North Carolina Newspapers

j^Tfounty First, Sec Last and all the \y VR'H IT GROW ! 10 PAGES nty News An Independent Weekly Published in an inde pendent part of these United States. / 4 vj -? i I POLK COUNTY? The Gateway of 4ii North Carolina Vo.ii'ne XXXI No. 5 Five Cents Per Copy Tryon, N. G., September 24, 1925 T $1.50 a Year SOUTH CAROLINA'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE PAYS VISIT TO LAKE LANIER AND HOGBACK jjijincr ^i'Leod Surprised to Find Immense Developments Under Way! Ip o?n Domain, Under Delusion That All "Blue Ridge" Lay ! Across Border In " Tar Heel " Territory- -LuncHeon i Guest of Tryon and Lake Business Men. -Jr ?r South Caruliuu became an Informal guest of . .ike Lanier, when hedropped in unexpectedly tu look over ..cut of that section of his domain included in the recent de ..lound Tryon. The South Carolina Chief Executive was viai j-v .... "J witil lhe remarkat,1? growth along the border of the two V, _ . expressed himself. > VYaverly Heater, treas-" 11- von Development and | of the Eisele Broth . .iuization, Governor -Mc J : over the winding roads i , ikf, and on over still j ~ " j .c roads to the crest of ? Rocky Spar. : ii-st time Governor Mc , [own on South Carolima p of a South Carolina : realized the fact that j State has something :,uast beside cotton fields i stations. x. ^ over the surrounding ; ,-rnor McLeod made j -s to the audience at the | : 1 e n t Company and"! beauty of the mouu- i _.,i cooperation between : the tw0 great common- ; : v. loping them. ? u served at Log Cajbin , . ? : careful supervision of j . .. -,.n. was attended by a .. r of representative busi .. : the community. I Ballengerf President of fhumber of Commerce, governor McLeod and T. i. L. D. of Tryon made a irritation extending to the h- arty request to pro it and assuring him the r-. .a- it. of Tryonites collectively | .at' r? st iu the development of . - - 'idu . v.; - w s Green, made a short . .. humorous lines in which ?>i ii while he officially had across the Carolina line, ?i- -ndeavored to convince ike employees there that the? must Wiav ' " Sl't aloug in Tryon at night tyj ii. lesson appeared to last 4n)Ugho\it the day. when they^'ere toployeii -utside his jurisdiction. The sfaei . r'l ui' Greenville county had wxrl::. u. the Mayor cooperated My u, piv serving order at Lake La^ j tier y-'i h.i i appointed a deputy to r^preseL ; a;:u there. N'- ? ;i' tor spoke of the needs flf ::r- ;:-vrt|on for the forests of it :.j.: i. ,n country and Governor HcL-v; ..^i;i 'd full cooperation so kr as officially could in fighting & &!.<: ; rn venting careless losses L J J'*-! h> publicity director for Ld l ; " r said he had heard so ?ucL d! / tho Scotch that he felt acl-~ --?! ? add a word or two for the tost :r. r.'ioning Pat, Mike, and *0lly ai-i. Margaret. As Penny's - -s^ntially Irish his expos Wailo:. '. half of Erin got a hand. Tho?. .-'.i-nding the luncheon were ? j ('. M. Eisfcle, B. L. ? \ ip W. S. Greenf Dr. . raid Stone, Re\\ W. T. L Justice. G. M . Hester, ? L. J . j lackson, Romaine P. Burnett, O. O. ? Ayres> Dr. M. C. ? A. Shannon. County Wide Meeting W Parents And Teachers M Columbus Oct. 3rd ?u... ^r '?V. 5(il Vtt? ? '> wide teachers' ?? hool year 1925-36 'he County Court ?'"'"is. Saturday, Octo- | v f"acher in the I '??illy expected to at A special in vita- ' : 'o the school com- I a . ? Ik v ? r. A . , the clergy, 4 r( and every person . "" ' u'hu is interested ft ? -lur r?un?v 'ia I development of Polk Sotr... ? L -mi far reaching plans our l.,1 ^ work will be dls i' >, ^ meeting. We want, ltd " M ills function in the ltCT * ,:'U->t have, the intelli Uit lrJ"h' :u,,"n of all the forces in. % 0 4 - ? ^ \ . J,,-'p us in their execu te.. "!fore, earnestly re ' v Hr^ ' uonor us with your A: ?)t ' '? vice at this meeting. l*r*?Kram has been ar ?iir .t#t A,i' be given in full ip Building And Lnan Associations In N. C Show Big Gain In Assets Twenty-Five Millions Loaned To Construct More Than Eight Thousand Homes To . House Forty Thousand People In Style Becgning Independent American The building and loan associations in North Carolina show a gain last year of $14,000,000.00 in assets. Then loaned $25,000,000.00 to build 8,000 homes to house 40,000 of our citizens in the past five years these asso ciations show a pain in asset3 from twenty-nine million to seventy mil lion. This is a splendid record, and one in which we should feel much pride - However, when we compare North Carolina with other states in this par ticular, we find she fall3 far short of fhe position she should occupy. We find there are fifteen other states with a greater investment in building and loan stock. Twelve of these show a greater gain in assets in 1934 and three states each show a gain greater than the total investment in building and loan in North Carolina. We find als0 that twenty states have a larger investment per capita than does North Carolina, and the per capita investment of ten of these is more than double that of North Car olina. Of the more than two and a half million population in thi3 state only IS, 474 of this number were patrons of these great agencies of thrift and home building. Of this number pro bably SO percent are either borrower8 or anticipate borrowing in the future for the purpose of paying for homes. It is ^evident therefore that the building and loan associations in North Carolina so far have failed to properly inform the public at large of the splendid advantages of build ing and loan 9fock as a medium for the investment of the savings of the people. N0 group of financial institutions in the state can boast of a cleaner record of stability than can our building 'and loan associations^ and the average interest yield on money invested .in these associations last year was .059228, or nearly 6 percent Yet millions of dollars went out of the state in various Torms of securi ties paying not any better return, and no doubt many of them of doubt ful value. Railroads Clamor For Increase In Freight Rates While Producers Protest Hard tn Convince General Public That Increase in Rates is Necessary to Successful Operation of Railways It appears that about the hardest thing ihe I'nited States government has to do is to please the railroad companies. They are continuously clamoring for permission to raise freight rates, despite the fact that right at this minute they are hauling more freight than ever before in the history of the nation. Their latest alibi is that auto trucks are cutting their business to such H point that they must get a higher freight rate or lose money. But farmers and manufacturers, our heaviest shippers are preparing to fight an increase on these grounds, and will have figures to back up their argument if the mat ters taken ,pp by officials at Wash ington . N0 one, of course, wants to see the railroads lose money. But at the same time there is no one anxi ous to see them given free rein to raise rates as they choose. We need our railroads* we must have them. I But s0 long as they are overwhelmed I with freight, as they now are, and at the highest freight rates in history it's pretty hard to convince the gen eral public that they've got a raise coining to them. WORLD SERIES! Hue Comet the Buccaneer and Hi? Jolly Crew ? -By A. a CHAPIN 3 THAT M *WKl'CWVLSO ?i TOO Dugncd FAST tfoo. St o&SNMAttv obtoone R. TO fi>BT A GOOD SKVTCH <*> / I ?Birr mcm% j tfoov ho? hc uxxs wmile I Eooit Moons Awt> FRISCO TrtowPjo^ WILL TAKE TugMS IM G<MRI>lAffr TME KRY8TOWC 8*C High Cost Of Bread Based on Selling Price Of Wheat Assert Bakers American Mute Flour Retails In Europe For One Half toe Price Citizens of These United States Are Forced To Pay Combination Allefed. Everybody fn Polk County eat a bread, so naturally everybody Is In terested In the price ofjt. All over the country reports are pouring Into newspaper offices and to member* of the various state legislatures tfcat j bread is selling at a price that seems j to bear little relation to the price of j wheat. Of course, many things en ter into the cost of breed besides flour, but when wheat advances, at it did a few months ago, it is always an excuse for boosting the price x of bread. And the Pri(* doea n0t dr?P when the price of wheat declinat. We read whqre Basil Manly, dlnec- j tor of the People's Legislative Ser- , vice ba8 recently sent a letter to | Pres. Coolidge, all members of con gress and the Federal trade commis- | sioH, yrgfng ,th*t an investigation be made of the cost, of producing bread with a view to finding out why It costs so much when it reaches the consumer. Mr. Manley says the or ga/nization he represents has made investigations which show that bread made of American flour sells in Eng land for fittle more than half what it sells for in this country, and that the price here has advanced out of all proportion to the price of wheat. He alleges that millers and big bakery corporation are making unreason able prices, and that merges of big baking concerns have tended to boost the cost of bread to the consumer. An inquiry by congress might bring out some information that would bring beneficial legislation, or it might show that the present price of bread is justify. At any rate it would settle a question that i9 pro voking a vast am o lint of common and complaint in this country. With competition keen between ?bakeries in Spartanburg, Greenville, Asheville and Henc$rsonville all ca tering to out of town business, Try on as yet hasn't been keenly hit by the alleged combination in restraint of trade. TRYON GIRL IN DETROIT Miss Martha Jackson of Tryon who has been a guest ot Mrs. James Vennor Jr., in Detroit, was honored during her stay with man, social af fairs Among these were a bridge luncheon and theatre party given by the hostess, a beautifully appointed dinner party honoring Miss Mm* tha and her sister Mrs. Wahler, giv en by Mrs. Davis. A dinner at the D. A. C. with theatre party af ter by Mrs. Andrew Lorimer, a brid ge luncheon by Mrs. John Watling, and a formal dinner party by Mr. James Vernor, Sr. Mis* Jackson i. at present Visiting her sister, Mrs. Walher. who has also been the recip ient of much social attention. Grief 'and Joy A coincident carrying a rao Has the su pending of "Batj liulh from baseball and a fine for failure to observe train in).': rules ? the same week in wftj ' I'etroit citizen^ staged a great eel bration f or Ty Cobb, marking lis 20 >cai> there ? the greatest piiy er the :? ime jhas ever produced I'ri -lit- it r i ? I cash amounting $10,U'JU v\ >. showered upon hi e of to m. Big Mail Order Houses Stuff Post Office With Direct-By-Mail Advertising ?? ? Catalogs, Folders, Samples and Sales letters From Far Away Places Help Pull Polk County Money Out of This Section If Tryon business men will will do a little looking around the local post office within the next few weeks they will oDserve a big lot of third class mall coming into thlB section. That means that the mall order houses are at the height of their fall and winter campaign. From now un til after the first of the year they will be flooding the mallB with catalogues and temptiig "pay nothing down" of feis. Aijd there is but one good way to meet such, competition ? through the advertising columns of your home-town paper. The hpme town paper goes to the same people these catalogues go to, so why you are are give them a chance to read your jnea aagef too? Tell them how fully can meet their wants, how you right here to make good if they not fully satisfied. Tell them tour sftory and you ^rlll sell them your goods. Mail-order houses cahnot exist without advertising, so then ad vertising must be the best thinu to fight back with! Don't lose any more valuable time ? drop arcund and let's talk it over NOW. 1 . , r. Clean Moving Pictures Are Possible If Fans Desire To Keep Them So As Long As The Moving Picture is Com mercialized Producers Will insist on Giving Patrons Wnat Majority Wish to see. Tilts Big Business If Aristotle were living today he would scarcely recognize the institu tion which he and his preceding philosophers helped to develop, the theatre. Originally, as we know^ the theatre was for education and re* ligeous exercises as well as for the drama an<i the other interpretive arts | But in this age of specialization the theatre has come to mean a place of amusement ? a place ftfr seeking what man terms a respite from the dally toll. Modern youth know little of the spoken drama. They get their dra ma flat and smack from the pictures screen> and the "spoken" part usual ly comes from the audience. What exhilaration the movie causes is im pulsive, what inspiration it brings is more or less temporary, what re laxation it affords is helpful, and what recreation it gives is mental. The films as an institution are all . right . What we want are clean films> just as we demand clean book8 clean literature, and clean lives. The people, the patrons of the thea tre, hold the key to the moral situa tion, admitting that the motion pic ture presents a moral question. As long as the nlovie industry is com mercialized the people will get what they \vpjit and demand.] If that de mand is at variance with good mor algj then questionable fllms will be fostered upon us. It is but human. You can capitalize on any kind of business by letting down the bars'of moral structure. But it is the peo ple themselves who suffer or beffeflt, as the case may be, from their own insistence. Clean minds, clean hearts, clean consciences will want the theatre kept to high standard. Communi ties are what people make them. So are Wiea^ea. Tryon has been particularly fortu > nate in having high grade pictures^ because Tryon screen >fans insist on ?eeing only good film productions. ? r- o f FLEETWOOD MARKS NEW ERA In breaking the sod for the two million dollar hotel at Jump Off Mountain near Hendltrsonville re cently, Commodore J. Perry Stoltz also placed a foundation ? a founda j tion for a greater, more progressive i and enterprising Hendersonville and 0 ' one that will cause future genera tions to associate his name with such builders as Duke, Reynolds and such predecessors as have made Western North Carolina, the Promised Land i of the Multitudes of America. Com modore Stoltz will build not for the present, but for the future. Nat merely a magnificent hotel, ^it a commonwealth to be sought by the thousands . COLUMBUS WILL BECOME IDEAL Cl\Y IF PLANS OF DREAMERS MATERIALIZE ; j ? -Vf | With Adequate Water Supply, [lectricity, Telephone and Other City Conveniences Polk's Inland Capital May Realize Dreams of Founders-Industrial Development to be Carefully Fostered, Say Hopeful Community Leaders Columbus, the county seat of Polk County is waking up and plans for several new buildings are now under way. Chicago Interests have secured options on some of the most desirable isiness property wit^ the intention of developing it, and a ho tel corporation has options on a large body of land nearby oil which it is rumored a modern resort hotel will be erected. Building Activity Great Throughout United States During Coming Months Easy Money Conditions give Speculative Bu ilders Opportunity to Gamble on Big * Scale. Florida Leading the Country in New Construction Building activity in the United States during the month of August continued on the high levels .estab lished in previous months and, ac cording to the F. W. Dodge reports, established a new high mark In val ue of contracts for all time up to the present. Contracts awarded in 36 states totalled $589,690,200 exceeding the July figure by 11 percent and the August, 1924, figure by 66 percent. It is' furthermore interesting t0 ob serve that whereas the summer months of 1924 and 1923 witnessed a decline in building volume, the sum mer of 1925 saw an advance in activ ity. During the first eight months of the current year, construction started in 36 states, which include about j seven-eights of the construction volume of the country totalled $3,778, 1792,000 \n value. This figure repre sents an increase of 25 percent over : the corresponding months for last > twelve monthg of 1925 will y nearly j reach the six and one-half billion dol year, and means that if the last third of the year sees building on as (active a basis as the first eight months the total value of building for the entire country during the full . lar mark . But there are some auth- I orities who are beginning to feel that the building industry has now en tered upon a speculative stage, urged on by easy money conditions, in the face of an apparent declining ten dency in rents and the passing o\' the real shortage af -buildings which held j the nation In his grip several years ago According to one commentator, building manufacturers throughout the country are borrowing lavishly from the sales policies of retail mer chants in disposing of goods on the installation plan, doing this in order to hold up construction levels al though the national housing emergen cy hag passed into history. If such a situation really exists on a broad scale, it is worthy of serious study that trouble may be averted. ? # o Pawlonia Jree Common x In Polk County Introduced From Orient In 70'S; / Seed Pods Remaining on Ground Mar Pawlonias Value As Decorative Tree Even Though It Grows Rapidly Visitors from other sections have raved each spring over the great i trusses of lavender blossoms adorn ing a certain species of trees that dot our forests. When the first ten der green is pushing forth on twig and bough, truly these harbingers of springtime' light our woodlands like the soft glow of purple Japanese lanterns. But listen, in the Amer^ ican Agriculturist, vintage 1872, we cull the following. "We notice that some journals are helping some speculators to revive the Pawlonia Tree, which had its day, years ago. It gr " s very rap idly while young, and < io hardier than the CataTpa. Its Uie rit ig in its flowers, which around New York es cape winter-killing, probably one winter in three. It will bloom reg ularly farther ^th, ,'then It has the Insuperable objection to an orna mental tree that its large clusters of seed pods remain on until beaten off by the winds. This disfigures the tree, and in otlr eyes condemns it, except as a curiosity." And so we all take another fall. lit alizing the need of pay-rolls to make a ,)ai;k ground for continued growth, efforis are being made to at tract several small manufacturing concerns. With an ample water supply year in and year out? electric lights and power, telephone^ and other modern conveniences Columbus while five miles from railway is only fifteen minutes drive from steel on a superb hard surface rOad . ? The extension of that hard surface on Route Nineteen to Rutherfordton will afford an artery providing direct connection with North Carolina's splendid net work of highways clean through to Wilmington. Eventually the Chimney Rock road will be im proved, as it is ,the shortest route from SoutH Carolina into the Lake Lure section. / People in Columbus are beginning t0 realize that they are stragetically located for real growth, and they ap pear to by perfectly willing to back their belief in the future of their towrf with good hard American dol lars . Undoubtedly one of the prettiest spots in the Thermal Belt, Columbus has lain dormant since th^ death of \V. 4\i StearnH vyho had planned a city beautiful and who would have made his dream reality had he lived. The plan as drawn by his engineers may be seen in the office of J . R Sams, and certainly Mr. Stearns had a vision which would surprise the most sanguine. The recent twenty thousai 1 dollar addition to the Stearug High School-' the expenditure of thirty thousand on improvements at the court house, and other ventures under way have awak ened that sleeping spirit which once set going will make Columbus a real city in the purple hills. It has the natural advantages, a beautiful location, and easy ' accessi bility and it should *row rapidly and with real cooperation on the part of every resident it will grow. One of the typographical advan tages of this splendid county seat town is the system and precision In which the streets have been lain, cutting the town into neat blocks and lots of uniform size. While the townsite itself Is perfect ly flat, Colimbus lies in th. very arms of ihe mountains. Little Mountain raises its verdant head iess than 300 yards from the West .imits, and a i"niP across the valley looms in majestic splendor, White Oak, Little White Oak, Tryon Peak, [and other veterans of the range. The double cascades of Schunkawau kan and Hemlock which- fall from the summit of Whitt^^)ak until they babble off into Horse Creek, form one of the most entrancing views of the entire Blue Ridge region and many attractive cottages and bunga lows dot the site where within a few years will spring stately mansions. Samuel Virgil Brady Killed In Auto Smash Near Asheville, N. C. On Tuesday afternoon near Oteen Hospital just east of Aeheville, oc cured a disastrous automobile acci dent in which Samuel Virgil Brady was fatally injured his death occuring at 1:30 Wednesday morning. The car,^a Chrysler i-oadster the property of J. T. Greeh, was badly wrecked,' the other occupants, Frank Brown, Morrow Fostf-, Jack Thompson and Clayton 1 were uninjured The young m- .c all employes of the Kilpin Motor Company of Tr^on, and the accident was unavoidable, occur ing as the car was rounding a sharp curve, and the condition of the road, made slick by the recent light rain, was responsible for the skidding of the car. As the car skidded Bradv was thrown cfut upon the highw:i flicting terrible injuries to hiB u He leaves a wife, young baby, his parents and a brother, Holland, all of whom reside in Landrum.