North Carolina Newspapers

i ' 3 J V T- ' V 1 -i " ' - -t TIST3 FCH FINANCES v Situation It Critical od Heroic Work v l Must Com To Stave GIF Failuro INSTITUTIONS NEED AID f '.By WALTER M. GILMORE ' Dr. Charles E. Maddry, correspond- , - ing , secretary - OX .tne Baptist . staie j : convention - and also - the general director of the reinforcement - campaign in North Carolina, has sent . out an S, O. S. call to the leaders , ' in : all the Baptist churches in v tne i state. vThe situation is extremely cri ' : tical,. Seecretary Maddry feel; and, unless heroic work 'is done within the next two weeks of the campaign, de - feat is inevitable. - , .j' 'A half million dollars must be sent -Pin to Treasurer Walters Durham, - Raleigh, or,; in case of offerings to . the orphanage to ,. P. B : . Hamrick, Thom'asville, by DecemberV3 to meet i; the bare necessities of the objects in ' cludd in the campaign, namely, state, home and foreign missions, Christian tocation, old , ministers' relief and offerings this year havenbyndif o '-flii 01 ornhanacre . So far. the offerings thii , jwarj have been running behind those fIast year. .However, the last two i weeks of the convention year is always by all odds the most fruitful period of the whole year, and it is ; expected that in view of the strenuous ; campaign that is now being waged all over: the state, - and since the Thanksgiving offerings will be includ ed, it will be far more fruitful this year than ever before. ' - 'The pet and pride of North Caro lina' ' Baptists is their V -Thomasville Baptist orphanage,-which opened- its doors nd received its first child No vember 11, 1885; Since' then it has received, cared for' and trained for useful citizenship 2,134 others. On account of lack of room, it has been compelled through these years to turn down the application of at least 12, 000 others, 544 of them this year. . For 17 years- this splendid insti tution has been presided over by Dr. M. C Kesler in such a way as to in spire confidence and the. co-operation of the great mass of the Baptist peo pie throughout the State. It now-has 551 children in its care, 443 of them being at Thomasville and 98 of them being at the kennedy home, near Kin stcntf Besides these 133 other child Ten are aided by the orphanage in their support at home with their own mothers. The annual cost of running this institution is $150,000. It costs an: average $1940 .per month to ake care of a-childV- -" According ;to:: sc heautif ul custom, J ierallv adopted in North Carolina rybody is asked to give as a ank-offering" during the Thanks giving season-to the orphanage of his " choice the money equivalent of at least one day's work, ; Certainly that is a reasonable request and a air measure of our rsponsibility to these little ones. If this is given in the right spirit it will bring a correspond ngly large amount of joy to the heart of the giver.- "Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, 'It ismore blesjd to give than t0 re ceive " Offerings intended or tne Baptist orphanage should be sent direct, to Treasurer F. B. Hamrick, Thomas ville, N. C, and not to the Raleigh headquarters. Some fine day the radio experts wni tune their apparatus to the magnetic waves of the aurora borealis and then 4he world, will be filled with music If the glorious phenomenon sounds-aa lovely as it looks. . - : Spain is importing American min .mows to aid ,in mofequito extermination. We hope it works, then we can Import some of them back -again and see if it helps our own mosquito problem any. . - ... - t h . . r . V . ' y i 1 . it ' Steel makers, over the world are ""'Watching an experiment which a Frenchman is; making with a. process by .which he asserts iron ore -may be directly converted into steel. If this . ' process . is practical, the intermediate : step of converting ore into pig iron . will be eliminated. The cost of pro ducing steel !will be reduced material . .ly. ; The amount of capital invested to ' make pig iron from iron ore is tre; y-jaendous, all v of which would be re ' leased . for ' employment in something else. Time and money in vast quanti- "X ties will be saved to the world . when : his Frenchman - or some bther ln entor ' achieves the goal he. is ; set pon. ' - - - ,. ' . ; i Rnrrort. finjanWaf writer, wonders TJwhat has made ther United States de-' ivelop in' less than two centuries from ' s ?' n W wilderness . to ."the: greatest v. nation X --v' V on which the sunt has shone." It isn't - - 4nntfnir . anI -forHla , nft . -ni A frli ,w,.' f beats us In "that respect,. Itv Isn't i V . - " . . M . f L . .11. wneat-raismg area, zor janaaa Deaxs xm- there. It isn't education, for" we tare far behind Germany, where -98 per cent of the population can read and -Vrite. Freedom: has something to .:. do .wth It But' the great f force that '. created Uncle Sam's empire was plain, -old-fashioned hajrd work,: a vagabond l. : .: z'jz nr.z wast-. " Tirs Izzzsz in tLe United States for the fire years fro;a 1913 to 1920, in clusive, reached a total of $1,672,722, 677, according to a report mada by the National Board . of Firev Under writers, This report is based upon a 8tudy of more; than 3,000,000 fire which occurred during - the five years. The .average ! loss was $334544,535. -The underwriters point out - that the total - loss ; during these ' years- would have been sufficient to build 334,000 dwellings costing $5,000, oranough to house 1,700,000 persons, or 'the entire population' of the states of Connecticut, Nevada and Wyoming.'1 These astound ing figures give some , idea, of the tre-' mendous waste that is caused each year by fires In 'the United States. Most ' of these ; fires are preventable. In Europe," at least in the older coun-, tries,, fires are practically ' unknown, yet in the .United States year "after year goes by . without any abatement1 of the ioss 'from Conflagration.-v Th'.tl ' loss constitutes a , burden upon . the entire community and it should- be. re sented as such."" - 1 ' 1 Of unusual interest is the derivation of " the word "sterling," as applied to something" that is" "genuine, pure, un adulterated,: or of excellent --quality.'! The .original form, of the word was "easterllng.". Tbe Easterlings were 'the north Germans, or the merchants of the Hanseatic league, the original "moneyers" . of England. ' The name of' these merchants came to be applied to1 coin or goods of a fixed standard value,' answering, all: tests. In the time of . Edward I we find an English coin issued of the designation of a dinar or dinarius, called "sterling." Since that 'time the 'wbrd. ""sterling" has been applied to the. English pound, which before the war 'was regarded as the best value in the .Qjld. : From : time to time, -scientists an nounce they have discovered a new method ; of fighting old age, or wrest ing from time a few more years to add -to the span of life. In some In stances it is a preparation of milk that Vwill confer a semblance of im mortality on man in his mundane form." -Again It is the transplanting of glands ; now it Is substituting new lls . for old. We all want !to have longer lives, says the New.tfprk Her ald.' Many of us think of life chiefly in terms of this one dimension "but what he world needs most Is wider lives and deeper lives, widened in our sympathies, interests and realiza tion of ' great basic principles nd of the eternally great values, of life,.. ; A total, of 12,763,04Q acres has been sod";to ttlers in Alberta ;and Sas katclTewanunder theDominion lands act, according to the : minister of the interior. f.Of this acreage, 4,155,738 has been patented and 693,134 acres was not yet ' patented. The amount paid in for, lands preempted was $14, 860,067, aridi there was.Jyet unpaid approximately- nOOOiOOa : Purchased homesteads totaling 1,822,840 acres had . been sold in these , two provinces, on which the revenue was $3,27450, and on which' approximately $500,000 was yet unpaid. Next time you are near a big mu seum, especially the American Mu seum of Natural History In New York, be sure. to. see. the reconstructed skulls of primitive xrien. Instantly it will strike you that modern man compared t with his ir ancestors, - is iike beauty alongside the beast. . Man is losing his . ferocious head as he - loses his fero cious disposition Progress is certain, If slow, and the primeval skulls prove it -':-.- - ' . r ; The national debt now amounts to $23,145,000,000, aud " a financial au thority say's It ,1s ; now in a : state of permanent decline-v-Permffnerit is right a sum like that-will have Vo decline forever before it -gets wiped out t Now if the plant lice and rose bugs could only be'Jtrained to'' ehjoy" a diet of plantain, jchlckweed and' spurge we would welcome them with open arms instead of spending our substance on polsors and b-.iuirt "guns. ' Thieves looted the' .box office of $4 900 while a comediahiwas amusing a New York audience. A thief stole the collection 'while a West Virginia , con-1 gregatlon was praying. .There's no discoverable moral. , ,' . ,' , - The honey obtained on the banks of .the Euphrates is of an' Intoxicating nature.- .fow , we can understand; some thing of the anxiety ofjMoses an'd-the Israelites to get to thfeV'land Vof iniik' and noneyC . 11 ; . " f , Marconi believes that'Signals are be- . . m. 'm. . . - - -t- j . ing seei toiq Aiars, A&iounuiug an jthe assertion is, it comesfrom a7 man - whose' expert experience and scientific knowledge command respect. ' ' ;r ' - Probably one reason - the French f want so large an army Is to keep" the 1 i money at home that might otherwise be applied to her American debt. - ' ' : - - ' 7: Next to Imperialism,, pacifism is the biggest sSnpJf breeder of wrr." " j-V- , v J-7.7 V'V". !l7- .ri7 '7 i;:-t: CUR PLACZ IN CCTOK WOFILD The English-speaking population of the British empire is, according to the: 1921 census, 64,778,336 ; the population of the ; United . States is 105,683,1. ' There aie signiflcaat conclusions to be drawn from these figures, which' show ; us to exceed. In numbers by about 60 per cent all ; other English-speaking --peoples' put together. Since' we are well in the van, as toUteracyj and oc cupy the foremost place In the circular tion of books through public libraries,; it is not too much to expect that with-1 in, a decade we may become the largest distributors of 'English language books, i Statistics are lacking as to the present boolt ' demands (f different . countries,' but with the looked-f or ex tension e'f, our library system ' we may hope to reach an additional 60,000,000 of our population. What we do know Is that In the per capita purchase of books - we ? are : steadily progressing- that new, readers are constantly being Jidded to' tlie cUl army; says the Scien-r title American, v The ' importance of these developments, 'whether we re gard books as trade products oar from: the:; higher; ground as .. promoters tof good understanding between peoples -j speaking the, game language, cannot be overestimated. v One of the most touching Incidents that has come to light for a long while is the gift of $3 in Roumanian lei which - the children in a village" near Bucharest have contributed to "aid . the children of familles.made destitute by the destruction ' of the Knicker bocker theater, Washington; D. C." It is hard to realize fully the outlook-of' such children, when compared with the outlook of the children in the United States, with all the latter's manifold advantages, , but it is easy to see how' reports of the theater's collapse can have been magnified in their eyes untif they believed that the event constitute ed a disaster affecting the whole Amer ican people. And, those"; youngsters who , had been helped by. American children, wanted to help , them In re turn out of their own limited means." Missionaries have at all times gone to distant and out-of-the-way posts, but It is seldom they have sought a more Isolated spot than that to which Rev." Henry V Martyn Rogers and his wife sailed recently from Cape Town, South Africa the lonely island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic ocean", 1500 miles from the coast of Africa. This clergyman will be chaplain of a polyglot population of 119 persons.,, But the isolation of the - place is not what it would have been formerly. The up-to-date residents of Cape Towtt: gave to Mr. Rogers just before he sailed a wireless outfit with, a radius of 1,500 miles. It is difficult In these days to' find a spot on this round sphere that Is entirely cut Off from the "world." Twety-two years ago, when the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid society began to" function, there were 216 farm .families in the United States. Today the Jewish farm popu lation is over 60,000. In 1900 the total acreage owned by Jewish farmers was 12,029; today it exceeds 1,000,000 acres, and the real estate and personal value of these holdings is estimated as over $100,000,600. "That most of these farmers have been able to weather the storm of the present depression," says Gabriel Davidson, director of the so ciety, "is proof that the Jewish farm ing movement is now on a sound bot tom." The preservation of tree life in the United States is not the duty 'of any , official organization it Is the "duty of every individual, exactly as much as if the common air or water were in dan ger r of exhaustion. The government and the states cannot save the forests if American citizens wish to destroy them or carelessly take part in their destruction. Every Individual going out to enjoy the beauties of the woods at this season should appoint himself a committee of one on conservation of trees. ' . Patagonia's pleBiosaurus has van ished from attention. - The fact is re grettable, Jt was hoped that Pata gonia, eager to join in the march of business improvement had started a publicity campaign with the only plesiosaurus on earth. "When our children are grown" says a -Bolshevist journal, "they wlll. know money only by memory." - With paper rubles quoted at 1,500,000 to the dol lar, Russian money is hardly worth re membering. ' - - - ' ' r "Why all, this- talk about flappers?" inquires a contemporary. Why all this talk about ' anything? And isn't, it more pleasant to talk about something pleasant" than ' something unpleasant? Well, then. . 1 . r. "With all my earthly goods I thee endow" has vbeen stricken " from , a marriage service as a : concession te the grooms "Also, as. often Irrelevant Incompetent and Immaterial. ! The cockroach - is : said -to employ radio ; communication, " but Tit will 'scarcely be tolerated on that account by eve the most rabid Vbug." . J V:.y Hi LnJ.cJTIi. MEIow can you wear a drear:y look when that "jazz orchestra is taaklEg such "an infernal racket?" ' .-. ; Ttcaxrles- me back to my . happy childhood," said the cabaret patron, : ml was brought ' up in the shadow ! 'a boiler factory.'! Birmingham Age. Herald - , I mis f ;l$ ; Worth - - Eyes neglected ard strained : 1 when a fitting of glasses is l - needed are cert?an.4td fail ?! rapidly lea Jiag to j:pensive . and painful tre tnent, 4 Properly fiutii glasses aro the remedy for eye trouble 7 of all sorts if fitted as soon as needed, " " ' f ' ' Our examinations uncov ers the .facts about your yes. 1 ' ,. v, - ; ,'i Come to our office for an . examination. Get the tacts r about your eyes. ?'- . . ; DR. S. ROBINSON Optometrist - : "Know Us By This Sign1 78 Pattph Ave., Asheville; North Carolina Let Us Print Your Sale Bills GET ABOARD ! PRICES ARE DOWN Neponset is : ' BIRD & SON, 3 , I' r We ca x'.v at -j j ; .Whet, t . ! ' : rv Dea.?r--S iniard 'PITV 0- ED w V ' - . .'MX litULl - Cleaning Pressing Dyeing All work turned out promptly. Main Street Brevard NOTICE OF LAND SALE B Y COM-MISSIONEk-4' , Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Transylva nia county made in a special proceed ing entitled : Mollie J. Duckworth, admr'x of J. E. Duckworth, deceas ed, vs. Mrs. Sallie McCarrelL et -al. pending before the Clerk&jpf"?d court, the undersigned commissioner will on Monday; the 4th dayvbf De cember, 1922 at 12 o'clock M-sell to the highest bidder the following de- .,' . 77. .' i. 7- VOU fellows who ' have been putting off repair work and new building because prices have been high can climb right aboard this minute and BUILD NOW .We've bought right so our prices are righfe The right Bird's Roof will cost a whole lot less than you thinks ? jWhetherfyou need Bird's Paroid, Birpfo Art-Craft (tile or shjngle design), Bird V Plain; Slate Surfaced, Bird s Granitized or Birds Twin Shingles, we will be glad to -tell you ;. Jiow little it will cost. Bird s Robfslwill r iot catch fire from falling sparks. , . "i'-JV '77-; ; ;-7 JK.7-t7 7J. ;V7 I'X'' 'Neponset Black" is the building paper whidh protects against dampness , and ; drafts, because : Waterproof. . . inc. (Established 1 79S) East Walpole, Mass. Miller Supply Company - ' t , J. A MTLLEEi, Manager " ?; six: pc; crosses '- : : bsing in the said .nui .. ea . 8 polos t V.l,:; line; t V'hid jiiv . lino siakii; thn nor.n 1 gumthe L,' WL.c nrest. crossing the st; . . Brevard' to;Kcaman, JJ. , to a stake,'f ormerly a v. ' north 1SB poles to a sts' s gap ; fcer . with Jcs." I (line soutfi- 45- de?' west T 'a stake -a;.' Mason's creek; iZ deg. west 2(F poles to l bn.fi.ch; then south 59 degr. ; poles to a, stake on-the top v . ridg'i in' Eugere Southern's U a : i uow:r and witn tne iop oi-siid r- 3 ay tnd j ust east of - arid ten . - ' 7. T-' " "."CI" j .ww ... 1.1.1- t- A. j: . i 'v . rt stake at' the bend of said road: then', , tnu wn Ciouiiiern s ;iine,sa soutu iiy -i, . . d:'reclion aI)out 178 poles1 to a ,;stke--j -, :, in e centre? of 'the''revard-rEosEian: 'i",i-t '-H-l' s iror 'TrynelacreeK;.s1ilet-sV''fy a ' -u ra5 4 i,o r ,highway - southlS ' : :; . deg. west 10poles;ft stake an the 5 Rtlll wifh eaiA Tn. enitk Q A " f v- 7f c opoies to a stake m-said road; theri. s still with said road, south: 8 deg. west-'.i; 4 poles; south 60 deg. west 10 poles? SNi south 6 deg west 8 poles to' a stake in centre of said road opposite a WWW V " oak standing in the old Paxtori line,- " ; then leaving said road !., and run- f ning with : said P ax to n- 1 ine east 115 poles;' crossing Cherryfield ' creek, to the beginningvebntaining va 134 acres. Known as the Cherryfield ": ' Farm. Oiv- -5 iiyfyftf. ritfiH": t'i .t The sale will beubeci to ; roch : riehtof wav a fh rnilwav V.ATnTntr may have on the west sider; of the ; track and also with reservation of a plot of ground surrounding: the graves oi w imam jjuckwotrn etiai and the : .(m;:; right of way from the highway to v said grave plot.':'' " ;:7.:?.iv 7.77 ''j:;- The-terms of sale' witt f Fone half v cash on day of sale; rema&$ed?iitf two J f; equal payments six4 and : twelve months, deferred payments f draw in-1 terest..; ' ' ' s,n? ' "'" & Title vwiM be retained unta.all jpur " chase ni'oney has been -paid" wTsecur- - - ed. Pnrchasr to have 'stssBS' ,ing, all jafirtv-afcyrtime title'. . : : "". s. This Octoberv30.1922. -jV ..welch .ciXLLOw;; Commissioner Nov. 24-c. : r Ti 1 . ... .s - v. VfV ; ; ; 1 v, ; 1 I J 'I i' V-Tf ' ' j f' " -4 ."-.. : . .--.?i-r.J--?i '! i I -; r -v - . ' "T . U r' 4- 7,m; v'7 ...'! .i 1 '.V , .' ;7 -S" now held generally in contempt. " i - V :,i..-. .7 . 7 :'',7