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1' , ? a yg^R^x^ADVANCE IN k Reed F ounty Pr Super eed. who has been su.??t nf the prison camp "*Sler foi fl* past six years, " awed his resignation to endent R'^rt Grady , super " ^cording to an intergiven The Journal by Mr. " Mr wet states that he will Zother employment with the take otne? orifi PnhHr. I state Hignwitv . I Works Commission. I jn his statement, Mr. Reed I ^"I have tendered my resignaI tion as superintendent of the I Jackson County Prison Camp, I effective at once. It has I been a pleasure to me to work I with the Prison Department of I the State Highway and Public < I Works Commission, but I prefer I to resign from the position I now I hold to accept other work with I the commission, and have so in- ; I formed Mr .Johnson." j I BAPTISTS HOLDING DiUiN MtJViirMU ai I little savannah I The program for the Union Meeting being held with the I Little Savannah Baptist church I September 27 and 28 follows: Subject for the day: "How God I Deals (corrects) with Man.)) 10:00 a. m., Call to order by I Rev. H. M. Hocutt, Moderator. Devotional by L. Pressley of I Little Savannah. Oral reports from the I churches. Enrollment of DeleI gates. Organization of Union MeetI ing, committees selected, reports. 10:45, "A Look at Our AssociI ational Work from Reports," I Rev.W. N. Cook. ~ 11:15, Sermon, Rev. John Harris. Alternate Robert Parris. 12:15, Adjourn for dinner. Reconvene at 1.15 p. m. 1:15, Devotional, Leader appointed by Moderator on the grounds. 1:30, "God Chastens His Children," Rev. Ernest Jamison. 2:00 "Does God Send Rains, Roods, Storms, on His People," JtW. Green. 2:30, "What Lessons should Jackson County Learn from the Flood?" Rev. T. F. Deitz. 3:00, "Remember The Sabbath i Day to Keep it Holly," Rev. L. ' Crawford. ; ; Saturday. SeDtember 28 ^ - I J I 10:00 a. m., Devotional, Rev. 1 I S. 0. Brandon. I Reports of committees, busi- 1 I ness, announcements. i I 10:30, "According to Divine I Law What may or may not be I done on Sunday," Rev. W. M. I Breedlove. 1 I 11:00, Open discussion of Sun I day observance. I 11:30, Sermon, "How to Keep '< I the First Day of the Week " Rev. ! I H. M. Hocutt. ' I 12:15, Adjourn for dinner. I Reconvene at 1:15. ; I 1:15, Special treat from the 1 I B S. U. of W. C. T. C. and the ' I Cullowhee Baptist church. A se- : I lect group from the Western I North Carolina Missionary Bap- > I tist Churches 1 I 2:00, "The Great Challenge of . I toe S. S. of the Association," by : I BuPt. Clarence Vance. I 2:30, "How to make our EvanI Selistic Program Effective." 1 I W- N. Cook. I Open Discussion by all deleI Sates. I "deling riace Changed I The place of meeting was I changed from Glenville to Little 1 I Savannah because the Hamburg 1 I church is undergoing a building I Program. I There will be preaching at the I tittle Savannah Church on Fri- I I day night by some minister that I I ihe church will invite. ; I Shoal Creek Singers I To Meet Sunday Week I . The Shoal Creek annual sing- 1 I nf ConvenPi?n will be held in I I e Qualla School auditorium J I 'e first Sunday in October. All I shigers are urged to attend. : y\:J V IljC $1 THE COUNTY iesigns As ison Camp intendeiit Vernon Cope Named President of Teachers Association In County Meeting in the auditorium of the Sylva Elementary School, last Saturday morning, the Jackson County Division of the North Car olina Education Association elect ed Vernon Cope as president, Jon athan Brown, vice-president; ana Mrs. K.ate JBryson, secretary, and heard an address by Dr. H. T. Hunter, on Education and the World Crisis. Mr. Hunter urged that a study be made by the teachers of the courses in Democracy, and that the children be well grounded in the ideals for which our country and the other democracies stand. This, he said will lie a great contribution that the educational forces can make in the preservation of civilization and the strengthening of the morale of the Democratic peoples against the shock of the impact of the world conflagration. The meeting was called to order by Superintendent A. C. Moses, who spoke briefly to his teach ers, made his announcements, and turned the meeting over to Mr. A. C. Hoyle, the outgoing pres ident of the Association. A nominating committee composed of Floyd Griffin, Frank Crawford, and Alliney Bryson, brought in the nominations of the officers who were elected. Hereafter the teachers' meetings will be held at 2:30 in the afternoon of each last Friday in the month. Committee chairmen announced were: Advisory council, Alliney Bryson; Public Relations, G. C. Cooper, Professional Relations, Paul Buchanan, Teachers' Welfare, Floyd Griffin; Legislation, Howard Crawford; Community Relations, Frank Crawford. 233 MATTRESSES GO TO FARM FAMILIES Better housed, better clothed, better bedded, better fed, more feeling of security, better wages, better conditions, and a sale at a good profit for everything produced on the farms of America, is a goal of the federal government. An instance is the making of 233 cotton matresses in Jackson coun ty, which has already been accomplished. This is the way it worked: Mrs. Mamie Sue Evans, Home Demonstration Agent was made director of the work, and the entire extension service, including G. R. Lackey and Jesse Giles was in the project. Cotton was obtained from cotton farmers, through the Special Commodities department of the much-talked-about AAA. Mrs. John Fullbright was made superintendent of the work, with the assistance oft Eloise Dyre, Pauline Hensley, Mable Johnson, and Victoria Buchanan, four N. Y. A. girls. A farm family with an annual income of less than $400 a year could get a mattress by paying $1 for materials. Each application had to be approved by the county AAA committee, which is composed of Dennis Hig don, W. A. Hooper, and Walter Jacksoi}. Then, with the approval and the $1 in hand, the applicant came and spent a day in the old S. C. I. building, made a most excellent mattresses, and carried it home with him. Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Fullbright, and the four young ladies showed the people how it was done, and there are now 233 better beds in the county than there were a few weeks ago, when the work started. Bumgarner Reunion To Be Next Saturday The Bumgarner clan will celebrate their 20th annual reunion at Love's Chapel Saturday, Sept. 28th. Picnic dinner will be served. m ichsor SYLYi Local People Give $1,000 To Red Cross Flood Relief Fund Mr. M. D. Cowan, Secretary of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Red Cross committee to raise local funds for the disaster work in the county, informs The Journal that a check for $1,000, raised lo, cally, has already been turned over to the Red Cross, and that his committee anticipates that the people of this county will con tribute at least an additional $1,000 for this purpose. This has been done, Mr. Cowan * stated, without pressure and with little solicitation, but has come as a spontaneous response from the people of the county to the need of their neighbors. Andrhe stated he believes the people will continue to respond, without solici tauon, unm uie run $z,uuu is contributed. The cash donation of $1,000, already turned over to the Red Cross, is in addition to many hun dreds of dollars worth of clothing, bedding, shoes, and furniture that has been sent in by mer chants and private individuals. Rotary Club Hears Disaster Workers At Meeting Tuesday The Sylva Rotary club, at its regular meeting Tuesday night in the Carolina hotel, heard reports by Mrs. Louise Wilcox, area supervisor for the Red Cross, W. P. McKuire, chairman of the local disaster relief committee, and Garland Lackey, county agent and Phillip L. Elliott, members of the relief committee* on progress being made by the Red Cross in rehabilitating victims of the August 30th flOOd. * m v-r . r Mrs. Wilcox stated that the needs of approximately one-half of the 242 Jackson county families registered with the Red Cross have been met. So far there # have been four major cases that have been passed on the advisory committee, Mrs. Wilcox said. She described a "major" case as being one in which $500 was involved. About 20 or 30 of these major cases will come up before the advisory committee at its next meeting, Mrs. Wilcox said. Dr. McGuire and Messrs. Lackey and Elliott in their report all were of the opinion that at the present time defeatism on the part of some of the flood sufferers was the greatest problem with which those whj are try ing to aid are faced. These three committee members all said that in order for these people to overcome the state which they have lapsed into it will be necessary for their fellow-citizens to give them an enormous amount of encouragement. President R. U. Sutton said that he had received a message1 on a phonograph record from the president of Rotary International which would be played at the next meeting. Guests at this- meeting included: James B. Light, of Bryson City; Milton Fox, of Johnson City, Tenn.; George Fox, of Washington, D. C.; Charles Ray, of Waynesville, E. V. Krugler, of Asheville, Leo Reiger, of / Balsam, and E. L. Meadcvs, of Raleigh. Bryson Reunion To Be Saturday, October b Judge Felix E. Alley, one of Western North Carolina's most destinguishec^ citizens, and one of the Staff J best speakers, will deliver t e principal address at the annual reunion of the Bryson family, on Saturday, October 5, at Beta. A pioneer Jackson county family, that has produced many distinguished men and women, the Brysons hold their reunion near the ancestral home at Beta, each October. All members of the family and relatives are invited to the reunion. , VS i . j - /^S<. * [ I t Con 1 WORTH CAROLINA, THU Local Office Is Opened for Disaster Loan Corporation In Sylva Mr. J. E. Wilson, representative of the Disaster Loan Corporation and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, has arrived in Sylva, and has opened offices here, for the purpose of extending the facilities of the Corporation to the rehabilitation of the people who suffered the loss of their means of livelihdod, or otherwise in the flood of last month. Military Conscription Machinery Is Being Prepared For Action With practically the whole ablaze, and the conflagrate .n rapidly spreading to differ<Mt quarters of the globe, the National 'Guard from North Carolina, and from some of the other states has been called into service for a year's training, and the guard from the other states will be called out as rapidly as quarters can be provided for them, the government is spending billions piled upon top of billions of dollars in an effort to build up the National Defense, and the youth of America will be required to register for military service under the terms of the first peace time conscription bill ever enacted in the United States. The National and State Governments are setting up the machinery for selecting the men who are to register and train for military service. A national director of selective service will be appointed by the President, State directors will be appointed by the Governors of each state, and a draft board will also be appointed by the Governor foi each county. Here are the provisions of the drafc bU! iiv-oondensed form, for the Information of the people: Approximately 16,500,000 men 21 to 35 years or age, inclusive, must register on October 16. Of these, 75,000 are expected to be mustered into service about the middle of November, for a year's training. A total of 400,000 conscripts are due to be in training early in January, 1941. Others will be drafted later. The bil places a limit of 900,000 on the number of conscripts in the army at any one time. Exemptions and deferments to be granted to men with dependents, ministers, theological students, men in essential occupations, certain government officers, aliens, the physical unfit and conscientious objectors. The latter are liable for non-combatant training. Draftees to receive $21 a month for the first four months and $30 subsequently, with opfnr raises. jA/1 lUiiiVJ Vf? ? Industries balking at filling government orders can be taken over on rental basis." Annual Divisional W.M.U. Meeting Here Wednesday The annual divisional W. M. U. meeting will be held at Sylva Baptist church Wednesday, Oct. 2nd. The meeting will open promptly at ten o'clock. A splendid program has been arranged for the day centered around the theme, "Always Abounding in the Work of the Lord." Mrs. J. Clyde Turner, president of the W. M. U. of North Carolina; Mrs. W. D. Briggs, executive secretary of W. M. U. oi North Carolina; Miss Wilma Bucy, field worker of the Home (Mission Board, Atlanta, and Dr. Emmett Ayers, Missionary from China, will be guest speakers for the day. Mrs. Sam Gibson of Macon association is divisional superintendent. ^ E Lunch will be served in the | basement of the church for 25 | cents a plate. Forty new Army and Navy projects, already approved by CongTess as a parf of the nation's defense program will require 400,000,000 feet of pine lumber. : i . iwi.JiLiuuJiiu.ui *v ntnT RSDAY, ^.rr; 29, 1940 ?????rnmmmm? Hunting Club Hears Official of State Consolation Board Several speakers, including Charles Ray, Waynesville business man and member of the pfnfo VtnarH r\f noncotwqflnn onH OUCIVV MV/M1 VA VA VViiUVl w NVAVM development, were heard at Tuesday night'^ meeting of the Jackson County Hunters and Fishers association here. The speakers included E. B. Kugler, assistant commissioner of the state division of game and inland fisheries, E. L. Meadows, field biologist, the Leo Rieger, in charge of the Morrison fish hatchery at Balsam. Natural color motion pictures made by WalI ter Glass, representative of the Huyck Felt company, during a trip into Canada last summer, were shown. Phil Stovall, presi aeni presiaea. It was announced that one of the fish rearing pools which the club is constructing has been completed on Fisher creek. Re1 ward posters, the club has printed, are ready to be put up on all 1 streams in Jackson county con1 taining rainbow or speckled trout. The posters state that the club offers a reward of $50 for information leading to the ar1 rest and conviction of any per son dynamiting or seining fish 1 in Jackson county. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday night, October 8. Conspiracy To Rape Democracies Apparent As Britain Battles I 1 The great conspiracy of the toi talitarian nations against the de. mocracies and everything for which they stand, becomes more ' apparent as the war thunders on in Europe, the British Isles, Afri^ ca, and Asia, and as diplomatic manouvers continue. The way things now appear is, that England, Norway, Denmark, , France, Belgium, Holland, and the other Democratic countries : had something that other na. tions did not possess. The Demo, cratic ideal of government and individual freedom was revived first in the British Isles, as the , world began to emerge from the 1 Dark Ages into which the sack of Rome by the German Barbarian.*? had nluneed it. This ideal, adhered to by the British and i brought with fierce intensity to America by the colonists, spread to other countries, and its great spiritual value made them rich. Twenty-flve years ago, Germany ; and Austria attempted to overi throw this ideal, and to take charge of the world that the democratic ideal had builded. After more than four years of + TTTO O Diuuuy CUIllllUb l/ilau aticpiiiv n<M ended in disaster for the powers that began it. For several years now it has been becoming clearer that there was a deliberate conspiracy brewing for Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia, all now Totalitarian states of one kind or another, to deliberately rape the rich, Democratic world, seize the sources of the wealth of the Dem ocrats, and take from them, not , only their wealth, but also their , liberties and ideals that had created it, and their way of life and living.' Many of the Democratic nai tions have already fallen into the hands of the Totalitarian. All of them in Europe, save Sweden and Switzerland alone are now bel neath the iron heel. The Republic of France, with her great em' pire, has fallen, part of the coun, try completely under the control ! of Hitler's troops, and the rest is buta puppet state, controlled by nnu?f lnmrnc nnlv thp RHt? I fill. -L 11CL t vu v*?*j _w ish Commonwealth of nations and the Americas standing be tween the conspirators and com plete victory. Britain continues to fight with i fury and with confidence, despite ?, the fact that London is bombed day and night. A free French ' government, under General Jk% . Gaulle, a prominent Frenchman, I . who fled to London when Hitler J . overthrew the Republic, has been . gathering adherents in both (Continued on Next Page) . !'. m 4 ' * * t ! 4 ^ . m mrtm $2.00 A YEAR IN ADD Gongressma Seeking ^ For Stre Sylva P.-T. A. Holds Firct Mootinnr flf I w I ITI WW I I II g U I School Year Tuesday Opening with a devoionafr conducted by Rev. H. M. Hocutt, who spoke on the subject: "Are we offside and penalizing our families", the Sylva Parent-Teacher Associaiton, at its first meeting of the year, Tuesday afternoon, appointed standing committees and elected grade mothers. The monthly prizes tor attendance of parents at the meeting went to Mrs. Lee's grade in the primary school, Miss Cunningham's grade in the elementary school, and Mrs. Bryson's room in the high school. The by laws of the association were read by Mrs. Mary Cowan. A committee composed Of Mr. Hair, Mr. Frank Crawford, Mrs. D. M. Hall, and Mrs. Walter L. Jones, was appointed to advise with the Board of Education, the Local School Committee, and the County Superintendent regarding the location of the new vocational education building, which, it is understood, will be erected on the school property in the near future The chairmen of the committees appointed are: Finance, Mrs. Ray Cogdill; Membership, Mrs. D. M. Hall; Program, Miss Annie Louise Madison; Parent-Teacher Magazine, Mrs. Dan Tompkins; Hospitality, Mrs. Prank Crawford; Publicity, Mrs. Herbert Gib son, Jr.; , Music, Mrs. Grovei Wilkes; Study Group, Mrs. E. J Duckett; Publications, Mrs. Loufc Hair; Historian, Mrs. Mary dd#an; Summer Round-up, Mrs. Hai ry Hastings. The grade mothers elected are: Mrs. Tompkins' First Grade, Mrs Frank Fricks, Mrs. Harry Ferguson, Mrs. Carter Williams, Mrs, James Buckner. Miss Parker's First Grade: Mrs, Oscar Gates, Mrs. George Painter, Mrs. E. O. Mashburn, Mrs Frank Abernathy. Miss Mason's Second Grade: Mrs. Willie Painter, Mrs. Fred Cope, Mrs. Roscoe Ramsey, Mrs Ray Cogdill. Mrs. Lee's Second Grade: Mrs Kermit Chapman, Mrs. Frank Jones, Mrs. Walter Ashe, Mrs, Everett Harris. Mrs. Watson's Third Grade: Mrs. Louis Jarrett, Mrs. Leonard Holden, Mrs. Garland Jones, Mrs. David Dills. Miss Holden's Third Grade: Mrs. A. W. Wilson, Mrs. Charles Hurst, Mrs. Mary Sue Cunningham, Mrs. O. L. Cope. Miss Madison's Fourth Grade: Mrs. Don Fisher, Mrs. Dennis Fisher, Mrs. Leon Sutton, Mrs. A. C. Moses. Mrs. Gibson's Fourth Grade: Mrs. Zollie Fincannon, Mrs. Wes Barnes. Miss Cunningham's Fifth Grade: Mrs. W. O. Soderquist, Mrs. Marcellus Buchanan, Jr., Mrs. W. C. Hennessee,' Mrs. J. T. Bales. Mrs. Freeze, Sixth Grade: Mrs. Gilbert i Bess, Mrs. Roscoe Poteet, Mrs: Harry Hastings, Mrs. Fred Sutton. i Mr. Crawford, Seventh Grade: Lain, Mrs. Ralph Fincannon, Mrs. H. Gibson, Mrs. F. N. McMrs. John Wilson. DEFROSTER L. E. Godwin, who owns a peach orchard at Converse, S. C., used an airplane propellor and an automobile motor to circulate air in his orchard and thus pre x vent iiusl. FERTILIZER v . c Fewer grades of fertilizer and larger tonnage of mixture containing high proportions of plant foods are progressive tendencies evident in the results of a survey and analysis of 1930 fertilizer sales, :<U -J ... * fr. mm , VA i . t 1 'anct octside the county n Wftflvftr fPA Grant am Control Congressman Weaver is seeking to secure a W. P. A. grant for the purpose of dredging Caney Pork Creek, and DerhaDS other streams in the county, and getting these water courses back in proper and deep channels, thus stopping the erosion, assisting in preventing future disastrous floods, and helping to rehabilitate the lands that have been washed away. Mr. Weaver informel The Journ al that he has been in communication with Director McGinniss of the W. P. A. in North Carolina, and has assurances that the W. P. A. will cooperate in every way possible. The Journal, Mr. M. D .Cowan, A. J. Dills, T. W. Ashe, and others informed Mr. Weaver of the necessity of speedy action in this matter, and his response was prompt and definite. Chairman T. W. Ashe, of the Board of County Commissioners, and others are now seeking to work out the details of such a project with the W. P. A. officials. PROMOTION DAY SUNDAY AT BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL Next Sunday will be Promotion Day in the Sunday School and the Training Union of the Sylva , Baptist church. A special promwadm ta stlnco nf ' ((X ttUI 40 pwiuyu AV4 V4AV VAV9V VJ? the Sunday School hour. At the morning worship service the - pastor will bring a special mes> sage appropriate for the day as the officers and teachers of the . Sunday School and the officers 1 and leaders in the training r Union assume their duties for * the new year and dedicate themselves to the great task before 1 them. Every officer, teacher, and leader is urged to be present at , this -service. The public is cordially invited. . FATHER OF SYLVA WOMAN PASSES I Funeral services for John G. I M. Cordon were held, in Hendersonville, Monday, at the Episcopal church, conducted by the Rev. James P. Burke, the rector. Mr. uoraon, wno was o? jrcai* of age, died at the home of his son, in Norfolk, Virginia. His home was in Sylva, where he had many friends. He was the father of Miss Grace Cordon, superintendent of the Community Hospital. His grandson, Norman Cordon, Jr., Metropolitan Opera baritone, sang "Abide With Me" at the funeral. Several of his friends attended the funeral in Hendersonville. Mr. Cordon is survived by two sons, Norman Cordon, Sr., and Joseph Cordon, and by his daugh ter, Miss Grace Cordon. 1 y Women's -Federation Meets in Waynesville The . annual meeting 01 me first district of North Carolina's Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in Waynesville on Mon, day, September thirtieth, at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Tom Reeves, formerly of Canton, will preside. The , state president, Mrs. John D. Robinson of Wallace, will deliver the main address. Mrs. Creaky K. Proctor of Oxford, state chairman of districts, will also speak. Mrs. Felix Stovall, president of Waynesville Woman's Club, will deliver the welcoming address. Several other leading club women of district ??? 11 hovn nrnmlnpnt narts uuv n?M mwvv r- r District one includes the women's clubs of Robbinsvllle, Andrews, Bryson City, Sylva, Cullowhee, Waynesville, Clyde, and Canton. Over one hundred women are expected to attend. Luncheon will follow the session ahd the meeting will be adjourned at two o'clock. x New officers will be elected for the ensuing two years. <