Brevard
VOL. XXIV
BREVARD. N.' C. FRIDAY, Friday. June 20th, 1919.
Number 24
LADY EVANGELIST AT
HEIHODKT CBURCH
Mrs. Olin P. Ader, evangelist,
is here for two weeks work in this
community. Mrs. Ader is one of a
very small number of women in the
country who are regularly appointed
ministers of the gospel. Mrs. Ader
and her husband. Rev. O. P. Ader,
who is pastor of the Haywood St.
Methodist Church in Asheville, are
conducting a series of meetings at the
Brevard Methodist Church. Both
ministers have been speakiirg to crowd
ed houses since the opening of the
meetings last Sunday. Mrs. Ader
preachcd the initial sermon on Sun
day morning to a large and deeply
interested audience. She chose for
the theme of her first discourse to a
Brevard congregation the subject of
“Responsibility and Opportunity” and
developed with convincing logic her
argument that every mortal is placed
in the v.orld with the specific respon
sibility of making it better and mak
ing £ome definite contribution toward
the hi.o:hor development of humanity.
To every one, the speaker said, comes
some opportunity for a personal share
in the good work of the world which
can be done by no one else. “Do not
think”, said she, “that because you
are not a preacher or a teacher you
have nothing to do. Opportunities
are daily all around you for doing
good if you will only see them.” Mrs.
AdtT is a very pleasant speaker with
easy delivery and clear enunciation.
IS
HOST SUCCESSFUL
YEAR IN HISTORY
JONES GAP ROAD !S
TOBETOPSOILED
State Highway Engineer As
sures Supervisor That Work
Will Soon Be Done.
FEDERAL AID FOR WORK
That the Jones Gay road, from
Travlc'rs Rest al! the v.-ay to the
>,ort.h Carolina line, will \vii.hin the
next few months be topsoiled, was the
statement made yesterday by County
Sup;'rvisor W. H. Willimon. State
Highway Engineer J. Roy Pennell
spent a few hours in Greenville late
Friday afternoon, and in'conversa
tion with Supervisor Willimon said
federal aid will soon be available for
ti'.i:' read project. The federal g»v-
ernnicnt v.ill furnish half the money
for the buildini" of the road while the
other half of the cost Vvill be borne
by the county. The Jones Gap road
is already top-soiled from Travlera
Rest northward as far as Cleveland,
an(i the remaining stretch to be im
proved from Cleveland to the stmt*
line, is something like twenty miles.
Improvement of this highway will
a’low motor cars and other vehicles
to iiiake the trip thru the wonderful
n!ountain country it traverses in much
belter time than they can make it
al present, as the road is now in bad
shape. Thy stretch of the road in
Norvh Carolina from the state line
to Brevard has already been top-soil-
fed, so tiiut when the work in this
^'arity is completed there will be a
•odern hich’vay all the way from
(i^cnville to Brevard. In addition
to affording pleasure to motorists,
the new road will bring a great
volume of trade to Greenville which
docs not come here at present on ac
count of the difficulty of travel. It
is expcctcvd that many North Caro
lina folks wiii bring their produce
here to sell and buy the good they
need from Greenville stores.
Ec^in Survey Soon.
Just when lliL; work on top-soiling
the road will be begun is not yet
known. Engineer Pennell t(>ld ‘Sup
ervisor Willimon that he It*.- me
little work to do in Ocone c i
befoi’o he can be.uin a surv. ■■ .e
roaa but a few
should see actual work of laying the
top-soil v.ell undervvay. EiTorti have
been ir.ade for a loo' time past to
jjet the road improved, and the news
that improvement will soon be made
Mis Cora L. Tyner, principal of the
Brevard Graded School, left on Fri
day for her home at Lumberton
N. C. where she will spend her vaca
tion. Miss Tyner has ju#t closed a
session which is remarkable in the
history pf the local graded school.
For the first time in the records of
this school the average attendance
at the end of the term equals the aver
age of pupils present regularly at the
beginning of the year. Work lost on
account of the influenza epidemic last
fall has been made up. The required
amount of work has been made up
amount of work has been done in
each grade despite the fact that the
school was closed during the entire
month of November and part of De
cember by the influenza quar
antine. A larger percent of the pu
pils this year passed all examinations
than ever' before. In f§ct none of
them really failed. A few received
conditions on certain studies. These
will be given examinations next fall
if they wish to remove the condition.
A number of them who did not make
{ passing grades have already made ar-
i rangements to study this summer in
j preparation for the special examina-
i tion next fall. So when sehcol opens
i each grade will doubtless be able to
i begin work with a full quota of sfeu-
; dents for the first time in the history
, of the school. These are only a fev."
I of the results of the administration
of Miss Tyner on school affairs. .Un-
I der her guidanes every ])hase of t’no
j school work has been Improvii! ancl
' enlarged. The people of the town are
ready to ajvree with tl'.e city school
I o’licial v.ho remariced during the com-
I mencement exercises just closed that
j “this is the end of the most profita-
I ble and most pleasant year the Frc*-
j vard school has ever had. There has
1 been abi^olutely no friction among
i the people most vitally conceriied in
I the school, the connnitteeinen, the
I teachers, the parents, the pupils; an<i
' we are gla'.l to know that we liave
Miss Tyner back for another year.”
is hoped that the r.ev/ school
! building will be ready for occupancy
j by the opening of school in Septem-
I ber. Several new features will be
I added to the course of study open to
high school students next year. In
talking to a representative of the
NEWS about the prospects for the
con^.ing term. Miss Tyner called spe
cial attention to the fact that instruc
tion in sight-sihging will be a regular
part of the curriculum next year.
“Music,” said sho,“ “is one of the
most vital forces to be found in pub
lic schools to-day. Music does much
for the right development of disposi
tion and character. It provides re
creation and utilizes leisure. It may
bo a limitless blessing to the home,
and the church could iiardly exist with
out it.”
NEW BOOEETS
A continual stream of requests for
literature' descripti-ve of Brevard and
the surrounciiiig country is pouring
over the de'sk of the secretary of the
Board of Trade. Hundreds of the
new booklets which have just been
ijsued by the Board of Ti’ade are now
being sent to southern tov/ns and
cities. These booklets set forth in
matter of fact terms'Without tiie mis-
leiuliijg exaggeration sor.ietimes char
acteristic of resort literature the at-
ractions &f Brevard the Beautiful “In
the Lnnd of Waterfalls” to the vaca-
tio-iioL a:' v.oll as the home seeiiGr.
The fclc , ■ illustrated v.’ith veiws
of publi'- buihlirigi', residences, camp
tites, .‘ Hi mountain scenes. A com-
.,r_l’eas've list oi boarding houres to
fouu 1 in this section is also a fea-
lure of the new books which are jiiot
off t’le i)resses of Hackney and Moale,
Printers, of Asheville.
If you have anything to sell, a ’
rcise it in the News.
'..ill be welcome to both Grecnvilio
; :ci:;]d ana these in iho ■.-ounty near
•'.hose hemes the improves highway
v«rill pass.
Supervisor Willimon y(;storday had
no estimate on the cost of laying
the top-soil.—Greenville J*'ev's.
CEIBRATIONTO
HONOR SOLDIERS
Representatives from the several
Clubs, Fraternal and Business organ
izations of Brevard met last Thursday
night and organized for the purpose
of giving our returned soldier boys
a “Welcome Home” during the month
of July.
The plan adopted was to have a
“Picnic Dinner” in Brevard as early
in July as possible, in fact just as
soon as our boys get home.
It was impossible to have this en
tertainment on July Fourth as every
band was engaged and it was decided
that we should have a first class brass
band.
The good citizens of the County
are all invited to come and bring din
ner.
While the plans have not been fully
decided upon as to detail and date the
present idea is to have a parade of
all the returned soldiers and sailors
in uniform, also have all the veterans
of the Civil and other wars, also the
various Fraternal bodies, the Red
Cross, Boy Scouts and several floats
and the procession will be lead by
the band. ^
Mr. J. S. Silversteen was appointed
as chairman of the General Commit-
ee and he will announce the chairman
of the sev3ral other committees in
next v.eek’s paper.
This celebration is for our “Boys”
and it is hoped that every citizen of
the County will get interested and
help to make it the best and biggest
ntertainment ever had in the County.
Watch the paper for further notices
and please answer promply any let
ters that you may receive from the
Committee.
Begin right nov/ to talk about this
“Welcome Home” and we hop«? that
every man, woman and child in the
County will be here. Lets show “Our
Boys” how glad we are to have them
back home with us and that we ap
preciate what they did for us.
A TRIP TO MT.
LOOKING GLASS
YOUR HEALTH
The Schcol As A Center Of Com
munity Welfare.
The trend of the times is towar(?
larger and better hings all along the
line. Everywhere the minds of men
and v.'omen are occupied with the
problem of ways and means to make
the world a better place to live and
they realize more fully from day to
day that the place to begin at is at
home and v/ith the child who will be
fore long be the man'or woman with
similar and it may be larger ques
tions to solve. It is our provilege and
duty, the two are inseparable, to act
in vhe capacity of guide to our suc
cessors. None of us need look very
far back to visualize the District
School with its rude benches, its poor
light and general unsanitary condi
tions. It is true that many persons
i-f note came from these surroundings
and I am by no means casting asper
sions upon the “Days of auld lang
syne” or the memories and associa
tions that cluster around those cays,
they are precious to every one of us
and well j^vorth irenstirlng, there is
no doubt that for the youth of to-di-y,
whose lives appear to have fallen in
mere pleasant places traditions will
in the i’uture, as in the past, be de
veloped. The farmer of to-day would
not be judged as being in keeping
with i;he times were ho to persist in
useing tlie single foot plovv', the sickle,
the scythe and the hand rake for
gathering his hay. He would hov.'ever
be as the educator of today should he
rsvert to the methods of days that
are forever past, in each case the
former means of attaining a given
object served and served well but
have now passed into history. The
teachers of tp-Jay are required to
come up to iiiore advanced standards
and justly. They arc asking and prop
5rly for increased renumeration that
shall conform in some measure with
the standards of the tinie. It is said
that given a child to direct and con
trol until five years of age the im
pression made then v.’ill influence its
v.holc future life. If this be trua,
taken geneiaily, hov/ important tha'-
the influences surrounding our cliil-
(Iren during: the years v.hen character
is in the making be of the highest
grade attainable of teachers of each
community is given the responsibility
of detecting, as far as is in their pow
er, an departure from physical health
Reveille sounded the beginning of
a happy day for the students of Bre
vard Institute. Prof. Haynes and
Mr. Bennett always eager for the
pleasure of the pupils, planned a trip
to the top of Looking Glass Mountain
on Monday, June 16.
When Verdery’s truck arrived at
six, thirty-three were ready to pack
into its hospitable body. Straight to
Pisgah Forest this vehicle wended its
way and deposited the noisy cargo
on the generous mercies of the log
ging train. Mr. Carr, the busy lessee
of this tract of timber, entered into
the spirit of the party and gave
license to the pleasure-seekers to ex
plore and revel. For this great pri
vilege a new “Rah, rah” has been
added to the Institute’s Yell Book.
Never was there a more courteous
guide than Engineer Hartman. He
“stood for the safety of the party,
and under his skill all reached the
foot of the mountain with spirit and
body unharmed and intact. To the
entire crew rfhd office force of the
.logging train,Messrs Hartman, Hall
Stamey, Pickesimer and Alexander,
the Institute dedicates, with honor,
one page of it^ pleasure history.
Now came the challenge to the
courage of the party. The mountain
stood before them presenting a bold
front, “To climb or not to climb.”
“The Top or the Foot.” Twenty-nine
accepted the challenge. After a
steaciy, perpendicular pull of three
hours these brave souls stood—or
rather fell— on the top of Mount.
Looking Glass. No casualty was re
gistered, although copperheads, rat
tlers and hornets reared their heads.
The veiw is unsurpassed from this
oint. The fine forests, massive peaks
streams, ferns, rocks and beautiful
galax have left happy memories in
the minds of the Institute sight-seers.
About 0:30 in the afternood the
tired, but v/iser group of travelers
arrive^! at the school, ready to appre
ciate and enjoy a hot domitory sup
per.
MRS.WITMER
ON SUFFRAGE
BREVARD INSTITUTE SUMMER
SCHOOL OPENS
The summer session of the Bre
vard Institute has opened w'ith the
lar!;est registration of students in
its history. Every room in the In
stitute dormitories is occupied by stu
dents and many applicants have been
turned away, for lack of sufficient ac
comodations.
HOME INDWSTRY GAINING IN
PATRONAGE
Home - milled flour is becoming
popular v/ith the people of this coun
ty. The Burnette and Verdery Mill
ing Co. makes fifty barrels of flour
per day and their entire output is sold
in Transylvania. Eight*cf the leading
merchants of the county make a spe
cialty cf handling this company’s Fla-
vo Flour and it is often impossible for
the mill to keep the stores supplied
so great is the demand. Burnette and
Verdery claim that it is every per
son’s duty to patronize home indus
tries. They also believe that the pro
duct cf the home industry must be
equal to the best imported article,
and the continued increase in their
sales shov/ that the people agree Vvith
them.
SIDEWALK OM MAIN
SI BEIG liPRO®
The siuev.alk around the corner of
Main and Broad Sts. in front of the
Brevard Banking Co. is to be rebuilt
of bi'ick. This stretch of v^aik has
ioi7g been in a very bad co:;dition and
the iinprcvenienta now being made
have been needed for several months.
occv.ving r.inong their pupils also re
porting he same to the proper author-
li^3. They ero by this means made
coaijuslcro \vlth the Ecard oi
in each count\. In viev/ of these
th'ags it bencovos each community
0 co-operate in every way with its
school and thus assist in bettering
conditions.
Very sincerely,
W. J. WALLIS.
Dear Mr. Editor:
I wonder if you would be kind
enough to publish a few thoughts
which have come to me as a result
of an incident which occurred a few
days ago. The writer was standing
ifi one of the stores when the news
of the passage by the Senate -of the
>usan B. Anthony bill was announced.
A bystander, of the male gender, in
an agitated manner said, “I suppose
that is Wilson’s doings! I want to
^ell you I wouldn’t vote for him for
constable!” He went further—he
said if he married a wife and she
went to the poles to cast a vote he
would leave her, and wound up his dis
sertation by threatening to leave the
country should woman suffrage really
come ta pass. Right here let me warn
this young man, should he ever be
forced to carry out his threat, to be
care at what port he_ lands, for even
benighted China has granted the right
of franchise to her women.
The reasons given by said young
man for his opposition to woman suf
frage were, 1st. That Home was the
place for her.
place for woman to stay, and second
ly, no poiing pjace was a decent place
for a wome^ to be seen. He was
magnaim.ous enoUght to say that men
did w: mt women to vote on the
wiskey question. Think of it! Ailov*
us to engage in the dirty v. ork of put
ting whiskey out of commission but
refuse us further privilege. Whiskey
is, without doubt, an unspeakable
evil and women are glad to aid in put
ting it out of business, but there is
another evil worse than whiskey,
which like a canker, is eating at the
vitals of our nation. An evil which
eludes the law and strange to say
in many instances there is no law to
I elude. Perhaps when woman gets the
I franchise she may be able to help
j our pure good men to purge the land
j of this abomination.
As regards woman’s province being
the home, thao statement admits of
no argument. The average normal
woman desires above all else a home
and with the right kind of husband
or father, one who is true and pure
and loyai, and properly provides for
her, she will need no coaxing. The
maternal instinct is too strong for it
to be likely the average woman v;ill
turn her back on a real home to seek
other employment. There has been
some few great souls who have fore
gone the pleasures of home lift and
spent their lives bettering conditions
which surround the home. Frances
E. Willard, the pioneer temperence
lecturer was one of these. She it was
who said, “We need a mother heart
in politics.” In the beginning of Miss
Willard’s cr.reer, as a lecturer she was
sneered at, ridiculed, and called un-
unwomanly by many who.se vision was
not clear enough to see that she
had adopted homemaking as a pro
fession.
In the Kali of Fan'.e within our
beautiful capitol stands a solitary fe
male figure among a galaxy of heroes.
This beautiful woman, of diginified
mien, lofty and noble expression, i?
none other than Frances E. Willard.
The sculptor with his chisel hts
wrou^'ht as,
“Ver.se cannot say how beautiful
. thou art,
Hov/ glorious the calmness of thine
eyes
r’lill of uncomquerab;e energies
Telling that thou hast acted v.ell
thy part.”
As regards the poles not being a
fit place for v.omen to go, if tins is
so, then most emphatically it is not
a fit place for our sons and husbands
to go. The American woman appre
ciates and loves the chivalry and re
spect that men entertain for her sex.
She has no dsirc to get dovn off oy
ch^s pedestal where ho has placed her,
but she v/ill never be satisfied until
her husbands and sons stand right by
her side, when shou’der to shoulder
they may v.'ork out together the
mighty problems which confront our
nation. As mother, as taxpayers, and
oftentimes as bredwinncrs we feel
we have a right to a hand in the gov-
ernmenl of our country, which in its
very ei:..-enco is hoincr.iahir.g. li the
states ratify the Susan Anthony
bill a new’ era for thousands of w’O-
men will be ushered in, bringing with
it grave responsibilities and great
opportunities.
The clarion call of Joshua to the
hildren of Isreal will ring forth “Quit
THE H.D. CHIBS
AREACnVE
Three of the Home Demonstration
clubs of this county held interesting
programs and sales last Saturday
to raise funds with which to equip
community kitchens and cannries.
These cl}^s are located in Enon,
Round Top and Quebec. Enon real
ized $50.60 from their efforts. Round
Top $51.04 and Quebec $142.90. At
the latter place the men of the com
munity are enthusiastically subscrib
ing stock to supplement the funds
raised by the club girls for the pur-
osc of building a commercial cannery
at the Quebec station with a capacity
of probably a thousand cans per day.
On Wednesday aftemo*)n the Co.
Farm and Home Demonstration
agents, together with specialists from
the State Dept, of Agriculture, will
hold a joint mesting of the home Dem
onstration club and the other sock
holders to complete arrangements for
building and equipping this enter
prise at once.
The Home Demonstration club at
Lake Toxaway is planning for a pro
gram and sale the night of July I
to raise funds v/ith which to equip
its kitchen and cannery and the young
ladies of the Cedar Mountain club has
practically completed their arrange
ments to operate a tea room in a va
cant store near the Cedar Mt. Post
Office during the months of July and
August, and then meet the expenses
of equipment for their club. This
will be the first instance on rcord
in the State of a Home Demonstration
Club venturing to run a tea room,
but we feel confident of their success,
because these girls have the energy,
intelligence and business capacity re
quisite for success.
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Sunday, June 22
The pastor will preach at 11 a. m.
and at 8:30 p. m.
All are cordially invited to attend.
Strangers will receive a hearty wel
come.
AT METHODIST CHURCH
There will be three sermons Sun-
ay. Besides those at 11:00 and 8:30.
Mrs. Ader v»ill preach to men at 4
P. M. Later she will deliver a spe
cial sermon to women. The meeting
is getting better. Are you? If not,
why not come out and do some good,
or do better.
NEW POST- OFFICE SOXES IN
STALLED
Postmaster Henry has, this week,
had installed 80 new lock boxes in
the Brevard post office. These boxes
are equiped with combination locks.
HONESTY IS PART OF BRE-
YARD ATMOSPHERE
One of Brevard’s colored denizens,
last week, pureliased an auto. After
the deal v.as closed the new owner
of the car, impelled by a desire to ful
fill all the requlrments of the law
and not knov>ing how to get a license
tag, procured a large piece of white
cardboard and printed thereon in let
ters of varying sizes the legend“ Pat
ent Applied. For.” With this sign
adorning the windshield of the recent
ly acquired benzine buggy he confi
dently steered his way down Main St.
ye like men—choose ye this day whom
ye will serve.” And every woman’s
prayer, and every woman’s vote
should be for.
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith and willing hands.
JMen who the lust of office does not
kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can
not buy;
Men who posess opinions and a will
Men who have honor; men who will
not lie;
Men who can stand before a dema
gogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries
without winking;
Tali men, sun-crowned, who live
above the fog
In public veiw and in private think
ing.”
Mrs. M. B. WITHER.