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?l,f)0 Year in Advance in The County.
SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933
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$2.00 lear in Advance Outside The County. x
Nantahala Power & Light
Co. to Furnish Syl va Paper
board Co. With Currem
<s.i,v I" "u'? 'mvo oxanrned
I V Will.'.un Miuliswit who aro to
iL '!(i-mi!e hydro power line
,,, ? ,ub- station on the XnntahaJn
hvh ?" ->iul; . . I
\i i ir-t only wooden polos will i
,r nf., luii jf there is an in- j
r n. there w'll probably
,ln | I.OVelN t > , cted.
il?- I'uwir and Ligh ,
.mjwii), ?;tli headquarter* in Dry- j
?i.,1 (it v. I.ah began I lie construction .
?t ;jtl iiiil< . of high power Irnnsmin-j
|i-n- li'i-m the company's sub
,tali?ii "!l l'u" NantahaU river to!
y iii ?lii 1 1 ??lei-trie current will bo
,:ij.j?!inl (? tin- Sylva l'aperhoard
l"!ll|Kll ?}'. ,
Th;. sub-station nt Xaniaha'a from ,
which tb- m-w line starts receives I
funvnt 1 1 ''in the company's hydro
electric I'Intit on the Hiawassee river
jjul from -imilnr plants on the Little '
?fi :iiir.>siv i .vd'. Poles will he used in
the construction of tlie new line aud
the win* will he of the aluminum
fable tyi>" con listing of 27 strands ol |
altimimim wire around a steel core
of -rVi-n >tianils. A charge of 66,000
volts will l)i' curried.
The line will follow practically u
iliri'Oi iimiim', crossing both the N7ui
tabula :iiul liovee mountains and span j
ning tin* Little Tennessee River at ?
NiHlm-re. Tu-I. heavy steel towers1
will Mipi'Oii tli' river span.
li i- i> pe< t?-ii thai construction
tt'll lie completed ill fill days, J. I*,. R. .
i.f Hi'vmmi City is president
?? \W ^autalialii I'i'Wer and Light
ii>tutmu\-, tW liui!iliriu of the line is
miller il,. pjural supervision of B.
N. /'ii/iliriek nt Knuwille, Tvnn.t con
1'Ht'fjntl elluilUi-r. ?
I In- Syh u /*? | n rlioartl company a
?i lesi ilt ,)/? fi?. (.()f|,fn)itinn of these
(r.-iiis/ii/N-i/'iiii lino* will he operated by
ilcitririi v. '
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A WORLD WAR
VETERAN DIES '
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(irillitli Fletcher Motrin, ageil 33,
ilieit in Cuiteil Slates Veterans' Hos
pital at ' Meeii, Friday evening of
l?M Week a tier an i tin eis extending
?v?r si-vcial i ear?,, lie was the old
tSl >ittl ft Mr. ami Mrs. li. R. Mor !
Him, aiul besides h s parents is sur
vKeil liv tWe ..i.-st?: - Jfrs. ( bfi^W*
^ ininnJK and Mr>. Boyd BreudU^ of '
I uvaivs, f hi., and Mrs. J. Frank Bay
'?I fVniikiiii, and by two brothers, j
llan?li! Mor&ui and Ralph Morgan.
Morgan enlisted in the
Radio company which was organized
If re, .noon after the entrance of the
I iiiteil States in the World War,
when only sixteen years old. The
Hailiii company, later a part of the
1'Citli Field Signal Battalion, saw
i live service overseas, from May,
"K until the signing of the annis
Iff and during this service Mr.
Mnigan was gassed, the illness from
*'liiili he died result'ng. A few days
l*i?ri he died he was thought to be
i'upniviii" ; so much so that his s's- j
lllv who had been summoned here
I Nil Florida had returned to their
li'nuo, I?ui a sudden turn for the
"*?iV came on Friday evening nnd '
'if iliiil almost at once.
' uiieral services were -held at the
baptist elmreh here Sunday afternoon
* 'Quillet! il l?y the pastor, Rev. ,1. t Jrav
Mniray, in,?l interment was in the
KifUcv cemetery.
i
Robert Fechncr, of Bo?ton, U th? ,
director of the President's
fonMrv*tion program which Is
to include six billion of public work?!
?ndj..,ttiaj 2,000,000 to work.j
\ Jackson County
Bank Open for Non
restricted Business
The Jackson County Bank ?
was authorized to open for !
; ; non-prc-tiujtei buainees Wed- \
nejday morning. *
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I Tho Jackson County Bank *
;; In 100 percent liquid plus un- !
;; Unpaired capital and sur- t
? ? plus cf approximately $80,000. 1
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W, C. Teachers
Elect Officers,
After u week of exciting campaign
ing the students of the oollege went
to the polls to vote for the student
of their choice.
For tho presidency the students
winning out in the preliminary were.
James Crawford of Candler nnd :i
former studeut of Riltiinore Junior
College, and David Stillwell of Cul
lowhee. The second election lor this
office will ho held soon. Tilsou Fleet
wood of Mars Hill and former stud
ent of Mars Ili II College was elected
vice-president, with Dorothy Neal
of Nashville, Tcnn. ? close second.
Lena Caldwell of Belmont was elect -
I'd secretary, with An.i Bainett of
Charlotte receiving the second high
est number of votes for this position.
The new officers will take charge
nt the beginning of the next college
year which begins in September.
ROADWORK IN
JACKSON COUNTY
ALMOST COMPLETE
Approximately $90,000 in bridge,
culvert and road construction will
come to a close in Jucksou county in
nix w.eeksf C. Jamison, who has the
contract for the road work said to
day.
i Highway Xo. 106, Jackson coun
ty's "Main Street," is to be compet
ed as far ns Cullowhee in six week*.
At tho present the work of putting
down crushed ?tono is going on at a
rapid rate of spoed and will soon be
doue. The grading on the mad, which
is only a mile or so, will he finished
in a week or two. I
j 'Crushed stone is being placed on!
both ends of Highway Xo. 100. Be- 1
ginning at the (Jap just above Cul- j
lowhee the stone has been placed al
most to the new bridge in the town
of Cullowhee which span* the Tuck
aseegee river; while stone has been
place<l from the Sylva Country Club
to a |K>int just below the Cane Creek
culvert.
I Sylva'.s new $11,000 bridge which
| was in the contract of Highway No.
100, has been oiH'ivd to traffic. This
new bridge spans Scott's Creek.
| The stone that is being used on the
road is being crushed just above Cul
lowltee where a rock crusher is lo
cated. V
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i B. A. Wood and Company of A>hc
[viHe has the contract for the grad
ing and placing of stone on Highwav
?No. 100.
The road work has been placed at
approximately $57,000 ( while the
br!rig\* and culvert work is around
$32,000.
I V" ; 7.""
j Argentine's Davis Cup is, at this
'writing, on the high seas bound for
the United States to plav the win
ner of the North American compe
tition. The matches will be p'aved
in Washington, I). C.
! . ")
j Eighty per cent of the major lea
gue baseball pitchers come from small
towns.
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Scenes from the center of disturbances in Iowa, \jrouglit about when court
action on farm foreclosures continued, finally resulting in the Governor
ordering the militia out to restore and maintain order at LeMars and
I'riinglmr. Above, farmers forcing deputy sheriffs and attornies to kiss
the flag. Below, right, .lohn Shafer and his son, Edwin, who lost several *
court actions which decisions started some 500 farmers rioting. Left,
above, Judge C. C. Bradley who was beaten and manhandled but still
refused to agree to sign "no more farm foreclosures".
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YEAROF FUNDA
MENTAL FARMING
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Dean I. O. Schaub Tells of Acecom
plishments in Agricultural Ex
tension Work for Past Year.
As it mutter of interest to the
farmers of Jackson ci:unlyt as well
as to other readers ol' The Journal,
\vq reprint the report of Dean I. O.
Schauh, of I lie Extension Depart
meiit of State College, published in
the Ertensdon Farm News:
In 1M.T2 fanners ol North Carolina
settled dov'n to a season of niuda
nienhil fanning It might he more
properly cit i le< I a struggle for exis
tence in ivlreli subsistence fanning
oreiipied ^I'ii'st all?iiti"ii ami minor
iinilttrs weiv discarded in the tense
fight for an aetfi'al living. Ifetnrus
from cash crops in\ 1=' >1 weiv low,
ami tin- outlook at jh ? beginning ol
1 was far from c iicouvag' n&. For
that reason the Agricultural Kxten
sion Service decidrd t(i iluilili p!are
emphasis on snhsisti'iire or ?ive-at
honie farming ami to fully :t"i|Uaint
the people with the outlook I or all
crops.
To this (?ml, the spceialisls, district
ag.'iits, ami iiiiiiuly sj;vuts used the
mediums ?d meetings, pl'?ss r. ports
and personal effort to give wide pub
licity to the <iutl?..?k i'ui; jvjiieuitipv:
and to urge the subliistcnei: tyi"
| of farming. The results eouhl he ea 1 1*
led successful in that loud and teed
supplies were provided except in a
few sections where summer droughts
'made it im|M^sihle. The increase ill
food and feed products tor the yeai
1 1 932 brought the total value of the
> increase during the three years i t the
'campaign to $55f(H)0,(MW).
Tn some sections there was a slioit
Lg? of corn which caused some hard
ship. Over most of the State, how
'ever, the suppl es of hoine-grOwn food
jwere adequate and the larniers had
"everything" as they expressed it.
I except money. This lack ot mone\
jled to a dev< lopmeiit of the halt cr
Jing system in which hoili home and
farm agents- aided.
The price o' poultry was low dip
'ing 1SKJ2 hut the crop proved to b
!a beneficent one. It pmvidtd cash
and formed ->r> per cent of the pro
; duds sold at the curb pptkcK Th ?
i poultrv depaitinent made hser
(vat ion that flwk owners -n no case.
lso far a* oo?hl Ik- learned, applied tor
'relief. They were amount the lirst to
pay the-tax assessments lor the year.
Despite economic conditions, thctv
wa< net loss of only . - f <'m
and onlv about three whole-time home
Wen ts." This demons! rat -d faith m
'Amicultural Extension work and prov
led" that the agents had served the p?o
p|e in a eomniendahle way. More than
ever the agents had the support ol
community haders and oi-ga^td el
fort. County boards ot agricultim
met with the farm agents to develop
plans for the year, and county cotut
cils of farm women met with th
homo asrnte. Thr ??? 'h'"
Reader, in ?.<? var.o,* l.ome W
stration projects a)i(l Hi" speemliiU
1
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and horn:' a?r?-iils met with these lead
ers to give them needed training in
the wdrk planned. As a result of fin
ancial' conditions, however, the agents
Hits' vafyriiij* from lit
,'to "JO and ")0 jvr cent from local
'j funds.
During the months of March' and
April the farm ag.nts w -re onoipied
with the >'eid and ili ? r loan ap
plications, giving practi. ally :tlj of
their time to (Ik activtw However,
il was j| iH'cessnrv and v.- 'tabic wort.
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i since inauy farmers wfid ' Lave Iiw-ii
unable to finance their operation.-*
without tile hale-. Ii estimated
that over 00 per cent of ;hc>e lands
were repaid either mi -a or in cui
laterizat ions of cotton. I'rohahly no
other section of .state can claim c?pial
ly as good a im< id in -n.- ^?i^ymen'
'especially v. it -i. i| i- t-,?i ~i?l>*i'?**i 1 !ir: I
,al?o:it ,'t7,tlji0 loan- for :i'i I ??'iir ai.*t
a (iiiarjer 1 .ii'' /".i dollar.- 'xviv invol
veil.
? Another general activity was the re
lief work done In both groups of
county agents, and more ? peeiallv by
the home agents. This 1 ;!c the form
of planting and fcnpervi hg welfare
gardens, establishing con i.nunity cm"
neries, t rainuig p: rsons to do cun
ning, gathering ami d strihuting seeds
food and canning siippii s aiding in
the organization of effort for provid
ing clothing for 'needy families ami
the planting of hahiiiccd diets to
prevent deficiency,' discasi-s. Tlie
State Health Depart men! gives full
credit to the Kxtuision Service 'for
the decline in lla1;-;' defic eiicv dis
eases. The death l.ile Iroin pellagra
was the lowest in a nuiubc r of years,
and this was attributed to the fine
results of the live-.st-home campaign.
Some of the agents al-.i did notable
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work in utilizing relief beneficiaries
in producing suppl es of food and in
'conserving this fond for later use.
In farm demonstration work a de
velopment id the year v. in using
the entire farm a> a dii oust ration.
Pioper mauagvmeilf of l! place, ntil
i/.i-ag the result. ?>_ of pi'e\ ??ii> demoil
stratioiis in vai ioiv> line.-. wa - liegim.
Mere attention was ui \? i : to' market
ing and tie* devi lopment ? >.' the i , , u
1 1 ia I exchange was inteii ilied. In the
Southwestei ii dist rict oiilv one change
in personnel look place. T'lis involved
the resignation of \V. L. Smarr a
county agent of McDowill County
and the appointment of .1. (iordon
Blake, .Jr., assistant agent o? Heau
I'ort county as agent. Tie- measure of
I |H ogress in this district js seen In
the increase in poultry id hgiiines
and in the increased y it Ids per acre
'.of small grain, liotahlv wheal.
' Tlie'.growt h in 4-11 elub enrollment
?s one of the gratifying features of
? agi i-ultural extension work. In 10.J2
there were ,"J2,0.'58 boys and girls ell
(Continued on page 2)
Limited Production and Pro
cess Tax Key to Fair Exchange
BALSAM
I Air. and .Mrs. Sljirly A\:it>ou oik!
sinai I .son and Mosis. fieorge Knigli!
and (iiiy-lones motored to Anderson,
S. (. Sunday; Mr. Watson a-id fatii
Iv will rcimiin for sonic time visit
i;,J? '|,s relatives but Mr. Knight am;
Mr. Jotics returned Suudav ni<?lit
Mr. and Mrs, X. If. ( hn-lv return
ed Sat unlay from a visit with Mr.
?I. \\ . C uthbertson ami family at Al
moml.
.Miss Bculah llcck left last work to
visit her sister, .Mis. Dr. Tappan ii,
i( Lucinuati
Mrs. 0. T. Knight m-rived an
nouuccinciit of tin- marriage of Mr.
j Hubert J. Bryson. .Ir% to Miss \ iv
jia.t Kirkpatrn-k in Chattanooga, Tcnli.
April the 1 (it It.
Miss Louise Arrington Went t?i
\\ iiynesville Monday.
The heavy rainfall of last weef did
great damage to farm crops and gar
dens here.
Mrs. Rosalie Smith Kxani of (iolds
bor? and son from Mars Flill College
were here Sunday.
Cullowhee Finals
Set for June 3-6
Bishop Finlay Will Be Heard at Ser
vice in Cullowhee.
Cullowhee, X. May 4th, 1 0.'i:? -i-"
The June contnieiieemeut program
of Western .Carolina Teachers' Col
lege has been announced. The event
will take pinup' Jul*1 3-ti. -
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered Sunday morning, .lnne 1
| by Bishop K. 0. Finlay of the upper
South Carolina diocese of the Kp's
/ 1
? opal church.
The annual address to the seniors
will be delivered Tuesday morning
Jiuie (i by Dr. K. L. Moore< president
Jof Mars llill College.
The tentative outline for the re
niainder of the college commend ment
upogram is as follows: Saturday af
ternoon, June .'I, reading contest; Sat
urday night, dune ?'* music program;
Sunday afternoon, ?lime I, annual ad
'dress to tin- seniors by President II.
'T. Hunter: Sunday evening June I,
jvespeis; Monday morning .lnne
oration contest; ? Moiulay altei'iioon.
'.lnne annual debate; and Moiulay
night .lnne 5, senior play.
Degrees and diplomas will Im> pre
sented to the graduates Tuesday
morning, June f> the faculty commit
tee ill charge of arrangements lor tin
commencement program is made ii;
of the 'following: I*. I- Klhol, chair
man, If. L. M.ulison, lioynl Adams.
Alice HelltOil and Mrs. Charles <i
dully.
QUALLA
Rev. and Mrs. ? I . L Hyatt, Mr. and
| Mrs. Kd Oxner, Nils. W. It, Oxuci.
'Mrs. J. (i. Hooper, Mr. Oscar (iibson
and Mr. Troy Turp n attuulcd 1 h?
Spring Session of the Baptist Tuck
aseegec Association al < 'ullowlue
last week.
I Dean W. K. Bird ami family visit
led at Mr. T. \V. .McLaughlin's last
Thursday.
j Mrs. A. C. JToylc visito* -datives
in Asheville last week.
Mrs. Susan Hipp*, Mrs. Bcnnct!
Ilipi is ami M is., < 'harV-s Dnga.n, a',
of Canton "visited amoii^ relative
last week.
1 ? Mr. .1. K. I- i c eman M is-es Dorothv
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Mary and -I. C. Freeman of Cherokei
were- visitors Sunday.
Mi>. Sallie Freeman ami children
of Beta sjient the Week eml willi rel
atives.
Mr.. II. (J. Ferguson and son Hugh
left Monday to attend the finals of
Martha Berry Colli ge at Rome, * *??
Mrs. York Howell is vi-itiii" rela
tives near Canton.
j Mrs. Stive Bradburn visited Mrs.
Will Moore at Whittier last week,
i Kev. K. <i. Mc< 'lain rock, Mr>. Kay
S'herrill ai;d Miss Maud Coop.-r <?!
Sylva and Mrs. Oscar (!ibson wer.
truests at Mr. .J. IC. T? rrellV.
j Qualla has had a large share of tin
recent storms that prevailed through
the land.
( Ilv I* iv.uk Darker Stockbridge)
Washington, .May 7? The Seiiata
passed |||,. K.iiin Relief hill <>n a prj.
?lay. I telephoned at on?*?* to Hie De
partment ?>) Agriculture, tu jf j,
get Secretary Wallace to tell
mi' .insi liow (In- iumv law will be ad
ministered and how it will affect the
average farmer.
"I in >orry, lint 1 won't haw a
minute ill time until Sunday morn
ing, said tin* Scontary. "Can you
come in then
i "At your house
? "No; Ml he at the office."
I hey are Working long hours in
Washington, at least the members of
the President s Cahiiu't are. Working
iast^ too. Sunday morning carpenters
were already at work in the Agricul
ture Adniinist rat ion building, convert -
i'lfC a loiiy:, wide corridor into a se
ries ol ot ticis for the use of the men
ami women, still unappointcd who will
administer the Farm Aid law! The
bill hadn't hcon approved hv the
House yet, hut everybody knew it
would he and uobodr was wasting anv
time.
Secretary Knows Farming
It looks complicated on pa])cr,
hut it will not he so complicated as
it seeiiis in operation,'* said young
Afr. Wallace. A straightforward, di
rect-speaking man, this Secretary of
AuriculUire whose father held the job
in the Harding administration and
.whose grandfather was the founder
of one of the greatest agricultural
journals, lie knows farming, too, both
in the 1 nitcd States and Kurope. He
uudersiiiiids foreign trade and the cf
Pfct of low export prices on the
American farmers' exportable sur
plus.
? "What this new law is intended to
do, and will do," he said, "is to re
store the fair exchange value ot faiin
products when measured against the
thing farmers buy." That isn't a mat
ter ol a fixed price per bushel or
pound, lie went on in explain.
, "The Department foe years has
been keeping records of farm prices
and ot prices the farmer tins to pny
J or what lie buys-? food, clothing,
machinery, fertilizer and the rest,
?lust now the index price of what the
farmer buys is about where it was
just before the war, while the price
ot what lie sells is about half of that.
So I hat ill. present the 'fair exchange'
value of what would be about !WI
cents a bushel, cotton ].'{ c-eiits a
pound, hoiis about ifiT.'IM a luindred
we glit. Hut if commodity prices con
tinue to rise in the things farmers
buy, the lair exchange value of what
lie sells must go up in pro|K>rtion."
Into Details of Plan
"IFow are von going (o do that f" I
asked.
"We are. going to try to do it, first
by limit. iii? the production of the
basic aitricultuial products to what
the domestic market will normally ab
sorb," said .Mr. Wallace. "In the law
those basic piodiicts are named;
wheat > cotton, corn, tobacco; hogs;
rice and dairy products. Hut the law
also permits the Department to make
marketing agreements with process
ors,, allocations of producer* and
others eiigagi d in handling any agri
cultural cemmodity. That may prove
the simplest and most practical way
of restating the fair exchange of val
ue of the basic products as well as
of others.
" I'N.r example in the case of col
ton I am a-kiny the planters, "inner*,
[handlers of raw cotton and -pinners
to form r commit tee representative
.of the entire cotton group and work
out an agi ccmcnt which will be fair
tu everybody concerned. It will in
volve reduction of (he cotton acre
age, of ci.iir-c for we are producing
now mudi more cotton than the mar
ket will take. Ifow are the planter*
who cut down tlio r acreaife to be
compensated? The tioveriimeiit ha*
the alternative of leasing the idle
j acreage at a price that will be satis
factory or ? f eompoiislitiiig them for
the ungrown crop bv benefit pay
ments.
"Farmer- who make this kind of
a contract will receive when they
| market their produce, the going mar
ket rate at the ?fin, elevator or other
market. They will also receive a ben
efit certificate which chii be faslnd
The sum of the two ?hon!d amount
to the fail exchange value of the
same commodity in the pre-war per
^ Continued on page 4)