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THE BREVARD NEWS Pubished Every Thursday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Entered at the Postoffiee in Brevard* N. C., as Second Claw Matter James F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Adv&noe) On* Year $2.00 Six Mentha 1>00 Three Months M Thursday, January 29, 1931 MRS. MeKEE'S COMMITTEE WORK TO BE INTERESTING. Mrs. E. L. McKee, state senator from this district, is chairman of one important committee and a member ef several other committees. She nat urally belongs on the school commit tee and the health committee, having devoted so much of her time to the wuvk that these committees must pas* upon. For many years Mrs. McKee has taken an active interest in school ?work, and is a devout believer in a state-wide system which gives the s.-me opportunities to all the childroa u. the state. In the work of public h-.iilth Mrs. McKee is well qualified t<: take the lead. This paper believes he i best work will be on these com mittees. Other committee appointments com ing to Mrs. McKee do not seem to mute!' ip so well. She is a member of ti- committee on conservation and development. Her family fortune is tied up in an industry that pollutes a hvautiful stream which would be a great asset in its territory, were its natural beauty and purity conserved. What the senator's stand would be, should this question arise in the legis lature, is not known. Another committee appointment coming to Mrs. McKee is that of membership on the elections commit tee. Much of her "big majority" in the recent election was given to her through violation of the election laws by election officials and ward-heelers. We do not think for a moment that Mrs. McKee knew of these flagrant violations. The women's organiza tions of which she is an active mem ber have long been urging honest and fair elections and election laws. Mrs. McKee 's work on this committee will fco watched with keen interest.- She has the opportunity just now for making a record which would be most boncficial to her when she makes the race for the congress of the United States. As a member of the elections committee she could lead the fight for a favorable report on the bill to be presented for repeal of that obnox ious, thief-making, rogue-manufactur ing absentee voters law. Failing in thi> ert'ort t'or state repeal, Mrs. Mc Kw could at least render service to her own district by introducing and having passed a bill to repeal this law in her own district. Interesting news will be coming out of Raleigh before long, for nearly half the time of the legislature has expired, and the real work is juat now beginning. Git AND I LEAVES THE PRISON, ACCLAIMED KING OF INDIA. Ghandi, leader of India's millions who are struggling for self-govern ment, was released from the prison where he has been an inmate for many months, and returned to the scene of his activity at the time of bis imprisonment by the British au thorities. Countless thousands sang the praises of this little man of less than one hundred pounds in weight. There was no parade, nor did Ghandi arrive in any magnificent chariot. He came in the automobile of a friend, and he was dressed in his asual garb of the lowly. Yet no king, conqueror, potentate or prince was ever received with such great wclcome as that which was given ex pression from the souls of the men and women and children who cried nnto him as a deliverer returned to bis children. Ghandi's release from prison and his return to hia home was the result of a great victory won by India over Great Britain in recent conferences. "I am going, but I will be back here in jail with you soon," were the parting words of Ghandi to his fel low-prisoners. You see, Great Britain did not release all of these prisoners if war, and Ghandi intends to obtain their release, or be placed back in jail with them. ? In no other nation in the world is there a leader as great as Ghandi. History is replete with the records cf the achievements of men who had armed forces atrtheir command to en force their demands. Ghandi had no such forces. He and his faithful fol lowers presented their bodies a living sacrifice, to be trampled upon by British ^jeldiejrs, in- a glorious fight for frMMn*:of Rf?&ai*pee*)!e. fain** bodies were crushed, in' rasny, many THE WAGE EARNER. GOMSS AT LAST INTO HIS OWN. This depression, panic, stagnated period, debated era, or whatever one chooses to call it, "has served many good purposes, among which is one that is especially appealing to us. We are so glad that the country had, at last, come.,toug. realization p! the f*cks that the worlaiBS, man ought to receive good wagvs. -In every news paper, magazine, house organ and on all radio broadcasting . systems, the public reads and hears the virtues of good wages extolled. Up until a few years ago the gen eral thought was that working men ought to be content with moderate wages, small wages, or whatever you have. Even the merchants took sides with the bosses when labor struck for higher wages. The pulpit orator and platform performer joined in the song of sadness when "unreasonable" working men made demand for better wages. Newspaper editors, mostly always coddling the big men of the community, or being coddled by these big men, ripped and snorted, fumed and fussed, prayer and cussed, when a group of working men so far for tot themselves as to insist upon re ceiving a better wage. The terms "agitator," "walking delegate," and such other names as could be coined, we^e used by the newspapers in de scribing the leaders in movements by the working men for better wages. Now, bless Moses for his inaugur ation of the movement for the toilers, even this Christian nation has come lo its senses, and men and women are urging adequate pay for those who labor. Of course, this conversion of American thought is due to a selfish interest rather than having its birth in a justice-loving manger. It is due to the fact thaV the American busi ness and financial world has realized that it is poor business to pay low wages. The greatest single customer of American factories is the mass of wage-earners, hence the lower the income of these wage-earners, the less they can buy from the factory. Here is the lesson that has been learned by this brilliant United States: A working man who receives $8 a day, working full time, spends $48 a week with the various business places of his community. If that man's wages are reduced to $36 a week, then the business houses of that com munity lose $12 a week in business on that one man's wages. These figures are taken because of a condition that existed in Asheville ten years ago. The carpenters of that sorowful and tear-dimmed city were receiving a dollar an hour. Effort was made to reduce that wage to 75 cents an hour. Practically every lead ing merchant in Asheville at that time joined in with the contractors J)nd boses, urging the reduction. There wore 700 carpenters in Asheville. Had the plan become effective, it would have meant a reduction of $8,400 weekly in the wages of the carpenters. And this would hav? meant curtail ment of business in Asheville to the tune of $7,400 a week, because the Asheville business houses got all the carpenters made, whether it was a dollar an hour, or 76 cents an hour. But the Asheville merchants finally 'saw the light of day, and are now working hand in hand with the work ing men for mutual advancement and community progress. It is good that the country has at last realized the importance of the twenty-five million wage earners of America. BATTLE ROYAL RAGING IN THE N. C. LEGISLATURE. Things are warming up down at Raleigh, with the proposed school law and highway control changes as the principal issues of warfare. The proposition to place responsibility for operation of the six months' ? school term upon the state, thereby remov ing all of this cost from land, is, per haps, the most interesting question. The other proposition, that of abolish ing the state highway commission and all county highway commissions, and creating a new highway group to handle all of the public roads ? state highway and county roads ? runs the school question a close race in inter est. Hot debates are the order of the day on these questions, with the rep resentatives from the eastern part of the state almost solid in their support of the proposed school law. Repre sentatives from the Piedmont section where industry predominates are fighting the measure. Under the pro posed new school law, no land would be taxed for the six months' school provision for the expenses for this instances, but the souls of the men ; lived on, and other bodies were pre sented in forming the bridge of human bodies across which India flight march to human liberty and fiMadosa/*' ? Great is Ghandi. : t operation being Uft in the hands of the finance committee. "Raleigh bosaee the schools ? then let Raleigh pay the ( bills," seems to be the tenor of the j argument for adoption of the pro posed measure. The state says that ' there must be a six months' school, then let the state, pay for it, is the way on? of the advocates of the bill expressed- himself. If the bill should be adopted, it would mean a reduc- , tion in taxes in Transylvania county of about one dollar on the hundied. Governor Gardner is making strong bid for adoption of his highway pro- , gram, that is, to abolish the present j state highway commission and alll county road boards, and substitute, therefor a highway department to have complete charge of all public i roads in the state. J. Sprunt Hill, I Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, and other out- , standing leaders in the democratic, party are opposing this plan. It is . developing into a real scrap. "BACK TO THE FARM" (The Charlotte Observer) Josiah Folsom, of the Bureau of 1 Agricultural Economics, comes for ward with the interesting statement that real wages on the farm exceed the average full-time earnings of laborers in some of the representa tive industries, this conclusion hav ing been arived at by means of a "survey" in which replies were re ceived from 9,000 questionnaires. Of course, the "perquisites" figures in the calculation. These include board, room fuel, privilege of keeping live stock, feed for live stock, pasturage, garden space, use of employer's horses or mules, farm tools and ve hicles, and garage space. Mr. Folsom learned that practically two-fifths of the remuneration of non-causal farm laborers, and one quarter of that of casuals, appears to be made up of perquisite values, either as payments in kind or in privileges of value to the men. The percentage of total val ues formed by perquisites tended to run higher where wages were lowest, in the South Atlantic and South Cen tral States. As farmers must compete with employers in other industries for labor, Mr. Folsom comments, they must pay wages which roughly cor respond, especially if they are located in the vicinity of industrial districts. Both farmers and laborers are ac customed to compare city wages with farm wages, usually to the disadvan tage of the latter. The comparisons are likely to be made with little con sideration of such factors as the farm value of perquisite and the city costs of their equivalents; the purchasing power of the dollar in city and coun try ;? in short, real wages on and off the farms. Other factors of importance that are often overlooked, says Folsom, are the periods of unemployment or partial employment to be expected in many industries, and the training and skill required in many trades. These factors can be merely mentioned here in comparing farm-wage rates with certain other wage rates. Be cause farm laborers are commonly classed with the unskilled or common laborers of other industries in dis cussing ability and wage rates, farm wage rates are here compared with those of common laborers. The farm-wage rates, without board, reported by the Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates of the Department of Agriculture are, in each geographic division, decidedly lower- than those for common labor. The same is true, except for the Pa cific States, of the cash-wage rates reported in this study. But if one in cludes with the wages of farm labor ers the perquisite values reported in this study, the remuneration of un boarded fartn laborers in 1926 was, on the whole, slightly higher than that for common laborers. The survey revealed that, striking an average for the country, wages and perquisites-.' totalled $76.78 a month for non-casual hired farm la borers, the perquisites being calculat ed at farm values The average by geographic sections ranged from $95.78 in the South Atlantic States to $104.98 in the Pacific States, and by States, ranged from a low of $46.85 a month in South Carolina to a high of $138.62 a month in Nevada. Mr. Folsom points out also that whereas, the farm laborer's perquis ites with an average farm value of about $30 per month would probably cost twice as much as if he had to pay for them at city rates, the costs of these perquisies borne by the farm operator are considerably less than the farm ?alue. PRAISES BAPTIST HOSPITAL Editor The Brevard News Will you give us space in your paper to express our thanks to all who support our Baptist State hos pital? . The hospital was founded by the Baptist denomination at Winston Salem in 1921. Built in 1922 and 1923 opened June 1st. This hospital has 35 doctors on the staff represent ing every department of medicine ; 45 nurses, 7 graduate and 38 student nurses, and can care for 100 patients. From this hospital this year goes 1 14 graduate nurses. With gratitude to our Lord, they say this has been : their best year. This year shows 2,725 patients; 591 of these were charity, and 1009 part pay. No doubt j hundreds of these would have died for want of medical aid if our hospital had never been founded. ' , \ Last year they spent $45,500.00 for charity. To help them meet this tre mendous demand they received from j the denomination on Mother s Day $15,500, and from the Duke Founda tion $8,750, a few small donations supplemented these offerings but over $19,000 had to be taken from their operation account. Therefore, they ' have, suffered for need ?* equipment a^rejaira. This ytfar up to 3une 1st, . 45 per cent of the patients were absolutely REPORT PROGRESS !N EFFORT TO OPEN THE BREVARD BANK ( Continued from, fMffe one) proving but is by no means adequate. The present organization must be strengthened, with an enlargement of personnel and equipment and with particular attention to the need for an increase in the number of agents, and with a reinforcement of the Cus toms Bureau. 6. A statute authorizing regula- ? tions permitting access to the prem- i ises and records of wholesale and re- . tail dealers so as to make it possible I to trace products of specially de- j natured alcohol to the ulttimate con sumer is essential. There is not and [ never has been any adequate reason | for the existence of independent de- 1 naturing plants. 7. Legislative provision for the eas- j ier prosecution of petty offenses should follow logically after the re- , cent amendment of the Jones-Stalker Act. Comment upon the few remaining ' paragraphs of the Commission's con- ; elusions and recommendation must be I reserved. The report of the Commission gives 1 evidence of a thorough comprehension ! of the situation and courageous sin- j cerity in dealing with it. It is a contribution for which the country I should be profoundly grateful, point- I ing a way to constructive effort on the part of all reasonable men and women to the end that the common good may be served. j BREVARD SPLITS IN ETOWAH GAME HERE The Brevard Blue Devil quintet de feated the Etowah five on the Brevard floor Tuesday night by the score of 22-17, the girls losing 35-8. Boys' Game The Brevard boys showed up well and easily overcame the invaders. ! Coach Tilson has developed a fast | passing, fast running team this sea ! son, and the boys are setting a fast ipace. | Morgan and Batson tied for high honors in Brevard's scoring, while ; Dalton led his teammates. j Line-up: Brevard Etowah RF J. Schachner G. Drake | LF Morgan Barnwell I C ? Batson H. Laughter RG ? Payne A. Drake | LG iP. Schachner Hawkins Subs for Brevard: MeCall for J. Schachner; for Etowah: Dalton for G. Drake. Meese for H. Laughter, Blytlie for A. Drake, H. Laughter for Hawkins. Referee, Clayton (Weaver) Scorer, Tilson (Tusculum) ; Timer, Erwin. Girls Lose to Etowah The Blue Devil maidens lost a hard I fought game to the Etowah sextet, the game following the boys' brilliant | win. Final score was 35-8. This was the first defeat to be met by the local girls team this season. j The Etowah team was in prime condition and set a fast pace that the home team could not follow. Of no avail semed the efforts of Nichol 'son, Johnson and King, stellar play ers, against the fresh material that was continually thrown into the game by the Etowah coach. Line-up: ? , Brevard & towah RF Nicholson , Gray I' LF PielcdBimor Allison I CF Townsend Laughter ; CG Johnson B. Dalton j RG King N. Laughter I LG ^ Norton Anders charity. We know they are do ing a great work, for seeing is be lieving. One of our neighbors, Mrs. James Garren, went there on the 7th of June, in such a condition that death stared her in the face. She had .two major operations and came from there the 16th of July. While there she gained seven pounds. For all this she paid $58.50. She said words can mot express the goodness and mercy that flows out from that building. Ifrom the head doctor to the lowest ! nurse. They are one body doing the work for the Master. Is it not worth while that we, the chosen of God, urge the people to support in this worthy cause? Let us talk about it, pray about and preach about it And let us make our offer ing more in the future than it has been in the past, that the needy ones in our land who come without money or price, may find means to supply their need. And surely our Lord will not forget, for He said, "In as much as ye have done it to one of these my brethren ye have done it unto me." -G. H. G. Brevard, Jan. 21. E-G-G-S WANTED Will Pay Cash for Clean Fresh Eggs "TRULOCK" Next Door to REPORT APPROVED ^ IN PART BY BOARD OF THE M.E.CHURCH (Continued from page one) gradual recovery. -.This plan, itti3 be lieved, wJl! ultimately result in full payment to all depositors of the funds that were in the bank at the time of its closing. Following is a communication ad dressed to thu bank group by the de positors' committee s-hen submitting the plan for consideration: "Mr. T. H. Shipman "President of Brevard Banking Co. "and "the Directors and Stockholders of said Company, "Brevard, N. C. "Gentlemen : "We, the undersigned committee, selected and appointed at a mass meeting of date Jan. 26, 1931 for the purpose of formulating some plan whereby it might be possible for the Brevard Bankii.g Company to re open, subject to the approval of the State Corporation Commission and the Chief Banking Examiner together with the officials and stockholders of said bank as well as the depositors of said bank; after careful and serious consideration of all matters pertinent to the occasion we have formulated and respectfully submit for your con sideration the plan hereon outlined on the reverse side of this sheet. Be assured that it is our plan and pur pose to lend our services and co operation to the fullest extent pos sible for us so to do as a representa tive body appointed by representative depositors of said banking institution "Please give our tentative plan your most careful and serious consid eration and we urge upon you that you report to us without delay as to your -yproval or disapproval of our tentative plan herewith submitted. "Respectfully, and respectively sub mitted* "Depositor's Committee of the Brevard. Uanking Company Appointed by the People "JUDSON McCRARY, Chairman "T. J. WILSON, Secretary "L. E. BAGWELL, Member "G. H. LYDAY, Member "W. L. MULL, Member "J. H. PICKELSIMER, Member." Rrevard, N. C., Jan. 27, 1931. Don't rely .on your wits alone. Jatt Lift* An Ottrieh A medical authority says that ? person who tries to cover up slda blemishes and pinqdes with toilet creams and powders is Just as foolish as an ostrich that buries its head in the sand to avoid danger. Skin erup tions are nature's warning that con stipation is throwing poisons into your blood stream and weakening your wholo constitution. Remove the constipated condition and you will strengthen your system against disease and clear up your disfigured skin. The best way to do this is with a course of Herbine, the vegetable medicine that acts natur ally and easily, which you can get at D AVIS -LONG DRUG CO. electrical appliances THAT LAST FOR YEARS ^ The most particular will be proud to own this truly beautiful Hot point Chastleton waffle iron. Enduring Hotpoint Chromeplate finish, and a striking ornamental design combine to make the Chastleton an appointment of matchless beauty. It is equipped with a reliable heat indicator which tells when it is ready to use. No need to turn it off or disconnect ? it never gets too hot or too cool. Makes perfect waffle* automatically. A small cash payment and the balance in easy monthly installments is all that is nec essary to own any of our electrical appliances, includ ing, Toasters, Percolators, Electric Irons, Cozy Glow Heaters, and Table Stoves. Southern Public Utilities Co. Electricity ? Servant in the Home Day 'Phone 116 Night 'Phone 15 No. 3 East Main St Brevard, N. C. Want Ads Are Good Selling Agaats. Checkerboard Chatter Volume 1 January 29, 1931 Number 8 Published in the in terest of the people of BREVARD and T R ANSYLVANIA County by the B&B Fe*d * Seed Co. "It won't be long how." February is right at our door and Spring will soon be here. If you. are going to buy a ear or more of lime this Spring, see us before you buy. Sambo : "What do d a t advertisement mean when it says F. 0. B." Garfield: "It means dat if you don't pay fo' de thing you buy you must Fetch it ON BACK." It isn't the square miles that has made N. C. a great State , it's the square peo ple. If your hens are laying soft shelled eggs, some oyBter shell fed along with PURINA Laying Chow will help. Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. Figures don't lie. At least not when they are covered by a bathing suit Some people art planting onion sets and sowing cabbage and lettuce seed ? and we have plenty left yet. A fellow got stalled on the road the other night. Neither the girl nor his motor would spark. Keep your trouble s to yourself. Nobody likes a calamity kbteU-r. Hard work and en thusiasm can make up for a lot of de ficiency in general business conditions. A lazy man seldom has enough, energy to go wrong. It is only thoee who are going some where that have to watch their step. B&B Feed & Seed Co. Brevard, N. C. The Store with the Checkerboard Sign $200 in GOLD \ To Be Given Away Saturday Absolutely No Cost Nothing to Buy ^Everybody Eligible. Ask Joines Motor Co. , . ^ " For Particulars _l