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EXPONENT OF TRAN SYLVANIA COUNTY. TWELVE PAGES IN THIS ISSUE VOLUME XXV BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, JULY 9th, 1920. NUMbER 28 PUBLIC GATHERINGS The 4th of July has come and gone and except for it appearing on the calendar and for what we have read in the newspapers of its celebration in other counties, i;he day passed by without any recognition in Transyl vania County. The editor of the Nows takes his full share of the blame in failing get up some kind of public meeting for all the people of the County to celebrate our National Birthday or Independence Day as it is called. SELICA SLICES Mr. P. C. Hamlin visited his sister S. C. last week. Mr. Fi’and D, Clement of Brevard visited Mr. and Mrs. Blake Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Fate Osteen and daughter. Miss Rita, mo tored to Caesars Head Monday. Mr. Martain of Greenville, S. C. is spending a few days with his fam- iiy- Misses Elizabeth and Willie Comp ton of Knoxville, Tenn., are the As W'e have said many times before guests of Mrs. Harry Blake, there ns nothing that does more good | Mrs. Clyde Sitton visited for the County than to have public Mrs. Joe Bryson, Jr., Sun- meetings at which citizens from all sections of the County can meet and j Lyday of Blantyre spent the talk over the affairs of the Countj, ^ week-end wnth Miss Helen Nelson, and also to discuss social and per sonal matters. In addition to the benefit derived by each and every citizen from thus personally co-mingling together, it al so teaches a patriotic lesson and teaches our young boys and girls to ^ Brevard has recently increased its j love and revere those sturdy Patriots police force and J. E. Carter has Success to the New’s and all its readers. BLUE EYES. BREVARD’S POLICE FORCE A CARD OF THANKS: I wish, in this way, to thank and express t^ery deep and grateful appreciation to the many Democrats who supported and stood by me on July 3rd, 1920. I bow to the decision of the vot ers and the will of the people. I shall vote for the nominees of the Democratic party and re quest the support of my friends also. Sincerely yours: ESKEL SIMMS. THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION THE PRAYER CORNER The Demo<iratic Nomination for | Fixed Seasons both State and County offices was j It is a good thing to have fixed sea- held on Saturday, July 3rd, 1920, sons for lifting up the heart to God, and a record vote took place all over not merely the appointed hours of the County: prayer, but a momentary act before Considerable interest was mani- . and after meals, beginning any occu- fested over the Governor’s race, be- ! pation, entering into society, leaving KOW WE TAMED THE BASCHI- LELE. (By S. P.. Verner—Copyright pend ing. All rrghts rescrred.) tween Cameron Morrison and O. Max Gardner. Mr. Morrison was nomina- ! ted by a small majority. The race for sheriff was decidedly fought with bull dog determination, the house etc. Especially is it a help to make such brief acts after having said or done anything either wrong or foolish; af ter an ytrifling vexation or disap- who first made our Country free, by , been appointed chief with Mitchell ^11 the candidates but no bitter- j pointment, when the spirit feels it observing all public holidays. It is the duty of every man ■ congratulated upon securing such ef- and woman in Transylvania County ficient men and considerable satisfac- to use their effort to see that there should be one or more meetings held in the County each year, at which meeting there should be a large gath ering of the citizens, and there should Neely as assistant. The city is to be ness or hard feeling was manifested. Good spoi-tsmanship has been shown by all the defeated candidates and Eck Simms is being complimented on every side for the race he ran—“A race to be proud of.” Jordan Whit mire, prominent farmer and stock tion is being manifested upon the splendid service rendered. It is pre dicted that the tinio has passed for any lawlessness and the arm of the raiser of this county carried off the law will be felt by high and low, re- i sheriff’s prize and it is predicted that may be wounded and desolate, or when ones vanity is annoyed at | having been guilty of some little fol- j ly or unseemliness. j Sometimes we are more really troubled and sore at trifles of this sort than at far weightier things. But if all such things were met with a momentary uplifting of the heart to be one or two good speakers from jrardless of where the chips may fly. some other County or State who The arrest of the downtrodden w'ill would deliver an address on some not be encouragcd, if done for the timely topic. purpose of making an example; but People learn a great deal from anyone, regardless of his condition other sources than books and school or influence will be dealt with, alone, and when the thoughts of the , — SUMMER CAMPS OPEN WITH LARGE ENROLLMENT The camps in and around Transyl vania opened this w'eek with the lar- that are now' going on in full swing are: Camp Sapphire (Boys’ Military) Broad Camp (Boys’) under direction of Major H. E. Raines; Keystone Camp (Girls’) Mrs. F. O. McCuen and Miss Fannie Holt, directors; Camp Transylvania, (Boys’) under the di rection of Major Moore; Fairfield Miss E. H. Walker. The incentive to outdoor pleasure which summer and Transylvania af fords is responsible for the growing popularity of these educational camps for Boys and girls. youth of the County are turned to matters and things which are of value by able speakers, it will prove a source of education of the greatest value, but these meetings should not be entirely educational, they .should also be for the purpose of recreation and amusement. | The doctors are realizing more and more each day that recreation and amusement are as necessary to the welfare of both mind and body, as are food and work. . That some form of 'public amuse ment should be furnished to the peo ple of Transylvania County is as nec essary as it is that there should be enterprises and industries which give them occupation. Our Coiinty is a small mountain County, largely agri cultural, and there are many of the good women of Transylvania who live away from the Towns, and who have but few' opportunities of seeing others than the members of their ov/n family- fo^r weeks at a time and these good w^omen are the mothers of the child ren on whose shoulders will rest the future w'elfare of our County, and it is necessary that these mothers should be happy in mind as well as sound in body, so that their offspring would be able to carry on the struggle of life. The men are able to get out and see bther men, their work is olT- time^ away from home, but the work of is close around the hou^e.; =■ • Tvwofdre, both for the benefit and pleasure derived, we should have fre quent public gatherings and they need not necessarily be one for the entire County, but they can be held in the several Townships or Communities, anw-these community meetings should be held frequently, but there should be at least one or more meetings for all the public of the County at the County Seat during each year. We therefore want to urge that we have in Brevard on or about Satur day, August 14th., a big picnic, and have good music by a band and have a good speaker, and then lets have do not know and everybody i nthe County come in and quaintces. he will be one of the strongest candi- i God, all these little frailities and wor dates the Demoncratic Party has | i w ould tend to mould the charac- | ever put into the field. Jordan is a j ter more and moi'e to God’s pattern j good fellow^ and deserves a lot of : and they would assuredly lose their' credit for the splendid progressive commissioner he has made during the past two years. Transylvania can well be proud of this native son “A Self-made Man.” sting for he who thinks much of God will daily think less of himself. A PRAYER Eternal God, lead us into the bless 1 edness of the mystery of communion The Candidates nominated on the ! with Thee. Bow our spirits in deep- County ticket are as follows:— ; est reverence before Thee, yet up- Jordan Whitmire. Sheriff; -C. K. ‘ ®f kinship. Send | Osborne, C. F. Wcodfin. Volney ' into our hearts ^ Owen, Commissioners; Welch Gallo-leather,” that all un-| scst enrollment in history. The camps I Recorder; Z. W. Nichols, Trea- , nerWe'f ’ surer; Lieut. Eugene Allison, Repre- 1 ^'adness of Thy perfected love. sentative; Eugene H. Duckworth, Reg Thy love is like the luminous ister of Deeds; Dr. A. E. Lyday, Co- i heaven, receiving only to purify the '.t Deer Park Lake under the direc- roner; “Toode” Stamey, constable of [foulest breath of earth. Thy gentle- tion of Wm. McK. Fetzer; French Brevard Township, T. B. Reid, Sur-, "‘'f veyor. BOYS TO JUDGE LIVESTOCK The boys stock judging contest to be held at the South-eastern fair at ! and w'arm the chilled hearts of men. Touch us, 0 our Father, with a feeling of Thy great realities, for though our thought about Thee is bet ter than our words, our experience of Thee is better than our thoughts. Bestow upon us, we beseech Thee, Camp (Girls), under the direction of | Atlanta 18 to 22 of October offers ! grace for which we severally FORMER BREVARD EDITOR WEDS Noah M. Hollowell, editor Hender sonville News and Miss Gussie Dot son, the popular and accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dot- some attractive prizes to winners. Club members from every state in the union will compete for these prizes. A judging contest will be held at some point in North Carolina the crave. Troubles overwhelm the j heart; lead us to the rock, that is; higher than we. Doubts assail us. Give us a supreme Jrust that -vvill not let Thee go, until )the day-break and the shadows flee away. We are unstable, easily moved j first part of October to select the external circumstances. Strengthen four best judges of livestock in all i us that we may play the man, and in of North Carolina and these will be | Thy sight grant us to gain dominion given a free trip to Atlanta to com- ! the world. Our hearts are sad, pete with boys from other states for the free trip to the Royal Stock Show in London, England. Boy this trip is worth going after. thinking, as we do, of dear ones, so tenderly loved, but now taken from us., or of living griefs that will not heal. Wipe Thou our tears aw’ay, O God of hope! save us from despair. mony was performed in the First Bap- . j^fjores at the boys and girls club en- j son, of this city were married on jy(jgij^g lessons will be given to the Sunday evening, July 4th, the cere-Transylvania by competent i ^hou bringest the dead out of the ' living and the living out of the dead. Come and work Thy wonders in ; campment at the Brevard Institute : the last of July. i\vound us, and cause us to drink of j bitter tears, that sorrow may flee _ I away, and our mouth be filled with BOYS AND GIRLS ENCAMPMEN ^ laughter and our tongue w'ith singing. ! For Jesus sake. Amen. C. D. C. tist church by the pastor. Dr. E. E. Bomat’^ at 8 o’clock, immediately pre coding Ihe evening service. No invi tations liad been issued but it was understood the public was invited. The bride and groom left after the The second annual boys and girls ceremony for Chov/an county, former , ^Jub encampment will be held at the home of the groom, to spend a week ; Brevard Institute for club members with relatives. They will probably | 29th, 30th, and 31st. Special visit Norfolk, Va., before returning ^ instruction will be given the boys and to Hendersonville. —Hendersonville News. HOME-COMING DAY ST. PHILIP’S GUILD We are planning to have an all day Home Coming and Memorial Ser-; girls each morning on agriculture Anticoch Baptist Church,! and domestic science by specialists ; Pickens County, S. C. the second I from the department of agriculture Sunday in July 1920. Everybody | at Raleigh, The afternoons and ^ cordial invitation to come, and ... •„ L J - spend the day mingling with old night will be used for recreation, - . , , ■ . j ■ friends, and acquaintances and have i songs ,yells and games with moving ^ fea^t 'in song and praise to God. j pictures at night. Over one hundred , We especially urge all minister of the I beginning at 4:30. St. Philip’s Guild will serve ice cream and cake on Mrs. Breese’s lawn on Tuesday afternoon, July 13, gjj.jg attended the encamp- | Gospel that has ever preached at or! ment last year and a larger enroll- * the Church and all persons ^ . that has ever held their membership ment is expected this year. u v • n • j ^ at this church, are especially invited and urged to come and visit the Church once more. “By order of the Church,” Rev. H. F. WRIGHT, Pastor. make new ac- - , - , ...I. ^ . J J I c T . 4. J ' Childless couples will be excluded shake hands with the.r fnends and . So lets everybody get ready now , ^ prominent land- also meet those citizens whom they and begin thinking about August 14.. st. Joseph, Missouri. When an African makes a speech | on a festal occasion, he usually sings it. If it is a dance, he jumps out in the middle of the arena and chants what is on his mind. Sometimes it takes the form of a veritable frenzy of rythmic rhetoric. j As the dance warmed up, and the refreshments warmed down, one af ter another of the more prominent of the Kasaians took up the theme. The Baschileie orators extoled the ' bravery of the unconquered inhabi tants of Bishenge. The Bakuba in formed the landscape for a mile around that King Lukengu could lick ^ all creation. The Batetela rehearsed their old epic of how they defeated i /.nd ate up Muini Mohara, the great I Arab slave-trade cheftian. The Bal- »I uba, unhappily, had no war record to , boast of, so they went strong on their , friendship for the white man, who i could lick Lukengu or anybody else j that needed it. Finally a general cry I went up that Ota Benga should get into the ring. Ota Benga, conscious , of his dwarfed size and linguistic im- : pediments, w’as always modest and, bashful, and it took considerable coaxing to get him started. But when at last he got up on his toes in the center of the throng, and started his paean, it v/as a master-piece. I trans late it as nearly as I can. | “Oho! Oho! Ota Benga had a pret- ' ty dog. Ah! It was of the color of shining copper. Ha! It could run faster than the hare in the bush. It ^ ate all the rats and kept them from j the kitchen. It wagged its tail when Ota Benga gave it meat in the morn ing. It slept under Ota Benga’s bed. j It was a Christian dog because its father lived at the Mission. “The crocodile is the son of the j devil. Ho! Its teeth are long and I sharp. Its tail is strong and limber. ! It smells far away. It loves dog bet- ! I ter than the Zappo-Zaps do. (Laugh-1 ter. There were several Zaps in the ! crowd, and Ota Benga had refused offers from them for his dog.) “Ye-ye-ye! Ngandu kabwa kwata kaime—kabwa kimpe kaime. (Alas! Alas! the crocodile caught my dog, my beautiful little dog.) But Ota Ben ga had a friend, the white man with the corn tassel hair. The white man had the bang medicine. Ota Benga gave the bang medicine to the cro codile. Ho ! Ho! Ho! He will eat no more dogs.” One of the Bakuba present rose and chanted a promise to give Ota Benga another dog as soon as he could bring it. Then came my turn on the program . I brought out some skyrockets. Roman candles, and a big bottle of alcohol. As the fiery missiles rose high over the tree tops, there w’as a hush in the crowd. Some of the others had probably seen them before, but not the Baschileie. Then I walked to t'he water’s edge where there was a grassy pool above the boat landing, the crowd following. I poured the alcohol on the w^ater and struck a match to it quickly enough to set it on fire, and to cause the Baschileie to rush quickly toward thier boat, some of them crying that the white magician intended to set the Kasai on fire. But I managed to reassure them and told them that I would not do it this time, but simply wished to give them an idea of what I might do in case anybody became too obstreperous. I limited the exhibition to those few features that night, altho I had the first recording phonograph and stereoptican ever shown in that re gion with me, but I intended to use them when I should have an exclu- THE HIGH COST OF RAILROAD ING “The public know”, says the Rail way Age, “that the prices of almost all the things it buys have advanced greatly within recent years. It ap parently does not realize that the prices of most of the things that en ter into the cost of livii^g of the rail- v/ays have increased much more in. proportion than the prices of commo dities in general, but this is a fact, and it is the principal reason why such large advances in rates are necessary. The public know pretty well how much the railroad payroll has been increased. Here are a few illustrations of typical increases in the prices of things that railways have to buy: “A locomotive which in 1914 cost $27,876 will now cost $75,750, an in crease of 171 per cent. In 1914 a railway had to pay only about 5 per cent interest on the money it invest ed in a locomotive while now it must pay about 7 1-2 per cent. Therefore its interest on a locomotive bought six years ago was $1,394 a year, while on a locomotive bought now it will be about $5,681 a year, an increase in fixed charges of 310 per cent. “An average box car bought in 1914 cost about $1,000, while now it would cost about $3,000, an increase of 200 per cent. The interest on the investment in the car in 1914 would have been about $50 a year, while now it would be $225 a year, an in crease of 350 per cent. “The forsgoing statistics illustra tes the adv.mces which have occured in the prices of equipment and in the interest that must be paid on the in vestment in it. The increases in the cost of constructing track and bridges have not been so great but they have been very large : “In 1915 a 90 foot through girder bridge could be bought and installed —not including masonry—for $6,427 while it w'ould now cost $15,117, an increase of 135 per cent.” It is requested that in sending in news articles that you write the name:: of every person as plain as possible so as to avoid mis-reading and mis-spelling names. This will save a great deal of confusion and everyone concerned w'ill be better satisfied. sively Baschileie audience, later. Now I konw that we pioneers have ben called tricksters by easy-chair critic? irt their offices surrounded by policemen, preachers, doctors, law yers and all the other protective de vices of civilization, but put one of them dow’n in a cannibal district sur rounded by savages with filed teeth, poisoned arrows, long spears, big bat tle-axes, and a tendecy to regard all white men as emissaries of the devil, and I rather imagine that he would be mi,a:ht glad to be considered a white wizard if he could get the reputatioa by carrying some fire crackers in his pocket. It is a very comfortable sort of reputation w’hen it turns hate into awe, savagery into fear and an tipathy into respect. It is not so cheap either, as one of the aforesaid critics might discover w'hen he tried to live up to his reputation. I had to string out my accomplishments for thirteen years and I have always thanked the Lord most devoutly that he inspired American inventive gen ius to k6ep me supplied constantly with new' material for demonstrating the power of'civilized magic. It be gan with an electric battery and ended with an airplane and the pyg mies who went to St. Louis assuredly did not injure my standing by what they reported back home. They said for example, that the white men could build a house in a week so big that you would not know it was raining outside if you were in the center of the building—and if that was not magic, then what was it? I managed to get the dance broken up in time for a few hours sleep that night. In fact, the Baschileie seem ed willing enough to go and we could see them carefully watching the river bel\ind them in the moonlight as they paddled up stream. (To Be Continued.)
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