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SYLVA, NORTH CAEOLINAT^UBSDAY, APRIL 13, 1933
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. S 1 5 in Advance Outside The County.
i t i<i* ' =
jjylva High Commencement
Will Be April 28 and May 1
luiio.iiN'OiMnt 'ia-i been made I
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t li an "ii Monday nifjli'
May I. < i;i-> exercises v. ill a t*
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I'll,. (oMiunni t in play, "I*eth j
III,- (liri ?>l" My Ifrarl,' will lie givei i
Klii'.iv iii'.;lis April 28. Mrs '
Cjioiir i- .iireetiiifj Hie play.
U:ir? r Bry -mi, l;as Iktii selected'
a? ^iiini.'iii i:t ilu- class day rxov j
,1m-. ntmrs wlio will |>articipai(
in ib< i?ri'^i';iin ai'." Maurice (iiitinic
Iii-!iriai. ;tM.I Mi-? Out Hindoo, pro
mt
Ti?i?.- wh<i nn- in '-Tim 'hate this yen
in.: Mi- Km!:'." Aliiinnlliv, .Mis- .
Ihiiniliv I'iikiT, M;- Hazel Coward j
i \\\- Unliyr Ki-ln'i', Mi-s Mnnran*.
"t*V. WW '/.fin ll'ii.-'. y, Miss Eii I
?r: 'i.iii \\ vM,n. Mi-? A lire Jlcveno'
1 ii, <^. 1'iinji r. .Miss lla/r '
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ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
WILL SPONSOR SHOW
(.
'ill" Hi ? f i.- \ -m, 'ation ?i T tl
llc.ll Si Ij m.i' ? I ' J n |>iftut'<
lii I. in- Tln-.r n . on next Twos
il.iy ii:?tiii v-ii ! night. A poreont
"t ill* ; i li ?! - ^ ?i ? !?_>? to (111* ftsso
1 ill picinr* to bo shown
i- "I in!. : ( VivtT. Mam."
LAL3A*;I NiiWS
I' \\ . I jis cy sp lit lust wi el.
i'i'. u. iiiid ??, lalivt'S in Ashe
* i"- sh. heard lleno Austin am
' : ' i:,ini.- still's while 1 !u re.
; : Mrs. i. ??igi> Kui<;l)t tuid
? ? !i: iii . n, Mrs. Karwell, Mrs. lily
.'.li.-s Xann e Kmght aiiu ;
' ? !>. i. Ki ij. I?L went to Magpie j
S-;i' !iV ill ' i '.lOOll tl> SOP Mi. K UllL ?
;"ill.
. ini! Mrs. (.ritily Queen of Can
' i' li iv Mumliiy (i .oiling.
A. It. ilnrton, wife ami hnb,',
"'II'.. it .a vif. u? h.-iv Friday vision.
???? n, .?!' Iiis congregation of the
''I'i'nilNl (III, lcll. ? *,
'"?i >.'':'?i| i Iosm! Monday evining
i ciijuviiiv ?? program. All
1 . ' !(? wi | rendered and
! 'iin'f.tl training, hut t
1 ( I'!, i! tedding was tho' fent
. ili -iiiujr. l,,isl hut not least
lv v i ji?l : .a ling i xcrcisos of the
''"I' |iii|ti!s who wi 1 attorn:
s.vK,i i | itch Sidioo1 noxt term.
I .ilii'-v n| 1 1,.. (. jihjj ni'c as follows '
" II ? ii < ? ? i n who dolivorod tho
" -?ii Miss Harriott Long
" i; 'liarlt:! Peek road th
' V'i ;il I est: m ,n! ; Mi t'lith
1 '??f.ril, Dixit; Warren, Virginia
:|;'1| II' Ion Polls, Morvin Smntb
"'?'''"l V? il.iaia Kxy Kenny.
M,l'ir i,!;:icliers S. Jerome Phillips,
m i H v on ami Mrs. Whitt
^ : vc much credit for tho
? "'it, iicco' plishod in tho past
l! 'I 1. 1. ml. The seating capacity
/ eivat-y nv. r taxed ? another in*
' ''' '".n ih.tl lla'sam ii'oda a larger
'"'""I I'tiiMiir/
Tl '
1 ' li ml children received the
'"?l ini.ciii.it ion Tuesday from Dr.
y o|' Svlva, for Diptheria and
I 1 'v,,r. 0:ir citizens here say
JV hiu .never been a ease of Ty
I'noul coat !? acted ,n Brdiam.
PRESIDENT CUTS
OPERATING COST
Washington. April 12 ? President*
Roosevelt after more .than a uouth
In office, is still riding the top wave
of popularity and authority He is
snowing in ihc t?i,ecm of inai:y who
undervalued him before he took of
fice, and certainly is proving liinn:lf
the best politician who has occupied
the White Hoa.se in many years
There is no politics, bowev.r, in
'he plan for refinancing farm mort
gages which Congress doubt les wi.l
:dopt. Under thy p an the Farm
iloard will take over farm mortgage*,
?xtending the time for their pay- j
nent and e stablishing the interest i
?ate at 4 1-2 percent.
Under the blanket authority that
s granted him by congress to reduce
lit" (lowriiiiuntal expenditure, Mr
toosevelt's director of the budget,
jewis K. Douglas, has worked out a
ysten: which will cut estimated
Vine bundled million a year off the
?V'dcral expenses. It will still cost 1
tome four thousand millions a year J
0 operate the Federal machine, and
ust how this mouey is to be raised |
s not yet completely clear. There.!
vil! have to be some new revenue 'eg- j
'at ion, but that is still in the fu- j
tme. '
Besides cutting about $400,000,000
1 year off veteran relief, Mr. Doug
jus's economy program calls for a fif
?en percent reduction in all Federal |
alarirs. This wi I affect pretty close
> a million people on Uncle Sam's
nyrol:, for it includes the Army and
\avy as well as civil employees.
Protection for Investors
Thero is every reason to expeet !
hat the Administration's j p^on for
Yderal control of all new issues of
'.oeks and bonds and perhaps also
?ver the sales of old issues, will be
doptcd substantially as the Presi
>'nt has requested it. This is calcu
.ited to do away with many of lhe
'rands which were perpetrated upon
? gullible public during th? recent
ooni. It is also a part of the pro
ram for the protection of the in
ster for the Government to exer
ise a high degree of control over
li exch'iiigeH in which securiies j
nd commodities ar< traded in.
The Senate Finance Committee's j
i v: sti'jutioii r.t' tl)?* banking f-iltia- j
ton has been extended to private
.inking inst tutions, and the greiit
louse of .1. P. Morgan and Company
s to be one of the first called upon
o tell how private nivesimeni bnnk
ng houses work.
The general banking policy of Hi"!
V<1iiiiiiistratioii is beginning to take
hupp. It looks as if it would work
"I into & single banking aystoi; nn
: r which -every hank would bit re
fHiml to bo n member of llut Feder
I Reserve System, and perhaps to
ifivo n Federal charter. It would be
isy and legal to fow State bank
'i become National banks by imposing
i prohibitive tax on thi ir chocks, for
vnniple, or by refusing to let tliem
wirticipato in any pla'n for the in
uraneo or guarantee of deposits.
For the Unorjp oyed
The President's plan for. putting
tu army of unemployed men to work
ii national foivsts has been approv
d by Congress, and there is litt <? i
loubt that be will girt, perhaps l?o
ore this is printed, I he authority In
eeks to lend f've mil lions to .the
(ates for direct unemployment re'
ief. Kvery possible effort to put men
aek to work is being made, and iri
nsive study is being1 given to mnn
rous "self-liquidating" projects of
iblie work, which might l*e finun
d by Government loans to be re
uirl out. of earning?. For exnn;p e,
lie new bridge across the (Jolden
late at Snn Francisco and the (irand
sland bridges in the Niagart River
"tween B ffn'o and Niagara Falls
?pi being financed by the Rceon
??t ruction Finance Corporation, but
b'?y will eventually earn enough to
repay the loans.
The same po'icy may he adopted
for power projects mul other enter
risog which arc sure to earn enough
(o pay back the loon.
Where the money is coming from
to lond, enough of it to make this
policy of stimulating business and
Easter Bunnies Right On Time
m ? ? ? + "
rm j
Easter bunnies will be right on time this year, as always. These tw?
maidens were slightly in doubt so they went out and around and about nn4
did they find bunnies, well yes! So now Sara Belle and EvelyK Tiff:in]T?
maidens fair of footlipht fame, want all good little boys and girls t#
know that they have the evidence and that Easter bunnies and all th?4f
friends will be right on the job on Ea^er morning.
REPORTS OF FIVE-TEN
YEAR PLAN HEARD HERE
Koports from tlie seven counties
?oinprising the western district were
heard at a meeting h:-ld at the Xew
fackson Hotel, In^t night, in the Five
I'eu Year i''unn program, sponsored
by the Asheville C'itizenTimes and
lirected by Bruce Webb. The counties
?f Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Macon,
Clay, llaywood and Jackson were all
?eprecnted and talks were made by
County Kami Agents, Home Demon
stration Agents, reiief. workers and
>thers interested in the development
>f the farming interests in the count
ies.
The next meeting, which till be
held in May, wil: be at the .Tr.k'i M.
Cuntpihll F.?!k Schoo", rl Hras<!own.
( ' _ .
WniL HOLD SUNRISE SERVICE
The Kpwoith I e.v.'iie ;uid the 15. V.
P. I'. of tli.? local Methodist aid 15ap
t i-t church;-., will hold a sunrise serv
ice, SiMiday Morning, al tin1 K i iter
Cenj-lr.v.
putting nun back to work big n-..igh
u> make a dent in the unemplm'i.ieiit
situat oii, is another question. There
is talk about a huge bond issi y?er
haps running the national <1 : up
from its present twentv-one t ':?> and
million dollars to thirty bil.Iiov ;.
Not in tlie budget
Such an issue would not nti >.-ari- !
/
ty in Idle re v.itu "i.aianciug ti<o '?uu
get ' sine.- tin- int. ii - i cliarg s on
.sues a bond i.-.- .e would lie compara
tively aiuaii, and one cluiugt ulntu
J-S ini|H iiituig in our (jioveniiiriuia.
system is m its book-keeping, in
rt'jiicli moiiiys raised i?y loans will be
iv.pi s.paia.e troiu those raised |jy
lU.vHiion. 1 '.irrcnt expenses and in
terest on loans are expected to be
paid out of taxes; there is no sug
gestion now of paying off the prin
cipal of any of the .existing loanu or
nie projected new ones.
in this matter of public works, the
expectation is tliat contractors ana
suppliers of materials will be requir
~<l lo ailoj 4 tiie thirty houjr week foi
labor, six hours u day, five days a
week. And on iis own initiative tin
Senate has -tinder consideration a bid
which would conip.'l all private indus
try engaged in inter-state commerce
to adoj?t a thirty-hour week, under
(K'na ty of having its products barred
from trade across state lines.
That Roosevelt Humor
The pel sonal life of the Ho ist volts
in the White House is the subject of
innumerable anecdotes illustrating
the simplicity uud home-likeiu ss of
the Executive Mansion's new occu
pants. They keep practically open
iiouse for their I riends and casual ac
luaiiitanccs, just as they did at their
home in Hyde Park. And the verdict
of Washington is that they are not
exhibiting any of ihc signs of "swell
head"1 which have sometimes al f.ieted
I'lTsidi uii:'l fami ics. . ?
One lady who was invited in an off
hand way bv Mrs. Roosevelt to (oirio
io dinner said at the table:
"I never expected to dine iu the
White House.'' '
"Vo.'. ve got nothing on me, " re
plied President Roosevelt.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker '?Klocklirid?v)
NATIONALISM a kick back
A lot of the world's present troub
les arc due to an cxcess ot' Nalion
| alistie pride. Every nation is trying
J to he se'f contained, and then it i:
grouching because oilier nations
won't trade with it !
Every dollar we sp.-nd for foreign
t;oods helps soiuc: other nation to
huy our goods. I believe in America
l,;rst, but I do not believe in tin
stupid doctrine which would probih
it me from buying something I want
ed because it was made abroad .
**"" Nearly a hundred 'years ago there
was an agitation in this country sim
ilar to the "Buy American" Move
ment of today. The party which ad
vocated non-intereoursc with foreign
countries got the nickname of
"Know-Nothings." Presently we will
wake up again to the truth that
every obstacle to international trade
hurts everybody concerned.
JEWS . . . iu Germany
Jewish people all over the world
are greatly disturbed over the policy
of the new "Nazi ' govemn eiit of
Germany, under thp. practical dicta
torship of Oninccllor Hitler, in boy
cotting Jewish merchant^, doctors^
teachers and others.
I talk"d the other day with an
intelligent young German .W who
had been getting letters from home
about the situation in Germany. 31
was not at all worried, His people
had written him that they were not
being, an noved and that the vliol
anti-Jewish agitation was ,lir<Hed at
a Communist element, majuly eora
I posed of .lews.
Another German, a non-Jew, said
'to me, "Here in America tie Jews
work like other people. In Germany
a lot of them don't do anything but i
try to make trouble for the Govern ;
ment."
But, of course, the German gov- j
eminent has handled the situation
stupidly, as it always handles any
ituation. More than a hundred years
igo the French .historian, Guizot,
wrote: "ThereVjs something in the
German temperament which makes :
them utterly unable to understand |
Mie point of view of other peoples." :
MACHINES . cant think.
When these hard times arc over?
and that won't be lorn* now ? we |
shall not go backward but forward, i
And one thing we may look for b
motto and more perfe?i!,ion oi? ma
chines to do our work f.?r us.
When I was a 1h?v 1 used to ad |
mire the muscular development of
the men who worked in my nnc ;?
machine shop. Not long ago I visited
the same plant, now Iremcndously |
changed, and found one of tho-e old
timers still working.
lie was sitting in a rocking-chair
watching an automatic machine do
j almost exactly ths same sort of work
i lie used to do by hand, only many
| times as rapidly and accurately. Kv
? cry once in a while he would take a
I finished piec off the machine ami
i put a new block of metal in its
! place.
"They 'say tin' machnu-s/will thro\y
everybody oii? of work,' ' he said,
"but I notice that it still takes a
Legislature Reduces Taxes;
Eight Months School Assured
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JUNIOR-SENIOR
BANQUET FRIDAY
Tiio annual Junior-Senior Banquet
tt Sylva llipli School will ho held
Friday night at at 8 o'clock, with the '
tev. Tom Wolfe, .Methodist ir.ini.stcr
leliveiing the principal address of
the evening.
The welcotiK1 rddress will he given
>y Ma'couib Brown, president of tin
Junior class. And the res]>onse will
)e given by DeiuiKiri Lovin, president
>f the S.-nior class. Following this
.vill he a toast to the Seniors, by
Clifford Cagle, with .*i response by
Mnib?e Wilson; Other toasts will it
(dude a toast to the faculty bv Man
McLain with a resjtonso by Coach!
Jack Messeit- and h toast to tin !
gradeinothers which \Mill be 're
sponded to by Mrs. Fred McLain.
Other talks of the evening will b
i:ade by the Rev. J. G. Murray and
W. C. Reed principal of Sylva High.
P. T. A. ELECT OFFICERS
The Parent' -Teachers Association,
Kecting on Monday afternoon, elect*
?d officers for the next year. They
n e Mrs. W. C. Reed, president, j
.Mrs. Hugh Monteith, vice president.
Mrs. Henry G. Bird, treasurer and
Mrs. Dan Tompkins, secretary.
Features of the program for the j
?vening were addresses, by Miss Cor- '<
Iflia Camp, of the facility of West
?rn Carolina Teachers College, and:
Mr. C. F. Carroll, county superin
tendent' of schools in Swain county,
?nul a fashion revue, presented by
Miss Louise Ilenson and her class in 1
Home Economics. Prizes were award j
>jd Miss Maud Battle, Miss Kathryn
McLain and Miss Kate Bradley, for
?xeellence in workmanship, in mak
ing the dresses worn at the revue.
Mrs. Sadie J. Txmg is spending
some time in Hendersormlle, witb
her daughter, Mrs. Hairy S Bucli ]
nil an.
[human brain to tell the machine whei
to stop and start." That is some
filing people overlook. Nobody lias
yet made a machine that can think,
and nobody ever will.
TELEPHONE . another step
Everybody who lias a tclephoin
1:11st have wished for some .sort ol
.in attachment which would answer
idiomatically when the subscriber is
away.
Word conies from Vienna that
iust such a device has been invented
and is in use there. When one i^
<oing to be out of telephone reach
':e sets the implement to the how (
j
when he expects to be back. Then, il J
| ? call comes thiough in his absence j
he ca'ler hears a gong ring to ind" j
?ate the hour when the person called j
vill return. When he returns he find? i
?i record of all calls.
Il will be easy to develop the idea '
into a phonograph record which ;
would say "Mr. Smith has gone to j
Florida but he will be back 011 the f if j
fecn," or whatever other message il j
?s desired to convoy.
Something of thai sort will conn i
Lsome day. \ i
j TYPEWRITER . has birthday I
i I have a vivid memory of the day j
i when my mother received a letter |
from hep younger brother in Iiuffa- j
io, with the woids printed instead of j
written with a pen. lie ,sai<l "This j
letter is written on a new kind of
I machine we have got in the office, I
| called a lypewrilcr.''
I That was almost *ixty years ago:,
I about lS7fi, I should say. The type -
writer was only three or four year.
'old then, for the sixtieth anniversary;
of its invention by Christopher!
; Sholes has just been celebrated.
There was quite a celebration or- 1
ganized bv the Young Women's
Christian Association. The typewrit- '
er, thejvheld, had emancipated worn
en by making it possible for I hem lo
do work in offices. I don't think
that is sound reasoning. Tfardlv anv..
n . v
body but men used typewriters for at
least twenty years after the machine
was invented.
The rush of women into business
began in the early 1890's, after the
telephone people had broken down
the barriers that kept women out of
offioes.
Raleigh, April 11 ? To eight months
school, Statewide and Stale support
ed is a reality. The Senate this
morning adopted the conference re
port on the appropriations hill,
which was adopted by the House
last week, and "which carries the
provision lor the eight months
schools. It abolishes the local and
county taxes for schools. The 15c
.id valorem tax 011 land for M-hools
had already been removed, and
lea vi s tlie schools with no sup]>ort
t'roiu taxes on land or personal prop
?rtv. This will result in an average
f.ax reduction on land and personal
property of 35c on the $100 worth
>i' property throughout North Caro
lina. The average tax reduction in
Jackson will probably be 30c or 35c.
The costs of government have
been reduced radically in the appro
priations bill, and in addition there
s .a clause which provides that when
revenue is sufficient to meet the ap
propriations the budget commission,
headed by the (iovernor shall reduce
these appropriations proportionately.
In other words the State cannot
spend any more money than is rais
ed. and there will be no more deficit
in the State Treasury.
The following editorial from the
Haltigh News and Observer of Sat
?trday tells the story of the reduction
that has been effected in the costs
?)f government :
''Those who have been demanding
tconomy in North Carolina have ev
?rv reason to regard with complete
satisfaction the figures in the appro
priations bill as agreed upon by the
ilea.se and Senate conferees. Yet it is
loubtful if there is a general under
standing of the tremendous extent to
which the appropriations of the State
'lave been cut by this General As
sembly.
The 1931 General Assembly mado
io for tli c Incnniuui,
1931-33, of $10(5,946,773. The present
General Assembly is making appro
priations for the biennium, 1933-35,
totaling $83,159,218, or a reduction
of 22 per cent, in spite of the fact
lhat in tlit new biennium provision is
made for a State-supported eight
inonth.s school term instead of the six
months term provided for in 1931.
In reality the reduction in appro
priations for all expenditures of gov
'mmental operation was greater than
' this. Minns the debt service the 1931
General Assembly appropriated $83,
1(19,5(16 for the bieiinnni, while the
present session is appropriat
ing only $56,530,595. Thus govern -
?nental operating cost in North Car
)lina have been reduced 32 percent.
In addition, the legislature is remov
ing the State ad valorem tax of 15
cents and if no snpplerr.ente by
school district taxes arc permitted
I there will :><? an average saving of
;?? cents on each $100 of present
i'.Vtiaiionls. or about $10,500,000. The
.?ight months school term, provided
by this Legislature, will be operated
lor $10,000,000 ;is compared with
$17,000,000 a year for the six months
term during liie past biennium.
The most ardent advocates of
economy should be satisfied with a
reduction of a third in the appro
priations lor operating colsts in gov- /
eminent in a single biennium."
Willi those redactions effected, ol"
32 per cent ii< the operating cost of
the State g->v? rninent, and with the
land taxes nduccd an average of
35c in t|ie State, the Finance Com
mittee has r< ported out a I Revenue
Hill, and the Jlouse is in the throes
of considering if. .Much of the taxes
saved by the corporations in the re
duction oi property taxes, has been
re-eapliired by raising franchise tax
es on them. V.i (here are the mem
bers of the Finance Committee, and
the heads of the Mate revenue de
partment insisting that a sales tax
must be imposed if the money is to
be raised with which to carry on dur
ing the next biennium.
And there i>> where the f'ght cent
ers. The uevniue bill as rc|>ortcd to
the House coii templates a gross gen
< ral sales tax of 3c .There are at
least, four differ'-nt blocs in the
Hons. . (if stands for the 3c general
sales tax a> reported. Another is fav
orable to a selected commodity tax,
or a so-called luxury tax. A third
favors raising the general sales tax
from 3c to 4c, and returning one cent
of it to the counties, on a basil c?
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