THE BREVARD NEWS ; Pubished Ev?ry Thnraday by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO, Inc. Entered at the Poatoffic* ia Brevard, N. C., as Second Clau Matter Jamea F. Barrett Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Adraace) One Year $2.00 Six Mentha LOO Three Months .90 Thursday, June 11, 1931 MR. GRAHAM ADDS TESTIMONY TO BEAUTY OF BREVARD. "I read Mr. Everett's statement about the beauty of Brevard and Transylvania county, and can say 'Amen' to every word he said," was the greeting given The Brevard News by Mr. Frank Graham, of Florida, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Graham had just arrived from Florida to spend the summer here with Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Patton, and had called to ex change greetings with The News. Continuing, Mr. Graham said: "Mr. Everett's praise of ihis com munity was fine, and it is true, every word of it. I showed that editorial to several people in Florida, and many of them are coming to Brevard this summer. There is a beauty here not to be found in any other section, and I tell my friends in Florida to visit Brevard, whatever else they may do." Mrs. Graham was just as lavish in praise of the community as was her distinguished husband. The Grahams have been spending their summers here for many years, and are interest ed in the community. Their coming is always a welcome event in Brevard. GOOD AND BAD? BEAUTIFUL AXD UGLY. YOU SEE THEM. Coming from Charlotte the other day, we were driving along slowly be hind a truck, awaiting an opportunity to pass the larger car. An old hound dog was trotting lazily along the highway, well on the outer left side of the road. The truck driver swung clear oft' the pavement to the left, making effort to run over the dog. The old hound bareiy escaped being crushed under the wheel of the heav ily loaded truck, and the driver had a hearty laugh at the scare which he gave the harmless animal. . As we finally passed the fellow, wc placed our thumb to our. nose and wiggled all four fingers at the heart less wretch who would delight in tak ing life. A few miles on up the way we were trailing an old Model T. Ford. The driver of this care came to an almost sudden stop, and we had to take the side of the road to keep from run ning into him. Investigation brought to light the fact that the driver of the old Ford had violated the traffic rules and barely escaped causing a collision to keep from running over a little young duck, or whatever you call a ducks baby, as it came wad dling across the highway.* That man couldn't kill. We passed by, and to that gentleman of royal blood and ragged overall we raised our 98 cent straw hat. But there was life, all of it, pic tured for you. You meet both of them every day. The one will go out of his way to strike you, even to car rying his own load to the left in order to hit you. He will forget to say his prayers to Almighty God for his own good and that of his family, in order to have his mind free and his tongue loose with which to lambast you with his vile language and venomous lies. The other will stop his work when opportunity comes to say something good about you, or to you. He will defend you, and protect you, even though he stops the traffic behind him, like the man did who would not run over the little duck. Here -you see the wheat and the chaff, to be separated some day, the wheat to be taken up on high while the chaff burns in the fire that is never quenched. Next time a man stops you, and be gins to whisper unkind words about another, thumb him and wiggle all four fingers at him, for you may rest assured that as soon as he stops tell ing you about the other fellow, he is going right on and the next man he meets he will be talking about you, in just the same way that he had the moment before been talking to you" about the other fellow. . When the other man comes along, bragging on his neighbor and saying kind words to you, raise your hat to him, for he is the salt of the earth, of royal blue blood, descended from kings and on his way to eternal com panionship with the King of Kings. CHARLOTTE ORGANIZED LABOR] PROUD OF ITS VITORY. Our long interest in the welfare of the men and women who work for wages is offered as a reason for this ' editorial comment on the election of j Claude L. Albea, a member of Organ- ! ized Labor, to the city council in Charlotte. While the office is purely ' local, and Councilman Albea's elec- , tion on the city council has to do al together with Charlotte's own busi- 1 ness affairs, we see in his success at the polls an influence that reaches far beyond the city limits of Char- ! lotte. ! Charlotte is the largest city in the . fetate. It is the hub of the state's great industrial wheel. Recognition of the working men and women to the point of placing one of their number on the city council is saying, in effect, that the state's most im portant city is recognizing the rights of the working people to have a voice in the administration of its public ( affairs. It means something not only j to Charlotte, but to all the state, when this happy conclusion has been reached. Charlotte's influence over the balance of the state is a recognized power, hence the greater meaning to Mr. Albea's election. Other cities and towns may now be cxjiected to give recognition to that great and important group of citi zens in having their repcesentatives placed upon governing boards. We are confident that Mr. Albea will so discharge his duties as to ( bring credit to himself and honor , to the honorable and useful citizen- j ship whose influence placed him on ! the Charlotte city council. He will be expected to interpret labor's hopes and aspirations to other members of the council and to the city. His elec tion was an expression of confidence by the city of Charlotte in the sin cerity of purpose of Organized La!#r, and Mr. Albea's administration will determine whether or not that con fidence is truly merited. It is no small task that he has assumed, and in the discharge of his duties Mr. Albea needs the sympathetic co operation, advice and support of all thinking men and women in the ranks of labor. THIS IS THE WAY THAT HIGHLANDS HIRES HANDS. The pretty little town of High lands, perched on top of the world just back of Brevard, has its own peculiar way of employing the town forces, according to The Highlands Maconian. The commissioners asked , for bids for the various offices, and The Maconian gives the following as , the results: , Bids for keeper of the power house follow: Alvin Crow, $45 a I month; Frank Neely, $60: Jerry ? i keener, $40. I For town marshall: Ed Crain, I $50 a month; Lewis C. Rice, $50; Ed Rogers, $60. For town clerk: J. E. Potts, "a fair and just rate." SPAIN WANTS RID OF THE ROMISH YOKE (The Pickens Sentinel) During the presidential campaign ! between Mr. Hoover and Mr. A1 'Smith many good Democrats could !not support the party's candidate be cause he belonged to an organization that believes in the union of church and state, a doctrine which is any thing but democratic. These Demo crats were libeled, slandered, insulted and almost ostracised by professional Democratic politicians and their fol lowers who control the party machin ery. They were accused of opposing a man on account of his religious be lief when such was in no wise the .truth. All of A1 Smith's spokesmen 1 ridiculed the idea that the Roman j Catholic church stands for union of | church and state. Some of these lead jers knew better, but were tzying to ; pull the wool over the people's eyes; ! others did not know any better. For the information and enlighten ment of local leaders who did a lot of "explaining'' and shelled the woods for the grand old Democratic party and A1 Smith, the "people's candi date^" we print the following Asso ciated* Press dispatches: Madrid, May 22. ? The Spanish pro visional government took what is gen erally regarded as the first important step in its avowed program to sepa- 1 rate church and the state when the cabinet tonight decreed absolute re ligious freedom of worship for all creeds in Spain. Although the measure dots not yet actually mean separation, since there is a signed concordant between Ma drid and Vatican City which must be terminated by mutual agreement, the decree provides that the government no longer professes the' Catholic re ligion as official. This is regarded as highly significant. Under the new measure, which was submitted by Minister of Justice De Los Rios, who has charge -of the re ligious questions, all religious creeds are now equal in the official eye. Under the monarchy, the Catholic religion was official and the only one permitted to practice its beliefs pub licly. Formerly all creeds could wor ship but had to do so within their own temples and not publicly. The new law says all creeds are equal before the Republican govern ment and they can worship in any way they see fit, provided they do not disturb public order. Coincident with the religious free dom decree the cabinet tonight also decided that public schools in the fu [ THE PRAYER CORNER ] v. I ? "JUNE" ,? What docs the word mean? It comes from Junius, the name of the Roman j "gens," and a "gens" was, roughly speaking, a clan the individuals of, which joined together were called, gentiles. Each "gens" was made up of a number of branches or families, 1 and each family was made up of in- ! dividual members. Thus is olden days, June would tell of Related Life. And this related life is just what I we are learning so much about in modern days. This is just what the Christian Faith teaches us for all days: "No man liveth unto himself." He cannot really be an independent j atom, even if he would ? any more 1 than the particles of water in a glass i can be independent of each other. Christianize the old thought, and the root idea of the church is clear. The churches a big brotherhood made up of branches or families, each family being made up of individuals related to each other by spiritual, as by nat ural birth." From the highest to the lowest, Un iversal Relationship'' is the claim of the individual, and individuality is the outcome of relationship. Thus when a man and woman, no matter how high or low they may be, are be- 1 ing married, the man is asked, "Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife?" ? this particular woman, but "this woman." Just a woman, relat ed by her womanhood to all other wo- 1 men. So the woman is asked: "Wilt j thou have this man to thy wedded I husband?" ? This particular man, but i this man. "Just a man, related by his i manhood to all other men. We cannot grasp the idea of an in dividual man or woman apart from other men and women who make tare will not be required to keep the Catholic religion. Children will receive religious In struction only when their parents de mand it. Another decree passed tonight lim ited the sale and disposition of ob jects of Spanish art and literature many of which are owned by the Catholic church. These objects now can be sold with the permission of the government. I ; Vatican City, May 24. ? The Vati can will make strong representations to the Spanish republic against last Friday's religious liberty decree, as it is considered by church officials to be a clear violation of the concordat still in existence between Spain and the Vatican, it was learned tonight. I This question, as well as the burn ing of church property and the treat ment of priests and nuns in Spain, were understood to have been thor oughy discussed by Pope Pius today during an hour, and a half's audience with the Spanish primate Cardinal Segura. their individuality possible. There would be nothing individual about them unless there were others from whom to distinguish them. And even their very individuality is, as far as we can grasp it, largely the sum total of a whole pedigree of individualities of which they are the resultant prod ucts ? father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, great- grandfather, great-grandmother, and so on. June, the gens or clan, then fixes our thoughts on family life in the broad sense of the words ? whether it is our own individual family, or the family of the human race, or the church, which our Book of Devotion calls the "family for which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to be be trayed." (to be continued) A PRAYER O Lord of Love, who art not far from any of Thy children, and we are all Thy children ; watch with Thy care those who a/e far away from us; be Thou about their path; be Thou their defence upon their right hand; give them unfailing trust in Thee; grant them power against temptation; qualify them for what ever task Thou givest them to do; deliver them from the snare of set ting duty aside; make it their joy to do Thy will. Let not distance break the bond between us and to Thee, but knit us closer to Thy Love; for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Ix>rd. Almighty God, our Heavenly Fath er, who settest the solitary in famil ies, we commend to Thy continual care the homes in which Thy people dwell. Put far from them, we beseech Thee, every root of bitterness, the de sire of vain glory and the pride of life. Fill them with faith, virtue. : knowledge, temperance, patience and 'godliness. Knit together in constant affection those who, in holy wedlock, 'have been made one flesh; turn the [hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the i fathers, and so kindle charity among us all, that we be evermore kindly affectionate with brotherly and sister ly love, through Jesus Christ, our | Lord. 0 God, make this day to be the day | of Thy tender mcrcy. Listen to the prayers of all Thy children; be the Shepherd of the lost, the Guide and Light of unbelieves; the Teacher of the simple; the Father of the Father less; the Protector of the oppressed; the Physician of the suffering; the Comforter of the dying, and bring us all at last to Thee, our Refuge and Eternal Rest. Amen. I ? C. D. C. | Since the first of January, 1206 | hogs fattened according to the Shay method have been sold by Edgecombe county farmers, netting them $18, j 019.13 in cash. June 11, 1931 Number 27 PxMStttd in the tf terut of the of BSmVARD and TRANSYLVANIA County by the B&B Feed 8t Seed Co. Mother, to son who is reaching' across the table ? "Son, why don't you use your tongue?" Son -- "It's not long enough t o reach that "far." We are expecting another loud fresh Potato Plants early Thursday morning. Dentist, to absent minded patient: "Will you take gas? "Yes, and look at the oil, too," said ! the patient. Lots of folks are buying sprayers and spray materia It to help them fight the Potato Bug, Bean Beetle and Blight