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ntUF. VERNER GIVES EXPRESSION TO HIS STAND IN CONTEST (Continwd frvm pad* <m). ?j numerous conversations for a aoa bt-i1 ox yeaw ! cave suggested the de sirability of the saving of- hoaoS from sales for taxee. I mention Mr. W. R. Kimzey aa<l Mr. W. JL Alli son as two of those with whom I die cussed the matter, while many in ti? Conn?3tce community may recall Jay attitude. When Mr. Galloway pub lished his views, I told him that the general principle underlying it wan the same as my own oft-ezpresa?d conviction. . That conviction is this; Taxation, vshich dentroyi the hemfi is utterly tmjutiifiabU. Any government that cannot be carried on without leaving the people a chance to own at least & modest home is a bad government and ought to be changed. I do not know now exactly the de tails of Mr. Galloway's plans to car ry out the exemption required. A great deal will depend upon how those details are worked out and it is upon our capacity to deal with this and other problems that the electo rate may choose their representative. But I would rsgard myself as a poor candidate indeed if I refused to ac cord generous support to any sound principle simply because another ad vocated it; and in this case I had fortunately gone on record before Mr. Galloway published his views. If he wins, I shall certainly support him in the matter, and I believe he will do the Fame if I do. It is really a matter of tremendous and fundamental importance at this and all other times. There are vast influences at work in America to de stroy homes. Already millions have been forced into by what a gTeat writer called "holes in the wall" in the cities by a combination of in equitable taxation and economic mal adjustment. I personally saw where a family of ten was living in one room rented at ten dollars a month. Some people talk much about the de fects of the one-room school, but what about the one-room home? Do we mean to keep up this system of tax ation and of economic injustice until we convert the one fair country-side with its home and domestic life into tenements in which children are pack ed like sardines in order that land lords may pile up riches, or to de stroy the living of other landlords who cannot work themselves? Do we wish to destroy the charm of our towns and villages which the labors of life-times have dotted with homes and turn them into "Mass produc tion quarters" in order that the fur nace of the vast engine of industry may be fed with the blood and bones of a once happy and free people? Go to the industrial centers of England and see what has happened there. A gentleman lately returned from Europe told me that millions of the British people had become so weak in body and discouraged in spirit that they were unfit to settle as pioneers on the vast areas of the colonial po sessions of the British Empire. I could fill this whole issue of the paper with this matter. I wish I could address the people of the coun ty in every precinct about it "Tax ation without Representation" was the slogan of one great revolution; and "Taxation without Destruction" may be another if we do not solve our governmental problems in a better way than we are doing now. I am not "talking through my hat" >" this matter. The books of the Board of Education show that I be tr.in rav administration as Countv Superintendent by reducing my own salary more than thirty percent be cause I knew I could not advocate economy i n government without starting on my own door-step; and that year was the first in many tears that saw a reduction in the tax-levy and it has been going down ever since, although not as fast as 1 would have liked, but I did all I could under the law. -N'o man on the green earth can justly accuse me of wishing to hurt the schools or to impair the legiti mate functions of government Look at my record and see. Inquire of the yood people of my home community in Connestee and Brevard. I know that the schools can be uauTitained adequately for all the purposes we can afford at present, and the gov ernment be carried on without de I stroying homes or inflicting unbear able taxes on the people, if only public men will get to work in all sincerity and earnestness to solve the problem. Our resources are not ex hausted. We can educate our child ren, keep cur homes, and pay our reasonable taxes, if we stop listening to all the special pleas of greed and graft and get down to the business of conducting public affaire honestly, wisely, and equitably. Wo must remember that economy is not the oniy thing we need. A man ! living on poke-saiad cannot save him ' self from starvation by simply eat ing a few leaves less every day. There 'must be constructive action to stim ulate and to increase business, to raise the value of farm produce and of manufactured articles to a level with the value of money received by i salaried and interest-earning classes. When tannic acid and lumber are al most stagnant on the market, how can our mill3 operate so as to keep labor employed? When a farmer gets thirty cents for corn, how can he pay taxes assessed when it was a dollar a bushel, or pay debts contracted then? What is the advantage of a school-teacher's getting a big salary on paper when the county can not pay it because the taxpayers are un able to pay taxes. Prosperity cannot exist long in spots. This country can not exist as a great free nation half broke and half rich. Sooner or later it will faii unless business is so con ducted as to spread a reasonable prosperity from top to bottom. A na tion of rascals at the top and fools at the bottom will go to destruction as surely as an automobile with a drunken driver looking into the gas tank with a lighted match. Thomas Jefferson saw that we must educate the people to prevent them from be ing vitamized by designing scound ltls when he said that his greatest work was founding the University of Virginia so that educators might go out from it to educatc the masses of the people, and that great statesman knew that Democracy and ignorance cannot co-exist. But now certain sel fish interests are not only making it hard to support the schools, but even to make a living and to have a home. We must fight those evil influences all along the line. We must restore prosperity to this country, and the only way to do it is to pitch discard ed and discredited leaders overboard, and put the ship of state into the hands of those who have proved by their whole lives that they have the best interests of the whole people at heart. There are millions of men like that still in America, thank God. They are going to be heard from this year. I consider my personal fortunes in this campaign as of minor impor tance in comparison with the vast significance of the effort to save the homes and to preserve the spirit of our people, and I pledge myself to ficrht to the last drop for and with all those competent men who line themselves up on the right side in this contest. President Wilson once said we must make the world safe for democracy ; but now we must pump blood into the veins of democ racy, feeds its stomach, and vivify its soul, or it will not be safe for this country or anv other. S. P.' VERNE P.. ' FARMERS' * EXCHANGE FOR SALE ? Fresh sweet milk 25c per gallon, butter milk 10c per gal lon at the house. Mrs. J. K. Mills, Brevard Route 2 ~Henderson,ville Highway. FOR SALE ? Sweet potato plants, 20c per hundred. Tomato plans, sev eral varieties 40c per hundred. See or write Raleigh Waldrop, Cherryfield section, Brevard, N. C. Route 3. Bigger Savings in SetsS Lifetime Guaranteed GOODYEAR SPEEDWAY Superlwist Cord Tires NEW LOW PRICESt Full . Oversize CASH PRICES Price of Each Eaqh in Pairs Tube 29x4.40-21 29x4.50-20 1 30x4.50-21 _ 28x4.75-19 29x4.75-20 29?5.00-19 30^5.00-20 31x5.00-21 28x5.25-18 31x5.25-21 ........ 30x3^ Reg. Gl. $3.95 4-30 4.37 5.12 5.20 5.39 5.45 5-72 6.15 6.63 3.57 93.83 4-17 4.33 4-97 5.04 5.23 5.29 5.56 5.97 6.43 3.46 I .91 .91 .91 .94 .91 X.OO 1. 14 1.16 1.02 1.16 .96 TRADE IN ;*eur old tires for new 1952 Goodyear All* Weather* Expertly Mounted Free Tune in On Good Year Radio Program? Wednesday and Saturday niyht over station WWNC Ed. McCoy's Service Station Pisgah Forest Post Office Phone 107 f' Brevara? -broaa and Jordan St. rnone luy I P1SGAH FOREST SS WINNER IN FIST OF LEAGUE GAMES ( Gontinued front Page One) noon. Jokes, sportsmanship, game arid all were good. Penrose ab r h po a e J. Lyday, 2b . Hamlin, ss ? ? Collins, If ... Blythe, rf ... iPoore, lb, p . Williams, p, lb Shuford, 3b Justice, c Surrette, cf Frady, cf 5 10 12 2 5 2 2 1 0 1 4 112 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 12 0 2 4 0 0 6 5 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 5 10 10 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 37 5 6 24 7 9 Pisgah Forest ab r h po a e Mackey, lb 5 3 1 10 0 1 Carter, rf 5 1 2 1 0 0 Ross, ss 5 0 1 1 0 1 Allison, cf 5 0 1 1 0 1 C. Morris, c 5 2 2 0 1 4 ! Sentelle, 3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 Edwards, 2b .... 5 0 3 0 1 0 Daniels, If 5 2 2 0 0 0 B. Morris, p 2 2 1 5 2 0 Steppe, p 2 1 0 9 2 0 Totals 43 11 14 27 6 9 I Score by innings: | Penrose 002 300 000 ? 5 | Pisgah Forest .... 140 201 21x ? 11 No record was kept this time of ' runs batted in. All hits singles. Sac ! rifice hits ? Carter, Ross. Stolen ? bases ? Mackey, Carter, C. Morris, Edwards, Daniels 2, P. Morris, J. Lyday. Left on base ? Pisgah 4, Pen rose 6. Base on balls off Williams 1. Morris 1. Struck out by Williams 4, Poore 1, Morris 4, Steppe 9. Umpires, Y. McCrary, H. Brown. Rev. W. S. Price, Jr., will preach at Oak Grove Church, Sunday after noon at 3:30 o'clock, according to C. C. Morris Superintendent of the Oak ; Grove Sunday School. WANT ADS SPECIAL to the young people for the ? month of May with each purchase of 10c or more we will give absolute ly free a cone of our delicious ice cream. Brevard Pharmacy. Jess B. | Pickelsimer, Ph. G. Prop. WANTED ? Your Shoe Repairing, i We are equipped to do first class shoe repair work. We invite you to visit our shop and give us a trial. Prices reasonable. Brevard Shoe Shop, T. E. Waters, Owner. News Acrade. May 5 tfc VICTOR RADIOS . . Victor Phono. graphs . . Victor Records . . It | it's a Victor, it's" good. For sale at Houston's Furniture Store. M12tf FOR RENT ? Well located business j property, splendid locations for merchandise establishments. Sec Jud json McCrary, Tinsley Building, Tele phone 172. 029tf WANTED ? Evory one interested ir Radios to call and see the wonder ful Atwater-Kent Radio. Ilear it anc' 6ee it at the Houston Furniture com < pany's store. J15tfc 'newest MAJESTIC RADIOS at Houston Furniture Company. Bre | vard. Guaranteed no "A-C hum.' i A high class Radio at a reasonable iPT^e. jly 3Iti l FOR SALE: Sweet potato plants i Porto Ricos. Thousand ready to trans ; plant now. See or write T. P. Gallo j way, Jr., Box 148 Rosman, N. C. I FIRE WOOD, Stove Wood. Kindling Sand and Gravel. Trunks anc Baggage and general hauling. Rates reasonable. Siniard Transfer Co Phone 118. Aug 13 4t< RADIO REPAIRING by an expert John Reese Sledge, recognized ir Brevard as an authority on Radio: .and Television is now with Houstor I Furniture Co. Aug 27 ti FOR SALE? White Narcissus bulbs 25c per dozen. Will make beautiful flowers. See Mrs. Jasper Orr. ltr WILL BUY OR ? RENT a small car for the summer E. L. Halsell, Pis gah Forest. Arriving the Seventh June M, 26 tfc FOR SALE ? Tomato plants, 20c per hundred; Sweet Pepper and Hot Pepper plants, 5e dozen ; Flower plants, different varieties. MR? JOHN C. TINSLEY, Maple Street, Phone 96. 2t M26 WOMEN : Unusual opportunity for woman over 22 to establish her own business without unusual burden of stock and overhead expenses. Call Franklin Hotel for Mrs. H. IT. Tup man. ltp FOR SALE ? Ready now plenty of high grade Porto Rico Potato plants:, 15c per hundred; SI .25 p^r thousand. Nancy Hall and White Yam plants ready June 1st. T. P. GALLOWAY Jr., Box 148, Rosman, N. C. SAVE $25.00 Mail this Coupon to Blan ton's Business College, Ashe ville, N. C., and learn how to save $25.00 on any Standard Business Course. Name Address ONLY WAY TO REDUCE TAXES IS TO REDUCE HE AMOUNT SPENT {Continued fr> m pcgf one) which events may take before the leg islature is again in session." How ! ever, we know that the issues wiil j certainly be g?ave, and that in deal ing with them "new courses may have to be chartered." Wo realize that the representative of the peopie in the next General Assembly must recog nize the fact that he is the represen tative ? the servant ? of a'Ji the people and not the ''tool" of a few; that he must be able to stand on his own feet and do his own thinking after hav ing had a conference with the citizens of the various townships of the cour ts before entering upon his dutie3 in the legislative ha lis. We are passing through a 'spell of the blues" right now. The won't of evils are depicted. Every difficulty is magnified. The obvious tasks be fore us appear to be too difficult to I be successfully coped with. Under these conditions every public servant should be willing to make every reas onable sacrifice to try to help improve present conditions. I have been requested by several peopie of the county to "put into print" some of the things: which 1 j advocate and for which it is my pur ! pose to work if the people of the | county entrust me with legislative ! duties. In response to these requests I am giving the following which I advocate and for which I shali work if nominated and elected representa tive of the county. The practical way, and under pres ent conditions the only way to reduce taues is to reduce expenditures. This can be done by careful economy in all the departments of county and state government. Re-assess property. All property in 1 the county is now assessed at per j haps two to five times its market j value, if indeed it has any markel value. There should be a reassess ment ? a lowering of assessment? ol : all property of the county. This car . be done with but little expense bj i taking the assessment of 1 028 aw j checking that for improvements oi ' depreciations and then making ? . j horizontal cut of whatever per cent might be agreed upon. Assessments ! should be "at cash value" and expen ditures should be only absolute essen tials. Thus taxes could be uniformlj reduced to a minimum and would fal lightly on everyone according to th< real value of his possessions. ! I The 15 cent advalorom tax on prop | erty for the support of the six month: ; school term must be eliminated. Ar , act passed by the last General As ; ; sembiy of North Carolina providee ' I that the state would support the si) months school term without any ta) | on property, but it then passed an ; other act levying a 15 cent tax on al the property of tie state. That levy j was wholly unnecessary as the nec essary funds could easily have been secured from ether sources. Our fishing laws should be repealed or amended so that anyone who owns and pays taxes on his land and hit streams would be permitted to fish j "on his own land," or, rather, in his own waters, and give his frinnsb per miRsion to do ao without having to! pay an wldsiona! tax, or license, to entitle him to "enjoy his own pos sessions." We. should have safar and sanei banking laws in order that depositors in banks Might be guaranteed safety against the loss of their deposits in case of bank failures. Our county .roads should remain under state management and support. The funds for the support of the county roads should be increased if possible without an increase in the tax on gas. At least tliis fund should not be decreased. There should be efficient supervision of the expendi ture of this fund so that the state will be guaranteed value received in improved roads for every dollar spent. If it is possible the county and town indebtedness should be reduced in proportion to the decline in the value of everything else. The United States government should take over a good portion of our bonded indebt 1 edness as it has taken over a good ' portion of the real estate of the county. It is my opinion that license plate? for cars should be sold at the cost of making and distributing plates. All owners of cars would then pur chase plates, and the hundreds and I perhaps thousands of ears which are now "stowed away" would be out. on the roads a good deal of the time, and the state would be receiving thous ands of dollars from the tax on gas, whereas it is now receiving nothing ' fron: those cars. ! | Jt appears that one of the upper | i most thoughts at thiB time is the re moving of taxes from real estate, and I if I am nominated and elected I shall I I try to see that this is done as nearly ' as is possible. ; j I know that this county at this time has a vital interest, in beinu i honestly represented in the Genera j Assembly. I know that our people ' want a man there who will act ir . the public interest for the county ant who will earnestly contribute his ful share also to the solution of geneva 1 state problems. ; i If nominated and elected to the leg ' islature I shall endeavor to be a rea representative of the people of th< 'county. ! MR. BLAKE WAS ACTIVE CHURCH AND S. S. WORKEF - I ; H. N. Blake, who died at his hom< i at Selica Saturday April 23 had beer - a christian 50 years at his death. Ill I was a member of Cathey's Creek Bap c 1 tist Church and was Assistant Sup c erintendent of Sunday School then - prior to his death. 1 Mrs. Arthur Smith and Jenr.ii 0RR NOMINATED BY REPUBLICANS FOR | OFFICE OF SHERIFF i {Cxtihtutd from page <m?) tS?* ccanty, as the party's nominee Urn ?}serif?. i Rcacoe L. Nicholson wa? selected as chairman of the county executive conunirtae while the several precinct chsinasr. become membera of the county ccmreittee. , Following is the county ticket as nominated and certified: Per' legifgature ? Rev. S. B. Me Cali, Baptist miniate?, of Lake Tox s*ray. A For sheriff ? Oliver H. Orr, insur ance man, of Brevard, and former head of. the Breverd Institute. For register of deed" ? Mrs. Roland Owen, of Brevard, former deputy clerk of the superior court. For treasurer ? Ulys Merrill, of BrevanJ, former jailer. For coroner ? D. F. Moore, of Bre vard Undertaking Company. For county commissioners ? Dr. E. S. English, of Brevard, physician;" W. W. CrouBhom, lumberman, of Pipgab Forest, connected with Carr " Lumber company; and E. A. Glazener of Rosman, connected ' with the Glou cester Lumber r.ompnny. Fcstmaster R. L. Nicholson, of Brevard, was elected chairman of the county executive committee. Judge D. L. English, of Brevard, was selected as chairman of the Fri day's session, and A. E. Hampton, secretary. Resolutions adopted by tin convention endorsed Lewis P. Hamlin of Brevard, for the pest of U. S District attorney, to fill the place of Cbas. A. Jonas. The state Republican platform was endorsed as was Jake F. Neweli for the U. S.. Senate, and Crawford James for Congress. Applause greeted the i-eading of a . resolution endorsing President Hoo . ver and his performance as head of j the government. J Bishop sang "Land Where we Never I Grow Old" and "How beautiful Heuv j en Must Be" as part of the funeral I ceremony. The Simpson brothers quartet sanp "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." i Flower girls were Mrs. Grady Kil , patrick, Mrs. Branch Tinsley, Mrs. Tillic Currie, Mrs. Dewitt McCall. Mrs. B. M. Mull, Miss Mildred Ham ilton, and Miss Marjorie Hamilton. . Ministers in charge of the services L were Rev. C. C. Recce, Rev. Carl Blythe and Rev. Jessie Osteen. ! Mr. Blake came from Boston, 1 Massachusetts to Brevard Feb. 9, ; 1917, and was married to Miss Belle ? Osteen on Oct 21, 1917. He is sur ? vived by four children: Mabel and 1 Harry, Jr., of Selica and Chester and Nathan Blake of Boston, Mass 1 achusetts. Remember The PRIMA Purpose Of an Ice Box, or a Refrigerator, is to keep things Cold and Fresh, but it goes further than that, and^your health, and that of your family, depends in large measure upon the Ice Box. You must keep the things that you are to eat in good condition, if your health is to remain in good condition. ICE BOXES? REFRIGERATORS ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS And we have them, in any size, and at prices far low er than you have ever purchased such goods. If it is Elec tric Refrigeration that you want, then see The Majestic Come to the store, if you can, but if you cannot come, then see one of the men on ,our trucks. They stop at your neighbor's house, you know, so you can ask them about # these things, and our furniture, and our new plan where by we replace any furniture purchased from us <,nat is . lost by fire before the contract expires. HOUSTON FURNITURE C IflMTr ' Brevard, Noi th Carolina. j. Get This, Too ? Furniture is Selling today at the Lowest Price known to the present generation. V
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