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/1 ?ilb grt'"' im" "
f"j? are not pl.ysk-ally worn
feE* " ar''
L the last-minute laws enact.
K. r the Suproiv-f Court issue was
Ia the record of the oth Con
tar ^ ?()t iuipreessivc. It
P , 55 resolutions and passeo
f l250 no* laws tar of which
L mv jrroat public concern.
Lmost noteworthy laws and ivso
include the following.
fibiti'ig tho ex|H)it of anus 1 ?
Creating a eonui.i^ion on the
iniation^f thu government
jn? for two yoars the I?nitcti
k' guarantee of Federal Hous
^ministration debenture*.
Wng the excise tax levy on
ieis aU(i the i"00"1'' Jax ^v-v 0,1'
mployeps. Extending the Presi- i
?.tariff powers. Deferring tlu'j
...limit for filing certain kj)\<ls ot j
piruax returns. Providing for .1
bed .-allt v of art. Appropriat-?
I- rihc flimi:ialioii of insjot pests
Pi iu* Xculraljty, or War Policy.
[Vidin? loans for llood suffer
[. Strting up funds tor old-age as
10. Croatia? the joint committee
(t;xevasion. Tho R.lief Act, appro
NK 1,500 millions. Extending tin
Kntf taxes. Proving funds for
Xnv York World's Fair. And
[sprinting sciie more for insect
uan<? the President's mon?
? A
wers. Coutinuiiig the fane,
of the RFC. Arranging for cro'
harvesting lo:nis. Continuing di
rtlijratiwn.s of the United Stat'0
4itrral security for Federal R -
notes. Providing lor retirement
\ipreuie Court justices. Air.end
tli> Fed ral Housing Act. Tin
"y.Viiisoii Coal Act. Tho District
(Vmrbia "ml Hidtr" repeal. Re
icg the AAA's marketing agree
???. The Railroad Pensions Act"
.ndiiw the CCC. Passing the Farn
'i Interest Act (over veto), th?
1 Tenancy Act, and most of the
opriation bills.
? Hiring over, for consideration on ^
l.after January .'!, 1938, are niaiiyj
Ay important subjects upon whie^j
plation has bee n requested by t'u
me House, or ui>on the necessity
'W thgr. is general agreement.
? ^ iu the mjnds of Senators and
|ptsfntativcl> is a broad program
' ** revision. Into this subject
5-r >0 many questions of public
"fy. as well as of polilics, that it*
"^?ration may w?ll take jnany
^ot Cotigr 'ssi.inp.l time.
AdinThistratiori ijj pressing for
' "fugram of reorganization of Fed
^particeiits and bureaus. Con.
^ dots uot like the President's
H and will wait foi the report of
special Commission on the
further laws for the regula
ot 'idustry, under goverannn:
coming as closely as pos
^tothe X. K. A., will b<> pressed
I ingress, is eonsid,erel certain.
Joining toward the objective o!
went regulation is the Wage*
lJ?!8 enabling a Fedcrn
?'ssion to tix miiiinwinr. wages ol
^ eoi,ls a? bour and
ur* of not more than 4t
'y of '?tMy i)M,ustry? under pena'
lin. ,^)(n{l'^'nK its protlucts t?
f J l' as i*lt(,rstate commerce.
v^#u" e 'aws which the present
?'>iw;J>aS0(' w'tl?out attracting jnuc.
;.'S f'l(' Mill r Tydings ResaK
?i. ls a"l,<,|li"ieo Act. It was tacked
i ? ruler" to the District of
j .a* l)'"- The President had
?itiefewi u" * l,,L rrc!S1(>^t nau
H secret l>nnci,>lc' but his s0B
N.rt far^? '*an es ltoosevelt, per
VtM n,0Iubers to get it
^?UrpN t? luw Peiw it8 manu
*hifi| ti . 0 ,x the retail price at
^alwH.r nuist be sold, and
. vrf ZTwho ,ut p??e3
^CoiKrTcd r !n"s wWcb this expi"
^ bikU, V ' not do was to roduof;
f|,|iOhiy h-,1 ' 't- Tlie brave talk of
^1, *a, p'V the session be
Ret defi 'l ^,rRotten, and t^e
LM was increased in
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TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker Stoctbridge)
HOUSING .....
The Federal government is goinv;
ilito home-building1 in a big way. Un
dor thjQ new Wagner Housing Act it
proposes to provide $700,0u0,000 in
the next three years to finance the
baildii g of better houies for the poor,
t<'id $20,000,000 a year more for twen.
ty years. The work will bo done un.
der Federal supervision and the rent4
charged wily* regulated by the Got
tinment. The cost of these houses in
limited by law to $1,030 a room <.i
$V*00 for each home of four roo&<i,
w bether in an apartment or in a sep
arate house, exclusive of the value ?t
the land.
The humanitarian purpose behind
this project $s basjed upon the a&nmp
tion that one-third of the people o?:
thc United States are inadequately
housed. That may be true enough,
but I wonder how many of that lower I
thirtl can or ever will be able to pay
vent which will yijeld even 1 perceri i
net on such costs. <
I haven't any statistics?there
aren't any?but I'll venture that
most of Americans, the comfortable
ones, live in houses which cost far less
than $1,000 a room.
COSTS variance
I have had quite a bit of expert
cencc, iu the past forty years, i|r
house-building, both in city and coun
try. I am not talking through pvy hat
when I say that in New York CBty,
where building costs ar^ as high as
thiey are anywhere, a good [modem
apartment house can be .built for
$750 a room. I have done it, at a tin&j
when building materials and labor
cost much more than they do today.
In amall towns the cost of building
is far lower. I have qocently been get,
ting ehtimates of Jhe cost gf buUdnie
daughter owns, one in a Florida eity.
one in a Pennsylvania village. For
$2,500 in Florida, $3^500 in Pennsyl
vania, where cellar and heating equip
ment have to be flgutcd in, she can \
build a five-room* house which nobod.v
would bc ashamed live in.
It is easy to say that the houses for
the poor whi^h the Government pro
pose to build under the Wagner Aci
n?cd not cost as much as the miaxi
mum allowance. I ne\ er heard of any
Government bureau spending less
than the law allows.
RENTS <? tenants
If the rew Housing Act actually,
docs, as its friends say |t will, stimu
late the building industry all over
the country, then perhaps it will be
worth what it costs. But I have my
doubts that it wiU*t>eneflt the peoplo
whom it is designed to benefit?a:
least not directly. The low-incorr.
people, the ones who are now inade
quately housed, live that way, because
they don't earn enough to pay the
renf which it would' take to provide
better accommodations, even with n?#
profit at all to the landlord
They are talking about renting
these n e w Government financed
houses at around $20 a month. T1 at
would be a baigaifa rate in the cities
for families with incomes of $25 a
week or so. It would be high rental
in most small tow';s. I think the peo
pie who earn good pay would gobble
up these new homes and leave onl
the old and less desirable places foi
the very poor to live in.
That is the way every better hous
ing plan I know anything about has
worked.
NEGROES . . . accommodations
About twelve percent of the peop??
of the Unitel States aro Negroes. The
great majority of them belong in the
''underprivileged third" of the pop
ulation. Few Negroes have steady jobs
at good enough wages to enable thi:ni
to pay rents based on what now, frnod
ern housing would require.
I inspected, a few wiceks ago, th.
largest Federal Housing project for
Negroes so far completed, at M.boi,
Florida. It is a beai tiful group of
brick apnrtment buildings, forming n
quadrangle around a park and play
vground which ^ovefrs "two.
more. The bandings are -
the rooms large, light and
equipped with overy modern eapW?
rencc. The tenants have the osfe of o
big community house, witlt a
tipn hall, commodious kitebonf^y*
rooms for classes in sewing, ;dotii?fti?
science, and other subjects.
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8YLVA BOY COVEBS
ROOSEVELT' S TRIP
T 1
JoLn A. Parris, Jr., young Sylv.i!
newspaper iran, who was for a f.'\v j
years with the United Press in Ra'-1
eigh and New York, but who is now a
special writer for the Winston-Sale,.i:'
Journal and Sentinel, was sent by
that paper to Washington, to board
President Roosevelt's specijnj trai.i
and cover tlie President's trip to
Manteo.
The President was the guest of the
State on Wednesday, when he spo*o
at the celcbratilon of tlx; 350th anni
versary of Virginia Dare, first chi!-1
of English parents born ijn Amerioa-..
The assignment of ?lohn Parris by
the Journal and Sentinel to ride wit'i j
the President south and cover the en
tire trip for that papei' is no men-:
honor to a newspaper man, and
places John high up in the roster o!
reporters.
BALSAM
(By Mrs. D. T. Kuight)
Mrs. W. S. Christy and Mr. and j
Mrs. 0. J. Norris went to Lake Junn-!
ltftiut, 8mtdtty morning. Mjtiday the*
left for Athens, Macon and other
places in Georgia, to visit relatival
Mrs. John P. Knight and Mrs. D.
T. Knight we"t to Clayton, Ga., Fri
day the ]3th, to jueet Mr. John P
Knifeht, who came up from Orlando,
Fla., with some friends, who are in
terested in thr? Rabun Gap Agricul
tural School, near Clayton. Mr. Kn'gl. j
and family will kav.,> Balsamv Satur j
day, for thetyr honio in Orlando, v a j
Montgomery and l)ot!ian, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. John Upson and Mr. j
anl Mrs. Louis Upson and family, oi ,
Daytona Beach, Fla., are visiting Mr. I
and Mls. F. L. Potts and other relu- j
tives here.
Mrs. Louis Upson underwent a?
operation for appendicitis in t'-, j
Waynesvill- hospital, last week, ai^ ,
is recovering as wdll as could be e.v
pee ted.
Parade Here
iday
27th
?4?y of next week, Ajugu-t
Ar o'clock, a driverless csr
Safety Parade down tin'
of Sjlva, up to the court
re a safety address will
and back to the starting
ity parade, headed by the
iiittgitjljjir, is being brought to Sylva
through'the cooperation of town of
ficialspfoca] automobile dealers, and
snppl|w0rms. The parade has b?'e ?
given m scores of North Caiolii.i
towns^and the response has bee.
gratif$bg in every instance.
The order of the parade will he
^ta^ijTpolioj; c^ty"police; lire Je
; official car1, city official;
fitjCar; control car; ears wit.'i
* A '
jnd fcatemal groups; Boy
find merchants' display:
towing wrecks; ambulances
form promptly at
m street, proceed
and up to the cou t
U turn back to the
Lynch driv
rnijscr w'll make a safely
talk from the safety car, at the con1"1'
house
In order to select the magic car,
the nanr-cs of throe Sylva dealers su]i
,porting the Safety Day Parade were
placrd in three separate capsules and
then drawn out by Mayor H. G. Gib
son. The drawn was a Ford, and
this will be the Mnoric Car, which wil'
operate in the Safety Parade without
a driver, showing that an automobile
can be safely operated without *?
driver, and that nearly all automobiij.
accidents arc the fault of the opem
tor. The next ear drawn was a Dodg, ?
In this Dodge control car Capt
J. ?T. Lynch will ride, net only operal
ing the Dodge, but also the controls
that will operate the Magic Car.
Chevrolet was the third cai draw-i
and will be the official car of the
parade.
J
MRS. TAYLOR FOWLER PASSES
Funqral services were conducted al
Gleiivilln Baptist church, for Mrs- '
Taylor Fowler, who dyed at her lion."
; on Bjg Ridge, on August 10, at th I
? i . ' , l
i age ci' 80 yearn.
Mrs. Fowler is Survived hv on ?
I
(daughter, Mrs. James Bryson, h.i.I
| six sons, Frc.nian, Will, Jones, Percy,
Deitz, and Hubert Fowler, all o<
Glcnville, by three brothers, Newton '
and John Bryson, of Salem, S. C., by]
twenty-one grandchildren, twontv
two great grandchildren, and nnjrer
other relatives and friends.
FEED SEAT PASSES
Kred Seay, aged 40, died at hi:;
home, here, last Thursday, after an
? t
illness of several months' duration.
Mr. Seay was a member of the Wilkeg.
daje Baptist church and had bden T'
deacon for three years. He had be>"
an employee of the Sylva Paperboard
Company for about ten years.
Funeral service's wore conducted at
Birdtowu, Friday at 3:30, by Re*.
"EfifaSt Jami? nandTtev. I^oyiJ
ack, of Sylva, and R-ev, John Hyatt,
cf Whittj|er. Burial was in the Bird
town cemetery.
Pall bearers wore Messrs. Bob Hi?
don, Harley Stewman, Oscar Watson,
Richard Hoylo Joe Deitz and E. J.
Duckett, all of Sylva. In charge of
the flowers were Misses Lfly Brown,
Ora Franklin, Bertha Frady, Louis
Hooper, Virginia and Dollie Ma^
Woods, and Mrs. Oscar Watson, ol
Sylva, Misses Raye Nelson, Norm
Seay and Mrs. Emma Woodard, of
Da, and Mrs. Tom Tollfe, of Chero
tm.
Mr. Seay is survived by l.is widow,
three daughters, Frp.nkio, Beatrice
and Edna Mae; one son, Burh; five
brother* James and Taylor, of Ela;
Geoigie And John, of Qualla; and Bob,
of Sylva; and by one sister, Mrs.'
VMt Kiutt, of Ravensford.
'i J ? ? .
Saturday cAftemooru by A. B. CHAPIN
Methodists At
Cullowhee Will
Dedicate Church
Sunday will bo a red ktti day ;n
i1l> history oi Cullowhoe Methodist
church, for tin; handsome churc.-:
building, recently complctcd, will ho
[dedicated, andjhe presiding bish ;p?
Bishop Paul B. Kern, will be proc
ent and conduct the serv ce of del",
nation*,and will preach at 11 oTe'.b. k,
As many former pastors ol 11 -J
church as can possibly come to Cul ?
lowhee arc. expected to be present.
A.n.ong them are 'Mark (^. Tuttl ,
L. B. Abernethy,, Robert M. Hardee,
KL C. Widen house, A.W. Lynch, El
zie Myers, S. H. Hilliard, and possl
bly others.
The new church and parsonage, de
signed to care for the needs of the
Methodist people of the communi.y,
and also among the students at W. IJj
T. C., were recently completed at a
cost of $20,000 under directipn of a
building committee composed of the
pastor, Rev. C. G. Heffner and W 1!
Bird, chairman; R. C. Sutton, treas
urer; H. T. Hunter, S W. Enloe, D
H. Brown, Mrs. Frank H. Brown, and
Mrs. L. A. Ammon.
The public is cordially invited tQ
the services
ENKA WOMAN IKJUBED
IN OAR 8MA8H MONDAY
Two persons were injuzed Monday,
night about 10 o'clock, when the se
dan in which thov were riding, 1'ft
Highway 106, two miles above Tuck
aseigee, and plunged over a 100-foo;
e^jbankmeait, stopjfing at the edge of
th? Tuckaseigee river.
Mrs. Mary Johnson, of Enka, th?l
mor0 serjously injured, suffered a leg
fracture and cuts and braises on the
face and head.She is in C. J Harris
Community hospital here. Floyd H**a
3on, of Candler, who suffered minor
head injuries, received trcatorent a*
the hospital and was then discharg
ed to go to his home. Otis J. Robinson'
Of Candler, another occupant of the
enr, escaped injury.
The injured people were brought to
the hospital in SylVa by P. E. Moody,
of the Moody Funeral Home, who
chanced to be passing with an am-<
bulane.1 a few minutes after the :!C*
cident occurred.
FIFTH SUNDAY MEETING
AT BIO RIDGE NEXT WEEK
The Tuckaseigee Baptist Uni :i
Meeting will be held at Big Ridge
next Friday and Saturday, August
27 and 28.
Tho tentative program follows:
Friday, August 27
10:00 Devotion?Charley Conner
10:15 Organization.
10:45 Man's Lost Condition?Joo
Bishop.
11:15 Sermon?H. M. Hocutt
1:16 Devotion?D. C. Hooper
1:30 The Call of The Cross?R. C4
Shearin.
2:00 Man's Response to the Gospel?
W. W. Parker.
2:30 A Faith That Saves?J. L. Hy
att.
3:00 True Repentance?Bw F. May.
berry.
Saturday, August 28
10:00 Devotion?McKinley Hooper
10:15 Business.
10:30 Salvation By Graoe?T. F,
Deitz.
10:55 New Testament Baptism?K'.
nest Jamison.
11:20 Sermon?P. L. Elliott
1:15 Devotion?Troy Rogers.
1:30 Assurance In Salvation?Mer.
ritt Hooper.
2:00 Growth In Service?J. E. Brown
2:30 Missions For The Master?Frcl
Forester.
BAPTIST SERVICE WML HONOR
HOME DEPARTMENT, SUNDAY
The service at the Baptist church
l oro, Sunday morning, will be in
recognition of the Home Depirtmer *4
of the Sunday School. A special affort
wrll be made to have all members of
th:)4 department present. The mem
bers are drawn frqm those people of
the community who are unable to at.
t -nd Sunday School regularly.
The pastor states that a fine work
is being done in this department, un
der direction of Mrs. Crawford
Sm'th as supeihtendent.
The pastor urges the jrjember*
nnd friends of the cbarcb to help gat
as many elderiy people to the chimb'
for the service, as possible, and h*
expects to have a message approprl.
ate for ftm