business firms
URGE PEOPLE TO
TKAOE AT HOME
v5 ?
I ; , double page spread in The
l? . ll'is week, the leading- busi
Sylva urge upon the
; in- advantages* of buying at
? i'i.jtO'is most timely, .lust at
f, ; ninir of the annual holiday
lilt | ' _ ?
bjnF- . :isi:ii, the business people
i ? ? : : nir out t? their folks* that
. i 1m- people who help pay the
' n kson county, help to keep
lj.,. ? '> running, help -to provide
. i*t?r t lie maintenance of the
iid the civic entei prises ot
,|? \ vi aid county, and are as much
in these matters as is any
jM?i \ the county, while the mer
.i-i wli.-re have no such inter
lit ion to that, they point out"
.i;i: : i n is a greait difference in the
,-virt./ -it t ached to buying at home,
n~ . nf going elsewhere There are
ii. , tl r?
n- :V; iatiou and restaurant' bills
ii iter expenses to be taken into
li>. -: i- rat ion, they say.
Tiny also ] >oi 1 1 1 outt that theii
i|i.'n|'- are well stocked, well equipped' i
ii;': that they can give wide varieties
iv. a which to make selections, "lion
merchandise at honest prices",
.here' overhead is less than in the
; ,i :er towns, thus ? assuring equally
i- '7?w prices, if not lower.
arv making a straight-for
ti.liimou sense bid for the hoi i
i; > \ ailing to be done at home.
LAST RITES ARE HELD FOR
PROMINENT PHYSICIAN
1 ".-it-vices for Dr. ('. Grim
. s\ \>vt:mineut retired physi
r . ui W.v.n Xorth Carolina, who
? i at ii:? lio:ne, 212 South French
J'' ?-'?! .'vtmic. A-heville, Saturday,
Ni vc/ii h,r 17, m 10.30 A. M., were
).???! a i, rin s;t /.aarenee Chureh in
.\ - !i. \ i. v jili h'ev. Ijouis .T. Bour,
i'-i I'l'lirijiiiii-if, at 8. .50 Tuesday
I! .tiJlVlf. .
I'l.-lin'.* :iiu the services, the bolv
I ":.!s?*ii to Mont vale, his former
}.? . i'.y burial The town of Bre
l-tived a four mjknutes si
a token of respect to the
ui a deeply loved citizen of
Tm:>v Ivania county.
Dr.i < irimshaw was born in Pier
~ Lancashire. Kngland, Jul)
j1'. ls!'i. At the age of four, he was
' 'vi! Canada, his family settling
T'lniito, where he obtained his
X 'll?ai waining.
lb. tlrim-hawe's love of nature anl
'. ! '.i i ij icit spaces led him through
tii \V, ||i. scientific interest in the
v->.i k- jXai ure led him to become
i< j. ii-ih-hoY. Ui> interest in minerals
!??!;: limed throughout 'v his life. His
? ? ii i i -hi uf . previous stones of
N >?*: I; t'aiolina anl elsewhere "was
?'?rd. Ili^ naturalist's love of naturo
Miiiliiied to minerals. He lov
? it: ;t'i| animals, trees and flow
<>-. 11 >: a.!.- a study of all these
1 'i ii -'-i;Til ilic names, as well as
1m iY I urines, were al his com
II' v ; u skilled taxidermist,
'???minted a collection of beau
i ?''?'??I >i i i lii-tilt specimens.
'I- his home at Montvale,
"??'ii' liis paernts and brothers
r'.'i ;niv settled. In 1880 he mar
;"l M - Josephine Harper, of Co
l:tiiiiia. s. c. j)r. (irimshawe is sur
? '?' I ; his elder brother, Thomas
'?rim-l vw, , ot Flat Roek; his sons,
'? I' : ??'iiiishawe of Brevard, C. N.
! : Hi'- of Miami, Fla., Garland
<>t Kugene, Ore., Harry
> of Abbeville, and four
. all of Asheville, Mi's. G.
?liC. Walter Orr, Mrs. Ed
ii.il>>, Mrs. Paul Keating,
?grandchildren.
r ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PEAKS TO SCHOOL
i'a.il Hardin, Jr., "pastor of
esville Methodist church, en
? ?! I he pupils of the High
"'l' .?| the upper grades of the
aiv school, last Thursday af
. with a pleasing talk. .
ianliti spoke on the subject
> lance, under the auspices of
i-tian Social Relations Com
??f the Missionary Society of
,ll! < !va Methodist church, of which
i!|- M. I). Cowan is chairman.
SEWING ROOM TO OPEN
*1 ! ? m wing room at the high school
v1,hI v?s operated last winter under
>l,lt :? I :u A, will resume operations
'i daw a week, beginning next
Mis." Frank H. Keller will be
111 vhurge, jbJJ
"Better Is The Heart That Sings"
by A. B. Chapin
I'M "THANKFUL -
THAT THERE STILL >? SUMSHINB,
THAT STILL I CAN GLIMPSE IMC BLUE OF THE SKY,
AND, IN MY STUMBLING- ONWARD WAY,
CONTINUE TO LOOK UP !
I'M TUAKIKFUL - ... a'
FOB FRlWslDS ' -
WITH THE KINDLY SMILE AND THE CHEERFUL WORD,
AND THAT I CAN, AT TIMES,
CONQUER MV PUNV GB1EPS AND PETTY CASES,
AND ANSWER. IN KIND !
I'M TMANKFUL
THAT I CAN STEADFASTLY BELIEVE IN AN '
Ever. Guiding- Destiny
which leads the woqld onwaro,
THOUGH EVEQ. SLOWLY,
AND, . *Cr
I'M THANKFUL- ' ' * T
TMAT FOB MANY BLESSINGS &REAT AMD SMALL,
THIS IS INDEED A TIME FOR GRATEFUL
THANKSGIVING l
U- . nSi a u
%
*
? ? " K, X /,.?
HIGHWAY PROTECTIVE LEAGUE
FIGHTS DIVERSION OF FUNDS
i f (
Kaloigli, Nov. 21. ? George Koss
Pou, General Counsel of the Highwav
Protective league of North Carolina
has issued the first statement de
fining the aims and purposes of the
organization with which he has re
cently become identified.
"We have been, asked," said Mr.
Pou, "to inform the general public
on the necessity of clarifying present
highway laws.
"We have one of the finest state
highway systems in the United States
?a system that people outside the
.state admire mid try to copy. A sys
tem pointed to as the chief reason
for North Carolina's remarkable ad
vance during the last ten years.
"But it is not completed. Many
miles of inadequate roads still con
nect important communities. Many
county roads, cared for by State
funds, need to bo graded, drained and
surfaced.
"Motorists of the State are paying
for these roads in the form) of gas
tax and liccinse fees. They pay every
day for maintenance and construc
tion they aren't getting because high
way funds are being1 diverted for
uses foreign to highways. Highway
jiioney is being withheld from its
legitimate use in construction and
maintenance. Why? The Highway De
partment itself is being depleted be
cause of lay-offs and low wages.
"The League has for its purposes
(a) the prevention of further legis
lative diversion of highway funds,
(b) the enactment of an amendment
to the State Constitution prohibiting
diversion of the funds, (c) a sound
and proper revision of motor license
fees, (d) the promotion of safety
>upon our highways and (e) the adop
tion of a rational highway plan for
North Carolina.
"Tt is. the purpose of this new or
ganization to find ways to avoid
these difficulties, take them to the
people so they may judge whether
the cause of such difficulties should
be corrected.
"Able men and interested organ i
yations have joined hands with all
North Carolina motorists to insure
perpetuation of the best State High
way System and most efficient High
way Department personnel in the
land. A partial list of the sponsors
of this organization is indicative of
its ultimate success."
HOLIDAYS START IN SCHOOLS
The (teachers and pupils in thv
Sylva schools are having holiday, be
ginning this morning, and continuing
through Sunday, in commemoration of
I the National Thanksgiving. ,
^hey will all be in their places
fVfyndav morn{n| and cor/inuallj
j thrbugh each school week until the
Christnris holidays hvgin on Decem
ber 19.
New Governor Of Federal
Reserve Board Expected To
. Cooperate With Treasury
. . '\il
Washington, 27. ? Folks arc
?<>ing to hea r h lot about- Marriuer
Stoddard Koolos, the new Governo,
of the Federal lieservo Iloaid. F ;.
ono thing, ho will ho the first man to
?)
occupy that po.-t who can ho oonnlod
upon to ''plav hall" with the Treas
uiv all tho lin o., thai is regarded ?
as of tho higliost importance, for i! i-i
through tho Federal Reserve Banks
that all of tho funds must ho rai-oi!
for tho Government 's sponding pvo
gram? and thoro i> !ioiiig In b<- some
ujore.
Under Governor Fceles the Fodoral
Reserve system (will funolioii as a J
central hank cooperating w'lli the]
Government and undor complete Gov
crmiiont supervision And il anybody
asks you who thctt^ht ol dial idea,
toll 'otn it's ono ol Mcclos ' own. A'm! |
that is only ono of tho financial ?iiim!
economic idea*' which have originated!
with this slender, dark-eved, -ll-vear!
' J C 1
old banker from IMali. Ho has bco/i
around Washington -only since the
hdginniiig 'of the year, hut he has
boon tho Adniinist ration 's chief ad
visor on banking and credit policies
from the nioniont of his arrival.
Born ill) I "(all, wlieio his father, a
Scotch immigrant, had settled, Kcdos
was brought up in tho Mora on
church, and when ho was 20 he was
( '
?-cut to Kurope as a Mormon mission
ary. It is not disclosed how many con
verts ho made, but ho brought back a
wife, whom ho found in his father'^
1 1 /?
native Scotland. Then ho got a job ii>
a bank, and before long ho owned a
bank, then another and another. By
?the end of 19.'12 he controlled two hip
banking institutions, one of them
with sixteen branches and the othei
?.villi seven. K very one of them inci
lenfally, was found as a nut when the
'tanking crisis occurred.
Mr. Kcelos wai:?ted to find out what
was tho matter with the nation's eco
nomic system. Shortly after tho de
gression began ho made it his business
to collect everything that anyone else
had written about it ?nd to talk to as
many moil as ho could find who had
-/pinions. Out of all those contacts
"ie evolved a financial program tor tho
United States, which ho reduced lo
paper. He was sure it would work,
but not boiwg a politician, not even
a Democrat, he didn't have much ox
pectation of getting anybody in the
Jtoosevelt Administration to oven
look at his plan. '??
Kccles then happened to moot
! Stuart Chase, who had boon working
out some ideas for. the New Deal hia;
: .elf. He and Chase hit it off, and
' Chase -suggested that Eccles '^c; in
touch with a Columbia" Professor
i named Kcxford thiy Tugwell, who
w ?f "VIo.se to the President-elect.
Since he h;id come cast lo answci
, sonic questions to which the Senate
, I'. ihki"" i'tiiiynittcc wanled ait-Wei's,
and which In- answered by giving the
Icnninniac a copy of his docnincnt,
he stepped off in New York and called
j up Professor Tugwcll, The two men
i.-jMiil n few hours together, ? then
Krdess hopped a plane and flew to
Utah. The hank holidays were hegin
niiu, and lie couldn't stay East to
attend the inauguration of President
Rersevrli.
Along: in G< tuber last year Tugwcll
[invited liiui to conic to Washington
I and iiktI sonic folks, lie met all the
[ king-pin* of the Administration, and
the iwxt thing he knew was that the
President asked him to drop his
hanking husine s in I'tali and conic
to Washington as assistant Seenelary
of the Treasii rv. Mr. Kccles is inde
pendently wealthy, and liked the idea
or being useful ill helping to get na
iti'iual affairs straightened out, so he
a'-eepled tin? invitation. The Admin
i.-<f ration has been following his fin
ancial plans and ideas for nearly a
year now. And as Governor of the
Federal Reserve Hoard he will be
pretty near the hig boss of all bank
ing in .America.
Mr. Kccles' idea-' arc all ill the
direction of Government control of
credit and currency rather than bank
ing control. The big banking interests
don't like that at all, but he hold*
?the whip hand. Among otliei: thing.-:,
he is all for compelling the Federal
Reserve Ranks to support the Gov
ernment bond market, for a bigger
program of spending for public works
and non-eompetetivc Government en
terprise, nand gainst direct doles
from IIia Federal Treasury to the
unemployed.
Unemployment insurance got a
boost when the President declared
himself for it, under a sy^em of
contributions by employees, employ
ers and perhaps, by states, but the
fund to be controlled and managed
by the Federal government. Old Age
insurance advocates felt disappointed
when the President said he wasn't
sure th" time was ripe for that, but
those clo.-e to the Administration say
lie is for it, but his experts haven't
yet presented a workable plan.
There is a strong swing of busi
ness support to the Administration
since the election. Business is afraid
, the new Congress will propose wild
j -uul radical schemes and even those
who do not wholly agree with the
j Roosevelt policies are beginning to
feel that he will try to hold the mid
dle of the road, and so are "coming
to his suppott.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
BRAINS they are scarce
Iu the long run, brains rule tho
wo. !d. The principal thing that
hoi 's humanity back from perfection
is that there are not enough fiiwt-rate
br? 11s to go around. The world has
pro ! uced few original thinkers. Those
wln .se thoughts have been preserved
have exercised far greater influence
and for longer periods than all the
rnfi rs, armies and builders put to
t*v ther.
A t a soeiak^ath^ring the otheniight
the question' came up as to who, by
power of his brains alone, had most
widely influenced the course of man
kind. Leaving the past 100 yeara out
of consideration, for it is still too
soon to evaluate thoughts so recent, 1
picked as my list Confucius, the Chi
nese philosopher; Aristotle, and Plato,
the Greek thinkers; Euclid, the father
of geometry; Galileo, the first to im
agine that the world was round and
to guess that there was another side
to it; and Shakespeare, the universal
interpreter of human nature to itself.
IDEAS . ; . . . . . put to work.
If I were to come down to recent
times I would add Karl Marx and
Charles Darwin, as the foremost
brains of our times. But I can't see
far enough ahead to guess whether
they will be as influential a thousand
years from now.
The vnluc of original ideas is that
they set so many unoriginal people at
woik trying to sec whether the ideas
will work or not.
t
An idea is no good -unli'sg it is pur
to work, no matter how original it
is. Clerk Maxwell, the English
mathematician, originated the idea
that all matter, visible or iuvisible,
moves iu rhythmical waves. He set
down the idea in a mathematical for
mula. Herz, the German physicist,
took Maxwell's formula and discov
ered that the idea \vas.Jsaun<L There
were waves of space. He wrote down
his proof of that. Then Marconi set
himsejf to the task of putting tho.-e
waves to work for the transmission oi
signals, and wireless telegraphy was
the result, with its offspring radio
broadcasting.
One idea of an obscure mathema
tician lia- thus given work to million*
eat down time and space, and gives
enjoyment and information to hun
dreds of millions In its field it has
changed the customs and thoughts of
the world.
Everything that we call progress
' tr?rt its -?tart in the mind of some orig
i **
j inal thinker.
TOOLS aids to mvpcles
? Brains and their product, ideas, are
tools. The highly-skilled, highly-paid
workers* of the world earn big. pay,
because they add those tools to the
mechanical devices with which the
ordinary worker has to do his daily
job..
Industrial progress begun when
wjn began building brauis into the
tools of production, making machines
which nuild be operated without thr
use of brains. That made it possible
to ,-vt men of little brain-power at
work turning out the most perfect
mechanisms. And since labor, in the
long run, is always paid in proportion
to the value of its product, by multi
plying -the number of perfect prolucts
the worker could produce in a day,
[tossible for him to earn' more than he
the brain-treated tools made it pos
sible for him to earn more than he
ever could have earned with his un
aided muscles.
And, on .the whole, the product of
the machine is far better than the
product of the hand-working crafts
man.
COPYRIGHT its purpose
There is a big row brewing over
j the rights of authors to the profits
of their brain work. Under the
copyright law the author of a book, a
story or a song, 01* the composer of
a piece of music, cant copyright it,
and sue and collect damages if anyone
useS his material for profit without
his permission.
That is the fairewt sort of a law,
bift the radio broadcasters and the
motion picture people don't like to
pay for the right to use popular mssic
So the authors and composers got to
gether and arc charging a small fee to
picture theaters and broadcasters.
Now the Government is suing them
as a monopoly! That seems absurd
to me. But the world is full of pi
rates who make a living by stealing
other people's property, and maybe
they'll get away with it.
INAUGURATION OF
COUNTY OFFICERS
WILL BE MONDAY
Next Monday the county ? officers
will take their oaths of offiec and
assume their duties They were elected
in the general election on November
6. . ??
C. C. Mason will assume the duties
of sheriff, succeeding Sheriff John
J. Maney, under whom Mr. Mason
has served as chief deputy for foui
years.
Dan Allison will again take the
oath as clerk superior court.
Mrs. Sam Roane, formerly Miss
Margaret Sherill, will become regis
ter of deels, succeeding V. L. Co|)e,
who did not aspire to again succeed
himself.
C. W. Dills will again become coro
nor.
Lyman Stewart will succeed him
self as surveyor.
J. D. Cowan will again assume the
office of chairman of the board of
county commissioners, and the com
missioners' oaths will again be admin
istered to W. 0 Norton and W.A.
Hooper.
FURNITURE FIRM CHARTERED
The Jackson Furniture Company,
Incorporated, of Sylva, was granted ?
a charter, Tuesday, by Secretary of
Stjnte, Stacey W. Wade. It is granted
authority to do a general furniture
business. Authorized capital .stock is
$1'l,00, with $4,800 subscribed by .1.
R. Long, R. J. Snyder nad T. K.
Reed.
The company recently bought the
business of the Medford Furni'taire
Company, with the exception of the
undertaking business, which is owned
and operated by P. E. XToody.
BILLION DOLLAR INCREASE
IN FARM INCOME IN 1934
From January 1 to mid-September
returns to farmers were $834,000,000
1'ioie than for the corresponding
period of 1933, according to prelim
iu:ii*y reports to the Department of
Agriculture. The comparative figures
for 1933 and 1034 were $3, 479, 000,000
and $4,31 000, 000.
j . AAA economists estimated that the
[excess of farm income for the calen
dar year over last year will far ex
ceed a billion dollars.
Adjustment and benefit payment*
to farmers for the nine-month period
this year totaled $329,000,000. Com
parative figures for the period in
1933 and 1934 for sale of principal
f-'rm commodities include. Grains,
$442,000,000 and $508,000,000 ; cotton,
$296,000,000 aul $376,000,000; fruits,
and vegetables, $522,000,000 and
$649,000,000; meat animals, $752,000,
000 and $848,000,000; dairy products,
$737,000,000 and $835,000,000.
RACHEL BROWN IS MISS SYLVA
Miss Rachel Brown was chosen, at
a beau'tv contest sponsored by the
Athletic Association of Sylva High
School, last Friday evening, as " Mis.
Sylva." She will go to Raleigh next
Spring for the beauty competition in
which "Miss North Carolina" will
bo chosen. Miss Rrown is a daughter
of Mrs. E. E. Brown. Miss Josephine
Garrett took second honors.
Little Mary Bess Henry won the
prize for popularity among the liftle
girls of from three to six years ot
age.
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
A Thanksgiving service was held
at 7 o'clock this miorning, in the
Methodist church. Devotional read
ings, prayer of Thanksgiving, re
marks by Rev. T. R. Wolfe, and mus
ic by the junior choir, featured the
service.
BUDDY HALL RETURNS
Buddy Hall has returned to his
hotaijp here, after having been in an
Atlanta hospital for treatment, for
several weeks.
GRADE MOTHERS TREAT
CHILDREN OF FIRST GRADE
? I
Mrs. H. Gibson and Mrs. Floyd
Owens, grade mothers for the first
grade in the elementary school, taught
by Mrs. Dan Tompkins, surprised
the children of the grade, yesterday
afternoon, with a Thanksgiving treat
of delicious homemade eandy