C| .() YEAR IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA INTEREST GROWING IN CELEBRATION TO BE HELD LABOR DAY 1-iN-ivst is growing daily in Jack-* i .nbity's (irst annual Labor Day (?, i l.ijiiioit and IVogress Kx posit ion. i i t'oindcxtcr, general chairman, , ; ::r > iiigcincnts, says thai he i |n ? <>l:i I t*?l over tin1 ivsjKMisr t li;i ! li ani/ations ;i 1 1 1 1 citizens arc Tin- celebration is for all t lit* t j.i- of Jackson County anil it i^ Ii.it every nook ami corner of I in:!iify w II he rcprescnt.cd in , . f <>? l lie contests ami exhibits, li ; nt the coin :i.<;tnity chairmen announced in The Journal last ? k Interesteil organizations ami i iiluals are urged to cooperate v h these leaders to see that the r c ..inanity has a good represenin t i. As announced previously, the Tunis of the county are cooperating h. having a holiday for the oecas'oi:. Complete details will lie announced) ; The Journal next week. WOLF MOUNTAIN NEWS (Hv Robert U ll irdee) - , I A nice ling has been planned !.<> I.r;in al the .Methodist church Sun tl: v night August liti. The Kev. A. ,\ Sinners will d(> the rpivaching 1 ai;o. Hiviiratiiiiw are beautiful memorial ?si-rvuis to tUn-f who have gone o:i to tlic better wurld, and it is an oc casion uliea p-.-ople gather from far (tiii i ii. it 'in renew old friendships and acquaintances, but it would be J Mot ii>r every local community it* l '???. local preachers would .eoiisidci I Smidav Schools and regular ap |ni!iiirn -iif> and arrange the hour o|" tftc il'coraiion services so as not t*> ? ???= r ?ii-t with either the Sunday V...-I hour or the regular preaching ????it e:l hour.. 'fhe preachers in this if. inanity have been very coopera in this regard. There is a large .number of slo* iM.-y hin -s scattered all over Jackson ? -ii i v. These machines are illegal. Tin \ :? re gambling devices and are fi'irjid ing the attention of not only 'A,"iti- boys, but girls of high school ;r i i ii be seen playing the gamblers' ' iic. These machines should In >lMup'.| cut . The officers of the ???miii v sliunbl nut allow them to con tinue hi any jtecfmn of the county, !>?: I'vcrvuiu" admi'- lb il gambling i.-: n -in. Mr-, livnl Full1-! -.tlil, the local ?rliii'i', liiH'lliT, ll;ii| In ?ju ItlHlK1 III4"* U-rk HI .H'lOUIlt ill -i'klM'SS. M I'v !>u I iiuu'ii j. ^uf. 1 1 1 1 1 i in_r l'?r Mrs. ! i '.'ilijlil ill ill!- | K'l'.-i'llt . t hip. ? Xfrs. I'i' i'.ii 1 1 ??in thr Sul's Creek sw* ' 1 . 1 1 1 < 1 is ;i madiuite ol Cidlowhe'" ! Ii.i- ;t t i in* reputat ion in th> > > 1 1 1 1 v :is ii teacher. Ivarly Fall I'll 1 1 l>< w.l nc.-scil in this "?'iini. The hickory nut tins are .?I-.;- visited by squirrels, 'he leave.* ? ?II fruit trees a ri' tnrainir brown, tile :il Iht is iii in-ti 1'iiulri", I hi1 niirlit: ti' ;ii,i| old mini Summer lias i ''?mi c 1 1 ii 1 1 km I iivcr tin' HlOUIlt *1111. M !*?ri?. Matthews, Winnie *1 ii- u-. unit Mr. Oliver Matthews. I i;i : ! ii ?| liy ? lit* i r father "lid !ht, nit ended l !.e ilivorat ion ser 1 in Willi Mdiintain last Sunday. ? ? ? ether visitors were tin* liev. ' ? " itiown inn) Miss laiey Moat' | > i i 1 1 v i I 1 1 ,;l the Snl Creel; ? ' ? til. ' " I the |'i:ie tilings about this ? 1 innni'iii \ is the lack of evil iiifltl ' I .eh 1i(*| | > ?*o td make u j > a 1 town or city. There are no ?'} jiii-turi' shows here to I ill the ? 1 '? * 1 1 hoys jiikI ?';i rls ; there an 1 e :i|? news stands to spread sex 'il,l ma^a/.im-s into every bond*; l|,,ie ;ii%? nn (||*i|!r stores for the local '"'.v.s tn hang aronnil; there >s n? '? I'i-'.* station or plnre where dirty ^ - lire t old. We have iio |K)id ""i'li- lu re. It is a clean community, -1 ? i j ? in the mountains,. where the 1 "'??( >1 1 ? M'i the handiwork of Ood; ? I ""i'i* the clear cool springs rush 1 1 "'ii ill.- rocks of the mounta'rt side: where the streams are always fresh WEEK By WEEK (By l)AX TOMPKINS) ! 12 bandits held up jmi armored truck in Xcvv York and escaped with $427,000 in cash, the largest loot on record. 1 ^ Charging corruption in the pr imary, suppliers 'of lie wis S. Pop* . unsuccessful candidate for Governor v>! I en iiessee, gathered in convention in Nashville and nominated Pope for governor and Hen Hooper, former .'{(?publican governor, for the United States Senate to opixisc the veteran Senator McKellar. This niemis a fu sion of one wing of the Democrats ind the Kepiiblicans, which will nuke a political light in Tennessee that will endanger the IXcmocratic party, and will probably put a fusion - 1st in tin governor's chair and a Republican iu the Senate. The con- i ? c.ntion of "Kegular Democrats" lauded Roosevelt and said mean things about Parley. Seems as tliougb | our neighbors across the mountains have gotten their politics mixed up. A general strike in the textile in lustrv in tin- Pnited States has been voted. \ general si i ilv?* of all labor !u Chic. mo is threatened. Thus goes 'lie trend of the times. P' fraukiy don't know what it is all about ; bu? it does seem that now, of all times. | w|ien Ihi,' people and the government are putting forth every effort to right conditions and beat the trait back to prosperity, that it is a poor time to further complicate the situ ation with strikes. p. very body's shoulder to the wheel is the only wax we will get out of the woods, llow ever, it may be that employers ol labor are taking advantage f the situation to the injury of /lie Ial>o: ers. If this is true, the employers are also culpable. I learned a loll;! time ago that it takc^ two sides ol anything to make a fight, and that it is a rare occasion when one party to a controversy has all the right, justice and charity on his side. 1 1 uev Long, by grace of a |H>wcrfu! political machine, Senator from t h? State of Ixmisiana, has hern in ;> splonse with Mayor Walmsley of N'cW Orleans, the nature of the eontro versy being a clash between two pol itical factions for the eontro] of the city. They have, been staging a .comic opera warfare with police on on side and national guard troops on the other. Now, Long has had the Legislature called into session, and he cracked his whip, had himself voted dictator of the State, (frith authority to investigate the New Or leans government, control elections, and pretty much run things, State and City, as he sees fit. The wholv thing is a sorrv spectacle. North Car olina has her \,sbort-coinings"; but I refuse to belief that the Tar I feds would put up with such arrogance, bigotry, ond dictatoriol assumption for asJong as five minutes at a time. The children and patrons of tin school at Walnut, over in Madison county, have voted a strike, the chil dren refusing to go to school and the, parents to slcnd them, because of the dismissal of the athletic coach. Since it is i : i Madison that the thing hap pened, w< surmise that when the whole thing transpired, it will v< b?? found to contain more politics than anv other ingredient., r ' - Henry T.Rainey, the Speaker of the National House, of Representa tives lies dead in his Illinois homey at the age of 74. The death of Mr.; Raincy is a distinct loss to the country-, With his passing the ques tion of the^ elect ion of a speaker to succeed him, with as ittle friction, within the party as possible, present > itself. The chances are that tin speakership will come to the South and that Representative Bvrns will be the successful contender. Of the eight possible candidates, all but one is from the South. Thev are: Bvrn * J of Tennessee, Rayburn of Texas Bankhead of Alabama, Woodn-m of \ irginia, MeCormack of Massachn setts, Warren of North Carolina, an.' Rankin of Mississippi. When Con ??less meets again in January w 'shall probably see a Southerner pre siding over both houses at each en?' of the capitol. and pure. There are ninny advantage in raising a family in a conimunih where the evils of city life are no known. / Mr. .Tohn (Ward and Randall Nicholson were Sylva visitors las! Saturday. Forecasters Wonder What The Next Turn Will Be In Administration's Progran Washington, August 22 (Special)-/ Sinee the President's return from his vacation, the, political forecasters have been getting busy again figur ing out what is going to happen nexi ! under the New Deal. And the .smart est of them are saying, quite openly that all the signs indicate that Mr. ltoosevelt is rapidly veering toward Uie "left." That is to sav}- -the her# is that |H?iieies wlich are re ?Jardcd as j^iadieal" have recently won out over the more conservative courses which business men and in dustrialist* have lieen hoping , he would adopt. .lust how much basis there is for such a conclusion depends a good deal, of course, on definitions. There are lots' of people who slap the label "radical" or "revolutionary" on any thing they don't agree with. Bin what is behind this growing impres sion of Presidential radicalism is not only I lie recent nationalization oi silver, with its inflationary implica tions, hut some of the things the President said in his < 5 reeii Bay speech, on his Way back to Washing ton. "The President is beginning to talk like Tugwell", is the way line ob server expressed il. Mr. Tugwell lias become notorious IW drawing, what some eoii-idcr, misleading implica tions from well-known facts. It is, of .course, not quite correcf to say that President Kooscvelt sub scribes to all of these rfld cal doe trincs, but since he got back from his trip to Hawaii lie has been flooded with protests aij'iinst the ton." o! some of his recent utterance*, com ing mostly 'not f ro:n' ult ra?-conserva tive or political sources but from or dinary business men who are trying to leisure themselves that business is still going to have a chance t?; grow and to earn profit*. Of course, no President ever sue ceeded in phasing < everybody, and .7 i in Farley has re|K>rted to tin* Presi dent that he is pleasing more people than any President ever did, s< much of the complaining riuis off like water off a duck's back. The plain fact, of the situation* however is that the Administration is ii| against conditions which were not foreseen and which seem I kely U> result in a considerable readjustment of programs, if not of policies. It must always lie remembered that Mr. ltoosevelt has consistently | said that he didn't knokv whether i any of his proje-ts would work, ,bu' i he was going Ui try the iv, anyway, J and if they, failedi scrap them and [ try something else. It seems now to he rea avialdy j clear that NBA is headed for the j scrap-heap, at least the more onerous ; provisions of that complicated strue- I tore. CJciferal Johnson is definitely , on I his way out. WILL BEGIN GRID PRACTICE 1 SEPTMEBR 10 AT W. C. T. C. | Cullowhee, Aug. 2.'{. ? Coach Poin- 1 dexter lists announced lli.it lie is call iii^ for his Western Carolina foot ball candidates to lvjwnt for practice, Monday, September JO. Around forty or fifty players arc expected for the ten dav? practice before school opens. Two practices will be held each day i in order ;to net the team in condition for the game with, Lees-MeRac on September 22. Wjtli a dozen or more letter men scheduled to return and a flock of oilier promising candidates coming to make them light : \ fV?r their places, prospects look bright for the best team in tin- history of the school. The Catamounts face a tough schedule with some of the outstand ing teams of X-orth Carolina and Tennessee. Five frames are b.iokcd with Xorth State Conference teams and three with Smoky Mountain Conference teams.. One date is yet to be d. ' The schedule follows: September 22, liC-es-McRac at Cul lowhee. September 29, Carson Newman at Jefferson City, Tenn. October 5 (night), Ixuioir-Rhyu^at Hickory. October 13, Appalachian at Boone. October 20, Tennessee Teachers at Cullowhee. October 27, (Home Conrng) Milli gan at Cullowhee. November 3, (Pending at Cullo whee). < . . Business "? men and industrialists like the idea of having Government support for trade a^oeiation agree ments, and will weleoine a ehance to eontinue, in the major indv.^tries along the lines laid down in NRA They are beginning to get a bit ner vous, however, over the apparent dis agreement between the President and General Johnson in the matter of priee fixing. The General's idea, which was the theory at the base of the Reeovrey Act, is that price? should go Up, in order that business may make profits and ?o pay bettei wages and hire more workers. The President, it is understood, lias come to the point of fearing ris ing prices may react unfavorably upon the Administration, particularly in foodstuffs and other things con sumed jbv city folks . And then1 seems to be no escaping the certa:nt\ that such prices are on the way -up. The AAA, 011 the other hand, is bent upon getting better prices for farm products; but since Nature took a hand in the shape of the greatest drought in American history, its ad ministrators are not so keen about enforcing all of their plans for crop reduction. One definite result of the apparent I continuous swing toward I lie "left" in the Administration is a further lightening up of private credit. In dividuals and institutions with frcr capital ate investing only in Govern ment Itonds or other low interest sound secur tios, refusing to risk tlieir capital in business or construe tire enterprises until they get bettei insurances that they will 1m* given a chance to make a profit by its use The trend in the opposite direct'o.i which the Government has been try ing to stimulate by its hoiuc-fi.nancini!' plan under the Housing Act has not ye^ set q?- This may come, however, if ftie n?w silver program turns out to be the beginning of a real infla tion of the currency. ' The nationalization of all silver bullion at 50 cents an ounce, and the Government's announcement that il will take silver from all over the world and that price and issue $1.20 of pap"r money against each ounc< is calculated to have a henefic a! effect upon Oriental trade exchanges and perhajw lead to a general stabil ization and equalization .of world currencies, however, it is not a ver\ long sitep. Many conservative members of th? Administration think that real in flation is an inevitable next step, and thev are advising people to put their funds into commodities and tangibles, certain that, dollar values for such things will go many time< higher shortly. And the pressure fro. if tin* great mass of debtors for cheaper money is increasing rather than diminishing. dOMES TO MEET BRIDE -GOES TO HOSPITAL John Lambert Hooper, of Akron, I Ohio, oaim down last week, to meet his bride of a few weeks, who was Miss Helen Allison, and to take hci home with him to Akron. On the jour hey, which was made by automobile, young Mr. Hooper became ill. Upon i his arrival in Sylva he was taken to the home of his uncle, Dr. D. D. Hoop or, a.nd from there to the Community hospital, where an operation for ap pendicitis was performed, Mondaf night. It is stated that he is resting a* well as could be expected. Mr. Hooper is a native of this county, a son of Mr. nad Mrs. H. M. Hooper, of Ak ron, and a grandson of Mr. John B. Ensley. He has a large number of other relatives here. WESTERN UNION OFFICE ADDS OPERATOR HERE The Western Union Telegraph Company has had to add an operator in the Sylva office, due to largo increase in business, according to the local manager, Mrs. J. D. Moore. The business during the present period is of the greatest volume at any timi since the office was opened here. . Mr. J. W. Easter of Candor, is thi* new operator given employment here. The office will be open eaeh day from 7 A. M. to 9 P. M. . November 10, Guilford at Guilford. November 17, Elon at Elon. November 24, Catawba at Salisbury ? - TODAY and ] TOMORROW r (By Frank Parker Stockbridge) POLITICS . . . and jobs . As I have pointed out before, po litical machines, are built on jobs. I have just received a communication from Washington stating flatly thai anyone who wants to get a Federal job must get letters of endorsement from local, sitate or national Demo cratic politicians. The Democratic National Committee has got up :i "yellow questionnaire," which has to be filled out by any applicant who is serious about getting on the Fed eral payroll. And my informant say. that there is a secret method whereby letters of indorsement are classed as "genuine'" or "perfunctory." The Civil Service Commission still exists, and goes through the motion < of submitting names of qualified per sons for jobs; but no attention i* paid to its lists unless they also have the right political indorsement from the right people. I can't see much hope for anything like efficiency in government as lon? as such a system prevails. It seems to me to provide the strongest possi ble argument against the Government operation of any enterprise. DOLES . . . and elections I have just seen some startling figures of the amount . of money which the Federal Government has been paying out for direct relic! benefits. iNot counting the thrw thousand millions of loans and al lowpjices direct to state government more than $3,500,000,000 has been distributed in "doles" of otic sort or another, as against $2,600,000,00." collected in Federal taxes in th. same period. That leaves a good deal less thai nothing out of tax receipts on which to operate the Government. I have heard of a good many can didates for reelection to Congres boasfting about the way that * they have "taken care of" their constitu ents by getting so much money f<> them out "of the Federal Treasury I have, not heard of any of tihem tell ing hjs constituents that much o; I this money has been pure gifts to people who did not really need it but I know that is true in many case? I am far more concerned about th' habit of reliance upon Government to help people out of their trouble than I am about who gets elected t( Congress or navthing else. Not h ins could be more of a calamity tha?: that. UNEMPLOYMENT . . . today I havo never had the slightest con fidence in any of the- so-eallei ".statistics" of unemployment. Manv of them, I have felt certain, wer; greatly exaggerated. Everybody \vh<. had ever had a job, was listed a "unemployed." That included stenog raphers who had got married, men who had saved up enough front theii wa*es to retire on, and all of th crdeat fringe of unemplovables whc had occasional jobs but couldn't hoi ! them long. I am inclined to take more serious ly the figures recently put out by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, indicating less than seven million persons unemployed "for al! reasons," than the Federation of Labor's statement of more than ten million. If the actual facts could be obtained*, it probably would be show that not more than three or font million workers who are able and willing to work are out of jobs today PRODUCTION . . . normal So much has been said and written these last couple of years about "overproduction" that many people have the idea that there was a great sunplus of everj^thingt pfeople con sume. That was true, however, of only a very few commodities, an>! those mainly raw materials produced everywhere in the world, such as wheat and a few other agricultural products. We actually imported some $600, 000 of food in 1929 beeauSe we were not producing enough to meet the demands of our people. And when it comes' to manufactured goods, care fully-checked statistics prove that for a long period of years the pro duction of men's clothing, to take one example, amounted to less than one third of a suit per year for every man in the nation. I have never known a time when so much nonsense was being talked by folk who ought to know better and believed by some people as the actual troth. (Continued on Page 2) POSTPONE OPENING OF SCHOOLS UNTIL SEPTEMBER TENTH The Sylva schools will open on S< ?ten ber 10. in ;tcad of August. as was originally planned, according to information received from the office of County Superintendent M. B. Madison. It is stated that the delay was caused by the fact that buses for use in transporting high school pupils to Sylva have not arrived, and will not be here in time for use next week. This prevented the opening of the high school. The two schools are under direction of the same principal, Mr. W. C. Reed, and it was thought advisable to have them begin and close 011 the same schedule. Hence, the children of Sylva will have an additional two weeks of vacation before beginnning the eight months term. The schools will run for the full eight months, as is provided by law for every school in North Carolina. QUALLA (By Mrs. J. K. Terrell) i Rev. Neal Stojyp preached at the Baptist church Sunday morning and Rev. C. W> Clay preached at the Methodist church In the afternoon. Rev. ,T. L. Ilvatt has returned Prom Deep Creek where he has been assisting in revival services for the past two weeks. Mrs. Gentry Hall and Miss Maggie Parker of Bryson City assisted in church services at Qualla Sunday. They wen* guests at Mr. Mack Com ments \ Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Ledbetter of Asheville are visiting among rela tives. Mrs. W. I). Wike of Cullowhce spent the week end with Mrs. J. L. Hyatt. Mrs. .1. E. Green aid Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Brown of Asheville visited relatives last week. Miss Fayc Martin of Bryson City spent last week with Miss Ollie Hall. Miss Marv Emilia Ferguson has re turned to M'irtha Berrv College after spending a tew days at home. Miss 11 elen Ussefv of Commerce, Ga., spr.nt the week end at Mr. II.