<1.50 Year in Advance in The County. the jackson couj tNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931 *9 AH V ? aj rx , ? $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. Make Plans To Relieve Unemployed (Special to The Journal) Washington, Ii C., August 12.? Government energies are now being bent toward a solution that is cx le production and it is expected f/ie rest of the mills and | lactones will follow suit in a few months. Naturally this cannot be ac-j coinplislicd as quickly as mills can be shut down, and it is this in-be-' tweeri period that the Government I seeks to bridge over with temporary jobs on needed public works like po.nt offices, roads, levees and similar undertakings. Another problem that is harrying tho President is the question as to whether Cpngre?s will be ublje to pass the enabling legislation to j>er niit the President's debt holiday to beeo'ne effective. I'nder the Young Plan, Germany is due to make a' heavy payment on December 15 and t Congress, which was relied upon by Mr. Hooper to sanction the postpone- j mcnt of the debt, will not meet until | December 7. ? | Tha whole crux of the situation, lies in the fact that, for the first I time in many yearn, the two major i parties are almost tied in their number of Representatives. It is problematical yet as to whether the' Republicans or the Democrats will control and elect the Speaker. Even U the Republicans are shown to be! in control, they will still have thej difficult jo?> of conciliating the Pro-j gressives so they will vote with the! Regulars. Representative Tilson of Connecti cut is the logical choice of the Regu lars for SjM'aker, with Representa-j Iw Luce of Massachusetts a close j ?"voikI. Luce is considered the best | thinker in the House. It is certain! that the Insurgents will demand that a Western man be chosen and, a long-j drawn out figfit "may result. The ( Demounts are but little better off it they gain control, as Gamer of Texas, the man nearest in line for s|H'akci, is not liked by Tammany, *liich has a powerful bloc ifl the I-owvr House. That would leave Rep **Nmtalive Crisp of Georgia as the wcuii-l choice. Crisp is the son of tlu- Speaker in Cleveland's last term a"d tlic House as a whole admits his "'?ililv, the general consensus being that he has the clearest Jbrain in the entire inembershiD and is by far the parliamentarian. In other words political observers W predict that the House will be "nahli- to organize in time to pass tho legislation required to make the debt holiday effective. It has been h,lKRMed to the President that he eunveiip the House in November in( order to give it time to settle the '"?K light and its elective officers "ml lie ready to pass the legislation ] desired by Mr. Hoover. The only a'ti'rnative, if Congress fails to or Raiiisp, is for the President to as authority and arbitrarily ex tend the time for the German pay nt-<, an exercise of power .that would unquestionably bring down on his head the ringing condemnation l,l hin political opponents. For this iitason there is a growing feeling that extra session of Congress will be Sailed in a w weeks. FORTY YEARS AGO j Tackaseigee Democrat, Aug. 12, 1891 (' '* Mr. L. C. Hall went to Asheville Monday. Miss Sadie Brown was in town Tuesday. Mr. E. B. Madison left Monday for Atlanta, Ga. , Gen. Hampton and family are ex 1 pected home tomorrow, j We are glad to see Mr. O. B. Coward lit" home again for a short stay. Dr. Wolff has imported from Ten nessee- a fine saddle horse for his i own use. Maasrs Lee Hiooper, Thos H. Hast ings and E. B. Madison were here Saturday. i 1 Rev. T. C. Buchanan will take i charge of Globe Academy; Caldwell; county, Aug. 31. dr. .T. H. Wolff and T. C. Bryson | went to Asheville Thursday, return ing Saturday. Cassius Wallace and Walter Thom as are here today on their way to Cullowhee High School. ' ? Mr. J. E. Divelbiss reached home yesterday, from Biltmore, to remain until after the Association. Mr. and Mrs. Buffum and Mrs. Harris, of Dillsboro, went up Sat urday to enjoy the glories of the sun rise as viewed from the summit of Caney Fork Bald. We are sorry to learn of several cases of milk-sickness in the county, among others three of the members of Mr. Jack Wike's (family being j now down with it. i Capt. J. W. Fisher telt Friday for the State Farmers' Alliance at More head City. Mr. E. D. Davis waited until Saturday and joined Hon. A. II. Hayes, of Swain, who was on the train that day bound for the same destination. Registration for the stock law elec tion has closed and a careful can vass of the list shows a decisive ma jonty of tliose registered in ravorj of the stock law. Indications now are1 that the larger portion of this, Dills-j boro and Webster townships will1 soon form quite a large stock law district, which is likely to grow larg er continually. Bishop Lyman's appointments in this section are as follows: Sylva, Friday, Aug. 2t. St. David's, Cullo whee, -consecration?Sunday, Aug. 23 Cashier's Valley, consecration?Tues day, Aug. 25. The registration books for the rail road election are now open, and as the voters of the entire two town ships of Webster and Sylva have the privilege of voting in this elec tion, an entirely new registration is not -cquired. Let us cast a unani mous vote for the subscription. Our depot agent, Mr. Davis, has made quite an improvement in his office arrangements. The office has been divided into two rooms, the one next the track being conveniently ar ranged for office purposes, while i the other room has been converted into a comfortable waiting room for ' passengers, the appointments of : which are positively luxurious com (Continued on Page 2) ASSOCIATIONS B. Y. P. U. CONVENTION TO BE HELD' The annual Tuckaseegee Associa tional B. Y. P. U. Convention will be held with the Webster Baptist Church August 23. Beginning at the ?leven o'clock Hour the Convention will con tinue through the afternoon. Mr. James A. Ivey, State B. Y. P. U. Secretary will be present to preach at eleven o'clock and to hold conferences ancT deliver an address in the afternoon session. Dinner will be served picnic style on the grounds and after that the j time will be taken up in conferences I and in hearing many of the talented young people of the Association speak on various Subjects. I Every member of any Baptiot church is urged to attend. . Bailey To Be Chief Speaker On Field Day Josiah William Bailey, Junior Sen ator from North Carolina, and one j of the most pleasing and foroefq! J Speakers in the country, will be thj chief speaker at the Nineteenth nual Farmers' Field Day at Stai Test Farm, Swannanoa, Tuesda; August 20. County Agent Ellis Vestal urges that everybody in Jackson county who can possibly do so be present at the field day, take part in the exercises, and view the exhibits. | Everybody is expected to take pie nie dinners and spend the day at thji test iarm. The Swannanoa Band will - make music for tEe occasion. Address ; I es will be made by S. C. Clapp, Prof. 'L. I. Case, Dr. R. Y. Winters and J Cominissioher Graham. 1). Reevcs No | land will act as chairman of the ! meeting. | In the afternoon there will be con I tests oj: various kinds with prizes j ! for the largest farm family present.; for the farm couple having been ma* ried the longest time, for the bept 4-H uniform worn by a club girl. | The women will engage in a rolling pin contest, nail driving contest, shrubbory naming contest, and an tgg carrying contest. The men will have a tug of war, singic men against married men, a I legume naming contest, horse shoe ' pitching contest, and a write up of field trips and educational exhibits. The boys will engage in a 75 yard dash, longest baseball throw, and pony races. At 3:30 there will he a singing cot test with a prize of $10.00 for the best choir, $5.00 for the best quar tette, and $5,00 for the best duet. Tours to the experimental fields will be conducted by M. D. Gard ner, C. D. Grinnells, G. M. Garren, W. H. Rankin, E. Y. Floyd, H. B. Coulter and C. E. Keith. Th? exhibits will b? ^ Agronomy^ supervised by W. H. Rankin and G. M. Garren; Dairying, Dr. Grinnells, Mr. Coulter and Mr. Farnham; Hor-( ticulture, Mr. Gardner; Poul-j try, Mr. Parrish, Mr. Dearstyne and Mr. Keith; Entomology, Mr. Wray, Forestry, Mr. Graeber, Better seed, Mr. MiddleTon.v A day of fun, pleasure, and profit able sightseeing of things that in terest farmers and their families, is i expected. Everybody is invited. The test farm belongs to the people, and the agents of the department of agricul ture urge them to make use of it. HIGHWAY MEN APPOINTED TO POSTS IN COUNTY Appointments to various positions | with the State Highway commission^ in this county, have teen announced by S. B. Howard, district engineer.) John H. Wilson will have charge of extra work on roads in all parts of the County. Charlie Thomas will have state highway number 10 from Swain County line to Haywood county line and highway number 285 from Macon County line to Dillsboro. J. R. Cotter, who lives in Cullo whee, will have charge of route num ber 106 from the end of the con crete pavement south of Sylva to Qlenville, and number 281 from "fuck aseigee to a point five miles east. A. L. Owen will have route 281 from end of Mr. Cotter's seetion to route 28 in Toxaway. S. P. Pierson will have route 106 from Glenville to South Carolina line and route 28 from Transylvania f County line to Macon County line. W. A. Taylor will have county roads in the north western part of ' the county. J. R. Wood will have charge of! the county roads through the middle' section of the county north of Tuck-' seigea. M. W. Breedlove, whose residence! is in Qlenville, will have charge of! the county roads in the southern part of the county, south from Tuckaseigee! In making these appointments, the' commission requests the cooperation1 of the' people in keeping the roads in good condition, and states that | any complaints, suggestions or crit-! icisms will be welcomed at the high-i way offices; and that reports of! dangerous or unsatisfactory condi-1 tions of roads or bridges should be| wired or telephoned to either of tie1 men named above or to the district highway offices in Brevard. Last Term Of County Court Held Monday The Recorder's court of Jackson couiuy was abolished by order of the eonnty commissioners, on Saturday ol last week;' and, after having functioned for eleven years, created by au acf lected Dan Tompkins as county recorder, to wind up the business of the court, and to transfer all remain ing cases to the docket of the super ior court. Court was convened at 9:30 Mon day morning, and with the exception of au adjournment for an hour and a half for dinner, continued in ses sion until after 9 o'clock, Monday night. The heaviest docket ever dis posed of in one day in the history of courts in this county was tried, the solicitor, Mr. C. C. Buchanan, the clerk, Mr. Dan Allison, and the niem-j bers of the barj working steadily all day and cooperating with the court i in completing as nearly as was pos ! sible the clearing of the docket of all cases. A resolution lamenting the passing of Judge Hooker, the late recorder, and expressing the sorrow of the bar, the court officials and the court, was introduced and ordered spread upon; the minutes of the court, the resolu-! tion to be drafted and put in proper | shape by a committee composed o H. E. Monteith, C. C. Buchanan, anJ j E. P. Stillwell. A motion was adopt ed by bar and court officials ex iting to Mr. Tompkins their ap iation of his accepting the task; winding up the affairs of thi | and working with them Ihrougl pprt nf thfi. night. in clearing up the docket Created eleven years ago by act of the General Assembly, the court j has been the target of political agi-i tation, spasmodically, almost through-; out its entire existence. There has| been, for a good many years, n strong sentiment in the county favoring its abolition; while other sentiment, also strong, stood for its retention, ar j guing that its abolition would con-j gest the dockets of the superior ' courts. Petitions have been circulated in the county during the past few weeks regarding the abolition of the court; and the commissioners, after con sidering the aspects of the matter, including its financial side, came to th? conclusion that it was to the ] best interest of the county to dis-} continue the court, and ordered it: abolished. The act creating the court appoint ed the late Joseph J. Hooker as i judge of the court. He was succeeded, by F. E. Alley, Jr., who was elected bv the people to fill the office. Judge Alley was succeeded in 1926 by the ( late George W. Sutton, who was re-i 'elected in 1928. At the death of ! Judge Sutton, E. P. Still well was, J elected by the commissioners to fill: | the unexpired term. Judge Stillweli I was succeeded by Judge Hooker who : was again elected to the office in, 11930. His death a few weeks ago left j the office again vacant, and the commissioners abolished the court. 1 i Members of the board of county i commissioners, in discussing the move, j stated that the main consideration I that moved them to discontinue the i court was to save money for the I tax nayers of the county, in line with the general policy of cutting ex-1 penses to the minimum. They stated that the court cost, the county during the year from June 1, 1930 to June 30, 1931 the' sum of $6,879.50 more than the county received from the court in court tax and fines. The figures compiled by the com missioners show that the county gen eral fund was charged $8020.10 for expenses incident to the court and that the general fund received $580.93 in court tax from the court, and the schoool fund $559.67 in fines from the recorder's dourt. (The commis sioners based their findings on these figures, which apply to the Record er's court only: Cost Jail fees $1,625.60 Fees and costs 3,980.00 Judg2's salary 1,800.00 Holding oourt 360.00 TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) 1 i Edison The last time I # talked with Mr, Edison I asked him how long he was going to keep on working, j "I'm never going to stop," he said, "unless my stomach goes back on me. There's where most men give out first, in their digestions. I "There's only one rule for keeping young," lie went on. "That is to watch your digestion and never stop working. That's the importantv thing ?never stop working. Keep your 1 mind active. The brain is more dur able than any other part of the body." Mr. Edison was Si when he said that, and was launching into a new line of research with the enthusiasm of a boy. He was as interested in i everything new as he was when he was twenty. Gangsters / As long as the gangsters in the big cities confined their activities to shooting each other up there was very little public protest. But when five children were shot, one of theiu fatally, in a New York gang battle, the authorities began to get active. It is my guess that the clean-up movement in New York at least has actually started, and that there will be less tolerance of murder and less sympathy for murderers in the fu ture. In the long run, law and order are ( always triumphant. If Lhat werenot so the world would b?j in a state of j anarchy today. There would be no organized erime if all of the organ ized forces which are supposed to! prevent and punish crime were faith-! ful to their appointed tasks. Appenzell Newton Baker drove thousands of people to their encyclopedias the j other day when, in the course of his speech at the Institute of Politics, he said that "of course, Appenzell is j the only pure democracy." Not one, out of ten thousand of those who! porfir Hii ever heard of Appenzell. It is e f of the little independent states whi t j form a part of the Swiss Federati t. i It is in the northeast of Switzerland, and has about 70,000 population. Thej only government it has is a sort of magnified town meeting at which everybody votes. The oldest of all republics is San Marino, in the Italian Alps, which has existed unchanged since 400 A. D. and is still governed by the old Roman, laws and customs. But San Marino is noi a pure democracy in the sense that Appenzell is, and neither is Andorra, that other tiny European republic which is entirely ? surrounded by Spain but which is under the protection of the French government and a Spanish bishop. Russia George Bernard &haw came back from Russia enthusiastic over what! he had been permitted to see. Lady As tor, who accompanied him, was equally enthusiastic. They saw, as all visitors to Russia see, what the auth orities permitted them to see. If one thing can be more certain than anything else, it is that the truth about Russia and the condition of the people does not, get out of Russia. Neither does the truth about the rest of the world get into Russia. All Russian newspapers are controll ed and practically edited by the Sov iet government. News from America that is permitted to be printed pre sents this country in the most un favorable light and is intended to make Russian workers and peasants believe that they are the most for tunate people in the ' world. News' (Continued 011 Page 2) SYLVA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE TO OPEN AUGUST THIRTY-FIRST Sylva Collegiate Institute will open its fall session for the year 1931-32, on Monday, August 31. Members of the board of trustees state that the prospects for the school this year are very bright, and that there are more applications from prospective students than there were last year. Full announcement concerning the opening of the school will be made 1 in The Journal, next week. Transporting prisoners 254.50 Total , $8,020.10 Receipts Court tax, to general fund .... $580.93 : Fines, to school fund 559.07 [ Total *1^40.60' Baptists Hold Convention In Glenville The Tuckaseigee Baptist Associa tion, comprising all the Baptist churches in Jackson county, is meet ing ib the annual convocation at (ilenville today. The association will meet at 10:30 this morning and will continue in session through Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning. The association will he opened with devotional exercises conducted by Fred Parker, of First Baptist church of Sylva. At 11 o'clock, Rev. W. X. Cook of Webster will preach the introductory wrmon. Rev. Thad F. Deitz is the. moder ator and will fill the chair. Rev. \V. (). Reed, Sylva, ib the secretary, and Dan. G. Bryson, Beta, is treas urer. I The devotional exercises of Thurs-. day afternoon will be conducted by Richard Miller. At 1:45 delegates will be enrolled, the organization per fected, and visitors recognized. The report on periodicals will be present ed by John B. Knslcv, and that on the orphanage by Rev. Weston Par ker. On Friday morning the devotional will ho conducted by Rev. Calvin Mas sengale. Reports on Cooperative Pro gram will be presented by W. X. Cook, on state missions by Rev. E. Brown, and foreign missions by n Rev. R. L Cook. At J 1:30 the daily sermon will be preached by Rev. A. ('. Queen. Friday afternoon's devotional will be conducted by Rev. H. I'. Craw- t lord. Mrs. I. K. Stafford will pre--; sent the report on hospitals, J. T. Cribble on ministerial relief, and Rev. J. (J. Murray that on Christian edu cation. Rev. Ben Cook will read the ? report on temperance. The rest, of the afternoon session will be devoted to miscellaneous business. On Saturday morning R D. C. Hooj>er will lead the devotional, exercises. T. C. Bryson will make the report on the Sunday schools of the association; and Rev. W. C. Reed, that on the Baptist Coung People's. Unions. The rest of the after^oo^ will be devoted to miscellaneous bus iness coming before the body. . Sunday School wil be conducted at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, : " the sermon will follow, at 11 o'clock, delivered by Rev. P. L. Elliott. LAST RITES ARE HELD , ? FOR MRS. LENA WALLACE Funeral services for Mrs. Lena Wallace, relict of the liite 'Cassius Wallace, were held at Cullowhee Methodist church, at 1 :.'W) Tuesday afternoon, being conducted by Jtev. Mark Q. Tiittlc, Rev. Sam H. IJr.il liard, Rev. George B. Ciemnic,-Rev. I. K. Stafford and liev. W. C. j^eed. Mrs. Wallace passed-on at noon .it the Harris Community Hospital, where she had been a patient for some two weeks. She had- been ill for five or six week< Mrs. Wallace was a daughter- of the late Lewis J. Smith, .prominent citizen of this county, and. stat^ sen ator from thisr district. She was mar ried to the Tafce Cassins Wallace, and with him spent some time in South Dakota and Wisconsin, where lie taught among the Chippewa anil Sioux Indians. She was a woman of strong and pleasing personality and, numbered her friends by her acquaintances. She was an active niembw of the Methodist church at Cullowhee. Mr.,. Wallace is survived, by one son, J. L. Wallace, of N'ew York City, one daughter, 3frs. F. S. Griffin ol Cullowhee four sisters, ; Mn>. Lee Hooper, of Speedweli, Mr^ Nannn McGuire, of Cullowhee, Miss Ida Smith of Cullowhee, and .-Ha John Phill'ps of Sylva, two brothers, Lewis J. Smith of Cullowhee arid ,#Kathaii Smith of Dundee, Fla., and a large number of other relatives.. PHIL STOVALL RECOTOMNG Friends of Phj^ip J. StoVall, pro prietor of Stovall's Fruit ^>re, will be pleased to learn that he is recov ering from a serious ,operation at Wesley Memorial,h?spital in-Atlanta. *' ,v. *