RICHBERG IS POWER IN ADMINISTRATION CIRCLES THIS YEAR f Washington, July 25. (Special)? i'f course, there is no such th'ng as ;u, "acting: President" of the United : tali's when the President is absent lYi.ni I lie country, but Washington . , -sijib ure fond of picking*fehis, that ,.i the other official for the "job whenever Mr. Roosevelt goes away n hi a trip. This time it is Donald' K. Kichberg who is regarded as the ?while-haired hoy" of the Admiuis 1 1 at ion, intrusted with swing that none of the cat.tle get out of the feed lot until the boss gets back. ludoitbtedly Mr. Riehberg has >:.iiiie(l greatly in the estimation or' tin President, of the public aiwt of |u>litieians in the past year. His ap pointment as temporary chairman of the National Emergency Coftuu'il, while Karnk C. Walker takes a va cantia, puts up to hi:n the diff cult job of trying to iron out all the per sonal jealousies and administrative traffic tangles in flovernmental at* fa">rs. There are plenty of both. Mr. Kichberg came to Washington with a record as a "laln>r lawyer." lie was supposed to be solidly com mitted to putting tin- American Fed elation of Labor in charge of all business. That id*>a, w idely circulated, mated n strong prejudice against l.iin in the mitnhs of business meu, a; the start. But in his handling of a thousand or so collission between business groups ami labor groups in the working out of the XRA co lie that Mr. Richberg is not and Jurer has been a blind partisan of any particular labor group or organ ization, but does helievc that the best interests of the public require that labor should receive a larger share of the proceeds of ipdiM&ry. Mr. Richherg is sometimes spoken of as one of the Brain Trust; lAi't he k certainly not one of the half-baked radicals usually im-ant when that term ii used. A ln>ut the only on*' of the original Brain Trust who still func tions importantly in an official caj> acity is Rexford G. T ligwell, Under- 1 shrctary of Agriculture, and the iilea is seeping through officialdom that Mr. Tugwell's achievements thus far have consisted more in getting liim.self into the headlines than in H-Totnplishing ' anything of conse ?imnce. It looks q|uate certain ? il anything can Ive regarded as certain in these days? that most of Mr. Tug ? ell's radical program has hern ?Mitched." On the other hand, the one of the and s< -If-appoiutod- minor prophets ?>!. Lnui'h McHenry 1 1 "\ve and Bernard M. Barueh. ' 'is purely political questions it has ) '"'N undetvtood that the President n iii., more iijmhi Col. . Howe than " I " ?n the Chairman of the Democrat National Committee, . Postmaster '???neral Farley. An incident that ? inn to lifjht the other day shows !'"'v strong the Farley influence is. 'intary likes wanted to appoint ?Mm \V. Finch, Dean of the Sehool ' 1 Miiiiiig of the University of Idah :j the post of Director of the Bu "f Mines. He talked, with the ' " -ident who gave his o.k. Secretary b'kes notified Professor Finch, who ""OUned his university job and came Washington to take over the post. ' Presidential commission apj>oint him has been drawn up and la'i: "" the President's desk. But when (Continued on Page Two) Hamburg's Crop Will Top Quarter Million With buyers coining into th<\ Ham burg region seeking to buy cabbage i in the fields, and with a large pad of the bean crop already marketed, it is conservatively estimated that 'he cash feturn fro:it cabbage, b.eait?, and potatoes in Hamburg, Mountain audi Cashier's Valley townships will v xcced a quarter of a million dollars this year. The estimate is that the cabhagc crop will be in excess of 8.'5,f>00 tons, in Hamburg alone, and the buyers will pay for the total, of the three mentioned produce crops more than ?<250,000 th s year to growers in the hree townships. Annual rentals for lands from dinners i;i Hamburg has gone as | 'iigh as $100 an acre, it is stated; j Mid with the bumper crop of all ime now in the fields, the Ham burg folks are feeling that there is ?o depression. KverylM>dy who has looked into the situation agrees that the produce in lustrv in Hamburg is just beginning ?> be developed, and that it can be xpauded1 to proportions uiulreamed f a few \ears ago. What cabbage lands i-.? Ham-burg ? re worth, uoIkhIv will even hazard a guess. ' V ' SMITH FUNERAL IS HELD AT CULLOWHEE YESTERDAY Funerla services for K. Nathan Smith were conducted at 0 ullowhee, yesterday. The IkhIv of Smith was found in n hotel room in Norfolk, Sunday, .togehter with a check made to his wife, Mrs. Ellen Higdon Smith of CtillowJiee, for $3000. Among his effects were insurance policies total ing $10,000, according to Associated Press dispatches from Norfolk. Mr. Smith was a native of this county, and a son of the late Sena tor L. J. Smith. He has a largo num ber of relatives, including his widow, three daughters, Frances, Nell, and Jo Smith; four sisters, Mrs. Lee Hooper, Speedwell, Mrs. Nannie Mc Ouire; Mrs. John Phillips, and Miss Ida Smith, all of Oullowhec, and one brother, Lewis J. Smith, of West Mills, Macon county.^ Mr. Smith left this county several years ago, and engaged in the pro duce business in Florida. It is under stood that he had recently opened a produce store in Greensboro, and that it was in connection with this business that he was called to Nor folk, and while there was taken Jo the Halifax hospital, in that city foi treatment; but had returned to his hotel there, when he was claimed by (H'ath. Mr. Smith belonged to one of the oldest and most prominent fanvlics in -tliis comity. His grandfather was the late Nathhan Coward'. iHe was a Mason and a member of the Shrine and Knights Templar, which bodies, in his Florida home, requested that Kast LaPorte Ixnlgc, conduct h's funeral services. CRAWFORD GOES TO GLENDALE The following from the Twin-City Sentinel of July 20, will be of inter est to ;nnav friends of Mr. Crawford who is a native of and has been re cently visiting in this county: "E. E. Crawford, teacher of Math ematics in the Richaj'd J. Reynolds High School s'nce his graduation from the University of North Caro lina in 1P25, today resigned his work there to assume the prineipalsh'p of Glendale High School, at Kenly. Johnston county. Last year when C. R. .Tovner was named piiucipal of the local J.igh school, Mr. Crawford took over his work in solid iconic, try and tr'gon ometrv and assumed cluirge of the 2,000 lockers at the school. He nlso has been sponsor of the house of ronrcsentatiivis and the .lun'br Ili-Y. Mr. Crawford, discussing his res ignation, stated that he and Mrs Crawford had a great liking for Win ston-Salem a:u* Winston-Salem peo ple, hut that the opportunity to bet ter his financial condition by tnkimr up the new job was of too great mo'iient to he passed over. Glendale High Sehool, in which both Mr. and Mrs. Crawford will be employed, is a most modern high j school plant with about 800 students and around 21 to 25 teachers. Thr teaching staff lives in the teacheragc of dormitory provided for their use. Mrs. Crawford substituted in the city and ocunty schools last year. She has bften superintendent of on.' of the Sunday School departments of Fourth Street Chnrch of Christ. ^uSir^\Vounds Convicts As They Attempt Escape 40 YEARS AGO Tuckaseige Democart, July 18, 1894 We are having a superabuni jance of rain. Crops arc very promising. Mrs. Mamie K. Bulla and children of Lexington, are visiting her .sister, Mrs. Xe:I Buchanan. Mr. J. S. Mewlrornr, of Kinston, whose family is visit rug Dr. . J. H. Wolff's, came up Katuiklav and stayed until today. Mr. B. B. Brown, of Buncombe, came over Saturday, to confer with the Board about the po^iton as Su perintendent of the Normal Depart ment of CuIIowJhm? High School, to which he has lieen elected. Mr. .1. h. Sawyer, our popular and accommodating railroad agent has been prevented from attending t?? his duties, for /several days, by ill ness. His place was I'illecl meanwhile by Mr. Kincaii:!1, of Dillsboro. We are glad to say that Mr. Sawyer has re covered. County Democratic Convention: < leu. E. It. Hanpton, chairman of the County Executive Committee callckt the convention to order in tin' court house, in Webster, July 16th, 1894 aii'l F\ A. Lack, Sr., was made j secretary. On motion the chair u.? |M>iutc(b Messrs. VV. E. Moore, I). L. Ix?ve, \V. A. Enloe, D. Rogm an! Capt. .1. W. Terrell ?dVlcgates to the State Convention; on iuot:on of Hon. L. J. Smith the delegates to the Con gressiofial Convention were iustnutul to cast the entire' vote , Sid ney Ashe, T. X. Tatham, D. Rogers, .I. E. Moss, L. .1. Smith, (T. A. Cox, Win. Henson and1 J. VVr. Shelton, al ternate's) .1 avau Davis, V. F. Brown, J. A. Gr.lloway, Thos. A. Dillard. Thos. R. Zacharv, McD. Adams, J T. Colli*s, E .Watson, T. U Jamer son, M. I.. Cogging J. S. I>'opaid, J. E. Hawkins, J. E. Norton, Thos. H. "Hooper, J. N. Hunter, Jas. A. C.ollo wav, II. F. Baird and Sylvester Mel ton. The roll of townships K?ing called, tin- vote cast in the primary meetings, for candidates tor the Judgeship was reported so as to make the vote of the county in the nomin ating convention stand: For G. S. Ferguson, 14.8; C.. A. Shuford, 3.5; H. B. Carter 7; the vote of the coun tv for solicitor was d;rccted to be cast for Geo. A. Jone,s 14.1; Fred Moore, 3.3; N. NVwbv 1.3; J. J. Hooker 1 ; delegates to the Senator ial Convention were instructed to cast the entire vote of the county for Hon. R- L. Leatherwood. The Convention then procecdted to the election of a county executive com mittee, choosing D. L. love, Thos. A. Cox. Dr. J. H. Wolff, B. M. Smith and S. Wr. C >oper. On motion of Hon. W. E. Moone, the thanks of the convention were extended to Gen. E. R. Hampton, the retiring chair man of the executive committee, who had declined re-election, for the very efficient' manner in which he had discharged the arduous duties of the position, to whieh Gen. Hampton re sponded approprately. Hon. W. E. Moore then offered the following resolution which was adopted, after Two convicts, J. L. McHargue, about 45 and Furnia Cannon, about thirty, inmates of the State Prison Camp at Hazelwood, were shot, ra aii attempted escape, Wednesday momir: ing, by Prison Guard Rogers. Me*' Hargue, who is said to be serv'ng ^ terra of thirty years for nsurder wa&. shot through the backbone and livery and may die. Cannon was shot through, the hip, and after treatment at thcL~ C. J. Harris Community hospital iii.j Sylva, was taken to the prison camp' at Hazel wood. McHargiue is still in the hospital here. Cannon is said to. have been serving a ten year term. * The two convicts captured tho! prison truck and were escaping in it,' when C. J. Crisp of Sylva eame along, and was waved down by the* guard, who mounted Crisp's car and; gave pursuit. The car overtook the' truck and when the two escapees re-, thtsed to halt the guard opened1 fire, it is said. The convicts have been repairing Highway 106 on the h'll this side of East La|H>rte. The crew -was brought from the camp at Hazclwood, yesterday ir.oiiiing, and all dis mounted from the truek. The two men who attempted to escape walked around tlu truck, mounted the seat, ;Um1 sped away. They crossed the river on the bridge near .the home of John T. Mnjodv, and it is believed that they expected to aba-.idon their captured veh:clc and make for the woo.fs. The condition of McHargue is said to be extremely grave. ADDITIONAL HINDS PROVIDE MORE MEN IN MARINE CORPS Savannah, Gr., July 25. ? Until | Congress passed the Naval a | (propria- 1 tio:i bill providing funds to maintain the U. S. Marine Corps ,at its normal strength, the Marine Corps did' not have the funds to keep its ranks filled. The new appropriations will enable the Marine Corps to fill the vacancies which occurred dtarinm the |>eriod of enforced economy. Major Louis E. Fagan in charge of I he M;irin< Corps District of Savan nah with office and examining rooms 'n the ik'W Post Office building, ( an nounces that two hundred of these vacancies have been assigned to his district which includes Georgia, Flor ida, North Carolina, South Caroling, and Virginia. Most of these vacancies will be filkkt from'1 waiting lists of applicants who have already submitted evidence of their qualifications. Under the new appropriations, however, vacan cies will be regularly filled so thai the opportunity to serve in the Ma rine Corps which has been practical ly flUosii.il during the last year will be reopened to qualified young men Applicants must be graduates of high schools or have equivalent or superior education, must be over 18 years old and over 66 inches tall. Ev idence of educational and physical qualifications anjdi also of charactei and standing in home community must be submitted by mail before ap plicants are admitted to the examin. ing offices. Jackson County is represented! in the Marine Corps by two high school graduates; Jackson M. Guthrie, a graduate of Sylva High School, and Roy W. Henson, who graduated from Glenville High School. Both were ac cepted for this service at Savannah during the past year. The Marine Corps is essentially an expeditionary force and1 its men are trained and1 equipped for duty on either land or sea. Marines are serv ing on the battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers; they are ashore in foreign lands, such as China, Philip pines, Honolulu, Panama, anjdl thv West Indies ; and .they are serving at many marine stations and navy yards throughout the United States, includ ing such cities as San Diego, Cal., Philadelphia, Pa., New York City, Wjashington, D. C., and Bremerton, Wash., near Seattle. which the convention adjourned : Re solved that it is the spnse of this convention that each township in Jackson county hold a primary for the approaching* election and that the county executive committee have au thority to adopt a plan for holding and conducting said primary and making returns of the same to tihe county convention for nominating the candidate# for t&e various offices. Funeral HeH Monday YOUNG DEMOCRATS For Mrs. J. S. StMhreM GATHER TOMORROW Mre. Martha Elizabeth Stillwell, died last Sunday, at her home near Webster. Funeral services were con ducted!, Monday at Webster, by Rev. G. N. Cowan, assisted by Rev. I. K. Stafford and Rev. W. C. Reed ; and inferiaenj. was in the Stillwell cem etery. Mrs. Stillwell, who before her marriage, was Miss Altaian, was born May 18, 1848. Her husband pre cecfed her to the grave in 1916. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. HatUe Bryson, Mrs. W. N. Cook, MjrSf Goe. W. Sutton, three sons, I. B. Stillwell, Webster, E. H. Stillwell, professor of history at Western Car olina -Teachers College, E. P. Still well," Sylva attorney, and several ofrandehildren and other relatives. / Mrs. Stillwell was the youngest and. last surviving member of her 'family^ her two brothers, John All man, arid* Polk Allmian, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Cowan, Mrs. Sar tnh Cowan, and Mrs. Margaret Dills, ;aU having preceded her. TODAY and TOMORROW , (By Prank Parker Stock bridge) i . bfSyBAKCE ... for jobkn 4 The fii st experiment with compul sory unemployment insurance in the United States went into effect on the first of Jtfly this year, ia Wia con sin. The movement for a Federal scheme of unemployment insurance is Vrowin?L l don't think there is much Question that we are heading toward p social system under which men who | are able and willing to work are thrown Out of work through no fault of their- own will receive unemploy ment benefits, either from funds es tablished: by employers, or out of. thejr wages While they are earn dy'state or Federal Govern "ent,, , ' Th?' English system, which is a combination of all three, looks to me the soundest. Every wage-eanaer, to lie entitled, to unemployment insur ant*, must consent to the deduction of A small percentage of his wages when he U working, which goes into I fund to which the employers con tribute an equal percentage and the! government contributes its share, that provides the much-discussed ^ritiuh dole, which seems to have Worked pretty well throuyh the hard times? ^yhich are now about over in * V * England. .. 4 ? (jOUNTIXS ... too imall now County ; government, generally speaking, is. the least efficient and must corrupt phase of public service in the United States. Most of our eciihties are too small. They date from the horse- andwwagun days. There are few places now from which one who has business at the county seat cOuldlnl't make a fifty-mile trip eas ier than he could go ten miles a few years ago. . There is too much overlapp:ng of city and county governments. Few cities are as fortunate as St. Louif which has no county. New York is makirigj a brave effort to rid itself of the* five counties which are all inside the city limits. They make for duplication of cost and effort, waste .of public funds and genera! inefficiency. Those who are fighting to retain them are the politicians who hold county .jobs and their followers. I thinkwe-are coming pretty clos*> to a genera] consolidation of counties in many parts of the United States. P&AXBUrmES . . . first 1730 Away back in 1750 a group of students at William and Mary Col lege inf Virginia organized them selves into the "Flat Hat Club," whibh was the parent of all Ameri can college fraternities. Thomas Jeff erson was one of its members. Later , it beeame the custom to give these fraternities Greek names and identify them to' the outer world only by in itials,, and as colleges multiplied^ one fraternity might have chapters in many colleges. There is something about each of these Greek letter fraternities whieh constitutes a life-long tie between its members. Most of America's famous men have been members of some fraternity. I am reminded of .that by t&a intewsitag innovation of Alpha Delta Pin, one of the oldest of them FOR ANNUAL MEET A large number of young Demo crats from this county are expected to attend the State Convention of the Young People's Democratic Clubs of North Carolina in AsheviJLe, tomor row antf next ctay, Friday and Sat urday. Headquarters of the conven tion will be at the George Vander Iriit Hotel. Approximately 400 dele gates are expected to attend. At a recent meeting of the Jackson County Club it was voted that all young Democrats from this county wishing to attend will be recognized as delegates. Arrivals on either Fri day or Saturday are requested to register at the convention |dfesk in the George Vanderbilt immediately, and make reservations for the Sat urday luncheon and banquet. District caucuses will be held in the convention hall at places desig nated by placards for the various districts. The general business session of the convention will be at 10 o'clock Sat urday morning. At 9:30 o'clock, del egates to the convention will meet ia units ->f the several congressional districts to select members of the executive committee for the ensuing year. Business sessions, morning and af - ternoon, Saturday, will be devoted to whatever matters arc brought before Che convention. Among other business matters there is almost certain to be a proposal to change the constitution of the organization in order to elim inate the present fixed requirement of -membership dues. William ?). Cocie, Jr., retiring chairman of the clubs of the eleventh district and newly elected president of the Buncombe club, said that it has been impossible to sendi persona! invitations to all Democrats to attend the convention, but that all party members old and young, arc extended a blanket invitatioft*$6 '^ttfnd the conferences and the "general program events. A change in the program was an nounced1 recently. Instead of the 1 o'clock luncheon on Friday at the Oeorge Vanderbilt hotel, the conven tion committeemen havc_ accepted an invitation extended by the American Knka corporation to have lunch at one of the plant cafeterias and to make a tour of the plant Friday af ternoon. The annual banquet will be held at the hotel Saturday night., at which time the following speakers will be heard: Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Asheville; Congressman R. L. Doughton, of the eighth Congres sional district; and Clyde R. Jloev, Shelby attorney. Other speakers scheduled to ap pear on the program are Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Senator Josiah William Bailey, T. X. Griee, Albert Coates, Charles \f. Johnson, Jule Warren, I^erov Martin, Fred L. Seely, Stanley Winborne, Dillard Gardner. Henry Brandis, Jr., A. .T. Maxwell, Attorney-General Dennis G. Brummit, William J. Cocke, Jr., Thomas New bom, Jr., Judge Sam Cathey and J. Wallace Wlinborne. The convention will convene at 10 o'clock Friday morning and business will be concluded' Saturday after noon. A motorcade will be formed Sunday morning for a tour of th< Great. Smoky Mountains National park, terminating at Franklin, where the Maeon county club wil l?e host to delegates at a picnic. Mrs. May Thompson Evans, of High Point, is the state president. Doyl? Alley, of Wavnesville, is being boosted by Western Counties to suc ceed her. all, in holding its annual convention the other day on a cruise to Bermuda. And I was specially interested to note that a great educator from my own section of the country was elect ed' to the presidency of Alpha Delta Phi, of which esident. RooJ?eve" *?tone of o X, SHOE SHOP, / nem mi Main Street i and heau J "hose rowiu | fousa tonic K^s Work M chooJ crews oi % s one of the ran ? ts the most honor . Wit can be jfiven to a lOSt ^ristian gentleman. A * Delta PW. he will 1mm ben of that 1 ernity witk ereu hightWMMBH^P