JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL
Published Weekly By The
JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL CO.
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Entered as ^cond class natter at
tiie Post Office at Sylva,*N. C.
BAN TOMPKINS, Editor
A fraudulent election is the one
when you are defeated).
"Let him who would be first
among you be the servant of all".
We Ink*' it (hat we don't have to
remind any of the boys who are
running of what John Grant said.
They are si ill arguing about gold
and silver, and all this year the low
ly coppers have been keeping North
Carolina schools running.
The way a communist figures May
Day is that he may get a broken head
before night, mid he may not ? ii
he's I uck v.
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15.it suppose newspapers should take
the attitude of Vncle Sam and refuse
to have amy dealings wth folks who
owe 'em!
Japan and England are about to
engage in a "trade war." We'll trade
our interest in the next war for a
eup of coffee and a half dozen fags
Our idea is that anybody who has
kept a newspaper running for the
past four years, and hasn't missed an
issue is entitled to a Puliitzer prize,
or a Carnegie medal, or something.
Really, it mnkes no difference to
us whether the money is to be gold,
silver, or both. What interests us is
getting .einough of whatever they are
using to do business on, down this
wav. If it will buv what we need and
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can be used for paying debts and tax
es, we'll take it.
In that, the young men) of the
count ry, men of ability and ambition,
may well learn a lesson. Re ambi
tious, but not to let their ambitions
lead them too far. Be ambitious, but
to be ambitions to serve well. If
they learn that, the reward will come
of itself. Be ambitious, but also be
honest. :> 7
Bishop Cannon won before a Dis
trict of Columbia jury, where he was
tried on charges of violating the cor
rupt practices act, in connection with
the 1928 election. lie won out in the
General Conference, where ' anj at
tempt was made to superannuate him
but the Conference did abolish the
Methodist political lobby, of which he
was the head.
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A year ago big business was mighty
anxious for the government to savc
the country from complete financial
collapse. Tt has now started a proj>o
ganda about non-interference with
business. Reminds us of a man who
has been sick unto death. The doc
tors and nurses pull him through, and
as soon as she is able to sit up in bed,
he begins throwing things at 'em,
every time a doctor or a nurse comes
into the room. The truth is that the
best sign yet seen of the vanishing
of the depression is that big business
wants the government to let it alone
and let it stand on its owin feet. Jusl
why the men who made such a sorry
mess of things before think they haw
the wisdom to lead the country now
is not explained.
MR. JEFFRESS' LETTER
Mr. E. B. J of fr <-*8, in a letter to
tho Editor; published' in this issuo of
The Journal, sets forth his views on
Highway 106, rather frankly, and in
a friendly* and sympathetic attitude.
We have always felt that Mr. Jeff
ress was in sympathy with our views
On this important highway, and for
this reason, have rather expected him
to take the favorable side before his
commission.
For this reason, we hesitate to dis_
agree with some of the points that
he makes in his letter.
lie states, and we are glad to
learn, that the work to be done by
North Carolina on the highway will
? come up to federal aid standards,
making it of the best oonstruction.
However, we have realized, as he
states that tho work to be done by
the CCC men, through the offices of
Seiwitor Smith and others of our
South Carolina friends, will be 9
feet with crushed stone surface. This,
Mr. Jeffress thinks, will be adequate
for that part of the road for some
> time to come. In this we disagree
with him. We are glad to get that:
but, when the road is open to travel,
its geographical location is such that
it will be one of the main trunk high
ways to and through the National
Park, and as such will carry a heavy
' volume of traffic, and it 1 will be
found, in a short time that the 9 foot
roadi with crushed stone, will be en
tirely inadequate.
Aft-, jeffress also states that the
commission has been handicapped, in
that the General Assembly forbade
the use of State funds for new high
way construction during the present
bi,-em?iirrro, and that federal fund.*
have been so allocatqd as to -require
25 per cent to be used inside munic
ipalities. These are facts that every
body knows; but everybody also
knows that a great many .new con
tracts have been let, for the spending
<)( federal aid funds by thi' millions
in North Carolina, and that 106 is
still suffering to he completed. We
also know that none of this money
has been spent in thus county, eithei
inside or outside municipalities.
We also still contend that the
claims of the people of this county
for the completion of Highway 100
ire as meritorious as any in th?
State, and that the eommissionei
from this jwirt of the State should
liave presented most vigorously it?
?laims to the commission. We fur
her believe that if this had been done
ind if the Nautahala Power Com
?wmy's power project is ' not bein?
ised as a reason, o^ rather as an eX
?use, by some pemuis, that 106 would
u've probably been among the pro- j
?eets that have been let to contract
luring the past year.
Mr. Jeffress refers to the time
"hat he is now having to devote to
l e plans for the great Pa'kwav. We
uhI all Jackson county, are with bin*
n this important matter. The park
.vay will mean much to us, perhaps
nore than w.e can envision; but if
t is to be of the valueN to Jackson
?ounty that it should, 100 will also
have to be completed, lor this is thr
?oute over which the traffic from the
South should come, anil must come,
f the park and the nark way are to
he of as much benefit to this county
uid its people as they should.
THE CASE OF THE LEAS
The cumbers<uli" , courts have
ground slowly o'er the Leas. Tt has
take.ii months, some ti nes packed
with melodrama, and at others the
tiling just dragged itself along
t'irouph the courts, to pet the Leas,
father and son back to North Caro
lina, after they h?d been released
under bonds, upon conviction of hav
ins: played a part, . with Wallace
Davis, in the w reeking of J he Central
Bank and Trust Company in Ashe-?
ville.
The matter reached su<t? n ]>ornt
that it became a scandal, and the
only means ot^v indicating the sov
erJgnty of the State of North Car,,,
tina was~to put the Leas behind the
prison bars in Raleigh.
Luke Ix-a, former United States
Senator^ popular and' colorful Colonel
of the World War period, set about,
in connection with Rogers Caldwell,
to build a political ami financial em
pire in the South, .erected upon a
cha:n of newspapers, a chain of lank*
and financial institutions. And a per
sonal political organization.
A man of "more than ordinary abil
ity, Luke Ix*a was also norc than
ordinarilly ambitious. He saw yisions.
and set about bringing them to fru
ition. He was more than ordinarily
successful, as the world measures suc
cess; but he, as well as a great-many
of the rest of us, d'dn't have the
?hoiU'V or the credit to finance h?f
plans. HI' operated 011 a shoestring
md stretched it until it broke. If th<
?reat? depression hadn't come a?on?
to help topple Over his house of cards
it is possible that he might havi
made the grade, and would today lw
one of the co i.-mand ng figures of
the South. If that hadn't happened
Sut it did) Wallace Davis might stil'
be the big-hearted banker over it
\shev"l':?. If that hiidn't happened
ilong, Samuel Tiusul might still l><
:itt ng on the throne of his utilities
md political empire in the West, in
stead of having been drnqgrd back
from foreign p;irts> a fugitive fron
'he courts of justice. ? I
But, a really wise man preparo
for foul weather as well as fair, and
'he big ope ni tors who got caught ii
the storm* of th." depression, but fel
victims to their own follv and lack
of foresight. The millions of smal'
liusinetssj iren ruid workers were th?
innocent bystanders who had to help
nay for the misdeeds of the nation '
financial and political leaders, am'
of their system of graft and greed
that Wood row Wilson tried to driv
from the country, ard that had- Im
come powerful after his day.
At any rate, it is a Mid thing t<
see a man of the presonnlitv of Luk
Lea, a man who lias served his conr.
try as an officer in the World War
a ;forni.?'i* United States Senator,
res|Hieted and conirnaivlihg eiti/ei.
of his Stiafe and country, placed
along with his first born son, behind
prison bars.
FOR SALE OR TRADE: Two house
anfl lots at Cullowhee. Apply at th<
Journul riffice.
It's more than ? just
candy ? to Her
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There's Years
Of Sentiment
Behind It
Candy on Mothers' Day recalls the
years when a gift of candy was a
glorious event in the progress of
courtship. ^There's no more grace
ful gift from a husband to the wife
and mother of the proud young
heirs and heiresses, nothing a son
could send that would be more ap
preciated.
Nunnally's and Gales in Attractive
Mother's Day Boxes
Sylva Pharmacy
TO 098 EBVE MOTHER'S DAT AT
CJJLI/yWBBE BAPTIST OHUBOH
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Mother's Day, one of the holiest of
days, will be observed at the Cullo
whoa Baptist Chureb next Sunday.
Services wili begin at 11:00 A. M.
An appropriate program has been
arranged and will be in charge of the
Beiian Sunday School Class. The
public is cordially invited to attend
th<> following program:
Hymn, (Entire Congregation )
Pr.iyer, Frank L. Kee
Scripture Readings, Oeorgc Crawford
"Mother's Creed," Sanford Smith
"Tell Mother I'll Be There," Male
Quartett ? Kufus Phillips, Porter
Raper, John Painter, H. T. Hunter
Poem: "Only A Dad," L. A. Buch
anan ' . V .
Brief Address: "Mother," J. S. Sey
mour
Reading: "The Altar in the Home,"
David Stillwell
Closing Hymn, (By Congregation)
Benediction, Rev. I. K. Stafford
Sweet potato plants, at (I. T. ?
en place. Love Field. $2.<mi kmhi. \ia,.k
Ashe, Newt Browning.
XJKASA LODGE NO. 268 AT*^
Meets 2nd and 4th
Monday nights
R. U. Sutton, W. M.
Raymond lllenn
Secretary
Visiting Brethren Always WVleo?*
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In the Backyard League
By Albert T. Rt-id
DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY ARE
GETTING FASTER.- OR. IS
POP SLOWING UP A BIT?
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are made by the
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Promulgated By
GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON
NRA Administrator
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out of line with printing prices we have always charged,
except on small quantities, and where our prices were too
low.
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Jackson County Journal