m mm news ?i" ' '?t ' *i" " t- ?>' Entered at the Poetcffiee in Brvftedl N. C., m Se^nd fiBW Jlattwr Thumiky, July 30, 1931 BREVARD SHOULD GUARD WELL THE INTERESTS OF ALL ORGANIZED CAMPS IN THE COUNTY. Brevard, as a tourist center, owe much to the Summer Gamps. Throughout the year, and every year, the Summer Camps are working for Brevard and Transylvania coun ty, as the camp owners and directors write letter after letter to people ev erywhere, praising this section as the best place in the world to be during the summer season. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been brought into Transylvania through the Summer Camps. Every citizen of the community ought to be on the alert in the inter ests of these Summer Camps. One day last week a boy came to one of the camps here from a Sou thern city. Soon after his arrival the lad became ill. The camp authori ties immediately placed the boy in the infirmary, called in the physic ians, and did everything that could be done. This boy was isolated, pending diagnosis of the case. The little fellow's parents came, and be fore attending physicians could diag nose the case, the parents took the Janes F. Burctt Edit* SUBSCRIPTION BATES (Payable In Advance) One Tear ... Six Mentha . Three Months boy home. Camp officials, fearful that some contagious disease might follow, called in the county health officer, Dr. Charles L. Newland, and had famous physicians from Asheville, Charlotte and the state department of health, at Raleigh, all of whom de clared that no danger existed. It was soon in evidence that the boy was ill before he came here. Yet the camp officials, most desir ious of taking every precaution, re quested Dr. Newland to place re strictions about their camp, which was done. All citizens who are fa miliar with the attitude and efforts of the camp officials have been loud in their praise of the manner in which these officials adopted every j precautionary measure. The deplorable part in the existing 1 siuation was that played by our own 1 Brevard people. Many here were passing the word along that "a camp has been quarantined." It was an ab solutely false report, and had it been true, Brevard's summer season and camp season would have been killed dead as a door nail, and none would have suffered more from such action than the Brevard people themselves. Thoughtless spreading of false re ports can do immeasurable harm to Brevard and Transylvania county. These summer camps mean some thing, either directly or indirectly, to every citizen of the county. Why j cannot, we, then, realize the import ance of guarding well the best inter ests of the camps, for the camp in terest is our own interest. Please, next time you hear a thoughtless citizen circulating any kind of unfavorable report about any camp in the county, sit down with ' that talkative brother or sister, and talk the matter over with them. It is not only discouraging to the camp owners and directors to hear of Bre vard people circulating false and in jurious reports about the camps, but it is also the best way for Brevard to commit suicide as a summer resort. NO CONTENTIONS ABOUT THE SEE-OFF SCHOOL AND MRS. ALL1E B. HARLEE'S WORKt There is one bright spot on the horizon of human affairs which is a ! source of satisfaction to all who are , acquainted with the facts or familiar with the great work that has been done about this particular place. That spot is the attractive little com munity out on See-Off mountain where Mrs. Allie B. Harlee has been teaching school and living with and among and for the people of that section during the past several years. Russia has displaced her royal regime with substitution of the powers of the soviet; that little big Gandhi has meekly smiled the British Empire into a new mood that brought about adoption of new methods in India's affairs; Mussolini took Italy away from the king, and is now battling with the Pope for superiority; Ger many, a few years ago the proud, ar rogant, self-appointed leader of the nations of the world is now grovel ing in the dust, eating out of the bands of tboee nations she believed she COM& ceagaer on battlefield; America b?s eb*a??4&0? tb? tt*d, hnrrfing^ rasWn* nation of activity to a njilliniff mass fl^ idlenest which is , bordering opon 'fringe of stagna tion j JSorf h Carina baa Ranged ber Democratic form of government and art up. the J8#yal .Bale of ia W1 the counties, cities, towAs 'and townships what they may do and whft they shall not do; the coooty board of education has been changed and juggled and juggled and chang ed, with superintendent after super intendent Bitting on the throrie of the mighty; old teachers have been drop ped and new teachers employed; schools have been consolidated and switched about in a manner that sug gests a checker game. All these, and many, many more, changes have been effected in the affairs of men, but when it comes to selection of a teach er for the school out on beautiful See-Off mountain, it never occurs to any one to suggest any name other than that of Mrs. Allie B. Harlee, , bless her noble soul! Loved by par ent, pupils and people, Mrs. Harlee is doing a work in her community which will be living and growing when 'monuments of marble have decayed and fallen and their base is all cov ered with wild weed and running vine. When you are strolling about town, look toward the East where the tree tops on the peak of See-Off moun tain seem ever to be sweeping the sky, and picture to yourself the scenes of activity in the shade and shadows of those giants of the forest. Dotting the mountain sides and nest ling in the hollows between the hill ranges, there are many mountain homes, and little children are play ing about or doing the chores of car rying wood from the thicket or water from the gushing spring. Maybe, at the particular time, it is the neigh of the unfed horse, the lowing of the cattle awaiting their supper meal, or the bleating of the lamb that is lost from its mother, that is demanding the attention of these children. But whatever it is, they are children, ? boys and girls who must have a teach er and teaching. Then see a woman, tall, stately, beautiful, with the love light born of her labor shining upon her countenance ? a woman most highly educated, reared in an atmos phere of wealth and old-time South ern refinement. She is there, on See Off mountain, living in her work and i loving it, and, in turn, being loved by all the people, both pupil and parent. What a lesson for those of us whose j false philosophy lead us to worship i the false god Ambition, and seek by | hook and crook, device and design, to 1 place our ambitious upon round after round the rickety ladder which we, in our ignorance, call fame! Mrs. Allie Harlee is God's bene diction to the people of See-Off mountain. Some day the historian will write chapter after chapter relating the results and detailing the ac complishments of the work so well done by Mrs. Allie B. Harlee, who, to most of us, now, is just a school teacher, teaching out at Dunn's Creek school, on See-Off mountain. AN AFTERNOON WITH FARMER AND MRS. FARMER MILLER. Most people in Brevard know T. G. Miller as agent for the Southern Railway company, Brevard office. In that position he is affable, efficient, alert and on the job. But the best thing to do is to visit Farmer T. G. Miller and his good wife in their new home at Penrose. It was the pleas ure of the writer and his wife to spend Sunday afternoon with the Millers, and it was a most enjoyable event. Mr. Miller purchased the Boyd place early in the year, and ! this is his first season as a farmer in Transylvania county. Great fields of corn, fine as you ever saw, give evidence of the good work that has been done by the Miller boys during the spring and summer, and small grain crop is alse very good. Then there are the cows, the chickens by the yard full, and a drove of white turkeys that suggest Thanksgiving and ChristmaS-'But it was the June apple tree, and then to the plum trees, that capped the cli max. We have long been fond of T. G. Miller, depot agent, but we like T. G. Miller, the farmer, much more. Maybe it is because of th# bushel of June apples, a basket of plums, a bag of tomatoes, and armful of cucum bers, that we found in our car when starting home. A small farm in Transylvania county is equal to an estate in any other state, and excels a king's palace and lands in any foreign country. "Could one refer to the Venus de Milo as the girl who got the breaks?" ?J. C. M. inquires. Why not? It's an armless joke. While Lyle Bower of Coldwater, j Mich., slept, thieves stole a cook j stove and electric plumbing fixtures. GOSSIPING ONE OF THE MOST damaging AND DANGEROUS ACTS. In a recent issue of The Lexington Dicpntch, Editor Witherspoon, one of the >est wiitorial writers of the $?te, wtt deploring the practice e : PlMtcot Grtrre Ncwi j ? ? ; 1 , Rev. T. C. Holtaclaw filled hU ; regular appointment here Saturday I Mrs. R. U. Blythe and daughter of Etowah attended church Here Sun day and were dinner tueeta of her daughter, Mrs. Creed Banks. Archibald Drake and friends of Hendereonville, viwted Mr. and Mrs. I J. H. Drake Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. MeCall of Little River, spent the week-end with friends and relatives at Pleasant Grove. D. H. Picklesimer and family of Biltmore, N. C., were Sunday guest# of their parent*, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Orr. i Mr. and Mrs. Jim MeCall of Hendersonville attended church here Sunday. Dent Orr and wife, Dewey Orr and wife, were Sunday guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Orr. Mr. and Mrs. Coy Blythe were Sunday visitors at the home of the letter's brother, Creed Banks. Little Jim Orr and son of Etowah attended church at Pleasant Grove Sunday. Rev. T. C. Holtzclaw was Sunday dinner guest of S. Hamilton. Rev. C. E. Blythe has been spend ing some time in at revival at Wel ford, S. C., but returned home to fill his regular appointment at Beulah ' and Balfour, and will return to Wel 1 ford to continue his work for some time. .? Earl and Ernest Gray spent Sat ! urday in Hendersonville on business. Little Edwin Fletcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Egerton Fletcher attended church here Sunday and heard his [ first sermon. I J. T. Justus and wife of French Broad Park attended church here ! Sunday. i Clyde Garren of French Broad i Park spent Saturday night with Earl 1 Gray. I Mrs. Egerton Fletcher and son, Ed ? win, Jr., Miss Jewel Justus of this place, Mr. Minor Davis of Valdosta, ? Ga., spent Tuesday with the former's i aunt, Mrs. J. E. Davidson of Swan nanoa. A SON Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Gil ? Iespie, a son, Ernest Kenneth. I Lady Alexander Paget of London, . from whose home a thief stole two famous snuffboxes, expressed the hope that the miscreant would sneew to death. Mike Kaplan, an Irish barber, re tired recently when he was notified he had inherited $35,000 from a rela I tive in Dublin. I Pasg the Potato-Masher "How much are eggs?" "Fifty onts a dozen ? thirty cents i a dozen for cracked ones." "Good ? crack me a dozen." PuroM Fin Faints last Saturday. Mr. uail Goode also is jjUiaf ihi* wtfki I The irtffw of the 8. Y. P. U. en joyed afi excellent outing last Wed natty. Wgg** ? trio to Camp White Ffnet' oo -rttgah National Forest, and enjflfinr* "ne chicken fry. They ] were accompanied by Rev. J. L. ' Brag* ana: others. | Young foOtf' pf the community en ' joyed fi nice lawn party given Thurs day evening by Miss Jeanette Talley gfr Tenro* Cottage. Rev. J. R. Bragg's mother of Spar tanburg was visiting at the preacher's home last week. Mr. Randall Lyday, who has been away at Camp McClellan in Alabama, returned home last week. Farming is very good in this part of thfe valley. Recent showers helped ' gardens and corn. The potato crop ! seeing off about half. Reports show 'there nicy be a potato market of about 70 or 75 cents a bushel out of j Hendersonville. I Mrs. C. F. Woodfin and sons are in the Cherryfield section doing threshing work this week. + ? 1 CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our apprecia tion to our friends for the kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and death of our husband and father. Mrs. J. A. Breedlove and family. Md? of Mills River wa? intty thia week. He re a Satisfactory cabbage t ? "from'-Sctrth * Carolina SAMBO'S PHILOSOPHY, "Wisdom come f;it de Diouf