year in Advance in The bounty.
SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA,
?AY, MARCH 16, 1983
$2.00 Year in Advance Outside The County.
Governor Advocates Eight
Months School Term In
Address To Legislature
(|?V R'Hi Tompkins)
llalti-h. Alar* Ji 14? The Governor
\?r'li ( spoke to a crowd
,, lies and lobbies, on
jhj.|V ?,'|i| \vlien be addressed a
. ,s-iu;. ?'! the House and Sen
t'l ..iv.'im'fd liis ideas of what
jlc '
. i , !v to ai-t the State out
BJ."' '
, i.r. m lit dilemma. Governor
1)1 1 . -I i
fkriiiiil<:,lSS Vkl)" w'as l I wlu>n he
l, alll| ru'iuing a temperature ot,
' ;it! i? atied U|MU1 the clerk
Lfc a- In- delivered his message,
i imiii',?li;':, Iy was escorted from
j?. |i;ill down the stairs to his
!rt"' was tf^cn to the
;?? v hi* re he went to bed and
, ;.'i ilie next dav. though he
1 1'"1 t ? i i
, H foiiterenees with tin
Jl'.'l "
?> LjiUtMii :? "T Hanks, Mr. Hood;
; ?tj|(ir Staiv officia's.
(;_,Vl i;iur lliinighfuis stated that
' i. i;?\ -i.i'de to th:? strictest econ
il(iV. ilut it must not be t;ur
-W t-> Uk1 iH>int ot' crucifixion ? of
?;;r !i:h>1 >> stem, State departments,
(jj and institutions. He ad
;i >.i!es tax, of some sort,
i blil months school term.
1-r.tlit at d u|"ii 'he abolition of all
|ik;i| I'Kim'y :i?id district taxes foi
?!,. MipiH'.i schools, and the
lial:iiM-iu'.' 1,1 'I 1 budget. Tht. Gover
i?,r: |i.M that ,i-. i- <>"'>' through th.
Stuir .vn?i?o?: -'i tii" eight months
srlimiN. d -viih the removal ot
tin I.V |.i >|> " v !?' *? which has jiI
l txiiAv passed the Mouse, that any
| wl\viUo'i el on tile home.
auoV of |i' ' people can b>
< If' itH\. \Y Ai,l net advocate am
p.'/i/icnhiV 1V> tax.
Ilmr a ptm deal of seutimeii;
in (lit ' ll<w titlirr the figh.4
m/iii ;/iv >? 'j:i, ul (ir any >h'*'s tax, ant!
ii i- ihi 'Jithi if such legislation can
hr passu! ;>t the present, despite the*
r r?iiii<i',ii(iati?u i>i' ,h.? (iowrnor
?hist hon Jmi<r it will take to iron
('til 'hr differences uoIkmIv n he
ph li? jwdict. The (ioveniot cuinp
lin etiled the Icgi-latnr-' i.pi>n tin
I'pslation (li.-.t already been
enacted, Cf.ii.-olic "u;i:iT di/jiai"timiits
and offifis, and nslucing claries;
lint stressed ?ln |K?iut tliat he in
si >t i*d i?pi(n vl;>[i he said that it ir
cither eut t'H selino's and institutions
die jwint where they can not
function, ?r adopt a sales tax.
I he House on Tm sdav resolved
itself into a commit tep <?f the whole
ami t.'K'k uj. the .Machinery Act. Two
aiiMjiliiieiili u'erc ndopted. On'
?''?"iiM fax -Mm ks on foreign c??rj)or
ali?u-. anil |iin |||t. n. turns into the
y?ml I mill ?f the State for school
P'"'P*'?i \ riic other provides for the
?? valuation ,,| property for taxation.
1*. puis the duty upon the commis
of f I.r- counties to say whether
^ f'Valnaiioa shall be a physica'
? m- 1 r ch.tll !><? done by a percentage
!'i all t|i;> property of a couuty.
Tlif House put the Cover Hill for
nptal of the Turlington Act,!
'"i'li i? North Cam ina's conform
'!r kidalimi to the Volstead Act
h ?!h|i, (,y refusing to adopt the
toiniirilv n i>ort on th?* bill
'r- ?I'wphus Danitls is to )>e the
'"'M amha-xador to Mexico: Ifi' is
r,"u i" NN ii-liin<;ton.
Tlii' banking situation in the Stale |
'' Wnjf rapidly cleared up, and the
"'Witiissiniicc ,,1' hanks is passing 011
'Miration* of bankp to reopen, as
ftl'i'Hy us i- |?ossible.N
Thi lv is ;( crciipval feeling that
hav? t;ik?-n an upward swing,
n 1 1? li ??t' optimism is f*'lt
H mhI i in inosi | . Hi-is of the country
'"v- J. ( iray, frii'lld of almost ]
' V?tj-1kh1v :n Jackson county, was
?' Ki'ln-'i ? m| ay, piloting a group
'H <1. '.iivu about the eapital.
M'l
?. , n
'""l
rapidly progressing
?N NEW DEPARTMENT STORE
*** i> v Vi'lly progressing on
hKV, ? rtinent store which i*
j*111:' ?,|!"t.?i <>i Main Ktreet by
u and Joe Winner, p*0
I'he leader.
I ^ " ^I'iiiiihouv, of Morganton
l'1" '?<!'' rai't for ? electing the
"" j t,i n,.w building will be
?!, brick structure^ which
?? ? it, in in fv^rv detail. A
i-r,.
"" tlw
<>i
men is being employed
t ruction.
^bi n o, in- of tl:o new department
*** \yi!i The Leader, the aaW
tint (,i i br* stove now owuod
? U*siug and Mr. Winner,
I TODAY aod
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbridge)
Maey. . i u di.f nition
I think we arc going to come oat
of our economic troubles with a
much more general understand
ing of- the unimportance of
rtoncy, 'than most of us had before.
Million* of people have learned how
0 get ' along with substitutes for
money. A lot of them have learned
that mioney is not wealth, but is
, merely a symbol of wealth. Heal
1 wen th is commodities that can be
used, and nothing else.
j The best definition of money I
I have ever seen was written by a
j German economist, Paul Helfferieh.
iHc said:
j "Money is a medium for scoring
: commodity values and conveying
them through lime and space."
; Scrip . . . just aj good
| Any money is good money which
everybody is willing to accept as
such. Practically the whole nation
l as gone on a scrip basis, and un
(il w.e try to spend souj(> of it out- j
side of the United States it is just
as ?r<>od as gold. ;
The only tiling that 11 akes gold J
the best money is that it is the one !
substance which everybody in the j
world accepts at the (same value. Hut
when everybody in ilopfrog Corners
accepts the local scrip at its face
vaiue, the scrip is just as good
money- as gold money.
Neither scrip nor go'd is wealth
v0th are -merely yardsticks with which j
to measure wealth.
Fcrster . . . has served long
1 was glad to learn that Iludolph
Foster is to keep his job as execu
tive clerk in the White House. I have
known him since he was first, ap
pointed by President MeKinW, in
1897. lie has held that j>ost contin
uous'y through the eutiro Adminis
trations of seven Presidents, and is
now starting on his ? ighth.
No man in Washington has had
so many state secrets pass through
his hands as Rudolph Forster, and
nobody has ever talked less about
the confidential information which
has coir.e to his knowledge.
Presidents ... 31 or 32?
Franklin D. Roosevelt is cither
the thirty-first or the thirty-second
President of the United States, ac
cording to which way you count it.
I notice that Publishers Autocaster
Service referred to him' last week afl
the thirty-first President.
It is perfectly true that he is the
thirty-first person to hold that of
fice, but one of his predecessors, Mr.
Cleveland, wax elected two different
times, with a four-year interval be
tween his two terms.
So if you count the number of
Presidential administrations, Mr.
Roosevelt is the thirty-second. Not
that it makes much difference.
China . . . being united
I dined the other day in New
York with a gentleman who has been
engaged in business in China for
several years. He gave me a new pic
ture of the condition of the Chinese
people.
China today is actually prosper
ous. Its industries are booming and,
except in some of the remote dis
tricts, there is something like real
prosperity, judged by Chinese stand
ards.
The most interesting thing my
l'riend said, however, was that the
Chinese people are more nearly uni
fied today as a nation than they
have ever been. The Japanese ag
gressions in Manchuria has stimu
lated Chinese patriotism. My friend
expressed the opinion that China
would make a very effective resist
ance to Japan; that it might tako
years, but eventually China, includ
ing Manchuria, will be controlled by
the Chinese.
Perkins ... in New York
Frances Perkins, the first woman
member of the Cabinet, is in private
life Mrs. FauMVil*c*u. Iier.Hiuphand
is a atatistieian. They have a dauerh
ter, Suranna, who is now about .six
teen old
So sharp a line does Miss Perkins
draw between her public life and her
private life that it was not until her
name was announced as Secretary at
Labor that most at the newspaper
(Continued on last pap)
MOVING PICTURE
MADE OF INDIANS
AT RESERVATION
' / \
I I
The IVlt't lO-troldwvn-Maycr Mo
tion Picture corporation sent Jules
White, veteran director, and four
cameramen 3,000 miles to make a
motion picture of America's rough
est sports recreation ? the game of
Indian ball, which is played only by
the Cherokee Indians of Western
North Carolina.
Aiong with Mr. White and his
party was Champ Pickens, Southern
sports promoter, who hits carried
more Southern football teams
to the Rose Bowl than any other
man in the South, today.
Scenes were taken of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park;
also, of the Cherokee school.
Ceremonies usually shielded from
the eyes of any but the Indians were
shot for the first time. The Indian
dances, smoking the peace pipes, and
the Indian ball game were all filmed.
Mr. White, the director of the
picture said that the short, would be
released in about two months and
thai' a copy of it would h?* sent to
the Cherokee school.'
P?4e Smith, famous in movie cir
cles furnishes the dialog in the short.
BEER BILL PASSES HOUSE
A bill to legalize 3.2 per cent Iw
was passed by the Jlouse, Tuesday.
It was President Roosevelt's third
major pinpftsa! of flu- special session,
and was rushed through an enthu
siastic house to the Senate, where
Democratic leaders confidently pie
dieted speedy approval.
Uproarious during hours ot' debate
in which the minority prohibitionists
hammered vainly against the admin
istration's revenue Legislation, the
house overwhelmingly passed the bill
316 to 97. ' SJ
Action came within less 'than 30
hours after President Roosevelt sent
an unexpected message to congress
asking for immediate passage for
revenue pur])08es, and to fulfill the
partyis pledge to modify the Vol
stead act to permit the manufacture
and sale of heer.
Seven North Carolina congressmen
hacked President Roosevelt's pro
irair.- for amendmtut, but three joined
the minority in opposing the measure
Abernethy was listed as not voting.
Those who voted in favor of the
bill were: IJulwinkle, Houghton, Han
cock; Ken-, Pou, Cmstead and War
ren. Opposing were: Weaver, Lam
beth and Clark.
LEAS FINALLY JAILED IN
, CLARK8VILLE, TENNESSEE
Colonel Luke Lea, publisher of the
Nashville Tennesscan, and formers
United States Senator from Tenn
essee and his son, Luke Lea, Jr.,
fugitives from justice of the State
of North Carolina, no longer are
protected by armed guards, nor drive
golf balls about the links at Clark.?- j
ville. They arc now behind the bars
of Clarksville's jail. This came about
us the result of a warrant issued
for their arrest by Governor Hill
McAllster.
More than a month ago Governor
McAiister honored a requisition from
North Carolina for the extradition
of the two Leas, under conviction in
the Ashevi'Ie bank case, but until
this week nothing had been accom
plished toward getting the n:en back
into the State of North Carolina. At
one time Governor McAiister was
urged to send a company of militia
to take the two men into custody,
but found that he had no .authority
to do so. But on the arrest of the
Leas this week, North Carolina of
ficers made' 'their way into the moun
tain town of East Tennessee to fight
the Leas in a habeas corpus hearing
which hak been called for Monday,
March 19. The Leas were not per
mitted to make bond, and were
lodged in jail to await the hearing.
TOWN ELECTION TO BE HELD
An election, for the purpose of
selecting officers for the town of
Sylva, , has been? called for May 2,
at which time tlu; five aldermen will
be chosen. ?'Ci J. Crisp is registrar
and II. 0. Curtis ami J. E. Keener
are judges for the election. The
present officers are C. C. Buchanan,
mayor, W. E- Grindstaff; Chas.
Prise, E. L. Wibon ; J. CL fVlli?
Dr. Oronr WUtu^ aldmaw.
I
PRESIDENT GIVEN
WAR TIME POWER;
BY NEW CONGRESS
Washington, D. V., March 15.?
Ofce of the oldest bits of political
faunor is to predict that four months
iffcer a given President takes office
ail the banks in the United States
will bo closed. The c-ateh in that
joke is of course, that four months
from March 4th is the 4th of July.
I That particular bit of humor is
both unpopular and out of date in
Washington now. President Koose
veit's inauguration was the last one
to be held on the fourth of March
His successor will take office on Jan.
30, 1937. And, moreover, it didn't
take four months or even four days
after his inauguration for all the ,
banks ill the country to He closed. In
fact, in practically every state the j
banks had been vlosed by proclam- j
ations of the Governors on the day
that Mr. ltoo.sevelt took office.
The promptness with which the
new President took action as a re
sult of the banking crisis has furn
ished at least one answer to the
questions which everyone in Wash
ington lias been asking as to what '
sort of a President Mr. Rnosovflt j
would be. His inaugural jiddress pro- t
rnised speedy action, and lie followed j
up the promise by i-suiug a procla- \
mation on Sunday, the day after his !
inauguration, closing every hank in j
the United States for four days,
while at the same time he summoned
tile new Congress together in ixtra- \
ordinary session to meet, March
There .?een:s to be genial approv
al of President Roosevelt's j>oint of
view, that the present < conomie sit- j
nation is comparable to war and re- j
quires emergency measures as drastic j
as those used in war tiue. Indeed, j
it' was in a war time s lute, the j
Trading with the Knen.y Act, that
(he President found his authority to
forbid the removal of gold, silver or
cmiiMicy -fmm the United States or
from any bank, without specific
authority from the fVerrtary ??f the
Treasury. . w
The new President's int ittal ion
that unless the new Compress proves
able to move swiftly lie would ask
for as broad authority its has ever
been delegated to n President ev,!|1
in war time, did not surprise those '
who know his determination to use
every possible means to stari the
wheels of business again
The Seventy-third Congress which
is now in session, is more completely
under the control of the President
than any Congress has been for many j
years. Mr. Roosevelt will not have to ;
ask twice for anything that he wants.
I lie already has greater powers in
sonve respects than his predecessor
had. In the very last week of the old
Congress a bill was passed authoriz
ing the President to do what Mr.
Hoover had asked authority to do,
that is to consolidate numerous bu
reaus and government activities in
the interest of econorry. Congress
refused to let Mr. Hoofer do this,
but gave full authority to his suc
cessor?and Mr. Hooover signed the
bill. (
One of the first things that the
new Congress will have to tackle, as
soon as the pressing banking and
financial legislation is out of Ihe
way, is the appropriation for veter
an relief. The bill providing almost
a thousand million dollars was passed
on the last day of the session of the
old Congress, and was vetoed by Mr.
Hoover a few minutes before he re
tired from the Presidency. There
will be no funds of anv kind avail
able for veterans' relief, hospitals,
etc., after July 1st, until the new
Congress makes a new appropriation
for that purpose. This puts the issue
of economy in . this item of govern
mental expenditure squarely up to
the new Administration. Authorities
who have studied the subject are in
practical agreement that more than
$400,000,000 a year can be
saved by cutting off free medical and
hospital service for veterans whose
disabilities are not clearly traceable j
to their war service, a" 1 by effect- ,
ing other economies in '.he adminis
tration of these funds.
It is reported that ' President
Roosevelt has a plan to bring all of
the Government's health and medi
cal services under onc'heitid.-^ e now
have the U. S. Public Health* Service,
the Veterans' Administration, the
Government hospitals for the insane,
and various other Governmental axj
timtieg relating to Iraalth and ntedi
ml care, Hrrftrr the Arm^ aud Navy
corps*
iBank Situation Rapidly
^Returning To Normalcy;
! Local Bank To Open Soon
40 YEARS AGO
Tuekaaeige Democrat, March 15, 1893
Mr. A. G. Robinson wont lo Ashe
ville, yesterday.
Mr. W. M. Hoffman wont ovor to
Murphy Monday.
County Snpt. II. C. Cowan wa* here
with his mother, Monday.
Mr. C. C. Cowan wont to Waynea
ville Saturday, returning Monday.
Dr. J. H. Wolff \vo.s called U
Franklin, Tuesday *>n prof c ssionai
business.
Hon. Walter E. Moore loft Mon
day, for Washington, D. P., on i
business trip.
The fanrors are taking advantage
J of the dry weather of the last few
days and are " spoiling the plow.
? ?
Gen! E. U. Hampton got hoirj
Thursday from llalei"fh and left Sat
jurday for Washington.
Tho ladieb of the Dillsboro W. C
T. V., will celebrate the anniversary
of their organization on Saturday
evening, March 18, by having a*
oyster supper.
Mr. Elbert Watson, of Glenvillo
came down Monday to meet his son
Mr. E. K. Watson, who is practicing
law at Burnsville, in Yancey county,
lie came home for a two weeks' visit [
Dillsboro Locals: Rov A. II. Sim.* j
has heen holding a series of meet
ings at Franklin, with Rev. A. G
Bortlett. ? Mr. Will Farley is getting
able to walk about agaiu. ? Mr. Thad
Messer has bought a house and lot I
here and will move to it in a few
days. ? Mr. C. C. Cowan of Webster
was here Friday. ? Miss Mamie Allen
left for Louisiana a few days ago
? The people here will soon begir
on the new church; most of the lum
ber is on tho lot now.
CALIFORNIA RELATIVES OF
JACKSON PEOPLE SAFE
A number of Jackson county peo
ple now jiving' in California have
communicate! ? with relatives here,
since the severe earthquake of last
Friday, apprising them of their
safety. Mrs. Kay Francis Montague,
formerly Miss Margaret Freeze, in 1
a letter to her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. F. Freeze, .sent by air mail, told
of the safety of her husband, Mr.
Montague, her aunt, Misa Billie
Williams, and herself. Mi's. Mon
tague was on the street at the tim?
of the shock, but was unharmed.
Mr. Jesse T. Sheiton, who lives in
the region affected by the earth
quake, has been heard from.' by his
sister, Sirs. A. D. Parker, and other
relatives in the county.
Mr. Manahale MeKee, son of Mrs.
Mattie MeKee, of Webster, is in the
United States Navy and is stationed
in one of the havlvors of Los Angeles,
is also safe, according to informa
tion received by his sister, Mrs.
Cyrus Nicholson.
Other people in the stricken area
who have been heard from by rel
atives in the county and who are
uninjured, arc William Dean. Wilson,
sou of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Wilson,
of Culfowhec, Mrs. A. N. Proffitt,
sister of Miss Alice Benton,- director
of physical education at Western
Carolina Teachers College, and Mrs.
Jerry Miller, sister-in-law of Frank
Keys, of Cullowhee.
LIVESTOCK SPECIALIST TO
BE HERE NEXT WEEK
(By E. V. Vestal, County Agent)
Mr. L. I. Case, Federal Agent in
Animal Husbandry, who is located at
State College, Raleigh, ^rill be with
the Jackson County farm agent, Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week. Mr. Case is a specialist
in beef cattle and sheep work and
is familiar to a good many f anna's
in this county, having been here on
several previous occasions.
Mr. Case and the County Agent
will be at the following places the
first three days of next week:
Monday, March 20, County Afoot'*
(owtam* <tt *09 Z) *
Officials of tho Jackson County
Bank said today that they expected
to open for business not Inter than
the first of next week. Application
to reopen ha* already been sent to
tie bank commissioner of North Car
olina.
Ninety-three banks have already
opened in North Carolina and others
are to open soon.
The delay in tho opening of the
Jackson County Bank is said to be
caused by tho fact that the condi
tion of all the banks making appli
cation to reopen, must be cheeked
by the commissioner of banks., be
fore a permit is granted. Due to tin
large number of small hanks in the
state, thin work is requiring a con
siderable amount of time, but it is
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
When the local bank opens it is
thought the only restriction will be
that of the federal ruling against
hoarding.
Many banks in Western North
Carolina and the South were trans
acting business today as banking
took a sharp turn toward normalcy.
Secretary of the Treasury Woodin,
commenting on the banking situation
declared that the "era of fear" has
ended and proceeded with plans to
extend the resumption of normal
activities to all communities by the
end of the week.
A wave of confidence has spread
throughout the StatcB and within a
short time, it is thought, the hanking
business will be back running at a
much steadier and safer gait.
The one thing which most of the
banks of North Carolina and thn
United States have to confront
now is gold hoarders. This is tho
only restriction that is now left, and
this restriction is n federal one.
Already there has been something
like $2,000 in gold pouring into the
Jackson County Bank.
Fear of exposure was said to bo
an impelling reason for the turn of
the gold tide throughout tho United
States. A fine of $10,1)00 and ten
years imprisonment can bo imposed
I upon thone hoarding gold.
In spite of the fact that somo
$2,000 in gold has been turned in
in the county of Jackson, some few
have ventured to estimate that thcro
is still $30,000 in hoarded gold in
the county.
Several days ago a letter was sen 6
out to all the State banking insti
tutions of the fifth Federal Reservo
I District, in regard to hoarding. A
part of the letter is as follows :
"It is requested that you proparo
and forward to the Board as soon
as possible after March 13, 1033, as
complete a list as can be made from
information you are able to obtain
of the names and addresses of all
persons who have withdrawn gold
from your bonk or a member bank
in your district since February 1,
1933, and who have not deposited it
in a bank on or before March 13,
1933."
j As the above request is mandatory,
all names and addresses of thn-n
who have withdrawn gold from tlm
Jackson County Bank will be mailed
in as soon as the list is complete.
A statement from Mr. E. L. Mr
Kce, vice president, will be found
on page two of this paper, in regard
to the reopening of the Jaek><?u
County Bank.
CITIZEN OF SAVANNAH
IS TAKEN BY DEATH
Felix Ashe, well-known, farmed
of Savannah township, died at his
home at Green's Creek last Friday
night, following a stroke of paralysis
which he suffered while in Sylva,
Friday afternoon.
Funeral services were held at thfl
Old Savannah church on Sunday
morning imd interment was in fho
ceiretery near by.
i Mr. Ashe is survived by his widow,
five daughters, Mrs. Gaynell^ Hen
son, Mrs. Vivian Henson, Mra. Clara i
Hyatt, Misses Bl-anche and Hixie
"Ashe and four sons, Gerald, Thomas,
Deri, and Zeb Ashe.
DB. WILKES MOVES OFFICES
Dr. Grover Wilkes has moved his
offices from the Buchanan Pharmacy
building, to the offices previously
oecnpiad by Dr. Candler, in tfca