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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT .HE .'OST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 % ? ati, 4 uilEtin lc Per Copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) Per Copy lc Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N C., MONDAY, JAN. 16, 1939 Greetings from China New Year greetings from China written December 1, 1938, was re ceived in this morning’s mail from Eugene A. Turner, foreign secre tary of Y. M. C. A. This is in a form of a “report letter” and a part of it will be published daily: “I am writing from the Astor House. —In one corner of my ad joining bath-room stands a six foot galvanized iron bath-tub. In stead of turning on the faucet for a bath, I push a button. When the bell boy comes, I tell him I want a bath. A few minutes later my water comes joggling along in buckets hanging from each end of a pole over the shoulders of the boy. When I am done, I pull no plug, but soon the boy comes again, bails and carries out my water, and stands the tub on its end again. My Astor House is in Chefoo, on the coast of North China, the home of hair-nets, Shan tung silk, prized embroidery, and dainty laces, as well as of men and boys' in whose interest I am here. “Chefoo is a summering place fo r the American Asiatic fleet, and the mark of the sailor is on the town. His desire to be helpful, with a hidden joke and a smile, is responsible for such shop signs as, ‘Cockeye, the Naval Tailor from Shanghai’, “Jelly Belly, the Taior,’ ‘Ldu, the Gold Tooth Sail or.’ Then catering to his amuse ment, are exotic (for a Chinese city) night clubs in great num bers, now boarded up until the re turn of the sailor next summer. In contrast with these are the spa cious quarters of the Navy YMCA and its program of clean amuse- Continued on Back Page R. M. Hall Named Vice • Chairman At the meeting of the school board members and superintendents of Western North Carolina, held on Friday afternoon in Asheville, R. IVs. Hall of Saluda was named vice-chairman. The meeting was one of a series being sponsored by the school board organization in the interest of a school legis lative program. They outlined a six-point plan to be presented to the General As sembly as follows: The addition of a twelfth grade; increased salaries for teachers; retirement compensation; a tenure law; State funds to match Federal funds for vocational training; and enough busses to provide a seat for every school child. Forestry Fellow John Simcox Holmes, brother of G. H. Holmes of Tryon, has been made a Forestry Fellow of the society of American Foresters, ac cording to a recent issue of the News and Observer. This is re garded as the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a forester in this country. There are only fifteen in the United States. Mr. Holmes is beginning his 24th year as a State Forester. The Forestry Division now re quires the services of from eight to ten trained foresters and has more than 350 full and part-time employes in every county in the State. So within the 30 years that he has been the head of the for estry work in North Carolina, Mr. Holmes has seen his grow from a one man job into one of the larg est divisions in the State.
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