CONVENTION OF
W.O.W. WILL OE
HERE NEXT WEEK
\|,nv tlinu delegates ami visit
pr, :tiv expivtrd to bo iii Sylvn on
in\i We.hu sday mul Thursday, Pot
P.-ml n'mihal inri'tinjr ?d* 1lu? \V
l) W. lii?jr KoHiiljr Association, an'1
#|jt. ,,itv?liui?Mi of tin* Woodmen Cir
n iiu'li I"1,1'1 jointly in Sylva .The
ij.il 1 1- 1 lontpr.ses Clevelnnd, Cutn?v
> l., j ! . ! \vt-l I mul all counties to ttynr
1'|i. ( (invention will open on Wed
no'.?<l:i v evening with a haiupict :il
\ Cafe, ;il wliifli the local Wood
man 1,1 I' !>?' l'10 'los* visitors
aii l iliJWnilosi..
I \\". 1'. McCniie will call t !io
WM!i.- to ol'ilcr, ami will present
lltiji Monti it h. who will act as toast
hia>H i . \V. C. Keed will offer :i short
in'vrcat ion. The address of welcome
will he delivered hy Mayor (. (.
ltuchanair, and ?he ?.*J>ome hj A1
K. \V est morel mid. ol Mickoi'V. Vliisie
will I"' riiniisheil by a shim/ hand
anil ?! X? ir?o quartet. Vi.-itoj/ will he j
wih-oiltieeil hy W. II. (Iro-ran^ It ,
vj-^iMriet Manager, \V. O. W. 'ijJnve
minute talks will he made as callcil
ior hy t ho Toast master.
Tl? , convention will he opene: I hv
Prc-i'hnt 1\ (loforth, of I\in?'s
Xliiiiiiiain: and an address wilt he
(lelivi't'cil hy Head Councilor W.O.W.,
Charles vX. I lines, of Greensboro.
Aniuiij the visitors will he: K. H.
Lewi-. National Director, W". W. O..
Kiiiston, Mrs. Kfl'ie,Itogers, State
r maii ci i . \Voih1iii:iii "Circle, Raleidi,
ju.ltf, harrinjrton T. Hill, Past Head
(Council, Wadcsboro. L. L. Adams.
\>H President, !/>?: Rolling Assoei
tM, J. Melton Todd, District Mj?r., .1
PWiuOiU District. Mrs. W. H. firo
fffii, Attendant, Wooifcimtl Circle.
Tltf business session will lie held in
the W'.O. \V. hall Thursday morning.
I'ws'mWuV I1' (loforth will preside,
and the ft-at tires will he addresses hy
i K. B. tl. I i rosin 11, Jr., Airs,
iflffie Rogers, Judge Hill and others.
A'fflgnwrint service will 1m> conduct
wL with Hiurfi Monteith in charge.
The W:il W. O. \V. Camp will
Sl'IVr IllltcllC.
Ciiineutioii Juathjua iters will he at
flit- Sew Jaeksirtl Hotel.
Delegates com in- I nun the Kast
will (ic met in I lelidersuliyiHe and j
taken -Jin Tuesday lor a itrip overj
Highway "JS t lirottuh the Casheir 4
\ :t[|..y country, to Whiteside, down
tin- t Ullasaja ravine, ami to Sylvn |
across i lie Cowee, arriving here for I
the opening haiHpiet ol the enliven- j
lion.
) UNION MEETING NEXT WEEK
The ( nitui Mt'd'ns!- (if the Tucka
? lu'tc ist will iiirot
v :tli thi* "I'm-k;! I'slplisI cImiicIi,
on \|>i il 'J7, 'JS ? ii I "20.
Tin- trnliilivr pnnji-iiii I'ul'mvs:
I'nivcr :i?n| I 'cs*i ? ? ^'i-rvice,
Pll-idl , llcv. j\\ , t i.ii';.
?<':.!() I'.iiritllc i (?'-.! or il.-|c-^iti-v
lot roilm lin v Sen un, |fi*v, j{.
I. ( nok.
12:00 Minim
lit-) IV.'ivrr ;url pi'.-iisi- sfirvicr siuil
Ihmim?ss ;iri jii" ;n| l,y tin- uiiiilcnitor. j
'?<11. i';i | Tlii'inc:
l:l i \\ I ? ; 1 1 m i i|i! in ;i| ml liorit v <lo
?vc have (or '-liim-li discipline? Hi'V,
?\. 'juwil.
of r.-Mccs shsill
"?'"i"! ?f n| .villi > |{; v. .1. M. T m-kvr
" |?. lis" I i? ill""**'1
<|i > u-'ini , J,Y<. I. Hmvvii.
'?> : I * ( ii'iM'i':il discussion of pn-viotis
' !'?u i iiiiK ii I :il will., >
? : ? 1 1 ifi I : i y I'.Jivi'i* ami
?""I i .-.??I l?v 'tin- pastor, Hi v. W. iN.
< "-k.
\VIi:i| ;i i'i- .sonic o(" the iiidien
'?"'ivol' ||M. low s|> ritin! conditions
""V cliiirclu's? I{cv. W. ('. fte. <1. {
W.lml arc the causes of t lu%
spirit u;il conditions i?r our church
1 N,V;!.'tv. I5f.ii Cook. .
( iciicrul discussion
H:l"> SiTinon, Kev. J'; Ti. TTvatt.
Dinner
! :.!0 Waver and praise, Rev. (r. 0.
S'livilcr.
' ; l;? What is a church covenant?
!'V. F. K. Stafford.
-:l:? fiYncruI discussion on the
?'?'tures of the church covenant.
?:l> Miscelhi.neons and adjourn
^nirdiiy Mornrnfif ? 10:00 Sunday
School.
1 1 :00 To be arranged
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbriugc)
AMERICA ... as she is
I \V!is talking 111*1 oihcr day with
one of 1 Iwkc neiirotie |i;-i styi;-; who
think everything in America is per
tectlv aw I ul except a few New York
night dubs. A!y friend said everv
body in Kitrope knew how terrible
life ill the I'niled Stales was, be
cause tiny had all read "Ai-iili
Strict" and ''Babbitt', which have
translated into many languages
and are believed over there to be a
true picture of American life.
A day or two later 1 picked up a
copy of dim Connor's Herald pub
lished in Seymour, ItidU: i. in which
Jim took a crack at the folks who
think life in a small I own must be
jus! the roiMid of idler dn ariness and
disgust with the world, dim admit;
thei ? weren't any murders, suicides,
robberies, kidiuippngs or love-nest
divorces in Seynjour to make sensa
tional luaiMins in lirs ?'jiaJw-V (he
| wc? k of March 2*-', and that e.one of
the citizens of th.? town was as no
torious as Dillinirer, so there Weren't
j
i any Seymour pictures 'Mi the city
I a| is. I'.fit he lists a great variety
I of wholesome amusi mi ids, poinds out
j that nobody in I lie county is starving
and that there is phnty money in the
1 bank and the po-ial savings, fawners
arc buy iiiyf machinery and on (die
whole people arc living pretty com?
fort able, wholesome and decent lives
It struck me that dim Connor's
picture of the real America is truer
than Sinclair Lewis's.
TRAP. . . real life drama
Klevcn vears ago \ inceu/o Tisbo V
private bank in New York's. ? Fast
Sid,? faihd and Tisho disappeared.
So did ;i couple of millions of de
positors' money, including some ofk
Joe Tarciit inn's, doe kept busy and
I accumulated some more money until
he owned his own home. II** dug a
wine-cellar under his house this
SiuLuir, ?>? I'iuikI to tell
him of a reliable, wine dealer. Tin
friend gave him a telephone number.
When he called up, the voice at the
other end of the wire wtsis that .<:?
the missing Tisbo.
doe kept his head, ordered several
bottles ol wine to be delivered' at
his house, r, look the unsus|>cc<ing
Tisbo down lo show him his wine
cellar, .excused himself !o go hack
and get some glasses, pulled up the
I ladder, slammed down the trap door
: and sent for the police, who had been
; hunting Tisbo all over the world!
There is a bit of' drama ill real
life that would souipl improbable if
written in a novel.
GAMBLING . . . proposed lottery
It seems absurd to be talking :iIk)ii(
laws to <?j> speculation in stocks
and at tin* same time talking about
establishing a national lottery, hlW
that's what's happening in Washing
ton. Kepre^ontative Kennev of New
?lersey Inis introduced a bill, which
some rake scriotislv, to authorize a
lottery operated- by the \ etcraihS Ad
ministration to raise money for pen
' sions.
J # s
Tn this topsy turvy world it seems
to .be the idea that it is better to have
people gambling in ways whereby
they lose everything if they don't
win, thani in ways which at least
leave some of ilirtm some sort of'
property, even though it is not worth
what it was, if they lose. 1 To buy
stocks with ImhtowciI money is la
belled as wicked, but who is going
to insure that people don't Iwtrrow
money to buy lottery tickets.
TALENT . . . Dan found his
Most ef the misfits in life are dile
! to fai'uie of people to make -us*' of
| the talents they have, and trying1 to
do work for which, they are unfitted.
I know a youiv,' man who has worked
in af least a dozen jobs, all of them
in offie.'-s or Vales work, in t he past
few years, ;iml In- lias bent I'iml
( loin every o:h> of I Firm. Hut a short
time ii-i'n he w; is visiting his sister, I
who Ii;is ;i f'ii.-Ii and prosperous
millinery shop. A chair iii h.ei' room
had been broken. and the voting "inn
turned to and repaired it as well its!
a skilled cabinetmaker could " have
dr.'ie.
"Dan," ?i:d Ins sister. .<"1 know
what's the matter with von. You've
heen trying1 to .earn, a living with
your hem!, while I'm making a goo<>
living with my hands Our family
runs to handiera ft. Why don't yon
get. a job in a furniture shop?" Thar
gave D:\ti a new idea. He set up for
himself as a furniture repairer, and
is the busiest young man in New
York and the happiest.
A Happy Angler in the Bent-Pin League ?
SPRING . . . Tho photo above happens to come from the Southland,
but Mabel Claire Strickland, of Douglas, Ga., does more than attest her
nu'iiiborfihip ic the Bent-Pin League . . . she typifies the opening of another
happr childhood season throughout the land,
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Zeb Weaver Announces
Candidacy For Reelection
Xt lnili'ii Wt?i * iliis uv'( k ji'i- J
nouuues liis c;Miili?l:u-\ for Congress j
to succeed hill S. If. In ;i at cm: lit to
Tin- Journal, Mr. Wtaver stis forth
his record. ;is l:i- rcason> lor !?.'?
lit'vill^ 1 ll.'ll III | ;|, IIH'I'il ???(" tin* Slip
l>Ol tjol | ii, | H'l i| ? l or another t ( rill. J
x .Mr. Weaver*- -t.i'.ciiioiil follows:
''4I wi.-li In .'itiiioiiucc lo I lie voters;
of I lie Eleventh District tlml I will
ho :i candidal ?? to succeed myself as
t hi* I r:i t i ?- noin i n ? .?? for Conjfress
in I lu* primaries lo he held on .Inne
2nd.
"I ? hav? ?BrrwrJ- file district n?? V"
Member of Coii^ir--; for < term*.
I have ser\ i d llu* disl l ii t lio'h dur
rug: pi'i ioiln of , war and of |waeo. I
entered n i >011 / * ' v motive duties in
fVni?ri'? ,ss in AWil, I JM 7. I si'i'vcd
under our jrrea! I r juf.! War
President. !ioii' '-Wilson, and sii <
laitH'd him in ;ill his> policies. I am
lion' s?Tvintr n n another ureal
Democrat je h-i '< i , I'Vafkliii D. Ruos
evell, ami can ,a<-:i;re (lie D. inoerats
and I In- pioph of I lie distiiet I his.
thai I have i-'ij-p >rtei| and shall
continue |o <ni h< .! I ini in his econ
omic '|>olici< s, iiw'l- j"; to :? reslorrt
tiou of | ?*?>s| ??? :*i ? y in I hi* Republic.
I feel that, in liirn v.e liavi a {jrcut '
President. I f-i l thaf it is his desire
and purpose t<> ;">:tnre prosperity to
the nat ion, , re ?anil: - > of interests,
classes or ;>io and t lint the Anier
i?:ui people hive absolute and un
limited con fid ueo in his heroic pur
pose. '
"1 am a Democrat. V... 1 was first
elected when a If. publican repre
sen 1 1 d this district. Ami fnrn a
very mea-riv majority my majority |
has <4iown until the Eleventh Dis
trict is no lowrrr regarded as doubt -
f ul. 1 have coiilrihuted to the Dem
ocratic cause throughout these years,
juid shall continue to do so while 1
represent that ureal parly, ns its
candidate ami their Kepreset+tal ive in
Cnmrress.
<l| do no! c-mr to the proplc with
any specious; promi-es. T shall not
?undertake to ! ??11 tl em that 1 shall
do I hint's which 1 k;iow 1 caanot do.
1 call (only te!| tin in. that I shall con
tinue lo liriii? to this office, if T am
elected, the same honest, intelligent
and' interested service which T have
Inrelnforc pjve.u to Ihcni.
"I know ? 1 : r 1 1 there arc those who
will dai/.r. (hat things have not boon
done that should have heen done. Tn
this regard 1 believe I can point
wi.lh pride to my record as Repre
sentative of this district. If service
in iTonprress is lo he measured by
Federal recognition, then 1 do not
know of any disjriet in the United
States which has received more of
this reeo??ii:tbn than the Eleventh
District of North Carolina. I be
lieve that the pco|rle of this district
knows that I have undertaken, at all
times to "represent them conscien
tiously, and with -the best interest of
"the district at heart. I have tried
not to he partisan in hiv office. 1
liflve done much for individual cit
izens constituting my const itue.nev.
I lmve not hesitated always to us.,
inv efforas legitimately for any one
of them, whether lie was a Repuhli.
can or whether he was. a Democrat,
>
?/
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and have tried to bp a R?p?vscnta
tivi- of si IK the people, regia#dlcss of
|M?Ulii-s. I sin 1 1 continue (his course.
"It my service should he question
er ;ii to i lie recognition by the Fed
;.r:;i (Jove.-. ,nu lit. I might | .ant to
many tilings. This would inculde ap
prop* iationsof large amounts ot mon
ey for acquisition of our National
Forests. I secured the establishment
of a Forest Experiment Station foi
all the Southeastern States, which
is located at Ashevillc. I secured a
Federal building there. This is not
Wr it -fur-AsluJvkllc, W
I rov'des I'Or our Federal Courts, both
District and Circuit, and for all the
Federal agencies in Western North
C a rolina.
"1 have worked continually to
establish the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park. I secured the
passage of the original bill in Con
?re<s for this Park. I have devoted
years of my life to this work, both
while in Congress and during the
period I was out of Congress. While
i lit- formal opening of tin Park has
been delayed, 1 wish to point to th?*
fact that it is now .a going concern.
It is open to the public. For several
vcars it has had a Superintendent in
charge. It has had chief rangers on
both the North Carolina and Tenn
essee sides, with numerous men under
the i:. This area has been eligible for
the F. C. W. Camps. During the last
year T helped to secure an allocation
of $2, 500, 000 for the construction of
roads "and trails within the PflT*.
This work is now actively uoing on,
giving employment to labor a.nd de
veloping the Park for public use.
uIn addition to this some $65,000
was allocated last year for the con
struction of roads and trails. This
work is going on and many of these
trails will be open to fishing this
season, under the supervision of the
Federal Government. T merely call
attention to 'these facts because of
certain contentions which have been
male about this Park.
"It became necessary to secure, ad
ditional/money for the purpose o?
acquiring the necessary lands and at
the last session of Congress,, I $(
cured an allocation, through Presi
dent Roosevelt, of $1,550,000 for this
purpose. This money is now available
and is to the credit of the Director
of National Parks. It is to be used
in paying the balance due on. the.
SuncWi-rt properties and the Ravens
ford properties. I may say that prac
tically all of the property in the
Park was acquired by the <i)d of
1 1031, except the property s above
mentioned. Due to inability to agree
with the owners necessary litigation
resulted.
"I point further to the fact that
I have secured the establishment of
Civilian Conservation Camps in
practically all of the counties of the
district. Both in the National Park
areas, and the National Forest area?
of the 11th District, more camps have
been established than in any other
district in the United States. These
camps have done especially fine work
They have given employment to
many deserving persons and it i?
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Roosevelt Position Will
Be Made Clear Soon It Is
Believed By Observers
i
Mason And Cowan
Enter County Race
s
The entrance of C. C. Mason as o
candidate for sheriff and of J. D.
Cowan to succeed himself as Chair
man of the board oc Commissioners,
has added interest to the forthcom
ing Democratic primary.
Both men are well known in Jack
son county politics. Mr. Mason has
served as deputy sheriff for four
years under Sheriff Maney. Prior to
that time he served as Deputy United
States Marshal , under Charles A.
Webb. He was the candidate of the
party for sheriff in 1928. Sheriff
Maney states that he is not a candi
date and will not be.
Mr. Cowan has served for t .vo
terms in the office to which he at
pires. He has <>a large number of
frie*ds in the county, and is a son
of M. D. Cowan.
No candidates have yet come for
ward to oppose these two gentlemen.
The only position in which two
candidates are contending for the
nomination is that of Register of
Dee.]?, in which two young people,
Miss Sherill of Sylva and Mr. Brv
son of Hamburg are opposing candi
dates. Dan Allis>.i, Clerk of the Su
)>erior Court announces his candidacy
sorni lime ago, sm-.l is so far nop
posed.
40 YEARS AGO
Tuakaseige- Bemocrat, April 18, 1894
Washington, D. C., April 16.
(Special) ? Senator Vance died at
10 :40 P. M. Saturday. ? C. B. Wike.
The Mtnoonttmunt of the dwitb of
no citizen of North Carolina, or in
diced of the- whole country, would
have caused such universal sorrow n*
that of Senator Vance. No man stood
so high in the affeotions of his fel
low citizen, as a faithful, wise and
reliable friend of the people.
Mr. M. Patten left for Detroit !
today. '
Messrs. Fred Price and Don Cowan
are the "boss" fisherman.
Mr. W. M. Hoffman started toda\
for a visit to his family in Detroit
Deputy Sheriff J. B. Sherrill, oi
Webster, was here Thursday.
Gen. Hampton went to Ashevillo
today, to attend the funeral of Sen
ator Vanee.
Mrs. Foster, of Cummings, (la., i
visiting her eousin, Mrs. J. L. Potts,
of our town.
Rev. W. S. Barrows will hold ser
vices at the Episcopal Chapel Sun
day evening ntext, at 4 o'clock.
Miss Sallie Stedman arrived Thurs
day, frim Mineral Bluff, Ga., wher.
she has been teaching music.
" j
This is the year for the coming of
the 17 year locusts, and evidences of
their coming arc already visible.
General Hampton gives a dance a*
his residence, Friday night, conrpli
memtary to the Misses Stedwnan and
Baptist.
Mr. C. H. Ray, of Waynesville,
was over today and we learn (will
establish a braneh of his mercantile
business here.
The Democrat office was favored
last Friday, with a visit from Mes
dames Buffum, of Dillsboro, and
Frees, Jof Chicago.
Drs. Wolff and Knight and Messrs
C. Buchanan and E. A. Wolff left
today, for Dark Ridge, intent on the
capture of speckled trout.
There will be a Demorest Contest,
for a silver medal, at the Cullowhe<
High School building, Friday, 8 P. M.
April 20, 1894. The contestants are
Misses Annie Leatherwood, Nellie
Smith, Susie Potts, Emma DeHart.
Nancy Wilson and Mr. Theo. Buch
anan. Music will be furnished by the
Cullowhee String Band'.
Washington, April 18. ? It is be
coming clearer every day, not alone
to members of Congress and to many
of that somewhat ill-defined group
usually referred to as "members of
the Administration," but to impartial
observers like newspaper men, that
Mr. Roosevelt has eomc to the fork
of the road, where he must choose
openJy and irrevocably whether lie
will take the right fork or the left.
There is little doubt in the im
partial observers' minds which fork
he will choose, once he decides that
the time has come to make the defi
nite decision. He. will choose the road
leading to the right. But until hr
does, by positive word and act, dem
onstrate that he is not going to fol
low that alluring left trail toward
which some of his counselors an;l
aides have been subtly trying to
shunt hirn, the uncertainty which
now beclouds the future course of
the Nation will continue to act an
a heavy brake upon industrial and
business recovery.
Recovery is under way. Of that
there is no doubt. But it is tardy and
timid, becjhjse of the fear of owners
of capital, batiks artd institutions of
credit, that if *tjiey put their money
or their credit at Work in productive
enterprises ? which every one of
them, to the last man, is eager to do
Washing on may spring some new
and unexpected restrictions upon
the industries and projects in which
they have invested.
Most of that fear is exaggerated,
but capital is .notoriously timid, and
the banks have had a sharp lesson in
the folly, not to say wickedness, of
lending other people's money, their
depositors, 's on insufficient security.
And there has not only been so much
"Left" talk from the "collect ivists"
in public office here, but so many
evidences of 4<Left" influence in va
rious legislative proposals which
have been put ifp to Congress with
the word "the President wants thii
to pass as it is," that conservatives
can hardly be blamed for wondering
whether Mr, Roosevelt has turned
from all the influences and principles
if his own past.
Lpt it Iw said right here thai there
is .no foundation for such a suspicion.
And let it be added that, even among
! those who harbor such fears, then*
has been little or no diminution itr
the President's persona I popularity.
And that is true of the Nation
large. The great mass of the people,
while not professing to understand
everything that is being done here to
try to improve conditions, even
though many are doubtfol about the
ultimate success of some of the
frankly ex^x-ri mental methods that
have been ami are being tried, still
believe that Frank Roosevelt will pull
us through somehow. This is not be
ing set down to instill distrust of the
President, but rather to show the
reasons for such distrust as exi.sl <
and to point out that it is on the way
to being removed.
For whether the statements mad*'
to Professor Wirt of Gary by some
of the young men who have such an
active finger in the pic here were in
tended to be taken seriously or not,
no intelligent person accuses Dr.
Wirt of faking them. And a critical
examination of much of the New
Deal legislation that has hem en
acted and of the new so-called "Ail
ministration bills" yet to be acted
on by Congress, discloses subtleties
of phrasing which, while not makin*
them mean precisely the opposite of
what they seem to mean, could have
precisely the effort which Dr. Wirt's
informants predicted, that of making
it so impossible for capital to do
business as to wreck all the recovery
plans.
There has been a tendency, hot Ii
in and out of Washington, to accept
every legislative measure without
questioning it, if it was labelled as
emanating from the Administration.
That label has been taken to mean
that Mr. Roosevelt has personally
drafted or read the bill or dictated
its details and that it is therefore
sacred down to the last comma. But
now it turns out that this has been
true in only a few instances. Mr.
Roosevelt has approved the principle
of some of the major bills, delegated
the drafting of them to men whom
he trusted, who have sometimes in
turn, delegated the task to clever,
deft young lawyers who have let
their idealism run away with their
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