THE.SYLVA HERALD
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Sylva, North Carolina
The County Seat of Jackion County
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of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914.
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WORTH RECOGNITION
The railroads are criticized for things
they do or do not do. They serve so many
people that it is impossible to please ten
thousand and one different tastes and
ideas. But they do their best, and the
American people-have superlative rail
transportation.
The recent ending of furlough fares
brings to mind an act of the railroads
which deserves recognition?namely, be
ginning seven months before Pearl Har
bor and extending sixteen and one-half
months after V-J Day, or sixty-nine
months, approximately two hundred mil
lion furlough tickets were sold to men
and women of the Armed Services at the
special reduced rate of one and one-quar
ter cents per mile. It is estimated that
this resulted in savings to service men
and women of approximately $440,000.
000. This is a lot of money?even in these
multibillion-dollar days!
UNLIMITED MARKET
Trucks pulling huge gasoline tanker's
haul thousands of dollars worth of raw
milk into Western North Carolina from
the IMg dairy farms of Minnesota each
year, milk that should be produced right
here on our own farms, which would put
these thousands of dollars in North Caro
lina pockets to be spent in our own stores
and shops, instead of lining the pockets
of the Northern farmer. These facts were
presented 150 Jackson county citizens at
the courthouse last Friday night by a rep
resentative of Purina, iced mills and
County Agent Snipes.
Dairy specialists have long consideroth
North Carolina ideal tor profitable milk
production. This is made so by the mild
climate, fertile soil, and long growing
season for crops and grazing. The South
ern farmer can maintain his cow at high
production at much le^s cost than the
farmer in Minnesota where the winters
are revere. In the face of all this the
Northern fanner is producing milk and
selling it at a profit to dairymen in North
Carolina, who in turn retail it to the con
sumer., V
This is a wide open field for unlimited
market for milk and milk products. Not
only here in Western North Carolina but
over the line in Georgia and Florida.
They, Lke we, are buying milk from Min
nesota?why not produce enough for our
own use and .some to sell our neighbors?
52-20 CLUB
At present-only a small minority of
world war veterans drawing jobless
benefits of $20 weekly are abusing the
privilege, says Nathan Semmel, New
York state department of labor inter
viewer, in an article in this weeks' Satur
day Evening Post.
. ''Since the war," says Mr. Semmel, ''the
ptibllC hcl? bt?un wull-iiifui niud abuui
these gold bricks, but it has heard far
less of the earnest, honest men, making
their way back with the help of the '52-20
club.' Although most of our veterans seek
jobs earnestly, the conniving of this small
minority has already cast doubts on the
others. It was they wrho first dubbed us
4the club' and aroused the public's anger
So. it seems that the peak of the 52-20
club i^ over, and only a recession in busi
ness will send the veterans back to the
'club.' '
Last September 1,300,000 veterans
were enrolled nationally for the $20 al
lowance; now there are less than 1,000,
000, and the number is dropping daily. "
; In discussing the 52-20 club, we must
consider the fact that .after the war the
government settled 14<000,000 veterans
?? in civilian life and did it faster than such
a job has ever been done. In such a multi
tude you will always find a few gold
bricks; they were chislers before enter
ing the service and they continued to
Inside Washington
Special to Central Preaa
WASHINGTON?Do not look for -a
prolonged meeting of the Big Four for
eign ministers' conference in Moscow.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall
plans that it will last no more than six
weeks, and then only if there seems to
be some chance of getting together on
fundamental principals?something that
outsiders doubts
Despite the seeming softening of Rus
sia on some subjects, such as United
ship over the Pacific islands won by
American blood, it is doubted that there
will be any great concessions from Mos
cow.
This seems to be particularly the case
on the questions of Germany's future
boundaries with Poland and on . Ger
many's future.
Marshall probably will make some
concessions but will not yield on funda
mental principals. It is now hoped that
within six weeks the Big Four at least
will agree on these and then the deputies
will go to work drafting the formal .peace
treaty.
How long this will take is purely a mat
ter of guesswork.
Thereafter, it is planned to hold a new
meeting with the outside powers having
a further hearing. This may take months
and only . afterward will the Big Four
meet-again, probably in Paris, London
or Washington.
Only then, it is believed, will the major
powers begin to discuss the Japanese
treaty, which most observers believe
should have been put ahead of the Ger
man treaty since Japan has a going gov
ernment?Germany none.
The income tax law is the great leveler.
It respects neither the big nor the little?
not even the big brass. All this Gen.
Lhvight Eisenhower recently found out.
The Army chief of staff went up to
Lafayette college in Pennsylvania to
make a speech and get a degree. After
receiving his laurels and delivering his
message, the president of the college told
the five-star general that Lafayette had a
little custom. He said:
"We always give a $500 check as an
honorarium to our speaker. Here is your,
check, general."
"ike," in his usual bashful manner, ex
gained that he couldn't accept it. He
said he came to the college as head of the
Army, was speaking for the Army, was
a servant of the people and could not ac
cept such gifts.
"But it is our custom?our regulaion,"
1 be bewildered college prexy insisted.
The general was just as insistent. It ap
peared an impasse had come about. Then
' Ike" had an idea. He asked:
"Don't you have college funds, for this
or that, whpre the money could be used
to good purpose?" The^answer was yes,
Lafayette did. Whereupon Eisenhower
endorsed the check and turned it over to
the fund.
Came the day when the income tax
had to be made out. For some reason, the
general used the "short long" form. In so
doing he paid a tax to Uncle Sam on the
$500 he held in his possession just long
enough to sign his name.
There is a compact-and-lipstick brigade
among Capitol Hill lobbyists. Forty-one
women are among the 496 registered lob
byists.
The highest paid, the record shows, is
Margaret Taylor of the National Co-Oper
ative Milk Producers association. She
gets $7,000. The average salary of the fe
male lobbyists is $.5,.:>uuf ?
Male lobbyists do better salary-wise.
One gets $65,000, and few are under $5,
000.
The lobbyists represent varied inter
ests. A man and a woman promote the
interests of the International Apple as
sociation. Thirty work for the Townsend
pension plan. One man gets $4,500 for
looking after interests of the Klamath In
dians of Oregon. Others represent, almost
literally, ''butchers and bakers and can
dlestick makers."
chisel while in the service and after they
were demobilized. It was almost impos
sible for the government to investigate
each claimant thoroughly: to have done
so would require a tremendous investi
gative army.
As Mr. Semmel pointed out, the vet
erans have come baelr forthright or
conniving, as industrious or gold brick
ing, as when Vr.vy went p way .?Charlotte
Observer.
THE IDES OF MARCH
Tlnk Everyday Counsellor
3y REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
Why learn everything the hard 1
way. v.,jn there i? an easier one.
Many >.y that the school of hard
knocks i?. the best, but it is cer
tainly the m >st expensive. Tno
earlier man learns that the bet
ter. The sooner he learns that I
this world and his personal afl'a.'ri
.re governed by divine law, the
/ewer hard kni cks he is going to
have.
i The rising rate of juvenile de
linquency is an indication of the
increasing ignorance among our
v y?.ns people of those fundamental
iuws oi God wkieh must be recog
nized. The law oi cause and effect
is just as certain as the law of |
gravity. The Bible put it, "What
soever n man seweth, that shall he
i l.-o re; p." There i?= the law of
r.ght and wrong. It. is summed up
in the Ten Commandments. Men
do not successfully break the Ten
Commandments; instead they are
.broken by them. There is a law
of property right included in the
Ten Commandments ? the law
against theft, adultery, murder.
When we take that which belongs
to others, we inevitably suffer.
Fortunate is the boy or girl who
learns early in life how to find
God's will for his daily life through
prayqr. God has a plan for his life,
just as He has a plan by which the
earth rotates on its axis, producing
Court Of Honor Held
For Colored Troop No. 9
A court of honor for Negro troop
No. 9, Boy Scouts of America, was
held on Sunday evening at 7:30
o'clock at Liberty Hill Baptist
Church. Rev. Joe Smith gave the
invocation. H. Gibson, chairman of
the interracial committee, made a
short talk and presented H. E.
Monteith, chairman of the ad
vancement committee of the Smokj^.
Mountain district, who presided.
Eleven boys received the Ten
derfoot investiture. Their badges
were presented by W. C. Wall,
Field Scout executive. John F.
Corbin gave the second class
awards to the boys.
Jack Bryson and Major Welis
were advanced to Star rank and
their awards were given by Rev.
Kennedy, colored scout leader of
Asheville.
H. Gibson gave merit badges to
five boys, who had completed work
to entitle them to this recognition.
it, Others taking part on the pro
V;Vhr \V r T lannn^.-on ^hnira j
man of the Smoky Mountain dis- :
trict, and Dr. White, another col- j
ored leader from Asheville, who
recognized the old timers in scout- |
ing.
Too Late For Classification
FOR SALE?Pansy Plants at Sl.OOj
per dozen. See Ben Queen. Svlva,'
X. C. "" 43
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1 F( )R RENT?House in Sylva. Call
I Phone 211W. 43
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FOR SALE?Good logging skid
der and log loader combined,
iperated with a friction drum, 1,
1.000. feet of new 5-8 crble. first class
condition. Good Chevrolet motor.
See Ray Bumgarner, Glenville,
N. C. 43-44*
LOST ? On Friday, March 7 at
Cullowhee a medium sized blue
heckled hound with a scar on
'eft hip and nose. Answers to the
rame of Ben. Reward. D. C. Cot
ter, CuUowhee,#N. C. 43*
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day and night. The boy or girl who
starts out in life trying to follow
i is own desires without regarding
the-law of God and the rights o?
others,'soon finds himself in trou
ble, sometimes serious trouble.
YVe can't live successfully with
out God. God has made it possible
for us to learn His plan of living
?and His plan for dying. He gave
us the Bible and the Church to
teach us. Yet an increasing num- j
ber treat religion as a kind of op
tional luxury. They are ''too busy" -
to do any Bible study, "tbo tired"
to go to church and take their
children to Sunday school. Yet the
day inevitably comes when they
will need those things which the
Bible and the Church teach. They
will run afoul of the police. They
will need character reference for
employment or a character witness ,
in court. Then they call on the
Church and the minister wtyose
services they have treated so o&re- !
lessly in the past. I have sefe*v-it
happen time after time.
Why wait until you get into a
jam to call on God? Why wait un
til you have to be driven to your
knees? Why take the hard knocks
when you don't have to? The Bible
pleads, "Remember now thy cre
ator in the days of thy youth."
The most important event in the
life of a boy or a girl is when he
learns to know his Lord.
Margaret Queen, ^Sylva High
school girl, tied with Josephine
Perry, of the Mills River High
school, for first place in the State
wide French contest for North
Carolina high schools, conducted
Jay ,the French department of the
extension division of the Univer
sity of North Carolina and partici
pated in by 953 students from 75
schools.
In the state-wide stewardship
contest sponsored by the Baptist
Missionary Union, held in Greens
boro recently, little Miss Carolyn
Slillwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
E. H. Stillwell and member of the
Junior Girls auxiliary of the Cullo
whee Baptist church, was the suc
cessful contestant for the prize of
fered to the junior girls. She was
given a cash award.
A collection of Easter bunnies
junt to?Mil1 Pitabyiegian ?f?
phanage by the Presbyterian Sun- i
day School class at Western Caro- '
Una Teachers College.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wilson left
"Sunday to spend a few days in
Bedford, Va. with their daughter,
Mrs. R. L. Overstreet, and family.
Misses Mary Allison, Thelma i
Fanchcr, and Carrie Jo Lewis spent
Easter in Newport, Tenn., guests
erf Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Faneher.
Misses Mattie Cogdill and Phyl
lis McCulley were here last week
fi'om Asheville spending several
days with their parents.
William McKee^oTthe University
of North Carolina spent the spring ;
holidays with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. McKee.
Dr. V. P. Perry of Kinston,;
owner of a farm on the Lenoir
Jones county line, has built a plant *
thr.t will treat from 800 to .1,000
fence posts a day with a combina
tion creosote-oil preservative.
LOOKING BACKWARD
From the Files of The RuraIKe
of 15 years ago
Funeral For Glenda
June Woods Held
Funeral services for Glenda
June Woods, two years and nine
months old daughter of ft^r. and
Mrs. Ingle Woods of Sylva will be
held this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock
at the Wilkesdale Baptist church.
Burial will be in Keener cemetery.
The child vhad not been sick until
she was taken suddenly ill and died
a short time after at the home of
her parents in Rhodgstown.
She is survived by her parents
and two sisters, Ileeri Gail and Ar
quilla Ruth. '
of the funeral arrangements.
Funeral For
Mrs. Burge Friday
Mrs. Betsy Archer Juanita
Burge, .31 years of age, a former
resident of the Cherokee Indian
reservation/died Sunday morning
at 2 o'clock in a hospital in Pasca
goula, Miss., as a result of injuries
sustained in an automobile acci
dent Saturday afternoon.
Her body was brought here
Wednesday by the Funeral Home
in Pascagoula. Funeral services
will be held Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock at Cherokee, with Moody
Funeral Home in charge.
The deceased was first married
to Austin Juanita and he was killed
w' 'W'en'kl Wai"'4I. ""Otar tafcaomwup ?
ried Mr. Burge.
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