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JACMON OOUNTY JOUBNAL BAN tOMPKINB Editor MMI*4 Weekly By Tkl JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL 00 Entered aa BeoomJ claaa matter a the "post offfoe et. tiyfo* K. CL They need a millitn men in Russia, to carry on the work over there. Well we know some we could spare 'em. The Sonate has . found something else to do. it is considering an inves tigation of the Wickershani report. The man in the street is decidedh more interested in food, clothing and shelter for his family than he ia in the Wickersham report. American banks can float a Ich* of $30,000,000 to Columbia. How about trying to finance small busi. nesses and farmers in this country 1 A wildcat attacked a railroad train, down Georga way, theraby proving that a wildcat hasn't any more sense than a wild motorist. "Dry Law Now been As Chief 1932 l*sue". Vc.", wc Democrats, when it J appears ccrtain that we can't lose, j usually do some fool thing like that.! The Steel magnates say that pros perity will return if salaries are not cut. Governor Gardner implies that it will it they are. Take your choice. As, wc see it from this elevation, the Wickersham commission has de cided that it favors prohibition and believes that prohibition is a mis., take. i"^i ft W i The British send their royal sons1 to the Latin Americans with smiles,! to cultivate trade. We send our Ma..! riues, beating bayonets, for the same! purpose. Please, Mr. President Mellon, let the American people have their way about it, for once, and allow congress to vote to pay the boys their adjusted compensation. "Niagara Falls Changed By a! Laud^Ude." Perhaps it will con:e back ! to normal. The South suffered a like fate, two years ago, and now looks about the same again. Big Bill Thompson is running for Mayor of Chicago against King George, again. We would think that George would make a better com. psfigu isaue for hizzonor than Al. Capooe. ?_ ifcAJ ??i Sopator Morrison has eliminated i Owta D. Young as a presidential possibility because of alleged power trust connection. We have cut Mor. rison out of the senatorial aspirants on the same theory. ? i i A uumber of Western North Caro.. Una banks have reopened during the past two weeks. Give its a chance, and all Western North Carolina wili get to its feet again. A good region may be down, but it is never out. The desire to furnish feed for eat tie but no food for folks, can't be maintained as objectionable beoauae of paternalistic tendencies. On the other hand, it can't be successfully maintained that a cow is worth moro than a child. ? A Democrat, contesting a -seat in the lower house of the general as. semblv, with a Republican, who had a s?ix vote lead, lost his contest, before the committee of an overwhelm ingly Democratic house, and the R* pnblicau iron: Yadkin Was seated. Wives are beginning to retaliate against flappers. An angry spouse took a couple of shots at a college girl, on the streets of Tulsa, and brought her down. A little more of this kind of thing, and maybe "Thou Shalt Not" will again mean some thing. Uncle 8am, id running one hundred and seven million dollars short on income tax collections, but we re member that the greatest secretary of the treasury since Alexander Hain iltor. said that the reverse would happen, when he was advocating u reduction of taxation on the big in. come. Wc suggest the appointment of a commission to study the report of the Wiekersbam commission and re port what it means. Scott McBride, Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Dr. I Clarence True Wilson, Tom Heflin,i Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob, j Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and Senator Dwjght WT. Morrow would suit admirably as the personnel for guoh a commt>?ion. It would Jie quite luting if, at these Confederate memorial exercises, the attention of the young should be direeted, occasionally from the war and leaders of armies, to Judah P. Benjamin, the great Jewish states... man and financier of the Confederacy, and Father Ryan, the Catholic singei jf Southern songs, and others, whose greatness looms larger as the years come and go. It would be good for the soul of the New South to contem plate these men, and it might liberal izc our attitude toward peoples oi jther blood and other creeds from hose of most of uh. fHE BAPTISTS TO THE RESCUE Madison county's Democratic rep i*esentative, (which is such a raritj is to be almost a freak) has intro. Jueed a bill t? compel the reading Oi 10 verses from the Bible every mori. mg in all the public schools of Nfort. .'arolina. W,aut to force 'ein to go t< school and then stall feed 'em all, 01 .he Bible, Prostestaut, Jew Cat hol u <nd whatnot? The Baptists of thi .State, as is usual when such legisla tion is proposed, are expected to rus. io the rescue of the principle of sop Hiation of church and state, and b'riii{. all the strength of that powerful dv nomination to bear to defeat the bill The study of the Bible is a mo.-, important one, and we commend ii to all and sundry, old and young. No mau can really claim to bo educated unless he is more or less familiar with this great collection of magui.. t'ioent literature. If it could be divort cd from its religious significance, it should be a text book in all schools; but since it can not, the religious school, the Sunday school, and best of all, the home, arc the piopci places for its persual. However, it is customary 1'or some member o each general assembly to bring furti a bill to provide, in some form ? other, for the teaching of the Bib!; in the schools of the State. The present bill < i tne gentlemai from Madison will probably meet tin fate of its predecessor^ If it shouli. pass, the supreme court would rule it out, as soon as a case in point {were carried up, so we refuse to be ?come exercised over the matter. THE CONSTITUTIONAL MONTHfc ^mmmmmm i S There is. agitation in the General ? Assembly for the State to nasunie j the financial responsibility for the [six months schools that aro provided for in the Constitution, and the idea] is meeting with considerable favor. Every fair minded person will agrei that every child iu North Carolina is entitled, by virtue of being boru a North Carolinian, to equal oppor. tuniti?s to secure a common school education, whether he happen^ fo live in a cove of the mountains, down amoog the sand dunes, or on the best residential street in the fairest' city of the State. It is also evident upon the lace ot' I things that such equality of oppor tunity is unobtainable under our pres ent school system, or we should say, | multitude of systems. It is obviously unfair for a dis. , trict :n Forsyth county, for instance, I to levy a tax of 10 cents or less, and thus support a splendid school, with | money to span', while the taxpayers j in a district in Jackson are struggl. ing along, doing all that is within their power to give their children an education, can't anywhere near ap proach the excellence of the Forsyth district, aud arc taxing themselves $1.21 to keep their school going. There is demand, from the moun.. tain tops to the seacoast that the] land taxes be lowered. The people have well nigh impoverished them., selves in the effort to educate their children. There is but one way out, | and that is for the State to assumi ng proper burden by taking overtlu duty of the maintenance of tin schools; and it is the duty of th? present general assembly to provide for such assumption of duty by thi State, and to get the money from tho4e inflerejBts in X<ji'th Carolina that are best able to pay it. Make the tax as paiidess and as j fair a? possible* but take the heavy burden from off the baeks of those who are so little able to carry it; aud, j at the same time provide equal op portunity - for ah the children of j North Carolina. ? BIO RIDGE Miss Opal Davis entertained wit a New Year's party, honoring he r ' sister, Miss Cathryn Davis, and Miss Grace Bryson, who were home for the holidays. Games and dancing were enjoyed throughout the evening The guests included Misses Oath , ryn Davis, Graee Bryson, Oma Ga.ss, Arleen Fowler, Bonnie Reynolds, and Messrs William Fowler, Claborn Kry son, George Brown, .Tows Fowler, John Dee Davis, Marvin Brvson, | | Diiane Hooper, and Mrs. and Mrs. i Jim Bryson, Mr. aud Mrs. Edd Park j 'er, Mr and Mrs. Deitz Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Pherron Bryson. The host ess serve<L refreshments. Iff.1 and Mrs. Edd Parker s]jcnt the holidays with Mrs. Parker's pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hooper. Miss Oma (Jas* bas returned to Big Ridge, where she is tcach'ng, af - ter a viit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Gass in (^nalla. Miss Christine Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. YV. Moore, has re . turned to Senneca, S. C., where she is attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Prnett's daugh. ter, Miss Dessic, who has been ill with pneumonia, is greatly improved Miss Opal Davis was the guest of Miss Christine Moore Monday nighf. Mr. David Pruett left for Cullow_ hee Thursday to resume his studies at Western Carolina Teacher's College. Mr. John Davis and son, John Jr., were in Svlva Wednesday. Misses Grace Bryson and Cathryue* Davis spent the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. .lim Bryson and Mr. and Mrs. John Davis. Miss Melba Fowler returned to Sylva after spending a few days at tome. Misses Oma Gass and Opal Davis, Messrs. Jim Cranston and Hoy Bry son motored to Pickens, S. C. Sun day. Messrs William Pruett and Ira Broom were at Qualla on business Thursday. Miss Ola Fisher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Lee Fisher is attending school at Ashcville High School. Miss Cathryne Davis and Mr. Geo. Brown were visitors at Hiir Kidge I school Thursday. , -YES" ; By Richard Doddridge BlackmtrH They stood above the world, i In a world apart; And she dropjied her happy eyes, And stilled the throbbing pulses Of her happy heart. And the ? moonlight fell above her, Her secret to discover; And the moonbeams kissed her hair, i As though no human lover : Had laid his kiss.es there. Just the old, old story Of light nnd shade. Love like the opal tender, Like it may be to vary? May be to fade. _ Just the old tender story, Just a glimpse of morning glory In an earthly Parr.dise. With shadowy reflect :? his In a pair of sweet brown eyes. Brown eyes a man might well Be proud to win! Open to hold his image, Shut under silken lashes, ? j Only to shut him in. O glad eyes, look together, For life's dark, stormy wcathfr i Grows to a fairer thing When young eyes look upon it \ Through u slender weddi-ij ring. ? WITH SUGAR BOIiL 19 KEEP LABOR EMPLOYED i Sugar 'J, Sugar atriNLD ,|,l ThE united STATES under most sanitary ^ONDmoNS^PUREANOCLEAN ^ __ ^VErA0,000 UNITED STWb PAVS- BUT R^INEdv WOPKCCS ano WElP ptosis THE F^UES DEPEND ON 1** SAME& ^^eio lweui^. Refined |N Cl/SA " B> RDPeiGN i,AB0R-I f/WTF<?S the u-S- at2 f ft? 'OO Pounds LESS j ??TVC067 THAN THEj Ua"ted States ?n V The American housewife, always on the firing line to help in time of trou ble, is again called upon to assist in keeping American labor employed and to overcome the increasing hardship brought about by unemployment This time her help is most vital? comes at a time when most needed? and come* without coat or penalty to her. Her weapons are the sugar bowl and spoou. Her fight is based on keeping her sugar bowl filled with su gar refined in the United States, by American labor, and under sanitary conditions, supervised by the lawn governing the manufacture of pure foods, known throughout the world to be the best. This clarion call for co-operation Is sent out on account of the unfair ad vantage given to the Cuban refinero over the American refiners in the Tariff Bill Just recently passed. In this bill a subsidy Is given to the Cuban refiner of three cents a hun dred pounds, as he can export and enter into the United States 100 pounds of granulated sugar for three cents less duty than the American refiner has to pay when importing raw sugar and manufacturing it into re fined. This saving, unfortunately, is not passed on to the American house wife. She usually pays the same price whether the sugar is refined in this country or abroad. This un-American and unsatisfactory situation brought about by the Tariff Bill which was passed last summer, amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars to tbp United States refiner, when one considers the hundreds oi thousands of tons of refined sugar imported, because of this two cents preferential sriven to the Cuban re finers, but when this differential is reduced to lh<> per pound price to the housewife, it is so fractional that It Is lost to her. The loss *o the refiners in the, JUnited States of hundreds of thou- | sands of tons of sugar to refine, due j to the Influx of foreign refined su- ' gars, causes the refiners in this' country to lay-off labor and add to - unemployment without any gain or saving on tha part of the American housewife. The tariff law charges a duty of two cents per pound on the raw sugar imported from Cuba to be re lined in this country. The same law puts a duty of $2.12 an hundred pounds on sugar refined in Cuba and imported into this country. But, under the most favorable condi tions, it requires 107 pounds ot raw sugar to be refined into 100 pounds of refined sugar in the United States, which means to get one hundred pounds of refined su gar in the United States, there is a duty cost of $2.14, or 2 cents a hundred pounds more than the cost to a Cuban refiner. In 1925 only 2E.OOO tons of for eign sugars were sold in this coun try, but in 1929 it had jumped up to approximately one-half millioa tons, and some state that over one million tons will be sold in this country the next two years without one cent of saving to the American housewife and with the additional penalty or reducing the output of refiners in the United States, which in turn will cause thousands of la borers to become idle. Over 80,000 workers and their families are dependent on the re fineries In the United States for a livelihood, and if the output of their employers is reduced, either their wages will be reduced, or their number will be reduced, without any benefit to the housewife. By demanding that her. sugar come from refineries located in the United States, employing American labor, and refined under sanitary conditions in this country, unem ployment can be avoided and con ditions returned to normal in this industry. Many have pointed out the fact that the United States is appro priating hundreds of millions of dollars on one hand to aid the un employment situation, and on the other give foreign competition a subsidy which will permit an In road into established industries that will beget increased unemployment. SPEEDWELL The borne of John B. Bumgaroer and son was destroyed by fire, De cember 5th. An out building- that con tnined canncd fruits, vegetables, cot ton seed meal, and general supplies, such as hard working farmers Jay | up for winter, was included. Mrs. V emon Bumgarner lias beon an invalid for two yea is, hut w: s able to make her escape. She was very ill the week following, due < excitement and exposure, but seems to be improving anft will I e able t< join the family circle once again in a little bungalow near where the old home stood. She desires the pray ers of th" Christian people that it , tirav be (lie will of our Creritor to span1 the little thread th.it sometimes see .--is to be almost broken, that she rosy have the privilege of dwelling 'n tfu* little new home with her two ,?ial' children and husband. Sh' has a sweet and ]>aticnt. disposition. I The writer has had the pleasure of opening nice packages for lu-r from friends. A true saying: "d. n': wait until a person is gone to , flowers." DR. W. KI.KMIT CHAPMAN nKNTIST (Alice willi Drs. Nichols nvor Rv'vo Pl.urrft^y MARO KILLS MICE AND RATS ONLY Maro is a Red Squill preparat*oi'. "t will Dot fc'll poultry, dogs, cat ?r domestic animals. Sylva Phaiii;? ?y Editor Gets $1,000 a Year for Life V 1. H. Sefton, editor ul the Colfax Cal , Kecord. wrote the essay which won first prize in a recent contest, (or which the chief reward is an annuity of ?1,000 a year as long as he lives. Walter P. Chrysler, motor magnate, donor of the pcjze, (right) is handing Editor Sefton the certificate on which he can cash in every twelve months. . Ensley "Feed, Flour and Groceries GROCERIES Roller King Flour, 24 !l>. hag 93c White Cream Flour, 24 lb. ba^. 78c Snap Shot Flour, 24 lb. bag (S. R.) 80c Loose Coffee, per lb.. lJJc to 25c Pilot Knob Coffee, 3 lb. bkt 90o Big Bill Coffee, 5 lb. bkt $1.17 Lord Calvert Coffee, 1 lb. can 35o Sugar, per 100 lbs $5.00 Great Northern Beans, per 11) 10c 'Navy Beans, per lb.... 10c .Cranberry Beans, per Il) l(Jb Yellow Eye Beans, per lb 10c Pinto Beans, per lb. 5c FEEDS Cotton Seed .Meal, per 100 lbs $1.65 Cotton Seed Mulls, per 100 lbs 65c Mill Feet!. periOOlbr $1.80 Mill Feed, per 75 lbs. . $1.35 Hog Rations, per KM) lbs., $2.70 Ground 0 per 100 lbs : $2.56 Security Dairy Feed, per 100 lbs.. $2.90 Bine Maule Dairy l<Y? ?i, per 100 lbs. ... $2.25 Security Horse Feed per 100 lbs $2.75 Security Laying Mash, per 100 lbs $3.50 Victor F, Mash, per 100 lbs... $3.25 Security Scratch Feed, per 100 lbs $3.25 Blue-day SeraiVh Feed, per TOO lbs $2.75 Oyster Shells, per 100 lbs... $1.25 Ciioiee Timothy Hay, per 100 lbs $1.65 Treaty Green Alfalfa I lav. per 100 lbs. $2.15 Oats, per 5 bu. bag t... $3.25 These are CASH Prices at the door. J. B. Ensley SYLVA, N. C. li 'i ? i ? 1 gj
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