THE SYLVAHERALD
Published By
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sylva, North Carolina
The County Seat of Jackson County
J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers
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Entered at the post office at Sylva, N C , as
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Act of March 3, 1379, November 20, 1914.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year. In Jackson County $2.00
Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25
One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.5U
Six Months, Outside Jackscn County 1.50
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/ Ifcl.M. .'ON
No Cause For Alarm
Although increasing numbers of polio
cases are reported from the central part
of the stale, and two cases have develop
ed in Jackson county, there is no cause
for_undue alarm on the part of our citi
zens. It is hardly likely that Polio will
'break out here in an epidemic form. How
ever. strict compliance with health de
partment rules and recommendations
are essential as a precautionary measure,
and better insurance that we will not have
an epidemic of the disease in Western
North Carolina. Every man, woman and
child should do their utmost to follow
health rules in our fight against this
crippling disease.
Cooperation Needed
We realize that the removal of the pas
senger trains on the Murphy-Asheville
branch has up-set a long established
method for handling the mail in this
area, and that a sudden and complete
change- in this system has caused head
aches all along the line. All classes of
maii\4?ave been delayed, and other incon
veniences caused to the public. Sylva
now has oAly two out-going mails daily,
about three n^ours apart, leaving the peo
ple without a ivnethod of dispatching let
ters and other'1 important mail over a
period of 21 hou^rs. In talking with J. B.
McGee, superintendent of railway mail
service out of Gfreensboro, our local post
office found littlle evidence of concern on
his part about tlj|ie matter. He is said to
have called the, offices along this line
"Little One Ho^se Offices, whose post
masters do not know that the World was
not made in one day." In other other
words, Mr. McGee considers the post
offices in Western North Carolina, serv
ing as outlets for mail for some 200,000
citizens, do not deserve as good attention
on his part as his "big, two-horse" offices
in the Piedmont. We feel that a PUBLIC
SERVANT, receiving his living off the
taxpayers of this area as well as the Pied
mont, should be right in there fighting
for the restoration of adequate mail serv
ice on this line just as quickly as possible.
This would certainly breed better feel
ing on the part of the "one horse" office
patrons toward public servants like Mr.
McGee and the World's Greatest Postal
System which he represents.
A TIP FROM AUSTRALIA
v The restoration of peacetime price and
rationing control apparently will be a
major campaign issue in the forthcom
ing presidential election. If it is, the peo
ple of this country, whether they realize
it or not, will be witnessing a debate over
the future pattern of government under
which they are to live. Permanent price
and rationing control mean inexorable
extension of centralized authority and the
final adoption of the socialized, state,
whether it is called that or not.
Aside from the danger to personal lib
erty and other philosophical considera
tions, price and rationing control, from a
practical standpoint, is a demonstrated
failure. In every country where it .has
boen tried it has led to shortages and
hardship. When prices are arbitrarily
held below the supply-demand levels of
the free market, people will not produce.
Legitimate distribution channels are dis
rupted by black markets and the police
powers of the state become increasingly
brutal if order is maintained. The ex
panding bureaucracy of OPA and its kan
garoo court methods which were nipped
? in the bud at the end of the war should
serve as fair warning of what can be ex
pected if the system is re-established.
American consumers are getting bet
ter service at lower relative prices in the
" light of existing conditions without OPA
Berlin: Next Moves !
Now that Moscow has acknowledged
that Russian policy?not technical dif
ficulties on railroads or highways?is
responsible fo? the Berlin crisis, the
world watches intently for "next moves"
by the western powers.
What will these include?
Another note lo Russia is possible.
An appeal to the United Nations has
btcn discussed. A physical test of the
Soviet blockade of land routes and water
ways?while the air lilt goes on flying
cuai and iood into Berlin?is mentioned.
But these are onlv the more obvous
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steps by which the western po wers might
step up their pressure lor a lifting of tne
Soviet blocKade. Little or nothing is be
ing said, for example, about organization
01 economic pressures on Russia, which
so badly needs machinery and other
capital goods from western sources.
indeed, tne Marshall Plan iias been
developed in such a way as to facilitate
rather than cut .tiaae relations between
East and West. This is because for a
paciiication of Europe the development
ol this trade is essential. America s aims
have been to help Europe back toward
prosperity and peace, to hejp it avoid a
showdown witn Communism which
might lead to war. But if Russia insists
on loreing a showdown, the objectives oi
Europe's self-help program and Ameri
can aid may logically be moauied.
None of us in the western countries
can look complacently on such a pos
sibility. But it may be-useful to remind
ourselves that the weakness in our Berlin'
.
position, of which we hear so much, is
chiefly local. Moreover, in addition to
the worldwide pressures, both economic1
and diplomatic, which the western pow-'
ers might marshal against Russia, there|
.are other influences working 011 the side1
of the western powers. J
A very important one is the effect
which Russian behavior at Berlin is hav
ing on the German people. From the
western zones of Germany gifts 01 'food
are pouring into Berlin, expressing a feel
ing of unity among Germans which evi
dently has been heightened by the Rus
sian blockade.
Despite tons of Russian propaganda
about the western powers' alleged aim
of dividing Germany, the German people,
both in the western zones and in Berlin,
within the eastern zone, are identifying
themselves by action with present west
ern efforts to beat the Russian blockade.
This is a comradeship which the
Kremlin cannot have intended to credte.
It may occur to Moscow, in the light of
this development, that to win Berlin and
lose the German people would be a
Pyrrhic victory. :
In view of tne tone as well as content
of the Russian reply to the American,
British, and French notes protesting the
blockade of Berlin, the very next move
of__the western powers must be to in
crease the capacity of the air lift to Ber
lin. Additional Russian-devised dangers
to aviation through the air corridors to
Berlin, and around western powers' air
fields in Soviet-controlled territory, must
be prepared for.
Meanwhile, inquiries as to the state
ment in the Russian note that Russia
\yould "if necessary" supply food to Ger
ijjSJis in the western sector of Berlin
ought to be pressed. It was originally
assumed that food for all Berlin would
be available from the eastern zone. In
deed, the economic unification of Ger
many forecast exchange of food from
eastern Germany for industrial products
from the other zones.
One other immediate task faces west
ern diplomacy. It is to make quite clear
that the western powers' "violations" of
the Potsdam and Yalta agreements of
which Russia now complains have been
mainly efforts to apply the principles of
these agreements at least in the areas
controlled by the western powers, since
it proved impossible to obtain Russian
cooperation in ^nv broader application
of them.?Christian Science Monitor.
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than they ever did with it. Congressional
investigations 'have shown that retailers'
profit margins are less now in the free
market than they were in the controlled
market of OPA. Moreover there are no
shortages of necessities.
America is not the only country that
has been faced with the price control is
sue. Australia recently defeated by a
heavy majority vote an attempt by the
Central Labor Government to write price
control as a permanent power into the
Federal Constitution. An observer point-1
ed out thart 'The Australians do not want'
permanent centralized Federal Govern
ment control of thei^r ^norm^^ffairs.M
The Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. 0.
What do you do alter you have
signed your name with a pen to
a letter, er.ee.; o. other document.
Perhaps you use a blotter if you
have une a*. hand. Perhaps you
search f.?r a blotter, perhaps fum
ing wh.le the ::*.?* d.io>. The late
LV. Hubert E. Spec: is said to
h..ve u*'eJ these lew moments i'cr
pr:.yer. Wh:-t an excellent id?..
.Ml o. - u'.:.;t to pray more
rhm vv u . Ma. y uf us ought to
pray but don't :ir.d khe time: vre
.re '..usy . boa: other things. Why
try I2r. Specr'> mi thou?
Prater V; .a! i ) mrn's hrppi
re s : :?.! conununiup. with Gd.
Wit., i". prayer t.i^: _? ci'n be no
:v p;!incrs and c? r.tcntment. Op.:
o. our moot beautiful hymns is
that oy James Mo.n ^ mo-y;
"Pr. ycr is t ie sincere re
s.re, Uttered or
unexpressed: The
motion of a hid
den fire. That
trembles in the
breast.
"Prayer is the
burden of a'sigh,
The falling cf a
tear. The upward
glane ng of an. eye When none but
TIMBER TALKS
By W. C. HENNESSEE
I wonder if we know that here
in Western N. C. there are,
223 mountain peaks, 5,000 or more
feet high, 4y or these being above
6,000 fett. The reg.on is traversed
by a network of modern roads that{
are enclosed'on both sides by large
resources of hardwood timber.
Western North Carolina's many
forests atford a treasure land ofj
r ch shrubs , wild flowers, fishing
and recreation facilities. The Grea:
Smoky Ml. Nat. P.irk is a vast
playground tor hundreds of thou -?
srnds of '.annual visitors. Tlie j
Smokies run through the Park for
seventy-one miles, with sixteen
peaks reaching an altitude of 6*000
feet. Adjacent to the Park are
National Forests and State Forests
so extensive and so correlated that1
together Western North Carolina'
comprises cne of the largest rem-|
nants of American Wilderness.
While traveling^ over these vast'
and beautiful areas this summer j
be careful with fire. Let's do not?
spoil w.th fire, that which took'
nature years to grow.
LET'S KEEP JACKSON COUNTY)
GREEN! I
Glenville Lodge No. 551,:
A. F. & A. M. Announces
Change In Meeting Dates
J. Sam Bryson, Worshipful
Master of Glenville Masonic Lodge
No. 551, has announced a change
in tr.e regular meeting time of the.
1 :dse. In the future the Lodge will
meet each 2nd Saturday and 4th ?
Friday evenings at 7:30 o'clock.1
AH visiting Masons are cordially
invited to attend. !
North Fork Ranch
Week-End Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Felger and
daughter, Beverly, of Miami, Fla.t
and Mr. and Mrs. William Rank
ing and daughter. Mary Jean, of
Miami, Fla? and Uniontcwn, Pa.,
.arrived last week to be the week
en ci guests o: Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
L. Mathews at North Fork Ranch
m the North Fork community.
FO SING AT WGTC
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oraterio work, has played leading
opera roles, including a role she
created?in Benjamin Britten's
"Paul Bunvan"?and has made
made many tolk-song records. She
has appeared before Princess
?Juliana of the Netherlands and at
national conventions of the Daugh
i ters of?ffte American Revolution.
I
? of which her mother is national
vice president general.
i Miss Van Wey was born in Ros
| man, which was founded and
j named by her father. After being
I graduated from Salem college with
a Bachelor of ^fc^sic degree she
started seriously collecting and
singing folk songs, particularly
| Creole songs and Negro spirituals.
I Her program Thursday night
i will include North' Carolina folk
, songs, Ohio river valley folk songs,
: South American folk songs, other
songs in the folk song medium,
Creeolee songs of Louisianan, street
cries set to music, and Negro
spirituals.
KBRALD WANT ADS
God is near.
"Prayer is the simples: form of j
speech, That infant lips can try;)
Prayer, the sublimest strains that
leach The Maje?ty en high.
?Prayer is the Christ.an's vital
breath, The Christian's native air;
His watchword *.l the gates o,
death; He enters heaven with
prayer.
"Prayer is the contrite sinner's
voice. Returning iVom r.is ways:
Wnile angels in thur >o:igs re
joice. And c.'v. "Behold. he pr; vs."
? "Oil Thou, by \Vh?m we come
to God. Tne L:;e, Tne Truth, tne
Way! Tne path e.\ prayer Thysell'
rat trc.d; Lord, teach us now to
pr:?y."
Pi : ye.* 'was the .?cv.ivc othe
;:.;w?.:- which Jesus Cnrist display
ed on earth. It is recorded that
frequently He turned as.de lo
commune in prayer with His
Heavenly Father. He prayed pub
lically among these people -whom
, He served. St. Paul wrote, "Pray
without ceasing ... in everything
by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God. And the
peace o.' God. which passe:h all
i Ix'/erstanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus."
Prajer U 'the breaking of the
soul. It is as vital to spiritual life
as air in the lungs is to physical
life. Don't be too busy to pray.
If ycu are, you are busy- about the
wrong thing.
Next time you sign your name
to a letter, let the ink dry while
you pray?perhaps for the one
to whom you have just written?
perhaps for a member of your
family, a friend, for our nation in
its time of great opportunity?per
haps for your own needs.
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