r eva r d OL. XXIV BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919 NUMBER 9 BOARD OF DffiECTORS IT. CO. MEET TODAY REMINISCENCES The members of the board of di rectors of the Transylvania Tanning Company will hold a meeting this afternoon for the purpose of making readjustments necessary after the fire •f last week which completely de- stroyed the main buihling of the local plant. At the time of the fire the building contained a full stock of hides ready for shipment. Jmost two hundred employees ^thrown out of work as a result of the fire and the matter of eliminat ing the possibility of any confusion arising from this condition was im mediately taken up and successfully It will be well remembered that in those days , we had no newspapers to read and very few books, and the peo ple in the main were naturally in clined to be superstitious, and nearly all the old men were hunters, and when together, they had to talk about The hunters would tell of their ad ventures and narrow escapes and the women would tell ghost stories, es pecially the darkey women, for they all had seen ghosts. The youngsters would collect in the kitchen to hear them and often I have been scared , until I Viras afraid to go from the kit- I chen to the house alone. I Near the top of the Rockey Hill managed by J. S. Silversteen, presi- j ^he north side of the road, there dent of the Transylvania Tanning Co. | "’as said to be Indian ^aves, and on It is understood that the directors the south, hard by, was Jim’s grave of the company will be able to an- hill. The^ darkeys and some white nounce their decision as to whether ^said this was an ideal location, or not the plant will be rebuilt at once ! Further down the hill, some pecul- at the close of the meeting this after- noises had been heard for years and were still being heard which were noon. “ The following members of the di rectorate are to be present at the meeting: Messrs. Brown, Murphy and Shell of Chicago, and Messrs. Ponder, Schain and Dworetzky of New York. The plant which was destroyed last Wednesday morning was said to be one of the most modernly equipped establishments of its kind in the south. During the war the entire output of the enterprise was turned over to the government. variously described. Sometimes a low moan like something in distress, at other times like the scream of a child and sometimes loud and keen after the order of the night havrk. I As to these noises, that is no joke. Nearly everybody in the county at sometime or other, day or night, had heard it. This scribe never heard it, but was always expecting to, but had maJe up his mind that when he did hear it, he would not be standing, I and when compelled to pass that way, he was ready to move at the slightest notice. When I was about seventeen, my father was havinp: all the big trees cut down near the road on Rockey Hill. There is no farm complete without Two large oaks stood r\^ar the road, a home orchard containing apple, when the axmen felled one of those peach, plum, and cherry trees and the yell was raised, “We’ve grape vines which has fruit ripeninu’ found the ‘hant.’ ” Two big limbs had all thru the season, and yet when \\c p;ro\vn cross each other. By the force visit the farn'.s over the county we wind, they had worn nearly in find only a few home orchards that j^oj-e noises after that, are well kept and properly sprayed , these day's the r.iountains and and i>runcd. In'.s county is especially unis v.ere alive with wiki animals and adapted to raisins ar.ples if the trees Roekey Hill seemed to be have proper care taken oi Lheni. i Ir.‘ erossln.a: place for wolves from the apples rai.sed in tins seciion arc much Creek mountains down to better flavored txian the northern ao- Loaf, and river swani^is. This PIART AN OSCHARl pies. Grapes are especially adapted to the mountain scctioii and rarely ever miss bcarin?; a .cood crop of fruit. If you haven't already a "ood home or chard, plan to set out a few trees and vines this sprin;j: during the month of March. is v.hcre the Uncle John accounts for ‘‘bo;ries” bein.o: seen on the Rockey Hill. Here pest boy }?ct scared. Duck met somcthii'.A' i'a the road there one ni.-rfnt, that didn't suit hir.i a little bit. One night Je';-'rpo'.e, and that no man dare go home from that coTifer.^nce and re'i'>rt aiiytainrc l''-s •> noliif^ thru v'as er’i''.ted of it. Why Corf?r>*ncc 3'~v.'!y.” The conference se'^ni"; to ynn to "o slowlv; from dav to d y in J’ar':^ i! seems to so clovry; Init I worider i? you rea1:::e the c;^r plrxiti” of liio task whi(di it has u-id. rtakrn. It seem.-- as if the :-.'‘ttl':‘rr.o:'.i'', of this war af fect, and affect directly, every great, and I sometim.es think every small, nation in the vrorld, and no ono d-^- c Is ion can prtidenl’y ho ^lad' whi-'h is not pvopr'rly I’n’ ed wiih the great I serier. of cl’ier dr>cis:pns which must rccoinpany it. And it must he reck oned ii' v.-i+h tho final result if tho real e.n lily and ch iracter of that re sult is to he properly judged. Y/hnt v.’e ai'e doing is to hear the v/liclo cane; licar it from the mouths of the men most interpreted; h^ar it from those who arp r.tnciaHy commis sioned to state it; hear the rival claims; ho"r the cl .i'.ns that affert new nationalities, t^i. t aiTect new areas of the world, that affect tew commercial and econom’c connections that have been e^^lahlished by the great ^’orld war thvourrh vrhich - we have gone. And I have been strucl-: by the ni'.deratene'v, of thoro who have represented national cLvIms. I can testify that I have nov/hero ,'een the j:;!c'.'.m of passion. I Iiave seen earncstresr;. I have seen t ars com^e to the eyes of men who rl?;aded f(^ down-trodden people whom they were privile?;3d to speak for; bi’t they were not the tear:; of they verc the tears cf ardent hope And I do/''.’t rey l.ovv' r:;v fiian can ?a;l to I'.'v.'' i'C'on pleas, subdued to the f: el’:v' that he was not there to a* eri an indi vidual judgment of his o\\m but to try to assist the cause of humanity. AS! Look to Amrrica. And !.i the midst of it all, ever:^ interest seeks out, first of all. when it readies Pariff, the repreoentatlves of the United States. Why? Because —and I think I am stating the most wonderful fact in history—because there is no nation in Europe that suspects the motiYes of the United States. Was there ever so wonderful a thing seen before? Was there ever so moving a thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the nation that had won that esteem forever to deserve it? I would not have yo*i understand that the great men who represent the other nations there in conference are disesteemed by those who know them. Cuit the contrary. But you under^ stand that the nations of Europe have again and again clashed with one an other in competitive interest. It is impossible for men to forget those sharp issues that were dra .vn between them in times past. It is impossible for men to believe that all ambitions have all of a sudden b"en foregone. They remember territory that was coveted; rhev remember rights that it was attempted to extort; they re- member political ambitions which it v/as attempted to realize—and while they believe that men hrave come into a different temper, they canrfot for get these things, and so they do not resort to one another for a dispa» sionato view of the matters in con- i troversy. They resort to that nation ) which has won the enviable distinc tion of being regarded as the friend of mankind. Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occuoy a piece of territory where it is thought nohcdy else will be welcome, they ! a -k for American soldiers. And ! v^’here other soldiers would be lockf’d ■ upon with suspicion, and nerhaps meet wtih resistance, the American soldier is welcomed with arc’?im. Many Grounds for Pride. I have had so m»ny irrounds for j pride on the other side of the water j that I am vpry thankful rhat they I are not grounds for perscnal pr'de I I’f* he the mo?t F.tuck-r.p man in the world. And it has "been an infinita pipa'=ure to mf> to see those gallant soldip~s of o'.Tr?!, of whom the con- { stitution of the United States made me thf' proud CGmmaiulor. You nay j he prond of the Tv’enty- he'^n Foarchirg for the fun- dap’ental fact that conv'^'-'-nri i-Tnnne to boliove in U". Before this war Eu- rcno did net hplievr> in as she does I new. She did' net hr'iieve in us ! throughout the first throe years of ! the war. She re'^ms reallv to h:ive : holinvpd that we vrare ho’ding off he- j cause wp thojTr^.t v.’e co:ild nako mere i by stayina: out tl'.an by ?o;r.g in. And I a’l of a !-'uddan. in o 'rhort innnth;^. ith'^ whole verdict is r^v'vp'^d. The”e 1 can ho hut one crcnlanat^nn for it j Thpy '^aw V'hat v^e did—that wtihout i making ;> slncie claim \va put all “^ur men and all cur m ans r.1- thp dis* : on'al of ;’ic3c who were fighting for I Ihair hcmos. in thjo in.=?lance. but i for a cause, the caure of human ri^shts and justice, and that we went in, not to support their national c'aims;, but *o eiippert th.a gront cause v,-h!c!i th'-" in commor'. And vs’h.en the" sav*' that America net cn’y held ideals, but ?(t?d ideals, they warp .'','nvertad to A^’uerica and brr-.-^nip tirm partisans of those ideals. Fi'Tet Greek Schol.^rs. I met a group of scholars when I was in Pr.ris—some gentl^m-'n from one of tha Croe^c tiniverr.itin?^ vrho had come to see. and in whose prerence, or ratlier in the presence of those tradi tions cf learning. I felt very young ■‘r'lpf'd. * I told them that I had one o! the deli?rhf:'al ravenges that sometimes comes to a man. All my life I had h^ard men sneak with a sort of con- rte.'sconsion of ideal.s and of idealists, and particularly those separated, gD' cloistered hcrizons whom they- choose to term academic, who were in the habit of uttering ideals’ in the free atmosphere when they clash with no bod:/ in partci\ilar. And I said I have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect frarkne~s, in the name of the people of the States, I have uttered ss the ohjrcts of thi