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___The final answer of Congress to
president Roosevelt's plea to repeal
t)l0 embargo on arms and ammupi.tions
to belligerent nations hinges
j? the long run, on public sentiment
and Senators and Representatives
a? soon as thev had convened
DtT.",J>
ill special session, to get expressions
of public sentiment which were
quite the opposite of what the President
and most of the members of
Congress had believed was the way
the people of the United States felt |
The President's clearly stated de-J
sire to keep the United States btitl
ol war met wtih an overwhelming J
response of approval. Almost as?
unanimous are the expressons of
sympathy with the Allied cause as
against Hitler, which are included!
in 'the record-breaking volume off
??!i nnrt telegrams addressed to the1
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White House and the Capitol. No
such voluminous and widespread.
public interest has been shown in {
r.r.y question with which Congress
has had to deal at any time in the
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Literally hundreds of thousands
ot letters have poured in. On the
first flay after the historic special
session opened, one Senator alone
received more than 23,000 letters
hum the people of his state. f
Favor Embargo ,
But while the President's mail
and telegrams were almost unanimous
in their praise of his speech to i
the Congress, with its repeated'
declaration. that the purpose of the
American people is to keep out of
war. and his assertion that the way
to be truly neutral is to repeal the
arms embargo provisions, at least,
Oi the present neutrality ;law, the
tenor of the letters; which came to
. ?... *V.of
Capitol mil is a smut uau<u um>*
Hit President's program ,will keep'
us out of war, and an appeal to re- f
tain the arms embargo ^ asale-,
guard of peace. - |
From some sections of the. coun- *
try the ratio of letters favoring the
retention of the present aw is as
high as a hundred against repeal to
one in favor of it In no section of
t:io nation is the majority against
r peal, as expressed in letters from
constituents, less fhhn ten to one.
Some of Ihe letters indcate- cjear.
ly that tiiey have "been inspired by
different "people blocs," but a surprisingly
large proportion are spon-,
Uneous, individual comihtUlications
from people who earnestly believe ~
that tne Neutrality Act as it stands
insures American neutrality iij the,-,
r" ? ?: n*. [.? will keen 'i
LUll.'U'.ilil t'UIlliiVb aiiu dw m
. ii; out of war. -:v J
Polls Differ ?
The latest nation-wide polls of
public opinion by the agencies engaged,
in checking up on what
!>eople think tell a somewhat different
story, with as high as -53 percent
of voters in favor of amending
the Neutrality Act, or repealing it
entirely.
Ail of these expressions and reports
of public opinion are being
carefully studied by both he -Execu
tive and the Legislative branches of
the Government. They will be re- ,
fleeted in the debate in the Senate,
where the battle will be waged most
bitterly, and will influence the flnal
voteof Congress. Those debates
v/ill be influence, as doubtless many
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nf the expressions by voters are in-,
flueneed, by partisan - political considerations.
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In his address to Congress the j
President took pains lo disclaim any I
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partisan point 01 v?w, ?
impi ecendsnted step of calling into
conference at the White House, l?elorc
he prepared his speech not only
the kaders' of the Opposition in
Congress but the titular heads of
the Republican Party, Gov. Alf M.
Landon and Col, Frank Knox, the
candidates for President and VicePresident
n 1036. He called on the
American people toact as a unit
without regard to political afiiJia*
iions.
Landon's Statement
Governor Landon, in a public
statement, declared that the grave
national issue of keeping out of war
i * clouded by the shadow of the
widespread belief that the President
desires a third term in his high office.
There is no doubt that some
of the opposition n the public mind
and among Senators and Repreident's
program is based upon tiu
belief that, in one way or another
it might' be used to further his candidacy
for a third term in the Whitt
House. i
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Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ramsey announce
the birth, of a fine son. He
arrived Thursday, Sept 28.
j. Mr. Henry Christy, of Franklin, 1
was here last week.
Mrs. Louis McCall is recovering
nicely from an appendix operation
in Sylva Hospital.
Mrs. Rich Culberson is very sick
in Waynesville Hospital.
We had a severe hail storm Sunday
morning which lasted nearly an
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colder since.
Mrs. R. L. Pearson and son, Mr.
Robert, Jr., have just returned from
a visit with relatives in South Carolina.
They visited her brother in
Forest City, two sisters in Duncan,
one sister in Lyman, one sister in
Moore, one brother and sister in
Greer, an aunt in Campobello and an
aunt in Simpsonville.
Many Balsamites and tourists here
are attending the Indian Fair this
week.
Some tourists are .leaving this <
week but others coming in.
Hoyle Heads County i..
Education Body
A. C. Hoyle, principal of the train- i
ing school at Cuilowhee, was chosen ]
by the teachers of Jackson county, I
as president of the Jack? ?n County I
Education Association, at the meet- i
ing held in the graded school audi- <
torium in Sylva, Saturday morning. :
Adam C. Moses, the new superin- i
Undent of schools of the county, presided
at the meeting. \
Buren Terrell, of Glenville high ,
school, was elected vice-president of j
the Association; and Mrs. Janie Hoop- j
er, of John's Creek, was chosen s \
secretary and treasurer. t
Paul Buchanan, principal of Web- ]
ster high school, was chosen as^chair- |
man of the high school group; Mrs. j
Burch Allison, Webster high ^chos^ |
secretary, and Louis Har, principal, j
of Sylva high, vice-president and l
chairman of the program committee, i
The primary group elected Mrs. |
Dan Tompkins, Sylva, chairman, and
Miss Annie Lizzie Terrell, Qualla, ?
secretary. The chair appointed Miss ^
Ri be, Cullowhee Training School, \
Mrs. Gertrude Fisher, East LaPorte, \
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Mrs. O. E. Monteitn, rsaisum, uuo. ,
W. G. Dillard, Beta, and Miss Louise i
Mason, Sylva, as the program com- j
mittee. , .
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Missionary Zone Meeting i
The Zone meeting of the Methodist |
Woman's "Missonary Societies '"ill ** ,
held at Wesleyanna church, Saturday, j
October i4, beginning at 10 in the ?
morning and ending at the lunch
hour. 4mm * . 4mi I
" Societies of the Methodist church- \
es in Haywood and Jackson counties i
compose the zone. Mrs. David H. |
Brown, of Cullowhee, oZne chairman,? (
will preside.
The"~dominant belief here is that 1
when it comes to a showdown in 1
crrPQct the President will get J
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what he asked for. In that case a rush
of war orders from Europe is (
expected and therp wll be some- 1
thing of a business boom, for which (
the Administration will get the credit '
from wage-earners and other bene- !
ficiaries of increased employment '
and higher wages and profits. '
Red Cross Busy '
The American Red Cross is preparing
to render every service pos- 1
sible to all the belligerents .who will 1
accept its aid, as it did in the beginning
of the last great war.
I It is understood that Norman I
Davs, head of the Red Cross, has
asked former President Herbert 1
Hoover to take charge of relief
I work in Europe. Mr. Hoover's
i. the Belgian Re
I WUIli 1U U1 guiu^..e w
lief, to which he gave a great part I
of his personal fortune as well as
his time and energy, as well as his
lately acjtvities in the Far East Belief
ahd Russian Belief campaigns,
point to him as the "best qualified
man to head up the Red Cross work
in Europe.
That would, however, remove Mr.1
Hoover from the field-of political
activity, in which his influence in
shaping policies of the anti-Adminstration
forces is believed to < be
jreat and growing.
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GIANTS vegetarians
Not lonff nPn T m<*t with a efroUD
of adventurers who gather on occasion
to recount their experiences in
exploring the little-known comers
of the earth.
.One of them was just back from
a dangerous journey into the back
country of western China, which
few white men know much about.
The men and women of that mountainous
region, he told us, are the
tallest and strongest race in the
world, except possibly , a certain
African tribe, also mountain folk.. :
To carry his outfit, the monks of
a Buddhist monastery supplied him
with twenty porters, he told us, each
of them within an inch or two of
seven feet tall, and all having un-*
limited endurance and vigor, though
some were men of seventy or older.
Tko mienn fnr tVioir netrvinHinC
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size and strength, at least one reason,
the narrator- told us, is that
these people never eat meat Instead,
they live on a diet in which
rice provides the starches and soya
beans the necessary protein, or
source of muscular energy. Their
longevity and perfect health my
Criend attributed to the fact that
this diet t not irtroduce ?.cirin
Into the sj. , but tends to ciestro.,
dangerous bacteria from other!
sources.
BOYA profits j
We iiave all heard the amazing
tales of the ability of Chinese and
Japanese laborers and soldiers to
live and do hard work on a fgw
landfuls of rice as their daily ration,
but my Chinese friends andAmericans
who have lived in thej
?ar East tell me that is mainly]
1- aof rioo nahirsllv. for I
JU11A.. JL HtJ WUfc A *VV| ,
ItTsHSeeSIest iormoF starch" for
item to grow, but they depend for
physical energy and growth on soya
jeans, prepared in numerous * ways,
nost of which don't taste very pala;able
to Americans and Europeans.
We are just beginning to learn;
something in this country of the
/alue and uses of that amazing vege;able.
Some millions of acres of soya
jeans have been put under cultivaion
in the past few years, from
iorthern Canada to southern Florida,
farmers have found it a valuable
pasture crop which puts nitrogen into
lie soil better than alfalfa does. Its
lay make excellent ensilage, while
he beans have a ready market on
he produce exchanges.. it will grow
my where, on almost any kind t>f
soil, and seems to be immune to insect
pests and plant diseases. \ g
There is profit in growing soyal
jeans at 60 cents or so a bushel, with I
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wenty or more ousneis 10 uie uuc,
vith the cattle fodder and land imr
brovement as by-products. .
3IL . . .. r . by-product
What started the soya-bean boom
n America was the demand for
nore and cheaper vegetable oils, for;
ise in making paints, varnishes and
lacquers. Out of these oils, extractid
from the soya bean, some prog-^
'ess has been fnade in. the proJuction
of plastic materials, which
:an be molded into any shape and
stand hard usage. Henry Ford has
been the leader in utilizing soyabean
plastics for the interior trim
3f motor cars.
These uses of the soya bean, ana
its value as a soil rejuvenator and
as cattle feed, have become pretty
well understood among progressive
farmers. Comparatively few peopje,
however, have waked up to the fact
that the soya bean is an important
ingredient of human food in this'
country as well as in the Orient
We probably are not on the way'
tj becoming a race of giants through
our consumption of soya beans, but
we're eating more and more of this\
useful product every day. For that
master, we've been consuming soya
beans~ for years, in the form of Worcestershire
sauce an<T its imitations,
which are based upon 1 fermented
soya beans flavored with spices.
DOUGHNUT8 .... dogs
Soya-bean bean or flour has a
rancid, bitter taste which Americans
don't like, unless it is processed to
remove the unpleasant flavor. Technical
men have been working fir
years to produce a soya-bean flour
which would not offend the palate.
Now they've got it, and great quantities
of soya-bean flour are being
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2Progress Here ,; i
Hey. j esse J. Johnson, of Spfertan
burg, known as "The Railroad jEvan|gelist?"
has erected his tent on Col1
legejHill, and started a series off meetings*
last Thursday night Services
I will] be held each evening at 7:30,
j Thefpublic is invited.
I lb that connection, the' loljowUjg
from the Graham County Netfs Ml
be of interest
"The tent revival Came to ii end
last Sunday night with more than 100
converts brought into the folds of
the local churches.
'The services were conducted by
the Rev. Jesse J. Johnson, railroad
Baptist evangelist, of Spartanburg,
S. C., ' and was started four weeks
ago, with the sanction of all the local
pastors. The services were attended
by the Baptist and Methpdist pastors
here regularly, and all the ministers
of the county with ver$r few
exceptions attended and assisted.
'The meeting last Sunday 'night
was attended by what was considered
the largest crowd. during the four
weeks. Each night the tent was
comfortably full, but Sunday night
80b people were in the tent and more
j then 200 outside that could riot go in.
I "Burder Shope, pastor of the Robbinsville
Baptist church, and H. L.
Lafevers, pastor of the Rohbinsvlle
"fcf&.F.. rhiirrh hierh in thpir nfrnicua
ofI the evangelist, and his extra high
class of preaching,
"All the local churches have benefitted
by additions, due to this revival,
a reveal t*at couid act be criticized
t t: f- .owers gf good preajching.
ounday at a hurried .h&pttzng,
due to some converts leaving the
| state, 32 were baptized and j there
^Will be another baptizing next Sunday
week.
[^"The Rev. Mr. Johnson moved his
lent to Sylva last Monday for 4 three
peeks' revival."
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1,500 to 2,000 people gajthered
ll Tuckaseigee on Sunday fir the
annual homecoming at the Baptist1
church, and to hear Dr. John R.'
Brinklfcy; native of Jackson county,
who grew up in that comn lunity,
owns a .summer home and farm
there, and commutes by airpj me to
hip hospitals in Del Rio, Texs s, and
Little Rook, Arkansas. People from
all parts of Western North Cs rolina,
including the City of Ashevilfe, and.
from. over in Knoxville^' across^ the
Great Smokies, in Tennessee were
there. A picture, of the pchoolof the
locally famous^ Prof. Dawson, was
made, with. Dr^ Brinkiey. ana some
40 other former students of Mr.
Dawson. . ^ 4
| McKinley Hooper was miner ux
cei emonies for; the occasion Mr.
John, A. Hoopei* who . kne r Dr.
Brinkley during his boyhoo , paid
a tribute to him* W. H. Smitl headed
the arrangements ahd re :eption
-committee. > r
' The first speaker was Re\ J. S.
Burnett, Methodist minister, z ow located
at Pittman Center, P nnsyl-,
vrnia, who is Dr. Brinkley i only
blood relative. x Dr. Burnett as led
an active -and -helpful. life, 1 oth in
the ministry and in esta lishing
schools for underprivileged c ildren.
He stated that f)r. ^rinkley has been
a great ttrip to him in thai work,
be th financially and with his jadvice.
.^Re^ .SamueL S. Cookson, t>f St.
Mary's Kans., Who was Dr. jprinkley's
pastor, in Milford, for 4 years,
'paid a globing tribute to the doctor.
He had campaigned for Brinkley
during nis two races for Governor of
.Kan*, r, sad stated that Brinkley was
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Records of Jackson County's winners
in various phases of 4-H Club
work have been forwarded to RaI
leigh by Mrs. Harry Evansy Home
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' Demonstration Agent, ior juaging.
Last year two of the four girls from
North Carolina who took first place
were from Jackson county and were
awarded trips to Chicago and other
awards. The records this year are
splendid, and the heads of the work
are hopeful that again Jackson girls
|will forge out ahead in the State,)
(South and Nation.
Records sent in are those of the
following young ladies, county champions
in the several activities:
? Elizabeth Allman, Webster, *4 years!
records in Food Preparation, Food'
Preservation, Gardening, and Wild
Life.
District PTA Meets In
Sylva October 18.
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The annual meeting of the ParentTeachers
Associations of the First
North Carolina District will be held
in Sylva, Wednesday, October 18,
with Mrs. E. N. Howell, of Swanna- I
noa, district president, presiding. I
The meeting will open at 9:30 in
the morning, at the Methodist church,'
with a devotional conducted Rev.
H. M. Hocutt, pastor of the j Sylva
Brptist church. The Sylva PTA will
serve a luncheon at the Community |
House; and the afternoon sessions of
the meeting will be held there.1 Mrs.
Raymond Sutton is president fcf the
hostess PTA, in Sylva. - t
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Pansy Dillard, Beta, Jrtoom improvement
and Rural Electrification.
Edna Owens, Webster, Home
Beautification,
Lena Pressley, Speedwell, Foot
Preservation.
j Ira May Holden, Speedwell, Clothing.
Miss Holden will model clothj
ing of Jier own make and design in
f Raleigh this week.
Miss Marma Nicholson is chosen
for having done the most outstanding
work in the county. Last year
she took third place in America.
A. Meets
October 18th
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Fifty Gallons Liquor
, Deputy Sheriffis Griffin Middle^
ton and Frank Allen captured an old
Ford automobile, an Asheville man,
a pretty girl, and 50 gallons of Georgia
corn liquor, in Cashier's Valley,
Monday night, and lodged the whole
layout in the Jackson county jail, |
except the Ford, which is parked I
' outside, as near to the jail as it could
get
| The man is known to Buncombe
police, it is said, as "Pewee" Plemmons.
The girl is said to be Elizabeth
Tipton. She is a pretty girl; but
it is said that Plemmons' wife has
, been to Sylva to try to get her husband
released from the clutches of
low on KnnH nnH tn arrange for
t UiC ia VV j Ult MVAAVty -V whi?
defense when he comes to trial,
while the girl who was with him at
the time the officers appeared upon
the scene and took charge of the
contraband cargo, is said -to be the
v/ife of somebody else.
bleeding Kansas; and that the doctor
twice elected governor, out there in
would be his choice for President of
the United States. He disclosed that
half a million letters have been received,
asking Brinkley to make the;
r?ce for the presidency.
Rev. Samuel Morris, of Del Rio,
paid tribute to Dr. *. Brinkley, and
.compared conditions now and before
prohibition. He stated that we used
| to have the saloon, and that now
nearly every cafe and many grocerj
: stores have become saloons. He L?
.a famous temperance lecturer, anc
'left immediately for Washington to
address a convention of tl\.e Woman's
) Christian Temperance Union. He
spoke of the capabilities of the men
of the mountains, and expressed the
opinion that one of the greatest forces
holding back the mountain people
of the South is liquor.
The last Sunday in September each
year, was set aside ^s John R. Brink- '
ley Day at Tuckasefgee by the peo--J
pie assembled. Mrs. Brinkley ex- j
pressed her gratification at the tri- j
bute paid her husband, and the hope
that her son, John R. Brinkley HI,1'
would receive the same treatment as
her husband, by the people of the
mountains, from whom he came. .
j Dr. Brinkley spoke on neutrality,!
land urged that.this country keep out
of the European conflict '' "Our duty,".
he said, "is to keep the raging flames
mm reaching America, so that otirj
, institutions will remain standing,
I and the lives of the young men of
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VDVAKCE OUT SIDE TH? COOTTT
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^ With the conquest of Poland practically
completed, *n agreement between
Germany and "Russia for a di .
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' vision of that unhappy country, and '
} Russia having completed her arrangeJments
for the control of the Baltic,
by treaty with little Estonia, whereby
the Soviets have naval based on
strategic islands in the Baltic sea,
and Estonia has practically become
a vassal state to Stalin's government,
with the Latvians called to Moscow
for further Baltic demands from the
Soviet government, and Lithuania
I expected to be the next country to
be asked to bow to the Russian
menace, and with Finland beieve^ to
be the next in line, Herr Hitler is^
calling upon the English and the
French to be broadminded and end
the war upon the basis of the status
quo, with and further and < future
demands in Europe, Africa, or elsewhere
to. be taken ujp by negotiation.
In the lineup for the drive for peace
on that basis are Germany, Russia,
Italy, and perhaps Japan, all talking
peace, and all holding a club over
the heads of the democracies in an
attempt to force them to bow to
peace on terms that would practically
be abject surrender to a victorious
Hitler and Stalin. The small countries
in the Scandanavian region, and
he dnes to the South in the Blakans, ?
are terrified by the double menace
h)f the Soviet and Nazi power, and
are afraid to step out on the side of
Britain and France. While Norway,
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owcucti, auu jLfciuiiaiik, iiuuauuy aiiu
Belgium are in the .same quandary.
The British and French would be able
to give little present assistance to
most of those countries, should they
decide to fight rather than to: see the
menace to their independence grow
day by day. The Swedes have shown '
more determination f than
for they have been protesting;*) Germany
about the sinking of their ships
in the high Seas, and one Qermair
warship has been driven away from
an attempted attack upon a Swedish
merchantman, by. Swedish planes.
Meanwhile, the British expeditionary
force in France is growing daily;
the French are hammering away at
the German Westwall, making slow
gains here and there. Tfhe British
navy is continuing its unntaging
warfare upon submarines in toe seas;
but a British ship has been sunk way
over here in American waters, off
the coast of BraziL <
The American Republics; to a conference
at Panama City, have agreed \
upon the establishing of a safety
zone, extending 300 miles eastward
from the fartherest point of an Araer
ican island. The governments of all
the American republics.; will serve ,
notice upon belligenrent* mat such
a zone has been established, and is
being patroled by the joint navies of
the united Americas, and that any
act of hostilities within that zone will
be considered as a menace ; to the
peace of the two AmerCan continents.
Thus all America, with the exception
of the Dominion of Canada, is
united in a peace fronts determined
to stay out of the war, andequally
determined to keep the war out of
the Americas. . In this standi Sumner
Welles, United States ^undersecretary
of State, made fie proposals
and took the lead. Indicating
ky this act that this is thejPgrian of
the Roosevelt Administration >to keep
America out of the war. 5
This is the rapidly-moving picture
of events, as the United Staffes Senate
in Washington begins the debate
of the question of repealing the arms
embargo section of the neutrality
act Senator Barkley, of Kentucky,
and Senator Byrnes, of South Carolina,
Administration leadeny' in the <
Senate, predict that t&y have more
than 60 votes to stick by theXdministration
in this matte* of ntjitrality.
Senator Pittman, offlie Foreign
Relations Comigittee^Jn the
Senate, led off the dftate jk Monday.
r Senator Borah ^peneA up for
the opposition, and Jt|p historic debate
in the Senate Is <Nksu It p been
lin and his crew opposing ttfc repeaL
Finally, on Sunday afternoo? Alfred
E. Smith, democratic arch-fp of the
Roosevelt Administration, lajnke his
long silence, to make an 4paal to
the American people to stanftbehind
anaSSEBLTuffiiMrorM is looking
toward Washington to see what
[the Senate is going to do about it
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