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VOL. XXIV
BREVARD, N. C. FR1DAY,\UGUST 15tk, 1919^
NUMBER 32.
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PLANS FOR MPROVE-
MENTOFCOORTHODS’
As stated in a rccent issue of the
News a number of improvements are
to be made in the court house and
the construction of a new county jail
is to be commenced in a short time.
Plans for the additions to the court
house and also for the jail are now
in the ^ hands of the commissioners
and it is thought that work on both
buildings will be started without de-
L»y.
Specifications for enlarging the
'Court house call for the addition of
two rooms on the first floor and two
rooms on the second floor of the
building. These rooms are to be sit
uated at the rear of the present
structure on either side of the corri-
der which extends through the build
ing. The new offices are to be larger
than those now in use and are to be
equipped with modern safety vaults
and fixtures. The two new ofiices in
the second story are to be occupied
by the county home demonstration
agent and the county farm agent.
The partition between the office now
used by the county farm agent and
that of the sheriff is to be removed,
thereby giving larger quarters for
the sheriff’s office.
The new jail is to located just
back of the court house. It is to be
a fireproof structure modelled in ac
cordance with the latest designs for
such buildings.
BREVARD HAS
NEWDRUGSTORE
VISITOR PURCHASES SUMMER
HOME
H. B. Jennings of Lumberton, N.
C. who has been here for the sum
mer is so much pleased with the \own
that he has bought a summer home
in Brevard. He has purchased Beth
Wood Place in Brevton Park and he
and his family expect to come back
to Brevard' in the early spring next
year in order to get as long a stay
as possible in the mountains. Mr.
Jennings and his family have occu
pied the residence of C. M. Cooke this
summer and have made many friends
Aere who will be glad to leam that
they are to become permanent sum
mer residents of the town.
ELECTION OF CHARLESTON’S
MAYOR CLOSE
Last Monday was marked by the
departure of the entire voting cpn-
tengent of the large per cent of
Charleston’s population which is here
for the summer. The occasion of this
sudden e:;odus was the mayoralty
election in the southern city on Tues
day. The candidates for the office
were T. T. Hyde, who has been may
or for the term just closed, and J. P.
Grace, who was the unsuccessful can
didate in the last election. The con
test on Tuesday was a very close one
and when the NEWS went to press
Hyde had a majority of. one vote over
ice with seventy challenged votes
kto be decided on.
Gitece
IMPROVEMENTS ON PROBARTE
AVENUE
A lo^d of sand has been put on
Probarte Aven^o this weelt. A new
street light has also been installed.
This is one of the most attractive
streets in town and the improvements
recently made will add greatly to the
pleasure of visitors as well as resi
dents in that section.
The latest addition to the business
world in Brevard is the Brevard
Pharmacy under the management
of J. B. Picklesimer. Mr.
Picklesimer comes from Asheville
where he has been connected for some
time with one of the largest drug
houses in that city. However he is
not a stranger to the Brevard public
as he was engaged in the drug bus
iness here several years ago, and
built up a large trade through the
high quality of his service which be
came well-known in all parts of the
county.
Mr. Picklesimer is much pleased
with the progress and growth of Bre
vard during the years of his absence
and proposes to give the town a drug
store in every way equal to the in
creasing demands of the local trade.
The new establishment is located in
the store formerly occupied by Plum
mer and Trantham. It has been re
modeled and furnished with the best
equipment on the market at the pre
sent time. The soda fountain is one
of the largest and most elegant pieces
of work of its kind in North Carolina,
and is in charge of experts who know
all about the latest thing in cooling
drinks and icy concoctions.
The seats and tables are up-to-date
and the large showcases are filled
with a complete and varied stock of
all lines usually found in a first-class
drug emporium. The p^escripliion
department is a drug establishment
within itself and is in charge of a
graduate pharmicist.
Popular prices prevail at the new
drug store^and Brevard is to be con
gratulated on the possession of this
enterprise which is not only a credit
to the town but marks the beginning
of a new era in the commercial his
tory of the county.
PICNIC OWNER FOR
CEMEIERYWffltKERS
THE PRAYER CORNER
AMERICA’S GREATEST WEALTH
BAPTIST MEETING
Come to the meeting at the Mt.
Moriah Baptist Church. Let _each|
church appoint delegates who will'
•ome also in addition let 'each church
«rge the choir to come as room will
be made on the program for singing.
A good program has been completed.
The greatest wealth of any nation
lies not in its mines but in its men
and women, not in its industries but
in its individuals, not in its fields but
in its families, not in its skyscrapers
but in its humble homes. Tell me
how rich America is in faith, in hope
and in love, and I will have a better
idea of the permanent greatness of
the nation that I could possibly gain
from columns of figures be they ever
so long or startling. For faith is
better than mines of silver or gold;
hopt is more to be desired than miles
of forest and love is a greater na
tional assest than uncounted stretches
of frtile fields.
A PRAYER
God of our fathers, teach us that
the greatest wiealth of our nation lies
not in our mines, not in
not in its mines but in its men and
women; not in its industries but in
its individuals; not in its fields but
in its families; not in its skyscrapers
but in its humble homes.
0 bring home to our hearts the
great truth that in faith, hope and
love lie the permanent greatness of
a nation. FallR ift^hee. Our God
and in the divine principle of liberty
'Mdiich Thou hast implanted in our
hearfe, that we may give it to the
worW. Hope in Thee as our Divine
Leaver as we go forth to sow the
se%as of a government of the people,
the people and by the people
g the nations of the earth. And
cr men everywhere as chil^en
r Father and of one Saviour in
all the families of the earth
It and by whose blood alone
shall be saved and made one.
C*D«C*
foi
There will be an all-day working
at the Davidson RiVer Cemetery on
next Monday, August 25th. This
Cemetery is badly in need of working,
crowded, and nearly all of the old
families of this section have friends
and near relatives buried there. On
next Monday all of the people wish
to get together, primarily, of course
to put the Cemetery in order, also tq
discuss ways and means of beautify
ing the Cemetery and of acquiring ad
ditional land to add to it.
Everybody come and bring a good
basket dinner.
This Cemetery is now considerably
more than a hundred years old, and
is closely linked with the history of
the people, of the county, and of the
churches and schools of this section,
and all should be interested in seeing
that it is placed in excellent condi
tion, beautified and its sizs increased
to meet future needs. Those who can
not attend would do well to “furnish
a hand.”
BOHANCUS HNDS
HIS CHAMPION
'J',.
Per.sonaIiy I do not know Bohancus
but if his mien is as formidable as his
name coupled with his writings I feel
sure that he needs no help from me
in his arguments. And this it not the
reason why this piece of prose is be
ing reproducted. But we think we
have two better reasons, the first of
which is that we would like to see
good men and women think well be
fore they make a leap into an un
known darkness. And the second
reason is to refresh my mind in re
gard to the truths taught me by an
old friends who taught me the Bible.
And while he is gone I remember
him fondly and often when I think
about him I remember what another
great man has said— *‘The works
of great men live after them.” When
I thing of woman suffrage I can
not help at the same time but to
think of easy divorce and a divided
family in connection therewith.
I hope you will bear with me while
I give- you the thoughts of my old
friends and sincere Christian.
The family if of divine origin and
sanction. Man was created a pair—
“Male and female created He them.”
The plural noun here makes it neces
sary to render this passage. “A male
and female created He j^hem” other
wise it might seem to mean that a
number of males and females were
created. This however, would con
tradict the teaching of the second
chapter of Genesis, that Adam and
Eve were two persons as they came
from the hand of the Creator, Gen. ii
7, 21, 22.
Marriage was formerly institu
ted between this pair, for Eve became
the “mother of all living,” and she
is afterwards called his wife. Gen. iii
20; iv. I. Adam himself proclaimed
the marriage %w for his posterity,
but did not originate it. When the
woman was created and presented
to him, he said, “This is bone of my
bone and flesh of my flesh; she shall
be called woman because she was tak
en out of'man. Therefore shall a
man leave his father and his mother
I
and cleave unto his wife; and the
twain shall be of one flesh.” Gen. ii
23, 24.
This is the God-given constitution
for the family. Christ endorses it
as the law from the beginning for
the race, and argues from it to de
fine the tights of the parties,, as we
' shall see. Matt. XIX. 4~6. Paul also
assumes the constitution of the family
i for all ages, and argues from it the
ANOTHER CON-
NECnNGLDK
Transylvania is soon to have an
other connecting link with the out
side world. This is to be an electric
railway from Brevard to Greenville,
S. C. by way of Caesar’s Head. The
new project is backed by a company
formed by some of the best known
business men of this county and of
Greenville* The building of this line
will give a new means of access to
one of the ^cenic wonders of the south
and will put Brevard in direct connec
tion with Greenville and adjacent
South Carolina cities. Such connec
tion with the business centers of the
south has long been*the aim of pro
gressive business men of North and
South Carolina. The Greenville and
Knoxville Railway project was pro
moted with this end in view, but the
railroad enterprise never materialized
{although part of the road was built
and was operated for a short time.
Members of the company recently
organized for the purpose of building
an electric railway from Brevard to
Greenville state that the work on the
first section of the line from Brevard
to Caesar’s Head, will be commenced
at once and that electric car^ will be
in operation between Bfevard and
Greenville before next summer.
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rights of the parties. Rom. vii. 2,3.
Indeed the Scriptures assume every
where that the constitution of the
family is the fundamental law for
the race.
The family meets the necessities
of man’s nature and condition from
the beginnig and was instituted to
meet those necessities. “The Lord
^said it is not good for man to be
alone. I will make a help meet for
him.” Gen. ii. 18. There was found
no help meet for him among the
fowls of the air, nor the cattle, nor
the beasts of the field. Gen. ii. 20.
Man is a social being, though not gre
garious. Social, sentimental and
moral bonds are necessary to his very
existence, to say nothing of his com
fort and happiness. The woman ^was
made meet for him, exactly what he
needed. There was a mutuality in
the adjustment, so that each in the
complement of the other and each is
necessary to the other.
The most obvious purpose of the
family is the propagation of the race
in holiness, “a Godly seed.” “God
blessed them and said, be fruitful
and multiply and replenish the earth
and subdue it.” Gen. i. 28. Malachi
teaches that God “sought a Godly
seed.'’ Mai. ii. 15.
Paul argues that the children are
holy in a godly family, and not un
clean, 1 Cor. vii. 14. There were two
institutions established in the begin
ning of the race, the Sabbath and the
family. They are both fundamental.
The family is the place and the Sab
bath is the special time for the train
ing of a holy seed for God.
Monogamy and liot polygamy was
the law from the beginning. Malachi
says, “The Lord hath been witness
I between thee and the wife of thy
' youth, against whom thy hast dealt
j treacherously fyet she is thy compan-
‘ ion, and the wife of thy 'covenant,
j And he did not make one, although
^ he had tlie residue of the spirit. And
wherefore one? He sought a Godly
seed.” He claims that God made one
I woman for one man and bases his
plea upon it. Mai. ii. 14, 15.
j Christ argues from the same fact,
“Have ye not read that he which made
them at the beginning made them
male and female.” “And the twain
shall become of one flesh.” Matt, xix:
5, 6.
Polygamy arose in Cain’s family.
Lamech took two wives, Ada and
Zillah, and the relation proved a mur-
CHER’YHELDTOHAVE
FURNITURE FAaORY
Victor Adair of Hendersonville has
bought the O. H. Galloway place at
Cherryfield. He also leased a lot.from
J. C. Whitmire on which he Will.begin
;
thje construction of an up-to-date auto
repair shop. He also expects to be
gin the construction at an early date
of a furniture factory which will be
one of the largest establishments of
its kind in the south. Mr. Adair in
tends to make his home at Cherry
field and will devote his entire time
to the development of his interests
at that place.
It is understood that the Galloway
place brought the largest spot cash
price ever paid for a similar piece
of real estate in this county.
derous one. Gen. iv. 19—24.
From the beginning marriage was
a divine bond and ah indissol\ible
unity. “They are no more twain but
one flesh.” Christ in discussing the
divorce law of Moses, says, “From the
beginning it was not so.” He says.
^*What God has joined together, let
no man put asunder.” Marriage was
an indissoluble bond till divorce was
made necessary by “uncleanness” in
the marriage relation; by their “hardr
ness of heart”—evident perverse
ness and sin in the marriage relation,
which Christ defines as fornication.
Compare Deut. xxiv 1—4: Matt. xix. 2
-9.
Marriage is not a sacrament as the
Papists claim and teach with a strange
inconsistency, for they also teach that
celibacy is a holier state than matri
mony. This is part of their scheme
of priestly domination. They de
nounce civil marriage, and put the
family under ecclesiastical law. They
declare all marriages null and void
which are not solemnized by .an ec
clesiastic because it is a sacrament.
At the same time they validate a
baptist administered by the laity, tho
it is a real sacrament. The reason of
these things is not hard to see.
Marriage is not a matter of* ec-
ecclesiastical law. The church orig-
clesiastical origin,:^j|gr dependent on
inated in and froi^the family and
not the family in and from the church.
The church is composed of families
of believers and their seed. The
rights and franchise of each are of
divine origin. A priesthood origi
nated in |;he family, for in the patri
archal system, the father was the
priest of the family and the respon
sible religrious teacher. How shall the
stream control and regulate the foun
tain? The church may and must con
serve the family according to its Scrip
tural warrant and construction, but
only by proper teaching and discipline
only personal as in all other matters
of right and morals.
Marriage is not a mere civil insti
tution as has been asserted. This
tyranny of the Papacy which so long
doctrine was a reaction against the
claimed to place marital relations and
family rights under the sole jurisdic
tion of ecclesiastical law. It gained
plausibility from the fact that cer
tain property rights belong to mem
bers of the family, such as inheri
tance, support, care of the sick and
aged, enforcement of contracts ex
pressed or implied, protection against
brutality on one hand and,insubor
dination on the others and such like.
It is the function of the state to pro
tect and defend against wrong, in
justice, and oppression in all the re
lations of life, both in the family and
out of it.
The state does not create the rights
of men, but protects them. It does
not create the family, but conserves
it. It does not create its obligations,
but rccognizes them and enforces
them against violation. The divine
law stands behind all civil administra-
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SHIPMAN FEDERAL
DIRECTOR OF LABOR
M. L. Shipman, commissioner of
labor and printing for North Caro
lina, has been appointed federal dir
ector of labor for the state. This
appointment which has heretofore
carried with it an annual salary of
$3000.00 is now a dollar a year job
and the money formerly paid the dir
ector of labor in North Carolina now
reverts to the United States Trea
sury.
There is perhaps no man in the
state who is more conversant with
North Carolina labor conditions to
day than M. L. Shipman. Mr. Ship
man has served as state commissioner
i of labor and printing for the past
twelve years and through his office
has promulgated many mefisures for
the betterment of labor conditions
in this state. Since his recent ap-
j pointment he has announced his in-
I tention of co-ordinating federal and
j state agencies in the management of
the labor forces of North Carolina.
tion so far as it deals with moral
questions. So with the family. Civil
law can only foster, conserve, defend
or annul it, in accordance with the
divine law in deciding who may or
who may not marry the Scriptures
are supreme authority. So also with
mutual obligations in the family.
Certain property rights inhere and
these must be protected by the civil
arm only because the sword is a ter
ror to evil-doers. The church and
the state ought both to stand sponsor
and witness the contract of marriage
and uphold it, each with its appro
priate arm. Marriage did not origi
nate with the state any more than
it did with the church.
The state originated*in the family.
The patriarch was the civil ruler as
well as the religious head of the fam
ily. It would be interesting to trace
the state as the out-growth from the
simple headship of the family. The
church and the state are both con
cerned to foster the family and
neither should rule the other so long
as the constitution of the family is
saved.
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Divorce is the greatest enemy of
he family—divorce for any and every
cause, as was common among Greeks
and Romans, and adopted by the
Jews from Paganism, and justified
by the Pharisees in Christ’s day. Di
vorce is the burning puestion in
Christian lands to-day. Shall the mar
riage bond be can'celled at all, and if
so, by whom and for what?
We can here only emphasize the
one and only cause named by Christ
and by Moses. Matt. v. 31, 32; xix.
3—0; Dept. xxiv. 1—4. We hold that
the state only can issue a competent
annulling of the marriage contract,
and for this sole cause. Annulling
for any other cause does not cancel
the bond in the eyes of heaven, and
the church must uphold the Bible
view, both by doctrine and discipline.
The man is the head of the family
by right. The manner of the woman’s
creation would seem to teach thin.
She was given for a help meet for
him,” and she was built upon a rib
taken from his side. Gen. ii 18, 21,
22. Paul says that the head of every
man is Christ and the haed of the
woman is the man.” For the man is
not of the woman, but the woman is
of the man.” “Neither was the man
created for the woman but the woman
for the man.” 1 Cor. xi. 3,8,9. This
is evidently the doctrine of the Scrip
ture and the practice ol the Scrip
ture ,times. F.ph. v. 22, 23; Col. iii. 13;
1 Pet. iii. 1. The wife’s vow is to
“love, cherish and obey.” we need
hardly cite passage to prove tiiia head
ship extends to children and servants
also.
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