m: W :x>. .!**; - ?-?? (? \...^rs,-j.J.A\ ->t \ Afc!-* '-??*>> 'V?Lt.,< u" (1.50 Year in Advance in The County. Sylva, N. C: Thursday, ,?> . ?er cent of the population is illiterate. ( ?> a matter of fact one would that l)r. Kendriek is not great k concerned to educate that ten per Mil for lie asserted that literacy is tot so much to he desired if the only w to which it is put is to reatj the ?ovie titles, cheap newspapers and propaganda tha is being dissemi uted through the schools. Dr. Knight totally told New Yorkers that wo fro suffering from a boastful sUper *rity complex and not so f ootid- r ri, while Dr. Kendrick thinks our tn?ble is due to an inferiority com pl? as evidenced by the faot that so May North Carolina teachers go to Columbia for the summer school train iag instead of attending colleges in North Carolina, which are quite as | jood. Which is right f Or is either T | "Both professors are wrong. The, cuter passion of North Carolinians is State pride, which insures build ing and beautifying.! If after a cen tury of too much humility, we are m? given to overboasting, at least *r industry and vision have given us Bwh of which to boast. "There was a time when such state ?ttts would have aroused resentment o the State, and the professors would been accused of befouling their nest. Now people either Bhrug toir shoulders and say the professors ?we making a play for the limelight w undertake to show wherein they wrong. Undoubtedly both profes *rs said more than was reported, told ( to story of the remarkable progress j ? ?ducotion in the South the last "^de, particularly in teacher train m illustrated at Cullowhee and "her Normal colleges. "Perhaps the high water mark of Ptyfress has been in. larger appreci ?wit of the need of trained teachers ?M the increased provision made for Providing such teachers for all the But though much has been e more remains to be done. Will ^ goaded into larger provision J having n professor to advertise us ? N'ew York as 'working too little M bragging too much't If so, the ?^'ng will be good. Will it stimulate us to a renewed to have other professors to taist the regrettable percentages illiteracy f If so> nobody will com ^ Only it is difficult to see how J*ytlrers to New York telting folks of WetroiKilis those things will re y 111 bettering conditions at home, jT8 thp>' have come to the con '?? the South has become so city ?|L^ ^IHt heeds nothing but ( ??mes over that sounding board. . | Perhaps,' might have been bet jj0rIi S(' professors had told their ?pen/0' ^'arors *'iat ^be South is ^ mR hundreds of millions of dol lj !llt 00,|tptirative lack of riebee ' ^ ^al(' 1,10 negroes. In all fak< i burden oupht to have been ^ e< as* a natural one following <7'0n- The story of what tbe ly J, ? 'ts ow" initiative and iwdn 1^2 0n. Pr?P?rty of whites for aoat'on is without parallel in Cullowhee Road WiU Be Paved With Concrete ( < ? J * 1 * The Cullowhee road is to be con crete. This is definitely established, if the reliable news stories coming out of Raleigh ar? to be believed. Bids for the contract for paving sixteen . foot concrete roadway about half the distance from Sylva to the Western Carolina Teachers' College at^ Cullowhee will be opened in the office of the State Highway C^mission, next Tuesday morning It is expected that the work of preparing the roadway for paving will begin immediately after the contract it awarded, and rushed td completion.. Although only a i>art of the dis tance to Cullowhee is included in the contract to be awarded on next Tues day, it is believed that the State j Highway Commission will again draw on the emergency fund, next ycaf, and will complete the paving to Dix Cap during 1930 The contract for this year calls for beginning at Sylva and paving toward . Cullowhee.- ' LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR HERE Lieutenant Qovernor R. T. Foun tain was in Sylva for a few hours, last week, and paid a pleasant call at the office of The Journal. The Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina expressed himself as being delighted wtih the signs of progress] in and around Sylva since his visit! a year ago.. He is much impressed j with the town and stated that it gives him much pleasure to make his oc casional visits to this part of the state. ROTARIAN8 TO MEET AT HIGH HAMPTON The Sylva Rotary Club will meet next "Tuesday, at High Hampton Inn, | in Cashier's Valley, for the annual' ladies' night. Dr. William Louis Po teat, president emeritus of Wake For est College, will be the principal speaker at the dinner. Col. Fred A. Olds, of Raleigh, will be among the guests, and it is hoped that Governor Gardner will be present. The Rotarians will go to High Hampton early in the day, and will spent^ the afternoon in golfing, as guests on the course of E. L. McKee. MRS. CANDLER BUILDING Mrs. C. Z. Candler is erecting two brick residences on her property on Courtland Heights, history. And the South yearly increas es that fund from taxation. It does not lessen the magnitude of it be cause the South ought to do it. But at least credit should be given for this task by Southern people when as a matter of fact many Northern people believed so late as 1890 that some help should be given by the rich 1 er section of the Republic, Perhaps iti would have given New Yorkers a better understanding of the South's educational position if the figures of this remarkable and un preeidented increase in taxation for public schools, alike for white and colored in the South, had been em phasized along -with its bragging and its illiteracy figures. But it might not have gotten place on the front pages of metropolitan journals." Mr. Daniels urged the teachers to enter the school room with the feeling expressed by Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, who said, "If ever I could receive a boy from his father without emotion, 1 1 should think it high time to be off" The teachers were urged to remem ber that character building was as much a part of the responsibility of a teacher as imparting knowledge- In deed, he said unless a teacher's moral example is such as to trail* pupils to right living as well as right thinking, no teaeher should dare to undertalre the moulding of the mind and life of the child. Dr. Ken^rfek was right when he doabted whether literacy did much good if it did not raise the standard of* reading. It is here the teaeher can guide and inspire. And the pablie should aid by providing a public library in eveiy public echool THE WEEK A large Chinese Army is reported on tlie^Manchuria. This isn't signif icant within itself; but suppose that China should' amass her millions in an army, trained and officered by Jap anese! Where would our civilization bet * A man over in Transylvania struck a match to see how to pour gasoline into the vacuum tank of his automo bile. The car is a total loss, and he went to the hospital. Further com ment would be unkind and unneces sary. - Half of the land for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has already been bought. There is hope that we will live to sec the fruition of this glorious dream, and, that speedily. The comptroller of the currency re ports the National Banks of the coun try to have one billion five hundred million dollars less in assets than a year ago. Prosperity? The Department of Rural and So cial Economics of the University of North Carolina repdrts that while the State 's baby crop is not up to our average, North Carolina still leads the nation with a birth rate of 12.3 to the 1000 population. Another thing to remember also is the quality of North Carolina babies is also high. The general impression used to b?1 that married men don't real Iy_ live longer than single men, but that it just seems longer. Now scientists and. statisticians have been busy on the job and have proved that it is an actual fact that married men actually do spend more time on this globe. Harry P. Cooper, Mayor of Mur phy, shot and seriously wounded a man who* attacked the Mayor at his home. Col. Cooper, it seems had tried ai^d fined the man, on a minor charge, a few weeks ago, and the man, who had been drinking heavily, entered the Colonel's home with the avowed intention of "getting the Mayor," and was making a second attack on Col. Cooper with a knife and, an ice pick, when Cooper shot. The treasurer of North Carolina I states that three is $67,000,000 less money in the banks of the State than I there was a year ago, and that the -State will collect $500,000 less in in comes this year than last. The people had best cut down their expenditures and lower their standard of living, laying by a few dollars as they can, until the time comes when North Car olina can get a fair deal in the game of finance and politics. - Acting under the advice of the of-r ficial representative of the American Federation of , Labor, strikers at Mar ion went about their picketing armed with hymn books and bibles, instead of guns and steel, after having spent jmost of Sunday in prayer. Tittle as I the world seems to realize it, these are the most potent weapons, and will, I in the end avail moce mightily than the gone of capitalists or communists ' V " ?' .rtS ' '? ? " -J * - ' ^ JL?y balsam. ? X: V . M. T. Rickett ^and family of An drew* are visiing Mrs. Rickett 's pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Potts. Mr. and Mrs.Jphn Andrews and two children of Tampa, Fla. were dinner guests of Mrs. D. T. Knight, Mondfcyi Mr. Andrews is auditor for the Eli Witt Cigar and Tobacco Co., if Tamptf. ? ' ; Mrs. ii. P. Ensley has returned from a visit to her son, Eugene En dey, in Afiheville. ( Mrs. Nelson Beck is critically ill in Hazelwood, at the home of her uncle, Mr. Tom Queen. Mrs. Juiia Bryson stopped here a short wh^e last week enreute to herj home in Andrews. She had been visit ing Jiet ixother, Mr. Ckristy in Virginia. A & B STORE TO OPEN AUGUST THIRTY-FIRST The A. and B. Ten and Twenty five Cent Stores Company, of At lanta, will ojxni its Sylva Store on August 31, with Mr. William Jack son as local manager. The company has leased store room in the New Jackson Hotel Building from J. S. Higdon, and preparations for tlie-op ening have been in progress for the past week. EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES-. The Rev. Albert New (Rector) will hold service in St. John's Episcopal church on Sunday night, August 25. i Services will begin pronfptly at seven o'clock. The topic of Mr. New's ser mon will be: "The Good Samaritan." Everybody is most cordially invit ed to attend all services. i ? One of the most striking events in all human history is in progress, this week, as the Graf Zeppelin circum navigates the globe. The world movies so rapidly that even the youngest of us find difficulty in keeping up with the old girl. i The American Federation of La bor seems to have the situation well in hand at Marion, where trouble was i I brewing in the strike at Clinchfield Mill. The officials of the Union have been 'largely responsible for keeping order and preventing "unlawful acts. It is much better for labor organiz aions to be affiliated with the Ameri can Federation than with off-color brands. A Transylvania coronor's jury held that Miss Opal Crane, of St. Louis, who was killed when, a 7 passenger Buick in which slie and a large party were returning from Pisgah, left the highway, came to her death because the car in which she was riding was forced from the highway by a Hud son car driven by R. C. Stenson, of Concord. Stenson is being held, under bond, for trial in' Transylvania. The news dispatches say that he drives a fire truck in > Concord. Perhaps therein lies the explanation of the tragedy on the Pisgah road. People whose posiition or daily avocation gives them the right of way over other folks, are apt to hog the road unconsciously, wid meaning no of fense, Habit is a most powerful in fluence in our worl^, Over Land And Sea , Zep Winds f Wag Round Earth Lakehurst, N. J., to Friedrichshafen ? Friedrichshafen to Tokio ? Tokio to! Los Angeles ? Los Angeles to Lake hurst. I That is the planned itinerary of the Graf Zeppelin in its round-the-world trip ? the most ambitious journey in the skies ever planned. The dream is becoming a reality. Just as Magellan circumnavigated "he globe for the first time in a sail jig vessel, Dr. Eckener now is circum lavigating it for the first time in an lirship. Another maker of history. The trip was to take 22 days. Leav ng Lakehurst, N. J., on August 8, Jr. Eckener has finished the first .ap of his journey in the record^ time >f 55 hours, keeping up an average speed of 75 miles per hour, and reacti ng Friedrichshafen without mishap. When the trip to Friedrichshafen was successfully completed, Dr. Eck ener, Commander of the Zeppelin, had to turn down literally hundreds of applicants who wished to join the passenger list for the remainder of the world trip. The jouney back to Germany had so conclusively proved the comfort and safety of this mode of travel that persons hesitant before had lost all their fears. The sccond lap of the journey, from Friedrichshafen to Tokio, involving a non-stop flight of 6,600 miles, is most dangerous of all. For this long flight the dirigible was groomed until it was in perfect shape. This lap of the trip /was completed! in five days. Practically no weather information was available on this^p, as the Zep moved east of the Moscow metropoli tan district. Siberia and Northern China are uncharted irom the air man 's point of view, and disaster might have gone unreported for days. There are many arrangements for safety, including an extra emergency landing gear for the long trip. In Tokio arrangements had been com pleted, for the reception of the Zep pelin. At the end of the round-the-world journey the Graf will be immediately 'refueled and is scheduled to leave within several days for the home port at Friedrichshafen. All members of the crew and passengers are confident that the entire journey will be com pleted withoijt a hitch, and speak ad miringly of Dr. Eckner's carful ness in regard to every small detail of safety and comfort. NORTH CAROLINA CROPS REPORTED TO BE GOOD Taking the State of North Caro lina as a whole, crops are looking good ? quite up to the usual, if not better. The improvement since July 1st has been amazing. While the seasons since April have been abnormally wet, the crop9 did not suffer as much as was expected. Even cotton advanced well, seeming ly. The growing tobacco crop is good as compared with tho expectation a month ago. The hay and grass crops are fine, but the production of hay depends on the weather for saving it. Peaches have been very poor, and, though a short crop, naturally brought a poor pricfe. Apples are short and are bringing good prices. The peanut prospects are quite un settled Neither continued dry nor wet weather is favorable for peanut production. The crop on August 1st seemed to be "pegging" very poorly. The commercial area has suffered j centinued wet weather since April. Pitt County is notably off from its usual condition. For the first time in several yeaVs, crops , look "poorly" there. This wet damage area extends from Lenoir to Halifax and North ampton counties. Corn, tobacco, cot ton and peanuts are affected. FARMS SHIP 3 OARS POTATOES \ The Jackson County Farmers Mu tual Exchange has shipped three ears of Irish potatoes, this week, the last car being loaded at Sylva, this morn ing. . The farmers will receive $110 * i bushel for their first shipments of ithe year. I DAXIBLS SPOKE TO ROTA&IANS Hon. Joeephua Daniels was the speaker at the weekly meeting of the Sylva Rotary Club, Tuesday, at the luncheon hour. ? Mr. Daniels stresstd the advant ages that this section of the State has enjoyecf in being set apart from the rat of the world, enabling the people here to maintain the pioneer, rugged independence of thought and - action; and he expressed the hope that in the coming of the great high ways, bringing many people from other sections, that the people here will not lose that priceless heritage. In this connection, Mr. Daniels re ferred to the danger of all men con forming to the same pattern, like so many marbles out of a mould, through the rage for standardisation. TO HAVE HOME-OOMINO AT OULLOWHBE Sunday, August ?6, has been set aside and designated as Decoration .Day at Cnllowhee. It will be more than a decoration of the graves of departed ones; it will be a d^ay of home-coming for hundreds of jxative sons and daughters, who have moved to other counties and even to other Btates. >v.. A program has been arranged which will consist of interesting talks of for mer days, community singing, and a general social get-to-gether. Dinner will be servedj on the grounds. Come and fetch a basket of fried chicken and evwytMag/:. i v The exercises will begin promptly at 10 e. id. aa follows: Morning exercises Devotional, Rev. M. Q. Tattle Address, Hon. Welch Galloway Decoration of graves, Community Dinner. Afternoon exercises: Devotional, Rev. I. K. Stafford Address, Dr. H. T. Hunter Decoration of graves at the Brown Cemetery. QUAIAA. Rev. Milua Tucker preached at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon. He is assisting the pastor, Rev. R. L. Bass in a meeting at Olivet. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Cagle and Miss Cape Hipps of Olivet attended; ser vices at Qaalla, Sunday. Mrs. D. S. Flintom, of Charleston, S. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. BirdJ and other relatives. Mrs. H. G. Ferguson visited rela tives in Morganton, last week. Miss Lonise Mason of Dillsboro is visiting Qualla friends, who attended Asheville Normal. Misses Mary Battle and Oma Gass were guesta of Mrs. D. C. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes of Cherokee spent the week end at' Mr. D. K. Battle's. Mr. Paul Feiguson and family' at tended the Monteith reunion at. Beta, Sundlay. Mrs. York Howell is spending a while with Mrs. Oscar GHwop. Messrs. Von and Sylvan Hemphill and Misses Bonnie and Alwayne Hemphill of Blairsville, Ga., Mrs. El len .Woody of Judson, and Mrs. J. L. Ferguson were visitors at Mrs. A. C. Hoyie's. Miss Viola Webb visited Miss Mar tha Oxner. Misses Etta Kinsland and Annie Lizzie Terrell returned to their schools after a visit to home folks. Miss Faye BryBon spent the week end at Balsam. 'Mrs. J. H- Hughes spent Saturday with Mrs. J. K. Terrell. Jfias Mary Oxner visited Miss Ruby Cofoper. Miss Mary Emma Ferguson eallad on/ Miss Polly Hoyle. Misses Mary Battle and Lenora Hughes visited Mist Neal Sherrill at Ha. A camping paty haa returned from a trip to Soco. ^ Welch Mountain was the scene of a fox hunt by a party of young folks, Tknadtyr pfckt. . ...i