Boost and Help Speed Up Henderson County's $2,000,000.00 Building Program for 19221
PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOLUME XXVIII
NUMBER 86
AUDITORS FINISH
COUNTY'S BOOKS
TAX COLLECTOR AND COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS CONFER
Kesult of Audit Not Made Public; Pro
risions For Tax Collecting1 to Be
Made Soon.
The auditors have completed the
audit of Henderson county's tax books
and Tax Collector A. E. Hudgins will
reconcile any differences that may
have been found or some other man
will be appointed tax collector, mak
ing provision soon for the collection
of 1921 taxes.
A conference was held Monday at
which time the county commissioners
and their attorneys, the tax collec
tor and his attorneys and the audi
tors were present. The findings of
the auditors were entered into freely
but The News has not been authoriz
ed to publish the findings of the audi
tors who have completed a work last
ing through several weeks. The
typewritten report has not been made
and will not be filed until it can be
prepared, but the conference Monday
Tiad the benefit of final figures in or
er that those mostly concerned could
proceed in accordance with the com
promise recently reached in Superior
court.
No entry has been made on the
county's records relative to the find
ings of the auditors and the county
commissioners have made no orders
on their books, therefore any figures
given out at this stage of the pro
ceedings other than to the parties
concerned and their attorneys would
be unofficial and unauthorized. Cur
rent rumor has it that the state's audi
tors, as did those formerly employed
by the county, found an amount yet
due the county by the tax collector,
w'ho under court agreement has a few
days in which to accept the findings
and make the. necessary arrangements
for the collection of 1921 taxes.
If Mr. Hudgins should fail to ac
cept the audit the commissioners
would proceed to name a tax collec
tor. It is understood - to-be the purpose
of the board of commissioners to pub
lish the extensive audit as soon as
t3rpewritten copies of it are made.
The audit was a very exhaustive
one and entered into various phases
of the county's business. It brings
all the financial transactions up to
date and it is said that a system of
books will be kept by the county here
after whereby audits will be simpli
fied and the exact status of the coun
ty's affairs may be determined with
out great research.
Postmaster Staton On
Honor Roll For Sale
Of Saving Securities
Announcement has been received
by Postmaster R. H. Staton of the
Hendersonville postoffice that his
name has been placed on the honor
roll and sent to the postmaster gener
al at Washington as a mark of special
distinction.
The postmaster was an entrant .in
the postmaster contest which closed
December 31, for the sale of govern
ment savings securities. He competed
with all other postmasters of the same
class offices in the fifth federal re
serve district and was one of the
winners in this state.
The bronze honor pin of attractive
design, bearing the inscription, "Hon
or Postmaster," has been conferred
upon Postmaster Staton by Howard T.
Gree, director of the government sav
ings organization, Richmond, Va., as
a reward for patriotism and faithful
service.
While the sale of War Savings
Stamps and Thrift Stamps has been
discontinued, the new Treasury Sav
ings Certificates offered the public
are so attractive that Postmaster Sta
ton says, "I believe this office will
report much larger sales this year
than last year as soon as our people
recognize what a splendid investment
is open to them."
G. M. A. Camp Opening
Announced For July 3
The News is in receipt of a hand
some new catalog announcing the
opening of the Georgia Military Acad
emy at Highland Lake next summer,
and containing full description of the
summer school and of the attractions
of this nearby camp site, the winter
liome of Carolina Military-Naval Acad
emy. The summer session will open
July 3 and will close August 26.
The booklet is well bound and is
splendidly illustrated throughout with
pictures of the beautiful Highland
Lake property, and the summer cadet
life, together with .views of: this won
derful plateau country.
The Georgia Military Academy sum
mer camp was established at High
land Lake in 1919, celebrating the be
ginning of the institution's twentieth
year. Its founder and present head
is Col. J. C. Woodward. The camp
brings on an average one hundred
boys to this section six weeks every
summer, together with a large corps
of instructors.
NATIONAL EVENTS
OF IMPORTANCE
BRIEFLY TOLD
Principal Topics of Interest Through
out Nation In Condensed
Form.
Washington. The United States
feels it to be to its own interest-that
the surplus stocks of gold in the coun
try should be redistributed and utilized
through investment in foreign chan
nels, according to a statement on the
effect of exchanges on inter-American-commerce
made public by the United
States section of the inter-American
high commission.
The statement expressed the views
of the American section, of which
Secretary Hoover is chairman, on the
international exchange situation for
the information of the Latin-American
sections of the commission, the inter
change of views having been arranged
after a meeting of all the national sec
tions in their various apitals last
month.
In its statement the American sec
tion discussed the exchange situation
from the European standpoint as well
as from the inter-American and United
States angle.
In this country, the statement de
clared, the situation was unfortunate
because the high premium on Ameri
can exchange has attracted the gold
flow of the world, resulting in over
stocking beyond currency needs - and
a surplus earning no interest and serv
in gno useful purpose.
"The United States," the statement
said, "feels it to be to its own interest
that this gold should be utilized in
foreign channels, and also that it be
redistributed. From an economic
point of view, the method of utiliza
tion if by the investment of capital
abroad, the method of redistribution
should be through loans for repro
ductive enterprise and by specific
gold loans to onntries which are in
a position to undertake the re-organization
of their currencies on a gold
basis. The United States section re
gard it as mutually desirable and
profitable that capital investments
should be made in the other Ameri
can republics where national credit
rests squarely on stability in the so
cial order.
Responsibility for the, disordered
world exchange situation was attrib
uted by the statement to dislocations
still existing in the whole internal
economic structure and the derange
ments of the internal price structure.
The exchange situation, the American
section asserted, -would improve as the
world's economic recovery, especially
in Europe, goes on, and particularly
as price distortions disappear.
Two More Resolutions Adopted.
Washington. Two more American
resolutions base don the principle of
open diplomacy and an open door of
commercial opportunity in China were
adopted by the far eastern committee
of the Washington conference.
The proposal for a showdown of
all international agreements affecting
China's interests presented Thursday
by Secretary Hughes, was given com
mittee approval only after it had been
freighted with upwards of a score of
amendments, but American spoKes
men insisted that its meaning had not
been materially changed.
Under a supplemental declaration
proposed by Elihu Root and accepted
with little debate, the powers agree
not to support in the future any en
gagements entered into by their na
tions designed to create special
spheres of influence of exclusive op
portunities 'within Chinese territory.
John Kendrick Bangs Dead.
Atlantic City, N. J. John Kendrick
Bangs, 59, noted humorist and author,
died in a hospital here following sev
eral weeks' illness. His condition be
came critical after an operation for
intestinal troubles.
Navy to Sell Sub Chasers. I February 6-12 Is Set
Washington. The navy department j A S. i X T
will place four subchasers on sale Feb- Aside For Jewish Relief
ruary 1, it was announced. One of "
the boats is at th Mare Island, Cali- Governor Morrison has set aside by
fornia, navy yard and the others are proclamation the week beginning Mon
at the navy yard at Bremerton Island, day, February 12, as Jewish Relief
Puget Sound. . m week, due to the destitute and dying
The vessels have a disnla cement of i
77 tons, are 110 feet in length, have a
speed of 18 knots and a cruising ra
dius of 1,200 miles. They can be con
verted into pleasure yachts, tow boats,
tenders or patrol boats, the depart
ment stated.
Veterans Approve Action of House.
Washington. The action of the
house appropriations committee in
prohibiting the Veterans' bureau from
starting any mpre vocational univer
sities such as the one at Chillicothe,
Ohio, is thoroughly satisfactory to dis
abled veterans, B, R. Stewart, of the
National Legislative Committee of
Disabled American Veterans, declared.
After a long speech before, the com
mittee a clause was inserted m the
Jfndepsnisnt offices appropriation bill
for 1823 prohibiting the establishment
af anymore universities.
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1922
Diamond Curb Market of London
i ma .esr dtsmr.
......... T. , N S .. .1
Negotiating a diamond deal in London's richest open-air market in Hatton
garden. Stones worth a fortune change hands as though they were bits of
glass. Despite the magnitude of the deals, profits are not very great. The
merchants carry their treasures in small chamois leather bags.
UXEDO-SALUDA
ROAD PROPOSED
OUNTY OFFICIALS, CITIZENS AND
SALUDA PEOPLE CONFER
3Iay Result in New Highway to Salu
da and Removal of Cork for Bot-tled-Un
Citizens.
County officials, officers of the Blue
Ridge Power Company and the com
pany having in hand the development
of Lake Summit, citizens, of the Lake
Summit community and -Saluda were
in recent conference concerning an
outlet for some of the residents of
the section contiguous to the lake and
the building of a road from Saluda to
Tuxedo.
Representatives of these various in
terests met at Lake Summit and in
dulged in a free exchange of ideas
that it is believed will result to the
satisfaction s of all concerned and tc
the interest and promotion of the
whole community.
About the time the dam was un
der construction a public road was
abandoned and this left a few resi
dents in a somewhat inconvenient sit
uation with reference to a suitable
outlet for their community.
Saluda citizens are interested in the
proposed opening of a highway from
Saluda to Tuxedo. The Lake Sum
mit people are interested in this road
also because it would give a direct
and nearer route for South Carolin
ians through Saluda to Tuxedo with
out having to go by the way of Flat
Rock. This road would have about
the same mileage between Hender-.
sonville and Saluda as-that of the
present road from Hendersonville to
Saluda through East Flat Rock.
It was suggested at the meeting that
the requirements of the residents of
the Lake Summit section would be met
by the erection of a bridge below the
dam by the owners of the power plant.
This together with the opening of
the private drives in the vicinity and
around the lake to public use would
benefit the public and give a drive
around the entire body of water.
The county, it is understood, would
look favorably on the question of co
operating with the people of Saluda
and others in the building of a high
way from Tuxedo to Saluda as a re
sult of which it is felt this road would
divert a great deal of the traffic be
tween Hendersonville and - Spartan
burg over this highway and give it
the benefit of additional hard surface
jtnileage in reaching Hendersonville.
condition ot thousands ot Jews m
Europe. A. Kantrowitz has received
notification that Henderson county's
portion of the quota, which for the
state is $100,000, is $1,200. He states
that a mass meeting will be held one
night this week for "the purpose of or
ganizing the movement to raise the
quota.
Governor Morrison urges all news
papers to give publicity to. the move
ment, and asks that "the .ministers,
Sunday school superintendents and
teachers- and others urge their peo
ple to seize the opportunity of help
ing the suffering and contribute to
the relief of these worthy distressel
people,in so far as their means will
permit."
The Bette - Way.
And for our pari there are times
when we would rather face the music
than pay the fiddler. Dallas News.
S?
.
MISSES MYERS AND
CRENSHAW SPEAK
ADDRESSES WILL FEATURE MASS
MEETING TODAY
Red Cross and Public Health Repre
sentatives Here to Explain Need
For County Nurse.
0
0
TO EMPLOY NURSE.
After hearing addresses rela
tive to a public health nurse
Tuesday afternoon the meeting:,
at which 85 were in attendance,
went on record unanimously in
favor of fhe employment of a
nurse and application will be
made immediately for such ser
vice. 5
&
Addresses by Miss Catherine Myers,
representative from the North Caro
ina public health department, and
Iiss Ruth Crenshaw, -field worker in
Western North Carolina for the Amer
ican Red Cross, will feature the mass
aieeting held this afternoon at three
o'clock at the city hall to consider
he employment of a full-time pub
lic health nurse.
Mrs. R. P. Freeze, chairman of the
local Red Cross chapter, who will
preside at the meeting, states that sev
eral of the public-spirited people of
the city will be called on to express
their ideas concerning this movement.
A large attendance is expected.
It is Mrs. Freeze's opinion that the
novement will without doubt be put
across today, since public sentiment
seems to be already molded sufficient
ly. Representative people of the city,
including physicians, city officials,
ministers, lawyers, and editors, with
whom she has talked, have assured
Mrs. Freeze that the leaders of the
community recognize the great need
for a public nurse and are anxious to
secure one.
The local post of the American Le
gion has offered through Mrs. Freeze
their club rooms over Patterson's Dept.
Store as office headquarters for
the nurse, and has promised cooper
ation in every other way possible.
For the first six months, Mrs.
Freeze stated, the public health nurse
could be financed by available Red
Cross funds, and after that by the
people of the county. The state
health department furnishes th
nurse that is, by means of a ques
tionable sent to the county health of
ficials, learns what the individual
needs are, and sends a nurse to fill
the needs as near as possible. Such
a nurse must be a graduate, who has
had a special course in public health
work preparing her to teach the peo
ole how to take care of themselves.
C. M.-N. A. WILL MEET
CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
With the record of winning every
school game they have played this
season, the basketball quintet from
Carolina Military-Naval Academy will
meet Friday night on their court at
Highland Lake the team representing
Charlotte High School. The game
will begin at eight o'clock, with an
admission charge of 25 and 35 cents:
TJie Charlotte team has held its
own against some of the strongest
school teams in the state. . The game
Friday night promises to be all the
more interesting in that C. M.-N. A.
won from Charlotte in football in the
fall. '',
Representing C. M.-N. A. will be
the following.: Miller and Eddye, for
wards; Boyer and Bierman, guards;
Adkins, center.
NORTH CAROLINA
HAPPENINGS OF
LAST FEW DAYS
Leading News Events of Old North
State Told In Short, Interesting
Paragraphs.
Louisburg- Fire of unknown origin
destroyed the freight depot here, caus
ing a loss of about $10,000, which is
covered by insurance.
Salisbury- J. K.. Doughton has been
elected president of the People's Na
tional bank, taking the place of J.
Dave Norwood, who retired to devote
his time to a chain of cotton mills in
which he is interested.
Henderson. Jesse Carter and W. F.
Woten, well known young men of Hen
derson, were bound over to superior
court alter a hearing in recorder's
court on the charge of incendiarism.
Bonds were fixed at $6,000.
Wilmington. On the 57th annivery
ary of the fall of Fort Fisher, near
here, to federal troops during the war
between the states, a shaft erected on
the site of the old fort was dedicated
with a number of veterans who partic
ipated in the fort's last stand joining
a crowd of 3,000 persons.
Pinehurst. H. A. Morson of Char
lotte, N." C, state "champion, .missed
only one target of the 75 thrown in
the 450-target high average race in the
mid-winter trap shooting tournament
at Pinehurst and gained one bird on
the leader of the field, Frank Hughes,
of South Dakota, who dropped two tar
gets. Kins ton. Sixteen thousand pounds
of picric 'acid are rolling toward this
city for wholesale land-clearing and
stump-blasting operations by Lenoir
county farmers during the coming
spring. The explosive is from a gov
ernment source, and cost the purch
asers, who "clubbed'' together to buy
a carload shipment, considerably less
than commercial dynamite of lesser
strength.
Raleigh. Forty-one scholarships
at Johns Hopkins university are
available for southern young men and
women, ten of them from North Caro
lina, according to an announcement
iven.out by the state department of
education. Applications for the schol
arships must be placed with the presi
dent of the university before March 1.
The awards are made in March and
April.
Burlington. Very favorable prog
ress has been made toward the es
tablishment of a co-operative cream
ery for Alamance county. Recently
the chamber of commerce sent out let
ters enclosing reply cards om which
certain data was requested. Twenty
five of these cards have been signed
and returned, pledging co-operation
and support cf the establishment of
the creamery.
Reidsville. During the past year
Reidsville has made gratifying prog
ress in the construction of churches,
schools, residences and business hous
3S, but the crowning event of the pro
gressive building program has been
accomplished in the erection of the 60
room hotel, which will represent an
outlay of $150,000 when furnished and
ready for occupancy.
Raleigh.. An evangelistic meeting
more pretentions than anything yet
attempted by the Raleigh Baptists and
on a scale that contemplates an ac
tive interest on the part of the Bap
tists in other parts of the state, is
planned in connection with the ap
pearance here for 15 days beginning
March 1, of Dr. George Truett, noted
Baptist preacher, of Dallas, Texas.
Lexington. Miss Gertrude Alexan
der, home demonstration agent, who
recently placed her resignation in the
hands of the board of education with
a view to taking up the work in Meck
lenburg county, may be persuaded to
reconsider her action. Since news of
her resignation became known there
have been many protests all over the
county against her going away and
these have reached the ears of the
county authorities, who, ifis known,
are strongly urging Miss Alexander to
stay in Davidson.
Washington (Special). Heber R,
Munford" was nominated to be post
master at Greenville, N. C.
Burlington Recently A. F Barrett
of this city discovered an old book
on North Carolina dated back to 1635.
Among the numerous interesting
facts contained in the old book are
the ones on geology and minerals.
Information that cooper is known to
exist in Alamance county, and that
several mineral springs may be
found in the county, was contained
in the book.
REPUBLICANS NOT
TO MEET SATURDAY
THREATENED STORM DID
FULLY MATERIALIZE
NOT
Cool Heads Advised Against Meeting
to Give Vent to Pent Up, Bitter
Feelings.
The proposed Republican pow wow
will not materialize on next Satur
day in Hendersonville.
Oil "has been poured on the dis
turbed waters. All is peace, or at
least the worst of the storm has pass
ed for the time being.
About a week ago a great storm
seemed to be brewing. The dissatis
faction resulting from taxes, from ac
tions of those high in the patty coun
cils and from inaction on tha part of
others, and performances not thor
oughly orthodox from a republican
viewpoint, all tended toward coming;
to a climax next Saturday. A tenta
tive call bristling with statements,
uncomplimentary and otherwise, was
prepared for the press but it failed
to find the light of publicity. It was
withdrawn. Those having the welfare
of the party close to heart were scur
rying around, holding curbstone and
sunny-spot conferences with the re
sult that the world so far as the
realm of republican activities here
abouts is concerned moves on in its
undisturbed course.
W. A. Smith
Praise to Miss Shipp
And Fassifern School
The News:
I have read with much interest the
report made in your valuable paper
of the distinguished honor conferred
upon our townslady, Miss Kate Shipp,
head, owner, and manager of Fassi
fern. The fact that she has been put
in the class of such celebrities as
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, Madam
Clemenceau of France, Capt. E. Bart
alot of Italy, General Pershing, and
Gen. Herbert Hoover of America in
the reception of the "Huguenot Cross"
is strongly indicative of the fact, that
we have among us greatness, which
we have not heretofore appreciated,
and for psychological reasons, I fear,
we are incapable of fully appreciating
now.
When some of our citizens con
ceived the idea of and put forth the
energy necessary to the establishment
of Fassifern in Hendersonville under
the leadership of Miss Kate Shipp
and furnished the means to make this
successful, it was not then understood
by many, and possibly not understood
yet, by many, what an effort it took
and what a glory would follow this
commendable enterprise.
For myself I wish to declare that I
expected great things, but my lively
expectation and my most ardent hopes
did not enable me to fully realize the
glory that would come to Hender
sonville as a reward for the mag
nificent and enthusiastic efforts put
forth. Now after the demonstration
has been made and tested out for
several years, all except the pessi
mist, devoured with "shivolity" can
rejoice in the fact that they are co
citizens with men who can well meas
ure the results of public spirited,
patriotic enterprises. I believe that
under all the circumstances the
parties who put their signatures to
the scheme, that brought us this
great benefit, are entitled to the
greatest commendation by the people,
and the highest congratulations to
themselves, in having acquired for
their city, one of the greatest schools
in the South, and one of the greatest
women in the nation.
W. A. Smith.
OFFICERS FOR
YEAR ELECTED
First Bank & Trust Company Holds
Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
The stockholderse--of the First Bank
& Trust Compnay held their annual
meeting last . Thursday, and elected
the following officers for the year:
R. O. Clarke, president; R. H. Staton,
P. F. Patton, and R. M. Oates, vice
presidents; J. Mack Rhodes, cashier;
J. Allen Rhodes, H. A. Stepp, and C.
S. Fullbright; assistant cashiers. The
directors are as follows: W. J. Davis,
chairman; J. Mack Rhodes, W. A.
Smith, J. O. Bell, F. S. Wetmur, Geo.
Stephens, A. Cannon, W. M. Lott, R.
C. Clarke, Geo. H. Valentine, J. T.
Wilkins, C. P. Rogers, Jake Wells,
R. M. Oates, R. H. Staton, P. F. Pat
ton. The encouraging outlook of the
bank was evidenced in the report
for the past year made by the act
ing officials, in which it was snown
that the resources of the institution
are well past the million mark at
the beginning of the new year. But
the brightest indication of the bank's
prosperity was found in the decision
of the directors, recently made; to
erect in 1922 an elegant new home
on the site where the present build
ing stands.
GEO. TV. LANCE POSTMASTER.
Press dispatches are to the effect
that Geo. W. Lance was nominated by
the president to be postmaster at the
Fletcher postoffice.