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THE BREVARD NEWS . V Pubished Every Thursday by : THE TRANSYLVANIA ? PUBLISHING1 CO., Inc. < * . ' Entered at the Postolfice in Bravard, fc, G/f at* Swjond-'ClaM Mattw ? ? ?? ' *n l ' ? ? James F. Barrett' . ... Editor ? ? . ? ? '? - ' ; ' < . . ? . , SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One. Year $2.00 Six 'jVItinths 1.00 Three Months , .60 Thursday, January IS, 1931 THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE REELECTS ST A TESMANSHIP Governor O. Max Gardner, in his biennial mesaage to the legislature, strikes rt' newnotfc in state affairs, and displays 1? quality of statesman* shjRs^ptjn.M^n i ?. sijttila* message?. While Inatiy people tlo not agree with the guvw ivoi" in his, recorafinm (lations, all ate ; in. accord; however, that the message comes from the very, depths' of his heart, and its a in-, i i ity and. boldneaa appeal to the peo P- ? iie governor baaed his message it; ri actual conditions existing in the e, and made his recommendations in : he light of the fact that pay day has arived for North Carolina. He started with the statenient that the state's bonded indebtedness in 1913 was I'clit million dollars, and in 1930 this (I been increased to one hun dred and seventy millions, or an in crease amounting to 1(5 times over the debt of 1913. But read the gov ernor's own figures, used as a basis for his recommendations. The gover nor said: To yet a perspective of our problem toe should look back over the road we have traveled in recent years of pros perity. hi the twelve year period trow nine tee n-eiyhteen to- nineteen thirty thr total coat of government in .Worth Carolina increased from twill' ty-threc and one-half million dollars a year to the present total of one hundred million dollars. As late a? nineteen-thirteen the cost of public education was only five million five hundred thousand dollars. Today the cost of public education amounts to twenty-eight million dollars a year. In nineteen-thirteen the state bonded debt was eight million dollars and ns late us nine. teen-twenty only eleven millions. It is now more than one hundred and seventy million. In nine teen-eighteen the total debt of local govern menfyi was sixty million dol lars; today it is three hundred and seventy-five millions. The sum total of >hi< period of expansion presents us today with a bonded debt for the stati and its subdivision ,i of five hun dred thirty-seven million dollars. The governor is not decrying any of tlv." manifold improvements that have been made by the atate and its counties and cities. He is glad that we now enjoy these improvements and means of advancement. But, like the good business man, he would make ready for liquidation of these debts. There should be no further debts made for a long time; there should be immediate reduction in all operat ing expenses of public business, and there must be a business-like admin istration of all public afairs, the mes sage states. In doing this, the governor points out the manner and n.jthod, as he be lieves best suited f or die great task. Many of recommendatii-is are radical, while some are downrii,.it revolution ary to that school of thought so deep* ly imbedded in this old State of Tra dition. How far the legislature will go in adopting the recommendations made by the governor cannot be pre dicted. The legislature is made up al? most entirely of members of the gov ernor's own political party. If opposi tion in encountered, it must come from the governor's own group, poli tically speaking. That there will b? opposition to much of the proposed prrytam is a foregone conclusion. Al ready there ia organized opposition to that recommendation concerning the revamping of the state highway commission, and placing in that group's hands the entire road work of the state. The recommendation that all state and county officers and em ployes accept a ten per cent reduc tion in pay has started a growling that is heard from urphy to anteo. Tax reductions on real estate, as recommended by the governor, is one of the hardest of accomplish ment. It is difficult to face the big Kest debt in a state's history with the reverse proposition to reduce taxes. The governor's appeal to agricul ture to live at home, and stop sending one hundred and fifty million dollars a year to other states for food and feed, is an outstanding appeal of the message. Reduction of the hours of labor in industry from CO to 55 hours is a long-delayed thought, and, if adopt ed. will be an accomplishment that should have been completed many years ago. Consolidation of counties, if at BY ALL MEANS GIVE THE SOLDIERS THEIR MONEY NOW I Let every citizen who is interested in the welfare of the men who fought in the World War make known to our congressmen and senatorr, the desire that the government make cash payment NOW a? what is generally, galled adjusted compensation certifi cates. The question is before con gress, and whatever is done, must be done immediately. The men in North Carolina would receive the sum of ?64,301,643.75, if the government should adopt the plan that is being urged upon congress. This would do much in solving the hnrd problems facing nearly all <A the men who woud bo affected by the payment. , The United States owes this money to tho men who fought. Tills debt has been recognized, bacause '' he gov ernment has already 'Investigated tho -claims and Issued certificates, to bt? ?lltte sgoitt twenty years <li'(jur- tjwijr ia> suance a few years ago. The men Heed tho money NOW. Many thous ands of former soldiers arc in desper ate need of food and clothing, l'or themselves and their families. , This nation made all sorts ol' prom ises to the young men as they march ed away to training camp and bat tlefield. They were told to go on and do the job of licking the kaiser, and save this nation and other nations from the dominant of a hellion like the German emperor. Well, the boys did it, and did it to a fare-you-well. Soon as tho job was done, wo forgot all about it, and nary a recollection have we had of the promises that were made to the boys as they went away. Let's do it now. It is demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that nearly every member of the lighting forces are anxious to receive theii cash payment NOW. So let's join them in their demand for this just debt that tho nation owes them. Ex-service men have made state ments concerning the matter, and any letter or communication sent by any citizen of the county to Congressman (Jeorge M. Pritchard, House Office Building, Washington, D. C., will be another step toward obtaining thin very just payment to the mon who served this nation and the world in such splendid manner. Read the statements of our boys, found on another page, and then youi word l>y communicating with Con gressman Pritchard at once. THE GOVERNOR'S FAILURE TO MENTION ESSENTIAL. In perusing Governor Gardner'* great message to the legislature, man> thousands of men and women were disappointed upon reaching the end of the document, and found no refer ence nor recommendation pertaining to that great essential in public lift ? common honesty and fairness ir elections. Toward the close of tht message, the governor used these beautiful words in expressing a beau tiful thought: In the beginning of this legislature , which is the beginning of a new and, 1 hope, a better year, 1 eovet for un all the resolution to conquer our fewrp, I am ambitious for us to recover first?not our prosperity, not our riches, not our ease and luxury ? but that serenity of inner self which shall inspire our living faith in our ?institutions and continuing confidence in our fellowman. The governor must have heard the Rumblings in both primary and. gen eral elections, expressing resentment of the high-handed method of the state's election ofifcials in flagrant ly violating the election laws. If the citixens of the state are ever to en joy "that serenity of inner self which shall inspire our living faith in our institutions and continuing confidence in our fellowman," there must be a stop put to the glaring frauds as practised in our primaries and general elections. It is in the primary and election that we derive our government, and if crookedness is permitted at the very root and foundation and incention of our government, we say that there can bo but little inspiration for a living faith in our institutions, and no con fidence in our fellowman. It is a matter of deep regret that the governor failed to include this most important recommendation for fairness and honesty in elections in his otherwise most apendid message to the legislature. tempted fairly and not used as a po litical football in the gerrymandering scheme of things, might prove to be a popular portion of the governor's message. It Is a bold message, taken all in nil, and required courage in its pre* sentation, for upon the legislature's accepance or rejection of its recom mendations hangs the future of a man declared by thousands of citizens to be the state's greatest chief execu tive sine* the days of Aycock, SOMETIMES WE OVERDO THE PROGRESSIVE STUFF. Now comes The Charlotte Observer, whose dally visit* delight somc ftfty thousand people every day, and ihakes Lou. error by listening to some body who has something to sail. We .re not chiding The Ohserver. for this one slip-up, because that great da has been So good to the mountain; zztttzzrxSz ObXor'.'nuii.. .tat ?? tho mountains tm> the taw horseshoe, burned into a P0?*' an arrow pointing in a certain di rec tion. Then quoth The Observe^ H'( have W*,l^fhu%NS& the . pal'ae ?f . Ut?lVir Carolina luidthought Nor th Carowu ^ above reproach. in ttUmt/ cvincH the D 1.. ro?rf formation that ' ? . r>ltr0Hna, near interdiction ? in . North c^v\fu,n, ilt a vitlaffu c"ffct. . fpnec with only ?KA? /" ? >?r,X form the nwtorut of the nav i /g b?coke XXrU in a rood nign.or of a blncl;mith. ? Horse Shoe, we find b^'acl,Ztwn state Highway ?lLpf^llmlcr??>> "ir??7k. %S!mA,rrt S^JstartsssS usif. - J r i * That horseshoe sign is our own sign, ian(, we object to any new fangled folks coming along and chahging ? It was there before the flood; t served the people before the wa, nnd it stood in all its majesfe beau ty long before the crash, and it is going to stand right there for the di rection and edification of future gen ovations. All of the high powered arguments of all of the h.gh pres sure salesmen or signboards cannot , prevail against its perpetual r ght * stand right there, in its lawful posi tion. . | Anyhow, any one who cannot read !as plain a sign as the picture, of a horseshoe, has no business v,s, ting a town like the one which bears tha In n me. Our horseshoe sign stands, 1 even if we have to lick the who c ' highway commission and all the i^g" ' board salesmen this side of Turkey 1 Creek. ; AS TO BANK OFFICIALS' | CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS. , In last week's Brevard News ap , peered a communication concerning , the fact that the children of many former bank officials whowe banks j ' are now closed, are back in college after the holidays, while the children of many depositors who lost heavily cannot go back to school. This article was but one of many received by this newspaper, and was on a sub ject that has . been generally dis cussed not only in Brevard but in many other sections where like con ditions prevail. Interesting proof has been furnish ed this- paper; however, concerning the children of , ooe .{qrmer bank of ficial, and the reasons why these young people returned to school. Thi? concerns the school work of Miss Elizabeth Shipman and young Mr. Hayes Shipman, daughter and son of Thos. H. Shipman, formerly president of the Brevard Banking company. This is Miss Shipman's last college year, and the president of the college wrote, upon hearing of the bank fail ure here, and insisted that Miss Shipman return to school so she could graduate in June. The letter, which was followed by others, urged Miss Shipman to come on back to school, graduate, and make payment for the remainder of the year's work when ever and however she could. Hayes Shipman is working his way through school, having received one of the scholarships of the institution which permits the student to work so many hours a day, waiting upon the table and performing other dutiew about the school. Many young: men ' in the colleges and universities pay their way in this manner, and Hayes Shipman, it is learned, is pursuing thrs course. This light on the subject, insofar as this family is concerned, removes its ; members from the very just criticism ! that has been made of the general sit- 1 uation. Miss Shipman is to be con- i gratulated upon having the high* re- 1 gard of the college officials which prompted the inistent demand that she return and complete her studies. j Young Hayes Shipman is to bp od mired for being willing to "make hit j own," and go on to school. 1 ' W# fully agree, however, with the writer of ' the article and with the expreued sentiments of so many oth er citizens, that the children of bank officials whose institutions have clos- , ed should not spend money on their < own children in cottage while so many ' boys and girls of those who suffered losses in the banks must 'give up their school work. We are glad that such !? not the ease with Miss and Mr. Shipman, and to learn that they ari bravely and courageously making tfceir own way in college. j CREDIT FOR ARTICLE GIVEN . f TO THE WRONG MAN. Judge D. L. English appeared to be the author of an article in The 6rc vard News last week, when, in fact, the article was written by'Mr. ,T. M. Clarke, of Sarus^to, Fla., and sent to Judge Eng?ish'. Tn" judge- Irftftdtd thc article to The Bre'vard New. 4, 'Arid wo j misunderstood him when ^t was handed into us. Upon wading siame. and discovering that the article was written in the first person, we gave Judge English crccjit for . it, not Jjav-_ ing understood Mr. Clark's connec tion with it. Judge English requests publication ^ of the following note, which we ^(id ly do: "Editor Brevard News: "I noticed, in your lust weeks is sue that you published nn article With my name signed to it, which was ari error that I wish you would cor rect in this' weeks issue. I did not write the article thut you published or have anything to do with the writ ing of same. It was written by Mr. J. M. Clark, of Sarasota, Fla,, and was sent to me unsigned and which I de livered to you unsigned to be used for ' | publication or through the Chamber of Commerce or other civic organiza tions with Mr. Clark's hope that it I might be nucleus in getting some thing started that would circulate some money in this section. | "Please publish this letter in ex planation. "Yours very truly, "I). L. ENGLISH." 'January 13th 1931 i WHERE OUR MONEY GOES (Hendorsonville Times-News) We find the following editorial in to-day's Asheville Citizen: "Enterpriiiing reporters of The Asheville Times, after extensive in quiries in the course of which uuto mobile dealers, filling-tation oper ators, accessory dealers and finance and insurance brokers were inter viewed, huve estimated the cost of op eration of the average automobile by the average man in Asheville at $081 a year. "This estimate puts the original cost of the car at $900, the average yearly mileage at 12,000 and ailows $225 for depreciation. The largest single l of cost in for gasoline, 1 $157.50. "There are about 500,000 automo biles in North Carolina. If The Times' estimate of the average yearly cost of an automobile is correct and if this average extends throughout the state. North Carolinians have been spending approximately $343,000,000 a year in the operation of their cars. If the average yearly cost per car be put at $600 they have been spending $300,000,000, If the average yearly coBt be put at $500 they have been spending a quarter of a billion dol lars. "That was one-fourth the total in come of the state in 1929 ? and the total income in 1930 was considerably less than in 1929. That is two and one-half times the total tax bill of tho state--and the people, from the moun tains to the sea, are in rebellion against taxes." No comment on the foregoing is necessary. The figures gathered by The Asheville Times are no doubt ap proximately correct. As The Citizen says, the cost of owning and operating the motor cars In North Carolina is two an! one-half times the annual tax bill of the State, and the people from the mountains to the sea are | almost in n state of mind bordering on revolution on account of the high cost of taxation. Why is it we hear no "hollering" about the high cost of owning and running the State's automobiles? Every day, throughout the nation, there are people shouting from the housetops, inquiring as to what is the matter with the country and endeav oring to tell us what is responsible for the so-called "depression." According to the views of The Times-News one major cause of the ; "depression" ig the fact that the country is over-sold on automobiles. It is also over-sold in many other lines of manufacturing in which pro ducts are marketed on the time pay ment plan. The people of the country are loaded up with a vast amount of i this indebt"dnoBB. It is bad enough to be responsible for the payment of the principal of thin gigantic nation wide debt, but the entire installment selling system is based on financing that is unsound because it is usurious. The average cost is several times the amount of any rate of interest legal ized in this country. The cost of buy ing und carrying motor vehicles on this plan is one thing that is the mat ter with the country. The plan is economically unsound. Another thing the matter with tho country is "high financing" >n the mortgage loan business. This is TRULVCK TO OPEN PRESSING CLUB BUSINESS ON FRIDAY Moultrie Truluck makes announce ment in this week's News that he will open a pressing club on News Arcad' next door to The News office, the bu:< 'ne^s to be ready for Friday of thir week. i Of Interest to Farmers (* By Ntah Hollow ell) ( Low 1 tobacco prices and a crop j ihortage in many sections have re-i iuced _ many farmers to want and ! have discouraged thousands of others to whom Editor Ci A. Cobb of the! Progresive .Farmer and Southern Ruraiist sounds a very hopeful note. He points out that the "S^uth pro duces eighty nor cent of.th:' American s.rof? nnd is first in domestic pro duction and first in domestic man ufacture" with an overage income of "more than a quarter of a, billion dollars annually, around one-third of which goes to North Carolina, preeminently the great tobacco state." Mr. Cobb'? consoling refrain is as fellows: "Even so, it is not yet the rich source of income to the pro ducer th$i it cun be and will be if he will juSt do throe things qjid do them wc 11 i Increase yield per. acre, improve quality, and sell efficient ly." Tcn*utni!a vs. T/Uhdlordn' " Do hurd times intensify the farm tenacy problems? While the average tenant lives ahead cf his. Income is the situation uggravjUi.d during a business depression? One would' de cide in favor of the affirmative af ter reading the outburst ol Gic Mc Gec, South Carolina farm landllord and journalistic humorist. He doubt less echocs the sentiments of most landlords in the following: "The majority of everybody's tin ants look to the landlord for bread and meut, gas and oil, pills and salts, coffins and caskets, clothes and tobacco, doctors and preachers, and everything else that they want or must have. They no longer have any credit, nnd every extra penny they, get goes for something that they could very well do without ? and it'" the Innd-owner that sweats and sweats," Touyh mi Onc-crop Farmer The combination of rough, low prices and onc-crop farming works hnvoc with the average poor farmei because the "one-cropper" seldom makes provisions for food for him self and family and feed for hit stock. The Stanly News and Press Albermarle, N. C., in discussing the probably many times worse, as ii rule, than the practices of the fi' nancing concerns in the installmenl buying business. The Times-News believes everj family ought to own a home; and th' head of a family is justified in go ing in debt to acquire ownership of a home; but the practices of man) mortgage loan concerns have but ad ded to the troubles and losses of the people of the country. Here, then, are two things th? matter with the country ? the higi cost of installment buying and th: high cost of mortgage loans ? and th< fact that the country has been over sold in many lines of time-paymenl manufactured products and just at greatly oversold in the high-pricoi mortgage loan market. j When the honest, hard-workin( common people of the country an able to secure money at not mori than six per cent, for investment it homes, a great impetus will be giver to home owning and the genera prosperity of the country will b< gratly augmented. When the masses are able to buj the automobiles and other manufac tured articles they absolutely need? and buying is confined to actua needs ? on fair and reasonable termi and interest rates, a big contributior to the return to normal conditioni and general prosperity will be made i So long as the country is filled wit) money hogs and a large part of iti business Is controlled by Shylocks there will be "panics" and "depress ions" and bad business conditions. I The commercial god of the people of the United States is the person! fication of the "get-rich-quick" idea | They are not satisfied with reason able profits. They do not propose t< take the long, long trail of hard worl and conservative and honorable busi ness practices. Thiy are looking foi short-cuts that lead quickly to greal wealth. Many of the common people an inoculated with this virus. Theii condition is M' dangerous -a* that oi the so-called financiers, the mor.gj hogs and the Shylocks. The foregoing is not all that is the matter with the country, but it is the root of a large part of the country'i troubles. Plight oX some one-crop formers in that flection concludes "that there are coyfti hogs and chicken* on these farms and they have crows somu corn |>ut very little." I The News and Press gives this Jftfe counsel to its readers: "If you have any relationship with farmers in the county who plant on crop, *nd lone crop only use your influence to make them chanjje their way of do- " jing things. The News and Press ' quotes T. A. La ton as saying, "that ' he had alwuys mado it a point . to grow enough or* his farm to live", .through the year. H<? had hogs, ? Icows, chickens and a garden. Ho said- ,% that he made plans for his food first and then if he had time and the land he grew some cotton." ? 1 ?t Fal?m Sc,*ool?, Threatened. It offers farm people, an. uncer tain chance to gum auU~an excellent '' prospect of losing mor? thun iiavohe else, says the Country Gentleman lolative to the proposed plan of Fed-' oral aid to public education o.s of fered by the National Advisory Com^v mittee on Education, appointed k* President Hoover to, study and n?-T commend policies for th?j . national ] government to pursue toward vdii* cation. ... A grant of $2.50 per pupil ;under ? 21 years old with . thu sole restric tion that these funds be used for the support of educational operations and leaving the application up to the state would help many hard pressed localities and individuals? if used to rcduco taxes and not tp finance new i 'educationa projects," says the Country Gentleman, which adds that "while this possibility of relief to farm taxpayers is clothed In doubt, there is less uncertainty about the things that farmers stand to lose.' ' . . I One of the policies of the commit tee calls for the repeal of ail laws that give Federal grants to the ^ state for special forms of education in the interest of particular groups, i The Country Gentleman takes the position that farming is now the i main beneficiary of such government . grants through the experiment sta tions, Smith-Hughes Vocational Ag riculture and such phases of extcn ' slon work as fall in the educational sphere and that "the proposed repeal ? of Federal grants for special forms of education hits directly at the far r mers." ' I The Drought a Blaming f i xr i? il"* I?30 drouRht in Western North Carolina bring a blessing in '?the way of better cattle in the moun tains and more cattle in the coastal ?' section where the farmers have never taken extensively to cattle as ? a part of their farm program? ' F H. Jeter, editor for the State College, of Agriculture and Engi ? neeriag, does not say in plain words ? that blessing has como out of ad ' versity or in disguiso but by reading J between the lines in the Charlotte I Observer It is easy to detect this trend of thought and his Implication, r Mr. Jeter nuotes C. G. Filler, live stock marketing specialist of tho ? state division of markets, as saying i that 200 cars of cattle were listed } with his at the beginning of the sea ' son for shipment from the drought ? Stricken areas of Western North ; Carolina to more abundant feed areas ' in Eastern Carolina. ?j L. I. Case, beef cattle research ; worker for the North Carolina Ex I periment Station, said he had per ? tonally known of the transfer of 29 ' cars of cattlo from Western Caro ' 1 P* f? the coa*tal section. Seventeen ? of these cars contained principally i cows and heifers to bo used for breed ? ing purposes. There were a dozen or i more pure bred sires in the sonsign ?Imont of breeding cattle. Mr. Jeter I f urther adds as proof of his line of ? thought, the folowing: "Another feature of the mow ? ment has been that some of the poor er grades of animals have been > moved from the mountains to Sooth ' I Carolina and Georgia- It was wise to 'I get rid of these animals entirely, ; i Mr. Filler, and since these hare ? sold, the mountain breeders have a better grade of beef cattle ! on which to build future herds. ; "The best feature of the whole an ? wrprise,. bwaryer, has been the in teresting of Eastern Carolina crop farmers in livestock growing. It is ! well knoyn that hay and roughage ' of all kinds may be produced more i economically in Eastern Carolina than anywhere else." Checkerboard Chatter Volume 1 January 16, 1930 Number 6 Published in the in terest of the people of BREVARD and T R ANSYLVAN1A County by th* B&B Feed & Seed Co. Wc wonder if we find as much satis faction in breaking our New Year's res olutions as we do in making them? No, we didn't get ar retted last week ? when the Pro-Hx's were here. We had, and still have, plen ty of Mash ? but it is that good Purina Mash that makes d hen lay more eggs. "I can't marry him, Mother, he is an Atheist and don't believe there is any Hell." "Well, marry him anyhow, dear, and convince him he is wrong.' "See by the papers" where men are be ing put bark on their jobs all over the U. S. As we've been eaying all time, you can't kt'P good people down. Brevard and Tran sylvania will b <? with the rest of them, when they be gin climbing. I don't know if you ever noticed it, but fifth sure do >rv?w mighty fast out of the water. Well, we like frank ness ? and we were able to straighten out a good friend of ours this week just by reason of hi* frankness. If you think we are wrong about any matter ? come in and tell us to frankly, and we will thank you. Charlie Bryaon says that he is doing lota of grinding at his mill just behind our ?tore. Spring it not here yet ? don't try to make your liveirtoek think Spring it here ? Feed a little Pu rina along to make up for the green feed they're mitring. B&B Feed & Seed Co. Brevard, N. C. The Store with the Checkerboard Sign