MMMMMMalMtiiMMM Motiot town JovBirn* TOfcWONB Edte fiMkked Wedtij By fft? S4QX80V COUNTY JOUBHAL 00 ?&terftd M xWOnd elaaa matter * the post office at S/iva, N. C. The Methodist iaytnen are having a hard ttme trying to fire their can non. Votes may be needed badly in the mate, when it meets, and this may b* the reason for impounding those ito North Carolina. Moat of us would feel easy if all we had to do to raise the money we need wm to pasa an act; but the Gen ?ral Assembly is only up against that aim pie problem of financing. The Mat-Lean Act, with its princi ples of eternal right and justice, will atand. The opposition members of the general assembly might as well ac cept that fact and come on over on a means of financing it. Headlines tell us that a puppy stole the meat off the President's supper place. Couldn't it have, by any possi bility, have been a wolf pup? I The Ktuden-ts at the University of South Carolina have learned their les sons well. An election for students efficera wm held, and out of a reg istration of 841 there were i>22 bal lots in the box. The Institute of Human Relations w meeting in Chapel Hill. Some of oar human relations act as if they were not human, while others are twar relattoK. Speaking of peparednees, a Chica go man called the undertaker before kitting himself. Uncie Sam believe* in looking ahead. The Floyd farm and Cling Qoaen farm have beetr bought by the federal park conrmisdioo. At the foot e& the Smokies, they;will make ad tttable landing fields; for airplanes; and that Is, in all probability what Unele Sejn will use them for. Landing fields and campsite# in the offing. The government is preparing for a perk ?t our very doors. West er* Cfcroijoa towns had better wake up and get ready for the most im portant transformation ever con templated for this region. We don't know whicji is right, or irfcether either is; but, something is tfecidadly out of joint. MacLean says ttwt "lkker and wimmen is what's the matter in Raleigh, and Mr. Con nor gays that there are too many feabta to the assembly, who want to tafce their bata and go home if the ether boys went play their way. Tfcw thing has been dragged around tat ?o long, that we have reached the jfoiat where we don't give a two cent piece where Bishop Cannon got fche anti-Smith money if any, nor wtaat he he did with it, if he did get it. Th? assembly has passed the neces sary legislation to impound the bal lots. There appears to be no objection to a recount, provided the ballots can be fouad, but the State dishes hav ing the federal courts invading our Jurisdiction. GREATER LOVE RATH NO ONE. On her birthday, and the closing day of her school, the pupils of Miss Helen Scott, out in Illinoise, organ ized a pieni* party. Three small chil dren were crossing a trestle to re join the main goup. A train was com iag. Without hesitating a second, this brave, young woman,-rushed into the face of the speeding train, seized on* child, and threw her off the tres tle, and was trying to posh the other two off, when the engine struck them. She laid down her life for that of the tiny tots In her charge. When the final reckoning comes, it will not be the Napoleon's, the Caesars, the Alex anders, .the Hlnderburgs, the Bis marfca, the Bacons, the Darwina, nor the Rockefellers, who will head the list of the great souls of the earth; bat the Mary Scotte. QUALLA Mvstes Nancy Keener, Bonnie An thony, Mary Emma Ferguson, Edna iRoyiie. Ckxxie Hoyi? and Mr. Wayne Perfueeo are recent Qualla graduates erf gylva High School. A large, attentive audience listened to a very interesting sermon at he Mfebodist church Sunday by Rev. R. L. Baaa from the text "Peter followed efrr off." Mr*. Bitt Alien of Almond is spend ing a whtie with her mother, Mrs. A. J. Frevnaa. Mee. May BeUe Henson, of Whit twr tlllted ber mother, Mrs. W. H. Cooper. 3fc. J. U Hyatt made a , tHp t? ? -m JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL FOR SALE?Ten of the leading va rities of Gladiolus bulbs grown by one of the leaning bulb producers of the country. Extra large No. 1 bulbs guaranteed to be true to name. Satisfaction or money refund ed.- Price SO per 100. Send orders to Thos. M. Sea well, Waynesville, I N. C. notice Cowart8, N. C., May 6th, 1931. Itear Editor:? Your publication carried a news ar ticle last week stating that the com missioners were considering the act] of abolishing he office of county i agent in their economy program fori Jackson county. I believe that our commissioners' are honest in their every act and I! am sure that no one appreciates their efforts to cut down expenses more than the farmer, but I am. just won dering if it wouldn't be a mistake to abolish the office of county agent. Agriculture is the chief factor'in the life of Jackson county. The farm ers are furnishing the majority of the soldiers in the county's^^ight against the business depression. Mr. Commissioners, must our red dest blood be sapped? Must a wrench be thrown into the machinery that keeps our stores, our banks and our schools and our churches going dur ing a business depression like this? Jackson's business leaders realize, that the advancement of the farmer must not be retarded if the county is to recover from its present stagger. Mr. M. Cowan at the bank and omer. have shown this to be their attituoe in their actions of the past. E. V. Vestal is a capable leader for the "farm forces" of Jackson county. A heart wound is a serious one in deed. Respectfully yours, Hilliard Henson. TO ELECTION REGISTRARS An order of the federal court im pounding the ballot boxes in the election of last Novem'ber, having been served upon me, all registrars, who have not already done so, art ereby notifle.l to deliver the bal? ..?t boxes, with baFoU. intact, to the clerk of the superior court of Jack son county, without delay. AARON HOOPER, Chairman, County Board of Elections of Jackson County. 11 ? I ! I i i "A LIFE ON THE OCEAM ? WAVE" ; By Epes Sargent '? j A life on the ocean wave, < A home on the rolling deefe i Where the scattered waters rave, ; And the winds their revels keep! ? Like an eagle caged. I pine '? On this dull, unchanging shore: r Oht give me the flashing brine, ? The spray and the tempest'r rotff j Once more on the deck I stand Of my own swift-gliding craft: Set sail! farewell to the land! The gale follows fair abaft. We shoot through the sparkling foMl - Like the ocean-bird, our home We'll find far out on the sea. The land is no longer in view, The clouds have begun to frown; But with a stout vessel and crew, We'll say, Let the storm come down! And the song of our hearts shall be. While the winds and the watera rave, A home on the rolling seal A life on the ocean wave I eUMORETTES Proud Parent (who served): "What I told you is the story of the world war." His Son: "Bat, papa, what they need the rest of the army for?" Ted: "My pop is a Moose, an Elk, a Lion and a Red man!" Bert: "Do you have to pay to look at him?" JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL Lyric Theatre MONDAY and TUESDAY Clara Bow in "NO LIMIT' Comedy?News Reel WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY Joe Cook in "RAIN OR SHINE" Boy Friends Comedy FRIDAY and SATURDAY Everett ETAOIN ETAOIN HRD Edward Everett Horton in "LONELY WIVES" Comedy?Screen Song Job Printing at Reas ?BRU? Wbrtlpr 3Fwl cUhat Ulag (l)r ^ot * '*? 0FRIEND of mine tells me that he has recently added to his income by working in the evenings as a press agent for an amusement park. It was his first contact with that great industry which has grown up out of the rather pathetic eagerness of folks to be happy?to have their minds diverted fro\n their work and worries. He said: "My job has been hard work, but it taught me one thing that is priceless?how to look pleasant whether I feel that way or not." It reminded me of a conversation I once had with the press agent of a circus. In describing the freaks in the svit-sliovv, he remarked: "Every so often we have to send them away. They get sucker sore." "Sucker sore!" I exclaimed. "That's a new one on me. What's the meaning of sucker sore?" He explained that, in the parlance of the circus, a customer is a sucker. It is not a derogatory term, merely the conven tional phrase. "The freaks sit there on their raised platforms, h-Uening to the comments of the suckers who press around tbcii'i all day long," he said. "The living skeleton hears the same ru-ie jokes a hundred thousand times. The fat lady is poked at vvith umbrellas, and kidded by smart young fellows who imagine that their wise cracks are something absolutely fresh and new. "Day after day the freaks put up with it. smiling patiently. Rut every day the strain of their suppressed emotions grows greater, until finally they want to jump down off their plat . forms and bite the customers. Then we have to send them away for a rest. They are 'sucker sore'." Most of us can sympathize with the freaks; we. loo. have been sucker sore. There have come days when our tired nerves rebelled against the demands of the customers who give us a living-; when we grumbled at the job for which we should have been grateful; when it seemed that all interest had gone from our work, leaving only dull routine. It is wise on such days to pull down the desk and walk out of the office, and say: "I will not be back until tomorrow." Put even this cure does not always work, or can not alwavs be applied. Soon .or late we have to face the fact that life is a fight, not a picnic. And one of the elements of victorv. in the words of mv friend, is the capacity to "look pleasant, whether we feel that way or not," * 'w. 9 Main Street Looks at Brorivij BY "OBSERVER" The Kiss Coining to work the other morn ing were two office workers. They reached the subway terminal aj Times Square and rode up on tlic escalator, which supplants stai.s ;.?? the fiity-foot climb. Half-way up, the girl, after a little chaffing, leaned down and planted a kiss lightly on the cheek of her blushing partner. About a dozen or more witnessed the littie comedy and, as became sophisticated New Yorkers, grinned ' and let it go at that. ? * * Curious City Crowds People in the country who listen in on party telephone lines ha\< their counterpart in the big crowdi that always assemble here when anything unusual occurs. Hundreds line the sidewalks when a new.sky scraper is going up, watehing every thing from the iirst scoops to the final hoiking jobs rhat carry the cyc almost up to the cloud?. One wonders when city people find time to do their work. Any day Oiie ran go into a moving pic ture theatre during ordinary work ing hours, and find the place crowd ed with men. Rainy days, in particular, find tht show houses crowded, the usual number of spectators being aug ment*, d by salesmen who always look on a wet day as a poor one in which to approach a prospect, and properly so. . Still, there is no excuse for the loafing one notices on bright day* in this citv. * * * Cruelty of a City One of the most pitiful tragedies uncovered here in a long time oc curred the other daywben a woman of 68 was freed on a charge of shop lifting, her second offense of like character. She is the wife of a former stock broker, a Princeton graduate who lost his all in a crash five years ago, and since then has been living from hand to mouth. The- husband testified that until recently, he had been able to eke oyt enough to enable the couple to live at second rate hotels, but even this poor sup port had vanished. He told how the couple had beeo forced to spend their nights m hotel lobbies and railroad station waiting rooms. Finally his wife, driven to desperation, stole a $56 coat from a department store. Moved by his story, two of th t-hree justices who heard the ease, voted to give the woman a sus pended sentence,. Going on Stage Rev. J. W. Holt, chaplain of the Being ex-President is not bad at Xcx?s IIoU!,c cl KcprcsuUativH is Flo Ziegfeld liked the look* ?II. judging by Calvin Coolidge's 76 ,nchcs. anfi Chariie Lock hart, Eleanor Holm, 17, of N?w VorK latest picture. Sec that smile? sta,c treas"rer. -l? inches. so much he signed her up for ? little girl's part. Not to ?wud. ? ? Wins on Wheat Young Patriots I Simon Fishman, Jewish wheat farmer of Kansas, told President mm^sWejtwBk _ _ _ ? ~ \ Baldwin his railroad would carry a Jewel Davis, daughter of Senator Patrick Henry, Oklahoma ranch- miUjon tons o{ wheat in a year 3.5 James W. Davis, and"Jitlr met, courted and woii Uaisy yCars ago. He is riding free because 'he youngest members of the C.A.IU i-.rc.im- on a bus trip to California, Qj ^ viiited at the D.A R. conreatWL where thej; were married. ? ?????*'