ADVANCE mTfi tftsmm I Jw far the Administration : tied to support of highlor policies enforced by j j i?tcr.d of Hourly Wage If observers point out that the! 'Rt's suggestion that there be a readjustmentof the whole of compensation for labor, toward the eventual estab.t fo a yearly wage instead of ; sent hourly wage, and his pth* | nmcndaticns, are in the nature j turn to the economic policies <1 in the beginning of Presiwsevelt's first Administration 'essor 0. M, W. Sprague, the 1 economist who was called Administration councils from t he had held for many years omic adviser to the Bank of t- Processor Sprague and int TI'i.tpr-cofTAfarv of the treasury .Achcs'on,' who was Mi. belt's first Under-secretary of feTrasury, split with the President athvfe|] of 1933. in disagreement *ilh fig New Deal policies and esWally the N. H, A. and both rested. Sprague, Achcson Vindicated ^ -tr. Sprague and Mr. Ache591 ^.'intained the view that there r"> single remedy for economic and events have proved them ^ br. Sprague was especially r*?**. . . "wmsti in his behalf that no tinker ihe cvrrency on any scheme Managed money would do the trick tan. ke proposed going at the rot ^-2 nations troubles, ore thing at a -^e. He advocated a building pro tan\, ting with an attack on tes of materials"through anti-trust i ^ts. t{ necessary, and the use of all j ^emoniMent influev.ee. He in-| among l.is rccommendedations J t.'oor in the building trades be I tp recede from its stand for ^th hourly ,vage; in shott, a pro fau lower prices and normal Wu tion. I precise proposals were made p r,f' President in his message to ***** which snrewd observers IsT*vidence of the ultimate Uui'h of Professor Sprague's eco ^ ideas, u, which Mr. Acheson I ^r* Acheson's idea that people I Jh0'Xrporatio^s *n financial trouble I ft !* encouraged to "go through I -? ^finger," by recourse to bankI ? fresh start. I hl*i*i8tr,lti*n Holds t9 Policy I that uot imagined, however, I return of the Admin I ^ ^r: those earlier ideas of ecoI ^ lC^meuili lnat all of the ideas of I ^barri en'1 ^eVv ?ea^ers have been I ^hed. On contrary, a new ^eaje turn to page * ? J . OL ?*lf. i Jjttck B COUNTY TODAY and TOMORROW MAN . . 2,000,000 years old j "How old is Man?" That is a ques! tion which has been puzzling men I of science and religious teachers from I the beginning of human thought. A hundred years ago Bishop Usher calculated, from the Bible story, that Man was created 4,004 years before the birth ofc Christ, and that is the figure which literal believers in the Bible still hold to. Scientific research, however, indicates that Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. The Biblical account of the Creation is true, scientists hold, only in the broad sense that events happened in the order named in Genesis, with Man as the last finished product. But instead of occurring in seven days, the accepted belief of science is that it took nearer seyei} thousand million years to creat the Earth and make it ready for Man-* kind's occupancy. - The latest conclusion of science, reported to the American Archeological Association by Dr. N. C. Nelson of the American Museum of Natural History, ! is that Man, as a thinking, tool-using animal, has been on earth for about two million y^rs. [AIR . 'ts composition 'What is *air?" That is another | scientific question which concerns all of us. Man can live only in an atmosphere adapted to breathing. Science puts it another way. Man is what he is because he is an animal which developed after the contents of the earth's atmosphere became finally settled. Air is primarily oxygen, diluted | with five times its bulk of nitrogen. I That has been known for hundreds of years. But research has found small quantities of many other gases in the air, all of which are necessary to the maintenance of life. Helium, neon and argon are the best known of these. They can be extracted from air and used for commercial purposes. m?-_ /17 c "nbmit the air lnt; iaicsi ^v,?. is that it contains a complex gas which ' scientists call nitrogen pentoxide. The function of this gas seems to be to filter the dangerous ultra-violet rays of the sun, which would niake Jife impossible if they were not toned down. ! BRIDGE .... Bering Straits "Where did Man first live?" is an- J other question on which a great 1 amount of scientific research has been done. The general agreement among ; scientists is that Man first appeared ' I in Central or Western Asia, in the general region where the Biblical Garden of Eden was located. It now seems probable that not only Man but all other forms of animal life started in Asia, and spread over the rest of the world by routes which were afterwards closed. Dr. xalph W. Cheney Qf the Carnegie nstitution of Washington working with Hsen-Hsu Hu, a Chinese $ci- I jntist, has found evidence that up! ,o about 15 million years ago the jontinents of Asia and America were .. onnected by a strip of land, so that migration from one side of the globe o the other was easy. Aleutian Is1 mmintaln-tODS of this ianas are iirc ^ ancient bridge across Bering Strait. After the bridge disappeared, aniAfier the bridge disappeared, ani- | nal life developed in America along j iifferent lines from the rest of the v/orld. I .-AMILIES . . . better grade The problem of improving the hu- I nan stock has been getting a great j leal of attention from scientists lately. ; I i'he first direct application of science 1 o Man has enormously diminished ! .mman suffering and waste of human j csources, and science is now begin- j ;Jng to work on the problem of j .hanging human qualities and im- j proving human environment. *\A gradually improving stock is 1 c-cessary if we are to take full ad- J vnntatre of the possibilities of a grad- j ially improving environment," Frea- j jrick Osborn tolcj the American Asso- j jiation lor the Advancement of j Science the other day. Mr. Osborn pointed out that the j .irst step would be to discover why some people have large families ar.d others small families, and changing social conditions to encourage larger families among the higher grades of human beings. That would be another step toward the perfect world. WAR and youth ? Cpuple of years ago a group of students at Oxford University, England met and issued a proclamation declaring that none of them would - ever go to war, no matter what danger threatened their country. Nobody in England took their declaX (Please turn to page two} . flfl^V' * \ f * -^? . /A, NORTH CAROLINA lorinnn i- i vr\.y xil XII Work Starts - Funeral Services Held Tuesday For i Haynes Ensley Funeral services for Haynes Ensley, 41, who died in the hospital here, Monday at noon from a shot-gun ' wound, said to have teen self-inflict- 1 ed earlier in the day, were conducted j! Tuesday afternoon at Scott's Creek ;1 Baptist church by Rev. Thad F. Deitz, ( the pastor, and Rev. W. N. Cook, and j Rev? R. F. Mayberry. Interment was in Old Field cerpe^ tery. Mr. Ensley had been in ill 1 health for a few weeks. No on? \yap ' at home at the time of the tragedy i1 except the cook and Mr. Ensley's old- | est son, Olin. Mr. Ensley Is survived !1 by seven children, Miss Helen En- j ^ ! t\ /r: u J t ~ i\/r??u A ? ? sxey, uuii, xvinureu, iuu.^ciu, axmsK, rvx- j * bria Sue and Bobby Nell, by four ; c sisters, Mrs. Dock Harris and Mrs. : William Cook, of Sylva, Mrs. Harlowe I Kitchen, of Montesano, Wash., and j Mrs. Arthur Hooper, of Longview,. I Wash., by two brothers, Smith En- j sley, of Olympia, Wash., and Spurgeon j \ Ensley, of Montesano, Wash., and by I ? a host of other relatives. j \ I QUALLA ; c s (By Mrs. J. K. Terrell) The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs, f Harley Wiggins was buried in Thomas 1 Cemetery January 12'h. Rev. J. L. J Hyatt conducted the service. I The family of Mrs. Ottmar Roehm N wish to express their sincere thanks ^ to everyone, who helped them in any 1 way during her sickness, death and * burial. Rev. McRae Crawford preached a J good sermon Sunday afternoon from the text: "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the * night cometh when no man can work." Mrs. R. E. Owen and children have 1 returned to their home near Waynes- c ville after a visit with relatives. 1 " . i Mrs. Laura Snyder is spending a while with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Snyder _ s at Savannah, Ga. ^ Miss Hester Owen has been visiting relatives in A_sheville. hi.. ? ? J "n/T.-r. T^i-v >1- nnH Mi\ ! ivir. t'.nu mi a. L/uti\ uiijivAvi u .?. Ottmar Rochm have moved to Hayes- ' ville. Mrs. Fred Sutton, Mrs. Chas. Worley, Mrs. Weaver Freeman, Mrs W. * C. Callahan and Mrs. Melvin Reagan e visited school Friday. J Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oxner called on Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Shuler Sunday ? afternoon. 11 Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell wag guest t Of Miss Getrude Ferguson Sunday. ( Mr. George Sorrclls, of Clay Co., S visited at Mr. W. H. Oxner's last week, f "fame you jii 1 -^5 ;. j-*?4> . -4~ '.-V,r _ -i- * ' ' t r / " -.".v " V . * i Tr: v.x , January 20, 1938 ^F^ovement id at Tannery A $20,000 improvement and expen- J t. sion program was launched by the Armour Leather Company, at its Sylva plant, this morning, when eighteen men, under direction of W. E. Barton, of Williamsport, Pa., began tearing away old buildings, preparatory to the erection of new. The leach house will be entirely rebuilt, as will a new machine shop, carpenter shop, and store house. The new leach house will occupy the the i site of the present one, and the new machine shop will stand on the site 3f the present boiler room, accordng to W. T. Wise, superintendent of . the tannery. a Mr. Wis? stated also that a monomil system, for the transportation of lides. from one part of the plant to j( mother, will be installed. !1 The work will take at least three j; nonths to complete, it is understood, | < ind additions to the crew of work- j nen will be made from time to time, ^ is they are needed. > BALSAM i I (By Mrs. D. T. Knight) 1 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hyatt enter- 1 ained some of their friends at Balaam Hotel Saturday evening. They { xad music and played various games. 1 Refreshments, consisting of chicken ( :nd dumplings, and oysters, etc., were r ;erved. i 1 Those present were: Misses Virginia and Isabel Coward, VVilla Mae ] iyatt, Mrs. George Bryson, Messrs. < Tumor and Richard Bryson, Gene i < brooks, Frank Bryson, Roy Undtr- 1 vood, Louis Green, Charles Beck, l rack Arrington, Vernon and Dewey irysonf Willis Beck, Willard Burns, i "red ahd William Coward. ] Mr. and Mrs. Walter Raines, of I -lazelwood, were week-end guests of ( Ar. apd Mrs. G. C. Crawford.^ < We had more snow Wednesday, ' Yiday and Sunday morning. A crew of Western Union men are ^ lere repairing wires, poles, etc. Somo ?f the men and their wives are having o board in Waynesviille because there , s no hotel or boarding house open c lere at this season of the year. Bal- t am needs a hotel open all the year, j ilvery few weeks we turn people away C or lack of room. 2 >edit Union Elects Officers r The Credit Union of the Sylva ^ s 'aperboard Company employees I lected C. E. Smith, as president, on ; i anuary 12. jt Other officers are: J. H. Deitz, vice * resident; Lee Benson, secretary- j reasurer. Directors, Geo. L. Painter, f V. G. \Vomack, Floyd Sumner, John t Brown. Loan committee, R. U. c >utton, W. B. Styles, and C. A. Craw- ? ord> c _J nshines!" b . ?ft ' - fUjL LjSSw/ft 2jf!ri^ 3a^*ttSltr ' -' ' r " > ; .-'r I. ,... ' (MAiiunr Postottice W: Second Clas Wade West Dies Of Wreck Injuries Wade West, 22, of Franklin, an enrollee in the CCC camp at Smoke mont, who was injured in a truck accident Saturday night near Bryson City, died in the C. J. Harris Community hospital here Monday morning at 5:30 o'clock. Young West suffered a fracture of the spine when the truck, in which four enrollees were riding en route to j Smokemont from Fort Oglethorpe, Ca., overturned down an embankment when the wheels skidded on ice. The accident occurred about a mile west 3i Bryson City. The death of West brought totwo [he fatalities that resulted from the accident. Robert Jennings was killed when the truck plunged over the 75foot embankment. The body of Jennings was sent Sunday to Sardis, Vliss., his home, for funeral services and burial. West and Jennings were riding in 1 ;he rear of the truck at the time of he accident. Neither the driver George H. Manning, of Bean Station, ' fenn., nor Thomas Goge, who was in the cab with him, was injured. Funeral services for West will be leld Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 j >'clock at the Franklin Baptist j :nurch. The pastor, the Rev. W, B. j LJnderwood, will officiate. Burial will; se in the Franklin cemetery. West was the son of the late Mr. j ind Mrs. Charles West, of Franklin, j le is survived by two sisters, Mrs, j Vlann Ray and Miss Estelle West, both j )f Franklin, and two brothers, Ralph, j >f Shelby, and Ted, an enrollee in the 2CC camp af Smokemont. 1 i Wopb Hnnnor Tn Rp nn Rmnrv UUV11 AAW|#VA AV A#V Program Atlanta, Jan. 19.?Charles M. Hoop;r, of Sylva, will be among the eigheen North Carolina students taking >art in Emory university's annual Charter Day celebration on January 15. This event will mark the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the presint university and the 101st anniver-. ary of Emory college. Charles is enrolled as a freshman n the medical school and is a mem>er of the Theta Kappa Psi medical raternity. Emory has attracted 2,000 students rom 26 states and Ave foreign counries this quarter, according to a re:ent survey of the university register. Sixteen North Carolina towns and ities are represented. y A. B. CHAPIN - 1 ' ^ 'Jr ' QSj ?v*7:'. r' : -..-{J V- ' V ?" ' ,'H -1 T' 1 *- "-.j ; - - -. ^ - 4^ ing. Funeral and interments will be riciay morning ai xi u ciock.. % ? *. " 4 JAMES CABE DIES J 4 James Cabe, elderly resident of the Jj Savannah section of the county, died . >31 at his home, Sunday. Funeral services were held Monday, . * $ Mrs. Evans Is Member Of National Fraternity v ^ Mrs. Martiie Sue Evans was in Re^ leigri last'tveek attending .the annual ' * j extension conference at State College. v? . :j Ha\ ing completed ten yea^.<# service, :v-f . "j Mrs. Evans was admitted :as; a mer V ber oi the national extension frt^.\ nity, Epsiion Sigma Phil, .