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Jp ? 50 Year in Advance in The County. SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933 Sonrna! $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. IfjRMNT BILLS STILL IN HANDS OF COMMITTEES i i?y Dan Tompkins) :!?? February Tho big v.rnk el aaMiabiy .still lies in (jj,. 'M,t '* i* bo.ieved i rat W 'lild tic the ? legislature , ,,-t the important bills, the , m - tliav rli f ' I'O a^iderable period of time, ill I'c iv|)<Tt<'<! out within the next e:i r. 1'" that then the assembly ,l.!v ii t<> the real task of at ... hi c:*. rv 01U the wishes of along tin' Ii'"' of economy. ^'I'lint reduced by Dr. Douglass of ; ' ' i,lnijr for the reduction - U,L the Highway Department * . ..wlisa:--d sou'e, is on the caton r :? -ipi rial order of business ^'A'-.i.-rv 16. Tl.e bill provides ,,tl:iries raiding from !%*.,. -hall ho rut 10 |> r ceptj " ' .r lit ill to $2,500 l?y !?> :;T" ,i:"i those fr m *2/>00 to WOO" X'.v 1 1- r cent ; those from $5,01)0 to. ii.mU I" -?'? l?-f nml l,wr" V i S...IUI bv M 1-3 P' l" cent. This not touch th ? little ft>'ks. j ^ j, whos? pay is less than j ?|;Vi j. i month; but Wv/iild work a j 'fi,i:?tiiiii.'i reduction on all salaries. :I figure and the higher tin ..mA ii . .muter the percentage of . When the bill eoir.es up 1 vflli ill,-:. it ion, it will probably b: i I .ii ?.-> t>? include nil depart ""''l ills S'atc Government, II ,.kI ,i.i l). vol ti n through the A* . i,;- i! woeld result in praei ieally \|,,V Uik i~ K?nl aWrfit resort m; J,',. , , a sihs tax; but XI', \s ir. tr . ,?!?? "'"**t i >n, and it if \.?.vAv>st ?! " -i I th.' finance com niitu-v u.yMl ;i >alcs ,|U ? ?ilb,t ceremonies h?v ... ; a.v ,-..1, th -t the <0! with ?? hi I wo .'.A iii'?st eeitainiy !? \ 4i i . ;it -,/ ii. lli.lt -v of represent a live*. /'if:- Mujiln, ili'' veteran nwiubti j f'ruiii llownn minty, who represented ii;,- ( uioiiiia house, of reprc in the inter-state legi*h? tiv.- i'i,.:l, rem', in Washington, iri.d ?ii> : ? j??rt to ihe hi is(- Monday ni.^ht' iii i!1. j' jioil lie i.o.?l ii:<> i:t'iist tin. Nii-ih ( .-.t -i.ii.'i, alo-ig with all tin ii'luf M.'.!. s, 'ii!-,. I eit",-t Mihstantia ifOiiMuii s.tliat tl.i.^i* llit' only a^ to I;, .lil "II | ? V! 1 ?i i- ill USter tl> OUI" lol'U. nl' ri '.t-r I.. , lit, and tl'nit it is the wish of tlu- peopL ' of the state u.-t oE the United States, A general tax- j hi uii jmiuj i -r lie- federal govern ! nunt ami b'f t several states wasj il'vuss-d, ;u..l ii i-. thought that t. j ? ]? ic_\ In, Vtorked out, which will [irn(i:t in ikui-Ii overlapping of tax- j uti <n. 'in Monday ni;^ht the IIoubp cut lb p> ic. ?ii' automobile tags from ?' DUtliuitltlt of :?lli.50 to a roinin-um of and le'luced the price of the ta.- 1 1 ? in i ;"),*? r p; r one hundred pntn? tar w, ir>iit ID :ir,e. Chairn.an Jeff U'<> of til. Stato Highway Coinuis 'A'US present, and heard his oom -,.t a deal of ?evcre criti ti>:: t> id'eged extravagaue", in the Riyti-r of salaries and expenditures. All ilnjf tax laws have so far faib d '?i ;,m li\ ih' eoiiunittees. Cover's ''"I t'> i-xt-ii pt the county of Chero t"- fn?iii thi' operation of the dog 'at la w \va^ Hiiiended by members 5" > ti? iiu lr.de a great many of the ""?t'tU ill' the Stale. It then went '"??k to ili.- I'limii ittee on education. it u.-s n-ported unfavorably. l'' I1 .-.iii)',. in jr. rting a dog tax law 1 !' ' I or ndm-'iit lies in the fact !i|;" ;,t | r- >, -nt Ihe dog tax money till si In, nl fund of the State. a!>'l uii mil, rs from conntieB where I1' 'V tn\ law not opposed don't t" - i Ht her counties exempted !"tii t> i ? ? mint, which, they think, I'l till- iiioney from the general t.-i?:. S-n'itor V at ton 's bill to ?'W |.IV fn,(l j0R to every font Jv H- pi?p i,i the committee. <?> .HMf (lilt. f-e- i.iitten on education u fl,,'>vtl-riii.r (i?. nevcvnl school hills lift'-- in,. n introduced. The one f" idH.ti ?i die county MiiperintendentB ',f. t and Mibstitute district M'!,-r,?i'i cbuts is receiving careful '^M|N *1' ivuioii. It is estimated that " ' ?;t' (. ii prent deal of '' " v I <)>?>? the bill as it i? at 1,1 v|!* .trrnvn. Jwekson, Swain and t,vviH>,i wo'ihl constitute Diviaiw* ^ " - M if^i, Tlnv. ?Cherokee, and 1 v..nh| be district N*. (l"li <>t these there wovld be on* (Coutinued on pa^o 2) ?li? BUNCOMBE BAR WELCOMES JU GE AUEY TO BENCH Brief exercises extending a welcome to the new.y-appointed judge, Felix ti. Alley, of Wayiiesville, to llie su perior court by neb wore held in Ashe viile Monday an the February term got under way and Judge Alley pre sided for Lis first time. Judge Guy Weaver, president of ihe Buncombe county bar associa tion, by permission of the court, took charge of rhe exercise*. Appropriate remarks were made by Judge Weaver uad several other members of the Buncombe bar. Judge Alley respond ed in a brief address iu which he xpressd his appreciation for the tumorous expressions of friendship I ec< ived since his appointment. Judge Alley's remarks, in pari, fol ! ow : "Xo words of mine wili adequately ?xpress my appreciation of the kind vcrds that have been said of me by lie gentlemen who have spoken. "Your attendance here this morn ng in such large numbers portends. think, ih" e ntinueil success of th? spring terms of your superior court, f I shall be able to n-ect the exact ing requirements of this high office. I "I approach the discharge of my luties with feelings of trepidation '.nd misgivings. That I shal! make ?uiiiy mistakes I'have no doubt; bu'. .ith a mind open to conviction T hull haw the courage to reverse my elf as often as I may be convinced hat f have erred." 1ETH0DI2TS WILL MEET IN ASHEVILLE FRIDAY NIGHT A meeting of unusual importance > Methodists of Western North Car ?'inn is announced, to be held at Yntral church, Aslievi'le, on Friday nd Friday night, of this week. Letters have been sent out, iti the >ast four weeks, to i t present's tive ?embers of the church throughout his area, from the oPfico of Bishop !. I). Mouzon, in Charlotte. The >astors of all the churches are ex ited to attend, together with lay ?itn and women representing every ?astorate in the counties west of the Hue Hidga. Lunch is to be served at the church tnd lodging over-night will be pro ided by the membership of Central hureh. In addition to locvil lenders in the erritory embraced, Bishop Mou/.on s to deliver an address during the lay, and Bishop Paul Kern, of Dal- j !*k, Texas, will speak at seven-thirty j ?'riday evening. Several delegates are planning to j^> from Sylva and then* will be ?epresentatives from all the charges in Jackson county. MARKET DEMAND FOR EARLY SPRING LAMBS Early spring1 iambs, fattened with home-grown feeds find properly locked and .trimmed, will likely sell .veil thi? spring. Reports recti ved by L. I. Case, inimal husbandman at State College, ndicato that market lambs are sell ing better than any class of livestock >r any other farm commodity at this hue. However, packers and local mtchers much prefer Imabs that have >een docked and trimmed aud will isually pay u premium over those rot handled in this waj'. This opera ion is best performed yhen the lamb s a week or two weeks old. '?There is one thing we must keep in mind," says Mr. Case. "There is i laige number of breeding ewes in the country at this time and prices nunc be expected to hold up unless the ii. l ust rial situation takes a turn tor tie better. Under this situation, ?li^ep men shouWtake good care of their hunks, fatten them quickly and ?et t iem 011 the early market. To do this, seo that the lamb gets p'enty of nilk form the ewe during its early 'lavs of life." To provide the lamb with plenty >f i ? I It means that the mother must bo fed for milk production and this ?n! s for feeding her a supply of wort legume hav. Kay mado from soybeans, lespedezo, clover and the 'ilee would fi'l the bill, Mr. Case Hays. He also thinks the ewes might ho allowed to graze the rye and other <pwen cover crops. With plenty of legume bay and sucou'ent grazing, the milk supply will bold ap well, he aey*. Predicted in Roosevelt Cabinet Selections These two men top the list m possible members of Premdent-oleat Roosevelt 's cabinet, according to late Washington reports. . . . They art (left) Senator Carter Glass qf Virginia, as Secretary of tlie Treasury and (right) Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, as Attorney General." ... James A. Parley, Is expected to be named Postmaster-Genera). i I \ \ Economy Measures Not Likely T o Pass In Congress Washington, I). C., Feb. 8. ? So far K. i'.-??nr. v c r, which are cal culated to bring about important economic readjustments, thi outlook now is that few, if any, of the pro jects being- debated in this "lame duck ' Congrea will become hw. The two which jiow seem to have the best chance are Senator (Hans' branch banking: bill and the La (Juardia biil to amend the bankruptcy Iaw>. The branch banking: bill has br.cn amended so that it will permit na tional banks to establish brjfichcrf only in states where state banks have the same privilege. The purpose of the bill is to do away with the multiplicity of small, weak local banks and establish a system such a* works ?o well m Knglartl andJ Canada, of having local branches of string central banks do the banking business of the community. Th<? Ln Ouardia bill is expected to have smooth sailing, and its effect is expected to be the relief of debt ors from their preying obligations and heavy interest burdens without the expense and stigma of bank ruptcy. It. is known that many large corporations, including many rail roads, are prepared to take advant age of this law as soon as it becomes affective, and it will apply equally to individuals and partnerships who find it. impoftntble to cany on unless they can get, either an extension of time from their creditors, or a re ___________ W ____ NATIVE OF JACKSON DIES IN CANTON TUESDAY NIGHT J. Mat t Smith, a native, of Jack son county and once <a citizen pf Sylva, died at his home in Canton, Tuesday nijht, following a long ill mcfss of a heart ailment. Mr. Smith, who was 75 years of age, moved to Haywood county a number of years ago and for twen ty-seven years has been woods op erating superintendent for the Cham pion Fibre company. He was twice married, his first wife having been Mrs. Mary Ann Ensley Long, who died in 1922. To this union were bom three daughters and two sons, who survive. They are Mrs. J. Robert Long, of Bryson City, Mrs. Ed Wil liarns and Charles E. Smith, of Can ton; Wiiliam It. Smith of Marion and Mrs. JJoyd Jarrctt of Asheville. In J92'l, Mr. Smith married Mis? Elizabeth C'ompton, of Ilazelwood, who with a daughter, Ruth Smith. also survive. Mr. Smith was a member >of the Methodist church for 38 years and a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge of Waynesville for 24 years. The funeral service was held at the Methodist church, in Canton, this morning at 11 olclock, with the pas tor, Rev. Charles X. Clark, conduct in? it, and interment was in Locust Field cemetery, Canton. SCHOOL PAPER APPEARS The first edition of the Western Carolinian, new student newspaper at Western Carolina Teachers college is now off the press. The newspaper was printed hv the Bryson City Times companv. The front paore of the paper car ries accounts of the death of Jndgre JJWtor E. Moore and Miss Elizabeth ?) '? ? 'faction in their total indebtedness, or a reduction in the into of interest 'CBSy are paying on their obligations ? or all three of those. , The dorr est ic allotment plan of farm relief does not fieem now as , Jikely to get through nt this session ? a3 it did a short time ago. Xor does t there seem much of a chance befon March 4, for the project of Senator j Robinson to form a billion-dol ar corporation to make 3 ]n<r cent- loan to farmers and to buy up existing mortgages for tile purpose of ex tending them at a lower rate of in terest. There is little doubt, however, th|t es foon as the new Congress ' gets into its stride some broad meas ! are* designed to afford direct and | hrrra?drale ifcBef - ? diatv^aaed - farat? ;ers will ho adopted. i The whole atmosphere of political ?Washington is saturated with the be lief that something must be done to relieve the debtors class of the ra ! tion, which is larger than ever be i fore. There is much less opjwsition ; to such proposals than there has been in the post, mainly because the ; vast majoritv of the populace is in ' debt, and creditors are in the minor I ity. The feeling is growing that the j clanns of creditors for their nionev i in full are less valid than the claims of debtors to be relieved of the nec essity of paying dollars which are twie<; as costly as they wen when their debts were incurred. TEMPERANCE ^ORGANIZATION EFFECTED TUESDAY NIGHT I _ j With the object of organizing a temperance society in every voting precinct in Jackson county, on or ganization was begun, at the mass meeting held Tuesday evening in the court house. The call for the mass meeting was issued last week. The principal address was mode by Dr. R. L. Creel, of Bryson City. Electing Rev. J. Gray Murray, pas tor of the Baptist clwcrh here, as chairmnn, and Rev. T. R. Wolfe, pas tor of the local Methodist church, vice chairman, art executive commit tee, composed of Dr. II. T. Hunter, president of Western Carolina Teach ers College, Cullowhee, Rev. W. C. Reed, principal of Sylva Central High School, and Mr. .T. C. Caunon, of Dillaboro, with th? chairman and vice chairman members ex officio. Tho chairman and vice chairman were em|>owered to appoint a secre tary and treasurer. The next meeting will bo held at the court house, ou Friday. afternoon, February 17. It was stated that .a number of re sponses were received to the letters sent out calling the meeting, fron: ?eople who said that nlthough they could not be pwsent for meeting Tuesday evening, they were heartily in favor of the movement. Kelly, both former members of the college board of trustees. Anrong the other front-page stories in the first ? dition of The Western Caro'inian are those concerning the new faeulty members at Cullowhee and the pnb lication of the Catamount, college annual. -The Western Carolinian is to be published seiri-monthly. It is spon sored by the college Journalism dub. TWO HELD FOB LARCENY Charged with the larceny of sixty doil&rs worth of clothing from the Acme Dry Cleaning es tablishment here, Fred Pruett, of Big Ridge, and Victor Connor ot Trout Cr?ek, were arrested Mon day night: Part o? the goods, con sisting of nine suits, of men's clothing was found in a truck said to have been wrecked by the two men. The discovery led to their arrest by deputy sheriff C. C. Mason and chief of police James Turpin of Sylva. The men will be given a hear ing before Justioe of the Peace John HL Morris, Saturday. TODAY and TOMORROW (By Par nk Parker Stockbridgc) Dictator . . . Europe's third Adolph Hitler, leader of the "Nazi" movement iu Germany, has become Chancellor of the German Republic, and head of the Government. This | makes the third European nation to come under the control of a virtual dictator. Stalin in Russia, Mussolini in Italy and now Hitler in Germany nr<j manifestations of the failure of the peoples of those countries to man ago their own affairs successfully. I hear a great deal of loose ta k to the effect that "what America needs is a dictator." I don't think we need anything of the kind, and don't think that the vat;t majority of Americans want to be organised, dis ciplined and controlled in the way that people living under a dictatoi hnve to submit to. We have never failed yet iu Amer ica to work our own way ont of our troubles, and I think we are on the way out now. Socialism ... are we headed? We arc miu>h more likely in Anier ica to come to some mild form ol 3ocU&?? J&tn we axa, to .arrive at either communism or a dictatorship But we are not likely to call it so cialism than wo are to arrive at cither communism "or a dictatorship But we are not likely t*> call it so cialism any more than England calls br present system of government? which it practically is. All the signs of the time arc point ing to increasing governmental con trol, if not ownership and operation o? public utilities, natural resources. ins of "transportation and com mnnication. It would no*, surprise me if I were here to see it, to find the United States twenty years from now owning all of the mines,' oil well*, railroad, telegraph and tele phone lines, radio broadcasting sys tems, electric light and power plants steamship lines, and other entcrpris rs which arc essentially monopolistic in '.heir nature. And incidentally, if any more pro pic stop paying taxes it won't be long hefore the nation or its gov ernmental sub-divisions ow;i all the land. Oeoperatta ... in a new way A group of rixty-tbiee unemployed Xew York business men are open ing up a cooperative store with th< aid of manufacturers a?d jobbers of merchandise of all kinds. They ar getting their rent on a percentage basis of sales, and their merchan dise on consignment. Thi6 is only one of hundreds, per haps thousands, of cooperative ef forts at self help whi-n arc b<w made in all paris of the United States. Some will succecd and sorr.r will not, but out of them may grow some valuable lessons which can V applied when good times come again, and which will make it easier, be eanse of thip experience, to meet the next economic crisis. I heard from an English friend the other day that the members of th preat British cooperative society ar getting through the depression muc>~ easier than the general run of th' people. The hardest thine for most Amer icans to learn is team work. Treasure . . . hidden uway If all the money that has eve1* been buried and its whereabouts for crotten could be dug up and pnt into circulation, there might be enougf' to nase the depression materially. I learned the other day from a Russian friend that he knew thr exact spot whree ten million dollar was buried jnst before the Bolshevik Hrcay arrived, and if there were any MILLIONS TO RAY INCOME TAX FIRST TIME THIS YEAR Washington, D. C., Feb. 8.--Ev?ry single man or wonian who earned as much as $20 a week last year, 1932, will have to pay an income tax to Uncle Sam this year. Every married man, or woman who is the head of a family, who earned $50 a week in 1932, is also liable for income tax in 1933, unless there are minor chil dren to bo supported. Treasury officials estimate that more than three and one-half mil lion persons who have never paid in come tax to the Federal government are obligated to pay it under the law passed last year. And what is wor ding the Treasury is the question: Do those taxpayers realize that they have pot to report their last year's incoir.e and pay tax or go to jail or be fined? It's an impossible game to beat, this Federal income tax. With luck, some few may get away with evad ing it for a while, but when they arc caught the penalties arc severe, and the accrued tax is a lien that comes ahend of everything else [mortgages, state and local taxes, gro cery bills and all. Uncle Sam's Col lectors of Internal Revenue have the right to garnishee the salary or wages of anyone liable for Income tax and who docs not pay it. Tho law gives the Federal courts tho right to send to prison anybody who fails to report his 1932 income by he 15th of March, 1933. The tax is not very high on small incomes. If one is single and earned ;fil ,20ft last year, the highest ttax possible would be only $8. And there :ir? exemptions from that. The tax payer can deduct from income figures such items a$ money given to charity or church, taxes of any kind paid to tho Federal or local government, interest on business Mfcfotfc and cc-rt&in kinds of business losses. ? A married man without children is *il lowed $2,500 exemption; an unmar i -ied person only $1,000 exemption. VJvory employer is retprired to report to the Government how rruch -was j>aid in salary and commissions to ?ach rmployce during the year. So ?he Treasury has a practically com plete record, which is sure to be fol 'owed up. And when the Treasury ?tgents overtake the individual who ^as fai'ed to report taxable income, trouble is pretty certain to follow, i "The only safe plan for anyone ?vho wants to avoid trouble," said I one of the Trensury officials tho ?ther dav, "is to send to the Income Tax Unit at the Treasury Depart ment, Washington, for the proper form of report to be filled out and filed. Form 1040A for incomes be low $5,000 a year; form 1040 for :n?oir.c of $5,000 or more." The orooer form must be filed with the near^s* Collector of Internal Revenue by March 15, and at le>a8t one-quar ter of the tax paid at that time. possible way of getting the money out of Russia he could lead me to the spot. I declined the offer, but I wa3 reminded of it when I heard from down on the Eastern shores of Maryland that a young man who had bought an abandoned graveyard as a site for a filliner stalion had found an iron pot containing thirty t!".u sand dollars in old coins buried in the ground. And from out in Arkan sas comes the report thai workers for the American Red Cross have turned up nearly six thousand dol lars that was hidden by an ancient hermit who committed suicide a few weeks a<ro, af er writing instructions to the Red Cross workers how to find his buried treasure. Adventurers are still searching for pirate gold on various islands of tho West Indies. and dredging the deep seas for sunken treasure ships. It is *he most fascinating fame imagin able, but those who play it seldom win. Security ... in old age pensions Mv frimrls of the American Asso ciation for Old Age Security report that efforts are being made by poli ticians in several states to abolish their old age pension systems, on tho plea of economy, and go back to tho horrors of the town and county poor houses. It seems to me that this is ; about the last place to practice econ omy. Of oonrse, the poorhouses madt (Coatime* on page 2)