?0SMl OH I0HS SCHOOLS I ir ft, 000, WO li.ivc been saved ? i vpar, the first under State ,he ?*t of .he siif f*s constitution^ school term,! mi on 8 t'";: 'V^'^iniHtely i fo? the } l'" 1930-31 as | nifh ."??>, C42.83 bndget mZ J931-3'- , "on ?' which will I ? ?<t *??*>"''"? Io %ur<* an- 1 m'/bv LeK"y Martin, secretary' Hi >an I of Equalization. I g n,per cent <?> i* in salaries ac-i BL {orHW""' of the reduC'l frfjk the renin hulvr results from j Motion* i" nill!,,">,s ?f teachers' E rtfnj from "?>imt.v and local Eh soil tfvinjp1 through nil of the (Nists ol' 'fir public schools,! EifjrtirA .-how. I ffi^ by eoiintie-, show that the' ditures from county and,' Mfat fund* for the public school six! Inthi !*"'"* $21,- j *,,nds from' Icddityrii't lev>,s ">rfl in meeting L-ritinp co-'ts of 'he six monthil fm on il..' $K167t00l.58 fewn in the present year budgets, jfartin pla^s ? cmservative fori ,[ year at 90,000 from local taxi fkirk wfinia(< would show al of awnwinntely $22,500,- 1 }ii tor tkr fix "tenths term in' Wfl-31 j Ike tola! so t'ar allotted from Jta^ and Federal funds for 1931.321 Mfil.W5WS.19 which Mr. Mar- 1 tin fstiwt^ will '?each $16,000,000 1 Jrhtr. all allotments arc completed, I B." Mm,' audits '!he counties and I pw/ diitrirti bart<j.ial *:l, 225,103.67 jintn count r and IocmI levies to sup- 1 mfant thf state fluids of which W*1M\W is derived I'roni county- i J iiuterem levies, fines, for I h'iium, dot tax ami part of poll I tux kvie, wa ?,:iG7,091./j8 is pjf.l /*-''/< <1 t? be dcrr-J fioni local dis- / ln"! 1 "'<* for mi"> six niontfJ DSf.V, , /Ithoiif!' the nam ltd budgeted for -Iik-v h? .Im'vmo in cost of p.i!v #-i .'i<Wr0?H>, thi> aetual, rather tin' budgeted, i^pendlture*, will tiii? ?!??,n,nit(? in cost to nearly ! '","<'0, Mr. Mm tin est in: a ten. . ? ?ii'ivHiti county -pent $kJ!\04H.70 , in tlif ?i/. nr.ntlis t: nil t'o r J03U-3I, ,1s compared with ?f-2.070,40 budget- i ?r tor tlii.. yi-ar, iur.criiug $70,680.32 in State a;;d Fcilflral ftimls, nr.d $3, 290.11 in county anil local fluids, it is bhown. QUALuX The pallor liov. J. A. ' Peeler pMchid at the Methodist church bundav morning from the text tlHi8 (cnmiandmcnts Are N"i Grievous' Mr. uitl Mrj (^harieN 1'euii hive twnAly announced their marriage i)l December. Mrf. I>6Uft WW* fonntrly Jlns Winnie Martin, U pop Jar sf[u)j| teacher ??! Qnallu. "i- 'April 21th .it Whittior Mr. TUim l'uttuu whs married to Mins tilnl d vail ?t' K a. Mr. l'fttton U ? l?r. uiiiiciit juiiug farmer of l^ualltt. 'Ws. L h. Shaver, Carl ltoyle, and Mrs. J. L tlvntt and Mr. >i'J Mrs, C. 1'. Shi'lton attended Her* v?i"- at Syhtt Sunday afternoon. Mi?t Winnie Co?i>er of Knkft is Riding n while w >th her mother 'i'u is slowly improving ufter a se illnesi. ",v' J. A. I'id'ler was dinner guest kl Mr. T. W. McLaughlin's Sunday. ' ?h. I lyde Shook i-f Almond visit ^ l:<? sister Mrs. John Aycvs. % and Mrs. .1. M. Hughes, J{ity mid Mr. imd Mv. G(>1 11,411 Kiiwlaiul oi Cherokee visited relative?* Sunday, If*. Fkvc Varner and son Hob ^ ?l Whitticr siii-nt Sunday with t V. Khelta, '"?^d Mn. Luther Hoyle wore PMaut Mr. \\\ II. Hoyic's Sunday. wm Thi-inui Nelson of Knka vis Miss Winnie Coopor, 3 a?d Mrs. |ohn Mnitpith of "miiv's i> > ? ? N Miss Wi .A o?d I... .. mini JM'nioi'n or Creek visited Mrs. A. 0. ltyl?, Wayne Hhi-iehnrt of Canton J91 a fvw days with her mother, I, Oxner. ^anie* Cha*. Worley, W. V. J^er> 1'ihl Uxucr and Oscar Gibson f|"'d "ii Mrs. .1. 0 Hooper. ^ Tyler Hii'imnan of Webster U. Messer visited Mrs. Rbuler. J** ^Vs?" and Nancy 'Keener H Rt Mr. 1). C. Hughes'. TODAY and TOMORROW MARKHAM I went to Carnegie Ilall the other night to the celebration of the eigh tieth birthday of Edwin Markharc, the poet. A spry little old man with white whiskers, he wrs as vivacious as a schoolboy, an he read some of the own verses from the p!atfoim. Markham's most famous poem is "The Man with the Hoe." I believe that poem hi^ i done more harm, in implanting a false social theory In the minds of impressionable youth, than anything that i.as been written in our time. For this poem is baRed upon the theory that the toiler m the fields Is unintelligent becau, p he ha> been forced by the more fortunate part of society to be a toi'er. Every body who- works with his hands, ac cording to the Markham theory, is a \ietim of capitalistic oppression whereas the record^ , of humanity from the beginning of time prove that intelligence has always lifted its pos sessor out of the ranks of toilers, ai< it. lifted Lincoln. SHORTHAND If I had a son with intelligence enough to take advantage of oppor tunities, I would see to it that he became an expert stnographer while still a boy, whatever else he might study. j 1 was reminded of this field of op portunity the other day wheu 1 sat on a platform in New York where "Al" Smith and Mayor "Jimny" Walker were the principal speakers, and George B. Corteivou was chair man of the local centennial celefcra fi;Mi in Union Square. (Jeorgc Cortel \ qu started life a ? n stenographer. H\? vn* u young man of unusual 1.1 telligence. Mr. Cleveland wanted an other -Monographer at the \Vl|iU' Hoti'i- pnd young C i.-ielyou w.w ??i?ut t.? him. He was proiWwl to exrou tivo (Jerk by Mr. Cleveland, then J 7(*1 ii;1 MaKlnlev Bac'e him f r t assistant secretary, :tnd then *ctre i :,ry. and President lf >'?M*velt contin ue I him as his <viv^ary. Wnou the ];? jartirent of C ommerce and vns created, (forge ?',>*t.,'l vim \\a? the fiwt mm to h/>'d a c-ih ?>.( t i-.i.':ilion as its L ad. Then h*' was IV -m mn ter-Ceneral, Secretary if ih* Treasury and Chairman of the Ke n-iblican National Committee. And for the last twenty three years he has : been President of the Consolidated : Gas Companies of New York, and one of the City's most influential and re .?per'ted citizens. And ho is only one of many suc cessful men I know who started life as stenographers. | JOBS < The War Apainst Depression'' Campaign, backed by the American Lotion, thfl Federation of Labor find tin Association of Adver tisers, has pot moro than half way toward Its pool. The*? energetic peo ple started out in February to put a million men back at work. They have ilI ready foniicTjoU for over half a million, Another thing that 'hey've found, which a pood many wine people ex pected they would find, is that there nre about bh many men out of work who don't want jobs ap there are wfio really need them. We arc learninp for the f irs-f time the true extent of An- erica's leisure <jlfl*s. SPEED Thirty years ago on .Tune 15, 1002, I travailed from New Vork to Chica po on the first repular train that ever made that trip in twenty hours. The Pennsylvania and the New York Central started twenty hour trains on the same day. I'went out on the find Pennsylvania train find eame back on the New York Central's new speeder, ns n newspaper reporter. rotor, the running- Unto between these two cities whs cut to eighteen I hours, but tho twenty hour schedule was restored during tH war. Now they have got it shortenod again, n> the other day I ??w the start of the new eighteen hour train out of the Pennsylvania Terminal in New York. I think, and I found some railroad officials who agreed with me, fhat one of the next bip things after we pet back to normal economic condi tions will be such an improvement in road beds, rolling stork and nv>tiv?* power that a fifteen hour schedule between New York and Chieago will bo jKjssiblc. Many t'ains on short stretches of perfect tri ck now po at ninety mil- 3 an hour. It is only a ' matter of money to maintain such a Truck Ownership In creases? Autos Off t v v ? - ?? N' .1 Ifaleigh, May 3 ? Jackson county citii.cus owned 600 r.utomobilcs ami 225 trucks on April 1st, as compared with 600 automobiles and 125 truck* on April 1st, 1931, it is shown by a compilation made in '.he office of L. S. Harris, Director of the Motor Ve hicle Bureau. The average for each ot the 100 countics Aprjl 1st of this yerr was 2,579 automobiles and 484 trucks, as compared with 2,986 auto mobiles aiTti 442 tracks on April 1st, 1931. >iorth Carolinians had a tctal of 300,339 motor vehicles at the l>e;;in ninft of this month, including 257, 898 automobiles and 48,441 trucks. The total number of about 34,000 less than the 340,838 motor vehicles licensed in the Stare a year ago. While the number of automobiles dropped from 298,02! a year ago to 257,898 at the beginning of this month, the number of tracks showed an increase from 12,215 a year ago to 48,441 at the beginning of this I1H lit !>. The report shows that 1,650 of the Hiitoir obiles and 77t> of the : trucks iiccnstd in the Stat? ore owned by non residents, whilo C"?G motorcycles | are in opoi.it ion. (inilford leads in automobiles with 18,660, which is a drop from 22,250 a y i-i-r ago; Mecklenburg has 1 6,395, as compared with 1 9.f?75 a year a<ro ; Forsyth has 13,535 now as i-tnipiiml with 15,775 a year Wake has ll.^OO and had 12,'3;'i a year ?i?o; Riiiicombe^ automobiles dropped from 11,475 a year ago to 9,055 now. Graham county lias only 30 uutoiro biles and Clay only 38. Mecklenburg leads in tricks with 2,800, increased from 2,000 a year ago: (luilford is second with 2,020 and had 2,300 a year ago; Forsyth lias 2,350 a nd had 2,010 a year ago; Wake has 1,825 and hail 1,800 a year ngo v Buntiombc has 1,^00 now And. had J, 075 a year ago, uhile Durham lias 1,265 as compared with 1,000 a year atjo. The count is made, Mr. Harris points out, by counting and measur ing a sta^k of the raids on file in hi* office and then measuring the cards, each representing a license is sued, for each 'county, making the count aceurate to a dozen or two ip each county. , JAOKSON GIRLS ON ABBE VILLE NORMAL PROGRAM! ^ Two .Taaknon county girls, Miss| liouiso Mason, daughter of Mr. and 1 Mrs. C. C. Mn koi i of Dillsboro anil Miss Evelyn Jarreft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, M- Y. Jwrrett, also of Dillsboro, are appearing in programs at the Axlii-viHt; Normal School this spring. Miss Mason bring one of six young ladle* who .ire writing essays and Miss Jarrett appearing on the ca*:: of characters in a play writt'.n by a student of the school. The subjoct of MJhh Mason's essay is "Ancestry of tho Mountaineers." schedule for the 990 miles that ?opo rate Lake Michigan and tho tlantic. cows , \ i - - My country neighbors who sell milk are having the blues. They are only getting about three c nts a quart now, which is less than it cost# to produce the milk, t The explanation is that dairying has been in many regions the most profitable farm operation for the past few years wo everybody Is going into it and there aw too many dairy cows. Farmers who depend on dairy products alone aro finding themselves in the same position as those who de pend on wheat, or cotton, or tobacco nlono. The only farmers r know who are- not in trouble ate the ones who grow, a little of this and little of that; who keep a f<nv cows, a few pigs a small flock of hens, a small or chard* and ft sirall berry patch, and approach tho agricultural problem from the point of view that the first thiii/r they must g*t off the farm is their^pwn living, and then if they can get any cash for their surplus tiny aro that much ahead. r There ,are exceptions, of course, but they are mostly, &o far as T know anything about th^m, farmers who haven't had to borrow money on then land or their livestock and so don't have any intereat to pay. . Our pekly Letter Washington ? Jr- ijr ail Washirigton, D. C. May 4? The move for economy in governmental expenses jams to Imve become real ly serioup*- To be :>nre, everything that has bfien done in that direction so far is^eomplicatffl by efforts to grtin political advantage but Con gress at ?p? has before it a definite program prepared by onp of its own committed^ Which would result, if put into Vffo|j^ in very materially re- 1 ducmg tht?ost of tunning the United States. f>. There |g no likelihood that the committed!? econorry bill will bo adapted ny both Ho.ises in the form j ii, which u was introduced. The Pre.i- j ident's fronds, especially in the Sen- j ate, will light hard for the substitu tion of Mir. Hoover's plan of laying ofl government workers one month in each ytor instead of reducing their! salaries, ft is regarded as probable, | however, (bat the rest of the Prcsi ilcot's (nincipal r? commendations, | which ar<ii embodied in the bill, will be iidopUip. In anyjkind of a hu.sineHs organi zation sa: plus employees in one de partment irould be shifted teniporar ilv to any pepartment tli.it was short handed, Wit not s.? in government work. The?elerk appointed to a posi tion with lithe Department of Com merce stats with the Deportment of] CoramerceiaiMi it the Department of Interior if shorthands! they've just {rot to (ro bot and put some more peo | pie on tha payroll. | It is qnflte probable that one of the biggest lights on the economy pro pran* willj occur over the proposal to consolfflate the army and uavy into the I&partment of National De tense. Tb? will be opposed by both nrmy and,?avy men, and the chance of itfc adoption is Awarded as doubt ful. rt the protest | by buai ite'i-w -pfA ei<rs against many of the proposal ir. the tax bill as adopted by the House and changed by the Senate. Committee, it begins to look as if the new tax law would be a good" deal 11:01 c satisfactory to everybody who has to pay tuxes than had been fear ed. The immediate result of the pub lication of the term 9 of the House tux Mil was to seat" everybody who has v dollar that might be taxed. There are signs that the "soak the rich" idea which took |w>ss*tsi?n the llouso for a while is not so pop ular as it was. Whether credits and currency can be expanded oji the pre c,|t go basis to ft point which will bring | about a world wide rise in commodity prices iu doubted by the House Com initiee on Coinage, We.rf.t- and Measure which ban been conducting investigation into the relation of the demonetization of silver, which h;M l>een going on all over the wo. Id to the price of commodities. As a re Milt of this iiiv* ?tifi..tion, the com m'.ttee has introduced a resolution asking the President to ca'l an in ternational conference on commodity .iii! ?? : v?v in the bone thnt flu. m-y rwult in ? rwtondion of Sllvr to ?l? po sition il ?' lhe ,"m(,y "y" teiri) of the world before the W?*r, Some surprising fatf* were brought out in thb silver investigation. Few 1 people realize that every European, country has reduced the amount of: silver in its subsidiary coinage, bo j that the wlver morwy of England, France, Germany, Ualy and practi cally all the rest of Kurope does not ,,ow represent anything like ^its faco value. That and the establishing t of j t?.? money of India on a ^d bu - i;an basis, by tho action of the Bn - , i,h Oovernment, ban resulted in cut ting the value of tho si-rer coin" of India China and Mexico, which in- 1 c'ude about half of th population of | the world, squarely in ln?lf. That- ha j reduced the power of these ewni tn 1 to buy goods from abroad, the prices of which are measured by the go yardstick, with the result that either international trade has to come to a Btandstill or prices have to bo cut to a point below the co,t of production That, at least is thr conclusion of the committee which , l"c" , putting silver back Hit' its old pl^c as the basis of currer, v aU>ngs, e of gold would raise com' odity p and restore prosperity At r.ny r , it is believed that Mr Hoover wiH cfi.II an international conference | FORTY YEARS MO \ Tuekaseige Democrat May 4, 1892 Miss Sallie Stedunn opened school in the Aeademy Monday morning. I S. Comir.issio'ur Davies went to Federal Courtat Ashevillc Tue* dnv. Mr. Thos. A. (.'ox, a juror in the j FoJrral Court, went to Abbeville Mf nday. j Mr. K. M. Davis, wife and son, Roj, returned from their visa to South Carolina Saturday. It. T. Crook has hcrght the house and lot of ,J. R. Fri/zcll and moved his family to Rylva. Mrs. Richards ot' Elizabeth, X. .T. j reached here today to visit her daugh J tc-r, Mrs. R. U Madison. ' Miss Ida James terminated her visit with the Misses Stedir.an and left for Asheville today, accompan ied by Mi??s Mamie Slt-dnian. i Logan Ward, who lived near the mouth of Dichjtf Creek, was found ceud in his bed Saturday morning, having retired th.? night before in his usual health. 1 ' Thr< County Commissioners are about to conclude negotiations fori tlif sale of the present "poor farm," and the purchase nf a new site for the IToini' for the Afrc<l and Infirm, by which chance the county will he decidedly benefitted. ? Mrs. Wells the aged mother of Mr*. MeKee arifP Mrs. Rhea, left Saturday for her home in Buncombe, after a visit of nearly a year in this eountv. Although Sf> years old, she rode four miles to the depot in a wagon, while the la six miles of her trip home were made on horseback. Mrs. Rhea went with her as far an * - Besides our resident lawyers, Messrs. Hampton, Moore and Hook er, McssrsJ. II. Merriinon and W. W. Jones -of Asheville, O. "8. and W. B. Ferguson, R. 1). Gilmer, J. M. Moody, Judge (judder and George H. Smath-I ers of Waynosvtl'e, Fry, Newby, l-eathenvood and Fisher of Bryson Cit" Cooper of Murphy, Elian, Ra> ??,i Solicitor Jones of Franklin, A. E. Posey of HendersonvilU? and W. W. Zachary of Brevard were in at tendance upon our Court. N'ew Township: A petition to es tablish a new township to be called , Mountain township to be from T*rtfl of Hamburg and Cullow W has been filed with the County Commissioner* and vlll be acted up the subjeet a* woim a- the House re quests hint to do ?o. I Talk of tho repen.1 of prohibition get*: louder w?ek by week. Efforts to , 'smoke out* the President and get bin to state Ms potion have uni formly f?il?d. It is understood he feels as he has always felt, that as H * executive he l as no option ex cept to obev the Constitution and the lav,., and that ?t Is rot his function to dictat" to tho Republican National Convention what It shall recommend about changing the prohibition laws. Personally a dry, Mr. Hoover as a Republican and candidate for re-elec tion is expected to accept the Con vention's pledge of a referendum on repeal, if such a plank is written into the party platform, which now seemi wort probable than it previously been. And the belief grows here that both parties will make a promise o a i cfereiidum in th? hope that it will take the prohibition question com pletely out of the Presidential ctTm Great jKtpnlar excitement, but Hi- j tie valuable information has come out; !*o far, from the'Senafe ii.vestigatu.nl I into short selling on the Stock Ex-, change. The idea that some organi zed group, of unpatriotic capitalists were tiring to ruin the nation by concerted effort to depress prices ' which was at the bottom of this in vestigation, seems to have been pret ty veil exploded. leaders in both Houses of Con fess thiuk that they arc going to get the business of the session fin ished in Hnr to adi-airn before June lOtli, so that they will not have to | come back for a summer session af ter the political oonvs?ti?* ? ? ? ' - - * ) C. R. MOODY LOSES HORSES AND BARN Fire of unknowu origin destroyed the; large barn of C. R. Moody at his home, near the eastern limits of the tow*- Saturday night. In the barn tvew two fine brood mares, the stoek jof which Mr. Moody had owned for many years, and which were very valuable animals. A large quantity of feed stul'f, farm tools and imple ments, a silo and a great deal of other pro|K*rty was burned in the conflagration, which was well under way before being discovered. Mr. Moody's loss was partially cov ered by insurance. The fire department responded to the call, but the truck ran out of gas before reaching the scene of the fire. However, little if anyihing could have been done, due to the fact that the entire barn was in flames before the department could have gotten to it. the bam was, perhaps, the best ami most costly structure of its kind in the county. It was constructed sev efx<l years atjo for a dairy barn, at a cost of some $5/H)0.00. ELECTION OFFICIALS APPOINTED ,5*T?i e poll holders for the June pri mary and the general election have been appointed by the county board of elections of which Aaron Hooper is chairman, Hugh E, Monteith, sec retary and Dan K. Moore the third member. The poll holders arc: Barker's Creek: L. F. Jones, regis trar; H. L. Raby and John Bumgar ner, judges. Cashier's Valley: K. Bijmgarner, registrar; E. G. Lombard and Wade Hawkins, judges. Canada: R. . Shelton, registrar; L. A. Melton and Clevr? Wood, judges. Cuiey Fork: Oscar Lovcdahl, reg iy.tiari Glenn Hooper and Nelson Ift NHon, judges. Ctrllowhec: Oscar Norton, regis trnr'; R. D. Phillips and Oscar Ensley, Judges, Dillsboro: W. A. Sutton, reigstrar; J W. Buchanan and Tom Keever, judges. Oram's Creek: G. L. Green, regis trar; T. C. Buchanan and E. G 8ut ton, judges. Hamburg: David Pruitt, registrar; Lyman Stewart, and Hayes1 Hooper, judges. Mountain: Elbert Moss, registrar, A. C. Edwards and Deck Henderson, judges. (jhalla: Jack Reed, registrar; J, ? C. Hayes and John Buttle, judges. River: Porter West, registrar; Joe Mid die ton and Junius Hooper, jud ges. East Laporte: Roy Micheal, reg istrar; Tom Wike and Homer Wike, judges. Savannah: R. O. Higdon, registrar; W. A. Bishop and Lucius Cabc, jud ge* Addie: R. B. Shular, registrar; C. D. Bin n ton gnd Claud Parris, judges. Willi ts: Carey Ifenson, registrar; Allen Snt ton and M. J. Henry, judges. Palsam: A. P. Arrington, regis trar; Aaron Bryson and Oscar Berk-, judge*. Sylva, North Ward: Raymond Nicholson, registrar; Walter Jones and P. K. Moody, judges. Sylva, South Ward: C. J. Crispe, registrar; Dan Tompkins and Robert. Long, judges. Webster: Dan Cowan, registrar; A. S. Moss and Carl Allman, judges. on at the joint meeting with the jus tices in June. It embraces tbo top of Cnilowhce mountain and reaches to thr- Mac/m county line on the west. Tunnel caved in :Last Saturday ev ening after the passenger trains go ing both ways had passed, a large portion of the west end of the Cowee tunnel below Dillsboro caved in, eom plotelv blocking the tunnel. A large force of hands are at work removing fhr dirt and rock, and Supt. Bridg ers, ('apt. Berry and Master of Train) Foster are giving thoir personal aup ervificii to the work. Vhe Republican convention at; Axlu ville yesterday uppointed C. J. Harris of Dillsboro and R. W. Lo 'gan of Rutherfordton, delegate# to represent the 9th Congressional dis trict at the national convention in Mirneapolis but failed to nominate a candidate for congreta aa wm ?*? m

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