ci.50 Year in Advance in The County,
otlva, kobth oaeolika
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
politics Is
Now Issue
In Congress
(Spccial to The Journal)
Washington, March 2. ? With the
wl, ,?r financial measurea lor the
,<*?.11 'A UP crt<M a,,('
butine* out of the way, (fonjp-eM and
th, Administration are getting down
tu tHi'ir regular buHiiu.** of playing
polities, There may be some rxcite
|W.,.i here yet, and there will he U
thi prwent pluttH of the House major
ity arc carried out.
S|" uk**r Garner hus already prom
i,J,i a fight on President Hoover's
to consolidate a number of de
tilled government buuemw 'ill the
interest of economy. Mr. Garner ealla
,.ir president's plan "idiotic." Pcr
liup tffat may have been merely an
(X?> elicit of peevishness beeausc the
l-|V.ic!.rit heat the Democratic leadw*
t0 i: by a couple of days, A program
0I consolidation hail been under care
Jui preparation for a good while, but
bt-tVi'? 11 eould be made public the
rxv,m?wiidation carai' from the White
iln>t> and once more the Adminia
n.itior. bad stolen th? sjiotligbt.
-jh?i flirts a fight in which each
r?n> will try to prove that its pet
m?iL il ?i n ircncbment is better than
the- ?tl?-r The argiunent will
\?[ a;Kt. lively and full of state
Wu\> mhI onrefully pre
v*nd lor use ill the Presidential
iwrpHiRiv Wut out ot it there seem*
a thai tlwrv will actually be a
miction in Oovunment costs.
r W of I lie lni? tight* between Capi
ir.l Hill ami i lie Wluto- Hoiwe will
h,. ov r !hf JhwfHtutie proposal to
/?(i/iKKjul/ifc die A nay and Navy under
on, War Secretary. Army wen oppose
it rnles-H tbey can. nil the combined
ktvuv.-s Navy men opi*)^ it, for the
tjuic reason, tlui President and his
uiIvimt ate said t?> In? against it,
but it lins been made au officio! pol
icy ot i lit- Democratic majority, which
,'iula to shove t ho bill through the
Moi-te M hpewlily as possible and to
.V?very effort to get the benate to
agrte to it.
IV Army and the Navy were ad
iim.i-.wed as u i' ut in the fiiut^few
vcarf. < f the I'niuid States, but since
UOs thev have been operated aepa
: ate!v. There is no posaible way
tbenfoie, to tell whether combined
?. *i*.ion ot all fighting forces under
a single Cabinet head would be more
?? liss ft'ieient in theae times. That
'iV'-s everybody a chance to argue
n either aide, without danger, of
'iiiyiuit proving him wrwg. Ami into
the debate there is like'y to be iuter*
"i th,. third group which ,ha?
'? tiy.n.? to divide control atill
'i!itl,er by netting up the military
md iinval air services as a third arm
*'i own S: erMary in the Cabinet
?'i arc inultipving that we shall
? a ?< iicral -sules tax of some sort
i tori i '.ingress gets through.
't begins to look as if the Wet-Dry
*v i 1 1 liuiiii big in the Democratic
t oiivent ?, ,n m-xt June. Official party
leai|?Tr>hi[? in the National Committee
'?> vv, I. ami i]U; Wets are not going to
t ii l)rv r-aitdidate be nominated, let
a I)iy platform be adopted,
''?out snaking a fight. Governor
1 evilt ul New York is rogardod
?> "hmI- rate Wet ; Al Smith is an
' -?-ixik?n "dripping" Wet. Wetness
' tlie principal basis of the appeal
ol t'fiv?ni')i- Kitehiu of Ma^land.
' ''v t?n Maker has not committed him
in? vooithiy (,n t itlier side, ami
IUl^t of the other men being talked
possible noniineea of the Demo
ff-it> are rather non-committal, hop
"'f that :'he matter will not become
"t issue.
^T*aker ,l(,hn N. Garner, however,
rt"Par?lf?l as politically Dry, and
- I'rv loaders are just as deter
''iiitt-d as the Wets to make no com
promi^o (,i? t|u, ,|UOStion of Prohibi
,(n 1,1 th? convention. Gamer will
' 1 a l(,t ,,f deiegatei in the eon
,p'ion, and lu> ha> the powerful
W. It. Hearst and his
is ot twenty-sf ven daily news
(, '^rs' *SlJW support for Garner bay
^ n nn unei|K' ed soure
*"W8 that a strong Drv
l,!l' has picked him as its stand
ftr|lw8r<.i.
*kis new support of Garner i9|
* *>y W. G. MeAdoo, who wan
nt Wilson'* Secretary of the
'"miiiy anil married Eleanor Wil
s<in' ^''A;\oo is ft decided and &Q*
Dry. Moreover, h* waR
^ out i?t the nomination in 1024
'? ^ ft torts of A1 Smith, and he'd
Fashion Show
To Be March 15
The Fifth Annual Spring Fashion
Show, Mponsored by the Junior Club
of Hylva , will be held on March 16,
it has been announced by official))
of the club.
Oreat interest h a* been manifested
each year in this event, and the mer
chants cooperating and the member'
uhijr of the club ere making plans
for an even grektm event this year.
The sho(M cooperating in the show
are Hale's, The Paris, The Leader;
Sylva Supply Company; Cole's, The
Modern Beauty Sboppe and the
Tuckaseeg'e Beauty Parlor.
The nhow will be held in the Lyric
Theatre, and the pieturo shown in
connection with ft - will be "Two
Kinds of Women." * i
I FORTY YEARS AGO 1
Tmksuwiie Democrat, March 2, 1102
Fourteen new eases of Typhus le
ver, brought <m>r by the Kw^ion
refugee*, have recently developed in
New York.
Kumtor Palmer, oJ' Illinois w urg
ing the pawage of ? bill by Con^ri-^
to provide, by eouHiitutional amend'
inenl, for the election of U ???ed
State* Senator* by ilir?et vot? <?? '.l"?l
|>eop)e.
Congrewnum Crawford made hu
maiden speech in' the Hoiwe ltwt
Knturday on an amendment offered
by bim on the Indian Appropriation
bill, increasing the pay of tho Sup
erintendent of the School at Cherokee,
Sh u in county. The bill Abolished the
office of Indinn ngent, and the
amendment wiw adopted,;
The statement in made that the
city school# of Charlotte have been
forced to clone on aceount of th# ra
AmuI of tan Commifwioners of Meekr
lenburg county to grant UqwcJk
???*??? Titwc whc iiiltUvu aaioona in
I'hnrlotU*, each of whieh paid a li
^enur tax of $l,0#0, whieh waa ap
prrpriated to the public ?ehooU. For
our part we want no prosperity pur
chased with the profit* of the liqnor
irnffie. Tranquility and morality are
more desirable than education and
thrift.
Mr. L. J. Smith bas reeeived at
liis store in Diilsboro a consignment
jf fresh calicoes and other dress
?oodi?.
W*. are glad to hear that Mr. J. C.
Wat kins, of Diilsboro, is recovering
from quite a lengthy attack of ?ll
nosa. ,v
Meaers, A. J. Ix>ng, Br., and J. N.
Hutiigamcr were among the oUlent at
ibt Democrat office, Saturday.
? 9 ? ,
Mr. if. Buchanan waa called to
Asheville, Friday, By the illness of
his brother, Neal. He frripd bim
tonvaleseent.
Gin. K. R. Hampton went to Aahe
\ille Thursday and returned Satur
day, accompanied bj his sister, Mis?
(VI in Hampton.
The people of Di Unborn are begin
ning to talk up a railroad from that
flourishing and progressive littler city
to vYanklin, and unless matters are
ptinhod more rabidly on the Sylva
ami Franklin road, an electric road
from Diilsboro is regarded as almost
a certainty.
HOSPITAL COMMITTEES
TO MEET TUESDAY
There will be a meeting at the
nurses' home, in Sylva, on Tuesday,
Match 8th, at 2:30 o'clock of thoee
committees that have been appointed
to essist in aiding tho Harris Com
munity Hospital. The chairmen of
these committees are .especially urged
to come.
?ike to keep Mr. Smith and bis friendd
out of it this yeas, Mr. Garner hasn't
said at: yet how he likes this volun
teer offer of support from McAdoo,
who is not at all popular with the
official party leadership, although he
has a large Following in the ranks.
Anyway, it's a fresh complication
which should make the Democratic
convention even livelier than
had been anticipated.
Reach V<
Fisher ai
Trials (?
?p^? ? i t T~r i ??
rdicts In
idBryson
r Murder
Football Player
Gets Long Term
\ y
Ov Sunday monring, Judge A, M.
Stuck opened court Co reeeivo the
verdict of the jury trying Kay Fisher
for the fuurwv <?f Will Kmdey, on
the yard of the Hylva I'aperhoard
l'oin puny, lust November, The jury
found Fixber guilty of murder in the
necond dwgrre, and Judge Stack sen
t^nced him to sorv t not less thttu 23
nor more than 30 year* in the state
J'rin'O. Tbii ease went to the jury ?t
0:46 fl'elok, Saturday evening.
Fisher wu,i jdneed ru trial for his
life Thursday morning. The state
eon tended thut the slaying of Emdey
contained every element of murder
in the first degree, mid introduced
evidence finding to show that I Ik- J
youtg wu'< hud gone to the home of
Ensfey curly in the afternoon of the
day the killing oecuved, end thut
[FnMry lin-1 ordered him away mid!
hud told him that if he caught him J
about htM ploce again he would Itil j
him; thut Fisher went to Ihe home;
of bi? grand father, gome two and n j
Mr mil.'* away, .secured his uncle's
pistol, and returned to wb'.?re F.nwleyj
wih ui work on bin engine, called t? j
KnHfV and engaged him in ? verbal 1
controversy, nnd (hot Fus'ey told,
him that he had nothing more to ?ny!
about it, and bad entered the engine
and started it moving, when Fisher
backing along side the track in the
same direction that the engine wii.?
moving fired the pistol through the
door, the bullet striking Knsley in
the left Midi*, causing his death be
fore he could reach the^hrapitol,^ ^
been at the home of the sister of'
Fisher, immediately efter the sbont !
in?, And had heard him tell his sis- j
ter that Ensley had cursed him and
ordered him uway, and that he had
gonr and gotten a gun and shot j
Kmdey, tlvit he didn't know whether'
be had killed him or not.
The plea of FHier was that the1
shooting was in self tlefense. Ho
testified that he had been passing
along a trail near Ensley's house,!
coming from the home of his sister,
avd that Ensley hut coim> out of the!
house. cursed ? him, accused him of
stealing i still cap and condenser,,
that had been furnished to Fisher
and another man to make liquor for
Fnibley, and had told IHm that if j
ha didn't brinjg them bark lie would;
kill Fisher. lie stated thut he went j
to his grandfather's home to get his
fupper and change his clothing, and j
(Continued oil Page Two) i
ILLS MOVES MARKET
K. K. Dills bus moved his meat
market from Dillshoro road to the
Bryson Building on Main Street,
opposite the post office, and hus in-i
stalled a stock of groceries in con-'
neetion with his meat business.
Kir. Dills is well Inown in Sylva, j
having been in the marke* business'
hem. for many years.
I
Appeal Is Made
j By Jim Bryson
i , ?
J Jim IfryMn wa* convicted of mur-l
wtt' in th?* xocond degree for killing
wilfy (ftiliowu.v with a rock, and wa*
?wencod to *me from 20 to U5
4pflr?> iit the state prison,, at '2 i'ffl
Wednesday afternoon, The jury
Ipund Anw) Leopard not guilty m
nb accessory after the fact ; Init Judge
SWk ordered biTrT held on ft l>ond of
*500 to appear at the next criminal
t<ma of the (superior court uH(f ana-!
wfe lo a charge of car rying a con-j
ton led weapon, l.oop?rd having ad
mitted that he had a p>?to| in hi?
truck on tlw day (lalloway was killed,
a?rd that b? always carried it (here,
nn h?< had been hauling jnoduce lo
Kwuth Carolina, ,
liiyson immediately moved to set
the verdict aside, and when the mo
tion was overruled by Judge Stack,
gave notice ol appeal to the supreme
court,. Bond vvius fixed at $10,000,
which wa? immediately furnished by
hl? friend* and relative.-* in Hamburg
township.
Judge Stack, in imposing the sen
tence, stated that it wa.s bad con
dli?t on the Sunday on which Callo
w*y was slain, )md that the ease held
elements of murder in the First
degree. Il(> ?-aid that Calloway may
I litre used <>x<?s.sm; force in expelling
Brixu from his home and garage.
"i|[ looks to me " said Judge Stark,
"a* tho yining men of Jaekson I
couftte would leaWi to leave liquor
rdone, Vjje fate of young men who
have bee* tried at this term of the
other you ngSffewT^
stop drinking and fighting, Judge
Staek continued. "If I 'lived in Jack
son county," he said, "I wohld think
Mv'onsly of moving away ? human j
! ii'i* is too cheap over here."
Judg3 Stack had charged the jui y
1 hat there1 was nut Sufficient evi
dence for it to conswler as to acces
sory before the fact, in the case
against i/copurd, and thai it should
only consider the evideifce as to his
actions after the fatal Mow had
been struck. \
6'blloway died in the (*. J. Harris
Community hospital in Sylva, on
March 10, last, ioiir days after his
head had been , crushed with a blow
from a rock, on Sunday afternoon,
March lf?, at his garage and home
in Olcnvillc.
The easo was begun Monday morn
inf;. Dr. A. A. Nichols was the first
witness. introduced by the State. Jle
(Continued on Page Two)
HIODON STARTS RABBIT FARM
J. S. Iligdon has started the biisi
ness of breeding and laising pedigrocd
rabbits for the market. The now
business is known .-is tho Smoky
Mountains Babbitry. Mr. Higdon has
somo sixty fine rabbits with which
to start his .enterprise.
Two Men Are
In Motorcycle Accident
C. L. Steele, of highlands, was al
most iaitantly killed, and Frank
N'eely, also of Highlands, died Mon
day morning in a Franklin hospital,
as p. result of a motorcycle accident,
on Highway 285, a short distance
above Dillsboro, Sunday afternoon.
Tlv machine it; said to hare been
going at a terrific rate of speed
Steele driving, when ..the rear tire
ble^Y out, and the machine plunged
over an embankment, on the left of
the road, through a pile of huge
bou'ders, and crashed against a tree,
on the bank of the Tnckascigoe river.
Steele's neck was broken, and one
Jpg fractured, and wiw dead when
res/.uers reached the scene. Neely was
Irought to the C. J. Harris commun
ity hospital, where flEnf aid was
given and an Xray picture made,
which failed to dwelt*# anjr fraetntai
?n the hones of his biu>k or pelvi?.
Ho was suffering from a blow on
'he head, near the right eye, and
from extreme shock. An ambulance
w.'i.s sent for him from Franklin, and'
h? was taken thee, where he died
i'i the hospital about eight o'clock'
Monday morning.
The body of Steele was brought
to the undertaking parlors of Med
'oni Furniture Company, where it
\ as prepared for burial, before be
ing taken to Highlands the next!
morning. Both men were young.
Steek was unmarried, and was liv
inc with his grandfather, Mr. Davis,
in Highlands. Ncely is .survived by
hi.s widow and three small children,
l'e was in charge of the municipal
power plant at Highlands.
The speedometer on the motorcycle j
*h.? stopped at *70 miles an hour,
when the wreckage was removed.
Perrys Lease
Poinsett Grill
Mr. and Mr*. Drayton Perry, of
Weyne>?ville, have leawd the 1'oin
*ett Orill from Mrs. J, \Y, Keener,
and will tako active charge, on next
Monday, They 1iav<? refurnwhed tb<?
room# over the xrtil, in thg name
budding, and will also operate u \
rooming: and lodging bouse of the!
better <'!????, in connection with tlm
grM !
Mr, uud Mrs, Perry are well J
known in tlu? hotel business in W/*>t- j
em North Carolina, having b^u in j
charge of the (fining room at the}
Lel'Vine hotel in Wayne?villef tot i
(
veral yew 1,
TODAY and j
TOMORROW i
(By Frank PariiiM Btockbridge)
Morten
home small huropean nations L>uv<< |
prohibited (be showing of "Mickey
Mouse" in rnovje (heaters on ground
tfatl this animated cartoon 1m "tuen
fully unwholesome." Few intelligent
people will rgreo with that. On the
contrary. I think fiicb amusing pro
ductions a* .Mickey Mouse and Hilly
Symphonic are not only the best
-oil of eotifdy entertainment but
ibcj aw almost tic only original
lorm of mi which the movies huve
d*/elo)n-u.
In such pictures n-i those, and in I
otam'els nod travel picture, the
movies give something which the
stage* cannot o tfer. Much of the i
other stuff shown on the screen these
?lu \ ss consists of ooor substitutes for
real plays presented by real actors.
They do bring the drama ? of a sort?
within the reuch of everybody, but
Ihnt is not to say that every type of
drama ia wholcbomo for everybody,
yWt the effort of Mr.j
Will Mays to "clean up'' the movies,!
but 1 don't think he is making vary'
much headway, to judge by home
talkies I have scon lately, 'fberi? is
ton e excimo for a play which deals
with More <>r less delicacy with illicit
?s>\ relation.^, when it is confined to
a fciugle flutter and audiences of
presumably sophisticated adults.
There is no excuse for vulgarizing
the? same play until even a child can
wn>~e its rawest implications and
then showing it to audiences of mil
lions of children in the movies,
WlvfcH
Not tunny years ago a wife ,wrh
tho property of hor husband, not only
in Turkey but everywhere else in
the world, especially in England. The
olbir" day in London a mnn sued a
doctor for enticing his- wife to leave
bin.. The jiidge decided against the
plaintiff. ILm said a wife had a right
to leave her husband whenever she
retired, that slip had the right to
decide whet her "To bear children and
when, that she was an independent
individual and couTJ decide her own
con i fie of lift! without .consulting her
husband.
Not all of our states po as far as
thrf, but. it was poin'ed out in court
lh:tt in England women 'oday also!
have the best of it in other ways.
If :i married woman driving her car
injures somebody else her husband
en/- he sued jointly with her and
made to pay fl le entire damages. If
she gives her husband any money
it i? a loin in law, but anything he
gives her is a gift. No action can
be taken ag.iinst a wife for deserting
her husband, but she can haVe her
husband arrested if he deserts her.
A husband must pay the income tax
on his wife's income if she fails toj
do so, and if shp owed him money!
before they were married he cannot)
collect it after marriage.
Iron
A hundred years ago New Englaiu
mines and furnaces were producing
oig iron and "retting a cent a pound
for it. .S 3 von t y-f i ve~y ears ago Pitts
bui^h begun to !>?' the iron center,
selling castings for three cents a
pound. Fifty years ago New England
found a way of getting ten cents i
pound for iron, making it into ina
chinery. Ironmaster.-, of today gel
fifty cents a pound for th"ir watch
tpr'ngs and pressnj steel alloys.
Evtry advance In thp art of fabri
cating iron yields a higher price for
the finished product. The new alloys,
stainless steel, chrome-plated sheets,
atfi being made into mew art forma
Completion
Of Highway
106 Assured
Amirwe that Highway 10*} from
Hytfu to Cullowhee will be paved in
the e?flr future and that the whip
Highway from To ckavjgec to Oka
7i1le will be *urf,iced with water
j bound macadam, has com# frotn Uu<
I fiiyb, following ?u interview w.th
highway olliciaM afid )Ar*. Ji J?
MeK'je, it was learned yesterday.
The highway will he designated as
a federal uid project and will re
f< ?e fund* from t V highway emer
gemy road hill, that has just posted
*Wit house* of congress, The bill ap
propria! ing the Inderal money wa?
enacted into law since lite raceip*
of the following letter to Mr, MeKee
frot'i Chairman .leffres* of tho High'
wiv Commission:
Itoleigh, S. C.
February 25, l#('J
lu- f ilcKie
North Carolina
Dear Mr. McKee:
I am writing to confirm my cou
vei';i<'.tioi) with Mrs. M?Kec yesterday
w'.h refercnc? to the improvement ui
lloiite 1WJ iii Jackson County. Our
plum ore us follows;
Ac soon us we ean place additional
' roads on the Federal System and *;?
euu. fund* w? will place under eon
trn"t the connecting link betwaeu
Cullowhe# to the end of the concrete.
The field location is practically com
plete h id plan* will Ik? worked np
so (ha*, contra*'.! may he let promptly
it' Cougress authorizes an Emergency
Appropriation for roads. If Congress*
do?? not act we, will have to do our
hcbt to maintain the existing link
until funds aro nvnilablo.
An to the section from Tuokuseegeo
to Olenvjlle w? hope to place crushed
atone on this road and get it in con
dition to take a tar and gravel treat'
mcnl. Mr. Walker was hero today
and I asked him io go over the mat'
tor and submit estimates on this right
jaway.
Plena*' be assured that we are mov
ing as fast as possible in the matter
and that our best opportunity for get
ting work done promptly is for Con
gress to appropriate Federal money
which wo can use in connection with
regular Federal Aid,
With kindest personal regards, I
Jim
Very sincerely
E. B. Jeffresa, Chairman
Btalc Highway Commission
LIBRARY DAYS ARE OHAH0ED
T he days on which tho C. J. Harris
library will he open have bet<n
changed to Tuesday, from two until
si.v nod Friday from seven until niw,
tie Jmrior Study Club, wider whose
it uspices the library is now being con
ducted, announce that now books
will he added to tho library at nit
early date. Mit-s Docia Garrett, a
member of tho flub, is librarian.
The young ladies of the tlub are
*?r that all hooks belonging to
th<> library be brought in nt once.
which bring the pneo of iron to the
qmt ip to it dollitr or more a pound.
Every step away from t|ir raw mu
tant)* of existence in i?-? s? the econ
Mnit standard of living. Tho more
laboi goes into thi. iron, tho more
persons are employed ; the higher the
^ire of tho finifclud product, the
more labor c?n earn. The inost back
ward nations srn those which nse.
chiefly nnl'abricated natural products.
The most advanced ones are thow
which put the moat labor into the
poods they consume.
Jewx
The Jewish Agricultural Society
hns been engaged for years in the
effort to indueo Jewish families to
become farmers. Today there are
J 00,000 of them in America, living
f-olely or chiefly on the land.
?'ost of these Jewish farmers live
in colonies of their r.wn people. They
arc a clannish race and they eor>|>
erate well. They are also good bu^i
nes- men, as a rule, and mcke a
living and more when their non
Jewish neighbors ore running behind
The latest development of thin sort
in the establishment of "agro-indu-.
trial" communities, near enough to
!ar/;e cities to eriablo some of the
family to work in town, while th*
others cultivate tho land. I think
this solution of the industrial pob.
lern U one that it worth Mm bfta*