onfl
Year in Advance in The Oountv.
SYLVA NORTH OADOLINA,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
jijismeM city
$ i mm ay
mm MARCHERS
Hilling'"", lj ('-> A "gust 10.?
II iik t'ie I <?' the "bonus j
ruy 1ms si-ttlcd down
y, 10 it< i i>n;il mid . summer ca m.j
I'lfihtHly v.!i<> '?mi Wo so gets out
. ][,nhii'Xt?ii "I August. That isj
miirii I'mmii ?? Washington isl
Iiotl.-r i'1-"1 a".v otl,t'r ?? the)
iw.-r, anybody who I
\r in i'"} u''? ('oll'<' l>ossibly
tfitothi ruiiiifiy August does so.
.'I tlii- permanent inhabi
ciimjMist'il mainly of govern
t|BK ??(-? ----- , .
mm! fini?lo_vf-<'-. August always sees
1 ;rt'?r "'Ni'* tourists lrom the|
0f the 1'nited Ntat-ps. This yeai
fhj iiuiiilit'i' i- ??t quite so large asj
uMtt!. btvaux' apparently fewer peo
pjcbaiv I he means to take extended |
rJl.ftti,n tn'i?s. hut the hotel and
m0l?risi>' '?<??"< " ???lo"P the river arc
l^iiuiiiir (<> t'U t'I> and at every
paint ot iiitcn'st in the city one en '
?rou|?> from out of town
^ shovrn the sights of the na
?s Capital by one of the thou
i,|< of license- 1 guides, who manage
to aate a pretty fair living showing
visits around.
Politically, till' sensation of the
tuiti
jjllll
fcurisihe appointment ?* Atlee
lwmf, former Senator from Ohio,
. Democrat, as chairman of the Re
| ^metion Finance Corporation un
Aer its renranni>nti?>n- This is regard
ed m veW shrt ?d political move
PrMi,1?t; !L"
pro.lt t<the whole ?a!ior> tha* there
U, ?n partisan control of this gigan
IfepmMitil financial institution.
W PwV\>\s \\w last thin? in the world
' I hut av? t^ponsible administration
M ould niuMt to do in times like
those would hp to make partisan dis
criminations in the ttfort to pot the
country hack on a sound financial
basis. But it would he ?asy for op
ponents of the President to charge
that lie tow iising the R. F. C. to
'in tin r lib personal political ambi
ions and those of his party. He
ffeehially spiked the guns of such
rritics by putting four Democrats
ind only throe Republicans on th<
P. F, C. hoard. Arid nobody who
knows anything about At lee I'om
wne has the slightest notion tha
ho is going to discriminate against
Republicans when it comes to the in
telligent use of the huge eredits at
the command of the Commission.
That the credit of the United State*
Government is as sound as ever is in
dirotcd bv the fact that the most
recent, offering of Trea/ury Notes
was oversubscribed six times ? that
lis. six times as much money was of
Ifertil as could be accepted. Not only
^"'re p'enty of capital left in
^Wwa, but confidence in the Gov
? cnwnwt b unimpaired.
? ^ i peat deal of interest j?olit
l,f% is the question of what Gov.
I Roosevelt will do about Mayor
*-kcr. The general belief among
H'linans of both parties is that if
t c Governor removes the Mayor he
lost1 more votes in New York
? tate than he will gain and possibly
^*ew fork's electoral vote,
rcas, if he does not remove the
a'0r it will Imve a serious effect
? fr sUtes, particularly in the
1 p West and in the South, where
?!?aii\ Hull js anathema and where
F Democrats will be at least
pI/.ff,arm. 'u ^(,'r allegiance to the
fi'tial candidate in that event.
11 interesting complieation of this
*"? ? the , ,hat if Gov- 1
\fa,. W,SI'V0'' does remove Mayor
^ Jimmy", will declare him
Vurka ('anfli,latp for Governor of New
Ha|| nit'' backing of Tammany
disr,',5"'! ,hat w?uld pretty near
in ^ '' entire party machinery
minister TO PBEAOH
4T BAPTI3T CHURCH SUNDAY
B- Kvorott, pastor of Wash
on Baptist Church, will preach at
C va : Baptist Church next Sunday
and evening. Mr. Everett is
,f<Jnrr ?>I1(.KP and Seminary mate
jl ' r- Murray and is the guest of I
a'"' Mrs. Murray while in Sylva.
^ (*lioir, w hich is doing good work
' fender a special number at
p ^fvico.
,,/^.v is cordially invited to
fVh SC an'^
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stoekhridge)
Faith . , . bays farm land
One of my family neighbors ealkul
on me the' other day. He wanted to
buy forty acres of my land to add to
his hundred and sixty.
"How do you expect to pay for it?"
I asked him. "I didn't know any of
you dairymen were making any money
with milk down to four cents a
gallon."
''We're not,'' replied my neighbor,
"but things can't git any worse, so
they are bound to get better. I fig
ure ou buying twelve or fifteen more
head of cows in the spring, and I J J
need more pasture. A lot of the folks
uround here are selling off their
i ? '
<?ow.s and throwing up their hands,
but I've been farming forty years
and I 're never seen the time when the
''el low that sticks to it and does the
best he can didn't come out all right
in the end."
I told John he could have the land,
and I complimented him on his faith
in the future. It has always seemed
do me that the real backbone of
America is that quality of confidence.
Our recent troubles have largely been
due to loss of faith in the realities
of life. Too many people are too far
removed from the soil, but ihe man
with his feet on the ground and the
courage and ability to work is the
one who is going to pull us out ol
the hole.
Silver . . . watch deve'opsments
As I have been predicting in this
column, the reinoneti/.ation of silvci
has become a topic of world-wide
discussion by governments and econ
omists. The projxisal to put the In
dian iu|*ce baek on a silver basis and
to restore the silver content of the
subsidiary coinage of the British Em
pire is being hotly debated at the
conference in Ottawa. >
At the International Economic
Conference called by the League of
Nations for October, the United
States Juts insisted that the position
of silver as money be given a place
on the program. t ? j
T think it is quite probable that I
we shall eventual'y see a small j>er
centage of silver added to the gold
reserves of the world and used as
an additional basis for money which
will be acceptable everywhere. Tf
that is done, the effect will be to
increase the volume of money and so
increase the value of commodities.
This will help every debtor, who must
pay his debts either in labor or
commodities produced hv labor, and
it will not injure any creditors ex
cept those who are trying to take ad
vantage of present low commodity
prices to grind their debtor*.
Camera ... to doctor s aid
i j I
I was in the office of a medical
friend the other day and noticed i'oi
the first time- a' hole in the wall, al
most concealed by the |>attcrn of the
wall paper. I asked the doctor what
tint was for.
He took out of the file 011 his
desk several cards, on each of which
was a photograph of myself.
"That's the latest idea for a busy
specialist," he said. "I don't see my
patients every few days, but only
once a year or so as I do you. I
cannot remember what each of them
looks like, and, besides, it is of im
portance in my specialty to have a
record of any change in a patient's
posture or. appearance from year to
year. So I have a camera rigged up
behind that partition, and every time
you have been in here for the last
five years yoc have been photograph
ed. Take a look at the pictures. Don't
von think you look better than you
did?"
T.axea ... the Be'oit way
There are seventy cities in the
United States which. pay all of their
municipal running expenses out of
he profit from operation of muni
cipally-owned public utilities. Beloit,
Wisconsin, nearly 25,000 inhabitants,
is the latest and largest city to take
taxes off real estate,
The city of Jacksonville, Florida,
iwns the community's electric light
ind power system, also owns the
toll bridge across the Ft. Johns
-ivcr* Both of these investments have
been paid for, and now the Com
missioner of Public Uti'ities lias pro
posed to the city council that if they
will sca'e the budget down 25 per
cent he will provide income enough
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Jeffress Announces Plans
To Begin Paving Highway
106 In The Near Future
Highway lOti from Svlva to Cullo
whee will be paved at an eurlv date.
That is the positive statement oi' Mr.
K. B. Jeffivsi, Chairman of the North
Carolina Highway Commission, in a
letter t.i-Th Journal, icceived last
Saturday.
Mr. Jrffress stated in his letter
that, since the io:id will he a federal
aid project that it will be necessary
for government engineers to cheek
TRANSPORTATION
COSTS ARE GIVEN
-An average of 744 pupils were
transported by motor conveyance to
the several consolidated schools of
the County of Jackson daring last
year, states Supt. M. B. Madison, at
a cost of $9.45 per pupil per year.
The average cost of transporting
students over the State is $10.85 per
pupil, and since Jackson is located
in the mountains where transporta
tion costs must be relatively "high
from natural causes, it is felt that
the Board of Education has set a
good record by reducing the cost
$1.40 below the average for the State
North Carolina, according to recent
information from the State Super
intendent, now transports more chil
lrcn to school than any other State
in the Union, and at a cost of about
hr.lf per pupil of nny of the next
State down the list. There are 230,
000 children riding to 1,170 schoti1
at an average cost of $10.85 per pupil.
Yadkin county transj>orts the chil
dren at $5.81, while the cost in
Transylvania is $35.84.
North Carolina stands third in the
number of buses, 4,240, headed only
by Indiana and Ohio. The State
wide network of 58,870 miles of road
is exceeded by Indiana, with North
Carolina second and Ohio third.
In 1014-15 six vehicles were op
erated in the State and carried 247
pupils, and in 1910 20 150, motor ve
hicles carried 8,000. The number now
being transported rcpiysents about
one-iourlh of the enrollment in
North Carolina'* schools.
Jackson County figures for 1930
31 in white schools follow: Vehicles
used, 14; schools served, 7; daily
average number pupils hauled, 744;
daily vehicle miles, 4(51; average
number days vebieVs operated, 151 ;
annual )cost of operation, $7, 02/. 95
annual cost per pupil. $9.45; daily
cost |>er pupil, 0.3 cents. Figures for
Jackson County colored schools show:
vehicles used, 1; schools served, 1;
daily average number of pupils
hauled, 58; daily vehicle miles, 80;
average number of days vehicle op
crated, 100; annual cost of opera
tion, $573.75; annual cost per pupil.
$9.87; daily cost per pupil, 6.2 cents.
The fourteen buses serving Jackson
are owned and operated by the
County.
PROGRAM OF ORIENTATION
PLANNED FOR FRESHMEN
?Cullowhee, August 0. ? The fresh- 1
man orientation program for tlir
coining term at Western Carolina
Teachers College will be held Sep
tember 20-22, it has been announced.
College officials have the plans for
the three-day program almost con
p'eted. Next year',s faculty members
will soon be notified of the part that
they are supposed to play in making
the orientation program a success.
Among the activities that been
scheduled for the freshmen Septem
ber- 20, opening date of the orienta
tion program, are singing, a devo
tional service, English and psychol
ogy tests, and a picnic dinner. At
2:30 o'clock on September 20, Dr. II.
T. Hunter, president of the college
will deliver an address to the fresh
men.
On Wednesday morning , September
21, physical examinations will b.
given and group inspection of th"
col'ege library will be made. At 11
o'clock on that date the freshmer.
will gather in the college auditorium
During this meeting there will bo
recreational sinsring. a devotiona'
service, and short addresses on men
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'and approve the plana; but that
every detail is being rushed as rapid
ly as possible; and that "We ejcpect
to award the contract on this project
at an early letting".
The Journal regrets that the inform
ation is not more definite, as to when
the contract will be let; but the
Chairman has given us as definite
imformation as it was possible for
i him to give at this time.
GRID SCHEDULE IS
NEARLY COMPLETE
C'oadh C. C. Poindexter reports
that work is progressing rapidly on
fencing the new athletic field at
Western Carolina Teachers College.
The digging of the post holes has
been completed and posts placed most
of th<j way around the enclosure.
Work on nailing up the planks will
start immediately and the fence will
be completed in time for the open
i
ing of the football schedule.
Coack Poindexter spoke at the reg
ular meeting of the Sylva-Dillsboro
Kotary Club Tuesday in behalf of the
Athletio Program of Western Car
olina. Ib the course of his remarks,
he stated that he was trying to work
out an annual November 11 game for
Sylva between Western Carolina and
some g<jod team.
The l p.'12 football schedule is prac
tically iomplete and shows the fol
lowing nines:
Oct. 8, Rutherford at Rutherford
Oct. 15, iHtthiorc Junior College at
C|llowhee
Oct. 29, lejlnessee Teachers at John
(P?ding)
Nov. 5,J1llHwaW^f,Tb!frrwhe<t
Nov. 11, (Pending) at Sylva or C'ullo
whee
Nov. 19, Mars Ilill at Cullowhee
Nov. 26, Weaver College at Weaver
A game will probably be arranged
with the Cherokee Indian All-Stars
as part of the Cherokee Fair pro
gram and a practice game may be
arra-nged for the first of October.
Coach Poindexter announced that
practice would begin with the open
ing of school oil September 20. Indi
cations point to a large s<|uad and
a winning team.
AUTO RUNS THROUGH HOUSE
One of the strangest automobile ?c
eidents of all was that on Saturday
night about ton o'clock, when a car,
operated by > Miss Rosclla Cagle,
left the highway, west of Maple
Springs, and crashed into the side of
a dwelling house, knocking Mrs. Wil
liam Wiseman from her bed, arid
almost demolishing one side of the
house. Roger Monteitb was with Miss
Cagle in the car at the time of the
accident. It is said that Mr. Wise
?an was in the road, and that Miss
Cagle tried to avoid striking him, and
ran into the side of the building.
Wiseman is said to have been drink
Ini.
RECENT UNION MEETING IS
PRONOUNCED GREAT SUCCESS
The recent Union Meeting of the
Tuckaseigcc Baptist Association, held
with Sol's Creek church was one of
the best in recent years.
The attendance was unusually good
from the beginning, There were four
teen preachers present Friday and
fifteen present Saturday.
The theme for discussion was Sab
bath Observance. The speakers as a.
whole were unusually well prepared.
It was pointed out that the fol
lowing things were being indulged in
by our church people that take them
away from Sunday School and church
and hence lead them to spend the
day in a way that is contrary to
Scripture teaching: Grave yard dec
orations, birthday dinners, family re
unions, all day singings, family vis
iting, picnics, fishing, ? and sports
such as golf, tennis and baseball.
The next Union Meeting goes to
East Fork Savannah, the fifth Sun
day in Oetober.
| FORTY YEARS AGO
t
Tuckueige Democrat, Auf. 3, 1892
Miss Pauline Morris went to Whit
ticr, Friday.
'Squire J. W. Keener and family,
of Webster, went to 'Asheville Tues
day, the wjoire returning today.
Misses Bcrta and Nora Pharr, of
Canton, who have been visiting the
family of Mr. Logan Bumgarner, left
for home Monday.
Andy Nicholson, of Caney Fork had
the misfortune to get his leg broken
last Friday, handling logs. Dr. Wolff
was called in and rendered the nec
essary surgical aid.
We are indebted to oar young
friend. Victor Hooper, of Tuckaseigee
for a monster Irish potato, not only
remarkable for itg immense size, but
for ihc fact that five large potatoes
were growing from the main body.
Miss Mai Davies and her father,
the Judge, came down Saturday to sec
Mr. David Davies, a nephew of the
Judge, who has been spendng a
while at Forest Hill, off home, and
to meet Mrs. Sensabaugh, who came
to visit them.
While the hot wave has been very
oppressive in parts of the country and
many people have died of the heat,
in the northern cities, with us it has
lacked a great deal of being very se
vere. Our nights have been pleasant
and the days are delightful now. We
are at a loss to know why people will
suffer the extremes of heat and cold
in other sections while there is so
much room here, where the heat is
never oppressive and the cold never
severe.
The Dercorest medal was contested
for at the Aeademy last Thursday
Bight Th* 1<g? "t
Bert Pharr, Ella Potts, Mamie
Stedman, Ella Bumgarner, Hattie
Sandy and Pauline MorriH, all of
whom acquitted themselves handsome
ly, Miss Ella Potts being declared
the winner of the prize. A branch of
the Woman's Christan Temperance
Union was organized the following
morning, with Mrs. S. A. Stedman as
president, Mrs. J. L. Potts and Mrs.
R. M. Davis as vice-presidents, and
Miss Ella Potts as secretary.
Registrars appointed by the Com
missioners on the first Monday in
August, 1892: Quallatown, Wm. H.
Thomas, Jr; Barker's Creen, S. C. Al
lison; Dillsboro, J. C. Watkins; Syl
va, F. A. Luck, Sr.; Webster, J. W.
Keener, Scott's Creek, R. R. Fisher;
Savannah, John Tatham; Cullowhee,
Lee Hooper; River, Javan Davis*,
Caney Fork, R. H. Stephens; Canada,
J. M. Rigdon; Hamburg, John C.
Moss; Cashier's Valley, Will Dillard.
MBS. JAMES E. BUCHANAN
DIES AT HER SAVANNAH HOME
Mrs. James E. Buchanan' died
Wednesday morning, July 27, at her
home on Little Savannah. She was
65 years of age, and had been in
poor health for several years. She
was loved by all her neighbors, and
was as a little child in her suffering.
All little children loved to visit and
talk with her.
Mrs. Buchanan before her marriage
was Miss Nancy Presslcy, daughter
of F. P. Prcssley of Speedwell, and,
the eldest child of a family of eleven,
she was the first one called to the
Great Beyond.
She professed faith in Christ at
the age of 17, and was a devoted
member of the Cullowhee Baptist
church, until she married, when she
iroved her membership to the Sav
annah Baptist church.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday morning at the Stillwell
cemetery by Rev. Geo. C. Snyder.
Rev. W. N. Cook, and Rev. R. N.
Deitz.
She is survived by her husband,
J. E. Buchanan, five sons, Grover E.
Buchanan, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Omer.
Arthur, Ralph and Tom Bucfianan,
two daughters, Mrs. Elvin Cowan and
Miss Rebecca Buchanan , 9 grand
children, seven brothers, three sisters,
and a large number of other relatives |
and friends.
BAPTISTS TO MEET
AT SHOAL CREEK
AUGUST 18,19,20
The Tuckaseigee Baptiat Associa
tiin will meet for ita one hundred
and thirty-third annual session, at)
Shoal Creek Baptiat church, in Qualla,
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of next week.
Rev. Thad F. Deitz is the moder
ator, and Rev. W. N. Cook, clerk o?
the Association.
The introductory sermon will be de
livered by Rev. J. G. Murray, pas
tor of the First Baptist chureh of
Sylva.
The committees have worked out
the following tentative program, to
guide the association in expediting
its work:
Thursday
10:30 Devotional, Rev. J. L. Hyatt
10:45 Enrollment of Delegates; Rec
ognition of Visitors
11 :00 Introductory sermon, Rev. J.
G. Murray
12:00 Dinner
1:15 Devotional, J. S. Stanberry
1 :30 Periodicals, L. H. Crawford
2:00 Temperance, A. C. Bryson
2:30 S. C. I., J. T. Gribble
3:00 Xarr.es of Ministers and Ad
<] res hp h, Rev. T. F. Deitz
4:00 Miscellaneous business
Adjournment
Fridijjr
9 :30 Devotional, Moderator
10:00 Co-operative Program, L. D.
Cowan
10:30 State Missions, F. I. Watson
11:00 Home Missions, J. B. Ensley
11:30 Sermon : Missions, W. C. Reed
12:15 Dinner
1:30 Foreign Missions, Western
Parker
2:00 Hospitals, J. F. Hooper
2 :45 Ministerial Relief, W. C. Reed
3:15 Christian Education, L. L.
Shaver
4:00 Miscellaneous Business
Adjournment
9:30 Devotional, David Dean
10:00 Orphanage, R. L. Cook
10:30 B. Y. P. U., Lawson Allen
11:00 W. M. U., Mrs. W. N. Cook
12 :00 Dinner
1:30 Election of Officers
1:45 Sunday Schools, Richard
Miller
2:15 Obituaries, W. C. Reed
ENROLLMENT IS OVER 300
IN WEBSTER SCHOOLS
Webster High and Elementary
schools started the 1932-33 session
August 1st, under the leadership of
S. B. Hutchinson, principal, with a
combined enrollment of 305. Of this
total 215 are enrolled in the primary
and intermediate # grades and 90 in
the high school. Teachers and pat
rons of the school are optimistic for
the most successful year in the his
tory of the school.
The enrollment and teachers by
grades are as follows:
First grade, 37, Miss Maggie Mor
gan; Second grade, 35. Mrs. Claude
Cowan; Third grade, 42, Mrs. Isaac?
Keener; Fourth grade, 39, Mrs. Pearl
Madison ; Fifth grade, 23, Miss Annie
Louise Madison; Sixth grade, 18,
Miss Annie Louise Madison and Mr.
Frank Crawford; Seventh grade, 21,
Mr. Frank Crawford; Eighth grade,
32; Ninth grade, 24; Tejith grade, 19;
Eleventh grade, 15.
Mr. S. B. Hutchinson, Miss Lillie
Stein and Mrs. D. D. Davis are the
high school teachers.
GLENVILLE SCHOOL OPENS
WITH RECORD ENROLLMENT
The Glenville High school opened
August 1st, with the largest enroll
ment in its history. Three hundred
and fifteen pupils reported to the
various high school and elementary
teachers for instruction during the
1932-33 session.
A large number of patrons and
friends of the school attended chapel
the first morning. The outlook for
a banner year is bright.
The high school faculty is com
posed of Mr. J. D. Parker, Jr., prin
cipal, Mr. Andy Bryson and Miss
Jometa Higdon. TJie E^emen^M^
teachers are Miss Carma Ashe, Mr.
Sam P. Hyatt, Mrs. GeHie Moss,
Mrs. W. L. Allen and Miss Edith
Alley, substitute.
The local school board is composed
of C. G. Wilson, chairman, D. P.
Moss and H. H. BrjM.