JAM CO. JOURNAL DAN TOMPKINS, - - Editor Published Weekly By the JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL CO Entered as second class matter at Sylva, N. G. , Sampson county folks are learning that while one barrel may not make an oil field it will make a tremen dous excitement. Over in Buncombe, Granny Riddle celebrated her 108th birthday, Tues day. The longevity of some people is a puzzle. . /?*?? We may not have as many-sena torial votes in Jackson as they have in Robeson; but the children here arc entitled to as much education. Having the president 's picture tak en pushing a wagon up tjie hill and with one gallus showing won't raise the mortgage off the average farm. ij Talk is sometimes costly. Sharkey stopped to argue with the referee ov er an alleged foul, and while he was talking he was knocked out, and tiie battle lost. ? ?y i.. v i Granny Ridde, North Carolina's oldest citizen, began smoking when she was eight years old, just one hundred years a ago, and it hasn't killed her yet. Which, the way, does not prove anything. It may be that if she had refused to become a de votee of the Lady Nicotine, she would have added another half cen tury to her life. ' ' % >. A headline speaks of "Crimina Juries." From the awful ordeal the) are sometimes forced to1 undergo in listening to the iong-winded orations of attorneys, or\e would judge that they are all criminal and this is tho punishment meted out by the law. AN AWFUL VERDICT Out at Seattle, the other day, a young lady, a member of a yachting party, fell into the lake, and lost her life. Nothing was said about the af fair as the other members of the par ty wished to avoid publicity. vHer body was found floating on the lake. A coronor's jury was empanelled and an invetsigation made. The jury failed ,to find anything connected with the death of the voun<' woman that the law would consider as indictable, and 110 one was held for trial in the courts. But, perhaps a worse verdict was returned, one that would sting a real ' man and cause him to forever ham: his head in shame when he stood m the presence of men of the ordinary, heroic mould. The jury branded four men, who saw the young woman strui* gling for her life, and made no ef fort to save her, as "cowards", and held that they, by failing to play the part of men are "morally responsi ble" for her death. Throughout the ages men, ordinary men, even as you and I, have gone heroically to their deaths in the de fense of women of our race. * The stake, the rack, the guillotine, have been faced unflinchingly; men have! charged through fire and water, pes tilence, famine, raging artillery, with ering machine-gun fire and deadly gasses in defense of their principles, for the protection of their women, and that others might live and b? happy. The innumerable, uncounted and uncountable thousands who thus have lived and thus have died are the men of stuot hearts and valiant souU, such as we meet daily on the streets, in the factories and shops, farms and homes, wherever white men live. Against these four has been re turned a verdict so terrible that nev er again can they feel that they are men. The jury has said that they have forfeited something greater and more precious than their lives?their manhood. The mark of Cain is.an awful thing; buj how can a white man ever look his fellows in the face again, when a jury of his race has branded him as a coward, whose cowardice is re sponsible for the death of a young woman who had entrusted herself 10 his care? MONTEITH PAMILY HOLDS REUNION! On July l"th the friends and rela tives of Thos. Monteith met in a fam ily reunion at Mr. Monteith's resi dence. Relatives who attended this ie union wen; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mas on and fiiinily of Dillsboro, Mrs' Jno. Beck and daughters, Ellen and Violji of Bryson City, Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Watson and Jeanmule Farmer of Speedwell. Mrs. R. H. Hyatt of Ela, Mr.and M>t>. Paul Ferguson and fam ily of Qualla. Mr. a."d Mrs. W. A.' Hyatt and Wed H.\att i?l Qua'l Mrs. Howard Moody and children June and Jim of Haywood county, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Monteith and fam ily of Beta, Mr. John Pannel an:l children of Beta, Mr. Jim Hyatt pjf Qualla, Mr. and Mrs. S. Wt Ensley of Beta, Miss Jessie Enloe of Ashe Ville Mr. S. S. Enloe of Dillsboro, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hipps of West Ashevile, Mr. and Mrs. Emicl Alex ander of Canton, Mr. and Mrs. Wayo Kirbv and family of Haywood coun ty, Mi-s. J. M. and Meal Tucker of Speedwell, Mr. and., Mrs. Charles Moore and family of Gastonia, Miss Viola and Fred Grooms of Qualla, Mr. Ora Mnteith of Beta, Earl Hod gens of Hav\yoople, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Monteith of Beta. The American Soybean Association meets at Washington, North Carolina, on August 9th. Sheep will turn the waste on^ the farm into a cash product, say the best growers in North Carolina. LYRIC WILL SHOW THE BIG PARADE Tn keeping with its policy of giving its patrons the very best that it pos sible to be had of the greatest film productions, the Lyric Theatre an nounces that it will open in its npw building with a presentation of King Vidor's master production from Lau rence Stallings' thrilling war story "The Big Parade." The Bi .)) COLE BUILDING ' OPPOSITE DEPOT &y' nr i 'i :m F.O.B. Detroit * Fully Equipped 4-Door Sedan (Not a Coach} . \ ? j : \ i ' ] ,{ The lowest priced Dodge Sedan ever sold ? ? and the Best ? ? The Smoothest * Smartest ? Sturdiest Longest springbase of any car under ?1000 * * this means Comfort * * > 't' ? .. Surprising economy - 25 miles per ^ gallon at 25 miles per hour ? * ? 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