EXPONENT OF TRAN-
SYLVANIA COUNTY.
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VOLUME XXV
BREVARD. N.' C. FRIDAY, JULY 30th, 1920
NUMBER 31.
ICE CREAM SUPPER SUCCESS 1 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF
The ice cream supper held at Lake; TWENTY-FIVE
f i
Toxaway Saturday night was a suc
cess and enjoyed by everyone present.
REGULATE OR ABOLISH THE
SPEED FIENDS
WHEREAS, The motor traffic on
HOW WE TAMED THE BASCHI- i that the ho^s must let them alone,
LELE. I or they must let the hogs alone while
on the job, and neither is exactly will
(By S. P.. Verner—Copyright pend
ing. All rights reserTcd.)
BREVARD INSTITUTE NOTES
Recent arrivals at the Institute in
One can- elude D. S’. Camak and family, Mn.
The undersigned committee was
Seventy dollars was collected from aPPointed by Gov. T. W. Bickett at | our public highway is becoming the
the proceeds of the supper and will^’^’" Citizens’ Conference on Educa-1 principal means of transportation;,
be used for the community fair this North Carolina Col- 'and j
faU. ; Icp;c for Women on May 4th and 5th, I WHEREAS, At the present time i i took my rifle ' her with anything approaching ac- of Spartanburg; Mr. and Mrs.
A contest for the prettiest girl was for the purpose of making a 1 these motor vehicles are paying but against a tree, i curacy because of such incalcuable T. F. Morrison, Miss Edith Guffy of
ing to this arrangement.
calculate the productivity of a col- i Mrs. R. B. Burgess and Loire
While the men were cutting the lector in l^rms of the labor necessary ^ Satterfield of the Textile Institute
kodia, there arose a shout of to tap collect, and transport the rub-, Spartanburg, S. C.; Mrs. E. FL
held and Miss Carrie McNeely was
voted the prettiest and received a
delicious cake as prize.
A GREAT MEETING AT OAK
GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH
A series of meetings began at i
condensed report of the pro^cram ' little attention to speeding on our im-
enundated by that conference. The proved highways; and
committee, basing its conclusions up-1 WHEREAS, Many accidents are
on tRe reports submitted by the four
sections of the conference
(Rural
I
School Village School, City School
and Higher Education) and having
in mind the present educational equip
Oak Grove the second Sunday in '^ent of the State of North Carolina,
July and continued for about ten firmly convinced that the following
days, with services morning and ’ is fundamental for the proper educa-
I cation of the people of a great state:
The morning service consisted of | 1- The school system of North [ ways, the General Assembly of North
Bible study and the order of the Mo- Carolina should be organized on the Carolina should pass legislation re
bile Schools, which resulted in a basis of the county as a unit of tax-1 quiring all drivers of motor vehicles
ation and administration. The ^ to take out a license, which would
state should continue to aid the show his fitness and ability to drive
weaker counties by making the edu- a car, and that said license would
cational opportunities of all children be revoked for a certain number of
constantly occuriitg, due to this sel
fish use of the roads, and
WHEREAS, Incompetent persons
are driving motor vehicles on our
public highways, endangering not
only themselves, but all others users
of the highways;
Therefore be it resolved, That, in
the interest of all users of the high-
great blessinir to the church and the
ommunity. We have never seen the
pirit of the Lord manifested in
greater power.
At somi! of our day services every ^he state as nearly equal as pos- days if the driver was convicted of
unsaved person present was happily
convei'ted.
But, when Cind’s people go to work ;
Some of the men started to climb factors in the biipinass. The conse- Cortcord; Miss Grace Gaither of Wash
trees, while Wembo and the braver i quence in the Congo was that when i”gton; D. C.
I !
ones got their guns—ngulibi is no ^ the pressure became too severe on ^ Miss Minnie Hopper of Breman
joke when you can hardly see ten : the natives, they either tried to move ! College, who has been the Dean of
yards around . We heard him plung- | cut of the district, or rose into re- Girls during the Summer school lefc
ing up the slope above us. A hur- volt against the white man’s power. | on Monday for a visit among relatives
ried consultation sent Wembo, Kassa-. The earlier systems of stimulating jn Mississippi,
di, Kalamma, and myself to the four. rubber production by purely com- j
points of the compass, in an envolop-1 mcrcial means was far more effica-
ing movement, while the others stay-1 cious in the long run than the system
ed up in the trees . Soon a shot j of taxation payable directly in rub- |
was heard from Wembo’s side, fol- | her, which was resorted to under the ,
lowed by a roar, a series of grunts, j temptation of the high profits in the j
business. Under the voluntary sys
tem the natives really enjoyed a rub
ber collecting excursion in the dry
season. They combined it v*rith hunt
ing, and turned it into a sort of pic-
and a war whoop such as only a go
rilla or Wembo could emit. The com
motion indicated a state of war. F r-
rying in the direction of the sounds.
I came upon clearer growth on the
Miss Myrtle Langston, who had
i ;
! charge of the Art Department, dur-
1 ing summer-school left on Saturdajr
' to attend the conference at Lake
Junaluska, after which she will go*
to Warren, Ark., to spend the rest;
of the season with her brother.
edge of the thicket where Wembo nic. But to spend most of the year
stood in front of a big hog with hfs ; at nothing else was irksome to them
back to an immense tree, he with in the extreme. After we had lo-
sible. The local school unit should speeding; and upon a second con vie-
be made as large as possible by con- tion the driver would be fined and | machete ready, but he was more in-' cated and tapped a considerable num
solidation with transportation of his license reyoked for a period clined to whoop than to strike. The her of vines scattered over several
the Jievil gets mighty busy. On Sat- children to the school where neces-' three times as long as the previous j boar’s tusks gleamed white under acres, we gathered up otir sundry
urday night, following one of the [period; upon a third conviction his | the rays filtering t’arough the leaves, j trophies and filed toward home. We
greatest outporing of God’s Spirit we Adequate facilities for the fine would be doubled and his license | a red stream trickled from his should have to return the n xt day to
have ever witnessed a great congre* training of teachers should be sup- j revoked permanently. j hind quarters. Wembo’:-' musket lay gather the coagulated rubber from
gation assembled and it seemed that P^’^d as quickly as pdssible by the i jt further resolved. That any | off to one side, he had not had time the incisions made that morning,
very air was filled with the spirit of ^'^tablishment of additional training ; driver who drives a motor car, while j to reload. | Next morning I decided to follow
Miss Alma Trowbridge returned on
Monday from a very delightful trip
to iPorest City, Spartanburg anc£
Greer, S. C.
THE COUNTRYSIDE
the meeting. But, while Brother schools. The program outlined by
Manley was preaching a rock, thrown the State Supeiintendent of Public
from the outside in the dark came Instruction for training teachers at
crashing through the window into summer normal schools, at summer
the congregation, scattering glass sessions maintained by state institu-
over the floor and throwing the whole tions and departments of education
congregation into confusion. This attached to high schools should be
completely broke thi* spirit of the adopted until adequate facilities for
meeting. j training of teachers can be pro-
The Word tells us that “Men love '’ided.
darkness rather than light because ' 3. The economic independence of
their deeds are evil.” Many people the public school teachers of the
seem to want to excuse our boys who should be assured by the payment of
have been in service across the sea, salaries, not merely sufficient for
but we believe that protecting an living expenses^ but sufficient for pro
outlaw in their deeds of violence fessional training and culture.
in a state of intoxication shall be i The noise I made siimualted the
fined and have his license revoked for j boar. He rushed straight at his ad- ;
a certain number of days; upon sec-1 versary, who, having heard me call,
ond conviction his fine will be doubled | was so disinclined to run un-ler my
and his license revoked for five times | eyes, that he planted hi? leus I'lrmly
as long a period as the first; upon a j and held his machete spear-like to v»as about seven miles. An^lmost
third conviction his license will bo! receive the boar in th: nv»utb li pos
permanently revoked.
By request, T. H. GALLOWAY,
the trail from the station through the
I forest up to wh"ere it debouched upon
the grassy uplands before 'oing after
the rubber. The distance y^vered
universal characteri.-tic of the flora
sible. It was a characlerj.-i!ca!iy fool: Central Africa Y the division into
hardly bit of bravado, for while the , - , i i • ^ • i. i. „
’ i forest and plam, not in vast homo-
OLD HOME DAY
Mayor.; boar’s head took the machete square-1
I '
j ly, the impact knocked the weapon
geneous areas of each as in the case
j
' of the prairies of Kansas and the
Brevard will have a Grand Rally
Day on August 14, and extends a
from Wembo’s hand, and the boar ^
went straight between his iess! Not forest of Western North Carolina,
yet acknowledging defeat, niy valient but in alternation in small areas in
henchman seized the anin.a! by the which the determining factors are
j hearty invitation to all citizens of | along his back, thus nearly always bodies of water—rivers
leads them on to gi-eater evils, as | 4. The public school teachers of other counties and climes to meet • preventing me from shooting, and lakes, etc. A typical section of ter-
seems to be the result in this case, j statethe state should be employed for > with us on that Old Home Day, and
While the meeting was not all we ' the full year period with salaries on j there will be a band of many pieces
hoped for, there v/ere twenty conver-
twelve-month basis. When teachers here together with some great ora-
committing himself to a personal en-j i-jtory, for example, will consist of
counter, the like of which I had never , a forest lining a stream flanked by
witnessed before in my Irfe. The : gi-assy plateaus, and then rising into
sions and we feel that the result will are thus employed the problems of tors. Citizens who are promoting | weighed just about the same, | more heavily wooded high hills and
be far reaching. The only hope of ^ illiteracy, length of school terms, et , the great railroad into South Caro- j y^embo’s chief handicap being his i mountains. The explanation of these
our country and the world is in. the cetera, will be readily solved.^ j lina have promised to be here and tusks. Both fell under the ; phenomena is involevd in the two-
Religion of our Lord and Savior, Je- 5. The community should provide , hold a mass meeting to discuss the
momentum of the rush, Wembo on : fold influences of seasonable varia-
sus Christ. When the people are full comfortable homes for its teachers. ■ proper way to develop this proposed , on the; tion and of the fogs. In the Kasai,
of the Spirit of the Master, we’ll, 6. The courses of study in the | undertaking. Those wanting more j boar’s sides for a moment, and then for instance, which is below the
equator, the months of May, June,
and July and August are usually dry.
need no law to protect our churches,' public schools should be adapted to ; information can write to the Bre-, quiddy twisted himself around
schools and public gatherings.
C. W. HENDERSON
INJURED BY SMALL RIFLE
the needs of the community and the , vard Club, Transylvania’s Business
Men’s organization.
MUSICAL RECITAL AT HIGH
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
The Betterment Association of
Brevard will give a musical recital
demands of modern life.
7. The health of the school child
ren should be properly safeguarded;
every child should have a thorough
T. L. Snelson was shot in the arm physical examination twice each year
by some one with a .22 rifle while | and this should be supplemented by
standing in his shop door last Friday ^ physical education.
afternoon. While it made a painful! 8. The public school should, when j by sev^ial young
wound he is not seriously hurt but | ever feasible, be utilized as the edu-
what if it had hit him in the head or ^ ucational, social, and recreational
over the heart. Men have been known ^ center of the community,
to be killed by a .22 rifle and this' 9. An efficient and well-trained
ought to be a warning to everyone man or woman should be at the head
owning a .22 rifle to be careful and . of the school system of each county,
not to shot it in town or . to- and this official should be supplied
until, to my utter amazement, he
clamped down on one of the boar’s | and there is a short dry season in
ears with his teeth! I January. The other months are
The point of this maneuver was ; rainy. The rain fall would not be ’ Then will each child feel kinship witia
evident when the efforts of the boar sufficient to support the massive vege j the lifted skies.
Farm
One day each farm will pulse be
neath the feet
Of some strong man who loves the
ground he tends,
The herds he feeds, the gr*" j g corn
. and
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The w
furr
Then will
vest,'
Each barren acre blossom for
lover’s sake.
HOME
One day each home will be some
mother’s shrine,
To beauty builded among flowers
and trees,
Where love shall minister with rites
divine
To childhood’s joys and wearied
manhood’s ease.
Then will the needful and the joy*
ful cease their strife,
And loveliness become the toiler^
bread of life. • „ —
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SCHOOL
One day each school a house of
dreams will be,
A trysting place for noble thoughts
and deeds,
Where youth shall learn to plan and
toil, that he
May mould the world to fit haS;
spirit’s needs.
to turn his head so as to use his tusks
were frustrated for the brief moment
men from the ^ ”®^®ssary to enable Wembo to get | ^ rapid and strong evaporation under
Cininnatti Conservatory of Music,
tation along the rivers but for the { And view4| the eartTi with "^ream-
fact that in the dry months there is]
wards any house or stock for while
they look small there is enough power
to kill a person—in fact they should
not be played with, especially by boys
in town.
A CITIZEN.
SUPERIOR COURT IN SESSION
Superior Court convened here on
Monday 26th with His Honor W. F.
Harding presiding. The charge to
the grandjury was very thorough and
urged many morals to be protected
by the manliness of men on this and
subsequent grandjuries. The Court
ground out many case& in the three
with assistants for school supervision
as the need arises.
10. The State of North Carolina
faces a real emergency in higher ed
ucation. The institutions of higher
learning are utterly inadequate to
meet the demands of the young men
and young wom.en who ask for ad
mission. Provisions for enlarging
consisting of concert pianoforte, bara
tone singer, an exceptionally fine vio
linist and reader. To be held at the
High School Auditorium Building on
Friday evening at 8:30 P. M. The
prices will be 50c for adults, 25c for
children and for our campers 3Scents.
There will be no reserved seats and j tempted to say.
everyone is urged to* come early. This I Wembo! Go it hog.,
will be an opportunity for the good i *o see how the fight would turn
people of Brevard to be entertained 1 attachment to my old
his hands on the fore legs of the : the tropical sun from the surface of
brute, and so prevent him from run- j streams large enough to continue
ning away. But to see the tussle the | flowing through the dry season. This
beast made with his hind le.gs against. jg condenfed during the night into
Wembo’s grip with his feet on the j.pavy fogs which hang over the
ground was worth the sight of every j valleys until late in the morning
battle Jack Johnson .fought in his, thoroughly drenching everj'^thing
whole career. For a moment I w’as
by something unusual in the way of
a fine musical concert.
comrade was too strong. It was
IMPORTANT MEETING
and strengthening all of the institu- | ^ most important business meeting
tions of higher learni|g in the state the Transylvania Chapter U. D. C.
chould be made at once. j jg called at Library on Saturday, July
Respectfully submitte,d, ' 3jgt at 4:30 P. M. Every member
J. I. Foust, E. C. Brooks, C. L. should come to see that all the work
Coon, R. H. Wright, H. W. Chase, boosting the Chautauqua is not
Clarence Poe, W. P. Few, Fred Ar- p^|. qjj shoulders!
d&3^ following its convention and be- cher, S. B. Underwood, T. R. Foust, ANNIE JEAN GASH Pres
gan on Thursday morning ^ith the ^ Z. V. Turlington, Jones Fuller, Mrs.'
trial of Elliot M. Cantrell of this ^ C. C. Hook, Gilbert Stephenson, E. Mrs. J. A. Browne, R. F. Beasley, C.
county for the murder of Sheppard. C. Lindeman, W. H. Hipps, P. S. Lam H. Ireland, W. S. Rankin, Galatin
Powell. Ibeth. T. E. Browne. W. N EMitett. Roberts and Mrs. J. S. McKimmon.
within the area of their incidence.
These fogs arc sometimes as thick
as any ever experienced on the
streets of London, and I once found
v/hen my boat got completely turned
round in one of them just above the
comparatively easy to get the muzzle; mouth of the Lulua River, where the
of my gun under W^ernbo’s body and | current damned by the larger Kasai,
to put a ball in the boar’s heart, j y,.as practically imperceptible and I
Wembo stoutly protested that this. paddled for half an hour in the
was unnecessary, but I noted that ^vrong direction before I found it out.
his voice shook considerably as he | These fogs take the place of rains
protested. j in promoting massive vegetation.
Welcome as this addition to the but beyond their limits the vegeta-
smoke-house was, the incident illus-1 tion becomes very much diminished
trated vividly the sort of interrup-. and dwindles to grass, small trees
tions rubber collectors are subject and shrubs. These form what has
to. When they are told by their been called the veldt in South Africa,
j
chief, under pressure by traders or and what the Baluba call Mpata, by
government officials, that they must which name I shall hereafter desig-*
positively bring in a fi^ed weight of nate it.
rubber by a certain date, it means (To Be Continued.)
taught ,understanding eyes.
COMMUNITY
One day each neighborhood, a living:
soul.
Will breathe the breath of con-
scious bro:herhood,
And know the freedom gained by
strict control
Of each man’s actions for the
common good.
Then will plain plowmen, modest, self
reliant, free,
Answer the ages’ prayer for real de-»
; mocracy.
t
I COUNTRY TOWN
One day each town will dream t
farmer’s dream,
And know itself of country life?
part—
Blood-kin to fields and woods and
wayside streams.
Sap of the grasses flowing though
its heart.
Then learning’s home will be beneath
the village spires.
And village hearths will glow with
art’s cfeative fires.
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