lom Bost Says Reynolds Will Prove !
To Be State's Great Disillusionment
(Of -'iisboro News ) }
Republicans in Noun Carolina are
perking up and Democrats are piping
down it the superficial traits of poli
tics may bo trusted three months from
the election. ''
Lne xiatf mood improves among
thi! t.k.!iii crats. Tney nave no fear
thai the state ticket and a good
legislature inr the Democracy will not
be chosen. The apparent disagree- 1
uitu: of J. (J. B. Ehringhaus and
Robort K. Reynolds, nominees for !
governor and United States senator, !
?will not bo serious. Stout partisans '
of Mr. Reynolds think Mr. Ehring- j
haus would be wise to get an eastern !
man tin state chairman, the implica- j
tion bciny that Mr. Reynolds is so.
powv :~i i', rhat he needs no help. This'
will be the big disillusionment of the 1
campaign. Mr. Reynolds will be the;
first to suffer a big slump. It is ?
inconceivable that he can be beaten
by the Republicans and the dry
Democrats.
But the wets are to get the first
great jolt in the country and espe- j
eially in North Carolina. They caught !
the state busted and sick. In that;
rendition thiy found North Carolina
na<iy for the nostrum. Anybody
could convince Carolina that she was!
siv.. Almost anybody could likewise!
ince her that some quack would
ma.' ? her well. The wets came along
with their quackery. The country is
go r-g hack on them. There is every
sign that the renunciation is under
way. |
The Demovratie morale in the state !
lacks all of the cockiness that it ac
quire- Immediately after the national I
convention and the state-wide sec
ond f-.-iinary. Mr. Roosevelt is not !
ma Ling <1 gwat candidate. North
Carolina Democrats are afraid that'
they are going to have to accept the j
Waiter Lippman estimate of the New
\ork governor. Mr. Roosevelt's
speeches for AI Smith were the best
on either side in the 1928 campaign,
but the Democratic candidate's sfforts
tn his own behalf and among the
worst. The opinion spreads about
Raleigh that Mr. Roosevelt is going
to be defeated. There are 10 Demo
crats who think it now to one who
1 elf that way a month ago. The Re
publican mood is one of satisfaction.
1 hey like ?<> see Gene Tunney on
'he stump in Connecticut and Bob
Reynolds on the ticket in North
f'arolinh. There is a lingering recol
lection that Jack Johnson campaign
?ci for AI Smith and Babe Ruth ad
i.itH-ed Sunday baseball in speaking
tor Smith, pledging the Democratic
candidate to a wide open Sunday. It
come, but there is everywhere al
most universal agreement that it has
iff. brought prosperity and certainly
' not improved the "moral" tone,
v ictever "moral" many mean. The
" nt is plain: The Democrats are
'"wincing the country that it doesn't
"< "d them now.
There never was doubt that the na
t ton needed them in 1912 and again
in i.'JG. But somehow under Wilson
people l.ked to enlist, however ilttle
they loved him. There isn't a vestige
of the feeling in North Carolina that
?d the country to the election of
v. ilsott m either year mentioned. The
sentiment for change in administra
,IS ^'rong enough, but not for
uie onstage that the Democrats pro
pose.
Ou.r /inl) Over- Advertised
Unless Mr. Reynolds is redeemed
ironi hi* wild friends his over-adver
tisement will hurt him mightily, but
not enough to elect his opponent.
?Newspaper writers seem determined
10 make him a great football player,
j great soldier, a great psychologist,
and a leader of great courage. He
was nunc of them and is not now.
Dr. I,. B. McBrayei rebuking the
oditona] writers of tV> Greensboro
Daily News on their u-villingness to
acccpt Our Bob 100 pe- cent remind
^ scribes that h-re was "the
greatest campaigner ;ince Zeb
vanee and a man with f he "rugged
honesty ' of Vance. It vis Dr. Mc
tfrayer who introduced Senator R S
tapejand. of New York, is another
V oodro w V, ilson, and doubtless if he
were asked to present Aimee Semple
he .east that he could make of this
she-puhiiteer would be a sister of
.Saint Paul.
Not Greatest Campaigner
Mr. Reynolds isn't the greatest
campaigner since Vance, nor has Our
Bob any ruggedness of any kind. He
is no more rugged than Beau Brum
mell or Lord Chesterfield. But he is as
polite as either. Vance was rugged,
ne was rough as pig iron. But Our
riob is not. There is going to be a
.urrible overdoing of Our Bob and
when he fails to deliver he will get
hurt. Mr. Reynolds is a good cam
paigner and so is Dick Fountain.
Each got a lot of votes. In the ex
hibition of courage there never was
any doubt that Mr. Fountain rates
first.
The thing that carries elections in
doubtful times is leaving the Demo
crats. Their state ticket is going over
big. The state attitude toward the
Republicans is the national attitude
toward the Democrat". The Republi
cans in the state were the party to
have gone back on the 18th amend
ment. But they dawdled until pro
hibition was about to break down of
its own excesses. Never having really
embraced it in North Carolina as
state or national policy the Republi
cans to 1928 could have assailed the
Democracy's contradictory attitude
and stopped there. But the Republi
cans embraced prohibition when
everybody was turning it loose.
But the country won't trust the
Democrats with prohibition as a
paramount. Friends of Mr. Roosevelt
cannot think of one thing that he ad
vocates except repeal of the 18th
amendment and of the Volstead act.
There is a grandiloquent appeal to
the people to consider the Demo
cratic campaign "a call to arms,"
but a call to booze may fall short of
the manifesto that every great war
must have.
Desirable as repeal may be there
are thousands of Democrats who
I never favored the 18th amendment
i who look with no fear on their party's
.campaign. The raucous demand for
! repeal, coupled with the passionate
1 rssault on the saloon, lacks every
thing of reassurance. It is idiotic in
, the opinion of many Democrats for
I national leaders to shriek for repeal,
| then scream their sorry semblance of
| shock at the saloon. If the states are
I to take over liquor hereafter it is no
.business of Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Rey
nolds or any other wet how the state
i decides to handle liquor. This ter
? rible weakness of the Democratic po
sition will be furiously assaulted by
, the smart Republicans.
Can't Stfly Drunk
| Besides, the country can't stay
? drunk intellectually any more than it
! can remain soused physically. There
I was a celebrated drunkard in Salis
bury who described his life this way :
i "Some times I am drunk and some
times I am half drunk." The Demo*
cracy cannot stay in its present mood
j and far less can the country.
Eight days was Dick Croker's limit
!for the American memory. If the
R-oublicans can take the credit, as
they will, for the certain improve
ment in business conditions between
now and the election and all excuse
for a change in administrations for
? economic reasons will have passed.
There is every sign that this very
thing is happening. Mr. Roosevelt's
c -mpaign will lose its enthusiasm for
the voters. In November the country
wil! have concluded that times are
better and that what the Democrats
would have done will hurt it if they
do it. Just as certainly as there is
a government, the swing has started
Republican-ward. What was an Elec
tion handed to the Democrats on a
silver platter turns out to have been
construed by them as a hip flask.
The country isn't going to like it and
isn't going to take it.
COUNTIES PAYING TAXES
Raleigh, Aug. 10. ? Cabarrus is the
first and Granville the second county
to remit to the State their initial pay
ments cn collections of the 15-cent
ad valorem tax for the year 1932. Ca
barrus has about completely paid up
the 1931 tax, as have several other
counties, but some still owe about
half the amount due and several one
third, ?State Treasurer John P. Sted
man reports.
Try advertising in the Brevard
Npws. It pays.
TO HOGS, SELL MEAT
Shortage In Hogs Already Be- i
ing Felt ? Price* Making
Rapid Gains.
The general level of all farm prices
in the United State3 is too low for
North Carolina farmers to expect un
usual profits from hog feeding but
any person with hogs and corn should
find it more advantageous to sell the
' corn as pork rather than as grain.
1 "It is not wise for our farmers to
make quick shifts towards large-scale
hog production with the expectation
I of great profits from the undertak
; ing," says J. F. Criswell, extension
1 economist at State College. Mr. Cris
! well has been giving careful study to
1 the trend and out look for farm com
u.jdities this year and while he agrees
1 with others that the increase in price
of pork will be very beneficial to
those prepared to feed hogs, he does
not think there should be any decided
shift to this project until more stab
ility and continuity of price is assur
ed.
"Consumers can use beef, veal,
lamb and mutton for pork and they
may substitute vegetable oils for lard
if pork goes to high in price," he says.
"This means that the shortage of pork
stocks in storage and the demand may
fail to have its full effect. The price
of $3.19 a hundred for pork" in May
was the lowest in the past 35 years.
This soared to over $5 in July because
farmers in the principal livestock
belts did not believe it worth their
while to get their animals in shape
for the market. Many are carrying
their stock over until next year and
few bred their sows for pigs this
spring in spite of the fact that there
was plenty of feed on hand."
The shortage of pork and pigs
exists also in Denmark and Germany,
says Criswell. These two countries
are the greatest competitors of the
United States for the English trade
The corn-hog ratio is still favor
able, however, and those having corn
and hogs will find feeding the animals
the most profitable way to sell the
grain.
REVIVAL TO BEGIN
AT ENON CHURCH
Revival meetings will begin next I
Sunday evening August 14 at Enon
church. The pastor Rev. J. L. Bragg
is to conduct the meetings and do
the preaching. Rev. Bragg unassisted
by any evangelist carried out a very
successful revival here last year when
several were added to the church.
NEW KIND OF SOAP
NOW ON THE MARKET
Raleigh, Aug. 10. ? "Democratic
Soap ? Let's clean up America" is
the slogan that will appear on mil
lions of cakes of soap all over the
United States this fall, distributed at
10 cents a cake by members of the
Young Democratic Clubs of America,
Tyre Taylor, nationnl president, an
nounces. The soap will serve a three
fold purpose ? primarily, promoting
the campaign of the Democratic tick
et; net two or three cents to go to
the National Democratic campaign
fund, and help those who sell it from
door to door, largely young Demo
crats, in securing a small stipend in
this period of unemployment. The
plan was suggested by a young Cali
fornia Democrat. Governor Gardner
thinks it a great idea and will go
over big.
HOMK PURCHASED
BY BREVARD PEOPLE
The South Atlantic Realty Corpora
tion, through the agency of Judson
McCrary ,made two sales of real es
tate this week. The J. S. Bromfield
place on Probart Street was sold to
Miss Reba Kitchin. The R. B. Lyon
House on Probart was purchased by
R. Mack Pejrrie, who is connected with
Transylvania Camp.
WANTED
Potatoes and Corn
No. 1 Potatoes 50c per bu.
No. 2 Potatoes 25c per bu.
Corn 40c per bushel
B. & B. FEED & SEED CO.
THE STORE WITH THE CHECKERBOARD SIGN
EIGHT PRESIDENTS :
HAVE COME FROM
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
More Than From Any Other
One Denomination ? Gover- j
nor Roosevelt Fs Member of!
That Church.
Apapka (FU^) Chief
Every Presidential Campaign, and
the United States soon will be in the
midst of the four-year turmoil, serves
to invite attention to the presidents
who have gone before. So it is that
should Franklin D. Roosevelt be suc
cessful in the election, he will be the
ninth Protestant Episcopalian to find
a place in the White House. The
Episcopal church has given more
presidents to the nation than any
jther. There were George Washing
ton, James Madison, James Monroe,
William Henry Harrison, John Tyler,
Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce and
Chester A. Arthur. Not that religion
under the Constitution, makes any
difference in a president's actions or
in any way increases his efficiency in
office. The Presbyterian church has
had six members of that faith in the
White House, Ar.drew Jackson, James
K. Polk, James Buchanan, Grover
Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and
Woodrow Wilson.
One of the greatest presidents of
the nation, the martyred Abraham
Lincoln, never united with any
church, but usually attended Presby
terian service. Another great presi
dent, Thomas Jefferson, went to no
church at all.
Charles Curtis, Vice-President arid
nominated for that office by the Re
publicans, was baptised a Roman
Catholic, but after his mother's death
when he was three years of age, his
father's relatives, who were Protest
ant in faith, reared the boy in the
Methodist church. There will be a
Methodist vice-president, in any event .
for the next four years, as John N.J
Garner of Texas is a member of that ,
church.
There have been four Methodist
Presidents: Andrew Jackson, Ulysses
S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and
William McKinley. There were also
four Unitarians: John Adams, John
Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore and
William Howard Taft. Theodore
Roosevelt was of the Reformed faith
as was Martin VanBuren, James A.
Garfield was Disciple of Christ
and Wnrren G. Harding a Baptist.
Calvin Coolidge is a Congregationai
isf and Herbert Hoover a Quaker
Governor Roosevelt is senior
warden of his church at Hyde Park,
where he has been a vestryman for
30 vears. He is also a trustee of the
Cathedra! of St. John the Divine, and
headed a national committee, some
vears ago, to r^ise funds for complet
ing the edifice.
PAGEANT PLEASING
TO LARGE AUDIENCE
Members of the Senior and Junior
dramatic classes of Carop Connestc*
Cove presented a pageant, the .
"Pageant of Connestee" at Connestee
Falls Friday afternoon, when n large;
number of Brevard people were in i
attendance.
Miss Clarabelle Bradshaw enacted .
the part of Connestee, Miss Betty (
Lee Anderson that of the Chief whiie |
Miss Edith Allen portrayed the partj
of the Medicine man and Elenor Mc
Kay that of the White man or Pale
Face.
The pageant was the dramatization
of the popular old legend which tells
how the falls were named. The story
and pageant revealed the true love
of an indian princess, the Princess
Connestee who fell in love with a
white man and saved his life. He was
married to Connestee and became a
member of the tribe, being made
Chief upon her father's death.
A party of England hunters pass
ing through the forests found the
White man leader of the tribe and
persuaded him to leave the Indians
and return to his old life among his
own people. The White man dragged
Princess Connestee with him but
rather than desert her tribe she re
turned and threw herself to a horrible
death over the falls. In the manner
the beautiful falls on the Greenville
highway is supposed to have gained
its name "Connestee Falls."
BREVARD GOLFERS
IN THE TOURNAMENT
Amateour golfers of Brevard are
expected to enter the golf tournament
which is to be held in Asheville at
the Beaver Lake course the afternoon
of Tuesday September 13, sponsored
by Western Carolinas Mountains,
Inc.
There will be no cnarge other than
the regular greens fee of $1.00 and
the caddy fee. It is hoped that
every town in Western North Caro
lina will be represented and plans are
being forwarded at this time to make
the tournament an annual affair.
Next- year the tournament will be
held on another course in the Western
section.
WORK ON CEMETERY
AND CHURCH GROUNDS
Announcement was made Sunday
that Friday August 12 of this week
has been named for cleaning and
beautifying the Enon cemetery and
doing work on the drives leading to
'the church. Everybody interested
come prepared to work Friday morn
;ng. *.#81
SAY FARM AND HOME
AGENTS IN DEMAND
Gratifying to Those in Charge
Of Extension Work
in State.
One of the great gratifications of
those connected with the Agricultural
Extension Service in North Carolina
has been the insistent demand on the *
part- of the rural people for a con- *
tinuation of farm and home agent
work during the present crisis in the
economic affairs of the State.
This is an expression from Dean I.
O. Scnaub, head of ^hie service
State College. The D|J|n said all eW
tension workers were willing to share
the burden of hard times by having
their salaries reduced and all of them ?
had decided reductions in their pay
but they have been willing' to make
iany kind of sacrifice to see that the
farm and home agent work is retain-^,
ed. In only a few counties have the ^
political leaders seen fit to discon
tinue this service and in all instances
there has been a decided reaction on
the part of the people.
One of the most touching things
coming to Mr. Schaub's attention re
cently was the acticn of a group of
Negroes from Wayne County what,
sent a delegation to the college ri ?W
cently with a collection of $155 most
ly in small change asking that the
Negro home agent of that county be
retained and pledging themselves to
pay the county's shure of the expense.
Ir. Beaufort County, the home demon
stration club members have pledged
themselves to continue the work of
Miss Violet Alexander and in other
counties similar steps are being taken
by the people.
The Dean pointed out that the ef
forts o f Agricultural Extension
workers are entirely unselfish. The
home and farm agents, he said, are
the contacting mediums . through
which the latest facts about improv
ed rural life reach the people. Hun
dreds of boys and girls now on the
farms cannot get jobs in the towns
and cities as formerly and many city
dwellers are returning to the soil
making the need for extension werk
greater than ever.
S0-HYE POPULAR
CLEANING PRODUCT
| So-Hy, a product manufactured by
; So-Hy Products, inc., of Canton, N.
, C., is being put on sale at a number
of store3 in Brevard this week. While
the product is mainly a cleaning and
disinfecting solution it has many
other useful purposes around the
house, as will be seen by reading the
series of advertisements that will
start in this weeks paper and continue
indefinitely.
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