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THE BREVARD NEWS Published Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at the Postoffice in Brevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter ?5 James F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year $2.00 Six Months l.Ou Three Months 60 Thursday, September 1, 1932. WHAT DOES THIS SCHOOL YEAR MEAN TO YOU! With the beginning of the new school term on last Monday thousands oi young people with varying pur poses, ideals and aspirations will take up the work of the new term where they left off last year. There are those who will enter only because of lather efficient parental persuasion; some will enter because of an earnest desire to accumulate as much know ledge as possible and still others only because it seems the only thing to do . . . this latter class will have no pur pose, no objective. They may make fair showings in their work but it would almost be as well if they did not go. It is not always that we have the opportunity of going to school. There is always the likelihood of being forced to leave for one reason or another. In view of this every resource at com mand should be utilized to get the most out of the time spent in school. Don't get the idea in your head that you can get along without an edu cation or that what you already have is sufficient. It is not, regardless of how much that may be. You may be inclined to point to tnis or that individual and say, "He made good without an education, why can't I?" But bear this in mind. What that man lacked in educational advantages he made up in other ways. He made good because he took advantage of every opportunity, he fought his way as he went. And you may not possess his qualifications. In fact, your will ingness to pass up the opportunity of completing your education is the surest indication that you do not pos sess them for if you diu you would realize that the securing of an educa tion is the first step toward success This man made good without one, but think what it might have netted hiir to have the added advantage of the education now ai your disposal. Everyone at one time or another comes to a realization of what ar education really means. But usually too late. How often have you heard the remark, "I wish I had known what I know now. I would have fin ished my education." That person did not realize the importance of it then; he failed to take advantage of it when he had the opportunity, and while he may not realize it he is still passing up his opportunities. That same spirit which prompted him to give up school work for something that seemed more attractive at the time is still, per haps, causing him to pass up oppor tunities and when he idealizes he is a failure he lays it all to the fact that he "has no schooling." This may be true to a large extent. There is nothing worthwhile ever accomplish ed in this life that could not have been better accomplished with more education. Self made men are worth a great deal to their community but how much more they would be worth if they had the added advantage of an education. Those who have the opportunity of attending school should do so and get all they possibly can out of it. Those who do not have this opportunity should not cease to advance. Ralph Parlctte tells us that the most won derful institution in the world today is the "University of Hard Knocks," and that those who get the most out of it are those who apply themselves to its course of study; who try to keep at the head of the class just as they would do in any other institu tion of learning. Come on boys and girls. Make every minute of this coming school year a little more productive than the min ute just passed. Get everything you can while you can. You never know what tomorrow has in store for you so make each today count. The tomor row you were waiting for yesterday is the today j ou are now living. The people who are always waiting for tomorrow see the world surge on ahead of them while they are wait ing for something that never comes. Folks who are still in these moun tain breezes should not think about going home until the heat wave is broken. Of course, it is unusually Hot here, but think what it is back in yon? fcome. BRAGGING ON BUNCOMBE I COUNTY'S JAIL. Prof. C. L. Curley, retired member ! of the big show troupes of the world, spending his vacation in Brevard, is . bragging on Buncombe county. That i I is on one of the Buncombe county in ! stitutions. He vows in emphatic man : ner that the Buncombe county jail is the best, finest and most up-to-date j jail he ever saw, and he says he has 1 been all over the world. "Why, good gracious, man," the ' Colonel said, "it is finer than any ! hotel/ You ought to see the inside | of that jail. The kitchen fs a wonder, i and from there on clear through, it J is just like a great, high-pricod hotel! j Gee, I'd love to be put into that jail," I the Colonel mused, "but none except I aristocrats can get in the Buncombe ' county jail," he concluded, regretful jiy. I Col. Curley was in Asheville over ! the week-end and visited the Bun , combe bastile, hence his inspiration j for sir.ging the praises of that insti ; tution. WHY DO WE HAVE FAMILY REUNIONS AND HOME COMINGS? \ One day recently a visitor in this community asked why it is that there i are so many family reunions and I home-comings held here in the moun : tains of Western North Carolina. W e told her that it was the same great urge that had turned millions of men ! and women back to the place of early : childhood, about which so many sweet memories are woven, so many beauti ; ful poems written. It is natural for i people to want to get back home-to | the old home place where Mother i reigned as a queen, or back to the old church house that all of us love | to think about. This urge comes over ' the great man of business, the states ! man of renown, the minister in his ! pulpit, the man of the street, the bum - ' on life's highway. In thinking o ? home-comings and family reunions 1 the urge to return, the longing for ? . those things that make life, we arc ' ' reminded of the story of a boy, which ' runs something like this: One evening, in early September, ! a weary lad was slowly plodding ; along a New England highway. J he ' sun was sinking to its resting placi ' in the western horizon, and the " shadows cast their long lines dowti ' the lane. He turned from the road side to seek shelter and food from 1 a house oil the hilltop, but was ie ' polled by the ominous howl of the i watchdog. When no one came to ansj , wer his call, he loft the gateway de i jectedly, and with tearful eyes resum ' ed his course. Far into the night he I traveled, until the pale rays of the : moon had ceased to give him light. ? Sinking by the roadside, he gathered 1 his tattered garments about him, and soon fell asleep. Fresh dews from Heaven kissed his pallid cheeks, as i the dim starlight played over his quivering features. I Asleep, with grass-covered ground as his bed, a rock for his pillow, and the canopy of Heaven as his only covering, this lad had a dream. In this dream he thought himself again at the old homestead; 'twas evening, and the shadows cast their long lines down the lane. He heard again the joyful bark of his pet dog; the low ing of the cattle, the neigh of the unfed horses, and the bleating of the lambs came to him from the ba>. p.. Finally, in this dream, the lad ate .lis supper, and then sought his own bed. As the drowsiness of healthy sleep | came over him in this dream of his, i his mother tucked the cover about him, and then implanted upon his lips a kiss ? the kiss that only a I mother can give. j He awoke and found it was all a j dream. But this dream had inspired I him with new hope, with determina 1 tion, and, rising to his feet, as a wan I smile played about his lips said : j "When the evening shadows again j lengthen on my pathway, I shall be > home." Men and women, regardless of station in life, long for home and a sight of the old home-place. This memory never dies, it matters not what successes or failures may be chalked up to one's efforts along life's pathway. They dream of the old place, of mother, of everything that was once so dear to them, just like the New England lad dreamed about his home as he slept out there on a strange highway. And, like him, they determine, ere the final shadows o life lengthen on their pathway, to re turn to the old place of sweet mem ories. Hence the useless to hun- 1 dreds and thousands of werry men , and women each year, and is a source of great, comfort and joy to the old folks at home when they welcome ( their kith and kin back to the place ( ' called hsme. . ! BAR-TENDER JOE AND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. Bar-tender Joe met the Sunday School Teacher the other day, and the following monologue was recorded: "Hello, Teacher," said Bar-tender Joe, "I am glad to see you looking so fine. You know, I will soon be help ing you in your Sunday School work, I guess. It looks very much like that old hell-raising 18th amendment will j be repealed, and then the saloon will | come back on the corner up there, j where I used to sling the beer, the ; wine and the licker to the gang. Then, J you see, Mr. Teacher, I will have reg ' ular employment, and I can help you ' carry on your Sunday School work. ; Then, too, all the boys and men of j the town will be coming into the sa ! loon every day, and we can teach real I temperance to them, in there, over ] the bar, you know. You see, it will be so much easier for the boys and I the men, Mr. Teacher, to be temper I ate with a barroom ail stocked up j with good licker and beer than it is i for the poor fellows who now, under ! this hateful prohibition law, have to j hunt all over Greasy Corner and half ! the county to get a pint of licker. You | see, when we get our saloon all stock i ed up, then the boys and the men will .not want to drink; they will be j temperate; we will teach them the value of real temperance; when they come into the barroom we will tell i them about Jesus Christ, and how ! harmful it is for young men and old men to drink licker, and then they won't buy any licker, and then wc will pay all the taxes with the money j that the men and the boys do no1 spend for licker, and all of your Sun day School group will be freed of all taxes, and they can give more to the church, don't you see, Mr. Sundaj School Teacher, how it works? i "Then, too, Mr. Sunday Schoo Teacher, when we get the saloon bai l on the corner, the women and the ; children will be so much better off They will know exactly where theii sons and husbands are to be found and will not have to be wondering where they are. The women will knov i exactly where to find their sons atu i husbands. They can come right to oui saloon and find them, ail snug ii ! there, comfortable, warm and happy 1 enjoying our temperance lectures reading the Bible and Bible storiei ' that we wets always believe in having ' in our temperance room. "Then another thing, Mr. Sunda; School Teacher, you know that thi pictures and the paintings that wi ' saloon fellows always keep on th< walls of o-jr saloons, they will inspin the men and the young men to higl ideals, and not degrade them lik< this old prohibition law degrade: them and drags them down. Ours wii be a regular temperance hall. tru< temperance, if you please, where ouli sensible people are in charge, am where no old fanatics like these pro hibition fools are permitted to hanf out. j "Yes, sirree, Mr. Sunday Schoo Teacher, just in a short while now 1 will be in position to help you oui with your Sunday School work. Yoi will have to enlarge your Sundaj Schoo! room just as soon as the sa , loons open, for we are the real tem perance people, and so, when we oper the saloons and place iots of all kind? of licker, beer and wine in stock, ther : everybody will stop drinking, and not buy any more licker, and we'li take the profits that we make and pay all the taxes!" ! Bar-tender Joe strutted off down the street, while Mr. Sunday School Man stood there and scratched his head, and wondered ? wondered how such cranks as Bar-tender Joe could escape the insane asylum. | i JOE NEELY HAVING THE ! TIME OF HIS LIFE. No better engineer-conductor ever piloted any mode of transportation than Joe Neely, .handling the bus line from Brevard to Asheville, via Hen ' dersonville. Patient, courteous and obliging at all times and under all ' conditions, Mr. Neely is having the real test of all these qualifications this week. The highway forces closed No. 28 at Horseshoe Monday morning, while the finishing touches are being given to that new link in the highway where the new bridge was placed across the French Broad ricer. The detour now being used leaves Highway 28 at Horseshoe, goes meandering through ' the farms, over hills, across the val ' leys, penetrating densely wooded spaces, finally coming back to High 1 way 28 at Etowah. j Some of the curvef are sharp, the road is narrow and the going rather difficult. Mr. Neely 1 seps his bus at sriaiSilike pace over some of these ?"difficult places, and vhen he gets 'over in safety he laughs, and anyone who has ever seen Joe Neely laugh would take the trip just to hear him laugh, and then talk to himself, and to his bus, and about the highway, country lanes, wooded paths, gulleys, and so on. It is a beautiful drive, and one sec-s 1 some sections of the country that the ! average citizen does not know is lay ? ing so near the main highway. T'm detour will be used in all probability throughout the week. I Buying school books is the order of the day and the horror of the hour. Some day N. C. will have free text ' books. I i ? j People and t'ie Wessons i _ _ _ I Learn by ob i i Meet ? . ? serving them. (By Harold Brenr\on) I I have come to like tramps and ho | bocs. I never pass up the opportunity I of talking to one when I get the op I portunity. This is because, from them, j I can learn so many valuable lessons I on what not to do. The men and wom i en who are failures can teach us more than those who are successful if we are willing to learn. I One of the principal lessons we car learn from them is that we should profit by our mistakes . . . they have not. If we never made the same mis ! take twice the progress we could make in just a few years would be amazing. A young man, shabbily dressed and none to clean, stopped me the other night and asked if I supposed the po j lice department would provide him j with a place to sleep. He said he was j a long way from home and had no I money. 1 told him I thought he could . get the desired accommodation. He , then asked me if I would help him out to the extent of a cup of coffee : as he had not had anything to eat ? since early morning. When I can I are [ always willing to do this for these , "knights of the road" for it usually affords me opportunity of listening to a story which while it may not al be true, at least gives me an insight into the life of one who, because o1 ' mistakes he has made or because oi ; utter shiftlessness, is one of life'; . failures. During the course 01 nis convex ?? tion while drinking the coffee ant eating a sandwich I had bought for . him, it developed that he had at on( ; time had a good job and was doinf , well. He was married and had tw< . children. He was addicted to th< liquor habit to some extent and or f certain occasions would get drunk. Or 1 one of these occasions he had been ir a party where a man had been shot Although he was proven innocent o: ' the crime it came out during the tria s that there had been several women o: r loose morals in the party and tha while he swore his conduct had no been improper his wife divorced hin f and he was discharged from the po B ! sition he had occupied for a r umbei of years. Since then he has been un able to find work and was just ''or ~ the bum" with nothing in prospect foi ; the future. He was just existing, no i living a I W hether his story is a true one oi I not I do not know. Personally I hat 5 no reason to doubt it. But it at leas 1 gave me a thought. Xo doubt this j man hat! been warned by his wife , his people and her people to let liquoi ' , alone. He had probably been told t' ' watch some of the other people in hi: - life, such as the company he kept ; But he was not willing to be taught He went on until, through bitter ex perience he iearned a lesson Ire wil I probably never forget. He may no' [ have had any part in the shooting oi the man and he may not have beer " j guilty of immorality, but the com 1 pany he was in was all against hin' ' and he had to suffer the consequences . But the suffering is not for hin alone. His wife and children will suf fer for the wrongs he has done a> 1 will his mother and father. What Other EDITORS SAY * * * * ****** 3? i "... I don't know whether the Re publicans have got anything to dc with it or not, but I do know that more men are being put back to work every day and things look a lot brighter than they did thirty days ago. ? Russell Kay in the Apopka (Fla.) Chief. * * * * Both parties are reported by the Daily News' Washington bureau to be worried over the market's rise. It is not so much the rise that is concern ing most of the interested parties, but the possible fall. ? Greensboro (N. C.) News. * ? * * Stick Together The fact cannot be too strongly im pressed on local cotton mill officials that a resumption of night running and cut-throat competition will put I the business back in the dumps again. | Some have said that it is as hard to organize the cotton mill men as it is the farmers and the failure of the latter class to stick together on any thing is proverbial. If the cott-jn mill men would stick to the policy of not running except on bona fide orders, cut out all night work and keep the price up, the textile business would shortly emerge from the shadows. ? Gastonia Gazette. ? * ? * The world must be financially con valescent when) Russia proposes to sell bonds instead of wheat in the world market. ? Asheviile Times. The world may owe a man a liv ing, but this debt, like all others, is difficult to collect. ? Canton Enter prise. Corn grown after !espede?a turned under has not fired nor suffered se verely from the prolonged droutK re ports H. J3. Kline of Cabarrus Coun ty- . .. The Practical Religion. Little applications of Religion to the Daily Life. "Thou believest there is one God: ' thou doest well. The devils also be lieve and tremble." What a wealth of meaning there is in that statement. How completely it strikes home to the individual. We believe there is one God. Wi are proud of that belief. Yet Chri-' in those few pointed words has show? ' us that we have nothing to be es ! peeially proud of. The devils also be- > lieve that. Yel. that belief is not going j to profit them anything. They have i nothing to gain because they be- [ lieve a self-evident fact. This verse is found in James 2:19. i This chapter of the Bible is devoted | to a discussion of faith and works, j And in it we find that the mere pro- i fession of a belief is not going to as- I sure our salvation. We are Methodists I or Baptists or Presbyterians or Cath- I olics in our professions. We attend | church when wc feel like, we give | some money to the support of that ; church and when pressed to do so wc even take part in the religious activi ties of the various departments. We then feel that we have done all that is required of us. Christianity is not a cloak to be worn on the Sabbath and discarded during the week. We are not required to be better Christians on th8t parti cular day than we are during the other days. A religion that is not manifest in our daily lives is not the proper religion. The mere acceptance : ! of the fact that there is a good and ; the admission of it are only the first : : steps in the practical religion. The lives we live must not be lived for self alone. We must, of course, ? accept the fact that there is one God and that we must abide by the laws he has laid down for us in our daily lives. We must, look to ourselves first in an effort to correct our own mis 1 takes. Then there comes to us, becausc I of an insatiable desire to help . others, another admonition given by ; the savior ? Am I My Brothers Keeper When you see some one doing some thing you know to be wrong are you incline^ to feel that is his business and that you should net interfere with him? Do you feel that what others do is no affair of yours arid that you are going to mind your own | business and let your neighbor attend 1 ' to his? 1 I On first thought this would seem 1 to be the only thing to do. We hdM f our own live? to live; we are respon [ i sible for our own actions and mos. of us feel that when we have dom F ? the best we know hew our responsi bility ceases. True, you cannot g ? about criticising the acts of others, ' pointing out the wrong things they " do. In the first place things that, t< ' vou, appear to be wrong may not ap " pear so to your neighbor. You do not 1 i smoke, but should you berate yout r ! brother because he does? He may see 1 ' no harm in it and will think you are 1 a meddler if you attempt to criticize r this act of his when he knows you 1 are doing things that, in rns sigh . t i are equally wrong. ? j The whole trouble is not in doubt - 1 ing or accepting the fact that you are 1 vour brothel's keeper but m the prop 1 I er interpretation of the admonition. 5 It is only to the extent that you know ? ! your brother is doing wrong isnorant ? iv and refuse to set him " ! vou are to be h<ild accountable. W hilt: 1 there are many who do wrong know ' iv.i'iv there are equally as many who i do so because they have not been 1 i taught the right thing to do. Urow " 1 ing into a knowledge of right an.l 1 ! wrong is just as slow a process as ? the education received in school am. 1 ' college. There are those who, because ' 'of their environs, lack of home train ' 1 ing or indolence fail to advance spiritually as they should. Regard.e=> of what the cause of their '?n,ova'K,' ? j there is always some method through | which they can be brought to gain s ( true conception of right. " ni ? some will accept criticism in the spmt in which it is given there are other* ' who will not. Where may be taught by example there are others who are , not susceptible to this kind of teach ing, while still others can only b taught in the bitter Mhool of excel l ence. Whatever the method theie u always some way open through which he may be taught. ! Christ gave the admonition that we should go out into the world and i preach the Gospel to every nauon and I kindred and tongue. He did not mea.i that we should al! be preachers m the sense we understand the word no did he mean that the work ofteach ing should be done only by the min listers of the Gospel. It has been said that you are the only Bible that wri be read by some people. Wh^t ar^ the lessons they will learn _ from /on. Humans are imitator' by tatui . Many of the habits they jT^n good and bad are from others. The young sters who becomes aodicted to -he to bacco habit may, as a rule, trace it back to the time when he used to. watch men smoking and feel that he would not be a real man until he ac quired the habit. The liquor habit is too often take* up for the same reas on as are a great many simila. h8We are our brothers keeper W <? will be held accountable to God for him to the- extent that we have to wtiid the proper influence over him, whether it be through exs.mple, hortation or any other means at our disposal. A good income from his graoe vineyard from which thefruitissdd , in small baskets is reported by Fred Pyronol, Waldensian farmer m Burke < County. , Corn sold to hogs by J. G. Carpen ter of Catawba County was paid tor at the rate of $1.04 a bushel m a ' 'feeding test recently concluded. The Upward Trend. Little News items that offer conclusive proof that business is on the upgrade. Industrial Situation Improving Valdese, N. C. ? Following in the wake ox the general improvement of the textile business in the South the Waldensian Manufacturing Company has succeeded in securing sufficient business to insure full-tfme opera-, tion, which includes day and night shifts, for several months to come. The plant has been operating on part time basis for the past tJfeveral months. w Merchants here also seem to be in an optimistic frame of mind and are placing orders in anticipation of ? brisk business this fall. Chicago, II: ? With eighteen rail- j roads reporting increased freight business, leaders of the rail industry predicted car loading reports for the last week would show an increase of 10,000 cars. Railroaa traffic increas ed only 1 per cent, or about 5,000 cars in the same period last year. Oregon City, Oregon ? 200 em ployes of the Oregon City Woolen Mills, idle since the plant was shut down early this year, returned to their jobs Thursday. Others will re turn next week. According to a report of the audi tor, the Western Pacific Railroad, during the month of July, showed an operating profit of 528,719 ? the first profit made in any month during the current year. A deficit of 8517,433 was shown in the operations for the year up to the end of July. Cone Mills on Five-Day Basis The plants of the Proximity Manufacturing company of Ashevilie are back on a five-day basis. They have been working four days per week for some time. There are four of the plants. More than 3,500 work ers are affected by the additional working day. i Officials of the company are op timistic as to the future. The increase in working hours is in anticipation of futurs orders. It being pointed cut that more goods are purchased on a rising market. Hosiery Mil I Employs 2,000 Work has started on the recondi tioning. of one of the three Philadel phia plants of the Gotham Silk Hos iery mills, which when completed will put about 2,000 operatives hack to work. The mill has been shut down for about two years. The other plants of the company will soon b^ operating on full time, according to a statement made by S. L. Rieve, president of the Association of Full Hosiery workers. Big Covstraft in- ProjifCi Unclsr Way Building construction which when completed will total more than $70, 000 is under way in Chapel Hili. Own ers are showing their foresight by building when prices are low. The project is furnishing work di - rectly to over 300 and indirectly to 100. According to K. D. Carter r.f the firm of Atwood and Week' o; Chapel Hill there is more building go ing on in Chapel Hill than in any other city of its size in the- state. TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS ANSWERED AT STATE COL. Question ? With my feej crops ruined by the dry weather what can I plant that will give me feed ne^t spring? | Answer? Both a hay and grain crop should be planted this foil. The hay crop should consist of about twe bushels of oats with 20 pounds of vetch to the acre. This should be broadcast or drilled in between Sep i lember 15 and October 1. For the grain ration we suggest two bushels i of oats, five peeks of wheat, or two bushels of barley. The oats and bar ley should be sown between October 1 and 15, and the wheat between Oc tober 15 and November 1. These crop;? do not need fertilizer if the land,was fertilized last spring. It will pa> however, to top dress the crops with nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammo nia next spring. Question ? I have been trying to im prove my land by planting cowpeas. I get a fair crop of hay but the corn crop the following year is poor, thi plants stunted and I he leaves tarn yellow. What is wrong with the land? Answer ? You are trying to do the impossible. To improve land by plant ing legumes, the hay or vines must be left on the land. The crop mentioned is a heavy feeder especially for pot ash and when you cut the hay you leave the land poorer than when you started. Plow under the entire crop for best results or. if the hay is cut, potash must be added su the rat^f 30 to 50 pounds of muriate of pot ash to the regular corn fertilizer. Question ? How much acreage planted to temporary pasture should I allow for each cow in my herd* Answer? The acreage allowed per cow depends to a great extent upon the productivity of the soil but on good land one-half an acre will pro duce sufficient feed for spring graz ing and will also leave a good amount of material to cut for hay or to turn under for soil improvement. A fer tile soil however is necessary, for best results in any pasture and this should be fertilized with from four to five hundred pounds of a complete high grade fertilizer. W?h proper fertili zation and the addition of two tons jf ground limestone one acre will fur nish sufficient grazing for two an> ?ais. Alleghany farmers recently sold 41 lead of steers at an average price of fix cents a pound.
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