RED CROSS RELIEF
GIVEN TO VICTIMS
IN 103 DISASTERS
Tornadoes, Fires, Hurricanes,
Floods, Epidemics, Make
Record of Year
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A history of the disasters in the
United States in any year is written
annually by the American Red Cross,
according to Chairman John Barton
Payne, commenting on the report for
the year ending June 30. 1934, which
has just been issued in Washington.
“Because of the charter provision
which places upon the Red Cross the
responsibility for disaster relief, our
chapter and staff workers are notified
of all calamities of storm and fire and
flood,” he continued. "The emergency
period may prove to be brief, in cases
where the victims have their own re
sources to draw on. While It lasts.
However, whether tt brings the imme
diate need of food, clothing and shelter
for the homeless, or entails a program
of investigation and rehabilitation, the
Red Cross is the official director of all
relief.”
A great variation in type, and a
wide geographical distribution, char
acterize the 103 disasters reported last
year. Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail
storms and other storms made up al
most one half of the total. Especially
numerous were the tropical storms
which swept In from the sea to the
Atlantic and Gulf Coast region. There
wore 21 storms of this type, establish
inK a new record for frequency.
Next In number to storms were dis
asters of fire, the report shows. Red
Cross aid was given following 25 fires
in the United States and insular pos
sessions. The most spectacular was the
Chicago stockyards fire, where Red
Cross workers arrived shortly after the
flro started, administering relief until
the emergency period passed, giving
first aid to about 1,000 persons.
Floods caused serious damage in
some sections. 17 calling for Red Cross
relief. Three explosions were reported,
and three epidemics of malaria and
typhoid fever. A school bus wreck was
one ot the year's tragedies for which
Red Cross funds were needed for re
lief and rehabilitation.
recnniqm* acqiinvu
Cross in those disasters and the hun
dreds of others we have handled is at
the service of the public.” Chairman
Payne said. "To make this possible
the disaster relief service has issued
a manual containing Instructions for
chapters Interested in advance prepa
rations for emergencies. Disaster in
stimes were held last year in 2S
■ trateglc locations, to enable Red
Cross and civic workers to formulate
plans for possible disaster emergencies
in their communities.”
Support of the disaster relief activi
ties of the Rod Cross comes from the
annual roll call held each year from
Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day.
Trained to Save Lives
First aid certificates were issued by
I he Red Cross last year to 130.972 per
sons who finished the course of instruc
tion put on by the chapters. Included
In this list were more titan 70.000 fore
men. time clerks nnd other key em
ploy, s on Federal C ivil Works projects.
Further evidence of the government’s
endorsement of the first aid program
is found in projects now under way
where Red Cimss chapters, at the re
quest of tin War Department, are glv
ng first aid instruction in CCC camps.
Where i' has been requested by Army
. nglnecrs the same Instruction is also
nude available to key men working
..it federal water conservancy and flood
control projects.
War Veterans’ Problems
Increase
Last year Aim tiain Rod Cross chap
iors dealt with the problems of nearly
100,000 veterans and their families,
1'he workers find that as the years go
n their responsibility increases rather
ilian decreases. Changes in legislation,
iho increasing age of veterans and the
consequent Increase in physical ills,
firing new needs for sympathetic treat
ment by trained Red Cross workers. In
ildltion to tlii.i service to veterans the
i;ed Cross at rwd as the official medium
.■tween the people and the men In niili
.ry and naval service, giving aid
hroitgh this service last year to fi.979
non In the army, navy and marine
rorpBi
Fires on Morro Castle and at
Nonv', Alaska, Received
Help of Red Cross
Workers
A number of tragic and uuusuaI
*dlsnstors have recently called for
Red Cross relief.
Included In them have been a
fl0,y' in Vsnteokv following a series
of cloudbursts in August; epi
demics of disease which threatened
several sections, including some
caused by drought eov Htlons. Red
Ci >ss workers found much to do
for the survivors of tfio Morro
Castle fir.' ur.d for th ■ n engaged
lii rescue work; I M C'’e-s re
lief w:int by ahp'u.o to Alaska
when tlm fam i- old gold esmp,
Mot e’, bu” *-d In A ptembor. •
HEGUliTiON OF "
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! President Will Ask New Legis
lation of Forthcoming
Congress.
WASHINUTONl—The forthcoming
session of Congress will be asked by
President Roosevelt to enact new leg
islation for regulation of all forms of
transportation. In the case of the
railway* they are already so complete
ly regulated that little more could be
j suggested without wholly usurping
the functions of management. With
respect to interstate commerce mov
ing on the highways and waterways,
however, there Is a wide Held for the
exercise of Congressional activity.
Joseph B. Eastman, Federal Co-or
dinator of Transportation, has pre
sented his views to the President, both
at the summer White House In Hyde
Park, N. Y., and since the return of
the President to Washington, but thus
far Mr. Eastman has properly declined
to disclose details, although it may be
safely assumed that many of the pro
visions written by the Oo-ordinator
into the bills presented by Senator
'Jill in the last session will be em
bodied in the proposals now offered
for the President's approval.
May Be New Cabinet Office.
Notwithstanding Mr. Eastman's sl
lence and the lack of information from
White House sources, there la pur
poseful talk In Washington to the ef
fect that the new transportation leg
islation may include the creation of a
cabinet officer to be known as Secre
tary of Transportation. Obviously,
such a move would represent quite a
drastic change from present Oovem
ment policies, but the suggestion is
not new, having been proposed for the
consideration ef Congress when the
Transportation Act of 1920 was being
discussed.
The objections to a secretary or
Transportation are as potent today as
when originally put forward. Perma
nence of Administration Is Imperative
and is not achieved by the changes
that periodically take place In cabinet
appointments, but Washington author
| Hies do agree that If regulation of all
| forms of interstate transportation Is
| to be entrusted to the Interstate Com
merce Commission, there may be sound
l logic In the creation of a separate
I federal agency to assume some of the
administrative functions that will de
velop In thus extending the Held of
regulation, leaving to the I. O. C. the
quasi Judicial functions which It Is so
well qualified to perform.
There are two definite schools of
thought In Washington dealing with
a new national transportation policy.
One hopes that the trend within the
Administration to assume larger con
trol over all forms of private enter
prise may lead to Government owner
ship of the railways, or at least some
of them, and the other holds that i
ownership may still he left In private |
hands but regulation and control
should be strengthened not alone with 1
respect to the railways but with every
other form of transportation perform
ing Interstate service.
Public Ownership Not FaveitA
If public sentiment is to be the
Judge between these schools, the gov- I
eminent ownership group could not i
win, for public experience with gov
ernment operation of the railways
during the war is still an unpleasant
memory. More than ibis, however, the :
public is becoming more and more sen-1
sitlve on the subject of taxation and]
will. It Is believed, frown upon adding 1
billions to the public debt to acquire I
the railways and then be further taxed
to pay the deficits Inevitably arising
from Government operation.
It would be most heartening and
! helpful if the l’resldeut would declare
himself ns still supporting the prlnd
! plus of private ownership, and It
; would greatly simplify the problem of
i Congress In dealing with the tntnspor- j
j Ution question next winter.
whatever piTaorats may no nm
proved by the President and whatever
th# reasons behind them muy l>e. It 1*
certain now that the Cougress which
meets in January will have to face the
necessity for establishing n govern
ment transportation policy. Leaders
in the House and Senate are authority
for the information that such legisla
tion will be placed rather near the
t .p of the list of proposals upon
which the President will ask Congress
to act, and today It looks like a strong
■ leaning toward the regulation o'f rail,
I highway, waterway and inlorcoastal
! transportation agencies which carry
j interstate commerce. •
While the elections may have changed
■ tie Congressional picture to some ox
j lent, the next Congress Is expected to
i,c practically as subservient to the
President as the last two sessions.
The logical conclusions thereto' * are
that transportation legislation. If sub
■ nit tied by the Pres'denl, will he pit
| acted lu very much the same form ar
| it is presented.
To Teach Water Safety
Life saving services offering train
ing la Crst aid methods for swimmer*
have been carried on by the Red Cross
ir two decades. In 20 years, life saving
i 'filth ales have been awarded to more
j -an a half million people who are in
j i rested in water sport*. Last year
[ -.piers Irsucd 72,503 life saving cer
: teats*.
| The Red Cross errol’ed 3,802,384
! ■ -mi its in last year’s roll call. Join
! • i • r " call—Armlstico Day to
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Boy Scouts Take Trip To Tennessee
Twenty-six Brevard Boy Scouts,
Scoutmaster J. E. Rufty, Frank Os
borne of the East View Dairy, and
W. A. Robertson of the Transyl
vania Times returned to Brevard
Sunday night from a two-day trip
into Tennessee and the Smoky
mountains. The trip was made in a
large truck and began at 6 A. M.
Saturday morning.
The trip into Tennessee was made
by way of Asheville and Newport,
Tenn., arrival in Knoxville being
made at 12:00 noon, Brevard time.
Tickets to the Duke-Tennessee foot
ball game had been reserved by the
scouts and Scoutmaster Rufty se
cured these tickets at the business
office of the University of Tennessee
athletic department. Twelve of the
scouts attended the game while the
remainder attended a show downtown
Knoxville.
Following the game the party
drove to Norris, Tenn., where camp
I for the night was made. TVA po
licemen assisted the scouts in locat
ing a suitable camping place. Drone
of the rock crushers on Norris dam
was audible to the campers and the
brilliantly lighted dam site was
seemingly just below the mountain
top camp.
All they could eat for twenty-five
cents was breakfast program for the
members of the party in the TVA
cafeteria at Norris Sunday morning.
The scouts had a wide choice of
cereal, grapefruit, eggs, toast, bis
cuit, butter, ham, syrup and milk or
coffee for the breakfast. “Seconds”
turned into thirds and fourths and
one scout drank seven glasses of'
sweet milk.
After registering at the entrance
to the dam workings, inspection of:
the construction going on occupied I
the better part of two hours. With I
exception of trucks and two small!
gasoline locomotives hauling mixed
concrete to the electric shovels, every
thing on the job is done electrically.
Heating arid cooking at the cafeteria
and domitories is also by electricity.
Leaving Norris, the party returned
to Brevard by way of the Smoky
i Mountain park, through New Found
I Gap and Cherokee Indian school.
Boys on the trip were as follows:
Richard Hamlin, T. C. Galloway,
Vance Jackson, Hale Siniard, Rich
ard Enloe, Billy Huggins, Bobby
Huggins, Allen Smith, Robert Tins
ley, Mack Aiken, Chas. Pickelsimer,
Richard Norton, Oliver Orr, Lucien
Deaver, Billy Nicholson. Max Ash
worth, John Walker, A. B. Galloway,
Panama Canal Tolls
The first Panama toll act was passed
In 1912 to provide for the payment of
tolls for the passage of ships through
the Panama canal. It exempted coast
wise American ships from payment.
On prolonged protest from Orest Brit
tain, declaring the exemption was a
violation of treaty rights, the act, as
It reluled to the exemption, was re
pealed in 19U.
River Poison Tree Feared
The river poison tree, of southern
Asia Is greatly feared by wood cut
ters because if the tree Is chopped
the sap Is likely to squirt Into the
eyes of the cutter and cause perma
nent blindness.
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L. E. Bagwell, Lewis Sims, Lewis
Hamlin, C. K. Osborne, Henry Miller,
James Curry and Junior Poole.
TAXES
One of the many interesting matters pertaining to
politics, is the question of taxation and all taxpayers
should investigate the question of taxes very carefully
and then vote for the political party which has been
able to reduce taxes.
There are certain political candidates who refer
to taxes and talk about taxes and think the voters
should rely solely on what they say, but there is one
sure way to find out about the tax situation and that
is for the taxpayer to compare the amounts he has had
to pay and to inspect the tax books and see the tax
valuation and the rate of taxation which has been as
sessed and levied and neither Democrat nor Republi
can can then truthfully contradict what the tax books
show. There is no use for a Democrat to say that the
tax rate is lower than is shown on the books, nor for
a Republican to say that the tax rate is higher than it
shows on the books and of course the valuation as
shown on the books is also a legal record and the truth
about what the taxpayer’ property is valued at and
on what amount he is going to have to pay taxes.
The taxpayers are therefore requested by the
Democrats to compare the tax records of Transylvania
County for the last six years, the first two of which
years, the Republicans were in control of the County,
and the last four, the Democrats have been in control.
During the four years that the Democrats have been
in control there has been the worst depression that this
State and this Union has ever experienced. During the
last two years of Republican Administration in this
County, the Board of Commissioners added approxi
mately Three Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand Dol
lars to the indebtedness of the County by selling bonds
and by giving notes and this money was not spent in
paying the County’s indebtedness, but was deposited
by' the Republican Commissioners in the Brevard
Banking Company when the County already had over
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars on deposit in said
bank. And when that bank closed a short time alter
Election there were Six Hundred Thousand Dollars
and more of the County’s monev on deposit and which
the Democratic Administration was unable to get out
of the bank. The Republicans did not turn over anv
cash to the Democrats, but only gave them drafts or
checks on the bank which said checks and drafts the
bank could not pay. With this Three Hundred and
Eighty Five Thousand Dollars added indebtedness and
the Six Hundred Thousand Dollars lost in the bank,
which said Six Hundred Thousand Dollars was put in
the bank hv the Republicans, the Democrats had
nearlv a million dollars added to the County s burden
and with all that added indebtedness, and with the
Countv’s creditors calling on every side for money the
Democrats went on and by economical administration
were able to reduce the tax rate every year and las
vear thev cut the tax valuation of even- piece ot
property*in the County fifty per cent, which of course,
would have cut the tax rate in half with nothing else
being done, but in addition to cutting the valuation
fifty per cent the tax rate was reduced so that actually
the taxpayer of Transylvania County is now paying t"
per ccnHes, than he or she paid under the Republican
Administration and this 50 per rent cut.in tax» alue.
was done bv th- Commissioners m one of then regulai
meetings, whereby the taxpayers were saved hi
several thousand dollars it would nave cost if there
had been an assessment on every piece of
the County. In addition to that reduction of taxcNdu
ing the last two years the present Boaid of Commis
or ha, been able to pay oft and sc tie acme forty
seven odd thousand dollar, of Comity bond, and has
naid around seventeen thousand dollars of 1 i°fT1",
indebtedness, a large part of which float.ng indebted
ness was left over from the Republican Administration
when the Democrats took charge four years ago.
T1 mav interest the taxpayers to Know mai *>>
15130 when the Republicans went out of office on the
first Monday in December in that year and during the
Inst week in November, that the Republican Commis
sioners saw fit to give checks on their deposit in the
Brevard Banking Company for the amount of WP™*)’
mutely Nine Thousand Dollars which they paid to then
County Attorney, in addition to the allowance of many
hundreds of dollars made to said attorney as credit,
on the taxes he had collected as County Attorney dur
ing hi'-' term ot oifice, and a laige part of t -
Kim P»M «U attorney »roSe from the cost ot
•tv foreclosure actions brought by the Republican
Commissioners and-on which they allowed the County
Attorney twenty dollars in each and every case which
I; scs were not completed, and from the several bun
, * vffM 1-'* *-b ^ * t*o>,ncv you can readily see
how thaTcdlt rmuV-In addition to this cost of the tax
foreclosure sales under the Republican Administration,
was that cost of advertising which as the records show,
amounted to over two thousand dollars. There has
been some talk in regard to the preMint tax foreclosuie
actions™! instead of the County Attorney being
allowed twenty dollars for each case. wi» say that tl»
, nMro cost to the taxpayer cannot < xceud six dollars,
whi-'h six dollars covers attorneys Res, ne^paper ad
'•erfWi* and court costs, so that unoer tne Democratic
Administration the same kind of law suit, as was con
ducted by the Republican Administration, costs the
taxpayer fourteen dollars less, than the taxpayer had
to pay the County Attorney under the Republican
Commissioners and when the taxpayer pays his six dol
lars cost, then the attorneys fees, advertising fees and
the court cost are all settled, w hile under the Republi
can Administration when you add the attorney’s fee3,
the advertising cost and the court costs, the taxpayer
had to pay over thirty five dollars to get his past due
taxes settled. Some talk has been going around that
the delinquent taxpayer would be moved off his
property at once, this is not so for the defendants in
these tax suits have six months or more to settle up or
fight the case.
, The County Commissioners were forced by law to
start these tax suits before October 1, 1934, as the last
session of the Legislature passed a state-wide Act re
quiring ail the counties and towns to start the suits.
In Buncombe County there are ten thousand, four
hundred similar suits, 57 extra deputy sheriffs were
employed to a?3ist the regular force of deputies in
serving the papers. Henderson County has four
thousand and so on down the list of Counties.
We know the taxpayers of the County want to be
*air and honest and so do the Democratic Commission
ers and therefore the Commissioners kindly invite the
taxpayers to come to the Court House and examine the
records and then vote for the party which has given
the best and most economical government.
In addition to what the County has done, the
Democratic Party in the Nation through President
Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress, has been able
to spend millions of dollars in feeding and clothing the
needy, in giving work to millions of people who had
no job, has also guaranteed the deposit of money in
the banks, up to five thousand dollars and those five
thousand dollars guarantee will take care of the little
man because it protects the man with ten dollars in
(he bank just as much as it does the man with five
thousands dollars in the bank and this $5,000.00 guar
antee protects 08 ppr cent of all bank deposits. This is
but another e vidence of the fact that the Democratic
Pit;ty takes care of the little man, while the Republi
can Parly ha- adopteil the policy of taking care of
the big man and that policy brought our Nation to the
orin’- of ruin.
In our State, the Democratic Administration has
been able to maintain the schools when it looked for
one time, as if it would be impossible to do so. They
have paid the payments due on the State indebtedness
and instead of having a deficit in the State Treasury,
they now have a surplus and will be able to meet the
State’s obligations as they become due. So in the
County. State and Nation, the Democratic Party has
proved its ability to lighten the burden of the taxpayer
and to make its" large corporations, which are able to
pay taxes; and who have been counting their profits
by the millions of dollars each year, pay their propor
tionate part of the expenses of the Government, and
the laboring man and the small merchant and manu
facturers have been greatly relieved. The farmer has
neon taken care of and the cattle man has been pro
tected and in less than two years President Roosevelt
with the aid of Congress, has been able to start this
Nation on its road to peace and prosperity. It took the
Republican Party twelve years to bring on the great
depression that overtook us and nearly overcame us
and the Democratic Party, able and willing as it is to
do everything to help rebuild our country, cannot com
plete this work in two years, but now that the people
see what they have done, we feel that the great Ameri
can people have sense enough and gratitude enough
to keep the Party in power which has saved them.
Mr. Hoover promised a “chicken in every pot and
an automobile in every garage,” instead of that, the
people had to sell their pot to buy dry bread and hart
to cut up their garage for stove wood to keep fiom
freezing.
President Roosevelt did not promise all these
chickens or all those automobiles, but be gave the
people clothes to cover their nakedness, he gave them
meat and other food to keep from starving and m addi
tion to that, gave them cash to buy their fuel and other
necessities.
The republican leaders are men of “great prom
ises,” but man cannot live by promises alone I he
Democratic Party is a Party of performances They do
not spend their time promising what they will do but
gb ahead and do it and then trust to wuse citizenship to
*av which form of government they like best, the
Democratic or the Republican.
^gain we as!c the taxpayers of the county to
come in and look at the records in the Court House,
especially to see as to the taxes, and also especially to
see where the last Board of Republican Commissioners
in this County added three hundred and eighty five
thousand dollars to the County s indebtedness.
imOTMrvTtt
Respectfully,
Democratic Executive
Committee
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