North Carolina Newspapers

W. BREVARD NEWS ! Published Every Thursday by i THE TRANSYLVANIA j PUBLISHING CO., In?. Ea tlfcd at the Poatoffice in Brevard, j N. C., as Second Class Matte; , ? ...... i. < I J allies F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Ypar $2.00 fflx JJonth3 1.00 Three Months .60 Thursday, December 1, 1932, PLANNING FOR A NATIONAL GRANOE HERE It is a matter of considerable inter est in this section that plans are be ing made for the organization of a Grange here. There has been consid erable talk along this line for some time but not until recently ha3 this talk been along any definite linee and no actual work has heretofore been done to bring it about. The Grange is one of tho llnest farm organizations in the country. It is not built upon the principal of the numerous: commodity organizations, of which there are many. It is a fra ternal, social and educational organi zation for men, women and children. It takes in the entire family and its purpose is for the upbuilding of the communities. Wherever the Grange is known it is considered one of the fin est organizations and its work is of a type that has always stood for the uplift of agricultural work and centers around the immediate needs of the individual communities in which it operates, as well as more im portant national questions. There are at this time about ten thousand members in the State of North Carolina and membership is being constantly increased as the rural population becomes better ac quainted with the plans and purposes of the organization. It is believed that it is destined to play an important part ir. the future of North Carolina's rural population. There are many farm organizations ar.d they play an important part ir and work of the farmer occasionally found to be some "stunt' which usually collapses when th< fanners become acquainted with it. Agricultural leaders and businest men should do all they can to forwart this movement for anything of this nature which is destined to help 0121 farmers will prove to be of inesti' mable value to the community. "NOTHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR THIS YEAR." A young man who is not doing s< well ? only working part tinfc and al a smaller salary than he has been as> customed to making ? was heard to w mark, when asked if he had a lot tc be thankful for, "I have nothing to b< thankful for this year." Perhaps h< did not mean it. Yet, I am inclined to beiieve he did. ,v. 5 Shortly afterward wo read an ac< count of the work of certain charit able organizations who are having a difficult time providing for the hun dreds of indigents who are asking aid. It is merely the providing of a place to sleep and one meal to each of them but there are so many de mands being made that they are hard put to know what to do with them. This young man, we think, should be thankful that he has a place to sleep; three meals a day, even though they may not be all that he could wish for; clothes to keep his body warm, though they may no-t be as fine as ho was able to wear a few years ago. In fact he has a great deal to be thankful for. No matter what your condition you may well be thankful that it is not as someone who has less than you have. There i3 no one in such dire straits that there is not someone suffering mor*/''** ?. he is. We can not all have wealth and plenty but we can at least learn to make the most of the little we have. CONCENTRATION AND THOROUGHNESS The value of concentration can not be over-estimated. It is essential to success in any endeavor. There may be some tasks? -perhaps the ones you are accustomed to doing every day and which are matters of routine? which you may think you can do with out the necessity for concentration on them; but if it is possible to do a job well without concentration think how much better and more easily you could do it if you concentrated on it. Thoroughness is 'absolutely impossi ble if t#? task in hand is not given the entire attention. And if It is worth doing At all it's woTth doing well. Don't get into the hafcit of doing slip-shod wotk. It is too easy to form the habit ? ?ad too difficult to break it. Resiem- 1 bet- that if all the ?mal' iat-k? are 1 'them are g&od, though one is well dona {here will b* no big jobs, ] for every big job is me/eiy a ntas3 of j small one9, each of which must bo j taken care of as a separate and dis- ? tinct unit, 1/ these are well done; if i the entire and undivided attention is j given to the various units the bigger i problem is found not to be so big ? after all. 1 1 No matter how simple the task; no ' , matter how often you have done it, ? 1 there is always a simpler, easier ? , method of doing it and it is only through your ability to concentrate I your entire attention on it that you ' will be able to do it better and quick- ; | getting on in the WORLD Don't look for the faults in- others. They are too easily found. Look tor their, good qualities. The worst of them nave a few. ! Life at its best is bad enough 1 so don't try to make it worse by try- ? 1 ing to prove how bad it is. Tiy ?j i prove that in spite of its bad qua 1- 1 ties it is really worth living. ^ j Don't grumble. You really haven t ! any cause to do it and there are those j who do. Let them do it. In the firs , place it won't get you anywhere and will only serve to rob you of a lo of pleasure. Don't be narrow-minded, a e w 1 people have any use for a person o that type. It signifies a limited edu i cation and an impaired vision of the i world. ,, j Don't be egotistical. People don ; nke that type and you are likely to be made to understand that everyone : does not have the same opinion of you i that you have of yourself. ! Don't talk hard times even if it is I a fact that they are hard. Too many people have already found it out and you are wasting your time. Tell folks ' of the good you see ? of the improve ! ments. Then you can at least be origi It&la ! j Don't be a dreamer if you haven't ? energy enough to try to make of those ' 1 dreams realities. They only serve to I make the world a worse place , 1 in your sight. Action will produce re , suits; dreams will not. ( Get all you can out of life but on y j ' the good. Nothing else is worth hav II Live a clean life. It will pay big dividends. Cleanliness in mind and in , body is essential to happiness and I success. ' SPEND MORE TIME [ reading ' I There is no more profitable way that j spare momenta may be spent than in j well planned reading. Few of us do r i not have at least a few minutes each i day which could easily be devoted to t profitable reading or study. But to . get the most out of it, it must be well . planned. Promiscuous reading and the , reading of cheap fiction will be of no , material benefit, . There are those who read fiction 1 by way of diversion and that is, we suppose, all right. But don't spent too * much time reading that sort of.rna , terial. There is too much of an edu cational nature to be had to waste , valuable time in this manner. It has not been so many years ago that books were something of a lux ury. People appreciated them and whenever the opportunity was afford ed they were quick to take advantage of it. Nowadays when it is so easy to get the right kind of books and magazines to read we do not give much thought to it. Strange, isn't it that people want the things that are ! so difficult to get? We read stories of the life of Abraham Lincoln and 'the difficult time he had getting something to read and how he would | read the same thing over and over again. We do not have that trouble ' now. We have access to books and < magazines of every description yet we are prone to overlook the opportunity thai is ours. I Get into the habit of spending your j spare time reading books that will be 1 of some benefit and then some for diversion, if that be nccessary. It will pay big dividends in the end. EDUCATION BEST CRIME PREVENTATIVE Someone has suggested that the best cure for crime is education. There is a lot of truth in that. Look over the court records and see how many persons there are charged with larceny, assault, drurkeness, disor derly conduct and other violations of , the law. Then investigate their in dividual cases and see how many oie well educated and how many have ] little or no education. You will find i that the percentage of violators who < have good educations is very small j while that of uneducated violators in 1 quite largo. ^ It is our contention that crime is i tiw direct result of Improper edoca- j tteft-oot 4"?W <^tJcatio?j< but moral, mental ?? T??ational.it I?sn and women who are t.vainod do < lot havfc to resort to crime; they do j 1 :ot need to and do not want to. Dur- j j ng depressions we find that the sur- H rival of the fittiest means that the ! < first to go are those who are poorly | s trained; the laborer, the man and j! I " woman who has no education. Left j without work because they, have fail- 1 en short in education and training they resort to crime? sometimes in ( self-defense, not knowing what else ; 1 to do, and through ignorance. Money invested in schools and va- ] j rious educational facilities now will . 1 do more to reduce the number of in mates in our jails and the costs of , placing them than any other one thing. In other words investments in | education now will be investments in crime prevention for the future. NORTH CAROLINA DAIRYMEN MILKING BETTER COWS An analysis of records kept on 1,- . 651 cows in the North Carolina herd i improvement associations last year indicate that these animals produced an average of 6,927 pounds of milk containing 303 pounds of butterfat. The average feed cost per cow was ?91. "This report was macra by the United States Department of Agri culture which has been studying our testing work," says John A. Arey, dairy extension specialist at State College. "The figures supplied by the national department show that we have made a 3teady gain in milk and I fat production and that the members of our cow-testing associations are j gradually replacing their herds on a (more efficient production basis. The I increase in fat production during the ipast three years from 267 pounds to i 303 pounds is a record to be proud of. j We are now within three pounds of j the national average." j Mr. Arey says persistent culling I is partly responsible for this rapid increase in production. During the past three years from ten to twelve percent of the cows on test were cull ed each year because they were un profitable. When the herd records show that a cow is not paying her owner, he does not hesitate to send her to the butcher. However, many unprofitabio cows are retained in herds in which no production records are kept. If all the fluid milk producers in North Carolina would keep herd rec ords and send to the butcher all ma ture cows which produced less than j 6,000 pounds of milk a year, the pres sent surplus of milk in the State would quickly disappear and the net returns from the remaining cows would be materially increased. The production of the unprofitable cows .will probably eoual the surplus which ; now exists in the fluid milk markets, i Arey believes. [ PLANT SWEET PEAS FOR EARLY FLOWERS Flowers from fall planted sweet peas make a valuable addition to the , , farm flower garden find will add to ; the beauty of the homestead. During I j November is a good time to get the I I seed planted and the suramer-flcwer ! ing Spencer type is the best for this I fall planting. I Glenn O. Randall, floriculturist fit ' i State College, believes that every Ifarm home can use a few sweet peas I to advantage and he suggests that (the house-wife select an open sunny ] place for the seeding. i "Keep in mind," he says, "that ex tra care in selecting and preparing i the soil will pay good returns. The ? sweet pea is a deep-rooting plant and ,the preparation of the seed bed must be deep and thorough. This increases the available fertility and the area from which moisture and nourish ment may be secured. Dig a trench about 16 inches wide and two feet deep for each row of peas." Where the subsoil is unsuitable, t Mr. Randall suggests that this be re amoved and replaced with good soil or mixed with a generous amount of manure. A good dusting of air-slaked lime, applied while working the soil will be beneficial. Lime corrects the acid condition and makes additional plant food available. Mix haif-aecay ed manure with the top soil and use (bone meal or acid phosphate at the ! rate of one-fourth to one-half a pound ifor each running yard of trench. The I trench should then be filled more than i level full to allow for settling during the winter months. Sow the seed two inches deep and two inches apart. When the plants .'nave started growth and before they ? begin to stool, thin them to a stand i of three to four inches apart. I If these suggestions are followed, Mr. Randall says any housewife should get an excellent bloom next spring. V. D. C. MEETING SATURDAY. ! The United Daughters of the Con- ' federacy will meet in the Chapter ! House Saturday afternoon, December; 3, at 3:30 P. M. A full attendance is j requested as very important business ( of the year is to be transacted. HAMLIN ATTENDS DISTRICT MEETS! Lewis P. Hamlin, State Councilor, Jr. Order United American Mechanics is attending the District meetings at ! 1 various point? throughout the State, beginning with Twvember 28 and will have a full schedule through De : ember 3rd. Ke.J^as been in the field almost constantly ^jnee his election to the office o? las been active i itrengthening' th uks arou&r.g ?tnira^me; CPf^ XTshilis. I The Practical I I Religion. | jj Aa Applied To Daily Living + (Cecil 0. Branttjty) % . "If ye shall ask anything in my I lame, I will do it" While this verse is one of the most ?omforting in the entire Bible it is h-3 subjcct of a great deal of contro versy. There are those who tell you that there must be some conditions in it that have not been expressed for ' they can recount numbers of times when they have asked things in His name and they have never been grant ed. Their prayers have gone un answered. If this is the case, how then can we explain Christ's words in this verse? If he will answer some prayers that we offere in His name and not others why should he have made the statement that if we ask "anything" in His name he will do it? He does not tell us that He will do it if he thinks best; He makes no conditions. I think the answer is very simple. He had, at the time of this sermon, spent the greater part of His life hero on earth teaching men the way of life. He had given definite instructions to them as to the manner in which they must conduct themselves if they would gain eternal life. He had taught them how to pray; how to come into personal contact with Him when He should be taken away from them. And His remarks in this verse addressed to Christians; to His fol lowers who wanted to live the beauti ful life. And it is to be supposed that one who approaches Kim through prayer is conscientious; is leading, to the beat of his ability, the beautiful, pure life as He taught it. Therefore, one who is doing this will not ask for thing3 in the name of Christ which are not right. There has been exclud ed from their iive3 all thoughts of self; all sinful and evil purposes and intentions and the things that they ask for are things that there is no reason why they should not be grant ed. But one, who, through ignorance asks for thing3 that are not best should not expect to have that prayer answered. It is indeed & difficult thing to determine whether or not you are liv ing the right kind of life. Th^.re, manv rules and regulations which He hiis laid down to govern your lite arid conduct. You may he doing every thing in your power to live right and fall short m just, cne thing, but it you are guilty of breaking one law you are guilty of breaking all of them. Yon can't keep your little pet _ sin hidden and expect tba'c He win overlook it. It may be hidden from the world but it is not hidden from Fim. And as long as you persist in holding on to that little sin, however trifling it may appear to you- ^ can not expect to approach the throne of Christ and receive the things tor which you ask. I You say you are doing the best you i know how to do You think ttau . ? ior.tr as you do that, nothing more is required of you. If that is your at titude you way as well give: youraell over to that smiling fiend, the Devil, for you will eventually become his guest, anyway . Now, why do I say that with such assurance? Simply because ignorance does not excuse one who is caP*&le of obtaining the necessary knowledge. The Bible is so cleariy written tnat it is never misleading if you really want to learn. Is it to be supposed that Christ would give to hi? people a guide book and make it so confus ing that they would be loBt regardless of it? Certainly that pide-fcook must bo read and studied if it is to be 01 any benefit. In fact He tells us that study is necessary, for we are told to study to show ourseives approved un to God, workmen that need not cO be ashamed. And is safe to Kswtte when he uses the word study rie mean? it as it is commonly accepted today. 1 While the Ten Commandments are 'almost all that we need to govern our lives there are things about them which are made clearer in the teach ings of Christ and His disciples and the various other writers who ha.c left us these messages. In .he ien Commandments we are told that we shall not steal, but if we do steal, what is to be the consequence? Are we to give all of life's effort up for naught just because of that one viola tion? He tells us that we are not to commit adultry but suppose we ao it. In theie Commandments He has mafic no provision. And, too. whit we may not commit adultry. the other party may do so and certainly no one should feel obligated to live with one who has violated this law, because, then it becomes a very personal matter. What is to be done about this. All these questions m i g h t be brought to the mind ot one who has been told that as long as he obeys the Ten Commandments that ? all thn. is necessary. But the conditions that arise when we are confronted with , the violation malce u? wonder if v,e do . not reallv need something which goes . more dciply into the question. , When we look about for a of these problems we fmd that foi , every one with which we are con-j fronted there is an answer. For m stance, if we steal we are told that we must restore what we have taken! and then seek God's forgiveness. Tnat ends the matter and we may begin again. As to adultry, the same tning applies, but we want to know what i= to be done if the act is committed by another who is our wife or hus band. Definite laws have been i 1 aid down and we must be guided by them. We may have ouv own ideas but the} are worth nothing as long as they , to not conform to His teachings. Thcss things can not be learned ex x?pt through the study of His word, i Therefore, if you are ignorant, n lov r jar&sasi^areJifit ? answered be- < People the Leasoras t m! * 1 Leara by ob- i' s I. AVieet ? . ?serving theia. '.By Harold Bremton) ||j I could not understand why that! nan, Paul Anderson, always said ;hat divorce cases were his specialty i^j ?nd yet I had never known him tc , ,, handle more than half a dozen dur- *j ng the four years I had him. Or> his ^ :ards he carriud the notice, "Divorce . ;ases a speciality," and I often heard j him referred to as a "good divorce1 lawyer." J Then one day I had an opportunity t to talk to a young man who had gon? J to see him about getting a divorce. * He had never taken his case to cpur' * and seemed to have forgotten about * the matter. "Why," I asked him, did you never ? get your divorce?" ,c Colonel Anderson talked me out of f the notion," he replied. "I went to see ? him and he went thoroughly into the ( matter; sympathized with me; assur- > ed me he would do the best he could ' and told me to come back. I went back to see him and after a while ' he showed me up for a cad. Said j things to ar.d about me that made me feel that I was all and more than he had called me. I admitted it and told him how sorry I was and that if possible I would patch up thf: wrong I'd done and endeavor to ef fect a reconciliation. Then he had the wife shown in. I found that he had gone directly to her and talked to her about the matter and that she felt as I did. He told us a lot of things we had never thought of and made us feel that we really did not want the divorce. Now we are as happy as ; newly-weds and we have him to thank i for it." I thought that strange and made it a point to see and talk with Mr. An derson at the first opportunity. When I asked him why he called himself a divorce lawyer, yet did everything to prevent his clients getting a divorce, he smiled and replied: "T am interested in young people] and nothing hurts me more than to see their matrimonial ventures go on the rocks. I want to help them and. if possible, keep them from doing something that will be cause for re gret in later life." ''But you cannot possibly nnd tr.at a very profitable business." I said. "Only in the satisfaction it afford? me." he replied. "I get a great deal of satisfaction from helping them avoid these pitfalls when I can see that it is just some little misunderstanding that is causing the trouble. They gen erally mean well and they, in mo3t instances, have not ceased to really care for each other. I talk to one of them; find out his side of the question and then make it a point to talk to the other one. You would be surpriaecLto know that most of them are really quite anxious to patch up their differences but are just stub born. i "I have been instrumental in bring ing many couples back together and I have been amply rewarded by their happiness at having someone inter vene. I advertise my divorce business but have been told I am running a 'reconciliation bureau' and I get a big kick out of it. Sometimes X lose my client and he or she goes to some oth er lawyer and gets the divorce. Iti a few instances when I have come to the conclusion that a divorce is to ba the only way out I take the case, but not often." i A few more lawyers like this one would do the world a lot of good. When a man or woman takes his or her troubles to a lawyer they expect to receive expert advice and they are ir. a mood to lister, to what he has to say. He is in better position to help than anyone else for they know that they must confide in him and they do, telling a great deal more than any minister, father or mother, brother or sister could hope to learn. That mart got a world of satisfac tion from his work and he made the homes of many couples secure by get ting to the root of the trouble and suggesting a remedy. PRUNE APPLE TREES FOR BEST FRUIT Pruning must be considered an es sential part of the orchard manage ment and a big factor in the economi cal production of marketable appies. "We know of course, that pruning influence the shape of the apple tree and aids in the development of a well balanced top which will produce uni form fruit," says H. R. Niswongcr, extension horticulturist at State Col lege. "After the young trees reach maturity, it is necessary to continue light pruning so as to maintain this balanced top and to even the distri bution of fruit spurs or the fruiting area. Pruning also increases the size and color of apples on trees that are too thick to permit the free circula tion cf light and air. The better con- j trol of fruit pests may be secured by i proner pruning." The North Carolina experiment station has conducted some inteiest inir tests contrasting heavy and lighl pruning and in general has found that it does not pay to prune too heavily aiter the shape of the tree .' has been formed. The light pruning j consists largely of a light thinning of the branches with a mir.imum of heading back. Heavy cutting back and I excessive thinning, results in an ! abundance of water sprouts, delays the formation of fruit buds and re duces the size of the tree. Mr. Niswonger says, therefore, the amount of pruning needed after a tree begins to bear fruit or after the first years of heavy production will be governed by the size and color of the fruit and the amount of terminal growth. If the teminal growth has been reduced by this heavy produc tion and the fruit has lost color and ?ize, a heavy thinning is needed. This will prevent the tree becoming a bear ?r every two years,. til. hft?irg yortr recfuesta granted. re&arks were address ee d no one who Ignorance ofU TODAY'S NUISANCE; To ?? ier. indulging in "ardent spirits" to iiminats their trouble. OccanionsHy ou see a woman drinking, but sbe oes not do it tc avoid trouble? She oes it to get into trouble. Heard snd Been lots about divateea ut have just seen where Harryette I. Post, Denver heiress, has bean di orced twice and has ma fried the hird brother end still thereto no ill eelir.gp between hor and her fonfef lusbanda ? Probably if one of ormer husbands has a ton that will 10011 kick the last slat out of the iradle she will" try to marry him, "1* 10 she will be marrying her own too. ' BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Eastey, 3. C. is the only point on the South- . !rn Railway wliere you can see both the north and south bound Cressen* Limited at one time. The height of dumbness: To sec Clemson cadets trying to taks posses sion of Furman gold poets following their Thanksgiving game at Green ville as they have done In tbe last few years ? They must have - been under the impression that they had won, but realized the fact that they had lost when Furman started de fending the posts, "Maybe they thought because it was Thanksgiving that Furman would not mind giving the posts. IF THE BRAINS that some people possess was powder there would not be enough to ignite. Thanksgiving ha3 passed fcr the year, Christmas 13 coming with great cheer, For the vay is paved nice and clear Even if we are drowned out with beer. Our people are all up in high gear, Singing and shouting far and near That Prosperity will soon be here Jf we have beer before a new year. We contribute to yoar good looks. You can g?tj a Vitalis treatment herefl the vegetable oil tonic* also the Fitch production It Pays To Look Well CLEMSON WON THE WAR: Mathematically figuring as some Clemson cadets call it, they said they won the war. In a football fracas between Amy and a Southern col lege the Southerners won the game Proceeding this game Clemson college beat the Southerners and therefore they won the war because they say thai they topped Army and Army won the war. Harold Duckworth says as far as he knows that all dead men are very honest. I NEWSPAPERMEN are criticized many and many times for making errors in a newspaper and we often find the ones that briny forth *oeH criticisms were all" a mistake them selves and born an error? "Show me a man that haa never made a mistake and I will show yon one that has never attempted to do anything. 1. will show you one that has never breathed and still lives if you can bring forth one that does not make mistakes." For one time George Snelson has told the truth: "He says that a hand ful of ordinary sense is worth a car load of learnings." 1 BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Sooth Carolina is the only state in the union that does not grant divorces. Depression is caused by stock mark et crashes, over-production, Machin ery, wars, road building . and many other ways but the main reason is that we have no birth control, causing' so much unemployment in the United States. There is just as much money in the world today as there were five years ago but there are so many that are jobless that causes the situation to be so grave and in fact this has pot many in their graves. Get birth con trol "and then you can abolish depres sion. Today there are twice the number of inhabitants to take the place of the men that were killed in the World War in this eountiy that have to live and such i3 the old saying "there is a sucker born every minute" and so continues the population to grow. There is approximately two out of every eight persons in the United States that are employed at this period and jnst how are the remaind er of the world progressing. We {save no place to pnt them, we have no place for the four-year college stu dent, over-flowing the country with people that can not succeed in gain ing a position to earn a living is most assureiy the cause of depression