'condition. The sixth and seven'h
grades are studying the balanced meal
and are making out menus. They air
being taught to help their younger
sisters and brothers with the menus
for their lunch boxes, .in the hopi>
that more healthful lurches will re
place the old time lunch of cold pie
and sweet potatoes.
All the work is closely correlated
with life. But even work of this kind
would grow dull for chidren unless
they could occasionally get out and
stretch themselves in real physical ox-1
erase. Baseball teams have been or- i
ganized and games and stunt#, are
taught the children. The play at n
ccss is su|>ervised and directed so thai
all the children will be engaged in real
play and 110 timid boys and girls w:.l
stand in the corner and be homesick.
And at the end of tlfe six weeks' j
school, tlicie is to be a picnic that j
?11 the children are looking forward j
to,, and that is : to be the climax ol
all the thrilling experiences of the
summer. ? .'* -j '
The work of the Cullowlwc Demon
stration School is umW- the. suj?crvis
ion of J. W. G'rice, who ifc assisted by
Misses Frances Lacy and Cleo Rain
water, supervisors of the primary and
the elementary departments. The cri
tic teachers are as follows: .Tosie W.]
Brock, Principal of the Corrnelies
Harnett School, Wilmington";i'Mrs.
Cassia Wallace Griffin, Cnllowhee.
Nineteen students most of whom
will graduate from the Nornitd school
in August, a;-c doing practice teach
ing in the Demonstration School.
They are: Misses Inez McGlohon,
Grcenvill; Daisy Carter, Man ten:
Florence Heath, Alliance; Maie Tliel
nia "Roberts, Marshall; Ora Lee Gad
dy, Monroe; Bemctta Jcrvis, Almond
Margaret Whiteside, Candler; Helen
Smathers, Clyde; Odessa Lcmmond,
Indian Trail: Hattie Wortman, Cas
ar; Eva Jackson, Wintcrville; Alice
Earlc Edwards, Avondale; Mr. and
Mrs. Moigan Cooj>er, New Condon;
Luke Long, Cullowhee; Mrs. Pat
Cole, Canton; Mrs. Betty Snider Par
ris, Raleigh; F. M. Alley, Cullowhee.
Poultry Sale
The cooperative poultry car will be at
Sylva all day Thursday, June 30th. The
following prices will be paid in cash at
the car:
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Hens, heavy breeds 16c per Ik
Hens, light breeds ... 12c per lb.
Cox : 8c per lb.
Broilers, heavy breeds L 25c per lb.
Broilers, light breeds 18c per lb.
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All broilers should average 2 lbs or more:
It will be more profitable to grow broilers
to two pounds before selling them.
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JACKSON COUNTY POULTRY ASSO.
Wash
Dresses
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vour entire summer wardrobe can be chosen economically.
We are offering one lot of beautiful $9.95 and'
? $14,95 wash cfresses at tlie money-saving price of
"" . ' $5.00
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The big reduction is still being made on the
lovely, summer hats.' * '
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