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i The watch on the .Rhine becomes
| an alarm clack.
v Sylva and Jackson County need
; iwany small industries. That ris the
I w new way to prosperity.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
i ; FORWARD
3 When one looks ahead, a quarter
of a century seems a long period of
{ . ' time. But looking back upon it. one
.1 realizes that it is but a watch in the
/ right when it is passed.
^ . . To be the oldest editor in this part
of the State, in point of service with
one paper, makes the writer seem an
% oid man. Yet he is not. It seems
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t . but 3 few days back to his boyhood
( days at Webster, when he was going
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i hare-1001 auuui uic utmo .
t ' fne in the Tuckaseigee in the sum- I
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T 1 . mer and sitting at the feet of J. N.J
. Wilson at old River Hill in the winter I
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I ' The twenty-five years during which
^ the writer has been the editor of the,
H Jc urnal have brought many changes in
, ; '* ? the county and the mountain country.
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t ,* { Many of these changes have been
j * real progress, others, can scarcely be I
J * * classed as such. It is a fact that no
1 < one gets anything in this world withf
, out paying for it, one way or another,
* ' There is no gain without a corresponj
^ 4 ding loss. When a country or a comJ
f munity gains something it must lose
? 1* ' something. Therefore, in computing
1 * the probable results of so-called pro}
^ggppsijr#' steps, it is necessary to
f count the cost and reckon whether
^ the gain will be greater than the cost.
? Take it by and large, the county has
* ' gained much during that period.
:v When, tv.enty-five years ago, the
* writer assumed the editorial chair of
^ * the Journal, there was not a high
^ > ' way in the county, and scarcely a
% K read worthy of the name. There was
. not a garage, automobile agency,
} tilling station. It took a citizen
i ^ * longer to travel from Cashier's Valley
% O!- Canada to the county seat at Webt
J** ster than is now required to make a
i trip from Sylva to Murphy. Electric
4 refrigeration, radio, and many other
ilems that are now commonplace in
* our lives were then unknown.
| The only stisfactory way to travel
^ to Bryson City, Waynesville or Ashe^
ville was by train, and the trains on
> L the Murphy branch were crowded
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i'V '? ir almost every day. Centralized schools I
?; and bus transport were unknown.'
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^ the school term. The county had no
J farm agent, and no home demonstraI
tor.
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But the germ of the great school
K system for the county was already
''f 3i Cullowhee, for Cullowhee Normal
f T"f i-nd Industrial School had been es?
' t. tablished years before, and was al^
- rtady doing and had done a magni-'
ficient work, giving promise of bej;
J * coming the College that it now is, and
| the greater institution that it is to
' f * become.
I: *f Shortly after assuming the guidance
I 5 of the Journal the writer was offered
| i positions elsewhere, with larger pa|
'J * " pers ond a large field in which to
ft *: woric; dux ne cnose iu xexiiaxxx xxx xixs>
I L - , own country and among his own
I J -:j people. And the Journal began at}
/ 4* tempting to interpt the people of the
t ' county, their hopes and their ambif
lions for themselves and their county.
| jp As such, The Journal ran into inI
q\ itable conflict with the ouinions of
j 4 certain of our citizens. No man and
] | .* no paper that stands for anything
1 * can avoid'that. NBut, week by week,
1 . j -? year in and year out, this paper has
* J j s;ood for what it honestly believed to
i be the best interest of the county and
! ft it.< people, and vftith charity toward
I \ f ' all, ill will toward none, the paper
[ vj. ' and its editor have espoused those
[J i-1 x "* causes it believed would make for
. > J the betterment of the county, the State
li and their people.
II f % We have come through many trials
i* ^ and tribulations. We have accumudated
little of this world's goods. We
* have made lots of friends, and some
f r. enemies. We have had many days
'.1 * . ol worry and trouble; and many days
H V : anc* ^Shts of labor. But we have
Hi it. also had a lot of fun, and it has been
iy | a real pleasure to serve you, our readHi
v ers, our neighbors, and our friends,
lif > , If we nave contributed any thing
uli / to the good of the county and the
Nil * v State, we are glad. If we have
* wounded anyone in our zeal, or have
'& done aught that may have harmed
) At the beginning of another quarter
~ ** a cen^ury? we 1??^ forward to r.ee"' V
^ ing greater progress made in the
Kpk.*-.'' 3*"' county than has ever been made be?*'
* ; tore in the past. Progress like a snowk;
v ^ v toall gains in size and in impetus as it
I ? goes along.
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J 106 AT LAST
Of ail the progressive steps tha
the Journal, has advocated during th(
past quarter century, a paved highway
through the county from Sylve
to the South Carolina line has beer
the one upon which we have put mosl
stress.
It was one of the first things thai
the Journal began agitating for. And
we have been constantly at it, until
now it appears that our dream is
about to be realized. Highway Commissioner
McKee, of this county, is
authority for the statement that this
spring will see the letting of the last
link in this great highway to contract.
I Twenty-five years is a long time
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I to worK an oujtxuvc, a.iv?
I time to wait for a dream to come true;
jut it is said, ''all things come to him
I vvho knows how to wait" and Jackson
County has certainly waited,
.vith patience for the highway*
This will give us a great trunkine
highway through the county
irom the Southeastern Cities through
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park , to the midle west. It will be
i highway of surpassing scenic gran(eur,
ns well as the shortest route for
.ravel through the Smokies.
It will open up the great upper
section of Jackson County, than which
here is no better trucking region
.n the country. The lack of this
lighway has held back the progress
>f the county. With its completion,
.ve can confidently expect to see Jack-1
on County and the town of Sylva go I
.'orward with rapid strides.
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Our First Editorial I
(Republished from Journal 25 years
ago). I
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Upon assuming control of the
Journal, it is expedient that we should
set forth what the policy of the paper
shall be. We will do all that is within
our power for the upbuilding of
our county and town, in every way.
Jackson county is by far one of the
wealthiest counties in North Carolina,
in natural resources. She has within
her forests almost an inexhaustable
supply of hardwood timber. Within
the bowels of her hill lies dormant
- ?..moitv, r\f oiav rnnDer. iron.
an umuiu wcuiui , ?,-??.
nickel, mican, and the precious
metals. Her valleys are well nigh
as fertile as the valley of the Nile or
the Euphrates. Her crystal streams,
as they hurry on their restless journey
toward the sea, generate sufficient
power, if harnessed, to turn the spindles
of the South. Her magnificent
scenery is unrivaled. Her matchless
climate is superb. Jackson seems to
be one of Nature's favorite children.
In fact she has almost outdone herself
in giving to us those things that are
most essential and desirable to man's
highest existence. These are ours, and
"it j up to us to develop and appropriate
them to our use.
The Journal is working in the interest
of the county. Your interests
nr#> our interests. Let us co-operate
and give Jackson the place of preeminence
which is justly hers, and
make the Journal one of the best
county papers in the State.
FROM JUDGE CLARKSON
State of North Carolina.
Supreme Court,
Raleigh,
Dear Mr. Tompkins
I just write to congratulate you on
the Silver Anniversary Edition of the
Jackson County Journal. A quarter
of a century is a long time, and I can
imagine the burdens and trials that
you have been through in order to
make this one of the finest papers
in the mountain land.
With all good wishes.
Sincerely your friend,
Heriot Clarkson
MRS CRAWFORD CONGRATULATES
US
Waynesville, N. C.
March 24, 1938
Dear Dan;
I consider it a great feat to occupy
the same "easy chair" for 25 years.
And I join your many friends in offering
congratulations.
The article in the Citizen this morning
obrought to mind memories of
many years ago when your fine old
grandfather accompanied my husband
on his campaigns, and I always
remember with pleasure your fine old
grandmother too.
My kindest regards to your family.
Cordially yours,
Mrs. W. T. Crawford
TODAY and
TOMORROW
(By Frank Parker 8tockbridge)
ANTHEM ... .a new one?!
The main trouble with our American
national anthem is ttjat nobody
can sing it Nobody, tht is, but Anna
Case, the former operatic star whois
now Mrs, Clarence Mackay. Voices
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THE JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL,
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^that can sing the low notes of the i
"Star-Spangled Banner" can't get
1 the high note? and vice-versa; and#i
' few people can remember most of ;
the words.
I've been complaining about the 1
. "Star-Spangled Banner" for years, ]
and now I'm finding people who agree J
with me that a national anthem1J
^ should be, first of all, singable by
' everybody, that it should have words ;
^ which convey a patriotic thrill, and j
' that it should be truly national. Our j
anthem is none of thosA "America" .
' is simply American words set to the ]
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nnilMl tUIIC U1 uuu oa ?t tiiv. lung. i
' "Dixie" is grand but sectional. At
that it stirs northern audiences more
than the standard anthem does, because
the music has fire and "pep."
Anyway, two great musicians, a
famous poet ^nd the editor of a na
tionaj magazine got together the o- t
ther day and decided to offer some
big prizes for the words for a new
American national anthem. I may
take a try at it myself!
wool new Drocess
If the news that comes out of Rus- JI
ia is true, if soon will not be necesary ^
for sheepmen to shear their sheep. 3
Just give the sheep a dose of thallium j?
acetate and it sheds its wool, That is ?
the report made by Dr. N. A. Iljin of
the Wool Laboratories of Moscow. ?*c
Moreover, the thallium treatments
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make it possible to recover market- ~
able wool from varieties of sheep t
which are now bred only for mutton. L
Many ordinary varieties of sheep I j"
have two kinds of wool, a coarse kind j'
called "kemp" which is of no value I
for spinning, and a finer kind mix- j
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e i with it. Dr. Iljin reports that the .
thallium salts cause all of the wool; i;
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to drop off the merinos and other t-j
fine-wooled sheep, but that by grading
the dose he makes common sheep
shed their fine wool while the kemp:
n mains on the animal. , M
If this works out in practice it will1 [,
give every sheep in the world an add- ' f j
cd value and ought to reduce the t!
cost of wool. | m
STRAIN of thinking I :j
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wnen we use uur uiauib we pui a ?strain
upon the whole body research Ji
experiments at Indiana University
indicate. The popular notion is that
brainwork is a "soft" job; that the
muscles get tired only when one ft
does manual labor. But it seems that
is not true. The harder a man thinks,
the more taut his muscles become, H
until after a day of hard study, intensive
reading or the solution of dif- M
ficult problems the ordinary person
is as physically fatigued as if he had
ben at hard labor. "j
l The old-fashioned idea that the 3
human brain was only remotely connected
with the body and that great
intellectual geniuses are often, or U
usually physical weaklings is pretty 8
well exploded. Some men of great S
mental powers have been frail of
body to be sure, but they have usually
died young.
In my own line of work, the ablest W
and most prolific writers I know are^ L
men and women of more more than ""
average physical development, who ,
find it important to keep their bodies |n
fit. I notice as I grow older that I l|
feel physically tired after a day's men- 8a
tal work, with muscles aching which
I was not conscious of having used B
at all.
MAX still Burgomaster I
One of the' great heroes of the H
World War was Adoipn Max, tmr
g ;master of the city of Brussels. 1
Burgomaster Max's name l^ecame J
almost as familiar to American newspaper
readers as that of any of the ?
great generals. He took no part in I
the fighting, but at the risk of his life
I managed to maintain the civil govern I
t ment of the Belgian capital in the H
face of the German invasion.
Most people have forgotten Bur- H
gomaster Max. I know that I had, rJ
until I saw his name in the newspaper [1
dispatch the other day, as heading
the committee which welcomed For- (
mer President Hoover to Brussels, gj
The same Burgomaster Max?and $
still Burgomaster of Brussels, after *
nearly twenty-four years. &
To me that points the difference i]
I between municipal politics in Europe ju|
and in America. Imagine, if you can, Uj
a mayor of a great American city M
holding office for 24 years, no mat- Ifl
ter what his record. I can't. We jfl
don't do things that way in America. |a
We throw our best public officials [a
oat because some politicians want fl
the job for their own gang.
WITCHCHAFT . ancient wrong
It seems almost incredible that less II
than 300 years ago people believed n
so firmly in witches that men and fl
women, shiefly women, were im- fl
prisoned or even put to death on the fl
charge of having traffic with the Devil
and casting evil spells upon other
people, H
The wave of persecution of I
"witches" was world-wide. Many so
accused were hanged in the Amer-" I
ican colonies; in England and on the I
Continent of Europe many were ac- I
tually burned alive! Civilized folk
rto longer believe in supernatural fl
powers and manifestations and we
leave witchcraft and its punishment H
to the4)lacka^t Haiti-and-othargav- fl
age countrie?;b while we try ^
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SYLVA, N. C., MARCH 24, 193$
Size for the insanity to our ancestors.
TVA controversy the Tax Bill, the
ton Beach, New Hampshire, voted
at town meeting to erase from the
town records the fact that Eunice
Cole was imprisoned as a witch
in 1656, to burn all documents relating
to ~lhe case and to bury the
ashes with the bones of the unfortunate
woman in a suitable place, as
amends for the injustice done her
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273 years ago. If this serves to warn ' Arrinm
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future generations against unfounded ' Southern R n
.accusations and hasty mob iude-' ' ^re
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raents, it will be a gesture worth r' Charlie Bryscu> ^H{1
making.
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Mr. A. F. Arrington and family ' and' Mrs'* w't Georfc I.
moved to Waynesville Tuesday. Mr.1 Asheville Tuecrt Fjn??ll J
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our part to progress in Jack-I
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their needs I
ts; McCormick-Deering FarmM
smobiles; Auto repairing; Leou-H
rigerators; International Trucks;M
)ay and Night Wrecker Service
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Shell Products I
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M lowing prize' I
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largest FlSHl
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I Trout?Prize: HUNTING^T 1
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al. WINCHESTER RIFLE No. 6/__, I
largest Bass > I
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be weighed7 or be weighed by the Gartie Ward /
or one of his Deputies. ,
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