?l 50 Year in Advance in The Couaty. THE Jackson county jJ ^a%?ylva, n. c., august 20,1931 $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County \VaynesviIle Man Killed By Brother Wi.vnesvillf. Aug. 17?Buell Hy att, (lt Waynesville, is dead and Da j,{ Hyatt. 1ns l.iother, is being held ' * * 1 1 A 1 i 111 llj,. enmity jail without bond, as ? re wilt of " shooting affray in the Jjlt!.' I'alV, "I "'rated by David Hyatt, #|1 sheet iiere Monday cven jllf/ about i? o'clock. The men, it is jltep-il, rreled over a sum of nioiu'.v B?j,.|! Hyatt was rushed to the liavu'?')?il county hospital here im -Jisteiy all IT (lie shooting and he j ;(t in uVI?M'k Mouday night. ? i > ? die Fhysi<"';l,,s BK1 x,n,. examined him im p ilijtely ,ie was brought to tfo. hc>i'ital. said his condition was tlH) weak I "i' him to withstand an operation. Tim* shots were fired, two tak ?w? dfei't. <>"'? slightly grazed the MinV left ami the other entered the left side jllst below the ribs. The y|.i, w ci t* l i rei I from a ..'J3 Special revolver. It is alleueil that there was a dis pute between the brothers over an (imi'iiit ot money due Buell by his bother, David, who operates the cafe uii tin Moor of the 'Hyatt home on Main street. j Buell Hyatt is said to have entered j the eiitV shortly before t> o'clock,! walking to the rash register where : he took the money allegedly due him ami started to leave. As he did so, his hither, it is alleged by officers' who inve^tiuateil, ih-clared he would 1 bhuit him it he left. Just as Buell! reach.'d the door, it is stated David bejran firing. Thv father of the two men is Hoheit Hyatt one of Waynesville's oldest am/ most resj>ected citizens.1 Kiie//, u/io was about 35 years old vus unmarried. David, a few years, ohlej' has a wife and two children. The Hyatt family is well known in Jackson county, Mr. Hyatt, the father of the two men having liv<>dj in Sylva years ago, ou the property ] low owned by J. F. Freeze, which Woiiged to,Mr. Hyatt at that time.; MAN IS KILLED WHEN STRUCK IN HEAD BY TREE Amos Orr, about 60 years of age, whs instantly killed near ten o'clock yesterday morning, when a Balsam tree which was being felled, fell in aii unexpected direction, striking him in iiio back of his head, crushing his 'vkull. Mr. Orr lived in Swain county some eight miles west of Bryson City. J le luts been a contractor on the logging operation of Long and Snyder, on the I'lott Balsam range,' tor aunit two years. Tne accident occurred on the North side o i' the mountains, where the growth of Balsam timber is very tine. The body was brought to Sylva prepared for burial, prior to kiiii; taken to his home in Swain.-' I COPE IS S. C. I. PRINCIPAL Mr. C. L Cope has been elected as principal of Sylva Collegiate Insti-I lite to succeed Mr. B. L. Mullinax. j Other teachers will be the Rev. ?kims L Steele, graduate of South western xSeminaj;y, teacher of Bible a|i'l director of athletics and field representative; Mrs. G. M. Futch,1 tnglisli and Latin, Mrs. Eva Keener,1 elementary grades and matron for; Prls; Miss Agnes Brown, primary Mes, Mrs. C. L. Raines, dietitian;! Ruth (iribble, music. One va eaiiey on the faculty is yet to be I 'Ul, but a teacher for the position elected at an early date. ^ lien flu- school op?k on August it will i[o so unencumbered with debts, the trustees announce, the 8tate Kojfni of Missions having as smiie'l all obligations. topetist* at the school have been 'tduci'd tu $1(0)0 a month for board ln" students, which includes room, l,ut "u, wau-r and fuel. Day students Pi'i $3.50 per month in the Mjiiool department and $3.00 8 '"until in the elementary and pri tU4ry grades. IruMt-cs and the new Principal, ilr' state that the school will ?l*? tills year under most favorabel "Hmits, with an increased number ot students. The HtKl packages of garden seed .Riven om bv the Red Cross in Bun tombe County this spring hage been *orth $40,000 to those receiving the suvs County Agent Dale Thrash ? lurking returns from a num w oi! gardeus. TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stoekbrfdge Engines A your# man named Cramer as tonished vhe world the other day by flying frtfm Detroit, to Greenland without celling anybody that he was goin?. The important thing about the ihght is that he didn't use any ga-soliiit. His engine is of the Di?$el type, which uses anything in the form of oil for fuel. Ab he put it, he could fly on butter or whaleoil ' if necessary. The best gasoline engines today are only !l per cent efficient?that '? is, they utilize only 8 per cent of '?the power in the fuel. Crude oil 1 engines of the Diesel type are more efficient ^ian that but still far from perfect. The next thing in engines will be one in which the waste of energy necessary to convert recipro cal motion, into protary motion will | be dane away with. Oontrast The city of Chanute, Kansas, is probably the most prosperous com 1 inunity in America, if not in the whole world. Its people pay no taxes whatever. The city of Fall River, Massachu setts, is in the hands of a receiver, because of inability to meet lis ob ligations out of tax receipts. Chanute gets enough revenue from inunhipally-owued gas, electric and water utilities to pay all the ruu-j ning t xpense's'o? the town as well as J support an airport and a brass band. Th<> city is run by business men. Fall River has been run by politicians for generations. The principal argument against public ownership of public utilities j is that they would be run for thej benefit of the politicians^ instead of for the benefit of the people. That is not always the ease, as Chanute is proving. Pensions Today every man who* served in auy x>i^ott*:: wars fee*# ^he-Worid, War is receiving a pension. Soon all the World War veterans will be on the pension roll. Employees in the civil service of the Federal Uovern n--j.H i)o\v get pensions at the age of 70. M. si states provide pensions for dependent mothers. Many states have old-age pension systems. Nearly all school systems retire aged teachers on pensions. Many industries pen sion old employees. Firemen, police man and other municipal employees in the big cities all get pensions after a given term of service. Even A1 [ Smith is on the New York State Civil pension roll. Much of the worry of middle age woultl be eliminated ' if everybody ! could look forward to a peaceful old age not dependent upon charity. Per haps the incentive to thrift would be impaired, but I doubt that. And I believe that eventually some such system will be adopted everywhere. Seaports Chicago g?l greatly excited a short time ago when the Swedish freighter! "Anna," with a cargo of barbed wirej and Mirdines entered the Chicago! river, with the Swedish ffag fly ing. It has long been Chicago's dream to become a seaport. Chicago enthu-i siasts picture a deep-water channel from the St. Lawrence through the Great Lakes to the very heart of the l/nited States. * That is an engineering possibility, but whether it would pay is another question. Ocean transportation is al ways a risky venture. Very few ship-owners are making money these days. The demand is constant for greater speed and quicker "turn around" between ocean terminals. The passage through any inlaud waterway is necessarily slow. ' However, Chicago has set her heart on becoming' a seaport ana what Chicago goes after she usually gets. Par?iysis The East this year is having an other epidemic of infantile paralysis. The West is comparatively free from this terrible scourge. It is one of, the few diseases of*which the exact cause is still unknown to science, and for which no effective preventive mea sures have been devised. Cure is un certain, and complete recovery prac tically unknown. While it cripples the bodies, espec ially the legs of its victims, infantile paralysis sometimes seems to sharpen the brain. Governor Roosevelt of New York was infected by this dis ease, which seldom attacks adults, eight years, ago. He is able now to Large Crow| Attends MeC Of Farmer^ i (By E. V. Vestal) . '? Jackson county farmers are quite familiar with live-stock, and know what is what in that line, if the guessing contest held during the I farmers meeting at Ralph Hunter's I Alum Knob Fawn, last Friday is a fair sample. Four men, Troy Hyde, John H. Smith, J. T. Cogdill, and J M. Nicholson guessed the weight of Mr. Hunter's Hereford bull to the ] exact pound, and others came close to it. When the rani was brought out, nobody registered a perfect hit, but here again was a tie, four men miss ing tilt weight of the sheep by two and a half pounds. Willie Norton, Ii. V. Brown and Harry Cunningham guessed two and a half pouiidsMinder the real weight of'the animal, while jG. II. Moody overshot the mark by 1 two and a half pounds. In order to ' settle the t'e, a sieer was brought ? out, and the eight men made esti mates of its weight. Willie Norton was given first prize and J. M. Nich olson scored second. Mr. Norton left with a brand new pocket knife in his pocket, and Mr. Nicholson wear ing a handsome neck-tic, both prizes presented by Mr. Hunter. 1 Some two hundred farmers, busi ness men and women gathered at Mr. Hunter's farm, enjoyed his hospit ality, drunk his tubs of lemonade, inspected crops and live-stock, and I enjoyed themselves generally. Mr. L. I. Case, Beef Cattle spec-] ialist from State College, Raleigh, was there, along with Mr. C. G. Fill er, marketing specialist of the State Department oF Agriculture. ]0r. John W. Goodman, District Agent; Dan Tompkins, President Sylva Chamber of Commerce, and ohers. tj Mr. Hi to his fa] onstrati ings ol operative' and also gave1 ture on selecting a good ram to head j the farm flock of sheep. Mr. Good man made a very impressive talk on Rural Life, discussing the depression, the farm program and the rural home. Mr. Tompkins then made a short, impressive talk on the sub ject of better cooperation of town) and country people. Mr. A. J. Dills, Vice President State Mutual Ex change, discussed the aims of the State organization and emphasized the importance of cooperative mar keting in Jackson county. After some announcements by the,' county agent, Mr. Hunter's herd of Hereford cows and calves were look ed over, with Mr. Hunter ami Mr; Case discussing their breeding. These Herel'ords are of tlie Anxiety breed ing and his herd bull is strictly line bred. The calves with their darns show that good breeding is worth while, because these calves are as good as can be found in the State. Mr. Hunter has recently purchased la fine 202 pound yearling Hampshire i ram to head his flock of registered ewes. This ram is 6f Blastock breed | ing and is an exceptionally fine fel low. v On Mr. Hunter's farm are several acres of alfalfa, which is proving to, be a very successful hay crop. De j spite the unusual tTry summer (only one half inch rain since corn plant-j >ing time) he has alfalfa that has, already cut over three tons to the acre this year aild another cutting is almost ready for tho mower. Korean Lespedeza is" proving out) unusually well on the Hunter Farm. It stands dry weather probably as' well as any clover J or grass and erives a good crop of hay or seed each year. One of the most impressive i _ - j walk without leg braces; with the aid of a couple of canes, while his mind is as active as ever. -I know one girl who was infected in the 1916 epidemic wEo refused to be linked by her affliction and has suc 1 cecded in establishing herself as a fashionable milliner, making annual j trips to Paris. One of the most ser , iously crippled b?ys I ever saw, a ' victim of paralysis at the age of ' seven, graduated this year at the top of his class in a western university, j It is small consolation to a mother whoso child is deprived of its normal physical life by infantile paralysis, to realize that it still has a chance to deveop its mental activities, but [there is always that ray of hope. Capital City i$ Sweltering With Heat ahmgton, D. C., August 19.? present days aie dog days and ere is the "heat felt harder than in^liis capital city of the nation. 200,000 people work for Uncle in this city, and probably there lot one of them who does not pan the fact that Virginia and Maryland had a dominant voice in the .selection of the capital site in the' year 1787. 'i Bbth New York and Philadelphia which are nieasuraoiv more comfort-> able in hot weather, made strong bids to become the seat of the nation's, activities, and, for a time, each was j 1 het capital of the United States. Finally Virginia and Maryland forced J the selection of the site along the jPotpinac, in spite of its Being a mos quito-ridden, malaria-infested swamp, where the heavy vapor from the mile-! wide river caused an overpowering' | humidity in all the hot months. J Spring and Fall months are highly j enjoyable here, but even an Arizonian^ balks at' summer climate. This sum ? ? i* f I mer heat causes a noticeable slowing down in all departments of the Gov-! ernment and a heavy economic loss1 can be charged up to 'the climate! from that condition. Business men, J who are appointed to high position i in the Government, almost invariably! endeavor to speed up their workers i soon after arriving, but eventually, find themselves hammered down to] the 5-peed of the regulars, or else tliev resign or die. It appears im-; possible to accelerate the pace of a civil service worker at the seat of Government. For many years the great Treasury Building was pointed to by all as a i fine jdace to work. It is an ancient, structure, as Washington buildings, stone walls five feet the glaringHBeat "prison odor," but even that is preferable to the terrific heat of the outside. For many years Senators and itep resentatives in CongTess have bee? hurried to an early grave through the unhealthy conditions they were forced to endure during the sessions of Con gress. A few years ago a modern ventilating system was installed in both .Houses and since then "Con gressional cold" has ceased to be a menace to the lives of our middle aged Representatives. When the White House fire of nearly two years ago occurred, Pres ident Hoover had his executive of-! fices remodeled with the same air j conditioning system and it has work- j ed so well 'that he has turned out; more work, stood longer hours andI met more people than any President j in recent times. It has worked sj j well that Mr. Hoover has vetoed any 1 plans for Jhe usual summer vaca- \ tion, outside of his weekly trips to i his Rapidan camp, and is standing the Washington summer in splendid shape. ' ! An attempt was made to hav^ the. same cooling system installed iir the! new Department of Commerce Btiild- : ing, the largest Government office' buidling in the world.. Opposition in j Congress blocked the plan, except for ; one wing where the Secretary and j his leading assistants are: housed, : The result is that the authorities are being deluged with applications fori positions in that particular wing,1 nearly every stenographer and other office, workers trying to wrangle a; berth where they can keep oool. Another handicap that Washington 1 suffers from is that it is located in a Federal District, practically free I from business in the form known in! nearly every other city in the coun try. This has kept the capital from being1 in close touch with business and industry and their problems and causes a distorted viewpoint on ques tions vital to the success of the {country.' It is a condition hard to rectify. Men of affairs have little contact with the men at the heads j demonstrations of the value of arti l ficial inoculations of seed is shown in a plat of Lespedeza, where the seed was inocculated the lespedeza stands from 12 to 18 inches high. I Where no inoculation was used, the j lespedeza stands from 4 to 8 inches high. Lespedeza shows results from inoculation as well as any other elovor and on this plot its value can be seen to the foot FORTY YEARS AGO Tuckwseige Democrat, August 19,1891 The election yesterday resulted in favor of the adoption _of the pro visions of the stock law for a dis i trict including Sylva, by nearly 'three to one. There were 55 voters registered 47 of whom voted, 35 for the law and 12 against. The Tuckaapige Association met with the Scott's Creek church last J ; Thursday. An arbor had been made unde*- the trees on the school house grounds near the creek and quite a large crowd assembled the first day, increasing from day to day while the meeting lasted. The introductory sermon was preached by Rev. S. 11. | Harrington, of Franklin} from the: text "A peculiar people." After din ner the association reorganized by the lv-election of S. H. Harrington, moderator, T. C. Bryson, clerk, Rev. | A. H. Sims, historian and W. 0. ? Buchanan treasurer. Mr. Buchanan having declined the latter offioe, E.! H. Franks was elected in his stead. Among the visitors to the associa tion were Dr. R. H. Lewis, president of Judson College, Rev. J. A. Speight, editor of the Asheville Baptist, Rev. S. C. Owen, Missionary of the West ern Baptist Convention to the Chero kee Indians; Rev. G. A. Baitlett, of the Buncombe County Association, and lie v. Jolili Amnions, correspond ing secretary of the Western Bap tist Convention. The next meeting of the association will be held with the Liberty church, in Macon county, Thursday before the third Sunday in August, 1892. Mr. Cox ritad Miss Otelia Da vies were here Friday. M iss Ella.Frizzell came up Satur day, to attend the association. C. B. Zachary left yesterday for Richmond with another car loat ol sheep. went back to market Wednesday. Mrs. P. B. Brown, of Spartanburg, S. C.f a former resident of Sylva, is visiting Mrs. R. M. Davis. Dr. Will Tompkins and family and Miss Addie Luck left yesterday to spend a few days in Asheville. Mr. Albert Siler of Macon county, was with us Monday night, on his way to convocation. James Manahale left Monday for a visit to his old home, Evansville, Ind. He expects to be gone aboul two weeks. Th following are the jurors for the Fall term of court, which begins Sept. 28th, and holds one week. ! Judge J. H. Merrimon will preside. W. A. Queen, David Lindsey, D. V. Moore, T. R. Zachary, T. L. Jamison, James Pruitt, John B. Hooper, L. C. Pressley, W. D. Cowan, J. S. Brv- j son, S. W. Ensley, S. C. Allison, j J. if. Patterson, J. L. Fisher, J. W.; Deitz, Ben Harris, J. H. Wike, T.; D. Brown, W. A. Hooper, J. C. Wood ring, Virgil King, J. T. Stiles, GJ W. Bryson, I. W. Fisher, J. Byersj Brvson, J. R. Brvson, L. J. Matthews L. D. Hall, J. E." Cogdill, J. W. Hol-1 combe, J. W. Nicholson, A. J. Wood, W. J. Henderson, D. C. Brvson, R. L. Gribble, and G. B. Btnngarner. Jackson County farmers are ship ping spring ]ambs*at good prices. A car of 95 lambs was hipped to Cin cinnati last week. ?? ' - i of the various Washington bureaus with a resulting loss to both sides. Civil service employees enjoy many privileges and there is never any ' trouble in filling the ranks of the ; workers. They have thirty days' leave i ! with pay each year and in addition i may lake thirty days' sick leave on a dorter's certificate, which is- hot ' hard to get. They work five and aj half days a week and seven hours a day. This makes up for the small-1 ear old poplar^, which he is now fanning and j**. Mr. Rotha says thatUe Fanners Federation wiil be glad