26 1935 ^'d P?rty Threat Looms j? Washington. Circles . ?Th r?! Party" movement loom BP 10 thp ? tiou in thl> Potential election ISM. 11 'li f,i- W1?USh haM yrLh vote behinj it. distributed Voter the Unit^i ?^t?l t(* niake ,v? seasonal politicians of both majoi irtias^upwiJ Wke notiee. This is the "Toward Plan" Party. Washington ro?<ml> th? aitnonoce fI1t by D^- Town%end that he will r a third party ticket in tho field Sew rhe<n'1 ??rats or Republicans atbiV ?! is foI,(WPrs> as th* ^jggest p,jin..j h ows since the death jf Hue y LoW and ^sequent coi- 1 l^e of the Louisiana Senator's third -rty threat. It is i?*-S and some to ho taken wriously, for two major reasons. 1, .Wither the Democrats no? the Republicans can satisfy Dr. Town send yj his followew. 3 As ever)- fresh an-ival in Wiaah ic^tofl testifies, if he has been keeping ear to the ground while baek horn-*, Ike Townseud Old Age Pension plan fati enrolled literally millions of vot er? iii its thousands of Townsend flabs, all pledged to work and vote Jjr ?2"0 a month |>ension for every and woman over (iO years old. Mitieicns know the power tit or ^ttldn. Tho^e with long memories 1 0c [he w:iy in which the Anti^Sa ^Leag-iie put over Prohibition, by rip nizinir t h? church people in every J eaaaaitv and usin^ the "pressure jroap'' method to defeat ''wet" can iir.d eloot "dry" ones. Thcv sere lauphid at as fanatics; but they pK prohibition. The Townseulites arc j-?ked upon by the politicians on Cap- J ityl hill as equally fatwtical ? but J tker are beginning to feel the pres mrf It U believed here that there are nore potential votes behind th>i Tosmsend movement than there ever wre behind Prohibition. To most I fofte, the Prohibition somewhat abstract, based upon moral principles. The Towiiscivd movement !s decidedly concrete, and is based up on the fundamental human itch to got <imethin? lV>r nothing. fta.' inevitable effect of the Town ?o:d ihreat, observers her* believe will vk- :i desperate effort to put tW.iuli at the coming sftsrdon of Con p*5s snir.fi amendment to the Socia1 y'furitv \c?, to make OkJ-Age Bene fit provided for bv that measure pay .'iWo immediately and in full to every qualified person, instead of at sorn* time in the distant future. Also to ''raise the ante" from the, present *l.dine: 3ca!t-? which runs from $10 to SS5 a month, to come nearer to meet is? the demands of the Townseaidittes. Tlurc Ls little belief, however thai Mich a program ran be put into effect I: is fnirlv certa'n that President Hjoserrlt would veto it if it were The S<"K'.<il Security Act only Wceived his approval after the part" irWdh would have required direct op propriations by the Federal Gcrvern were stricken out, and the pi a a pot on an actuarial self-perpetuating bash. "he political implications of the Wasend threat as it may affect; thv> choice of the Republican cfmdidJtte, and the election next November, are H'!lig carefully appraised. It is a 'p.iic general understanding that Scn k've Borah' would h" a satisfactory ^ ndidatf- to Dr. Townsend and his '??Hovers. Rut that ljict on the face w it is another reason why the Re P?Vican? are not likely to nominate hi>a. Republican strategists would wel cWe a strong third party movement ' "md. ?or the general assump ' ll t" that :t would draw many mor<> ",r* tiom Itoo<^velt and j,e ^rao,'r:'ti<' Party than from the ^ >' ?lic;tn--. That assumption, how ?r ^ iofflf:what debatable.. There i3 ? ? evi(if.nc(. that Republicans are any * fsirou? than Democrats of get N Old As?e Pensions. 'ho i^cPu^'enn hope is that around riUv .l W'vemont there will ums i -toup3 ?f \'^ Vv a]e dissatisfied with the Wfcile ?,aa,d distrust the Old Guard, tabr, v, ^bat have been ^'?id?d t 1C an^ P"vate indicate a Deal tJn ,nway {mn the New bff.'j'or loaders who met iiLivm,] ?lr National Committee's ? li- l . u S .1 "" wec? w<>re warn" everybody else TODAY and I tomorrow By Frank Parker fHoehbaidge STANDARD'S ... elevated My venerable friend, Elihu Root, now past 80, is still an optimist. He ^&id the other day that in his own long lifetime he had seen soch a pro gressive elevation of moral standards, especially in international relations, as to furnish proof that the world is growing better. He pointed particu larly to the woAd-wfcle indignation over Italy's attempt to seize Ethiopia I think that is broadly true in all human relations. I am not as old as Mr. Root, bat I am old enough to re member when no voices were raiaetHn protest against any of the mjusitMcs perpetrated by the strong against th< weak in alrneet every field of fttlWQ action. We have eome a long way out of the age o?. brutality in my time.. Sometimes I think, however that we have cOme into an ag?R of ?entimeri.Ul ity. What the world needa is neither brutality nor overteaderness, but cvenbaaded justico. FISH . . acd war Ooe of the things ^e are learning is that nothing ,can happen anywhere iu ?>.e world without in some roea-iitre affecting every1>ody else in the world. Who would have thought that Italy '5 military expedition 'against Ethiopia would have brought distress to the fishermen of Labru^lor? Yet that is just what has happened, laoeording to Dr. Greufell, the famous Labrador medical missionary. The other nations of the world h?fvc shut off Italy's credit. Italy has boon the chief market for the fish caught off the Labrador Coast. Fishing boats from the Medeterronean were catching fish off Labrador for the Italian mar kets before Columbus, discovered ?America. * Now thsat closed to fhem because Italy can t pay for the fisli One of the reasons why people are more concerned now than ever befoiv over wars and other dislocations of in* lernational relations is that we under stand more clearly how interdepen dent we all arc. / NEWS . / liberty If I had to express in mm? Word the moat powerful influence working to ward world understanding and human justice, I would say "news". In my J newspaper work in the past 45 ymre, I have watched the growth of know ledge and understanding through the wider and speedier distribution of news from all the world to ail the wo4d. Nothing approaching the grow network of new^gathering and rvews ditsribution machinery which exists t'oday was <*ven imagined in my journ alistic apprentice days. America is away ahead of all the res-t of the world in the freedom of its news channels. Most of the poli ticians and governments who seek to impose their wills upon their peoples begin by trying to suppress or di-Jtort the- news. I often wonder if Americans realize that we owe our individual fiberties, which are greater tiEan those of any other people, to the freedom which our Constitution guarantees to the press. ' (Continued on page two) Mjtf. Roosevelt's personal charm and popularity, wise ones in the Opposi tion recognize, can overcome a huge amount of dissatisfaction with the acts and policies of the Administra tion to date. Nothing would be easier than to lay the blame for failures on underlings wITo "betrayed the Presi dent 's confidence", while claiming per sonal credit for the swv.ess**. One of the underlings on whouM* shoulders much of the load of criti cism is being heaped, particularly by farmers and lately by business ele ments is Professor Tugwell. The President's closest advisers arc un ceasimrlv liVgeiLt that Mr. Roosevelt get ria oiDr. Tugwell for strategic reasons; What the outcome will bo i9 still doubtful. . .?!} Among Republican Presideniijir pos sibilities who are out in the; open, Governor Landon of Kansas is away j in the lead now, and is gaining That . he will take the laigest block of dele 'gates to the .convention now seer.f probable. That he or anyone else will i have a majority iu the first ballot is j doubtful., It is jrue that we are the children of the past ? that we are a part of all that has gone bef< re, of our ancestry, of all that we have been, that w e ha a- done, that we have aeen, that we have read. * It i& irue that the limitations oi the past hold us incx u i ably in their grip, and that \ve i ru\4 he bound bj them. it is also true that all the gou, elements of the past work within us and about as to help ur. on to victory, just as the bad things and the limitations of tiie past seek to hold us back. Mighty occurences iw.l trivial h&ppeiiiaifis of years, aye, centuries, before v. <? were bom afestour daily lives for weal or for woe. ? -r .. U is also tnie that each new tkv presents to a# op port unities, and that our task is u ii.ake the be< i of e?eii of them as it presents itself. ll)3;>and all the years that have g juc bei'oi'e ^v.j ;hmL The books are closed. The record iS written viil re main unchanged and unchangeable through ail the years that are to come. But 1.936 presents itself to us wir i ;>:>(> clean, new ?3?ges upoir which we *rre to write the record tor ourselves, Let us hail the coining of a new year as the dawnint oi a new opportunity to serve and to be .of service. Let us take stock, not only of o?r merchandise and oi our material possessions; but also <.f ourselve s. Let us face ourselves as we m ly are. Let us make a mental record of the bad as well as of the jjoocL ] us* make this appraisal, not of our nH^hbors, not of on ?? friends, not of those we fancy we -ike, but of our o\vi: selves. It will do our-' sou's r r/od. Theni let. m re solve to weed out the bad ? to cult*' ate the ?:?ood. "Let us -profit by the mistakes of the past, and avoid 1 them in the future. y . ? ' ? . ; v. ' Let 11s caiTv into the new year vhe Christmas spirit of good will to all mankind. Let us, as the new year dawn 8; < waken anew the hop^s that are within us and strive ane\. fo bring them to elad fruition. The clean pages of 1936 are before us. How we write u] ? on them will deteimine our condition a year from now. If Ve enter into the new year with gladness, work and strive, and hope, and seek to do and be the best of which we (are capable, 1936 will indeed a Happy Xci * Yquv J.MCH GIBBS DIES AT WHITTIER HOME 4 Uiru*b Gibb*, for nuuiy years promiuent ticra** in this part ??t? XoriS Carina, di'v! Tncvdrrr ft h'- home h l\ n* : -v h:. ?? ? ;i in jkk r hcalrh fnr fhr- x>:l-4 -v..> yoai>. M i"ribbs, t \ ??t ?.[?St' w:" - , . UtiTC.Vkl fh r ?>i the S-?, i . ii '*? jn. ri ? : o?"/u!i:v of > i.i ;hr ( Uaeral A | >:??*;? bl.v f.?; i).is -? : ??,-, ami \ia- a { ;-o an. ? -v 0/ v i3c r?pute, havui;; J l?<-i -ui' ?inland' ill Oi =o'"oV. ii. jSv.v'u h;.'ii'r.; i: ighr f j various places in Western North ('as lmna, fr^r nearly :? i -'utajy. Fc several yoa.-. l?s- j>rin?.:ijia! ut '1 ^?]rt>ol in Sviv;'.. Funcra: vi x<; v;i W'h. tier on "! iii inns ??i ( 'hrisiTiiHs ?l?i\ j vviub Rev. j?:. ',1. IL.:-r:al?vld, ih<" }>y?u*i r y pr in f L.- WlnUir-r \i.tluAii-, ehureh coiid uftmor the >*'rvi?-e?. i. Mr. i? survived by hi* widow, I Mi*. Lula -jIju.ov ftJbV. Mro tlsurK. t 'r. ? Air?:. (!<?;';?' Hw.nmamv. a:t-l M:f. ?'. M. \V}jl-4.nh'P'.\ H;ur?: troo?l. two CIri<Ti, .*!. ^tiulrr at Ttrttriu*) C'-Jl. <i-. un?l l*.q--'nof e Whi trior, or.t A. II. <?ibV . YV-hittlcr, tluTft 'isfe;*. Mrs W T l.-ev. is an 4 Mrs Addi* P-itls, \\hHtio;. arid Mrs. Magsrio SLiv.;, Hoston, T^s . and by six frraiidnhiM!'-'!. Mr. f.'ibb- ' moU-i , -.-??edod him i>a d*-ath by 1v/o HUBERT STANLEY IS STABBED TO DEATH Hubert, Stanley, who iivod in th ? Love Cwo action ui Sylva,and we 1 a peddhrr of shrnbta'ry, died on th" afternoon of last. Saturday at. IFu.} - ?^r-rwf wrnFity^ hospital, from a" Vhifie wound infKob'd a sli^rf liino hefoiv at Bellcmeade Service St --! Ln /Ifnz O:\VOOd. Clifford Moon* and his brother, Clarence Moore, were taken into cus tody by Haywood county officer*, and are being held in connection with U ?' case. Stanley, who was about 35 yea > of sigo, lived in and war Syl-va prac tically ail hh lite. FTlf: iiody "u'rts hr?;ii^ht to Sylva, at f funeral and inf^roniciit wro held ; t Wesley's Hispid, R. \\ R. F. Maybe n . iind Rev. Krnesi Jamison eoudurtij l tJbe ?erri.ee*. He is (rmriv<d f > \_ I us \vido\> , h ? father, ('amy Sfanlev arid l?v other nkft iym. MRS. MTI.TJBL DIED SATURDAY Mra. Mary film Miller, 85 died :L the home of her .son, C. A. Mill' i in Sylva early Saturday morning. Funeral services w<*re conducted at the home, Sunday afternoon by her pastor, Hev. T. R. Wolfe of tl 1 Syiva Method).-: Iiiterme.'.t wmx in the Keener cemetery. Mrs. Miller was a native of P*ni - ?yfrania. She ear. ie to Syiv.n pov i years aj^o. She i-> survive d by her so.;, four grandchildren. jc:d s'x gnc; ' grandchildren. BROWN HEADS EAST LA PORTE MASONIC BODY The ofj'if' i ; for 193G of llasi J ?, Hone Masoidc lodge wilt he J. f. Brown, Worshipful Master; T. 1)- S. Waters, .<?? nior warde*<: M. 11. XieJ - ulfon, juiiior warden; j;. ]?_ W'!?\ sec retary; T. <*. I/dbi-iier, tr a-ure: ; .Tarn?*5 Kobl'Ins, v nior deacon; C. A. Hoyle, junior deacon; J. TF. Middletou end Jack Johnse-., steward*; W. I). Wk", .<-haj'l;<in; .Tr?'un S. Sey? nv.i;r, cduc;; i ion.i! MRS. EVANS HEADS STATE DEMONSTRATORS ! Mrs*. Harry Evan.-. of>ylvaw:s j Liujr week elected pre.-ideni of tl o North <"^r?'!ina State A. -orialion ? ? I Home Demonstration Ag? ni.-, at tl "> annua! co;:f< tone' of State Colle/n [ esTeu=i??i: workers, in Raleigh. CROWELL HEADS SCOUTS 1 - ? j Mr. H. P. Crow-ell of Sylva w.; i I oknted chairman of the Smofyy Moth j tains district, Boy Scouts of Amerii f.t 'a m?ct*n? nf tho district ? mivmiUco l.:Ul r:w.:;- H:;- ?

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