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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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