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Established June 28, 1901.
FRENCH BROAD NEWS .
Established May 16, 1907.
Consolidated November 2, 1911
THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MADISON COUNTY ' "
VOL. XXI r , MARSHALL, N. C.t FRIDAY JULY 20, 1928 1800
REGARD TO SCHOOL BUDGET.
I, J. N. White, Auditor of Madison
Connty, do hereby certify that the
following is a true and correct re
port of the School Budget as it was
submitted to me on July 2nd, 1928.
Current expense fund $71,863.83
Capital outlay fund..
Debt service fund
.... 1,900.00
21,108.88
$94,872.71
Respectfully,
J. N. WHITE, County Auditor.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this the 18th day of July, 1928.
J. HUBERT DAVIS, Clerk C.
BAPTIST S.S. RALLY
taken care of in some way, and I
would like for someone to show me a
different way. Then I will have no
more to say, as the General County
Levy can not exceed 15 cents.
Since writing the above I have
received instructions from Chas. M
Johnson, Ex Secretary Co. Gov. Com.,
which would change my estimate to
some extent, that is the property val
uation might be increased to a small
. I per cent, but would not change the
The above amount is what the I evy very much. That is all up to the
School Board is asking for to run the County Commissioners to be thrashed
six months schools for the next yea:. 'ou; jater.
This amount would call for 91 cent
levy on the $10,444,342.00 estimuto
property valuation. The above docs
not include the interest on the $58,
000.00 bond issue made last year t:
cover the board of Education difi
cit which would amount to $2,907.
25, and an extra levy of 3 cents
which the law says the Board of Ed- .
ucation must put in their budget . So The 4th meeting of the Baptist
that would make the tax levy 94 cents Sunday School Progressiv ? Campaign
at the very least was held with Middle Fork churrh
Public Local Laws 1925, Chapter Sunday, July 15, 1928. Addresses
17, Section 2 provides that the Conn- were delivered by Messrs. L. D. Ed
ty Commissioners shall set apart five wards, Supt. Mars Hill Intermediate
per cent of all taxes collected in Mad- Department and Lester Bradley, prcs
ison County for any and all purposes jjnt 0f Mars Hill B. Y. P. U. The
whatsoever, for the purpose of paying meeting was under the directorship of
salaries of the offices of Madison Mr. Fred Jervis of Mars Hill, leader
County. Therefore $4,743.63, 5 !of Group No. 1.
of the $94,872.71 would call for an
extra levy of 4 cents.
The last legislatures passed a law
that the County Commissioners should
heraw money for the Board of Edu
cation on short term notes in antici
pation of taxes to run the schools
and make the school budget net, which
the County Commissioners did.; On
July 1st., 1928, there is uncollected
taxes to the amount of $21,522.87,
Of this amount the Board of Educa
tion's part would be $9,493.80 which
Foundation Company
represented by Dr. Rankin, of Char-
J lotte, N. C, made the following state
'ment yesterday to a Marshall Physi-
ne4hM ttvto of thf Hospital
County Commissioners to make tinn'ono -wouia do giaa w maxe a no-
DUKE FOUNDATION
WILL DONATE
TO HOSPITAL
e iuke
school budget net as the law directs.
This amount is reserved with the
balance in the' bank to the credit of
the Board of Education to pay off
short term notes borrowed for them
which will be due August 23,
1928, for $25,375.00. Placing
this amount in the budget as the law
directs will make the levy for school
purposes at least $1.11 provided the
Board of Education can't cut their
budget in some way.
The Board of Education claim to
mo that, the last named items, that
is all items mentioned, except the
$94,872.71 should foe taken care of by
the General. County Fund and not by
them. This, as everybody knows, can't
be done, it has to be taken care of by
the Board of Education.
This is a matter to be adjusted by
the Board and not by me. As to the
levy I have nothing whatever to do
with it, but only have to put the facts
before the Board, and there my re
sponsibility ceases. 1 have tried to be
fair and impartial to both hoards as I
know how to be, and I certainly would
not want to place a burden on either
one that is not just and right.I wish to
say further that the Board of County
Commissioners, thr attorney, nor
any one else has had anything to do
with my budget or had anything to
say or suggest in what I have said. I
am doing .this myself in the best way
I know how to bring the facts before
th people as they exist. As to the
financial;; report appearing in Mat
weeks' News-Record, that was taken
from my budget,, and are the facts
as they, exist; and the County' Com
missioners had nothing whatever to do
in making the report or suggesting In j
any way how it should be made.
As to the levy being $1.1 1, the bud
get had never been passed on by the
Co. Commissioners,, and won't be until
some time in August, and as to what
the levy will be, I don't' know, hut I
do know that tne ioregoing amounts
out side of the $94,872.71 'must be
nation of $37,500 to Madison Coun
ty to be used in the construction of a
hospital. The only condition ' under
which thin gift is donated is that an
equal amount be raised by the Cit
izens of Madison County, either by
private subscription or by popular
vote. Thus the maximum contribu
tion the County would be required
to make on a $75,000 Hospital would
be $37,600. This is made possible
through the gift of James B. Duke. In
order to still further reduce the bur
den of the County, if indeed it is a
burden, it is possible for an individual
subscriber to the Madison County
Hospital to have the Hospital named
as a memorial to him or to a mem
ory of a member of his family for
a contribution of say $20,000. Thus
an enduring $76,000 memorial could
be obtained for considerably loss
than that sum. The hospital is to be
constructed of brick and-(concrete
with completely equipped wards, op
erating room's, and' patient depart
ment, xray and pathological labora
tory. Dr. Rankin is enthusiastic over
the idea of making a medical center
in Marshall, believing that by plac
ing Hospital facilities within reach
of the citizens of Madison County
at a minimum of cost, he will be ful
filling the trust imposed in him by the
late James B. Duke, whose propor
tions as a philanthropist .are known
only to those who have studied his
life.
'' Location-- for .the hospital has not
been decided upon. All (available
places will be. considered, then the
most adaptable location will be ap
proved by Dr. Rankin.
Before the hospital is built, how
ever, the county1 must do. its bit by
voting the Required amount. Thin of
course is left to the discretion of the
individual voters who are given an
opportunity ,; to ' . vote favorably - to a
proposition Which concerns them and
their families vitally.vyi V v
The aid . of the masons, of th
churches and ministers, 'of the Wood
men of. the World, the Ladies Aid So
Iciety, Women's Missionary " Society,
Parent-Teachers Association and all
other religious and charitable organ
izations is solicited.' The management
I of the sick is still as Closely hound
' i . 1 ( i IX f . t J , 1
;io religion a it waa in ineuay wnen
VTIS.1NG gCRVlCS the minister Was called upon mini-
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. ui i get wis nospitai lor jnaaison
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Songs of Plain Folks
- James jfesiris Hays
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Rich banker) only in a way. - '
I'm rich In friends. ,
My bank the town has learned to say
Borrows and lends
Friendship along with common gold;
And so, perhaps,
I'm wealthier and happier
Than richer chaps.
My bank Is small but It has seen
The big ones fall;
I've never hovered In between
Millions and jail.
Folks all deposit faith as well
As dollars here,
And I pay solid four per cent
Year after year.
People think I'm hard sometimes.
I hat s the cost
Of shepherding their neighbors' dimes
So none are lost.
A banker keeps his truest friends
By careful ways. .
Rich? Well, I'm rich in dividends
That friendship pays.
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1916 FLOOD HERE
REMEMBERED
Twelve years ago last Monday, it
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H. BUTLER
When I started to inquire into
will be remembered, Marshall was .whether the state correctional insti-
buried beneath th mnrWv mruMv . IMt'ons and cnanties were artoraing a
ters of the French Broad River.
It is very, interesting to hear the
.yalue for what they cost I hatd no defi-
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mie iaea oi.wnai wouia oe tne qui-
older citisens of the County tell about M likewise
biic ur4(iii ui biic muiicjr una given mo
of the
happened then, during the flood which
wrought thousands of dollars of dam
age along the course of the stream
from the Buncombe County line on
through to Tennessee.
Banjo And Guitar
Experts 'Shun The
Music Teachers
a sort of humerous notion
whole business. The work that the in
stitutions are doing is so creditable
and constructive that it would be
worth many times what we hed
thought it costs the state. This is 30
apparent that it is conclusive withiut
going much farther into the subject.
The excellent results every one of
the institutions is securing rather sug
The following article is in regard jests that we should enlarge the scope
to a coupie of young boys formerly of a11 of them because of their value
over a million dollars on insurance
companies and agents and on pre
miums paid is probably a more direct
tax than most others, for that comes
out of the people who have property
insured. Then comes taxes on foreign
and domestic corporations, and while
We of North Carolina pay our pro
portion of these taxes the naked truth
is that the people who buy the pro
ducts these corporations make, pay a
large portion of these taxes. North
Carolina is a great distributing state.
The tobacco our factories make goes
all over the world and every individ
ual who buys an ounce of North Caro
lina tobacco is helping to pay North
Carolina's operating expenses. The
cotton mills send much of the product
of their mills to other states and coun
tries, and those other states and coun
tries in buying these things finds tied
in with the cost of making them the
taxes laid on corporations in North
Carolina. The railroads, the telegraph
companies, and other corporations
that do business in and through the
state pay liberal taxes, and not only
local business contributes there, but
every train load of stuff hauled thru
North Carolina helps us to care for
our defectives and to broaden our
public institutions of all kinds. Every
thing that is manufactured in North
Carolina and sold outside the boun
daries of the state brings back when
it is paid for, a portion of the taxes
of North Carolina, and thereby adds
its contribution to the expenses of
our charitable and correctional insti
tutions.
It will be seen, therefore, that when
we consider the cost of our charita
ble and correctional institutions we
are not paying as much toward their
support as we have thought, and also
that we are getting more for the
money that we pay and that outsider?
pay for us than we had supposed.
Every time a chinaman in far away
Asia lights an American cigarette he
is helping to pay the costs of running
the asylums, the training schools, the
of Bluff, N. C. in this county and was
taken from the Spartanburg, S. C.
Herald.
to the people of North Carolina, and
all the more so because we are get
ting more for our money than many
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A good substitute for a music teach hal suspected, and also because we
er has been found by Henry and Rus- e not Payn& anything like the mon-
sell Black, Bchoolboysof Arcadia. ey ttl1 "as een supposed .
A year and a half ago, neither knew l " something ol a joke, out wortn
the least thine about Dlavinc the I Carolina does not pay but a portion
banjo or the guitar, but today bothi' it running expenses. The people
are rapidly becoming expert in pluck- aH over the world are contributing
inir the instruments and as musicians to U our state work. The charitable
are regarded somewhat as prodigies. jad correctional institutions of the
They are preparing to cash in onjtate call lor aDout tnree ana a nan
the stage, having already become million dollars a year, including pen
widelv known in this section. Thev!ons to old soldiers. That would be
have played for luncheon clubs of'" average of somewhat over a dol-
Snartanbur and for churches andi'W for each of us il we paw it. But
entertainments over the countv. their I we don't. No direct tax of any mag.
work in this direction having provid- "itude is laid on the property of the
ed them with, more pocket money people of North Carolina by the state,
than other kids usually have. It is a somewhat lengthy story, but
The brothers, with Thomas Lewis , probably worth reading, ine roaas oi.
and his eight year old brother, LeW the,tate constitute one of the big ex.
Lewis, both, pianists of promise, wore Ipenaes. The money is supplied by the
playing an all day engagement in the automobiles, and every automobile
window of Rice's Masic store yester- wnr-pays the amount of tax e
day afternoon, when J. B. Black, fath- thinks he can afford. He contributes
er of the stringed instrument coaxers, a few cents a gallon when he buys
unfolded the secret of fheir mufic gespline, and he pays a license tax,
training. and a small tax on nis car. uui me im-
"No. Mir." Mr. Black, who is out- proved roads make travel So much
side arpenter at Arcadia, said rather less costly that he saves money by
proudly as he indicated his sons with having a good road. This ispretty
his thumb, "they have never studied a well realised. But also everybody who
note. They picked op everything by comes info the state With a car pays
listening to a phonograph." ht gasoline tax, and in the end th
"Tii.v Aid hnv littl chord book man who uses the road pays for niak"-
from the; music store," he confided, ing it and maintaining it It saves Mm
"and I helped them along at first. ' money, and it is needless to discuss
It developed, that Mr. Black is han- that phase further. t.
dy with a stringed instrument, aa is. Individuals pay two millions ana a
hU wife and, in fact all bis family half In Income tax and inheritance.
1W accounts for his eons' ability. As they have the source from which
hi believes. He does not discredit the, to pay the money that is not a yry 1
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hirfv Af mmuL hut declares that it ouraensoroe couinuuuun, ivi i a-
ilni tnnrt neonla little rood if they mounts to less than an average
have no ear for music and is eonsc- dollar for each of us annually. Of j
Wp -pay thetejf salary, Ihelfinat purchase.,
cose 'Oi ine couits, ani an me orner p
agencies that call on the state ex
chequer for money. The cotton oil
that goes to Italy and France to make
olive oil helps pay the North Carolina
taxes, and every man who uses a Can
non towel on a Pullman car, or in a
hotel or anywhere else in the realms
of civilization contributes to North
Carolina's revenues. The Florida win
ter visitors drop in their little share
for riding down through our state,
and wherever North Carolina textiles
enter into the comfort of human kind
a moderate proportion of the selling
costs to the consumer comes back to
help Ben Lacy meet the pay rolls that
steadily call on him for coin.
Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the
Treasury of the united States, and
shining light in the Aluminum com
pany which operates over at Baden,
is a wonderful tax collector for North
Carolina, ' for Mr. Mellon's company
is permitted to add to the revenues
of this state, and as the products of
the company go to all the quarters of
the earth, practically every nation is
helping to pay for the operation of
our state and its different branches,
until if is proper to forget to worry
about what these correctional and
charitable institutions cost.
All states are not as favorably sit
uated as North Carolina is, for few
states come so near having A mono
poly of exportable things as we have
of cigarettes, for instance. North
Carolina is the chief tobacco growing
state of the union, or of the world for
that matter; and as tobacco , is taxed
from' the time it is thought about until
power and light companies we damn
so vigorously pay the state a lot of
money.
The revenue of the general fund of
the state annually now is in the neigh
borhood of fourteen million dollars a
year. That would be a large sum if we
had it "personally to pay something
over five dollars a year each. But so
much of it comes from sources that
do not touch us, and so little from
sources that we feel directly, that it
can hardly be looked on as much of a
burden. Of late years an intelligent
and sound working budget has been
adopted, and everything that asks for
money has to show cause and estab
lish that cause to the satisfaction of
the governor and the budget board.
Fortunately Governor McLean is a
business man of practical experience
and a man rather cold-blooded when
it comes to business, so he does not
allow much to get past that is not
worth while. He has been able under
the modern legislative authority to ad
minister the state government as a
business proposition, and from what
I have seen of different states of the
Union in my day I am of the opinion
that North Carolina is getting for the
money contributed about as satisfac
tory return as is obtainable under
popular administration of govern
ment. What is another gratifying sit
uation is that as North Carolina is
passing swiftly into a much broader
industrial position among states we
are making the advance on a positive
and sound 'financial basis, and the re
cognition of this basis is shown by the
reputation the state holds in the mon
ey markets .North Carolina has had
a favorable interest rate on its big
borrowing, and one that some people
cannot understand. But the New York
bankers knew why. One of the reas
ons is the big annual output of farm
and factory product, in which North
Carolina stands above its class as re
gards population and similar rating,
and the big share of the stuff that is .
sent to other states for folks else-(
where to buy and pay taxes on in the J, ,
ASHEVILLE OPERA SEASON
TO ATTRACT MUSIC
LOVERS.
Asheville's 1928 season of grand
opera will attract to this city a larger
crowd of music lovers than have at
tended any previous music festival
of this sort held here. Applications
for season reservations in the City'
Auditorium where the operas will be
staged have been received by officals
in charge of the event, an entire
month in advance of the opening date
of the opera season. Eight operas will
be presented by the San Carlo Com
pany during the week of August 13
to 18 by a cast of artists superior to
any group of singers ever brought
to Asheville.
Two stars new to audiences at
tending the Asheville Opera season
will be presented this year, by For
tune Gallo, the impresario of the San
Carlo organization. They are Fernan
do Bertini, noted Italian singer and
Delia Samoiloff, daughter of the
late dramatic tenor of the Metropoli
tan Opera Company.
The operas which will be presented
during the week are scheduled as
follows: Monday, August 13 "La
Boheme;" Tuesday, August 14 "Lu
cia;" Wednesday, August 15 (Mat
inee,) "Tales of feoff maris" Wedne. f
day, August 15, (night) "Carmen r,.
Thursday, August 16, Madam Batter-
fly;" Friday, August 17, "La Giooon- ,
da;" Saturday, August 18, (Matinc
"Romeo and Juliet;" Saturday, Au-'-'.
gust 18, (Night) "Aida.'"La Gloeon-,
it has served its purpose and gone up . ig , new opera to. Asheville ao-;
in smoke, we make a comforting clean dienceSi the others' on the list having f
been presented here in previous sea-..
Qucntly a waste of time.
course many of us pay none of these
tiro taxes, but those Who do can'af-
ford it, for it is small eompared with
AT HIIxTH K rHI Kl H the money it represents Business' tt
nd franchise' taxes contribute
'an much more, and that comes from
The French Broad Baptist Sunday those doing business and who are able
School . Convention '" will j.meet at to pay Without any damage ttf their
. ' w. , L - .1. T 1 rw ' . . I . ... f M . ' . . A uir
rosier wee cnurcn uiy , prosperity or tneir iniings. n. w
up in that direction. The nearest ap
proach was seen in Illinois and Penn
sylvania when the big distilleries in
those states collected taxes from all
over creation. But these merry days
are gone forever. North Carolina, has
a big share of the aluminum mono
poly and Mr. Mellon is one of our
most dependable stand-bys. Another
source of complex income is the rail
roads and their "underlying factors.
The' roads are taxed to begin with.
Then.' their express service is taxed,
and lihe corporations that do business
on tho roads. The factories that make
ice to ice the cars in transit are called
6tt W - put' little tomething. in the
contribution box just to show a friond
ry feeling. .According to a bulletin
from the National City Bank h rauV
roads pay five and one half "per cent
of their tot:! income in taxes. This-is
Coming at the height of the summer
season in this resort region the grand -operas
are always weir attended by
visitors from other sections of the t
country. Among the other leading ,
artists who will take part in ' the '
operas of the 1928 season are Bianca
Soraya, dramatic - soprano, Dimitrf ,
OnofreL lyric. tenor; Tina. Paggf, ,
coloratura soprano; Coe Glade Hisi .
Koyke, Japanese .- soprano ,who will
sing the part of "Madam Butterfly,''
Ethel Fox and Henri Scott, - -
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We wish to express our thanks and .
appremabn; for-tiil loving Iciadnen '
and sympathy to us in the death of
our niece." Mabel Ruth Giesentanner
is 'm fourth more than they pay the!r ' n4j for the beautiful floral offerings.
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