f 1 .50 YEAB IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY
12.00 YEA* IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE TEflEOOUllTT J
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Baker Report Scores U. S.
Aviation Unpreparedness
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Washington, August 8. (Special) ?
Tlic I uited States has more aircraft
than any other nation, more than
twice a?> many miles in its regular
mt routes for passengers ami mer
chandise, and its aviatos fly more
than oO million miles a year, which
i* more than twice the mileage flown
bv the airmen of any other nation.
Our government spends twice as much
money as any other in promoting civil
Aviation. Our Navy has su|>erh fly
iiiif equipment ami a magnificent
record. Our Army, however, is poor
ly equipped iifl the air. both in ma
teiial and personnel. Something ought
ti> he done about that.
That is the summary of the re
port of the War Department's s]>e
? ial aviation committee, headed by
Xevvtou D. Baker, former Secretary
of War, and including ten other dis
tinguished men, civilian and military.
No candals were uncovered by the
committee, nothing but the refusal
of Congress to give the Army the
money it asked' for to buy planes and
train its officers and enlisted men
to fly. The next great war, the re
port says, is likely to begin an en
gagement between aircraft of oppos
ing nations, and we ought to In
ready for it. j
Nothing is said in the report about
dirigibles. There is a lot of talk 1
going around that the great dirig
ibles, like the Los Angeles and the
Maeon, are failures. Navy men don't
admit that. The Las Angeles is
bemir retired from service because
ot' age; she was built in Germany
tud flown to this coujitry in 192.},
teoue of our prizes of war.
It \ooks now as if the next Con
fess will be urgently requested to
authorize the bulidingi of 2,320 Army
airplanes, the number that the Bakei
committee recommends as necessary
Not that anybody expects the United
States fo engage in a war with any
body, but just in case.
This Baker rej>ort is significant in
that it suggests, without saying so
that international relations between
the Inited States and other nations
are not all that they should be. No
body mentions Japan when talking
about the next war ? not for publi
cation, at any rati* ? but a lot of peo
ple ure casting more attentive eyes
toward the Pacific than at any time
in our history. The President's
''amity" broadcast from Hofiplulu
may or may not have the effect ol
convincing Japan that our intentions
toward her are ! entirely friendly.
Kverybody in Washington knows that
there is a strong war party in Japan
that would like to get into a scrap
with us.
That situation is not allayed by
the growing restiveness ot business
men and manufacturers, expressed in
.some rather hot communications to
Administration officials, over the
continuing invasion of our markets
by cheap Japanese goods. The Ad
ministration believes in letting rea
sonable quantities of Japanese goods
in without raising the duties, on the
theory that it will result in strength
riling the Japanese market for Amer
ican goods.
The whole scheme of the tariff is
under intensive study, by the State
Department and other Federal offi- j
ies. Secretary Wallace is working
closely with Secretary Hull in plan
ning where and by how much to re
duce tariffs. Not much publicity is
being given to their discussions with
other nations. They are keeping a
'-Meat deal of n.e discussion secret
because they do not want to stir up
?' storm of opj>ositiein from Ameri
can manufacturers who fear their
liiisintss will be injured. When the
limit agreements are announced, how
ler, it is likely th? storni will burst
y ) The jwdiey on tariffs, so far
any part of it has been disclosed, is
'<> diirh the old "protective" -.tarifl
l>ri:n ip|?. entirely, or almost entirely,
ai"! |?v letting foreign goods in free
"f duiy, or nearly so. create recipro
cal markets for American surpluses
"i i lie countries so favored. ,In on-'
? ' it is the old ? "reciprocity"
s,'lu-tne fathered in the first instance
''Hv years ago by James G. Blaine,
and later stronglv advocated by Pres
'deut McKinley. Because something
'he sort was sponsored by those
^>'two stalwart Republicans, the pres
tr,l Administration thinks a gwod
!*"?*! ?f the curse will be taken oft
As it is figured out here, we must
,ur" i" about $200,000,000 a year
foreign goods than we now
""pout, in the hope of selling more
*'u" *hat volume of American goods
QUALLA
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Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Church flopped
at Mr. II. (J. Fergjuson's on route
from I Lexington, Ky., whore he had
conducted a two wwks revival at I
Asbuiy College, to their home at
Davidson.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Con
nor on July .{1st, a son.
Among those who have visited Mrs
.1. I-. Feign-on during her recent
illness wire Mrs. Mary Moore and
Mr. Thos. Moore of I laves vi He, Mi s.
\V. 1). Wike and Miss litis Wike oi'
Cullowhee, Mrs. C. H. Hay ot
Waynesviiy-, Mr. itnd Mrs. A. I).
Parker ami Mrs. H. (5. Bird of
;'.vlva. She is slightly improved at
this writing.
Mrs. A. 1*. Childers of Conloy's.
'reejc visited her brother, Mr. Will
Kimsey, who has been sick lor .sev
eral day s;0
Mrs. A. ,T. Franklin of Bryson
I City visited her mother, Mrs. K. S.
Keener, ? li? has been [ in declining
.ealtli for several weeks.,
Mrs. Lee London of Asheville vis
ited at Mr.1 K. Howell's
Mjs. Jule 1 Caves called at Mr. K.
F. Hall's.
Miss Ruth Ferguson has returned
from a trip to the World's Fail",
Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrv Clark, Aug
usta and Ihvight Clark of Fairfax,
Ya., Mrs. S. H. Aslww of Atlanta,
(?a. and Master Sammy Simimcrlin
of Chapel Hill are s|ieiidiii?* the sum
mer at Mr. C. I'. Shelton's, "Green
Acres Tourist Home." Mr. Clark i
civil engineer of the Cherokee In
dians and is in charge of the XliA.
Mrs. Don Cogdill of Addie visited
at Mr. K. F. Hall's.
Mr. and Mrs. Will. Caldwell, Mr,
and Mrs. Wayne Caldwell and Mr.
Hiraiu Caldwell of Whittier called
on Mrs. Frank Battle.
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Mrs. Annie Bisli of Charlotte, Mrs.
Maggie Willis of Morehoad City,
Mrs. Mary Moody of Waynesvilje and
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Connor of W<i.ih
ington visited Mrs. W. T. McLaugh
lin.
Mrs. J. K. Battle and Miss Mary
Battle called on Mrs. I). C. Hughes
Messrs Weaver Freeman an.l
Wlavne Ferguson went to Martha
College Tuesday flor Miss I
Mary Kniuia Ferguson, who ret urmii
home with them on account of Mi.
illness of her grandmother, Mi's. .1. L.
Ferguson.
Mr. and Mrs. .1. M." Hughes of
Cherokee, Mrs. Horace Howell, Mrs.
Mary Kinsland, Mrs. W. H- Hoyle
and Misses Edna and Polly Hoyle
called on Mrs. J. H. Hughes, who
has not. been well for the past month
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Class visited
Mr. J. R. Green at Whittier.
Mr. Thos. Owen spoilt last week
in Canton.
Mrs. .Dallas Howell visited rela
tives at Barkers Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Johnson and
Miss Edna Hoyle called at Mr. V\ .
H. Hoyle 's.
Mr. and Mrs. York Hlowoll have
gone to Lenoir to spend a while with
their son, Mr. Bill Howell and fam
ily.
Mr. Jim Keener visited at Mr. J.
K. Terrell's Sunday.
The best wheat and rye crops that
have boon in the Qualla section tor
several years were threshed hern
during last week.
abroad. There arc about (iOO manu
factured commodities t very highly
protected l>y present tariffs. Kates on
many of those sire expected to l>c r."
duced. There is where the shoe will
pinch hardest. At the other end of
I he seale, there are ahout 400 com
modities whirh we do not produce
on which tariff!? can he gieatly re
ducerl or aholish'-d without protest
from anybody. And in the middle are
about 1,000 commodities, of which
we produce not more than 5 per cent
of our own domestic production. Low
ering the tariffs to let in 10 or 15 per
cent of' our own production won't
hurt anybody ? so the negotiators be
lieve. \
As those who are watching this
matter closely believe, agricultural
products will not gain anything in
export trade by any scheme of in
ternational agreement, and th-it be
lief is largely back of the Adminis
tration's effort to reduce agricultural
production to domestic demands. -
W. C. T. C. TOlVE
COMMERCE COURSE
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Cl'LLOWHKK, Aug. 7. ? Judging
from advance room reservat ions and
inquiries for catalogs and informa
tion, prospects arc bright for a re
cord enrollment when Western Car
olina Tcac.hers College opens its
doors for the Fall quarter September
19. Reservations and inquiries are
coming in from all parts of North
Carolina and other States.
{The addition of a commerce de
partment to the college curriculum
is receiving a favorable response and
should tend to swell the enroll wilt.
Details have not been announced, but
the plan calls for a regular eouimci
^?ial department with all the trim
ings.C. W. Humphrey, commercial
teacher at Lexington, will head the
new department, lie has had a wide
experience and conies to Cullowhee
highly recommended. Business Kng
lis-h. bookkeeping, -typing and short
hand are among the subjects planned.
C. K. l)od sou, of Cobimbiin, Miss.,
for four years head of the biology
at Campbell College will replace Mis>
Tlielma Howell in the bi??l???y depart
ment. Mr. Dodson received his Baeb
elor of Science degree from Miss
issippi State TeMchers* College in
1027. While there he took an active
p:ut i;i athletics and played on sev
eral teams. After gradual ion he
served two years a-; teacher and
cOach in a high school in Alabama.
HeJook the Master of Science degree
from t hv* I niversity ot Alabama. He
was also assistant, coach at f ampbell
College.
Definite a,nnounce.!iient is expect -d.
in a few days to who will succeed. J
Miss Patricia Kdcgeworth as Dean ul j
Women.
C. C. Poindexter , will be the
Director of Athletics lor the third
year. Prospects for winning a'.hleti;
teams are the brightest in the history
of the school. Knot ball practice will
get under way September 10. The Col
lege will again sponsor intercollegiate
basket bill I for girls. The annual cat
alog carries an announcement to the
?niitmrv. >ut the decision not to have
this s|rtt?t was'sreconsidcrefU and re
voked. Coacliiug eoilrses in all branch
es of the sport ar* being added t:: th?- j
curriculum. Thif is in keeping with
the demand for teachers trained and
eqilipp 'd . W elT.e ei'ily
coach and handle school athletics. Mr.
Poindexter has also aniouncod thai
he plans to o|h'.m a private law read
ing class that will qualify students
at the end of two years to tak" the
state examination for their law li
cense. Mr. Poin lexler holds A. B.
and L. L. B. de rees from tlv Uni
versity of Xorili Carolina and has
his license to practice law. He
has been doing practice along with
his teaching and coaching. Mr. Poin
dexter stated that he had already re
ceived requests for such a course.
The classes will meet at night and
will not conflict with the college
work of the pupils.
former resident or sylva
DIES IN KNOXVILLE, TENN.
Mr. Karl Hunt, vim several years
ago lived in Sylva, died in Fort
Sanlrlers Hospital, Knox vi lie, Tenn..
on Wednesday of last ?wk, after an
illness of three weeks' duration
doing from here to attend the
fnn."ral services, which were held in
the D. aeiick Avenue Baptist church
in Knoxville, were Mr. aii|(l Mrs. Ken
yon Moody, Miss Evelyn Moody, and
Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Alleii.
Mr. Hunt, who during his residence
here was bookkeeper for the Jackson
Chevrolet Company, has heen engaged
in relief work in Knoxville for the
j wist year.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
AT LAKE JUNALUSKA
Mrs. Dan Tompkins and several
members of her Sunday School class
are spending a few days at Lake
Junaluska. The party left here Wed
ii'fvJay morning and will return Fri
day. Members of fclie class going are
Beatrice Stein. Harriett Long, Eliz
abeth Dillard, Carolyn Gibson and
Barbara Cook.
TO CLEAN OFF CEMETERY
People of the community and oth
ers intrwested are requested T^o meet
Monday and Tuesday, August 13 and
14 to clean off the cemetery prepai
torv to the annual Home-coming and
Decoration Day, which will be ob
served on Snnday, August 2(5, at Cul
lowhee.
"OUTLAW" SURRENDERS
PEACEFULLY TO SHERIPP
Wes Bryson, who was declared an
outlaw by Judge Felix E. Alley in
a proclamation issued last May, fol
lowing Bry son's alleged threats, to
kill T. A. Dillard, J. C. Passmore,
W. S. Alexanictar, H. A. Pell, HL A.
Pell, Jr., Weaver Swayngim and
others, and following an alleged as
sault with a gun upon Mr. Dillard
and Mr. Bumgarner, in Cashier's
Volley, from ambush, surrendered
peacefully to Sheriff Manev, at
Bry son's home in Cashier's Valley,
Monday morning Bryson was brought
to Sylva, after his surrender, by
Sheriff Maney, and lodged in jail
herel (
COLLEGE PLANS TO SP0N80R
MANY ATHLETIC EVENTS
C. C. Poiitykixter, Director of Ath
letics at Western Carolina Teachers
College, announced at a recent coun
ty teachers incetinp that the college
plans to sponsor a number of ath
lethic and literary events for th?
schools of Jackson County during the
coming year.
Plans call for a couiity-wide track
and field jtlkiy at Cullowhee October
27th. This will he a part of the an
nual Homo Coming celebration ol
the college. School and sectional
meets are to precede this m.fet. Also,
one feature of the Labor Day cele
eelebration will U? certain athletic
events for the schools.
It i? planned to s|>onsor contests
in spelling, debating, reciting, de
claiming and essay writing In -each
of the?.- events there will he divisions
for bovs and girl* of both high and
graded schoo's.
ground the first of March, (the
col!-; i' will cponcov the Second An
imal Basketball Tournament for the
schools of Jackson County. Plans
arc also under way for midget tourn
aments in basketball with the players
classified according to weight.
In annoiuicing the year's program
Coach PoLndoxter told the teacher^
that he considered it better to have
prop.'rly^ condiucted and supervised
afoletic ac'ivi title without schools
than to have schools without proper
erly conducted and supervised ath
letic activities' Hie l^iAfcer stated
that if the teachers woul show more
interest in the play of the pupil.-'
the pupils would show more interest
in the work of the teacher.
JOHN BUMGARNER PASSES
, Funeral services for John B. Bum
garner, well kiwlw'it citizen of Jack
son county, wa-re held at his home
at Fall Cliff, Tuesday morning, con
duc.Uvl by Dr. E. C. Widen house and
Kev. Corsie Hooper. His body was
laid to rest in the family cemetery
near his home.
"Uncle" John, as he was affection
ately called, was a member of the,
Buuigarner family, one of the larg-!
est in Western North Carolina. Hi^i
father was liosca Bumgarner, and
his mother, before her marriage, was
I^ucinda Bryson, a member of an
other prominent Carolina clan.
Death did not come as a surprise
as his health had been very bad fori
some time. Everything possible was
done for his somfort.
M.J. Eliimg/imer often remarkjttV
(hiring his last illness, that "I will :
soon be up there with Frank. ,r
He was born December 22, I860.;
He professed faith in Christ at the!
age of 26, at Double Springs church, 1
on Cullowhee Mountain. Hie was mar- !
ried to Amanda Holden on Oct.25;
1891. To this union were bom two
sons, Frank anfd Vernon. Frank
passed on on Jan. 14, 1919. Surviving
him are his widow, one son, Vernon,
three grandchildren, all of Speedwell,
three brothers, Charles, of West
Asheville, Eb of Clay County, Bow
man of Speedwell, one sister, Mrs.
Miles Holden, of Speedwell, and a
large number of other relatives and
frie,nds.
VETERAN MAILMAN PA8BE8
^dhn K. Green, veteran rural de
livery carrier of Whit tier, died at
his home there, Tuesday, following
a two weeks' illness, at flie age of>
62. Mr. Green had been mail carrier
for 28 years
Funeral services were conductor!
this morning at 10 o'clock by Rev.
C. W. Clay, and interment was in
Union Hill cemetery.
Surviving Mr. Green are his widow,
two daughters, Miss Maude Green of
Whittier, and: Mrs. Ben Jones, More
head City, and other relatives.
Labor Day Celebration - ; I
Plant Are Being Made ;
TODAY and
TOMORROW
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NATUHi ?nd population
Withi?i a range of twenty miles
from' my New England farm I know
of^ nine or ten herds of dairy eattk
and two or three herds of beef stock
that have been shipped east! from the
d re tight-stricken West within the past
twi> or three months* Their owners
and their fantilies have eome with
them.
Nature is more powerful than man
made laws and rules in influencing
the distribution of population and the
regidation of agriculture. It would
nofvsurpp.se me if future historian*
were able to trace more far-reaehing
and fundamental changes in human
affairs to the world-wide drought of
1930-34 tban to all the human efforts
to change the scheme of things.
DROUGHT . . . almost world-wide
There is hardly a region in the
world that is not suffering from a
shortage of water. Wjbat rain has f al
len seems to have dropped chiefly in
Jo the ocean.
In England there has not been a
,uin of consequent in eleven months.
A friend of mine, who lately return
ed from abroad told me that the great
River Thames has dwindled to littli
more than a brook.Continental Europe
is suffering for lack of rain. I hear
eports from South Africa that tin
snowfall in the Andes this winter ?
it's midwinter there now? is so lighl
thiat they' fear a drought next Decem
ber or so, when their growing season
will b? at its height. They have had
an exceptionally dry two or three
year's in China and otiher parts of
Asia.
All of that points to great econom
ic shifts, movements of population/
distress and suffering, shortage of
money and decrease in actual wealth,
and general disruption of trade. Thai
sort of disturbances can't be curet'
by politics. ?
FAB REACSDO .... ai wai
Polks with good memories re.alidi
that the present idrought situation 1;
not something new or sudden. It ha
been coming* on for four years, al
least. Back in 1930 the drought whicl
affected the regions bordering on th?
lower Ohio river and mid-Mississippi
states sowed the 9eed from which
much of our later economic distres
sprang. It was the direct cause of th.
failures of many small banks in sev
eral states, the reducrton of grea*
numbers of farm folk to poverty
and the consequent beginning of mort
gage foreclosures on a wide scale.
It. takes more than a few heavy
rains to restore the fertility of land
after a prolonged drought. The water
table ? that is, the depth of ground
water below the surface ? dropped
nearly 100 feet in some parts of
Kentucky and Tennessee a ? far back
as 1930^?31, and it hasnt got back
to normal yet.
To my way of thinking, thed!rougfit
is the most important world event
that has occurred since the nations
' were at war. Perhaps even more im
portant in its future effects on civ
ilization.
HISTORY .... B*cfc is 1883
This isn't the first time a drought
has had profound eoonomie, social,
and political effects in the jQnited
States. Back in 1893 we had & "pan
ic" which, for its time and the size
and weialth (of the nation then, was
quite as severe as that which we had
in 1929. And the underlying cause of
the economic distresses which resulted
in the demandi by people of the Mid
dle West for more money ? inilation
by the silver route ? and the failure of
President Cleveland to obtain a re
nomination, was a drought almost as
widespread as the present one.
Then as now, the stricken farmer*
and those dependent upon their trade
turned to the Federal Government for
help. The idea that the Government
could or should dish out tax money in
direct benefit payments to farmers or
. anyone else had not been born. It is
.only a year and a half old, or there
.abouts. But the demand for laws which
; would, it was believed, make it easier
;for 'debtors to pay their debts and
, harder for creditors to collect, was
?as keen then as now.
It. may fairly he said that William
J. Bryan owed his nomination for
{the Presidency in 1896 to the drought
!>f 1893 and its influence upon popu
ar economic thinking.
tiE . . . . * recedes to lTdrth
If foought conditions oontinue as
iPlens are hew# worked 'oat for ah ?
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'elaborate Labor Day celebration anfl l>
Progress Exposition for Sylva and
Jaekson County. The event wiH Be
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staged, in Sylva, Monday, Septembej
3, and if present plans materialize
will be one of the biggest events
of its kind ever held in Jackson
County. The celebration- Ond exposi- -
tion is being sponsored by" the Sylvii J
Rotary Club and the merchants and
business firms of. Sylva and Jackson
county. C. C. Poinderter, Director of
Athletics at Western Carolina Teach
ers College, hea^ds the committed ?
from the Rotary Olub that is work
ing on details for staging the event. >
The details have not been worked'
out yet, but the idea back of the plan ,
is to build the program around the
growth of Jackson County through 1
its 83 years of history. Some of the.
events being worked out are a live-1
?stock and agricultural exhibit, baby
show, pet show, flower show, beauiy
contest, music festival", athletic con
tests and other events o? interest to. ?
the people of Jackson county. The
plan is to organize the county by; j
communities with .Ieadeife in carh !
community to be responsible for en- ? ? |
tries in the various events from 1
that community.
County Superintendent M. B. Mad-"''
ison and the schools are cooperating ' '
with the celebration by declaring a.
holiday for the ocoasion. County
Agtent Lackey ifi in charge of the
livestock and agricultural end of thq.
exhibits.
^Anyone leaving ideas and sugges
tioms concerning items that will con
tribute to the exposition is asked to
get them to Coach Poindexter at the
earliest possible date. ???
BAJPTI8T ASSOCIATION WILL
MEET ON NEXT THURSDAY
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Associa
tion -meets next Thursiciay, August
16, for its One Hundred and Fifth
annual meeting, with John's creek
church, at Cowarts. '*v .
The program was published in Tho
Journal, last week.
Rev. T. F. Deitz is moderator, and'
Rev. W. N. Cook secretary of the
association.
HAMBURG- CASHIERS SCHOOL
WILL OPEN MONDAY MOtfNlNO *
The schools of the Glen vill?- Cash
ier's District, which includes Glen?
ville high school for the fall session
on Monday, Augcst 20, according to
announcement by Mr. F. S. Griffin,
the principal.
The opening was delayed because
of the additions that have been in
course of construction at the ,Glen
ville building. -
JOHN WOODARD KILLED B7 LOO
John Woodard was instantly killed
yesterday morning, when a log rolled
over his body, breaking his iifcck;
Woodard, whose home is in Savan
nah township, was employed by Jim
Price, on a logging operation on Shoal
oreek, in- Hamburg township.
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He is survived by his widow and
?fouT ^Kldreri. r .
T*uneral services were conducted at
Zion Hill, this afternoon.
they are now, or grow woi^e,* we may
see history repeating itself. Twenty
thousand years ago,Qr so, several suc
cessive years of sever^ cold resulted
in covering most of northern
quarter of. the World w^lfi, an ice-cap
a mile thick. The glaciers extended
as far south as the'ffiny river. All
of the people who lived in the north
ern regions fled before. the ice to
warmer climates nearsc JIip equator.
The whole sebeme-^of -titer world's
development was (Ranged by the
course of nature. As tbe -k*o?be?an to
melt, .people followed it back north
ward. It is /at.iU recetfiflg and popula
tion is moving farther northward
every year.
In more recent times. th<j drought ?
which turned the mid-Asian plateau
into a?desert drove great hjpdes of
Asiatic pedpte westward jinto Eu
rope. The Turks, the Hungarians and
Piniis :are snprotig jftife+yuM?ioni of
that'
It not ^ikely that any such great
moventtat population will occur in
oar tine; tut it is possible, if th#
drought continues.