Brevard
New
VOL. XXIV
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 25th, 1919
NUMBER 29
STRANGE WAYS OF
THE NEWS OFFKX
For some reason or another, The
News office is sending out subscrip
tion statements to subscribers. Just
why the business office is doing this
is unknown. They do so many strange
things in the business office such as
for instance, paying bills for paper
and ink and things like that just ex
actly when they fall due. Perhaps
that is the reason they are sending
out the little slips of paper stating
that one and a half or perhaps more,
is due on subscription and won’t the
subscriber please remit and so save
another two cent stamp?
It is a strange thing when you come
to think about it, that newspapers
need any money at all. Most people
seem to have a dim sort of idea that
they don’t Where all the stuff that
enters into a newspaper comes from
is rather vague in their minds, and
then the sum they are asked to pay
each year is so small that it, of it
self works against the newspaper. If !
the amount were 5 or 10 dollars the |
chances are the subscription would |
bo paid more promtply. This is just
one more reason for increasing the '
price of weekly papers to ten dollars
the year. |
We often wonder what Henry Ford
does about his subscriptions. Henry
is now the publisher of a weekly news
paper. It comes out once a week
just like the News and is printed on
paper and goes thru the post office, '
just as the News does. But what does
Henry know about a weekly paper, ‘
after all ? The answer is nothing, and |
the answer is clear and quite distinct
like Henry sells about three thou
sand Fords each day as a side line to j
printing his paper. If he makes only '
one dollar on each car he doesn’t have ^
to worry if the readers of his paper
pay their subscriptions or not. The
chances are he never send out little
i
slips like the News business office is
doing, for he already has several dol- I
lars to his savings account and puts
away something more each'week it
is said.
But the News has no side line. It!
is devoted to the one object of get
ting out a weekly newspaper which
contains more Transylvania county
and Brevard news in one issue than
Henry’s paper or the New York World
does in ten years. So that is one pret
ty good reason a dollar and a half
check or sending a postoffice order,
or bringing it in yourself.
BOHANCUS STILL SUB
JECT OF ARGUMENT
TO THE PEOPLE
OF BREVARD
Editor Brevard News:
You will please allow a constant
reader of your valuable paper a few
words on the subject of woman suf
frage.
I agree with our congenial but mis
guided friend, that he has the right
to hide behind the name Bohancus.
Such a name serves well the purpose
for which it was adopted.
The writer who assumes this high-
sounding name makes quite a num
ber of statements but fails absolutely
to produce any well-founded argu
ment against woman suffrage. He
tries to scare us with the statement
that we must contend with a crowd
of drunken women at the polls, if
women are allowed to vote. This
statement hardly deserves an answer.
Our women do not drink themselves
drunk. We fail to see how the mere
casting of a ballot should be so de
moralizing in its influence as to pro
duce such an undesirable condition.
“Man will not respect the woman
who votes” is a note upon which Bo
hancus delights to dwell. When con
fronted with the question “Why will
not men respect women who vote”
he makes this brilliant answer, “For
the same reason a rooster fllogs an old
hen for crowing.” This is a fair
sample of his argument. Now Bo
hancus, I believe you have admitted
that women are just as intelligent as
men and that they are just as much
interested in the public welfare. Hav
ing admitted that they know, fully as
well as men, how to crow and when
to crow, why not cast aside your sel
fish aristocratic, rooster-like disposi
tion and let ‘em crow? Yes Bohan
cus, there are some good women who
are opposed to equal suffrage. We
may always expect to find a few who
are reluctant to leave the well beaten
path no matter how sound the reason
for making a change. Millions of
good women are already voting, not
many years hence millions more will
be doing likewise.
“Be not the first by which the new
is tried.
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
A. P. B.
OPEN-AIR SERVICES AT THE
METHODIST CHURCH
We have had a nupber of visitors
say that they considered BREVARD
©ixc of the nicest resort-towns they
ever visited and are surprised
spirit of progressivness prevail
ing but wonder why it was that small
towns like Hendersonville should be
favored by the Government with a
post-office fit for a city of one hun
dred thousand people and Waynes-
ville with a post-office that does it
credit and is a great addition to the
town, while Brevard, with all its in
crease in post-office income is
evidently, considered as being wortli..
of being furnished a home of its own
by our government.
Is not this a good time for the good
demociatic and republican politicians
and the town as a whole, to get busy
and ask Congressman Weaver to
make a special effort and secure for
our town what is only just and right;
that is a post-office worthy of the
Town of Brevard.
This is merely a suggestion.
JOS. S. SILVERSTEEN.
Sermons on “God’s Out-of-Doors”
For the next six weeks the Sunday
evening services will be held on the
lawn at the Methodist Church. Seats
to accommodate 350 have been arrang
ed. The singing will be a feature of
the service. The subject for next Sun
day evening will be “The Message of
the Mountains.” The singing will be
gin at sunset (8 o’clock) and the ser
vice will end before dark.
“Come thou with us and we will do
thee good.”
Rev. B. K. Thrower of Florida will
preach at the Methodist Church at 11
o’clock Sunday morning.
FRENCH BROAD CAMPER MAKES
INITIAL BOW
The first issue for 1919 of the
French Broad Camper has this week
tiM i.- :t3 appearence before the local
K V S’ )er readers, and if volume one,
number one of the paper is to be ac
cepted as an index to the standard of
the publication The French Broad
Camper is going to reflect credit on
the institution it represents. The sheet
contains six pages and carries full re
ports of all camp activities.
S. D. Copeland is editor-in-chief
and W. P. Lillard is business mana
ger. The paper is issued weekly and
is printed on the presses of the Bre-
v^d Printery.
V
COURSE OFFERED TO
BOYS AND GIRLS
As has been previously stated in
these columns the mid-summer course
in agriculture and home economics
for the club boys and girls of the
county will be held at Breyard Insti
tute next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. While the course has been
planned especially for the Transyl
vania club boys and girls, the session
will be, open to all citizens of the
county or visitors who may be inter
ested in the subjects that are to be
discussed.
Tuesday morning will be used for
registration and organization and on
Tuesday (Afternoon attention will be
given over to the practical demonstra
tion of poultry and hog house build
ing, millinery and basketry. On Wed
nesday there will be lectures on farm
and field crops, demonstrations in
judging dairy cattle and poultry, les
sons in commercial and exhibit can
ning, and construction of fireless
cookers. On Thursday a cattle judg
ing contest will be held at the Everett
farm.
The program will be interspersed
with games, athletic contests and
other recreational features.
Some of the best-known farm and
home demonstration experts in the
state will conduct the course next
week at the Institute. The home
demonstration agent of Buncombe
County, Mrs. M. M. Henly will assist
the local home demonstration agent
with the work of the girls’ clubs.
Allen G. Oliver, state poultry club
agent, of Raleigh will take part in
the program as will also, J. M. Gray,
district farm agent from Asheville,
C.' C. Proffitt, Rutherford county
agent, H. B. Marks, and J. W. Sloss,
specialists in beef cattle from Ra
leigh. 0. F. McCrary of Washington,
N. C., district agent for the eastern
part of the state, will make a talk
on some phase of his work. Mr. Mc
Crary is a Transylvania County man,
whose former home was in the Little
River section. He has been County
farm agent in Beauford County for
a number of years.
TOWOMENOF
TRANSYLVANIA
On behalf of the veterans of all
the Wars and their friends and also
on behalf of our Dinner Committee,
we wish to thank the good women of
Transylvania County for the splendid
repast furnished to everybody on last
Wednesday, July 16.
There was a big crowd in Brevard,
estimated from four to seven thou
sand people, in fact by far the largest
crowd tha has ever been gathered in
the County, and the good housekeep
ers had brought in enough food to
feed the multitude.
If anybody did not get enough, it
was their own fault, as there was
plenty for all, and there was over one
large bread basket of food left.
It is always safe to rely on the
women of Transylvania County in
doing their part in any public enter
prise.
Again thanking the good women
for their assistance and hoping we
can have a gathering of this kind
once each year, I am
Yours gratefully,
DINNER COMMITTEE.
SOME RECORD
Mrs. Nancy Barton of Cathey’s
Creek and is eighty-one years old.
She is the mother of thirteen child
ren. On July the tenth, 1919, her
one hundredth Grandchild was bom
and she has seventy-five Great grand-
I children.
CLUBWOMAN
. WRITESAGAW
Editor Brevard News:
It is not the proverbial desire of
the woman to have the last word, that
prompts me to" once more tax your
patience and that of your probably
over weary readers. But there is one
part of Bohancus’ latest letter to
which it s^ms right to refer, because
his inference is, in a sense, mislead
ing and failure to reply might, in
some minds, be accepted as an ad
mission that his argument ( if one
can call it that) is unanswerable.
In the main, Bohancus’ letter is
simply a re-statement of his former
one, and a little more added to it.
He answers some questions, evades
some, and gives us his opinion on cer
tain questions. New surely, we must
all concede his right to his opinions,
even as we cheerfully concede his
right to use any pen name that he
considers appropriate and melodious.
If, for instance, Bohancus is firm
ly convinced that his sex in general
is possessed of the same degree of
reasoning ability, and the same sense
of logic that are commonly attributed
to roosters, he has an inalienable right
to think so. We can not all agree
with him, but it is no business of oui’s
if that is his opinion. And if, after
explicitly stating that there is no
logical connection between poodles
and ballots, he does still connect them
as he assures us he does, why that
also, is no business of any one but
himself. He is similarly entitled to
hold all the other opinions expressed
in his letter. In so far as Bohancus’
personal opinions go, they are his
own concern, and why discuss them in
public? When, however, a man states
his opinion, and lays it down as a
fact, that is a fifferent matter. W hen
Bohancus says, “Give them the ballot
and men lose respect for them,” he
is stating something as a fact when in
truth it is nothing but his individual
conviction. There are at present
only six states in the Union where
women have no vote whatever. In
our own southland in six states, Tex
as, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Florida, Mis
sissippi, and Louisiana women have
either primary suffrage, municipal
suffrage in charter towns, or vote up
on educational questions, issue of
school bonds etc. And the women
vote too, as the politicians have
learned. According to Bohancus then,
there are only six states in the Union
where the men respect their wives,
othrs, and sisters!
But the main point which calls forth
this reply, is his reference to those
suffragettes, who for lawlessness and
bad behavior have been dealt with by
the law.
May I remind your readers that the
number of women who have been en
gaged in these wild and silly demon
strations, is small, exceedingly small
in proportion to the total population
of women in America.. Allowing, for
the sake of argument, that there have
been one thousand of them (tho the
number is nothing like as large) and
comparing that with the number of
women in the United States, we find
that less than one woman in twenty
five thousand has been guilty of law
less behavior in the interests of
equal suffrage. And in the south I
do not know of one single instance of
such behavior. The overwhelming
majority of suffragists disapprove of
violence and disregard of the law, and
thru their National Association, they
oppose militant methods, both by ex
ample and precept. It is no more fair
to hold the great body of American
women who advocate equal suffrage
responsible for the acts of the small
number in Washington to whom Bo
hancus refers, than to withhold re
spect from the men in North Carolina
NATIONAL LEAGUE
HOLDS MEETING
The Transylvania Branch of the
National League for Women’s Service
which was the first patriotic organiza
tion formed in this country after the
war began, has completed its work
with the filing of the record of ser
vice of each Transylvania boy who
served his country in the recent con
flict. At the final meeting of the
league which was held at the resi
dence of the president, Mrs. J. S. Sil-
versteen, reports were made by the
chairmen of the various committees
in the organization. These reports
show that members of the league were
active in all phases of war work thru-
out the period of America’s partici
pation in the struggle. However the
most prominent features of the or
ganization’s service in this county are
its care for the Transylvania soldier
boys and its work along the lines of
food conservation. Of the more than
three hundred boys who went from
this county to war each received from
the League a comfort kit, and a re
cord of the war history of each boy
has been filed by the league. From
the date of its organization the lea^e
laid special emphasis upon the neces
sity of food conservation and thru
the systematic efforts of its members
several hundred pounds of food were
saved in each community in the coun
ty. The work of the Transylvania
organization has been highly com
mended by the national headquarters
and Mrs. Silversteen, the founder
and president of the local league is
being warmly congratulated upon the
results of the patriotic work which
she inaugurated.
TRANSYLVANIA SUPERIOR
COURT IN SESSION
Transylvania Superior Court con
vened on Monday morning for a ses
sion of two weeks with Judge W^bb
presiding and Solicitor Furgerson re-
presentating the state. The first
three days of the session have been
occupied with preliminaries in con
nection with the trial of criminal
cases of which there are a number
on the calender of the present term
of court.
because the I. W. W. in the West
were outrageously lawless. And cer
tainly American women have no more
to do with silly and turbulent English
suffragettes, than American men have
to do with the Bolsheviki in Russia.
In closing, may I remark that while
the most of women, like Bohancus
himself have not consulted the drunk
en “galoots” as to what they think
of equal suffrage, we quote the fol
lowing from an article by Chief Jus
tice Walter Clark of this state aJ our
authority for the statement that this
class of citizens are opposed to it.
“The fight against suffrage for
women, has been financed, organized,
and kept on foot by the liquor inter
ests. This has been shown by legal
and legislative investigation, and by
proofs too well known to be detailed
here. While we have prohibition in
North Carolina, there is a large ele
ment who are making profit out of
its violation and too many officials
who are lax in the enforcement of the
law. These well know that if women
vote, the prohibition law will be* more
effective.” And again he says, “It is
significant that all the whiskey drink
ers and gamblers, the vicious and the
immoral element are opposed. And
invariably this is true of every office
holder who has a rotten record, tho
the women pay part of the salary.”
Perhaps Judge Clark’s statements
can be disproved, but until they are,
most people will accept them as true.
CLUB WOMAN.
TO IflE PEOriE
TRANSYLVANIA
On behalf of the Celebration Com
mittee, for the Welcome-Home on
July 16 to our soldiers and sailors,
we wish to express our appreciation,
first to the public for the good-natur
ed way in which they passed over the
annoyances incident to the serving of
dinner during the rain arid also to the
public for their generosity in bringing
so much to eat and such good things?
so that each one who desired it had
plenty to eat.
W^e also wish to thank the ladies
for the work done on the rioats, such
as the Red Cross, Junior Red Cross,
National League for Women’s Ser
vice, Victory Girls, Wednesday Book
Club, Memorial Car, Mathatasian
Book Club, and also the people who
were kind enough to donate their cars
and trucks and these were certainly
creditable to the people who worked
on them.
Special credit is due to the ladies
who helped to make the dinner a suc
cess, and we wish that we could give
a personal vote of thanks to each
and every one of them.
The General Chairman also wishes
to express his appreciation of the fine
team-work and co-operation shown
by each and every member of the
committees, as the celebration cer
tainly was a red-letter day for Tran
sylvania County.
We also wish to thank the soldiers
and sailors who turned out in such
splendid numbers and gave the people
of Brevard and Transylvania County
a chance to greet them on their re
turn.
French Broad Camp, Camp Sap
phire, and Keystone Camp for Girls,
deserve great credit for their part
in the parade.
We hope that the “Get-Together”
spirit resulting from this general
meeting of the county people will
show a lasting benefit to the Town
and County.
Respectfully,
JOS. S. SILVERSTEEN,
General Chairman Celebration Com
mittee.
AT OAK GROVE
There will be preaching at Oak
Grove School House next Siinday at
eleven o’clock in the morning.
BEAUFORD RAINES DIED AT
CAMP HANCOCK
By reason of a typographical er.
ror the name of Beauford Raines
was omitted from the published list
of Transylvania boys who died in the
service of their country during the
recent war. Beauford Raines was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Kip Raines of
Rosman. His father died a number
of years ago and his mother was un
til recently a resident of Rosman.
Young Raines wa? drafted last sum
mer and went to Camp Hancock, near
Augusta, Ga. for military training
w'here he later succumbed to an at
tack of influenza during the epide
mic which swept the camp a few
months ago.
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Brevard
Sunday School 10: 14 A. M.
Church Service 11:15 A. M.
Missionary address by Rev. W. D.
Reynolds, D. D. of Korea.
Christian Endeavor and Song Ser
vice, Wednesday, 8:30 P. M.
Davidson River
Sunday School 3:30 P. M.
Church Service 4:30 P. M.
Missionary address by Rev. W. D.
Reynolds, D. D. of Korea.
Evening Service ... .9 P. M.
Dr. Reynolds ^th Lantern and
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