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acfison SI. 50 YEAR IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY 3YLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, PROSPERITY GAINS STEAOILY IN EUROPE DISPATCH REPORTS Washington, July 11. ? A piece of v.*s which the eaibles caiVied tin ,, i i , t day is causing more mental per i iltation in Administratis circles 1 ??ve-n the unpaid war il?*bt. v;,:ii is t he statement officially madi i , il in (iioat Britain unemployment h:i> been reduced to the point when i! was five years ago. Recovery, ae ,-i.nl iii'X the cables, began in Ku , ,,j,f i .irly in in.'l'J and has contuiuei' * ilioul seif'.ous inteilnptiou sjjice. \\ heUivr it had not already start"! i.i America at the same time, am whether it iiiLjrht not have progresses \> lapidly here as there if there luu1 I mi experimental efforts to stim ulate it, is what is worrying sonu of the President's advisers. Nut that they admit there is any lliia>>- to the idea, hut they are tei ribly al l aid t hat the Republicans will pick up the theory that the Xcw Deal ha* hampered, instead ot stim ulated economic recovery, ami ad- I <lme so many facts in support ol it us to make a convincing campaigi !n>;iuneiit out of it. And .nobody ii Washington forgets for a minute that litis is a campaign year. In all fairness, it ougit to In made dear that unless the Kepubli i : : 1 1 s do find some definite, positive i i;r between now and the beginning i lie C ongressioual campaigns in S .[.tvniher, they haven't any chance ;ill of capturing tile lower house ot t .Mtgivss or the Senate. Their chance i an opposition majority is slight. .,t * M*>t ; but if the only campaign ar gents they are able to put forward Hr die' stale pleas of the "outs" to I., |.iit back "in," based ui>oii nothing r Ji-iiiii'tive but merely u|m?ii> dislike ' i f t lie Sew Deal program, then they will rapture mighty few seats in citWr house. 1 1 would not be a novelty if they (did even ^:iin control of Congress. Tli at lias h;i|?|>ened more than once in our |H>lit'ical history ? but never ijtTien tin re was as gool a politician soid |>opular personality as Mr, Koo>eVelt iii the White House. In 18H0, for example, the greatest ?'|i|ii>>>it ion landslide in our history m i lined. Benjamin Harrison had been ijti-ted President in 1888, with a >i>i(iiir working majority in both |t..iisrs of Congress behind him. But i ls!)t) the combined Democrats and I', pulists captured * 85 Republican Kits in the House of Representatives In 1010 President Taft had a Re I ildican Congress, elected with him i;i l!)l)8, turn sour on his hands and p. Democratic. Tn Woodrow Wilson's M.ond term, the Congress elected in l!ilS was dominated by the Republi-. tan opposition. But in these and all lli.- other instances of a mid-term up set iu the complexion of Congress there was a definite issue before the peopl" Upon which they were thor oughly arouses. Xo such issue has as yet shaped itself. So while the Pres ident's friends conceded that they will probably lose some seats, they are not greatly scared of losing co;i trol of Congress. They ??ve a feeling which many old political observers with Republican leanings share, that there is not, at the present moment, i iu nigh political acumen and smart leadership in the Republican party to do much damage. There is, however, a good deal of lunacy on the Republican side. Cam* I :? i:;ii luiids are going to count heav i!\ I his year iu most districts. Here, M'liiti, the feeding iu Washington is lli.'.t tlie distribution of immense sums of t ioveriinie.ut ii:onev iu various terms of welfare activity, such ns He I'WA, CWA, CCC.FKRA, and 'lie farm benefits and bonuses will '? i :i long way to make voters friend* I i?> I lie Administration, and pre '?inablv to the Democratic party. ! 'unlit less all the beneficiaries of I 'feral spending are grateful to Mr l , i veil ? but Mr. Roosevelt is not I ' i , i i 1 1 for re-election th's year. It i i i ^iyss that has to face the vot II and mingled with the feeling that 1 1 i ress has been noth'iig more than J' rubber stamp which the President V ? d to make his personal actions ''d and Constitutional, is a good d of dissatisfaction in many ag '"?ultiiial sections over the way some "I i lie recovery projects have worked Hilt. ' riii prices in general have gone "I1- but prices of ^oods the farmers l avi? to buy have gone 'up farther ?""I fast j'r. Tfie NRA has done a (Continued on Page Two) Young Democrats To Meet Saturday i 'there will be a meeting of t h?* Young! Peoples' Democrat ie Demo cratie Club of Jackson County in the Court House Saturday, July the 14th, at 8:(K) P. M., for the pur|>or>?' of electing new officers and delegates to the State Convention. All Demo orats are invited to attend. SHOVEL NEARS DOME i 1 ? The lead shovel *>n the gnujing ( V the sky line higjlnvay across the cnst of the Great Smokies from lnd'an (iap to Deal's (ia|>, is now Hearing Clingmau's Dome, the second highest elevation east of the. Mississippi, and the high est point in the Great S.i.oky .Mounitaiiis National Park. The highway will proceed on *o Deals Cap fro.u Cliugiimu's Dome. Within JtIO feet of the siimui't of ! the Dome, parking space sufficient for ItOO automo biles will be arranged. 40 YEARS AGO Tuckaseige Democrat, J ally 4, 189* Mr. C. M. Cole, of Cashiers \ ulle\ s here ten I ay. Miss Marie Transou, of Plafftown. is visiting Mrs. J. 11. Wolff. Miss Pauline } Morris ' returned f row a trip to Asheville, Monday. Mr. W. K. Stedman is visiting hi mother, Mrs. S. A. Stedman. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. House are vis iting Mrs. House's parents, in Tran sylvania county. Miss Ella Kobinsoh, who has been visiting Mis. J. W. House ior sonu time, returned to her home in Tran sylvania, Friday. Waynesvillc beat our boys in two games of ball on Thursday and Fri day. The Courier says our boys play well, though. Mrs. R. M. Davis and Master Kov arrived from Saluda Friday, and "will spend some time here visiting rela tives and friends. Mrs. J. W. Divelbiss and ciildrou went to Biltmore Thursday, and re turned Monday with Mr. Divelbiss. he having gone over Saturday. The attention of those desiring pos it ions as teachers of the public schools in this county is directed to tin' County Superintendent's notice foi the examination. , Mr. W. M.* Hoffman returned from.. New York, Mr. S. A. Jones from Florida, and Mr. Templin, of Cali fornia, came with him and are pros pocting for mineral. Mr. F. H. Leatherwood came in Saturday from a trip east. He was accompanied by Miss Mattie Collins, of Clyde, wito went over to Webster to visit her grandmother, Mrs. M. M. McKee. / Mr. J. Frl'Jiloe and wife returned last We<biesday, from their bridal trip. They were accompanied by Mr Thompspn Knight, of Hall's, a'broth er of Mrs. Euloe and his bride, nee Miss Edwards, a daughter of tin Old Domini'oii. Our community is under obliga tions to the young Indies who con ceived the idea of the Musical contest, for having arranged so elaborate a program for collecting together such an array of musical, talent. Wavnes ville was represented by the Misses Marie Love and Corrie Davis, High lands by Miss Olive White, -Dillshoro by Mrs. C. F. Buffum and Miss Flor ence Knloc, Franklin by Mr. W./ I?. Johnston, Hryson City by Mr. Jno. H. Everett, Webster by Dr. W.\ F. Tompkins, while Misses Sallie and Mamie Stedinaii very effectively sus tained the 'musical credit ol our town. The audience was large and appreciative and an evening of rare enjoyment was spent. The difficult task of awarding the prizes was as signed to Miss A. K. Tompkins, Hon. Walter F. Moore and the editor of this papier. The commit t ee wanted to award a prize to each participant but as there were only t wo prizes, one a copy of Tennyson's poems, was awarded to Miss Corrie Davis, foi superiority in instrumental musi. and a copy of Longfellow, to Mr. . R. Johnston, for superiority in vocal nusic. Every one on the program distinguished themselves in the ]>er formance of the parts assigned them while the perfect articulation of teh lovely MisS Marie Love and the ver satility of Mr. J. IT. Everett deserve especial mention. ? ? , 'i * revivals starting NEXT SUNDAY WILL BE COUNTY ? WIDE C | On. Sunday, an cvungvlislif cam-' paigu will begin s multafteonsly every Baptist <*!iui ?*li in the county.; following tin* I * 11 it >i i Revival nervier? that have he.:-:i in progress in Sylva for tlii' past two weeks. The /ministers of tin* Tu<*kase:gee Baptist Association have arnt :ged a seres of meetings in \the county, I I hrous^li a committee of which Rev. ; \\ . N. Cook, of Webster, is 1 lie chair i man. * The list of preachers for the ser vices in Hie ft'veraj'ltdptist churche* of the county are: Balaam : Ben Cook, A. 0. Brysou. Balsam drove: I). ('. Hooper. Big Ridgi*: .1 1%. Brown, Richard Miller; Black fountain: Floyd Wo.iuick, (Sud t?er Bishop; Huff Creek: L. II, Craw ford, .1. T. Carson; Cashici&, \V. M. Breed love; Catherine's Chapel: W. T. Rogers-; Cellar, John llturis, Wiley (hven; 'Charlies Creek: J. B. Kilpat lick, M. C. y>ieen; Ciillowhee: W. C Reed, I. K. Stafford ; Dillsboi*>:. J. M. Woodard; Dix Cr.-ek: I). Heck. Thud Jamison; Musi Sylva: cooper- > at'ng?>with Sylva; Mast Fork: M. A. I.ove, R. D. Cowan; (M'ens Creel^; Kariu-it Jamison, R, X. Deitz; Ham l?ill-jr; Hr. .1. C. Owen; John's Creek A. S. Soleshy; , liitt'e Savannah: Will lliichtilimi. Il?.iii<?r Buchanan. Lutu herloii: R. I*. McCuck^n, V. R. Mas: ters: IjociisI Field: Joe Bishop, T. I). W.I I son . I.ov'cdale: K. Allen; Moses Creek: ftterl Jijp Melton Yessii" lloxit; Mt. Rlensant: Calvin Massin? gale, Dave Dean; New Saramvili: W. W. Barker, 1/. A. Cahe; Och.l? Hill: R. K. Mayherrv, Charlie Conner; Oak Ridge: Cleveland r Queen; Hyatt's Chapel: (J. C. Ssivder,'J. h. Hyatt; Scott's CiVek: R. I* Randolph, T. F Dcitz; Shoal (V'ek: B. X. Rot-is. Lucius Rogers; Sols Creek : A. C. : Qilwn/'Pm-k Burrell. Speedwell: B.J C. Hicks. ,1. M. Tucker; SylvajJ Hit Luther W! X. Cook, Lesli" Hooper (sing-r); Wehsl. r: (!. X. Cowan; Wilmol : Andy Bishop; Wolf Creek A. J. Mauley, 0. M. Barker; Zion Hill: M L. Hooper, .1. I). S'tto.n. CHURCH DEDICATION DRAWS LARGE CROWD The dedicatory services :it Woll Mountain last S iirlay attracted quite a large uumher . I )?i ?ple. I; was an all day occasit.i with the ladies oi the community serving dinner. Tim moruiii" service was conducted bv i Revei end I. M. Ornmnd, :i p.oh'ssor in the School oi' Religion at Duke CniveiMty. The al'teriiotm service conaisU-il oi special music by 1 the ? ess Owen quartet t I ol lowed by a hriei history of the first- Methodist church in the world, which waa ;yiv.Mi by Dr. Baill X. timber, diretriV. of the sum mer schooi al Lake Juuaiuska, and pro lessor of church history (ill the School of Religion at Duke University. The Itev. W. A. Kale, Execcutive Secretary of the Hoard of Chiistiau Education of tin- Western Xorth Car r . ? oliua Coufreiice, made a brief pica for the trahmiig of young |xi?ple in the Sunday Schools and through the work of till' young j>eoplc's division of the chinches. Mr. Kale introduced Dr. Colt ra tie, the new president of Brevard Col legs', who told of the future work of the college and plead for higher education iti this section of the Stale. * ? Mrs. E. L. Ms-Kit of Sylva made the final and very touching sj?eecli of t lie afternoon. The Baptists called off their morn ing service in. order to be with the Methodists on; the occasion, and all went away singing and rejoicing in their hearts that Hod's Kingdom is a big one and t lie re is plenty of work for all workers. .? ORPHANS TO SING HERE The Singing Class from the Oxford Orphanage will give its annual con cert in the Methodist church in Sylva, Friday evening of this week, July 13 Xo admission charge will be made; but there will be an offering taken for the Orphanage. The class was to have presetted tin* concert in Dillsboro. but the Masons there decided to hold the ex ercises in the Methodist church here instead. The concert here will be un der auspices of Dillsboro Lodgp A. F and A. M. Cattle From West J Are Coming Here The cattle fronn the drought strick en regions of the bucolic west are Expected to arriwe at Fostr's Sid ing, 2000 strong, during this week, and will be held there for a few dpys rest and feeding before they are turned out to pasture on the past u i os and ranges of the county, to be held until fall. R. C. Hunter and D. D. Davis havt -ehai&e of ,the distribution of the cattle, which will come from St. Louis. ; Those who will receive cattle and have already Hi^ied ^ contracts tor them are. Long, Snyder Cogdill and Mills, 200 head on the Balsam rang.' ; Norton, Moody, Hooj5er and Davis, 200 head, on Cullowhee mountain; J. T. Moody, 20 head, River township C'laiul Wike, 25 head, River. Richard Wike, 20 head, River; Bowman Bum garner, 15 head, Cullowhee; D. D. Hoopi"-; 50 head, Savannah; A. J. Dills, 35 head, Sylva; D. M. Hal!. 35 head, Cullowhee; P. X. Price, 25 head, River; W A. Hooper, 25 head. Caney Fork; R. B. Henson, 30 head. Willets; Amos Bryson, 35 head, Bal sam. R. W. Fisher, 10 head, Beta; W-. E. Johnson, 35 head, Willets; D. H. Moffltt, 25 head, River; Dan Brv son, 25 head, Beta ; M. Buehonan, 150 head, Mountain. It was stated the first of the week, that if contracts with the Blackwood LumbeirCoiii|>any; for thj* Davis and Blanchattl property,- and by othei landowners in the ?ounty are made that there will be room for 1000 head !i'.or:% 10,(?tKI is set as the approximate figure that will he paid to the farm vis and other land owners of the comity for the use of their grazing lands. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION TliV aunual Sunday School Conven tion! of all denominations will be held in the Baptist church on next Wed nesday, July 18. F|-ank I. Watson is president of the county Sunday School Conven tion, and Guy Sutton is secretary. DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, JULY 21ST On Saturday, July 21st an all da\ Sunday School Convention 'for the Smoky Mountains District, which in cludes the counties of Haywood, Jackson, Macon.,} Swain, Graham, Cherokee aiijd Clay, will be held in the School Auditorium in Bryson City, beginning at 10 o'clock ,and continuing to 4 in the afternoon. Mr. V. A. Browning, the District Su]>euintendent., and Mr. E. R. Eller, tin* District Secretary state that the program has been so arranged as to be of interest to workers in all phases of Suu|day school activity; and ex press tho hope that all pastors, Sun day school superintendents, teachers aad officers from every Baptist church in the district will be present. BALSAM Miss Mervin Smathcrs and Mr. John Allen Keiuiey were married in Clayton, Ga., July 3rd. At present they are making their home with Mr. Kenney's paijents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Ke.'inev. ; Mrs. Ellen Duke of Philadelphia who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. George Knight left Thursday for Asheville where she will spend the summer. Mrs. J. E. Long and little son, Cecil, of Sylva were guests of the Knights Friday. Mrs. F.ngene Eusley and daughter, Dor's of Orlando, Fla., were guests of Mrs. W. E. Eusley. Mrs. Ethel Bryson took her son JunioiV to the clinic meeting at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gastona Tuesday. Junior spent about eight, months in this hospital a few years ago and has been improving ever since. Mrs. Hubert Ensley ond children spent last week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Mchaffey, in Hendersonville. Misses Helen and Agnes Queen have returned from a visit with their aunt, Mrs. J. W. Cuthbertson at Almond. Mrs. J. W. Cuthbertson and family of Almond were last week end' guests ?f relatives. ( Meeting Is Called For Tuesday To Organize Chamber Of Commerce MISSISSIPPI WANTS TO I RETAIN PROHIBITION 1 For a quarter of a eatur} Mississippi has been dry by State law. On Tuesday of this week the citizenship of thait State went to the polls to vote on the question of repeal of those dry Laws, and the establishment of state-con trolled liquor store system. The voters said that they wanted no legal liquor in Mississippi, and smashed the afttempt at State repeal When this was written, one third of the precincts of the State had reported, and" there was an ever-increasing majority against repeal. TODAY and | TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) > RUBBER ....... from gas The discovery by the research laboi atory of the Du Pont Company of a way to make a substitute for rabbet out of gas is one more proof of the value of pure science. Only chemist familiar Svith every phase of that complex science would have dreamed of the possibility that you can iieai ?*oal and limestone and fio.ii the cal cium carbide thus obtained produce acetylene gas bv adding water, and then by adding salt get a new cheroi eal, which, while not real rubber, makes just as yood automobile tire as rubber does. N'atural rubber is so cheap now tha' it doesn't pay to use this new product But if another war should send rub l>er up to -$2 a pound, as the last on* did, Ojrcven an eighth of that priee the United States would be independ ? nt of the South American and East Indian rubber growers. (Now almost the only things that we have to import are things we could get alo:ig without in case of war sucl as coffee, tea and chocolate. PLANES . . . . . and Russia A good many ; people seemed sur prised that Russia should be able to build an airplane carrying forty pas sengers. The new "Maxim Gorky" with eight engines of 7,000 horsepow er is reported to be a great success. .Most Americans have forgotten, ap parently, that the largest plane that had ever been built anywhere until after the great war was the giant Sikorsky plane in 1913. Sikorsky, the Russian designer, came to Amer it- a after the war and built some of the best planes we have turned out. The war, instead of stimulating commercial aviation, set it back man;, years, by centering attention on mil itary planes, which have to be totally different from 'commercial planes. Passenger and express planes did not really get a fair start until the old war planes had been scrapped. The first public flight of an air plane was only 26 years ago, in June, 1908, when Glenn Curtiss flew the "June Bug" at Hammondsport, N. Y. Considering all that has happened since, we 've gone a long way in flying but there is a long way to go yet.. MOVIES house cleaning There is great promise in the latest move to "clean up' the movies. The Federated Council of Churches of Christ in Ameijtaa, representing prac tically all of the Protestant denom/aia tions, has joined forces with the Conn oil of Roman Catholic Bishops to tak< direct and aggressive action to safe guard the morals of the young folk who constitute the bulk of the movie audiences. * It is time that the churches, as the source of moral instruction, took a position in the matter of the movies from which they cannot be cajoled by the powerful political and financial interest which fatten on the distor tion of truth and debasement of ideals. BARUCH picks up pep My old friend Bernard M. B&ruch has shaken off all of his business con nection and will devote the rest of his life to writing his memoirs. They ought to faiake interesting reacting. A native of South Carolina son of a Jewish surgeon in the Con A call is going out this week to the citizenship to meet next Tues- , day -evening in Sylva for the purpose of considering the reorganization ot the Sylva Chamber 1 of Commerce along lines that will enable it to function as it should. The need for such action is pointed out by leading citizens, who are con vincad that concerted action on the part of organized citizenship in this county is needcyi immediately to se cure the completion of Highway 100 from Tuckaseigee to Cashier's Yai- ?, ley. it is pointed out that the State Highway Commission will probably complete one or two links in the Highway, without further action on the part of the people here; but it they are given organized voice, that it is entirely probable that the Highway can foe put on for immed iate construction all the way through the county, meeting South Carolina at the State line, and leaving no un completed section in the Highway in this State. The work in this county would en tail the expenditure of some halt million dollars, which within itself would be a great boom to the busi ness of the county. The completion" of 106, it is point out, would turn back within the bor ders of our owji county, a great deal of business that is now going else where, and would make Sylva the trading center of a large area of Western North Carolina, that is now within the legitimate trade territory of Sylva, but that, by reason of hot ter road facilities in directions other than Sylva, is now going elsewhere. In addition to the two important items just mentioned, it is further pointed out that the only hope that Sylva and Jackson county have of reaping any great benefits from the tiireal, "Smoky Mountains National Park, must, by reason of geographical facts, be itied up with the completion of 106. It is with these ini]K>rtant matters to be given immediate consideration, that the call has gone out for th" citizenship to meet in Sylva on Tues day evening of aext week, and con sider the formation of an organized voice that can present the claims oi the people of this fcounty. federate Army, "Bernie" Barueh made himself one of the most ]>ower? f-ul figures in finance, as well as one of the richest men in this country. When the war came he was one of the first to volunteer his services to President Wilson, and as chairman of the War Industries Board and gener al financial and business ad vi sort io the Administration, he played a part in the war as importaot as ihat of any general in the field. If Mr. Barueh will set down all that he knows about the "inside" of Wall Street and of the other activi ties which have occupied his life, it will be one of the most important books ever written. HOUSES j ... . cost too 'much Most houses cost too much. Every body who has given serious study to the subject of housing agrees to that. Better houses can be built for less money, and the day is coming whe.i everyone will realize that I don't know how long it will take before one can buy a house as one buys an auto mobile, all ready to set up and live in, but many folk predict that it is com ing soon. If automobiles were built with as much waste of time and labor as goes into most houses, the cheapest car would cost $50,000 or so. On Iho other hand, many houses cost little enough. I read the other clay of a family in Serbia that built itself a new house for 16 cents! That was all the money they spent, and it went for window glass. The men folk of the family quarried the stone, cut the wood , did all the the work and built a bigger house for a growing familly. Some of my country neigh bors have done almost the same thing Good houses, too, they hape con structed with their own hands. That was the way almost every house in America was built in the pioneer days, and some of thorn are still livable. My own farm home, built in 1786, is good for another hundred years or more. I trfnk we are going to see a return to simpler and leas expensive housing tor iTerybody.