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:;- ?