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grip PubJ?tH*i ?v?ry Tlraj^y by THE TRANSYLVANIA PUBLISHING CO., Inc. ntered at the Postoffice 3a Bravaid, N. C., as Second Claw Matter JanjM>. Barrett ,.... Editor , SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable In Advance) One Year ia.00 Six Msnthw 1.00 Tb|?e Months 99 Thursday, December 31, 1931 AND THE SMOKE WENT UP THE chimney, just the same. Pope Pius XI issued the regular Catholic "invitation" on Christmas Day to all the peoples of the world to come back to the fold ? of the ?\ Catholic church. The message went "*back fifteen hundred years, to that ne at Ephesus when ex-communi cation was made of those who failed or-x&used to absolutely follow the rffrti^^^TtSithn ?Mb pfes ent pope, elected to the high position after many ballots had been cast by the cardinals of the world; calls up on all of us heathen and malcontents who do not subscribe to the Catholic doctrine to "come back to the one and only church." Well, we're not going, thank you. We're pretty well satisfied with the worship of the Christ who said: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." That sweet passage which say%: "I am the way, the .truth and the light; no man comes unto the Father except by me," was the voice of Jesus Christ speaking, and no refernce is made anywhere that indi cates the necessity of going by way of a pope, praying to him instead of direct to the Jesus who died for all of us, and who said, "Whosoever will, let him come ..." If the pope is the one and only true representative of Jesus Christ on earth, how comes that it is necessary for a bunch of ordinary men who have been elevated to cardinals, or whatever it is the Catholics call them, to meet and elect a new pope every time the old pope dies. Thes? churchmen go from all over the world to attend the election of a new pope, and after each ballot, until there is an election of one of the number to the office of pope, the ballots arc burned and the smoke going up from the chimney indicates that no election has been made. Thus they vote and carry on until an election is finally made, and a pope is elected by these MEN ? not God, mind you ? and then the newly elected pope becomes the one and only.'' Strange part of it is that most al ways some Italian is elected to the office of pope. This method has been in use for many centuries, and the smoke goes up the chimney just the same after each unsuccessful ballot. The pope could give an another in teresting side to the activities of the Catholic church during the fifteen hundred years, if only he would do so. If prison walls could speak, and dark dungeons could belch forth their darker secrets, the wails and cries and groans of those countless thousands who have been imprisoned by the Catholic church would echo and re-echo throughout the world in such heart rending tones that even all talk of the depression would cease, so astounding would be the ales thus unfolded of inhuman treat women for no other attempting to con n ^ ? - ? ? ~ FRIDAY'S MEETING MEANS MUCH TO THIS COUNTY . I Some fifty men from Brevard lytd Transylvania county will meat one hundred and fifty men from Green ville and nearby South Carolina points at Caesar's Head this Friday at noon, and together will partake of a turkey dinner, sing songs , make speeches and pass jokes. The eating and the merry-making will be only incidental to the bigger thing that is represented by the gathering. The real purpose of the meeting is to eel1 ebrate the completion of the highway between Brevard and Greenville, an accomplishment that has long been sought. The gathering this Friday noon is for the purpose of telling the story of the progress of this section in be ing linked to Greenville by an hour's journey. Jerry Jerome, president of the Brevard Chamber of Commerce, made the trip "to Greenville in one hour recently, Just ft>~see if it could be done. M/:' Jerome recalls when several hou>s were required for mak ing the trip, as do many others who w at the meeting tomorrow, and this highway work which now brings Brevard and Greenville within an hour's journey is "plenty much'' to cause real celebration and joyful meeting of the citizens of the two sections. Already there is greany mciwatu travel ovei' this route, as testified to by many leading citizens. Report has it that there has been more travel over highway 284 during the past two weeks than has been seen on any other one highway west of Ashe ville. John Smith is authority for the statement that there were more 'peo ple at Caesar's Head a week ago last Sunday than there Were on any one day during the summer of 1931. It. W. Everett and friends report that they counted more cars on the high ways in Transylvania county than they saw on any other highway, and their journey led them over many miles of highways in other counties and in a portion of South Carolina. Fact of the matter is that even the most enthusiastic men of the county 1 cannot begin to realize just how much this opening of the Brevard Greenville highway is to increase the wealth and population of Transyl 1 vania county. Men who are really in terested in the future of this county will not miss the meeting at Caesar's Head on New Year's Day. It is truly an important event in the life of the community. CHRISTMAS BUSINESS GOOD L\ BREVARD. "Sold just about everything in stock and in sight during the holi , days," says one of the officials of \ Plummer's Department Store to a News man. That's good. i "This December was far better than December a year ago," said A. H. Houston, of the Houston Furni i ture Store. We sold living room suites, bed room suits, radios and Roman ranges to beat the band." That's good. ; "People turned 'electric-minded' this Christmas, judging from the number of electrical appliances which ,we sold during the holidays," said J. M. Gaines, manager of the Southern Public Utilities company. "We sold far more such goods than we had ex pected to sell,'' Mr. Gaines continued. That's good. I "This seems to be a Ford season, more so than on any other Christmas occasion, " said S. R. Joines, Ford dealer in Breverd. "December waa one good month with us in both new and used cars. Bu~! : picking up, if the STILL HOPEFUL, DESPITE ALL PAST DISAPPOINTMENTS. Col. T. L, Kirkpetrick, Charlotte lawyer, Southern statesman and Na tional good roads booster, was laugh ing with" us on Christmas Day about , a speech made by the editor of The I Brevard News at a New Year's meet ing of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce on New Year's Eve, 1921 , ? just ten years ago. The Colonel re called that we expressed our genu ine joy at the passing of 1921 and i gave unstinted and whole-hearted , welcome to 1922, because '21 had been a bum sort of a year and we made assertion that no other year could ; bring forth the difficulties and pile up the obstacles that had been scat tered* about in the paths of men in 1921. We knew, so Colonel Kirkpat rick quoted us as saying, that 1922 would be better, and all the vicissi tudes of 1921 would soon be forgot ten in the ei^'oyra^aMwir'ffflfr%^npv-1 ous pe'riod just then dawning upon a torn and saddened world. Well, we are. still preaching the same old doctrine. On this New Year's Eve in 1931, we cheerfully and gladly bid the Old Year goodbye, and turn with heart-filled hope to the coming of the New Year of 1932. We had our recovery ten years ago, and we shall recover from this awful de pression through which we have been passing. So rapidly did the nation recover from its hard times ten years ago, that, by the latter part of 1924 everything was "booming," and the boom reached its senith in '25 and held forth for a portion of '26. But ' we, as always, inflated that boom un til the thing bursted, and loud was the bursting thereof. Since the bursting began, everything from Wall Street in New York to home made islands on the tip of Florida have exploded. Business from Bangor, Maine, to Galveston, Texas, has been on the bum, and suffering has been heaped upon people from Suffolk, Va., to San Francisco, Calif. Not on ly in America, but in every nation on | the globe this thing called depression has laid low mighty men and im mense institutions. Great Britain Japan and other nations have been pushed from their monetary perch and are now using script and silver as mediums of exchange, never know ing one day what the value of such will be on the next day. Empires have been shattered and the crowns of kings have been tlirown to the clowns of the street. | Notwithstanding all these things, we repeat that 1932 will be better | than 1931 has been? better generally, and much better locally. We believe that 1932 will witness Brevard's greatest summer season since it be came a summer resort- With High way 28 completed, leading through i Transylvania county, by Cashiers Valley, Highlands, and all that vast , section of matchless scenic beauty, and with 284 linking Greenville to Brevard by an hour's journey, we are confident that every boarding house and hotel in this county will be I filled throughout the summer of 1932, and that every furnished house that is offered at reasonable rental will be taken for the season. ! It is with this hopeful attitude that we say goodbye to 1931 and give warm welcome to 1932. , "SENTENCED TO DIE FOR ' STEALING PAIR OF SHOES" Such is the heading over an article appearing in many newspap- ; erB . of the North, East, and in ! certain sections of the South. It is not so. The facts in the case are, these: I -v ' A negro was convicted in Superior. fc^LjiLJVinston-Sakm Jrr hrrnlriMtii into or enters that home by stealth should be dealt with in the most se-. vere manner that is metvd out to criminals. The colored people of the North and many of. their white sympathiz ers are intensely aroused over this Winston-Salem affair, and persist in 1 publishing the fact that a negro is to die in the electric chair because "he stole a pair of old shoes,'' or at tempted to steal them. That version of the afFair is a lie. Ten thousand ! people in Winston-Salem would j gladly have given that negro a pair | of shoes, had he applied in proper ; manner for them. He was convicted and sentenced because he entered a place where other people maintain their sleeping quarters, and the fact that he was a negro, or that he was stealing a ; pair of shoes, does not enter into it except in incidental manner. White men in North Carolina have been sentenced X' death for entering the homes of people. That is the law i? this state, and it is a good law. Harry M. Daugherty, attorney general in the cabinet of the late President (Harding, announces that his book, which will be off the presf within the next three weeks, will tell j the true story of the Harding ad- j ministration. Thomas Dixon, Nortli ' ' Carolina's geratest novelist, collabor- j | rated with Daugherty in writing the ; : book, and it is safe to say that tens | of thousands of people will be most ( ! anxious to read this story. | Japan and China, it now appears | will keep on with their foolishness un- j til another World War will come upon j , the nations of the earth. This time i the great battle would have its in | ception in the rights claimed by each i nation in Manchuria. It is over just , j such small possessions as these that i , wars in Europe have their origin, ! and those people who have been wish ing for another great war may soon have their hearts' desire. FROM SOMEWHERE UP W HOGBACK I Editor The Brevard News : ! Well, Jim, I didn't get to see you in town last week, so many people there you just couldn't see anybody much. I saw Bill Breese, or I guess that was him, anyway a^big over sis ed man or had too much air or something. I guess that was him. I saw one old man that had no teeth at all. | Lord, Lord, Jim I don't think u man from up here hears anything that helps us much in town, anyway or at least I didn't see or hear any thing that done me any good. Them ! people talk hard times, all the time. ' I don't see what pleasure they get , out of that. We people up here think times are getting better or it looks that way. j I Myra McCall who runs the store down a short ways from here, says | collections is much better this year than last year. She said she had col lected in a hound pup, a pig and a I daughter-in-law, that don't look so bad. ; Well, Jim I saw where Ed Patton j and Eck Sims caught some men out at 'Cedar Mountain, just because they j J went out there. If they don't want to 'get caught they should've stayed out] | of here. Ed aud Eck wili_get youjust as same as two men. Eck likes to clo j {things of this kind, anyhow. 1 think I when I get the sheriff's office, next ; year I will let Eck help me. You : know a boy likes to do things^ like helping a man do something boy can't do by himself, anyway. | Jim somebody told me that .*ss Gallow&y had bought him or w**' ?<>- 1 ing to buy some hound dogs, 'guess he is ^oing to run for clerk ** court (/ next time. Anywap Jess i 8 Kood . boy and I hope he finds "ome good dogs. He may be like C-^roan Gallo way. Jim I think ofK? .times ho' Coleman has ehanjrf' , he 'eJ Gloucester. You *h,en ** Sims had thaU# with tracks i 1 II iwiimv*T V.a THE PRAYER CORNER ^ From the Files of Long Ago j OUR YEARS "Days should speak and multitude* J >f yeara nhould teach wisdom"?' pb 32:7. What have you to put into the 'ears, my friends? This is a question vhieh children may answer. This is luestion that the aged- may answei Fhe . years have not come and gon; or nothing. Time has not been give: vithout responsibilities, whether wist ir unwise. We have been putting in o the years as they passed : our , houghts, our feelings, our purposes, | iur plans and our influence. All | ?hese and similar things are in the i rears, and from them we shall reap I n poverty, or in wealth, the discon- j ent or satisfaction of the coming rears. What, I ask again, have YOU put nto the years? In a few days it will be numbered vithin you, your doings will be seen n blessed prints or in total barren less. The years teach wisdom, and it vill be our own fault if we do not .?lose this year and enter upon the lew year wiser men, women and ;hildren, than we have been, wiser 'or ourselves, wiser for those depend np upon us, wiser for o\ir churches, ?viser for our community, wiser for he nation and wiser for the world. Mo man liveth to himself. Living or lying, man is called upon to live and lie for Christ, live and die for the jood of man. Let us then, my dear readers, be women and men, responsible women inti men, and build in the heart and build in the family and build in the rhurch the Kingom of God. Let us :lose the present year, with a total renunciation of all sin, of every thing iishonorable to God, and hurtful tc man. Let us put into it before it be taken from us, the truest repentance, the strongest faith, the warmth of love, the highest resolve -and the broadest plan for usefulness we have ?ver entertained and the year will not die but live, among the finest mem-' ories of the heart. A PRAYER for our years O Thou Merciful and gracious God, ?tur Heaven^ Father, let us never forget that day^ should Spea]( ancj multitudes of ye'8*?v should teach wisdom. Help us to ? ourselves the question, what havej*e placed in the years, for thdy ha* not come and gtme for nothinz/Time has not been given without rfeponsibilities, wheth er wise or unwis^-?e- have been put- 4 ting into the ye*rs, as they passed, J our thoughts, afld our feelings, our ? purposes, our plana and influence. * All these and simitar things are i'n - the years and from them we shall reap in poverty 0r in wealth, the discontent or Jhtisfaction of the com ing years. Enable us %o ask, once again the solemn quest>vn, "What have we put into the years'." in a day or two this year will be -?yimbercd with the past, and when wy look within us, our doings will -ome to mind, and when we look without us our doings will be seen in flensed fruits or in total barrenness. The years teach wisdom and ,t will be our own fault if we dwvo, close the year and en ter uporBhe new year, wiser men, women w children than we have been, wiifr for ourselves, wiser for those defendent upon usv wiser for our childiW wiser for our commun ity, wiser-Kr our nation, and wiser for the Vorld. No man liveth to him self. Irving or dying, man is called upon toitoe and die for Christ, live and die good of man. Let us,~^Pi, 0 God. merciful and gracious ^Responsible men and wo men and^Bd in ouj hearts, build in our chi^ft Thy Kingdom. Give us grace, ou^ftavenly Father, to close the preso^Bhr and build in our hearts, rfl in our families, and build if ^RhL'rch Thy Kingdom. -Give B, our Heavenly Father, to clos^PFpresorit with a total re nunci?iv of sin, of everything dis honor Me to Thee and hurtful to man.Miable us to put into it before it is Ken from us, the truest repent ancJlhe strongest faith, the warm est Are, the highest resolve and the brc*est plan for usefulness we have ev# used. LOOK anl LEARN | 1 ? Who is regarded as the grea English speaking orator? 2 ? What coin is the standard of value in the United States? ! 3 ? While the total number o' is unknown, how many is it jl ! to photograph by long exposu j 4 ? What two states have given jus the most presidents? / i i 5 ? What are the nine mostjlnnmon 'family names in the United States, named in order? | fi ? Who succeeded the 1%a William . Howard Taft as Chief Ji*\tfe of the . U. S. Supreme Court? ' 7 ? What is a muzhik? / 8 ? At what place didAv Civil War begin? 9 ? What little field, external ears? 10 ? What is Ne est river? 11 ? What are mountain range; States? 12? What E American wri' name? 13 ? What msil does not rust nor tarnish? J 14 ? What ;pntry has the oldest unchanged??onal flag? 15 ? HoiJ #ny pecks are there in I anal has no 'gland's larg o great t United statesman and ave the same rtwo - soldiers became . rthe United States? tree grows the farthest! one bush? ie-wi Preaider If?* lyithPi , 18 ? AJiich state of the original ' thirtetfcolonies was the last settled? t 19-r/ow many days are there in a e ton' fntl e here is the most productive world? ' "at does the name Alabama t r " mvi 1 ihs -Whai ?What is the difference between ' pie and compound interest? :3 ? What is the weight of an ele ant at birth? J 24 ? Who was Edward Jenner? 25 ? Which of the continents has the largest population? 26? What is the world's oldest in habited city? 27 ? What Biblical character was called "The Father of the Faithful"? 28 ? What are the spade-like ends >f an anchor called? 29 ? Who commanded the Union irmy at the Battle of Gettysburg? 30? ? How many tributaries have :he Mississippi and Missouri Rivers? ANSWERS 1 ? Daniel Webster. 2 ? The gold dollar. 3 ? One hundred million. 4 ? Virginia and Ohio (seven each) 5 ? Smith, Johnson, Brown, Wil iams, Jones, Miller, Davis, Anderson, floor e. 6 ? Charles Evans Huges. 7 ? A Russian peasant. 8 ? Fort Sumter. 9 ? The mole. 10 ? Connecticut River. 11 ? The Appalachian and the tockies. 12 ? Winston Churchill. 13 ? Antimony. 14 ? Denmark. 16 ? Four pecks. 16 ? Zachary Taylor and Ulysses S. rant. 17 ? Birch. 18 ? Georgia. 19? rFourteen. 20 ? Australia. 21 ? "Here we rest'' 22 ? Compound interest is allowing le interest to accrue; simple inter it is figured on the principal only, id not added to the sum total. 23 ? From 150 to 170 pounds. 24 ? An English physician who in oduced vaccination. 26 ? Asia. 26 ? Damascus. Syria. 27 ? Abraham. 28? Flukes. 29 ? General Meade. 30?10,000. tm fRFFK NEWS WITH THE COUNTY'S ^LSRED PEOPLE M. HARRIS lurches es held Christmas |bl Baptist church. I p, pastor; Bethel A 1 'fV. Burke, pastor; 1 E. Z. church. ] hj reopen Mon H^Christmas ?Md Indian
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