iT, Year in Advance in Tht Jountv s?
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8YLVA, NORTH CABOLJNA, < THURSDAY, JUNE 23 1082
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
[Ore. f. brown
[0 PHEACH AT BETA
ON SUNDAY EVENING
. >( | lirown, recently elect
of the Southern Bap
??"' ? ,h"
Church of Knoxvillc,
1'"-' ,t Scott's (reek Baptist
l"j r'iuu.tav evening ?t ? o'clock.
'"m,* 'it..? " ? ? ",,iv' ot ;I""kK0"
bwn born and reared
lie is considered ono
"" , ('r?,n preachers of this gen
\tl(! there will doubtless be
?< C "1'U' 10 ,"'"r
1 T iii'iiicroiis friends in tho
r ? .vouth l,erC'
r"!;" -X* a lion: he attracted when
T UmI.n-1-.I ? revival meeting in
'J. M.uivh in Sylvn, several
vt-ar- aS*'- . .
' Tiud l-\ Beit?., pa*tor ol
i-lmreh, and the mem
r .'hi,, ..I I he church sought the
"i |,r- Brown for a series
, .viiii'-'lHif meetings; huHie could
" ' 1 1 the invitation; hi.t dc~
'^,.1 i? tin- following letter to Mr.
Iviu:
"JliSV Ki'i""d ? .
\Vu fin"'1 know how very muc h
v..?r invitation j.ppen.s to ni ?. I
H, ? -ike anv wcrif;ee to coin*? to
, i(. , |l(. |>i\>i>.?sed I'leetinji. But
lliiiv v ,lot enonph days for
Jp to it. I air not planning to
!aki, ;1?v vacation but am trying to
the various summer As
,.,,,1,1;, , awl attend just as many
A^AImw a- possible. Thin pre
my foinc In ch""'h f"r
n|1,r, than one service.
I tv planning to try to get to
| U\??<villo, where Mose Woodard,
' ,o ?, is twist or, for one service, -
,ll(\ the definite arrangement
,s mat Will try my hest to come
on ml he *\th yon for a service.
Von Amur without my saving so that
fJic/v is a n spot in the world that I
wmiM nif/icr reach than Jackson ^
County ;iml theie is no man with
nhoni F would rather serve than
yourself. Be-* your heart, your life
and niiitKt i y have he??n n source of j
Ix'iiodii'tion to n'e and it is a jo\ to
have every possbV touch with you.
With personal regards, I am
Cordially vours,
F. F. Brown."
QUALLA
Last week?
lu-v. J. .\. Pt cli r, Misses Jertnie
tathcv, Louise Hyatt, Martha Hall
mill Mr. Edward Hraiilcy were dinner
giiM# at Mr, .f. ('. Johnson's Sunday.
Misses U'i:.uie Cooper and Mozelle
UimnIv of Ktika arc visiting hpnie
folks. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ferguson at
tnnlcil .scrVircH at Rvlva Sunday
I 1 ? in;,'.
Mr. am] Mrs. Oscar Gihson visited
I :! Mr. Frank Owen's.
I Mrs. M. 15. Henson of Whit tier is
' ' tins; Mrs. VV. H. Cooper.
Mr. J. 0. Terrell is attending sum
?' sthtw! ;i t Ashcville Normal.
Mrs. J. (*, Johnson, Mrs. J. L.
ami Mr. and Mi's. Shaver
,aM at Mr. ('. Y. Dunlap's.
?Miss Susan Keener has returned
|,,|w a Iriji to Canton.
Mr. .In?. Montoith of Forney was
at Mrs. A. C. Hoy la's.
?Mr. ami Mii, \V. J. Turpin. spent
? uidnv it M,-. H micr Turpin's.
Mw. Aildie Martin of Bryson City
?'"l Mrs. Jessie Cordell of Governors
and u'erf truest s at Mr. W. C.
M "I ill's.
Mrs. A. ('. Hoyle spent Saturday
'"??hi with Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Hnv|(..
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Howell visited
Mr. .J. (; I loopcr's.
Mr. J?"k Hat tie catted at Mr. D.
1 HiU-hi's.'
Mr. l ^f,.s ]) M Shuler and Mr.
"ml Mrs. Terrv Johnson were dinner
!, <N ?)< Mr. W. IT. Iloyle's, Sunday.
Mr Mil Avers visited his brother.
I*. Jitlij) Avers.
Mr<. K Unwell called at Mr. Wiley
?''"s (ieiipvfl Turpi i) is leaving tliirl
Wa\ RiHtvil'c hospital, where
" 'mpjoyed as nurse.
It. L. Shaver, Lucile McLean
'1 Omc'{., 1 fat! callcd on Mrs. Grace
"niisoij.
^ Jr. 1- r:n?k Owen and family were
n"'^s ;i1 Mr. IT. G. Ferguson's,
j '? "? W. Cooper called at Mr.
'? Terrell's Sunday afternoon.
j FORTY YEflrtS AGO |
The Joint Board of Justices and
Commissioners held its annual meet
ing Monday, in the Court House in
Wobster. A poll tnx of $2.25 and a
property tax of 75 cents on the $100
valuation was levied for State and
county purposes. An aggregate valu
ation ot' $1,300,000 was the basis of
the tax levied. Tho first ballot ai the
election of- Commissioners to serve
for tho ensuing two years resulted in
the reelection of the present chair
man, S. II. Bryson aiul the election
of J. I). Coward who has heretofore
served: the county verp acceptably in
the same capacity. Thus. ,1. Love, one
of the present commissioners was
then elected, by acclamation as the
third member of the Board. Mr. Wil
son, the retiring member of the old
hoard has made a good commissioner,
always having the best interests of
the people in view in all his official
acts. The joint Board went into the
?lection of a Couiity Sufv rintendent
of Public Instruction, which resulted
m the first ballot in the almost uiniii
imons choice of II. C. Cowan, which
.vas a happy selection, as he is a
ym:ing man believed to be thoroughly
'oiupctent and to possess in an emi
lent degree the qualifications neet'h
ary for the vigorous and successful
.trosecutioft of tho duties of the of
fice. Mr. Cowan is among the young
?st, i ?* not the youngest, men lo bci
?alied to the dischaugc of I he duties
devolving upon him. The Joint Board
appropriated $100 to aid in. the con
struction of a susjiensiou bridge ne:i
the mouth of Barkers Creek and $50
for a similar bridge oetween Kast
Laporte and Cullowhee. It is expected
that the construction of these bridges
will contribute to the convenience of
the people in many ways, but most
particularly in facilitating the con
solidation of school districts, thus
greatly adding to the efficiency of>
the public school system. The Board
also granted the prayer of the pe
titioners in the establishment of a
new township, carved out of slices
from Cullowhee, River and Hamburg
townships, which was christeucd
Summit. We are unable to give th
exart. boundaries of the ?w township
but it covers the top of Cullowhee
mountain and extends to the Macon 1
county line.
RELEASE OF BAILEY SOUGHT
ON WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
Attorneys for Ray Bailey, charged
with the slaying of Patrolman Hunt
in Greenville, S. C-, a few weeks
ago, are seeking his release on a writ
habeas corpus. The hearing has
been set for Monday of next week, in
Sylva, before Judgo Walter E. Moore,
resident judge of the district.
Bailey has been under guard in the |
0. J. Harris Community hospital .
since the night of Sunday, May 1,
when lie was brought here in an an:- I
bulance and p'aced in the hospital, i
under the name of. Keith, suffering
from four gun-shot wounds.
He was later identified as Ray Bail
ey, and was charged with the fatal
shooting of Patrolman A. B. Hunt, in
a street battle in Greenville. Vernon
Bailey, and Osborne Briggs, brother
and brother-in-law of Ray Bailey
were arrested at the hospital here,
when they came to visit Bail?y, and
their arrest causcd a great stir, re
sulting in the visif to Sylva of a
laige number of North and South
Carolina officers, in anticipation ofcj
trouble from alleged members of a J
gang, whom it was believed might j
seek their release by force.
Vernon Bailey and Briggs were
rushed to Asheville, where they we$e
later released on a habeas corpus
proceeding" before Judge Hoyle Sink.
Vernon Bailev was held, however,
for North Carolina authorities await
ing a revoke of conditional pardon,
and R<*ese Bailey, another brother
was held for Towa officers. .
Requisition pap?ra have already
been granted to South Carolina by
Governor Gardner, for Ray Bailey,
it is understood.
WOMAN ILL AFTER SPIDER BITE
Mrs. Do "in Smith, of Add if, wasj
seriously il', and "suffered severe j
pain for sjveral hours, after having
been bitten on the arm by a spider,
on Tuesday. The spider and another
of the same kind were killed by Mrs.
Smith's niece, Mrs. Green, within
a few minutes, and are described as
having been* black ' ones with red
stripes, which are rare.
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Senatorial Race Draws
Chief Interest As Time
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For Run-off Approaches
POINDEXTER ACCEPTS POST
AT TEACHERS COLLEGE
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Cullowhoe, June 23, ? Charles C.
"Poindy" Poindexter, who coached
the ftuccessful Weaver College foot
ball eleven last fall, is Western Car
o'ina Teachers College# new athletic
director. He accepted the post and
a contract for oiip year in a con
ference with President II. T. Hirtiter
hero last week.
The former University of North
Carolina football and wrestling star
will have complete charge of all ath
letics. He said he would establish
residence here within the next few
days and start work on an extensive
program for the coming year. His
first big job will be tutoring the
football team in September.
In obtaining Poindexter, the college
officials climax a movement started
here last fall to boost sport:* at the
school. The college has been without
a full time mentor for more than a
year. A short time apo the collegia
heads decided to bnild a new athletic
field and this will be completed in
time for the grid season.
REVIVE ANCIENT SPORT
? ? , ? (
The hands of the clock have been
turned back in sport circles in Svlva,
to 4ft years ago, and the ancient and
honorable sport of pitching horse
shoes hns been revived in Rylva.
All day long men and boys are gatli
ered about the shoe court between thp
Lvr-ic theatre and the bus station,
watching or engaged in the sport -that
was so popular with their fathers
and grandfathers. A ringer gives as
big a thrili as a three bagger or a
drive out onto the green; and n
double ringer is as exciting as a
home run with the bases full or a
hole in one. /
The sport has (be advantage of
costing nothing for admittance, for
green focji, or for caddy -Mm. '-No:
(Treat impedimenta to be purchased, !
two iron stakes rind four horse-shoes
is all that is wcessnrv in 'h- wayi
of equipment. The players take turns,
every time a tearr of !\vo is defeated,
mother, takes its place, and s-o on
all day long, from daylight, to dark ;
and some remarkably good pitchers
arc bcin* developed from the scions
of the old-time village champion*. ,
CONFEDERATE VETERAN
DIES IN QUALLA SECTION
Mr. W. 'C. Martin, 81, and a valiant
soldier of the Canfederacy, passed on
at his Quallatown home, early' Tues
( Continued on Page two)
J The political lines are being drawn,
jtbe people are lining up, and the fur
p* ready to fly in the second primury
yhieh comes ou July 2.
While the voters will be ^?peeted
to chttt ballots for United States
-Senator, Governor and Commissioner
of Labor; the chief interest i? cen
tered in the senatorial content be
tween Senator Cameron Morrison and
IJob Reynolds. Tho State Convention,
meeting last week^in Raleigh, ignored
jthe matter, and there wan practically!
no advantage gained by either eon-'
testa nt. Both remained away from
the convention. In fuct an armistice
for the duration of the convention up- !
pears to have been agreed upon, with
only ? small anioimt of irregular
sniping going on.
, Who will win the race is consider
ed a problematical matter. Reynolds
has. the advantage of having received
a plurality in the first primary, which
is generally considered a real advant
age, especially in the close Western
Gounties, where second primaries are
unpopular for the reason that they
tend- to engender strife, and hard
feelings within the Democratic house
hold, when, in these comities, a united
and militant Democracy in necessary
to win a general election..
It is generally considered that the
chief reason for the tremendous Rey
nolds vote in the first primary can be?
attributed to the dissatisfaction of- a
large number of old line Democrats
over the vote to confirm Frank Me
Kincb, Iloovercrat leader of North
Carlfna in 1928, as a Democrattic
member of the Federal Power Com
mission, cast by Senator Morrison
on tho first day of his wearing the
toga left by Overman. Morrison sup
porters take the position that the
people wanted to punish him for this
alleged heresy, and that having now
adiWinistercd a severe chastisement,
that A large number of them will now
remember him as Cam Morrison, the
fighting Domocrat of other days, and
that they will snpjwrt him now in
the second primary.
Reynolds supporters, 011 the other
hand, argue that he will be t"he nom
inee, that it was hi* platform and
his personality that secured his
big vote, no less than the MeXinch
affair, and that having won a plur
ality in tho first primary, he should
he given the advantage of nomina
tion on the basis of his showing. .
Lieutenant Governor Fountain has
called"a second primary 'of- Mr.
Ehringhaus, although the FJizabcth
City candidate had1 nearly 50,000
plurality in the first primary. Both,
sides are lining up their armies for
the battle.
Revenue Bill Passed By
Congress Affects Everyone
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(Spocial to The Journal)
Washington, D. C., June 22- ? ^Prob
ably what the average man wants to
know most about what Congress has
already completed is: How does it
affect mc individually?
Wei.', the new tax bill affects ?ev
erybody. In theory, some of the man-!
nfacturers' taxes are supposed to be |
absorbed by the trade, but in prac
tice, all taxes are passed on to the
ultimate consumer. There is a tax
011 soft drinks, for example,, and the
consumer is going to pay it whenever
he bin-s even a bottle of soda pop,
perhaps not by paving more, but
maybe by getting less for a nickel
Every time anybody buys a watch or
a piece jewelry or any kind of
sporting foods, he is going to pay
more for them.
Those taxes and many of the oth
ers are effective as of Juno 21st of
this year. The average citizen is go
ing to pay some of them in his
monthly electric light bill, which will
carry a 3 per cent tax. On every long
distance telephone message costing
more than fifty cents he will p:iy
ten cents or more, according to th?
distance. Telegrams now cost us all
five per cent more. If your locp!
movie theatre charges more than for
ty cents the tax is one cent on ever /
ten cents above forty cents. If you
have a bank account, every chtck you
write will cost you two cents, which
will be charged against your acconnt
by the bank. Beginning on the 6th
of July evflry letter will cost three
cents instead of two.
The married man with one child
with a net income of $5,000 has not
had to pay any income tax the last
few years. Next year he will have
to pay the treasury $4, because his'
personal exemption has been reduced j
Prom $3500 to $2500. If he earns!
j$4,060 in 15)32 his'income tax payafile
next year will be $44 instead of
$1(5.88 which he paid this year.
Almost every, state has a gasoline
j tax and even-body is used to paying
; it. Tt runs up to 6 cents a gallon in
[ some states. But now on top of that
the government is going to charge
J manufacturers of gasoline one cent a
gallon. If your family uses cold cream,
lip stick or other cosmetics, they will
cost 10 pT cent more, but tooth
pastes and toilet soaps earn' only a
5 per cent tax. Cameras pay a ten
per cent tax under the new law.
The automobile tax of three per
cent will make a difference of $30
I in a thousand dollar car. That isn't
I {roing to hit very many people yery
: hard this year. Tires will carry a
! 2 1-4 per cent tax, so that if this
tax is passed on, the dealer selling
I a tire that has been priced $10
, should not charge more than twenty
five cents advance. But there,
is also a tax of four cents a p cum
on tires and inner tabes.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
? (By Frank Parker Stockbridgei
Salaries
Senators and members of Congress'
who have been making a gallant
fight against government salary re
ductions which would reduce their
own $10,000 n year stipends, might,
he interested in rending the newspa
pers of the year 3789, tho year when
our present form of government l>e
and Oeorgre Wn;Hiiiit?lu:i was fiiit
inaugurated President.
A Boston newspaper started ;i iosid
(iy of j>r* test aguMHt (lie k;i!;iH< k
paid to members of Congress. They
reeved the enormous stipend of ?0
i < iy, ami the Speaker . of I tie
got $12. Thnt, according to the public
opinion of the time, wns twice as
much lis they were worth.
. Comparing anybody's expenditures
today with those of even forty years
ago, they serni wildly extravagant,
but that is because the value oK the
dollar has changed materially in 40
years, with the enormous additions
to the world's gold supply that have
been made iu that time.
Gold
Just as news comes that the gold
deposits is the Witwatersrand in
South Africa, which in recent years
lias produced more than half of the
world's annual supply of yellow met
al, are beginning to "peter out," as
minors picturesquely express it,
comes the news of the discovery of
what may turn out. to he the world's
greatest bonanza district in northern
Manchuria.
(). L. Cranfelt, a mining engineer,
reports thnt he found an area '150
miles long nnd nearly as wide in
which all the indications are thnt
there is more gold readily and cheap
ly obtainable than in any mining dis
trict thnt has ever been developed
iu the world's history.
'I? this proves true and It is found
feasible i'or foreigners to Jdevelop
this new gold field, the inevitable
result will be a grcnt enlargement
q? tjie wood's money supply wit'?
eotlMfjHent increase of commodity
prices and a new spurt oft prosperity.
That is exactly whnt has followed
every great gold strike in the past.
Oiie of the important underlying
causes of the present world-wide]
economic, distress is the failure of
tfie gold supply to keep pace with
the increasing demand for money
and credits based upon gold.
Fl?* .
^Historians. have finally decided
that Betsy Ross did not design the
flag of the United States. The tliir
iccn horizontal stripes, according to
the latest researches, was designed
by Washington himself when ho took
command of the Colonial troops at
Cambridge in July 1770, although it.
was not raised over his headquarters
until January 3, 1776. It was called
the *'Orand Union" and was the
English fling with the crosses of St.
George # and fit. Andrew, and thir
teen stripes representing the thirteen
colonies.
That flag was used a good deal in
the Revolution, and there was another
flag that had no stripes at all but
thirteen red ptars in a circle on a
wiiite field.
Historians are casting doubt upon
the supposed resolution of the Con
tinental Congress of June 14, 1 777
adopting the Stars and Stripes, lie
cause they cannot find any records
of" the Stars and Stripes in use be
fore Jfyy 1, 3795. If history is so
confused about things that happened
in our own nation's early days, how
much re'iance can we place on the
recorded details of the history of
ancient Greece and Rome?
Pork
It looks as if people were beginning
to realize that it is bad business to
spend the taxpayers' money for mi
necessary things just to help a loea'
Congressman get re-elected. One o(
Xhc ?big "pork-barrel" items of Gov
ernmental expenditure for years has
been the building of expensive Post
Offices in towns that didn't need
them.
Two towns that I know of, and
perhaps others, Ijave notified their
nepresenfhtives in Washington that
they don't want $70,000 Post Offices.
One of these is Rawlins, Wyoming,
-and the other is Tuxedo, New York.
Cowboys and millionaires are in
agreemeent for once.
ROOSEVELT HOLDS
BIG MAJORITY AS
CONVENTION NEARS
Washington, I). C., Juno 22. ? A?
the til'e for the Democratic Conven
'tion approaches there is a very mnch
j stronger concentration of sentiment
; in the party against the (daiini of ull
'hut three of the men who have bden
mentioned us jtossiblc Presidential
candidal k. I( is not unfair to Gov
ernor Roosevelt to say that he is less
popular among tho 'leaders ofi his
party than almost any other man
who stands n ehance of nomination,
yet ?l the same time he still is the
leading candidate, , with (lie chances
hetti'i than even that he will he 110m
iuated. By the san:e token, 'party
leaders, so far as sentiment can ho
gauged in Washington, have a more
sineere and geiiuilio admiration for
Alfred K. Smith lhan for any other
man whieh the Presidential lightning
may possililv strike, and if those
Hoosevell-insl ructid delegates could
all he sent home and the nomination
left to the Democratic Senators and
members of Congress, Smith would
almost, certainly lie the nominee, lie
eame so close to winning in 1928
that there is a very largo element
in the patty which would like to see.
the issue drawn again he I ween Smith
and Hoover, in the belie R that
Smith has grown in the popular es
timation and that Hoover has been
the victim of such a serious setback,
whether his fault or not, that Mr.
Smith would have a walkover. It
seems very questionable, however,
that he could be nominated, as it
seems more and more questionable
I hat anyone ereept Governor Roose
velt can be named when the Demo
crats meet.
If Roosevelt can be beaten tho
feeling here is that Newton D. Baker
is the most, likely dark horse. lie has
the complete respect and confidence
of all of (lie party leaders and it ifl
believed he can be built up in tho
popular mind into an extremely ap
pealing candidate.
Whether he is personally nomin
ated for President apiin or not, thero
is no doubt that Governor Smith will
have a*grcnt deal '.o do wjth
the party platform, and i?<
bis way there will be very little side
stepping ami pussy-footing about it.
Mr. Smith has a way of telling the
world where he stands, and ho is
likely to insist that his party take
the same attitude.
BALSAM
. ?
Til/* Baptist Sunday School had a
picnic at On bin Flats, Sunday. A'ter
lunch, the party enjoyed a visit to
the flrnssy Ridge Mica Mines.
Last Friday, a pnrty from Willets
including ZVfr. and Mrs. Allen Sutton
and If. 0. Snyder, motored to Mr.
f. R. O. Duncan's and spent the day.
Miss Ida M.ae Coward was oper
ated upon fur appendicitis, last week,
in (lie Haywood county hospital. She
is recovering, nicely.
A ? large number of Balsamites at
tended the unveiling of the W. 0. W.
monument erected to the memory of
Mr. Tliiirl Clayton, in Addic, Sunday.
The following recently arrived to
spend the summer in their respective
cottages: Dr. Klock and family of
Davtonu Beach, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs.
Bill (ieissler of Newark, N. .T., and
Mrs. J. I?. Rork and son of. Paducnh,
Kentucky.
Mr. Lee Roy Dock of New York,
in visiting his mother, Mrs. Anna
Boicc at Balsam Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles I'crry and
liftle son .Toe, of Wilson, are visit
ing his mother, Mrs. Mavbcllc Perry.
Miss Kdifli Coward has returned
I from an extended visit in New York
and other northern points.
Mrs. Louie Upson left last week to
[spend the summer with her sister,
Mrs. Rickett, in Andrews.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Crisp and
family sjH-nt Sunday at Dix Creek,
with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hooper vis
jited Mr-'. Hooper's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Brvson, Sunday.
r\fr. Fred < of fey, who has been vis
iting hi* wife and children, Nancy
Louise and Fred .Jr., at Mr. A. C.
?
Brvson's, returned to Lenoir to con
tinue work at the Jonas Furniture
Shop, Monday.
fl?rs. Tvan Roberta and sons, Roy
and Ivan, Jr., expect to join Mr. Bob*