North Carolina Newspapers

V- ' 1 ? f $1.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE IN TI THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON - i . Washington, Jan. 17 (Auto- j caster)?The members of the j 76th Congress had not got their j chairs well warmed after recon- j , vening for their second and last j regular session before it began j to appear that there is stormy | weather ahead. i ; Neither the Republican oppo- J sition nor a considerable propor- J tion of the President's own party showed an inclination to be guided by the implications of the president's annual message and the recommendations in his budget message which followed it. . i The annual message on "the state of the nation" dealt almost entirely with the European war and the possible repercussions of international affairs up'on our own domestic economy. The President's budget proposals included recommendations for I reductions in appropriations fori many governmental purposes, I particularly in work relief and f farm relief, but advocated great- { ly increased expenditures for the army, navy and air forces. Out of a total estimated expenditure of $8,400,000,000 the President asked Congress to provide an additional $1,800,000,000 for national defense, the largest ) single year's expenditure for that purpose in our peacetime history and the largest single item in ' i 1- - X the budget. To provide tnat amount and do all the other things which the Administration thinks should be carried on would run the cost of government for the next fiscal year up $2,176,000,000 above the estimate tax revenues. The President proposed, however, that Congress find ways of ' raising $460,000,000 in new taxes, which would still leave a deficit of $1,716,000,000 for the year. That would necessitate borrowing more money, and if the pro- I gram worked out exactly as plan- I ned the national debt at the end! of the year would be within a very few million dollars of the ; statutory limit of 45 billions. Difference of Opinion The points at which the sharpest differences between the President's ideas and those of many Senators and Representatives of both parties occur are, first, the relative importance of the defense program and inter national affairs generally by comparison with our own internal economy; second, the political undesirability of increasing taxes in an election year; and thir/} iMovrvortipriPV ff>r the V4U1VI, l/XAVs UlVA^/VViAVJkAvj ) same reason, of reducing farm benefits. The question of what the United States is going to defend, and against whom, is being asked by critics of the national defense program. More than four billion dollars for military preparedness has been appropriated in the past two years, and the enlargement of the navy, the army and the air forces is well under way. There is certain to be sharp de bate on the new iteqis i*1 bhe President's defense program. The present inclination is to defer any consideration of new taxes until after March 15, when the income tax returns for the last year will be available as a basis for calculation. So far the estimates of tax revenue are largely guess-work. The last thing most members of either House want to do,, if it can be avoided, is to increase taxes. And the agriculture pressure bloc is . Prepared to make the political lives miserable of those who vote tor any curtailment of existing farm benefits. Trade Agreement Controversy Another * point in the President's message on which sharp controversy seems likely to develop on Capitol Hill, probably earlier than on the other items Mentioned, is his request f<pr the renewal of the law authorizing reciprocal trade agreements. This law, enacted in 1934, expires hy limitation on June 12 this year, it has been bitterly attacked in the light of several trade agreenients which are represented as usurious to the interests of American producers. The party politics of a Presidential election year figure strongly in all the considerations Wtich will govern this session's debates and acts. Part of the wm$ 7:m^w ?m % . 'i'. '? ' V \ " " IE COUNTY jurors Drawn oor FEBRUARY COURT I The jurors for the February j term , of Superior Oou:\, which ^ Avill convene; here on February J J 19, have been drawn by the jury I ' commission, bomposed of R. U. ( Sutton, Dillard Coward and H. H. } iBryson. Judge J. A. Rousscdu, of ^ i Wilkesboro, is scheduled to pre- ; j side. * The jurors drawn are: j First Week W. H. Saunders, River; John \ Log Norton, Cullowhee; John H. ' [Watson, Mountain; H. R. Queen, Sylva; E. M. Hawkins, Sylva; ( Raymond Mull, Sylva; F. L. Ward, Barker's Creek; W. J. QllPPn PnnciHa' P! P* Hoo-lf* Green's Creek; Dillard Hooper, 1 East La Porte; Steve Queen, { Cowarts; Charles Knight, Cullowhee; Frank Hensley, DUlsbprb; ] L. T. Watson, Sylva; Gus Bryson, * Glenville; Carl Wood. Cowarts; J. J. Cowan, Cuilowhee; John 5 Reid, Sylva; Eugene Lanning, Tuckaseigee; Joe C. Middleton, 1 Tuckaseigee; G. A. Kinsland, Qualla; G. W. Owens, Canada; Nr * B. Ashe, Sylva; Ransom Cowan, * Webster; Claude Stanford, Web- c ster; Merrifet Hooper,. Ctillowhee; c F. L. Owen, Qualla; Lon Windie ( Jones, Sylva; L. P. Allen, Sylva; A. V. Owen, Canada; Mack c Pressley, Cuilowhee; Frank ^ Smith, Tuckaseigee; W. M. Jamison, Sylva; Dock Gibson, Bark- ] er's Creek; M. A. Brown,. Canada; Plumer Painter, Canada; Hamilton Bryson, Green's Creek; J. R. Dawson, Cowarts; Thomas Seagle, Barker's Creek; Herschel 1 Cabe, Gay; Hobert Messer, Syl- f va; J. B. Blackburn.. Glenville. Second Week j ? J.. C. Cannon, DiT^boro; James ! Harris, Sylva; , Joe Wilkie, Dills- ! ^ boro; George L. Painter, Sylva; c J. M. Shook, Tuckasiegce; Ran- 1 som Brysqn, Cuilowhee;. John Deitz, Green's Creek; Thad A. Pressley, Culowhee: Earl Watson, Culowheev L^W. va; J. W. Cope, .Sylva; Jake 2 Pressley, CUllowhee; Dillard * Cope, Sylva; James Turpin, Bar- c ker's Creek;, F. B/Norton,- Cullo-11 whee; Fred Barnes. Sylvn; L. C. I * Moore, Sylva; A.>": Deitz. Green's ' Creek; R. L. Holderi, Cullowhee; 1 J. B. Sherill, Quaila; E. S. Parker, * Erastus; . Early Deitz, Green's 5 Creek; D. M. Blantont Sylva; B. jc ,R. Leopard, Glenville.* \ r__i_ !l SAbE OF MAf-EIASsj! LICENSES INCREASED ) IN JACKSON COUNTYr " ' . 1 While registers of deeds in 1 other counties close to state ^ lines are complaining of a falling off of sales of marriage ii-, censes, the records cf Register of 8 Deeds Glenn Hughes for 1939 J' show that the number of licenses issued during the last quarjter of 1939 was nearly double the!' number sold during the same j ( period of the previous year. 13 j < licenses were issued during the j quarter ending December 31,11 1938, and 22 during the last? quarter of 1939. : - j j : j] opposition to the reciprocal trade ] agreements, for example, has its ( foundation in the desire to put 1 Secretary Hull "in bad" as a j t Presidential - possibility. Wash- J ington now generally credits the H statement attributed to the ^ President that Mr. Hull is his 1 personal choice as tho Democrat- ] ic nominee. ^ That presupposes Dir. Roc so- j velt's decision not to put himsbif J forward for a third term, a dc- j i cision which the shrewdest ofc- ! 1 servers here no?/ think he has reached. Mr. Hull is regarded by . many Republican leaders as be- r ing perhaps the most difficult op- ( ponent for their candidate to , ; beat, since he probably cculd 1 hold in line the clement of { Southern Democrats who would J not stand for an out-and-out New Dealer., ' " 1 Gov. Stryker Mentioned 1 Careful observes now regard Paul McNutt as out of the run- ( ning, and believe that the Democratic candidate will be somebody whom Vice-President Garner and Mr, Roosevelt can both 1 stand for, possibly Governor < Stryker of Missouri. 1 TalkofSupremeCourtJ la -np ^ Talk of Supreme Court Justice William ?>. Douglas has been revived, especially since the latest | polls of public opinion show > : *. " " . j* ' * -> diSOt . V ' ' % SYLVi QUALLA (By Mrs. J. K. Terrell) Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Griffin and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wallace have ionated one acre of land at the 'Conley Graveyard" for a public cemetery. We are sure the people of Qualla and the surrounding country appreciate this and ire thankful to them for this Sift. ; 'Mr. J. E. Battle who was struck oy. a train near Wilmot on Jan. 3th is still in a serious condition tn Sylva Community Hospital. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor 3ass on Jan. 7th a daughter. Qualla P. T. A. met Wednesday light. The association is sponsoring. entertainment for the Jackson County School Masters 31ub. on Februarv 2 Mr. and Mrs* W. H. Oxner lave been sick but are improves'. ; Mr. Jack Battle of Charlotte is spending a few days in Qualla. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Shuler jailed at Mr. J. L. Sittons. Mrs., Floyd Griffin and daugh;er Peggy and Miss Ida Smith of Uulowhee, Miss Ruvena McHan )f Almond and Miss Iris Sitton called at Mr. J. K. Terrells, Sunlay. [' >; L.,.. ; , Mrs. Martha Rhinehart and jhildren har^e returned from a fisit with relatives in Georgia. VORTH CAROLINA'S GRIDIRON DINNER Raleigh, N., C.?One of the nost colorful, if motley,.crowds iver gathered for a party. in.Ral^ iigh is scheduled to attend the ;fate's first gridiron dinner here February 4. The Carolinas Pressf Photographers today announced i partial list of those who have reserved seats, revealing the lodge-podge of attendants. Guests will include Governor Joey, Senator Bailey and other Dolitical 'figurfs, not to mention ill of the prominently mentionid candidates for governor. In idditiori, the lampooning will be leard by Ralph MacDonald, Lib>y Ward. John Caffey and a host r state department heads. The ndustriai world is represented >y Thurmond Chatham, L. V. button and Robert M. Hanes, imong others. Mayor Ben Douglas of Charotte Is among the municipal oficials who have indicated their ittendance. Newspapermen from i score of cities, judges, college professors, cameramen, and a niscellany of unclassified "public igures" will complete the list. \round 200 have been invited. CLUB STUDYING WORLD WAR Culowhee, Jan. 17 (Special)? rhe International Relations club pf Western Carolina Teachers College held its regular meeting Fanuary 17 in the student union building. In the business meeting, Mr. 3urke Ferguson was elected vicepresident of the organization folowing the resignation of Miss jrenevieve Summers, and five lew members were admitted to ;he club. The topic, How the Present Var is Affecting Our Relations vith the Far East was discussed iy Lynwood McElroy and Bayard Lowell, folowing which a round ;able discussion was led by Eric Lloyd. The club has adopted for ts general theme, The World iVar and Its Relations to the Jnited States. rhomas E. Dewey to have gain?d greatly in popular favor imong Republican voters. It vould be good Democratic strateTTT w?or\T7 Hoiiovp tn nit a vounc 5J> J x ? w nan of 42 against a young nan of 38, if Mr. Dewey is the ft ? J ' nominee of the opposition. Senator Vandenberg has gained in popular favor among Republicans lately, and Senator raft lifted himself in the esti. ] * mation of political leaders by accepting the President's challenge to show how the budget could be balanced in two years, in a speech which many consider the nost statesman-like utterance oy any candidate so far. i Com NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 1 * * . 1 EAST SYLVA CHURCH HOST TO CONVENTION The Tuckaseigee Baptist Sunday School Convention met with East Sylva Church last Sunday afternoon. A large group was present. The following Sunday Schools were represented by delegations, Greens Creek, Jarrett Memorial Dillsboro, East Sylva, Jjittle Savannah, ' Ochre Hill, Scotts Creek, Sylva, Wilkesdale, Lovedale, Buff Creek, Tuckaseigee, Old Savannah, and Cullowhee. ; Clarence Vane e, President, presided. * The Devotional was conducted by Hayes Beasley of East Sylva. :D. "fa.'Bryson. of Scotts Creek discussed the subject "Working with Intermediates," Rey. Fred Forrester, of Cullowhee, made the principal address using the subject," The Challenge Of The New Year." Special music was rendered by the East Sylva Choir. ;D. M. Hpoper and C. R. Browning Jr., made, brief talks regarding the Statewide Sunday School Workers conference which is to be held at the First Baptist Church Lexington, N. C. the latter part of March, and plans are being made for about fifteen to attend from this County. Rev. H. M* Hocutt made announcement about training courses for Officers and Teachers, to be held in the Association this Spring and Summer. Mr. A. L. Smiley of Bryson City, Superintendent of the Tennessee River Sunday School Conventiorf, was "present and spoke briefly. -' J The meeting adjourned to meet with Scotts Crejek Sunday School, the second Sunday afternoon in February, at 2 o'clock. j1 WESTERN UNION INSTALL^ TELEPRINT The Western Union Telegrapl the "teleprint" system, in th local office. Miss Louise Jones, o. Gastiona spent last week here instructing Mrs. Moore, manager, in the use of the teleprint. 5?rays will control strawberry diseases T j . ; The grower who produces the best yields and highest quality of strawberries on a given acreage is the one who controls diseases such as scorch and leafspot, says Dr. Luther Shaw, ExI rtlarif. natholoeist Of ICIIOIUII jpm w, State College. Spray. treatments will control these diseases and increase the profits from the berry crop, he stated. Dr. Shaw recommends either the 4-4-50 Bordeaux mixture or the Cuprocide "54-Y" spray for the control of strawberry leafspot and scorch. The first application should be made as soon as the new leaf growth has started in late February or March. Applications should be repeated at 10-day intervals until a few days before the picking season begins. I The 4-4-50 Bordeaux mixture is composed of four pounds of copper sulphate (blue stone) and four pounds of chemically hydrated lime to 50 gallons of water. From five to 10 gallons of (spray wil be required for each application on one-tenth of an acre of strawberries, depending on the type of sprayer used, a smal three-to-five gallon compressed air knapsack or other hand-operated sprayer is recommended for small areas, using either the Bordeaux or Cuprocide sprays. Cuprocide is a cpmmercial preparation, and is used at the rate of 2 1-2 ounces of the chemical to five gallons of water. From five to 10 gallons per onetenth acre is also required for each application of this spray. RESULTS t J. C. Little of Clifton, Ashe County, has reported unusually, successful results in the use of serica lespedeza to build up badly eroded places in his pasture. DECREASE Because of a shortage of rain! fall in Mecklenburg County during the fall, a slight decrease in aie average annual small grain . acreage is apparent. . : -j ? ' " . <; , J ' " i * - i WSSFMEjiiffiyfiyi * - v'-7-'7r7') a ^1 . , * 1 % .8, 1940 \ i ?i? TODAY ?>MQ^ I ! n*DCEL i FRANK ?T~ 1 STCKKBRtDOE/g^^^al^. ! L " ': . ? SCHOOL ....... crude The first school of which I have any clear memory was a one-rpom "district school" in a little New England village. I was five years old, but I had already learned to read ^nd write, so) I sat with much older boys and girls on the "third reader" benches. The pupils wefe graded from the "first reader" infants down j in front t,o the' "sixth reader" j rows at the back, occupied h . boys and girls of twelve or oldei | The "central heating" system i consisted of a big pot-belliec; cast-iron stove in the middle c* the school-room. The older boys were detailed to stoke the fire with wood. It got red-hot in below-zero weather. There was a wooden water-bucket,with a tin dipper from which 'everybody drank when thirsty. There was no sucn uning as piumDing, anywhere in the village. LEARNING ... .... . books I suppose at least half of the men and women of my generation got all the "book-learning" they ever had in just such country schools. We were taught to write in ruled "copybooks" with such maxims as "honesty is the best policy" printed in flowing script at the top of each page. In our school we used the "Monroe" readers, from first to sixth, filled with verses, short essays, extracts from the writing of great authors, which we had to read aloud. Many boys and *irls got a taste for good litera,ure irom those old "readers.'' In irithmetic we were drilled in ' ddittorr, subtraction; ration and division, with fracions and even decimals for the older pupils. Spelling .was strongly empha- j I sized, and we used to hove "spc-r| L*g bees" much like those one can hear today on the radio. We got a smattering of geography, from big, thin books with colored maps and pictures of strange animals and people, and we all had to learn to draw a map of our own state. School opened every day with a prayer and reading from the Bible, followed by singing. We had "singing books" .with the mrwri o onH muC<A r?f not.rint.ir1 fl Tlli W V/i VIO ClillVI AAAVtUAW va j^mva aw v*v vw*??? popular songs. The song I remember best was "Not for Joe," which ridiculed the Woman Suffrage movement to a catchy tune. It was a masculine world. TEACHING. . . . ; discipline Teaching school was a man's occupation in my childhood. Many of the rural teachers of the 1870's were students earning money to pay their expenses at Harvard or Yale or the smaller colleges. One of the necessary qualifications for a country 1 teacher was physical ability to maintain discipline. The farm boys were pretty husky and had 1 no respect for ^a teacher who couldn't lick them. A birch switch or a hickory stick always stood beside the | teacher's desk and was used on 1 children who were unruly. The first teacher I remember, a red mustached college man namel . Herbert Field, took a ruler to mc J once. I had caught the coat o the boy ahead of me with a fish hook and pulled him down wnei he got up to recite. Later we had a woman teacher, widow of the village cigarmaker, whose father was a member of the school board. We ai' liked her because she let us dc as we pleased. Then my folk/ moved to Washington and I got into the city schools. I had vto man teachers in the seventh am eighth grades, and after tha they were all men. With most c them, teaching was a life ca reer. EDUCATION cos In those old days the idea o education as a function of thr state was still a shadowy con cept. Local communities provid ed what they could afford fo their children and anything br yond that was a luxury wh . the student or his family 1 - - ** >; 7?'.. v-' ;1' ?* > * ; ' ' " \ ? ' -?? >*> ?t ..., ' i nfui*fT r i 'jj $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVi W. C. T. C. MUSIC CLUB HOLDS JANUARY MEETING l| " . :? The Mac Dowell Music Club of Western Carolina Teachers College held its [first meeting of the year Wednesday, January 17, at 7:30 p. m. in Moore parlors. The meeting was called to or-' der by the president, Miss Christ tine Broyhill, and minutes wer read. During 'the business sis sion th% members decided tc have a half-page group picture put in the college annual. Miss Melba Nanney planned a nrncram ppntprprf arminH +V10 life of Debussey, French composer. Miss Margaret Wilson played his Reverie. ' I Tea and cakes were served by joint hostesses, Jane Greenlee and Anna Jean Grant. Eleven I members were present. | . 1 MELTING BEING HELD ] BY AAA COMMITTEEMEN ] , I ], 1 ' "Ask your county or communi- [ ty committeeman," will be the advice given farmers who have problems concerning the TripleA program when a series of 1 meetings now in plrogress in the State have been concluded. The 4,700 AAA committeemen in North Carolina are being trained to better administer the Fed eral farm program, E. Y. Floyd, 1 AAA executive officer of State 1 College, explained. The time and place of each meeting will be announced locally by the county farm agent, Floyd said. In addition to the committeemen, other agricultural workers in the counties are being invited to attend the meetings and learn about the Triple A program. \ These include home demonstration agents, assistant farm and home agents, vocational teachers, representatives, w ' the Farm Security Administaa- i f vlcft Product Jem credit ArsSUi atiori, Farm Credit Administrator tion,' and Seed Loan divisions. Floyd said that discussions by Extension specialists in forestry, dairying, agronomy, and horticulture are features of the meetings in several of the*counties. ' Specialists R. W. Graeber, J. A. Arey, E. C. Blair, and H. R. Niswonger are attending the meetings in Wake, Stanly, Randolph, Watauga, Ashe, Davie,* Gaston, Clay, Cherokee, and Iredell Counties. Specialists W. J. Barker, A. C. Kimrey, L. T.Weeks, and L. P. Watson .are assisting with the meetings in Beaufort, Wilson, Jones, Sampson, Columbus, Person, Rockingham, Martin, Hertford, and Hoke Counties. fnr- Tn/low Vinnrottor awonr. ya,y J.UI ., iuuoj, nunvovi, ^, Vij body realizes that the interests of the state and the nation are involved in the problem of edu- . cation, as well as those of the i communtiy and the individual. Children of the poorest farmer or city slum-dweller now get a better education, under better surroundings; with better-train- < ed tea<5hers, ttjan anybody got j when I was a schoolboy. States < contribute from t&x funds to aid < in maintaining amj improving j local schools, because of the real-: ( ization that only by education , can American standard^ of citizenship be implanted and maintained in a changing and confusing civilization. Modern education costs more. ft calls for better equipped teachers at higher pay, and more of them to equip the. youth of to- , day to face the worjd on his own. ' CHARACTER ... knowledge The final test of any educa- 1 BrtViowo ic mhathpr nr not tiuitctl IO TTAAVVAAV* va ..v* . it builds character. Mere knowledge is not enough; though the ' head of a great business said to 1 me lately that he would take ( on any man or woman who had a thorough knowledge of any one ubject, whether it related to his 1 usiness or not; for to have mas- ered one thing thoroughly is ; /idence that one has learned tc , hink. J 1 ' Mere vocational training is not * nough. The object of education 1 s not to enable people to e^rn a ; ving, but to teach them how to ( :ve. "Practical" folk sometimes :off at the "frills" which have ?en added to the old-fashione - .--rze R's" by modern, school J ifrills Whi * i ' 1 u VN.CE OUt SIDE THE (X)UNTJ| ; ' w I CULLOWHEE WOMEN* j CLUB MEETS | Cullowhee, Jan. 17 (SpectaBjg The Cullowhee Womans Cul met Wednesday evening for rwyilloi" rvinrifVilw vquum. utuMUiijr mrn.iiig Ul .WMflRM parlors of Moore Dormitory afr'^jjrjp! Western Carolina Teachers CriLj^ lege with Miss Fannie Goodntftn* ^ president, in charge. During a brier o usiness s^pion ' Mrs. L. A. Ammon reportedfehat I Red Cross seals amountin^\$?^i $21.20 had been sold, and Alice Benton announced that a number of garments had beett ient by the club to the Harris Community hospital in Sylva> -r; Plans for celebrating the Goldea/ Jubilee of Clubs were discusse<LJ The program for the evening* based on the study of The a/M gentine and Chile, planned/ Miss Anne Hammond, Miss te Jenkins, and Mrs. L. A. JHHS mon, was a part of the faooo" Neighbor Tour, an ' imaginary trip being made this year by th# club to all the South AmerJcM First speaker for the evening^ was Mrs. L. A. Ammon who talk* | ed about<the city of BuenoM B Aires, which she described as a " metropolis of beauty and culture. After her talk Miss Jenkins introduced the Honorable Thomas J A. Coxe of Cullowhee who told of his sailing from New York to- ; San Francisco around South-: America in 1884. Describing the trip which he , made fifty-six years ago, Mr. Coxe related how, as a young engineer, he helped with the engines of the ship. Along the east coast of South America, the ship^i on which he was traveling stop- v.Jjj ped at Bahia, Brazil, and Bueqos Aires. After an exciting passage * through the Strait of Magellan^ wie crew neai stuppeu air bint-n port of Valparaiso, Chili; Altera many weeks of sailing, the;?h{p^i Anally arrived at San YYancJsioH Daring hi3-t^J?rMr^Co?e- tMflV id the log oar his vnyagfjjpnd xrfany mementos of the?np.>^ The last talk ofUhe sV^BIng -j was made by Miss flanMtfnd, M who talked on Chili, discussing I its geography, its economic portance, and its culture ill gtn-^pr'^ During the social hour the hostesses, Mrs. J. S. Seymour, Mrs. H. P. Smith, Miss Ada' \ White, and Miss Kathleen Davis served refreshments. VITAMIN A The average minimum requirement of Vitamin A for adults has' been found to be from 3,500 to 4,000 international units daily, but more is recommended. INCREASE Receipts from the sale of principal farm products in November. 1939, were larger than the same month in 1938 in four of the six major geographical divisions of the United States. CHANGING JT-. The frozen food industry/jg changing America's eating ?bits and uprooting long-estabJEh2d markets for agricultural trolucts with such rapidity that few farmers realize the trenUbndjus upheaval. i / LUMBER I Lumber production in 1950 was L6 percent above 1938, while. sains of 17 percent and 15 per- ' ;ent were reported for shipments and new orders, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. ? ? broaden the intellectual outlook '/ and help to build character and the culture which is founded on character. We have a long way to go be* fore our public education systems will turn out young men1* i md women of uniformly high 4 standards of character and culture. Until we have built the system to that level nobody should W*. begrudge the spending of any ^ imount of money that It may ;ake. Good citizens are more important than good roads, i a vies or most of the other maerial things we tax ourselves to provide.