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JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL ? Published Weekly By The JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL CO. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Sylva, N. C. 9 AN TOMPKINS, Editor That ''investigation" confiwns our original opinion that Wirt is a squirt Fishing season starts Monday, and, if Old Sol drives these snow clouds away and really begins to do liis stuff, 0 boy! I Prof. Wirt, the Indian*! school mas tor, should remember that almost any body can get his .name spread all over the front pages and broadcast to the four winds, by making a. big enough ass of himself, at the oppor tune moment. One of the most pleasing improve ments in (he town of Sylva that has taken place lately, is the t'WA work of rebuilding the stej>s up to the Court House, the beautification of the grounds, and the planting of larjie quantities of shrubbery. This latter woik was done bv the count v, the * i ' Loj; Cabin Association cooperating. Have you been up to the Keener eemeterv lately? If not, vou should * t ' ? go up and see the splendid work that the I'WA (H-ople have done there. The new, rock wall, entirely around the cemetery is a thing of beauty. Thos^ who thought up this project ami ?ot it adopted bv the CWA are due th>* ' * gratitude of the entire citizenship of Sylva. ) Well, they hav,e a^tuaJly begun trying our old editorial standby, Bishop Cannon, at last ; and the evi deuce, especially that of Elder Mc Xiuch, makes interesting reading to Politically minded North Carolinans. and what Xorth Carolinians are tiot (politically minded? It will be even nore interesting when, and if, it gets down to the milk in the cocoanut of the Anti-Smith business Lu the State back in '28. Lucie Samuel, so it seems, is about to get Sam Insull nil the way back from (5 recce, Turkey, and twoor three of the seven sea's. Meanwhile, North Carolina still seems impotent to bring the Ixns across the Smokies, ai:?l Oar ence Harrow has been employed to use his arts in the United States Su preme Court to keep them on the x other side of the mountains. In some respects, then, Tennessee seems far ther off that those other foreign parts. ? \ ? ? Clarence Harrow lows, in hi? loug breif to the Supreme Court, that there was fraud in the conviction of the Leas. Yes, and some folks have intimated that there might have been a taint of fraud connected in ' the smashing of the Central Bank and Trust Company, over in Asheville. Fact is, some well kown folks are now hoarding with the State down in Raleigh, over it; but they are not from Tennessee. KNOXVILLE FLIRTS WITH US The construction of Highway 107 and 'the road across the Smokies has placed Sylva in the front door of the city of Knoxville, and Knoxville has started a flirtation with Sylva and her territory. Each morning, for the past week, we have found a copy of the Knoxville Journal at our front door, when we came to work. Heretofore, Asheville has been the only city near enmugh to bid for our trade and our affiliation. Atlanta, 170 miles to the South, is still a lit tle too far away to catch much of our money; but there is a young Loch invar who has come riding out of the West, determined to give our Mountain Metropulus some keen competition. Sylva folks can cross the Smokies, do a lot of. business and be back home between breakfast and supper. Asheville had better look to her interests in these parts. That city had better begin to really culti vate this field. THAT REPUBLICAN PLATFORM The Republicans of North Carolina met, down in Charlotte, elcctcd t> new chairman, changed their organ ization, and picked 'em out a plat form to run on. That platform con tains four major planks, or proposals The first is economy in State gov ernment. As to that, let us remind you that the Hemocratic, General As emblv of three years ago reduced the cost of State government by huge Bums, and the last one, a year ago, made further and more drastic cuts in the governmental budget, and in the meantime the State took over from the j counties the expenses of maintaining the roads and supporting 4he schofls. The second is a demand the the State quit building roads until the bonds are paid qp. Did our Republi can friends forget that the last Gen eral Assembly did that very thing, and prohibited the State ITighwaj State money for new road construetio Commission from spending a dollar of and that all the money that is being sjMiii wi North/ Carolina for new road construction is federal money, not one cent of which could be used by the State for purposes of retiring bonds or paying notes? S .. The third is a domand for prohibi tion, and that was settled by thVi ]K>ople, in an election, last Novem ber, when Democrats and Republicans participated in a noiptoljtisan election and settled it in their own way, some Democrats voting wet, some Republicans voting wet, but the ma jority of both voting dry. That leaves only, as a campaign issue the sales tax. If the Republicans have a better solution of how to maintain our schools than the sales tax, they failed to advance it while the General Assembly was in session, and they had ample opportunity to do so. There arc several ways around it; but would North Carolna wish to take any of these roadsf We could ?ro back to the old system of land taxation for schools, under which the children of the poorer counties were at a disadvantage in educational op potrtmity as compared *$h their city neighbors; and under which the burden jested upon the backs ot the fanners and owners of modest homes. We could revert to those conditions and put the burden back where it was; but that system had broken down, and one third ot the homes in North Carolina had been sold for taxes, when the General Assembly adopted the sales tax. We could fui (her reduce tin* salaries to teacheis. but that wouldn't In- sufficient to en tirely remove the sales tax. We coulo close up tin* schools; but what -politi cal, party would dare to do so and then face the men and women ot North Carolina / Those are the cour* es open,, if the sales tax is to be re moved. The talk of further reduction in the budgets in State and county gov ernments should be carefully analysed The bulk of the taxes go to pay inter est and principal on borrowed money, money that was borrowed to buy things that the people demanded, such as school houses and highway*. The tax rate in this county, for in stance, has been reduced (>7 cents on the .f IOfl in the past three years, not counting the tax saving in the reduc tion in the valuation placed on prop ertv. There is no way of substantially reducing either ^tate oj* local govern mental .expenses any further, except bv repudiating our public debts (and who has the temerity to publiety pro pose utter repudiation?), letting our millions of dollars of invesments in road ft and schools be lost by reason of improper or no maintenance, by closing, or irrevocably crippling our institutions, or by adopting all of these means; and any informed North Carolinian who says that it can be done, and the sales tax thus repealed, without these drastic, measures is talk ing pure bunk for the benefit of those who are uninformed ,auid know* that that is what he is doing. Harriman is Strong Man (Continued from Pag*- 1 ) ist ration to spend this money where it will put the recipients on the way to self-maintenance. )"For this purpose, the needy of the nation have been clasiffied into three groups, rural, "stranded" and urban Rural relief is expected to take the landless, homeless cashless farmer and set him in business again on a piece of land with adequate equip nient for maintenance and intelligent supervision and instruction to enable him to grain at least a livlihood from I hi: soil. The so-called "stranded" people are those who have been left high and dry by the shifting of industries away from the centers where they formerly worked, and the substitution of machinery for man-power. The problem for their relief is !to jwt them up, as far as possible, on sub sistence homesteads, near some grow ing industrial ccniter where there mnay be expected to be jobs at sometime in the future. Meantime, they, also will be put in the way of being self-sup porting when there are no jobs. In the cities ithe relief program is expected to be under state direction, in most instances. It will be carried on somewhat on the lines of the CWA, except that the work to be done and piad for in twenty, -four hour week for each worker, will be either geuninely necessary public work or in cooperation with private industry. Demolition of unfit hahita tionfi under the wide-spreading slum clearan<fe projects and he building of modern homes for 4he poor in their place is one of th eimportant phase* of this relief program. FOB REGISTER OF DEEDS f>. Subject to the Democratic pri. ma ry I hereby aniiouiire my candi dacy for tlie office of Register of Deeds for dacksou county. I will ap preeiate flu* support of nil democrats in the primary. Margaret Sherrill NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE; North Carolina, Jackson County. Under and by virtue of the authori ty conferred by deed of trust execut ed by E. B. Monteilh and wife, Mag gie Monteith, dated May 1, 1931, and recorded in Book 114, at Page 244, in the Office of tlie Register of Di-eds for Jackson Comity, North Carolina. Dan K. Mooie, Truslee, wiil at 12:00 o'clock, noon on Monday, April 23 1934, at the Court Mouse door of Jackson County, in Sylva, North Car olina, sill, at public auction for cash to tlie holiest bidder, the following land, to-wit : First I?t: Beginning at the South west corner of the Webster and Rail road Streets, and runs Northwardly with Webster Street 71 feet to a stake; thence Eastwardly 50 feet to a stake; thence Southwardly to h stake on the North side of Railroad Street; thence Westwardlv with said Street to the beginning. Second Lot: Beginning on a stake on the North side of Railroad Street 60 feet from the Street leading from the bridge to the hotel and running parallel with said Street f>4 feet to a stake; the.nce S. HO E. -10 feet to a stake; thence S. 10 E. f>4 feet to a stake on Railroad Street; thence with said street lo the Beginning. Third Lot : Beginning at a stake on the Ilast side of Webster Street at N W. corner of the old Wat kins Store home lot, 71 feet from the corner of Webster and Railroad Street', and l runs N. 10 W. with the East side of Webster Street 77 feet to a stake the S. W. corner of the old Methodist Church lot; theme N. 8(1 E. 0!) fee' to a stake in said Church lot, the i South line; thence S. JO degrees to a stake in the N. E. corner of the old j Palmer and Phillips lot, thence with j North line of said lot to a stake ii: N. W. corner i:i the Watkins Store lot East line: tin lice Northwardly , with said line to a stake in N. E. corner of old Watkuis lot; tlx nee with N. line of >aid lot to the Be gi lining. Being the same lands deserv ed in a deed dated November 22, 1913. fro.ri Cora II. Johti.-oti and husband. J. E. .lohifson, to .1. A. and E. B Monteith, recorded in Book 63, n! Page .'!47, in the Office of the Regis ter of Deeds for Jackson County. North Carolina. This sale is made on account of default in payment of the indebted ness secured by said deed of trust. This the Unfit day of March, 1934. DA No K. Moore, Trustee. , 3 22 Its DKM. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JACKSON' roc NT Y Under and bv virtue of the nuthor I ity conferred by Deed of Trust, ox ! ecu toil by Frank Watson and wife, j Viigiuia Mao Watson, dated t lu? 1st , day of December, 1927, and recorded i in Book 102, Payr -139, in the Of- i fico of the Kouister of Deeds fo; jJackson County, North Carolina. Commercial National Bank of TI?erli ' Point, Trustee, will, at 12:00 o'clock j noon, on, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934 at the Court House door of Jaeksor j County, in Sylva, North Carolina, j sell at public auction, for cash, to the highest bidder, the following de scribed land, to-wit: Lying and being in the Town ot Dillsboro, Jackson County, Nortli Carolina, and BEGINNING at au iron signal post, standing 11.4 feel South 24 dog. 54 min. from the cen ter lino of the main track of the Southern Railway; also S. 65 deg. 0< min. W., 132 foot from the stake al the center of the trestle, or culvert, on tho S. side of the Southern Rail way, and N. 65 deg. 06 min. E. 256 feet from the St root crossing run | ning from State Highway No. 10. j back of C. .1. Cannon's house to Wat son's lots, and runs thence S. 65 dej? 6 min. W. 100 foot along the railway to a stake, 11.4 feet from the ccntci line of said railway; thence S. 2! deg. 54 min. E., 210 foot to a stake j on the river bank; thence to the con | tor thread or flow of the Tuckaseigee River; thence up and with the me anders of the river to point opposite a stake standing on the bank of the river, S. 88 deg. 35 min. E. 110 feci from the last corner ;thence to the said stake; thence N. 24 dog. 5i min. W. 256.5 feet to the BEGIN NING. This sale is made on account of default in payments of the indebt edness secured by said Deed of ! Trust. This the 14th day of March, 1934 ! COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BA'NK j OF HIGH POINT, TRUSTEE. ! By : JOHN D. BIGGS, Receiver. By: DAN K. MOORE, ATTY. During Medford's spring 'shower of] bargains Early Spring Showing of Fiber Suites 3 PIECE ENS AMBLE, WHICHmCLUDES 3 CUSHIONSET TEE, ROCKER, AND ARM CHAIR. ALL PIECES BEAT! TIFULLY MATCHED. Your choice of Rust and Green, Blue and Rust, or Blue and Green. 9 X 12 Congoleum Rug Free $49.50 i-i fe n p;: Walnut Finished Vanity Poster Bed Chest Of Drawers 3 PIECE BED ROOM ENSEMBLE These , suites are just received from the factory this week and are not pre-N.R.A. foods, which substantiates the fact that von ? ? } j ? ' ai i' not melting shop-worn merchandise. As April special, 1 mattress free. $2.00 Weekly ? Bedroom Suites as low as $39.50 $1.50 WEEKLY Living Room Suites as low as i $49.50 CONGOLEUM RUGS MOHAIR LIVING ROOM SUITES 3-pc. Living Room Suites covered in a very good grade of Mohair with beautiful reversible cush ions, large 3-cushion divan, arm chair, and club chair. We have been fortunate in securing a few more of these suites tli|is week $5.25 $6.50 $10.50 50c down 50c a week from the manufacturer, Saturday in our April S Bargain sale at very spe $89.5 to offer lower of ial price Your credit is good with us Medford Furniture Company
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