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Thursday, November 17, 1932
BREVARD IS A CITY
OF IDEAIjS.
What does Brevard mean to you?
Is it just a little town where you
happen to live und you are here be
cause you can't do any better? Are
you here because you like the town
and the people? Or, are you just
here?
If you like the town, boost it. It's
not a bad town.
If you can't find anything to talk
about that will help tV town, then
shut up and let some < :ie talk who
can. If you want to hu.ck go find
some other town that's ;ot so par
ticular and knock ? all you please.
If you're here because you can't
help yourself tell folks about it and
maybe they'll be glad enough to get
rid of you that you'll be given trans
portation out. If you don't want that
then shut up. Everyone doesn't think
as you do, for which there is cause
for rejoicing.
At any rate you are here. So are
wo. The town's what it is and you
can't knock it into a better town. But
ycu can help it to be the town we
would all like to see it by forgetting
you-- dislikes and lending a hand. If
you must stay here why not try to
make the town worth staying in?
No town is no better than the people
who compose it. So when you "rap"
the town you are saying a bit about,
yourself that you'd cuss someone else
for saying about you.
If you like the town or if you don't,
as long as you are here try to make
it a good town; a town such as you,
with your very particular tasie,
would like to reside in.
And remember one thing: If you
really want to hurt your town; it
you want to make it the town you
try to say it is, then do your shop
ping in other cities. Tell the mer
chants of Brevard that you don't
care whether they do or they don't.
Let them close up shop; force them
out of town; close down the home in
dustries, throw people out of work
and then., you can look on your work
of destruction and smile gleefully and
say, with bitter sarcasm: "What a
?rtWTlJ"
CASTING THE FIRST
STOiS'E.
When you are tempted to say some- '
thing that will hurt someone or will
be a reflection on their character in
any way, stop long enough to repeat
to yourself the ttory of Christ and,
the woman who was caught in sin
and brought to Him that he might
have her stoned. Instead of ordering
her punished for her crime Christ
",?rely told those who were accusing
her to cast stones at her if ihcy tverc
not guilty. He said, "Him that is
without sin among you, lot him cast
the first stone at her." The woman,
not only was not stoped but she re
ceived the forgiveness of the Savior
and was told to go her way and sin
no more.
You may not be guilty of the sin
ycu accused another of but nine times
Scut of ten you are guilty of sins that
J.ire equally as bad.
In the first place itjs not your duty
to judgo another. You do not and can
not know what there is in their make
up that prompts them to do the things
So/ which you disapprove. If you knew
you might sympathize with them
ather than persecute them.
If you are guilty of no sin3 your
clf, then go ahead and "cast the
Jrst stone."
UlH'tfRSi; CRITICISM IS
ALWAYS HELPFUL.
It is not a bad idea to visit the
camp of the enemy sometime and
learn what is being said about you.
Your friends, for fear of hurting
your feelings will seldom tell you of
your faults. And because you hear
only the good things you do not know
how to go about remedying the things
that are not right because you are
told nothing of them.
Visit the enemy's camp. It may
I prove an enlightening experience.
You may find you are not as good
as you thought. You will probably
learn of ways and means of makirg
some improvements you had never
realized you could make. And there
is always room for improvement no
matter how good you are or think
you are.
Visit the enemy's camp. It may
hurt your feelings. It may cause you
some temporary embarossment but it
will more than likely pay you big div
idends. This is a world of progress
but havn p
can help you more by offering
adverse criticism than by casting
bouquets at your feet. Brick-bats hurt
but in the long run they do more
good.
Visit the enemy's camp. They won't
be afraid of causing you displeasure
and they'll tell you the truth. Your
friends will lie to you rather than
"rub your fur the wrong way."
Friends are good things to have but
enemys have their place, too.
Sir HACK AND WAIT FOR
BETTER TIMES.
A certain class of people, now that
the Democrats have been given the
reins of government, will sit back and
say, "Well, you promised us a new
deal, better times and a new prosperi
ty, let's have it."
The Democrats can't do it. The Re
publicans ean't do it. No party can
do it. The Democrats have promised
to do the best they can. And they no
doubt will. It is a safe bet that Roose
velt and his colleagues will exert
every effort to restore the prosperity
that has been "just around the cor
ner" for so long. They would not ex
pcct even the tolerance of the Amer
ican people if they did not do their
best.
Political parties exist because we
do not all think alike. One believes
that a high tariff is detrimental to
best interests of the nation while the
other holds that it is necessary. They
both present good arguments for that
belief. They both are no doubt con
scientious in it, and in all their dif
ference of opinion. But that is not the
' point. Prosperity is not now, and
never has been, dependent on any po
| litical faction for its return or en
_ durance. It is up to the individual.
' The President and the Congress reg
| ulate eonditions. The people make
i them.
i
The man who sits idly by and
awaits the return of prosperity will
never know it. And he who expects
his country to do something for him,
without any effort on his part is fool
hardy. You, as an individual, are a
cog in the machinery of your nation,
j If you fail to function properly then
j i his great machine is deprived of its
I full scope of usefulness.
Your president and your Congress
must have your cooperation if they
:arry out the work they hare out
lined. The success of this adnunistra
'icn will be no less dependent on you
than was the former administration,
ft you want prosperity there is only
one way to get it ? gtv out after it.
YGU MAKE THE WORLD .'.V
WHICH YOU LI VS. '
Are you one of those who would
like to Bee all the wealth in the United
States divided equally among every
man, woman and child? Would you
like to see the capitalists deprived of ,
their millions; ifie millions you have,'
helped them accumulate? ;
The average person ? the person
who has always endured a life of
deprivation; who has never had "hi?
share" of this world's goods, would ,
more than likely answer that ques
tion in the affirmative. But would you
like it? Stop and think over the ques
tion for a moment. You may decide
differently.
I The man who has never aocnraulat
j ed any wealth has failed to do so be
cause of his inability. If he were giv
en the opportunity of acquiring it he
would do so.
j The man who has wealth has secur
ed it just as you would if the oppor
tunity presented itself for you to do
so. Or, perhaps it would be betcer to
say if you should sec the opportunity.
For there is no reason in the world
why you can not accomplish just as
i much as anyone else, if you know how
to go about it. It is a matter of being
able to recognize the opportunity as
it is presented to you. In that lies the
difference between the successful man
and the unsuccessful one.
! If all the wealth in the nation were
divided equally among all the people,
those who have demonstrated their
ability to accumulate fortunes in the
past would soon repeat their past suc
cesses and those who have never been
able to make any progress along this
line would be no more successful than
formerly. There are those who have
piled up fortunes dishonestly but they
comprise the minority, not the ma
jority. They are not worth counting.
Those who are so bitterly opposed
to the big corporations and the cap
italists should stop and think of one
thing: If it were not for this com
bining of fortunes and forming of
big corporations; if every man, wom
an and child in the country had only
a few dollars; if we carried out this
socialistic idea as many would like
to see it carried out then there would
be tio automobiles, for there would
be no factories in which to build
them; there would be no railroads f pj
there would be no op.:.-. ^u?, ,
f-.uiiimy to build the* ?-;'1.*' w?iu} d be
no steel mills to produce the rails and
the cars and other equipment neces
sary for the construction of them;
there would be no radios for there
would be no one to manufacture
them; there would be none of the
comforts of life for it is only through
the consolidation of wealth that it is
possible to build factories in which
these things can be produced. AND,
if there were none of these factories,
there would be twice or three times
the number of unemployed in the
world than we now have.
When you grumWe about capital
ism; when you think you would like
to receive your pro-rata share of the
wealth of the nation, think of these
things and how it would effect the
entire world if no one person had any
more wealth than any other one per
son.
TEX THOUSAND BANKS HAVE
CLOSED IN THE UNITED
STATES
More than nine hundred banks
closed in the United States last year.
This brings the grand total to about
10,000. It would be difficult to esti
mate the amount of money depositors
have lost through these closings. But
in almost every instance it has been
, the depositors who have lost. Just
I what the trouble actually is. and why
the depositors must stand this loss is
not known. The bank is the servant
of the people. Yet the people suffer
j when they fail.
I This nation, with its model govern
ment, is the only nation wheve bank
failures are so common. And in the
nations where they do occur occas
ionally it is not the depositor who is
the loser. Canada has had very few
j failures; Norway and Sweden have
; had none. Whether it is the fault of
our laws is difficult to determine, but
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( whatever the cause it must be rerne
t died. If the entire banking system is
J wrong then it should be revised. If
the laws governing the operation of
banks are at fault then wc should
have new laws.
This is a matter that it. is hoped
, will be taken up hy our law-making
bodies soon. It must have attention.
There is some remedy and it must be
applied. People are losing confidence
in the entire banking structure. And
[ it is obvious that banking is an integ
1 ral part of our business life.
Taxes, tariffs, unemployment and
thousands of other problems will no
doubt be taken up and given the at
tention of orsr Congress and it is to
bo hoped that this problem, wb^VJr
certainly no less important p
eeive the attention it desery'
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Well, folks the newspapers tell us
we had a quiet election. Nevsr hav
ing gone thru the experience before in
this section we are not qualified to
say whether they ore right or not. At
any rate in our own Transylvania
county there were only three people
shot, a dozen or two fights, fifteen or
twenty celebrants stored away in the j
boose-gow, half a hundred or so fel- ,
lows totin' guns and two or three ra
dios goin' full blast ? maybe it was a
quiet election, comparatively speakin'
Any how, now that it's all over
, maybe the newspaper folks can pack
. up some of their pet campaign ex-!
pressions such as "flay, "-"Evading thej
issue," "Sees Victory Assured,"' "Our
lonly Hope" -and a lot of others and
i here's hopin' they'll have a good sup
ply of fresh jokes, now planks and
,'that the "cure of the depression" will
'NOT be an issue next time. At any
J rate the office boys in Washington
'deserve commendation for the man
ner in which they handled the affairs
of the government durin' the cam
paign .... And now some of the boys
? want to run an a.d to read, "For Sale.
Prohibition. A bargain. Only slightly
i "I never knew what happiness
was until after I married." Carl
i McCrary is said to have remark
| ed shortly after his leap ? People
shouldn't brood over the past. . . .
i Mickey Mcintosh and Margaret
Fullbright all out o' breath, dropt
| into the News office Saitidy
I afternoon to rest their little foot
sies end unburden themselves to
the extent of telliri' us that, they
had just "hoofed it" all the way
I from Ro3man and what's more
they said they had covered about
four miles of the journey to Ros
mun in the same manner so^they
t were "some tired." However, the
sale of more than a dollars worth
or "Forget-me-nots" helped their
feelin's considerably. Plucky las
sies.... And speakin' of for-get
me-nots reminds us that the
| bright-eyed young lady w h o
caught us with a dime Friday
afternoon and made a *ale was
! out rather early ? bet she made
plenty o' sales, too. (Someone in
forms us she is Lois Bar
; nett) . . . ."I wish our bank could
i set on its feet enough to stop
sendin' hack our checks marked
'Insufficient Funds,'" said Mrs.
Clement, to Verne. "A barjj^lif.!
hasn't got enpagJrm-c,nev on hand
check ought to be
and put on a sound
j basis.". .. .As unbelievable as it
has always seemerl to us Mary
Allison must be "that way."
Those dreamy eyes, that ab
stracted look ? well, maybe we're
I wrong .... Jim Bromfield says
I that among the other things a
man is likely to find in an old
' vest this season is himself. . . .
We are told that Mr. Upshaw
| calls the Republican plank "a
; weasel-worded elongation of at
tenuated innuendoes." ? try to
say that with about three snorts
under your belt.
? * ?
What, we'd like to know is what has
besoms of the old-fashioned boy who
j thought thai, in order to get a job
of some kind was to display a dip
loma of some kind. ... Lewis Hamlin
says there is still a sucker born every
, minute but the trouble is he has
?nothing you can take away from him
I . . . . Mary Osborne Wilkins and Glenn
Galloway takin' nourishment at the
Jcafe. . . .Coleman Galloway says what
I this country needs is less of whatever
lis the matter with it....Mose Mae
| tie brought Rebecca some beautiful
! flowers 'tocher day and Rebecca says
to him: "Oh, there's still some dew
on these lovely flowers you brought
me." And Mose, he grinned sheepish
jly and replied, "Yes, I know, but I'll
j settle up for em soon's I got some
j money."
# * *
. . . .We've beer, told you have to
i work for this here relief money
that's bein' given out ? we knew
there'd be a catch in it some
where. Wonder how many people
are free to confess that the world
is using them about as well as
they use the world? Clarice
Smith and Anr.ie Katherine Hen
derson back from attending the
- State-Fnrmar. game. From the
looks of 'em the team they had
Iheir money on undoubtedly lost
?lost or somp'n. . . ."Can you
punctuate?" asked Pat Kimzey
of Hazel Owen when she applied
for the job there. Seems he'd had
some difficulty in getting the one
who suited him, "Oh, yes," Hase!
replied "I'm always early in the
morning." To prove that Geo.
Simpson, Jr., is a chip off the old
block he came in from a visit to
the Institute t'other day with lip
stick all over his face. . . ."Sweets
for the sweet," said Charlie as ho
gave Ruth a box of candy. "Have
some nuts," said Ruth And J
Some people can never learn to
write we suggested to June Gro
gan recently. 'So I notice," she
replied .... The government is
putting a tax on checks when, as
a matter of fact, it ought to be
putting a check on taxe3
"Red" Fullbright told us the suit
he was wearin' was an extraordi
nary one cause the wool came
from Australia, English mer
chants sold it to a Scottish fac
tory, it was woven in Saxony,
made into a suit in Berlin ? we
stopt him by assurin' him there
\?as iwthin' unusual about, that.
"No, he said the wonderful and
unusual part of it is tint 30
many people ean get a livia' out j
of sometbin' that ain't even paid j
for." .. I
? _ _ I Latin by ob
? Meet < ? ? serving tbetn.
(Dy Harold. Brevnon) \ |
I often wished I had as much edu
cation as Ralph F*rle>'- 1 had listened
to hirr. from time to time and ?
struck me that' be was conversant
with any subject that mignt be
brouzht up. Not in the manner of
the know-all c,ne bo. often
in r sort of easy>gomg way that torn
you he was not trying to impress you
with how much he knew but wa? ieal
\J trying to tell you what you wantea
to S And if you did not urge him; |
if you did not give him to understand I
that you were really interested h i
would not bother to tell you anything.
He was not a talker? the land who :
iialks just for the pleasure he derives I
I irom it ? but he coula talk -nd tha. .
was what made him so interesting. . j
! Then some one told me he had very
little education. That he had only
been to school for a few years and
that due to the death of his parents
had been forced to get out and earn
his own way in the world. I aid not
believe this. Mo man, I thought, could
accumulate such a wealth of know
ledge unless he had attended college,
for many of the subjects on which he
spoke were subjects that one does not
merely "pick up" in ones wander
ing3 They were things that one uoes
not even bother about unless requir
ed to do so in his college work.
Then one day, in order to satisfy
myself, I asked him if this were
true.
: "Yes," he replied to my question,
i "It is true. I never finished the fourth
: grade."
"I have known a number of poo
! pie," I told him, "who have made
I good in life with little or r.o educa
' tion. I have known many who were
'better masters cf the English .an
iguage than many of their associates
: who had university educations. This
type is not unusual for it was diffi
cult in those days to get education
and many, forced to shift for them
selves have accomplished a great deal
in spite of their handicaps. But I
: have never met one who could dis
' cuss such subjects as philosophy,
i psychology, who has read the classics,
and who could talk on many other
subjects that are not usually taught
1 or learned outside of the college or
university, until I met you."
"I learned long ago," he confided,
: "that there is a difference between
a genuine education and a soil of
j "polish" which some hav* applied to
, themselves. This polish usually
? Sm5u3ta to nlffflVng more or less iban
|a reasonably correct use of .the
English language and a little ' eul
\ tare," secured through a study of a
book of ettiquette and perhaps
I through associations with people who
i were good enough to 'lend a hand.
? But you can not hide behind that al
; together. I was deprived of the kind
of education but I found that I bau
enough time to devote to study so
i that 1 could gain some knowledge of
: the things I would miss otherwise, by
i not being in position to attend the
institutions of higher learning. I
studied just as conscientiously as
: though I were in one of these institu
; tions. I liked the studies.
"I have done this for the past
twenty years and in that manner 1
! have been able to stove up a bit more
I than the boy or girl who finishes the
prescribed course of study and then
I quits. I am still studying and always
! will be. I enjoy it. I employ every
' idle moment, to the best advantage.
' And even when 1 am talkrng .with
i people I study them and I find the
study of human nature to be one of
the most interesting of studies, i ou
j have at your command at all times
an inexhaustable supply of material,
j I am accused of not being much of
' a talker. I make it a point not to be.
, If people want to know things that
i I know I will tell them. The things
I I know ; the things I have studied
and stored away, I will always have
with me. What ! want is what the
: other fellow has and I can not get
it by doing the talking. I must let him
do it. I generally talk enough to get
him started and then by letting him
know I am really interested in what
| he has to say, I can keep him going.'
"Don't you find it bcresome to have
j to listen to some wind-bags, who think
! they know so much and who simply
! talk your ears off?" I asked.
"On the contrary I find them in
teresting." was his surprising reply.
Then he explained, "There are many
people who ate talkers. They usually
employ a good many words but when
they have finished and you sum it ail
up they have said very little. But,
every individual who belongs to this
type is just a little different from any
other. I like to determine just, why
it is they find it necessary to use so
tnany words and say so little. It
may be that the individual is unedu
cated, does not know the value ot
brevity, thinks a lot of beautiful ad
jectives help his story, is inclined to
give too many1 unimportant details
which may seem important to him
or any one of a thousand different
things. At all events each one of them
presents a problem in psychology
which is quite interesting if you have
the time and the inclination to study
him. I have, as a matter of fact,
learned more, along certain lines
from the man who is usually termed
a bore than from many of the so
called "wits."
And because of these things Ralph
Farley really lived. He knew people
better than they knew themselves. He
could te1! whether a man was educat
ed or not regardless of- whether he
used "polished'' language or not. He
was playing a game and he was the
winner because the i>eople with whom
he played did not know he was play
ing:. Peoplo talked, to him. told him
things ar.d he listened, and they never
knew that he was learning far more
about tlxmi than they intended that
he should. ,
What a pleasure to go* h
| The Practical *
| Religion.
v As Applied To Daily Living ^
* (Cecil 0. Brantley)
"But shun profane and Vain
babblings: for tkey will increase un
to more ungodliness." II Timothy
2:16.
Stop for just a moment and think
back over the things you have talk
ed of during the course, of the day;
with your family before you left the
house this morning; with the people
you met on your way to take up your**
daily labors; with your associates
and those with whom you came in
contact during the day. Analyze this
conversation carefully and then de
cide whether or not it would come
under the head of profane or vain
babbling.
In your conversation today and
your conversation yesterday and since
the time you first uttered a word,
hew much of it was really worth
while? How much of it would have
been better unspokan?
It is not that you may have of
fended in your convc-rsation nor is it
that you have actually been profane
i as the term is generally used. But
j the very harmlessness of it; the very
lack of anything worth while m it
; would place it in the category of vain
j babbling.
Conversation is too easy for most
; of us. We do not give it the consider
ation it deserves. From the time wei
' awaken in the morning until we close
our eyes at night we are talking.
1 And in the vast majority of cases the
individual, never gives any serious
consideration to his conversation.
There are those who would not, for
' the world; talk about their neighbors ;
there are those who would not be
? profane in their conversation. But
. how much of your conversation each
I day would you classify as useless as
; far as anything upbuilding or con
1 stnictive is concerned?
| We are told here that vain and
profane conversation will lead to
? other things that are not the proper
things even though there be no actual
wrong in what we say. As we become
iax in our conversation there is a
1 certain amount of evil sure to creep
in. Perhaps it is not noticed. But in
' time it takes such a hold on the in
dividual that he is eligible to come
under the classification of "a vain
babbler."
Life is too short to be wasted in
idle conversation. There is too mucn
to be done of a constructive nature
to spend a lot of time in gossip. I
believe we are to be held accountable
for the things we might have said
but have left unsaid just as surely a:,
we are to be brought to account for
the evi! things we have spoken. It
has been said that "you are the only
Bible some people will ever read.
What are the lessons they will learn
from their study of you? Would you
be pleased to know that all you have
said and done is to be a determining
factor in the life of seme individual .
Would vou like to think back over
the life of some person who has been
1 associated with you and feel that
' if you had that part of your We to
go over the things they have learned
would be a lot different than they
; were? Then bear this in mind. There
is no word you may speak, however,
lightly, that will not, directly or in
directly influence sonic individual.
; Perhaps to no great extent but at
; least to some extent will you be tf?
: strumental in moulding the hie ef
someone who must come IS contac.
with you day by day. Is that in
fluence to be elevating, degrading o>
I of no account at all, which because
! of the elevating influence you mig.it
! have exerted, is just as bad as ?
! you had been guilty Ox' profane
babbling."
We are all proud of our faculty of
I speech. And why shouldn't we be.
! Through this medium we are able to
express the finest emotions of cur
beings. We are able tc tell our little
talcs of woe and there are those who,
because they possess this same facul
ty can utter little words of sympathy
and understanding and the wrote
world, for the time being is bright
ened, so far as we are concerned.
Most of us would sacrifice almost any
organ of our body rather than our
tongue. Yet it has been termed an
"unruly member." We curse our bro
ther with it in on breath and sing
praises to the God who gave it to us
in the next. We tell "dirty jokes and
stories, vicious lies and idle gossip
and with that same uuruly organ
ireath? a prayer to Him who gave
it to us and told us how tc use it
Guard your conversation. It magg
j be clean, pure and devoid of profani
ty but if itt,is of no value? if it is
not constructive and elevating ,,an
^holesoma it is better unsaid. Your
sins of omission ? failing to spean the
proper word at the proper time?
be counted a sin just jui surely as
the other sins of which you are
guilty. ,
out of lifa at so little cost. What a
satisfaction to know that no matter
how low you may fall financially
there is An education, the moot won
derful education any man eoafci ask,
to be had for th? taking. And sonw
I vender what this iwwip wbo
took every advantage of tke Itttte b* j
had offered him. would have, awonap- 1
lished if he had been tc #*t
liia education through the ecZtage or
university.
TO THE VOTTShS OF .
TRANSYLVANIA CQVifTY
I wish to thpuk each aad t* .
of you f ec .y on* napport izt the (pen- ,
eral rf^ction held Nor. 8, l?6t, and
for tne ir.any tvjurtexiec 'txter>A?i tc
vi during the campaign . ' -W&M.
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