_ _ % Page 2 ?r THESYLVAHERALD 1 Published By THE hTERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Sylva, North Carolina The County Seat of Jackaon County ( J. A. GRAY and J. M. BIRD .Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ' Entered at the post office at Sylva, N. C., as J , Second Class1 Mail Matter, as provided under the ] Act of March 3, 1879, November 20, 1914. 1 ( SURSCMPTION RATES < One Year, In Jackson County. 42.06 j Six Months, In Jackson County 1.25 j One Year, Outside Jackson County 2.50 Six Months, Outside Jackson County... 1.50 < All Subscriptions Payable In Advance ] ? * sSfionh Carolina Uk ^ /miss A34k>ClAT?^j} ( < The 4-H Club?Builder of Youth 1 ? ( In the days ahead youth will be asked ^ to assume new responsibilities, undertake bigger tasks, and to do more with j less. Rural youth will face the tempta- , tions of high city wages, modern inven- y tions and conveniences. To meet these challenges will require the stamina, in- * tegrity, and clear vision that comes from experiences of rural life at its best. The t 4-H Club, if properly conducted, will * provide the medium for giving the training and experiences to best fit farm boys r and girls to cope with these new situa- I tions. " The objective of this organization is to \ give to your boy and girl training in bet- 1 ter oractices in agriculture and home A ?~ making, and in the broader phases of y community organization and the finer and more significant things of life. Thru ( youth organizations of the proper type ( we mold the destiny of our future. I 4-H Club work was established on the basis of project activity. Each Club < member is required to conduct a project 1 in agriculture or homemaking accord- i ing to the instructions of the Farm or ] Home Demonstration Agent and agrees 2 to keep an accurate account of the time ; and cost of the enterprise. ] Ownership is essential to thrift. To < further encourage the boy and girl they Should be given the, profits from their 1 jyork (after all expenses have been deducted). Nothing could do more to des- ? troy initiative and to discourage thrift than to be deprived of ownership. That iLS exactly what happens when John's calf becomes Dad's cow and Mary's poul- < try becomes Mother's hens. 3 Remember the 4-H Club is an organiza- ! tion for helping to train boys and girls J in your community and for giving them a broader knowledge of rural living and to help them appreciate the advantages of farm life, and at the same time train them in the economical and practical phases of agriculture and homemaking. In brief, the 4-H Club is an organization which trains farm youth in the art of living. Every citizen has a very definite part in making this possible for Jackson County, the communities and the boys and girls. However ambitious they may be, full cooperation and support is necessary for them to make the most of the undertaking. ?o Comic Books Outlawed For the past several years much has been said in many quarters about the evils of comic books which have become more and more numerous on newsstands. We read with horror the news story of the two little boys who burned their playmate to death "because we saw it in a comic book"?or the incident s of the child who was discovered sprinkling ground glass into a pot of stew. He too had "read it. in a comic book". The supermen and Captain Marvel's who stop trains with their fingers?or the evil brains who destroy the world with - .it. ii i i t weird machinery run wiia in mese dooks: Such wild fiction, so wildly distributed to American youth is bound to have an adverse effect upon their minds. Some will argue that comic books are only a form of fairy tale;;. One fact quickly defeats that argument however. Fairy tales are read by small children only . . . they are a fantasy that we outgrow . . . but comic books are widely read by high school students, and many adults. They are definitely more than "fairy tales"! Canada has awakened to the danger of this evil. Declaring that lurid crime pictorials, or so called "comic books" stimulate juvenile delinquency, the Canadian Parliament has passed a bill ban THE 5 Svery Ninety Seconds In the short space of time it will take /ou to read this, a. home will burn somewhere in the United States. That is the iteral truth ? a home is destroyed ever} ^0 seconds. Will your home be next? It can be ? unless you take a few simple precautions Dne of the greatest tragedies of dwelling fires is that most of them could be easih prevented. To take one example, care lessness with cigarettes is a major cause ? ? 11 i i _ )f disaster. So are overloaded eiecirica circuits and frayed wiring. Ancf so . arc improperly maintained stoves and heat ing systems. There are many other hazards tha ^xist, to some degree, in nearly ever} home. Are your basement, attic and clos sts littered with old magazines, old fur niture, old clothes and other odds anc -?nds that are all ready to feed a fire? Hou rtbout cans of paint, cleaning solvents ind waste rags? Fire loves them. Anc remember that loose bricks in a chimney or fireplace are just what fire is looking for. The loss of a home is more than a purey material waste. Fire insurance, vita is it is, can't pay for everything. It car ^uild you a new house, but it can't replace possessions whose value is largely jxtrinsic. In many of our home fires, hunan beings are killed, injured and mutiated ? and all the money in the worlc lan't make up for that. Watch the clock for ninety seconds ind realize .that while you were doing i1 i home burned somewhere. When yoi 'eturn to your own home today, search t from top to bottom for hazards and get *id of them. o We Still Need Them All Those who believe that navies will be obsolete and unnecessary if war shoulc :ome again, do not find their view sharec Dy the best authorities. Dr. Vannevar Bush, the distinguishec scientist who is also regarded as one o: the best informed civilians on military matters, writes in his important book Modern Arms and Free Men, "The Mis sion of the ^Javy will be as important and as difficttft,~ as it ever has been ir history . . . We are a power in the work and we intend to exert that power, i need be, far from our shores to suppor our friends and strike an enemy wher he is the most vulnerable . . . We shal still need to sweep enemy forces fron the seas, whether they are under its sur face or above it." Weapons and techniques have chang sd, but the role of the Navy has not. Once for instance, the battleship was the shij )f the line, the paramount striking force Now, as Admiral Forrest P. Sherman ha: J "tp? * ui~ 4 >diu, rui nit: iui csccduic luiuic, liic iao carrier task force will be the principa striking element in our fleets ? the cor< ji their offeftsive power, available t< strike far from\>ur own bases and to cov sr and support the operations of othe: services." Today, as yesterday, the security o this nation rests upon all the fighting services ? air, ground, and sea. Eacl has its own vital job to do ? none i; more or less important than another. o Words Of Wisdom When you see a man with a great dea of religion displayed in his shop window you may depend upon it he keeps a ver; small stock of it within.?Spurgeon. o The more we study, we the more dis cover our ignorance.?Shelley. o If you wish to avoid seeing a fool yo" must first break your looking glassRabelois. o Hain't we got all the fools in town o our side? And ain't that a big enough ma jority in any town??Mark Twain. ning these publications in the dominioi The bill, which passed the House of Corr mons unanimously and the Senate by large majority, prohibits the publicatioi distribution, or sale of comic books thi depict "the commission of crimes, res or fictional/' Tl's nn onrnnrnrririrr rirn tVinf" fOTTW where, someone has the tortiiude to c something about a semister evil. It to be hoped that perhaps in the not 1 distant future, some American law-mal er will see the light and introduce similar bill in our own Congress. Unt that time though we will just have to s back and let the kids go right on readin their little "crime journals", while we ? the same time increase the F.B.I, budge to combat the results! 5YLVA HERALD AND RUR/ TOP OF THE i ,.?'? ..' ><- r ; .&&&&& - 'SjgjlJ : "r ' n' r. jl : M; ? ?lC)l0 : .^O'pSsaaftia !i . r ^ high J/;| s cost* , I tm 1LIVIN | i The Everyda; By REV. HERBERT 1 What do you have to show for ] having lived another year? The 1 New Year finds many people i ' thoughtful. Some make resolu- i ' tions which they keep; some make I resolutions which they break. I A correspondent once wrote de; scribing a copy of the painting by Watts, "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," which translated means, "So Passes Away the Glory of the World." The painting depicts a man lying ? still in death covered with a white 1 shroud. No part of the face or | body is exposed, but around the central figure are a number of , scenes depicting the various ex* periences of a man's life. From f these it is evident that he was j wealthy, educated and appreciative of art. ' In three corners of the painting these words appear: "What I spent, I; ) I had. What I kept, I lost. What I j 1 gave, I have." | } It takes most of us a long time f to *earn ^at we *'''9\ ^Wm wfllc^ we &lve e 1Mb ^JfI t aw ay- Thisl 11'' sounds like ai 1 It paradox, but we' i witness its truthfulness every day. ~ BMi kept , spent is of no use. Money spent 3 to purchase things for ourselves, ! we leave at death, if we keep g them that long. That which we give away represents an invest* ment in others, and we never 1 know its ending. 2 The Everyday Counselor colj umn is a modest effort to share 1 with others those experiences "! which have either come to the ** writer personally, or have been shared with him by others. When f a correspondent writes me relaty ing something which has been 3 holnfiil tn him I alwavs try to ?, , - pass it on that others may also S find help. The modern everyday comforts which we enjoy have come as a result of the sharing with mankind j of the research and inventions of men of science. ? This is pre-eminently true in y the realm of the spirit. Those blessings which come to us from Almightly God, often as a result of much effort and even suffer' ing, must be shared with others if we are to enjoy their blessings to . the fullest. Many people are! U fruitlessly good. Their virtues; _ are negative. They never learn to j share wtih others the blessings of' God, which bring the only true joy and happiness into the heart, n True virtue is fruitful only in; [- sharing. EDITOR'S NOTE: The third __ edition if Dr. Spaugh's little book 1. on successful living "The Pathway to Contentment" is now available. Orders may be sent to The Every aay counselor, box bUdb, cnar-1 1, * j&1s& anp mm ill ?.c I SUfiF". t T7i g ^ it ?t LLITE y Counsellor ' SPAUGH, D. D. 1 lotte 7, N. C. The price of the book is $1.00 postpaid. It also may be secured from your book- ' store. CAN YOU REMEMBER? 5 Years Ago 1 At the Smoky Mountain Court 1 of Honor held in Whittier, tenderfoot awards were made to John H. 1 Robinson, Jr., Clarence H. Dil- 1 lard, Rufus Dillard, Homer Ray Davis, Joe Wilde and Harold Morgan. Dan Allison left Monday for Raleighr where he will represent Jackson county in the present session of the general assembly. The first baby to be born in Jackson county this year arrived' ane II LOD WITH Pi IN : BUILT FOR M GUARANTE 1 ( IhK!*^ < K >w ( ^L ' *' I * !? ! I I i U k~ 1' r mm^ ^2^^2TLJ*tJl22l22***liLe2 e?LBiefl6Le!22I*eee^ WHAT OTHER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN? The Franklin Press What would happen, should jvery man, woman, and child in his county resolve this New Year ;o do his or her best, every day n the year, to make Macon Couny a better place to live? Reform and improvement, like :harity, begin at home. And the > !irst job of each of us, of course, ' s to make better individual lives; :hen better homes and family i ives; then better communities, rhat is important; that is fun- < iamental. But it is not enough. 1 To really do the job, we must i :hink of Macon County as a whole, 1 is a unit. And this county is a 1 init; for each neighborhood is de- < pendent, in one way or another, jn the rest of the county, and the ^ county is dependent, in one way 1 >r another, on each neighborhood. 1 Such an attitude, such an en- < ieavor, put into practice every 1 lay, would make 1950 the greatest rear in Macon County's history. , \nd it wouldn't cost a cent! PARKING METERS AN ASSET The Transylvania Tlmee (Brevard) After 31 months in operation, the parking meters in Brevard have fully paid for themselves and are now the sole property of the Lown. During the past two and oneat 9:35 A.M. in the form of a son weighing 9 pounds and 13 ounces to Pfc. and Mrs. James Ear wood Df Cherokee. Memorial services for Cpl. Harry A. Kirsch, who died in Germany on November 15, the husband of Hazel Allison Kirsch, will be held Sunday afternoon, Jan. 7, at the First Lutheran church in Asheville. 15 Years Ago Members of the 1934 Senior class held a reunion of the class . at the school cafeteria last Wednesday evening. 24 members were present with their sponsor, Miss Edith Buchanan, the grade mother, Mrs. E. E. Brown, and Prof. VOUNCl ISTALLATION OF NEW il TRUCK Ml rEW ALL PURPOSE FUL QI7CC TURIi ft Y UlfcLU I IIIIU VIM A [ud roads and pavee :ed to stand up undi road conditions ^ long life servh of roads ? si next re( I * ? Syln Tilt Phone 58 l % Pwmm 04++ \Tis? * J0. M *?$||| ?2 Thursday, Jan. 5, 1950 PAPERS SAY S half years, a total of $30,263.75 J has been collected in them and I half of this amount has gone into the town treasury. This speaks mighty well for Brevard. In many places where meters have been installed, they have been operated at a loss, and in some instances, the meters wetfe removed being in use for only few months. The parking meters here are unquestionably an asset to tie town. No one has suffered because of the few pennies it tak&s to park in the business section eft the town, and at the same tinpe the increased cost of town opeifa. tion has been taken care of without raising the tax rate here* / An even brighter side of tine parking meter subject is the fict that in the future the 10 to u2 thousand dollars collected in theita annually win go mio me ww? treasury. - \ Make a New Year's resolution not to begrudge the brownies lit will take in 1950 to park uptown. and Mrs. W. C. Reed. , Miss Noracella McGuire will go to Atlanta tomorrow to resume her studies in Southern Dental College after?spending the tyblidays with her parents, Drs^ McGuire. Miss Virginia Picklesimer has returned to Salem, Va., after spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. S. W. Bryson. 20 Years Ago Prof. C. H. Allen of Cullowhee will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Sylva P.-T.A. next Monday afternoon. Miss Louise Mason who is a student at the Asheville Normal spent*- the vaction with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Mason. The past week was observed at WC.T.C. as "live at home ^ek'\ complying with a request o^^v. Gardner $or all state institutions to do this. Miss Mattox, dietitfon planned every meal in such a way as to use only N. C. products as far as possible and practicable. :ng i )LD