North Carolina Newspapers

Congress Adjourned Session Last Monday Ill ' ? \\ > liiiij;ton, June 20 ? Congress) ,, i.n'il its historic ami epoiMiiak .. , ? .ion Monday, after having en j?i?o law most of President . ell's ideas for recovery, and. i or the benefit of the forgotten , i tin' streets and farms of the ,-.>?11! ; ' y. V i '.-it deal more federal money i<i I,, 'if ilistiilmted in various ways d?- j to ir.'f ready cash into th. i I, of t hi- consumers, within th. ; i -w months. It will begin about ; th. *?l duly, after the close o! ? ti.i !i a I year, dune .'50, and the pres ! , |. ??;tain calls for t h?? expend jt nr. a: : late of about $100,000,000, : !j i)<< ih, for an indelnife period..' liii-> Hunj'y will iro tint ill rout;! I i. ?iui'Iu.lS channels. The .newest o ! ti.i ?r pipe lines from Ihc Treasmy t. ! i;. . i n.i I i v idna 1 is the drought relic! 1 >1 el' !f.VJ*>.00t?,tt(l0 to lie distribute'.! ' : !..? t. .i where th. re, on! ; I aking drought has wrought havm o::g all classes of farmers. There is still h'ioiv than :t liillio ' ami :i quarter dollars in I lit* fund toi hoiu. loans to dist ? osed mortgagor: S-'iiU' of this is to In' put to work t< I uviilc employ men f in the buildin i ! ades, by the process of making ;??t J tii! oiial loans lot repairs ami im i,;oveme.iiis to property on which heme lonas have been made or are , li tor sueh loans. Mwney will fro out faster now i'oi j, i.i, In works, under the PWA. More ?l tin money will go out to finance m -chools. Still more of the money ,vi|l\ spent to continue t lit* CCC ,.;nni? The Federal Kmergency lie |?i \.!ir?inist ration will put another I,illi.?ii ami a half into direct uiiem vim-nt and poor relief, mostly Jhr?.:li and in coorperation with state f m-l Ual agencies. if'/ii-n there are payments under the nfirat. corn-hog, cotton and tobacco " contracts .though much of this does not come directly out of Government funds hul is collected through pro cessing (axes and distributed by Gov 1 1 itmcrit agencies. ' - Tin- belief in Administration circles i> now that it will take about an - oilier year of Government spending itl tiii- rafc to stimulate business to the point where private capital will fii!d\it" piolitable to come out of hid ih-Wiid go to work in productive in du-trieN. Ui'ii Congress adjourned unt^l nir\i. (miliary, there eaii be no neU li j^aiion, i and the nation can take film- to sit back and evaluate what li. :? hee.H enacted, and 4 ind out n l.i ? her it looks, on the whole, liene tii-ia! or .Injurious to private capital :i:i.i enterprise. Tin re seems to be a feeelng that the Pie-iilent will not willingly use th" li'nad powers granted to him in any ii.m/ious wav, that he is essentiality conservative.* In his recent statement/ impounding his plans for the future In- ^took pains to lay stress on the statement that there is to be no in terference with fail and reasonable profit s. The Administration's friends be lieve that as things quiet down dur m i* the summer, business men will irin to realize that a good many of li,. things that have frightened them are bogies, without real |?ow.cr to do liie.-t harm. Also, it looks as though tin whole Administration pro<ji'an lia- heeli disclosed. The Federal 'Government is now in ti-rr lint; itself in the activities and v. |;,re of its citizens to an extent it.:-, three years ago, would have li .fi ?iccmcd impossible in America Tin- viiir. ii?o Congress was debatv iii-.' v. Jut her it was any part of the) ?ne i-rii'iieiit's duty to share the bin- I t|r ,,i r lii-i' for the ilestitute. Now <"i: i- tin- accepted thing, with projKV !'nr i.I I a?je p 'iisions and unem !'!??; ' : i ' ? n ' iiisii^mee .on a national ?'"t -ef '?ttiiiinij to the fore. '"'U inii.ent is now the only im- j |*f?! ^<i : 1 1 >oii rce of credit oil 'i large . and besides its direct loans to '""ht-iry it owns a billion dollars <d t'Kt'iiid stock in (he banks at the 1 11 The Government now regulates il" trading in of securi ''' 'eli- industry what rules must lollnweil in business, regu bites in iiijtaii. foiiiimiiiica,t.ion-, tells rail how much they may pay their "Hi' iaU and I ells farmers what they II,:'y flow iiud how much of it. These "idy the high spots in the Xtw Kal. Hhtc is little likelihood of any ',,i:'!|ire 'in the attitude of Congress at ?"-xt session. That is, there uii ''?mltteillv will be a Democratic ma 40 YEARS AGO (Tuckaseigc Democrat, June 20, 1894) j Mr. K. K. Watson, of BurnsvilU i.s spending a \yhiU* with his parents at Ulenville. Tli<* Ha.-c Jiall Clr.ih went In W hit tier Saturday and got flicked' the score standing 28 to 8. ? ' ' ; , ,) The closing exercises of the Indian K.'hool at Cherokee^ wilt take place on Wednesday, June 27th. During the past week rain lia ta I leu in some localities quite pleuti fully, while others have had little, or none. .Must here we have had sligh* showers only and ero]?s aie badly in need of a t horopgh wetting. Rev, Mr. Harrows,, of the 1-lpiseo pal church, liuds it impossible to lil* Iris ' appoint incht here and at Cullo wliee this month .and has secure'' | Ktv1. John A. Naurs of ' Mississipp. ; to |ir?>a(*h at Cullowhec i;i the morn in?t n ii< t here in the afternoon ol the lour l!i Sunday, June 24th. Tin- patrols ol' the public ;<cho?l in Svlva (list rid arc requested by the. school committee to assemble at t li ? school house on Saturday, June .10, al "2 o'clock in the evening to confer together with reference to the school interests of the district. It is earn estly hoped that all patrous of tin school Hiul others interested in edu ational nintfeis will attend. N ? ' < | From what we hear, there are :< good many men in this county expect ins; to vuu for some office this year, and we think each is waiting for some other to "break the ice" in making their announcement. In order to get the. thing started, we. will jxub lish the fust notice that reaches' us with the cash for $2.00, all others $2.50 cash in advhncc. . Washington, 1). C ? (Special to the Citizen) Congressman Crawford has secured a $3,000 'appropriation for the new Indian college at Yvllow Hill lie has also secured $1,400 for the snpcrintciule.nt, $200 more than the committee recommended. The Ninth district has another voter ? Win. T. Crawford, Jr. ? nine pounds net. All parties doing jvell. v ' * The church at Dillsboro was beau tifully decorated with flowem and evergreens, when a large crowd o :? relatives and friends of the contract ing parties assembled this morning to witness the marriage of Miss Bettie Knight to Mr. J. /Frank Enloc. At 10 :.'50 o'clock?" preceded bv little Beu lah IbMsr, who strewed flowers before them, the bride and groom came .down the aisle, Mrs. Annie I* Buffuni play iug the wedding march, and presented themselves before Rev. Mr. Sheltou. of the Methodist church, who \spoke the words which made the twain one. After the ceremony- the bridal party repaired to the residence of the bride's brother, Capt. (! . E. Knight, of the R. & D. I?. R., where cktgaut refresh ments such as his good lady is noted for prewiring, were served. Amid a shower of rice, the tbappy pair board .cd the wcestbound train for Knox ville and other points, a few friends going with them us* fa? as Whitticr. TheDemocrat joins the host of other friends of the parties in wishing them a long and happy life. A Rainbow Soir.ee and Musical Contest will lie given at the kaloin fac tory, at Svlva, Thursday night, June 2Sth. The entertainment will consist of vocal and instrumental music, fur nished by the most tnh*!ited musicians of the many little towns west of Asheville. There will be two piixes given, one for the best instromcjital piece, and another for the best vocal piece rend red. Among the contest ants are Mis Olive White, of Ititrh bvirN; Miss Florcnoe Knloe, Dillsboro; Misses Mal i." Love and Corrie Davis. Wayuc.sville ; ?M.isses Sal lie and Ma iiiie\H'.edman, Svlva; Messrs. W. K. Johnston, Franklin ;J. it Everett, Dry son City; Dr. W. F" Tompkins, Wcbsteiy and others. The contest jority in both houses of the 74th 'Congress. Whether or not it will eat out of the President's hand as readi ly as the present Congress is not quite so certain. But it certainly will not withdraw any of the powers that have been granted. v . ( ? ?/ \ Farm Scenes from the Drought-Stricken West | 'WASHINGTON . . . From out of the add-west comes photographs of r ., desolate wastes in the drought areas to supplement reports of the dire need for relief rfhd hurry the Federal Government in administering that relief. Upper photo shows half starved Rattle vainly seeking grazing ground on a drought-stricken farm near Dallas, 8. Da. . . . Center photo shows a congressional delegation from drought states leaving the White House rafter confering with President Roosevelt. Left to right, Sen. Arthur Capper and Rep. Kathryn McCarthy, Kansas, Sen. Joseph T. Robinson, Ark., Sen. Lynn J. Frazier, N. Da., and Sen. John E. Erickson, of Mont. . . Bottom, a partly dust-buried farm house in South Dakota as a result of choking dust storms during recent weeks. UTILE WILL PREACH BISHOP TO BE HERE I ' ? . - i _ _ Dr. Luther Lit tic, pastor of the First Baptist church, Charlotte, will do tin* pleaching at the union reviva campaign, l>cgintiing in Svlva on Jnly 2. Dr. little is a preacher of wid reputation and great power. The urrirtn servip.e^' m Sylva are a part of the county-wide evangelistu ram]>aign, that is b?*intr inaugurated. A committee composed of member of tlici several ih:;rehc> of the town, met Monday evening at the Methodist church, and mrde plans for the re vival. The meeting will be a union one of atl? the churches of the town. The morning services will he held in the Baptist church and the even ing services in the Methodist church ' } BALSAM M r.4. Louis i!< Call and Mrs. Fred Bryson arc pnti 'its in the C. J. Har ris Community Hospital, in Sylva. Mr. anil Mrs. Howard '^mett and babv are guests of Mr. anil plrs- fc O. Queen.1 \ III connection with the M;\hodist Sunday School Sunday afternoon, therv were several Interesting lead ings and good singing, in honor of "Fathers Day." Mrs. W. M. Hutchinson and daugh ter. Miss Mary and several friends, of Atlanta, are among the recent guests at Balsam Mountain Springs Hotel. The . first dance of the season was given in the Balsam Mountain Springs Hotel dance hall Saturday night. There was a very large attend ance. BROOKS HAS 160 DESCENDENTB John Brooks, 80 year old farmer of Barker's Cieek, who died sdilenlj at his home Sunday evening, leaves 160 descendants. Mr. Brooks, a well known farmer of this county, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Caroline Buchanan Brooks, four sons, Dillard, Thomas, Joe and Charles Brooks, all of Bark er's Creek, six .daughters, Mre. Joe Mivsr Mrs. Kelly Bradley and Mrs. James Messer of Barker's Creek, Mrs Jode Holcombe, Wilmot, and Mrs. K. C. Buchanan of Savannah and one hundred and fify grandchildren an<l great grandchildren. Funeital and Lntei'nvent yere at the Moody cemetery near his home on Tuesday morning. j ^111 be followed by specially prepared recitations by Mr. Any Hoffman and Misses Potts, and duetts by Mrs. An nie L. Buffum and W. F. Johnston, Miss Sal lie Stcdman and Dr. Tomp kins. Refreshments of all kinds will be served by the yotang ladies and the decorations will be in rainbow colors. The proram will appeail next week. All are cordially invited to attend. Admission 25 cents. Rev. Albret New. rector of j St. John'.; Epi a-opal church, is desirous that a large number of persons be in attendance on the services at the charotb, Sundfey zoning' at 8 o'ckjfJ^ Bisbop_R. E. (iri-bhen will 'piee^q and conduct a eonfiimation servie. Rev. Mi. New is anxious fo? as many Masons as possible to b< present at the ?ervice, Sunday being John's Day. J. M. BUCHANAN PASSES J M. Buchanan, aged citizen of East Fork, died at his home, Sunday after an illness of several months. Funeral services were conducted at East Fork Baptist church, Monday, by Rev. Tliad F. Deitz, the pastor. Mr. Buchanan was born Oct. 12, 1873. On Nov. 9, 1893, he married Miss Hester Cabe. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mis. Ma mie Deitz and Mrs. Bertha Sutton, two sons, Gola awl Ilall B'uchanas, and 19 grandchildren. While a young man, Mr. Buchanan professed faith in Christ and joined the East Fork Baptist church, where he remained a faithful member until his death. He was a good citizen and a good neigh bor. He suffered with pellagra for 11 years. OPEN HORSEBACK TRAIL IN CANEY FORK BALSAMS A 30 mile horseback trail from the Pisgah National Forest to Caney Fork has recently been opened up. The tiail, folllowing largely the crest of the Caney Fork Balsams, number ed among the highest ranges in all Eastern America, begins in the Nat ional Forest on Tennessee Bald and traverses the Great Divide to the summit of Caney Fork Bald. From Tennessee Bald in the other direction the trail goes to Lodge Gap. JUD. ALLEN ?73 CLIMBS HOOD Judson Allen, native and former eitizen of Svlva, who now'ifi 73 years of age, and lives in Cottage Grove, Oregvta, climbed Mount Hood, and Id id it as easily, as a youngster, ac cording to the Cottage Grove Senti nel. The climb is 11,225 feet, and Mr. Allen was accompanied by his son, Carl C. Allen, who had a hard time keeping up with his sine, the Sentinel says. D. P. WALKER PASSES D. P. "Blun" Walker, aged citizen of Sylva, was found dead in his bed, by his daughter, when she went to awaken him, this morning. Mr. Walker, until a few yearo ago, was employed in the mica business h?re, for many years. Will Stage Celebration On The Fourth Of July ? TODAY and I TOMORROW HISTORY . ..... and laws The key to the future lies in thi study of tbe past. If you want to know whether this, that or the othei scheme of saving mankind from thi consequences of its own folly will work, read history. From time immemorial people hav? had a belief in the magic of law* Laws can make people good, or s<; they believe. The ^prohibition law were going to make everybody torn perate. Two thousand and more years ag. the Greek philosopher Plato wrote: "How charming people are ! Are the\ not as good as a play? Trying tfceii hands at legislation and. imagining that by reforms they will make an en* to the dishonesties and rascalities o mankind !" . / ? Solomon the Wise said much th same thing; so did St. Paul. Toda> as in the past^ it is impossible to leg islate avarice, selfishness and greet out of the human race. PLANS always . selfish Men of imagination have tried theit hands from the earliest days at work ing out plans for the Perfeet Stat. in whieh everybody would be happ\ and contented. Plato, Francis Ba con, Sir Thomas, More, Edwar< Bellamy anld many others have writ ten fascinating books telling how : planned economy would operate. None of them ever worked, becauh< all of those schemes have been base*' on the idea that the mass of humanitv is imbued with elemental justice am wants everybody to have a square deal The fact is that few of us care whetl er the other fellow gets a square deal or not. If we get /*hat we want whether squarely or otherwise, tht other fellow can have what's left, gr< 1? ^Wfou^^e^ J^sn't rget i^ first. NATURE item in The trouble with all human, plan jiing is that there are always incal culable factors which may upset all the plans. Nobody can ever bi sure that, he has taken all of them in to account. For example, the plans of the AAA for a reduction of wheat and corn acreage were all very well ? if any one could have taken the weather into account. But Nature stepped in an<! did in one grand wholesale -effort what the Government was trying to do with the cooperation of millions of f aimers. The drought in the North west sent down, production and sent prices up more speedily than any human plan eould possibly have done it. The main trouble in getting plan for the benefit of humanity to work, however, is that you never can get everyboly to agree to travel in the same direction at the same speed. That can only be done by force. I: private ibusiness the force is th< threat of loss of employment if one doesn't do team work. Government can compel general compliance with any plan only by fines, imprisonment and, if those fail, machine guns. That sort of enforced cooperation is only possible under a dictatorship RUSSIA then and pov I knew the Granl Duke Alexande of Russia cousin of the last Czai pretty well. That is, I met him : number of times at the homes of Nev York friends, and had had numeron conversaions with him. I have jus' finished re-reading his book, "Onc? a Grand Duke," and I am again con vine ad that the common people of Rn: sia enjoyed a great deal more liberty under the Romanoffs than, they hav. had since the revolution, under the Soviets. ; The only things the Czarist govern ment demanded of them was that they keep order among themselves and pay their taxes. No# the poor Russian people are compelled to live according to a pre pared plan, to conform to standards imposed upon them, whether they like them or not. They are punished if they protest. Under the Czars the newspapers of Russia enjoyed greater liberty of expression than those of al most any . other Continental nation. Now the press is muxwled and the people have no voice. I have not heard that they are hap PT SECURITY .... rather United The whole idea back of moat plans Plans are being laid for a real 4th of July celebration in Sylva this year, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sylva, and the business people of the town are cooperating. The pro gram, the details of which will be an nouced later, is under direction of C. C. Poindexter, athletic director at W. C. T. C. Prizes, donated by the merchants, will be given to the oldest man, old est woman, couple married the long est, coalpe married the most recently, largest family, person bringing the largest number of people at one load, person coming the greatest distance, fattest man, fattest woman, various athletic events. There will be fire works at night, and a dance. DANIELS VISITS SYLVA The Honorable Josephus DanieL;, Ambassador to Mexico, with Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. Ickes, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, were in Sylva for a short time last Saturday, enroute to the Great Smoky Mohu tains National Park. While in Sylva, the distinguished visitors were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McKee. COPPERHEAD BITES CHILD f ????? A copprehead, one of the two pois onous snakes of the mountains, bit Derwood Middleton, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Hut MiddLcton, near their home at Tuckascigee, Monday after noon. A profusion of blood from Un wound on the child's heel carried away most of the poison, and the little fellow is recovering. The snake was killed by Rev. Jonathan E. Brown, who was with the child at the time he was bitten. FRATERNAL DECORATION The Woodmen of the World and Junior Order United American Me chanics will deeorate ot deceased members in the Keener cem etery, Sylva, the Webster Cemetery, the Love's Chapel cemetery, and the Tnckaseigee cemetery, Sunday after noon, after meeting jointly in the lodge hall hero. QUALLA Sunday morning at the .Baptist church Rev. Xeal Stepp preached on the subject of the power that was given at Pentecost. Mr. Crisp, assist ed by a party of Indians from Co?? lev's Creek, onrouto to the singing convention at Birdtown, conducted the singing. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Hyatt, Mrs. .J. L. Hyatt and Misses Ruth Ferguson and Louise Hyatt motored to Abbe ville to attend the Rhododendron Festival. Mrs. Obed Anthony of Callifornia, is visiting at Rev. W. W Anthony's. Mr. and Mrs. Kern Voland of Swan nanoa visited relatives last week. Messrs. O. Terrell aud J. B. Bat tle made a trip to Alum Cave. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Shuler called on Mr. and Mrs. J. G Hooper, Mon day afternoon. Misses Nell McLaughlin, Gertrud*? Ferguson, and Mary Emma Ferguson visited Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell. Mr. and Mrs C. P. She It on, Mrs. J L Hyatt and Mr and Mrs. S. P. Hyatt went to Lake Junaluska, Sun day. Mr. J. M. Hughes and son, Jim Ed. of Cherokee were Qualla visitors, Sun day. Gardens and crops in Qualla are looking very pronising. for the regimentation of people is the redistribution of wealth and the equalization of the economic status of eveiybody. That is why every such such plan Is accompanied by propa ganda against the wealthy and the means whereby wealth has been ac cumulated. The plea Li always that everybody is entitled to equal economic security. That is so contrary to human experi ence, in which there has never been any such thing as economic security for everybody that'it can only work so long as the dictatorship which en forces the plan is in full power. Even tually, every experiment of that kind ? and they have been tried many times in the world's history ? ends with the collapse of the plan and a return to the ancient system under which the competent get mora than the incompetent, the industrious more than the lazy, and the compe tent have to take care o? the othei*,