$1.50 Year in Advance in The County.
Thursday
28, 1929 $2jQ&; Year m Adv ance outside the County
w. c. T. C. To Have
Annual "Western
Carolina Day"
Cullowhee, Nov. 21 ? "Western Ca
rolina Day" will become an annual
event at Western Carolina Teachers
i oltrms according to a resolution un-j
aniu.ously adopted by tho facuty, thel
afternoon of November 19. The idea
was presented to the facility by Pres
ident Hunter some weeks ago, and a
mYiilty committee with E. H. Still- 1
writ, chairman, took the( matter un
<Ur advisement, reporting favorably}
at that meeting. Other colleges havoi
their anniversaries, "Home Coming
Day", '?Founders' Day", "Society
Day", etc. Hut it was. desired to have
an annual event at Cullowhee that
would be different. These customary
anniversaries, valuable as they certain
ly are were thought to smack of self
glorification, and are primarily de
>i?ned to keep in mind what those i
connected with the institution have!
dune, what the alumni have done, and'
;i.re fine agencies for maintaining a
spirit of loyalty among the alumni
and friends. As sueh, they are be
lieved to have their place.
But Cullowhee desired; to have an
annual occasion on its campus which J
would havp the service idea, ratherj
than the self idea. Western North j
Carolina Day will be given over to,
.son e sort of appropriate exercises
emphasizing the history, achievements!
resources, or spirit ?1 Western Kartfli
Carolina. The program may one year
center about the anthors of Western
North Carolina; another year, about
its institutions; another, about its in
dustries, its progress, or its prob-l
terns; and so on. It is planned to
have representative citizens from
Western Xorth Carolina take part on
these annual programs.
The dates for Western North Car
olina Day has been tentatively set
for the Saturday nearest the middle
of October each year. The first cele-j
bration of the court, therefore will
eoiite in October, 1930.
A CORRECTION AND
A STATEMENT
I
J
Scout officials and those in charge
of the Boy Scout special edition of
the Jackson County - Journal, last
week appreciate lots the many kind
ami complimentary things that have
boon sai<l about this latest project Of
tin Boy Scouts of Sylva. Beyond any
question this special issue is a big im-|
pavement on the one gotten out last J
year. It was no larger than the first!
edition but the copy wa3 much more
interesting and the quality of the
work done by Scout reporters was
?i nch better.
Scouting has meant ^uch to Sylva
and especially to the boys who have
been or are members of the troop.
Quite a number of boquets have been
given to the Scoutmasters, and per
haps they have merited some encour
agement, but the purpose of this ar
ticle is to give credit where it prop
erly belongs. And that is to the Troop
Committee, the chairman of which is
Mr. p. E. Moody. The speciarissue
stated that Mr. E. L. McKee is chair
Juan. This is a mistake. Mr. McKee
,s a member of the committee, along
*ith Mr. E. E. Brown, but Mr.
Moody is chairman, and to him is due
m?< h of the credit for the success of
the troop.
He has encouraged and helped in
# very substantial way every venture
undertaken by the troop. This is not
to he taken as reflecting on any mem
of the committee, or in any way
manifesting a lack of appreciation of
*hat has been done by the public gen
ffallv.
Faculty or jowwb CREEK
entertained by patbons.
The six members of the John's .
pt while, visiting the hom$s of their")
[ while, visiting the homes of their
THE WEEK I
(By DAN TOMPKINS)
. 1
Secretary of War James W. Good
died in Washington, following an op-'
eration for appendicitis
Cogressman Edward E. Dennnison
of Illinois, has been indieted on a
charge of transporting liquor.
Out in Texas they lynched a bank
robber, who entered a bank in the
costume of Santa Claus, and later
wounded a deputy sheriff in an at
mept to escape. That's one way of
dealing with the eriine wave.
President Hoover called a meet
ing of big business executives to look
int the prosperity of the country.
Why send for so many doe tors, if
the patient is iu] good health, as we
have been repeatedly told?
. , /
Mexico elected a president, name
Kubio, with the killing of only ten
people on election day.
Last Sunday, 100,000 people gather
ed at the tomb of ^atrick Power, a
priest dead these 60 years in Mai
den, Mass. The great throng was hop
ing for miraculous cures from their
aliments. An ambulance from Cam
bridge, seat of Harvard university,
brought 20 patients from a hospital Of
incurables. And yet- we are the nation
tfeat prapuoaes- to jmawflttarwr
to the ends of the earth! .(
Police halted an alleged inflamma-;
tory address iu Mount Holly, and took
the speaker to jail when he persisted,
and a pistol was found in his cloth-'
ing. Will we ever learn how to deal'
with the Reds, until it is too late?
Over in England, they make freedom
of speech mean freedom of speech,
and when 6 hot-head begins spout
ing, they put a police guard around
him, to see that nobody interferes,
and let him talk all he pleases, re
gardless on what he says. That meth
od is the sure way of defeating the
purpose of the Reds. It denies the
allegation that they are persecuted
by organized government, <and, at the
same time, keejs sacred the principle
of freedom of speech. The surest way
to: make any ism grow is to persecute
it, and the strongest support that
can be given to a revolutionary'
speaker is to arrest him.
Georges Clereuceau, The Tiger, lost
his last fight for life, and the Grand
Old Man of France is no more. One by
one the old leaders duimg the great
war are passing. Wilson, Haig, Foeh
Clemenceau. Sitting in high pi
were thought little of during the War
for Civilization. Hoover, alone, of the
present executives of the Allied na
tions, loomed large during the war.
The thing that appealed to the peo
ple, about Clemenceau, was his fight
ing spirit. The world loves a man
who can keep a stiff upper lip, and
fights on and on, in the faee of ob
stacles and almo&t certain defeat.
patrons. |
_On last Tuesday night they were
very delightfully entertained afc the
home of Mr, and Mrs. Horace Phil
lips of the Brasstown community.
The dinner was, of course, enjoyed
by all. A friendly attitude greeted
the teachers and made each of them
want, to make a second visit.
Thev night following, Wednesday
night, was another of inteerst to the
teachers. On this night, they were en
tertained by Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Hooper, at their home on Caney Fork
Here they fonnd a warin and friend
Ty welcome, a bountifully spread ta
ble, and plenty of other good things
to invite them again.
_ On Monday night of this week, the
teachers were charmingly entertained
at -the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H
Smith at Cowarts. The table was
in most o? the lands are men
SYLVA HONOR ? )
ROLL INCREASES
Despite the many rainy days Ik'
November, Svlva Elementary School
shows 50 per cent of itq enrolled j
membership as neithel* being tardy nor I
absent, for the month. *
First Grade ...
Misses Padgett and Johnson
Ben Battle, Lloyd Dillard, Aubrey
Fowler, J. E. Guthrie James McLain
Garland Parris, Kenneth Sumner D.'
M. Tallent, Harry Vance, .Virginia
[ Mae Clark, Willa Mae Clemmons,
Daisy Frady, Essie Hyatt,. Bessie Lee
McCoy, Dorcas Toy, May V ance,
'Kathleen Gillen, Corrine AHey> "Aim?
Haskctt, Pearl Henson, Helen Mash
burn, Clara Parns, Dorothy Queen,
Cordelia Queen, Marcellus"~Bochanan,
Morjris Chester, Heftier Franklin, Had
I ley Kilpatrick, Claude Tallent, Thom
as Tolly. , ;
* Second Grade
Mi's. Sutton and Miss Long _
Bobby Allison, William Toy, How
ard Painter, Suddie Brindle, Malita
Fox, Edith Hyatt, Sybil Patterson,
Pauline Warren, Marion Cooper,
Richard Dillard, Thclnia Warren Vir
ginia Bradley, J. C. Dillard, Cordell
Jenkins, Vernon Painter, J B Park
er, Herbert Vance Louella Vance,
Helen Clark, Fred Clark, Elizabeth
Dillard, Nellie McDonald, Martha
McCoy, Annie Lucille Reed, Mildred
Sumner, 4Marie PassntOre, Hilda
CA Dora Beaaley, Horace Moody
Clarence Home, Willip^ Harris, Tom
Moore Davis_ Hugh Battle, Ray
Clark, S. T. McGinuis, Henry Conner,
Glenn Painter.
Third Grade
Misses Cross and Henson
Frank Bailey, T. C. Clemmons, Er
nest Fox, Elbert Fox, Lunnie Has
kctt, Bob Mashburn, Fred McCoy,
Billie Wilson, Dick Battle Albert;
Carden, Willa Mae Brvson, Edith'
Chester, Wilraa Childers, Arquilla
Clemmons, Marv Jane Coward, Polly
Anna Fowler, i Mary Hawkins, Eloise
Mashburn, Bobby McCurry, Matilda
Wilson Thomas Edward McCIure.
? *
Frank Painter, Maude Barnes, Mil
dred Franklin, Louise Leathcrwood,
Kathleen Hooper, Margie Davis.
Fourth Grade
Misses Henson and Cowan
Mack Hyatt, Fred Tallent, Carl
Vance, Effie Mae "Childers, Evelyn
Cunningham, Isobel Dillard Charles
Allen, Faic Barnes, Rachel Brown,
Mary Bryson, Robert Bryson, Lyle
Clark, Levy Lou Fowler, Bertie Frank
lin, Lillian Hensley, Mary Henson
Hilda Keener, Kittie Dean McGuire*,
Arthur Moody, Claude Morris, Bea
trice Stein, Hattie Hilda Sutton, Su
sie "Belle Tat ham, Andrew? Wilson.
Fifth Grade
"Mrs. Freeze
Howard Allison, Charles Buchan
an, Asbury Carden, Harold Dillard,
Jesse Dillard, Elmer Green, Clarence
Jenkins, Britton Moore, Taylor Toy,
Haz?I Allison, Maude Battle, Joseph
ine Garrett, Marjorie Grinds taff, Ma
rie Hill, Bonnie Monteith Maurinc
Davis, Essie Parker, Edna Styles, El
izabeth Sherrill, Elwyn Queen, Char
mie Chester, JIal Keener.
Senranth Grade
, , Mr. Hooper
WtHard* Allen, Etta Barnes, De
Witt Beasley, Edna Bryson Lloyd
Bryson, Hazel Chester, Clay dark,
Leona Dillard, Ruth Dillard, Anrne
Fox, Claude Henson, John Robert
Jones, 1 William Kilpatrick, Hayes
Leatherwood, Patsy McGuire, Mary
McLain, Mildred Ridley, Hfelen Stein,
Ethel Thompson, Ernest Wilson, Ed
ith Woodard. * >
? ?
very inviting to these people, who
have already proved that . they like
good things to eat. After' dinner,
they aU'gathered in the living" room,
where an enjoyable -evening was
spent in hearing good 'music and talk
ing together. * .. .
(Continued on page3)
^1lfiBES AID V
SYLVA SCHOOL!
of the Tuckaseigee Bap
Association, and individuals have
[^jecently oome ljberally to the assist
fe of Sylva Collegiate Institute ac
to Mr. -B. L. Mullinax, "the,
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r
? A list of contributions follows :
Gifts From Churches of thfrTuckasei
gee Association:
Cash from Woman's Misesjonary
Society of lobster - $6.65
Gash donation, D. D. Thrift $1.25
's Missonary Society, Scott's:
:k church $40.00!
liuefes, same church $2.00 J
and K alsomine, Missionary So- '
piety, Sylw Baptist church $12.00^
lanned fruits and other gifts from;
.dies of Sylva church - $25.00
i. A. J. Dills ' <. $5.00
Irlenville! Baptist churchy produce
%: >. $25.00
]$alsam Grove ^Baptist church, pro
. .-v $5.00
Mrs. W. E. Grindstaff 1 ham $5.00
Gifts from other Sources
Canned fruits and produce from Dr.
W& Mrs. R. L. Creel,, Bryson City
: : - $5.00
Pl|odaee , Mrs. G. H. Smathers, Can-j
toif- '.V * : $1-00
Silverware, from a friend $3.30
Gash, Mr. a.nd Mrs. Lester Cotter,!
t, Tenn. $15.00
Mrs. B. N. Barber, Waynes
^
Mr. Mullinax made the following (
statement on behalfof the institution:,
"We wish to express our <rati- 1
tude through this medium to all1
those who have contributed in any
wise_ to our institution this year. The!
present administration wislies to say
further that wliatevcr success may
attend our efforts this year will be
due, in a great measure to the co
operation of oirr friends. This is our
school. The Sylva Collegiate Institute
belongs to the Baptist Brotherhood
of this great Mountain Section. If j
you will come to our aid during the
lean years, we shall continue to serve
our constituency in a great way. We
cherish more than your gifts; we al
so need, your prayers and good will
We thank you each one. If we have
overlooked any gifts, please remind
us, and due credit will be given."
40 YEARS AGO
TUCKA&EIGE DEMOCRAT ?
' November 20, 1889
? %
The Salisbury Watchman wants
freight rates on the produce from
Western North Carolina reduced; and
the Asheville Advocate suggests that
the low price of our pcoduets is not
so much due to freight rates as to
the carlessness with which grading
and packing are done.
Winter has set in in earnest it
see^ns. The past few days have had
all varieties of wintry weather ? snow,
rain, wind and sleet.
Master William Baum left Friday
for Decatur, 111, where he has gone
to enter school
* : J?# a'*' ' .
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Mr. L. M. Welch, of Wavnesville,
was in town last week drumming
upjiew members for. the Royal Ar
canum. : ' i '?
Presiding Elder W. R. Barnett
gives notice that the Quarterly Meet
ing will be held in Sylva on Dec. 7th
and 8th. .
Proclamations by President Harri
son and Governor Fowle have set
Thursday, November 28th- as Thanks
giving Day. , , _ .
v -
Mr. and Mis. R.*F. McKee and Maj.
fflwi m .viitfiig
relatives m Buncombe county.
We observed Miss Alice Reed vis
iting in town during the week. Miss
Reed '8 visits are appreciated ? she is
excellent company.
We are sorry that want of space
permitted us from reproducing the
very excellent letter of Capt. J. A.
Irvine to the Nashville Sunday Her
ald, in defense of the people of West
ern North Carolina, who have been
ridiculed and maligned by irrespons
ible scribblers until an entirely erron
eous opinion has gone abroad in1 re
gard to them. ,
The poll tax for 1889 is $3.00. Of
this $1.50 is for public schools 41
cents for the poor, 9 cents for pen
sions, 20 cents for the bridge at Wil
Inter-City Meet '
Of Rotary CluH ;-$S
Here December S
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'% . ' - '{^m
The inter-city meeting of the fin*
tary clubs of Franklin Andrews, Wl|
nesville, and Sylva, will be held if#,? I
the basement of the Sylva
church, next Thursday evening at ?
T* ' " \M
A program has been! worked oat Iqr, y
a cqpnrittee composed of C. W. Den
ning, Boy Allison and C. B. Thomp*
son. v , # ,
Dinner will be served under direc
tion of the1 ladies of the missionary;
societies of Sylva churches.
mot and 80 cents for the oourt housei
The tax on each $100 worth of prop
erty is $1.00. Of this 40 1-2 cents is
the State tax, 26 1-2 cents is f^* the
general fund of the county, 6 2-3
cents is a special tax for the bridge
at Wilmot, and 26 2-3 cettti isfor the
new oourt house. The total valhe of
real estate and persototf property
listed in the county is $1,036,335. The
number of polls is 1172.
Mr. Charlie Allen and Mr. Lenoir
Allen, of Sylva, entered school at
Glenville, making the 146th to enter.
Gov. Fowle yesterday appointed '/
Justice A. S. Merrimon Chief JusiiM
of the supreme court, to succeed the
late Chief Justice Smith.. Jodge*Wrfr -J)f>
was appointed to sueeeed Justice Mer
rimon.
Grading on the Western North Car
olina Railroad has now fairly struck
into Valley river valley, thus having
passed all the difficult mountain woric
which has required so many years to
accomplish. The grading force is now
working) this side of Valleytown, ear
Dr. Washburn's residence, about one
mile this side of Valleytown. Thus it
is plain that cars will be running in- -
to Murphy early next "year. ? Murphy
Bulletin.
One of Washington '& most promi
nent printers was discharged from the
government printing office because,
while on the street, on the night of
the recent elections, he gave a cheer
over the bulletined announcement that
Ohio had gone Democmtie.
i Turn Him Loose ? _ By Albert T. Rmd