FlUDAY, MARCH IM. IMO.
FHE BREVARD NEWS, BM^ARO, N. C.
RETIRING SECRETARY
^‘'SHIRT'-SLEEVEfBOT
CMishkfn. N. T.
COMMANDER EVANGELINE BOOTH
HAIUUS tf CWINO
FRANKLIN K. LANE.
FRANKLIN K. LANE
TO "FOLLOW ON”
Accepts Invitation to Become Na
tional Chairman of Salvation
Army’s Annual Appeal
for Funds.
WASHINGTON’S BEST BELOVED
RESTARTING LIFE AT 55.
Former Cabinet Officer Before Enter*
Ing the Oil Business as an Execu
tive for the Doheny Interests Will
Lend His Great Abilities to the
Church Militant Organization.
Franklin K. Lane, referred to far
ftQd wide as “Washington’s best loved
man,” is undertaking two notal)ie inno
vations at an age when most men think
mainly of retiring to the quiet of pri
vate life. One is to ‘‘earn enough
tnone^' to support my family and keep
my bills paid,” and the other is “to step
down from a high place to resume my
place among the shirtsleeve boys and
Rive them a hand if I can!”
Two history making statements from
a man of Mr. Lane's attainments and
etstion in life! And tlio remarkable
part of it all is that lie puts the shirt
sleeve matter—the thing about helping
his neighl)ors—ahead ef that other
thing—making more money in order
the better to underwrite the Autumn
of his life!
. Few men reach a higher niche In the
affections and confidence of the public
mind t>ian has this remarkable man
from the West, who was once an ed
itor, then a lawyer and finally a mem
ber of the President’s cabinet and who
withdraws from public life to “earn a
better living” after rendering a service
to the government the extent and value
of which would be impossible to esti
mate. Still fewer men are called to
Buoh responsible places as Franklin K.
Lane will now occupy. He will enter
the oil business as an executive for the
Dolu'n.v interests and will be estab
lished in New York city for that pur
pose by April 1. But the rosy prospect
of making “a living wage” after sev
eral years spent in struggling along on
the salary of a cabinet officer has not
blinded Mr. Lane to another opportuni
ty—that for striking a few powerful
blows on behalf of the “man who is
down, but never out!”
Franklin K. Lane has accepted an In-
Tltation from Commander Evangeline
Booth to become the national chairman
for the Salvation Army’s annual ap
peal for funds in 1920. He is already
on this .lob, although Wall Street does
not Rieet him as an oil well executive
for another month.
*‘It is a genuine privilege to find op
portunity for encouraging a work so di
rect and practical and so valuable to
the masses of the people as the work
of the Salvation Arm.v,” said Mr. Lane
at his office In Wa.sliington the other
day. “When Commcnder Miss Booth
asked me to take the responsibilities
of national chairman for the 1020 ap
peal of that organization,” continued
the secretary, “the first thought that
flashed across my mind was, How can
I spare time for such work when I
am entering upon a commercial task
of great responsibility?
“And then there flashed across my
mind a vision of the things the Salva
tion Army does—the help it gives to
men and women and little children just
when and where they need It most—
and I thought to myself that after all
tliere could be no more important
thing than this. So I accepted—along
with the other job—and I am trusting
to the generosity of my new employers
to indorse my action in the matter.
“I believe every right thinking man
and woman in America owes the Salva
tion Army some of his or her time
every year. And ] am going to pay
my share. I am going to get my shoul
der T'l .. ely behind the movement for
lan that can win the hearts and
the confidence of the common people
like this Salvation Army has won them
in recent years. I am going to puil
off my coat and do some real work
that will show where I stand when it
comes to weighing the homely, unos
tentatious and highly practical relief
methods of this amazing band of work
ers. I heard the call. The iiniblems of
the poor are there to be solved, and
they can use my poor efforts perhaps,
so I have answered the call.
“I won’t do much talking in the coh-
Ing drive. I will do real work, and
when I do talk I don’t want to talk to
anyone but actual workers. There will
be no speech making by me to those
who might be curious to hear a former
cabinet oflicer in action, 1»ut wlio are
not interested in the work of the Sal
vation Army. I shall talk to workers
and only to workers. The day for ora
tory in such njatfers has gone. We are
down to brass tacks.
“I think I owe it as a citizen of
America to show my understanding
and appreciation of the helpful work
the Salvation Army is doing in its res
cue homes, maternity hospitals, free
clinics, industrial homes, fresh air
farms and tenement house relief work.
“My testimony Is not needed, how
ever, in this matter. There are 2,()00,-
000 or 3.000,000 ol young Americans
who went into the recent war either
unaware that the Salvation Army ex
isted or having no use for its methods
if they did know of it. So far as I can
learn these men came out of that war
tmanimous on one subject—and that
was that the Salvation Army under
stood the average man, knew how to
deal with him and simply ‘delivered
the goods’ on the 100 per cent basis.
“There is no division of opinion on
that one subject. There could have
been no greater test for the Salvation
Army than the test it received in the
war. So after all I am merely adding
my voice to the mighty chorus I have
referred to when I say that tlie Salva
tion Army has long since won the right
to make an appeal to tiie rest of us
for its maintenance, and I am sure It
will not make that appeal in vain.
“The Salvation Army one year ago
abandoned its old custoni of bearing
in the streets the year arotnui so that
its workers could devote all of their
time and attention to t!;e poor. It
makes an annual appeal each May.
Personally I know of no greater bul
wark that could be raised a;:ainst the
rising tide of human unrest tiian to
strengthen the hands of this band of
self sacrificing Christian tollers who
have the confidence of all men and wo
men, regardless of race, creed, color or
position in life. I think it is impor
tant for the interests of our advancing
civilization that such a practical and
wholesome work be stimulated and
maintained to the utmost.
“They say tliere are no ‘down and
outers’ any more. Personally I do not
believe it, or if I did believe it I would
know that the abnormal times have
swung the pendulum back too far on
one side—and that it will swing far
to the other side directly. There will
always be a bottom to society. The
poor will always be with us. We owe
it to our fellow men to know our neigh
bor and share his troubles and prob
lems, and only by that method can we,
in all fairness and righteousness, keep
the scales even in this life.
“I am proud to face the problems of
the poor with the Salvation Army in
such a trying hour, and I hope tiiat
American men and women will stand
with me in the work ahead of us. But
they must be workers. I shall have no
time to entertain mere observers.”
Both for the organization that gives
aid and pel||f to the poor and for the
poor themselves, the high co.st of living
has been a trouble^>ome factor in re
cent months. Money does not go far
these days, but there’s no one in the
I world who can get more worth-while
work out of a dollar than can the Saf-
vatlonists. In this cou?»try th6y gave
away 3,699,767 meals in the twelve
month ending last September 30, and
provided 371,334 meals besides at ap
proximate cost. They supplieil free
beds for 1,181,547 night lodgings and
1,498,887 at ^ merely nominal charge.
And in addition to all this and to alt
that w^.3 done for thousands in tl'
Army institutions they gave teniporSif
relief to 709,361 petsoaa.
FREKNT LEAST
N. C. L, EXPENSE
Director General Hines Says Rail
road Transportation Costs
Are Lowest in History.
ItOT CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES.
Freight Advances Compared V</lth ^ise
In Value of Goods—^Transportation
Cheapest Thing Public Buy*.
Charges on Some Articles.
Data compiled from authoritative
sources siiows that railroad freight
rates are tlie least factor in the cost
of living. Although the proportl»n of
the total cost of goods that can be
charged to transportation is not known
with statistical accuracy, it is estimat
ed that the average transportation cost
of things produced In this country is
a very small percentage of their total
cost to the consumer.
Freight Cost 2.4 Per Cent of Total.
In a letter to Representative John .1.
Esch, chairman of the House Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman
of the Souflieru Pacific Company,
points out that In the last five years
the value of goods increased on an av
erage of $63 a ton, wi'lle freight
charges advanced only 60 cents a ton.
In five years, he explains, the aver
age value of freight carried by the
railroads increased from $56 to $119 a
ton. The cost of carrying this increas
ed from .$2 to $2.80, paid to the rail
roads. In 1914, he adds, 3.6 per cent
of the total cost of the goods was
spent for transportation. In 1919 only
2.4' per cent was spent.
“In other wonls,” Mr. Kruttschnitt
writes, “only SO cents out of $63, or 1.3
cents out of every dollar of increase in
value of comiiioditie.s In 1919 was caus
ed by Increased freight charges. The
responsibility for the remaining $02.20,
or 98.7 cents out of every dollar, must
bo sought elsevi here. It was not caus
ed by freight rates.”
Rates Lowest In HiAtory.
Comparison with transportation
charges In other countries shows that
in no other country of the world is
transportation furni.shed at so low a
cost as in the United States. Cc inpar-
ed, too, with tl)e cost of o?hor goods
•nd services today, railroad transj)orta-
tlon is the cheapest thing the i)ublic
buj'S. It is sold for less than the cost
of production, considering all the ele
ments of cost.
In a statement on this sul)ject to tfie
NVw England P.ankers’ Association
Walker D. Hines, Director General of
Railroads, said:
“I thi:ik it is a fair statement
tliat at the prest'nt tin-e, despite
the increases which have taken
place in freight rates, a ton of
steel or a ton of coal, a bushel of
wheat or the unit of any other
commodity has to pay for trans
portation a less,percentage of the
price of that commodity than ever
before in the history of the coun
try.”
Charges on Some Articles.
Before the war a suit of clolhinff
from one of the Chicago factories, sell
ing for $30 in a retail shop, was car
ried from Chicago to Los Angeles for
10% cents. Tlie suit of clothes nf*w
retails at $-”tO or $00, hut the freight
rate on that 2.2Gr» mile haul has In-
cronsed only 5% cents, while the price
of the goods hss gone up $20 or $30.
The 22 routs tloos not cover all the
transportation cost in a suit of clothes,
the transportation charge for carrying
the wool from the ranges and the
cloth to the clotl'.ing manufacturer and
other minor carrying costs enter into
the consideration, but the final trans
portation charge is the principal «ne,
and the other charges add only a few
cents more.
New England shoes are shipperf
from Boston to li'lorida at a cost of less
than 5 2-3 cents a pair. This is an in
crease of only one cent over the pre
war rate. The railroads also carry
beef from Chicago to New York for a
charge of about two-thirds of a cent
a pound. Typewriters are carried from
New York to St. Louis for 66 cents. A
$150 phonograph Is carried by freight
from New York to Atlanta for $2.85.
A grand piano Is carried clear across
the continent for $39 and in carload
lots for $28.
Those are typical freight rates, and
they make it plain that American rail
roads give the lowest cost service in
the world.
Even with a very considerable In
crease mtes to make the roads self-
supporting, transportation will still be
the cheapest thing the public buys.
INCREASED WAGES TOOK
97% OF INCREASED RATES.
Increases in freight and passenger
rates made during federal control
amounted to $1,835,000,000 when ap
plied to the traffic moved up to July
31, 1919, while the increases in wages
applied to the number of employees
and the hours or days worked in July,
1919, amounted to $1,774,800,000, or 97
per cent of the revenue from the in
creased rates, according to a state
ment compiled by the Interstate Com
merce Commission at the request of
Senator E. D. Smith of South Caro
lina and presented by him in tbe Ben-
ate on December 29.
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KING LIVERY CO.
NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLI
CATION
North Carolina—Transylvania Coun
ty—In the Superior Court, April
Term 1920.
James M. Conner
vs.
Bessie Mae Conner.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced
against her by the plaintiff in the
Superior Court of Transylvania
county, N. C., for the purpose of se
curing from the said denfendant an
absolute divorce from the bonds of
matrimony now existing between
them; and the said defendant will
further take notice that he is requir
ed to appear at the next term of the
Superior Court of said county, to be
held at the court house in the town
of Brevard, N. C. on the 12th day
of March 1920, and answer or demur
to the complaint in said action, or
the plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in said ac
tion.
This March 1st, 1920.
N. A. MILLER, C. S- C.» Transyl
vania County, N. C, 6tp.
•NOTICE OF LAND SALE BY COM-
MISSIONER.
North Carolina, Transylvania Coun
ty.
By virtue of and order made by
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Transylvania county, N. C. in a spe
cial proceeding therein pending en
titled Talley B. Clarke vs. Ellis
Moore et al. in which order the un
dersigned was duly appointed a
commissioner of said Court to make
sale of the land described in the
,said petition after advertising the
same according to law.
Therefore the undersigned Com
missioner will sell, for cash, at the
court house door in the town of Bre
vard, county of Transylvania, N. C.
on Monday March 28th, 1920, the
following idesc^ibed lands lying and
being in Transylvania county, N. C.
and bounded as follows, to wit:
In Gloucester township, adjoining
the lands of John McCall and others,
and bounded as follows: Beginning
at a maple and white oak, John Mc-
Call’s comer, and runs south with
McCall’s line 84 poles to a post
thence south 43 1-2 east 96 poles to
a chestnut the top of the
thence north 85 dei; east 35 pedes-
to a chestnut; thence soutji 61 I-£
deg east 106 poles to a box ekier-
thence south 2 deg. west 6 poles to or.
black gum; Moore's comer; thcni^r
north 30 deg. east 26 poles to »
stake; thence north 39 deg. west 29S
poles to a sourwood, Moore's corner;
thence weast 28 polc» to a hickeiyv
Moore’s comer; thence south 62 dcgi
west 19 poles to a chestnut; thence^
south 11 deg. east 26 poles to a staler
in McCall’s line thence south 75 df^-
east with aid line 21 poles to the
beginning containing 100 acres
or less, being the same land conve;^
ed to C. M. Moore now deeease«i» Cwr
G. H. Moore, and which deed is
corded in book 24 at page 481 of tfee^
deed records of Transylvuiia eoift
ty.
This said sale to.be made for
purpose of dividing the prvce»te!
among the parties named in tte saidi
petition after the expenses have
paid, as the interest may appear.
This Feb. 20, 1920.
E. LOFTIS, ComttissiMicr. 4%dUL