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I tit BKfcVARD NEWS Pubished Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at the Poatoffice in Bivrard, N. C., as Second Class Matter 1 .lames F. Barrett Editor Mark T. Orr Associate Editor ? 1 ?SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year UM ' .MX Mentha 1,00 three Months Jtj Thursday, January 21. 1932 j OLD BACK-BITERS BACK-BITE . ! YOU, TOO, OLD BOY! This newspaper has stated over and over again that any man who will knock another man to you, will turn right around and knock you to the next man he meets. A back-biter has to be busy, for he cannot stand it unless he is talking about some one all the time. He is not particular who it is, either. Thank goodnese, we have but few such critters in this community. Once in a great while, however, you run across one of the Things known as a back-biter, tatler, gossip, scandal monger, or whatever it is that you call that old long-tongued, vulgar minded, character-killing Thing that is all the time talking about some one to that one's discredit. It seems to be a disease with some people, and this disease, malady, or whatever you call it, marks its victim as plainly as small pox leaves its mark upon the sufferer. You know one very time you see one of the critters! | The other day we met a frriend on the street and he, being a clean kind of a fellow, most careful in hia statements about others, and taking his friendship seriously, felt it to be his duly to tell us what he had just heard a fellow saying about us. "That's all right," we told him," we've been accustomed to that for ages, and the tongue of the tattler and the slime of the slanderer hold no interest for us." Our friend looked surprised because of our attitude on the slanderer's slang attacks. "Old Man," we told him, " do not be concerned about what that man said about us. He is right now talk ing about you, and if it worries you, then spend your worries on your own case.-' "No, no," the friend said, "he couldn't be saying anything about me. 1 have never done him any harm, and he claims that you have wronged him by publication of some thing about his farafly." "It matters not what he claimB, he is right now lambasting yigi, if he left you but a few minutes ago, that is, if he has found some one else who will listen to him. Let's 9ettle the question. Who was the fellow 'and which way did he go!" This friend, deeply worried, told us, and leaving him we sauntered up to the Thing a few minutes lafcr. The Thing was all smiles, and shook hand* with us, and wanted to know how we were getting along. We replied by telling him that things were not so powerfully good with us, and so on.1 Then, in a few minutes, we asked this Thing if he had seen Mr. . 1 "Yes, I saw him a while ago. Why? Does he owe you something?" We smiled, but said neither yea nor nay, but put a kind of a hopeless look on our more or less handsome face, and tugged a moment at our moustache, aad, boy, that was enough to start the bali rolling. That Thing opened up on our friend to whom he had but a few mem^nts before unloosed his long tongue about us, and what he said about that friend of ours must have caused this friend^ ears to burn like fire. 1 "Well," he started off with, "I tell you as a friend, you'll have a h? of a time getting that money. 'That fellow, while he plays a leading part at the church, is jtist about one of the biggest crooks that ever came to this town. I understand," he said, rather confidentially, "that he had to leave his former home on account of his bad debts and the way his family lived. You know," and by then this Thing was down to a whisper, 1 "there's somthing about one of his girls, that " Right there we stopped him. We asked him to go to the office, as we wanted to hear more, but must be at the office. He went. We walked right in on our friend, and the three of us were together. We told our friend < just what this Thing had said about him, and of his daughter. Right then kerslap went our friend's open palm ' against this Thing's sunken cheek. ' ' Then we asked our friend to tell ns 1 just what the Thing had said about ji us, and this friend, being convinced ( < and converted, told us, wheteupon < another kerslap yesounded, as we took I a slap at the jawbone of this long- tongued Thing. He slunk out. We laughed at our friend, and again warned him that whoever will talk to him about us, will talk about him to the next man he meets. And we're relating this to you for the same purpose ? simply to once more warn you that whenever a long-tongued Thing talks to you about any one else, he will talk about you to the next any one who will listen to him. If you get any good out of listening to the Thing talk about your neighbor, just remember that that neighbor, or another one, is soon going to hear all about you and your's The beBt thing to do is to spit in the fellow's face who starts in to tell you about some one else, dern him! HE WHO SEES RED HELPS JHE REDS TO GROW. Communists in America will grow only as the rest of the people help the movement to grow. The Reds have but one hope, and that lies in per secution; they need but one fertiliser, and that is found in the held o official life. There is no appeal t reason in the /doctrine of the Reds, there is no patriotic appeal in the principle of the Reds. There. ? no hope held out in the policy of the Reds. That gang cannot gain recruits except in one way, and one way only. That one way lies in the course o treatment meted out to the Reds W the rest of us. Blind, indeed, is the citizen, private or official, who p ays into the hands of Reds, by persecut ing them. The Communists believe it an honor to be jailed for the "cause. Nothing is as welcome to a Com munist worker as to be arrested and slammed into the jail house, and the hard'.r he is slammed, the better it suits his purpose. Riding a Red out of town on a rail is the very bes thing a Community can do to get members and followers of the Red movement. Denying a Red the right to speak in the court house or on the public square will make more Reds than a dozen Red speakers could convert in six months ordinary work. In other woras. Reds thrive on persecution, and just so long as the people go serenely on their way, and fail to furnish this persecution to the Red Leaders, no headway it all is made. The Reds keep on biting at the heels of officers and employers of labor for the sole purpose of making these latter people do something that the Reds can claim is a persecution, and then their work begins to take on activity. If a Red wants to speak in the community, give him the key to the court house, bring out the brass band, have the mayor extend a formal welcome to him, and tell him to go to it. That Red wouldn't stay in that town for ten minutes, for he would be laughed off the face of the earth. But let the mayor refuse that Red a right to speak in town, and threaten the Red with police interference, or the calling out of troops, and right then that Red's standing is establish- ' ed, and aU it lacks to make his, movement go is to lock him up in the jail house.. When will America learn how-to treat these isms of the Old World. Leave them alone, and they will choke to death, dwindle up and die | away. | Oppose them, jail their spokesmen, j and it is like watering the flower in j the flower garden ? they blossom forth immediately. KEEP ON, COUNTRY PREACHERS, YOU'RE THE SALT OF THE EARTH. Country preachers do not receive any very great salaries, nor do they live as befits the kings of finance, the captains of industry or the loaders of things political. Some of them do manage to keep an old Ford rattling along, but most of them walk, or ride with the neighbors when they do ride. They do not have any trained choirs to help them in song service, but the great hymns that go up from the congregation singing in unison penetrate the skies and arc heard by the hosts of Heaven. Your sermons are also heard, and your work i* most valuable, because about the only additions being made to the church of Uod are those recorded in the country churches,. We do not mean by this that the pastors of churches in the towns and cities are not doing their duty. We are convinced that the life of the minister whose work in confined to ono town or city church is much moie difficult than ithut fof the country preacher. Nov do we attempt, to say why it ia that the country church is making gains in membership, while , uufc few churches in town or city are , making: gains in any appreciable i iegree. Most of the additions to the t ?hurch rolls in town and city avo . :hose who come by totter from *ome \ country church, they having moved into town. So we say to the country preacher: Keep on in your good wurk, for the future of the church depends largely upon your labors. Some say yuu will live in a home much grander than any residence here on earth. You will live in a mansion, a veritable man sion, so fine that no man's hands could plan it and no man's hands could fashion it ? a mansion not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. MEN IN N. C. SENT TO PEN FOR THIS? In another column in this paper there appears a Washington dispatch, telling in detail the reasons for adop tion of the two billion dollar Recon struction Finance Corporation Act. The President of the United States, his advisers, and practically all mem bers of both houses of the National Congress favor adoption of this plan and the issuance of the two billions of dollars in government collateral to support the plan. One of the first ex planations in this article contains the following words: "Reduced to simple term#, the act is designed primarily to bolster the fast faltering banking structures by aiding both solvent avd insolvent banks ..." Yet some of the best men that Al mighty God ever made, leading citi zens of this mountain section of the Old North State, have been sentenced to serve from two to on up years in the penitentiary, and the only charge against them was that they conspired with bank officials to place a county's note of $100,000 in a bank to bolster it in its alleged faltering condition. The men involved deny, in unofficial manner as they did not offer any evi dence at the trial, that they even did this. But granting that they d^l issue and sell a note of the county in the stum of $100,000 to avert failure of a bank in which their county had or deposit more than $600,000, those of ficials would then be doing only what the President and the Congress of the United States are now doing on a scale so large that an amount of twe billions of dollars is required. Think it over, will you? Those people who declare thai light wines and beer should be sold on the theory that such is good foi one, should recall that old Orienta proverb which says: "One glass ol wine makes. a man into a lion, twe into a rabbit, three into a monkey and four into a swine." j Ford has added 60,000 men to hit works during the paBt week, at the wage of $6 a day, five days a week iThat will take up quite a kink in the unemployment situation. VETERAN WANTS COUNTY AFFAIRS TAKEN FROM POLITICS Editor The Brevard News, Brevard, N. C. jDear Jim: Seems that there was something in your paper last week about one of the County officials offering to take a reduction in salary of something like 10 per cent. Well, now ain't that something? Most every one, not only in the county, but the state, and a large Sercentage of the United States have ad to take a reduction of from 40 to 60 per cent their former salary. Take the farmers of our own old county, and two years ago they were getting $1.00 per bushel for Irish potatoes; now they are getting 50 cents. Corn was bringing $1.00; now it is 33 1-3 cents per bushel, a re duction of BO per cent in the price of potatoes an 66 2-3 per cent in the price of corn, and wages have been reduced in the county from 40 to 60 per cent. Anything that the farmer has to sell ib off on the average of 50 per cent, so why don't some of the county officials make an offer of a reduction of 50 per cent. That would impress the voters. But a 10 per cent reduction is just enough to enrage the voters of this fair land. Now let's see a bit about what the officials of the county are drawing ? not what they are earning tho, for that is out of the question. Just let's beijin with the Sheriff, $5600 per year. Now let's see, Jim, that will buy 16,800 bushels of corn at the present price. Nearly one-half the total yield of the county. Then comes the clerk of the Court, the Register of Peeds, the County Treasurer, and the county accountant, and the successor to the Brain Factory. Oh, yes, that is right, he is drawing for being the ''High school teacher Boss" as well as another salary for being superintend ent of Education. Now boys he is right. He is the smartest man in the whole bunch. He draws two salaries and puts in time on two jobs. So you sue he is a smart fellow. Well, J irn, at the present price of corn there was not enough made in Transylvania County during 1931 to pay these boys, so what in the hell are we goinu to do. Cross ties are one-helf and less and chestnut wood off over onc-half; so how are we country boys going to jet the mont'v tu pay therti boys for running the County Court H^uso for u*. Now tin's is an awful yroblem, Jim, and I want you to be on t.nc look-out for some fellow who will gc to Raleigh with grit in his gizzard ind the wishes of the people in hie nind, and *tay there until something s done to relieve the strain that hrs 7oen thrown on the people. 1 believe this could be done by using a Battle Axe on wages and salaries of public officials, instead of using a small pen | knife on them, and more than that, j Jim, it looks as if that man should bo a young man, not exactly a Repub lican or a Democrat, but some one who has common, hard, horse sense enough not to be a representative of the Republican party or a represent 'ntive of the Democratic party of our county, but to be a representative of ; ihe people of Transylvania and I will | uvear by all that is Holy that I be llieve we should have a third party for one time at least, and elect the third party candidates to office," and see by experience that they can and will clean up some of the wrongs done the people ( by both the ' Democrat and Republican parties : heretofore. None of us are too ! ignorant to know that the county has all but been bankrupt by both Democratic and Republican officials during the last 20 years, so would it not be a good thing to put in a complete set of new men. Men without the overhead "invisable" bosses that both Republicans and Democrats have and let them have a chalice to show the people that real economy can be practiced in this county. Let's get 'such an organization going in the next election. Let them be known as the "Clean up Squad" and see what happensi. Let each man run his race without a "Campaign Fund". Let him not have to "buy" his office but let him be elected by the people on his merits, and to hell with this buying and other unfair methods of winning an election. What would our fore fathers, the fathers of the country, thank of the method now employed to get elected to any public office. It is a shame and disgrace to both political parties. We should have more respect for the founders of our country than to carry on in any such a way as we have been in the past, so lets -quit . all this foolishness. Get ub a "Clean up Squad", and put them to work at a fair salary, and see a contented family of a county for the next two years. ! And now, Jim, 1 have only hit the , high spots in this letter and I assure you that if any one agrees with me 1 would like to hear more of it. If ? any one wants to start any argument , that I am wrong I also want to hear that, and I will say that there are ' fine thousand and one things that I 1 can argue, so come on folks, let's hear j what you have to say. Remember , ,that "A man is not a good citizen un , 'less he hates intensely what is wrong, ibut lie can hate the sin, even while he loves the sinner." 1 Respectfully. A Veteran of Eighteen Wilkes County dairymen are pre , paring to sell milk to the new cheese ? factory recently established at North . Wilkesboro. I Thirty-seven steers on the Francis . co farm in Craven county gained 990 pounds from December 16 to Decem ? ber 30 and are not yet on full feed. CASH PRIZES OFFERED BY LEES M/cRAE FOR ESSAYS > ' For the three best essays on the subject, The Western North Carolina Organized Farm Movement, the de partment of mountain farming of Lees McRae College is offering three prizes in the form of ffiO., $26. and $10. scholarships to Lees McRae College for the school year, 1932-1933. Rules of the essay: 1. Any high school senior or high school graduate under 2lVears of age is eligible to enter this contest. 2. Contestant must reside in one of the counties included in the W. N. C Organized Farnf Movement 3. Essays must not exceed 2,000 words in length. 4. Essays must be submitted before March 1, 1932. 5. Contestants may interview county agents, agricultural teachers and others in an effort to gather necessary information. Judges of the contest will be: ? Edgar Tufts, president Lees Mc Rae College; Bruce Webb, director of promotion ; H. A. Osborne, chairman regional council. ? Essays are to mailed to Depart ment of Mountain Farming, Lees McRae College, Banner Elk, N. C. BREVARD DEFEATS TEAM I OF ROSMAN FARMERS ? The Agriculture boys basketball team of Brevard High school defeat ed the Rosman Agri boys on the Ros man court Monday afternoon when Hays Merrill scored twt> points dur ing a three minute extension period following the regular game which ended in a tie. When ?fie" final quar ter was over the score was 12-12. An additional period was called to break te tie by Referee Cline, and Merrill made the point after three minutes of play. Scorers for Brevard were Merrill, Ashworth and Shuford. Rosman scor ers were Whi^ire, Galloway and , Fitzgerald. ? j Rosman (12) Brevard (14) RF Whitmire Merrill ! LF Gallowav Shuford ' C Waldrop King LG Fitzgerald Ashworth RG Morgan Wilson The Rosman boys will plav the Brevard team a return game Monday at noon on the Brevard court. NEW ARRIVAL Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bishop of Cedar Mountain on Decem ber 6, 1931, a daughter, Jennie Margaret. Mrs. S. T. Mitchener of Garner in Wake County sold 100 turkeys for the Christinas trade from a nock brooded with a home-made brick brooder. BREVARD BOWLERS WIN SECOND GAME Brevard's crack duck pin team won their second straight game over Asheville at the Recreation^Centcr on Wednesday night of last " week, total scores being: Brevard. 1572; Ashe ville, 1484. BOX SCORE Asheville Total Hoffman 98. . 88. .104. .290 E. J. Griset . . . . 93.. 97.. 81.. 271 Hall 87.. 93.. 100. .280 Gilbert 121. 94. .12*. .337 A1 Griset 106.. 103.. 98.. 306 s . 1484 Brevard A Total Bean 103^ 109. .306 Croushorn .... 3iWll4. M07. .310 Jerome 113. / 95. .104. .312 Bridges 90. . 114. . 106. .309 Vaughn 122. .100. .114. .336 1572 Valdese will come here Saturday afternoon to meet the Brevard outfit at four o'clock in a duck pin contest At 7:30 they will again engage the locals, this time in ten pins. ' Much interest is being shown in 'these inter-city matches, increasing numbers of fans seeing the games. Messrs. Harris and Trantham, op erators of the Recreation Center, Invite all people to visit the pin** when tournaments are being held. No entrance charges are made. JACK TRANTHAM IS NfcW ADDITION TO BUSINESS Jack Trantham, one of the best liked young men o? Erevard, has en tered the business fiield here, having taken over Red's Service Station on West Main street. 1 This station has made many friends under the management of Red Misenheimer, who for a number of years supplied his - many- customers with Standard products worth a motto that was really carried out ? "It's a square deal station." I Jack has announced his intention of donating a tenth of his profits from January 20 to March 20, from the business to the Associated, Charities in order to assist in their work here. McCRARY IS NOT THE 'ONLY ONE-STOP PLACE "Carl McCrary has not got the only One-Stop Station in Brevard, no matter . how much he says so," according to Willis Brittain, manager of the B. and B. store. This week the Brittain boys are advertising through The News that they are operating a one-stop station for the farmers of the county, averring that they can furnish the farmer his needs all at one stop the same as Carl McCrary can furnish the autoist with car needs at his one-stop place. AN OPEN LETTE Deal- Customer: As we enter the New Year the most of us are wondering just what will happen to business conditions. Well, to some, conditions will improve and to others it will not ? it all depends'asto how we work and manage ourselves. In bad times we must work day and night and make every minute count in order to hold our volume in good times. We must by extra effort maintain our business in the off years. When others give up and say it cannot be done, they are making it easier, for those who try to do a bigger busi- . ness, than ever before. The New Year is ahead of us. It will be what we make it. We are going to try to make this our greatest year and we are offering to you the following service: ? FIRESTONE BATTERIES, guaranteed for 12 and 18 months, and if for any reason any of our batteries fail we will replace same with a new one on a monthly basis. We also repair and recharge any make of battery at a very low cost. I.et u* keep a check on your generator and starter. We have a very complete stock of generator and starter parts, such as, brushes, armatures, springs, etc., for any car. Don't neglect the lubrication of your car, have it greased, oil changed, tightened and battery filled every 500-1000 miles. You will save many repair bills and much grief if you will only give your car the proper lubrication. Have you ever stopped long enough to think of what might happen if your brakes fail on you? Well, just stop long enough and picture in your mind the sorrow that comes to people ever day, caused by faulty brakes, such as wornout drums, bad lining and con ections. Keep your brakes lined and adjusted. We give you the world's finest brake lining at a very small cost. : B We carry a very complete line of Ford and Chevrolet parts in stock. Also a nice stock for other makes of cars. But if we do not have the part desired in stock, we can get the same for you in a very few hours. , \ h We are now doing a general auto repair business and at any time you need following repairs for your car, we will be glad to do your work. We install pisto valves, connection rods, rebush springs, spindles, repair transmissions, clutches and di tial parts, straighten fenders, etc. , MAY- WE SERVE YOU ? WE SAVE YOU MONEY AND SERVE YOU BETTER. McCRARY TIRE an BATTERY SERVICE PHONE 290 BREVARD, N. C. .
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