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THE TRANSYLVAIJIA TIMES,"BREVARD, N. C.
The Transylvania Times
Published Once a Week on Fridays by
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Office—In Former Chamber of Commerce Head
quarters, Opposite the Courthouse, Brevard, N. C.
J. T. FAIN Editor
C. M. OGLE Managing Editor
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■ THE PUBLISHERS OF THE TIMES,
A STRAW IN THE “SHOW ME” STATE
A special congressional election in the
Seventh district of Missouri supplies some
interesting results for the consideration of
the political prognosticators. Robert D.
Johmson, Democratic candidate, was elect
ed by around 10,000 majority, defeating
John W. Palmer, Republican, who was
elected to the office in 1928 by 6,845 ma
jority. The last named figures were the
previous high mark for majorities in con
gressional contests in the district. The dis
trict, however, is usually Democratic by a
small vote.
The large majority secured by Johnson
in this contest is believed by political ob
servers to indicate the trend of sentiment
in the mid-west when there is a clean-cut
fight between the two major parties on
distinctly party issues. The independent
“wet” candidate in the Seventh Missouri
contest polled only 3,721 votes.
THE VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS
WHY?
In a special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun, W.
A. S. Douglas, staff correspondent, depict? certain
incidents, scenes and happenings at. the gathering
of ex-service men in Detroit which become espe
cially pertinent in view of the widespread discus
sion of the American Legion’s attitude towards
prohibition and action which the legionnaires may
or may not take , in connection with the dry law
controversy.
Here are some of the references which have a
peculiar bearing upon the subject at hand:
There was a lot of fun poked at President'Hoo-
ver in hotel lobbies and street corners where Le
gionnaires gathered in' thousands, some drunk and
some sober. . . The Legion returned to downtown
Detroit or femed over to Windsor, Canada, and
poured into its collective stomach all the beer and
hard liquor it could get its hands on. . . As one
soldier put it tonight as he staggered into his ho
tel, “What the hell do we care?” , , .-Most of the
old line speakeasies in the business section have
closed their doors in the face of the pleasure-seek
ing hordes, but it seems that every one of these
places which has shut up two more have sprung
into being. Beer and whisky flow freely in almost
every hotel roohi, and flasks of hard liquor are be
ing openly peddled in the lobbies. ... A federal
agent was discovered late last night in a speakeasy
which enjoys the patronage and advertising priv
ileges of a Detroit Legion post. His identity was
discovered, and he was speedily stripped of his
clothing and heaved into the street .stark naked.
Anent such occurrences this household journal
deeds no comment necessary. Rather it contents
itself with making casual inquiry, which may or
may not be thought'provoking, as to why the Le
gion, with all the other serious problems before it,
should be expected to be dissatisfied with the pre
vailing system or to do anything in particular about
prohibition.—Greensboro News.
RADIO ADVERTISING
We were interested to read in the “Read ’Em
and Weep” column an editorial from the Colum
bus Dispatch telling of the failure of Amos n’ Andy
to stimulate the sale of Pepsodent—that the Pep-
sodent company has announced its return to the
newspapers as a medium for advertising.
We don’t pretend, being simply an editor, to
know much about it, but as a private citizen we
can honestly say that nothing is more boring, less
conducive to good will, than to have an advertise
ment rammed down our throats.
If we want to know about some product we pre
fer to read about it at our leisure, and perhaps
keep it for future reference. We don’t want- to
have it forced upon our ears. It is getting more
and more to the point where even the New York
Symphony isn’t worth hearing if first we have to
listen to endless blaa about a product, its glories,
its benefits, and its price.—Sheridan (Wyo.) Press.
FIRST. ADVqCATE
By Messnei
I No Champagne
I Of Vintage of 1
j Plague of Insects Ruj
Famed Grape Cron
PARIS, France, Sept 95
There will be no champae,i„
vintage of to stolg
the world’s
learned today. ' '
. Bottlers announced that
year’s grapa crop in- the •
champagne region around 5
had been .ruined , by
insects known as the cochylis'
nlso Y'rou
cold, wot summer
havoc with the vine.s,
■ W-ine-grape grow'erK in the i
.er celebrated districts, howe
gave assurance that' there \^
be no scarcity of fine wines
red bordeaux, particularly w'ji'
plentiful and wine merchants
well stocked with other n.,
vintages.
Nc C. Sentimenl
At Large Not fc
Special Sessii
J > r J, X-, , *4 -
KEY’S BIBLE
CLASSPTS
Action Is Result of Criti
cism of Mayor’s
Dry Views i
ATLANTA, Ga,, Sopt. 2ai—
The Young, Men’s Bible Class
Of the Grace’ MefhQdist. church
was- disbande^l yesterday beg^qt^e
its teacher, Mayor Jame^ L.-Kciy-
of Atlanta, chose to resign’-kis
post rather than recede froitf an
antirprohibitien stand started
France while he was with a good
will tour of American mayors’.
The mayor was.ou.sted from his-
iO-year post as teacher of the
class because- Rev. Robert Y.
Tyler, pastor, 'and mernb
J1 _ i.7^Tr.xxrn
PREDICTS PROSPERITY FOR
DOCTORS AND UNDERTAKERS
HOBOKEN, N. J., Sept. SO.
—Professor Gustave Meyer,
who styles himself “the nation’s
'counselor and American scien
tific astrologer,” issued a fore
cast yesterday for the autumn
quarter, durjng which time, he
dedlai-es, doctors and undertak
ers will enjoy great prosperity
and cattle and other large ani
mals will .suffer.
‘T. -.■judge,’’^ said Professer
Meyer, scanning his charts care-
■fuliy, ;.“that ’ President Hoover
'will' come before congress and
declare for light wines and
beer,' realizing that prohibition
• has;made more white slaves to
day than there were black
. slaves- before and during the
Civil war.”
Since the sun will be posted
in the Zodiacal sign of Libra,
he went on, in conjunction with
the fortunate planet Venus
therein, “this shows that many
new' and radical styles will be
much in evidence, pertaining to
female wearing apparel.”
“There'will be an epidemic
of stomach, bronchial and kid
ney trouble,” he went on,
“hence people should regulate
themselves in diet and dress.
The life of Premier Mussolini
will be in jeoyardy from assas
sins and there will be great
scandals and' divorces among
prominent society and political
I people.”
New Receiver in
Citizens Bank at
Hendersonville
SHOULDN’T BE MIXED
the congregation, felt Key’s wide
ly-published addresses ag’ainst
prohibition were creating an un
desired impression that the church
members, ' likewise, • favored re
peal' Or, modification of the T8th
amendment.
It ' was expected Mayor ^Key
will be drafted to teac'h an in
terdenominational Siftrday school
class to meet in some downtown
auditorium. Members of the class
at Grace church said the mayor's
class definitely had disbanded, |
but that only part of the mem- j HENDERSONVILLE, Sept. 30.
bership would transfer downtown: Rendleman of Salisbury,
to . the hev/ class—-the J»est par-1 been appointed receiver of
D. A. Rendleman Takes
I Post Held by Dakin
j and Cunningham
ticipating in organization of
other class at the church.
Ueoe MINERS
SENT TO WORK
WILKESBARRE, Pa.^ Sept. '
28, — "Working orders issued
here by the Lehigh • Valley
Coal company-sent about 12,-
000 miners back to work today
at 21 collieries.'
Coolidg(
je Plans
Radio Addresses
Citizens National bank of this
city, succeeding J. B. Cunningham
o| Asheville, who was temporarily
in charge of the liquidation of the
bank after Receiver L, A. Dakin
was removed to Pennsylvania.
Mr. Rendleman, a stranger to
Hendersonville, requests T h e
TimeSrNews to state , that he hopes
■to-get Acquainted with the deposi-
1 tors and business patrons of,the
Citizens bank as rapidly as possi
ble-; that he is here to render the
best possible service in handling
the bank’s affairs; and hopes that
p.ersonslowing the bank will make
as' prompt settlement as they can,
’ Mr. Rendleman calls attention
to the fact that the receiver can
not .pay a dividend to depositors
of the bank until sufficient
Coolidge Not a
Candidate, But
Favors Hoover
RALEIGH, Sept. 28.-^S(
rnent over the state generall
decidedly opposed to any spi
j session of the North Can
1 legislature, in spite of
,jsporadic mass meetings that'
1 been held in some of the co
I counties in favor of a sp
cotton reduction legislative
sion, according to a majorit
the state officials. here.
( The prevailing sentiment si
to be that no special sessio
I needed since the acreage re
1 tion problem will take car
itself next year with the lai
economics putting it into e
instead of a state lawr Far
have been reducing their ei
acreage steadily for the
two years and are going to
tinue to do so as long as p
stay at a level that is below
cost of production. Instead
are going to raise more feed
food crops, as they have
doing for the T)ast three yea;
a result • of .Governor Card
live-at-home campaign, and
going to raise more cattle,
poultry and sheep for which 1
I is a better and more constan
I mand. •
The majority here agree
! Governor Gardner that thei
' no point to be gained in pa;
legislation to bring about s
thing that natural economic
, are already bringing about. '
point out that the cotton aci
in the state was reduced 50(
acres last year and that the
has produced $25,000,000 v
of other crons in its place.
Jane S. McKimmon of the \
college extension service re;
that so far the farm wome
the state have already pu1
more than 4,000,000 can?
home grown vegetables
fruits.
Those who are also advoci
legislative reduction of tol
acreage are being answerei
much the same manner and 1
in to.uch with the situation
predicting that the tobacco
age will be reduced at leas
per cent next year as a resu
the natural trend toward '
farm crops.
PLYMOU-TH, Vt., September
29 . — Former President Col
vin Coolidge will not be a candi
date for the Republican nomina
tion for president in 1932, and
he favors a second tern> for Pres
ident Hoover.
Harry Rose, CooHdge’s secre
tary, today described as authentic
an article published in the Satur
day Evening Post in which the
former president made that state
ment.
Mayflower Hul
Offered for Sa
On Installmei
Unwritten Law
Frees Husband
Senator Cordell Hull has done well to remind
the national Democratic chairman that the liquor
question should have no place among the political
issues of the 1932 campaign.
Senator Hull has cited a letter of Woodorw Wil
son, written when he was governor of New Jersey,
in which he said of prohibition:
“But the questions involved are social and mor
al, and are not susceptible of-feeing made^ par's of
a party program. Whenever they have been made
the subject matter of party contests, they have cut
the lines of party organization and party action
athwart to the utter confusion of political action
in every other field.
“They have thrown every other question, how
ever important, into the background and have
made constructive party action impossible for long
years together.”
Unquestionably this is tinxely advice, because it
will be extremely unfortunate if in the next cam
paign the voters are made to lose sight of pressing
political issues as a consequence of the injection
of prohibition.“-Hickory Record.
NEW YORK, Senteraber 29.—
Former President Galvin Coolidge
will speak for 12 minutes on
Tuesday, Oct. 6. over the Na
tional Broadcasting company’s
chain of radio .stations in the
first of a series of broadcast pro-
,grams sponsored by the New
York T/ife Insurance company, it.
was announced last nigkt,
Coolidge will speak from his
home at- Northampton, Mass., arid
will be bear'd between 9:30 and
10 p, m. He is a director of the
life insurance company.
Frazier Hunt, author and war
correspondent, will speak briefly
on the first program and will be
heard as the chief speaker on
subsequent broadcasts.
REPUBLIC STEEL
CUTS WAGES 10 PCT.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. Sept. 29.
—The Republic Steel Corpora
tion, through T, M. Girider,
chairman oT the 'board of direc
tors. anriounced today that, a
wage reduction approximating 10
per cent will be effective on 'Dc-
tober 1. . • »i
HACKENSACK, N. J., Sept.
29. — A jury with a woman
serving as foreman took cogniz
ance last night of the “unwritten
law” and acquitted Harry Elbers,
Teaneck candy salesman, or mur
dering a plumber who had at
tacked his wife,
A few Triinutes later a murder
mo oanx miiicioiiu mo,.- ^ g,,
has hoen collected from those
ing lured Richard Graham to the
Elbers home in order that her
husband might shoot him, was dis-
•tnissed'.
Elbers and his wife left the jail
together, embracing each other as
they entered an automobile.
Elbers, it was charged, killed
Graham last November 18 and
w’ho owe the bank. He had
stfetehient to make about the pos
sible date of payment of the first
dividend, but it will be paid as
soon as collections warrant’it. The
receiver pointed out the fact that
payment of a dividend would help
the community and country sur
rounding Hendersonville, as it
would put an amount of addition
al cash in circulation.
Davis Not to Quit
Philippines Post
MANILA, P. I., Sept. 29.—
Dwight Davis, governor -gen
eral of the Philippine Islands,
announced today he would take a
temporary leave of absence this
winter instead of resigning from
his post.
The statement set at rest many
r^orts that Davis would leave the
islands permanently, and subse
quent conjecture as to his possi
ble successor.
The governor general said he
would remain iri Manila until aft
er the adjournment of the terri
torial legislature on November 9,
and might not leave for Washing
ton, I). C., until the middle of De
cember.
WASHINGTON, Sent. !
The former presidential
Mayflower or what’s left
her, is for sale on the install
plan.
The navy department toda
the sixth time called for bi(
the yacht and as an added in
ment announced deferred
ments could be arranged.
Five times the Mayflowei
been on the auction block,
offers were unsatisfactory
finally the navy decided to
vert her into a warship. Whil
reconditioning was in proj
the-yacht burned and sank a
Philadelphia navy yard. Noy
hulk has been raised and i;
sale for scrapping.
The flags of President R
velt, Taft, Wilson, I-Iardini
Coolidge flewfrom the Mayfl
in her days of glory. Pres
Hoover had her decommission
1929 as an economy measur
PISGAH FOREST NEt
OF RECENT PAST T(
PISGAH. PORES-r, Sepl. 2
Mrs. Garland McGregory
'bMus-ht’ourduri'iig-“t‘h,;;;ma'' .childr™ J,®'’''
trial 'indicated that the plumber P^heir home m Gr.een'ville, ^
had boasted of his relations with [after spending several week:
Mrs. Elbers and called her a pros- ! Hill,
titute. [ and Mrs. Dewey Ldv
^ 1 are visiting the parents of
Edwards in Georgia.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. H. "W
Friday, September 18, a s
Mr. and Mrs. W. Duncan
Strike Spreads;
V M* ✓Nl 1 ivii'. aau ivii h. vv.
19 Mines Closed &see!
very
ill b
Tennessee,
I C. C. Case •'
SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 29.—
T-ne strike of the miners of j “’S' f
the Glen Alden Coal company ’’f P”’
spread to. 29,000 men today, clos- ”"'1 M’;-"' 9- T-
ing 19 of 20 of the mines of the L-
company. Officials of the United “S Robeit Bogg
Mine Workers of America, oppos-^ formers sistei
ing the walkout, said striker;
would be banned from the union,
TWO MILLION HOGS
W. A. Lyday.
Mrs. Alice Moore is visitirij
sister, Mrs. T. Barnette.
A large number of peop
the community recently atte
the district singing conventic
THNCOLN, Neb.—Nebraska has ,
a grand total of 2,173,610 hogs Cars Hill,
on its farms, State Tax Commis- Mrs. Stanley Allison and
siorier Smith reports. These aredren are now visiting relative
valued at $17,237,885. Burnsville.