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SMALL TOWNS ARE 1 FOUND NECESSARY Two things have come out of the ; depression that are worth noting. The j large centers of populatioa have dis- j covered that they cannot get along ?without the country. The small com- ' munities have discovered that they can make their own life without much ? worrying concerning large cities. For long it was a habit of big cities to ! display airs of superiority to the so- i called "rural communities." They : have pretended to believe that the smalifJPti was passing into eclipse, 1 and t$w people would flock to, big cities and make them more and more important and influential. And, also, ? a lot of "country" people, lured by ? the glamor of the cities, have left the ' countryside. They have discovered, many of them too late, that life ill the small communities have a thou- j and advantages not possessed by i large centers, and that the mush- j room development of big cities has ! been a bad, not too good thing. To- j day the small city is taking on a new dignity and individuality. We see j everywhere the proof that the small . community is realizing its' possibili- j ties, forgetting to ape the manners ! of the more artificial "centers of i population," and attending enthu3- ! iastically to the duty of building a ! destiny for itself. As the small com- 1 munity becomes strengthened, and as j the farm community becomes more independent, the large city will pros per too. What* we need in America is vitality of individual effort and this is what the small city will give in the next generation as it did in the past. The disillusioned folks who thought that the bright lights were made life worth while, will be drift ing back to the country, eager to cap- , ture once again the peace, the sin cerity, the integrity, the gladness that abides where neighborly comradeship is possible? Slayton (Minn.) Herald. MEMORIES . . sy Surah Kilhcum Mill s Age 87 Mother of James K. Mills, who lives in Montrose, Colo. i There was a fine old home in "The Land of the Sky" Where a famous highway passed close by, j , It was known thru the country far and wide, ' ? For the latch-string always hung outside. j , This house was built in the days of long ago ! j No machinery to help, such as now we know. , 1 The pieces were shaped and fitted by 1 hand . 1 1 They were all put together by the 1 strength of man. j ' I In the frame of that house not a i nail was found, 1 1 But always locust pins, both smooth < and round. I < The walls were plastered, well < grooved the floors, i ] The entrances wera filled with large ( paneled doors. i i ' j This ancient home was both high and ' wide, ! 1 With great long porches on either j side : From the porch in front you entered the hall One one side the staircase both broad and tall. The house was well lighted with ' panes of glass, All puttied and smoothed in the win- ' dow sash. 1 1 Each room had a fireplace of its own 1 For in pioneer days, no other heat 1 was known. In front of each fireplace was a soap stone hearth Taken from a quarry some feet under i the earth. i And above each one, stood a high carved mantle On which to place the lighted candle, j The rooms were, finished with wain- . scoting all around Its panels were painted with gold and brown. The baseboards were black and after all I ; Looked bright and pretty beneath the j white walls. I Much more could be said if all were told j About this home built in the days of j ; old. But this is enough, no need to say . move For it was a famous old place in the ' days of yore. IIow old was this house? Count it up and see, Started in eighteen forty, finished in forty-three, It watery slow work, you will un- : OYflSand i If you will stop and consider it was all buiit by hand. "Who built this home?" You surely will a3k, My father was the man who shoul dered the task But an arduous task, he must have found. . ] To build this big house from roof to the ground. "Where is it now?" Again you will , ask, It was sold and resold, then went out like a flash, ? Aitho it was old, it stood straight and sound Until one night in March it burned tr> the ground. Dear home of my childhood, I think of you yet , The happy clays of my youth, I can not forget j And now I am old and crippled and j gray I But the?e memories will linger till I , pass away. i The Practical | Religion. % Little applications of Religion to the Daily Life. One o? the moat heart-rerdingex ti^riences ever recorded is that 01 Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane. Some hold that the crucmxion on the cross was the most terrible through which the savior had to pa, s. But when we think over the h-8 ?he Savior, of the bitter experiences through which he passed, a^vaj s one thought uppermost jn his rnind and that the salvation of the people here on earth, it is not d.fficult to understand why that scene in the Garden was his bitterest ordeal. He suffered physical pain on the cross. In the garden he suffered men tal anguish. He went there with the disciples who had been with him throughout his ministry here on earth. He needed their comforting presence more than He needed them for protection. In these last moments He could have wrought some miracle that would have saved him from this , suffering. He could have protected himself from the hands of those who , w uld harm him but in so doing , would have failed to fulfill His pur pose here on earth and man would have been lost. What a different story would have been written if He had given up at the bitter end of h s life's struggle to save men who had placed themselves in the predicament they were in through their own vol ition. . All men have suffered ar>p,lslV ?* some kind and they may feel that they can sympathize with the Savior in these last hours on earth. But can they? Has any man suffered to the extent that beads of bloody perspira- . tion have broken out on their bodies . j And have not their sufferings been ; tempered with the knowledge that | what they are suffering is of their own workings? Christ prayed and wept and suffered in that Garden for you, for me and for every man, wom an and child on earth not only of that time but for all time. He did pray for himself only to the extent that the Father would give Hire (strength to carry on. He did say that if 1 were the Will of the Father that the cup might pass from him that it should do so, but God had said tha that should be the only way in which the sins of the world might be a^ned j for and Christ was reconciled that it should be so. . J And can you, by any stretch your imagination, picture even a fraction of the terrible heart-ache he ] mist have suffered when he returnees to His disciples and found them j isleep? His last few hours; the bit- j -erest ordeal through which any man ;ould possibly be asked to pass and | ^ :hev were asleep ! ' ! Finally, in His pity for them he i at them sleep on. Even then, in tnai j ;rying hour He thought of the trials fnrough which they must pass. lid not berate them for falling asleep , ,vhen He wanted them to watch. And i0 He suffered alone a torture that 10 man or women has ever been call ? upon to suffer. How it wou d have iirhtened the burden if He could have ^ felt that while He prayed there in anguish; while He suffered the tor- , :ure that was necessary to save sin- , . ?ul man that the disciples had watch- 1 ^d and prayed with Him. . ? We must suffer on earth that right j shall prevail. We must suffer foi Durselves and for our children and for our friends and neighbors bu . we will not be called upon to suffer what He suffered there. And how it : . would lighten our burdenifwewould I think of that night in Gethsemane, , ,f the terrible torture through which ( the Savior passed. Our own burden ( would seem light in comparison. SAFETY CONGRESS AT WASHINGTON E-early next month Washington is to entertain the twenty-first annual Safety Congress. There are to be many exhibitions" and demonstrations as well as expert advice from which the national capital should benefit. . This city does not enjoy the reputa tion it should have for the care of i 1 residents and the many visitors with in its gates. Its homicide record is bad, and it is surprising that traffic fatalities average tv c? as numerous among given number of the popula tion as they do in N. w York city. This is one of the matters which the safety specialists will consider. Their program contemplates making a practical laboratory of the city streets, to study unusual traffic haz- | ards and examine some of the unique methods of control. The delegates are advised that Washington provides ex ceptional opportunity for the study of traffic, since it has peculiar street layouts, requiring special treatment, with scores of unusual intersecetions problems. The -engineering angle of traffic accident prevention is to receive special attention, and the visiting ! authorities will make a* tour of the [ city for traffic observation and dem- 1 onstration under the guidance of I safety education in the schools will | be explained by Commissioner of Education William John Coopfll-. One gratifying result of this work has been the notable decrease in the num ber of automobile accidents involving children, even in the face of a grow ing number of general accidents. The Safety ^Congress is deeply in teresteed in the adoption of uniform traffic laws throughout the country, believing that removal of the con fusion due to so many conflicting rules regarding licensing and traffic regulation would add greatly to the efficiency of other safety measures. The deliberations of f the congress are by no means confined to traffic POGRHOUSS NAN (Contributed by a Subscriber) Did you say yliu wished to set* me,: sir? Step in, 'tis a cheerlcss place. | Bjjt you're heartily welcome, all. the same; to be poor is no dis grace. Have I been here long? Oh, yes, sir, 'tis thirty winter's gone Since poor Jim took to crooked ways and left me all alona Jim was my son, and a likelier lad you'd never wish to see. Till evil counselors won his heart and led him away from mc. 'Tis the old, sad, pitiful story, sir, of the devil's winding stair. And men go clown and flown, to black ness and despair. Tossing about like wreck at sea, with helm and anchor lost, On and on through the surging waves, nor caring to count the cost. I doubt sometimes if the Savior sees. He seems so far away, How the beings He died for are drift ing, drifting astray. Indeed, 'tis little wonder, sir, if wom an shrieks and cries. When the life-blood on rum's altar spilled is calling to the skies. Small wonder if her own heart feels ? each superficial blow. For isn't each life a part of hers, each pain her hurt and woe. Read all the records of crime and shame, 'tis bitterly, sadly true, Where manliness and honor die, there some woman's heart dies, t?? I often think, when I hear folks talk so' prettily and so fine Of alcohol as needful food, of the mod erate use of wine; How they wouldn't do without it; there was no other way But for a man to drink or let it alone, as his own strong will might say; That "to use it, but not abuse, it, was the proper thing to do ? " How I wish they'd let old Poorhouse Nan preach her little sermon, , too. I would give them scenes in a worn- j an's life that would make their i pulses stir, ? ! For I was a drunkard's child and i wife ? aye, a drunkard's mother, . sir. j I would tell of childish terrors, of j childish tears and pain, Of cruel blows from a father's hand when rum had crazed his bram. He always said he could drink his fill or let it alone at will; Perhaps he might; he was killed one night in a brawl in a grogshop hell. ' [ would tell of years of loveless toil the drunkard's child had passed. With just one gleam of sunshine too beautiful to last. I When I married Tom I thought I had nothing more to fear, 1 That life would come all right, at last; the world was full of cheer; i But he took to moderate drinking; he allowed 'twas a harmless thing, 50 the arrow sped and my of hope I came down with a broken wing, Tom was only a moderate drinker. Ah . sir, do you bear in mind How the plodding tortoise in the race left the leaping hare behind? Twas because he held right on and on, steady and true, if slow, j And that's the way, I'm thinking, the moderate drinkers go. i Step after step, day after day, with sleepless, tireless pace, j While the toper sometimes looks be hind and tarries in the race. i Oh, heavily in the well-worn path poor Tom walked day by day, ? For my heartstrings clung about his feet and tangled up the way, j The days were dark and friends were gone and life dragged out full . slow, i And children came like reapers to a harvest of want and woe, ? Two of them died, and I was glad when they lay before me dead, j 1 had grown so weary of their cries ? their pitiful cries for bread. j There came a time when my heart was stone; I would neither hope nor pray; ' Poor Tom lay out in the potter s held and my boy had gone astray? j My boy, who'd been my idol, while , like hounds athirst for blood, Between my breaking heart and him , the liquor-seller stood And lured him on with pleasant word, his pleasures, and his wine, 0, God! have pity on other hearts as bruised and hurt as mine. There were whispers of evil-doing, of j dishonors, and of shame, That I cannot bear to think of now ; and would not dare to name. I There, was hiding away from the j light of day, there was creeping . at night, \ A hurried word ot parting, then a , criminal's stealthy flight. His lips were white with remorse and fright when he gave me a good-bye kiss, Ar.d I've never seen my poor boy from that black day to this. Oh, none can tell you, sir, how a mother's heart will ache With the sorrows that come of a j sinning child, with grief for a [ lost one's sake; j When she knows the feet she trained to walk have gone so far astray, j And the lips grow bold with curses, that she taught to sing and pray, A child may fear, a wife may weep, but. of all 3ad things none other Seems half so sorrowful to me as being a drunkard's mother, They tell me that down in the vilest dens of the city's crime and murk There are men with the heart's of angels, doing an angel's work; That they win back the lost and straying, that they help the weak tc stand. By the wonderful power of loving safety, but extend to many activities. Safety in the water and life-saving will be exemplified, factory hazards explained, the danger of dust explos ions in industry will b? demonstrated ? Washington Post. JBGHWAY PATROL COLLECTS $24,050 Raleigh, Oct. 6? A total of 12,346 violations of motor vehicle and high way laws were noted by the 3tate highway patrol in August, with warnings issued to the drivers of 7,530 automobiles and trucks, accord ing to the report issued today by Captain Charles D. Farmer .com mander of the patrol. More than 5,000 of these violations were im proper light and the lights of 5,796 cars were fixed at stations along the highways, so that no arrests or warn ings were necessary. A total of 11, 981 cars were stopped by patrolmen during the month. It was found necessary to make only 734 arrests and only 804 tickets were issued to violators. Arrests are made only in extreme cases of law violation while "tickets" are issued by patrolmen when mechanical de- i fects are found, requiring drivers to j have these defects corrected within a certain period of time or else be . subject to arrest. Patrolmen extend- 1 ed courtesies to 1,514 drivers in dis tress by helping to change tires, go for gasoline or other assistance. A total revenue of $24,050 was brought in during August by the pa trol through revenue for licenses, fines, forfeitures and recovery of stolen cars. Of this amount, more than $11,400 went to the school funds of the various counties in fines and forfeitures, more than $6,000 went into the state highway fund for auto mobile licenses, with more than $6,000 worth of stolen cars recovered. Of the 734 arrests, 98 were for having improper licenses, 34 for hav ing no licenses, 84 for driving while drunk, 40 persons for being drunk on the highways, 41 for reckless driv ing, 54 for speeding, 45 for having improper lights and 9 minors for op erating cars under age. Patrolmen in vestigated 111 accidents in which 32 persons were killed and 115 injured. Among the 7,530 drivers given warnings, 1,714 were for parking on the highway, 434 for hogging the road, 102 for "hearse-driving" or go ing too slowly and 594 for speeding. words and the help of God's right j hand, And often and often, the dear Lord ; knows, I've knelt and prayed to . Him I That somewhore, somehow^ 'twould , happen that they'd find and save ?, my Jim. j Sales on the Pitt county curb mar- , ket at Greenville now total $6,068.79 for the year, which is about $1,000 above sales for last year even though price levels for all farm produce have been at a lower figure. BLUE DEVILS TO PLAY CHRIST SCHOOL | The second game of this season to ; be played by the Blue Devils of the Breverd High school will be. played Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock when they meet the Christ school eleven on the latter'a field. Christ School has a good team this year and a lively game is promised. The Blue Devils are in fine shape having been on the field in daily workouts since the beginning of the school term. | Christ school is located at Arden, in Buncombe county. CITY COUNCIL MEETS The city council held its regular meeting Monday evening at 8 o'clock i October the third. Only routine mat- i ters were taken up at this session, the meeting being given over to rou tine matters. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET The county commissioners of Tran- J sylvania held their regular monthly 1 meeting in the council chamber Mon day, October 3. No special business other than routine matters was taken up at this meeting. PENROSE NEWS i On account of rain the attendance last Tuesday evening at the Enon church was small. Those attending report a splendid sermon by the Rev. A. A. Allison of Kentucky and form er resident of Transylvania. Rev. Al- , lison preached at Boilston church Sunday evening. We hope he can ar range us another date at Enon whan we can have a larger congregation. Several Penrose school children had dental work done at Davidson River school last week. More are to take advantage of the work this week. We appreciate the work of Mr. Jones in securing thi3 clinic and express our thanks to Doctor Farrell for his kind ? treatment of the children. Little Frances Tal)ey has also been absent from school for a week and confined to her bed. Mr. T. F. Middleton has been very ill for two week3. We are very sorry he was not able to attend the Fair as he enjoys such so very much. Everybody speaks of the success : of our Sylvan Valley fair. One of ? the best farmers here said it was the best he ever attended. Another said : he never saw any better team work i done in making it a success. So that's ' it. "United We Stand." Co-operation : should acccomplish bigger things in the years to come. We should co-op- 1 erate in the 5-10 farm movement for all we can get out of it as farming i is our biggest hope in this valley. 1 DUCK PIN CONTEST WAXES WARM HERE Following the game played by the four teams at the H. and T. Recrea tion parlor bowling alky Tuesday evening team four is in the load., in the final scores. Team 4 defeated team No. 1 end team No. 3 defeated teAm No. 2 in th? games played Tues day evening. Bridges was high with 833. Byers second with 335 and Kyle third with 326. _ The following are the scores Team No. 1 Totals Kilpatrick .... 88 126 102 315 Fisher 92 86 92 270 Ralph Norris ..105 39 112 313 Jenks 99 85 100 284 Bridges 110 112 141 363 1548 Team 4 Totals Furgeson 106 102 97 305 Kyle 124 100 102 326 Alexander ....117 109 92 318 H. Patton ...... 96 114 107 317 Grogan 114 89 94 297 1563 Team No. 2 Totals Loftis 99 108 101 308 Hardin 103 108 101 312 Duckworth 79 86 89 254 Kknzey Ill 84 S4 288 Croushorn 98 94 97 289 1452 Team No. 3 Totals Jc-rome 104 115 33 312 McNeely 104 92 109 305 McCoy 85 89 89 26* C. Patton 82 99 101 282 Byers ; 94 101 140 335 1497 STANDING OF LEAGUE Won Lost Team No. 4 5 2 Team No. 1 3 4 Team No. 2 < 3 4 Team No. 3 3 4 3055 FEDERAL WORKERS RETIRED FOR ECONOMY Washington ? Retirement of 3,055 federal employes because of the econ omy law since .July i was shown fcy the civil service commission, along with a report that government per sonnel totaled 575,366 August 31, a reduction of 13,300 from the same date last year. There were only 64 fewer perma nent employes in the 64,795 serving in W.'.shir.gten on August 31, but the commission explained that hun dreds of others were on extended furloughs, made necessary by the economy law to prevent discharges. Temporary employes hare numbered 2,464, a reduction of 3,562. Field employes totaled 508,107, di vided into 474,185 permanent and 36,922 temporary, reductions respect ively of 5,781 and 3.893 from the to tals on August 31, 1931. f? ? : OUR FAIRS HAVE PROVEN THAT When All Other Efforts Fail TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY CAN WITH PROFIT RETURN to AGRICULTURE and STUCK RAISING Industry is good in any community, so long as the industrial plant is in operation and there is a market for the manufactured product. The Tourist business is a good thing so long as tourists come during the season, and patronize the hotels, boarding houses, and so on. But the one safe and certain avenue of wealth and indepen dence always open to the people of Transylvania Countyis that of AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK Nature endowed this section in abundant manner with every thing that is necessary to successful Farming and Profitable Stock Rais ing. All that man has to do is apply the necessary work and leadership. PROPER SEED FOR THE CROP; PROPER FEED FOR THE STOCK. Plus the necessary work, and an independent living is here for any man who is willing to apply his efforts, his energies and his intellect. We love to talk with Farmers about Farming. We like to talk about Seeds, and Fertilizers, and all the things necessaiy to successful farm ing. We like to talk with farmers and stock raisers about Feeds, and all the things that go into the making of good Livestock. We like to- talk to you about anything that interests the Farmer, for. the Farmers' in- li terests are our interests. So come in, and tell us what you know, and ask us about anything that we know. ? THE STORE WITH THE CHECKEHBOARB SIGN
Brevard News (Brevard, N.C.)
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