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?~~$1.00 A YEAR IN Hair To Heac School F or lj0Uis Hair has been elected as .^*c5P?l ?- Sylva High School, succ,+ iing * 1- Watson, it was learned t(CjriV. F. M. Craw.ord was reelect-; as head of the elementary school t ? nt "viva. Other teachers in the high s \jol here have not yet been electet; Mr. Hair is an experienced srtoo> rnan. He has recently been! eva .rational director in the Civilian Ccr serration corps. Cither teacher elected in the county to date are: Sylva elementary; j- ,1. Crawford, Mrs. J. F. F reeze, J Aciiie L. Madison, Mrs. Selma B.j IU', tie ton, Louijse Mason, Mrs. Bea^,-e Gibson, Myrtle Henson, Norma " 1 TT?] PnrlVio Pnn_ i^01ZUl d XlUiUCilj uiu vuii I niivhain, Mrs. Emily Tompkins, j Moore, Mrs. Hair, and Mrs. H; aes resigned). Barker's Creek: Mrs. Lois Martin, gve.yn Sherrill, Mrs. Janie Brown. Dtx Creek: Kathlyn Bryson. D lisboro: Alliney Bryson, Mrs. Evelyn Sutton, Mrs. Virginia Terrell. Bernita Sutton, Mrs. Elma Don- i r.ahoe. I B ta: W. V. Cope, Hhcda Cope, Hicks Wilson, Mrs. W. G. Dillard. Addie: John Crawford, Edith Alley, Mrs. Clem H. Cogdill. Balsam: Cornelius Deitz, Mrs. San h Crawford. Nirnrno Geisler. I Cane Creek: A. C. Dillard. I Q iaiia: Gudger Crawford, Mrs. I Lui-v M. Hall. Louise Edwards, Jen- I f {r^ 7aaiey. Ar.rie L. Terrell. h Imoi: Irene Raby Clayton, Gen-1 e\a Tai'pm. Mrs. Harriett Jenkins. I V'Jj.-ttc high: R. P. Buchanan, I Mr Louise Davis, J. E. Brown, Mrs. I %Buxh Allison, one vacancy. Webster ^elementary: Hannah Cvwzn, Mrs. Pearl Madison, Alvin Pud bright, Mrs. Mary Cowan, Margare. Morgan, Mrs. Hazel Lewis, ilrs. Ruth Roper, Wilma Wike. Gry: Mrs. Stella Bryson, Mrs. Loui.e Cagle. Er it Fork: Hoyle Deitz, Bennie Cow-in. iii ^n's Creek: Mrs. Demcrris' Cowan, Cora Painter. ( John's Crek: G. C. Cooper, Mrs. I >-> Sutton. Margurile Queen, j W > *\? Jauie Hooper. J Liasam Grove: T. F. Middleton, t Ltaora Nicholson. j t.o.My Hollow: L. J. Smith, Kathleen Fulib right. I'udcaseiget: Mrs. Maude Ensley, Mr... hutn drown, Mrs. inez Wachob. Last Lai-one: D. M. Hooper, Kuoy R.U.ps, olrs. Gertrude Frsher. , Gloaville High: F. S. Griitin, Elsie VuV.e, Maude-Battle, Buren Teirell, Mrs. Arline Fowier Evans, Conraa Keeper, .Mrs. ilate Harris Bryson, Mane Mood), Lucile Bong, Hattie Lou Lur.g, Sarah Belle Hooper, Janie Moss. Boible Springs: Jessie Pressley. Cashier's: David Pruitt, Elsie Mon- | teith, Mrs. M. B. Madison. Ar louncement oi me ejection of otliei teachers will be made as soon as elections are held. baptist Rally To Be U?ld at Bryson City A .reat mens iaiiy o; laymen and, mini .era oi Eaptist churches of Kay- ! woM, Jackson, Swain, Graham, Clay, ty&von and Cherokee counties wiK k held in the Bryson City Baptist diurch on Sunday, April 30, begin ^<2 ut ^:uo f. m. nev. ju. * . ? , pwio: of the First Baptist Church, J?t Andrews, will be the principal speaker. Kev. Fred Forester, of Cul tow&te, will conduct the devotionals. A specimen Brothernood program *ill oe put on by the Bryson City ^aPtUt Brotnerhood. Ine male ^uahet of the F.rst Baptist Cnurch, Asneville, will be present ana rentier several selections. Othei suigii.g groups will sing at the meetTnis meeting is sponsored by bryson City baptist brotherhooa. fcicKmley. bdwards, President oa u* Bfo'.herhojd, will preside. A. L. Supe lintondent oi Sunaa> oi Uie Tennessee River Bap^ As^ycioti^n, will be the sonte ^u'ci. Mr. Laws'on Cooke, General Swreury of the Baptist Brotherhooa ihe buuth, has been invited tfe attend, as well as several other State ^ Regional Baptist leaders. An tendance of from 500 to 1000 is expected. M * i;3? Moore Recovers ^ ^an K. Moore is rapidly re^ *rom an operation, at the IUw ^0sp^tol, her friends will be ** 10 learn. :e in the county I Sylva High Coming Yeai \ftowm i iravM/WHi || PR'INK ^PBXER * g M s 3 A[MEJ PERFECTION, . . regimentatior From the da;y" when men firsi began to thi? k, philosophers anc dreamers Have been devising schemes for a perfect social order Most of them sound well, read wel when put on paper. I have read and re-read all of the various projects for reorganizin? society so that everybody will be happy. I find the same weakness in all of them. They all overlook the human clement and the natural desire of everybody to live his owr li:e in his own way. There is no way in which human activities can be controlled excepl by force. We are witnessing now in Europe the operations of social organizations' based upon force Men and women are regimented servants of the state, compelled ic live and work and even to play according to plans laid down for them by the dictators. Nobody can make me believe that the peoples of Germany, of Italy and of Russia are happy under the restrictions and regulations imposed upon them. They are human beings, like the rest of us. The purpose of any government ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest number. That is what makes America different from most other nations. WELFARE .... rights Under the term "welfare" we are beginning to develop in this country a theory that people should have, not what they want but what somebody thinks is good for them. It seems to me that every such ef lort is ail m.imgenieiu un uie musi fundamental of human rights, the right to live as one pleases. It is an easy step from telling per pie what is good for them to insisting upon their changing their ways of life to conform to some standard ol lining tnat has been decided upon by authority. Under the American system, lor tuna teiy, nobody has any authority to tell anybody how ih -y ought to live and what they must clo. A good many ol the plans which are being" trie eg however, look to me like efforts to brine people into ordering their lives in ways which they never would do voluntarily, x-aying money from public funds to keep farmers iioin planting whatever crops they please is one such example. INDEPENDENCE .... help There is no sure road to happiness, but the one wmcn leads to it most often the road marked "Independence." Tile nappiest people arc those who are least dependent upon others, .ainiiy, friends, society ixi general, or govexnnient. Truly independent people do not nave to be helped; they do not have xo be entertained or coddled. They develop their own resources of life and living ana they are not the ones vvho call on government for help .vhen things go hard with them. There are many more of that sort >f Americans than there are of the I ,ort who are constantly trying to i itt government to do something -or them. My chief fear for the fuI are of the United States is that we ! tie getting so many people into the ?1 ~^ whenever I .uOIl UJL JfClJJliifc, ivt ? mugs go wrong tnat we may come o believe tnat it is only by heeding ii such appeals that the nation can e led along the road to happiness Such a philosopny will lead us .cwhere except to general regimenation and dependence, instead ol ndependence. . /OUTH working One reason why I think the anerican spirit of independence is toc vanishing is the number o, oung men and young women I rur i-i iU?:? rxxr,,< ?closs who are maKing men ow* .vay under their own power and noi -cmpiaining that there is no cnanct .cr anybody any more. 1 stopped at a tilling station no iong ago and was so impressed die appearance and attentiveness o: the young man who filled my tanl # ' 3YLVA, NORTH I Savannah Seeks! ' Consolidated School] A consolidated elementary school tor Savannah township is the goal e of many citizens of that section of j the county, according to a petition c filed this week with the county Beard of Education. The citizens up that way state that I the school buildin.js are in bad state ? of repair, Zion Hill school burned v last winter and the school has been , held in the church since that time, I and that the onl}' reasonable and 2 I most economiml Ihintr In Hn ic tr? v t build one good school building, and j transport all the children of the! I township to it. County school officials are looking into the matter, and it is believed by interested citizens of Savannah that, s if the county can obtain funds from . I the State, a PWA project may be C worked out, and the building con- I [ structed. I : 1 Loses 400 Chicks in Fire r i 1 At about midnight, Tuesday night, ^ ^ Dexter Hooper's brooder and chick- r en house was totally destroyed by t ( fire, and about 403 chickens were s lost. The fire department answered I the call, but the five was discovered I too late for the department to be of I much service, except to keep the 5 flames from spreading to other build- ? ings. J Cotton Is Soi National R< Washington, April 18 (Auto- 1 caster)?The sorest spot in the na- o tion's economic set-up is cotton. It ti is also a point upon which a sharp F controversy is raging between the v Administration and the Senators ti and Representatives from the cot- n ton-growing states. ? The* problem is how to move to 1 market the 11,500,000 bales of cot- ^ ton which have been held over from , previous years, carried in wareI houses by the aid of government ^ loans of a little o,rer eight cents a *( pound. Cotton exports have de- t( chned from a former average of 0 millinri K-l 1 Of 1 Vpar tf> 1111? ^ bt'VCH iiuuiuii . U J VU< ? . dev Jour million. The cotton planters of the South'w ! E produce an average of twelve billion f n bales. Foreign and domestic mar- s, kets comolned will not take more a: than ten billion bales at a price that n will enable cotton owners to pay off y the government loins against the stock in storage. si The Secretary of Agriculture and tc the President have proposed to pay I p owners of stored cotton a bonus in c< cash to release their cotton for ex- C port at 6 xk cents a pound, at which p price it is figured that an additional d market will be found for two million bales. That amount would g about balance the annual surplus. p The plan would cost the Govern- tl ment from sixty to ninety million tl dollars a year. A part of it is the nronosal to increase duties on cot- tl ton manufactured goods to keep s , products made from American cot- Si ; ton from coming in to compete with Si , sidy on goods exported to compete t /American textile manufacturers, y and to pay our manufacturers a sub- ij , has passed the Senate, proposes to c; , in foreign markets. i< Proposed Solutions t] The Smith-Bankhead bill, which , solve the cotton problem by letting Ci . farmers buy back the cotton on a, . which they have received eight-cent C; , loans, for three cents a pound, on s, , condition that the growers reduce jp ' production this year to compensate I r1 or the cotton they buy; and that' ( instead of price - stabilizing loans j growers of this year's crop be given a > a subsidy of three cents a pound on n all they grow. a; I The esumated cost of thi3 plan if > would be 105 millions loss to the ; Government on cotton loans al- o ready made, and $180 millions on ir { (his year's crop by way of subsidy, b t Another farm crop whose grow- a ; ' t.3 are beginning to' demand more { it ia ! u i protection from Lroverniucm., ** ~ .:uga^. Here the problem is not one p I A enlarging otfr export market, but s1 j of keeping foreign sugar out of the V i iomestic market. h L The sugar situation is a compli- f< cated one. Under the Sugar Act otlr< CARO LIN A, APRIL 20, 1939 Forty-Two In Sylva High Class A class of forty-two young mer tnd young women from Sylva, Qual a, Barker's Creek, Dillsboro, an Scott's Creek townships, will reviv heir diplomas from Sylva Centra iigh School, at the graduation ex ;rciaes, Tuesday evening of nex'. veek. Miss Lucille Heed, daughter of Mr ind, Mrs. T. E. Heed, of Sylva, ii 'aledictorian; and Miss Georgia Belle tevis, daughter of Mrs. Lon Revis, ?f Wilmot. is salutatorian. The members of the large class are: Lucy Irene Bryson, Louise Bryon, Mildred Bradley, Wanda Jc )ills, Alma Freeman, Juanita Leona Jroce, Mary Gaylor, Edna Hyatt, label Jones, Reba Jones, Pauline lesser, Nellie McDonald, Lou Elsie 'arker, Grace Parks, Edna Mae Paris, Mary Ann Plammons, Lucile teed, Georgia Belle Revis, Annie >eay, Helen Irene Sutton, Lucile Smith, Hilda Tallent, Elizabeth Waren, Pauline Warren, Mary Louise ;'Kelly, Lazelle Dillard, Bobby Allien, Charles Allen, Leonard Allen Isyes Conner, Henry Galloway, Roj fall. Terrv Joe Johnson, Harrisor ..ee Jones, Paul Messer, Joseph /[ills, J. B. Parker, Hooper D. Price, ihufford Paxton, Glynn E. Poteat, oe Selbrs, and J. C. Thompson. e Spot In ecovery Race 937, the Secretary of Agriculture rmually estimates the total domes10 consumption of sugar for the receding year^ The law now pro'ides that only fifty-five and a fracon percert of the nation's sugar ieed^ may., bp growiV in United Itates, about 45 percent being slotted to foreign contries, chiefly 'uba and the Philippines. Cr.n Ship 800,000 Tons Under the Philippine Indepenence Act that country is entitled, Dr several years, to ship 800,000 ms of raw sugar, and 50,000 tons f refined sugar to this country free f all du:y. Under the reciprocal trade treaty nth Cuba negotiated by the State Apartment, Cuba has to pay only ine-tenths of a cent a pound on .jgar it ships to the United States, nd is allowed to send into this larket roughly two million tons a ear. Definite limits of the tonnage of agar which other nations may send ) the linked States are fixed by ercentages of the total estimated onsumption. All countries except !uba and the Philippines have to ay $1.87 cents a hundred pounds uty. Hawaii. Puerto Rico, and the Virin Islands, all important sugar roducing countries, being a part of 10 United States, pay no duty on leir sugar shipped here. Part of the sugar control plan is ic payment of subsidies under the 011 Conservation Act, to reward agar planters for keeping their tigar lends out of production, 'hese subsidies, of $24 an acre a ear, run into big money for the onmnanips DrodUCing lrge su^ei WVA?42#M?Mvn> ^ ane sugar in the South and the sland territories, and beet sugar in le West. One comparatively small sugar ompany in Florida, by reducing its creage in cane, received $437,000 ash -rom the Government last year; :>me of the large Louisiana comanies get annual subsidy payments mining to millions. Support From Florida Under this system Cuba supplies bout two million tons of the anuai domestic sugar consumption oi round seven million tons; the Philjpines about half as much. A group of Senators, headed by - - a enator Elltnder of Louisiana anu lcluding most of the members of cth Houses from the cane-growing nd sugar beet states, has started a lovement to revise the Sugar Act, miting permitted imports to 40 ercent or less. The proposal has trong support from Florida, where ivo or three million acres of caneuid might be utilized were it not 3r th|_. foreign and domestic quota astriH ons. ... " ft hJjmmfi fUO A TBAB nr ADVJUfCI ft i i i College Couri In Sylva P The Special Six-Weeks Spring j rerm of Western Carolina Teachers! ollege will begin April 25 and con- I nue through June 3, 1939. Due to \e extensive building program now nder way on the campus the special ;rm will be held in Sylva. Adequate accommodations have een secured both for class rooms tnd living quarters for students in md near Sylva. The high school uilding will provide class rooms, dministrative, and library facilities. ! fotels, boarding huoses and private ( lomes are offering rooms and meals to students at special rates. Reservations may now be made by registering with the Dean of the College and making an advanced payment of ? two dollars. i A splendid staff of teachers has , been selected for the special term. > The faculty will include a number of > the members of the regular college I fapllltv 3C uroll ac niitctan/Jmn niiVilin JLMV uu nv*4 MU VHVOMUlUlllg ! school teachers and administrators. Visiting instructors will include Mrs. Daisy Wilkes, Miss Edith Buchanan, J. M. Plemmons, A. H. McElveen, J. - B. Deyton, Dr. Willis A. Parker of the college Extension Department, ? and Dr. A. B. Hoskins who with Dean r W. E. Bird will direct the special 1 term. 1 The courses offered will include A Qlixinnro V/4nnn4inn TTrl I * i-iwomci,") ijuuuauvii) ijviuvuvivii) 1 English, Geography, History, Music, Philosophy, Physical Education, Psychology, Religious Education, and Writing. A special course in Recreational Reading dealing with modern poetry, drama, and fiction will k be offered.- Upon sufficient demand a course in Citizenship will be given. Advanced registration indicates a large enrollment. Many schools ' which started early have closed and teachers are seeking to earn the credit allowed during the year before their schools open again. A Summer School unit of six hours may be earned during the six-weeks term. l. rhe-term will dose in time for teaeh- ers to enter the first term of regular Summer School. This is the lhst year in which a Class A certificate may be earned without a degree from a standard college. Reference materials are being arranged and will be moved from the college to provide adequate library service. Inquires and request for bulletin . giving further details may be directed to the Dean of the college. 'Town Improvement! Plan To Start Soon, Within a month a town improve- ' j ment project amounting to $12,000 J will begin in Sylva by the town and , the PWA, it was learned today. The project will include general beautification of the town and the Keener cemetery. A new sewer line will be lain or King street and 400 feet of paving will be put down there. Paths will be laid off in the cemetery and shrubbery planted, making this a beauty spot. ] Improvements will be made at the 1 Memorial Fountains the foot of the courthouse steps, and other places . in town will be beautified. < The Civics Committee of the Cham oer of Commerce met, Monday night in the attractive quarters of the chamber at the Information Booth and Library. Plans were made for cleanjp week, which starts next Monday.' Everybody in town is requested io-cooperate by cleaning up their own 1 premises, and in keeping the streets ind vacant lots in town neat and at- ( cractive. j The slogan of the Civics Commit-; < ;ee is, 44Sylva, A Friendly Tpwn". \ J Everybody is expected to be friendly and hospitable to their neighbor! and , .0 visitors who come to Sylva. The matter of parking was disjussed by the Committee, and it was i ie&p-nied )that the stxtiets will be j { narked off for parking, and no ve-!j licle that extends beyond the park- ' i .ng will be allowed to park on the vlain Street. The people of the town ] ire requested to observe the one ( jour parking oadinancfe on Main ( Street. There will be a large num- 1 ber of people here for the six-weeks 1 session of the summer school of i Western Carolina Teachers College, ji Another matter that the Commit- 1 not'' ' ! OUT 8H>B THE OOOTTT sesTo Start tfext Tuesday QUALLA i The American Co. Quartet, Messrs. Vernon Hoyle, Grady Blanton, Raymond Blanton and Bill Bryson accompanied by Mr. Coalson at tha. organ, made splendid music at tha Methodist church Sundav mornin*. Mrs. Coalson was also a visitor. W# hope they come again. There was singing at the Baptist church in the afternoon. Prayer meetings are still being conducted in the homes of Qualla and Olivet. Also in the different churches. Also revival services are in progress at Hyatt's Chapel conducted by the pastor, Rev. Oscar Beck, of Balsam. I Qualla school closed Monday, the 16th of April. This school expects , to occupy the new school building next year. Married on April 15, Miss Gladys Messer to Mr. Darrel Davis, both of Qualla. Several folks from Addie and Beta stopped in Qualla Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Stockton and j son of Canton spent the week-end at Mr. P. H. Ferguson's. Mr. Hugh Ferguson spent the week-end with relatives in Asheville. Misses Pauline Davis, Inez and Faye Martin and Mr, Bob Sandlin, of Bryson City, called on Mrs. J. C. Johnson. Miss Ruth Turpin visited Miss Pearl Hayes. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Martin who have been sick are improving. Mr. M. L. Blanton has returned to his mountain home with Mr. Roy Blanton and family. He is slowly improving. Mr. Hubert Blanton and family visited at Mr. G. A. Kinsland's. Mr. Thurman Allen, of Sylva, spent the week-end with Mr. J. C. Johnsen. Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell spent Firday night with Mrs. L. "\y. Crawford "at Willets. Mrs. G. A. and Mrs. Taft Kinsland called on Mrs. J. K. Terrell Satur day. Mrs. C. M. Martin and Mrs. Wes Callahan visited Mrs. Clark Gass. Rev. J. L. Hyatt and Mr. P. H. Ferguson visited Mr. J. E. Rogers, Whittier. Mr. Golman Kinsland and family and Mr. H. W. Cooper called at Mr. J. K. Terrell's Sunday. Mr. T. W. McLaughlin and family have moved to Bryson City. Mr. C. Y. Dunlap and family have moved to the McLaughlin place. BALSAM (By Mrs. D. T. Knight) Miss Louvella Hoyle and Mr. Vernon Bryson were married in Sylva Wednesday, the 12th. Mr. Tom Bryson who has been very sick is now recovering in the Hay wood County Hospital. Mrs. Emma Braren and grandson, Wally Braren, of Daytona Beach, Fla., arrived last week and are occupying her cottage. Mrs. A. D. Lewis is here from Louisville, Ky., and is occupying her summer cottage. ? Mrs. M. C. Kent has returned to her home here after spending the winter in Florida. Mr. Johnnie Jones was baptized and joined the Batpist church Suiiday. Funeral Is Conducted For Mrs. Frank Wike % Funeral services were held Monde y afternoon at Cashiers for Mrs. Fran Wike, 35. The services were conducted at the Methodist church by the Rev., C. G. Hefner. Interment wa# in Cashiers cemetery. Mrs. Wike died at her home here Sunday following an ninets ok ?ev tral months. She is survived by her husband and three children, Margaret, Edna and Francis, all of Cullowhee. g. ^ tee will undertake is the marking of the way to the High Falls, and other ^ joints of scenic and historic interest n the county. ' J Members of the committee are: ' , lev. H. M. Hocutt, chairman; Sidney ti i Uagle, secretary, Leonard Allen, H. | f 3ibson, J. F. Freeze, Rev. A. P. Ratedge, J. Claude Allison, Mrs. Hugh VIonteith, and Mrs. Dan Tompkins, md it is imperative that the local >eople make as much parking room lor the visitors as is poMflrte. ? ** i;