HIGHWAY MARVEL OF SCENIC BEAUTY (Continued from \> are mount*i .is of varying altitudes, "orges, river?, lakes and valleys and countless small turbulent This highway crwej the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia the famous Neel Gap, the Blue Ridge Mountains in North <>rolma though the TalJlluh Gap. and the -""0k> Mountains in Tennessee through the famous Deal 5 Gap. Some of the high scenic spots are Neel Gap and Blood Mountain Gome. ^Georgia and the Nantahala Gome in North Carolina, w'nic.i the moto M see-, in" magnificent and Danoramas from looKouts at Neel Gap and Tulullah Gap : the Sante etlah I.ake country, which skirts the high wav for miles in North Carolina with a 'serie- of very large lakes whose ?ur"quo.se waters are .aid to teem vith came fish; the rushing. rolick inir and heguilding Little Tennessee River, which frolics beside the hl^h wiv for miles in Tennessee, and the majestic mountains of the Smok> Mountains National lark in essee. . The unaccustomed to mountain driving will require nine or till hours to traverse the e.itirc highway from \tlanta to Knoxville. but 4u the ex perienced maintain dnver seven to eight hours wiii be sufficient. Upon the invitation of city officials and other civic leaders in Blairsville, Murphy. Andrews. Robbinsville, Mury ville and Knoxville. this correspon dent, representing The Atlanta J?UJ' nal and Secretary Charles A. Cook, of the Atlanta Motor Club, have just completed an inspection trip of the new scenic highway. They were ac companied by Bcnnell H. Stone, of Rlaiisvilte, president of the Neel Gap Smokv Mountain Tours Association; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Huber, of Mur phy ; Alderman Giwles Cover, of Andrews, and Walter C. Sparks, of The Journal photographic staff. Conferences were held with city anil civic leader- at Blairsville, An drews. Robbinsville. Marvville and Knoxville. At Andrews. Mayor L>. S. Kussell entertained the party at a luncheon at the delightful new River , fid,. Hotel, which was attended by a number of the leading citizens. At the Luncheon Among those present besides the members of the inspection party were From Andrew-: Mayor 1). S. Rus sell. Alderman G. W. Cover. Attor ney D. 11. Tillitt. W. T. Moore, pro prietor Riverside Hotel; I.. M. Kills, merchant. Rev. K. W. Prevost, pas tor of the Andrews Baptist Church, and R. DeLong. editor of the wes tern North Carolina Times. From Blairsville: Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Baskin. Mr. and Mrs. AN. H. Stroud and Mr. Bonnell Stone. From Murphy: W. M. Fain presi dent of the Murphy l.ions Club and former mayor; A. C. Huber, proprie tor of the Regal Hotel, and Mrs. Huber. , , . At Knoxville the members of the inspection party were guests at a conference presided over by li. G. Bonner, president of the Knoxulle Chamber of Commerce, and attended by Mavor James A. Trent; Clarence F Holland, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce; George R. Dempster, city manager; Ernest P Deaver, merchant; R. C. c. Ar mand, manager of the East Tennessee Automobile Club; Leon M. aite, manatrer of the Farragut Hotel; K E. Barkley. merchant, and H. M. Watson, of the Chamber of Com merce. At Robbinsville. the party conferr ed with Mavor R. B. Slaughter, .T. E. S. Thorpe, R. I- Phillips. T. M. Jenkins, Jack Morphew and Walt B. Wiegins. Several of the speakers at the An drews and Knoxville conferences npeke highly of the work which- the Atlanta Journal has done in pro moting improved highways. Enthusiasm over the new highway ran high at every place visited and everyone expressed a very earnest desire that the scenic beauties of the route be made known. To this end the representatives of Blairsville, Murphy, Andrews, Robbinsville, Mary ville and Knoxville urged that at the proper time The Atlanta Journal 1 sponsor a motorcade over the high- 1 way. Motorcade Planned This cannot be done until all of the highway is either paved or oiled nor can it be done before the guard rails are put in place at the numer ous sharp curves. Approximately six ty of the one hundred miles between Andrews and Knoxville is unpaved. but fifty-seven miles of the unpaved section is surfaced with crushed stone and gravel. Three miles just south of the North Carolina-Tennessee state line is unsurfaced but it is under stood that crushed stone and gravel will be snread over it within a few weeks. The crushed stone and graiv el provide a nall-weather road for traveling but in places is rough and in dry weather is quite dusty. The North Carolina section of the highway was completed to the Ten nessee state line about a month ago when the last big boulder was blast ed out of the way. Since then con siderable smoothing out has been done. A motorcar to celebrate the open ing of the highway will be run from Andrews to Knoxville late in July or early in August. This motorcade YOUNG GIRL ROUTS THREE BANDITS WITH HER FISTS Keep* Promise Not to Gire Up Without Trying to Protect Self. Kansas City, Mo. ? Miss Gertrude Harper, twenty, frequently hod told her friends that if s'?e was ever ac I costed by bandits she would give bat 1 tie. Her friends advised against it. "'You can't win." they told her. Vet Gertrude nipped three budding holdup careers when she refused to l?e robbed. She had started to a drug store near her home when at a dark alley inter section three youths c^nfront^d her with the demand. "Hands up!" Hit* Them With Purse. This was her chance, aud since no weapons were In sight she refused to put her hands up. Instead. ?he start ed hitting them with her purse. Out numbered, however, she was forced to release her grasp uu her purse and the three youths fled, taking $6.36 in cash, cigarette lighter and powder puff. Miss Harper, thoroughly aroused, called the police. When two patrol men arrived In their car she climbed neighborhood. "There they are," she exclaimed and Jumped from the car before tae pa trolmen could Interfere. She rushed up to the youths and began striking them with her fists. So effective were her blows, the police felt sorry for rhem and rushed to the rescue. One of the boys, William Wright, seventeen, had Miss Harper's ciga rette lighter. Another. Louis Flok. Began Striking Them With His Fiats. twenty-one, had $G.3C? which he said he had taken from the purse, which he had thrown into a school yard. Catch Third Robber. The purse was recovered and tho arrest of Lester Norris, twenty-two, the third member of the bandit trio, followed. The boys admitted that Wright and Norris had been paroled from ;he Garden City (Kan.) Jail recently on a liquor charge. Fink had never been in trouble. They said that they had planned several larger holdups If they could ttrst obtain enough money with which to purchase guns to use in them. They hda picked on Miss Harper, they said, because she had looked like "an easy mark." Bread on Water Returns to Man After 30 Year* Las Vegas, Nev. ? Hack in the old days when Manhattan was a mush room gold boom mining camp a gam bler tossed $7.50 to a frightened youth who had lost everything he owned at the gaming tables. "Forget it, kid," said the gambler. Money was the freest article in the camp In those days. Thirty years later In Las Vegas a bewhlskered tattered old man begged a hurrying business man for a dime for a cup of coffee. The old gambler and tbe business man recognized eacb other. A few moments later the old-time gambling man was seated at a sumptu ous dinner ? with $15 in his pocket. India's Sacred! Snake What is generally considered to be the sacred snake of laHa is the hood ed cobra. This is a slender-bodied, nervous and active serpent, with a maximum length of about 48 inches. The bite gt this species is very deadly and. whether guilty or not. in India it la debited annually with the death* of between 18,000 and 22,000 persons. will have the backing of the Neel Gap Smoky Mountain Tours Asso ciation which is coapoeed of repre sentative citizens of Blairsville, Mur phy, Andrews and Bryson City. A TRIP TO PALESTINE By K?t. Howard P. Powell ?I-X-H-X-X-X Leaving Beyrout we passed thru the silk farms and heard the silk worms at work. A few miles from tbe city we were shown a big rock which has been traditionally known as the one upon which Jonah was cast by th^ whale. While it is only a traditional story, it is possible and was of inter est to many of us as students of the Bible. We soon came in view of Sid on into which we soon entered with oranges, lemons, bananas, almonds and apricot- growing in abundance i on either side of the road. Here in Sidon we found some oranges that were almost equal to the Jaffa^ or anges. A short distance from Sidon we visited a Mission school that is under the supervision of the North ern Presbyterian Church of \meviea. ' It was encouragir ^ to fin-,. i>is work in a place where it was so much need ed. A short distance from Sidon we I passed Zarephath, which was the | home of the widow with whom Elijah | lodged, an account of which you may I read from I Kings, chapters seven teen and eighteen. It was interesting to marfy of us to notice how so many of the points of miraculous interests had , been preserved. ibis was iurincr proof of the importance of the sup ernatural in our Christian Keligion. When we lose sight of the miraculous and supernatural in our religion, we will have nothing more than those who hold to lifeless religions that feasts upon superstition . We only saw Tyre at a distance, j but we looked upon it with interest ; | remembering that it was visited by j I Christ at one time, and that it was at ! j this point that the Apostle Paul had the experience that is recorded in Acts 21. Leaving the view of T\re ' we continued our journey touchrng j now and *hen points of interest along the shores of the mediterranean. ! Among these sacred spots we saw the probable home of the Syro- 1 Phoenician Woman. Read this inter esting story for yourself in Mark 7:' 24-31. One of the interesting experiences i of the day's journey was to get thru a passport office. We were not allow- 1 ed to carry fruit through the gates. We had some very delicious fruits, which w* bought at Sidon; so we ate as much of it as we could, and had t