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THE BREVARD NEWS Pubished Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at the Postoffice in Brevard, N. C., as Second Class Matter James F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months SO Thursday, January 1, 1931 AS URGENT APPEAL TO REPRESENT A TIVE HENRY. To the Hon. W. M. Henry: You are now preparing to leave for Raleigh, to take your place as a mem ber of the legislature, representing Transylvania county. Your county is now in the worst predicament in ita history. The legislation that you ob tain for this county will be most im portant, because of the unusual con ditions now existing. Your activities in the legislature will be of intense interest to the citizens of the county. "0 Brevard News is asking you in -he most respectful yet emphatic m. .er, to furnish us with a copy oi e< leva: bill that, you propose t< inti duco, BEFORE you introduce it an,; permit us to publish the same, t( the end that the citizens of th< county may have knowledge of thesi proposed bills that you are to intro duce. We :;ote that representatives an< senators in other counties are meet ing with the citizens of their respect ive counties, discussing in frank man ner the needed local legislation. It i no; too late now for you to hold i meeting here, to which all interests citizens should be invited, and hol< conference with them as to needei local legislation. With existing conditions, condition that bear heavily upon all the citi zens of the county, this is no time fo any clique legislation, or persona scheming by any particular group o individual. The whole future of Tran sylvania county and the interest o all of her citizens are at stake. You friends are confident that you wil measure up to the occasion and mee the emergency in splendid mannei Your treatment of the county as i whole during the next two month will determine once and for all tim whether or not this confidence is wel placed. wi'.iM'^noss to give publics tion to all proposed local legislate BEFORE the same is introduced wi! go far toward re-establishment o confidence in the future of ou county. Will you do this, Mr. Henry? ?flsr A REMINDER TO OCR Sn.ENb/D READERS. Events of interest in this commun ity very natuiv belor.\- to The Bre vard .Wavo for -ublicatiun before be ing given to other papers. The Bre vard Xews is always ready and anx :ous to give full publicity to all com mr.r.ity activities and events, but i docs not relish the idea of "playinj second fiddle" to oth ? newspapers We, cannot give the ; ic enthusias tic accounts of local ha enings aftei the-v itav. i.-.-i pub"!.'; in othei ! : pv".= 'hat we always e to sue! i .ems when we are give:, -roper con sideration, and permittee' to en jo; our simple right of havin- first new; of these events and happt :ngs. This, we believe, is also the polic.\ and principle of all newspapers. Wf ? ;? xciate it when our citizens giv< os first information of events, ant make effort to 3how that appreciatior in th.. irpnner of giving uniimitcc space to accounts of such happenings We do not appreciate the attitude oi who, in. thoughtless manner give out their information to othei papers before giving "uch informatior to your own home paper. SUGGESTS PLANNING FOR EARLY RELIEF CROPS. Prof. S. P. Verner, head of the county schools, made suggestion tc The- Brevard News that planning for early crops will result in a great measure of relief for the people of the county during the spring and eu:Iv summer it: . on. Gardens are urged by the school man as one cer tain way of having something to eat next Spring, when conditions will be no less terrible than now, Mr. Verner thinks, unless remedial legislation is adopted in the coming session of the Genei-al Assembly. But whatever the financial condi tions may be ^hen Springtime eomos, a good garjj ri i of early vege tables will be a "blessing to every, home where such garden is cultivat ed. The idea is good, and ought to be put into effect by every citizen who has a garden spot, or can lease the ground for a garden. i ANOTHER BIRTHDAY COMES TO THE BREVARD NEWS. This week marks the raising o> another milestone in the life of The Brevard News, as the paper enters upon its 36th year. Much water has passed over the wheel since the first issue of the paper, 36 years ago Much of it has been clear water, and at times the tide has been low, and the flow slow, and the wheel barely turned. At other times the flow was bountiful, and the wheel turned with rapidity. Sometimes the water has iieen muddy, and cogs in the wheel bccame clogged, and little progess would be made for the time being. A newspaper, more than any other business or institution, goes with the tide of community life. It prospers when the community prospers, and .suffers acutely when the community suffers. It is most sensitive to com , munity reaction. , Yet there is no more attractive , work to be found than that of being connected with a county newspaper. Every joy that comes to the com , munity is shared by the paper, and , au the suffering endured in the com , munity is felt by the newspaper. It lives in the light of unbounded joy, ' and goes with the dejected into abyss ' of sorrow. It is a guest at the mar : riage feast and the home-coming pic ' nic, and goes from these happy scenes ' to stand by the bedside of a dying ' child whose going away leaves brok en hearts in the home where its * childish prattle had meant so much. The newspaper has a scat at the ban quet table and enjoys the fellowship of such occasions, and then goes to 1 stand bv the newly made grave to ? record the sound of the silent clods of ' the valley as a new mound is made. The newspaper has its friends am 3 its enemies; it is loved and it is 1 hated. Its friends are warm support * ers and its enemies are bitter foes. 1 Those who love, it are passionately 1 fond of it, and those who hate it pout out their utmost wrath upon it. "5c ef s the paper goes on in the even tenoi * of its ways, not unduly influenced b> r those who love it, nor vindicative to 1 ward those who hate it. It is not r elaborate in its expression of appre * ciation for its friends, and it re f trains from publishing harmful in r formation in its possession againsl 1 its enemies. 4 Many good citizens of this countj have been on the mailing list of this a newspaper since its first- issue, 31 3 years ago. Numerous people haw 0 been taking The Brevard News foi ' the past quarter of a cen'ury. lo al who have taken the pap advertiser - in its columns ,or supported it in an> a manner, we now express our deepest 1 gratitude. To its friends we car f only say that we love your friend r ship, and strive to merit it. To its enemies, The Brevard News will be courteous, fair, and never vindicative May this New Year of 1931 be the best year in the lives of all citizens of our county, is the birthday greet . ing from your own county newspaper - WANTS POLITICAL CROOKS TO - FLEE THE WRATH TO COME. Res. R. L. Bolton, llendersonvil! ? - in a sermon delivered last Sunday ;i: t Reed's Chapel, laid the law dov.n j political crooks and grafters, v.;.in , ing them to get out before an indig - nant and long-suffering people arise r in their might and mob a few of c them. This is one of the plainest, i hottest, sermons heard by a Western . North Carolina audience, and goes on r to say: 5 "It is high time that the good, God-fearing, God-loving people in this country let wickedness in high places ' icnow that public office is a public i trust and that violation of this trust > is to be dealt with without favor or j mercy. It is a sad, sad fact that during the last few years that small 1 men ? men without brains and charac 1 r ? have pushed thc.nseive.s to the t'ront in many centers, both in state i and in church. The time has come to ' lake Christ with his whip and scourge i and lash the scoundrels out in both : iiurch and state. Wicked men in ( politics and wicked men in our churches should be maele to feel the blistering, withering, consuming l ames of righteous indignation upon the part of honest, God-fearing peo ple. Ask no quarter from grafters, give no quarter to them. ' "If we do not get rid of them in i our American life, we are going to , give greater impetus to Communism. l'he people are long-suffering, but 1 after while they grow impatient and become revolutionary. The great ma jority of our American people are true as steel and as sound as a dol lar. I feel sure that during the next few months a house-cleaning is going to spread throughout this nation. Let it be thorough. Thank God, the good women of Asheville are demanding a thorough house-cleaning in their city. And women know quite well when a house is clean and when they get cn the job they do not svjp until ;hc cleaning is well done, (s rafters, peanut politicians, parasites, JJudases, thieves, and betrayers iff public trust, regardless of their pa.-tt stand ing in church and community, must take to the tall timber and trie time of their departure must not we de cayed lest an indignant publii senti ment break out violently pgainst them. The Christ with the, whip would have us scourge them eiut and sciyt.rge them out speedily." ) / MUST WORK WITH OTHERS, . ' FOR IT CAN'T BE DON& ALONE. In keeping with our oft-repeated statements that all of us must work together, if any of us succeed, is re printed herewith a poem taken from Patchwork, a monthly publication of Boston: Stand off by yourself in your dream- , ing, And all of your dreams are vain; | No grandeur of soul or spirit I Can man by himself attain. It is willed vie shall dwell as broth ers; /la brothers then we must toil; We must act with a common -purpose As we work in a common soil. _ I And each who would see accomplished The dreamy that he's proud to own, Must strive for the goal with his fel lows, ; For 7 jo man can do it alone. How beautifully these few lines describe the spirit of co-operation ! j No one man can succeed by himself ? he must work with the rest of the fellows, if there is to be any success, i No one man can succecd in a com- . munity where others are failing. Now, of all times in this century, we j need to stand, man to man, working j together, pulling together, battling together, for the concern of one is the the concern of all. No use trying to get rich all by yourself, for it can not be done. No use trying to get out of this hole all by yourself, for it can not be done. If YOU get out, it will be because all of us are getting out, and YOU go along with the crowd. If the crowd stays in the hole, why, YOU are going to stay in the hole, for there's no getting out alone. Why can we not see the beauty, the benefit, the importance, the absolute necessity, of ALL working together for the good of all? "It is willed that we shall work as brothers,'' the poet says, and it is so true. It is so willed ' by a power that cannot be broken. Then let's be up and at it, all work ing together, "as brothers." WHAT RIGHT HAS NEWSPAPER TO PUBLISH PRIVATE BUSINESS? Intimation in Sunday morning's Citizen-Times that there is probabil ity of publication of the names of de positors in the defunct banks, with amounts of balances and amounts due , said banks in unpaid notes, raises a point that will bear discussion. We are of the opinion that a man's bank ing account is his own business, and | as such should not be subject to pub ' iication. We cannot see what purpose i3 to be served by such information. All these items will be filed with the ' clerk of the court, and any one whose ' interests can be served by knowing the bank balances of any particular ' person may have such information by 1 going to the clerk's office. This newspaper feels that it has neither the legal nor moral right to publish any man's private business | affairs. It is our opinion that an ap peal to the courts woud prohibit the publication of such private informa tion, and it is safe to predict that the courts will be appealed to in event any newspaper makes effort to pub lish this kind of information. Public ity of public matters is within the rights and purposes of newspapers. Publicity of private business is going a step too far, as we see it. , Til A T TAI.K OF CREATING A SALES TAX SYSTEM IN STATE SHOULD STOP NOW. North Carolina must not adopt the sales tax method. To do so is to admit that our boasted wealth is a bursted bubble, and that we must resort to placing the burden of our taxes upon the poorest citizen of the state. A tax upon the luxuries may be o. k. But a tax upon the necessities of life is an unbearable thought in a great state like North Carolina. Who wants the washerwoman to bear the burdgn of the state by plac ing a tax upon every article she buys? Who wants the laundry workers, th common laborers, the tenant farm ers, the small farmers, the clerks and office girls, to pay the taxes of the state? The poorer a person is, the greater is the percentage of their payment in sales tax. The poor must of neces sity buy in small quantities; tlu merchant, in selling in small quanti ties, must charge a higher rate than he coud sell the same goods for in bulk, or in larger quantities. Hence the fact is brought out that the small purchasers woud pay the bulk of a sales tax. The idea of a sales tax is hateful, because it is wrong in principle and a form of robbery in practice, unjust, unfair, heinious, hellish, and has no place in a commonwealth's affairs. | Ned Johnson told county agent D. \ II. Osborne of Alexander county that i h: was g'liiig to start, right in 4-H j calf club w??k so he sold a , gra;le cow and cslf to w cure addi- 1 tional rv.".<'s needed to buy a regit'- | tered heifer. LET US DO YOUR JOB PRINTING ' \ ffiE PRAYER CORNER THE DUTY OF HAPPINESS and THE BEAUTY OF HAPPINESS 1. The Duty of Happiness: "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to Enjoy Him forever" ? The Shorter Catechism, Question 1. Some professing Christians aro among the most depressing and wor ryfui people in the world ? the most difficult to live with. And some, indeed, have adopted a theory of ethics which puts a special value on Unhappiness. The morbid spirit which mistrusts every cheerful virtue, and looks askance upon every happy life as if there must be something wrong about it, is a departure from Christ's teachings to follow the dark browed philosophy of the Orient. Jesus tells us that Cheerful Re ligion is thfl best. It is fine to do right against inclination, but there is something finer, and that is to have an inclination to do right. There is something nobler than reluctant obedience, and that is joyful obedi ence. The rank of Virtue is not measur ed by its disagreeableness, but by its sweetness to the heart that loves it. The real Test of Character is joy. For what you rejoice in, that you love, and what you love, that you grow like. 2. The Beauty of Happiness: "Again I say Rejoice" ? Phil 4:4. The first thing that commended the Church of Jesus to the weary and disheartened world in the early years of her Triumph was her Power to make her children Happy ? Happy in the midst of afflictions. Happy in the Sense of Divine Fatherhood ....J Hu man Brotherhood. Happy in Christ's Victory over Sin and Death. Happy | in the Assurance of Endless Life. I At midnight in the prison, Paul ;and Silas sang praises, and the pris oners heard them. The Lateral Force of Joy ? that was the Power of the , Church. Was not St. Paul a Happier | Man than Herod? Did not St. Peter jhave more joy in his life than Nero? | It is said of the First Disciples that they "did eat their meat with 'gladness and singleness of heart." Not till that gladness returns will the Church regain her early charm for the souls of men. Every great revival of Christian Power ? like those which came in the times of St. Francis of Assisi and of John Wesley ? has been marked by A Revival of Christiar Joy. A PRAYER FOR HAPPINESS Dear Father I thank Thee for tht right to call Thee mine. I praise Thee that I can call myself Thy ehile and I glorify Thee that Thy Deal Son, Jesus Christ, came to revea! Thet' to me, and to make me worthj to enter into Thy Presence. O help me to live as Thy Child. May I find my Happiness in Thee May I look to Thee for safety. May ] grow daily as Thou wouldst have m< I grow. As a child may I keep elosc PENROSE SCOUTS DO THEIR GOOD TURN Penrose Girl Scouts sang carols on Christmas Eve at different homes in their community and made some of the children happy by giving toys, candy and popcorn balls, most of which were made by them. They all enjoyed this, regardless of the walk and the cold weather, for there was one more "good deed done." I Lessie McGuire, Scribe. 'to Thee, and 0, as a Father be very tender and gracious, for I am only a weak child, wandering and easily frightened. Protect me here; hold me closely to Thyself, and at last let me see Thee and be with Thee for ever. For Jesus sake, and through His Love. i Dear Lord, I would serve Thee with heart and happiness of spirit. Grant ;me Intelligence that I may know lifes i meaning and enthusiasm, that I may ? be eager and active; heip me to see I the vision of the end of all my work; land above all, help me to see Thee. iLet me rejoice in voice and feeling; let me be glad in every act, thai my jlife may be a Symphony of Praise, and that my soul may know the sweetest of pleasures, even the Living for God. I ask it for Jesus' sake, j Amen. I . / ? C. D. C. I 6 6 6 is a doctor's prescription form COLDS and HEADACHES It is the most speedy remedy known 6 6 6 also in Tablet* ? ILOOK: We Give 24 Hour Electrical Service f VVe have Light Bulbs ic Farm Lighting Plants and for City Current. Also, other Electrical Equip ment Electric Service by Guy Dean F. THARP Day Phone Night Phone 224 225 53 West Main Street Checkerboard Chatter Volume 1 January 1, 1931 Number 4 Ptiblishcd in the in terest of the people of BREVARD and T R ANSYLVANIA County by the B&B Feed & Seed Co. Best wishes to you all for a happy New Year. May all your good wishes be grat ified for the year of 1931. Let's all go to work and forget what i? behind us ? nobody ever got anywhere going backward. Most girls prefer a ring on the hand to two on the phoae. Morton Figaro Meat Salt has been proven by over a. million farmers to be easier, quicker and safer way to cure meat. A girl has hardly passed the spanking age these days be fore she reaches the sparking age. Some men are born meek and some of' them just get mar ried. Science added six years to our lives and then gave us the auto and the plane. Purina Cow Chow keens the cows in profitable production longer. Luck is the thing that the other fel low has got. Cheap a u tomobiles would be all right were they not so ex pensive. Coffee at 25c pound ? B. & B. Special ? and it's good coffee, too. A traffic jam was caused in Asheville last week by a lady who signalled that she was going to turn to the right and th<;n she did. "What you looking for? asked the in ebrited man. "A drowned man," said the cop. "What do you want him for?" answered the inebriate. B&B Feed & Seed Co. Brevard, N. C. The Store with the Checkerboard Sign FACTORY working hours in 1850 varied with the sun, for candles provided unsatisfactory illumination. Each employee was given a "bell card" showing what time the factory starting bell would ring for each day. Starting time ranged from 6 a. m. in the summer, to 7 :2G a. m. during the winter. Stopping time, too, fol lowed the sun ? from 6 p. m. in the summer, to as early as 4:42 p. m. in December. Artificial lighting has progressed a long way since the days of the tallow candle and oil lamps, with their in adequate light, flickering rays and uncertain shadows. Electric light is now industry's illuminant. Its steady light successfully rivals the sun's, which varies in inten sity and color every few minutes. Fifteen per cent of industrial accidents are said to be due to improper lighting ? insufficient light, or incor-i rect light because improperly located, causing glare, refraction, reflection, or shadows. J / / / PROPER LIGHTING PAYS FOR ITSELF MANY TIM&S OVER Southern Public Utilities Company "Electricity The Servant In The Home" DAY 'PHONE 116 No. 3 E. MAIN ST. BREVARD, N. C. NIGHT 'PHONE 16
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