/
'oniric Sonrna!
Thursday, august 25, 1932 $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
?tate To Let Contract For
Construction Of Highway
112 On Next Wednesday
S(AI w rtiiirsitny the State Ifigh
" will let the con
i lit' grading ami surfacing
T'lliihway n-' 11 "lista,u'? of 529
' 7r,,in Highway No. J? to Oher
', j, iM-i-n announced at the
' , ,if the ( ihiiii i>Mt.n in Kahigh.
wi I among several
v., parts of the Slate, that
?|| .tut tin estimated amount ol
(lijjinvH* II- is 'he ol,e tl,nt leaves
1". ut ,lu' Ferguson farm
J,,,,,, through Qualla township t<
ull',|e connects with tin
: i? Tennessee through the Great
f l ' 1
,.,?k .MmiiiJiiins National Park
d"' Smokies at Newfoum
| his mad is to he one of tlx
, i iitnnK < > lo the Park, and wil
, , " l>n, t ?f the Oreal
','Vuhl: IIiV'mv-'v, leading from South
i .nil ina, tli rmigh Cashier's Valley
llstjili'irsf, th'wii the Tuckaseigee b;
irlloivlwi' I" sylvn, then by High
,,;1. N??. It'. 112 and 107 to Tenn
tin' middle west.
|, b stM t **? I that the eonstruetio
oi lli'^iw.ty from EFa to Chero
sill l?i' tlfferred for some time
? ? ariiii'i-rs believe that the eoi.
linn of I hi* road is impractica
;V railroad, which leads up the
. i v:tU??v i> eliminated.
Nnfiiins was -;iiil in the news di> I
jl;ljcl??V iil'out Highway .106, froi j
Sylvn to CiiHuuliee; hut it is as
nr. .1 that tlii- contract will he le
witVuV ti short time, as The .fonrnal
J T.?. Sylva t'liauiher of Coinmerc*
j.- \ v\cr,il citi/riis ol' the count \
/?.Mi' tVic ?<>uratuc "f Chairman ?
/>'. frt'!'iv? ikt vhi-. paving will t><
iji'iu- a i an early date. Citizens o
"'hi r HVsferii couuti* s have bee;
tohl by Mr. ,/eft'n-ss that Highway
1'H> is ii/h' of the fo.'uls that he h:
in mini/ to const met out of the fed
mil niil funds t/i?t ar?- now in hand
All Jackson county, and especial
!y tin- lower end of the county wil'
rejoice tit flic advice that the Quail;
road is to he constructed immediate
!v. It is Hut only one of the mair
'?ntraucrtsvto the Park, if not th
'hief entrance; hut also traverse'
Qnalla, one of the best and most |>op
ulons townships in the county.
THOMAS SPEAKS TO ROTARY
CLUB AT REGULAR MEETINC
li'oy /,. Ilimuas, of Hock Hill, S I
governor ot' the Carolinas dis J
triit of Kiitiirv International, in an I
aililr^V. ht'lnrc the Sylva-I)illsbor< I
Holary Club dt iis weekly meeting
Thursday uiglit of la*t week at thi 1
i.'wiU S|.inijjs Hut* I, stressed thi J
k^anf" of the pail Rotary play- I
I in Willing of a nation and in I
I n i'ii:,' \|i(. present condition <d
I 'i'f ficntry.
I flii purpose of mankind is two 1
>aid Mr. Thomas. "First to J
I 1' aru h<iw to live, and second to learn j
I ww t? live together. The first deals I
*i'li the irnterial and ends in thi? I
I *"r?L The second with the spiritual I
I a,-': tuts only in the great beyond.' I
I lias progressed far in tin I
I phase, he said, but has done I
I '' ?> '""ardi learning how to live
"V'liir. One reason for this is that I
I ? "!| his |(,st eonfiilcnec in his fellow!
'?U1>. .nul the restoration of this con- 1
I " u,t 's one ot the purposes of I
I tri,-i!iKliip is the basis of life,
i't'iihle with the world at I
! >s thnt most friendship is I
''"'Red, to gain either socially,!
|''':|,""ly. or materially. The pur
j Hoi iiry is to build real I
I Mini Mr. Thomas. >
I the wot hi talks and preach
I '' m b pessitaism. One business
run without capital or
"I criticism. It is an
lv. v. '";lt l{ lends downward to
? tl0n* Thomas stated that
I , ? 1 '"I ' Ijiini fdi* Notary the abil
I 'Vl present problems of
I . '? J"1' he did elaim for it
? '? t\ in iiitlueiiec in helping to
I l"'<?blems.
?\'lt:ils with the constructive
? s?l(|,.' '*lf' *nid its principles of
? K?od will, and glad
? ^ 1 ?'?? iinieli to bring the world
? :,s lrm' path," said Mr.
"l closing.
40 YEARS AGO
.Tuckaseiae Democrat, jtug. 1 /, is^
Asluville- ? Buncombe is u hundred
y?ns old and peop.tr liuve been cel
ebrating the centennial in great shape
i'lie legislature iu 171)2 estabisheu
ihe county by cutting from burke and
?tutherford the whole western section
of the State, comprising what is now
Macon, Yancey, Henderson, Madison,
laekson, Clay, Transylvania, Swain
md (Jrahain. The celebration was ad
Iressed by Attorney General David
ion, a native of Bunconibc, Hon.
verop I'. Battle, Col. V. S. husk, Hon.
t. B. Vance, Col. .1. I>. Cameron, and
'ol. A. T. Davidson. ^ There was u
trades display during the afternoon,
.howing the resources of the county.
Jas. W. McKee has been around
town for ft day or two.
Mr. Hoffman, of the Cullowhee Cot
ituluin Company, came back from a
lorthcrn trip, Saturday.
Misses Lee and Belle Leatherwood
??nd Mr. -Joe Sherri I were in town oil
i shopping expedition, this week.
John Holdcn is supp'ying the de
Hand for fruit among us, and favor- 1
d the Den:ocrat with samples of lus- 1
ions grapes and peaches.
NT. Newhy, of Bryson City, who has
ecu on a visit to his old home id
.'erquimans county, passed here Mon
lay, returning home.
Charlie Wike, who has been in Co
'umbia and other points since last
fall, in railroad service, reached home
Tuesday.
Mrs. Bishop, of Cullowhee, and her
laughter -in-law, Mrs. Bishop, of
louth Carolina, accompanicd by Mrs.
?rook, investigated the mysteries of
he "art preservative" in a brief vis
it to our office yesterday.
The School Season: J. H. House is
eaching a school at Dillsboro,
Fohn C. Buchanan, at Svlva, Mr. Oar
land, of Macon, at Bryson's School
'louse, Z. V. Watson, at Clayton's
?H?ar Addie, C. A. Wal'aee, at Double
Springs, on Cullowhce mountain, and
jr. S. Cowan, at Rivpr Hill, while
hose excellent institutions, Cullowhce
tnd Hamburg' High Schools, are in
Pull blast. C. C. Cowan was induced
?o accept a school on Pigeon River, in
I fay wood county, while Thos. F. Long
who has been in Haywood for several
vears, has returned to Jackson, anil
is teaching at Wilmot. We would b<
?lad to be able to advise as to who is
teaching other schools in the county
and wish for all of theiu the fullest
measure of success. We hope a grand
stride forward in the cause of educa
tion may be made this year. The pub
lic school fund for this year amounts
to an apportionment of 90 cents per
scholar, according to the school cens
us returned by district committees.
We regret to hear of lack of harmony
in some of the districts, which works
nothing but harm to the schools. Let
the interests of the children outweigh
?very other consideration.
'? V '?> .
On of the best meetings the Jack
son County Union has had for a
otig time was held at Shoal Creek
commcncing Friday before the fifth
Sunday in July. The introductory ser
mon was preached by Rev. II. 1).
Welch. Rev. John L. Owen presided
over the meeting. The churches were
represented as follows: Caney Fork,
V. C. Queen and J. II. Webster; Ham- 1
burg, J. L. Owen, J.M.Wilson; Mt.
Pleasant, W. W. Reed, II. D. Welch,
F. M. Bryson ; Scott 's Creek, A. H.
Sims, A. W. Farmer, B. H. Harris,
T. J. Fisher; Shoal Creek, J. P. Paint
or, S. J. Becic, R. L. Hyatt, J. B. Git
son, C. J. Hipps, R. 0. Hyatt, A. L.
Beck; Svlva, J. K. Alien, Charlie Al
len; Dillsboro, A. C^ Connor, 0. E.
Davis; Webser, J. W. Buchanan;
Savannah, Coleman Caglc; East Fork,
A. W. Davis, T. F. Deitz; Zion Hill,
J. T. Wondard, W. T. Crisp; Cul!o
whee, John E. Enslev.
\)
LEADERS BELIEVE
CONDITIONS ARE
GROWING BETTER
Washington, I). C., Aug. 24. ? The
feeling that economic conditions
grn>rnlly are improving is gnuving
in Washing, on, v.i h a good deal of
argument on hotli sides as to wheth
er this is going to deve'op fast
enough to be of | olitic.-il ?. alue. Of
course there will he an effort to make
capita! out of the national confcr
enee of business and industrial com
mittees of the Federal Reserve dis
tricts which have been called upon
by the President to meet in Wash
ington on August 2(>th to map out
a coordinated nation-wide program
of action against the economic de
pression. That is to be followed 011
September 25th by another confer
ence to consider means for the gen
eral introduction of the five day
week in all branches of business and
industry, and that -will be followed
in October by an international econ
omic conference in London.
What effect these conferences will
have upon economic conditions is
one question; what effect they may
have upon the |H>liticul situation is
something else.
Leaders here see signs on both
sides of the political fence of a
much more common-sense attitude
toward the debts which various
European .nations owe to the Gov
ernment of the l!nited States. It i:
not thought that the people of tin
United States would tolerate for a
minute any proposal to cancel these
debts. But it is thought there would
be a favorable reaction toward any
sound *u'oposaI to settle them in
something else besides hard cast.
Senator Borah recently opened the
door for discussion when he said !
that if insistence upon the payment
of these debts in full and in gold
would work to the detriment of the
American farmer and producer he
would favor some other way of set
tling them. Former Governor Alfred
K. Smith not long ago proposed that
some schcme of tariff adjustments
between the I'nited States and our
debtors should be made so that credit
on account of the debts 'could b.1 j
given to nations buying our products ,
in proportion to the amount ot their
annual purchases. ^ And President
Hoover intimates that he would be
willing to consider some means. of
settling these debts through the ex
pansion of itiarkcts for the agricul
ture and labor. It is not a matter of
record as to who it was that sug
gested that Kngbuul and l*rau<c
might pay their debts to us by trans
ferring to the United States the
sovreigntv of the West Indian Is
lands which they own. Perhaps the
immediate benefit to us of the own
ership of Bermuda, the Bahama*,
Jamaica, Martinique, Barbados and
the other islands of the West Indies
may not be apparent, but at least
such an offer from those nations
would be an evidence of good faith.
There is an idea that it would be ac
cepted.
YOUNCI DEMOCRATS
WILL MEET HERE
NEXT SATURDAY
A call has been made for a mass
meeting of the young people of the
county to be held in the court house
on Saturday afternoon, August 27,
at 2 P. M., for the purpose of organ
izing a Young Peop'e's Democratic
Club for Jackson county.
All the young folks in the county
are invited to be present and to help
in perfecting the organization, and
all Democrats of the county are invit
ed to attend.
Doyle D. Alley, chairman of the
Young People's Democratic Clubs of
the Eleventh District, and Miss Isabel
Ferguson, vice-president of the State
organization, will be present at the
meeting.
A meeting of the District Young
People's Democratic Clubs will be
he'd at Brvson City, on September
10, when there will be a barbecue,
and a great Democratic rally for the
young folks of the Eleventh Difftrict.
Robert R. Reynolds and other speak
ers will address the Brvson City meet
ing.
NEXT CONGRESS MAY MAKE
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Washington, D. ('., Aug. 24. ? It
is held by experienced political ob
servers here that as certain as any
thing can be, which has not yet
JUikcn place, that, regardless of the
political complexion of the next Con
gress, legislation liberalizing the
present liquor laws will be passed
and a new constitutional amendment
submitted leaving the question of
prohibition up t<> the individual
states. They think that legislation
will retain Federal control, to a
greater degree than in the old pre
prohibition days, over interstate
traffic in liquor, between wet and
dry spates. It is remembered that
there fr5s always a question of the
constitutionality of the pre-prohibi
tion laws designed fo prevent ship
ments of intoxicants into states that
had voted themselves dry.
If such an amendment is adopted
it will not be, as many people seem
to think, the Twentieth Amendment
to the Constitution. The present pro
hibition amendment is the eighteenth
since the document was first promul
gated in 1787. The Nineteenth
Amendment, as i everyone knows, is
the woman suffrage amendment. But
there are still pending for ratifica
tion by the states two other amend
ments to the Constitution, one of
which is very likely to be fully rat
fied before .next summer by the State
Legislatures meeting during the com
ing winter.
One of these, and the one first
proi>oscd, is an amendment to the
Constitution giving Congress the
power to limit, regulate and pro
hibit the labor of persons under
eighteen years of age. This change in
the fundamental law was proposed
(Continued on Page two)
To Hold Mass Meeting At I
Glenville In Next Month
Plans are being; made by citizens ot'
the upper end of the county for a
huge mass meeting, to be held in the
High School building in Glenville,
during the early part of .September,
looking to the construction of High
way 10(i from Svlva, through the
county to Cashier's Valley.
The chairman of the State High
way Commission promised, last
Spring, that the construction forces
would be put oil the road from Tuck
aseigee to Gleuvil'e, and the rock
crusher placed there, in June. The
maintenance forces were taken off
the section, and the people believed
that the reason for the suspension of
maintenance was that construction
would begin immediately. However,
the maintenance forces have been p it
back to work there, and the peopY
plan to hold the mass meeting, ap
point delegates to go to Raleigh, and
ascertain from the commission, jus*
what the plans and intentions are
at the present time. It was believed,
last spring that the work would be
well under way from Ttrrkaseigee to
Glenville ere this, and that the
grading and paving from Svlva to
Cullowhee would also be under way
at this time.
The county has met repeated dis
appointments over 10G for a long
period of years. Acting under prom
ises that it would be constructed, the
county has invested some 000,000 in
loan* and donations to the State
Highway Commission, and 106 remain
to this day, the only highway in this
part of the State, that was originally
a part of the State Highway System,
that has not either been completed,
or is at present under construction.
There is a definite promise from Mr
Jeffress that the paving from Sylva
i to Cullowhee will be done "at an ear
ly date", and it is generally under
stood that the contrat will be award
ed at the next letting following that
of next Wednesday; but nothing has
been said from Raleigh in recent
months about the section from Tuck
aseigee to Glenville, or from Glen
ville to Cashier's Valley, and the peo
ple are becoming restive over Hie
j projects.
' )
t ' . ? :
K ? - ,
v ? ; \
Construction Of Highway
106 Is Adopted As Major
Park Project By Committee
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbridge)
Piccard . . . up he goes
Professor Piccard has been higher
above the earth than anyone else
ever went and came back, He thinks
he can go even higher to explore the
stratasphere.
If the Professor went high enough,
beyond the layers of gases which
travel with the earth in its revolu
tions, he could stand still in spact
and let the earth revolve under hin:,
coining down thousands of miles from
where he went up. He would have tc
go at least sixty miles up, however
instead of ten, and even then hi*
baloon probably would still be with
in the range of the earth's attraction
and would travel with it.
It is not beyond the realm of pos
sibility, however, that travellers of
the future, wanting to get to the
other side of the world in a hurry,
may just go up a hundred miles 01
so and let the earth move under
them at the rate of a thousand miles
an hour until the spot they want to
reach is under them.
That sounds fantastic now, but n<
more so than any kind of air nav
igation sounded a hundred years ago.
Silk . . . J&pan resumes
I lunched the other day with tin
head of one of the largest mercan
tile firms in the world. He told mi
something which illustrates perfect
ly the interdependence of nations.
"Japan is hard hp," he said, be
cause rayon ? artificial silk ? had cut
into the world market for Japan's
principal export, which is natural
silk. The dressmakers of Paris, who
set the fashions for the world, have
decreed that woolen materials will
be the height of fashion this coming
winter. But the ladies' garment mak
ers of America, catering to the masses
don't think the ordinary American
young woman will weat* wool; it
doesn't sound as expensive as silk.
So the American manufacturers have
developed a fabric which looks like
wool but is made of silk. It can t be
made of rayon, and it takes four
times as much silk to the yard as
the standard fabrics now in use.
" As a result," mv friend con
tinued, "Japan is getting larger or
less for silk than she has had for
years and the price is going up. And
because of the prospect for this ad
ditional revenue, Japan's military
party is making plans to go ahead
with the conquest of Manchuria, for
which there was not enough money
available a few months ago."
The idea that any one nation can
stand alone is as unsound as it is
dangerous.
Television ... on its way
One of the experts of the Bell
laboratories, who is working on the
problem of television, told me the
other day that he thought scientists
and engineers arc getting very close
to the day when it will be possibh
for anybody to see the person one
is talking with over the telephone.
It is being done now, as a labora
tory demonstration, and the problem
is to reduce the cost.
As for radio television, broadcast
ing on a screen events actually in
progress, that is a long way yet. It
would be Interesting if anybody who
had a proper receiving set could see
the next Olympic Gaines without hav
ing to travel across a continent or
an ocean to do so. Xobody who has
even a glimmering of what is going
on in the research laboratories is
willing to say today that anything
is impossible.
Politics . . . how it's done
I asked a small-town official the
other day why He had favored a
measure which ejearly would bene
fit only a few and would not do the
town as a whole any good.
"I don't like it any better than
you do, but I have to get myself re
elected. don't I?" was his frank
reply.
It is the desire for re-election that
makes most office-holders careless
with the taxpayers' money. Since
Highway 106 from Sylva to the
South Carolina line, was adopted as
one of the major objectives to be at
tained in the development of the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park area, by 'he advisory committee,
from "Buncombe, llaywood, Transyl
vania, Swain, Jackson, and Hender
son counties, at a meeting in Waynes
ville, on yesterday. The Jackson coun
ty member of the committee is Mr. A.
J. Dills, who succeeded in getting the
project adopted as a major objective,
at the executive session of the com
mittee, following the open meeting.
Mr. S. W. Enloe and Mr. Dan Tomp
kins were present at the meeting, and
presented Jackson county's claims be
fore the committee.
Mr. Tompkins stated to the com
mittee, following recommendations
from Transylvania and Haywood,
that Highway 194 and a road up by
Soco Gap to Cherokee be built at
once, that Jacksun county will op
pose all plans for the State Highway
Commission to expend any money on
any highway leading to the Park, that
was not an the original highway map
| of the State, until 106, which was oil
the original map, is built from Sylva
to the South Carolina line, contend
ing that the original highways were,
and still are, of primary importance,
that Jackson county lias spent, in do
nations and loans to the State, the
sum of six hundred thousand dollars,
or n: ore, in efforts to get 106 con
structed, and that it is a matter of
common justice that this road be giv
en priority over any others in this
part of the State.
After the open discussion, the com
mittee went into executive session, at
which J06 was put on as a major ob
jective in the Park development,
along with other projects that wero
named in the resolution.
The whole matter will be taken up
when the full report of the commit
tee is made public, by the civic bod
ies or mass meetings in the several
counties, and acted upon there, be
fore the resolution is forwarded to
the Highway Commission.
The importance of completing 112
and 10 7 to Newfound Gap was stress
ed at (he meeting, and it was the
sense of the committee that this is to
be the. main entrance to the Park,
and that it should be completed dur
ing the next few months, to make
it available for travel next summer.
Mr. Josephus Daniels was present
at the meeting and suggested, as a
part of the internal Park develop
ment that the Government should
try to keep the Cherokees on their
Reservation, and encourage the de
velopment of Indian arts, which he
stated would be a most attractive
part of the Park trip, and would
prove a source of considerable rev
enue to the Cherokees.
SYLVA FILES PROTEST TO
GAME PLAYED SATURDAY
Sylva's chances of winning the
Sinokv Mountains League pennant
fell short of what was expected of
the team when they lost one of the
hardest games .of the season last
Saturday to Hendersonville. Immed
iately after the game a protest was
sent in to the league officials at
Asheville, due to the fact that three
of the Hendersonville players were
not eligible to participate in a league
game. It is also understood that the
umpire was not a league appointed
umpire..
League officials will hold a meet
' ing in Asheville some time this month
to decide on what steps to fake in
regard to the game. Should the game
be given to Hendersonville it would
eliminate Sylva's chance of winning
the pennant.
most of the voters in most communi
ties are non-taxpayers, what differ
ence Joes it make? That is the poli
ticians' way of looking at public,
questions.
The movement to give men longer
terms in office and make them in
eligible for re-election does not seem
to be making much headway. It is
worth thinking about. I believe it
would be a good plan for all office
holders, from Prokbpt down.
i