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^ ii T i 11 I "Ihi ' I Vl'ir 1jfl< 111~ u j-- i ri nltfiiTfl'i Ii'HIIT THE JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL . ' Published Weekly By ' DAN TOMPKIHS DAN TOMPKINS, Editor is i . ft N v yS^North Carolina \A !I /PBESS ASSOCIATION*)! j i Entered as second class matter at the Post Office Sylva, N. C. ; I : j ! Trr\T?7/^T^ TAT ; i'f ' r Whose fingers will get pinched when Japan slams j shut the "Open Door?" 1 JETER SNYDER c ' ' * . C ( The people of Sylva and the surrounding com- j munities were profoundly shocked when they awoke yesterday morning, to learn of the passing of Jeter j Snyder, one of Sylva's most prominent business men and citizens. 1 Mr. Snyder, the day before, had been at his \ place of business and on the streets, apparently en- ( joying his usual good health. He left Sylva in the \ afternoon, in company with a salesman, to visit his furniture business in Murphy, and became ill during \ the night. Death came early yesterday morning. < A native of this county, Mr. Snyder had spent his \ life here, and here he had been more than usually ( successful in business ventures. But, just as it seemed ( he had reached the place where his sphere of use-1 fulness to his country and his people would become \ increasingly larger, he was unexpectedly taken. \ He will be greatly missed in the town, in its acti-! ( ties, in its business life, and in the councils of his po-,' ( litical party, and by his extraordinary large circle or 2 friends in Sylva, Jackson County, and throughout this part of North Carolina. j j * "30" f ' j The passing, at the age of 74, of Mrs. D. T. Knight, at Balsam, will be mourned by a great many people, many of whom have never seen her. This unusual woman, who was faithful to her church, faithful to her family, faithful in all things, was a faithful correspondent of The Journal over a period of thirtyfour years. In all the ramifications of the publishing business, there is no more important personage than , a good country correspondent. Not only is this personage important; but he is also rare. To find one who /is willing to thus contribute to the life of the com munity, week by week, year in and year out, faithfully chronicling the homely events and the major happenings of a community, is rare indeed. When this writer became editor of The Journal, 28 years ago, he found Mrs. D. T. Knight on the list ( of correspondents. She has been there ever since. She , has been our friend and occasional advertiser during j that long period of time. She was one of the rare ^ people of this earth, to whom the simple things are j great things, and who realize that simplicity and perfection are practically synonouious. , As a great newspaper woman, she ^ to ^ the greatest earthly reward ol the newspaper guild, ( that of having "30" written abrwe her obituary, and < the paper to which she gave so much, says of her in j its editorial column "well done." 1 In that connection we quote Joe Swerling's im- ^ mortal poem about the reward of all good printers and newspaper folks: j . When Earth's last form has been printed, j And the presses are rusted and stilled; When the last slug is cast on the lino, I And there are no more forms to be killed 1 We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it, i j Lay off for an eon or two, Till the Super of all good workers j ( Shall hand us some copy anew. And those who set right shall be happy, And each by a great golden case, Shall fashion wonderful settings In types of spiritual face. \ And the quads and the leads will be pleanty; We shall all work with bright Golden Rules, And when time is called for the Recess, / We shall wash up in^clear, limpid pools. And the deadly wrong front will be absent, i Our first yellow proofs will be clean; / ' The types will be wondrous and varied, The finest that ever were seen. We shall print on diaphanous papers, In colors that hold us in thrall; 1 ! We shall work for an age at a standing, And the quit bell will not ring at all. And no one shall work for praises, And none will the Great Super blame, And none shall work for raises, 1 And none shall work for fame. ; But each, for the joy of the settings, And the Great Super's final O. K., . Shall work on his job as he sees it, >vx And finish it in his own way. . * t . i - , ! ' ' ' . . te JACKSON CdtftfTY iOCtaAl, STLVA, M. C., THE ISOLATIONISTS "* - j *' * -' k ' *3? 'i*?::'V i Not satisfied with the sorry mess that their doctrine and preachment has made of the world; not content that our every phase of life in the American way is threatened by deadly peril, because of their victory over common sense, the Isolationists in the United States Senate are about to launch an attack against the passage of the Conscription Bill, which is considered by many in high authority to be a iprassarv nart of our urerent National. Defense, if American ways are to survive the totalitarian revolution that is sweeping the world like a pestilence. When Woodrow Wilson was giving his life to consolidate the peace that we had wrung from the World War, they knifed him in the back, defeated the ispirations of patriots for a peaceful world, in which tiruth and justice would rule instead of brute force, rheir attitude and the attitude of the American people, inspired by them, encouraged and emboldened Japan to invade Manchuria and begin the unspeakable horrors of the rape of China, gave Italy encouragement to attack Ethiopia, and, last year, when ^resident Roosevelt and Secretary Hull saw the gathering storm in Europe and wanted the Congress ,o guard against it, they were so blind that they could lot see the storm clouds in the eastern skies, and )rouglit about the adjournment of Congress, before ;he necessary measures to safeguard America in that conflict could be enacted. They laughed at the very ;hought of war in Europe. Since that dreadful struggle began, they have cept rather silent as Administration measures, detigned to insulate us from the terrible contagion were Deing enacted, but their hearts were not in it. .They )nly gave consent because of the pressure of public >pinion. Now they have before the Congress a measure hat may not be so popular with a lot of folks, and hey are ready to attack it from all sides. This is conclusive proof that these men are so blinded by their >wn conceit that they cannot see the truth, even ifter it has been demonstrated by the invasion of lelpless, neutral countries, and the overthrow by trechery and force of the French Republic. They can not or will not see what is actually happening in his world, even when there is imminent peril that he British domination of the Atlantic may be overthrown, and all America placed at the mercy of the Totalitarian horror. If there was not such a danger, ;he Havana conference would never have been called, tfo man in all the Americas had one moment's fear that the Monroe Doctrine would be violated or that iggression, either by fofrce ot sabotage would threaten any part of these continents or the islands surrounding them, so long as it appeared reasonably sure that Brittania would continue to rule the waves. 4 Now, the picture has changed, but an Isolationist can no more change his thinking, than a leppard ean change his spots or an Ethiope, his skin. CONSCRIPTION LOOMS IN AMERICA The bill pending in Congress for the conscription )f the man power of this country, to be trained and prepared to defend the country I > Cmcs. will probably be evicted within the next few days, though there vill be strong opposition from the Isolationist senators, and from Senator George Norris, of Nebraska. Under the bill, all the men in the United States, who are between the ages of 18 and 65 years of age, will register at their regular polling places. The first draft will be for 4000,000 unmarried men, between 11 and 31 years of age, be trained in military science. Following that, a number will be trained at intervals, -? *i i i-i ~r ?l i. T aniii we nave a nawuii ui men wnu iuiuw nuw uu ucfend themselves, their country, and its institutions. The registration is expected to affect some 42 million men, and there are supposed to be approximately 24 million men between the ages of 21 and 31. [t is stated that no married men will be called to take the training in time of peace. Thus, despite the trend which our thoughts have been directed since the close of the World War, that it is none of our business what takes place across the oceans, We find that the events in Europe and Asia have necessarilly affected our lives at every turn, and that we shall, perhaps, never again see the world as we have known it. Heretofore, ii> time of peace, we have always depended ulpon volunteers to man our army. Wow, with the storm raging all about us, we find that we are woefully weak in trained men. Hence, it is proposed to make a selective draft, of the men who have no dependents, and who can be best spared from civilian life, and give them military training, while we have ih reserve the total man power of the country, that can be called at any time the need arises. It is not that Americans are less patriotic than they always were. It is not that they are unwilling to defend their country. But, in this day of mechanical warfare, technically trained men, each a specialist in his field, are necessary for effective defense, should aggression come. It is also true that under the volunteer system, many of those who offer their services are men who can least be spared, are men of the highest type, and, when war comes, these men are the first to give their lives, leaving the less worthy to sire the next generation. Hence, it is argued, conscription is the most democratic way. At any rate, the people of America are anxious that their country be prepared to defend itself and the ' ' / ' ; : I . ' * 4. " I " / _... . K . aug. i, 1m0 whole of the Western Hemisphere, and they are learning that to do so will bring both inconvenience and expense. That inconvenience and that expense are both augmented by the pascifist and isolationist 1( propaganda that we have been swallowing, hook, line, e and sinker, for the past twenty years. 1 b THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS 'f Mr. Herbert Hoover, speaking at the Philadelphia | ? convention gave utterance to the belief that America i f, J i?11 can live unto herself alone, ne arew a ucauwuu * ture of how, during the first 50 years of our national c existence, we had done so, and asserted that what our v ancestors did, we can do. Of course that all sounded well; but was foolish, f In the first place, America did not live unto herself ? alone during her first fifty years. As a matter of fact, 4 the ships flying the American flag were plying the c oceans of the world, carrying the comiherce of the ! nations. And it was the drying up of that commerce, i during the War of 1812, that caused so great a de- ' pression in this country, that New England was practically in open rebellion against the federal govern- i ment, and the Hartford Convention was held, at which the States in New England threatened seces- ^ sion, unless they were given relief from the commer- f cial stagnation and incident unemployment, brought [ about by the war driving their commerce from the ' seas. ! I On the other hand, it is wen to remember that f America, at that time, was largely an agricultural * country. In many instances each farm was able to t live practically by itself. Where that did not hold good, J each community could have yrithstood almost any ? shock outside itself, for the reason that the carpen- J ters, the lumber mills, the blacksmith shops, the k looms, the fields and the forests at home supplied , practically all the needs of the community. k Today we have become an industrial nation. J Each community is dependent upon others for its y clothing, its transportation, its fertilizers, its foods; J and the large centers are dependent upon raw ma- f terialsj from the uttermost parts of the earth, to keep * their highly industrialized plants running. A few country districts, like those we have here- I abouts, might be able to follow the lines of our forefathers, and become self-sustaining entities, though this would entail grat hardship. But, the industrial centers of our country would be unabue to do so, and, with hunger and want stalking the land, they would become cesspools of disease and revolution. No, Mr. Hoover, what you said sounded pretty; ? but America oan't live alone, as you say she did dur- 5 ing the first oO years of her life as a nation. Fact is, 2 she did no such thing then. ? T" " ~ j ~~ i " ' r* 9 When he applied triple super- llwrgMII _ -- k phosphate on his pasture at the IIIAllrU M In * rate of 200 pounds to the acre, |H||ll|i||| VA,.D A lit 1 B. M. Johnson, unit demon- HU^raLll iIIa stratlon farmer of Henderson V .T^.Tl"^u ' county, has doubled his grass RUB IBS Mponwn Message! i Tht U. S. Agriculture Department has forecast a winter wheat crop of 488,859,000 bushels s on the basis of June 1 conditions, K and estimated spring wheat pro- fcyiSmL dim I duction of 239,000,000 bushels. Ska to Ul * m IFOR SA I BAXTER HOOPER FARM at Tucl >1 . u JOHN A. HOOPER FARM. J. M. RIGDON HOME, good hon store. .7 acres/good orchard, > Cut in tracts to suit buyer o t ALSO CITY PROPERTY, BUS HOUSES, AND VACANT V . II If you want to invest in a PAYING | OSITION, investigate best LUMBER AND COAL Y | Western North Carolina, doinj |. business for past 20 years. |V. V. HOP *! " '*r . . CICADAS I Billions of 17-year iocusts I jngest-lived of all insects, are I merging from the earth over I he greatest Part 0* the country I etween the Mississippi and the I Atlantic Ocean. I Necessary arrangements have ' I een made to have all breeding I attle in Watauga county tested I or Bang's disease, reports h. m i lamilton, farm agent o! the N. H J. Staie College Extension SerApproximately 450 low-income I arm iamines 01 union county Lave made application for matresses under the Federal-stau :otton surplus removal program, ays Assistant Farm Agent T. M. low One Woman Lost I 20 Pounds of FAT I Lost Her Prominent Hipi ' Loot Her Doable Chin H Loot Her Sluggishness W?ed A More Shapely Figure I ind the Increase in Physical Vigoi ind Vivadousnese Which So Often H Borneo With Excess Fat Reduction, Thousands of women are getting B at and tasing their appeal just b?auae they do not know what to do. B Why not be smart ? do what " housands of women have done lq B ret off pounds of unwanted fat< 'ake a half teaspoonful of Kruschen n a glass of hot water first thing very morning to gently activate wer, bowels and kidneys?cut down our caloric intake?eat wisely and atisfyingly?there need never be a H inngry moment I Keep this plan up for 30 days !hen weigh yourself and see if you invent lost pounds of ugly fat H uflt see if this doesn't prove to b< he surprise of your life and m&ki \ on feel like shouting the good news o other fat people. And best of all ijar of Kraschen that will last yoy or 4 weeks cost*-but little. If not oyfolly satisfied- money back. H UMEV STAGNATION I ISHONSETHM | Wins lira nun; Pienti Wt Treat Constipation at Tho Onset, WtiHo Wo Neglect Our Kidneys Indefinitely No other organ In your body is of or* tmportanee than your kidneys. For i your kidneys there are nine miJJioa ibes which must work day and night to Her the fluids nnd I"ep the system frw ota wastes, acids, poirons which, if per. litted to remain, may c..use serious kidney nd bladder troubles. It Is no wonder then that Nature ftens calls for help to clean out the idneys. So if you are troubled with ietting-Up-Nights. Leg Pains, Backache, lervous Headache. Dixzincs or Loss of Inergy, due to functional kidney disorders, ry KIDANS, the famous kidney remedy, rhloh aids Nature to flush out the kid?ers, to filter ail wastes, to prevent kidley stagnation. KIDANS is Safe and Reliable. Tho* H ands report entire satisfaction. Taken ocording to directions. KIDANS will rive ploadid results. Try KIDANS. Buy it. *e or Speela| Price Offer on two boxes. Use ne box. If not satisfied, return unopened en and-GET TOUR MONEY BACK. M If your local druggist cannot upply you, send $1.00 to The H ;idans Company, Atlanta, Ga., H or two full-size boxes on a loney-Back Guarantee ,LE I (ascigec. ise, and fineyard' r whole. INESS I LOTS. I PRUPRETAIL I ARD in I I a good perJI "l
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