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Member North Carolina free* Association KuTno 12 iWresbyterian Foundation Imhas Remarkable Collection as Established By The General Assembly In 1926 o By Mrs. John H. Robertson. i great colleetino of Presbyter- U. S. and Associate Reformed isbyterian literature known as Presbyterian Foundation is f housed on the ground floor Assembly Inn. It is said that s is a very remarkable historic collection; in many particulars re is nothing to equal it in lerica. It was established by General Assembly in 1926, al ugh the origin of it may “be ced to the acquisition by Rev. M. Tenny, in 1902, of a pack ; of manuscripts from the pen Professor R. L. Dabney.” sse papers had been discarded a bookshop in Houston, Texas, ter a year in Texarkana, Texas, material was moved to Mon iat and settled in its present ation. Mr. Tenny died in De nber, 1939—but under his guid ce and that of Mrs. Tenny, the undation had attained interna nal recognition. Rev. Thomas H. Spence, present rotor, is ably assisted by Miss inobelle Hill and Miss Cook. Materials in the Foundation are ssified in three groups: The chines, the Librayr and the iseum. There are 1841 vol tes and transcripts in the Ar ves and more than 1500 stand i size volumes of printed min >s of the various members of the esbyterian and Reformed fam- Thirteen branches of these urches in the U. S., Ireland, nada and England, are repre ited. A printed catalogue en led “A Survey of Records and nutes in the Historical Found on” was published in 1943. A py may be secured by any inter led scholar. Many rare and expensive first itions are found in the Library; talogues of institutions, photo aphs, phamphlets and maps, ne thousand, five hundred voi les of periodiacls are here, col ctions of manuscripts and cor spondences. Among the articles in the Mu um are communion services, kens, cloths, tables and benches om many famous churches. A lonial pulpit, funeral bier, grave arker, Bibles, certificates in ac lowledgment of contributions ven for the first steamer “Laps y,” an accurate model of the ibemacle, and many more valu ile relics. Dr. Walter Lingle says: “You ust not get the impression that e Historiacl Foundation is sim y a place to keep old books and cords or a show place. It is a reat workshop.” Many candi ites for degrees from leading ed :ational institutions all over the mntry have come to Montreat >r research in its Library and rchives. During 1943-44, 104 misters and 192 students availed temselves of these resources. A irge correspondence in answer to iquiries is carried on by the staff, sveral thousand visitors are reg tered annually. The Foundation has long since itgrown its space and an exten ve building program is now in ■ogress. The collection of funds almost completed and plans are sing drawn for a modern, three voided, fire proof building, com lete with the most modern and ■ficient equipment. It will be cated on Assembly Drive facing ook Ou* Road as it comes into ie drive. Much credit should be iven to the Woman’s Auxiliary of ie church for their part in se aring buildign funds and collec ons of historical material. Represented College At Annual Conference David Corkran and Theodore tondthaler, members of the fac jlty of Black Mountain College, presented the College last week l the annual North Carolina Col (ge Conference held at Greens- J ro. Speakers at the conference ere Dean Paul H. Buck of Har ird University and Dr. Chas. W. ightbody, professor of political ience at St. Lawrence Universi '• Matters of curriculum objec ts were discussed. ™e BLACK MOUNTAIN news WWNC To Salute Black Mountain Chapter Red Cross 0 The Black Mountain-Swan nanoa Chapter of American Red Cross will be saluted Monday, the twenty-sixth of November at 2:45-3:00 P. M. over radio station WWNC from Ashe ville, N. C., in the second of a series of five broadcasts on the roll played by the Western North Carolina Chapters in the Amer ican Red Cross program at home and abroad. This recognition is for out standing work in veterans claims rendered by this chapter. Two other chapters of Western North Carolina, Yancey County Chapter and Mitchell County Chapter, also will be cited on this program. Salute to the Black Mountain- Swannanoa Chapter is the 2d pro gram in this series of round table discussions of Red Cross services to Veterans. The Black Mountain Swannanoa Chapter and other Red Cross Chapters are prepared not only to give these services but are happy to serve the Veteran. The broadcast will also empha size that due to the veterans al ready discharged and the increas ing numbers leaving separation centers daily, there is a greater need for workers in these chap ters to successfully continue the Red Cross program. COL. P. H. GRIFFITH PRINCIPAL SPEAKER o North Carolina Chapter, Interna tional Association of Public Employment Services Col. I’aul H. Griffith, long en gaged in American Legion and Selective Service activities, will be the principal speaker at the postponed annual convention of the North Carolina Chapter, In ternational Association of Public Employment Services, to be held at the Langren Hotel, Asheville, Monday, November 2ft. Colonel Griffith, now a private industry official in Washington, served as National Director of Employment for the American Le gion, later as executive officer to Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, of Selec tive Service, and then was in charge of the Reemployment Di vison of Selective Service. He has spoken before North Carolina groups on previous occasions. His address will be at the banquet Monday night. Following committee meetings Monday morning, the business ses sion of the State Chapter will be held at 1 o’clock in the Roof Gar den of the Langren, with Presi dent R. C. Godwin, Raleigh, pre siding. P. Lane Gaston, manager of the Asheville USES, will wel come the visitors and Mason E. Swearingen, area supervisor, Ra leigh, will respond. Visiting of ficials and guests will be present ed. Dr. J. S. Dorton, State director of the U. S. Employment Service, and Col. A. L. Fletcher, chairman of the Unemployment Compensa tion Commission, will be the prin cipal afternoon speakers. Open forum discussions, reports of of ficers and committees and elec tion of officers will complete the program. At the banquet meeting, Burgin Pennell, chairman of the N. C. Vet erans Committee, will bring greet ings. Toastmaster Godwin will install the new officers and pre sent Colonel Griffith, principal speaker. Dancing will follow on the Roof Garden. Retiring officers, in addition to President Godwin, are three dis trict vice-presidents, Simon P. Davis, Bryson City, Western; Wm. H. Stevenson, Jr., Winston- Salem, Central; and Sam M. Wat kins, Henderson and Raleigh, Eastern; Miss Kathryn Queen, secretary and Miss Margarette Carpenter, treasurer, both of Ra leigh. New vice-president, elect ed at earlier district meetings, are: Miss Kathryn Lott, North Wilkesboro, Western; J. A. Gaw throp, Reidsville, Central; and Mrs. Jeannette M. Grainger, Wil son, Eastern. BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C., NOVEMBER, 22, 1945 ~\ ‘^AHKSc? ** WElcom •~;n ~ ~ Jggfal# 1 , "V. v Jk ' K'oer.yy ~~~' I »> <ww «v,v>v. a —afflßSL v ' v v | ' - |' , v' ' x ' v ...,-. | ’ •««»» -~ , '** :^i | W***. V V ' | The first Thanksgiving Day in North America was held by an English minister, Wolfall, May 27, 1578, on the shores of Newfound land. This was the expedition un der Frobisher who brought the first English colony to settle on these shores. The Popham col onists, twenty-nine years later, conducted a Thanksgiving service on the shores of Maine for their “saffe aryvall.” The Pilgrims observed Thanks giving in Holland on the third of October for ten years before they came to America. This was in memory of their deliverance from the Spaniards and was both a re ligious and a social holiday. They underwent the most gruel ling of hardships from their ar rival on Cape Cod in the winter of 1620 until the following summer. Their harvest in 1621 represented both sacrifice and achievement. In a deserted wigwam was found a basket of Indian corn. This was withheld from their hungry chil dren. Weakende by illness and lack of food, they planted the corn wtih infinite care, tended it and watched it most anxiously. These twenty acres of corn produced for them a bountiful harvest. Their hearts w’ere filled with gratitude. Gov. Bradford called the colon) s f s together and suggested a season of Thanksgiving. On December 13, he sent out “four men” in search of game. They brought back wild fowl, chiefly turkey, enough to supply their wants for a week. The viands were bounti ful and diverse—barley loaves, cakes of Indian meal, and vege tables such as squash, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, peas, beans —na- tive American food which the friendly Indians had brought them to eat and wild grapes “very sweet and strong.” In the midst of the fesitvities, Indian shouts were heard. Their king, Mas sasoit, with ninety Red men, ap peared with huge haunches of venison—“five deere.” for “our Captaine (Miles Standish). On ac count of the mildness of the weather, dinner was served out doors on long tables, cooked over open fires. Days of thanks were celebrated later throughout the colonies for victory in war, for peace, and for national prosperity. In Massachu setts, the day was usually in Oc tober or November, and by 1677, the first regular Thanksgiving proclamation was printed. In 1688 was the first civil appointment of a harvest festival in the Plymouth colony. Other New England col onies soon followed the lead of Massachusetts. To the. Massa chusetts Bay and the Plymouth colonies may be traced *he origin, but as an annual celebration the civil authority and the constancy “KEY CITY IN THE LAND OF THE SKY” of Connecticut hav6 handed it down to us unbroken from 1647. As a national institution, it goes back to the Revolution, the first being December 18, 1777. During the Revoluton, the . Continental Congress regularly proclaimed a national Thanksgiving service ev ery year, but the states went back to their days of observance after the British were defeated. On the adoption of the Consti-’ tution in 1789, Washington made the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving Day. A cause of gratitude to Almighty God. The day was to be the last Thu-suay of November, the 26th. This was a strong factor in the selection of the last Thursday in November for our Natonal Day, forty years later. The difference in view points between the north and the south kept the day less than na tional. It was looked upon as a “New England institution” sym bolic of Puritan “bigotry.” Presi dent Washington again proclaim ed a national day of Thanksgiv ing, following an era of prosperi ty. North Carolina entered whole heartedly into the observance. Thomas Jefferson issued nr Thanksgiving proclamation. John Adams had shown lit’le interest and many who followed him held only a casual attitude toward the day. The entire history of America has been one of Divine favor, ov ersight and protection. As we dedicated our country to the keep ing of the eternal and laid its foundation with the Bible in our hands and a prayer in our hearts >• Bill Hill Says: A feller here bought a horsi the other day for SIO.OO and ast him how come he got it so cheap. He said that the man said the horse was OK, but he just didn’t look good.—He found out later that the old nag wuz blind. and on our lips, we have recog nized the hand of God in the lead. His blessings have rested upon our land as nowhere else in the world. We have vast quantities to spare for other lands stricken with the horrible scourging of war, blighted with famine and fes tilence. This Thanksgiving Day should be a day of praise and rejoicing. “Oh, that men would praise the Lord of His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men.” GO HUNTING ON OCRACOKE ISLAND o Jim Daugherty, Gordon Craw ford and A1 Garland, all from Black Mountain recently spent a week of duck and goose hunting on Ocracoke Island, which lies 35 miles off the North Carolina coast. This is the outer reef and is gen erally considered one of the best spots for shooting along the en tire east coast. The hunters were transported by a mail boat to the island, but bad weather prohibit ed hunting. They encountered rain the first day and wind the next. They spoke of having a hard time in controlling a 16-foot cruiser in the rough water, also the wind was so strong that the birds had a hard time holding their course. Decoys were constantly being up set, anchor chains were broken. They were taqen to the blinds in the 16-ft. cruiser which rolled and tumbled, the wind was so strong it times it retarded the speed of the cruiser considerably. They came back last Friday with sever al duck and geese. Fishing was good in the day as they caught approximately one hundred black bass, and several othre species of fish. Local Boy To Play With Jackson’s Melody Boys 0 J. C. McCool of Black Mountain starts rehearsals soon with the Charlie Jackson Melody Boys, who are to start a 13 weeks con tract over WWNC the first of the year. The Melody Boys are made up of all Western North Carolina boys nad are all famous players. Truman Will Serve On Fund Committee o President Harry S. Truman has accepted the honorary chairman ship of The American Legion Americanism Fund campaign for $15,000,000, and 45 of the gov ernors have accepted appointment as honorary vice-chiarmen, an nounces Chairman Alvin M. Ows ley. Major General Chennault Will Lecture In Asheville Miss Aleshire In Guam With The Red Cross Miss Ruth Cory Aleshire, daugh ter of the late Win. F. Aleshire, and Mary E. Aleshire of Black Mountain and Palm Beach, Fla., has reached the Island of Guam enroute to the Asiatic Mainland as a psychiatric social worker of! American Red Cross with the Army of Occupation. Miss Aleshire began her career in social servce at Hull House in! Chicago as a protege of the late \ Jane Adams. While there she. was a resident student of the | school of Civics and Philanthropy. \ Pursuing her studies, she obtained) her A. B. degree from Eureka College, graduated from New! York School of Social Work and received her M. S. degree from Columbia University. Miss Aleshrie has completed her third year of foreign service with the American Red Cross, having served in Newfoundland and in Southern England. She spent her leave during July of. this year with her mother at Oak Knoll, Black Mountain. Sailing! from Seattle with a staff of work-1 ers who were with her in Eng- j land, she arrived on Guam, Octo ber 10 for temporary duty. Prior to her enlistment for overseas duty Miss Aleshire had been stationed at Raleigh as State Consultant for Child Wel fare services for state of North Carolina. BLACK MOUNTAIN WOMAN GOING TO TRIALS IN JAPAN EVELYN CORDELL TO FLY TO NIPPON BY WAY OF MANILA o Carlisle W. Higgins, United States attorney for the middle dis trict of North Carolina, will be ap pointed first assistant attorney to lead in prosecution of Tojo at the trial of Japanese war criminals slated to begin early in 1946, it was revealed recently. Higgins said that he can “neith er confirm nor deny the report.’’ “Any announcement must come from Washington,” the district at torney said. A late dispatch from Washing ton stated that Joseph B. Keenan of Cleveland, Ohio, and Washing ton, has been named head of the Japanese trials, his appointment to be analagous to that of Su preme Court Justice Jackson in | Europe. Keenan has made no formal an nouncement of Higgins’ appoint ment, but the Washington dis patch predicted it along with that of Evelyn Cordell, of Black Moun tain, secretary to Assistant At torney General T. Lamar Caudle, of Wadesboro, and former clerk of the North Carolina state sen ate appropriations committee. Another North Carolinian whose name has not been revealed was also expected to be sent to Japan) for the trials. The Black Moun-, tain woman is scheduled to leave ■ December 2 to fly to Japan by way' of San Francisco and Manila. It is supposed that Higgins will' leave around the same time if hisi appointment is effective. A large j staff of attorneys, clerks, FBI agents and others will go to Ja pan for the trials, most of which probably will be held in Tokyo. Tea and Topic Club The monthly bridge meeting of • the Tea and Topic Club was held at the home of Mrs. A. P. Perley. 11l Friday evening with ten mem bers and two guests present. Club members present were: Mrs. A. T. Tyson, Jr., Mrs. W. W.| Phillips, Mrs. F. W. Grove, Mrs. ; J. G. Northcott, Mrs. George! Molloy, Mrs. Otty E. Leeman, Mrs. Roy Taylor, Mrs. R. T. Greene, Mrs. W. W. White and Mrs. Per ley. Guests included Mrs. W. C. Greene and Mrs. Alma Greene. A salad course was served by the hostess after which a short business meeting was held. To have and to hold —Buy Bonds. 1 Devoted To The Upbuilding of Our Community $2.50 Per Year o Former Commander Os The 14th Air Force In China o Major General Claire L. Chen nault, leader of the famed Flying Tigers, and former commander of the 14th Air Force in China, will visit Asheville December 12 for a lecture that evening at the Ashe jjß &2s| Bljy Major General Chennault ville Auditorium, under the aus pices of the American Legion. All seats are reserved at popu lar prices, and mail orders for choice seats are now being filled by the Kiffin Rockwell Post, Ashe ville, N. C. Major General Claire Lee Chennault, fifty five years old, who for eight years directed the aerial war against Japan from China, achieved his greatest fame after his retirement from the army. This peerless leader who proved that fighting spirit can tri umph over odds and superior equipment in the hands of the en emy, was born in Commerce, Tex as, and reared in Louisiana. He worked his way through Louis iana State University, attended Louisiana State Teachers College, and taught in a rural school at Athens, La. World War I changed the pat tern of his life. He enlisted as a private, was commissionde in the infantry, and transferred to the aviation section of the Signal Re serve Corps. Discharged as a first lieutenant in 1920, he returned to the army air corps in a few months. In 1923 he was sent to the Ha waiian department, and remained there for three years. As commander of the 19th pur suit squadron he was the first advocate of using paratroops and dropping artillery parts by para chute. By night he calculated and plotted, by day he made test flights of all the intricate patterns of which planes are capable. Back in the United States, Chennault served as instructor at several fields in Texas, Virginia, and Alabama. His flying set in which three pilots would take off with their planes tied together with strings, go through intricate maneuvers and land without breaking the string thrilled many air shows during the ’3os with himself as the leader. This was the act that was called “The Three Men on a Flying Trapeze,” which barnstormed the country side. In 1937 he attempted to re tire to a quiet place with his fam ily in Louisiana, but he was lured back into aviation by the pleas of his barnstorming companions who had gone to fight in China. When the Chinese offered him the posi tion of air adviser, he went to Asia to take over the job of creat ing an air force powerful enough to combat the Japanese. In Asia he found less than 100 first-line combat planes and even those were being rapidly wiped out by the enemy. He realized that the only solution to the problem lay in the proper training of Chi nese pilots. Counseling his men to take advantage of every weak ness of the Japanese plans, Chen nault put into practice what he was teaching by flying combat with the Chinese Air Force in Shanghai, Nanking, and Chung king. During this time he also set up a series of air bases throughout the interior of China and helped to organize an air raid system that was so efficient that, according to the War Department, “Chinese headquarters are warn (Continued on page 4)
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