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Ic. III r <33B I sm. ' The William E. Dillard Post Amera*<ajggag maoder; Jadivft. Morris, vlCd-er(sldent, George Wi Womack, Adjutant; Ramson E. Hodper, Finance Oilier; Ed Bryson, Sergeant-at-Aifnsi ' T. Finley Arlington, Historian; and Rev. joe Bishop, Chaplain. Regular meetings of the posrt anil be held on the last Saturday afternoon in each month, at two Ofclock. The meetings will be- in the court room at present, until permanent quarters lor the post can be arranged The newly elected commander - -- . < .ULu w?1 Vx? nn (stated ttui an cunumnw nm w appointed by the next meeting, at which time the poet will really begin to function as a civic and patriotic organization for Jackson county. Kites Held For Highway Foreman Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist church at Cullowhee, Sunday afternoon, by the pastor, Key. Fred Forester, and Rev. Rev. P. t?. Elliott, for Spurgeon Stevens, who died, Friday at the Angel Hospital in Franklin, following a long illness. Mr. Stevens, who was 42 years Of age, was a native ofCaney Fork township, and a member of a wellknown Jackson county family." For (several years he had been a foreman on the highways of the county, for the State Highway and ^Public Works Commission. The esteem in which he was held was attested by the large crowd that was present for his funHe is survived by his father, his mother, several brothers and sisters, his widow, who was Miss Beulah # Lewis Funeral Is Conducted Funeral services for George Lewis, 64. who died at his home near Sylva Thursday at noon following a short | illness, were held Friday afternoon I at theLovedale Baptist church near I Sylva. The Rev. W. N. Cooke, of I Webster, assisted by the Rev. Ben Cook, of Tuckaseigee, officiated. Active pallbearers were: Roscoe I Poteet, Ed Curry, Ed Parris, Zeb V. I Parris, J. L. Corbin, W. B. Stiles, I I John Hurst, and John A. FincanI non. I Burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Lewis, a native of the Savannah section of Jackson county, had I been employed by the Sylva PaperI board company since its establishI ment in 1928. , Surviving are the widow: two sons, George S. and Carl, of Sylva; five I daughters, Mrs. J. T. Bird, Mrs. Obert I Ash, and Lucy and Birdell Lewis, of I Sylva, and Mrs. Lonnie Albright, of I Gastonia; two brothers, Cling, '^of . Sylva, and Aus, of Rainbow Springs, and one sister, Mrs. Tom Buchanan, I of Green's Creek. I Heads Student Paper I Cullowhee?Bill Justice of Fletcher was chosen by the student body Of I Western Carolina Teachers College I in a recent election to be business I manager for The Western Carolinian. bi-monthly ' student publication. I Charles .Moody of Waynesville had I been elected business manager last he resigned this fall I . uw? ?? ?> ? _ I in order to assist with work in the I guidance program being carried 01 I by the college in Western North CarI olina, it was necessary to elect a new business manager. The new mana I ger, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Justice I of Fletcher, is also a member of th I Journalism Club and the Science Club. , * I During the same election, la senar I tor from the Freshman Class wift I elected by the student body; Gordons I hryson, son of Mrs. Carrie Bryson of I Cullowhee, received the highest num? I ber of votes. I Florida Fishing Trip I Messrs. M. B. Cannon, Lewis CanI non? and Dan Allison have returned I Ifom a fishing trip in Florida waters, I kcowmr ??-r- 4 c^ioD Post pere Saturday r- :? ?' 1 ' ' -m -? * ? ?I 1ifiOp*l; EjeroMOftRom M FRANK PARKER | IftyTac^B^RlDO^H WAR ...... recipe Amebassador Hugh Gibson remarked on his recent return from Europe that the war is getting "ctsrkmser and curiouser." All the observators at the Front agree. They went out to see fighting, and there hasn't been any fighting worth , seeing. A London paper lately printed a big headline: "Are We at War?" What has happened so far is that the predictions of all the peerersinto-the future haven't materilized. I The world had been all worked up to expect the most horrible war of .all time, and the horrors have been {confined mostly to threats and fistI shaking. I The fact seems to be* that nobodv I reallywqakts to fight Diplomats of{ all the nations involved are trying? to-work out a recipe for peace wheih! all will accept All sane statesmen know that whoever wins, everybody will lose if the guns once start shooting; in earnest. The forces which are at work today in Europe in the effort to stave off the worst, may prove to be more powerful than < airplanes and submarines. ? 1 PLANES ..... bombs1 I Both side in the European mess 1 are more afraid of bombardment ' from the air than of anything else. i Neither side seems willing to start dropping bombs on the unprotected civilian population of the other side. The Germans did that in Poland, when they were still under theillusidn that the British wouldn't fight They seem to be hesitating to attack I' the cities jOf England mic^FrM^^I1 All reports indicate that the Ger man air force is at least equal ii I-; j number of planes to the combined | air forces of the Allies. There seems ! ( to be doubt that Germany has enough j * | gasoline to keep its entire air fleet < * , in action for any long period. But it ^ could inflict terriblh damage while * lit lasted. f 1 'Most of the people - of Germany * j have not been told that their country I * lis at war, trustworthy observers its- * port. Everybody in Britain and 1 France is acutely aware of the war, * for everybody is required to carry a i gas mask ready to put on at the first ( warning of an air raid. Bombs which 1 will drop poison gas are more feared J [than anything else. GAS ..... unmasked ' Highly imaginative yarns, mostly J untrue, have been circulated widely } in recent years about new kinds of poison gas and death-dealing "rays" , vvhich the Germans are supposed tojj have, undreamed-of horrors to be ( expected if and when the war gets j going in earnest - , Chemists who know not only what j .? j^r^innpd. but what is pos- ^ has Deen uc?wv,?, sible, say that there is no likelihood :hat Germany has any poison gas , chat can be dropped from the air which is any more powerful than , the gases used in the last world war. The most powerful of those was ' 'Liwisite", invented by an Afnerican chemist, Dr. Gilbert N. Lewis. It ' was never used in war, and its for- . mula is the, most closely-guarded of ' American military secrets. When the war ended the entire upply o fLewisite gas was taken ip . 1 closely-guarded freight train to 3altimore, loaded on a Navy vessel ind taken out to sea, where it was :unk in mid-ocean. Lewisite is the pver invented, but I nosi utciuij I >ven it is not powerful enough to I ^oison the air 'of a whole city, in I my quantity that'could be carried by I ven a fleet of planes. , . I \AYS . baunk I From the ^earliest days of radio. I tiventors have come forward from I ime to time claiming to have disI overed a mysterious "death-ray" I ^hich could kill people by wholeI ale from a distance. The nearest I tnyone has really come to such ~.f I levice is a gigantic machine weighs J 'ng many tons which can kill mice . J a few feet away. ! X? K 7~~33 Et r~ 1 1 -i r Two Jacfa^ Pansy Dillard, daughter o^mR Mrs. Garland Dillard, at Betfl Edna Owens, daughlj|j^l^M Mrs. Steve Owens, of Webstera been awarded the trip to the NfR H I'" e J ^Dj Club Congress, and Internfl R Livestock Show to bo held in <? fl the first week in Deceirtber. \m is the 4-H Rural Electriiifl Champion for North Carolinian trip is given by Westinghouse.) |H was a blue ribbon winner inf el Beautification for North C4rM She ho/I <IA ?r{n fV?? ? w ***** wis 1C|UWIU l|U14Hj since Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen 1 awards the trip, sends only fourS L'irls in the United State to Nktl I Club Congress. Edna WiU. ncltfl represent North Carolina *"4flH South. Westinghouse sends teffiH state Champion in Rural cation to National Club CongritaflH Delegates from every state Idfll Union, all tjhe possessions ofwj United States, and the Domintoi^ Canada will assemble in Chicago j| this meeting. Pansy and Edna will leave |A|H| ville Thursday, November .SOth^JSnH Raleigh where they will loiri Mm Frances MacGregor, Assistant} $tf|hj Club Leader, and the other' i4m\ champions. They will leave j l?rj Washington, on the morning of flip, cember 1st. While there thi$f MnL tour city visiting all places bf ftterest. They leave for Chicago that evening, remaining there for a wejlc. They will return by way of <ftnc^i nati, Ohio, arriving in Asheville Hp*, day morning, December 8th. W address while in Chicago will 8>e jpe Congress Hotel. Jackson Girls at White House J Miss Pansy DUlard, of Miss Edna Owens, of WebsterJosj son County 4-8 Club winnCTarm^^M \? QUALLA I The workmen are new fiHishjng \ ^udlla ?.jnooi oailding which ?has seen under construction for thfe post ^ if teen months. The rqcks for -^the building were brought : from f Soco -reek. The building has six} class rooms, auditorium, office, etc. $he jtage for the autorium already f has a beautiful velure curtain. The buildJig is heated by the hot air system, and lighted by electricity andweters furnished throughout the building. I \ splendid stone wall has beeii built 3n the highway in front of the build-; Jig. Qualla folks are rigl(tfu4r1 proud of their new school building. Qualla and Olivet have consolidate ad and are working in harmony iior' i successful school. The childfen iai; Union Hill, Olivet and Camp jCrtefc 1 ire brought to school by bus, i On Tuesday evening, Nov. 14) about 15 parents and teachers met ' ganized a PTA. They decided tb sponsor a lunch room to be Opened?1 hi Nov. 27. Interesting prdgxwnswill be given from time to tigie^for the benefit of the school. Mrs.(HsnOs Reagan was elected president )of**he PTA; secretary, Mrs. J. M. Hughes; rice-president, Mrs. C. P. Speiton; porgram committe, Mrs. Florence i Seaman, Mrs. Frank Hall and Jttjjk Emmerson Cathey. Finance commit mittee, Mr. J. M. Hughes, Mr. I Dallas.. Howell and Mrs. Mack Clemeptysa-} dial committee, Mrs. D. C. Ifughei^ Mrs. C. P. Shelton, and Mrs.} Oscar * Gibson.' . i { t "" - TVimnnofratinn clUb met AflC XlUillC , with Mrs. J. M. Hughes. I Home Beautification was the subject discussed. * f Mrs. Thad Beck made a ?rip toAsheville. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Buihgarner and little daughter and Mr. and:Mr^; J. E. Battle visited! at Mr.i D. C. Hughes'. Mr. Hugh F$r$u#>n spent the weekend with relM^feat .'Bethel. Mesdames W. H. Crawford and, Bay Synder visited school Thursday. Mrs. Hufus Johnson, Mrsi Margaret Watson and MhAlonzol Johnson, of Ela, spent Wednesday ? at Mr. D. M. Shuler's. i Mr. H. G. Ferguson called lat Mr. J. tZ. Terrell's Tuesday. - Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Reagan have moved to their new house on the Reagan farm. ! " ' M . . ? ,<tV V'- ? * * J f" ' u . ' re ty ' tr JHLW Wm*f |H -W Jm\ AROLINA, NOVEMBER 90, 1919 Girls Win 4-H Honors Play At College r ] ~ir ;4 '"' ** ' .. ' Gullowhee?The Dramatics Club of Western Carolina Teachers College, sponsored >by Miss Mabel Tyree, has j^Qsen as its first three-act to be preIsented this year on the oampus, "The IWhole'Town's Ttalking," a: farce by ijohrT .Emerson and. Anita Loos. EUrooyouts for the plajr yvere held Bko^y before, a committee of fac-tj by members, and the following stu- , penis were cast.for the twelve charFaeters in the play: Harry Simmons, ^manufacturer, Buck Hunt, of Hayesnier Harriet' Simmons, his wife, haj^V Fowler, of -Glenville; Ethel Kbninons, their daughter, Ruth Barwon, of Marble; Chester Binney, Simluons' partner. Leo Cbwan of Greens miskj' Letty Lythe, a motion picture ftfcr.^Rhth, Coggins, ;of Swannanoa; Kmald' Syift, a motion picture dimctort D. W. Harrison, of SwannaEtta; Roger Shields, a young Chicago Kynfl} Sam Fashburn, of Forest City; Wilson and Sally Olis, friends Iwiftlfel,; Irene Hamilton,{ of Whiter, and *<Jertrude Carter,'of ZebuUoh; Annie, a maid, Ellen King, of PSitiCiiter; Sadie-Bloom, a dancing poacher, Jean Bennett, of Bryson City; tiii-driver, George Walker, of Muri ^fod^l^ay is to be presented De >* . 1 - Hint Demonstrations Planned in Mountains ; ' ? ?-a?? A<tU!n<r nn/1 Mirina ; /t'?*rie8 ?u meat-vubuug cum* . demonstrations will be held in the! mountain counties of Western North! Carolina in December and January, I it w*g announced by H. W. Taylor,! swin specialist of State! CollA^ The latest improved meth-1 Hg^and home agents will] respectively, of the XxThe s^eduJe of the demonstrations | has been arranged as follows: Dec. 14, Swain County; Dec. 15, Cherokee County; Dec. 16, Clay; Dec. 18, Macon; Dec. 19, Jackson, Dec. 20, Haywood.. ' "" Jan. % 9, Watauga; Jan. 10, Avery; Jan. il* Yancey; Jan. 12, McDowell; and jan, J5, Burke. . Taylor said that an animal will be outnp and the curing process started a at each of the meetings. The demon- j strations will be given in a coitral! jaart^of the county in order that all farmers and farm women may at- j tend conveniently. Several interesting facts was men ttortcdJiMhitt cticineetion by the swine apedaUsto^pF instance, he said that ft^avrow weighing 200 pounds live I weight wilt dress out 80 percent if handled porperly.By dressing per- , oenfrge is meant the proportion of J, chWeddresBed carcass to live weight. , 1 ^e avetage steer will dress out ] 50 tc^53 "percent, and the dressing percentage of a lamb is about 50 percent, depending upon paunchiness, j weight ofpelt, quality and type. Fleck Records Help | In Poultry Business r v I . ;j-C. F. Parrish, Extension poultryman of State College, invites all poultry-raisers in the State to avail them- , selves of the free service offered J -? i through county farm and dome agems ?. to*fkeep flock production records on I their chfekOnavduring the coming year. ^'The <keeping-of records is the jnirest SW the hens are 'earning their keep/ * Parrish declared. T County agents furnish records books ' and the monthly reports are suinmar- ^ ized at state College and returned to ' the fldck owner, with suggestions as j to how to improve^the records. A , comparison is made with the records , of other poultry raisers in thef State, j and in many cases the-flock fowler has been able to correct mistakes and jhove his poultry /business from the < red to the black side of the! ledger^ in a relatively short time, the spe- ' cialist stated. For instance, the -359 fanners and ' farm wdtnen who kept records dur-' ing the 1931*39 season found that it i is- unprofitable to keep a flbek of icftddtens which do not haye an average yearly egg produefcio? of at. least 125 eggs a bird, fit is im- J possible, in most cases,-to Aake a J J ' -VtV,-. . ' y * i^%; y ' .*,A fMOAYSASDT " ' y ' nn i' il l, i .. European IW Coming Schools Will^Get 2 Weeks Vacation Superintendent A. C. Moses announced to the meeting of the teachers of the county; at the graded school, Saturday, that a two-weeks Christmas holiday will be observed in the schools, beginning Dec. 22 and countinuing to January 8, 1940. Mr. Moses announced that the schoolmasters club will meet at Cullowhee, Friday night December 15. The general meeting. was opened vith a devotional, conducted by Mr. A. C. Hoyle, and a prayer by Eev. Jonothan E. Brown. At the dose of the general meeting, the several groups held their | meetings. Miss Leonora Smith, of Western Carolina Teachers College spoke to the primary teachers group on Children's Books, Past and Present, following which there was a round-table discussion of problems in the primary groups, Miss Anne Rabe leading the discussion. The grammar grades heard Mrs. Janie Bryson Hooper, of the Glenville school, on remedial reading in In the high school group Mr. Louis Hair and Mr. Paul Buchanan led a discussion on standardization and how to attain it Pastor Loses Automobile Rev. Thad F. Deitz suffered the loss of his automobile, which caught Are and burned, a few nights ago in his garage at his home at Beta. The Sylva Are department answered the call; but the Are was discovered too late for efforts to save the car to be availing. j of close ^to 50 percent (m hauls of less than. 100 miles, and nearly 30 per cent on distances slightly greater. ' Records Seven poultry flock owners of Lenoir County have started keeping demonstration flock records this fall in coopeartion with the State College Extension Service. ' ' ____________ Doubled By changing from home grown seed to certified seed/ B. B. Holder, Lillington, Route 1, increased his yield of sweet potatoes from 153 to 307 bushels this year. 1 Cooperatives With a substantial increase in ^4 nr/vflifts handled, farm VU1UUIC Vi ers' marketing and purchasing cooperatives chalked up a two-billiondollar business during the 1938-39 marketing season. Income American farmers received a cash income of $847,000,000 in September, a substantial increase over the $745,900,000 received in the same month one year ago. Interested Craven County farmers are showing considerable interest in the purchase of brood mares, says L. G. Matthis, farm agent of the State College Extension Service. / ; Organied I An Older Youth Club, composed of farm boys and girls beyond the 1-H age limit, has been organized in Bertie County,' reports Assistant Farm Agent R. D. Smith. profit of $1.00 a bird per year over and above feed cost where the annual egg production averages below "A a " Domah wwwwfpd. Uiav ugiucf m. iuaw.. In cases where the flock average is less than 125 eggs a bird a year, the Extension poultry advises selling the entire flock at the end of the laying year and buying replacement stock in the form of baby chicks from a reliable breeder or hatchery. The 359 flock owners who kept records in cooperation with the Extension poultry office the past year averaged 168 eggs per bird, and a net return of $1.72 per bird. This is mi Improvement over the 1937-361 records. vV ! I , ^ Sj: *. V I C . " * W - if' -' V:* *; .-Vv v. ' ji' I * - ''.^hHI . .: /a ? A _y if u j kMBI j 1 i | Awroraowromoown' ar Orders | To America ^ Washington ? The first definite , tangible result of the clearing aw: J of the question of whether the mani I aeurers of the United States may nake and sell military weapons and mppleis was the release from Governmental restrictions of almost $80.000,000 worth of war orders already ' in the hands of makers of airplanes and other munitions. Great Britain has ordered from the makers in this country nearly tlRAAAAAA a# ** ? A v*v|VW)Vw vi j/uuica, c rniiix uunusi three times as many, and there are orders in hand for $5,000,000 of planes from Australia, Canada and other nations, to say nothing of numerous small orders for rifles and ammunition* \ | It is known to the State and War ^Departments that hundreds of millions of further war orders from hte Allies were ready to be given, the moment the President Bigned the new Neutrality law. That these war orders will start a boom of business in many lines is not to be doubted, M but how far it will be reflected in other lines of business apart from 'munitions no one ventures to predict ~ It will put a good many thousand men back on payrolls, however, and so increase the 'purchasing power ? of themselves and their families for lor ail sorts or commodities. ? Boom May Be Limited How long this boom will last depends upon how long the war lasts; and there are astute observers in Washington, close to the State Department, who are predicting that the war will not last very long. These prophets base their belief upon the assumption that Germany , will . be forced by the pressure of world opinion to yield to the demand that Hitler -and his immediate circle be thrown I out In that case there would be a [possibility of mediation by some ' powerful neutral nation, such as the United States, looking toward a peace _ mmh wirtfld be 10ft log!a partial 1 concerned. v: f; Such a peade cannot bt negotiated with a government which, Hke Hitler's, has demonstrated its untrusttimi^hinAoe hut tt ie imHmt/VlH hMW TVVAMUUVfW) VWV av *4J OTMWWWfrwvw that the new British Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian, has assured the President that>^ his- government would be only too glad to avert .the sacrifice of lives and wealth which a prolonged war would involve if a satisfactory settlement could be arranged with a government whcih the British government could trust Such a message is considered here as tantamount to an invitation to President Roosevelt to be the mediator of the European quarrel. He could hardly offer his services, but it is considered possible that he might accept that role if a formal invitation came from both sides, from responsible governments^*' In that case he would be following the example of his illustrious namesake and predecessor, 'Teddy," who negotiated the Peace of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan in 1905. nru;i*> ?mno mVin aro pI/mh tn the H llliC OU1IM, nw WW W.WWW WW European situation ridicule the idea that any external pressure can force Hitler to relinquish his leadership, others who are equally informed t l point out that the Fuehrer has not the confidence or the unquestioning support of the German Army, and that another Army revolution such as that which drove the Kaiser unto exile is not impossible. Pure Speculation Much of that is pure speculation, but it is worth noting as indicating i I that there is no certainty that the , J rush of war orders already beginning will continue long enough to start anything like a business boom. There ; M is a Detter cnance uxuij A here believe, that as a result of all the discussion of the position of the United States with relation- to the / rest of the world, the next session of Congress may begin appropriating j enough money to provide our own army and navy with necessary arms and supplies. iritis taken as a settled question in Washington that the defeat of the 'isolationist" ldock in the Senate ia ?, the green light which the Army end r Navy and the State Department have f* / been waiting for as the Signal to go * 'J ahead and prepare the ?ot?v only of the united siaies oui 01 men whole Western hemisphere, so we shall be actually, instead of or]#* I possibly, the meet powerfully arm*? nation in the world. f >(Please Turn TdPafe 2) | s M
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