onrttftl
c*i.f)l) Year in Advance in The Countv.
NORTE CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8,193'J
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
OFFICIALS continue
to be criticised
BV NATIONAL PRESS
I). i\ September 7.
v?, Mu- the .arly d.;ys of the cen
" ' . Theodore Roosevelt was
lias so iiuu'h violent erit
. ?t i(! ,rov? rui'ii'iital methods and
Imbii.- '..w? in PrI,,t as hM
?-rti ins ???* *" ,lu> l,ast -v<'ai
it Is the -s.-il oi' stuff which
JV. Koosevrit ylenmneed <;s
^raking.*' Nohoily in Washing
i- , exempt, from the President
i u . There is hardly a member of
1 'mil.-, or a public official abovt
t|?. .'i nli- of bureau chief who ha;
;nr? bitterly attacked and erit
by Vne another of the grouj
"j- \\ iishiiigton newspaper men win
siting l"",ks ,u,d "'?"a/iuo av
tiii' ' '
"'||u. latest of these exposures is r
,HH,k u-hu-ii ?>??* 1,1,1 m;oi(l ot th;
bills and n.ileaire charges col
brtnl bv numerous Senator^ am.
ri]l ..M utative*. Few people rea is*
|hat under a law enacted more thai
jilt v vents ago, every member o.
|H)lli Houses is entitled to collect
tents a mile from the treasury
.,t th*- beginning and end of eacl
of Congress, as traveling ex
' .^0 That dates back almost to tin
!,a.r, ,-l(:ich days, when traveling wat
Vjiv expensive and necessarily slow
riU'r f 101,1 the Pacific Coast
;vh() raVs about $275 for his rail
rolul a, ^ puilmnu fares in going t
Wvlnn-ion and returning home
. r bun $1 .'>00 for those ex
ETiw ? . *i?w sission r"ll?w'.
;?,?fan-ly tbf heels
" ?*??.. a* is oft? the ?, th.
tv f,?u a nule. even it the} don t
j/tfve \Vas\vvugtt>n between the Ui
sessions. . .; j
Such revelations as these are stn
hriii;' up a l"t of question * back in |
th( home state* and distintsf am
is no secret here that a S^-'t ,,,nn>
statesmen in both Houses are con
Milirab'y worried. A very iuterestinf
list hn> b. en compiled ot Senatou
aa,l representative** who have put
-is of their own families o?
| Sam's payroll as secretaries
Milt:-*' r\i-rk< and the like. That is
rn0,ii r ,.!d Washington custom, Ihi
lms been made here that
? iwentv-frtur nv;n of boti
I umv> have failed of renominatioi
tot-aw of these exposures.
TEACHERS AND MADISON MEET
Tlir teachers ?!' (lie Dillshoro am!
Sylva schools met with Superintend
iiit Madison at the Svlvu dement
?'i it mIico! building on Friday morn
iii'.' u 1 1 ' I laid plans for tin eominj
% vi'Jir. Mr. Madison explained the
i - tliod of keeping records and mak
i'i' reports, and made several ail
'"Wiccmciits ei.in ernuig tin- condiic:
"f the schools.
Mr. Madi: ?ion announced that fie
{Ti'iicril meetings wi'l he held for tin
l:-iicli? is of the county during tl*
"'X! five months. D.'ites and pine-.':
v' 'iiniin,r W(.1V announced as fol
'ows:
s "|?t< -:iiher 24 at Sylvn.
?Molicr 22 a' Cullowhee.
Novciiilier 10 at Cullowhee.
?WuiImi 17 at Sylva.
?Tani-.. y 14 at Sylvi.
The places of meeting were lrrpng
f(' in !;<? order unhealed to enabh
ti'wlh:-. t o .attend f<totli.*iIl game:
that ? i I ' h(. played l?v Western Car
'* iua '.??i -liers College O'l October 2.
ns"l \ov.-tiiher 19. Coach iVindoxte
a,?i"iiici-d that he would give the
'??'i 'litis special rates for these game#8
intcndeiit Madison annonne
"I that lie will make a list of ap
O i'"''"! ;!.,?*ti:i- ten h."s ft) be iimV
1 "ic|;.(I|| count v svhoo's. Tip? wil'
capable teachers in the event
ri'kn. ss or unavoidable ahse.nei
""'ular ' <acliers .
EAST LaPORTE P. T. A. MEETS
Tin- I'arcnt-Teacher Association I
tin- K-ist Laporte School hifld iU |
'ii>l scssidu last Friday," Sept. 2nd. I
S"iH" outlines of plans for the year?
nativities were discussed. Friday
pli itihcr nth, was set for the next
" "??tin" at which time the flection
'?i o||i(.,,,.s llll(j ^organization it
'(Tested. It is hoped that ev
'?v mother who is interested in a
I'hild will he presen
i
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stoekbridge)
Life ... a survival
Strolling along- the bank of a trtr.it
strum m u?y i'anii ilU* otlur \'.ay i
saw a tisii capture an incautious frog
and piocivil lo (liivoiii' i it. Crossing
Hit? meadow on my way hack 10 the
house 1 saw a hawk pounce <lown up
.m a baby rabbit and heard tin vic
tim's senlam as (the l;in!? s
'alons pierce<l its skin.] At the edge
of my wife's flower gard; n -! * <.m
countered a small, striped snake in
the act of swallowing a toad.
That, I re flee ted j is life as the
ninials experience it. They prey up
11 each other and none is safe. But
hey have u<> other w<?- to live. It
.'ould he as foolish to call the hawk,
he snake or the fish wickcd as it
;ou!d be to-tall humans wicked be
cause they, toof kill animals for their
ood.
Sloppy sentimentalists endow the
>wer ?animals with the same sensi
ilities and emotions as . humans,
.ml make a great fuss about the
,ruelty of life. Xo one who cats
neat is ill a position to criticise the
wiwk that eats rabbits and in time
? few thousand years, perhaps, men
?lay get over the urge to kill other
,ien because they dress differently,
r speak a different language, oi
,-et the better of them in
U ... the new editor
I hereby extend the hand ?i' fel
lowship to Al Smith, editor. 1 have
lot always agreed with tlu* Hon.
Alfred K. Smith, politician, bill
vlien he began to write l'or the pa
)ers a couple of years back t thought
l saw the makings of a newspaper
nan in him.
Now that he is out of politics ?
?o far as the present campaign is
joncetned, at. any rato ? and is a
aill fledged editor with a magazine
>f his own, Al and J ought to get
ilong fine. 1'JI say this for Al, he
,>uts a punch into whatever he writes,
tie has ideas.
Jredit ... the original idea
When the five-day week and the
?'staggering" .of hoiu>1 of employ
ment so that everybody will have a
job become the general practice in
i he United States? and 1 see signs
which ir.ake me believe that they are
coining? perhaps the credit will go
to the man who started the project,
perhaps not.
The man is Isador Teitelbauiu,
who makes and sells furniture in
New York. One day last fall Mr.
Teitelbaunij who is a deep student
of economic questions, outlined his
idea of the short week and the wider
distribution of jobs. "Come o:it t<j
the .national convention of the Furni
ture Association and tell then* about
it,'' his friend urged. Mr. Teitelbauiu
had never made a public speech in
his life, but he talked that conven
tion, representing employers of 400,
')(H) men and women, into indorsin
his plan.
Since then the shorter week ami
the staggered hours system has lit ' ??
put forward by hundreds of others
uul it was one of the big features
:>f the President's industrial confer
once a eoiiple of wcrks ago. Some
body else may get the credit for
starting it, which is why I want to
put it in the record now that it wa .
Isador Tcitelbauir 's original idea.
Hoarders . . . etill with us i
"Frightened" money is b.-giiinin" J
to come out of the tin cans pd mat
rosses. It takes a lot ot' persuasion
though, to get some of it hack into
he <;h:miie's of trade again.
lTp in my country the largest stor
in southern Berkshire county wen! |
out of business, and closed out it I
stock at unheard of prices. Oil th
opening day of the sale, which wa j
widely advertised the main slree'
of Great Barring on was almost im
passable, it was so crowded wit!
farmers and village folk rushing t'
buy the bargains, i
L And the money they brought wa
j what they had carefully hoarded
j away, fearing to put it into the
banks.
"We took in more than ten thou
sand dollar^ (in -the old-flu--, hioncd
'arge-sized currency on the first day
of the sale," the mflnagcr told me
"Many of the bills were actually
moldy, and almost all of them were
creased and damp."
There are still hundreds of mil
lions of dollars of ^hese old "big
bills" unaccounted for, the Treasury
reports.
j Scene From Farm Holiday Strike Center
\ V
Roadside scenes where pickets of the "Farm Holiday Association" at
Council HI lift's, la., and Blair, Neb., threw up a blockade against farm
produce, livestock arid grain being delivered to market, in an effort to get
higher prices' Upper photo shows a truck load of hogs which refused to
stop on its way to Council Bluffs. Lower : "Farm Holiday" pickets sleeping
at the roadside afier 24 hours of duty.
Let Contract For
Highway Na. 1121 On
aiding
Street
I In- coiii raci has awarded fori
. c ? I
the ci:iish/.ic >.,n a I' IKg^tvay lit?, |
beginning :i( l!i?i:wav No. 1(1, near!
? Jr !
the Ferguson i*.:ii!i, in .Jackson
County and jjoiiiij o'll through Q;ffil:a
township lo Ciiciukje, which route
will In1 one of lln: main crunrn'T^
t(i the Cecal J~'iiio!>y Mountains Na
tional I 'ark.
i
The contract calls lor 7.0!) mi'is <>l
grading Iro m Highway N"o. 10 to
a point km 1 1 i?h way 107 ;>eyoiui
Cherokee. The low lid was .$17,^153,
submitted by \V. IT. A nueryon 'Con
struction ( <.iiij?.'iiiy, n!" Ashcvi:ie.( The
contract fur tin structure.-. goes to
li. Kiddle and Company Ashcviile.
VISITORS LIKED S7LVA /
Dr. ati:l A!:.;. .II. V.'. iii.ii/, ?, who
recently visited 'Sy!\'ji and .-toppe-:
with Mr. ('. ,\? . Well , al "Tourist'.
West," !:.i \'e Wiiil !i .Mr. \Veii>
I tra i si II U* ;- \ tvi; and Nuish < 'amiina.
* * , fm
riiey stilled in I h? i e* letii r lo Mr.
Wells (hat tin y Inn ?? b ?. n in I <?:'
tin- IS Sia'i < and I k ? Nurllt Cam
lina best of all, r avilvr tliat tl'c\
woird like In I,iw ia Sy'va, and c\
pressing a hop.* t ii.it tliey will be,
ah!.' t<? return li? iiii; r.cetiou and
visit t lit ' I veal Sii't'ki'-; iii the h<< ?
distant future. The of Ibyani
Mrs. Swil/.cr i> in 1'ari'iinijtoii, Mid..
j Sol Slmnian, of Clierryville is er
| eetinj; a two-story Iniek utiiiding ?fti
i ; lie h t iicHveen Mi^iford I'liniitiiri-.
l Conip'iny, and 1 li<* A. & I'. Building
on Main ? t r? ? t . The l.;l was 1 i ;v i
1 , ? *
purcha-.< ?i l?y him from t In* la<|Ui<ial j
;n<; ii'vnt of llnr Tii'-kasci^fc K;ink. !
!
l-r When tiic huildiii^ is completed i
it V.'iil l>c oc.-!ipi"<l l;y Mr. Sliiniuiii,
>rho v. ill ins! sill :i <;>*iicrai ir.erehau
:lis;'f or <lfpa rnscnt store.
L. S. Coslior of CheiVyville lias
the colli ract lor the erection of the
!>i?i!*liii;jr, anil t h?* op:'ia1*,n is in1
Vltarifc of .1. N. Xc ill, also of Cherry- j
vilic.
SYLVA P. T. A. TO MEET
Tin* fiist inccl iutr of tin- year for
llii- iSy,va I'aient-Teaehcr Associsi
tion will lie held oil next Monday,
S pirniher 12, ?it m tiie afler
nooii at. thi? tdciricnla'ry school
biiildintr.
A j i n* has liven rirranircd in
which Mr. \V. ('. If red, tli" siipcriii
1 tending Mr*. |'? I,. Ml- Kit, State
Senator, and Mis. .1. I>. Cowan, J)is
?'tr'ft \ ice IV si.h nt of the North
'jirolimi I'ar.Mit-Tc.'ii her A;socia
tion, will I'c ih?> speakers. Mr. iTeed's
Miojt i l will In- "What th:' Teacher j
Kxpid.s <,!' tli Parents'*.
Mrs. McKc will spttyk oil ''What j
1 lu* I r?Vtt Kvnccts of tin- Teai-her." ;
i
3YLVA GIRL WINS BEAUTY
CONTEST AT JUNALUSKA
Miss Madge Wilson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wilson,
as Miss Sylvaf was awarded first
prize in the bathing beauty eon
test at the Canton Labor Day
Celebration, at Lake Junatuska,
tin Monday. The prize was $20 in
gold presented by Mi*. Reuben B.
itohertson, of the Champion Fibre
Company.
Miss Martha bane Stcpp, ?>f
Henderson ville, received $10.00 in
gold, as second prize, also pre
sented by Mr. Robertson
There were -nine other entries
from nine other towns in Western
North Carolina.
: HINKS BESSIE SMALLEST
OFFICE IN UNITED STATES
Mrs Mack Stewart thinks rhat the
j m ?st office at Bessie, which, is in
Hamburg-' township in this r-oanty,
I is perhaps entitled to the distinction
of being the smallest postoft'iee in
the United States, as is usually
claimed i for the Gri.:n;haws office,
which is also in Jackson county, in
Cashier's Valley, and adjoing town
ship to Hamburg.
Tile postoffice at Bessie is on the
end of the porch at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart. It is a complete
post office, equipped in every detail
as a posfcoffiee and measures 5 feet,
8 1-4 inches by 4 feet 5 5-8 inches,
:'.'id is 71/2 ffet high.
The post office was established,
:md Mack Stewart, 'the present in
cumbent, was commissioned as post
n. aster, Feb. 22, 1800, when Charles
F.mory Smith was post master gen
eral. Mr. Stewart has held the office
continuously since that time.
FOOTBALL CANDIDATES TO
RECEIVE EQUIPMENT MONDAY
Equipment will be issued' Monday
morning to candidates for the 1932
edition of the Western Carolina
Teachers College football team.
Coach Poindexter announced that he
?.vas expecting around forty boys to
report for this |>eriod of practice
before school opens. Equipment will
be issued Monday morning and reg
ular practice start in the afternoon
It is planned to hay* two practice?
daily, with probably some black
board drills at night, until school
tarta.
Miss Maddux, the school dietitian,
lias agreed to return a week early tc
supervise the feeding of the boys
Mrs. Cowan's remarks will be on
the subject "Duties of the Grade
Mother.*'
AH the members of the association,
and all parents who have children
in the Sylva schools are urged to
attend the meeting.
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First Hundred Steps the Hardest
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By AUmrt T. Reid
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MASS MEETING WILL
BE AT GLENVILLE
ON SEPTEMBER 17
A mass meeting of all citizcna who
arc interested in the completion of
Highway 106 from Sylva to Cashiers
Valley, has been called by people
of the (>!enville community, to be
held in the High School building at
Glenville, 011 Saturday of next week,
September 17, to discuss the matter.
It is expected that a large number
.?f people from Sylva, Cashier's Val
ley, and all along the line of 10fi
will be present at the meeting.
It is generally understood that the
contract for paving the links of the
road between Sylva and Cullowhee
will be let at a very early date, pos
?ibly before the date of the meeting
at Glenville; but it is for the spe
cific purpose of insisting upon the
Highway Commission that the road
>e completed from Tuckaseigee to
v'ashier's Valley that the meeting is
to be held.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McKee were in
Kalci^h, last week, and interviewed
both Chairman Jeffress of the State
Highway Commission and Governor
Gardner, regarding the completion of
the road, and are convinced that the
contract for the completion of the
road from Sylva to Cullowhee will
be let to contract in the immediate
future, and that the State officials
arc cognizant of the need for com
pleting it to Cashier's Valley and arc
in sympathy with the needs, and are
anxious to finish 106 at as early a
date as is possible under existing
conditions.
?
QUALLA
"And of the residue they made
a god" was the subject from which
Rev. J. A. Peeler delivered a dis
course at the Methodist church, Sun
day morning. He was dinner guest
at Mr. Ilomer Turpin 'a en route to
an afternoon service at Olivet.
Mr. and Mrs. Ilaynes Reagan an
nounce the birth of a daughter, on
August 28th ? Betty Jean.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. TcrrcU revived
an announcement of the marriage of
Mr. Earl Crawford and Miss Eliz
abeth Johnston of Willets, in Clarks
vilfc, Ga., on the 27th of July.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cathey of Can
ton and Mr. and Mrs. Posey Cathey
of Sylva visited at Mr. J. W. Cathey*
Misses Norma Leo and Eliza Hyatt
of Conleys Creek were guests of
Miss Ruth Ferguson, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bridges of
Waynesville visi^d Cr? J. H.
Hughes, Monday. Mr. Bridges has
been connected with the Waynesville
paper for forty-four years.
Miss Geneva Turpin who has been
employed as nurse in the Waynes
ville hospital this summer, is spend
ing a few days with home folks. She
plans to leave on the 12thf to attend
Ashevilb Normal School.
Miss Alma Layman of Woodrow
spent a few days with Miss Louise
Hvatt.;
Prof. W. E. Bird and family spent
Sunday in Qualla.
Little Miss Wilma Hughes cele
brated her fifth birthday on August
Messrs Geo. Bradley, James Brad
ley and Lee ,AllSspn of StiJlwdM#
Okla., arc stopping with relatives.
Mr. James Bradley is en route to
Wake Forest College to finish his
senior veil r*.
James Battle, Jr., visited relatives
at Canton.
Mrs. I). C. Hughes and children
called at Mr. J. E. Battle's.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hoyle called
at Mrs. A, C. Hoyle 's.
Mr. Reeves Cooper of Sylva was
the guest of Mr Wayne Ferguson,
Sunday.
Mrs. Komiie Styles o? Knoxville
was a Qualla visitor Sunday.
Mr. Doc Turpin of Waynesville
visiti d his brother, Mr. Wiley Tur
pin who is seriously ill.
Mr. J. C. Johnson made a business
trip to Whittier. ,
Coach l'oimlexter and the football
players appreciate the splendid to
operation and support being given
by the r? -rubers of the faculty and
the people of Oullowhee and Bylva.
With everyone pulling together a*
they seem to be, prospects are bright
for the best year in the history o ?
athletioa at th# eoiiagti ^