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M BKEVAKD NEWS Pubished Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at the Postoffice in Brevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter ' \ James F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months eu Thursday, April 30, 1931 A WORK WELL DONE BY THE P. T. ASSOCIATION. Almost everything done by thu Parent-Teacher association is of gerat importance, because the very nature of the organization makes its every activity one of tremendous val ue. Dealing as it does with the ad vancement of the schools and the welfare of the school children, there can be no unimportant work in thy association. The year just closing, however, has witnessed a work that stands out as most important an'i t'ar-reaclring. We are referring to the feeding oi' some thirty-six boys and girls every school day since early in the last term. There were found to be a number of young people who were not receiving sufficient food in their homes, and the Parent-Teacher association as sumed the task of providing lunches every school day for them. Reports from school officials show that these boys and girls have improved in health and made good progress in their studies. The plan adopted by the association was to call for volunteers among the citizen* of the community to furnish lunch on given days for these chil dren, while the association assumed the responsibility of providing neces sary milk for each of the students. Response by the community was whole-hearted, and not a day was missed throughout the school year. While all members of the associa tion assisted most nobly in this work, and while the citizens responded gladly and cheerfully, and all whc had a hand in the great work in any way deserve the highest commenda tion, the greatest responsibility* for carrying out the program fell upon the shoulders of the president of the association, Mrs. H. L. Wilson. No greater community service has evei been rendered than that so freely per formed by the association during the past winter, and no sweeter, tiner spirit of devotion to duty has ever been witnessed than that manifested by Mrs. Wilson, the association's president. I.ETS GET THE MONEY FOR THE TEACHERS, HOME IMF. County officials have been making frantic effort to obtain sufficient funds to meet the payroll of the school teaeers, long past due. There is possibility that citizens of the county, generally speaking, could have assisted the officials in obt lin ing this money, but through uninten tional neglect of the important mat ter, failed to offer assistance. If there is any way at all in which the citizenship can help the officials, we are confident that all men would gladly render such assistance. The teachers in the schools of Tran sylvania county have been wonderful in their work here this year, going right on with their class room tasks as though nothing at all were out of the ordinary. The fact is, that the teachers haw- not had their full pay since the month of December. Just a small poitio i 01 each month's salar ies have been paid to them. The school year has c. me to a close. The teachers, many of them, owe board bills, room ut, and other items of expense incurred during the school term. The county owes this money td the teachers, which will, in time, ~ be paid. There is the greater debt of gratitude to the teachers for the way and manner in which they served that can never be repaid. Loyalty to the schools by the teachers during the year just closed must stand out always here as the highest example of devotion to duty and patriotism to the people of the county. Expressions from readers and cor respondents concerning the Sunday School lessons printed in The Brevard News are most encouraging to us.1 We are glad to prepare and publish these lessons if it is the desire of our readers that we do so. Should the lessons become uninteresting, please be frank with us, and say so. Thanks j to all who have written us about this' matter. Your encouragament means much to us. . . Few things irritate a man more than to have his wife doubt his abil- j ity to read a time-table correctly. HAMILTON, OHIO, SHOWS INTEREST ifr THIS SECTION. The Bravard News has, expressed from time to time its admiration for Canton, and the progressive spirit of our sister city which can, because of the great Champion Fibre company, i continue in its even tenor of business ! while all about are evidences of "de 'pression." Recently this newspaper 1 printed an editorial expression of ! this nature. The Hamilton Daity I News, published at Hamilton, Ohio, ' reproduced our editorial with some what flattering comments on same. The Ohio paper was sent to us, with a personal letter from the editor and 'general manager, and the following paragraph is taken from the letter: "The Hamilton Chamber of Com merce called our attention to your re jcern editorial which referred to pros perous conditions in Canton, N. C., with the request that we make use of . same in some manner. This was ! handled in our issue of April 14 as j leading editorial with appropriate ; comment. A tear sheet is enclosed j !u" v" i> Following is the editorial comment ! made by The Hamilton Daily News ! on the editorial appearing in The Brevard News : j "To read the newspapers one would i think the United States was one bin oasis of grief and that the waters of the oasis were running over, with the floodgates unable to cheek the stream {of briny tears shed by the pessimists who constitute the amy of crepe hangers cluttering up the landscape. I "A word of optimism from any ' source stands out as a beacon light | on a dark and stormy night. Hence, the reproduction of an editorial from i'he Brevard (N. C.) News. The town of Canton, N. C., which is re ferred to in the editorial, is where the mammoth plant of The Champion Fibre Company is located and as Hamilton is the home of The Cham pion Coated Paper Company, it is of local interest. Most of the pulp for the local mill comes from trie Canton plant and gives employment to thous ands of people the year round in ;'l'he Land of The Sky. In fact, if the pulp mill was removed from Can ; ton, there would be little left except a wide space in the road. Shipment | of the pulp here means support to huhdreds of Hamilton families 1 through employment in the Champion ' Mills. "James F. Barrett, the Editor of The Brevard News, is ex-President of the North Carolina Federation of ? Labor and well known in Southern I newspaper circles." 1 Of course we appreciate this rec ognition on the part of the big Ohio ? daily, and this appreciation is all the more keenly felt when it developed that the editor and general manager of The Hamilton Daily News is our ' old friend and fellow- worker, L. R. ' Duvall. Mr. Duvall was advertising manager on The Asheville Citizen ! back in the good old days when newspapers were newspapers and Asheville was a city on a hill ? clean, progressive, aggressive, and absolute ly safe. Many is the year Mr. Du ! vail and this writer labored side by side to make The Citizen tty: best paper this side of Kingdom Come. A better newspaper man never lived in this state than Mr. Duvall, and a better fellow never lived anywhere. We do wish that some of the fine fellows of Hamilton would become in terested in Transylvania county. They could, at least, pay us a visit, or spend their vacation herp. We're looking to Friend Duvall to bring some of them to Brevard on a visit this summer. I PROF. VERNER POINTS THE j WAY OUT OF OUR TROUBLES (Hendersonville Times-News) Prof. S. P. Verner, superintendent of the schools cf Transylvania Coun ty, who has traveled over much of the ! world and had many interesting and j instructive experiences, talked to the Hendersonville Kiw'anis Club, Thurs day, about practical things in a prac tical way. One of his most impressive statements was that the people of till? section must iro to work, if they 1 expect Prosperity to make the section its permanent abode. Prof. Verner believes there is too v.'uch playing ? or loafing ? in all this untain country. No permanent prosperity can come to the section through a general policy of loafing i r playing by residents. It is all right for visitors, who come for the sole , impose of taking a vacation; they iiac to rst and play; but residents must get busy 'and stay busy if they j expect the section to recover from its : recent setbacks and losses and go for ward to satisfactory development. Having been a tourist section for a hundred years or more, accustomed ! to seeing visitors idle and play, it is j difficult for many of the people of this scction to get the view of life j and its duties and demands which is' common in the great industrial re gions and agricultural sections of the country. In those sections the people work steadily the greater part of the year. They may take a week or month off for a vacation in the mountains or at the seashore, but the.!r chief aim in life is work and not play. Work ? on the scale and with the earnestness and pers: tenee with which it is car ried on in the Piedmont section and other parts of the country ? would transform this section into one of the ir.ost prosperous in the entire nation. In addition to the object lessons of a century in the tourist business, this section had the additional bad exam ple. or object lesson, of the late real estate boom. Loafers from everywhere determined to grati some "easy mon ey'' and get rich quick, came here to operate during the boom. Some good people came along with them, it is true; but the indifferent and bad were in the majority. Some of the res- j idents of this section got the idea that ; they could live without work. The sec tion has not yet. recovered from the craze for "easy money," the g^'t-rich- 1 quick urge, and the notion that one j can live without work. i As Prof. Verner pointed out to the Kiwanians, this section will never en joy permanent prosperity and growth j until the people as a whole determine j that this end can be accomplished on- ! ly by hard work. Prof. Verner men tioned the need for industrial develop ment as being one of the primary needs of the section. Industrial devel- j opment always is preceded by, and is carried on, by work and the applica tion of sound business rules and prin ciples to the problems of manufactur ing. In order to clear the way for the progress of the future, Prof. Verner urged that the progressive people of the section must push aside trie un progressive and the obstructionists of this and every other community. These people. retard instead of ad vance the interests of the section. Hendersonville knows full well the meaning of this condition. We have our wrecking crew and our hammer brigade ? or, as one Hendersonville citizen has put it, the "wolf pack,'* yelping at the heels of any citizen who is striving to do something for his community and himself, or who ap pears to be succeeding instead of making a failure. The wrecking crew, the hammer brigade and the "wolf pack" rolled into one, however, constitute a decis ive minority of the popuation of the town and county ? and the majority should simply brush this outfit aside and march on to victory over all the difficulties which now beset the com munity and section. There are many honest, hard-work ing, progressive men in Henderson ville and the county ? in fact, they constitute a big majority of the citi zens of the county ? but this crowd lacks aggressiveness. The other crowd makes the noise. With nothing to do but mafce noise, that is to be ex pected; but the first named crowd should answer with action. The advice of Prof. Verner is wise and good. Action along the line indi cated by him is the thing that is need ed here. 0 BLESS YOUR HEART I Editor, Brevard News: Enclosed is a belated subscription? We hope that it comes in good time; Six years since we last had connection With good friends up in North Caroline. We read of the hard times you've having, ^ . . And how plucky you go to the bat, We, too, at St. Peters are braving the east wind, Which 'most knocks us flat. The Brevard News is the best little paper, Chock full of items and happenings, At editorials you are no fakir, i Your logic is dressed in no trappen ings. You strike out right from the shoul der, ! Every word, hits the spot, that you Say J Your advertisements charm the be holder, And make every customer gay. Your countv and local news articles Remind me of friends that I knew; And I think of the rainbow-like par ticlss And the ferns that by water-falls grew. Fair Brevard is sure one fine city, ? Nestling in Nature's broad arms; That more folks don't go there's a They're' missing these wonderful charms: The ozone, the waterfalls and moun tains, The hunting, the fishing and tramps To "See-off," "The Balsams," and fountains, And visits to neighboring camps. You folks have a wonderfully county. Which needs but be seen to be prized ; Nature gives freely of her bounty Expectation.-; sure are realized. I tell all my friends at St. P ers: j "Bo sure that you visit Brevard; And if you're particular eaters, To please you the folks will try hard. "For ut) in North Carolina is a race Of tie finest of men; And the women and girls no divitv r Have ever appeared to my ken." So keen up your heart, Mister Editor, ?'?Say Ikn.'iiy! and pay the wov.l .'???? ward:' * 1 That good times are on the road ; akite ? or I So it seems to ' ERNEST H. NORWOOD. 620 Nineteenth St. N., St. Petersburg. Fla., April 2Gth. 1931. PRAISES T OX AW AY SCHOC L Editor The Brevard News: Will you allow space in your | paper for a few words in regard to 1 the Lake T ox a way school? We have had a splendid year. Only , a few of the children failed to pass their grades. I am sure all of them ? would hrve passed, had their parents only not'eed those first D's on the: ) , report cards and insisted on honu' study. : Love one another, John 15, '7, seems to have been the rule of the school. The teachers won the hearts of our boys and girls in the beginning and a.s one teacher said, "We haven't | had a bit of trouble." . The school house and gvounds have ? been kep* in fine condition. i Rev. S. B. McCall and Mr. Leonard | H. Thomas have been with ns two j years. Miss Kate Gillespie has only International Sunday School Lesson for May 3, 1931 JESUS IN THE HOME OF ZACCHEUS Printed Verses: Luke 19:1-10. Golden Text: The Son of Man Came to Seek and to Save That Which Was Lost ? Luke 19:10. The Lcsscm And he entered and was passing through Jericho. And Behold, a man called by name Zaccheus; and he was a chief publican, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus who He was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature. And he ran on before, and climbed up in to a sycamore tree to see Him; for He was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up, and said unto him, "Zaccheus, make haste, and come down; lor to day I mus^ abide at thy house." And he made haste, and came down, and ? received him joyiully. And when saw it, they all murmured, saying "lie is gone in to lodge with a man that is a sinner." And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord, "Be i hold, Lord, the half of my gqods 1 give to the poor; and if I have wrongfully exacted aught of any man, I restore fourfold." And Jesus said unto Him, "Today is salvati"i come to this house, forasmuch as he is also a son of Abraham, for the Son of Man came to seek and to savi that which was lost." Comments on the Lesson \ In last Sunday's lesson Jesus was entering into the eity of Jericho, and as he entered into town, he stopped to heal two blind beggars, despised a: they were by the crowd which was following Jesus. We must study these acts very closely in order to get the 1 full significance of the lessons. Thi* lesson we are now studying is a por tion of that of last Sunday's lesson, or, rather, it is just a continuation of last Sunday's lesson, yet what a contrast, what a wide scope of God s love there is revealed herein. Ave saw Him last Sunday as he entered Jericho, stopping to heal the pom blind man, while the crowd that was with him fussed and fumed because He would stop and stoop to hear poor blind beggars by the roadside. In today's lesson we see him stop ping with the rich man, despised though this Zaccheus was, yet he was one of the richest men of the city. So this lesson takes us in God's love from the poorest of beggars to the richest of sinners. It made no differ ence to Jesus then, nor does it matter to Him today, what a man's financial or social condition is, if he needs Jesus, and wants Jesus, the Master is ready to embrace him. The great procession is moving along through Jericho, nearing its outer edge, with excitement running high. Thousand: were wending their wav toward Jerusalem for the pass over, and the fact that Jesus was heading the procession, Jesus, the New Kirig, whom the multitudes thought was going into the City to take the throne of temporal power, added tremendously to the importance of the occasion. The newspapers had published extras, and the newsboys were yelling the great news that trie King of Jews was passing through Jericho, on His way to Jerusalem. The route to be traversed by the great man was given, and we see a little man, a fellow not reaching quite to the shoulders of the average man, running along the street, trying to get a good look at Jesus. He could not see Him, because of the crowds about Him. So he ran on ahead, as fast as he could, and he spied a syca more tree by the side of the street, and this sycamore tree being of the variety peculiar to that country , with iow-hanging branches, could be most easilv ' climbed, and this little fellow lost no time in going up the tree, perching on an overhanging limb which spread out over the side walk, even to the edge of the street. Here the little fellow could get a good view of Jesus as he passed. | As the procession arrived at the tree, Jesus stopped, looked up, and in that sweet voice which he uses to all sinners who are seeking Him sail. : "Zaccheus, make haste and come down, for this day I must abide at your house." Can you imagine tho surprised happiness of Zaccheus. 01 the scorn and disappointment on the faces of the men in that crowd. Here was a tax collector, a chief o> tax collectors, a Jew who had bren collecting taxes from Jews and pa\ ing over to the Roman government a portion of such tribute, keeping-'1: ? larger part for himself. Ho was despised and hated and had !>? abuse .1 day in and day out. But h \ ? was the Jesus of Nazareth, the ma;: who had been performing the most ? wonderful miracles, a man who wou! . have been most welcome at all the. bridge parties and social affairs of the cifv, stopping the crowd and dis missing the throng without s - : as a wave of a hand, and going olr . the house of this tax collector to eat dinner. Arrived at the house, Zaccheus, ^ happy, grateful, penitent for his wrongs, felt highly honored. We may j know that he sent his. servants in j haste to place everything in readiness | for this King, and whatever was ; good and valuable in that household i was placed on. the tai>le for Jesu> ? Christ. The best seat' was drawn | . . - | been with us this term: Each one of j the teachers have endeared them- J selves to the people of Toxaway so i much, that we feel we can't "carry ; on" without them. As friends, nei ghbors and leaders, they have mean, so much to our community. We ask no grer+o-r blessing than that we may ha"c them with us again next term. / ? FRIEND. THE RIGHT WAY TO TRAVEL is* by train. The safest. M"ost com fortable. Most reliabU. Costs less Inquire of Ticket Agents regarding greatly reduced fares for short trips. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM forth for the Master, and in awed silence the servants moved about in serving this great King. Some time during the' meal, Zac cheus arose from the table, and speaking directly to Jesus said: "Be hold, Lord, the half of my goods ' i now give to the poor, and to ' al whom I have wronged I am rest6rin> fourfold." There was repentence fo you! Not only in thought did repent ence come, but Zaccheus was anxious to restore fourfold all that he had taken in wrongful manner. JesuS* said to the little fellnw, the hated tax col lector: "Today is salvation come to this house." Then Jesus, speaking more to Himself than to Zaccneu said: "After all, this man Zaccheus is a son of Abraham. He may have gone off into the pathway of greed and selfishness, and although he has been doing wrong in collecting taxes from our people and working for the Romans, lie is still the son of Abra ham, a lost son, a son that has gone astray, and Jesus spoke words that have been consolation and salvation to millions of sinning souls, word* that have lifted the unbearable bur den from breaking hearts, nr.'' brought light where darkness had been, and happiness where misery had held forth, when He said: "FOR THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SEEK AND TO SAVE THAT WHICH WAS LOST." I Zacchaeus had been lost. He recog nized this fact, and he repented of his wrongs. Not only did he repent, but he sought Jesus, the only source from which forgiveness can come. He had trouble in getting to the Master, be cause there were obstacles in his way. He was not high enough to see Jesus because of the numbers of people crowding about the Great Teacher, so Zacchaeus immediately made and ex ecuted plans whereby he could so. Jesus. He climbed the sycamore tree and gained a place of prominence from which he could look upon Jesus. Then Jesus called the man Zacchaeu? to Hjm, and went home with him, and blessed that home. Zacchaeus not on ly repented for his wrongdoing, but went further and made restitution for these wrongs. Then it was that JesuF Christ blessed him, and brought sal vation to him. Zacchaeus was still a son of Abraham, notwithstanding the fact that he had gone astray. Tu Abraham he returned, forgiven, a full-fledged follower of the King of Jews. wnat a lesson: wrnii a wcann consolation there is to be found in these lessons! What a promise of sal vation to all the Zacchaeuses of to day! It matters not how far away wo have strayed from the path of right eousness, we are still the children of God, belonging to His great family, and when we repent of our wrongs, and make restitution as best we can, and seek Jesus Christ as Zacehaeus sought him, we shall find Him, just as surely as the little rich tax collec tor found Him. And when we do go in search of Him, it matters not how many things are in our way, nor how many people there are trying to ob scure our view of Him, a way will b? found to bring us to His precious feet. He will then enter into our homes, and bless them, even as He went with Zacchaeus that aay. Zacehaeus would never have reached Jesus, if he had stopped to pay any attention to the harnimr hundr H8*50#* h'mi Th? hundred? and ' rtffV tPe?P who were ^"ow ing the Master sneered at the little runt of a tax collector as he chased along the street, trying to see Jesus, ^ot one of them tried to help Zac chaeus reach the goal. They P ?? | themselves crowding and pushing and shoving one another about, each one , in an effort to get just a little eIos?r I to the Great Teacher, but they were ! n.?t concerned with the hopes and de J sires of this little old tax collector. | When Zacchaeus started on down the street in a run, no doubt there were many people m the crowd who laugh ed at him and wondered just whst , this little dickens was after, anvWa* But Jesus knew what the man wartedE and granted ms desire, becauso t\W man was in earnest. V Haven't you seen people who laugh ed at some fellow when he was try ing to reach Jesus and the right' Haven't you heard them say: "Whv the very idea of that old Devil tryinir to get right with Jesus Christ' He's robbed widows, and orphans, ?nd done about every other mean thing that one could think about." Yes sir Professed Christians will stand' be tween seeking sinner* and the sought ' Jesus, just as that crowd on this moniM orable occasion stood between Zac chaeus and Jesus Christ. I5u? we do not have to climb a tree in order to see Jesus. Ten days after He visited in the home of this chief publican Jesus Christ hung on the cross and' died a death of awful agony that you and I might see Him at any time we search foi Him. The cross rai.-ed him above the howling mob, ami all that we have to do is to raise our <yes to Him, and tell Him that we want Him, and He bids us come t . the foot of the cross where we, too, may hear, us Zacchaeus heard, the sweet words of everlasting joy: "This day is salva tion come to this house." We have our "tax collectors" today, placing burdens heavy to bear upon the s! yilders of men and v. mien and little children. Not tax collectors, in the sense of which Zacchaeus was de scribed. but those who overcharge and under-pay the poor. We have the landlord who exacts more toll from the tenant than the publicans took from the Jews. We have 'the money lenders who charge exorbitant rates of interest. \\ e have public officials who wantonly waste public funds, and heavy charges in taxation are placed upon the people in order to raise the revenue sufficient to pay for this^ waste, extravagance and graft. We have our employers and captains of industry who exact hard labor from their employes, paying only enough wages to keep body "and soui of these workers together, while employers live in luxury and revel in the delights of the Devil. We have our food trusts and combines which set starvation prices <>n the products of the field, and re-sell this food at inflated . prices, thereby exacting heavy taxes in two directions and from two sources. What a revolution there would be in this old country of ours if all men who are laying heavy burdens upon suffering humanity would seek Jesus Christ, and, like Zacchaeus, say: Lord, the half of what I have I now give to the poor, and if I have wrong fully exacted from any man, I re store four-fold.'' This 'repentance is necessary, if such men are to be sav ed. There is no other way, except that of repentance, full and complete. The bounteous love of God's great heart is awaiting all who repent, and come to Him, for He said there, while talk ing with Zacchaeus: "The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.'' THE BREVARD UNDERTAKING CO. D. F. MOORE and PURDE OSBORNE SOLE OWNERS DAY PHONE, 88 NIGHT PHONE: D. F. Moore, Phone 250 Purde Osborne, Phone 159 AMBULANCE Service At ALL HOURS Checkerboard Chatter April 30, 1931 Published in the in terest of the people of BREVARD ??d T R AN SYLVAN I A County by the B&B Feed & Seed Co. , Spmlto lias discover ' tpcl why there -'are so small lights on tne statute of Liberty. He says "De less lights, de rhore lib erty wc -has." SUGAR Drip Cane Seed, grown fr^m Certified seed in this county last year, for sale at our store. A thief remarked the other day that he commits about 12 robberies each and every niyht. Just taking his daily doz en, I suppose. Peanut -seed, Jumbo, the kind that grows. "Chicken hawk* is " cowardly bird" says old Hirum, "but ca nary hircts is <te yellowist of them, all." Sun Flower seed ? - Mammoth Russian is the kind to plant. Don't think that he is m the motor car business just be cause he operates a truck farm. We have studied the seed business a lot, and a lot of folks in this county have taught us a lot in the several years that we have been here. Seed and fer tilizer are our spe cific lines of bus iness ? come in and talk your problems L over with us. Real towns arc not made b y mtn afraid Lest somebody et*e gets ahead, It every owe works an d nobody sh irlx Yon can raise ? town from the dead. Baby Turkeys for sale. See them in our window. Time is much more valuable than money ? because when it runs out there isn't anymore. ( B&B Feed & Seed Co. Brevard, N. C. The Store with the Checkerboard Sign