1931 Will, SEE MOVEMENT OF
BACK TO THE FARM, SAYS EVANS
By George E. Evans, in the Farm
er* Federation Newt
The year 11*31 will b. a banner
year for back to the form movement.
With all business depressed and
factories running at their lowest ebb.
n<> public works to speak of. bank i
failures all over the country and !
thousands o** m n out ?>** work, it is j
now time for people to wake up and :
realize that they can't all live in '
towns and cities. History repeats J
itself, and the thou -amis of farms
that have been desert -d and turned ;
out to wr.ste during the past twenty
years all over the country must go
back into cultivation.
People who live on thc farm, and J
hone-t-to-goodness farm, thes, farms j
are doing very well these hard times.
The farmer that has his grainaries
tilled with wheat to make his flour,
his c.ibs full of codn. meat in hi- |
smokehouse, sows in his barn, pigs in
th pen, chickens in the barnyard
with plenty of grain and hay to feed .
them, potatoes and vegetables in his j
basement and cords of wood piled
up in his woodyard, can live at home
these hard times and have very little j
to worry about. If he needs a little
ready cash, let him grow a few acre?
of (rood burley tobacco and this will j
supply the ready cash for taxes, etc.
Th ttouble with most farmers these
days 's they do too much guess work
and do not plan their ? crops as they l
should. They use a mere of a hit- '
and-niiss method ? and generally miss j
more tb?n they hit. But the farmer
who plan a his crops well and diver
sifies his crops and trys to see how J
much he can produce per acre, in
stead of to see how many acres he
can cultivate, is the man that is mak
ing a suects at farming, and these
hardtimcs are not troubling him very
much.
We were very much impressed !
with the information gathered from j
the records of the farmers in Hen
Jctwk County - who gdw tomatoes
and beans for the \V. X. C. Cannery
at Hendevsonville t.hi8 year. The i
Ocannery records show that there '
were 80 farmers growing on con- J
tract and some of them produe d a-1 j
high as $195.00 per acre on beans j
sit .*1 cents ped pound, while others
run as low as $30.00 per acre. One i
farmer produced 16 tons of No. 1
tomatoes per acre, which brought
him at the rat ? of $.*520.00 per acre j
at the contract price of one cent per
pound. Some of the other contrac- I
tors produced from fiv. to eight 1
tons per acre. All these farmers liv- j
ed and farmed in the same county, j
and this great variation in produe- [
tion was not caused so much by soil I
or weather conditions, but can be I
contributed mostly to methods used, j
Rut it is encouraging to know that
the farmers of Henderson ounty are
wideawek to the possibilities of grow
ing vegetables for the YVesLciii j
North Carolina Cannery. We af- !
ready have our entir acreage signed 1
up for the year 1931, and instead
of using 80 farmers for this acreage,
25 took the entire acreage. The e
men are ones who have been grow
ing for the cannery for the past
three years and they have a vision of
its poisibilities. We predict th?t in
the next few years we will see can
neries all over North Carolina and j
then farmers will have a ready cash
market for their vegetables, fruits
and berries which will pay tlum a
nice margin of profit per acre. This
will be one of the way? we can bring
back prosperity to our country, and '
wherever you find prosperity on the j
favms you will find prosperous towns i
>?nd cities, for they ar? just as pros- j
perous as the country that hack them j
up.
The burley tobacco market that
opened at Asheville a few days ago
will prove a great help to Asheville
and all of Western North Carolina.
It will turn thousands of dollars of
new money into circulation, produc
ed out of the soil. The farmer who
has a good grade of burley tobacco
and it well graded i9 receiving a good
price this year, but it is sa dto see
the thousands of pounds that are be
ing sacrificed on account of poor
grading. We saw one pile of 450
pounds last week that only sold for
four cents per pound, and had this
pile of tobacco been properly grad
ed it would have brought more than
twice that amount.
We find one of the greatest trou
bles with farmers is they do not
properly grade and prepare their
crops for the markets. A good mer
chant miuat make an attractive dis
play of his merchandise and show
it to the best advantage possible; if
he does not, fae soon goes out of
business.. And that is one great trou
ble with) our farmers, they are not
A Letter To Hiwaii
From Martin's Creek
School and the Reply
Murphy, X. C.,
Oct. 14. 10:50. ;
Miss Frances A. Lemmon.
Kamehamcha Girl's School.
Honoluluu. Hawaii.
Dear Mis- Lemmon:
\Vt? are mailing to you under -cj - |
rate cover a leaf booklet made by I
some of our seventh grade pupiis as !
a pioject in nature study. These are
not half the variety of leaves \v0 have j
here, hut some of the mo* common
ones. This is a beautiful section ot
country, especially in the autumn j
when the mountains don their gay
colors.
Our school is situated on Highway
No. 10 about halfway between At
lanta. Ga.. and A-heville, N. C.
Thi re are. pupils in schoo1
Mrs. E. G. White is our principal. We
have a nice modern brick building
with modern equipment.
We should like very much to know
something of the life and schools in
Hawaii. We leain something about
your islands from our text-books. It
must be lowly there all the year
around.
Think of it Not a pupil in our
school has ever seen a Hawaiian, but
we like to hear the Hawaiian records.
We are strictly "hill-billies" and havc !
never seen other typ;s of people ex
cept the negro and a few Indians.
A letter from you about your work
would be very interesting to us.
Sincerely.
The Scv nth Grade.
Per Wilma Coleman.
KameKamchk bchool For Girls
Honolulu, H.
November 21, 1930.1
Dear Children of the Seventh Grade:'
Miss Lemmon. to whom you wrote
last month, is now in the main hos
pital in Honolulu, and she asked nu
to take care ot" your letter and the
splendid note-books and nuts which i
you so kindly sent.
My pupils who are in our seventh
grade will be delighted to reply. You
would be surprised if you knew how
many requests we have to write to
Mainland children. Sometimes these
Hiwaiian lassie are quite disappointed
for they write and write and receive
no reply.
Your note-books are very well,
done. The leaves are all familiar to
me as 1 happen to be a New England -
er. I cam: to Honolulu two years ago
from Hartford, Conn. Instead of!
traveling here in a direct route 1
came by way of the Great I^akes, Jas
j:ar National Park in Canada, Prince
Rupert and then I went away north
to Alaska. The Yukon was fascinat
ion, and I had many surprises in that
great "Lunu of the Midnight Sun."
I pickzd the largest and most beauti
ful American Beauty Roses in Skag
way which I have ever seen. Did you
ever associate gorgeous flowers with
Alaska? Can some pupil in your class
tiace my route from Conneticut to
Dawson, from there to Seattle, to
| Vancouver and then to Hawaii? The
peculiar loops in my journeys were i
made in order that I might visit sev- 1
cral friends before I left the main
land.
I am planning to have cach girl
take a seperate topic, to be written j
espili'ally for your class. Perhaps
some of these questions may arouse!
your curiosity concerning Hawaiian1
customs:
Do you know what "poi" is?
Have 3*ou seen the Hawaiian Of
ficial Seal?
Can you pronounce "Alol|a oe"
correctly?
Do you know how these Islands are
governed?
How many Nationalities live here?
Margaret M. Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Tillett and little
daughter, Kettie Anna, Mrs. C. D.
Dorseyv Mrs. A. B. Chandler and< Miss
Julia Warriner motored to Murphy on
Wednesday of last week.
pood merchandisers and do not un
(Jer?tand how to grade their crops so
as to make the best possible display,
which is always necessary if they ex
pect to get the top price.
Thousands of people who are now
out of jobs and none in sight should
turn their minds back to the oW home
stead and think o* the good old boy
hood days on the farm, and resolve
to return in the year 1931 and start
life anew and make an honest-to
*oodne*3 living for himself ar.d fam
ly and help bding prosperity to our
much beloved Western North Caro
lina.
Harve Carringer's
Home Destroyed
By Fire Dec. 27th
Fire of unknown otigin completely
destroyed tin- home ?f Harve Can
Hnger in the McCall section of town
eai Iv last Saturday morning, Decem
ber 27th.
The fi?* was discovered about 2
o'clock in the morning: by Hadley
Carringer, brother of Harve. who
was spending the niirht there. Harley
wa. sleeping in the upper story, and
was awakened when he was strangled
t y the smoke which had filled the
|toom in which he was sleeping. " He
j lushed out of the blazing building
and succeeded in wakimr up his
{brother's family just in time for
jthem to -scape from the flames.
Only a chair and a typewiiter
were saved from the flames, which
(had gained such headway before the
j fire was discovered that the entire
building was enveloped in flames be
i lore th" alarm was given. The fire
t department wa- on the sc ne as soon
as possible, and could do nothing
i more than prevent other buildings
? ?io-e by from catching fire.
None of the family was hurt, ex
cept Mr. Carringer. who cut his arm
when he took his fist and broke th
window glass on his car in order to
?et it away from the burning build
ing*.
The loss was partly covered by in
surance. although none of the furn
ishing- were insured.
Mr. Carringer ha$ moved his fam
ily into the house on the hieh bank
beside the Southern Depot.
j The Fidelia Class held their Bus
iness meeting in the Ladies Parlor
of the First Baptist church Tuesday
I evening, Dec. 23rd. After the business
se-sion. Mrs. Henry Logan read an
interesting Christmas story, followed
by .Miss Pauline Martin. Each num
' l ei of the class was piesented with a
{beautiful handkerchief given by their
! teacher, Mrs. J. W. Davidson.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends
and neighbors for th ir kindness dur
ing the sickness and death of our
darling little daughter and sister.
| Jaunita.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Johnson
and family.
A TRIP TO PALESTINE
<********** By Rev. Howard P. Powell
Soon after leaving Bethlehem ffcr
! Hebi ?#n von reach the Pools of Solo
I mon. These pools ?.rt- enormous cis
! tern^ of masonry. The lower pool
! measures 582 feit long, with a
j breadth, at the east end. of 207 feet.
Irtt the west end 148 feet, the depth
iajjffhe east end is 50 f.et. The other
two pools are smaller, me'-i^urinu a
little over 300 feet in length. It is
believed that these pools are the ones
referred to in Ecclesiastes 2:6. These
pools were repaired by Pontius Pilate
during his time. In 1902 the Turk3
i laid a four inch pipe reaching from
these pools to Jerusalem to supply
water for the Holy City. The supply
of water has be^n a serious problem
for Jerusalem for many years. Je
rusalem possesses only on? small
spring, and depends entirely for it?
annual supply of water on the rain
wh:ch falls in the winter season, and
collected and stored in rock-cut cis
terns under the houses. It is an an
nouncement of international concern
that these pool* of Solomon are beinp
brought again into fulL ust? and will
tak. care of the water supply for Je- 1
rusalem for the years to come.
The road over which one travels
from Bethlehem, to Hebron -is bilt
over an ancient Roman road of 2,000
year* ago. By the side of the road
on th? left is an abundant spring is
suing out of the ruins of some ancient
buildings. This spring "is .said to be
the one from which Phillip took water j
in order to baptire the eunuch of
I Queen Candace of Ethiop'V (Acts j
8:26-40.) Just before reaching this
spring there is a point of more than
13.000 feet in height. At the summit
of this hill, on both sides of the road,
are the reservoirs into which water
is pumped by engines from the pools
of Win 'Aroub at the bottom of the
nsxt valley. Prom these reservoirs
the water flows through pipes by
gravitation to Jertisalem fifteen miles
away. This system was in use at the
time of the vi?it made by the writer.
It was to Hebron, already an an
cient city, that Abraham came from
Bethel and built an altar. In Hebron
Sarah died and Abraham bought the
Cave of Macpelah for a burying-place. I
(Please read Genesis 23:1-20) Abra-I
Crowds Attend The
Christmas Play At
Folk School Wed.
The evening before Christmas Day
ai two o'clock, th big community
room at the John C. Campbell Folk
School was filled with a large aud- '
ience who had conie from Rvasstown
and the surrounding section to see
the student-* Christmas play. Before,
their eyes walked Jos ph and Mary,
kin^s ar.fl shepherds. Angjbls al-o
appeared, and little children with |
jjifts for the Christ child. The stage'
lovely with pines and other ever
pivens. and at one end there was a ,
m?'it l^alistic stable, over which there i
ultamed the Star. A chorus <?f six
Mrs. Campbell, M iss Butler, Lucille 1
Scroggs, Annie Mae lien -ley, George !
Bidstrup, and Rdwaid Freas, sang
many beautiful old Christmas carols,
approj.diat. to the different scenes
in the plav. The final one way "Come
AH Ve Faithful/
The characters were Jepresented
by the following: Mary. Stella Wil
son; Joseph. Ronald Straus; Prophet'
Isaih. Ruth Young; Herod, Hollis '
IYnland; Prist. Louverne Inman;
Elizabeth, Martha Voyle-; Angels.
Blanche Scroggs, Bulah Cantrell,
Viola Moody; Kings, Haden llenslev,
Tom Wilson, Frank Bdendle; Shep
herds. Nell Young, Bonnie Logan.
Frankie IYnland; childien, M rcer ;
IScrogps, Fay Scroggs, Dimple Clay
ton. Kenneth Caldwell, Roe Deal; ac
companying the children were Lillie
Mae Penland Barnard, and Jaunita
; Barnard.
When the play was over, Santa
.C'aus app.ared, and after playing
| with the childdon. took from the com
jmunity tree stockings filled with can-"
I viy for young and old. Members of,
the Womens' Community Club of
Bi ass town helped in the distribution.
| The Club members made the stock-;
i njis. filled tlum. and trimmed the
| tree, as ha-* been their custom for a!
;number of y:ar*.
MARRIED
At the Manse December 20th, 11*
1.10, by Dr. J. 1*. Anderson. Mr. Wil-I
liam Mcllvaney, of Lawrenctville,
Ga., and Miss Sue Byrd Williams, of
Florence. Ga.
The ceremony took place in the
presence of several witnesses, and the
happy young couple departed to
spend their honeymoon with friends
in their native state of Georgia.
I ham, Isaac, Rebekah, .^acoh and Leah
were all buried here. The great
mosque now covers the Cave of Mac
; pelah and the Patriarchal tombs. The
! date of course is uncertain but it is
possible that a part of it was built
by Solomon, if not David. This Cave
of Macpelah is carefully guarded by
j Luc Mohammedans. Sine? we were
Christians we were not allowed to go
farther than seven steps. At this point
! we were halted by the guide. This
j was a little hard for?those of us who
also loved "Fatty r Abraham," but
| there was nothing: to be done. There
fore, we obeyed orders and stood off
and worshipped at a distance.
Hebron is one of the most ancient
'cities of Palstine. Some go so far as
j to say that it was in this region that
Adam was created. We do not know
I that at the time of the writings of
i Josephus it was more than two thous
and years old. It was from Hebron
that Joseph set out to seek his breth
ren in Schecht-m; and to Hebron
those brethren returned, bearing with
them the blood-stained coat of many
' colours.
The goat skins are still being used j
for carrying water in Palestine. While i
in Hibron we -aw them in great num- 1
bers placed in the sun to dry. While i
we were sight-seeing in Hebron one I
of our drivers was arrested for speed- I
ing and was lodged in jail to sereve
his term of two months.
! From Hebron we went to the Oak
I of Marnre. The road leading to this !
! ancient and historic oak took us !
through numerous vineyards in which
the labours were working. The Oak
[of Abraham (Genesis 18:1-22), was
in the section mafrked by this oak,
but the presetii Oak pf Marnre cannot
be the authentic one. However, thej
one visited was old and interesting. {
Whil? lunching at the Oak of Marnre
we found some men with a portable
phonograph enjoying a picnic. Some
of the members of our party noticed
the absence of women and girls asked
where they were. They were told that
they were at home working. In Pal
estine. you see the women and ''girls
work while the men and boy? have a
picnic.
(To Bo Continued.)
The Christmas season wa? sadden -
cd in tne home of Mr. ami Mrs. Leon
ard Johnson, when the grim reaper
called and L-anitJ away the lovable
spirit of their little daughter. Jaunita
who was two vears and nine months
old.
Little Jaunita died December 23,
al>out five o'clock in the afternoon.
She had been sick for more than a
vet k with yellow jaundice. Every
thing was done that loving hands
could do. but the Giver of all good
gifts saw fit to take little Jaunita
to aditrn His Christmas *?*c-e in Heav
en.
On Christmas ive, a4 the world was
( preparing to give tokens of love, one
to another, friends and relatives of
| the Johnson family gathered in the
little home in Bealtown and offered
i love and sympathy In th. dark hour
as Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and the
: brothel's and si--t* r gave back to God
: little Jaunita, the bright and shining
??tar of the home, who had been with
{them but a short season. The funeral
J service was conducted by Rev. How
lard P. Pow.ll, from the home, at one
thiitv o'clock, and interment was in
th?* Real family burirl grounds.
Little Jaunita is survived by her
father and mother, three brothers.
; Meal, Charles and Richard Johnson,
and one sister, Kmogene Johnson, all
of Murphy.
The sympathy of the entire com
munity goes out to the family in their
deep bereavement.
Many Xmas Messages
Sent By Western Union
Although more than 2,000,000
Christmas greetings Telegrams, or I
to each fifty of the nation's popula
tion, aie now sent over Western Un
ion wires each year, Murphy, N. C.,
i is abreast of the popular trend to
ward telegraphic Yuletide Greetings,
it was r.vealed this week by Mr. Rog
ers, manager of the Murphy Western
Union offict.
Use of Christina- Gieeting Tele
grain^ by Murphy residents has grown
about i?0 per cent in the past five
i years, and last Christmas showed an
inereas. of 80 per cent over the rec
ord established during the ?Christma*
Holidays in 1928.
When the total of Christmas Greet
ing Messages ran above 2,000,000
last year, the record established was
'nearly twenty per c nt above the 19
28 figuret of 1,000,000 messages.
The 1928 figuie, itself, was an in
crease of twenty per cent over 1927.
In addition Christmas Cable messages
already above- the 100,000 mark,
showed an increase of thirty-six per
cent in 1029 over 1928, influenced
, in padt by reduced cable rates.
The office made all necessary
j preparations for handling th=* volume
lot* Christmas messages without delay.
'Mr. Rogers, manager said: **The en
tire Western Union network was
ready for the task.
The number lof decdrative telj?
! gram and cablegram blanks used by
j the Amedican public, laid end to end,
. would form a path of paper extend
ing hundreds of miles.
"Santa Claus who is supposed to
be everywhere at once, ha> nothing
on the army of Western Union mes
sengers, who rang doorbells"through
out the country ? Christmas morning
and handed in the messages of loved
ones who could not be there in per
son. An out-pouring of Christmas
spirit, as great as in any other year,
was sent bv telegraph, by the Ameri
can public."
ANDREWS BRIEFS
JOHNSON'S BABY
LAID TO REST ON
CHRISTMAS EVE
Andrews ministers wnl hoid ser
I vicei- at the Cherokee county home 011
the first and third Sunday afternoons
in Ti?nuary. These services have been
arranged by the Cherokee Ministerial
Association and will bf: alternated
between the ministers of Murphy and
AndrVvs. The Murphy ministers will
nold the servicer during l?ebrwwy.
The Student Night services at the
Baptist church Sunday night was well
attended and greatly enjoyed by all.
Students taking part on the program -
were David Mashbum, of Mars Hill,
who discussed "Christ in the Student"
Intellectual problems", Henry Bel
lamy of Wake Forest talked on "Stu
dent Life and Activities Et Wake For
est", Daisy Battle of W C T 'u wno
discussed "Christ in the Student'*
Social Life," and Mabel Jones of
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