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, t .... :f ' MADISON COUNTY RECORD Established June 28, 1901. FRENCH BROAD NEWS t Established May 16, 1907. Consolidated November 2, 1911 -a ,JW? NEWS-RECORD riUCE A YfcAis flTHE ONLY NEWSPAPERffUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY i'ft'P'"1 BOTH A YEAR FOR 4 r,-'v .. : . . .; .,.-y:f a.., . .,..'..- .-:., -.v -T' - . VOL. XXI POLITICS AND TAX ES; DERE; AND THERE! (By IRA PLEMMONS) I have read with a good deal of in terest the answer to my questions to the legislative eanaiaates 01 mir ; SoSSiJr" gent,em8n lrm No fincouMry can be f ouhd than tdld.tes want to be bound!-' 'jSg.SJJffi denv Sim the right as their -attorney 'gJfSS d D oawTy with the to doso. . But let our candidates say Vewary 0fflCes and get full value whether or not Mr. Rector is speaking ."y dollar of the tax money for them. d e w0id get nearly the oamo My friend, Mr. J. F. Bryan, hns a.. 0 tw0$hjrds of the taxes perfect right to express his views as "eaJl, to the office of Farm Demonstrator nohPat ' our candidates for the and I respectthose rights and am glad , jalative 0'ffiH8f what do you stand to have his views; on the Other hand, -he seems to chartre me with selfish- Iorf . ness.For his information, beg to ray that I do some farming and am more than interested in the welfare of ev ery farmer of the county. If it's for the best interests of the farmers to have a demonstrator, then fhey should have him, if the taxpayers can afford to pay the bills. If our can-1 The pergjstent 24-hour activity of didates will come out and say how Sneriff g r, amsey and members of they feel about all these questions hjs department jn combating the man the voters will settle these matters at ufacturing 0f whiskey in the moun the polls. tain sections of this county, is proving For the information of one Mr. rat1 detrimental to the prospects Frank A. Daly, of Buncombe, will say that o " T.irm demonstrator needs no defem.. ... hh hands; we 1 Know niiu and know about his work. If Mr, Dalv will helD with Buncomhe s graveyard deals and the Sweetin Creek road deals he will perhaps have less time to give to the affairs of Madison County. I really believe that our citizenship is competent to handle their own matters and will do so. It Mr. Daly were an attorney, I should think he and Mr. Rector were ap- peering together for our candidates, nd yet I do not think our candidates neea someone 10 guiue uiam iu views as all of them are and thinx ior memseives, ana ''wheVeabouts lieve iney win ik w.u...k w possession. themseives on the many vital a,ue-; A totai 0f 14 outfits, eight men ar tions that our people are now lacing. ,nd eight other .violators in The toUl tax increase from 1920 m tif- . f Ah law are vi vol yvr , few years the prices of all the farm and farmers products have declined farm values are. stiU on the de- enne. ine question w, cm we b.i. all the things we should like to have? Can the taxpayers bear any more, or even the present, tax burdens that are upon them? I think that we must have some relief if we are to stay at home and call that home our own. If farm products remained constant in value and money did the fame we would have a better chmce to find out just what is best for us. -But farm values do not remain.. .-;on- stent in values, while the tax buntens pacKed the Marshall high school au climb higher and higher each year. I ditorium Friday night to witness its really do not believe that there is preBentation, as one of the most en-one-fourth of our farmers and busi- tertaining and interesting features on ness men that made last year two per the 1928 commencement program, so cent net. profit, and yet some men far tne Chinese operetta "The Leg who own business property earn six end" 0f the Willow Plate' was given per cent on (36,000 and list the same by a arge cagt 0f grammar grade stu property for the small sum of $7,000 dents under the personal direction of for taxation. If someone wants the Mi8S gti,el Redmon. specifications I shall be glad to fur- Those participating in the operetta nish them. were as follows: Teddy Robinson, Edd A gentleman came into my office a Calloway, Fields Holcombe, Bernard few days ago and asked me to sell a payne, Hugh Rector, Harold Eads, piece of his land so he could pay his Edward Rector, Otto Henderson, John taxes; he could not pay them lst Gage, Martha Lee Deaver, Pauf year, and his property was sold -and Payne, Carrie Godfrey, Katy Sams, now another year's taxes are to be Harry j0MSt j. p, pritchard, Wendell paid. This man must sacrifice a McDevitt, J. C. Dodson, Lee Bryant, very important part of his home prop- Harry Lee Giezentanner, Monroe erty to pay. poes this man resent Ram8ey S. B. Roberts, Jr., Ted Rec this condition? ' Yes, and he has a tor. Adbloheus Fox. right to resent them. Is it the wish Between acts was "Buying a Rail of this man to create more offices, road Ticket" by Lincoln White, bond for more money and further in-1 In the other play that was given in crease his burdens and those of his addition to the operetta, the following wife and children? I think not. took part: Jack Martin, James Run This ease is not the only one there njon Hall Davis, Weldon Ramsey, Ar are hundreds of others and yet iinton Frisby, Arthur Ramsey, Chas. seme would raise the salaries and cro- Giezentanner, Clem Rector, Marie ate more offices. Is is possible that Rogers,-and Stella Ramsey. , , wv nitw uitjii iriutb miv w dvuioji miu greedy m to squeeze that blood, and tear the bodies of little children for 1 moneT? . That money collected nn- ,! der the guise of the law.' : I will do ! without many and all of what is term . ed public conveniencies before I can be a party to things of that kind. If -some child is under-fed and under- clothed, by reason of the tax burden, ana loses ua me on mat account, are not the cowers that be guilty of a crime of capital importance? An i yet ' the culprits are protected under the guise of law, and their acts are caHed lawful -Jf " , In all these discussions, I-am not - pieaaing my own cuuoc mure inmi cratic corny convenppnssiajt. pe neiu others. :. ! can perhaps get along a at the polling places. W"U the- pre while longer, but many that I know cincts of the State at t oclock. P M., are facing dire distress, and that dis- on Saturday, the 26th day, pf May, tress could be relieved in proportion 1928.. u---:siC-''' 'to what extra taxes they have to pay (g) That'coikt'eiiMreoW'ior ' is to their reasonable ability to pay, the election of delegate to the State t and that ' difference I believe, will convention shall be held in all the help a very great percentage, of 9ur counties of the State in the county peeple. v v" :r ' 5 v". "seat at 11 o'clock A. M., on Saturday, Where are we driving in this debt the "9th day of June, 1928. . fv . business? " Is it to sueh poverty that , (3) That-ther State Democratic - repudiation must take place? I hope Convention shall be held In the City tot, and if we stop where we are, we f Raleigh at 12 ecock MuPI Tiiee- can pay, and will, but if this burden, day, the 12tfc day.trf Juner 1928. Of taxation is carried much further, ; j DENNIS G. BRUMMITT;- . one tt the two things must certainly -. 1 State Chairman happen. Of course, that fellow that. W. C. Coughenhour, Secretary.- ' can get of the public money sufficient . ' t . - to pay his bills will turn up his nose ' Did ya hear what happened to at this, suggestion because his bed, is Jones?" - , 'of dewn and a cover of silk and vel- - "No, do tell."- , ' ' ' vet, but how about those people that ;"He got drunk in Venice and" .Wed. are furnishing the tax money for this to lie dewi h tie gutfe." . -' ; comf oftT ? iAW ime' jpiiififtcia wearing children's clothes nd eating v.i ;f:i' n i reason of the tax Situation men .who have money will not invest It. xney are not puuum, and therefore the poorer classes have no work. f the tax equation were such that men whp have money could spend it with the assurance that jhey could make a very nominal profit, I believe that we would hear the ring of the hammer and saw everywhere. rtti hinv kent away from the Statefor no othjjr reason than that V"-. n - iti8M a. too heavy. FOUR STILLS ARE ! CAPTURED of tJje operators of the "mountain dgw pjantg- . The capture of i'our .,4.w ;,, i pannritv from 40 to uubtiho . "n ft j. - hnrn Sntur. ,,:. k .qheriff Ramsey. Two were teken from tne yttie pine Creek section one from the Sandy Mush gection and the fourth came from the Doe branch community near Sandy Bottoms, several miles west of here, Afe stjnes 0f the Little Pine Crwjj gection, was arrested and is at liberty undor bond of $500. Three chased into the moun- ut y iiv zzn j " - v trl tains where they are niaing. nw- sm to their ev sheriff Ramsey stated that m OTntleme.,d "tion w to lidenltification and and 4 whereabouts of the trio was in his . , wher. thev are hiding. How clean-up campaign ui r-maoison. a i0Bded docket at the. eJiv,term of court jg expected.to tesult, and the efforta of the officers are being high- , commended by the citizens. Asheville Citizen. CHINESE OPERETTA AT SCHOOL Acclaimed by an audience of close f 19nn fitiTonit and students, who x-v 1 mnn nnrnn mr 1 1 fl I h V Mil If 1 1 KV M.MJ THE DEMOCRATS Resolutions fixing dates - for Pre- rlnot MMtinm. floimtv Conventions and State Convention of uemocratrc Pnrtv r aV-i' n it resolved hv tho' State, Demo cratic Executive Cothmitte in session, this March 6, 1928ji,,,v " f ,.) That the precwirueetihgs for the selection of delegate to. Derao- llgMARSHALINj CyFRID clhe'Attic Mother, beware the attic! You'll find a sadness there e' Your slender, jolty school dreesf? , Or a dusty little chair, And, Oh, how they come thronging-. The glad, forgotten years! sf Never on to the attic:' " -r For It may give you tears. . Dad's track shoes in the attic , Tell him of races run " Vhen pennant challenged pennant And life was royal fun. " And then, though it Is pleasure -To muse on battles' bold, " He feels the galloping minutes 3t Making him gray and old. Never go to the attic Unless you are Very young Old books are bound In memories And have a wistful tongue; Old clothes fit hopes forgotten Old playthings seem to say, - "The minutes, the flying tninutet Are carrying Youth awayl" -- 9 Wotern Nanpapcr Uiioo, 1M( BIG FIRE IN MARSHALL McDEVITT WHOLESALE GROCERY STORE SUFFERS LOSS v ,'f rnnnMemM x!tnii.nf n.;iH . -.sj.ii a in Marshall iaet: Saturday night WJBBVlrJW .iTiSU!!iiS?J? " tween'one and two, o'clock when' thS fire alarm brought the people out to When the find the -Wholesale Store of N. B: Mc Devitt was in flames. Three possible causes of the fr o have been advanced but nothing is sure. Matches stored on second floor, a short circuit in elevator wire, or thieves breaking at back door have been given as possible causes. The damage is estimated at from $3000 to $5000 on the building, while Mr. McDevitt says that he estimates a bout $3000 of his $25,000 stock will be saved. Mr. McDevitt says the loss. is about half covered by insurance. The building is owned by Mr. Roy Gudger and Mr. Caney Kamsey. BANQUET OF BANK STOCKHOLDERS A banquet for the stockholders of the Citizens Bank at Marshall and Hot Springs will be held at the Ma sonic Hall at 7 P. M., Thursday, May 3rd. "The wives of the stockholHerb are also invited and it is expectc 1 a bout fifty plates will be prepared. The ladies of the Eastern Star chap ter will prepare the supper. Special music will be furnished by Madison County talent. An enjoyable event is anticipated. CULLOWHEE STATE NOR MAL SPRING ENROLLMENT the Cullowhee State Normal has gone beyond all expectations in its spring enrollment. At the beginning of the spring quarter, the' total en rollment pf the session' had reached 296' normal students.- There are no high school students included in this number. The registration for the' special six weeks of the spring quar ter has just ended, adding 53 m re names to the list, bringing the grand total attendance fof the session to 349. This represents an increase of 79 ' per cent over the attendance of normal students in 1926-'27. It is an increase of 57 per cent over the previous year even if one includes the senior class' of the high school, which was carried by' the Normal last year. To' have eliminated the high school, and at the same timet increas ed the total attendance by 127 in one Lyear is Cause f or jubilatfon'ambng the' faculty and student.', A similar in crease another year would bring the total attendance for 1928-29 to near 500. '-: j!- .v.. :i ' . 1-' ' , i 1 "Did 'yei hear" "bout the tHck that ' acme one put ovtr on old-Hank?" ' ! "wo.-....- "; .-'; ' j "Some one. left one of dem there birth-control 'pamphlets 'in the hen house and he sin't had no' eggs for 1 a; month." Columbia ' faster, VAPRIL 27, 1928 James Jtwit HaifS ft TALKS BY BION IL BUTLER BION H. BUTLER I have doubt if many people in North Carolina have any idea what I the' State . College costs the state an- v'uu-u, iur ul imui u revvnu'vi of the chief institutions of Raleigh, on a street that brings' a steady stream of traffic in from the outside country where travelers see the build ings day after day, with boys from all over the state in attendance, the college is probably looked upon as a big school, and a concern that is chiefly a matter for the parents of the boys attending it to think about if anybody wants to think about it all. ' But this institution spends a lot of state money. To carry it on fakes close to half a million dollars a year, while a new work of construction, adds yearly anether large amount, which, with interest on debt and the payment of bonds issued from time to time to pay for the accumulated four million dallars' worth of proper ty owned and occupied by the college, adds more to the annual cost. But as the plant is an established asset it is perhaps as well to consider simply that carrying on cost of the school. The proportionate share for each in habitant of the state is slightly un der 15 cents a year. The students all pay their fees at the school,' but at the rate charged they do not' pay enough to carry on the institution, and to each of us in the state, provid ed we all paid it and each paid rn e qual amount, the cost is something over the' fourteen cents a year. ' This is not just the time to show that much of this fourteen cents, or of the small number of cents I have been' figuring as the cost of the State institutions, is not paid by the most of us at all, for a lot of us pay so small a sum in taxes that we can hardly count it I specify the figures to show that all together the total is small compared with- the population. Later I will go into the matter . of l.J taxes as a state proposition, and t will bring some surprises, and agree' able ones at that But now I am tell ing about State college. It costs us an average of around fourteen cents a year, and what we get in return for it is enough to make yonrvnair, curl. It is one of the remarkable ro; mances- of American development id progress. 1 doubt u there is anything under the sun to compare with, this fabulous story of what State college along with some other similar agen cies, is doing for the advancement pf mankind.- : - ' v h This came to my notice when Frank Page commenced to build good roads in the 'state. Ton can't build roads or anything else without two resourc es, ,1 These are men and money. The state appeared .able to provide ' the money, but Mr. Page in looking a round was not sum he could find the men. ' He went over to State College and .discovered that the engineering department . of that institution -was W'M: training engineers, and Frank Page began to file claims on them. In go ing over his payroll you find bridge engineer, transit men, draughtsmen, maintenance of way" men, district engmeersinspectors, cement experts assistant to. the chairman, civil engi nee'rs in - the 1 various departments, draughtsmen in the bridge depart ment, in the shops, in every place in that big army of men that the road force employs, and they have been largely instruments in building for North' Carolina a highway system that is one of the outstanding fea tures of transportation of the whole world. State college has furnished a big proportion of the men who have, .done this job. Without the con tribution from State we would have been obliged to rake the rest of the United States to find the men and would have been the victim of what we would find. While nosing around among Frank Page's crowd it transpired that the Southern Power Company, the Caro lina Light and Power Company, and a ' lot of other power concerns in North' Carolina have been reaching 6Ut" to -State for trained men, and I find that civil engineers, electrical engineers, superintendents, officer. construction engineers, draughtsmen, and all the same line of employees is to be found in the big power concerns .and with the consumers of power. That, opens another door which gives a vjew of the textile plants which arc big users of power and there is an other long list of State fellows over seeing spinning, weaving, dyeing and other textile institutions, ho'ding places of the highest importance, and many of them. Then the railroads come to State to pick up young fel lows to fee added to the engineering department, and there is. another group of men climbing up from the start they gained at the college, and taking a responsible part In building and operating North Carolina indus- trv; At the same time a little army of young men are going bacthome frorrf (college to tkb'-jMi.' nw ??VV progressive farms, and' to assume places with the demonstration work of the counties, with the agricultural department of the schools, and with other lines that are allied to agricul ture, v . Then the younger department of chemical engineering is producing a crop of men in this line, who are tak ing hold of a new series of construc tive problems in North Carolina and advancing chemical development in the same manner. When I had gone this far into the work these young fellow ere doing in North Carolina for the purpose of setting North Carolina forward I was interested in comparing this State at the present time with what it was when I first knew State College and the State of North Carolina. My first glimpse of the college was in the early nineties. It was a small and insigni ficant, institution then, for its first building was completed in 1889, and it started its work with eight teachers 72 students, and a mighty limited idea of what was to be done with those boys. The number of teachers now is about twice what the number of students was then, and the students are twenty times as many, and pursu ing definite and well grounded courses of instruction training young men for 35 major vocations in the State's in dustry. In the period of time that the col lege has been getting young men ready, ,to do the work to be done, North. Carolina has made this ad vance, In 1890, the year the State completed its first session in the col- leeg Nrth Carolina's manufactures Psch , e total of $40,375,000, and its agriculture by doing a little better, totaled $50,050,000. Farm and fac tory operation could not together pro duce the value of a hundred millions. In agriculture North Carolina ranked 2rd among the states, and in manu factures 31st Our manufactures and Otrr farm products together totaled a- bout $56 a year for each person. We were sixteenth in population among th states. Our record in production vr'ss lower than that of any other rtatc except' the miserable travesty of Ne vada. Now we produce ten times as UWich., each inhabitant as then, and more to the inhabitant than any state in the union did then. . , Now I ' dont propose, to, say that State College has been '.the . whole force that has changed conditions, but Stats College has been training young- men to do things In the last; forty years, and the transformation that has taken place la this State is with out a parallel any place that I know 1825 of. From 23rd rank in agriculture we have been standing around 4th, 6th and 6th in the last few years and our agricultural products have climb ed up as high as half a million doU .' lars or ten times as much as when j State College opened its doors. Our manufactured products have swept " upward from forty millions a year to over a thousand millions a year, and the total from farm and factory has reached a billion and a half dol- ; lars for a year. What is still more -significant North Carolina is pound -ing ahead now when many of the oth er states see mto be father quiet, and in this State the advance is such that " all other states are looking on and no ticing and marveling. It is not to' be imagined that State College has been the sole thing in this incomparable advance. Nature has done a tremendous lot in provid- . ing the resources, and was ready when the men and means came to take advantage of what is to be had. But when the movement forward com- . menced State College had made ready . to provide the men, and now in every line of production and construction State College men are numerous, and they are doing the job. In chemical . lines as well as in industry and engi- . neering State men are many. This State is building one of the best san- -itary organizations among the newer states to advance into the field of sanitary engineeringj water purifica tion, health precautions and general . sanitary uplift. In that work State College men are numerous. Here and there the towns have been estab lishing modern water systems, and ; where this is done it is a chance that . a State College man is the engineer or the chemist in charge. Max Gard- . .1, L ner. a State man, win proDamy in? a the next Governor. George R, Ross, another State man, is head of thexiw Vision of markets, With, h? Wv', roads are many oi them, in various r positions of responsibilities. Many" others are engineers on their own -hgpk, and others are city and county engineers. gone oui wno are tescmng- vecnuivai. subjects in the high schools 'and1 col-, leges, both in this State and else where. And in other occupations many of the State graduates have : gone to other states, for they by no all stay in North Carolina, This might be looked on at first thought as a loss, but it is not. i' or when State men go to General Elec tric, Westinghouse, Duponts, and oth er big concerns over the country, they become part of the big interests that are making things that conic to North Carolina to meet the Bteaiify' increasing need of this State for sup lies. North Carolina is one of the best markets in the world for elec trical and chemical supplies. Here is one of the states that lead in the development of electrical power, and that sends up a call to the four cor ners of the earth for supplies. So North Carolina boys from State are Railroad Safety Shown By Southern's Record Safety of passenger travel by train is shown by the record of the South ern Railway System which during the . year, 1927, transported 10,067,265 passengers an average of 107.5a miles without a fatality among pas-, sengers as the result of a train acci dent. To handle this volume of travel, Southern passenger locomotives ran' 21,080,488 miles while the total mile age traveled by the passengers ho :,' used the Southern's trains reached the almost incomprehensible figure of 1,083,110,041 miles, more than elev en times the distance from the earth to the sun. "Careful driving by Southern engi neers under the direction of a highly -trained dispatching force, - over a ' roadway maintained to the ' highest " standards and protected by the most modern safety devices yet perfected by American electrical and mechani cal genius, as well as the human pro tectino of trains by an alert body of trainmen, trackmen, signalmen " and repairmen and close inspection of e- quipment by experienced shopmen, all contributed to this accomplishment," says a statement issued by the Southern.;- " :,"..: --' V. . " Farmer If I were as laxy as you, Fd go hang myself in ray barn." Hobo No, yon wouldn't If you were as laxy as me you wouldn't have no barn. vtvl--.'v. iyv'V . '"i-.-cf- But sir, why do you write so much? 1 1 am an author I write novels. '-. Fancy taking a.1' that trouble wht i yon can buy a novel for sixpence. -
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