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W BREVARB NEWS Published Every Wednesday by THE TRANSYLVANIA v PUBLISHING CO., Inc. > i i Entered at the PoetofBce in Brevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter James F. Barrett SUBSCRIPTION RATM ^Payable in Advance) One Y aMr Sis IT Ahs 1M Thrse Months >t9 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1930 Wit HUTCHES LOVES THE COUNTY, BUT HAS NO LOVE FOR THE ROADS. Mr. C. C. Hutches, Florida's cel ery king and Transylvania county's best booster and press agent, who lives at Bradenton, Fla., and has his summer home near Rosman, is em phatic in his constructive criticism of our county roads. The main state highways running through the coun ty are o. k., he says, but the county roads running from these main high ways into the rural sections of the county are a disgrace, and an indict ment of the citizens of the county, he says. "Every spot in Transylvania county is a beauty spot," Mr. Hutches says, "and all the rural sections would be filled with tourists and people own ing summer homes, if you would only make it possible for people to reach these sections. Why in the w<Jr!d this county permits its county roads to remain in the condition they are is something that I canot under stand. ^It would seem that your citi zens who live in the rural sections, off the main highways, would revolt against payment of their taxes until the county does something to the roads running through each town ship. "I do love this section, and talk it all the time down home, but I am just about ready to give up the Khcst and seek new quarters. North Carolina is noted everywere for its fine roads, and then to come here and start driving over your county roads that still have all the deep ruts that were made last winter is enough to disgust the old scratch. There's something wrong, some where, and unless you people right this wrong and give some attention to your county roads, all the big ad vertising that you have done will be wasted, and all the headway you have made will be lost." ABSENTEE BALLOT LAW A CRIME BREEDER AND INCUBATOR OF THIEVERY. Of all the rotten conditions exist ing in modern political life, those re sulting from operation of the Ab sentee Ballot law takes the cake when it comes to downright, stink ing, rottenness. People have long beer, deploring the fact that respect for ltw and order is on the decline, while crime increases and criminals multiply. Is it any wonder that respect for law and order is on the decline when many lawmakers cheated their way ir.to the legislative halls, while many men charged with enforcing the law won their offices through trickery, cheating and thiev ing? Can you imagine a more hypocrit ical and impossible position than that of a man who rears back on his hind heels and talks about the ne cessity of obeying the law and en forcing the law, when he himself is the recipient of honors that were either bought or stolen. Among all the crooked politics played in this political age, none is more deplorable or detestable than that played through misuse of the Absentee Voters law. Often we have been informed of dead people voting in elections through the Ab sentee Voters law avenue, while it is charged that a cow was voted in a recent election out in Swain county, an absentee vote going in the ballot box in that good old cow's name. Heretofore, however, charges of ir regularities have been made by one party against another. Now, the plot thickens, and one faction is charged with vsing the absentee ballot in wrongful manner against another within the same party. The Charlotte Observer, in an edi j torsal last Saturday, tcKs of how a woman, the county welfare agent of Robeson county, voted 40 inmate.? of the county home in the June 7th democratic primary. Of this number many were crasiy. But let The Char lotte Observer tell t.he tale. It is a widely read democratic paper and is talking about its own household. Read it: VOTING CRAZY FOLK The Lumbert6n Robesonian points out another developed defect in the absentee ballot law that might come in for correction. It submits that "absentee voting of 40 inmates of the f.cbeson County home, in Kaft wamp township, in Saturdays pri jjnary by Miss Elizabeth Frye, county welfare officer, gives the most mark ed example of the abuse of the ab sentee ballot yet demonstrtaed in this county." The rucus over the circumstances, however, appears to > have been stirred up because of local 'interests. While the votes were cast for United States Senator, objection was aroused mainly on account of the vote on county officers, and charges are flying thick and fast that the welfare woman voted people who were "mentally incapable" of knowing anything about it. In short, crazy people were voted in Robeson County ? and everybody knows that the absentee ballot was not intended to operate to privilege of that kind. Robeson county recently furnished the state with a governor, and a good one at that It doesn't seem' possible that a public official, in connivance with other public officials and leading citizens, would be guilty of voting crazy people in a primary election. But that is the degrading influence that an unjust, unfair and foolish law has upon people. The Absentee Ballot Law ought to be repealed, and it will be repealed | one of these days. Common decency I demands its repeal. BREVARD BAND UNIQUE IN MANY RESPECTS. I Next Saturday night the Brevard Municipal Band will -give its flrst I concert of the season. It is believed j that hundreds of people will gather | for the event that really marks the | opening of the summer season. The jband is in fine condition, it is said, , as the boys have devoted much time during the past several weeks to practice. The Brevard Municipal Band is .unique in many ways. First, it is supported by the town and county government, that is, the towp and county pays a modest sum to Prof. F. J. Cutter to stay here and direct the band. In the second place, the i boys who play in the band do so , without charge, and furnish their own instruments, at that. The Bre vard band is one of the best to be found in any small town in the country. As a result of the work of the band, several Brevard and Transyl i vania county boys are now occupying places in bands and orchestras where they make a good living. All their training was had under Prof. Cutter in the Brevard Municipal band. | People from all sections of the county, as well as the large numbers of tourists spending the summer here, enjoy the band concerts dur ing the summer season. It is hoped that some day Prof. Cutter will be added to the faculties of the Brevard and Rosman High schools, and that his instruction in band music will become a part of the regular school work of the county. I I ? i Words and names suggested by the word "Cannon": Big Bertha, | cannonball, I cannonroar, bishop, prohibition, Methodist, Virginia, conference, Dallas, investigation, bucket shop Catholics, war, A1 Smith, Herb Hoover Furn Simmons Charles Robinson ) Asheville Times. KUDZU SAID TO BE 'BEST FEED CROP. j Kudzu, a feed crop somewhat new to the South, is making many friends I through Piedmont Carolina, and is : especially recommended for hilly, J rough, or rocky lands. Among those who are enthusiastic about this new crop is Mr. J. Paul Lucas, vice presi dent of the Southern Public Utilities company, and one of the most scien tific farmers in Mecklenburg county. Kudzu, a bean plant quite closely related to the velvet bean, is a native of Japan. It is, of course, a legume, and is a perennial ? one planting and the crop remains as long as you want it to. Kudzu is the fastest growing, highest yielding forage crop known. It will produce two to five times the pasturage or hay that velvet beans, sweet clover, alfalfa and all other forage crops now being grown in this country. Kudzu is palatable, both in the green state as pasturage, or cured and- used for hay. All forms of livestock devour it greedily. Some of the advantages that are bringing kudzu so rapidly into popu larity are these: It is a perennial and has to be planted only once. It produces two to five times as much pasturage or hay on a given area as any other crop will produce. It will gi'ow just as well on rough. rocky, or hilly land as it will on level fields. , It improves the soil and produces constantly increasing yields. It is drought-resistant, sending its roots several feet into the earth and (?curing necessary moisture from great depths. It will redeem washed hillsides and "turned out," abandoned fields, and make them more valuable than | the now fertile fields adjoining. | It can be established on land at reasonable cost by seeding. Mr. Lucas, in writing to Mr. Eu gene Ashcraft, Monroe, about Kudzu, tod of the success which he had with it in the following manner: I am sure that you will be inter ested in having a report of my ex perience with kudzu seed I purchased from you last spring. We have a considerable area which we desire to establish in kudzu and figured that our best course would be to plant the seed on good soil and pro duce a large number of plants which could then be replanted on the rough land which we propose to es tablish in kudzu pasture. You had warned me that probably not over 25 per cent of the seed would germin ate. I was agreeably surprised. I believe that we got much better ger mination than that. The seed were very lightly covered and we had good seasons so that we now have more than an acre of fine plants. Some of these we shall transplant this winter and some we will keep over until next season. Allow me to say that, in my humble opinion, you have rendered this etnire section a wonderful ser vice in demonstrating that kudzu can be establised from seed and at reasonable cost. Personally I figure that you have rendered me a very worth while service and I want you to know that I appreciate it. I believe you will be interested in a demonstration I have had this year in the value of kudzu for pasturage. I became interested in kudzu several years ago. and paid $40 for sufficient roots to plant about half an acre during the winter of '23, the plants being spaced ten feet apart in rows that were also ten feet apart. Only about half of the plants lived and the next three or four summers were unusually dry so that the plants that did survive did not have a normal opportunity to cover the ares and fully establish itself or. the land. However, I did notice that during the unprecedented drought of 1925 it was the greenest thing and made more growth than anything cn my place. At the beginning of this year I determined to see just what this kudzu was worth as pasturage. I had the little field fenced, taking in some additional land which had been partially covered by the extending kudzu vines. After the kudzn had gotten a very luxuriant growth we put 26 sheep on it They remained on the slgihtly more than half an acre for three weeks. We removed 'them for four weeks and put them back for two weeks. Within an other four weeks there was suffic ient growth to have maintained the flock for an additional two weeks. I wanted to show the kudzu to a num ber of friends, however, and did not put the sheep back. When it was finally killed by frost there was ample grazing for the flock for a period of three weeks. We disposed of a few sheep dur ing the summer so that the average number of sheep grazing was prob ably about 22. To sum up: We grazed 22 sheep on slightly more than half an acre of kud2u for an aggregate of eight weeks and left three weeks of graz ing in the field ? a total of 11 weeks of grazing for an average of 22 sheep. I dc not hesitate to say that as en thusiastic as I had been over this crop I was utterly astonished at the results I secured in (this grazing demonstration. I have examined the land upon which the kudzu is grow ing and it has become the richest and if I should turn it this winter it would produce cotton at the rate ol a bale and a half to the acre next year under normal conditions. 1 am just getting started wit? I kudzu. I am planning to plant 5( [pounds of seed next spring and ] shall ajtreciate it if you will reserve that quantity of seed for me. Very truly yours, JOHN PAUL LUCAS. "King Carol overworked; take: rest," says a headline in a dail; paper. About the only place tha ! that renegade and libertine has beei overworked lately is on the fron page# of th? daily newspapers of America. What ra the dickens does America care about King Carol, of Rumania, anyhow? A couple of boobs out at Holly wood got married, and got their pic tures on the front pages of all the papers of the nation. Up at Balti more h band of devoted doctors are searching for the cause of, and a remedy for, that dread thing called cancer. The prfpers didn't even give the names of these heroes, much less print their pictures on the front page. Moral: If you want in the limelight, go to Hollywood and act the fool a while, and then marry somebody who has already been mar ried half a dozen times. If you want bare mention, try to do some thing for humanity. It's a helluva world, hain't it? Grocer: What is it, madam? Young Bride: I want a pound of i mincemeat and please take it from a nice young mince. Splendid VACATION OPPORTUNITIES Greatly Reduced Round-trip Excursion Fare* via 4 Southern Railway System on July 3rd, 1930 RATES from 'Asheville to Washington, D. C. . . $13.50 Richmond, Va. ...? 11.50 Norfolk, Va 12.50 O. Ft. Comfort, Va. 12.50 Virginia Beach, Va. 13.00 Limit of tickets, 5 days ASK TICKET AGENTS J. H, WOOD Division Fasaonger Agent Asheville, N. C. JOINES* WEEKLY SPECIALS This week we offer as an extraordinary special the services of MR. F. L. HENRY In charge of our Service Department Mr. Henry is, without question, the best automobile mechanic we have ever known. And, with the complete equipment for service on Model A and Model T Fords, Mr. Henry and his assistants can render the best service it is possible to obtain anywhere. We have every tool needed, every part necessary, every equipment in vented or discovered, for servicing cars. Nothing but Genuine FORD Parts Used at. Our Place. JOINES MOTOR CO., Inc. BREVARD, N. C. Electric Cookery Is Economical 1 Ask Your Neighbor Of course, every woman knows that electric cookery is far better, easier, cleaner. But many women don't know that with our low rates for elec tricity, electric cooking is also most economical. Here are the actual facts: There are housewives in this community, who are cooking electrically at a cost of less than ten cents per day, and the average cost for all users is less than 18 cents per day. For this small cost they are forever freed from scouring sooted pots and pans ? for Hotpoint Electric Heat is as clean as sunshine. They spend far less time in the kitchen, for Hotpoint Electric Heat is so accurate it needn't be watched. No basting is required. The kitchen is cooler dur ing the hot Summer months. And there are many other reasons why you will enjoy electric cookery. Take advantage of our special offer and get the benefits of electric cook ery at this amazing low cost. Come in today for details. Our Special Offer Ten Dollars Down * ?? Twenty Months To Pay The Balance Ten Dollars For Your Old Stove Our Prices Are For Ranges ~ Installed! The Hotpoint Automatic Electric Range .. _ nd o?-y VhiMw lit 'ELECTRICITY- SOUtlieMl PuMiC ???_'? l5!!.- Utilities Company ??? ? 0 : V. 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