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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18
STATE SCHOOL ENROLMENT
GAINS DURING PAST YEAR

The average daily attendance for
all public schools in the state for the
past year was 761, GOA gain of 1920
pupils over the preceding year &C
cording to figures compiled at the
state school commission in Raleigh.
Daily attendance in the elementary
schools declined 1920. However, a
gain of 8, GIG in the high schools de-
partment more than made up for the
loss in the lower grades.
Enrolment for the past year was
833, 800, a decrease of 1905 from the
previous year.
1t is estimated that more than
23,50O teachers will be employed in
the public schools of the state during
the coming school year to instruct
more than three-quarters of a mil
lion students.
Of the total number of children in
school last year 265, 900, or more than
35 per cent, were transported to the
schools. More students are transport
ed to schools in North Carolina than
in any other state.
The average daily attendance in
public schools of the state for the
past five years was: 1930-31, SOL 1896;
1882, 728,265; 1928, 75O-814;
1933-34, 759,548; 19S4-35, 761,6O4.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18
SERVICES AT HELTON AND
GREENWOOD CANCELLED


A recent fright regarding infan-
tile paralysis near Sturgills has caus-
ed Rev. c. W. Russell to cancel SER
vices at Helton and Greenwood Meth
odist Churches Sunday. According to
Mr.. Russell, there may be no services
at these churches for the next month
but an announcement will be made
later.
Further announcements will also
be made regarding services at other
churches, and the Vacation Bible
School will be delayed until later
date.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18
Secretary of State School Commission
Explains Predicament North
Carolina Is in

Following the news that the state
school funds will not be sufficient for
the raising of all teacher salaries in
the state twenty per cent, as was an
nounced during the last days of the
1885 General Assembly, Leroy Mar
tin, secretary to the State School
Commission, made the explanation
given below in Raleigh this week:
"The news sotries and most of the
talk about teachers salaries for the
new school year appear to be prema-
ture. 1t should be borne in mind that
neither the state school commission
nor the state board of education has
yet adopted schedule and so far
as is known no one can say at pres
ent what action will be taken.
1t can be stated as a positive fact
that the state school commission will
see to it that every dollar possible out
Of the total sum available will be
paid to teachers. The record in the
past will prove this statement. Since
the commission first began to func-
ton, there has been a steady decrease
in the other school operating costs in
order that teachers might receive a
larger percentage of the total ex-
penditue. Due to economies in other
tins made possible under the new
state system, it is doubtful if in any
state as large a percentage of the
total school expenditures has found
its way to the teachers as has been
the case in this state.
at is my opinion that the commits
sion will attempt to carry out the law
as written which apparently makes
mandatory writing new schedule
for teachers and principals. A new
schedule has already been written for
county superintendent. 1t is very
gratifying to know that the schedule
written for teachers and principals
by this same commission two years
ago has been so satisfactory that ap-
parently many do not want it chang
ed in any respect. Is it not possible
that the same group might devise a
schedule which would be an improve
ment over that now in effect? A
horizontal increase of a fixed per-
centage would assume that the old
schedule was perfect.
Funds Seen as Inadequate
"As to the funds promised by the
last general assembly to pay teach
ers and principals, it does not appear
that a sufficient amount is available
to increase each teacher 20 per cent
and in addition employ 200 more
teachers, allow for a $40 yearly in
crease for each teacher having less
than the maximum experience credit,
and allow more than 1000 teachers
a still further increase because of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18

DESIGNS, CUT FLOWERS, and
PLANTS may be had on short
notice from Mrs. w. F. Miller, florist,
Boone, N. C. Write or phone her your
needs and great care will be taken in
filling your orders. III
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18

Summer hats, suits, voil dresses,
white shoes, sport coats, blouses, and
skirts-all going at greatly reduced
prices at McNeill's Store in West
Jefferson-the second door from the
Jeffersonian Thatre.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18

FOR SALE-I have the agency for
the New Idea Wagon and Farm
equipment. Will trade and allow you
liberal amount for your old wagon
or equipment. Be sure to see me be-
fore you buy. G. w. Taylor, Smeth-
port, N. C.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18

EDWARDS will leave West Jefferson
Saturday, July 18th, at z a. m.
for Bel Air, Md. Reduced rates. For
information and reservation see Carl
Miller, West Jefferson, N. C. or w. B.
Edwards, Darlington, Md.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18

If you want to save money on new
suit, dress, shoes. hat, or anything
to wear-trade at McNe;ll's Store.
West Jefferson, N. C.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18
he Tie
WANT
ADS
Csc Per Want ADJ

FOR SALE-One 1928 Chevrolet
truck, four speeds, good tires, no
tags. Price $50. One 1923 Chevrolet
coach with tags $45. Central Garage,
West Jefferson, N. C.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-07-18
Statesmen Wanted

WANTED-Man to start in business
selling widely-known products to
satisfied consumers. Complete line.
Largest company; established 1889.
BIG EARNINGS. No capital or ex-
perience needed. Write for free par
ticulars. Rawleigh's, Box NCG-249-1,
Richmond, Va.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

Motors asks toward this worthy objective
which that objective attained depends
So thinking for l936buy There
should be purchased 1t
the or later.
problem public Importance wih General Motors recog
primary ueH secondary responsibility This problem
involves the but the highway and still Importantly
the driver and the pedestrian.
consider the primary responsibility Safety involves
construction well maintenance
The turret will all General Motors 1886
This of solid with the supporting members
with the and with the main the body itself Adequate
strength provided safety the event unusual
This has been amply demonstrated by experience.
Kneeacion, independent spnng while looked only as
Evening star., 1935-04-03
The Pony Express.

Seventy-five years ago today the
Pony Express, designed to link East
and West by mail, was established,
1t was on April 3, 1860, that one rider
left st. Joseph, Mo-, and another Sac
ramento, Calf, on the first schedule
of the new concept of postal service.
The difficulties in the path of success
were numerous, but the sponsors ac-
cepted them as the inevitable handi-
caps of any such human enterprise
and philosophically dealt with them
as they developed, Their faith was
predicated on a comprehension of the
need for the thing they were essaying
to do. The time had come, as they
believed, when American civilization
on the Atlantic seaboard should be
and could be correlated with Ameri-
can civilization on the Pacific Coast.
If their theory was sound, their serv-
ice would be popular.
But it was imperative that the
personnel of the service should be
equal to the demands which distance,
weather, hostile Indians and rowing
white bandits put upon it. To provide
a code for the guidance of the riders
and for the governance of their con-
duct the hackers of the venture asked
Evening star., 1935-04-03

them to take an oath against profane
language. intoxicating liquors, quar-
reling or fighting with fellow employees
and other temptations and sins.
Eighty men were hired on these
terms at one hundred dollars a month,
and relay stations were established at
intervals Of fifty or sixty miles along
the route There were five hundred
ponies" assigned to different points,
ready for use. Alexander Majors and
w. M. Russell were in charge of opera
tions, and it was their hope that the
Federal Government soon could be
persuaded to award contracts for the
transportation of letters by the riders
of their route.
The enterprise, however, was
doomed to failure. BY the eGd of
October, 1861, the partners had lost
a half million dollars, and the Civil
War had convinced them that there
was no efficiency in further endeavor
But they had the satisfaction inherent
in an honest effort, and when the
tardy Government eventually inau-
gurated its own transcontinental
system their dream came true. They
had pioneered the way, and had paid
the penalty of their vision and their
courage.
The anniversary of the Express
finds the Nation bound together by
railroads, airways, telegraph, tele-
phone and radio as we'll as by nde-
finable but equally powerful ties of
mutual interest. And it will do no
harm if the beneficiaries of each and
all of these ties will remember that
they came into being, have been
maintained and are being operated by
human souls like themselves not
utterly devoid of character and genius
commensurate with the requirements
of life in a world where nothing
worth doing is easy to do.
Evening star., 1935-04-03

ish attitude toward II Duce's activity
in the region of the Ethiopian realm.
Yet another restraining influence
at Rome is a visible lack of Italian
popular enthusiasm over the whole
Abyssinian venture. There is a grow
ing realization that a colonial cam
paign is a terribly expensive affair,
and Fascist finances are in no shape
to stand undue strain. With the un-
certainties now hanging over Europe,
with the probability, in particular,
that Nazi designs on Austria would
be rekindled if Italy were involved
in extensive military operations in
Africa, Mussolini has ample reason
at least for postponing any aggressive
plans he may cherish for expanding
his colonial empire at Abyssinia's eX-
pense. All in all, the outlook for
peace in East Africa seems to be i'm
proved.
Evening star., 1935-04-03
Italy and Abyssinia.

Whether because of the sudden
caused by Germany's re-armament
program or for other reasons, Musso-
hni has embarked upon no warlike
operations against Abyssinia. His
maneuvers to date have been confined
to troop movements to Eritrea and
Itahan Somaliland, but nothing SAVIOR
ing Of military attack on the Ethio-
plans has been launched.
During the past few days there
have been two developments which
may explain Italy's reluctance really
10 60 to war with Emperor Halle
6elassie's tribesmen. One is the
urgent appeal of Abyssinia to the
League of Nations for immediate ar
bitration of the dispute with Italy.
The appeal virtually charges Italy
with desire to effect the conquest
of the Ethiopian empire. Halle Selas-
sic proposes time limit of thirty
days, to be agreed to by Rome, dur
ing which both countries should ap-
point arbitrstors to negotiate a peace
full settlement at League headquarters
m Geneva or in neutral London or
Paris. Abyssinia tells the League that
Italy's military concentrations in East
Africa leave no doubt of its aggressive
intentions
The other development that may
be giving Mussolini pause in his
Ethiopian program is the revelation
that Great Britain, despite popular
assumptions to the contrary, has def
inite misgivings regarding it. London,
It appears, has reminded Rome of the
Anglo-Franco- Italian treaty of 1906,
guaranteeing the independence Of
Ethiopia as the only remaining
African kingdom. The British fear
that an attack on the Abyssinians
might produce an anti-white reac-
tion throughout Africa, which would
have repercussions in Britain's African
possessions. Also, in the event of an
Italo-E Ethiopian war, British troops
would probably have to be sent to
the Sudanese- -Abyssinian frontier. On
these various accounts, italy has
sensed a distinct cooling of the Brit
Evening star., 1935-04-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Wonderland.
Alice-Sweet Alice-some things you
have missed.
If you should return you might add to
your list
Of marvels displayed in a Wonderland
new
And labeled today with the words
strange but true"
Alice-Sweet Alice-Words lie on the
shelf.
The alphabet talks all alone by itself,
The little white pig like a rabbit will
And mad hatters are going high-hat
just for fun.
Alice-Sweet Alice-the fields that we
prize
Are carried aloft on wind through
the skies.
The toves that are slithy-whatever
that means
Write verses befitting mysterious
scenes.
Alice-Sweet Alice-when you have
gone through
This fanciful world that was fashioned
for you,
Oh, please, when at Dreamland you've
taken look,
Climb back between covers and shut
up the book.
Evening star., 1935-04-03
Huge Conservation Job Seen
Ahead in Dust Scourge Area

"a vast and foolish project of dry
farming, on land suitable only for
grazing doubtless is largely to blame
for Americas new ordeal Of dust" in
the Judgment of the Oklahoma News,
which concludes that folly always
is costly" and warns that projects
in soil conservation and restoration
will be tedious, discouraging and cost
ly." The Jackson (Miss) Daily News
quotes a statement by H. H. Bennett,
director of Interior Department soil
erosion service, that America has
wasted its soil resources more rapidly
than any other country in the world"
The storms" according to the
Flint (Mich) Journal, have brought
forth new warnings that unless farm
ers give up intensive cultivation of
the soil there, it may become the
great American desert
Doubling the popular explanation
of the storms. the Wichita Kans)
Eagle says: The plowed grasSlands
origin of the storms is now on every
tongue. If the prairies had not been
plowed up it is said, there would
be no dust storms This is plain
balderdash. Dust storms, while in
frequent in occurrence, appeared in
this section in the 70s when virtually
none of this prairie was broken out.
In the Fall of 1878 a black storm
swept across Kansas in day out
of the West which has not been
paralleled since. Western Kansas and
Oklahoma were all turf then. and the
foothills of the Rockies, not plowed
then and not plowed now, were held
responsible"
In the Pacific Northwest the news
papers express pride in fertile lands
protected by trees and streams against
such visitations. Describing the con-
ditions farther east, the Yakima
(WaSh) Daily Republic states that
back there the weather has hardly
an idle moment; if it doesn't rain,
it SHOWS; if there isn't drought,
there is a tornado; cyclones harry the
country, but If they are quiescent for
a moment. along comes a hot wave
or a grasshopper plague" The Port
land Oregon Journal remarks that
mo deed can hold land where drought
works in Winter as in Summer, to
loosen the particles of soil and make
them the play of the wind. just as,
in places where trees happily grow,
the Leaves dance in Autumn"
Evening star., 1935-04-03

as others who seem to do more, but
he insists on taking his time about 1t.
Perhaps from time to time he has
told himself, in the secret places of
his own heart, that he ought to walk
faster, move faster, appear more in
keeping with the pep" of the times.
Even as he lectured himself, how
ever, he realized better than most that
it was no use. He was as he was, and
really could see no reason for aping
others.
So to do would be a going back on
himself, and no one ought to do that.
Good reform is one thing but this
matter of going back on ones own
self is something else. Every one
knows some misguided human who
has adopted poses, clothes, manners,
interests, not his own, but mostly
those of other people to whom, for
various reasons, he looks up"
Such person is not reforming, ex-
cept in a superficial way, but, rather,
defrauding himself, preventing his
own nature from being itself 1t is
a serious matter, more SO than a great
many persons realize.
Some persons seem to think that
to be ones self means to permit all
the plain cussedness in their nature
to come out, but that is on a par
with the idea of the same sort of
people that to do as one pleases"
means to do something they should
not do.
II is unfortunate that such ideas
prevail. for it is just as certain that
great many people, in being them
selves" will bring out the very best
in themselves; that in doing as they
please" they will manage to do a
great many very fine things.
We all know how it is when the
idea for a good deed springs into our
minds and hearts. Too often we
fail to do it because something in us
is ashamed, We do not know how an
other will take it." or whether We
will not be embarrassed more than he.
Such a good deed, however. if car
ried into effect, would be the best
part of us, part which too seldom
we exhibit to a curious world.
X X \
The lecture tone of voice, then, is
not anything which one can work up
deliberately, perhaps.
1t is a gift, which. if used with dis
cretion, will pay big dividends.
For surely its owner has open to
him, if a young man, many lines of
fine endeavor.
College professor, miniSter-the lee
ture tone helps immensely. One may
wonder if man can be success in
either without it. In all professions,
especially where authority is needed,
there is nothing quite so helpful as
this particular timbre. this broad
cast" of inner certainty
There are a great many other en-
deavors in which the same tone is
helpful, not alone to the owner or
user, but particularly to those who
seek his aid
The man who sells goldfish in the
1O-cent store sometimes can explain
the way the customer ought to care
for his pets more convincingly than
many another man who really knows
more about them.
Still, the lecture tone of voice is a
mystery. Is conceit at the bottom of
it, or real knowledge? 1t may be that
the person who possesses it has very
little sense of humor
Perhaps he is not quite sure of
himself. and puts it on to impress
others, in order to bolster his own be-
lief in himself
We are not quite sure, but always
admire the tone when We hear a
good specimen of it IN full swing.
Evening star., 1935-04-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Fortunate is the man who possesses
the lecture tone of voice.
He sounds as if he knows what he
is talking about. whether he does or
not.
And that is very helpful.
The lecture tone, as we call it, is
a cross between the holy tone" of
some ministers and the ordinary voice
of school teachers.
Neither of these excellent persons
realizes the plain fact audible to
others.
The accent of authority grows on
one, by vocation. so that after num-
ber of years it becomes part of the
personality.
Your average Army officer has the
"tone of command" down neatly by
training, but usually his children have
it better, just by listening to him.
X X 4 y
The lecture Tone" however, Is
something different.
1t seems to be the unconscious pos
session of certain persons, but whether
they inherit It, or work it up for
themselves, is a matter for study,
Age does not seem to make much
difference.
A boy of l9 with the lecture tone
already well developed is not rare.
He may be found to specialize" in
literature, for instance: then he de-
livers himself of veritable lectures
every time he talks about a given
author.
Not only is his voice pitched as
though to reach an audience, but
his arms and hands wave in harmony
with his inner light, which is very
considerable. evidently.
He does not talk as the rest of us
Now the question is, is he right, or
the rest Of us?
Perhaps the generality of mankind
would be better off if the same pur-
poseful tone of conviction were adopt
ed in everyday affairs.
Surely conviction is a real thing,
and does its work neatly. with dis
patch.
IIbUdUIN tIlt iIldJOlilS VI vi hllldI y
human beings are missing a bet. as
they say. if they fail to incorporate
into their daily talking that very def
mite and certain tone which helps
make others think they know what
they are talking about.
Still it is not easy to do, if one is
not born that way.
1t will remain question whether
by taking thought one can do this,
any more than one can achieve dis
tincticn in the fawning way If ones
inner disposition does not dictate it.
x x x X
BY taking thought, in this world,
one may achieve many things, but it
will ever remain a question whether
intelligence can successfully change
the real inner nature.
Consider the matter first in the
physical world.
Some people are slow motioned,
others quick.
Here is slight girl who walks as
if demon we're after her.
She fairly shakes the building,
merely in going along a corridor.
One of Washingtons most famous
old time teachers once spoke to an
entire assembly upon this matter, de-
claring in no uncertain terms that
such heavy walking on the part of
such slight little ladies had to stop.
1t did, for the time being-but, no
doubt, elsewhere the offenders walked
as of old, simply because it was in
their nature to walk heavy-footed.
Yonder goes a slow-motioned per-
son. He gets as much done in day
Evening star., 1935-04-03
Fair Treatment for the District.

An indication of the attitude which
prompted the Senators in their con-
sideration of the vastly improved
District appropriation bill which they
reported to the Senate today is found
in a statement by Senator Thomas
during the course of the hearings:
We want to give the District the
proper amount of money to operate
the city, for its different institutions
and facilities; so, when I find here
that you asked for S42 100000 and
the budget approved S40,000,000 and
the House cut that down to S39.000,-
600, 1t would seem to indicate that
the House bill is 100000 short Of
what the city needs.
The effort of Senator Thomas sub
committee, in examining the bill and
hearing the numerous witnesses, was
TO provide the money found necessary
TO support the Districts different
institutions and facilities" The Sen
ators listened carefully to the wit
nesses and on such testimony and their
oW~ knowledge of local affairs based
their judgment of what is necessary.
Without increasing the Federal
lump sum, it would be impossible to
finance the Districts necessary under
takings. With the lump sum raised
TO the compromise figure suggested
by the Commissioners-S8.3 100000, an
increase of about $2,6O0,o0O above the
current lump sum-the Senators have
been able to report bill which more
nearly represents that balanced
budget" for the District recommended
originally by the Commissioners last
Fall after they thoroughly overhauled
the estimates submitted by the NUM-
cipal department heads.
The Senate Appropriations Com
nittee has thus lived up to its own
traditions of fair treatment for the
District. The community is indebted
TO Senator Thomas and to the men,
bers of his subcommittee on District
appropriations, not only for the results
of their patient study of the Districts
needs but for the sympathetic con-
dderation and understanding of the
local taxpayers cause which were so
evident during the hearings on the
bill. The record of the Senate hear
ings, by the way, constitutes an ex-
ceptionally valuable document, con-
tanning as it does one of the most
complete statements of the Districts
case printed in many years.