THE SYLVA HERALD
Published By
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sylva, North Carolina
The County Seat of Jackson County
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.
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CONGRATULATIONS, SENIORS!
We extend congratulations arid best
wishes to the large group of young men
and women who are about to complete
their high school work from the four
Jackson county high schools and who will
receive their diplomas next week, indi
cative of the fact that they have success
fully passed the required work for gradu
ation from high school.
Graduation has been spoken of as, "the
. golden prelude to a richer career in real
life out in a friendly world." This, it is
our .hope, will be the experience of each
of these young/men and women. To you
graduation is a cutting loose from the
youth of life; a taking hold of things of the
future. It is what you take hold of, young
men and women, that determines the
course you travel. It is truly within your
power to live a beautiful life?a life rich
in virtue, hope, love, enthusiasm, friends
?all to'end in a perfect day.
May it be your desire, your will, and
your accomplishment to "Seek ye first
the kingdom of God, and all these things
shall be added unto you."
J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD
Publishers
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"YOU BET YOUR LIFE"
Forty-million automobile drivers, softie
good and some bad.
140,000,000 pedestrians, including the
very young, the very old, the lame, the
halt and the blind.
34,000,000 autoifiobiles, some -new,
some old, and many ready to fall apart.
3,000,000 miles of highways, with
many a hazard in every mile.
Add all these together and you ha>ve
America's traffic lottery, a complex game
of life and death in which each one of us,
willing or not, must have a hand.
Last year 33,900 were killed and more
than 1,300,000 injured in U. S. street and
highway accidents. It was a year in which
most of us did not yet have that new car
and those new tires with which to drive
as frequently, or as fast, or as far as we
might have liked. But the casualties were
heavier than in any y^ar since 1941.
Why?
Most of the 1946 dead and injured were
killed or hurt because they took a chance.
They didn't pause to consider the risk be
cause* they didn't expect to lose. They
DID lose.
1947 AS SEEN BY 4047
The current much-publicized English
historian, Albert J. Toynbee, recently
lecturing at Bryn Mawr college, ventured
some prophecies, based on the last 6,000
years, as to hpw the present era will look
. to historians of 4047. Our age, he believes,
will appear as having accomplished the
first real step in unification of mankind,
which to those future men will be. a con
dition taken for granted. They will be
concerned with this unity as expressed
iareligida r
Apparently Toynbee believes a kind of"
world religion is developing now from the
interaction and impact of what he calls
the four higher religions with world-wide
' missions existing today: Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam and Far Eastern Bud
dhism. On this composite group the Eng
lishman foresees Jesus of Nazareth and
His teaching in 4047 as still "important to
mankind."
While these lQng looks into the future/
may offer no practical aids for todays
complexities, such jwmental exercise
gives man a sense of perspective. The
present, and his part in it, become merely
an episdde in the long stream of civiliza
* tion. There is hope and inspiration in this
philosopher-historian's sweeping glance
backward and forward at man s strug-?
gles x>n our earth.?Reidsville Review.
Roman soldiers carried a sponge with
ttiem for use as a drinking vessel.
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Inside Washington
^ ^ Special to Central Press
WASHINGTON ? Latest speculative
possibility as a vice presidential nominee,
to be run by the Democrats on their Tru
man ticket in 1948, is Gen. Carl Spaatz,
chief of the Army Air Forces.
The rumor got started at the annual
Jefferson Day dinner at Washington's
Mayflower' hotel where 2,000 loyal and
well-heeled Democrats paid $100 apiece
to dine and hear the president speak.
Spaatz and Mr. Truman did not sit far
anart. and during the course of the eve
ning they frequently conversed. This led
to the behind-the scenes speculation
among correspondents and amateur po
liticos that the Democrats could do a lot
worse than name Spaatz as Truman's
running mate if they want to carry Penn
sylvania next year. '
The general is the first military man
to be discussed as a vtee presidential nom
inee in a wide-open race, which probably
will not be decided until the Chicago con
vention.
Others are Navy Secretary James For
restal, War Secretary Robert Patterson,
Commerce Secretary W. Averill Harri
man and Interior Secretary J. A. Krug?
the latter before he was raked by the big
verbal guns of John L. Lewis in connec
tion with the Centralia, 111., mine disaster.
Political observers are wondering just
how secure the reportedly high-powered
organization of Senator Robert Taft *(R),
Ohio, really is, and whether it will be
able to deliver the goods when the GOP
national convention l$ieets next year.
Capitor Hill observers, keeping a chart
on the Ohioan's activities' since Jan. 3,
have come up with some facts indicating
that his grip on the Senate already ap
pears to be loosening.
They say he got the worst of a compro
mise on national debt reduction with
Senator William F. Rnowland (R), Cali
forniara Senate freshman. On the recip
rocal trade agreements, Senators Arthur
Vandenberg of Michigan and Eugene D.
MilHkin of Colorado tQok the GOP lead
ership.
One must be acquainted with Senate
tradition to understand why atomic com
mittee senators allowed a non-commit
tee member, Senator Kenneth McKellar
(D), Tennessee, to force them to listen,
week after week, to his prolonged battle
against David E. Lilienthal.
Chairman Burke Hickenlooper (R),
Iowa, frequently displayed his annoyance
over McKellar's tactics. Other members
were also irked;
However, it was not until hearings on
Lilienthal's appointment went into its
sixth week that the atomic senators
agreed to silence McKellar's inquiry.
Here is the explanation:
1?A committee, as Hickenlooper ex
plained, is a "convenient arm of the Sen
ate.It merely facilitates getting infor
mation for the-Senate as a whole. Thus,
a non-committee senator may participate
in any hearing in which he is interested.
2?The Senate is zealous about main
taining full freedom of debate and ex
pression, and that goes also to the free
dom of producing evidence on which to
debate. Senators boast that their body is
the world's only remaining legislative
forum for untrammeled debate.
So, had the committee cut McKellar's
questioning short, it would have been ac
cused on the Senate floor of breaking
Senate tradition, of gagging a colleague,
of breaching senatorial etiquette and
courtesy.
Above all, the committee wanted *to
be, as Hickenlooper put it to newsmen,
"uncriticfcable" on that point.
Delegates taking off from the United
States for the Geneva conference to es
tablish an international world trade or
ganization felt that it was "touch and go"
on whether anything will come out of the
important meeting.
Top officials pretended to have every
confidence that some sort of agreement
would be reached, Jmt privately, they
were less optimistic.
In their efforts to impress the impor
tance of the conference on Congress and
the people they encountered strong com
, petition for public attention in the de
bate on the Greco-Turkish aid bill. Rus
sia's agreements adds to the problem.
In the United States, Congress on May
8, 1914, designated the second Sunday in
May as Mother's Day.
The Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT 8PAUGH, D. D.
If you were suddenly confronted
with the knowledge that death was
imminent, and wanted to make
your last statement, what would
you say?
The recorded last words of King
Christian X of Denmark, uttered
shortly before his death on April
20th, read like a benediction: "My
task on this #arth is over. I am at
peace with my God and myself. I
am so tired."
n^qrly beloved by his Danish
subjects whom he ruled for thirty
five years, including the bitter
wartime years of German occupa
tion, tht words of the 70 year old
king make us thoughtful. Not
everyone has the privilege and op
portunity of King Christian, but
everyone has the opportunity to
be a Christian! Those who truly
walk the Christian pathway can
say at the end, "My task on this
earth is over. I am at peace with
God and myself."
This recalls what the veteran
apostle St. Paul wrote at the end
of his long, useful, and trubulent
career: "I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith: henceforth there is
laid up for me a crown of right
eousness, which the Lord, the
righteous judge, shall give me at
that day." He then ac[ded words
which tell us that the same things
await all men who can say, :,I have
fought a gocvd fight, I have fin
ished my course, I have kept the
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Mrs. Keith Hinds
Entertains Bridge Club
Mrs.. Keith Hinds was hostess
Thursday evening for the meeting
of her bridge club at her home at
Cullowhee. A dessert course was
served after which two tables
were made up for play.
When the games were concluded
Mrs. Ralph Sutton and Mrs. W. T.
Wise had tied for high score and
both were given awards.
Members playing were Mrs.
Philip Stovall, Mrs. Leon Sutton,
Mrs. W. T. Wise, Mrs. T. N. Mas
sie, and Mrs. Ralph Sutton.
Guests were Mrs. E. L. McKee,
Mrs. C. C. Buchanan and Mrs.
Newton Turner.
AT BAPTI8T CONVENTION
Baptist mirtisters from Jackson
county attending the Southern
Baptist convention in St. Louis this
week are Rev. C. M. Warren, Rev.
W. N. Cook, Rev. B. S. Hensley and
Rev. Mark R. Osborne, Jr.
ATTEND N. C. DENTAL
SOCIETY MEETING
Drs. Harold and Patsy McGuire
were in Pinehurst the first three
days of this week attending the
meeting of the North Carolina
Dental Society.
When Your
Back Hurts
And Your Strength and
Energy Is Below Par
It may be caused by disorder of kid
ney (unction tbmt permits poisonous'
waste to accumulate. For truly many
people feel tired, weak and miserable
when the kidneys fail te remove excesa
acids and other waste matter from the
blood.
You may suffer nagging backache,
rheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness,
getting up nights, leg pains, swelling.
Sometimes frequent ana scanty urina
tion with smarting and burning is an
other sign that something is wrong with
the kidneys or bladder.
There should be no doubt that prompt
treatment is wiser than neglect. Use
Qoan's Pills. It is better to rely on a
medicine that has won countrywide ap
proval than on soipatbing less favorably
known. Doan't have been tried and test
ed many years. Are at all drug stores.
Get Doan's today.
Enhance the Resting
Place
of /our dear departed with
^jnonumsnt made of gturdy
granite ? handsomely in
scribed. 8ee our fine selec
tion.
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S Y L V A GRANITE
and
MARBLE WORKS
faith." "And not to me only, but
unto all them also that love his
appearing."
Several weeks ago there was a
disastrous explosion in the Cert
tralia coal fields in Illinois, and a
number of men perished, some of
them lingering sufficiently long to
write death notes to their families.
One wrote: ""God bless you all."
Another wrote to his wife, asking
that she and her children be regu
lar in their church attendance.
All this reminds us that nr\p day
each one of us will receive a call
to leave this old earth. There is
no escaping it. It is highly impor
tant that we be ready to go. If we
will walk with our Lord here in
daily living, death will be but a
door into the fuller presence of
God. The Bible is most definite
about that. If we don't walk with
Him here, how can we expect to
be with Him hereafter?
We plot our eternal destiny here
on this earth by the way we live,
and by the allegiance we give or
do not give our Lord.
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SYLVA, N. C.
Birth Announcements
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Myers an
nounce the birth of a son on Sun
day, April 20. Mrs. Myers is the
former Miss Beulah Brown, of
Cowarte.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sarno of
Derver, Colorado announce the
birth of a son, George Dennis, on
March 27. Mrs. Sarno is the former
Miss Catherine Galloway, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gallo
way of Glenville.
ATTEND ROTARY MEET
Dr. D. D. Hooper and Paul Kirk
of Sylva and W. E. Ensor and Sam
Gilliam of Cherokee were in Char
lotte Monday and Tuesday attend
ing the district meeting of Rotary*
DR. WALTER L. CUTTER
Chiropractic
Physician
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SYLVA, N. C.
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