TRANSYLVANIA—“THE LAND OF WATERFALLS”—2,239 FEET AEuVE SEA LEVEL
EXPONENT OF TRAN
SYLVANIA COUNTY.
Brevard
The Aim if FranksMs
mud Sinceritj.
VOLUME XXVII
BREVARD, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1922
NUMBER 36
H.V.
WRITES OF
T!?|p
Te!!s Dr. Hunt About Wonderful
Scenf^ry, Salt Lake City, Cave
Of the Winds, Etc.
TOWN FOUND IN
f Aftii row
Wherein
Insuranca CominicsiDaer
Gives Out Good
Report
1 trust that by this time you will
be up and doinjr oncc more—no iv.ore
medicinc*. massage? or ministering an-
prels.
Here wt* are in Salt Lake Ci!;y fji'’
away fiom Applc'brook and eat.
Thus far, our trii:; has been (!<*lis.',ht-
ful. The party in our special “eo:i-
vcntion car” numbers ninet'.'en in a’l
—six clerics, six lay de’.ecvr.tcs
seven ladies. It is a jolly lot and we
have plenty of sonj?. Bridge and fun-
makinii as the train moves on.
We vame out by way of Nashville.
St. Louis and Kansas City to Denver,
at which last named place we made
our lirst stop. In Missouri we ran
alonjr the ^Missouri River which, when
full, must be some stream, but which
was mostly mU(| flats and sai’d bars
■when we saw it.
Kansas seemed chiefly flat, treeless
prairie with many long:, wooden snow
brakes alonjr side the Taiht>ad, an oc
casional farm and with quite a few
“dot!’ towns” or prairie-dop villa.irep..
We saw a few of the “dofra” sitting'
bolt-upri.srht at the portals of their
respective burrows, lookinjr from tlie
train windows, more like clothes-pins
than anythin" else. It seem? that
the little jiround owls often share
holer with the prairie doirs, and. I
am told, that rattlesnakes, too, are
sometimes found in tlie "burrows. But
if this last be true, I fancy that dog,
owl or both, would be “diskivered”
inside said snakes.
At Denver, we detrained, went to
a hotel and later were driven over
the city. It is a beautiful one with
wonderful parks, lawns an(| flowers,
kept fresh and blooming- by irriga
tion. Here we had our first decent
look at the Rockies, range on ran're
of them.
We took train for Colorado S;'i
that same night, waking xip the next
morning to find the big old rr'—
tains fairly overhanging our
with Pikes Pealc, the giant of therm
all. only a few Tniles away.
We breakfasted at Colorado’
Springs and were then driven over
the Garden of the Gods, an immense .
ampitheatres hut in by prodigious ^
cliffs, some red, some white, others
dun or grey.
Then our rubbeineclc chariot took
us up a hair-raising road, narrow and
winding with terrifyitig chasms all
along its outer edge. Here I was
IN RE-iNSPECTION
Hon. Stacey W. Wade,
In;;urance Commissioner,
-lalcigh, N. C.
Denr Sir:
I fin,! hi.” p o volunteer fire depart-
nunt, cor.si.tin-JT of 10 men, 1 Ford
‘v,; i.rk. v. ic’i 1500 feet of hose, chem-
ic:>.' tank, !.'::ti!';rui;-hcrs, ladders, etc.
■\ 1 ill t ond c( I'ldition ;Mid well kept.
Als'.> one h:and rod and .‘U'O feet ox
ho.^e, k{ pt in depot section.
Tlie v.at; r supply is owned by the
to'vn, i^-' adequate. T. B. Crary,
Supt, The building and inspection
laws: are being enforced, anj I fmd
that severr.3 old buildings in the heart
of the to\.n, which I had heretofore
recommended that they be torn down,
have been torn down, and nice, new
buildings erected in their stead. That
the to\m under the control of Mr. T.
M. ^litvhell, Mayor, and his Board,
are dwng some good work here in
the '.\ay of fire pievention, and I find
the t(*wn very much improved since
my bist inspection.
I have ai.so inspectcfi 4i> buildings,
oit «f which I find the general condi
tions good, the others as foilov.'s;..
I ai.-o beg to advise that i find the
water v/aste conditions, building laws
etc., very much improved s’nee I
made my last inspection, and Mayor
Mitchell and his Board, arc to be
congratulated for the good work they
are accomplishing along these lines.
I nm sending a copy of this report
to Mayor T. M. Mitehell
of the train, so we a first class
view of the long slit In the clilTs,
they call the Gorge.
More mountains
more ranyo”'^ rr : me littl<*
beside us.
We crossed ^ ie Crmtinental Di\^d.e
at about 7 P. M. at an altitude of
1C,200 feet. Here we saw our first
snow—Rather soiled and look
ing, drifted into gullies on the moun
tains.
Our train came down from the Di-
"i'le rocking and i’olTing like a ship
i:n a heavy sea.
The next morning we found our
selves passing pver the most deserted
desert imaginable—simply grey sand,
grey-green sage brush, grey prairie
dogs and grey mountains on the hori-
! zon. However, bv now w’e began to
scared breathless. Just as my lungs irrigated >.rms and at 2 P.
were recommencing to function nor-1 Salt Lake City.
Were we all crowded into a trolley
car and descended on—or rather into
—Salt Lake City, where we all took
, a bath. It was the queerest swira
the stalactites, frigert robbed me of | j
. j water is too thick with salt (B per
1 cent solution). You lie around on
the water v.-ith head, arms and legs
chilly on the ton of this 14,00 foot | ^.,5^.,.;,^. sunshine. Yona
! must r.ot dive, if you do the briny
j stuff gets into the eyes and nostrils
I :'.nd hurts terribly. (I know because
wave deliberately hit me in the
mally, we arrived at the Cave of the [
Wind.s—a monsterous seven-chamber I
ed cavern running deep into the in
nards of the moTintain. Here among i
the stalactites
four pounds.
In the afternoon v;e climbed-
cog raihvay—Pike’s Peak. It was
mountain, but no snow. Instead,
there was nothing to be seen but
boulders for the last 3,000 feet to
the summit—no grass, no dirt, no
trees—nothing but stones from the
size of one’s fist to the size of a ca
thedral. It looked though it had
rained rocks there for a thousand
years—and no fair weather between
>howers.
Of course the view was wonderful
from the top. The guide swore that
we could see two hundred and sixty
thousand miles of old Earth’s sur
face. (And if all the mountains had
iblo could have been flattened out,
I should have made it three million.)
•“it was all very wonderful, but to
me, at least, mighty » desolate and
lonely looking.
These mountains are tremendous,
but they are sparsely timbered,—
£ OPENINNG OF
THE CrrV SCHOOIS
Over Five Hundred Children Enrolled
Best Opening In History Of
School. New Teachers
THE PRESBYTERIAN HUT
The Pi'esbyterian Hut was the | ing, and a special feautre of the
scene of a delightful entertainment j musical program, delighting young
on Tuesday evening, August 27, | and old, were I\Ir. Cooke’s solos', sung
when Rev. Charles Hemphill gave a to the banjo accompaniment. “Old
series of readings from ‘^Uncle Re- | Uncle Ked” and “The Watermiilin”
mus to an audience of children and ! were sung in such perfect i.^iitation
grown-ups. , of the old time negro that the au-
Al] arrangements for the program ; dience clamored for more,
had been planned in keeping with | V,'hen r-r. 1I< mphill bec.'an to read
the idea of the old time South?"' j from “Unele Flcnius” he had
years.” Anolhe r shouted, “And I
could listen for a million years.”
Then the first, not to be outdone in
hyperbole, said gravely, “I could lis
ten forever.”
A.i the grown-ups had become
ch.ldrcr. when it came to interest in
the “Ujnele Rem.us” stories. The
Babv” and other classics were
darkey and plantation. The vi^i'cr
was met at the porch (ioor by a num
ber of small boys, dressed and co'oi-
ed to represent country p'ckaninnies,
who extende,-) 1 r'liid-brimn’ed straw
r.u cx-1 enjoyed f.uite a; much as if they had
]c ctani auc'.ieriCi;; for many of tho.se | r.^'ver be; n heard or read before,
preeont had attended a similar entc-r- j Vi h'!-- Ur. Hemphill makes no effori
ta nment given at the Hut last sum-1 - o ■ as an actor or impersonation,
nier, and others had heard of Dr. I !’.i ■ han 'i.n;v of the old plantation dia-
Hemphiirs remarkable interpreta-1 Iccl could, hardly be improved upon,
hats for contributions. In the middle t.ons of Joel Chandler Harris’ cele-1 and it was an open secret that the
■of the Hut floor an old v.heel bairrow , brated book. Not least among the learned divine had acquired the dia-
lay tilled on end, and near it reclined expectant ones were the children, who 1 lect years ago at first hand and that
a hoe and other farm tools as ancient had been Assigned reserved seats at. intimate memories crowded them-
iis the one-wheeled vehicle. 'the frontt, and to whom he seemed ; selves into his rendering of the stoi’-
The program began with a chorus, : most particularly to direct his atten- ^ ies. The proceeds of the entertainment
Old Black Joe,” led by Charles M. ! tion. Their informal and sponta-j which amounted to nearly $70, v.ill
Cooke with his banjo. Several of ■ neous remarks added a spice of their : be used as a starter of a piano fund.
One declared, j to purchase an instrument for the
six hundred i Hut.
these Old time plantation melodies j own to the program.
v;ere sung in chorus durin?; the even- F‘I could listen for
THE MOTIVE OF
Sixth Sermon In Scries On The SeV-
mon on the
Mouat
(By CHAS. C. SMITH)
thing wrong in charity in Jesus’ day. I form given to use until the Holy Spir-
The -^vrong consisted in the motive it should come. Now we are taught
i alms, “To be seen of men.” j to pray “in Je.sus’ name,” and “in the
1 fi would not be made if there 1 Holy Spirit.” Prayer as involved in
w’ere no onlooker.,. In those days j those two phrases is a far step in ad-
when a big gift would be made it. vance of the pattern of prayer given
would be heralded by a trumpeter., in Mat. 6:9-15.
letti^Tg the public knovv^ of it in that | THIRD, IN RELATION TO FAST-
way. We let it be known now by j ING. “When ye fast.” Jesus did
display lines in the papers. We con-1 not condemnf aF’^ing, but we cannot
demn piofessional beggars, but in I say that He practised it, for His for-
this passage Jesus condemns the pro- ty days in the wilderness was an ex
In Mat. '):20 Jesus warns that un
less our rignteousness shall exceed j fessional giver, who is far more num- j ceptional experience for an excep
ihat of the bcribe.s and Pharisees we j erous in our lam’. tional purpose. Nor did the apostles
shall in no case enter into the King- | Scnpe tim.es it is helpful to a good | fast. But Jesus said these word:'
dom of Heaven. In the verse.s fol- i ._-au.se to let our gifts be made known. ! that, if men were minded to fast, it
lowing and to the end of the chapter | j,, c^ch cases then v.e are “to let our | must not be to be seen of men, but
Jesus s;hows the true righteousness litrhi.s shine, that f'ther.s seeing our | the motive must be for the fitting of
of the Kingdom, setting forth the ^ <»ood works m"y glory our Father.” j better service for God.
fact that the great law of the King- : a m:s-ionary collection was being I We must not for^^et the rewards
dom is life, applying it, to individual j taken in a church and a wealthy mem j here promised for faithful obedience
life, and, then, to organized, or social, j tpi- Qf the congregation gave his offer Certainly there is a present reward
face.)
The rest of the party left Satur-
• lay night for Yellowstone, leaving
my wife and myself at this hotel
’till Wednesday morning when- we
were to be rejoined and all go on
“loward Los Angeles, San Francisco
and the Portland Convention.
So Kate and myself are left here
to study the habits of the “common
or garden” Mormon or Letter Day
Saint, as he prefers to be called.
You know the fellow who marrov/s
every time the clock strikes. Judg
ing by the specimens of Mormon la
dies, whom I have seen on the street,
in the lake or in the Morman Taber
nacle, the Morman is to envied i-ather
life. In the first eighteen verses of in«r m twenty dollar gold pieces, put-
the SiXth chapter, (which the reader j on each collection plate at
is earnestly requested to read in his start so as to set the pace for
Bible before going further), we have j others, which was quite legitimate,
shown us the true motive-of right-1 Jt ig not v/rong to LET men knov
eousness. The first verse is the key , of our gifts, but v-rong to giv
to the entire passage, and should be they MAY know of them. The poir.
read in the Revised Versioin, which is , that aU wordly possessions are tc
as follows: “Take heed that yo do not
your rig;hteousness before men, to be
seen of them; else ye have no reward
with your Father who is in heaven.”
Here the Lord makes known the mo
tive of true righteousness, which the
heir of the kingdom is not only to
possess but to practice. The motive
is, that in doing righteous acts, we
are always so to act as in the pres
ence of the Father Vtrith an eye to
glorifying Him.
be used for the glory of God, and t^K
real blessings of cu.' fellowmen.
SECOND, IN RELATION TC
PRAYER. The Lord here is not con
demning public prayer. The Phari
sees, in His day, had a habit of offer
ing their private prayers in public
places, such as street corner.s and 01
the temple steps. Their custom wa
to make long prayers, repeating ovcv
and over many pious phrases. Jesu'
just huge, jagged, forbidding mass- , ‘ban blamed. Hov/ do they support
I’m glad to have seen them, but the wives from No. 2 to No. 117?
live with, they are not to be com- \ Well, I am told the State does that.
pared with our “well-timbered Blue
Hills with their friendly, rounded
scorer, and their soft, blue haze.
That’s the truth. You can put it in
your much-used pipe and smoko it.
We left Colorado Spr ngs that
night and by noon of the next day
wore running through the Royal
Gorge—a narrow canyon whose gran
ite sides rise perpendicularly nearly
3,000 feet, and through which, be
side the narrow shelf on which the
rails are spiked, foams the green wat
er of the Arkansas River—the little
end of it. Here, our party was put
cn a big flat car, hitchcd to the rear
.\lso that the happy ladies cooperate
to support the old man and make
him happy.
Could any arrangement be fairer
than that? How doei; it listen to
you ?
We v/ent to a Morman service at
the Tabernacle on Sunday. The mus
ic v/as wonderful — splendid martial
“lunes sung by a well trained choir
of .'300, The sei'm.on lasted over an
hour. Many slept. We did not-
There! I did not intend to write
such a volume, but no doubt it will
improve your mind.
HAROT.D VZRNXr. CMFDEERG
I says they, nor us, will be heard
In the first eighteen verses of the much speaking, and He warns against
chapter application is made of this vain repetitions.
pr.nciple of righteousness in three | it ig needful that there be public-
realms, namely to alms-giving, to praying, and the Bible has many in-
pi-ayer, and to fasting. In alms-giv- ctances and injunctions to this kino
ing we see our relation to man; in of prayer. In the first chapter of
prayer, our relation to God; in fast- Acts it is said of the di.sciples th?-t
ing, oi?r relation to self. In doing “they gave thcm.'^elves all with one
good deeds there is the temptation to accord to continual prayer.” But
make a display of them; to do them private prayer is best made when in
in order that men might see the act:?, the secrecy of on'^’s own room. Few
I and in seeing them praise us. It is words are usually all lhat is necessary
I so easy to fall before this temptation to make one’s wants knov.ii to God,
in our charity, in our prayers, and for He already knows our nee.’.r be-
. in our s|?lf-denial. Jesus warns fore we ask Him. He sees and il^
I against th;^ wrong motive here; He knows, and prayer is to be made in
' Vv-arns agajnst hypocrisy, and makes this light. The form of prayer given
a plea foif sincerity. In all there not really the Lord’s prayer, but
God is to )be the noie thought. Self, ^ pattern given as a basis on which
in all its iforms, is to be left out of . to make our prayers,
account. i >,otice the application of; in this pattei’n of prayer we have
this prin(*;ple, mingled reverence, conscious guilt,
FIRST,; IN RELATION TO CHAR-; a sense of dependence, and a sub-
ITY. The principle here will apply ' missive trust.
to all giving, and need not be restrict- I Yet this is not Jesus’ highest teach-
od to deeds of mc'’cy. There was no- ing about prayer. Ic seems to be a
that comes from the consciousncss
of having done that which is pleasing
to the Father. But the great rewards
of doing righteousness from the righ'
motive is in the future, as contrast-
d with the present reward of tho^e
.'hose motives are to be seen of men.
Thy HAVE their reward,” in tha"
hey are seen of men, v.'hich was their
•urpose ip doing these. We WILL
ave our reward if the motive is un-
nixed, but all for His glory. It i-
.t the Judgement Seat of Christ that
he final and the great rewards of
Ightcousness are done from right
'lOtivcs will be bestowed by the right-
ous, impartial and unerring Judge
The Brevard city schools opened
at! 9 A. M. on Wednesday with exer
cises in the school auditorium. Prob
ably there was never ab etter open
ing in all the history of the school.
Miss Tyner presided over the exer-
ci .es v.-ith her usual dignity and grace
and the whole program was immense
ly enjoyed by the large number of
visitors present, as well as by the
pupi.s of the school who filled all the
seats of the auditorium and stood
two-deep all around the walls and
overflowed in the coiTidors.
After the stirring singing of “On-
wai*d Christian Soldiers” by all, the
address of the morning was delivered
by Rev. Herman T. Stevens, visiting
minister who is preaching in the
evangelistic services at the Baptist
church. He made a highly acceptable
talk both humorous and serious on
“Pep.” Rev. Chas. C. Smith then led
in prayer. Next followed a beauti
ful Eong by Mr. Martin, song leader
in the meeting with Mr. Stevens.
Miss Tyner called upon visitors who
were sitting on the rostrum to say
someth'ng. Rev. L. A. Falls .spoke
of the contrast betv.'een schools now
and schools in his boyhood. He said
he wished we could push back the
v/alls crowding the young people be
fore him and make room for them.
Rev. John R. Hay urged the promo
tion of a football team for the hig:h
school to put Brevard abreast of
other high schools about us in this par
ticular, and offered to help train the
team. Mr. W. H. Duckworth, a for
mer member of the school board, who
was instrumental in getting the pres
ent high school building, sroke elo
quently of his expectation of going
to Raleigh soon to get another new
building, the need for which is so
evident. Rev. Chas. C. Smith next
announced a special service for the
teachers of city schools and Brevard'
Institute in the Baptist church Fri
day night of this week. All of them
—new and old—are cordially invited
to be present. Mr. Charles Jolly,
well-known and beloved in Brevard,
then taught the audience a fine chor
us about “smile" and “grin.”
Miss Tyner closed the exercise with
expression of appreciation for tho
work of the school board and town
authorities in providing cement wrJ.i:s
for the school and making other im
provements. There are nine new
teachers this year, she said, and one
is a man—Flav'e Corpening—who
will be especially interested in ath
letics. The classes were then dis
missed to their respective room? and
the new school year was off to a fire
start! If only they weren’t so dread
fully crowded, everybody v/as think
ing. ,
THE GOOD CAMP{:R
(Christian Science Monitor)
In these days of vacationing and
-.vcek-end respites from the humbrum
Df duty, the v.ords “good camper” arc
often heard in the land. The expres
sion is replete with meaning far be
yond the range of its immediate use
A “good camper” is the man or the
woman, the girl or boy, who does hi?
or her full share of the work of the
camp; who endures hai’dships cheer
fully; who smiles when it rains, an ’
who makes life pleasanter than i
otherwise would be for the personr
in the immediate vicinity. The habits
and the standards of the “good camp-
ei‘” are worth ur 'erstanding and cul
tivating, for, in the last analysis, fh''
“good camper” is made of the stuff
of which go.:)d citizens are fashion
ed.
The “good camper” performs hi?
duties thoroughly, uncomplainingly
and with a smiling face, in the walks
of everyday life, as in camp. The man
or the woman, v.-ha, in th-_' sphere of
humdrum daily duty, does the kindly
thing, the thing that adds to the sum
of human happiness and makes life
brighter in his or her immediate vi
cinity, is a “good camper.” The man
or the woman who exercises in
genuity worthy of a better cause in
an attempt to evade or let some other
man or woman and bear the brunt of
drudgery, is a “bad camper.” The
man or woman who withholds his or
her share in every good work is a
“bad camper.”
A man recently prominent in pub
lic life was denounced as a bad camp
er by the bo.ys now grown to mature
manhood, who went camping with
him when they v/ere all youngsters.
After one or two attc-pts to induce
him to do his share < ’ the work of
the camp, to confor:' to the rules of
the camp and make .le camp a bet
ter place to live in, they eliminated
him from their community . The fail
ure which he has made of his career
since—despite brilliant intellectual
achievement—has proved the accur
acy of the judgement of his old as
sociates. “I.j wao a bad camper.”
The man or woman of whom it can
be said, “He (or she) was a good
camper” has not liv’ed in vain, what
ever the material shortcomings that
may be contained tbe record of
life. For, whatever the failures, that
man or w^oman has contributed in
good measure to the sum of happi
ness in his or her little world. He or
she has made the W'orld a better place
to live in.