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' q f re-' '.i A i ,'-J zs ' 7 ' i Bits of Wicdofii Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. Joubert. r l.UTil3 . n A Brief Survey of Cur rent Events in State, Nation and Abroad the Facts Boiled Down to a Few Pithy Lines. tttxit PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL INDEPENDENT 4 VOL. XLIX, NO. 9 FRANKLIN, N. C THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934 $1.50 PER YEAR UJ-? I C ' Jl I Lfo HI, v IT rMr: -1.- A' ANOTHER CWA CUT Twelve thousand more employes are to be cut from CWA payrolls in North Carolina this week, ac cording to an announcement Sun day by Mrs. Thomas O'berry, state civil works director. 1 The eastern counties, she said, would eet a larger -percentage of the cut this week than they did last week. THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION Industrial unemployment increas ed again in January, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said Monday, but ijie .increase was not quite as much as in other depression years. INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT INCREASES Sharp increases in industrial out put and a general rise in whole sale prices were reported this Veek by the Federal Reserve hoard .for January and the early part of February, CCC CONTINUED Members of the Civilian' Conser vation Corps throughout western North Carolina are to be issued . certificates of selection in anticipa tion of the forest camps being , con tinued for another six months af ter July I, according to informa tion, from Washington. O More than a score of person's were reported to have been killed and dozens of, others, .injured ' in winter tornadoes which swept across Mississippi, Alabama- arid ; part of Georgia Sunday night. North Caro lina experienced $qme freakish weather, with lashing rainfTn most sections but snow in the northeast. There was heavy sleet in the Pied mont, resulting in great property damage. Three were reported dead as a result of thestorms in North Carolina. - ' . v , ' .'. 'WOULD PROTECT HOME MERCHANTS ' Since North Carolina's sales tax went into effect last July merchants Tn this state Have complained bitter ly that they were losing much busi ness to mail order houses outside the state; Many folks, the mer chants say, send off their orders for goods rather than buy them at home and pay the sales tax." Gov-' ernor Ehringhaus took action Sat urday seeking to correct this situa tion and at the same time to in crease the state's - revenue.- He telegraphed the, North Carolina members of , congress requesting them to support legislation allow ing states to levy, sales taxes on interstate shipments. Such legisla tion was ' endorsed earlier in the week by 1tax officials of ya number of states who met in Indianapolis. BUMGARNER ACQUITTED K. E. Bumgarner, of Cashiers, was acquitted Saturday afternoon by a jury in Jackson county su periior court at Sylva after trial wn a charge of second degree mur- -der-in -connection with -the slaying of Frank Bryson, 45, also of Cash iers, on January 3. The trial lasted "three days with large crowds at tending. Bumgarner claimed he shot Bryson in self-defense. Both men were well known in Macon county. . WHAT FARLEY SAID What Postmaster General Farley said to his Republican" predecessor Walter F. Brown, kept everybody wondering last week, just because Brown held it as a confidential re mark and would not reveal it de spite the proddings of the senate air mail , investigating committee. Then Farley released Brown. A tensely expectant crowd which heard Brown repeat the remark broke into unrdarious laughter. Brown said Farley's confidential re mark was that Senator Black, chair man of the investigating committee, "was just a publicity hound." Brown, Farley and Black joined in the laughter, but when things had quieted down Farley denied he had made such a statement. 9 STUDENTS PERISH Nine students at Dartmouth col lege. Haiwvcr, N. H., perished ear ly Sunday morning in the -Thcta Chi fraternity house, victims of carbon monoxide gas which escaped from a faulty furnace while they were sleeping. GREENS CONVICTED Bascom Green,' 47. and his son, Lester, 24, Friday night were con victed of murder in the fatal shoot- tujr laot..Tu'v of T. C, Barnes in an .ittemntcu holdup of the rarmers and Merchants Bank at Taykr3 ville. Judge Wilson Warlick sen tenced the two men to die in' the . electric chair on April 27. TVA SEEKS TO STOPEROSION Investigator Finds Much Land In Mountain Region Exhausted EW CROPPIIfa PLANNED 5 Experiment Stations To Be Established ; Will Employ . Many Men Few, if any,' projects undertaken by (the Soil Erosion Service prom ise to De ot greater importance to as many tilers of the soil in such a large area as the one at present being organized in the great Ten nessee Valley. H. H. Benne'tt, Di rector of the Soil Erosion Service of the. Interipr Department, some months ago made a cursory exam ination of this vast watershed and was impressed with the necessity of undertaking rarge-scale opera tions in tins region, which takes in a number of adjacent states As a general thing, the farmers of this valley, have lived for gene rations On the same fanuly home steads. Many of them are the di rect descendants of early American colonists, and are much attached to the land. The- continual depletion of their soil y by, rain washing has made it more and more difficult for them 'to eke out even a bare existence. It., is, the desire of the Federal Government to help these worthy citizens rhakc a higher Standard of living, with the ex penditure ; of - less labor than thev are able to do at present. rreumanary surveys male Recently C. B. Manifold has been making preliminary surveys and lo cating the best sites for large erosion demonstrations. Mr. Mani fold has been appointed Regional Director, of the entire Tennessee Valley work, ' and has located five demonstration arcas in" which ap proved methods of checking erosion will be put into -immediate execu tion. : He - is .still on . the ground working out definite plans of work. It has already been xdecided that these projects' will be established in the following states: One each in western , North ' Carolina northern Alabama, and one on the line be tween Kentucky and Tennessee, and two in the Tennessee Valley prop er. . ihe work to be undertaken here will be done in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Author ity, and the States directly interest ed, whose officials are enthusiastic ally in favor 'of this great under taking, and who have assumed re sponsibility for obtaining permis sion . from the land owners in the different districts for the soil eros ion forces to enter upon their property and put in their experi mental stations. " The Tennessee Valley is an em pire in itself. Much of it was set tled in the earliest times. Most of the land is of a sloping descrip tion, large part -having -a steep incline, which after the cutting of theTi!iibef""aiid"lhc)l6vitigofthe" land, permitted washing of thcsoil after every considerable rainfall. great deal of this land' never should have been denuded of itsti1ptv, n.,ij nftf 111fpr stand a trees. The natural result in num erous." instances has been that the impoverishment of the land owners has kept pace with the impoverish- such a large expanse of country, sMj-gCe Chlda-SOttee. different conditions of wash are When the federal government rounded up the Chero encountered in different localities es and was marching them to the far West the Indians within it. Much Land Exhausted Much of the land m the steep slopes already has been exhausted by erosion and no longer will re numerate its owners, for growing crops, yet the tillers of the sflil have held on to their holdings and lived upon them in the hope that sopc unforeseen turn might come to their fortunes. These, five demonstration stations mentioned . have been located fojr the purpose of carrying on experi mental work , in a big way. Each one of . them will average about 1,000 acres and the present purpose is to learn from them by accurate measurement just what the rainfall in each section is and how much of the rainfall runs off and how much soil this water carries with it under various forms of cropping. Then the loss under different types of grazing on the sloping land will be carefully recopded. The difference between land over grazed by livestock and that upon WniCIl n" Hinillilis .lie licnimiiu wi feed will be noted. Terrace, con - tour plowing and strip-cropping "".Cun-stav-gee, was.a plebeian. various slopes, and different -sys-- (Continued on page four) Council Seeks CWA Work Twenty -odd CWA workers were taken off of the project at the Franklin golf course Wednesday on instructions received in a telegram from CWA headquarters in Ral eigh, but the town council met in a, called . session Wednesday night and took action which it hopes will remove all objections to continuance of this project. In December a group of Frank lin business men organized the Franklin Recreational Company, Inc., and took oyer the golf course, assuming responsibility for all in debtedness against the ; property. This company then gave the town of Franklin a quit claim . deed to the property for 10 years, after the expiration of which the property W"i revert to tne ecreational com pany. The' town then obtained ap-J proval of a project to employ CWA workers in improving the golf CHEROKEE LORE By Margaret R. Siler Article III . , THE INDIAN LOVE CALL BETWEEN Muskrat Gap and-the Winding Stair nestles a small valley, protected on the East, North and West by sheltering mountains, and open' only to the warm winds from the South. Rushing down from the mountain to the North, Muskrat brook curves around one side of the valley. On the other side ripple the. clear waters of Cartoogechaye creek. Situated in this ideal spot was a Cherokee settlement, the last in Macon county, known to the white people as Sandtown, because, it is thought, the clay soil in that vi cinity contained a portion of sand. This sheltered little valley must have been the home of old Chief Santeetla, whose threats failed todeter : those young bloods, Siler and Britton, from settling on the banks of Cartoogecha'ye creek a few miles East. The brave pioneer, Jacob Siler, remained to make fast friendship with the Cherokee tribes that . peopled the re gion. Returning later to his home near what is now Ashe ville, he persuaded his brothers, William, Jesse and John, to come over the mountains with him and settle in this virgin country lavishly endowed by nature- with beauty, food and noble trees from which to build homes. The brothers erected dwellings within a" mile or so of each other, William Siler choosing for his site a sheltered nook near the point where Wayaii creek joins Cartoogechaye creek. For many, years he was the closest white neighbor cf the Sandtown Irrdians It was here that Albert Siler, my father-in-law, grew up. . - . The first conversation I had with Albert Siler about his old neighbors made me realize how deeply he was attached to them. He said they were like trustful children and were always loyal to their friends. ' . , The Cherokees, "Father" Siler told . me, were easily moved, although they didjiot always show it. He related how as a young man he ,would visit Sandtown on Sunday afternoons-and"read lhe Bible to the Indians. Frequentlyr he said, when he raised his eyes he saw that the faces of his listeners were streaming . . . Especially was this true Feckenvood, as they were Their Cherokee names were Were Ueatll Willi H HUUUlC ui'iciiucaocc. vno mgm ' and Cun-stay-gee and some of the other Sandtown Indians escaped 'and fled back to their old homes. From time to time they were Joined by others of their tribe, ragged, hun gry and 1 ootsore after their escape from the caravan being prodded Westward across the Mississippi. William Siler was so moved by' the plight of his old neighbors that he deeded back to them some of the land which they had been forced to leave under heart-breaking circumstances, that they might continue to live in the moun tains thev loved so well. -: -. - - ThP Tndians were deeDlv loved William Siler w,ith the devotion of an ardent Indian nature. When the latter died the b-jreaved Cherokee was his self-appointed chief mourner, following directly behind the hack whtch carried the body from the home on Cartooge chaye to the cemetery in Franklin. 1 This was; a journey, of eight miles and Chuta-sottee plodded through the mud, step by step, with his head solemnly bowed. I was surprised when "Father" Siler told me there were Mass distinctions among the Indians. He said Cha-cha . 1 UllUta-SOttee was an aristocrat aim ms wue, onie, m (Continued Continuance of ! on Golf Course course; ; and building "a. swimming pool, and leased the course back to the recreational company to operate oh a non-profit basis. State CWA headquarters tele graphed Wednesday, that civil works funds "could ho longer be used on the project unless the town operat ed the golf , course. The council met Wednesday hight an abro gated the lease to the recreational company, and appointed a commit tee to supervise operation of the course with the provision that no obligations were to be made against the town. Those named on the committee were R. D; Sisk, G. A. Jones,. C. T. Bryson, Steve. Porter, J, E. Perry and G. L. Houk. Efforts are now being made to obtain CWA approval of this ar rangement so work on the golf course and swimming pool, may continue. .... ... I J! with tears, aitnougn some 01 word he was readme to them. in the.cabin of Jim and Salleo known to; their white friends. Cha-cim Chutasotee and Cun- grateful. Chief Chuta-sottee , ' oll Despite this difference in on Page Two) - L SPECULATION 1 Dftl lTlPe f AIMS i ULiiiHJ umiw Hard-Fought Race Looms be tween Slagle and Moore' For Sheriff MURRAY W 0 N'T RUN Harley Cabe, E. W, Long and G. L. Crawford Mention ed for Clerk of Court Although not a single prospective candidate has formally announced his intention of participating in the forthcoming off-year primaries in this county, political speculation is gaiitlng momentum daily with prin cipal interest at this time centered in the likelihood of a hard-fought contest between A. B, Slagle and Alex Moore for the bemocratic nomination for sheriff. ' Mr.' Slagle, the incuisbent, has not said whether he will run for the office again; but there is little pr- nodoubt in thc public's mind that he will. It is also generally accepted that, Mr. Moore,' a form er sheriff, will be his opponent, al beit he has nor announced his can didacy. Whether there will be any other Democrats to seek this job remains to pe seen. The Clerkship Frank I. Murray, who has been clerk of court so long that many folks think the. title is part of his name, is not expected to seek re election. In fact, he has definitely stated he will not make the race. In stepping out of office, he is ex pected to bow to his assistant, Har ley Cabe; but there is every like lihood that Mr. Cabe will have plenty of opposition. Various dyes J seem to be cocked at the clerk's j0b, including,! street gossip has it those of Erwin W. Long, a member f the county board of commission ers. Gilmer L. Crawford also has been mentioned as a possible can d idate: ""T ' Commissionerships Begging Tliic wpnr flip rhairman nf the county commissioners will ue Elect ed by the people, instead of the ocrnimissioners themselves; but as yet no one seems to know who' will run cither for chairman or for the two commissionerships. These jobs are the most imiiwriarri on mc county ticket, because the commis sioners set the tax rate,' manage the county funds and determine most of the, county's policies; but the remuneration is smU and few. in dividuals seem to care to go to the trouble of making the race. Little wonder, for a commissioncrship is a thankless job unless someone has an axe to grind on intends to use the position as a stepping stone to something better. This, evidently, has been impressed by. experience on the present commissioners, for it is said that none of them will seek reelection. ' F.vcrv indication is that R. A Patton will run again for senator ffotmhisvdistirct and Oaude-Rajn sey said in his political column in the Ashcvillc Citizen-Times several wecks-agothaLJlBjDhdid not ex-, pect any opposition. That, how ever, remains to be seen. Rogers Non-Committal . Dr. W. A. Rogers, who has serv ed during five sessions of the legis lature at varions times, is widely mentioned again as a prospective candidate for representative. The veteran physician and legislator, however, is non-committal. It's true he likes the legislative fra ternityfor a while, .at least; but the last time he was representative, in 1931, he got "a belly full," so to speak, for the legislature remained in session until summertime, ' al though the members ' received pay for, only sixty days. If Di". Rogers thought the next session would quit on time, he ' probably would be tickled to death to be elected rep resentative again: 'but if he thinks the boys will keep -him in Raleigh six months, it'll take all the oxen in Macon county to drag him down there ' ' R. S. Tones, Franklin attorney, is being urged. by some of his friends to make the race for representa tive; but "Dick" is following j nlii-y of modest reticence. Jones for Solicitor? There is nlso talk of Gilmer (Continued on page four) RUMORS FOUND FALSE Rumors of heavy fighting along the Austro-German border Monday caused considerable alarm, but when traced down they were found to be false, or at least grossly ex aggerated. One Nazi had been wounded and 'another captured in a skirmish with a border patrol. RED CROSS TO ELECT OFFICERS MARCH 9 A meeting of the Macon coun ty chapter of the American Red Cross has been called for 3 o'clock, Friday afternoon, March 9, in the courthouse, for the purpose of electing officer for the ensuing year. Call for the meeting was made Wednesday by J. E. Lancaster, county chair man of the Red Cross. ' BRUIilI.llTT SEEN AS CANDIDATE attorney General Expected To Seek Governorship Next Time RALEIGH Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt has not an nounced his candidacy for gover nor by categorical statement that he means to run, but voters will have no .doubt about his purpose and none about his platform after reading the extracts from his ad dress recently at: an educational rally, in Kinston. The attorney general gives dm brief ear to the recent suggestions of Diistrict Attorney James Os borne Cafr, who, in a recent news paper article thought it would be neither "unwise or unjust to the public, if the entire school system were supported as the road system, and that is, to be paid for by those who use them, and in pro portion to one's ability to pay. He who spends most pays most sales tax, and at the same time each contributes his mite for the edu- cation of his children just as lie does for the roads, he uses, ine attorney general dissents sharply from the Carr doctrine that, "abil ity to pay is measured by pur chases and that it would be proper to support the schools wholly by sales tax." 1 Would Aid Schools The speaker contended that the schools which have incurred but 14.2 per cent of the state debt as against Ihe 85.8 per "cent for other purpose are being made to bear much morel than their share of the cuts " The schools of 1929-1930 cost $28,500,000 and for 4932-1933 they cost $24,000,000. The-state has. put up for this present school year $16,000,000 to whih is added an ex pectancy of $1,000,000 from fines and forfeitures in the courts. Mr. Brummitt argues - that the schools have taken too much. He reminds the state that it ranks low, around 40. .in national position in educa tion. Would Tax Wealth The school people now have a champion, two in fact, for former Lieutenant Governor R. T. Foun tain is preaching the same gospel. They do not hop on the sales tax band wagon. They are slow to swing it as it breezes by. Instead of that Mr. Brummitt says: , "1 i'ioposethatwctax wealth."He declares himself in line with Mr. Roosevelt. "By this I mean great wealth great profits," he continues. The "Roosevelt "programrMrr Brnm-4 mitt tells the Kinstonians, mean "a further distribution of purchas ing power." The gentlemen who are thinking of a race for governor, or for any other office in the state now know here is one candidate who is going to tax wealth and give the teach ers a better chance. , TWO MEETINGS OF YOUNG DEMOCRATS CALLED Two meetings of community branches of the Young1 People s Democratic club of Macon county are scheduled to be held this week. Music is to be furnished at each meeting by the Young Democratic string band. A meeting is scheduled to be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Cowce schoolhouse. A meeting for reorganization of the Oak Grove club has been called for 7:30 o'clock Saturday night in the Oak Grove schoolhouse. 2 BADLY BURNED WHEN FIRE DESTROYS HOME Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keener, of Gneiss, are recovering at the Angel hospital from burns suffered when their home wa destroyed by fire Friday night. Two of their three children also received slight burns The fire is supposed to have been caused by a defective flue about midnight. . Two of the children were carried outdoors by Mr, Keener. When he went into the house to bring out the third child he was badly burned. HOPE SEEN FOR WAR MEMORIAL Legion Delegation Encour aged after Visiting State -CWA Director . PLANS ARE SUBMITTED Two-Story Brick Building With Large Auditorium Proposed. Prospects are encouraging for ob taining assistance from the Civil Works Administration for the con struction of a community center in Franklin as a memorial to the Ma con county men who served under the colors during the World Wart according to Mrs. Lassie Kelly Cunningham. Mrs. Cunningham, adjutant of the recently reorganized Macon county post of the .American Legion, was a member of a delegation which went to Raleigh last Thursday to seek the approval of Mrs. Thomas O'Herry,-state CWA director, for the memorial project. Other mem bers of the delegation were the Rev. J. A. Flanagan, legion com- mander, and Mrs. Hattie Slagle, who was a .member of the com mittee which raised a memorial fund of $1,005 in 1919. This fund, which was invested in Building and Loan, now amounts to more than $1,600. Plans Submitted While Mrs. O'Berry did not com mit herself, 'Mrs. Cunningham re ported, she said she would do all she could to make undertaking of the memorial project possible. At her request, detailed plans and specifications ,for the community center were, forwarded to state CWA headquarters Monday. The plans, calling for a two-story brick structure with an auditorium on the main floor and space for a public : library, assembly hall, kitchen and heating plant on the other floor, were drawn by Zeb Conley and J. E. Lancaster. Mr. Lancaster and Mr. Conley estimated the " building would cost approx iniately $1 0,000". Th e "Ameri can Legion and the War Memorial " committee propose to put up $1,000 and want the CWA to supply the balance needed in the form of la- bor and. materials. . .' ., , . .. . ,.1 " Site Assured The legion has obtained assur ances from members of the tounty. board of commissioners that they t would supply a site for the memor ial on the vacant lot between the "' home of Steve Porter and the . Methodist church on Harrison ave nue. FUNERAL HELD FOR MISS ARTIE BRADLEY ' Miiss Artie Bradley, 61, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Carey ' Hall, on Oak Grove Saturday night at 8 o clock after an illness of tw weeks from pneumonia. Funeral services were held at the Oak Grove Baptist church Monday morning at 10:30 with the Rev. A. S. Solesbee officiating. : M iss Bradley was - formerly a school teacher. She had been a- member of the Oak Grove Baptist church since her girlhood. ' The deceased is survived by three sisters", Mrs. Carey Hall, of Etna, Mrs. Robert Breedlove and Miss Alvia Bradley, of Needmore; and three brothers, J. P. Bradley, W. W. Bradley and Early Bradley, all of Etna. MICA CODE BECOMES EFFECTIVE MONDAY A code for the mica industry has been signed by President Roose velt and is to become effective Monday. It will affect upwards of HX) men engaged in various branch es of this industry in Macon coun ty. The mica code calls for a maxi mum 40-hour week and minimum wages for common labor in min ing processes of 25 cents an hour. Minimum wages provided for grind- ing plants are slightly higher. TWO PHYSICIANS GIVEN HEARING IN AFFRAY CASE Dr. C. Z. Candler and Dr. A. A. Nichols,, two of Jackson county's most prominent citizens, who were in an jalleged affray April 25, 1933, in which Dr. Nichols was shot, en-. tered a plea of nolo contendere in court at Sylva last Thursday. Pray er for judgment was continued with each of the defendants paying one half ol the costs. They fare to appear at the May term of court and abide the further orders and I judgment, of the court