HIGHWAY ROBBERS ARE TAKEN HERE ?loc Hall, 2-f, of Huriingtown, Ma 1*011 eoiuity, nnd Ornn Farley, 21, ol A; i 111, iml., won1 taken from the bus headed to Asheville from lJryson City, in Syivn, i his morning and plac c?l uiult'i* arrest, charged with high way roiihcry in 'Macon county. Yesterday about 1 o'clock, Herney |{jly, well-known Macon citi/en, wlio operates a country store in the Burn lUMtown section, was held up, robbed ct moimy and merchandise, and let! tied to a tree. Sheriff ?'ohn .1. Mancy, Chief of police .1 A. Turpiu and Highway Patrolman (!. H. Duncan, in company ' wilh Sheriff Single, Macon, arrested Farley and Hall, when the early morn ing bus today shopped on the Main Street in Sylva. Both men were arm;, ed, and from them was recoverei some ^">11 in money, 2 watches am oilier inorcrandiso. Their suitcase, it has been stated, were checked on ahead on another bus, and officer: expressed I lie opinion that when they arc obtained and opened! by oflicoiv e.f the law, they will be found to con tain other merchandise, and addition al amounts of money believed to hi a part of the loot from the sc'isa tioual day-light hold-up in Macon. Sheriff Single took his two prison ers to Franklin immediately after tin arrest here, and frcwy there .lie took tlieni to Burningtown, where it i. stated, Mr. Ray positively identified Farley as one of the nu'n that robbed liiin and left him tied to the tree. Hall is ? Macon county youth, it is said. Farley's home is believed to be in Austin, Tnd. The two are being held in Macon county jail at Franklin awaiting trial at the next term of superior court which will be held in Franklin next Wftilli. BIG RIDGE NEWS The thinners of this section arel making ^nat progress in harvesting tin ir hill crops. We are delighted ill tin- beautiful weather tljat we have liaii tor tlii' past, week, anfd only hope that it continues throughout the busy K'ilSOll. The Hamburg cabbage have not proven to he as profitable this year Nevertheless, there lias been a large amount put on the market. Our Sunday School is progressing nicely. The young people of the com muuity have beco.no much interested is the Sunday School and B. T. U. work. We are very much pleased to have with us on last Sunday afternoon the H. T. II. of Tiickascigee. They enter tained us with a very interesting and impressive program. We were delighted to see the line talent in this organization, and give .ihem a hearly welcome to come sixain Miss .Margaret Bryson of Brevard, has Imn'ii .-pending a couple of weeks as a guest of her cousin, Miss (iraot1 fjrvsou. Mr. and Mrs. David I'ructt have ii.i ? . < < I tn ("a -bier's, where Mr. Pruett 'i- |> incipal of the school. II. I). Fowler is recuperatin? ?"i a brief illness. Air. I. (' Bryson had the misfortune "l nulling his truck into another ?p-rlccd) truck and doing .consider able damage to his radiator; but.no "'.In r damage done. J Mv>damcs J. Bryson and Alma I idlbrivht spent last Monday with Mr-. W. M. Moore. Mr; and Mrs. Lewis Cannon and I. 'hi.- da-ighter Klizabeth, ol' Webster, ? s i : t ( , he week end with Mrs. John ' is Mrs. Kmory Brown of Greenvilhy i ? . Las been -pending several weeks >' iih hi-r parents,, Mr .and Mr^. Win. M'niic. Mr. Mni Mrs. Cordell Towns, who Live Ik < ii making their home here !"r i in- past year, are moving to Seu s. c. ?It. and Mrs. T. K. Out brie of ^ a ' \Yeiv week end guests of rcla ' i here. Mi-, and Mrs. Henry Xorris. after In entertained for several days in ?>'. ''he liDiihe of Mr. and Mrs. PheiTon I'l v-o'i. have returned to their -home iHc Kastern part of the State. BENEFIT SUPPER AT BETA There will be a miscellaneous sup n '' it the Bota Graded School, to ""?rrow. Kiidav night, O.ct. 26. Music ,:|k?' walk, and other features will be give.ii. The proceeds will be used '? purchase library books. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia . . , Above is tho last picture of Peter II, as a care free boy of 11 years, seeing London sights. The photo was taken 18 days before he became the boy King of Yugoslavia through the assassination of his father, King Alexander, while on an official mis sion in France. , ; *c"> /oung Democrats To Have Barbecue The Young People's Democratic Club ot* Qualla will liohl a barbecue and speaking at the Qnalla school house, next Thursday evening, No vember 1, to which the public is in vited. ? \ The club is planning the meeting as u rally in the interest of the Dem ocratic. ticket. The barbe,cue dinner will be ready for eating to begin at ">:30. Following tlic diniier there will lw speaking by prominent democrats^ and m,usic by the Qualla string Imnd. The club met last night, elected ita ofticcrs, and planned the.- bar bee coe. Officers elected were : Horace B. Hyatt, President; Mrs. 1L B. Martin, Vice-President, and \V. (?.. Stallcup, Secret a rv-T reasurer. s ? . C. T. ROANE IS DEAD ' f .% Friends here were grieved to learn of the sudden death, in AslieviJle, Sunday, of C. T. Roane. Funeral and1 interment Ci-ere at Bry ?son Ci'tv, Tuesday afternoon. ? / v ' Mr. Koane had many friends here, whom he had made dkirin^ the time. [ . ^'1 that he was in the government serv ice as a prohibition agent, during the Wilson administration; and while he lived here, until three years ago as proprietor of the Poinsett Grill. Al the time of his death, Mr. Roane was prominent in Western North Carolina over a long period of years. He serv ed as sheriff of Macon county, and in other official capacities. W. A. ENLOE CHAPTER ELECTS OFFICERS The W. A. Knloe Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, meet ing at the home of Mrs. C. Z. Cand ler, on last Thursday afternoon, elect ed officers for the coming year, ehoo.-ing Mrs. S. W. Enloc as presi dent. Mrs. David M. Hall, vice-presi dent ; Miss MargaiVt Moore, secreta ry; Mrs. John H. Morris treasurer; Mrs. A. I). Parker, registrar*/ Mrs. Fred L. Hooper, historian; and Mrs. Flora d. W-ilkius, chap!aiii.( A feait tire of the program was a talk bv Rev. .S. II. Milliard, on "Reminis eiices of tin- War Between States' J WOMEN WORK FOR HOSPITAL For tluee years the women's mis sionary societies, clubs and other organizations of the county have been .'?ontrilmtiug canned <>oor?janiza!tions of the county has done the mending of linens, made article for the operating room, baked cakes or rendered such other service as.wa. necded, without the exception of a single month during the three years. The Baptist Missionary society of Webster is doing the mending for the month of October. HOLD WILD RITES AT WEBSTER ? Funeral services of J. ?T. Wild, who one adopted son, Otis I jail, four brdthers, one sister, and a large num ber of friends. BALSAM , (By Mrs. ,D. T. Knight.) Mrs. Jennie Blanton parsed away Sunday nighlt, at the home of her (laughter, Mrs. Nellie Mathis. She attended the revival at Mt.. Pleasant Baptist church Sunday night and took an active part in same. Monday morn ing when she was called to breakfast, the family learned that she was dead. Funeral service was conducted by Rev Ben Cook and interment was in the McKay cemetery, Tuesday afternoon. She is survived by one son and four daughters. Mrs. Lizzie Smith's little two year old boy was accidentally badly scald ed on one entire side of his body, Mon day. He was rushed to the Sylva hospital, where medical aid was given and is doing as well as could be ex pected. Our school was closed Monday af ternoon, in honor of the death of Dr. A. T. Allen, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mrs. E. 0. Queen spent last week end in Brevard, a guest of her sister, Mrs. Banks Nicholson. Gov. Ehringhaus has appointed Mr. George T. Knight magistrate at this place. Mr. Jim, Fisher and family, who moved to Fletcher, last Spring, have returned to their home here. Mr. Guy Jones, wfoo has been work ing in Detroit, is now at home, on a vacation. He expects to return to Detroit soon. Mrs. W. S. Christy is spending this week in Franklin, with her son, Mr. Henry Chri?ty. No Additional Republicans Will Be In Next Congress TODAY and TOMORROW (By cfw Parker Stockbridg?) . . . aad trtde boom The Gfciucae Government lias pro ?ted tithe United States Govern - :ent against the policy of baying sil ver, whieh has focoed- the price of the iitetal up in the world market to near y 60 ceftts an ounce. China has lev ied an tfpftrt tax an silver, so much -.vas drawn out of that country. Regular readers of this column will .emembef that I pointed out, more rhan thrfe Vears ago, that an increase in the price of silver to its pre-war average would make it impossible for China and Other silver-money coun tries to compete unfairly with the gold-standard nations in international trade. The silver policy adbpted at. Washington has had just that effect. 7' As an amateur economist, I want to register another guess about internat ional money. It will not be very long now before Prance de-values the franc again, and the other gold-stand ard nations will follow suit. Then a complete equalization of the values oi the currencies of all nations will be possible ignd' international trade will begin to boom again all over the world PRODUCTION distribution i One good result of the depression and the consequent efforts of thous ands of intelligent thinkers to find out what caused it and how to preveni another one, is that wp have learned for the first time, a -lot of facts that nobody knew about our economic sys tem. Wheu we Lave all the facts mayb< somebody can do something about it. though it does take a long time fo: facts to become generally known. A lot of loose talk has been heard in th< past few years about "over-produe tion." Men have been disciplined f#r denying that Asmeriea ing more goods than we eould con sume. But now it has been ascertain ed, with what seems to me convincing definiteness, that in almost every lint of industry, the equipment for produc tion is fas. below what would be need ed if every bofJy were supplied with all the goods he needs. The problem is one of distribution, and that) is not going to be solved in a day. But I think we are .coming out of the depression with a great deal more accurate knowledge on thia and many other economic problems. WAR doubtful Maybe, by the time this appears in print, the nations of Europe will be flying at each other's throats, but T doubt it. Wo not bt'lieve that the as sasination of King Alexander of Jugo slavia will precipitate a war. That is not to say, however, that no European country wants something ifchat iitcan only get by going to war. I was in Italy a couple of years ago Everywhere I saw and heard1 evidence that Mussolini's government wants to cont ol the easern coast of the Ad riatic, which is Jugoslavia. Also, I beard much talk about Italy's desire to regain the whole Riviera, as far west as Marseilles, from Prance. Italy wants to control the sea routes of the Mediterranean and is jealous of any other nation that might have a motive in shutting her off from her supplies of fuel oil, coal and the products of her African colonies. If Europe hadi recovered financially from the last war, the present situa tion would look more war-like to me. I doh't think any naition, except pos sibly Prance, could finance a war at this time; nor do I beleve that any of them wants to fight. PEACE resolutions I have to smile, though somewhat sadly, at the numerous peace move ments among Jwell-meaning persons who haven't the remotest notion of the causes of war. Ladies' sewing circles adopting resolutions against war will never bring peace. I counted up a while ago the major wars fought in the world since the United States declared its indepen dence. They totaled more than thirty. Our nation was only involved in seven of them. - But let same able propagan dist convince the people of the Unit ed States that some other nation is treading on our toes, or threatening to deprive us of some of our rights on the seas, and see how quickly the young- men of America will rush to enlist for wart I do not expect to live to see the last threat to the peace of the world (Continued On Page 2) Washington, Oct. 24 ? The outlook for any important increase in the num ber of Republicans in the next Con gress grows dimmer as election ap proaches. The most experienced ob servers here inow do not look for as' many as fifty additional Congressmen, and a good many of those will prohab ly be of exreme radical tendencies. It is quite thinkable that the President 's principal trouble with the next Con gress will be to keep it from taking the bit in its teeth and running away with legislation far beyond the most radical ideas which Mr. Roosevelt has been accused of harboring. Some of the wisest onlookers in Washington have expressed surprise that the Republican party has not developed a single issue of national importance on which to conduct its Congressional campaigns.. The one issue mi which the party might have been everybody to take a stand is that of Federal Relief. There are pretty plain hints of scandalous revelations to come in the administration of relief of all sorts; but regardless of that almost everybody agrees that it can not continue indefinitely, and that the way in which the amount of Federal money poured into the states has Keen used by mjaiiy Congress candi dates as an argument why they should be reelected is little short of scandal ous. Political administration of relief is a novelty in American affairs. Here tofore, in previous depressions, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Ccmqliitinity Chests, municipalities, counties and ? rarely' ? state govern ments have seen to it that enough food and shelter to maintain life were pro vided for the unfortunate out of work There are no statistics of the number of unemployed in the major depres sions, of which there were at least three between the Civil War and the World War, but the question is being raised whether tJfc^ proportion of those rtM^neede^ to He helped was nM as jreat, compared to the total popula tion and wealth of the nation, as it is now. There is a decided feeling; here that most of the Republican candidates and leaders have deliberately pussy tooted this issue, feeling that the mass of the voters would be resentful of any suggestion that the helping hand of Uncle Sam. should be w ith drawn. After the Congressional elections, perhaps, more will be heard on this subject. It is one which is giving a great many thoughtful men in both parties, in the Administration and out of it, a great deal of concern. Mr. William R. Hearst, newspaper publisher who supported Mr. Roose velt for the Presidency but has since been emphatic in opposition through his powerful chain of dailies, spent a night at the White House last w<-ek. He expressed the opinion that busi ness conditions are improving, and that things will look brighter by next Spring. But he, too, was sharp in his warning that the (Jovernment cannot much longer continue to .spend the people's money wholesale; that it cannot, indeed1, get the Imoney to spend by any process short of mone tary inflation. There was quite a flurry over "the coincidence of Senaitor Bulkey's sdatc ment, after a visit to the WhitcHouse that the dollar might be further de valued , and the call on the President on the same day of Professor Warn n of Cornell, who is supposed to be re sponsible for somp of the more radi cal of the Administration's monetary policies. Mr. Roosevelt took pains to make it clear that he was not contem plating any inflationary moves at this time. But he delivered quite an im pressive lecture on his intention to raise commodity prices still further. It turns out that the price level of 1926, which has. been assumed to be the goal at which the Administration was aiming, is not that, precisely. The effort is to be the establishment of the parity bet ween farm prices and manufactured commodity prices which existed before the war. Just how this is to be brought about the President did not explain. He thought relative prices of many com modities were out of line, which leads to the belief that a material redaction in some prices will be countenanced and encouraged from Washington. Lower prices, many manufacturers and distributors have been pointing out, will mean more sales and conse quently a larger volume of business and increased employment. In some quarters the President's remarks ar? (Continued On Papi 2)