BRSVARD, N. C
moHm OF xi^- )
•YLVANIA COUNTV.
VOLUME XXVI.
OURRAIflEH
COMMDNlUTigN
Criticism of A. D. Watts Or«r To^
Imcco ConpMij
Otlittr N«ws.
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OCTOBER 7, 1921
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TYPHOID FEVER
AND DIPHTHERIA.
The first a disease that stands,
'<1 or rather stood, high :on the mortal-
.ity list, rankins: fourth in the death
list for the United States. Modem
research has put into one’s handg a
means of preventing it almost alto-
gether, or if not fully, it is so much
lighter in its course as to l^e negli-
Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 3. —Revenue gjble as compared with a few
Commisioner A. D. Watts is being years ago ,I refer now to the Vaccine
**cussed and discussed” quite a little v-hich is used to render the person
bit these days, but appears to be de- “P®” wh®” i‘ » «“d immune fram
VI —11 typhoid fever. It is a very gratify-,
porting himseW reasonably well. He
was first taken to task for the rebate Transylvania county are interested
of |110,d0 in taxes to the American in this vaccine as evidenced by the
Tobacco Company and Liggett and increased demand for the vaccine fur ,
Myers Company. Criticism in this ^^ed by the State without charge. :
the Rftlpigh wnter is in a position to know
« V, whereof he speaks as he has been the
Corpora o jncdium for ordering supplies and
Commisioner A. J. Maxwell and oth- ^
ers who could see no reason for ^
re-opening a proposition which had ^ demand for it.
been settled by the old tax commi- abides there is
Sion more tiiaa * year ago. In this question to-day of its worth,
case Mr. Watts is charged with the Diptheria in the past has been a
entire responsibility of capitulating .mothers for i
to tlie big tobacco concerns when, as ej^demics have left homes
a matter of fact, the other two mem- ehUdless. But for diphtheria antitox
bers of the Equalization Board are profession would be '
equally blamable, if any adii^ at- powerless to render
taches to the decision. This Boar , desired aid. It can be as a curra-
undor the act creating it, is compo- ^ preventive. It has
sed of the Commisioner of Revenue, determined that a
the Chairman of the Corporation
Commision and the Attorney Gener- it almost absolutely. Litera-
al, and the now famous tobacco cases tme on the subject can be obtained
were passed upon by a full meetmg ^
of the Board, with Chairman Watts Advertising is a well
instance came from
News and Observer,
W
kOSMAN ITEMS
BETTER SHAPE
INllflSSTATE
THANMNOimi
TheE^
:Teii alfeair
to l^p|phSi^-sery|ce man
Mrs. Hattie Mull and sister. Miss
Delitha Morruon, spent Monday in
Bosman.
Rev. Ed. Summey, of Pickens, S,
C., has returned to help Bro./Manley
hold a revival meeting at Lake Toxa>'
way Baptist Church.
Everybody is invited to attend all-
the services.
We are glad that the Baptist peo
ple of Connesste have got the foun-
datioif for their new church built.
They expect to have the building
completed by the first of the year.
Mrs. O. 'A. Kitchen underwent an i
operation only a few weeks ago and }
she came liome and appearantly was { There were fifty-four more re
getting along fine; but last week she quests for men than there were ap-
bdcame ill again and was carried plications for jobs in North Carolina,
Saturday to the Biltmore Hospital according to the report the five free
for treatment, where she is doing ^ emjployment bureaus of the State for
nicely. • j the week ending September 10,
Mrs. Jordan Whitmire of tMs i which was made public today by Di
place was carried to Biltmore Hospi- rector M. L. Shipman. The number
tal last week where she underwent of requests for workers was 352 and
an operation for apendicitis. She the registrations at the five ofiiceg for
getting along nicely. the week totaled 298. Of those re-
Re v. A. J. Manley was called some gistering"'jobs wei:c found for all but
time ago to Wolf Creek in Jackson thirteen.
Commisioner of Labor Retnms
' Flrom Buffalo Eaqil^-
meat Conf«r«i|M.^^ ^
BREAlX'LINE SOON
Einplojrment Bnreans in North
Found Jobs For 285 Dur
ing The Week«
*JS^v.
County to hold a revival meeting, in
order to get sinners saved, and the
church, which has been tom up so
long, revived again. He preached
two weeks and fifteen were bapti
zed and a large nunfber reclaimed.
So they all have a^eed to* t»ull to-
That, of course, Mr. Sk|j^nian
points out, does not mean thaflQiert
is not still unemplo3^ent in l^orth
Carolina, for it happens often that
some large employer of labor asks
for more workers of a particular
class than can bfe supplied, while on
gether and build a new church house the othe,r hand there are more worl:-
presiding. Therefore, Mr. Watts
should not be held accountable for
the entire proceeding, whether right
or wrong.
A little while after the decision
in the tobacco cases was handed
down, Commisioner Watts passed on
railroad valuations in the State and
his conclusicns has proven entirely
unsatisfactory to at least two of the
common carriers. The .Southern
Railway Company and the Atlantic
Coast Line are seeking to join all
tax gathering officials in the Sta.c
and Counties, through which their
lines run, from the collection of tax
es against them. The railroads have
applied'their cases to the Federal
court and, three Federal Judges
Boyd, Connor and Waddill, are soon
to decide whether the injunction
shall be dissolved or made perma
nent. In this controversey the press
and people generally are “laying off”
the Commisioner of Revenue and
turning their guns on the railroads.
known method of acquainting the
people at large with any commodity.
In this case there is no desire on the
W’riter, or for that matter any other
physician, for promoting personal,
but a hope that the people of our
county will be benifited as a whole
in every way as a case of prolonged
Hlftess is a great drain upon the re-
rourcss of every family. *
Very sincerely,
W. J. Wallis
To bring before the country in visaal form the vast problem it is helping
to solve, the American Red Cross has prepared for its Annual Roll Call,
Nov. 11 to 24, a poster showing how rather than diminishing the total of
World War veterans entitled to Federal aid contimies to grow. Red Cross
Service to these men is costing $10,fX)0,000 a year.
for the first time.
There will be an all day singing at
East Fork the third Sunday in this
month. • A broad invitation is extend
ed to all to come and bring your song
bookE with you. We are. expecting
5omo viciting singers from South
erg in another class than there are
jobs for them to fill. But the Com
missioner of Labor and Director of
the Bureaus is better pleased with
conditions in thig State since his re
turn from Buffalo, New York, where
he attended the conference of Inter-
BREVARDD INSTITUTE NOTES
‘*What a hum-drum life,” thinks
young Ahierica. “But contentment
is great gain,” says use-to-be.
SOME SOUTHERN
HISTORY MWnce is bliss,” sighs young Amer. we are expecting this to be the
Carolina and, as we are unable just national Employment Service Repre-
at present to call the names of those, scntatives.
‘Ig-
who we will be able to get, we will
vait until next week. I wish, to say
ica.
Mr. Hamlin Writes- Inteorestin^y
About the, Olden Days In
The Past.
Mrs. C. H. Trowbridge and daugh- ;
ter, Eloner, returned last Wednesday
after a little more than a year’s ab
sence from Brevard. They were
with Mr. Trowbridge in Iowa City
most of the time, but spent some
time Mrs. Trowbridge’s relatives at
Palmyra and St. Louis, Mo. t
Quite a number of our students
■rae cMtention of the railroads is to teachers attended the Sunday
the effect that real estate values Convention at the Bapfct
have been horizontaUy reduced by ^r. Sims delivered an ad-
the county authorities through Intsitute, at the sepular
which their lines pass and that the chaoel exercises on Friday, A. M.
State has made no objection. Com- ^ delegate
misionw. Watts made practically no Fortnightly Club to the Fe-
change m the 1920 assessment of the
Mr. Editor:
As indicated in my last communi
cation the camp - meeting was pre
eminently the religio-social gath
ering in the days of yore and the
only general gathering marked by
the presence of ladies. The presence
of the mothers with their daughters
of the best families enlivened, restra
ined and dignified the occasion. They
were home-helpers, refrained from
mixed assemblies and were happy in
isolation. The sterner sex was more
assertive of social instinct and sub
stituted for recreation the biennial
election days, the first day of the '
Not «o with cur grandmothers; the
camp-meeting w'ith them in thig coun
try was the ultimatum. They were
accorded and highest seats. The Sou
thern wpman, you know, was always
and by everybody admired for her
beauty. Her inherent modesty and
graceful diffidence, symmetrical fi
gure, pleasing visage and ‘affable
manners made her queenly by com
mon consent. She was the pride
and strength of the home. Brothers
conspired with parents to preserve
her physical beauty. Such a thing
as sun-tan was unalllowable; conse
quently she was neatly attired from
chin to wrists and when out of doors,
gloved and hid under a long project
ing “split” bonnet. Unfortunately,
best singing that we have ever had.
E. D. Randolph
SCRUGGS-COLEMAN
Unless conditions change mater
ially for the better sometime soon,
you are going to see bread lines and
soup kitchens in the larger cities of
the country,” Mr. Shipman declares.
The Con\misioner is convinced that
employment conditions are" much
better in North Carolina and possib
ly other Sounthem States than they
are in Northern States. He found
more people unemployed in the
The marriage of Miss Susie Scrug
gs to Mr. Ben P. Coleman of Green
ville ,which took place at the resi- North than the reports from the va-
dence of Rev. C. C. Smith at 5 o’
clock on Tuesday afternoon was of
interest here and in South Carolina,
the contracting parties
rious bureaus indicate there are in
this State, when population is com
pared.
are
The main trouble with the situa
tion just now is the inability of the
employers and the employees to get
together on a reduction in fiie cost
wncre
w^ell known.
The simple but impressive cere
mony was performed in the pres-
cence of a few friends, the wedding ° production, and the tendency on
being a quite one. The bride looked the larger em- '
lovely in a suit of brown with acces- <)f labor not to be wilUng to
if any difference were made in edu-
cation, the brother ostensibly fr>r her .
semi-annual courts and the annual , ^ i Brevard, and
better protection, was given the acl- » , . ’ ...
* - of charming personality,
vantage. Long, long, time before
church or state bethought themselves
ories to match.
Mrs. Coleman has spent all her life
is a young woman
raitaroad propei:^ in the State. If
railroad earnings, have decreased in
proportion to land values in many
counties they may profit by resort
ing to injunction proceedings. This,
the court must determine and the
case will be watched with interest.
Raleigh heard with interest that
former Lieutenant Governor. Chas.
deration Convention at Canton, left
on Tuesday A.'M. to attend the meet
ing. She was accompanied by Mrs.
Banks Nicholson, Mrs. Milon Nichol
son and Mrs. James Waters.
The Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. asso
ciations gave a “tacky” party at the
administration building last Satur
day night. Many of the costumes
. T' -, ^ , were very funny and games were
A. Kej^mds, of Winston-Salem, had Everyone enjoyed* the
I -r. choi_^ successor to District At- thoroughly.
t«.irney ^nk A Lmney aa chair- a party of girls, chaperon-
f™ f ft' Stote Repubhcan &eeu-
ive ommi ee. ^ e new clyiirman attended the ball game at Davidson
tte capital city gjyer, on Monday, which resulted in
of North Carolina. He| wa. a pro- ^ g I
ininen ^ igure ere during the days Athletic and “setting - up” exer-
Lieutenant practiced every morning
Goveronr under Russell. After re- breaklast by the k I. girls;
bTTjT j; I They are divided into three squad.,
^stma^r for several j,iss Davis, Miss Smith and
CIm . Chairman Miss Fioyd and take the exercises
^ynold. IS a bitter partisan, but a
'^d-hea*ted man and well liked per-
sohally by memberg of both parties.
He will try to boss the State repvb- AETHELWOLD HOTEL TO
licans until the state convention con-' CHANGE MANAGEMENT
venes next year. That he will enjoy —.
the distinction goes without saying.
The annual reunion of North Caro of the management of the
finians from the mountains to the sea Aethelwold Hotel the past
regimental militia musters.
On election day, the first Thurs
day in August, the farmers sowed importance of female educa-
their turnip patches, took* the boys Vocational training for her
and spent the entire day. After cas-. thought impractable. Miss Ell-
ting their ballots, they drifted into ^abeth Patton (Miller) not of
congenial groups, discussed current necessity but from choice dis-
events, men and* m^sures, and, ti^guished herself by stepping out of
chuckled over the antics of the jes- ,ut and became a school teacher,
ters. The boys ran foot-races, pitch- doubtlesg the first female teacher of
ed quoits, jumped and wrestled. The ^^at is now the present county. It
first day of court was attended by jg probable that our neighbor, J. E,
Mr. Coleman is from Greenville
take a smaller profit than they'have
been getting. He believes the Hoo
ver con'ference of the employers
which has been called an early
date, '"/ill help conditions considerab-
and ig promiently connected in South ^ posible to get the employers
Carolina where he has business in
terests.
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman left on
Wednesday for a short wedding trip
by motor to points in South Caro
lina.'
season.
is to be held here beginning October has given up her lease., effective last
17th and will last one week. The m u * -n u
Great State Pair is usuaUy a very
pleasurable occasion and attracts to arrives. Mrs. AL
Raleigh from 30,00 to 50,000 peo- family will leave Brevard,
pl^. ' The president this year is Mrs. but have not formulated any definite
George Vanderbilt, of Asheville, the place, so Mr. Albert stated to a
first woman to receive this xhuch co- “News reporter last night, as to their
veted honor. Mrs. Vanderbilt has future location and occupation,
manifested keen interest in the big It has been rumored that Mrs.
preparations^ that are being made for Wheeler, and experienced hotel wo-
a maipmotii exhibition tiiit year and man from Bryson Citv has leased the
it is g^ini^ to be worth goiniT hwt* property and will "rrive to t?ike
tieds o^ ipflcii to see. i-
more men without businesg than men
with business in the court. They
felt the need of a social outlet. The
boys, as a general rule, didn’t attend
The regimental muster, coming in
May and held in the field fronting
Capt. Killan’s dwelling, now the Mills
property, waS largely attended by
those of 18 to 45 years of age by
law, the elder ones by choice. Harry
Guinn, a free colored man, furnished
ginger-bread and beer. I^me whis
key, only a few jugg an^ pure, was
at all these^)laces. It made men
funny but h6t vicious. A fisticuff
was rear. Uncle Joe Dunn played
the fiddle with his left hand and
folxr or five elderly men danced.
A man who made whiskey and those
who got drunk ag well as the few
who advocated teetotalism in tho^e
days were not popular.
Speaking of games,' the school
boys.got all the fun they could im
bibe out of town-ball, i.e
and cat. Such a thing aa ton'i sts
in these games by differ j
or communities was nt
To have informed the '
sometime in the Juture
becbme national, that
man;^ would be vocatic
the pleaisuK loving wor
tribute means to pay
' and provide play g
have
Duckworth. Geo. F. Glazener of At
lanta and J* R. Hamlin of Missouri,
are surviving pupils.
Parsiner out of the camp-meeting
era through the derbis of the recon
struction period the girls found them
selvc;^ in a new world impoverished
and prostrate. Do or die seemed to
be th^ inevitable. Shyness beg^n to
give way as necessity tisrh^e-"
claims. The leap out of the omamexi
tal into the useful had to l
and was. She becomes her brother's
'’OTV'Ti^oitor in business and doesn’t
so keenly feel the need of bis pro
tection nor does he regard her as
needing or desiring his old itme ten-
’erness. Both think and
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friends and
relatives for their kindness during
the illness and death of our little
of Irbor to see that unless they open
the’r shops and make the business
which will keep them open, condi
tions will get very much worse in
stead of better. The Commisioner
of .Labor believes the Hoover confer
ence hag much potential good in it,
if it can put across some of the
things Secretary Hoover has. in mind
in asking for the meetmg'
In connection with his discussion
of the unemployment conditions
generallly Mr. Shipman makes pub-
infant.
Mr. and Mrs. Ra^ord Nicholson results of the work of thp em
ployment bureaus in five North Caro
lina cities during the week ending
September 10. During the week
there were requests for work from
232 men and 63 women. Employers
of laboi^ asked the different bureaus
V t and. women
Yrarly^report of Delegates to Sal, for 62 jobs. The five bureaus refer-
ed 263 iM|en and 63 women to possi
ble places where they could secure
jobs, and actually foun:' jobs for 239
men and 46 women. T.' Jch is pretty
fair batting average as compared
The division
55.
IMPORTANT MEETING:
Transylvania Chapter, U. D. C.,
Saturday, October 8th, 4 P. M., at
the Library.
em and St. Louis conventions.
Plans for Holloween.
Annie Jean Gash. Pres,
Mrs. J. S. Silversteen and Miss
correctly Miriam Silversteen have gone to New with the registrations,
she is competent of managing her York, where Miss Silversteen will en- of the cities fbUows: Charlotte
own affairs. Socially her position ter school, "Mrs. Silversteen expects Greensboro 40, Raleigh 72, Wilmingl
was an exalted one: row ghe ha ac- retjim after a short visit to ton 67, Winston-Salem 51. or a to-
nuired an equal position is business friwids and relatives.
and recently she found herself an —
equal in politics and ofl^cialdom — • Miss M^rv WTiitmer was a dele-
the trend seeming to ii^icate her as ^rom .^e Brevard
* r> . 1 ^ ^ ] Church to the meeting of tiie Aahb-
one of us. But this ’ast step toward Ofniam,
tal jobs found for 285 people'. Of
this number 87 were skilled laborers.
125 unskilled celerical and profes
sional 30, indtaz^rlal 8 and domesti<^
25.
masculine equality, so far as the
H said to h-^r -i - >
: *'!'»‘h> nor' achlcvo^i; was thrust up
ST? V • ' 1 "/?e' ?; the
ville on Tuesday aad^^l^dnesday of
tiiis week. V * *' '
Mrs. Aghes Wood Marehant.
octo'^^-.iPiirnB will be astoun-
/
v,o-
ths
HAMLIN
C. B. Glazener of\Rosman has 3>ut
on a tHitigae*8ale startins: October 12.
■0- Glazener says thatr/Wldie ]ie real.
. . , everythfaig is’adhomcin* On
has been ,'^th her sister^ Mrs. J. B.*^^ceouilt of cotton^ at the aim time
Case it S^paimaaoa, rotumed* to he is a; ti^e ^«gt
Brevard on 2lat^dbiy ooi .aoeoimit of ; Mme
the illness cjS'her aiciii; WjTiito liter- r«kw
pliant-
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