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THE BREVARD NEWS PfeUiabad Every Thursday by THE TBANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. ... 1 I Entered fit the Po3toffice in Brevard, K. C., as Second Class Matter Jame3 F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION SATES (Payable In Advance) One Ygar $2.00 Six Months 1-00 Three Months 60 Thursday, November 24, 1932. ! ?' FRIENDS ARE A VALUABLE ASSET. . You 3eldoni appreciate the value of real friends until you need one. Every one is not your friend, as we inter pret the meaning of the word friend. There are those you meet in every day life; you speak ana they smiling- , , ly return the salutation. Your con- ! ( tacts with them are pleasant enough. , j And it is the same in business. They, j , at 'least are not your enemies but are i they friends? !, A friend is one who will listen to ; your little tales of woe and who will offer you suggestions; who will share ! them with you. He is 'one who will! make a sacrifice for you and who will j take your part when others are j against you. He is one who tries to ! understand you; who realizes that | you have your weaknesses as well as . he and does not ridicule you for them, i He is one who will correct your mis- 1 take? and will welcome criticisms from you. He is one who will not tell ; you a lie to avoid hurting you. If the ; truth hurts he will feel that it ie bet- ; ter to hurt you a little then than to 1 | remain silent and be responsible for a greater hurt later. You will find yeu have many friends until you really need them and then you will realize there are only a few who are real friends. Make friends cautiously; choose them carefully and be as true to them ' as you would have them be true to you. i 1 1 DON'T ACT IN HASTE. The question of the repeal of tha ' is. incoming to_ ^^^efront as a very important ques tion. Those who do not act to prevent vst^iipeai wilt be just as much re sponsible for the striking of this law from our books as the man who votes in favor of it. Arguments have been presented pro and con. No one is fooled into be! lav ing it will help the government and help us financially. Those who admit that the prohibition law have been in effective do so because they do not know. The enforcement of the law has been about as successful as the enforcement of laws against theft and murder and bigamy. These laws are violated every day but instead of asking for repeal we cry for more rigid enforcement and more severe penalties. There are too many aspects to this question of repeal of the eighteenth amendment to treat it lightly. There is no place for liquor. Thsre is not one thing for which it may be used that something else would not take its place not even in the medicine cabinet. Then what is the excuse for having it? Why give it to the people? The question of repeal cf the eighteenth amendment should be greeted with a storm of protests. But it will not. A certain class will sup port the issue, another class will fight it and a third class will ignore it. In effoct we might say that the class that ignores the issue is realiy fight ing for it for their efforts might be the determining factor in the failure of those "wets" to remove the law from our books. AMERICA IS GETTING AIR-MINDED The progress being made in the field of aviation is comparable only | to that which was made in the auto- ! mobile industry during the quarter j century just passed. The aeroplane is here to stay. It will be developed and improved to an extent that we cannot picture just 1 now. Already air travel is about as safe as on land or sea. Those who j read of accidents which occur from ; time to time will hesitato to accept1 this statement, but statistics prove' there are fewer accidents in the air! then on the land in proportion to the j number of aeroplanes in use, as com- j pared to the number of automobiles, j Much attention is being given to! safety devices now and as these are! perfsctetl and the people become more j confident the number of planes -will increase and it is safe to day thai I : in not a>any yea-'s aJr travel wfll ha j jqpnlar as motoring tooay. On thought you feave never ji wished for that, have yen? ' i ORGANIZED CHARITY IS j. RATHER HARD-HEARTED . W? suppose there is no other way! to meet an emergency like this we are j i now in than to meet it with organised j 1 effort. Somehow it robs charity and : jiving of much of its pleasure to the ' ionor when his gifts to the needy Must pass through organized chan lels, leaving no way for the don<->- ?? mow where his gift wf? ?~'ce'V6^? ncr low much of nnally reached those vhi, "??d it so much. We wouldn't mder any circumstances detract one ota from the glory that is due those ine men and women who have been ielected to dole out the gifts that the j ! Deople bring in for the relief of the leedy. Theirs is a hard task, and jrows irksome, of course. Word comes to us from some of ;he city where labor unions exist that ;ome of these charity dispensers are making blunders that will prove most :ostly in year3 to come, and those ivho will pay the greater part of this lost are the charity organizations themselves. It seems that when a man S applies for aid at one of these or- j ganized charity places ho must an- j ] swer a great many questions concern- 1 Eng himself, his family, his connec tions, and so on and on and on. The report that makes us mad is that concerning application of mem- : bers of a labor union for aid. It is said that when a man gives informa tion that he belongs to a labor union, the paid dispenser of charity abrupt ly tells such a man to go to the secre tary of his local union for aid, and the doors at the charity place are thereupon closed to that applicant. Never was greater outrage perpe trated than that. To begin with, no member of a labor union asks for aid at any chari ty headquarters until every cent in that union's treasury has been ex hausted, and then all the working members give to their fellow members in need until there is nothing left to give. Then, in many of the union crafts none have had any work for a year, some for two years. This is especially true of the building crafts. Plumbers, painters, carpenter?, elec tricians, plasterers, lathers, brick j masons, all have been idle since the j building activity stopped a long time ! ago. Then, in the name of copimon I have ; any money in their treasuries? j It hurts a member of labor union ! to ask charity. It is something new : in his life. He has always been glv ! ing to charity, rather than asking for | charity. The very charity orgariiza , tions now so flippantly telling the j members of labor unions to apply to : their secretaries for aidkhavo had no finer contributors in past years than { these union workers who now apply in vain. | One of these days, when this de ' pression is ended and the useful mem . bers of society as represented in Ja bor unions are back at their work, , these same charity groups will apply | to them again for contributions, and i that is where they will hear the fa jtal words; "I was hungry, and ye fed me not; ? my children were cold, and you told ' us to go to the secretary of our locai - union; you rebuffed us when we were i in need, now, go, thou fool, and find your contributions at other places. We, the union men, are laying aside ; our own fund, so when another need | comes we can go to our secretaries, and not have to be humiliated by you and your foolish organisation lead- ; ers." i i ARE YOU JUST GETTING BY? , j How often we hear someone re mark, "That's not my job, let some one else do it." The workman who wants to get ahead; to make a suc cess in life never hesitates to do not . only that which is required of him but is willing to do a great deal more that he might just as easily get by without doing. Watch the man who is never willing to do any more than "his share" and you will see that he never gets very far in life. The successful men are those who are always willing to do just a little more thar. is necessary; a little more than a required of them. It is the spii*it of the thing that counts. The | clock-watcher is not an asset to any ! business. His chief interest is in get ing all he can with as little effort as possible. He is so interested in trying to avoid doing a little too much that' he fails to give full value. In the hustle and bustle of modern life one mast he always on the alert to achieve mere than ordinary succcss. Don't be afraid cf doing too much. j You are only -hurting yourself ?uid the p ice you pay in the end will be far mOA than the Dttle effort you Ceiled to axert would have cost you. put of 1 ft S* ?e** t V * SOMETIMES V/E WONDER ABOUT OUR "PROGRESS." Far be it from ua to say anything J about our great educational system ' , that is declared by all and sundry to . 3e the very best there is, but c"' * ' iioies we worder. T?? " an ear^ s naming driv* 01 these co,d niorn- ! < ng.B hi you, and notice the littie -j hiidren standing along the highway, : | vaiting and waiting for the approach , if the school bus. Little forms shiver- { ng, fingers numb with cold, eyes wat- ) ;ry with the whipping of the wind, j vaiting for the school bus. There they , vait, and a few hundred yards fur- , her along there is another group, 1 ust like the first, and on and on until ;he bus finally comes along and the ( :hildren are packed into the vehicle 'or the trip to the school, miles away. If you will make that trip one of these mornings, we believe that you tfill return to your home or office vith some misgiving in your mind as :o our boasted progress in education il wcrk. We believe you will be think ing of the community school that work id so well back yonder before the great plan of consolidation swept people off their feet. If you decide to take this trip you will have to get up earlier than you have been accustomed to rising, for some of these school children must be on the highway at the beginning of day, If you would see the whole plan in operation, you would want to sec them being returned to their homes i at the going down of the sun. Tako a day off and see for yourself, j Then you will know how it works. Do j not stop near the town, or the school ! to which they go. You will have to go out to the end of the way to see this "progress" in its full light. IS AMERICAN CHIVALRY PASSING? A young lady was recently neard to make the remark that the young ! men of today are not as chivalrous toward the opposite sex as they once ! were. And looking about us w<? car. ' not but agree with her. Perhaps the reason for this is be cause men are not the gentlemen they once were. Or perhaps the women are not the ladies they were not so long ago. We do not propose to side with the gentlemen _ in., question, and view of the evidence we have from the other side we will not presume to take the part of the ladies. One is about as much to blame as the other. But we do know this; If women in sist upon smoking cigarettes, partak ing of intoxicating beverages, doing mens' work, using profanity and in other ways conducting themselves in J such a manner as to make it diffi j cult for the men to think of them aa men once thought of women they at least should wot kick about any lack of chivalry on the part of the men. j We do not say that women have no | right to do those things; we believe j that women have eouei rights and privileges with the men and that if they care to do 83 the men do. then j that is their privilege. Nor do we feel that they are "degrading" themselves , in doing these things. But the women who refrain f.om doing them are the ones wlio never have cause to com plain of any lack of chivalry. Liquor, tobacco and profanity have r.o part in the making of the real man; how much less in the making of the real women? M?n who refrain from doing these things are better thought of than those who indulge. Is the woman to be judged by a dif ferent standard? If you would place yourseK on the same level with man; if you yield to the temptations to which man has given way; if you emulate him in dress, in conversation, in work and in inu^gences then do not complain be cause ho does not look up to you. No one needs to lcc>k up to one who is on a level with him. You must either retain thoz* qusli- 1 ties which have, in times past, ar^;;- , ed the chivalrous spirit in man or you must act the part of "a good sport" and concede him the privilege of treating you as an equal. At the same time we feel that every woman should be treated with every respect and courtesy which a man can offer as long as she wiJl i make it possible to do so. Jf you can't tell folks to do as you do don't tell them to do as you say do. Business may be bad but don't go around telling it ? too many know it already. A certain amount of haste is nsc-j cessary, but don't go through life too j rapidly ior if you do you'll miss most j uf the good things. < Wo like to think 8' fellow .is ! unless we hsve oaus* to believe otiiar- j 3<H?a ? out the fellow wfeo is Sragslag a'xnrt lis will V**1 ,v etching- " TRAGEDY? SOUL STIRRING AND HEARTBREAKING , , ?ac end of a -S4W* ?p? ,h0 re .inner, shoulders shaking and losora heaving with the sobs that lent streams of burning, briny iears ?oursing dowr, his youthful cheeks. \.t the feet of this mountain lad here lay the mangled form of his leg ? killed by a passing car whose iriver did not even halt when he felt he impact of Ford against the :'riendly form of the dog. "Just an ither trifling dog out of the way," j ? svas, in all reason, the only thought of a :he driver. j I Yes, it was only a dog, but his,' death brought tragedy into the life of }? a fine boy, and caused heart- j e ache ? and bitterness. "He could have j missed my dog, he could," the lad i ^ cried out to those who stopped to } sympathize with him. "He saw my 1 J dog, and by turning just that much (measuring an inch distance on his finger by a quick indication of the thumb) he would have missed my dcg. Is Some day when I am a man, I'll get j J even with that old Devil." Yes, it was only a dog, but that boy loved him. Ever since our forefathers j braved the elements, the untouched , forests, the Indians and the wild ' * beasts, to establish this civilization | ' here in the mountains, the dog has 1 ^ been man's most constant companion ; i and best friend. That lad loved his dog ! not only with a love that started when , ' he first gained possession of the ani mal. That love for his dog was a heri tage handed down from generation to < generation, and the dog's untimely death marked real tragedy in that boy's life. It may result in another tragedy some day, out yonder in the future, when the lad grows up, for it is safe to say that he will never forget that desire to "get even" with the man who killed hi3 dog. THE SOUTH IS LEADING THE WAY. In Forbes Magazine the statement was recently made that the South is leading the way out of depression. It is. On eveTj* hand we see reports of increased activity, i n industrial plants in business as whole. :s are installing new equip tier? are more turnovers in i real estate; men aro being put back ? to work and everywhere there are in ! dicationr- of improvement. And these 'are not confined to industries which j look for seasonal increased activity. They are general. It is encouraging to hear of these i things and especially in the South. It ! means much tc us for we know that j the North will follow, and the con ; dition will become general. The stability of American business 'has received the greatest test that tyre could ask and it has stood up ' under it remarkably well. Americans possess that fighting spirit which makes.< failure all but impossible, i There may be times when we feel like ' quitting but we know that all is lost ! whereas, even though the going may be tough, if we hold on we stand a chance of coming out on top. i We may gain ground slowly but 1 | every little bit gained places us that i much nearer the top so let's put our | shoulders to the wheel and put every ounce of effort into that last grand shove to the top! Beware of the fellow who is offer- 1 ing you something for nothing ? he's 'just as much of a sap as he's trying I to prove you are. H6's trying tc get .'something for nothing. i j Americans have became so used to | plenty that they have a difficult, time deciding just what are the essen- i tials of life. j Don't depend to say great extent on a change of government for pros perity-? individual initiative is just as essentia) under the leadership of one party as it is under another. If you must knock your community ' use a rubber hammer. N. c. insmtutions reduce EXPENSES j Raleigh, OcX. 26. ? Progress is be ing made in North Carolina institu tions toward giving equally good in- . stitutional care at greatly reduced j; cost, S. Eugtne Brown, director of : the division of institutions for the i. state board of welfarK said today, jj ''Personnel has beeffvjeduecd, but the same standard of gi<od work ap pears to have been reptRtained," Brown assarted in disc^ssion^ of a concerted movement to Reduce in stitutional costs. ) "Many economies hsvej been ef fected," this director contjnneci. "but the* point has been reao.ned beyond';! which it seems utwise ijc gc, par- !c ticulariy in tbe case} of the state {j Jjpspitais for raer.fc*! patwnts* without ,5 ifta-ifichsg sfSrJw?fy ft^eeon$wy It Proper social ptaanfcg- is njpw cs jjpj&g i?portftnco.,"? f5?c'. ' Ml; TeO?le ?r-d the Lessons r * c i liearn by ob- , , , i MCfiJ , , ? serving their,. (By Harold Brmw?i) 1 used to marvel at his versatility. ? t made no difference what the task] e seemed able to do it and dp it weli. : S thought him a genius, yet he was , vs just a man." If it happened to be a ,u uiiding that was to be erected he j culd not only supervise the job but j e could handle a saw and hammer . nd other tools as well as the best a arpenter on the job. He could do ^ ny kind of work on the farm or do ^ he planning for others. And best of a 11 we knew boys and girls and likeu ? hem and they thought him one 01 t he finest men in the world. ^ He was principal of a small rural t ioarding academy. He was a prof- a ?3or, an ordained minister, a busi- u iess man and a workman, all in one. j le worked with his students and they worked with him. In the class room 1 t le was a good teacher and those ir. 1 lis classes always made excellent ? grades. He was employment adminis- J rator of the institution but he never squired anyone to do a job he v/as ^ inwiliing to do himself. And when he c :upervised the recreation of the < roung people he immediately became J me of them. * And there was no pleasure, no 1 rial, no joy, no sorrow that he would i lot. share "with "his boys and girls." ! fie was a father tc them ; a chum and ] :ompanion. He led out in the activi- ] :ies of the school and always did his ( share of the work and more. But what puzzled most of us was 1 lis ability to do so many different t kinds of work and do them well. I i think he gave us the solution in a L-bapel talk one morning. He said: "This is a day of specialization. 1 Trained men and women are in de- i mand and the man or woman, boy . or girl who cannot do some one thinK well is going to find himself or her self a back number. Pick out your work; the thing for which you fee! you are best suited and learn to cio j it well. It is essential that you be 1 well trained in some field. But bear in mind cne thing: Even the trained man may find at some time m Jus life, a time when he can not find work in his chosen line. The law of sypply and demand is ever-changing_ and the specialist may at some time find that his services are not in demand. It will ; then become necessary for him to re- i sort to some other line of endeavor and if he is able to do only one thing well he will find himself up against a proposition that will not be easy or solution. In the various walks of lite vou will find opportunity to "get your hand in" in a number of different kinds of work. When you do, just say to yourself, "I may find this know-, ledge useful some day so I am going j to learn all I can about it while I have ; thfe opportunity to do so." Then apply yourself t> it as though it were your chosen profession. Don't go at it in , a hap-hazard manner but do it as well as you possibly can and be willing to be taught. ? "I hold no brief for the so-called j "Jack-of-all-trades," one who can do a little of everything but can do nothing well. Avoid that sort of train ing for it will never get you any where. If vou have a trade or profes sion there is nothing that will offer more diversion than some work thai j is far removed from the thing you I are doing day in and day out. Ii you like flowers, then make a study ot them. Kave a flower garden and make of it the beat you possibly can. i Study flowers, experiment, work with them vourself ar.d don't hire it done, some day that knowledge may necome useful. If there is repair work about the house do it yourself. Not merely to save the money but to furnish rec reation for yourself and to learn something that will certain)/ never do you anv hanr. ar.d may be founo useful.* In "other words be practical. You <nav ask, "What was his specialty." "He was a teachsr. He taught the things he had learned in b busy life that htfd no such worci i as idleness. I never knew him when he was not busy. If it happened to , be in the class room, in the field, vn j the work shop or on the play ground he was always teaching the things he had learned. So I would say his chos en profession was that of a teacher. Yet I believe that he could have earn ed a living in at least a dozen ef ferent fields. He had always applied himself to the task in hand just as" though it were the only thing in the world. And at the time I suppose n was, for one can not do any ta:?K. well while thinking of other things that may be far removed from the thing that should be occupying the entire attention. Versatility, I learned from him, is , an asset, The person who can do only ? one thir.g really well will find him self out of place in any company other than those who are interested in that particular line. I am convinced that he spoke a great truth when he said one njust specialize. That point is obvious. And it is just as obvious that the practical man ; the man who . can do more than just one thing is , better qualified to cope with tne prob lems of life than the specialist who has no sidelines. THANKSGIVING I TliiB is one of the "special days" . which, daring recent years, comes to. ^orth Carolinians freighted -with the s spirit, of good-will, of cheerfulnea, of nappy greetings fragrant withl friendship that means service ldtewr.'i service may be needed. A generous , spirit has been manifested toward the < prions orphan homes of the State 1 snd the North Carolina Orphr-n As- 1 !ocis;ion once ajsin renews its appeal < 'or liberal offerings for thesa bene-;' 'cient institotioaa during the ap-,1 >roachi?g Tfcaufre^iviiitf period Or, ? Wor* Thursday, November . ?i, the day bst ajMU$$ by the President t .? the United Stat#* aMl-ths Hover- , to? of North. Carolina for pr t???v and , Vbatif&rivi^, '??&#* Jyjpb-i5?t?d g wttfbwfc the ofTs AV fe> t iife OlyhASMig '^t&'S&yssL FORCES LANDINGS By & J. Poole ; r -i - TODAY'S NUISANCE; The Girt coats having a "Treasure Hunt"" 'hfln we thought there were no fcress res to be found. Old Mar. Depression i8 still disptay ig some of his destructive wcrk even fter we have accepted a new presi c-rit. The other day he fell in the rell about 4:30 p. m. and his sked if he wanted some of the sl ants that were working in the field o come ana rescue him from the epths of the well ? "He being ft#' ight as ever," said, they stop work ,t 5:00 p. m. so I will owim around intil they show up. NOW LISTEN: Recently Charlie Douglas placed a box at the entrance if his office eo Santa C'aus would lot miss him ? Charlie we thought Santa was dead at ieast this will be vhat lots of people will tell their chil Iren when the 26th of December :ornes around the corner. He will be uat like prosperity coming around ;he corner. "He will be killed by De gression before coming around." Tom Whitmire says that the Char otte High School beat Washington* D. C. High School at Charlotte re cently ? Well Tom that is one time we ?eat "Capital." Capita! is hard to beat because you never see a man amount to anything trying to beat another that has money. BELIEVE IT OK NOT: Every bank in the Unite? States will be dosed in (four) months after the in auguration of president-elect Roose velt. He will accept office on the fourth of March and look at your calendar four months after said period and make your decision. Now a college in this 3tate that has "Capitel" has won the State Cham pionship in football. So is the old say ing "The State Championship went to the Devils" ? Don't misinterpret this statement because ths Duke Universi ty football squad is called the Blue Devils. WE WORRIED ourselves nearly to death until we succeeded in influ encing the state and city to pave aU the roads and streets ? Now some in significant little pie^e of humanity wants them destroyed because the tax on such modem conveniences worry him more than he worried about get ting said improvements. Mr. Miller? "Mr. Duckworth, da you make corrections after a man leaves the window oE the bank." Mr. Duckworth ? No, Sir. Mr. Miller ? "Thanks, you gave me ten dollar* more than I shouitf have received." A WELL informed, prominent and influential lady of Brevard drooped her head in sorrow and tgony and said, "business is bad and everything is going to Asheville and Groenville, ?neludintr the dirty clothes." ? iai * - Heavy weight lady ? Mrs. Lawrence I don't see fw you get in one of those little Austin automobiles. Mrs. Lawrence ? "You don't get in them, you put them on." : STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN; Be lieve it or not or Anything that 500 desire but the Greensboro Daily News has been clipping articles frcta this column for their editorial page. ' I guess you think this will cau? me to get the swell head but this could not be, because I was brought up in the Daily newspaper field. ? One good consolation, we know the newspaper men read this column whether it. is read by others or not. Hendersonville Boy: Do you know what Sherman said war was? Ed. Loftis: No, I do not Hendereoimlle Boy: "He s?W war was Hell and that is what the Hen dersonville football squad thought Brevard was and made a detour when Joe Hamlin started through the line." DID IT EVER appear to you that the people living out of town had a sensitive feeling like any human of the city. When you cait them "coun try," they think that you tr? to be better than they are by making such statement or rather have a tendency to feel that way towards yoa ? "After ail we are all countrymen whether we live In the city or suburban district." Jack Trantham: How do yoa sell your apples? Dewey Wood, Canteen clerk: "Just as fast as we can." Jack Trastham: I mean the price of them. Dewey Wood: "I mean two for five cents. Vj BELIEVE IT OB NOT: 0& cf Iho citys best sportsman, with permit, qualified to hunt on the government reservation, shot 17 times at 3 rub bits and twice at another and did flot succeed in bagging any game at all ? "If he is no better shot than that the tame deev on the government prop erty will certainly i? safe. North Carolina is called tlie "Tar 3$6i South Carolina is called tfo "Bol ivecvil gt&te." . G^orgk is c&ited the "Gaorgifc tracker state.*' Virginia is called the "Swa-back" Probob!? tfwy \riU ?]? b? ailed ''soy^bsscfai" ?fter tfoj 8** trough carrying this mad rA dggtgM* den. . 'Wm SUNDAY BlSisSi-- Sk Mos-I ky I beoptcsd to 4?ir *. - itn p?rt*ki5g to eumtiht tost cm m
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