MAN* CANDIDATES
FILE TO ENTER RACE
IN COMING PRIMARY
I'tr primary politics reached a
|n .|i peak in Jackson County, Sat
:irij|;,v, when, with th;> town crammed
fu|| of interested people, T. C. Bry
s?u, Sr., entered the race for the
IVuioeratic nomination for Repncsen
lalive, on the last day, and E. L
Wilson, former slier ff, entered the
nice stgainst C. C. Mason for sheriff^
W.Ul. Oliver eame to the hat as a
jli.Aite for Chairman of the Board
?r Commissioners and Finance Com
mi<?iijoiier.
N'inv peoplcy filed its aspirants for
on the Board of Education* and
fj\i? candidates for the part tim?
commissioner's jobs. For county",
commissioner, the present commis
sioners, W. C. Norton, and { W. A.
Hooper are candidates, with T. P.
Buchanan, Estes Bryson awl W. H. '
1 loojH'r opposing them.
For Board of Education, 'Mrs. E.
L. McKee, J. ,E. Rogers, and T. B.
Cowan, of the present board are
candidates to snccoed themselves,
while opposing them are T. A. Di!-'
laid, Cashiers, J. II. Ix>ng, Mountain,
t arl -Jamison-, Hamburg, P. X. Price,
River, T. C. Ledbettcr, Cullowhee,
ami, 0. II. Cope, Sylva and Webster.
Dan K. Moore and T. C. Bryson
appeared in the lists ?ts ojiposing
tuiwlidates for Representative; but
Mr. Moore, who was out of tow.n and
fill .1 by telegraph", announced, upon
hi- ivtura to Syjva Wednesday morn
in?r, ! lint he is not a candidate, and
only filed his name, in the belief
that m) candidate had entered the
Tare, and in order to keep the post
^?n so that it would not go by de
For Sheriff C. C. Mason is being
by E. L. Wilson, former
sheriff.
For Clerk of the Court Dan Alli
son is apa'm opposed by Ed Hooper.,
Chairman J. D. Cowan, o f the Board
of t ^onunis.-Joiiers, . is^tfp^WwWK l>y VUu
H. Oliver. '
('. \\". Dills is unopposed for cor
oner; ami Lyman Stewart, the pres
ent comity 'surveyor, has no opposi
tion. ,
I' rank lirvson, Hamburg, and Miss
Mar.'.uvt Shcrrill, Sylva, an' oppos
insr candidates for Register of Deeds.
Tin- Republicans of the county, at
tluir loiiveiitioai on Friday, nomin
al il W. p. Mcfiirre, Sylva dentist,
f?r Representative; R. M. Crawford,
.bid: ??, niereliaitit, for sheriff; Xcal
Tucker, Cullowhce, teacher, for Clerk
?>f I he Superior Court; Lewis Rum
?r;iiner? Sylva postal elerk, Register
i>\ Deeds. Mil as Parker, Canev Fork,
former Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue, Finance Commissioner; K.
Mow:dl, Qjalla farmer, and Cleve
Wood, Caney Fork, for county com
missioners; ?T. D. Pa in* or, Cullowhce,
Corr 'or; and .1. T. Smith, River, sur
\Vyor. v./
Joh:i li. Fns'-y handed i.u his res?
?gnnt:ou as Chairman of the Republi
can Kvccutive Committee for the
cor.'ify and K. P. Stillw."ll, Sylva
attorney, was elected to succeed him.
MOTHER'S DAY PROGRAM
TO BE AT JOHN'S CREEK
The p:>ople of the John's Crook
' .mmunity will cdebrate Mother's
Hay with services at the school aud
i:"iitnn, mid dinner on the grounds.
T! program has heen arranged as
1 1-1!. I, vs.
Song service
Sunday * School
Sp.cial music (Shaw string
'? n 'I of ( Sreenvillo, S. C.)
1 1 '1" Sermon, Rev. W. N. Cook
l-K"" Dinner
' ,|'1 Children's program
' ;(l Sprcial music
' '? r> Addivss, Rev. W. C. Reed,
"Hip I idleness of Man"
- I"' Address W. S. Sinclair.
flsi-re will h:> selections by the
1 N'-hikee Indian quartet, from Cher
<-k,
BAPTIST PREACHERS TO MEET
^11 Raptist pastors and preachers
?' ?' -' d In meet at Cullowhce Bap
'l"' ??liiirch, Monday, May 14, 10 A.M.
Hi, is coming out of the plans of
' ? Cnion Me.eting at Tuckasei
' arrange for a simultaneous
I Campaign in the Tucka
'? Association.
s"re to come.
U'- X. Cook, Ch'm. of Committee
40 YEARS AGO
Tackaseige Democrat, May- 9, 1894
Mr. W. M. Hoffman left, Friday,
for business trip North.
The locusts are here and their
monotonous song is heard all day.
Gen. E. R. Hampton Went to Ashr
ville Monday, to Federal Court.
M<ss Ella Wikc, of East La Porte,
was visiting friends here today.
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Mr. J. S. Jarrett returned to hin
home at Greenville, S. 0., Saturday.
Messrs. J. W. M^cKee and J. L.
Sawyer went to Bryson City, Sunday.;
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hooker, of
Webster, were visiting friends here
Sunday.
Mr. David F. Brown, one of Cul
lowhee's most substantial citizens,
was here today.
Messrs. E. A. Wolff and G. B.
Hoffman went to Asheville Friday,
??^turning next day.
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The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Smith were glad to see them, in town
Tuesday.
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Mr. Fred Moore, of Webster, was
here a short time Monday, on his
way to Federal Court. t
Mrs. Laura Burns and Miss Annie
Gibson, of Beta, were here on a
shopping expedition Saturday.
Judge J. H. Merrimon returned to
Asheville Saturday, having been at
tending court at Webster.
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Mr. J. B. Sherrill and' Miss Annie
Loatherwood, of Webster, were ; in
town Saturday and Mr. Sherrill gitvc
us a pleasant call. *
r-ffeders! xkjui*. is^&dmserfc atjLshr
ville this week and the railroad
track, as well as the trains, have
been well patronized, for several
days.
Prof. R. L. Madison was here this
morning, on his way to Asheville,
where he will assist in holding the
eompetetive examination to select a
cadet to Annapolis.
Dr. J. TI. Wolff returned from
Saluda yesterday, where 'lie was
ngain called to the bedside of Mrs.
R. M. Davis. We are pleased to Irani
that Mrs. Davis is much better now.
The sensation of today has been
the arrival and setting up of the
Soda Fountain at the Drue: Store,
and iee cold soda water will hencc
forth he accessible to our thirsty cit
izens. Mr. I). M. Mcintosh is setting
up the fountain.
Mr. W. T. Miller is ahont to remove
his business from Dillsboro to the
stand lately occupied by Coward and
Bryso.il, at Speedwell, and the people
of that community .nav expect some
"paraly/.'-rs" in the way of prices,
when Will gets there.
Something in the nature of a clond
buret this evening made the little
branch that runs by Mr. Holland's
and empties in. the creek within th?
corporate limits of town, turn both
streams into raging torrents, over
flow' r.<? bottoms and scattering log-'
and trash over them. . j
.The Municipal election here Men
day resulted in tin? election of A. M
Parlor. Mayor, II. N. Swan, Marshal.
M. H. Morris, .1. R. Frizzell, J. H.
House, F. A. Luck, Sr., and C. Buch
anan, Aldermen, all of whom are the
present incu i beibts, exccpt Mr.
House, who is a new member of the
Board of Aldermen.
SISTER OF SYLVA WOMAN
DIES IN IREDELL COUNTY
Information has been received
here of the dvath, on Monday /after
noon, of Mrs." M. P. Alexander, at
her home in Iredell county. Funeral
and interment were to be at States -
ville, Tuesday.
Mrs. Alexander has often visited
her s:ster, Mrs. D. L. Love, at her
home here, and made a number of
frinnds here who will Icarn with re
gret. of her passing.
Mrs. Love has been at the bedside
of her sister for several weeks.
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Samuel Insull's Return
NEW YORK . . . The most recent picture -taken of Samuel Insull.
(above), former Chicago "czar" of f*ublie Uti4tie?, as ha boarded the
8. 8. Kxilona for the return to the United State*. under the watchful eye
of U. 8. Federal Authorities.
Liquor Tax So Far Fails To
Raise Revenue Expected
Washington, May 9. ? Perhaps not
the most important, hut in political
circles one of the most interesting
things being talked about here is
the --tRsOovery that the ljkpeal of
Prohibition has not put the boot
leggers out of business,- and that th</
new taxes on whiskey ami other
liquors are hot yielding the revenues
that were expect e'd. The two facts
are closely connected.
Joseph H. Choate, Jr., director of
the Federal Alcohol Control Admin
istration, reports that two-thirds of
all . the jiquw Jteing sold in Un
united mates i? uelng made m il
licit stills, built in Prohibition days
and never licensed, so that only a
third of all the liquor consumed pays
taxes to the Government. The en
foreenient unit has been so rr.'kieed
that it is impossible to ferret out all
these illtgal sources of liquor an.l
stop the flow from (those sources:.
Their business thrives b. ea'.ise the
high lax on liquor makes it. profit
able to take chances on 1 aking r id
selling stuff which pays no tax.
The rem-dy proposed for this stale
of tUl.rst i-t to reduce the tax on
whiskey and gin, to a point wh re
there would bo no profit conun ns'.ii* k
ate w'th the i i.-k, in in-king it il
licitly. If Mr. Choate 's figures are
correct, and two-thirds of all the
alcoholic beverages in the market are
paying no tax, then a reduction of
the tax to one third of what i' i
iioav would bring in just as nmeb
money, if it wei*>' collected on all I he
liquor manufactured. The question
under discussion here is whether 01
not all liquor could be successfully
taxed, even at a redueed rate. f<
would involve f-pending a lot moi<
than has hem appropriated for the
enforcement of the revenue laws, in
any event.
The real problem, many think, is
how people can be induced to drink
more whisky. though the President
has a plan to let liquor from abroad
come in free of duty in the hope that
it can lie sold so cheaply that people
will prefer it to the Iwotlfg stuff at
the same price.
All in all, official Washington i^
waking up to thv fact that the liquot
problem is a real and serious prob
lem, as much now ay it was under
Prohibition.
Another major topic of conversa
tion is the marked eha*ge that has
suddenly come over the attitude of
the A d.ivinisl ration in the public ut
terance* of its representatives on
the general suhjict of social reforms.
Criticism of the program under which
social regeneration was being empha
sized far more tha.n economic recov
cry, and realization that some of the
most highly pubilrzed recovery pro
jects are not wo rking as had been
?x pec ted, is slowing down the social
program and setting officials to
hunting for n-w means of bringing
business back.
The ind'eations now are that less
stress will be put upon the demand
for higher wages and wove upor.
getting men back to work at any j
wage "the industry or business can |
f
'afford to pay; also that there will he
lo8.i insistence upon higher prices for
commodities, and mope tolerance of
price competition.
The report of the NRA committee
on durable goods has been received
with some concern. Under this head
ing of durable goods coine such thing*
as locomotives, power plants, steam
shovels, buildings, everything which
is not directly consu-iued but is used
to make or house or transport con
sumer goods. Business has not in
creased In those lines, because then:
has been no new capital available
,witw ,-niiicii lo buy them. Such things
need additional capital on the part
of the industries using (hem.
This condition is having an, effect
upon consideration of such things as
easing up restrictions on new capital
stock and bond issues, and upon the
loosen'ng of long-tf rm credits.
Much gi eater attention is being
giwn to means of iiieirnsing and re
(ap'ui'itrg America's foK;i?.,,.t tuadi
When Secretary Wallace/ in hi^
c!early-tho.;gIit out booklet, "Amiricr
.'.lust Choose," pointed out that if w.
went .n for economic nationalism w?
\vo,ild h?V'.? to i.akc fifty million acre;
of land out of cultivation and fitii
;y.\v e i ?pioyroent for' many million^
of people; but that if wv removed
:?rlifiejal barriers to foreigs trade
w? could still find and rebuild world
-Markets for our surpluses, he at
ti acted wide attention and general
comtnctidalion. That line of thinking
sceius to have been adopted by lh?
Administ ration.
President Roosevelt's request for
??nthoriiy to readjust tar'ffs is a re
?ult of the dettmiinat:on to try to
recover our lost international com
merce, and probably will be grunted.
It does not seem likely to meet with
?i'uch op)>osition, even from Repub
licans, in view of the support given
it by Col. Henry L. Stimson, Mr.
Hoover's Secretary of State. Indeed,
some such a move was contemplated
by Mr. Hoover h: nisei f, had "he heen
reelected.
It looks to an impartial observer
here as if the Administration were
trying to give a negative answer to
the question, often asked: "Is Mr
Roosevelt a Socialist?" The answer
is the cryptic one: "Yes and no."
Personally arid at heart he is a con
aervaliw with liberal and humanitar
ian impulses. But he was elected by
and is surrouik'l d by many group?
and individuals each of whom has
son* Socialistic cure-all wlrcli he is
constantly being urged to try out.
He has selected some of these for
experimental purposes, not only to
pacify their proponents buf in the
sincere hope that, if they work, they
may check the wide-spread tendency
toward out and out Socialism. Only
a skilful politician could handle j?
situation as Mr. Roosevelt find
himself in, and he is one of the most
skilful.
Meantime, Congress wants only
one .thing; that is reelection nexl
Fall. Postmaster General Farley
wants only one thing: that is a
strong party machine fox use in the
1936 campaign.
1 Chairman Jeffress Orders
Survey Of Highway 106
To Begin In Near Future
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TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Btockbridfe)
BIBLE ... and accuracy
?Jew proofs of the accuracy of the
historical books of the Old Testa
ment oome to light every littLe while.
Tbey are not mere traditions, handed
down by word of nwuth, bat ancient
inscriptions found in buried cities
prove that written, records were no*
unknown in the days of Moses.
Not long ago airmen flying over
the Arabian desert discovered the
ruins of the Queen of Sheba's cap
ital city. A little later explorers dis
covered King Solomon's mines of
copper near the shores of the Red
Sea. The latest of these finds is thi
discovery of the city of Lachish.
whose ruler waa one of the five king*
who fought against Joshua in the
Valley of Ajakm when the sun and
the moon stood still.
Some day the human race will
learn not to discard old truths mere
ly because they are old. There is n
tendency today to believe that thi
Creation was about day before yes
terday ;-that nothing good ! existed
until the young people of today in
vented it.
REGIMENTATION ... its meanJnt
I notice a hot discussion going on
all around over the meaning of th(
word "regimentation." To me, a4
to most people, it means, compelling
people, more or less against theii
will, to march in line and submi'
to discipline. But it makes some
folks in Washington mad to suggest
that there is any regimentation ii
any of the New Deal plans.
I heard Bex Tugwell the othei
night give a new definition of the
word. He calls it regimentation when
men on a Job are required to punch
a time dock and perform the rontim
of tleir tasks. To ire that is regi
mentation only when they are forced
to it, as in a chain gang. For no mat
has to work at any particular job ii
he doc snt want to, and if he taket
'he jo!) he is what the boys in th?
<tr.oet call a "bum sport" if he com
nlains about the rules.
I besrin to 8iis|>ect that there nr<
more, "bum sports" than I used t<
bcl:eve there were. I hear men wh'
hav.*n" had a job in years and prob
ably never will have onr again, com
plaini'^sr beeanse they have to stiim1
in line to get their man, ?y from tb?
relief fund.
BOOM ... for President
I think it is a swell idea that David
Lawrence put forth, that the oh1
State, War and Navy Building ii
Washington onght to be converted
into exrentive oiftfees, for the Pros
ident and all the mexbirs of lii
cabinet, so that the Administration
could function aa a unit without be
ing scattered all over the District ol
Cdlumtva.
',The theory of the Cabinet is tha<
its members are secretaries to th<
President. Instead, they have become
managers of Government I depart
men.ts, doing woA which skilled
undersecretaries eoald do ^better, anr1
they have no tine to take much ol
the load off the President 's shouldcn
If they were all in one building wit!
the President, he could unload a lo'
of visitors and details on them which
he now has to carry himself . he could
call any or all of them into consul
tation oh a momenta notice and h<
could give his whole time to the con
sideration of taportant things, in
stead of the trivialities with which
any President is expected to occupy
much of his attention.
LIBERALISM ... the idea
I hear a lot of loose talk about
Communism, Socialism, Fascium am1
other newfangled "isms" by people
who don't always know what they
are talking about. What most peopb
really think tfiey are speaking of ie
nothing more or less than Liberalism :
bat Liberalism eaanot exist under
their Comnmiism, Socialism or
Fascism.
Liberalism b the orderly system
of government under which minor
ities are tolerated and permitted to
express them selves, even though th?
main rules are laid down' by the ma
jority. Suppress the minorities and
yon have the opposite of Liberalism,
which is tyranny. And I am not sure
which is the more tyrannical, Cam
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Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, in a letter to the Editor
of this paper, under date of May 3,
states that he has been disappointed
that weather conditions have hecn
*uch that the survey on 106 from
Glenville to Cashiers could not bo
reached earlier, and that Mr. B. S.
Marsh, of Sylva, will be in chargv
)f the survey, which will begin at an
?arly date.
Mr. Jeffress expressed himself as
leing in sympathy with the 100 pro
ject, and explains that the work done
>y the State, with federal funds will
some up to the high standard main
ained by the State highways in
Vorth Carolina, while the work that
s now being done from Cashier's
*outh, will be of 9 foot rock surfacing
Mr. Jeffress' letter follows:
don. Dan Tompkins
Tackson County Journal
Sylva, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Tompkins:
I have been disappointed in the
fact that so much bad weather this
spring has held back our locating
oarties and we have been unable yet
to get the crew to complete the sur
vey oni Route 106. I am glad now to
advise you definitely that Mr. B. 8.
Marsh has now finished up the job
for the Federal Government in Pis
?ah Forest and will be transferred ?
next to"~Cashaers to complete the
nirvey on No. 100.
You understand that the work we
vill do on the route will bo up to
federal Aid standards, whereas the
work that the Forestry Department
is doing is opening a graded roiul
'vith 9 feet of rock surfacing. They
ire unable to pave wider than 9 feel,
but, of course, this will be adequate
to take care of traffic in the lower
lection for some while. It is my hope
'o get lOfi completed as early as
practicable, but you understand the
liffirulty un<irr which we have been
iperat'ng with the existing! Federal
"unds on account of the fact that
hey have to be divided in so many
counties and 25 per cent was allotted
'o municipal work.
I Mi all he leaving here "May eight
eenth to join the inspection, party of
'ho Scenic Parkway. As quickly a*
Mi i ? is definitely located a pood many
'hings that are now bring held in
ibeyaiW can be solved and work
darted, but unitil the Scenic Park
way i? located there are certain
'hings that we do not wa.nt to start
Secanse it might interfere with th"
parkway plans. Yon may rest assured
that we want to complete 10G and do
it as rapidly as we pan, but you also
know that the General Assembly pro
hibited us using any State money for
MMi struct ion purposes and although
we have accummulated a cash balance
none of this money can be lined and#
we have also been restricted in the
amount of money available for ser
vices and for general overhead of
the Federal program. Wc are simply
having to do the best we can under
the Appropriations Act. T nm sure
vou well realize our difficulties.
Sincerely yours,
E. B. .Teffress, Chairman
Raleigh, May 3, 1934.
HARRIS PORTRAIT ON -EXHIBIT
A splendid oil portrait of Col
Charles J. Harris, Jackson County .
capitalist, banker, and Contributor to ,
the C. J. Harris Community Hospital, i
is on display this week at the Jack
son County Bank.
The portrait done by Orlando Row
and, famous portrait artist, recently
took first prize for portraits for men
it the New York art exhibit.
After this week, Col. Harris has
ordered that the portrait be placed
in the ho?p;tal in Sylva, to remain
there so long as it is operated as a
community hospital.
R0TARIAN8 00 TO HICKORY
Attending the District Rotary
meeting in Hickory, the first of the
week, were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Moore,
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Enloe, Misse*
Mary and Anne Enloe, Rev. and Mrs.
T. R. Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Co*,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Allison, Mr. and
Mrs. H. P. Crowell, Mr. W. J. Fisher,
Garland Laeky, Dr. W. K. Chapman,
Dr. H. T. Hunter, Mr. C. C. Poindex
ter, Mr. David H. Brown, Mr. R. L.
Spalsbnry, Mr. John Kirk, Mr. B0|
Euor, and Mr. AUn Ada?
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