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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
parties plan to
WAGE BATTLE
DURING SUMMER
'?? <-'?> -,n,y 87.-wit?
I ?t tin* t'ii semion or we
J* '^ond Congrew Washington
vV' the wreckage and pre
L plmi* lor the I'tiHidontiiU
i '?! *'? ?
?. ft Vailing t,,e wo,'k ^ tbw u'n*
t"1 ^hmI ileal of a mm* The
out har?mnUi?iy,
and members of both
working shoulder to Moulder
P ,V to enact legislation which
l? 1 1 tTn.l to Btin:ulate business and
t,v WH the poht'eal situa
,0" ",tt Wo?v intense tho session
LvIoinmI into a eat-and-^og fight.
\wthrr l?i?ty a lHrK? tllOU?h
inritv ill either House to force its
unjorup
, party aieasure- through.
With the adjournment of Congress,
t ?[ the Democrats in Wusbing
l0| bavr gone home Washington p
'It o? view n.s to tho campaign,
J^rffonN almost overwhelmingly
Kfonblic^n- It is still too early for
tm the luost experienced political
nbserwr* t0 malce any serious pre
dictions, but the feeling in Washing
( js t|uit when the election is over
J,th sides will know they have been
m a fin'1** i
ur Hm.vcr has personally taken
?o steps yet toward shaping up
his part in the campaign. He is leav
the complete direction of political
Biiifuvtriii)! t. Everett Saunders,
tlie nfw chairman of the Republican
National Committee, who has a freer
tai than any of his predecessors
tat ever bad. The same is true of
n-Wlor Henry Allen of Kansas,
who m\\ W ja complete charge of
ftepublim tampaign publicity. Sen
ator Allen ueepted the publicity
cAairauuieiiip this year only oil ?on
dition thnt ho was to have an abso
lutely free hand ?i nd be the supreme
boss. Mr. Allen is an able newspaper
man, as well as an experienced and
astute politician, and it is to be ex
pected, therefore, thtt'tfie Replblieaif
publicity efforts will be as effective
as it is possible to make them.
Duriug the campaign Mr. Hoover
does not plan to make n-ore thnn six
or teven speeches. The principal
speech-makir ?or tie Administration
will probably he Osfd^n L. Mills, Sec
retary of the Treasury, who fired the
first gun in his Boston speech on the
eleventh of July.
"Charlie' Mirheteou, chief publicity
director fur the Democratic Natonal
Committee, is expected to continue
in that position throughout the cam
paign. He is recorded at the National
Press Club, and among newspaper
men generally, as the most energetic
?wl ingenious publicity man who
?? directed the propaganda of a
mat political party. Tie is a native
ftt" California and a brother of the
late Prof. A. A. Michclson, the famous
physiosst, and of Miriam Michelscn,
novelist and short story writer,
fharlie Mike" as hir. intimates know
him, li;i^ been writing politics, first
l:,r the Hearst papers and later for
'he now (U;i?l New York World, foi
"'"re than thiity years.
h nav safety bo said that the Ad
miuistratioii is not in the least wor
ried over the apparent consolidation
European opinion on the subject
?' war debts, which has been inter
acted in some quarters as a threat
to ^e United States. Nobody, from
e President down, conceives even
Possibility of a cancellation of
jj>f*e debts, no matter what united
r.ilrope says or does
w mi 1.1 not surprise anybody hero,
however, if the President should call
?ho lji'i^-pscntativesi *>f the nations
^''"h owP us money into a new eon
'wice, to be held in America and
in Kurope, to consider the ques
j'0" their precise ability to pay*
' is lituki'd upon as good common
for any creditor to inquire into
,tle ^n umstances of his debtors. If
thp interest rate which Europe is pay
ln& ?s to,, far above current rates
r ev, that might be revised ,
Without impairing the obligation it-;
the
terns of payment are too
strenuous ? if the $175,000,000 a year
^'eh (Jreat Britain is supposed to
l),ly Us, for example, is too large an
an?ual instalment ? then a readjust
ment (,v?r a longer term and with
jailer : nnual payments would not
'D anv sense a cancellation.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Tuckaseige Democrat, July 27, 1892
n 1 1 .
Mr, J. D. Coward went to Chnrlott.
Monday,
(? i
Mr. Jno .V. Hunter was here for n
short time yestorday.
Messrs F. H, and H. L. I^ent her
wood paid us a brief visit Saturday,
Mr. E, D. Davis canto to town to
day to sett .toe, who was eastward
hound with a car load of sheep.
Mr, and Mrs. J, L, Fisher, of- Beta,
are afflicted by the death of their
infant child, which occurred last
Friday night.
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Mr. and Mrs. \V, O. Perry, n'f
Asheville, "Tame Saturday and
spent Sunday with Mrs. Jos. Bauin,
.Mrs. Pirry's mother.
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Mr. 0, B. Toward went west Mon
day. Mrs. Coward accompanied him
as far as Bryson City, where she is
visiting relatives.
Hev. J, II. Ciilkspie, pastor, gives
notice thn the District Conference
of the JMi F. Church will convene at
Wesley VX'fiapel, near Sylva, Aug. 21
Rev. A. T. Hord, of the Hamburg
High School, is here today r.^cet
his assistant teacher for the approach
ing session, Miss Poole, of States
ville.
Mrs. Hobby reached here last
Thursday to spend some time with
her daughter, Miss Louise, assistant
teacher at the Cullowhee lliph School
Miss Daisy Davies came with Miss
Louise to meet her mother.
Messrs. H. O. Phillips & Company
want the farmers to kiu*w thfti- they
a . brand new thresher, first
tffass in every respect, and arc doing
satisfactory work with it. Keep your
grain in the stack till they reach
your farm.
Mr. A. C. Gidncy caught, with
hook and line, in the river near Fast
La Porte, on Monday, a salmon which
weighed within a fraction of twenty
pounds. That was certainly a fine
fish and is the third large one Mr.
G-idfctey has caught near the same
place.
As a stnwling advertisement of
Jackson county Vt rich resources, Mr.
W. A. H. Schreiber has on exhibition
at his office in Webster, besides a
large collection of mineral specimens
gathered here and elsewhere, snci- !
mens of ware made from Jackson
county kaolin varying in quality
from the plain and substantial to
the n:ost delicate and artistic, ap
proaching the thinness of eggshells
and beautifully decorated. Mr.
Schreiber's collection is a most inter
esting one and he takes just pride
in showing and explaining it.
Our thanks are hereby tendered to
the Centennial Committee for an in
vitation to attend the 100th anni
versary of the formation of Bun
combe county, to occur at Asheville,
on August 10th and 11th.
Greensboro ? Col. Julian S. Carr
was here yesterday morning on his
return from New York. In answer
to a question about the restoration
of an old time mansion near Jlills
boro which Mr. Catr has on hand, he
went on to say that when some of the
flooring of the old house was torn
up it was found to have distinctly
marked on the under side, Hezekiali
Hogg, June 21st 1711. The bimbo*
used in building the house was sawed
in England and shipped to Newborn
and from Newberne distant about
'200 miles, it was hauled on oxcarts
requiring K.onietb^'g near a month
to make the round trip. But if this
be a wonderful undertaking, how
much greater was it to haul th^ brick
in the same way with which to build
a house just over the river from Mr
Carr's place, a brick house, the brick
of which were burnt in England. No
wonder our people called Rigland
the "Mother Country'' in those days.
HOLD MEETING OF
FARMERS AT LOG
CABIN ASSOCIATION
A ii meeting was held
at Villa Mario, on the property of
the Log Cabin Association, in i?ar
kiH' b Lr.'i lv to.vi. -il- p, yesterday v.'itll
the fartuuiu an. I business men of the
county as guests, and the' twin; eet?
of the Awiiitinn i'.s hosts.
A trip Was made over the p op
to review the rff'>refcratio>i i'oi?b
oioilialiuti project llmi has been un
der way there, in which poor land
has been set with some 400,000 native
trees of various varieties, ami a fire
break eojistmctid along the tops of
the ridges oil the lines of tho 1000
aere tract of the Association.
.Dinner was served by the asso
ciation, and talks were made by Dr.
II. T. Hunter, president of Western
Carolina Teachers College, James O.
K. MeClttre, president of the Farmers
Federation, K. W. Cireibeiy -extension
forester of State College Haleigh,
and P. \Y. rarimin, extension dairy
worker, with Ellis Vestal, comity
agent as master of ceremonies.
Mi*. Hunter stressed the need of
coordination of efforts of the mem
bers of various vocations. Mr. Groi
ber spoke the necessity of proper
leforestatioa, and the profit (hat in
to be hud from proper harvesting of
!he woodland ci'ops on the farms,
giving ?: number of examples where,
at various places in KoiOi Carolina,,
proper foreKtation and harvesting of
the woods have paid the taxes on
lands for a long period of years and
yielded in addition a fair income
from the investment in lands.
Mr. Farnuin spoke on the profit
that farmers, who have four or more
head of livestock, can make by con
struction of trench silos, and feeding
the cattle from them, at the same
time providing a home fertilizer fae-r
tory for flie building of the aoila. "f'
MRS. H. R. BROWN DIES
? Mr*.- Hr R. Brown, 86, relict of the
fate IT. If. Brown, <ljc<| Friday night
at her homo at Cullowhce, after an
illness of a few days' duration. Fu
neral services were conducted Sunday
morning at the home, Rev. T. K.
Staff ord, pastor of the Cullowhce
Baptist v'hurcli, and Rev. ,T. (I. Miir
ray, pastor of Svlva Baptist ehurch,
official ing.
Interment was in the Rogers ecme
terv.
Mrs. Brown was a devout member
of the Baptist church, and had been
for many years. She is survived by
four sons, John Brown of Lakeland,
Fla. ; Bas Brown and Mack Brown, of
Spruce Pino, arid Jesse Brown of
Sylva; two daughters Mrs. L. A.
Buchanan of Sylva, and Miss Kinil \
Brown of Cullowhec, forty-one grand
children and 15 great-grand children.
Surviving :;Iso, are two brother:
John Bishop and Henry Bishop, n ?;?*
one sister, Mr*. Leon Higdon, all of
Savannah township, and a large num
ber of other relatives and friends.
MCGUIRE HEADS JUNIOR ORDE?,
Dr. W. P. McGuire of Sylva was
elected councilor of the Junior Order
United American Mechanics for this
district, at the district meeting held
in Iiigh'ands on last Thursday.
The district is composed of the
counties of Swain, Jackson, Macon,
Clay, Cherokee and Graham.
Calvin Wilson, of Savannah was
e'ectod ns one of the three trustee*.
The next district meeting will he
held with the Svlva1 Council in Octo
ber.
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HOME COMING AT WEBSTER
The Webster Methodist church wilf
ecltbrafe hotro-eomin'* day on next
Sunday, July .11. Rev. F. W. Kike v.
a p< pn!ar former pastor of the church
will preach at the e'even oV'o -l: hour
All the former Webster folks air'
their friends are invito to brin
baskets of dinner and gather at th
old church.
TO MEET AT OLD FIELD
People who have friends and rela
tivos buried at Old Field ccmeter
will meet there on Thursday befoi <
the second Sunday in August (<
clean off the grave yard and put j'
in proper condition. All interested
|>ersons are requested to bring tools
and baskets of dinner.
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HULL DECLARES
TARIFF IS CAUSE
OF DEPRESSION
Washington, July 27.? In a recent
speech at the University of Virginia
I intitule, Senator Cordell Hull of
Tennessee, an eminent authority on
tariff and fiscal affairs, declared that
the ''narrow, selfish and unsound
policy of economic isolation which,
since 1920, has been carried to the
utmost extremes hy this country, and,
under its leadership, hy most other
countries is the largest' single under
lying cause of the present panic.''
Senator fluil said tiiat such a pol
icy is suicidal, especially to a great
creditor country like the United
States, and that if this country and
others are to ho restored to a sound
measure of prosperity, there must be
a "material halting and modification '
of (his policy. The Senator coat inner] :
"The absurd attempt of every na
tion to live unto itself and aloof from
others has tremendously contributed
to a breakdown of international con
fidence, credit, finance exchange and
tnyie and is gradually pushing the
world into bankruptcy. ,
"Exports of goods the world over
are. scarcely nne-fhird what they
should be; unemployment is running
into the tens of millions, business is
| prostrate, and agriculture is utterly
impoverished.
''The present ektreme high tariff
and narrow trade policies, under ouv
leadership, have become a blight and
a scourg;* the world over.
"The Democratic platform di fines a
program of policies as broad as our
expanded domestic (find international
cr-nftomic interests.
"It assumes that there is a prac
tical middle course Iwtwcen extreme
nationalism and extreme internation
alism, and while disclaiming the 'at
t?r, it challenges th;. former as pvnc
tised bv those in power since 1020.
Ami lastly, it proposes three meth
ods of dealing with the existing cha
otic domestic and international tariff
and trade situation methods which
have been thoroughly established and
approved by all of tho ablest and
most dininterested financial and
economic authorities in every impor
tant country.
"The platform sets them forth as
follows:
" 'We advocate a coinpetclive tar
iff for revenue, with a fact-Iinding
tariff commission, free from Execu
tivo interference; reciprocal iaril'f
tariff agreements with other nations,
and an international trade and facili
tate exchange'."
Senator Hull quoted from the
speech of Secretary Mills at Host on
in which the Treasury head minim
ized the importance of foreign trade,
and then quoted Air. Hoover in the
1028 campaign when lie was telling
the country that to "insure the con
tinuous employment r.ml maintain our
wages wo must find a profitable mar
ket for our surpluses. . . . The great
war brought into bold relief the utter
dependence of nations upon foreign
trade, etc."
To the statement so often made
that there is similarity between the
tariff policies of the two parties,
Senator Hull said:
"No one can confuse the policy of
'competitive tariff for revenue' with
that of 'virtual embargo tariffs for
protection,' nor moderate or reason
ably competitive tariffs with a tariff
exclusion."
BALSAM
Master Win. Coward has returned
from a visit to relatives in Cnl'owhce.
,} Mr. S. Jerome Phillips of Willcts
was here Monday.
Mrs. J. R. Rork, Mr. Robert Rork,
and Mrs. W. B. Farwell were guests
of Mrs/T. M. Richards and Miss Kate
In Canton Wednesday of last week.
Mr. firady Crawford of- Columbia,
S. C., was here Monday.
Messrs Joseph E. Brown and Frank
McMullan of Atlanta are guests of
Mr. 0. E. Horton, Jr., in the pretty
summer home of the Tlortons, "fJreen
Pastures.''
Miss Harriett Long visited Miss
Bet tic Dick Henson last week. Miss
Henson returned with her and spent
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North Carolina Veterans
Plan To Leave Sunday
For Trip To Washington
TODAY and
| TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbridge)
Comfort , . . despite the beat
I called .on President Hoover the
other day. Outdoors the thermometer
stood at 88 in the shade. In the Pres
ident's office it was a comfortable
I sixty-eight, That is one of the rca
[sons why Mr. Hoover is able to stand
up under his heuvy task and slill
keep in first-rate physical condition.
1 went with the President to the
opening of the exhibition of the
Pantheon de hi Guerre, the world's
largest painting, commemorating the
war. This is shown in a circular
sheet metal building which might he
expected to have the characteristics
of nil oven. But the samp air-condi
tioning system used in the President's
office made it comfortable even under
a blazing sun.
I went to (he Capitol t* call oil
a congressional friend, and found
Senators and Representatives debat
ing in an atmosphere of fresh, cooled
air in which it was difficult for even
the most fervent orator to, work up
a perspiration. And I came back
f iv tin Washington on an air-condi
tioned trnin of the Baltimore and
Ohio, the most comfortable railroad
journey 1 ever made.
Mr. Hoover believes, with many
others, that this air-conditioning pro
cess, still in its infancy, is going to
develop as big ns the automobile in
dustiy. ^ '
Bonus . . , at the front line
T half expect od in Washington to(
find squads mid detachments of the
"Bonus Expeditionary Force'' pan
handling nil over town. 1 travelled
pretty well over the District of ?ol
identified as n member of the bonus
seeking army. I talked with one man
who had heen active in getting Co*
gross to appropriate $100,000 to send
these men hack to their liomo states.
"Most of these chaps are decent
follows out of jobs, with no resources,
who just can'e for the lark," he said.
''A few of them are rather simple
minded people who really think the
government ow?m them a living. But
in the center i? quite a strong corps
of Communist agitators, who have
heen hopeful that there would be
some sort of a military or police
demonstration thnti woluh| give rfn
excuse to start shooting. The Com
munists are looking for martyrs, hut
the Washington authorities have not
|>ormitted themselves to Im* trapped
into anything out of which inflam
matory propaganda could he made.
But the B.E.F. certainly had some
members of Congress badly scared."
Guards . . . their assignment
Wherever the President of the
(Juitrd States goes', secret service
men accompany him. When the Pres
ident's enr leaves the White House
grounds half a down guards on mo
torcycles go ahead to clear the way
for it. lie is never more than a few
feet away from an armed secret ser
vice man except when he is inside the
White House or at his private camp
on the Bapidan River.
When Mr. Hoover went to the
opening of a new spectacle in Wash
ington last week, the chief of the
White House secret service corps,
with a staff of men, preceded him by
half an hour and made a thorough
search of the building to see that all
workmen were out and that nobody
but those on a list vouched for by
the management was in the building
while the President was there.
Those precautions may sound un
necessary in a democracy, but ash
ingtou does not forgot that three of
its Presidents have died at the hands
of assassins. - , I
several days here.
The State has graveled our main
road through Balsam and made im- ,
provements 011 some of (the other
roads here which we certainly appro- ,
cinte.
Miss Virginia Lindsey Went to j
Wavnesville, Monday.
Mr. Ceorgo T. Knight and Master
Billie and Fred Conner went to Ashe
ville, Tuesday.
?luck. son Comity veterans coming
from Charlotte report that the plana
are /or 2000 Carolina veterans to
leave there Sunday morning for Wash
ington, to join the Bonus Expedition
ary Forces to press their contention
for the calling of an extra session
of Congress to be called to meet ill
September, for the purpose of deal
ing with the bonus situation. The
call for the Carolina veterans states
that there wifl be no violence, that
each veteran is expected to conduct
himself as a gentleman, that disci
pline will be strictly enforced, and
that the use of whiskey by the vet
erans is strictly prohibited.
It is stated that the Southern and
Seaboard Airline Railways have
agreed to provide a sufficient num
ber of box cars to transport the vet
erans directly from Charlotte to
Alexandria, from where they will
march to the White House on Monday.
All vetei'nf s in N^>ith Carolina,
who are unemployed are invited by
the call that has been issued from
Charlotte headquarters, to .join, even
if they can bo gone for only three
days, but the longer period for which
they will join up, the better. The
avowed purpose of the leaders of the
Bonus fight is to recruit up to 100,000
men for their army and to persuade
President Hoover to call the extra
session to deal with the situation.
? Several Jackson County veterans
are planning to join at Charlotte and
go to Washington with the army.
Reports that veterans are bringing
back from- Charlotte are to the ef
fect /that the veterans nro fighting
President Hoover in the campaign,
because of his known and expressed
hostility to the payment of the bonus;
that they contributed largely to the
defeat of Senator Morrison because
of his attitude; and that they arc
congress in the Tenth District, be
cause of the fact that Major Bul
wiukle, himself a veteran of the threat
War, has been hostile to the bonun
payment. Rumblings are also heard
against Senator Bailey because of his
opposition.
The Xortli Carolina American Le
gion Convention, meeting in Asheville
a eonple of weeks ago, overrode the
position of National Commander
Henry L. Stevens, of Warsaw, and
declared for the immediate payment
of the adjusted compensation.
GIVE GEORGE WASHINGTON
PROGRAM AT BALSAM CHURCH
The following "George Washington
Bicentennial Program'' was given in
the Methddist church, Sunday after
noon, Mrs. D. T. ,'vi light, local chair
man, presiding:
Song, America
Pugcant, "Who's Who in February"
or "Our First Flag.''
- Characters: liill, Junior Brygon;
Jane, Helen Queen; Afcs. February,
Miss Louise Arlington; February
22nd, Mrs. Sara Bryson; Robert Mor
ris, Mr. X. R. Christy; George Wash
ington, Mr. Goorge Knight; Betsy
Ross, Miss Nannie Knight.
Song, "The Cross and the Flag"
Reading, "Our Country and Our
Flag,'' Mrs. Sara Bryson
Song, "Father of the Land We
Love."
Song, "There are Many Flags La
Many Lands."
"Our Flag," Mrs. J. R. Rork
Poem, "Your Flug and My Flag"
Mrs. K. 0. Queen.
Responses about our flag from Mrs.
Banks Nicholson, Mrs. Rork and Mrs.
Hen demon Jones.
"Origin of the Colors of Out Flag"
Mrs. I). T. Knight.
Song, "The Star Spangled Banner"'
Benediction, Mr. Henderson Jones.
The Pageant was furnished by the
Pageant Department of the George*
Washington Bicentennial Commission
of Washington, and showed how Gen.
George Washington and Robert Mor
ris visited Betsy Ross and asked her
to make "Our First. Flag."
During. the ??"King of the song
"The Cross and the Flag," Mrs.
George Knight draped "our first flag
for the thirteen colonies" over a whit'1,
cross, and just before the end of
the last verse, she draped OOT pres
ent forty-eight stars and ftripet oret
the eroat , J