JACKSON C0. JOURNAL
DAN TOMPKINS, - Editor,
Published Weekly By the
JACKSON COUNTY JOUBNAL CO
Entered as seoond class matter
at Sylva, N. C.
The next commission that Govern
or McLean is expected to appoint is
one to be denominated the Advisory
Commission For Synchronising
Groundhog Day Throughout the
State. v
We favor electing a governor whj
knows North Carolina well enough to
be able to find a place within the
state that is suitable for vacation
purposes. ,' > ? >
Its hard to tell which is the most
dangerous, to fly across the Atlantic
or to drive on the roads of Jack
son county of a Sunday.
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Some,day the people are going to
get tired of the wild drivers taking
charge of our highways over the week
end, and are going to'demand the
protection that is their right,
FOOTBALL THIS FALLf
Coach Roberts, up at S. C. I. states
to The Journal that he has material
that is the makings of a first class
football team. The boys want foot
ball. The Coach wants it. Everybody
and everything is all set, except for
?ie unfortunate circumstances of fi
nances. The school has no money with
which to buy -the necessary equip
ment.
With everything ready except that,
it is now up to the friends of the
school and the lovers of sports in this
community. If the finances can be
arranged by them, Mr. Roberts and
his boys are ready to get down to
business and give Sylva some real
football. Who'll start the collection
basket? . J,. I
CULLOWHEE TO BE CROWDED
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Indications are that when Callow
hee State Normal opens for the
Fall quarter, Monday morning, that
the institution will have the largest,
enrollment in its history, and a lar
ger increase oyer the previous year
than has ever been registered.
Cullowhee is a fast growing institu
tion. There are those in Western
North Carolina who have hoped that
it may some day become a big col
lege with regular academic work, pa
rellclling the work of the University]
of North Carolina. But, this is;
hardly probable, nor is such an in
stitution especially needed. The
natural evolution of Cullowhee should
be into a four year teacherfe col
lege, for the training of teachers, and
with adequate support tovmake it
an institution second to none in the
state. A school of that kind would be
of great value to the state, and it
would be cheerfully supported by the
? educators throughout North Carolina.
Theer arc two things that stand
in the way of Cullowhee's greater
growth, and these two can be easily
removed. The first is the need, the
urgent necessity for the constructibti
of a paved road from Sylva to Cul
lowhee. The county and state road
authorities should be able to work
that out. The other thing is the lack'
of , recreational facilities. Two new,
tenuis courts, of which any school
" could be proud, have recently t been
constructed. A large bathing pool ii
needed. A jreal athjetic field, with
perhaps a golf course in connection,
should be established. The bathing
pool, the tenuis and the golf would
lie- great attractions to the summer
school, and an athletic field is a,
necessity if boys are to be attracted'
during the fall and spring. These
things can be added without great
cost. x /
Cullowhee grows and continues to
^ grow. It is a great institution;' and
the Journal is pointing out the things
that are needed, in a spirit of help
fulness, believing that public senti
ment is' with us, and that p\iblic
sentiment will work with the trustees
and faculty of the school in promot
ing the expansion of our institution
into a great school.
THE UPLIFT SAYS SOMETHING
The Uplift, published at Concord
is making a fight upon a system of
employing teachers solely upon the
number of credits conferred .by sonie
institution. By such a system some
) of the best teachers in the state,
who are really educated and who
have the natural gift of imparting
>th knowledge and character, are
debarred from our schools; while on
the other hand, some mighty sorry
>jia
no
teachers, with credits enter into the
work, or rather draw the salaries.
Te educational world has gone mad
upon the subjects of credits. What
difference does it make about the
credits? To paraphrase Omar, take
the knowledge and let the credits
go. So long as the children are ground
ed upon the fundamentals are taught
to think, the process of ratiacination
started in their young brains, and
their characters are found upon
solid principles, what boots it if no
institution or organization will rec
ognize their credits! They are
equipped for a life of service to the
world of humanity, of pleasure 10
themselves, and a generous reward
at its glorious end. [ ? ? " ' ,
The Uplift quotes a Charlotte
woman: ' ,
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''Before I was married, I was a
teacher for a number of years, Since
I have uecon.e a mother, my constant
hope is that in my teaching I led
pupils to aspire to a better life, to
the formation of good character and
to lead a life of unselfish service.
After quoting the Charlotte lady,
the Uplift then goes on to comment
as follows:
''If this aspiration obsessed the
lady when she was engaged in teach
ing the young, when she was en
gaged as a public scltool teacher, wo
may believe that her pupils today
have taken a high place in the affairs
of life. The finest lessons in good
living are imparted in the school
room where the pupils respect the
teacher, have confidence in her and
see her godly life lived before them.
That's where impressionable lessons
have their most lasting influence.
"If all this be true, it is a crim
to employ a teacher lacking in the
high ideals that lead to splendid man
liood and womanhood. This systen
has put school finances in a dilemma
and made the costs of public educa
tion unreasonably high for the results
being had.
"Some of the finest teachers the
state ever had, fine by the spirit
of birth and heart, are debarred by
this mechanical refuge that has been
foisted upon the system. Just bo
cause a person graduates at the best
college in the state does not car;y
with the accomplishment the assur
ance of a qualified teacher, but be
ing a graduate of one of these institu
tions immediately places the subject
on the payroll, with no further ques
tions asked."
CULLOWHEE TEACHERS ARE
r ARRIVING
Cullowhee, September 6?The lone
someness about tlie campus of Cul
lowhee State Normal School which
has prevailed since the last summer,
school closed, is soon to be broken by,
the roar of automobiles and the toot
of horns,, as the fall students conic*
in and the faculty members return
from their vacations. Fall reserva
tions exceed by twenty percent or
more the reservations at this time
for any previous year. Among the
teachers who have been in school
this summer and wjio will return are
the following: Miss Helen Saunders,
Miss Fannie Goodman, Miss Glenna
Cloyd, and Mis3 Alice Benton. These
have attended summer school at Pea
body College. Miss Annie Ray took
summer graduate work at the Uni
versity of Colorado. Miss Gertrude
Rhodes, a new critic teacher comes to
Cullowhee from Peabody College
where she took her M. A. degree.
Prof. C. H. Allen, who has been on
an extended trip in the north with
his bride, returns to his work in
the chair of Education. Mrs. Frances
K. Lide of Spartanburg, S. C. the new
secretary arrived! a fbw days ago.
Winter corn, is the way some goo<
farmers describe the fall mixture 'fl
oats, vetch and barley. Those who
have tried the mixture pronounce ii
a heavy yielder.
A prosperous fall is the indication
from crops all over North Carolina.
Many farmers will pay off the mor1
gage this year.
Seed corn selected from stalks in
the field will produce 20 percent more
corn the first year than the same
seed selected from the crib at plant,
ing time (
It cost New York $50,000 to wel
come Lindbergh home. We'll bet
Lindy would have settled for 25
cents on ^he dollar?and called it a
good bargain.
A pedestrian is a logical prospect
for automobile insurance.
Tom Tarheel says he will plant that
extra five acres to alfalfa this fall.
It's the best feed be can get for his
hogs, chickens aod cows.
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THE KIND OF LETTERS WE LIKE
This week, The Journal received
a letter, from one of our friends,
way out in the Whiteside Cove, that
did ns good more ways than one. We
like lotteis like this:
'' Rockv Grove Farm,
Highlands, N. C.
Y ' \ ' September 2, 1927
Editor Jackson County: Journal:
I enclose you $4.50 to renew ray sub
scription to the Journal and pay for
arrears. Thank you for sending it
right on. We take a daily, two farm
papers, our church paper and several
magazines, but none of them, can
take the place of the dear old Journal
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. D. C. Pickleseimer.
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WILD FLOWERS IN. THE MOUN
TAINS
(Lisbeth Parrott, in The Asheville
Citizen.)
The country cousins of the expen
sive blossoms in florists' shops thrive
in the fields of Western North Car
olina. Miss Cleo Rainwater and her
class in nature study at the Cullow
hee State Normal this summer identi-i
fied more than seventy five varieties |
of wild flowers in the field around
Cullowhee. Most of them are the
"folks back home" to the plants that
have gone to the eity and taken on
the "city air."
Many a young man finds a cheap
er boarding place after Easter comes
around, having splurged on a single
orchid for his girl friend's bouquet
?while just outside the back door,
figuratively speaking, the rural rela-|
tives of this most coveted of flowers!
may be gathered by the casual passer
by. One of these, the yellow fringed
orchis has been identified by Miss
Rainwater's class. It is an attractive
an<l rather common orchis with a tall
leafy stem one to two feet high. The.
flowers are delicate and pretty, being
a:; the name suggests fringed. Anoth
er member of the family, the Slender
Ladies' Tresses, bears a name which
is a pretty reminder of days when
ladies and tresses were in fashion.
The class first noticed the unusual
braided arrangement of the flowers,
and were to learn that an imaginative
person had given the plant its name.
A peculiar fact about this flower is
that the leaves die down before, it
blooms.
Nor has the sweet pea, as we know
it, any reason to be ashamed of the
family from which it sprang. It has!
proud relatives. 0ne these is the (
Wild Senna, a flower of brilliant yel
low contrasted by black stamens. The
leaves are like those of the locust. The
plant grows shrub like about thr*?
feet high. Another cousin is the Can
adian trefoil, a pink or lavender
flower, the showiest of the trefoils.
This flower is blooming abundantly
at this season aioond Cullowhee.
The bird foot violet has a leaf of
unusual shape, and the blossom is pale
in color. Unlike the commonly-known
violet it blooms throughout late sum
mer as well as in spring; ti may be
found now if one looks carefully in
the damp hidden recesses of the
woods.
Eulogized in music and poetry, the
wild rose is probably the best loved
of wild flowers. The delicate pink
eolor and dainty perfume make it a
favorite of hikers, who often stop1
by the roadside to gather the bios-J
soms.
Christmas season?a friend in the
hospital?a . birthday ?on these oc
casions the potted primrose comes to
the rescue and solves the problem of
what to give.A freakish cousin of this
plant, the evening primrose, growing
wild has been found occasionally by
Mini Rainwater's students. Driving
one short evening it opens its beau
tiful lemon yellow flower which morn
ing finds closed forever. A flower al
most similar is the sundrop, so-called
because it resembles *a bit of the sun
it is so yellow.
Our garden flowers requiring ten
der care, have hardy relatives in the
fields. The tiger lily bears a close
family ersemblance to the small wild
flower, the Turk's cap lily, which
has smooth, orange petals black spots
and pretty green leaves growing m
a whorl around the stem. The petals
turn backward so that one can easily
imagine how the flowers got its name.
This attractive lily grows in profus
ion in this mountain country.
Botfncing Bet of the pink family,
which looks much like a cultivated
plant, bounces in the breezes that pass
the banks of the Tuckaseegee. Yel
low word sorrel, of the oxalis family,
mountain phlox, the daisy?Close kin
to the aster, the false fox glove, a
showy flower?oil of tehse growing
wild out in the laboratory of Nature,
the country fields and woods.
The tansy flower?common to hik
ers and automobilists in Western
North Carolina for its small yellow
flowers and ample leaves are promi
nent among roadside flora ? is a
runaway from old gardens where it
was once cultivated. It is a native of
Europe, and was brought to Ameri
ca 011 account of what they thougit
then, its wonderful medicinal power.
The "oil of tansy," yielded by its
leaves is very j>oisonous, and is used
in medicine now to a limited extent.
In a paper published in 1656 there
two unique savings were found ^
"Maidens are assured that tansy
leaves soaked in buttermilk for nine
days maketh the complexion fair,"(
and 44 Tansy cures all ills of the
flesh." To this day some very old
women have implicit faith in thet
tansy's power. The name tansy, it-!
self is connotativc of mysterious heal-i
ing power; it comes from a Greek
word meaning immortality.
A common plant in these rural dis
tricts is the beautiful Joe-Pye weed a
weed plant also once believed to
have curative virtues. In fact, it bears
the name of Joe-Pye, an Indian med
icine man in New England, who gain
ed fame and fortune by curing typhus
fever with mcdicine made from this
plant. This is a stately flower which
grows from three to nine feet high.
The blossoms are pale lavendar pink,
and grow in large loose clusters. This
is perhaps one of the easiest of all
wild flowers to learn.
Another interesting name is the
bone-set?attributed to a plant ?ncej
used to cure "brenk-bo ie" fever, -?r
grippe, as it is called now.
Miss Rainwater's el?~? has identi-j
f:ed twenty plants believed to hav-?
medical value?plants on which CUe
old time "yerb" doctor depended.
The wild flower's beauty is not
appreciated by the average citizen.
Often one must look closely to see
and smell; the wild flower is not as
showy as its cultivated kinsman. How
ever, those who have learned to love
the flowers of the field are their
ardent champions. "A weed" says
Emerson, "is a plant whose virtues
have not been discovered." Words
worth, olver of nature, said, "To me
the meanest flower that blows can
cive thoughts that do often lie too
deep for tears." It is this love of the
wild flower that Miss Rainwater
hopes to inculcate in her student^,
who in future years will teach their
small pupils, in the primary grades to
see the beauty in the flowers of the
yields.
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