FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17tk, 1919. THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C. BREVARD NEWS Name changed from Cylvan Valley News. January 1,1917. M. L. SHIPMAN, Editor ~ C. B. OSBORNE, Managing Editor and Publisher GERTRUDE R. ZACHARY City Editor Publislietlevery Thursday. Kntered at postotHoe at Hrevard. X.C.,as • second-class mutter. SUBSCBIPTION PRICE: Oneyea^ - $1.50 Sixmoiitha - .75 Ttiree months - .50 Two months - - - .35 Paya’ole by check, stamps or money order. Cards of thanks, resolutions and memorials pii!)lished only at hull' cuin- ni',.'roiai rate, t-ostinjr 10 conts p. r inch or one li.'ilf cent per word. SubscriptiIease mail it to me. C, M, Doyle, Itc, HALLOWE’EN PARTY thin!’’ v.orse than war. That is to al low the heel of autocracy to trample down the rights of the people, and to destroy the Bible. Men and wo men ought to put their heails to- 'W'ther, seriously and sanely, in a <0!]fcrence that the right kind of a treaty sliould be adopted, for the good of the world today and the ri,uhts of humanity tomorrow.” “As no man cun live to himself, so no nation can. The parable of the Good Samaritan is for nations as well as for individuals. The v/orld is in the midst of great movements, the temperance movement, the Lea gue of ^'ations and other things. All I’ight thinking Americans should put heads, hands and hearts together for the League of Nations. We are .at the cross-roads of all history. Pro vincialism is passing an(i e^'ery mrxn before me is a world citizen, if he Icolis at things as he ought. No part of the world can live isolated from the rest. The United States of Amer ica can no more go back to the time and condition of the past few years than a full-grown chicken can go back and stay within the limits of the egg from which it came.” These extract are from the ad- j dress of Dr. Truett, as reported by Gains Eleven Pounds And Is Feeling the Raleigh newspapers, show him to i Fine After Taking Tanlac, be a patriotic American as well as a | “Tanlac did so much for me that great Baptist, He takes no stock in I feel it my duty to tell others about the labored effort to discredit the ; this medicine,” said C. M. Rhamey, President of the U.nited States by a ! a professional nurse, living at the Ho- little coterie of political opportunists tel George, on Sixth street, Sanfran- who feign the belief that danger is : cisco, Cal., recently, Mr, Rhamey has lurking behind the treaty ana league ; been nursing patients in the hospitals covenant as at present constituted, j for the past eight years. ■ There will be a Hallowe’en Party on th 31st of October to be given un der the auspices of the U. D. C. at their Chapter House on Main Street. i The amusements of the evening will ; consist of a bon fire, games, etc. Re freshments will be served, i The Public is invited to attend tills ■ party and requested to conte in cos tume. HOSPITAL NURSE PRAISES TANLAC Men like Dr. Truett know better. A BREVARD-GREENVILLE RAIL ROAD The railway project now under “Last Feburary,” he continued, ow ing to an accident in which my leg was broken I was confined to my bed for several weeks. 1 lost my appe tite and could hardly eat anything to ^oth capital and labor ow’e it to the Country and to themselves to reach a better understanding and a clocer co-operation. Both are under obligation to President Wilson for of fering them an opportunity to meet face tc face apd talk as n:an to man. The autocratic capitalist is no better than the most radical labor agitator. One is just as objectionable as the other and the Country would be vast ly better off without either. The lock-out and the walk-out are twin si4^rs. The public suffers incon\en- conluderation by Brevard citizens nourish me, consequently I lost weight, I took several different kinds of tonics, hoping they would help build me up but they did no good, “One morning I read a statement by a lady in Los Angeles "who said she had gotten wonderful benefits from taking Tanlac that I decided to try it myself. By the time I had fin ished half of my first bottle my ap petite returned and I felt hungry for the first time in weeks. From then on I started right in to pick up and for connection with Greenville, S. C., is of far-reaching importance to this part of North Carolina. The plan is made the more feasible by the fact that a railroad line is partially com pleted from the South Carolina city toward the slate lino and :s stated that no enormous amount of con struction would be nec23.?ary lo give Lrevaid and Transylvania a traffic artery to the south. With the line finished from Bre vard to Greenville a new freight and ! my appetite got better and better and passenger road W'ould be provided be tween southern points and Brevard- Asheville territory. Congestion on the Southern railway between Spar tanburg and GreenviJlo and Western Carolina would be greatly relieved and a territory rich in farming, tim ber and manufacturing resources would be open to the v;orld, ' It has been suggested that what Transylvania needs i;5 not tnis south ern connection by rail, but a;i elec tric or steam line from Brevard to I slept better at night. I have already gained eleven pounds and am feeling fine; even my doctor has remarked how much better I am looking, I * would never allow my name to be used in connection with a medicine before, but I have had such excellent results from using Tanlac that I take : rcr.t pleasure in recommending it anyone needing a medicine to build up the system.” Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.—adv. TELLS SENATORS ABOUT BEEF COSTS This May Throw Some Light on the Price You Pay for Beefsteak. Testlfjing recently before a body of senators in W'ashingtou, a vice-presi dent of one of the large packing con cerns (F. Edson White of Armour and Company) made the astounding state ment that so far in their fiscal year, which would cover the past eight or nine months, his company had “made no money whatever qu beef.” This statement is doubtless well nigh incredible to the average man. Yet it was made In full knowledge that the senators had access to the com pany’s books. Recovering froril the first shock, this same average man will say, “Yes, but the packers are shrewd; what they do not make on the beef they more than make up on the hides.” But even this Illusion was destined to be shattered. Mr. W’hite explained that his statement included everything that was derived from the steer as purchased—the hide, fat, even the in testines which are used largely for uusage casings. Make Money, Nevertheless, Well the packers make money—how do they do it? Mr. White admitted that they did, quoting figures secured by auditors of the Food Administra tion, to the effect that packers’ profits on food commodities of all kind last year were 1 6/10 cents on each dol lar taken in. These would include such things as sausage, shortening, canned meats, etc., in addition to fresh meats, hams and bacon. On all the products of his company, Mr. W'hite explained, comprising both foods and inedible commodities, the profits dur ing the same period were 1 8/10 cents on each dollar sale. All of which would lead many to say that the packing business is not well understood. It isn’t. Yet as one of the leading industries of the coun try,*- Its workings and, above all, Its profits, should be familiar matters to us. It is quite useless to orate again.st the high cost of living without digging into some of these fundamentals. By-Products at Market Values. One of tlie most enlightening bits of Mr. White’s testimony was his ex planation of the way in which cost price of beef is arrived at. If a steer is bought at $125.00 and hides are bringing $16.00 in the open market, then $16.00 Is credited to the cost of the steer. If hides are selling at $23.00 that amount is credited. The visceral fat, offal and everything else that comes from the steer are likewise credited at their prevailing market values. What remains is taken as the cost price of the meat. The beef car cass is then shipped to one of the lo cal distributing branch houses, and the manager there is given the cost price with instructions to sell the beef at a profit if he can. But In any event, whether the local market be lively or dull, he must sell for what he can get, for the commoaity is a perishable one and must be sold. Manufacturer’s Profit on By-Products. However, there is anotlier hitch to the packing business, quite as little understood apparently, that goes to show how a loss on fresh meats may be accompanied by a profit on the to tal amount of business done. Take, for example, the banjo strings afore mentioned, which are made from the intestines of slieep. The department that makes banjo strings (and like wise surgical ligatures, tennis strings, etc,,) “buys” the intestines from the sheep-killing department, paying ex actly the same price that these bring when sold to the outside market. On this basis the string department manu factures its strings and sells them, bringing a profit into the business. In like manner the fertilizer depart ment buys blood and tankage; the soap department buys fats; the glue depart ment buys hoofs, horns, bones and sinews; and so on through the list of “by-products,” The fertilizer, the soap and the glue, just as the music strings, bring in a manufacturer’s profit. In all cases these by-produj whether they be sold to outside jj^ian- ufacturers or to one of the ma^fac- turing departments in the business (at the same prevailing market priye), are credited to the cost of the meat por tion of the animals. Just as im the in stance of the hides mentioned above. Thus the “utillzati«n of by-pfoducts” system of which we have heard much, and the method by which it is con ducted, show the packers’ manufactur ing profit on a great variety of com modities ranging all the way from pharmaceuticals to glue, do, ini reality, bear the burden of fresh meat pricea. At our Directors’ Meeting held on Mon day» October 13th, it was decided to elimi nate every overdraft appearing, on our books and we have instructed our Tellers not to pass overdrafts for any person in the future. Now, you will please understand that this is not a personal matter, but hope that you will figure on your check stubs just what your balance is with us before is suing your checks. We have had criticism from the State Banking Commission on ac count of our passing overdrafts, as it is against their ruling for a bank to carry same. THOS. H. SHIPMAN, Brevard, N. C., Oct. l^ 1919. Cashier. BREVARD BANKING COMPANY f Have You a Home? if you do not have a Home, .:ome and let us sell you one. If you do own a Home, come and have us INSURE it. Two of the most sensible things that you can do: secure a home and protect it. GALLOWAY MINNIS Real Estate and'Insurance Agents NOTICE- -LAND SALE BY COM MISSIONER In' I Senator Kellogg, of Minnesolta, - discussing maladministration of railroads by tho Goven^ment, said: “There never was a Goverament operation that was not wakeful and inefiicient. It Is Inevitabie im- der our organization that it i^ould be so. It is not the province or the prerogative of a Dem^racy like ours, instituted for th4 best I Government on the face 4>f the |?^rth, to manage the busimss of ^th? country.’* / *—Congressional Record, ^g- 5. By virtue of the power, direction and authority invested in me, the un- 1 dersigned commissioner, heretofore I appointed as such m a special pro- ' ceeding pending in the Superior Court I of Transylvania county before the j Clerk entitled—“Ethel G. McMinn and I Welch Galloway, Admr’s of J, W. Mc- j Minn, deceased” vs Ethel G, McMinn, Irene McMinn et al. heirs at law" and I under an order of said Court made therein, I will sell to the highest bid der, on the terms hereinafter stated, all the right, title and interest of the estat of J, W, McMinn, deceased, in and to the following described real estate, together with the buildings thereon and the furnishings in said building known as the Aethelwold Hotel, situated in the town of Brevard C. BEGINNING on a stone at the in tersection of South margin of Main strgfi.tLAyitlL.west margin of Broad St., ■and runs then with east mai’gin of Broad street, south 26 deg. west ISf. feet to a stake at the Whitmire corner then with the Whitmire line, south 64 deg. east 110 feet to a stake at the Pickelsimer corner; then w’ith the Pickelsimer line, north 26 deg, east 63 feet to a stake in the Pickelsimer line; then north 64 deg, west with the Pickelsimer and Weilt Hne, 71 feet to a stone; then North 26 deg. east 73 feet to a stone on the soul^i iRargin^ Main street; then with tm* said margin of said street, north 64 deg, west 36 feet to the ybuginninu’. This being the lot on whic^ the Aeth^'l wold Hotel is situated, ’ Such furniture, fvAcures and fur nishings as belojJtg to the estate of said J, W, M<^‘Minn, deceased, now in said hotel gilding will pass to the purchaser at Ipaid sale. Said sale .will be held in front of Court House Door in the town of Brevard, (lounty of Transylvania, State of Iforth Carolina, on Monday, Nov. 3rd, W919 at 12 o’clock ;*nd the terms of sale will be one third (1-3) cash on day of sale, balance in one and two years, equal. installments, with interest in defe^rred payments at the rate of six p^ cent, payable annually. Title retatoed until all pur chase m^^ney paid, jor satisfactory ar- rangemi?nts mad^therefor. October \he 15', 1919. WELC^-IjALLOWAY, Commis sioner. NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WAR RANT OF ATTACHMENT ] North Carolina— Transylvania Coun- 1 ty—In the Superior Court. ‘ Kathryn Loftis by her next friend E. E. Loftis, vs, Thomas L. Walters, The defendant, T. L, Walters, will take notice that a summons in the above entitled action w-as issued auainst the defendant on the 13th (lay of September 1919 by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Transyl- v:uiia County N. C. and that an action inritled as above has been brought by the above named plaintiff against the said T, L, Walters to recover damages for personal injuries sus tained by the said plaintiff, Kathryn Loftis caused by the said defendant L. Walters wrongfu’Iy, carelessly ; uiul negligently driving and running iiis automobile over her on or near Whitmire street, in the town of Bre vard, X. C.; the sum of damages de- ,';an(ied and sought to be recovered in this action being five thousand i:>r)000) dollars, ^ That the said defendaa^ a proper party to the said acti^^.v. hich re lates to personal injuries sustained by the said Kathryn Loftis upon her body, caused by the wrongful, care- k'ss and negligent acts of the said defendant T. L, W'alters. I That the defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of 'Fransylvania I County, North Carolina at his office ' in the Court House in the town olP# Brevard, N, C. on the 16th day of October 1919 at 10 o’clock A. M. I and answer or demur to the complaint : of the plaintiff filed in said action ■ or the relief demanded in said com> [plaint will be granted, I The defendant will further take . notice that a warrant of attachment jwas issued from the Superior Court of Transylvania County, North Car- 1 olina on the 15th day of September, 1919 against the property of said de fendant which warrant is returnable at the same time and place above named, to wit on the 16th day of Oct. 1919 at 10 o’clock A. M. This Sept. 15th 1919. N. A. MILLER. Clerk Sup erior Court Transylvania Co. N. C.