North Carolina Newspapers

I REVISE PUNS [|)R home building h TH? NEAR FUTURE I -i ~lon' I)oe" l2, (Special)? L., i .. ili'iit's efforts to iron out r of rival housing programs , J t ed iji a temporary truce r", 1 || \ Ad.mnistrtnior Jim cd PWA Adiujuistrator k.-s, hut tlw whole matter :: tangled- mesa f.luit it is look as it' some entirely in "ver the entire CJov .cltc.ne of stimulating : i,trv, will have ho be de * ? return to the Presiden i>i Frank C. Wtilker, who -poiisor of the FlIA plan to Iviite capita! to pti money ?, .!,! :i?* repairs and const ruc guaranteeing investors wns followed by mtimn ' perhaps the whole future Federal stimulation of . -In be worked out. on a .. ;hc President's closest ; j not yet understand that , , why credit for business table from the banks is J" ? 1 ? " . ?. mc-s of the banks* to I.i ? . ?? :..'U Hiitiiiiii'ss of those who j . ... ' ,? make profitable use ot ,?>v, so long as uneer . i imuMit policy obscure v. ahead. realization that itbis' is t , : ' - i'iiiuing ground, and eon b ming given to measures v , , ...ill amount to a guarantee ? ; u? any competent person w . > \ r.ling to lake business risks I v. i.-Manl money, jus well as gu-..'.wu-.".!8 ? the lender against loss. Tluf Aovilil ti-ml, it is believed, to i sabw ii i mid corporations of }?: o?ed bit n > ability to go ahead v jh greatj' ?eiitet pr'wi-s, of which there are many "on ice" waiting for the go-ahead sign from Washington. Any such program will have to nail for Congressional aoaon. So will any such huge appropriation as Sec retary lckes >vanty for home building fi r the very poor who are unable fo i: inure any part ot tho initial cost ol u residency or a subsistence home .v a<l. Congress will not meet until January 3. It will take it a week or t> <> t>? get organized. There is little li : iiluiod of any -important major I : "ion gotijiiig through the new ( irntch before March. There t- -v. whatever plan is adopted to set tl unemployed building trade work it: at work-in large nuiujbera can I, ii'dly get under way until well along in the Spring. Meantime, Relief Administrator lliirry Hopkins, who is enthusiaBtir c-illy ior the. lckes idea of great pub I; appropriations to build new rural semi-rural communities and sell >ubsbtenc6 tracts to che unemployed <>:i no dbwn payment while providing ? orK in new industries set up in suich . i.idaiulies by Federal subsidy, is ; lUg a hard Winter." The number . ,'V-u' relief rolls all over the nation t*adily growing, and is expected v;teh live million heads of tfaiu i.y the first of the year. - ? lap, Federal efforts to force the - and localities to caixy a larger ?? of the burden have not been y effective, but Mr. Hopkins is v<-ful that) thiisi can be done, and uil in a couple of years or so the ! lernl government will not have y direct relief to administer, and states will have to take care of ? -ily th^ 'unemployable. ;t* correspondent can state with . i.lenee tlui'i the President is ?:ily in iijccord with Mr. Hopkins, with Mr. lckes and" Mr. Moffett. I'n ident agrees with all of those ?U 'iiitnin that fhe housing pro ? i> thebiggest item in' the whole ? insMWplan, since by far the. great-,, t > i opoirii'.at of unemployment is in ' building, trades. He to inclined ' i l;e a trifle impatient with. Mr. Mof i i l i not having got his organization '.iking faster, but Secretary of 'fhe ? i-.in v Morganthau takes a strong : "<t iii Mr. Moffet's behalf. 'l'lti on:- definite thing about, this ViHole situation seems to be that the " Congress, as soon as it is organ 'i will recciye from the Adniinistra :i broad plan for eliminating all ! i ? ? t payments, which do not call for ; ctital, real, constructive and im work \ i- . -President Garner has returned Washington and reported to be liking uiu active, though under-cove* ^,|k? rt iu the effort to make Repre 'iit/itive Sam Rayburn, of his own i'e of Texas, Speaker of the il Vwse., li is no secret that the Administra School Building At Whittier Dedicated A large crowd of people from W hittier and its surrounding coun tryside assembled last Friday after noon for the dedication of a new ij:40,000 school house* Mr. S. W. Black, chairman of the Swain county board of education pre sented the building, and it was ac cepted by L. H. Swain, the prineipaL Said Mr. Black: ** I have seen a he educational - program grow in Western North Carolina; and so, on behalf of Swain and Jackson counties I want to present this school building to this community, to the5 local school Ixmrd, and to the boys and girls. In presenting this building, I ;want to present ill as a monument to courage and belief in public education". Mra. E. L. McKec, chairman of the Jackson County Board of Education said: "I didn't think it could be done. I want iio congratulate you. This should really be called 'a house of faith' for regardless of opinion you believed you could get this build-' ing. It was a test of your county olt'icials and citizens ahat deserves recognition. This building stands to driv as a direct result of the lucnacity of purpose and perserverance of Swain county. It is a most notable achievement in Western Notrh Caro liua education". The school balding at Whittier was burned nearly two years ago, and despite Ithe heavy indebtedness of the county, and consequent cloudy skies in both Washington and Raleigh, the citizenship of Whittier and the of ficials continued their battle, and to day Whittier has one of the finest school buildings in all Western North Carolina. Mrs. P. P. McLean, one of the old est residents of Whittier, the border town between Jaekson and Swain, said: "It has been 70 years uiacte I went to school, and those 70 years have brought many changes. I didn'1 have a nice school building like this. And I didn't have a bus to carry me to schooi'Vfikj i?wwrijtl|i PH*" of school facilities in Whittier, from her ?rst, caught in a blacksmith shop, by Miss Addie Woodfin, to the new, magnificent building. R. L. WARD DIES IN WEST Funeral services were held Sun day at Wjlniotu for R. Louis Ward, a former citizen of Wjimot, who died in a hospital in Seattle, Wash., Decem ber 1, after a long illness. Mr. Ward, who was 35 years of age and unmarried, was a son of the late H. W. Ward and Mary Montei.b Ward. He had spent thj paslt fifteen years in Washington state. He made his last vijsili. to this county in 1924 He is survived by two brothers, 0. E. and Clifton W|ard of Wilmot, Four sisters, Mrs. F. D. Nation of Athens, Ga., Mrs. C. A. Foster of Ne halein> Ore., Mrs. George Sherrill and Mrs. Berlin Nation of Wilmot, his stepmother, his grandmother, and a number of other relatives and friends. Funeral services Vere conducted by Rev. W. C. Reed, and intermpnt was in the' B'umgarner cemetery, near Wilmot. tion prefers Mr. Ra^burn to Repre sentative Joe Byrnes of Tennessee, who is the most active candidate for the Speakership. * ' : Active lobbying is going on already an.Kmg the returning Senators and members of Congress for the jmmed iate payment of the Veteran's "bonus, and there ajre soiil^ signs that the Administration may yield a point and propose some comprouiae plan, which would provide for an issue of new currency to take care of this demanu and remove the matter from. the public tariitia. if i t I * \ fT * T That would involve a mpdcrjfce amount of currency inflation. The ex treme inflationists are witholding their progrdnf for. tbev ator Elmer Thomas, ?<f Oklahoma, they will not make any ^new deinftuds unless ithey Ijhink further devaluation of the dollar, another increase n^4he price of-'rtlver, and perhaps S^ome printing-pretss money, are essential, to speedy recovery. More attention is likfly to be fo cussod aujt^w ta^ jjfcefcsares, will probably be a .^firoiig drive" toi a national general ^ales tax. No pro posals 'foKi.ncreas^l in jsieome taxes ane likeJy tj be made, -hdweVe^/ By" the Administration, until after tie milddle of Mareh^wjJieii .returns for 1934 incomes arc ffledS' V I protective league OPPOSES DIVERSION OF HIGHWAY FUNDS *> !. "" "Benefuts from, North Carolines highways are tremendous!" This .thought was expressed tod|y in a statement ibsued by the Highway Protective League. -/ "No one is immune to the food fin fiuences of our highways", said tfe statement. "Esther directly. ch rough personal use or indirectly through otters' use; they eventually carry dome sort of profit 'to everyone. J "Life itself has been made mofce pleasant because of them, a.s evidei& pd by our churehes, schools and tie hdnies iit which we live, all the recqlt of oujr fine highways m|iking trans port allien and travel easier, swifter, surer and more complete. '?i f' It follows too, the greatest good flows from and over tie hiyhways most used. Greatest giood to the trav eler in decreased car operating cost And riding comfort , greatest good to Others* in decreased transportation | costs, promptness of delivery and .iteady employmnet. Why, then should not those hjjgh^ayg . most us?d be the n.<*fc improved?'' . . This most important que?ion, coupled with the fact that the st?:c 's remarkable advance in the past ten years, commercially and socially, is directly dun* to che .highways as a major factor led the Highway Pro tective League of North Carolina to day to week popular approval of its campaign for iJie following: | To properly maintain the present ? system of highways and >to provide ad 1 ditional improvements where neces sary for the promotion of safety 011 ' highways and greater efficiency in 1 transportation. Safeguard present highway funds. "North Carolina's highway system if -far from complete", the Leagu/a statem,eat said. " Only 26,000 miles ol' the state's 57,000 miles have been improved ; only 10,000 miles have high type surfaces and 32,000 u.iles are stilf moddy or dnaiy, New roads -am. needed in mountain districts; roads and bridges are a necessity in the low eostal lands; better surfaces, widen ing and many grade separations are! required on the more heavily travSl- j ed rooties; county roads requir* grading and drainage. "There is much work to be duue. Thousands of men need .th&^work. Present gas tax and license fees are sufficient to pay for it. > "But the Legislature prohibited construction for the present biennium and $2,000,000 of highway ? fundi" were authorized transferred to th?: general fund. The ncxf?. Legislature must be urged not to reenact the efiat utes providing for diversion and pro-, hibiting construction;' Proper- inainte nance of .our highway system mu d be* provided. " Inversion ; jnust b?> stopped." WEBSTER P. T. A. SPONSORS NEW BUILDING MOVEMENT Approximately two hundred pat rons of Wiebster and adjoining dis tricts met at the school auditorium Friday evening in the interest of procuring a new high school building for Webster. ' * : ? , The following county offcials were present: M. BJ M9di?on,: Supt. of Schools}; P. N. Price, T. C. Led Better, T.B.' Cowan, C.G>. Turpin,. > audfW. Jtf. Norton. All members of the local school teenrim jttoo' were prp-s , ent. The pnucijwil speakers were Prt>f. J! s: 'Seynidur and Prof: jBi-U Madison, both of W.C.T.C. All officials "spoke in'faVor of the movement. Tt was pointed orti that all standard high schools in the county were housed in fire-proof and > modern _ structures except Webster, which Is *-one# tha oldc^f jinstiUi tion^ Of -^thfc'klfid in the Prof! S. B. Hutchinson expressed ni> appreciation for the great interest vf)Mrt: the patrons were manifesting in the movement, ~i?nd stated <that .be ?ejt assured the plans would be carried Lfcttt mrtkn 7 Ww Don Davis presided al 'Ttaf meetiMk - Funther plans are to be made' at 'the next uaeeting.of the P.T.A ^ CHRISTMAS PROGRAM N&CT WEDNESDAY AT SCHOOL .A Cfiriatmas pfogram will Desh?*id by the younger children jc the ele ; hiefttaif**cl^,*<# r^dnesday a; 10:00. Patrons of the "school and the public, generally have ak inyita tiosyjo be^meut. To Opeaifaretiouse The Fanner* jjpderst ion W arehouse forJaekson Coeaty will open for bu RjJueas, in. its 4tueten in the Rhodes Building oa; l|fib Street, Saturday nwnioft it has been announced. Ed Hooper J?as t Lapome, who haa} Jbfen manner of tfo Stores for ttaBWiwaodJLuniber t)empany, for sevetal yeets, %"8I be^ja ehaige^ . V. ?... * n - " 'V ~ i V\ ?- 5?" ? manager. Milaf Parker, uty collector bo aimuistMifc.B _ Located upt&ri.at the. Main Street entrance, .^pllJfc^jie store, 'Where the federation ?wi{F eaity f*nn supplies and sarw-vas * eonneeting link with itiv luarketitog depanneui for the mar keting o t the products of farm and forest. v.: f*: A grist mill and bamn^er mill *iU he operated in the basement Working capital for the federation in Jackson cq&U^ h as been obtained through the sale of stock to Jackson county folks. fallowing an organiz ation meeting held in Sylva on Au gust 18, sol ideation for the sale of stock has been going forward, with Mr. Parker w charge, assisted by Mr. Hooper, B. C!v CJrowell, of Buncombe, vice-presideni pf the federation, and others. The federation operates 12 other warehouses in Western North PaTOj liua. . - The marketing department uses the waifli-cusi'i as one means of assembling West em North Carolina fam| piodurt.;- for resale to stores and to instttjtartions. A )>ouitrv dress ing station is operated at Asheville, as well as Storage and delivery- fa ciliti'R: for vegetables, eggs, and other farm pnHpets. The production ot many :faxyns is pooled ami graded ijjito shipments large enough to fill jjarge orders. The marketing department maintains its own deliv ery liraeks and has its own salesmen calling* oi| the 'trade at regular in ternals. : ' ;* ??g'.i ?- ; SALES *F SEALS START 8 Thr *<!iftistuUa s?itts- hem begins tomorrow, Friday, under the auspices of the Twentieth Century Club. The entire amount realized from the sales of the seals is oped in- the bat tle against tuberculosis, and half of the receipts here will be kept in the county to be used locally for that purpose. COGDILL HEADS MASONS S. C. Cogdill was electeitd Worship ful Master of Unaka Lodge, A. F, and A. M., at the meeting held last Monday night. H. 0. Bird was elect ed Senior Warden; W. W. Bryson, Junior Warden; L. P. Allen, Ureas - luier, and Ben Queen, Secretary. These officers, and the appointive officers, who will be akmounced later, will be installed on the first meeting night of the Lodge, in January. COUNTY TEACHERS XO MEET . ? *?>. The teachers of the public. sehools ,of the county will hohf^ their fifth qpating, in tlie audMorflijwi. of the elementary school in' SyJva, *#atur day at 10:30. ' A study of proposed changes in the curriculum of the public sejftfite in North Carolina will be-m^% *t the meeting, and discissions tfill re- j yplve aroiuid iihat themo.-r^" ? - Jj. Special piano select&u^by Hi Grover Wilkes, and vocat solos by Miss Dorothy Moore-, have been' ar ranged. 1 COURT OF HON&R %0 MEET A session of the Court of Heine for the Smoky Moumiain District of the Boy Scouts of America wiif be held - December 17 at 8*00 P. M. at the Methodist church in Sylva. Mr. F. -Crowell, Chairman of the Dh tfict Conimiute^jstates that parents of Scouts and all .others interested are uiged to attend. . v., ' " ? BALSAM ' Mrs. Jane Queen, who fell some time ago and brioke^her Jeg aear the hip is still confined lio her bed. i Mrs. Ferrell Brown of Canton is visiting her patents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coward. Mr. John T. Jones has n trench sik> and is very much pleased with it. The snow was about two inches deep here Saturday morning. Mueh of it melted Sunday but it snowed again Monday. Tuesday the grrnindi was covered with snow, wind blowing ] snow and mercury at ? above zero. Delegation FrdHjEounty Will Go BeforeW ayniek In Raleigh Next Tuesday TODAY and TOMORROW (By Fnak Parker Stockteridfe) ANIMALS . ud children It was Sidney Smith, 'the famous Fiiglish wit of a century ago, who -- -.id : "The more I see of men. the fcetoer I like dogs." The reason why every normal human being finds the k J3 0r animals interesting, it seems to uie, is ithat 'when you come to know them you can always count on their attitude 'toward any situation. That ia decidedly not true of mankind, except in rare instances. Some of the finest friendships I have "ever known have been between children an<f their pelt animals. Chil dren seldom underhand grown-ups. who live in a different kind of world and do the, most unexpected 'things, fi<om the child's point of view. But a "dog or a caw. or ahmost any othei animal meets the child on a level of equality. Neither is concerned with any problems except those of the mo raent. What the future has in store for 'them doesn't worry them, because the idea that there is any future finds no lodgment in .their minds. . When a man or a woman gets too self -centered to be interested in an imals aud their ways he or she is out of balance. I would hate to lirust a child to the care of anyone who did not like die little benst? of the hearth and the fields. MICE . . . they sing Did you ever hear a mouse sing? My own old ears are not keen enough bili. several of my friends have told me of singing mice in their home-, and I heard the other day of on. gentleman who succeeded in taming one of the little creatures so that it would eooie every night and share his late s^per of bread and cheese, singing between bites. The notes are like a canary 'a only very low and yfoink V BKUuli Scientist .wmiends that all mice sing, if we could only hear them. 1 have one friend with ears sharp enough to hear the bats talk U~ each other as they pursue iaos^toc-s on Summer nights. He says tha. they, too, sound like rather sqiuakx canaries, with a range of seveYa notes. As a boy t ifced to eateh bats and trv to tame them. One became an interesting pet. He slept all day, hanging uj?side down, snspended by die hooks on his wing- joints from the picture-molding* in my bedroom. But a conscientious maid-servant, who believed the old superstition that bats cany bedbugs, and are lvad luck anyhow, killed him with a broom tme day. FOXES ... In U.SA. 1 feel .sorry for city children, wh< gi:;w up widwt seeing any animals except dogs, goats, cats and horses, unless they go to the Zoo. To diem alt^Ouhur animals seem dangerous because -they 8ee them only Miind the bars of their cages. ! The other day a little gray fox from the Long Island woods strayed into a New York suburb, and women and children ran shrieking lflco their houses, crying "Wolf!" The police finally captured the frightened beast jjc and took him to Khc city zoo. Probably nobody concerned real ized thaii. the gray fox, which is be coming rarer and rarer in the East, w the. only native fox south of '.he Canadian border. The common red fox was unknown in America until about 200 years ago, when a group of sportsmen, 'trying to introduce their English sport of fox-hunting into the colonies, imported a few pairs of red "foxes from England and turned them loose on Ijong Island. Now their progeny have driven the jrray foxes back ireio the deep wood.;, all over New England, New York, New Jersey and Eastern Pennsyl vania. . ASK POR SWIMMING POOL The Sylva Rotary Club and the Jackson County Chamber of Com mence have both appointed commit tees chat are cooperating in an ef fort to secure the construction of a swimming pool in Sylva. The plan is to ask the Board of Aldermen to apply for PWA funds with which to buy the materials and pay for the labor. It is undemood a meeting of the board, at which the committers will present the master, will be held within ? "tort time. A delegation, representing the cit izenship of Jackson county, and the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce, will go to Raleigh early next week, to again present the claims of the county for the immediate con suuctiton of Highway 106 in 'its en tirety, at a ttteeting of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, on Wednesday morning, Decem ber 19. Assistant chairman, Capus Way nick, who is acting during the illlness of Chairman Jeffress, has stated that he will welcome the delegation from Jackson. In a letter to Dan' Tonip kins, chairman of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Way nick said* ywrtewtaf! ^'Dear Mr. Tompkins: Despite 'the fact that 1 have seen you since you wrote your letter of December fjotirth to the Highway Commission, I am ackonw lodging receipt of that letter and eon firm my understanding that you will appear on December ninetcejith be fore the Commission with your pe tition for immediate consideration of the improvement of Highway 106.? Yours very truly, Capus M. Waynick. ' The Chamber of Commerce has been working on this projeoi for a long time, and is especially anxious that as large a delegation of Jackson citizens as can do so be present at tiiie hearing before the commission on J next Wednesday. ! 40 YEARS AGO Tuckasedge Democrat, Dec. 11, 1894 - > Mr. E. D. Davis was here Monday. Mr. F. H. Leatherwood was here this week. Miss Lena Smith, of Painter, was here today. , Mr. J. T. Wike, of East La Ports, was here Friday. Mr. H. M. Hooper, of Glenviile, was,here, on busings, Friday. .. ... Mrs. F. H. Leaihcrfood, of Web ster, is visiting at Mr. M. Buchanan' a Messrs. John A. and Baxter Hooper of Tuckaseigee, were here, Friday. Mr. J. B. Taylor, of Glenviile, was among the visitois to Sylva, I* riday. Mr. Daniel Clayton, of Addie,. lout a litttle child about a year old, Mon day. Born, on Monday, Dt'C. 10, to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. DivelbLis, of Billmore, a son. Mr. M. H. Morris left for Charles .on, S. C., Saturday with a car load of cattle. Mr. Thos. Wilson, of Big Ridge, was here yesterday, attending to the shipping of some cattle, turkeys, etc. Mr. W. B. Morris, who has been :?i)iii?i for some time, is, we regret to have to st-ane, no better. W. B. Fisher lias been ap)H>iiite<J j,osti)iia.ster at Andrews, Cherokee county, vice T. W . Tathuin, resigned. Mr. and Mrs. .1. L. Sawyer Re turned Saturday, and will soon" fie- . gin housekeeping in the house now occupied by Mr. A. M. Parker. Since the 1st of August there haw been shipped from this station thirty two car loads of live stock, catth, sheep, hogs and ]K?ilt ry. Rev. Messro. Pruitii an?l Caldwell, of Graham county, are holding an interesting meeting at Mount Pisgji'i church, on Scott's Creek. Svlva's population keeps iiicrea-sin;*, the" latest arrival being M a reel I m Buchanan, Jr., who came Monday evening, and expects to make ihis place his ho re indefinitely. Mr. P. W. Mitchell, late of Hay wood county, has within the last several weeks become a citizen of this comity, "having purchased rho Mionteith farm, near Scott's Creek church. Jackson is always glad to receive good citizens like Mr. Mitch ell, and if Haywood has any more of the same sort to spare, thev may bo sure of a cordial welcome here. The shining countenance of the fa miliar old Tuckaseige Democrat beamed in on us again last week, after a three weeks' suspension. It* obituary was briefly noted in all the neighboring papers and everybody thought it was dead, but now it seems lihat it was only a swoon or trance, and it has been revived and promises to be more alive than ever. Profiting bv the experience of the past, Bro. Luck announces that the paper will be conducted on ?ilie pay , in advance system. We trust it will have good luck in the future and live long to plead the cause of Dem ocracy. ? Franklin