The
Transylvania Time*
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Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
Consolidated 1932
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Published Weekly on Thursdays by
C. M. DOUGLAS
Offices in The^^ewT^luildirg
C.M. DOUGLAS............Editor
MISS A. TROWBRIDGE. .Associate
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THE TIMES NOT
INTERESTED IN
THINGS POLITICAL
While there are being carried in
The Times this week, as was the
fact last week, several articles of
political nature, all paid by either
the Republican or Democratic party
officials, this new?paper wishes it
distinctly understood that such items
are being carried purely as paid ad
vertising and in no way speak for
The Time*.
The Times is not mteresiea in
tisan politics. While the editor may
vote for this candidate on the Repub
lican ticket and that candidate on
the Democratic ticket. The Times
will in nowise boost for any one man
or any set of men.
We claim it the privilege of all
citizens to vote strictly as they
please, “scratching” any candidate,
•md fail to see wherein any person
is called on to “vote straight” unless
the entire ticket put out by either
party justifies such action.
The Times is a county newspaper,
serving both Democrats and Repub
licans, and as a county newspaper
plays strctly hands off when it comes
to partisan politics. We have plenty
of space to sell and either of the two
parties may have all space they have
money to pay for.
THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IN
THE MOl'STAISS
(Hendersonville Times-News)
The Transylvania Times says that
the statement has been made that
ninctv per cent of the eggs used n
Buncombe county are shipped m
from other states; and the Bievaid
newspaper believes 80 per cent ot
eggs used in that county are not
produced in Transylvania. The Times
wants to know if enough eggs to
supply the local demand can be pro
duced in the county, and if not, what
is the reason.
The answer is that the eggs can
be produced in Transylvania, but the
chances are that the people over
there will net take the trouble and
do the hard work that is necessary to
make a success of the poultry busi
ness. The people of Transylvania and
all this section are accustomed to
getting along without the use of
much man-power or brain power and
both must be used in the poultry
business. This mountain country is a
country where people can manage to
live with very little work and with
out straining their brain capacity,
and manv of our people have learned
how to do both. And, in addition to
their natural inclinations, Uncle
Sam now comes along and proposes
to tak. care of a large proportion
of the population, :%'fording them
subsistence without work.
Therefore, the chances are that
there is going to be less and less
work done in Transylvania, Hen
derson and all of the mountain coun
ties. The people are going to take
time to enjoy the climate and scenery
and do not propose to let work
trouble them.
However, The limes-isews can
tell The Transylvania Times that the
poultry business in this county is in
about the same condition as the
poultry business in that county and
Buncombe and others. A large pro
portion of the eggs consumed in this
county are produced in Tennessee
and other states. This condition will
be changed when the people living on
the land ,the people who are in posi
tion to make poultry raising profit
able. use the intelligence and energy
they possess to make a success of the
business. , .
The quality of the poultry and
egg' of this mountain country is not
excelled anywhere in the United
States. The mountain counties ought
to be raising poultry to supply all
the demands of local consumption
and, in addition, hundreds of car
loads annually for sale elsewhere at
cash premiums. Poultry and eggs
from this section would bring bet
ter prices ia the markets than the
products of any other section—if
the people of this section would
learn how to produce and market,
and capitalize the climate and other
natural conditions, which are a great
aid to the production of the finest
poultry and poultry products.
The Transylvania Times speaks
of the cost of going into the poultry
business on a large scale and of the
fact that many of the people of that
county do not have the necessary
capital. Unfortunately, this is the
present condition of many residents
of all the mountain counties; and
they will remain in that condition
until they lift themselves out of it.
They may he able to get bare sub
sistence from their government, or
scrape along on poverty-stricken in
comes, but in order to lift themselves
out of poverty they must develop the
resources'* and possibilities of their
section; they must make use of the
intelligence and muscle they posses'
—and every man must do it for him
self.
The Transylvania Times refers t
the vast poultry business o* East
Tennessee. That is a business that
bad its beginning on the farms of
that section and at a time when the
majority of the farmer* were in
worse financial condition than the
present financial status of the aver
age land owner in the mountains of
North Carolina.
The farmers of East Tennessee,
working with what they had to work
with, started the poultry business on
the farms; and, laboring under great
difficulties, have brought it to its
present vast proportions; millions of
dollars worth of poultry and eggs
being shipped out of that section
every year. The large producers fol
lowed in later years, after the efforts
of the small farm producers had
made a name for East Tennessee in
the poultry world.
This course can be taken here and
similar results can be attained.
There is not a farmer in Henderson
county who cannot raise his own
poultry and eggs for home con
sumption and some for the markets.
Thus the farm supply would be as
sured and the home markets would
be supplied and in a few years the
business with outside markets would
develop.
Such changes cannot be secured by
i talk, or by standing around and
wishing that something could be done
about it; but this section can be put
in the poultry business right up in
the front rank with East Tennessee
by a farm population with the intel
ligence and energy necessary to suc
ceed with the job.
WHAT I THINK ABOUT
BREVARD
Editor of The Times:
After a very pleasant trip from
i New Hampshire to North Carolina
through the Shenandoah valley and
I over your beautiful and thrilling
j Smokv Mountains on my way to
' Beaufort, S. C., an accident halted
me and fate threw me among some
very pleasant people of Brevard,
I who have been extremely courteous
: and have done everything possible
i .*> make me comfortable while re
i cuperating from an accident. The
; treatment received at your hospital
was gratifying in every particular
II cannot speak too highly of the
i s: rvices received at that institution.
I am more pleased with the people
i than I am of the town. 1 feel the
I people here are worthy of a more
beautiful and cheerful place. It is
not economy to have dirty streets,
and it is not economy to have dark,
cheerless streets at night. A few
dollars spent on your streets to
keep them clean, and a few dollars
spent on electricity and brightening
up, making the evenings more cheer
ful, will bring a return far greater
than the outlay. What is nicer than
i a clean, neat, cheery little town?
For its location, this town should
be second to none, and it can be ac
complished with very little outlay.
ALLEN D. BALLFNTINE,
Wolfeboro, New Hemp'hire.
October 22, 1934.
THE CCC TO CONTINUE
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(Statesville Landmark)
President Roosevelt has announced
that the CCC—Civilian Conservation
Corps—will be continued indefinite
ly. This is one work project es
tablished by Mr. Roosevelt soon after
he took office that has met general
approval and his determination to
1 continue it will meet general appro
val. The CCC is no longer regarded
as an unemployment measure alone,
although it is that. But in far larger
way the spiritual and moral value to
the workers and the aid to conserva
tion far exceed all other benefits,
great as they are. Since the corps
was organized, in the spring of
1933, 850,000 men have been en
rolled and the cost has been $433,
000,000.
As enlistments expire otners are
taken on, the personnel changing
from time to time, giving a larger
number of young' men opportunity
to enjoy the benefits. First off is the
moral value of the discipline, under
the direction of army officers. In
fact to the army officers who have
commanded the civilian corps most
credit is due for good results. The
men are not controlled by rigid army
discipline. If they are not satisfied
and wish to leave they can—any
time. But they must obey the rules
of the camp or get out. In that the
great majority support the com
mander. The discipline is mild
enough but sufficient to prevent the
rowdies taking charge, as they might
do if unrestrained. The order and
the discipline is highly beneficial and
most of the men are delighted with
the experience. The forestry work is
instructive. The men learn much
about conservation that will be valu
able to them afterward, no matter
what their line of work. The work is
also of great value in the conserva
tion of public forests.
The men have their board and
keep and a certain wage. The rule is
to take on only the unemployed who
have dependents. When they arc
signed up a modest portion of the
monthly wage is paid to them each
pay day. The bulk of the amount is
sent home to the dependents to whom
it is assigned by the enlisted man
when he enters the corps. The men
have the necessities of life and suffi
cient spending money. The balance
of their earnings go to the support
of their dependents, who would
otherwise be on relief.
The CCC is a great institution..
Few of the critics of the president’s
polices would attack it.
FW Rattlesnake Farthaat North
The swamp rattlesnake, or mas
sasauga, ranges the farthest northward
of any of the venomous snakes in
North America, Investigations made by
Michigan natural I stR Indicate.
Usts XIII Coins Unearthed
A large Jar containing several thou
sand small copper coins was uncov
ered at La Roclie-Eur-Yon, France.
The coins were dated 1012, and bore
the Image of Louis XIII.
EAST FORK
Rev. L. B. Hayes, presiding elder of
the Waynesville district, preached
at the East Fork Methodi.st church
Sunday afternoon and immediately
after the sermon quarterly confer
ence was held with .delegates from
the churches of the Rosman efreu t.
Rev. J. N. Hall and mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hall, were in our com
munity Saturday calling at the
homes of several friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Frazier and daugh
ter Miss Caroline of Asheville were
Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs. E. E.
Gillespie.
Miss Rachel Gravely is spending
several weeks in Pickens with Mrs. J
C. M. Dockina.
Mr. and Mrs. Kile Whitmire and
family were East Fork visitors Sun
day. .... ,
Mrs. Clyde Brown visited her
mother Sunday, stopping by on her
way to Gloucester where she is teach
ing school this year.
Frost was reported from most
places in our vicinity last week.
There was frost for three mornings.
Flowers were killed and potato vines
blackened, which seems to be the
extent of damage by frost.
We noticed week before last where
our editor said we must have build
ings for our county fair or have no
fair. That is just where you are mis
taken, Mr. Editor, if you don’t be
lieve we can have a county fair
without suitable buildings just wait
until next year and see. We did this
year and had a good time, too, one
that nobody need be ashamed of. Of
course, it was a bit muddy and sort
of hard to get around to where the
live stock was kept, but it can be
done. A year ago we thought we
were to have buildings built at the
countv farm just for the purpose
of holding the county fair and we
understand plans were made and
help asked for and promise from
CWA funds, later these plans fell
through. , ., ,
Personally we think that if both
could not have been done, it would
have been just as wise a plan to have
the buildings in which to hold the
county fair and leave off the swim
ming hole in Brevard (pardon me, I
mean pool). Certainly it would have
meant more to the people in Tran
sylvania county and, of course,
that includes Brevard.
As for that swimming pool draw
ing tourists to the town of Brevard
we failed to see how. Now that the
pool is all finished, we may be
allowed more funds for worthy pro
jects. Won’t those having the power {
to do so please pull for the help to
put up the much needed buildings
and so help every one in the county
if they desire to take advantage of
the chance to be helped. Honestly,
we can’t think of anything that
would be of more benefit to the
county folks as a whole than a suit
able place to hold our county fair.
LOWER BLANTYRE
Miss Amyrillis Knight who is at
tending school at Cullowhee, visited
her mother, Mrs. J. M. Knight Sat
urday.
Mrs. J. S. Maxwell spent a few
days with her daughter, Mrs. Har
vey English, last week in Boilston.
Mrs. F. H. Holden visited Mrs.
A. W. Davis Thursday night.
Earl Gray, from Pleasant Grove,
and Ralph Reed visited Claud Davis
Saturday night.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Raynold
Morgan, a son, October 12, who
bears the name 0. M. Morgan.
Miss Nelia Ledbetter called on
Irene Davis Saturday afternoon.
A. W. Davis has gone to spend a
few weeks on his farm in Georgia,
where he is expecting to sow grain.
Sarah Nesbitt visited Fred Max
well Sunday afternoon.
Raymond Reed and Lou Davi>
visited Lee Davis Friday night,
j Irene Davis visited Mrs. Rickmar
Sunday afternoon.
Claud Rickman spent the week-end
with his uncle, L. G. Powell, ir
Asheville.
J. E. Talley and family visited
Mrs. Harvey English on Boilstor
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Morgan visitec
Raynold Morgan Sunday afternoon.
Velma Allison visited her sister
Mrs. Raynold Morgan, Sunday. 7
Mrs. J. E. Talley visited her moth
er, Mrs. Maxwell, recently.
Benny Lee Frady visited Clydt
Davis Sunday.
Johnnie Alexander from Boilston
visited his sister, Mrs. A. W. Davis
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. J. S. Maxwell visited Mrs. E
Jones Thursday,
Gudger Baynard visited J. E. Tal
ley Sunday afternoon.
Rev. L. G. Powell from Asheville,
visited his father, John Powell, and
sister, Mrs. Pearl Rickman, Satur
day afternoon.
Raymond Reed visited Claud Davis
recently.
Mrs. J. E. Talley and Fred Max
well _ visited their sister, Mrs. Lee
Roy Davis, Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Fred Maxwell and Edna
Rickman were supper guests of Sa
rah Nesbitt Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Nesbitt and
| children, and Geneva Justus visited
Lawrence Nesbitt in Asheville Sun
day afternoon.
Clyde Moody was guest of Corne
lius Rickman Sunday.
In MEMORIAL
In memory of my “Pal,” Mrs.
Irene Lyda McKay, who departed
this life two years ago, on October
23, 1932.
MRS. LAWRENCE HOLT.
New Zealand's death rate is only
one-hall of that of the United States.
The region around Lima, Peru, av
erages one earthquake a week.
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