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BREVaRD/ N. C. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5th, 1920.
NUMBER 4?.
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THE EXTENSION BUREAU HAS
ESTABLISHO DIVISION TO
> DESIGN AND IMPROVE.
HUHIII BEING .GOTIEII OUT
Text Will Consist, of Groneral Advice
am To Principles of Plantirm to
Sccure Most Desirable Results
Ralelch.
In order tz> promo<te the beautifica
tion of school grounds in North Caro
lina, tlie Bureau of Extension at Ciia-
pel Hill, has established a new divi
sion called tiie Division of Design and
Improvement of School Grounds un-
dor the Immediate direction of Dr. W.
C. Coker, Kenan Professor of Botany
and director of the University Arbore-
tran, and Miss Eleanor Hoffman, who
will serve as secretary of the division
and field worker.
To facilitate its work and to pre
sent the prosram of ground fmpTove-
ments which it contempJates. the di-
viRion is now prepar'ng an extension
bulletin w^hioh will contain twenty or
more designs for actual and hypc-the-
tical school grounds, together with
photographs of Illustrative plantings
from various s.ources such as the Uni-
•verslty Arboretum prLvate grounds,
m’Hs, community houses, tojrcther
•with a fevr typical construction de
signs of arbors, walks, etc., each gen
eral design to be accompanied by a
planting plan showing the plants to
be used.
The text of the bulletin will consist
of general advice as to principles of
planting so as to sacure desirable ef
fects, together with descriptions of
trees, shrubs, and flowers recommend
ed for use in the three main sections
of the State—east, middle, and west.
Griffin Quits Commission.
Admitting that he is actively oppos
ing the inocnie tax amendments to the
state* constituti.on, but making vigor-
cus denial that he -has collected a
large sum of money with whidh to
wage the fight, James S. Griffin, con
fidential clerk to the State Tax Co>m-
mission, which drew th© amendment,
issued a statement denouncing as an
insult the allegation that t)he octtan
mill industry,of the state is financing
the opposition to the amendment.
With the announcement of the sev-
crsoiCB of Mr. CJriffln’s ooinniction
witfii the tax department, Judge Pell
declared that certain correspondonco
between the retiring confidential clerk
several wealthy interests where
in the former sought contributions to
a fund with which to fight the amend
mcnt would be given out. One o-
ttie letters was received from Wins-
ton-Salem.
^and
Jlid Cr6s& Nursing Service.
tied Cros8 nursing service, public-
ky plana and organization for the
fourth roll call were discussed at the
final session of tjie Red Cross confer-
encB-
" The activiti-es ctf ipubljc liealtn
nur»e were described by Mjss Rose
Hhrenfield of the State Health De^
partmenit. Tlie work in North Cal-o-
, ?:raphically shown by means
of maps. Miss Ehrenfeld stated that
TO SICK AHD NEEDY IN T«
PUBLIC HEALTH
AND COUNTRY
GODSEND
Red Cross Has Placed Seventy-Four Hurses ' In Southey Communities
And Hopes to Increase Number Through
Fourth Roll Call.
As the time approaches for the
Fourth RoH Cali of the American Red
Cross, which takes place from Novem
ber 11 to 25, many people all over
the ^ountry are asking how their last
year’s membership fees have been
spent and what are the organization’s
plans for the future. Fall statements
haxd been made from time to time,
and the financial records of the Red
Cross both in the chapters at0 for na
tional work are always open to the
public, but many people have neither
time nor inclination to study them,
and the simple statement that public
health nursing is one of the most Im
portant phases of the Red Cross pro
gram means little to a person who has
not made a special study of the work.
It Is necessary to understand just
what a Red Cross public heflth nurse
means to some specific community to
realize the importance of what the or
ganization is doing. Take the little
mountain town of Highlands, N. C.,
for instance, a summer resort with a
winter population of about three hun
dred people, situated on a table-land
on the side of a mountain, eighteen
miles from a railroatl over roads 4hat
Tatns tor measuring under-noujrished
children; here talks are made to moth
ers about the proper care of their ba
bies. The hall is fitted up as a wait
ing room with health posters on the
walls^ and health literature, for distri
bution to all who are interested^ The
room on th» right is an emergency
hospital fitted up v^th five beds and
a crib for the ■»ery small patients.
And at the back is the nurse’s private
office, which is also the operating
room, fitted with a real operating ta
ble .and a dentist’s chair.
Weighing and measuring children
of school and pre-school age was one
of the first things undertaken at the
center. Children who were under-
Athens Banner, says, in part:
I went in to ask Miss Crawford,
theJ Clarke County Red Cross nurse,
about her work recently, and I was
not only interested in what she had
to tell me, but aroused as to'my <*wn
responsibilities in the matter of health.
I had an idea that Miss Crawford’s
duties as county nurse consisted in
going about nursing charity bases. But
no, indeed. That just shows how ig
norant I was of the sort of an invest
ment I had made with my Red Cross
dollar.
Miss Crawford works on the theory
that-^an ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure. She says she has
not. time for what seems to be tech
nically known as “bed-side nursing.”
AMERICAN RED CiROSS
Sonthern Diviyon
Atlanta, Qa.
October 15th, 1920*
IN CASE OF AN ATTACK BY
FOREIGN FOE TWO MILLION
« WOULD BE MOBILIZED^
WODLD BEHH REUI HIIIES
sized and under-weight were advised ^ when anyone in the county is taken
as to theii* diet, and so eager were! sick. Miss Crawford \»iii go into the
they to gain the pounds and inches: home an(^ show the members of the
An Organization Would be Netfessary
Also to Mobilize Quickly All the
Resources of the Country.
that would make them normal that
they readily consented to substitute
milk for the coffee and tea they were
accustomed to drink.
Miss Harry next turned her atten
tion to the care of the teeth. At her
request, a dentist came over the moun
tains from Franklin and stafed for
family how to nurse the patient. She
will stay perhaps tw'o hours at a time,
and for such a visit you may pay her
a quarter or fifty cents, or even fif
teen cents, if you prefer not to accept
charity, and she will explain to you
what is needed in the case of Iths
particular illness you are nursing and
ten days and was busy for ever> min- j help you with the first steps,
ute of that time, finding several seri-1 in Tuckston and Oconeo Heights she
Washington. — Major General Wil
liam G. Haan, in a speech delivered at
Camp Benninf:, Ga., in* which he de
fined the policy of the army for na
tional defense and the mission of the
army schools for officers, declared
that the first mobilization of the Unit-
0-1 States army in event of attack by
a fcoreign power “may be assumed to
call for apprczitnately 2,000,000 men.
Tltis force, ho added, would be^or
ganizod into six field armies with the
I proper number of corps, divisions and
I a;:xiliary troops. It is necessary in
j'time of peace, he ..said, to develop
i trained commanders for Che larger
units, princfpal staff officers for the
combat units, commanders for all sub-
: ordinate units and officers for taking
I chftrge of corps areas and undertaking
I organization and training of second
are practically Impassable for about ous cases of pyorrhoea among fifteen | has organized regular classes in home
and sul-ssquent mobilizations.
Reserve equipment and supplies an:l
lias no hospital, no dentist, no trained i Harry’s dental clinic will be respon- j v/eek in Oconee Heights, once every i
nurses and only one physician, butjsible for saving these teeth. Lator, ; two weeks in Tuckston, and Miss Craw- ^ . -j .
eight jnonvhe in the year. Highlands} and sixteen year old children.
Miss nursing.
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These classes meet once a
it has a Red Cross chapter. And last
year the Red Cross Chapter applied
for a public health nurse, that is. a
graduate trained nurse who has taken
special pfbst-graduate training in pub
lic health work. The Nursing Depart
ment of the Southern Division sent
Miss Margaret Harry, a nurse who
luid been trained unde# a Red Cross
scholarship and w’ho thoroughly un
derstood mountain conditions, to fill
the place.
One of Miss Harry’s first mores af
ter she became acquainted with the
people and won their confidence was
to open a Health Center. 'Health Cen
ter is another term that means little
to the person vho has not seen one
In operation. The Red Cross Health
Center at Highlands is the lower floor
the Masonic Temple, donated, rent
free, by the Mr.noris for that purpose.
!t is separated into thrtee rooms and
1. hall by part';ions vrhich Miss Harry
i)u!lt herself l ecanse of the scarcity
of la!:O’*. On" of the rooms is a rest
room and g leral clinic. Here are
Ul9 BPftles for weighing and the ar-pa-
an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, ford shows her pupils, at their leisure
followed the dentist and' a number
of operations for tonsils and adenoids
were performed at the Health Center,
the patients and their mothers being
kept overnight in the emergency hos
pital. Both clinics will be a more or
less regular matter from now on.
In addition to her work at the health
center, Miss Harry has done visitirg
nursing all over the mountains, some
times walking four or five miles to
see one patient. One woman, the
mother of ten children, who has not
been out of bed for several years, has
already been taken to Charlotte for a
serious operation,^Miss Harry accom
panying her on the journey as she
had never been on the train before.
But the value of a Red Cross pub
lic health nurse i^ not limited to re
mote rural communities, as the fol
lowing jextracts from a report made
by a woman of Athens, Ga., w'ho in
terested herself in the work of tlio
Red Cross nurse employed by the
Clarke County Chapter will show. The
report, which v'as published in the
and under more favorable circum
stances than when there is actual ill
ness, the same things that she shows
the housekeeper when she is called
into a home where there is sickness.
In East Athens she^ has a , Little
Mothers’ Club, where she is teaching
these same things to the girls.
And iast Saturday she started a
Health Center in Winterville. She
told me they were going to start a
Health Center next week in East Ath*
ens.
And in giving a dollar last Decem
ber to help finance this undertaking,
I feel that you made a good invest
ment. Don’t you’ •
The Southern Division of the Red
Cross has placed seventy-four public
health nurses in the five states of
North and South Carolina, Tenressee,
Georgia and Florida. A successful
Fourth Roll Call wilj make it possible
to continue the work of these nurree
and to add to them many others for
similar service throughout the dlf^
Sion. (
SPEAKS WELL OF COUNTY
AGENTS:
(By Mrs J. L. Saltz.)
Jf there is any one thing that testi
fies more than another to the value
of County Agents, it is what Mr.
exhibit at every fair.
Mothers just think what Miss Cas
sidy is doing for us and our girls.
She teaches them to be big true hear
ted industrous girls. She says you
are never more bewitchin than when
you are in the kitchen, with the color
LETTER
FROM A SOLDIER IN
GERMANY:
Lawrence and Miss Cassidy are doing ™ y®" 'heeks likfj. rose, and a little
smudge of flour on your nose:
can
Go in for agriculture as a modern
Editor Brevard News:
Please allow me spaceiin your val
uable paper to say just a few words
in regard to the American Forces in
German, the organization of which I
am a member. I am an old North
Want Governor Impeached.
Birmingham, Ala. — Following thei,
adoption of resolutions demanding the
impeachment of Governor Kilby and
^ leaving the question of a general sym-
Carolina boy and I h*ke the good old i strike in silppOf c of the ijme
farmerette and you’ll raise the big-'tar heel State better than anywhere i workers up to the
' J 1 special convention of the state
federation of labor adjourned
for our boys and girls. As I
speak from experience, I feel it my
duty to say a few words in their gest cabbage, that the world has ever! i have ever been; but this is the best
behalf. Mr. Lawrence has been a known. ! place to soldier that I have seen since
great help in the live stock industry.' g^g g^gg in the highways and! I have been in Uncle Sam’s army, and
He has started pure bred herds alt teaches our girls who haven’t op- j I hope that I get to stay with the
overHhe County. Here’s what he portunities to sew and cook, can and American forces in Germany lyitM
* ! do their own millinery and keeps the ' my time is finshed n the Army.
provided, he indicated. The xiuty ol
training men fdr these tasks, he as
serted, must fall upon the army
schools. He interpreted “immediate
and complete” mobilization” as “such
mobilization and organization f>f per
sonnel and material as to successfully
thwart any attempts of the most pow
erful adversary.”
Set Fire to Preacher.
Council Bluffs, Iowa.—Lured to a
lonely part of the city by a fake tele
phone call. Rev. Dr. D. E. Cleveland,
pastor of the Dodge Memorial church,
and prominent in civic affaires here,
was slugged, bound and gagged by
four thugs, w^ threw him into an
automobile truck, soaked his clothes
in oil and then set fire to the car.
He saved himself from being burned
to death by rolling out of the truck.
Sacred Isle Is Found.
Glasgow.—A party of archaeologists
which have been r*=‘arching for s/>me
time for the isle of Risga, in Loch
Sunart, for prehistoric relics, has dis
covered what is believed to be a sa
cred isle of a date long before the
Christian era. The rock sculpturing
of the priestly leaders of long past
ages have been found and the lines
J of the walls of homes traced. '
Editor,'
Brevard News,
Brevard, N. C.
Dear Sir:—
I have noticed in the Brevard News
your very generous treatment of the
American Red Cross in printing news
of what the Red Cross is doing. While
many neWspapers have given space
for the work of the American Red
Cross, the Brevard News has been
particularly generous.
It would be presumptuous for me
to thank you on behalf of the Amer
ican Red Cross, becai^e I could not
speak for the Red Cross, but will you
allow me to express to you my per
sonal appreciation of the favors that
you have shown this organization and
assure you that your generosity (for
I ^how what white paper costs and
what printing costs are) in giving so
freely of your space to the Red
Cross is appifeciated and I can as
sure you that the members of the
American Red Cross feel the same
way that I do about it.
I hesitate to write this letter, be
cause I know that it is your Red
Cross as well as mine, but I do want
to express to you the appreciation of
those of us at Headquarters and as
sure you that if at any time we can
be of service to you, you have but
to call on us.
1 am,
Yours very truly,
LEGARE DAVIS,
Assistant Manager, Southern Division
REPUBLICAN PARTY SWEEPS
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
of the twenty-five Rod Cr.oss public i “When the frost is on the pump-' communty spirit aliv^ in the first j There s a good chance for anyone
t I j?GStiV0 SQGH6S>
iMalth nurses nineteen wej^ sup-port-' jjjn and the fodders in the shock, place. She i« “public” which means ' over here now, if they will tak ethe • Carolina' have inaugurated a
ed by Red Cross chapter funds and i then its time to sell the scrubs and that her expenses are taken care of i advantage of it. There are schools i ^lovement to bring about an improve-
start a pure bred stock. j by the community as » whole, so that of all kinds here now and any soldier , ment in the tone of “movies.”
The scrub cow or sow is a robber, no one family feels it as a serious that will try can make good. I have |
fti 09 Tax on $107 000 i The scrub bull or boar is a fake, burden and she works for the com- heard some people say that the Army j Hun Newspapers Enrag^.^^ ^
iecanse he reall’zes that an invest Scrubs eat up your profits, sell them munity as a whole by seeing that iri peace time was made up of bum | admSsstin-into Ger-
nient of $107,000 that in 1919 yielded „ow and no mistake. 1 every one who needs help gets it., people that wouldn t work, but I don t, ^ donated by
•a income of $8,000 should pay more j confin-' visits the sick, giving them sklled , believe it. I think that the ^y is . ^j^g^ican farmers and against the im-
tiwn $1.02 in taxes torall pun^es, | efforts to the improvements ^are and nourshment and shows the, the best place there is for a young j portation‘of fiour from America said
Better Tone of Movies.
Greenville, S. C.—Declaring that the
I>opularity of motion pictures as an en
tertainment for the family is being se
riously menaced by moi’bid and silg-
women’s clubs V)f
four by county fiinds supplemented
by those of the Red Cross.
■i
Mr. A. B. Andrews, of Raleigh, is an
ardent advocate of the income tax
aniendment to the state constitution
-jfckjh, if adopted, would draw from
$8,000 income tax of possibly
-■Oowmnr Name* Delegates
The Governor has named quite'®
number of delegates to attend
tlie 40th annual session ol the J>arm-
6TB* National Congress to ,be iield *n
Mnmbus, Ohio, Novembec 16-19.
of Ive stock altogether but has members of the family not only how | man and I know that t sure has help- j to ^ave been offered by New 1
been a leader in waging war on var- person, but' ed to make a man of me. I didn’t ^ bakers, has aroused the "wrathjif^si
ious live stock diseases, hog cholera, protect the well. •. u-x j t
contagious aburtion, tuberculosis, discovers any physical de- oow I don’t regret it a bit and I sure
Hemorrhag Septicemia. All th*se or sickness and helps parents, have got some ^od out of it and
are under careful watch of our county remedied or the anyone else can do the Mme if they
' , illness cured by sendmg their children will try, but it is like everything else
Another
Declaration Contest.
The annual interschola'stic declama-
tfan oontieist at Trinity Oollege ^
which representatives of various high
feature of agent
of much importance to stock men is
the organization of co-operative live
stock marketing irasociations. Run
ning smoothly in various states they
mean higher prices for stock and!
lower expenses in handling, hea^e ■
larger profits. He teaches our boys'
York
some
She inspects think that I was going to likeit, but of the liberal newspapers of Beriin.
To Suspend Collection. |
Washington.—J. P. Yoder, secretary
of the federal trade commission, haa
’written to' coal operators announcing
, . to tl|ose who may give them needed if you don’t try you won’t get any-} ^J^J^t the comntission would suspend
care. jv thing. Now I don’t know whether | further collection of monthly reports
cost of production and
Transylvania County probably pol
led the greatest ballot In its history
in spite of a steady downpour.
At a very early hour on Tuesday
morning a stream of the new voters
(the fair sex) were in line stretch
ing from the public library to the polls
idnd on the V opposite side stretching
from Macfie’s comer stood the old'
timers. Never before has Transyl
vania shown as much interest in any
election and ■ for hours the voters
of both sexes waited patiently to cast
their ballots. It is reported on good
authority that Mrs. Cos Paxton cast
the first Democratic vote and that-
Mrs. C. B. Deaver was the very first
woman in Transylvania County, or at
least in Brevard Township to ever
cast a ballot.
There .was very little excitement,
but much interest and the men of old
Transylvania prooved beyond the
shadow of a doubt that the ladies
would have nothing to fear because
of any ungentlemanly conduct. There
was no (bug juice) in sight.
The Republican party carried the
County by an overwhelming majority
and elected all their candidates with
the exception oi^ “Tude” Stamey who
had, no opposition for the office of
Canstable of Brevard Township. \
The State of North Carolina went
Democratic by approximately 78,000
maj|rity and all State Democratic
candidates were elected. Zebulon
Weaver, candidate for Congress in
the 10th district has been elected ac
cording to unofficial returns. The
Democrats swept Buncombe County.
All amendments were carried. The
returns indicate that Harding and
Coolidge have been elected by one
of the greatest land-slides ever known
in the history of the nation.
The County candidates who have
en elected by over 100 majority
are:
Representative: Ralph R., Fisher;
Sherjflf and Tax Collector: W. E.
Shipman; Register of Deeds: Roland
Owen; County Treasurer: Ulys Mer
rill; Surveyor: Della Grimshav/e;
Coroner: Dr. E. L. English; County
Commissioneira: R. M. Hawkins, L. R.
Scruggs, J. Goleman Owen.
Wishing them much success, I am,' you will think this worth printing Or I of tonnage.
M^S J. L. SALTZ.
‘ Respectfully,
Private JOHN F. CLARKE,
Wairm Weathar Help*.
Wa^ngtcssj, ti. C.—^In vtw of ™«
Iaten€»s'.of the c»tton crop, the em
uiku - tln/U'Od warm weaither in the mora ,
in Norti Carolina and Soutlh many useful things and makes them; j^ortheast^ dtetrie*s of tlM ^It ^^emach. Germany, Oct'2nd, 1920
and Virginia will participate more energetic. j favorable, and the psaxits are
l>e held November 26, ac<irtliig He tells them to be a farmer up . sow W»Uy matured^ acording to tha
lunoement by 9019 offldala ^ date. j .ift^piUEtmeot d. A^Icutture^
not, but I hope you do so I will stop ‘failed realisations and
for the present with best wishes to profits and loss an anc s
th^ News and old N. C.
Another Demand by All lea.
Berlin^—Dissolution of the German
citizen guard, known as the Binwor-
Med. Det. 5th U. S. Inf.,'A P in G | nerweihr. Is demand'd In a note re-
~ ' ceived by the foreign office from the
allied powers, which has ,bcen ^
•l;r.owlcdg^d by it. ^
weekly . TWO ACCIDENTS THIS WEEK.
Iiave the .event in charge,
emtom of an annual
^•clamition contest ww or%h|‘,
p an4 patrtctic orgairiaagg^
a aailwd aueceilt
jfteeummtele weattii an4 |
eeliposl wither and e«>p bulletJn.
f^\^he»yly »n J^<here4 durinf
VxcSvt ttt liwtollii for
Two boys were nm over by
«Qj(eittobileB tiiis week. The sons of
Wvl^. Felix N6i^ Bfttli
nic^;Jiadi tQ be
TweWe Are tnrfl^ted.
Eiimingham. Ala^.— The^ fede’*al
efand jury <n its report made to
W. L Qmbb,'^ retuju^
againat ^even deaJ^js ^d one
cofi operator to
THE
FOURTEENTH
VANIAN:
TRANSYL-
Bom to Mr. and Bfos. Ijafayette.
Snelson on Octoer 29th, a daughter.
This makes the fovrteenth, child.
U. D. C. MEETING:
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