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The
Tramylvania Time*
Tha New* The Time*
Estab. 1396 E*tab. 1931
Con»oHdated 1932
Published Weekly on Thursday by
C. M. DOUQIAB
Office In The Time* Building
C. M. DOUGLAS.Editor
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ber 29, 1931, at the Post Office In Bre
vard, N. C.. under the Act of March I.
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WISDOM IS MORE THAN IN
FORMATION: Wisdom Is the principal
thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
all the getting get understanding.—
Proverbs 4:7.
ABSENTEE BALLOT
SHOULD BE KILLED
All the stir over North Carolina
since the June 2nd primary is but an
other convincing argument that the
absentee ballot should go the way of
all outmoded practices.
The Times will not go fur enough to
say that the absentee is corrupt in all
counties, but rather points out such
elections as were held in Swain, David
son, and Union counties, as well as
other counties too numerous to mention
which have charged irregularities in the
primary—all chargeable to absentees.
Transylvania was one of the few
lucky counties In the recent pri
mary—our law was repealed two years
ago (as to the primary). The Times.
will not inject Its age-old argument forj
convention Instead of primary as a
quick means for abolishing the evils of
absentee ballots, but rather mentions
the fact that If primary there is to be,
it should be a decent one, and legal evi
dence has shown that the recent one
was anything but that In most places
whero the absentee was used.
The Times believes that only those
w ho are really and honestly physically
unable to vote should be allowed to!
use an absentee ballot, and these are so,
few that best remedy would be abolish
ment of the practice entirely.
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BIBLE K1SS1EO
MOVE APPROVED
Movement started several weeks ago
by the association of court clerks to
stop the required "Kissing the Bible,”
when an oath is taken in court is meet
ing with approval In many sections of,
the state.
An editorial from The Times of twoi
weeks ago has been reprinted In sev-,
eral papers in North and South Caro-1
Una, and commented upon.
Judge J. Win Pless. when queried j
on the matter, stated that he could
see no need for the ancient custom, and
suggests that the left hand placed on
the Bible and the right hand raised
should suffice to make any man’s oath
binding. However, it is law, he pointed
cut, and the reUef sought should come
through the legislature.
Such a proposal will be made to the
1939 legislature, and It is expected that
sentiment will carry it through.
THOSE WHO WILL EOT WORK
(Charlotte Observer)
We have abundant sympathy and
tolerance toward those unfortunate
citizens of this or any other community i
who must apply for public charity be
cause every door to honest employment
shuts in their faces.
We have exactly none at all for those
able-bodied citizens who refuse to ac
cept private employment out of which
they could at least earn some semblance
of a creature existence, but who re
fuse it and then knock on the doors of
the welfare offices for bread nnd meat
and clothing and shelter.
For that reason, we Insist that the
action of the county authorities in cut
ting off of their list such persons as J
are able to earn their own way should
be and, we submit, will be generally ap
proved and applauded.
It Is Indeed, as The Mecklenburg
Times so pertinently remarks "appall
ing when the people of this country
have adopted such a state of mind as
they would rather accept charity than
earn their bread by honest toll. Such
a state of mind has largely been
brought about by the camouflaged
names given charity. Many persons
are proud to be on relief but many of
these same persons would shirk far
away from the same aid If It were
rightly called charity.
"Mecklenburg county gave a helping
hand to these unfortunate able-bodied
and received for thanks a lot of Inde
pendent charity seekers. Such abuse
left the county board only one alterna
tive—to rescind their former action of
aid to all that the unfortunate able
bodied may again learn that every per
son must help himself a little if he ex
pects anything In this world."
Our neighbor has exactly the right
slant on this problem.
It Is high time for any public policy
of aid to the unemployed be rescinded
when evidence develops that It is being
abused by those who have too respect
for themselves or gratitude for the
hand of the taxpayers which has been
feeding them.
SQUIBS
—AND—
SQUAWKS
——
Governor Hoey Is doing a nice thing
In sending out State Courtesy Cards to
prospective visitors to North Carolina.
Now, after the folk get here, let’s be
nice to them, and make them wish to
come back.
—S—8—
John Paul Lucas believes that paint
Is an essential part of any lighting
system. Mr. Lucas, who Is vice presl
ient of the Duke Power company,
paid a visit to The Times office Friday
ifternoon, and gave his approval of
the paint Job going on In the shop.
Rood lights, says Mr. Lucas, and prop
sr painting, and one has perfect light
ing equipment.
—S—S—
Lot of folk disappointed Friday
evening when the band failed to give
its weekly concert. The boys evident
ly thought the weather was too damp.
Congratulations to Agent Walter
Mancss—he Is now a full fledged agent
In Yancey county, nice chap, and I
listed to see him leave here, but he de
serves the promotion . . . and I’m bet
ting he makes s cracking good man
[or folk around the Burnsville section.
—s—s—
Two more subscribers added to the
regular readers of this eol'm—J. T.
McGeliee of Macon, Ga., and Frank
Rraham of Fernandlna, Fla. Makes
five.
-8-8—
Noted two nice flower spots In town
Inst week that I hadn’t seen before—
one in front of the Baptist church, and
nne down at Howard Whltmtre’s ser
vice station. Mrs. Marcus Williams
brought me as nice basket of pom
dahlias last Saturday as one could
wish for, and Julian Glazener brought
In about the most beautiful white rose
that ever bloomed, plus a vase of
beautiful roses from Anita Galloway.
—S—8—
Look out, speed kings! Got a speed
cop coming Friday. Better take It
easy around curves or you might run
plumb smack onto Officer Ervin, and
that costs you about 15 bucks.
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Yep! Think the postoffice will be
located on the very spot YOU think it
should be. Now, does that answer
vour question?
—8—8—
Best yarn I heard last week was one
told on Rufus W. Owen, about break
ing a steer to the yoke. Get him to
tell you. It’s a scream, and It’s true.
—8—S—
I’ve been a pretty decent fellow (I
think so, at least) since I’ve been in
Brevard . . . and here I get summoned
to court. Only a witness, but it was
my first time, and I certainly hope it
will be the last time.
Two o'clock Saturday afternoon,
raining like nobody’s business, and a
young chap plodding back and forth,
all over the sidewalk, no hat, no coat,
but evidently plenty of booze. Guess
that’s what one would call a real
“wet.”
—S—S—
Fooled the cops last week—paid my
water rent before they had time to
cut it off.
■—s—s—
Wish I had a lot of subscribers like
P. B. I-ankford of Spartanburg—ho
always keeps his subscription paid one
to two vears In advance.
—S—S—
Not so much to kick about tncse nays,
and I fed sort of lonesome. Getting
a postoffice: highway patrolman com
ing: working on Highway 234—nearly
done: starting things humming on the
TSoylston road; resurfaced the Caesar's
Head and Rosman highways. Whoa!
Walt a minute! Folk over in the Little
River section need a bridge that will
let them get out in high water times;
folk up Toxaway section need better
bus schedules so they can come and go
to town: and some guy is trying to
make a hog out of himself about the
Greenville-Brevard bus franchise.
—3—S—
Weather Man over at Asheville gets
promotion. He should have it, Ashe
ville, according to weather reports
(published ones) is always warmer In
winter, and cooler In summer than any
section in WNC. Why. I don’t know,
and I've often had my own ideas
ahout it.
—S—S—
Chap from up in New York wrote to
Mary Jane McCrary and wanted to be
told where the town of Ecusta Is. He
was told to come on to Brevard, and
he could then easily find Ecusta, Evi
dently this community is getting good
advertising from Ecusta Paper corpor
ation.
Some men arc born kickers while
others seem to kick on the theory' that
the wheel that does the most squeak
ing gets the most grease.
—3—3—
A hole In the tooth feels big because
it Is the natural tendency of the tongue
to magnify anything.
—S—S—
Some people are foolish because they
were born that way. others because
they can't help It, and still others be
cause they are trying to look like some
one else.
—S S—
Another Brevard man we feel sorry
for is the one whose wife thinks he can
hang paper or paint the kitchen as
well as the fellow who gets paid for it.
—S—S—
The best reducing exercise is In mov
ing the head from left to right when
asked to have another one.
10 Inches of Snow Blankets
Pike’s Peak
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,—Snow
and hail ranging up to 10 Inches In
depth blanketed the upper slope of
Pike’s Peak Thursday and Friday as
a reminder of the worst summor storm
in years to whip the 14,110-foot high
granite mountain. At one time more
than 150 automobiles, many of the oc
cupants in summer clothes, were ma
rooned "Between Glen Cove, at the 11,
000-foot level, and the summit.
WNC Representative
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JIM DAVIS, 19, of Waynesville rep
resented Western North Carolina In
the Eleventh Cooperative Eesay con
test held In Raleigh on Tuesday.
The essays were on "The Kind of
Fanner I Intend To Be."
MACEDONIA NEWS
There was a decoration at the ceme
tery near Nelson Kitchen's Sunday
morning, with a good attendance, con
sidering the condition of the weather.
Another mean man or men In Glou
cester using the church for a camp
broke out eleven window lights turned
over benches and damaged the church
spring. So we think It a pretty good
Idea for our county sheriff to visit
our community on Saturday and Sun
day nights.
Miss Georgia McCall Is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Richard McCall, of Balsam
Grove at present.
Creed Galloway, Miss Detlha McCall
and Richard McCall, all of the Shoal
Creek section, were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon Owen.
Uncle Robert Kilpatrick was guest
of W. A. McCall and family recently.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dudley PlBher
a son, on Monday July 25.
Dora McCall and Artillus Hogsed
were Brevard visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Pickard and family
were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Will J. McCall.
Coley McCall and family of Brevard
were Macedonia visitors Sunday.
Mrs. Vangle Daves and daughter, of
Balsam Grove, were dinner guests of
Mrs. W. M. McCall Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie V. Galloway and
son, Aunt Josephine Galloway and
Mrs. Ransom Galloway, of Glouster,
Ohio, were Macedonia visitors Sunday.
U. S. Requests Mexico To Pay
For Farm Land
WASHINGTON—A request for in
ternational arbitration of tho seizure of
American farm lands by the Mexican
government went to Mexico Friday
from Sccrtary of State Hull.
Hull, in a strong note to tho Mexi
can ambassador, Francisco Castillr
Najera, termed exportation without
just compensation "confiscation.” Hr
invoked the inter-American treaty ot
arbitration signed here In 1929.
Involved are an estimated 1,000.000
acres of land, taken since 1927. The
moderate-sized farms alone are valu
ed by their owners at $10,132,388.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as Administrator ot
the Estate of J. R. Whitmire, deceased
late of Transylvania County, North
Carolina, this Is to notify all persons
having claims against the Estate ot
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Brevard, North Caro
lina, on or before the 22 1 day of June,
1939, or this notice will be pleaded In
bar of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said Estate will please make
immediate payment
This the 22nd day of June, 1938.
AVERY WHITMIRE,
Administrator of Estate of J. R.
Whitmire, deceased.
June 23-6t.
Brevard
Postoffice
Location
Bids
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Pro
curement Division—Public Buildings
Branch, Washington, D. C„ July 8,1938.
—Proposals are hereby solicited for a
site for a Federal Building at Brevard,
N. C., to be opened publicly in the Of
fice of the Postmaster at Brevard N. C.,
at 9 o'clock A. M„ on August 3, 1988,
for the sale, er donation to the United
States of a lot conveniently located.
Approximate dimensions—Corner lota
120 foot frontage 170 depth, Interior lots
145 foot frontage 170 foot depth. Sites
having different street frontage dimen
sions will be considered provided the
area is approximately the same. In all
cases where possible bids should be sub
mitted by actual owners of properties
and not by agents. Documentary evi
dence of authority must be attached to
proposals submitted by agents. Upon
application, the Postmaster will supply
prospective bidders with proposal blanks
and a circular giving particulars as to
requirements and instructions for prep
aration of bids and data to accompany
same. O.* 8. Peoples, Director of Pro
curement.
July 11-28.
New
Takes Pain Out of “Grinding”
It works!
Tooth filled. No pain!
No giddiness (other than usual).
No ill after-effects, whatsoever.
Take a few whiffs. Zuz-z- . It’s
over. The tooth is filled and you are
oke In every respect.
On the oath of Doctors Zachary and
Goodwin, The Times printed a story
last week saying that all the grinding,
punching, scraping, digging, and the
multitudinous other painful things a
dentist might or could do to a sensi
tive tooth were eliminated through a
new analgesia machine or do-jlgger, or
thlngamabob.
And the story Is true.
Tried the system out Thursday morn
ing, first thing, and It was so-o-o nice,
that I went back Thursday afternoon
for a couple more filings, and again
Friday morning to have a couple more
cavities plugged up that had needed
attention of the DDS (Doctor of Den
tistry) for more than a year.
"Big oaks from little acorns grow"
—and big cavities from small speck* on
teeth grow, especially when a follow Is
like me, and has a horror of going up
stairs to a dentist's office. Often won
dered why all dentists had lo have
their offices upstairs, anyway.
There was nothing at all radical about
the system Doc. Zachary used on my
grinding and plugging. Just an old
method made more modern. Seems that
nitrous oxide( laughing gas to the lay
man) has been In use for ages; but
then It had to be administered by one
operative while another did the Job of
whatever sort was needed.
i ne iiww mm it., iiwitutvi, -f
those thlnps which the patientftthiit
was me) operates himself. You don't
have to po off Into Insensibility—Just
take a little or much of the pns. ns It
suits, and when you don’t need It Just
let the doctor keep prindlnp and scrap
Inp. Feel a little twlnpe of pain an the
drill starts heatlnp the tooth, and
squeeze a little rubber bulb, Inhnle, and
let the prinder keep on prindlnp. Noth
lnp more than that, and nothlnp com
plicated about It.
The doctor does his prindlnp, dlpplnp,
and the patient administers the easy
Julee, and first thlnp you know, the
doc says “o-kay, that’ll be all," plves
you a whiff of oxypen from the same
machinery and there Is nothlnp more
to It.
I KNOW all these thlnps well after
trylnp them out. And this Is no free
advertisement for the dentists in Bre
vard, either. One thlnp I don’t like to
ptve away Is advertlslnp space, but
! when I can contribute a little somethinp
to humanity, that’s different.
The machines Doc Zachary and Dor
Ooodwin have purchased are humani
tarian thlnps. exactly. Maybe not a
boon to a lot of people, for there art
those who po sit down in a dentist’s
chair and say "Start prindlnp away—
won't bother me." But then, T Jusi
didn’t happen to be one of those chaps
and as soon as the little prindinp ap
paratus starts buzzinp, T start drawlnc
up In a muscle-tlcht, nerve-taut ten
sion that Is next to death itself, to sa>
nothlnp of the pain that always dlf
come with the prindlnp—that It dlf
come before the dentists Invested li
those little thank wapon affairs.
I thoupht it was just "another on<
of those tales” that dentists and doc
I tors tell—you've heard them—"Nov
this won't hurt a bit.” and off poes th<
top of your head, or It seems like th<
bottom of the world has fallen out anr
you are beinp used to plup the hol<
... so. T took a man-sized dose of th<
nitrous oxide to see just what wont
happen, and
Man! Oh. Man!
I What a pleasant feeling. Never
have T felt so free and easy, so lethar
gic, so nearly contented, In all my life.
I heard the doctor saying. "Don’t take
any more for a moment,’’ but T paid him
no mind at all. He had just a3 well
been talking to a dead stick, for I
wasn’t moving, batting an eye, or wish
ing to. Talk about being up, wide
awake for three or four days, and then
falling over on a good old feather bed
. . . that Isn’t half of the good feeling
I had, It was perfect. Heaven must be
just like the sensation I had. Perfec
tion, plus.
Anyway, T didn't take any more, be
cause I just wasn’t moving, and the
hand that held the do-jigger bulb wasn't
functioning. In a second or two, that
feeling was all gone, and the doctor
started whizzing his drill in my tooth,
and he whizzed right on until he got
through.
Every so often, I’d squeeze the bulb
a little, take a breath at the same time,
and the job was soon over, l.lghted a
cigarette, walked out, and back to the
office to work.
Exception: I was klnd-a scared of
what sort effect that stuff would have
on my heart, so T stopped by Dr. New
land's office and had him check my
heart and pulse, and he said, "Perfect."
Stopped at the Canteen to get my
hourly cup of coffee, and thought cer
tain—"Here’s where I get sick.” Fool
ed again. Coffee tasted just as good
as the fine brand the two Brevard cafes
make always do, and back to slaving
In the office until 4:30 In the after
noon, when I went back for another
round In the dentist chair.
It Is possible that everybody won’t
do as well as I did with the “pain
easer.” The DDS said that a chap
who drinks a lot of whiskey won't be
able to desensitize with the nitrous
oxide like I did. (Maybe the fellow
who drinks had better slow down). And
that real old people don’t usually take
it (I mean the gas).
It works! It did on me, and I know
It’s o-kay, and a blessing to folk who
like themselves well enough to want
to get along without pain.
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Brazil will have fishery school*.
Japan has a "boost-wages” campaign.
South Africa will spend $40,000,000
on its railways.
Peiping, China Is to have its first
department store.
I
Your Old-Age
Insurance
Why Workers Should Have Social
Security Account Numbers
More than 767,481 men and women
In North Carolina now have Social
Security account numbers.
A few workers who could qualify
for old-age Insurance and who have not
as yet secured their Social Security ac
count numbers, remain In this State.
Each worker In covered employment
should have an account number wheth
er he Is the only employee, or is one
of a hundred. Worksrs In small estab
lishments such a* barber shops, boot
black parlors, bakeries, drug, grocery, or
general merchandise stores, service sta
tions, fts well oh employees of doctors,
dentist s. lawyers and of other profes
sional people, are Included.
Kwh wage-earner must have an ac
count number in order that his Social
Security account may not be confused
with any other. Employers inuat know
the account number of each and every
person on their pay rolls, because they
must glvo those numbers when they
make their wage reports to the Govern
ment. The amount of each employee’s
wages Is credited to the Social Security
account hearing hkt number. His
wages are posted on this ledger.
The total amount of wages received
by an employee on Jolts covered by the
Social Security Act, from the last day
of 1936 until he Is 66 years old, will be
used In calculating the amount of his
old-age Insurance payments when such
benefits fall due.
Application blanks for employee's ac
count numbers can be obtained from
any post office or from any office of
the Social Security Board.
Questions concerning old-age insur
ance may be sent to this paper or to
Graham Martin, Manager of the Social
Security Board office at Asheville.
Answers will appear In this paper.
Dublin, Ireland Is becoming excited
over spelling bees.
New Zealand has restricted the
Importation of used saddles.
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