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'li?? BREVARD NEWS Published every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUULISHING CO., Inc. Em- i < (| at the Postoifice in Brevard, I N. C., an B?cond class mutter. ?- i ? ? ???-. ? ? ?? ?? * ' ? ?** T Jumea F. Barrett Editorl Miss Alma Trowbridge Associate ?d.| SUBSCRIPTION RATES (payable in advance) One Year $2.0Q Six Months '.l. ......... 1.0C Three Montha CO Readers are invited to as* th? columns of The Brevard Newa it expressing their opinions on an] matters of public interest. Persona attacks on individuals will not b< published for any one. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 192^ ONE LITTLE WORD, THEN JAIL, PENITENTIARY, OR, PERHAPS, ELECTRIC CHAIR. In the heat of political campaigns, men are willing to fight "a barrel ot wildcats'" for their favorite candi dates. This is a hot campaign, and getting hotter as the days go by Now, let's reason together for a ma rc cnt. What good will it do any one tc engage in a fight with one's neigh bor over the campaign? Will it gel one's favorite candidate a single ad ditional vote? Will it pay foi neighbors to fall out with one an other over the campaign? Is there any money in it? Is there any glorj in it Ail the murder cases that have been tried in the Transylvanii county court house started ove: some little frivilous something. N< man knows just how far trouble ma; reach, once trouble is started. Let's say that John and Joe, fo instance have been fairly goo< friends. Both men have families mothers, fathers, wives, little chi) dren. Both have to work for a. liv ing for their families. John is i democrat and Joe is a republican They meet up town, or at Rosmati or Pisgah Forest, and they begin ar guing politics. They get mad. The; begin cursing and swearing at on another. A fight starts. Directly the deadly report of I pistol breaks the silence. John ha killed Joe, or Joe has killed John. There's a widow down ther in one of the homes. A group of lit tie children are crying for "Daddy' ? a Daddy that is no more. In th other home there is a murderer' wife, and a group of sad-eyed chil dren cling to a grief-stricken moth <.< . st.irto, while friends and officer tell the wife that her husband is ii jail. A funeral is held over one of th men, while, within a short time, tria of the other begins ? a trial for hi life. Two families torn asunder. Tw families without fathers or husband A community torn by factions a friends line up on each side. And wl\at good has it done th democratic party and the republicai party for these two men to figh over their politics? with such disaa trous results. Ah, friends, if each of us wouli look deep into the eyes of our lit tie ones, and see something of th misery that our hasty action mus surely , bring upon th.m, we wouli be more careful in wh-jt we say am do. Let all Christians piay God tha no two neighbors in thi.; county wil come to blows thorughi.ut this cam paign. Any one of our citizens i worth more to Transylvania count; than is both Smith and Hoover pu together. The happiness of th children in Transylvania count; homes is of much more important than the election of any man to th< presidency of the United States. SCHOOL BOOK QUESTION NEXT CONSIDERATION. In all the great progress that hai been nu.iij along educational lines ii North Carolina, there is one .feature of the school work far behind th< times. We're speaking now oi school books. School books ought to be pur chased by the state and given to the school children without any charge at all. The state assumes the right to adopt or reject any text book, and make changes in the books at any time the state so desires. The state and the counties furnish the buildings and all other equipnif-nt, employ and pay the teachers, all from flu- tax monies levied for these purpo-.-s. The buildings and the teacher- are vwrtU*** without school bri.':. I, in ? tin* j-tc.t, and t>. c< un ties) vw.lv i . provide hot,/.. . But it will be many years before.! the state reaches that advanced stnge ! in its progress, therefore immediate | remedy is needed for existing evils. | The most bunglesnme. outlandish method th.-' c ujd be ron.iurcd up tlwt thior..'-. vvhxh the ,< l.ooi h-oks! V are distributed. For sonie reason' only one detiler in a county sells | school books to the students, and all these sales must be made in a day. In a small place like Transylvania coiunty the task jmay not be so hard, yet it is most unpleasant. Hut in the larger counties, where thousands and can get anything they want, on cred it. The merchants labor under th< delusion that they are "protected,1 because there is the garnishee law Take a man who is making, say $2< a week. He can purchase from man stores whatever of their wares h may choose. He becomes, throug this easy credit, so heavily involve^ that there s no way on earth for hir to pay his various accounts out o his $20 a week. His wages becom tied up through the garnishee law and he walks out from under it all Then ther? is the personal pride ii business to consider. What self respecting merchant wants the stat to become his guardian? The mer chants do lose lots of money throug] crediting people' who will not pa; their debts. But three is a mucl more effective remedy than tha promised through the garnishee law As soon as the merchants discove the fact that they can organize an< absolutely control the credit systen of a community, then these losse will cease. Trouble is, the merchants an afraid of one another, afraid, i seems, to take each into th> confidence of the other, therefore they keep on extending credit ti people who are not worthy of cred it. The merchants of any town o: community can stop the activities o: the "deadbeat" any time those mer chants so desire. Then why call up on the state of North Carolina t< act as a collection agency for th< business of merchandising? The efforts of Mr. Carraway ar< in vain. There will be no garnishee 1 law passed in North Carolina. ) i WHAT'S THE NEWS AS 'I TO JOHN COOLIDGE? For many days the newspapers ?j >ave kept the American people fully inforn -il as to the movements of John Coolidgc, his job-hunting and his courting. . F'oor John! Can't Ret a job, can't go courting, without having hs every movement !<luly chronicled in the big daily news I papers. Monday's papers carried the I "wonderful" news that John is to go I to work for a railroad company. Now, who in the dickens gives a !hip-hoorah what John Coolidge [docs? What bearing has this on the j price of potatoes, or the tax rate in Tr.msylvania county? j Isn't it funny, that wc, a.* Ameri < n people, boast of our democracy, ?.,r hatred of royalty, our aversion k'ngs and i,ucen*, yet each little n vem'-iv <>f tlw "big" folks in \rv,< run i- . i n :i"ce on THE PRAYER COkj4E1-<. "THE CHILD IS FATHER OF THE MAN" What Wadsworth meant4 by the j above statement was, of course, that ; | the life of the child determines the i character of the adult. Kach of us I is today, what our past has made us, t and the most important part of that i past was the period during which our | character was wax to receive and i '.marble to retain. : ; ' Character is the sum total of past impressions, and childhood is the im-|i pressionable age. "It is\of paramount, j importance to make the most of our. opportunities before character be- ! comes fixed and rit;id." Carlyle has said: "I acknowledge the all ? but omnipotence of early culture and nurture." And Pope has thus expressed the reason why early j culture is all? but omnipotent ? 1 '"Just as the twig is bent, the tree's j inclined." The time will come when j it may be impossible to bend the full grown tree, but it is compara- j tively very easy to bend and train the tender sapling. I Bishop Dupancoup has well said that "The world would be saved if we devoted ourselves to the chil dren." They , will not always be children ; we are dealing with the parents and leaders of tomorrow. They will carry on the work where we shall leave it. If it is true that "She who rocks the cradle rules the world," it is no ' less true that the teachor is sowing seeds which will replant themselves generation after generation. A man planted an acorn in a waste patch of ground and left it. Long after that man's tombstone had crumbled away to dust, the single acorn had become an ever-extending oak for est. ? * I h<4<( A I'UAVKK FOR YJIK ? CHILD AS EAXIlEK <)'?' T0K MAX Our Father t!<xl, help us i? r\ ii ember the saying of thfc jjr?at JOCt, that "The child is father of the nan," that the life of the child <!?; ermines the character of the adult; .hat we are today what 'our past has made us, and the most important part of that past was the period dur ing which our character was "wax to receive and marble to retain." Bring home to our hearts the truth that character is the sum total of past impressions and child hood is the impressionable age, so that it is of paramount importance to mnkc the most of pur opportuni ties before character becomes fixed and rigid, for early culture and nur ture are all but omnipotent, and the time will come when it may be im possible to bend the full grown tree, while it is comparatively easy to bend and train the tender sap ling. Give us grace to believe with Dupancoup, that the world will be saved, if, as parents and teachers, we devote ourselves to the children, for they will not always be chil dren. VVe are dealing with the par ents and leaders to tomorrow, who will carry on the work where we shall leave it. If it is true that "She who rocks the cradle rules the world," it is no less true that the teacher is sowing seeds which will replant themselves generation after generation. Oh help us, Heavenly Father, as parents and teachers, to sow seeds which will replant themselves generation after generation, even springing up and bearing fruit to Thy glory and the good of the world, for Jesus' sake. Amen. ? C. D. C. front pages of our daily papers? What we're most interested in is .to get a good industry here, so thej | sons of the good citizens of Transyl-I . vania county can get some jobs, j ! John's job and John's gal mean but I little to the folks hereabouts. Let, I ' jhim get a job and marry whomsoever I he wants to marry. That's his busi I ness, but it lacks lots of being I "news." ... | The Asheville Advocate appeared last week as an eight-column paper, greatly improved over the former six-column paper. The Advocate now looks like any city daily paper, that is, any city daily which is clear | ly and neatly printed. I - j A LETTER FROM MR. SAMS To the Farmers of g Transylvania County: j It has been both a privilege and '? | pleasure to be in your splendid Oicounty for a few days. We have y | visited many of your farms and , have partaken of your hospitality. . ! We have walked over your beauti i fill farms and seen your cattle, d mules and sheep . browsing on your n! hills and bottoms. You are doing ? I Well to have these pastures and live [stock to consume them: but you can e | do better, by having better pastures 'ijand better stock. My criticism of [,| your pastures is the fact, that as a nl general rule your pastures have been , made on land that has been cleared ~ in the remote past, worn out by be e ing planted to corn and other culti vated crops, and then turned into i a pasture by stringing two barbed | wires around, when in fact many so y called pastures are little more than li a place to turn live stock for exer t cise. A modern up to date pasture should conform to a standard, '? something like this: "A good farm r pasture is a pece of rich land, prop i erly located, well fenced, with con -Ivenient gates, having clean running (water, and shade for live stock; but s.not having isolated trees promisV cpusly over the field, and well set to (suitable grasses and legumes that will abundantly supply live stock as 1 nearly all the year as possible."' e The time has always been that , live stock of all kind and especially j dairy cows and sheep could be grown | and maintained by means of a good " pasture where they may be turned and they will feed and water them- 1 r | selves and spread the manure with .jout human aid; but since human E labor has become so high and scarce - on the farm, it makes it more im . perative that the best known system uf farm management should be adopted to meet, the new condition in 5 which we are forced to live. I am not making the plea that every far jmer should take a portion of his ! richest land and convert it into a ? fancy pasture, unless he has a lot cf live stock and no other kind of land. Most generally, l?rKe farms have some lands that are rough and t ich, provided with beautiful clear running water. Such land is well l] -uiti'd for grazing purposes; but where the farm does not have such land; then take a suitable portion of the best bottom, or up land anil pro vide sufficient pasture for all the ; live stock kept on the farm. i. We are living in a new time, cv- ' ery farmer as well as every class of ' mankind want the best that is going 1 and plenty of it. We all wanti good 1 roads, schools etc, etc. These good 1 things cost monev. This money must come by taxation. The farmer must bear his part. He must find some way tp meet this new condi tion, and the writer can see no bet- , ter way for T .unsytvania farmers to . meet it than by providing better pas tures and silos, grow more and better Jf live stock. Farmers who own large./ farms n ay find beef cattle ami sheep J. or one ">r the other, on good pastures! most profitable. The small farmer, will generally find | dairy cattle, sheep, poultry and pigs, or a combination ? these to be t more profitable. The farmer who t milks a small herd of pure br.'d dairy cows and sells the mam to - a good creamery, feeds the skim milk to pigs and poultry or to good healthy heifer calves, and save and return all manure to his farm, and grows suitable crops on his own farm to properly feed his dairy cows, pigs and poultry, without hav ing to pay his good cash for com mercial feeds, will always be in readiness to pay cash for his family needs, pay his road and school tax, and have cash to his credit in his local bank. I challenge any man to find a farmer who is engaged as above, and industriously giving his business proper attention, who is whining about high taxes and hard times. Truly times are hard for the farmer who has no cash income; but we can and must find the way to have the cash income, and that is by the way of better pastures, more of them, and more and better beef- cat : tie, dairy cattle, sheep, pigs and ? poultry to consume all the crops and ! pastures in your county. J. R. SAMS, County^Agent at Large. APPRECIATES BREVARD Editor The Brevard News: I will greatly appreciate you per mitting me the use of your paper to ; express to the good people of your town, thanks and appreciation for their kindness and courtesy in as sisting in the entertainment of the visitors of the recent meeting held J at Camp Sapphire. Each one left with a feeling that the meeting had been a big success and they had been greatly benefitted. Words -of praise were heard on every hand of our wonderful state and the spirit exhibited by the citizens of your 'town. Accept my personal thanks for the publicity given through your paper. , With every good wish for all. ? Sincerely and Fraternally, MRS. E. ROGERS. Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 6, 1928. "INTOLERANCE" Editor The Brevard News: I- This is a land of liberty and relig ious freedom, made, so by our lib 1 erty-loving forefathers. Such a country is called a democracy, or a republic. As Lincoln said, it is a government of the people, by the ! people, for the people. Our country is opposed to union of church and state. The Roman Catholic church be lieves in state control by the church. Now, if I vote against a man on the ground that he is a Roman Cath olic, and for that reason neither an American nor a democrat, I am charged with being "intolerant" and guilty of narrowness and religious bigotry. i Well, "intolerance" and religious j bigotry were bred and born in the ! Roman Catholic church. j Go back to the fires of Smithfield I and the days of the Inquisition, I when this great political-religious I system refused to allow the people j to possess and read their Bible. Go to any countrv today that is domin- j ated by the Roman Catholic church ' and you will find out how "tolerant" | they are. This great enemy of religious lib erty and broad education is tolerant until all political power is in its hands, then they are intolerance per sonified. As I see it. this great enemy to r licious liberty is saying to a non- 1 I'atholic world: "Tolerate me until [ get you by the throat, and I will n> longer tolerate vou." (Rev.) W. W.1 MARR. HOUSEHOLD HINTS 1 I A good way to u'llize lift-over 'arina or oatmeal is to season while ' >ot with butter, pepper and salt, ' md when cold shape the 'si/, of a ' valnut. Dip into beat-n eg^, then i nto chopped walnuts. Fry in deep at, HOUSEHOLD HINTS A good way to serve left-over > urkey or chicken: Cut pieces oiT ' he bones, season with salt and pep- ' r. dip in fritter batter and fry in ! . f :t until a golden brown. ' 1 pifS business rulletTns , For Combating Mail-Order Competition Published by THE B|REVARD NEWS Newspaper Advertising Secures Volume and Rapid Turnovers Right now ? when merchandising is once more u man's game, and mechants arc compelled to sell, rather than hand the goods over the counter to anxious buyers? is the time to pay particular attention Ho advertising in order to secure rapid turnovers to offset the smaller margin of profit we have today. On a declining market, such as exists at the present time, mer chandise must move faster or a store will get into difficulties. The public is asking for lower prices and the only way a store can give them lower prices is to increase its volume and the number of times it turns its stock. This can be accomplished in only one way and that is by adopt ing the one proven method which the big successful merchandisers of the country use in securing volume and rapid turnover ? newspaper ad vertising. Newspaper advertising is the cheapest and the most effective means of increasing your volume of business. The flow of trade to ward your store will steadily increase if you will but keep the buy ing public informed of your preparedness to meet its needs. Adver tising in your local newspaper will sell the merchandise if liberally and consistently used, but careful consideration must be given the preparation of your copy. Store-news advertising shoud be just as interesting and attract ive as any display page of a mail-order catalog. The mail-order house must of necessity have strong compelling copy in order to sell goods, on account of the great amount of extra trouble the customer is put to in buying by mail. With a little time and thought any merchant should be able to produce advertising copy as compelling as that o? the mail-order house, which would be sure to attract the public to his store.. Let your home newspaper increase your volume of sales by p?e senting to the town and country folks regularly, as interesting and at tractive merchandise bulletins as those of the mail-erder houses. Any merchant who will make a careful study of the five leading mail-order catalogs and their supplement^, as issued, is bound to be I come a better advertiser and also a better merchandiser. i I ? . ? , WHERE DO 'YOU BUY? | Do you buy your goods of your home dealer or of some far-away catalogue house which, in nicely , worded letters and voluminous cat alogues, offers apparently great bar bains? Now, when the next cat alogue comes from your mail order house, draw up an easy chair and read it carefully and permit us to mention some things they omit. For instance, see if you can find any ref erence in their catalogue to their paying cash or exchanging goods for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, eggs land hay. How much do they pay for | cattle, sheep, hogs, f. o. b. your de pot? How much tax will they pay to support your schools and educate 'your children? How much for im proving^ your roads -and bridges, for [supporting the poor of the county, l'or the general expenses of running the business of the township, county and state? On what page do they offer to contribute money to the church? What line of credit will they extend to you when your crops are poor and money gone; W through illness or misfortune, you are not able to send "cash with or Ider?" Is there any offer to contrib jute to your entertainment next iyear? What did they do last year? j In fact, will they do anything to I provide a market for what you have !to sell and thereby keep up the val ue of your home. Will they do any-, thing whatever for Social, church, school or government support, or do they simply take your dollars out of the community with no returns what ever except the goods you buy? Give jthis matter your careful, unpreju diced thought, then call on your lo cal dealer, where you can see the goods before you buy and make com parison of prices and qualities. You will Jind that you can do as well or better at home and you keep your money at home and you help to build up your local town, and in case anything should, by some means, turn out to be not just exactly what you wanted, your local dealer is there to set things right and make the deal satisfactory with you. A CLEAN HOME TOWN I (Atlanta Contitution) j In Pensacola 2,000 school children jjoined in a clean-up campaign. It is another impressive example of what 'children may do to make life cleaner |and better in urban centers. Chil dren have been playing in all the progressive cities of the country in recent years, and it is properly looked upon as a very important part of their practical education. It teaches them many useful lessons in j civics, and at once brings them face to face with the vital fact that ! health and beauty go hand in hand. ' It is interesting to note also that in these clean-up efforts children of ten are very much ' m*re efficient and 1 thorough than are grown persons. Youth is wide-eyed. Youth r sees more, and sees more accurately, !; as a rule, than age, when it comes , to rubbing out ugly spots in urban I centers. The range of vision seems . to narrow, and the eyes become slower and duller as we age. Youth ; sees many things not picked up by | the eyes of older persons, i Children , are not likely to overlook anything . 'n these clean-up campaign where f 'hey are interested in what they are ( ilo'.tlg. , It is useful work, useful from the t ?'ar.dpoint of the health and beauty 1 >f the city, and useful, too, from the c ??I'diiii'-int <?f the children who take r::rt in it, for it helps them to lie* 1 uir< th" hahii of keepiivr tin- home a ;own clean, beautiful and healthy. Mildred Ivo <f Pax^imtank county e nid Sam tin per of l>avnison_ ropre- t< cut the club beys and girls of a *,'ovth Carolina at the ('amp \ nil fi raining Sch??el f"r club leader- near u 'pringfleld. Massachusetts. Septcm- w :> to ' ,ti LOYALTY TO OUR HOME TOWN ' ? IN TALK AND TRADE. It must be very apparent- to every man of good judgment that the wel fare of any locality depends largely on the prosperity and success of the various business enterprises operat ing within its boundaries. The farmer, the merchant, the banker, the mechanic and the labor er are all equally benefitted by the individual prosperity of any busi ness community. The man who is indifferent to the welfare of his home town or his home business houses, the owners of which are his neighbors and friends, and whose affairs and habits are an open book, reminds one of the pro verbial fellow who "cut off his nose to spite his face." The town whose citizens are con stantly discouraging every business enterprise* and who would rather pa tronize mail-order firms or out-of town business houses- than buy at home stores, is invariably a dead town, where empty houses abound, where property and rents are cheap, and where farm lands are corres pondingly cheap. Thus it is plain that every citizen of a town and surrounding country is mutually concerned in the pros perity of that town and its institu tions. | It is just as easy to say a good word for a town as a bad one, arid you will be surprised to find what a wonderful influence a little boosting will have in this locality. Try it. Our citizens are loyal. They on ly need to be reminded to talk up the town with a little more fre quency and enthusiasm, so then we may hold our own and grow faster. I WHO IS SENDING HIM? (Greenville News) Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, an nounces at Winston-Salem, North [Carolina, that he is to make a speak ling tour in the South in behalf of A1 Smith. 1 How comes it that Jack Johnson is 'to make such a tour in the South | might make an interesting story if the facts could be gleaned. If the former champion has placed [himself at the disposal of political agencies in the United States, his [field of operation would be decided upon in cooperation with the cam paign management's plans. Has the Democratic national cam paign management, then, sent Jack Johnson on a speaking tour through the South, in the expectation that he would fill the role of a political orator, address audiences of white citizens, and fire them with enthus iasm for Smith? We don't know, of course, but our guess would be that there is nobody connected with the Democratic organization who would be so asinine. If the Democrats have not sent Jack Johnson South on a political mission, then who has? We don't know the answer to that either, but there are only two parties particular ly interested in this election ? Dem ocrats and Republicans. We don't know anything about who is backing Jack Johnson in his political pilgrimage South of the \Iason and Dixon lino, of course, if we wore a Republican and liad i? sc i i pies about political tricks of iny kind, we would probably con- t iider it a great stroke to get some iguro like Jack Johnson to tour the 'Solid South" ostensibly in the in erest of the Democratic ticket. That is. provided, of course, we ould <!?> it without being found out. The 1!. publican party is resorting '? almost i> very sort of device and HI \il ir the hope of breaking the Solid South" this year. Its spokes vn in these parts have not hesitat d to make the most blatant appeals > religious prejudices and intoler n ce in order to win votes. If ef I'Ctive ways could be found to make ses of prejudices of other kinds, M ho doubts that they would hesitate 3 employ them, too?
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