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MR. HENRY RETURNS FROM LONG SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE (Continued from va-ge one ) ed, Mr. Henry gave it as his opinion that the county government act is next in importance to the MacLean School Law. The county government act provides strict regulation by the state of all county and municipal gov ernments. Hereafter, it wil be impos sible for counties, cities or towns to go into debt, without first proving to state authorities that such debts are essential, and then the Jtate must ap prove such acts before the units of government can create any such debts. The new banking commission is an other great law, Mr. Henry says, and will act as greater safeguard to the money of the people and of public funds than has heretofore been the case. This law taRes the banking bus iness from under control of the cor poration commission, and places all such power in the hands of a state banking commission that has no other duties other than supervision, exami nation and control of the banks and the banking business. Another valuable law passed in the present session, according to Mr. Hen ?y's views, is that which greatly re duces the costs attached to the sale of property for taxes. The cost of j both attorneys' fees and newspaper advertising have been reduced, as well as costs of minor nature hereto fore attached to su< h sales and pro cedures. This law v/ill mean a great saving, Mr. Henry says, to the people whose property is sold for taxes in the future. Mr. Henry was not in complete ac cord with the provision to make a 10 per cent reduction in the salaries and wages of public employes, although he voted for the me/isure in its final pre sentation to the assembly. Mr. Henry said he was of opinion that a flat ten per cent reduction was not the fair way to handle the matter; that he believed a 25 or 30 per cent reduction should have been made in the salaries of the more highly paid officials, and this per centaga reduction should have become smaller as the salaries grew smaller. The heads of depart ments and the men holding "fat" jobs should have had big cuts, while the man making a hundred dollars a month should have had a five per cent cut, or no cut at all. Of local legislation procured by Henry for this county, the first, of course, was to abolish the county court. This was a plank in the plat form of the county democratic party. 1 In connection with this measure, Mr. Henrv also procured legislation which would permit the county commission ers to transfer the $7,000 in the coun ty budget for operation of the county court to other phases of county gov emment in carrying on necessary work. ) Mr. Henry introduced and had pass ed a bHl extending time for redempt ion of county tax certificates. This time expired, he said, in February on much land that had been sold for tax es in the past, and this- act, he says, gives the former owner more time in j which to redeem his property through I taking up of these tax sale certifi cates. Reduction of the salary of county treasurer from $2,600 a year to $1, 800 a year, Mr. Henry said, would effect a saying in this office. The reducrtion is still greater than this, he says, in that his law provides that the treasurer shall pay the premium on his bond, amounting to some $600 a year, really bringing the salary of the office down to $1200 a year. This is not to take effect until the expira tion of the term of the present coun- 1 ity treasurer. Mr. Henry-introduced and had pass ed a bill reducing the board of county commissioners from -five to three mem bers. This was the original number on the board, but the number was in- 1 creased in 1927 from three to five < members. Mr. Henry's bill brings the j number back down from five to three : members. This is not to become effec- ] tive until the expiration of the term of the present board. Mr. Henry increased, through an other bill which passed, the number of members of the school board from three members to five. This was done, Mr. Henry says, at the "re quests of folks." I Another measure introduced and passed at the request of some mem bers of the bar provided for validat- ; ing certain reports which were not1 made to the clerk of the court within the specified time, such as sales by ] ! trustees. This law cannot apply to any case where litigation has been ] started in connection with property rights or claims. Another local law was that con tracting the corporate limits of Bre-J vard, leaving out North Brevard. This 'law provides that the water main laid [from the present town limit to the end of the main line must be paid for by the property owners, and assess- j ment will be made against all such property in the enforcement of these j collections. At request of many people of the town and county, Mr. Henry says he had passed the law permitting the county officials and town officials, at | their discretion, to sign the agreement to freeze 70 per. cent of the public funds in the Brevard bank, as indi vidual depositors are doing, and to place the remaining 30 per cent in the surplus fund, all of which, how ever, is to be paid back to the town and county as provided in the agree ment. Mr. Henry, in another measure, succeeded in having Transylvania county exempted from the law which controls the sale of corn meal. The general law is that meal must be placed in bags containing five pounds, and multiples thereof. Under the ex FINE TRIBUTE PAD TO WORK OF HAYNES (Continued from page one) ammunition to those institutions in the persons of young people he and his contemporaries in the secondary education sent to the feet of his great co-workers in the common cause. Loved by Pupils "It is an interesting fact that among those pupils whom Professor Haynes thus prepared for a Univer sity career was one who subsequent ly became his wife ? the lady who was the first girl-graduate at the Univer sity, and who herself became an edu cator of distinction. The attachment to him in this case was finely illustra tive of the way his pupils loved him. 1 Those were the days before education had begun its phase of attempted mass-production and machine meth ods, and Professor Haynes was one of those men, once described by Presi dent Garfield, when he defined a col- 1 lege as. a certain great teacher at one 1 end of a log and himself at the other. 1 "Those men were personalities, not foremen in the industry of education, i They drank deep at tfc? Pierian Spring and their knowledge was con- 1 emption secured by Mr. Henry, meal can be sold in this county in bulk, in any quantities desired, with no regard to bagging same in five-pound bags or in bags of multiple size. When asked why he had exempted Transylvania county from the law I which was passed reducing the sal aries of county officers, Mr. Henry stated that he had in mind the pas sage of the law outlined in the open ing paragraphs of his statement, that is, a larger per centage reduction for the more highly paid officers, with j a smaller per centage reduction for the lower salaried officials. He stated, ' however, that the general law making a uniform ten per cent reduction would take .care of the situation. Mr. Henry was busy during: the first days of the week greeting friends and neighbors, all of whom wanted to finow what in the name of common sense is the matter with the members of the legislature. Mr. Henry is hold ing up for the lower house, and blames some certain members of the senate for the long session and the numerous delays in transacting the business of the state, and the long, long session of the 1931 body. One state-wide measure that Mr. Henry was not so enthusiastic about is that of the new highway commis sion and its work, embracing all coun ty roads. He is of the opinion that it will take time and trial of this law to determine its worth to the state. Mr. Henry believes that the new com mission will adopt the policy of using prisoners on county roads, with a central camp located from which the prisoners can be transported to work I on county roads in the several coun ties. sequently not a dangerous thing. They imparted that knowledge in a way to make it the pabulum of con structive thinking; not merely the ba sis of a varnished social pretension. Their pupils sought education under their inspiration because they meant to use it in the promotion of their soul-development and not merely be cause it had become a card of admis sion to the ranks of polite society. "Professor Haynes was a protagon ist of the cause of the underprivileg ed, the so-called 'common people' in his efforts, to extend the influence of intellectual culture, and the way he spread the idea of self-help by stu dents was .one of the influences in a political revolution in his state. A traveler from a far country returning to his native state after scarcely rec ognizing it, so profoundly had its structure been affected by the prog ress of those years; and, as he stood by the bedside of the dying old gen tleman who had so long fought to af fect those changes, as he remembered how Haynes had influenced Tillman, and Tillman had influenced and help ed to elect Woodrow Wilson, and Wil son had led the war for a new free dom for the world, and he pondered on the dangers to freedom now threat ening still, he took courage; for there are still men who will teachTruth, and there was once a Teacher who said "The truth shall make you free." NOTICE of RE-SALE The bid heretofore filed for the property hereinafter referred to hav ing been raised and the Court having ordered a re-sale thereof; NOW THEREFORE the under signed Trustee will on Saturday may the 23rd, 1931, at 12 o'clock M. at the Court house door in the town of Brevard, N. C., offer for sale and sell to the highest bidder for cash all that certain lot lying in the Town of Bre vard and fully described in that cer tain Deed in Trust from Thos. H. Shipman and wife to the undersigned Trustee, dated March 28th, 1930, and registered in Book 23, page 121 of records of Deeds in Trust for Tran sylvania County, reference being hereby made to said deed in trust and j record for a description of said prop erty by metes and bounds, proceeds oi said sale to be applied uppn said in debtedness, cost of sale, etc. This the 6th. day of May 1931. D. L. ENGLISH, Trustee 3tM7-14-21 MAYOR RAMSEY NOW CHIEF MAGISTRATE TOWN OF BREVARD i {Continued from page one) ratification "of the action taken in the primary. After assuming his new duties, Mayor Ramsey issued the following statement: "In taking over the office of Mayor I do so with a feeling of gratitude to the people of Brevard for reposing such a trust in me. I feil, also a realization of the responsibilities and obligations that the office imposes on me. The next two years will be diffi cult ones for all of us who hold office. Grave dangers lie ahead of us. There are serious problems facing the town that require immediate attention. I, most certainly, do not feci that I am capable of solving these problems alone. Nor do I believe that the newly elected members of the Board of Aldermen feel that they are cap able of solving these problems by themselves. It will take the united efforts of all of our citizens if we are to successfully avoid the dangers of the next few years. As we take office we earnestly ask for that cooperation and united support from every citi zen of Brevard that we shall need if we are to serve Brevard and her citi zens as we should. I "While I am Mayor it will be my aim to enforce all the laws strictly and impartially. I believe that the public desires and expects this. Therefore, during my administration I expect to give our police officers my full support in their efforts to main tain order in Brevard. In turn I shall ask of them loyal, faithful and efficient discharge of their duties as officers. Then, if we in turn receive the support and cooperation of the public, there is every reason to be lieve that we can have a respectable and law-abiding citizenship that will make a town that we shall be proud to be citizens of," i A SON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Bell, a son, Donald Lee, on Wednes day of last week. 'ALL SCHOOLS OPEN FIRST MONDAY IN AUGUST THIS YEAR (Covtin'Md from, page one) part of those people who expres? opinion that August first is entirely teo soon to begin school work, and that children car.not do their work during the heat experienced here in Angust. Intimation has been nuuU that citizens will request the school / board to rescind this order, leaviflp the schools to being work the first W September, as in the past. Resignation of Sid Barnett as a member of the school beard caused much regret among other members and the citizens generally. He had served but a short time, and friends state that he did not want to accept the appointment in the first place. Mr. Barnett is head of the Barnett Machine Works, as thriving and up to-date machine shop as can bo found in any small county. He gives his en tire time to a personal supervision A his big business, and declared to"* friends that he simply could not spare the time necessary for serving on the school board. J. E. Rufty, newly elected superin tendent, will assume his duties on July first, at the beginninj; of the new fiscal year. Selection of teach ers for the several places will occupy the time and attention of the officials during the next few weeks. , Mrs. J. W. Smith will have charge of the tocket sale. She will bo at the U. D. Library each afternoon, 3 to 6, and requests that Woman's Bureau members call there. EN ON CHURCH TO OBSERVE | MOTHER'S DAY O.Y SI S DAY Mothers Day will be observed with appropriate services at Enon Baptist church Sunday morning at the eleven o'clock hour. The pastor. Rev. Mr. Bragg, will preach a special sermon, and other features of the services will be in keeping with the day. t LET US DO YOUR JOB PRINTING Few Women Dress like Their II Grandmothers Did ? Why Do So Many Cook? the Old Way? F - A - C - T ? 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