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BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 13, 1929 VOL. XXXIV. WILL ESTABLISH A FINISHING PLANT AT TRANSYLVANIA J. S. Sihrersieen Make# An councemeat Upon His Return from N. Y. MEANS BIG ADDITION TO COUNTY'S INCOME J. A. Shackner, of New York, Jo Be In Charge of New Department J Work on the finishing plant, tobe! operated in connection with Tran sylvania Tanning company's plant/ is now under way, and will be rushed to completion. This announcement was made by Mr. J. S. Silversteen upon his return from New York the first of the week, where he had spent several days in completing the de tails of the additional department. Leather belting of all kinds will be manufaitured in the new plant, from the heaviest machine belting to the finest of dress belts for men and women. Embossed belting will also be a feature of the new addition. Many skilled men will be employ- 1 ed in this new department, aa the work calls for specially trained workers. Mr. J. A. Shackner, for merly with the National Leather Belting company of New York, will be in charge of the department. He is considered one of the most thor oughly experienced it.en in the coun try in this line of work. Mr. Shack ner Will bring his family to Brevard within the next few days, and with him will come several other families of experienced men who will have places in the organization. For many years Mr. Silversteen hai; been a large employer of labor in Transylvania county, being at the heiid of the Transylvania Tanning company, the Gloucester. Lumber company and the Rosman Tanning company. In addition to this, he is vice president of the Brevard Bank ing company and chairman of the board of directors of that institu tion. Aside from his direct business connections, Mr. Silversteen has been most active in civic affairs, having been president of the Bre vard Country club, a director in the Chamber of Commerce and the Ki-. wanis club, and is president of the Western North Carolina Timber and Lumber Dealers association. Intimation was made in this paper some three weeks ago that official announcement would soon be forth coming of the establishment of the finishing plant here, and much in terest has been manifest among the citizens not only of Brevard, but throughout the county. The new de partment will mean an additional fifty families in Brevard, and as the business grows, this number of em ploves will grow in proportion. Friends of Mr. Silversteen have expressed the community's gratitude to him for his successful efforts in bringing greater business activity to the community. It means much, especially just now will the benefits of the plant be impressively felt. NOTED EDUCATORS ! MOVE TO BREVARD Prof, and Mrs. B. H. Gault, of West Palm Beach, Fla., have leased the Deer Park Home, near Camp Sapphire, for a long period of years. It is the plans of the lessors to con- J duct a summer session here each year! for the Gault Schools, operating in West Palm Beach. The school will not begin here, however, until next year, as Prof, and Mrs. Gault will entertain several Florida friends during this summer. The Gaults arrived in Brevard last week, and have already made many, friends here. Several Florida friends j have joined them this . week, and ' others will come within the next ten 1 days. Their interests in Brevard will mean much to this community, both from the pleasure of knowing Prof, and Mrs. Gault, and because of their wide acquaintance in Florida. MASONIC LODGE TO ELECT OFFICERS FRIDAY EVENING Dunn's Rock Masonic Lodge will elect officers at the regular commun ication this Friday evening. All members are urged to attend. COUNTY COURT TO SIT NEXT MONDAY Next Monday, June 17, another ses sion of the County Court will be held, when several cases that have been set for trial will be heard. It is believed all cases can be disposed of on that day that have been dock eted for the 17th. In event they cannot be heard, then the sessions will continue over to Tuesday. When this session is completed, there will be no more County Court sessions until the first Monday in July. Many cases have been set for that date, and court may last sev eral days in the first week of July. CALLS UPON NORTH CAROLINA TO ACT FOR ITS FORESTS 20,000,000 Acres of Land In This State To Re-Forest, Is Estimate THROWN OUT FARMS I GIVE PROMISE OF RICHES Program Calls for Re-Planting of Much I -and In West ern Carolina Washington, June 12. ? North and South Carolina have, between them, 35,000,000 acres of land suitable for forests, says a statement issued today at the headquarters of the American Tree Association. The association is rounding up figures for the entire country in order to show the amount of idle land that should be put to work growing for-1 ests. In educational work, Charles! Lathrop Pack, the president of the1 association has given 69,377 Forest ry Primers to the schools of the two states so that the coming genera tions will be forestry minded. He i has given three million of the prim- 1 ers to the school teachers of the country. In North Carolina, the American ( Tree Association's statement says, there are 16,040,000 acres naturally restocking to forest and 3,040,000 acres not naturally restocking. The natural restocking process is slow, as every one knows. The average cost per acre of replanting is $12 per acre. In fifty years experts say pine planted now would make the yield worth $200 per acre. That makes forest planting now, the asso ciation points out, look like a good investment. It also asks what will be the price of lumber in the year 2000 if no idle land is planted now. D. M. Curran, of the North Caro- ] lina Agricultural department, put the situation this way in a recent ' statement: "The twenty million acres of forest land in North Carolina are capable of producing forever, twice the present cut of a billion board feet, and to supply our present wood 'isirsg J*"ii"-trie? perpetually. The revenues which tliis ' foies? ."/ealth should produce annually fur the state, may even in time rival that now produced by the manufacturers of cotton and tobacco." In South Carolina a forestry de partment recently was organized. There are 14,000,000 acres of po tential forest land in the state. There are only a half million acres of virgin timber in all. The figures may be changed somewhat as fur ther checking goes on. To get the idle lands to produce something of value quickly it is nec essary to plan: "thrown out" farm lands and areas that are burned so ( hard that there is no hope of natural ; reforestation within a reasonable time. If these areas are protected . from fire nature eventually will take | care of them, but nature is entirely i too slow. Where seed trees are lack-| ing many years are required for parent trees to seed extensive areas, j South Carolina ought to plant at ^ least one million acres quickly, the | association says. Of recent years the scarcity of | timber has reflected itself in high . prices. Wood, in all its multitudin- ; ous forms, is something we cannot i well do without. No nation ever] has. Wood means houses, turpen tine, boxes, fuel, shingles, ties, posts, i poles, magazines, books, and news papers. It means a wealth of things on which our whole economic structure is predicated. Yet it is daily getting scarcer. "A great opportunity presents it self to the Carolinas," says Mr. Pack. "Everybody in the two states knows the value of the naval stores industry. More and more other in dustry is finding its way into these states. Will the states look ahead. What part will they have in the great industrial program of the fut ure? That part depends largely on forests. Today the state of New York plants more trees every year than the federal government. The United States is planting about one tenth as mvich every year as does Japan. Our economic life ^lepends upon forest products. Now' is the time for business men of these states, just ; over night from the great manufjic ' turing centers to the northward, to demand a forest planting program and see that it is put into opera , tion." i POPULAR GIRL KNOWN HERE j HONORED IN GEORGIA SCHOOL i Miss Nida McGehee, well known ? here where the family spends their summers, was elected sponsor of the A. 0. S. club in the Lanier High High School, Macon, Ga., last week. This is one of the highest honors in I the school. The McGehee family will arrive in Brevard about the 18th , to spend the summer here. MR. J. L. BELL RETURNS FROM WINTER QUARTERS Mr. J. L. Bell, one of the best ; known citizens of the town, has re turned to Brevard . after having spent the winter months in Eastern i Carolina. Mr. Bell is now stopping at the home of his daughter, Mrs ? E. W. BIythe, on Country Clul I road. CREAM BUSINESS OF MUCH INTEREST ??t Crowds of Interested People Call at B. & B. For Fall Information Farmers of the county literally swamped the offices of the B. &. B. Feed and Seed company lBst Friday and Saturday, seeking information j about the cream business, as an nounced in last week's Brevard News. I Mr. Brittain says he was immensely ! pleased with the fine response, and I makes prediction that before very [long the farmers of the county will i be receiving checks ir big amounts for the cream shipped from here* | The fact that any man who owns a cow or two can begin at once get , ting returns from the sales of the , cream, is the gripping point in the I plan. Of course, many farmers are already buying, or making arrange ments to buy, more cows. The ever ready market for the cream, with no. churning to be done, with the skim med milk left for the chickens and pigs, the farmers can see immediate ly the big benefits to be derived from the plan. "I've already sold enough cream to pay my taxes," said one fanner, and he picked up his empty can and started to the tax collector's office. It is this new money, this money that comes from a source from which no money has been coming in the past, that makes the plan well worth while. It is believed that tens of; thousands of dollars, will flow into . the farming sections of the county through the sale of cream, and a prosperity be enjoyed here that has1 never before been known. Within a few months the income from the cream will be augmented by the money which the chickens and pigs that have been raised on the skim med milk, will also be coming into the county. i Farmers who have not as yet' looked into the matter will do well , to make investigation. RE-TRIAL OF JESUS I IS NOW PUNNEDi 1 I Stage To Be Set In Denver j * Where 71 Jews Will " j Act as Judges DENVER. Colo., June 12 ? Retrial of a heresy case 2,000 years old ? that of Jesus of Nazareth before the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem ? is planned by prominent Denver Jews to "com pile an answer to the blood accusa tions hurled at the Jews ever since the crucifixion." 'Seventy-one Jewish laymen, schol-! ars and rabbis would occupy the judi cial bench, and the entire Christian world would be called as witnesses, i The new trial is proposed, also, to ' "better the future spiritual welfare of Jews the world over." The movement is part of that aimed at the re-establishment of the Jewish nation, a vision which appeared to I Jewry with General Allenby's bare-' headed entrance into Jerusalem in1 1917. i The immediate sponsor of the re-| trial is Solomon Shwayder, Denver I manufacturer. Under tentative plans | it would require from four to seven I years and would codify all existing ideas about the life and death of the Nazarene Carpenter; Shwayder said it was back by the ["rank and file" of the Jewish people, as opposed to the rabbinical cult ' which succeeded the priestly cult af ter the destruction of Jerusalem in ; the summer of the year 70 A. D. by; Roman soldiers. Shwayder, who visited Jerusalem ? last year after ten yers of confer- ' ences with .prominent Jewish laymen, throughout ' the United States, con tends that the Sanhedrin, Jewish re ligious cult, was immediately respon- 1 ?ible for the death of Jesus. The Jewish people, other than the Sadducees and Pharisees (regarded by scholars as the "liberals" and "conservatives," respectively of Jew . ish religious-political life of the [time), did not want the Great Tea | cher to die, he believes, j In keeping, therefore, with the at , tempt to purge the Jewish people of i the accusation, he proposes another I "Great Sanhedrin," self-perpetuating j once it is established, to sit on the ! question, receiving testimony from , all walks of religious life in the world. i AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK , DISCUSSED BY FORSTER Raleigh, June 12. ? Fanners need not look for any effective relief measures to be passed by the pres ent Congress in the. opinion of Dr. G. W. Forster, agriculutral econom ist at State College, who says that, as heretofore, farmers must rely on their own efforts. "It is evident, at this time, that the Debenture plan will be eliminat ed from the Senate Bill," says Dn Forster. "This plan would be ef fective in raising the price of farm products but is only favored as an offset to the high, tariff on manufac tured articles. Farmers must look to adjustments in production and must market their products when prices are at the highest seasonal level as a means of establishing farming on a profitable basis." BASEBALL LEAGUE ORGANIZED HERE IMMMm Brevard, Ptsgsh Forest, Can ton and Marshall in the League OPENING GAMES LAST SATURDAY RAINED OUT Will Mean Much To This Com munity ? Support of Local Teams Is Needed A trs-county baseball league, with Brevard, Pisgah Forest, Canton and Marshall each furnishing a team was organized last week, with a sched ule calling for eighteen games, all games to be played on Saturdays with the possible exception of hol iday games. | The amateur organization wa? perfected with Walter Brown of Cantor , as president, and Jerry ' Jerome of Brevard as secretary.1 Strictly amateur bail will be played' ? no player being eligible for any j team who ha* played profesisonal ' ball, and no team will be allowed, under the rules of the organization to hirt an "outsider." 1 The first games, scheduled for last Saturday, were both rained out.1 Breavrd and Canton went for four! and one-half inninga on the local diamond before Jupiter Pluvius cut them short, with the score standing at 4:0 in favor of Canton. Frank, Carr took his Lumbermen to Mar- [ shall, where only two frames were] played with the score standing 0-0. i Lawrence Holt, who is manager of ' the Brevard outfit, has Albert Payne, Glen Galloway, Albert Kilpatrick and himself for mound duty, with Frank Osborne and Spencer Macfie to do the receiving. Carr has a strong hurling combination in "Doc" j Goodman, McMahan and himself I with Carlos Morris doing the re- 1 ceiving. Saturday's games are scheduled as follows; Marshall at Brevard. Pisgah Forest at Canton. With the strictly amateur organ- 1 ization, in which no player is to re ceive compensation for playing, no reason can be seen why the local teams will not be a credit to the county. A little decent support )> U! that is needed, is the way base ball fans see it. BETTER SEE ABOUT j LIGHT AND BRAKE Eck L. Sims Making Tests, and May Make Many Arrests I Eck L. Sims, highway patrolman, j has returned from Morehead City, ; where he took a month's course of j instruction in the. Patrol School i conducted by the state. It is not . known whether Mr. Sims will be ' sent away from Brevard as yet, but j he will make his decision within a ' short time, it is said. In the meantime Mr. Sims is de- j voting his efforts to an examination I of the lighting and brakes on ; owned by citizens of Transylvania ' county, and says he intends to push | this work until the law is complied with. The test for proper brakes is made by stopping a car going down j hill, on a ten per cent grade. If the car can be stopped in a given dis tance, and the emergency brakes hold in such manner that the car can not be pushed off by hand, the brakes are given the o. k. As to the lighting system on cars, Mr. Sims says the law is plain about this, and all citizens must obey it. He is especially concerned about the fellows who. drive with "one eyed" cars, and will make arrests, he says, in every instance where drivers are operating cars with im proper lighting facilities. BOB GOODSON SERIOUSLY CUT BY REED STAMEY | Bob Goodson, of Pisgah Forest, is suffering from knife wounds said to have been inflicted by Reed I Stamey last Saturday night. The af . fray is said to have taken place at j the home of Mr. Stamey, resulting I from a row between the two men. 1 Seven gashes marked Goodson's . body, it is said. Stamey telephoned j the officers, and Deputy- Sheriff Tom : Wood went after him. i Goodson is being treated at his 1 home on Davidson River, and will re | cover, it is thought. J MISS POINDEXTER WINS PRIZE FOR TYPEWRITING j Miss Earletne Poindexter demon , strated her ability as an expert typ , ist during the past week, when she ! passed a speed test conducted by the j L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriter company in which she won a beau ' tiful Corona typewriter for writing j 60 words per minute without error for 15 continuous minutes. Miss Poindexter has entered sev eral previous typing contests Con ducted by other typewriting con cerns, in which she received a gold pencil, an emblem pin and a card case for various speed tests. Miss Poindexter is well known ir Brevard, having been head of th< 1 commercial department of Brevarc Institute for quite a number ol years. IEACHERS NAMED BREVARD SCHOOLS Jonea Chosen to Head City i Schools ? Rufty In Brevard Patrons o 1 the Brevard schools will be made happy in knowing that Frof. J. B. Jones is to remain htrt us superintendent of the Brevard Schools. With him will be Hinton McLeod, re-elected as principal of | the High School. J E. Rufty, for two years in charge of the Pisgah Forest school, becomes principal of the Elementary School in Brevard. Following is a list of the teachers : who will be in charge of the schools in Brevard during the coming year: | High School J. B. Jones, superintendent; Hin ton McLeod, principal and Mathe matics; Miss Elizabeth Ramseur, Science I; Miss Gladys English, Sci ence II ; Mrs. Pat Kimzey, Honve Eco nomics; Mrs. Willis Brittain, His tory; C. E. Wike, History and Latin; Ernest F. Tilson, Science III and IV ; Mis sSarah Keels, Mathematics; Miss Juanita Puett, French and Librar ian; Julian A. Glazener, Agricul ture; Miss Jessie C'app, English I and II. Elementary School J. E. Rufty, principal and 7th ; | Miss Bemice Bridges, 7th; Miss Rose, Hamilton, Sth; Miss Myrtle Bar nett, 6th; Miss Lois Wike, 5th; Miss Pearl Lyday, 5th; Miss Garnet Ly day. 4th; Mrs. A. C. Bolin, 4th; Mrs. F. P. Sledge, principal and 3rd ; Miss Willie Aiken, 3rd; Miss 3ertie | Ballard, 2nd; Miss Geneva Neill.j 2nd; Mrs. J. E. Rufty, 1st; Miss Lueile Wike, 1st; Miss Eva Call,, Music. I STATE MS SOLVED ROAD PROBLEMS1 Held Up as an Example to All Other States in the Union 'By E. E. DUFFY) North Carolina has virfvilly solv ed its highway problems. This o t of information, the <teelaration Frank Page, former chairman of the North Carolina State Highway com mission, should have a cheering ef-' feet on that host of states which J seem to be making little headway in ' combatting mud, high-cost car oper ation, excess road upkeep, and so on. Since 1921 North Carolina has spent a considerable sum of money J on highway improvement, but so have many other states which cer tainly have less to show for it North Carolina's highway planner: looked into the future, decided thai the pay-as-you-go plan was usuaih ( slow, inefficient and unprogressive, ' and issued bonds. These bonds, $15- [ 000,000 worth, have enabled that I state to lay some 2,370 miles of con-' crete rural roads, in addition to other' improvements. These roads, let it be1 remembered are in use; they are be-' ing paid for by the motorists of to day and those of tomorrow as well. In effect, North Carolina has pur-' chased a highway plant on the in stallment plan. And now that plant is nearing large dividends for its motoring stockholders. Through the income from the five cent gas tax and motor license fees, ' ! North Carolina has enough money to ; ' take care of the annual retirement I and interest requirements, with a sum ; left over after maintenance that pro- ' | vides for considerable additional ' pavement construction. | North Carolina's achievement is I being taken as a model by nsarby 'states; South Carolina has just adop jted a $65,00'0,000 issue and Georgia, I with but few connected improved roads, is likely to issue seventy-five ! or a hundred million dollars worth of ? bonds. ! A large part of the job in North , Carolina is done. Trucks and busses. ! flivvers and limousines in grow , ing numbers now scurry from popu i lation center to population center I without getting off the concrete. The | cars over these improved roads makes . saving in operating this vast herd of ! the gas (ax look like an atom. I ATTENDING CONVENTION OF . N .C. PRESS ASSOCIATION James F, Barrett is attending the sessions of the North Carolina Prefs association convention, in Elizabeth City this week. Miss Geraldine Bar rett accompanied her father, and .will spend the week in distributing I Brevard literature and pictures of :the mountains and waterfalls of this section. Several hundred Brevard booklets will be distributed among the newspaper editors at the con vention. FLAG DAY WILL BE OBSERVED IN BREVARD NEXT FRIDAY I Flag Day will be observed in Bre vard or. National Flag Day, Friday, j June 14, sponsored by the local chap i ter of the Daughters of the Ameri I can Revolution. The exorcises will I be held on the High School lawn be i ? ginning at 6 o'clock Friday evening, ' I though in the event the court houst I, lawn is cleared cf the debris by that ? time, it is stated that the exercises {will be held at the latter placc. TRAVEL THROUGH JAPAN WITH REV. VERNON CRAWFORD B "* Vivid Pen Picture of Foreign Lands By Brevard Minister MANY SURPRISES FOUND IN CUSTOMS OF PEOPLE < > Rev. and Mrs. Crawford Well Known and Loved Here Road the Story ^ REV. VERNON A CRAWFORD i JTt i. t0 ?write on this sub ject I have teen in Japaii as a new ^ less tha" six i ,7; In tlle?? few weeks I have had the opportunity of brief visits . tosevtral of the larger cities, among them Kobe, Nagoya, and Tokio, and *'?? th? Privilege of several short trips, through country districts to some of the small towns and fishing villages. So my impressions of Ja variad JaPaness are many and ? My first impression, whicii stiil holds, is one of delight that Japan is so ranch like what I had expected it to be. The first bit of Japan which came into view as we approached the flowsry Kingdom was * Japanese fishing boat, miles out at sea. As I noticed its latent sail and it.- grace lu Prow 1 thought with 3 thrill Why, it's just like the pic tures I ve seen !" Later on, as the President UcKinley steamed into the harbor of Yokahoma, a sunnv morn nig gave us an unusually clear view of famous Fujiyama, its snow clad summit rising majestically out of the clouds that hid its base. And again I thought, "Isn't that beauti ful. Its just like the pictures I've seen, for Mount Fuji is carved or painted on so many Japanese objects which one sees in America. Many other things, seen then and later, have confirmd this first im pression. For instance, 1 had heard Japan was a land where the new and the old existed side by side. A- the S. S. McKinley. anchored till :he Medical Inspectors should come on board and examine us. I watched with interest Japanese seamen slow ly sculling ponderous freight barges across 111*, b-y; and even as I wauh ed 1 was startled by rh: f~a ? * Japanese aeroplane which ied down out of the sky and roared past us within a few feet of our boa'. And when the McKinley d <ked we saw on and near the pier the mod ern taxi? Ford, Chevrolet. Buick and others ? and beside these the ve hicles which no tourist will leave the Orient without having ridden in the rikishas, or as they are called in Japan, the kurumas. I think my next impression of Japan was one of amazement at the multitudes of children 1 saw almost everywhere. Playing in the streets, very brightly dressed in typical Jap anese costumes, they darted about iike brilliant butterflies. At first i seemed almost every woman 1 carried a baby strapped to her hack, and marvelous to behoid, not a few of the men, especially the older ones, were similarly bedecked! Never havj I seen so many children as there pear to be in Japan. And here liie thought inevitably forces itself on one: HOW can these MULTITUDES be reached for Christ, with Christian workers so camparativelv few among Japan's multiplying millions! Would that the Emperor might be soundly, joyously converted to Christ, that through such as event Christ might be inescapably thrust upon the at tention of the Emperor's myriad sub jects! Why not pray for his con I version and that he might have the .courage to publish it "abroad? i Another impression, closely linked I with that occasioned by the multi , tudes of children, is one of surprise j at the schools of Japan. Everywhere one see > schools, schools, schools. Modern schools, even in village and country where the buildings are generally of wood; but magnificent reinforced concrete structure in the cities ? and . increasingly so else , where. Her many schools, plus com pulsory education are the <-xplana tionof Japan's splendid literate pop ulation. Her percentage of liter ! (Continued on page five) REV STANBERRY IN BIG REVIVAL | Many Brevard people have been attending the revival at Highlands, conducted by Rev. Harve Stanberry, and reports coming from those who have gone from here indicate that the evangelist is having one of the most successful meetings in his career. Mr. Stanberry held a re vival here immediately preceding the one that he is now conducting. Many conversions have been re corded since the meeting began, and ministers of Highlands expect threat additions to the churches as a re sult of the meetings being held by the wonderful evangelist. "Harve" Stanberry, as his friends in this county persist in calling him, has a host of friends hei^ who are always delighted to hear of his suc cess, and it is believed many people ; wiH attend the meetinjts at High lands this Saturday and Sunday.