THE BREVARD NEWS Published Every Thursday bjr THHE TRANSTELVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Im. Sutured at the Postoffice in Bnwd) N. C., as Second Class Matter. James F. Barrett Editetf Miss Alma Trowbridge, Associate M. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in Advance) One Year ? *2.00 ?Six Months 1.00 Three Months 00 THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929 SOMETIMES WE CUSS Tfli: THING THAT IS OUR~B?ST FRIEND AND ALLY.' ** In these days of Smi)fll change and rapid changes, when we are faced with a tax for this and a tax for that, and a penally for delay with a double penalty it' we should happen to brag about what we made the year before, u 1 1 of us are free and easy with our criticism ox the causes for all this taxation. Most of us hop onto ths schools the very first thing, be'ie.' yi'ng xhat the school is the cause of ii.ost of our tax worries. Well, th^ schools do cojt a whole lot, and this newspaper believes they have been costing more than* they should. I, ike any other thing that has had the full support of the public for a long time, the schools have exceeltd the speed limit, and many tens of thousands of dollars have been spent that brought nothing to the school children that they really needed in their school work. Now the danger comes in the pos sibility. and the probability, that we shftil overdo the thing in demanding that school expenses be cut down. We must remember that a big major ity of our children stop school when they have graduated in the High School, and if we should go so fai as to hinder the High School work then we are cutting off the one thinjj that is enjoyed by the greatest num ber. But few boys and girla from tht graduating classos ir. our Higt Schools continue their work in col leges and universities. Therefore, tlu High School education is the mos common one, and must do for tht greatest number of people. Should we go blindly into a fight to hamper the schools, ther., when ii is our own boy, or our own girl, wh< is to be the victim of our resentment against the cost of the schools? So let us make haste slowly, a the old sage said, and while doinj what we can to lower taxes, let u do it such way that the boys and girl who are to have no other educatioi except that of the High School shal not be deprived of one whit of thi opportunities that should be theirs Many of us are not able to send ou; boys and girls to college, therefor we should make the High School thi very best possible training grount for them. 'SUNSHINE" HAMMMATT RETURNED TO TOWN. Boy, you ought to have been at thi Kiwanis meeting last Thursday noon when Sherman P. Hammatt, knowi to his many friends as "Sunshine' Hammatt, came walking into th< Waltermire Grill. Old dark clouds oi despair that have been hanging ovei Brevard business men during the win ter were instantly dispelled, and the gloom was lifted even as the morning sun rays lift the fog. For the benefit of those who dc not know Sunshine Hammatt, he if manager of the Franklin Hotel dur ing the summer season, and wanders around over Florida during the win ter. When Mr. Hammatt returns tc Brevard, it is known of all men thai it is the beginning of "Th< Good Old Summer-time," and wil not be long until the tourist* begin arriving in great numbers Lordy, how, the men about th< Kiwanis table smacked their lips, clapped their hands, stamped theii feet and yelled their welcome to old Sunshine." But all this ovatien was not simply because Mr. Hammiatt's return tc Brevard marked the beginning of the season. Most of it waB just because the men were really glad to see Sher man Hammatt again, for he is the kind of a man, in every sense of the word, that other men love to see in the crowd-just a doggone good scout, that's what he is, and a good hotel man, and a good business man, and a good addition to the town. Sonie folks seem to think that be cause the Creator made the world in six days and rested on the seventh, that they can take all there is in the world in six days and then go for an automobile ride on the seventh. 'so MANY FOLKS TRY TO ORDER THE LIVES OF THE WORKING MEN. , Ever since one man had the ( money with" which to hire another, man to work for him there have beer certain people who wanted to tell | jthat working man how to live, act, iabor, breathe, sleep, walk, stand, sit and get up. It is usually some ione who neither furnishes the capi 'tal for industry nor labors in the j plant that is so ready to tell how it | all ought to be done. Roger Babson, self-appointed phy .ician to every ailing business, has >een discussing the coming of the j five-day work week. He sees it com ng, and deems it a good thing, if enly the working man who will ! labor five days a week instead of mx days, will use this extra day for advancement rather than waste the ' time." 1 Hire is what Babson says about I this part of his sermon: Of course, the mere shortening j of tho working week and affording workers more leisure without some assurance that this leisure would be nroperly used, would do more i'amare than good. Consequents , i if taXtrv " to adopt the five-day week it sb.cuid undertake a work ers' educational program, teaching them the difference between leis ure and idleness. Siare time ' properly used will assure cont1"" ued prosperity. Employes should ! be encouraged to utilize at leasv a uart of their spare time .n self i improvement. It may be that we shall have Saturday morning adult 1 classes in various educational sub jects of interest and value to workmen. The principal uanger in the five-day week is not loss 01 production, but the possible en couragement of idleness. I <? lieve, however, that our edu cational system couid offer special j courses which would appeal to many workers who have long felt ? the need of further education, but who could not spare the time for it. ... If Now isn't that just too bad. it ? would never do for a working man i or any member of his family to be i idle. That soeir.s to be the whole ? idea in a nutshell. We suppose Mr. , Babson would have the working men ; 1 use this extra day of rest like the ? rich use theirs. How about teaching . the women in the homes of the > workers to play bridge, so they may ? ' meet and play cards for prizes. Or : ' if they could have dances, and house t' parties, following the example of j 1 the wealthier folks. Possibly it ; would be a good idea for the work t ! ing people to learn the racketeering 6 game, and improve their conduct , and marksmanship by shooting up ; the town, like so many gangs do in the larger cities. Then, too, there is the moving picture field. Maybe S the workers could devote their spare * j time in visiting Hollywood, and S learn how to get divorces and marry others already divorced, and get I their names and pictures in the newspapers and magazines. There are so many things the working people may do with this ox r tra day's time each week, according 5 to these free-advice givers. But why J are these critics always so deeply 1 interested in the working people, and so fearful of what they may do with a few hours extra freedom from their labors? Why does Babson not see the danger of idleness to the rich as well as to the poor? Let the working people alone. They are amply able to take care of their own leisure hours. The work ing man may not do so much to im f | prove himself, but he is eternally in terested in his child's advancement. The very fact that he is a wage earner, made so because of his lack of opportunities to get an education, makes this wage-earner all the more determined that his children shall have a better chance than he him self had, hence his one thought is the education and advancement of little ones. With this great ideal there is no cause for alarm in the fact that a working man is to labor live days a week instead of six days. 1 , "IF I CAN'T PITCH, I WONT PLAY." I Say, does your memory reach back to your boyhood days? Do you re [ call the days that you, with other I kids in the community, beat it hot- j foot to an old vacant lot and start ed a baseball game? Do you remem ber a certain boy in the group who ' wanted to be the pitcher, and the ' others had selected another boy for that position. Do you recall how, that boy would raise the very dick 1 ens, and in the end yell out: "Well, if I can't pitch, I won't play." I Gosh, how all the other boys des- ^ pised such a spirit as that! If he j couldn't have just the thing he want- j ed, regardless of all else, then he simply woulu not play at all. And we have some grown-up boys J just like that. We have some men who, if they cannot be exactly what they want to be in tka community life, then they simply refme to take any part in community activities. The whining, selfiBh boy who would not play because they didn't let him pitch, had no team spirit at all. He cared nothing about the team. All he cared for was his only personal likes and dislikes. So it is with some men in com munity work. They care nothing at all about the community as a whole, and will take only that part they want for themselves, and if they cannot get that, then they will not do anything. L'ordy, what a knot on a log such men are in the community. Selfish, self-centered, swell-headed, big head and a couple of over-parched tight-skinned, hidebound, narrow minded, short-sighted, with a gizzard for a heart, a green gourd for a head and a couple of over-parched peanuts for brains, they cannot see that the whole community must pros per if any one man in the commun ity is to prosper. THE COUNTY'S FIRST COUNTY COURT. i Judge Rob't I>. Gash, lawyer, histor ian and philosopher, makes caustic comment in today's Brevard News about our statement that Transyl vania's first County Court will sit on the first Monday in June. He calls upon the shades of highcockalorums to witness such an error in Brevard's Best Newspaper and delves back in to the sixties and rakes up a county court that was comprised of all the magistrates of the county, sitting as & court, and twiddletwaddles his one ' string band on down the line to that I time when there was a Recorder's Court here, which passed into history t with Brother Gash himself lazily writing the word "finis' 'at the end of the chapter. I The Brevard News fell into error in writing the headline over the story referred to by Judge Gash, and call ed it in the headline a Recorder's Court." We maintain, however, that there was no error in the body of the article, and that the county's first County Court will be that which convenes on the first Monday in June, which was created by the county commissioners on the first Monday in May, this year. There have been courts and courts a.id courts galore in Transylvania county, but so far as we can ascer tain the facts ? and we've consulted leading lawyers* in both parties and leaders in all the churches ? this is the first County Court, having con current jurisdiction with the Super ior court in both civil and criminal actions, except felonies, . that has ever been established here. We're not so especially concerned about the court. If it is good for the county, then we wish it much success. If it is not good for the county, public opinion will cause it to pass into the discard. It is not to discuss the merits of the court at all that we reply to Brother Gash's ar ticle, but rather due to the fact that we kind o' hate to be called seven teen kinds of a fool right out in pub lic. LET'S GO BACK TO THE ONE-KING RULE. What do you say that we change ,our form of government and go back to the one-king form? Our forefathers fought like wildcats to rid us of king rule .little dreaming ! that their dreams of free govern ment would end as it has. Back in jthe days of absolute monarchy, when there was one king over a na tion, the people knew exactly what I they could do and what they couldn't 'do. The idea of being at the abso lute mercy of one man caused our [old forbears to fight like fury for freedom from such rule, and estab lish a government where the people should rule. J It was a beautiful ideal, a won drous dream. I But what has followed? Instead jof having one king over us, we have a whole army of kings. There is the big political king, and the thousand little political kings scattered throughout the nation. Then there are banking kings, to whom we must bow; the gambling king; the school king; the employer-king and the labor king; the legislative king and the judicial king; the department king and the bureau king; the mort gage company king, and the automo bile king; the land-owning king and the tax collector king; the chain store king and the food monoply king; the clothing king and the doctor king; the hunting king and the fishing king; the parking king and the jay walking ki*g; the church king and the bootlegger king ; the sectional king and the king of prejudice; the power king and the coal king; the Chamber of Commerce king and the pinner club king; and how many more, good gracious alive, how many more! And all of as are subjects to all these kingB, and it keeps a fellow busy bowing and scraping to so many kings. So, it seems to us that it would be better to go back to the old days and ways, have one king, learn his wishes and execute them. Then we would have some time left in Tvhich to do our ordinary work. WELL, GUESS ELKIN WILL GET THE TROOPS NEXT. j Elkin, a thriving little city in the mountains a few counties removed from here, has a mayor, as most towns have. They have boys and girls in Elkin, too, as most towns have. Evidently these youngsters in Elkin have been running around over | the streets at night, as youngsters in most towns do. | Now comes word through The El kin Tribune to the effect that the mayor of Elkin has invoked the aid of an old law, and will reigidly en force it. This old law is commonly | known as 'The Curfew Law." At ! 10 o'clock each night the boys, and girls of Elkin, under the age of 16 | years, must not bp on the streets of Elkin, unless accompanied by their ' daddies and mammies, or have a writ ten permit from parents to the ef fect that said daddy or mammy of 'staid child agrees to said child being on the street at that particular hour on that particular date. j Boy, Howdy! That takes nerve, in this day of rule by flaming youth, Bet you a quarter that the mayor o* Elkin culls out the state trocps be fore her3 don* with this thing. CAN'T SPARE UREESE, THANK YOU, SIR. I our good friend, Bill Band, presid ing genius in the offices of The Waynesville Mountaineer, ups ana says some nice things about our townsman, the Hon. Wm. E. Breese, better known as "Breese of Bre , vard." Editor Band i3 talking abou the next congressional candidate on the democratic ticket, saying that ex-Congressman Zebulon Wea^" should have -first clip at the 19oU nomination, but in event Mr. Weaver cares not to battle again with fickle public opinion, then a good bet for the democrats wiuld be the selecwion 'of Mr. Breese as standard bearer for 'Tenth District. Following is Mr. Band's kindly 'comment on the Brevard lawyer: 1 Considering congressional mater ial, we can name many good men, staunch and true Democrat.c lead; ers in smaller counties We can ' think of Attorney Wm. E. Breese, of Brevard, N. C. With Mr. Breese, the Tenth District would have one of the greatest, most Poll8h?d d p lomatic leaders th?* Ah^)emo j been the privilege of the Jem 1 cratic Party to be united under. He is pre-eminently ana ? one of the outstanding attorneys at law and leaders that we know ' about at this time. . We object to Mr. Breese being ' entered as a candidate for congress. While we most heartily agree with Brother Band in his statements as to the qualifications of Mr. Breese, ( his splendid reputation, his wonder-, ful ability, and all that and then j some, still we object. I Our objection is based upon tne, fact that Brevard is not willing for . jMr. Breese to leave this county and ; ' move to Buncombe county, which he I would have to do in order to be nom- ( inated for congress. We have been | i telling you for some time that no j 'man in "any county other than Bun- 1 combe has a ghost of a show for the nomination for congress on either political ticket unless he first moves to Buncombe. It matters not how able, how strong, how efficient, a man may be who lives in any other county, he cannot get a look-in for congressional honors unless he is a citizen of Buncombe county. So, while we would gladly see Mr. Breese in congress, we are not will ing, however, to lose him as a citi zen of Transylvania county, there fore we object to his being entered in the 1930 contest. Let some one who is already a citizen of Buncombe county have the nomination, you are not going to entice our good friends I away from Brevard. ? Maybe, someday, away out yonder i in the future, when all the Bun combe county politicians and favor ite sons shall have had their fill of feed at the various political troughs, then a man like Breese of Brevard, Hamlin of Brevard, Alley of Waynes ' ville, Blanton of Forest City. Neal of Marion, and other good men hay have a chance at some of these honors. But the Buncombe Combine is hard to beat and we fear the MiUemum has not yet begun, insofar as Tent District politics is conccrned. It takes. team work to wm a game ?-and it takes team work to build ? community, and the poor blind citi zen who cannot see that he must take his place as one of the citizens instead of being THE citizen, is standing in his own light, hurting himself just as much as ha hurts any one else. j OWN TAXES MUST BE 'AID BEFORE THE 1ST. Town Tax Collector Harry Pattonj^ as a communication in today's Bre- ! g ard News, urging the pepole to pay I g heir town taxes on or before the'^ irst day of June. These taxes j * hould have been paid on or before ( he first day of May, but the town ^ ifficials agreed to give the citizens 'ne month more ? the month of May ?in which to make payment so their jroperty would not be advertised, j This month is about gone, and an louncement is made that property ^ vill be advertised beginning the first A-eek in June on which the 1928 1 axes have not been paid. There will >e no further extension of time, the ] ifficials say. As pointed out in these columns aefore, the matter of town taxes is i matter of concern to every citizen Df Brevard. This town belongs to J the people, and the people owe the amount of indebtedness which standi in the town's name. The only meth od oi' inciting these obligations is through that of taxation. The town 1 is being pressed, therefore the town officials, as state the ense, must htve the taxes now due in ojder to meet the town's obligations. We believe it would be well for all tax-payera to make special effort to pay their town taxes at once, and not experience the inconvenience of standing about the tax collector's office on the last day, which is al ways crowded with those who wr.it until the last moment. We do hope that the advertised j list will be at an absolute minimum, j This newspaper regrets the necessity I of having to publish any citizen's | property for sale on account of un- ' paid taxes, but we have to do it J whon the authorities order it done. | So see to it that YOUR taxes are] paid, so YOUR property will not be j advertised. A CHANGE ALREADY OVERDUE ! (Asheville Citizen) Some resentment is expressed by The High Point Enterprise over the ^ featuring in the metropolitan press i of what it considers a sob story on the textile labor situation in the South. The particular story which i excites the High Point newspaper's ' indignation tola of the appearance before the Senate Manufacturing Committee of "an ? almost ghastly squad of textile workers" from the South who were "led by a girl of fourteen, who was the size of a girl half that age and bore the cares of a woman three times that old." W&ereupon The Enterprise com ments: "The stage is set for a heart- 1 wringing exhibition before the na tion, with the Senate Committee and the Federation of Labor joining in a performance that has nothing more than a shoddy dramatic value of j questionable purpose." It suggests, that 'it would be quite easy to or ganize a group of robust, pinkcheek- j ed, well fed, athletic and well dressed textile operatives in any cotton mill area in North Carolina for a like visit to Washington of those willing to testify that they are satisfied and t happy in their lot.' Granted, but che fact remains, nevertheless, that the mass of textile operatives in the South are not pink cheeked, well-fed, well-dressed, hap py and contented. They can not possibly be under the conditions . which now exist. According to the Blue Book of Southern Progress for 1929, just issued by the Manufactur ers' Record, the average per-hour | earnings of all workers in the cot ton mills of North Carolina were 29.5 cents as compared with 24.4 ; cents in Alabama, 26 cents in Geor- j gia, 26 cent? in South Carolina and , 31.6 cents in Virginia. To earn: $17.70 a week the average cotton | mill worker in North Carolina, if the ; Blue Book figures are correct, must toil a full sixty hours ? and many j of them do. Of course, some cotton | mill operatives get more than -9.5 1 cents an hour but a great many oth ers get les3 than that. The point is that this problem of the Southern textile industry fa not, to be settled on the basis either of j the 'pitiful tales" of the kind to which our High Point contemporary | takes exception or on the basis of the rosy-cheeked operatives who may ! be found here or there. It ought to be settled on the basis of a fair l)v ing wage for the average operative. . with fair and reasonable working ( hours based upon common human ( experience. Nobody in this day and j time should be expected to work an ( average of ten hours a day for six , days of the week. Such hours of , labor are out of line with the Arner- ^ ican standard of living about which ( we hear so much, especially when, as , now. a tariff bill is under consider- , ation at Washington. The boast of , the high protectionists fa that the , tariff has mads possible a bettei , standard of living in this territory ( but the fact stands out that it ha? ] lot made it possible to date for the ; mass of textile workers in the Sou.h_ t It is high time that the people of ;he South as a whole revised their ( thinking on these matters. Cheap i abor is no advantage to any section. >] [t may be a disgrace. A general re- t rision of the wage scales and work- t ng hours in the textile industry of ? he South is overdue. We do not see low a Senate investigation can bring <j iuch a revision about but the intelli- t rence and <eommonsense of the leda- t 'rs of the mill industry should vec ignize that it is imperatively needed md the public sentiment of the iouth should demand it. We believe \ hat it does demand it now. ?THE COUNTRY DOCTOR" We are glad that at last somebody M paid a tribute in verse to one of he greatest heroes of the country Ide? the rural doctor. One of our Lzkuisat subscribers sends us these eraes from the Denver Post: ? )ut of his bed at midnight, Over a snowbound trail; hatching a case till daylight, Braving a winter gale. Up from a meal at midday, Off on a hurry call; files on a lonely byway; Out through a summer squall. Called from an ev'ning's pleasure, Into a bitter night; Lured from moment's leisure Into a patient's plight. Rushing away at daybreak Into a blizzard wild; 3oothing a mother's heartache Ever a willing servant; Never a selfish end; 9olacing, kind, observant ? Doctor, advisor, friend! ? A. De Bernadi, Jr. NOTICE OF ENTRY North Carolina franaylvauia County. Entry ot Lands No. 2646. To Ira D. Galloway, Entry Taker, of Transylvania County: The undersigned claimant ben;? a citizen of the State of North Caroli na, hereby sets out and shows that the following tract of land, to-wit: Lying and be in,? in Hogback Town ship, Transylvania County, North Carolina, stnd mora particular des cribed as follows: Adjoining the lands of L. H. Mears, Arthur Miller and others. Beginning >on a spruce pine in L. H. .M ear's line, and near a small branch, just south cf a small lake and runs various courses for com plement. To include all vacant land in said boundary, containing ten acres more or leas. This the 9th day cf May 1929. N. A. MILLER, Claimant IRA D. GALLOWAY, Entry Taker P 16-2-30Jun6 NOTICE North Carolina Traasylvania County. By virtue of the povrer given in a certain deed of trust executed by J. H. Norris and wife IUa Norris to the undersigned trustee to secure certain indebtedness mentioned therein, which deed of trust is dated 24 of April 1928 and registered in Book 24 on page3 of I>eed of Trust Records of Transylvania coun ty, North Carolina, and said indebt edness mentioned having become due and default having been made in the payment, and the notice as re quired in said deed of trust having been given to the makers of said note and deed 6f trust to make good the payment afel default not having been made go<Jd, and the holder of said note having demanded that the lands described in said deed of trust be sold to satisfy the said indebted ness and the cost of sale. I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in the town of Brevard, N. C. on Saturday June 8 1929 at 12 o'clock M. all the following described land. Being all that land described hi a deed of trust executed by J. H. Nor ris and wife to T. C. Galloway, trus tee, dated the 24 day of April 1928, and recorded in the office of Reg ister of deeds for Transylvania in Book 24 at pa?e 3 of deed of trust records. Containing 2 p.crea. This 8 day of May 1929. T. C. GALLOWAY, Trustee PM9-16-28-30 i NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Under and by virtue of the author ity conferred by deed of trust by L F. Thompson and wife, Bleek* Thompson, to the First National Bank of Durham, North Carolina, Trustee, dated the 15th day of De cember, 1928, and recorded in Book 27, page 10, Transylvania County, the First National Bank of Durham, North Carolina, Trustee, will on June 11th, 1929 at 12 o'clock M. at the court house door in Transylvania County, sell at public auction for cash to the highest bidder the follow ing described property: All of that certain piece, parcel j or lot of lan, aituate, lying and be ing in the Town of Brevard, County of Transylvania, State of North Car olina, and more particularly describ ed as follows: BEGINNING at a stake in the North margin of Probarte Avenue, said stake standing at the point of ' intersection of said north margin of Probarte Avenue with the east mar gin of Estabrook Avenue, and runs with said east margin of Estabrook Avenue north 25 degrees 18 min. east 125.9 feet to a stake, corner of lots Nos. 12 and 30; thence south 58 uast with the line dividing' said lots. 84.6 feet to a stake, corner of Lots Nos. 13 and 14; thence with the linej dividing said Lots Nos. 13 i louth 32 west 125 feet to a st the north margin of Probarte nue; thence with said north >f Probarte Avenue north L_ west 50 feet to the place of Bepin ling. Containing all of lots Nos. 12 I md *13 of the Estabrook Eogperty as I shown by plat made bJWCase Afl Williamson, Civil Engine<?S, for the! 1 J. Jeffress Realty Company, sai^l jlat being recorded in Book 33, page I )0, of the records of deeds for Tran-I rylvania County, North Carolina. And being all of that certain lotl >f land described in deed from B.l W. Trantham and wife, to L. F.J rhompson, dated August 3, 1928,1 ir.d recorded in Book 61, page 72, of! he records of Deeds for Transjl ?ania County. North Carolina. < This sale is made on account lefault in the payment of indebt less secured by the said deed rust. This 7th day of May, 1929. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Dirham, North Carolina, TrwSr" V. S. Lockhart.Atty. Durham* N. H4K M9-l?-23-|JJune 1 oi Lots ? the li^U

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