*1.50
Year in Advance in The OjT Mv.
$0U?ttCll
SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1932
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
presijent takes
STUiVIP AS FIGHT
gains momentum
Wjiliiii!;-"1' ^ ( ^Ptol,or 12.~
s|mi '-I' l,H' Presidential
'?> l'"' Republican organ-'
will. 'I"' 1 'resident himself
I jtM1- * ' .
, ili. stuiiij*. is a ways stand- \
' p.liti. :?l practice lor' the party
? lift Tli'- l?*l f??r or five
i i'
L liilon' election arc what real
V, ?'t'h*
;v .?iituit'. ? I
l^jtiirN iii'in various newspapers,
organizations which
been i'"Hi?g various local and
ii.lti,n:al ,'i.in|>> on Hitir Presidential
indicate so far a slight
ilviiiii'',-'' '"r f'<?vernor Roosevelt.
Xikic "f' 'I"' l'?"s s? 'l,r has been
..viciisivi et:oti?h ti> be conclusive,
l^/tlii-y j II shott- a considerable
- (tiring "t voters who voted for
i" If-'*. Roosevelt in
\|r. ||ni?vcr's majority over Smith
mk ti, timt 111 H'L'8. If everybody
ri thI i1ii."?'\vc;ir who voted in 1928
;il),| 1 1n Tf were no new voters, a
,-hiiv'<' r,)1 ^.-"O.OnO votes from the
l{,|n.il)lif!iii-> to the Democratic eol
miiiii mttlil result in Mr. Roosevelt's
I'hrtii'ii. I" other words a change
?nly (jlnmt 8 per cent of the
inh-r. wuiiM seem to be enough to
), ii i he l)mocuitic candidate in the
Whitr II mse. The Kepub'iean mnn
rei.^ni/e 'the fact that there
will in' it t omiderable swing away
iiDin Mr. Hoover this year, but
tiny ln'lievc that nn aegresnivc, in
ii-imvo eatnpni'-tii mii bring about
?the PrfMilcilt \ n -election.
^ T\?' Dciniid'alic leann^ymentl on
H \V vA\\vt \,m?l, seems confident that
W L'n jwt mrt ov more of the voters
J "i ? br> nilWi will register their (lis- 1
( /s/'.M-f ;on i.t prcsiiit conditions by
vo'im; for n
'? is nUirv'y )?hs\1?!i> to have a
<7i;nire d 20 p,>r c,.|ii, or even more,
in llr.' n.itiinuil vote, from
I file Rrniihlir.w -idr (,, the DciHO
'"?:Ki.- sid.y a, id still Hoover
!,(> r^-clcctrd. Tt all depends
iijvn the particular states in whie! ?
l'i.' h'anVxf swinj? to Roosevelt take?)
pla.-.
8ov?n Minority Presidents
Sinff lS7fi we have had fourteen
Prc-i'l'iitiril el? <?{ jons, but oii'y
s'vn i >f the Presidents elected have
1 vl n ni:iMiri;y of t Iu> popular vote
Mr \V:' on in 1012 had only 42
|mt i'. ii? n! the tol ill vote east, and
in IfMfi In whs still a minority
I'1 ill-lit. ll.'iws, (bitfield, Oleve
l;'.v'l, tiroes. and II air ri son,
wcr;- (led i'il hy a minority ol
tin ? ?tr? of tin nation. This is
I'li-siblf l/i'i'n'iis,' the actual ballots
w rn' I'onntPil l?y states and not
nationally. The state of New York
fir 'nan pic, ha, lid ween four and
mi lion voters. If they voted
'wiWiiMisly foe (Governor Roosc
'dt it nould jjiv.- liim only 47 out
"f .Vi cWtornl Mites.
Thnv Ins Iioi n no increase in 1 he
!l,a iitriilhr of Presidential Elec
?s s':"" W-S, lint there has been
" 1 "at?i?Jrt ii m Kid 1 1 of the number al
'?ttiil to sj;it(; result knpr from
" n*l's in population. and the in
!' n>l tin- number of electors
?y Won ^renter in the states
*'>Mi aiv u-iimllv counted ns safely
'PuMican than they have been in,
' ' doubtful i>r stirelv Democratic
?tatc>,
w vcars
? riiiji, for example, wiU
il Pr^icloutial electors in
?"Minboi1 as ,'maiii>i Hi i-i I.92-*,
thiTcfnre, will cast 9 more
the Kid- (lira! College than
?Uo. . '
Works Both Ways
. suins up to this, that it M'*j
, " v,'r ran orrv 'JR states which]
W ' ' * ' ']
ft" ?> ways, or i?. ?, |y ?lways, ffo/ic ,
' pHbHiau i? Presidential c?m;!
hi' |?. lifted, even if
^ l'<HN?.Vl|t ,.'ilv,|(.s the -'Solid
New York, New Jcrpey,
Mivioni-i, Arizona, Ma>*y
Siw Mexico, Okla
"ml \ ii^iiiiii. ? ? ?"
u, r' ",,;,vir mi^ht have a major
l'1 -nly mn iu (.nPh of twenty
while Mr. Roosevelt
lia-.i i majority of a million
1 '1'Hij
iiJii
^1"'1 "f the other twenty states,
Ml" Mr. Hoover would be re
"?ti-,1. . ? ? ?
' ,'<hivsi?i t|iis works the other
^ '"""i-'l also. If Governor RoOse
, ' ",l( carry twentv-otic ? critical
I '* si small majority, ,^r;
/"' !? i-iii have a majority' of mil
lS "Mlie other twenty-seven
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stock bridge)
Democracy ... . not a failuro
I have a good many well meaning
friends who declare that democracy is
a failure. Wo don't get things done,
they say, and they point to Mussolini
and Soviet Russia as examples of
order' y, disciplined governments.
I talked with a eocpotent newspaper
man who has been in Rus-sia for years
* '
j "What they are doing there is to
i regime. u t the entire jiopulation so
that everybody lives by rule and
discip'ine," he said. "It is tough on
the common people, but fine for the
officers, just like life in the army.*'
I have; a friend who has spent
many winters in Italy. ^Tbe Italian
people lake what the government
gives them a.nd pretend to like it,
because if they didn't pretend to
like it they would quickly be deport
ed," he told inc.
The most highly organized and dis
ciplined life that we know anything
about is that of the flnts. In the
ant-hill and the beehive the life of
every individual is subordinated t >
the welfare of the group, and par- j
tieularly to the welfare1 of the queen.,
I think 1 prefer a system under <
which individuals are free to "get j
things done," to any system which :
puts human beings on the same plane j
as ants.
Automobiles ... of the future
William B. Stout, eminent aeroiiau- 1
tical engineer, has turmd to the!
study of automobiles and predicts!
that the car of the futurt will be as;
different from t lie* cars of today as'
those of today are from those of i
twenty years ago.
' The ideal motor car, Mr. Stout I
says, will have more and more com
fortable interior space for the same
whcelbase\than the present ears. It
will weigh less and have more power
in the motor. It will have ten-inch
tires which will wrap themselves
around btimps and absorb all road
shoeks, but which will steer without
effort. The wheels will b^ enclosed
and the windows Will be fixed in
place, but it- Will have' a ventilation
system providing cool air for summer
touring. It will travel thirty ini'cs on j
s gallon of gasoline an<l cost less
than $2,000.
Age . . . and the nation
The worM is getting ohler. There
are fewer children and more elderly
people living today than there were
proportionately ten years ? agt?; an
immensely greater ^proportion <of
o'der people than there was fifty
years ago. Between the ages of
twenty and forty-five are found .'SH
per eent of nil the inhabitants of
the United States, and that percent
age is just about the same as it was
a dozen years ago. But where the
census of 1920 showed a little over
40 per cent of the imputation under
twenty, that of 1930 shows a litth?
over.. 38 per cent are under twenty
years old. This is compensated for
by an increase of 2 percent in the I
number of people over forty-live.
: If, with an increasing proportion
of the elderly, we devolop a national
tendency toward conservation, it is
easy to pfredict that our ultimate
social and economic organization
will more closely resemble that of
France, the perfect example of an
extremely conservative, tightly knit
.nation in which everything is com
pletely under the control of the
elders.
Psittacosis . . . "parrot fever'" '
? The serious illness of Senator
Borah's wife . from psittacosis, or
"parrot fuver,' has focused atten
tion Rga in ?upou this disease which
was epidemic three years p^o.
I ? Now the ipedicaT authorities who
have studied it say that . it comes
not only from parrots, ...but frrtin
canaries and other kinds of climb
ing birds. The symptoms are chills,
fever ami headache,, sometimes ac
companied by nose bleeding and
chest pains, and it is frequently mis
taken for influenza or a severe cold.
I have, never been quite able ,to
understand the. desire of .so many
people to keep anima's and "}nrdf
in cages, .but if one. must keep caged,
birds, .it seems, to me biglily im
portant to maintain their cages in
perfo<ft hygienic condition.
still be' defeated.
The expectation is that the larg
est swing to Roosevelt will be in the
states having large industrial popu
lations, where the suffering from tin
(Continued on payc two)
NEWELL SPEAKER
AT COURT HOUSE
LAST THURSDAY
Jak?' Xt-woll, Republican candi
date for United States Senator spoke
t-o some three hundred voters of
?Jackson county, Thursday afternoon
at the Court house. Mr. Newell was
introduced by Robert Frank Jarrett
of Dil sboro, candidate on the Repub
lican ticket for representative in the
general assembly.
Mr. Newell said that he did' not
promise a thin# that lie would not
stand up for.
He stated that he was apposed to
either repeal or modification of the
Eighteenth Amendment. He said that
ii,> had "just as soon stab a child in
the back as to bring liquor into the
country.''
Another topic that Mr. Newell
brought before the mass of people
was that of protective tariff. In
upholding the Republican party on
its light for the tariff, lie said, he
believed in a protective tariff on al
minerals, tobacco, and cotton all
over the State of North Carolina.
Tlmt anything that could be brougltt
iiito this country and sold should
havtv^t protective tariff on it.
lie declared that he was in favor
of tightening the Immigration, laws
and that if he was elected that he
would do all that he could to keep
foreigners out of the country. , H<
also sjMjke^ i?f the communis ii.
North Carolina and what nil evil
they would be to the coming, and t?
the present generation, if they wen
:il lowed to come into power.
Another topic brought up was that
of the war debts. lie said that if he
Were elected that he would vote to
n ak> Europe and all the foreign
countries pay the war debts, and
that he would1 vote to make them
pay back every nickel that they had
borrowed. And in the future make
it so that they would be unable to
get a cent from the United States.
Mr. Newell spoke under the aus
pices of the Republican Executive
Committee of Jackson, of which
John R. Ensley, of SvTva, |s chair
man.
Young Democrats
Have Big Barbecue
Th(? Qualla school ground ami
buildings wero tlx* scene of a great
Democratic gathering, Tuesday ev
ening. A beef was barbecued, and
was served to the crowd, with all
the trimmings, including baked
sweet potatoes, slaw, and a great
.?lumber of delicious pies,, furnished
by the Democratic women of Qualh.
The event was staged by the]
Young Peoples' Democratic Club of
Qualla, one of tho most active or
ganizations in this part of the state,
during the present campaign.
Hon. Felix E. Alley was th<> prin
cipal speaker. Ho issued a challenge
to the peop'e to join Avith the Dem
ocrats in overt browing government
of special privilege, and contrasted
the wavering uncertainty and strad
dling of issn s by President IToover,
with the cbar-cut, and decisive stand
taken by Governor Roosevelt, and
predicted that Roosevelt will be
elected bv a large majority.
\V. R. Francis, candidate for the
State senate, and Dan Tompkins,
candidate for tho house, made brief
speeches.
John D. Norton, president of the
club presided, and music was furn
I ished by the elrb string band.
DEMOCRATS ORGANIZE
CLUB AT COWARTS
A Democratic Club for Canev
Fork Township was organized, last
Friday night-, at the school building,
in an enthusiastic Weting. Jam' s
Shu'ar was elected as president of
the club; Weaver Swavngim, vice
president; Miss Irene Raby, vice
president; and Glenn Hooper, secre
tary; A membership and enlistment
committee was named with Basil.
Hooper, Kd Hoojrcr and Roy Park' r
representing various parts of the
township as personnel.
* The meeting was addressed 1y
Dan Tompkins, csndidute for the
hotise. (
\ (
PARIS JONES TO
OE PLACED ON
TRIAL HERE TODAY
? ? ?? ? ? ?
The case of Paris Jones, East La
Porte youth, charged with the un
lawful slaying of Carl Fore, will be
called in superior court here, thia
morning, by Solicitor John M. Queen
The grand jury has brought in a
true bill charging young Jones with
murder.
Richard Wike, charged with man
ufacture and transporting (likjuor,
was found not guilty by a jury. An
action was brought against him,
after tenants oil his farm, over a
dispute growing out of the distrib
ution of the crops, had charged"" that
I Wike had furnished them materials
and plant for manufacture of liquor
and that they had net received their
part of the money from the liquor.
The jury refused to believe the ten.
ants and found Wike not guilty r
The heaviest sentence placed by
Judge Hovle Sink so far, was from
4 to 7 years upon Ed Shepherd, Xe
gro youth, who plead guilty of break
ing into a pressing e'ub in Sylva,
and for entering the store of It. R.
Fisher at Addie. Wiley Bryson, his
-confessed accomplice in the Sylva
burglary, was sent up for from 2 to
4 years.
The grand jury for the term is
composed of 1'. N. Price, foreman,
J. N. Ashe, T. F. Fugate. Carl Jam:
son, Funnan Dillard, M. W. Bu
chanan, '51. Buchanan Ji* ; <Jpo. A\
McConuellj (I. (V (Cooler. Bill E
Basket t, Joe L Wright; J. A. Moor*
Golman Ensley; W.;. T. Heiison
Deitz Fowler; John AIIvmii; h. M.
Hawkins and A. *C.< Cogdill.i
WEAVER SPEAKS AT COWARTS
I ' ' f * \
. Congressman Zebulon Weaver wi 1
speak nt Cowarts on Thursday night
October 20. Mr. Weaver is expected
to drajr a largje crowd from that end
^the county. The ?|>eaking will be
Jjclfl in the handsome new srhoo'
building. ..
Congressman Weaver will upeak
under the auspices of the Democrat
ic Club of Caney Fork township.
Jackson Has Eight
Former Sheriffs
Kiirht former sheriffs of Jackson
county were counted in Sylva dur
ing one day of the present tern: of
<|burt, which is believed > to be a
record for the Stale, and perhaps
for the I'aited States. They are M.
B. Cannon, Geo. \V. McConnell, J.
W. Buchanan, .T. M. WorleV, (}. M.
Cole, K. Li Wilson, X. L. Sutton,
and W. C. Norton.
/ ' ? '
WESTERN CAROLINA TO MEET
CARSON-NEWMAN SAT\JRDAY
Coach C. C. Poindcxter has been
sending his Western Carolina Teach
ers Co' lean: football squad through
the stiffest practices of the season
this week in preparation For the
game with Carson-Newman at Jef
ferson City, Tcnn., Saturday. Every
one realizes that this will be one of
the toughest games of the season
and both players and coach are anx
ious to be in trim for it.
Rutherford defeated Western Car
olina at Morgan ton Saturday night
12 to 6 in a hotly contested game.
The Cullowhce outfit collected ten
first downs to four, but donated the
game to Rutherford through fum
bles,' poor charging, blocking, tack
ling, nnd failure to cover passes. The
practice sessions this week have been
devoted to remedying these defects
and the team that takes the field at
Jefferson City Saturday is expected
to look differently. Several changes
have been made by Coach Poindcxter
ii: the men assigned to the various
Jitositions, in an effort to get to
gether the best possible combination.
Tlie fact that the game Saturday
night was the first time ihe Western
Carolina outfit had appeared under
floodlights, either in practice or a
game probably contributed more to
the defeat of the Teachers than any
one other factor.
Following the Cnif|>n-N'ewmaJi
game Saturday, Western Cart>lina
will be at home three successive Sat
urdays, meeting Biltmore, Tennessee
Teachers and Hiawassee in cbe or
Hundreds Gather To Hear
Clyde R. Hoey As He
Flays Republican Leaders
40 YEARS AGO
Tnckaseige Democrat, Oct. 12, 1892
Col. C. P. Bryson was in to see
us a few days ago.
Mrs. Bill Bryson went over to
Murphy Saturday,- retiuiiiing Mon
day.
i Messrs. B. H. and J. H. Cathey,
! of the Bryson ?City Times were both
. here this week.
i
i - -
Hon. L. Smith was a welcome
visitor to the democratic club meet
ing here last Friday night.
Mrs. W. M. Hhea left today to
visit relatives and friends in Hav
wood .and Buncombe counties.
Mrs. Mary Davis returned from
Biltmorc Saturday, accompanied by
her son John, who is spending: a
while with his family. .
Congratufeitions are due and an
hereby tendered to Prof, and Mrs.
R. L. Madison on the occasion of
the recent arrival at their home of
a bouncing young democrat.
Much to the regret of their many
friends here, Mrs. J. ][. WolfT and
Master Ellerslie left today for their
?old home in Forsyth county, when*
they will reside in the future.
Messrs. J. M. Leach ajid W. B.
Ferguson, of Wavnesville. will ad
dress the Scott's Creek Democratic
Club at the Crawford School House
Saturday night.
Locke Craig, Esq., democratic can
didate for Presidential elector, fa
vored us with a call, on his way to
the speaking at Cullowhcc. We hear
that at Cullowhee he upheld th<
principles of democracy most gal
lantly and achieved a signal victory
over both his opponents.
v* V
National Democratic Ticket: For
President, G rover Cleveland; for
Vice-President: Adlai E. Stevenson;
For Congress 9th District: William
T. Crawford. State Democratic Tick
et: For Governor, Elias G'arr, of
Edeecombe ; For Lieutenant-Govern
or: R. A. Doughton, of Alleghany;
For Secterary of State: Octavius
Coke, of Wake; For Treasurer, Don
ald W. Bain, of Wake; For Audi
tor, Robert M. Furman, of Buncombe
For Superintendent of Public In
struction, John C. Scarborough, of
Johnston; For Attorney General,
Frank I. Osborne, of Mecklenburg;
Presidential Electors for the State
At Large: C. B. Aycoek, of Wayne,
li. B. Glenn, of Forsyth; For Judg>
Twelfth District: George A. Shu
ford of Buncombe; For Senator, 34tl:
District, R. L. Leatherwood, of
Swain. County Ticket: For Repre
sentative, Walter E. Moore; For
Siieriff : John E. McLain ; For Reg
ister of Deeds: W. H. H. Hughes;
For Treasurer: J. H. Moody; For
Surveyor: V. F. Brown; For Coron
er: J.*W. Shelto^.
JACKSON HAS GOOD RECORD
ON CROP PRODUCTION LOANS
S. S. Williams, Field Inspector
Por this section has issued the fol
lowing statement in regard to Jack
son County:
This County had 52 loans this
year, ranging in amounts from $8.00
to $96.00 each, with an average of
around $40.00.
der named. The game with Tennessee
Teachers on October 29th has been
designated as Home-Coming Day for
Western Carolina nnd efforts nr<
being made to bring hack to the
school a large number of former
students and football fans.
A new name has been adopted bv
tho school to take the place of thft
"Yodelerfi " Heerafter, athletic
teams at Cullowhee will be known as
''Catamounts." This name was sug
gested by President Hunter and
adopted by the student body. It i*
lfegarded as very appropriate due
to the fact that the school is located
in tho mountains and is seeking to
serve the mountain people.
Hundreds of men and women
jammed the Jackson county court
house to capacity here Monday af
ternoon to hear Hon. Clyde R. Hoey
open the doors of the Democratic
party and offer the right hand o I
fellowship to all who will repent,
as he put the rousements to the
Democratic campaign in this county.
Mr. Hoey, speaking of the pro
hibition issue, stated thai he is per
sonally and politically dry, and de
scribed the Republican party as
half wet and half dry. He stated
that Mr. Hoover now appears be
fore the people as a wet, going
deeper into wetness in his accept
ance speech than did A1 Smith four
years ago. He asserted that in the
nation the Republicans nominated
Hoover, who is a wet, for president,
and Curtis, who is a dry, for vice
president, and that in the State
they have nominated Clifford Fra
zicr, a dry, for Governor, and Boone
Tillett, a wet, for lieutenant gov
ernor; so that the Republican ele
phant appears in the nation with a
wet head and a~<Try tail and in the
state with a wet tail and a dry
head.
He asserted that all the temperance
legislation in North Carolina has
been enacted by the Democrats,
over the protests of the Republicans.
M.r Hoey referred to the record of
good a.nd economical government
made by the Democratic party in
North Carolina, and stated that,
during the four years of "the pres
ent administration, during which
there has been a great panic, that
the state will close the administra
tion with a deficit of seven million
dollars; while the deficit of the Re
publican administration, for the
four years will average more for
every day than the deficit o? the
state government for the whole four
years, and totals, before the relief
measure went into effect, the im
mense sum oE three billion dollars.
He scored the extravagence of the
Republican administration, and the
return of three Trillion dollar* in
taxation to the big corporations;
more than a hundred million of
which, he said went to the United
States Steel Corporation, and more
than six hundred million to the cor
porations in which Mr. Andrew Mel
lon, who was secretary of the treas
ury at that time, was interested.
Mr. Hoey blamed the Smoot-Haw
ley tariff act for much of the de
pression, and asserted that it iis
directly responsible for the removal
and construction of manufacturing
plants in Canada, Ireland, Italy, and
other countries by Henry Ford, the
Steel Corporation, and others, throw
ing a great many American workmen
out of employment.
Mr. Hoey was presented by Dan
Tompkins, candidate for the house
of representatives.
The county stands as fo/iows, on
September 30th:
Loans made:52; number paid in
full, 14; partial payments, 9; with
29 still outstanding for full amounts).
These have not been paid for the
reason that some o? the farmers
have not been able to market their
potatoes*, ^.nd a few yi Hamburg
section where their cabbage are juft
being placed on the market. This
section has built up a splendid re
putation for cabbage, both as to
quality and quantity. It is estimated
that at least $35,000.00 worth of cab
bage will be sold from this section
this year, which is onlv a small por
tion of Jackson County. It is be
lieved this County wi'l be paid up
100 per cent within the next 30 to
45 days, and possibly be the first
County in this section to reach 100
per cent payment.
The manner in which Ihese Iojuh
are being paid is due in a largo
ricasure to the cooperation of E. V.
Vestal, County Agent is giving th:s
work and the desire on the part of
the farmers to liv? up to their con
tract with the Government and
maintain a good record for future
loans, should they be made another
year. The local and County Com
mittees have also given good assist
ance in this work.
It is a pleasure to work with peo
ple handling their busineM its th?
farmer* in this Cbvftty km.