North Carolina Newspapers

' .1 fl.")!1 Year in Advance in The ^oimtv. SYLVA, NORTH 6AROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1939 $2.00 Tear in Advance Outside The County. >lany Protests Are Made Against Proposed Slashing Of State's Expenditures , i:v I >111 Tompkins) "i r ? P?>* taut work in. the I \ lably, ni? to this tinu?. ' |:V ? ; :i ? 1 1 cm bo saitl to htive i Tu been accninplish; c! U, The two committee* , i ii.iv . 1 1: "I llii* lardest tusk are *'[hr, ' '"I Al>l>IOp.iutbllS. Th,v I |\." ? ? U l"|?'?l i' to North Car 'iir^ ! where ,, pi vm.v: financial prob Si.-'l-' Institutions and De |i m- 1 ;i . < 1 tli.- distresses of in , |(l , , -i;. State are belli-* poured ,i i , of legislators, who iflftt ' IIs ? |U- ;ti>- v ;i deal of the Depros o-i i'?" account. jlii'it Appropriations Com !; ? iKHip-t], <hiy after day , r hour far moie than wnk o'l-^eiitnlivi'S of each fK x ; ??'>', Commission' and Imjitiiti-i' "f the State; and nearly' I! ??t' !?'? ' ' m\ ? hiiHili i: i < * ? i ni i : t t'e, how impossible , j. |nr :: hi t .> properly function \ith 'i'ty iiieed appropriation. Tt tli,. luKM -s of the App . opriatioiir i , miri' .? i?? susjeest to the As sen l,[v In, -a "'i l l- money shonhl b? :ip sifft'.iinti.l !??>* the support in the di ? i-irti,- ?t' ! !;?* *late government, and ?|?> >Ri." ii'.'titntiona and affciieie^., tin ii< \t J ' 1 ???.linni. Hi.- Ki.iSMi"' Conni.itlee's job is to : <u.l tl"- i;i<""v w'1'1 w'bi<*h to meet ,'t ?'?* is J1 -waili'U T,l?' '"?il'WK ...tup: '' <? iiniimfat tiirer.-: I ?\v,- \.l?|'!ii^.'- ???m pani? s, the private * *^?\?; .ii?- picture tliea Vw:?-li.-r; the baker and tlir mWA -ii-:i!i*-r,' luiv nil beev ihcliiiv t\i<> fonvini"' >\ and eai'h one i'f flnui have \i>\d -nbstantr'Hy th ?f "\\\. a- , cot milking am money ; . ire c.'in mw -!v finance oil' i.p n /iiin;w?, our ivveiiuc has be- 1 (finini>/ iri;': ire 't pay our stock holder's any nfimi on their invest ini'iits ?i th !!?> ; we cm seare.-ly p r ?Mir (hvs'i nf t;i\. rnd most certain* c.v.iiiof pay any additional tax.' T!;fs f-frtry nf di>tr?>s i-> ?ivrit to th f'ii'iii.i' cin mitti'e liv an ??ilni'>si i>iid ;i n'.tv nf n pri ->"ii';il i vi . of a ' kinds ??)' '?:; ~i ? M-.s-; in Ar.rtli ('arolvio aiid. p;-rh:?|?< for the first tine i? histftvy. ii i< thonirht thai (l ey nr practically '1 ti'llim- 'lie truth ahou* fcgit erprrboily knows that the lionr f ^(Bers. and tlv t'-nncrs are -dreadr { ' beyond their limit, and tha' thev must have son e measure of re lief. Tl!i- ti-iund Assembly set abon I'"1 illy to fill < \p u-:<'s at every turn by r* diteiii". -alari' by co.iisnlidat ini,' i <>[??!. t>, and boards, by cut ti^' oijf *i 1 1 ecu mid women oil th wl =. can be disp-n^ed wit' fiitt li'.T" ji'.'.'in they have nvt wit it:iiiis , j>j, mi inn, every bureau, ev tT)' fonimi- ion, every department would have been affected is try tn show to the General Assembly v;iliiil,|e is the \n?ik that ts ilmn- hy its special services. :':"1 l-Mv it -lioiild not J)o touch o<l by 'ur.il induction and consolida This ' * iruc alrrnst through tin Mrn-iure of tint State Govern f'Miu 'he University of North v ' ??"oli?i;i uY| tip. State Departmen' <?ii down through and to t irt;iiii'i??-;inpo gangs on the high nix' ji,. ,-ounty welfare work u' ::hr.i.. | every county. The '!'V| '"it1.. |}|,.- Highway Oonmi.s i!:- I ui|?M-jiti;in Commission/ il=c 1), p?;ir! ttic-iit of Health, the Di* psrtim-rt <-i Welfare, the ^epart ">'t nl fniiN|.|-Yatioon ant? iJevelop ' "it. tin 1), p.'irtinent of Education. '"'J'ii-iM department, all ami sun '?v. in., "I,, w-j(|, (.vcry other known ?1?,'n,-y tli" government, are stand '"'t t'Ur ||((I status quo, insofar as 1 i||>. particular things in '"*! especially intore>!ed. '?'h of ||? ,(, ].as powerful friends, ,.,.y pf>,.t of- the Stat", >"'<? in favor of the economy ^ '? le incinal, hut who do wpf , . . ;,l!' it :mi?li?d !?:) the j?gonoy in hi- in- she is especially inter Ni-1. ?Imo.i (.V(.|.y mfm who was elect-. ':*s' N'ovcmher is pledged to the i,|' j|1(, valorem if* "r il'.. . iN montlm schools. The menv ' f li e fSeneral Assembly, who v> tar listener! patiently and rV!t,I>* to everybody with a coin P int or j. suggestion, arc bec">rcing restive. They want, to <lo the job and go homo. A sales tax is in the off i.iff, to nieSH tho situation; but meui Iters, of th.M Assembly ?hy away from it, It. may be that we will fonw to a wiles tax? we may. Jjate to; hut no Irojfdntoi; should votftfor a sales tux iii ahy form, uuleM iind until it is . conclusively shown - that the ef fort to ball) nee the budget by fund ins tfio present dof:cif, tmd by re ducing expenditures to. the absolute minimum has been n,iaibv and ha? been rcccmplishcd, insofar as' su# effort eau accomplish this detirctf purpose. Tu that .event, if the sales tax is the only way. out, it then ha; a. chance of passing. Otherwise it will, meet with powerful opposition. It is under stoood here that Judp ? Felix K. Alley will hold his first term of court, in Buncombe county, next week. Judge Alley is a strong personal friend of Governor Ehring ha us, and it was known as soon as tlm much regretted death of Judge Moore created a vacancy on the bench in the 20th District, that Judge [Alley would he his successor, if he l kv. uid accept the appointment. Tin bills to ekempt certain coun ties from Hie dog tax are held up in committee, wl ile they are being studied. .So many amendments, soek iin* to include at least a third ^ the eoiintivs of the State, were sent lip to the Speaker's desk, when Rep ivsentaiivr Cover's dog tax hill canu up tor passage, that it was rushed back to the committee, lis fate v vi't unknown. Senator Hoy Francis went bonu tor the week end. Even-body who goes home, gets in touch with th< folks, and learns what they are think ing, and it is helpful. -Senator Fran cis has stood pat on Everything that he advocated during the campaign and is recognized *s a Senator .who is really Interested in the folks -one* home. ^ Representative Randolph of- Swair county has a bill, in which he seek to have the State toke over a suf fieienj. amjonnt of tho bonde<l in deb tied ti ess of Swain county to com pensate that county for the land? taken from the tax hooks by reason of the Great Smoky Mountains Xa tional Park. Tin town of N'bittier is no ir.ore Tli" bill to repeal its charter- ha1 passed hot h. houses of the Genera' Assembly and is now a law. It if understood tlmt this meets with t-h? approval of most of the people of Whittier. . Mr. S. "V. Black .. and Biir Bryson - were here the first of th. week from Bryson jCity. Mr. and Mrs. Ben N. Queen O' Sylva are in town. A suh-committee 011 Came is re dwfting I he game and fish laws o' the State, and will submit, the hi1 to the whole committee within ft fev days. This effort is- being made it order to try to get a hunting am' fishing law ll:at will command th? resprct and The cooperation of th pr-ople of North Carolina: Urns' gcir erally conceded (bat the present on does not arrive at that desired ob jcctive. And it is also conceded t ha* if the propagation o? ffel . arid gai?"^] is to reach snch proportions as t' become a really valuable asset to tb Rtnte, that the forces .working t that .end must have the eooperatioi of the people, and that the law looking to that end must commam their respect. Mr. F. II. Coffev, furpiture man ufacturcr of lifHifyity and Mr. Fran c"is rJaiTOii, :t Vti nil" f r< > m Burke while serving their first terms hen are able representatives of th/1 people The jeprcserlal jyc from Jaeksoi counly ha?rTntrodiiee'd ? ? bill 'H change the May tern* of superio court of Jackson count}*, f*om a-civi', term lo a mixed term, in order tha' the criminal cases that come up be tween February and May may b' tried, without having to wait u"' October. It is believed that this wil save the county thf expense of board insr prisoners awaiting trial for se long a time. The educational forces, wider thi name of the North Carolina C6n gress of Parent-Teacher Associations had their inning in Raleigh yester day, in the form of a great ' mass meeting in the auditorium, for the purpose of discussing the "eduoetion CALLS MEETING ON TEMPERANCE FOR TUESDAY 1NI6HT A mass meeting of the eitizcns of Jackson county has been called to meet at the court house, n$xt Tues day evening, February 7, at 7:30 o'clock, in thfjnteresl of temperance. Tb?' call for the meeting is embodied in the letter, which follows, fent out to citizens of the county, by Rev. J. Gray Murray, pastor of trie Sylva Baptist church. "A mass meeting will be held in the court house at &ylva next Thurs day night, *Feb. 7, at 7 :30, in the interest of terr perancc. The purpose of! ihe metting is to arouse thft good citizens ot the county Against, the liquor interests. I deliberately say arouse, because it looks like we; have gone to sleep. There will be no paid representa tive 'of any organization there and there will be no offical " connection with aii3' organization unless the ci{ izjens present nt this meeting decide to make such a connection. "There will be no collection takenr unless those present want to help pay for sending out this letter and such incidentals as may be connect ed with this moss meeting. The mrrting ;'u*?i-<ion/>muiational and non-partisan. The sole purpose is to organize against the liquor crowd. If >ou are for liquor and beer, and all the crime, shipie and law le'ssness associated therewith, then don't come. If you arc for sobriety, temperance, law observance, happy homes, education and material pros perity, then come to this meeting, Something is going to happen and you will bo on one side or the other. Which do you want to be on? We must act immediately or we will lose over night ground that it took the godly people wlJo lived before us on* hundred years to gain. We cannot b& traitors to those who have passed <? m EPISCOPAL SERVICES SUNDAY] * ? ? ? " iw . Srrvices will he held at St. John's Episcopal church, here, Sunday af ternoon, at four o'clock, conducted by I Rev. Albert New, of WaynesviTe. The public is invited to the service. MBS. CHARME L. ALI4S0N , DISMISSED FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. -Charles L. Allison, who has been a patient in the C. J. Harris Community- ? Hospital, ? for several week*,- follow in? *?n operation, has recortered sufficiently to be moved to her home, last week. - -? ^ >????? * ??" ? DR. CANDLER* BUILDING OFFICE ? r ? ?Jm- ? - - T .? ? Dr. C. Z. Candler is erecting an 1 - . i..*- ? ? ; . t . 9s2 attractive addition to his residence, on Main street, to be 'used, as oifices. Stone steps and walk, effecting an entrance from the street to-tWrOf fices have' been" ednstrheffed.' ' CLUB TO MEET THURSDAY "or ? . The Twentieth ' Century.' Club will meet with Mrs. T. W. Femald, Thurs day, Feb. 9th, 3 P. M. All members are urfced^ to- be pre^uiU as. " the coming year. 'Y -B^eau^r ^Jheleinent weather and bad roads, as made it ex ceedingly" riifficf^|p6? country peo ple to get^tdfitown, the Paris saie Wi]I he^tein^M to February 11, ne rorfttfig amiouncenient made bV Mr. A. M. Simons. FRUIT STORE IS MOVED ???&!? 'Z-ift&ZiL. W' .5 Stovall's Fruit Store has been moved .^rom the krtatfon it has oc cupied since its establishment here, to the building across the street, the jeweliy shop of ?T. A. Parris and the dry cleaning plaut of Moore V Cleaners. al crigis" in thtf* $f0r. $Irs. E. L. McKee oif Sylva, former senator from Jackson, addressed the meeting. among others. The mass meeting was staged, on the eve of the first gineral meeting of the joint committee of House and Senate, on education, which wap (Continued on Page 2) j REV. T. F. DEITZ IS CHOSEN TO HEAD W. N. C. MINISTERS The Western North Carolina Bap tist Ministers' Conference held its annual meeting in Wftynesvillc, Jan 30 and 31. The Waynesville Baptist church was host to the conference There were between thirty nnd forty in attendance. The conference covers seventeen counties wsdt of the Bine Ridge. Most of the counties were represented. The program consisted of devotion al talks, sermons, addresses and round table discussions of practical problems of The pastor. The conference passed resolutions against any change of onr laws against liquor and the passage of the bill permitting Sunday baseball iu North Carolina. The secretary was instructed to send copies of these resolutions to the Representatives now in Raleigh who are there from the counties embracing this pas tor's- conference. He wos also in structed to send them to the proper persons in Washington, D. C. The officers for next year are: Rev. T. F. Deitz. Moderator; Re'.. W. N. Cook, Vice Moderator, and Rev. W. W. Williams, Secretary and .Treasurer. \ J The next meeting nfill be held iu Svlva January 29, 193#. __ __ ___ ? | 40 YEARS AGO Asheville ? The train on the Mur phy branch of the Western NurtL Carolina Railroad whieh left A.she vHle Tuesday morning, struck n snow drift jon Balsam Mountain. Four extra engines were sent to aid the train in getting over, but nothing could be doue, and the tftiin, witb its 'passengers, iiad (to spend the night - in the drift, six; feet <?eep where first tftruA, Wedu?t4qj>' morning the fade wa? better, and the drift was removed, the train reach ing Murphy in the afternoon. The "Train coming to Ashevilh stalled on account of snow beyon the Balsam, "bnt was finally helped to Balsam^ where the passeuger? spenl the night and arrived here 36 hours off schedule. The obstructions by snow are the greatest in the his tory of the road. .The. Road Congress in Raleigh last i week was largely attended and great interest in the subject of road im provement wan ijianifeMed. A com mittee of I wo- from each congression al 'district tofik nnder consideration the various propositions and resolu tions and in its report recommended that the roads should bo maintained by taxation, by those subject, to road duty, ? and by the emjSB&irjent j pf convict l&bpr also. Thc ^^^isla ture will doubtless make a "change fro? 4he present inefficient sj'.stcm, tfhfch " Gov. -Carr rightly, character izes us a failure. The weather has greatly., woder a^j^Kfe onr last issue; the mer cury, reaching a higher point with each succeeding day. -We shall soon , haff^rmud to succeed the snow, mid tofpfWhile) * the " winter Sea?bn is .drawing 'to a' close. The, ejnbwgo laid on business of- every -kind is being gradually lifted- Jhe. lifting is. grad ual because^ti^D jr.cff tag ice and snow Airing tho day /is succoeded ' each night by freezing, so that for half of each day it is dangerous to get about. ' ' v little Mattie Lou, r of T. II. Hastings, of Dilllhorp, &11.' on the ice on her fatherV^pofcch a few days ago and broke iiir arm. "' Dr. Wolff was speedily summoned and rendered the necessary surgical aid J. L. Monteith, a native of this, county and .now a citiaci} of Arkan sas, is here on a' visit to relatives. C w i i ? It is thought by some that the ex treme cold of last week "killed,., tlje fruit in the bud, so that there Will be no bloom, even, this year. ' Mrs. A. W. Brvson and children left Monday to spend the remainder of the -winter jrith her husband, who is merchandising in ?sbeville. Winter shawls will bo sold by 8?Wi 4 Harris at ? reduced price TODAY and TOMORROW i| (By . frank Parker Stockbridge) frosper fty ... at Chaska, Minn. j?T My jfftend, James P. Paber. city : the Valley Herald, pob morandum of the claim of t^iat thriving little city to the title i&f "the /most prosperous town in America.? : wi(h 2,000 inhabitents Chaska has a aurplus^of over $88,000 in (he city treasury. Taxes have been cut 30 per cent The people of Chaska haw almost $2?500,000 in the two banks and the town never had a bank fail ure. There are no natives on the poor list, and the city is providing a good living for nearly ninety bus iness and professional men beside** their employees. On top of that Chaska has . had new businesses open irijj in eacK year of the depression and has only five narr.es on the de linquent tax list. I know of no other town the size o? , Chaska that can make such a showing:. Do you? Savings ... la the banks There is more money in the sav ings banks of the United States than ever before in our national history. In New York State alone savings bank deposits wefe more than five thousand million dollars on the first of January. This money is ?wind b\ more, than five and one-half million depositors. The people of. the United States are certainly not "broke" when sav ings deposits increase like that. Folks are putting their money iutf safe places^lnstrod of spending it because they are not quite sure yet what is going to happen in the fu ture. Just as soon as conditions seem to be stabilized there will be plonh of funds available for investment ir promising enterprises. Chaska, Minnesota sends Credit . . . and an idea Taking the country as a whole, the banks am fall of money, but it if* harder for the average person to borrow money from the hanks. Th* reason for this is very clear. Fewei peopfo than ever before are in a po sit ion to give a banker reason abb assurance that they will be able t< pay a loan when it U due. , It is not shortage of money that is keeping us poor; it is shortage of credit. The few who have good cred it onn borrow money cheaper thai. ever helbre. I don't know how it would work bht it seems to me there is some merit in the suggestion that if th? b(uiks wonM lend everybody enougl to pay their debts moftev would be gin to eirralate so fast that busi new wonld immediately pick up an<* everybody's eredit would be as goo*3 as it ever was. That idea is cer tainly nol ajW.niore foolish than f good nanny drtttD inflationary pro posals that Hfe been offered ir OoafrcM. Coina . . . aoae valuable ,?!rV Rare old aoins still Kinng' high prices. A peony sofld at ~jip- ajnetior. in ? New York the other ' day f<>; sixty dollar*. It was a copper cent dated 17W. Among the other rare coins sold at the sr.ne time were some com*; "hard times" tokens Issued from pri vate ir ints between 1?34 and 1841 One of them dated 1837, brought r/2.50. Coins are not valuable merely be cunse they ire old; ii is rarity tunl makes collectors bid for them. The silver dollar of 1804 i* so ran* that only four or fiv^jure known to be in ^existence, end anyone finding one of ,thoso coins can almost naou hi> own price for it. Most of tho si'ver dollars coined that year wore sent to Europe for the payment of certnir. obligations and the ship wa* lost a! sea. ' ' Last year the United States Mint made more coins than in the previous two years; there were morn th.vi twenty million of them, worth 6' million dollars. One reason for th< increased coinage was the large of- 1 brings of gold jewelry and oi-na ments, which the mint is obliged to purdhade and give gold coins in ex change. i i& order td close out their winter stock. . * . ? ? ' The depot at Wilmot has been dis continued and our young friend, C S. Fullbright, late the capable and popular agent them, is for the pre* ent aojowning with oa. 20TH AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION OF U. S. RATIFIED Washington, D. C., Feb. 1? For the twentieth time since it was adopt ed in 1787, the Constitution of the United States has boon amended again. By the ratification of the "Liame Duck" amendment by 36 states, three-quarters of the total number, the term for which Roose velt was elected President has been shortened, as well as the terms of all Senators and Representatives. Never again will we be treated to such spectacle as is now ou view in Washington, of a President and Congress who have been repudiated by the people still holding office and carrying on the business of the Gov ernment. It took Congress ten years, after Senator X-orjris of Nebraska firsh proposed it, to submit the amend ment providing that a new President , and Congress would take office two months after election, instead of four months, without any intervening ses sions of the hold-overs. But it took only a year for the amendment, once submitted to be ratified. President Roosevelt's term, which begins on March 4, 1933, will end on January 20, 1937. The terms of mem bers of Qongress elec/ted 9jn 1J1J34 will end on January 3, 1937. There will be no session of the old Con gress between the election and the incoming of those newly elected. Economic Skies Brighter The agreement between President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt to have the State Department make arrangements for the discussion of war debts, beginning early in March, is looked u]>on here as a step which holds out the hope that there will be no delay after the new President takes office in- working out a read justment of the international finaiu cial situation.'' The British govern ment will send a representative to Washington to thrash out not only the question of what can be dono about the money which England owes the United States but also to go thoroughly into all the related sub jects such as depreciated foreign currencies and tariffs which impair England's power to pay their debt in commodities. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hoover arc in perfect accord on the idea of treating with each of our European debtors separately instead of in a general conference on the subject of debts. As Mr. Roosevelt expressed it, this will not give the European na tions a chance to "gang up" against America. At any rate, there is a much more hopeful feeling in the air about the general economic sit uation. Farm Relief and Bonus While it seems certain that the farm relief project providing for bonuses to farmers who voluntarily reduco their crop acreage will event ually be enacted, the bill seems like ly to have hnrd sledding ahead of it so far as the present Congress i-= concerned. There have been so many amend ments adopted by the Senate Com mittee which is considering it, that, even though it posses the Senate, it ig not regarded as probable that the House will agree to many of the changes which hove been made, and since the present Congress cannot sit later than March 4th, there seems to be hardly time to pet the differ ences ironed out. Ah the measure standi* now, the bonus to be paid to the fanner who reduces production is to be the dif ference between the pre-war price of his commodity, as recorded in government statistics, and the mar ket price at the time his product is sold. Thus, if wheat was 95c a bush el?which figure has been accepted as the pre-war standard? and is now 40c a bushel, the farmer who agrees to a 20 per cent reduction in his wheat acreage will get a bonus of 55c a bushel above the 40c market price received for such wheat as he actually sells. This bonus is to be imposed as a tax upon the millers who buy the wheat. They will, of course, pass it on to the buyers of flour. It would make, a difference of a cent a loaf in tlie priee of bread to the retail