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ftchoon IN ADVANCE IN THE COUNTY SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, 0EUE COURT HIS CONGRESS fflST MAKE LAWS 23? Congress fauviic it* "l4n J"1' niukiiig Jaws. I; , <?? that (ask to the uleiil ?'? anvi.no else. That i* tltr lift " >?'?' 'ho decision of fllir Sl?|"'f,:.r t .'til I of file United l^falr in !'??? " case. ti !?" just kvs agreed l/liM tli?:v ?'?'.-?'I :iut hoi-it 1'or jtlxitmi\r ,? 'lu'f"! t'l ??lull oil". 'I'llC I ninth, -lil-li.i i ar.lozo, agreed wit.'; r lu- 1'iiiifipl,. that tf |< /Kvtriilin i ? : i ' 1 1 ri??l tiia k?- rules and |,p: limits uj'i'i. iu.uiivc power. Jus I [irt* Cal'i!o/.\ .'.i U : \ rl", held tll.lt ('on. ;ivj? li.iii icriiii! ?ulfiriciil author- ! "iisj.t^nt in the matter ol :> 10 lk ' " , ;.t toss Suite ? ? l!.. .; V" ' -ixv sl;lU's ^ to L 111- :?ut hoi-it \ ! 1>-; |uf |M l Iiv a'-UMUMU ovet ! |w.? lo\y>^ ? i ( _,,ul out met thr ;rt; !,0.uKaml?Mml> in the eusc | n> Th, Admhll rtPr,V Tuv-"- ? 1 lh" UU0U view of [SUI,ien tC -I- h-v ('hu,t U??i?M. routUHUy inquiring where | ' 'ougre*. tound aurh,n:y for repudi ,tio# 4 coiitrai't' ff the Slip*"'" 1 "urt hoU,s that W re* nwy not. under the Const. i .jiwn, abr^atc a contract written Leo ? Government bond, in which pay Lnt iu gold dollars "of the present wight and fineness" is specified, then 'every holder of a $1,000 Liberty I tv.nd is entitled to collect $1,690 in the present value of dollars. The right of Congress to tixthc value of money U not questioned ; but having depreci ated the gold dollar, can Government theu compel holders of gold obliga lions to accept less gold than tlieii contract b call for? The Supreme Court's decision i not expected for two or three weeks. In the meantime, all sorts ofscheuies to circumvent it. should it nph<dd the sanctity of the Cm\ eminent 's bond contracts, are being discussed at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Whatever the deeision in the gold case, the court's positive xLmd ? ?n the question of the right of Congress to delegate its law-mnkin<: powers has stirred official Washington as nothing else has since tile inauguration ot President Koosrveh. It hits put the more radical members of the Admini stration on uarn:::_' t hat they must pay more attention to the Constitu tion ami not try to eruh off too much power t-jr the Kxcciitivej and it has M'rved notice oil Congress th.it it must .1.. its icam v>.rk and not merely |)H"s the buck (?? the 1'reident. ?As out poki c- ylayiug Senator put '' : "Ii n still v:o New Deal, Kilt it s m, longer Dealer *> I hoiee If we're f'inc to plav w it !i deuces wild, we've ?>"! t" s.iy Ki hi tin* lioiisi' rules." The 4 which the President ?->k* for public works will doubtless 'M' granted by Congress, but with many more restrictions upon how and tor what it may be spent than in the of pre* i.,us blankot 'appropria tions. It probably won't be api>or lioiied bdoi'e March, and in any event won't be available until July 1. the '?Ctfi lining ..t' the next fiscal year, so l,s are not likely to be no tit-enlil,. iim.-b before next Fall. I n-eiit i'!<lieations are that the "" :,atln.ii/ino the expenditure will L ?-ort .,! CWA plan, the eliift dii teieiices being that real work '?'f [" I'liiiini nt value will be required, "ud thai w.ujcs will be down close to, ?H'- bare subsistence level, instead of j''gh enough to deter men froin seek private employment. Power pro'o sbl\ also will \h- given to move work 'r> ti-'iu one part of the country to ^ other. "any Hopkins, Relief Administra tor, is regarded as the most appropri ?"* man to run the new subsistence scheme, but Harold Ickes, See M?'y of the Interior and Adniini All'?U>r of the PWA, doesn't like to k'v '.f any authority. The latest in that Hopkins may he ap {"tinted Under-secrctary of the Inter ,t,r. Ht the same salary, $20,000 a year now drawing, and administer the '" ?? project under Ickes' superior con trul. ' Unit the new public works plan will utvc any appreciable effect u]K?n pri V:"' business enterprise is beginning I"1 seriously doubted. But if the Folk Music Festival To Be At Cullowhee The FoJk Music Festival at Cullo whee, on Saturday, Fell. 2, will In' held in the assembly room at the school house, ami will he divided in to two parts: The singing ot secular ballads and onus and the playing of string inli ne which will start at one o'clock Saturday; and the singing of sacred uusie (from William Walker's Christ an Harmony" and other shaped lote hooks), which logins at ,7:30 ?lock on Saturday night, Feb 2. All who want to take part or who .vant to attend the festival of oltl iine music are cordially invited. Any >ne who can make a contribution, either in handcd-down ballads or love songs, or children's songs, or, espcc | iallv in old hymns, is urged to com '.nuuicate at once with The Folk Mil sir Festival, Box 411, W. C. T. Cullowhee. Those in charge of the festival arrangements sav: n ? [>tiy o> *A||1!1.)*hIs?> ' 'jul'av , , "Christian llarinouy" singers win will take part in t lit* evening program. If you can sing from any of William Walker's b<H>ks and can attend the festival, please write us as soon as possible. Caji you help us get in touch with sons* leaders and singing-school teachers who can sing? We have not vet found enough tid dlers or banjo pickers, and would like to hear from these also, as well as to hear from more ballad singers. The festival i? being organized through the Institute of Folk Music, of the I niversity of North Carolina. Come and join with u- in both the secular and sacred programs. We need your help in the work of keep ing this, the music of our people, from becoming lost in the rosh of modern times. Come and bring your bygone books. Come and enjoy the singing. And please write to us at once if you can take part in eitliei the afternoon or the evening program i or both. It win he yJVur fesfiual. ~ ' \ MADISON ADDRESSES SCHOOLS Prof. Robert L- Madison delivered a most interesting address to tlie stu dents in the Sylva high and elemen tary schools, last Friday, in a Lee- 1 Jackson Day program, sponsored l?y j the B. II. Cathey chapter, 1*. I). C. j Prof. Madison,, whose father was the family phvkician of General Leo, lived in Lexington during his hoy hood and, as a child, knew the fam ous Confederate General and members of his family. t He gave many interesting -and touch ins reminiscences of General i Lee some from his personal memory, and others from facts gathered from his parents, and from traditions of Lexington. A group of girls, led by Mrs. J. 'L. Dillard, sane: Southern airs. Prof. Madison was introduced by the presi dent of the chapter, Mrs. Walter L. Jones. , , r ' OLD AGE PENSION1 PETITIONS Prof. Robert L. Madison, county chairman of the old age pension or ganization says: "The time has been extended for signing and sending in petitions I'-tr old-age pensions. "Beginning Saturday, petitions will again be available at the two drucr stores in Sylva. Other petition blanks will be furnished on" application to me " Adaqiwvte old-age pensions must be provided; and thev will be if the citizens insist emphatically". Government stoj>s spending, there will be a time-lag before private capital can get its capital working at fi ll speed. A compromise scheme on the vet erans' bonus is being worked out, to cost Uncle Sam only $800,000,008 in stead of 2 billions. Maybe it "will be accepted by Congress; maybe not. Old age pension legislation is like ly to get early action; unemployment insurance will have to wait a while. Senator Carter Glass has lined up powerful Senate bloc to prevent new radical banking legislation. It is an \ open secret that the Ad ministration is showing concern ovc. income "lax statements of Senatt Huey Long's principal supporters i Louisiana: A real fear that Huey wi'l line up enough radical support fo ? himself for President in 1036 to split the party and elect a Republican President is gaining ground here. General Assemjbly Likely To Meet WitKj Ditf ieulties Over T axati^n t Problems (By Dan Tompkins) As the (icncral Assembly "rot utart ?? o | ed on its third week, clouds "n ? l>isr gor than a man's hand" began ' to .show on the horizon, indicating; i hi* t the sailing may noi bo as easy as ap pea ranees indicated when it started '?Is voyage, with the blessing of Gov ernor Khringhau*. The rccomniendutjon of the Gov ernor that the exempt ions he taken out ??' the tax law and the sales tax made a ;i] dibble to all commodities' with the exception of school books on the adopted State list, fertilizer and gasoline, already laxsd, opened the door fw ji general free-for-all over the wh-jle taxation problem, and the Fair Tax Association was ready to stick in its paw aud try to grab oft' I tse Ifcile pigs of taxation -and devour | them. Willard Dowell, head of the j Merclwiuts* Association, who .magn: fieently led the forces opposed to the sales tax in their marginal defeat, two years ago. was ready to start the light all over again, and t ? Join the Fair Taxers in iheir offensive. Dowelliat { \ tacks the sales tax from the stand t I>oiiit of tl(? merchants, ami the Fail Taxers from that of'ythe consumers In the Senate, Doctor Ktirrns, from Guilford, young .Julian Alsbrook, of I "voting Halifax", and other strong members went to the Assembly pledg ed against the sales tax, so that the thing may develop into a long-drawn out and heated battle. It is predicted that the inevitable will eventuate, and the sales tax bo joeiuseted, as the only handv way to meet the State's obli gations , and keep the schools open If the Governor had recommended that and lelVout that jwirt of his mes sage dealing with the removal of the exemptions, there might, have been n< j tight at all, the pledged-ogainst-tl^P I sales-tax members of the Assendpjy | carryiiuf-out tiicir '"no", and coutenting themselvc with that. Another thing thai is getting con siderable attention is tin* Governor's recommendation <?l " election re- J form", meaning thr modification or repeal t>l' the laws providing for ab sentee voting. I lis stand is drawing Considerable support, especia lly fro:n the East . Westerners are beginning i ? intimate that uossibiy the E;istciu Demoreats are not. a < nineh interest* d in po?ible reform, as they are in the fast-ebbing doniinanee of tin1 East -ii State affairs. S:.iue |>eoplc from the West are beginning to suspect th.it the down-east ers think that perhaps ?the repeal of the absentee ballot laws might result in an increase in Repub lican members from the West, and to think, ii- 'the light of the increased and increasing m'uther of Deiiioeratiej votes in the Western part <d' the State, :??!<l consequent increase in de mands of the Wesit for greater recog nition in State appointive offices, that more Republicans in the House and Senate from the West might not be as distasteful to the Eastern leaders as ono might think. It is called to mind that tln^Oast has consistently and successfully suc ceeded in blocking any and ?all at tempts to reapportion the member ship in the Assembly as is provided in the Constitution, for the reason ' that to follow the mandate of the Constitution would (transfer the domi nance in the Legislative branch of the State government from East to West. Another thing in which the Easterners are sometimes suspected of secretly rejoicing in their private hearts is the infrequency with which Western dis tricts and counties return former mem hers to the Assembly. The East, where repeaters are the rule and not the exception, knows that it gives l bat part o.f the State an invaluable jM>liticaI and economic advantage. The Morphew Bill, introduced, for Graham and Cherokee counties, to which a number of the Western di visions, including Jackson, were add ed by amandmcnt, providing for the lengthening of the bird and rabbit season to February 1, passed the House in short order, but was held up in the Senate, when the chairman of the Committee on Conservation and Development objected to its being passed under suspension of the rules, and j ot it referred to his committee, by Lieutenant ifiovemor Graham. If 'it passes at all. it will be too late to be of anj bem fit to the sportsmen of this region, this year. It is prover ? i 4 bcli 1 that changing hunting laws and tax laws are about as hard things t through the General Assembly ne can start. They may seem to easy sailing, at first, but soon e a snag, and ntortr often than rwise, are smothered"iu commit ills of interest have been intro duced and sent to committees, deal in* with many subjects. Several have been sent up for the abolition of toll bridges, down East, 'o provide for driver's license. o acquire the rights of woy for the nic Parkway. o prohihit the manufacture, sale, ofjslot machines, of all kinds, where JOtalMtcy ?ir tokens are vended. To repeal the Absentee Ballot law. Jo make the suspension of license drunken drivers for at least one mandatory u|m>u the courts, upon iction. fo provide for payment ol $10 a th for old age insurance, and cre ation of a commission to administer | t lie sum of $1,000,000 a year in old I ag$ insurance. The. revenue bill. Jo provide for safe transportation of {school children, restricting, by gov ernors, the speed jf school busses to 30$piiles an hour, making the nrin? iimpt age for. bus drivers 25, requir ing Vtl'ety glass and steel' bodies in all ibusses, and prohibiting !he use ot Images ope ni ted by private contrac tor!?. I'd increase the legal alcoholic con ti^it tf beer to 4.5 from 3.1. jTo require voters desiring Jo enange party affiliation in do so in witing with his precinct registrar on ^pie^irst day when the books are op ened for registration f:?r primary] elections. 'l^r, imjrease the pay of precinct elcc I tion o ffi?afe'TW^$2 * day. . To all >w taxpayers to elect any per sonal pro|?erty he desires for his pres ent $300 exemption. To Hx the hours of elections at from 7 ?. ni. to 6 p. m. To require all dogs to Ik> vaccinated against rabies. To pay Confederate pensions quar terly instead of every six months. To provide that members of county boards of eleetions sliall receive not less nor more than $3 nor more than $5 a day. To abolish official markers in elee ! tions. To make workmen's compensation act applicable to teaehcrC To allow guardians to invest funds in Home Owner's Loan Corporation, State, county and municipal bonds, with approval of clerk or presiding: judge of the court. To allow county commissioners to appoint Tax Collectors and fix all sal aries of county officials, using as a maximum, the present salaries fixed by the General Assembly. To allow county commissioners to abolish county offices, not fixed by the Consrtitiltion. To require docketing af appeals from Justices of the Peace to be dock eted 10 days prior to convening of Superior Courts. To repeal act prohibiting salaried law enforcement officers from receiv ing witness fees. To submit to o referendum of the people, on Tuesday after the first Monday in July, on the liquor ques tion, providing that the /people shall vote whether to retain the present laws, allow a quart every fifteen days, or open sale of liquor. To substitute death by hanging for electrocution, and holding executions in the counties where capiLil crimes are committed. SENATOR RAMSEY ILL Senator Ramsey, of Transylvania, our representative in the State Sen ate, has been quite ill, in RaJeigh, un der the care of a physician, and a pa tient in the Rex hospital. THREE HELD IN CLINE DEATH According m-.-orts from Brvson City, three young men, Edward Nel son, Jesse Wiggins, and Prank Man ey, are being held in jail there, dur ing the investigation of the death of Tom Cline, Ela merchant^ whose body was rescued fr?>m his blazing store house, at Ek, last Tuesday mpraiag. TODAY and TOMORROW (By Frank Parker Stock bridge) ADVERTISING The Times I have just been looking over tb?* 150th anniversary edition of the Lon don Times, founded in 1785. The Times is the most independent and me of the most prosperous newspa pers in the world. It has never tied tself up with any party or group of ;x>iitical leaders, but has given ks >owerful support to whatever person >r party .seemed at the moment to be in the best position to further the in terests of the people of England, and iiad the soundest program. % Explaining its independence, The Times points out that it is due to its jreat variety of advertisers. A news paper must have support outside ot what it gets from sales of the paper. It oan only get that support from po litical subsidies or from advertising. If it accepts a subsidy it cannot be independent. But no single advertiser can be powerful enough to influence the paper's policies. Advertisers don't care what a pa per's policies are; they only want to know that it reaches readers who are able to buy their wares. American newspapers generally understand and are guided by that principle, but the London Times was the lirst todiscovcr it. SILVER .... foods I &in inclined to agree with Earle Martin, editor of the Cleveland News, that a prime move toward solving our agricultural problem would be to pro hibit entirely the importation of anv food, clothing, or raw materials which we can produce in the United States. HEALTH .... very good A great many people are professing surprise that the higher price of sil ver resulting from our national poli cy of remonetizing the white metal is causing economic distress in China. 1 question the extent of that distress; I think it more likely that it is the bankers in the treaty ports who are in distress than the people of China gen erally. But leaving that aside, the reai purpose behind the Government's sil ver program, as I understand it, was not to benefit China, but to protect the industries of the United States j against the inflow of cheap textiles r.nd .other commodities whieh the low price of silver made it possible for the ; ?rienMfr-itlitp in over the highest t'ariff wall we could erect. Surgeon General Hugh S. Cum ming of the U. S. Public Health Ser vice, reports that the nation's death rate for 1933 was the lowest yet. That seems to blow up the common chaigc of the uninformed that 'thousands of people ii: the Unitt'd States. Dr. Cumming doesn't say so, but I have a shrewd suspicion that more people die every year of overeating than from undernourishment. Incidentally, don't get the surgeon general mixed up with the Attorney general. Their names are very much alike. The head of the department ol justice is Homer S. Cummings (with an "s'\ Worry kills more people of middle and advanced age than all of the in fectious and preventable diseases So the recent convention of Life Insur ance presidents was told. Old age pen sions might prolong many lives. My own observation leads me to be lieve that nobody really knows much about keeping himself in good health until he reaches the age where what ever he does doesn't matter much. PEACE .... and war | I met the young son of a friend the other day, all dressed up in a gor geous uniform. He had just been pro moted Captain, he said, of the Knick erbocker Greys, the cadet corps which serves as a "training school for officers of New York's Seventh Regi iment. "Don't they teach you in school that war is wrong f", I asked him. I I Not * on your life ! ", he replied "My school teaches that every good citizen ought to be ready to fight. Gee! I hope 111 get a chance to go to war some day". The boy may get his wish, if there 's anything in the law of averages. In the past 158 years the United States has been engaged in six major wars, averaging about 26 V2 years apart. The last one ended laAe in 1918. That would make the next one due about 1944. ? The history of human progress is, after all, mainly a hisfcoiy of war. Put two contradictory national cul tures in close juxtaposition and soon er or later they'll fifki. VELT WILSON NEW HOME IS ROBBED ON MONDAY NIGHT The new home of Velt Wilson, on Highway No. 10, near the western limits of the town, wsa entered by a robber, early Monday night, and a quantity of clothing shoes, and per sonal belongings taken away. Mr. Wilson estimates that the loss, which included his pistol, Mrs. Wil son's week-end bag, and numerous other articles and wearing apparel, will approximate $300. It is believed that the robbery was committed by one man, as the tracks of only one were seen in the soft dirt about the new house, and that the robber is familiar with the commun ity and with the whereabouts of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, for they spent :i ' short time at their place of business, "The Hole in The Wall", and then went to the theatre, leaving the houe unoccupied during the time. When they returned to their home, they discovered that it had been robbed, and found evidences that the maurad er, who had entered through a dining room window, by prizing off a screen and then forcing the window, . had spent some time in the house, before retiring through the back door. Marks on the woodwork indicate, it is said, that the same implement was used in entering Mr. Wilson's home as was used for the same purpose at the home of Mr. David Karp, on Christmas eve, and in the robbery of the Svlva Laundry, a short time ago, indicating that the robberies and at tempted robberies, in each instance, may have been committed by I he same pei-son.. No arrests have yet been made in the ease, which, of course, under the North Carolina law, is a capital fei ony, punishable by electrocution. RECOMMEND $13,070 INCREASE (By Dan Tompkins) Anions the recommendations of the Advisory Budget Commission, trans mitted to the ' General As sembly, by Governor Ehringhaus, last j week, was one for the in< rease of the "appropriation, each year, for the next two, of $13,070 for Western North Carolina Teachers College. The pres ent appropriation is $40,000 and thi; commission recommends that it be in creased to $53,070. Of course, this, along with all other recommendations of the commission, will have to run the gauntlet of scru tiny and discussion in the committee, and again in both House and Senate. Another recommendation is that tho school at Cullowbee be allotted its full $40,000 appropriation for the present year. Two years ago, 1he General Assembly, over the protest of the commission, and its then high mogul, Henrv Burke, increased the ap propriation for Western Carolina, over the budget recommendation of $30,000 to $40,000 after a terrific fight in committee and on the lloor of (the House, in which there was a free for-all, with practically every West ern member rallying to the JacksoD Representative, and forcing the in crease above the Budget recommen dation. The fight was made on tho ground of discrimination, and it was clearly demonstrated that that com mission had been unfair to the insti tution located in Jackson County, when its figures were compared with those for other institutinos. The $40,000 appropriation was writ ten into the bill; but, after the Gen eral Assembly adjourned, the Budget Commission set the added $10,000 aside as a "reserve" and refused to allow the school to spend it, last year. This year it is willing for the full $40,000 to be expended. Another recommendation of the commission, that is of interest in all parts of the State, and to many of the people in this county, is that a 15% increase in salary be paid to all State employees, including the school teachers and highway workers. COUNTY TEACHERS TO MEET The teachers in the public schoola of Jackson oounty will meet in Svl va on Saturday morning of this week, for the Ias1 general meeting of tha school year. Committees of teachers have beefl working on proposed changes of th? curriculum, to be submitted to Um general meeting, and forwarded to Raleigh for study of those who to make the changes before the nes| rtbookvmwm, J
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