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THE SYLVA HERALD Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina Th? County Scat 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 Cl?wss Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1814. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County $2.00 Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25 One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Jackson County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance Carolina v-t1 /nys A5SOC 1 Al 'ON 'I - e & CONGRATULATIONS, NEIGHBOR We extend hearty congratulations to our neighbor across the Cowee, Mr. Weimar Jones, editor of the Tranklin Press, on his award recently received tor the best editoral for 1947 in a class of non daily papers. Mr. Jones' editoral was judged and selected by a committee of newspaper folk who were appointed by the North Carolina Press association. The award was made at a dinner meeting of the North Carolina Press Association held recently at Duke University. The people of Macon County are to be congratulated in that they have Mr. Jones as editor and publisher of their local newspaper. The Press is one^of the best weekly newspapers of North Carolina and we are proud that it is located here in our beautiful hills. BOY SCOUT WEEK The Herald extends hearty congratula tions and best wishes to the boy scouts of Sylva and vicinity on the occasion of their thirty-eighth anniversary in which they are joining with the 68,500 troops, including 2,120,000 boys of'the world in special celebration February 6 through the 12th. Fourteen million boys have become members of this fine organization since it was first established in 1910 and no doubt but what a great per cent of them made better men and citizens for having re ceived this training. _ All Sylva is proud of the 72 boys mak ing up the membership of the cubs, Scouts and senior scouts of the Sylva troops. These boys and their leaders are carrying on a great work of building better citi zens for tommorrow and, if they live up to and practice the things included in their theme for 1948, they will have made a great contribution to themselves and to their community and the world. The theme for the year is: "The Scout Citizen at Work ... in his home ... in his community ... in his nation ... in his world." We also highly commend the leaders of the various scout organizations for their unselfish giving of their time and energies. Theirs is a work whose worth cannot be estimated. They are helping to mold character. What finer contri bution can one make than that of helping mold the conduct and ambitions of the boys of today for the men of Tomorrow! NOT A BRIGHT PICTURE The students of Western Carolina Teacners College and members of the Sylva Kotary Club have been privilged to sit in on some splendid addresses dur ing the past few days in which many in terubung topics have been presented. The speaKtr on these occasions has been Dr. James li. t lcklen, Presbyterian minister ol cnarioite. in his talk before the Ro tai j ciuu members Tuesday night Dr. Luo.->e lor his topic, "One More River 10 Cross, and told how we some tiiA.wo lo cross this riven on inad equate bridges. !iao aiscussion he referred occa sionally lo nis experiences in Europe, while a Chaplain in General Patton's Ti_.^ iunij, to illustrate a point. We soixiwuiines nave to cross a river on a bnJge dial is not adequate. But we HAVE to c\ojs, adequate bridge or not, in the be^t, way we can. Life is like that", said Dr. Ficklen. "With tne coming of atomic energy," dec Mr. Ficklen, "we are on the verge of the most wonderful world we could dream of, or of complete annihila ? tion. The people of the world must choose INSIDE WASHINGTON WASHINGTON? Henry A. Walace's decision to run fgr president on an inde pendent "peace" ticket not only threat ens President Truman's chances but the chances of two GOP presidential pos sibilities. The two are Gov. Tom Dewey of New York and Gen. D wight Eisenhower. Veteran political observers believe that Dewey supporters will desert to Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft in the belief that Taft, with the Democratic vote split, can win the election. These erstwhile Dewey supporters had felt that only the New York governor ; could muster enough votes to beat a solid Democratic front, although privately they preferred Taft. In the case of Eisenhower, the belief prevails that to some extent the general would be open to attacks that a vote for a military man in the White House might play into Wallace's hands and be inter preted as a vote toward war. Wallace's candidacy seems certain to split the New York state vote wide open and hand the 47 electoral votes to the Re publican nominee. The late President Roosevelt carried New York in 1940 and 1944 on the strength of some 400,000 American La bor party vt>tes and those of other inde pendents who now probably will support Wallace. California, with a split Democratic party, also appears certain to fall to the Republicans. BIRD WITHOUT WINGS ? The new ly-independent Air Force is afraid it isn't legal/" ^ The general counsel of the autonomous aviation branch created by Congress in the armed services merger admits that his organization's legality is open to ques tion before the courts. The constitution authorized an Army and Navy but the founding fathers never visioned anything as fantastic as a flying machine, and Congress in the merger leg islation provided no independent authori ty for the Air Force. Possible points of confusion: Suppose Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers wants to know just who legally stripped' him of his medal# and his pension? Airj Secretary Stuart Symington issued the order, but when Meyers, was in service the Air Corps was run Army. Suppose the Air Force attempts to col lect from some war contractor it believes , guilty of defrauding the government? Suppose some private thrown in the I guardhouse for going out on the town challenges the authority of his command ing officer? Congress will have to do something a bout the situation in the way of an amend ment creating the Air Force as a legal entity. CASUALTY ? The Senate Republican leadership is expected to put up only a token fight to continue the Senate war investigating committee ? the one-time Truman committee-r-in its present form. Democrats, fearful that the GOP will use the committee as a strident and ac cusing voice in the campaign, are lining up solidly against it. The majority, painfully aware of the Howard Hughes fiasco, is disposed to wipe out the group and transfer its functions to a standing committee ? probably the ex ecutive expenditures committee of which the Senate's ace investigator, Michigan's Homer Ferguson, is a member. Ferguson led the war investigating group on to a strong comeback in the Ben ny Meyers case, but when extending the committee's life is under debate Demo cratic senators will be quicK to recall the Hughes inquiry. Best bet at the moment is that the Sen ate will end the famed committee next month and that Ferguson will carry on as head of an executive expenditures sub committee, with Democrats seeing to it that he gets only a limited investigating staff. between a more Christian way of life and utter destruction of our c^Viiizcd, Chris tian society. He told how Communism is encrouch ing upon the world and how it thrives best in devastated, hungry, chaotic lands. American's hope for combating this grave menace is in immediate aid to the j count r * " ye: friendlv to us. i %?' %/ Delay may be too late, or a very costly method ?; preservation later on. I "RIDING HIGH" i l\? J m&arn CLIMBING mountains is more fun when you've a good horse handy. Senior Scouts (Boy Scouts past their 15th birthday) find the pack-train a useful adjunct to good camping. 1947 Was Good Year For Swine Breeding The North Carolina Swine Breed ers' Association conducted 16 pure bred hog sale*; during 1947 and -old 354 hogs frr $36,257, accord ing to Jack Kelley, Extension Swine specialist at State College. Mr. Kelley stated that this was quite an increase over the 1946, I sales when 136 hogs were sold for $13,174. The highest average received for purebred hogs during 1947 was ob tained by breeders from Forsyth county when they consigned 11 hogs to the national sale at Centerville, Ind., the specialist said. These hogs sold for $2,372, or an average of $215.63 per head. 4 The Everyday Counsellor r By REV. HERBERT 8PAUGH, Q. D. v v J What are you carrying around* in your hand, a handshake or a ham mer? The Associated Press relates a story from Marion, Ind. where a 16-year-old boy was walking a long carrying a heavy wrench. He came to railroad! tracks where he saw a padlocked switch. He bat tered the lock off, threw the switch, then waited around to see what happened. Soon a train came along, ran into the open switch and was Wrecked, The boy was apprehended by the police, and asked why he did it. He said, "I don't know. I ; just wanted something to do." Many of us are like that boy. We walk along with a hammer in hand, waiting for something or someone to knock. The world is filled with wreckage caused by | such an attitude. ! A hammer can be a useful in strument in construction, but a vicious one in destruction. This boy's hammer, used viciously, caus ed a train wreck and the injury of three trainmen. I once saw in an office this motto, "Come in without knocking, and go out the same way." Some people seem to take an unholy delight in "knocking" other people. The habit is vicious and downright destruc tive. It destroys happiness for aJl concerned. Unkind criticism even brings unhappiness into the heart of the critic. It destroys homes, churches, businesses, even nations themselves. Many of you who read this are suffering jus&hrrvv-fPo&'tflre' wanintfs inflicted by the unkind hammer blows of ariQrism inflicted. by oth ers. Some of you don't feel too;w*ll I about those hammer blows which 1 you yourselves inflicted. Throw that hammer away!! lit represents jealousy, bilternras, hate. It. will contaminate you' as well as injure those against whom: you use it. As long as you carry it, you're going to be tempted- to use it. If you aren't careful, you are going to use it on those whom you really . toy*? yx>ur "Wife,, jour husband, your children, yo?r friends, your minister. You ^re ? going to wound those who are most ready to help you. You're going to need that help badly sometime, ^if you don't need it now. You may ? even find that the helper whom you . desperately need has been driven away by blows of that hammer. Throw that hammer away. Then extend that , hand . in greeting, . friendship, encouragement* - He- - * member that love is the most pow erful force in the world ? even stronger than hate. While this bad weather is on, why not get ready for those busy planting days that will soon be here? ' See Us For .. INTERNATIONAL \ PHOSPHATE AND FERTILIZERS / f also SEEDS OF ALL KINDS We have just received a new shipment of BUILDERS LIME SYLVA COAL AND LUMBER CO, Phone 71 $oy Scour FEBRUARY 6-12 On the thirty-eighth birthday of the Boy Scouts, we offer our sincere congratulations to America's largest youth or ganization. Its theme "Scouts of the World ? Building for A Tomorrow" signifies our hope and faith in the future . . . that of seeing a growing world citizenship built through the World Brother hood of Scouting. This Advertisement In The Interest Of Scouting SPONSORED BY # * THE ME'D C'BP. Sylva D'visior
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