TB1B OT ADYAHCE OUTSIDE THE COUNT*
??ress Gives Thought
1Relief Of Business
November 24 (Auto
All i
^bninches ?t the Federal
J|t Legislative. Executive
r- 1 ire giving serious at
problem of how to
business < from the
*??i by K? much Gov
tal restriction - and taxation,
slump in business activi
' ae * a sU,'^lise t0 many
on official* a id a shock to
political reasons, no less
^onuc, it has alarmed those
' concerned with election re
' | who are keenly aware that
^Qpgr^sin^n a. d a third of
iSe9at0rs must itand for re-elec
1:e>s than a year. Something
^ ix done before then to start
^ ot business and industry
r again.
f^*ER COfJPANIFS ON SPOT
Lprcplem 01 how Government
j^Ip business has even reached
Supreme Court in one of its
In response u> representa
, uat the electric power com
,6 tvere rer.dy t>? spend several
r n dollars in extending and im
j.itj their service, provided Gov
ut would refrain from com
jen and in general ease up on
t rtstrictions which make capital
about utilities investments, J
ent Roosevelt said he would
fjitfh-a course by Government
ided the power companies would
lji>: their rate.-. in accordance
textual investment in their
Irfc instead of on their replace
cost. The practice of valuation
mines at what it would cost to
te build their plants, and basing
jupon the interest return on such
ons, nas been upheld by the
i courts since 13ii9. But now
nas conn before the Supreme
t :n v.t.uh the Federal Power
jteision a>\s tr.at body to decide
La California electric company
i: reduce its rates to the basis of
y aciuai:> invested in its
9
|Jtold the court find for the Gov
3i. it would be a reversal of
pas Supreme Court decisions,
Uo:ld opon the door for the
"2 o:t oi' the President's
to cooperate with the power
?panies, ar.d so put it up to them
I take good on their assurance
pttLey are ready to spend a lot of
'*) and put a lot of men to work
t' the Government eases up on
!U
INGRESS WEIGHS BUSINESS
"RELIEF"
[to a aid to business and indu*
m general, Congress seems to
1 {reatly impressed with the de
bility of lessening the tax bur
en corporations and on the,
TlESs of private capital, to en
wider invest;!lent and busi- ;
4K;PMJion. it seeins a safe pre
0,1 that some measure of relief
Jtsir.ess will be enacted at this ;
of Coi,?re'.s, before it gets I
to the lirst item on the j
?dent's program, farm relief.!
of mo: t experienced ob
i:, that i? wi|J be Con
^ 'not President, which will
v<hat to do first and how to
INKERS' MONEY TO FINANCI
WORK
H 'n Congress is not needed
|fA rr,v out a broad plan of co
I ^ with business and capiti:
to stimulate the building
L.j' itlL'ro is already sufficient
FejeralVn th? laws creatinfi 11,1
k*isi 0Usir'? Administration anc
b^bi lt'?n Financc Corporation
N ml. A('m'lli-':ti'ation to pu:
i
new building construction, but
to kf*1 a pla"?* nr)t oniy i^3ur_
l*tns ^ Private capital to An
l^jj . lng diret't loans of Federal
L' Orgnnizations engaged in
I15 JU ildinfi Projects. The lat
R; (L Un''er ?'('l ions discussion i.->
1^ on tr,C'y l(,"0CkC^ in ineomi
k Sop, ie Wafies of workers, under
nv fCCUl ity Act, instead ol
Kal^'i"1 WltU lhe treasury's
build n Ktl0U'r' be car-marked
%is t"8 '0:,ns* ^'s woul(l Put
Htuteti K? W?l k wull money con"
^ many y Workers> and that seems
datable ^Crsons here a just and
H fund y t0 USC the Social Se"
8?R 8c^ABBLE DI8QU8T8
K tron C0NQRe8S
Sress 5 reactlon is noticeable in
S any plan for regu'
^al i . wages of labor by
toyotoUnless the Labor or
^tt0a f *rc Prepared to quit th?ir
^ *hichLpl)0SiUtft to any legiala*
?'CuW Place them under
Kircher Speaks At
forestryBanquet
Joseph C. Kircher, regional director
of the National Forest Service, speak
ing before a dinner tendered the for
est service by the Sylva Rotary Club,
Monday night, pictured x Western
North Carolina as the finest recrea
tional center in the east. He traced
the national forest movement from
its infancy, and pointed out that it is
to conserve water power and timber |
as well as to provide recreational
facilities. He pointed out that dur
ing the year 285,000 trout have been
placed in the national forest streams
near here, and a hatchery established !
near Walhalla. Highway Commis
sioner E. L. McKee, president of the j
Rotary Club, presided at the meeting"
as toastmaster, Guy Houck, of Frank- '
lin, presented the principal speaker.
The dinner was served at the Com
munity House by the women of Sylva.
Music was by the Swing Time Band,
led by Mrs. Helen Dillard. J. Dale
Stentz, of Waynesville, led in singing,
and invocation was by Rev. P. L. El
liott, of Cullowhee.
Robert O. White, of Administrative
Staff of the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, represented Superin
tendent W. Ross Eakin, who was un
avoidable detained from being pres
? O
ent.
Short talks were made by Verne
Rhodes, and Reubon Robertson, Jr.
BALSAM o
Fred, fourteen year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gill Hoyle, fell from a tree
Saturday and fractured his skull, cut
his lip, broke out several teeth and
broke one arm. He had climbed a
tree to help his brother-in-law, Mr.
Wayne Hyatt, put up a radio aerial.
He said his hands hecoma bo ooki thrt
he could not hold to the limb any
longer. He was taken immediately
to the Waynesville hospital and is
resting as well as could be expected.
Mrs. J. M. May of Hayesville visited
her sister, Mrs. Sara Crawford, Sun
day.
Mrs. George Bryson went to
Waynesville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Knight went
to Waynesville Friday.
Mrs. R. L. Pearson, who has been !
visiting friends and relatives in Spar
tanburg and Greenville counties, S.
C., returned home Monday.
We are having gnow and very cold
weather, mercury at 8 above, Sunday
morning.
responsibility equal to that of em
ployers. There are many indica
tions that Congress is less inclined
to one-sided Labor legislation, and
somewhat disgusted over the quarrel
between the two big Labor organi
zations, the Federation and the C. I. O.
Both organizations have lost a great
deal of their political prestige and
influence in the past few months.
Much criticism is being levelled
at the Secretary of Labor,1 Mme,
Perkins, for her failure to reconcile
the differences between the two
wings of Organized Labor. Both
any other system of government, she
.vould be forced to resign. The per
sonal friendship of Mrs. Roosevelt is
believed to be a strong factor in her
jides in the Labor controversy show
jo little confidence in her that, in
.etention in the Cabinet.
BUDGET BALANCING
A QUESTION
That the business recession will put
i damper on any effort to reduce
W. P. A. spending is taken for granted
?ere. More men out of jobs means
more relief expenditures. That will
nake it so much more difficult to
oalance the fiscal year 1939. The
determination to do that Is strong,
both in the White House and on
Capitol Hill. How it can be done is
another question. It would require,
keen analysts say, higher taxes and
curtailment of Federal expenditures,
in ways whlcli would be politically
risky.
The budget cannot be balanced un
less the plan of increased cash subsi
dies to farmers is abandoned. New
Federal power projects would have
to be dropped, there could be no re
duction of H. O. L. C. interest rates,
and no great new projects for direct
spending of Government funds. How
far Congress and the President will
see alike on specific curtailment of
, Federal spuiuL^ Ui? question.
Launch Drive Tor
Uniforms For
Golden Hurricane
By upsetting Canton High's pre
viously undefeated team, here, last
Thursday, Sylva High finished its
season, as the only undefeated high
school team in Western North Caro
lina.
In the most brilliant football game
ever played in Sylva, and one of the
fastest possible between high school
teams, Sylva's victory of 19 to 7 over
Canton, was witnessed by more than
1,000 people from various parts of
Western North Carolina.
The entire Sylva team clicked like
clock work, showing rare football
aptitude and careful and intelligent
coaching.
t > The game was the talk of the town,
and of this section for days. I
The Journal wishes to launch a
movement for the raising of funds for
the purpose of outfitting Sylva High's
Golden Hurricane, with new golden
suits, with which to start the season
next year.
Now, while the interest is high is
the time to make the contributions.
Mr. Raymond Sutton has agreed to
act as treasurer of the fund, and Can- |
non Brothers have started it off with !
a donation of $25.00. Make all checks
payable to R. U. Sutton, treasurer,
and moil or deliver to him.
A good football team and a good
coach are worthy of the support of ;
the people. Sylva has both, as was ;
demonstrated last Thursday and dur- '
ing the entire season.
Whittiker Rites Held
Thursday
Funeral services for Alex Whitti
ker, 56, who died at his home, last
Wednesday, were conducted at East
Sylva Baptist church, Thursday aft
ernoon, by Rev. R. F. Mayberry. In
terment was in the Keener cemetery.
' Mr-'WmttlMtf, W1IU IMUI' iiHgfrfc
Pardee, Va., 18 years ago, has been
employed ever since as an engineer
on the T. and S. E. Railway.
He is survived by his widow and
six children, Mrs. Lawrence Monteith,
Mrs. Charles Hurat, Roy, Lane, and
Alex, Jr., all of Sylva, and Mrs. C.
W. Fowler, of Columbia, Tenn., .
Active pall bearers were Andy Ed
wards, H. A. Buchanan, R. V. Lee,
William Paxton, Luther Parker, and
William Ballew. Honorary, V. R.
Riley, N. M. Davisson, B. T. Ingles,
B. B. Brown, R. B. Mikles, William
Chester, Grady Smith, William Allen,
and Dr. A. S. Nichols.
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POSTMASTER 18 ILL
Postmaster Charles N. Price is ill
at his home near Sylva. His friends
wish for him a speedy recovery.
TODAY and
TOMORROW
| BRAZIL ... . . goes Fascist
! The news that the new President of
[ Brazil has promulgated a new Con
1 stitution which puts the power in
i
, the hands of the President and rein
gates the Brazilian Congress to the
j background is of interest to Ameri
i ctnsbecause it seems to be the first
J definite establishment of a Fascist
! f^rm of government in the Western
' Hemisphere. President Getulio Vargas
refers to the new government as a j
"Corporative state," which is exactly i
what Mussolini calls his Facist gov
ernment in Italy.
'The importance of this leap of
Fdcism across the Atlantic at this time
is what it may signify in the light of
the close alliance of the Dictator
gdyerned nations of the world. Italy
arii Germany have taken Japan into
their alliance with the avowed pur
pose of opposing the spread of democ
racy. ; I have no idea how closely
Brazil's new dictator is in league
will those three powers, but that
thcpe is a tie is more than possible.
Italy, Germany, and Japan demand
m?re of the earth than they have^or
their surplus population. All of than
have been planting colonies of their
nationals in Brazil for years, partic
ularly Germany. The United States
is bound by the Monroe Doctrine to
maintain the independance or the
SoU^h Anterican states. The Brazilian
situation may make trouble for us.
OE . , , "hand? off"
it James Monroe sounjcled
to Europe to keep hands
J America in 1823. In a
'to" Congress he wrote:
poJWcal system of the allied
{^essentially different from
tea ... we should con
ittempt on their part to
system to any part of
tere as dangerous to our
1 safety . . . The American
,*1^ T^flTffee an3 indepen
dent condition which they have as
sumed and maintain, are henceforth
not to be considered as subjects for
future colonization by any European
powers."
That doctrine was aimed at a dif
ferent system of European govern
ment than exists today, and at an
alliance far different from Fascism.
But it has served as a "hands off"
notice to the world for 114 years,
lias been maintained as the consis
tent policy of the United States and
respected by the rest of the world.
If the present extension of a Euro
pean system of government to Brazil
has the backing of the Fascist states,
or results In an alliance with them,
it certainly will be up to our gov
ernment to take notice and do some
thing to protect and maintain our
Monroe Doctrine.
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fflie bridge 0ub by A. B. CHAP1N
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THANKSGIVING
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wwat shall i do to ? left-ov*r. stuotng.
USB IT UP ? ?? f AND MA5UED POTATOESI
AND PRIED "EM LIKE
POTATO cakes?
WARRY WAS CRATJ
VABOUT IT ?/
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WASH/MTU VMfflfc
LEFT, FOR SUMO*!
use tm' Bombs
FOR SOUP TW'
fourth day ? ,
CALL TM' NEIGHBOBS
DOG AFTER THAT f
WHO BID
TWO CLUBS?
Sylva Streets Now Being
Decorated For Christmas
QUALLA
???. ~ i
We read in the last Journal about
the secondary "fartn to market"
roads being put in good condition.
Well, this is fine and as it should be.
But how about some of the third class
"Farm to maket" roads that have
hardly had a decent working for per
haps forty years, or more. Wonder
why?
It has been announced that there
will be a baptizing in Soco Creek next
Sunday afternoon.
Rev. McRae Crawford preached at
the Methodist church Sunday after
noon. His text was "Watch and Pray
lest ye enter into temptation." Sev
eral visitors were present. He was
guest at Mr. J. K. Terrell's Sunday
night. 'j
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Shelton were
guests at Mr. P. H. Ferguson's Sun
day.
Mr. Clyde Marcus and family of
Ela were Qualla visitors Sunday.
Rev. Ben Cook, Rev. and Mrs. J. L.
Hyatt, Mrs. P. H. Ferguson and Mrs.
C. P. Shelton called on Mrs. J. H.
Hughes. ,
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Battle visited
Mrs. D. C. Hughes.
Miss Lillian Ferguson was guest of
Miss Alma Freeman Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Terrell visited
at Mr. II. G. Ferguson's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bird, of Cullo
whee, visited at Mr. H. G. Bird's.
Mr. W. E. Bird, of Cullowhee,
stopped at his Qualla farm Saturday.
EM PI RB ... . .of Brazil
At one ume, Brazil was still un
der a monarchy. Many now living
can recall seeing the last Emperor
of BrizU, Don Pedro II, at the Cen
tennial of 1876 in Philadelphia. He
was a tall, handsome old man with
the longest, thickest white board
ever seen. He was a good ruler, but
the people of Brazil took the gov
ernment into.-thek own hands -in.
1889 and demanded his resignation.
They adopted a constitution almost
an exact copy of ours, with 20 pro
vinces federated as the United States
of Brazil.
Simon Bolivar, "The Liberator,"
had successfully incited the Spanish
colonies of South America to de
clare their independence half a cen
tury earlier. Brazil, being Portu
guese instead of Spanish, did not
come under Bolivar's influence and
was quite content to be ruled by a
member of the Portuguese royal
House of Braganza.
Indeed, Rio de Janeiro was for a
short time the actual capital of Por
tugal, when the events of the Na
poleonic wars forced Don John VI,
the Portuguese emperor, to move
himself and the royal court across
the Atlantic in 1908. Brazil's history
is indeed curious and colorful.
By the first of next week Sylva will
be beautifully decorated in holiday
attire, for the Christmas season, for
the first time in its history. Begin*
ning with two trees, one on each side
of the street at the Scott's Creek
bridge, and culminating with a larga
tree at the Memorial Fountain, and
a bright star on top of the courthouse.
Main street will be strung with vari
colored lights.
It is hoped, by the Chamber odE
Commerce, which organization la
sponsoring the Christmas decorations,
that Sylva will be the most beauti
fully decorated town in Western
North Carolina. The lights will ex
tend from the bridge to the Poinsett
hotel, at Walnut street. The Dills
boro and Sylva Electric Light Com
pany will donate the electricity for
the Christmas decorations, the official*
of the county, including all depart
ments, will have the star placed on
top of the State of Justice on the
Court House, and the following firma
and individuals have made possible
the installation of the lights, and
the erection of the trees:
Cannon Brothers, Economy Auto
Parts, Hooper Motor Company, Stan
dard Service Station, Allison Motor
Company, Dr. W. P. McGuire, Mash
burn's Shoe Shop, Sylva Supply Com
'pany, Blue Ribbon Shoe Shop, Coca
Cola Bottling Company, Raymond
Glenn, Sylva Billiard Club, Moore's
Cleaners, W. H. Smith, Sylva Laun
dry, Pay and Take, Jackson County
Journal, Jackson County Bank, Velt's
Cafe, Army Store, Print Shop, Jack
son Hardware Company, Builders'
Supply and Lumber Co., Lyric Thea
tre, Hale's Stovall's 5c, 10c and 25a
Store, Jackson Furniture Company,
Stovall's Cafe, Masei Furniture Co,
Carolina Hotel, Cogdill Motor Co,
Joines Motor Co., H. Stein, Jacksoa
Motor Co., C. C. Buchanan, Dr. Grov
er Wilkes, Moody's Funeral Homa>
E. P. Stillwell, Dan K. Moore, Dr. W.
K. Chapman, Sylva Pharmacy, Schul
mann's Department Store, Dave
Karp's Department Store, The Lead
er, Clouse and Warren.
It is the hope of the Chamber of
Commerce that the people will coop
erate in decorating the town, by light
ing their homes and lawns with
Christmas lights. A prize will be
awarded for the best decorated lawn
in town. Workmen are now busy pre
paring to string the street lights, and
it is believed that they will be ready
to be switched on, Monday night.
MRS. WILKES RECOVERING FROM
SPRAINED ANKLE
Friends of Mrs. Grover Wilkes will
be glad to learn that she is out again,
after having been confined to the
house for a week, on account of a
sprained ankle. Mrs. Wilkes slipped
on a floor in her home and sprained
her ankle.
* * *
ECONOMIC8 . . the reason
At the bottom of the Brazilian dic
tatorship is the low economic state
into which the country has fallen.
Probably the richest agricultural ter
ritory in the whole world, Brazil has
few of the mineral resources found
elsewhere in South America, but
prospered for many years by building
up almost a world monopoly of cc. -
fee-growing.
Brazil's coffee "valorization" plan
is the oldest and until lately the most
successful scheme of governmental
crop control and state subsidized ag
riculture in the world. By limiting
planting, burning up surplus coffee
and controlling exports the Brazilian
government was able to feed coffee
into the world markets in doses meas
ured by the demand, at highly profit
able prices; but if other nations tried
to market coffee Brazil could, and
did, undersell them and practically
ruin their coffee-planters.
The collapse of Brazil's coffee
valorization system, due to the world's
reducing purchasing power and the
government's inability to borrow
money enough to pay its debts on the
security of warehoused coffee, broke
.ii2 world's coffee market in October.
.2 financial punic and unemploy
ment that followed was the excuse
behind President Vargas' sizure of
dictatorial power.
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PEOPLE .... seek leader
Progressive, courageous, indepen
dent and intelligent as are the Por
tuguese people, in Brazil the old Por
tuguese stock is very thinly diluted.
The government of Brazil, thsratore,
while nominally a democracy, has
been since 1889 a government by a
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