The Transylvania Times
Published Every Thursday By
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Brevard, N. C.
THE NEWS THE TIMES
Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
Consolidated 1932
Entered as second class matter, October 29,
1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ED M. ANDERSON_Publisher
HENRY HENDERSON_Ass’t. Publisher
JOHN I. ANDERSON, JR_Associate
IRA B. ARMF1ELD_Business Manager
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Winner of 1943 and 1945 Awards for Best
Large Weekly in North Carolina and Second
Best in Nation. Winner Second Place in Best
Editorial Contest of Weekly Newspapers in
Nation in 1946.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946
A Serious Problem
This newspaper is not proud of the fact
that many of the children of Brevard and
vicinity will have to be housed and taught
in classrooms here that are not adequate.
Obviously the auditorium at the Bre
vard elementary school that is now being
converted into three classrooms is almost i
totally unfit for such purpose and it is a
shame to have to continue to use “dark
rooms" and damp basement rooms in all of
the three Brevard schools for classroom
instruction.
The situation at Rosman and at several
other schools in the county is not too good
and we admit that such conditions have
come about as a result of the war and
progress.
Because of the county’s present finan
cial condition and because of a state law,
we also realize the handicaps which our
commissioners face in improving this un
fortunate situation.
It is a grave problem, however, that
should be of vital concern to every parent
and every public spirited citizen in the
community and county. Transylvania is not
a large or a wealthy county, but wre should
have the necessary amount of intelligence,
determination and resources to correct this
condition that affects the future welfare of
our community and county.
This is not just a problem for the coun
ty board of education and commissioners
to solve. It is one that every citizen should
think about and should endeavor to cor
rect.
Discriminating Service
We are getting sick and tired of the
way long distance telephone operators in
Asheville and Hendersonville discriminate
against calls from Brevard in favor of lo
cal calls in those two cities.
We are also completely worn out with
-'the continued excuse from Southern Bell
Telephone management that materials and
dabor are not available for the installation
of additional lines that will be adequate to
take care of present needs.
That is one of the troubles with a mo
nopoly and it is high time for the North
Carolina Utilities Commission to tell the
telephone folks that they will have to im
prove the service or else.
A few days ago we made a check on
what we believed was alleged discrimina
tion on the part of Asheville and Hender
sonville operators. This newspaper had
placed two long distance calls around noon
and was informed in each case that there
would be a two or three hours delay. Three
hours passed and another check was made
and again we were informed of another
two to three hours del^. We drove to Hen
dersonville and tried one of the calls from
that point. Believe it or not, the call went
through in five minutes. From there we
drove to Asheville and placed the other
call and it went through in less than fifteen
minutes.
In each place, we also inquired about
the long distance service that day from
those who had used it and they said it had
been very good.
Brevard is probably regarded as a
dead-end spot by the telephone system and
perhaps it is, but at the same time we are
entitled to long distance service that is just
as good as is given in other places and we
hereby make an appeal to the state com
mission to see that we get it. The telephone
companies are getting rich and are still us
ing phoney wartime excuses for their fail
ure to do the job that should be done. We
don’t like it and are not going to stop com
plaining until we get relief to which we
are justly entitled.
A Disgrace To Georgia
The state of Georgia seems to be go
ing backward instead of forward.
It is our opinion that the recent elec
tion of Eugene Talmadge as governor has
set the state back about fifty years and
now, probably as a result of the big Negro
question raised and exploded during the
bitter and rather insane gubernatorial
race, four colored persons have been mur
dered in a bloody massacre by an armed
and unmasked band of white men near
Monroe.
These four victims of a ghastly mul
tiple lynching were farm hands, one of
whom had just been released under bond
of $600 for stabbing, but not killing a white
man. The dead include two farm hands and
their wives.
State police officers failed to make any
progress in their initial investigations to
find out the names of the guilty parties
because “the best people in the town won’t
talk.”
There is no excuse for such mob vio
lence. The state of Georgia and the nation
have adequate laws to arrest and convict
guilty persons. The negro problem is al
ready a major one in the South and the
North and action of this kind only serves
to make this problem graver.
True to his reputation, Governor Ellis
Arnall offered rewrards and is making ev
ery effort to clear up this extremely dark
spot on the state of Georgia, while Mr.
Talmadge evidently sits back and fiddles
while his commonwealth swelters under
the hellish heat of his own generation.
If Georgians do not know that mob vio
lence should not be tolerated in a modern
society, wTe favor congressional action to
convince them that they are living in a civ
ilized era. This lynching is a disgrace to
Georgia.
Deal Firmly With Russia
yVe hate to admit it, but events of the
past few months rather clearly show that
it is almost impossible to do business with
Russia.
A peace conference of 21 nations is
now in progress in Paris and on the eve of
the conference a harmonious outlook was
shattered by the Russian demand on peace
treaty publication.
Since the opening of permanent world
peace discussions, the Reds have threat
ened the future security of all nations by
constant selfish demands. They have ob
tained compromise after compromise from
the United States and Great Britain in or
der that there might be harmony in this
great “must” effort.
The results of the recent atomic bomb
tests should serve as ample proof to the
Russians that another war might be the
end of that vast nation.
Secretary Byrnes and British repre
sentatives should inform the Russians in
no uncertain terms what the score is and
should demand co-operation.
The Reds have plenty of territory,
abundant resources and warped brains.
They do not have enough sense to provide
a comfortable standard of living for their
own people and certainly this should dis
qualify them for world leadership in
thought and action.
They uiw..stand firmness and now is
the time to apply it with vigor. Tomorrow
might be too late!
Trouble is that most of us want the
other fellow’s prices controlled.
America has many problems but the
KKK will not solve any of them.
Mr. Truman finds new reasons every
; day for not wanting to be President.
_
Maybe balancing the federal budget
in an election year is too much to expect.
No need to hope for reduction in taxes
if you ask for more public spending.
England is finding it about as difficult
to give India independence as it was to
keep the country subjugated.
PESKOV.
BACK AGAIN
ECUSTA GARDEN
(From Front Page, Second Section)
stake prizes will be awarded the
winner of the largest number of
points in each of the four divi
sions: Fresh Vegetable division,
Fresh Fruits division, Canned
Fruits and Vegetables division, and
Flowers.
There will also be prizes for
the exhibitor having the largest,
second largest and third largest
number of items entered in the
contest, regardless of whether or
not prizes are taken in any indi
vidual classification.
There will be first, second and
third prizes for the prize-winning
individual displays. An individual
display may include all products
which the exhibitor wishes to ar
range, including fresh and canned
fruits, and flowers.
Space Must Be Reserved
These displays will be judged
on variety, quality, and arrange
ment. Space must be reserved for
this particular type exhibit, and
exhibitors are asked to notify F. S.
Best, Extension 315, either direct
or through department foremen.
Items entered in the individual
display competition will not be
judged in the various single classi
fications. For example, any person
including potatoes in his or her
individual display group must en
ter a separate plate of potatoes
if he or she wishes to compete for
prize money in the potato classifi
cation.
Entertainment Planned
The special sweepstakes prizes
will be announced in the August is
sue of the Echo and as soon as
these prizes arrive they will be
put on display in the Cafeteria so
everyone can see them. A full eve
ning of entertainment is being
planned in connection with the
Garden Display and this program
will be announced as soon as final
arrangements have been made.
Garden Display Rules
1. All exhibits entered must be
grown by employees (and, or,
members of their immediate house
hold) of Ecusta, Champagne, End
less Belt, or California Central
Fibre corporation. An exception is
made in the case of canned peaches
since peaches do not thrive in
this vicinity.
2. Peaches not grown by the ex
hibitor. and entered in the canned
goods division, must be pur
chased in the raw state and fully
prepared by the exhibitor.
3. All exhibits entered in the
Garden Display must have been
grown and canned during the
1946 season.
4. All canned goods exhibited
must be canned by an employee
or a member of his or her fam
ily.
5. Entries must be received at
the company Cafeteria not later
than Thursday, September 5th,
1946 at midnight.
o. ^xniDiiors may maxe omy one
entry in each classification.
7. Exhibitors are urged to pre
sent a list of entries to the Per
sonnel office well in advance. La
bels will be typed and held until
exhibits are presented for showing.
8. If there are three, or fewer,
exhibits in any one classification,
judges will use discretion in
awarding prizes.
9 Judges’ decision will be ac
cepted as final.
10. Owner must claim and re
move displays between midnight
Friday, September 6th. and 4:30 p.
m. Saturday, September 7th. Prize
ribbons will be removed with the
displays.
11. Cash prizes may be called for
at the judges’ booth in the Cafe
teria, between 4:00 p. m. and 8:00
p. m. Friday, September 6th, or
afterward at the Personnel Office.
12. Display plates for fresh vege
tables and fruits will be provided.
Vases, in two sizes, will be loaned
to exhibitors for flower arrange
ments.
TRY TIMES WANT ADS
FIFTY-SIX MADE
(From Front Page, Second Section)
Montanari, Brevard; Mable Hen
drix, Byington, Tenn., and Don
nie Rhodes, Lenoir, special stu
dents.
Pre-College Honor Roll
The following students were
listed on the pre-college honor
roll: Freda Arnold, Franklin; Bob
bie Ballard, Cherryville; Elsie
Bandy, Terrell; C. C. Bradley, Jr.,
Danville, Va.; John Burwell, Ruth
erfordton; James Caines, Clifton
Forge, Va.; Harold W. Caldwell,
Mooresville; Laura Caroon, New
soms, Va.; J. W. Christenbury,
Charlotte; Joe Cook, Marshall; E.
G. Crawford, Weaverville; Fred O.
Dellinger, Cherryville; Vance A.
Derby, Charlotte; W. B. Dunwofiy, I
Brunswick, Ga.; Virginia Hall, Bre-1
vard: Caroline Henderson, Char
lotte; Jimmie Hine, Lincolnton;
H. C. Ilollifield, Charlotte; Dott
Ingram, Atlanta, Ga.; Fred Kuch
ler, Jacksonville Beach, Fla.; Doris
Long, Spindale; Thomas Mclnville,
Darlington, S. C.: Gerald D. Mar
tin, Darlington, S. C.; A. L. Mas
singille, Pickens, S. C.; Jo Mills,
Edenton; Hugh Owen, Rutherford
ton; Lucy Reid, Laurens, S. C.;
Paul R. Robbins, Darlington,, S. C.;
Vincent E. Severs, Charlotte.
ABOUT TIME!
First Drunk:—“Look at that
sign.”
Second Drunk:—“Whazzit shay?”
First Drunk: — “Shays ladies
ready to wear clothes.”
Second Drunk:—“Well, ish d—
near time, ain’t it?”
How good is your personal safe
ty record?
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF TRANSYLVANIA.
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of M. Lorena
Merrill, now deceased, late of
Transylvania County, North Car
olina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said
estate of the said deceased to ex
hibit them verified to the under
signed at my home on Penrose, N.
C. , Route No. 1, on or before the
25th. day of July, A. D. 1947, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery respectively.
All persons indebted to said es
tate will please make immediate
payment and settlement and sat
isfaction in full respectively.
This the 20th. day of July, A.
D. , 1946.
B. F. MERRILL,
Administrator of Estate of
M. Lorrena Merrill, De
ceased.
7-25-6tp
“The wedding is just a week
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even to gifts for the bridesmaids
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A A W.MAIN 5T. BREVARD, N.C.
The Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
*-—«
Each one of us needs all the
props we can get to hold us up to
a standard of life which will bring
no regrets in later years. How im
portant it is to have someone who
cares what we do
and how we do
it.
I have just
found a letter
from one of my
rea dors, written
, during the last
months of the
i war, which was
misplaced among j
my papers. The I
m o t n e r ot a
young man in the military service,
she had taken a great interest in
the many service men who were
stationed at the camp in her town.
She “adopted” 25 of them, kept up
correspondence with them when
they went overseas, received pho
tographs from all of them. They
called her “Mom Number 2.” She
kept them on her daily prayer list,
and they knew it.
One of them wrote her a let
ter from Austria thanking her for
her faith in him and her prayers
for him, enclosing a little poem
expressing his sentiments. I quote
in part:
“Somewhere a woman thrusting
fear away, Faces the future grave
ly for your sake . . . She loves you,
trusts you, breathes in prayer your
name. Soil not her faith in you by
sin and shame . . . O keep for her
dear sake a stainless name. Bring
back to her a manhood free from
shame.”
Many a boy or girl away from
home restraints has been tempted
to actions which he would never
have even considered at home.
Some have succumbed and will
carry the scars on their souls and
in memory to the grave. Others
have been held back by the mem
ory of some loved one's prayer and
faith in them.
Our servicemen in the armies of
occupation are now experiencing
temptations even greater than in
the time of war. We at home need
to remember this and give them
the tullest support of our prayers,
and be sure to let them know it.
As long as the war was on, we
kept our letters going. There were
prayer meetings, prayer groups
and thousands of daily individual
prayers. We must not forget that
we still have an army and a navy
with American boys and girls scat
tered over the world. Many of
them are in greater danger now
than in the days of actual conflict.
Lets keep the props up, and be
sure to let them know it.
(Editor’s Note: The third print
ing of Dr. Spaugh’s new book,
“The Pathway to Contentment” is
now off the press, and orders can
be filled. Address it to THE EV
ERYDAY COUNSELOR, P. O. Box
4145, Charlotte, N. C. Enclose $1.)
In the Japanese language there
are 14 different ways of saying
goodbye. The most effective, we
imagine, is: “How about the 100
yen you owe me?”
Newest insecticide* is hexa
chlorocyclohexane. As its name
suggests—it puts a double hex
on ’em.
In weather like this we have no
atomic energy—or any other kind.
By becoming worthless that
Hungarian coin, the pengo,
makes the front pages. Well,
maybe not entirely valueless—
since it is worth a news item.
Africa reports increased demand
for ostrich feathers. Looks like
we’re in for a boom in fan danc
ing.
Colored underwear for men—
fashion phophecy. Good grief,
don’t tell us red flannels are
coming back!
A Washington, D. C., dog sub
sists on a diet of fallen tree leaves.
Zadok Dumkopf is writing to see
if he can borrow the pooch for
about three weeks next fall.
A CONGRESSIONAL RETORT
A visitor at the Capitol was ac
companied by his small son. The
little boy watched from the gal
lery when the House came to or
der.
“Why did the minister pray for
all those men, pop?”
“He didn’t. He looked them over
and prayed for the country.”
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