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THE SYLVA HERALD Published By THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackaon Couaty J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD .Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURfiPAY 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. 4v SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year, In Jackson County..... $2.00 Six Months, In Jackson County.. 1.25 One Year, Outside Jackson Count^C 2.50 Six Months, Outside Jackson County 1.50 All Subscriptions Payable In Advance N<->nt ' ? r ' ? - ss i A COMPARISON ? Past, Present And Future ? Just as the clock strikes twelve to night, Jackson County will go into an other new year, a new year that we hope will be as good to us as the one just past. In looking back over 1948 we see the progress that has been made in our town and county. We see new industries and firms that have sprung up, new neighbors who have moved among us, new additions to our population ? a lot of new things that add more and more to the progres siveness of any community *or territory. Business hit its highest level since the war. Our financial status has stabilized and most enterprises have returned to their peacetime level. Of course, prices were high during 1948, but not only in our section, they were up all over the country. Yet, the soaring prices did not cut down on the demand for products as much as expected. Demand for rayon, cotton goods, paper, leather, furniture and a variety of agricultural products was great and through 1949 this demand is expected to show very little on the down side. Not only did the business men of our county prosper during 1948, so did the' farmers. Jackson County, being largely an agricultural county, proved to serve its farmers well.^Their crops were good, their sales large enough, and their out look to<vard future years was brightened. 1949 should prove to be a banner year for them. A great concern to all at the beginning of 1948 was our educational system. Through the year it. brightened consid erably. Many improvements were made, a lot more were planned for the coming year. New school buildings are inorder for communities of our county. More> teachers will be on hand to serve our children. The outlook is, indeed, more pleasant with the passing of 1948. Another problem is well on its way to being solved. That is the matter of our roads. With construction already in prog ress on the widening of US 19A-23 be tween Balsam and Sylva and plans in the making for the improvement of other roads around us, we should see a great improvement on this matter by the time 1949 rolls away. Indeed, the trade winds are blowing in our direction. We should do everything possible in order to prevent their alter ing their course. Italy's battleship-, seized for debt, still hasn't found a purchaser. Here's a tip for the last-minute Christmas gift shop per who simply can't think what to get for who. Two-man wrestling teams are-rapidly becoming the vogue. Learning this, the man at the next desk wants to know if the team wrestlers are known as left burp and right burp. A 14-year-old Harvard university stu dent reads Latin for amusement?news item. Wonder how many hearty chuckles he'd get out of, say., Egyptian heirogly phics? MUGGS AND SKEETER ?. f < WELLvnrnr -p .V/5LL " . f?"V JI (?., VorW 'XL V INSIDE WASHINGTON Washington ? A compromise is shap ing up on civil rights legislation ? a com promise that will have a slight connection with President Truman, and actually take shape in the new 81st Congress. One of the first moves was a letter from' Senator Bupnet E. May bank (D), South Carolina, to the Democratic high com mand th^t he will work allout for the president's economic program when Con gress convenes. Maybankyis a key man in that picture, inasmuch as he probably will become chairman of the Senate banking com mittee, which will write such legislation, in place of the ailing and elderly Senator Robert Wagner (D), New York. Mavbank's statement is construed to mean that southern Senate Democrats may be willing to support -the Truman economic program in exchange for a ''dear' on civil rights. This deal might mean acceptance of anti-poll tax and anti-lynch legislation in exchange for an understanding that FEPC and anti segregation legislation will not be pressed President Truman will not budge from his program, but when the matter is in the hands of his leaders in the House and Senate, the deal might be engineered. NEW TWIST ON CABINET SHIFTS ? Out of the swirl of speculation on pos sible changes in the Truman cabinet comes a report that the president would like to move State Secretary George C. Marshall into the national defense post and get a new state secretary. These sources represent the presi dent's line of thinking as follows: Mar shall, with his lifetime of military ex perience, bolstered by two years as sec retary of state, would make the most ef fective defense secretary obtainable. The shift would remove Marshall from the foreign policy post where he has been subjected to criticism in connection wfth his handling of several key issues, in cluding aid to Cj^ina and the Palestine situation. Fop^stal has expressed his unwillingness to stay on^lor four -more years as defense secretary. STATES TO SUPERVISE DP'S ?I I The displaced persons commission is toy ing with the idea of asking states to set up groups to take a hand in the place ment and supervision of newcomers from Europe under the DP act. Its plan is in a formative stage and will be kept under wraps until Capitol Hill legislators most interested in the program are souhded out. It was learned that some commission officials would like to enist some state and local responsibility to prevent the -"exploitation" of DP's who come into the areas and take jobs and to co-ordinate the national and lpcal levels. In general, the idea apparently would fit into the pattern favored by such Cap itol Hill leaders who like to leave as much responsibility and authority as possible with state and local governments. WELFARE FUND REGULATION ? Some government labor of!ibials have been talking about a provision in the new labor law to regulate union welfare funds but there is no sign yet that the ad ministration will adopt the idea. One proposal would create a new divi sion in the labor department to super vise and control union pension programs much as insurance companies are now regulated. The division's chief purpose would be to audit the books at regular intervals and check up to see that the union wel fare funds are, being expended properly. Unions could be expected to kick up a fuss with John L. Lewis in the forefront of the opposition. The Taft-Hartley law provides for joint employer-union administration of industry-financed welfare funds and the miners' furfd is so supervised. However Le\vis would fight the creation of any new government regulatory bureau. From The Entire Herald Staff The Everyday Counsellor , By REV. HERBERT S^AUQH, 0. D. Have you blown out your Christ mas candles? Yes, I'm afraid you have. But have you likewise blown out the Christmas spirit? I'm a fraid many^of us have done that. One of the most beautiful i church services of the Christmas season is the Candle Service. Among all the services of the Moravian Episco pal Church, none is more beautiful than the Christ-, mas Eve Candle Service. It at tracts worshippers from far and wide. I i As this service which is held in; the late afternoon Or evening comes to a close and climax, the sanctu- | ary is darkened, and large trays i of lighted candles are brought in.' These candles are distributed to each worshipper as an illustration of what Christ meant when He said, 4 4I am the light of the world . . .' Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven." The symbolic effect of this ser vice is striking. When the candles are first brought into the dark ened auditorium, the light is all centered around the trays of can dles. Then as these are distributed, the entire sanctuary' is gradually illuminated. The climax comes when each worshipper is asked to hold aloft his candle as a demon stration of what haprens when each one raises before mfen th? ?pirit of Christ. The uplifted candles double the illumination in the san ctuary from that when the cand les are held in normal position. When this Moravian service was first introduced, at the close of the service, each worshipper care fully carried his candle out into the outside darkness. So Jesus told men to take the light cChristian living out *into a darkened world. In modern days, for reasons of safety and urgency to get on with other things, most worshippers ex tinguish their candle as they leave the church. So it is with so many of us today with our Christiar light. We attend 'a service where our souls are inspired w;ith a re solve to live a better life. Then we extinguish these high resolves, as we blow out a Christmas candle when we leave the church. The Christmas candles have been blown out, but the Christmas spirit need not be extinguished. The De vine Spirit is everlasting. We ex tinguish it by our own efforts. Scrooge did the same thing in the Christmas Carol Story, when he pushed down an extinguishes over the spirit of Christmas. Let's take the Christmas lfght out into the world which so des perately needs it. We need to carry it with us everyday into the New Year. Our friends need to see it. Though Christmas is past, the Christmas candles haVe been blown out, let's not extinguish the Christ mas spirit! Reported Captured FORMER Republican Premier of In donesia, Sutan Sjahrir (above) was reported among the officials taken by the Dutch after they had cap tured Jogjakarta. Indonesian capi tal on Java Island. (International) BYWAllY BISHOP UN Mediator Back *,CTIN0 U.N. MIOIATOt (or Pale? w.r.e, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche is shown v.th his wife, snd son. Ralph Jr., 5, in New York, following their arriv al on the liner Nieuw Amsterdam. :->r Bunche asserted that the Israeli-Arab war was ended and tne new State of Israel was i4flrmly jstablished." 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