Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1919-08-08
AT CENTENARY IS
DISGRACE TO this SECTION
Asheville Labor Advocate

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church utilization, Masonic fraternal-
|ly, and Rotarian extraordinary in
civic progress, returned a few days
ago from the Methodist Centenary
at Columbus, Ohio. At meeting
of the city commissioners held last
Thursday afternoon the question
of supporting the summer school
had been set as a special order OF
business. Mr.. Burton, among others, |
had been invited to be present
and express his views on the mat
ter. He did. And in urging tie
city to assist the summer school,
Mr.. Burton told of some of the
things he saw at the Methodist Gen.
tenary, among which was a scene
enacted and called a western NORTH
Carolina Exhibit" Mr.. Burton said
the sorriest kind of a log cabin. CT
shack. rather, had been built, to
represent the average home in the
mountain sect on of Carolina. An
old homemade bed-stead, rickety
three-legged table and old fashioned
puncheon seats, made by splitting
a log in two parts, turning the fiat
side up, with wooden sticks for sup
port, comprised the household fu1-
niture A big kettle suspended over
the fireplace, and an old fashioned
oven and top were the cooking uten-
sils.
SNUFF DIPPERS
The women who were represent
ing the women of Western North
Carolina were dressed in old dirty
calico dresses, big, ugly shoes, all
run down at the heel, split bonnets,
and each woman was industriously
scrubbing away with her toothbrush
dipping snuff and splitting all over
creation. When this scene was per-
, fected in the pageant. beautifully
dressed missionary. supposed to be
from Boston or New York, came
, tripping into the cabin, and began
the organization of a missionary
society. One of the natives" NOM
mated herself for president of the
: society and voted for herself in the
7 showing of hands. When it came
to the office of secretary. the mis-
sionary gal from Boston or New
York was told that she would have
to act as secretary, as none of the
natives could read or write.
After the misrepresentation had
been completed, Mr.. Burton being
from this heathenish and dark cor
ner of civilization. was called upon
: by the gentleman who had planned
and staged this menstrous affair
and libel to make short talk. Well
Mr.. Burton made the talk, but il
! was not the kind of talk that folks
expected. He told them that their
exhibit of Western North Caroline
was criminal misrepresentation
of facts. He told them some Other
things that could not be repeated
in the commissioners meeting, be.
cause there were some ministers
present, and Mr.. Burton was afraiC
Il of being "churched' if he repeated
= all the things he said at Columbus
PLEA FOR SCHOOLS
n He made powerful plea to thu
. commissioners and to the citizens t,
g do everything possible for the sum
mer school and for every other ed
. ucational measure that was brough
rs up. He stated that many thousand
of people throughout the countr,
+ believe that we are just as ignoran
= as that Internal picture at Colum
X bus showed us to be, and that it i
n only by pushing education to tn
g, very limit that we can show to tn
f world that all this tommyrot an,
J. poppycock talk about the ignoranc
re of Western Carolina is false an
IS without foundation.