I Sarksmt Glmiuty Journal
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at the Post Office Sylyj^ N. C.
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Turn up practially any of the troubles that
bedevil mankind, these days, and you will find the
bottom plainly stamped "Made In Germany."
Some weather! Employees of the weather bureau
in Washington were given a half holiday this week
because the heat was so intense they couldn't do their
work well.
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AS TO PREACHING
We know nothing about the Georgia minister
who has been preaching from a sound truck in Sylva,
Franklin, and elsewhere, with revival services in
Franklin every day, and whose arrest in that town .
for the Violation of an ordinance prohibiting the use
of amplifiers on the streets led to the gathering of a
great crowd, and threats of breaking down the jail
and releasing him. We don't know a thing about that
incident. The crowd may have had great provocation. I
It may have believed that it was acting in defense of
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ing that does good creates good feeling and brotherly
love in a community, instead of the spectacle of a
man being assaulted on a dark corner of the street,
severely beaten and left for dead.
Saint John wrote: "By this we know that we have
passed from death unto life, because we love the
brethren." The Gospel of the New Testament is a Gospel
of love; not a Gospel of hate.
AN ACCIDENT IMPENDING IN SYLVA
There is going to be a serious accident on the
streets ?f Sylva one of these days or nights, unless:
People stop turning their vehicles in the street at the
end of a block, instead of driving around the blocks,
as they would do in any other town or city; People
stop driving or backing into Evelina street, and then
turning into Main instead of driving around the
block, like thpy wou.J do anywhere else; People stop
making a racetrack of the highway within the school
zone, inside the town; People stop backing their cars
half way down a block to turn, instead of driving to
the end of the block and then turn around the block,
like they would do anywhere else; The big and little
trucks, unloading on Mill Street stop taking up practically
the entire street, like they would not be allowed
to do anywhere else; People stop double parking
; on narrow streets, like Mill, which carries a great
deal of traffic; We all realize that Sylva has grown
up to be a little city, with crowded streets and congested
traffic, and use our common sense applied to
present conditions, instead of continuing to act as
if the streets of Sylva were still but little used coun<
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try roaas.
TREASON BY FRANK
The Secretary of War has tendered his apology
for stating that Senator Wheeler's mailing out postal
cards to soldiers in the camps, advising them to petition
the President against participation in war 1
bordered on treason. The Journal occupies no such
high position as Secretary Stimpson and can not
be called upon for an apology by a United States Sen- j
ator. Therefore, we will say that we have been watch1
ing Senator Wheeler's antics for a long time. We believe
that he is so intoxicated with a sense of his own
importance that he is allowing himself to be carried
far afield. In the first place, he hates Franklin D.
Roosevelt with all the intensity of his*small soul; and
hate is a thing that will inevitably ccmsume the pernrVin
harbors it in his bosom. He h^s swallowed fchp
German propaganda of the past twenty years, regarding
our participation in the World War, and as
to isolation and pacifism, until he has almost made <
it a religion. He has steered himself away from every I
landmark by which our ship of state has guarded i
,itself through the years that we have been a nation. 1
He is willing to sacrifice everything that we have <
contended for, in order to avoid possible participation i
in war. He has allowed himself to come to a frame of ]
mind where he believes that any action that would
embarrass President Roosevelt in his efforts to pre- j
serve democratic institutions and the American way 1
of life is a high duty. }
But when any man, even though he be a United 1
Senator and therefore should know better, picks up *
the seditious utterances of Lindberg, The America 1
First Committee, and anybody else who is opposed j
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to the policy of our government, and sends it out
broadcast, without cost to anybody except to the taxpayers
of the nation, to people throughout the country,
and even into the army camps, is most certain*
h *q ^ comfort to the enemies of the Unitotates,
in a time that has been proclaimed an exreme
national emergency. And that comes awfully
,osJLr(? defination of treason as generally acceptor
t!*3 j11116' ^nator Wheeler has gone too far.
atred and captiousness are the resorts of small
souls. Big men don't react that way. I
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JACKSON'S OPPORTUNITY
" N
rhat the construction of the Parkway along the
ps of the mountains, coupled with the new North
Carolina Highway from Cherokee to Soco Gap, will
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taxe a great aeai 01 tourist tramc away uum
and other Jackson County points along U. S. 19, few
people will deny. In fact, no more serious blow to the
established tourist camps, tourist hom^s, gift shops,
and other service establishments in the localities
along Highway 19, could have been conceived
by human brains. Perhaps, the fact that the parkway
crosses at Balsam Gap, will give some relief to the
tourist business there. It may be of great benefit to
Balsam, which is in Jackson county. The Journal
sincerely hopes that it will.
The highway from Sylva to Balsam, and from
Sylva to the Swain county line must be improved,
widened, and made attractive. The fact that via Dillsboro
is the nearest and best way to the Park from
down Atlanta way must be stressed. But the great relief
that Sylva, Cullowhee, Cashier's Valley, Dillsboro,
and the tourist camps between Sylva and Cherokee
can expect, is the completion of Highway 107 from
the South Carolina line to Oconee Park, and the designation
of this highway with a federal number.
This is a direct route and a beautiful one firom
Jacksonville, Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and
other points, to the Great Smokies, and is a trunkline
highway from the southeast to the midwestern
cities of Cincinnati, and Chicago. If completed, and
if properly advertised, there will be a stream of traffic
over it in the summer, to the Smokies, and in the
spring and winter, and fall to and from'[Florida.
Here indeed is an opportunity for the Chamber of
Commerce to interest the people of our neighboring
county seat of Walhalla, and through them, the
South Carolina Highway Commission, in completing
the 13 miles of 107 in South Caroling that is yet but
a gravel road. It would be worth mucl} to Oconee
county and Walhalla, and much to Sylva and Jackson
county. In fact, it is our salvation I for tourist
travel.
No more lovely route, no more scenic one could
be found anywhere. Nature and geography have both
been kind to us. Interest South Carolina in the completion
of this road, and then tell its wonders to the
world, and we will have wrested a victory from defeat.
PUPPET GOVERNMENTS jl
Senator Clark of Idaho appears to be the kind
of fool that rushes in where angels fear to tread. The
other day, he advised, so all the world, including
South America could hear, that the United States set
up puppet governments in the South American countries,
as an offset to Nazi infilteration.
Senator Clark is not the only person who can see
no way of combatting the Nazi except to adopt Nazi
policies. So far as South America is concerned, the
Good Neighbor policy is the best t^hat has yet been
tried. The only difficulty is that the governments of j
the United States were many years too late in adopting
it. For long years Uncle Sam appeared to the
Latin American as a big, rich bully, who looked upon
them and their territories as but objects of exploita
tion for the North American nationals, backed up by
the armed forces of the United States. And, the truth
to tell, there was much reason for that belief among
our Latin neighbors.
Then came the Roosevelt administration and the
Good Neighbor policy. It was timely, and it and it
alone, except lor the l'ear of German frightfulness,
has helped to solidify the American republics in a bloc
of Democratic nation*;, leady to oppose any aggression
from any quarter.
Now Senator Clark would throw all that out of
the window, and revert td forceful collaboration, with
the real governments of all America seated in Washington,
just as Germany would have all government
of Europe, Asia, and Africa; in Berlin. A more untimely
statement could not have been made by a
United States Senator. It might easily lead to a lack
of faith in the intentions and integrity of the United
States, at a time when we sorely need the good will
and the active, voluntary support of South America
in our defense of the hemisphere program and in our
economic warfare with the Axis powers of Germany ,
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poses, out of the picture.) ,[
Senator Clark's statement is worthy of the best
international thinking of Bob Reynolds or Bert
Wheeler. And Dorothy Hhompson says that Bob Rey- |
nolds as chairman of the Military Affairs Committee
of the Senate, is worth many divisions to Hitler;
ind that Senator Wheeler's utterances come from an J
ionest mind, but one abysmally ignorant of inter- j,
national policies, ^ ! 1 i
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LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES
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not immediately overrun when
the French morale and French
arms folded up, last year. Hitler's
advisers were smart. They
left part of France unoccupied,
and set up a puppet government
that could be used to hold the j
colonies in line, play ball with ;
Germany, and bring about more
or less collaboration between !
the French Empire and Hitler, i
The fact that mandated Syria
had to be wrested from the !
Vichy French by the British and
the Free French under De
Gualle, that the French North
Africa may fce the path of German
conquest, that Indo-China
has been turned over to Hitler's
naive partner, Japan, that
French Guiana is being used as
a base for German agents in the
attempt to bring South America
over to the Nazi side. All
this adds up to the fact that the
French government in Vichy is
a puppet government of archtraitors.
Yes, Vichy is of more
use to Hitler in the present
juncture than an occupied
France could be. An awful reckoning
is coming, and the Vichy
will Vinira f a ?\n?? inpf
blctiujia Will iiayc tu pajr, j uot ;
as Germany will. The wrath of
France will demand their blood.
De Gaulle will emerge as the
savior of France.
CLASSIFIED ADS
See me before yon decide on
any kind of Life Insurance?
John R. Jones, Special Agent,
for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance
Company.
WANTED To Rent?Small i
apartment for one adult. Phone
114 after 7 P. M., or write P. O.
Box 954. (24-31-pd)
FOR SALE: House and lot on
Sylvan Heights. Bargain Price.
Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, Waynesville,
N. C. i (24-4t)
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TRAVEL Opportunity: Going
to Charleston, S. C., Saturday
morning, August 2, returning
Monday. Can take four passengers,
for part expenses. Call
Sylva, No. 4, or information
booth, Chamber of Commerce.
TRAVEL Opportunity: Going
to Pacific coast. Will furnish
car for three persons, or you
furnish car. Either way, we will
share expenses. V. V. Hooper,
Sylva, N. C.
Good 54-acre farm, within
quarter mile of Glenville lake.
Rolling land, suitable for trucking.
For sale by owner?T. F.
Moss, Glennrille, N. C. (tf)
FOR SALE: Registered 2-year
old Gurnsey Bull.?J. B. Cogdill,
Addie. N. c. (tf)
DOGWOOD logs wanted. Spot
-ash. Write Medgentra Mills, P.
0. Box 45, Asheville, N. C., or
;all at plant on Fairveiw Road
Biltmore. (l7-4t)
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NOTICE
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posted <: t stations served ^
senger trains 35 and ?/J;
15 and 16. Suspension o! trai^
service rffective 2~th..
July 1^1. The operation !*
trains N'.s. 35 and 3<>
Asheville and Salisbury ^
trains Nos. 15 and 1$. bevxt*.
Asheviilr and Knoxville,
suspender during National ^
fense Emergency, last
being operated on July ^
This suspension is :or the ; >.
pose oi releasing passt:.^
equipment and po*.ver lor \
. tional Defense activities ar.t.^H
at suggestion oi Mr. Ralph B.
the Transportation Corr.r^,^^B
sioner o- the Advisary
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