New
VOL. XXIV
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 27th, 1919
NUMBER 25.
WELCOME HOME FOR
SOLDItS AND SAILORS
On Wednesday July the six
teenth Transylvania will cele
brate the return of her heroes
of the world war and welcome
home her sons who fought for
the freedom of humanity.
Everybody Come!
Everybody in the county is expect
ed to come to Brevard to preet our
warriors and bring a basket of good
things to eat.
There is to be a parade in which
Civil and Spanish War Veterans will
march to music by the best brass
band in Western North Carolina.
Mr. J. S. Silversteen has been ap
pointed General Chairman of the Wel
come Home Day. He has named the
following assistants who will an
nounce the members of their com
mittees in the next issue of the News:
Advertising, Mrs. C. B. Deaver; Din
ner, W. E. Breese; Arrangements,
Fred Miller; Entertainment, R. H.
Zachary; Reception, Rev. C. E. Puett;
Finance, C. M. Doyle.
BREVARD BAPnsrS
DISAGREE WtTH US
Editor Brevard News:—
The editorial in your issue of June
20th, 1919 in which you advocate the
modern movement for the union of
Evangelical churches was discussed
by the members of the Men’s Bible
Class of the Brevard Baptist church
on Sunday last and your position was
unanimously disapproved by them,
and the writer is requested to reply to
your editorial. Hence this is my rea
son for asking your indulgence.
You say that you “wonoer why one
wing of a great denomination declines
an invitation to co-operate with an
other in a highly commendable effort
to Christianize the world.” This evi
dently refers to the Southern Baptist,
knowing that they refused at their
convention in Atlanta some weeks ago
to approve this movement. Your
“wonderment” is occasioned no doubt
by your inability to understand or ap
preciate the 'Baptist point of view.
Many well meaning persons fall into
the same error for they, just as you
have in your editorial, while speaking
of co-operation, really use the word
asa substitute for and as a synonjnn
of amalgamation or coalescence of
doctrines, or “crefeds” if you please.
This is the crux of the matter, and
the point of divergence. Baptist do
not refust but welcome co-operative
efforts in Christian activities, so long
as the association incident to such
does not require a renunciation or
a modification of those Bible truths,
or doctrines, which, according to their
conscientious interpretation, they be
lieve to be true and essential. Th«e-
fore they cannot in good conscience,
waive or forego, a faith they believe
to be fundamental. And the danger
of your editorial, as we believe, to
the careless or casual reader, lies in
the very fact that while you are
pleading for co-operation as ordin
arily iinderstood by the common run
of persons, and in that sense would
not be objectionable, you are really
advocating the abolition of demonina-
tional doctrines and their submer-
' fence into a sort of Super Church in
kvj\iich the very divergent beliefs of
jrthe churches shall be placed into a
'r^'nd of melting pot where each will
lose its distinctive doctrinal charact
eristics and embrace whatever dictum
this Super Church migh thing proper
to advance for internationalization
of Christian teachings. Now in all
charity and brotherly affecton, but
quite frankly and candidly we do not
and cannot endorse this Super Church
sovereignty. For the idea, as we be
lieve, is destructive of the very teach
ings and doctrines in which we im/
plicitly believe, and such an associa
tion wholly inconsistent. There cim
be no more natural or basic affinity
between opposing fundamental be
liefs that are rooted with the ^orce 1
of conviction, than there can be
tween oil and water.
You.say, “It makes little difference
what the particular creed may bjj if it
stands for the reciamation of the
race.” Now that of course, de(pends
somewhat, if not entirely upon^one’s
point of view. Catholocism foV in
stance desires “the reclamation of
the race” for Catholocism, yet I n^o
not believe that you would w^elcomi«
NEWDHMISIItYFOR
TRANSYLVANU
M. W. Hensel of the State depart
ment of agriculture has been in the
county this week talking to a number
of our progressive farmers who are
intereste<r in introducing the cultiva
tion of the sugar beet in this section.
Mr. Hensel was brought to this sec
tion thru the efforts of R. E. Lawr
ence, county demonstrator, who has
for some time been working on the
project of sugar-beet raising in this
county. The department of agricul
ture is offering every inducement pos
sible to farmers in sections where the
soil is suitable for the cultivation
of sugar-beets. Experts have pro
nounced the soil in Transylvania to
be well adapted to this growth and
steps have already been taken to
ward a beginning of the industry
here. The government offers to build
a refining plant in Western North
Carolina at a cost of several hundred
thousand dollars if the farmers of
the section will raise the required
amount of beets. It is stated that
5,000 acres of land would.be adequate
for the purpose. Any soil it is stated
that will grow corn, Irish Potatoes or
clover is the right kind for beet grow
ing.
In order to_demonstrate just what
can be done along this line here
Messrs R. W. Everett and Robt. Pat
ton, of Pisgah Forest, Perry Hinkle,
of Namur and H. Kitchen, of Bal
sam Grove have decided to put a cer
tain portion of their farms in sugar
beets. If the experiment is a success
the agricultural activity of Western
North Carolina will doubtless be
broadened to a vast extent.
such a “reclamation”. You further
more declare that the “reclamation
of the race” and you seem especially
concerned' about Europe, is a “ques
tion of EFFORT and not of CREED”
Now really my friend, you wrote this
unthoughtedly, or at the worst
thought loosely, for you assume that
mankind can, by the mere dictum of
some material force be compelled
whether or no, to think along certain
given channels with perfect unison
and act accordingly. Now if the
piritual redemption “of the race” had
depended upon the mere EFFORT of
mankind, rather than the teachings of
great Christian creeds, you and I
doubtless would be making our “kow
tows” befort the image of some pagan
god as our forefathers did after a
successful chase after wild boars in
European forests. So Christian effort
is not the progenitor but the- child
of Creed, and I cannot imagine such
a spineless thing as a creedless Christ
ianity.
I quite agree with you that from
all reports Europe is sadly in need of
salvation both spiritually and morally
but we hold that their “reclamation”
(which will be some job) to the point
of decent and orderly living and of
spiritual stamina can best be served
by each of the Evangelical churches
working as separate Chrfbtian bodies
as they have done heretofore. And
this does not preclude the same sort
of co-operation that has always, or
for a considerable time at least pre
vailed.
The danger is my friend, that if you
are not careful in applying your phil
osophy to our Church movements you
will organize or unify them to death.
For you are aware, of course, that
strickly speaking the Church is not an
organization; it is an ORGANISM.
And that’s where we separate my
friend. You stress the physical or
ganization— the effort. The Church
man lays hold of the organism—the
soul out of which the organization
springs. Those differences are fun-
dament;\l and cannot b.e compromised.
You wiil understand of course that
I have written this because of the re-
;qaest I mentioned at the outset, and
from no spirit of malice or intoler
ance. because we believe in the ab
solute freedom of each individual to
worship God according to his own en
lightened conscience. We believe in
Christian Truth and applaud any one
who stands firm for “the faith that
is in him” We have no quarrel with
any Christian church teaching Chris
tian truth. We wish them Godspeed.
We v.'ill not coerce or force any one
to believe as we believe,*neither will
we surrender one particle of our doc
trine or “creed” if you like, to any
man or set of men.
Yours very truly,
CHAS. B. DEAVER.
The heart Of The Bible
Arranged by W. E. Poovey
• : . -1 -
Though 1 speak
with th* tongues of men and of angels
and have not charity, 1 am become as sounding
brass, or a tinkling cym- bal. And though I have
the gift of prophecy, and un- derstand all mysteries, and
all knowledge; and though 1 have all faith, so that
1 could remove mountains, and h&Te' not charity, 1 am nothing.
And thouffh I bestov/ all m? goods-to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth
me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up,
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not
easily provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in in>
quity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all thinsrs, be-
lieveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall
cease; whether theAp be knowledge, it shall vanish
away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
But when that which is perfect is come, then
Aat which is in part shall be done away.
When 1 was a child, I spake as a child, 1 under
stood as a child, I thought as a child; but when
1 became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we seo through a glass darUy, but
then face to face: now 1 know in part,
but then shall 1 know even as also
1 am known. And ‘ now abideth
Charity, these
the greatest
of these is
CHARITY
(1 Cor.)
(13)
am known.
Faith, Hope,
three; but
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VOTER REPLIES
TO MRS. WITHER
Dear Editor:
I notice in> your paper of last week
an article on Woman Suffrage. Now
J believe in suffering all that we can
and all that becomes necessary for us
to suffer for the good women of this
county. But I don’t believe in their
being allowed to vote. Not because
they are not as well qualified as we
men, but because it will lower them
in our eyes to see our women going
out and raking up women from the
slums and bringing a drunken galoot
up to the poles, and voting him while
poor John or Tom rocks the cradle
at home.
A good woman can do more with
the influence she has over her son
or husband than ten she voters can
do on an election day. In most all
the great event of the world’s history
man has received his inspiration from
some good woman.
At the dawn of the creation when
God made man and turned him loose
to wander about among the beasts of
the field, he saw he wasn’t satisfied
and he created woman, and she thru
her influence caused sin to come on
the earth, in tempting old father
Adam. Not only Adam has been in
fluenced by woman, Samson, the
strongest mon whom God has ever
created, told the Philistine woman to
weave his severed locks into a web of
cloth and his strength would leave
him. Delilah was sore with him and
had his hair suit cut off and he be
came as an ordinary man. ' Old
David and King Solomon led merry,
merry lives with merry, merry lady
friends and merry, merry wives, until
death upon them crept with its many
many qualms.- King Solomon wrote
the proverbs and King David wrote
the Psalms.
Even the mighty “Caesar” felt the
influence of a woman, and Napoleon
and every man of any consequence
has been influenced by some wopian
for good or for bad.
If I thought the good woj(ien of
North Carolina w^re for suffrage I
would be contented and do all I could
to favor it. But they are not.^ It is
the man-faced woman, who has come
to the decision that all men are fail
ures and are useless, and who holds a
poodle dog in her lap instead of a
baby, and her manniken if she has one
is daily in fear of his cigarette smok
ing existence. We will come nearer
home, the mothers of the men who do
things in Transylvania County don’t
want to vote, and would be as much
out of place at a .polling place as a
dirty duce in a new deck of cards.
As it is to-day the majority of the
male gender has all kinds of respect
for the feminine gender, but give her
breeches and the. ballot and they
will have fully as much respect for
her as they would have for a she cat
yowling on the back fence at mid
night.
Woman suffrage is coming as fast
as it can. . But when North Carolina
UTTLE RIVER COM
MUNITY OFHCERS
PVT. WILSON MAKES
SUPREME SACRIHCE
The Little River Community League
held its regular meeting at the Little
River school house Thursday evening
June 19. The first business to come
before the League was to complete
he election of officers. The executive
officers for the League are as follows:
President, Mr. Frank Shuford; Vice
President, Miss Lillie Picklesimer,
secretary, Miss Sallie Merrill, treas
urer, Miss Sue Heath, Chairman of
Agriculture, Mr. E. O. Shipman;
Chairman of Education to be named
later; Chairman of Religion and Mor
als. Mr| David Merrell; Chairman of
Health, Mr. A. J. Bedingfield; Chair
man of Social Recreation Mrs. Vernon
Merrill; Chairman of Home Progress,
Mrs. Carl Merrill.
The people of the community are
very much interested in the work
and with the help of our County
Agent we are planning great things
for our people. A canner has been
purchased for the use of the com
munity. Our girls and boys are
planting more tomatoes, beans, peas,
etc. than ever before. Our pig club
boys are working for the best pigs.
Another phase of this work is a com
munity fair. The people are very
much interested in the working of a
fair. We, have the time, the place
and the material so all we need is to
“get busy”.
Since we have the first and only
community league in the county, and
are enrolled second for a community
fair it does not mean that there is
no need for vrork. It only means we
must work harder.
Our next meeting will take place
Thursday evening, July 3rd and it
will be in charge of the health com
mittee, A. J. Bedingfield, chairman.
An interesting program is being plan
ed. We wish to. have with us Dr.*
J. W. Wallis, our county health officer
to speak to us on community sanita
tion. Dr. J. Y. McKinney of Brevard
on the value and care of the teeth
and Dr. A. R. Hunter of Simpsonville,
S. C. on general health.
SALLIE S. MERRILL,
Secretary.
Pvt. Monroe Wilson, the son of
Aaron Wilson, of Breyard, died on
Monday afternoon in the military hos
pital at Columbia, S. C. He was one
of the first group of Transylvania
boys to go to camp in the first draft.
After three months at Camp Sevier
the young man was sent to France
with the famous 30th Division. He
served x)verseas for ten months as a
member of the 115th Machine Gun
Battalion, Company A, and was pro
nounced by his officers the most effi
cient gunner in his company. He had
a vital part in making the history of
the Old Hickory Division. In the bat
tle of Bellicourt he was gassed and
sent to one of the base hospitals in
France where he remained until
March 191^ when he returned to this
country to Camp Jackson. His father
visited him shortly after his return
and for several weeks prospects were
bright for his recovery. But at
length the fiendish chlorine gas got
in its work and death claimed another
victim of Hun brutality.
Pvt. Wilson’s body reached Brevard
Wednesday on the 5:45 train. From
the station the body was conveyed
to the dead soldier’s former home
near Wilson’s Bridge. Thirty Tran
sylvania boys who had seen service in
France formed a guard of honor and
marched with the remains of their
dead comrade from the depot to the
Wilson home.
The funeral was held on Thursday
morning in the Brevard Baptist
church. Rev. C. E. Puett officiate
assisted by other qiinisters of the
town. Transylvania War Veterans,,
Members of the Red Cross, the Nation
al League for Women’s Service, the
Council of Defense and other patrio
tic organizations of the county went
in a body to the service which was
attended by people from all sections
of Transylvania. Representatives
from almost every community in the
county were present to pay tribute
to the first Transylvania boy to lay
his life on the altar of freedom. The
burial took place in the Round Top
Cemetery.
W. S, PRICE NOW LICENSED EM-
BALMER
W. S. Price, Jr. has returned from
Wrightsville Beach, wher^ he went
to staVid examination before the state
board to secure license as an emblam-
er.
Mr. Price passed the examiifation
very successfully and his friends are
glad to learn that he has decided to
remain here. He has been connected
for some time with Kilpatrick & Son
' and will continue to work for this
firm.
passes the Susan B. Anthony Amend
ment it will look like thirty cents in
change beside one dollar and a half.
■ BOHANCUS.
SOLDIERS TO
HAVE CLUB
Representatives of the various
patriotic organizations of the 'county
met inthe Brevard Club rooms Tues
day evening for the purpose of mak
ing definite plans for forming a club
here for sailors and soldiers and pro
curing suitable headquarters for the
organization.
Mr. T. H. Shipman was chairman
of the meeting and a committee was
appointed to take immediate steps to
ward Carrying out the ideas discussed
at the meeting Tuesday night. It is
expected that the committee will an
nounce in the next issue of the News
just what has been done to provide
for the accommodations of the Tran
sylvania boys. The members of
the committee are:
W. E.- Breese, Chairman; Mrs. j.
S. Silversteen, Mrs. H. N. Carrier and
R. H. Zachary.
DR. HUNT ALSO
FAVORS ECONOMY
Editor Brevard News:
Please allow me space in your val
uable paper to express my hearty
approval of the article in your last
issue entitled, “Dr. E. S. English Ad
vises Economy.”
“A whole time health officer” for
a county is required to give up his
practice and all other “side lines” and
devote all of his professional' time
to the service of the people of the
county, teaching hygiene, vaccinating
to prevent small pox, inocculating to
prevent typhoid fever, etc.
This is a fine thing for a rich coun
ty that is thinly settled, and before
looking fully and deeply into the
matter, I thought that “a whole time
health officer” would be a good thing
for this county.
After doing puplic health work in
this county for years and investigat
ing the question on every side, it is
my.opinion that this county cannot
afford, for years yet, to pay a whole
time health officer half that he should
receive, for giving up entirely his pro
fessional business and devoting all
of his time honestly and fairly to the
county work.
On the other hand and in keeping
with the above statement, a doctor
who could afford to take the job for
what the county could afford to pay,
would not be worth the amount paid.
It would be a case of “poor pay and
poor preach.”
A doctor so employed under the
above ^ mentioned circumstances,
though he promised himself and the
country that he would devote his
whole time to the work would be
tempted to take time to farm, trade,
etc. to patch out his small salary and
in this case the county would suffer.
On other matter, I think that it
would be a great mistake for the
county to spend the public for money
for private use, for such things as the
innocculations of the people to pre
vent Typhoid Fever. This is a great
thing but should be paid for by the
people of this county who receive thcr
great benefit of the same and not by
Aose who do not.
I could write a long article filled
with proofs for my opinions given
above, drawn from my exper>
ience in this county though space
does not permit.
Yours truly,
C. W. HUNT, M. D.
EPISCOPALIANS MAKE IM-
PROVEMENTS IN CHURCH
St. Philip’s Church has been re
painted. With its clean coat of paint
it shows up beautifully amidst the
green oak trees that surround it.
The organ has been overhauled and
tuned. It is one of the sweetest ton
ed organs in this section of the state.
There have been a dozen baptisms
in this Church during the past few
week.
DEATH OF LINUS NORTH
MR. POOVEY.WINS TOMATO RE
CORD
W. E. Poovey has added one more
item to the catalogue of his accom
plishments. He has long been the
champion chicken raiser of the coun
ty. Now he has turned his attention
to vegetable raising and is sure that
his garden has produced Brevard’s
first full-grown tomato for 1919. The
speciman from Mr. Poovey’s garden
weighed about one half pound and
was presented to the News editor who
enjoyed thp finely flavored gift and
appreciates the generous thought of
the donor.
AT METHODIST CHURCH
9:45—Sunday School (Children’s
Home Day).
11:00—Preaching by Evangelist.
4:00 P. M.—A special message to
men and boys by Mrs. Adcr (This ser
vice was postponed from last Sunday
on account of the rainstorm. See
display announcement.)
8:00 P. M. Prayer and Praise Ser
vice.
8:30 P. M. Probably closing service
of meeting.
After a short illness death came to
Linus North on Tuesday afternoon,
June the 24th. He was five years of
age and was the adopted son of Miss
Sadie North. The funeral services
were conducted in the Methodist
Church on Wednesday afternoon by
Rev. W. E. Poovey and the body was
laid to rest in Oak Grove Cemetery
beside Miss North’s parents who were
buried there some years ago.
ICE CREAM AND BOX SUPPER
The Girl’s Canning Club of Enon
will give " an Ice Cream Sup
per at Enon, July 4th, at 9:00 P. M.
the proceeds of which will go tq
purchase a community outfit for the
school.
Immediately after the ice cream
there ^vill be a box supper.
Everyone is cordially invited to at
tend.
BISHOP POSTPONES VISIT TO
BREVARD
The Rt. Rev. J. M. Homer, D. D.,
Bishci') of the ^District of Asheville,
has postponed his annual visit to St.
Philip’s Episcopal Church from next
Sunday to the 1st Sunday in July at
11:00 A. M.
COME TO THE WELCOME
HOME CELEBRATION.