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BIBLE THOUGHT
And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God . . . " . Romans 8:28
Good Advertising
Althou^n the weather prevented some
of the planes of the North Carolina Aero
club from getting through to Sylva for
the week-end outing of the club here,
those who were able to come thoroughly
enjoyed their visit to this city in the
beautiful hills of Jackson. They were
delighted with the hospitality and royal
good-time extended them during their
brief stay. Some of the pilots from
"down East" where the country is flat
and hot this time of year, will not soon
forget the pleasant weather and beautiful
scenery they found in this area.
The town officials and Chamber of
Commerce officials are to be commended
for having sponsored the event. Such
things as this puts Sylva and Jackson
county before the eyes of many who
otherwise might not have had the oppor
tunity to learn what Sylva has to otfer.
Looking Forward To Anciher Event
Sylva and Jackson County are soon to
have another opportunity for some good,
first-hand advertising, more than 125
executives will gather here September
12,13, and 14 for their annual convention.
Those in charge of the event, locally, will
spare no efforts in making this event
worthwhile to the community. Our
visitors are to be shown the scenic at
tractions of this area as well as .enter
tained at banquets, dances, and other
features.
LENIENT PROGRAM
The leniency of the National draft plan
as outlined last \yeek by President Tru
man should put many minds at rest, as it
is apparent that the new program will
disrupt normal living as little as possible
and still put into effect a national mili
tary training program.
Men with dependents, faripers, veter
ans with a record of service over ninety
days and high school students are among
those'on the exemption list. The effort
to avoid breaking into a youth's educa
tion is seen in the provision that high
school students are to be deferred >until
they complete their work, or until1 they
are 20 years of age, whichever is first.
All married men are deferred under
the. plan, and men with dependents,
whether they are married or not, are
also to be deferred. ' ? ' ?
Undoubtedly there will be many mat
INSIDE WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON ? President Truman
and ihe southern Democrats have one
;li.ng m common in the 1948 presidential
c^.ioaign. Thev are very much concern
* O V v
ed over what is going to happen to the
south, plus the possibility that Republi
cans may carry two or three southern
states.
This is having two effects. It is caus
ing Air. Truman to try to work for more
harmony by conferring with individual
Democratic leaders. And it is causing a
lot of southern Democrats to scrutinize
the Truman bandwagon with the idea of
climbing aboard.
Symptoms of the president's inward1
disturbance are the conferences being ar
ranged with Democratic leaders by Sena
tor J. Howard McGrath, Rhode Island,
chairman of the Democratic national(
committee.
A further symptom of concern among
southern Democrats is the announcement
of Senator A. Willis Robertson, Virginia,
that he would actively support Mr. Tru
man.
Robertson is wrorking with Senator
Harry Byrd, Virginia, both are said to
be worried that Virginia may go Repub
l.can. Fear also is expressed among
southern Democrats that North Carolina
and Tennessee will go Republican.
Some southerners predict that Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi and possibly
r ionda and Arkansas and Texas may go
ior Dixiecrat Candidate Strom Tnur
mond, governor of South Carolina, who
probaoiy will also carry his own state.
THE DRAFT AND INDUSTRY?In
dustry is confronted anew with an old
wartime headache?manpower problems
arising out of the draft.
? Selective Service begins Oct. 1, and it
will hit employers even harder than ex
pected. The reason is that the draft starts
with 25-year-olds, and in that group are
many trained workers.
Some firms have taken steps to reduce
the impact of the draft througn communi
ty action. The encouragement of volun
tary enlistments reduces the draft quota
ior each community.
Other employers are dusting off many
manpower techniques shelved since V-J
Day. (Jnion contracts have to be revised
in many cases to conform to reemploy
ment rights guaranteed veterans.
An employe who volunteers or is
dratted is entitled to his old job back
alter his discharge from military service,
or a position of similar seniority, status
and pay. j
Selective service headquarters is ex
pected soon to announce a program fori
obtaining deferments for certain key'
workers in esstial occupations. I
SCREENING ? If no national emer
gency develops and the military services;
are neld to their present quotas, the fine
screening in the peacetime draft this fall
is likely to exceed anything this country;
has seen.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the draft di
rector, estimates that more than five mil-]
lion young men will be registered in or-!
der to obtain 70,000 draftees for the!
Army.
ters to be ironed out when the draft
boards all over the nation begin their ac
tual work. Meanwhile, those who feared
a rigid program of universal military
service, can be assured that efforts are
being made to avoid many hardship cases.
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SYLVA CRIDMEN WORK HARD
FOR SEPTEMBER 10 OPENER
Tickets Will Be On
Advance Sale By Lions
The 1348 edition o: the Sylva
Gc lden Hume, r.es ha\'e ;<e'.tled
dawn tj business under their new
10 jh, J u m c s Barnwell, and
are pointing heavily toward their
September 10th season opening
game with Hayesviile High on
Mark Watson Field.
Thirty-six candidates have donn
ed their he-A'y equipment and are
now engaged in the learning of
the art of ear bumping on the
gridiron. Barnwell is holding two
practice sessions daily?the first
at 10 a. m. and tr.e oiher at 3 p. m.
The Hayesviile game will be
sponsored by the Sylva Lions club.
Tickets will be on advance sale
oy members <.the club.
Syha's second game will be
aga.nst the Woynesville Mountain
eers in Waynesville, Sept. 17. A
complete schedule of Hurricane
tor 1948 will be published
<con.
Candidates for the Sylva team
are as follows: I
Charles Cunningham, David1
Long, Hayes Queen, Charles Cagle.j
Dennis Ensley, Ed Ward, Perry
Rhodes, Thornton Cabe, Derel
Monteith, Charles Crisp, Harold
Parris, Carroll Ashe, Kent Hoyle..
Zollie Fincannon, Clyde Bumgarn
er, Ernest Bumgarner, Clarence
Fr.zzell, Bobby Gunter,Tom Hen
ry, Roy Elders, Vance Blanton,
Frank Crawford, Harold Elders,
Johnnie Smith, Kenneth Sutton,
Lambert Hooper, Wayne Parris,
Forrest Aiken, Furman Dillard,
Jimmy Hall, Harold Queen, T. C.
Shepherd, Furman Cogdill, Ed
Sumner, Bennie Reese, and Jack
Cunningham.
The Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT 8PAUGH, D. 0.
Do yoa iet other people "burn
you up?" I huve heard many a
cne say, '^o-und-so burns me up.'
Tnat is a picturesque description
of what is actually going on with
in the emotional life of many peo
ple today. I am constantly meeting
such in my practice.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale in
his new book, ' A Guide to Con
fident Living" (Prentice-Hall
? 2.75) hf.s a choice chapter "How
tj avoid getting upset." He puts
down as a vital rule for being?
happy and successful?"Don't let
tnings and people agitate you."
He quotes one physician who pres
| cribes for his nervous patients
I Piactic: your religious fcith."
i More people are religious than
I will admit it. And many who ad
. :n:t il fail to practice it. Dr. Peale,
tells of a minister
friend who did
know how to
practice it. He
had a nervous
breakdown, went.
to a hospital and
was put through
numerous tests.
1 Finally the doctor
! in charge gave him the diagnosis:
| "We have analyzed your case and
have decided that if you practice
Christianity, you will get well . . .
practice your religion in your
thought life, not simply its morals
and ethics . . . put into mental
practice such principles as 'Take
no thought for the morrow ... let
not your heart be troubled . . .
fret not thyself . . . Come unto
Me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden and I will give ycu
rest.' ... It is really great medi
cine."
That minister was big enough t
ake nis doctor's pr.scription and
became a well man. He told Dr
Peale,. "Well, I am cured air g.v
and now I am urging people to
TIMBER TALKS
By W. C. KKNNE88EE
a ;? ..or:.a me tne other
iay a question that is the subject
of my t3lk today. It is "How do
you determine how much a tree
is worth?" As we all know that is
the S64 question.
There is no cut and dried meth
od of determining the true value
of "a tree. That's* what makes a
tree worth as much as what you;
can get for it.
I have noticed, however, through
the years that I have been buying
t mber, that there are many things
which have to be considered in
c'etsrmir.ing a fair and just stump
valu . First, the specie of the
timber. Secondr the quality.
Third, the terrane or ground upon
which the timber is located, that
>, how much preliminary work
'5 tc roads wou'd need to be done
in orier to remove the timber, and
nd:r what conditions men will
:e worVi-g in the logging op ra
tion, as there is considerably more
expense in removing timber from'
j mountains and gulfs, where log-]
i ging roads have to be built, as
J compared with flat lands or land?
j where the roads have a'r^adv been
| built. Fourth, the distance timber
| has to be hauled to market is alsoj
an important factor. Fifth, and!
, the last thing I would mention, is
t the value of the finished product
j and the demand for same: this is
; a vital factor in helping to deter
? mire the true value of stumpage.
So, you can readily see it Txys
. to grow high quality timber and.
normally, the other things 1 men
! tion would come naturally.
I LET'S KEEP JACKSON COUNTY
; green:
practice their faith for the sure
release ti will give from tension\
?.nd fear. I urge them to take the
greatest medicine of all." j
I know how to sympathize with
that minister, as I had the same <
experience some years ago. My i
doctors told me to go away and
take my own medicine, to learn to
practice what I preached to others.
When I did it worked. Now I am
trying to persuade others to take
the same medicine.
Recently I was in the home of a
charming 70-year-cld woman. Her
grandson, a vigorous young man
introduced me> saying, "Grand
mother has as much energy and
vigor as I have. She can keep up
with me." As I talked with her I
marveled at her active mind, at
iiactive personality as well c.s her
vigor of body. I asked her how
she did it.
"I make it my business to be
happy," she replied. "And for
yec.rs I haye also made it my busi
ness not to let pecple and circum
stances upset me. I have learned
to accept life, and make the best
of each day."
If all the fum.ng, worried, chaf
ing people who are milling around
in the world today would make it
just as much their business to be
happy as they do to make money,
a wonderful change would take
place. Internaticnal tensions would
ease; industrial strife would sub
side; sicl$ people would commence
to get well; churches would really
go to work to share the gospel of
Jesus Christ with others; heaven
Sylva Woodmen Take
Softball Tournament
The Sylva Woodmen of the
World captured the Tennessee
State Encampment WOW Softball
Tournament last week by ncsing
out Cleveland, Tenn., by a 7-5
score. The tourney was held at
Lebanon, Tfcnn.
Clyde Bunigarner hurled the vic
tory for Sylva. The Cleveland
Woodmen were runners-up in the
Cleveland City league during the
summer.
Wesley Warren, Bud Parker and
Ben Sumner added to the Sylva
cause with a home run each dur
ing the game. ?
would commence to come down to
earth.
ATTENTION
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SPECIAL
WELCOME EDITION OF THE HERALD
COMES OUT SEPTEMBER 9
TWO WEEKS FROM TOOAY
If you do not have copy (or your adv. in, please get
it to us at once. This special Edition will contain
news, features and pictures of Jackson County
and will have 24 or more pages.
?Get Your Order In Now For Extra Copies?
J. A. GRAY, Editor.
FELIX PICKLESIMER, Chairman
Convention Committee, Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce.
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