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BREVARD NWS Pubished Ev?ry Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Pubi W W Entered at the Postoffice in Brevard, j * N. C., as. Second Class Matter James F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION SATES (Payable In Advance) One Year 12.00 Six Months 1~00 Three Months .80 Thursday, September 3, 1931 GOVERNOR GARDNER, FIRST EXECUTIVE OF THE STATE TO SPONSOR THIS SECTION Some four hundred men and women from all sections of Western North Carolina sat spell-bound about the banquet board at the George Vander bilt Hotel in Asheville last Friday evening, and for the first time in the history of the State heard a Governor make impassionated plea for the mountain section. Other Governors have been here in the interest of state-wide movements, like Aycock came for the schools, and Morrison t'or good roads, but it remained for Governor Gardner to bring the influ ence of the great office to bear upon a question of purely local interest to Western North Carolina. He was speaking on the subject of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and no movement ever had a more enthu siastic champion. The Governor's prediction, based upon study of facts and personal investigation of the park possibilities, of the great devel opment of this section within the next few months thrilled his audience as but few audiences have been thrilled. The group listening to the Govern or was an unusual gathering. In it were county and town officials from eighteen counties in Western North Carolina, newspaper men and repre sentatives from civic clubs a, id organ izations, all of whom are recognized powers in their respective communi ties, ever on the alert for information and advice that may be useful in fur thering their own community inter ests. Because of this distinctive make up of the audience, Governor Gard ner's Asheville speech and the infor mation and inspiration in his address will, perhaps, have more far-reaching effect and influence than any address delivered by the statesman since he became Governor of the State. The Asheville Merchants Associa tion planned the meeting, and, with the aid of Asheville newspapers and civic organizations, made it a red-let ter day in Western North Carolina Governor Gardner's great message or the development in Western North Carolina through establishment ol the National Park here will echo and re-echo from hill to hill and across every hollow in these eighteen coun ties, and will bring this section closer to the state government than has ever been experienced in the past history of the state. TEACHERS SMILING IN FACE OF DIFFICULTIES. Teachers in the County schools have entered upon their year's work in fine spirit, smiling- at the difficul ties facing them and cheerful under the heavy handicap under which they are working. Reduction of the num ber of teachers and consolidations of schools have resulted In literally packing most of the school rooms. This extra work, with greatly reduc ed salaries do not seem to dampen the ardor or curb the spirit of the teachers, however, as they resume their school work. The changed conditions seem to have impressed the school children, also, for many people have comment ed upon the new spirit of earnest de termination that is apparent among the students. Parents of the school children can be of great help to both teacher and student by giving unstinted support to the school work, and encouraging in every way pos sible the boys and girls in their studies. Friendly interest in the wel fare of the teacher under present conditions will be more Valuable than ever before. Another month of bass fishing ought to bring several hundred peo ple into Transylvania county during September, as well as providing an other month's sport for the citizens of the county. Large numbers are expected to fish in the big power dam on Little River during the month. Notice in the press that Hon. Frank Flowers, Charlotte lawyer, may become a candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for attorney-gen- i eral. We knqw of no lawyer in the f state better qualified for the position than Mr. Flowers. He is a learned lawyer, a great man, and fully de serving of any honors that his fellow Carolinians can bestow upcri hi;.:. COL. WADE HARRIS GIVEN RECOGNITION FOR SERVICES Naming of a new concrete bridge, spanning a deep gorge on the New Boone highway, was in way of giving recognition where recognition is just ly due. The bridge was named the "Wade Harris Bridge," and is, there fore, a memorial to the great work which Col. Wade Harris, editor of The Charlotte Observer, has done for the mountain sections of his state. It was pointed out in these columns a few weeks ago that Col. Harris has 'rendered unequalled service to the ' mountain counties of the state, and The Brevard News is extremely hap 1 py because of the mark of distinction ! shown Col. Harris in naming that ! bridge in his honor. 1 The Charlotte Observer has been hammering away for many years on the undeveloped and hidden possibili ties in the mountain counties, urging the state to build highways into these mountains. If The Charlotte Observ er had its offices in the mountain counties, its great work would be ac cepted as a matter of course. The Observer, however, is published in the Piedmont section, in a county border ing on the South Carolina line, where cotton is king and cotton mills dot . the countryside. The Observer has had great influence in building its i own industrial community and ex panding its own agricultural section. ! Yet, important as has been this work in its immediate vicinity, The Observ er has had the vision to rise above its own immediate surroundings, to look across and beyond its own broad acres of cotton and corn, and ovei towering smokestacks rearing above ' its industrial plants, and see the glor^ of the hills and the monumental big ness of the mountains, and devoted time, thought, energy and literallj acres of space to the development oi the mountain section. It takes broac: vision in a newspaper editor to ac complish such wonderful results foi a section cf his state far removec from his own offices. The Brevard News is glad, exceed ingly glad, that the people of the mountain section honored their frienc while he is still living. The new high way is named the Daniel Boone, ir memory of the old pioneer, which i: most fitting, and the naming of the 112-foot bridge for Col. Harris is most appropriate. 1 'I DEPRESSION A BLESSING IN ''DISGUISE, SAYS GOVERNOR. One of the most striking assertions made by Governor Gardner in his I great address to representatives fron ( 1 eighteen Western counties in Ashe , ville last Friday evening was thai ? I in which he declared that the present 1 1 world-wide depression is a great bes , ; sing, despite the cost of the thing ! The Governor asserted that the pros , 1 pe rous years of the twenties hac , | started a generation of boys and girls who, if conditions had continued sc j prosperous, would have resulted in ? I "crop of flabby, useless, helpless ! worthless men and women." We were j not teaching our boys and girls that i ! age-old and time-honored rule that ; j man must live in the sweat of his brow. Governor Gardner told how the boys at the University had their own automobiles, and of the week-end i trips that were taken to all other nearby campuses, resulting in ex ' travagant expenditure of money and I more extravagant waste of time, dur ing those prosperous times when men were anxious to give to their children every cent they wanted for a "big time." , Now it is, the Governor says, a matter of real business and genuine concern to the young men who ( through sacrifice and hard work are permitted to attend the University or , other college. The students are work , ing with an earnestness of purpose that was entirely lacking when every thing was so rosy. j The Governor will find many peo j pie, especially the parents, in abso : lute accord with his viewpoint. Hard as it is for a parent to be unable to give everything to his child that boy or girl might want, the most un bearable thing, however, is to witness j the turn from boyhood into manhood j with no signs of serious purpose in i the young man or woman. J We Americans are so constituted ' that prosperity, power and wealth J run us crazy, most always bringing out the worst in us, while we show the best in us only when there is suffering or despair. Some day, per haps, we shall advance in civilization and Christianity to the point where we may be able to possess material things in abundance without losing our sense of obligation to others and our spirit of humility. Selfishness and arrogance always lead to desti tution ? both in character and in worldly possessions. "HE THAT ENDURETH TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED" Conditions in Transylvania County are not at all good. There are many difficulties facing the citizens here. Most of us are in debt, with our property heavily mortgaged. Our county is in default on interest payments. The same is true of our town. Not more than one-third of us have paid our taxes for 1930, while many still owe 1929 taxes. A tax rate higher than had been expected is facing us for 1931 tax bill. There is not much price or demand for our farm products. Our industries are not running full time. These facts might as well be faced. There is nothing to be gained in trying Jo "kid" ourselves as to the actual conditions fac ing the citizens of the county. Taking stock and know ing just where we stand is absolutely necessary to an intel ligent course to be followed, if we are to work out from under thig thing. The one question for us as individuals and as a com munity of individuals to determine is this: Are we willing to buckle down to the task of solving these problems and, in time, surmounting these obstacles? Do we consider it worth while to make the sacrifices and perform the labor absolutely necessary to the successful solution of our problems? The broad acres in the sweeping valleys are still here, rich as ever. The eternal hills and towering mountains are still here, majestic as ever. The constantly flowing streams that come dashing down the mountainsides, eternal in their activities, are still here both as attractions to tourists and life-giving to vegetation. Now let us get at the facts in the case. Somebody will own each and every acre of this land. Somebody will cultivate the farm lands and exploit the grandeur of the mountain lands. Somebody will pay taxes on every foot of this land. Somebody will, some day, reap a rich reward from this land. Those of us who now constitute the citizenship of Transylvania county may throw up our hands, cease culti 1 vation of the lands, operation of industries, conduct of business, and move out and away, but SOMEBODY will move right in and take the place of each one who throws up the sponge and fades away. Those of us who fail to pay taxes on our property will, in due time, forfeit our title to same, and some one else take it and pay the taxes on it, and occupy it. That is just as certain as sunset follows sunrise. ! It is simply not in the picture that these fertile fields and magnificent mountains will ever go begging for ownership. If those of us now in possession of these lands relinquish I our rights to them, there are numerous others among the 125,000,000 of people in these United States waiting to move in and take possession. , Some of our citizens cannot pay their taxes, because I they cannot get the money with which to pay them. Others are able to pay, but are purposely holding back, i Some could pay who think now they cannot do it. Cut i ting out of less necessary expenditures would soon enable ! this group to pay their taxes. Another group is not paying taxes because they can not see into the future. They do not think their property worth the taxes that may b? required during the next few years. This group <is the one which will some day feel like kicking themselves for not holding on. If they let their holdings here slip out of their possessions because of a few dollars in tax money, and ride through here ten years ! from now, great will be their regret. Transylvania county's assessed valuation will treble within the next few years. Value of lands and houses in Transylvania county will increase within the next five years more rapidly than one can even imagine. South Carolina will soon have the Greenville road to Caesar's Head to the state line completed, opening up an l artery of travel over which hundreds of thousands of peo ; pie will come into this county each year remaining here i for a day and night, some of them permanently. Comple i tion of the Boylston road will divert other thousands each year into this county. There remains but five miles of road work on the Pickens Highway to complete that fine artery into this county. Widening and hard-surfacing of 284, across Pisgah Mountain, is assured, and will, therefore, ; become one of the main highways leading through the government forests into the Great Smoky Mountain Na , tional Park. It takes no Solomon to see the incessant travel over this highway. Route No. 28 is to be made into a Federal highway, starting at the Virginia line, through Boone, by Chimney Rock, Bat Cave, Hendersonville, on up the Sylvan Valley to Brevard, and on by Cashiers, Franklin and into the South, making another gateway into Smoky Mountain National P?rk. A little more work, now being completed, will bring Atlanta, Ga., within three hours of this county. ^Farmers and truckers may load up in the evening, leave this county early in the morning, and be in the South's biggest market by the time the people there arise from their slumbers to begin marketing for that day's dinner. Government experts, both state and federal, estimate a minimum number of people to visit the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in its first year of more than one million people. Because of this county's location, its net work of highways, its proximity to the park, with the gateway to the National Forest right here at Brevard, it is but natural to believe that a large per centage of that mil lion people will spend time in Transylvania county. Aside from the tourist and agricultural growth that must come to the county as result of this great expan sion,, there is the industrial side of the question. The big Mellon interests are not building a dam across the moun tain for nothing, nor for fun. Iri that dam will be nyare rock and concrete than is in ail the highways of North Carolina combined. The building of that dam means a tre mendous industrial expansion in Western, North Carolina. Nowhere else -in all Western North Carolina can there be found as suitable factory sites as dot this county. Sites along the valley on which factories may be built are nu merous, and the great advantage lies in the fact that such industries may obtain all the pure, clear water necessary in their processes, from the streams that rise and flow through the government forest, thereby assuring to the manufacturer a source of unpolluted water just as long as his industry stands. Hold on to your property, if you can. Pay your taxes if it takes the hair off in so doing. Improve your buildings. Beautify your premises. Why sacrifice NOW, when there is awaiting you just around the corner a buyer who will p2ty you much more for your property than you ever dreamed of obtaining? "He that endureth to the end shall be saved " BIG EVENTS TOLD IN j LITTLE PARAGRAPHS ( Gleaned by Clifford Mcmtieth) Everything from the furniture to the actual structure of the Palace of Science in Milwaukee, just completed by A. 0. Jones and Co., is of polished aluminum. Over 600 scientists in this gigantic laboratory are devoting their time to problems of industry. The new Weyman Memorial Lab oratory of the Highlands Museum and Biological station, Highlands, N. C., was formally dedicated Saturday, August 29. Twelve persons give W. L. Elmore, i pilot, and A. W. Eston, radio oper ator, credit for saving their lives when a large Pan-American Airways I amphibian plane plunged into a fog , covered sea off Gloucester, Mass., on Friday, August 28. The U. S. Department of Com merce will start an intensive eco nomic study of Carolina's turpentine industry shortly. This will be a part of its nation-wide survey of the en tire turpentine trade. Fraulein Marga von Etzdorf, Ger man aviatrix, landed at Toyko, Ja ,pan, August 29, to complete a solo j flight from- Berlin in twelve days. A party of about 200 Rutherford ; farmers visited Green county, Tenn. ! in the motorcade sponsored by the | Rutherford County club. ' Complete from flying jibboom tc fantail stern, and from truck to keep | the 134-year-old "IronsiJes" is mak j ing a tour of the Eastern ports ? al ;the end of a tow-rope. A state of insurrection as a resul' of incendiary fires breaking out a1 many points forced Gov. Ben Ross t( turn patrol of three Idaho countiei 'over to the national guardsmen am J state deputies. To secure information for a might; , Linguistic Atlas of the U. S. A. | seven field workers from Yale Uni jversity are combing the New Eng i land states to study the characteris i tics of U. S. dialects. j Peach growers of Pennsylvania Maryland, Delaware and New Jerse; have given away over 25,000 bushel of fruit this year, because the lov price made it impractical to pick am ship the fruit. The combined sale of military am j commercial aircraft in the first si: months of 1931 gained $85,703 ove I sales during the same period las The 3,000 persons who gathered a ? Charleston, S. C., to see the DOO 1 take off were given an extra amuse ment when two 20-year-old attempt ! i'd stow-aways were discoverei ! aboard the air liner. The supreme court announces tha out of the 148 who qualified to tak< the mid-summer bar examinatioi only 94 passed. Pope Pius XI and Premier Musso ! lini have given their approval of thi | now completed accord between th Vatican and the Italian Givernment The U. S. Navy report shows tha during the fiscal year 1931 the list o desertions fell to the unprecedentei j low of 45 out of the 82,000 enlistei ! men. j .Tack Dempse.v, now on a tour o: ] exhibition bouts, won the first bou of the tour by a knockout decisioi over Jack Beasley in the secon< round. The Muhan gendarmerie headquar ters estimate that more than 250,00( persons have drowned or succumbet to disease, starvation or exposure ir Hankow. Hanyang, and Muchanf during the recent floods. To create greater efficiency in op eiation, a consolidation of forest ser vices and game activities in the 2? western counties of North Carolin; will become effective Tuesday, Sep tember 1. Russia is starting a penological ex periment in the form of a self gov erning prison colony without guards or prison bars. Chicago Railway Equipment Com pany starts work on 10,000 steel brake beams for Erie, largest order received in three years. The Graf Zeppelin, carrying 13 passengers and a crew of 44 aboard, left Friedrichshafen, Germany, last week on a non-stop flight to Brazil. At least 30 persons were killed and hundreds injured in a recent earth quake along the Afghan frontier of India, Crossing the finish line Sunday, Aug. 30, Mrs. Phoebe Omilie, of Memphis, Tenn., led the 51 contest ing men and women flyers in the National Air races which started a week previous from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland. The Lindberghs, now that the round of official ceremonies in their honor is over, are spending several days sight-seeing In Japan. Herndon and Pangborn, aviators who flew from New York to Japan,,' have asked Senator Borah to help them get permission to fly the Pacific non-stop from Japan to the United States. . | I Robert Minich, field inspector for the aeronautical branch of the de partment of commerce, has establish ed hedquarters at the Charlotte air port where he will hold examinations for pilot licenses and make inspec tions of airports in the Carclinas. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE By rirtue of power contained in a certain deed of trust executed by J. C. Hendrix and wife Esther Hen drix to the undersigned trustee to secure certain indebtedness mention ed therein, which deed of trust is dated 10 day of March 1926 and re corded in Book No. 20 at page 63 deed of trust records of Transylvania County, N. C., said indebtedness hav ing become due and default having been made in the payment, and all notices as required in said deed of trust having been given to the makers of said note and deed of trust to make good the payment and de fault not having been made good, and the holder of said note and deed of trust having demanded that the lands described in said deed of trust be sold to satisfy said indebtedness and cost of sale. I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House Door in the town of Brevard, N. C., on Saturday i September the 26 1931 at 12 o'clock^ Noon all the following describes land: Beginning at a stake on the south side of French Broad Ave, the north west corner of Lot No. 14 and runs with the north margin of said Ave. north 59 deg. west 80 feet to a stake W. S. Ashworth's corner; thence with his line south 31 deg. west 160 feet to a stake in line of lot No. 1 ; . thence south 59 deg. east 70 1-2 feet 1 to a stake in King's line, corner of ? Lot No. 13; thence north 31 deg. ' east 163 1-2 feet to the Beginning. Being lot No. 12 of the J. A. Gallo way division, except that part of 1 said iot deeded to E. L. Snelson and 1 H. L. Wilson by J. C. Hendrix and ' wife. This 27 day of August 1931. T. C. GALLOWAY t Aug. 27 Sept. 3 10 17 Trustee , | NOTICE OF SALE ' ' Under and by virtue of the power ' of sale contained in a Deed in Trust executed on the 30th day of April 1929, by Hunt Cottages, Incorporat ' ed, to W. E. Breese. Trustee, which ' said Deed in Trust is duly recorded " in the office of the Register of Deeds ' of Transylvania County, in Book 22 " page 627 and indexed in said office to which said indexed and record refer ence is hereby made and the same ? made a part hereof for the purpose f of description, and default having s been made in the payment of both ' principal and interest on the note se ^ cured by the said Deed in trust and legal demand having been made for the payment of same by the holder of i said note, and all other legal notices * having been duly given, the under r signed Trustee will, on the 12th day I of Sept. 1931 at 12:00 o'clock M. of fer for sale at Public Auction and sell to the highest bidder FOR CASH ' at the Court House door in the town of Brevard, County of Transylvania, ' State of North Carolina the follow ' ing pieces, parcels or lots of land, and all interest therein as described in said Deed in Trust, said land being more particularly described as fol ' lows : s Being the two tracts of land de II scribed in said Deed in Trust as same appears of record in office of Regis ter of Deeds of Transylvania County, " N. C., in book 22 page 627 et seq. of e records of Deeds in Trust to which e said record reference is hereby made and the same made a part hereof for the purpose of description. 1 ? Said sale beiti^- made for the pur f pose of satisfying said debt, interest, ' cost and expense ?>{ said sale. J This 13th da\ August, 1931. ,W. E. BREESE. Trustee. JMA 1 5t Ag 13-20-27 Sep3-10 J NOTICE OF Foreclosure Sale i I By virtue of ar,.l pursuant to the power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust from E. J. Anders, et al., - to the undersign. ,! Trustee, of date ) September 1, 192*. and of record in i Book Xo. 22. at ! :jre No. 524, of the l Records of Mortgages and Deeds of ; Trust for T ran-? vania County, de fault having been made in the pay ment of the indebtedness secured ? thereby, whereby the power of sale - has become operative, the undersign ' ed Trustee will on the 22nd day of i September, 1931. at two-thirty o'clock ? P. M., at the front door of the Court House of Transylvania County, in Brevard. North Carolina, offer for ? sale to the highest bidder for cash, ? the following described land, viz: i i That tract of land containing 27 acres, more or less, situate in Boyd , Township, Transylvania County, North Carolina, fully described in a Deed of Trust from E. J. Anders an d i wife, Kate S. Anders, to J. E. Shi^ man, Trustee for W. C. Jordan, ow date the 21st day of July, 1928, and recorded in Book 24, at page 47, of the Record of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust for Transylvania County, North Carolina, to which reference is hereby made for full and complete description; said tract of land lying on the North side of State Highway No. 28, bounded by the lands of E. B. Hadley, et al.. and being the seafmd tract described in the Deed of T^ust first above mentioned. ^ This August 20th, 1931. I. Curtis Arledge, Trustee 4tp Ag27Sep3-10-17 i 1 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator of the Estate of W. V. Owen, de ceased, late of Transylvania county, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said W. V. Owen, de ceased, to exhibit them to the under signed on or before the 5th day of August 1932 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the estate' will please make immediate payment. This 5th day of August 1931. I VINCENT C. OWEN. Administrator of Jr. V. Owen, deceased. *6tp Ag 6-13-20-27Sep3-10 ^ TRY OUR WANT ADS.
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