THE SYLVA HERALD
Published By
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sylva, North Carolina
The County Seat of Jackson County
J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as
Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the
Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
?
One Year. In Jackson County < $2.00
Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25
One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.^0
Six Months, Outside Jackson County 1.50
All Subscriptions Payable In Advance
? 1 cam
/ PC ESS ASSOC 1M OS
And he <*.id unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye
seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is
risen; he is not here: Behold the place where they
laid him. Mark 16:6.
LET S COMPLETE THE JOB
^ The current drive for Red Cross funds
in Jackson county is lagging dismally . . .
something that has not happend before
. . . and should not happen now.' The
need for Red Cross work is just about as
great as it was during the war. The or
ganization is still helping many veterans
their families, men in service, and an
swering the call for help from many oth
er sources. Jackson's quota isn't large
this year, only $2,118 and should be \vell
over-subscribed. Let's get behind Chair
man Dills and his co-workers and put the
drive over in the-usual Jackson county
manner of more than meeting our quota.
BUY EASTER SEALS
Those bright little Easter seals are now
on sale in Jackson county and everyone
is urged to buy as many as possible as the
funds derived from the annual seal sales
is for a most worthy cause, that of help
ing restore strength and usefulness to
the weak and useless limbs of little chil
dren.
This is the 12th year the North Caro
lina League for Crippled Children has
held the seal sales which is always at
the Easter season. This year the cam
paign is from March 6 through April 6.
Jackson county is late getting started
and Dr. Harold McGurie, county chair
man, urges everyone to respond imme
diately in order to complete the drive by
April 6.
Some of the many uses this money is
put to is: Medical care, artificial aids,
transportation, education, financial as
sistance, prevention, and other services.
Fifty per cent of the local sales money
remains in Jackson county for work in
the local crippled children's clinic.
When you buy a seal, think of the hap
piness it may bring to some unfortunate
^-then buy more.
WHERE DOES OUR TIMBER GO?
The nation is looking to the South
to continue producing one half and more
of the local pulp wood consumed in the
United States. In 1944 this amounted to
nearly 7 1-2 million cords and in 1946
easily 8 million cords.
A lot of wood; yet, but only 9 per cent
of the total drain on living timber in the
South, according to information by H? J.
MaLsberger, Forester, Southern Pulp
wood Conservation Association. This sur
prises many people because they think
?the- puip and paper industry is responsi
ble for a majority of the wood cut from
our forests.
Lumber, a forest product
dous importance to our economy, uses 44
per cent. Fuelwood, which never makes
the headlines as an essential commodity,
causes a drain of 18 per cent. This is usual
ly cut from about the same size and quali
ty timber as pulpwood and consumes
twice as much.
The people in the United States are the
largest consumers of paper products in
the world, averaging over 300 pounds per
person per year. Trees are cut for pulp
wood and converted into paper products
to meet this demand.
? Wood is the base for all this. The pulp
wood industry could draw its annual sup
ply of wood each year and every year
thereafter from 20 to 25 million acres of
Southern forests, as a conservative es
timate, if those acres were well stocked,
timber properly cut, and adequately pro
tected from fire. There are about 167 mil
lion acres of forest land in private owner
ship in this territory.
Look at the fire record as depicted in
the leaflet?"Where Does Our Timber
Go?"?prepared and distributed by the
Southern Pulpwood Conservation Asso
ciation in the interest of growing and
protecting our forest resource. Fifty per
cent more wood lost by fire, insects, dis
ease, etc. than, as an example, is con
sumed by the entire pulp and paper in
dustry in the South in one year. Such loss
to the forest and to the public in usable
products m&de from wood has been go
ing on for years. The public is responsi
ble for nine out of ten forest fires. A job
needs to be done to stop the fires it' we
are to have growing crops of trees and if
people are to have available the needed
aFtieles-mack*- f- &
WHAT TO DO ABOUT CRIME?
Crime in 1946, says J. Edgar Hoover,
chief of the FBI, hit a ten-year peak. That
means it came much too near the all-time
high. How are Americans going to react
to this news?
There are thret? typical responses to
such a crisis?for crisis it is. All three are
wrong; all three are futile.
There is the -hand-folding reaction
("Oh, well, this will pass; let's get back
to normal business.")
There is the, huhd^vringirig reaction
("What can we da? The problem is so
vast. Where can we take hold of it?")
And there is the get-tough reaction
("Jail 'em all; treat 'em rough: parole no
body; hang the worst.'')
Vast and complex as it unquestionably
is, the problem of crime breaks down into
three understandable parts. Each can be
attacked by methods already well-devel
oped. Crime can at least be diminished
in human society.
The first part is negative; but it is thp
first essential. It is the problem of securi
ty and control. Police can be on guard.
Known criminals can be watched. Most
offenders can be apprehended. They can
be securely locked up, and the repeaters
kept out of circulation. Why isn't this be
ing done effectively? Mr. Hoover gives
one reason: Law enforcement agencies
still do not have adequate trained per
sonnel.
The second part of the problem is that
of reform. And the question and answers
are somewhat the same. Prisons are over
crowded and understaffed. Parole offi
cers have too many parolees to look after.
The third aspect is that of prevention.
Mr. Hoover gives two pertinent reasons
for the current rise in crime: The social
dislocations and disorganizations of war
have not yet run their course. And "the1
gradual breakdown'' of the American
home is being reflected in national be
havior.
Here the vastness and complexity of
the problem do seem appalling. But every
citizen can make some small contribu
tion toward a national answer: Anything
that builds up neighborliness, anything
that steadies the home and family ties,
whatever helps to stabilize the means of
livelihood, all that lessens fear, cancels
cynicism, and offers hope?all these fight
crime where it starts.
Anyone who will can get into this fight,,
just in his daily life.
THE KITCHEN, an editorial on acci
dent prevention tells us, is the most dan
gerous room in the house. It sure is when
a new bride is let loose in one.
In Russia, hockey is played under Ca
nadian rules. Hey, Comrade?this would
not be an insidious infiltration of the Ca
nadian way-of-life,huh?
?
Japan has just had a ''moderate" earth-^
quake, we read. Just trying one on for
size-? ? 1
Blizzards covered the shamrocks of Ire
land with snow on St. Patrick's Day, ac
cording to a cabled dispatch. Shure, and
we'd hated to have been a weather fore
caster allergic to the shillelah!
Both sides claimed victory in the Para
guay revolution. Does this mean we now
will have two Paraguay, Upper and Low
Cave men's worries were similar to
ours, says an anthropologist. Oh, no, j
they weren't?in their case saber-tooth
ed tiger instead of the First of the Month.
Solid color ties in subdued tones will
soon replace the^ garish wall-paper type
of chavats prevailing now, says a style
authority. However, we'll still get the
other kind, come Christmas.
"JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY"
ltwhto COT
Since"a*bomb
ril~o,
v
sesM
\ij wm *fJtocrm
$ k"m
%e
:/.! -r
Tlio Kvcrvilav CoiniNcUor
ms t
3y REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
I " *"
.I look out ol my >tudy w.n
v I .-ty a picture which is pre
jv * i;:<4 to unfold. itself. It happens
every year about this time, and 1
? i.'ve become accustomed to look
|l'?i \v;ird to it with a g\;ei t expec
| t;.tion. There are three pear trees
Jl 'here which usually come into
b! s.-om at Easter time. In my? mind
I c; 11 Uicm the Easter troes.
Although the dates" of' Easter
'> -? iy liom year to year, yet these
; trees seem to - follow its move
ments. As I write this now, some
d; ys before Easter, they are just
commencing to bud. It looks as if
they are again keeping up with
the Church Calendar. The secular
a ler.dar they seem to ignore.
Even though I have seen this
happen many years, yet it never
loses its fascination for me. How
I will regret the time when a
building will cut tne view of these
trees off from me.
To me they are God's demon
stration in nature of the message
of Easter?out of the old comes the
new.
Those who have never been
called upon to stand by the grave
side of some dear one will not be
much interested in this, but those
who have had that experience
ought to be tremendously inter
ested.
Many battles have been fought
in world history, and many vic
tories have been won, but none
have ever eclipsed or surpassed
the battle fought on Calvary's Hill,
and the victory won in Joseph's
LOOKING BACKWARD
From the Files of The Ruralite
of 15 years ago
On last Friday evening Cullo
whee won in the triangular Rebate.
Hayesville and Robbinsville were
the other schools making up the
triangle, but Robbinsville with
drew. The debaters . were Doris
Brown and David H. Brown, for
tiie affirmative and Kate Stillwell
and Awyer Tilley for the nega
tive.
? Mrs. W. C. Reed was appointed
chairman of the Jackson County
council of the Parent Teacher as
sociation. She will be glad to assist
m organizing new P.T.A. groups
in the county.
- The new Ford V-8 went on dis
play Thursday. With a brake horse
power of 65. the car js described
as being capable of making 75
miles an hour.
The Harris Community hospital
received $J,196 from the Duke En
dowment fund in the allocation of
$681,230 to 92 hospitals and 45
children's homes and child plan
ning agencies in the two Carolinas.
Nineteen wildcats have been slain
this season on Moses Creek. These
crafty animals have led the hunters
and their dogs through some thrill
ing experiences in accomplishing
these feats.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Stroupe of
Asheville spent Friday here with
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
P. Potts. ???
Mrs. Jess Parker and daughter,
Dessie, returned todr- sit
to relatives in Carrb - '
The be.-:t safety . idling
lis s to handle i- .ittk as
says n? ' ' v n,T',
r v sricultrr -^ering
i>x)v , State
I
Garden, which enables Christians
to joyfully exclaim: "Thanks be
unto God who giveth us the vic
tory through our Lord Jesus
Christ!"
I ??
i The age old question. "If a man
u t\ shall he'live again," will not
he put out of men's hearts. Each
generation finds it anew hammer -
| ing at the doors.
Easter morning is Resurrection
Morning. It brings each year to a
weary apd questioning world new
faith and new hope., .
The Divine plan provided that
this commemoration should fall in
a "season of the year when all na
ture joins with man in prpclaim
I ing, "Now is Christ risen from the
dead, and become the first-fruits
of them that slept."
That's the message my Easter J
trees are even now preparing to
send out, and that's thte message
of each recurring Easter.
Home Freezer
o Now on display at
SOSSAMON FURNITURE STORE
Filled With Frozen Foods ? Sample Our Selection
You van do so many
farm jobs with the
IJiMVEBSAL - | -
Jeep'
i
i
That's Why It's a Paying Investment
I
a
Most all-around useful vehicle that ever went
to work on a farm?that's the Universal "Jeep."
And thousands of "Jeeps" are at work on farms
now, earning their keep many times over by
spreading their cost over all kinds of jobs the
year 'round.
I
When there's a hauling or towing job, the
"Jeep" will do it. When there's field work need
ed, the "Jeep" serves as a light tractor. Its pow- ?
er take-off operates belt and shaft-drive farm
equipment. -
The "Jeep" has proved its value as a versa
I ?
tile farm vehicle. See it now at Willys-Overland
* - % ? i
dealers. ^
Fulmer Motor Co.
Cullowhee Road ? Phone 212
BENBAR
HOME FREEZER
ARE SAFER FOODS
? No need to run short of meat,
fresh fruits, or vegetables . . . store
them in one of our modern new food
freezers now available and keep your
foods fresh and ready for use when
you want them. <
COOL, FRESH WATER ON TORRID DAYS . . . PLAN
NOW TO HAVE COOL WATER FOR THOSE HOT SUM
MER MONTHS JUST AHEAD?WITH ONE OF OUR
MODERN ELECTRIC WATER COOLERS NOW AVAIL
"XBEETOK""COMMERCIAL AND HOME USE.
Also . . . BEV-FOOD, the combination Beverage Cooler and Food
See Each of These Now On Display At Our Store
wet storage.
BUCHANAN . ..
Auto and Electric
"We Service What We Sell"
ft
any
Telephone 53-W
Sylva, N. C.