iY, nBKVAET 28, 1933 $2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County. legislature Now Ready To Cut Expenditures; Salaries To Be Slashed [ . i ; . I >"?? Tompkins) |.; -binary 23? Will, th I, ..... li-ui>lation is begiiming It 'he eommiUces, and th ^ > ? cmbly is getting down t< | of sir'nir hew n.uoh nron v . i t ut off -alaries and ex . !<! otherwise saved to th. In menus of elimination ant1 ? i.'M- Till? special committee ..il. Vi't iuts k ported that it re c. .{nun :ir average reduction in sal s,'i? !?? S':=rv crnploym of 15 2>:> \ ,,i ; riddiiiiui t'o the onts that , ,u. t? ?. din in.tr the past two , i, ili,. budget bureau, which i,. Viv-i- !?. i' rable reductions to begin ? 'I iii -? ihe committc* (slin.atcs mi. I?r ;i 'saviiiu of $77,00u in th (ir ? rt incuts, other tban High u;lv ,-iri.i IMueation. , A cut of $197, nit?) i- ?.<?.?]!? niHidod in the Highway 1 1. *. I Pre. fit is recommended 'J.' itvinet'i's he eliminated, am tin 'tjhsi of ffl^nwriiig hp i* .jij.v.i In .>??!:>, 000, making a iota .r .|? to be saved in the Iliirh W-V !'? merit, if the) eoniuiiftc, .^,5,111: ?;i!:?tions are carried out r-.itifi -aving to ihe State, tha" ,i|.. ? w'trinee estimates would re .,i; i; it?" ''hidings arc enacted int ? v.ttilt! .-iroiint to $1,178,000 it ilic Si:. r ? niment, exclusive o! tl?. i.uiili- system. Tlie com iMitit- ? li:?i ? :? :su suited that the re i.? : ilf.- !i"! i (H! template roduein' ?i,t <?' I be employees of th S'.aW- tSi'" ?:'? "uW' h,M' in -pay. W -uh-4 ?..un ifee that litis heei j *?vV\w? mi\ il.r school system ha: I vi ji .u<t\ \o iht ,i| propria tions com j.'ii ti-c aw\ vt con mends an eigh imitoov. m*!h'o1 term for th ( "iii iii.'iiW iniiiity and distric 'I 'ai r. hi t '\. s I'm the publi - '"><> ; /iff < rrij'fii;.'- the propert* in th' ci mutir> an average <r ' ' I" 'fill sliJl S"i vi"P4J iiuhi ? ! f /'i' >ch"t)l 'f;.?nicts a longer te~r '?fyhno! Ih:;i, th-v now enjoy. Th ???in.r ii jf estimates th*?t the eigh root Ik cli ols, a 'ministered ? nd sue (1 liv (lie State will cost tin I tf v !?.*!> North Carol *na nearl- j live inii:i..it dollars levq thai> the H,u' paying for the publi- i .-??hook Tin- committee recommend "li'.n rirri??i a reduction in adminip nuiiiii in ;Iie offices oP the county mIcmI I.- miiIs of ?3 i-3 per con' j >-i, t o a paying1 to the t:*" |wr'*"i "f AlSG.'iJM. The commitfe v.'tuiil ?;?>! jn<t. what it tern s injnst i't> in :lir> amount of pay teacher iv. iiii-li-r pr< se-nl salary sched ill .;, ;?>..} recommends nti addition-' i'. ttnK of the teachers' <?atari<" ??f IS p*?i- rent. th?.t is iti addition :iii> ]i> |,<r reduction of tw TMirs ;t; Principals' salaries are U V r-... average of thirty-three anr w-fltiii] ]>(?!? (.c.nt. The cost of in "iiHi.-.nal supplies wou'd be reducer iiv .i->5000. Kural supervisor ? 'iV entirely cut out, and th' ''TfWiS,.< of principals would foe re <! 1, $0,000. AH these item* the taxpayers the su?* ' x ' '' '1 ''00. The co?umittee eon!' ?'! ?? v 'iietion of only $.'520,000 v ?vim ' n.Tf-s, fuel, witer, light 1 ??!'<* supplies. A saving #?f j estimated in the trans P'rUiti,!,. ^i rvi' e. The committee fig j tha* -mist of this could he save' | ; ?"fii'ii iMiion of county and district a; il t.ikinsr the children to the '"an-s; -???tool. The proposal is tha* <i<< iimtin- with which to finance the -y t<-ni that would thus b' '!? n cild lie taken from the 'li-rived fro;n the Finance ' 'ftirnritrt's revenue bill, in which 11 Wri.viili-:! that either -a general '' 1 ?:i\" ? i r a selee'ed commodity - '-:x 'if* '' The committee fig lir"1 'b-1 : each county would {$et "fM.t y from fines, forfeitui'es. I"" ' taxes and poll taxes ' "! 1 '!? the school plants and ?" ' i \'ed charges. (| f.Mnliers of the Assembly jji IL.V |)|,. reductions in salaries ^ y and o'her State Depart " rv I'1- not heo-n radical enough, 111 ? ' 'erupt will he made, it if ^ to sjo the committee a l' ' 'and rat the. proposed ' " -'in#" more. ,?i'! t ' ' " twsed the House today . ' ?"ltl provide for the aboli N||j , . . ;n Hes on ta* foreclosures '?d'lpe, a"d would give the property a longer time v .I' h tj redeem his land than mder tluj present law, and he would >nly have to pay the tax, cost, a ml ;ix per cent interest on the money in >rd<>r to make redemption ou same, fr. Bowit or Asho and Oihers at v'mpted to send in a substitute which vould . .?yo hack to the old law, re KMiled in 1927, regarding tax sales, inder which no yalid title has ever leen confirmed by the courts for any >roprty ^old under its provisions. There are a number of bills pend j Jig set-king: to ?relieve , tax payer? j who-e land and homes have bee.n I .old in previous, years, said to give iu opj??>rt unity to redeem their prop 1 'rtv, without having to pay extor [ ionate prices.. It is reasonably sure hat some such legislation will b? i .'ia( t;d before the General Assembly | 'Vses its present session. ,, ! A bill has gone through changing i he May term of Superior Court of I rarkfton (Vuuitv from a civil term to ! ? * ' , | ; t mixed tern:, in order that the jail \ *ase=s may he tried at thie term, ! I *nd llie county paved the f?xp;*nse j ?f feeding the prisoners from Feb : -^pry to October. Another local nil affecting Jackson county ?s on<? ; netting the fees of the Clerk of the ! Superior Court. The fees that, he nay charge are not ruift"d, the ; ??'atute merely assembles them into me place in the law books, and Vanfic,4 them, so that the Cto^k iims? If, :,ny lawyer or layman, can 'ook find see just what fees the clerk ? | ;iv elm rare without hnvinsr to look 'h rough all the law l?ooks in *he of- : -ice. licprrse.n'.itive Tompki'S intro duced another bill bill providing that *he county assume $lo.000 Dillsbono fownship road bonds. This was done is a matter of jus* ice. The money J nth which to pay off the bonds has "M'li "co'leeted fror Dillshoro over x long period of time; but, in pre- 1 'ous years, it. l?as been confused j vith the geineral fund of the county j ?>?d has been used to pay the coun '? v's debtis.T^ would -l\) manifestly infair for Dillaboro to have to pay he bonds all over r.gain, and sine*, j "he county spert the ironey ' f the | ownship. the county should pay the J Nond holder-. W. N. C. LEGISLATORS MAKING -r'lGHT FOR TEACHERS COLLEGE) Raleigh, Feb. 22. ? Senator Fran is, Mr. Morphew, Mr . T<j>kins, i:id os her friends of Western Car- i >lina Teachers College, are making i fight to have the budget estimate I .'or running expenses for the school j aised. They are basing their claims , ii I he report of the sub-comuiittee i that lias t>een invkistigating ? the ! >achers* colleges, which says that j ?osts per capita at Culiowhee and j 'ioone are too low, and that those at j i '^ist Carolina are too high. This has ' >ven the contention o? the West- 1 ?rners through the years, and now,; that the sub-eon: mittee has found liese to be the facts, the gentlemen ire not asking that more money be ?)' nt hoiv- than heretofore; but that j 'he budget commission's figures be adjusted to rectify the palpable in equality in proposed appropriations. The matter will probably be heard Tuesday aftei'.noon. Another recommend ition of the j sub-committee that will prove of in- i terest in Jackson county, is that the) three teachers colleges be ^ placed j under one board of trus!ees and one directing head. The report, which is signed by Senator Long, Senator Kirkpitrick, I Mr. McEachem and Mr. James fol lows " We find the physical equipment oP the institutions ro be in good eon | dition with the exception of the stuccoed wooden building used as a men's dormitory at Western Carf? lina Teachers College. This building is a fire hazard and should be re placed. The library and science lab oratories ?re insufficient and below standard. Tlhis jVastitntTHi is aVfo sadlv in need of a cold storage plant and addilicM ^waffe for f-.?n purposes. The amoun? of" two hundred and fifty dollars is needed to be im J irjcdiately available to complete a ; '?arn which has been partly erected. Jtne materials for which arc now I deteriorating 1 from exposure to 1 weather. V .."Our investigation of these three ' (Continued on page 2) ELLETT CASE TO ii.S.T.C. AGAIN TO BE CALLED FW CAT| SPONSOR TOURNEY (By John Parris, Jr.) ( Quite a hit of interest is being manifested in the case of Joss BT der;, Herschci Parris and Dennis Bradley, which wi 1 come up Friday; Elders is alleged ho have boen the driver of the ear .vhioh foneed II. E. Ellett, of Bryson City, off a 125: ??ot embankn ent, one mile west of Dillsboro, on th? night of I)crember 2.3, last. Ellett wrs instantly ? killed. The jury to try the case will prob ably be picked Friday morning and the evidence started in the afternoon. At a hearing before Justice of the Peace John II. Morris, some f?w days alter the accident, Miss Ellen Cun ninrham, an occupant of the Elders car, testified that Elders iva* driv ing on the wrong side of the road and foreod Ellett of." the road when he hit him. v ." . J llerschel Parris and Dennis Brad 1 ley, hoth jf Jackson County, are be ing tried along with Elders in the death ease. All three of the nu?n are being tried on a murder count. Several minor eases have peon tried 1 his week by Judge Frank Hill of Murphy. The following ones have been disposed of : Ralph Jones, larccncy, of auloino bile, sciitenied to 4 months on the roads. I Glenn Jones, violation of the pro hibition law, sentenced to G1 days on ] the roads f A fx Cod.i ju, violation of the pro hibition law, sentenced to 61 days on the roads > Palmer Hnn.se, violation of the prohibition law, sentenced to two years on the roads Ray Jones, operating nn automo bile while intoxicated, sentenced to .1 months on the roads. . Fred Pruitt, house breaking and larceny; 18 ir^nths in State prison. Victor Conner, house breaking and larceny; 18 moonths in State prison. Elsie Ensley, assault with idcpdljfc wcaprtfr ; fi months 'on tho-Mads. Henry Johnson, violation of the prohibition low, 12 months on the roarls. Juno Gibson, reckles3 driving, 6 months on the roads. } ? Poindextcr Burgeas (negro), lar eeay, 4 months on the roads. ' GRAND JURY MAKES REPORT The report or the grand jury for Febniarj ;s tenu of dhperior court cam.; in Thursday afternoon, ;|id ? they were excused for the remaining days of- eourt. Following is the re port the grand jury made to Judge Hill: "Wo, the grand jury, recommrtid that the jail be screened with new wire and repairs be made ou some of the windows on the lower floor. We also recommend that a cell or room be prepared as a ward for the imsane that may be temporarily lodg ed in jail that is separate and apart from other prisoners. Also repair leak ing reef. | 11 We recommend that the Clerk of Court go over his records in re gard to guardians and have a true report of those that have not re ported up to date and present same to the grand jury at the next term of eourt. We find tl county home is well | ke| The i.iiiia.tes are well supplied j with food and clothing. We would nrcommrrd that the leaks in the ro:?f be repaired and the dairy en larged. \V<e recommend a new barn if possible and a kitchen cabinet for the home. ) "After look:nj!r through the offices and as far as we are able to aseer tain we find the records are well kept* " A supp'f "ntnrv report follows: ! " We recommend that something be done with two orphan children at John Shel ton's, as neither be or his wife are able to take cave of them. We also recommend that Mr. and Mrs. Shelton be eared for in 'the county home immediately. ,'Wb recommend the relief of the following children: Hoirer Bumgar ner and James E. Wilson. Also des titute children in the county <be cared, for immediately." Both these reports were signed by T. B. Cov.*an, foreman of the grand .jury. Followi'Ug is a list of the members who served on - the grand jury thi* term of eourt : T. B. Cowan, foreman; W .A. Jack I son, Oscar Lanning, W. H. Jackson. I John A. Hooper, W. F. Moody ; H. H. * I V . ? \ ' EABNHAM TO BB" HEBE MONDAY AXO TUESDAY ?' - ? ? ?? ? ? (By E. V. Vestal; County Agout) Mr. F. R. Furnham, .specialist from State College, Raleigh, will be with me at the following pieces February 2?th and 28th: j County Agent's Offiej, Monday morning. ; ... ..... L. C. Daekett's, Liovedale, 2 P. M., Monday. ) D. C. Higdon'f, Webster, 4 P. M., Monday. T. W. McLaughlin's, Qualln, 9:30 A. M.f Tuesday. ' R. 0. Hunter's, East Laporte, 3:30 Tuesday. Mr. Furnham will discuss Uspe deea, the crop that costs little and gives excellent results. Last ycflril work with it has shown us its reai valu* hot!) for soil improvement and pasture. Ah the seed arc not el pensive to buy, no soil preparation is necessary, and as it will double the corn yield on poor land after the first year, it is the one legume that every farmer in Jackson County should be proud to sow. (Re at one of the ahore meetings the first of the week and learn ir.or? about this crop. At these same meetings Mr. Farnham will diflcuas tie Trench 8ilo and the County Agent will discuss the Brick, or Rock, brooder. SCOUT MEETING TO BE HELD HEBE MONDAY EVENING The district committee of the Smoky Mountains District of the Boy Scouts will meet nert Monday night at Sylva to transact business in connection with Scouting in this section. A committee consisting of John H Kirk of Cherokee and V .A. Browning and W. C. Ponn of Rry aon City will make recommendations for district commissioner and two assistant district commissioners. Prof. W. C. Reed, chairman, will pre side and A. W. Allen, Scout execu tive will be present. The committee will meet at 8:00 o'clock at the Sylva High school building. There are now five Scout troops in the district. The ones a1 Bryson City and Cherokee have been going for some time and now ones have been started at Franklin, Sylva, and Cullowhee. A scout lenders training course was conducted recently. ' It was attended by 44 men. These in eluded the leaders of tke troops which have recently been fonred. The district committee is com?->osed of Prof. W. C. Reed, Svlva; W. C. Penn, Bryson City; V. A. Browning. Bryson City; Prof. W. E. Bird. Cul* lowhee; John H. Kirk, Cherokee; A. M. Adams, Cherokee; William E. Bryson, ff. R. Dijtz, W. f. Ashe. Robert Holden ; W F. Bryson; R. E. McNeely, S. T..Ct*p J. O. Howell Mi'ton Brpeon; A. C. Edwards: Merit Hooper and Henry L. Taylor. ? _ r Culkrwhee, Feb. 23.? Western Car olina Teachers' College's eighth an au&l basketball tournanent for West ern North 'Carolina high schools will be held in the college gymnasium here March 2, 3, and 4, President H. T. Hunter has announced. j x Thirty or more teams are expected to enter the event, which has become popular tournament since its be ginning here in 1925. - Invitation* will be mailed to outstanding boys' and girls' teams within the next few days. ; Schools relieving invitations will be requested to send in their notice of acceptance at oncc along with a Hat of eligible players. With each invitation the schools will receive a tiat of rules and regulations gov erning piny in the tournament. IV* East institution entering a boys' taam will be allowed to nsc rigiht players. The girls' teams will con sist of nine players. No Bchool n:ay enter more thai* one boy a' team and one girls' team. All givls' .sextets wast be accompanied throughout the tournament by a chaperon e. i Loving cups will be awarded to the winning teams of h-jth divisions These cups will be awarded perman etttly to the teams winning the tournament three times, or for two successive years. The teatr winning a cup for the first time is given possession of the trophy for on?> venr. The college will furnish lodg ing and entertainment for the teams until they art? elimiiyited from the tMrnoicent. Democrats Will Be In Absolute Control Of Government March 4th TODAY and TOMORROW i - (By Frank Parker Stock bridge) Presidents ... and double-o Franklin Roosevelt is the third successive President to have a double "o" in his name. He is also the thinl President whose surname is the. san-.c as that of one of his predecessors. Wt have bad two Presidents Adams, two Presidents Harrison, ond now two Presidents Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt is the third Presi dent of Dutch descent, Martin Van Ruren and Theodore Roosevelt being the other two. He is likewise the third President clected in his fifty first year. Masons Presidents President Franklin Roosevelt is the thirteenth member of the Masonic Order to be President of the United States. 1 have often heard some of my Masonic brethren say that ever)' President ha3 been ti Mason, but that is not true. Washington was Master of his I/odge. Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Bu chanan, Johnson, Garfield; MsKin ley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Harding were Masons, There is wi Masonic record to prove that Jeff erson was a member of the Order, but there is collateral evidence which is taken and accepted Masonienlly of indicating that he was. Mr. Taft was 'not a Mason before ; he was clected, but the Grand Lodge ' of Ohio made him a "Mason at; sight," between bis election and hi* J inauguration. President Roosevelt was recently initiated into one of the Masonic societies, the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. .j.ot president* President Roosevelt will lie the ninth member of the Protestant Episcopal ?Cburcb to he President ot the l^rited States. It is a curious thing that this small denomination should have had more representatives in the White House than any of the other branches of the Christian j Church. There nre less than/ two nil- 1 lion Episcopalians in America com- j pared with nearly ei^ht million Bap- . tints, but only one President, Hardiug j was a Baptist. There are nearly twctoity million! Hon- an Catholiea and none has ever been President. One President, Cool idge, waa n Congregatiomalist, one, Garfield, a member of the Disciples of Christ ; one Hoover, a Quaker;, two, Van Bum and Theodore Roose velt, belonged to the Dutch Reform j Church. Both the Adamses, Fillmore j and Taft were Unitarians. Johnson, Grant and MeKinlev were Method ists. Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Ben- j jamin Harriton and Woodrow Wilson : were Presbyterians. The Episcopal ians include Washington, Madison, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Taylor, Pieree and Arthur I don't imagine It makes any par ticular difference to what Church the President belongs. Two of them. Lincoln and Coolidgc had never been members of any Church before they became President. But every Presi dent of the United States has been j a deeply religious man, as every man must be if he is to command the con j fidence of the people. I Grandfathers ... a few Although one of the youngest Pres idents, Mr. Roosevelt is one of the few who were grandfathers when they were elected. Mr. Hoover was also a grandfather, but from then baek for nearly a hundred years I j cannot find a record that any Pres j ident was a grandfather at the. time of his election. Washington had no children at all. Johnson. Adams and Jeffertfn were grandfathers, and so I believe was Monroe. W illiam Henry Harrison, who lived but p month after bis inauguration, ha<' a grandson who later became Presi dent, but I believe there was no other President than those I hevc named who had grandchildren at th< time his election Enaor, Cherokee; Don Young, Frank lin; J. S. Coiiley, Franklin; Ed wan' Eaton, Franklin; Dan Moore, Sylva; and Prof. C. P. Carroll, Brysor City. The Scout Executive will visi several points in the district and oonfer with the varioaa Soout leaden Washing-ton, D. C., Feb. 22.? Twelve yearn of uninterrupted He publican control of the Federal Gov ernment are practically at an -end. The Democratic Party in in moro complete control than it has bean since the first Administration of W oodrow Wilson, which began just twenty years ago. At that time only a few persons ou either side of the Atlantic mtieipated the great Eum !>ean war, and fewer still had any remote idea that the United States would be dragged into it. Yet it in ihe events which occurred during the wur which are at the roots of tho economic troubles from which tho United States and all the rest of tho world ore suffering. By all odds the biggest job ahead ?f the Roosevelt Administration is the adjustment of the international | situation, with respect of debts grow ling out of the war, and the effort In restore international trade upon which the prosperity of the Unitc.1 States Mill greatly depends. And the most important task which Pres ident Roosevelt and his party's Congress will have to tackle also grew out of the war. This is the problem of pensions, hospitalization and bonus payments for those who served under the American flag in that war. It fMfms from here at this timo safe to assert, first, that the new Administration will not consent to the demand of the American Legion for the immediate payment of tho deferred bonus certificates held by veteran? of the war. It also seems safe to predict that there will be a complete reorganization of the sys tem of caring for invalid and dis abled veterans whoso allowances and injuries nre not directly due to their war servicc. At present the cost of medical and hospital service for stu-h eases is estimated at around $4<K), 000,000 a year, and it is anticipate that this will he one of the first points of attack hy President Roose velt in his effort to reduce the cost of carrying on the Government hy at least 25 per cent. Mr. Roosevelt, it is known has asked his supporters in Congress to give him all the power they cfcn le gally grant under the Constitution. And, in the beginning at least, thcr# is little doubt that he will get it. Of course, any power delegated to the President by . Congress can al ways be taken from him by Congress, but it begins to look as if Presi dent Roosevelt would find himself in a |x>sition of more complete au thority than any President has oc cupied since Mr. Wilson, who for fwo ynai'4 from early 1917 until early 1019, was practically the Su preme Dictator of the United States. In any event, tho new President will have to coll a spccial session of the Senate, to confirm Jtho appoint nficnt of his.. Cabinet members, the new.jiinbassfldors and ministers with whoifi it., is certain he will rcp!K</* America's representatives abrd.nl, and the hundreds of other Presiden tial appointees who must be inuned-. iately put in office and confirmed. In all, there are something like l/>0,? 000 Government jKisitions over which the President personally, or his < 'ab <net, have unrestricted power of ir inoval and appointment. If the plans which are being dis cussed by the friends and support ers of the new Administration aro carried out there will also be a big shake-up ju the classified service, which is nnder the protection of the civil service laws. Appointments, promotions and dismissals in tho classified service, which includes now about half a million Government workers outside nf the Army and Navy, can be made only on the basis of examinations for fitness and mer it. and the?e places have always been rngnnled as permanent and socune. But all of these positions arc sub ject to Concessional action. Con gress can, for example, abolish an entire bureau or division, or it can restrict the number of employees in *nv given department, thus abolishing any number of civil service posts. Probably half the population of Washington, whieh ia composed al m|r?st entirely of OoTemmiyvt em ployee*, it trembling io apprehauieg that their jolt may vaaiik

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