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1 VOL. XXI MARSHALL; N. C, FRID AVy FEBRUARY 12, 1926 1200
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BUNCOM AND E4DIS0N FOLKS
? APPEAR BEFORE C0P1ISSI0NER
TO PROTEST CHANGE IN ROADS
Communities Aroused by Pro
posed Hardsurfaclng of
Highway
FIVE HUNDRED SIGN
PETITION
Commissioner Stikeleather of
This District Meets People
Taken from ASHEVILLE CITIZEN)
State Highway commissioner J. G.
; Stikeleather met yesterday afternoon
i jjdlarge delegation of men and women
who appearea m regara 10 a peuiiuu
-which had been circulated in Bun
combe and Madison counties as a re
sult of the changes proposed by the
' commission in the direction of state
highway No. 20. This petition had
been signed by 500 people in both
counties and the proposed change in
the direction of this route had creat
ed much feeling among the members
"Whereas: by a recent re-survey
made by the engineers of your com
mission of the said seventeen and one
tenth miles of No. 20 the changes
from the present location of the high
way as now used were nominal, and
the cost of construction of same
would be very small in comparison
with the cost of construction of a
road leading through cliffs, precipices
and other natural barriers, against
easy road construction. And
"Whereas: the property owners ov
er which said proposed changes in No.
20 are to pass have agreed, and here
by agree that they will make no re
quest for damages caused by the lo-
east of French Broad River from No.
29 to Marshall provided, however,
said construction is not done to the
supplanting of the rights of the citi
zens of the sections heretofore named
in causing the Section of No. 20 here
tofore named to be abandoned as a
state highway. :
"We, therefore, respectfully peti
tion your honorable body to continue
the section of No. 20, named above as
a state highway; to continue the main
tenance of same as heretofore; to con
struct changes in same as soon as
practicable as shown by the re-survey,
and to hard surface ame at the ear
liest date possible."
THE ATHEISTS
ORGANIZE
The American Association
. i. i j. -j? xt on nru;nu I J
eating oi mat nur x Ifor the Adavancement of Athe-
has Deen re-iocatea on ineir mime,
and
isrta, Inc.," is the name of an or
ganization with headnuartera
"WhereaH: the action of road here - N York Citv. whose obiect
tofore mentioned passes through an(l;isto "abolish belief in God," ac-
serves a section of country between
Ashcville and Marshall and has served
cording to its constitution and
propaganda which it is dis.
tributing to the American press
It is hard to believe that such
a society has been granted
charter, but it has, and state
a 'gravel pit in the . face, and
walks like a duck. The groom
is a natural, born loafer and
bum. He never did a lick of
work until hiastepdady run him
off from home last fall. He
went to thej. county seat, and
just before starving to death,
accepted a job as chambermaid
in a livery stable. . As soofa as
his ma found out where he was,
she went and got him and
brought 'him, home. He now
resides at the home of his wife's
father and says that he has no
definite plans for the future.
Susie will have a hard row to
hoe. From an old issue of The
Dallas Pitchfork.
7. i ii. - said section for generations, leading
Commissioner Stikeleather presided ,,, . , c Movtin'0
, i , . . . , , ! by West Buncombe School, Martins
at the meeting which took place in," "
. x. ii a tj t t iit Store, Blackwell's Sulphur Spring,
the city hall, and B. L. Lunsford, at- ' , ,
L ,aaA v,a French Broad, Trail Branch and to
petition and outlined the attitude ofMarshall uniting many useful andlments by its president, Charles
the people affected by the change.
Mr. Lunsford said in part: "In tak
ing over 5,600 miles of road by the
State Highway Commission it seems
that the- purpose was to benefit the
people (living between thet various
county seats; and pursuant to that
nd No. 20 is now maintained between
AsheviHe and Marshall by the com
mission. If the road east of .the.
river is to- supplant the present tho
roughfare, it means the absolute loss
of the road t the 20 odd communi
ties mentioned in the petition." :
Commissioner Stikeleather stated
that he woul4 do all in -his power to
iye the petitioner,, wbt they asked
bste .,ast p .a? addttipnsl appro,
raiation which weildinoweach high
ifey commissioner more mileage for
hftfd surfacing, that road would come
first in his consideration.
He also stated that he would be
glad to accompany a committee to
Kaleigh to present the matter before
a meeting of the state highway com
mission. Talks were made by J. T. Roberts,
John Parker, W. D. Redmon and oth
ers, and a resolution was passed
continue the matter in such a way
es to keep the petition before the
road authorities. In accordance with
this the following men were announc
ed as a committee to take the matter
populous communities in Buncombe
and Madison counties, and is known
as the shore road to Marshall, and
"Whereas: said road throughout its
extent of 17.1 miles has an average
distance from the French Broad River
of approximately 2 X-4 miles, and
should said road be discontinued as a
state highway and be left to the stan
dard of upkeep which has heretofore
mbtalned , in many county loads it
would g'estly inconvenience the peo
ple of a large, section oi.auncomoe
and Madison Counties, and
?' Whereas: your petitioners do not
desire in any way to discourage pad
construction, or . the .furthertmce 'Of
the road program of yonr commission
other counties, and 'do not now.queV
Smith, and its vice president,
Woolsey Teller, assert that it is
planned "to establish within a
few years, ,, but beginning at
onc.e, branches in every State of
the Union
It was Robert Burns who said
"An atheist's laugh is poor ex
change for Deity offended.'
But this new society of the god.
less has gone beyond that, and
has challenged. Jehovah.
David, "the Esalmist. wrote,
"The" fool,. hath said in his
heart there is no uoa; our tne
Amencanu Association for the
Advancement of Atheism his
gone further than this, and pro-
ln any otter locality, in these or iMvlcUims penlyMid will do so in
e'very state,' according to pro-
tion the wisdom of the construction mise. that there is no God. .0
of a highway through the river hills mar, the Persian poet, railed a-
INDIGNANT EDITOR TELLS THE TRUTH
TO GET EVEN WITH HIS SUBSCRIBERS
Facts With Bark Off Published! Church. His sermon was punk
When the Worm Finall 7 and uninteresting, except some
Texas Town
Turns In
A West Texas editor got tired
in hand and take such steps as appear j0f being called a "liar because
necessary: p. Z. Rogers, Seymore Gf an occasional typographical
Snelson, Charles L. $luder, Lon Slu- error or slight disarrangement
der, John Parker, W. D. Redmon, 0f the facts in publishing a Com-
Fletcher Martin and J. T. Roberts,
The best of feeling seemed to pre
vail throughout the meeting and
there was little or no ill feeling. The
petitioners seemed only to fear that
if the highway commission built this
other route that it would release its
supervision over the present highway,
which opens up a populous section of
the two counties, and would greatly
inconvenience the people of a large
Rection of Buncombe and Madison
since no adequate method of o'utlet
C could be obtained across the French
W Broad river except at such great ex-
; ipense that they fear the state highway
commission would reiuse to sanction.
The following petition was pre
sented signed by 600 people in the
two adjoining counties.
"To the North Carolina State High
way Commission.
"Hon. Frank Page, Chairman, and
Gentlemen:
""W(, the' undersigned property
owners and citizens of the counties of
Buncombe and Madison who reside in
that territory now served by highway
No. 20, leading from the concrete
pavement at West Buncombe to Mar
shall in Madison County, respectfully
petition your honorable commission
that . , '!-:.-
"Whereas: leading- into said section
of No. 20 there are numerous public
roads, soma of which are mentioned
as follows: In Madison,' the Rector
road, ,th : Road to Little .Fine, Bear
; Creek, Ramsey Road,' Sandy Mush,
'Antiochj and in Buncombe: County,
Turkey Creek,. road, ;Redm6nd Road,
' Cedar HiH, Snelson. Road; 'Alexander
, Road. 'Mountain View ' church road.
' , French Broad High School "Rdad, Lei
caster, Ensley, Embled Rosd,-Frank
Sluder Jload, Macedonia Church Road
-'nd practically all shea roads serving
considerable eectioa of country, and
monplace news item. In his
wrath, he announced in bold
face black type as follows:
A lot of people in this town
fall out with the editor and
brand him as a liar when the
ordinary human mistakes of life
show up in a newspaper. You
have a little charity and fellow
feelin for every man in town
but your editor. You claim
that you want the facts, and
d d if I don't sive 'em to you.
Read the next issue of this sheet
and you'll see some facts with
the bark off. I'll admit that I
have been a liar, an editorial li
ar, ever since I have been edit'
ing this sheet, but I have never
printed a lie m these columns
except to save somebody's feel.
inn from being hurt. 1 am not
afraid of any of you and I'll be
dad blamed if I don't print the
plain truth from now on, or un
til you get out of the habit of
calling me a liar every time I
make some , little unavoidable
typographical error. Watch
my smoke. .
Here are some paragraphs,
culled from the next issue:
& John Bennin, the laziest mer
chant in town, made a trip to
Belleville yesterday.
other member of the church in
this county, is doing a poor bus
iness. It. is a wonder ne has
any business at all
-ivs;siaA V
Rev. Sty preached last Sun
John Coy le, our firoceryman.
who voted with the republicans
in 1896. and consumes more
moonstone whiskey than) any Saturday, at the Methodist par-
stuff he quoted from Bofrlnger-
soU, for which he failed to give
Bob credit. He also recited a
few passages from one of Wil
liam Elbert Munsey s sermons
and had the gall to palm it oil
as his own.
Dave Charter died at his
home two miles north of this
place, last Thursday night.
Dock Holderness, who is an old
friend of the family, attended
him a few minutes before he
expired. He gave it out that
Dave died of heart failure.
That is a lie. Dave died from
drinking too much of a very
poor grade of moonshine hcker.
This paper prints the truth.
Tom Spradlin married Miss
Cordie Meador last trades' day
at the county seat. It ain't
generally known, but the 'mar
riage was brought about by a
Remington shotgun manipulat
ed by the brides father; Tom
concludin' the marryin' was the
healthiest thing he could do un
til other arrangements could
be made.
e
Roger Lloyd, cashier of the
State bank at Willow Grove,
died Wednesday evening and
was buried Friday, by the Odd
Fellows in Pleasant cMound
cemetery. He has been taking
the paper seven years and so
far hasn t paw us a cent; we
thinking that he, being a bank.
er, would pay gome time. We
will aell the account for two
bits' worth of fresh greens.
.Married: 'M i a s Su s i e
Scruggs and Horace Guffin last
sonage, Rev. James C. Williams
officiating. The bride is a very
ordinary town girl who flirts
with all the traveling men she
meets and sever helped her too
ther three day all put together!
gainst the Almighty, and his
complainings, as recorded in his
Rubaiyat, many men of enlight
enment who do sincerely be
lieve in God, has memorized. It
has been staged and pictured on
the silver screen. But people
have gone no further with O
mar's poem than to amuse
themselves with his quaint phil
osophy and please their im
aginations with his figures of
speech.
Thousands of years ago in
the land of Uz a man of God
lost his earthly possessions, and
by a series of .unparalleled cala
mities was reduced from wealth
to poverty. ; His friends advis
ed him to" "curse God and die,"
but his faith held out, and in the
end he was blessed beyond any
measure of, success he had
1 ' . u j
Known in tus earner prosperity.
But now comes .the Association
for the Advancement of Athe:
ismr arid declares it will set up
a branch ia every state, and
that its work shall "be purely
destructive,'' to "aDonsh Denei
in Godtogether with all forms
of religion based upon that be-
Uef.:'":..1'-:
, Alsiencans have not heen
sepatteirperbr
as was job, nor Jmve they suf
fered from the pifvatfpns of
war as the people in lands over,
seas. In fact, America is en
joying today a greater degree
hof prosperity than any country
in the world has ever Known
Nations in the past have for-
irotten God. blinded by their
prosperity and power. In ad
versity one feels the need of a
sustaining power, and it may be
that this hour of plenty is the
most dangerous time in the
country's history that such
society could embark with its
avowed aim of endeavoring to
free American scientists and
statesmen from the necessity of
patronizing religion.
After the story of the crea
tion the next great Bible story
s that of the flood. Here is
the way that Woolsey Teller,
vice president of the Associa
tion for the Advancement of A
theism, Inc.," treats it: "The
ess said about Leopold, Loeb
and Noel the better for religion,
Bad as they may have been.
these three derelicts of humani.
ty distorted and crippled in
mind are not one-tenth as bad
as the Biblical Jehovah, who,
with infinite depravity, drown
ed an entire world of babes
' h e existence 0 f Leopold,
oeb and Noel proves the pure.
ly fanciful existence of "Our
Father in heaven."
This is a fair sample of the
literature that the society is put
ting out in an endeavor, as stat
ed m their constitution, to
build a better civilization by op.
erating as a wrecking company.
Let the teachings of this blas
phemous organization prevail
in this country and the very
foundations of American civili
zation will be undermined. The
very people who would have A
merica abolish belief in God
would find this a miserable
country for themselves to live
in if they could carry , their
cause .to complete success.
They would pull down, the
house on " their own heads.
Fools for, 'thousands of years
have been saying "there-is no
God," And they will continue to
do so. Thank God for the aenv
sible people of this country I : '
Editorial CHARLOTTE OBSEJtVtK
THE SCHOOL TAX SYSTEM IN NORTH
CAROLINA SHOULD BE REVISED
IVTr. John A. Hendricks Advo
cates State as Unit in
School Taxes
It fa conceded by all intelligent
people that the school age generation
of North Carolina should be educated.
It is undisputed that to educate the
children of the state is for the better
ment 6f the whole state. Under our
present system of school taxation
some parts of the state are educating
the children and offering the best
school facilities at a low rate of tax
es, while other sections and localities
in the state are being taxed almost
beyond the limit of some people to
pay the taxes required to support the
public schools.
In the Legislature of 1021 when
t.uo State Highway System was pro
posed many thought that the county
as much tax to maintain six months
school as Forsyth and other counties
of that class, yet the school facilities
with the low rate of taxes in Forsyth,
Mecklenburg, Guilford , Buncombe,
Durham and many other large coun
ties are; much better than the school
facilities in the poorer counties. It
may be argued that it would be unfair
to raiset the tax rate in the wealthy
counties to help educate the children
in the poor counties. It is just as im
portant to have a good road to drive
over through Madison and other poor
counties as it is in Forsyth and oth
er wealthy counties. It is just as
important to the State of North Car
olina that the children in the back
districts of Madison County and oth
er smaller counties be educated as it
is to educate the children in the cities
and in the wealthy counties.
I know that we have what is called
the equalization fund and from the
unfair to wealthier parts of the
state. The Legislature finally settled
down to the state wide system and
now the state constructs highway3
regardless of county or district lines
I am of the opinion that our public
school system should be run on some
what the same system that the state
highways are built and maintained.
For instance, the rates of taxes for
the County of Madison in one dollar
and seventy-five cents, the pnblic
school tax for the County of Madison
is seventy-two cents.. I do not know
what the rate of school tax is for. the
County of Forsyth and other, wealthy
counties of 1 the same class, b,ut It
must be less than twenty cents. The
County of Forsyth is only an example
Of many other counties and sections
of North Carolina of the same class.
Everybody proclaims that education
is'; a good thing. . I believe there
should be a unifdrm'tax for the state
Lfer' public school purposes an4 that
the; public school proposition should
be handled y the state as the state
hisrhway system is handled. -.Of
course, the detail wouia nave to do
worked out. Notwithstanding Madi
son County and other counties of the state of North Carolina.
same class pay more than three times JOHN A. HENDRICKS.
The early hatched ehkk wSS fcigia
tayiac. early next fall and v&Lttake
day night at the Christianin -her wh&le life. ghe la any- a-tod producer. by
THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE;
WHY I BELONG TO IT
(Taken From ERWIN MAGNET)
It is a nation wide organization at
tempting at a dangerously late day to
save, conserve and build up an out
door America for the benefit of our
selves and the future generations yet
to come.
The reason I belong to it is because
by organization alone, can our out
doors be saved. And I owe it to my
self and family to do what I can to
heed nature's warning, and to begin
to save, and I hope to continue to
have a reasonable amount of hunting
and. fishing and want my family and
friends to enjoy the privilege of hunt
ing and fishing, also. I also believe
that every man who breathes God's
air, who is big enough mentally to
appreciate the wonders of nnture,
ed far more than it is at the present
time. This does not neccessarily
mean that one should stint himself
on the amount of game or fish he pro
cured under the legal limit, but it does
mean that no one should be a GAME
HOG, ruthlessly destroying fish and
game, of which now there is not a
great abundance.
Mr. Fisherman, when you catch a
fish under the legal size, please toss
him back overboard, where he will
have a chance to grow larger. And
you, Mr. Hunter, don't run! down
game just to satisfy your craving to
slaughter it. Remember the next
generation. They must also have
recreation and they probably will en
joy hunting as much as you. So
don't slaughter game needlessly.
I hope that the Izaak Walton
should support this unselfish move- League of America will prosper and
ment. I want to hasten the timclthat millions of sportsmen will join
when education will take the place of it and help protect the wild life of
legislation, and when the fir.h game this country.
hog, the polluter of streams, and for
est destroyers will meet Waltoniar.s
wherever they go. I want every
father and mother to-be able to look
their sons and daughters in the face
ten or twenty years from now and
joyfully say to them, I helped to save
these things for all to enjoy. There:
is no greater love than love for my
native land and I want to prove to
myself that I can be patriotic without
the waving of flags, the playing of
bands, and the tramp, tramp, tramp of
marching men.
If you care anything about one out
f doors, yon can do no more patriot
ic .service to your country than to
nop. yonr energy behind this move
ment. , . , f ' ;
,uv v.; ' ; H. N. HELMS. '
iji-al feuW Waltonian, I heartily
agree with Mr. Helms in everything
he mentioned in his article above, and
wish to Bay that if everyone were a
true WaKonlan," helped protect the
great out-doors, and. if he ' were, m
general, an all-round sportsman, - the
wild life of America would he pnwerv-
-LANKFORD STORY.
FATHER RAISES TWIN
SONS TO MASTER MASONS
PHOENIX, ARIZ. Unique in its
setting and believed to be the only
instance in Masonry where a father
raised his twin sons to the sublime de
gree of a Master Mason occurred in
Perfect Ashler Lodge No. 12, at Bis
bee, Arizona, August 26, 1925.
Mr. Thomas Hargis' twin sons, Rob
ert and Ralph, were the candidates,
Thomas Hargis, the ; father, a Past
Master of the lqdge, occupied the east
and all other offices' were filled by
Past Mastered i . :' -V -
The 'Old Guard' tuny uved n U
tradition and properly initiated the
young men, : Following the initiation "i
a banquet was served. . h;v'
f- SCOTTISH. RITE NEWS
'houlil be the unit and that the state
v'de system controlled by the state discrepancy in the rate of taxation for
it large would not work and would schools in the wealthy counties and in
the poor counties shows that the e
qualization fund does not equalize.
Let the state fix a general rate of
taxes for the whole state that will
raise a sufficient amount of money to
manitain six months school in each
county, and then where the people
desire a longer term of school let
them have it by voting special taxes
for that purpose.
In Madison County where) eight
months schools are maintained the
special taxes added to the regular
school taxes equals on an average
rate of about one dollar and five cents
and this I take it is true of the major
ity of the counties in North Carolina.
.' We are, glad to know that we have
in Norfh Carolina sections where cap
ital' has concentrated and has caused ,
the accumulation of gifeat wealth.
This is necessary for the prosperity
of the state, but we maintain it is ab-.
solutely fair for wealth to bV taxed
wherever it . may be located in: the
iitaloJlh?itoensW'ea&iI ''
of the children of the whole state.
- There may also be reforms made in
placing a tax for school""purp6!fes'n '
certain outstanding luxuries in 'the "
It is only geod crop Insurance to
teat the gemmation ef eetiott seed
befora planting this spring, advisee
Dr. Bt.T...Whers, ef the' North .
Carolina Experiment Station, ;
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