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' . . " 1 . Ti: NEWS-RECO arfor$2.35 J ' 1 J PRICE A YEAR ri-I , DOTH A YEAR f 1 THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY VOL. XXI V MARSHALL, N. C. FRIDAY; JUNE 25, 1926 1325 MOUNTAINS y Blossoming of the dogwood, the fnear approach of blooming time for mountain laurel and rhododendron and the peeping up through the rich woods-dirt of the scores and hundreds Of tiny plants that will, ere long, bear many-colored flowers, V constitute : a call to the lowlander that is well nigh lrresistable. It is a call that is peren nial and the tug v is one that grows rather ; than diminishes ' as one ad vances In years. Summer in the mountains! Who can describe it? ' The vocabulary of a Bob Taylor or a Brann, an Inger-; soil or an Elbert Hubbard is too fee ble. No artist's brush can , tell the story. Its glamour and its glory has the same effect upon one as do the nguorous, mellow notes from a vl- in under the soft light ox a jsouth- ern moon, t as two kindred souls, speechless, gaze out Into the future rand build aircastjes that v make the Fglitter. of mere gold ; look like the I concentrated essence of blue mud. It f i makes on clad he is living, t It sup alt its own, and on its dazzlimV top. stood the still more dazzling form of the' Lamb, in ' more than earthly transfiguration, , and beside 4 him a hundred and forty-four thousand re splendent beings, with the Father's name Written In strange but heavenly characters on their foreheads." . Mountains have given s our life, our living, our industry,; our com merce, our business t they have given us a large percentage of our great est thinkers, musicians, artists; they have been the breeding place of our greatest civilizations in short they have contributed so great 'a part of all the good and glorious and grand things of the world that it is not to be wondered at that our eyes turn mountainward, and especially at that season ot the year when they are wrapped in an endless garment of green and flower forth in all the glo rious colors of the rainbow. - . :. ; STILL COURTING DEATH , ' ' According to figures just released by the Interstate Commerce Commis- c o 099 jnlnraH mi t.hn fironertv of erinduces forgetfulness of life's tra-th. JLitoaa. at the United States THE VOICE OF THE LIBERTY BELL sredv. its turmoil and its tawdriness, . Shakespeare said that "He who hath no music in his soul nor is not moved by concord of sweet sounds is fit for treason, strataa-em and spoils," The same might, be said with equal truth, we believe, 01 mm wno nam not hv his heart great love for the moun tains. " i There is a majesty in the moun- " tains to him who hath eyes to see ;and ears to hear that is missing from the lowlands. - True there ia a majesty in old ocean, but the roar of 'its whitecaps as they approach) a rock bound coast speaks $ of power and force and might there is missing from It the soft light and shadows, the whispering stillness, the mellow twitterings of birds and the unvoiced but none the less insistent beckoning of the mountains to comeup higher. A large majority of people-H?er- liaps mnety-nine per cent 9 the mounUins ' Instinctively love them fpr their beauty, for the pure 1 ' cool atmosphere that ever- hovers ftr. i round their peaks, . for the: sparkling I streams that,leap JoyfuUy down their I precipitous sides, for the restfulness to the eye of the -deep shadow, cast by a descending tun, for the; golden glor lea 4 of the-:myriad-hue4.unsets f jKesented over their cmta.- I 1 Rarely does one appear who analya- .mui ft tha mountains or who delves down deep to the funda mental basis of this afTection. JPerhaps no one has done this for us so tho roughly, so painstakingly and so u t.,.iof.iw did John Ruskin who wrote his "Modern Painters" 70 yeys ago. Mountains, this noted' author tells us, have their glory ( and their gloom and they have their uses. In fact the earth would be uninhabitable were it not for the mountains; for, as h? points out, they do at least three things essential to hte, namely: First, they give motion to water, affording not only dry land on which man haa his. habitation, but rivers, lakes, irrigation and therefore vege tation for the subsistence of man ; second, they give ftotaon totte air for they "divide the earth not. only i into districts out mw ?,';J i tnal currenta of air to " traversS their passes, and. ascend , or jMffnd their ravines, altering both during the year, ended December 31 iq5r . . ,!. ' r Thia ahflwa an increase of 23 in the number: killed-and a decrease of 201 in the number injured as compar ed with the previous year, the figures for 1924 having been 2, 621 killed ana o,xtv mjurcu. .. - Taken as a whole, the figures show little hone for the belief that there has been any decrease in trespassing on railroad property tnougn were was an actual reduction of 178 in the to tal number, of casualties due to e Jt is important that these figures be brought to the attention 01 rau road men. and their families since they t iiminh - anite k larre Drooortion ' of the victims of this dangerous practice, althouarh they should know ; better than others the hazard involved. Southern News uuiieun, TO SAVE LIFE AND LIMB f?;e"perilf of the road crossing, has oecome a national prv uusin ,wu.nre multiplication of automobilesv . The Southern Railway System has eliminated 800 grade, crossings, and is eliminating more every year, but oyer 6,000 remain to be separated on Oils avstem alone. The total ' cost W"tompletrhe;.worlt'ia a, 'stupendous sum probably halt as mucn uas tne Cost to build the railroads. Even if the money were available and the public willing to pay the in creased freight and passenger rates necessary to provide a fair return on it, many years would be required to do the work. ' ": Protection from the peril for the present generation at least must be found in some other way. Trains cannot stop at every crossing" if they are, to be run at the sustained Speed expected by the public and required to carry the commerce 01 tne country. The train crosses a highway about ev ery mile, c The dlotorist encounters a railroad onlv occasionally. It is necessary, therefore, for the automobile driver to stop m order to avoid risk. No one who did this was ever killed. , It is better to save a life than to save; 'a minute. Southern Railway Advertisement. ' r ....;.- aih iv i' , ' I ' ' ; illliifciiiill m -r l ' piilliip tJ .' -Ay ' vi 1', , SINGING CONVENTION TO BE ON ' ISLAND IN NEW SCHOOL BUILDING The Madison County Singing Con-. venuon wmcn is to be m Marshall on Sunday, July 4, will be held on the Island and arrangements will be made so that those who take part in the singing may occupy the stage of tne new school huildinir now in dn- cass of construction. A temporary shelter' ut be provided and seats on tne stage for the occasion. Be plan ning to come,' as it is expected that the Island will be densley noDulated thatt day, 'l more) teachers, especially in the high ' sc'ho'dl. Furthermore, it will lessen the tax burden that is beftsr borne by the citizens of the small taxing district that .'v'.:v- comprises the Walnut district at present. It has been rumored that if this election should carry it would put an additional tax on the people of Walnut district. This is hot true. If this elec tion' carries the most that can be levied is 50c on the $100.00 now under tne two levies as cents can be county has an eight months' term of1 school, a standard high school, and the best elementary school possible within his reach and well trained teachers. There is only one way to do this, and that is to stop this petty politics, neighborhood jealousies, and say that this is our county, and we must pro vide for all. FROM HOT SPRINGS LADIES AID SOCIETY PICNIC The Ladies Aid Society will hold their annual picnic on Tuesday, July the 6th. This Is one of tba two new official posters ot the 6aaul-Centennlal Inter national Exposition, opening in Philadelphia June 1 Ut celebrate 150 year . of American ludepenaeaoe. i-Tha Bxpostttaa wUltlnu', to- December 11 vu Dimui,, ui ru, tw symoouzea tne epocix m msrory wmca tae. uuung of the , Liberty Bell m mdependence. Hall, July. .4, 1776,. marked 1tad"haar iwa u frvwia oc tne united states xrom tne, original thirteen states, represented by the thirteen stars whteh emerge from the mouth of the Liberty BelL . l; . . .-' COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT'S COLUMN SCHOOL NEWS I air as " yuKt - ,r,4.fc I ferent ways; moistening it wit the ' lerT!r u.i- w.rf alls, sucking it I KKeTtifg-it hither er te. the pools, of .their torrents, i dosing tt within clefts 7 nd caves, where the sunbeams never reach, till , ' it is asxold as Novemberraists, then .ending it forth again to breathe soft t ly across the slopes 01 vi. ' or to be; scorched ong sunburnt -t--.. imMlM, craars: ' third, they give change to the ground, pr , Tiding U the earth's sunace 1 5' awanunlimlted ' hydro-elec- " rfc xower the foundation stone 01 !t. nA wifitntlv increaaing in-. t . nv vobw . . , , t thm nledmont and ether eC' 1 Sm of tha South ' (teylocattse onr story) Is blessing dnreetiy tracea- . ble in toto to the mountains. u 1 is a debt we owe the mounUins. yet the thought perhapa never SSuaand! wLse ; livelihood depends fc upon waterpower-driven wheel, that mnu nd factories. Buskin discovered that the moun- tains have exerted, .throughout the ages, a-wonderful effect upon the je .5Tious, literary and artistic. Me of toe Nation, of the world irw ell la. upon their agricultural, industrial nd accnomie life. , ' ' -' . '. r'- i . In a volume entitled "The Sacred Mountains" by I T. Headley, publish ed in 1853 by Scribnen and probably new out of print, the author shows ' that the greatest events of the reli- ' gious life of the world have had their getting on mountain peaks. He names thirteen in this order: Mount Ararat, Mount Moriah, Mount Sinai, Mount Hor, Mount. Pi??ah, Mount lioroo, Kount Carmel, Mount Lebanon, Mt, Zion, Mount Tabor, Mount of Olives, rlvrv. and . the Mount of God, this last being the mount whichH John saw in his vision on wm . Patmos which,-the-author says, rose ' before him bathed in an atmosphere "Gimme a tablet ,K' ' fWhat kind of ablet!" f '-A yellow onc' : "But what's the matter with you?" ; ' "I want to write a.letter,"; MADISON COUNTY SINGING CONVENTION Madison County Sinfirinar Conven tion-will be held in Marshall on Sun day, July 4, 1926, beginning at 10:00 A. M. We are planning for the larg est gathering Madison County haa ev er had,' and the best singing you have ever heard. 1 , Prises have been offered as follows L $10.00 cash for the best singing of a class ' with above 15 members. (Class must have 16 to enter this contest.)' - . II. Prize A set of book, of their own selection to largest class repre sented (That are actual singers.) 1 No Marshall class eligible for eith er of these contests, and the prizes are for the best all-round singing- no individual pieces. , :, Quartettes,. Duets and solos. Any , kind of singing we want it. All classes must.be in by 11 A. M., and report to Secretary. r i TeU au your, irienos to neaa to wards Marshall and let's celebrate this 4th of July by singings praises to the Lord. Everybody bring their lunch , so here will be no extra trouble and let's make it one big day. . ' , See either of us fotany particu lars '' ., . ; Dr. W. A. SAMS, 1 President, . ' . 1 ROY L. GUDGEft, . N . Wice-President.- - v One of the greatest needs of the country from an education al standpoint, is better school opportunities for the . children of the rural districts. Practi cally all the town and villages have good schools, but the ru ral sections are far behind in this county. However, during the past year a large number of children have been brought in to larger and "better .'schools, with longer terms, more ade quately trained teachers, and a better spirit of cooperation among the people of the com nr-unity. : ; t r : , i" ; v The people of the Walnut section have the' privilege of battering the school facilities of all, the children in that section at the election to be held, next Saturday, - Jane 26th.v' For some time the school , at that place has been nandicapped for the'past several years from the fact that so many of the children who wre enrolled in the school came in from outside the local tax territory, and at the end of the six months' term, the '- children were forced to stop or.pay a tuition fee, which a great many of them could not do. The results have ' been- such therefore-that the last two months of the school were more or less demoralized, and the! children who stopped at the end of the six months, started back at the beginning of the next term, and had to take up the grade where they left off the year before. The carrying of this special tatx in the. territory of Dry Branch , Brush Creek and Stackhouse, means the equali zation of educational opportu- nities'for alj'the children there. It will guarantee to every child an eight months' term of school in this territory described. It will mean transportation ; for all the high school pupils in that section to , the standard school at Walnut, with tuition and truck charges without any direct cost to the parents. It will provide transportation to all the elementary . children who now attend school at the Walnut High School for six months, for "eight It will, in other words, give the children on Brush Creek, Dry Branch and Stackhouse, .the same edu cational advantages as far .as term and transportation,) etc is concerned, as the children of Walnut - V The Walnut High school will benefit thereby, bceause it will keep more children .In -school and enable a better attendance . ... . . ... record - to. be made, and thus enable, the district : to secure '1 mucn asixty cents can levied; 'Also under the present arrangements by which the tax was voted, the district has more funds than it can use in the Building Fund, and does not hay (enough in the special ax fund for maintenance. The r ',, :;': ... .... .. ... J carryjng of this election will remeoty this, for the funds will all go tQ ohftJfenerat special taxfundfofft trict and will be 'apportioned to all the districts to give them an eight months' term, and the remainder will be mbre than sufficient to care for the build ing debt there. We sincerely hope that this election will car ry so that these great needs may be cared for in a wise and equitable manner. The County Board of Educa tion and the Board of Commis sioners have approved a loan for the new school in Number Four Township. We are only awaitihg'action by the State Board v of Education to start work 'there. We will soon have one of the .best school there in the(county ' Work' is progressing nicely on the buliding in Marshall. Mr. Sprinkle, the contractor is exerting' very effort to have the bUfiding ready for the be ginning of the fall teVm. This is going to ' he one of the best Bcnooi . ouuuingsi' 111 western North Carolnia, outside of the . ... . . - , 1 .... cityvof -Asheville The com ments upon the- work so far have been more than favorable and we believe that by the time the building is finished, that the opposition will" ' have died downv I .. - . The time has come in this county, that the, bickering and petty jealousies must stop and we must educate the children of all the'eounty afthe expense of. all the wealth of the coun- ty, arid we long to see the day come when every child in the The Hot Springs people who at tended the old time picnic and barbe cue at Mack's Patch Saturday, the 19th, were: Mr. and Mrs. Ellerson, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Davis and fami ly, Mrs. Safford and niece, Miss Mary Roberson, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Fowler, Rev. A. A. Angel and sons, Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Brooks, Mr. Harry Hill, Miss Peggy Hill,, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Frisbee and others. All reported a delightful time, al though rain somewhat interfered with the program and caused several im portant features to be omitted. The office for the Loe Cabin estate will soon be completed. Fishing, hik ing and ail kinds of outdoor sports will be for all to enjoy. Plans are already underway for the building of a dam, electric light plant, swim- ' ming pool- and running? water. - In a few years: all. who love nature and her beatity will doubtless be found on Log Cabin Estates. The local power- plant has been sold to the Carolina Light ad Power Co; ' :They plan- to thoroughly over haul and rebuild the plant ana prom- ' ise 24 hours light service within nine ty days, :"': X. ' itX'''''-''yiK''r We regret to state that Mr. and Mrs. Lon Brooks and family moved Wednesday to Fletcher, N. C. Their many friends wish them much 'success in their new home. Mr. Glenn Brooks and family mov ed Tuesday -to Chimney Rock. We regret very much to have - them leave, but wish them much success. J. B. Harrison has leased the new Plemmons building and has his store in one department and a modern cafe in the other. Mrs. Jack Parris, ' who had been home from the hospital a week, had' to return again. We hope she will soon be able to be back home. Mr. Bob Smith, who has been ill for months, is very much worse at this writing. Mrs. J. C. Fleming from Bluff was taken to Asheville Tuesday to the hospital. Mrs. R. T. Rufty has her sister from Little Rock, Ark., visiting her for two weeks. . : . Mr. D. G. Ellerson from Richmond, Va., is visiting his brother, W. R. El lerson. Master George Jared is spending his summer vacation with his aunt in Tennessee. .Mr. J. D. Hensley spent Monday in Knoxville, Tenn. ... -.it Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Landers of West Palm Beach, Fla., are spending some time with her mother, Mrs. Lela Gor- enflO. ''.?..! .. V.:: Miss May Fleming went to Bulls Gap. Tenn.. Thursday of last week to spend some time on a visit. . . MEETING AT; ROBERTS CEMETERY There will be a meetina at the Robert, cemetery on Little Pine on tha first Sunday ia July. ' ' ' v? CARD OF THANKS TO THE VOTERS OP - ' ' MADISON COUNTY . LaJias aad GB(laiBt - V wish to thank you for the large vote yon gave me in the Primary for County Commissioner. As Mr. Buck- ner, Mr. Wild and I were the three highest, I know no reason why we cannot work together for the interest' of the people. I shall endeavor to do my: best I hope to receive a large vote in the general election this falL - ' '"Tours to rerve, ; I JONAS C. CHANDLER v 1 5 DU PLAHIIIiM : u: start:;: 1 TIARSIIALL JULY 10 I