president's First Year
Draws Much Criticism
Washington, -March 7 ? Mr, Roose
!,?? iiisi year as 1 'resident, just
?ilii.-il. has been l?V all odds the
J'1' T * ,
^ ,.X(-iiing year in recent political
j. ,|,,ry. N?>< sinec the war lias the
.,11, III i?i: 4,1 ,'u> nation 1>":
... 4c?:?i|?I? |4'I.v l'???'i!ssnl on Washingloii
\,i,| Hi v ? r, i" ??ii r national histon.
|,iU ii i:i;i iv iii' w anil radical tdiaiiges
jn ? h ' ^n. iniiici.lal sehcae of thing.
I, i i iiihK naked, cither start ctl o;
l,,k.il about. M to name a few ol
,1?. iiii|?iulaiil fundamental lefonii
.;i,| rli.iimi s wh cli I'resid: lit Wuov
v, 11 |i:ls initiated would take a col
Jji.ii ol iH'W>p:'.|M r type.
Th whole monetary and banking
,A has U; "ii radically changed.
i lulil i> mi longer money. The dollai
j, north only (lit p r cent of its gal!
v.iliif i|: international trade. '111.
i;,)v? iiiiii-nt has In come a partiur it'
ll? hanking business. Ha.uk deposit?
;nv insured aganst loss, at hast up
to .?"J, 500. Con* r.eiciai hanking and ii
vMiiicnt baifkiug have b;en divorced.
Stringent statutes intended to insur.
liutli telling in the sale of Recuritie
li.nc In en enacted.
iJiivci anient loiitis iu sums unpre
c-ileiiti il in peace times have lied
mailt' of authorized. With the pro
,.,|s of these loans the Government
j. i' naming railroads, public woik-.
of all kinds, various i.nd us tries and
tii,i.spivail schemes for soeial-eco
imiiiit- regencrat ion 'of gr;at areas of
laml ami population thereon. It ha
jl?<ii:r;iiili-il huge allowances to states
ami suhtliviMoiis for the maintenance. j
t,t ilic impoverished and uiicmp'ryed
vw\(i\ls hundreds id' thousands o:' ,
V'^Ti'ii in the Civilian Conserva-(j
tiwi {''My-, set millions at work :,f I
wore or lt?* unnecessary tasks under i
t/i. Cir.l. .-iii, I financed home birldiug '
in tin so-called "slum" areas and tin I
ol "subsistence horn." 1
steads" in suburban areas.
In I lie, cities and towns it has lent
srrcat -iiui? in relieve the di4tfess.pt
owners of mortgaged homes, and ir
the count iv lias extended simdar aid
in oh .Vers ,it' mortgaged faixrs.
Still ihoiv far-reaching than those
activities m- the 1 f forts to bring a '
imliisi i>. business and agricukui'
into a unified system under govt re
iBHit cytiivl. lV'ginning with th.
"vofiu^ajy agreements"1 iniriijr lie
'?P>lm Kasjle" and culminating in the
rtiili"> covering every human aetiviU
wiiL-r the XRA and the AAA, m:.ni
iiniiii wages ami mavimnm workiie.
hoiiiN have been fixed by law, ani'
?itntig mi nil's s: t up to govern trail1.
I'liieliccs
K n more widespread in their a;>
J'lifjilio.'i and in their social conse
'|iiciici s are the regulations applied
In n-.n icii it lire. In the effort to rrdtiei
agricultural surpluses and obtain a
larL'e reiurJi to the famvrs for their
|>ioilucts,\a complicated system of re
wards and bonuses for the reduction
i t acreage, pa'd for t ? . ? t of proc: s.-ing
taxes levied u|mmi pioducts and pass d
mi by them, of course, lo th ? emisum
t'is, has been Set up. {[itiidrcds of
millions of dollars have been (list rib
iitul among the fanrers under this
'V4ciii as payment for not producing1.
I'u a modern Rip Van Winkle whe
j Iwl been asleep for the past year,
?"id suddenly woke lip to find himself
"1 a completely reoiganiz. d country,
itliiit lj;|s just been set down might,
''''in to be a pretty good siz"d pro
Jfraiit to haw' 1kk?ii put through in
",lt vcjpy even though some of the
iiiipiirtant things like the repeal of
J>r"liil?itinii, have not been mentioned
natural inclination of most folk*
'b?!ilt| |0 s|0p ;1 take a long
'?rt-sith, a.ud watch developments to be
'"|v tin pl.ni was working. iBut that
N not 1 he way this Administration
'?pirates.
1 1n r.' i ; pending now, for example
I'.'iukhead bill, which has the full j
>"|'l *"i't ,,f ||?. Administration and so
*?"'* fcrlniii to.be enacted, which
*"|l,l innliorize the (lovcninient t?>
inns:. i very farmer, tell him just
1,11 iitnl how much of it he may pro
> ! U( ? '"f h'tii or send him to jail if
" s any, thing he is not licens
' I?'' luce or too iimich of it, and
' ''i'u what price he may take for
-j1' permitted to produce.
,'Mhc el tort to protict fools from
"* t|iit nces of their own folly
l"'(,-'i':ini of regulating security
j " ' u,,1!"0tlity exchanges would make
n,'xt l".i'ii|H?ssiblc for a legitlmato
(U' s|"' lo <lo business. A bank, for
could not lend more than
0,1 "?'eurities with a market value
(^ontiimed 011 Page 2)
40 YEARS AGO
v ' '<
(Tuekaseigc Don-joeiat, March 7,1S:)4)
Mr. 11. 11. Painter, of tin; R. & I).
K. R, is spending a IVw days at lionu
.Miss Pauline Baptist, of Virginia
is visiting willi the family .of Mr:
Stcdman.
Mis. S. A. St. (1 i a. i has relumed to
I Sylva ami will r.in|K:) tin* Sylvi.'
j i ln;ise, ;i> s. : :t ns certain repairs aim
; iiiipiovcm; nis (-an be iuatlf?: f
I ^ J
I Mr. .1. I*'. Conroy and family, ot
New Cast If, I 'a., arrived Monday tt.
j visit Mrs: Conroy \s parents, Judge
anil 'Mrs. I). I). Da vies, at Cullowhee
! 1-i
j Mr. Hughes is lieu* today.
; hn vitii;- come to meet his brother and
I it ic ?*e, who come from Weaverville,
I i
| hut who will in the future reside with
I Mr. I Indu s, at Vernhurst.
I ? % ? \ ]
lave Oak. Fla. ? The healing waters
of Kuwanee Springs have made a
ma rv. Jons change for the better i.i
the condition of Senator Vance's
. health. He is Much better and iin
I proving daily.
" 1 'j
Sumpter, S. (V? Henry Tindal, col
ored, < x-post master at Packsville, S
('., was arrested :ti this eitv under til
charge of robbing and then burning
the | x?st <?i'i 'ice at thi: place above nam
ed. ?>
1 )
Lynchburg, \ a.. ? l'nit<d State.
Senator \ .John W.. Daniel, in a sad
voice, announced that liis o!d com
mander, Grh. Jubal A. Kuriy, at whose
bedside he has Ixeu a constant watch
er for 'some days, had gone to his
eternal reward. " 1 ,
London ? It is again reported that
Gladstone has resigned the Premier
ship of Kngland. A cataract has foi.i
ed in his eve and his physicians say
lie must ciase work. He will icalL
soon nsign and be succeeded by IjorJ
Koseburv. Mr. Gladstone dined with
the Queen /;itid re commanded I/oiV
Rosebnry to succeed him as Premier.
He refused a peerage, offend by the
Queen.
Maj. \\ . II. Brvson, who probably
:it tin- time of Irs death, was the oldest
citizen .of the comity, having been !'*?
years old un the St h day of last ()c
tober, died last Fiiday, evening, al
i the home of his daughter, Mrs II. M
.Bennett, on Culh?wli(Y. Maj. llry.- .n
had been quite robust up to th ? last
two years, since which time his physi
! r'al powers have visibly failed. 11 ? was
!au excellent man and was 'highly es-j
j let. red by :: 1 1 who Knew him. He at-'
Tributed li s Hini'owiilv good) !? altii
v j ? t *
j and long life to total abstinence f< .m
the use of tobacco and the very te:n"j
j ,K'iali' use hi made of ardent spirits. !
Joe Jcluistoii, an emple-yc of thfl
Blue liidge Lumbe-r Company, v. as
drowned in Troijt Cm k, last Friday.
He was foreman of the force engag
ed in floating logs to the mill andt
was engaged in moving a lot fiom I In
ert ck to the river. In talking on a
raft of logs, bv some mishap, -he l-os*
his balance and fell into the water,
in front of the moving mass, which
passed over him and so prevented hi -
ris'ng to the surface. His body was
washed into the river more than a
mile Prom where he fell in. Mr. C.
F. Biiffum accompanied the remains
of the unfortunate young man to
Maine, where his relatives live. He
? s said to have been a w/irthy young
man and th*? unfortunate accident is
greatly deplored.
LOVEDALE WI7 L HAVE
DISTRICT MEETING
T lie district n. ' ting of the Baptist
Sunday School Convention will be
held at the Loved ale Baptist church,
next Sunday afternoon, at 2:30 o'
clock. The program, as announced by
C. W. Wood, Associational Superin
tendent, a.nd J. E. Brown, Distri"t
Superintendent, follows :
Devotional; Local Superintendent.
"Additional Classes and Visitat'oo
A Sure Means of Sunday School
Growth"; Rov. R. F. Mayberry.
"Shall We Give Up the Idea of
Using the Bible or Seriously Attack
the Task".; Rev. W. C. Reed'.
WASHINGTON ... It was /just before the "battle", . . . well maybe
not battle but just before fornner Postmaster Walter Brown (right) of
the Hoover cabinet, took the stand to testify that Postmastei James A.
Farley (left^ of the Roosevelt cabinet, said "Senator Black of the Senate
Airmail Committee was a publicity hound" . . . which Farley immediately
denied in his testimony. Anyhow . . , it's a swell hand-shake
THUG KNOCKS OUT
W.C.U. CLERK
(trdyson Cop;- was knock: (1 uncon
scious I > v iin unknown assailant, in
tin* booty store of WV'hImii Carolina
I TchcIm rs Colletfc, Cullowhee, Sta
urday ni?hj, but I?im assailant floil
without committing a robbery, which
was li is evident intention.
Cope, whose home is in Svlva, is
a student at \V. f. T. and is em
ployi d in tlie hook store, operated by
the , college, in t he basement of the
administration huild'ng. About 9 o'
clock at night lie had occasion to go
t ?? the hook store, alone, and had .pis*
entered the d.oor and turned his back
to turn on the light switch, when he
was struck a violent blow by an un
known assailant, who had evidently
1mm ii lurk ng i:i the pasageway. Mr.
Cope was rcjidercd unconscious by the i
blow and remained so for some lr>
minutes. When hp caere 1 <> himself he
?yave the alartn. Search failed to re- i
veal that anything. on Mr. Cope's per
son or in the book loom had been,,
stolen. It is htlievtd that the nrir
aitder became fright .ned and fled be
fore putt ins; his ilileut'ous iiitoaclion
FIVE INDIANS HURT '
AS BUILDING FALLS
* ~ ' ? . I
Five ? i: okee [udian workniP".
w?n* p'ii fully injured w1. ii a two
storv ? ?"? Jinjj at the Cher? l:?e Indian
tirhiMtl hi. n which tiny we. ? working
col lap. i! Wednesday aft"i mon.
The in i ired,. wImi were rushed to
the sndnvil infirmary and t rated by
l)r. C. i'aiullcr and Dr. A. M. Ben
nett, an- :
Joe Wa hinglon/'iiiierna! injuries ,
To; Smith. inleriuil jiijus i? ?.
Till Uo*?\ both legs broken.
KIw.-k.iI Smith, ertisln-d fool.
Will W Icli, broken leg.
Tiic m ii, with ot In rs were building
a niacin-.; ? shop building at the school
as a pari of the Federal emergency
relit I' piogram. It is believed that
recent h":ivy rains had undermined -
the foundation, causing the building
to cave n. ?
BALSAM
(. < >
Miss r, 1-1, Ml Queen spent limt week
end wi. Ii Mr. and Mrs. (irmly Q;ieei
in Canton.
Mr. .1 irn Fislur and family moved
to Ashi ville last week. They will live
on the farm of Mr. Dixon, s \n-in-la\v
of Mr. S. .1. Mulvaii' v.
Mr. .tolm Thorn of St. Pitersburg,
Fla., arrived Monday and will be j:
guist /?f Mr. .John T. Jon for some
?ire.
Mrs. Hubert Ensley w ill to Hen
drrsonville Tuesday to se? her sister.
Mrs. Cry Hedr:ek. who is in the hos
p'tal there. Mis. Hidricli underwent
an operation For app ndici'is.
Mrs. 0. f. Beck, who wa> called to
Cincinnati recently on account of thi
illn ss of 'i<r in tlier, returned home
Tuesday iPr i.- of her recovered suf
ficiently to return w:th her.
"Training for I- suits": R?v. p. fA
Elliott.
a "Obligations' of the Sunday School
tf> Tcach Missions"; Rev. T. K. Staf
ford.
The general public is iuVited to be
present. '
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REPUBLICANS HOLD
CONVENTION 24TH
> The Republicans of Jackson county
will hold u county convention at th>*
court house in Sylva 011 Saturday,
March 24, at which delegates 1o the
State convention will lw fleeted, ac
cording to an official convention call,
| made. today by Chairman .John B.
| Enslcv and Secretary Cyrus H. Nich
olson.
j .
The official call is as follows:
| "A convention of the Republican
I Party of Jackson county is hereby
I called to meet at the court house in
j Sylva at 2 o'clock P. M., on Saturday
| March 21, 1!)!I4 for the jmrpose of
electing delegates to the Stote Con
vention, which convenes in Charlotte
IS. C., on April 4, 19.34, and to trans
net such other business as may conn
before the convention. All Republi
; can voters, both men and women, an
: urgently requested to attend this con
vent ion.
All township committers will pleas*
take notice a.nd see that their town
ship is represented at this convcn
t'.on as provided by our Stale plai
of organization.
John B. Kuslcv, Chairmen
Cyrus IT. Nicholson, Secretary**
NEW TO PREACH
MASONIC SERMON
Rev. Albert New, Gra^d Chaplain of
the. Grand I/>dge of Masons ot
North Carolina, will preach a Mason
ic sermon, at the Baptist church, in
Sylva, next Sunday > morning, at 11
o'clock.
All Masons in the county are ex
pjcted to attend the serv:ce; and
members of the Junior Order and
Woorhun of the Worbl have decided
to attend the service in a body*
I
MRS. ALLISON LAID TO REST
Funeral services were conducted
this in on l in;; at 1 1 o'clock, at the
home, for Mrs. A. B. Allison, by Rev
j V. K. Masters and Rev T K Wolfe.
I Interment was in the Webster ceme
j tary.
Mrs. Ailisun, the wife of A. B.
Allison, prominent in Western North
Carolina for a number of y?ais as
a. merchant, traveling salesman and
business leader, died at her home in
Sylva, Tuesday evening, following an
attack of pneumonia, at an advancet
age. She and her husband had been
in Florida during most of the winter,
hut returned home a short time ago,
because of the condit ou of Mr. Alli
son's health.
Mrs. Allison had a wide acquaint
ance in Western North Carolina, hav- 1
ing lived in Sylva, Webster, Bryson
' City, and Ashevile. A member of an
J old and distinguished Carolina fami '
j ly, she was a daughter of the late I
Dr. Henry Woodt'in, and a niece of j
the late Nicholas Woodfin, of Ashe
1 ville. She was closely related to Hen
ry Woodfin Grady, one of the South'*
greatest statesmen, orators, and news
paper editors, and to Gen. Francis
i Marion, of Revolutionary fame.
Surviv'ng her are her husband and
one nephew, Hcnrv G. Robertson, and
I a large circle of friends.
Mr and Mrs. W. E. Enslcv and Mr.
| a"d Mrs Johnnie Jones went to Way
i nwville, Monday. ^
Jury Convicts Two Men
In Manslaughter Case
TODAY and
TOMORROW
CAREERS .... man made
"A irtan's life is what he chooses
to make it", 1 heard an eminent .so ho I
ar say not long ago. It 'sounded like
a pretty broad .statement, but as I
trH>d to analyze it 1 caime to the con -
elusion that he was right.
Most ptioplu won't agree, lyeaniv
most people are not satisfied with
what they have made of their live*,
and imagine that if they had "got tin
breaks" their careers would somehow
have been diffeiftnjt. Hilt, looking
baek ait the failures as well as th
sueceses among men I have known for
years, I think the professor was right
The failures failed because they
did not make tlu; necessary effort to
attain' the goal of their ambitions,
the successes succeeded btecause they
put all they had in them into the job
To the failures theirsuccessos seemed
to have been easily achieved, but only
the man who has succeeded knows
how much harder he has worked than
did the man who failed.
WORDS .... how many
How many words does it take to ex
press oneSi self clearly in the English
language? Shakespeare used more
than 35,00 different words in his
writings. Some years ago a student
of such things reported that the av
erage uneducated man used not mor.
than 700 different words. Some sav
age tribes have vocabularies of only
300 words.
Tn the effort to compile a diction
ary of English for use in the educa-.
tion of persons speaking other lan
guages, the faculty of New York
University has come to the conclusion
that not more than 900 words are
really noedrd to carry on all ordi
nary conversations. That does not in
clude technical terms, of course.
Too many persons have a tendency
to- use unusual words where ordinary
ones will answer as well or bettor.
Sometimes I think the world would
understnnd itself better if notiody
were allowed to use more than 000
words, and those wore so clearly de
fined that jvobody could inisunder
stand their meaning.
WEATHER down East
The month of February, 1934, was
the most severe winter month in tin
Eastern United States since the win
t?r of 1777-78 when Washington's
arvny was camped at Valley Forge
and nearly froze to death. There hav ?
been heavier snows, but not in con
motion with snob low temperatures.
At my farm there was at one time
three feet level depth of snow, with
drifts as high as 20 feet, and the
thermometer 35 degrees below zero!
Folks who were certain that the
Gulf Stream had changed its course
ant! made the Atlantic ('oast promi
nent iy warmer are trying other guess
es now to account for the cold weath
er. Noth'ng gives most people m/>r<
pleasure than to try their hands at
weather forecasting. And nothing is
more futile than long-range weather
predictions,
INSULATION1 . ... new method
As everybody knows, the trouble
with most houses is that they let t/>o
much heat out through the roofs and
walls in winter and let in too much
heat thiough the samcs routes in the
summer. There are many ways of in
sulating an ordinary house, some more
expensive' than others, but* all ex
pensive.
Now the discovery has been made
that sheet-aluminum, less than 1-100
of an inch thick, will insulate against
penetration of heat as well as 20
inches of concrete or 12 of brick
The discovery was made when u
young man tried wrapping (Vgarottes
intended for export to Africa in al
uminum foil, and found that was the
only protection against tropical heat
It has been tried on many houses and
it works perfectly -and costs almost
nothing, those who arc experimenting
with it say.
That is only one of many new in
ventions which will make the new
homes of the fnture more comfort
able and economical to run.
OBSOLESCENCE Interpreted
Owen D. Young has brought into
public notice a word that is not giv
en enough consideration when p<*opl<
discuss the replacement of men by ma
chines. He said the other day:
"Science is the mothe r of obsolete- 1
? I
B. F.Ferguson and Lloyd Arrington
were convicted by a jury of man
slaughter, for the death of Clove
Shular, Balsam man, in an automo
bile smash, m ar Balsam last Decem
ber '20. Arrington was ordered to
i serve 4 months on the roads, and Fer
guson to pay $200 and the costs of
tlie action, pending pronouncement
of judgment nt the May term of
superior court, after the jury brought
in its verdict, last week in superior
court here.
The case look two days to try. Mr.
Sliular was killed when two automo
biles, one driven by Arrington and
the other by Ferguson, collided on
Highway No. 10, near Balsam
James S. Winlnirnc, a C. C. C
truck driver from C'Jmp 414 at Smoke ,
mont, and whose home is in Hertford
county, and K. It. Conner, of Tcnn
essee\werc both acquitted of a man-'
slaughter charge in c/mnection with
the death of Wood row Wilson Boggs,
Greensboro C. C. . C. worker, in Qual
la, on the night of January 3, in an
other collision.
L. L. Cope was acquitted by the
jury of an f. & a. charge.
Recce Henson and .Tim Dishman,
costs, called and failed, judgment ni
si sci fa capias and continued.
Geo. Me Dade, dynamiting th/c river,
nol pros.
Jim Wood ring, assault and destrue
tion of property, continued.
FORMER JACKSON WOMAN DIES
Mrs. *>FJizabcth Cannon Gibson
Farmer died at the home of her daughl
ter, Mrs. J I. E. Thompson, at l.'w
Norwood avenue, Saturday, and fun
i'lal services were held on Monday
afternoon, with interment in River
side cemetery in Asheville.
Mrs. Farmer was well known in
this county, having been a much lov-'
cd resident of the Fisher Creek com
iminity, a number of years ago. Her
husband, the late A. W. Farmer was
a prominent and successful farmer of
that community.
The funeral service was conducted
by Hev. H. F. Campbell, pastor of tlio
First Presbyterian church, and Rev.
.1. B. (trice, pastor of Calvnry t'?apt
ist church. Amoii^ the honorary putt
bearers were W. C. Reed, Sylva, P.
G. Bryson, Beta, and R. R. Fisher,
Addie
Mrs. Farmer is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Thompson and Mrs.
W. I. Pate, of Murfreesboro, Term.,
two brothel's, Dr. James A. Cannon,
of Pickens, S. C., and II. R. Cannon,
of Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs. J. E.
Bleckley, Clayton, Ga. and Mrs. K. W.
Martin, Wiley. Ga., and several grand
children.
METHODIST SOCIETY TO MEET
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the Sylva Methodist church will
meet next Wednesday afteriWMjn at
.'{.'10. Mrs. Jj C. Allison and Mrs. II
P Crowell will he the leaders.
PLAY AT QUALLA SATURDAY
The young folks of Qualla commun
ity will present a four-act comedy,
"The Great West", at the school audi
torium, Saturday evening.
The play is under direction of Mr.
G. C. Coop'T.
Included in the cast are:
Buren Terrell, Dock Snyder, Itonii"
Cooper, Fraf.k Kinsland, Miss Guiev.i
Turpili, Miss Ollic Hall, Charles Me
liaughlin, Miss Nell McLaughlin, Cm I
Ifoyle, Mrs. Jessie Cordell, Miss Jen
nie Cathey, and Emerson Cat hey.
. . ? _
What Mr. Young meant was that it
is the function of science to send old
machines and old methods to the
scrap heap, to make them obsolete.
There is no danger of the world be
coming ovf rerowded with the goods
of man's production, so long as sci
entire research continues to find new
machines or methods which will per
forin the same functions better, or do.
new things that no marine has ever
done before.
Siome people thought there wore
enough automobiles in the world when
Ford finished making his fifteen-mil
lionth "Model T". But where arc the
model T's now? They have been re
placed by better cars, which in turn
will be replaced by still better ears.
Let someone invent anything which
?will do any job twice as well as ex
isting machines and coat half as moafc
and every machine of the old type to