Pleasant Grove New# Mrs. R. M. BIythe of Etowah, spent a few days last week with her daughter, Mrs. Carl Banks of Pleas ant Grove. Jack Drake of Hendersonvjlle, vis ited his brother, J. H. Drake, at Pleasant Grove last week. Mrs. H. A. Grey, who has been in J the Hendersonville hospital, is out now and reported to be improving rapidly. The Pleasant Grove Sunday School enjoyed a pienie Sunday. The school met early Sunday morning, had services and then w?nt to Look ing Glass Fjdls and had dinner. The children all reported a wonderful time. Rev. C. E. BIythe and \V. W. Orr j are visiting the former's brother in South Carolina. - H. W. Grey of Hendersonville, S was a Pleasant Grove visitor Friday of last week. -Tom Couch of Little River was in 1 ? Pleasant Grove Sunday. D. P. Kilpatriek o| Brevard was 1 in Pleasant Grove Sunday, looking 1 over his old playgrounds and ex- 1 changing words with friends and 1 relatives. ' Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Grey visited ? the former's sister. Mrs. M. P. ' Johnson of Balfour. Saturday. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Fletcher of 1 Beulah, visited the latter's parents, * Mr. and Mrs. D. R .Justus, Sunday. 1 Paul Kilpatrick of Flat Rock, is s visiting relatives in this section. Earl and Hall and W. H. Grey *? went to Hendersonville Saturday * with a small truck load of Irish po? t tatoes. Business must be picking ? s< "'Taint .your eppyletts and feathers h - Make the'r thing a grain more -p right:! !0 'Taint a-fo!iering your bell-weathers tl Will excuse ye in his sight. 'C( "Ef you take the sword and dror it "? ? ^id '.stick a feller thru; Guv-runt aint to answer fer it, j God'Il send the bill to you. n "Wut's the use of meetin'-goin' ! n Every Sabbath, wet or dry, |\\ Ef it's right to go a-mowin' t< Feller-men like oats and rye? jw "1 dunno but wKat it's pooty Trailin' round in bobtail coats; But it's cuiius Christian dooty, j." This 'ere cuttin' folk's throats." g y 1 n Proper care and attention to the j{ poultry flock during the summer s] months wil play handsome dividends tl in increased mucns this fall. 1^, Two thousand Rowan County far- "] mers took a day off last week and c, attended an ali-day picnic, accord- u ing to reports from County Agent n W. G. Teager. Ip SPECIAL it EXCURSION iur via It Sou. Railway System jd to Savannah, Brunswick, All Important Florida Points, Havana, Cuba August 23rd Tickets sold at less than one-way fare for round trip. ASK TICKET AGENTS J. H. WOOD Div. Passenger Agent Asheville, N. C. NEW YORK'S " HOMELIKE HOSTELRY IHfa = SHERMAN ? SQUARE ? BROADWAY ot70!h STREET V Wher# You Will Find LARGE ROOMS CHARMINGLY FURNISHED AMPLE PARKING SPACE and BEST GARAGES y Flneit Food at MODERAn PRICES A * RATE*;; SINGLE fnm &50 G?org? J. Mayp Manager SAYS COMMISSIONERS SHOULD \ NOT BE HAMPERED WITH STATE NAMED BOARDS AND BUREAUS i (Continued from page one) view of the whole public. Some times there has been lack of foresight and wisdom, but the county authori ties, burdened beyond endurance, have to say to critical legislators and executives, paraphrasing the Scrip ture, "First pluck the beam out oi your own eye that you may see the more clearly to remove the mote from my eye." On every hand we arc told that county administrations have added new and costly and unnecessary agencies of government, which are responsible for the increased taxes on land. Too often this has been true, and the criticism in deserved ?nd county authorities have no an swer to the just criticism except w reform themselves. But when it is -effected that these county officials lave been given little voice in uie ;xpenditures for which they must nake provision by direct taction ithev have no other source to draw iponl , criticism should be modified o be both intelligent and fair. Most >f the money raised by the cou"ty authorities by taxation is expended or schools and roads. As to the first, Commissioners must levy enough tax o carry out the six months consti utional" requirement, and in most ounties for an eight months term Toperlv demanded by the Par?"ts" 'hev have little voice in the amount o be raised and no voice in the exp enditures. As to all roads excep. he State highways, they must levy axes on land to provide sufficient loney. and then must m he demand of every citizen to uild a pood road in front oi his oor. If they see public **i?ney rasted in the dilatory Passes of tie courts, they may neither protest , or reduce the heavy expenses The . re the State's only almoners of th . tck. the poor, the halt, the infirm,', to down and out, the outcasts, the \ uman debris. No complete enum- , r ition of their duties and responsi- ( Hies is possible. Chambers of, ommerce. welfare worKers an , lervbody else desiring somethmp be one. except in incorporated tov/ns , nd ciiies, leave their problems on , le doorsteps of the County Comm.s- |( oners. If they deny the Petl1j'?"*;< >r relief and reform, woe be unto , em for they are sharply caller back numbers and faithless .*??? ? ?ators." If they comply with aiune , .quests, even all the good ones the iarne tax race brings upon their eads the wrath of the . tax-payew. hev must be numane in the care f the poor and those in prison and ley must keep down the per -capita ->?t of their maintenance. They are ften called upon to do the impos ble and blamed because they are ot supermen. . And vou County Commissioners. iust "be all and do all' on the ^mag ificent compensation of $4 a day, -ith a limit on the number of ^day. , be devoted to the task. In other ?ordff these officials levy taxes ag regating millions of dollars in on ear and largely direct ^ disburse ment, and are given the Er<1"Jif^Ilv ompensation of ?4 a day. Is . ?onder when consideration is g^?-n T how' these Commissioners are se ated the responsibilities laid upon nnnliiers often without adequate raining, that in some counties coun , government breaks \ ; ^ ot surprising how etticieniy ie conditions imposed so man. ounties function, thus paying - ^ te to patriotic men who from otive except the compulsion ^ ublic service consecrate their time nd service to the common weal. The first people in North Carolina 3 see the evils of a system, laek'"? niformity and counsel, the 'hey' recognized Sth'e mistakes and "'E' tV" a? wwS' & odv in 1925 you passed a res0^10" sasssrrii="s thp County Govern ijient Ad ??, SLSS ?.s e.ftb'ish.'i nd a County Finance Control Ac ras passed. These acts have brought mjch J?t ialnS to in securing the capable nd tactful Charles M. Johnson as Ixecutive Secretary of the Commis Tt- has brought about better onditions in every c?unthya^h"iSely 'ountv Commissioners have wise y ErkesrtLsfuws etroactive, and could not remedy h9e20eXre;aSg1o!ihds]vaswthe^ac eftharw^proSe^oftoo rapiaiy. in rndtsuinV The burden , o paying t SV^ra^eriJd'of crop ind land and industry deflation e2"&S ofone unB syst m if county administration, new bodies n expense. In all counties .there ?e, "omSTonerl thfcounty Board ^ as ft" associations \ more> ?oh forking along lines of their added the various .officials paid by | the State going from county to 1 county looking after tax collection, schools, insurance, health, forests, farm and home demonstration, and 'other activities, mostly wholly inde pendent of each other and spending more than the best business adminis i tration would sanction. For ex ample, in one day at a county seat jin Western North Carolina five State inspectors or collectors or agents drove into the county seat on State owned automobiles. Each official had a small job to look after requiring only a few hours. "Why," asked the hotel keeper who was glad to have their patronage, "could there 1 not have been some co-ordination at Raleigh whereby part of this ex- ; pense could have been saved without : loss of good administration?" Echo; answers, "Why?" The answer is be- < cause North Carolina administration ( continues to function upon the basis i of pouring new wine into old bottles. ' Hasn't the time come to give each i county a unified county administra- 1 ' tion, with one body of County Com-1, missioners, or Board, which will di- ? rect all the affairs of the county, se- , lect all its agents and secure bette- 1 . administration? We may despair of j S the best county government, as weil j as the best government in other I units, so long as there is lack of a central unified administration fixed . a with power and charged with respon- . s sibility. Each county should have a : County Government,* in which the!?1 best paid official would be the chair- 11 man of the County Board (call him is ivhat you will) and the County Board , * should direct by agents of its own a selection the execution of al! gov-;E ernmental functions in the county. 'But," you say, "it would require a Constitutional Amendment to end the 0 election of the clerk of the court, sheriff, register of deeds and other . d< hould be given absolute authority, j t; is an archaic situation by which sheriff, answerable to the County !oard., is elected, and it necessary o go to the State General Assembly o obtain authority to fix the salaries f county officials and to increase he number of deputies and fix their ompensation. This is sometimes one by members of the Legislature 3 favor partisans without so much s asking the advice of the County, loard, which must foot the bill. Up to date, by some very excellent lethods and agents and some not so pod, we have been doing in recent ears a good job of patch work, but ' has not brought about a unified j aunty administration without which ?e shall fail to secure the utmost j :onomy and efficiency. Her Children a Joy "When I was not more than 13 years old mother taught me never to take spells of biliousness, indi gestion and sour stomach lightly,* cays Mrs. C E. Hauck, whose horns is at 1310 Boyle St, in Houston. "She started me Ulrinp Herbine then, and what a blessing it has been foe me! My four children are always well, with good appetites and a big ; store of energy. Any time one 01 them gets a little sluggish, breath ia bad or I see the tongue becoming coated, I give him a teaspoonful of Herbine." Herbine is a vegetable liquid sol concentrated you only have to take a teaspoonful to get results. Her bine does nothing more than keep the stomach and bowels active so gas can not constipate you, make you I bilious, dyspeptic or suffer from soar J itow.ck. sick headache tni indigo* baa. Sold by D*Tt?-Lcng Drug Cu. elieve* a at NtU7?!(i< ic 1 minute*, raacJca i, Cold ifee first ?y, and dictki Maltri* in 3 dr.ys. 666 also in Tablet*. F.YE3 EXAM'NED J GLASSES FITTSS LENSES iWPUCATKii Brevard Office in P. 0. ButkHnf OlKn EY*ry TUESDAY Aff.ert.ooa W. H. HAWKINS & SON 49 Year* of Satisfaction M. C. iLOOKi We Give 24 Hour Electrical Service We have Light Bulbs for | Farm Lighting Plants and for City Current. Also, other Electrical Equip ment Electric Service by Guy Dean R. F. THARP Day Phone Night Phone 224 225 53 We?t Main Street i h t ; , Subscribe for The News - JE2.00 per year NEXT Ws contribute to your j I good looks. 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