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BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th, 1919.
NUMBER
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
IS ‘‘kjmw SOUTH”
THE DAWN OF THE DAY WHEN WE
SHALL SEE THE LIGHTS OF SOUTH
/ CAROLINA—PICKENS AWAITS WITH
IMPATIENCE.
Never before in the history of Transylvan
ia County has there appeared so vividly the star
of hope. From every side for a number of years
there rang the bells of progress, but today, and to
day only, have we been able as a people to touch
ground with a good footing. From the fair coun-
yt of Pickens, that lifes just over the hills, from our
own lovely realm, there comes the echo to our
spirit of progress. Pickens County, South Caro
lina, like our county, has caught the trend of civili
zation with a steady eye, and with ear to the
ground she is ever watching. The only salvation
for any county, anywhere, is transportation fac
ilities. Our armies are preparing to light a great
battle, a battle that will penetrate the embattle-
ments and fortifications of a howling wilderness,
that for hundreds of years has stood defiently in
the path of civilization and will insure by ultimate
victory the connection of the shades of civiliza
tion that have so far been unable to color with
their beauty a desolate country.
From Rosman, North Carolina, to Seneca,
South Carolina, is the plausible and the feasible
line to make the connection that has been long
sought for. Between these two points there is a
distance of only thirty-one miles. According to
the other surveys that have heretofore been made
this way a grade can be obtained that would be
only one per cent southward and two per cent to
the northward. This will make a complete change
of the map of our county. Asheville and Atlanta
will be drawn closer by many miles. Greenville
will be closer to this county by many miles also.
Thousands of acres of timber lands that have
never been pierced by lumberman's machinery
will be thrown open to the markets of the world
through our counties, thereby bringing for a time
many dollars that otherwise would go elsewhere.
The white hope of the people of our county that,
'iive by the sweat of the brow'’ is this hope. The
lumber manufacturing plants and other plants
that depend upon wood products for their opera
tions, will eventually cease and leave behind them
only memories and desolate quasi-sheds. The
wheels of industry cannot run where there is no
gain. With this line open these industries and
other industries can continue to run for many
years. Cotton milling will be a common industry
for thte county, that is blessed with such a won
derful/supply of water power.
It has been said by a noted farmer of Tran
sylvania that this county is fit only for truck farm-
mg—gardening and so forth—and that the only
hope Ar such a county if gardening is to be con-
sidev^ would of course be a market. With this
proposed line the farmers of this county can place
on the trains in their own ho^ne county these pro
ducts daily and the good people of Atlanta and
dther southern cities would bu^d|||fi^t local mar
ket the same day. In the luniB^^Hustry and in
farming this seems to be concli^^Bproof of the
value of the road.
Now for a number of years^re has flock
ed to our beautiful cou'^ty from all jad:s of the
United States and Europe a goodly niS^iber of
tourists who come o see the jhfeauty of God’^ great-
ARMISTICE DAY
CELEBRATION
est handiwork and to enj
mate. These people t
our cafes and hotels
of our products. The
come in such wild floe
an anti-inducement t
much to our count
which is coming as
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A pro^em for the celebration of
Armistice Day had been arranged
consisting of three parts: a parade by
the pupils of the graded school and
the Brevard Institute, singing patri
otic songs, .and prayer and speaking.
The inclement weather prevented the
parade but the pupils and teachers
from both the graded school and the
Institute with a goodly number of
the towns-people assembled in the
Baptist church at the hour appointed
for the celebration. The decorum of
students was particularly good, and
the singing so far abftve the ordinary
that the teachers are to be congratu
lated upon, the results of their teach
ing.
Rev. Mr. Seagle stated the object
of the meeting was to oflFer up praise
and gratitude to God for bringing
about the signing of the armistice a
year ago which stopped the fighting
and no doubt saved the lives of thou
sands of our American boys, and also
because God had led the armies of
truth and righteousness to victory
over the armies of greed and bar
barism.
Rev. Mr. Powell offered appropriate
and fervent prayer.
Mr. Ralph Zachary in a manly and
timely address rehearsed the reasons
why our boys laid down their all and
went across the sea to meet the blood
thirsty Hun, and that therefore, we
should meet yearly in celebrations
all over the country and show those
who have come back to us that we ap
preciate the bravery and sacrifices
they made for us; and for the cause [
of righteousness. “How can we keep j
their deeds fresh in our minds,” he
said, “and instil them in the minds
of the young? In the same way that
the Declaration of Independence has
been handed down from generation
to generation; viz. b|r yearly cele
brations on the Fourth of July in
which the facts surrounding the writ
ing and signing of that Declaration
are told; otherwise only a few people
would know anything of the men, and
what they did on that momentous
occasion.”
The Confederate Veterans keep
the great battles and the deeds of the
Civil war fresh in their me^iories, and
teach the rising generations what
their heroic forefathers did in the
conflict between the States through
annual celebrations where speakers
rehearse the immortal deeds of the
sons in gray.
Let us keep up this custom for it
is a good one. Patriotism that comes
of our own free will is the best kind;
not a forced patriotism. The darkey
in the hands of the Ku Klux with a
halter around his neck was patriotic
then; but I don’t believe in that kind
of patriotism.”
Prof. Trowbridge offered the final
prayer, and the people went home
with a feeling that it was gooJ to
have taken part in the celebration.
S.
THE NATION MILITANT
& CHURCH MILITANT
death of a child
The Challenge of ths Impossible
In a part of the battle of Neuve
Chapelle where things were more than
usually muddled, a British subaltern
received the order to lead his men out
against the trenches opposite. The
barbed wire in front of them was ob
viously intact and to do anything of
the sort seemed to be merely useless
suicide. The men realizing the sit
uation refused and were in fact jus
tified by a counter order a few min
utes later.
But their officer could not under
stand their refusal. Again and again
he implored them to follow him and
at last, with tears in his eyes, sprang
up himself saying, “If you will not
follow me I am going alone.” He was
hardly over the parapet before he
fell back sevrely wounded.
As they carried him off on a
stretcher he was weeping; not for his
own failure or the pain of his wound
but because his men had disgraced
themselves by refusing the impossible.
That is the only right spirit for the
Christian today—the spirit which is
prepared to attempt the impossible,
because the alternative is more un
bearable still.
But if the faith of a Christian is
not a delusion the whole way thru
then for him the impossible does not
exist. The Commander he serves
under never blunders and there is no
such thing as going forward alone.
On the contrary the faith which is
willing to face the impossible is it
self the appointed means of achieving
it. This is the victory which has over
come the world even of faith. “Noth-
nig shall be impossible unto you.”
P. E. C.
CONNESTEE FALLS
Little Thomas, the nine month old
child of Mr. and Mrs. John Maxwell,
died early Sunday Morning of bron-
chaiil pneumonia after an illness of
a few days. \
' The funeral' was conducted from
the residence by R^v,. Mr. Powell and
the little baby was laid fp rest in the
Oak Grove Cemetery. i
Little Thomas was an \unusually
bright child and was a fa|vorite o#
all who knew him.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell ha\ e the
sympathy of the entire commu^ty in
this the saddest hour that can / Come
to young parents.
0 Connestee, come speake to me
As I watch thy waters play.
Tell me of that summertime
When we played the live-long day.
We sat upon thy dewy bank
And watched thy waters fly.
His arm protecting me around
We sat there, he and I.
We sat and talked upon that rock
That juts out in the stream.
Many a castle we builded there
And dreamed many a dream.
He was young and strong and fair
And I was just eighteen;
And golden sunlight caught his hair
And mingled with the waters there
As he claimed me for his queen.
0 Connestee on the banks of thee
He made his promise true.
And when his letters come to me
I always think of you.
Of your splashing, laughing water.
Your shimmering, shining flow.
As he kissed my father’s daughter
And said it was time to go.
So we climbed into the auto
And the wedding day was set;
But the time we spent upon thy bank
Ts a day we shan’t forget.
As v -? think of thy leaping water
Thy splashing shining stream;
And prai ’ove thoughts may come true
That wc: dreamed into our dream.
E. H. N.
DON’T BLAME US
The management of the News hates
to be late as much or more than any
of its subscribers but there are times
when it cannot be avoided. This week
we had an unusually large run of
ads and the power was off for one
whole day and not much good some
other days. Hence we are a day late
bue we hope you will overlook it as
we have done our best.
9HATTHERED
CROSS IS DOING
The motion picture screen has been
enlisted this year in the campaign for
the prevention and cure of tuber cu-
losis and during the next few weeks
some exceedingly interesting films
win be shown.
Through an arrangement with the
Famous Players—Lasky Corporation
all feature and program films releas'
ed by that favorite organization after
Nov. 10th will carry a feature trailer
devoted to tuberculosis.
These short feature films have been
made by the Famous Players in co
operation with the NitaonNa
operation with the National Tubercu
losis Association, and are in keeping
with tho high standard of excellence
that hr e made Famous Players—
Lasky r 3 pupular. They are of
dramr.' interest, carrying an ap-
pealin: nessage regarding the “great
white -igue” that each year in
North rolina kills more than thirty-
three I' ndred people.
The . '.pphire theatre, which shows
Fame. Players—Lasky Corporation
pictu: here, will have these films
runnii.j r.t intervals from now till the
first of the year.
EXCERP
As a last official record of the re
tiring historian and by way of remin-
escence he wishes to recall and file
for permenant keeping the names of
two contemporary brethren whose
Christian lives were set ablaze some
where about 1825 and *ever have
been extinguished though their bodies
were entomed about 1875 or '80.
These two brethren, compared with
their contempories in the church or
world were extraordinary men, being
head and shoulder above in Christian
•t
attainment. Some Christians become
famous as a concrete or as a synonim
of some isolated virtues, not so with
these men; they were firm, broad,
round, symetrical in character; hum
ble, feeling themselves least among
men; were laymen in church and re
ligious work but their lives were
preachers ordained to go and bring
forth much fruit. They were praying
men, closet-prayers openly rewarded
though they told it not, yet all men,
saint and sinner knew they prayed.
They were students of the Word and
weilded the sword of the Spirit with
telling effect, whether used on the
highway, in the shops, at the husk-
ings or logrollings, in the prayer-
meetings or in the old Saturday
church conferences—^wherever they
went it seemed they were intuitively
prepared to so personr.lly so admonish
as to reclaim and to rebuke withou'
UB jomBajq iJaqx “u '
mosphere untainted with worldin-''
though they toiled and trafficted
the world’s wares.
William Leander Lyon a mem
ber of Cathey Creek churcB^, but was
afterward a church member of Mt.
Moriah church, was a deacon and a
superintendent of the Sunday School
until the day of his death.
Eli Galloway also joined Cathey
Creek church but in 1842 Macidonia
church was constituted and he doubt
less was included, if so or not he was
soon there—after a deacon as records
show. He, as Lyon, was a regular ap
pointee to the annual meetings of his
day and was a pillar in his church and
community.
Upon whom of this generation have
the mantles of these revered brethren
fallen.—Minutes Transylvania Asso-
cwtoin, 1919.
With an Electric line between Bre
vard and Greenville, Brevard will
double its population within 5 yeras.
We respectfully ask
that our subscribers ov
erlook all typographical
errors this week, as the
power is off and we
have no way of making
corrections. We are
havirg to use gasoline
power to run the press.
HIE PRAYER CORNER
The Spirit of Brotherhood
The Allies are organized together
as a group of nations for the joint
control of their economic resources.
Thus is the biggest single piece of co
operative enterprise that humanity
has yet achieved. We have said, in
our national church proclamations
that the co-operative control of in
dustry is the final step in industrial
democracy and here is the step to
ward it. Those who would extend
the Gospel of Jesus Christ should in
sist that this partial measure should
be made a world measure; that econ
omic imperialism—the final cause of
world conflict—shall be removed once
for all by a permanent co-operative
administration of the world’s re
sources and that there shall be no ex
clusion, not even of our enemies, into
that great family our foes shall final
ly come—not. the family of sentiment
not the family of mere statecraft, but
a working family to control the work
of the world together in the spirit of
brotherhood for the good of all the
pcfftples of the earth. That will mean
recognizing brotherhood in a greater
sense than the world has ever seen it
before. It will recognize that the
great-natural resources are not the
property of the strongest group, or
the strongest nation*; but belong to
all the children of men put here by
God for the development of all the
people. It will mean that the great
powers will stop exploiting the weaker
peoples, that the worlds great re
sources will be co-operatively con
trolled for the good of all the p^ple
everywhere. We must have this great
advance in religion or we shall face
its inevitable decline, unless we have
more brotherhood out of this situa
tion, we shall have less of God, less
of God in individual lives and less in
the world at large.
—President Wilson.
A PRAYER
0 Lord of Hosts, who didst guide
our fathers out of the house of bond
age, build up the nations wounds and
make us whole. Save us from arro
gance, intolerance, self deception and
greed. Help us to close the widnen-
ing chasm between the weak and. the
strong, the rich and the poor, and to
cast into it all pride and prejudice,
luxury and lust, envy and covetous-
M i, tli3 insolence of riches with the
] of povety. So may we estab-
j sli the brotherhood of the Kingdom
build in our land the f!ity of God
foretold by the mouth of all the holy
prophets since the world began. We
ask this in His name, who maketh
men to be of one mind in a house,
the desire of all nations, Jesus Christ,
Amen. C. D. C.-
DAVID WARD ENTERTAINS
Perliaps the most enjoyable oc
casion of the season Vv as n stag par
ty last night given by Mr David
Ward at his resinenre ou E. Main
St. where about thirty^ve friends
gathered to have a general good
time, and the)- had it. The amuse
ments for the evenitog consisted of
bridge aud set-back which was en
joyed to the fullest by all who par
ticipated.
Later in the^ evening chicken
salad, stndwiches and cbffea were
served.-This was also greatly en^
joyed.,