r' r ' / - t fl.QG A YEAR IN ADVANCE IN THE General Assei State's Mos (By Dan Tompkins) (Raleigh, April 4?The Genera AcsP"Ttbly of 1039 is now a matter o hi'triy. Observers generally cor sioe' h one of the progressive lcgis lal .:es of the State. Starting 01 ft-nh.:!y, and with a strict econom vicwpc nt. the Appropriations Oomn*.iti m&ae drastic reductions h the appropriations for various de purl nents of the State governmen arcl its institutions; so much so tha mar of them would have beti rripi lcd to the point of practical ex' tine on. In fact, had some of the appropriations that were tentatively adopted by the committee have been approved by the Assembly, it would have been the part of economy to abo. ih some departments altogether ck.i t'lem up, and wait for better days, -for they would have had noth- I ing with which to perform their I functions. But when a group in the Housebegan a fight on the bill, the strength oi the opposition gained momentum; and .he fight ended with progress as the motto. The bill is not an extravagant one; but it does provide more' adequately than the Committer Bill for public health service, the State advertising program, public education, vocational education, adult | eciucah'n, Western Carolina Teachers College, and some other items. J Th:s was the major fight in, the en- j tin Assembly. It contemplates no j increase in taxation, and the Com- ] jni.-sioncr of Revenue is of the opin- j ion ? tai the Revenue Act will raisej sufia.ient money to meet the expen- f din:res voted by the Assembly. Ballot reform was another matter that held much attention both of the members of the Assembly and the public. It resulted in the repeal of. h'l local election laws, the abolition oi absentee voting in primaries, and stricter laws regarding ail absentee voting. These measures passed the House without opposition; but there . tvsa considerable discussion in the Senate. Public health required much attention; and the Assembly went d'cn^ with the Department of Health in iha enactment oi laws seeking to protect the next generation from sypm.is and other diseases. Every u>i:pie obtaining license to marry I r.iu:i present to the Register of Deeds a ce:uuicate of health, showing that,, tic on u-sis and oi.ncT examinations k.. o been made. Couples marrying outside the Slate must submit to such examinations within 60 days alter tacir return to North Carolina. Pay mans attending prospective* inct.ius must blood tests for the jl protecu .-Q of the oil-spring. It is ! hvpec. that by these two measures and v ith the large amounts of money that tne State Departmont of HealUi has to spend, from State, Federal ana Reyn >ius Foundation funds, that sotiui entases will soon oe stamped cut in the State. Health authorities iay hist nyphil.s is the gi*eatest health menace in North Carolina, and thai 1.,.nmo twin noo people u: uui pouiauoii aw?"v. www, we i lected with this dread disease, wide has crowed our hospitals, instiiuUjn^ for the feeLle minded, insane asylums, penitentiary and prison camps. It is hoped that the cam yaign that is being waged against this oisease will relieve the burden that .he tax-payers of the State are havih" to bear for the support oi the institutions. Victor Bryant, ol Durham, in sponsoring the measures in the House, stated: "I am iOr these bills because every child in Nortu Carolina is entitled to a sound bod} and a clear mind." The more adequate appropriation to Western Carolina Teachers Coll*ge, coupled with the present building 1'ic^ram, will make of this inin a real college in every sense ... . - fart fine. Ui.-r WOVd. It Will D'-J cui?.v ../od as a standard four jreai j '"wv . and will be able to go torto greater service to the State to ^e| j..oys ancj gjrjs 0f the r^ouiilains. j ^vision was made for a more j Q 'w^ate old age assistance, and the ^ ftk'r c?unties will benefit from 1 ^p* that next year, instead of the P-c'Seu $100,COO equalizing fund for [iu}s -,UrPcse, there will be $370,000 0 'e distributed to the poor counties, 1 * of Slate and federal funds. local bill, introduced by Thad iyson, of Swain, which would prohibited the pollution of the c r : COUNTY " ^ nbly One Of t Progressive QtALLA Rev. an ] Mi-?. J R. Church spent *?day night at Mr.iH. G. Ferguson's "oute to S<>iner.-ct, Ky., where he conducting revival services. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Howell anrunces the birth of a daughter, '* atrice Lucile, on March 22. The Cherokee Society will meet Mr. C. P. Shel ton's Monday even- j Mr and Mrs. Wade Beck have j mved to Whitticr. j Miss Belle Ferguson has returned j lome after spending several weeks f in Sanford, Fla. ;( Mr and Mrs Joe Popplewell, of \ Oetroit, and Miss Uhoda Cope, of " dva, visited at Mr. Homer Tur- * ins. Mr. Rogers Shelton has returnee! " rom a trip to Baltimore. jj Mr. M. S. Gallimore has returned i to Greensboro after a four months' j ? ? a ' atctjr at urietril /ltTCS. % * Messrs. Chas. McLaughlin, Boyd ( Pool and Miss Annie Ruth McLaugh- y lin of W, C. T. C., Cullowhee, spent ^ ^ Sunday at Qualla. . f Miss Geftrude Ferguson is at \ j, home since the close of her school i d at Almond. t Mr. C. B. Terrell is at home since] i c die close of Glenville school. 1 T ! J Miss Jennie Cathey and Mrs. Lois; y. Martin are attending college at Cul-'d lovvhee since the close of their schools I at Olivet and Barkers Creek. f Mr. C. P. Shelton and family, Mrs. j J. L. Hyatt and Mr. Alton Edwards ? risited Mr. J. E. Rogers, of Whittier, | vho has been seriously ill for several .C non ens. | !C Mrs. P. V. McLaughlin and sons , if. Canton spent the week-end with ' ^ vlr. K. Howell and other relatives, j Miss Gertrude Ferguson called on 1 V tfiss Annie Lizzie Terrell Sunday, j Mr. C. P. KiiCiiin and Mr. V/iliard ja - oi noii)'wuuw, ?, if Lyman, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs.! lohn PofTenbarger, of Harrisburg, /"a.; and Mrs. Fred Williams, of Mt. )live Dr. E. E. Colvin, pastor First Bapist church, Bennelisville and the lev. E. M Karris, of Aberuen, oTiciated at the funeral which was leld at the Hunter home, 107 Robinson Street. Interment was in the VIcColl cemetery. Active pallbearers were Curtis Dciom, 3. B. Sanders, Jr., Charles A. itepp, James Barn hi 11, E. W., Rowe and Lee Harris. Benefit Party Tuesday There will be a benefit party at he community house, for the purpose of liquidating the debt of the building, next Tuesday night, April II. Games of various kinds will be provided. ?* --f < ? < -: -' ^0fj| 1S$ V, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL 6, 1931 ( rnational Situation Hide the Hungarian city J1 a and Yugoslavia meet, |J ic wuixa war an mis territory wa? art i? Hungary, the right Rumania jpslma. id School f The County FIFTY YEARS AGO Tuckaseigee Democrat, April 3, 1889 The bill providing for Sylva's munipal government passed the Legis1 lot are, as all are perhaps, aware. As soon as a copy of the charter can b* urocured from the Secretary of , *r ^ I St^ite, the Government will be put into operation.?We publish in this j. paper a list of the magistrates elect- | ed by the last legislature. We are : glad to note among the names a ? r number of young men, and hope 5 they will appreciate the distinction I and endeavor to discharge conscien- I tiously the honorable and dignified! duties entrusted to them. Our young j men ought to be encouraged and their services ought to be brought y into requisition, if their ability and deportment give reasonable hopes r of success.?Gen. E. R. Hampton has I been busily engaged of late, making ; improvements upon his property. A ! neat, new fence has been built, and j seven substantial gates afford sue- j ccss to the grounds for vehicle, j equestrain and pedestrain. The' front and side yards will be sown n in grass and the parapets will be sodded. The place is well provided n with trees; and when the General completes his intended improve- s ments and embellishments we think ^ there will not be a more attractive a . I r and desirable piece of property in j vicinity.?Mr. George W. Cannon, J Asheville's new postmaster, came out j | on Tuesday's train'to transact' some J. important "business connected with (j his property here. He returned this morning.?Following is a list of magistrates elected by the Legislature, t: at its last s< ssion, for Jackson coun- ^ ty: Qualla Townshi: Jas. H. Cathey, J ? -- " -?- T XT T TV/rill^v WW E. li. Hampton, w. u. IVliUVl j III ?... | ^ Thomas, Jr.; Barker's Creek: Wm. Jj Bumgarner, Jesse F. Brown; Webster: A. J. Long, Sr., Joseph Davis; P Sylva: A M. Parker, W. M. Rhea, A. W. Bryscn, H. P. Brendle, L. W. ^ Alien; DiUsboro: S. T. Early, J. C. v Watkins, F. Merrick, James F. Wil- p liams; Savannah: E. C. Ashe, Alfred Davis, W. H. Buchanan; Scott's Creek: D. L. Robinson, L. F. Fisher, S. R Cook; Cullowhee, J. E. Moss, Lee Hooper, John Bumgarner; Caney 5'ork: G. W. Hawkins, W. A. Brown, R. H. Stephens; River: Javan Davis, T. J. Jacks sn, M. M. Wike; Ham burg: W. A. Fowler, Thomas Wilson, I James V/ilscn; Cashier's: H. M. Benictt, Thc.mas Zachary; Canada: J. C. Wood, W. A. Queen.?Over a * dozen town is the State will put in systems of electric lighting during die year. The largest cotton mill in 'ho state will be built in Fayetteville. i'ha projectors of the enterprise are ( j low at the North with specifications, completing the amount of stock reluired.?Last week 100 persons left Mitchell county for Utah, all havinombraced the Mormon faith. The Mormon missionaries continue their work-in Mitchell and Yancey counties.?The N. C. Sunday school convention will meet in Charlotte, on (April 2nd to 4th, inclusive. J * ' 9 / > ;? <- '- . ' 9&00 A YEAR nr A1 This Week's The Natio Mucon Bays Hold Up lackson County Bank Tod West arid Johnny Moore, two Macon county youths, are being held :ii Jackson county jail, charged with the daylight robbery of the Jackson bounty Bank, about 1 o'clock Monday. Moore is charged with having entered the bank, ordered the male' officials to fall on the floor, and de- ! -?-> o?->/-?tint 1\/r?-o Prinlr Pichor I 11UUUV.U uiut 11X1 o# nulla x iunvi land him some money. She complied with his demand, and he backid out of the bank, gun in hand, en:ered a taxi, and forced Lawrence i ' j dates, the driver, to drive him away, j [n the taxi also was young West. Nearing Barker's Creek, Gates j Hooded his engine so that the car >topped, and left it. He states that io was fired upon after he abandoned lis car. Commandeering a truck pelonging to the Western Carolina ] relephone Company, the alleged pandits crossed the river at Barkers Hreek, went down the other side of ;he Tuckaseigee, and up Nation's Dreek, where the truck wrecked, rhey then fled to the mountains, ?1- n fr>w vnere mey wclc ta^oiuvu. ~ lours later by a posse under Sheriff -.eonard Hold en. Moore is said to lave had. $853 on his person when aken, the exact amount that oficials state was taken t'rom the bank. West is said to protest his innocence, stating that he knew nothing ).( Moore's plans to hold up the >ank, and that he thought, as did Mr. Gates, that Moore asked to stop n front of the bank, in order that he night get a check cashed. He in;ists that he was kidnapped and . orced to accompany Moore, who vas armed. West was unarmed. The actual capture of West was by ..ee Cook and Mr. Jones, o2 Barker's Creek, and Moore was taken by V. H. Weaver and Ed Bumgarner. Members of the Federal Bureau of dentification, who came to Sylva, , nade pictures of the two youths. I \ _ _ jj Twentieth Century Club i' To Hear Mrs. Gillis < - c The Twentieth Century Club will I ieet at the homo of Mrs. Raymond t J. Sutton, on nerct Thursday a'ter- J i oon, and the members will hear a ;? alk, given by Mrs. Gillis, on the I ubject of "Russia". Mr. and Mrs. ? rillis, who came to Sylva some time ^ go to reside, were for some time t esidents of Russia. I i ?arent-Tsacher Body j las Elected Officers ! ? 1 The Sylva Parent Teachers Asso- 1 ion, meeting Tuesday, relected all i -3 present officers for the year. Mrs. t * " * ? ? - ii... / 1. U. Sutton is president; Mrs. wauei ones, .vice-president; Miss Bertha |i !unningham, secretary; and Mrs. )an Tompkins, treasurer. c A program of much interest was. i resented by Mrs. Helen Dillard and ? ie Recreation Unit. Mrs. Dillard c xplained the work that is being j one, and its purposes, and other 1: /orkers under her presented the t rogram. r 1 / < Washington! d. c.?William a 0. Douglas, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commis- j sion, who will fill the vacancy on ?1 the United States Supreme Court !., bench caused by the resignation of LouitfD. Brandeis. a f J Va JVAIfOE OUT 8IDB 1KB OOUBTT ? ^mmmmmmmmmmmmm^mm^Kmrntrn Doings In nal Capital . Washington, Apr. 6 (Autocasttr) ?It usually takes a new Congra* about three months to get "shaken down" so that it can tackle matter! of legislation with a clear under* sLanding of what they are all about ano what chance there is of getting action. This 76th Congress is no exception. Here it is April and the boys Capitol Hill have been in Washington since the first of January, learning the ropes and getting acquainted with each other's points of view. Now it looks as if they were about ready to get down to serious business. . To be sure, the departmental reorganization bill was serious business, but not as serious as the President's opponents made it out to bo The major points on which the reorganization bill was beaten last year have been taken out of the measure as it now stands. While it gives the President wide powers to regroup and consolidate Government bureaus and offices and ~to go as far as political expediency will permit in lopping off useless jobs, the powers granted him are not as great as those which President Hoover asked for and the House voted to give him in his last two years in office And before Mr. Hoover, Presidents Coolidge, Wilson and Tait had asked for the same authority lo introduce business-like methods into the administration of Government. .1 The big job which Congress is-_ now about to tackle is taxation. Here the President lent a helping iiand by agreeing to accept the proposal to amend the Social Security old age retirement will not go into eftect next year, as provided under tire law as it stands. Act so that the increased taxes for trialists and economists say have been preventing expansion of business and the creation of new jobs .or workers. Details have not been made public d[ the Treasury's plan, which has been carefully worked out by experts, but in general it proposes to 'broaden the tax base" by including n the income tax millions of persons who are now not directly taxed, providing for collection of such axes at the source, Dy aeaucuons xom payrolls, scrapping all the presmt various forms of taxes on corporate business and substituting a iingle graduated tax on corporations vith special preference to small puisnesses. Part of the plan is to abolish lil the excise and "nuisance" taxes, put here the problem of what to subititute for them arises, and is likely o cause a row. There is every expectation that Tongress will pass the Rankin bill providing pensions of $40 a month or every veteran who wore a uniform for 90 days or more during he World War, whether he ever jot farther than a training camp or pot. The only veterans' organization ppposing the measure is the Amercan Veterans Association, whose ;pokesmen contend that the total post to the taxpayers of the proposed pension plan will run to at least 13 >iilion dollars. There probably w. .1 )e some exciting debates when the neasure gets to the floor of both louses, but the best-informed men in Capitol Hill concede the likeli^od that the measure will be passed. Ask $1,000,000,000 Back of the new Agricultural appropriation bill, the largest ever proposed to Congress, the Farm Lobby is solidly lined up. The bill :alls for' the expenditure of a trifle iver a billion dollars in the coming fpar, which is almost 250 millions nore than the budget estimates. More than half of the amount is .'or soil conservation and other direct subsidies to farmers and an adlitional 250 millions for "parity paynents." Even with the certainty of i bitter fight on the floor, the geniral opinion is that there will be no erious changes in the measure. The controversy over the failure t M^am Perkins. Secretary of ^abor, to order the deportation of larry Bridges, the West- Coast Communist labor leader who is not n American citizen, came to an end /hen Miss Perkins convinced the louse committee that was considerag her impeachment that the had 10 power under existing laws to daCONTINUED ON PAOC t