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Agriculture Leader Visits Brevard u Dr. P. H. Rolfs who founded the state college of Minas Geras fourteen years ago, Brasil’s only agricultural college, and who has been away from this work only a year, is in Chicago to attend a meeting of international agricultural leaders after spending a week in Brevard “enjoying its de lightful climate and even more de lightful people.” A white-haired, erect, sturdy man, Dr. Rolfs stands over six feet in height and is nearing his eightieth year. More than forty-four years of his life have been employed in the interest of agriculture colleges in South Carolina, Florida and Minas Geraes, an interior state of Brazil. By special request of the Brazilian government for a man who had spec ialized in the field of agriculture and who would be competent to lound a college of this nature, Dr. Rolis was appointed in 1921 by the state de partment. “My mission,” Dr. Rolfs said, “ was to locate, organize and conduct an agricultural college on the modern plan.” With all of Brazil to select from. Dr. Rolfs chose the small town ot Vioosa located in the state of Alinas Geraes for the site of his new school. “Minas Geraes,’ he said, meaning ‘general mining region,’ is 2,200 fee sbeve sea level and although geo graphically in the torrid zone does not have a torrid temperature. Ihree Gurths of the state lies in the toiria zone but the altitude makes it tem pt -ts zone. . , . •This 1 thought the most favorable i . iuv worn. Or. K its explained. “The temperature never goes above jii) degrees u' the summer and never below 32 degrees in the "inter. Such a vear-ruund season as this ^attorns is 'conducive to all North Carolina and Florida crops with many ado - tions. Thee we grow b;maiias, oran ges apples, all citrus fruits, rice, fheat oats, rye. barley, sugar cane itfee Icing the big money crop, the , .piuca plant, a great sustenance crop i,; Brazil, ami most of the truck vege tables, which may be grown the The story of Dr. Rolfs’ fourteen veais in Brazil is like a novel, as col orful. ar.d as gripping, the Old story of one man against many, one man leading the way to opencneoi th world’s greatest agricultural cen "o s and prod it to its greatest negree o! o:e' v^ars he .abort'd, planned and schemed! budt and planted before the sclv ol was opened to ctas>es. My first classes were held m the base ment of a two story stone building which will last W»» rears ordinarily, p0lfs declared. - Located w.th acres of farm land and one buildang, the agricultural college ot Mina Gcraes opened with 27 students Now 350 Students, representatives ot that state and sixteen others annually at tend the school. We also have farmeis t’rnm Purairuav in the school. \ training school is held annually at the college for Brazilian farmers, known as Farmer's Week” and more than 500 of them attend, to oe in structed as the regular students are This school is becoming more populai The collage operates similarly in main- respects to the state agriculture schools of America, running nine months to the year and offering a de gree similar to the B. S. heie m torn >0:!n': ..ourse " Rolfs said, "wo cannot require previous high school tranv as i- the custom in the L niteu st iles because there are so few high schools in all of Brawl. Our studenj* c .me directly from the farm and go directly back to the farm after four years of study. Our men never go into public service os do students American agriculture coUege. casting these years ct specialized training. This', it seems, is a sore spot wit l)r Rolfs, who has observed that America thinks in terms ot the num ber to graduate and winch the state and federal government will support instead of the actual number to faim; ■ American schools ot agncultuie, he vehemently declared, "laud stu dents who are graduated frrm these schools and then enter direct!* >nt° government employ of varying na ture The few who actually become farmer- are absolutely forgotten. The ma -es if respectable farmers arc not recognized either by the press or the ether citizenry. “Educators are beginning to real ize their mistake and break away from the old the’ ry that these trained mm should teach farming instead ot farming themselves. It will take years to rectify this mistake and put these men to farming where they will be of most service to the world, lhe early basis of the U. S. Schools was to ‘Make Fanners’ but the later edu cators wandered and few of the schools stuck to the original theory. Especialy in Wisconsin and in Iowa and Michigan, the latter two being modeled upon the first, was there an I adherence to the primary rule.” Dr. Rolfs has not followed the lines of least resistance. "We make farm ers farm in Brazil,” he declared, ‘‘and they like it.” Dr Rolfs was at Clemson College, South Caroline, for two years, 1899 and 1900. In 1891 he went to the Florida State College as professor of natural science*, botany and ento mology. From 1901 until 1900 he was cnneeted with the federal experiment station at Miami and then later with 1 the experiment scation of the Agri •ulture college of Florida located in Gainesville, ville. This Brazilian college of agrcul I ture founded by Dr. Rolfs and oper | ited by him or under his supervision I until a year ago attracted the atten ion of all Brazil. Ambassadors have made the long journey from Rio de •Janicro to Vicosa, representing Ger many, England, Japan and North unerica to investigate the work Rolfs started there. “How many foreign ministers," ! Rolfs asks, "have visited North Am I t rican agriculture schools?” Dr. Rolfs in tracing the develop ment of his school, which now is val ued at more than a million dollars, comprising over 2,000 acres of farm ing land and 65,000 acres of virgin timber land, pointed out the diffi viilties confronted in seeking location of his school. The timber land has recently been purchased to be used for the forestry program which the ch-ol is launching at this time. “When I first arrived in Minas Geraes. with the delight and surprise of my appointment still ringing in my tars, I faced a chaotic situation. Conditions which forty years ago faced Florida atu! North Carolina . ducators were mine to cope with. I settled at Vieoaa/because that gave me a surrounding area about the size of Texas and 8/100,000,000 people to work with ami a perceptible opor tunity to make an impression, where as that would have been impossible: with the whole of Byazil. : "I found immediately that stimulus j applied to Brazilian students gained tie same response and even to a greater sense in some instances as to , Florida and North Carolina students. Although there is a great difference in the personalities of American vouug men and those of Brazil it is an unexplainable, intangible one. And there is a greater difference in the temperature from Florida to South Carolina than there is from Florida to Brazil. “From 1800 to 184U tnere was « great gold rush in Brazil, similar to the California rush of '49. The cen ter of this activity was to form the sxi for a new int rior empire, call ed Minas Geraes. When I arrived at i his empire I found an illiteracy prob lem and rate similar to that of North Carolina and Florida forty years ago Today, although rising rapidly Brazil is comparatively that far be hind. Brazil had prohibited education and road building strictly. Education was prohibited even in the Catholic church for the priests and road build, ing was not allowed except by per mission of the emperor. Emperor Charles knew he could handle his people better if they were uneducated and without means of getting to gether rapidly for an uprising. “However, in 1822 Brazil said, we can get along without Charles, and 1 mietlv succeeded without fighting or bloodshed. The emperor was exiled and his son ascended to the throne to be succeeded later by his son. bull ’■iter, without bloodshed Brazil found itself a republic and the road to rapid i development began.” . , Pr. Rolf- told >f an associate ot his, a Texan, who rode the railroad as far as it went into the interior and : then went horseback for two weeks ; .,sight into the fastness of the un explored region investigating for grazing territory. He found Muck grass on every hand as far as he uld see in ail directions. Grass that ' grew higher than the horse. The cat tie raising project is only beginning in Brazil, Rolfs believes. "Cattle buyers,” he said, “make a ' two year trip into the grass country ; where cattle are grazing, buying as j they penetrate further and further into the wilderness. Bandits are few land a hold-uo is a rarity. The buyers i buy to the limits of the region, buy j ng younger cattle as they advance. ; At the beginning of the trip they buy j two vear olds and as they go the age ! limit lowers. Finally in the interior . they buy calves, estimating that it ! fakes fwo years for them to drift into I’he railhead for shipping.” Although it has been more than a ni TTrmnrT iiiiMi—nniMrirTTr'" niTTTirrT^m Quality Finisoing-the kind you’ll like. LQuick service—moderate prices Frank D. Clement The Hallmark Jeweler CLEMS ON THEATRE BUILDING Local and Personal Items Misseu Mamie Hayes and Myrtn Whitmire and Paul and Glenn Whit mire left Monday on the de luxt tour for the World’s Fair. Little Helen Fullbright is visiting relatives and friends in CarnervilL and Clarksville, Ga. Misses Opal and Lucy Fullbright were on a week-end motor trip through Georgia and South Carolina. Mrs. Leroy Whitener, of. Hickory, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. West, last week. Miss Cornelia Ratchford is spend ing her vacation this week with friends in Hickory. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Henry and family of Georgetown, Del., return ed home last week after visiting Mr. Henry’s father, Pat Henry and other relatives here and in Green ville. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Robinson cf Norfolk, Va., have returned home after visiting Mrs. Robinson's father, Pat Henry, here and other relatives in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. U. S. rearson anu children of Greenville V'ere week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Henry. Donald Wheeler visited Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Wood and family last week, before leaving for Iowa City, where he will attend _the University of Iowa. Miss Gladys Wood spent the week end with her aunt, Mrs. James. H. Case, in Asheville. Mrs. T. S' WockI is spending this week in Charlotte visiting Mr. and Mrs. Rush Whitmire. Master Thomas Wood Paxton spent Friday with his grandmother, Mrs. Madge Wilkins. Ruel Hunt, who is attending sum mu- school at Chapel Hill, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Watu-s and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edwards were week-end guests of Mrs. Edwards parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Waters,1 leaving the fir.-t of the week for; Augusta, Ga„ for a few weeks’ stay. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Vaughn, of Gastonia, weie week-end guests 01 Mrs. Vaughn’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Henry. Recent arrivals at Willow Springs; with Dr. and Mrs. E. S. English in clude: Mies Lessie Jones, of Crescent! Citv, Fla., David G. Kostmayer, of New Orleans; Albert F. Lauchez Jr., of Louisiana; Mrs. Joe W. Davis and Miss Hazel Jordan, of Jacksonville,! Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Warner, of New Orleans; and Mr. and Mrs.; Melville Prongay, Winston-Salem. , Mrs. L. K. Ratchford, Pauline: Ratchfcrd and Opal Fullbright were Asheville visitors Wednesday. Mrs. Chester Gallamore, of Our-! ham, is visiting her brother, W. S. ] Price Jr., and family. Miss Dorothy King, of New York City, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Jim King, and sister, Mrs. Alvin Rock WvOCl. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Nalls have re turned to their home in Demorest. Ga.. after spending some time at their summer home at Connestee Cove. They were accompanied by then daughter, Mrs. Ed Davis, and little daughter, Etheirira, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Nalls here. year since he was in Vicosa, Rolfs has been in constant communication with his leaders there. The school has I een in operation fov six years with out his direct official attention. He resigned in 1928 as president of the college and was appointed as state agricultural adviser of Minas Gerae? with headquarters at Vicosa near the school where his advice was in con stant demand. „ “Brazil has a brilliant future, Rolfs said, “she is awakening from a long sleep and will be a leader in the field of agriculture in a few more years. Her people are keen witted^and they look to America to lead her.” tired after his long life of service in his particular field of service, Rolfs plans to visit in his home state i f Florida for several weeks and then travel in the western United States. 1 He does not intend to return to Mina? j Geraes. ___ . Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Brown and [daughters, Misses Charlotte and Lou ise, are on a trip to the World’s Fair in Chicago, where they expect to re main for about 10 days. , E. M. Vick left Monday for Chat* i tanooga and Pensacola, Fla., after visiting hia family at their summer home in the King cottage on Probart , street. 1 Vernon Kizer who is connected with the McDowell News, Marion, and George Kizer, of Lineolnten, were guests this week of their brother, , A. H. Kizer, and family. | Miss Emily Samairi who is spending the summer at the home of Mrs. i Ralph Zachary, left Monday for a few weeks’ stay in Rochester, N. Y. I Mrs. Paul Houston and Miss Mary Houston of Greenville were guests j last week of Mrs. Ralph Zachary. I S. Boozer, of Newberry, S. C,, a shipmate of ^Jack Miller, will visit Jack here this week-end. | Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Joines left Sunday for Chicago, where they will I visit the Ford plant and the Wortd’s i Fair in a 10 days' trip. They were accompanied by Miss Christine Joines, of Hendersonville, sister of Mr. Joines. Mrs. Joines is in charge of the Ford place here during the i absence of her son. Mias Margaret Smith, who has been the guest of Mrs. Ruth Earl Stitt, returned Sunday to her home in Washington. Mr. and Mrs. John King and children of Atlanta .were Brevard visitors last week. Weilt Duckworth, who is connected with the navy, is home on a 10-day furlough, visiting his mother, Mrs. Lottie Duckworth. Miss Eloise Lewis, who underwent a major operation at Johns Hopkins hospital, has returned to her home j here. She is said to be slightly im proved but not yet able to see com-j pany. Mr. arid Mrs. F. Brown Carr, of Morganton, were week-end guests of friends and relatives in Brevard. Mrs. Earl Twiggs and baby were j at the Saluda hospital on Monday, i where the baby was taken for treat- j ment. Lucien English, who has been in , Kansas for some time, is at the Eng lish farm at Davidson River. Mrs. P. S. King, of Asheville, was , guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Whit-; mire oh Sunday. Mrs. Addie Ryan, who is remem-1 bered here as Miss Addie Duckworth of Detroit, visited relatives and j friends here Sunday en route to Cali- j Kirnia. . „ , Misses Daisy and Hattie Orr have moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., where they will make their noino in the | tuture. „ , Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young and Mr? T. E. Jun, of Vero Peach, Fla., and Mrs. Mamie C. Verdery, of Hen-, dersonville, wer^ Brdvard visitors) Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Tohr Weatherford of Austin, Texas, and Mrs. M. G. Garth of Gainesville. Ala., have returned to their homes after spending some time here with their sister, Mrs. Ernest Webb. They were called here on ac count of the illness and death of their mother, Mrs. Jane Allison. Mrs. Alvin Rockwood and litt'e daughter, Dorothy Gay, and Miss Dorothy King are visiting relative?^ in Florence, S. C. Mrs. L. B. Houston, of Green ville, was the week-end guest of Mrs. Beulah Zachary. Miss Helen Cohen of Rochester, N. Y., and Charleston, S. C., is visiting Mrs. Beulah Zachary. Miss Anna Preston, field secretary for Salem College and for Salem Academy, was in Brevard the past week in the interest of these two in stitutions. She was guest of Mrs. i Beulah Zachary while here. Sam McKelvey, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs_. M. S. Mc Kelvey. left Wednesday for his home i-i Longview, Texas. Mrs. T. Ryan Livingston, Misses Eleanor. Lurline and Doris Asbill. of Leasville', S. C., are visiting Mrs. Sloan at Peter Pan. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Gates and son Charles of Bradenton, Fla., are spending a month in Brevard, stop HATS FOR FALL The new materials are exciting, the colors are exciting, but meet exciting of all are the brand new brims. Whether you wish to wear them up or down, tilted over one eye or the other, you’ll find a hat to suit you among the new arrivals. Felts, velvets, satins, wool crepes and bengalinss, in all the new fall colors are among them. $1.00 to $1.95 __ • • V Broad Street Brevard, N. C. NOTICE TO STEWARDS. > ' -- 'To the stewards of Brevard Metho dist church, who have the list of names of members not paid to date, I want to insist on escn and every one of you to see these members at once and make your report at a meet ing of the stewards to be held Monday evening at 8 o’clock at the church. We will expect 100 per ceut attend ance of the bdfcrd at this meeting, as it ia one of great importance. T W. WHITMIRE, Chairman Board of Steward pening in an apartment at the home of Mise Sadie North. Mrs. L. K. Stanford of August^ Ga., was a Brevard visitor last week, •topping at the home of Miss Kath erine Griffin. T. B. Crary has been quite ill at his home but is reported to be im proving. Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Banka of College Place, S. C,, were guests Fri day of Rev. and Mrs. E. R. Pendle ton and fdfciily. The visitors, accom panied by Mrs. Walter Banks and Pendleton Banks, spent the week-end at Norris, Ten., where Walter Banks is connected with the TVA. En route they visited the Cherokee Indian res ervation and the Great Smokies. Porter Williams of Charleston, S. C., spent the week-end here with his wife and children who are spend ing the summer here on Probart street. Mrs. John West Chapman left the past week for her home in Charleston, S. C. .where she will spend a short] time before returning to her summer home here. Rev. D. D. Dieffienwierth, Mrs | Dieffienwierth and children, of Win ter Garden, Fla., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Atwater Monday. The party went to Frying] Pan Gap for dinner and enjoyed climbing Mt. Pisgah in the after> noon. Rev. Dieffienwierth is pastor of the First Methodist church, South, in Winter Garden. He and his family are spending the summer at Swan nanoa. Mrs. C R. McNeely, little C. R., and Mrs. Bill Groom and son Billy, i of Danville, Va„ are visiting friends and relatives in Brevard for ton days | or two weeks. HOMEMAKERS CLASS TO MEET THURSDAY AFTERNOON . The Homemakers class of the Bap tist clflireh will meet at the home of Mrs. W. S. Price Jr, Tuesday after noon. All members are requested to be present. — MEETING OF G. A. NEXT WEDNESDAY The intei-mediate G. A.'? of the Baptist church will meet Wednesday, August 22, at the home of Polly Hartsell. All members are urged to attend. Aunt Eliza Cunningham — Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon in Brevard for “Aunt Liza" Cunningham, 80 year old regress who died Friday night after an extended illness. “Aunt Liza” was well respected among her own race and was known by white people of the community as a fine old woman Shu was of the old school, having moved to this county several years after the War Between the States. ' Aunt Eliza is survived by four children, ten grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren. One brother also sur vives. As a mark of esteem, hundreds of people, many of them white friends of Aunt Eliza, attended the funeral service. _ I_ Twenty-five cento minima per insertion, with 25 words_ for each ad. For ada of over twenty five words, one *•»♦- ^ per insert! on. E CUSTOM HATCHING — uoaTfar |2.50 per tray of 125 eggs. Will receive eggs at any date. T. C. Ham ilton, 1 1-2 miles on Little River road, Penrose, N. C- ltp FOR RENT — Four room cottage, completely , furnished, in e a e y walking distance of 3rev»rd, College, 110 per month for the Mason. M. G. Boswell, Brevard. <*■ WANTED^—Quart fruit jars without caps. Will take some naif gallons. Paying 40c dozen for clean quarts. 3. W. Eldridge, Rosman. 1 E. L. HALSELL will sell his place at Davidson River. See the property or write E. L. Hals ell. Pisgah Forest, N. C. 18 acres, good five room house, three room annex, garage. Ag 18-4tp — FOR SALE—Water wneet, 7 1-2 feet, ferris wheel, 80 teat —com plete or in parts. Wheel o, k. for mak ing light or other uses. Hale Siniard, Brevard. FOR SALE OR TRADE—One pair steers, three years old. H. A. Orr, Greenville-Read, Brevard R-l. MOVING and GENERAL HAULr ING—reasonable prices, every load insured. See Charlie McCrary at McCrary Auto 3ervice, Phone 280, Brevard, N. C. Mch 8 Renew Your Subscription I __ Phone 241 — Wll keep your ice box filled with the safest refrigeration. Coal-Killing Coal prices wfll soon be climbing along with the increased demand — Buy 1 purity! Products Co. Phone 241 ■ JUST RECEIVED Ladies Fall Shoes varied versions of straps and ties in black • ; jV* or brown kid, suede.
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