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BREVARD NEWS
Name chanced from
Cylvan Vallay News, January k. i9>7>
M. L. SHIPMAN, Editor
C. B. OSBORNE, Managing
Editor and. Publisher
ilERTRUDfi R. ZACHARY
City^ Editor
PaWlshcdevery Thursday. Entered at
postafflce at Brevflird, N.C.,as
seound-class matter.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 2Slh, 1919.
COME ALL YE FAITHFUL.
Easter time is here—the heart
turns to God in gratitude for the
promise of the spring.
The war is won, a glorious victory
for the principles of justice and right.
Prayers from millions of hearts go
up in thanksg'iving for their loved
ones spared to tbeni, for the end of
the period of j-reatest anguish the
•world has ever known. Nights that
Were spent in watching, and days in
waiting for news, news that one
prayed might ntver come, are over.
‘•Why seek ye the living among
the dead?” the Easter angles' sing.
Your loved ones are coming back to
you, whole and stronger for the ex
perience.
“Is it nothing to you, all ye that
pass by?"—this greatest gift w’hich
the Father would bless you, the sav
ing of your boy’s life?. There is no
adequate v.'ay in which gratitude for
the greatest of all blessings can be
shown, but there is one way in which
thankfulness may be expressed. It
is by helping to insure the victory
already won, by n-iaking it so secure
that there Will never again be the
ncccssi^y for war.
TIiis can be done through the whole
'^fc^carted support of the nation’s ideals
and principles. Through the prompt
and hearty response of the whole
country to the needs of the gover-
ment true praises may be dempiistraw
ted, and the keystone to the arch p£
Victory set, making the structure firm
for all time to come. ' " '
Many of the boys are ahieady back,
other are coming ev^ day and per
haps the last will be home during
the summer. • ^hall we let them come
back while the victory they. won is
still unpaid for, before the key-stone
is set? ' (
Easter time—^peace~time—promise
time. Fulfill the promise, keep it on
earth forever.
ARE YOU INCREASING YOUR
CAPITAL
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Your income must be derived from
one or two sources—it comes from
invested capital (the result of some
body’s thrift) or from the work of
your head or hands.
The big majority of people haye
very little of invested capital. In
other words th^ average American’s
income depends on the work of his
muscle, nerve and brain. This aver
age citizen is none the less a capita
list. Eacli individual’s muscle, nerve
and brain are his capital. Its size
depends upon its quality and, the
fashion in which it is invested—^thc
work it is doing for its owner.
Because every man’s physical and
mental equipment is his capital, he
should treat it with respect. He
siiould conserve it, imprpve it, train
it in every way possible and seek to
increas your earning power. Every
bit of income that is spent foolishly
decreases the individual’s net worth
of capital just *that much.
For instance, if you throw away a
quarter you are throwing away a
whole year’s interest at five per cent
on $5.00; iii other words, you are de-
j.lroying tlie earning pow’er of $5
’Aorch of your mental and physical
capital for twelve months. Every
time you save and wisely invest twen-
ty-five cents, in a Thrift Stamp for
instance, you are saving of your
capital and adding new capital to it.
This isn’t an imaginary or fine
spun theory; it is a fact. .Think it
over, as it applies to you. Can you
afford to throw away your capital?
Att of this is another way of
ing that it is everyone’s 4uty to
eliminate waste, to save and invest
wisely so .that he may always be a
capitalist and have an assured in-
come.
It is your present business to take
a personal inventory to appreciate
your capital, mential, physical and
financial ;«to increase that capital by
wisely saving and investing in gov-
erment l)onds so that you may take
your part in making this nation one
of capitalists.
Help yourself and your country.
Think in interest. Save—Buy W. S.
S. aftd Victory Liberty Loan bon^s.
LOOKING THE ISSUE IN THE
EYE
There are one or two things about
our war debt which we might as well
look squarely in the eye. ^
To begin with, >K,e authorized the
bills; we owe the money and it’s got
to be paid.
Morever, it’s going to be paid.
To fight the war took money; to
wnn', still more money—and we had to
win.
We were ready to'' fight as long as
necessary. We were ready to sub
scribe to loan after loan—as many
as might be needed. We were willing
to give—to sacrifice without stint.
We had to win—at all costs.
Of course we knew that the war
would end sometime, but no man
knew when. Therefore to make the
for a struggle of indefinite length,
war as short as possible we prepared
It was necessary to plan in advance—
and we prepared on a stupendous
scale.
This meant, of necessity, that no
matter when the fighting stopped
there would be bills unpaid. The fact
that the war ended sooner than any
one. expected does not relieve us of
the obligation to pay the bills. In
deed it should make us all the more
willing, for if the struggle had con
tinued twelve months longer our debt
would have been thirty-six billion
dollars more that it now is and .the
toll of dead would have been fright
ful.
But we are not being asked to
;weiillce^to ifiye. ‘ We will not haVe
to^rabscri^ to loan after loan. The
war has been won, and the bond
ii^e to be offered April 21 is not
merely the **flfth” loan. It is tiie
‘‘Victory” loan—the one that finishes
the job.
Now there is another matter—^the
question of taxes.
There are only two ways by which
the goverment can raise the required
^ moi^ey—by bonds and taxes. And
it may be set down as a matter of
certain conviction that the gover
ment is going to raiTC the money. It
has no inten^on of repudiating its
honorable obligations.
But every dollar paid out in taxes
is water over the dam. The money
is gone—^for a good and proper pur
pose but, gone nevertheless. It draws
no interest; at least none for you.
No man ever received interest on the
taxes he paid.
Money invested in bonds is still on
the job. It strengthens your credit;
it makes you a share-holder in the
goverment, and day and night it. is
working for you—drawing interest.
Taxes or bonds—^which?
Bonds, of course—Victory Bonds.
Not only because we owe the money;
not only because we won the War—
but because we want to settle the bill
and get it behind us. The gover
ment has pledged its faith. We are
the goverment.
of the faet ^t 'a natiOB of peoi^
.are aroused to-a great porpo^. H
was tiie Aijserkan people aa a wh^
—men, womeil and children, who
went into this war because they be
lieved it was right, and because they
were determined to win it. They
gladly and willingly put the whole
strength of the country behind the
struggle and they rolled up enormous
bills in connection with it.
The war in its larger sense wiH
not be over until this deep purpose
which was in the hearts oi the Amer
ican people is accomplished rad the
honorable debts incurred in connec
tion with it honorHbly discharged.
W« luiTe bought • VICTORY—we
should be willing to pay for it!
• IS THE WAR OVER?
From a technical standpoint you
might argue that the war is over be
cause the armistice has been signed.
To make you a technical answer, the
war is not over until the peace terms
; are concluded, and of .course you
realize that the Germans are now
living under a purely temporary
agreement which is very much more
akin to war that it is to peace. Broad
ly speaking, however, it is true that
the v/ar is over in the sense that we
are no longer killing millions of men
and starving women and children.
From this standpoint, thank God, the
war is at an end. But I think you
will be the first to realize that the
killing of min on the field of battle
is the heroic and dramatic evidence
THE JONES GAP ROAD
In another column in this week’s
News we publish a letter from J.
Edgar Lewis of Greenville in regard
to the condition of the roads in this
county.
We don’t claim to have the best
roads in the country, but we are
going forward with improvements as
fast as possible..
We suppose Mr, Lewis is referring
I to the road between here and Hen-
jdersonville when he says “it is a
nightmare until he gets back on the
Greenville county roads.” We would
like to inform him that work
on this road is being pushed with the
greatest rapidity. We have had a
^ force of convicts at work on this road
. for the past several months and when
the work is completed—^which will
not be long—we will have as good
road from here to the Henderson
* county line as Greenville county can
ever hope to have.
■ And nov/ while we are on the sub
ject: perhaps Mr.. Lewis does not
know of the agreement between
Greenville and Transylvania counties
in regard to the Jones Gap road be
tween Brevard and Greenville. We
would like to say that if Greenville
had kept her agreement as Transyl
vania did there w'ould be no cause
for Mr. Lewis or the “thousands” of
others staying away from this section.
Greenville was to build the road to
the top of the mountain and Tran-
I s^vania^wM to finish it fr»m 111* Up
of tite mountain this w«y. Traiuqrl-
vania kept her agreement and hiui on*
of the. bei^'mountain roa^ in this,
part of the country while Greenville
has done nothing. We hereby invite
the Greenville authorities over to in
spect our section of the road.
And now as proof of our argument
one of Greenville’s citizens who has
to do with the Cedar Mountain Cunp
came to Brevard the other day and
purchased quite a large bill of sap>
plies for the camp stating that he
would have purchased the same in
Greenville but for the fact that the
road was so rough he was afraid ta
risk his truck over it.
The condition of our roads is not
keeping thousands away from Bre>
vard—^but the condition of our neis^-
bors’ roads is perhaps keeping tens
of thousands aw^ay.
U. D. C. TO MEET
An important meeting of the Tran
sylvania Chapter, U. D. C. will be held
in the Chapter House on Main St.
Saturday afternoon April 20th at five
o’clock. Mrs. J. S. Bromfield and
Mrs. J. Mac Allison will be hostesses
at this meeting.
NjOTICE
eep Money working and the^
Country will feeep prosperous
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Stagnant water, stagnant
money breeds nothing useful.
Like rushing water the power of money in motion
is practically irresistible.
Every dollar, invested in the
Victory Liberty Loan will be put to
work and kept at work. Every dollar will pay interest
regularly and every dollar will be returned. Mean
while, the Nation will be cleansed of debt, the value
of business improved and the country's /prosperity
insured to alL
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Victory Liberty Loan Committee
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This Space Contributed by
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING
To the Stockholders of the Transyl
vania Railroad Company:—
The Annual Stockholders meeting
of the Transylvania Railroad Com
pany will be held at the general offices
of the Company in the McMinn
Building, Brevard, N. C., on Wednes
day, the 7th day of May, 1919, at 10
^ o’clock, a. m., for the election of
j officers and directors to serve during
; the ensuing year, and for the trans-
j action of any business that may be-
: fore the meeting.
I Your attendance is requested, but
j if unable- to attend please sign, have
i witnessed and return proxy promply
! to this office.
A. K. ORE,
Secretary.
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