THE SYLVA HERALD Published By fHE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina The Cojnty 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. One Year, In Jackson County .. $2.00 Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25 One Year, Outside Jackson Countj ~ 2.50 Six Months, Outside iackson County ?... 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD Publishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES Our Young Farmers Leading The Way Up until a very fe\V years ago the trend was for the young men and women to leave "down on the farm" for a more at tractive life in the small towns and large cities. Poor yields, hard work, and little chance for recreation made farm life un attractive to them. This, however, is rapidly changing, due to the progressive agricultural program now carried on in our schools, the 4-H club work, and Home Demonstration work, and farm agent work. We have seen the state's agricul tural work gradually advancing since these young folk have taken hold of things to show the "old timers" that .greater' yields can be had from the land. We now have 100 bushel per acre corn clubs with more and more farm men and boys being admitted to membership each year. Last year Jackson county had only a very few adult 100 bushel club mem bers. This year 23 of our very young farmers have been admitted into mem bership due to having grown 100 bushels or more corn per acre. The outstanding corn grower of the county this year is young Bobby Jackson, of Blast LaPorte, a member of the Cullo whee high school FFA class. Bobby's field of corn has produced 142.75 bushels 4X1 his acre this year to surpass any other farmer, old or young. Bobby has been able to do this through the knowledge he has gained in his FFA work. We feel that with the progress these boys are now making the agricultural outlook for Jackson County is very bright. Farm leaders of the future who will help much to bring about a more contented and happier rural life in our county, are being developed through the N. C. Ex tension department. The Herald congratulates each of these young farmers on the fine work they are doing. The Truman Up-Set Almost every one is saying, "how did. it happen," meaning the winning of the presidential election by Harry S. Tru man. We will be interested to hear what the "experts" have to say, now that they were all wrong before the election. Very few people, many of them Democrats, thought the President had only the slight vest chance of winning this election. It will be hard to explain just how it did happen, if it can be explained, other than ?that he just received more votes than -Dewey. But why did he receive more votes, that is the big question. We venture to say that labor pl&yed a big part in the vote. Then there are lots ?f people on the Federal payroll of voting age .. . enough to make a big difference. "Then there are the Wallace supporters, or those appearing to be Wallace supporters, who probably changed their minds at the last minute and voted for Truman. Wallace did not get half the popular vote was expected to carry. Thurmond did not do too much damage in the "solid .south". Then there is the vote in the big northern states . . . the voters prob ably feeling that Truman would be the best man to represent them. Since Truman did win and he now has Democratic house and senate, there can be no more "passing the buck" if things don't go right. It is going to be right much to believe that everything/ will run smoothly now, as there are Dem ocrats in the house and senate, who did fliot follow Truman before and will hardly follow him now. Truman has the world's biggest job on his shoulders, we can only hope that be is able to lead this nation as it should be led. INSIDE WASHINGTON WASHINGTON ? During the tense talks with Moscow over the Berlin crisis, the press, and, consequently, the public, probably wore less iniormed than at any ume since the "top secret" days of the war. To avoid any tipoff on the identity of persons consulted by the high policy makers, few important men were called to the State department during the day. Instead, there were private meetings at night at a rendezvous remote from the State department building. Often there were top level meetings at the Blair House, where distinguished guests of the White House are entertain ed. These usually occurred at cocktail time or dinner time. However, there were some slipups. On Saturday morning, when the department is normally closed, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R), Michigan, GUP ioreign policy leader, was called in for a two hour consultation. He was not mention ed on Secretary Marshall's calling list, but his presence was revealed by the fact that he rides in the automobile historical ly assigned to the vice president. It has always borne the license number DC 111. Even when the car was discovered in front of the building,' the department re lused to acknowledge Vandenberg's pres ence. However, reporters caught him as fte left. Another important figure whose pres ence can always be detected is British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks. Franks travels in Washington's plushiest li mousine, a postwar British Rolls-Royce. Often it is seen parked outside of Blair House of an evening, as prominent as a billboard. SUPER-FOOD?After years of experi menting, Norwegian scientists have come up with a new emergency food said to be superior to any used in World War II. The new food, to be known as KG-12, is in liquid form, thus overcoming a major shortcoming of previous emergency ra tions?lack of liquid. Norwegian soldiers recently went through 14 days of training with KG-12 as their only source of nourishment with no ill effects. Early in September four human guinea pigs were put out in the middle of Oslo fjord, where they spent five days aboard two rubber life rafts. Two men were given KG-12; the other two were given an equal amount of the best of the stand-1 ard emergency foods. The scientists re ported: i "At the end of three days, the last named had only a few food tablets and very little water left, while the KG-12 pair still had supplies for many days, and showed no signs.of fatigue.' POLL-TRICKS?The State depart ment has recently had a private polling agency make a cross-section check on American reactions to foreign policy problems. These reactions have figured in setting the nation's policy. Now, however, probably for the first time, the department has checked into the validity of the polls themselves. One test problem involved the question of the free exchange of news between the Iron Curtain areas and the outside world. To test the polling technique, the ques tion was presented in two ways. A group of 1,250 individuals of similar back grounds were asked this question: Should representatives of newspapers in the USSR be allowed to enter the United States and present all news freely? Only 34 per cent of those questioned answered yes. A similar group of Americans was ask ed this question: Should American cor espondents be permitted to represent the news freely from the USSR; and should Communist-correspondents be al lowed to report freely from the United States? Eighty per cent thought Ameri can correspondents in Russian should be allowed to report freely and 69 per cent thought the Communists press should have the same privilege in the United States. Thus there was a 35 per cent difference in the poll results on the basic question: Should Communist reporters be allowed full freedom in this country? Along about the morning of Wednes day, Nov. 3, a number of now still hope ful candidates will find their band wag on have run competely out of gas. "National Wine Week" has been add-! ed to the calendar. To a lot of tipplers this must appear a corking idea. Or, rather, an un-corking one. PROPOSAL FROM^A "TWO GUN 7V/?0iv?WAr , roa* gqaj. Pocxvcn, G/Y0 /'CL 7K//?OW*W#r 0/V? OAM//V*' Fine Performance Marks Opening ; Of Little Theater The Littie Theater, under the direction of Prof. Ernest V. D ans, Jr.. pr:sentcd its first production, '/Ladies in Retirement," on Octo- j ;.r 21 in Hoey auditorium to an appreciative audience of college ind townspeople. The drama, with its setting in ihe marshes of the Thames, furnished the cast w.th a chal- ? .enge to do mature and eccentric1 .?jUs in several instances and fur nished the audience with a clos.ly knit and carefully built play which ..eld ones attention from its be i nning to the final curtain. Due to understanding and care Jul direction, the result was, in most instances, a happy one. Par ticularly outstanding were the set lings and the stage effects, with much credit for these going to stage-manager Perry Frye; to Frank Murray and Clayton Ram sey who were responsible for the sound and" lighting effects ;and to the shop crew which was composed of Tom Fore, Noel Denton, Robert Nelson, Walter Nelson, and James Lowery. Credit for painting of j special scenes is due Basil Clark.! This scribe's Oscar for acting goes to Celeste Sabistin who play- j ed with restraint and understand ing the difficult role of Emily,! one of the simple sisters. One of her first speeches ("I feel I must tidy up the river banks") gave the listeners an insight into the char- j acter she was playing and estab- j lished the high standard which; Miss Sabistin held throughout the play. Honorable mention for perform- j ance honors goes to Dick Mc AuLy and Ann Davidson who? except for their black-out period? piuyed with skill and understand- , ng. These qualities were particu- | L.rly noticed in'