IF
Mvomatr or hm^-
SYLVAMIA couimr.
VOLUME XXV
BK£VAIU>. N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, IStO.
HOW WE
TAMED THE
LELE.
BASHI.
CBj S. P.^Vcrncr—^Copyrifht p*nd-
iag. All,rights rescnredl.)
THE AEtHELWOLO HOTEL TO
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
The Aethelwold Hotel of Brevard
will undgr^ a change of management
on the 10th of June. The new mati-
There is only one think in Africa a^ment will thorou^ly renovate the
that can make a noise like that. The entire premises, repainting exterior
artillery proceeded from the throats as well as interior. G. W. Taft will
I «f a herd of elephants, and Bena have direct char^^ of the house. Mr.
Luidi lay exactly in their path. Then . Taft comes from Asheville where in
sentry had not tatried on hearing; recent years he was connected with
tiMH sound* <l>ttt all tlia men were j th^ tianitren IUmI Battary Park Hotel
bmy piling btpsh on the 2roB, and ; that place. Mrs. Taft and two
extending them in a continuous line ■ children will foe with the husband and
across the neck of land on which the father at the hoteL The Aethelwold
station was Jocajfed. Elephants do j “ now making preparation for the
not like fire. The knowledge of this ' American Legion Banquet to heaven
/act faved me from being killed by j Friday evenmj at 8 o’clock P. M,
them on another occasion. The herd^ * Th* Aethelwold will make special
^ose roaring waked up the came, | endeavor to entertain summer tour-
was one of the many whose habit it take care of automobile
was to come down t® ihe ifiver for parties from Asheville and elsewhere
a morning drink from their sleeping j as well as oflFering the best to com-
grounds in the dense forest behind j mercial men.
us. A* t had shot an elephant in j Dance* will be given from time to
this locality about eight years before, time in the large dance hall on the
I was familiar with their habits there, j second floor of the hotel. The re-
The fact that the station had been so tiring manager, C. C. Hodges, Supt.
long abandoned, had made it some-1 Transylvania Division of the South-
thing of a play ground for the big ern Railway finds that he is cumber-
l^easts. somely taxed with the care of the
There was a tax of a hundred dol- hotel as well as the railway. Mr. and
lars on elephant shooting this time Mrs. Hodges will remain at the hotel,
and I had not taken out a license ; ;
chiefly in ordor to be consistent,
since I had been active in promoting J"*® ’ '"‘o .
the international movement lor the =
protection of elephants, and for puti"®^ fone stond.ng on the
ting an end to the indiscriminate Pomt above the beach a good
THE BREVARD CLUB HAS KlNpLY O^ERJ^ THE
LOAN OF ITS ROOlMS FOR AN QPEN MEETING Of ALL
MEMBERS OF THE CLUB, ALL PRI^ESSIONAL BUS-
INESI^ ^EN :OF TRANSYLVANIA FOR THE PURPOSE OF
ORGANIZmC A TRANSYLVANIA BOARD OF TRADE.
WE URGE EVERY COUNTY AND TOWN OFFICIAL
AND EVERY BUSINESS MAN OF THIS COUNTY TO COME
WilH US ON MOMDAT, JRINC 14^ 1S20 AT
8:00 P. M. TRANSYLVANIA IS TOUR COUNTY AND IT
CAN BE JUST WHAT YO UMAKE IT. BE THERE.
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STATE ROAD CONVERrrKm At
. ASHEVnXB—JUNE"^ I^IS
FROUR OUR RALEIGH CORRE-
, SPONDENT
Ralegh, June 7, 1920.—Returns
from Saturday's, primary election up
m
to noon today showed nominations
of the following aspiranta for posi
tion on the State Democratic ticket: i Brevard News. I#reeeived some of
LETTER FROM BOY IN GERMANY
Polch, Germany, May 3.
Editor Brevard News:
Just a few words from an old
North Carolina boy if you think they
are worth printing in the good old
Lieutenant-Governor, W. B. Poop.er«
of New Hanover; State Treasurer, B.
R. Lacy, of Wake; Commissioner «f
Agriculture, W. A. Graham, of Lin
coln; Commissioner of Labor and
Printing, M. L. Shipman, of Hender
son; Insurance Commissioner, S. W.
your papers this morning—^the first
ones 1 have seen since I left Ameri
ca last September, and I sure was
glad to see the old paper. It made^
me think of being balk in “Ths Land
of t*3. Sky.”
Ifjjfave been with the Army of Oc-
Wade, of Carteret. Baxte^ Durham, | cupation noci' for six months here in
of Raleigh, is leading for Auditor. It ■ Germany and I like it fine, tho give
v;ill probably require, a sec*nd pri- i me the good old U. S. A. before any
xnary to determine the nominees for! other coantry in the world. I saw
tbis office and Supreme Cosrt Jus- a notic3 in ei’.c of your papers about
tice. Judge Hoke appears to be men enlisting in the army and I think
nominated, but no one seems to have that is the best thing a young man
a majority of the votes cast can do. I know that it has done me
>ntest for A .Wc^wr vaiiAncy* | a great deal of good and I wouldn't
cdi^Plnly >be a out of it for any thing as it is
primary ^o determine the nomine^ij^Bths b^t I have ever be^i in.
for Governor, neither of the threel as-* Well I guess that is about all, so
pirants having received a majority of j ? close with best wishes to the
th.3 votes cast in the first one. 0e-iNews and good old North Carolina,
turns from the sixty-six counties give Respectfully,
Pf. JOHN T. CLARKE.
A. 5’. in Germany.
P. S,—I don’t suppose you will
slaughter which was threatening "P ^
Itheir extermination. : ‘
Wembo was wild with excitement, '''
egging me to let him use the rifle disgusted, all excepj^v^
the enemy, bu^I remain firm. I
pretty heaviy armed, having y
about a dozen gifns of one kind or, * The rising'otiI, streaidlfig
another, so I let the boys discharge Lulua-Sankuru watershed, threw its
their artillery into the air with a beams against the western bank of
view to diverting the course* of the the Kasai where the river makes its
elephants, whose crashing thru the great bend from the south toward
jungle could now be plainly heard, the west, bringing into strong relief
The elephant is the most intelligent every feature of the landscape, where
of all beasts, and when he has once the big trees with their wall of H-
learned the meaning of fii’e-arms, he anas, clamberers and all sorts of
usually steers clear of them. One vines lined the slope above the water,
reason why the Baschilele country Suddenly a commotion shook that
was so well stock with elephants was floral wall, the tops of tall trees
because the Baschilele had no guns, swayed and danced in the sunlight as i following and Morrison i ... i-v-tiFation altho he
The Baschoko, to the south of them if stirred by a small cyclone. The j ^ i benaficiarv of a
were fairly well equippgd with old underbrush rattled and creaked, one | attracting the greater portion of it, j „oo'dlv sum of ironev spcrt in Mich-
fashioned flint-lock muskets, which could hear fallen logs and brush especially the labor vote, which large f“ V,Hfomi-»'a number of
tfcey had^quired in the days of the cracking and breaking, and then an- ,y Montgomery man in, ^he Senator is i- charge
slave-trade between the Kasai and other roar smote the mornmg air, primary. Morrison head-' e b n t .
St. Paul Qe Loanda, when a musket and one vast black form after another , jg authority for the state-
usually >oight a slave. On the west hurtled from the green darkness in- |
of the Baschilele, the Belgians and to the yellow flood, pausing not a t Congressman, has alre^y tendered
the Portugese had been doing a good moment in making the plunge and s„pp„rt i„ the pending contest situatioi the Californian has
deal of shootmg on the Kwango and * [ * and much significance is attached to antagonist that
the long" white tusks] --t be reckoned vith at each turn
0. Max Gardner. 33, 688; Cameron!
Morrison 30, 925 and Robert N. Page
^1, 290. This eliminates Mr. Page
and leaves, the field to Messrs Q^d- jtTiink this is worth printing but it
ner and Morrison, with little differ- ^^ill help to fill the v/aste basket.
ence in the number of votes betweeiji j
them. Both will, of course appeal | Senator Hiram Johr^son has profit-
KAiGSS'
rm$ nmm
ffUMBat Wk
No problem confrontW <Nit State
in this generation involves a recon
ciliation of s«ch diversity of inter
ests; the eiq)enditnre of such large
sunis of money; or promises greater
ret’^ms on the amount invested ( pro-
vidad it is well spent and the in
vestment properly protected) than
the acquirement of that portion of
our transportation system included
in a State system of Highways. It
Jiu mean that every small political
unit of the State must surrender
some of its time worn “rights” for
the good of the Sta^ as a whole;
it will mean .an expenditure during
the next twenty years of something
like two hundred' million dollars for
construction and an annual expendi>
ture of from a million to two mil
lion dollars for maintenance; it will
mean the building up of a state de
partment of such great strength and
efficiency as has not yet been attempt
ed in the State for the solution of any
other one problem. By enabling our
people to visit among ejfth other, es
tablish trade relations with each
other, from one town to another, from
one county to another, from one sec
tion of the State to another, it will
cement us as a State, will help us to
overcome some of our provincialism
and conservatism, some of our petty
sectional jealousies and rivalries; and
will enable us to develop a great
State, with greater solidarity of pur
pose and spirit.
The results of this achievement | a letter from Miss Cassi^, thank-
are almost beyond the scope of one’s ; ing the club for their co-operation
imagination. The saving of our in- to her in the many caFas from the
MATHATASiAlf CLUB CjiOMii
SUraESSFIA. YEAlRf
The last aieetin^ of the^
Sian Club for the year vma Ui vi&
Urs. Trowbridge, last vedL
being a btuineas meeting all rriwriti
of officers were given ako n«fw
ficen dected for the coming jftct
which begins in October.
Mrs. Chaa. B. Deaver, presid«rt ti
th# #>lnh 4mv» « yjjpwi#' ^
the dab work dnriag tlie jpew also
other officers made intfuritinj fe>
ports. Mrs. Seagle, sedvtary, an
nounced, after a dose exaaixiMitioii
of secretary’s book, Mn. Jmlia Tr««r-
bridge and Mrs. Chas. B. DeaTcr luul
attended every meeting: of chib since
organization except one, this being an
excellent record the club praised
these ladies for their attendance and
work.
Mrs. E. H. Norwood made an exact
report of funds spent during year
also funds left in Treasury being
^14.21 to begin work with next year.
The election of a new member gave
the cliib the full membership. A vote
of thanks was given to Mrs. Deaver
and other retiring officers for their
efficient work this year.
Mrs. Deaver responded to this by
saying, “The loyal support of mem
bers to her in the wor^ was very
much appreciated and had made the
work very pleasant* and counting up
on their continued support to the
next president, also thanking the
splendid substitutes who so faithful
ly labored with the club this year.”
■»
vestment in automobiles and trucks
economy in the use of gasoline, tires,
T^epair bills, clothes, nerves and every
thing else the autdihobilist takes
with hiiTi and which are frayed and
damaged by the bumps and dustf tfto
increase in property values, in
ulatjon, in better and more extetislve
farming, better rural schools, bet
ter everything—^ail will be as noth
ing compared witl^^e vast^fiee
of spirit which comes -abo '
surrendering of individual selfishness
thru the development of the spirit of
co-operation and public interest in
cidentally developed in the achieve-
mer.t of such a_ great public enter
prise. Up to the present time, such
a spirit has thrived in North Carolina
only in certain communities. It is
the belief of those who have striven
long and earnestly for our State’s
county this year. The ciub has given
splendid contributions /this year to
the “SaJJie South Qot^'n Loan Fund”
also other numfi^us calls to the
Federation of Clubs.. Each member
was asked to give her book this year
tc? the U. D. C. Library. After this
el^^on of officers was taken up. Of-
as follows were elected:
ident Mrs. J. C. Seagle
Mrs. R. H. Zachary
'ecfetary . .Mrs. W*W. Zachary-
Corresponding Sec. Mrs. C. B. Deaver
Treasurer Mrs. E. H. Norwood
„ - - I . , openly claiming seventy-five per
ward. The K»sai flows north from i There is no other ^ sighx in all the Page support in the re-
Bena Luidi, and there was a good ! world where the majesty of the brute
deal of shooting by the government.! creation so exemplifies itself as in
officials and licensed traders along i such a view of a big herd of the
the river which tended to restrict the earth’s mighest land mammal. There
movement of the elephants from go
ing northward. To the east lay the
is an involuntary contraction at the
heari in the bravest. The brutes are
Bakuba country, who population had j so vast, their tonnage so imposing
very few guns, so that there was a | and yet their motions so quick, free
considerable movement of the ele- i and elastic, as to convey the impres-
phants betv/een the Baschilele coun
try and the Bakuba country, and
Bena Luidi lay in the tract of this
movement. There might have been
many more of them killed in that
locality when they came to cross Lap-
sley Pool, but for the fact that the
missionaries and the traders of the
Kasai Company were there to report
any illegal shooting; and it must al
sion that the mighty force before
you is also highly mobile and inten
sely potential. This last fact is pre-
eminantly true of the elephant. He is
not clumsy. In action in the jungle
he is both very quick and curiously
graceful. He will pluck a palm nut
with the epd of his snout as easily
as a monkey can, and he will feel
the edge of the morass with his
ways be understood that the number mighty toes as gingerly as a ballet
cent fight and this feeling appears
general in Raleigh today.
Senator Lee S. Overman swept the
State over A. L. Brooks and will suc-
cecd himself in the United States
Sfcnate.
^ Raleigh, June 7, 1920.—The Dem
ocratic voters of the State having
regist^ed their choice of candidates
for the fall, election in the primary
on Saturday all eyes are now turned
to Chicago where the National Re
publican conventien will name a can
didate for President and Vice-Fresi-
dent this week, j^he National Re
publican Committed has been in ses
sion there almost a week passing on
the claims of delegates seeking ad-
of his own fight in Chicago and the
Old Guard appears to be wondering
what to do with him. With a formi- ^
dable foUowing and a keen insight advancement that the successful car
rying thru of this developmental pro
gram will have results far beyond the
material gains, great as they be un
doubtedly be.
of tho way. His friend, Mayor
Thompson of Chicago, staged a very
great demonstration for the Senator
on his arrival in the “Windy City”,
but it produced nothing like the ef
fect of the Roosevelt parade in 1912.
The three leading candidates in the
Chicago convention are Wood, John
son and Lowden but neither of them
is a safe bet on the eve of the bat
tle to be waged for leadership of
their party in the approaching con
test. Senator Harding, of Ohio;
Governor Sproul of Pensylvania, and
Justice Chas. E. Hughes of New York
are expected to cut some figure in
the proceedings. It is pointed out
that Mr. Hughes made a remarkably
fine run four years ago and that
he has not done a .single thing to
BREVARD CLUB MEETING
THE FOURTH ANNUAL COUNTY
FAIR
The question of Fair or no Fair is
with us. The tim.e is not far distant
when the Transylvania County Fair
will be ready to stage a display of
her v/onderful achievenaents durmg
the past year. Where, when and
The Brevard Club met in its apart
ments Tuesday evening and . enjoyed
a general discussion of county inter
est topics and later an elaborate and
tasteful arrangement of refreshments
were served. This meeting was large
attended and it was learned that the
advertising of the town and county
boarding houses, renting compart
ments, etc. had provoked quite a
shower of inquires from southern sec
tions. All these inquires have been
carefully answered and things in gen
eral are better than ever before. The
Brevard Club offered to give free of
charge the use of their rooms to the
body of men desiring to organize a
Board of Trade, for the purpose of
organizing. The project of a Tran
sylvania County Fair was strongly
mission to the convention as duly j hurt himself since that time. Harding
steeds ! accredited representatives from their has been an active candidate for
of elephants killed by natives v/hen | dancer. Only the s\^ftest ^ _ ,,.... >7
adequately armed is enormously in can outrun him, and none can out- j respective states and districts. Negro
excess of those killed by the relative- j last him. He can swim completely delegations from the south have bpcn
ly few white men in the country. f?ubmer^d except for the top of his I a bone of contention m the hearing
iriiTilr nnH t.n this fact if? due much of and the “Lily Whites are given to
The whole Congo region did not
contain more than one white man to
every two hundred square miles, and
there were still regions as large as
South Car9lina with not a white man
in them.
Those elephants knew what shoot
ing meant by their contact with the making for the mouth of the lUenye
trunk and to this fact is due much of
his surviving the infamous drives
against him inspired by the rich booty
of his tusks.
There were more than a. hundred
in that herd. They swam straight
across the southern end of the pool,
Bachoko on the south, and by an oc
casional affair along the river with
passing steamers, so that when our
rent the air that morning, there
River, whose valley penetrated into
the heart of the Bakuba country. The
men burst into ejaculaitons of isdmir-
ation and of keen disappointment. I
momentary pause in the on-1 explained to them exactly why I was
t up the wooded slope, and; shooting elenhants I .wanted
an answering roar came back, j them preserved. There was probably
led with the shrill scream of j sixty thousand dollars worth .of^ory
e, which is the other note the t crossing that river. Just as what
uses when angry. Then the v/e thought was the last) elephant | emor Lowc^n stand convicted of
was heard slanting oi to the|pi«»ged into river the soun^l | having spent $500,000 in organisa-
st, showing that the elephants fire-arms was heard in the direction, tion work and the purch^e of 4ele-
* ‘ from which they had come. To me | gates in Missouri. Governor Lowden
it sounded like a shot gun and a rifle, | has gained a fiew delegates in the
rifle but I was not certain. Per-j gattlemfent of contests before the
haps the elephants ahd been followed national committee, but has been
by the Bachoko. The shrill scream * bard hit 1^ the disfiosures of the
‘Lily
understand that their colorcd “breth
ren” must hereafter be recognized in
all republican conventions in which
they may seek admission.
Vie;wing the situation from the
Washington end of the line there
is reason^^ in the suggestion that both
General Wood and Governor Lowden
have lost heavily by the recent dis
closures of pre-conv^tion expendi
tures. ' The congressional inyentiga-
tion has connected General Wood’s
candidacy with Wall Street and other
special interests that have keen tap
ped to the extent of more then a mil
lion dollars, while managers for Gov-
how are the countr^r people te be ^
received? Are they expected to an- endorsed and R. H. Zachary, presi
nually coup their chickens
on the
thoroughfares, or strev/ their pro
duce on Court House benches, and
lead their blooded animals in greasy,
dangerous garages? This was the
grateful reception afforded the farm
ing element when la#t they came this
way, can v/c continue to tax the farm,
er for all our conveniences of life
months and Sproul recently shied his j and give him shabbiness in exchange?
hat into the ring, with seventy-five 1 The time to do anytliing for them is
votes from Pensylvania as a starter. | this summer. The proposal laid down
It is anybody’s fiiht in Chicago | in an open letter to the Brsvard News
this week. At this writing no bet j from James K. Mills is a bona fide
on any particular man as a winner j proposition. It comes from a farmer.
to make a detour, and pro-
cross the river at its jnuc-
Lulua above us. I want
them do it.' One of the
sting !and awe-inspiring
is tha^ of a big herd
rging^thru the jfingle
^to a river. The prom-
• ■' , 'f
of maddenpd pain wWch followed
the shooting proclaimed that it was
not without effect. •
congressibnal committee investigating,
the use of money in primaries and
state and district conventi<^s.
would be safe. The republicans are
at sea. The Wood forces are com
plaining of steam-rolling tactics on
the part of the national committee
and Lowden disclaims “ownership’* of
the two Missouri delegates who ad
mitted having received $2,500 each
from' file Governor's manager. It is
a fight to the finish and there will
be many scars to heal when it is all
over, all of which has inaterially en
hanced democratic prospects for an
other viqtory in, November.
The Democrats will non^inate Mc-
Adoo and Cox at San Francisco four
weeks hence and then the fight' will
be on in earnest.
BALL—CROOK
On May 26 i^at the home of the
groom’s father Mr. Carl Crook and
Miss Ball were ^inited in the bonds
of Holy Matrimony. The Rev. J. C.
Beagle offidated.i^ -
and is throwing down the gauntlett’
by that honest, industrious element
to the boosters of the county. Are
the boosters going to accept the gage
of battle and unite with them in
this farming display? It seems that
the idea would be to purchase addi-
ditional lots from R. L. Gash near
the High Schol grounds and extend
the ball ground to a larger field. This
would cost som&thing like $1,000 and
would give ample grounds for child’s
play during school session# and to'
ofter grounds for base ball games
to the home- boys as well as camp
boys J*nd will make an ideal place
for sheds io protect the Transylvania
Cov-nty Fair, in general.
Other counties in North Carolina
with half thfe wealth that Transylvan
ia County has, «e rapidly constructs
ing; these conveniences—^why can we
not do so? . With the hum of indus
trial machine^"; wif^h laroad expanses
of fertile smiling lands; with the fln-
dent of the Fair Association was ad
vised to draft from the Brevard Club
body any members he desired to aid
in the general Fair arrangements.
MODERN WOODMEN PRESENT
A THRREE REEL PICTURE
On lastf Wedtiesday jniglit there
was an interesting picture show at
the auditorium. War on Tuberculosis,
The Value of Life, both rendering an
absorbing object lesson in co-opera
tion and personal service -which was
all facts and not fiction. This picture
was put on under the auspices of
the Modern Woodmen and of course
intended for an advertisement, but
despite this fact it opened the eyes
of many to their duty of home pro
tection by insurance v/hether it be
Modem Woodmen or other insurance.
est tourist resort th^is found in the.
world, where scener^^ varies, and
where air and water are perfumed •
\i-ith the nectar of thje gods, soch .
small price for a Fa|r- GtiTttnd Jran-
not be called too cumbersome a htar-
den. The 'callers sent” but to the most
remote corxier of this gentle ^ounty'
pleading eloquently, in a voic^ that is .
steady with earnestness to unite hi
a harmonious b^tit ^e aii^ntion^that.
this plaa/must not ^ail-^lir fapncrs
need iC—^they .jmust h&^e, a decent ^
place to camp thriii tte
ssmainQ when ecHinty prod^w&f ^
tsith.ns. ' 1