00 A YEAR IN AI3VANCE IN TH3
ackson 4-H (
High Hon*
iss Helen Higdon of Webster
Miss Carmen Nicholson of Cow-,
wop for Jackson county the
i.jftion and the honor of taking
nit of the possible eight highest
i!s in Girls' 4-H Club work in
.> Higdon, a daughter of Mr.
lis. D. C. Higdon , of Webster,
.student at Woman's College)
1'niversity of North Carolina,
on first place in the State in
g and food conservation,
,r,,ies witr it a $100 trip to
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tvt v :ll ional 4-H Club Con volition i;.,
where he? exhibit and roev,
udl compete tor Southern and
j wbiner in that, for National lio:i- (
,-s. \w\aer of Southern honors gets\
of ?200; and of National l:on'
(?s The modal Mid? Higdon /
r.;j w ^ uiiil the prizes were donated
;he Kerr Manu! acturing Com(.an
u as her nandsome gold
v.. . - J i. .Miss Higdon was also eho^C]
j,v die Jane S. McKimmon Loan
liiHii'ttw as one of seven girls in
t,.e Spue to win the stadenr lorn.
VLll-s Carmon Nicholson, dautrhtev
j Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nicholson of
v.r'its, is the State Champion in
She was awarded a gold me laI,
a beautiful watch, and her exhibit
and records will be sent io Chiea<v,
ter competition for Southern hon
or*. The Dutch Craft Corpoaih/u,
-_J? l.,,+ 4'/-viit r?'r I bp Sll-v i]'ll)3 to
;|U'.iru6 inn ivm ?->i. . ?^
(Thereto o. Miss N choison's
I i vi iuit and r^cor.l* must win SouthI
1*1. hcnois bci(re >la: is eligible lor
I th. Chicago trip a vara. Jl.iwevor
I State College Extension workers and
I (X| rts who observed Misk Nichol
fen in work jon exhibit at the Nor.h
I Caiidiiia State Fair are hopel'ul that
I she will walk away, not only with
I Southern, but also with National
1 minors for girl*s handcraft. <
The Jackson "County Exhibff in
I Mutational work took Second Prizb
I in the State. It was prepare*.'], under
I su\)r: vision of Mrs. Mamie Sue EvI
\e!.-, Mr. Garland Lackey, and Mr.
I Howard Clapp, by Miss Carmen Nidi
I ?isou; *he P.eta 4-H Ciuh and tin
I ICeh. ior 4-H Club. It consisted of an
I erh; t of crafts. The booth was ueI
di^..e.I by H. P. Cat hey, and was the
I jim trior of a Colonial living room. I
I Lie .simulated weathered stone fire- J
I place was painted by Johnny CunI
niugham. Mrs. Evans, Mr. Lackey
I aad Mr. Clapp assembled the exhibit
(It attracted wide attention at tne
F?ir.f . .
Miss Lavenlra Rogers, of Webster
w?rt second place in the State in the
' etoil ing exhibit, and a prize of $3n. j
Miss Eva Higdon, also of Webster, !
look thiixI prize for rouiii improve- j
pent, and won $-i8.
BETA 4-H GIRL TO SPEaSl
I ON NATION-WIDE HOOK-DP i
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( ?f..ms Phyllis Dillard, daughter of
J Xr. mi Mvs. W. G. Dillard of Beta
% ha oeen chosen to speak on National
4-J! Hub Achievement I "n 5 *
No icn-wide Radio Hook-up. Mis;
ihllcd, representing" the 4-H Club:
01 Jackson county, will speak fror
btat.yn WWXC at 1 o'clock, on No
Vcmbor 5. 1
Misses Helen IF.gdon, of Webster
find Thelma Ashe and 'Robbie Sr.
Hooper of Sylva were chosen 'o rep
lcseni the Jackson county 4-H Club
at ?recent Wildlife Cm f:v< nc?', a
He .Tnian, but as they (wcrc all in
school, none of the young la^lies was
*blc to go. .
HET30DIST WOMEN TO HOLD
WLIK OF PRAYER SERVICES
The Woman's Missionary Society
the Sylva Methodist church will
oWsorve the week of prayer v?n
vices at the church at 3:30 on Monday
and Tuesday afternoons.
On Monday afternoon, Mrs. Dan
Tompkins will lead the service, and |
A. D. Parker will present ihe
special, which is China.
Mrs. Harry Hastings will lead the
service, and the home mission spccl*l,
the French Mission -u Louisiana,
^hll he preseitc by Mrs. Dan K.
iMoore.
The public inv ted fo the serm
^-ices.
: Offerings "ivill 'he taken for the
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iirls Bring
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TODAY add
TOMORROW
BICYCLES .... motorized
X saw a report recently that more
bieycles are being sold and ridden in
lliis country than ever before. Tt interested
me because I have seen the
bicycle develop from the old k<hi^h
wheel", but particularly because i
have seen the two most important
modern means of transportation
come out of bycicle Shops.
mi , i . 1 il_ .l? ? hnl!'
xno otn-er aay me man wuu uuwv
the first succcsoial automobile died
P\. 1'hih.delplin,. I .'is name was (Jhsir
.1!. Ihijyea. As a boy I spent a hiigiiscin.oi
vacation working in a bicycle
repair shop, under a bright young
'mechanic named Charlie JDu'ryea. lie
!u,.vl iiie tool idea. that lie could rig a
gas engine to a tricycle and so cu
out the hard work of cycling1. He
tinkered around the shop after hours
and finally made a iiu. -.-ue that rse
Out in Dayton, i>:iio. two brothers
named Wright had a bicycle vepaii
shop. They dreamed of a flying machine,
and the airplane came on' (
their bicycle shop. Another you!:;
chap whom 1 knew, named Gleiij,
Curtiss, had a bicycle shop in lia.
moiidsport, N. Y. li>e built the lirst
motorcycle. Then he hooked a mo
torcycle engine to a baloon and
made the lirst diifgible. Then he too,
got the airplane bug and ma le the
htet public flight in a machine <
his own contriving.
STAMPS profits
If there is an old house anvvheiv
in America in which the ;\tt?c h:AY
not been thoroughly rummaged fur
valuable old postage-stamp.*, 1 can't
" n-Lnvn it IS |
llllHg'.Ilt; n:i^vv7 *v ?
Every little while I hoar from one
of my stamp-collector friends of the
discovery of a valuable stamp. NqU
long ago one of them showed me n
Hawaiian "Missionary" stamp, one
of only throe or lour known -to collectors,
for wthich he had been offered
$5,000. He had got it from the
granddaughter of a missionary, who
found it among a package of old letters
which had been packed in a
farmhouse attic for 75 years.
There arc two or three million
people in Amefiea to whom stamp
j collecting is u fascinating ai;d ptofjitable
hobby. One of my friends, a
country Methodist preacher, makes
I more every year trading in stamps
(than his congregation pays hira in
saiarv. ?_ ..
| Not long ago I read of the sale of
a particular set of stamps for $30.1300.
It made mo feel a bit sick, for
I once owned' that identical set and
sold them, nearly fifty years ago. for
a few dollars.
RUSSIA . . . . . autocracy
i All the news I read from Kussi;
and all the reports my friends bring
back from that country, confirm me
mi rlie belief that it will be hundreds
! of years, if ever, before Russia bc ones
a democracy.
it is quite ck ar that the Rus-van
government of to..ay is in *Jie hard
?f a smau gnmp who are as ai'U.
iljai7o as jdictato :a.. and as humm ah.
Jin tlicir control cv:r the lives and
I 'iboi'tios of ifto Hessian people as
ev?r. fhe most tyrannical vz :h<
j Czars ever w as.
I Tliat i's why I am puzzled by ti.e
j fi'Vndiiness for Russi:; and It us:u;iu
j' '!<oa professed by many'Americans
4 who are sincerely 'devoted to ibr
] rights of the common man and bcI
bove in personal lib<^)rty. To n barge
(number of intelligent young pcopV
Russia is the symbiol of a democracy
To me it is the S3'mbol of ail that is
oibt in autocracy.
JISH nabits
The wa}rs of fish are still very
much of a mystery to man. Nobody
.rows how the salmon find then' way
mick from the sea to their streams
where they were hatched. When the
I Ronneville I>am across the Co urn
I b?a River was projected a great pro
/est went up from the salmon canning'
industry. The dam would keep
the salmon from coming1 back to
their old spawning beds, whe^re they
are caught by the eanners.
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J Nothing of the kind happeneo. /i
fish "stairway" was built alongside
the dam, ankl more than half a million
salmon climbed its 1J20O feet in
j the first season. It as easier for the
j fidh to take the short leaps of the
j stairway than the 20-foot jumps
they used to have to make in climb
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SYLVA, NORTH CAROLINA, OCT i
Ratledge Returns
To Sylva Charge
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?'AJl Methodist preachers in this
cStinty were returned to their present
charges, by the annual conference,
meeting <411 Charlotte, except
that Rev. McRae Crawford is succeeded
at Whittier-Qualla by Rev .
1a. Fisher. Mr. Crawford goes to Linvilld
Halfls.
Rev. A. P. Rattedge returns to Sylva;
Riev. G. A. Hovis, to Webster;
Rev. C. G. Hefner, to Culiownee; and .
Rev. W. F. Beadle to Highlands Cir- |
c^it. Rev. Jf. D. Pyatt goes to Jonathan,
whf:ch includes the Balsam
Churdh. .
Speedwell was taken froim. Cullowhee
charge and put in the Webster
Circuit.
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Rev. W. L. Hutchins succeeds Rev.
W. A. \R0lli11s as presiding elder of
the uistr.et.
IThc full lrst of appointments for
the district is: Presiding Elder, VV.
L. Hutchins; Andrews, ify N. Dulin ;
Bethel, J. W. BAitch; Brevarti, E. P. '
Billops; Bryson City, A. L. Boyle,
Canton, W,. R. Kelly; Clyde, E. C.
Price;; Cullowhce, C. G. Hefner;
CraUtreevJA. E. Phbbs; Dehvood, C.
0. Newell; Fin^s Creek, G. L. Lov!
ett; Franklin, I. L. Roberts; Frank(j
lin circttft, H. S. Williams; Hayes[
ville, J. C- Gentry; Highlands, W. F.
I Beadle; Jonathan, ?7. I). Pyatt; Juna
luska, J. N. Carper; Macon, J. C.
Gentry; Mur})hy, Van B. Harrison;
Murphy circuit, J. A. Fry; IT. L. Lcfevers;
Sylva, A. P. Rnvioiuy, Ws.vnesville,
J. G. Huggins, Jr.; Webster,
G. A. Hovis; Whittier, C. L.
Fisher; missionary to Brazil, C. W.
W. ( lay; professor, Bevard college,
K. D. C. Brewer; 'district missionary
secretary, W. R. Kelly.
iV>.> vn?!(lo Tvi tliA cnnwuintr &:? !.
I ripi uo. AII l mi ?i i . ?"/? |
.som Watching the L.almon climb the
stairs furnishes novel enertaiufiioni
lor tourists.
.Sturgeons, like salmon, Ato3Pfiri~
grating fish which go up fresh watei
streams to spav 1. As a hov 1 r.sui
to 'see .them in the upper Potomac
above the rapi is. Indians used to
say that sturgeons could jump up
Niagara Falls.Thrc was iho'r way <;!
accounting for their presen-e in ; he
tipper .rVrcat Lakes
Scientists bc-mvo, howtovr. thai ?
the lak'? sturgeon s are <! i-ended '
Irom tish trappvl by ! great ' cdranic
upheaval rhat fo.'Uiod the
j falls. Soni ageo!.! ins:?i??l fawner,
bring .-ta-ivi or from the va (
H.vry y-Vi *ip she S Lav. iv.e* ?)
the fool of Niagara, where [ used ta
see Tndiaj.* spear:ng tN'm u, ::.r
rapids below the fall*.
\ HAZIS outsmarted
j In fear-ridden Germany opponents
j! of Hitler fn-ed with the almost
[ tmsurmountabLe task of diss-aminat!
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OBER 27, 1938.
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flection Day Is
; One Week Ahead
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[ With the ol-ection but two weeks
off, there are beginning to be seen'
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many signs of political activity u
;thc county, though old timers say
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[ that elections now are lame affairs
'avs compared with the bienniel bouts
fbetween the Elephant and' the Donkey,
as they were staged dun rig the
eiosing days of the last century and
the fir'st three decades of this, when
parades, torch-light processions and
* joint- debates marked each campaign
The two County tickets- this year
aie:v
Democratic
Srate Senator, Chester Cogburn.
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Representative i^an
Clerk Superior Court, Roy Cowan.
Sheriff, Leonard Hoi*, en.
Register of Deeds, Glenn Hughes.
Coronor, C. W. Dills.
Surveyor, Lyman Stewart.
Commissioner of finance. Waiter
Ashe.
Commissioners, 1?. C. Howell and
Clcve Fisher.
REPUBLICAN
State Senate, I. II. Powell.
Representative, W. II. Smith.
Clerk Superior Court, Lewi's Bumgarner.
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Sheriff, R. M. Crawford.
Register of .Deeds, T. K. Guthrie.
Coronor, John Painter.
Surveyor, Estes Parris.
Commissioner of Finance, Dillard |
County Commissioners , W. C.
Oagle and J. M. Cunningham.
The Republicans have no anmimo
for Solicitor, to oppose John M.
(v.i'een; ami all but-four of the more
than twenty places on i?ic R publi:
can side of .the State ami National
I a'ot are vacant. '
BALSAM
(By Mrs. -T. K. Terrell;
, Mrs. \V. S. Christy had as house
quests, this week, the following
l'rie,:.?ls anJ relative's: Mrs.Anna Bell
Edwards* and two children ?ui Iwc
frirn'ds from Saluda, S. C. M?s. 17.
C. Kenney, IVIacon, Ga., Mr. Hour}
Christy and family, from Franklin.
Mr3. Julia Bryson and Miss -Sail
C'inCsty, fro mAndrews.
Mrs. John Blanton and June Bianton
are visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo.
Christy, from Andrews.
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Business Rei
Election Of I
Democrats Urged
By Governor Hoey)
Governor Clyde R. Hoey, speaking.
at Cullowhee on Tuesday, lauded the
records of the Democratic party in
the Statq and 'the nation,", and urged
the electWi of the national, "Stn'.e
and county Democratic tiekelk on the.
basis of that record.
U? ~.J 4-V,? 'C+otn rtATTommnri !
ue prui 5UU Hit; UttlbL gV/TIMUmvivy
for the establishment of the Statewide
eight months school term, bring
an 8 months school within Hhe reach
of every child in North Carolina,
and for the economical administra|
tion of the State Government. lie
stated that only 5 cents of every fol j
lar going into the State' treasury is
paid out for aUniiu'istration of government,
a record not even approach
ed by any other Slate.
He praised the humanitarian ioea-|
surcs of the Roosevelt \dministruticn;
aijd referrirg to tljQ increased
^National Debt, and asserted that it
costs less to carry the National Debt
now than it did when Mr. Coolidge
was President, because Mr. Roosevelt
has secured marked reductions
in interest rates. Tlhe IState, he) said,
has reduced its debt by six.mffllion
dollars a year for the past sixj years.
Mr.. E. L. McKee, Democratic couu
ty chairman, presented Dr. H. T.
I Hunter, President of Western Carolina
Teacher's College, who introduced
the Governor;
Stewart Aqeitted;
Moss Goes To Pen
Burl Moss was sentenced to serve
p leii" of ?pct. leffj.fiaH nov move
than 15 years in the State Prison,
for jtfcfe slaying of Fred Pruitt, in a
.. battle, on Pine Creek On I
Sunday night, .July 10, iast.
A plea of guilty of manslaughter
was tendered by Moss and accepted
by [tie State , immediately after a
jury had acquitted Albert Stewart, a
eon sin of Metes of the murder of
Abe Stewart, their uncle, in the
same battle. Moss had appeared as
the chief witness for the State the {
trial of his cotfein, Albert Stewart.
He stated that he shot a man
who he believed to be Bill Tcague,
who had first ,f*refd upon him; and1 1
that Albert had shot Atte' Stewart.
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rival Looming
Washington, Oct. 36?Great hopes
of peace between the Government
and industry are being voiced here,
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not only by Administrates support*
'era but D-y impartial dfeervetrs.
1 'Everybody wants to see business
l^ck up in a big way. It/is the feel']
g here that the greatest obstacle
to recovery 'has been the more or
'bVs open warfare between 'the Administration
and the big power companies.
There are more hopeful signs
than ever of a reconciliation of the
major differences, which would mean
in the opinion of most economists,
j t i r n t i '
ine ueg.nning 01 a real Dusine#e
boom.
It works out this way. The ptbiip
utilities have been for years RteMhljr
extending their services. A3 population
increases, especially in the falter
or cities and their suburbs, the demand
fof electiic light, gas, and
phone services increases.
Every new home b-uilt anywhera in
America today means a new cu*tower,
and /involves laying new- .
mains, setting up more poles, .-Jfljfrr.
ning more wires, and adding to the
capacity of the generating
or providing additional swiUh^jiprdf
fLciUties. " -./* .*?
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That means that in order
service the utilities rnidVpft|iypr
have to invest mor^ capital ^$9^
plants. That has always been so.
it accounts for the increasing monetary
size of the big utilities.
Every new customer means so
much more copper wire for transmission
lines, so many morre poles, so
much additional equipment. to be
furnished by the electrical manufacturers,
and, naturally, so much wore
employment for labor. When eipWsi
on of futility services l'agto a hundred
kinds of industries slow down.
The utilities have stated that they
ere ready to spend literally bilCtfiis
of dollars in extending iheir service's
fnd enlarging their plants as soon
as they arte satisfied iliar, the Go*. cm
Mnt ia not going to render th?-ir in
vestments worthless" by compear'
with them at the taxpayer.**' expense
Tlie Government's attitude I;as
been that the po've:* companies were
charging t'iie uuV.ia ' jo innep to?.heir
services, in order to earn driiends
on fictitious capitalization,
fhe device of 4 holding r.ompnn.vs''
diminatc many of the holding eomies
has been, it < oaichded, n
scheme to get something for nothn::;
jlit of the public's jK?cke{. *
Hence the statutes designed t >
diiminate many of the holding toio
panies, the estabtwluiieni of the Somrities
the .fx doing.) GomnutVcC '.o
mpervise all future olferirjg* of
bonds and stocks, and the setting-> ?
;>f a 4'yardstick'Un .the shape of t 1j?*
(T. V. A. power development, by
which to establish fair costs for cl.-c
trie seirvice to consumers.
Those, and the Government's furnishing
of funds to municipalities lo
jnable them to go into the light and
jower business, have had the nature i
sflxct of flightening capital away
[rorn further investment in power
;urities. ,
Wliat President Roosevelt means
irhen he denounces industry as nt>:?
looperative as that the utility lead'*. ..
[>articularly have beelr resentful ,*v
government 's atteipts to regulate
theri business, aifd instead of bein.;
villing to talk the whole thing out
rankly and freely, have {indulged in
Solent attacks upon the whole Ad
ninistration policy, and have sought,
n the courts and otherwise, to present
the government prog^m ^on;
voking.
Much bitterness has . thus been
v. 'ft*
Tenejrated on both s-des, but Vomp ?
iow a more amiable dispbaJtUfiXtf.
';TQ jTiti *'
ng shown. r
The magnates of the power busiless
are beginning to take a rfcalUr
if viiow fha cifnoffnti Afftfrt* nil *
"V ? -fy ?f VAi VMV w*.t
hey are managers of other pebble's
nvestments, and their stockholders
ire beginning to impress oh them
hat angry disputes snd fighting
vith the government dp not ehrn div
Sends. The
ray of hope is eeen in (the aeion
of the largest of the iiJtility hold
ng companies in agreeing to subject
its affairs to the SCSrtiny of the
S. E. C. This action by the Electric
Bond and Share Corpoftltion is fca'l
id in Washington as a victory tor
dr. Roosevelt, by his ardent ant hum
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