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Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16
THE POWER OF SUGGESTION

HE POWER OF SUGGESTION
l believe that the newspaper is
the one most powerful force in tb;a
lleht tor justice, because success or
failure rests with public opinion
Defining public opinion, President
wilson says that back in the
country on the farms, in the shops
IN the hamlets, in the homes Of
cities, In the schoolhouse, where
men get together and are frank and
true with one an,ther, there come
trickling down the streams which
make the mighty force of the river
the river which is to drive all the
enterprises of human life as #
sweeps into the great common sea
OF humanity and there is where
the newspaper must do its work
The newspapers greatest strength
lies IN its power of suggestion. Bv
the persistent and intelligent use Of
this power the editor can hasten
the coming of the day when all the
people will demand justice. And
then, and not until then, will "
have justice. The people can have
anything they really want. Thew
wanted a government in his country
controlled by men instead of money.
They got it, and under God thew
will retain that government, no
matter what political party is il
control.
The remedy for democracy is
more democracy" All things can
be accomplished through the people
if we will approach the task Alright
We editors of North Carolina can
90 long way towards victory in
the fight if we will remember and
apply the profound truth uttered by
Woodrow Wilson: The flower does
not bear the root, but the root the
flower. Everything that blooms in
beauty in the air of heaven draws
its fairness from its roots. Moth
ing living can blossom into fruitaee
unless through the nourishing stalks
deep-planted in the common soil.
The rose is merely the evidence of
the vitality of the root; and the
real source of its beauty, the very
blush that it wears upon it's tender
cheek, comes from those silent
sources of life that lie hidden in
the chemistry of the soil, up from
the silent bosom of the earth. rise
the currents of life and enerev
Up from the common soil, I'D from
the quiet heart of the people rise
joyously today streams of hope and
determination bound to renew the
face OF the earth in glory Citizen
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16
SOUND SENSE

/
Extract from speech of Vice.
president Sanford Martin, of the
North Carolina Press Association at
Montreal N. C.
But, my friends, it is not of Eu
rope and it is not of America that
wish to speak. 1t is about North
Carolina and her relation to the new
fight tn It l am chiefly concerned.
conceive three fundamental achieve
ments to be necessary before we can
say that the fight foD Justice has
been won in our own state. There
can be no such thing as justice until
all of our people are given an equal
opportunity to secure an education,
to avoid disease and to obtain and
hold property.
I'VE shall be very unfortunate if
we fall into the error of thinking
that the fight for education is won
in North Carolina. l know that we
have made great progress:I know
that during the last twelve years we
have averaged building a school
house every day in the year and
during the last two years we have
built 800 schoolhouses, But we are
foolish to boast when it can be said
that last year nearly 10000 child
rem of our state were not in school
anywhere; when it can be said that
there are among us yet 100000 adult
men and women who cannot read
and write their own names. Surrey
we have long way yet to 90 when
it can be said of a typical North
Carolina city that 5000 children
were in school and 5000 out and
every school building crowded.
Rather should we hang our heads
in shame when we know that nearly
$4,000 children under sixteen years
OF age were toiling in our manu-
featuring industries last year, and it
is said that fifty Ger cent of them
were illlterate.
ONLY 44c FOR SCHOOLS
This is day for commercialism
The people of America spent $780,
100000 for automobiles in 1914
more than was spent on all the pub
lie educational institutions of the
country. We are putting other things
ahead of the child in the scheme of
life. We are defying the dollar and
trampling upon. the human soul. If
that were not so it could not be said
OF us that we spent only forty-four
cents per capita last year for the
educ alton of our children. The rea-
son why we have no better schools
IS that we won't put up the money
necessary to get better schools. The
reason why we have no better teach
ers is that we are not willing to paw
the price.
A PLEA FOR THE COUNTRY
SCHOOL.
I'VE have been putting the en-
phasis on the wrong place. The best
schools and the best teachers are
in our cities, when they should be in
the rural districts. Eight-tenths of
our children are on the farms. But
our textbooks are written for the
city child, as one educator puts it.
Year after year we have been fore
Ing our children to 60 to school and
acquire arithmetics and adenoids
history and hookworm, algebra and
astlematism. cube root and con-
sumpdon. Caesar and spinal curva-
ture' We are trying to citify the
country school. The purely academic
a mas been emphasized except how to
live and maka q = IS:
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16
comes out of school. The city chill

dren nave been given the long term.
and the country children the short
term, thereby reversing the teach
ings of Christ as set forth in the
parable of the talents. For if you
want to find the ten-talent child 60
seek for him in the country. There
is great man on the way to North
Carolina. Tonight he is not racing to
the movies and he is not wasting
the hours in the billiard parlor or the
dance hall. Tomorrow you will not
find him at the corner drug store
drinking dopes and his fingers will
not be yellow with smoking cigar
cites. | will tell you where you will
find him Tomorrow he will be out
in Gods great field following a mule,
and as he watches the rich soil
turned to be kissed by the summers
sun he will be dreaming dreams and
seeing visions. Tomorrow evening
ne will call the cattle home, and to-
morrow night he will walk out in
the orchard, his soul will be thrilled
by the song of the mockingbird and
the call of the whippoorwill, and he
won't forget to look up through the
trees and never cease to wonder
what makes the stars shine. The
men who are to govern North Caro-
lima forty years from now are little
farmer boys today. know they are
because they always have been. And
we editors of the state will be re-
creant to our sacred duty if we fail
to strike blow for justice for the
children of the farms.
FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE.
But there is something more inn
portant than universal education.
Victory in the fight against diseae
will mean more to us right now than
any other triumph. For what will
other achievements amou It to if we
lose that fight? like to think of
Jesus not only as a teacher and a
preacher but as physician as we'll
For his disciples tell us that he heal
ed many If I know how to read the
Bible, the county health officer is
just as much a minister of Christ
as any preacher that stands in our
pulpits. Dr. Watson S. Rankin, who
is leading the warfare against dis
ease in North Carolina, is Just as
much missionary of the Gospel as
any minister that ever crossed the
ocean to preach salvation to the
yellow heather. Forty thousand
people died in our state last year
During the war between the states
North Carolina sent $4,000 men
into the Confederate army. Of these
counting those who died on the
battlefield from wounds received |
or from sickness contracted during
the war only 41,OOO were lost. Yet
in the year 1914, year of peace
not four years of Wharf.-The state lost
over 10000 of her population.
THE LAND PROBLEM.
Nor can we say that the fight for
justice is won until we find the solu-
ton of the land problem. Unless
we call halt to the drift of our
land into the hands of a few the
time is not far distant when we will
find ourselves facing the condition
Lincoln declared was an impossible
condition; mo nation can live half
free and half slave. Forty-three per
cent of our farmers are tenants
Nearly half of our men who live on
the farm have been robbed of that
fine sense of proprietorship and in
dependence which has character
lied the farmers yeomanry that
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

to them that Join house to house,
that lay fiel | to field. till there be
no place that they may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth.
After all that was said on the
subject last year, it is unnecessary
to discuss the gu 'stion of taxation
before this audience. But I am still
convinced the farmer vote of the
state as shown in the taxation
amendment returns to the contrary
not withstanding-that our system
of taxation is chiefly responsible
for the existence of the land problem.
A system which permits a minimum
tax on unused land encourages the
land-grabber to do his worst. There
are 31.193,60O acres of land in this
state, but only $4,000 acres are
in cultivation and producing crops.
Allowing for pasturage and hills
and swamps, there remain s 456, 900
acres that ought to be producing
crops, but are idle, Divide this into
8O-acre tracts and you have room
for 1O5.632 new farms in North
Carolina. |. you want to see this
great state blossom like a rose, force
the vacant land on the market and
into use by taxing it at it's value.
Fulfill the dream of Gods ancient
prophet, who foresaw the time when:
They shall sit every man under his
vine and under his fig
tree. aud. none hall make
them afraid. When that time COM S,
when every farmer tills the soil
which he himself owns, then and
not unil then will the farms of,
North Carolina begin to produce
enough to feed the people of North
Carolina, and in that good day it
will no longer be said, as it is said
today, that we send $4,000,O00 out
of our own state every year to en-
rich the farmers of the west.
OUR MOST DANGEROUS FOE.
The fight for justice will not be
won in a day, any more than the
fight for liberty was won in a day.
The enemy is too strongly entrench-
ed ana the reforms we seek are too
fundamental and far reaching for
us to hope to win our fight quickly.
President Wilson says that Amer:.c
is not so much a place as it is a
hope, but in the struggle to fulfill
the hope, fear there is grave
dangers ahead. Sometimes think
the worst foe we have to face is not
in the camp of the enemy, but with
in our own ranks. The most dan e.
erous man is the amateur reformer.
He is seeking remedies without first
causes he wants to cure t he
disease rather than prevent it; he
thinks the world is new because he
is new; he flatters himself that he
is the inventor of a brand new idea
because he has just discovered for
himself some principle that the
philosophers of Greece were dis
cussing nearly three thousand
years ago; he has no more sense
than to think that he can lay the
tOpmost brick of his building with
out regard to the foundation stone,
and he would discard as useless
and out out-of-date most of the
fundamental principles of govern
ment that have come down to us
as rich heritage from the founders
Of this republic; like the race horse,
he fancies he is going somewhere
because he is moving fast, only to
come back to the starting point in
the end: change to him mea or nsn-
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16
FRIDAY. JULY Is 1915.
SUNSET
JOHN CHARLES MCNEIL.

JOHN CHARLES MCNEIL.
Hills raped in gray standing along
the west;
Clouds, dimly lighted, moving slo IL
The Star of Peace at watch above
the crest;
Oh holy, holy, holy.
We know, 0, Lord, so little what is
best;
Wingless we move so slowly;
But in Thy calm acknowledge let
us rest,
Oh, holy, holy, holy.
The Bible Conference begins Au-
gust 1. A word to the wise chicken
is sufficient. y
Dog days will soon be here. Pre-
pare to treat them kindly.
Summer boarders and some 'er
not. but Sylvia has its share of Wis
itOrs.
Which also shows that the tour
lists are getting wise.
A man and maid and a sum-
mer resort" -Doggone it, we SEE
it every day.
Trunk full of liquor in posses
sion of police Waynesville Cou-
rier. And to think Waynesville has
such small police force.
Life and other magazines are de-
termined to make great man of
JOsephus Daniels.
A company of boosters" from all
along the route attended the meet
ing of the North Carolina Good
Roads Association, in Asheville this
week, in the interest of the Ashe
ville-Murphy-Atlanta Highway.
We suppose it is fact that at
Beaver Mills, Pa, last week Miss
Emiline Prudence Goode and Mr..
George S. Damn were united in
the bonds of holy wedlock, the Rev.
G. S. Heller officiating Greens-
boro Daily News. Is that what you
would call a Damn Goode time.
The many, many friends of Col.
}. D. Calhoun will learn with deep
regret of his death at his Tampa
home this week. Col. Calhoun has
been spending his summers ia Syl-
va for number of years and was
an enthusiastic booster of SYLVIA
and Jackson county. He formed
many friendships here and we feel
that in his going true friend has
left us.
Sylvia has a base ball team of
which we are justly proud. The
game played here Wednesday was
an exhibition of merit. The local
boys defeated the Camp Cherokee
aggregation to the tune of 7 toe
-
The singing class from the Ok
ford Orphanage will give their an
nual concert in the auditorium next
Thursday evening. 1t is unnecessary
to advertise this event at any length,
for the Oxford Singing Class is too
we'll known to need boosting. An
announcement of the date of their
concert and crowd is assured.
There Is no Dartalitv ar neutral;.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Dog days will soon be here. Pre-.
pare to treat them kindly.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

A company of boosters" from all
along the route attended the meet
ing of the North Carolina Good
Roads Association, in Asheville this
week, in the interest of the Ashe
observation-disclosures Highway.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Entered as second class mail matter at
Postofice at sylvia NJ.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Life and other magazines are de-
termlned to make great man Of
JOsephus Daniels.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Trunk full of liquor in posses
sion of police" -Waynesville Cou-
rier. And to think Waynesville has
such small police force.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

The Bible Conference begins Au-
gust l. A word to the wise chicken
is sufficient.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

A man and a maid and sum-
mer resort. "-Doggone it, we SEE
it every day.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Which also shows that the tour
lists are getting wise.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Summer boarders and some 'er
not. but Sylvia has it's share of Wis
itOrs.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

Sylvia has base ball team of
which we are justly proud. The
game played here Wednesday was
an exhibition of merit. The local
boys defeated the Camp Cherokee
aggregation to the tune of 7 toe.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

We suppose it is fact that at
Beaver Mills, Pa, last week Miss
Emiline Prudence Goode and Mr.
George S. Damn were united in
the bonds of holy wedlock, the Rev.
G. S. Heller officiating Greens-
boro Daily News. Is that what you
would call a Damn Goode time.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

There is no partality or neutrali.
ty OF opinion save that of ignorance.
1t is inevitable that the human
mind sympathize with ane side sef
every question or issue that pre-
SCENTS itself. The preference Of the
mind are'more matters Of instinct.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-07-16

dllU OUT OuC-OI most OF the
fundamental principles of govern
ment that have come down to us
as a rich heritage from the founders
of this republic; like the race horse,
he fancies he is going somewhere
because he is moving fast, only to
come back to the starting point in
the end; change to him mea or nsp-
gress and he prides himself on be-
ing progressive when in reality he
is only poor. deluded fellow who
has mistaken a commotion for a
movement. He is the man who is
trying to find a short cut to victory
in the fight for justice and is ready
to stake all on a single charge
against the trenches of the enemv
In the march where justice prevails
there are no short cuts. In the
warfare we are waeinf the battle
will be won by the army that acts
in accordance with a well-planned
campaign and follows q definite
line Of attack.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-16
NEWS OF THE SPORTING WORLD
PARK GOLF CLUB Meeting
Annual Report Shows Money in the
Treasury-W. F. Darby Re-
elected President

Thirty members of the Harrisburg
Park Golf Club attended the annual
meeting in the office of Park Commits
sioner Taylor in the Calder building
last evening. W. F. Darby was re.
elected president.
The treasurer report for the last
year showed the financial condition OF
the club to be good. The members ex.
pect to occupy the proposed new locker
house near the old one by April /
Work on this structure will be started
as soon as the warm weather makes
working conditions possible.
The following officers were elected.
Vice president, M. A Seely; secretary.
treasurer, George Carl, also reelected
professional, Stewart McEwan; locker
house man, Frank Zimmerman, re.elect.
ed. The following are the names of the
newly-elected executive committee.
George W. Vint, Howard Perry. VIII
liam Pavord, c. H. Hunter, E. keister.
W. f. Darby and George Carl.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-16
Students ADMISSIONS
Princeton President Wants Fee to
Sporting Events Made
Nominal One

Princeton, N. j., Feb. 16.-Parke Il.
Davis, Princeton member of the inter
collegiate football rules committee, has
taken up the subject of the exorbitant
prices charged for admission to the
various sports. According to his figures
a student at Princeton would have had
to pay $31.75 to have attended all OF
the contests that were held in Prince
ton last year. He further cites the ex'
amples of the western colleges where a
special price for students is charged, in
many cases the students payisg a HAT
rate for admission to all athletic con-
tests.
President Hibben IS report has burn
ed attention to this subject, for he ex-
pressed the hope that the day would
soon come when the students would be
admitted to witness their own sports at
a merely nominal charge or without ad-
mission at all.
After discussing the various methods
of financing the sports at other insti-
tutions, Mr.. Davis points out that at
Princeton there are twelve different
branches of sport, only three of which
are self-supporting, the surplus from
baseball and football making the other
athletics possible. Mr.. Davis concludes:
Competition for membership upon the
representative teams of Princeton in
these twelve sports invited the partici-
patton last year, directly and indirect
ly, of half the total number of under
graduates. Only three of these were
self-supporting. The surplus receipts
from football and baseball alone made
it possible for these sports to exist in
an organized form for the great num-
ber of men involved to participate
therein. Therefore, the proposition to
abolish all admission fees cannot be
seriously considered until it comes with
suggestion of adequately financing in
tercollegiate sport in some other way"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-16
MCCORMICK Will referee
Former Yale Athlete to Run Academy
Indoor Meet on Friday
Evening

The following officials for the Har.
risburg Academy indoor meet, to be
held Friday evening in the Chestnut
street auditorium, was announced late
yesterday:
Referee and starter-Vance G. Nc
Cormick, Yale; H. Elmore Smith, Dick
inson.
Judges of race and dumb bell drills
Ross A. Hickok, Yale; John Fox
Weiss, Princeton; Wilbur Morse, Sr.,
Harvard; A. Boyd Hamilton, University
of Pennsylvania; Roy G. Cox, Prince
ton; P. B. Price, Gettysburg.
Judges of jumps, shotput and tug
of-war-John L. Fox, Lafayette; Fran
els j. Hall, Princeton; John c. John
son, Bucknell; Raymond D. Kennedy,
Bowdoin.
Timers-Ross A. Hickok, Yale;
Thomas d. Macmillan, Yale; Floyd APP
pleton, Columbia; w. Harry Musser,
Princeton; NJ. Harvey Taylor, Superin-
tendent Of Parks.
nspector-Richard f. Robinson
Princeton
Clerk of course-Roger w. Tatem
Randolph Mason.
Scorers-I.aurence W. Phipps, Yale
Sherman A. Allen, Brown; Raymond d
Kennedy.
Announcer-Mercer B. Tate, Lehigh
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-16
PLAN TO PERPETUATE The
TRl-STATE LEAGUE TO Play
Club Representatives Gathered in Hotel
Majestic in Philadelphia For the
Annual Confab-To Fix Circuit and
the Salary Limit

| The sentiment Of the Tri-State own
ers having been expressed at a commit
tee meeting in New York some time age
that the league should continue TINS
year, the principal thing for the repre-,
sentatives assembled for the annual
session in the Hotel Majestic, Phlladel'
phia. this afternoon was laying plans
to perpetuate the dear old game in this
circuit.
Every local plan throughout the clr-
cult depends on the outcome OF TO-DAY >
meeting. No contracts have been sent
to the hold over players as yet ana In
MANY instances, like Harrisburg, no
managers have been hired. All OF the
clubs are depending on new salary
maximum which will no doubt be fixe
The entire baseball world is facing
a slim season and the minor leagues
are going to be the worst sufferers ana
there must be economy. That seems TO
be the chief work these days and the
Tri-State will eeonomize along with the
rest of the baseball world. Some OF the
important things that the magnates Will
do this afternoon are:
Name the cities in the circuit.
FIX the club and individual salary
limit.
Decide when to mail contracts to Re-
serve players.
Fix schedule limits.
Hundreds of details other than those
important measures will be attended to-.
The sense of the league is that six
teams be the make up this season, TO
include Easton and one other outside
city. but with the Trenton franchise IN
Phillipsburg there will be hitch in the
plans so as to make necessary other
changes Beside Trenton, Wilmington,
York and Lancaster are on the ragged
edge and may not go back in the game.
The prevailing opinion is that the
new club salary limit should be S1t2OO
with an individual limit of S10O. This
would mean very few old faces back
on the diamond, as most of the players
could get other jobs at better salaries
than the Tri-State could pay under that
salary appropriation.
Mercer B.. Tate and William S. Tunis
represented Harrisburg in the league
councils. This evening they will attend
the Philadelphia Sporting Writers din
ner in the Hotel Majestic in Philadel-
phia. President George NJ. Graham, of
the Tri-State, will hold the stop watch
on the speakers at the dinner this even
ing.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-16

According to a rumor emanating from
Baltimore, the football advisers of
Johns Hopkins University are negotiat-
ing with Charles e. Brickley, the IA
nous Harvard back, whose kicking abiI-
ity figured largely in the victories OF
the Crimson team until he was forced
out Of the game through illness, with
a view of signing the Harvard star
to coach the Black and Blue foot
ball squad next fall. The university au-
thorities realize that If their efforts to
secure Brickley are successful they will
have acquired the services of capable
coach, and they are also we'll aware of
the fact that the Harvard drop kicker's
connection with the university will
probably result in gaining for the
varsity considerable prestige in ath-
letic circles.