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TM BREVARD NEWS Published Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. ^ \ i ? " ! - " l T "?loitered at the Postoffice in Bvevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter Jame3 F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) Oae Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 60 j , | Thursday, November 17, 1932 BREVARD IS A CITY OF IDEALS. What doc< Brevard mean to you? Is it just a little town where you happen to live and 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 t!i.' town, then shut up and let some i.ne talk who can. If you want to i :.iick go find some other town that's 'ot so par ticular and knock ? all you please. If you're here becsus.- you can't help yourself tell folks abjut 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 we. The town's what it is and you can't knock it into a better town. But you can help it to be the town we would all like to see it by forgetting your 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. i 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 taste, would like to reside in. And remember one thing: If you really want to hurt your town; if 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, I jet them close up shop; force them out of town; close down the home in dustries, throw people out of work and then, you can lock on your work of destruction and smiie gleefully and ?ay, with bitter sarcasm: "What a ?wc V CASTING THE FIRST STONS. When you are tempted to say some- 1 thing that will hurt someone or will be a reflection on their character in any way, stop long enough to repeat to yourself the story 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 they were not guilty. He said, "Him that is without sin among you, let him cast Lhe 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 guiity of the sin tcu accused another of but nine times ut of ten you are guilty of sins that re equally as bad. In the first place itjs not your duty I to judge another. You do not and can not know what there is in their make up that prompts them to do the things ?jl which you disapprove. If you knew you might sympathize with them rather than persecute them. If you are guilty of no sins your self, then go ahead and "cast the rirst stone." ADVERSE 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 you** 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 tijirigs that are not right because you are told nothing of them. Visit the enemy's camp. It may prove an enlightening experience. You may find you are not as good as ycu thought. You will probably learn of ways and means of makirg seme 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 embarassment but it will more than likely pay you big div idends. This is a world of progress but ?en' W'eHlMned lliST 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 bo 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 arc good things to have but enemys have their place, too. SIT 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 can'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. Thoy 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 in not the point. Prosperity is not now, and never has been, dependent on any po litical faction for its return or en durance. It isi up to the individual. The President and the Congress reg ulate conditions. The people make them. The man who aits idly by and awaits the return of prosperity will ncer know it And he who expects his country to do something: for him, j without any effort on his part is fool hardy. You, as an individual, are a cog in. the machinery of your nation. If you fail to function properly then this great machine is deprived of its full scope of usefulness. Your president and your Congress must have your cooperation if they ^ carry out the work they have out lined. The Huceess of this administra tion will bo no less dependent on you , than was the former administration. If you want prosperity there is only one way to get it ? go rat after it. YOU MAKE THE WQXLV f.V WHICH YOU LIVE. Are you one of those who would like to see 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; tjhe millions you have i helped them accumulate? The average person ? the person who has always endured a life of , deprivation; who has never had ''his share" ox this world's goods, would more than likely answer that ques tion ir. the affirmative. But would you like it? Stop and think over the ques tion for a moment. You may decide differently. j The man who has never accumulat- ; i cd 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. ; The man who has wealth ha3 secur ed it just as you would if the oppor tunity presented itself for you to do so. Or, perhaps it would be better to say if you should see the opportunity. For there is no reason in the world why you can not accomplish just as : much as anyone else, if you know bow 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 no automobiles, for there would be no factories in which to buiid them; there would be no railroads fo^ there wouldbejnoqgs^^^^ ^!a?i.cy "to !>uil<l the H^lCnvfruld be no steel mills to produce the rails and the cars and other equipment neces sary for the construction ol' 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. j When you grumbTe about capital ism ; when you think you would like to receive you. 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. TEN THOUSAND BANKS HAVE CLOSED IN THE UN) TED STATES More than nine hundred banks closed in the United States last year. This brings the grand total to about 10,0(10. It wouid be difficult to esti-j ( 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 ! what the trouble actually is, and why the depositors must stand this loss is j not known. The bank is the servant j ' of the people. Yet the people suffer j ( when they fail. i This nation, with its model govern ment, is the only nation where 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 t our laws is difficult to determine, but . whatever the cause it must be reme died. If the entire banking system is ? wring than . it should be revised. If the laws governing the operation of banks are at fault then wc should have new law3. This is & matter that it is hoped will W taken up by on* 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 br.nkicg is an integ ral part of our business life. Taxes, tariffs, unemployment and thfrusands of other problems will no doubt be taken up and given the at tention of our Congress and it is to be hoped that this problem, certainly no less important y$oe-j ceive the attention if; desepr J t HANGING OUT ON % ! MAIN STREET | t By i\. Lounsrer | Well, folks the newspapers tell us we had a quiet election. Never nsv ing ii'one thru the experience bsforc in this section we are not qualified to say whether they are right or not Atj any rate in our own Transylvania county there were only three peopte shot, a dozen or two fights, fifteen or twenty celebrants stored away m -he hoosc-gow, half a hundred or so fel low? totin' guns and two or three ia dios gain' full blast-maybe it was a quiet election, comparatively speakin . . . .Any how, now that it s all over maybe the newspaper fo.ks can pack utj some of their pet campaign ex pressions such as "flay/V'Evading the issue," "Sees Victory Assured, Our only Hope" and a lot of others anu here's hopin' they'll have a good sup plv of fresh jokes, new planks and that the "cure of the depression will NOT be an issue next time. At any rate the office boys in Washington ! deserve commendation for tne man ner in which they handled the aifairs of the government durin t.ie cam paitcn ... .And now some of the boys want to run an ad to read, For Sale. Prohibition. A bargain. Only slightly , used." ? * * ' *"I never knew what happiness was until after I married.' Can j McCrary is said to have remar< 1 ed shortly after his leap Peopie shouldn't brood over the past ! Tijickev Mcintosh and Margaret Fullbright all out o' breath, dropt i into the News office Sattidy afternoon to rest their little foot sies ar.d unburden themselves to the extent of tellin' us that they I had just "hoofed it" all the way from Rosman and what's more they said they had covered about four miles of the journey to Ros j man in the same manner so -they i were "'some tired." However, the sale of more than a dollars worth of "Forget-me-nots" helped their feelin's considerably. Plucky las ' sies. . . .And speakin' of for-get 1 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 j ;jet on its feet enough to stop sendin' back our checks marked ?Insufficient Funds,' " said Mrs. Clement to Verne. "A_bajQli^rhsi hasn't gotenotu;^70ney 011 hand tw* rheek ought to be PT^cd and put on a sound I basis." As unbelievable as it has always seemed to us Mary Allison must be "that way.' Those dreamy eyes, that ab stracted look? well, maybe we're 1 wrong .... Jim Bromfield says 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 1 calls the Republican _ plank "a I weasel-worded elongation of at tenuated innuendoes." ? try to say that with about three snorts under your belt. ? ? * What we 'J like to know is what has ;becom2 of the old-fashioned boy who j thought that, in order to get a job of some kind was to display a dip loma of some kind Lowis Hamlin says there is still a sucker born every , minute but the trouble is he has j nothing you car, take away from him ; . . . .Mary Osbor-ie Wilkins and Glenn Galloway takin' nourishment at the ! cafe .... Coleman Galloway says what ; this country needs is less of whatever ii.s the matter with it....Mose Mac ! fie brought Rcbecea some beautiful flowers 'tother day and Rebecca says to him: "Oh, there's still some uew on these lovely flowers you brought me." And Mose, he grinned sheepish ly and replied, "Yes, I know, but I'll settle up for em scon's I get some money." * t * . . . .We've be.;;' told you have to work for this here relief money that's be in' given out ? we knew there'd be a catch in it some where. Wonder how many people are free to confess that the world j is using them about as well as they use the world? Clarice ' Smith and Annie Katherine Hen derson back from attending the - State-Furman game. From the looks of 'em the team they had their money on undoubtedly lost ? lost or somp'n. . . ."Can you punctuate?" asked Pat Xinizey 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," Hazel 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 he gave Ruth a box of candy. "Have 3ome nuts,'; said Ruth And 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 pitting a check on ta?s. . . . "Red" Fullbright told us the suit Jie 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' fcira there was no thin' unusual about that. "No. he said tJic wonderful and unusual part of it is t'rfat so many people can get. a livLV out of somethm' that ain't even paid for." People ana the Lessens I !UI ? I Learn by ob [Va00K ?, ? ? serving tbctn. ( Dy Harold Bronpyp) I often wished I had as much edu cation as Ralph Farley. I had listened to him from time to time and it struck me that' he was conversant with any subject that might be brought up. Not in the manner cf the know-all one so often meets, but in a sort of easy-going way that told you he was not trying to impress you : with how much be knew but wa3 real i ly trying to tell you what you wanted i to know. And if you did not urge hira; i if you did not give him to understand | that you were really interested he j would not bother to tell you anything. He was not a talker ? the kind who | talks just for the pleasure he derives i from it ? but he could talk and that was what made him so interesting, i Then some one told me he had very little education. That he had only j been to school for a few years and that due to the death of his parents I had been forced to get out and earn his own way in the world. I did not believe this. No 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 wandcr ; ings. They were things that one does I not even bother about unless requir ! ed to do so in his college work. I Then one day, in order to satisfy j myself, I asked him if this were true. "Yes," he replied to my question, j "It is true. I never finished the fourth j grade." "I have known a number of peo | pie," I told him, "who have made j good in life with little or no oduca j tion. I have known many who were i better masters of the English lan l guage than many of their associates who had university educations. Thi3 j type is not unusual for it was diffi j cult in those days to get education ana many, forced to shift for ihem I selves have accomplished a great deal i in spite of their handicaps. But I ; have never met one who could dis ' cuss such subjects as philosophy, ; psychology, who has rend the classics, | and who could talk on many other i subjects that are not usually taught ' or learned outside of the college or j university, until I met you." ; i "I learned long ago," he confided, | "that there is a difference between a genuine education and a sort of "polish" which some have applied to j themselves. This polish usually '?S^GUntS to nSWfng more or less than ! a reasonably correct use of the English language and a little "cul ture." secured through a study of a bock of ettiquette and perhaps through associations with people who | were good enough to 'lend a hand.' ; But you can not hide behind that al ! together. I was deprived of the kind cf education but I found that I had enough time to devote to study so j that I could gain some knowledge of the things I would miss otherwise, by 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 j tions. I liked the studies. "I have done this for the past i twenty years and in that manner I | have been able to store up a bit more i than the boy or gir! who finishes the : prescribed course of study and then ? quits. I am still studying and always j will be. I enjoy it. I employ every i 'die moment to the best advantage. I And evc-n when I am talking with ] people I study them and I find the i study of humar nature to be one of j -he most interesting of studies. You have at your command at. ali times an inexhaustable 3ttpply of material. 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 know I will tell theni. The things I know: the tfeinps I have studied and stored away, I will always have with me. What I want is what the other feilow has and I can not get i ;t 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 borescme to have to lister, to some wind-bags who think I they know so much and who simply | talk your ears off?" { asked, j "On the contrary I find them in jtereslsng," was his surprising reply, i Then he explained, "There are many people who are talkers. They usually employ a good many words but when j they have finished and you sum it ali up they have said very little. Bui every individual who belongs to this1 type is just a little different from any other. I like to determine just why it is they find it necessary to use so many words ar.d say so iittie. It may be^that the individual is unedu cated, does not know the value of brevity, thinks a lot of beautiful ad jectives help his story, is inclined to give too many* unimportant detail? 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 yon have the time and the inclination to study him. I have, m a matter of fact, learned more, eiong eeitain lines ? rom the man who is usually tanned a bora than from many of the so called "wits." And because of these things Ralph parley realiy lived. He knew people better taen they knew themselves. He could tell whether a mail twb educat- j ed or no'; regardless of-whether 1? used "polished" laagcagc oe not. He was phyiag ? game and he 'sas JAe winner because U? people with wfcwa ..e played uid ::at kno^" he was 'clay ing. Peopl ? talked .to'sfes, tcid'him >-hj7ig3 and he 'isterted, a, 3d tfeey nwer Knew that he w&s learning far ttiox-e about them fuss ctey iufcn?a?J rfcii h* sfcottW. ? ?= ' What a pkascre to g? ' % The Practical Ir " { Religion. \\ * 4? Applied To Daily Livwf ; J * (Cecil 0. Beantlkv) ?*. ^ ^ ji| Ml'frtt' ' "But sbuti profana and Vain babblings: for they will increase on to more ungodliness." II Timothy 2:16, Stop for just a moment and think back over the things yon 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 i the time you first uttered a word, ! how much of it was really worth | while? How much of it would have jbeen better unspoken? It is not that you may have of j fended in your conversation nor is it j that you have actually been profane j as the term is generally used. But ! the very harmlessness of it; the very j lack of anything worth while in it . would place it in the category of vain j babbling. out of life at so little ec?t. What a satisfaction to know that no waiter | how low you may fisH flnandafly i there is an education, tie' mvn. ~avs jderfal education any bur ?sW to be had for ihm tasting. Aiui kvss~ t'mes I wonder what this mm, nka took every udvanta#e of &e he had offered him, oronJi-hi*? ieaoete lialied if be hed beep get Mr eduction through thb ??5?g6 or to rm TBANSYI*?' wish, to ifetei pi .yoB-fcp^to ,?r*t Conversation is too easy for most ; of us. We do not give it the consider ' ation it deserves. F ram the time we awaken in the morning until we close our eyes at night we are talking. 1 And in the vast majority of cases th? individual- never gives any serious consideration, to his conversation, i 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 j far as anything upbuilding or con j structive is concerned? i We are told here that vain and j profane conversation will lead to j other things that are not the proper things even though there be no actual wrong in what we say. As we become lax in our conversation there i.- a certain amount of evil sure to crecp . 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 much 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 onsaid just as surely as we are to be brought to account for the evil 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 some individual? Would you like to think back o vet the life of some person who has been 1 associated with you and feel that if you had that part of your life to go over the things they have learned i would be s 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 j directly influence some individual, i Perhaps to no great extent but at j least to some extent w;H you be m , sf.rumrr.ta' in moulding the life of someone who must; come in contact i with you day by day. Is that in-' ? flusnce to be elevating, degrading or of no account at all, which because ? of the elevating influence you might have exerted, is just as bad as if you had been guilty of "profane babbling." We are all proud of our faculty of speech. And why shouldn't we be? Through thin medium we are able to express the finest emotions of cur beings. Ws are able to tc-12 our little talcs of woe and there arc- those who, because they possess this same facul ty can utter little words o? sympathy and understanding and the whole world, for the time being is bright ened, so far as we are concerned Most of us would sacrifice almost any organ of cur body rather than e<ur tongue. Yet it has been termed an "unruly member." W? curse our bro ther with it in on breath and sin# praises to the God who gave ii to ub in the next. We teli "dirty jokes" and stories, vicious lies and idle gossip and with that same unruly organ breathe a prayer to Him who gave it to as and toid us how to use it Guard your conversation. It may be clean, pure and devoid of profani ty but if it is of no value ? if it is not constructive and elevating and wholesome it is better unsaid. Your sins of omission ? failing to speak proper word at the proper tims--wul be counted a sin just sa safely *3 the other sins of which you are guilty.
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