YEAR IN" ADV*\NCE IN THE
Mjjl Erosion V
Is Ve
(By G. R. Laclccy) I
fai Pe?PIc began settIin? ^ this I
*. tn,>y h.J fer- !e soil and timgreat
abundance. Great was
of our forefathers who fell
^R0.est so that they mitfht cultift*
soil and live. When the pioA'
!
started cultivating uic JUU mcy
E?d a cycle oi soil depiction. The
Eas cle: red the forest to plant
Bp and when the fertility of a
B|u'2' exhausted, more trees were
Ed t'-'5 practice was continu?d
the years without any
Kgfct of ever exhausting the ferIL;
the soil to where it would afEthe
future generations.
Eiefl cultivation with crops such
I ecu. wheat, vegetables and the
Ev of cover crops encourage soil
En. The continuous cropping
[f the years with clean cultiE
crops resulted in severe eroEne
organic and mineral plant
oods ^ taken out of the soil by
pei-'.paxf by heavy rain through
Equater. During the years eroLd
hu been cutting away the rich
LjoU from hundreds and hundreds
Caciw that o'-ce raised the best
Lps. As the lands become poor it
? less able to resist erosion. When
be lac.d is depleted of the soil fer17
more labor and more land are j
.?nrnHnf-o thp same auan- I
IHKvr>--^ j kv/ h'* --? ? -A
Er,,' crops. The income from land
pfchnd is r educed very greatly.
Farriers in the past labored to
Eve greater opportunities to their
tfcidren. and they were successful at
kowise of the soil. Farmers of
tn vho would pass a greater opMs
ty on to their children face a
ifcit prob! m; it is the problem
my eroded fields, of conserving
p.'.aluing nther than of clearing,
(fclo % as ti.e land continue to wash
rvav. this opp' rtun.ty created by the
i n ers is being lost with it
Pcjt.ij should become more land
)nsci' .is. The people should recogize
that soil and its fertility are our
lost valuahlp nnsspcicinnc* fnnrinmpn
It! source of wealth, ; nd basis of
irosperity; also that much of our
oil fe tility is slipping away from us.
V us point eve-v farmer should <
iu-e:y.hing that is possible to impvi
thuir farm management proso
this cycle of soil depletion ,
Mil oe changes to a cycle of rebuildht
soil and farm income. To .
:riV about this change it will be
-y for most farmers to readpt
ir4?n; farm practices to conserving :
Mit'cretse u-rtilif. of the soil.
I*' ' ' a man's arm, the so:l is built .
13 though proper use, n. t abuse or I
' e. When ;t is either abused
^:o't bad cropping systems or left
rj je die and erode it deteriorates
aPuly. Nature built up the original
?? so-1 oy growing plants and trees .
nrough the centuries. We, too, ;
an buid up the soil by growing the
Mht cr ps and carrying out good :
Pc>i'es tha.. will supply the land
|M "eeded plant food and protect
r uf>2i.ist erosion.
^T-ing land to its best natural use
extra dividends now and in
e run. Proper land use will
^ for many farmers a radical
naj. >0 t w.?.? ?-?<
_ amvuj. lb iucij i
har-guig cultivated acres to pasture?
' ^bcr. It nay mean laying the I
uon for a certain steady in- I
,rr" rorn Kress and timber. Proper!
t se will bring new crops while I
old ones are being abandoned, j
Eve*y farmer should plan a well I
Balanced farm program, one that I
B'il Piovide for some cash income and I
r tt-at Will provide for the produc- J
soil building crops. A good |
er dnt of the cropland on every I
Bhtt should be planted to some kind I
conserving crops to build and I
|?^" ve the soil for the future #
I ^ bripoi "ant practices as soil |
lavement, use of good seed and I
V e and a desire to learn and I
^P s.op with agriculture will con- I
r ^ insurance policy from year I
ff * r for the big and fundamental I
~"'-ss of farming.
rCf'linen To Have Meeting!
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|Vo ]\ ^Va Camp Woodrr.en of the I
! ' ^'iil held a special meeting in J
a* Sylva Monday night, I
Iro ' ,r?8ram entertainment t>e I
L,1"^ after which refreshments I
1^ served.
lfth.W?Uld like to sce 100 Percent|
r L members present at this meet-1
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;ry Important
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
Washington, March ? Four
subjects of majox interest dominate
all Washington thinking and conversation
these days. They are the
The other day the people of Hampand
politics, with special reference to
the Congressional elections next fall.
The Tennessee Valley flood control
and power project has been a
violently controversial subject from
ts inception. It broke into the white
.ight of publicity when Chairman
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lers from the Executive branch be- I
:ame evident to everybody in the |
debate in the House on the new Tax !
nil. The bill, as reported by the
Ways and Means Committee, was
distinctly an Aclminstration measure,
especially the "third basket" |
section which puts and additional
ieavy tax penalty on family con- I
.rolled or closely held corporations. I
The defeat of this part of the bill by j
Jie House brought sharply to the |
.ore the fact that Congress seems
nore sympathetic to the appeals of
jusincss for relief from stifling taxa:ion
than are some of the President's
id visors.
Shrewd observers are predicting
.hat when the Tax bill reaches the
denate it will come in for further
nanhandling. The Senate can do
lothing about any tax measure UI1U1
he House is through with it. The
ienate Finance Committee has to
tudy and report on the bill in the
-orm in which it finally passed the i
House.
Senate Committtee Hostile
The present Chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee is the Hon.
Pat Harrison of Mississippi who is
>tiil smarting over the President's
action which deprived him last summer
of the position of majority leader
in the Senate. Mr. Harrison has
always felt that he would have been
-he choice of his party caucus, after I
J .Toe Robinson,!
-fie aeam ox ucnu VV/A v
if the President had not written his
famous "Dear Alben" letter to Sena- \
tor Barkley of Kentucky expressing
his hope that Mr. Barkley would I
step into the dead leader's shoes.
Even this manifestation of Presi- j
dential influence succeeded in defeating
Senator Harison by only
one vote and he, together with many
of his friends, have looked with increasing
bitterness upon Administration
activities.
Therefore, now the Tax bill finds
itself in the hands of a Senate Committee
whose chairman and majority
of members are opposed to almost
anything the President wants and
most of whom have expressed sympathy
from time to time with the
plea of business and industry for relief
from oppressive. taxation.
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SYLVA, NORTH CAROL
Governor's
STATE OF NOR'
Governoi
Rale
The Editor of The Jackson County Joi
I wish to warmly congratulate E
five years of continuous service as Ed:
I likewise congratulate the people of J
paper of the type and character of Thi
the same man for twenty-five years.
I covet the privilege of paying tri
North Carolina in this Silver Annivei
County and Western North Carolina a
been most prodigal in her bounties. T
her mountains and valleys attract th
alluring prospects to all prospective h
a bright future for this great section o
issuing this splendid edition advertisi
i
\rtnur Morgan of the TVA wrote a
etter to Congressman Maury Maverck
of Texas charging his two associates,
David Lilienthal and Harcourt
Morgan, with a great variety of im>rcper
conduct, including attempts
o make the TVA into something
rot contemplated by the law, and
vith defying Dr. Arthur Morgan's
luthority as chairman.
TVA Quiz Looms
This gave the opponents of the
vhole TVA scheme the opening they
lad been looking for and they did
iQt mis?- the opportunity. It is as
certain as anything in the future
jan be that there will be rigid ana
'ar-reaching investigations of everything
which has been, done by the
Authority, including a public examnation
of the charge, made in the
mnual report of the acting Conroller
General that some ten milion
dollars had been spent without
)roper legal authorization.
Opponents of the TVA scheme of
dectric power business are predictng
that a scandal of major propor.ons
will be disclosed if the investigators
dig deeply enough.
In anv . event, the situation is
oaded with dynamite and holds the'1
>ossibility of widening the split beween
New Deal and Conservative!
vings of the Democratic party, a
plit which has been getting wider
:ver since the break in party solid.ty
over the President's Supreme J
I!ourt reorganization plan.
Songress Takes Reins
That Congress is now doing its
tori.elation without taking or-1
BETA [
The social committee of the Scotts
Creek church, Mesdames D. G. Bry- \
son, G. C. Snyder, Jennings Bryson, T
Miss Rhoda Cope and Mr. Ed Curry *
are sponsoring a chicken dinner for 1
all the married members of the
church on Friday night, April 1st. A c
prize will be given to the couple pres- ]
ent that has been married the longest >
and to the newest married couple.
There will be games, contests, and *
other prizes. *
William B. Dillard, student at State t j
College, Raleigh, has been spend- I j
ing spring holidays W:th his parents, ,
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Pillard, at Beta, j
His sister, Jeanette Eillard, of Ashe- c
ville Normal, also spent the weekend
at home. ^
Scotts Creek B. T. U. was reorganized
Sunday nigh*. The following
officers were elected: Director,
Lyle Eusley; President, Ed Curry; *
Vice-President: Lucille Dills; Secre- I
tary and Treasurer, Hooper D. Price; j j
Group Captains, Chas. Guy Reed and j ?
Loyd Ensley.'
Beta school closes a very success- ^
ful term this week. A program, con- ,
sisting of a health wedding, songs by
the Glee Club and music and drill
by the band will be ^iven Thursday
afternoon. The seventh grade grad- t
uating exercises, address, and music j
by the band, will be Friday morning.
The following pUfcils have been present
each day for the entire term: ,
7th Grade?John B. Dillard, Carroll j
! Bryson, Tommy Fisher, Billy Cope,
Albert Dills, Arlie Parker, Pauline ^
Ward, Mildred Ensley, Rosa Lee s
I Franklin, Edith Thompson, Fannie
I'TJi i rr FnaW Viola Thome. Phyllis 11
I i-*ui x A-i*vj | . ^
Dillard.
6th Grade?Adam Justus, George b
Brown, Mary Jean Fisher. li
5th Grade?Bonnie Brown, Bar- F
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INA, MARCH 24, 1938
; Greetings
TH CAROLINA
's Office
igh
irnal:
Iditor Dan Tompkins upon twentyitor
of The Jackson County Journal,
ackson County upon having a newse
Journal published continuously by
bute to the great section of Western
rsary issue of The Journal. Jackson
re peculiarly blessed and nature has
he majestic splendor and beauty of
e attention of all visitors and offer
iomeseekers and Investors. I predict
f our State and I felicitate you upon
ng this favored section.
Yours very truly,
CLYDE R. HOEY.
Our First Advertisers
The following is the list of adversers
in the first issue of The Journal,
Dublished under the present managenent,
25 years ago:
Sylva Pharmacy, J. I. Lequire, sadiler;
Sylva Supply Company; The
Jooper Company; Sylva Cash Store,
Wilson Brothers; C. B. Allison, Dillsx>ro;
Ellas and Wilson,- moving picures,
every Monday and Friday
lights; W. C. Cunningham, Dillsboro;
Dillsboro Pharmacy; Jackson County
Sank; T. C. Bryson; T. S. Morrison
md Co ; Sylva Lumber Manufacturnff
Co A J. Dills and Co.. fire in
;urance; W. A. Clark and Son, paint?rs,
Willcts; J. S. Higdon, blacksmith;
Tuckaseegee Bank, Webster.
Three of these firms are still in
jusiness under the same names, Sylva
Supply Company, Jackson County
3ank, and tbe Sylva Pharmacy. The
Iooper Company has become Hoop;r's
Drug Store; Sylva Lumber Manuacturing
Company is now the Builders'
Supply and Lumber Company,
tnd Mr. Dills is still in the fire insurmce
business..
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>ara Dillard, Johnnie Price Waler
Jrown Cope.
4th Grade?Kathryn Ensley, Audey
Ensley, Billy Sutton, R. V. Frankin,
L. B. Ensley, Andrews Queen,
ames Thorpe.
3rd Grade?Jack Ensley, James
Imith.
2nd Grade?Annie Ensley, Lucile
'horpe, Darnel Ward.
1st Grade?Edward Ward, Bar-;
ara Sue Ensley, Mary Ellen Frank-1
in, Dennis Ensley, Verna Vayle
looper. i
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$2.00 A YEAR IN
Cullowhee G
Interprc
THE COUNTY HEALTH
DEPARTMENT
(By Pr. C. N. Sisk)
Public Health has been defined as
the science and the art of preventing
disease, prolonging lite, and promoting
phyiical health and efficiency
through organized community efforts
for the sanitation of environment, the
education of the individual in principles
of personal hygiene, the organization
of medical and nursing
service for the early diagnosis and
preventive treatment of disease, and
the development of the social machinery
which will insure to every
individual a standard of living adequate
for the maintenance of health;
organizing these benefits in such
fashion as to enable eyery citizen to
realize his birthright of health and
longevity.
Public Health work in North Carolina
la under the direct supervision
ot a County Board of Health which
consists of the Chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners, the County
School Superintendent, and the
| Mayor of the county seat as exj
officio members, and two physicians
and one dentist selected by the exofficio
members of the Board. A
County Board of Health is guided in
the execution of its responsibilities
by Public Health Laws adopted by
the State Legislature, and by rules
and regulations promulgated by the
State Board of Health.
In order to promote Public Health
aciu Vines in Jjrcvenung uiscuaca m
North Carolina, 87 of the total of 100
counties in the state, comprising
2,531,310 of our population, has a
full time public health organization,;
either as individual county units, or
as a combination of counties in a
health district. During the past fouryears
Jackson County has been a
unit of a health district, originally
comprising Haywood, Jackson, and
Swain Counties, and at the present
ttime including Macon and Transylvania
Counties. A central office is
maintained at Waynesville in Haywood
County under the direction of
a District Health Officer, with offices
in each of the other county seats,
with two Aflistant District Health
? ?? A M 411 t 1 . ^
Officers. Aomncpai pcraoana includes
a supervising nurse, with a
county public health nurse in each
county, and one on the Cherokee
Indian Beeervatkm, which is a unit
of the District Health Department.
A sanitary inspector and office clerk
is provided fat coch county, and a
District Laboratory is maintained in
Waynesville for service to the entire
area.
(Plteit to Pept 5)
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ADVANCE OUTSIDE THE COUNTY
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ollege :
its Mountains ;
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Western Carolina Teachers College
i has recently issued as its regular
I quarterly bulletin, most attractitve
| book, 'Regional Sketches of Western r
of Western Carolina". Mr. H. T. j
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nunier, president 01 tne college,
states that the institution plans
to issue a similar book each
year, dealing with some phase of :t
Western North Carolina, in the
realms of history resources, prob- *
lems, institutions and men and wo- .
men who have contributed to the ;
development of the region.
Also the college will supplement
this effort by having a special "Western
North Carolina Day" on the V ;
campus each year, as the Cullowhee i
instiution is anxious to become in- J ?
creasingly an interpreter of the >..
mountain region. ?% '
Miss Winnie Alice Murphy is edi- '
tor of the book, Miss Laura Jean ? '?
McAdams, illustrator, and Miss Anne
Hammond, copy editor. The book ( \
begins with an introduction, in the ,
form of a letter from President Hun- \
ter to Miss Murphy. Mr. Hunter
states in the letter that the college tr
hopes to really interpret the moun- {.
tains and the mountain people as i
they are, in order to dispel the fog
of misinformation that has surrounded
them by reason of the gross caricatures
that have been presented to t
the world by writers, who have writ- ? . *
ten for profit, without taking the ,
trouble to find the true facts and
present them. Mr. Hunter states
that the mountains have made a truly
great contribution to the Anglo-Saxon
civilization, and that the college
wishes to give the world the facts
concerning them. ?
Contributors to the book are Miss /,
McAdams, whose illustrations show i
that she is a pen and ink artist of no ; i
mean ability; E. H. Stillwell, with an i I
article on the "Formulas, Myths, and '} |
Ancient Religion of the Cherokees";
Thomas A. Cox, who gave the tradi- t
tions concerning De Soto in Cullowhee;
The legend of Soco Creek, by
W. E. Bird; The Story of Sali, by P. \ J
L. Ellitt, and other worth-while ar- <j
tides and poems, by Olive Tilford ^ ' \
Dargon, Robert Frank Jarrett, Ed- s r>
win Bjorkman, W. Newton Turner,
Eva Plamondon Boyd, E. V. Deans,
Jr., Rebecca Cushman, and Willis A.
Parker.
The beautiful poem, of Jesse Collins,
19 year old Savannah township
boy, has a place of prominence in
the book, and should have, for it is,
in our opinion, one of the most noteworthy
pieces of verse that has
come out of the mountains, and for
this reason, we are reproducing in
full:
I WAS BORN IN THE SOUTH ,
Jesse Collins v
I was born of a breed
Of which giants are born,
In the dark of the woods,
In the dusk of the morn, t
Of a daughter of God, >
Without blemish or blame, r'
With the help of her faith
And the women who came. ; v
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I was born of a father j
Who had little of gold, *
But an arm for an axe i
A mi A o Kmo cl fnr? fVi Ck
nilU a xu* VUV VVAU. J
Yet the trails that he made j
And the fields that he cleared \
Are the cities today t
Where his children are reared ?
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I was born in a place
Where the evergreens grow,
That are green in the sun <7i
And are green in the snow,
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wnere a vaie is a cnurca
And a pine is a spire,
Where the winds are a voice
And the woods are a choir.
I was born in a land
That believes in God,
Who is heard in the gale
And is seen in the sod.
He waits by our side;
Him we praise with our mouth,
To the wild, to the world?
I was born in the South.
BALSAM
(By Mrs. D. T. Koifht)
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Mr. John T. Jones went to Qylva
Monday. J
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Knight,
VIr. and Mrs. N. R. Christy and Mrs. y 1
George Bryson attended Quarterly \
inference at Elizabeth Methodist r ' '
:hurch near Waynesvilk Sunday ' J
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