B revai rd News
VOL. XXIV BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 4th, 1919. Number 26
WELCOME HOME FOR
SAILORS "'SOLDIERS
July the sixteenth will; without
doubt, be a red letter day in the his
tory of Transylvania County
Never before have the people had
such an occassion to celebrate and
never before have plans for a public
event in Transylvania been worked
out with the painstaking fidelity which
the committees in charge of the Wel
come Home Celebration have devoted
to the task of perfecting arrange
ments for welcoming home the Tran
sylvania soldiers and sailors.
The chairmen of the various com
mittees met with Mr. J. S. Silversteen
general chairman of the Welcome
Home Day, in the Brevard Club rooms
on Monday evening for the purpose
of naming the members of committees
to look after details of the celebra
tion.
W. E. Breese, chairman of the din
ner committee, stated that he had
written a personal letter to 75 people
requesting their aid on this committee
and that a favorable reply had been
received in each instance. Owing to
the limited time at the disposal of
the meeting Mr. Breese did not read
the names of his committee.
The chairman of the advertising
committee, Mrs. C. B. Deaver, an
nounced the following names for her
committee: Mrs. F. P. Sledge, Mrs.
E. H. Norwood, Lewis Hamlin, Alfred
Hampton, W. S. Price, Jr., Welch
Galloway, J. M. Allison, C. M. Doyle.
Chm. of the finance committee ap
pointed: T. H. Shipman, J. W. Smith,
Revs. W. E. Poovey and J. C. Seagle
as members of his committee.
Rev. C. E. Puett, chairman of the
Reception Committee will be assisted
by the following: T. H. Galloway, C.
B. Deaver, Revs. J. C. Seagle, J. R.
Hay, E .H. Norwood, C. D. Chapman,
and W. E. Poovey.
R. H. Zachary named the following
mebers of the entertainment commit
tee of which he is chairman: Mes-
dames Z. W. Nichols, W. W. Crouse-
hom of Pisgah Forest and A. 0.
Kitchen of Rosman, Misses Maud Al
lison, Julia Shuford and Mary Jane
King, T. H. Shipman, C. C. Hodges,
B. W. Trantham, Alex Kizer, E. S.
English, John Duckworth, W. H. Duck
worth, Roy Marr, John Smith and W.
H. Walker.
Fred Miller, chairman of the ar
rangement committee has named the
following as members of this commit
tee: Mesdam^s H. A. Plummer, H. N.
Carrier, S. C. Yates, R. H. Zachary,
J. S. Silversteen and Ida Bryant,
Misses Annie Gash and Mary Jane
King, J. W. Burnett, Fred Johnson,
S. M. Macfie, Eugene Allison, Ed Pat
ton, C. B. Deaver, W. H. Grogan, Jr.,
W. E.. Breese, Alfred Hampton, A.
M. Verdery, W. S. Price, Jr., and A.
M. White of Rosman.
MEW AITRACnON
FOR TRANSYLVANIA
Transylvania County is to become
known as a section of perfect motor
roads as well as perfect climate. Bre
vard is bein{7 brouj?ht to the atten
tion of the tourists as a centre from
which some of the most beautiful
scenic hi}?hways in America radiate
by W. O. K. King of the King &
M^ill Garai!:e. Mr. King believes
thAt if the people of the southern
knew what a combination of
wonuerful scenery and good roads
this county offered Brevard would
have as many visitors as could be
taken care with present hotel and
boarding-house facilities. With a view
to giving full publicity to what Tran
sylvania has to attract the motorist
Mr. King has issued a booklet entitl
ed Motoring “in The Land of Water
falls.” This pamphlet gives a vivid
account of vacation time on “the per
fect motor roads thru the magnificent
scenic views of the glorious waterfalls
and vine clad mountains of Transyl*
vania County.” Several hundred
copies of the booklet are being mailed
to various points throughout the south
The folder is profusely illustrated
with mountain scenes near Brevard.
The viev/s have been reproduced with
remarkable clcarneso and each fea
ture of the folder has been produced
with accurate attention to detail. The
work was done on the presses of the
Brevard Printery.
Want ads bring results. Try one
in the News and see for yourself.
SEVEN QUESTIONS
ASKED OFBOflANCDS
Controversy, for its own sake is
out of date; we, of the 20th Century
are too busy. But, after reading
the article by “Bohancus”, which ap
peared in last weeks issue of the
News, I am so puzzled as to be un
able to refrain from asking the fol
lowing, I hope fair, guestions.
1st Why “Bohancus"?
A man brave enough to set himself
against the tide of many waters, viz..
Woman Suffrage, which, today, is
threatening the whole earth, a man so
ardent in defense ow womanly purity,
should surely sign and seal such a
document with pardonable pride;
more (^specially, as the article to
which his own was a direct reply was
signed not “Voter-to-be’' nor even
“Feminine Triumphant” but with the
full and well known name of the
writer.
1st then, I ask. Why “Bohancus”?
2nd. Is it customary for men to
bring up drunken “galoots” to the
polls and “vote” them? If so I hum
bly submit another question: Would
not “poor John and Tom” be far bet
ter employed at home “rocking the
baby” while Mary and Jane hie them
to the poles and have their try at
putting said drunken “galoots” out
of business?
3rd. (Important) What volume of
ancient or modem history holds it
self responsible for the statement
“Samson told the Philistine woman to
weave his severed locks into a web of
cloth and his strength would leave
him.”
4th And right here is he most
puzzling question of all:
Why, since, as “Bohancus say, the
grreat men and great movements of
the world have been moulded by wo
men, why,for this reason, should they
be debarred the ballot! !
5th Does the mere act of casting
a slip of paper into a box, easily ac
complished by the right or left hand
alone, necessitate the wearing of any
particular style of dress? If not,
why speak of “breeches and the bal
lot” as that which an unalterable De
cree—say of the Medes and Persians
—has joined together?
6th What logical connection is
there between a “poodle dog” and a
vote?
Also, how many women in Transyl
vania County are discovered hold
ing them (poodles) in their laps?
On the contrary, it is no unaccus
tomed sight in these favored parts to
see a woman holding a baby, yes
many babies, in her lap.
Now, I can see a very close connec
tion between a baby and a ballot. The
mother looking upon this bit of help
less humanity which she has launched
upon a not-toogentle world, cries
“Grant me this one thing, Lord, the
power to protect my child!”
Which digression leads me directly
to question No, Seven:
Why, O man, do you so highly
prize the right of franchise?
To which the man hasten to make
answer, “In the vote lies power.”
Power for what?
Power to put in office men who will
make and carry out laws; laws that
will protect me and mine from the
Destroyer, in whatever shape.
And the woman with her baby in
her laps hearkens.
Lastly, Instead of the woman at
the polls being the “dirty deuce” in
a clean deck, is there not a possibility,
even danger that she may turn out
to be the clean ace of trumps in an
otherwise doubtful hand?
The above questions, Mr. Editor,
I most respectfully bubmit to you
and to any interested readers, and
since by a- simple question I commit
myself to no statement of facts,
I will subscribe myself, most cor
dially,
A. E. R.
, AT ST. PHILIPS CHURCH
Special services at St. Philips Epis
copal church next Sunday. Rt. Rev.
J. M. Horner of Asheville will preach
at the eleven o’clock service. Miss
Powell will sing.
AT METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 Sunday School
11:00 True Testimony
(Communion Service.)
4:00 P. M. Preaching at Oak Grove
8:30 Transcendant Faith
HOUSE KEEPERS HAVE
AN IMPORTANT PART
To the Good House-keepers of Tran
sylvania County.
On Wednesday, July 16th we are
going to “Welcome Home” all our
soldier and sailor boys, and also to
entertain the veterans of the Civil
War and Spanish American War.
We want to make this the biggest
day that ever happened in Transyl
vania County and I know it will be
your pleasure to aid in showing your
appreciation of those who in long ago
and also those who in the recent past
offered their lives for those who stay
ed at home.
We therefore want the good house
keepers in the County to prepare a
bountiful basket of dinner and bring
it to Brevard on July 16th so that we
can feast our boys and their friends.
We will have a parade and a brass
band and a general “Get together
Meeting” of the citizens of the Coun
ty.
You can leave your dinner baskets
at the store on Main St., formerly oc
cupied by Plummer & Trantham,
where you will find a committee of
ladies who will take charge of your
property while you are watching the
parade and listening to the music,
and who will help to spread your din
ner on the tables which will be placed
on the Court House yard.
Come early as we hope to begin
about nine o’clock.
Asking your hearty co-operation
and knowing that any movement sup
ported by the good women of Tran
sylvania County will suceed and re
lying upon you to make Wednesday,
July 16th, a day that will never be
forgotten in this County, I am.
Respectfully,
W. E. BREESE, Chairman Dinner
Committee.
SPECTATOR MAKES
REPLYTOBOHANCm
FAIR ASSGOATiON
TO ELECT OFFICERS
There will be a meeting of the
Transylvania County Fair Associa
tion, in the Court House at Brevard
on Monday, July 7th, to elect officers
and formulate plans for a county fair
this fall. Everyone interested in
making this the best fair ever held in
the county is urged to be present and
help formulate plans.
C. E. ORR.
Dear Editor Brevard News:
I hasten to reply to “A VOTER”
whose article appeared in last weeks
issue of the News.
Is the agitation in Brevard for and
against Woman Suffrage an indica
tion of the awakening of the national
conscicnce, or is it just a method of
passing away the time? ’ If the “Vo
ter” would appear on Patton Ave.,
Asheville, any night after supper, he
would find some samples of voters:
young men “dressed to kill” intent
to “make a hit” with Asheville’s good
looking girls. I know the women and
girls are disgusted with such. I be
lieve also they are becoming disgust
ed with the movies that always end
with the hero embracing the heroine.
I hope we are approaching our Uto
pian ideal: the changing of methods
of dancing, the elimination of booze,
the proper taking care of returned
soldiers, giving everybody a square
deal (including the women) fair
wages and reasonable working hours,
etc. Women require excitement as
well as men. They have shown during
the past war that they were efficient
in every way. If they want to vote,
let them vote. I stand an interested
spectator, detached from the world,
as it were, hoping that in some way
the world may come out all right.
“The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world” is true to-day as well
as yesterday. The women would rule
not as ex-Kaiser Bill would rule, but
with giving everybody a square deal.
Some “wise fool” has said: “There
is nothing in politics except that
which one can get out of them.” We
hope this order of politics may be
changed and the women can do much
to change the order.
An interested spectator.
Asheville, N. C.
There will be an important
business meeting of The Nation
al League for Women’s Ser
vice, at the home of Mrs. J. S.
Silversteen, Tuesday afternoon,
July the eighth, at five o’clock.
All members are urged to be
present.
Mrs. J. S. Silversteen, Chairman
/^f®ANDSOMEST LINER IN THE SOUTH ATLAHTTG
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Tmi>INKTHISMTROROLtSA^ITHARGE]CTNE^
HANDSOMEST LINER IN SOUTH ATLANTIC
All the Southland may well take pride in the S. S. Walden, the new 9,000
ton freighter built by the United States Shipping Board for the South At
lantic Maritime Corporation and assigned by the latter to the export trade
between the four South Atlantic States and the Argentine Republic.
For not only has the Walden been pronounced by shipping board experts
“the handsomest liner in the South Atlantic” but her distinction goes fur
ther than that. Strange as it may seem to those familiar with the energy
and the commercial .ccrov/th of the “new South,”, the Walden is the very
first liner to run in the export trade between tho Southeastern States and
South America. She will ply between the ports of Charleston, Jackzonville
and Buenos Aires.
On her f:he v/iil f'y Iho rod, v.hito and b'lu?, pennant of the Sovith
Atlantic Maritime Corporation, the quasi-public shipping organisation form-
by the f.ve ports of Wiln-iington, Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick and
.lacksonville for the development of trade with Latin America. Matthew
Hale of Boston is president and the vice presidents are Wm. H. Sprunt of
Wilmington, R. G. Rhett of Charleston, Geo. F. Armstrong of Savannah, F.
D. M. Strachan of Brunswick and M. F. Coachman of Jacksonville. Other
£>hips and other routes are assigned to the other ports, depending upon the
harbor and freight facilities.
BREVARD ENTER
TAINS MASONS
Masons pf the 38th district of
North Carolina held their Grand
Lodge here yesterday. This occasion
brought to Brevard a distinguished
group of North Carolinians and visit
ors from other states. The visiting
I Masons were the guests, while here,
of Dunns Rock Lodge No. 267 A. F.
and A. M. The meeting convened at
2:30 Thursday afternoon in Dunns
Rock Hall. Mayor T. H. Galloway
delivered the address of welcome
which was responded to by Hon. H. A.
Grady of Clinton, S. C. After the
addresses work in the first, second
and third was put on. In the even
ing a banquet was held at the Frank
lin in honor of the visiting Masons
and their friends. A specially ar
ranged program was rendered by the
hotel orchestra during the banquet
and a number of short speeches were
made which afforded much pleasure
and amusement to all present.
THE PRAYER CORNER
Americanism
We should keep steady before our
minds the fact that
Americanism
is a question of principle, of purpose
of idealism, of character; that it is
not a matter of birth place, or creed
or line of descent.
Here in this country the represen
tatives of many old world races are
being fused together into a new type
—a type the main features of which
are already determined and were de
termined at the time of the revolu
tionary war; for the crucible in which
all the new types are melted into one
was shaped from 1776 to 1789 and
our nationality was definitely fix
ed in all its essentals by the men of
Washington’s day. The strains will
not continue ti exist separately in
this country as in the old world. They
will be combined in one and of this
new type those men will be best rep
resented what is loftiest in the na
tion’s past, what is finest in her hope
for the future, who stand each solely
on his worth as a man, and who scorn
to do evil to others, and who refuse
to submit to wrong doing themselves;
who have in them no taint of weak
ness; who never fear to fight when
fighting is demanded by sound and
high morality, but who hope by their
lives to bring ever nearer the day
when justice and peace shall prevail
within our borders and over our re
lations with all foreign pov/ers.
A Prayer for
Independence Day
O God whose name is excellent in
all the earth and Thy glory above the
the heavens, who, as this day didst
inspire and direct the hearts of our
delegates in Congress to lay the per
petual foundations of peace and lib
erty, and safety. We bless and adore
Thy glorious Majesty, for this Thy
loving kindness and providence and
we humbly pray that the devout sense
of this signal mercy may renew and
increase in us a spirit of love and
Thankfulness to Thee, its only Au
thor. A spirit of peaceable submis
sion to the laws and government of
our country and a spirit of fervent
zeal for our holy religion which Thou
hast secured and preserved to us and
our posterity, may we improve these
in as suitable blessings for the ad
vancement of religion, liberty and
science throughout the land, till the
wilderness and solitary place be glad
through us and the desert blossom as
the rose. This we beg thru the merits
of Jesus Christ, our Savior Amen.
C. D. C.
SUFFRAGIST HAKES
REPIYTOBOHANOIS
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
(Sunday, July 6th.)
9:45 A. M Sunday School
11 :G0 A. M. and 8:30 P. M. Preach
ing by pastor.
WE MUST KNOW NAMES OF
WRITERS
As we have stated in these columns
before, we cannot print conimunica-
tions in the NEWS without knowing
the names of their writers although
it is not necessary to publish the
names. We have received some ar
ticles intended for this issue of the
paper which we will be glad to pub
lish later if the writer will send us
their names.
Editor Brevard News:
There has been a great deal of com*
ment on the open letter signed “Bo
hancus” in your issue of last week.
Spitefulness and ill temper should be
avoided in discussing this question,
as in others; but there may be a dig
nified discussion of the matter with
out any wrangling. And as equal suf
frage is a question of sufficient im
portance for Congress and the various
states to act upon, it seem a good
thing that the arguments, for and
against should be presented to the
public. This will enable those who
are undecided as yet, to form opinions
based neither on prejudice on one
hand, nor on foolish sentimentality
on the other.
Bohancus’ article, to be sure, can
scarcely be called an argument—^rath
er a tirad. But as it brings out some
of the objections commonly urged
against equal suffrage, with your per
mission, I will answer his letter^
Before taking up his reasons, for
opposing equal suffrage, may I re
mark in passing, that Bohancus, in
his excitement, or his haste, or his
wrath, or whatever emotion it was
that inspired his article, got his men
tal process mixed. In the first para
graph he draws a touching picture of
poor John or Tom, rocking the cradle
(no doubt that cradle was very dirty
and the baby’s face ditto) while Han
nah Jane and Amanda (1 am sure
those are the names of those wives)
voted “Drunken galoots’ from the
slums. Several passages down, we
are gravely informed that only “man
faced women” wish to vote; women
who have poodle dogs, but no babies.
Does Bohancus imply here, that Tom
was rocking the poodle to sleep? It
takes rather a vivid imagination to
pictute even the husband' of a Buf*
fragist engaged thusly.
Now, as I understand your cor-
resondent’s position, he makes thred
points:
A. A woman should use her influ-
ence over her husband and sons, and
in this way, she can do good in an
election.
B. If women voted, men would not
respect them.
C. Good Women do not want to
vote.
New, I would ask Bohancus (such a
“penful”—that name!) if the fact
that he expects a good woman to ex
ert an influence in the matter of
voting, is not in itself an admission
that voting is a matter that directly
concerns her? If the affairs of the
government are exclusively man's
business, then the wife or the mother
is no more justified in meddling or
urging her ideas, than a man would be
who insisted that his wife prepare his
meals over a coal range rather than
a blue flame oil stove. The husband
is vitally concerned in the food ques
tion, and entitled to demand whole
some and palatable meals. He is not
entitled to meddle in the ways and
means of preparation. That is his
wife's business. True, some husbands
are capable of giving valuable advice
on domestic management, but the av
erage man is not, and it isn’t expected
of him. Similarly, if the making of
laws and their proper execution are
not in seme degree a woman’s bus
iness, she is, to use a slang phrase,
“Butting in”, when she undertakes to
thrust her opinions upon those whose
business it is. Yet, Bohancus inplies
that “A good woman,” meaning pre
sumably, any good woman, does and
should do this very thing. How can
any v. oman be expected to have an in
fluence in a matter which is common
ly considered “none of her business”?
It would appear then that the fact
that woman’s influence is invoked,
establishes that it is her business, and
that she has a right to consideration.
But, Mr. Editor, is not a wife’s in
fluence—and a mother’s influence—
often sadly over estimated. A moth
er’s influence is very strong when her
little boy spends most of his time in
the home. But even at the age of six
when he first goes to school, other in
fluences must be reckoned with. There
is the influence of the “big boy,**
which is often exceedingly strong
either for good or for evil. There is
the influence of the boy chum, and
of “the gang,” and of the “movie.’*
There is the father’s influence which
is often not in harmony with the
mother’s. As he grows older, there
is the street comer influence, and the
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