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THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER OF MADISON COUNTY
.VOL. XXIX : MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOB ER 10, 1930 8 Pages This Issue
LECTURE AT
HILL
UNIFORM HIGHWAY
LAWS NEEDED
TOPICS FOR DR. POWELL'S
LECTURES ANNOUNCED
The 75th anniversary of the
founding of Mars Hill College and
the centennial of the birth of the
first president of the college will be
celebrated here next Sunday and
Monday. And as has been previous
ly announced, both in this paper and
The Asheville Citizen, the Rev. Dr.
"W. F. Powell, of Nashville, Tenn.,
will deliver a series of lectures, in
connection with the Founder's Day
program. These lectures are to be
the first of a series of lectures to
be given under the Albert E. Brown
Foundation, established by the late
Dr. A. E. Brown of Asheville, in
honor of his father, William Albert
and friends.
PERSONALS
EFFORTS TO BE MADE THIS
WINTER TO GET ALL STATES
TO ADOPT SAME MOTOR
VEHICLE RULES
after church Sunday at the Bailey
Springs.
Professors P. C. Stringfleld and J.
W. Huff will go to Durham Friday
to attend the N. C. College Confer
ence. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Carter of
Asheville spent Sunday with Mrs.
Ashbel Carter.
Rev. T. E. Walters, pastor at
RnrVv Mount, was on the campus a
Gallatin Brown, who was the first . d recently.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Mitchell, of
Youngsville, N. C., spent a few lays
recently with Mrs. Mitchell's moth
er, Mrs. L. P. Edwards.
Families of Messrs. Gaither Ed-
z'.i . -:i traffic reirulations in all Rtntos wilt' 0ne of th important recommen
clljuycu a itxiiiux uuLmg jj. - i , j 4 - , , - . ,
By CALEB JOHNSON!
Uniform regulations for the issu-
om the roads, the thirteen states
which have the literacy provision in
the law show a smaller percentage
etf accidents than any of the others.
I Even more important than this
uniformity in licensing regulations
is the need for uniform traffic laws,
ajnd the standard which will be urged
dpon all legislatures is that agreed
WHITE ROCK FAIR TO BE
ATTRACTION FOR NEXT WEEK
the other at least one-half of the
main traveled portion of the road
ways as nearly as possible."
Regarding overtaking and passing
Won by the National Conference on i car8 the recommendations provide
Street and Highway Safety, of
tyhich Robert P. Lamont, Secretary
ing of drivers' licenses, and uniform Af Commerce, is chairman.
be urged this Winter unnn thn lpcria-
'lature of the forty states where thelcar shaI1 be licensed until Jt has been
law making bodies will convene after ,nspected and declared fit for use.
January 1st. Such uniformitv, once Wnder the Pennsylvania laws more
agreed upon and enforced, is ex- an 1'000 cars have been ruled off
pected to cut down materially the roads because they were mechan-
toll of traffic aroidenta. which oot ! unnt ana a aanSer x0 owlers
president of Mars Hill College.
The topics of Dr; Powell's lecture
have been announced as follows:
Sunday, 11:00 A, M. Dirt & Deity.
Sunday evening, 7:30 Clod and
. Crystal.
Monday, 11:00 A. M. Fetters and
Freedom."
Monday evening, 7:30 Unit asd
Universe.
In the words of Dr. Hight C.
Moore, we feel that these lectures
will be "both attractive and inspir
ing." Dr. Powell will, remain thru Friday
for a series of evangelistic services
with the College. -
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE
..V.-FAST WEEK
Mrs. C. Y. Tilson spenc ine wee
end with relatives in Brevard
Friends of Miss Irene Willis will
be glad to learn of her improved
condition, and that she has been able
to come to her sister's, Mrs. A. E.
Carter's, for a rest.
Mrs. Hilton, of eastern South
Carolina, is spending a few weeks
w with her son. Professor John
McLeod.
A P. T. A. chicken supper will be
held In Holcombe's stora building,
Friday evening, beginning at 6:30.
the United States more than 33,000
human lives last year, and made per
manent cripples out of many thou
sands more.
t The American Automobile Asso
ciation is back of the movement to
have all states require that no one
may get a driver's license who is un
able to understand highway warnings
or direction signs in the English
language. There are still a few j
states wnicn require no licenses at
all, and in those the percentage of
traffic accidents is higher than in the
states where licenses are required.
But among the states where licenses
j Speed limits which now vary
greatly from state to state and even
from town to town, would be uni
formly fixed, under this proposal, at
10 miles an hour in business districts
$5 miles in residential districts and
in public parks within cities, and 45
miles outside of business and resi
dential districts.
that the driver of an overtaken ve
hide "shall give way to the right in
favor of the overtaking vehicle on
suitable and audible signal and shall
not increase the speed of his vehicle
until completely passed by the over
taking vehicle."
It is also required that "the driver
of a vehicle shall not drive to the
left side of the center line of a high
way in overtaking and passing an
other vehicle proceeding in the same
direction unless such left side is
clearly visible andjs free of oncom
ing traffic for a sufficient distance
ahead to permit overtaking and pass-
ing to be completely made without
impeding the safe operation of any
vehicle overtaken."
When approaching curves, ejj;.,
Will Show What A
Small Community
Can Do
TROY RAMSEY.
COMMITS SUICIDE
ENDS LIFE ON ACCOUNT OF
With resnect to slow drivine the '. the code rules against driving to the
lode declares: "It shall be unlawful lef 4 side of the center line of high-
ior any p'erson unnecessarily to drive ;wav "when approaching the crest of
it such a slow SDeed as to imnede," ue "r UP curve m lne
THE COUNTRY
i ITVTJ? ' & FAILING HEALTrJ AND LOSS H
J3Uj-mdi.. , , - OF MONEY A f jk
r block the normal ana reasonaDie
ovement of traffic except when re-
uced 'speed is necessary for safe
peration or because upon a grade
br when the vehicle is a truck or
ruck and trailer necessarily in com
pliance with law proceeding at re
duced speed.." -
Concerning passing of Vehicles
proceeding in opposite, directions the
code required that drivers "shall pass
'each other jfco the right, each giving
On 'Wednesday 'afternoon of last
week, Mrs. R. M. Lee entertained the
Y. W. A. group.. They held a short
business session firstj and at this
meeting elected Mrs. P. C. String
field as counsellor to succeed Mrs.
Lee, who ha accomplished fine work j
with the girls for the past year,
number of interesting games were
enjoyed during the social hour, and
then Mrs. Lee served delicious gold
and silver cake and punch. Mrs. E.
C. Coates, as president of the W. M.
g. and former Y. W. A. leader, and
Mrs. Stringfleld, as the new leader,
were honor guests.
Mr. Own' CUn In Piano Give
Recital
Last Saturday afternoon,- a num
ber of mothers and pupils gathered
at Mrs. Owens' home for the first re
cital of the class in piano. The per
formers fy this occasion were Jack
Roberts, Elotee ' Reese, Helen Stan
ton, Helen Trentham, Bobbie Ed
wards, Mary Webb Anderson, Clar
ine Reese, Willie Edwards, Gojda
TiDery, Grace Carter, Eliiabeth
Fleetwood, and Louise Coates. Oth-
. . m ax .1... will rtffrfnrm
er memsers o m woo w... r..---
at the next recital to be given . six
weeks hence. This' method, affords
excellent opportunity for the moth
ers to watch the progress 01 u
children. After the recital, we ci.
drea and their mothers enjoyed, a
tinmber of musical games , ano..
. j ts-v " MfrAflhmentB were
xerwaru - - t
served.
m v N MEET WITH
'V; PROFESSOR CARR.
On Thursday evening of last : wee,
at the home of Professor and Mrs.
T n. Carr, there was a get-together
meeUng of the Representative bun-
- ... J Via hofkl
new men oi we "w" 7-
l folks in the interest of cooperaUon
1 toward keeping - high the ideals of
I our town nd communiy- There
ia av mora nresent. After the
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It w a s the case in former
years that we rural vote was
generally cast on the right side
of a moral question, o
man of high moral character.
T..i. ),. rorent primaries this
seems to nave eeu
For instance, in Texas the Fer-
A gusons' strength was in me
country, ajnd was only overcome
by the voters, of the towns.
T Louisiana, it is said, that
Long's strength was in the coun-
try, while a majority of the
town votes were against him.
nri.t v.. Mt nto our country
people, when they are support-
ing men who command the sup-
port of the baser element? Let
it be unaerstooa wmk h
ing written by one who was
and red in the country,
and who is proud of that fact.
The UlDllcai aeceruw.
':
Mr. Troy Ramsey, a young man
23 years old, who "has been living at
his home on Upper Laurel in No. 16
Township, Tuesday afternoon about
one o'clock committed suicide, 111
health and the loss of $1,300 being
given as the cause of his act.
According to reports, Ramsey
placed the barrel of a rifle in his
mouth and pulled the' trigger, which
caused instant death.
' Ramsey was said to have been in
failing health for some time and be
came quite despondent after the
closing of a Tennessee bank in which
he. had deposited his life's savings
which amounted to $1,300. The de
ceased was unmarried.
A widowed mother, with whom he
had been living, is left to mourn his
sad death.
way where the driver's view along
the highway is obstructed within a
distance of 600?eet.''
With respect to municipal traffic
' regulations, the recommendation
provide that a left turn at an inter
section be made on the green light.
The regulation, as contained in the
model municipal traffic ordinance,
declares that "the operator pf a, ve
hicle or street car intending to "turn
to the left at an intersection where
.traffic is controlled by traffic control
signals or by a police, officer with'
proper care to .avoid -accident and
shall proceed to make such left turn
only upon the 'go' signal, unless oth
erwise directed by a police officer."
That there may be danger, how
ever, in too much traffic regulation,
in inducing a sense of safety on the
wood. Her husband had been Part 01 anvers wno woula oerwiae
her destroyer. The discovery I look out or ""delves better, was
" Faithful Unto Death
' iReaders o f Massachusetts
newspfoers were shocked last
August in reading of the dis-
covery of the body of a young
wife in the woods, near Nor-
was made because of her little
'pet dog , "Snowball," standing"
beside her dead body, had kept
up a persistent barking until a
passer-by on the highway, at-
tracted by the barking, sought
fha z1 Q 11 a a nf if Hn. tfan uama.
ly help wondering What went on -
in the little fellow's brain dur-
intr fhnaA lnnplv hmim ho lront.
o r -
suggested to me the other day by
Mr; Robbins B. Stoeckel, the Con
necticut Commissioner of Motor Ve
hicles. Mr. Stoeckel has just return
ed from a visit to England, where
motor accidents are few and speed
limits unknown except when a mo
torist is driving "to" lihe commoin
danger."
"They have few traffic policemen
in England," said Mr. Stoeckel, ""but
It is ev-
f CAROLINIANS Knoiv Your State!
, COPYRICHT 1930 BY BOYCE & RANKIN
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j:.natnn- which
EL Sams, V" social hour and refresh-
menu xouoweou
1 surprise; par-tyfo
j - ' ballard
MRS.
On last Wednesday evening, mem
bers of the Home Economics class of
last year gathered at the home of
Miss Shirley Gibbs and . passed a
happy hour with their last year's
tocher. Mrs. George Ballard, who
, , a f?w davs h"re with j
MICA MINE NEAR SPRUCE PINE
fORTH CAROtJNA rank first"
b the United States in the
., number .(284) of native minerals
and is the leading mica producing
I state in the Union. The best mica
i known is found lit Jackson, Maeo
. and Haywood counties. The mica
industry, which has long been one
of the leading mineral industries of
the State, ia greatly i hampered at
-4 present due to an unfavorable tariff
and foreign competition.
Mica can be imported from South
.' " Africa, France w and ; India cheaper
than it can be produced . at local
.'. mines and as a result of this many
mica finishing plants use Imported
mica even though It Is not as good as
f that produced locally; ;v?;-'X
' . ' . The total production b 1928 was
777,395 pounds of sheet mica val
V aed 'X $129,706 and 4,419 tons of
1 scrap valued at $69,638, m
' "Vm week beginning s-10-30 : . ; ,
TUlie I , read that ; a doctor re-
stored a patient to sanity by pulling
his teeth. . : . - ".K'.'f.;"'- .
Millie Is that so? :
Tillie Yes, but wait till he sees
the bill; he'll probably go crazy a-
mmk
his sad vigil ,
Our Dumb Animals. , everybody is a traffic man.
. ervbodv's business that a car be
properly directed and all drivers, pe
destrians and even the man seated
on his porch, help by suggestions and
direction. Always, too, in a kind
and matter of fact way.
"A great many times during the
tour I recently-made, it happened
that the driver ahead would indicate
that a vehicle was approaching from
the opposite . direction., Our own
driver invariably did the same for
following cars, v
"There is another characteristic
of English - traffic which might be
beneficially copied here. It is that
more responsibility fa placed with
each driver .and here is a conse
quent development of self-reliance.
"There are," with the exception of
a few Bobbies on bicycles and on
foot, no police at all on rural roads.
The abhorrence with which a reck
less 'driving case is generally viewed
seems extraordinary to in American
but is very effective.
"The thought is left, after viewing
the absence of official supervision in i
England, that we in "America may
be in danger of overdoing it After
all the man is the key to perform
ance: his education is the all im-
Considerable praise is due
the people of the Laurel sec
tion of Madison County for
their efforts to have a com
munity fair this year. Wed
nesday and Thursday of next
week, October 15 and 16, are
the days for the Laurel Fair.
According to a premium list
printed and distributed, quite
a number of prizes are to be
giyen on Farm and Field crops,
Horticultural Products, Home
Economics Products, Home
Made Butter and Cheese,
Jams, Jellies, Pantry Supplies,
Livestock, and a number of
others. The prizes have been
made possible by the two
banks in Marshall, Messrs. E.
R. Tweed, G. L. McKinney, P.
V. Rector, J. N. White and
others. It is expected that
quite a number of people
from all parts of the County,
as well as from other counties
will be there and see what a
stand that Tr. W. E: Finley has '
been very energetic in pushing
this fair to success. Mr.
BrintnaOl has an article this
week bearing on this subject,
to which your attention is
called. We understand that
fairs were held at White Rock'
some years ago, which proved
to be quite interesting, and
here's wishing for the success
of the revival of this worthy
undertaking.
MARSHALL
FIDDLERS'
CONVENTION
On October 24th at 8:00 P. M. in
the Marshall High School auditorium
there will be staged one of the best,
biggest, and most selective group of
Fiddlers, solo players, and singers
that have ever been brought togeth
er in this section.
The fiddlers' convention is to be
held in order to raise funds that will
be spent on the library -of the Mar
shall school. If the school can W
cure $50.00 they will have $100.00
given, them by the State and di.3trict
to buy books with. ;::.Y:sv
Several bands have written that
they will be here. Bands, solo play-,
ers, and singers from Cherokee,
Mitchell, Yancey, Buncombe, Hay
wood, and fewport have already ap
plied for entrance.
: "There will be several gold prises
given to the winner, of .the many e
vents that are on the program. All
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portant factor for safety. - We must," "7 ".f" Tp.3 1
-n j- v:. .'te a genuine "Old Time Piece", and
tivity but must be certain that we
do not by our well meaning efforts
in one direction make pitfalls in an
other v.; .rr . -i-H fi
' w0nt of the experimental we ought
to make if we can. get up courage
to do it sometime is to try a plan
of letting traffic regulate or direct
itself. Such a tryout might be
j dangerous In the extreme, unless ev
erybody understood plainly that he
jWas on his own.
i "With that understanding might it
not be possible that an accentuated . with the help cf a
the judges will be picked from some
of ae best old time fiddVrs through
out this section so that all the pieces
ear be judged in an old Hnw way.
This program promises to "be 6ne
of the : most entertaining programs
that has ever been given in Marshall
or even thi county.
itiative consequent upon it wou1
bring out self-reliance and fad.
to a greater extent than thpy
snroosed to exist? Ere'uni c
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sense of danger and the call for in-, vo