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Iil? BKliVAKfl NEWS Published Every Thursday by, THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at the Postofifice in Biervj, iN. C., as Second Class Matter James F. Barrett E^itot Mark T. Orr Associate Edits* SUBSCRIPTION HATES (Payable In Advance) One Year |2?Q Six Months LQQ Three Months .93 Thursday, June 23, 1932. another highway robbery ON SCHOOL BOOKS PLANNED. ' Announcement was made in Monday's papers that the text boo* commission had met in Greensboro last week, after which it was statea that the commission would consider changing the geographies used in the elementary grades from the fourth to the seventh, inclusive. There are 313,458 school children in these grades who would have to be provided with new books, should the text book commission decide to change geog raphies. This book is, perhaps, the most costly book that is bought for children in the elementary grades. A1 Capone never directed a racket, in all of his experience, that was more brazen than the school book racket worked in North Carolina by the school book commission. The only difference between Capone's racket and that operated by the text book commission is found in the fact that Capone's racket was robbing other criminals, in the main, while the text book commission robs the poorest families in the State of North Carolina. Will some one please tell why it is necessary to change geography books now? What is the matter with the books used last year? Is the 18th Amendment the cause of this pro posed change now? Why in the world do you not sit down right now and write to Governor Gardner, and tell him that you resent this suggested change. The Governor is a reasonable man. He will hear your appeal. It is far cheaper to spend a postage stamp in writing to Governor Gardner than it will be for you to buy a new geography, when you already have oue that was used last year, or can buy one that was used at a low price. But if this change is made, then every geography book in all the homes of North Carolina that have been used by these four grades will have to be discarded and thrown away, while you must then dig down and buy new books. The very fact that the text book commission met in Greensboro instead of meeting in Raleigh, where the gang has always met before, is indi cative of the fact that they were trying to slip one over on the un suspecting people of the State. Simply tell the Governor that the text book commission selected the geography that your children used last year, and the year before, and ( that the commission then said this was a good book. Tell him that you have the book that was used by your children last year, and that you are not going to buy a new kind of geog raphy this year, text book commission or no text book commission. In other words, call a strike upon this text book commission. You must buy new kinds of arithmetic, spelling books and drawing books. That order has already been passed by the powers that be. Now, if they add geography to your new books, you can see what you are up against when school starts next month. The book publishers are doing all they can to get the commisson to adopt this new geography. The soon er you inform the authorities that | you are not going to buy new geog raphies, the quicker this foolishness j will end. Most of us do not know j where the money is to come from with , which to buy new arithmetics, spell- j ing books and drawing books, to say ; nothing of this new geography that they are trying to cram down the throats of the people. Of course, if the citizens haven't sufficient interest in the matter to go to the trouble of writing the State authorities about it, then it is o. k. by us. You good citiaens are the ones to foot the bill. But we do say this to you: You are not chips off the old block if you stand idly by and permit that text book gang to shoulder you with the additional bur den of buying new geographies to replace the one that was so highly satisfactory only last year. Your forefathers would not have stood for such racketeering by such a gang as this text book commission. Wha are ydu going to do about j it? A. J. Max-well, defeated for the , nomination for Governor ifi the Jusift primary, warned the people of the State about this very text book, racket. Write to Governor Gardner NOW, and tell him what you think about having to buy new geographies. WHAT IS BEHIND ALL THIS PROHIBITION AGITATION ? What is it that certain interests in America are trying to keep con cealed behind the smoke-screen of prohibition repeal agitation? There is something going on that the promoters handling it are anxious to keep from the American people, hence this unusual agitation about repeal of the prohibition law. The daily newspapers know what it is, hence their general support of this repeal movement, with the consequent wide publicity of everything said in favor of repeal. There's a nigger in the woodpile somewhere, and we common folks will not detect it until we go out to pick up a load of stovewood someday and the dern little thing will perk up its kinky little head, and grin at us ? when it is too late to do anything about it. , * ^ - % Never before, in this or in any other country, have the daily news papers been so thoroughly in accord on any question as they are now on repeal of the 18th Amendment. What is the real driving force behind this movement? What is the scheme being hatched? The common people are not to know; they are to be kept all het up over repeal of the 18th Amend ment, you know, and be given noth ing else to read about in the daily press. ' For the past two years the daily papers have published and played up every little whippersnapper's state ment, if it favored repeal of the 18th Amendment, and have buried in the market page practically every item or statement coming from advocates of the prohibition laws. What connection is there to be found in the fact that all of the big tax-payers have been coming out for repeal since adoption of the new Fed era! tax bill, and the long, well di rected drive for x-epeal? It didn't just happen that Rockefeller and others of his kind announced their "switch" to repeal at about the same time. These "switches" were too well timed for it to have been a result of the natural changing of minds and po sitions. I What is going on in this country of ours? Something is being held back, cov ered up, camouflaged, by all this re peal stuff, and that something would not be accepted by the masses, if they knew about it. Whatever it is must be "slipped over," and what bet ter way to do this than that of blind ing the people with passions and pre judices for and against the prohibi tion question? It will all come out? when it is too late to do anything about it. > THREE ACCOUNTS SQUARED WITH ONE LOAD OF CORN. A proof of what can be done with- < out money, in the way of paying up , debts and squaring accounts, an in- } cident that happened here last week j is receiving much attention. A cer- j trfin man owed a pressing club bill, the pressing club owed some rent to a landlord, the landlord owed a feed bill at the B. and B. The pressing club man called upon the man who owed him, and was in formed that money was somewhat scarce, but that he pay the bill if the pressing club man would take corn for it. This man went to his landlord and asked if he would take some corn on the rent. "Let you know in a minute," was the reply, and he called the B. and B. and ask ed if they would take some corn on account there. "Sure," came back the ready reply. "We are wanting corn all the time." Well, that load of corn was brought in, delivered to the B. and B. and three accounts were squared with it. All of which brings to mind the fact that many local accounts could be so settled, with just a little bit of figuring. It matters not how much one man owes, practically everyone else owes something to somebody else about him. That was demonstrated when the Five-Dollar checks paid $3750 in debt3 with $150 actually in vested in them. Why wouldn't it be a good idea to issue another batch of those five dol lar checks, and let the community square up some of the little accounts of purely local nature? It is nothing but swapping accounts, after all, and getting them off the books. Thougs smut and rust ha? been found in the small grain fields of piedmont Carolina, the harvest is now in full swing with good acre yields reported. AS TO THE HOMICIDE RATE IN THE SOUTH The Literary Digest and other nat ional periodicals and newspapers are making much of the census showing that the homicide rate in the South ern states is much larger than that in the upper end of the country. Even ! Chicago, with all of its gang killings, j falls far short of fame of the South- \ ern states in murders committed, per ' thousand population. Southerner? j who like to think of our church-go ing, peacable, home-loving Southern | people read the record with aston- 1 ishment. Much of the high per cen tage is caused by the homicide rate among the colored people, as the [ records show that an unusually large number of Negroes are killed by mem- j bers of their own race. Most of the murders committed by the white Southerners are shown to be the result of the hot-headedness of ' some one man in each instance. Some 1 fellow gets a grudge against someone else, and nurses that grudge, heaping insult upon insult against the hated one, until the day and hour comes for a show-down. Then one or the other is hauled away to the grave- j yard, and the survivor to prison or the electric chair. Many editorial writers in discuss- , ing the question of homicide have i urged upon all people the importance : of thinking the thing out before rush- , ing into an ^event that may prove of most tragic results. It is pointed out by some writers that if the average : man would have five minutes to seri- ; ous thought of his wife and children, i the serious consequences to follow, the ! heaps of heartache and suffering that 1 his loved ones would have to endure, in event he kills or gets killed, his hot-headednesss would cool off, and the homicide rate would be materially reduced. Practically all murders could be averted, with use of just a little prac tical common sense. This can be prov en by a study of the murder cases tried in most any court in North Carolina. The South ought to be more I deeply interested in the matter of re ducing the homicide rate than it is in boasting about manufacturing rec- ' ords and highway construction achievements. Killings are costly, and heathenish, impede community prog ress and add as nothing else can do to the sum total of human suffering and anguish. BICENTENNIAL CELEDRA TION , TO CONTINUE IN FULL SWING It is a mistake to believe, says the! United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, that the American people have let down in their celebration of the Two Hun dredth Anniversary of George Wash ington's birth, on the supposition that there has been celebration enough. The Federal Commission is in daily touch with hundreds of thousands of local committees all over the United States, every one of them more ac tive than ever in carrying out the celebration over the period planned from the beginning ? that is, from Washington's Birthday until Thanks giving. The other day the United States Commission received a letter from a member of one of these committees which voiced exactly the spirit which has kept these committees unremit tingly active. Said the writer of this letter: "We need this Bicentennial Celebration. It is a spiritual tonic of hope, of courage, of faith." From another quarter the Federal Commission received a communica tion, also from a member of one of these local committees, which said that for years the community in which he lived had been torn by two factions. The town having committed itself to a proper celebration of the j Washington Bicentennial, a com- ! mittee was formed from both fac- j tions. And getting together in the 1 work of planning this tribute to I George Washington had so filled the community with Washington's spirit 1 that not only was the breach between opposing committee members healed, but the entire community was welded into a lastingly united whole. The residents of that city had learned the truth so movingly stated in the letter regarding this celebration as a spiritual tonic to the nation. From countless other sources, the United States Commission receives daily testimony of this return of Washington's influence. Everywhere Americans are turning from persona] problems and local differences to join in community and national effort, as if in an instinct to make Washington again their leader in a new nation alism. The prevailing economic pre plexity, far from proving a distrac tion, is instead the chief incentive moving the people into this new thought of country. They find present times a close copy of the doubt and perplexity and experiment that con fronted Washington, and look to his ideals and wisdom to lead them again on the road to security. Not one individual, or one com munity, is finding this celebration "a spiritual tonic of hope, of courage, of faith." The discovery is general. It is whv the celebration of Washing ton's bicentennial has not lagged but is only now gathering its real mo mentum. Every school commencement this year has been or will be a George Washington celebration. As for the 593,371 local committees scattered > over the country, they are not static I A W. O.W.NEWS j HONOR ROLL LAST WEEK j No. 391, Canton, 4 applications;! No. 891, Murphy, 2 applications; No.) 560, Sylva, 2 applications; No. 116,! Brevard, 1 application. monument unveiled ' SUNDAY A large crowd of sovereigns and friends attended the Clayton Unveil ing at Addie last Sunday. State Manager ?. B. Li-wis and Hugh Montieth addressed the gathering. Sylva Camp No. 5G0 assisted Balsam Camp No. 631. Flowers were placed on graves of al! deceased members of Camp No. 631. Sovereign J. K. Kenney was master of ceremonies. OUR DISTRICT STILL LEADS We were glad to have cur state manager, E. B. Lewis, of Kinston, with us Sunday and trust he will be able to spend the month of July with us Western North Carolina Choppers. Mr. Lewis said our District led it; production again in May for which he thanks all of us that had a part in the splendid increase in member ship. FIRE AT HENDERSONVILLE The W. 0. W. Lodge room at Hen dersonvilel was so badly damaged by recent fire that it has been condemn ed until repairs are made. Wc trust the repairs will be made at once so White Pine Camp can resume their regular weekly meetings. The social meeting last week was called off until a later date. STATE MANAGER E. B. LEWIS SAYS "Spring time is over. Summer i;l here. The crop is growing ? our crop. . Will we get the Harvest we ought to j have? Your efforts will show whether we do or not. The people's necessities! are our opportunities.. WORK ? and] preach PROTECTION. Our Associa tion provides the easiest way possible I to give Security these trying days. | Keep your Camps alive and active. Tell them what other Camps are do- 1 ing to arouse interest. Don't let them ! sag and sleep and slip. Dr. W. C. Terry of Hamlet, Rich- 1 mond County, has an excellent stand j of the Crotalaria legume which he is j using for improving sandy land. bodies, formed to be mentioned in the papers; they are earnestly at work, as evidenced in newspaper re ports of what they are doing. Their activities are represented in 500,000 press clippinggs covering the pro gress of the celebration, the greatest I number of references ever recorded] in the American press on a single i subject. ? ? . ? ^THE PRAYER CORNER ^ (.From l.ke flex of long a-gc) At \tes=s==ar- rr-^ag WHEN SORROW COMES A poem by Edgar Gaest of the ' above title has helped me. I am surf it will help others, and so I make it the subject for "The Prayer Cor ner." May God bless it to my readers as it has been blest to me. When sorrow comes, as come it must In God a man must put his trust. There is no power in mortal speech The anguish of his soul to reach; No voice, however sweet or low, , Can comfort him, or ease the blow, j He cannot from hie fellow men, Take strength that will sustain him then With all that kindly hands wiii do, And all that love may offer, too, He must believe throughout the test That God has willed it for the best. We who would be his friends arc dumb; Words from our lips but faintly come; We feel, and we extend our hands, That one Power only understands. That truly knows the reason why So beautiful a soul must die. We realize how helpless then Are all the gifts of mortal men, No words which we have power to say, Can take the sting of grief away ? That Power which marks the spar row's fall Must comfort and sustain us all. When sorrow comes, as come it must, In God a man must put his trust. With all the wealth which he may own He cannot meet the test alone; And only he may stand serene Who has a faith on which to lean. "Oh! There is nothing in the world so sad as to see men and wo men suffering without God, nothing so noble as have been the sights which the world has seen of men and women suffering where Christ suffered ? in obedience to the will and in the comfort of the Love of God's." If God calls upon you to suffer, go where your Savior went for His (sufferings, into the Holy City where God is more manifest and so, and ; there, your suffering shall be to you what His suffering was to Him ? -the Crowning Completion, the Success of His Life. A PRAYER FOR WHEN SORROW COMES Our Father God, in whom we live and move and have our being, we thank Thee that when sorrow comes, as come it will to us all soon or late, we can put our trust in Thee, and in Thee alone, for there is no power in mortal speech that can reach the anguish of our soul. No voice however low or weak that can comfort as or ease the biow. Wio cannot take strength from our fellows that will sustain us then, -with all that kindly hands can do. and all that love may offer. We must believe throughout the trial that T.hou our Father, hath willed it for the best. I We are dumb in the presence of the [norrow of our beloved friends.. Words i but feebly come from our lips. We | feel, and we extend our hands, but one Power only undei is, that i truly knows the reason the be ' - " ? ? ? -i We realize then how helpless ail the gifts of mortal men are. SSfo words, which we have power to say, can take away the sting of grief. The power which marks the fall of the i sparrow alone can comfort and sub jtain us all. In Thee, and in Thes I alone, 0 God, we must put our trust i when sorrow comes a? come it will. ! Had we all the world's wealth we i could not meet the test alone, and j only they can stand serene, who have faith on which to lean, |the , faith which is in Christ Jesus. J Grant us grace to see that there : is nothing in this world so sad as ! the men and women suffering with ' out God, and nothing so noble as | the men and women suffering where Christ suffered in obedience to the ! will and in the comfort of the love | of God. 0 God, our Father, if Thou dost call us to suffer, give us strength to i go where our beloved Savior went j for His suffering ? into the Holy I City, where Thou, 0 God, art most I manifest. I Ar.d so, and there, our suffering ; was to Him ? the crown, the com : pletion, the success of our live. And ? unto Thee, Father, Son and Spirit, ' shall be all the praise and glory, now ,and ever, Amen. Ends Life With Pistol The lifeless body of Samuel J. ' Sykes, 46, was found Saturday morn I ing in his filling station east of j Greensboro, a revolver bullet vfound j in the head. Domestic trouble led to j the act. Roosevelt Wins X. C. With scarce a dissenting voice, the state Democratic convention, June 16, instructed its national delegates to cast 2 votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt at Chicago. The convention ] overwhelmingly adopted a platform | which included a compromise, har jmony plank on prohibition refusing to commit the party to resubmission j or repeal of the 18th amendment. A group of Edgecombe farmers sold 218 hogs weighing 40,300 pounds for $1193 last week. loved and the dearest die. ids must C. D. C. throwing the light on the family group policy WHY NOT! Why not let us tell you about the new policy which Insures the whole family? Write, Walker Insurance Agency BREVARD, N. C. >
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