*Toi> Venr in Advance in Tfn '\>untv. i ? ? ? f ? BYLVA, NOETH OA&OIJNA, jtHUB&DAY, DECEMBEE. 15, 1932 $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. ? SMITH TAKES LEAD IN NEW YORK POLITICAL BATTLE (Special to The Journal ) Washington, I). (., Doe. 14.? In da.U of "lame duck' Congress m,n tin- ubo'e country is concerned uith the f?t?' ?f tbe iiten who have bi> ili'- public at larjjt four Viart* :i?t?i when he ran for the presi ili-nry. When Governor ItooRevelt was i.oi: inntfl. against formr-r Governor Smith's wM.es, the entire country wondered what the ''Happy Warrior* j would do. For loner weeks he gave no uguW t'ina 'y. in the closing weeks ?H\V wur'aru. he came out heartily lot \k rival for the rominaUon and tmquc'sUtt.aWv did wonders in help in ir to ili- *. Mr. H"Osevelt. i'.'n r sine" tV ? i lection returns were J ikihIi' final, jwV.imns hove hern busv inin 7 tn find n >"ot in which to fit Al Strith. Thiy realized it would take jjre.it brwfw"---! of mind on the part of t)i?' IV. sident el. ct to name him for a Icadin? portfolio in his Cabinet. One li "tli for he was con sidered tli" meit rb" r? I j I > n:an in the country was a* Srcr-tary of Com nit tin- lower position hns not be f?i:ie di'liiiitfly known hut everybody ( s that tin position is one of auttiiiq,! (iijriiiiy f0j. any mau to CDV?t, ito ir alter what office ho may htltl in the past nor to what he luay have aspired. Municipal Crusader Smiths elimination of himself* as a "?'?nbtr of the national government, 1"r Mu-h his ai t ion in injecting him into the thick of New York City cities is tak h to be, will meet with "?'?minimis acclaim, it is said here. ..a""('ls:. who r j. ctt'd him as a Pres 1 ,n'ial cnndi.lnte, are known to have *'1:ui ?'? sneaking liking for him. 'J rtC(ir|,iZ)> hon(.8tyt fairnoHB &n'' "hiiity |() ^ thjngrg done and nov that he is warring against Tam a,ly he will hi come more popular ! Wire country will be for him J* ma.vor of New York City it is froe T twiil here by politicians, especial J* 'f U|" f'iminatc him from an im r,an* post Jn fij,. Federal Govern ment. A' Smith's bidden bid for the May or|lty is based upon his teati???3 JOURNAL TO HAVE CORRESPONDENT AT LEGISLATURE The Jackson County Journal will bring to its readers, eaoh week during January and February, a news story from tUo pan of it? editor and pub lisher, during tho session of the Gen eral Assemb y, covering the events in the State Capital. Tbo 1933 session of the General t Assembly is generally considered to be one of the most epoch-making and important that hns met in North Car olina since the days of tho Recon struction. There will he a great d;al said and done that should be of In tense interest to every North Caro linian. The editor of the .Journal will be on Ihe floor of the House during the entire session, and will give the r< ad cts ?f his paper complete persoial coverage of the events in the State Capital. Tn addition to this, he wi'l give his views and paragraphs caoh week on the editorial page, commenting u|>on Statu, National and general news. Th" 1033 Jackson County Jon "ml promises to be the befit and give the best to the people of the eou'ity, 1 int : it has ever been and given. Tho local news and events will be covered adequately at home duriuj the absence of the editor. P.rnd in your subscription to^i> Keep up with the fast -moving marc! of events in your home state. From now nntil January First, wr are offering the Journal two year for $2; ono year $l..r>0. This appll"*' to new and renewal subscriptions. 313 STUDENTS ENROLLED FOR WINTER QUARTER AT W.O.T.C. Cullowhee, Deo. 12.? A total of 31^ students enro led Monday for the win ter quarter of Western Carolina Teachers College. C'nss work bvgan Monday morning. 'Iln( registration already shown an i lieu asp over the win! or quarter of last year of over 2G fier-cent. Last years winter quarter enrollment wus 247. The fall quarters enrollment thii year showed an increase of 40 p. i cvnt over the same period last year. Heluted r< gistration is ? xpeeted to p.il' the new winter registration fig ures up To at least 350 3tud??ttg. Stu dents may register for this quarter when clasjwork is ri'Smoed at the close of the Christmas holidays. The holidays at the college end at 8 o'clock on January 3. Most of the prospective students for the winter quarter who live a con siderable distance from Cullowhee are not expected to register until the Christmas holidays are over. Another factor that is expcctcd to further swell the winter quarter enrollment is that many of the six month. schools of Western North Carolina close shortly before Christmas. This and the extended registration oppor tunities are expected to draw a con siderab'o number of these teachers to the college for the winter period. The students registering Monday at Cullowheo represent many sections of North Carolina and several other states. Land Auction Sale ?One noxt Monday an??(ti?ili its apirit, !<>*?? its efanrchts and schools without the su'pportshat they must have if they are to continue to live and serve. You prill raise the taxes of every prop erty owner in your county, andFdrive away desirable people who would com j and live with us. Yo^i will strangle every business man in town until he will no longer Ve abb? to carry his share of the burden. / V 3r I A You live here, draw your pa? chcck, if any, here; and expect your towiiii to bo a good town in which to live and rear your ehil d" (,T!. TJut (lid you r>vrr stop tf> think just how mmh you are con tributing to th;? community good? 1 The Journal has contended, yfifcr after year, that the shops of Sylva are worthy of the support our people. We believe that i,hk stocks of merchandise that' would do credit to towns of 2f>,0l)r po p e Wo k. o\v that Sylva is a natural stopping c. nUr fo: .? larjje territory. We know that thv fiJd can be cu tivated to su ar. extent that the people fioin a large part of the Southwestern ^un ti s will f'ock h:*ro to do their buying. We are ronvinced that the oynlty of th(. merchants of Syha to the co ... "nuiiity, Mi ir ii.td'ist in laying hi fore th ir patrons tx tensive nrays from which to make selections, their nover-failin;-* contiiLutiens to the g.uiral welfare, merit the support of the people. We know that the shops are wel'-stockcd. We know that the prices arc !ow. We know that almost anything that one can want i can be lionght in Sylva. There is not a merchant in Sylva who knows that this editorial is being written or that it is to appear in print. This is the p. lvonal invitation of The Jackson Coutny Journal to the people to shop in Sy va. It is a part of our contribution to the general good of Sylva and Jackson county, written and presented in hehalf of the town and county, and of the progressive and loyal merchants here. ' ? Let s all get together, one time, in the midst of this depresion, and put our hearts and heads together to build up a better Syiva and , a better Jackson county, for us all. Personally, we would bo ashamed to draw a pay check in Jaikson county and go elsewhere to spend the money. But it is not only a matter of community loya ty. We sincerely believe that the people can shop more satisfactorily and save money by buying from the well-stocked shops of Sylva. HAVE FREE SHOW MONDAY / More than three hundred of Sylva's populace turned out Monday night to witness a picture in sound, advertis ing Esso gasoline, which was put on by the Standard Oil Company, and shown at the old Syivan Theatre. The picture was entertaining as well as educational and instructive, showing the refining process of Esso. And along this Hue a comedy and love story was interwoven with the pro cess showing the qualities of the Standard products. J. C. Allison is manager of the agency distributing Standard pro ducts in the counties of Jackson, Ma eon an ? ? - i The W. C. Reed Bible class is placing boxes ia several of the down town stores for collection of Christ mas packages for needy families of Sylva. These packages will be distributed December 24th. Members of the class request that everybody drop some little package in the box while doing Christmas shopping, if it costs no more than five cents. It will mak' some one happy. BBOWN TO SELL AUTO TAOS i ' I i Automobile tags for 19-?3 go on sale in Sylva today by the Carolina Mo tor Club. David H. Brown, branch ; manager, is in charge of the sales at i the Jackson Chevrolet Company. I The focal branch of the Carolina Motor Club soils tags for the enm ? ; tirs of Jackson. Macon, Swain, Cher okee, Clay and Graham. : STOVATiL AifcDS TO u AND iO Stovall's 5c and 10c stor" has add ed one floor to its shop, displaying a large variety of articles in the basr m^nt. There arc now two entrances to 1he store, the old one Mair Street, and a new one from Mi-L TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Park or Stockbridgo) Navies . . . and slops I crosscd the Atlantic with Ad miral Alberto Alessio of the Italian Navy, whose duty was to report on the usefulness of the biggest of all tlalian merchant vessels for naval purpose in case of war. "AH of tfie worlds shipbuilding is under the control of men whose chief preoccupation is war," said on? export. "No important ship ean be bui t anywhere today without gov ernment subsidy is to enable the na vy to control the design and con struction of the ship, so it can take it over for fighting purposes if neces sary." "Yes; and the United States is the most rigrid in its requirements," said another, an Amierican. M Our vlmirnls sit in Washinton and trv f? make every commercial vessel '?'lilt in America into a warship. One "T traffic, with ships of other na ' :ons. PThans the world wil' sometime vt out from under the fear of war. but not. if men whose livelihood is "anted by preparing for war have ?heir way. *Vireles3 ... in thirty years Thirty years ago I stood with Marconi on Table Head, Cape Bre Lon Island, and listened to him per dicting what his wireless telegraphy would some day do. It hadn t done anything up to then. "Every ship on the ocean wi'l have it," he said. "Passengers will the news of the whole world every day/' It sounded incredible then. It is still a marvel, for his boast came true. I am writing this in ir.idocean on the Rex. A few minutes ago I read the complete report of the day's prie." fluctuations on the wor'ds principal stock exchanges, received by wireless and posted on the ship's bulletin board. Just now a boy brought to my cabin a daily newspaper, printed on Hi? ship and containing the most im rjortant news of the day from Amer ica and Europe. If I wanted to I conld go up to the Marconi room and telephone to my folks back in America. Marconi didn t dream that particular develop mrnt of wire1 ess; tile radio telephone is due to Lec de Forest, an America" who set out to improve on Marconi's , Local Merchants Place On Display Large Quantities Of Christmas Merchandise work. Some time ? next year or later, perhaps ? it will be possible for trav ellers at sea or elsewhere not merelv to talk with folk at a distance but to aee them. Television is "jus* around the corner." Courage . . . demand of sea It is impossible to cross the At lantic, if one is of thoughtful teni perament, without marvelling at th mirage of tho>e_ who first sail-* across it. Colnmbus' largest ship, the Santa Maria, was less than lr feet long; five hundred Santa Maria* wouM not take up any more roo' than the single great ship on whicf T am writing this. It took him more than two month' to make the voyage we are complft insr in six davs; tvo months of certainty and nlier loneliness. Ft nothing can he lonelier than the soa. For three thousand miles, be tween N??w Ycrk tnd Gibraltar, we on the R^x saw Li- sien of life o-it side of our ship; vo sighted no other sino'le gull or other bird, not even a whale. PoVe Commissioner Mulrooney of V*"* Vo-k and I stood at th ersil looking out over the empty ooean, It has been rain, rain, rain for the past five days, preventing the shop pers from venturing out in large numbers; but tfte lihops of Sylva have been preparing themselves for tho Christmas rush that is expected during the week end, and all next week. Thon the variety they are offering, the tasfe that was display ed in buying, and the manner in I which their wares are displayed for the holiday shoppers. START WOBK ON NEW BRIDGE Work on Sylva s new $11,000 bridge which will span Scott s Creek, in the e?st end of town, is gaining headway, and is expected to be np in the near future. Work was begun a week ago and the task of tearing down the old bridge has beeu completed. Construction work on a new bridge at Cullowbee which is estimated to cost around $17,500, has also begun. This bridge will span the waters of the Tuckaseigee river, and will be a much larger construction job than the Sylva project. Machinery is being moved into Sylva, and .-soon work will begin on the grading of Highway No. 106 from Sylva to Cul'owbee. This is one of the ir.ost important roads in Jackson County. PAPER CO. COMPLETES BASIN The new settling basin at the Sylva Paperboard plant has just been com peted. Work on the plant started in | September, and some 25 men have been working on it for nearly three months. The basin was constructed in or der to assure a supply of clear water, one of the essentials in paper mann fjkuctuifc, at such times as heavy rains muddy the waters of 8cottVs Creek, from which the water used by the plant is drawn. EPISCOPAL SERVICES The rector, The Rev. Albert New, will conduct services in St. John's Episcopal church in Sylva. next Sun day afternoon at 4 oV'ock. The pub lic is invited to the service. and debated whether Columbus or Lindbergh showed the most courage. We agreed that Lindy took the great er chance, but that Colurrbus took the greater responsibility. We left it Ihat they were both brave men. (Cootinoed oa page two)