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past Work
Of Congress
Is J mpressi ve
jSjv I to The Journal)
Wu'.'i!1 - Jttn. 13.? Olio
j tin- n. '?!<? differences between
^ juv-i'. ("tigress and all others
,!k>v '? x 1,s wol'k in the short
time it if "tT? sitting, is its great
fl'fici. '!'?> ^ everybody expected
t? h,\ir !'? -'""g but campaign speech
^ hv tii' irioiis .speakers, at least
d tin
llijlcit'1
'in!
i ?. Hurt's.- yof right down to
bu,jiH's> l^ss<-'d si* important
buls riiiht -If the reel anil now is
winnowing ht1 ohnl'i' out of sonic nine
thousand hills that have been
5fM tt? mitttres for preliminary
;f;inn. A i ?' "1 the credit for the
ttl'irii-i.'} 'i:-"lave?r is due Speaker
(,'aruT. v. lias shown great ability!
u lib iK"> iiee, while still more
t> due to ill' 'ai t that the Senators
*11.1 Rf|>r<-YU 'iives realize that vot
(f, will it"! I satisfied with mere
Tin- coin: ?etent way in which
the lawniaki'i^ ."'C tackling the var
iou? j?i ?>hl; u?> iVing the country has
?-!?? TidiMf'tln wi-.e acres to say noth
inf of til'' e.umtiv at large.
One ctir.iUs thiiiu about the prfS
(?ul Cuininss i-> tlif I art that the Sen
ate is proving un>re radical in its ten
,ii nc'us than the Lower llous. For
,me lit) years the >. nate was the
mine of Ay.;nifie<l statesmen, but the
?iiai$t in to I lie popular election
' S.vi.i/it- instead ol tln'ir selection
'by thr -t.it' !??? Mature-:. seems to
him- ??rLnl :< rhnr.zc, .'ml one finds
n">l> "t' tlw i IriitwxH - and radicals
in i?iTii|?ying seats in the
Ipprr JI?Mse, wiiilc the conservatives
rale the Representatives.
There is a growing impression that
[Wore the pit <ent Congress dissolves
will have made important ' changes
jhe financial set-up of the United
s: Already the
is nailer consideration and it is I
tunlikely that broader jxiwers will
panted that part of the Govein
lent !ii oriU-i' to enable it to become j
lore repniMvo to modern business |
tonditions.
One of the t rying needs of the pres-'
nit day is a system to maks land
nort?a<;4i more liquid. Keal estate
ilinks s'lU'U.i only Government
mnrilt- - in stability, but when there
s mv market tor land it becomcs
lil't'irult fo renew mortgages or
raist> /iiun.'v nu land This results in
9- cessation of Imild'ug operations,
?ne of the most ini|Hirtntit of all
incs to lii.-mv. L'/ ijyr;i! prosperity,
t is likely that the Federal Reserve
iniiks will lu> u r?i lit fd additional
wtr to loyn money on long-term
?l*'r. ami to waive the clauses in
wrtpi^ps making it obligatory on
lifm trt I'otfi'Iiise *iii defaulted mort
f \
Another expo-ted notion by Con
st^ U it. ion of the National
rwlit ('orpin at ion, whiah proposes
J'1 loan half a billion to real estate
'Kitrrs. The Hill will be rushed
[trough Congress, it is said, ss soon
k the \\ ay- and Means Committee
;<ittk the most promising
Man. Tlii> .W; alone is expected to
ir'no out a ? a-.t amount of money
I10* lyinjt i'H- IVom hidden hoards
toil reihif" iitii'Miplnynient materially,
lnvp^ifr.tt;,,,, ,,)? t|H, Favm Board's
4tivitie>, iinv j,, the hands of the
fiatp, is ex|<(>cit'd to Im> broadened
\> ?IW tl,t. Lower House to take
,rt ifixth- ,livK Talk of a separate
rtfst Ration !iy (he House of Rep
1*?lativfs i, dying down, thc^'*
' ^"'"s dial it would only double
^ wpfnse without gaining added
^ffits. It ,, being freely said here
at ^<li a:, investigation will be
' SI1<1 tl.; i it will continue for
' tci tour months. Sentiment
tiu- V;i i i i Hoard and the ffar
Aft ii.v-. changed considerably
n mM-nt wj'i-kj. and is said to Im>
lUlll|0n? t,,' t|, belief that they have
! . i,,t of good for the
,r?ers, win, demanding their
Ionium... Anyhow, falk against
1 's <lyiti': awav.
I ^ is jiK.. xuiil that most of the
'israiiw i he high salaries paid
f "?n> rathe executives 18
t?Hister and Tias little
B^PPort tViiin the voters, who do not
I ^ thp ui' n a being overpaid, par
|'fu'ar!v :?> the Board's books are
E^"' '?? -h?.v that their salaries are
tomin^ t -ma Government sourc??*
Man Gets Good
Price For Burley
0. D. Hoses of Jackson County
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received an average of 17c per pound
for liia burley, which he sold, this
w.rek at Saunders' Warehouse, in
Asheville.
The high price whiclTMr, Moses
received was due to good quality of
the weed, and careful preparation for
market, it is said.
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Mr. Moses was pleased with the
price which he. received for hjs crop.
I FORTY YEhRS AGIi
Tuckaseige Democrat, Jan. 13, 1892
Hon. \V. A. Dills wn$ in town
Tuesday.
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Miss Pauline Morris returned
Tuesday 1'ioiu a visit to relatives at
Qnaltatowu. v
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M*v J. 8. Forster returned to his
home in Asheville, Tuesday, accom
panied by his f wife's j-UslL'iy- Miss
Spurgeon Dills.
The Asheville Kaolin Company was!
recently reorganised, and the follow
ing new officers elected: K. H.
Keev.'s, President; J. H. Elwell, of
Boston, Secretary and Treasurer; A.
J. Lyman, city, and Mr. Hall, of Web
ster, Directors; Albert (i. Glover, the
fonner President, jhas ^v'erled his
connection with the company had has
returned to Boston. ? Mountain lloniej
Journal.
Married: In Sylva, on Sunday, Jan.
10, at the liome of the groom's
father, Miss Cogdill, of Swain Co.,
to Mr. Will Farley, A. M. Parker,
Esquire, officiating. Sear Sylva, by
Rev. W. Enslev, at the residence of
the bride's father, Miss Mary Mon
teith, to Mr., Sherman Davis.
Diei: In Dillsboro on Jan'. 15, at
2 o'clock A. M., Mrs. Margaret M.
age.
It began to rain Monday morning!
and rained almost without ceasing
for three days and nights. The
streams have been wry high, the
Tuckaseegec river reaching a point
several feet higher than has been
reached for many years. The dam
age, while quite serious . at some
points, has, so far as we know at
present, not been so disastrous as
might have been expected. One end
of one of the small trestles below
Beta, together with about forty feet
of the embankment is washed' out.
At Dillsboro, the track just above
this place is slightly damaged, and
at Dillsboro the damage to the track
is more serious. Owing~?o the break
abovo us no train has reached here
since Tuesday. Scott's Creek was on
a regular "tear'' but beyond drown
ing a hog in a pen and some chickens
roosting in some bushes, no serious
inconvenience was experienced. At
Dillsboro, from Dr. Candler's drug
store down the lower part of the
town was entirely submerged The
water was up to the door of the
drug store and over the counters in
the store of T. B. Allison and Co.
In Squire Watkins' slore the water
did not quite reach to the tcp of
the counters. Thursday at noon a boat
was being used to get into the store
of T. B. Allison and Co., and paddled
about between the counters. Now
tre water is rapidly subsiding and we
hope our troubles from this source
are over.
District Meeting
To Be Held Here
There will be a meeting of the
Kingdom Extension workers of the
Methodist church of the Waynesville
District at the Svlva Methodist
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church, tomorrow, Friday, beginning
at two o'clock. Pastors and leaders
of the church in the district are ex
pected to attend the meeting.
Rev. D. II. Rhinehart will eoiid'uct
the devotional exercises. I)r. J. W.
Perry will speak, r.rpresentisg the
general headquarters. Rev. W. B.
West, representing tlv- board of
.missions, will, speak, as will Rev. ft.
T. Harbison, representing tho hos
pitals, Mr. J. A. Porter, for church
extension, Mr. II. A. Dunham, for
Christian education, and Presiding
Elder L. B. Hayes on behalf of the
commission on benevolences.
Conference
For Schools
Is Organized
(liy John Parris, Jr.)
A Great Smoky Mountains Athletic
Confenenie loomed on the sport
horizon this week. As a result of the
nioet'og of tlie "Four Schoolmasters
Club,'" in Dillsboro last week, plans
were made to hold a meeting at Cul
lowlu'e this week and elect officers
for the Coiiference.
Schools from the counties of -lack
son, Ilaywood, Macon and Swain are
I to be in the 'Conference.. There is a
possibility that Cherokee, also, will
be admitted. Most of the schools
were represented at the meeting. The
meeting which is to be held at Cul
lowhee will have representatives from
the various schools of the above men
tioned counties.
Th?*te must be six schools ( in the
Conference. The schools that are 'be
ing admitted to the Conference have
already made applications for places
in the organization.
Perhaps this organization will bet
ter sports, conditions in Western N.
Carolina. That is one of the pur
poses *)f the organization. It will
also add greatly to bringing the
schools closer in relation to each
other. There have been several at
tempts to accomplish this, but none
of them proved successful.
At the next infecting of the Con
ference all matters governing elig
ibility, officials {of the game, by
laws, etc., will be taken up. It will
probably take two weeks to settle
everything and set the Conference in |
motion.
. .. JIM SUTTON PASSES
Jim Sutton, of Dillsboro, died, last
Thursday in the Angel Hospital, in
Franklin, shortly after having been
received there.
Mr. Sutton had been a patient in
tho -C. J. Harris conqnunity hosgit*!
iW f&Vewl- days, Jwfore Tjemg r^
moved to - Frauklin.
The funeral and interment were at
Locust Field "ccinetery, Friday, by
Rev. Tliad Watson and Rev. W. "VV.
(ircen. Mr. Sutton is survived by his
widow and several children, and a
number of other relatives in this
county.
(To Improve
Mail Service
In County
Mr. C<, Huneycutt, Chief Clerk
Railway Mail Service arrived in
Sylva last week to complete investi
gation of the proposed through mail
route Cashiers to Svlva via Highway
No. 106.
Mr. Jy L. McKee accompanied Mr.
Huneycutt over the routes affected
and tentative schedules wetfe (pre
pared, $or both matin and bitanch
lines. Mr. Hnneycutt feels sure that
the serVta will he inaugurated! and;
heartily approves the proposed new
route.
M.ujs : wilj Ijcava Cashiers about
7 :30 A. M.. arriving in Sylva at
about ten o'clock and will leave lor
[Cashiers immediately after the 'ar
rival of morning train from Ashe
ville a 1)1 arrive at Cashiers about
1 :30 P. M.
Mails will leave East La Porte and
Tuckas^igee aboirt jmooii, for Rich
Mountain and Wolf Mountain, en
abling ths people both on Caney
Fork anfl East prong of Tuckaxei&ec
to g'.;t ^shevilie morning papers the
same day. ?
The otjl nmit route from Cullowhee
to Cashiers will be cut off at
Erastus. eMails leaving Erastus about
7 A. M. le connect with through mail
at Cullqwhee returning in the ?f
ternoon. Jjlie change will ?o into ef
fect JuljFlst, the expiratiou of pres
ent. mail contracts.. Bids due Jan
uary lOfld, on old routes, will prob
ably be returned and new bids asked
for. /? .
The ch"?ngc will not affect double
daily matt service to Cullowhee and
East La^orte.
STOIffltCAR IS FOUND IN
MUflNGHAM, AljABAMA
The A#nobile belonging to S. R.
FawW^Jf Sylva. which was takea
S^^rte^^e' "iwtot-ior*
pistol, on Christmas night, has be?x
recovered in Birmingham, Alabama,!
according to advice that Mr. Fowler
has received from police in that city.
The only damage that the car has
received, according to the information
given Mr. Fowler, is a broken wind
shield.
STATE AND NATIONAL NEWS IN BRIEF
DEMOCRATS CHOOSE CHICAGO
, A $200,000 offer by Chicago for
the Democratic convention won ap
proval of the party's national com
mittee in Washington on Saturday,
June 27 is the opening date, 13 days
after the Republican convention opens
in the saino city. Robert Jackson
New Hampshire, was chosen commit
secretary.
, TARIFF PASSES HOUSE
The tariff bills drafted by a house
senate Democratic committee, passed
the house on Saturday by 224 to 182,
12 Republicans voting for it. It is
cxpccted to pass the senate hut to
be vetoed bv the president from
whom it would take the right to
change tariff rates.
ROOSEVELT TO MANILA
Theodore Roosevelt, governor of
Porto Rico, was announced Saturday
by -President Hoover as governor
general of the Philippines to succeed
Dwight P. Davis, resigned.
MUST STOP REPARATIONS '
Chancellor Bruening on Saturday
declared it impossible for Germany
to continue payment of reparations
and that to maintain them "must
lead to disaster, not only for Ger
many but lor the whole world."
U. S. INVOKES TREATY RIGHTS
On Frid:y the United States in
voked the rine-power treaty as a bar
to further military operations bv
Japan in China. Great Britain on
Sattu-daV eelined to invoke the
treaty but asked Japanese assurance
the open-door policy will be ad
hered fo. -v
DAWES TO! LEAVE LONDON
Chjitlps G. Dawes announced Mon
day he will resign as ambassador to
Great Britain after serving on the
Geneva r disarmament conference in
February. T)wigRt F. Davis and
William M Butler are mentioned as
choices for Dawes' successor.
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OLDEST TAR HEEL DIES ,
Saul to be the oldest person in
North Carolina, Jack Armstrong,
negro, died in Sampson county last
week. llis age is claimed verified at
315 years.
HEARING FOB CHOWAN BOARD
Chowan county's Boardi of education^
has beerf granted a hearing on Jan
uary 22 to ask the state equaliza
tion . board to provide teachers for
three districts without schools this
year.
ARREST HIT-RUN DRIVER
Marvin Graves, 17, has admitted
he <Jrove the car which hit and killed
Carlie Regan, 14, on a Burlington
street, Friday night. His failure to
stop was attributed by him to a re
quest of a girl companion.
DIRIGIBLE AKRON OVER STATE
The Akron, world's largest dirigible,
passed over North Carolina on Sat
urday night, on the way from Lake
hurst to join the Atlantic fleet in
naval maneuvers in southeastern I
waters.
STATE RENEWS ITS NOTES
The state government has succeed
ed in renewing I^ew York short terpl
notes totalling $2,500,000 at 6 per
cent interest charge. It is regarded
a major feat in light of money mar
ket conditions.
N. C. C. W. PERMITS SMOKING
Under renewed demand by a ma
jority of the 1,700 students, the di
rectors of North Carolina College for
Women, Greensboro, have ruled stu
dents may smoke in their rooms "un
der certain restrictions.
RHODES GOES TO PRISli*
1 J. Mack Rhodes, Hendersonville
1 , banker, givpn two and four year
sentences for embezzlement of $21,
' j 0(10 and false entry, "lost his appeal
1 j before the Supreme court on Friday
I and must serve his sentences.
Lyric To Show
Benefit Picture
Next Wednesday and Thrsday,
January 20 and 21, the Lyric Theatre
will present a benefit picture show,
for the B. H. Cathey Chapter, United.
Daughters of the Confederacy.
A large crowd is expected to see
this show, which will be featured
by "Heartbreak," and Episode No. 3
of "The Vanishing Legion."
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(Bv Frank Parker Stoekbridge)
Oulahan
A few days ago the PresidenT of
the United States took time off from
his arduous duties to attend the
funeral oif a newspaper reporter. A
hundred more of the highest officials
in Washin-^ton, members of the Cab
inet, foreign diplomats, joined Mr.
and Mrs. Hoover in paying a last
tribute of respect to the memory of
Richard Victor Oulahan. I think it
is the only occasion on which a simple
reporter ol' th<r news has been so
honored.
Disk Oulahnn could have hefdi al
most any public office he might have
aspired to, he could have been editor
in-chief of almost any great news
paper, but he -preferred to remain
a reporter in the city of his birth,
writing every day for the New York
Times the news of Washington so
truthfully and in such a dignified
manner that he won the respect of
everybody in public life, while his
personal charm and character made
presidents and ambassadors his per
sonal friends.
Dick Oulahan was my schoolmate
fifty years ago. His life Jtn^i career
were the model upon which many
young newspaper men tried to shape
their own.
?l^wWiasfciy wriEm
York und Chicago gang murders have
got, the public hats a notion that
those cities must be <]iangeroun places
to live in. But an Alabama college
professor who has been collecting the
Xncts about murder in the United
States reports that there arc 77 cities
in which tnere are more murders in
proportion to population than in
New York, and 39 that have a higher
percentage of murders than Chicago.
There are more murders is, Memphis,
Tennessee, in proportion to popula
tion, than any other American citjf.
There is no such thing in any
American ?,itv as gangs of murderers
roaming^ at large and shooting total
strangers because they don't like the
color of their neckties, though some
such impression of life in the big
cities seems to be prevalent.
I Have knocked around this world/ a
good deal, and as a newspaper re
porter have had to go into some
pretty tough districts at all hours of
day and night, but I never found it
necessary to go armed, nor have I
ever known of a sober, peaceful cit
izen tending strictly to his own bus
iness being killed cxcept by a lunatic
Prohibition
Anti prohibitionists are incurable
optimists. Finland lias just repealed
itff prohibition law and American
"wets" are jubilant.
H<>\v little chance there is of any
such action in this country is clearly
indicated by a poll of the entire
membership of both houses of Con
gress taken by International News
Service. Only 155 members of the
Houne of Jiepresentatives were will
ing .?ven to submit the question of
repe.'tl to !?. popular referendum. It
Last Rites Held
for Mrs; Dillard
Funeral services for Mrs. Ralph
Dillard, who died early Sunday
morning in the C.* J. Harris com
munity hospital, were held Sunday
afternoon at East Svlva Baptist
church by Rev. R. F. Maybe rrv, Rev.
Ernest Jamison and Rev. D. H.
Rhinehart. Interment followed in the
Dillard family cemetery.
Mrs. Dillard is survived by her
husband, three .small sons, four
brothers, Ellis Beasley, Zaeh Beasley,
Arvan Beasley and! Hayes Beasley,
and one sister, Mrs. Paul Sheppard.
Meeting Qf
Farmers To
Be Jan. 23
A meeting of the fanners of
Jacksdn County will be held iu
Sylva on January 23, beginning at
1 P. M., at which plans for the year's
work in the co(unty will be laid oul,
and addresses will be made by lead
ing agriculturists, workers from the
extension department, and interested
people.
The purpose of the meeting will
bo stnted by A. J. Dills and Miss
Margaret Jane Cobb. ?
A summary of the 1931 work in
the county will bo given by. the
county agent, Mr. E. V. Vestal.
The 5-10 year farm plan will be
presented by Mr. Bruce Webb.
The 1932 program for Jackson
County will be discussed by the dis
trict, farm agent, the- district: home
agent, and F. 1!. Farnhaiu, dairy
specialist.
A general discussion will be Held,
led by It. Hunter, Mrs. C. 1*.
Shelton, Dan Tompkins^. E. Brown.
Supt. M. B. Madison, Dr. H. T.
Hunter, Mr. Hobert Hams, Mrs. E.
L. MeKe.f and others.
Following the general meeting,
there will be meetings of the Mutual
Exchange, of the County Woifcing
Committee; and of the Ladies' Aux
iliary. Members of the Farm Board
of Jackson Colinty, the Directors of
the J;uJkson Countylttutual Exchange,
County Working T*ommittee, News
paper editors, Superintendent of
SehiMis, Directors and officials of
the J<ed Cross, College officials,
Bankers, Members of the Chamber
of Commerce, and the Kotary Club,
will be specially invited guests at
the meeting.
ORGANIZE JACKSON COUNTY
CLUB AT TEACHERS COLLEGE
'Special to The Journal)
the Jackson County Chib at West
ern Carolina Teachers College was
called todj'y for the purpose of re
organization. Roy WatSon of Sylva
was qlectjed president, Mia|s Willa.
Mae Dills of Sylva was elected vice
president and J. (). Terrell of Whit
tier was elected secretary-treasurer.
The Jackson County Club has more
members than any county organiza
tion on the campus. Counting tBese
who have enrolled for the winter
quarter, the enrollment in the club
has reached, about forty,
takes 218 to make a majority in the
Jower house; of Congress. Thirty-two
senators, or exactly one-third Were in
faVor of a referendum. A^id the
question of legalizing beer conlaJhus
ter only 125 representatives andl 21
senators to its support.
I think that that proportion is a
fair reflection of public sentiment
in the United States. "The anti-pro
hibitionists are indulging in what
Emerson called "wishful thinking."
Wages
The Intel national Labor Office of
the League ot Nations set out to com
pare "real wages" in European in
dustry with American wages. "Real
wages" means the actual purchasing
power of the workers' earnings in
terms of commodities. As was ex
pected, the investigatoi*s report that
living costs in European cities are
excessively high and that few Euro
pean workers arc able to buy more
than the bare necessities of life even
in the best of times.
If this investigation results in in
creasing wages and giving overseas
workers & greater purchasing power
it will help a lot toward restorimr
economic prosperity in Europe, and
that will help all the rest of the world
Davis ' 1
Several weeks ago in this column
I called attention to the public ca
reer of Norman H. Davis and) sug
gested that he was a good man tn
keep an eye on. President Hoover
has just appointed him as one of
the American delegates to the Gen
eral Disarmament Conference to I?p
held in Geneva, February 2nd. Mr.
Davis is already a member of the 1
Finance Committee of the League
of Nation?1. Few Americans are bet
ter informed on European affairs
and international finance.
Mr. Davis is a Democrat, and if a
Democrat 'should be elected President
this vear there is little dotabt that
he will hold a high position in the
nut idnioiitiilM
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