$1.50 -Year in Advance in The County. SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1932 -1 ? i ? ? $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. DEMOCRATS SWEEP STATE OF MAINE TO VICTORY COLUMN ii i ho o!?l political adage, dating i.ark u> st'H holds good, Frank j,? |). Roosevelt will supplant Her bert Hoover as the occupant of the W|, fa* I Lons?* next March 4. j^'As (joi-. Maine So (<tnits have an excellent chance to win the national election, which cuiies two months later. This year it v. as not a question of the size of lie |{. publican majority, but a clear Democratic victory, sweeping Re publican Maine into the Democratic It was a victory that was i on inoiiounced than even the most n]it mi ic Democratic proguostioa t?i'" had hoped to win, and no Re j,:il.|iiviti would have thought of con tvilini anything like such a political upheaval in the State of Maine. Tin' victory has brought consequent jubilation among Democrats through n!it the iiiiiotry, and has brought ;; warning from President Hoover him self, that Republicans must renew the t'iulit al?ng all fronts and carry ()n :ui intensive campaign throughout th.? mi.iiini-ng weeks of the cam it they are to ward off a Wwofvatic national victory. BALSAM Miss IMW Duncan and Mr. Carl >.,,.r.,ing.,r H ere married in Clayton, tta. Tin ?'Jay, the sixth Mr. ami Mrs. Jin: Dnitaui, Miss Allio lloyle and Mr. I 'juris Granger accompanied the couple "to Clayton and witnessed the j ceremony, after which they returned to the home of the groom's parents, Mr. :nid Mrs. I'an is Suanger, where tiny were given n grand wedding supji-.T. Music and dancing were also natures of the ?\ening. The bride hipic a handsome dress of white sl'k a:ii! ia<'p. Miss Virginia Lindsey and Mr. Albert limes accompanied Mis^ Gladys .Yiehols and Mr. Ed Ray to Clayton, (Ja., Tuesday, the 6th, when tVy won married. Mr. and Mrs. Ray v ill iu;ike their home in Wayncsville Mr. Lawrence Lindsev of Cincin , * n.tn is vi?sitin; relatives here. Mr. Mack Ashe, game warden vraf I"!''' Momlav. Mr. and Mrs. 0. E. Ilortou and Kn. 0. ?., ,]r.; ]oft Saturday for lW home in Atlanta. l.ntiue Arrington, who is school at Maggie, spent lost *,(k cud at her home in Balsam. Mrs. Mayhelle iVrry, Mr. and Mrs. falter Rryson and Mr. George ^'"iirht att tided the singing conven 'i'"i in Wavnesville, Sunday. Missrs. Kamrpp and J. F. Stike ^tlitT, postnl clerks on the Murphy jjVision of i hi* Southern, and Odell assistant |?ostmaster at Bui ?J"1, wen) souirre! hunting at Mr. M. i^iiictt's near Whittier, last ; Th-.y M,j,i t hey had a wondcr J1 'iiii'-. hut don't embarrass them nianv squirrels they KVn! ,r,t" Kniirth Quarterly Conference 4 lh" V. :ivi , xvillc District was u Sui:.lnv the 11th, at 3 "?M. 1K1 IV|J ales wore present from w,K"l Maple drove and Elizft )"1- hi ahsiiiiv of the presiding 1{, v. T. S. Roten made a very "'"?^tin" talk. 'if'1""-' v-a, ,s,"r- Kn\ A. B. Brnton. ( A l'ar.-i,t 're adier association was >??1 lif'i'o Friday. Mrs. Edward !'!||r P ind the business i ided over by the W8s p " Mac ( Mrs. 1 tin fleeted president,' Mrs. ?va n|t viee-president, Miss "ward secretary-treasurer. Weed of Sylvu assisted ^ f,rjr!i>ii-/.ation. Another mcet ^ *ill lie li,.]d Friday, the 16th, H,il time Mrs. Reed will ad ,r-'j ' tli? r" ?n ti, "?"ionization, and it is hoped iHti t'.Vn '???Mm ' parents will be present, program was given by in V| ""'''"'s of the school, "The "The Willing Work Jj' subject for debate was that "Art is more pleasing 40 YEARS AGO Tuckaseige? Democrat Aug. 31-Sept. 7, 1982 Mr. W. R. Cowan and his daughter Miss Ellon, wore in town, Saturday, on a shopping expedition. J. F. Watson, after several week spent with relatives and friends in Hamburg, returned to Knoxville, Thursday. Louis M. Davis, who has been night operator at Biltmore i'or some time came home Saturday to spend a while. Miss Sallie Stednian went to Ashe villt Friday and returned yesterday, accompanied by Misses (Sill and Newell of Salisbury. Mr. F. Merriek, who is now en caged in business in West Ya., reach ed home Friday, being enlled hither by the extreme illness of his wife. T. C. Brvs^n returned from Kieh mond Thursday, having made a de tour into Randolph county on his way hack. dud Allen got bnck from a trip to KuoxvillA Mrs. Knight, of Dillshoro, and Mrs. Wat kins, of Virginia, were visiting here, last week. Charlie Wike went fo Whittier te visit his friend E. L. McKeo. Ben Ilonson passed through town Wednesday, returning home from a visit to his "hotter half," whp is teaching school in the Bumgiirner dis trict, ncpr five's Chapel. II. It, B. Ixjndon, an old Jackson county man, but now living in Aslie ville, favored us with a ca'l lust Friday aH he was returning home from a visit to relatives and friends here. The contest for the Demorest Gold modal at Dillshoro Saturday .night wa> largely attended. The medal was awarded to Miss Mamie Allen. The music for the occasion was fur nished by the Cherokee, Cornet Band. The contestants, Misses Lela Knloe, Lela Potts, Mamie Allen, Eva Me Lain, Lula lfogers and Klla Potts, made one think of a cluster of flow ers, pinks, roses and lilies plucked from a "beauteous garden of girls." The (Judges were Mnf Ilaijlejl It. Walters and Mrs. Virginia I). Young. Wc are very sorry indeed to hear o? the destniction by fire of the Episcopal Church, at Cashier's Val ley, which occurred lant Wednesday night. The announcement of the death of Mrs. F. Merrick, at her home at Dil's boro Monday evening was received with very great regret. Her death is a sad loss not only to her husband and children, but to the entire com munity. Pershing and Hurley To Address Veterans General John J. Pershing, Major | General Edward M. Lewis, Major General John P. O'Ryan, and Hon. Patrick Hurley, are among the dis tinguished veterans who have been invited to speak at the Thirtieth Div isien Reunion which meets in Knox viile September 28-29, on the 14th anniversary of the Breaking of the Hindcnburg Line. All veterans who served with the Division are invited to be at the reunion, and it is optional whether :he veterans wear uniforms or not. Free admittance to the East Tenn "ssee Fair, which will be in progress at the time, has been arranged for all veterans, who register at reunion headquarters. Features of the reunion will be a program including a mammoth fire works display of the breaking of the Hindcnburg Line, a parade, and oth er exercises. ? - c ~ to the eye of man, than naturt.*' The judges decided in favor of the neg ative. WILL NOT INCLUDE CULLOWHEE ROAD IN FRIDAY'S RIDS I Raleigh, Sept. 14.? The Syhv.-Cul lowhec projects on highway 10b', will not he included in the $400,00'.) jiigh letting, . Dm: f row, by the high way C'ominisi>ijn u.i had been i..?ped ami < xpccted by many Jackson coun ty i'o ks, who aiv vitahy i :ter< itod in the road. The next highway let tings, accord ing to thv: biate Highway C'oi- mis sion, have been tentatively set for October 18; but the Jackson county projects are not yet included in the roads to be let to contract on that date. However, the Commission of fice states that one or two divisions in Jackson county remain to be run, and that the projects wil? be includ ed in the October lettings, if the division engineers get them in to the Highway office in time. Disappointment Here Doubtless there will be bitter dis appointment i;n Kylva, Cullowhce, and throughout the upper end of the county, over the news story from !?alei?li stating that no Highway 100 work will be included in the lettings of today by the State Highway Con: ??i?xion. KiSpecially will this be true in view of the Associated Press story concerning the lettings as published in the morning papers of Wednesday: "Bids on 12 highway projects with an estimated aggregate cost of $400, 000 will be opened by the state high way commission here Thursday. The projects aiv for surfacing whi?-h muoi |? done before cold weather. Awarding of the contracts will bring to approximately $2,000,000 the value of work li t under the pro gram trade possible by regular and emergency federal aid l'unds. More than $.>,700,000 was made available to this state but one-fourth of this amount cannot be obligated until after November 1 under federal reg ulations. The contracts will wind up surface treatment jobs for this year. A let ting planned for early October will be on grad'nj; projects only." The peon'; of this county had been led to believe that paving TOO from Svlva to Cullowhce would befrin either during tlic sunurer or in the earlv fall. As, oo'd w .'?*>{ her approaches and ? he contract not even let, they see flieiri, hopes dwindling for a paved hi'rhwav from Rvlva to Cullowhce. this year. Bepin Football Practice At W. 0. T. C. Monday Football practice got under way Monday ai'teruooon n( Western Cjir olina Teachers College. Coach C. C. Poindexter is sending the sqnail through two workouts daily and wi . continue this procedure until school opens next week. A count Tuesday afternoon indicated that thirty-four ambitious youngsters were already battling for positions, on the 19'L' team Several more were expected Wednesday and by the time school starts Coach Poindexter said he ex acted from forty-five to fifty out. This will be more than twice any previous squads^ which have number ed around twenty. Kleven letter men from last year's team are already in cnir.p battling to ho'd their positions again this year. Three or four more Utter me!*, are expected and a merry scramble is on for every position. The players who made their letters yem are headed by Captain Ilarry Sams and Charles Morgan, student coach* s last year. The newcomers hail from the lead inc? Junior colleges and high schools of Western North Carolina. Biltmore, Mars Hill and Weaver Colleges are already representee. Among the hiir' schools that have candidates on th ? squad are Asheville, Sflva, Bryson City, Murphy, Black Mountaiii. Weaverville, Hendersonville, Bre vard, Candler, Cullowhee, Franklin. Webster, Canton and Robbinsvilh>. Most of th- new coiners are show ing up well In practice and promise 'o give last year's regulars a fi for every position. Indications point to a winning combination and CoacJ Poindexter is optimistic for a goo season. ( ? CABBAGE MOVING FROM HAMBURG IS VALUED $100,000 Somewhere around $100,000 worth of cabbage is moving from the farms in the Hamburg section of Jackson county to the Southern markets. The crop has been cut short by the dry weather. The viehl per acrc is not as great as in former years, but there is greatly increased acreage in the cabbage belt, and trucks from distant and near cities have been coming to Hamburg for cabbage and yet more cabbage, and the crop is moving as fast as it is ready and harvested, and the farmers of upper jackson county will be wealthier by i somewhere around $100,000 when the cabbage patches have been cleaned. Experiments have been carried o:i on several farms in the cabbage belt this year, with red cabbage, which is used in making fancy looking slaw and for decorative purposes, and the experiment has been most successful. The red cabbage have proved to grow as fine in Jackson county's cabbage belt as anjhvhei'c in the world, and they are bringing fancy prices, usu ally about three times the price paid for white cabbage. The growers real ize, however^ tjiat they can grow only a limited number of the red cabbage, for tin- reason that the mar ket is limited. ? QUALLA Rev. L. II. Hipps preaclied at tin Methodist church Sunday morning, from the text "1 have loujrlit a good fight."' On August 4th, Rev. J. It, Ilyati and family, Air, C .P, Shelton and family, Prof. 1>. L. Shaver and fam ily and Mr, Vou^llall attended thi Shelton reuuion at New Found. Mr, J, S. Ketner, wife and son of Ton^lft, wew in Qualla Wedursday. Mrs. J. S. Beck has returned lroin a visit with relatives in Sylva Mr. Wavnc Ferguson and Miss Marv Emma Ferguson are leaving this week for Martha Berry College near Home, Ga. Miss Edna Freeman visited rela tives at Beta. M rs. (tCH. 1 tali of Asheville is guest at Mr. Von Hall's. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bumgarucr and Airs., .1, A- Buiugarner were supper gues(s at Mr, If, G. Ferguson's Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hooper called at Mr. OsScar Gibson#. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hoyle and Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Howell visited at Mrs. A. C. Hoyle 's, Sunday. Mr. Terrv Johnson motored to the Rogers reunion at Franklin, accom panied by Mr. ,1. E.. Roger* and Mrs. Frtyv Varner of Whittier, and Mrs. Alton Colcord of Jacksonville, Via. Messrs. D. II. Keener and Ivy Kapchart of Asheville were quests at Mr. J. K. Terrell's, Wednesday. > Young Democrats Are Organized In Qualla With a charter membership of 32, the Young People 's Democratic Club of Qualla, got off to a big start, at an organization meeting, held iu the Qualla sehool house, last Thursday evening. John I). Norton was elected president, Miss Harriett llall, vice' president. Miss Jennie Cathey, sec retary, and J. 0. Fisher, Jr., treasurer. Dan K. Moore, president of the county organization was present and called the meeting to order, explain ing the purposes of the clubs. After the election of the officers, the meet ing was addressed by Dan Tompkins, Democratic candidate for Representa tive. Mr. Norton, the president, stated that the next meeting will be held on Saturday evening, September 17, at the Qualla sehool house, and he urges all the members to bring oth ers to the meeting and enroll them in the membership of the club. [CREPE MYRTLE BLOOMS HERE Mrs. Gary Allison has a lovely crepe myrtle tree blooming in her yard at Mt. View Farm, Avhieh is one of the few erepe myrtles to bloom in this region. This one has been planted for 5 or 6 years, and this season is its first time to bloom. w Large Crowd Is Expected To Gather For Glenville Highway Meet Saturday I TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridgt) Fundamentals ... for families I mot an old friend the other day in r little New England village. The last time 1 had seen him he was earning $15,000 a year ? and spending it ? in Chicago. The slump broke him; he lost his job, his home, ev erything hut what little lie could raise as a loan on his life insurance. "I've bought a little farm up here, he told me. "I'm the luckiest inan in the world, because ir.y wife has sound common sense. It was her idea for us to get back to the soil and live on next to nothing until things gH better. "We're raising a lot of our food, wearing out our old clothes working from sunup to dark ? and the funny part of it is that we like it. Th< children think it's wonderful. Oui health is better than ever, we don't owe a cent, and while we're not lay ing up anything yet, and haven't any luxuries, we've got all the fnndn mentals of comfortable existence. And wITat else does anybody need? ' That man has the world by th? tail. Books , . . good friends A publisher friend sent me the other day, twelve books. "I'm getting these out to sell for fifteen cents n copy," he wrote. "I've got an idea that milliuns of people have never had a chance to read the great work) of the groat writers, and I'm going to try to supply them.'' Whether he makes a business suc cess or not, he is doing a valuable service. He has shown good judgment in selecting the books to reprint. "The Way of All Flesh," is, I think, the greatest novel ever written in the Knglish language. And the list in < ludes many others which are as in teresting tb? second or the tenth time of reading, such as ''Green Man sions," "Alice in Wonderland," "Tom Sawyer," "Under the Greenwood Tree,' 1 "Treasure Island ' and the New Testament, to name but a few. "Jimmy" . . ? stil! popular Mayor Walker 3 resignation under fire lias not affected his popularity with the average New Yorker. New York people take a eynical view of political graft. The man in the street honestly believes that every public official from the President down i in polices to make money for him self, and the disclosures of huge sums paid to the Mayor of New York just makes the average voter think that he is a pretty smart guy. It is probable that Mayor Walker will run for reelection, and my be lief at the present time is that if he does he will be reelected. New York is full of people whose suppressed de sire is to be an irresponsible play boy of Broadway, and they may envy and admire "Jimmy" because he plays that role so successfully. It is all very well to talk about getting rid of undesirable public of ficials and putting good men in of fice, but the rank and file of the voting population has to be reckoned with, and tlTe rank and file is never greatly interested in the reform gov ernment. Exile . , , there's Typhoid Mary III a little cottage 011 North Island in the East River, near New York, lives a woman in her sixties who is kept in seclusion because she is a menace to the public health. She her self is in iperfeet health, but she is a "typhoid carrier." Typhoid Mary," as this woman is known, was a cook. Wherever she worked jieoplc who ate the food she handled came down with typhoid fever. Fifty-seven cases, some of their, fatal, were traced directly to her ! Individualists who thj'nk nlobodv should be restrained for any cause sometimes protest against isolation of "Typhoid Mary." She objected, at first, but now is reconciled to liv ing the resf of her days -in comfort at public expense. Her ease illus trates the fact that the good of the whole social organization is more im portant than the liberty of the in dividual. A large crowd of interested Jack son county folks are expected to bo present at the high school auditor ium in Olenville on Saturday of this week, September 17, at a mass meeting called to convene at two o'clock, to seek means for furthering the construction of highway 100 from Svlva to Cashier's Valley, where it will intersect with Highway 28. The matter of constructing High way 10(5 is one that has interested the people of this county for the past decade. The county has sjK'nt in don ations mid loans to the State High way Commission upwards of $0,000, 000 in efforts to secure the comple tion of this highway. It is a known fact that the rond under consideration is the main ar tery of traffic for Jackson county, as it traverses the county, passes Western Carolina Teachers College, Kant Laporte, Tuckaseigee, and Olen ville. It enters the great trucking country of Hamburg, and is the road from which side roads branch off into the 'Cullowhee Valley, Caney Fork Valley, Canada, Mountain town ship, Big Ridge, and other important localities of the county. This is the highway that starts at Highway No. 10 in Sylva and splits the county wide open. It is the only means that the greater part of tho people of the county have of coming to the county seat. The traffic on it is said, by actual check, fo be of greater volume than on No. 10. Highway 100, together with No. 10, and Highways 112 and 100, forms a continuous route from the South to the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park and the Middle West. It will undoubtedly become one of the great routes of travel to and from the Park for many thousands of people. The people of tho county ar? aroused over the importance of speed ily completing this highway, and members of the Highway Commission and Chairman Jeffress have stated that it is of preat concern to them that the road be completed as early as possible. The Qreat Smoky Mountains De velopment Advisory Committee, meet ing in Waynesville, a few weeks ago, endorsed the completion of this Highway as one of the major object ives In the development of the Park area; and on Tuesday night of this week, the directors of the Ashevillo Chamber of Commerce voted to en dorse the action of the Waynesville meeting. Altogether, those who keep in touch with the situation are of the opinion that the present is the most auspicious moment to press the matter; as the Highway Commission is already interested, and the Waynes ville meeting, and the action of Sylva, Ashevillo, and other Chambers of Commerce and civic bodies, havo * placed Highway 106 as now being a matter in which the whole of West ern North Carolina is vitally inter ested. Invitations to the Sylva Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, and citizens generally have been sent out from Glenville, urging attendance at the meeting. It is understood that a large number of people will go from Sylva, Cullowhce, Tuckaseigee, Kast Lnporte, Cashier's Valley, Caney Fork and Mountain; and it is, of course anticipated that the Hamburg folks will practically all be at tho meeting. HELEN SIMONS ELECTED OVERFLOW TEACHER HERE Miss Hele.n Simons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Simons of Sylva, and who graduated this year at North Carolina College for Women, has been elected as a teacher in the ele mentary school at Sylva to fill the need created by the large increase in enrollment. Miss Simons will care for the overflow in the fourth and fifth grades. The enrollment in the high sebooi and the elementary school broke all records. In the elementary school, of which ^Ir. B. B. Long is principal, 40.3 children have enrolled in the several grades. In the high school, under direction of Mr. W. C.* Reed, superintendent, the enrollment hM reached a total at Ml