M BRlvVARD NEWS ,
Published Every Thursday by
THE TRANSYLVANIA
PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
Entered at the Postoffice in Brevard,
N. C? as Second Class Matter
James P. Barrett Editor
Mark T. Orr Associate Editor
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Thursday, May 5, 1932.
MOTHER'S DAY COMES
AGAIN NEXT SUNDAY.
Next Sunday is Mother'3 Day.
It may mean much, or it may mean
but little? depending altogether up
on the individual and his reaction to
the day. Some people do not give
much thought to the observance of
the day, because, they say, it has
Oetn so thoroughly commercialized
that the beauty of the thought in its
institution and inauguration has baeo
lost sight of. Let that be as it may,
we do believe that much added hap
piness as been experienced by mothers
because of observance of "Moter's
Day." We do not have in mind any
little present, or token, as being the
cause of this added happiness, but
the tenderness of the thought, the
certainty that she has been remem
bered, these uib the things that have
brought additional happiness to the
mother.
Those who do not have their
mothers here with them any more are
the ones who pay most attention to
Mother's Day." The very fact that
observance of the day brings more
forcibly to mind the great loss ex
perienced by those whose mothers
are gone is sufficient to make the day
mean more to such than it can mean
to those svho are so fortunate as to
still have their mothers with them.
Mon ? nntj women will spend
the day next Sunday in thinking over
the years that are gone? of the times
when Mother was here. No man can
forget his mother, it matters not how
low he may sink, or to what heights
of success he may attain, Mother is
never forgotten. Thoughts of
Mother come to the busy man whose
i ares and respdrtsibilities are multi
plied. In between moments there
come creeping in the thought of
.Mother. The tramp on life's highway,
lying in the shade by the side of the
brook, or slowly trudging with sore,
tired feet. likewise gives up at times
in thoughtful recollection of Mother.
1 here is not a feature of her face,
a look of her loving eye, a wisp, or
twist, or strand of her beautiful
hair, that is ever forgotten. The
memory of her tender hands, be they
soft and smooth like velvet, or hard
ened and wrinkled with hours of
labor in the waslitub, are Always
with man, after Mother is gone.
If YOL R Mother is living next
Sunday, and you can get the mean
ing of this message, tell her as you
have never told her before just how
dear she is to you. Of course, if your
Mother is living, you cannot grasp the
lull significance of this message. But
il any of us whose Mother is gone
eould swap places with you for an
hour next Sunday, you would witness
a joy never before seen on the face of
man.
It is Mother's Day, next Sunday.
I.efs observe it in the truest sense of
the word.
DO WE LOSE SIGHT OF
THE PURPOSE OF TAXES'
About the most hateful question
that comes into the lives of the citi
zens of America is the question of
taxation. It has been a serious ques
tion with us ever since America was
born. In fact, the birth pains of this
New Nation was moaned to the tune
of taxation, for it was in the last
hour of our desperate condition that
the colonies threw down the gauntlet
to Great Britain ? all because of what
was considered by our forefathers to
be excessive taxation.
And we have been consistent in our (
fight on taxes. We have been most
inconsistent in our attitude toward
taxation. We have gone in great dele-!
gations to the governing powers, and
demanded public improvements that'
cost lota of money, and invariably
raised a howl when the rate of taxa
tion was so made as to include pay
ment for these improvements demand- j
ed. We have elected members of the ^
law-making bodies on the sole under- ,
standing that they would vote for J
certain legislation that would provide!
improvements that we wanted, sndj
then bawled the hound out of the
same body when provision was in
cluded in the measure for payment of
that very improvement.
We are not trying to defend ouf
high rate of taxation. There is no
defense for it ? National, State,!
county or city. The truth that we
a. trying to imprests is this: That
the people as a whole are responsible
for whatever rate exists. Curse the
politicians all one may want to, but
a search of tho records will disclose
that the politicians were urged *>
make practically every additional ap
propriation that have been made ?
urged by the very people who are now
fussing about taxes, Of course there
has been graft, and plenty of it, but
even in this matter the people are
to blame in that they have paid but
scant attention to the public affairs
about them.
Employment by county, State and
Nation of armies of public employes
has added untold millions to the tax
bill. But who, after all, urged the
appointment of these people to public
offices? Somewhere, in each and every
instance, the people back home, in
order to get Mary, or John, a job
have implored the powers that be to
place such a person in some kind of
work in some of the departments
somewhere, somehow.
All of us have act?d the fooi; let's
face the music' and pay the fiddler.
And let's not think of all taxation as
being wasted money. We have our
roads, our schools, our hospitals, our
orphanages, our institutions for the
helpless and afflicted ? and but few
citizens would have a single one of
them discarded or done away with.
Many graduates of High schools re
ceiving diplomas during this Spring
commencement time will have to pay
taxes for years and years in return
for money borrowed which paid for
the schools that enabled them to ob
tain a High school education. Surely
no boy or girl will object to paying
such taxes in the years to come.
There are millions upon millions of
dollars that can be saved 111 the public
tax bill, but the citizens must learn
that the first thing to do is to stop
demanding public improvements that
are to be paid for out of public funds,
There is no escape from taxation ii
the improvements are made. Then
too, there can be much saved in the
matter of public employes, but father
and mother, uncle and aunt, will have
to stop asking the public officer 01
pqlitical Reader to make room iox
nephew and niece, son and daughter
on the public payroll. There art
thousands upon thousands of men
and women drawing good salaries in
public office that could not make theii
salt and soda on their own.
If taxation is ever plaeed upon a
reasonable, equitable basis, the folks
will have to place it there through a
course of common sense action. Wc
should be willing to pay necessary
taxation for necessary public im
provements and institutions. All over
and above that is waste, indeed, but
a waste that is most always due to
the demand of the folks back home
to place their kinfolks in some kind
of a public job .
MAXWELL MAKES GOOD HIS
CHARGE OF PROFITEERING
IN SCHOOL BOOK MATTER.
One day last week the Hon. A. J.
Maxwell, candidate for nomination
for office of Governor on the Demo
cratic ticket, charged that t!iv re had
been a "40 per cent" profiteering on
the school books selected by the State
and used in the schools. Many of us
have long contended that there was
huge profiteering, if not downright
rascality, somewhere in connection
with the school book proposition. This
1 newspaper has often charged the
State with gross indifference to this
matter of school books which has be
come so burdensome to the people of
North Carolina. Mr. Maxwell, consid
. ered to be one of the best informed
men of the State on public matters,
says the overcharge on school books
has been 40 cents on the dollar.
The Greensboro News called upon
Mr. Maxwell for evidence to show
that his charges are true, and Mr.
Maxwell came back Tuesday morning
with plenty of evidence that this State
has been paying an overcharge for
school books of 40 cents on every dol
lar spent.
Following is Mr. Maxwell's clear
, cut statement on the school book
question :
"The editorial i n Saturday's
Greensboro Daily News, calling on me
to "make good" on my statement that
there is 40 per cent of profiteering
in school book prices charged by the
school book monopolies, is a perfect
ly reasonable request, and one that I
am glad to comply with.
"The basis for ray statement is a
survey of the handling of the school
book problem in the state of Kan
sas. Qui.e some years ago it set up
an adequate plant to print its own
school books. It i3 operated as a
union plant, and pays standardLynion
wages. It sets adequate reserves for
depreciation. It buys royalties for
the books printed ? some of them by
lump-sum purchases, and others on
a per book royalty basis. It buys its
paper mainly in North Carolina from ;
the Champion Fibre company at Can
ton. After taking care of all these
items of expense, and in additional
10 per cent for overhead, it turns over!
to the state icpiitn-.cr.t or
its finished product at prices that av
erage. 60 per cent of the wholesale
-prices of the book publishing com
panies.
'Dr. Allen, superintendent of pub
lic instruction, has in his office sam
ples of books produced in their plant,
and he says he can tell no difference
in material or workmanship, from
the same books produced by the pub
lishing companies.
Panadian Readers Cheap.
"I have a letter from one of the
most reliable men in the state who
says that he has in his possession
two school book readers purchased in
Canada. Prices plainly printed on the
jback, are four cents for one and six
.cents for the other. He says he has
| shown them to numbers of teachers
and they agree that in text and qual
ity they are equal to readers useid in
our schools costing 30 to 40 cents.
"It is probable that the net profits
of the book publishing companies ma;
be less than 40 per cent, after taking
care of the expensive system they
carry on of lobbying and of main
taining good will, which includes the
expensive employment of retainers
, for political influence, campaign .con
tributions' to nominate their friends
to office, etc., but if the business were
handled in the legitimate way in
i which other merchandise is produced
and sold under the flag of free com
petition, I confidently believe their
prices represent not less than 40 per
cent of profiteering.
JiThe suggestion of the Daily News
that if my 40 per cent statement is
correct it involves a serious criticism
of our public officials who have
handled contracts for school books
does not necessarily follow at all. The
prices we are paying are no biggei
than are paid for the same books in
other states that handle school books
in the same way that we do, and that
take their medicine from the sehoo
book monopolies lying' down like we
have been doing. I am not intending
to criticize these officials. They have
no doubt done the best they coulc
under the circumstances. As the Dailj
News suggests \vlthout legislative ac
(ion to suita'-i me. Trat's.the rea?r
. I've started ? tigSt If I should he
nominate.) for governor it v?uld r;?>
; resent a mandato front the people tc
; do something about this school Inot
, robbery, that would be respected bj
the general assembly, and I would ex
' pect its co-operation to win the fight
? I give my solemn pledge to do it
: Profiteering on school books is n<
longer tolerable when it means th<
[ denial of educational opportunity, a:
in literally thousands of cases o
North Carolina under conditions ex
s isting today.
"But dont forget, please, tha
? there's more actual economy in th<
use of the rental system as compare'
' with the purchase system than in an;
possible reduction in purchase price
i I'm for bunching tho benefits of bott
t of them together and passing then
, on to all the children in the state
And don't forget the further fact tha
every dollar of school book cost i:
? a dollar that goes eut of North Caro
; lina."
i NOTICE of Sale of Real Estat<
Under and by virtue of power anc
authority contained in that certair
deed of tnJst, dated July 1st, 1^)28
and recorded in Book 1, Page 14
Transylvania County Registry, anc
executed by Car! H. Case and wife, tc
the Citizens National Bank ot
Raleigh, N. C., Trustee, and assumed
by J. B. S. Mcintosh, the present
owner, default having been made ir
the payment of the indebtedness se
cured thereby, whereby the entire
amount of said indebtedness became
due and payable and demand having
been made by the holder of said note
upon the trustee named therein tc
advertise and sell the property des
cribed in said deed of trust, the
undersigned will offer for sale fot
cash at public auction at the Court
house door in Brevard, Transylvania
County, N. C., at noon on Wednes
day, May 11th, 1932, the following
described real estate:
Lying on the East side of Buans
Vista Drive, beginning at the cornei
of Lots No. 4 and 5 and runs with
the east margin of Buena Vista Drive
South 30 degrees West 145 feet to a
stake; thence South 50 degrees 04
minutes East 240 feet to a stake ir
a branch; thence down with the cen
ter of the branch North 66 degrees
East 187 feet to a stake in the branch
at O. H. Orr's corner; thcnce with
his lino North 59 degrees 30 min
1 140 feet to a stake at the Northeast
corner of Lot No. 4; thence with the
North line of Lot 4 North 59 degrees
04 minutes West 200 feet to the
beginning.
Being all of lot 4 and 70 feet of lot
3 in block 3 and the land to the real
of lots 3 and 4 of subdivision of the
G. T. Glazener property by Lawrence
Land Co. Said lots being located in
Lakeview section of Lake Lawrence
as surveyed and platted by Eagle
Engineering Co. March, 1920, which
.plat is registered in Book 1, at page
1 5 of the deed records of Transyl
vania County, N. C., Bounded on the
East and South by O. H. Orr, and
, on the West by Lawrence Land Co.
I Property.
This, the 6th day of April, 19-12.
NORTH CAROLINA BANK and
TRUST COMPANY, successor to
'Citizens National Bank of Raleigh,
N. C? Trustee.
By: H. M. CORBITT, Vice-Pre?
j dent.
TERMS OF SALE ? CASH.
' PLACE OF SALE? C O U R T
HOUSE DOOR. BREVARD. N. C.
| "TIME OF "SALE? .VOO,V, WED
NESDAY, MAY 11, 1932.
April 14, 21, 28, May 5.
NOTICE of Trustee's Sale
By Virtue of the Power of Sale
contained in that certain Deed in
Trust executed by D. L. English and
wife Maude S. English, to the under
' signed Trustees, dated the 1st day of
j March 1927, recorded in Book 16 page
1 493 Records of Deeds in Trust for
Transylvania County, North Caro
lina, and default having been made in
the payment of the indebtedness se
' sr.i3 Deed in Trust, where
by the power of sale therein con
tained has become operative and all
jOLD TOXAWAY NEWS
Messrs. Lee Morgan and Vess Gal
loway of Middle Fork were visitinp
in this section Sunday.
Mt. Cecil ' Galloway was Friday
night guest of Mr. Ollie Rice.
Lewis Sims, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Eck L. Sims of Brevard is spending
few weeks with Avery Rice of this
section.
j Miss Beulah Rice was Sunday din
ner guest of Miss Nora Meece.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway and
daughter, Helen of Middle Fork were
j Sunday guests of Mrs. Galloway's
j mother, Mrs. W. M. Meece.
| Mr. Lewis Sims wa3 Friday night
guest of Roy Meece.
I Mr. Eleyard Morgan was visiting
In this section over the week-end.
i Messrs. Oscar Chappell and Gaston
Chapman motored to Rocky Bottom
Sunday.
Asa Hendrbr was Friday guest of
Mrs. Norma Rice.
I I Mr. Walter Wlhitmire of Rosmar.
; w? a visitor at Frozen Lake Sun
| day.
' i Local banks in Columbus County
aasfuted the tobacco growers in buy
ing 1 00 spray pump3 for controlling
the blue mold disease in tobacco beds.
i notices required by law having been
1 given to the makers:
Now, therefore, the undersigned
i will in order to satisfy said debt, and
i by virtue of the power of sale con
1 tair.ed in said deed in trust, seli, to
' the highest bidder for cash, at public
i auation, at the Courthouse dfior, in
I Brevard, North Carolina, on the sec
; ond day of June 1932. at twelve
t o'clock Noon, 'all the property describ
i ed in said deed in trust, to-wit
; All the certain piece, or lot qf land
> lying and being in the Town of Bre
| vara, County of Transylvania and
r State of North Carolina.
BEGINNING at a stake in the
i point of intersection of the East mar
j gin of Gaston Street, with the North
. margin of Morgan Street and runs
> thcncc with the North Margii^ oi
; Morgan Street, South 64 degrees East
, 160 feet to a stake in said Margin
. thence North 26 degrees East 102
feet to a stake; thence North 64 de
grees West 150 feet to a stake in the
j East margiiTof Gaston Street; thencc
. with the said Margin of Gastor
5 Street, South 26 degrees West 10'
f feet to the point of Beginning.
This -mi of Itlav x93i;.
II. E. MARTIN and
. ! L. E. JOHNSON, Trustees.
I May 5, 12, 19, 26
! THE RIGHT WAY TO TRAVEi
is by train. The safest. Most cox,
i fortable. Most rel:aW?. "osts less
1 Inquire of Ticket Agents -rcgardin;
' greawv reduced fares for short trips
, SOUTHERN RAILWAY' SYSTF.W
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TRAIN?BARGAIN FARES
MAY 13TH, 1932.
The Southern Railway will operate SPECIAL EXCUR
SION TRAIN to
NEW YORK
ROUND TRIP $9.50 ROUND TRIP
Asheville, Biltmore, Swannanoa, Black Mountain and
Old Fort.
Ample sleeping cars and steel day coaches will be pr?
vided from Asheville for the round trip.
DINING CAR SERVICE
ROUND TRIP PULLMAN FARES FRO&. ASHE
VILLE TO OLD FORT INCLUSIVE.
One passenger
$8.50
Lower berth
f
One passenger
$7.75
Upper berth
$34.00
Drawing room
Two passengers
$10.50
Lower berth
Two passengers
$8.50
Upper berth
$27.00
Compartment
SPECIAL TRAIN
Lv Asheville 1:00 p. m. May 13th,
Ar New York 7:00 p. m. May 14th.
RETURNING, LEAVE NEW YORK 2:30 P. M. E. T.
SUNDAY, MAY 15 ARRIVING ASHEVILLE EARLY
MONDAY A. M.
CHILDREN FIVE TO TWELVE YEARS OF AGE
HALF FARE.
SEE THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX VS NEW YORK
YANKEES, SATURDAY, MAY 14TII? BABE RUTH
IN ACTION.
For furtiiv?r particulars, see Flyer to be distributed
within the next few days, or call on your local agent,
or write the undersigned.
J. H. WOOD,
Division Passenger Agent.
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vice, all kinds of motor repairing, repairing radiators, grinding valves installing pis
tons and rings* rear axle and Transmission overhauling. &
AUTO REPLACEMENT PARTS for a ay and all makes of cars, such as Pistons, Rings,
Gears, Clutches', Bolts aad Bushings, Wheels and rims.
FENDER REPAIRING? -Why drive your car with bent-up fenders when we straighten
them for such a small cost.
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McCrary Tire and Battery Service
Brevard, N. C. 5 """ Telephone 290
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