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"?* bill \v< nilil defer
"s a matter of riq:!i<
? ions "ranted before
?? :!y 1o those who prove
? Mi-iimll v <1< stitu'te, and
a^e limit for such pen
'<< lixed Jit 70 years instead
' li/lit ?r the Old Ai?t* feature
lire wiH be, then, on thm*
'? reiJmv the ajye limit to
? itu-ii*:i,e the ninthly pon
:?> niu-h more than $30.00. and
?" it. include 1?:>th hiTsband and
:'"d to provide for payments to
, ' "'v u| l he required a?e, with- 1
in" i- necessary for them to
' iiemsel f'es paupers.
i-iiji-n' !inj lent u re .of the hill
11 ' for cooperation by the
-:.c u\ in - kind of old-age
v-sitii which states must
' '? if citizen:' are to benefit
> r the Economic Sociuity Act, the
JOURNAL AWARDS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Lhe judges of the letter writing
contest, .which was conducted this
month, .Messrs I Jan K. Moore and
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Iliiih K. Monteith, have announced
ilu' folic .ving awards : 1 ;
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s!-i;yf I"'' *% ^0.2:"? permanent wave
I'in '::i\*;et\..iv Beauty Shop, Mrs. Wal
. er ..'mi's, Svlva. >
Si ? ::\l prize, $0.2") worth of dry
?l<uv. tyre's, Cleaners, Ijva L.
: it i, > j- *1" Speedwell.
i !:ir;l prize, $(>.2) worth of photo
Ti'pii ? .?? viit' at Hekcnrod'.s Studio,
!\mi ! >. ( k k, \\'- l)ster.
!*'? i :\Ii | ri/.e, Afi.2~> in !:iundrv serv
c , Svka Laundry, Edith Co wan of
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F: t^li prize piece dinner se'.
lack-; n I'l'.rniliiie Company, Mrs. h.
"v. M^\ : Dillshijro
Sixth prize,: tf'i.UU worth of theatre
l.yv'r Theatre lo Mrs. S. B
) lii' ; ; t . : 'mi of Webster.'
u iu'm prize: in shoe repaii
work, a! Ml ue Ribbon Shoe Shop t?
i I ii. Cottar, of I'nllowhco.
! Ir.'i! !r"'p:'i/i; : 'I woJk'eais sub: scrip
.ioM !i? l!ie Jackson County Journal,
M. t. \\ . Hooper of Speedwell. 1
The d n i'ival is grateful for the
.??espn^^e' to the contest, :in;l to Mr.
Voire and Mr. .Vohteith f??r their
kindness' in judging the letters.
If the winners will call at this ot
ti.-e, we will be glad to deliver the
orders for Their prizes to them.
SELF RITES HELD TUESDAY
Many relatives and friends froni
hen* went to Asheville, Tuesday, to
hi* present at the funeral of Joseph
P. Self, who died at his home there,
following an illness of two weeks.
Mr.- Self, a son of the late Dr. Win.
and Mrs. Self, was a native of Web
>ifr. was educated at Western Caro
!ii;:i Teachers College, and spent all
?? liis early years in this county.
II" ha/ a host of friends and rcla
. :Ves here.
At the timf of his death ho was di
rector o? public relations for the
Greyhound Bus Company, and was
widely known throughout the South,
Hi* is survived by his widow, the
t inner Miss Lady Ruth Whi taker,
of Florence, Ala., three children; his
mother :i n<l two brothers, R. 0. Selt,
of Rnlei'jrh, Geogre Sell of Asheville,
of Kalee-ii, George Self <?f Asheville,
Asheville.
OWEN TO LEAD RELIGIOUS
EMPHASIS AT W. C. T. C.
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Religious Emphasis Week will be
observed a L Western Carolina Teach
ers Ct;!\ gv during the week Feb. 3 ?
lO. 'Mis-; Mabel Starn'es, State B. Y.
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P. I". v piker, will be on the campus
teaching a course in "The Plan of
Salvation'*. Prof. P. L. Elliott of the
Ei ? lt " i - i i l)< -partment has been asked to
{ea.'h a < ourse in ''Pilgrim's Prog
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f)r. .live G. Owen will appear at
> h? services ( ach day and will
pi-::,k e.-i' h evening in the college
audit urir.m. Xext Sunday1 he will
|.?nk ?"t 'he Methodist church at the
11 o'clock hour, and ut the Baptist
church at 7:30.
official title of the measure.
Twenty-eight states now have old
age pen-ion laws, varying greatly in
de'.ail and amount of pensions paid
The average is $19.34 a month, the
hiiriii'. ), Iowa, $30 a month. Nearly
11.1,(11)0 -ilfl peoplet received over 2(j
mi'iioii dollars in 1033 under these
? v terns. Xow states which want
;<? putnipate mii. t reform their old
a\e plans if they want Federal aid,
?i!<! a; nearly all legislatures (met
this year, it is expected that pio.sJt of
them will come in speedily/
'I his is not the Hrst old-age pension
plan under the present Administra
te. East year, on A f gust 1, the Rail
road Retirement Aefwent into effect,
providing compulsory retirement of
:.!l railroad workers at fil or after 30
years of service, with pensions, out of
funds contributed bv the roads and
the workers, up to as high as $120 a
mouth. But the Supreme Court of the
Edited States declared this Act un
ecpstitntional on October 24.
Tl is no secret that one of the com
pelling motives for the pressure be
hind the bill? the heaviest pressrre
the President has yet seen fit ex
ert' upon Congress- is the desire to
lake the wind out of the sails of Sen
ator Tluev Long and his ' redistribu
tion of wealth program, as well as to
head off the menace of the gnat
mass of vote; behind the Townsei.d
Plan.
Hauptmann Trial Witnesses from Germany
PLEM1NGTON, N. J. . . . The above three witnesses were brought from
Germany by the state in the trial of Bruno Hauptmann on the charge of
murder of the Lindbergh baby. They are close kin of Isido/*Fiach now
dead bi}t from whom Hauptmann stated he had received Lindbergh ransom
money. Reading left to right they are Caerna Fisch and her husband.
Pincus Fisch, brother of Iaidor (deceased) and Hannah Fisch, sister of
Pincua.
General Assembly Unlikely
To Alter Prohibition Lawl
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(By D.aa Tompkins)
Despite newspaper talk, at tin1 be
ginning of the session, and the reso
lution adopted last summer by tin
Young Democrats of the State, at the
Asheville convention, there seems, at
this time, to be little likelihood that
the General Assembly will tamper
to any great extent with the State's
bone-dry laws, or that any serious
effort to do so will develop.
]t has been pointed out that there
has been a marked increase in the ar
rests for drunkenness in North Caro
lina, since the 18th Amendment was
repealed, and it is believed in some
informed quarters, that this is dua
largely to trickling, across the" horded
of legal liquor from Virginia, to add
to our own hoirte-grow'H bootleg varie
ties,, from popskuH moonshine clear
through bath-tub gin t<? home brew.
There are those in the State who are
easting Somewhat longing ey?s at the
estimated four mill i"'s of dollars in
revenue that it '?> w|iil North Carolina
mi-;ht get with a i.-pcal or MM'lifin
tioii of (tile Turlington Act, and four
million ft" lint t-i be sneezed at. On
the 'other ham!, it is pointed out thai |
the jut pie m. -ant v. Iiat they said wh'n
they voted I8\0?!:) majority strong
agaiil.st repeal, that conditions in this
Stale, are not ami have not grown
worse, from a standpoint of drunken
ness and drunken driving, as theyj
have in reper' *!nles, and that many
observers of matters and things, es-J
pe-ialiv iieu'.-'i?:ip'*J' and ma-Taxine,
writers, who before repeal were string.
lv it'id miiiJaiitlv anti-prohibition, are
iM 'dniiin'i i-? i * petit themselves that
they helped, So di what was italic in
repealing ,t be IHih Amendment, and :
to 4talk and write with increasing
lieldiw.-i on the other side, and that
repenl elsewhere has been a disap
pointment from a revenue producing
standpoint, an.', that ljootlcgging,
speakeasies and drinking parties with
the young folks have not diminished,
as was predicted and believed by
many repeal advocates. Even the rev
enue that North Carolina was to get
from 3.2 beer, about which there was
so much ]K?ther in the lastGeiieia?
Assembly, has proved to have been
greatly overestimated. So, taking it
by ami large, with the results else
where as the 4 ' by 1 ', and the 185,000
majority as the "large", it is not
believed that the present General Ab
seinldy will do any major tampering
with the North Carolina Sahara laws.
Senator A. Hall Johnston, of Bu
combe, who has been seriously ill at
his hotel room, is recovering, and is
expected to be able to attend Senate
and committee meetings by next week
The Committee on Health approv
ed a bill to appropriate $500,00 for
the establishment of a tuberculosis
sanitorium in Western North Caro
lina. It is stated that there are now
200 people on the waiting list for ad
mission for treatment. ;/>
The revenue bill htfs come out of
the committee, and is ready for the
House of Representatives to resolve
itself into a committee of the whole
and go to work on it. That is a long
Step toward getting 'the Assembly
away from Raleigh and back home be
fore corn planting time.
Bills introduced:
To provide a pension o.->- $5.00 a
j month pension for indigent widows
and orphans of World War veterans,
by levying a tax of $5.00 a month on
all unmarried men between 25 and 50,
with incomes of $500 a year and more,
j and >f the same amount upon unmar
! ried women of the name ages, . with
incomes of $1,000 or more.
To prohibit marathon walking and
dancing contests.
To strengthen the laws against the
circulation of obscne literature.
1 To give boards of health the auth
Aity to declare gypsies a nuisance.
J JTo allow sheriffs to serve warrants
eonnty in the S4aic.
To allow sheriffs and deputies to
buy gasoline at State contract prices,
when used in law-enforcement.
To set up a State-wide system of
radio broadcasting for law enforce
ment.
To require the Commissioner of
Revenue to furnish each sheriff in the
State a monthly list oi il;e owners of
automobiles, with license numbers.
To require all operator., of motor
vehicles to establish fiua:i iai respon
sibility by posting Ihmc ??r insur
ance of not less than $Ic
To prohibit issuing fre.- iiense for
the sale of fire-works to b ml |tersons
To allow livestock to ? ?v included
in the $300 personal prop- rty exemp
tion.
To require the State Highway And
Public Works ComniisHio. to A^uiunt
all county bonded indexed ess for
:o;ul construction.
To require the State liiglway and
Public Works Commission to eoo
i struct and maintain all streets in
| towns and cities, designated as State
Highways.
! To submit a constitutional amend
ment providing for a tax exemption of
i $1000 real estate homestead and $500
personal property. The amendment, if
i passed, would be voU?d upon by the
j people in the General Eleeiton of 1936
To repeal the $10 tax on &aUioQ3
and jacks. ,
To appropriate $75,000 a year for
the establishment and maintenance of
a free employment service, to cooper
ate with federal agencies.
To prohibit the sale of fire-works.
To amend the eonstitutoin by re
moving the 6% limitation on inaome
taxation, to be voted on by the peo
ple in 1030.
To require all children born in the
State to be inoculated with diptberia
toxin, between the ages of 6 and 12
months, the serum to bo f undated by
the State.
To bar prosecutions flor driving
without proper license tags, if the li
cense is obtained within 30 days after
the expiration of the one for the pre
vious year.
To validate all land sales for taxes
during 1933 and 1934.
To prohibit county chairmen of po
litical parties from becoming candi
dates for public office in primaries.
To appropriate half a million dol
lars frfr "the establishment of a tu
j bercuhjsis sanatorium in Western
North Carolina.
To allow guardians, with approval
pf clerk or resident judge, to cultivate .
lands <v operate businesses
tip IS KILLED;
DRIVER HELD HERE
Bulletin
Little ttitzi* Rath Bumgarner
died in the 0. J. Harris Comnran
-itjr Hospital, tonight, of injuries
Mttiie Ruth Bumgarner, 5 year
Id daughter of Mr. and Mis. Walter
"iumgariier, is in the hospital suffer- j
ig from a fractured skull and other
-citical injuries, and a man giving
? is name as Hubert Moller, of Atlan
is being held in jail here without
~-ond, as a hit and run driver.
The- accident occurred in front of
?he Bumgarner home, on Highway No.
.0,, just East of the city limits, at
uea&r noon yesterday. It is 9tated that
Mrs. Bumgarner and her daughter
*'ent down to the mail box, which is
across the road from their home, and
aft|r getting the mail, were awaiting
the passing of an automobile, which
they Baw approaching from the East,
indf that Mrs. Bumgarner was stand
ing" beside the mail box with the
child near her, about a foot on the
]>avment, on the opposite tridc of the
higfet^ay from where the car should
have ' ? passed, and that the driver
Hwefved to the left, striking the child
with- the side of his car. According to
witifesses to the tragedy, the driver,
won! some 300 feet, stopped and back
ed up. Mr. Bumgarner states that his
wife- requested the man to take the
| child to a hospital, which he is said
to hpve refused to do. He then, ac
cording ;to Mr. Bnmgtarner, left the
scentf. He was later arrested at Chero
kee by highway Patrolman Allison,
and returned to Sylva, where he was
lodged in jail.
A Negro, who arrived on the seen';
with an automobile, rushed the child
to the hospit 1, where she is receiving
medical and feurgieal attention; but
her condition is described as being
"extremely critical".
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stockbridge)
ENTERTAINERS .... rich field
Yonng men and women sometimes
ask me for advice in shaping their
careers. That is always a compliment
bat I am not always sure that I can
t 'fie them any advice of real value.
If the inquiring youngster has any
talent foi public entertainment, how
ever, I always advise him to follow
that line. The big money flows into
the pockets of those who can stir
people's emotions, not to those who
try to stimulate their minds. If vox:
can make people laugh or make them
cry, stir them to sentimental blissful
ness or arouse them to anger, you
have something for which they will
pay you more than they pay presi
dents or heads of big corporations.
Where are the largest salaries paid ?
in Hollywood,, to the great screen
stars. Who .gets the big money foj
writing? not Ihe serious thinker/
whose books contain, sometimes, the
distilled essence of wisdom, but the
humorists, the romantic novelists, the
story-tellers ? in other words, the en
tertbiners. In mnsic in all the arts,
in the theater ? even in the pulpit ?
the ones who get the money are the
ones who are most skilful in playing
upon the human heartstrings,
I know ? Negro tap-dancer who
earns more money every year than
any bank, president I know. He has
the essential quality of showmanship.
Sd if X see signs of showmanship in
my youngster, I always advise them
to cultivate it. It is worth more than
diamonds. :
DICKENS on the setter
j At last fte- greatest novel of Chas.
Dickens? who w as essentially a show
man? has been put on the screen in a
manaer which preserves all of its
0omedy, its pathos, and its essentia?
humanity. If you who read this hav
en't yet seen the new film, "David i
Copperfield", by all means go to see j
K. Wherfrherlycru have ever read any
of Dickens' immortal stories or not.
you will realize what a wonderful in
sight he had into the welfepiings of
human conduct, and bow keen an un
derstanding of tjje comic spirif which
pervades all Hfe.
I am beginning to believe that the
movie magnates have really seen a
great light. The realization that there
is more to life than crime and sen
suality, and that there is a great pub
lic which is trtily appreciative of
the very best that it can get,1
seems to be coming home to them.
} hoj* j* have ww pictures oi
JONES IS HELD IN
CONNECTION WITH
ROBBERY OF HOME
Johnny Jones, who lias been in the
toils of the law before, in fact for a
considerable part of his young lit",
when he has not escaped from said
toils and run at large until picked up,
has been arrested by Sheriff Mj-.hi
and Chief James A. Turpin, a; the
home of George Rich, on Sue*', and
lodged ill jail to await trial a
charge of having entered a:.il -n d
the new home of Veil Wilson. <?n
Highway Xu 10, near the W< n-ni
iimitis of Sylva, last week.
Jones is said by ol tim ers is? i.ave
been wearing Wilson's hat ::a? ! heii,
at the time lie was arrest- <1, :r. i '?
have had other property of Mr. Wil
son in his posession; though i." *!??:. led
having entered and robbed the r.on ??.
Johnny was first arrested, -.hen
just a young boy, several \vais a :o.
tried, and sent to a term in State p: is
on, for having shot and killed f T ilii.?>r
Grey, a Negro boy, at Dillsboro. While
there he escaped several times, be
fore finally serving out his term, lb
was later sentenced to a term en a
charge of having robbed John A. I 'ar
ris' jewelry store in Sviva. Complet
ing this term, he has successfully
kept clear of court trouble, until the
present case was lodged against him.
He will probably be placed 011 trial
when Judge Rosscau, Solicitor Queen,
and the grand jury begin the court
term in Sylva, next month.
AGED WEBSTEB MAN PASSES
Robert Ashe, 70, life-long respected
citizen of Webster township, died at
his home last night, following an ill
ness of 15 days.
Funeral services will be conducted
Friday at 11 o'clock by Rev. Mr.
Price, and interment will be in the
Stillwcll cemetery.
Mr. Ashe is survived by the follow
ing sons and daughters, Mrs. J. C.
Collins, Sylva, Roy and Donaldson
Ashe, Webster, Otis Ashe, Eastman,
Ga., Perry Ash:, Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., and Mrs. Tliad Presslev, Speed
well, and by a huge nil ?!< r of "tlicr
relatives and friends'.
BUBKE EVANS BURIED TODAY
Funeral services f<ir Burke Evans,
who died last week in Darlington,
Wash. wore conducted this afternoon
from Love's Chapel, with the pastor.
Rev. Mr. Price, and Rev. \V. ('. Rec<l
conducting the service. Interment fol
lowed in the Henson cem-tei v. with
Masonic honors.
Mr. Evans, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
P. H. Evans, of the Love's Chapel
community, was a native of thi- ^uni
ty, and lived here until about 10
years ago, when lie went lo V.'- C i m?*
ton. lie has many n la'iv"~ a>!?l a host
of friends in this county. He volun
teered at the l?f?.?inn:ii'r eii-an
partieipaeioii in the \V<> M W :????. : -id
was a vet ci an of the 10">i!i i 1 ' I i^
nal Battalion, of the fain- us .*J<? h Di
vision.
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DRYS TO HOLD RALLY SUNDAY
The United Dry Forces of .tad; on
County will hold a rally al C .!/ ? iiee,
Sunday, Feb. 3, at 2:.'i0, at tin- Cul
lowhec Methodist church.
Dr. J. C. Owen, leader of )!??* ' :it
ed Dry Forces of Western \o;-th Car
olina will speak All who are ir;;< last
ed in temperance and prohibition am
urged to attend.
Dr. Owen plans to visit, the sehooU
in the interest of temperance.
NEW RECTOR COMES HERE
The Reverend George I.e-mel Gran
ger is the new rector for St. John'
chapel in Sylva, St. David's at Cul
lowhee, and the Epis< Mia T church in
Murphy. Mr. Granger will make his
home in Svlva.
His church announcement for Sun
day is: St John's Episcopal church,
Sylva. Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
11 A. M. Holy Communion and ser
mon.
4 P. M. St. David's, Cullowhee, ev
ening prayer and perm on.
AH are most cordially ii.vi'ed to
these services.
the quality of' "'David ( 'opperfield".
Crime .... too muck
I think T <-an see signs that tha
public mind is becoming amused
over the prevalence of crime. The en
thusiasm over the successful work ot
FVderal agents in "getting" DiQi?*
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