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PAGE EIGHT THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES, BRE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES VULNERABLE Gen. Lassiter Will End Army Service Soon v|^D, N. C. Its Open Season for them and All Must Watch Their Step Present Hawaiian Com mander Completes 40 Year’s Duty Oct. 1 WASHINGTON, S !a.i. Gen. William Li October j of the Hawa 1.—The open season for pres-1 uiential candidates is upon the | mier globe-trotter, Kill ret country, with every prospective j tl>e cn'i »f th'® mont-l'. after WASHINGTON, D. C., ilepart- /’.■* pre- candidate fevery w than two .vulnerable, ovd, every gesture, ev-1 ery act of the little group of men] Few officers h ■wliQin common opinion lists' their country in among the eligibles is subject to lands as Las.siter, interpretation in these days, and | burg, Va., (34 ye; it will be until the conventions | Bor i'cle ago, l.i ■ iler able enl way vithin next Jun doubt. The few select who ar( the group of prospective candi dates chafe at the necessity of liv ing in gdass houses, become a bit nervous in their public appear ances, because over-cautions and over-careful in their speech and actions-—a psychological attitude that explains the vague pro nouncements on leading is.sues to which most hopefuls re.sort a fevv month.s before the conventions. ROOSEVELT WATCHED Every act and word of Govern or Franklin Roosevelt of New York is carefully considered, since he is regarded one of the best bets for the Democratic nomina tion. Ilis tiffs with the Tammany Tiger wliatever may be their real meaning and import, are inter preted, analyzed, and given wide publicity over the nation. A break with Tammany, say some, would greatly strengthen Ills chances, es pecially in the south. But on the other hand, .say others, how can he win the nomination, the first essential, without Tammany’s sup port? Thus goes the argument and the drawing room and the speak easy resound to it. Another Governor, Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, is a rival of Roosevelt. The other day he made a speech attacking govern ment and state ownership and op eration of power projects, except Th certain cases, among which he listed the Muscle Shoals and the Boulder dam projects. 'The speech v/as immediately seized upon a.r- Ritchie’s challenge, to Roosevelt on what is looked upon as one of the strongest issues of the New York, governor. hWEN D. YOUNG wen D. Young, chairman of ^bpard of General Electric, is ..,ariled favorably in some Demo- '6ratic circles. When he came down to Washington recently to begin organization of an unemployment relief campaign for President Hoover’s unemployment organiza tion, he was confronted naturally by the press. Young usually han dies himself well on such hen 18, was appointed to U. S. Military academy, where h graduated four years later. I-^as- siter first faced (ire during the Spanish-American war. An unusual amount of La.sslter’s service has been abroad. He ha.'^ served three times in the Philip pines. He was iruipector genera of tlie. (3uban pacification in 100.-3 and 3909. In 1910 he visited China, Japan and Korea on leave. During' the World war, I.aS'itei served in France. From 1923 to 1926 he commanded the Panama Canal department. At the end of his duty there he was ordered to South America as president of the plebiscitary commission on Tacna- Arica. In the same year he visited Europe and .shortly afterward was assigned to his ))ve.sent post as commandant of the Hawaiian de partment. STORM FATAL TO CHILD, ONE MAN INJURED Gramlin Spartanburg and Point Nivar Greer Suffer Wind and Lightning SPARTANBURG, S. C., Sept. 28.—An eight-year-old child was killed and a farmer of the Gram lin section seriously hurt by light Tiing in electrical disturbances which swept over parts of Spar tanburg county late Friday night and again on Saturday afternoon. Mercie Brown, eight-year-old daughter of Mr. anl Mrs. Grover Brown, of the Gilreath mill com munity, near Greer, was almost instantly killed and a brother and sister suffered serious shock when a bolt of lightning struck the Brown home shortly after one o’clock Saturday afternoon. sions—calm, composed, the unaster! Gosnell, 40. a farmer of of himself. But there seemed to'‘he Gramlin section was seriously be a hesitancy about him on this occasion. He appeared nervous. He did not seem collected as he normally is when an attempt is made to corner him. Once or twice he turned to one of his associates to help him through a leading question. Aha, some of the newspapermen inferred, he is thinking about the presidency! Whether he was or not is another matter. Hartness Against Restoring Liquor RAI.EIGH. Sept. 28.—Although he admits that sentiment seems to be growing throughout the state and the United States in favor pf light wines and beer and mod ification of the proliibition laws, it'will be a sad day for the coun try if beer and liquor ever come back. Secretary of State James A. Hai'tness believes. “I have fought for prohibi tion and against liquor all my life, because I have seen so much of the suffering and misery caus ed })y it in the old days when liquor was sold on every street corner, and I tremble to think >vhat would happen if it ever came back, especially with the number of automobiles we have today,” Mr. Hartne.ss said. ‘‘It would cause dpath and destruc tion and misery' as never before.” There is no doubt, however, ac cording to Mr. Hartness, that the widespread disregard and con tempt for the prohibition law.s has to some degree brought about a general disregard tor all laws, with the result that there is more lawlessness of all sorts today than ever before. “There never has been a time in my memorv when there was Bo much stealing, hv rich and poor alike, or so much looting banks bv trusted officials there is these days,” Mr. Hartness continued. “But I do not bolievf the way to bring about law ob servance is to abolish laws. ii would lust as sensible to ad vise abolishing the ten command ments merely because all the peo ple do not obey them. “What tlie country really needs ia a return to the old standards Of living, with the old time re ligion and fear God and re spect for th’ Bible and its teach ings. People have turned away too far from the teachings ot :^irist and have come to depend mucli upon themselves. In- o,f obeying the words of t roas^t to do good for others and ],,, five, one’.s neighbor aa one’s luanci ® majoritv ot people now omliti looking out only for .1 .1 iselves. I do not believe re- ( bf the prohibition laws will ‘ the situation,” seriously hurt on Friday night when light ning struck the Gramlin school building near his home while he was standing on the back porch. Another bolt put the transform ers of the Southern Public Utili ties company sub-station out of commission and the Gramlin sec tion was without lighting services. At Spartanburg the storm on Saturday afternoon did consider able damage, dua principally to high wind and electrical disturb ances. Lightning struck a trans former at the South Liberty sub station of the Southern Public Utilities company and caused dam age estimated at about $200. An other bolt struck a store building on West Main street, shattering a plate glass window and damaging goods on display in the window. Cotton in the fields was dam aged and it was estimated that many bales yet unpicked were blown from the bolls' by the high wind which attained a velocity of 25 miles an hour. Telephone ser vice also suffered as t result of the high velocity of the wind, but' this damage had been repaired to day. I Ford’s Fiddling ! Proteffe^Is Dead Melle Dunham Was Ex pert Snowshoe Maker LEWISTON, Me., Sept. 28.— Mellie Dunham, age 79, fa mous old-time fiddler and protege of Henry Ford, died late Sunday at Central Maine hospital her' He underwent an operation 4or a stomach disorder last Tuesday. Mellie, whose full name was Alanson Mellie Dunham, had been ill only a week when he left his home in Norway to come here to tlie hospital. Hospital physicians said then his illness ordinarily woubl not be considered grave but that the complication - of old age hindered bis recovery. Mellie was an expert maker of .snowshoes and made thousands during his lifetime, many of them for famous personages. 'I’he snowshoes Admiral Robert K. Peary wore on his expedition to the north pole in 1909 were made by Mellie. But it was his fiddling that brought him into na tional prominence. Henry Ford, interested in the revival of old fashioned dances, heard of Mellie’s ability as a play er of old-time tunes in 1925 and sent for him to come to Detroit. Mellie sprang into instant fame and he and his wife, “Gram.” toiirn(‘d the country, playing in vaudeville and over the i-'adio. Their tour completed, they re tired to their Norway home where Mellie once more took up the making of snow'shoes. gjBSCRIBI NOW TO THE TRANSYLVAF TIMES TRVNSYtVANJA COUNTY’S NEW NEWSPA A Keep up and abrej^t with the iieys of the tim^ hy reading this home paper All the local fiewi and all the , important and genera] n'^s . in each issp / Inddition to the local news of Brevardind all ther towns, communities and rural sei eoity and immediately adjacent teri#y, Therransyl^ania Times each week will pri o|ie Carolinas, the general news o|western lorth Carolina, the political news and go rfondent at Raleigh, the most im Jtant natbnal and world news, news pictures and Mous syndicate, editorials on k generil subjecife hy competent writers, opinion 4 etc. In brief you will rece/re 4 Complete heiispap^r at a Price You C To Pay Lhe R(^»lve now to keep up wth the times hy readK BREVARD, NORlI CAROLINA n ~4> A
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