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$1.50 Year in Advance in The Count v. the jacksok co#t* journal* sylva, n. c, dec. 17, 1931
$2.00 Year in Advance Offt?itfe The County.
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Hard Work
Is In Store
For Congress
. si'KCIAu TO THE JOURNAL)
Wilmington, Dec. 10 (Autocastcr)
. i iiilmt'e that the present session
.. i '-ingress is ?roing to he one of the
(?:: i est-working bodies ever selected
.. . furnished on the opening day
.?1, mi the roll-will divulged that only
i. ,r senators were absentees out of
t|; ? i? .liftv six entitled to sit, and the
iii> i \ two Keprosenlatives were misa
j,,.. .ut "i' m provided for.
j.??;ideis of both parties will be
Yd npoii to exert their utmost en
,|,..\ors to keep their members in
\\ it'liiiiglou during every vote and to
i.i.ii.iti' their insurgents and indepen
, i; members. The Lower House has
|i| moeralie majority of two over
;ti! i.|i|)osition and has taken over the
rh.ili iiiiinships of the various eominit
te: ?>. Any hope the Republicans had
ili;i; :i split would develop in the se
Ici'lfii of men for these important
|m.s; vanished w Immi the Democrats
|i?-lil a six-hour ernieus, named the
vnri''us chairnwn and broke up with
out liiivinif a single disgruntled par
ty r
Tli?' K? publieaus , proved equally
united i? I'11' of defeat and the
SiuU-Til^m I?attle tor the Sinker
ship. wh'i liad been announced in
iulvima- i> a struggle th?t would go
to tli.> iVMli. ended in Representative
Til mpii immraliilntvig his opponent
miii l ull allegiance. Observ
es ///?'?(> ??;??diet that the two leading
junih- "ill function strictly along
>;ir7v line, nu nil matters of import
l?
Mice.
Xevcr before in the history of
Congress have there been so ,*nany
S?l]s (?tfer;*tl for consideration, as. at
J? 1
(he presfr.*c~ section. JS early three
fhuiisdiuf hills are mnv in the hinds
<;? the public printer. They are to
finer everything 4roin absolute ;free
trade to higher protection: and from
tree coiwige of silver to a firmer
stand ?in gold as a medium of ex
iliiinu;-. Many of them are aimed yt
curing the present depression. They
provide for vast public improvements
nt enormous expense; reciprocal trade
agreements with Russia and other
countries; ami various plans for re
lieving luiropean nations from the
crushing weight of their war debts.
The Appropriations called for in these
different bills, if they were all pass
ed, would increase the national debt
beyond the power of the nation to
pay in centuries.
However, everybody hero realizes
that only a few of these bills will
ever he reported out of the commit
tee and get before either house. Many
of t.'luii are obviously trading ma
terial" while (ilhei-s are of the plainly
marked "vote-catching" typo. When
I lie new Ihniocratic committee Chair
men get down to business, a lot of
the bill-, will he summarily disposed
of and the grist hammered down to a
size that can be handled. j
Aniom! i he hills that are certain of
appearance are measures to provide
I'm- iiicreas?'d taxation; changes in the
Kc.! rai Reserve Bank Act; and th<
revision of the present income and
inheritance tax provisions Politically
the changes in the complexion of the
Lower House is expected to benefit
iifte-ud of hann President Hoover.
Whatever of good the Democrats ac-|
eo!tiplis|i will be used by Mr. lloov-j
1 - campaigners to boost for their
?'.nididatf in the coining election and,
i' ?i-veisely, whatever that party fail-s
i" tio will be equally valuable to the
Hoover spellbinders as campaign ma
terial.
iVrhaps the hottest fight will oc
cur over the bills to impose more
' s. The general feeling here is that
1 he wealthy are to have their taxes
'?"?istcd, as all tax measures must or
ig'iuite in the Democratic House,
i.veil the big interests are said to
?'git'e that this is the most logical ac
tion. The ordinary taxpayer is not to
??scape scot-free, however, as new tax
es especially on luxuries and near
I'lvnrie:., will be proposed, it is said.
h.'tngcs ia the inheritance laws ap
P"ar certain.
CLERK OF COURT HAS NEW SON
Horn to Clerk of the Court and Mrs
'ton Allison, a son, on Saturday,
I'm-mhor 12, a son, who has been
nam-d Dan Allison^ Jr.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Tuckaseige Democrat, Dec. 16, 1891
Mr. John T. Wiko mid family have
returned from a visit to Newton.
Master Jxmis Davis retui*ne<l today
from Bill more, where he has been lo
cated for (lie past ten days as night
operator.
Mr. II, Cicero Cowan, who taught
the public school at Bryson's school
house dfirring the session just closed
was here Monday.
Mr. It. A. Painter returned to Aslie
vilie/Mctitlay, being recalled home by
the illness ?>i" his son, Klbert, who wc
are if lad to hear is hei'.cr.
Misses Lena and Ida Smith, Dosia
and Cauda* t Knslev and Sadie Brown
and Messrs. ('. A. Wallace, Dallas
Wiko and John Wilson, (d' Cullowhec,
attended the school exhibition here
last Friday niuht.
A letter from Charlie Wike, order
ing sent the Democrat to his pres
ent address informs us that he is
located at Columbians. ('., as night
operator sind has a good job.
Notwithstanding yesterday was
quite a rainy day, a number of our
citizens from thv county were here
among whom Messrs S. II. Bryson,
Thos. Wilson," T. J. Love, D. Snider,
B M. Sm i tli and K. <> Phillips called
on the Democrat
Directly succeeding the Union meet
ing .'it Mt. Pleasant, Revs. J. A. Cal
loway arid J. P. Painter began a
meeting at Ochre Ifil', formerly
known as Norman's school house,
among the results of which was the
baptism of tvrentyfive converts. ,
Pa., who recently wdjtrnw To Asne
viiUy, from sp^fUlin^* the summer
ift?utl^> ty 4 'ashler's Valley, Jackson
<jo\intv, -was showing bis friends to
day some very rich specimens of gold
quartz ore recently taken from the
well known old Georgetown gold mine
property, near Cashie's. The com
pany which owns this property, of
which Mr. Hayes is a member, has
been doing some prospect work on the
vein lately, and those who appeal* to
know say that the ore is of extra
ordinarily rich character.?Citizen.
From Cullowhee: A very spirited
match game occurred at John's Crook
Saturday, between the Cullowhee and
Caney Fork baseball elubs. The prize
was a baU and bat, which Cullowhee
won by a score of 44 to 24. The teams
were as follows: Cullowhee, Cnpt. C.
R. Ashe, p: J. (r. Hooper, e; W. D.
Wike, lb; J. M Moore, 2b; C A. A*he,
3b.; .1. L. Aslie, ss; S. L. Nicholson
I f J. K. Long, c. i'; J. R. Bryson, r.
f. Caney Fork, Capt R. R. Coward, c.
.1 H Painter,p; J Lovedahl, 1 b; 51.
Rigdon, 2b. R. Phillips, 3b; A. Hoop
er, ss; J. Hawkins, If; J. R. Long, cf;
Z. Brown, r f.; The umpire was R. L.
Madison, and the scorers were W C.
Norton and Davis Zaeharv. The Cul
lowhee' nine are now ready to play
any club in Jackson for the champion
ship of the county.
. Pastors, St. ml ay School superintend
cuts, and other Methodist leaders will
hold an all day meeting in the Meth
odist church at Cullowliee, tomorrow,
Friday, mooting in a Christian Edu
cation Conference.
Speakers for the conference will he
Kev. J. F. Kirk, Rev. W. A Cole,
and Miss Corrine Little, Greensboro,
and. Dr. W. A. Martin, Nashville,
Tenn.
The meetings of the conference will
bo open to tlie public.
HIGH SCHOOL TO REPEAT
PLAY FOR CHARITY
The Svlva Central High School will
repeat the plav, a Kentucky Belle,
at th?? elementary school auditorium,
on tomorrow, Friday evening at 8
o'clock. TIk' proceeds wiil he used for
unemployim nt relict' in" this commun
ity.
Mrs. Chester Scott is director of
the play, which had a most successful
presentation, last woek, and the east
includes a large number of high
school boy.-; and girls.
M. E. LEADERS TO MEET
AT CULLLOWHEE CHURCH
New Farm
Program Is
Launlied
The new Western'' ?j&olina Farm
program, which ns spofft&rs hope will
i result in doubling the^joeome froru
agricultural pnrfcuits in fhe mountain
counties, was officially-founched at a
huge gathering of faraHW and busi
ness men from eightewwnnties, ajt
the Plaza theatre in ii|j?Hl)e, Mon
, day night. Talktf of Enlightening
i ami inspiring ature, o?]i0*;jtke plan
has saved Miunesota atwT the Dakotas
f rom bankruptcy, proved their eco
| nomie salvation, and dibbled the farm
incomes in ten years, Sere made by
j F. E. Merj'hy, publish# of the Min
j neapolis Ti iitunc and sj. F. Colisson,
agricultural editor ?if -fte .same pub
lication. -
m
A c??n;inillee from Wfeh of the IS
, counties involved will aralce a study,01
local coi.dii ions and a^jSten of action
! best suited to promoflfetgi'icuitnra 1
! prosperity will be evoMtt
?JL&. _?
After the survey liaM
ed and a plan adopted*!
that the newspapers, aB
and speakers will carM
to the people", whil?'?|
farmers, civic clubs, bjfl
houses, the State depfl
riculttrce, the county ?
agents, and all othett^J
cies in the entire teifM
l>ort t he movement, fl
and intended to promW
of the entire Westcm
lina community, byggfl
the agricultural pffl
known of all men wjjfl
casual knowledge olffiH
the mountain reg&ftt*I
part of our w'k^Hh JPjfl
from the soil
valley*. v^jl
Chairman of;<jjPwpP
{?fc.
Harris, Robbjnsville; Avery, E. T.
Frickson, Banner's Elk; Yancey,
Dave Buck, Bald -Mountain) ? Polk, J.
. Gibbs, Mill Spiring; Rutherford;, O.
J. H >Mer, Rutherfor.lton ;Macon, Sam
L. Franks, Franklin; Henderson, L.
F. McKay, Henderson vi He, Mitchell,
S. T. Henry, Spruce Fine; Buncombe
S. (\ flapp, Swannanoa; Madison,
Hcrsehel Sprinkle, Marshall; Swain,
J D. Black, Brvsoii City; (Sav, 11.
31. Crawford, Mayesville, McDowell,
G. C. Conley, Marion; Haywood, 11.
A. Osborne, Canton; and Burke, li,
E. Browder, Morganton.
HOLIDAYS START AT COLLEGE
AT NOON TOMORROW, FRIDAY
Cullowhee, Doc. 17?Friday Doe. 18
at 12.30 o'clock, the Christmas holi
days lugin at Western Carolina
Teachers College. Regular class work
will l>c resumed Wednesday, Dec. 30,
at s.:;o a. m.
Thf ('li ru t mas season is heing ob
served in several ways at the college.
The Scfihbert Glee Club, under the di
rection of ?.frs.' Charles C?. Gulley,
teacher of voice, presented the Christ
mas cantata "Bethlehem", by Paul
Bliss, in the auditorium of the Cul
lmvliee Bapiist church, last Sunday
night. Two special chapel programs
are being held this week. The West
ern Carolina Dramatic Club present
ed the Christmas play "Dust of {he
Koad" in the auditorium, Tuesday
night.. A Christmas tree will be held
in thv reewtion hall of the Walter E
Moore dormitory on Wednesday night
The churches of Cullowhee are put
ting on special Christmas programs.
DEMOCRATS UNSHACKLE
HOUSE OF ^REPRESENTATIVES
Washington, Dec. 36?The Demo-'
eratic majority in the House on the
second day of the session ''took the
shackles off" that body, as one mem-|
her expressed it, by amending the
rules. Foremost ??? these reforms was
the-adoption of a discharge rule, un
der which a bill can be taken fiorn
a committee upon petition of 145
members and brought to the floor for
discussion r.nrl a vote. It also pro
vides that any committee can 1:?* dis
charged from consideration of a bill
by a majority vote of the House on
any given day.
This amfndetTrtile prevents pigeon
holing cr strangling legislation in
committee when the requisite number
of members desire to act upon it.
The chairman of the Rules committee
is shorn of the one-man power to de
feat legislation.
Man Killed
When Auto
Leaves Road
?A foggy night and a slide in the
road, and n high precipice combined
to take tlie life of Panl Bnragarner,
30, of Cashier's Valley, who was in
stantly killed about 10 o'clock, Snn
! day night, oii Highway 28, between
i Cashier's Valley and' Highlands,
i The accident occurred near White
| side'mountain. The automobile, wVich
J Mr. Bumgavner was driving, plunged!
down a 2<!0 foot embankment, the
driwr being thrown out when the
car was about 100 feet down. Mr.
j lium^aruer's neck was broken and his
j head crusJu-U. 1 lie accident vas caus
ed by lot; ami the presence in i he
? highway of a lari,V ^tuiup, which
! had polled (Sown the side of the
mountain onto the highway. Due to
the fact that it was foggy, Mr. Bum
garner was unable to see the stump
until he was nearly upon it. Seeing
the slide, he turned the car, which
sweiVed too fin' out mid plunged
down the embankment.
Charles Uassm?re, mail carrier,
was in the car with Bnrugarner, but
escaped serious injury, when lie'was
thrown clear of the machine. He re
eelwd a few lacerations and bruises.
| Mr. Bumgarner was employed by
thcshiteJiijjhway commission in con
struction work on Highway 28. lie
was' unmarried. Surviving are his
father and mothei4, Mr. and Mrs.
Eb. Bumgarner, of Casheir's Valley,
and sev^n brothers and sinters.
Funeral services were held at
Cashier's Valley, Tuesday afternoon.
PAGEANT AT BAPTIST
CHURCH, SUNDAY NIGHT
A Christmas pageant, "Bethlehem",
written by Ruth Br.Van Owen, will be
jgpasenljed at the Baptists ebujcb,
evening, at '7:30, taking place oilt?
regular evening serviee. The east is
coinjKJsed of twenty-four characters,
besides a double quartet, which will
provide music incident to the pres
entation.
The "White Christmas'' feature will
follow the program, and everybody
is invited to attend the service and
bring gifts, which will be distributed
to tli?? less fortunate of the commun
ity.
SYLVA GRADED SCHOOL
TO PLAY ROBBINSVILLE
The Sylva Graded School basket
eers will niter enemy territory Fri
day night, us they take on the Rob
hinsville capers at Robbinsvillfr The
Robbinsvillo boys aro reported as hav
ing a good team.
Mu'colm Brown, who is coaching
the Sylva team has been miming hfs
boys through some stiff practice.
They will probably be in top shape
as th?y take on the Grahamites.
)
MRS. THOMAS QUEEN PASSED
ON AT D1LLSBORO, SATURDAY
,A r
Mrs. Thomas Queen, relict of the i
late Thomas Quoen, passed on at her
home near Dillsboro, on Saturday, at
the age of 77, following a long illness
She is survived by one son, W. C.
Queen of Dillsboro, several grand
children and great grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted at
the home on Sundiay, by Rev. Thad.
P. Deitz and Rev. Geo. C Snyder
Interment, was in Locust Field cem
etery .
BALSAM
Mr. and Mrs. Lon Crisp announce
the birth of a fine son, Vaugbn Med
ford. Ho arrived th" eigth.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Ensley hare
returned to their home in Philadel
phia after spending some time visit
ing relatives in and near Balsam,
and Asheville This was Mrs. Ensley's
first visit here and she has made
j friends wherever she visitel. She was
also charmed with our mountains.
Qualla basket ball girls plavel Bal
sam girls heer hist week, beating
Balsam 15 to lg.
At the Jackson Cuntv Teachers'
Association, which was held in Sylva
the 12th, Balsam school won in the
stunt contest "A Pessimistic View of
Balsam School on-a Wintry Day".
Mrs. Carrie Queen, Mrs. Geo. Bry
son and Miss Etta Kinsland/ went to
Waynesvillc, Monday.
TODAY, and
TOMORROW
Gestures
A great many, perhaps most, of
tlw> things that are done by individ
uals and groups, in and out of poli
tics, don't mean anything. They are
merely gestures, usually for self-ad
vertiseiuent. They often puzzle peo
ple who think tfc<?re must be a deep
motive behind even* human action,
whereas most of our actions are mot
iveless.
"Jimmy" Walker goes to Califor
nia to pl^ad for the pardon of Tom
Mooney, convicted bomb thrower.
Why A dozen e.xplainations are of
fered, but so far as the importance
of the action is concerned it can be
dismissed ;ts a mere gesture on the
part of the Mayor of New York.
Fifteen hundred well-fed "hunger
marchers" converge on Washington,
mainly by automobile. A seiious
communist uprising? Nothing of the
kind; merely a gesture to attract at
tention to a tourist group that loves
tho limelight. Folks intending to do
serious things don't advertise their
intentions in advance.
In judging human actions a. safe
general rule is that most people who
do things that get their names into
tho newspapers, do them for no other
purpose, than that ? to get thtnr
names into the newspapers..
Colonels
Just before his term of office end
ed on December 7, Govrnor Flern I J.
Sampson, ot Kentucky, commissioned
me a Colonel in his staff. That wn
another gesture signifying nothing
but the climax of a gesting remark on
my part that the best seats in the
grand stand at the Louisville race
track seemed to be reserved for the
Governor's staff. I don't know how
many staff colonels there are with
these Kentucky titles, but at least
I'm in good company and plenty o?
? *1 Mciitijr ecnmiu nr
ward one of its citizens or a visitor,
it bestows the ribbon of the Legion
of Honor upon hiin. Italy gives the
title of 'Commendatore" Kentucky
makes him ix Colonel. All of those are
merely gestures.
Poet
Nichols Viichel Lindsey, tramping
the countryside and reciting his poems
for bis meals and lodging, was the
nearest approach in our time to the
wandering minsfrels jof Ifojp Millie
Ages, the Bards and Minnesingers
who recited their heroic, epics in the
halls of the great or sang their bal
lads from house to house. In that
wise blind Homer, "father of epic
poetry", recited his Iliad and Odys
sey in ancient Greece.
Vachel Lindsey is dead. The world
has lost a real poet, America a great
interpreter of the national spirit. His
splendid voice, with its dramatic
quality that made the hearer seem to
see the scenes he described, has been
preserve! for jlosteriity in phono
graph records made at Columbia
University.
Lindsay's greatest poeiu, in my
opinion, is "General .William Booth
Enters fnto Heaven". Reading it, one
bears the boom of the bass drums in
the Celestial brass band! I hope that
when Vachel Lindsay's spirit entered
into that Heaven in which he so pro
foundly believed, the angelic brass
band blar"d for him, too. ?
Farmers
To hear politicians and uninform
ed city folk talk, one would think
that all the farmers in the United
States ive re on the verge of starva
tion. Anybody who know? the facts
about fanning in any part of the
country knows that it is nonsense. It
is the "one-crop" speculative farmers
who are constantly clamoring' to Con
gress for "relief"
I heard C. F. Collisson, farm edi
tor of the Minneapolis Tribune, tell
a group ot*\ew York business men
the other day how the efforts of his
newspaper, in ten years, have cut
down fhe acreage of wheat ju four
states and made the products of the
cow, the sow, and the hen worth sev
eral times as much' as the wheat crop
was ever worth' in its best days. Ile
suggested that butter and eggs ought
to Be quoted in the Produce Exchange
instead of wheSf They would be a]
better index of the farmer's buyingl
power. , ^
Teeth ;
.Eskimos have the best teeth of any,
race of people, but when the Eskimo
children Are given eaodr their teeth
Phillips Is
New .Head
Of Teachers
S. Jerome Phillips, one of the
b*st known teachers in the connty
was elected president of the Jack,
son County Teachers Association, at
the annual meeting held here on last
Saturday, succeeding TV. Carr Hoop
er. B. B. Long, was elected vice-pres
ident.
Dr. John E. "Calfee, following the
annual banquet. served by the SjIvh
Parent Teachers Association, deliver
ed, what was pronounced one of the
greatest efforts e?e? delivered :n
Sylva. Taking as his subject theuSin
of Immediacy* I)r. Calfee insist d
that we ait- prone to want all good
things,"eTen education, without work
ing for them. We have tried to mak?!
education too easy, said Dr. Cali';v,
and are following too much alter :ill
kinds of fads, instead of using one
common sense, in educating the youn-j
He said that h<) is glad that the t.?v
payers are beginning to make inquir
ies about thii schools, teecher-.
teaching methods, and results. They
.should inquire about it, he asserted.
Deploring the facf tjiat so piany
children g? through the elementary
and high schools without barring
any t hing, Dr. Calfee urged all teach
?rs to acquaint themselves and roas
ter the subjects that they are to
teach, and to make it their business
to know lhat each child is making
proper progress in his studies.
Dr. Calfee stated that some child
ren come to his school, who know
very little about anything, and that
others com? who are well grounded
in the fundamentals, ar.d that he ean
tell from that, just what kind of
teaehexs they have had. "You can't
teach unless you know your witgafai,
and you can't teach school After nm-.
He uxged discipline of mind and
body, and of grounding the children
in the ancient fundamentals of learn
ing. Nobody is free until he has earn
ed for hinitelf the right of freedom'',
said l>r. Calfee, "and it is only by
lutrci worfc arnJ iraining) that on?
can win the right of freedom". He
el;* ided the fads ;iih'| fancie; .?f ILe
.'d?:> ators, who i??ii-.M' in miking ed
ueation easy, :i<id ieaving the chill
*rf o to foi'w his r'.vn bent. Ho prms
i'<! (he com M.tient r i>:cientoj? Ua*h
vii*, who arc di ;.-h; jyMng t'?i -i?* dutir s
w:lh abii -.y j r <1 ijiithl'ul'.e-i?.
Dr. Cany presented by Mr.
'.'Jan Tompzc^s who, in a short ad
dress, defended the actions of the kat
?<ncral ass-jm'?'v i\ tax red action i>,
bi'tcr tav <. . ?'I -j!:on, and eqturiu
i-ig educator.:! rpportunity.
WilLets, Webster, Balsam, John 's
Creek,Geln vii le and Beta schools put
on a contest in original stunts, and
Balsam took the prize.
The morning session at the graded
school auditorium was opened with
devotional exercises, conducted by
Rev. D. II. Rh in oh art.
Other features of the morning ses
sion were an address by Dr. H. T.
Hunter, tftlks by F. I. Watson, L. I*
Shaver, Mrs, E. L. McKce, Supt. M.
B. Madison, MS. J. D. Cowan, a read
ing by Miss Tilley, and a solo by
Mrs Gullev, with Miss Braswell at.
the piano.
BAPTISTS WILL HAVE
CHRISTMAS SERVICE
At the morning service, at th??
Baptist, church, Sunday, a Christmas
service will be held. The service will
consist largely of Christmas
music, and the sermon, by th?
pastor, Rev. .1. Gray Murray, will be
I a Christmas message.
' The pastor and the church ?xtend
a most cordiaal invitation to the pub
lic to attend the service.
begin to decay, Professor Waugh of
Columbia University told a meetin:*
of dentists m New York the othc.*
day. Other dentists agreed that t<*>
much relianwPsliould not be plaeed
ran the toothbrush alone as a pre
jventive of tooth decay.
We are .iust beginning to learn that
i Nattu?e makes no allowances for eivi
fixation. Our bodies are just as prim
itive, and require just as maeh exer
else and just the same food elements
m those of the primitive folk who-had
nothing to eat except what eaeh for
himself could etUeh or kill, or dig
out of the ground or pick off a Vnah
or ? tm,
v.
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