North Carolina Newspapers

?L50 Year in Advance in The Countv. SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, '^THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932 $2.00 Tear in Advance Outside The Ooonty. ST. LAWRENCE TREATY EXPECTED TO CAUSE FIGHT \\ D. l'-t ?>. CtU, - !iii> julj'Ksriini, b..t Senate. ' ilt, (ill in session. \. -liiiirianii oi the r oreig:> Alfaiii. ( <-l liif Ni'iiuli-s Stiia.ii. ? ti ,.,;i utiuouiuvd lii.it lie u ... (j; ,.| .jji luvcsiiuaion into li; Y,;;iv iV'i'iilly negotiated uci'weo. . . I nit-, il States and (V.:. II.* ? v> .. ,t(j;1 |?r Ilk' construction ?>. ,|lt. Si. l.awieiice deep water-way Siifi" ' l r*:? I y dues not take oi mil i! il ha* been ratified In 11; Ici'i-lalive billies t:f hot It na ; In- tali- of this St. ^awrene piui.vi n.-ts with the I nitv'd Stat.. Si-nail', ?md iroia present indication it i> .u??iJ'g to ',0 ?'?? of tin.' hotl; piiili'.ivci'sial subjects id' debate whei ilit. Senate convenes again next Dee (lulilT. Ki?r twenty- t'ivo years the cities ami s[;,tr-- liordcring on the upper lake* inne ' il ? presumably united hehimi the m< wii ent to make them seaports The ?"iiiiton for si twonty-sevt n foos irairr-tvay from Duluth to Montreal l,;b lt.'.-ri gowig on for at Itast thai leii^lli pt time. A week ago, whet the aiiiH'Uiiefinent was made that : tieaty -li.nl finally been negotiate! heivvirii Washington and Ottawa pro villi H.1: I"1' ?be carrying out of this immense project, it was hailed by tlu dei'i* water way advocates as a great vii'tury. Iu .1 week all of that has changed. Tlit re i-> no public project against which so n-any shafts of criticism liavc I. m'ii leveled as are being tirade *\ \Vs tivaly fit the present time Sw.y i.f the criticism is political: S'ikv \? (Mitii'inic. Ctoago Now "DoubLs" Chi, ;i?.. la. been ambitious to h' villi1 a *1 1 , US a part t> t that c;lv'< .viiiiilit'ii li? rival now York in i-ii it It i Sump wore a navigab c cIiuiiuW I *w?it y-scvpu Not 'l^p? ali flic way in in the of M. Law rviHT In Chicago, that amhituin might ilKjcut l?c realized. I ?nl Chicago and ihr stfi [ ;? of Mian's ni.u- ri'i'in to be lining t.p Against life lic::ty on t lit* uratinil thai il tin- diversion (if water I'n.m l.ako Michigan into the ('hicitg.i Drain; y Canal to 1,">U0 cu bic led \.i>v i'iiiiiI. Chicago says thai tli;it ii iini enough to uiaintaiii :i niiv fi'-t ilcji li ( r watpr for the in'.ai.fl r.iif-i" T,\r flic inland water way fruw tin' lakes t<> the gulf. So stwii' ?iji|i- \ ii (lie treaty is al rc.i'lv iiiVi'l .nii,-.' in Illinois and in flic ?fafcs fi> i In- smith and west there <>f fluit a i'i' iiiicre.ted in th;? lakes to the 'iiiif water-way. "iViKifii.-i i- di've!fijii?'?r from tl>!' Sratc.i.f \,,y flout two or three y.t-rcni Mimics. Tin iv is nothi.iyj in !h? tivatv which al'ocatcs to the "?'?"l- rl" New York ai'y part of the ?>2>"l.<i!if?,fi'V( which the Si. Ijiwrenee v '!? r-vv :i \ I . (?\pH-ti>d to eost the ! '?! S'a'cs, iiii*' President II >over i'i fi^i-il ?] j >c-s: - < flint point with 'wcriii.r l{ijii>:(H'c]t and the chairir.au '?! die N.i u', \ n |; State power autlior Frank I'. WaMi. The fear that K'?- ^ l:,k S * ; i ? r> will have to spend ihe 25S million is one lM m Hiinis of opposition from 'hat star-. Another point on which fiirlil i n tho treaty will he made h 'I'i' (|iH'>tinn of how the hvdro } * ?'?ft'tric which will ho deVelop ' I ; l ii"r lli- m l'thcrn border of New "Hi Stale will hp handled on this ^lictln-r the disposition of this '?'^?tnc jinwi-r is to rest, with the '''I'-ral < internment is a question "I'idi is Hoi answered in the treaty. Some Broader Objections ?'"'?llicr ground of criticism is that "MiIim* i(i,. trinty the Canadian Gov '"'""Ml ?i|| |iave to spend only 10111 "la^.-ixth as much money as niti-il States, and, that about mi(i ii h ? ,,f American funds will ':iv< In lie spent for Canadian ma '?rials, (.|i^i|M.pr3 nnf| labor, while l<h' VV'H lie no compensating cx J ''"litnro hy Canada for American '' "" ;,"'l materials. \ are only sninp'es of the I ""J,'.* tluit ;ti?. boiiis* sniil alwut tlio jj^'tv ns negotiated. Buck of all of ! i< isnw thorp is a much base for the real fight #a'inst ratification. ( "?'* liiisc is the growing belief foot water- way, 1500 n:ilo? (Continued on Page two) Predict Controversy Over St. Lawrence Treaty ..-v^aotkw U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, right, and Canadian Min ister Wm. D. Herridge, left, are here shown signing the St. Lawrence Treaty, the estimated $400,000,000 seaway, Great Lakcs-St. Lawrence river fo ocean* It is already predicted that this treaty will face bitter senatorial opposition at the next session of congress. Teachers Hear Highsmith Speak Here Last Friday One Man Injured As Plane Crashes A use Jones of Sylva, employee of he Sylva Papcrboard Company, sus tained a broken nose, Sunday after noon, when a passenger plane, in which lie had started to take a ride, ?cashed into a ditch, near Beta, after first hanging; a .wing against a tele phone pole. The plane, ]>iloted by Bub 'Mease, >f Canton, had been here for two or three days earning passauwrs on trips over the Hnlsains and the Park area. A hav field, befween Pet a and \ddie, alongside of Highway No. 10, was l?eing used as an air pori; and he crash occurred near there, just after the pilot had taken off. Mr. 'Mease, the pilot, and Karl Col lins and George Lewis, .both of Sylva, who were pas&angers were all unit jured. Tbe? plau?* >Wu8 badly crushed. Damages to it amounted to about 000, it is said. WEBSTER FOLKS HAD HOME-COMING SUNDAY The old Methodist church at Web ster observed home-coining day, last Sunday, the other churches and peo ple of tlu* community generally join ing them.x A largo crowd of people from far and near met at the church, Sunday morning, end heard licv. F. \V. Kiker, a former pastor, preach. Aft vr the sermon, the jwople repaired with baskets of dinner to the sclio.il ground, where a sumptuous picnic was ?njoved under the shad*' of the trees,1 overlooking the old Tuekaseigee, a scene, and a stream dear to t h :? heart, of many of us, and cherished in.oui hallowed memories. Ill the afternoon an add i ess wa<* delivered by Dean Kusscll of the School of Keliginn of Diik?; I nivers- 1 ity. 2 SYLVA WOMEN ! IN AUTO CRASH; Miss Dortothy Williams, secretary of the County Board x>f Education, | received a dangersous out in her arm, and other . injuries, and Miss Jane Coward sustained n inor ents and bruises, on Highway X<>. 10, near the Haywood County Tlospitai, early Sun- ?' day morning, in an automobile aeci- i dent. The young ladies were rushed to the hospital nearby and their in-j juries treated. Miss Williams is still! confined to her room at the Coward House, where she was brought on Monday. , i Miss Coward, M'ho was driving, states that she met a man driving an- j other ear, on tho wrong side of tiie road, and that when ne had gotten ?ntire'y off the ] lavement, she, seeing notlifvg e!se to do,; attempted .to ?lass on the loft, 'be other car itiddenly swerved ann crashed into the rear of her's. Tt is said that the other driver whs returning to his home at Wayne <ville, from Enka where he had been working all night ind that he fell as'eej) whilp driving1 waking suddenly as Miss Coward at tempted to pass him. Dr. J. Hcnry-4lighsir.ith, Director < I tin* DTv^sioii/li' Instructional Ser vice in tlic^efeiiieittary and high schools of North Caroiiua, met with principals and superintendents of Ma coii, Jackson and Swain county schools :it the Svlva Elementary Sehool building 1'iidav of last week. Mrs. C. 1). Douglas of Raleigh, supervisor ot libraries for the public schools was also present. There was a pood attendence of ?he school men and women of Jack on and Swain counties. Macon was lot represented as Supt. M. D. Bill ings was unable to be present. The Svain County delegation was headed by Supt. Carroll. M. B. Madison, Supt. of Jackson County schools pre sided. Dr. llii^hsmith based his discus sion and remarks on the new hand book for elementary schools in North Carolina. He stressed the point that pupii.s. should bo classified .according, to what tliev have done and can do ana not according to the number of years in school, lie. was firm in his position that* high schools should not re'-eive pupils from the elementary schools until ^they were fully pn? pared to ih/ eighth grade work. A seventh griule examination was sue Efoled as (tne meihod of testing the fitness of tli- boy or girl for entrance into t!r;1 hi.?i school. The speaker based his remarks on the two propositions that teaehers should know what to do and do it. ITe stated that the main purpose of the handbook was to set up goals of achievement and help the teacher? 'cad their pupils toward these goals. Educational methods in Jackson Comity were delved into by Dr. High smith through questions and state ij'cnts from teachers about the meth oils they used in their particular schools. One-teacher schools came in for their share of criticism. Dr. Hip!! smith emphasized the fact that it i1 utterly impossible for the teacher tr. give the pupils a square deal where sh" or he had to look after seven grades. " ) Mrs. Douglas stated that the main idea being stressed in her school li brary program was to put the book? that the schools actually have into use. She snid that th^ va'ue of n book could ? only be estimated by i the use it was put to. P. C. HENSON DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT ClILLOWHEE P. C. Henson, prominent merchant ?and well known citizen of Cu low lite, died suddenly at his home, on Tues ay afternoon, of a heart attack. Mr. Henson had eaten a hearty dinner a short time before his dea'h. Mr. Henson, had never fully recover ed from injuries sustained on May 18, last, when he was knocked down by an automobile, while crossing a street in Sylva. He was a patient ir. the C. J. Karris Community Hospital for some time suffering with n badly fractured leg, before; hein^ removed So his home at Cullowhee. His le,* was still in the cast at the time of his death. s. Mr. Henson was one of the best ?known men in the county. During his licarly manhood he taught school ; but has engaged in the mercantile busi ness at Cullowhee for many years, and was well known, not only to the peo ple of this county, but to the hun dreds of men and women who have ' been students at the Cullowhee school 'during all the years of its existence, as high school, normal school, and college. He was a brother of the late W. L. Henson popular clerk of the superior court of this county .and a member of a pioneer family of this part of ibe State. ( Mr. Henson is survi/.-l bv his wife, Who is a patient in the Stat; Hospital, by one son, Alvin Hens to of Doug iass, W m , ? / three di?n:*htv?r3f Miss Louise TTi i ron tc:ie!i?r of domestic r science ir. Sylva nigh .-cli ?ol, two sirs 11 de nr'Mers, and by oilier rela tives and a host of friends. The hour of I he f;in-?ral has not been set jiending tlie arrival ?f his son, Mr. Alvin Hen son, Prom Douglas, but it is thought thftt it will be held some tiir.e Saturd ly. All But Three Long Term Schools Of Jackson County Started Monday Morning ? TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) Eclipse . . . long one due The next total eclipse of the sun wiU be visible in uiost parts of New England on August 31, this year. The moon's shadow will pass across the face of the sun in the afternoon, about 3:28 o'clock standard time, and the total eclipse will last for almost three minute^. Most total (eclipses last only a few seconds, so astron omers are looking forward to this one and hoping for clear weather, in the expectation that their photograph ic instruments will reveal more than is yet known about the elements which exist in the sun. Outside of the black disk of the moon's shadow which obscures the sun's face in a total eclipse, . huge flames shoot out, sometimes as far as 100,000 miles from the body of the sun. There are burning gases, the colors of which, as seen through the spectroscope, tell what they are com posed of. It is known that a large part of this flaming mass which we call the sun is iron, heated to a point where it vaporizes. Almost every other mineral found on earth has also been detected in these sun gases, but science is still trying to learn. Whether the sun is getting hotter or cooler is a matter of great import ance to all mankind. A drop of a few degrees in the average heat received by the earth from the sun would mean a return of the Ice Age, when gla ciers a mile thick formed as far south as Kentucky; an increase of a degree (Continued on Page two) Prospects Are For Record ^-Enrollment At W. C. T. C. Present indications point , to a record enrollment at Western Caro lina Teachers College for the 1932-33 session which will get under way September 20. Miss "Ruth Oliver, Bursar, announced that more room reservations have already been re ceived than ever in the history of the school at this season of the year. The school offices are flooded daily with inquiries. These injuiries comci from every nook of North Carolina and several other states. The school officials are especially elated over the prospects for n de cided increase in the enrollment of men students. In the past Western Carolina has been regarded, more or less as a girls' school. This idea is WILL WORE ON GRAVE YARD AT EAST LAPORTE This is to notify all friends and relatives that the cemetery at East Laporte will be cleaued off next Sat urday, August 6 and decorated Sun day August 14, Dinner on the ground. Miss Ida Smith, Mrs. Maude Coward, Mrs. Nancy Brown, Jno. D. Norton, Program Committee. ' " /,-? % ' ' i Start Work On Fencing Of New Athletic Field ('. 0. Poindexter, Director of| A thirties at Western Carolina Teach ers College, states that work started Tuesday morning on fencing the new athletic field at C'tiHowhee. Work will he pressed in order to have the fence completed for the opening of thn foot ! ball season. | The fence is to he a hoard stroc nine feet high supported by locust posts. The lumber will be dressed to render it more suitable for advert is in# purposes and for pointing. Money to build the fence is beinf. j raised from donations by the varioutj firms and indviduals interested in the school. In exchange for donations th ?>! j school is offering advertising sparp 'on the fence, desk blotters, etc. ) , ^ The following firms have already j donated to the fund or indicated thai i they will: Asheville Baking Company, Coving ton Sports, Shell Gas Station, Gulf Refining Company, Svlva Supply Co., j The Paris, The Leader, Jackson Coun ty Bank, Ford? C. C. Cagle and Son, Jaekson Chevrolet Company, J. B. Ens'ey Peed Co., Sylva Coal & Lbr. Co O. R. Mosa, Blackwood Lumber Co. Sylva Pharmacy, Hole In The Wall MaShburn's Shoe Shop, Buchanan Pharmacy L. H. Gates ? Taxi, The Print Shop, Sylva Feed Company, Tuckaseegee Motor Co. Mooro s Dry Cleaners, Medford Furniture Co., Ac me Cleaners Stovall's 5 and to Cent (Continned on Page two) \ / - rapidly passing away and within the] next year or so the boys will, in all probability, outnumber the girls President Hunter has promised the new Robertson Dormitory to the boys if the enrollment jnstifies such a move. In order to get a line on the num ber of boys expected, everyone con templating entering is urged to send in the five-dollar room reservation without delay. Prospects are looking bright for a winning football team under Coach Poindexter. The new athletic field is being fenced and other improve ments made to foster better athletics for the school. Coach Poindexter will be in full charge of aQ, athletics for both boys and girls. HOLD FUNERAL FOR GEO. W. PANGLE Geo. W. Pangle, one of Dillsboro'* prominent citizens, was taken by death at his home Friday morning, after a lingering illness, at the age of 72. Mr. Pangle was a member of the Dillsboro Baptist church, and of the Knights of Pythias; Born in Mc Dowell county, in 1859, he removed to Dillsboro during his early man hood, and hag lived there for the past half century. He married Miss Carrie Lou Sutton, a daughter of the late Solomon Sutton, who sur- j vives him. Six sons, Clande and H. D. of j Dillsboro; Thomas 0., of Asheville;; W. D., of Jacksonville, Fla.; Fred W. of Ashtabula, Ohio and 0. L, of Daylight, Tenn., survive him as I do one sister, Miss Nancy Pangle of ' j Dillsboro and three brothers, C. P. I Pangle of Alexandria, Va.; Cole' Pangle of Rosman and R. L. Pangle j of Dillsboro. The funeral service was conducted at the Dillsboro Baptist church, Fri day afternoon by Rev. W. C. Reed and Rev. D. H. Rhinehart. Interment was in Locust Field cemetery. Pall-bearers were six nephews of Mr. Pangle, John C. Sutton, Charlie Sutton; Ossie Sutton; Lapie Pangle, James Pangle and Allen Paagfe. AH the eight months schools of Jackson County except Cullowhee, Dillsboro and Sylva got off to a fly ing start for the 1932-33 session Monday morning with record enroll ments reported all down the line. Dillsboro and Sylva schools will open September 5, and Cullowhee will open around September 20, with the opening of Western Carolina Teach ers College. The-fiix months schools opened on July ll/\ At the call of Supt\&L-B. Madi son, the teachers met at the Sylva Elementary School building Thurs day of last week and received final instructions on various points per taining to the management of the schools. Superintendent Madison presided over the meeting. The program con sisted of a song and devotional per iod led by Rev. D. H. Rhinehart; o talk on athletics and school publicity by C. C. Po^ndje^tex, pirectjor of Athletics at Western "Carolina Teach ers College and Sylva attorney; an nouncements and instructions by Supt. Madison; a reading by Miss Caroline Rhodes, and a brief meet ing of the Jackson County Teachers Association with S. J. Phillips of Balsam presiding. Mr. Poindexter assured the teach ers that he would be more than glad to cooperate with them in every pos sible way in planning and staging physical education and athletic pro grams. It is hoped that several play days and track field meets can be held in the county during the year. Mr. Poindexter also explained a plan he had worked out with The Jackson County Journal to give full publicity to all school facta and ac tivities that might be of interest to the people of Jackson County. The plan is to have a full sheet of school news in The Journal each week. One page will be devoted to the Jackson County public schools and the other to Western Carolina Teachers Col lege news. The teachers were urged to help put this publicity and edu cational program over by sending in all news of interest about their schools each week. Mr. Poindexter said news should reach him by Sat urday night in order to give time to get them arranged for publication. Mr. Poindexter can be reached at his office in the Buchanan Building or at his home in Cullowhee. In furtherance of this plan of pub licity for the schools the editor of The Journal has agreed to give the teachers special subscription rates as follows: six months for sixty cents; eight months for seventy-five cents and twelve months tpf one dollar. Also, schools that want to raise some money for their schools may do so by securing regular subscriptions or renewals at the rate of $1.60 a year. Schools taking advantage of this of fer may keep fifty cents out of each year's subscription or renewal. Any one wishing to take advantage of these offers was asked to get in touch with Mr. Poindexter or th< Alitor of The Journal. But the main thing that Mr. Poindexter stated that he wants is all the school news of Jackson County. Superintendent Madison, in the course of his remarks and announce ments touched on the following item* : 1. The importance of every teacher joining the North Carolina Educa tional Association. 2. The rule of the board of edu cation against any teacher marrying during the school year. He stated that any teacher breaking this rule forfeited his or her contract. 3. The importance of teachers' re ports being accurately and promptly made. 4. That pupils were not to change from one school district to another without the consent of the board of education. 5. That no child was to be dis missed from school because its par ents could not fnrnish it books. 0. That teachers make a special point to visit the home of every pu pil enrolled in school. 7. That all teachers a? required to have a health certificate as a matter of protection to both the pupils and themselves. (Continued fl* Pflfi two)