H) YEAR IN advance in the county SYLVAf NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1933 $2.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNTY PRESENT'S PLAN 13 CONTROL DOLLAR SEtTS APPROVAL ? ? j . ' ??!i. November ? The an il li\ I In* l'rc.m!.i>iit ??1 ft \ nl ai i.-?i aic-l ion tv tin* more iiinuuyr Iti-i advisers uud !i;;\ ?? lo.nj; bci n eo:i ?i.; program- of domestic ! ,.;i! I I;.- carried on success- I ? 1 win d prices ami world j M-iiiioiis well' taken into | .. < . ill in;? to talk it r:iisiui> t i til < oiiiimulitics in our e'.-fk l>, ami i|?ite (mother I . !.!?;? l!u?i puces win ii 1 1 icy c:l nl rpn seiliuu our, co. ii- r ? ahtoad. Anil in (lie case i:l I n illrillJll III* I iclitlllil! ilMIIIIIHll- ? ' ' * 1 Ir.r pat I ui' our prod. ict 1 ?n v .old aliioad. I In 11* of I'ur cot lliir i I our wheat, nearly lisili" i coiM, iu the sl?,ip;? nl I. nil and pi ?i 1 'i<* l and an even i^iuitei . .'ortion <1 some oilier farm pro must I'iud tlieir market in ? Asia and Soii'li America. \ ?; !o:itr ?S ilie dollar was main '! :i I 1 !?,? l id ?oltl value, while other nat'iiiis were depiicinl ? :>'ld values nl tlieir own i . ill prices ol our ?yoils te.ud , ,1 : lower ill {-(Tills ol dollars, I,:,.;, i- ( .. her currencies. I'll:- tasle i I what these , j, ;;! pi iees meant, last , a!i n tile President decl;i . , 1 1 ... i . ? ? !l Uoid. Illlllli-ililltely t Ik . i i I i drop iu t el ics of I Ii , i-.il "ili- r t< r"i?;.i money, and . \ ui-. - and our* domestic p : - . .i ai, cotton and other ?- ? ?! up in terms i f dollars. :. - v. - .see, I hell, tie dollar . , foreign e.vcliaiu ? v t ilroppi d. , i .*?? 1, why the dollar 1 A < natural level iu . inn tin answer, not "!? '? v- loud liy ""sliTiTe- IWr* ?i ? iv liiat it is noi '? . ' Hritain ti ? ??i.ii' i' v ? : ?i, ? a 'vintage ! ?' ?: '? ????'> a*' ' !lic ?overnii.??!it ? ii lo it tli.it when !' "? !i- to drop a pcinl ? h pound steiliiif*. ? \t ii >o -send the prici "i' :i|' avaiii. This litis been 1 1 i h ? stcrliiiir ctpuili op r:! I iujr iu the world ? nuuui'.'.ed hy , the ? ? i. -i i ii i in erllahoratiun ' i ? ' i ? Treasury. Win it ? '??'!:) !? ?fi ls too hi'-ili to suit .'i i-.ti t- >ls, the equalization Into the w crld nuirkcts and " I -r nothing has been done 1?y j ? ! ji'cil j'lntcs to offset this. Hut J ' l' ? -i vi It's announcement tlmt j r- ?lw*il gnvernn ( nt will estah h :i> iiwii (ret- ^old rmirkcl, coupled ? !i ill!" ilc hi ration of policy to < p i ail ?? in tli worlil jjoltl market ninl o t ;?!;?? Hit' first step town i d n nifMi ? d t orrenev, itiiit nuts in effect to . -i^'.fislii'iciit of a dollar eqnali inii Cii'i l, to counteract the effects ?in' .-fc? 'iinr i'i|iiiiliz}itioii fund. And ' :ive I In- advantage of having a 1"! ?_'.ild of cur own to plav with. I ? i : i new become clear (lint ? I ii iciftcr will lie used only as a ? iv hi' value in internal ioiuil It al>o lias become <|iiite clear ' nil imatelv the dollar will he jjiv :? n w \nlnc in terms of gold. Mr. II . vlt made that a. definite pro ?i ' in, or what amounts to fliat, Is;* *n:d that the dollar will he ' m:i |ly stabilized whenever eom ?'v price- reach the proper level, (????sent commodity prices arc ???' <>'ii /0 pec cent of what the "'i-l r.itiim regards as the proper "iivl lev. I. With foreign trade I'tider control, by means of ''?Mid do lais, it will be fairly '?? rai>e domestic prices, since " 'I! in lender be disturbed vio ' hv attacks upon the dollar from ?" ''.''ions. And when the 100 per ! "f Hernial level of prices has rcjiched, then, MY. Roosevelt ''"i'l-rs, .in, | not bcl'oie, Ihe new 1 1 f 1 1 dollar will Iv fixed, ob 'it wha' -cr . ??' *>>. the Vy of (|)|. l! ?> > have conift ' in-, pr.iv'ran , , . - - -- ? ' "-i ilis answer to Mic inflation "" "? on |||,. cm. luitid and the coil - "el- villi vox oil tile other. Instead of '"riiia^ the printing presses 'oo*e to nianufucture more paper money Institute For Teachers To Be Held At W.C.T.C. i i An alignments have been made with ' Dr. II. T. I (tinier tc hold a lour dav institute in Adult Education at the j Western I'uroliha Ti :k hers Colli go ;ii l udowhee, some tune in the very near future. The late of this institute t-jiii not he determined due to the fa<'t. . 1 in i i lit' highway between Sylva and I'ullowhee is being tailed, therefore clos.'d ti: in;! fi<-. -I u>t as soon as thi-4 .?oiite is opened, the date tor the iu ;t it ute will !?' announced. Any tea.-her, man or woman, who is in net d of fiiuuieial assistanee, regularly eerlifieated and has ample .xj vriem-e and 1 urniiisr ?s elifrib'e iV?'r work relief leaching. ImliiiHicns received trr.m Uu'.eurh is to policies/to govern work relief to needy unemployed leaehers del imit the follow in<* excerpts: "Tcnch i-rs vlio aiv appointed will be inves tisrated and >e!eeted by the County ^iipt rinti'inh lit of Vublie Sehoo's and ihf local Director i f Helief. All persiMis iMiiployi'd as woik lle 'ief teachers will receive forty cents p-.-i hour, l lie number of bonis to be let crniiued by the Director . f lielief nccirdiug to the nee?ls of the apP!,j ;.juit, the total waves not to exceed ipj.till a ?ve :k fir i>oi more than ? liirl v hours p: r week. Hours of Service: O'a-es may be >,,.1.1 durinj any hours of the day in ?veil u"1. Facilities' made available l>> rhn.,k.^ n..^ be n>ed for I his in I ?iiructie.il." ,, 1 1 V ill no doubt be :rratif> Mg to :l teachers who d.*ire to attend In helpful iiislitntv io know tba |)r. Hunter, prcsideiil ol Western ra.obua rollers (VMe,e .hroufh ?Jrn hi'-rh r.?riird lie has for Ad.ilt hil ?icat:oii. liris exte ided the hospitali! .,!? the eolle-e during I his time. There lore. all teachers who take this ?'oursi will receive- their board and room ? i jitis for these four days, a'so the ?nil ion is live. Mrs. .1. M. Day. Director of < om ni.iititv S-, .1- Cmm -v.i'l.'.;v 'It course. Me*. Day has been tin n st met ??r in Adn't Kdncation of tbi.- 1 at the Asheville Normal an,. | Teachets- College Summer Reboot |o, ? lie past s 'Veil years. Some of '.he majoi phases ot tin* Institute course to be considered an Ns folb'ws: I. special emplw-i- oil the psycliol Try <;f appioach. ?_> |f,,w to make a census. How to conduct a writc-ye-nr name c?iupait'n. 4. I low '?> oegani/e. . i ">. ll.iw l?: conduct" :? Xerht Selmo nul keep .-.''eijiiati' WnU of results j (V. ) Specif i-1 qualifications "1 teaeti-j . Oelim.il frill of th,' program in Jackson ci unity. II. Plans for a program raniriny over :n jariv.'ii time. A;i < xiiniiiHi(ir.ii will lie given jit the completion of this course mid each li'jichci's tntiiii I iy it committee composed of Miss Pearl Weaver. District Su pervisor if Relief, Mr. M. R Madi son. Superintncdeiit of Schools, ...Mr, \. D. Davis, Director of Relief, Dr. II. T. Hunter, President of Western Carolina Teachers' College, and Mrs. J. Mi. Dav, instructor of Hie course. On Saturday morning, November 4 there will be a meeting for the unemployed teachers of the. comity at the county court house at te!i i: 'clock. ,M?*s. .1. M. Day will be the speaker on this occasion. She will gi ve the t'-aiheis :in idea of the scope of this most illuminating coins:'. All teachers employed and unemployed, and any one interested iu this plrisc of ("'uea'iou v* invited to attend firs inciting. All teacliers wishing to take this train iii!? coins' in order to qu?'i''y for Night School work, please notify lit cnce either Sup*. M. B. Madison. Mr. N. D. Davis Director of Relief or Mrs. Clara. M. C'muer, Cm.m Wr.rker, nil at Sylvn. <> sak,.1 of raising dollar juices, 'nstrnd of sitting tight and lettiiig the leoovery pr* grain work out through the slow natural ojieia tiou of the lnw of sunnlv and demand hij has taken a middle course which, (Continued on Page three) > , COMMISSION HANS TO PAVE MORE OF HIGHWAY 106 SOON Commissioner Frank W. Miller of W'a.Viuy villi' is authority for the >tateincut that the State Highway Commission, at- its last meeting, voted to put on Mioihei- project on High way 106, within a short tunc. It is believed that the project un der consider!,! ion is the paving of that sietio.i of the load from Tuck aseigee to the mouth of Shoal Crick, wlii<*h wa< graded some years ago, and is ready. for surfacing. Engineers of the N'a-ntahala Power Company have gi u c hack on the job surviving lite pro]M>sid new route fro:n < ? Icti ville to CashcirV Valley, and it is Im'IkvciI that as soon as the difficulties arising over the projwsed change, which if made would be done for the puipose ol' getting the high way above the water line of the pro jected power development above the high falls, that the completion of 101! is assured. It is understood that the cnginiirs are making the survey with a view to ascertaining the dif ference in cost of tlii' two routes, the power company having to bear the evt ra cost, in case the pro]M?sed change is made. The Highway was gradid- all the wav from Ttickaseigee to above the High l-'alls Cap, some Years, a??o, at , a tremendous cost, and this will have ?o be taken into consideration in con templating the proposed change. The road can be paved from Tuck a*eig.e to ti e mouth of Shoal Creek, and graded from a l>oint above Olcn viMe to t 'a>l;i' r's Valb v, without in reileriiig wilh any pressed changes, and while negotiations are in pro gress between the Power Company off:ei;d> and the Highway 'Commis He's Ip Jail Chief of Police Janies A. Turpin is confined to his home todwy with a nasty wound on his face, and Jos Arnold, a Sylva Negro, is iu jail nursing his wounds and thinking things over, as a result of a disturb ance in the Tannery Flats, Tuesday night. The Arnold Negro is said to have been terrorizing the community, fol lowing the fthooting of Roy Pickens, a Negro, by Gene. Alston, another Negro, at i Hallowe'en entertninnvnt at the colored consolidated school. The people of the community sent out an a'arin to the officers and Chief Turpin and Deputy sheriff Mason answered the call. They found the Arnold Negro 011 Highway 10, above the tannery. Mr. Turpin drew his gUn on the Negro, and Mr. Mason took an automatic pistol off him. Then the Nfgro clinched with Chief Turp:n and fastened his teeth in the police chief's face. Mr. Turpin grab bed the Negro by the throat, and couldn't- turn loose for fear that the bite in his face would prove more serious. Mr. Mason struck the Negro with his black-jack and the Negro and Mr. Ttupin fell, with the police man 011 fop. The teeth grip was 'oosened, and when the Negro lunged at the policeman a second time, Mr. Turpin fired, , the shot taking effect in the Negro's leg. The Arnold Negro was lodged in jail and Mr. Tnrpin given surgical attaetion. The Pickens Negro was not seriously wounded by the shot from the Alston Negro's gnn; hut Alston is said to have left the com munity an-.l has not been apprehended FINAL RITES HELD FOB SPANISH WAR VETERAN Funeral services for J. Robert Cochran, 60, veteran of tin; Spanish American war, were eond-m-ted at Norton, Sunday afternoon, by Rev. Ty R. Wolfe, pastor of lite Sylv;? 5firthoteen and entered the Veterans' hos pital there. lie was found to be su:' freing with Anuuisin, and yi'uw gr;>d ually worse from day lo day until the end. Mr. Cochran made his home >. Oaklyn Hills, a suburban district,, just outside of Sylva. lie was for I eral years engaged in the grocery bus iness iu Sylva, and had many friends here. He was a native of Abbeville. 8. C. Comiug to this part ot North Carolina ?onie fifteen years or more ago, he was married to Miss Lucy Zaclinry, a daughter of the late Or. James Za chary, of Hamburg. Surviving him nre his widow, two sons. Zaehary Coehran, 11, and John Robert Coehran, Jr., S, two brothers, James S. Cochran, of Abbeville, A. B. Cochran, of Spartanburg, three sisters, Mrs. W. J. McK.ee, Due West, S. C., Mrs T. S. Block, Chicago, III., Miss Hannah Cochran, Abbeville, and a large number of other relatives and friends. Mr. Coehran was known as a good man and a good aieighbor. He was a member of the Presbyterian church in .Abbeville. His quiet, unobtrusive manucr and gentleness of character won for him a place in the hearts of the people of this community. DISTRICT B. Y. P. U. MEETING TO BE HELD AT DILL8BOSO A meeting of the Sylva District B. Y. P. U. will be helfl at Dillsboro beginning at 2:00 o'clock, on Nov ember 19. Lvle Knsley, the district leader, is urging all pastor? in the district to attend the meeting, with the young people of their ehdrehes. The district extends from Swain to Haywood eountv. along fhe railroad. Members of other districts are invited The following program lias bi-en announced : Devotional, Dillsboro Union; Busi ness. Subject for discussion : "Mak ing the best of one'? opportunities." 1. "Opportunities to grow," Bertie Alma Dills. 2. "Opportunities to learn," Miss Edith Buchanan. 3. "Op portunities to give service," Carl Hovle. 4. "Opportunities to live," Rhoda Cope. Special music. East Svlva Union. Discussion of problems, any union. Adjournment. To Vote On Repeal Of Eighteenth Amendment In State Next Tuesday i Next Tuesday, November 7, I lie people of North Carolina will go to the polls and give expression to their opinions on prohibition, for the fiist time since 1908. It will be the first expression oi the people of this State since the 18th prohibition amend ment was adopted as a part of (lie National Constitution. In 1908 the people voted on whethei or not the sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors would be lawful in this Stale. In that election the drys ! swept the State, carrying every coun ty except two, the two being Rowan, home of Pete Murphy, and New Han over. Jackson county gave a majority of 1080 for prohibition; and that was before the women voted. Afterwards the State General As sembly voted to ratify the 18th Amendment prohibiting the transpor tation and sale of intoxicating bev erages in the United States. This was not submitted to the people of the State. Now the repeal of National prohi bition is before the people. .'53 States have already ratified the 21st Amend ment, which is designed to repeal and replace the 18th; and North Carolina is considerablv agitated over the ? ' * matter. Senator Ttobert Kice Reynolds is stumping the State lor repeal. Clyde Hoev, great Democratic leader from Shelby is shelling the woods for the anti-repcalists, while Senator Bailey and former Governor Gardner have both expressed themselves as favor able to the repeal of the 18th Amend ment, bnt opposed, to repeal of the State prohibition laws. , The drys have been waging a house I to house campaign through the State, and they claim victory. Unquestion ably gains for the anti-rc|>eal forces have been sende in all parts of the State during the past few months, and the re pea lists concede this, though they still claim that they will cany North Carolina by a substan tial majority. They realize, however, that victory is not as ea.sv as they at first anticipated, nnd have evi denced considerable worry over the fictfit being pnt up bv the drys and the popular response to the dry ap P*"L Tt is possible for tin* State to give ? majority for repeal, :ni?l at the same time eleet a convent ion thai will vote against repeal. The people xrill rote two ways. First they will vote " Convention "* and ''.No Conven tion." To vote "Convention" means that the voter is in favor of repeal of the 18th Amendment, and wants the constitutional convention called, in December, for the purpose of re pealing the 18th Amendment. To vote! "No Convention" mean* that the voter is opposed to repeal and does not want- the convention hc!d. Then each voter will east a ballot for del egates to the Constitution n I Conven tion, votinar for a repeal or anti-repeal candidate at* he desires. In this county the anti-repeal candidate is Mr. W. C. Queen, of Dillsboro. The anti-repeal candidate is Rev. Thad F. Deitx, of Beta. The representation, in case tin people vote for the eon veji tion, will he based npon the same basis as rep resentation in tfcoHonse of Represen tatives, and each connty will have as many delegates in the convention as it has rrpiwentatires in the house. Thns it is possible for the urban coun ties to east a larpe repeal vote and have that vote nullified by the rural counties, with small populations and with one Vffate to tlie county. For syth, Onilf'ord, Mieeklenberpr, am' WaVc will hare three delegates each Bnncomb ?, Durham, Gaston. Halifax Johnston, Xew TTanovev, Pitt. Robe son. Randolph, Wayne, Nash and ftdwan will have two each; and the other 84 countirs will have one ea< h It is easily seen, taking the ilif ferences in population, that a vote counts moiv? in a small county than in a lnr?e one, and that the value of a vote increases with the percentage of population. The counties with more than one delegate, all combined eat not have more than 36 votes in tin convention, while the counties with smaller populations have 84 conven tion votes. Thus, should the repeali-! carry every one of the 16 counties that has more than on.v delegate, 'which is improbable, and the an-i ; TODAY and TOMORROW ( By Frank Parker Stockbridge) Horses . . . Still Popular Driving last Sunday between Xew York and loy Massachusetts farm 1 took an unfamiliar route, over one of New York stale's magnificent new ?four-track' concrete motor highways. And 1 was struck by a new kind of warning sign along the roadside. Besides the familiar "School Ahead' and "Cross Koads Ahead'' 1 saw at frajuout intervals "Caution: Ilorse Classing Ahead," and every little while there was a gap in the fence, through which one or two or some times a dozen men and women on horseback would pass, to cross the highway to the bridle path on the other side. The horse as a medium of outdoor sport is coining back strong. Passing through Millbrook, in the heart of the fox-hunting country, I saw hun dreds of cars parked in a field where . jumping trail> of hunting horses were taking place. More and more people are learn ing the truth of the old maxim: ''The best medicine tor the inside of a man is the outsid" of a horse.'' Seaserpent . . . Just a Big Eel In my boyhood in a New En^iand seaport town 1 often heard old sailors tell stories of the seaserpeni. The monster was anywhere from a hundred feet long upward, as big around as a barrel and with a head like a horse, lie had been sighted in various latitudes, always moving along the surface in a series of loops. Later, as I grew up, 1 was taught that the seaserjwnt was a myth; that what the tarry old salts had. seen was, nothing but a school of. jmr- ? poises in the distance, in single file. Buf now comes a credible report of a real seat-erpent in Vancouver Sound, which turns out to be a gi gantic conger eel. Old " Hiasehuekoluk,' ' as the Si wash Indians named the mythical monster which they have long claimed inhabits 1 the Sound, has been seen in the past few weeks by many white men, lifting his head out of the water to scrape his sides against a lock, evidently to get rid of barnacles. They guessed his length at anywhere from fifty feet up. At any rate, it seems to be well proven that ther-j are strange things in the sea .vhich sci ence has net yet captured and cata logued. repeahsts should carry two-thirds ?? the counties with one vote each, the repealists wouid have a majority only eight \ ?>t ?'.s in the convention. It is generally believed that the strength ot Hie anti-repealists lies in the count ry districts o? the State. The proposed 21st Amendment, which is designed to repeal and re place the ISth, reads as follows: "Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution o! the United States is- hereby repealed. "Section 2. The transportation or ini|tortatio)i into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery cr use therein of intoxicat ing liquors in \iolation of the hr.\ > thereof, is hereby prohibited." There has b. en much discussion d?ir ing the canipairn over the import of the vote in this State. Senator Bailey, and others, have been insisting that the only question contained is wheih--' er or not Xor! I: Carolina will iatjt'y the repeal of National prohibition That is trur>, so far as th" lw tinder which the n tVt-NiIum is living held is eonccrmd. f?ii the otli'.*r h.-ind, Clyde Hoey, .l-i.lge Webb, and other dry speaker* aie insisting that 'lie people will also M-ttle the policy <'f (lie State .?egarriu :ia e*pr;-s sion of the a?" *i: