WAR IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY
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SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1984
12.00 YEAR QT ADVANCE OUTBID! THE OOUMTI
president's First Yeati Fast
fireworks Begin To Shoot
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I M:uvh 21?1 1,114 P?PU- 1
I (\|nv--i"" nowadays when two ^
I observers meet ? and every
I |- i:i Washington is .oil her a polit
1,1 (liscrvti or a politician ? is
itti'fl, honeymoon's over". The
o1' to ,ll?' lovo
,.( j? w liirli 'the President, Cong
I Im.-iui'-. industry, agriculture,
jihor aiiti :il! other elements of the
4itrir.'i" population have been sit
* ju i lu r for the past year.
Anil ?hat i- >"? ^e phrase is
thit Mr. l.oosevelt is not so likely to
j.V(, his own way from
ton <>:t. IK' probably will get most
fivrytliifl.- la- irocs after, for another
tear or so to come; hut he will have
idi^hl for what lie gets, or much of
i!.
Tiicr'- i-\ as yet, no effeetive organ
j^,} o|i|>tsihon, either within or with
>;i di."' Democratic party; notlnug
fhaifv?-r that ran- be called orgaliiz
among the Republicans, who^i re
jjajrowl' deal of a mixup themselves
trowhat poliev to piini*evor,whetli-.
to sit tight ami await develop
iriits. Hut there are many minor
uuilVst nt ions of dissat isl'act ion,
which contain seeds of future
trwiblf for the Administration.
Mr. Roosevelt, however, is an adept
it nut'tiug trouble. The most scrips
[rouble that he has faced tjiu? fai
ls the ujiroar over the eanceiUflon tot'
the air mail contracts and the effort
to carry on the air mail by the use of
Itr Army's planes and flyers.
? The death of ton young Army men
I in the first two weeks, and the doubt
I ts ^ whether there had been sound
L tor the barring of the com
? companies from the mail
' routes Moused ?'i storm of protest
V here from among Democrats as well
? 8? Republics, which the President
met by oakling Mittibt'arryuig| by
tiip.inny suspended except under the
most favorably coiulit ions and start
I iii? the machinery for the restoration
I of the air-mail services to commercial
I fom|>anics cqnipp-d and martned to
I perforjn.
Xo better proof could be adduced of
I the President' political aOiunen thatf
I the ap|K)intment of Col. Lindbergh o.n
I the Committee to investigate the
I whole subject of army and commer
I rial aviation.
One outcome .of the whole air-mail
matter U to force into the conscious
ness of the American people and of
many in Washington who did not un
derstand the facts, that.. the Govern
ment's air services aire away behind
those of commercial companies, in
S|*h1, quality and equipment of
plines and in the skill of their avi- j
t'ors. This is the result of several
factors, one of them being the fact,
ofeourse, that Army and Navy flyers
?retrained for only one thing, which
is war; and a fighting plane is not in
twidcil to carry cargo or passengers or
to inake scheduled flights "blind" ai.
nijrht.
Another important factor, however
i-rlie Government idea which applies
to everything, any Govevnmont does,
f'?"st:inditfg pat" on fixed ideas and
Wirns df everything. So Army planes
are quipped with engines which were
tawrded as inefficient by comnier
tl'ii WiuM'ins several years Sgo, built i
t? fe^iis which make speed impos
*i!>le. And the Army flyers are still
pf'ting the same sort. of training
the? (f?n during the war.
The,-,, is a general feeling here that
"'<* Presidents' promise to veto any
'?ill for Increasing payments to veter
A|,> ?:|| nikt have a very serious rc
a('iun on |iis political jjopnlarity.
"?i?re.s> will pass such a bill, because
" sienw nccessflry to a good many
""unssiH .| |(> jt0 nil record in favo/
it, if they want to be re-elected ?
:i :,H ??f tli in ,U>. B?t it is lielievcfl
"''"'i th;ii there is a strong public
^tiimiit against this particular-form
01 '"Overnitieiital extravagance.
the l'rcs'dent's closest fi lends
""I'T'lc that lie will not havo4>ueh a
u '"iiiiinftHs Congress next year. There
*'H lie ;i good many Republicans j
' ''t'*d tn sneered Den ocrts next No
"t. There' does not seem to be
si'-rn at this time, however, that 1
(r'" will not he a comfortable Pemo
""le f.'ijority in the House and
'p"ate, unless something unforseen
?'l?|M'iis between now and election.
'"1 the President's dominance is so
that he ean afford to lose a
(,t his ascendancy and still
'nil control of public affairs..
i? ie is\n growing belief that the
"W'ulent is .not so greatly influenced
'J ^'iije ot liis radical advisers as had
*? snp|Kwed, but on the contrary is
S^uLuely concerned with maintaining
40 YEARS AGO
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Tuckaseige Democrat, ?M&rch 21, 1894
Flowers blooming; Fruit trees in
lull bloom) wheat tall enough to hide
a rabbit; fa i.;iK?rs thinking about
plnating corn. C>
Gen. Hampton left this ' morning
for Ashe vi lie.
Messrs H. M. Hoojkt and Jivo. T.
Wike .art' here today.
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Mr. Jno. X. Hunter, of Canc-v Fork
was iu town Monday. .
Mr. James 1'. Sawyer ,of Aisheville.
spent Tuesday niglil in town.
) 'Mrs. G. E'. iCtVjghf jfijl ^fissjWillie
were visit in*; ffiehdfc in tftwii Thurs
?>v.
day evening.
Missis. M. Buchanan and Jno. B.
Knslcy reached home Monday from a
slay of several weeks iu southern
horse markets.
Miss Candace Knsfe'y spent Thurs
day night in town and \^ent to Bry
pon City Friday to visit" her sister,
Mrs. J. M. Smith.
Dr. W. F. Tompkins, who has been
for several weeks past in Georgia and
South Carolina, on business, returned
home Sunday and went to Asheville,
Monday.
Wo loarn that at the approaching
Commencement at Cullowhee High
School, May .16 a.n<l 17, Dr. Charles
E. Taylor, President of Wake Forest
College, will preach the. arinnal ser
mon, and Dr. George ' T. Winston,
President of the State ^University,
will deliver the annual Literary Ad>
drfss. j
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Tf we were not afraid of stirring
up the man or Woman Wfco'disitinctly
remembers spring as nearly, or even
earlier, we would say. that the earli
uess of this spring is'*nripre?cdented.
At any rate, we have -no recolleetion
of a Reason when the weather was so
uniformly warm and vegetation so
far advanced as this spring. And now
the -croakers are taunting us with pre
dictions of cold and frost yet to come
and that the frogs, which have for
weeks been- making night vocal with
their piping notes, will yet "peep
through glass windows". Well, what
of it? Let us enjoy the balmy weather
and not try to "cross a bridge before
we reach it". :
Program of Jackson County Sun
day School Convention, to meet, at
Scotts Creek church, March 30, 1894:
Friday, Convention called to order by
president ; Song, Beautiful Land; De
votional exercises, Roy. A. B. Thomas
Basis of Sunday School Work, Revs.
IT. D .Welch and B. X. Queen; Song,
Amazing Grace; Song, 0 Think of
a Homo Over There"; Object of Sun
day School Work, Rev. J. P. Painter,
Essay, Giving, Miss Mary Cowan;
the existing capitalist system, merely
attempting to put into effect such
reforms as would make it more diffi
cult for busines to prosper by trick
ery and swindling.
Some of the proposed legislation
which * the "Pre&idont intrusted to
others .to,- draft eame out of the mill
with a lot of radical and destructive
provisions, which unduly alarmed
'many business men and conservatives
^?ciiorally. It now looks as if littlo of
that sort of legislation will be enacted
The sa>-ealied "Tugwell bill" which
would greatly cripple the food and
drug ijviiisj^'e^gpd curtail advertis
ing, does not'.nQow seem likely of en
actment, even -in its present modified
form. Neither does the bill for the
regulation of stock exchanges, in any
thing like the form in which it was
introduced.. That bill, as drawn up
by the <fhot dogs" of the Administra
tion, artfully concealed many Social
istic ideas, which might easily have
resulted Ln putting a complete end 10
investment in securities. Instead of
it, a moderate measure drafted by
Secretary of Commerce Roper prob
ably will be adopted.
' If the reader, does not understand
the implication of the phrase "hot
dogs" he should remember that the
great leader of the radical element in
the Administration, is Felix Frankfur
I ter, and his young disciples come hv
[ their nicknames naturally.
Rhinehart Arrested On
Com jftainti Of Turpin
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Frank T. Rhine hart, principal of
the Beta school, and superintendent
of the Baptist Sunday school at Web
s/er, was\ placed under arresft by
Deputy Sheriffs Frank Allen and
John Phillips, at noon, Tuesday, at
the Beta school, under arrest and bail
proceedings instituted in - Haywood
county by D. H. Turpin, who in a
suit brought in the courts a? Weynes
ville, charges Rhinehart with slander
and defamation of character* and asks
damages in the sum of $20;000. Bail
was fixed at $5,000, and Rhine-hart
was released yesterday morning^ af
ter having spent the night in the
Jackson county jail ,when the requir
ed' $5,000 bail was furnished by his
mother, Mrs. Ida Rhinehart, 'his broth
I er, Joe W. Rhinehart, Wehster mer
chant, and A. B. Dills, retired Sylva
merchant, farmer and landholder.
.' At the time, of the arrest of Rhine
hart under the civil arrest and bail
proceedings brought by D. PL Turpin,
capiases were served on him under
perjury bill returned by the Jackson
county grand jury, last month. His
mother made his' bond in the sum of
$500 for his appearance at the May
term of the superior court of this
county to answer to these charges
The $ivil summons in the $20,000
slander suit brought by D. H. Tnrpin,
is returnable before the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Haywood county
on next Monday, March 26.
The whole matter grew out of the
sensational charges brought against
Alley Turpin, Warfield Turp'n;
brothers, and their uncle D. H. Tiwpin
by Rhinehart, who he alleged were
members of a gang, who he charged kid ,
napped him, on the night of Decem
ber 22, on the road between Dillsboro
and Webster, as he was returning to
his Borne from a meeting of the Jack
son County Schoolmasters Club, held
at the high school building here. He
alleged that the men took him into
custody, forced him to drive his auto
mobile to Balsam Gap, where, he as
serted he recognized Dock Turpin,
and from there to Brindletown, in
M&eon county. Rhinehart was last
seen in Dillsboro on Friday night be
fore Christmas, the night of the al
leged kidnapping, and telephoned tc
relatives from a Franklin hotel, oariv
Sunday morning. From there he was
brought to Sylva by friends and Jack
on county officers, after a search for
hiirt had been instituted. He stated
thai the men kidnapped him and kept
him| prisoner until early Sunday
morning, when he was released* at
Mountain City, Ga., after many hours
of abuse and terrorization.
Later warrants were issued for Al
ley, Warfield, and Dock Turpin, up
on complaint of Rhinehart, and the
eiase was heard by Justices John H.
Morris and B. 0. Painter, who, after
hearing the evidence adduced by both
Bides, released the three men from the
kidnapping charge, failing to find
probable cause.
The grand jury, at the February
tcrmrof the superior court, returned
true 1 bills charging Rhinehart with
perjury; and the civil suit and a?rrest
qnd bail proceedings, under which he
was taken into custody, were brought
by D. HL Turpin in Haywood county,
where he resides.
Gennett Company To Start
Large Project In County
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Annohncement has been made of
the purchase by the Geanett Lumber
Company of Ashe vi lie, of the timber
rights on the 10,000 acre Wolf Moun
tain property, and that lumbering op
erations will begin as soon as con
ditions permit.
The tract, sfceuyed tfjom Jamea
G. K. McClure and James G. St ike
leather, is located 011 the hearwaterx
of uckaseige river, in Canada town
ship, and is the land ii]>on which the
Wolf Mountain Rod and Gun Club
holds the fishing and hunting privi
leges.
Andrew Gennett, one of the own
ers of the lumber company, told an
Asheville Times reporter, that a saw
mill will he erected andr operatoins
begun as soon as conditions permit
He did not venture an opinion as to
th edatc.
Several years will be required for
the logging, sawing and shipping of
tho timber products, it was explained,
and employment will be give nto a
large number of men.
A band mill and probably portable
saw mills are- expected to be erected
al or near Wolf Mountain, when the
work is begun.
SYLVA BOY HONORED
AT STATE UNIVERSITY
William Dills McKee, son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. McKec of Sylva, has
been elected manager of the Univer
sity of North Carolina basketball team
for next year
Ho and his brother, Lyndon McKee
Jr., both students at the University,
&ne spending several days al their
home here.
Song, Give, 0 Freely Give; Prayer,
for an increase of the missionary
spirit, Rev. A. W. Davis; The Model
Sunday School, Rev. A. T. Hord;
Saturday, Devotional exercises, Rev.
T. F. Deitz; Relation of Church to
Home, Revs. A. C. Queen and A. H.
Sims; How and Why Should -Distinct
ive Baptist Principles be taught in S.
S., Rev. A. B. Thomas; Essay, Teach
er Training. Miss Sue E. Robinson;
What can we do to make S. S. lessons
more interesting and beneficial to
both feachers and pupils 1, W. A.
Honson and Rev. G. N. Cowas; Oppor
tunities and Responsibilities, H. C.
Cowan, Rev. J. L. Owen; Result of
Sunday School Work, Rev. T. F.
Deitz and Rev. J. L. Sitton; Essay,
Importance of Young Men Being
Christians, Miss Sue Poits; Sunday,
Devotional exercises,; Rev. J. ' faint
er; Do we attend Sunday School so
as' to train our children as toe Lord
requires? Frank Jarrett^ A. . Park
er; Sermon, as the pastor and dea.
cons may direct. J. H. House, Chair
man, Ex. Committee.
TEACHERS ELECTED FOR ALL
SCHOOLS IN WEBSTER DISTRICT
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Teachers for W&ster District, which
comprises Webster high, View Point,
Green's Creek, Gay, Zion Hill, and
East Fork Schools, have been elected
and approved, according to a state
ment issuing yesterday from the of
fice of M. B. Madison, county super
intendent.
S. B. Hutchinson again brads the
Webster school, and his teachers are:
Mrs. Louise B. Davis, Paul Buchanan,
I Hannah Cowan, Annie Louise Madi
son, Hixie Ashe, Haze] Hooper, Mrs.
Claiud Cowan, and Maggie Morgan.
View Point: Mrs. Pearl Madison,
Allie Wilson.
Green's Creek: R. O. Higdon, Cora
Painter.
i East Fork: Iloyle Deity
Gay: John Crawford, Mrs. Virginia
Terrell ~
Zion Hill: Mrs. DeMerries Cowan.
These, with the list published in
lacjt Peek's Journal, complete the
next year's teachers for the schools
of the county, with the exception of
Sylva District, which includes Sylva
High, Sylva Elementary, Dillsboro,,
Beta, Addie, Willets, Cane Creek, Bal
sam, Dix Creek, and Barker's "Creek.
The election of teachers , for these
schools will be held in the next few
adys.
freeman baird dies
Freeman Baird, 81 year old citizen,
died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. W. T. Rigdon, at Argura, Tues
day. Funeral will be conducted at
Sol's Creek at 11 o'clock today by
Rev. D. C. Burrell and Rev. Sterling
Melton, and interment will be at Sol's
Creek cemetery. .
Mr. Baird, a native of White coun
ty, Ga., has been making his home
with Mr. and Mrs. Rigdon, for some
time. .
SOCIETY MEET WEDNESDAY
WITH MRS. DAN TOMPKINS
The March meeting of the Method1
ist Woman's Missionary Society wa8
held on Wednesday afternoon of last
week, with Mrs. Dan Tompkins as
hostess. 1
An item of Imsiness was the elec
tion of Mrs. E. L .McKee as a dele
gate to the Missionary Conference,
which rreets in Hrtid.nrsonville on
A'pril 24-26. Mrs. S. JH. Hilliard was
named alternate.
During tjie social hour which fol
lowed | the business meeting, Mrs.
Tompkins and' Mrs. Annie Tompkins
8?rTe<l ,iee( cream and cake to the
members present.
Parkway Scouts Will See
Peaks Of Balsams Monday
TODAY and
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FARMERS .... success rule
My friend Charles F. Collisson, whc
knows more farmers than any other
man I know, and who writes in the
Minneapolis Tribune more horse-sense
about farming than any other writer
with whose work I am familiar,
printed a piece the other day which
bears oat my contention that most
of the trouble farmers find themselves
in arises from the same source as
most of the troubles the rest of us
are in ? ourselves.
Charlie Collison tells the story of
John Linster of Elm Grove Farm,
near Northfield, Minn.. John Linster
has been running the same farm for
34 years. He is so far from heing dis
couraged that he has bought ^another
160 acres, over in Wisconsin for his
son. The secret of this farmer's suc
cess is the secret of anybody else's
success; he never spent any money
until he had it to spend, never bor
rowed money until he knew where it
was going to earn something for him,
never discarded anything old for
something new merely /or the sake of
changt, and kept a strict record of
every cent he received and spent.
Those rules, coupled with knowing
one's tra<k* or business thoroughly,
are all there is to success. Anybody
can succeed who follows them.
JEWS .... another view
I have never been able to share
the prejudice against Jews as a race
that a good many of my Christian
friends exhibit. I have no sympathy
with the Hitler persecutions of the
Jews in Germany. I think a good
deal of the antiJewish feeling arises
from the fact that their manners
frequently do not conform to Anglo
Saxon standards, and most folk judge
others superficially, by their maimers
Whojt the world owes to the Jews
is suggested by a motion picture I
saw the other day. It is called "The
House of Rothschild", and the star
actor is George Arliss. It is quite a
wonderful picture apart from its
Jewish connotations. Produced at this
time, when the Jewish world is ar
oused over the situation of its race
in Germany, it may have been design
ed as a clever piece of antirHitler
propaganda. But it is an authentic
bit of history, and splendidly done.
Everybody who wants to understand
the finest manifestatoins of the Jew
ish character ought to see it.
LAWS .... that we like
The older I get the more I am im
pressed with the fact that any law
is only as good as the public senti
ment behind it. If the people like it,
it is a good law; if they don't like
it, they wont obey it.
If every motorist who disobeys the
local speed laws were arrested there
wouldn't be jails enough to hold them
But no police force could be main
tained lagre enough to enforce the
speed laws strictly.
The best laws are those which leave
people freeest to do whatever they
like to do, restraining them only from
infringing on/ other's rights and pun
ishing them promptly and severely for
doing anything which results in in
jury to another's person) or property.
ENGLISH 1,000 words
More that five hundred million peo
ple, a quarter of the world's popula
tion either speak English or live un
der the flags of the two great Eng
lish-speaking natfons. Our language
is the most.widely-spokeni of aH.
It is not as easy for those bred to
other tongues to express themselves
correctly in English as in some other
languages. For that reason, as I have
pointed out before in this columry ef
forts are being made on both sides
of. the Atlantic to organize a simple
vocabulary of less than 1,000 English
words by means of which any idea
can be expressed.
This, it seems to me, is far more
sensible than the various attempts to
create a new "universal language"
sueh as Esparanto or anything else
which is not already familiar to miJ
lions.
PRATEP. . ... it* purpose
I heard a woman say not long ago
that she had lost her fajth in relig
ion. She had prayed and prayed for
something she wanted and hadn't got
it. It struck me that there was some
thing recidedlv wrong with the church
or the teacher from whom this Woman
had got that selfish idea of the oae
The first view of the proposed
North Carolina route to the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park,
along the crcst of the Balsam range,
' will he obtained by members of the
committee to choose the route for
* the great parkway, on Monday of next
week, when, coming from Auheville,
! they will follow the proposed routd
along the Cancy Fork Balsams, to
Balsam Gap, and from there into the
Smokies.
The party will leave Roanoke, Va.,
where they will be met by North
Carolina officials, tomorrow, and will
proceed along the Blue Ridge to Low
Gap, thence through the Roaring Gap
region to Blowing Rock, where they
will spend the night. The next day
the party will proceed over the pro
posed route to Asheville. On Monday
the members of the committee will
come to the Balsams.
George L. Radcliffe, regional ad
viser of the committee, will head the
party, and will be accompanied by
engineers and landscape experts of
the National Highway and Park Ser
vices. It is understood that the party
will not go into details on the pres
ent trip, only hitting the; high spots
along the proposed route; hut tliat
the entire ground will be gone over
later, in case the members of the par
ty arc favorably impressed with tin?
North Carolina proposal.
The great Parkway is designed to
connect the Shenandoah and Great
Smoky Mountains National Parks,
and to form a tourist route par ex
cellence for Eastern America, opening
up the mountain playground to th"
National capital, and the great cities
of the East, and affording them the
best of scenery that the mountains
afford, all the way down. It will be
constructed by the federal govern
ment, and will employ a great many
men, as it is to be divided into small
construction projects, after its loca
tion, and hurried to completion.
If the North Carolina route should
be chosen, the r<wul will follow the
crcst of the Balsams to Balsam Gap,
which would, by force of geography,
became the principal entrance to the
park, and from there would cross tlin
Plott Balam range t? Soco Gap.
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WEBSTER COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES STRAT SUNDAY
Commencement at Webster High
school will beg-in on Sunday morning-,
with the annual sermon by Rev. P. L.
Elliott, of Cullowhee.
Class day exercises will be held on
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when
Odell Ashe will deliver the address
of welcome. Miss Annie Dee Leather
man will read the last will and testa
ment Miss Helen Buchanan is the
class prophet; Miss Edith Sheppanl,
the historian, and Miss Mattie Lou
Elliott, the class poet.
On Friday evening Mrs. E. L. Me
Kec will deliver the annual address
to the graduating class. Miss Essie
Mae Alexander is the salutatorian,
and Thomas Woody, the valedictorian
The diplomas will be presented to the
graduates by Principal S. B. Hutch
inson.
PAUL GRADY DIES IN KINSTON
Paul Grady, 33, died in a hospital
in his home town of Kinston, la>t
Saturday, of a throat infection. His
wife was formerly Miss Bessie Hip
don, a daughter of J. S. Higdon, of
Sylva. Mr. and Mrs. Higdon left Sat
urday for Kinston to be present Jif
the funeral, which was on Sunday af
ternoon, with Masonic honors.'
Mr. Grady, a native of Deep Run.
had lived in Kinston for a number of
years, and was well known there.
He is survived hy his widow, a son,
a daughter, two brothers, and a sister
of prayer. I have never seen anything
in the Bible to suggest that one can
petition the Almighty for personal
benefits and expect to get them.
Those who profess faith in God but
try to dictate to the Supreme Bein$r
as to how every detail of their lives
should be shaped have a totally false
idea of the teachings of religion, says
my friend Harry Fosdick, whose ser
mons draw the largest crowds in New
York. I agree with him that many
people regard themselves as the center
of the universe, and what they need
most is the sort of faith that assured
them that all they need to do is to
live up to the Golden Bole and take
what eones without wMiwfag.