THE HIQHLANDER Highlands, North Carolina - - The Highest Incorporated Town in Eastern America VOLUME one. AUGUST 28, 1937. NUMBER FOUR. Tax Reduction of Aid to Residents and Visitors in Highlands Ait a meeting of the city coun cil in the town hall last Friday night, it was moved by Mr. G. W. Marett, and seconded by Mr. Cobb, that the tax rate in Highlands be reduced from $3.00 to $2.25. The motion was carried unanimously by all Commissioners present. Commissioner D. W. Wiley being the instigator of this proposition. The newly created rate of $2.25 per hundred dollars valuation, for 1937-1938, should do more to cause an increase in building than any other single factor could do. With the reduction in tax rate, it is a clear indication that the Town Commissioners are looking towards an increase in the build ing trade in Highlands during the coming year; and the more people j who come here and build homes, j the greater will the reputation as the beauty spot of North Carolina, Highlands will become. This reduction in the tax rate is the first in several years. In 1935, i the tax rate per hundred dollars was $3.00; as it was in 1936 fiscal year. Seventy-five cents is a mark ed reduction in any tax rate any where; and goes a long way to prove that Highlands is solvent 1 and her credit good. The citizens i of Highlands should rejoice over this decrease. SPECIAL PROGRAM LABOR DAY AT HELEN’S BARN Aside from the regular square and round dancing at Helen’s Barn on Labor Day night this year, Mr. Sam Wilson, proprietor, 'has pro vided an evening of entertainment as well. There will be a good floor show, which will captivate the au dience from beginning to end. The Personality Twins from Hender sonville will entertain with sing ing and tap dancing. They are past masters in tihe art of tap dancing. Mr. Wilson has provided other acts in the floor show as well, a full program of which will be published in the next issue of THE HIGHLANDER. It will be a grand climax to a summer’s vacation and entertain ment for visitors and residents alike to go to Helen’s Bam on that eventful evening. NOTICE With this issue of THE HIGH LANDER, free distribution will end. All papers in the future will cost five cents each; or may be ■Subscribed for at the rates indi cated in the paper. We suggest that those of you who are leaving Highlands for the winter months, have the paper forwarded to you with each issue; for in this way you can keep up with the events and news which transpire here in your absence. We thank the many who have already subscribed for the paper; and URGE everyone to take out a one-year’s subscription NOW. Events of The Highlands Museum We wish to call attention of the members and friends of the High lands Museum to the annual meet ing which will be held at the Lab. oratory Saturday (this) afternoon at three o’clock. A reception will follow the regular meeting. The Board of Trustees will hold their meeting just after the regular annual meeting. Dr. L. R. Mess ier, who is president of the Uni versity of Tennessee, and vice president of the Highlands Mu seum association, is staying in the home of Miss Ravenel. He may speak here on Sunday afternoon, August 29th, at three o’clock. Fur ther announcement concerning this will appear on the bulletin board in front of the Museum. Mr. Wheeler, director of the! Highlands Museum, went to Ashe ville Tuesday afternoon to attend s a convention in - that city of the Philateic Sons of America. Among the many exhibits at this conven tion. Mr. Wheeler exhibited some of his stamps there. The magnifi cent series of Mr. Colburn’s; stamps, of which there are twenty j frames, were on exhibition to these ( stamp collectors gathered at the convention. It is estimated that I the total value of stamps exhibited in Asheville at the Philateic Sons of America convention, was in ex cess of one million dollars. Resident From Canal Zone Subscribes to The Highlander In a recent communication from Mrs. S. J. Few, of State College, Mississippi, we received a one vear’s subscription for Mrs. S. C. Russell, of Balboa Heights. Canal one. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have recently purchased property on the outskirts of Highlands, with the exoectation of later retiring here. Thus has the fame of THE HIGHLANDER thus far, extended out of the immediate realms of our country. We hope that our efforts will receive greater reward in the form of your subscription, and vours. and yours! SUBSCRIBE NGiW! Visits Highlands From England Miss E. T. Bowing, of Tendon, England, accompanied by Miss E. W. Naim, of Nutley, New Jersey, were Highlands visitors recently. Miss Bowring said she has been to America seventeen times, but this was her first visit to Highlands. But it would not be her last. She plans on returning next year. When she made this remark to Mr. Trice, manager of the Tricemont Terrace, a gentleman from Chicago, whose name we did not leari*, spoke up and said. “Here I have been look, ing for this beautiful spot for sev eral years, and a lady came all the w^y fjrom England and found it at the same time.”’ Qeorgia Section of Walhalia Road Be Improved Very Soon I ARE WE LOSING FAITH? (By S. J. Fullwood.) Are we so busy attending- to the material wants of ourselves, of our families, of our friends, that we can afford to neglect the church and the effort it is putting forth in the comimunity of Highlands? What would Highlands, or any other town for that matter, be like, if the churches would fold up and qtiit? How long would you business men and you citizens of i the community continue on in your business life, if all your work net ted you a very few hundred dol lars a year? Suppose, as it was suggested to the editor, by a friend up North, the ministers of Highlands decided to declare a holiday for one month. Suppose thev closed up all their churches. Suppose they refused to bury the dead; to marry those desiring to get married. In other words, supposing the ministers of our community decided to get to gether and boycott the people of that community. Where would that community land? How long would the people of that commun ity . stand for a churchless one? Would you want to live in a com munity where there is no church, or where there were churches but the ministers refused to tend to our needs ? No, we do not think so. But the people of most small communities are driving the minis-j ters to just that goal; with their; half-hearted support of them and their churches. It is often said, “We will let the'minister’s salary J and the doctor’s bill go until last.”, Whv? The minister, as well as the doctor, has to live; thev have the same material necessities to keep them alive as vou and we do. Would you stand it very long, if the people who owed you money for your marketable commodities, said the same thing relative to your business? How many of you neople would work for the starva tion wages which a minister has to work for? Not many, we believe. But what right do you and we have of permitting our ministers to do that which we would refuse to do ourselves? No right at all. When someone in our family is seriously ill,.or dving, who are the first ones we call upon ? The doc. tor, first, nerhaps; and then the minister. We lean upon the min ister in every period of tpopble or sorrow We exnect the ‘‘minister to relieve os of pome of the burden of our sorrow. We expect