THE BREVARD NEWS
Pubished Ev*y Thursday by
THE TRANSYLVANIA
PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
Entered at the Postoffice in Brevard,
N. C., as Second Class Matter
James F. Barrett Editor
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Thursday, May 7, 1931
LET THERE BE NO WARFARE
BETWEEN "OLD FOGIES" AND
THE "SMART ALECS."
There is as great danger in victory
as there is in defeat; sometimes
greater. In most small communities
there are two groups which ought to
work together, but which, more often,
are found in warfare, to the great
hurt of such small communities.
Sometimes one group is victorious in
the conflicts that arise between these
two groups, and at other times the
other group is victorious.
These groups, found in most small
towns, are made up with one side
representing the older citizens, the
families whose forbears settled such'
communities, while the other group is
representative of the new-comers into
the community? men who have come
into such places, cast their all there,
and settled down for the remaining
years of their lives. The older group
often refers to these new citizens as
"Smart Alecks," while the new citi
zens, grouped together, look upon the
older citizens as "Old Fogies.' So be
tween these groups there comes war
fare, bitter, relentless warfare, to the
hurt of everybody.
This condition should not exist.
There ought to be a splendid spirit of
co-operation between these groups,
for both are most valuable. Of course,
when the human element enters into
local affairs, there must be an outlet
for criticism, or a means of express
ing one's dissatisfaction with existing
conditions on the one hand, or with
efforts being made to change such
conditions, on the other hand. Too
often the new-comers give expression
to unkind statements about the "old
fogies' keeping members of their fam
ilies in office, or on the community's
paproll, and bitterness is engendered.
Answer is often made by the older
group that their fathers and grand
fathers settled, builded and made the
community, hence it is none of the
business of these "smart Alecks" if
their children and childrens children
are in office or on the payroll.
But these things do happen, once
in a while, and contests are waged.
Sometimes the new element enters in
to a town election, and succeeds in
ousting all the "old fogies," as Bome
people term them, and placing their
own men, referred to by others as
the Smart Alecks", in power. Or this
contest may be waged in gaining con
trol of the Chamber of Commerce, or
the church work, or what-not. The
fact remains, however, that public af
fairs and public property belong to
all the citizens, and neither the "Old
Fogies" nor the "Smart Alecks" have
a mortgage on community activities
or places or positions. These things
are for ALL the citizens.
Whatever group may be in power,
or in charge of civic organizations, no
real success can be obtained by any
one group, working alone. The wis
dom, the influence, the backing, the
support, of all good citizens are
necessary in making a success of com
munity work.
We do hope that there will never
be found any of the "old Fogy" and
"Smart Aleck" spirit here. Let all
good citize as,, regardless of place of
birth or family connection, time of
residence or who his daddy was,
buckle right down to the task of mak
ing little old Brevard the very best
mountain town in all the mountains
or the world, and little old Transyl
vania county the best little old rich,
progressive, happy county in this
state or in any other state.
"School Board Would Like to Get
$140,000 to Pay Teachers" ? Headline
in Asheville Citizen. Is that so? Well,
if they find it, Transylvania would
like to get in on the thing, for the
folks here have their likes and dis
likes, and one of the likes is like that
told about in this headline. This coun
ty would like to get $14,000, too, with
which to pay teachers. i
I
A new contrast: "As different asf
what the insurance agent tells you ,
about a policy, and what the company ,
officials tell you when you start cash- ,
ing in on the same policy." j'
Now, then, the county commission
ers can give all the time it takes to i
hearing present relief cases. The state '
has taken all other duties away from :
county boards, practically. t
STRONG MEN AS MEMBERS
OF NEW HIGHWAY BOARD.
Governor Gardner, in making ap
pointment of the new highway com
mission, certainly succeeded in nam
ing men of high character and big
calibre. There men on the board are
well known in Western North Caro
line, these being Messrs. Neal, Jeff
ries and Cannon. The other four
members are citizens of Eastern Car
olina, and not so well known in the
Western section.
Mr. Jeffries, selected by the Gov
ernor as chairman of the body, spent
his early days in Asheville, and was
for many years connected with the ^
old Asheville Gazette, fore-runner of
The Asheville Times. Later he went
to Greensboro, as publisher of The
Greensboro News.
Mr. Cannon is head of the Cannon
Mills, and spends much time in West
ern Carolina, where he is well and
favorably known.
Mr. Neal, of Marion, is' the member
to whom the Western section will
most naturally look for highway work
in the mountains. He is a man of
great business ability, boundless en
ergy, and is passionately fond of pub
lic service. Serving his community is
to Mr. Neal what golf is to some men,
and as trout fishing is to others. No
man has ever worked for any cause
with greater zeal than Mr. Neal has
worked for the School for the Deaf,
at Morganton, during the past six
teen years he has bean on the board
of directors at that institution. Those
who know Mr. Neal will vouch for the
fact that he will give the very best
there is in him to the services re
quired as a member of the highway
body.
Many people in Western North
Carolina expressed hope that James
G. Stikeleather would be named as a
member of the new board. Many cit
izens and organizations petitioned the
Governor to appoint Mr. Stikeleather.
We do not know the Governor's reas
on for not complying with these re
quests. This newspaper urged Mr.
Stikeleather's appointment. But what
ever motive the Governor may have
had in naming new men for the
place, the fact remains that he reach
ed out and picked leaders and out
standing. able. men. Those who feel
disappointment in that Mr. Stike
leather was not named, may rest as
sured that in Mr. Neal this section of
the State has a member who knows
his Western North Carolina, and
loves it, and is able to hold up for his
section anywhere, at any time.
The Brevard News suggests to the
new officers of the Brevard Chamber
of Commerce that an early meeting
be planned to which Mr. Neal should
be invited, so that all the citizens
here may come to know him, and
that he may know our community and
our citizens.
PRINTERS' UNION, MOTHER OF
TRADE UNION MOVEMENT, IS
IN ITS SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR
Seventy-eight years ago, this May,
the Typographical Union was formed.
The Printers have, since that time,
led the fight for labor's advancement
in this country. From its inception,
the Typographical Union adopted the
mediation and conciliation plan of
procedure, never resorting to the
strike weapon except in but few in
stances, and then only when no other
means known to man would prevail
against the combined forces of em
ployers who would give no ear to the
appeals of the men in the printing in
dustry.
Two major contests stand out in the
life of this the world's greatest hu
manitarian movement. The first was
in 1906, 1907 and 1908, when the
Printers' Union won and established
the eight-hour day as the standard
workday for printers, and 48 hours a
week as the maximum work-week. In
this three-year contest the Interna
tional Typographical Union spent
$4,163,970.64, all of which was paid
by the members of the organization.
The printers, therefore, were th5 first
to inaugurate the 8-hour day, now ac
cepted by all people as a proper work
day, with exception of a few indus
tries, such as textile plants and to
bacco factories, where women and
minors are employed, and even in
these lines the number of hours a^
being gradually reduced.
Again in 1921 to 1926 the Union (
printers waged another campaign for (
establishment of the half-holiday on (
Saturdays, and for reduction in t
hours of the men employed in com-,
mercial printing plants. This battle (
cost the Union printers the huge sum (
of $16, 077, 471.99, all of which was
p8id by the members of the ciganizn- J
tion. This made a total of $20,241,- 1
442.63 spent by the Union printers of (
th? United States and Canada in es*i
tabisliment of proper hours of labor
in the industry.
Let's see if the battle was worth
its cost. In 1852, when the printers J
organized the first union, they werej
required to work 12 hours a day, in ^
unsanitary shops, and tuberculosis
?was the dread certainty of the trade. 1
The average life of a printer at that e
time was 26 years. It took 25 years 1
to reduce this 12-hour day to a 10- t
hour day, but in that 25 years, the 1
average life of a printer was increas- i
ed to 41 years. In other words, tak- i
ing the average for all the printers ]
employed in the United States ana i
Canada, fifteen precious years of life i
were added to these printers, taking 1
the government average. 1
Ten years later, the average life of .
a printer had been raised to 45 1-4 i
years, another four years and three .
months added to the life of the aver- <
age printer.
Then, since establishment of the 8- i
hour day in 1908, to the year 1930, t
the average life of a printer is now ?
58 years. If more than doubling the i
lifetime of the printers in North i
America is worth twenty millions of :
dollars, then you must agree that the
money was well spent, the efforts
well directed, and the contest well
managed. ,
And this is but one phase of the I
work and accomplishments of this
great organization. At another time
we shall tell a thing more of its _
achievements ? about its great tuber- i.
cular hospital, its old-age pensions, its
mortuary benefits. The story of the ^
work done by the Typographical
Union reads like romance, and a ro- 1
mance it is, for it has made life, real |
life, for many thousands of men, wo- (
men and children, and its great ap- ]
peal is bound to be of interest to all
right thinking people who love to ;
read about the advancement of the
human family.
I
PRESIDENT HOOVER PLEADS
FOR ARMAMENTS REDUCTION
i Representatives from more than
forty nations heard President Hoover
in ardent appfeal Monday for still
greater reduction in armaments,
thereby lessening the chances of war
and emphasizing the great worth of
peace. Taken from purely business
basis, the President said, the five bil
lions of dollars now being spent by
the nations of the world in making
arms, makes recovery of business
doubtful, and adds greatly to the
handicap of depression throughout
the world.
I Five billions of dollars now being
spent for making arms would, if ap
plied to enterprises with constructive
purposes rather than in this destruc
tive course, place the world in most
Bplendid economic condition.
I The question of reduction of arma
ment, the President said, transcends
all other world questions today, even
if applied only to the economic phase,
i But when the greater question of
human life, misery and suffering is
added to that of the economic, it is,
indeed, strange that what is called a
civilized world would indulge in so
great a destructive and death-dealing
force as war, and in that thing lead
ing up to war ? the making of arma
ments, weapons of warfare, planning
wholesale murder, each nation seeking
to find a more ready way of killing
citizens of other nations than their
rivals can find.
| When will the world become really
civilized? When will the world cease
spending five billions of dollars a
year in making death-dealirf instru
ments, and turn this huge sum into
the making of things that bring life,
and more abundant life, instead of
making things that bring death?
j We are not so highly civilized as we
sometimes boast about. We are still
the savage, the wild man of the wil
derness, the bloodthirsty something
seeking the life of any and all who
' commit some imaginary wrong
against us. To say that all interna
tional questions cannot be solved in
peaceful manner, is to admit that the
world is still savage, to the degree
that the world depends upon the
methods employed by the savage to
settle difficulties.
I More power to President Hoover's
great heart in pleading for reduction
in armament, and his matchless ap
peal for world peace.
I
MOTHER'S DAY TO BE
OBSERVED NEXT SUNDAY.
Next Sunday is "Mother's Day,"
when the red and the white flower
will distinguish between those fortun
ate ones whose mothers are still liv
ing, and those who have experienced
the greatest of all losses ? the loss of
Mother. Churches here, and every
here. throughout the country, will ob
serve the day with apropriate musical
numbers and sermons. These are
beautiful services, indeed, yet the rea'
sentiment of the day is not on the
surface, but deep in the hearts of men
who are thinking of Mother.
The Brevard News would not dis
count the new effort being made to
make of this day one in which to
make practical study of Motherhood.
Probably that is the better way of ob
serving the day. Somehow, though,
we regret that any practical turn
has been given to the occasion. We
would prefer the day to be one given
over entirely to sentimental thoughts.
iVo would like for the day to be
ipent by men sitting quietly in their
lomes, or at church, or wherever
hey may be, and watch the events of
;heir childhood days pass in silent ci
review before them. All these events t'
would circle about the form of a
Mother, and in the haze of all these
recollections there would be the face B
and features of Mother, and above j
the din and noise of the present day c
there would come the gentle voice of ^
Mother, singing her favorite song, as -
she sang it back yonder when you and I
[ played about her knees, or were
:lasped in her fond embrace.
We believe that Mother's day
should be a day of sentiment. There
are 364 other days each year in which
we could study the practical problems
of Motherhood, but on this one day
let us be free to give the sentimental
instincts of our nature full sway.
SINGING AT LAKE T OX AW AY
Editor The Brevard News:
If nothing happens and the weather
will permit I will meet with the sing
ing class Friday night the 8th for the
purpose of organizing a Junior sing
ing convention. We feel that this con
vention is greatly needed to train our
boys and girls to be public singing
leaders as well as better singers. We
must remember that the boys and
girls of today will take our places of
tomorrow, and it is our duty as par
ents and leaders to give our children
the very best training possible wttilc
we live.
We give a special invitation to fev
erybody interested to meet with us at
Lake Toxaway the 8th. We are also
expecting some real good singing.
E. D. RANDOLPH.
TRY OUR WANT ADS.
BLANKETTY-BLANK VERSE |der which our backs were bent, and
I theirs as well.
( Charlotte News) i ' Noif?y interlude.
' 1! u , , +vJ More than 90 days have passed ;
Just after 1931 had turned notes are due, husbands, also, even
srner, dragging on its weary way .likewise, since that little band of tri
iat unlike most years began in tears umph went to Raleigh to reform,
nd likewise biddeth fair that way to jSoon | they will
nd, a little calvacade from Mecklen- 'ilsl)l^'?Vnn?5K
urg moved out the Lawyers' Road to the'r /,.! ? fiL 1 ? w
rith faces set toward Raleigh. ;J>?Pes uw
Full blithe they went, victors in a
ontest, now to conquer Raleigh, too, !of Ra-e'gh to soce .
nd to lift the burden of taxation un- 1
er which the State was creaking, un- 'LET US DO YOUR JOB PRINTING
Checkerboard Chatter
Volume 1 May 7, 1931 Number 22
Published in the in
terest of the people
of BREVARD and
T R ANSYLVANIA
County by the
B&B
Feed & Seed Co.
Wcath-er Forecast ?
Much cooler tomor
row for horges and
mules if they eat
Omolene or Grain
ola.
A bachelor is a fel
low that didn't have
a coupe when he
was a young man.
Houser cabbage seed
? the kind lots of
folks have been call
ing for, and other
km dp of cabbage
seed, too.
I bought my girl
some garters,
At Woolworth's five
and ten
She gave them to
her mother,
That's the last I'll
see of them.
We have some more
nice baby turkeys.
Women are steadier
drivers than men,
say the scientists ? ?
but, then, women
can use two hands.
Hubby: You are an
hour late. What do
you mean by keep
in g me standing
around like a fool?
Wifie : How can I
help the way you
stand around?
Mr. 0. Duclos, of
the Brevard Plumb
ing Co. can tell you
about the merits of
Purina chicken feed
for baby chicks, fry*
ers, and layers,
"This is sure sow*
snappy suit," said
the baby as he put
on his rubber pant
ies.
The biggest fools
are those who frown
at all frivolity.
To-morrow is too
late to do your best.
A national survey
of over one million
baby chicks shows
that 92 out of every
100 fed on Purina
live and grow.
Support the Cham
ber of Commerce.
B&B
Feed & Seed Co.
Brevard, N. C.
The Store with th?
Checkerboard Siffn
Grandpas Horse and Buggy
Isrit Good Enough For Dad Jut
look What Mother Cooks With^RI
Southern Public Utilities Company
"Electricity ? The Servant In The Home"
DAY 'PHONE HS No. 3 E. MAIN ST. BREVARD, N. C. NIGHT 'PHONE 16
Last Ca
FOR
Listing Personal Property
Time for listing personal property has expired.
However, the Board of Commissioners have authorized
me to give the delinquent listers one more chance.
In Brevard Township the list takers will meet at the
Brevard Court House May 14th and 15th, and will give
all an opportunity to list their property.
The BOYD list takers will be at V. M. Owenby's
Store on May 15th for the same purpose.
The CATHEYS CREEK list takers will meet at
Cherryfield on May 15th.
The DUNNS ROCK list takers will meet at Pow
ell's Store on May 15th.
The EASTATOE list takers will meet at Dan
Glazener's Store on May '15th.
The GLOUCESTER list takers will meet at Mace
donia Church on May 15th.
The HOGBACK list takers will meet at Lake Tox
away on May 15th.
The LITTLE RIVER list takers will meet at Grange
on May 15th.
After May 15th the law will be impartially enforced,
and it imposes fine or imprisonment, or both, for failure
to list personal property, within the time specified.
This May 4th 1931.
G. T. LYDAY
TAX SUPERVISOR