FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919
THE BREVARD NEWS, BREYARD, N. C.
BREVARD NEWS
Nainc chanced from
Cjlvan Valley News, January i.igi?*
M. L. SHIPMAN, Editor
C. B. OSBORNE, Managing
Editor and Publisher
GERTRKJ&E R. ^ZACHARY
City Editor
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919
THE TANNERY
In this issue of the News we publish
the resolution in regard to the Tran
sylvania Tanning Co., which was
unanimously passed by the Brevard
Club at its meeting on Tuesday eve
ning.
This organization has with charac
teristic loyalty to the interest of the amended is as follows:
THE TAX AMENDMENT GOES
THROUGH
The State Senate and House of
Representatives have passed the bill
providing for the submission to the
people of the proposed tax amend
ment to the Constitution which will
make possible the taxing of unearned
incomes of the predatory rich.. The
bill passed the House by a practically
unanimous vote, but certain special
interests made a desperate attempt
to defeat it in the Senate.. That they
failed is due to to the splendid lead
ership of Senator James A. Gray of
Forsythe. He laid his plans well and
had the backing of Governor Bickett
to the limit of his ability. The vote
of three-fifths of those present, and
voting was necessary, under consti
tutional requirements, to put the pro
posed amendment through. On a
roll call thirty-five voted in the af
firmative and only nine in the nega
tive. This means that the people will
have an opportunity to say at the
next session whether unearned in
comes shall bear their proportional
part of government expenses. The
provision of the Constitution to be
Weaver case is not at all surprising:.
It was a strict party vote in the com
mittee and a strict party vote in the
House, with a number of democrats
N
absent. However, Mr. Weaver has
been vindicated by an unquestioned
majority of 1,053 at the last election.
Vindication at home is vastly more
valuable than the result of an or
ganized movement in Washington.
county tiikon the lead in this matter.
And now the time has come for the
people of Transylvania to decide as
to whether or not they will devote
their eflforts to the progressive de-
vjelopment of the county.
The question is nov; squarely be
fore the people individually and col
lectively. The Transylvania Tanning
Co. cannot be expected to rebuild the
plant recently destroyed by fire with
out assurance of the support of the
people.
“The General Assembly may also
tax trades, professions, and incomes:
Provided, that no income shall be tax
ed when the property from which the
income is derived is taxed.”
This is rank discrimination in fav
or of the citizen whose personal in-
co’'>’.e from ownership of property is
derived without effort on his part, in
ihr.t he is not taxed a single cent,
while the user of property is required
to pay to the limit. As we have said
before, if this amendment is ratified, i
as it surely will be if the people can
It appears that no child labor legis
lation in harmony with the Federal
tax amendment will be enacted by the
General Assembly now in session.
Therefore, the Government will have
to step in and protect the children of
North Carolina as it started out to
do when the Keating-Owen bill was
voided on a techincality by divided
Supreme Court last year. The mill
men of the State are probably rely
ing upon the hope that the Tax
Amendment will meet with a like fate
but we would respectfully remind
them that the highest tribunal in the
land has never yet interferred with
a revenue measure. And it will not
break the record of a century now.
arithmetic. Don’t think I quite got
through Smily, but I had learned
quite a little about lbs., shillings and
penny wieghts.
This school was four miles from fa
thers. I walked it morning and night..
The young man that was master of
the Old Blue Back Speller and those
old hard arithmetics and grammar was
better qualified for business than one-
half that the high ..schools are turn
ing out today with diplomas. Now
listen. They wrote a hand that could
be read. (Permit a note.) My first
act of public life was a mass meeting
to consider the propriety of dividing
Henderson county and making a new
county. Lee Gash was chairman, Dan
iel King put me in nomination for
clerk with these remarks. “He is a
young man, a fast writer and when he
writes you can read it”.)
They punctuated correctly; they
spelled correctly; figured by their own
head.
REMINISCENCES
NUMBER 3
The company has rocoived offers be broueht to the point of understand!-
of building sites and thcvouph sup
port from many other towns that
know a good thing when they see it.
Through the efforts of J. S. Silver-
stcon the board of directors of the
company has been persuaded to de
lay their final decision a few days
!ot:?er. !
To all thinking citizens the loss of
tiiis enterprise looms up as the great- ^
cst industrial calamity imaginable, j
yet a loss insignificant compared to |
giving up a resident who is a remark- |
ably vivid expression of the highest.;
ideals of American
Joseph S. Silversteen.
ing it, a very moderate rate of tax on
income Iron'! property as well as from
wages and salaries and fees would
yiclil sufficient revenue to take the
place of property tax now levied by
the State for the support of the State
and its institutions. The General As
sembly has done well in submitting
this amendment. It will be ratified
by 100,000 majority.
THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN
The Asheville Citizen w’^as this week
citizenship— purchased from J. H. Caine and R.
S. Jones, who have ow'ned the paper
for 15 years, by George Stephens of
A WISE DECISION Charlotte, Chas. A. Webb and Hay- ; plank, but no backs
Schools and school equipment in
those days was inferior in many re
spects, yet they was equal to the day
and age. They met the demands.
There were subcription schools made
up by the patrons signing an article,
as follows: “The undersigned agrees
j to teach a three months school at....
^ to teach spelling, reading, writing
: and arithmetic: to dismiss two weeks
I
j for fodder pulling, and «t-c.
1 Generally speaking, there were
more rules than scicnces. The first
I school I went to, was in a split log
!house; craks all open, a dirt floor; one
door, didn’t need any windov^rs. My
first teacher was a Mr. McDonald,
son-in-law of Arch Jordan. The next
was an old man, Johnie Young, both
in this new house, near where J. H.
Duckworth first settled.
About this time, 1839, the Cathey’s
Creek Baptist Church built a new
house down in the flat near the spring
The old house on th bluff was turned
into a school house. It was fine, had
a plank floor and seats mad out of
The seats in the
CBIEF ENGINEER
ALMOST GIVES UP
Thought He Would Have To Stop
Working— Tanlac Makes
Him Well Again
“To my mind Tanlac is the great-
'Bst medicine in the world,” said O.
H. Mahaffey, chief engineer of the
Life ^ Casualty building, Nashville,
Tenn.
“I suffered awfully with the worst
kind of stomach trouble and went
down until I lost forty-eight pounds.
My back ached terribly and I suf-
f-ered so much misery from indiges
tion that I thought I had an ulserated
stomach and was actually afraid to
eat anything but a little oatmeal and
sweet milk. I got weaker every day
until finally, as nothing I took did
Prpfessioiuli Cords.
ROBT. L. GASH W. E. BREESE. Jr.
GASH & BREESE
LAWYERS
II to 17 McMinn Buflding
Notary Public.
DANIEL LEON ENGLISH
Attorney and Counsdor at Law
Brevard, N. C.
Beal estate law and abstractlof .tlUes<K^
a specialty.
WELCH GJkLLOW^Y
attorney
Practice in all the Courts
Brevard, M. C.
DUNN’S ROCK
LODGE NO. 267
A. F. & A. M.
“My wife read in the papers where
a man who had suffered like I was '
had been helped b^ taking Tanlac,
CONNESTEE LODGE
NO. 237 I. 0.0. F.
Do they do that today or are | ^ thought I would have ^ Meets every Monday 8:00 P. M.
they using some other man’s brains j throw up my job. Visitors welcome.
I «n/r.. I— xi- ^ 1 •
and figures, and a type writer, so you
can read it.
Before you take issue with me on
the above qualifications for business,
I refer you to the Court records in
Hendersonville kept by John Gullic
and Elisha King, back in the 40’s.
Then tell if the schools in that age
prepared men for business life. I
abide the decision.
J. R. HAMLIN
NOTE—In my next article I will
tell about the churches,\
AT THE METHODIST CHURCH
Once again has the General Assem- v. coci^Parker of Asheville.
bly of North Carolina decided that
divorces shall not be made easier by
legislative enactment. Two or three
bills relating to the divorce question
and destined to make that instrument
more easily obtained have been in
troduced and promptly rejected.
There is force in the suggestion that
Mr. Stephens, who for some time
was president of the Charlotte Obser
ver, will be the head of the new com
pany. This distinguished citizen of
Charlotte is no stranger in our part
of the state. He has long been acti-
. vely interested in the advancement of
Western North Carolina. He was one
men should be required to observe of the chief promoters of the Kanuga
the same standard of morals that are Lake enterprise at Hendersonville,
demanded by society of the weaker ' Mr. Chas. A. Webb is United States
sex. Both should be measur*- ! by i Marshal for the ^vestern district of
tlie same standard. At tiie t-uiv.c time North Carolina. He is also one of
there should be no lettln-- dovvn of the owners of the Asheville Times,
the bars in the divorce laws of the Mr. Haywood Parker is a w'ell
State and the present General As- known attorney of Asheville,
sembly is showing w^isdom in di.sap-
proving any further laxity in th-i re
quirements touching martial relations
and obligations. ^
The practice of letting lowii the
bars for the benefit of sn^icial cases
started away back in 1809 and result
ed in a goodly crop of separations
within a few years. Marriage be
came a mockery and the evil of di
vorce thrived for a time. The double
standard of morals will hardly be
more harmful than v;ould letting
down the bars for the purpose of
making divorce easier. The point
advanced that men who insist—and
rightly so—that th^ir v/ives shall
“keep themselves unspotted from the
world,” should measure their own
conduct by the same yardstick. Only
three states—Kentucky, Nev/ York
I The new' owners of the Citizen
state that it will, “continue to be a
non-partisan Democratic newspaper”
with the development of Western
North Carolina as its chief concern.
Our confidence in the success of
their endeavor is surpassed only by
our interest in their efforts and the
sincerity of our cordial good wishes.
The drainage bills enacted
Henderson and Transylvania counties
are likely to prove to be steps in the
right direction. Anyway, no possible
harm cc.n tqsv'z fi'om the rarcnge of
tnoin bi'ls. A start had to be ir»ade
sometime.
first school house was saplings split
and holes bored and pins put in for
legs. The larger splinters were hewn
off, but they was not all off by a
long shot. Th.e only improvements
that had been made in the new quart
ers was to bore holes in a log and put
pins in and a broad plank for writing
purposes, and knock the “chinkin’ and
dobbin, ” out of the cracks to give
light.
Hero the following teachers taught,
viz: old man Young, Charles Paxton,
Miss Elizabeth Patton and J. H. Duck
wort. How many terms each taught,
I dis-remember, but I went t9 all of
them. Then they built a school house
dov/n near Uncle John Duckworth’s,
they called it “The Duck school
house,” J. H. Duckworth taught sev
eral schools there. I was a student in
all of them. I wish to say that J. H.
Duckworth was the best teacher I
went to.
During the period of the last schools
rientioned. Col. Geo. Orr was teaching
j at Davidson’s River. These two
for I schools were on friendly terms. Each
school organized a debating society.
Each society met and debated each
week. About once a month they
would meet, alternate and debate
against each other. And it was “tit
for tat”. Each society had its “King’s
fool”. Jim Glayton at Davidson’s riv
er and Flem Harris at Cathey’s Creek.
They were used in tight places where
wit was of more advantage than argu
ment. In these debates, is where I
got my first start in public speaking.
In about 1848, Col. Geo. Orr was in
duced to teach a kind of select school
Sunday Subjects:
11 a. m,—“Joshua, Successor to
Moses,” by the pastor,
7:30 p. m.—Prof. Trowbridge will
speak on “Bringing the World to
Columbus.”
and she begged me to try it. After
I had taken Tanlac a few days I be
gan. to get hungry and started in
eating like I was starved, and noth
ing hurt me a bit. Soon those awful
pains in my stomach and back were
gone, I sleep fine at night now and
get up in the morning full of' life
and energy and ready for my work.”
Tanlac is sold in Brevard by Duck
worth Drug Co., in Sapphire by J. T.
Harrison, Jr., in Davidson River by
J. J. Patton & Son, and by all good
druggists. Adv.
Diversified Ads
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Ilf you live in Transylvania county
you should take the Brevard News. .
TOWN LOTS, farms and timber lands for
sale. Frank Jenkins. Brevard, N. C. tf
FOR SALE OR RENT—Seven room
house with bath—good garden. D.
L. English. tfc
For—Rent 3furnished or unfurnished
rooms.
Mrs. J. R. Boone. tfc
WANTED—Good cheap mule, about
900 lbs. or larger. W. L. Carmich
ael, R. 2, Brevard, N. C.
"WANTED,—Men or women to take
orders among friends and neigh
bors for the genuine guaranteed
hosiery, full line for men, women
and children. Eliminates darning.
We pay 5Go an hour spare time or
$24 a week for full time. Experi
ence unnecessary: Write, Internat
ional Stocking Mill, Norristown,
3 7 8tp
WANTED—to buy lumber of all
kinds and would be interested in
buying the entire cub of several
mills. Address, R. F. Whitmer, Inc
Box 421, Asheville, N. C,
FOR SALE—Berkshire pigs, 8 weeks
• old. See S. F. Allison. tfc
WANTED—Green hides of all kinds.
S. F. Allison. tfc
If the Legislature is deluding it
self v. ith the idea that the election of
boards of education by the .people
arid North Carolina—make a distinc- will keep the public schools out of
tion on this point and the Raleigh politics it has another guess coming,
solons argued well the point that Or if it thinks the proposition to give
I
changes in the present law contem- the minority representation on these
plated by the proposed measure might boards in republican counties will im- at the “Race Paths.” He taught gram
be used by immoral men to imi^se ^>rovc conditions a rude awakening is j mar and geography in addition to the
upon innocent women in the practice in prospect. The whole scheme is ' former studies. I went to this school
of nefarious schemes against society politics gone to seed. Better let well
was v/ell taken. But the Legislature enough alone.
has wisely concluded that divorce
shall not be made easier in North
Carolina at this time. And the point
is v;ell taken.
Is your farm help
scarce and high ?
Why not Grow the
same si2e crop on
smaller acreage
WITH
ROYSTERS S
FERTILIZER
A
TRADE MARK
to finish up Smily’s arithmetic. I had
n:.".3tc:''.! everything behind it.
I d d not make as rapid advance-
Wlih all the republican members merits in this as I had in former
r'"ht on the spot and a number of ; schools. My fiancee was a student in
dcmocravs avvay the vote on the Britt-1 this school finishing up on “P'ke’s”
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