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STRESSES TEACHER RESPONSIBLE
; (By Lisbeth Parrott.)
Cullowhec, August 30?Declaring
(hat responsibility for current agnos
tic in science; politics and religion
lies at the school teacher's door, the
Hon. Josephus Daniels addressed the
Xugust Seniors of the ) Cullowhce
State Normal School tnoight. A largo
Inhering 'of students, teachers and
friends had assembled to. hear him
and to witness the awarding of- the
diplomas to the twenty seven Seniors
vho constituted the largest graduat
jmf class in the history of the insti
tution. President Hunter who distri
buted the diplomas, announced that
the school had graduated 53 students
this year, including the 26 May grad
uates. The Seniors were also granted
Primary pr Grammar Gr&de class B
teaching certificates, the highest cer
tificate obtainable for two' years'
Work after high school graduation.
A chorus by the Seniors, an invoca
tion by Kev. A. W. Lynch completed
the program.
Mr. Daniels said in part:
"If students go out into the
world groping, if this earth is a drift
ing planet, and if educated; men . are
becoming agnotsics in science, and
in politics, and in religion, the respon
sibility rests largely upon the school
master and the school marm. Their
responsibility is so serious that many
would like to transfer it to the home.
This cannot be done.
"This cannot be done. The home
has its large part, and the largest
part in shaping young life) but the
school, holding itself out as an insti
tution set for his intellectual awak
ening and guidance cannot evade e
sponsibility. Parent and child look to
the teacher to light the way, to open
new doors, to strengthen the mind,
to give sustenance to the .intellect
ind to bottom it upon the only solid
foundation?a sound character, made
up of integrity of life as well as <?f
integrity in thinking.
''No teacher can fulfil the high
mission unless high living and high
thinking are combined, for the stud
ent will always as Emerson put it, be
thinking so much what his teacher is
that he cannot hear what he says.
Therefore, the teacher to meet the re
quirement of the enlarged public
schools, and of all education, will find
all the qualities only if this admoni
tion is followed: "Prove all things;
hold fast to that which is good.'
"Most of the trouble and loss of
power in colleges and schools today
grows out of the fact that many
scholars and scientists read only the
tirst Pauline admonition to the
Thessalonians. They accept nothing
and call their stuednts to delve into
the very t'oundaitons and 'prove all
things' before belief. There is ?
time for research, for inquiry, for
doubt, for debate. But there comes a
time for resolving doubt, for accept
ing what has been proved and, not
only'holding fast that which is good'
but also in imparting that 'good' to
students.
"This is not to say that some scien
tists should not devote their whole
lives to lesenrch. They should; but
the teacher who is to mould the plas
tic mind must have.something impart,
1,e must have faith that lights up
darlc places, he must have love that
moves the world, and his passion must
" to lead students into knowledge
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"Then, and then only, will tax
P?yers and parents give full approval
t? t(faclTcr and school, and declare
that thev have received full return
uP?n their investment,"
Class Jay exercises held Tuesday
doming featured class talent. '* At
'''is time, the class gift to the sohool,
funds for a library clock, waa an
nounced by Morgan Cooper. A foun
tain pen was presented to the claaa
sponsor, prof. W. E. Bird, by P. M.
Alle>'- Marshals for commencement
*ere: Misses Alice Morgan, Newber
S- C., Chief; Mary Dell Bynum,
*'ttsboro; Katherine O'Neal, Belhav
Carrie Lee Howell, Candler.
The graduating students were as
follows:
M. Alley nnd Helen Alley, Cul
;?*hee; Mary Willa Boyd, Waynes
J ? Harriette Taylor Brendle,
Mrs. Thelma Shield Burley,
vonsford; Daisy Viola Carter,
Mrs. Louise Dwkett Cole,
Canton; Emma Katherine Cox, Gra
ham; Rachel Eaton, Cana; Ora Lee
Gaddy, Monroe; Julia Florence Heath
Alliance; Lncile Hunter, Alexander;
Eva Alice Jackson, Winterville; Odes
sa Lemmon, Indian Trai; Inez Mc
Glohon, Greenville; Evelyn Otelia
Morgan, Candler; ' Ruth Caldwell
Pierce, Calisbury; Sara Tennie Pri
vette, Statesville; Maie Thelma Rob
erts, Marshall; Bessie Hyburnia Ship
man, Brevard; Helen Lucile Smath
ers, Clyde; Mary Elizabeth Sorrell,
Burlington; Annie Lee Spake, Shel
by; Edythe Jane Terrell, Clyde; Clara
Williams, Currituck; Hattie Gertrude
Wortman, Casar; Morgan Cooper,
New London.
HEAVY HAIL HITS COUNTY
V One of the heaviest hail storms ev-;
er known in this region struck var-|
ious parts of Jackson and the sur
rounding. counties Saturday. The
storm followed, generally, the Cowee
range of mountains and went South
into Hamburg, Cashiers and Canada
townships. In some portions the hail,
which was accompanied by low tem
peratures, was soft, resembling snow
and .did but little damage. In other
portions of the path of the storm it
tell in disastrous fury, literally strip
ping the trees of the leaves and doing
great damage to growing crops. In
places the hail is said to have been
several inches deep on the ground.
W.O.W. CELEBRATES POUNDING
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Tuckaseigee Camp Woodmen of the
World, celebrated the 14th anniver
sary of its organization, Monday even
ing at a public meeting held in the
auditorium of the Sylva Graded
School at which Dr. Ashley Chappell,
pastor of Central Methodist church,
Asheville, was the principal speaker.
The Woodmen met at their hall
and marched to the auditorium in a
body. Hugh E. Monteith presided at
the meeting, and following the sing
ing of the Woodman Song, the invoca
tion was offered by Rev. J. G. Mur
ray, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Sylva. The Woodman Quar
tet presented a couple of selections,
and Rev. W. M. Robbins, pastor of
the Sylva Methodist church, introduc
ed Dr. Chappell, who in his inimitable
style, delivered what is said to havel
beeij a masterful address in "Broth
erhood."
The quartet Bang two more selec
tions, after Dr. Chappell's address,
WILMOT
Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Nations vis
ited Mrs. Nation's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Allen Ward at Camp Creek Sun
day.
Mr. John Jones went to Whittiei
ville, Tenn. spent a few days last
week with home folks.
Mr. John Jones ewnt to Whittier
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Carter attend
ed the association at Alarka Sunday
Mrs. Estella Ward visited at
Mrs. J. R. Bumgarner's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Jones and daugh
ter, Reba of Barkers Creek visited
at W. M. Brown's Sunday.
Mr. Haynes Reagan of Qualla was
here Sunday.
Mrs. Lee Cook has returned home
after being away for some time.
Miss Zela Davis of Camp Creek
was in town. Monday.
Mrs. Lon Revfs and children visit
ed at Bob Bumgarner's Sunday.
A crowd of young folks enjoyed a
singing at the Baptist church Sun
day afternoon. There will be one next
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Misses Ferry Lee and Marion
Revis and their aunt, Florence Brown
motored to Alarka Friday.
Mrs. John Lewis and children vis
ited at Tom Seagle's Sunday after
noon.
MRS. CLOUSE BETTER
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The friends of Mrs. A. F. Clouse
who has been seriously ill at Candler
Tidmarsh Hospital, will be glad to
learn that she h8S recovered suffi
ciently to be taken from the hospital
to the borne of her brother, Post
muter W, D. Wwwn.
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ISSUE COUNTY
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
The county financial statement as
of June 30, 1927, issued last week by
the county commissioners in compli
ance with the county government act
reveals that the assessed valuation of
property of the county is $11,017,446
The county owes a total of $1,390,
076.12 divided into road' and bridge
bonds $825,000. Road and bridge
notes $554,076.12 and School bonds
$11,000. Subdivision indebtedness is
Cullowhee township bonds $11,500;
Dillsboro township bonds $15,000;
Sylva township bonds $41,000 and
East LaPorte School bonds $5,500.
The total taxes for the year is
$185,018.49 for the county; $9,
' 690.68 for Sylva, Cullowhee and Dills
boro Road special; local school taxes
$29,288.84; Caney Fork Stock Law:
$79.88 and county special and polls
$5,345.35; | making a total of $229,
423.24.
Receipts of the county other than
taxes show state appropriation for
schools from equalizing fund $28,556.
53; fines for school purposes $1,627,
75; privilege licenses $276.75; and
free labor money for roads. $1,106.40
making a total of $3ljf)67.67.
Insolvent^, releases and land sales
on uncollected taxes for'1924 totaled
$8?535.19; for 1925 $4,633.98; for
1926 $12,992.25. The average of un
colected taxes for the past three years
is $8,720.4^
The budget ton the county for next
year is estimated at a total qf $190,
148.71. A county wide tax ot' $1.75
on the $100 valuation of property is
required to raise this amount. The
budget is divided into:
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General operating expense, includ
ing officers' salaries, upkeep of coun
ty home, poor, health and county
buildings $32,185.00. It is estimated
that $7,000 of this will come from
sources other than taxation leaving
$25,185.00 to be raised by taxes.
The road operating expense is es
timated at $3,270; school expenses
$80,600 interest and commission on
notes and bonds, $66,017.59 notes due
$14,076.12; and sinking fund $1,
000.00 making a total of $81,093.71 to
be raised for the county debt. This
added to the expense budget makes a
county wide estimate of $190,148.71.
Sylva township interest on road
bonds is $2,046.00; and the payment
of bond No. 11, $2,005.00 making $4,
411.00 for that township. Cullowheo
has to pay $601.50 interest on her
road bonds and $1002.50 for paying
off bond 11, making $1,664.00 for
(hat item in Cullowhee. Dillsboro has
interest of $902.25 to pay on road
bonds and $500.00 into the sinking
fund to liquidate her bonds; making
$1,402.25 that Dillsboro has to pay
special for roads, |
SYLVA COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTE OPENS
Sylva Collegiate Institute opened
ffr the fall session Tuesday with the
laigest enrollment of students in the
history of the institution- Every room
in the dormitories is full, and it has
been found necessary to double up on
rooming quarters, it was stated by of
ficials of the school. The formal op
ening was held at 2:30 Tuesday af
ternoon, when the student body and
a large number of people from the
town congregated in the assembly
room at the school to. attend the de
votional exercises cnducted by Prin
cipal W. C. Reed and to welcome the
old students back to Sylva and greet
the new ones.
Short talks of welcome were de
livered by members of the board of
trustees, the principal of the school,
Mr. A. V. Washburn and Rev. J. G.
Murray, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Sylva and Rev. I. K. Staf
ford of the Cullowhee Baptist church.
The members of the faculty who
taught at S. C. I. last season and are
again with the school this year are:
W. C. Reed/principal; Mrs. W. C.
Reed,, Mr. SL G. Roberts, Miss Ag
nes Brown, Miss Mattie Belle Jones,
Miss Ozelle Bible and Miss Maxie
Denton. The teachers who are with
the school this year for the first time
are Mrs. Clarence A. Bales, Miss Lula
Sullivan and Miss Nell George. Miss
George oomes from South Carolina
and Miss Sullivan is from Texas.
RUNS TRUCK INTO DAM
Curg Sherrill, young Qualla man,
is in the Candler-Tidmar^i hospital
recovering from injuries ' received
when a truck^which he was driving
Monday afternoon, suddenly swerved
and plunged off the road into the
Bryson City power dam, on Ooona
Lufta, between Whittier and Ela.
An Indian, who was with Mr. Sher
rill, jumped from the truck and sav
ed himself from the plunge. He then
pulled Mr. Sherril out of the river,
probaby saving his life. The truck was
entirely submerged, the water being
very deep.
ENSLEY AND SPARKS
OPEN CAFE
Dent Ensley, formerly of Sylva and
Charlie Sparks, both of Bryson City,
have bought the Hawkins' Cafe and
will operate it. "
LEASES COWARD HOUSE
Mr. J. H. DeHart, who has been
proprietor of the Sylva Hotel, has
leased the Coward House, and is
greeting his friends there.
Prof. Wessinger is the superin tendent of the Sylva Public Schools.
He comes to Sylva from Rosman, where he served as principal of the
Borauut s?M for three yean,
GREAT INTERNATIONAL
MOTORCADE MONDAY
The great international motorcade
from New Orleans to Quebec ever
the Appalachian Scenic Highway will
pass through Sylva Mionday afternoon
Preparations are being made by the
Chamber of Commerce to decorate the
town and prepare a greeting for the
visitors. . ?
Originating in New Orleans and
mobilizing te great strength in At
lanta the Appalachian Soenic High
way International Motorcade will ar
rive in Asheville for the night of
(September 5th. The motorcade, which
will add new motor cars to its ranks
in each city along the route to Que
bec, will leave Asheville on Septem
ber 6th. .While in Ashevile the party
will be entertained by representatives
of the Asheville Chamber of Com
merce, the City of Asheville and oth
er organizations. Entertainment ar
rangements are under the direction of
J. G. Stikeleather, Chairman and Ros
coe A. Marvel, President of the Appa
lachian Scenic Highway Association.
Among those traveling with the
Motorcade will be included represen
tatives of state highway commissions,
representatives of state governments,
highway enthusiasts, officials of the
Appalachian Scenic Highway, repre
sentatives of Chambers of Commerce
and representatives of the press. The
International Motorcade will proceed
from Asheville through the Shenan
doah Valley and along the route of
the Appalachian Scenic Highway a
cross Pennsylvania, New York State
and the eastern provinces of Canada
to Quebee.
Asheville, as the first city to enter
tain the fully mobilized party will do
jutsice to the opportuinty thus afford
ed. E. M Bearden, Convention Secre
tary and Chester Brown, Persident of
the Asheville Chamber of Commerce
will meet the Motorcade in Atlanta,
Georgia, and accompany the group to
Asheville. In addition to those repre
sentatives J. G. Stikeleather, Enter
tainment Chairman and Highway Com
missioner for Western North Caro
lina, together with a group of inter
ested Asheville citizens, will also
make connection with the party at
Asheville.
Entertainment features include a
dinner at Keidl worth Inn, Asheville,
an after dinner dance and such other
features a? time will permit. The
Motorcade will leave Asheville early
on September 6th. The program of the
evening of September 5th wiH be
broadcast over Station WWNC, the
Asheville Chamber of Commerce sta
tion. WWNC operates on 1010 K. C.,
296.9 Meters and 100 Watts.
BETA VALLEY
The revival meeting closed Monday
night.
Mr. Claude Rogers of Webster
spent the week end with Mr. Billy
Ensley.
Mr. Grady Harris has arrived from
Durham to spend his vacation here.
Misses Lucy Kitchen and Irene
Fullbright spent Sunday with Miss
Inez Harris.
Mr. Julius and Charles Mills are
spending few days with relatives, at
Bashnell and Wayside.
Miss Mayme Hoxitt spent Saturday
with Miss Leona Mills.
Misses Mayme, Mae -? Monteith,
Leona Mills, Mayme Hoxitt Mr. Roy
Mills of Wayside, Habston Monteith,
Julius, Charles Mills and Wesley
Barnes spent Sunday on a picnic at
Rocky Springs.
Mrs. Harlie Stuman, Mrs. Harry
Womack, Miss Annie Lua Buchanan
spent Sunday with Miss Cora Cham
bers,
Mr. George Barnes and Billie Ens
ley are working on North Fork.
Mr. Roy Mills spent a week with
his uncle, Carey Mills. s
CAN YOU BEAT THESE?
J. A. Moore of Qualla dug from
one hill 3 Irish potatoes, which laid
end to end measure 26 inches. One
of them is 7 1-4 inches in circumfer
ence, one 7 1-2 and one 8 inches. Mr.
Moore didn't use any fertilizer on
his potato patch, and they were bit
ten by the spring freeze, but grew
out nioely and produced well.
IN CINCINNATI
Mr. A. M. Simons is in Cincinnati
this week buying fall goods for The
Puis Department Store.
BALSAM GROVE _ v
Rot. Ben Cook and lir.
closed & very successful revival meat*
ing at this place, .had thirty five pro
fessions, baptised thirteen. Others
will be baptized later.
Bev. Sam Warlick of Bryaon City
is naming a revival meeting hem
now.
Mr. Chas. J. Smith of Canton was
in town last week on besness.
Rev. W. C. Reed of Sylvasnd Prof.
S. Jerome Phillips of WQlets wan in
Balsam Grove last week boosting Syl
va Collegiate Institute of whieh Mr.
Reed is principal. I am quits sure
that Mr. Reed will not mixrepreaeai
the school any way. , Again I most
say that those who send their boys
and girls to the Sylva Collegiate In
stitute this year are very fortunate
in having them in the training of aueh
a reliable man as Mr. Reed is one
who is interested in everybody getting
an education.
.Mr. D. Worth Hooper and family
of Akron, Ohio, are visiting friend*
and relatives on Caney Fork.
Mr. W. H. Smith is haying a very
8ucoessfnl sale of merchandise at
Cowarts.
The ehief industry on Caney Fork
was mining agriculture and lumber
ing bnt seems to be changing to buy
ing automobiles and dogs. We see
quite a number of young boys that
should be in school working for wag
es, investing their money in automo
biles. 90 per oent of them baying oa
the installment plan, 50 per eent fail
to meet their payments and'the pan
go back to the dealer and therefore
lose what they have paid. Quite a
number of married men with large
families are doing the same stunt I
know a man personally ^rho haa .a
large family and doee not own <me
acre of land in this world that sold
the only milch cow he owned to get
money to help pay the first payment
on a oar. And it seems that some
people are just going wild about cars.
I have seen at many public gatherings
some where the preacher was preach
ing some one drive a car up near
the church house almost the entire
congregation would turn their heads
and look for the car. And practically
every person that owns a ear will
drive just as near the church house
as they can get without driving in
and some would drive in if they had
room. When preaching is over and
the congregation gets out in the yard
you will see eaoh fellow run to hie
oar, those that don't stay in their
car, most of them stay in their ear
during preaching. They will begin
starting, blowing their horns, fleshing
through the crowd causing people to
run over each other trying to get
out of the way. I saw a smart fellow
who had parked his ear within five
feet of the corner of a church house
one night last week back his ear into
a crowd of people knocking soase al
most down. I can't understand whieh
these smart fellows are trying to
show?themselves or their, ear.
While we see many people who
make thein living by the sweat of tha
brow, buying automobiles, we see
many buying and selling dogs. Some
men in my community who do not
own one acre of land, own five and
six honnds. I saw one fellow sell his
milch cow for forty dolara and be
fore that man reached home he gave
that forty dollara for a dog. I can't
see why people want to keep a bunch
of dogs now a days for nothing to
hunt for "my motto" is feed whai
scraps there ara left on the table o a
pig or a bunch of chickens. Keep
the money you are paying for auto
mobiles and buy you a nice little
home some where.
, The young men of today should be
taught to be more economizing for the
lumber industry in Western North
Carolina will soon be over; then the
laboring; roan will begin to move west
seeking employment unless he has a
large bank aeoount or a little home
where he can till the soil and sup
port his family.
The writer certainly doee enjoy
riding in an automobile and I think
they are grand things to have, but
I think a man should be financially
able to buy before buying.
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"" ROGERS FAMILY REUHI01T .
All the friends and relative* of
the Rogers family are cordially in
vited to attend the Rogers family re
union at the old Hudie Rogers homo
place next Sunday, September 4th*
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