North Carolina Newspapers

ft ?! Hi %?# 4- jJ * P y A YEAR IN ADVANCE IN TH3 VI \H <n? 1 i!f Ci CcUi, Ml'S. I.-WIS iv:i^.4 Jo .t.. Rui'u; acnes. Mr.-. A..:. s v;j:. , Mi':.. John R. Jono:.', Geo. \v'. Br; .-,on, 0. *. Kni.,nl. M. at. ? Ji k.v*. , 4 -1 s. | i, .ii... LJ. x. . ,<h.n 1. ol .it'S, . . V l f 4 1 1 A. \' i ? 4 . V C . 4 1 J t 1 . , J\>. 4 1 C.i.1 v < . r S| *J. 4.. 44I 1. > wj j J. A. Av.r..i4_,>, P. i'. L/v'v.ii, I ' 1*1. L. Bean, .Wis EsMe lUcun, N. N. I Dija. n, Annie r.yson, A. C. Bryson, I Roy Potto, Mrs. Hoy Pods, Dapiiney J Potts. K. C. Broo.ks, Mrs. R. C. Brooks, 1 I Tom Brybon. Minnie Bryson, Eibert I I Reeve, Mrs. Eibert Recce, Willard I Barrier, Walter Smathers, Mrs. Walter omatliers, Marion Ashe, Mrs. Marun Ash.-, Mrs. Mabei Perry, Mrs. Glenn Parris, Glenn Parris, Miss fluid 1 Foster, Mrs. Bessie Barnett, j Robert Bryson, Mrs. Robert Bryson, O. J. Seek, Mrs. Lona M. Green, Mrs. 0. J Beck, Eeulah Beck, J. D. Jone3, Mrs J. D. Jor.c., Mrs. Martin Hoyle, I Ch;ii lie Hoyle, R. L. Pierson, Mrs. R. I L. Pierson, Geo. Smathers, Luther I To. \ r, Mrs. Luther Foster, Oscar? ^ Mrs. ( I Smi .ltrs, Mrj. uscui kjiiww.,-. I L. Smathers, Johnnie Woodall, I M;Johnnie Woodall, Phillip Smath- j I er-> Mrs. Nellie Smatners, Albert Me- j I bailey, Mrs. Maud Mehaifey, James ' I Coward, Mrs. John Coward, Claud I Mrs. Claud Warren, Mrs. I B. M. Nenney, Bascum Queen, Mary I L. Q jeen, Paul Arringlon, Mrs. Paul I Ston, Miss Harriett Derrick, W. I L^rrick, Mrs. James McClure, f M Ley, i McClure, Fred Connor, Jim ! Buncan, Mrs. Jim Duncan, Theodore I r Untan. Mrs. C. L. Duncan, Mrs. I f Duncan, Dewey Bryso.n, Carl I Dolly Ccnncr, Mavy Ensley, ' I -;^cn Beck, Mrs. Wilson, Deck, Mrs.! 1 Cy p,-^a Beck, Henry J. Beck, Mrs. I I ^i.'y J. Beck, F. M. Recce, Mrs. I ^e?- hazard, J. N. Warren, \7. H. I Mrs. ,7. H. Jones, Brysoo I L:t Smatners, Sam Beck, Mrs. I Lecn, Wcodrow Smatners, W. J. I , rnr':' Wanda Lane, J. K. Kenney, I 1VV'i'yne Byatt, Mrs. Wayne Hyatt, I Shuier, Elsie Shuler, Will Reed, I 7<-Uic Cooper, Lon L. Cooper, CharI le,s Biatt, Louise Hyatt, L. E. BryI -on, Bertha Bryson, Roy BrysAn, I lc*a Bryson, Anna Laura Hoxit, C. I J- Lean, Martha Dean, Dock Dean, I e Fredia, Maggie Fradia, jD. M. I eni y- Nellie Gertry, Cicero CrawI ft* A*yrtie Crawto.d, Mrs. W.'ii I ( d, L -b Br.,son, Ceo. Coward, My. I Bryson, J. uoi.r.cr, My. o. ' Conner, E/a Conner, 3. E. Fiat I vC?- W' Ho>le, Belle Iloyle, Fred r'c,*,7an, N. R. Christy, Mrs. N. It. I p isly' Mrs. W. S. Christy, Itilie iJ' ou, Mrs. Tallie Pinnbn, C. C. I mT?' A' C' Ciawfo-'d, Mrs Dd I .Son i0w31!' i, yV. B. Jry* . |S( 5;V ; ? ? uu* : ,;.t .: : \i W ?*> 2 COUNTY M* - - ** SritSL.<?\ *w :?;;3?3T.i?natcm^^Waist To ' Tom Jackson Girls' Basketball Tournament Starts Monday Sponsored by the Sylva Fire Detriment, the Girls Gold Medal basketball Tournament will get unier way, or the court of the Sylva thigh sehocl, Monday night. The tournament will continue on the nights of Tuesday, the 23, and March 1 and 2. Among the teams which j will compete are the Danderidge, j Tennessee, Clayton, Ga., Asheville Army Store, Canton, Clyde, Glenjville, Webster, Beia and Sylva Flre| men. ? i Bar Association Met Here Monday Night i ?? " p The district Bar Association held a meeting ard were served dinner, at the Poinsett Hotel, Monday night. Dan K. Mocre, Sylva attorney, who is president, presided. j J. L. Hair Transferred To Signrp Jv o an tain Mr. J. L. Ha r, for several years educational director in Camp 411, i Civilian Conservation Corps, at i Smokciiiont, has been transferred to ' a camp at Signal Mountain, Tenn. j Mr. Hair left this week to assume < hi3 duties. ] ? Miss Betty Sue Bryson Dies Of Pneumonia Funeral services for Betty Sue Eryscn, 15, of Gay, were held at 11 o'clock Tuesday inarn.'r.g at the Wcs- , Icy anna ??Tcti.ocksi church at Gay. J."J .rrncnt v . lac church cc 'an- I ( v The . C ' . .TI? . !.\ pcuor | . ' " n . . ;! "in; : . v.*a.' in c\. a-?ss ! i'k ! , [ Iho Iiomc of' h-:v parents, .\r. n *. ..Y?.d Dry- j ;on, of Gov, I mrvuiu; at 1:05 ( oc.c.k o; pnc .'.u.iia. Pue had been' ili a littio me: than a week. Sot is survived ir her parents and 1 t.V) s.sters, an.a JVIary, all c c: C.;/. Tl.j active pallbearers were: Ilamll- ^ lor. Biysoa, 71 oyd ^esde, Nelson Tat- ( ham, Paul Buchanan, and Adam Moses. J < Dramatics Club Of W.C.T.C. J Meets 11 Cullowhee, February 22?(Special) | ?The Dramatics Club of Western i Carolina Teaehus College, held its 1 regular ineeun;., 1. night in the recreation rocm of Moore Dormitory. 1 In the absence of th'_ president, Miss I Rachel Crr presided over the meeting. 1 During a short business session, J announcements wcic rnrde to the effect that the cmb .has recently been ( made a member of the Carolina Dramatics Association and that the! * club has been invited by John W. Parker, secreiary of the association, | to enter a play in the dramatic lestival which will be held at the University of North Carolina March 22-25. The dramatics group at Wes- I tern Carolina Teachers College, according to the sponsor, Miss Winnie Murphy, will be entered in the senior , college production contest to com- J pete with player:, from East Carolina . Teachers College c ud Lenoir-Rhyne I College. Torn .v'onc's one-act play, ( "The Return of Duck Gavin" is the ( production which will be entered by , the Western Carolina Teachers Col- ( lege players. ( The cast for Zona Gale's play, Neighbors", to be given in the col TnpsdaV at 1:15, Was i6ge ciuuiiuiiuiti ? _ then presented to the club. I Mr. John Biuer, former sponsor J of the club, who studied at Northwestern University during the fall term, brought gi votings to the group, j Mr. George Coggins of Asheville j presented the main feature of the | evening's program by showing aJ movie in Icchnico.-cr of last year's! ' I h , , c_ | May Day iJ~ iii".tod in c oi:.. .i,jr U autre at j *. osvcrn Ca-;.i a .'c.wiicwj Coilegc. i M^s A lino Co; i.r; oi Asntvjlle j and Mr. Ciauc IJer.-.cu oi Syiva were the meeting. Other j cliSO J-xv guests from hie college community J who wore present ior the program' veto Anne Aioright, Mrs. C. C. Buchanan, Mrs. Loon Sutton, Mr. George Tracy, and little Misses Linda Mae Sutton ana Sara Jean Sutton, I 4^ v[.|/ SVLVA, NORTH CARO SSAHY CASES ON CRIMINAL DOCKET The entire day today, Thursday was Used in the selertinn a inrv fcfi try the case of the state against Ray Cogdill, charged with criminal assault, in the February term of Superior Court; wh;ch began here, Monday, with Judge Zeb Nettles, oi Asheville, presiding. The jury war ! drawn from a special venire of 100 1 men. I The case of the state versus Johnny Driver, charged with criminal assault, was postponed until Friday for judgment. In other cases in court here Judge j Zeb V. Nettles, of Asheville, presiding, gave sentences ranging from j several months to the five to seven- j year term imposed upon S. T. Mc- I Ginnis. McGinnis was tried on a charge of breaking and entering and larceny I of more than worth 01 jeweiry from the Sylva pharmacy several months ago. Other sentences included: Carson Harper, breaking and entering, two to three years, Claude Nations and Perry Hall, both cnarged with violating the prohibition laws and each sentenced to six months on the public roads and given an additional 18 months suspended sentence; Howard j Chiluers, operating an automobile! while intoxicated, 10 months; Mar r'.hall Buenanan, assault with a ;lcadly weapon, eight months, and i Bob Buchanan, larceny, 30 days. Little Girl Breaks Leg Dorothy Jamison, seventh grade itudent in the Sylva schools, suffered a fractured leg, Monday, while playing on the school grounds. She was taken to Ih 2 Community Hospital win re the limb was set and tvhci ; rh. :vco .t ring. a edier o; Rev. UK. ; L . v>n. QUAi iLA i Mr. ?T. R. M: : ,.-r. who was injured J vhen sin. k b; a i\ Ring tree, Saturis re. arU ! io be improving. .VIrs. L::. y I'-all and Miss Annie Li.-.rbo Vcri *11 caller! on Melba Cornell, wbo was sick but is improving. Mr::. S. M. Crisp, Mrs. W. W. Anthony and Mr. Jess Bianton visits 2d Mr. M. L. Bianton. Mr. Miller Hall and family and "dr. Frank Owen and family were quests of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kinsland Sunday. Too Wnmp Dprr onstration Club | net with Mrs. Golman Kinslandj Friday. I Mr. H. G. Ferguson and Mr. and I Mrs. Oscar Gibson called at Mr. D.| VI. Shuler's Sunday. | Mrs. J. E. Battle and Mrs. James ? Wiggins visited Mrs. D. C. Hughes ?riday. Some new buildings are being erected and a sawmill moved to the Dooper farm on Highway 112. W. C.T. C. Students Are In "Who's Who" Cullowhee?Charles Hollomfcn, of Hookerton; Edith Wilson, of Bryson City; Horace Meredith, of Guilford; Elizabeth Ammtn, 01 Cullowhee; ElLyra Greenlee, of Spruce Pine; and C. A. Dandelake, of Raleigh, six students from Western Carolina Teachers College, were chosen re J., n nnnular oubli cenii}r iu m v. t t cation for students, Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. The six students //ere chosen beI cause of qualities of character, scholarship, leadership in athletics, society, religion, student government, and potentialities for future usefulness, by the eniire faculty from a list of outstanding students which was compiled by the college registrar, | Miss Addie Beam, and supplemented with other names suggested by facility men: hers. F:.-: icgn ; i d biographical j skatcic ti.e ;e t- -e girls and three boys have been : ."t to the editor who plans :or the publication to appear sometime in the late spring. Something like th.rty-five hundred students from over iour hundred and j fifty colleges of the nation were rep- j relented in lasu year's edition of j Who's Who Among American Uni- j versifies and Colleges. i UNA, FEBRUARY 23, 1939 iTPir uirri/ ui rnr ii:i. mtti\ iii inr. NATIONAL CAPITAL Washington, Feb. 22? (Autocaster) ?The two important subjects which f overshadow everything else in Washington are the President's row with Congress and the necessity for increasing national defense precautions. There is little difference of opinion on Capitol Hill on the first of those; Congress, especially the Senate, is in a fighting mood and is defying the Presidential wishes. There is considerable difference of nnininn in Cnn crrfce nc tn tV-io r#?nl ; need of spending as much money as the Arrr.y and navy, backed by the (President, think should be spent for ! increasing the nation's armaments. ! Without the backing of informed public opinion, even those who strongly favor heavy increases in armaments feel that it would be unwise to go too far. If the public knew the facts, these members oi Congress believe, there would be no opposing sentiment against spending all that might be necessary on our fighting forces. The facts about the military strength of America and the democracies of Europe, as compared with that of the dictatorships, which, were told to the Senate and Hous Military Affairs committees, are beginning to leak out, and they art making a deep impression upor members who had not heard them and who were inclined to oppose thfc whole idea that the United States needed stronger defenses. Craig Gives Figures As outlined by General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the Army, the comparative figures are very interesting. Military men talk of armed forces in terms of Army divisions. A division is a completely self-con laired fighting unit of, usually, 200,000 men and officers, equipped rnd manned to take the field alo.ie if necessary. The latest figures show that Germany has 00 such divisions, Italy 44, Frarce 38, and England only scvon. Japan has 50 army divisions in China, 12 more in Manchukuo und nine at home. And the United Slates has only partis of our divisions. There ari 400,000 soldiers on the War Department rolls, including the regular Army, the National Guard and the enlisted reserve; but they do not constitute an effective fighting force because they have not tiie equipment for war. The Army has developed at the Springfield Arsenal a new type of .nfantry rifle which is said to be the best in the world, but there are onlyi 3,000 of these modern rifles to equip .he entire army. There are only 140 of the three- , inch field guns which are the main reliance of a mobile army; only two | of the modern 105-millimeter guns I upon which foreign armies are rely ing, and less than half the number of machine guns needed to equip what troops we could put in the field if necessary. General Craig startled the Congressional committee by citing pages of such facts, and especially by alleging that most ?f the gunpowder the Army has now was left over from the World War and has deteriorated so that it explodes often by spontaneous combustion, sometimes blowing the gun-barrel to bits, Inclined To Do Something In the light of such information Congress is more inclined than before to put the nation's defenses inwnrlch 2 :;haDe. but is still inclined w T* w" O c -r to be suspicious of being led into entagling foreign alliances. The real battle between, the President and Congress may have only begun. The Senate's refusal to confirm the appointment of Floyd H. Roberts to be a Federal judge in Virginia, by a vote of 72 to 9, was the opening gun. The President's attack upon the ancient system of "Senatorial courtesy" under whicn no high official can be confirmed i;' he is personally obnoxious to the Senators from his home state, has opened up '.he whole question of the m power o.i ippcintmjnt. The President ineists that it is a power granted by the Constitution to the President alone. The Senate holds that the power of appointment is a dual function of President and Senate together. Ivluch re-reading of the Constitution is going oh on Capitol Hill, and (Please turn to page two) j ) r=WHKfflSJ3BiaBS54B5?' !F1XJCttn3*rrr;r<? r"91 $*.00 A YEAR Df i *-- ' - i-' Would Leng . Of County 0 ]*SODAvli vi and 11 ItomorrowI II FRANK PARKER it jg'j 3 T Q_GJ{^B R j_D O t Jj| ??Unid?f|-?i? t m 'mm.?.- , TAXATION .... benefits Everybody pays taxes. Nobody ever paid taxes because he liked j t d pay them. People are willing to , taxes when they can see that they are getting something for their money. I think the great majority o- Americans are getting tired oi paying taxes for benefits which they .to not get. I hear protests continually from people who run automobiles, against . the diversion of the gasoline tax from its original purpose of highway improvement and maintenance to all kinds of miscellaneous purposes, i am hearing more grumbles about the waste of public funds in maintaining high-salaried officials who do nothing for their salaries. II look back into history and read ae complaints of the American olonists against the taxes imposed <n them by the English government, noney taken across the ocean to naintain the King and court in royal uxury. And I read about the Dclaration of Independence and the devolution. Then I wonder what we are heading for in America today. ECONOMY . . . . . waste Politicians always talk economy before election . Very soldom do they practice it after they have been elected to positions which enable them to spend public money and levy taxes on the people. That is true whether they are town superI visors or selectmen, county commis! sioners, municipal mayors and coun! ciimcn, slate governors and legislaJ tors, or Senators and Representatives in Congress. ! I feel safe in asserting that more than half of the money spent by tne 15,000 taxing units in the United States is wasted. The people who ! pay the taxes do not get value for j I their money. That goes for the Fed- J ' eral government, most if not all of j the state governments, practically every city and county government and the majority of town and village governments. We are paying, you and I and everybody else, almost a quarter o. j all that we earn in the form of taxes to maintain our government. The smaller the individual income, the higher the proportion of taxes. The average wage-earner works three months out of the year for the governments he lives under. The joke of it is that he doesn't realize that he is paying taxes at all. He thinks only the rich guys are being soaked | PUBLIUI 1 Y . , . , The only way taxes will ever be reduced is for the people who pay them to get together and make such a fuss about them that the politicians will have to stop, look and listen. There is only one thing the average politician is afraid of or will listen to. That is the voters who elected him and can throw him out if he doesn't play ball. " Before there can be any such uprising of the voters they nefed to know that they are being soaked by the politicians, and how. The greatest need of America today is more publicity about taxes, how they are levied, who has to pay them, and particularly what the.money is ustu for. There were 967,000 persons on the Federal payroll at the beginning of 1939, not counting W.P.A. workers, but only regular employees. There are probably as many more on the payrolls of state and local governments. That means that nearly two million people are supporting themselves and their families out of what you and I contribute. I think it would help a lot of the names of all of them, -with the salaries they get, were made public in some way so their neighbors could see them and judge for themselves whether they are earning their pay. [PRIVILEGE .... equality The least defensible taxes are those which are imposed by politicians for the purpose of giving special favors to one class of citizens, or of punishing another class. They thejj>asis of equal rights upon which (Please turn to page two) -fe I ' LDVANCE OUT SIDE THE 00 UATI then Terms '! fficers2 Years ^ (By Dan Tompkina) All officers of Jackson County would have terms of four years undor a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Tompkins of Jackson. The bill, which s similar to the ones that have been jnacted for many of the counties oI the State during the present General Assembly puts all the officers of the , county on a four-year basis, and provides that county commissioners will all be elected at the same time, in the off-year elections. That would leave the Representative, the State Senator, the Congressman, to be elected at the same time that the President and Governor are elected, > V and at the off-year elections also. The terms of office of the present commissioners, Register of Deeds and / Surveyor would be extended for two years, under the terms of the bill. It was referred to the House Committee on counties, cities and towns. The Jackson County Beer Bill is still before the House Committee on Finance, where all similar bills have been sent. So far not a single bill prohibiting the sale of wine and beer in any county has been reported fa. vorably by the committee. In other J words the committee has adopted a i .S.-.U.... -t i.; 11; . -11 * ? puncy ui twiung dii cuuiuy piuiuuition bills. It is believed, however, that the Tompkins bill for Jackson county has a better chance than the rest, for the reason that it allows the sale of beer and wine in restricted ( areas in the county, where there is police protection, and where the commissioners have supervision of the sale. It is believed that the reason the bill does not attempt to make the whole county bone dry, is because the introducer felt that such a bill would have no chance in the Assembly, but that the regulatory bill wouid hr ;e a chance of passage, and wouic: iu.mt.uy conditions in the county. The Appropriations Bill has been reported out of ine committee and will go onto the floor of the House, probably on Friday. That is one of the Dig bills of the session, and a joint committee has been at work on it for several weeks. It cuts the appropriations to $40,000 each year of the biennium below the Budget Commissions total recommendations. In fact, it ammounts to a cut of one million and eighty thousand dollars below the budget recommendations. This came about by reason of the fact that the budget was set up upon the assumption that the General Assembly and the people of the state would agree to a substantial increase in the tuition fees at the University and the colleges of the state. The committee, after the newspapers, the colleges, the students, and the folks at home had spoken in no certain terms their displeasure at this proposal, knocked these recommedatons out of the budget, which caused them to face a deficit of one million dollars in the estimated needs of the colleges. Ths vvas made up in various items in the appropriations. Tn order to get the bill under the Budget recommendations, the com mittee on Tuesday of this week, ciit the Adult Education figures from $30,000 to 25,000, slashed the appropriation for advertising, in which Western North Carolina is especially interested, from $125,000 each year to *590,00 each year, and lopped $80,000 off from Vocational Education. The appropriations for Western Carolina Teachers College, as it ii ! recommended by the committee stands at $85,245 for the first year j and $75,6G0 for the second. The $10,000 for the first year above that for the second, is to provide tor the betterment to the water system at the college. Friends of the college state ii__> mmII mnlfP a fight in the Uiai Uicjr v? ? ?w House next week, to get the appro pration increased each year of the biennium by $3,200. No one can say how far they will get since the committee has reported the bill as it stands. However, it is known that the school has strong backing in the House, and it can be said with certainty that the amendment to inI crease thv appropriation will not come from c. representative from Jackson or any ^c.joining county; but from a recognized leader from outside the immediate district of the school. But, every member of the House from the Eleventh Congressional District has agreed to back the amendment when it is ordered, as have other friends of the Cullowhtf (Please turft to page tve) u Secede I (By Dan Tompkins) I large group of citizens at Bal ^ir.i "o attempting to seceed from Jackson county and get them, clve: | annexed to Haywood, according to l petition sent to Senator Chester Cogburr., by John T. Jones, of Balsam and signed by approximately 200 citizens of Scott's Creek precinct No. 'A. Xaither tiie representative from Jackson nor from Haywood has ret^ie ed a copy of the petition, nor ha'. they received any letters retarding it. Trie petition follows: Hon. Chester A. Cogburn, Raleigh, N. C. Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, tax-payers crid Legal voters of Precirct No. 3, in Scott's Creek Township, Jackson J County, do hereby petition you that i you cause to be passed such laws as J may be necessary to have Procinct j ! No. o annexed ,o Plywood county, j Nor Li Carolina, d'e are much nearer v> '.Vuymsvillo than we are to Sylva, a:.d h men oL oar trading and other buiuavs in ' Lymsville tnan Sylva.'* Lospecauliy submitted. j Jack Arnngton, Mrs. A. F. Arring ton. A. F. Arringion, Curl Woods, I Joe Woods. Lee Potes, Mrs. F. L. ' Foils, F. L. Potts, Mrs. John Blan- j !.n, John Blanton, Daniel Blanton, ' Mrs. Elsie Ensiey, Elsie Er.sley, Geo. Foils, Mrs. Geo. McCall, Geo. McCail, J. A. McCall, A. XV. Armitr | .. Queen, William Cjwm.t. Howard I Vv'.i. "en, llxltoii r. -4vy, .irs. r-ube\. Enr.ley, Fred E:. it.a, i./rs. Fr i Br. son, Vernon Br a . e. fcui'.. M. s. V. a.ter B: ?. ? r. .w.vi.. M -fn :i j,i.